Vanguard Gym

Mixed Martial Arts, Grappling, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Thai Boxing, and CrossFit have no seasons associated with them. People are able to compete when it fits their schedule. With the growing popularity of these sports there are more and more opportunities to push your limits and test your mettle.

I had played organized team sports for about 20 years and found it harder to find the competition level that I wanted to participate in as I got older. I was interested in finding an individual sport that I could compete in that would push me physically and mentally.

When I started training I was curious to see if I would be able to train in MMA let alone actually compete in it. After 10 months of training I had my first MMA fight and won a Unanimous Decision. It was due to the great training and teammates at Vanguard that allowed me to be able to get in the cage so quickly and actually be successful. I am well ahead of where my expectations were when I started training. Along with competing in MMA I have also competed in multiple gi and no-gi jiu-jitsu tournaments, winning my divisions in a few of them. My grappling and striking has improved drastically in the time I have been training at Vanguard Gym but there is still a long ways to go and I look forward to putting in the work necessary to continue to improve.

Since I have been training at Vanguard Gym my level of physical fitness is easily the highest it has been in my life. I started training at 230 pounds and was mainly into lifting weights. Over the first year of training I lost over 40 pounds and improved my endurance greatly and was able to keep my strength from my time that I was strictly lifting weights. After running a marathon two years ago I can say that any Saturday’s four hours of training at Vanguard is just as, if not more, physically demanding. When I started at Vanguard I expected to not only get into shape but also learn effective striking and grappling. I have continued to improve in both areas well beyond my initial expectations. Even though MMA, BJJ, and Muay Thai are individual sports when it comes to competitions, the team training leading up to them is extremely important and at Vanguard there are plenty of other hard working teammates there to push each other to improve. The camaraderie is definitely an added incentive that I did not even realize was something I would get out of training at Vanguard.
– Josh

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