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I started doing MMA, jujitsu, or cardio classes on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. I rest on Sundays. On Wednesdays I started lifting heavy for biceps and triceps to develop power. On Saturday I want to continue targeting biceps to be more consistent and progress to lifting heavier weight. By neglecting to lift weights with my legs, chest, back, abs and shoulders, can it negatively affect me? The classes I take are full body workouts, with no weights. It is mostly rolling, pad work, bag work, and body weight exercises. Thank you for your time.
I started doing MMA, jujitsu, or cardio classes on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. I rest on Sundays. On Wednesdays I started lifting heavy for biceps and triceps to develop power. On Saturday I want to continue targeting biceps to be more consistent and progress to lifting heavier weight. By neglecting to lift weights with my legs, chest, back, abs and shoulders, can it negatively affect me? The classes I take are full body workouts, with no weights. It is mostly rolling, pad work, bag work, and body weight exercises. Thank you for your time.
For jujitsu, many practitioners recommend doing deadlifts, squats and pull ups. Listen to Ramsey Dewy concerning strength training for combat sports.
Yes. Do what you want. If for you that's heavy curls and tricep pull downs to develop the guns, just do it. You don't need to justify it. Not lifting will definitely have a negative impact on MMA/jujitsu but again, what are your motivations. If you're doing BJJ for fitness ala people who take fitness kickboxing classes, maybe you don't care. BJJ is a good fitness class and if that's your goal not doing weigh training if you hate it could be the answer. Better to do the BJJ for fitness than do neither because you don't like weight training. OTOH, if you're really practicing the art to excel at it, you'll need to do things you don't like. Maybe not right now just starting out you may not be in shape that you should be considering lifting weights. Ask your instructor if they have any advise. Also depends how old you are and line of work. In my late 30s with an incredibly sedentary job I would consider weight training to just be essential for basic functionality in a way it wasn't when I was in my 20s. It's nothing crazy, basic home gym setup with some kettlebells thrown in for variety that takes me 20-30 minutes to do 3x a week.
Yeah doing things like back, chest, shoulders will indirectly work biceps/triceps so I wouldn't focus exclusively on those. You'll build them through other exercises that are more critical to gaining power and size.
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