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I'm summarizing some stuff from a book called "Fit To Fight"
Combat sports and most sports except distance running and marathon type events are anaerobic in nature. Anaerobic of course means the body is producing energy in the absence of oxygen, which means you will be able to keep a high output of power over a long period of time with little rest. Oxygen is not your primary fuel in peroids of high exertion, such as throwing combinations and fast paced grappling.
You cannot train aerobically and expect to improve your anaerboic conditioing, but conversely, if you improve your anaerobic capacity your aerobic capacity will also greatly improve.
Running miles and miles daily is training the wrong energy system, and can even be counter productive because it produces the stress hormone cortisol which is catabolic.
This method of jogging mile after mile is ineffective and completely outdated. Here is a relevent story;
The author was a high school wrestling coach who tried in vain to explain this to the father of 2 wrestlers he was coaching. The man was talking to was set in is old school ways and refused to listen (like some of you). During the summer the father had his kids run 3 miles every morning of everyday. When they returned in September to practice, he hwas shocked to find the jogs had no positive effect on the kid's performance. He told the author, "They were dying on the mat today, I can't believe it after the running they did all summer." "My point proven" says the author.
As I have said anaerobic training will increase your aerobic capacity, and the opposite is not true. Combat sports and most sports require short burts of extreme speed and power followed by a lower-intensity activity or brief rest period, so we know strict aerobic training is useless for combat atheltes and instead you should be focusing on anaerobic work, or energy system work. One of the best ways to improve your endurance is simply to fight or wrestle (sparring), although that might seem kind of obvious.
So, do sprints, don't waste your time jogging. If you still want to distance run then sprint in bursts then do brief periods of jogging (like sprint the long side of a track, and jog the curve)
Steakeater, wrestling is an anaerobic activity. Also, just look at the physique of a sprinter compared to a marathon runner. Would you rather have a skinny body lacking in muscle mass (which is a product of so much aerobic training) or the body of a sprinter? It is pretty obvious which one looks faster and stronger. Sprinters have stronger, and more lean muscle mass.
If people still don't agree, that is fine you can do that. In the end you will only be limiting yourself and it makes no difference to me.
Combat sports and most sports except distance running and marathon type events are anaerobic in nature. Anaerobic of course means the body is producing energy in the absence of oxygen, which means you will be able to keep a high output of power over a long period of time with little rest. Oxygen is not your primary fuel in peroids of high exertion, such as throwing combinations and fast paced grappling.
You cannot train aerobically and expect to improve your anaerboic conditioing, but conversely, if you improve your anaerobic capacity your aerobic capacity will also greatly improve.
Running miles and miles daily is training the wrong energy system, and can even be counter productive because it produces the stress hormone cortisol which is catabolic.
This method of jogging mile after mile is ineffective and completely outdated. Here is a relevent story;
The author was a high school wrestling coach who tried in vain to explain this to the father of 2 wrestlers he was coaching. The man was talking to was set in is old school ways and refused to listen (like some of you). During the summer the father had his kids run 3 miles every morning of everyday. When they returned in September to practice, he hwas shocked to find the jogs had no positive effect on the kid's performance. He told the author, "They were dying on the mat today, I can't believe it after the running they did all summer." "My point proven" says the author.
As I have said anaerobic training will increase your aerobic capacity, and the opposite is not true. Combat sports and most sports require short burts of extreme speed and power followed by a lower-intensity activity or brief rest period, so we know strict aerobic training is useless for combat atheltes and instead you should be focusing on anaerobic work, or energy system work. One of the best ways to improve your endurance is simply to fight or wrestle (sparring), although that might seem kind of obvious.
So, do sprints, don't waste your time jogging. If you still want to distance run then sprint in bursts then do brief periods of jogging (like sprint the long side of a track, and jog the curve)
Steakeater, wrestling is an anaerobic activity. Also, just look at the physique of a sprinter compared to a marathon runner. Would you rather have a skinny body lacking in muscle mass (which is a product of so much aerobic training) or the body of a sprinter? It is pretty obvious which one looks faster and stronger. Sprinters have stronger, and more lean muscle mass.
If people still don't agree, that is fine you can do that. In the end you will only be limiting yourself and it makes no difference to me.
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