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Reply With QuoteBURN? What are you, a cheerleader or a housewife?
Anyway, yes. I have been pointing this out for years. Structure your training schedule like your fights. In my short stint as a pro boxer, I only did 4-5 rounds on the heavy bag.
Quality over quantity
I recently discovered that after experimenting with workouts, less activity with increased intensity provides a better workout than more rounds at a mediocre pace. My workout prior to the change was:
5 minutes skip rope
7 rounds shadow boxing 4 minutes with rest only to reset the clock
5 rounds 10 reps deadlift
7 rounds heavy bag 4:30 minutes with 10 second rest
abs and core work
After some experimenting, I'm finding a better burn after:
10 minutes skip rope
50 burpees
7 rounds 4:30 minutes with 15 second rest
abs and core
Anyone else have the same experience?
BURN? What are you, a cheerleader or a housewife?
Anyway, yes. I have been pointing this out for years. Structure your training schedule like your fights. In my short stint as a pro boxer, I only did 4-5 rounds on the heavy bag.
Yes, burn. You know, as in, "feel the burn?" Ahahahaha! I'm too lazy to look for the technical term.Originally Posted by Machete
Yes, that burn. The burn sought by housewives with their 3lb pink dumbells, and the gym boys with their tight shirts and their shades and their hair gel and their bench press and their curls and their supplements. THAT burn. The technical term would probably be Lactic Acid buildup in continuously stressed muscle. From concentration curls.
I mean seriously? BURN? You're "working out" looking for a "burn?"
not necessarily, but it does feel good. just looking to get back in fighting shape. my trainers say i've developed power but lost a ****load of speed.
I'm just saying. You "train"for something, be it a competition of any other event, and you "work out" to... I don't know, look good, socialize in the gym, whatever. Personally when I work out, that "burn" is the least of my concerns. I have to worry about form, doing the most amount of work (e.g. combinations) I can in a set time frame (rounds), recovering in-between rounds (breathing), etc. I don't have time to worry about a "burn" and how good I will look tanning my abs at the beach come summer, I'm trying to be a combat athlete.
But whatever makes you happy, man. If it works for you, then by all means, do it.
Now you're just talking semantics. But since you put it so kindly, I'm training to get in fighting shape during the off season so that when a fight is announced, I won't be so anxious about conditioning or making weight.
I don't know about you, but I like to train the old-fashioned way (can I get a hell yeah, Burungkol?). Run in the morning, sport-specific rounds with 30-60 second recovery in the afternoon. And a sh!t load of shadowboxing. But if you prefer going all Jtreyes, doing all sorts of "MMA Workouts" you see from fitness magazines and web articles, then be my guest. (Sorry, JT.) I'm just saying, I don't think you need all that bullcrap. I mean (1) why would you stress yourself with burpees before your actual workout? (2) Why would you do 4:30 rounds? (3) Why would you put 10 seconds of rest? And (4) what does your abs and core work look like?Now you're just talking semantics. But since you put it so kindly, I'm training to get in fighting shape during the off season so that when a fight is announced, I won't be so anxious about conditioning or making weight.
i don't know but i would probably be flamed around here. i don't wanna cause a shitstorm but as far as my core is concerned, i do not do any direct exercises for it. squats and deadlift do just fine for me. no direct core work. if you have any suggestions, by all means, tell me.
Whatever works for you, dude. Kanya-kanyang katawan 'yan.
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