Jesus Christ, Muscle Milk, Xyience & 'The Not A Giraffe'
 

Been looking on Matt Hughes' Website, and he states the following:

"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me - Phillipians 4:13"

However, upon reading his training regimen I became suspicious that there was more than merely Christ our lord at work here.

He does mention Muscle Milk and Xyience, and I'm sure that is a powerful anabolic coctail, but I still think the amount of training he can manage seems a little unnatural.

Hrm... discuss! :devil:

Training:
Two parts: one when training in Hillsboro and one when training in Iowa

Hillsboro:
6:00 AM - run for 30-45 minutes (Monday, Wednesday, Friday)
6:45 AM - eat breakfast, take son to school, work on farm, miscellaneous errands
10:00 AM - eat a snack, good carbs and protein (NO SUGAR)
12:30 PM - eat lunch (usually a chicken breast sandwich and salad)
3:30 PM - take XYIENCE NOX-CG3
4:00 PM - lift weights, no more than 1 hr:

Monday - chest
(I hate chest workouts and if I don't start the week with chest I won’t do it)
Tuesday - back
Wednesday - might take the day off (lift saturday if I do), maybe arms
Thursday - shoulders
(always separate shoulders and chest as much as possible because they are both push muscles)
Friday - arms
Saturday - legs

Sets:
1st: 15 reps
2nd: 10-12 reps
3rd: no more than 6
4th: 10-12

4 exercises per body part

5:00 PM - 30 minute run on treadmill, start at 6 mph and every five minutes go up 1/2 mile per hour
5:30 PM - stretch for 15-20 minutes after workouts
take Cytosport Musclemilk (my post-workout meal)


Iowa:
6:00 AM - run for 30-45 minutes (Monday, Wednesday, Friday)
6:45 AM - eat breakfast
8:30 AM - arrive at the gym:
8:30-9:30 AM: lift for 1 hour
9:30 AM: work on light technique like grappling or hit pads, run on treadmill or go outside and run sprints
12:00 PM - eat lunch and take afternoon off
3:00 or 3:30 PM - have a snack
6:30 PM - practice:

Monday - sparring with takedowns
Tuesday - grappling
Wednesday - sparring (punches and kicks with 16 oz gloves and headgear)
Thursday - grappling
Friday - no practice (might go into gym to get a run in)

After workout I take Cytosport MuscleMilk.

Wierd because was just reading an article about his workout and he said he did't do arms because he thought he go enough Arm work out on his back chest and shoulders day....And I thought that that was wierd. But the workout sounds similar to otherones. So it looks legit.

strange..i do pretty much the exact same workout, but i dont have the same results as Matt at all.
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His running routine in Iowa is pretty rediculous.

im a personal trainer, and there is no way he could get a great arm workout on all those days unless he used arm exercises as active recovery between exercises for his other body parts, or did a day solely arms. and Matt is shredded all over, so he has to do one or the other. im guessing he does arms between other exercises. but his workout is pretty intense, but he probably has people there to either motivate him or workout with him cuz almost anyone couldn't do that kind of workout without some motivation. :ahh:

That is exactly why I thought it was wierd... He said in the article that it slows his spead down...I bet it is reporter error... because it didn't make sense to me either.

yeah just look at Hughes...it has to be a reporter error, or Hughes overloaded his brain with Xyience and Muscle Milk before the interview LOL!

To me, most other pro mma workouts look excessive too.

With 4 of those pyramids per body part, he is certainly hitting the arms hard on 3 days (every day except legs) and probably on back day also, so 3-4 days.

It is overtraining. This is a highly catabolic regimen, and just a couple of weeks on it would lead to regression on anything but maybe aerobic fitness and skill (and they would be way sub-optimal also).

With or without motivation (which I agree would be tough), he is not going to progress with this regimen unless his testosterone levels are through the roof (as cortisol will certainly be).

In short, he must be juiced.

git.

Git, I've only had a chance to take a quick look at this so far. Printed out his regimen to take a longer look later today.

After just looking at the cardio, it looks reasonable to me. I'm comparing it to what I did at his age. I did 45 min of cardio 4 days a week. Something that stands out in my mind is how often I got comments about it from people at the gym. I always felt great and could have gone longer, but was bored out of my mind at that point.

It seems you don't think it's the cardio. Correct?

I don't know the term "pyramids", are you referring to different exercises per body part? Please clarify.

he doesn't have to be juiced to progress from that kind of work out. that is why after his fights he doesn't rush back into the gym to continue training...he doesn't want his body to plateau. look at Tito for instance...the guy looks like just some average shmo between fights, but then it comes fight day and he's shredded and in awesome shape. it's because he doesn't train that hard when he doesn't have a fight to prepare for. same goes for Hughes. but im sure Hughes hopped right back into it since he will more then likely be fighting GSP in November.

and i agree with Boo, cardio is boring as hell. it's why so many people have to do so many different kinds of cardio to keep it interesting. hence the reason why i say if you dont have the motivation you'll give up on it. and Hughes has plenty of it with the guys at Millitech!