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Grappling For A Better Future
The video below shows a group of aspiring wrestlers from the city of Dakar in Western Africa. As you’ll see within, training equipment is essentially nonexistent. Fortunately, these wrestlers make due without the tools that so many assume to be prerequisites for successful training and development.
These wrestlers are a prime example of the old saying, where there’s a will, there’s a way. As we’ve seen before, if you want something bad enough, you’ll find or create the means to get it done.
In summary, it is up to you to make the most of what you have. Fortunately, there is often considerable room to improve with little or nothing.
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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities. – Bruce Lee
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Wrestling is a workout by itself and wrestling in that deep sand must really tax the heart and legs, I’m guessing that’s why those Indian wrestlers would dig out those pits to wrestle in. Bodyweight exercises might be better for wrestlers anyhow since they kind of promote flexibility, strength, and aerobic fitness all in one shot.
I love these little snippets your find from around the World.
Mac.
I’d love to know how they acquire and maintain such size. Awesome vid.
According to internet guru Matt Furey, Indian wrestlers do nothing but bodyweight exercises and some are indeed sizable albeit not extremely muscular. Of course Matt must have missed the part were these wrestlers were using clubbells, macebells, and even free weights, however, it does seem that bodyweight exercises do make up the bulk of their training. Not sure about these African wrestlers, but it’s said that Indian wrestlers consume a lot of milk and that may account for a lot of their size. I’ve heard that a lot of Asians and blacks are lactose intolerant so maybe milk drinking doesn’t factor in the equation with these guys.
Eric I think yer generalizin’ a bit. Flexibility/Strength/Aerobic combo can be targetted with non-bodyweight moves also. Plus not all bodyweight moves target that. It really depends on the RoM, resistance and reps in regard to what factors moves include.
Agree with you about Furey overlooking the weightlifting done by Indian wrestlers. Enamait rightly elevates plenty of good BW stuff but doesn’t get all silly fanatic like Furey in bashing weight training, which is why I like him more.