Ever got injured in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu? Yeah, chances are you did.
And no wonder – it’s a combat sport. And injuries happen when you train combat sports.
However, some injuries are completely preventable.
Namely, the ones that come down to your training frequency and intensity.
Lachlan Giles, one of the most successful BJJ competitors and coaches in the world today, is also a PhD in Physiotherapy.
And he had some awesome injury prevention advice to share in an interview with BJJEE:
The most important piece of advice that I can give for injury prevention is to keep your training load consistent, as a rapid increase in training load is a pretty good predictor that you will get injured.
However, what people often miss when I say this is that a decrease in training load, e.g. taking a 2 week vacation, can make it so that going back to your normal training load is now a rapid increase in training load.
But what are you supposed to do when you’re already injured?
Well, Lachlan has some common sense advice when it comes to that:
My advice is to, if you are injured, first seek a medical opinion.
Afterwards, it’s important to ask them the following question: „What can I still do?“So long as the condition allows, you need to try to keep some level of training going; so that when you get back to full training, the increase in load is not as drastic.
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