One question that I often see online regarding BJJ(Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu) training and drilling is “How many calories does an average session burn?”
The answer depends on may factors actually:
I’m a huge fan of using animal movements for BJJ (Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu) and grappling conditioning. Animal movements are also a very developmental way to train people that want a different type of workout. For example, on the video below Mike shows what he calls “Front Kick-Throughs.” This movement is very common for toddlers and young children to bust out easily.
This movement, the front kick-through, should make complete sense to you as a BJJ player and athlete.
What’s your BJJ (Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu) warm-up look like?
Do you even have one?
I’ve been to many BJJ schools that don’t have a warm-up, general or BJJ specific. There’s many that don’t even cover how to roll or fall properly and lack any form of drilling on the basics, even within the kids program. How these schools survive is outside of my understanding.
Marcelo Garcia, one of the worlds best grapplers and BJJ players does a great job of working one the basics of rolling and falling, sprawling and pummeling during his BJJ warm-ups in his NYC academy.
BJJ Workouts and training journals are some serious business if you want to see how you’re progressing from week to week, month to month and year to year. Recently while visiting my parents I opened a draw in my old bedroom that I hadn’t opened for 15 years and re-discovered some of my old training journals. These things are awesome and bring back such great memories of the training that I was doing at that time.
The Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu community could benefit greatly from looking outside of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu culture both in terms of skill development, practice, curriculum design and physical preparation or strength and conditioning.
These 2 videos below from the 1980s highlight some of the training that their Greco-Roman wrestlers underwent.
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Hi, I'm Jason C. Brown. I'm a coach and athlete obsessed with human movement, martial arts and walking the path of mastery. I help BJJ players move better, play better and enjoy their Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu more.
