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Some Housekeeping (Conditioning Q&A)
Today I want to tackle a bit of newsletter housekeeping. A series of recent newsletters on conditioning have generate...
Balancing Mat Time with Conditioning
Forget the work-life balance! Let’s talk about something much more important: the balance between mat time and condit...
A Sneak Peek Into a Fighter’s Conditioning Routine
Most of my text message communications to my friends are pretty short and mundane. Recently, however, I had a very in...
Train Hard, Recover Smart
Quick: what’s the most important meal of the day?
If you said “breakfast” then you’re wrong, at least if you’re a har...
Jiu-jitsu and Physical Attributes
Physical attributes are things like balance, neck strength, limb length, explosiveness, leg flexibility, and percent ...
I Can’t Run: The Excuse List
If you are a longtime reader of this newsletter you know that I think very highly of running as a conditioning method...
Keeping the Will to Fight
As is so often the case, Mark Twain said it best: “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fi...
Monitoring Morning Heart Rate
Longtime readers will recall that I’ve written about overtraining, under-recovering and exercise-induced illness befo...
A “Hard” Bodyweight Workout
Someone asked me recently “if the bodyweight conditioning routine on your website is an easy workout, then what does ...
How to Stand in the Guard
Last week I discussed the differences between standing and kneeling guard passes. One thing I pointed out was that so...
Online Grappling Drill Videos
I think that grappling drills can serve an important function. Not everybody agrees with me about this: some people t...
Grappling/MMA Circuit Training Videos
When people think of conditioning they often imagine people doing cardio and strength training separately. In this pa...