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How To Keep Your Body Loose & Ready To Train When You Travel
While traveling, your body will have a propensity to tighten up. Being stuck in more seated conditions and being push...
Even More Tips On Decreasing Inflammation & Recovering Properly
Jiu-jitsu is hard on the body, plain and simple. Regardless of how intelligent we approach our training, it’s necessa...
Stabilize Your Neck & Position Shoulders Correctly With This Warm-Up For BJJ
Grappling tends to break our heads down into a forward-stooped or “kyphotic” posture. This is seen in a twofold sense...
How To Decrease Inflammation & Recover Properly So You Can Train Better
Eliminate inflammation and you will be well on your way to optimizing your training and being able to perform at your...
Why Bench Press and Bicep Curls are good for BJJ
There are many awesome exercises that can benefit your grappling and BJJ. A lot of people will say Kettlebells are gr...
How To Safely Build Hip/Leg Strength Even With An Injury
In this post I cover how you can use a traditional yoga horse stance as a way to safely build strength and stability ...
These Solo Drills Can Help You Build A Stronger Core For BJJ
You don’t need to have a partner for effective BJJ drilling, especially when it comes to strength and conditioning ex...
How To Properly Balance Training & Rest
The balance between the on and off switch. Yin and yang. Work and rest. Action and non-action. This will be our theme...
Use These 6 Exercises To Strengthen Your Grips For BJJ
If you’ve spent more than a day training, you’ve probably figured out that grips are kind of a big deal in jiu-jitsu....
Even More Breathing Tips & Exercises For BJJ
In my last post about breathing for BJJ, I covered some of the basics from the “Oxygen Advantage” by Patrick McKeown....
Important Breathing Tips & Exercises for BJJ
I’ve gleaned some great breathing tips from a book I’m currently reading titled “The Oxygen Advantage” by Patrick McK...
Soften Tight Hips & Relieve Low Back Pain
Many of the training tips I share center around optimization and increasing components of fitness. We should always b...