leglock

sorry mate i didnt mean to sound disrespectful towards bodybuilders.....i know you lads know your shit diet wise...but of course a bodybuilders diet and a fighters diet will be totally different as will be the training....with all due respect many bodybuilders at their own peak for their own sport are not particularly healthy people ! a fighter cant go into a fight with any physical weakness whatsoever and expect to compete at his best...and regarding training,unless a fighter has an obvious physical weakness 60 per cent of his training will be on the mat,probably around 30 per cent cardio and maybe 10 per cent lifting weights...everyones different but this is probably an average.
i have never and would never try to advise a bodybuilder on his sport if he competes at a reasonable level because my experience and understanding in my own sport would be of little or no value in a sport so different to my own,a fighter may possibly get better advice from a middle distance runner than a bodybuilder as the 2 sports are just so different...obviously the way a bodybuilder peaks him/herself for a show is totally different for the way a fighter would, training and diet wise,add the fact that lifting weights is only a very small part of a fighters training and the comparisons become very few.
i agree bodybuilders know how to get the best out of their bodies...but...they know how to make their body LOOK its best...ive had many lads over the years say to me bodybuilding is more about LOOKING like you are a strong healthy person than actually BEING a strong healthy person...now thats good and fine if you are a bodybuilder but if you are a fighter then you will very quickly be exposed..battlehawk you spoke of top ufc fighters,take another look at the light heavyweight champ chuck liddell...or the heavyweight champ tim sylvia...not particularly impressive looking specimens are they ! certainly dont look in abvious great shape do they?...thats because their diet and training has been centred around winning a fight,not looking good ! of course you will always get some fighters who are genetically superior,somebody like vitor belfort is genetically a superb specimen,but what has been his major fault over the years? cardio,he can only fight 1 maybe 2 rounds before running out of steam...phil baroni being another example...
my point being it doesnt take a great muscular body to win a fight,even at top level...and that for me is how the 2 sports fighting and bodybuilding have literally nothing in common...all the best....LL