| Every performer needs a great fitness/ health | | | | uses punching but is most effective at punches |
| routine for MMA, I think most people know that | | | | though, Thai boxing which is low, body and head |
| mixed martial arts is a hard sport to train in and you | | | | kicks which are mainly round or front kick, punches, |
| have to be massively physically fit not forgetting | | | | knee strike and elbows too. also you should bear in |
| mentally fit to become a professional fighter in the | | | | mind that their or other stand up martial arts like |
| cage. Well because of this fact you will need to work | | | | Karate, Kung Fu, wing chun, Ju jitsu which uses a lot |
| on areas of your fitness to help you, firstly I would | | | | of different types of techniques like kicks, punches, |
| recommend that you would start a power and | | | | elbows and knee strikes (In some schools) but the |
| explosive strength training routine, this could be | | | | more traditional martial arts styles do take longer to |
| weight training with 8- 12 reps using compound | | | | learn become they are designed to be a way of life |
| exercises, plyometrics training exercises like explosive | | | | other than just learning to fight. I want recommend |
| start throws, squat throws or depth Jumps or even | | | | doing a traditional art and a fighting art too like |
| power lifting for 1 rep max strength/ static strength. | | | | Karate and Thai Boxing. |
| But also do not forget the really good eating plan | | | | Lastly we have wrestling and grappling styles which |
| you will need - healthy wholegrain carb's, lean protein | | | | works mostly on the ground for attacks and |
| and unsaturated fats, this could be like a meal of a | | | | defences. You have a large range of styles to |
| chicken beast, sweet potato, side salad and small | | | | choose from as well as an example you have Greco |
| amount of olive oil to taste. | | | | Roman wrestling, Catch wrestling, and freestyle too |
| Lastly you need to up your game on stamina/ | | | | then the more grappling based arts are Judo, Brazilian |
| aerobics - skipping is great and it works on foot | | | | Ju Jitsu, Aikido and Sambo training too. I would |
| work, swimming is good and also shadow boxing will | | | | recommend training in one wrestling style and also a |
| help increase your stamina and skills too. | | | | grappling/ submission style also, may be catch |
| Ok then moving on to the stand up martial arts | | | | wrestling and also BJJ. |
| section. So you have worked out you need to be fit | | | | So there you have it lots of tips of what to do to |
| and eat well now we need to be able to fight on our | | | | compile a great MMA training routine, but please |
| feet. There is many different style of stand up | | | | remember try new styles all the time and integrate |
| martial arts that you can choose from like Kickboxing | | | | what works and throw away what is useless, being |
| which is mainly body & head kicks and punches using | | | | open minded it king! |
| many different types of kicks, boxing which only | | | | |