What kind of weight training best compliments a fighter?

[Austin316]

Basically talking grappling and any style that would emphasize real world strength over weight room strength. What would a good routine look like?

 

[Debaser]

Core Performance

 

[Judo Tom]

IMO ive had the most success with olympic style lifting and doing high rep training (30-40 reps) with very low rest (10 sec MAX)

this assumes you already have a decent base in all the major lifts

 

[Kane Fan]

those reps are really high tho
that'd kill me lol
my friend said I need to improve my Endurance, and skill...and technique...and strategy...he's pretty happy with my strength tho!

 

[Judo Tom]

that routine is to help musclular endurance

if you do that 2-3x a week for 3 weeks you will notice a huge difference in how you fight.. you will be able to use and maintain more strength throughout the whole fight..

i was very skeptical when i first read it but after trying it a few times i realized what a great little routine it was..

and you can work up to it.. but just make sure each set is pretty grueling.. and that you only rest for 10 secs.. so you might have to reduce the weight each set or get a lot less reps at first but just stick with it and fight the weights as hard as you would fight for 1st place in a tourny..

if your only doing a bodybuilding type routine you are cheating yourself of progress IMO

 

[Kane Fan]

oh trust me
bodybuilding and I really don't mix...
onlything I want similar tobodybuilding is maybe some additional size (tho Im quite bit now) and I would like to have visable abs
I don't need a supertight shredded washboard for a stomach but I'd like some lines of definition...
I mostly do strength training tho
I might try that for endurance I had another idea I was going to try tho
I'll probubly try both

 

[BOSSDAWG]

Here is a good formula for fighters:1 polymetrics 2 strong cardio 3 olympic lifts 4 grip training

 

[PICK3]

Core Performance

Is this a "ball" exercise program?

 

[Kane Fan]

what is strong cardio?

 

[peterM]

Judo Tom,

Can you lay out more details of exactly what you are doing please?

I assume that you do something like a power clean or snatch but how many exercises you are doing and how many sets is not at all clear to me.

Certainly if you are doing multiple sets of 30/40 reps with same weight and only 10 seconds rest the weight would have to be pretty light.

Would you not get the same anaerobic effect by doing 10-12 reps with added strength benefits? Still if it works then it deserves to be tried!