MMA Stuff

MMA Training for Speed and Explosiveness

This is a guest post by Derek Manuel Before I get started explaining how to develop speed and explosiveness for mma fighters, It is important that you first know that there are different types of speed and what they are. Perception and Reflex Speed: An example of perceptual speed is the speed of your eyes [...]

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Metabolic Barbell Complex

Ad: Martial arts supplies at great prices. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to go in the gym and do a half hour workout but feel like you were in the gym for hours? As fighters we have no business being in the gym for hours because we’re on the mat or in the [...]

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MMA Conditioning When Training for a Fight

Ad: Martial arts supplies at great prices. This is a guest post from Derek Manuel Conditioning for a mma fight is, unlike many other sports, not black and white. When most people think of the word conditioning, they think of how far and long an athlete can run or perform a certain exercise without sucking [...]

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Tabata – Not An Easy 4 Minutes

Ad: Great punching bags at great prices. Background Not to get into a history lesson but the Tabata Sequence was created by Dr. Izumi Tabata and with the help of researchers from the National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Tokyo, Japan. The researched showed that there was an 28% increase in anaerobic capacity and [...]

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