What is your fitness plan actually FOR? Different sports need different plans, assuming that you are not just at the stage of 'bigger muscles please'. Today's focus is on combat sports: jiu jitsu, muay thai and so forth, but not wrestling which we usually treat in separate posts. Although bjj is pretty  like wrestling, we suppose, but different rules so included here (especially as we more youngsters taking it up and hence getting into fitness rather than phones). Boxing and MMA too, although not sports we would necessarily recommend ourselves.  So here we need muscle for sure, but plenty of cardio and working on flexibility and endurance as well.    A young guy there clearly into hi chosen sporting venue! And here's a fun way of engaging the really young: An important lesson there from a young Irish boxer: if you want success, TRAINING NEVER STOPS   ...and no harm in starting young if carefully coached and supervised...   Watching Ibrohim's headsprings the...

It's the determination to do that little bit more that makes so much difference to training results. That extra struggling repetition of a lift, even if it is assisted by a spotter, is the one that really counts. Here are some examples of guys going that little extra, for their love of sports training. We start with something not quite a repeat... if your home is too small to accommodate a gym indoors, no worries - just train outside, even in the rain. This is not the first little video I've posted of Tim Gray lifting in the rain, but we like this one too. You can spot the puddles in his weight plates beside the bench, and drops coming off the dumbbells near the end... and shirtless, naturally...  Now here, gymnast Egor struggles to 'get' the Diamidov on parallel bars, gets so near that he celebrates with a handstand, and then goes back for one more... Remember that most videos here will go full screen if you click on the little icon bottom right of their screens Next, ...