Drinking & Fighting: The Effects of Alcohol

To quote one of my instructors back home, ” winning a fight is like being a rock star for the night” – and we all know what livin’ like a rock star entails. We’ve also all heard numerous UFC fighters shouting out where they’re having their after-party. Of course, they’re getting paid thousands of dollars [...]

How Sex Effects Performance

Aside from the rapid beat of your heart, the room is dead silent. You’re sitting there trying to focus; trying to mentally prepare for your toughest opponent to date. The clock ticks and you look up to realize that you have a mere ten minutes before you have to step up and embrace the greatest [...]

MMA Supplements: Creatine

The secret of creatine is out – and has been for quite some time now. Bodybuilders, football players and athletes of all kinds have been using creatine over the last decade to improve their performance and increase muscle mass. But what about MMA athletes? The physical demands of mixed martial arts are far from the [...]

MMA Workouts: “Strength Center” Training

We’ve all seen the image – whether it be from a Nike or Gatorade ad or from a scene in pretty much any of the Rocky movies. The scene; an exhausted athlete/fighter with his feet hooked under a decline bench struggling to complete the final repetitions of his gruelling workout. He’s got sweat pouring out [...]

MMA Workouts – 5 Training Tips

The recent explosion of mixed martial arts has prompted a lot of people to take their newfound interest in the sport to the next level. More and more people are wanting to enrol themselves in martial arts and MMA gyms are popping up all over the world to supply the demand. The majority of these [...]

Punching Power Workout

If there’s one thing you take from this article, let it be that power is a result of the combination of strength and speed (strength + speed = power). When designing a training program to increase the power of your punches, you can’t have a one-dimensional view on things. Your exercise selection and training parameters [...]

3 Core Exercises for MMA Performance

Support can mean a lot of things. But when we are talking about supporting an active life that is free from injury, we are specifically referring to a strong set of abdominals. Developing the muscle groups that support, stabilize and engage movements of the torso including; the rectus abdominis, the internal / external obliques, the [...]

MMA Workout: 3 Exercises for Explosive Power

Aleksander Emelianenko performing sledgehammer tire hits in the park.At the moment, mixed martial arts (MMA) is the fastest growing sport in the world – and for good reason. The fights are fast paced and exciting, anything can happen at anytime and the fighters, in my personal opinion, are the most well conditioned athletes in the [...]

Beta Alanine for Fighters

For the fighters out there, think back to the first time you rolled against a resisting opponent or the first time you did rather intense padwork. If you’re like most people, you were probably gasping for air only a minute into the session. I remember my first submission grappling class. I got a strange/unfamiliar feeling [...]

Interval Treadmill Training

Make sure you stick to the pre-determined interval length and rest duration.These days, most MMA students are well aware of the benefits derived from high intensity interval training (HIIT). Interval training and MMA go hand and hand as the rounds in modern MMA competition typically last 5 minutes each with a 1 minute intermission between [...]

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