>>3376
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learn submissions, learn striking. the rest like hip control, foot work, and even conditioning will mostly happen on the way. I dont see the point of arguing over styles, call it what ever you damn want, its MMA the godamn "M" stands for MIXED. go to a place that does the mixed stuff and have a blast!

Obviously posters don't know shit.

Always go lighter in MMA, if you walk heavier then cut to lighter you'll be much more effective. Learn BJJ to go with the wrestling, but don't continue TKD. Name me one effective TKD striker in all of MMA...Oh yeah, none. Learn Muay thai (knees and elbows are allowed in almost all MMA competitions) kickboxing or at a push, boxing then kicks later.

>Should I go back to 185lbs and keep fast, or bulk up and be powerful?

Quick tip. At 6'4" 185 you won't have nearly enough lean body mass to be "fast". A common misconception is "skinny=fast" no it means slow and weak, easy to condition, but slow none the less.

Muscle is the motor of our body, you have a large frame. Stick a light weak motor in a F-250 super crew, will that truck be fast? No. It'll get better mileage, but it's going to be slow. Same as you with a large frame and a small amount of muscle.

Build yourself a bigger engine, up the size of your gas tank with conditioning, and then you can actually be fast. Stay lean.

Amputation.

>>3444
oh u...

Coming from someone who's 6'11, height ain't all its cracked up too be. I also doubt your 18, but for the sake of argument I'll leave that be.
A good, healthy diet, accompanied with some weight lifting, like squats, bench, deadlift, or anything that activates large or multiple groups of muscles, and lots of stretching will help you grow. Lifting stimulates the release of growth hormone WHILST YOU SLEEP. Sleep is extremely important. When I was younger, people thought I had narcolepsy I slept so much.

Believe it or don't, my dad went through his last growth spurt in basic training in his 20's. 4 uniform sizes in 4 months. Supply loved him.

>WHILST YOU SLEEP. Sleep is extremely important. When I was younger, people thought I had narcolepsy I slept so much.

There you go, most important message you are going to get.

Lift heavy, once you get your main lift over with (Squat, bench, deadlift, snatch, whatever) and you move on to your accessory lifts, then increase the pace. Use supersets, and try not to rest more than 60 seconds between sets. This will jack your growth hormone through the roof naturally.

As long as you are supplementing this type of training and sleeping with TONS OF WHOLE FOODS, you will have the best chance of growing taller.

When I say tons I mean TONS. Drinking at least 1/4 a gallon of raw milk a day is not a bad idea, along with meat, eggs(I eat roughly 10 a day), nuts, vegetables, fish oil(8000mg), a multi, and supplement with vitamin D3(4000IU). Tons of water too.

Just supercharge your body. If you actually care then do all this stuff.

Cardio will not be the most effective way for you to lose weight. That would be lifting weights and interval training. Google "tabata complex" for some insight.

However, if you want to boost your cardio endurance, I suggest you try running, for not less than 20 minutes. This is because you will get better at exercising on dry land, which is presumably where you spend most of your time. Not that throwing in some swimming isn't also a good idea.

If you haven't read the FAQ do it now.

Also, swimming tends to make you want to eat more than walking or cycling.

>I am not fat, nor do I have flab everywhere. My stomach is sort of poochy and and I have the slightest love handles, but other than that I am pretty well rounded.

Yeah you're just a bit flabby, a decent amount of fat, not a fatty, but enough to suck when you take your shirt off.

Remember as well the wonders of HIIT aren't just achieved with sprinting, you can do pretty much anything that allows you to have intense work with intermittent rest. Barbell complexes, tabata protocol, circuits. You can mix it up if you get bored.

>As far as weightlifting, I work out with a guy who know a lot more about it than myself. We do bench / variety of curls / french press / shrugs. A lot of chest and back and arms.

This is what I was worried about. All upper body noob city. Just because he's more informed than you doesn't mean he's any good at all. Remember that, it's an important life lesson.

When you want to learn something, learn it from the best. Thanks to the internet you have access to some of the strongest people in the world, the best coaches, trainers, athletes. Don't rely on your buddy.

You can lift with this guy, just don't follow his bench-n-curl-monkey routines. Routines that look like this:

Day 1: upperbody

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>>3439

We aren't just slogging it out everyday on the bench press. We have upper body / legs back every other day rotation going on. We are also sure to do lifts that utilize a lot of muscles, instead of isolation, and we stay away from machines.

His dad is a fucking beast, and is a huge lifter. My friend isn't a trainer, but he is no "bro."

I lifted today for the first time in a year, and I benched 135lbs several times, so I am guessing my max is around 150. Also I weigh 175lbs. (Don't know if that's much of a difference, but whatever).

I'll read the e-book. Also I am sore as all living Christ.

>We have upper body / legs back every other day rotation going on. We are also sure to do lifts that utilize a lot of muscles, instead of isolation, and we stay away from machines.


Well that's all very different from:

>bench / variety of curls / french press / shrugs. A lot of chest and back and arms.

So you'll excuse my confusion.

If he's got you squatting, pressing, and pulling with heavy weight then you've got a fine training partner. Good luck.

no, u will fart out all the fat.

>>3411
You made more sense today than any of the other weight loss people I've ever spoken with.

A man dealing in heavy lifting 5 days a week would deal with that sort of thing, and in time, said person will definitely become stronger. I wanted to know, though, what about that idea that you work out and rest for a few days and repeat? Based on your suggestion, I'd work out as hard as I can 5 days straight and rest two days. Does that strike you as "normal" for strength training?

I just might try what you're suggesting

>>3426

The problem is there is no "normal" in strength training.

There have been thousands of famous and not so famous hugely strong men in history, they don't all agree on a set number of days that should be spent training, or sets/rep/ or what exercises should be performed.

You have everything from 2 training days in a 10 day period to 6 days a week of lifting. You have a combination of light and heavy days, or max effort and dynamic days, or purely heavy all the time. You have heavy high rep, heavy low rep, ect, ect.

The few main principles that they all agree on are this.

*Hard work.
*Heavy weight be it high or low reps.
*Free weights are king, but all resistance has it's place.
*Multi-joint lifts are king.
*Patience, ligaments and tendons take longer to strengthen than muscles.

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>>3426
When you lift very intensively, such as 5 or six sets of 2-rep maxes or 1-rep maxes, sprint, or if you spend an hour doing olympic lifts, you will exhaust the glycogen in your muscles. Without glyocogen, you will not be able to synthesis fuel for your muscles to work. Sometimes it can take a full day to restore that glycogen.

As well, if you stress your muscles to overload (which is your goal) you will damage them, your bones, and your connective tissue, in a very minor way. This is the "delayed onset muscle soreness" that you feel the morning after your workout. When your body heals this damage, it will also increase the strength of your bones and connective tissue, and add muscle fibres.

If you're new to training, you will benefit from a day of rest between workouts to accomplish the above effects. While highly-trained individuals and athletes need less rest time to recover, and there are ways to reduce your recovery time through nutrition, supplementation, and other aids, it won't change things much for someone new to lifting.

One tip though: pop fish-oil caps like they're candy. Minimum 6/day. They will really help with recovery--or at least make you feel less sore.