I’ve been taking Muay Thai over the summer and when school starts, which is soon for me, I’ll have to take a break. Basically all my school classes are during my Muay Thai classes (not all of them but enough to make it smarter money-wise for me to take a break). I want to continue the conditioning (as well as fat loss) I’ve got out the classes. One of the instructors recommended that I run three 7 minute miles a day three to four days a week.
Currently I’m lifting weights with a full-body routine three a days and I was planning on having three days of cardio. What do you guys think? Would it be effective conditioning? Would I expect to see a drop in body fat at all or could this be more catabolic?
Well thats a lot of running but being here in thailand and wacthing the fighters train here they are running that much or more.
I would suggest you do whatever cardio you will be consistant with. I have to keep it interesting any and all of it will burn fat and condition you to a point. some more than others for fat bruniung some more than others for cardio endurance etc. have to weight the checks and balances on the strehth and size goals.
Id mix it up do HIIT, do hiking with weight on your back, even walking, and those runs, bike rides
Aerobic fitness. Aerobic fitness will increase the amount of oxygen your muscles get, which will let you work longer in the ring or out. When training striking, you will need great muscular endurance, so i would say running is a good thing to do.
After that the most important thing to focus on is STRENGTH training forever lol.
By training strength you will actually be bringing all of your other stats up…Endurance, power AND you will be stronger of corse:D
Just keep at it until your comfortable with your endurace, remember in MMA compitions your looking at 5 minute rounds…or even a 10 minute first round in pride fc lol. As a Muay Thai fighter, that can be VERY energy taxing.
Keep in mind the more cardi you do the harder it is to keep muscle. But then again you have to do cardi in order to be good at your chosen sport.
Why don’t you try to do sprints instead. I understand that sprinting will allow you to keep more muscle and you can still gain the conditioning you need.
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Are there any articles in perticular that I should read regarding sprints? I’m pretty knew to that kind of training.[/quote]
Just pick a work to rest ratio that you like and use it with whatever cardio exercise you prefer. I usually alternate between longer steady state cardio sessions for 45-60 minutes to work on my aerobic base and shorter sprint workouts on my bike.
I prefer a work to rest ratio of either 1:2 or 1:3.
Ex. Sprint for 30 seconds and rest for 60 seconds. (1:2 ratio) done for 20 minutes.
Or, Sprint for 10 seconds and rest for 30 seconds. (1:3 ratio) done for 20 minutes.
Just play around with different times to keep it fresh.