MMA Stuff

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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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 [...]

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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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