The Most Beneficial Part Of BJJ Training People Avoid (Episode 361)
The Chewjitsu Podcast
Eugene Tsozik
5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the podcast, Chewy and Eugene discuss the importance of rest days and why many BJJ practitioners avoid rest days and taking time off.
We start off the podcast by answering a question from “Bob,” who is a 47 y/o BJJ practitioner who tries to train daily and even some days twice per day. “Bob” says that by mid week he has a hard time with focused and technical training and feels that he needs to be on the mats as much as possible to learn.
We give some advice to “Bob” on how to get the most out of training and the importance of the implementation of “rest days.”
We also discuss the physical and mental signs of overtraining and how you can identify these signs and what to do about them.
We also discuss why your ability to improve is related to your rate of recovery, how scrolling on social media can negatively impact concentration and learning information, and how to avoid falling behind in BJJ.
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| 0:00.0 | What up, guys. Welcome to the Chichita podcast episode. Who knows? It's just a friggin number at this point. |
| 0:05.9 | But we're going to talk about today. We'll talk with you guys about a question I got from a person. |
| 0:11.6 | And it's like a question that gets it. I get, I get variations of this question on a regular basis. |
| 0:18.0 | I would say probably at least a couple of week. A lot of them come from older grapplers. |
| 0:23.3 | The advice set up we're going to give you. |
| 0:25.4 | It's usable at any age. |
| 0:27.1 | So if you're a younger grappler, it's important then if you can master it. |
| 0:30.4 | If you're an older grappler, it's like absolutely critical that you take to heart what we're going to talk about. |
| 0:39.3 | Otherwise, you will burn out of this thing. You will get injured and that'll be it for you. Your jitsu career will be over |
| 0:44.5 | very quickly. See it'll see it happen all the time. And so it's going to be about like training and |
| 0:52.6 | not overdoing it because as I've seen like when you talk about anything |
| 0:59.1 | related to like recovery and focus on that kind of stuff, people avoid it like it's like |
| 1:04.8 | the 300 pound college wrestler who's trying to put you in a heel hook. |
| 1:08.8 | I mean, it's just like you'll do everything, but do that. |
| 1:12.5 | You'll, you'll, you'll take TRT, you'll take supplements. You'll, you know, you'll go get an ice bath. |
| 1:17.2 | You'll do whatever, like anything, but take a friggin rest day or work on recovery, you know, |
| 1:23.6 | and do the things that you really need to do for recovery. And so we're going to get into that and basically not how, basically not how to jack yourself up if you're a jih Tjitsu |
| 1:30.5 | practitioner so that you can train for longevity. And if you're an older grappler, so you can |
| 1:35.3 | train for a long time and I get injured. And if you're younger grappler, you can have these periods. |
| 1:38.8 | Maybe if you want to train hard, you can harder if you can, but then you can also undulate to where you're a little bit |
| 1:44.6 | lighter and a little bit easier. And so you can have these ups and down period. So this way you can, |
| 1:49.1 | again, get to your 40s and not be broken. This is kind of something that I used, starting off in |
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