One of my favourite ways to give my clients a cardiovascular workout is with focus pads, this post looks at different ways I use them within my sessions.
1 minute on, 1 minute off:
This workout involves mixing the focus pads with some bodyweight training to give you an effective session that lasts for 16 minutes [...]
Here is a workout I have been doing recently with my clients that combines focus pad work, bodyweight and powerbag exercises and finishes with a tough challenge that is bound to send your heart rate through the roof! After warming up doing speed and agility work using mini hurdles and cones you start the workout [...]
One of the ways I give my clients a good cardio session is by working on the focus pads. Doing pad work not only gets the heart rate elevated, which will help burn away body fat and improve aerobic fitness, it can also help to improve speed, reflexes and hand eye co-ordination. Pad work is [...]
Here is a drill I use within my MMA fitness class that combines a number of movements together and takes you from the floor to standing and back down again to simulate what can happen multiple times within a fight. For this drill start on the floor and throw 3-4 up kicks into a bag [...]
A few weeks ago I posted a video that showed me taking my client Nick, through a round on the pads. In this video it is the turn of Alex, another of my clients to be put their paces using the focus pads. Alex was a high level black belt in Karate and after a [...]
Here is a challenge I put together tonight for one of my clients who as a high level black belt in Karate is looking to get back into fighting shape after a break from his martial arts training. The challenge is performed over 3 rounds with a round being made up of a circuit of [...]
Here is a workout I did recently with client and training partner Nick. It mixes rounds of my MMA fitness programme along with some body sparring and grappling drills. The MMA rounds were for 5 minutes and were based around 5 exercises. Each exercise was performed for 30 seconds with each one being completed twice [...]
One of the most effective ways I find to get clients into shape is by doing pad work. Throwing combinations of punches, kicks, knees and elbows onto focus pads is a fantastic cardio workout that really helps to burn the fat and tone the body as well getting rid of any stress after a hard [...]
Recently I found out that I was going to be doing a fitness photo shoot to help market my MMA fitness programme which is set to be launched nation wide towards the end of the year. I had around 4 weeks to get into the best shape that I could so I made a few [...]
Here is another MMA conditioning circuit and body sparring session that myself and Nick did. After enjoying last weeks session so much and feeling the results for a good few days we decided it was time for round 2! We used the same format but changed the exercises used within the circuit rounds. Since MMA [...]
