Old-school musclemen of the mat SOURCE: intermatwrestle.com June 07, 2016
Amateur wrestlers are among the best conditioned, best-built athletes of any sport. It's always been the case. Nowadays, wrestlers benefit from weight work using sophisticated workout equipment and routines, smarter nutrition, scientifically-developed nutritional supplements and other advances to enhance wrestler strength, speed, endurance and recovery. All these advances weren't available to wrestlers of the past. Yet how is it possible that a number of the mat athletes of the 1960s and earlier could possess incredible strength and impressive physiques that, if they were wrestling today, would still generate positive buzz at a tournament and on social media? Comments |