Jun
23
Unique Nutritional Demands for Cage Fighters
The demands of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) competitions, such as the Ultimate Fighting Championship or EliteXC, are very high. Competitors in such events are required not only to be in top physical shape but also to bring a wide variety of skills to the table including Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Boxing, Muay Thai Kickboxing, and Wrestling. What this means for the athlete is that his diet has to be formulated in a way that allows maximum performance in a variety of different sports with different demands.
The structure of MMA training also places unique demands on the diet of an athlete. Maryland MMA trainer, Lloyd Irvin, has his professional fighters training four sessions a day. These sessions are relatively short, 1-2 hours, and can be hard “banging” days to technical sessions which involve hitting the mitts or working on Brazilian Jiu Jitsu techniques. Other MMA training programs use longer workouts but limit them to two per day. Obviously, the demands of boxing for 12 rounds will be very different than drilling Brazilian Jiu Jitsu movements on the ground and the diet of each athlete should reflect that.
Any diet must also reflect the time demands of the athlete. Four “relatively-short” sessions of one hour would still require the athlete to be at the gym on four separate occasions. At my Baltimore MMA training center, we do not have a fully functioning kitchen and I assume that most gyms are the same. Consequently, meals must be pre-prepared and stored. Even for athletes who have homes close to the training center, they are too busy to spend one hour of a three hour break, just cooking a proper meal so pre-preparation is of vital importance.
It is very important that any aspiring MMA fighter, or martial artist, take the time to properly prepare their diet. It is probably the single most neglected area of MMA training at the lower levels since most of the athletes’ time and money gets spent on training. However, there is a reason that all of the top MMA fighters have professional diet and nutrition protocols. The faster you can mimic what the professionals do, the faster you will get there.
Adam Delbrugge
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