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Official Conor McGregor thread (part 2). Read warning in 1st post

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The last thread was nearing the 10k post limit so here's part 2.

The same rules as the last thread apply here. People seem to have strong opinions either way when it comes to McGregor and threads here tend to get a bit heated from time to time. Please keep it civil and discuss all things Conor in a mature way.
Any name-calling, trolling, baiting, or being a general ass-hat will earn you a ban from the thread and possibly the forum.
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Any "Do you even train Bro?" or "I'm an mma fan longer than you" type posts are not permitted either. They only make you look like a fool and as a result, everyone hates you. Yes everyone.

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Mellor

wonderfullife wrote: »

I really think this was a huge error in judgement by Conor and i'm surprised the team didn't think this through.

By that i mean the following:

I understand he has timed the launch of this program to coincide with UFC 205 and the huge publicity surrounding it. Take one look at the comments section and it's almost 99% negative and/or abusive. The quickest way for a rich, popular athlete/celebrity to alienate his fanbase is for them to feel exploited.

The negative criticism and blowback is something he really doesn't need to contend with this week. His focus should be 100% on Eddie. He doesn't need his Twitter and Instagram riddled with negativity and most of the abuse/criticism is coming from his own fans - not the usual Diaz blow-ins

I highly doubt Conor is sitting around checking what people are saying on Twitter/IG/Facebook. I'd guess he hasn't actually developed this training program. I imagine Dalby developed it, Conor just endorses it.

The site itself doesn't inspire very much confidence. It's a fairly basic design and outlay and it's riddled with spelling errors and design errors. I counted 8 separate typos. "aerobic" in place of "anerobic". Accidental double spaces in sentences. Commas in wrong places. Some text not fitting in place etc.

People are not going to hand over 300 euro for a training program based on a website riddled with sloppy errors and mistakes. They're not even likely to hand it over for a flawless website but at least get the basics right. It blows my mind how you can launch a high profile website with spelling mistakes and grammatical errors.

All valid criticism, but also common with new websites/magazines and basically anything on a deadline.

The intro video looks very forced and serious. He's clearly reading off cards/teleprompter. That's not the Conor the fans love.

Well, he probably is being fed a script.
As above, He's on board to be the face of this program.

I really thought this would be aimed at people like me. Guys who spend half their life on a computer and phone and get very little exercise.
If he pitched an affordable training plan at people like me, at an affordable price, he'd clean up. I'd certainly be willing, as a fan, to hand over maybe 150 for a 6 month program designed at getting me off the couch to a decent level of fitness. And maybe then when i got to an intermediate level i could pay 200 for the advanced program.

It's hard to say who it is aimed at without more info. But from a purely economically point of view, I'd imagine it is in fact aimed at regular guys looking to get fitter.

A branded training DVD might cost about $99-$119*. This is a bit over that ($295/€265). Whether or not it's worth it depends on the personal training aspect and other content imo.
If you just want to get fitter, you can get a program online for free.

Mellor

Richard tea wrote: »

I read two books by Dr Michael moseley (chap off horizon documentarys). The FAST DIET and HIIT excirise. At a guess I say the mac life fast plan is pretty much hiit training. Dr moseley bangs on about vox and all that jazz.

Moseley's fast diet is about fasting two days a week. I'd say this is nothing to do with anything like that.
His Fast/Hiit exercise is about that 3 mins per week is all you need schtick.

HIIT is like you described about, but its not about specific heart rates. It's more flat out bursts, followed by recovery - regardless of HR.

The MacLife Fast appears to be conditioning training. I'd guess it's something like;
Recovery session on treadmill, long slow cardio
Medium intensity, tempo sessions on heavy bag, bike, rower
Power/Sprints on the Rower and bike

wonderfullife

Muahahaha wrote: »

Reach beats height IMO and McGregor has a 5 inch reach advantage which is huge IMO. Alvarez will find it very difficult to close the distance Would love to know what his leg reach is compared to others in the LW division. I remember about two years back when he went to ESPN to do tests and some of his stats were phenomenal.

That was a cool episode with Daniel Cormier holding pads for him. Had totally forgotten that until you mentioned it.

Jack Slack always says range is more important than height, where range = height and reach in conjunction. He's got a massive advantage in this department.

Muahahaha

darced wrote: »

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Me too, but I think I opened a can of worms by asking

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

Conor isn't 5'9... I don't care what anyone says. Eddie probably isn't either.

Height is self declared in the UFC for some bizarre reason, reach might be as well. That's why some fighters still don't have leg reach listed, they just haven't bothered submitting it.

Reach beats height IMO and McGregor has a 5 inch reach advantage which is huge IMO. Alvarez will find it very difficult to close the distance Would love to know what his leg reach is compared to others in the LW division. I remember about two years back when he went to ESPN to do tests and some of his stats were phenomenal.

wonderfullife

cloudatlas wrote: »

Oh WELL then if that's ALL I need then No Problem!

Only 267.15 euro, that's a steal and then you can be like a world champion who has trained for years.

I really think this was a huge error in judgement by Conor and i'm surprised the team didn't think this through.

By that i mean the following:

I understand he has timed the launch of this program to coincide with UFC 205 and the huge publicity surrounding it. Take one look at the comments section and it's almost 99% negative and/or abusive. The quickest way for a rich, popular athlete/celebrity to alienate his fanbase is for them to feel exploited.

The negative criticism and blowback is something he really doesn't need to contend with this week. His focus should be 100% on Eddie. He doesn't need his Twitter and Instagram riddled with negativity and most of the abuse/criticism is coming from his own fans - not the usual Diaz blow-ins.

The site itself doesn't inspire very much confidence. It's a fairly basic design and outlay and it's riddled with spelling errors and design errors. I counted 8 separate typos. "aerobic" in place of "anerobic". Accidental double spaces in sentences. Commas in wrong places. Some text not fitting in place etc.

People are not going to hand over 300 euro for a training program based on a website riddled with sloppy errors and mistakes. They're not even likely to hand it over for a flawless website but at least get the basics right. It blows my mind how you can launch a high profile website with spelling mistakes and grammatical errors. It would be no different to him showing up to fight Alvarez having not brought any of his own mouth-guards - pure sloppy, lazy, incompetent even.

The intro video looks very forced and serious. He's clearly reading off cards/teleprompter. That's not the Conor the fans love.

More to the point, who is he aiming this program at? John said himself Conor couldn't even get sponsorship for a tub of protein in 2012. Would the 2012-version of Conor buy MacLifeFast? Of course he wouldn't. Far too steep. It prices out a huge % of amateur fighters. Hell, there's pros in the UFC on the bottom tier who couldn't afford this.

I really thought this would be aimed at people like me. Guys who spend half their life on a computer and phone and get very little exercise. If he pitched an affordable training plan at people like me, at an affordable price, he'd clean up. I'd certainly be willing, as a fan, to hand over maybe 150 for a 6 month program designed at getting me off the couch to a decent level of fitness. And maybe then when i got to an intermediate level i could pay 200 for the advanced program.

I understand this is early days for this venture and the spelling mistakes, grammatical errors and website design can be changed and improved. But why on earth would you invite negativity into your life 4 days before the fight of your life?

Incredible really. He's misjudged this catastrophically on the timing. It seems extremely sloppy, very rushed, ill-conceived, over-priced and he's already alienating his own fanbase - which is almost criminal given the amount of money a lot of us spend on following him.

Being honest, what he's just done is the equivalent of John pricing up Win or Learn at 50 euro for the book with the front cover containing a spelling mistake!! People can spot a money-grab.

I think his heart was in the right place. He probably got such a buzz over this new cardio thing but he has to do things right. He's already getting a lot of negative criticism for the 24option association (which is effectively gambling).

If i were him i'd take the site down for a week, turn off his phone, beat Alvarez and re-launch before Xmas with some proper effort and thought gone into it.

All the feedback i'm seeing, everywhere, is negative. It's the last thing anybody needs before a big fight.

coleslaw

coleslaw wrote: »

sorry very bad answer on my behalf.im not well up on high end training and I'm old ,and have only started jui jitsu in the last year and wish you the best.My apologies

ps not directed to you at all

coleslaw

Richard tea wrote: »

Not sure I understand your question. If its in regards to hiit training it's high intensity interval training. It's shorts bursts of high tempo excirise whilst keeping the heart rate in a certain zone. That's my basic knowledge of it anyway .

sorry very bad answer on my behalf.im not well up on high end training and I'm old ,and have only started jui jitsu in the last year and wish you the best.My apologies

cloudatlas

All you need is a heavy bag, a treadmill, an exercise bike, and a rowing machine. You will also need a heart rate monitor to track your workout performance.

Oh WELL then if that's ALL I need then No Problem!

Only 267.15 euro, that's a steal and then you can be like a world champion who has trained for years.

Richard tea

coleslaw wrote: »

sounds like your doing well so simpfly

Not sure I understand your question. If its in regards to hiit training it's high intensity interval training. It's shorts bursts of high tempo excirise whilst keeping the heart rate in a certain zone. That's my basic knowledge of it anyway .

coleslaw

Richard tea wrote: »

I read two books by Dr Michael moseley (chap off horizon documentarys). The FAST DIET and HIIT excirise. At a guess I say the mac life fast plan is pretty much hiit training. Dr moseley bangs on about vox and all that jazz.

sounds like your doing well so simpfly

Richard tea

I read two books by Dr Michael moseley (chap off horizon documentarys). The FAST DIET and HIIT excirise. At a guess I say the mac life fast plan is pretty much hiit training. Dr moseley bangs on about vox and all that jazz.

Killergreene

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coleslaw

i envy what you guys write but love what you write,i look forward to this just the same as each of you.All the best to all the main posters and personaly hope we can all enjoy a win or a lose.. Good quote

cloudatlas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGAZizRX-Yk

coleslaw

sorry long time lurker,and deslexis so please forgive,texts take a while ,possible, i think jerramy will beat or ko frankie.I hove Thomson beats woodley but you never know with if the big shots can get through and change that...joanna s name is to long to type but i think she will kick the leg in the first and second and be elbows and strikes from there maybe.Anyway sorry for the crap.i do read this and most importantly everyone enjoy the fight

Mellor

xtal191 wrote: »

Jesus this thing is awful looking

https://twitter.com/br_uk/status/795753867531132928

https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/795663368334049280

The decal a temp vinyl wrap, who cares about that when you inside it.
And I'd imagine $350k worth of Rolls Royce is pretty amazing inside.

Duff

What time is Wonderfullife vs. Gamebread and will it be on Fightpass?

Gamebred

So the Mac Life FAST system is now live you can join now for just $295,

Wonderfullife is 100% the first person signed up.

coleslaw

Arguing over inches is maybe ok girls but mls,come on lads get a grip:D

Fromvert

Nah pretty sure I've read him described as below, height confirmed.

His name was H̶o̶m̶e̶r̶ Conor
Seven feet tall.
Arms like tree trunks.
Eyes like steel, cold and hard.
Had a shock of hair, red.
Like the fires of hell.

martyos121

McGregor's big announcement was spoiled on Twitter:

He wears lifts in his shoes. :pac:

ASOT

Your all wrong hes about 18 feet tall.

darced

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Gamebred

He's 5'10 with his pony tail lads.

wonderfullife

darced wrote: »

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I didn't inspect his footwear but my point stands. If both our shoes added an inch he was still fractionally taller than me and i've had my height properly measured as part of a yearly check-up into my P.E repair surgery.

He's closer to 5'10 than 5'9 in shoes.

Anyway, on the evidence of the face-off with Alvarez he's at least an inch, possibly 2 inches taller than Eddie and has a 5 inch reach advantage.

xtal191

Lukker- wrote: »

When Conor is getting an MRI they have his height listed as 175. Usually medical records need to be accurate.

175 cm = 5'8.9

Isn't this good enough? Pretty sure it was on one of the earlier MacLife videos for 205.

darced

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wonderfullife

darced wrote: »

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Jesus wept.

What part of i was standing beside him and i know my own height is confusing you?

darced

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wonderfullife

Gamebred wrote: »

Were you in SBG by any chance Wonder?

I may not have mentioned much but yes i was :pac:

To be fair it was relevant to mention it lol. When someone is so adamant they know a persons height and i was stood next to that person less than 2 weeks ago.....perplexing.

He's a slap of hair gel away from 5'10