Strength Exercises That Hurt MMA Performance and Skills

Here are 5 reasons traditional barbell exercises can never help a fighter improve on.

First, all these exercises are performed in a bi lateral and stationary position that only happens on the sagittal plane. Handling forces on a longitude manner. Remember there is no movements like this that are in combat. Boxing techniques are happening on the transverse plane using multi directional forces.

Second, Barbell exercises don’t train you to loco mote taking all rotation out of the body ‘s oblique slings systems thus limited the gait cycle.

Third, barbell exercises don’t train the core systems in a slinging manner to perform contralateral reciprocation.

Fourth, barbells don’t promote a stretch reflex needed in sports which require balance, agility and timing.

Fifth, if you have any current injuries to your shoulders, spine, hips and knees barbell lifts are the worst exercise to do then. There are quite a bit of negative effects on the human skeletal muscular system.

Bench pressing damages the rotor cuff and creates overly tight pecs, thus not allowing the shoulder joint to move as freely.

Squatting compresses the spine and creates instability on the knees overtime.

Dead lifting also compresses the spine and over strains the paraspinal muscles and Quadratus lumborum muscle.

In Olympic lifting the clean and jerk and the snatch are much too dangerous to rely on for promoting more power because of the body needed to perform a level change to lift the barbell overhead. These lifts put the shoulder girdle in an unstable position.