Well, we had UFC 119 last night…and in what is getting to become more and more commonplace in the sport of MMA, we had some what many think is just lousy judging to go along with it.

(Kinda funny that all the MMA fanboys talk about the bad judging in boxing all the time…now it’s carrying over to MMA as well.)

Crazy thing is that it happened not only once, but TWICE on the same card!

As much I’ve been a fan of Sherk over the years, he just didn’t deserve to win that fight. Hell, 3 major MMA news sites all scored it 2 rounds to 1 for Dunham.

(And WTF was it w/Sherk looking like he was getting tired at the end of the 3rd? Since when does he gas?)

But that wouldn’t be the end, as the judges of the Bade/Lil Nog fight ended up deciding that getting in a takedown or two (even if you do nothing with it) is enough to win a round in the last 30 secs or so…even if you lost the other 4:30 of it.

Oh, and a few MMA news sites I checked this morning had Lil Nog winning that one, too.

When you’ve got Dana White sending out how much the judges suck via his Twitter account *during* the event…well…guess there just isn’t much more to say.

There is, however, one MAJOR lesson everybody should learn from this:

NEVER LEAVE IT UP TO THE JUDGES

If you’re a fighter, the absolute worst thing you could do is to let your fight go to a decision. Judges in combat sports in general have proven too many times that the guy who deserves to win the fight isn’t always the one w/his hand raised at the end of the night.

Same goes in ‘regular’ life. Whenever you’re doing any sorta task, unless it’s completely necessary, NEVER let it come down to the point where you have to rely or depend on the opinion of somebody else.

In either kinda scenario, you should always strive to win on your own terms…or at the very least, in such overly convincing fashion that there is NO QUESTION that you just won (no matter what you’re talking about).

And if you’re gonna do that, one of the best things you can do is be in the best shape you possible can be in. Having an advantage in strength, power, conditioning, explosiveness, recovery, how much work you can do, etc is something that puts you in a position to
always be ready to win…

…and win on your own terms.

That’s what the “Championship Edition 2.0″ MMA workout can help you prepare for. A complete 4-phase fight prep program, this workout gets you stronger and gives you better wind, only to take that strength and build explosiveness, to add in intense/paced conditioning, and then to bring it all together with ‘power-conditioning’ – a type of training that makes you not only super explosive, but makes you be able to explode time after time after time after timer…all without getting tired.

And if you’re not competing in the cage, but just in life itself…well…you trying to say that being in the best possible shape still couldn’t help you?

Damn right it could.

So don’t let your ‘wins’ and ‘losses’ be determined by somebody else that might or might not know WTF they’re doing. Don’t leave any doubt to as who the winner is…

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Train Hard, Rest Hard, Play Hard-
Matt “Wiggy” Wiggins
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Q – Why is a fighter like the ’80s cartoon and toy He-Man?

(…jeez – this sounds like it’s gonna be some kinda dumb joke, huh?)

(And NO, the answer doesn’t have anything to do with long, flowing locks of blonde hair…LMAO!)

A – They body have “the power”.

(Ok, so maybe it *did* end up sounding like a dumb joke, haha

However you slice it, though, a fighter isn’t gonna get anywhere in his career unless he has power. He can have the big muscles (just like He-Man, LOL), and even be plenty strong, but if he’s slow…he might as well not even show up.

Don’t believe me? Think about it. What about:

-shooting in for a takedown

-sprawling to defend

-scrambling for position

-any kind of strike you want to throw

-avoiding those strikes (lol)

Are ANY of those things done slowly? Not a chance. And most of them need a good chunk of strength, as well.

I mean, being fast is great, but if there’s no strength behind it, then, well…who cares if you can shoot in a grab a leg, if
the other guy could literally just drag you around the cage like a rag doll?

And when you take speed and add strength, you get…

Power.

But even then, though – that’s not enough. B/c believe it or not, I’d be willing to be that most guys who compete or
train MMA (or ‘trane UFC’…inside joke for those that get it, lol), are already pretty damn powerful.

At least, they start out that way.

But after a couple rounds of hard rolling, sparring, or fighting, how are they? How much of that power can they still take
advantage of?

Because THAT is when fights are won!

I mean, think about it – if you’re just as powerful at the end of your fight (or at least pretty damn close to it) as you are
at the beginning, what kinda advantage do you think you now have over your opponent?

Yeah…I bet you’ve got all kinds of cool stuff running through your head right now, huh?

Well, that’s where power-conditioning comes into play…the kind of training that:

-helps you not gas out

-makes your shots and strikes explosive at the end of your fights

-gives you the work capacity to simply out-hustle your opponent

-gives you a ‘leg up’ on all the competition

And it’s exactly what the “Championship Edition 2.0″ MMA workout builds to. Because that is what will get a fighter in
the best shape, and give him the best chance of winning…that’s exactly what the “Champ Edition 2.0″ builds.

So, how interested are you in having that advantage over any opponent you step into the cage with?

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Train Hard, Rest Hard, Play Hard-
Matt “Wiggy” Wiggins
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Pro athletes are a funny bunch.

These guys (and gals) get to do – for a living – what most of us love to do in our free time. While you & I wish we had more time to participate in our favorite sport, simply because it’s something we really enjoy doing, these people actually get paid – and usually paid very, very well – to do it full-time.

(Just how awesome would that be, anyway?)

You’d think that like all other professionals (esp when it comes to athletes that make major bank), they’d bust ass to be as prepared as possible. But, many times, that’s just not the case.

Yeah…blows my mind, too. I mean, Albert Haynesworth…dude. Really? How many times did he fail that damn conditioning test, anyway? I dunno about you, but back when I worked for somebody else, if I was given a test or task like that, if I failed it a bunch of times, I didn’t get to keep trying until I made it. My ass woulda got fired.

Sucks being blue-collar, huh?

Funny, because I’ve gotten a number of emails over the years about fighters for this very thing. Too many times you see MMAists that are fighting at top levels – even in friggin’ championship fights – yet still totally gas in their fights.

Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.

(Or, in other words…WTF!?!)

In an ironic twist, the guy I’ve gotten the most emails questions about is the guy (former UFC champ, actually) that I originally designed the ‘Championship Edition 2.0′ MMA workout for. Here is a guy that’s one of the best fighters in the ENTIRE WORLD (let that sink in for a second) at his weight class. In the opinion of many, for a while, he was one of the best in the world at any weight class.

Yet, he’d go into fights, and completely gas. What gives? Why wouldn’t this guy get in shape?

(I’m not gonna say who I’m talking about, so don’t ask. He ended up not using the ‘Champ Edition’ program, but he did eventually end up solving some of his conditioning problems. Of course, the fight he was supposed to use the ‘Champ Edition’ workout for, what happened? He gassed. Big time. As in bad.)

So why don’t a lot of these guys come into fights in shape?

Well, surprisingly enough, many times, guy actually are in shape…conditioning isn’t their problem. Their problem doesn’t lie within their body. It lies somewhere else. It’s a lack of heart. Motivation. Desire. Cajones.

Legendary football coach Vince Lombardi once said, “Fatigue makes cowards of us all”. How true.

You see, anybody can be a badass when things are easy and going their way. What you do when things get tough is what determines your true character. And some fighters, when they get tired, simply just give the hell up. They quit trying. They let their gameplan go out the window. Their desire to win is gone. You can see the ‘fight’ in their eyes is simply gone. All they give a damn about is getting the fight done so they can rest.

GAWD, I hate that.

I’ve seen more people skate by in their lives (not just in MMA or athletics, but in life in general) on pure talent – their natural abilities that makes them better than almost everybody else just by default.

But know how they say that there is “always somebody bigger” (or badder, or faster, or stronger, or whatever)? When these talent-laden peeps meet ‘em, they just fold up and quit. And it’s sickening.

Because it’s not a lack of heart…at least on some level it’s not. I mean, it takes some nuts to climb into the ring or cage and be willing to get hit in the face. Not just anybody is up for that.

However, let fatigue set in…then you find out who has the true character. The true heart. The true desire.

That’s what causes fighters to gas more than anything, IMO. They don’t gas because they’re tired…they gas because they give up.

Usually, though, if these guys didn’t given up first, they’d end up gassing due to a lack of conditioning, anyway. Because if a guy is gonna quit in his fight (where it all really matters) when he gets tired, chances are that he doesn’t train that hard in the first place.

Because here’s the thing about real hard training – esp hard strength & conditioning workouts – when you work your ass off, when you train harder than you thought you could, when you push your body to new levels…when you make yourself now capable of doing something you couldn’t do before…you not only build your body. You build your character.

You’re not only adapting to lifting heavier weight, or breathing harder. You’re adapting to working. You’re adapting to effort. You’re training yourself to be able to push to that level you didn’t have before.

It’s that kind of intrinsic drive and work ethic that doesn’t let you quit when you get in the ring, and shit hits the fan.

If you’ve spent your time running hard sprints, doing crazy intense complexes and circuits, or struggling up that new deadlift PR, that little voice in you that tells you to keep working and not to give up is the exact same little voice that will keep you working in the cage…that won’t let you give up.

Now, I’m not saying guys don’t legit gas in their fights – because it does happen. Sometimes a guy just works so damn hard that he leaves it all on the mat, and the other guy is just better on that day. There is nothing wrong with that. But when a guy is done early…at least earlier than you know he should be…inferior conditioning usually isn’t his only problem.

So what do you do? Do you keep on pushing? Do you keep on working? Do you not let yourself quit? Or do you, as Lombardi said, let fatigue make a coward of you?

Are you ready to put the effort and work in…making you not only stronger, faster, better conditioned…but tougher, as well?

If so, then you should check out the ‘Championship Edition 2.0′ MMA workout.

It was a program that was specifically designed for the needs of MMA – it gets you stronger, builds an aerobic base, then moves onto power work, anaerobic conditioning, and then most important of all, power-conditioning.

This is the program that will take you as an MMAist through all the physical levels of conditioning to bring you into your next fight, the best you that you’ve ever been.

And what if you don’t fight? Say life itself is your fight. Well, 12 weeks from now, would you be a better you if you were stronger, more explosive, in better shape, had better cardio, and had lost some bodyfat along the way?

Sure would.

Don’t mess around – be a better you. Don’t “gas out” in your next fight…no matter what that fight is.

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Train Hard, Rest Hard, Play Hard-
Matt “Wiggy” Wiggins
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One of the questions I seem to get a lot is what sort of workout do you need to do to be in shape for MMA?

Many guys seem to think that ‘cardio’ is the big thing, and that they should spend all their time running. (Most of the time, this is b/c they’ve watched too many fights on TV, and some announcer…who usually knows jack about what he’s talking about…keeps talking about some fighter’s “cardio”.)

While cardio is important, it’s just a small piece of the puzzle. A good MMA workout needs to:

-get you stronger and more powerful

-not add muscle mass (remember, MMA is about weight classes – getting stronger is no good if you gotta fight bigger guys now)

-improve your wind (hence all the ‘cardio’ talk)

-increase your power-conditioning (in other words, make you just as powerful at the end of the fight when you’re fatigued as you are at the beginning of your fight)

-give you more work capacity overall – you *never* wanna lose a fight b/c you “gas”

And then there are two of the most important factors not yet mentioned…and both have to do with time. A fight camp doesn’t last forever, so you have to be able to do many of these things pretty quickly (in a matter of just a few weeks).

Also, your workout needs to not take a whole ton of time, as you’re gonna be busy with all your fight training, drilling, and sparring to spend a ton of time on your strength and conditioning.

(And if you think about it, a workout that does all this kinda thing is perfect for the ‘regular guy’, too…even if you don’t train in MMA.)

So how do you accomplish all this? With a dedicated program like the ‘Championship Edition 2.0′ MMA workout.

(You know…the workout that was originally designed for a former UFC champ?)

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Train Hard, Rest Hard, Play Hard-
Matt “Wiggy” Wiggins
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Been spending a while talking about power, and how to train for it (as well as why some of the ‘traditional’ methods don’t work that well).

I’ve been talking about complexes and circuit training some lately, but I wanna get into something specific today – a certain kinda complex I *really* like.

I call them “Power Complexes”.

(Simple enough name, huh? LOL)

Complexes are cool, but you’re sometimes limited in just what exercises you can do, simply b/c you end up limited by how much weight you can do, and/or how much equipment you can tie up / occupy at once.

I mean, I could tell you to do bench presses, deadlifts, clean & presses, and back squats all in the same complex for the most weight you could crank out six reps with, but let’s face it – it’s gonna be tough – esp in a commercial gym – to be able to tie up a bench, squat rack, and two other bars just to do those four exercises.

Actually, that’s why I like designing most kinds of complexes with dumbbells and the like only, as it’s a lot less equipment intensive.

However, as awesome as DB-only type complexes are, you’re still only gonna be able to lift *so* much weight. And there will be the time that you need to just move some big weights around.

But how do you do it w/o needing a bunch of equipment? And how do you combine super-heavy training (which usually has to be done slower – and therefore not good for power) with explosive training (which *is* good for power)?

Simple – do what I call “Power Complexes”. You simply just pair up two exercises – one heavy movement with one explosive movement. The heavy movement will be done with a barbell, heavy DBs, sandbag, or whatever. Do this for 5-6 reps.

Then do a lighter, very explosive movement – say a jump of some kind or maybe DB swings – for more reps…say 10-15.

The key here is to not pair up certain types of exercises, or else you end up hurting your performance, and end up getting much less than optimal results.

And if you stack them correctly, Power Complexes can be used to *drastically* increase your work capacity as well as keep your conditioning at crazy levels…not just for your wind, but for your power, strength-endurance, muscular conditioning, and a ton more.

(In fact, this is the reason why Power Complexes are such a big part of the latter stages of the “Championship Edition 2.0″ MMA Workout.)

Try them out in your next workout – lemme know what you think.

Train Hard, Rest Hard, Play Hard-
Matt “Wiggy” Wiggins
Cardio Workouts | Workout Plans | MMA Workout | MMA Training

PS – I’m gonna talk a little more about this in the next day or so, but remember a few days ago, I let y’all know about Adam Linkenauger and his Vertical Jump videos? Well, he’s got a new VJ program I’ve been looking at, and VJ is your thing, you *really* should give it a look. More info soon.