Speed and Reaction Training
by Kephri Ra on Mar.06, 2009, under Conditioning
Speed, both of actual physical movements and perhaps more importantly of reactions, is easily as important as strength in an MMA fight; probably even more so because weight categories ensure at least a degree of parity between the strength of two fighters, but don’t necessarily effect speed as much.
Despite this fact speed training often doesn’t have a high priority in many people’s training programme, maybe because its not so obvious how to train it, and some fighters (and trainers!) just lack the imagination to come up with effective exercises.
With this in mind here is a nice little video demonstrating some speed training exercises, all based around a similar method, that are specifically designed for mixed martial arts fighters.
