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Category Archive: Articles, Nutrition, Strength & Conditioning, Videos

An Inside Look At The 20,000 Calorie/ Day Diet of a Strongman Champion

  Training for strongman competition involves building overall strength in the gym, and training with competition implements to gain familiarity. In the gym it is necessary to train the entire...

New Video Of Joe Rogan’s Intense Strength & Conditioning Routine

  The UFC commentator, BJJ black belt, comedian and podcast host is in amazing shape for someone pushing 50. For Rogan, exercise is more for stress relief and for staying healthy. A video...

Jon Jones Deadlifting 600lbs (272kgs)

  Former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones started deadlifting 6 months ago. Back in beginning of October, his deadlift personal best was 525 lbs (238kgs), weighing 222 lbs (100 kgs)....

Yoga for BJJ: Hip Openers with Nino Schembri & Kenia Novaes

  Most BJJ players tend to focus mainly on strength and conditioning rather than flexibility. Flexibility is so important in Jiu-Jitsu because it really makes all the vast number of...

Andre Galvao’s Pre-ADCC Circuit Training

    Check out a part of Andre Galvao’s strength and conditioning workout that he used before his winning super fight vs Roberto Cyborg at ADCC 2015. #CircuitTraining: here I’m...

Jeff Glover’s BJJ Warmup & Stretching Routine

  What better way to learn how to warmup, than with one of the smoothest competitors in BJJ; Jeff Glover. We break it down into two sections; a general warmup to promote Joint ROM and a specific...

30 Exercises For BJJ That You Can Do Anywhere

  Working out for BJJ doesn’t have to cost anything and it can be done anywhere with bodyweight exercises. This type of workout uses your own bodyweight as the resistance. 1) Convenient and...

BJJ Heavy Bag Drills With GFTeam’s Gabriel Rainho

    The BJJ workout video below is a great example of the BJJ specific conditioning you can get done at home with some simple set-ups and creativity. You can use a heavy bag to work on...

Martin Rooney On Circuit Training Vs Heavy Basic Lifting: “You Get Better At Circuits But You’re Still Weak.”

      Martin Rooney is an internationally recognized pioneer of strength and conditioning for the martial arts. He holds a Master of Health Science and Bachelor of Physical Therapy...

Ronda Rousey: “I Don’t Lift Any Weights At All”

    Not all BJJ and MMA champions lift heavy weights as part of their training. In BJJ Marcelo Garcia, Caio Terra and Leandro Lo have said that they never lift weights but just do Jiu-Jitsu...

How to make TRX bands for under $20

    Matt D’Aquino, a multiple Australian and Oceania Champion and a 2008 Beijing Judo Olympian shows us a cheap way to make TRX bands. He has been studying Judo for over 23 years. He is a...

UFC light heavyweight Jon Jones bench pressing 345 pounds

    UFC light heavyweight Jon Jones is planning his return to the UFC and is hitting the weights hard. Here is Jon Jones bench pressing 345 lbs. 275 pounds in the second clip. Here is a...

Great Stretch Routine for Grapplers

    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...

Jon Jones Back in the Gym: Deadlifts Personal Best 525 lbs

Former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones is back in the gym and is hitting the weights hard. Here is a video of him hitting his deadlift personal best of 525 lbs (238kgs), weighing 222 lbs...

1 Killer Knee Bar Sweep

    Dan Faggella is a BJJ Academy Owner, No Gi Pan Am Champion at 130 pounds, and recognized expert in the area of leg locks. Dan writes or Jiu Jitsu Magazine, Jiu Jitsu Style, MMA Sports...

(Video) BJJ Specific Grip Training Circuit

    Why is Grip Training Important: Grip training is where it all starts, going back to the fundamentals. The first point of contact in any fight is the grip. How can you win a fight if you...

2x World Champ Sebastian Brosche on How Yoga Revolutionized his Jiu-Jitsu

  Sebastian Brosche is one of the biggest European BJJ hopes. He is a brown belt in BJJ and second degree black belt in judo. He was raised in Northern Sweden and is currently living in in Oslo...

Watch: Great Workout Motivation Video featuring Joe Rogan

    ”The people I know that have the hardest time keeping it together emotionally are people that don’t workout.” ~ Joe Rogan   Most of this audio was taken from the “Get...

Kron Gracie on His Training: ‘It’s all Push Up, Pull Ups & Jiu-Jitsu’

In a recent article in Details Magazine, intitled ‘How I Got My Body’, Kron details his training regimen which consists of body weight training and Jiu-Jitsu:   “I teach two hours every...

(Video) 10 Body Weight Flows for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

    Written by Joey Alvarado, creator of Kettle-Jitsu   When I first started in the martial arts, I trained in Korean styles. I started in Tae Kwon Do when I was 9 years old. Then it...

Kettle-Jitsu: 12 Kettlebell Flows for BJJ & MMA

    Written by Joey Alvarado, creator of Kettle-Jitsu I am constantly preaching about the versatility of the kettlebell and bodyweight training. I really feel you can express your...

Watch This 40 min Yoga Workout for BJJ w/ Flavio Almeida

    Flavio Almeida is a Black Belt under Carlos Gracie Jr. and is a successful competitor, including 2 Time World Champion and multiple time Brazilian National Champion. In addition to his...

10 Tips To Getting Bigger, Stronger & Faster Than Ever Before.

      Let’s face it, we all want to be bigger, stronger and faster than we already are. There is elevator for success, we all need to take the stairs. Here are tips on how to...

Tony Gonzalez, Marcus Buchecha’s Strength & Conditioning Coach Explains His Student’s Explosiveness

    If you’ve been watching Marcus Buchecha recent matches you have probably noticed his crazy explosiveness. His S&C coach Tony Gonzalez talks to BJJ Eastern Europe about how he...