are they buying up other gym’s, or are they franchising (selling the name)?

First of all, just my opinion, but with the economy the way it is, planning to open 400 gyms sounds like a good way for the UFC to attempt to go bankrupt. Lol.

I have done MMA training, and it is so strenuous that I can’t imagine anyone sticking with it for very long when they’re not even really learning to fight. It was so rough it reminded me of when I was in Army basic training. I trained MMA for about a year, and I found the BJJ training to be ideal for me and really fun, but the Muay Thai was just way too strenuous. And even worse doing BJJ and MT both all week long. I stopped doing Muay Thai because I didn’t want to kill myself just to learn it when I didn’t even plan on being a fighter. I stuck with grappling though and recently switched from BJJ to Judo because I wanted to learn more throws and sweeps while still learning the ground fighting and submissions. I’m having a blast.

Kelvin said how he hates running on treadmills and stuff like that, and while this UFC gym stuff will be different from what most people have done for exercise, I think that for most people it will get old really quickly because it is so difficult, kind of like someone else said in an earlier post. When these gyms open it will be interesting to see how long folks will stick with the program and how long the gyms stay in business. Hopefully somebody will keep up with the statistics on it.

If they were providing these gyms with good Wrestling/bjj/boxing/S&C coaches then this would be awsome. But just having the type of equipment that the fighters use, and being able to workout isn’t that appealing to me. But for the generall population it would still be a better alternative to the “normal” workout routine. Allthough for the right monthly price it could replace my globo gym membership, and could save money on equipment which I currently spend alot of dough on, i’m steadily tryin to accumulate all the equipment I need at my house to stop having to leave the house for conditioning.

I repsonse to people sticking with the progrom. It doasn’t seem to me that they will be having coaches sreaming in your ears and making you come bust your ass every day. It almost seems to me like it’ll be a Globo gym with all the MMA style conditioning stuff.