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Anderson Silva, Randy Couture MMA Action Figures by Round5 MMA
As a longtime fan of MMA, I am always interested in how the sport has evolved outside of the cage. Now with the sport hitting the mainstream market with a prime demographic of 13-35 year olds, you see MMA’s influence when you go shopping from Chuck Liddell t-shirts at Kohl’s to wall posters at [...]
NEW Energy Drink!!! Oh wait, it’s just chocolate milk…
From Yahoo MMA
Q. Doc, are there any supplements that you would recommend? (from Anonymous)
Despite my better judgment, I will try again with this topic.
I’ll offer one (there may be others) that has actually been reasonably tested and does not come with too much hype.
Seemingly every athlete, regardless of his or her level, [...]
Forrest Griffin’s Extreme Workout from Men’s Fitness
From Men’s Fitness
“Many mixed martial arts experts doubted Forrest Griffin’s chances at UFC 86, but all agreed that he would not be outworked. In a sport filled with gym rats, no one is more enamored with training than the 29-year-old former cop. He usually puts in three workouts per day during the week. Here’s a [...]
Tito Ortiz Seminar – Throwdown Training Center San Diego – Sept. 5
from Throwdown Elite Training Center – San Diego:
“That’s right everyone, the “Huntington Beach Bad Boy,” and former UFC Champion Tito Ortiz will display his talents right here at Throwdown Elite Training Center, Friday, September 5, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.
Don’t miss this special opportunity to learn Tito’s “No Holds Barred” approach to MMA. Tito [...]
Military.com Fitness Center
A lot of great tips on Military.com’s Fitness page. A lot of cool fitness programs to choose from:
Preparing for Army Ranger School
Fitness for Beginners
Combat Conditioning and Self Defense
Fort Bragg TRX Suspension Training
TUF Winner bio: Amir Sadollah
from Wikipedia:
“Amir Sadollah was born in Brooklyn, New York but raised in Richmond, Virginia. Following his graduation from J.R. Tucker High School he attended Jay Sargeant Reynolds Community College. Amir began mixed martial arts as a way to stay in shape. He began to take the sport more seriously after working as a surgical technician [...]
TRX Hamstring Training for Combat Athletes
from Combat-Sports-Conditioning.com “Strong and injury resistent hamstrings are essential for combat sports performance and conditioning. However, hamstrings are often a neglected area in most combat sport conditioning programs. I stumbled across the TRX System while at a convention years ago and I haven’t found a better training tool for replicating the combat sport [...]
Bruce Lee’s Top 7 for Getting Your Life in Shape
“As you think, so shall you become.”
“It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.”
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”
“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
The Positivity [...]
Sakuraba Opens New Gym in Tokyo, Japan
I don’t read Japanese, so you may need an interpreter to read the page.
Sakuraba is definitely one of the greats of all time when it comes to MMA, NHB or whatever you want to call it. He has fought everyone and usually they were bigger than him and he still came out victorious.
Here is [...]
Jason Chambers Seminar – April 26th – 10th Planet JJ Phoenix
“10th Planet JJ Phoenix is pleased to announce that there will be a 3hr. Jason Chambers 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu seminar.
When: Saturday April 26th, from : 12pm- 3pm.
The cost of the seminar is: $60.00.
What: The seminar will cover no-gi submission grappling with an MMA portion as well.
Who: Jason Chambers is well known as the host of [...]
Randy Couture Camp – May 2-4 at Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas
“We are holding our next camp at our Vegas gym May 2-4. For $500 you get 8 hours of training. Randy, Mike Pyle and Jay Hieron will be instructing at the camp. It is limited to the first 40 people who sign up. Randy likes to keep the camps small so that everyone gets individual [...]
Get in Fight Shape Contest with InsideFighting and Burn with Kearns
Each Monday for the next four weeks InsideFighting will present a new piece of great instructional content from Kevin Kearns. Kevin has been a strength and conditioning coach as well as a corporate wellness consultant for over 20 years and is the strength and conditioning coach for UFC fighters Kenny Florian, Stephan Bonnar, and WEC [...]
Dan Henderson’s 100-Rep Routine
from MMA.tv:
Biceps curls in a squat rack – 100 reps
Triceps kick back – 100 reps
Cable crossovers – 100 reps
Leg extentions – 100 reps
Gum chew – 100 reps
Big John McCarthy’s MMAReferee.com Certification
Big John McCarthy has been around since the very first UFCs and has been instrumental in keeping the sport safe and developing the guidelines to keep it safe.
A new website has been set up by Big John McCarthy to give information for those seeking to become a mixed martial arts referee. The website is www.mmareferee.com [...]
Guillotine Choke Counters/Escape
Videos for Guillotine Choke Counter/Escapes
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=guillotine+choke+counter
Pic from MMAWeekly.com
Monkey Bar Gym Videos
I came across this website on MMA.tv ’s strength & conditioning forum. Essentially Monkey Bar Gym is in Madison, Wisconsin, and they have a very thorough fitness program designed for martial artists and combat athletes. Their video section is quite extensive with different bodyweight exercises or exercises with limited equipment. I have always been a [...]
Bring It ! Training Shirt for Wrestlers
This is from the
Cliff Keen website:
Cliff Keen is proud to introduce the new “Bring it” Training Technique T-shirt. Visually see inside hand position, single leg head position, blast double face target, turn the corner dr street signs and front headlock shoulder bulls eyes.
Match your Chest Pressure X with your drill partner’s Back Pressure X for [...]
Staph and MRSA can be avoided with good hygiene
Staph and MRSA (CA-MRSA= community associated MRSA) are two names that you should know if you are wrestler, grappler, jiujitsu practioner or judoka… basically if you are rolling around with other people or coming in skin-to-skin contact.. you want to be wary of Staph.
From the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases:
MRSA
Also called: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus [...]
Famous Quotes to Motivate
“Conditioning is the greatest hold.” -Karl Gotch
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great [...]
Strikeforce “Four Men Enter, One Man Survives” in San Jose, Nov 16th
This is pretty cool.. Strikforce somehow got authorization to bring back the tournament style match-up.. much like the old UFCs and Pride format. This is an interesting turn of events.
Check out StrikforceUSA.net
From Strikeforce:
October 18, 2007
By Michael Afromowitz (muaythaimes@aol.com)
Mixed martial arts star Falaniko “Niko” Vitale (24-7) and has been the first combatant selected to throw down [...]
New Season Ultimate Fighter: Mac Danzig
Last week was the season premiere of The Ultimate Fighter show.. this time the coaches are Matt Hughes and Matt Serra who will be fighting at the end of the season sometime in December.
One of the fighters who I have always heard about but didn’t know much about, Mac Danzig, is in the latest season [...]
Couture vs Gonzaga – this weekend @ UFC 74
I probably won’t get to see it live.. but will probably stay up late to see if I can find somewhere on the ‘nets.
Here are my picks that I set up on MMAPredictions.com :
UFC 74 Picks. After the weigh in.
Randy Couture vs Gabriel Gonzaga: Gabriel Gonzaga
Roger Huerta vs Alberto Crane: Alberto Crane
Josh Koscheck vs GSP: [...]
VERSUS Channel and MMA
For the longest time, it was always hard to find MMA anywhere unless you had a satellite dish or cable and it would only be the UFC every couple of months or Pride Fighting. Flash forward to a few years ago with the inception of The Ultimate Fighter Show, now you can watch MMA [...]
Human Weapon on the History Channel
Human Weapon on the History Channel is a very good show. Check your local listings. It stars MMA fighter Jason Chambers and former pro football player/wrestler Bill Duff. They travel around the world and learn different styles of martial arts and at the end of the episode, they take what they have [...]