Mixed martial arts or MMA as it is now more commonly known is the fastest growing sport in the world. From India to Ireland the sport of MMA has taken hold as one of the most entertaining sports out there. But many people are still ignorant to the sports rules and regulations. These people still see this fast growing sport as a blood and gore fest of human cock fighting in a cage. Most of the fighters in the early cage fighting matches had little or no MMA training routine and very little experience in such a fight situation. For me personally I would have agreed with this statement back when MMA first come into the semi-mainstream at the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) 1. The original UFC fights were billed as being no holds barred fights where the only rule was there were no rules and injuries were very common. In the very first UFC event there were notable injuries such as 1 broken …show more content…
Senator John McCain even moved to have these early MMA bouts banned in the U.S. and was not too far away from making this a reality at one point. When the UFC was finally purchased by Zuffa it had a bad image and mountain of debt to overcome but they somehow managed to turn the spectacle of cage fighting into the sport of MMA and it is now regulated by many different athletic organisations around the globe. The UFC events now rival boxing for pay per view buys and often sell more pay per view buys than major boxing events. As with any sport MMA also has an amateur level of fighters and for those fighters trying to make it to the top of the MMA business it can be a very hard task indeed. You really need to have an optimal MMA training routine to have the cardio endurance of some of the other athletes in this sport. Below I am going to list a MMA training routine built around a circuit that in time will build strength speed and