Description
You love watching your favorite MMA fighters compete and you’d love to get ripped like them—but without having to actually fight anyone. The good news is you don’t have to become a fighter to look like one!
In Train Like a Fighter, professional mixed martial artist and UFC legend Cat Zingano offers step-by-step instructions for 60 exercises she uses to get in fighting shape—exercises focused on strengthening your upper body, core, and lower body, as well as full-body training movements.
Cat also gives you training programs filled with intense routines built from these exercises—all geared toward helping you reach your fitness and physique goals. At no point in following these programs will you have to take a punch, but once you’ve completed them, you’ll definitely look like you can throw one!
This book’s features include:
* The physical, mental, and emotional benefits to training like an MMA fighter
* Proper techniques, starting stances, and common moves, such as jabs, uppercuts, and kicks
* The right kinds of gear and equipment to use for training
* Exercises for warming up and cooling down for exercises, routines, and programs
* Cat Zingano’s personal training diet as well as other diet tips
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Melanie B. –
Nichts neues, daher eher Fehlkauf
HAROLD J DAVIES –
If you want a book with workouts mostly for muy thai and mma buy this. If you practice karate or kung fu look around for some of the older martial arts conditioning books instead.
I can highly recommend dynamic tension by Harry wong, complete conditions for martial arts by Sean Cochran power training in kung fu and karate by marching and finger and ultimate fitness through martial arts by Sang Kim. **disclaimer as these tend to be out of print. But they can be found at the usual large used online book store sites**
James E Turner jr –
Being a fan of Martial Arts and having practiced Karate, I find this book helps with conditioning. For me, it helps with with loos and burning calories. It’s easy to read, understand with workouts ready to go or create you own. Very good book.
Giulia. –
Dire ottimo è banale! Un libro fatto comesi deve, spiegato in maniera davvero molto chiara e precisa. Peccato non ci sia in italiano però vale la pena comprarlo sicuramente! Schede perfette e esercizi diversi dai soliti! Cat resta sempre la migliore c’è Poco da dire!!
christopher G Cook –
Great workouts, great picture/descriptions of exercises. Awesome for moderate to advanced levels of fitness. Small learning curve for beginners. Would highly recommend. Great supplement to my small grappling regimen.
DJ –
Cat and her writers did an excellent job on this instructional book. Not a lot to read here but a good exercise book.
Suzette Howe –
This book details the intricacies of workouts that train MMA Fighters so you know its legit! Cat has been a Warrior representing this sport inside and outside of the cage. Her teammates make it a full-on professional how-to model. It’s easy to follow and it gives details for all levels of athletes in the sport. Check it out!
Joseph J. Truncale –
Even though I am well into my senior years I still workout hard (HIIT workouts, intense WOD workouts, boxing and martial arts workouts) six days a week. As a retired Karate and Jujitsu instructor I have tried to keep up with any new and unique fitness programs. When I saw this interesting 192 page large soft cover book (Train like a fighter: Get MMS fit without taking a hit by Cat Zingano) on Amazon for a bargain price I decided to purchase it.
This is the kind of book that is loaded with numerous exercises aimed at getting you in great physical shape. It covers a wide range of different exercises and programs to help develop your body for combat or just to keep in great physical shape. One of the many things I like about this book is then large full color pictures showing all the various exercises and movements. As someone who has been into exercising and working out for more than 7 decades I was surprised at how many various exercises in this book that I have never did in the past.
This excellent book is organized into 6 parts. Part one covers training basics such as why train like a fighter, common fighter moves and nutrition. Part two shows numerous upper body exercises. Part three deals with the essential core exercises. Part four focuses on lower body exercises. Part five emphasizes full-body exercises and the final part explains the various circuit programs and workouts to get in top fighting shape.
The only complaints about this book are the boxing punches shown. (1) It appears to me (being involved in boxing and kickboxing for many years) the captions are reversed showing Jabs and crosses. I personally also do not like the way the person shows doing the cross punch, but that is just stylistic differences. (2) This section should have shown the FOUR main punches in boxing, not just three. It does NOT show how to do upper cuts punches. In spite of those minor points I think this is a very good book for anyone who desires to get in top physical condition whether you are into fighting or not.
Rating: 5 Stars. Joseph J. Truncale (Author: Tactical Principles of the most effective Combative Systems)
K. G. A. Alavi –
A good book, with easy to follow exercises, then whole programs to follow. This book is great for the lock down as a most of these exercises can be done at home with some equipment is necessary like kettlebells, medicine balls, and dumbbells. The only thing most people might find difficult to get is a heavy bag.
This is one of thing that does annoy me on books or movies. Having someones name on it to sell more copies. I hate that. The book has Cat Zingano’s name on it. This is not an autobiography but a workout book, but only part the differentiate Cat from the other MMA fighter/models in this book is in the foreword and introduction. The fighter/models for this book are all from the Alliance gym roster.
The format of the book is big glossy pictures spread over 2 pages each. The steps to carrying out the excercies are in short text. This would be great, but in a couple of places the have black text on a dark grey background, with is really hard to read. Of course once you know how to do the exercise you will not have to keep reading it. Usually with a variation to make things harder as you progress.
The biggest strength of this book is it is easy to follow. When you get to the program stage, the exercise are listed, with the page numbers on them for easy reference. This is a very good easy to use book for home training to improve fitness and physique.
Amazon Customer –
This is an AWESOME book, It is well laid out with lots of descriptions of moves along to pictures to follow along. Plus it has a lot of information and additional workout circuits in the back. It is great for both beginner and intermediate fitness levels. Would definitely recommend to anyone 🙂
Gladiator –
There are some new core exercises depicted, can go for it.
amazonian –
Perfect! It’s everything you want in an exercise book–easy to follow instructions, pictures of real athletes doing each exercise, and it’s well structured so you can map your own workout to achieve your personal goals. Wish I could give it more than five stars!
Veronika –
Contains clear instructions with great illustrations on each move including photos of beautiful Cat of course, week by week detailed workout plan and nutrition tips. So, If you are looking for a balanced workout plan this book is all you need!