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

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MMA Training - What Are They Doing in the Training Sessions?

In 2012, when I came back to Howard with those five papers, we still didn't have a description of what they were doing in their training. We were able to develop or potentially develop a system where we could observe their training through egg cellarometry. But between the four years of me finishing my masters and starting my PhD, still no one had actually done any studies observing what the fighters were doing in the training sessions. So when I approached Professor James Morton at Liverpool John Mores about doing my PhD there, that was the question that we had. What does an MMA training session look like? What kind of internal lords are they experiencing? Why external lords are they experienced? And what's

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