Conditioning for Combat Sports

Showing up in shape is not optional when the person opposite is trying to throw, choke or hit you, and that conviction runs through every chapter here. Steve Scott and John Saylor, coaches who have trained hundreds of national and international champions, set out the methods they use with grapplers and fighters, whatever the discipline.

The ground covered is broad and practical: functional training and why it works, periodisation and planning training cycles around a fight schedule, bodyweight and barbell strength work, kettlebells, medicine balls, plyometrics and some proudly old school power training, with over 400 exercises and the science behind them. Injury prevention gets proper attention too, in the interest of more time on the mat. A serious, no-nonsense manual for judoka, wrestlers, jiu-jitsu players and fighters who want their conditioning to match their technique.