[Brandon MacRea]

I'm an amateur boxer first and foremost, one who dabbles in MMA here and there. I'm interested in turning pro, most likely when I'm finished school and get my BA.

For the last month or so my training has suffered. After a slew of minor injuries, lacerations and even a touch of pestilence, I'm finally just about ready to dive back into training. I thought a new log would be a good way to rededicate myself and have a fresh start.

Tale of the Tape:
HEIGHT
6'
WEIGHT
152 (fight weight)
161 (current walk-around weight as of October 4th)
155 (goal)
REACH
75"

Objectives/Goals (Long, long term):
Fighting
-Continue to make the necessarily changes in my style to succeed in the professional boxing world
-Develop better head movement, rely less on parries and footwork, less "European" style
-Improve grappling game, especially wrestling ability, as well as kicks to round out MMA skill set a little better

Conditioning/Warrior Challenges
-Sub-5minute 100 burpee time
-5-minute mile
-60-second 400
-25 pull-ups straight
-Work Capacity 101, 12 circuits in 20 minutes

Lifting/Strength (note: haven't lifted in awhile, these aren't true maxes, just what I've done in the past)
-Deadlift; conventional 405 (PR: 335) zercher 315 (PR: 235)
-Push-press 185 (PR: 160)
-Front squat 185 (PR: 160 I think)
-Weighted dips bw+90
-Weighted pull-ups bw+90
-Power cleans 185 (PR: 165)

Basic Outline:
-Lifting** 2x per week, dropped entirely 2-3 weeks out from fight
-Roadwork/conditioning every training day on top of any other work (boxing club, MMA club, or lifting), loosely following something similar to the 50-day program, but with more running
-Boxing/Stand-up sparring no more than 2x per week (this will be hard, I love hard sparring but I want to be coherent, too. Technical skill sparring doesn't count, that's tit-for-tat stuff)
-Neck work 4-5 times per week. 2 heavy core days, 2 high-rep core days. Grip training 3x a week.

**2-day split:
DAY 1 (weeks A,B,C = that exercise changes each week to listed variation)
1. Frontsquats
2. A: Pushpress / B: SOHP / C: DB See-saw press
3. Weighted pull-ups

DAY 2
1. A: Deadlifts / B: power cleans
2. A: Good Mornings B: Zercher deadlifts
3. Weighted Dips

Here goes nothin'