Is Training MMA 3 Hours a Day 6 Days a Week Too Much?
I’m on a monthly direct debit at my gym I get unlimited classes in BJJ muay thai, boxng and greco roman wrestling so I just try to make the most of it so I don’t waste my money lol,sometimes I just come in outside of normal class times and hit the bags and life weights
good advice areawide I didn’t thumbs down some other bored wanker did
That depends on a lot of variables.
How old you are.
Athletic background.
What other physical training you are doing.
Your ability to adapt to training load.
Injuries.
Rest.
Diet.
At the end of the day if you want to be top class that is a minimal amount of training, but with some serious caveats.
If you are not used to that level of training and are feeling all hot and raring to go, then be really careful because the one thing training plans like this don’t take into account is adversity: small injuries, personal issues at home, work issues that need to be dealt with and so on.
So ease into it and build up to more demanding training over time.
If you have time to develop the habit of always attending at set hours outside of the classes, go and stretch. Everyone underestimates the importance of stretching but it is equally as important as strength and technique training, because it helps prevent injury and also improves your technique, strength, speed and endurance. Wider range of motion = better efficiency.
Rest and diet is really important too so if you increase your training hours with hard training you have to also increase your quality rest and improve your diet. They are like a triangular stool base: diet, rest and training. If one fails, the whole thing falls down.
Training that much is NOT too much, provided your body and mind are capable of handling it. But build up to it for the first month.
Remember that Randy is a Greco-Roman base too, so I don’t know how many classes of each of those you can attend, but the Greco-Roman will explode the quality of your takedowns way beyond BJJ will.
So why not start with 1 muay-thai class, 2 BJJ and 1 G-Roman. And in your free time come in and stretch for an hour or two. Then increase the volume of classes by one a week or even one every 2 weeks as your body gets used to it.
Take in advice well, but remember that you are you and so you have to tailor all advice to suit your body/mind/personality/tolerances.
Where’s the gym? Wouldn’t mind joining myself if it offers that much!
Good luck mate.
If you are conditioning six days a week, that is not too much. If you are also lifting, and using weight related exercises, that may be too much. When lifting, it should only be every other day. But running,stretching, and the like, are all acceptable as daily exercises
No, it’s not too much. You know it’s all up to you to tell if it’s too much.
If you feel like you can take that, then it’s obviously not too much.
Everybody is different, so always listen to yourself and only to yourself, because a weak individual might tell you that it’s too much because he couldn’t even take one class.
taping into expert info and applying it is the path to becoming worlds
best. You are speaking about speed, strength, skill, wisdom, intellect
and overall muscle memory.
Your goal is what will help solve your own question. If you want to
be world champ no 6 days isn’t enough… EVERYDAY… and training
with best of everything… kick boxing, bbj, wrestling, all of it…. etc…
as well I would train for some train your wind to the level of a marathon
runner and do some navy seals springs etc.. to build up some tolerance if you goal is worlds best…
if it’s just about saving money why ask…. Now if you watch brock
lesnars training video there is allot to be said about being flexible and
diffrent ways of building speed and strength. If I were you for my
health and to win I WOULD learn and become expert in 36 blocks,
all wrestling even go to train with the best, bbj, boxing.. I would leave
no stone unturned cause more than pride and money you could get
messed up if you get in the ring with the wrong monster… and I am
speaking about head injuries things that never go back to normal.
Not too much. From what i can recall, that’s about how much Rampage trains when he has a fight scheduled.
"train your wind to the level of a marathon runner"
Actually, although you will want to develop your aerobic system, that is a bit over an overstatement. Develop your anaerobic energy systems.
no its not. if you want to be a professional or want to be really good i would recommend training even more.
i think its normal if you have the strength to take it. as bruce lee said, overtrained is better than undertrained. just make sure you do a lot of stretching after training. if possible, i would advice you to do 5 days a week because end of the day, we all human, our muscles need rest. i used to go to gym 5 times a week, 3 taekwondo lessons a week and 3 hours sparring with my friends. my body was aching and start losing motivation on training, now im still struggling to get myself train as hard as before. so try it to see if you can do it, if you really can then GO FOR IT!
Nope, not too much if you’re training smart and taking it easy when your body tells you to. I envy you though if you have that kind of time to train.
well listen to your body
if you fell to much pain in the mornigs, if you always feel tired, when you get injured takes too much to recover, if you feel bored with training
If you had any of these symptoms well you are maybe overtraining
well you will get really good quick but the problem is right now its all good but eventually your gonna start having pains in your joints after training that much. im only 17 and been training since i was little and not training lightly either. and now i have lower back and knee pains so be careful cause you dont want that