Posts Tagged ‘power’

In-Season Conditioning Circuits

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

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Here is footage from a few different conditioning days for Mike who is in-season right now.  He is getting ready for sectionals.What you’ll see in this video are movements that target:

Grip Strength
Shoulder Mobility
Leg Strength
Shoulder Strength and Strength Mobility
Rhomboid/Trap Activation
Knee Strength / Stability
Ankle Mobility
Power, Strength and Muscular Endurance
Rotational Core Strength

Circuit Progressions (not done on the same day)
Here are some examples of some in-season conditioning circuits for muscular, strength and power endurance.

First Circuit: (not shown)
Power Rope Double Slams, Alternating, Throws, Zig-Zags
DB Swings
Repeat 3x

Second Circuit: (not shown)
Pull-ups
Band Pull Aparts

Third Circuit:
Landmines
Band Pull Aparts
One-Leg Squats

Fourth Circuit:
KB Clean / Squat / Press
Mace
Knee Ups

Fifth Circuit:
Rope Climbs
Hindu Push-ups

Sixth Circuit:
Prowler Challenge (last run)


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Heavy Squat Day

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

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Here is footage of Brad and Eli squatting.

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New Training Video – Strong, Healthy Knees

Monday, February 9th, 2009

Here is a video of some unique step-up squat variations.

VERSIONS
1. Standard – Straight down with back leg, focusing on driving through lead leg
2. Extended Back Leg – Creating more of a hip dominant movements, increasing hip strength mobility
3. Extended Back Leg onto FOAM - Creating more of a hip dominant movements, increasing hip strength mobility, forcing all the focus on the lead leg, negating driving off back foot

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Quick Kettlebell / Bodyweight Workout – Part II

Saturday, February 7th, 2009

Benefits of Bodyweight Movements:

More efficient movements, greater stability (in frontal, sagittal and transverse planes), laying the foundation for externally loaded movements, portable, more fluidity, large variety, improved mobility and much more.

Benefits of Kettlebell Training:

Great variety of large ROM movements, portable, increased dynamic support grip strength endurance, odd-object adaptations, development of torso rigidity and hip explosiveness and much more.

When you combine these two training protocols, you get a great workout, requiring minimal equipment, that can be done quickly with a lot of different combinations.

WORKOUT

Warm-up

- Dynamic Warm-up- 3 minutes

- Foam Roller – 3 minutes

- Light Worksets 3 minutes

Workout

1A) KB Clean & Press, 3×8

1B) Pull-ups (various hand holds), 3×10

2A) KB Swings, 2×20

2B) Two Legged Bounds, 2×10

3A) Pike Up Military Press (feet on bench, hips piked up, perform military press), 3×8

3B) Alternating KB Rows, 3×8

4) Push-ups – AMAP (As Many As Possible)

Restoration

- Static Stretches

- Lots of Water

- Protein, Waxy Maize, Creatine Shake

Post your times for the workout!

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New Article in Men’s Fitness

Monday, January 26th, 2009

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Check out my new article in Men’s Fitness.  The original article was titled How to Increase Punching Power for MMA Athletes, but it has been restructured to:

Get a Fighter’s Physique

Throw serious punches to build muscle and burn fat

Get yourself a copy of the magazine for this month, or check it out online.  The article comes with a pretty extensive workout program.  In the magazine, I have a couple other small blurbs too!

Men’s Fitness Article HERE