{"id":28632,"date":"2024-12-17T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/?post_type=podcast&p=28632"},"modified":"2025-12-15T11:08:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T11:08:28","slug":"keiser-series-podcast-mma-is-a-sport-of-consequences","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/podcasts\/keiser-series-podcast-mma-is-a-sport-of-consequences\/","title":{"rendered":"Keiser Series Podcast: \u2018MMA Is a Sport of Consequences\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The UFC\u2019s Duncan French reflects on his challenges and lessons in 2024 before casting his eye towards the future.<\/p>\n \n \n \n

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Duncan French, the Senior Vice President of the UFC Performance Institute, is describing the aftermath of a bout.<\/h6>\n

\u201cIf an athlete has gone through the fight pretty well and won, then it might be a very simple kind of cool down in one of the back rooms in the locker room and just do some light work to bring themselves back down again,\u201d he says of the victor.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf an athlete\u2019s had a pretty significant amount of trouble, that\u2019s a very different strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mixed martial arts is, as he adds, \u201ca sport of consequences\u201d.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all in a day\u2019s work for French, who oversees the UFC\u2019s Performance Institutes based in Las Vegas, Shanghai and, most recently, Mexico City.<\/p>\n

There have been some teething troubles with the Mexican facility [4:40], but French took it all in his stride, as he tells us in the first of this three-part Keiser Series Podcast focused on some of the challenges faced and lessons learned by members of the Leaders Performance Institute during 2024.<\/p>\n

French also discussed his evolving leadership style [6:20]; the personalisation of fight preparation plans [19:30]; and his use of data to inform those strategies [28:30].<\/p>\n