Category: Explosiveness

To prepare for the athletic demands of football, you cannot just do any generic exercise regimen.
Explosiveness, Parenting a young athlete, Strength, Youth Coaching, Youth Football, youth sports

How to Prepare for the Strength Demands of Football

Most people who participate in extracurricular athletic endeavors often believe that an athletic pastime like boxing or wrestling can prepare you for a sport like football. As a result, in the youth football off-season, a lot of kids focus on activities like karate, crossfit or Brazilian jiujitsu as way of staying in shape while football is out. While I do believe that, participating in multiple athletic … Continue reading How to Prepare for the Strength Demands of Football

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Explosiveness, Strength, weight lifting

The Real Difference Between Calisthenics and Weight Lifting

Many people believe that the real difference between bodyweight exercise and weight lifting is only in the difference between using bodyweight and external weight for resistance. This is not true. Both ways of training will make you “stronger” but what does that mean in the context of sports like football, boxing, MMA, track and field or even powerlifting? Well, as many of you have already … Continue reading The Real Difference Between Calisthenics and Weight Lifting

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There are multiple keys to throwing power punches that get Mike Tyson-esque results.
Cardiovascular Training, Explosiveness, Strength

How to Throw Knockout Punches!

Have you ever seen a boxing match where one of the fighters on the card seems to have power in his fists to the point that he is beating his opponent senseless? A good example of a powerful boxer is Mike Tyson. Tyson was such a powerful puncher that it seemed as though, most of the fighters who fought him were terrified even before he … Continue reading How to Throw Knockout Punches!

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Contrary to popular opinion, aerobic conditioning is important in the preparation for an mms fight.
Cardiovascular Training, Explosiveness

The Reason For Incorporating Aerobic Conditioning When Competeing in Combat Sports …

Over the last few years people who compete in MMA, boxing, kickboxing and other combat sports have, in general, come to the opinion that high intensity interval training (HIIT) is the ticket to having great cardio in a combat competition. One thing is for sure, it definitely takes more than getting up in the morning and running 5 miles to get good functional cardio. That … Continue reading The Reason For Incorporating Aerobic Conditioning When Competeing in Combat Sports …

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Many people see developing MMA or BJJ conditioning as a matter of just pushing oneself over and over again. That is the primitive way of conditioning.
Cardiovascular Training, Explosiveness, Strength, weight lifting, youth sports

How to Properly Condition the Body for Combat

If you watch a lot of MMA or go to an MMA oriented martial arts school, then you have probably been exposed to the training methods of a lot of MMA conditioning coaches. You’ll see them doing a lot of high intensity training, such as sprints, lots hard rolling (Bjj), sparing intensely with multiple training partners. Some have even adopted CrossFit or CrossFit inspired training … Continue reading How to Properly Condition the Body for Combat

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Explosiveness, Speed, Strength, weight lifting

Does Powerlifting Make You Slow?

The other day, I saw a video on YouTube where one of these fitness celebrities said that powerlifting doesn’t really help in other sports. Well, I agree and disagree, because it depends. You see the factors that cause some powerlifters to lose speed and cardiovascular capacity the longer they train are: Excessively heavy weight: I’ve talked about this before. You see, when you lift heavy … Continue reading Does Powerlifting Make You Slow?

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When developing sprinting speed, you must have solid upper body development.
Explosiveness, Speed, Strength, weight lifting, youth sports

Why Upper-Body Strength is Necessary For Lower Body Speed

Many people who see sprinters or other track and field athletes seem to be under the misconception that, track athletes don’t have to seriously train the upper body. The reality is that no matter what sport you do, whether it’s tennis, golf, soccer or football, you have to address conditioning in a manner that includes upper-body, lower-body and the core. If you want to develop … Continue reading Why Upper-Body Strength is Necessary For Lower Body Speed

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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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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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