Developing a good health and fitness base for your complete MMA game is important. Whenever you're lacking in the gas tank and the guy across from you has the capacity to go another 5-10 minutes after you're bent over inhaling and exhaling through your own mouth with your hands on your knees, you're in critical trouble.
But what if you're incapable to get out to a gym and get in some serious health and fitness training? What if you're only able to invest Thirty minutes a day at your own home, with no gym equipment, working on your MMA conditioning? That's not a problem at all because 30 minutes, your body and some household items is all you really need in order to get your MMA training at home done.
Building up your leg strength & endurance
One of the best workouts for leg endurance and breathing endurance while working from home is explosive laps up the stairs in your home. What I do is start out in my basement, run up the flight of stairs as fast as possible and then slowly get back downstairs (running down stairs too fast could cause you to fall, plus this gives you the quick energy burst ability that you're going to need in your MMA fight).
After 4-5 laps up and down the stairs, you're going to start feeling the burn a little in your legs. That's excellent - continue for another 5-10 laps and see exactly where you're at. You might start off sprinting up the stairs, but you'll eventually be walking up and down your stairs.
Lets work out our arms now
You're gonna need to be capable to keep your hands up in punching position for a good length of time of your MMA fight, so for this part of your MMA exercising, you're going to need to pick a location on the wall and shadowbox it for 5-10 minutes. If you've got a heavy bag or some type of equipment in your house to use, that's okay, but for individuals who are working with no equipment, shadowboxing will be perfectly fine. The goal here is not to swing with all of your might, but to build the endurance in your arm muscles that you're going to need in order to keep your arms up for a long period of time. You could also add something in your hands as a weight (either actual small dumbbells or something with a bit of weight to it) to give you some added resistance.
Another arm exercise I like to do is to grab 2 gallons of milk from the fridge (you could also buy/fill up two gallons of water) and hold them out, one in each hand at a 90 degree angle for as long as I can, without dropping my arms down to my side. This will build your grip strength as well as your arm strength.
Push ups, sit ups, squats and more
The tried and true methods of working out to not only build strength, but also build your MMA conditioning can be utilized here as well. Sets of 10 push ups, immediately followed by 10 squats and then repeated 5-6 times can build your conditioning to a level you've never thought possible, especially by working our from home with no equipment.
The goal is to do each of these exercises as fast as possible, with the least amount of breaks in between. Try each exercise out, time yourself and then build a 5 minute set out of each of these exercises and repeat that set 3-5 times during each workout - it'll be the same time frame you'll have in your MMA fight.
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But what if you're incapable to get out to a gym and get in some serious health and fitness training? What if you're only able to invest Thirty minutes a day at your own home, with no gym equipment, working on your MMA conditioning? That's not a problem at all because 30 minutes, your body and some household items is all you really need in order to get your MMA training at home done.
Building up your leg strength & endurance
One of the best workouts for leg endurance and breathing endurance while working from home is explosive laps up the stairs in your home. What I do is start out in my basement, run up the flight of stairs as fast as possible and then slowly get back downstairs (running down stairs too fast could cause you to fall, plus this gives you the quick energy burst ability that you're going to need in your MMA fight).
After 4-5 laps up and down the stairs, you're going to start feeling the burn a little in your legs. That's excellent - continue for another 5-10 laps and see exactly where you're at. You might start off sprinting up the stairs, but you'll eventually be walking up and down your stairs.
Lets work out our arms now
You're gonna need to be capable to keep your hands up in punching position for a good length of time of your MMA fight, so for this part of your MMA exercising, you're going to need to pick a location on the wall and shadowbox it for 5-10 minutes. If you've got a heavy bag or some type of equipment in your house to use, that's okay, but for individuals who are working with no equipment, shadowboxing will be perfectly fine. The goal here is not to swing with all of your might, but to build the endurance in your arm muscles that you're going to need in order to keep your arms up for a long period of time. You could also add something in your hands as a weight (either actual small dumbbells or something with a bit of weight to it) to give you some added resistance.
Another arm exercise I like to do is to grab 2 gallons of milk from the fridge (you could also buy/fill up two gallons of water) and hold them out, one in each hand at a 90 degree angle for as long as I can, without dropping my arms down to my side. This will build your grip strength as well as your arm strength.
Push ups, sit ups, squats and more
The tried and true methods of working out to not only build strength, but also build your MMA conditioning can be utilized here as well. Sets of 10 push ups, immediately followed by 10 squats and then repeated 5-6 times can build your conditioning to a level you've never thought possible, especially by working our from home with no equipment.
The goal is to do each of these exercises as fast as possible, with the least amount of breaks in between. Try each exercise out, time yourself and then build a 5 minute set out of each of these exercises and repeat that set 3-5 times during each workout - it'll be the same time frame you'll have in your MMA fight.
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