Programing Your Workouts
Some people program the workouts to the T. Some people from the program, their workouts by body parts. Some stick with one type of workout only, like a runner might only run, a swimmer might only swim, or a bicyclist might just irritate lists with their , arrogant, entitled, selfish "share the road mentality", sorry about that last part kind of a rant. Anyway, the programming of workouts can be very good for many people who have specific goals.
A person who solely runs, pun intended, and put in say 50+ miles a week, and spends no time on any other exercise, will probably not do well if someone grabs them and proceeds to pound their face. A swimmer, who only swims for his workouts, will not do very well if somebody punches them in the face and then continues to box, them unconscious. And on the other side of that, if someone just works out using weights, only thinking of building their bodyweight with no concern about any other part of their anatomy and physiology, they probably wouldn't do well. The fight lasted more than two minutes. Don't get me wrong, if you choose to only do one exercise, or focus on one body part or skill as your entire workout, you'll still do much better in a street attack than someone who doesn't work on anything ever. On the other side of that, though is, if you do only one thing and practice only one thing in your workouts, you will not do as well if attacked by someone who has a variety of skills and has multiple energy pathways well-trained.
Programming Your Workouts
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Why are you training? If you're reading this, you probably some sort of martial artist, so I will assume that most of you, Train, with the goal of being able to protect yourself and your family, that kind of goes without saying. As martial artist, I don't think you should focus as much on individual things, or even really programming things to the T, what I mean is you don't have to be very precise, because a fight isn't. Some martial artist wanna only focus on training, heavy weight workouts, what if the fight relies on speed some martial artist supplement their training with long jogs, what if the fight is short and explosive. Some martial artist think the end all of cardio training is HIIT high intensity, interval training, What if the fight ends up going longer than you thought it would and you actually needed some aerobic conditioning instead of focusing solely on anaerobic conditioning. A fight is up and down, back-and-forth, side to side, fast and slow, and the thing about it is there's absolutely, no predicting which way it will go or even when it will go that way. Since we are training with the angle being being able to protect yourself in your family in a street attack. I know everybody has many reasons, Train, including fitness and health and feeling good and looking good and being more productive, the list can go on, but with all those side benefits as martial artist, your number one goal for your training is to protect yourself and your family if attacked in the street. that's it, that's the main goal, so shouldn't you Train, like it.
With that said, like most sports or activities. The athlete trains to become better at their sport or activity. For instance, if you have a world class, marathon runner, he's training to be better at that marathon, so he's probably not gonna spend hours a week doing heavy deadlifts. Has martial artist we should train for the fight, since that is our main goal in training. And when training for a fight, unless you know who your opponent is like we do when one of our fighters is fighting in the UFC, you don't know who or when You are really training for. Unlike a UFC fight, you don't get a 12 week training camp specifically for your street attack situation. It's going to happen when you least expect it, by someone who has all the physical attributes and skills that you had no idea about so you did not train for this person specifically. And the fight could be an all out sprint for 10 seconds and then it's over, or it might be a quick sprint with a minute or so of break in the action, to another quick sprint, the point is you'll never know how the fight is gonna go, so how do you train for this? One of the first things I would recommend is don't be too strict by following a specific order of techniques, drills, or exercises. A fight is always chaotic, so your training should be as well. Sometimes you should sprint, sometimes you should jog, sometimes you should be punching, sometimes you should be kicking, sometimes you should be doing takedowns, sometimes you should be doing takedown defense. You shouldn't focus on one thing, you shouldn't even practice for one skill. Most people jog and then they save their sprint for the end, what if the fight starts off a sprint and then turns into a jog and then another sprint at the end, but it ends with a jog. What about if the fight is grappling, what if it's all striking, what if it's a combination of two. My point is not only have to combine the techniques to train in a chaotic presentation, but you should always train your fitness, and that includes cardio and strength, and power work. But you should always be mixing that up as well because as martial artist, we're always training for the fight, so let's be realistic.
Well, since this is 2024, and we have multiple evolutions in our training, and methodology both in the technical end of martial arts, with the introduction of the UFC, and now the fact that martial artist have finally realized that their style isn't better, but it is better to have all styles. That's probably the number ones eye-opener for martial artist in the past 100+ years. However, besides just the evolution of martial arts in its martial techniques, there's also been multiple and huge leaps in our fitness, cardio, endurance, strength and conditioning part of our martial arts training as well. in other words it's not just the grappling, Jiu-Jitsu, and striking portions of martial arts that's made multiple evolutions and changes in the past 30 years, there has also been huge leaps and bounds in our fitness portion of our martial art. I think most of those improvements are evolutions have been more on the cardio side of our training more than the strength part.
If you look at the strength part of our training, it hasn't really evolved much in the past 30 years. Most of the weightlifting and even bodyweight strength exercises are pretty much what they were in 1990. However, if you look at the cardio side of your fitness training, it has changed immensely since 1990. Everything from VO2 Max, zone two, high intensity, and interval training. I think a huge part of that change, both reasons and the actual methodology, and how it changed was brought on a large part because of Crossfit. That's a whole different blog. I'll be doing that one soon. Thanks for coming, guys and with all the technicalities different techniques, and even philosophies of training, please just remember the most important one go Train…
