Online MMA Training

In addition to running this blog I do also write short articles for various other online publications. Recently I have written quite a lot of stuff for a site called hubpages, and I though rather than re-writing stuff for here I would just add a couple of links to articles which visitors to this site may be interested in, so here they are: Martial Arts Speed and Agility Training and Strength Training for Martial Arts

Just a follow on from my earlier post about speed training and improving your reactions really. You might like to check out this post on the Street-Fighting-Techniques.info blog which describes a way to increase your reaction speed

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.