Snow Training for Mixed Martial Arts and Street Self Defense – Part 1

Weatherproof training is awesome, especially if you’re experiencing a day where you can’t make it to the gym due to weather or weather (or if you’re lazy). You need to use your environment to your best advantage, and what better cardio environment can there be than snow or rain. Think about it, it comes fast and often, and hitting a drop intentionally takes a lot of time and speed. Note that in the next paragraph, you could do the same techniques for weapons, but that’s another article. Let’s talk about your basic boxing/mma/kickboxing.

One of the simplest exercises you can do while it’s snowing (and hopefully not too hard) is to hit the flakes as they fall. You can use your jab, cross, hook and uppercut and take out as many flakes as you can. If you have a good snowfall, you can do a good cardio job. It’s important to note here that you shouldn’t kick thai into the snow for two reasons:

1. It is probably slippery and you will fall. Your round kick will definitely cause a knockdown, and your push kick could cause a knockdown. You want to stay healthy, so it’s best not to try your luck. Don’t throw your Thai kicks in the snow

2. You’ll cut your knee to death if you land your roundhouse kicks. Your round kick is meant to hit someone into the air and trying to retract that force will injure your knee. That is not worth it.

So what techniques do I recommend?

1.Jabs

2. Cross

3. Hook

4.Uppercut

5. Overhead

6. Rear Punch (if you throw it, however, don’t swing the fist back, due to the potential for knockdown)

7. Eye pricks (obviously not for mma)

8. Anything of the above to the body (not the eye poke, of course)

technical lower body

1.Knees

That’s it here and I’m not talking about jump knees, or jump knees either, unless you’re into concussions.

This is how I would structure the routine:

beginner

1 minute and 1 minute rest or a total time of 10 minutes you want to exercise on a 6-8 on a scale of 10 (how hard is exercise for you)

Intermediate:

2 minutes on 30 seconds off

Push-ups 15 x 2 series

Squats 15 x 2 series

Advanced:

3 minutes on and 15 seconds off

Push-ups 30 x 3 series

Squats 30 x 3 series

There you have it, get out there and get an intense workout right away.