With the end of the Football season approaching, many local Football players are looking for alternative training regiments to stay in shape during the off-season.
It is a well known fact that an increasing number of top shelf NFL athletes are turning to Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) trainers around the nation to develop cutting edge skills to help them excell on the field.
Watch them in action:
Here’s what some of the pros are saying:
“We’re always looking for new and progressive ideas as far as training and offering our team supplements to the athletic performance model we have in place here,”
“This was something we were comfortable with as far as conditioning but even more importantly the idea of having MMA help the players with their leverage, hand quickness, and things that could help them within the trenches taking on blocks and battling inside.”
Falcons general manager - Thomas Dimitroff
"The reason why I'm doing MMA is it's probably the closest thing you can find to football as far as conditioning, cardiovascular and the physical aspect,"
"I'm not fighting and getting hit. I'm just going to be training my behind off."
"I want to come back the way I left - in shape and focused"
Jets outside linebacker – Calvin Pace
“There’s a lot of carryover to what we do on the field. We do some Kickboxing (for core-muscle and hip development), wrestling, working on our hands and getting guys off you. We work on body leverage, too, which is important. Whoever is the lowest man controls the other man.”
Atlanta Falcons middle linebacker - Curtis Lofton
“I'm learning so much about leverage and staying fluid,” he said. “I'm a lot more aware of what I can do in certain situations.”
“The thing I'm learning the most is how to use my hands,” he said. “I'm learning the kind of technique that will help me get guys off me.”
Houston Texans linebacker - Brian Cushing
http://www.nfl.com/videos/auto/09000d5d82052996/The-MMA-way
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