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The Chewjitsu Podcast

Training and Competing As An Older Grappler With BJJ Black Belt Brad Steinborn (Episode 417)

The Chewjitsu Podcast

Eugene Tsozik

Wrestling, Sports

4.9653 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the podcast we are joined by BJJ black belt and Master's competitor Brad Steinborn.

Brad discusses the importance of focusing on diet, strength training, and recovery outside the gym. We also discuss "Volume Training" and the type of lifting Brad has done since he has gotten older, how to adjust to training as you get older, how Brad's BJJ game has evolved, thoughts on drilling, the goals Brad had when he started training and why he continues to train, training yourself to be calm in complex situations through Jiu-Jitsu, staying busy outside of Jiu-Jitsu and giving back to his community, the most valuable Jiu-Jitsu lesson he has learned, and how he balances family, a career, and training BJJ.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What up guys. Welcome to the Chiu-Jitsu podcast episode. It doesn't matter. It's a random number.

0:05.2

Today we have a guest on with us, a guy named Brad Steinborn. So Brad was coming up to our gym.

0:12.6

He is a he's involved with like pharmaceutical benefits. He obviously something that I don't understand anything about.

0:20.7

You know, he's a guy in corporate

0:21.8

america but good very good jitsu a good competitor at the master's division um he stopped by

0:27.3

i know i know him and so he came into the gym and we had a great training session had a lot of fun we

0:32.7

were rolling afterwards he's not someone that's you know because he's got a lot of other stuff as we

0:36.5

talk on this podcast he's involved with a lot of stuff between family training, doing like stuff for the,

0:42.8

like the child's social services for his state. So he's involved with a lot of stuff. But, you know,

0:48.5

he's not exactly like a social media profile. But I know that a lot of you guys that listen to this

0:53.5

podcast are a bunch of old bastards or whatever the equivalent of ladies is. I guess you can go by old bastards too if you want. But, you know, it was like, I mean, like this was, we were having a good conversation about being older, training when you're older, adapting when you're, because again, that's what we have to do as we get older is adapt, right? You know, if you're going to continue, you have to adapt.

1:11.6

And so I was like, well, this would make a good conversation.

1:14.6

So I was like, let me send you a message and have you on the podcast because, you know, for me, it's like, I learn stuff from talking with people and then when they start, you know, addition out some useful ideas and you guys get to listen to it and um you know fun cool dude so

1:27.1

um again hopefully you guys enjoy this

1:29.0

podcast and again if you're an older grappler i think it would be useful to listen to obviously

1:33.2

we talk about everything from the actual training side of it we get into lifting there's

1:38.2

balancing with family and everything else involved in it um you know and continuing to find your

1:44.1

why like why are you doing this thing because you you're, you know, at some point, whether because you've been prompted by family or even you've been prompted by the, you know, the thing in between your ears, right? It's saying like, why the hell are you doing this thing again? You have to have, you have to have a reason why. Um, you know, and so hopefully you guys get some value from this. Big thanks to our sponsors for helping make this damn thing happen. You can check us out or check out our sponsors at Athletic, A-T-H-L-E-T-H-C. If you're watching the video version, we got right here, Athletic Mints. These are microdose THC mints with cannabinoids that are mixed in for other functions and other

2:18.5

purposes. So they have three different products that they have. They have the rebound,

2:22.1

flow, and power. And each one of those is formulated for a particular purpose,

2:26.1

which you can kind of sort of gain an idea as to what it would be used for based on the name.

2:32.2

Flow, rebound, recovery, recovery right so those types of

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