MMA Training Workouts

By Sean Lloyd

I encourage anyone who needs to lose fat, build lean muscle and get into "fighter shape" to start to train with their own version of MMA exercise programmes. It's not surprising that MMA wrestlers all appear to have that lean, ripped, and athletic look, like Brad Pitt in Fight Club.

It's imperative that we learn from these world class sportsmen. If you want to appear like an MMA fighter who's in glorious shape, you actually need to be in excellent shape yourself. Sadly, we can't cut corners and the sole way to get a ripped MMA body is to put in difficult work thru your own MMA-inspired workout routines.

In my opinion, the ripped Hollywood look is the only one to go for. Massive and lumpish is going out of favor. In general, one can see from watching MMA athletes compete, that having slightly less muscle mass is favorable to an impressive performance. These fighters have the perfect mix of power, explosiveness, endurance, and overall athletic ability.

If only strongman competitions were more main line then bodybuilding then maybe more mixed martial artists would incorporate better strength and conditioning exercises into their MMA work-outs without the need of learning or knowing why.

One of the most common mistakes MMA wrestlers make when the are new to the theorem of adding strength and conditioning to their MMA workouts is they carry around the perspective of a weightlifter. They are going to the gymnasium thinking they have to do all kinds of exercises for each muscle grouping and the only method to get a productive workout in is to get a good "pump."

But if you wanted a general idea of what kind of strength and conditioning you want to develop with your MMA exercise programs, then think about the sort of exercises strongmen do : picking up heavy and awkward objects, carrying heavy weight for long distances, performing powerful and heavy lifts as many times as practical in a certain period of time, to name a couple.

These types of exercises are way more functional and carry over very well to MMA fighters when it comes to the sort of strength and conditioning they want. The reason being is that in a MMA fight your opponent, unlike a balanced barbell, is a constantly shifting his clumsy weight that you've got to steadily push and pull from both balanced and unbalanced positions, for example the sort of resistance a heavy and awkward object would give you.

If you want to be an MMA fighter, you will have to train like one. This indicates you will have to learn the components of an MMA workout. Although self-defense skills has been around for hundreds of years, the game of mixed martial-arts is still in its infancy. Mixed kung fu skills is growing leaps and bounds with the increased popularity of the final Fighting Championship ( UFC ) and the real life television show, The final Fighter.

there are lots of sides to coming up with a good MMA workout for anybody looking to become a professional fighter, or for someone just wanting to get in shape. A good workout includes coaching in some, or all, of the following areas, conditioning, striking, grappling, wrestling, or submission talents. These skills can be both offensive and defensive in nature. - 30300

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