Hi everyone....

We are currently setting up a number of mma fitness classes around the uk.

The classes will not be teaching any discipline of martial arts, kickboxing, boxing or fight techniques.... but will involve top level fitness and conditioning training, based on the specific training programmes used by the worlds best mma fighters.

We have over 12 years experience in top level fitness and conditioning, working with major sporting teams around the uk, and have spent the last 2 years researching the training methods used by fighters like, george st pierre, bj penn, randy couture, and chuck liddell.

The classes will be held at major sports clubs, in and around Sheffield.

Due to the nature of the training, they will only be available to a limited number of participants per class.

Please contact the email address below, if you would be interested in attending these classes, and we will endevour to give you further information of the dates we intend to begin.

Yours in fitness......

Where will these be held? cheers

Sounds like someone trying to jump on the MMA band waggon, if you want to get MMA fit, train in MMA.

Thats great, but not every body wants to take on the full contact nature of the training, and may just want to enjoy training and working in a different way.

And as for 'jumping on the bandwagon', i've been involved with mixed martial arts for 14 years.

Thanks for your comments though, and thank you for all the emails we have already received.

Take the martial arts element out of the training and you have just got training !
There are no secret MMA training techniques just good cardio/stamina, weights/strength training and good diet.
The same techniques used by any competitive sports person.
If you are not teaching any MMA techniques its just a conditioning class, where is the MMA connection ???

my martial arts teacher always said 'i'm here to teach martial arts. if you want o get fit, get running....'

MMa TRAINING you say? yes interesting...... etc.....


I'm waiting for you know who to pop up with his opinions :hihi:

We have over 12 years experience in top level fitness and conditioning, working with major sporting teams around the uk, and have spent the last 2 years researching the training methods used by fighters like, george st pierre, bj penn, randy couture, and chuck liddell.
It took you 2 years to read 'Training For Warriors?' :hihi:

Im amazed we are getting this much hassle! We have taken this all over the uk and had fantastic feedback, and very well attended classes.

To say that mma training is the same as every sport, is extremely wrong.

Look, you guys are obviously involved in mma, or martial arts. This is not aimed at you, you have your own training. This is for fans of the sport, or occaisional visitors to martial arts classes. To enjoy doing a different style of training. Not everybody who enjoys martial arts, gives up 100% of their time and life to it.

A woman attends a boxercise class..... does that mean she must go to her local boxing club, put some pads on, and spar?

Thats the last word from us, again, its not aimed at practising martial artists.... its just a fun way to train, using some different techniques thats you may not have used before.

Im amazed we are getting this much hassle! We have taken this all over the uk and had fantastic feedback, and very well attended classes.

To say that mma training is the same as every sport, is extremely wrong.

Look, you guys are obviously involved in mma, or martial arts. This is not aimed at you, you have your own training. This is for fans of the sport, or occaisional visitors to martial arts classes. To enjoy doing a different style of training. Not everybody who enjoys martial arts, gives up 100% of their time and life to it.

A woman attends a boxercise class..... does that mean she must go to her local boxing club, put some pads on, and spar?

Thats the last word from us, again, its not aimed at practising martial artists.... its just a fun way to train, using some different techniques thats you may not have used before.

what is mma training? serius question btw

It took you 2 years to read 'Training For Warriors?' :hihi:

I do feel guilty, honest, but I had to laugh at this :hihi::hihi::hihi:

ok, training question.

1)how do you train "MMA" fitness? do you still hit bags/grapple/wrestle/lift and so on....
2)is it not just a conditioning class if you dont "do" mma, if so why use "MMA"

you could just as easy say you do a amazing conditioning class why not try it out.

its in the nature of martial artists to be protective of thier art, god knows there have been enough arguments about it on here.

i'm interested so dont take this the wrong way but you do sound like your using "MMA" as a marketing tool.

i have friends who fight mma. i dont.

they train their socks off, and work really hard.

so what makes your class different to a conditioning class anywhere else.

I agree , the " MMA " thing is a buzzword at the moment... with a lot of people, we run a conditioning class Friday night, it has non fighters, MMA fighters, Thai boxers and boxers in it.
Good luck with the new class, but the MMA Fitness name to me looks cheesy.

Craig,

I think we might all be being a bit harsh here!! They were quite honest in saying that it wasn't an MMA class and if you have to spar to do MMA fitness then someone should tell Carlos Santana at Intocombat, Martin Rooney at PACE fitness (the working with warriors guy) or Ross Enamait of Ross Boxing fame.

They all teach conditioning for combat sports without teaching the fighting aspect and have considerable success (I use the Intocombat drills and RossBoxing drills to make BarraGergus puke when John lets me take the warm up! :hihi:)

They guy (or gal) has been honest he's not trying to mislead anyone and I for one am keen to have a go:thumbsup:

It took you 2 years to read 'Training For Warriors?' :hihi:

I've had 'Training for Warriors' for just under a year and I'm less than half way through it; so don't mock! Mind you I have busted three treadmills doing their hurricane drill...I refuse to reveal the name of the gym I train at in case they read this!

Lotar runs a great conditioning class and very few people stayed to spar afterwards, they were just there for the exercise which was fine. The op. was clear that they are not sparring or teaching techniques and as long that is clear to folks coming along to the class I don't see a problem? It's just like boxercise, or kickboxercise or body combat or whatever.

I think we might all be being a bit harsh here!! They were quite honest in saying that it wasn't an MMA class and if you have to spar to do MMA fitness then someone should tell Carlos Santana at Intocombat, Martin Rooney at PACE fitness (the working with warriors guy) or Ross Enamait of Ross Boxing fame.

They all teach conditioning for combat sports without teaching the fighting aspect and have considerable success (I use the Intocombat drills and RossBoxing drills to make BarraGergus puke when John lets me take the warm up! :hihi:)

They guy (or gal) has been honest he's not trying to mislead anyone and I for one am keen to have a go:thumbsup:

Do you not go to enough classes!! :P Is the C for Carlos in JC Santana? cause I thought Carlos Santana was a famous guitarist?? :huh:

Thanks Noel,

I have absolutely no problem with people not wanting to spar, and thinking about it now, this MMA fitness thing looks like it could be a great class for them, so again good luck with it....

You will only know if its for you if you try it out, so I would recommend people interested to pop along and try their class out..

Craig.

I've had 'Training for Warriors' for just under a year and I'm less than half way through it; so don't mock! Mind you I have busted three treadmills doing their hurricane drill...I refuse to reveal the name of the gym I train at in case they read this!

Lotar runs a great conditioning class and very few people stayed to spar afterwards, they were just there for the exercise which was fine. The op. was clear that they are not sparring or teaching techniques and as long that is clear to folks coming along to the class I don't see a problem? It's just like boxercise, or kickboxercise or body combat or whatever.

i totally agree.... i am involved in mixed martial arts, but i dont give up my life for it, and i have attended a similar class (i think) in london.... where we were doing hammer drills on tyres.... kettlebell drills...and plyometrics. im pretty certain they dont do those in 'normal' conditioning sessions. (well i could'nt find one anywhere!)

yes mma and the ufc are buzzwords...but im pretty sure the guys (or girls, i hope!) are simply using the ufc connection to spread the word. its the first rule of marketing, to try and get your product out there!

surely if people attend the class, and enjoy it, then you guys who run full mma sessions will get some benefit, as more people might want to make the next step?

i can see your points guys, you feel like somebody is stepping on your toes, with a sub standard product, but i actually think it will help you. and surely, we all want more people knowing about the art, and giving it a go?

I think we might all be being a bit harsh here!! They were quite honest in saying that it wasn't an MMA class and if you have to spar to do MMA fitness then someone should tell Carlos Santana at Intocombat, Martin Rooney at PACE fitness (the working with warriors guy) or Ross Enamait of Ross Boxing fame.

They all teach conditioning for combat sports without teaching the fighting aspect and have considerable success (I use the Intocombat drills and RossBoxing drills to make BarraGergus puke when John lets me take the warm up! :hihi:)

They guy (or gal) has been honest he's not trying to mislead anyone and I for one am keen to have a go:thumbsup:

russ you havent done my new warm up yet, my gymnastica stuff i'll get you back.

and i agree that these guys shouldnt be hounded before any one trys them out, i just wondered what the training involves.

as to the point about people being lead in to doing MMA/BJJ/Grappling/Thai and so on, thats a good point and could boost the clubs in sheffield no end.

although i would like more info on it.

Hi,

Thanks sharing the information.

People nowadays are engaged in working and doing every kind of activity that they seem to have no time to cook food at home. This all seems convenient to them because they get to sleep and rest right after. But one thing they usually pay no heed to is their fitness.

A physical activity can help us to be in good shape, may it be doing sports, working out in the gym or just in the house doing some lawn work. We should be able to give time for these kinds of activities in our daily schedule.

id be interested whereabouts u starting