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Judo World Champ Teddy Riner Strength & Conditioning Routine

Judo World Champ Teddy Riner Strength & Conditioning Routine

With ten World Championships gold medals and two Olympic gold medals,Fance’s Teddy Riner is the greatest ever heavyweight and a strong candidate for greatest Judoka of all time.

At 2.04 m and 140kg, he is a physical specimen, but has developed that body due to a strict strength and conditioning routine.

Recently his trainer Benoît Campargue gave an inside look into the training regimen that makes him unbeatable:

Physical training
Teddy Riner’s physical work week is divided into three sessions: a strength session, a relative strength session – with resistance – and an energy session. By benoît campargue.

Principle:
“The sessions evolve as the year progresses, each cycle always containing a minimum of the work done previously. 60% endurance and 30% of other things. Then, we reverse gradually. “

Before each session:
Endurance work
“We run 20 minutes. It is not a substantive work, but a global work. Running is the basis of all physical work. We go in a group, but we are all at a high level, so we get the fluff, there is emulation. The goal is to start cardiovascular work. “

Strength session
5 series of 5 repetitions

Two exercises at 90% of the maximum weight, coupled with a circuit and Sleeving. 150/160 kg bench press, single arm dead lift tripled between 50 and 60 kg. 4 minutes circuit.

“The important thing is not the absolute value, but the fact of being able to reiterate a quality performance. “

Resistance session
“At the beginning of the session, we work on two quality exercises, such as bench press or push press. Then we go to the circuit. Everything is a question of dose. As you approach the objective, you gradually move to explosive, max force or circuit recall. “

Energy cardio session
Stair climber machine 4 minutes warm-up . Series of 8 minutes by shuttle. Phases of 1 minute, with 1 minute of rest between each. Alternance small / large steps. Vertical / diagonal climb. Going back and forth between pads.

The circuit
20 crunches with rotations

6 to 8 pull-ups body weight

10 rope jumps ,10 seated cable rows ,20 push-ups

“The circuits go from 4 minutes to 4 times 1 minute, as the deadlines approach.”

Sleeving/ reinforcing muscles
Crunchs face carpets
Plus crusaders. Series in static or active, mounted legs or bust.

“I combine abs in leg lifts and stretching. By putting the ankles in extension, we stretch the hamstrings, it’s called the “internal race” (…) We try to maximize the time. “

Crunchs with rotation
“On the back, the elbow comes to join the opposite ankle. It’s an exercise that teddy does very well.”

Side work
“The judokas have a hamstring deficit. We have qualities in quadriceps, but deficits in hamstring, not in absolute value, but relative to the rest of the body. I add a weight on the side during the work of Sleeving. “

 

Additionally Teddy adheres to some rules when it comes to rest:

Sleep priority
For Benoît Campargue, sleep remains a major focus of teddy’s preparation.

Recovery
“This is the moment when the machine regenerates itself. Lack of sleep is paid for by injuries. For a sportsman, a good night is 8 hours minimum. Of course, you can go out at night, get some fresh air from time to time, but you have to catch up on the following nights.”

To go to bed early
“It’s important, even if you’re in a late-night society, and sometimes it’s difficult for an athlete to have a different pace from the rest of the world. Getting up early to sleep at night is essential.”

Video games and Internet
“After midnight, video games and the internet have a negative effect on sleep. High-level athletes are sometimes seriously affected by these addictions.”

Nap
“A nap of 30 minutes after eating is ideal. Teddy sleeps an hour, and i keep his schedule running.”

source: mensfitness-magazine.fr

 

 

In this video, you can see some of Riner’s impressive workouts: