MMA Stuff

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 [...]

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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 ring [...]

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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 [...]

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MMA Training Mistake #4 – Weight Lifting

Ad: Increase hand speed with a speed bag. If you look at some of my older posts there are references to doing isolated muscle group workouts. If you haven’t been following the blog for that long, I used to lift the only way I knew how to lift. Tri/Chest, Shoulders/Back, Legs/Biceps, some sort of 3 or [...]

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