Before christmas last year I sat down with Keir Wenham Flatt of Rugby Strength Coach fame for a podcast. It took Keir a while to upload due to his new job at University of Richmond and lots of travel. We cover a lot in this episode covering triphasic training, MMA, BJJ, Golf and how I […]
Ignore the clickbait inspired title. You may recall from previous post that ACL tears are a bit of problem in grappling and MMA especially in females. I’ve spoken before about the need for direct hamstring work when it comes to helping athletes prevent and bounce back from knee injuries and growing body of evidence is […]
Random Training Thoughts heres #1,#2,#3,#4, #5,#6 Golf,#7 I get a ton of emails from BJJ players usually worried about how they should strength train, Jiujitsu as a community seems to breed uncertainty about the efficacy of ‘strength’ training. Seeing as a core ethos of BJJ is about the smaller weaker fighter beating the stronger fighter. […]
On your quest to supplement your BJJ and MMA with strength and conditioning for a stronger, better and healthier version of yourself you will find pitfalls and missteps along the way. However years of experience from strength coaches and athletes can help you in avoid all too common mistakes when it comes to strength and […]
Working with a high level brown belt through correspondence training, who despite being pretty strong through running strength based met cons, has come to me for some BJJ prep work. This kind of hard metcon of work has led to creeping injury niggles and a reliance on bouncing out of movements to finish difficult reps. […]
Needless abstraction is cancer to a S&C program, trying to mimic sports specific performance using general preparatory tools never ends well. One thing I repeat almost endlessly on this blog and to those I train is that “The basics of S&C never change”. BJJ is in its infancy as a competitive sport, professionalism is on […]
Not just for North Koreans and the Chinese, many people are only exposed to the Olympic lifts around you guessed it the Olympics! The power clean (done right or wrong) is a staple of most collegiate wrestling weight rooms, we often see video’s of judoka doing them. While some athletes never ever do these and […]
BJJ fighters love being on the mat and rightly so! Mat time is crucial in your development as a well rounded BJJ player. Most BJJ players also hold down jobs and have a enough of hard time fitting in strength and conditioning. 2 days a week is enough time to make a difference, while you […]
Ever clinched up with a someone who is a excellent grip fighter in judo or a keen spider-guard player, you’ll probably notice immediately how hard it is to break their grip, these people have obtained it through repeated exposures to sports specific grip challenges. If you desire a strong grip that will help with your […]
In Brazilian Jiu-jitsu land (also Judo, Taekwondo and just about every other martial art) warm-ups vary wildly, really wildly. Some Instructors do their warm-ups as their instructors did jogging, star jumps followed by stretches, some borrow warm-ups from other arts or sports, some instructors may well give loads of callisthenics because those do defiantly make […]
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