How much should I train to be a pro MMA fighter?

How much should I train to be a pro MMA fighter?

Bas Rutten (Former UFC Heavyweight Champion) gives expert video advice on: What training should I do to be a pro MMA fighter?; How much should I train to be a pro MMA fighter?; What is the best style to study to become a pro MMA fighter? and more...

I train two times on Mondays and Tuesdays and two times on Thursdays and Fridays. And then Wednesdays I train one time and Saturdays I train one time and Sundays I take off. So that's ten times a week. You also want to make sure that you don't peak the whole time. You want to, say, I do four workouts a week, I do extremely hard, I go one hundred percent and all the other workouts I go around eighty percent because otherwise you're going to burn out. Its also very important that you build yourself up and starting training harder and harder and harder the closer to the fight. Because about six weeks before the fight, if I go right away six rounds of seven minutes or several rounds of six minutes in my training you cannot sustain that. You're going to burn out. So you have to slowly but surely build it up.