Training and specficity in styles

Posted on 05. Feb, 2010 by Tommy Blom in Blog

About 7 weeks out from the fight now and i have started to focus my training towards it a bit more. The physical training will consist of… that’s it… kettlebells. I’ll also add some more sport specific training into the physical sessions to get even more fight oriented.

The more I think of it the bigger the gap between Krav Maga and MMA becomes, training MMA is such a specific training with all the focus on the fight at hand – you can almost call it a vertical system with a speciality that is Cage fighting. Krav Maga on the other hand is a horizontal system where one has to prepare for everything instead of one specific goal, unarmed fighting, knifes, sticks, verbal abuse, ground techniques (quite different from MMA), tactical thinking for regular life, multiple opponents… I guess that the difference fascinate me and that is what makes it so fun for me to train MMA and prepare for the fight, I get to specify for that event and focus my training on fighting in the cage, which for me is a completely different mindset… I love it!!!

Todays physical session consisted of
• Kettlebells snatches
• Long cycle (clean & Jerk)
• Single leg dead lifts

The whole session felt great and I feel like it’s a great start of the last 7 weeks before the fight.

At 5 pm I’ll be at Gladius MMA to train with the Pro Group there and get some sport specific training done… will be great do get on the mat and train.That session will be 2 hours and after that I’ll spend some time with FMS corrective moves and The Stick to loosen up the muscles.

I’ve also started to participate in the sessions when I coach the Fighters of Team Tenacity at Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, every week will look a bit different in training, depending on time, work, and everything in life…

Time to pack the bag and head to the gym soon.

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