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Top 5 Medicine Ball Drills For MMA Fitness

February 6, 2018
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Did you know you can develop tremendous explosive power and athleticism with medicine ball drills?
Do you tend to get lost in terms of having a game plan when it comes to strength training with different implements (such as medicine ball drills) aside from free weights?
Are you looking for a simple training implement to give your workouts a serious upgrade without the high cost of free weights?
Are you looking to add more speed and power to your punches and kicks for MMA and Combat?
Are you interested in learning how to move quicker and how to develop greater body control, hand eye coordination, and reaction time with medicine ball drills?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions then you’re going to find this article with these medicine ball drills incredibly valuable. In fact, I will guarantee you will completely transform the way you move and feel about your fitness and strength program after applying what’s here in this article to your current training game.

3 Top HIIT Workouts For MMA Fitness

January 23, 2018
Brandon
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Do you feel that your fitness level and conditioning have hit a plateau?
Do you feel like you’re not improving with your MMA and Combat skills as fast as you should?
Aside from being functional for fitness, MMA, and Combat are you also frustrated that you aren’t leaning out and developing a lean body composition from your training?
Are you familiar with HIIT workouts?

If you answered YES to any of the above questions then this article (particularly with question 4 relating to HIIT Workouts) then this should be of great help to you. So everybody is hung up on the high intensity programs these days and as a strength coach I’ve always had a love–hate relationship with this because I think some training fads tend to get blown out of proportion. I think this is because with the tremendous influx of information due to the internet it often seems like people tend to offer solutions to training by painting with a broad brush, or by defaulting to metaphorically trying to use a hammer for both nails and screws.