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Athletic Preparation for Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)
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Athletic Preparation for Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)

By Dr. Nicola Sacchi - Author of the book: Drugs and doping in sport - MMA or mixed martial arts: it is the most complete full-contact combat sport that exists. This discipline combines the techniques of numerous martial arts, thus allowing the athlete an infinite variety of possible combinations to win the opponent

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Circular football technique in real combat

The actual combat (as well as the sporting one) is situational, ie the technical tactical choices to be made in this context must be different depending on the situation that can be presented; and these situations can be endless. The ability of a good fighter lies in the ability to do the right thing at the right time (ie in the ability to know how to adapt one's moves to those of the opponent or opponents)
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Aerobic martial arts

By Dr. Michela Folli Here we are ... Good morning Fitness fans ... how are you? Thanks, thanks, I'm fine ... Well well ... I have just returned from a spinning lesson ... my students, among other things this evening were all brand new, I had never seen them, they were all smiling, satisfied and sweaty
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Circular football training

- First part - Given what technical elements the circular stock is made of, let's now see what are the most effective ways to train it and to learn as quickly as possible to execute it in the most correct way. Before getting down to the practical, however, it is necessary to make a premise about the types of human movement that exist and about motor learning so that one can fully appreciate the meaning of a training program
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Circular football training

" first part Each of the analytical movements must be studied according to the chronological order in which they follow each other in the overall execution of the technique, when each movement of the circular stock creates the conditions for the next one. On the other hand, when this does not happen, one can also avoid studying the movements in this order in such a way as to make the training more varied and to avoid therefore boring the pupil making him always do the same exercises
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Martial arts and the psychology of confrontation

In the martial arts everything starts from physical contact: touching, grasping, catching, striking, fighting, sweating with and against the "other". Does it seem easy ?! Immediate?! Do all the puppies do it ?! And yet it is precisely here that the first resistances, the first difficulties, meet
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Athletic Preparation for Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)

By Dr. Nicola Sacchi - Author of the book: Drugs and doping in sport - MMA or mixed martial arts: it is the most complete full-contact combat sport that exists. This discipline combines the techniques of numerous martial arts, thus allowing the athlete an infinite variety of possible combinations to win the opponent
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The technique of circular football

«The starting position of the circular football We have seen how the starting position of circular football should be, but let us now see the dynamics of the blow itself. We have said that the first movement to be carried out is the complete distension of the posterior leg so as to favor the movement of the whole trunk forward with a trajectory that remembers that of the stroke itself.
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Predominantly energetic mechanisms in Karate competitions

By Dr. Gianpiero Greco Unfortunately, it is still possible to see a lack of scientific knowledge on the physiological characteristics of combat sports. It would be enough to take a ride in the gyms where martial arts are practiced to realize that athletic training is often left to chance. Of course we must not generalize, because in the best structures the various knowledge of biomechanics and physiology of sport is correctly applied
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Resistance training in martial arts

During a real fight, many skills are needed to survive. Among these we remember, first of all, a good fighting technique, thanks to which it will be possible to develop effective blows with the right energy saving. In addition to technique, athletic qualities such as strength, endurance and speed are also needed, known in theory of movement and training as conditional abilities
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Relationship between Strength and Body Weight in Martial Arts

Article by: Savino Sarcina A parenthesis must be made on the relationship between strength and body weight. The reduction in body weight is linked to the concept of absolute and relative strength. Taking as an example an athlete of Olympic lifting, or of the jet of the weight, as already mentioned the importance of the component maximum strength increases with the increase of the overload that must be moved
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