Jim Lampley
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Weights will make you stiff.
Weights will slow you down.
You should never lift weights.
And so I listened to that, and I never lifted weights.
And then I remember watching Holyfield train for his –
heavyweight debut thinking, God, I remember his fight with Dwight Muhammad Kawi.
When he was a cruiserweight, I was thinking, how is this guy going to go up to heavyweight?
How is this going to work?
But also, one of the first applications of real modern science in regards to strength and conditioning.
What Mackie Shillstone was doing was like very revolutionary.
And to see him do all these crazy strength and cardio routines and putting all that mass on and seeing all the doubters and naysayers.
He worked with quite a few fighters, didn't he, Mackie?
I believe Mackie worked with quite a few fighters.
Everybody saw that the results were there.