Sports: Training: Psychology - Staying in the Zone

If you reduce the amount of conscious control and of thought processes and allow yourself to just react, you will perform better. 
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Tim Gallwey

Sports:Training: How Cyborg Trains

Recently, Cyborg’s strength and conditioning coach spoke with Gracie Magazine about Cyborg’s conditioning program.  Before Cyborg begins an actual conditioning program, they decide what competitions Cyborg will be competing in during the year.  By identifying what competitions are relevant and when the competitions occur, they team can ensure Cyborg will peak at the proper times.  In additions to deciding on which competitions to participate in, Cyborg’s coach begins to put Cyborg through several physical tests, which he evaluates.  After the tests and evaluations are completed, conditioning programs are designed with a focus on periodization. 

Cyborg’s coach explained to Gracie Magazine that the periodizations is broken down into the following three phases: (1) Pre-base, (2) Pre-competitive, and (3) Competitive.  There are specific physical demands on each phase, and phases may include “focus, intensity, volume, duration, use of force stimulus, agility, explosiveness, and endurance....”

The exercises Cyborg will include in his conditioning program focus mainly on power-lifting, but he will include sports specific exercises as well.

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Gracie Magazine