RE-EVAL Ep. 75: Alex Friedman-Combat Sports Training

About this episode

Alex Friedman discusses his journey in combat sports training and his experiences at the UFC Performance Institute.

This episode features Alex Friedman, strength and conditioning coach and CP Ambassador. Alex is currently out in Colorado finishing up his master's degree. In this episode, we focus on Alex’s background as a wrestler as well as how that is playing into his future plans as a strength and conditioning professional. In his journey, Alex was able to spend time in Las Vegas doing an internship at the UFC Performance Institute. Alex fills us in on everything that they do there to help encourage the best training and care for any UFC Fighter that wants to train there. After hearing about it, it is unbelievably impressive as the focus is on well-rounded training and health for the fighters. We also discuss Alex’s work on his thesis around weight cutting and all the different factors that play into that aspect of combat sports. So much good information in this episode, please check it out and enjoy. www.clinicallypressed.org #complicatedsimple #resultsthatgiveback #heartbeatbarbell

People in this episode

Host: Clinically Pressed

Guest: Alex Friedman

Topics covered

• combat sports
• strength and conditioning
• weight cutting
• UFC training
• athlete health

Keywords

• combat sports
• strength and conditioning
• UFC
• weight cutting
• athlete training

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: UFC Performance Institute

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