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Hey everyone,

 I just was watching the UFC 100 fights the other night and it really sparked my interest to write this post.

I wanna talk MMA style circuit training.  It seems to be the next “big” craze, well I tell you this – we’ve been training this way forever!  Its nothing that was just invented but now its more in the limelight.  Thats good though!

 Now, you see Crossfit gyms going in everywhere and more and more MMA style gyms popping up as well.  That’s good, we need more gyms like these.

The Forged Athlete is similar to some of these gyms but totally different in many ways.  Instead of focusing on just getting “good” at everything across the board like Crossfit does, we take a more specific angle at what we want to do. We actually have structure to our workout programs.  This is another post all together, but I just wanted to hit on the fact that we are in no way Crossfit.    YOU MUST EARN your way into The Forged Athlete, not anyone can walk up off the street and in 3 sessions be apart of our organization – enough said on that.

So, looking more into in the case at hand, if you’re an MMA fighter, you’ll want to focus on strength endurance and work capacity.  Your max strength doesn’t mean sh*t in the ring, so there’s really no reason you need to be focusing as much on your max strength abilities. 

Its sad when I run into athletes that are involved in combat sports and all they want to do in the beginning is put more weight on the bar.   Shit, you need to be able to last at least a couple rounds before anything else!  Get endurance! 

I think since the recent craze over UFC and its growing popularity, the training that these fighters go through has moved into the spotlight.

MMA type of training focuses on work capacity and strength endurance.  Again, if you have been reading along with older post (and I hope you have been) you will know that if you are strong but lack endurance, you will not be in a good position to win.  Its just like if a guy is very strong, but lacks speed and quickness – his strength don’t mean jack crap!

To become a good fighter one must focus on building his endurance through high intense strength based circuits.  That’s exactly what I did today, and it kicked my butt!

In part 1 of my MMA strength circuit I performed this glorious circuit:

A1) Sandbag Shouldering x 70# sandbag

A2) Sandbag Zercher Drop Lunges x 70# sandbag

A3) Explosive Off set push ups

A4)  Reclined Rows  (the chains worked the hell outta my grip!!!  Love it!

A5)  Sandbag Get Ups

I went through one round going 40 sec of work followed by 20 sec rest.    It felt great!  Today was my off day so I kept it to one round.  On an average day, I would’ve had to go through anywhere from 4-5 rounds total.  That gets BRUTAL!

Stay Tuned for part 2 with the other strength circuit I did this day.

That one was an even bigger dousie! 

Stay Forged Strong!

MMA Circuit Round 1

4^th of July blast off

Check this one out guys!

I went home to the big wonderful Wyo over the 4^th and had myself a workout. It would be good to know how many dudes also worked out over the 4^th.

Yes I was on vacation, but man the workout was defiantly something I needed. I put together a few exercises out on my ranch for ya. It just goes to show how creative you can be and still get your butt kicked. In the vid you’ll see me put together a push press exercise for 5 reps and carry.

My upper back and arms were on fire. I also mixed in some push ups and band extensions for reps. I was also able to get my hands on a metal pipe I found and rock out some snatches for reps.

Have fun watching the vid and let me know what you guys think. Stay forged strong.

 

 

 

Blast off workout

 

1a) Stone push press 5×5 Added stone carry for distance

1b) pull aparts 5×25

 

2a) Pipe snatches 5×5

2b) band face pulls 5×15

 

3a) close handed pushups

3b) band tricep push downs

 Finished with a heavy stone roll in sand (burn!)

Check to video highlights – Strength Trip In Wyo

Hey Yo,

We just had a heck of a day out at the park!

We had our 1^st bodyweight strength training seminar for some of our athletes.

We had some kids come out and show us what they got in their tanks. 

A few of em happened to get “the baseline flu” which is to be expected.  Nothing wrong with that at all.  It happens to the best of us!  What makes these guys strong is I know they will stick with it!

Training with The Forged Athlete isn’t the easiest while it’s not your typical style training.

It’s totally different from what a lot of young athletes are used to.

Most athletes are used to slow paced, low intensity, non sport specific type training.  Types of training that will NOT help them to become a better overall athlete or stronger individual in general.

Our training is different.   It’s fast paced and highly intense.  The biggest factor of it all is it gets  YOU RESULTS!

Go ahead and watch the video of some of these guys going through some of the different exercises and drills.  See how they did!

Forged Bodyweight Training

Just a heads up ==è WE will be having another FR.EE bodyweight strength training seminar Saturday July 18^th at 9:00am!  Let us know if YOU are interested! 

Contact US at theforgedathlete@gmail.com

Hey yo,

It time for part 2 of the 15 min workout!

See how many rounds I popped off!  It was not an easy workout!

Before we get more into the video, this last week of event has just triggered some emothions in me.  Here’s a quick rant:

Keep going hard out there!  Set goals and crush em!

Don’t let negative things and negative people bring you down! 

If you aren’t setting goals your doing nothing else than setting up to fail!

Prove people that say “YOU CAN’T” wrong - F those people!!!

There’s some BIG things coming to the Forged Athlete!

So stay tuned and keep your eyes wide open!

Also, look out for Joe’s video on his latest trip to the Wyo!  He had a good workout himself!

Here’s the 15 workout again:

Check it:

1 15 min round of:

1A)115# sandbag cleans x 5
1B) Bbodyweight pull up x 5
1C) 50 yard sprint x 1
jog back and repeat as many times as possible!

The last 6 mins or so was what really worked my conditioning big time!

Check out the video HERE below!

15 min workout part 2

Stay Forged Strong

What up all,

I just finished a hellish workout!

My bro Joe was out of town on vaca visiting the fam (got some good footage of this coming soon ) so I did a quick, fast to the point workout.

It was 15 straight mins of work, but I survived. I made the stop watch be the one to push me. Sometimes, if you workout on your own, you don’t get pushed like you do with a partner. In this case, I used time as a motivater.

I wanted to work my power endurace. This is great for athletes that participate in sports such as wrestling, mma, football, boxing, soccer, and short to mid sprinting athletes.

Power is good to have as we all should know. However, when your sport requires you to have short burst of power over and over and over again, you need to have power endurace. That’s what I worked on in this workout boys and girls.

Check it:

1 15 min round of:

1A)115# sandbag cleans x 5
1B) Bbodyweight pull up x 5
1C) 50 yard sprint x 1
jog back and repeat as many times as possible!

it was fun to say the least! Here’s part 1 of the video-

15 min workout part 1

I remember I used to run a 4.38 40 and have a 38 inch vert.  Ok numbers for todays elite level athlete.

That was back in the playing days and years ago when I was in “combine” shape.  The way I got there?  Well genetics played a small role I’d have to say.  What really got me there was by doing everything explosively. 

If you want explosive speed, you have to train that way.  Yes absolute strength is great to have, but if you’re not explosive, you’re strength and overall speed isn’t as dangerous.  It’s the fast, quick, explosive burst of power that’s the true game changer.  Speed is just a plus when you’re explosive.     

Nothing can out do having explosive speed capabilities.  If you’re the most explosive player on the field, people are going to know.  It will be very apparent you is the fastest and most explosive.

Now we know we want explosive speed, but how do we get it?  Well, like I had mentioned above, I focused on doing everything as explosive as I could.  Whether it was pressing a weight over head or pulling a weight off the floor, I did it with as much explosion as possible. 

I love the Olympic lifts with a passion.  I’ve spent many years trying to perfect my form to get more explosion from these lifts.  While knowing how to do these lifts is great, for a beginner, learning and perfecting the form can take years.  If you need explosive speed now, you need to focus on other explosive activities, such as plyometrics.

Nothing will ever out do bodyweight plyometrics.  Jumping, skipping, bounding, single leg hops, and yes – lots of jump roping to name a few.  These help create raw explosiveness, speed  and just great overall athleticism.  Different jumps NEED to become a staple in your program ASAP! 

I always recommend doing these types of activities at the start of your workouts when you’re the freshest.  If you try to perform plyometric while you’re tired, you won’t be putting out maximum effort, so you will be training at subpar performances.  This will not get you more explosive, it will help gain work capacity, but not raw explosion. 

Just a few examples of what I used to do for plyometrics, at every workout, especially my lower body days, I would start the workouts by doing skips for height and skips for distance for sets 4 of 40 yards.  I also had access to a long jumping pit that was filled with sand.  I would do sets of 5-8 explosive squat jumps out of the sand before legs days as well.  This really increased my vertical jump and explosiveness due to the fact I was jumping out of sand.  Anytime you jump out of a soft surface, you’ll help increase your explosiveness. 

These are just a few examples of how I used to train and how I still train.  I think plyos are fun, that’s why I still do them.  When you have explosiveness, you just don’t ever want to lose it.  That’s why I train like an athlete still.  Once an athlete, always an athlete.

Enjoy this video of an example of some explosiveness.  Crazy shit!

jump out of pool

Stay Forged Strong!

Man I’m motivated as crazy to write this for you guys tonight. It’s a Tuesday night about 10:40 pm. By the time you read this it will probably be Wed or maybe Thurs. Anyway time to get down to business. This post is about being around like minded people who are positive and believe in what you do.

I just talked with a local Omaha dude that is strictly someone you would not want to meet in a dark alley. We’ll just call him TV. I did not ask him if I could use his name so I will not out of respect. I talked to this guy about my vision and what I want to do with athletes and especially youth athletes. This is where we need the most work in my opinion. Youth training.

Anyway he shared some things he wanted to do with athletes and wanting to help them be the best they can be. I was eye to eye with him on this one. I had so much passion flowing through me that I almost started a second workout for the day. I held back though.

Guys this stuff is for real! Get around people who want to be winners, that share the same passions as you, that wanna go further, and most importantly, think like you.

It will change your whole prospective on what you can do next. It could possibly change your whole life!

This is part of the process that I am going through to find a true niche for myself. It’s awesome because the good lord must be watching out for me on this one. I keep running into people that have so much to offer. Whne people help each other, just sit by and watch what happens.

So stay positive and feed off that good energy and use it to your advantage. If it were not for that conversation I would not be writing this to you. Stay away from the negative and close to the positive.

Stay forged strong!