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🗓️ 20 January 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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On this episode, Chewy and Eugene discuss a recent article that claims that you can get “ridiculously" strong for BJJ by just doing bodyweight exercises. We chat about the article in depth and where we agree and disagree with the writer’s arguments.
We also discuss why some grapplers a resistant to lifting weights, how to properly use isometric exercises to strengthen your body, our thoughts on “Functional Exercises,” if incorporating more wrestling into your training will increase strength, if you will get stronger by training with heavier training partners, whether there is any benefit to doing bodyweight exercises, if drilling can improve “functional strength” for BJJ, if increased flexibility and mobility will improve strength, whether cardiovascular conditioning improves strength, and out overall thoughts on this article.
Check out the link to the article to see what you think: https://www.bjjee.com/articles/how-to-get-ridiculously-strong-for-jiu-jitsu-without-lifting-weights/
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0:00.0 | What up, guys, welcome to another episode of the Jiu-Soo podcast. We're going to talk about |
0:03.3 | strength training with or without weights, but we're going to talk about some different ideas. |
0:08.5 | I'm doing this because someone, one of you guys, sent me a article, and it was like, you said, |
0:15.6 | Hey, Chewy, you know, long-time podcast listener, saw this article about how to get strong with |
0:20.2 | Jiu-Ju without weights, |
0:21.5 | what's your take. And I figured instead of just doing like, you know, whatever, I'll basically |
0:27.5 | read it with you guys and we can go, I've looked through it. But we'll, we'll go through it together |
0:31.8 | and kind of give you some ideas on what I think about it and the idea of strength training, |
0:37.3 | because I think strength training is really important for jihers. I think, I think about it and the idea of strength training because I think |
0:37.7 | strength training is really important for just I think I think it's important for |
0:41.6 | like living like I think it's really really useful regardless of like if you're |
0:46.3 | whether you're trying to be a competitor whether you're trying to just be in shape |
0:50.0 | and be healthy whether you're just trying to like not get put in the home when you |
0:53.8 | get older, |
0:54.3 | right? Like, there's a lot of benefits to, uh, to strength training. And again, I don't, I, |
0:59.6 | I, you know, obviously I'm kind of selling my hand here a little bit early, but I don't |
1:03.0 | understand the aversion to just lifting some weights or, and by weights, I don't even mean that |
1:09.1 | you have to, you know, put on a ton of weight in the power rack or something and put a squat bar on your back. |
1:13.0 | And there's lots of ways to do it, right? |
1:14.6 | Whether you're using dumbbells, kettlebells, whatever, bands, |
1:17.4 | there's lots of ways to get resistance training. |
1:19.6 | But we'll get into that in a second and we'll talk more about it. |
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