Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion Alistair Overeem Isn't Running From Drug Testing, He Welcomes It
by Kelvin Hunt on May 4, 2010 2:01 PM EDT
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"People will always speculate. I will be tested just like anybody else and like I’ve said before I weighed 235 pounds in no time when I did not have to cut weight. Gaining 10 pounds a year by lifting weights isn’t a big problem. Before I would cut between 22-26 pounds to get to the 205-pound weight limit. It was crazy. Now that I can eat and do not have to cut anymore (with his move to heavyweight division) it was easy to put on the extra muscle weight."
"I feel great. People are just jealous. I don’t see or hear any of these types of accusations towards Brock Lesnar yet he is even bigger than I am. They can test me all they want. I’ll be in the states soon and I will prove everyone wrong."
Now, what Overeem says above does make sense in that he was cutting a great deal of weight to make the 205 weight limit back in the day. That was over 7 years ago, not to mention he's about 6'5" tall. I've done my share of weight lifting during my baseball years, and it wouldn't be too difficult to put on some solid muscle in this time span. However, the dramatic difference between him now and then coupled with his avoidance of fighting where there's consistent testing raises the flag for most people including myself.
His jab at Lesnar is silly based on his logic. Lesnar has always been huge.
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Overeem needs to bring the spiked hair back…shit now looks like a matted rug of horse hair with wet dookie that dried on it.
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by Kelvin Hunt on May 4, 2010 2:13 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
he’s obviously been doing P90X
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I hear his monsterous frame is a side-effect of frequent power walks and the Atkins-diet.
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by 3PA on May 4, 2010 3:06 PM EDT up reply actions
and throwing little girls around. it was a gif around here a week ago.
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by wolfmanshowlforever on May 4, 2010 3:40 PM EDT up reply actions
It's so hard
I got like the Freshman 20 my first year of college and was like, Damn, the ladies won’t like this too much…
I tried P90X and quit after the first week. That shit will kill you if you haven’t worked out in about a year (what happened to me)
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So I've heard
but I don’t think it can make me quit…it can’t be any harder than the workouts we did in college…my good lawd…then again…I’m a decade older now though….lol…
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if I made it thru the first few days..I wouldn’t quit…
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p90x
Is some extremely hard shit. But can be scaled easily. It is basically an extreme lactic threshold workout. With the exception of plyo x and cardio x. But it is an incomplete exercise system for fighters because it spends zero time in the anarobic threshold.
I think overem is on the juice. But he might not be. He was allways huge a light heavy, and was young when he was competeing there. He surely has put on some of that weight just by growing into his body. he is also less ripped now. It isn’t the amount of muscle that throws up red flags to me. It is the type of muscle. If you’ve spent enough time in the gym working out around or talking to juicers, you begin you learn to look at the type of muscle he is carrying. He the muscle looks bloated. Bottom line is we will never know until he is teste REGULARLY.
it’s the whole NOT DEFENDING YOUR STRAP FOR TWO YEARS BUT FIGHTING CANS IN JAPAN that makes me question him ducking being tested.
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by theworldsoldestsport on May 4, 2010 6:47 PM EDT reply actions
Considering he only put on about 25 pounds of muscle over a 4 year span or so,I don’t think he’s doing roids.He’s a big boy,and eating a high protein diet and lifting a lot,that’s not very much muscle to put on over that amount of time.Hell,Mir put on that much in 6 months.
People just think he’s on roids,because they’re so used to the image of him fighting at 205,where he looked like a freaking bean pole.No wonder he fought like crap back then.The man was killing himself to make the weight.
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