BJJ I often get approached by time poor grapplers asking the best me what they should do in the gym, given what I posted about earlier this month its easy to be side tracked by the buffet of fitness options available, especially when magazines and websites layout protocals that honestly are mean’t for high level grapplers.
BJJ Do your Shoulders, hips and back hurt scrambler? You are not alone in your suffering. A lot of prolonged back, shoulder and hip pain is the manifestation of structural issues caused by the sports we play and postural habits we adopt. Ive talked before about uppercross syndrome in MMA fighters. This isn’t the same as
BJJ BKK Fighters looking worse for wear after 200m sprint session I have always believed sprinting to be one of the best conditioning tools available to any athlete involved in a high intensity sport. BJJ and MMA luminaries like George St Pierre, BJ penn and Roger Gracie all have documented usage of sprints in their conditioning
BJJ Nothing causes more consternation in strength and conditioning than core training, MMA and Grappling athletes are obsessed with core strength lets face it. Trainers tout the term like it means something. Core training is effectively your ability to maintain posture and center of gravity, it does’nt strictly mean abdominal muscles, but the hip and trunk
BJJ I have had my grip trainers (I have the Navy first run in case you were wondering) a fair while now and I have found them an useful tool cycled in and out of training, the type of grip you use determines the loading so, Bunching type grips will allow for more loading that pinching
BJJ Following on from last week’s post “Choke out tendonitis”, which by the way went down a storm so thanks for liking and sharing. I want to talk about the other element to forearm and hand care for grapplers. Self Myofascial release sounds fancy but in reality is a self imposed massage of sorts. Myo meaning