This is a guest post by P.R. Cole, MS, RD and owner and director of Fuel The Fighter. Follow P.R. Cole on Twitter. Strikeforce fighters and Special Forces officer Tim Kennedy may love spinach more than other client I’ve worked with. He once told me “Popeye ate it all the time, and look how well it worked out for him!” Even [...]
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Getting in great shape might not be easy, but there’s more to conditioning than simply training as hard as you can. After all, if it was simply a matter of nothing more than hard work, professional fighters would never gas out. The following three tips will help you supercharge your conditioning and get the most [...]
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Here is the Jail Break from the 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu system (how to get butterfly guard from side control).
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YES, it’s true – hitting a punching bag all day might hurt your boxing skills. The main reason why is because over-training on a heavy bag makes it easy for boxers to develop bad habits. Honestly, heavy bags don’t suck. There are just some negatives and disadvantages to using heavy bags all the time. I had [...]
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Of all the heavyweights absorbed into the UFC following Zuffa’s purchase of Strikeforce in 2011, Josh Barnett’s future is least certain. He’s had a fractious relationship with UFC president Dana White, has failed repeated drug tests throughout his career and left the promotion in disgrace in 2002 after being stripped of the heavyweight title he’d [...]
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The injury beset Strikeforce promotion, currently on life support as it runs down its deal with Showcase, has suffered another blow, with its middleweight champion, LukeRockhold, adding to the list of injuries for its January card. Billed “Strikeforce: Champions,” the card has now lost two main-event fighters after lightweight champion Gilbert Melendez announced last week that he [...]
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Chris Weidman came as close to boiling over as the affable UFC middleweight could ever come close to boiling over, after Kimura.se asked him about his potential championship fight against Anderson Silva: a fight that looks increasingly unlikely for the foreseeable future. Weidman believes that Brazilian fans are largely on his side and share his frustration that Silva [...]
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If there was ever a boxing combination to be labelled the best, this would be it. It is so simple yet so deadly when you learn all the variants of the old “jab-jab-cross”. Many trainers told me over and over the 1-1-2 is boxing’s bread and butter combo, better than any other punch combo but [...]
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UFC president Dana White hasn’t had many kind words for Fedro Emelianenko – the Russian heavyweight who was at one time considered the greatest pound-for-pound fighter in the world. However, MMA Weekly is reporting that White finally conceded that Emelianenko is one of the greatest heavyweights the sport has ever seen. “Do I think that Fedor is one of the greatest [...]
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UFC heavyweight champion Junior Dos Santos has thrown down the gauntlet to his light heavyweight counterpart, Jon Jones, saying that he would happily welcome him to the higher weight class if he moves up. In an interview aired on UFC Tonight (H/T bjpenn.com), JDS has made it clear that only the heavyweight title-holder can call himself the “baddest [...]
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