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Hey guys I am very interested in how the brothers train for a fight and what techniques they use from the Soviet era time?

Do they use meditation/mental imagery?

Thanks

Wlad is trained by Steward, which means a lot of sparring, and running, and less weights.

Vitlai is more of a self taught type of fighter, who doesn't spar as often.

Both train pretty hard.

Wlad is trained by Steward, which means a lot of sparring, and running, and less weights.

Vitlai is more of a self taught type of fighter, who doesn't spar as often.

Both train pretty hard.

That would be a great question for the next "Question and Answer: Wladimir Klitschko" !
Perhaps we should start a new thread for that...

I have become fascinated with meditation and creating a strong mind along with a strong body.

A lot of the material regarding meditation seems to be entirely mystical. I saw a video on youtube of a KGB agent attacking this type of meditation as bs, but he did not mention what the Soviets used in meditation. I figure the Soviets would have been the best group to learn a scientific method of meditation as any form of superstition was outlawed.

I know in East Germany the government spent slightly over 2% of their GDP on exercise facilities and sports and supposedly the Soviet budget was MUCH larger and were able to do some amazing work in mental training.

There were several accounts of their athletes being able to predict what their opponents were going to do or in other words they possessed a form of pre-cognition. Sounds daft I know, but as the Soviet athletes were taught from childhood to disregard superstition their claims are more likely to be valid. With the fall of the USSR and the severe economic problems Russia went through in the 90's the research was ceased.

Does anyone know what forms of meditation the Soviets used?

That's quite fascinating info on Soviet training! Thanks!