How to imporve on my cardio?

Question

After like one round of wrestling or boxing, I'm falling apart. Boxing is the worst one, because I can't even throw a solid punch. I've always been in good shape, I used to be in swimming when I was a teen. Now I've been in MMA 8 hours a week for the last 8 month, and I feel like my cardio did little progress. I'm a pretty skinny guy so I should be able to move around a little easier. Is it me, or everyone else has it? If I workout till I'm glasses 4 times a week, what should I change? Should I have long slow runs or something? Because what I do now is equal to sprinting.

Answer 1

Nothing will improve your cardio more than fighting. It's the most intense thing you can probably do. If you need to do two 1-minute rounds, then train in two 2-minute rounds. You can run some if you want and that will probably help a lot, but I recommend fighting more.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

some athletes have great cardio but when they get into a fight situation they stop breathing while throwing punches etc.

no matter how good your cardio is you will still get tired after a few minutes if you hold your breath for 3 seconds here, 5 seconds there.. etc

if this is not your problem, then you can do a few different things for cardio

i'll just list some basic ones though

jogging/sprinting alternately from telephone pole to telephone pole

swimming/treading water/running through water

riding a bike

skipping rope

long sparring/heavy bag rounds

rock climbing

running up long sets of stairs

avoid using tread mills, you get less of a workout because your just going through the motions,  not actually propelling yourself forward.