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How To Avoid Overtraining in MMA
Overtraining is one of the toughest opponents a fighter will ever face; its onset is insidious and it plays upon your fear of under-preparation. Add this to the long list of performance factors that a successful fighter must training; like strength, power, agility, an/aerobic endurance, not to mention your technical development, and you see why…
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Peak Performance Unlocked: The MMA Fighter’s Free Training Blueprint
Dive into an exhilarating journey with our free Peak Performance Course, your ultimate guide to mastering the creation of a tailored training regimen that finely tunes your strength, power, flexibility, and endurance, ensuring you’re fight-ready whenever your next bout is scheduled. Whether you’re gearing up for a fight in 3, 4, 6, or 12 months,…
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Building Unstoppable Endurance: Your Ultimate Guide to Redefining Fight Fitness
Welcome to a world where fatigue is a challenge to conquer, not a foe to fear. Dr. Jason Gillis, in collaboration with The MMA Training Bible, brings to you an innovative course that redefines endurance in Mixed Martial Arts. This course is more than just training; it’s a transformative experience that teaches you to build…
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Fighting Smarter, Not Harder: The Scientific Edge in MMA Training
Embark on a Journey to Mastery with the Science of MMA Course “It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble, it’s the things we know that ain’t so.” – Artemas Ward In the realm of Mixed Martial Arts, this poignant quote by Artemas Ward resonates deeply. The world of…
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The Fighter’s Edge: Exploring Bioenergetics in MMA Training
Mixed Martial Arts is not just a test of strength and skill, but also a demanding energy marathon. Recognizing the crucial role of bioenergetics in MMA, Dr. Jason Gillis presents a transformative online video training course: “The Bioenergetics of MMA.” This course dispels common myths and illuminates the science behind MMA training, empowering fighters with…
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Unleash Your Fighting Spirit: Mastering MMA with Goal Setting.
In the world of Mixed Martial Arts, reaching your peak performance is a journey that requires more than just physical prowess. It’s a mental and emotional battle, a quest to conquer your inner limits. Whether you’re a seasoned fighter, a coach, or someone just stepping into the ring of MMA, understanding the power of goal…
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How much rest should I take between sets?
Check out this video on Building strength and power! When you’re lifting weights, the amount of time you take between sets can influence how your muscles will adapt. And there are lots of considerations for choosing how much rest you take, including the phase of the fight plan you’re in, your training status (beginners generally…
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How many sets should I train with?
When someone talks about resistance training volume, they might be talking about the number of sets they perform for each exercise in a workout, or they may be referring to the total number of sets performed across all exercises in the entire workout. Here we’ll be using the term ‘volume’ to refer to the number…
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Choosing the right training load and repetitions
The relationship between training load (how much weight you push) and repetitions (how many times you push it) is one of the most important resistance training variables you’ll manipulate – this article will teach you how to do it correctly. Let’s start by reviewing the figure below. The first thing to notice in this figure…
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How often should MMA fighters lift?
In this article we’re going to cover training frequency; Specifically, we’ll cover how often an MMA fighter should engage in resistance training. But before we get too far into this, you should know that this is a very individualized question and it’s tricky to answer because I don’t know your training status. Despite this, there…
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How to order resistance exercises in a workout
The order in which you complete your resistance training exercises in a workout can influence your adaptation to training. For example, if you train biceps before training your back, you’ll exhaust your biceps, which are rather important in most back exercises. The result is that you won’t be able to use much of a load…
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Essential resistance training exercises for MMA fighters
With about 600 muscles in the human body and a fitness industry awash with gurus specializing in everything from calf to neck training, most MMA fighters and coaches are not wanting for exercise recommendations – in fact, it’s quite the opposite – most fighters and coaches simply want to cut through the clutter and discover…
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How Muscles Work
In this article we’re going to cover how muscles work. Understanding the structure of muscles and how they work is important because if you know a little bit about this, it can help you better understand The MMA Training Bible’s approach to building explosive strength and power, and it can help you cut through a…
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MMA-Specific Performance Testing
Regular performance testing is a critical, yet often overlooked part of an effective MMA training program. A good program of performance testing can help you monitor your adaptation to training, which can help you identify whether you’re overtraining or undertraining. It can help you identify strengths and weaknesses and create training objectives; and it can…
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Anaerobic & Aerobic Performance Testing
If you don’t regularly test your performance, how can you be sure that your training plan is effective? A good program of performance testing can help you with this, and a whole lot more. For example, exercise testing can help you optimise your overall physical and mental preparation for a fight; it can help you…
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Testing Muscle Endurance
An effective program of testing and monitoring can help fighters and coaches in mixed martial arts (MMA) accomplish a lot. It can help them judge the effectiveness of a training plan and evaluate the potential for overtraining or undertraining. Various physical and psychological tests can be used to assess any number of performance factors, or…
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How to test for strength
Before you read this article, check out the other in the Performance Testing series, including Part 1: The Fundamentals of Testing; Part 2: Psychological tests, Part 3: Flexibility; Part 4: Body size and composition, and Part 5 on Muscle Power. MMA involves a lot of wrestling and grappling, which requires a high degree of muscular…
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Tests for Muscular Power
Before you read this article, check out the other in the Performance Testing series, including Part 1: The Fundamentals of Testing; Part 2: Psychological tests, Part 3: Flexibility; and Part 4: Body size and composition MMA is a sport made up of explosive offensive and defensive techniques, many of which require a high degree of…
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How to Plan a Training Session
Welcome to Part 5 of the MMA Training Bible’s article series on periodization. In Part 1 of the series, you learned that periodization is the process of organizing your training into different phases to the end of managing fatigue, lowering your potential for over-training, and optimizing your performance on fight day (read more in Part…
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Performance Testing for Unstoppable Endurance
Before you start reading this article, have you read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 in the series? Performance testing is a critical, but all too often overlooked aspect of training in mixed martial arts. An effective program of testing and monitoring can help fighters and coaches judge the effectiveness of a…
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The Most Important Energy System in MMA
This five-part article series has explored the metabolic demands of mixed martial arts. When you understand this, not only will you appreciate why you fatigue or gas-out in the cage, but you will know how to bring about specific physiological and biochemical adaptations that will optimize your performance on fight day. In Part 1 you…
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How to Test for Body Size & Composition
Before you read this article, check out the other in the Performance Testing series, including Part 1: The Fundamentals of Testing; Part 2: Psychological tests, and Part 3: Flexibility. Body size refers to things like your weight, height, body mass index (BMI) and the circumference of various limbs (i.e. chest, arms). Body composition refers to…
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How to Plan Your Training Weeks
Welcome to Part 4 of the MMA Training Bible’s article series on periodization. In Part 1 of the series, you learned that periodization is the process of organizing your training into different phases to the end of managing fatigue, lowering your potential for overtraining, and optimizing your performance on fight day. In Part 2, you…
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How to Organize Your Training for Unstoppable Endurance
Before you start reading this article, have you read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 in the series? Periodization is perhaps the most important, yet most often neglected component of a fighters’ training plan. Periodization is the process of organizing your training plan over a period of time to help you manage your fatigue…
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MMA and the Aerobic Energy System You Probably Never Heard of.
Before you read this article, make sure you get up to speed with Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. Not all cardio workouts are created equal and subtle changes in the work-to-rest ratio or work interval length of a training session can bring about very different adaptations that may or may not be useful…