MMA Coach Clayton Hires talked about fighters who need to lose extra weight for an upcoming fight normally have to run in the morning and often again in the late evening before bed on top of their normal training to help lose the weight and it is often these athletes who have to lose a lot of weight as well as cut the water from their body who goes into fights in better conditioning than the athletes who don’t need to lose as much weight and don’t need to be running twice a day.
What is my point?
By adding in some extra training that will not impact the rest of your training block, you will simply burn more calories.
What about junk miles?
If the training has a purpose, it isn’t junk miles. Junk miles is simply just doing miles for the sake of doing miles. This isn’t it. The purpose is simply to help lose extra body fat so these sessions have a purpose. Going for a 20-30 minute easy run or a ride or going to the gym and using the cardio equipment will help you to burning more calories and get down to race weight faster.
The main factor to look out for is the extra sessions can not negatively impact any other session you have set in your program. The extra miles are not worth doing if it is going to create any issues no matter how small the issues seem.
Is this a optimal way to help get down to race weight?
No. This blog is simply offering a hack to consider if you are struggling.
I will post a few more race weight hack blogs in the coming weeks.
