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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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Squats 5,5,5,5,5@225lbs
Overhead Squats 10,10@50lbs
Stiff Legged Deadlifts 10,10@140lbs
Seated Calf Raise 10,10@100lbs


Weights up. I didn't want to take 3 days off but I hurt my back on the last day. Funny story, I was bragging to this yoga instructor about how flexible I am from M.M.A... I was trying to bend over and touch the floor with my palms (bad idea, my hamstrings were already sore and tight) and I tried a little too hard and I think that's what did it...It felt fine at the time, but then I went to the gym a few hours later and did 5 sets of deadlifts and 2 sets of powercleans to seal the deal. Feeling fine now but it was shit for 48 hours.
 
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Week 3 Push

Bench 5,5,5,5,5 @ 145lbs
Military Press 10,10 @ 80lbs
Dips 10,10 @ b/w

Ab Circuit
Hanging Knee Ups 15,15
Reverse Crunch 10,8
Cable Crunch 20,20@155lbs
Stir The Pot 12,12

Still babying shoulder. Seems to be getting better but still feel a snare of pain sometimes

218.2lbs 12.4% b/f ....suprised b/f is that low consider how unhealthy I've been lately, probably a fluctuation. Hoping to get into the 11's via consistent dieting and no drinking

Picked up a couple lite supps, now taking:

Whey Protein
Multi Vit
Creatine Monohydrate
BCAA's
5-HTP
 
#1,132 ·
Week 3 - Legs

Squats 5,5,5,5,5@235lbs
Overhead Squats 10,10@55lbs
Stiff Legged Deadlifts 10,10@145lbs
Seated Calf Raise 10,10@110lbs


Squats felt heavy. Scary. I think it's the 5-HTP...I've noticed major endurance related problems with it before. Overall weaker, less energy, light headedness. Hopefully it's just an adjustment phase. Going to suck it up and see through the bottle before making a judgement call on keeping up with it.
 
#1,136 ·
Week 4 Pull
Deadlift 5,5,5,5,5 @ 265lbs
Power Cleans 5,5 @ 155lbs
Barbell Rows 10,10 @ 80lbs
Chin Ups 10,5 @ b/w
Barbell Shrugs 10,10 @ 265lbs
DB Curls 10,8 @ 40lbs

Peace out, Week 4. Felt good besides the cleans. Think I need to move them away from 5x5 of heay deadlifts. Considering adding a fourth day Legs/Push/Pull/Olympic.
 
#1,137 ·
Week 5 - Legs

Squats 5,5,5,5,5@255lbs
Overhead Squats 10,10@65lbs
Stiff Legged Deadlifts 10,10@155lbs
Seated Calf Raise 10,10@130lbs

Weights still going strong. I get such mad lower back pumps from this day. Ran out of protein so my post workout meal is a quart of chocolate milk with a tsp of creatine mono. Still contemplating what days to add to routine maybe an aerobic cardio day and an anaerobic cardio/olympic day? One day a week of jiu jitsu?

219.2lbs and 12.8% b/f
 
#1,138 ·
Session 5 Push

Bench 5,5,5,5,5 @ 155lbs
Military Press 10,10 @ 90lbs
Dips 10,10 @ b/w +7.5lbs

Ab Circuit
Hanging Knee Ups 15
Reverse Crunch 12
Cable Crunch 20 @ 155lbs
Stir The Pot 12

Good workout. Almost no pain in shoulder today, think it's almost better. Going to keep increasing at only 5lbs a workout on the bench.

I tweaked my neck earlier this week, I think it was the shrugs. It was really hurting on the ab circuit so I didn't so a second set.
 
#1,139 · (Edited)
You've got something great going on here, so keep up the great work.

However, there's always room for improvement regardless of where anyone's at in pursuing there careers.

Don't put yourselves at a disadvantage by giving your competitors an edge through them knowing something that you don't.

Knowledge is great, but applying what you're about to learn is POWER: tinyurl.com/train-like-its-your-last
 
#1,145 ·
I know this is probably the worst place to be posting an apology, but if you'll notice, the 1st post I made on page 114 of your thread was edited. The reason I edited my post was because I came across as overly aggressive during my pitch.

I purposely tried to get aggressive to get people to prove that they are serious about their training (which they should be) and actually buy what I was marketing. I felt wrong about it the whole time it was up because I really wasn't sure how people were going to respond to it.

So I wanted to apologize to you if you saw the unedited version of my 1st post on page 114. I also wanted to apologize "if" indeed it has caused anyone here to respond to it in the "wrong way," such as hacking into my account.

Feel free to do whatever you want with this post after you're through reading it.
 
#1,147 ·
6 - Legs

Squats 5,5,5,5,5@275lbs
Overhead Squats 10,10@75lbs
Stiff Legged Deadlifts 10,10@165lbs
Seated Calf Raise 10,10@150lbs


Almost fainted a couple times today. Safe to say that the easy part of the strength cycle is over.

I'm going to attempt to join the 1000lb club in the next month or so. 1000lbs for 1 rep maxes between squat/bench/deadlift.
 
#1,148 ·
7 - Push

Bench 5,5,5,5,5 @ 165lbs
Military Press 10,10 @ 95lbs
Dips 10,10 @ b/w +12lbs

Ab Circuit
Hanging Knee Ups 15,15
Reverse Crunch 10,5
Cable Crunch 20,20 @ 150lbs
Stir The Pot 12,12

Over a week since I hit the gym, been eating like shit, sleeping terribly, drinking and working. Felt accordingly weak today. Will turn it around and try to hit the 1000lb club by the end of jan and then lean down and do more endurance/mma shit. Lost my license and I anticipate doing lots of jogging very shortly. Think it's about 5km to work.
 
#1,152 ·
1-3 - Pull
Deadlifts 12@135, 8@185, 5@225, 3@275, 3@275, 1@315, 1@350, 1@375lbs
Barbell Rows 10,10 @ 95lbs
Chin Ups 10,8 @ b/w
BB Shrugs 10,10 @ 225lbs
DB Curls 8,6 @ 40lbs

Felt suprisingly good today, seem to be back on course. Grips were failing at the end of deadlifts, bought some chalk on the way home.
 
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