MMA - Motivation

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Hi There,

I am starting this thread, as I need to be able to talk to people about the task I am about to undertake. Most of my friends are really *over* me talking about martial arts, and I need to be able to talk about my goals, bouce ideas etc.

I live in Australia, and I am training up for an MMA fight. I have a few obstacles. The first being I am a woman. For women, fighting in MMA is a little harder to acheive. Iam lucky however, as once I am ready - I will have a fight.

I have been sick the past few months, and as a result my fitness has taken a hammering. I am mostly a ground fighter, however I have a solid enough stand up (these I am working on with my instructor). The problem I have is my endurance is suited more to ground fighting. Alot of "rest" time is available if you are smart enough. This unfortunately does not apply to stand-up.

Does anyone have any suggestions for increasing cardio fitness/endurance?
 
You might want to look into barbell circuits.
 
I have a few questions first if you don't mind.

Where abouts do you live in Australia and where did/have you train/ed? Any details on when/where your first fight is? Details on your opponent (if you have one yet)? How long have you trained for?

In terms of your conditioning, make sure it's specific. continuous running on a treadmill, even at a high intensity doesn't necessarily cross over when it comes to the fight. You're much better off hitting the pads and working combinations for your standup and rolling with some JJ on the ground because that's what you'll be doing in a fight. I havn't seen many women's fights but the ones i've seen have had shorter 3 minute rounds with a minute interval between the rounds so i'll assume yours is no different. So, for your training i'd be doing 3 minute periods of work followed by a minute rest, repeat etc. Try to work on increasing the amount of work time and decreasing the amount of rest e.g. 4 minutes work, 45 seconds rest. You can also do this with a circuit training program I.e design a circuit, go at a hard intensity for 3 minutes, followed by a minute break, followed by another or the same circuit. And again, work on increasing the amount of work time and decreasing the amount of rest time. Your body will adjust to this and since you're working this hard in practice than a 3 minute round should be a breeze. Since you're unfit at the moment, you might want to work on building up your times.

In terms of your training partners, make sure that they're at a level that can push you both physically and technically. There's no use in training with people who you can easily whoop in every training session. You won't learn a thing or improve your game and conditioning. Another thing is if you're training with 2 or more people than train with the freshest person. So let's say you roll with a partner for 5 minutes, you have your rest, make the next round with the fresh person and rotate between the two. This is just so that they can push you as they won't be as tired than if you were just doing it with the same person...I'll probably edit this later when a few ideas come to my head, i hope this helped though.
 
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Well, cadio work outs do help with stamina. Also remember to eat a high carb breakfast with some protein before your match. I'll usually eat my own breakfast design, something I call the "peanut butter burrito" Just take a tortilla add about two tablespoons of peanut butter and roll it up.

Remember to stretch for at least an hour before your match. That way your fighting your tendons the least amount possible when you're fighting. If you do both of those before a match, you'll feel like a kid again!

Other things I'd like to touch on is that there ARE ways to rest in a stand-up fight. Two ways come to mind immediately. That's if you put somebody in a clinch then you can get really close and not use as much energy if you don't want. Mostly you'd drop a few knees to make it look like you're trying until you find your moment. And remember to control your distance. Keep them at kicking distance if you're any good at kicks, if you land a couple he'll hesitate to come closer and then you can control the ring. Just keep moving toward him\her and they'll move back and if they don't, kick them again!

and my final technique is if I'm trying to conserve my strength I'll use tosses\take-downs and try to make them get up as many times as possible without going down myself. It's a good way to wear them down if they've got better stamina. We can discuss this a little more if you like, just PM me.
 
Last week I experienced increased performance by ingesting a shake made of blended oats, protein, milk, and apples. Today I experienced being water logged and close to puking half a gallon of water. Damn you, MSG.
 
All that advice and the TS doesn't even come back to check it...
 
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