MMA Strength & Conditioning w/ UFC Fighter Jeremy Stephens | Functional Patterns

Hi everybody!!! I have been working with Joey Beltran over the last few months and I must say he’s definitely one of the best students I have had to date. His style is one that was quite prone towards injury, and it seems his extreme mental toughness is what has carried him through his amazing [...]

Happy Monday everyone! For this weeks video exercise tutorial, I decided to put together a Partner Medicine Ball Core Workout. Medicine Balls are one of the best tools for developing functional core strength in dynamic environments. Since life itself is a plethora of ballistic movements, Medicine Ball workouts tie directly into conditioning the body for [...]

Hello Everyone! For this weeks video instructional workout video, I have decided to put up some Kettlebell total body exercises. The Kettlebell has grown on me through time and now it’s one of my favorite pieces of equipment to work with. Kettlebell training is very functional due to the fact that you are learning how [...]

Good morning! Here is my part two instructional video showing you how to use an ARAZI cable machine attachment in your core workout routines. This is a great tool for developing pushing strength and transverse core strength simultaneously. Last week I put up a post issuing a GIVEAWAY of a pair of these gloves, and [...]

Happy Monday! Anyone who knows me personally also knows that I’m the most skeptical human being on this planet, specifically with products in the fitness industry. With so much crap being produced on a regular basis, it is quite difficult to take anything seriously that comes from the fitness industry. Every once in a while [...]

Happy Monday!!! For this week’s exercise video tutorial I have decided to put up an advanced bodyweight circuit training exercise routine. Each of these movements will surely get the core muscles to work along with pretty much all the other muscles on the body. For anyone who is not at an advanced level, this exercise [...]

Boxing is one of the most functional aspects of training I have in my exercise arsenal. It embodies explosiveness, center of gravity, core function, lower body function, upper body function, along with many other beneficial traits that apply to everyday situations. My favorite aspect about boxing is that it trains applied transverse plane dynamics into [...]

Happy New Year! 2012 was easily the best year of my professional career. After 2012, I’ve walked away with learning the application of activating the necessary musculature for effective structural integration. In layman’s terms: I learned what genuinely good posture actually is. To ring in the new year, I decided to put up some functional [...]

Good Morning!!! Here is a video of me covering some basic functional training techniques with UFC fighter Justin Lawrence at Alliance MMA training center. I’ve been having a blast working with their camp and they’ve taken on a very open perspective to the functional training concepts I apply into their sport of MMA. As of [...]

Happy Tuesday! It’s been a hectic last couple weeks in the trenches working with clients and fighters. It has been quite difficult to find time to make a video for everyone, but I managed to make time for another! In this video, I use my all time favorite combo for core training: The Keiser and [...]

If there’s a constant I have found since getting into the Mixed Martial Arts community here in San Diego, it’s the correlation of injuries and its association to poor postural habits. Addressing the structural integrity of the human body is at the foundation of my craft as a Holistic Movement Practitioner. It is something that [...]

Happy Thursday Everyone! Been extremely busy in the trenches lately, trying to further develop new knowledge and hone in more skills to help bring about more efficiency in a human body. I’ve spent a great deal of time at an amazing facility by the name of Alliance MMA. It’s been a great experience getting to [...]

Good morning everyone! Have continued on my path towards achieving my full physical potential and have been fortunate enough to think of some new exercise circuits to put together for you guys. I was doing some work with dumbbells last week and figured I would put it on video and put it out as a [...]

Good morning everyone! I see so many training regimens in stagnation due to their one dimensional orientations. It’s crucial to understand that movement in reality is 3 dimensional and that it encompasses multiple planes of motion at the same time. If we want to apply functionality into our training regimens, adaptations to the nuances of [...]

Hello Everyone! I have been in Minneapolis, Minnesota over the last few days helping UFC fighter Jeremy Stephens with his weight for an upcoming bout against Yves Edwards for the UFC on FX. This has easily been the best Jeremy Stephens I have seen in his entire career. He’s moving like something I have never [...]

Good Morning! Here’s a video of me working with MMA and grappling legend Dean Lister. In this video I help him refine the engagement of the inner unit structures needed to help improve boxing mechanics as well as many other elements needed to improve in the dynamics of MMA. Enjoy!!!

Happy Monday everyone!!! Here is a little functional core routine to help you get your week started! To work the core in a functional manner we must integrate the upper and lower body together and utilize the core as the harmonizer between both systems. In this video, I use a Kettlebell and a Cable Machine [...]

Here’s a video of me putting UFC fighter Jeremy Stephens through an MMA Training workout 2 weeks out before his upcoming bout against Yves Edwards on October 5th. Jeremy Stephens is on a mission and it’s been nothing but a pleasure working with him through this entire camp. Looking forward to going to Minnesota to [...]

Good morning!!! Here is a workout video of me showing you how to use a barbell for functional abdominal activation. Rather than looking at the abdominals as an isolated muscle system, it’s best to put them into an environment where the upper and lower body are included with the abdominals for better functional application to [...]

Here’s a video of me putting MMA fighter Reuben Duran through a regimen for strength and condition/athletic efficiency. I have been focusing much of my attention to the details that orient efficient biomechanics when an athlete is fatigued. I have found it all to common to see the fighters I have worked with begin to [...]

Here is a video of me running Jeremy Stephens through a Strength and Conditioning workout in preparation for his UFC on FX 5 bout with Yves Edward on October 5th. He’s been a workhorse over the entire course of this training camp and it’s definitely going to show come fight time. Great work Mr. Stephens!