Fitness tips for fighters?

[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?

[sanjuro_ronin]

There is general fitness - jogging, swimming, playing sports like soccer, basketball and such.
And there is Sport specific training.

Boredom is kept to a minimum when BOTH are used correctly:

General fitness most of the time ( including the chosen sport) and focusing on Sport Specific training when coming into a fight/contest/match/championship.

[bodhitree]

fighters need both aerobic and anaerobic training. Most professional fighters work in peroidization so that they 'peak' for the fight.

These


Articles

can describe it better than I can.

Sport specific training is one of the keys.

[gwa sow]

i didnt read the above articles but check outsomething called tambala protocol sounds good. its not dirty altough it sounds that way. basically you work at 100% effort for 20 seconds and rest 10. rinse and repeat. you an do it with burpees,sprints, jump rope, bag work, whatever. read up on it. i beleived it was developed by a japanese scientist for an olympic team.

[sanjuro_ronin]

Tabata Protocol:

http://www.cbass.com/Tabata_GXP.htm

[gwa sow]

d@mn thats to much to read, or maybe i'm just lazy hehe

[SevenStar]

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.

[MasterKiller]

Ideally, we try to start training for a fight at least three months out.

How often do you fight? Seems like you would be constantly cycling for fights.

[sanjuro_ronin]

How often do you fight? Seems like you would be constantly cycling for fights.

12 weeks seems kind of long..but it depends on how they cycle.
6-8 is what I was taught in boxing, I applied that to kyokushin and MT and it worked great.

[Wilson]

Check it out...

http://www.crossfit.com

Read the "What is Crossfit", "Start Here", and "FAQ" links to get an idea about what the site is all about.

There are some free links to the Crossfit Journals that are very good also.

I can tell you from personal experience that this works and it definitely mixes it up. I seriously recommend going slow at first. I thougth I was in great shape and I was the sorest I've ever been after the first workout I tried. Now I know I am in much better shape than the standard body building workouts I used to do. Good luck.

[sanjuro_ronin]

Check it out...

http://www.crossfit.com

Read the "What is Crossfit", "Start Here", and "FAQ" links to get an idea about what the site is all about.

There are some free links to the Crossfit Journals that are very good also.

I can tell you from personal experience that this works and it definitely mixes it up. I seriously recommend going slow at first. I thougth I was in great shape and I was the sorest I've ever been after the first workout I tried. Now I know I am in much better shape than the standard body building workouts I used to do. Good luck.

Crossfit is one the best places to go for general fitness and more so if you are the kind that gets bored with the "meat n potatoes" workouts.
You will almost always get sore because they are always getting you to do stuff your body is not used to.
Gotta love those sadistic *******s.

[SevenStar]

How often do you fight? Seems like you would be constantly cycling for fights.

depends on the fighter. we do have a guy who has had 5 fights over the past year. I'll be fighting again early next year.

[sanjuro_ronin]

depends on the fighter. we do have a guy who has had 5 fights over the past year. I'll be fighting again early next year.

Why so far away ?

[bodhitree]

depends on the fighter. we do have a guy who has had 5 fights over the past year. I'll be fighting again early next year.

I'd like to know the whens and wheres so I can come cheer you on!

[Eddie]

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.

we do cycle the workouts, what Im looking for are new ideas for workouts. Im interested in fitness workouts mostly.