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  • How do you prevent Muscle & Fitness Loss During Injury?

    You can use TENs machines to prevent muscle loss whilst injured Nutrition is important – Under-eating will lead to more muscle loss Clenbuteral is an illegal performance enhancing drug that prevents muscle loss Alpha Lipoic Acid supplementation may help prevent muscle loss and help to alleviate some of the effects of the loss of insulin…

  • Benefits of Working Out / Exercising in the Heat

    Metabolic Responses to Exercise in the Heat – Scientific Analysis For information purposes only. Exercise at your own risk Any team or athlete that competes on an international stage will no doubt have to deal with the physiological challenges that extreme environments can present them with. Competing in extreme heat, is beyond a challenge, it…

  • Limiting Factors of Human Performance

    For information purposes only. Exercise at your own risk Please note – studies in the blog post are referenced by the scientist’s name and then the year in brackets. eg. Williams (1994) refers to a scientist called Williams, who carried out a relevant study in 1994. “et al” basically means “and colleagues” i.e. other scientists…

  • MMA Strength & Conditioning Program · pdf · [2026]

    MMA is one of the world’s most demanding sports. Technique is paramount, but so is fitness – and of course mental resilience and physical toughness. You definitely don’t want to gas out and get tired in a fight if you can help it! Whether you are a pro MMA fighter looking for a strength &…

  • High Altitude Training – The Research

    Live High, Train Low – MMA, Boxing & the Research of High Altitude Training For information purposes only. Exercise at your own risk.  After Tito Ortiz was “out-cardio’d” by Frank Shamrock, the story goes that Tito began to focus on his endurance and began training at high altitude in Big Bear, California. But why? What…

  • How Do MMA Fighters Make Weight – Legal & Illegal Ways

    Making Weight is Dangerous – Hire a professional. Article for information purposes only To become a great fighter in the ever-evolving world of MMA, an individual requires a very specific blend of psychological and physiological abilities and skills. All modern day martial artists are superb athletes and physical proficiency structures the foundation of every distinguished…

  • Joe Rogan – Iron Neck Machine (Scientific Research)

    The Iron Neck is a fantastic machine for building up the muscles in the neck. The iron neck is effectively a ‘halo’ that attaches to your head and chin via straps/bands. The Iron Neck also has a pump – which inflates to get the apparatus to fit perfectly to your head. Iron neck Training Joe…

  • Joe Rogan – Psoas Device

    Myofascial Release with Pso-Rite The psoas stretching device that Joe Rogan discusses on one of his JRE episodes, is the pso-rite Someone has also designed a DIY version to save a few $$£. You can see the design here. It doesn’t look like PSO-Rite available in the UK yet. My poor-man’s-version is to use a…

  • Loughborough Sport Science – Review (BSc Sport & Exercise Science)

    Please bear in mind that I graduated over ten years ago. Positives of Studying Sport Science at Loughborough University Amazing university; with unbelievable facilities. The university is one of the best in the country The work ethic of the students is unbelievable The Sport Science staff boast some of the leading experts in the country…

  • Salford City FC – How I think they could improve

    Watching Class of ’92: Out of their league; one thing that stood out a mile, was how unhappy the players were. Football appears to be the same from the professionals, down to the youth leagues – far too much shouting and aggressiveness. How are people supposed to play with flair, creativity and passion, when their self…