Like the post, “What is the Best Diet for MMA” explains MMA athletes must eat the part of an elite athlete and have a good MMA diet. For example, an analogy is if you could be a car, what kind of car would you like to be? Most people say, “Ferrari or Lamborghini”, but neither of them is the fastest car in speed performance.
“I would like you to think of a dragster.”
You know, one of those cars with the giant back tires, the engine that is just pouring out of the front of the machine, and the spoiler that makes sure it keeps this beast from being airborne. This kind of beast is built with only one thing in mind: Speed!
When you think of that car, you realize that not only does it need fuel, but this fuel must be in the right amounts and have the right components, and it is very different from what other cars need.
“This is the philosophy behind performance nutrition.”
You Need a Specialized MMA Diet!
You are a specialized athlete that needs the right amounts and components of fuel for optimum performance that you can only get through an optimized MMA diet.
One of the simplest areas to start with when describing how much to eat in your MMA diet for training is thermodynamics. Quite simply, if you take in more than you expend, you will gain weight. If you burn off more than you take in, you will experience fat loss. Period.
At this point, you should be asking yourself,
“Well, then how many calories do I need a day?”
If you cannot answer this question, everything else that you do with your diet is really guesswork. You could be eating all the right things, but if you take in too much or too little of it, you may not be getting the results you are after.
A simple formula in the MMA Diet that we like to use to help determine how many calories you need for a non-training day is 11-14 multiplied times body weight, in pounds. So, if you weigh 200 pounds, your caloric intake should range from 2,200 to 2,800 calories per day. Depending on how active your job is and how intense your martial arts work out that day, you can also add more calories.
For instance, if you are active at work, add another 30 percent more calories to this number. In addition to this, add the estimated amount of calories burned during your MMA training to get the training-day expenditure.
Monitor your weight as you go along, and if you are losing or gaining too much weight, alter the calories 100 at a time to find your optimal range for what you are looking to do. This should lead you to the understanding that thermodynamics is about knowing how much fuel to put into the machine every day and to continually focus on honing in on your perfect MMA diet.
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June 4th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Yes I recently watched a documentary Fernando Alonso which showed his exercise routines, there was a runner who was also doing them, and he simply couldn’t keep up at all, its amazing how fit they actually need to be.
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January 20th, 2010 at 1:22 am
Hello,
Thanks for the Kudos it has been a long tough and rewarding journey.
Thanks,
thacker
May 29th, 2011 at 6:33 am
I’d have wls again within a second. I’m a whole lot healthier. I will no longer have snore or diabetes. My blood pressure level is normal. I really don’t have 186 pounds of fat on me. I’ve gone at a size 32 to a size 5. I recently went to my 20th high school graduation reunion. That it was amazing. People smiled and told me I look better now than I did so in high school graduation. Oahu is the most sensible thing I’ve ever accomplished for myself.