Effective strength and conditioning should be viewed as skill and coordination training under resistance rather than purely a capacity-building exercise.

“strength conditioning as coordination training with resistance, the resistance is a lot. But if we're just about we have a lot of choice here to make this hard, but if it's just about capacity, then let's just give you an exercise bike and do some dumb work. But it's not how do we become more skille”

Michael Chandler believes that his dedicated focus on strength and conditioning is the primary reason his body has remained durable throughout his fighting career.

“There's no way to ever know what my career would have looked like had I not focused so much on strength conditioning. It really does bulletproof the body.”

Frank Mir contends that high-intensity strength training for older fighters must be carefully moderated to ensure long-term health and recovery.

“i just realized that like you know the nervous system can only handle so much i don't care how great of a multivitamins you're on you can only train so hard the body can you know can only get so many hours of sleep and so uh to recover and so you know maybe once every two or three weeks i'll lift he”