S&C Coaches React To Lucas Lepri Strength & Conditioning  

If you worship the barbell deities of Sikastan let us know!

"There is NO super-compensation for sports-specific movements" - exactly this

If you guys could have a conversation with Firas Zhahabi, GSP's coach at Tristar gym, that would be amazing! He has a great RU-vid channel, Tristar Gym, and his AMA's are filled with gold

GSP commented how he hated circuit training and didn't feel it benefited him as an MMA fighter. IIrc his S & C consisted of sprints and track work, Olympic Lifting, and gymnastics (tumbling and acrobatics specifically) as accessory work. He gained stamina and cardio, aside from sprints, from sparring and training rounds, so sports specific muscular endurance

You'd better squat deep. You'd better not cheat. Better not squat, to ninety degrees. Sikastan is tearing you down. They're making a list, and laughing at it, gonna find out, the shit S&C. Sikastan is tearing you down. They see you when you're squatting on a bosu ball. They know when you've a shitty coach. They know if you've been squatting 2x bodyweight. So don't do rolling kettlebell pistol squats! Ohhh (1 set of 3 @ 420 RPE)

Comparing this to some of the bjj s&c videos from juggernaut training systems would be interesting. Chad Wesley Smith training some other champion player, I forget his name

Best part of the channel

Would you consider reacting to Rocky training montages?

Love these videos, thank you

You mentioned Rocky, any thoughts on a “Real S & C coaches react to cinema S & C series”?

Loving the reaction videos lads. Be great if you could do one for swimming sometime for like Adam Peaty, Michael Phelps or caeleb Dressel etc.

Daire and Eoin, We would welcome you to come to Lucas Lepri's Headquarters in Charlotte, NC and spend some time training with us on the mats. The invitation is always open. - Michael C

I love a training montage.

I'm on team overspeed training with accommodating resistance, cheap speed-power training

Love your thoughts and approach to S&C

it's funny how the main thing you can rly praise is that he knows what periodisation is, and not hurting the athletes, how low is the bar for SnC coaches :D

I’ve seen plenty of CrossFit regional and national games qualifiers come in and do bjj and they fatigued before out of shape bluebelts. It’s about the efficiency of technique and technique is the efficiency of movement and if your movement has weak points too great to be efficient……strengthen them. 60 yr old boxers not sweating or breathing hard going a few rounds with a novice or beginner.

What do you guys think of blazepods/similar photo que and neurotraining stimulus?

I got a similar movement (just without the band and on the knees on the floor, following the arm with the head) as that banded reach in the beginning as part of physiotherapy exercises to open the thoracic spine where... idk the attachment of ribs has gotten tight on one side and pulls the ribcage, making the whole system of shoulders a bit off. I think it was titled for rhomboid pain. For me it helped with overhead position and the upper back didn't feel like bones blocking the extension and breathing deep. These banded exercises are odd though. Like you have safer and more effective movements doing the things you want, as you explained. I guess with the banded good morning you develop neck strength on the same go? The held back charges is funny, like I guess it works in cases where your athlete runs and tries to escape from their opponent who's holding their suit. Very clever specificity, teaches your athlete to run away when they're caught! One thing I don't understand: why do they go to the gym to practice grappling from suit? Like what's the perfect time for that? On the tatami when you're sparring technique. That's where you're pulling from the suit _all the time_, like for real you're trying to unstabilize your oppenent constantly. Why do you mix it up with banded resistance at the gym? Like practice pulling strength at the gym. Practice hand technique and knuckle ruggedness at the tatami. I can see why dr. Mike Israetel (regular jiujitsu practicer himself) keeps saying stuff like do the gym stuff at the gym and technique work at the sport practice. With exercises like that you're sort of just wasting your time that could be used productively for something else, it's misplaced as strength exercise when it's subpar as strength development and fits technique practice better. And lastly like if you need to experience how working under fatigue feels like, do the jiujitsu sparring for 60-120 minutes straight and see if you're not crying for oxygen and end. On the other hand why would you practice that when your matches are gonna last far shorter than that and you want to give your best effort in your short matches, so you should probably practice around the length of your matches. And someone once said you want to practice your power and speed and technique as long as you can complete the exercises in the desired range and technique. Say once your technique, power and speed start shitting themselves, for example due to sparring for too long, it's time to quit and not ruin your technique with fatigue. Start recovering to have a productive practice session later. Do cycling or running or some other method of cardio work on another day to build it up if that's your problem. But that's only what I've heard, who am I to tell professional S&C coaches of combat athletes. The logical fallacies in the comments are always amazing. Who knows, maybe I'm the one having them. But like having a degree means you probably learned something, it doesn't mean that your methods follow the learning or that the learned things were necessarily accurate. It doesn't mean that just because you're trying to market your services as unique and something proprietary for you to sell to make people hire you, the methods follow the education. Nobody forces you to apply what you learned and let's be fair, if you're trying to be the best of the best, you're looking for something different from what others are doing. Like who goes and says "I want the most basic program for strength and conditioning because it works"? No, they go "what is different than anyone else is doing".

It’s all pretty much sports specific muscular endurance. Well the fallacy of sports specific. The core exercise your unsure of is a guard passing movement. Guard passing, guard play, good morning posture, takedown entry, snap downs, arm drag, get ups etc. It’s pretty much everything we have moved away from as an industry. This can be done with a partner on the mats training your wrestling/Jiu Jitsu skillset.

In regards to the moving forward with a band. Cal dietz does use some form lf that in which you drop,split and jump forward with a band. He does says the band should not be so tight.

I support you in this Holy War for the glory of The Barbell. Abros

Slightly off topic, but if an athlete was working on their aerobic endurance but didn’t have time for a 1 hour steady state run, is there any value in doing a pre exhaust on the legs e.g. 50 squats with an unloaded bar, followed by a 30 minute run? Basically getting that heavy legs feeling, without the same time requirement of an hours running

Lads, as a boxer I sincerely apologise for all the irate c-words that think they know how to do proper S&C for boxing

The best thing since Father Ted

I agree 100% with not being overly sport specific. This focus can definitely lead to an increase an injury and reduction in sport specific performance. However, I challenge the idea of how well sport specific type of movement with weight or water etc etc may fit into an S&C program. Frans Bosch makes many good points about utilizing motor learning in an S&C program. While using just Bosch methods won’t produce the sole results you’re looking for, the bigger question is how much does adding some weight, water or some type of resistance to a sport specific movement have performance benefits?

Would you guys consider doing a react on runners/triathletes S&C? Tinman Elite, Morgan Cadwell Pearson to name a couple.

Y’all should react to goku training in the hyperbolic time chamber and bring in actual science about how it would or wouldn’t help his training by the way it would change the motor patterns the way you talked about the band around the hips on the sweep. Would be gimmicky but still pretty interesting seeing what would and wouldn’t actually be a useful training process with different gravity

Good video!

Again, so informative. You do get the feeling sometimes these videos suffer from the bias of whoever is editting the stuff together and what they think looks interesting. I'm sure Lepris does some normal stuff at some point during his S& C (you'd hope at least🥲)

Could you please explain why the logic that renders, say, a weighted jump unproductive doesn’t apply to a power clean? Does a power clean yield greater power production than an unweighted jump? Thanks

Combat sports are endemic with this kind of thing, really makes me wonder how much better (or maybe just how much more injury averse & recoverable) these guys would be if the S&C coaches weren't mostly zazzy clout chasers. Get strong, fast, powerful, agile and endurant in proportion to what you need most to succeed in your sport. Reject nonsense, embrace the barbell.

No ab wheel?

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"More disclaimers more better"

Getting up in bjj is important! Being in bottom position getting up means wrestling up means attacking, means sweep so things like get up's with kettlebell for exemple are actually important

Gotta love the Brasilian acccent lol

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our presidents could think of making material about combining olympic weightlifting and bjj training to not destroy the individual. could be beneficial for our military forces of Sikastan.

Travis mash uses bands a ton for power development (greater than 0.75m/s average velocity on squats) for his weightlifters, but haven't heard of anyone using it well for MMA.

Hello lads

I thought Daire was saying "Cognitive Shark-ness".

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There is NO super-compensation for sports-specific movements -- so you guys are against people in striking using thing like egg weights or lightly weighted dbs 9like 2 pounds) for shadow boxing? the only argument against this is a old coach i had said you should shadow box with those implements because the larger gloves tend to weight almost a pound to a pound and a half, but im guessing yall would say just shadow box in gloves lol