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S6E14: Quantifying the MMA Athlete - Physical Demands, RPE & Harsh Reality of Periodization w Dr. Chris Kirk

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Do You Have a PhD in MMA?

I was a terrible student. I scraped through with a bang average grade. But when it came to my wanting to do a master's degree, I decided that I was going to do it properly this time. So I approached Dr. Howard Hurst at the University of Central Lancashire and asked him about doing a master's bar research on Van der Waer Silver. And by this point, I was obsessed with MMA. We tried to measure the external Lord of the different types of training actions that were performing MMA. And then we used accelerometry, lactate and Tamwash analysis to look at a series of sparring belts.

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