Building A Resilient Body For Martial Arts With Ryan Hurst (Episode 368)

The Chewjitsu Podcast

Eugene Tsozik

Wrestling, Wellness, Brazilianjiujitsu, Sports, Interviews, Mma, Bjj, Health, Chewjitsu, Injuryprevention

5 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the podcast, we are joined by Judo black belt, Jiu-Jitsu brown belt, former gymnast, and one of the founders of “GMB Fitness,” Ryan Hurst.

Ryan discusses his start in gymnastics and then transitioning to training Judo. He shares his experience of living in Japan for over 20 years, what it was like training Judo in Japan and being one of the few non-Japanese practitioners, how gymnastics helped with longevity in martial arts, keeping yourself safe and protected in training as an older grappler, how Ryan started his company, "GMB Fitness," the 3 things that help your BJJ, the movement patterns needed for a BJJ athlete, how GMB Fitness programming assists with mobility, continuing to grow as a martial artist, and the importance of training in a mutually beneficial gym environment.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	What up guys? Welcome to the Chichitsu podcast episode 368, if that number matters.
0:05.8	We got, um, we're a guy named Ryan Hurst on the podcast with us today.
0:09.4	Ryan is a, you know, he's done, he's a black belt judo, Brian belt jih Tjitsu, uh, has a gymnast
0:15.4	background, uh, was in gymnastics for a long time. And he runs a website called GMB.
0:26.3	Um, I believe it's gold metal bodies, uh, but GMB is the website and I ended up buying some of this stuff a long time ago, like 2017, 2016, something to that degree.
0:33.1	I remember like I was just looking at some stuff and, you know, I was getting older and just
0:37.6	like, I just want to like be able to move a little bit better. I ended up buying one of his
0:41.0	courses. And we ended up one day chatting and he ended up buying one of my geese that I had for
0:48.4	one of my launches. And I was like, I was like, is that the GMB guy? You know, we started talking, you know, and then from there, we kind of became loose friends.
0:56.9	We wanted to have him on the podcast years ago, but he was in Japan.
0:59.3	So he's a busy guy, so he doesn't exactly have a lot of time and the time difference
1:03.2	is weird.
1:04.0	And now he's living in the States.
1:05.8	And so it's a little bit easier.
1:06.6	So have him on the podcast. He's another one of these guys where if you go watch his stuff,
1:11.5	the guy moves just watching and move around, like, and what he can do with his body is really
1:16.5	incredible. You know, he makes incredibly difficult movements look effortless, you know,
1:22.0	something that like many of us would would look at and say, I can't do that if I wanted to. And
1:27.3	he can do it with, with ease, just moving through these positions.
1:30.5	And so I wanted to have on the podcast talk about that.
1:33.1	And also, he's an older guy with kids, with a business, you know, busy and, you know,
1:39.4	kind of getting some ideas from there.
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