Getting in great shape might not be easy, but there’s more to conditioning than simply training as hard as you can. After all, if it was simply a matter of nothing more than hard work, professional fighters would never gas out. The following five tips will help...
Conditioning has been integral parts of training for combat sports ever since there have been combat sports. As soon as the first combat athlete gassed – probably within the first minute or two of the fight no doubt – it quickly became obvious that any sort of hand to...
We’ve seen it before, and it’s an awful thing to watch. It’s the middle of a fight, everything’s going well, and before you know it, a fighter “gasses out.” Sometimes he’s saved by the bell, and sometimes he’s even able to defend himself enough to continue and regain...
A while ago, I wrote an article for Fight! magazine on interval training for combat sports. Far too often, “interval training” gets lumped into a single category as if all intervals are the same. If you’ve read my book, Ultimate MMA Conditioning, you...
Lately, I’ve been receiving quite a bit of positive feedback and reviews of my book lately so I wanted to pass them along for others who may not have read it yet. I’ve never been one for shameless self promotion, but if other people want to do the work for...
After reading “The Molecular Bases of Training Adaptation” review by Vernon G. Coffey and John A Hawley. I realized that this slightly older review did not mention another method the PGC-1a “master switch” was activated to create local...