Do fighters train too hard??

[69love]

With all the injuries that they are having now, do you think overtraining is a problem. I feel it is. Anyone that has studied bodybuilding and muscle science knows that muscles need 48 hours to recover from a workout w/o roids.
I think training everyday, as hard as they do, is actually hurting them. I would think a real intense 3 or 4 hours of working out all muscle groups in wrestling,bjj,striking, and whatever else they do, needs a day of rest in between. Its one thing to do 30 minutes of rolling everyday at your bjj school, but it is another to do 4 hours of intense mma training everyday. Anyone agree. I feel they would actually be better and stronger fighters with the day of rest.

[Cbear]

Bibiano Fernandes signed with the UFC a week ago and is now out hurt with a training injury. He was certainly lucky with the timing of that since now his brand spanking new UFC insurance will pay the medical bills.

[Phucit]

There isn't a athlete alive that is willing to take a day of rest in between training, I don't care what sport it is

[flarg]

If your family was captured and you were told you needed to put 100 pounds onto your max squat within two months or your family would be executed, would you squat once per week? Something tells me that you'd start squatting every day. Other countries have this mindset. America does not.

– John Broz

If you got a job as a garbage man and had to pick up heavy cans all day long, the first day would probably be very difficult, possibly almost impossible for some to complete. So what do you do, take three days off and possibly lose your job?

No, you'd take your sore, beaten self to work the next day. You'd mope around and be fatigued, much less energetic than the previous day, but you'd make yourself get through it. Then you'd get home, soak in the tub, take aspirin, etc. The next day would be even worse.

But eventually you'd be running down the street tossing cans around and joking with your coworkers. How did this happen? You forced your body to adapt to the job at hand! If you can't' squat and lift heavy every day you're not overtrained, you're undertrained! Could a random person off the street come to the gym with you and do your exact workout? Probably not, because they're undertrained. Same goes with most lifters when compared to elite athletes.

– John Broz 2002

In a word, No. Even without Roids, if you want to be a high caliber athlete, you better be training every single day or almost every single day.

You and I shouldn't train every day, but that doesn't mean GSP shouldn't. After years of training, he's built his body up to the endurance to be able to do that.

[cuotfs]

69love... your threads suck

Do you just sit around all day long thinking of the most remedial questions to post?

Thank god I can put you on my block list.. idiot

[69love]

It's a legit question. All these fighters are getting hurt, and some are now admitting they are overtraining. This is ruining the ufc cards, and since they are testing more for roids, it will happen more often. Training natural 4 hours a day 6 days a week isn't optimum for your body. I would say 4 days a week 4 hours each workout would cut down on injuries, and probably make for a better fighter. The nfl used to do 2 a days in full pads back in the day.They would discourage water and tell you to suck it up. Looking back, everyone realizes they were overtrained. I think we will see the same thing in mma.

[ATroms]

Im certainly uneducated on this matter, because im a hipster/stoner soccer player, that hasnt trained a day of my life for any sort of combat sport, but i would agree that it seems these guys indeed over do it sometimes. I have no problem with how much they want to train, but its more so how they train. Like Boxers, i dont see why they cant just do roadwork/cardio, punching bags and light sparring more to keep themselves carved up. I dont care how anyone wants to explain it to me... You wrestle around on 6 days a week and youre going to get hurt, period. And injuries are a huge problem for the business right now

[Scarborough]

The amount of injuries taking place is indicative of over training.

[JackieMoser]

I get injured all the time and I couldn't agree more about working too hard. My solution is to train the brain in between, i.e to watch and learn. The brain needs to practice and develop all the time, right? You need to know in a split second what solution you have to any kind of problem. So rest and watch DVDs and UFCs and stuff...