Strength & Conditioning How Strong is strong enough for Jiujitsu and MMA? Strength addicts will say you can never have enough, smart athletes however need to know if pursuing more strength worth diminising returns and time cost. We are not trying to produce strongmen, powerlifters or olympic lifters. What we want is strong powerful combat athletes. This is
BJJ Scramblers, We all want to be more powerful and there are many methods to acquire improved rate of force development, I have mentioned in the past approaches like french contrast this method how ever is hard! And to be honest is a method best used with stronger and upper intermediate athletes. Drop off in movement
BJJ I’m always looking for exercises to make clients better, but increase efficiency in the gym. My athletes have always done a lot of zercher good mornings, we love this movement and use it all the time. By making the simple adjustment of adding in zercher squats between reps, we ramp up time under tension and
BJJ Dropping the Deadlift for BJJ/MMA? Deadlifts are a critical part of my early strength programs, there are not many lifts aside from the squat so formidable for building full body strength. Strength past a point for non lifting athletes is a game of diminishing returns this becomes very stark with the deadlift. Now before you
BJJ We are the Youtube generation. First, we had the MTV generation who wanted everything in 5 minute chunks and interspersed wi-BORED OF THIS. Now we are the Youtube generation – we want the information 10 SECONDS AGO and we- BORED OF THIS SHOW ME VIDEOS. We like things that are to the point. And