Ive done weight training on and off for most of my life and appreciate the benefits. I have always been more interested in developing strength and conditioning from an performance point of view as opposed to just getting buff to look good.

Ive always found it a lot harder to find the motivation to pump a barbell off your chest when your tired than to push a guy off your chest who’s trying to squeeze your neck till your head pops off

Great stuff guys, keep up the good work!

Dude, you’ve got two kids, I think you’ve got the sex part covered.

Hakimi + Asrar:

Honestly, to answer your questions would take writing a book…. luckily that’s already been done for you, so you don’t have to wait any longer… if you like MMA and want to learn how to train like a fighter to get a fighter’s body, then for sure pick up a copy of my new program… links are above.

Hakimi is in touch with you from Afghanistan, I am 29 years old, I am really impressed of your beautiful shapped body and just received your killer MM training “article”. I love bodybuilding and it is almost ages i do my training though not regularly, however no big change has emerge in my body. Yes of course it’s shapped well but no significant change… I mean stronge abs, strenght muslces etc. By the way I am married and have two baby girls and my question relates to best workout for married people plus diet and most important sexual intercourses and finally how often should individual shall carry intercourse

I know I just have to post comment re above topic but I have tried alot to find the answer to my question so i write it as my comment hoping to received some feedback

Kind Regard
Mohammad Dawar Hakimi

Sorry but I guess I overgeneralized. I recently became a managing partner at a boxing/fitness gym where we have a team of fighters. What I’ve found working with them and also working with other pure boxers is that there is a lot of dogma with respect to training for boxing that hasn’t been erased.

For sure there are lots of guys who know how to train properly, obviously any champion knows what he’s doing and the top trainers in the game will too. But a lot of the boxers who come out of many of the small clubs scattered throughout the world still train like they’re in the 1970′s. When fighters say something like “I don’t lift weights, only do pushups and chinups” that just goes to show the dogma.

Everything has its place and the proper application depends on the individual situation, but the gross over generalizations that weights are bad is still very prevalent. But this is juts my opinion from training and talking with many boxers.

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Who the hell does this guy think he is to suggest boxers are ‘the least knowledgeable athletes about proper strength and conditioning for their sport’. Vince I think your brilliant and have always enjoyed reading your e-mails, your an absolute inspiration to us guys who have crap genetics. I am a boxer and have gone from a lightweight to a light heavyweight with the help from you and other various sources on the internet. I am disappointed to hear of your love of UFC/MMA……how can it be seen as a sport? That big fight not long ago between Randy Couture Brock Lesnar, 2 guys in the 69 position punching each other senseless in the head. I take great offense knowing that many people will read what this guy has said and believe in what he is saying. Vince I can tell you know many boxers at my gym are superbly conditioned, this guy doesn’t know what he is talking about. Take Roy Jones jr and look how he took his body from a natural middleweight to heavyweight-incredible, we know how to do things in our sport. Science in professional boxing is huge, take David ‘The Hayemaker Haye’ from the U.K, absolute top athlete with a team with a strong scientific approach to training. David Haye trains with weights and has made massive gains in it.

Weightlifting is not suitable for some fighters, take Amir Khan and his recent fight against Fagan……..he cut down on the muscle so he could get greater speed in the punch, and do you really think the Khan team which includes the great trainer Freddie Roach doesn’t know how to get a fighter top of his game.

Vince, being a great role model to me I respect you a lot, but this guy……..really does NOT know his stuff, cannot back it up scientifically (like you do) and I hope I never read an interview with him again. Peace, Sam.

on the other hand great interview i always enjoy what you have to say. keep it coming.

I hope that in a future post you talk something about muay thai fighters, they are extremely lean and muscular even since they are children.
I agree with you to interview a trainer instead a fighter and Eric was the right choice.

I want to ask you about abs, in some cases the abs are not in uniform formation, you know, I’ve seen it in some guys and it’s happening to me now. It’s like if my right side have dropped a little and my left side went up.
Please give some advice on what I’m doing wrong and what should I do to fix it.

You must try training jiu jitsu or sambo, they are amazing, I recommend it for everybody.
Bye Vince, great blog and great job.
God bless MMA.