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RANDY COUTURE XTREME TRAINING The Fighter’s Ultimate Fitness Manual with Lance Freimuth and Erich Krauss (Victory Belt)
© Marc Wickert
This 320-page manual has been a long time coming, but well worth every minute of the wait. If you were to only have one piece of equipment in your gym, this book would have to be it. What I really love about Randy Couture Xtreme Training – the Fighter’s Ultimate Fitness Manual is that the book contains a lot of training advice and instruction that could have been passed down from the days of Randy Couture’s great, great grandfather when fighters and wrestlers trained in old wooden sheds or rolled in the dirt in their backyards. Some of these moves could even be attributed to Cain and Abel’s sparring days. There’s no ultra-modern equipment employed or any state-of-the-art wizardry – it’s all “Natural”, as you’d expect. And there are plenty of routines you can utilize when you’re traveling where no gym is handy. Another aspect of the manual I enjoy is the wide use of medicine balls in Randy’s training: medicine ball slams for improving endurance and stamina as well as developing overall body conditioning; medicine ball jumping squats for explosive power and stamina; medicine ball punches to improve punching power; plyometric push-ups with medicine ball which also boosts stability and coordination; sit-ups and Russian twists with medicine ball for the abs; medicine ball cage walks; use of medicine ball for focus shield… Then there are the sledgehammer strikes on tractor tires, tractor tire flips, rope climbs, flex bands, and much, much more. This book is chockers! But it’s not just a selection of calisthenics thrown together. Randy systematically works on eight categories: strength, speed, power, size, endurance, coordination, balance and agility. And as Randy states in Randy Couture Xtreme Training – the Fighter’s Ultimate Fitness Manual, “It is important to mention that this book is designed sequentially. The beginning of each chapter explains specific details necessary for understanding the pages that follow, and each section builds upon the previous section. As you read the book, you will discover not only what exercises I utilize in my fight preparation, but also why I utilize each individual exercise at various stages in my training regime.” The manual concludes with day-by-day and week-by-week programs that specify the number of sets and reps for each exercise. Randy Couture is with you every step of the way. Contents
PART ONE: GENERAL PHYSICAL PREPARATION
SECTION ONE: METABOLIC CONDITIONING
SECTION ONE: POSTERIOR CHAIN
SECTION THREE: UPPER BODY PUSH
SECTION FOUR: UPPER BODY PULL
SECTION FIVE: CORE
PART TWO: SPORT-SPECIFIC TRAINING
SECTION ONE: SPORT-SPECIFIC STANDING
SECTION TWO: SPORT-SPECIFIC GROUND
PART THREE: TRAINING ROUTINE Randy Couture Xtreme Training – the Fighter’s Ultimate Fitness Manual is the ultimate companion to Randy Couture’s Wrestling for Fighting book, where he covers his preferred fighting techniques that have made him one of the most successful athletes in MMA history.
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