How can I become a UFC fighter?

by MasterBlaster on March 12, 2010

I’m 15 years old and weigh 160 pounds of all muscle, I’m not fat one bit. My dream is to become a UFC fighter it my future. What can I do to start training now? And what kind of weight lifting can I do to make my biceps bigger?

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TschernSpeed March 12, 2010 at 17:21

1. Join your HS wrestling team. The competition, weight training and ground skills will help you forever.
2. Begin taking various martial arts classes. Specialize is the striking forms and look for competions.
3. Hire a personal trainer and begin working out religiously.
4. Cut out all junk food from your diet. Consult a dietician on what the right foods to eat are. You want to maintain your good calories eliminate teh bad stuff so you can keep your weight down but muscle up.
5. Look into Mixed Martial Arts promotions in your area. The internet is a good place to start. You’ll likely need to enter low level competitions to get noticed and ultimatley become a UFC fighter.

Rasputin March 12, 2010 at 18:17

Look, everyone thinks they can hold there own in a fight. Everyone thinks they could go to UFC. I am not saying that you can’t but its a lot harder than you think. Start by going to an mma gym, or any martial art for starters. Get good and learn mma. MMA is more than muscle…just look at BJ Penn…MMA fighters have muscles like crazy because they train in their arts like crazy. Technique often outweighs muscle. Learn technique first. Muscles are good and necessary but technique should come first.

Or, to start now start wrestling with your friends. Wrestling in high school as a sport is excellent traing for mma. Good luck

Ill Niño March 12, 2010 at 18:37

dude this question has been asked many times before, and that other guy was right, its a lot harder than it looks.

callsignfuzzy March 12, 2010 at 18:56

Clearly skipped right over the search function, huh?

For starters, the sport isn’t UFC, it’s MMA- Mixed Martial Arts. The UFC is a promotional brand. UFC is to MMA what McDonald’s is to fast food.

Second, as far as training goes, you need to find an MMA gym. Since you’re still in high school, I’d also recommend that you join your high school wrestling team. Many good MMA fighters have a strong background in wrestling. If you can’t find an MMA gym near you, look for a place that trains any of the following: Brazilian Jiujitsu, boxing, Muay Thai, kick boxing, Sambo, Judo, submission wrestling, and Catch wrestling. If you can’t find any of that, simply take whatever martial arts classes are available. They can at least lay a foundation for your future MMA training. Unless you’re in a big city, you’ll probably have to move to a place that has better MMA facilities once you graduate high school. But make sure you go to college. Knowledge is one thing nobody can take away from you.

Bigger biceps don’t mean jack in a fight. At all. THere are some very fit-looking MMA fighters, such as Georges St-Pierre, Brock Lesnar, Mark Coleman, Rich Franklin, etc, but some of the best aren’t ripped at all, like Karo Parisyan, Lyoto Machida, BJ Penn, and Fedor Emilianenko. I could go on all night listing ripped-looking fighters who suck at MMA. As Frank Mir said, if it was just physical, anybody could do it.

You really want to make an impact? Understand the game. Watch every match you can, and take notes on what was effective, and what wasn’t. Listen to the commentary, you’ll learn a lot. Read every interview you can. Read every bit of news that comes up. When you get extra spending money, buy instructional books and videos, or go to siminars. You wanna get to the UFC? That’s the big leagues, son. You’ll have to start out at smaller shows, so find a gym with a fight team. When someone beats you in sparring, and this will happen a lot, ask them how you can improve. Go to the fights not as a spectator, but in the corner of one of the fighters. And be prepared to sacrifice everything. Randy Couture’s been through two divorces. Forrest Griffin spent his early career sleeping on his coach’s couch.

What you see on TV is the finished work. It’s the final product. It’s like seeing a polished sword. You don’t have to see the heat and pounding it takes to get to that point.

I Buy And Sell Houses March 12, 2010 at 19:10

Lots of good advice here. Especially: If you’re in high school, go out for wrestling. That’ll help with grappling and jiu jitsu when you get to that. Meanwhile, wrestling is great for conditioning. Get good nutrition. Don’t smoke (it’ll kill your cardio).

And understand that while strength is important, technique is even more important. As for your question about your biceps, forget them. It’s not just about muscle, especially big, bulging muscles. Sure, some competitors have that. Some don’t. I’m still amazed when I look at lots of top BJJ competitors; they look almost skinny. But they’re tough and strong, and they know technique.

Good luck.

Abdi March 12, 2010 at 19:58

train

default42 March 12, 2010 at 20:04

well first of all you need to stop worrying about making your biceps bigger and how much muscle you have and start learning going to an mma gym dedicating yourself which I doubt you will, cos by the sounds of your question you have no idea how hard and how much dedication is involved, tito ortiz trains 8 hours a day 6 days a week,

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