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MMA Strength & Conditioning: Sandbag Training for MMA: "“Sandbag Training to this day is a HUGE part of how I train and how I train my athletes.”         &n..."


MMA Strength & Conditioning: Why MMA Athletes Should Stop Bodybuilding: "“…we have not spent the last 65 million or so years finely honing our physiology to watch Oprah. Like it or not, we are the product of a ver..."


MMA Strength & Conditioning: The Seven Basic Human Movement Patterns: "In this article I’ll be discussing the concept of Planes of Motion and human movement patterns. We’ll look at how this theory can be used to..."


MMA Strength & Conditioning: Olympic Lifting for Mixed Martial Artists: "“The latest catchphrase in the fitness world is ‘functional training’. The term itself has been around for roughly five decades, but modern ..."


MMA Strength & Conditioning: How To Create An Effective Strength and Conditioni...: "In the spirit of creating effective, practical and fun strength and conditioning routines I’d like to discuss some of the major pitfalls tha..."


MMA Strength & Conditioning: Fixing Strength and Conditioning Weak Points - Is ...: "“One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity” Br..."


MMA Strength & Conditioning: Ring Training for MMA Athletes: "Gymnasts have used gymnastic rings for hundreds of years to develop tremendous upper body and core strength. In this article I’d like to dis..."


MMA Strength & Conditioning: The 10000 Hour Rule: "“In Hamburg we had to play for eight hours” The Beatles This weeks article is a partial book review of Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. You mi..."


MMA Strength & Conditioning: Using Strength and Conditioning to Facilitate Skil...: "Strength and conditioning is a subject that divides opinion in Martial Arts, MMA and especially Jiu-Jitsu. Most people tend to think of skil..."


MMA Strength & Conditioning: Using Strength and Conditioning to Facilitate Skil...: "In part 1 of this article I discussed the goals of strength and conditioning for Jiu-Jitsu, and how it was vitally important to match the ne..."