MMA Training vs Gym Workout: What Should You Do?

Want to get physically fit and strong but don’t know where to start? Are you confused about choosing Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) and a gym workout for your physical training? No longer need to be confused. This article will explore everything you need to know about why an MMA training session is better than a gym workout. You should always choose MMA training if you're confused between doing an MMA training session and a gym workout. Why? Let's discuss the reasons and logic behind this fact.

The following are some reasons that you should always prioritize an MMA training session over a gym workout:

• The first benefit you get from training mixed martial arts is that you are targeting all your muscle groups, not just one or two at a time. This is not the case with a gym workout. 
• In a gym workout, you are targeting one muscle group at a time. You continue doing this for your day at the gym. Usually, when you are doing a gym workout, you are scheduling your muscle groups for a week, and in one day, you are targeting only one muscle group. The next time you will target that muscle group will be next week. So in one week, you are focusing on all muscles only once. So, how can you even compare MMA training with a gym workout?
• What do you do in your MMA training? You are executing different moves and techniques against your opponent just after a few seconds. One time you are targeting your arm muscles, and the next time you are making use of your leg muscles. Besides these, in general, you are involving a lot of muscles in executing a single successful move. This is how you involve complete body workouts in your MMA training, unlike in gym workouts.

• Gym workout can improve your physical fitness and strength, but not your problem-solving skills. If you don’t have a good skill to solve your problems, you will eventually develop that skill. And if you think you already have problem-solving skills in your skills bucket, then you will improve that skill to a great extent just by training in MMA.
• What do you think is the most important thing when two fighters in MMA face each other? Their fighting skills? Techniques? Moves? Body strength? No! The most important thing is the fight IQ. In MMA, fight IQ is the ability to analyze the situation during an MMA fight. You closely see where you and your opponent stand in a fight. You see the distance between you and them, analyze who is in a dominant position and who is in a submissive position. If you are in a submissive situation, you develop a strategy to dominate again against your opponent. This strategy will be focused on removing you from a situation or a problem. This is the fight IQ, and this is developed and improved through MMA training and fighting.
• This is how MMA training improves your problem-solving skills. These improved problem-solving skills are not only helpful in MMA training and fighting but also in your real life. You confront many problematic situations in your real life, in which you have to utilize your problem-solving skills to get out of the problem, which will otherwise cost you serious consequences.

• You probably already know the importance of having good friends in your life. Friends are an important part of your life. They can make your life very easy and enjoyable. Therefore, it is necessary to have some friends who can pass you through thick and thin. But make sure you have only true and good friends who do not deceive you, and when you need them, they help you. The best way to make such good and true friends is by starting MMA training.
• MMA helps you make friends that you can never forget. During the MMA learning process, you have an interaction with many other people who are also getting trained in the same field. You both have an interest in the same fields. You help each other in learning a specific move or technique. This is how you develop good friendships with people of the same interest when you start MMA training.

The friendships you develop during MMA training, the strength you gain both physically and mentally, the health benefits, and the analytical and problem-solving skills you learn throughout your training become support for your entire life. This is the thing that you keep with you wherever you go and whatever situation arises. Life is full of suspense. It is never smooth, and nobody’s life is smooth. All have to face bad phases in life. But the real winner will be the one who has all such things in their life, such as good friends, mental and physical strength, and skills, particularly problem-solving and analytical skills. So getting into MMA is the way to develop a support system for your life.

• The fifth reason you should get into MMA is the confidence you build. But in a gym workout, you cannot develop confidence in yourself as effectively as in MMA. But what is the reason behind this? Let's understand this with the help of an example.
• What do you do in a gym workout? You enter a gym, get ready for the workout, and start doing some gym training. After some time, you take some rest and then do the training again. After completing the gym workout that you have planned for a particular day, you pack your luggage and then go back to your home. What are you getting in this process other than physical strength? Nothing! You are just making your body. The body with no confidence. What will you do with such a high-muscle body if you don't even have confidence? Again, you can do nothing effectively without confidence. Now, let's see what you do in one MMA training session and how it is better than your one session of gym workout.
• You go into an MMA gym, greet your fellow students and trainer, and then you start training MMA under a trainer with your partner. In an MMA gym, you do training, challenge your colleagues, and sometimes, you seriously fight just to win against someone. Sometimes, you do training with your partners whom you know very well, and other times you don’t know them. You are meeting new people daily, challenging them to fight and train. Also, you are learning new moves and techniques daily. So this is how your MMA training continues. What are you learning in this process? Confidence? Yes! Mental and physical strength? Yes!
• So now you have definitely seen a closer look at both gym workouts and MMA training sessions. The latter will give you a lot of skills, including mental and physical, which will help you throughout your life. So, prioritize MMA over your gym.

• In one session of your MMA, you are doing an intense workout. Others who don't know about it may just see MMA as a way in which you are fighting with each other, with no better way to get out of it. This is just ridiculous thinking.
• You are doing a lot of things in one session of MMA training, much more than a gym workout. In a gym workout, you are either warming up your biceps, triceps, leg muscles, or abdomen muscles, all individually, not at the same time. So, what do you think about how many calories you are burning during your gym workout? Around only 200-400 calories. This is nothing compared to the calories you burn in one MMA training session or in the same time as a gym workout. According to the reports, you burn around 1000 calories in one hour. That is a lot compared to the calories you burn in the gym.
• The reason for this huge difference is that you are engaging your whole body in MMA, unlike in the gym, where you are only focusing on one muscle at a time. You are fighting, training, throwing punches and kicks at your opponent, and doing everything you can to get an edge over your opponent. So you are doing a workout here as well, but this time you are doing a very intense workout in which you burn a lot of calories.

• In the present world, where everyone is trying to get ahead of others in every way, whether it is about money, the ranks they want, or promotion, everyone is stressed about their financial status. The poor want to become rich, and the rich ones want to become richer. This is a race that no one can win, so are you. This continued race has increased the stress levels of many people because they are only focusing on these things.
• The best way to avoid all this stress is through MMA. You should take some time out from your busy life and go for MMA training. This will help you a lot in reducing your stress. What is MMA? MMA is just the fun you should get, which, besides entertaining you, gives you many other life-saving skills. So, at the price of one or two hours, you are getting a lot of things in return.
• You become friends with your colleagues. You have fun while training. You enjoy every bit of this. This entertainment and fun will help you avoid and reduce stress from your busy life. This will even have a positive impact on your job life as well. So, an MMA training session gives you a lot of fun that you can never have with a gym workout.

When you ask people what they would like to do, MMA training or a gym workout, 90% of them will say a gym workout. The reason is the lack of knowledge and awareness about the benefits of MMA training. But now that we have discussed the benefits of MMA training sessions, you know how MMA is better than the gym. So, try to take some time for yourself and start MMA training. If you cannot take some time during the weekdays, you should do it on the weekends. So this way, you will be doing MMA eight days a month, which is enough for you in the beginning. After some time, you will start realizing its importance. Then you will be able to take time during the weekdays also. So start slow, but do it continuously.