Why Calling Yourself A "Hobbyist" In BJJ Is Dangerous (Episode 366)
The Chewjitsu Podcast
Eugene Tsozik
5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the podcast, Chewy and Eugene discuss the idea of training and thinking like an athlete instead of as a hobbyist.
We discuss why this mindset shift to training as an athlete is important for longevity, how an athlete treats their body compared to how a hobbyist, the foods chewy avoids before training BJJ, how diet can impact performance, the importance of rhythm and routine, holding yourself accountable, why you have to identify and eliminate your distractions, why lack of motivation is a lack of focus, and how Chewy keeps himself inspired.
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| 0:00.0 | What up, guys? Welcome to the Chih Tjitsu podcast episode number 366, the arbitrary number that we give to the podcast, because it has to have a number. I couldn't just say the Tujitsu podcast with the title, it has to have a number because it's really important. |
| 0:17.0 | Anyway, today's podcast is based on an email. It's based on a conversation that I had or that we had with Cameron Shane recently. |
| 0:24.7 | And I kind of thought about it a little bit more. |
| 0:26.8 | And then I wrote it into an email and man, it connected with a lot of you guys. |
| 0:30.3 | So if you're on my Chukru email, you got this, right? |
| 0:33.4 | If you're not on it, you should go to my website, chisitsu.net slash join and join up and get my daily |
| 0:39.2 | email. I'll send you a free e-book on some training ideas to help you get more focused with your |
| 0:44.2 | training, important idea. But anyway, going to it, we were talking about an idea on the podcast, and then |
| 0:50.4 | I wrote an email about it. A lot of you who are in that email, Liz, you guys sent me a ton of messages. |
| 0:57.3 | I got a lot of messages from that one like, oh, man, this connects to me. |
| 1:00.3 | Because I think this is a thing that a lot of people do. |
| 1:03.0 | And so what we're going to get into in a minute is basically talking about why it's dangerous to refer to yourself as a BJJ hobbyist and why there's an important mindset shift that |
| 1:15.3 | you're going to have to make if you're in this thing for longevity, you know, and I don't |
| 1:20.4 | care if you train one day a week or like five days a week or like you live on the mats because |
| 1:24.8 | you're a full-time competitor. You have to look at your |
| 1:27.5 | body in a certain way. Otherwise, bad stuff's going to happen. And so for a lot of you guys, I know |
| 1:31.2 | that many of you listening are north of 30, right? You're in the old man club, old woman club like |
| 1:37.3 | myself. And so like Eugene as well. And so there's an important mindset shift that you have to make if you're in this thing for longevity, which we are. Everybody gets into jiu-jitsu. And, you know, the goal is like, hey, let's |
| 1:46.9 | keep going until we're so old that like, you know, we're rolling on the mats until we just walk |
| 1:51.9 | off and, you know, kick the bucket when we're like 80, right? But a lot of people don't make it |
| 1:57.4 | that long. And I think it's in part because of what we're going to talk about. So with that said, I hope you guys enjoy the podcast, get an idea about this mental shift you |
| 2:04.4 | need to make. And a big thanks to our sponsors for helping bring my bearded voice and Eugene's bearded |
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