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Breaking into M.M.A. Training Log

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Hello all, I've been mostly lurking these forums for awhile now. A little introduction: I'm 20 years old, just wrapping up doing a little world travel. While I was in Thailand I got involved with a Muay Thai training camp called Tiger Muay Thai, and trained pretty hard for a month and loved it. I decided to see where this passion can take me, and have decided to aim to fight in my first M.M.A. fight at a local amateur venue in my town called Valley Fight this coming December. This means I have a lot of work to do.

I will be training at a local M.M.A. gym called Revolution Chilliwack, as well as training with my friend who also wants to fight within the year.

I'm 20 years old, Southpaw, 6'4 about 195lbs, muscular build from years of weightlifting (I've got an enormous journal on a bodybuilding website but alas, there's no point talking M.M.A. on a bodybuilding forum, so here I am) but relatively weak cardio, other weaknesses include an occassional occurence of shin splints and contact lenses. I've only trained Muay Thai for a month and that's basically all my training besides a bit of self taught boxing.

I'm wrapping up my travels now, sitting in Bangkok for a few more days. I checked out a nearby Muay Thai gym but it was a hole in the ground with some mats and wasn't cheap, so **** it. I'm doing bodyweight exercises and shadowboxing in my room to help maintain what I can.

I go home soon so training resumes on August 1st as I enroll in the MMA gym back home and in addition begin my own training with a partner to keep the total training time to about 3.5 hours a day, 5 days a week.

Training is 4 weeks on followed by 1 week rest, each week is 5 days training, alternating between 2 days set out like this:

Day 1 - Technique
Stretch
Shadowboxing
Hit Pads
Standup Sparring
Rolling
Stretch
Go to class

Day 2 - Conditioning
Stretch
Skipping
Weight Training (Divided into Push/Pull/Leg days focusing on functional strength, explosive power, and endurance.)
Heavy Bag
Speed Bag
Stretch
Go to class

Classes are as follows:
Mon - Beginner Jiu-Jitsu
Tue - M.M.A.
Wed - Beginner Jiu-Jitsu
Thur - Boxing + Muay Thai
Fri - Boxing + Muay Thai + M.M.A
Sat - Rest
Sun - Rest

Going to ease myself into it and build momentum; first week just go to the classes, second week go to the classes and do training every second day, then by the third I'm doing the full routine. Also going to start light on my weights and build momentum over the weeks as powerlifters do.

I've also wrote up a flexible diet that I believe I can maintain pretty easily. I'll add the details once I've gone through with it for awhile in case any changes need to be made. What's important is the 6000 mostly healthy calories to exceed my maintenance level for a gradual weight gain.

Supplements are Protein/Creatine Monohydrate/Multivitamin/Fish Oil, considering a pre-workout supp like N.O. Xplode but don't really need the extra hit to the wallet or a caffeine dependency, so we'll see on that one.

I picked up all my gear to train out here in Thailand for nice and cheap. Got 16oz gloves, shin guards, wraps, mouth guard, and headgear. My friend has bought all of these things as well as some Thai kicking pads and a round timer, so we're all equipped and ready to go.

I'm aiming for December for my premier amateur M.M.A. bout. Wish me luck and feel free to pass on advice. I'm gonna tear a hole into this guy. :thumb02:

Some relevant links
Tiger Muay Thai, Phuket, Thailand:http://www.tigermuaythai.com
Revolution Chilliwack, Chilliwack, Canada:http://www.revolutionfightteam.com
Valley Fight, Chilliwack, Canada:http://www.valleyfight.com
 
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#1,158 ·
Hahah.

Actually one just opened down the street from me and once I finish this weightlifting goal I'm going to do a 2 week trial there. Just relax and keep your mouth shut. Most of the people in there will be out of shape women anyway, so you won't do half bad. Muay thai and jiu jitsu can go a long with with your flexibility already.

As for being embarassed, just glare menacingly at anyone thinking about judging you. ;)
 
#1,168 ·
4 - 1 Legs

Squats 3,3,3,3,3@305lbs
Overhead Squats 10,10@95lbs
Stiff Legged Deadlifts 10,10@185lbs
Standing Calf Raise 10,10 @150lbs.

Last weak peaking srength. Brutal but good workout. Now getting consistent headaches by the end of my workouts. If its not post concussion its my neck from shity posture.
 
#1,171 ·
I remember one as a kid it was a delayed one, the next day I lost control of all my muscles.

The next one was in training. I was knocked out for at least 4 seconds that I know of.

The effects of this one were more noticeable due to it being in my recent past. I felt a little dizzy, and forgot how to do some of my job, but I recovered within a week I think.
 
#1,172 ·
My energy, memory, and focus are still lacking but very gradually getting better. I'd feel dizzy and nauseous when my anaerobic got going for awhile but we'll see how that's doing now that a few more months have passed. I think it was worse because I got hit in the head quite a few times. I probably reached the point of a concussion before a few more blows landed.
 
#1,175 ·
4 - 4 Push

Speed Bench 8x3 @ 135lbs
Military Press 10,9 @ 125lbs
Dips 10,8 @ b/w +25lbs

Ab Circuit
Hanging Knee Ups 15,15
Reverse Crunch 15,10
Cable Crunch 20,20 @ 150lbs
Stir The Pot 12, 12

I have a new theory that my headaches are caused by a filling I had done a week or two ago, times match up and he said that's what'll happen if the filling is too tall, will get that fixed and see a chiropractor for double effectiveness.

Last lifting is done, a little rest and then I attempt one rep maxes. I conveniently just had a cold kick in.
 
#1,177 · (Edited)
Squat- 10x45, 10x135, 3x185, 2x225, 1x250 1x275 1x305 1x325 1x340 1x365
Bench- 10x45 5x95 5x135 1x155 175x1 1x200 1x205 1x225 1x245
DL- 3x225 1x275 1x315 1x350 1x380 1x410 1x435

Video coming!

Going to start leaning out diet now, do 2 weeks of yoga and then workout something more MMA oriented
 
#1,179 ·
GSP Anaerobic Circuit/Week 1/Legs

Everything through in a continous circuit, starts with a barbell complex with 5 reps per exercise, and then you go to body weight stuff everything to failure. 3 sets in total, about two minutes rest inbetween.

Weight: 45lbs (Bar only)
Deadlifts: 5,5,5
Stiff Leg Deadlifts 5,5,5
Cleans: 5,5,5
Front Squats 5,5,5
Squats: 5,5,5
Good Mornings 5,5,5
Single Leg Bodyweight Squats 20/10, 10/10, 8/8
Jumping Lunges 6,3,2
Jump Squats 6,3,2
Standing Single Leg Calf Raises 15/15, 10/10, 8/8


Well, I did this, and I went ******* hard at it. My legs are jello, afterwards I stumbled to a bench and proceeded to feel really really sick. I sat there for like 20 minutes in varying positions of discomfort, then I limped to the change room (almost fainted on the way there) where I threw up. Then I felt better. There's a variety of reasons why this may have happenned, could be preworkout stuff, could be supplements I'm taking to help with concussion recovery, could just be going ******* hard on my conditioning all of a sudden after doing nothing but power lifting for a few months. Time will tell. I'm skipping the yoga shit and am instead going to try to jump right back into mma conditioning. Why am I doing this? Well, I've been quietly working away at a little surprise coming up. =)
 
#1,181 ·
Gi Jiu Jitsu

2.5 hours. Trained all rounds and didn't bitch out despite being apparently out of shape. Was slow, sloppy, and heavy, but did fine in guard passes. Got a few subs on a white belt that I'm not too proud of, a sub on a blue, good back and forth with a brown and purple and got tapped by ankle lock to a purple. Cut in my hand from work was torn open, knuckles rubbed raw, torso covered in scrapes. I remember this.
 
#1,184 · (Edited)
I want to do something more sport specific than the GSP circuits so I put one together. Will tweak it as I go and start recording #'s.

3 min rounds each, 1 min rest between

Shrimping
4 Corners Drill
Heavybag
Pushup Burpees
Heavybag
Technical Standup
Forward/Backward Neck Bridges
Dead hang with a thick towel grip



4 corners drill is the first one in this video. Never done before and thought it looked really good. I was going to make this more challenging but this proved to be effective enough for now.

 
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