Sparring Volume Calculator
Weekly round count by camp phase.
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How to Use This Calculator
- Enter your total weekly training sessions and current sparring rounds per week.
- Set your experience level and weeks until your next competition.
- Review the recommended weekly sparring volume split between hard and technical rounds.
- Check the sparring load percentage relative to total training to avoid overtraining.
- Adjust inputs to model different training phases from early camp through taper.
What each input means
- Camp Phase
- Current phase in your fight camp.
- Fighting experience (years)
- Years of competitive fighting experience.
- Round duration (min)
- Length of each sparring round in minutes.
- Days until fight
- Number of days until the scheduled bout.
- Sparring sessions/week
- How many sparring sessions per week.
- Body weight (kg)
- Current body weight for calorie estimation.
What each result means
- Weekly rounds
- Recommended total sparring rounds this week.
- Rounds per session
- Recommended rounds per sparring session.
- Weekly sparring (min)
- Total sparring time in minutes per week.
- Intensity level (1-10)
- Target intensity level for current camp phase.
- Calories/session
- Estimated calorie expenditure per sparring session.
- Weekly training load
- Training load in arbitrary units (rounds x intensity).
- ACWR
- Acute:Chronic Workload Ratio — safe range is 0.8 to 1.3.
- ACWR in safe zone (1=Yes)
- 1 if ACWR is between 0.8-1.3, 0 if outside safe zone.
- Min rest days/week
- Minimum recovery days recommended between sparring sessions.
How this is calculated
Worked example, using the default values
- Identify Input Parameters4 parametersCamp Phase = 1, Fighting experience (years) = 3, Round duration (min) = 3, Days until fight = 42 = 6 input(s) provided
- Calculate Weekly roundsWeekly rounds12 = 12
- Calculate Rounds per sessionRounds per session4 = 4
- Calculate Weekly sparringWeekly sparring36 = 36
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