I got into a fight yesterday. I haven't worked out in months so it went bad. What kind of exercise can I do without getting a gym membership to get better at fighting? Right now I'm thinking of starting pushups, crunches, squats, plus some running for endurance.
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The worst part is now I know the parts of your brain which store and recall memories of those "How to win a street fight" Youtube videos turn off completely and you almost don't realize you're in a fight until it's almost over. Also somehow fighting for 10 seconds gets you more winded than running a mile. I'm pretty sure all I can do is strength training so my punches hit harder, and endurance training to fight for longer than the other guy. If the other guy can fight for 10 seconds and I can fight for 15 seconds, I feel like that's a huge advantage.
You have to build the muscle memory by sparring and practicing against someone. Some of it you can do by practicing on a bag and doing visualization in your head. It isn’t that the information in those videos is bad, it’s that unless your body is used to the movements to some degree of course none of it will apply when you’re nervous or spazzing out.
This is a common misconception, the only fights I’ve had that ended up in the ground were the one were I picked someone up with a double leg and slammed them. I think they had pulled my hoody over my head so I was bent over already and went for it. if you show that you’re dangerous and the other person gets scared they usually will try to disengage the fight in my experience or will start trying to maintain a distance. yeah some guy might pick you up and slam you though.
t. -fight larper
real street fights end up on the ground bud
You’re saying my experiences don’t exist because they don’t line up with your feelings? Every fight I’ve been in, the other person opened up with punches. some people will open up with wrestling or kicking I guess but I’ve never experienced it personally. part way during a fight if someone gets desperate and they try to grab you, with minimal training in grappling or wrestling you can either escape this, or use it to your advantage. I’ve accidentally knocked someone out with a guillotine before trying to subdue them, so you can do that.
regardless the only fight I ever had that ended up on the ground was the time I initiated it with a double leg take down I did out of opportunity. there have been plenty of fights where the other person started getting tired and could tell they would lose and they gave up. If you fight some guy who has wrestling experience it will be different. All I’m saying is that if every fight you have ends up on the ground, you have shitty footwork and no ability to control/react to what’s happening.
>if you show that you’re dangerous and the other person gets scared they usually will try to disengage the figh
This
In the only 'fight' I was involved in my life, I managed to reflex thumb lock the guy when he pushed me. I think he didn't notice why he was scared and distant after that.
Wrong you need explosiveness
Like everything the answer is to train the movement by punching a bag or your wife possibly
Cardio is huge
What's with you guys wanting to be better fighters without fighting? This is like trying to get a heavier bench by riding a bicycle. Just the wrong idea
Guys think they're getting big and so will be unstoppable then are shocked by the violence they encounter. The speed of it, dealing with distance etc.
>by punching a bag or your wife possibly
Based
Explosive cardio. Is shadowboxing cardio?
I plan on getting to a fighting gym sometime but in the meantime I'm gonna try to find a regular sparring partner in real life.
I have no idea what a reflex thumb lock but good job
> I'm gonna try to find a regular sparring partner in real life
Don't you have a friend? I have a lot of friends who do martial arts and we spar from time to time. It's really fun but don't have a egotistical friend who will try to kill you when sparring.
I have a friend which is who I was talking about. I don't think either of us would try to kill eachother when sparring. Do you need to wear gear when sparring just between friends, or is light contact enough?
Wear gloves and a mouth guard.
You misunderstand fighting bud. A real fight will always go to the ground. It's not like the movies where everyone's jumping around doing spin kicks and uppercuts. If you get knocked down, do you think they are going to wait for you to get back up? Should you give your enemy this courtesy? Never. Always a tussle ends with a ground fight. A real small lad with good ground game will frick up big dudes all day.
forgot to give you the advice you seek. you need outstanding endurance. Gas the enemy out by feinting with light jabs and provoking them to make big reckless swings, etc. Dance around them to tire them out. When they are tired, perform a single leg takedown and then bash their face in repeatedly until they lose consciousness. Theoretically, this is a fight for your life, then do not be afraid to go for eye gouges and groin knee shots. Anyway, if you want a meaningful way to train to be a better fighter, do a lot of cardio and practice wrestling moves will go further than any weightlifting will.
I actually got downed at least once but got back up lel. One of my opponents was a fat motherfricker and all he knew how to do was throw his weight around. I'm surprised I didn't get beat the shit out of actually.
So if you don't rise to the occasion, you sink to your training. I'm going to train punching with shadowboxing and see if I can get a punching bag so throwing a decent punch gets into my muscle memory.
I assume explosive cardio helps with that right? A 30 second sprint is longer than most street fights
That doesn't make sense. If you're able to punch with 2000 psi that should transfer to a strong ass bench. Although I get what you mean with engraving the punch into your muscle memory until it becomes second nature.
I'm white but I could be persuaded to date an african american woman if that's what you mean 🙂
I understand what that means now. It's kind of like being drunk or high. Certain parts of your brain are very obviously completely shut off. It's like being lobotomized.
Yeah your training is basically what’s going to get you though the fight. The word training in that instance is vague though. if you’ve been in lots of fights before but never technically trained for them, you’re mentally conditioned to be less afraid. Basically wether it’s through experience or training you need to not freeze up and that comes from familiarity and that comes from experience or training.
I had a sparring partner who was older than me by a bit when I was growing up and he was more experienced, so I learned most of what I knew from him. my advice if you’re serious is to find someone to spar with. and find an appropriate sparring intensity where you learn and limit injuries but that’s an entire rabbit hole to research. you can also join a gym of some sort that offers something like wrestling or boxing. you don’t have much to lose by buying a training dummy or a bag. you probably won’t learn great technique teaching yourself but by using YouTube and trying you will be better off than not doing anything at all. The purpose of having a sparring partner is to learn how to move and maintain an appropriate distance and to become accustomed to timing and dealing with getting small hits. When I fight I tend to back up slightly while moving to my right in a circular motion around them when I’m trying to find an opening or confuse them. You can try to use visualization against a bag to back up and then attack in response to imaginary attacks but it isn’t the same.
I’m probably confusing you with some of this writing an overly complicated post. if you’re serious about learning how to defend yourself just consider joining some kind of gym. you’ve been in a real fight now technically so if you want to view it as such you now have a slight leg up against other people joining the gym who have no experience at all. Try to always spin things in a positive way to make progress in life.
Good advice. I have a friend thats casually suggested we spar before. Should train with him sometime
If you do this once a week on the weekends which is pretty much how I started and the lowest amount of effort you can invest, in a few months you will have benefits. a few months goes by fast. Ideally eventually you would want to work up to maybe twice a week but it’s hard to get someone to agree at that point unless they’re invested like you are. Either way once a week on weekends is a good way to start and get your toes wet but eventually if you want to make more progress join a gym maybe even have your friend join you too. That would be ideal. My friend I trained with trained in martial arts for like a decade so I knew when he and I sparred and trained what he taught me was mostly solid. If neither of you have any martial arts background some light touch boxing is going to be good but don’t hurt eachother or it cancels out any benefit
If you wanna get better at fighting train in fighting. Bruce Lee didn't have a super strong bench, but he could fricking kill someone with punches. He's punched over and over and over again until punching is a second nature. Gymbloats get in fights and just break their hands and run out of cardio because they have no conditioning for that specific function.
>but he could fricking kill someone with punches
Lol
Are you by any chance of the african american persuasion?
Concealed carry drills.
Mike Tyson said "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth". If you want to learn to fight, go learn to fight.
Godou
Carry a knife. The drunk/junkie moron will get pale really fast.
Only psychos, homosexuals, and women need to carry weapons
Unless you live in the states; in which case it seems like you need a gun at all times
just suck it up and go find a boxing or bjj gym. no amount of working out is going to help you in a fight sorry. the copers are gonna cope but it’s the truth:
from personal experience learning to control your emotions and remaining calm even in high risk situations is FIRST PRIORITY. the more relaxed you are in comparison to the other guy the longer it will take for you to get winded,along with the benefit of being calm enough to properly make use of whatever training method you've learned of prior. exposing yourself to highly stressful visual imagery,audio,or placing yourself in a real life situation that would normally get you nervous and trying to overcome that feeling,would help with this,mental maths,juggling,tasks that require a long period of focus may be beneficial for this as well.
I would automatically assume that being angry makes you fight harder. Though it's harder to think when you're angry so you're probably right.
I'm gonna ask him if/when we can practice sparring. I can progress to a boxing gym after getting a little better.
I'm gonna do this, thanks. Not sure how to count the punches on each hand, might just count to 2000 on both hands and hope it evens out.
Train fighting. Shadowboxing and explosive cardio coupled with regular cardio.
1000+ punches per hand
If you want more you need a gym with a specific martial art.
Risking your physical safety/health to fight fair with someone trying to frick you up.
If it's just drunks and morons then you'd need to be heavier and stronger, which isn't going to happen for you w/no membership and consequently no compound lifts.
Carry a weapon.
The whole point is getting stronger/better at fighting so I can hold my own and not look like a pussy.
Is there any reason to train some muay thai spinning ninjutsu sharingan shit over just plain boxing for self defence?
>I got into a fight yesterday
About as trashy behavior as getting a tattoo.
I didn't start it.
didn't read but thanks for the image
If you want to learn how to fight, you have to fight. Go to a martial arts gym, do training and sparring. Experience is actually number 1 factor in a fight, more experience you have, more focused you are and you won't let your emotions take control. Once you get good at that, then you can execute proper techniques in a fight. There are lots of guys who look great when punching the bag but they frick up once they are in the ring, there are even dudes who look great in ring but they frick up outside the ring. So what you need is experience while you are trying to fight with proper technique. Rest is cardio, strength, speed, endurance etc.
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what makes you think doing push ups in your bedrooms will make you better at throwing hands?
if you want to get better at fighting, join a boxing/mma gym and learn to fight