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For combat sports weight training has diminishing returns (the amount of practical strength you get increased compared to the amount of strain you put on your body isn't worth it for most; especially if your drug free).This comment might be naive but how do you avoid overtraining? Let me begin by saying I have no fighting experience - I just train a lot of BJJ and muay thai. I'm finding it difficult to incorporate weight training into my schedule.
If you have say weight sessions twice a week and then you train muay thai next day for 1.5hrs (or even that afternoon), how are you giving your body enough time to recover after the weight session? My understanding is that a muscle group should be given around 48hrs to recover post weight workout to allow the DOMS and muscle growth/repair to occur properly.
I'm an amateur fighter (MMA) and my training schedule is 2 hours of training in the morning 6 days a week (i'll squeeze 2-3 hours a week of general cardio in the mix so that brings my total to 15 hours). 9 to 10 hours of sleep and a clean diet helps tremendously along with frequent massages and muscle rubs (namman muay, neotica, tiger balm liniment).