Excellent guide to MMA fitness trainingJuly 11, 2008 This chunky guide looks great. It's large format with lots of quality colour photos of the techniques.
The focus is purely on conditioning, so there are no instructions on punching or kicking for instance but it includes lots of stuff general gym manuals would ignore, like neck exercises which are important for wrestling/MMA but not much use to other athletes.
Over all, this is great value just because it's so clear and comprehensive.
Superb! Real World Resource for Effective Fight ConditioningJune 22, 2008 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Martin Rooney has effectively given us the conditioning road map. The book is of the highest quality, the photographs are excellent, the editorial succint and clear. For anyone who want the conditioning edge, this is the book.
Fighter or not TFW provides a broad range of excercises and drills. The book follows a logical path giving an overview of MMA and then gets into Warrior Anatomy covering warm-ups, training by bodypart (don't confuse this with traditional body split training) and then goes on to cover specific programs, nutrition and injuries. You can follwo the programs or mix it up and simply focus on the areas that you need to work.
As for the weight training aspect, I'm a RKC Kettlebell instructor and consequently the Kettlebell is my tool of choice. I simpy us kettlebell drill and lifts to replace the conventional weighted drills.
The most valuable aspect of TFW is the way it translates many conventional drills into a MA context.
Most important, once you've read the text, looked at the pics...Go Train!
Look elsewhereJune 21, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I didnt think much of this book tbh, its good in the sense that it lists dozens of exercises for different body parts, but besides that, it doesnt offer much more and you need a lot of equipment to follow this book, ie machines and loads of different free weights, plyo boxes, medicine balls, treadmills etc. The nutrition chapter was okay, but besides that, you can find exercises for different body parts using the internet and erxx.net and bodybuilding.com. The programme outlined isnt too brilliant either, the strength programme has a lot of holes in it. if your into MMA/Boxing or just want top notch fitness, i would highly recommend Ross Enamait's stuff; they are fantastic.
Get ready to rumble!May 13, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a very well put together fitness manual. Regardless of your martial arts discipline there will be something you haven't tried in here. Even if your not a combat athelete this book will get you into top shape. Its a complete overview of the physical training for the fastest growing sport on the planet. I have been very impressed with the completeness of this book from the range of excersises to tips on cutting weight and as a humble boxer have found it very informative and beneficial to my conditioning.
Highly RecommendedMay 13, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This review is care of double World Champion ju jutsu fighter Braulio Estima who owns and uses this book
Braulio's first language is Portuguese.
"... This book was very well set up for fighters who want to have a good quality on the strength and conditioning specific for fighting. I used and still using most of the workouts. For the Abu Dhabi 2007 I did loads of it on the last case of my training and I found that helped a lot on my results. Hurricane workout is awesome. Well done Martin this book is 10 out of 10, I do recommend for everyone who wants to be a warrior.
