Avoid The BJJ Cult Of Overtraining (Episode 389)
The Chewjitsu Podcast
Eugene Tsozik
4.9 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the podcast, Chewy and Eugene discuss overtraining, how to be aware of the warning signs of overtraining, and how to avoid overtraining.
We also discuss common reasons people avoid taking time off, the idea of "making up for lost time," the importance of focusing on things you can control, finding your own routine and rhythm, and why you should change what you consider training.
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| 0:00.0 | What up, guys. |
| 0:00.9 | Welcome to the Jiu-Jitsu podcast episode number 300 and something. |
| 0:05.9 | Today's podcast is going to be on the idea of overtraining, how to spot some of the signs and also how to avoid it and how to get more from your training. |
| 0:13.2 | This is really important. |
| 0:14.6 | This is important stuff, not the stuff that's fun and sexy, but it's really important because otherwise you will essentially if you train like many people do in |
| 0:23.6 | jiu-jitsu you'll probably have a relatively short jihitsu career because you'll probably get injured a bunch of |
| 0:29.6 | be hurt and that'll probably be a possibility you'll underperform at competitions um it'll negatively |
| 0:34.7 | affect your life outside of the gym, which is not what we want. |
| 0:37.6 | Right. |
| 0:37.8 | We want this thing to be sort of additive, right? |
| 0:40.6 | Not, not subtractive to your life. |
| 0:42.3 | And on top of that, it's fairly easy to avoid it. |
| 0:48.8 | And to me, think of it like this. |
| 0:50.4 | We all want to get better at Jiu-JJitsu, but when we don't train in an intelligent |
| 0:54.4 | fashion, it's like driving your car on the freeway and trying to get to 70, but you keep |
| 1:00.2 | hitting the brakes, right? Because if you're constantly, if you're training really, really hard, |
| 1:04.1 | and then slamming yourself into hard training sessions right into injuries or whatever |
| 1:09.6 | things that we're going to come from over training, it's like pressing the gas pedal down and then immediately hit the break. It's really hard to get up to speed if you're not doing it intelligently. And so we're going to talk about some strategies on how to train intelligently. This is incredibly useful and almost basically, to me, it's a must if you're an older grappler, so 30, when I say older, |
| 1:28.2 | I'm talking about 30 or up. And yes, I know that if you're 30, you're not necessarily old |
| 1:33.1 | in the grand scheme of living. But when it comes to athletics, you are getting to the point |
| 1:38.8 | where in most athletic endeavors, professional athletics, people are getting ready to retire. |
| 1:43.9 | They're basically getting ready to hang it up. And here you are getting ready to retire. They're basically getting |
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