Originally Posted by Eric3237

The only thing I would say is you may want to keep the length of the phases a little flexible. You may find you get into SE, for instance and you're a lot more detrained than you would think. You may need longer on a certain skill set in order to express it to the max. Obviously if you're getting ready for a comp you have a static time frame but in general blind adherence to some set length of cycles can be a detriment. Keeping in mind this of course:

ME can be done to the minumum on any phase just to retain skill...it doesn't always have to be setting records. Same thing with any other skill set. It's more complicated to set up that way of course.

Now this is the only other thing I wonder. I take it that MMA training will be done on your regular schedule during all this. But it seems to me one classic mistake that people make is to get caught up in strength, etc. and lose sight of what the purpose of all that is. Ideally, to me, the last phase of a training cycle would be basically more MMA specific training. Using all that strength and endurance and conditioning and putting it all into the max you can spend on actual skill training. Otherwise, you're always trying to express your martial arts skills to the max while training something else to the max. And you really can't. No matter what you think, something always gives. That training should have it's rightful place.

This may not be important now, but if you start to schedule your training around competitions it's something you should think about. If I was getting ready for a comp, I wouldn't want to have spent my last cycle of training lifting 3 days a weeks and doing MA 3 days a week when I could have been doing MA 6 days a week.