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Chapter 6 · Pike Performance - Performance Hub Podcast

Concurrent Training and MMA Methodology

May 10, 2020

I mean, the thing is, if you look at like, even like things like West side style, like what, what Louie Simmons popularized with what he calls a conjugate training right If we look at a concurrent training plan you can still go for max lifts There nothing inherently wrong with that But what you probably want to do if you have high blood pressure, high resting heart rate, and your metrics are off a little bit, you might just want to spend 20 minutes working out to a good one to five rep max, and then maybe do some conditioning off the side of that. Do a couple of accessory movements and add some really easy, steady aerobic work after aerobic intervals or something else don't avoid it because you think that's going to make your total go down or that's going to make you weaker because that that doesn't seem to be the case this is interesting because um i guess block the kind of eastern style block periodization is was traditionally you know really popular um i guess maybe you could say that conjugate is or the west side thing is almost it's got some of that to it but then obviously you have this undulating nature to it but um that concurrent training became much less popular um in kind of the last i don't know 10 or 20 years um but it seems to be coming back now and i think um a chap who i interviewed for the podcast a couple of weeks ago chris myer sent be an excerpt from a Dan Baker interview and he was kind of talking about the way maybe MMA is starting to change the way we look at training or strength and conditioning for sports in terms of in MMA we need to use you know aerobic fitness, alactic, lactate, all your you know your energy systems are all going to be heavily needed as well as that max end strength you know and we're they're able to generate and and train all those things seemingly concurrently maybe we can apply that same kind of methodology to the weight room. And it seems to be building popularity now, just training everything at once and maybe just increasing or decreasing the amount we're focusing on different, you know, aspects of that.