I really enjoyed this course and left a 5 star review (under Edward A). Would it be possible to get a video about how to cut while training BJJ and avoiding muscle loss? I've watched some of your other excellent videos on how to maintain muscle while cutting but would appreciate hearing how you would flex that approach for a BJJ athlete.
Hey ! What frequency should we be lifting with? I have purchased the product and it was awesome and I will start it tommorow. I’m just wondering how to program in terms of frequency ? Thanks !
I programmed this 3 day program but realised it’s low frequency: Day 1 - Squat 3x5-10 BB Row 3x5-10 Hammer Curl 3x10-12 Wrist Curl 3x12-15 Day 2 - Bench 3x5-10 Press 3x5-10 DB Upright Row 3x10-12 Band Ext 3xFailure Day 3 - Deadlift 3x5-10 Wtd Chin-Up 3x5-10 Rear Delt Flye 3x10-12 Leg Raise 3x1RIR
A reboot of this video with more of the modern information would be frickin CRACKED I just took up Muay Thai and I can't figure out how to stay big and strong and also fit into my weight class and all that
Dude, THANK YOU. If this information was $15 online, I'd be psyched, but you gave it out for free. Im beyond appreciative of this, best of luck in all your endeavors
I’ve been a black belt for 9 years. My routine was a 5/3/1 style workout 3X per week (usually Tues, Thurs, Sat). Gi BJJ 3x per week (Mon,Wed, Fri). Friday was a double day BJJ in the morning, and MMA and sparring from 6-8 at night. Sometimes longer. Saturday nothing. Sunday was a comp team training, open mat, drills, or sometimes just floor exercises depending how my body felt.
Thank you for your comment. I'm a powerlifter and was considering taking up Judo (not bjj) and I was wondering if I could lift heavy and do a martial art with any amount of consistency in both
@@erusean8492 yes you can. I’ve trained judo on and off for years. Judo can be harder on the body than BJJ. A lot of hard landing and break falls. I would say at minimum you’d have to train judo 3x per week to see improvement and commit the throws to muscle memory. Idk to what degree you’re powerlifting, but I’d start slow and listen to what my body is telling me. Powerlifting takes a good deal of rest and recovery.
@@BadgerBJJ3x weight lifting and 3x martial arts per week?😮 Ye are probably doing way too much if yer martial art trainings are longer than 40 minutes (warm-ups and stretcyes are excluded).
@@Dave.Mustaine.Is.Genius not really. If you’re looking to compete or train at higher levels 3x isn’t enough. Not all training needs to be 100%, but you should be on the mats almost every day, in addition to supplemental work. At the elite levels, 2x per day.
Update, this video saved my life overall. Thanks Dr. Mike! Many months later and still going strong! Now doing a 5/3/1+ Beyond program with focus on some volume towards heavier weights to train lifting. I also deload every 4th week, as I do martial arts sometimes 4 times a day (anywhere from 1 to 2 hour sessions).
Doing dumb shit = lifting 6 days a week with 8 BJJ sessions/wk, all of them as hard as possible (at 37, because stupid has no age limit). Then when your elbows hurt so bad they wake you up at night, and you can't even do cable extensions with 10 lb, not stopping anything. I got a torn tricep tendon and 6 months of missed training as a reward. Thanks for the info Mike. Wish I'd seen it 6 months ago.
I was a personal trainer for 2 years. Lifted 6 days a week for years. Started jui jitsu 4 sessions a week, totally cut out lifting because I was so beat up. My third week of jui jitsu I got pretzeled underneath someone and I felt a pop in my back. Been rehabing it now for 3 days
I tried to do jiu jitsu despite having hyperextending joints. Quit lifting so I would be able to recover better between jiu jitsu sessions, Still didn't recover adequately so had to quit jiu jitsu. Wasn't smart enough to get back to the weights. 25 years later I am back to the weights. If only I had never stopped. Some 95 pound weakling guys HUGELY benefit from lifting and I was one of them. My advice to just about anyone is to have lifting as a priority.
I would love to hear him talk about lifting for injury prevention... I have my doubts wether it is beneficial in the long run and how to really do it..
I'm not an expert when it comes to injury prevention, but I would say: warm up properly, use full ROM, focus on lifting with proper technique, don't ego lift, do stretching.
I wish I saw this before high school. My negligent coaches ruined my entire life destroyed my wrestling lifting and MMA career. Years later I'm still in pain from the second I wake up to the second I go to sleep it's ruined my entire life so early. Everyday I think about suing they were so negligent and it was so avoidable. I hate them so much I wish I never met them and they got in a car crash
i box and have a pretty heavy lifting program so this is helpful. would love if there was someone in doing something similar for advice like this. Thanks for the vid
Here is how I have my week arranged M: bjj no gi T: morning lower body dynamic effort+supplemental+accessorials Evening bjj Gi W: morning upper body dynamic effort+sup+ass evening bjj no gi T: rest day F: Max effort lower body+supplemental(volume)+ass S: No gi bjj S: Max effort upper body+sup+ass 4 days bjj and 4 days weights following conjugate method
It's so sad when people who deserve the biggest platforms have to take a backseat to bullshitter's. You should have a much bigger audience Mike. I hope you get it one day.
Mike is "boring" and doesn't try to appeal to the masses. He just gives lectures. If you're listening to lectures for lifting then your in the minority
@@noahsd he isn't boring anything compared to many other hard science channel! He is actually funny. Thing is most viewers need base of knowledge (which they get from 3-5 min simpler videos) and don't have attention span or doesn't want to give attention for so long (avg. 20-30min)
I don't do BJJ, but I'm trying to balance rock climbing and bodybuilding. I substituted the word "BJJ" and replaced with "rock climbing" and this video was spot on. Thank you!
Have you found a good balance? I’m currently balancing all 3. My lifting is only legs and push-ups since it’s the only thing the other two don’t take care of.
@@Genital.Wartzenegger Having juggled the same 3, I'd say rules of thumb are hard to come up with due to individuality. My experience is that forearm overuse-issues are a real risk, so I'll probably use straps more in the gym than I do now once I continue training all three simultaneously, and I'll choose one to focus on with two sessions each week, do one of the other two, and only add a fifth if I know I can make it really light and technical, but that's just me and what I can tolerate just now.
Thought it might be easier if you could easily find what part of this talk you want to watch for later reference, so heres timestamps 0:00 intro 2:00 contents 4:30 tradeoffs and priorities general 7:33 specific priorities 10:37 universal optimization 12:13 finding MRV 18:19 session recommendations 33:28 daily structure 39:37 weekly structure 46:38 longer term priority phases 50:49 nutrition strategies 57:53 lifting for bjj performance 1:01:20 BJJ training that minimizes lifting impact 1:12:02 closing thoughts
I do weights 4 times a week (upper/lower), BJJ 1-2 times a week, and Muay Thai 1-2 times a week. It's manageable but I can't drink much on weekends anymore.
I really enjoyed this video. I have lifted and living the bodybuilding lifestyle for almost 18 years. I have just began my BJJ journey at 41. At this point I’ve managed my schedule where I am lifting 4 days a week, BJJ training 2 days a week and 1 day where I completely just rest and recover. I feel like I’m a (C). I truly enjoy both activities.
5 minutes in and have subscribed already, just on the basis of how articulate you are. Everything you say is perfectly clear without being oversimplified - a rare skill.
I have no BJJ/Wrestling or any kind of quality martial arts gym around but I have huge respect for people who lift primarily for athletic purposes or for their sport. I try my best to be functionally strong as possible with big compounds. I think this is the best way to train.
First I used your advice on volume and accumulated some mass. I signed up for my first bjj tournament a few days ago and now I find this video. You are a prophet of human performance my friend.
I been having a hard time continuing to train 4-5 days a week, which i was prior to bjj. Im now doin bjj 4 to 5 days a week . Its very hard to do both in the same day. Right now i need to drop 40 to 60 lbs and nothing is better than bjj. I injured my wrist almost immediately and have been training both with a brace since. I appreciate mike and had no idea hes been on the matt This long. Hes got to be a brown belt by now?
This is the most detailed breakdown of BJJ in relation to weight training I’ve seen, and as someone who loves both, but is looking to prioritise BJJ but still lift weights, this lecture is everthing I need. Thank you, Dr. Mike!!!!!
This had all the answers to all the questions I've developed in the past few months since I added BJJ to my power lifting, and then some! Thanks Dr. Mike for sharing some of your great knowledge! Absolutely amazing stuff.
looking forward to this, wish to come back to competing in taekwondo after injury meanwhile keep lifting witch a picked up in my off time and started loving.. couldn't get a better guy to cover this topic then mike, hes the man:)
This is such a helpful video. This kind of thing is constantly discussed in BJJ circles and nobody really seems to know what's best. 45:00 -- I've always tried to structure everything completely balanced until I watched this video and realized it was incorrect. Going to pass this around to some training partners -- Thanks!!
I’ve been looking (not very hard apparently!) for this exact kind of video/information for ages! Absolutely brilliant. A must watch in my opinion. Always wanted to get into martial arts properly whilst maintaining my heavy weight training/powerlifting but could not find anything this comprehensive, all in one place and this easy to follow. How to implement other activities without really taxing my CNS (which is what happened several times I tried winging it on my own). I think could also use this video to help program other things than bjj/MMA too. Good for any sports inclined person. Thank you for this great vid!
I feel better about my decisions to substitue hard TaeKwonDo training for lighter, technique-oriented training while pursuing strength. Thanks for this video Dr.
When I initially started bjj I tried to also lift hard 5-6 days a week. I ended up getting injured twice in a 3 yr period, and with no health insurance had to really take a closer look at what I was doing as my own sc coach, pt, and nutritionist. Resources like this have helped me be able to do that and I hope to be back on the mats soon, thank you!
Just a question. If you train jits and have built up decent tech (e.g. purple belt and up) but don't compete, how should you incorporate training sessions where you use more strength (say 75% and up)?
Any suggestions? I normally train Muay Thai & Jiujitsu 2-3x per week each. A sample week would be: Monday: Muay Thai + Jiujitsu Tuesday: Muay Thai + Jiujitsu Wednesday: Workout (Full-Body Moderate) Thursday: Muay Thai or Jiujitsu Friday: Muay Thai or Jiujitsu Saturday: Workout (Full-Body Intense) Sunday: Rest I found that after a few months, regular two-a-days burnt me out.. messed with my recovery.. and lead to me being more injury-prone... typically from hard spars 1-2x per week and maybe 1-2 hard rolling days.. The above schedule has been towards the top-end for long-term sustainability for me in terms of recovery and time-commitment. Open to suggestions on improving this split/program
