“To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.”
Sun Tzu

Josh Lopez

Congratulations to: Client Josh Lopez on winning the Collegiate Boxing National Championship

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UFC Veteran John Howard

UFC Veteran John "Doomsday" Howard a friend and training partner to Warrior Combat Sports

Kettlebell Swing

the Kettlebell swing helps to build Explosive power. this is a 106lb. Kettlebell swing.

Build Explosive Power

Building explosive power is perfected by the Turkish get up.

M.I.T

The Sledgehammer Slam is a great M.I.T exercise for the bridge between your P.I.T "Power Impulse Training" and the M.I.T

P.I.T

The Power Impulse Training will make you powerful and will give you a advantage over you opponent... Garranteed

M.I.T BW

Bag work is a great way teach your body how to tempo, tempo training is critical to sustain energy levels for the long haul in a fight!!!

Band Resistance Training

Power bands are great for building explosive takedowns!!!

Sam Nadeau A

Showing off the POWER and Combat Endurance from taining with Warrior Combat Sports.

Gound work

While doing your ground work concentrate on your tempo, to make it automatic when you get to fight night.

Rear Naked Choke to Finish Opponent!!!

Awesome Fight!!!

When watching Sam “The Bull” Nadeau at work, notice the torturous pace that he sets. His opponent has no choice but to try to keep up, but to no avail. Sam will simply out tempo him; drag him 6 feet under water and keep him there for the rest of the fight. Notice also Sam’s power in the ground and pound, and the quick initiation of the finishing move late in the 3rd round. He still had sufficient strength and power to make it look like he sealed the deal in the first seconds of the first. Sam is our feature fighter: the perfect example of what a Warrior Combat Strength conditioned Gladiator does to the competition!

Video Compliments of Joe Leonard of Westernmassmma.com and PrimierFC

The Bad Blood match of the night. Former student spanked by teacher after calling him out—something about a stepping stone or something like that. Short and sweet was the punishment prescription. Triangle choke in the first, plus a beating to make for a nice dessert topping. Great fight, with a punishing finish!

CrossFit is the rage, it’s everywhere. In fact, there is one right down the block and around the corner from me.

CrossFit is a product of two former gymnasts, Greg and ex-wife Lauren Glassman. The first CrossFit affiliate gym opened in Santa Cruse California in 1995 and near immediately started training police and fire personnel; then was soon embraced by other tactical police and military groups.

The time was ripe for the functional forms of training that CrossFit was offering, as we at the time had just come through the fog of the anti-functional cosmetic bodybuilding routine years.  

At the same time, there was a collision of these functional training notions with new findings about “the core” by such research pioneers as: Manohar Panjabi of Yale University; Paul Hodges, University of Queensland, Australia; Carolyn Richardson, University of Queensland, Australia; Gwendolen Jull, University of Queensland, Australia; Stewart McGill, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; Julie Hides, Australian Catholic University, Australia; all pioneers and major heavyweight voices in the in the realm of core function, many of whom maintained an intellectual synergy for years following and can be found cited together on numerous key research projects that have revolutionized, and continue still to move the standard forward in the world of spinal rehabilitation, and sports functional training.

To add to the madness of the time, sports periodization concepts were entering the mix too, as defectors from the eastern bloc countries brought their methodological sports conditioning practices west. Needless to say, it was a great time for those of the sports and conditioning world who were paying attention. At the time (late `90’s, and early into the new millennium), I was building my golf conditioning program around this new information as it was still falling to the ground. The information was as fresh as it gets. It was truly an exciting time, and CrossFit was on the forefront of the movement.

CrossFit admittedly has many positives, one of which is specified on the navigation board of their web page under, “What is CrossFit?”, and explains what they are about by saying: “Our program delivers a fitness that is, by design, broad, general, and inclusive. Our specialty is not specializing. Combat, survival, many sports, and life reward this kind of fitness and, on average, punish the specialist.” So, they are about general, but very functional fitness. Sounds great so far: were that everybody be in CrossFit shape.

While there is truth regarding CrossFit’s concerns pertaining to specialization, periodization and its scheduled rotation of conditioning modalities and stresses guards against the potential negative effects of specialization.

So, while the general conditioning that CrossFit provides is good for the conditioning needs of the general public, providing them with the functional capacity that allows them to enjoy physical challenges that once seemed unreachable; and for the competitive athlete to maintain excellent general offseason condition, it is not sufficient to prepare an athlete for the specific rigors of his sport and competition.

Obviously, the MMA competitor is not just Mr. General public nor is he simply just another athlete: MMA competitors are competitive athletes who have very specific conditioning and skill needs. Sports and conditioning specialists are trained under the auspice of periodization to consider such specialty needs when they perform their needs analysis when consulting with a new athlete.  The sport of MMA has well defined needs that all MMA competitors must address in order to be in the best physical condition for their sport at the time of competition. 

The magnitude of skills necessary for today’s MMA competitor to possess in order to successfully compete in the octagon require that he hone his training program so that all components (i.e. conditioning, weight/water loss, and skills, such as Muay Tai, boxing, jujitsu)  are sufficiently addressed so that a well balanced athlete results. 

Warrior Combat Sports is the first to periodize conditioning for the sport of MMA. Our periodized training is both efficient and eminently productive. As a result, all of our athletes trained under the WCS system have the luxury of knowing that they can function at the highest power output rate possible, as they each have along with their trainer reached repeatedly for their individual performance ceiling, but without overtraining.

WCS training and conditioning is very intense, but limited to the constraints of the duration of the match trained for. Therefore, if one of our athletes is a pro who is training for championship match, the duration of the conditioning session will be limited to the match time of (5) five minute rounds plus rest times for a total of 29 minutes—this, the longest session as most MMA competitions are rarely professional title matches.

This added efficiency in conditioning allows the athlete more time to focus on more important things like managing nagging, performance stealing injuries, shoring up weak links, and gaining new skills—an approach that will contribute to a well balanced and finely tuned fighting machine.

So, at the end of it all, what is the conclusion? What of:  CrossFit training vs. Warrior Combat Sports MMA periodized training for MMA competition preparation? Well, there I go again, dishonest me, I only used the title as an attention getter—cheap, I know. But, I do think that there will be a natural tendency for the two to pair off, and sides taken that are unnecessary given the fact that CrossFit is relied upon so heavily for competitive match preparation in MMA.

So, where does Warrior Combat Sports stand? We recommend both! Each has its respective place. CrossFit gives the athlete a broad conditioning base and a general, but very large movement skills and power base. The importance of the broad base that CrossFit provides cannot be overstated as it allows the athlete to function at greater efficiency than he otherwise would, this allows for greater work output; and most importantly, its greatest contribution is injury prevention.

The bottom line is, CrossFit trained athletes simply make our job as sports conditioning specialists infinitely easier.

Warrior Combat Sports is unique in that it is the first to periodize the sport of MMA.

(Side note: to get a true sense of what Warrior Combat Sports periodized conditioning’s collision with the sport of MMA looks like, Watch Sam “The Bull” Nadeau’s July 31^st , HAPPY BIRTHDAY fight above! Indecently, this was Sam’s first full cycle through our training system. After the fight, when asked how he felt, he said that he was tired, but not exhausted and felt that he could go another two rounds if he had to. How scary is that? No telling how scary Sammy will be next time he’s in the cage. Great job Sam and Happy Birthday!!!)

By Jeff Moynihan CSCS

Contact Warrior Combat Sports for more information about our periodized training and conditioning.

If you feel like you have what it takes to be Warrior Combat Sports Sports and Conditioning certified contact: WarriorCombatSports.com for more information.

There are many reasons to periodize your training, but the most glaring reason—overtraining—will be addressed in this article.

The most compelling reason for the MMA competitor to periodize his training is to avoid over training. For an MMA athlete over training is a very real concern for two main reasons: First, and most importantly must be overtraining’s injury promoting; strength and power sapping tendencies, but a very close second has to be the time stealing tendency that overtraining contributes to one’s already busy life as well. This is a notion that we at Warrior Combat Sports feel is an important factor to toss into the mix of all the other training considerations that a MMA competitor must face due to the vast skill sets needed to compete at a very high level. It is estimated that 86% of all MMA athletes are over trained, and are not competing at 100% of their competitive best.

Knowing that periodization offers peace of mind to those who have trained under our system, to know beyond any shadow of doubt that as they climb into the octagon they can have pure confidence in their physical conditioning. They can now focus their minds on more important things.

The next reason to periodize your training is to give you more time to be able to work on skills that are your weak points while effectively training all other aspects of your training regimen. We at WCS break down training into 3 categories: 1. Power impulse training; 2. Metabolic Interval Training, and 3. Skill work. 

Your skill work can be broken down further into sub categories like: 1. The stand up game-Boxing/Karate/Muay Thai; 2. The ground games-BJJ and Wrestling.

If your Periodized training Schedule is formulated correctly you will have more time than you can ever imagine for your skill work, and more time to spend with your family and friends too.

So, let WCS periodize your conditioning training and spend your valuable time on arguably more important things such as family and friends and skills acquisition.

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So would you like to look like a MMA fighter, but don’t want to be one. well then you have to training like one, and it does not take as long as one might think.

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