Month: April 2016

Specificity is often mis-understood in MMA conditioning
Cardiovascular Training, Explosiveness, Speed, Strength, weight lifting

How the Concept of Specificity is Incorrectly Applied in Combat Sports

If you do a search on YouTube, you can easily find many people perscribing workout plans that seem rather odd. Things such as lifting weights on unstable surfaces to develop balance, throwing punches with resistance bands, pulling sleds and other exercises are all the rage. Especially in sports like Brazilian Jiujitsu, coaches and trainers advocate that their competitive students do activities such as lots of … Continue reading How the Concept of Specificity is Incorrectly Applied in Combat Sports

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Explosiveness, Speed, Strength, weight lifting

Keys To Explosive Jumping Power

Many people spend their entire lives working on, but never being successful at, dunking a basketball. It’s one of those things that athletes do that bring the crowd to its feet. Every great basketball player that I can think of could dunk. As coveted as the move is, only a small fraction of people who have ever enjoyed playing basketball have been able to dunk. … Continue reading Keys To Explosive Jumping Power

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Living vicariously through your child isn't all bad.
Parenting a young athlete, Youth Coaching

Living Vicariously Through Your Children

Many times, you may hear about parents who are over-bearing and who live vicariously through their children. You know the type: they’re always hollering from the sidelines at the coaches, they are always hollering at their kids and they often make their kids cry due to the emotional stress and pressure that they place on the kids. These parents are often perceived as having  control … Continue reading Living Vicariously Through Your Children

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Strength, weight lifting, Youth Basketball, Youth Boxing, Youth Football, youth sports

Being an Athlete Aint for Everybody

Everyone should be physically active and pursue athletics in a manner that enriches their lives, provides a sense of well being and improves health. Whether you play soccer, football, baseball, etc, you should feel good about your performance and participation in the sport should make you feel healthier. But, don’t get it twisted. Everyone isn’t cut from the same cloth. Everyone isn’t a warrior (at … Continue reading Being an Athlete Aint for Everybody

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Many people say that developing cardio is just a matter of working hard. Well, there is more to it than that.
Cardiovascular Training, Uncategorized

There’s More To MMA Cardio Than Cardio

Well, we’ve talked about Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) use with regard to the rate of energy production as well as ATP use over extended time. However, we still have not talked about how effectively and efficiently your body utilizes ATP. The efficient use of ATP comes from training your skills, techniques, nervous system and most importantly to understand when and how to put you foot on … Continue reading There’s More To MMA Cardio Than Cardio

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Functional training is a term that has been thrown around a lot. But what is functional for MMA may not be so for football and vice versa.
Explosiveness, Strength, youth sports

The Difference Between MMA Athleticism and Football Athleticism

It wasn’t so long ago that I was watching an MMA event on pay-per-view, when I heard one of the commentators saying that MMA athletes are the most conditioned athletes in the world. Since that time, I have come into contact with many BJJ Black Belts as well as professional and amateur fighters. Many of these athletes really believe that their levels of athleticism are … Continue reading The Difference Between MMA Athleticism and Football Athleticism

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ATP production and muscle development are major keys in developing power.
Cardiovascular Training, Explosiveness, Speed, Strength, Youth Football

Rest Intervals for Functional Athletics

People often use the terms power and strength interchangeably, as if strength and power were the same thing. The reality is that they are different and you must have a strength development program that supports power development. Many of the fitness professionals that you see working out on YouTube take long breaks in between sets. Some advocate 2 – 5 minute breaks between sets. The … Continue reading Rest Intervals for Functional Athletics

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Speed, sports injury prevention

If You Ain’t Training Safe, You’re Training Wrong.

The reality of sports is that no matter what athletic endeavor your child chooses, there is a risk of injury. For example: amateur wrestling deals with contagious diseases such as staff, ring worm and even herpes, football is wrestling with player safety and concussions, soccer and basketball have to address issues that concern ACL and MCL injury, etc. Moreover, resistance/weight training and calisthenics has their own … Continue reading If You Ain’t Training Safe, You’re Training Wrong.

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