MMA Endurance Training Workout

I personally consider MMA TRAINING really challenging. Your body goes though so much beating and your heart rate pumps like crazy.

The four key components to MMA training as Martin Rooney depicts in his book 'Training for Warriors' are:

1. Lower Body Resistance Training
2. Upper Body Resistance Training
3. Endurance Training and
4. Core Training

All 4 components are equally important to MMA training.

Today I'm going to talk about the Endurance part and give you a sample workout. Personally, my favorite workouts are with Keetlebels, Sled Pushing or Pulling. With these workouts mentioned above, your heart is pumping really hard trying balance everything out. If a fighter does not have Endurance, he or her can be vulnerable to loose the fight. If you are out of breath in fight, then you are history....Game over.

I can understand that the workouts mentioned above are hard to perform due to limited equipment around, so I'm going to give you a sample MMA Endurance workout directly from Martin Rooney's book that you can surely use.


Treadmill Interval Training:

Warm up: 5 minutes (light jog)
then speed up for about 30 second to a minute Full speed
Then 1 minute jog about 70 % heart rate Max
then repeat for another 3-5 times,
at the end you perform additional 5 minutes Cooldown.

This program can be used with any cardio machine.

As your endurance gets better you can progress it by:
1. INCREASE THE CYCLES (FULL SPEED TO 70 % HRM JOG UP TO 25 MINUTES FOR FULL WOKOUT.
2. SUBSTITUTE THE 1 MINUTES 70 % JOG WITH MEDICINE BALL THROWS AND
3. SUBSTITUTE THE 70 % JOG WITH SETS OF CHIN UPS OR PUSH UPS.

I can admit that this workout does not only work for MMA fighters, but also for general population that want to increase their endurance and decrease body fat levels.

Martin Rooney, JC Santana, J. Ferrugia and of course 'The diesel crew' are great sources for MMA TRAINING.

GO OUT THERE AND TAKE YOUR ENDURANCE TO ANOTHER LEVEL. I'm out.........