Category: Performance Testing
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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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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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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 Test Your Flexibility
Before reading this article, you may be interested in Part 1 (The Fundamentals of Testing) and Part 2 (Psychological Tests) of the series. Range of motion (ROM) is the degree of motion that occurs at a joint. It is influenced by connective tissue structure, activity level, age and gender, and it is very specific to…
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You Should be Monitoring Your Mood.
Before you get started on this article, be sure to read Part 1 in this series, which focuses on the fundamentals of performance testing. The MMA Training Bible recommends that fighters regularly monitor their mood, as it can be a sensitive measure of overtraining. For example, feeling apathetic (having no interest, no feeling or no…
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The Basics of Performance Testing in MMA
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 training plan and evaluate the potential for overtraining or undertraining. Various physical and psychological tests can be used to assess any…