nayr01

Right now im going to the gym every other day and am starting at a mma gym real soon. I have a question about my weightlifting right now when i go to the gym i go for an hour and do mostly machines working the whole body i also do pullups and dips and mostly isolation excercices. At my gym their is literaly no room to do things like cleans squats snatches and excercices im just finding out about and their effectiveness my question is would i be beter off buying some weights for my house and do the excercices i listed before as well as using body weight excercices and a swiss ball and a resistane cable or stay at the gym doing machines and isolation movements?

Note this is for mma not bodybuilding or anything else also my diet is clean with lots of dairy and fruit and whole wheat with a protion shake befoe and after a tought workout and im 15 years old been going to the gym for a year

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GSPALLTHEWAY

im not 100% sure of the specifics, but in general iscolation movements are more for body building, and dynamic movements are more for MMA... so wherever u can do the most freerange of explosive power movememnts is probably your best bet

nayr01

thanks im prety sure im going to go with the home training but i would like a few more opinions

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nayr01

come on guys please comment i need adivce thanks

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Trbowrx71

Bj is correct, isolation movements are for more of BB then what MMA focus's on.

You mentioned dairy in your diet, are you trying to lose weight, dairy is pretty counter productive to this simply because of the lactose and the carbs and should generally be avoided while trying to lose weight, if you HAVE to have it, then skim.

Not doing power cleans, stiff leg's, snatchs and such, wont hurt ya in a MMA aspect.

Lifting for more explosiveness and muscle stamina should be your focus more then just brute strength.

You said your starting a MMA gym soon, i think it would be best to let your trainer outline a lifting program and let you know what he think will benefit you the most, and just keep doing what your doing until then.

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sitnspin

It's true about the dairy. Many of the top dudes in MMA (Couture, Franklin, GSP, etc) include little to no dairy in their diet at all. Couture says that it raises the acid level in your muscles, contributing to soreness and slower recuperation, and he also believes that it makes you sluggish.

At 43, clearly the brother is doing something right.

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nayr01

haha thank guys losing weight is not a problem at all im (not trying to show off) but im well above average for my age in terms of being healty i think i might stick with the gym jsut change up my routine a bit thanks

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MTKrav911

Focus on the small twitch muscles if you want to do well in MMA.

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GSPALLTHEWAY

haha seems like you were going to do that regardless of what anyone posted.... glad your doing so well!

nayr01

small twitch muscles never herd of em what are they and do you no some good excerices

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GSPALLTHEWAY

he means fast twitch muscles...
they are dynamic movements that simulate MMA movements plyo's etc etc

MTKrav911

Thanks. I always call em slow twitch cause the guys I know and fighter's I've seen who are in what I call good MMA shape, you see those small fibrous muscles "twitch" muscles, so I always call em small or slow twitch muscles.

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bigpoppapuff

don't lift more than two days a week......more than that is not going to help.....