My cardio is $$$hit?

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

try sprinting on a stationary bike for 8 seconds and then pedaling slowly for 12. Repeat the sequence for 5 minutes, and work your way up to 20 minutes over a month. Australian scientists found that people using this strategy 3 days a week lost more fat than those who jogged 40

Answer 2

2 things - make sure you are breathing correctly.  A lot of people who are in shape have trouble with combat because they hold their breath, especially when they are getting hit.  Try to relax your breathing and take deep breaths whenever you can.

Also swimming is totally different from MMA - you get into a pattern of breathing and your body gets used to the constant inhalations.  You have to prepare your body to use oxygen efficiently with IRREGULAR breathing.  In your home exercises, try heavy bag work and shadow boxing and mix in kicks, knees, sprawling, and situps in the rounds as part of the shadow boxing.  Kicking and sprawling changes your breathing pattern and forces you to recover faster.

Try those 2 things and I'd bet your endurance improves fast!

Good luck.

Answer 3

try hitting the punching bag with fast combo that should help,that what my friend does he training for his fight in ufc at end of this year