Combat Sports:

Combat sports covers a whole host of disciplines including various forms of boxing and wrestling, judo, jujutsu, JKD, taekwondo, karate and mixed martial arts. The physical characteristics required by each discipline may vary, for example wrestling requires upper body strength, power and endurance where karate does not require all these traits.

In today’s competitive sporting environments, combat athletes need to maximise the time they spend performing physical conditioning in order to dedicate more time to honing their fighting skills. Additionally lots of combat sports have weight categories and as such consideration needs to be given to body composition and nutritional aspects. DNA Sports Performance has the right answers of you to excel in chosen discipline.

Athlete Case Study –

Dominic Brookes completes in taekwondo on both a national and international stage in the under 54kg weight class. Dom has been working with DNA Sports Performance for over 18 months now, during which time his performances have developed exponentially. DNA has helped Dom transition weight categories and move into the senior age group. In order to do this Dom has addressed key issues in his physical preparation ranging from upper and lower body rate of force development to pre-competition weight making strategies. Presently Dom is ranked 6th in Europe for A class athletes.

Graph showing the performance increases in power output over time