So you want to train to fight….
I’ve been thinking about fighting since I was a young man. Watching, analyzing, mentally preparing….at times I’m sure with a certain paranoia. Now I am physically and emotionally committed. I am preparing to enter the octagon.
As a strength and conditioning coach, I have worked with all kinds of athletes, but in the last year, I have been blessed with training a female kick boxer/playboy bunny…. all around Diva. This is a chick who loves to sweat, and looks damn good doing it! She has been encouraging me to fight for quite some time.
I started with all the same excuses any rationally minded person would. I’m too old, I don’t want to get hurt, I don’t have the time. Funny, all the same lame ass shit I hear from half of my clients and all of the people I talk to on a regular basis who are more busy dying than they are interested in living.
She came to the gym each week more and more excited about what she was learning in the ring. She told me how she was training two and three hours a day for more than just kick boxing now. She was interested in full contact Mixed Martial Arts.
Again, I started taking a little harder look at where I am at in my life, what I have done, and knowing that I don’t want to go to my grave with any regrets. I’m not getting any younger, I wrestled in high school, fought Tae Kwon Do in college, and after a few beers, I love to get rowdy with my friends. What the hell, let’s do this!
I started going to 3D Elite Martial Arts here in Denver. Two nights a week for two hours each I get to get my ass kicked! Okay, not really, just some times. We train NHB for an hour of grappling, then stand up only for an hour. This means “no holds barred”….full contact, granted we are only going about %75 speed and power, but none the less, it is brutal!
Did you know that in a two hour class, you can essentially do 30 three minute rounds with one minute recoveries. We do the whole class on the round timer. This shit is fucking insane! Let me tell you I don’t think I have ever worked so hard! We rotate partners every round. This is quite the challenge, as I get to fight 6’ 3” 225 pound guys who I am sure can kill me, and then I get to fight 5’ 1’’ 115 pound women who I know want to kill me! After all of the bruised shins and knees, after sweating off 20 pounds of fat, and learning the difference between mount and guard, I am starting to get pretty dialed in on this stuff. Now it is time to apply my degree in Exercise Physiology and my 17 years of personal training experience to “Discovering the Animal and Refining the Machine!”
I am a 36 year old white male who as of today weighed in at 163.6 pounds. I stand 5’6’’ tall and have no significant limiting factors in the injury department. I want to be in my first amateur MMA fight on or before my next birthday…which is in less than 5 months! I have declared to my coaches and training partners that my sole intention is to earn a pay check for punching someone in the face! I can think of no better way to earn money. I mean hell, if you do that in the bar, you get arrested and may go to the hospital, you do it in the octagon, and people cheer, and sponsors pay! I was told that I could make this happen if I fought two to three amateur fights…of course winning convincingly and drawing a big crowd.
The good old self promotion game. I’ve played this one for years. Climbing through the ranks as a sponsored triathlete, mt. biker, then professional adventure racer, I am no stranger to drawing a crowd! Now it is time to get committed to the “winning convincingly” part.
I have spoken with many fighters and they say that it is an all or none commitment. Then I look at their work ethics and realize that I already have most of them beat when it comes to pure masochistic gym behavior. I am currently training 12-15 hours a week in the Strength, Cardio and Stability/Agility/Mobility areas. I am coming in at about 16% body fat. I am planning on fighting at 155 pounds for my first two fights at I want to be at 12% body fat for that. I will then consider dropping down to 145 for my pro debut. Keep your eye on this column, as I will tell you about every workout, and provide video links as well!
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