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Strength & Conditioning for MMA one day workshop.

#PWRTHR Strength & Conditioning for MMA one day workshop. Sunday 25th of Feburary 1030-1500  £65 Powering through performance Unit 8 Eckersley Road Essex CM1 1SL Sign up link https://goteamup.com/p/1124336-powering-through/courses/23224/ This workshop will cover Coach William Wayland’s approach to strength & conditioniong for MMA fighters, this will also be applicable to other combat athletes such as …

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The Importance of Muscular Strength in Athletic Performance [Study]

How Strong is strong enough for Jiujitsu and MMA? We’ve asked this question on scramblog before. In this post I suggested “Strength addicts will say you can never have enough, smart athletes however need to know if pursuing more strength worth diminising returns and time cost. We are not trying to produce strongmen, powerlifters or …

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3 Rules of General Specificity

Neat Info Graphic from Dan Coughlan turning something I talked about here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2klJRjzH63E “How specific should we be? Generally specific! Squats and cleans may not relate too closely to the movement of any athletic event but they do give a balanced development base upon which highly specific exercise can be built. Specificest Grappling Strength & …

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Give these recovery breathing and stretching drills a try after your next training session.

I have posted before about recovery routines before, elements of which can used after both sports training and weight training sessions. I have also spoken before about the need for deep belly breathing post training also. In brief using deep belly breathing we can re-establish parasympathetic dominance and get out of stressed state training encourages. …

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Slaphead and The Giraffe Podcast: UFC fighter Arnold Allen S&C coach William Wayland and Pro Fighter Sean Carter Episode no 37

UFC fighter Arnold Allen, Pro Fighter Sean Carter and Myself talk training, ido portal, crossfit, polar bears, tristar, sleep and more on Slaphead and The Giraffe Podcast. Chris and Daz made the trek over to chelmsford and recorded in the gym just last week.  http://slapheadandthegiraffe.podbean.com/e/episode-no-37-featuring-ufc-fighter-arnold-allen-sc-coach-william-wayland-and-pro-fighter-sean-carter/

Why I Prefer Front Squats and Romainian Deadlifts for Combat Athletes.

As a coach I’m never afraid to explain movements I use outside of the normal paradigm. When I program my experience informs my exercise selection ever increasingly, what I do try to avoid is becoming dogmatic about exercise selection. My embrace of the safety bar split squat has taught me much about loading athletes in …

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