Originally Posted by
Eddie
Fitness is pretty important for a competitive fighter (san shou, mma etc). No fighter wants to enter the ring when he (or she) is not fit enough.
Usually our fitness regime include allot of roadwork (jogging, sprinting etc), bag work, partner drills etc and sparring. Unfortunately, a work out plan gets boring after a while, and one needs new ideas and challenges that might work better or just as well as your previous fighting training regime.
Any other suggestions on how you guys get yourself or your fighters fitter without boring them with the same work out sets month after month?
why are you doing the same sets? cycle them. Ideally, we try to start training for a fight at least three months out. That far out, you can break the training into cycles - baseline strength, power and endurance. Spend four weeks working each. the names of the cycles didctate the types of training done in each, in addition skill training should be done daily.
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