The Pit Workout

The Pit Workout is a dynamic, three-day per week MMA and fighter workout program designed to build speed, power and endurance. Each one-hour program includes full body conditioning while targeting specific muscle groups. Be ready to work hard, sweat and have fun while building endurance, flexibility, strength, speed and power.

The Pit, John Hackleman and MMA Roots joined together in early 2004 in order to bring you one of the most talked about and physically demanding workouts of MMA today. Combine traditional martial arts with proven modern day MMA training techniques and your result is The Pit Workout. Take your MMA workout one step further by learning the top 27 fighting techniques in modern day mixed martial arts. These techniques are the most commonly utilized tested and proven pit skills. The Pit of today is the most well rounded Martial Arts & Fitness program anywhere.

The Pit seamless fused together traditional martial arts and MMA, to create an effective disciplined workout. The Pit Workout introduces “state of the art” training and incorporates a style of fitness that is tested and proven in modern MMA today. John “The Train” Hackleman has created the fitness and fighting system that is unequaled in the Martial Arts of the 21st Century. He also shares with us over 30 years of Pit History by boiling down and reducing old school systems into a simple philosophy, “use what works and discard what doesn’t.” Whether you are training for a martial arts competition or cross training for any other sport in the world, The Pit Workout will get you closer to your goals of ultimate fitness and conditioning. Simply combine a few of the basic Pit Techniques with one of the conditioning workouts and you will also be learning how to fight in competition or defend
yourself in the streets. Always, “Train for the Worst, and Hope for the Best”

Pit Workout One:
Emphasizes the upper body with specialized push-ups and punch combinations.

Pit Workout Two:
Works the lower body through squats, lunges and kick combinations.

Pit Workout Three:
Combines both workouts in an intense full-body routine.