I have been competing internationally for eleven years now and I have seen so many Judo players lose matches purely because their fitness and conditioning wasn’t up to scratch. People tend to forget that when you are too tired to stand up it doesn’t matter how good your technique is, you are still probably going
A looooong time ago – some 20 odd years – one of my main teachers by the name of Poliquin designed a lifting program for the Canadian national Judo team. Here is the story: When the team members saw the program as written on paper, they kind of laughed, scoffed at it. Probably because of
By Andrew Rapopso Fighterabs.com There is one very important aspect in your Judo training that you are not doing and it is taking you away from your true potential. Judo requires a tremendous amount of core strength. Training your abs in a traditional fashion, where you perform hundreds of crunches or other ab exercises won’t
The main reason for using a weight belt while exercising is to protect the lower back from damage. Exercises that usually require the participant to wear a weight belt are exercises such as heavy squats, deadlifts, cleans and snatch. The belt is worn around the waist and when the abdominal muscles contract they push
Workouts for Judo will give you the ability to: – Increase Overall Fitness – Fight harder for longer – Increase Strength and Power – Improve Balance and Co-ordination – Increase your level of Agility – Increase Foot and Hand Speed – Improved Judo skill
So in this video below I have included a video by MMA coach Funk roberts. And yo may be asking “Matt your title says top 10 exercises for Judoka but you showed an MMa video.” But the answer is simple. MMA, Grappling boxing, Judo, BJJ it’s all the same. We need to have a strong,
The Christmas and New Year period is always pretty busy and it is important keep up your strength and fitness or else your first training session back is going to hurt A LOT! A few days after getting home from my holidays I had a quick 90 minutes spare. So I rushed to the gym
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If you have been following me for a while you would know by now that I am a massive advocate for ‘rotational core strength’ as well as ‘upper body integration exercises.’ Judo players must have rotational core strength and they must be able to use their upper body whilst contracting their core muscles. Rope rotations actually incorporate both of
