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Creating An MMA Workout Program

If you want to setup your own MMA Workout Program, then this article will definitely help you out. I’m going to take you through my thought process when it comes to creating a program if I were to meet a fighter for the first time. By answering these questions yourself, you can come up with your own program that fits your situation.

Let’s get started:

• Do I have any injuries, pain, or movement limitations to address? These things should be worked on first before trying to build.

• Do I have a fight coming up? If so, how many weeks do I have? If not, just pick 12 weeks as a nice amount of time to program for. Work backwards from the date, setting up 2-4 week blocks to focus on one area of improvement at a time.

• What areas do I need the most work - body composition, strength, power, or endurance? If you've got a fight coming up, power-endurance will be the main focus in the 4 weeks leading up to the fight, aside from that it depends on your situation.

• How many days a week can I commit to strength and conditioning for MMA? For most fighters, 2-3 days a week is sufficient to get good results.

• What aspect of my mixed-martial arts technique training do I need to focus on the most? Whatever this aspect is, you want to be fresh for it, so you don't want to do strength and conditioning on the same day.

• What exercises do I hate, that I should probably do more often? Most athletes stick to their favourite exercises, neglecting those that would probably give them the most improvement.

Now when it comes to choosing actual exercises, make sure you include ALL of the following:

• A dynamic warmup to improve your mobility before your workout

• The big compond exercises to build your general strength (squats, deadlifts, lunges, chinups, bench press)

• Unilateral exercises to develop your stabilizer muscles and maintain muscular balance (1-arm rows, 1-arm presses, 1-leg stiff-leg deadlifts)

• Static core stability exercises (planks)

• Dynamic core stability exercises (woodchops)

• Rotational power exercises (medicine ball throws)

• Injury prevention exercises for the shoulder (cuban press, external rotations)

When you're putting these exercises together into a workout, ensure that you're hitting the full body in your workouts, since you'll only have 2-3 sessions to do. If you do a body part split, you just won't have enough stimulus to cause adaptation.

Rep ranges, rest, and sets are beyond the scope of this article, because there is an entire science to choosing the proper schemes, depending on your situation and what you need.

So hopefully this has shed some light on the thought process going in to creating an MMA workout program for yourself.

If you want to save time and follow a program that's been proven in the octagon that's already done for you so you can hit the gym today, check out the Ultimate MMA Workout Program.

Here's what one fighter had to say about training on this program:

Best Shape Ever!

Having completed Eric's 17 week programme, I can safely say that I am in the best shape that I have ever been. In other programmes, I only ever developed one aspect of fitness, but with Eric's periodised approach I have developed a well balanced body and improved my strength, power and cardio. Furthermore, I have not needed to train more than 3-4 times a week, I have not recieved any injuries and most importantly, I have not felt too tired/sore for when I hit my technical training. The NRG complexes were my favourite part of the programme. These tough circuits are designed to develop power endurance, which is most important attribute for a mixed martial artist. Thanks again Eric!

Subaig Singh, UK Mixed Martial Artist

This is a guest article by Eric Wong, a professional strength and conditioning coach for professional and up and coming MMA Fighters

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MMA Conditioning - 3 Tips to Winning Fights That Go the Distance

If you're a mixed-martial artist and you've been in a fight that's gone the distance, then maybe you know the terrible feeling of having nothing left to give with 2 minutes left in a round. If you haven't gone the distance or haven't had a pro fight yet, then use the 5 tips in this article to make sure you're the one maintaining the pressure and imposing will - not your opponent.

1) Do sprints and intervals instead of long, slow runs.

MMA is a sport that requires explosive, quick moves and strength at various times through a 5 minute round. You never know if you'll be in a clinch, defending a shot, escaping the mount, or sinking in a triangle. One thing you do know is that you WON'T be jogging around the ring at a slow pace for half an hour. Training in this fashion will help you get your time down for your local charity run, but won't do anything to help you knock your opponent out.

Instead, stick to sprints and intervals if you're going to be doing running workouts. An example of a good sprint workout would be to warm-up for 5 minutes doing a dynamic warm-up routine, then doing 5 short 40 yard sprints where you gradually increase your pace from about 60% to 90%. Rest a minute, then do a 100 metre sprint, walk back to the start, and repeat for a total of 10 sprints. This workout will beat distance running hands down for its ability to improve your performance in the cage.

2) Take 2 recovery weeks off for every 4 weeks of conditioning.

This tip is huge, and has helped skyrocket the conditioning of the athletes I train, guys like Jeff Joslin and Rory McDonell. Most fighters have a thing about working themselves to death - this mindset is what makes them tough, but also what keeps them injured and often overtrained, limiting performance in both training and competition.

You can avoid these problems by taking 2 weeks off of your conditioning workouts. You still do your MMA training and strength/power workouts, but let the conditioning go for 2 weeks. When you get back to it, you'll be fresher and ready to take your conditioning up another notch.

3) Do more specific workouts in the 4 weeks leading up to the fight.

Sprints and intervals are great, but they're not specific to mixed-martial arts. The workouts that I have my athletes perform include jumps, sprawls, quick feet drills, core stabilization exercises, explosive push-ups - all movements that are used in a fight, performed as quick and explosively as possible. I call these workouts NRG System Complexes, because they tap into every energy system of the body and are made up of a lot of different exercises.

Each complex lasts about 5 minutes, and your goal should be to do 4 complexes in a row with 1 minute of rest where you feel fresh and powerful in the last round. So the closer you get to the fight, the more specific you want to get with your conditioning routine.

Use the tips in this article and you'll improve your conditioning and your opponents will wish they didn't waste so much time training doing slow, hour long runs.

If you would like to follow a conditioning system that has helped MMA Fighters live there dream go and check out Ultimate MMA Strength & Conditioning

The New Way Of Fighting: Mixed Martial Arts

Mixed Martial Arts is growing by leaps and bounds each month. It has pretty much taken over the fighting world. Punching, kicking, striking, grappling, elbowing, kneeing, clinching and throwing are moves that are all legal in MMA. It's not your uncles way of fighting.

Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is a a full contact sport that combines various martial arts such as boxing, kickboxing, muay thai, karate, wrestling and judo, among others. By bringing together so many different practices, it allows people from a multitude of martial art backgrounds to participate and forces fighters to become specialized in one art, while becoming generalized in others.

Just check a city near you and you can see the explosion of gyms teaching MMA.

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