Preparing for a Competition

**Standly** · Posted On: 10/04/2007 6:03am

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I am trying to prepare for a competition. Can anyone suggest some good conditioning exercises?
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**gi or not to gi** · Posted On: 10/04/2007 6:53am

What kind of competition are you training for? You can do bag drills, running, sprints, bodyweight exercises, etc. but in order to get the most from training you should tailor it to the competition (round length, rule set, etc.)

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**Standly** · Posted On: 10/05/2007 5:06am

I'm trying to prepare for a Full Contact Kickboxing tournament.

My first time on the tournament circuit. Any advice or tidbit I get would be extremely helpful.

**BackFistMonkey** · Posted On: 10/05/2007 5:14am

Originally Posted by Standly

I'm trying to prepare for a Full Contact Kickboxing tournament.

My first time on the tournament circuit. Any advice or tidbit I get would be extremely helpful.

Ask your coach and keep your hands up .

**gzk** · Posted On: 10/05/2007 7:05am

Originally Posted by Standly

I'm trying to prepare for a Full Contact Kickboxing tournament.

My first time on the tournament circuit. Any advice or tidbit I get would be extremely helpful.

Do you have kick counts? If so, I guess, try and get them out of the way early. You probably don't want to have to cram them in at the end of the round.

And, keep your damn hands up.

**Sebastin** · Posted On: 10/06/2007 1:08am

Good Luck, Standly, I prepare for competitions by doing a lot of cardio exercises to build my stamina. I do a lot of running apart from repeated punching, kicking and technique practice.

However, I also found a very interesting response to a similar question by Professor Gary Lee in Martialcafe.com

you can view his response by clicking on this link:
http://www.martialcafe.com/quest/quest_view.php