Boost your flexibility with these seven stretching exercises, including toe touch, hamstring and chest stretch, among others, to improve muscle efficiency and become an MMA expert.
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Training for the MMA is no small feat. Conditioning your body leads to an extensive range of body mobility, which is the harbinger of success in boxing and martial arts. A combat fighter for the MMA requires all the conditioning they can get. Full-body conditioning equips you to bear the brunt of MMA fighting, whether for stamina, resilience, or the ability to hop around with small and large steps in skilful style. Here are some of our favourite ways to condition our students for MMA competitions:
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MMA, or Mixed Martial Arts, requires a balanced weight of combat skills, be it agility, power, or swiftness. Simply being strong and tanky won't win you a fight. Speed and agility are equally needed. MMA professionals train for long hours to develop their quickness for the ring. You need to be quick on your feet to strike vulnerable points and evade incoming offence. The speed at which your reflexes kick in improves with better agility. Your mind-body coordination is also enhanced, making agility training essential for your routine. Moreover, speed and agility don't just benefit your fighting ability but translate to ordinary life as well. Training these skills gives you balance and body control, proving its importance for all people, not just athletes. But why exactly should you work on speed and agility as an MMA aspirant, and what benefits would training bring?
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The famous saying ‘Thoughts Become Things’ highlights clearly that mindset can impact actions. Whether it is the will to learn a new language, musical instrument, or mixed martial arts (MMA), no outstanding achievement in life is an outcome of a limiting mindset. Thus to master MMA, the mind and body must be in harmony. We have all seen martial artists performing swift bodily movements and fancy attack combinations requiring extreme mobility and core strength. Fact is, the physical effort required meets our eyes very quickly. But what evades it is the other half of the martial arts expertise equation - mental effort. In ways more than one, succeeding in martial arts demands strength of spirit more than physicality. A huge part of developing a disciplined and focused mindset is choosing to accept these traits as a part of your personality. Further, at every opportunity life throws, act to those traits.
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Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is a combat and contact sport that requires players to be in top shape. The combat sport uses a mix of wrestling, judo, karate, Muay Thai, jujitsu and boxing. Fighters have to maintain an almost perfect physique while showcasing qualities of being agile, quick, powerful and an endless barrel of stamina.
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