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Hi, Im new to the site here and have been training in mma for about 6 months now
at the moment I train with my coach twice a week, but i have just joined a gym and was wondering which excersises people favoured in the gym to work on general strength for fighting, any chance you guys can help me out?
cheers

I've never done gym work specifically for MMA before, but do go to the gym a fiar bit (i play rugby). Rather than isolating exercises (i.e bicep curls) look to do compound exercises, then supplement them with the isolation.
The three main are Squats, Deadlifts and Benchpress. These three will give the whole body a general work out. You can then add to these for upper lower body, things like lunges, dumbell flyes, bent over rows, power cleans etc. to supplement to main movements.
As i said, i've never done fight specific training, but these will give you good all round strength in useable areas (i.e going to the gym and bicep curling all day isn't going to help you in the real world, apart from being able to lift a pint to your lips with ease :P )

The other thing id say is train hard for cardio, its all good being strong but if you get gased out in 5 secs then it dont matter how strong you are, your gonna struggle. I think that actually grappling and wrestling are superb ways of building your cardio. Try to team up with someone and just wrestle to submission by chokes, arms bars, kimuras etc. I find that absolutely shattering and also good practice at the same time. Im sure you already know all this but just my contribution!

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as a kickboxer i only do wieght training once a week and cardio 5 times.
my favourtie workout is start with a 2min round on the heavy bag with a 30sec rest then a 2min round doing a exercise ( press ups, sits ups, skipping, etc.) and repeat. do it for about an hour and it will enprove your cardio and strengh .

For general strength look at large compound movements such as squats, deadlifts, clean and presses, push press, snatches, deadlifts etc. Also if your training for MMA i would look at including pylometrics, circuit training and tabata rounds into your routine to help with your conditioning.

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I agree with circuit trainings for endurance and the such,
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