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Blog 8
02 Mar 2010 3:01PM
Trainings picked up level this week as its now under 5 weeks until Bushido Challenge.
5 weeks out to 2 weeks out is generally the time when I get the most amount of work done in the gym, this means I can start slowing down and working on more specific stuff for the last few weeks. The purpose of this is 2 fold, First by the time I get to 2 weeks out from a fight my diet is really strict so I'm not putting a lot of calories into my body, so sessions requiring high energy are generally dropped to every two days with more skill based sessions in-between. This also allows me to concentrate on getting sharp and getting my timing down with some conditioned sparring drills. Secondly this also ensures I don't get injured in the last two weeks.
The number of guys who get injured in the last two weeks or more commonly the week of the fight is frightening. I'm aware accidents will always happen but training at an intensity or training in a way which could result in injury as a fight gets near is very unprofessional in my opinion. In almost 13 years of competing in full contact martial arts I've never had to pull out of a fight. I've been on the other end of the coin a few times, having guys pull out the week before, the day before and even on the day and it sucks.
Training is now in full swing for me, 6 days a week with 2 sessions on 3 of the days and 3 sessions on the other 3. Structure is easy I train skill stuff separate from conditioning and concentrate on covering stand up, wrestling and bjj. A lot of emphasis is on sparring now for the next three weeks also I'll be sparring around 50 rounds a week (various ranges and full mma).
Conditioning wise I've finished with the strength programme I was on and I've switched on to a force development programme. Speed lifts combined with plyometrics mostly in the gym and some wrestling drills with pad work to keep everything sport specific. Out side of sparring training for force development is my favourite way to train.
I'm starting to look for a fight now for after Bushido Challenge, ideally in late April or May, just now nothing is certain but a bunch of promoters have been in touch, hopefully they can sort me out with something.
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