Iowa lift My favorite workout video

[@kmatz09]

In wrestling you're always in weird positions and are using several muscles all the time. Makes sense to train like that and to mimic motions that you'll get into during competition.

[@melifter8897]

No. Their form literally blows on every single so called movement. Why even fucking bother? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know they’re good wrestlers. Do the exercise properly or don’t do it all. This applies to everything in life.

[@ivanbaccarat7838]

Supposed to be 'hang cleans' not hand cleans... As for the form, they're trying to replicate real life wrestling situations and overload their muscles so the form isn't necessarily 'wrong'. They started off the workout with a pretty hard run so the main system their using is anaerobic/glycolytic. If they were just doing heavy lifting geared more towards creatine phosphate/anaerobic system they'd be able to generate more force and there would be more danger of injury. You wouldn't see an Olympic lifter doing form like this...

[@henchgamer6996]

These guys are beasts. I can see why this type of training would be effective. Typical bodybuilding workouts require strict form and control but a Wrestling match isn't exactly confortable. A lot of movement and resistance. These guys are building full body speed and power by using their whole body to lift the weight. My only issue is with the pullups.. Surely they would have benefited with full range of motion but whatever.

[@POOKAS12345]

Even though I don't like Iowa (Minnesotan) I must give credit where credit is due, they work freakin hard.

[@paulyricca3881]

👴🏻🥃DATS WUT SHE SAID.

[@wesleypark2157]

Iowa wrestling is no joke. High school wrestling was demanding enough for me, and even if I was good enough for a school like Iowa I never would have done wrestling past high school. I will always love the sport but it was not for me long term. I respect anybody who continues doing the sport out of high school in no matter shape or form

[@MistaGrim]

Sounds like 2008 He mentions Mark Perry and Metcalf in the same sentence. Mark Perry's last year at Iowa was 2008.

[@2313skaterdude]

strength training is ment to make muscles stronger. Good form is used to so you can make the muscles as strong as possible without injury. Using your lower back on everything doesn't do much. Besides hurt your lower back.

[@paulyricca3881]

🙄

[@FRANKRIO-jv1sq]

👴🏻🥃SHUT UP

[@Thechazifier]

They are lifting for explosive power. Their "curls"and "pulls" are total body exercise not isolation exercises. Working out like a bodybuilder with slow concentrated movements make an athlete slower theses guys want to be faster.

[@blakenutrion7482]

I train athletes and you do not train like that because you have more like for injury training like that. If you train in an athletic form you build strength and you will see better results

[@52000rightwing]

Blake Nutrion I am sure Tom Brands has consulted strength coaches, and I'm sure there are a variety of opinions on how strength training should work in a Division 1 wrestling program. Iowa Wrestling has been at the top, or near the top of the totem pole for literally decades.

[@boyfromnorthgermany692]

+Blake Nutrion if u warming up right u want get injured by this exercices . its the perfect training for wrestlers.me and my whole wrestling club do the same exercices and noone ever get injured by them. and why they should get better results they are already the best wrestlers in usa. greetings from germany :)

[@paulyricca3881]

YEP

[@frankcastle7777]

I coach many sports and I believe that good from is better because you have less chance of getting injured. With wrestlers (which I love) that sport is so grueling on the joints already that that all that cheating-jerking-extremely bad lower back positioning can not be health. Also you guys will be old one day, need your health full range joint movement, and wish you had done better from. GOOD HARD WORKERS and I wish my team was as tough.

[@SurfingAlien12]

They really love their curls I guess

[@validboxing]

I am not arguing with the results, but I am concerned that the 1 mile warm up and the stairs are taking the top off the gas tank of the muscle glycogen stores and pre-exhausting the muscles so they can not and physiologically can not use the maximum weights they would have been capable otherwise. Using heavier weights had they not been pre-exhausted would have led to more meaningful strength and power gains.

[@2313skaterdude]

form?

[@germslover6662]

Looked like a bone chiller when he filmed this piece. Iowa always the tradition of excellent wrestling. I remember when I was in high school the dream I think for most was to go to Iowa or Iowa state if you were a wrestler, or maybe Oklahoma State if memory serves, personally I did not make to those schools but still have a hella respect for them. Wisdom is wasted on the adults, if kids had a little more wisdom they would not make the mistakes they do, some being very costly to their future. My mistakes were some of those costly ones and in hindsight there's no one to blame but yourself so you pick up the pieces and move on. Diatribe, right?

[@themadlad8540]

Maybe OSU? DUDE SHOW SOME RESPECT!

[@coachtmayo]

Wow great form

[@dylanryan8956]

Tyler Mayo you’ve obviously never wrestled unless with your boyfriend in the back seat of your car.

[@ORTprod]

looks like a crossfit competition.

[@paulyricca3881]

😫ARE U KIDDIN ME?

[@lukaspoloncic8485]

This trainer should not be anywhere near a training facility, unless it is to observe and learn. That was a down right awful workout that has little transferability towards technique on the mat

[@AmericanTestConstitution]

I know that Iowa is always number one two in the nation every year, but it seem to me that the only thing that really helps with wrestling strength is just live sparring/wrestling and not much else. If anything else helps it is just constant drills of the moves with a human body, pull ups, push ups, hand stands, balancing drills, and body weight exercises. this is just my opinion. Weights may work great for other people. I have never seen any correlation between my own measure gains with weights and my ability to over power a wrestling opponent.

[@vicentegiba1467]

Like dave c said... They are lifting for explosive power during the matches. If this wasnt effective I dont believe schools like Iowa, OKSU and Penn ST would have Strength and Conditioning coaches. Look at some of Jordan Burroughs videos.

[@AmericanTestConstitution]

Vicente Giba I think these guys are just fucking born with strength of Hercules no matter how much time they spend in the weight room. These guys might rip a guys arms of in an arm wrestling match, and suplex a man with ease, but I think that 90 % of wrestling strength and power (speed multiplied by strength) improvement comes from wrestling on the mat. I thinks that so-called more slow twitch movements do just as much for power as the so called fast twitch exercises like power cleans and heavy squats; yes I know that goes against the theories that "Certified" trainers talk of, but most all of the those certified trainers have never wrestled or have done any combat sport. I will take a look at those videos that you spoke off. In truth I have a humble wrestling background and you could be on a better path than me in regards to weight training theories and wrestling.

[@dylanryan8956]

The only people complaining about form have never wrestled of done any combat sports so stick to your broke ass baseball and basketball look at Iowa’s credits if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.

[@SurfingAlien12]

Basketball team is probably thankful they don't have to do this

[@TayDays1128]

Everything except the bs at 9:00 looked cool to me. That stuff did not help em.

[@deepdiesel69]

What the f**k, suprised they're not injured all year round with form that bad. And what the hell is a HAND clean?!

[@boots911]

lol hopefully they have a real strength coach nowadays. this is awful.

[@IRISHLAXER77]

agree^

[@IRISHLAXER77]

this was sick thanks

[@johncarvalho7187]

Brent Metcalf in my mind would beat Dake and Taylor.....his just a beast.

[@wrestle4life234]

Uh no. Not at all. Taylor and Dake are stronger, better athletes, far more dynamic, etc. Metcalf was fantastic but nowhere near as successful as Taylor who has beaten Yazdani, Sharifov, etc.

[@alecphea9891]

I love Iowa but what the hell is this trainer making these kids do. The form is horrible. Expending all this energy and getting nothing out of it.

[@etagged]

LOL, hand clean...