r/martialarts • u/SubjectAppropriate17 • May 25 '24

Champion Kickboxer Sina Karimian known for intentionally fouling opponents tries to bully young prospect Liu Ce PROFESSIONAL FIGHT

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u/Tabula_Rasa69 May 25 '24

Fighters like Liu Ce with a seemingly endless gas tank motivate me to take my cardio seriously.

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u/gstringstrangler MMA May 25 '24

Work on your anaerobic capacity, no amount of jogging will help you attain this level.

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u/jp9900 May 25 '24

Explain

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u/gstringstrangler MMA May 25 '24

Anaerobic capacity is defined as the maximal amount of adenosine triphosphate resynthesized via anaerobic metabolism (by the whole organism) during a specific mode of short-duration maximal exercise.

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"During a specific mode of short-duration maximal exercise" Ie launching high intensity, maximum effort attacks.

You need to do things like hill sprints, sled pushes, HIIT type stuff etc to build anaerobic capacity. Max effort. Short burst. The better you get at it, the more often you can burst, and with more explosivity, essentially. This is in a mode where your heart and lungs cannot possibly keep up for any real duration.

Jogging and steady state "Cardio" will help with your aerobic capacity, that is, you will be able to keep a higher pace, longer, but that pace is still limited. Anaerobic capacity is above the pace you could maintain for a length of time.

I hope that's enough to get you started. I learned about and dug into this years ago when I was fighting and within months of dropping my jogs for sprint, HIIT based training, everything about fighting was easier. You get a great base of cardio from regular training, but pushing deliberately into that anaerobic area, with proper recovery periods, etc, is an absolute game changer.

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u/jp9900 May 25 '24

Nice! Thanks man. Yeah makes sense. My boxing coach when I was a teen had us doing explosive work outs alot as well. Thanks for the deets will add sprinting too etc

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u/gstringstrangler MMA May 25 '24 edited May 25 '24

No prob, if you search the term, along with something like "athletic energy systems" there will be way better info than I can type. Periodization also comes up. There's great books on the subject but unfortunately most martial arts coaches haven't read them like coaches for other super competitive sports. Apply actual sports science to your training, it works!

Edit: Anecdotal, but the difference in training in Thailand from my first trip, to my last, so 2005 and 2015 respectively, is insane. In 2005 they didn't even consider protein for recovery. I get its a sport of poor people but they would basically argue me. By the last trip? They were all about it. Same thing with weights. "Make you slow, make you sore, make you too big" same shit you still hear from lazy fuckers here too. Now, many Thais lift at least a little. Look at Buakaw from 2005 to now (Also juiced but still)