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How To Practice BJJ At Home
Nigh on everyone in the BJJ community is twiddling their thumbs at home, thinking of things they can be doing whilst ...
The Best Stretches You Can Do To Keep Yourself Mobile During BJJ Quarantine
If your gym is closed (as it should be) due to the coronavirus outbreak, you’ve probably been checking out all the gr...
How To Train Smarter So You Can Train Harder
When it comes to training jiu-jitsu, more is not always better. Simply going hard and doing more is not always better...
How Focusing On Your Big Toe Can Help You To Move More Like “Nicky Rod”
Lately I’ve decided to examine some of the best BJJ athletes and examine their athletic movement and also from biomec...
Activate Your Hips Before BJJ Training With These Exercises
Today I’m sharing a series of exercises from the 90/90 position, each of which we’ve covered in the past. As a whole,...
How “Opening Your Lungs” Early in the Day Can Help Your Jiu-Jitsu
Besides engaging my core to create my “foundation” in the mornings, my other main focus is to “open my lungs” by prim...
Use These Exercises To Cool Down & Soften Your Hips After Training BJJ
Today I’m sharing a set of exercises from the familiar 90/90 position. Whereas in the last post we activated before t...
Strengthen Hamstrings & Open Hips For BJJ With This Exercise
In our continuation with standing hip mobility, we’re now going to focus on the opposite from our hip flexor focus la...
Prime Hips For Training BJJ and Recover With This Movement
Although we have covered hip controlled articular rotations (CARs) before, my trip to NYC in June revealed some alter...
How to Program Your Training For Better Results On &a Off The Mats
When training, you must have a game plan for not only the specific session, but for a prolonged period of time. From ...
Engage Your Hips For Better Mobility In BJJ
There are some hip mobility exercises you can do standing. These will obviously target our hip, but the balance chall...
Stop Pretending That Strength Doesn’t Matter
When a 175lb Brazilian dominated the field at UFC 1 we learned that Brazilian jiu jitsu is king and that muscles and ...