I honestly believe it is the single most important thing you could change in your training tomorrow and see significant results. Strength takes time to build. Changing these things does not. Consider your training week. Where are your hardest sessions? Where are your easiest sessions? Do you have easy sessions? Below is one of my …

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Combat sports are undoubtedly the toughest sports on the body that are available as a recreational pursuit. You can leverage other sports against me in that argument all you want, I don’t care, the intent of combat sports is to inflict bodily damage, it is by nature a destructive sport and element. Before discussing how …

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This is my own take on a realm of training that gets named quite several different things. Robustness, resiliency, toughness, etc. What is it? The capacity of your specific tissues to tolerate/resist load and deformation. Why is this important? You have “problem areas” in grappling, areas of high risk that you may frequently injure yourself …

Durability – preparing your joints for the rigours of grappling Read More »