Training for Warriors: The Ultimate Mixed Martial Arts Workout – World Champion Methods with 750+ Exercises, Nutrition, and Injury Prevention Paperback – March 4, 2008

This book is exactly as it's titled: Training For Warriors. It features multiple workouts and training routines for each muscle group, important stretches, weight cutting info, and dietary guides. There are detailed pictures and captions explaining the various steps of each workout which makes it very easy to follow.The training exercises range from beginner level to advanced intensity. You will not be able to do all of these exercises at first. I like that aspect because it gives you goals and challenges to work toward.Another thing I like about this book is that the exercises are not simply routines with free wieghts or demonstrations on machines at a gym. There are many alternative strength training techniques which do not require a much, if any, additional equipment.A great aspect of Traing For Warriors is that these excersises target many muscles within a muscle group and not just a single muscle. This allows you to build and strengthen your target muscle(s) together with core, stablizer, and secondary muscles, as opposed to isolating a single muscle. Ultimately that is the best way to achieve the strength of necesary to be a competetive MMA fighter.Lastly there is some very thorough and detailed information regarding how to diet. It even lays out meal plans for diffent types of diets, whether you be cutting, maintaining, or adding wieght.Overall I rate the information and techniques in this book very high. I would definitely recommend it to anyone in search of a deeper knowlege of how to properly train to enter the MMA world. This book will serve as a valuable reference time and time again.

This book contains everything you need to know when it comes to fitness for mixed martial arts and combat sports. Almost every single exercise that has existed in the history of the world for every single part of the human body is in this book. There are many combat sport-specific drills, but there are also your typical gym fitness routines. Even if you're not a mixed martial artist and don't have any plans to be one, this book will still serve your needs as a fitness enthuasist. There is a chapter for every muscle group, which contain about 15-30 different exercises each. There are also sections on diet and nutrition, cutting weight, and flexibility, there is the beginning section explaining the philosophy behind being a warrior and why hardwork and preserverance is important. When I say this book has everything, I'm not kidding. Once you have this book, all you'll need to get in shape from this point on is hard work and disipline, such as getting off your butt to go to the gym and staying away from pizzas and bacon cheeseburgers. There are too many exercises in this book, you can't do all of them. Just pick out 5 exercises and let that be your fitness routine for the next three weeks and pick another 5 exercises for the three weeks after that, changing up the routine every three weeks, you should get results in a few months because of muscular confusion(your body constantly changing to adapt to different physical activities).

Martin Rooney's "Training for Warriors: The Ultimate Mixed Martial Arts Workout" offers a large range of exercises, with the exercises tailored to the warrior or mixed martial artist. Some exercises are bodyweight and may be done solo, some need equipment, and some require a training partner. There are a lot of photos in color illustrating the exercises.The beginning of the book offers a brief and quick introduction to mixed martial arts.The rest of the book is divided into areas of the body, similar to other fitness books. For example, chapter 8 shows an array of exercises for the chest and shoulders, while chapter 10 shows back exercises. Here's a sampling of some of the topics covered.Chapter 6 Warrior warm-upchapter 7 Warrior neck trainingChapter 8 Warrior chest and shouldersChapter 9 Warrior arm and handChapter 10 Warrior backChapter 11 Warrior abdominalsChapter 12 Warrior heart and lungChapter 13 Warrior hipChaptet 14 Warrior glutes and quadsChapter 15 Warrior hamstringCchapter 16 Warror foot and ankleChapter 17 Warrior flexibilityThere are also brief sections on cutting back your weight to meet a certain weight class, nutrition, and injury prevention. There's also an 8 week Warrior Workout plan at the end.

The book does a great job giving pictures of movements and decent amount of details. However, there are no explanations or reasoning behind Martin Ronney's programming of the book. The most important pages are the last 10 chapters, where he structures the 10-12 weeks program with reference pages in the book so you can find the corresponding warm-ups, workouts, and etc. I have read his training philosophies as well as mentored by his students before, and they are awesome people to know and read more of their training methology. I was disappointed in the fact that the book lacked the science and methology of Martin Rooney's TFW system, where he emphasizes the 'balanced' training and not ever training. Never pushing the body to the point of exhaustion and limits and making sure that recovery the number one source for the athletes or participants of the TFW system.

I got way more than I expected from this book, well worth the investment.

Martin's photos make it easy to try all the stuff out. And the writing is very much a conversational prose that seems like someone is just chatting about the topic. Easy to follow and implement the pieces you want. Very much a thumbs up. Luc

Thank to this programs, I was able to get back in shape to restart practicing MMA even if I am already on my 40's.

Great book, i already knew it but i had lost my copy years ago! Got a good price and it came here fast. If you practice or coach MMA and don't know Rooney, you got a lot of homework to do lol

A lot of the same old school training.