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Explosiveness in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and in the fight.
Today I want to give you 4 tips to develop explosiveness in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) and fighting.
If you happen to struggle often and with different people you will have found athletes much more “aggressive” than others and you will have seen that sometimes a series of attacks that arrive like an explosive burst can make a big difference between winning or losing.
Almost anyone can be explosive and should not have super athletic characteristics but you need to understand and apply some key concepts in the strategy of your way of fighting and doing the exercises to develop it and use it to the best.
Here are some guidelines that will help you develop your explosive power when you fight and among them the first tip is crucial.
1. Train Jiu Jitsu and fight explosively like predators
Shooting sparring with the same intensity all the time is a mistake that in addition to making you predictable for those who know you, it leads you after a few minutes to be slow and drain of energy.
There is a rule that I advise you to follow and that many of the top trainers adopt and explain:
- If you measure explosiveness from 1 to 100 where the 1 is when you’re stationary and you don’t move, and 100 is a huge explosion of energy, then if what you’re doing is usually a sparring constantly in the 80s then you’re wrong.
- You have to learn to fight at 50 and explode at 100 when for example you want to pass the guard, take the back, place a submission, go sweeping, make a projection, etc. and then return to 50.
The fight is not only explosiveness, but it needs timing, the right moment to apply the perfect technique and you have to move respecting fundamental principles, but it is always a great advantage to use explosiveness to “kill” in the same way as the large predators you see in nature such as the tiger, the crocodile, etc. if you observe how they attack you will see that there is an “overwhelming explosion” , so something useful but that needs to be controlled and used only at the right time so as not to consume unnecessarily energy
This approach contains an important lesson.
When you watch a lion attack an antelope or crocodile attacking a wildebeest, you’ll notice that they move very slowly and patiently, so they wait for the exact moment when the victim is distracted and attacks in an explosive fury but uonce the “position” is secured, they return to their slow pace and recover the energy used to generate the explosion.
So in training and then in sparring try this strategy, after a short time you will notice a marked improvement because it is not usefulto use so much constant energy at80 when you can “actively rest” at 50 and explode for a moment at 100, and then return to actively rest at 50.
You have to “move” like a predator!
2. Lift the weight explosively
Your concentric phase (exercise force) of lifting must be done with an explosive action movement while the eccentric phase (the muscle absorbs energy, for example in the descending phase of the flat bench) should be done with a slower movement.
Explosiveness in the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is also created using tools as weights but with proper explosiveness.
Ps. Be careful to lift weights explosively!.
3. Plyometric exercises and other exercises
In addition to improving your performance for the BJJ, plyometric tools will also help you with important thrusts such as squat and deadlift.
Some other useful exercises to develop explosive power and then explosiveness in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and the fight:
- Kettlebell swings & snatches
- Clapping push ups
- Box Jumps
- Olympic lifts
- Jump Squats
- Jump Lunges, New100145
- Explosive Duck Walks
- Explosive Stand ups
- Bag Flips
- Bag Throws
- Ultimate Sand Bag/Medicine Ball Toss
- Clean and Jerk Presses
4. Sprint with HIIT
Sprint interval training ( SIT), is an improved form of interval training,an exercise strategy that alternates periods of short intense exercise with less intense recovery periods.
HIIT is a form of cardiovascular exercise whereregularHIIT sessions can range from 4 to 30 minutes.
These short and intense workouts improve athletic ability and conditions, improve glucose metabolism and improve fat burning.
Keep sprint intervals short and recover longer for example, andtake 15 to 60 seconds with one- to four-minute recoveries between takes
The shorter the sprint time, the shorter the recovery time between sprints.
The goal is to do at least four minutes of sprinting total time during a workout and not exceed more than eight minutes.
Keep moving during recovery cycles but at low intensity, never stand still.
Conclusions
“Don’t overdo it with explosive training”
attention!! Your strength and conditioning should not only be about explosive training because this approach can be very the body and nervous system.
Mix workouts and make them focused on your goal but varied because it’s not the first time that athletes who sponsored workouts based essentially on explosiveness and power find themselves with serious traumas that have in some cases even stopped their careers and we are talking about professionals followed, so even more attention if you’re an amateur.
Train smartly and listen!
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Street Fight Mentality & Fight Sport
Andrea
