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Blog 10
16 Mar 2010 12:03PM
Training has been much the same as last week, horrible. I hammered it Monday to Friday and decided to take the weekend off to rest up and keep my sanity. I'm all for keeping to a training programme and making sure you do the work that needs to be done but some times you really need to listen to your body and rest up to get the most from sessions.
In the past ive been bad for over training, mostly because of two reasons, 1. I love training there is practically nothing id rather do than train, 2. I'm a boring anti-social fucker, I don't drink or go out, I hate socialising with 'normal' people so I've really not got much else to do but train, which makes being a professional athlete (I use the term loosely) much easier.
Over training is really not understood by most fighters and coaches in my opinion, and in my experience, its a bad thing, I've seen great guys with fantastic work ethic burn themselves out and suffer when it matters most, I've been there myself so I understand what it could do to a fighter. It would be easy for me to over train for my next fight, its on a big show, its against a good European ranked fighter, its a good fight for me at this point in my career, I'm thinking about that fight 24/7 so taking the weekend off was more following my head and not my heart. But it will make me better on the night.
Outside of training I've been watching my opponents fights on youtube again, trying to see if I've missed something before, looking for gaps and stuff to exploit, the coaches I work with do this also and give me their views which helps. The video analysis thing is something I'm not too sure about, on one hand I can see it makes sense getting an idea what to expect from an opponent and where their strengths and weakness's but no two fights are really the same, and more than not the fighter your watching isnt like the one you will end up in a cage or ring with out side of one or two things they do. Another thing it can do is make you give people either too much or too little respect, both are bad. I'm pretty carefull with what stuff of me end up on youtube and such, most of the videos I'm involved in show me hitting pads or ending fights with strikes on the feet, anyone clever enough to research me for a fight is going to see I like to stand up and strike, obviously I'm from a striking back ground, what you dont see is the grappling competitions I've entered, the amout of time I train BJJ or anything suggesting I might actually be not to bad on the ground. Looking at my MMA record in 13 pro wins 6 has been due to submission, not to mention another 3 in semi pro fights. What im trying to spit out is, if your studying future opponents fights online, dont take it for granted thats what your going to get from him.
Now check this out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S4uHMW3Zrc
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