Whether you’re a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu practitioner, wrestler, boxer/ kickboxer, or MMA fighter, you’ve likely been there.

In other words, you’ve probably gassed on either the practice floor or even worse in an event. There’s perhaps no worse feeling for an athlete competing in combat sports. No doubt when it happened to you, you set out to do something about it.

And if you’re like a lot of people out there, that meant jogging. Perhaps you started jogging a mile every so often. When that didn’t work to improve things in practice, you might have jumped things up to two miles. When that didn’t either, another increase was probably in order.

Well, Fit to Fight author Jason Ferruggia would tell you that the whole light jogging thing is never going to work. In fact, it may even be counterproductive to your fitness goals as an MMA fighter. You see, the sport of MMA is all about anaerobic endurance, according to Ferruggia, not aerobic endurance.

And if you get that, then you’re on your way.

In Fit to Fight, Jason Ferruggia, a strength and conditioning coach that has provided guidance to numerous MMA fighters and other athletes, does a great job of giving the reader a focus. MMA athletes do not train the same way as a football player, nor a marathon runner does.

And then he tells you why.

Further, Ferruggia does a great job of offering up specific exercises designed to help MMA athletes improve their endurance, strength, speed, and overall performance. Fit to Fight also mentions some excellent and rather unorthodox training methods and exercises. For example, Ferruggia’s tips on utilizing sand bags are quite interesting and somewhat unique.

Just as important is that Fit to Fight helps athletes to target those trouble spots no one ever talks about—the neck and wrists. The book even offers some worthwhile advice on diet, including timeline tips for fighters nearing fight time.

Fit to Fight is definitely a worthwhile read if you’re hoping to take your MMA training to the next level. Jason Ferruggia does an excellent job of conveying what kind of conditioning an MMA athlete needs, and then follows that up with specific and targeted advice. In fact, that’s why this book is different.

You can walk away from reading it with a specific plan designed to meet your needs.

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