neijia_boxer wrote:while i am reading forrest Griffins book, i found and excellent point he makes in one of his chapters: he talks about his friend that does all the running and circuits and weight training but still gases in a fight. forrest goes on to say something quite intelligent for his low IQ (he states his is only 87) that the best cardio trainining for fighting it rolling and sparring, not only that but with a fresh opponent while in a bad position/scenerio each new round to make it extra difficult.
that was good motivation to go to sparring and bjj more frequently.
Tom wrote: I haven't found long sustained periods of cardiopulmonary effort to be as useful as shorter bursts using one of the approaches to interval training and its variants.
Chris Fleming wrote:Sounds reasonable...to a point. First thing that comes to mind is that Forrest's friend isn't able to calm his mind and body down in a fight and promptly throws his breathing out the window when it comes to the fight. That would gas anyone regardless of training.
rolling, the same thing, you'll get cardio, but you also go anaerobic at times.
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