Fight Training Anywhere & Anytime: Always Be Fight Ready
Stop "working out" and instead start TRAINING!
Each session needs to make you punch faster, kick harder, grip stronger, choke tighter and last longer.
Introducing "Solo Fight Training Routines to Develop Fight Strength, Cardio, Endurance & Explosiveness".
Training routines designed to transform you into becoming ready fight ready to defend, protect and dominate. This isn't about looking good; it's about becoming hard to kill.
Burpees are one of the best bodyweight exercises you can do.
They are difficult so a lot of people skip them. But it's the last exercise you should be skipping because Burpees mimic the closes movement to a high intensity of a fight - changing levels. Sprawling as if you are defending a takedown and getting back up to your feet. Then by adding the pushup and a jump squat, you work on your strength, explosiveness and fight cardio.
These 12 variations are some of the best ways to level up your training: cardio, strength, explosiveness and grit.
Got a killer drill for you that'll turn you into a sharp, aggressive, forward-pressure fighter -straight out of the K1 Dutch kickboxing playbook.
It's called 1-2-3, and it's all about throwing crisp, powerful strikes to cause damage, whether you're hitting the bag or shadow boxing.
Curious how it works? Hit the link below for the full breakdown.
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What does a salad have to do with training? Everything. Quality food = good nutrients = energy.
Curious how it's made?
What if you could sharpen your strikes, fix your mistakes and make flawless execution feel automatic - all in one simple drill?
The result? When it's go-time, you'll move with zero hesitation - pure, effortless skill.
Curious how it works?
I've put together a quick post with a video breakdown that walks you through step-by-step...
Want to boost your punching power right now?
In this post, I'm sharing a drill you can start today. It's all about putting in reps to develop and work on your power.
This isn't about the "how" of throwing punches with perfect body mechanics - that's for another time. Here, I'm focusing on the "what": a practical drill you can do on the bag to build the power you need. It's all about repetition and throwing power shots.
10 round system you can implement right away to help you master your 4 fundamentals punches and 4 fundamental combinations.
This can be done in shadow boxing or on the punching bag.
Your fundamental four punches you need to start with and always comeback to are:
Here is the 10-round system to make you to put in the reps and master your fundamentals...
The problem most have is being too immobile, too stationary and when they do move, being too slow.
And you have to train to be light on your feet so you can move into position quicker, move out so you don't get hit and get into new angles to hit from before he has a chance to respond.
All this comes from being light on your feet...
One of the best ways to become better and improve your skill is to isolate. Putting constraints on your drilling and training.
This means only throwing specific punch, kick, combination, takedown, transition, submission or working only defense, offense or counters.
So instead of using all the tools you have, instead you focus on one or selected few.
One of these limitations and constraints is drilling same side lead strikes...
Been asked: "What do you like for footwork drills for kickboxing?"
Don't separate boxing footwork drills or kickboxing footwork drills or wrestling footwork drills. Combine them all into one. Fighting footwork drills.
As far as footwork drills go, here is what I do. There is a progression but I start off by drilling in isolation...
You need to train to reach a level of exhaustion and then keep going past it.
Many guys make a mistake when they get tired - they stop. You can go a lot longer than your mind is telling you. Your mind is telling you to stop but your body can keep on going.
I'm going to break down what do and what to throw when you reach a level of exhaustion.
There is a big misconception and wrong information about using shadow boxing with weights.
I've been using shadow boxing with weights but not for the reasons most think. I'm going to break everything down what you should use it for and what it actually helps to build...
Most important punch you have in your arsenal is THE JAB. And I've talked a lot about using the jab.
But there are 6 mistakes you need to avoid when throwing the most important punch. Because what NOT to do is just as important as what to do.
Here are 6 jab mistakes you need to avoid and how to fix them...
Blitz forward while punching and move backwards while countering. Forward blitz is aggressive. Backward countering is defensive. Both use footwork and punching at the same time.
I'm going to show you how to charge forward, cover distance and throw punches at the same time. And also how to retreat backwards while throwing counter shots at the same time...
"Fighter's Footwork Training Program" is now available.
Become untouchable - develop fighter's footwork to move and punch while moving.
You will learn how to use your footwork to get yourself into positions to hit from and get yourself out tough positions to avoid getting hit. Most importantly, you will learn how to punch while moving.
Street fights are quick, unpredictable and chaotic. You won't have time to pace yourself for 3 or 5 rounds.
You will empty your gas tank within first few seconds and then you have to continue to fight. Will you have the cardio, strength, speed and power to continue past 60 seconds?
Here is a drill you need to introduce into your shadow boxing and punching bag training to help you develop the speed, aggression and cardio to go all out in short intense burst and then keep going...
The jab > cross is one of your quintessential 2-punch combinations.
It's the fundamental fight combo and one of the most powerful 2-punch sequences you have.
In this post and video breakdown I'll show you how to use the jab to set up your cross to consistently land on target using a freestyle drill...
When you drill, you are isolating a specific movement, punch, kick or combination in order to instill the technique and body mechanics into your muscle memory. So you can throw it when it matters without a conscious thought.
There are 3 different ways to do this: Slow, Flow, High Pace.
This will give you ability to master any punch, kick, movement and combination. You can apply the same principles to grappling and submission.
I'm going to break each of these down and show you how to do this with individual punches and with combinations...
"Should I learn how to fight out of both fight stances: orthodox and southpaw? Or should I stick to one stance, my dominant fight stance?"
Primarily you're going to be fighting out of one fight stance, your dominant fight stance: either orthodox or southpaw.
But you do need to be able to also switch to your opposite fight stance when needed.
I will breakdown how to become the best in your dominant fight stance while also maximizing damage from opposite stance...
Just added FREE bonus audio to the "Sprawl and Brawl: Solo Cardio Training Program".
It was inspired by Sakuraba. An MMA legend who fought in Pride Championship and became known as the "Gracie Hunter". He was known for his unbelievable cardio, having fought 90+ minutes in a single fight. That's in addition of having to fight multiple fights in the same night.
In early 2000s, Sakuraba had a training program showing his fighting method. In one of the drills he shared calisthenics based cardio session. He would do a bodyweight exercise switching to a new exercise every 5 seconds on a round based system.
I got inspired to create something similar for you to implement. So I created an audio for you to use.
Pull-ups are one of the best exercises for upper body. It will help to build key strength for wrestling, grappling and punching.
However when you reach a certain level, standard pull-ups without any added resistance become too easy. You don't feel you are actually working until you get to 10+.
You can add weighted vest or weighted belt to increase resistance and this will work.
But I have a better solution for you...
Flexibility and mobility is the most underused, underdeveloped and undertrained aspect of training and fighting.
Lack of it affects everything. Your speed, power, movement. You will get tapped easier due to lack of full range of movement. You can't kick as high, kick as fast or generate the full power in your strikes.
In this post I will breakdown my 10-min flexibility and mobility session I do every time I train...
Fighting is all about tension and relaxation. You need to be able to go from one to the other in a split of a second. This allows you to be fast, have the snap and the whip needed to land and not waste a lot of energy while you do it.
Most of the high level fighters have this. One of them is Floyd Mayweather. There is a drill he does that will help you develop this flow then explode ability. I will breakdown Mayweather's drill and how can do to implement it on the punching bag
There are fights that you must watch as they have important fight lessons to teach. Such a fight is Joshua vs Ngannou.
It was a very short fight, only 1 1/2 rounds but it packs in a lot of fight lessons. Things you can take away immediately and begin to apply into your own training and drilling.
The fight came down to perfect execution of fundamentals.
In this post and video I will breakdown everything Joshua did to win the fight. Most importantly, things you can take away from it and apply to your own training...
"Sprawl and Brawl: Solo Fight Cardio Training Program" is now available.
It will help you to develop and maintain fight cardio to fight at high pace.
Best part of this program is it can be done anywhere, anytime, you only need 15 minutes, 4x per week with no equipment necessary and it can be done at any skill level...
What does it take to develop suffocating death grip?
The type of grip when you get a hold of someone's wrist or when you grasp hands together and squeeze, no one is able to break it.
Developing this type of suffocating and unbreakable grip comes from specific set of exercises you need to implement into your training on regular basis.
In this post I'm going to show you what they are and how to train it...
In a fight there is usually an aggressor.
The one who comes in heavy handed, pressuring and pushing. Especially in a street fight.
All you need to do to combat this are 3 things: move laterally, constantly jab and throw a power cross or overhand.
Let's break each of these down in detail so you can execute this when it matters.
"Do you have any tips or drills for head movement when working the heavy bag?"
There is no difference when you are working head movement on the punching bag than when you are working head movement in shadow boxing, speed bag, rope drills, pads or sparring.
You transfer how you're moving and what you're doing from one to the other. You keep the same technique, movement, flow and pacing as you transition from shadow boxing, to pads, to speed bag and to sparring.
Let me give you some specific tips to implement as you drill head movement on the punching bag.
"Brawl a technical striker and out strike a brawler. The one who can impose their game better - wins."
In Topuria vs Emmett fight that took place in Jacksonville, FL on June 24th, 2023 - Topuria was a better striker. The fight was a clear match up of styles. Topuria being a technical striker and Emmett being a brawler, a power puncher. Topuria put on a technical striking masterclass in the fight and showed how to beat someone who processes one-punch KO power.
In this breakdown you will learn how to be a more technical striker and beat a brawling power puncher.
What does it mean to "lead with a jab" or "leave with a jab"?
It simply means this:
Let's break this down further on why and how to use this more effectively.
There are 5 ranges of fighting you need to get good at.
These 5 ranges take you from outside to kicking to punching to clinch/wrestling to grappling.
Each of the ranges is its own discipline. You'll have to get good at them all to be a complete fighter. But you NOT only need to be able to fight in each range, you also need to flawlessly transition from one range into another.