HOW TO EXERCISE AT HOME

TRAINING DURING LOCKDOWN   When you’re stuck at home, traveling with work, on vacation, or quarantining/ lockdown, it isn’t easy to stick to an exercise routine or keep track of your fitness goals. You may have limited access to fitness facilities or find it...

WHAT YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT MUSCLE FATIGUE

When it comes to medium to high-intensity exercise, it is very common to hear about muscle fatigue, that annoying pain that doesn’t seem to go away and makes the muscle stops contracting and then fails. To understand what fatigue really is, let’s start...

5 Tips to avoid injury in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

Although people assume Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is an injury-prone sport, there is a sure way to minimize the risk of any serious injury: Tap! If you feel like your opponent is hurting a joint or hyperextending a limb; there is no shame in tapping. Leave your ego at the...

The best post BJJ nutrition plan

The most critical time is 15 minutes after your Jiu Jitsu training because at this point the body is better prepared to receive and store carbohydrate than at any other time during the day. There are five goals for this brief but important window: 1. Replace expended...