Fighters Running Schedule

Millionaire

Hi Folks

I want to get an idea of the different running schedule some of you would do when preparing for a fight, be it FC Kickboxing, MMA, Thai etc.

Ideas like..how many days a week. How much running and sprints. How long spend running etc etc.

I used to run about 3 miles each morning, and do some sprints. but I am not really good at sprinting. Just want to get an idea of maybe more effective ways of training.

Thanks

columok

If you want to get ready for a fight (assuming we're talking purely combat fitness) then the best exercise is sport specific. High intensity cardio vascular exercise will have the best effect on you.

Regular jogging makes you better at jogging rather than having a significant effect on combat fitness for the time you have to put into it!

High intensity cardio can be done in a small period of time and while incredibly tough is a lot less time consuming!

paddyc

3x8 miles
1x15 miles
1 day of 2 mins runs
1 day of sprints
1 rest

thats when i got a fight coming up


if i havent got a fight i do 7 days of nothing

columok

Paddy,

is that for dropping weight?

Millionaire

I better get me running shoes on Paddy!

I though I was Rocky the day I did 5 mile...but 15 miles! Pub next right!!!

cavedave

Running long distances doesn't do much for your V02 Max
http://www.serpentine.org.uk/advice/coach/fh55.php
If you want to get fit in terms of being able to expend a large amount of aerobic energy 10 second sprints then 20 second rest are a better way to go.
20 second sprints with a 10 second break for four minutes are even better but very dificult to do.
http://www.cbass.com/FATBURN.HTM

ColumOk and particularly Paddyc know a hell of a lot more about fighting then I ever will so there may be some fight specific reason why they recommend long distance runs.
David

Colm_OReilly

Never thought I'd see this on a message board

ColumOk ... know a hell of a lot ... about fighting

LOL!

I like jogging, I just like it. However for Fight Specific Cardio there's a lot better ways to build up your stamina.

1 day of 2 mins runs
1 day of sprints

How many 2 min runs, how many sprints? Do you also do your round runs, i.e. run all out for the length of your round, take a break for the length of the break, then try to beat the previous distance. These are a killer IMO, and I should do more of 'em.

Peace Out,
Colm

Clive

Depends what you're training for.

Striking generally has a larger number of shorter rounds than MMA or wrasslin' and the activity is often not as quick to switch from aerobic to anearobic.

Trying to wrassle some punter to the ground will mean you need anaerobic fitness nearly immediately and for most of a five or ten minute round, whereas in striking you need it later, hence the difference in aerobic (distance) vs anaerobic (sprints) training.

But I still stand by my new competition format:

You fight for 2 minutes, the next fight goes in for 2 minutes, you go back in etc. until the fight is over.

Then we can do away with all this fitness lark.

paddyc

basically

sprints - explosion

2 or 3 mins runs - thats what i fight in ring, but i have a special way to run these i aint every trying to beat my last time or anything like that.

8 miles - slow and in sauna suit and track suit - burns fat and stamina

15 miles - cos during this time i think about the fight and the fighter and get prepared in my head and i like the long lonely runs. It also builds **** loads of stamina..

I tended to do more stanima running as pads every days had the explosvie stuff sorted....

How can 50 million Thais and cubans be wrong


paddy