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 be striving forward with what Carol...
Activate Your Hips Before BJJ Training With These Exercises
Today I'm sharing a series of exercises from the 90/90 position, each of which we've covered in the past. As a whole, this series...
How Resistance Training Has Improved My Jiu-Jitsu
I am truly heartbroken to tell you that lifting things up and putting them down has led to improvements in my jiu-jitsu game.
I'm telling...
Protect Your Poor Shoulders And Improve Your Posture With This Exercise
Our shoulders take quite the beating in jiu-jitsu, but we can do things to reduce the wear and tear they experience throughout all the...
How to Activate Your Hips Before Training
Last post we covered a preliminary low back protocol with emphasis placed on stability --- and ultimately strength --- coming before mobility. The movements...
Activate Your Core and Bulletproof Low Back for Training
In today's post I share Dr. Stuart McGill's "Big 3," which are designed to stabilize and support the low back. They seem simple on...
Stabilize Your Neck & Position Shoulders Correctly With This Warm-Up For...
Grappling tends to break our heads down into a forward-stooped or "kyphotic" posture. This is seen in a twofold sense. The nature of the...
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. If your...
Use This Exercise To Take Your BJJ Sweeps To The Next...
Even though jiu-jitsu isn't (or rather, shouldn't be) a battle of strength, there are still exercises you can do to improve certain techniques you...
Use These Exercises To Cool Down & Soften Your Hips After...
Today I'm sharing a set of exercises from the familiar 90/90 position. Whereas in the last post we activated before training, these are designed...