How long do you like to rest before competing?

@Jenjak

Жыл бұрын

I don't know yet ^^

@penttikoivuniemi2146

Жыл бұрын

Obviously my sport is different (HEMA) and the level I'm fighting and training at is lower, but whatever. I took a single day off before a tournament last month, and felt okay as I took it super easy that day and just spent some time doing active recovery stuff, and ended up getting silver. I do feel I could have been even more on top of things if I had taken a second rest day before the tournament, but to be honest I don't think it would have done much of a difference in the final match.

@matthew-jy5jp

Жыл бұрын

Always the best content. Thank you for all you do for our community Gabe. You are a class act.

@MilkyBR

Жыл бұрын

2 weeks before de fight

@KelpWolf

Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure how this would translate to fight competition, but in other competitions I would stop doing anything hard enough to build lactic acid about 4-5 days out, but starting to taper 7 days out. Same as in your video, pretty much

Thank you for your content. Keep it coming!

thanks for the tip, good luck with your fight next Saturday, I'm fighting the same night as well on the MFL 22 card

Thanks Gabriel Enjoying the videos and enjoing applying it in the punching bag and receive knowledge in striking

Good luck my Man

I have to say that I appreciate the way you present topics like this; with the sort of “this is my personal experience, but here are some other variables that may affect you differently….” Really demonstrates your humility.

Good luck for Saturday mate 💪👊

Thank you - extremely useful.

Very great information

The guys/gals and coaches in my muay thai class are sooo silly that they literally do hard training and hard cardio literally up until the day of the fight....so silly. I remember being in the friday night class before a saturday fight and watching the fight team do super hard cardio with us and I was like..wtf are you guys thinking.

@vincentlee7359

Жыл бұрын

Where these coaches from Thailand? Lol if so...makes sense...

@jfloyo11

Жыл бұрын

@@vincentlee7359 my head coach is american but he trained in Thailand...they are just silly

@oriolrodriguezdelolmo9232

Жыл бұрын

Go out from that place

@beznikx7003

Жыл бұрын

Leave that gym

@shawnreed6895

6 ай бұрын

Wrestlers do this also I run a club and am usually at odds w/ high school coaches.

This couldn’t have come at a better time, I’ve got my next fight in 12 days and I’m working like a mad lad.

@namii1212

Жыл бұрын

Get that W bro! Hope to see a comment in 13 days saying you got it!

@kevinfok4124

Жыл бұрын

howd it go?

@333rdAlchemist

Жыл бұрын

@@kevinfok4124 I lost that fight but won another a month ago, I’ve got 4 weeks until my next though

@lilflagz8341

7 ай бұрын

@@333rdAlchemistHow did it go

@333rdAlchemist

7 ай бұрын

@@lilflagz8341 I won that one! If you look up “Adrian Hughes MMA” its the first one, it’s a barn burner of a fight

on point

Thanks

Thank you, my fellow champion for your insight and wisdom. I’m a boxer that always makes weight since I’m very disciplined and focused. Before my most recent fight I took the day off before the fight and I am glad I did! I was stronger, relaxed, and in the right mindset. I was blessed to get the “Win” in Mexico 🇲🇽, “GANADOR”🥇. When I don’t have a fight in the near future or up until 2 months before my fight, I find it best to take at least 1 rest day- sometimes 2 but no more. That’s because my boxing training sessions are 2 to 2 1/2 hours (26-30 three minute rounds). I also run at least 5 days a week. Basically, as athletes, we must listen to our bodies. Personally, as a boxer, it’s best for me to train 5-6 days a week with one or two rest days. Rest days are very important! God bless you and thank you. 😎🔥🥇 🥊🥊🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾💖✝️

Early gang.

I fight this Saturday… I trained hard for this. I Had a good hard sparring last Thursday and some good sparring last Saturday. Monday I did your conditioning sprints, boxing workout, and calisthenics. I took Tuesday and Wednesday completely off cause I caught a cold and was feeling beat down from training camp and work. Hopefully Thursday I feel better so I can get a shakeout in. Was planning on taking Friday off anyway. Already on weight too

@ilyas447

11 ай бұрын

Hello , how are you? .How was the fight??

What about sparing? We have a few people in gym competing in the TBA Classics in 12 days..

Mate you look sharp. Cant wait to see you in karate combat

Good stuff. IMO, guys train too hard too close to the fight (although I work with mostly grapplers....but I have prepped MMA fighters). I like to keep intensity maxed, but 7 days out cut duration. No more hard striking sparring and you have to watch wrestling also, as it cause more injuries than people think. I will keep some hard ground rolling in (but again careful w/ subs). Tuesday is just fairly hard driling, but total training is under and hour (if we are not cutting a lot of weight). Wed is about 30-40 minutes of hard drilling, Thurs is about 20 minutes of lighter drilling. Lots of stretching during this period. Friday must be complete rest. I work mostly with wrestlers now and they compete so much I just try and give them (and am sometimes at odds w/ their high school coach) a lighter day of wrestling on Tuesday before a wed match. For a big Saturday tourney I advocate Friday completely off if possible.

I skip ropes for warming up before entering the ring for amateur fight. When all my Kru (3, 4 of them, all Lumpini champion) saw it , they immediately stop me like that was a big no no . Is it that bad to skip before fight ? Like to know your opinion.

@GabrielVargaOfficial

Жыл бұрын

Hmmm. I don't see the big issue with that. Keep in mind fighters in Thailand don't warmup the same way western fighters do.

@peteroltuszyk6611

Жыл бұрын

@@GabrielVargaOfficial How do they warm up ?

@dragb6281

Жыл бұрын

@@peteroltuszyk6611 rub alot of oil, massage, shadow box.

@FM-dm8xj

Жыл бұрын

theirs a possibly to injure yourself. and wehre the hell are u training bosss?

@DylanJo123

Жыл бұрын

@@peteroltuszyk6611 I heard they take the first couple of rounds in a fight to "warm up" so to speak. Westerners are known to be hard starters in the Thai's eyes

I have my first tournament this saturday. Should i stop weight lifting for strength this week or not

@shawnreed6895

6 ай бұрын

Yes

Gabriel, how do you feel about Yoga? I swear by it and feel it helps all my martial arts fundamentals & kinetic movements in a very direct way, but I notice a lot of martial arts KZreadrs veer away from Yoga, almost like they swear OFF it. I don't understand, maybe people just hate flexibility, breathing & core-strengthening exercises done in one fluid motion?

@willtoler6917

Жыл бұрын

Yoga is very bad for the human body according to functional patterns. Check them out, myofascia release has been much more optimal for me

@tophernolastname2378

Жыл бұрын

@@willtoler6917 I firmly believe Functional Patterns is one of those "yoga makes me feel uncomfortable & girly, and the Buddhism influences make me angry because I don't need anyone telling me about life(!), and I don't have the patience to just hold a position for a whole minute(!!!), so I'm just gonna get a massage & rationalize my insecurities later" people. The fact he condescendingly said "Yeah, I guess if you do Yoga your heart is in the right place..." confirmed this for me. - His first argument, that "flexibility is overrated", is counteracted by Knees Over Toes Guy who says that extreme flexibility goes hand-in-hand with explosiveness. FP equated extreme flexibility to putting yourself at risk of injury, which shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what Yoga does. It builds core strength as it stretches your muscles, teaches you breath control, magnifies your balance, and it's so low impact you can do it on your recovery days & be okay, or even while injured and still heal-- and it takes YEARS OF DOING IT DAILY, with little to no explosive & strength training, to reach the type of risk-of-injury flexibility he's talking about. - Also, flexibility is EXTREMELY important in martial arts-- more than almost any other sport. The necessity of high kicks in kickboxing, a high guard & rubber guard in Jiu-Jitsu, a wide base in Wrestling, and even the need for maximum range of motion for the footwork of high-level boxing, make flexibility far more requisite compared to, say, in Football or Basketball or Hockey-- I'd even wager flexibility is more important in martial arts than in Soccer. Most anything short of dance or gymnastics. And it's not something you can build by playing with the Bulgarian Bag or combining explosivity, or getting a massage. - The "lack of innovation" argument is also debunked by the existence of Power Yoga-- and he acts like swinging a kettlebell around is groundbreakingly new (as though people weren't exercising with cannonballs right up until the 20th century). - The rest of his arguments are basically "Yeah Yoga is good but you should be doing explosive stuff like wind sprints or swinging the battle mace around to maximize your efficiency"-- I can't do that every day, if I did my knees and joints would be completely fucked up. That's why I started doing Yoga in the first place. Functional Patterns reminds me of Mike Dolce. He was hot shit when he first came out-- then enough people tried him out & didn't have the miracle results they expected, and actually got fucked up, thence Mike Dolce's zenith hath crested.

@KelpWolf

Жыл бұрын

Nobody asked me, but for explosive athletes I think long yoga sessions are a waste of time. I do very short (10 min) evening sessions before bed and I notice an improvement to my movement and speed, without any downsides. However, I am naturally very inflexible. For a naturally flexible person, it might be detrimental, as they should be working more plyos to improve joint support/rigidity, rather than increasing flexibility. Just my opinion

@murugindungu5643

Жыл бұрын

I do yoga before fights to calm myself down.

@shawnreed6895

6 ай бұрын

Great thing to do all through camp and until 2 days before fight. But keep it to 15 minutes.

Should you stop hard sparing close to the fight?

@shawnreed6895

6 ай бұрын

Yes

If I’m 3 days away should I taper down?

@lilflagz8341

7 ай бұрын

Yes