Raider Marcel Reece MMA Workouts
Here’s another glowing endorsements for MMA Workouts. Oakland Raider fullback Marcel Reece, has added a serious mixed martial arts workout to his off season exercise regiment.
Since Reece has emerged from competition at training camp last year and ran away with the starting fullback job. He scored four touchdowns, including a 73-yard catch-and-run against Denver on Dec. 19. On more than one occasion, the 6-foot-3, 250-pound bull hurdled defenders. He finished the season with 25 catches for 333 yards and three touchdowns, and 30 rushes for 122 yards and a touchdown.
“It’s helped with my flexibility, my hip movement and my conditioning,” said Reece, who turned 26 on June 23. “It’s a great workout, and I enjoy learning something new every day.”
During the lockout, Reece has been showing up five days a week at Crispim Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy. He does MMA Workouts with different trainers there on his wrestling, boxing, muay thai and abdominal work, sometimes sparring up to 12 three-minute rounds in a session.
“He is such a huge guy,” Crispim said of Reece. “But I can tell why he is a great football player. He is very quick, very competitive, and he is like a sponge. You see the results right away. It’s been like a gift to me to work with such an elite athlete.”
The 5-foot-7 Crispim probably is intense when (if?) he sleeps, and his quick-twitch enthusiasm and big smile belie the fact that he knows he could seriously hurt you. For him, “Better Dayz” just happens to say it all.
“It’s what I always wanted,” he said. “I grew up rough, in Rio. My mom died when I was 3. I was a small kid and I was afraid to go outside. It was very violent on the streets, and I didn’t know if I was coming back when I left every day. A lot of friends I had wound up in jail, and I left home at 15.”
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He discovered jiu-jitsu at 16. More than self-defense skills, he learned how to live.
“I found the confidence that I needed,” Crispim said. “It taught me how to stay focused, and I learned to become a better person. I learned that if you do good for people, you get good back.”
Crispim came to the United States in 2003 with three goals: fight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, start a family and have his own academy.
“I got two out of three,” said Crispim, who met his wife at a kickboxing class and now has three children. “And I’m still fighting for the other one.”
Crispim has had two fights in Strikeforce, and the featherweight has a 6-2 record with a fight in August coming up. A fight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, the top mixed martial arts outfit, is still a possibility, Crispim said.
“I am at the top of my game, thanks to all the great friends and students I train with,” he said. “My business plan always came first, that and I understand that my gift was to teach. Now, maybe it’s time to be selfish – to fight. I am 34 but just beginning.”
Always intense
Danny Elias has been studying under Crispim for eight years and says Crispim has the same intensity in the gym, no matter if it’s 7 a.m. on Monday or 7 p.m. on Saturday.
“He is so passionate, he doesn’t mind getting his nose broken,” Elias said.
That was a few weeks ago – the first time Crispim’s nose was broken in 18 years.
“We asked him if he was OK, and he said yeah,” Reece said. “Then, he gets up off the mat and there is blood everywhere.”
Blood and guts – and being the toughest guy on the block – is as much a part of mixed martial arts as it is football.
“I have to find it somewhere without football,” Reece said. “I love the competition, and my favorite thing is learning – using muscles I haven’t used before.”
The first time Reece and Crispim rolled around together on the mat three years ago, Crispim choked Reece out in what was figuratively and literally an eye-opening experience for Reece. Watch him now, and Reece looks comfortable exchanging punches on his feet, or getting on the ground, slipping in and out of various positions and submitting sparring partners himself.
Future MMA Workouts?
Reece plans to test for jiu-jitsu belts someday, but not right now as he quits the grappling cold turkey during football season. “I am plenty sore Monday through Friday as it is, thanks,” he said.
Elias, who helps Reece with his MMA Workouts, says jiu-jitsu has a way of making friends with its disciples for life. Besides teaching Reece body control and agility and improving his endurance, it’s also sharpening the fullback’s mental strength.
“It’s about bringing your best self to the bout, or to the game of football,” Elias said. “What is your best? And once you get to that level, how do you deal with it and maintain your focus? How do you push yourself in the fourth quarter?”
There’s another question opposing NFL coaches will be asking this fall.
“How does such a big guy have such quickness and endurance?” Crispim said. “It’s like a chess match and he is the biggest, baddest piece. He will submit you to his will. … I love it!”
And with that, teacher and student go back to the mat and someone turns the rap music a little louder.
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