Your training program can be the difference between fighting fit, and not fighting at all.

Take the guess-work out of your workout with The MMA Training Bible’s Step-by-Step Guide to Peak Performance.

Creating an individualized training program is intimidating, but not anymore…

Feeling overwhelmed? Not sure where to start? We got you covered!

MMA is a tough sport that requires a unique combination of technical ability alongside flexibility, muscular endurance, strength, and power, combined with high levels of aerobic and anaerobic endurance. It’s no wonder so many fighters and trainers feel overwhelmed when they try to put all these factors together in one training program. So, what do they do? They google it. They make it up as they go along, or they follow a generic online program that isn’t tailored to their needs. This can lead to one of the biggest problems in MMA: Overtraining. And it can end a career before it starts.

The main objective of this online course is to teach you the Science of MMA and take you through a simple step-by-step process for creating your very own individualized training program that maximizes fighting fitness in 3, 4, 6 or 12-month.

This step-by-step program is ideal for any fighter, coach, or trainer that wants to build an evidence-based and individualized training program from scratch.

Dr. Jason Gillis and The MMA Training Bible will teach you how your body powers the repeated high intensity efforts that dominate MMA, and how to design an individualized training program that will peak your performance on fight day, no matter if you’re fighting in 3, 4, 6, or 12 months. With this training program you’ll develop a level of fitness that your opponent cannot cope with. You’ll be watching them gas-out right in front of you.

The MMA Training Bible’s Step-by-Step Guide to Peak Performance.

The goals of this 28-part video training course are to master the Science of MMA, then follow a step-by-step process to build an individualized training program that optimizes flexibility, muscular endurance, strength, and power, as well as your aerobic and anaerobic fitness in 3-months, 4-months, 6-months, and 12-months.

Apply the Science of MMA to build a training program that peaks your performance.

Program workouts across your fight plan that maximize muscle endurance, muscle strength, muscle power, anaerobic, and aerobic endurance, and flexibility.

Here’s What You’ll Get When You Sign Up:

When you purchase this online training program you receive 640 min, 54 sec of video lectures spread over 5 Modules, including The Science of MMA (Module 1, 8 lectures; 177 min, 28 sec), and The MMA Training Bible’s Step-By-Step Guide to Peak Performance in 3-months (Module 2, 5 lectures; 103 min), 4-months (Module 3, 5 lectures; 109 min, 14 sec), 6-months (Module 4, 5 lectures; 114 min, 33 sec), and 12-months (Module 5, 5 lectures; 129 min, 39 sec). You’ll also get access to our workout generator which prescribes individualized workouts across your fight plan – it literally takes the guess-work out of your workout. Watch the video below to see how it works.

Hundreds of workouts at the click of your finger.

This is really a game-changer – a workout generator that recommends specific individualized and periodized resistance and endurance workouts across a whole fight plan just unheard of.

Course Learning Objectives:

Master the metabolic demands of mma.
  • Know how the body powers short explosive efforts in the cage.
  • Understand how sustained high intensity MMA efforts are powered.
Know how to build unstoppable MMA endurance.
  • Understand the pros and cons of low and high intensity training, and why it matters in MMA.
  • Identify and design workouts that enhance single and repeated high intensity efforts in the cage.
  • Understand how to train your capacity to perform repeated high intensity efforts over a round and a whole fight.
understand how muscles work in the cage.
  • Identify how slow twitch muscle fibers differ from fast twitch fibers, and why it matters in MMA.
  • Identify factors that influence strength and power development in an MMA training program.
  • Identify training adaptations that result from well-designed MMA conditioning program.
Know how to build explosive strength & power for mma.
  • Select and order resistance training exercises in the best way.
  • Know how often to train.
  • Know how much weight to use to use.
  • Know how many reps to train with.
  • Know how many sets to use.
  • Choose the correct amount of rest between sets.
know how to avoid overtraining in mma.
  • Understand how your body responds to training.
  • Recognize the signs & symptoms of overtraining.
Master warm-ups & flexibility.
  • Know how to design the perfect warm-up.
  • Know how to maximize your flexibility with minimal stretching.
understand how to organize a fight plan.
  • Understand the importance of rest in a training program.
  • Understand how periodization principles can be used to organize a fight plan in MMA.
  • Identify the 5 phases of a fight plan; General preparatory phase; Fight-specific phase; Fight camp; The taper; The transition.
implement the mma training bible’s testing battery.
  • Understand how to implement a testing battery to assess physical and mental performance in the following domains: Psychological skills and mood; Body size and composition; Flexibility; Muscular power, strength, endurance; An/aerobic performance, and Sport-specific performance.
build an individualized mma training program.
  • Apply the science of MMA to build a fight plan that peaks your fighting fitness in 3, 4, 6, or 12 months.
  • Program workouts across your fight plan that maximize muscle endurance, muscle strength, muscle power, anaerobic, and aerobic endurance, and flexibility.
  • Control training volume and intensity to maximize your adaptation to training while avoiding overtraining.
  • Control training difficulty across the weeks and months to bring about a peak in your performance on fight day.

Select the right workout at the right time.

Together we’ll create and organize your endurance, resistance, and flexibility workouts on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.

About Dr. Gillis

Dr. Gillis is an Exercise Scientist with a Ph.D in Human Applied Physiology. He understands the demands of MMA – both scientifically and practically – When completing his Doctoral Degree he trained and competed at the amateur level in MMA.

Dr. Jason Gillis is an Associate Professor working in the Human Performance Laboratory, Department of Sport & Movement Science, at Salem State University. Jason Teaches courses in human applied physiology and research methods, and supervises student research. An environmental physiologist by training, Jason has a research interest in the influence of menthol on human temperature regulation, perception and performance. Jason completed his B.Sc (Hon) in Kinesiology at Dalhousie University in Canada, and went on to complete his Masters at KU Leuven University in Belgium, and at the Norwegian School of Sports Science in Norway. He completed his Ph.D. in England at the University of Portsmouth as part of the Research and Innovation Team at UK Sport in the run up to the Beijing and London Olympic Games.

Course Modules

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Module 1: The Science of MMA (177 min, 28 sec)

In this module you will learn all about the Science of MMA. Check out the session descriptions below to see exactly what we’ll cover:

Session 1: The Metabolic Demands of MMA (36 min, 17 sec). Explore how your body powers the single and repeated high intensity efforts that dominate MMA.

Session 2: Building Unstoppable Endurance (16 min, 48 sec). Learn about Low vs. High intensity training, movement patterns, and how to build unstoppable endurance.

Session 3: Muscle Structure & Function (34 min, 19 sec). Learn how muscles work; differences between fast twitch and slow twitch muscle fibers, and factors that influence strength and power development.

Session 4: Building Explosive Strength & Power (34 min, 34 sec). Learn how to select and order resistance exercises, how often to train, how much weight to use, how many reps to perform, how much rest to take.

Session 5: How to Avoid Overtraining (14 min, 50 sec). Explore how your body responds to training, overtraining signs and symptoms, and how to reduce your risk of overtraining.

Session 6: Warm-ups & Flexibility (27 min, 52 sec). Master warm-ups, and learn how to maximize your flexibility with minimal stretching.

Session 7: Periodization in MMA (20 min, 43 sec). Be introduced to key concepts in periodization, the art and science of periodization, and how to structure your fight plan.

Session 8: Performance Testing in MMA (28 min, 06 sec). Learn how to implement tests for: Psychological skills and mood; Body size and composition; Flexibility; Muscular power, strength, endurance; An/aerobic performance, and Sport-specific performance.

Each session in this module features a learning assessment (short quiz) that highlights the most important concepts you need to know before Dr. Gillis takes you through the step-by-step process for building an individualized training plan in Modules 2-5.

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Module 2 to 5: Building your 3, 4, 6 OR 12-Month Training Program.

After you’ve mastered the science of MMA, start building your training program with Dr. Gillis using our 4-step approach. First, you’ll need to select the right module to watch. If you’re fighting in 3-months, watch Module 2 (5 lectures: 103 min), which teaches you how to build a 3-month training program. If you’re fighting in 4-months, you’ll need a 4-month training program, so watch Module 3 (5 lectures: 109 min, 14 sec), first. Module 4 teaches you how to build a 6-month training program, and Module 5 (5 lectures; 129 min, 39 sec) covers the 12-month training program.

In this way you only need to go through the Module that relates to when you’re fighting. And no matter if you’re an amateur or a pro you can keep coming back to this course to help you build individualized training programs for as long as you are fighting. Check out the general session descriptions below to see exactly what we’ll cover:

Session 1: A Blueprint for Building Peak Performance in 3-Months (17 min, 24 sec), 4-months (17 min, 24 sec), 6-Months (17 min, 24 sec) and 12-Months (17 min, 24 sec) – This session will introduce various worksheets and tools that you will use, along with our simple 4-step process that you’ll go through to build your own individualized training program to maximize your fighting fitness.

Session 2: Scheduling Training Phases in 3-Months (8 min, 24 sec), 4-months (9 min, 13 sec), 6-Months (10 min, 26 sec) and 12-Months (11 min, 00 sec) – In this session you will be taken through step 1 of the step-by-step process for building your own training program. Here Dr Gillis will teach you how to match up your proposed fight date with the fight plan, and you’ll schedule critical training phases across your fight plan.

Session 3: Forecasting Training Volume and Intensity in 3-Months (9 min, 39 sec), 4-months (9 min, 48 sec), 6-Months (10 min, 03 sec) and 12-Months (11 min, 11 sec) – In this session Dr Gillis will take you through step 2 of the step-by-step process for creating a tailor-made training program. Specifically, we’ll teach you how to plan and adjust training volume and intensity (perhaps the most important factors we manipulate) across your fight plan.

Session 4: Planning Training Sub-phases & Weeks in 3-Months (21 min, 43 sec), 4-months (21 min, 59 sec), 6-Months (22 min, 56 sec) and 12-Months (24 min, 36 sec) – In this session D. Gillis will introduce 3 important concepts including 1) training difficulty, 2) load planning; and 3) Training sub-phases, all of which we will immediately implement in Step 3 of our process, which involves planning your training sub-phases and training weeks across your fight plan.

Session 5: Programming the Training Session in 3-Months (45 min, 50 sec), 4-months (50 min, 50 sec), 6-Months (53 min, 44 sec) and 12-Months (65 min, 28 sec) – In the last session you will learn how to program individual training sessions across your entire fight plan. Dr Gillis will show you how to select the most appropriate resistance and endurance training workouts for your fight plan and he will walk you through an example of a completed training program, reviewing in detail each individual resistance and endurance workouts in the process.

Bonus

– Explosive Strength & Power Techniques –

– Stretching Techniques – 

To take the guess-work out of your workout with two e-books (PDF’s) that simply explain how to perform 70 stretching, strength, and power techniques. In 10-pages our Stretching Guide describes how to perform 40 dynamic, static, and PNF stretching techniques, complete with pictures. Our 30-page Strength & Power Techniques Guide describes in detail (with pictures) how to perform 10 of the most effective power exercises, 20 essential core, accessory, and ab exercises, five sample workouts – two of which are power-based – and an MMA-specific fight simulation workout.

More Course Bonuses!

You’ll also receive our Training Log Template and our ‘Programming Across the Fight Plan’ book.

The Training Log Template.

Keeping a log of your training activity is a critical part of monitoring your adaptation to training and avoiding overtraining. 

Programming Across the Fight Plan Book

As part of our step-by-step approach to programming workouts across your fight plan, we’ll be working extensively in this 18-page book, which organizes countless endurance, resistance, and flexibility workouts across the fight plan, with limitless variations and progressions.

What makes us different

Both scientifically and practically, we understand the demands of MMA, and how to peak your performance on fight day.

Dr. Jason Gillis – Founder of The MMA Training Bible – set out to create his first MMA-specific training program when he began pursuing his Ph.D in Exercise Physiology. He was shocked when he realized how little information was available describing the physiological demands of MMA, with almost nothing written on MMA-specific program design – separate from a few websites selling generic training programs.

With so many performance factors to bring together for fight day – Muscular endurance, strength and power, flexibility, anaerobic and aerobic endurance, not to mention MMA skill development – Jason quickly felt overwhelmed and had no idea where to start. 

After scouring the scientific literature with little success, he decided to start from scratch. After studying periodization theory he applied his practical experience training in MMA to create the structure of a fight plan that could be adapted to any length. This forms the backbone of the MMA Training Bible’s step-by-step approach to program design.

Next,  Jason reviewed the scientific literature to identify evidence-based training methods that would meet the demands of MMA. This resulted in a knowledgebase that could be used to enhance a fighters anaerobic and aerobic endurance, muscular endurance, strength, power, and flexibility.

The MMA Training Bible’s programming methodology can be easily applied by any fighter, coach or trainer to maximize and peak a fighters performance on fight day.

This course will require some heavy lifting, but the master of this training methodology will have the key to designing an individualized fight plan that can hlep a figher reach his or her full potential. And it’s our pleasure to share it with you.

A tailored training program with workouts over 3, 4, 6, or 12-months.

Together we’ll create and organize your endurance, resistance and flexibility workouts on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.

We’ll help you select the right workout at the right time.

Everything you need to peak your performance on fight day.

What are you waiting for? Start your training today!

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One final note…

Our training programs apply scientific concepts in practical and innovative ways to build powerful fighters. If you apply these concepts you’ll be motivated to train all year-round, and you’ll develop a level of fitness that will allow you to perform at a high intensity over the course of a whole round, and a whole fight. You’ll be watching your opponent gas-out right in front of you. But nothing in life comes easy. If you put the work in you’ll have a chance to reap the rewards. It’s my goal to show you the pathway to peak performance – it’s your job to walk the path. 

Sincerely,

Dr. Jason Gillis