How often do you Spar in career mode?

[Heelfan71]

Just curious how often you spar compared to training strength, speed and stamina ?

[Stumbleweed]

Re: How often do you Spar in career mode?

Early in career, I spar less than I do the tranings simply because it's easier to find the stamina for a light workout compared to the 50% hit you take form sparring. I time out my workouts so I always get back to 100% stamina (or close, always above 90%) in time to spar, and then I pepper in the tranings whenever I need to waste a day to get the most out of my stamina or if I see a major deficiency.

As the career winds down (when your attributes are 60's and 70's), I really slow down on the tranings and try to get into a spar/rest routine where I just alternate those two and get as many skill points as possible. If I get it to an even number of weeks left to the fight, I know I can alternate and always be 100% for the fight. In the cases where it's 7 weeks to the fight and I'm at 30% stamina or something, then I do a light training, rest 2 weeks in a row, and get back on track.

It's a decent amount of micro-management, but once you get into the flow of things and get used to checking for events that throw off your timing (damn autograph signings made me lose a fight or two because I was at 50% stamina), you can really maximize the use of your time so you always get the sparring bonuses as well as not waste weeks when you could be improving your speed, cardio, etc.

[Vince]

Re: How often do you Spar in career mode?

I play on advanced and I find sparring to be harder than the actual fights.

[Stumbleweed]

Re: How often do you Spar in career mode?

Yeah I bumped up to Expert and I think I'm at a Level 4 partner, but that dude is vicious. I knocked out Diego Sanchez for my title defense in like 2:00, but this dude takes me down and reverses half my **** haha. Sign him up!

[Heelfan71]

Re: How often do you Spar in career mode?

I have been KO'd and Submitted in sparring myself.

[MC Fatigue]

Re: How often do you Spar in career mode?

The training partners are ridiculous. I decided to start a few careers on beginner because I want the "win the belt in every class", but I've no interest in working on MW, LHW, or HW career - so I just wanted to blow through it - won the belt on LHW - but my training partner was still kicking my ***. I put Evans down in 2 minutes to win the belt, but I got KO'd by my training partner, and couldn't take him for the life of me.

It's kind of messed up.

Anyway - I pre-decide what stats I want to have, sort of. So I'll spar and train back and forth until I've gotten the 3 main stats to where I want them, then I stop working on them.

[Stack]

Re: How often do you Spar in career mode?

I tend to alternate between sparring and training; usually switching between fights. Before the first fight I might just train to get the attributes up, then the next fight I'll work on the skills. Then after sparring a few times, I'll train a couple attribute points with whatever stamina I have left before resting for the next fight.