This post looks at a workout I did recently that uses the training principles from my MMA conditioning class. The workout takes exercises and drills used by professional mixed martial artists (MMA) within their conditioning training. The workout is a circuit based session that is split into 5 minute rounds the same as an MMA [...]
Here is the first part of the ongoing training for the Strike-fit class.
Warm up:
The warm up follows the same principles as before with you taking your members through a shadow boxing routine. We are sticking to four combinations but we are changing them slightly.
Combo 1: Starting off in the basic fighting stance with [...]
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 [...]
This circuit uses 5 Powerbag exercises and is designed to help those training in mixed martial arts (MMA) to improve their conditioning, aerobic fitness and explosive power. The aim is to spend 30 seconds on each of the exercises and to complete the circuit twice to form a 5 minute round. At the end of [...]
Welcome to my Results Conditioning “Big book of challenges”. In here you will find 30 fitness challenges that will test your aerobic and anaerobic fitness, muscular endurance and stamina as well as pushing you to your very limits.
I use fitness challenges with my clients as one way of monitoring progress and as a way for [...]
For this evenings session we were again focusing on circuit training to help with Marlons cardio fitness, stamina and muscular endurance. Tonight’s session would follow the format of my R.E.P’s (Register of exercise professionals) MMA conditioning class. This circuit-based workout is currently being run by Fitness first health clubs around the UK on their exercise [...]
Here is the latest ongoing training for Strike-fit. This time there are 5 new exercises as well some new techniques for the warm up.
Upper body: Rotational medicine ball slams
Hold a medicine ball above your head at arms length. Rotate at your hips and slam the ball into the ground by the side of you. Catch [...]
Today Marlon was accompanied to training by one of his teammates from the Devils Pit MMA gym. Since there were two of them I decided to make today’s session circuit based and have them working for 3×5 minute rounds to help simulate an MMA bout. Round 1 would be upper-body focused where as the second [...]
For tonight’s session we started to introduce more explosive type movements to help improve speed and power, alongside our strength exercises. The power movements were performed at maximum intensity for around 20-30 seconds while we completed 6-10 reps for each of the strength exercises.
Warm up: Tonight’s warm up involved body weight movements such as squats with rotation, [...]
For today’s training session we were still focusing on strength work basing the workout around compound exercises such as deadlifts and squats as well as introducing some more sport specific moves such as the press-up with knee strikes.
We warmed up using a mixture of medicine ball exercises such as swings, rotations and lunges with rotations [...]
