I’m wondering what your recommendation is for someone who trains MMA, has trained with weights previously (i.e. non novice who’s run multiple of your templates before) and wants the benefit of injury risk reduction that resistance training confers?
I have a number of the legacy and new templates, and have seen the sample programming that Derek Miles gives in Strength Training for the Endurance Athlete Part 3, but honestly don’t know which template I “should” be doing?
This is one of those individualized recommendations that requires more information. What are you doing now for training? How much training time do you have? How much MMA training are you doing per week?
For most recreational MMA athletes, I probably wouldn’t choose a specific template for MMA. If you’re competing multiple times per year, that changes the calculus.
Off the cuff, I’d probably pick the Endurance or one of the Titan templates and plug in the MMA for the GPP work.
Thanks Jordan! & sorry for the insufficient detail: I had initially been doing just days 1 & 3 of the Powerbuilding 1 template, but haven’t done any real strength & conditioning work for about 5 weeks or so now. I’m working my way up to going to MMA 4 days a week (planning on going Monday through Thursday) for 2 hours a night, and about 1 hour of the 2 usually tends to be pretty intense. I can also go on the weekends, I just haven’t been yet.
I typically have about 2 hours each weeknight for training, and then have loads of free time for training on the weekends. I’d been thinking about doing something like Derek Miles’ sample programming on Fridays and Sundays, but given your recommendation above, am thinking that might not be ideal?
Unfortunately, I’m not sure I would recommend any of our templates if you’re going to roll 8+hrs a week and are previously not well adapted to that.
If it were me, I would do one of the templates I mentioned above and start out at 2x/wk MMA. Every 6-8 weeks, I’d add an extra day of MMA training. You have plenty of time
I also do MMA, I take it seriously and it is my primary goal. I do it 6-8 hours a week (4 of which are intense cardio). Right now I’ve been doing the general S&C template, with the gpp steady state cardio being one of the MMA sessions.
I’m curious to find out why you’re recommending the endurance and titan template, particularly the titan template? Could you explain further? Isn’t that meant to be specifically for CrossFit people only?
I think the conditioning and high velocity strength demands for a competitive MMA athlete are important and those two templates incorporate more of those elements than the General S/C template.
