When I’m not at my MMA Gym I’m training with my buddy Ken. He’s half Thai and half Chinese and ironically he doesn’t train Muay Thai. He just trains traditional boxing at Chuck Liddell endorsed LA Boxing. In his backyard he has a “back house” where he has a few couches, some junk and a speed bag. Our training is nothing fancy and extremely primitive. We bought a pair of cheap curved mitts from Title Boxing and just recently acquired a medicine ball. The point is, we get a really good workout without weights or a heavy bag. We just used our imagination to come up with a solid workout.
On a normal day we start our session off with some shadow boxing or jump rope then we get right into mitt work. We do five-five minute rounds. Our workouts will vary though.
Round 1: Freestyle (Warming Up)
Just a nice warmup round throwing basic combinations, 1-2, 1-2-3, 2-3-2, so on and so forth.
Round 2: Freestyle + Sprawling/Push Ups
Basic combinations but Ken will yell for me to sprawl at the end of combos or whenever he feels like. Since he’s a boxer and doesn’t need to sprawl I tell him to do a couple of push ups. For example, 1-2-3-4 three push ups. or 1-2-3 SPRAWL!
Round 3: Pyramid Jabs
This was influenced by a kicking drill we do in Muay Thai where we kick with one leg once, then twice, then three times, all
the way up to ten and back down. Instead of kicking we throw jabs and crosses. So you start out with 1-2 (one jab), 1-1-2 (two jabs), 1-1-1-2 (three jabs), 1-1-1-1-2(four jabs) all the way up to ten, and then back down. This drill is just to help build shoulder strength for the jab.
Round 4: Freestyle (again)
Same thing as first round
Round 5: Speed Round
This is where we just throw the 1-2-3-4-5-6 combo non stop for 5 minutes straight. This is where we build up our hand speed.
After that we switch, then once we both get our mitt work in we’ll do several different push ups, sit ups and plyometrics, which will be explained in Part II. During this whole time I focus on keeping my hands up, correctly executing my strikes, staying loose, and correctly moving my feet. Supplemental MMA Training can be real effective and cheap if you use a bit of imagination and find a buddy.
Camp Asia has enrollment open for the low price of 500 dollars a month. By the way, I didn’t have any part of the beer that’s littered around the camp.
March 28th, 2008 at 6:10 am
Shadow boxing is so important. Just started with doing Bas Ruttens MMA Workout by myself at home the days when I’m not training and really helps you out a lot.