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How To Lose Weight With MMA Training

The thought of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) for most people brings to mind two men locked in a cage, trying to knock each other out or making the other person submit through painful joint lock or choke. However, MMA is much more than that. For example, it is a great way to lose weight and get fit. Joe Riggs, a former Ultimate Fighting Championships (UFC) fighter, started MMA training weighing almost 300 pounds. He made a name for himself in the UFC fighting at 170 pounds. He lost all of that weight through MMA training.

MMA Training

There are three main martial arts involved in MMA:
1. Muay Thai kickboxing
2. Wrestling
3. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ)

MMA schools typically offer courses in the individual disciplines with a combined MMA class for those who are more serious and considering actually engaging in an actual MMA fight. Because of the skill level and physical conditioning required to fight MMA, most schools will not let people train Mixed Martial Arts until they have achieved a proven ability in at least one of these three arts.

Workouts

The workout for any of these arts is intense. Students can expect a warm-up that includes a series of body-weight exercises, some with a partner and some without, that prepare the body for what it is about to face. After the warm-up comes a technique portion where the instructor teaches a skill followed by the students practicing, or drilling, the technique until they have it down. The technique portion of the class is followed by live drilling that allows the student to practice that technique against a fully resisting partner. Students who wish to focus only on the technique and not engage in the live drilling can elect to do that instead.

Improved Fitness

Lose Weight With MMA Training

Lose Weight With MMA Training

People who train MMA notice an improved level of conditioning pretty quickly. They are learning not only how to move their own bodies in ways that they never have before but they are learning to physically manipulate other people as well. These classes leave the individual exhausted, exhilarated and ready to come back for more. MMA students will lose weight and stay fit regardless of whether they actually decide to engage in an MMA fight or not. For those interested in fighting, understand that good MMA trainers will not let their students fight until they are capable of defending themselves in the cage.

Robbin Grey is a freelance writer who loves writing about MMA and other various martial art styles. Robbin is currently writing for the MMA Zone where she specializes in combining MMA training with health and fitness.

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Dealing with Setbacks

This last couple of weeks I feel are all about me but I am hoping that you can learn from my problems.

We all deal with problems and setbacks when we are getting fit or healthier. Usually this is because we are beating our body into changing one way or the other. How you deal with your injury or setback will directly affect how you move forward afterwards.

Dealing with Setbacks

Dealing with Setbacks

Last week I decided that I was going to really pick it up trying to get in the best shape of my life so I could dominate in street hockey next week. I did this by doing lots of cardio, running, riding, rowing, elliptical trainer. But the trouble is that I have been cardio-lazy all winter while doing speed style weight workouts, you know like turbulence training.

Well my body got really mad at that straight out cardio and I seem to have wrecked my back. This happens lots to people and when it happens to you how do you react?

Well the best way to react is to heal and work around the injury. Ice and heat alternating a few times a day, aspirin for the pain and continue trying to exercise.

When eating this happens a lot. You cut your eating and change your diet and in your head you are struggling, starving, and feel like you are doing without. Then suddenly you find a cake and eat it.

What do you do next? Well I would have to ask why you are starving yourself and depriving? My best idea is to regroup after eating that cake and  try to decide what was wrong. Plan what you will do. I will tell you right now that just by drinking more water, spacing out your eating to 6 smaller meals, and cutting out all the bread, potatoes, and rice from your diet will make a huge difference.

So think back, how do you tend to react to setbacks? I know this is always a process that you have to look back at your past and see how you can adjust.

I always used to be disappointed in myself that I did not have unlimited willpower until I realized that I was setting far too high a standard for myself.  You should look at yourself the same way, recognize your limitations and don’t try to be some kind of hero but just always move forward in your dreams and goals.


Dealing with Setbacks

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Starting an Exercise Program

Starting an exercise Program should prompt you to ask some questions. So you think that losing weight is too hard? Well, think again or a while, because choosing a suitable workout plan that would actually help you lose weight is even harder. The weight loss industry is getting bigger and bigger and there are so many workout options out there that it often becomes difficult for the average person to decide which are suitable and which aren’t.

These three questions are enough to get you started in deciding if starting an exercise program and the exercise programs that you are looking at are going to be a good fit for you so that you will do an exercise program long term instead of just for a couple of weeks.

Starting an Exercise Program

Is the workout program easy to demonstrate? Before choosing starting an exercise program or any weight loss workout or exercise program, make sure that it is easy to understand. It doesn’t matter how well the professional fitness trainers will understand the workout plan; what matters is how well YOU understand it, because it is YOU who is going to sweat it out in the gym.

If any workout is incomprehensible to you, you will have a tough time carrying it out! Some workout plans are written in such a way that they are very difficult to understand for the layman.

Starting an Exercise Program

Starting an Exercise Program

Will I be able to carry it out the exercise program? It is not enough to just choose a workout plan; in fact a workout plan is meaningless if you cannot carry it out properly. In starting an exercise program there maybe many different reasons why trying out a given workout plan might seem impossible for you. For example, maybe that the workouts don’t fit into your lifestyle.

If you are used to sitting on the couch for hours and if your workout plan demands that you do intense exercises for hours, you won’t be able to do it, would you? What you need instead is a workout plan that consists of lighter, shorter exorcises that you can carry out easily! For some others, time is a huge problem.

If you have a 9 to 5 job, it may seem difficult for you to find even an hour for the gym. If this is your case, then you need to choose workouts that you can do at home. Don’t worry; there are plenty of home-based exercises that will help you to burn as much fat as you would by hitting the gym!

Will this workout system actually help me lose weight? Make no mistake -there are actually two groups of exercises out there. One group will help you tone up your muscles and give you the six-pack abs that you desire, but if you are looking forward to losing weight then this group of exercises is not suitable for you.

Benefits of Starting an Exercise Program

There is another group of exorcises that will actually help you shed off pounds; it is this group that you should really choose! Research thoroughly and check whether the workouts you are choosing will make you fitter or actually help you lose weight!

Choosing the right weight loss workouts for yourself can seem to be difficult at first, but with a little research, you will be able to find suitable exercises for starting an exercise program by yourself

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