Sports Scientists On How Weight Training Is key In Preventing & Rehabbing Injuries In Contact Sports
Jul 27, 2020BJJEE
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) is a multidimensional sport. The activity demands a high level of strength, power, endurance, and flexibility. This has led to a rise in certain training practices by many...
How To Improve Flexibility For Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Jul 24, 2020BJJEE
Written by Mike “Spider-Ninja” Bidwell is a BJJ Black Belt under Phil Migliarese and Ken Kronenberg (Team Tai-Kai / Balance). Mike is a full time Jiu-Jitsuka, blogger (check out his great...
Marcelo Garcia Explains in Detail Why He Doesn’t Do Any Strength & Conditioning
Jul 24, 2020BJJEE
BJJ Legend Marcelo Garcia talks in detail to Stuart Cooper about the reasons why he never did strength and conditioning for more than a period of 8 months. Marcelo doesn’t lift, doesn’t run. He...
Five Activities To Make Your Jiu-Jitsu Evolve During the Quarantine
Jul 24, 2020BJJEE
With the whole world still affected by the coronavirus pandemic, the Jiu-Jitsu community has suffered greatly from the lack of daily training and competitions almost every weekend. Here is how you...
Foam Rolling: Here’s Why Every Grappler Needs To Do It
Jul 22, 2020BJJEE1 Admin
If you’re really dedicated towards becoming better in BJJ, then you should already know that it’s not just the training that will get you there. You need to incorporate other things as...
Ex-Navy Seal Commander & BJJ Black Belt Jocko Willink on How To Avoid Injuries in BJJ
Jul 22, 2020BJJEE
Hooray, you just made a decision to start training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu! BJJ will introduce great things to your life, such as: better health, stronger self-confidence, awesome friendships, the...
Do Grapplers Need Bench Press?
Jul 21, 2020BJJEE
Written by Matt D’Aquino, a multiple Australian and Oceania Champion and a 2008 Beijing Judo Olympian. He has been studying Judo for over 23 years. He is a 4th Degree Black belt and a black belt in...
10 Best Stretches For Jiu-Jitsu
Jul 21, 2020BJJEE
Flexibility is so important in Jiu-Jitsu because it really makes all the vast number of techniques much easier to do (for ex gogoplata, inverted guard etc..). Increasing flexibility is going to help...
10 Best Strength Building Exercises For Fighters
Jul 21, 2020BJJEE
Strength is your base and everything is build on top of it. In order to improve at other physical attributes and in your overall performance you must build strength. Funk Roberts goes through the...
Strength Training For Jiu-Jitsu? Not as Simple as You Think!
Jul 20, 2020BJJEE
By Peter Lakatos -Strength coach for Carlson Gracie Hungary & StrongFirst Master instructor In the future you will read a lot of articles on various BJJ magazines and sites on strength training,...
Good, Better, Best-Drilling The Berimbolo Sweep
Jul 19, 2020bjjee
There is a saying from NBA legend, Tim Duncan, that I absolutely LOVE: Good, better, best; Never let it rest till your good is better, and your better is best! Isn’t that the coolest thing you’ve...
Nicky Rodriguez Shares His Training, Weights, and Nutrition Routine That Makes Him So Dominant
Jul 14, 2020BJJEE
ADCC silver medalist Nick Rodriguez has taken the grappling world by storm. The division III wrestler only took up BJJ training 2 1/2 years ago, and in a record time reached the impressive silver...
Here’s How To Perfect Your Pull-Ups
Jul 14, 2020BJJEE
Guest post by Evolve MMA, Asia’s premier championship brand for martial arts. It has the most number of World Champions on the planet. Named as the #1 ranked martial arts organization in Asia by...
Why You Should Strength Train For Jiu-Jitsu
Jul 10, 2020BJJEE
Guest post by Will Safford, a Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach who trains under Andre Galvao in San Diego, CA. He received is purple belt in December of 2013 and competes occasionally in...
Fundamentals of Strength Training for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Jul 04, 2020BJJEE
Written for BJJEE by Vladimir Popovic, black belt judo, black belt bjj, master degree in sport science and exercise. Strength and condition coach, specialty – martial arts. While strength training...
The Legend Masahiko Kimura’s Amazing Training Routine
Jul 02, 2020BJJEE
Masahiko Kimura)was a Japanese judoka who is widely considered one of the greatest judoka of all time. (5 ft 7in 170 cm; 85 kg, 187 lb) He was born on September 10, 1917 in Kumamoto, Japan. In...
Why You Must Master The Single Leg Squat For BJJ
Jul 02, 2020BJJEE
Guest post by Will Safford, a Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach who trains under Andre Galvao in San Diego, CA. He received is purple belt in December of 2013 and competes occasionally in...
This Exercise Is Arguably The Best One For Grapplers
Jun 29, 2020BJJEE
Guest post by Mark Kislich from www.Judoperformance.com There are many, many useful exercises for this sport, but in my opinion nothing beats the king of all lifts: the DEADLIFT. Why? Simple....
The Complete Guide To Injury Prevention For Grapplers
Jun 27, 2020BJJEE
Guest post by Ben Whybrow Bsc (Physiotherapy), MCSP, ACPSEM. Ben is a Musculoskeletal and Sports Physiotherapist living and working in Cambridgeshire, graduating from the University of...
Scientitsts Measure How Body Fat % Increase Affects Athletic Performance
Jun 27, 2020BJJEE
In a sport like Jiu-Jitsu, it’s important to compete at the ideal weight and also with the ideal body fat percentage. In wrestling, Seven percent (7%) body fat has been established by...
How to Properly Use Bodyweight Training for Combat Sports Performance- Phil Daru
Jun 21, 2020BJJEE
There are benefits to all bodyweight exercises for fighters, yet some are more beneficial than others when it comes to developing the strength and conditioning attributes needed to be an all around...
4 Best Equipments for Quickly Building Strength for Grapplers
Jun 13, 2020BJJEE
Strength training is one of the most important parts of an overall health and fitness program. Building strength helps to enhance and preserve your bone and muscle mass, no matter your age. When...
3 Ways to Develop Explosiveness for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu; Anybody Can Do It
Jun 11, 2020BJJEE
A right timed explosive burst in a fight can sometimes make a big difference between winning or losing. Almost anybody can be explosive. It really doesn’t take amazing athleticism. You just...
Injured And Can’t Roll? Here’s Why You Should Take Up Swimming
Jun 09, 2020BJJEE1 Admin
You’re injured? Perhaps you thought that you could get out of that fully locked Armbar, or that their Straight Ankle Lock didn’t seem as painful; or it might be that your opponent took...
