The Golden One - Marcus Follin - Will Strength Training Reduce the Power of Your Punches? Yes and No
Aired: 2020-11-12
Duration: 08:13


=== Snap Your Punch Fast (06:25) ===

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[00:00:47]  Hello lads.
[00:00:48]  Today I want to elaborate a bit on strength training and striking.
[00:00:53]  Now the question you see in the title of the video said yes and no.
[00:00:58]  It depends a bit on how you train.
[00:01:00]  So in order to understand why strength training might actually reduce power in your punches, you need to look at what a good strike is and what a bad strike is.
[00:01:11]  So when you do a bench press and if you grind the movement, boom and grind.
[00:01:18]  If you translate that into a punch, grind.
[00:01:23]  That's a bad punch.
[00:01:24]  A good punch, however, is going from point A here, your god, to point B, hopefully your opponent, as fast as possible.
[00:01:34]  Now if you tense from point A to point B, if you tense here, if you push, if you use muscle force here, you will reduce.
[00:01:44]  However, if you learn to relax, if you don't push, but if you snap as fast as possible, that's a hard punch.
[00:01:53]  So instead of thinking, if you are used to doing a lot of bench press, military press, etc.
[00:01:59]  Instead of thinking that you should push the punch, think that you should snap the punch.
[00:02:05]  So what I'm doing right now, you can't see my legs, but I have a spring in my step.
[00:02:11]  Otherwise, I'm relaxed here.
[00:02:12]  I'm not up here.
[00:02:14]  If I'm up here tensing, I can't explode.
[00:02:16]  You need to be relaxed, fluid in order to explode.
[00:02:21]  So what I want to do, instead of push my arm, I want to snap it.
[00:02:27]  So here, move around, relax, relax, boom.
[00:02:31]  Spring on my step.
[00:02:38]  So, the difference between a gym exercise where you grind, a punch, you snap, snap, and back.
[00:02:48]  So a punch, of course, a good punch, you explode with your entire body.
[00:02:51]  Basically, explode, relax.
[00:02:55]  So you don't tense here because if you tense, you reduce the speed of the movement.
[00:03:00]  Relax, relax, relax, explode, relax, and tense.
[00:03:06]  You need to tense at the end of the movement as well because otherwise you might hurt your hand.
[00:03:12]  And also if you do train a lot with wraps and boxing gloves, make sure to still aim with these two knuckles and make sure to tense at the end of the movement.
[00:03:22]  Now you ask how to get around this because of course you do want a good bench press but you also want to be able to have a good punch.
[00:03:30]  So what you want to do is either at the end of your heavy sessions you reduce the weight quite a bit and just try to explode as much as possible.
[00:03:41]  You can use maybe just the bar and do either military presses as fast as possible or bench presses as fast as possible.
[00:03:49]  That way you will train to be explosive.
[00:03:52]  So you're not only grinding.
[00:03:53]  And same thing if you want to get as strong as possible in the bench for example you can also try to explode.
[00:03:58]  Then, of course, if you are near your max, it's hard to explode through the entire movement, but it's a good mindset at least.
[00:04:05]  Second thing you can do is to just train at a heavy bag.
[00:04:09]  If you are big, bulky, you have done a lot of bench presses, just go to heavy bag, focus on explode, relax, tense.
[00:04:18]  Bum, bum, bum, bum.
[00:04:22]  Doing it as fast as possible and don't have an ego.
[00:04:26]  You don't need to punch, you don't need to feel like you're moving the bag.
[00:04:31]  You're supposed to snap the bag.
[00:04:33]  And then eventually, when you've got a good technique, it will be hard.
[00:04:37]  So then you ask, is it bad then to train in the gym if you want to be a good boxer or a good fighter?
[00:04:45]  No, absolutely not.
[00:04:46]  It's good because if you have a lot of power in your body, you can generate a momentum.
[00:04:53]  So you can look at a little clip from when I was a Bloat Max polar bear.
[00:04:57]  Look at this clip.
[00:04:58]  Boom.
[00:05:24]  So you see, in my rotation I get a lot of power just because I have so much force, I have so much...
[00:05:30]  I have so much power.
[00:05:32]  I have so much force, so much strength, so much explosiveness to twist my body.
[00:05:38]  If I had been 20 kilos lighter, I wouldn't have as much force in my rotation.
[00:05:42]  Same thing when I punch.
[00:05:44]  If I manage to get my entire body behind the punch, it's a lot more power than just the arm.
[00:05:51]  So if you have put on a lot of mass, don't feel like it's a wasted effort in regards to becoming a good striker because you will have more gunpowder, so to speak.
[00:06:02]  So it's not necessarily about having a big biceps, but if you have a lot of muscles overall and you can use that explosiveness to get that hip rotation.
[00:06:12]  Then of course also a second point when we're talking about strength training and using force in various predicaments.
[00:06:20]  If you look at an MMA fight or a boxing match there are there are a lot of things you won't see.
[00:06:26]  You will never see someone grabbing someone else's jacket because there aren't any jackets.
[00:06:33]  You probably won't see someone trying to grab a guy from here, put him there.
[00:06:37]  But if you're a bouncer, maybe you need to do exactly that.

=== Drop Ego, Different Movements (01:31) ===

[00:06:41]  Getting a rowdy person from point A to point B.
[00:06:45]  Then of course you have a lot of use for various rowing exercises etc.
[00:06:50]  And I've talked about judo before that judo can be absolutely brilliant in a street predicament because you have a hard pavement which is something completely different from a nice somewhat soft MMA canvas.
[00:07:04]  You have clothing you can grab etc.
[00:07:06]  So a lot of things you don't see in MMA can actually work if you have a job in security or just need to calm down a situation.
[00:07:15]  So keep that in mind as well.
[00:07:17]  Being big and bulky, it has many benefits.
[00:07:21]  The only thing if you strike you need to learn how to relax as well.
[00:07:24]  So anyway to recap teach your body how to relax, relax, relax and explode.
[00:07:32]  Do not translate a bench press into a punch because it's two completely different things.
[00:07:37]  So if you drop your ego, if you have a strong bench, if you're a strong bulky guy, drop your ego, find a good rhythm to walk in, to move in.
[00:07:45]  Spring in your step backwards, forwards to the side.
[00:07:50]  Bop, bump, bump.
[00:07:51]  Explode.
[00:07:53]  So you don't need to prove to anyone how strong you are because it's two completely different things.
[00:07:57]  So try to relax, try to explode, visualize this movement.
[00:08:02]  Explode, relax, and tense.
[00:08:05]  Boom.
[00:08:07]  Something like that.
[00:08:08]  So anyway, I hope that was somewhat informative.
[00:08:12]  Thank you for watching.
[00:08:13]  Excellent.