Scramblog Guest post from William Wayland, of Powering Through Performance Centre. A question I’m often asked is my recommended workout requiring no equipment. I often get it from Golf pros looking for hotel room-based solutions for training, but also travelling grapplers and or those training in remote locations with no gym available. A lack of equipment
BJJ Daniel Strauss is a man who knows a thing or two about grip strength. And jiu jitsu, too. Here, Scrambler and Polaris veteran The Raspberry Ape goes through some grip variations for pull-ups. Pull-ups are often described by lazy people like me as the best exercise you can do for grappling, if you only had
BJJ This session emphasises extra time spent on increasing the flexibility and health of the spine and hamstrings. In this lesson, Nick takes you through some fundamental Yoga positions, alternating more rigorous postures with complete relaxation. It is a great introduction for those who have yet to try Yoga, and is especially good for any martial
Scrambler We have reposted the content of our good friend and Scrambler, Tom Barlow here, from his excellent online training resource, Tom Barlow Online. We highly recommend it for his clear and concise teaching style and the delicious goldeny nuggets of wisdom contained within. Every Jiu Jitsu player knows the feeling a split second before
Strength & Conditioning I have posted before about recovery routines before, elements of which can used after both sports training and weight training sessions. I have also spoken before about the need for deep belly breathing post training also. In brief using deep belly breathing we can re-establish parasympathetic dominance and get out of stressed state training encourages.
BJJ Tom Barlow is a no gi world champion, a very polite man, and also, an absolute bastard on the mat. Last time he came to visit us he took great delight in tapping us out with a move of his own devising, the Sucuri or anaconda. It is not pleasant. Find out how to make