***MMA Conditioning Article***
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Your natural weight isn't the lowest weight you can get to, it's your normal every day walking weight. Randy and Fedor walk around at 220-235, that is a heavyweight. MMA doesn't have a SHW class, so the real heavyweights are forced to fight super heavy weights (and the SHW's are forced to cut to 265).
You can't tell me that it is fair to have Fedor/Randy fight Tim Sylvia or Semmy Schilt (even if they did win). Would you think it would be fair to have Urijah Faber fight Anderson Silva or Dan Henderson?
Fedor would have a lot of problems cutting to LHW, because he wouldn't be Fedor any more. He relies on being faster than his opponents.
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It's not better. They're both important.
Five minute bursts of energy, when strung together in increments of three to five, add up to 17-29 minutes of activity. For that, you need an aerobic base.
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Thank you. The voice of wisdom.
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I think Centaur had an interesting post about Aerobic being useful for training and supporting your anaerobic work in that instance. Not sure about the balance/interaction between the CNS and cardio, with CNS potentially being the limiting factor though.
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Low intensity cardio does have a place in MMA training but long distance runs do not. If you want some active recovery from your more intense interval work, then you should be skipping to work on calf endurance and footwork or doing some light, low intensity rolling. As long as what you're doing translates over to your sport. It's called the principle of specificity and it's pretty much talked about in the very first chapter of any strength and conditioning text you'll ever read.
5/5 minute circuits with 1 minute rest done 3 times a week. (compound, multi-joint supersets) and select exercises that mimic the demands of MMA.
1 hour of low-to-medium intensity rolling another 3-4 times a week.
5-7 rounds of padwork done 3-4 times a week.
Add in all your sparring sessions etc.
Don't waste your time jogging for an hour. Your time and energy can be spent doing more productive things.
5/5 minute circuits with 1 minute rest done 3 times a week. (compound, multi-joint supersets) and select exercises that mimic the demands of MMA.
1 hour of low-to-medium intensity rolling another 3-4 times a week.
5-7 rounds of padwork done 3-4 times a week.
Add in all your sparring sessions etc.
Don't waste your time jogging for an hour. Your time and energy can be spent doing more productive things.
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Good cardiovascular fitness is important to, as mentioned before, in recovering fast and being able to take the best advantage of other kinds of energy systems. But is runing the best option?
I belive that the idea of specific conditioning brings would be the best alternative.
Sometimes it feels like people dont get it that when their on the mat or in the ring they are actually getting conditioning with the skills. Naturally, to reap the best benefits it demands alot of initiative and will from the coach to condition their fighters while improving skills.
A great example of specific conditioning, from more "aerobic" point of view would be long rounds of position
grapling without the submissions, consentraitin on movement, position game and staying lose. It is a killer but with the right tempo and attitude it also is a great way to learn to move and get a great conditioning work out. Sure beats runing for grappling.
A Finnish wrestling team, with national level wrestlers, started doing 30 min rounds to get the conditioning up, when they heard the womens team had started to do the same, the coach crank'd it up a notch and push'd the rounds to 60 mins. Ofcourse not all the time but you get the point.
I belive that the idea of specific conditioning brings would be the best alternative.
Sometimes it feels like people dont get it that when their on the mat or in the ring they are actually getting conditioning with the skills. Naturally, to reap the best benefits it demands alot of initiative and will from the coach to condition their fighters while improving skills.
A great example of specific conditioning, from more "aerobic" point of view would be long rounds of position
grapling without the submissions, consentraitin on movement, position game and staying lose. It is a killer but with the right tempo and attitude it also is a great way to learn to move and get a great conditioning work out. Sure beats runing for grappling.
A Finnish wrestling team, with national level wrestlers, started doing 30 min rounds to get the conditioning up, when they heard the womens team had started to do the same, the coach crank'd it up a notch and push'd the rounds to 60 mins. Ofcourse not all the time but you get the point.
Its very true
But also lsd runs are usually above 4-5 miles.
Just you know...throwing that out there.....for now real reason :icon_chee
Well you know, I like to argue, but I also like to put across some common sense
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You jerk. Quit reading my training log for material to use against me!
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You jerk. Quit reading my training log for material to use against me!
I haven't :icon_chee
I remember from on a conditioning thread where I said about contacting a admin if your lsd runs were less then 6 miles :icon_chee
