Whether you want to make your own career in NBA 2K17, your own team, just a good couch or play the co-op game with your friends successfully, we give you a few useful tips and tricks for a perfect start. The game brings again new mechanisms into play, which are either loved or hated in advance. Back is INCREDIBLY important for throwing a good punch, and of course strong arms help, esp. NBA 2K17 is the latest basketball simulation game in the NBA 2K series. Throwing a punch comes from the ground, manipulating your bodyweight. for Muay Thai, but if you don't think that upper body strength significantly helps your jab, you're kidding yourself. Kevin Durant couldn't bench **** coming into the NBA.īut are you telling me Ramon Dekkers can't bench a ton? Obviously legs are the most important thing, esp. Legs are extremely important.īenching for basketball is only helpful to go up against tougher guys than you, but obviously working the legs is infinitely more important. We have male and female standards for these gym exercises and more: bench press, squat, deadlift, shoulder press, pull ups, dumbbell bench press, dumbbell curl, push ups, barbell curl, dumbbell shoulder press. I wasn't saying that you shouldn't do legs for martial arts as well. Our strength standards are based on over 73,523,000 lifts entered by Strength Level users. Huh? I have no idea about rock climbing, but you do realize punching power and technique comes from your lower body? Lower body strength is far more important in MMA, boxing, and other combat sports.then bench pressing.ĭude, I said benching is PRACTICAL for Muay Thai (which is what I practice btw). But squats and lower body training are more important for the NBA Just because I squat an insane amount, played soccer and other sports (used legs a lot, and to run around) and want to see if they're the same way.īenching is practical for contact sports, martial arts, rock climbing. Bledredwine wrote:Ditto on "I want to know how much they squat"