Episode 139 - Should You Get In Shape Before Starting BJJ? (And Q&A)

The Chewjitsu Podcast

Eugene Tsozik

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

5 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Chewy and Eugene answer the question of whether you should get in shape before starting BJJ. We also do a live Q&A:

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How to deal with losing a tournament and seeing your losses posted on social media.

How to improve your top game and retaining top position in BJJ as a smaller practitioner

Recommendations on healthy food.

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0:00.0	What's up guys? So today on the podcast, Eugene and I do a live one. We originally were going to do this on the actual
0:05.1	Chichitsu YouTube channel that we, so we have the Chiu Jitsu podcast YouTube channel, which by the way, if you haven't subscribed to that, you should. I mean, like, you're listening to it and you want to support it. And so if you want to support it, you can go subscribe and help us out. Plus, if you want to, like, watch the video or listen to the, I personally like
0:24.2	watching video of people and stuff like that.
0:25.7	If you want to check that out, you can go to the YouTube channel, check that out.
0:29.0	But we were going to do it on that, but there were some technical difficulties.
0:33.2	And so we just did it on the chujitsu page, like normal.
0:36.2	And again, if you, if you missed that, then you missed out.
0:39.7	But if you guys just sort of keep an eye on those things,
0:42.2	because we do those every probably about once a month
0:44.7	or maybe once every five weeks, we do a live podcast.
0:48.1	And if you want to check that out,
0:49.3	we post them up there on YouTube and Instagram and everything else,
0:52.4	and you can kind of keep an eye out for that and join us here in live.
0:55.1	It's fun.
0:55.7	And we usually do obviously some talk that we want to do.
0:59.0	Then we do some questions afterwards.
1:00.6	So we're going to talk today about whether or not you should be in shape before you do Jiu-Jitsu.
1:06.5	And if you're out of shape, should you get in shape before you do Jiu-Soo?
1:09.8	It's kind of the question. I get that question a lot.
1:12.2	And so we're going to jump into it.
1:13.2	We're going to answer it.
1:13.8	And then we've got a lot of good questions from people.
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