Another great day of training here at Lloyd Irvin’s Mixed Martial Arts Academy. Strength & Conditioning Coach D’ Angelo Kinard never fails when it comes to pushing. For today’s  workout, Tuesday, it was all lower body workouts. He had us work a circuit series of deadlifts, squats, swings, hip thrusters, and a whole lot more.

It was an awesome day of training!

Check out the video below in HD! Ouuss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoR2w7pu7js

In 30 seconds or less… What comes to your mind when you think of 2011 Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu World Championships?

Here you go!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KtimGMxCr4

Importance of Flow Drilling

What is Flow Drilling?

BJJ Black Belt Mike Fowler Shows "Flow Drilling."

Flow Drilling is nothing more than doing your techniques over, over, and over again [repetition is key ] with your partner. While BJJ flow drilling you’re telling your partner what to do and keep flowing from position to position to submission to submission to position. When you first start off you wanna start at a good pace. While you’re flowing from position to position you can tell your partner to have his leg up after a sweep, or to bring his knee to his chest during a certain transition. This way you are flow drilling practical tournament scenarios.

How Does Flow Drilling Help?

When you start flow drilling you should take the time to put your moves together in a transitional sequence. You go over all the scenarios and different options in your head and go over them duirng the “flow.” When you go into a tournament you have a set game plan from all the different positions and scenarios you have drilled from the flow drilling training technique. Flow Drilling helps out a lot with your timing. While your flowing you are seeing when your techniques and options open up. When you keep doing it, it becomes 2nd nature to react in all the different scenarios at a tournament. Your transitional timing will get better from practice.

I Get Stuck During The Flow Drilling. What Do I Do?

Many times when you start flow drilling you may miss a transition. For example, you may not have your grip in the correct spot, so as you keep going working the “flow drills” you will definitely clean up your transitions. If you can beat your opponent to the transition during a pass you will pass. If you beat your opponent to the transition in a pass to a submission. You end the match! Check out the video below of JT and Jimmy “flow drilling” in Abu Dhabi. Nice good pace having fun! Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdvwCMJBQ7Q

Flow Drilling is Super Fun!

Strength & Conditioning Coach D'Angelo Kinard

Strength Training Programme

Strength & Conditioning for
Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ)

The Pan American Jiu-Jitsu Championships are just around the corner! Team Lloyd Irvin‘s medal chasers are polishing up their techniques, going over game plans, and doing their final mental tournament preparations.

Here is a video of the Teams’ Strength Training Programme!

Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqV9EqFJU9M

Two Words… HIGH INTENSITY Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) Training!

So.. For this Intense Drill… Master Lloyd put everyone in groups. One guy stays in the middle and every 30sec a new guy comes in and gives him full blown, all out, high intensity, off the chain WORK!
We keep switching out till Master Lloyd says stop. (Because of the intensity and how fun the drill is we all lose track of time )

Just like the song… Hustle Hard!

less than 100 days till the 2011 BJJ World Championships! AYYYYY

Fasten your seat belt and enjoy the Footage!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fHB9rEsjkQ

POWERFUL LEGS!

“A tree must have a Super STRONG foundation to hold the rest of itself!”
In the Strength & Conditioning video below you’ll see what Coach D’Angelo Kinard puts us through. Building up everyones legs, our base, our foundation!

I’ll say it again… POWER LEGS!

Enjoy the video below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlWnDmZqEqk

Today’s Strength & Conditioning Class was awesome! The competition team will be set to rock n roll to finish up 2010! We are all super stoked to put the strength and conditioning to the test! AGAIN! Everyone who did the workouts building up to the Mundials felt awesome. Tired was not in our vocabulary. We are working on getting real strong now with all these squats and core workouts. All I can say is that Im super excited.

My legs feel like jelly right now… Coach D’s workouts hit the spot! Something is working. HA!

Check out the video below to see some of the workouts we were doing…

Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u-SRtr7w6o

INTENSITY!!!

Another great day of training today. Im having a hard time typing because today was upper body Thursdays. My shoulders are burning, tricepts are tight, and abs are near cramping from all the crunches we did. But Hey! No pain no gain!

We had a special guest from California, Jamie Yager, from this season of The Ultimate Fighter. He is really good friends with teammate Kris “Savage” McCray and came down to visit for a few days.

Don’t forget if you didn’t get tickets for this Saturdays UWC… GO GET EM NOW!!! Gonna be a good card with some Team Lloyd Irvin fighters.

Check out the highlight video of this Thursdays upper body workout.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_D-SFrjfnM

Whassup SpyCammers?!?!

Team Lloyd Irvin’s Jason Farrell payed the Camp Springs Maryland Academy a visit to get some footage of the Strength & Conditioning Class. The intensity and energy is always positive in the Combat Athlete Room… and you can really feel it with the highlight reel he put together!

“Camp Closed today for the guys fighting at UWC 8. Everyone is ready! But the work doesn’t stop now, preparing the guys/ladies for worlds, operation octagon, smokers………..Its a tough job, but ASP is ADDICTED TO RESULTS!”
-Strength & Conditioning Coach D’Angelo Kinard

UWC is right around the corner. Team Lloyd Irvin cannot wait to see the guys rip it up in that cage! May 22nd at the George Mason Patriot Center in Fairfax VA…

Go Team Lloyd Irvin!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_-6oiR7Rjg

Heres the scenario…

Your alarm goes off… You look, and its 5:30AM… You told yourself ALL WEEK that you would get up on Saturday to go workout..
Then… It Happens!

The good guy bad guy effect! One guy on your shoulder says…
“Naww you don’t need to get up to work out! You can work out after you get everything done today. Just sleep in because you’ll workout harder if you get enough sleep. The pillows feel soooo goooood!”
The other guy says…
“You were telling yourself ALL WEEK that you were gonna wake up and go workout. Get out of bed and go straight to the bathroom. Wash your face with super duper cold water and you’ll wake up. Go Now! Come on Bud… You can do it! Don’t listen to the other guy on your other shoulder!”

HAHAH We all have this problem… Now! The solution is… You need a 3rd person to tell you what to do. And it has to be Yourself!
Now YOU have to tell yourself…
“WAKE UP YOU LAZY BUM! GET OUT NOW! DONT THINK ABOUT IT! GET IN YOUR CAR AND GO WORK OUT! GO GO GO GO GO!”

That always helps for me! LOL…

The moral of the story… DO NOT listen to the negative guy on your shoulder! Get up and Work Out!

May 22nd UWC  Judgement Day, Team Lloyd Irvin soldiers Timothy Woods, Ron “Choir Boy” Stallings, Justin Hickey, and UWC Bantamweight Champion Mike “The Hulk” Easton will go to battle at the George Mason Patriot Center in Fairfax VA. Tickets are sold at the Team Lloyd Irvin Academy in Camp Springs Maryland. For more information about tickets give us a call at 301-449-KICK (5425)

How would you feel if your alarm went off and you knew this is what you’ll be doing for your 6am workout? Hahah… We’re in Shape!
Your Workout… is Our Warmup!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB-vZQyagrc