RB34
March 4, 2010, 8:20pm
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Do you train in MMA or train any fighters? I boxed competitively for 11 years as an amateur. I trained in Kyokushin karate for years as well as dabbling in jiu jitsu. I love all of it. I will say this though. To be properly prepared for fighting is about as far from football as you can get. You need a healthy dose of muscular endurance to compete in fighting sports. Much more than you need for football. Brock Lesnar had to change his training drastically since his try out with the Vikings. I have seen very few football players who could go one round in MMA with out being spent. Conversely, I doubt many MMA guys could even hold their own in D2 college football. It is following the same idiotic path that Barwis has been using at Michigan. Look at his results. Football is mostly alatic. MMA is lactic/aerobic. In a perfect world it might work, but I personally think its a bad idea. Take a really good high school football team and 11 Navy Seals. Play football, and I will put my money on the high school kids. The qualities that make you good at one sport don’t necessarily translate to another.
Shit i’ll take big east championships etc. When I played high school football in texas we had a 4-6 weeks of boot camp training every year marching around the school, crawling through the mud, mat drills, squat, bp, clean, mil press for 30sec as fast as possible etc.