Traditional Indians gyms are becoming few and far between

[selectivesloth]

Bodybuilding creates show puppies. I have no doubt on that one. 10-15 rep training is a joke. Even separating cardio and "weights" is primitive. Boxers have to keep punching indefinitely. They can't stop after 10-15 reps! Same with wrestlers. This requires functional strength, i.e. the ability to use your strength for extended durations. Mr. Olympia won't last one round against a middle weight. Forget about the heavy weights. Look up Gama pehelwan. Greatest wrestler ever. Indian. 5.7, 260 LBS.

[qwklzx]

uh drinking tea and water is good...almond tea and yogurt will definitely fatten you up, i mean there are ways to get good nutrition without having a lot of fat...what's wrong with being toned rather than fat? hahaha

[svishwan1]

It's a pity. Both types of exercise - kushti and western bodybuilding - have much to offer; bicep curls and dands/hindu pushups are both great workouts, and so are military press and joris/indian clubs. A person should take good wherever it comes from, and not shun something just because it it's either old or new.

[papcyrill]

super gyms!! lol ancient greek and romans had better gyms that this

[siddharchi]

Body Building and weights doesn't give you strength ? come on , Imagine guy doing curling with 100K or the 200lbs person doing pullups for 80 reps

[armitage4]

That man Om Prakash is right when he says that people training in gyms are weak. That is because their training routines are monotonous while real power depends on the strenght of all muscle parts that are not trained by pushing dumbells.

[PratapDahiya]

I worked out regularly for 3 years will full passion and developed nice big muscles. I thought i was very strong untill i joined Judo classes. At that time i realised that i was strong only in parts and did not have the real core strenght. I used to get thrown down by guys half my size who were practicing judo for less then a year.

[anirbanbandyopadhyay]

True.

These neo handsomes from jim grows muscles at particular places and not fit.

Good information

[iwasbornspecial]

the indian art of kushti makes men much stronger and tougher than the man doing lat pull downs.......the body operates as a whole, men who train isolated usually dont have the ability to transfer enegry from one body part to another. they lack fluididy in there movements and cannot generate force in combat.

[subroto81]

@iwasbornspecial Maybe u are right but when was the last indian that won a gold medal in the olympics or was in the MMA?

[lowdagaramhai]

@subroto81 punjabi guy in mma in England : use the youtube search

[game2gamble]

@subroto81 first.. it's because traditional wrestlers don't participate in such fancy sports..

[papcyrill]

@iwasbornspecial what a nonsense !!

[iwasbornspecial]

fat ass.

[gentedelquintosol12]

I am 300 pounds with a fat gut, but yesterday I choked out a trim, VERY strong 250 pounder. It's all about technique and a lot of heart.

[ph33ric]

well duh who wants to roll around in dirt when they can roll on mats in a gym....

[bratkotenka]

you can combine modern weightlifting (not necessarily bodybuilding alone) with ancient sports. it depends on how you construct the program. if you'll consider modern strongmen athlete's and mixed martial artists they don't rely on conventional gyms alone but their priority is to develop their skills. what the wrestling guro said was true, most men now are like ladies that prefer beautiful bodies rather than being more functional.

[ctn4L]

beautiful bodies are beautiful because they are efficient. why would evolution make u adore something that is useless?

sugar tastes good because it's fast energy.

having a six pack looks good because the owner is most likely agile and enduring.

broad shoulders look good because they're most likely a sign of strength.

having fat bellies like the guys in the video looks bad because it's dead weight and hindering in most sports. this kind of mass has nothing to do with strength.

[ctn4L]

thus i wonder how these guys feel comfortable moving that clumsy. without doubt the additional weight benefits their wrestling since it gets up their weight class but the effect would be way more useful if it was all muscle.

you wouldn't call an ancient greek wrestler weak either yet judging from his appearance u might mistake him for a bodybuilder.

[bratkotenka]

human body efficiency is not always coupled with beautiful form. ok, some guys do have both great bodies and ability but not all (observed from strongmen and other athletes). are you a bodybuilder or a gymnast? because atleast you can relate if you are either. a bodybuilder is also strong and beautiful but they will not go toe-to-toe with a fat olympic weightlifter doing clean and jerks. a gymnast is unbeatable in the "human flag" but can he deadlift a car like a bulky strongman athlete does?

[ctn4L]

well, of course the particular perception of a good looking physique varies from person to person but i think there are some attributes that are generally appealing.

i'm definitely not a body builder.

adressing the above it's all a question of training. check out marvin eder, strength athlete and body builder. he had strength without being all fat. it looked good & i think it was. maybe he could run faster or wouldnt get diabetes that easily.. who knows.

no the gymnast can't. yet he's athletic.

[bratkotenka]

so no problem. yeah, it depends on how a person trains but other guys are damn lucky that they have both form and efficiency. and even about efficiency there are differences, you may deadlift a car but struggle jogging with your wife, throw a kettlebell very far but sweat a lot carrying shopping bags for your partner and a friend.

[hippocampus23]

I think the sport of Pehlwani in India is the most impressive of its kind because of the various types of activities that are not within the traditional norm the world knows of: WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment). It makes the WWE look like a kids' PE class! It's not everyday in America that people see professional wrestlers or students perform on anything other than mats. I appreciate the exterior of the sport and the concept of the gymnasium. It is where one's academic education begins too.

[0musing]

All those jokers who think that weight training makes one strong...search for functional training videos in YT...secondly, wrestling and martial arts require tremendous stamina in addition to strength and flexibility....Get a weight training dude inside the mud pit, however well muscled he might be, and see him collapsing in 2 rounds.

Lastly, wrestlers use Indian clubs and Mace Bell training in addition to rope climbing to build strength....Hindu Pushups and Hindu Squats to build stamina....

[littlepakistan]

There was a time where all the wrestlers came from traditional akhadas.

[WrestlingKingTV]

GREAT VIDEO

[JohnnyCreampuff]

It's tough to see tradition go. Wrestling in dirt pits was the old fashion way of getting strong BUT times are changing. I have to disagree with Om Prakash when he says that youngsters are getting weaker because they're switching to modern gyms. I THINK he'd be deeply humbled if he wrestled a well-muscled guy who lifts weights. NFL players in the 60s went thru grass drills but NFL players today spend hours in the weight room and are much stronger for it than their counterparts of the 60s.

[MMAbadboy]

This is a good and informative video. I can feel for the elderly who feel that their traditional wrestling practices are threatened by the fad of modern workout gyms. I agree with the elderly.

[KINGTERO8700]

maybe they prefer to be less gay you old fucks

[MMAbadboy]

Dude, it's wrestling and it's a man's sport. Judging from your comment, doesn't seem like you know what that means huh?

[masculinity2007]

Well, here we have a western queer heterosexual telling us something about being men...

what would you poor pussy suckers know about what being a real man is? You don't even know the right way to do it to a woman. You get treated like women by your girls.

[billiardjay]

I don't trust anyone who doesn't drink almond milk.