Anyone know a guide to physical conditioning?

[spesmilitis]

I read this in another thread:

"Big difference between being in cardio shape and being in good physical conditioning for a rough sport like MMA. Olympic marathon runners are in phenominal cardio shape, they'd run any MMA guy into the ground. But if started MMA (or rugby, or wrestling etc) they'd get a lot of injuries because their bones, tendons, ligaments, and muscles weren't strong enough to take the stresses involved. In fact, the major reason professional sports (NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB etc) have their athletes do weights is not to gain strength (most of those guys are already as strong as they need to be for their sport), but to prevent injuries ... the body responds to stress by strengthening the structural fibres.

BJ takes time off from training, and the body responds by reducing the strength of structural fibres/bones, basically canabilizing itself (ie in evolutionary terms, why put a lot of resources into keeping up fibres that aren't being used ... back when getting enough to eat was a daily struggle, it made sense). Its why you get weaker when you stop training, and it's not just muscles, its all the connective tissues, bone density etc. You can find a fair amount about this in physiological text books, it's pretty basic stuff."

http://www.sherdog.net/forums/showthread.php?t=592743


I am very interested in this since I an injury prone. Does anyone have a manual on this?

 

[stronglifts]

I read this in another thread:

"Big difference between being in cardio shape and being in good physical conditioning for a rough sport like MMA. Olympic marathon runners are in phenominal cardio shape, they'd run any MMA guy into the ground. But if started MMA (or rugby, or wrestling etc) they'd get a lot of injuries because their bones, tendons, ligaments, and muscles weren't strong enough to take the stresses involved. In fact, the major reason professional sports (NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB etc) have their athletes do weights is not to gain strength (most of those guys are already as strong as they need to be for their sport), but to prevent injuries ... the body responds to stress by strengthening the structural fibres.

BJ takes time off from training, and the body responds by reducing the strength of structural fibres/bones, basically canabilizing itself (ie in evolutionary terms, why put a lot of resources into keeping up fibres that aren't being used ... back when getting enough to eat was a daily struggle, it made sense). Its why you get weaker when you stop training, and it's not just muscles, its all the connective tissues, bone density etc. You can find a fair amount about this in physiological text books, it's pretty basic stuff."

http://www.sherdog.net/forums/showthread.php?t=592743


I am very interested in this since I an injury prone. Does anyone have a manual on this?

If you want strength-endurance try this:
-Take a full body exercise (like the clean & press)
-Perform as much triples as you can within a fixed amount of time

You can start with 15mins, doing as much triples as possible with 50% of your max. Increase the intensity every workout slightly (add weight, slight increment) & try to beat the previous amount of sets. Your first goal should be 15 sets (1 set every minute). Strive to keep the amount of sets above 15 while increasing the weight.

 

[Kerpal]

I suggest these books: http://www.rosstraining.com/products.html

I have Infinite Intensity and a friend of mine has Never Gymless, they're both great, after a few months of applying the concepts in the books we've both noticed huge increases in conditioning levels. I believe the GPP workouts in there are what will help in injury prevention.