Written by Chad Wesley Smith
Strength, power and mobility all play key roles in BJJ success. How can you build all of these qualities in your legs?
Strength, power and mobility all play key roles in BJJ success. How can you build all of these qualities in your legs?
Introduction Jiu Jitsu, more particularly the more combative and competitive branch of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ), has become increasingly popular in the U.S. and around the …
WE HAVE A PROBLEM WHEN WE TALK ABOUT PROGRAMMING AND PERIODIZATION. We talk about periodization, and various aspects of periodization, as if they’re mutually exclusive. Most …
The term “fueling” is a popular buzz word within the sports dietetics and athletic performance setting. Ensuring athletes are properly fueled for competition and training …
Over the course of a training plan, as an athlete gets stronger/faster/more explosive (generally more capable of higher outputs), recovery becomes of paramount importance. Over …
The squat is the king of lifts and Team Juggernaut is home to the kings of squatting. The authors of this article have raw squatted …
In order for training to be effective, an overload must be presented. Training must be chronically harder, longer, and more demanding in some way as …
Build all the strength qualities you need in your back to improve your game.
In Part 1 of this series, we discussed what the concept of consolidation of stressors is and how it is applied to programming in the …