Firas Zahabi has been saying this for years, the reason Russian wrestlers and Cuban boxers are so good is because they are playful with their sparring and don’t treat it like a job, compared to the American mindset of going hard and pushing physical limits daily.
I don't see any evidence for that when its not sports specific reflex training. Colors and stuff not going to help. Just my opinion. It's a brain trainer. There's no evidence those things work from the stuff I've seen and read.
They don't work though. It's a bunch random stuff and it doesn't transfer over to fighting at all. I've seen a lot of these and just ignore it. The people teaching it aren't fighters or do any real fight training. They don't know how to get any of that to apply to people's actual fighting skills. They just get good at doing these weird workouts.
They aren't talking about regular S&C, they are talking about weird S&C programs that's just ineffective for fighters. It's trainers trying to come up with weird workouts that they can sell that doesn't really work, or help in any way to improve fighting ability or their actual strength and conditioning.
Yup there are other ways to train your brain to process information faster. It should be worked on separately though before trying to do it while doing physical activity. Plus they are training for fights, so it should be related to fighting. They have to speed up their brain processing fight information, not math problems during a fight.
Firas Zahabi is a geek and not nearly the athlete of a Dan Snyder or even your average D1 wrestler.
Yeah, me playing aim trainers with my mouse and keyboard or solving math problems isn't going to help me drive a car better. Some things you can't fix. You can't fix reflexes. That goes with age, you're fighting an upclimb battle. You can work to improving timing a little bit, with technique and repetitions, so you're not thinking when you're doing something. But just reflexes and reflexes alone, I don't believe you can do that. I believe that's a genetic disposition. That one has.
I'm not saying hire me, I'm saying look at the studies. Look at the data. Not everything in sports medicine is correct.
I'm not too sure, I had very weak reflexes before and started focusing on it specifically. I believe it can be trained, I just don't think most people are training it in a way that can transfer over with their fighting movements. I think that's the problem why people think it can't be improved. Boxers train reflexes all the time in ways that benefit their fighting style. You see it transfer from their training to their fighting because they work on the same movements and reactions. The light stuff will not replicate that at all. That's why you are not seeing results from the fighters doing the light training.
I agree. There is some residual effect. But it's over inconsequential. Being a driver may make your hand eye coordination better. Being a better typer may help improve mobility in your finger tips. But over the course of day to things in variable aspects of your life, its going to be largely inconsequential. A better typer won't make you a better guitar player. It won't make you a better piano player or improve that. It's residual. You could say that about any task that you do on a regular basis, but not exactly "training" it.
It's clear by his name, he took the Livestrong business model and ran with it lol
Korean Zombie stated that this is an issue in Korean MMA gyms. According to him they place a heavy emphasis on running and weight lifting to the point where the fighters are all over trained and exhausted. By the time they start skill training they're completely spent.
