The Problem Keeping You From Your Physical Potential:Limited Time + Limited Energy
In order to be a successful MMA fighter, you’ve got to constantly learn new techniques and hone your skills.
But let me ask you this…
When two athletes get ready to go to war and they’re equal in skill, who will win?
If you said, “The guy in better shape,” you’ve nailed it.
It doesn’t matter how skilled you are, if you gas out or get overpowered, you’re going to lose.
Even if you simply train for fun, what’s more fun… Getting tapped out all the time and losing to less experienced guys or being able to pull off all of your skills and train forever and still be hungry for more?
But to be an MMA fighter requires a lot of dedication – often 5, 6 or even 7 days a week of training.
This makes it hard to fit your strength and conditioning workouts in, even though you know how crucial they are to training and fighting at your potential.
And most workout plans you find require 3, 4 or even 5 workouts per week – impossible to stick to and potentially dangerous, since you can quickly become overtrained and get an injury.
On top of that, the programs you find are based on old-school methods that drain your energy, making your MMA training at best INEFFECTIVE and at worst, COUNTERPRODUCTIVE, since you’ll end up developing sloppy technique because you’re sore and you’ve already spent all of your energy working out.
The Truth About S&C for MMA:Most Workouts DON’T Work For MMA
The fact is that most of the workouts you find online and see UFC fighters doing on TV won’t work for you, especially if you’ve got a job, school or family to manage too. They’re designed for guys who fight full time. Guys whose lives revolve around fighting.
But the absolute worst plans are based around old school body-part splits – if you’re following a body-part split routine, you’re KILLING your chances at achieving an elite level of fitness.
These routines aren’t designed for MMA. They’re designed to build muscles for guys who like fake tans and wearing neon thong bikinis.
Not what you or I are after.
They won’t give you the functional strength and power you need and they require at least 4 days per week of training, further wasting your limited time and energy that you need to survive the grueling training sessions you do as a mixed martial artist.
Finally, they’ll make you bulkier, slower and more susceptible to gassing out – exactly the OPPOSITE of what you want.
The Solution to Getting Into Top Fight Shape:
MMA Specific Programmed Periodization
Here’s an example of a popular myth that’s keeping you from achieving an elite level of fitness…
You’ve probably heard of Tabata intervals before, right?
You’ve also probably heard that they’re the best way to improve your cardio.
Now let me ask you this…
How can Tabata’s be the ‘best’ method for fat loss, general fitness and MMA conditioning – 3 completely different goals?
That’s right, they can’t… and aren’t!
What these same coaches won’t tell you (or might not even know) is that every method can be useful, but it depends on the time and place the method is used that determines its effectiveness.
Here are 3 areas where many guys screw-up in their training:
Major MMA Training Screw-up #1: Strength
Weight training is crucial in developing your strength and power.
But if you’re like most fighters and you don’t perform the right reps, sets and exercises at the right time, and change them every 4 weeks, you’ll stop making gains and plateau and you’ll never get the best results from your efforts.
Periodization takes care of this and shows you what to do, when to do it, so each phase of training builds on the previous one and you never get stuck on a plateau and get stronger, faster and more powerful each and every phase.
Major MMA Training Screw-up #2: Cardio
There are 3 systems in your body that give you the cardio you need to punch, kick, choke and wrestle your way to victory from the first to the last round: the aerobic, anaerobic lactic (An-L) and anaerobic alactic (An-A) energy systems.
Specific workouts develop each energy system.
It’s way too complicated to go in to depth here, but you must understand that just like how your strength training must be periodized, the same goes for your cardio.
If you’re just doing the same old intervals or circuits all the time, your body will hit a plateau and you’ll stop making gains and leave one of the other components under developed.
Even if the workouts are hard.
Remember – it’s not just about training hard, but training smart.
The ideal is to train hard AND smart. If you’re ready to do this, you’re ready for explosive gains in your fitness.
Major MMA Training Screw-up #3: Power
Medicine ball exercises are the best way to develop knockout power because they allow you to train your core in rotation where power comes from.
But most guys totally blow it by doing way too many reps and not resting enough so that the exercises are a quarter as effective as they could be if done right, which you’ll learn about soon.
Here’s the golden rule of power development:
Keep sets short, 15 seconds or less, and rest fully between sets, at least 8 times the length of your set, sometimes more, depending on the exercise.
And that’s why MMA Specific Programming and Periodization is so important – because it allows you to train strategically AND synergistically, working the right attributes at the right time, avoiding these major MMA training screw-ups and resulting in consistent gains while completely eliminating excessive soreness, fatigue, overtraining and injury.
The program I’m about to share with you has been tested, tweaked and proven in the UFC, in championship fights and in local shows by over 523 1,342 fighters (and counting) from over 28 countries around the world.
So what kind of results did they get? This
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