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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...
Senior Jiu-jitsu
Stephan’s note: todays’s tip is brought to you a guest columnist, my friend Don Whitefield (www.jiujitsulife.com). No...
A Dangerous Time
We’ve been discussing injuries a lot recently, and it seems to have hit a chord with the Grapplearts readership. I do...
The Simplest Way to Avoid Injury
Several years ago I found myself waiting for a Jean Jacques Machado seminar to start: I was sitting on the mat, watch...
Always Injured, the Feedback
Several tips ago I gave some advice to a reader who had suffered a rather terrible string of orthopedic injuries whil...
Always Injured
A reader writes:
Q: “I’m in my forties and and started MMA training a few years ago. Since then I have had many injur...
Thinking Inside The Box
A few weeks ago I was doing some standing pummeling; both my partner and I were fighting to get underhook positions i...
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...
The Twister Vs. The Toehold
Q: You’ve previously discussed dangerous submissions. Do you think that the twister spine lock is a dangerous submiss...
Monitoring Morning Heart Rate
Longtime readers will recall that I’ve written about overtraining, under-recovering and exercise-induced illness befo...
More Non-Compressive Neck Training
I’ve received lots of feedback about a previous tip discussing how some methods of neck conditioning can be problemat...
Cutting Weight: A Rant
Today I want to write about a practice I don’t like and don’t endorse, but that is probably here to stay: cutting wei...