MMA Stuff

MMA Sandbag Training Workouts

This video provides an overview by of some great movements that benefit MMA fighters. Josh Henkin runs through 8 sandbag training exercises that you can do with a sandbag. The sandbag shown in the video is the Ultimate Sandbag. The video goes through: Half Moon Snatch Overhead Chop Rotational Lunge Shoulder Get-Ups Around The Worlds [...]

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MMA Training for Balance and Coordination

Every athlete needs well developed core and stabilization muscles, but perhaps no one needs it more than mixed martial artists. Strength in these areas is an absolute must for mma fighters for several reasons: increased balance, coordination, muscular endurance and stability – all which are very important attributes for mma fighters. The ability to stay [...]

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Women in MMA

A Guest Post by my friend Nicole Women in MMA. Say what you want but more and more women are taking up an interest in the male dominated sport. I am one of those women. I don’t have a background in wrestling. Never took a karate class in my life. I did, however, play sports [...]

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Bodyweight Training for Combat Twitter Chat

This Wednesday, March 10th at 9:00pm EST there will be a twitterchat with being faciliated by The Mastermind behind Straight To The Bar, Scott. For individuals with Twitter, just add the hash tag #sbgym to your tag to participate. We will be discussing things such as: • Bodyweight exercises for warming up prior to combat, [...]

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