Just wondering what the other T-men athletes do as far as weights and sport practices. Do you do weights and sport practices on same day or on seperate days. I currently do 2 of them on the same day. Weights in the morning and practices in the evening (3 days weights, 3 days sport practice).
Well I am out of season right now, but just for a couple of more weeks. So basically I spend about 90% of my time on dryland and the other 10% on my sport. Once the season starts we will be doing about 3 hours of dryland and about 8-10 hours of sport training per week. I may be adding in some of my own dryland based upon what they have us do.
Bushido, what is your sport? I am right in assuming its MMA? If so how long have been doing it? I have a couple of questions for you if you are in fact involved with MMA.
It depends on how I feel, physically that is. I was doing my MMA sessions in the morning, weight lifting at night 4 times a week. I just feel I need to break it up a bit, cuz I was feeling overtrained.
Next week I’m starting something different: Sun.- Weights, Mon.- MMA training, Tues.- Weights, Wed.- MMA training, Thurs.-Weights, Fri.-MMA, Sat.-OFF. I may have to fine tune this, maybe add a weight session, and subtract a MMA session or vice-versa. I’ll see how this goes. Peace Out!
BJ, I have been doing martial arts for years. I do mostly jiu-jitsu now. If you have any questions feel free to PM me.
Just a quick question for Bushido or Sancho. I have a match (Muay Thai) coming up on 1/08/04. I was wondering when I should stop lifting, or if I should stop lifting before my match?
I’ve been reading Staley’s Science of Martial Arts Training and if I remember right, he prescribes about 7 days of non-lifting before any martial arts competition. He basically says to take the 7 days before for mental preperations.
I would agree, 5-7 days before competition I would do no lifting if you do lift the week of I would lift with low percentages.
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Just a quick question for Bushido or Sancho. I have a match (Muay Thai) coming up on 1/08/04. I was wondering when I should stop lifting, or if I should stop lifting before my match?
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Hey hotjosh, I agree with Bushido and celibrate. Your last week should pretty much be light stretching, mental relaxation, and working on strategy. Ohh! and almost forgot, also some shadowboxing. Are you fighting in Southern California hotjosh? If so PM me, I’d definately like to go check your fight out!!!
Thnaks Bushido, I may take you up on that. But he’s a quaestions I’m going to toss out for everyone to take a stab at.
How do you guys/gals juggle juggle weights/conditioning with MA pratice. I have started Muay Thai about 8 weeks ago, I love but have alot to learn.
Should I concentrate on only weights outside of class and let class be my conditioning? Or should I do strength and conditioning on days I dont have class? Burn out is the main concern, but i could stand to lose some extra poundage.
I do a very abbreviated strength routine now similar to Pavels Power to the People consisting of deadlifts, pull ups and dips.
Thanks to all for your input.
[quote]Sancho wrote:
hotjosh74 wrote:
Just a quick question for Bushido or Sancho. I have a match (Muay Thai) coming up on 1/08/04. I was wondering when I should stop lifting, or if I should stop lifting before my match?
Hey hotjosh, I agree with Bushido and celibrate. Your last week should pretty much be light stretching, mental relaxation, and working on strategy. Ohh! and almost forgot, also some shadowboxing. Are you fighting in Southern California hotjosh? If so PM me, I’d definately like to go check your fight out!!![/quote]
I’m up in Nor-Cal Sancho. I’ll be fighting in Pleasanton. Small smoker.
Thanks for the advice fellas. Some of the other more experienced fighters said the same thing no weights/sex for the next week. And to just run sprints until Wednesday.
I play soccer 1-2 times a week (depends on whether or not the outdoor season is going) and I try to avoid lifting on those days, if at all possible. Luckily, my training split works well with my soccer schedule since I lift MWF and my games are Sundays and Thursdays. I do full body/Chad Waterbury style workouts and that is not something I would much prefer to do the day I gotta chase down strikers for 90 minutes or so. My situation might be fairly different because it sounds like most people responding are MMAers.
Kuz
My sport is soccer and I play games on Sundays, with training on Tuesday and Friday. I prefer to lift twice a week on Tuesday and Thursday. Normally, I’d keep weights and soccer on the same day because the CNS is flat the day after intense training, but 48 hours recovery from heavy lifting before a game isn’t enough IMO.
Mon - off
Tue - Weights; Training
Wed - Tempo; Low-intensity core work
Thu - Light training; Weights
Fri - Low-intensity core work; Training
Sat - Light training
Sun - Game
Hi… first… name is Mike aka Dire and a newbie to T-Nation… hello all…
I play Premier Division Provincial Rugby here in Ontario from about April through November… I lift all year round but I find I have to make major changes to my workouts during rugby season. I try and pack on weight and strength during the offseason and start hitting the cardio about 4 weeks before the season starts. It is not rare for me to lose close to 15 pounds of muscle mass during rugby season simply due to the incredible amount of cardio work during training and playing.
During the season, I have rugby training monday and wednesday nights for 3 hours a night and that often includes 2 hours of various cardio and tackling drills and then an hour game play training. Saturday is Game day … and during the summer… 2 45 minute halves of rugby in the 30C+ heat… can really take a toll on you. I used to try and lift my normal program during the season but now at the ripe old age of 37 (yes… I am one of the old men in our club… www.torontosaracens.com) I find I have to lower the weights I lift simply to prevent myself from fatiguing my body out.
I’ve tried many things but really have never found a comfortable level of intensity and weight that will allow me to maintain my muscle mass and bodyweight during the season but will not fatigue my body out so much that my rugby training suffers. Anybody have any ideas? I play the position of 8man which requires heavy pushing and forward scrum play while also having to carry and run with the ball alot.
Thanks
Dire
I do jkd and my training goes like this:
Monday - evening class 1.30h
Tue - weights + iso streching
wed - evening class + (right after class) plyometrics and 25 min running.
thur - weights (iso) + bag work in evening
friday - evening class
saturday - weights + iso streching
sunday - off
I have yet to experience overtraining, but if i cont. like this, not far from it… :{