Heavy fighters, some CrossFit athletes, any football / rugby player are *big* and jacked, sometimes with a little extra bodyfat, but they’re all athletic with great engines and stamina, especially for their size.
How the frick do you condition yourself to move that much without sacrificing strength? I feel like I can build enough stamina to play an entire rugby game but I’d have to stop lifting completely and just focus on cardio to do it.
steroids
EAT BIG. Yeah, steroid use is definitely how crossfits girls even exist but for all the other ones you listed you can get big and have good stamina if you eat big while focusing on strength training and cardio. You need to be eating like 6000 cals a day.
Also don't forget: professional do it full time. Eating and working out is not something that they squeeze into their life. This is their life.
>Gotta eat big to get big
>feel like I can build enough stamina to play an entire rugby game but I’d have to stop lifting completely and just focus on cardio to do it.
All proffessional athletes periodize. Meaning they will generally focus on strength and muscle in the offseason, keeping their cardio on maintenance, then they will train for power with oly lifts, then going into their season they will transition to more endurance.
this. also fighters literally gain/lose 20 pounds depending on how close they are to a fight, they don't stay bulky year-round
this
periodization is critical for progression beyond intermediate levels
Do it for a long time. It's not like the muscle falls off you if you do cardio.
But my powerlifting buddies said that if I do cardio I’ll never get big
>mom found the smegma fridge
That’s a girthy cameltoe
Better to grab my massive shlong with.
literally train legs and do slow paced cardio with some sprinting intervals just to improve that skill
>I feel like I can build enough stamina to play an entire rugby game but I’d have to stop lifting completely and just focus on cardio to do it.
You don't. I came second in a strongman comp while in the middle of a rugby league season, played almost every game and got selected for the regional representative side at the end of the season.
I also went on a 4 day booze and MDMA bender 2 weeks before the competition for my gf's sister's 21st. You just need to stop being a pussy
Forgot to add this was after a full rugby union season and my first strongman comp three weeks before the one I came second in
>4 day booze and MDMA bender 2 weeks before the competition for my gf's sister's 21st.
did you frick
You're right, it was a 3 day bender, typo'd. Fell on may bank holiday weekend so we were out Friday night and all day sat+sun.
Was back in the gym tuesday and on comp day I pulled 200kg for 14 reps, won the yoke+farmers and came joint first on stones
kek can't even read the question he got asked. did the rugby turn your bain into swiss cheese, moron-kun?
a whole lot of mental illness, food, and steroids
Partly roids, partly lifelong high intensity training / tackling / sprinting / jumping / striking / whatever
Eat a lot of good food, operate at high intensity regularly, recover well
These sports also select for the people & frames that can reach that build, you probably can't go from skinny dweeb to huge rugby player unless you had a big frame genetically, everything else just fulfills that potential (or exceeds it, if roids) but you need that genetic base
Don't compare yourself to others, compare yourself to PAST YOU and become the ultimate YOU
Pretend you're jet li in that film where he travels between parallel dimensions killing other copies of himself to become The One
Nah anyone can get big without roids. Being athletic and big is genetics
This. I feel as if you need to work with your body type. I’ve seen a lot of post Thai boxers who are naturally lean do CrossFit and bulk up to the point where their body just looks odd/ uncanny.
Figure out overtime what’s best for your body and which ancestral side is body dominant.
>I feel like I can build enough stamina to play an entire rugby game but I’d have to stop lifting completely and just focus on cardio to do it.
From experience, once you reach a good level of cardio, you don't have to focus that much on it to maintain it.
I was doing 2+ hours of cardio every 3 days for about 9 months. Afterward, I could maintain with 2+ hours once a week. I could go a month without maintaining, and be able to do 1+ hours of cardio.
The difficulty is just getting to that point. I was always pushing myself to reduce the time it took to do a fixed amount of distance.
>I feel like I can build enough stamina to play an entire rugby game but I’d have to stop lifting completely and just focus on cardio to do it.
Not really. Depends on the position, but if you’re a forward (a bigger player) it’s a lot of short bursts of running, not sustained running. Big, sometimes flabby guys play prop position all the time no problem as long as they’re strong. It’s like how in heavyweight divisions in combat sports you see heftier guys fighting. There are also definitely guys with a few extra pounds who can still go and bang out a 5k run or whatever. Meat and potato type dudes.