Thread: Personal coach

Is it useful?

I plan to take one for mma as i don't have time for take collective class.

The coach will be focus on me which is good but there will be no sparring.

So what guys do you think about it?

I would just train at an MMA gym by myself at first. When you learn the basics and want to step it up to the next level, then get a coach.

Ok. But do you think that i can reach a good level with only a personal trainer ?

Make sense but i don't have the patience to wait 2+ years before to get really good

Originally Posted by Kaizenfr

Make sense but i don't have the patience to wait 2+ years before to get really good

yea no this ain't for you then, go do something else.

You need to spar with different people, and a personal trainer can also be good or bad or neither, it all depends on who he is.

Originally Posted by iloveus

. Apparently, Max Holloway doesn't spar anymore

But Max also has over a decade of top level training, sparring, and coaching. His base is set, he knows what he needs to do, and what to work on.

A new guy needs ALL the sparring early on from as many different guys as possible. Get smashed, learn, get experience, grow, get frustrated, work on developing your own game, get humbled more, etc. This applies to every facet of MMA (grappling and striking).

If you aren’t sparring / rolling hard then you won’t be effective. Only true masters of MMA can get away with no LONGER sparring, and that’s because they already did that foundational work. It’s mind / body preservation for them as professional fighters at a certain point.

Originally Posted by CanardMedic

yea no this ain't for you then, go do something else.

Hahaha maybe

Originally Posted by kusok

You need to spar with different people, and a personal trainer can also be good or bad or neither, it all depends on who he is.

Ok get it. I'll start with collective class and once i het that exp i'll hire a personal coach

If you don’t put in the mat time and put in the work, this sport ain’t for you

Originally Posted by Kaizenfr

Is it useful?

I plan to take one for mma as i don't have time for take collective class.

The coach will be focus on me which is good but there will be no sparring.

So what guys do you think about it?

Don’t have time for collective classes? Then MMA is not for you.

You will learn FAR more MUCH faster from actually going to group classes and drilling / sparring with bunches of different people / body types / skill sets / levels of experience, than you EVER will from doing privates with no sparring.

There is literally ZERO sports you could ever even begin to think you were proficient at if you never actually apply those skills in an actual “in game” scenario.

You’d never consider yourself a basketball player if all you ever did was shooting / dribbling drills, and never ran the court in a 5 on 5.

You’d never consider yourself a golfer if all you did was hit balls on the range and chipping / putting greens.

If you want a glorified personal trainer that you fork over money to, while never being proficient / see results, then by all means proceed with your original plan.