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MMA Strength and Conditioning for 2011

December 30th, 2010

Derek Manuel

It’s not only the start of a New Year, but a new decade. If you’ve read my last post on how to ACTUALLY set and achieve your New Years Resolution goals, then you’re on the right track, assuming you’ve begun applying the first 3 steps.

Check out the blog post here if you havn’t read it yet.

If one of your goals for the new year will be to improve your performance for mixed martial arts, fitness, or both, you’ve come to the right place.

This year one of MY New Year’s resolutions is to really help you guys out in getting in better overall shape, specifically strength and conditioning for MMA.

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MMA Strength Training: Free-Weights or Machines?

June 3rd, 2010

Derek Manuel

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MMA Strength Training: Free-Weights or Machines?

MMA strength training is much more complex then what most other athletes require. Though there is no one best way to develop mma specific strength, I often time suggest free-weights over machines at least 75% of the time.

The main reason being is that mma fighters need to develop not only the major muscles of the body, but they equally need to develop their stabilizer muscles as well, and machines take a lot away from this.

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MMA Strength and Conditioning with Medicine Balls

January 11th, 2010

Derek Manuel

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Medicine Balls

Every fitness enthusiast is familiar with good old barbells and dumbbells. With just these two pieces of equipment themselves you can build a body that will make a supermodel drool or develop the raw strength and power that would even impress the local blacksmith.

When it comes to mma strength and conditioning, however, there is a limit with barbells and dumbbells to the type of power that mma fighters need.

With barbells and dumbbells, there are only so many power exercises you can do, such as cleans, snatches, or high pulls.

These exercises however are limited in terms of range of motion. In other words, you’ll notice that these particular lifts are all within the sagittal plane of motion – or vertical plane.

Mixed martial artists and combat athletes require development in power more in the transverse plane of motion – or any twisting movement that usually rotates from the core.

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MMA Strength and Conditioning Revolution: UFC Gyms

January 4th, 2010

Derek Manuel

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A benchmark in the MMA strength and conditioning fitness industry has truly been set at the beginning of this new decade.

With the memorial day of UFC 100 to in 2009, the straight up trend that has become the sport of MMA in terms of both fighters and fans, the ever increasing record breaking numbers as the UFC continues to grow, and the fact that it seems like every month the UFC is getting permission to host this fabulous sport into a new state or even country, MMA as a sport is well on it’s way to becoming the next NBA or NFL.

But last December has birthed a niche in mma that will become more and more popular as the months and years progress with the first UFC Gym opening up in Concord, CA.

The UCF and the New Evolution Fitness Company (NEFC) has formed an alliance to create a cutting edge fitness facility combing the mma training workouts and mma strength and conditioning techniques of professional mma fighters with that of the ever booming fitness industry.

First it was bodybuilding that the general public fell in love with, then cross-fit training has become a new trend in fitness, now the UFC is setting the trend for the latest new and innovative way for the public to get in shape.

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