Yo Fighters!!

[DethKlok]

I am putting the spot light on you fighters. I know barely anything about what you guys do to push yourselves to be the best competitor. Tell us your style, your training, what you do when not preparing for a fight, what you do to prepare for a fight, your supplementation, etc.

I want to know what it takes for you guys to fight competitively.

[BigDawg]

Re: Yo Fighters!!

i train isshinryu karate and have done the obvious necessary cross training in jujitsu, wrestling etc. at 50, my competitive days are done but i would do prep work like increasing cardio for stamina, more short bursts of intense effort followed by intervals of slower paced cardio. weight training wise, i'd try to keep strength up but where i try to increase weight each workout when not prepping, i'll try to get at least 12-15 with a weight before going up whereas when training solely weights with no fight looming i'd increase weight for next workout as soon as i was getting 8 reps with the current workout's weight. good to stay strong but also need endurance. supplement wise and diet wise it's much like now when i'm prepping for vacation, tren/prop/masteron along with proviron and gh. for vacation i'm good throwing in clen and T3 but only used those prepping for fight when weight cutting was slow or needed to be kicked in quickly as clen tends to interfere with my stamina when fighting, messes with the heart rate and breathing and getting my resting pulse back down to 140 or so during the one minute rests between rounds. Diet much the same as prepping for vaca, with the exception of i kept a 1/2 cup of brown rice with my second meal around 8AM instead of the no starchy carbs regimen i try to run when cutting for cancun. needed the energy for training much like i felt last night when i was crashing during boxing drills. you tend to forget even though you're not competing, when you're doing vigorous training like that with 18-25 year olds you still use a lot more energy than you would doing 30-40 minutes on the elliptical. Doing the boxing stuff last night after having done 30 minutes elliptical early morning and hitting legs in the gym at 3 and then two hours of martial arts/boxing at 6 kicked my 50 year old ass, trying to get up this morning was a bear and NO cardio was achieved this morning. So i may go back to adding that 1/2 cup of brown rice with second meal and some fast acting carbs like the Gerber baby food fruits after training like i did last night. When training for the fights we would go more intense than the actual fight, like 5 minute rounds were trained for as if they were 6 minute rounds. we trained for 5 rounds even though we were looking at 3 rounds top. we worked on what our opponent's strengths were to be able to defend against them and what our strengths were to dominate. was a big change at first since i used to only do the tournament circuit where you performed your forms, your weapons and the fighting was one 2 minute round and possibly less if you scored 5 points before your opponent. different beast with full contact and submissions. you don't realize the conditioning difference. you think you're in good condition with all the cardio but the muscles used and the adrenaline involved totally saps your energy. nothing conditions like doing the actual activity you're training for.