MMA flexibility, strength and endurance with UCMMA champion Oli Thompson (Video)

Conditioning workout that will offer you today is a curious mixture of more or lessknown practice imitating animal movements for stretching and flexibility, which at first glance seem a little odd but surprisingly effective and require no equipmentother than your own body.

The most powerful man in Britain (Britain's Strongest Man) 2006 Ollie Thompson,who after retraining in MMA fighter in the heavyweight asset has 10 wins and 5 losses, rising UCMMA champion in 2011 before saving short and inglorious part in the UFC (2 losses in his career, in 2012).


Here's how it all looks on video, shown by Villa, Thompson and editor Men `s Fitness Nick Hatchings:

Jens Pulver's Workouts

Jens Pulver is tough MMA fighters and his training in the same spirit. Whether you are preparing for an upcoming race, fitter, or you are tired of boring workout that take a long time, try this for a change. She is made in five minute rounds.

 Warm up: Warming up by doing 25 meters sprint. 25 m sprint, go back. Repeat this for 5 minutes.
 Workout
Series 1: Do 15 push ups, 15 jump to the dissolving arms and legs (jumping jacks), 15 buckets. Repeat for 5 minutes.
Series 2: Make 15 presses with sack (sack push as if you were a resting unit), 10 shoulder presses with dumbbells in a standing position and 15 push-ups with dumbbells. Repeat for 5 minutes.
Series 3: Do 10 jumping high knee lift, 10 climber, 10 quick assaults and 10 jump to dissolving arms and legs (jumping jacks). Repeat for 5 minutes.
Series 4: Make 10 sets made a medicine ball into the ground, pulled 10 horizontal pulley for back, 10 rolling wheel with an abdomen. Repeat for 5 minutes.
Workout for your grip: Make 10 dials on a rope, 10 dials with balls for tennis, 10 times holding discs (two discs take a bar or dumbbells, Pulver makes it with 20, and keep them until you relaxed with hands on sides of you).

First steps in MMA physical training with Jerry Sargent (Video)

When you can not swim, do not throw in the deepest point of the ocean, with the optimistic attitude to swim around 50 km from the nearest island (for example). Same with extreme MMA conditioning workouts, which loads may be insurmountable challenge even for seasoned bodybuilders.
 
 The exercises are simple and easy to implement, depending on your current form, the range runs from 3 to 5 times, can be used either as a standalone workout and in addition to training with weights for more advanced of you. Do exercise 3-4 times a week.
 Here's the circuit:
1. Push-ups 10 reps
2. Step ups 10 reps for each leg
3. Lunges, 10 repetitions with each leg, optionally you can do them with lightweight dumbbells
4. Sit ups 10 reps
5. Body weight squats 10 reps, his arms folded bookmark stopped on both sides of the forehead
6. Dips 10 reps
7. Jumping Jacks 20 reps
8. Exercise Bike 2 minutes a slight resistance
 When advanced enough to make a circle 5 times, increase the speed and number of repetitions to 20 (30 for jumping Jack) and resistance exercise bike. 
Here's how it all looks live:

MMA workout warm-up

ММА (mix martial arts) fighters are always well ahead of the training material. They seek to include in their programs not only proven strength training, but also innovative methods. We suggest you check the following eight minute workout that combines exceptional intensity and complexity of maximum warming of all muscle groups.

1.  Squats to slip under low fixed rope - movements of this exercise mainly loaded legs and waist. They run continuously for one minute, by which time, if you follow a regular rhythm you should be able to do 35 to 40 repetitions.
2. After squats and rest before the next exercise, a series of air strikes combined (fighting shadow), aimed at warming the hands. The duration of this break is 30 seconds.
3. Push-ups with feet placed in hanging ropes - each leg winds through the handles hanging low ropes, hands placed on the floor. This situation makes a push up followed by twisting and lateral bending of the knees to the right. Second push up, does is followed by folding the left leg. This alternation is maintained until the end of the execution of the exercise. Here again the length is one minute, and the optimal number of reps - 15-18
4. For the rest, it is implemented 30-second series of complex strokes with hands in the air (combat shadow), and here I can turn on and kick.
5. Spend each of his hands in elastic handles and start hitting on the punching bag, which should preferably be placed on the floor in a supine position to achieve maximal back muscle tension. Duration of exercise - one minutes.
6. Rest - 30 seconds in the air strikes (fighting shadow)
7. Lie on your back on the floor and hold one dumbbell in each hand. Start lifting and twisting pelvis sideways while exporting arms with weights overhead. You also need to have every alternation twisting pelvis right then - left. Duration of exercise - one minute, the optimal number of reps - 20-25.
8. Rest - 30 seconds in the air strikes and kicks (fighting shadow), they can be rotated and squats.
9. From standing, hold one dumbbell with both hands, lift it at ear level and begin to rotate around the axis of the head. The movement is circular and is made for 30 seconds from left to right and then changing direction - from right to left. Total - one minute and 20 to 25 repetitions. 

This is the whole workout.