MMA Conditioning

MMA Conditioning is vital part of any MMA Fighters or indeed any martial artists training regime. If you run out of gas in a fight, it does not matter how slick and well practiced in MMA you are, you are going to have a bad day. As you know in MMA bad days can hurt alot 

How do we prevent that from happening? Through a well designed MMA conditioning lot. program. 

A MMA Conditioning program must develop the fighters… 

• Aerobic capacity 
• Anaerobic capacity 
• Strength 
• Functional Strength 
• Power 
• Muscular Endurance 

A Common mistake that a lot of MMA fighters make is to follow a traditional Body Building style weights regime. Along with long, slow steady state cardio workouts.   

Body Building Programmes are designed to increase an athlete’s SIZE. With MMA being contested in Weight divisions it is vitally important that you gain as much POWER and STRENGTH with as little weight gain as possible this is often called an athlete’s power to weight ratio. In Basic terms when designing a MMA Conditioning Programme every pound of muscle must give the athlete as much “Bang for his Buck” as possible. 

Cardio MMA Conditioning must mirror the actual fight situation as closely as possible. Fights are not fought at a constant steady pace. Fights are fought in highly intense rounds with slight breaks. So when designing an athlete’s cardio programme this needs to be taken into account. A mixture of high intensity intervals will better prepare the athlete for the Fight. 

Image the look on your opponents face as he stares across the ring, desperately gasping for breath to fill his shattered body, all of his muscles feeling like lead weights at you. You are jumping around if it was the first round of the fight with a knowing slightly sinister smile. His face will be a picture of FEAR.