MMA Conditioning: Sparring

It has been said that the best way to condition for an event is repetition of the actual performance of the event. In other words, if you are wondering what the best way to train your mma conditioning for fight is, the answer is to spar as much as possible!

The human body is highly adaptive, and as soon as it becomes comfortable with a certain repetitive movement, such as jogging, the exercise becomes easier and easier.

However, if you were to jog 5 days a week for several months, this conditioning doesn’t necessarily transfer over to all other forms of exercise. Will your overall conditioning and endurance be improved? Yes.

But whenever a new form of exercise is introduced, your body takes extra energy to cope with the new levels of stress from this unfamiliar exercise.

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