Without going against the advice to specialise in order to excel, you might find it useful to become familiar with a guy called Ross Enamait. He’s an S&C coach for combat athletes with a few books out that deal with strength and conditioning for fighters.
If I remember correctly, his sample program has you doing one strength session every five days, alongside conditioning/circuits/skills training.
Given your interests I’m sure you’ll love his material.
Yeah I follow Ross often, he is an animal in the gym (And outside) I love his material.
Pick up a copy of Infinite Intensity if you haven’t already, then. He goes into quite a lot of detail about combining skill and strength training and what you can expect.
I love Ross’s work, and he has amazing information. Isn’t his work more geared toward athletes who plan on competing? I’m trying to build size/strength while doing recreational Muay Thai; which is why I have considered Starting Strength, because I’m not restricted to weight classes or worry too much about skill work. I would love to pick up a book of his though. Currently I’ve been reading article from MuayThaipros.com whic is a group of competitive Thai fighters who also strength train.
[quote]ThyArtisMurder wrote:
I love Ross’s work, and he has amazing information. Isn’t his work more geared toward athletes who plan on competing? I’m trying to build size/strength while doing recreational Muay Thai; which is why I have considered Starting Strength, because I’m not restricted to weight classes or worry too much about skill work. I would love to pick up a book of his though. Currently I’ve been reading article from MuayThaipros.com whic is a group of competitive Thai fighters who also strength train.[/quote]
It is, but it also contains pretty much everything you need to know for a solid understanding of strength training in general.
He lays out a 50 day training plan, but explicitly states that it’s only an example and then tells you how to modify it to suit your goals, how to train different kinds of strength, the different kinds of hypertrophy and how to train for them, etc. There’s a lot of information in there, and it costs a few dollars for the e-book (I’m not on commission, lol).
Have you read the article on his mass experiment? Reading back over your first post it seems relevant. There’s also an excellent chapter on nutrition in his book on bodyweight training.
Right, I’ll stop hugging his nuts now.
I think I have heard of his mass expirement, I will go check it out later tonight. It sucks, because i’m currently on vacation with my family and I have little acess to any decent gym. My hotel gym that I just used has a bunch of silly machines and some dumbbells, not even a single barbell. Nutrition has been poor as well-eating whatever is bought or served. Mcdonald’s, pizza, burgers, ice cream, chinese food, hotel breakfast/dinner.
i have tried to keep active though, worked out three times total during the vacation. i can’t wait to get back to my REAL gym to start progresing on the weights, and return to Muay Thai. On a side note, Ross is a crazy bastard, i alway watch his youtube montages. I also like him because he take no shit from anyone. The one status I seen him share was, some loud mouth guy was being really rude to a women in a parking lot and he approached him and told him to leave her alone, and try to pick on him instead. The loud guy went silent right away haha.
You could always do treadmill runs and complexes with the dumbbells.
You won’t make strength gain, but it’s fairly easy to maintain some level of conditioning and athleticism no matter what you have with you.
Yeah I agree, I still put in an hour each session.
I’m stoked to start Starting Strength. I’ll be so tempted to do assistance each session but I won’t. Rip makes it clear that you should follow the program to the letter.