You're going to be getting into a lot of battles with your hands," says Burroughs. Moving Stance Drills second rounds. United States. Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories.
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You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. More From Workouts. He continued his winning streak and made the United States World Team in just a few short months after graduating. From there he would go on to win his first World Championship title on September 18, , in Istanbul, Turkey.
Then in , he returned to the World Championships where he won another gold medal, and he did it less than a month after breaking an ankle in training. This made him only the second person, along with John Smith, to win three Olympic or World gold medals in a row. Jordan went an incredible 3. In Jordan qualified for the Olympics in Rio and was a big favorite to win gold but he was beaten twice and would leave the Olympic Games without a medal. Burroughs goal is to become the winningest wrestler in US history, he will need 2 more gold medals to pass John Smith and achieve this goal.
At the rate he is going we think he has a pretty decent chance accomplishing his goal and we hope he does. Outside of wrestling, Jordan is married to Lauren Mariacher and they have 2 children, one boy, and one girl. He also enjoys business and would like to become an entrepreneur when his wrestling career is over.
Burroughs is also very active on social media and is pretty well known for his engaging Twitter page where he posts everything about his life inside and outside of wrestling. As you can imagine, you need to put in an incredible amount of work to be a full-time world-class athlete. You need to live, eat and breathe your sport if you want to stay on top and that means doing a lot of training.
Being a wrestler, Jordan needs to be explosive, quick, strong and have superb endurance. You need to be a jack of all trades really and it is a combination that requires a unique way of training.
Simply doing your typical bodybuilding exercises is not going to cut it, it will make him strong but slow. Jordan does a combination of weight training, plyometrics, speed training, and conditioning to keep himself at his physical peak.
Below is a pretty good video of Jordan working out that gives you a good idea of what his workouts are like. This video is from It is before his first Olympic Games, you can see some of the training is done at the University of Nebraska which he graduated from in In this video, you can see him doing a nice combination of jumping exercises for explosiveness, weight training, and med ball tosses mixed in with some wrestling.
I know what some of you might be thinking. We have his workout plan from that he tweeted out , this is only the lifting portion and I am sure is more cardio and other exercises on top of this but this will answer a lot of questions you have about what Jordan Burroughs workout looks like.
You would think that an Olympic athlete is on a strict diet of nothing but the best health food on the market, but you would be mistaken. In this video from , he said that his favorite foods are pizza, chicken wings and milkshakes. He eats 3 hearty meals per day. They consist of a lot of pasta, rice, and veggies to deliver the carbs he needs energy at practice. For protein, he eats beef, steaks, chicken, fish, and turkey to keeps strong and lean.
When it comes to making weight he starts his cut about a month before the competition and eliminates all the bad foods from his diet and eats smaller portions while drinking plenty of water to be sure he is hydrated. There you have a pretty good look at Jordan Burroughs workout and diet.
That is part of what it takes to make a world-class athlete.
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