Key Performance
Measures

As you might have seen in the diagram on the previous page, every athlete in the world needs to develop 4 key factors to be in top shape.

1. Strength – your ability to produce force

2. Power – your ability to rapidly produce force

3. Endurance – your ability to produce for a sustained amount of time

4. Cardio – your ability to move blood and oxygen through your system for sustained output and recovery

Different sports require varying degrees of each factor, but in general, all sports require a blend of all four.

Just like how a fighter needs to know how to strike, submit and wrestle, they also need a high level of development of ALL 4 of these performance factors…

… unlike football players who can focus on Power and Strength, or marathon runners who only need cardio and endurance.

That’s why MMA fighters have well-rounded, balanced physiques that are the envy of guys and admired by girls – they don’t look too overdeveloped like bodybuilders and powerlifters…

Now, the challenge is how to develop these factors in an efficient way. It’s not an easy task, which is why you still see some fighters gas out in the Octagon – the wrong methods produce undesired results.

And don’t forget: MMA fighters have to train multiple martial arts and combat disciplines to be able to compete.

The top level guys who fight in the UFC train their martial arts skills 2-4 hours per day, 6 days a week.

Lower level fighters who still have regular jobs will be training 1-3 hours a day, 4-6 days per week.

Either way, they don’t have a lot of time and energy to devote to strength and conditioning.

That might be just like you, except instead of MMA training, you’ve got a job, or school, maybe a girlfriend, or a wife and kids… you know, stuff that prevents you from spending all day in the gym.

And this is where the challenge lies – in developing an efficient program that improves these 4 key factors without overtraining or hurting their MMA skill development while providing constant improvements in strength, power, endurance and cardio.

But I can sit here and talk all day about how this works, why don’t I just show you…

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