Recently I attended Wakefield Fitness First to teach a MMA conditioning master class to their members. Wakefield is one of the Fitness First clubs that runs my class under the name Strike-Fit. The class was well attended and along with the members of Fitness First I had a professional fighter come along to try out the workout. Below is a testimonial by Mark “superman” Aldridge.

“Ok, so I arrive at Fitness First Wakefield to take part in a studio class called Strike Fit!

The advertisements say Train like a Fighter.

Today the class will be an event run/co-hosted by Mr. Richard Brewin (founder of the Strike Fit Programme.)

My First impression of Richard is good, he looks the part, looks fit! To be honest I half expected some guy who does not train trying to cash in on the MMA scene like so many others do, (I see this a lot some random trainer/club teaching MMA badly and simply getting off on hitting young lads.)

Anyway back to Strike Fit.

After speaking with Richard for a short while I realised this is no Bum trying to cash in but a serious Instructor that had clearly done both the groundwork and research to understand the concept that helped him formulate Strike Fit.

I decided I would take part in the session, even though I am sick as a dog and high on Lockets, HA!

What I see is a structured circuit layout with 5 – 1min stations then put into 5 rounds, just as a fight would be with 1 min rest between stations.

Sit-ups, sprawls, tucks, ground & pound, all totally authentic exercises that as a Pro-fighter I have used in training, the class is 100% MMA style training.

It is good solid work and I did get a good sweat on and feel the benefit of the session, and just when you think it’s over…the challenge round is thrown in, lol, awesome.

As a pro-Fighter I train 6 times a week and cardio is a big part of what we do, Strike Fit will allow you to ‘Train the way we do’ without the pain and commitment of the fight, it’s not for everyone.

You want to train like a Fighter? Get to a Strike session, and bring some guts with you”.

Mark ‘Superman’ Aldridge (Professional MMA Fighter.)

The class was 5×5 minute rounds of circuit training MMA style and included a mixture of aerobic exercises such as straddle jumps, explosive step ups and sprawls, ground and pound drills, abdominal exercises such as sit up with strikes and Russian twists and upper and lower body exercises such as medicine ball press ups and jump lunges. At the end of the 5 rounds we finished with a tough 5 minute challenge round. For more information on this class check out the link http://www.resultsconditioning.com/mma-conditioning or contact me direct.

Check out the below videos of the class in action.

Check out Mark “superman” Aldridge performing a sprawl with punch combination.

Gary Park:

Gary is one of the instructors at Fitness First who teaches the Strike-Fit class. He has a wealth of knowledge in both martial arts and health and fitness. Check out his website here.

http://www.twgpfitnesstrainingservices.co.uk/