Fight Conditioning

In class we talk about "Combat Conditioning" and "Combat Fitness"

Combat fitness is “the ability to perform in a combatively effective manner under conditions of extreme physical and mental stress”.

Combat Conditioning, which is “training that prepares the body/mind to perform at optimal levels of combative efficiency under less than optimal conditions”.

Here is Tony Blauer talking about fitness and training....

"A fight that lasts three to five minutes isn’t a fight; that’s more like a round in a UFC match. Real street confrontations are over in ten or fifteen seconds, and that’s important to know because if you don’t really understand how to analyze the confrontation, you can’t prepare for it as effectively. Someone who thinks the fight is going to last for five minutes will train using some sort of sport training where they pace themselves for five minutes, clinch, rest, and so on. Real confrontations are sudden and violent. A person training with a sport mindset can be overwhelmed by that sudden extremely violent close-quarter fight. Understanding exactly what goes on, from timeline to psychodynamics, from the pre-contact phase to the moment of collision helps you define and design a training program."

To read the entire interview, follow the link:

http://www.tonyblauer.com/FilesUpload/blauer_crossfit_journal_interview.pdf