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Martial Arts for Fitness: 5 Reasons Why It Works

Martial Arts for Fitness: 5 Reasons Why It Works

Fitness enables a human's ability to function well in an active environment, be it heavy-duty activities that induce sweat or everyday musts like walking and bending. It consists of five essential components: flexibility, cardiorespiratory fitness, muscular endurance, muscular strength, and body composition. Fitness is significant to holistic health and well-being and engaging in activities of daily living without excessive fatigue, and for that, exercising is vital. Interestingly, mixed martial arts is a kind of exercise that showers an individual with an extensive range of health benefits. It lays the foundation for people to reach their peak physical performance. What's best, even people without any prior experience can slowly and steadily get accustomed to the stance and energy requirements.

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5 Rule Guide While Practicing On Punching Bags

5 Rule Guide While Practicing On Punching Bags

A punching bag is counted amongst essential gym equipment, especially for combat training trainees, whether MMA, Muay Thai, or mere boxing. The heavy, mostly cylindrical leather bag is designed to endure brute strength as fighters rain down punches and kicks on it during their practice sessions. However, human hands cannot absorb the effects of punching the heavy bag without injuries.

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5 WAYS MMA CAN BENEFIT WOMEN

5 WAYS MMA CAN BENEFIT WOMEN

MMA or Mixed Martial Arts combines a range of combat training styles such as Boxing, Muay Thai, Wrestling, Judo, and Brazilian Jiu-jitsu. Even better, the sport incorporates three general techniques – striking, control, and finishing holds – to help fighters gain dominance over their opponent.

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Matrix Fight Night 7th Edition: Round-Up of MFN 7

Matrix Fight Night 7th Edition: Round-Up of MFN 7

Sanctioned by Global Authority for Mixed Martial Arts Federation (GAMMAF) and governed by the All India Mixed Martial Arts Association, Matrix Fight Night is back with its 7th edition, this time at Taj Falaknuma Palace in Hyderabad.

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A Complete Guide on Combat Gloves: MMA and Boxing

A Complete Guide on Combat Gloves: MMA and Boxing

Understanding the anatomy of combat gloves puts you in the driving seat to leverage such equipment for stamina, shielding, punch power, and acceleration capabilities. With varying combat gloves, amateur MMA fighters are often confused regarding which glove type improves their combat skills.

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Muay Thai Roundhouse Kicks: Complete Guide

Muay Thai Roundhouse Kicks: Complete Guide

Muay Thai can easily be tagged as a deadly martial arts form owing to the predatory and potent roundhouse rick. Despite being a difficult move to execute, it’s capable of knocking the opponent off their balance, coordination, and ring orientation.

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Making Fitness a Lifestyle: Interview With Krishna Shroff

Making Fitness a Lifestyle: Interview With Krishna Shroff

Krishna Shroff is a star athlete, diva, and hardcore fitness enthusiast with a burning desire to upskill her mixed martial art prowess. While she continues to satiate her hunger for MMA practice everyday, she strives to maintain a toned body, shaking the fitness and film industry off the ground.

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How to Deal with Joint Pain after Exercise

How to Deal with Joint Pain after Exercise

MMA fighters, whether aspiring or professionals, are bound to face the aftermath of gruelling practice sessions that push their physical limits to the edge. And this develops into inevitable joint pain after numerous burpees, kettlebell swings, overhead presses, and much more.

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Our Founder & The Ultimate Trailblazer: Krishna Shroff

Our Founder & The Ultimate Trailblazer: Krishna Shroff

In a recent interview with H&H Magazine, our founder, Krishna Shroff, speaks about the driving force behind launching and continually expanding her family’s homegrown fitness brand, MMA Matrix. During the initial phase of her healthy living journey, a series of lightbulb moments quickly culminated into a dream of kickstarting a fitness revolution, all for the masses.

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Use These 5 Tips To Improve Your Grips

Use These 5 Tips To Improve Your Grips

The art of establishing a firm, solid grip is something most MMA aspirants fail to get right in the first few months. We, at MMA Matrix, have seen numerous first-timers and even intermediate fighters struggle with proper grips.

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5 Ways Through Which MMA Fighting Improves Mental Health

5 Ways Through Which MMA Fighting Improves Mental Health

The art of muscular flexibility and hand-eye coordination is just one enticing attribute of MMA fighting. Add the thrill of grappling, striking, and a mix of moves from other similar sports like karate, jujitsu, and hapkido, and you yet will have to strive towards one particular goal.

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MMA Matrix Reopens with Caution!

MMA Matrix Reopens with Caution!

Tough times don’t last for long as there is always hope for better days. As the COVID-19 curve is flattening, the health and safety regulations are easing.

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World Bicycle Day - Recognising a Green & a Healthy Solution

World Bicycle Day - Recognising a Green & a Healthy Solution

Every year 3rd June is observed as World Bicycle Day to promote the use of bicycles for a healthy lifestyle and a greener environment.

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Fitness For All: An Initiative by MMA Matrix

Fitness For All: An Initiative by MMA Matrix

begin your fitness journey right at the comfort of your home and bring about fresh changes to the new normal that we started living in.

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MMA Matrix’s Bodyweight Exercises at Home - Chest Muscles

MMA Matrix’s Bodyweight Exercises at Home - Chest Muscles

we have formulated a dedicated home workout schedule for bodyweight exercises that don’t require any equipment and can be easily done in the comfort and safety of your home

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MMA Matrix's Bodyweight Exercises at Home - Shoulder Muscles

MMA Matrix's Bodyweight Exercises at Home - Shoulder Muscles

Keeping yourself fit and healthy is necessary more than ever during such unprecedented times.

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At MMA Matrix - No Stopping with Virtual Sessions

At MMA Matrix - No Stopping with Virtual Sessions

Gyms along with other sectors have been asked to pause their operations again until the situation improves.

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MMA Matrix Family Grows Bigger & Better

MMA Matrix Family Grows Bigger & Better

When Tiger Shroff & Krishna Shroff along with the MMA Matrix family - Jackie Shroff, Ayesha Shroff, and Coach Alan Fenandes planned to introduce the aesthetics of Mixed Martial Arts to the people of India, it all looked like a dream that would take quite some time to achieve. However, as it is said - hard work, dedication and passion can turn things overnight.

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How can Mixed Martial Arts help you cope up with the Pandemic?

How can Mixed Martial Arts help you cope up with the Pandemic?

There is no standardised fitness routine that can fit everyone. Over time, people have gotten themselves aware of diverse fitness workouts that serve a dedicated purpose to their body type: it can be low or high-intensity circuit training, cardio-based training, or it can be Mixed Martial Arts.

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Do you know a fun fact about a Group Class?

Do you know a fun fact about a Group Class?

at MMA Matrix, are introducing fun and wholesome group MMA classes. So, after knowing all those benefits, you really don’t wanna miss this chance. Grab it before the batches get full!

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Workout at Home with MMA Matrix: High-Intensity Chest Exercises

Workout at Home with MMA Matrix: High-Intensity Chest Exercises

the beginner level exercises for chest muscles, today we will be moving ahead to the high-intensity exercises that will help you in transforming your chest muscles to a notch higher!

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Workout at Home with MMA Matrix: Chest Exercises (Beginner Level)

Workout at Home with MMA Matrix: Chest Exercises (Beginner Level)

These routines are easy to perform, doesn’t require any equipment and are very effective using just your bodyweight.

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Workout at Home with MMA Matrix: Exercises for Shoulder & Back Muscles

Workout at Home with MMA Matrix: Exercises for Shoulder & Back Muscles

Start with stretching your hands and legs, neck rotating exercises and jumping jacks. And, end your warm-up with 20 reps of arm circles.

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MMA Matrix Reopens: Adjusting to the New Normal

MMA Matrix Reopens: Adjusting to the New Normal

As the government of India has lifted certain restrictions and we are gearing up for the post-Coronavirus lockdown phase, there are certain subjects related to the reopening of MMA Matrix that need to be addressed.

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New Year, New You

New Year, New You

The new year has begun and once again you are feeling motivated to exercise more and eat good or make any other positive changes in your lifestyle.

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