Expert Author Daren Willcock
Top MMA trainers get paid top dollars to devise the best MMA workouts for one reason only. They are going to make even more money when their fighter wins. Now do you honestly think if the opponents training camp rung the trainer on the phone and asked him exactly how he was preparing his guy for the fight he would tell all? Of course not.
Let me give you an insight into some of the tricks of the trade here. I've trained and seen fighters being trained for fights and what you see on TV is not what they are doing in the privacy of the pre-fight training centre. Well not exactly.
The TV training sessions are not gimmicks but believe you me, the trainers are not giving anything away. The footage you see is something I've seen put on for a psyche out show. It is often to give the other camp the wrong impression on what is actually going on.
For starters, no trainer wants his fighter's weaknesses exposed. If I know my opponent just can't nail down his take down defence, and he' trying to sprawl like a rheumatoid giraffe on beta blockers, I'm going to go for him there.
In Holland a couple of years back, our camp was preparing several guys for a televised competition and we got wind that the enemy was sending over some spies. And we knew who they were. And we did fake almost half an hour of bungled take down defences for their entertainment. Lo and behold on fight night, their guy constantly went for leg takedowns, and our guy dealt knees all through the first round to his head and stuck guillotines on him. Submitted him 20 seconds into the second round.
So if someone tells you they know exactly what the best MMA workouts used by top trainers today are, they don't. They cannot be everywhere at once. and what they think they might know, if it's picked up from TV, is not what is really going on!
Having said all that, there are some general principles you can apply in MMA training, which you can learn about for free here. But until you seriously get with a top trainer you won't know. And to the best of my knowledge, most trainers get confidentiality agreements anyway.
The main principles are honing of fighting technique, strength, and conditioning. It's that simple. Various trainers break that down in different ways.
GSP's camp tend to keep his workouts high velocity, circuit based. That mirrors his fighting style. Some of the heavier grapplers like Brock Lesnar's camp, concentrate of keeping him big and strong with a lot of heavy weights and heavy grappling dummy work, and not so much circuit training. Although he does intervals to keep body fat down.
You will find that most BJJ fighters concentrate on energy conservation while they fight, trying to use as little energy as possible. They come in all shapes and sizes but focus on a lot of static strength to aid submission holds.
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Top MMA trainers get paid top dollars to devise the best MMA workouts for one reason only. They are going to make even more money when their fighter wins. Now do you honestly think if the opponents training camp rung the trainer on the phone and asked him exactly how he was preparing his guy for the fight he would tell all? Of course not.
Let me give you an insight into some of the tricks of the trade here. I've trained and seen fighters being trained for fights and what you see on TV is not what they are doing in the privacy of the pre-fight training centre. Well not exactly.
The TV training sessions are not gimmicks but believe you me, the trainers are not giving anything away. The footage you see is something I've seen put on for a psyche out show. It is often to give the other camp the wrong impression on what is actually going on.
For starters, no trainer wants his fighter's weaknesses exposed. If I know my opponent just can't nail down his take down defence, and he' trying to sprawl like a rheumatoid giraffe on beta blockers, I'm going to go for him there.
In Holland a couple of years back, our camp was preparing several guys for a televised competition and we got wind that the enemy was sending over some spies. And we knew who they were. And we did fake almost half an hour of bungled take down defences for their entertainment. Lo and behold on fight night, their guy constantly went for leg takedowns, and our guy dealt knees all through the first round to his head and stuck guillotines on him. Submitted him 20 seconds into the second round.
So if someone tells you they know exactly what the best MMA workouts used by top trainers today are, they don't. They cannot be everywhere at once. and what they think they might know, if it's picked up from TV, is not what is really going on!
Having said all that, there are some general principles you can apply in MMA training, which you can learn about for free here. But until you seriously get with a top trainer you won't know. And to the best of my knowledge, most trainers get confidentiality agreements anyway.
The main principles are honing of fighting technique, strength, and conditioning. It's that simple. Various trainers break that down in different ways.
GSP's camp tend to keep his workouts high velocity, circuit based. That mirrors his fighting style. Some of the heavier grapplers like Brock Lesnar's camp, concentrate of keeping him big and strong with a lot of heavy weights and heavy grappling dummy work, and not so much circuit training. Although he does intervals to keep body fat down.
You will find that most BJJ fighters concentrate on energy conservation while they fight, trying to use as little energy as possible. They come in all shapes and sizes but focus on a lot of static strength to aid submission holds.
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