Weight training and BJJ

mickmac

(This may be more appropriate for either the MMA or pure fitness sections)

Does anyone have any experience weight training in conjunction with doing BJJ?

I recently started training and got to thinking about how to get the best out of both my time on the mat and my time in the gym.

I imagine a good base level of strength with compound lifts - squat, deadlift, pull-ups etc - is going to be of benefit but I'm curious if anyone here with experience, particularly competitive experience, has any advice or tips.

I recently started doing BW rows using a thick rope to improve grip strength and, funny looks in the gym aside, it seems to be having some benefit.

Cheers.

arybvtcw0eolkf

mickmac wrote: »

(This may be more appropriate for either the MMA or pure fitness sections)

If you think BJJ is MMA your deluding yourself.

However, just for you I'll move it over to the Fitness Forum.

Moved from The Self Defence & Martial Arts Forum.

Killme00

Jorge Deep Tailor wrote: »

If you think BJJ is MMA your deluding yourself.

Where does the OP say that BJJ is MMA? I think you've misinterpreted his post.

Anyway, OP

You're spot on to work on grip strength and yes big compound lifts will improve your overall strength which would obviously carry over to BJJ. Pulling strength is massively important so i would work on pullups and inverted rows as well.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Killme00 wrote: »

Where does the OP say that BJJ is MMA? I think you've misinterpreted his post.
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I wasn't going to move it to the MMA forum as BJJ isn't MMA, so here it is - in the Fitness Forum.

(This may be more appropriate for either the MMA or pure fitness sections)

Killme00

So you agree, he didnt say it, yet you called him deluded. Well done mod

arybvtcw0eolkf

mickmac wrote: »

I recently started doing BW rows using a thick rope to improve grip strength and, funny looks in the gym aside, it seems to be having some benefit.

You'll get lots of advice here. But just to pick up on that one and give you a little tip.

If you have a old Gi, or even a sturdy towel, you'll find both better for grip strength than a rope.

deadlybuzzman

speaking from experience be very very wary of over training-get in lift heavy heavy stuff go home, its easy to fall into the trap of doing too much so for me doing wendler 5/3/1 over 4 days is the way to go. it will up your strength without taking away from your stamina, plus its very straightforeward with no fluff

mickmac

Thank you gentlemen for your suggestions. Your help is appreciated. Thanks too to Makikomi for the suggestion of using a towel instead of rope. I tried it there a few minutes ago and it is harder. An excellent and practical suggestion that I'll add to my training.

Also thank you so very much for clarifying that BJJ is not MMA Makikomi, the issue had been confusing me terribly of late.

That I thought that seeking training advice from people interested in MMA or fitness, and not solely and specifically BJJ, is certainly a sign of delusion. The two fields are in absolutely no way related. Where I might have got the idea that somebody involved in MMA would know even the first thing about BJJ or would have advice or thoughts about training in it is beyond me. I hang my head in shame at the very thought of it now. What a fool I was! I shall tear down my Royce Gracie, Thales Leites and Damien Maia posters as soon as possible, burn them and smear the ashes upon myself in an act of contrition.

Any suggestion that my post may be better suited to another forum was clearly something that you needed to draw attention to in the most polite manner possible. Thank goodness you felt PMing me or, indeed, saying nothing at all on the matter were unsuitable methods of dealing with my tragic lack of knowledge.

I applaud your wise and well chosen words and feel warmed by the gentle online embrace of a Mod who really knows how to make a poster -who may, God forbid, simply have been trying to be helpful by suggesting their comment may be more suitable elsewhere - feel welcome and inspired to return often to their forum.

themandan6611

mickmac wrote: »

Thank you gentlemen for your suggestions. Your help is appreciated. Thanks too to Makikomi for the suggestion of using a towel instead of rope. I tried it there a few minutes ago and it is harder. An excellent and practical suggestion that I'll add to my training.

Also thank you so very much for clarifying that BJJ is not MMA Makikomi, the issue had been confusing me terribly of late.

That I thought that seeking training advice from people interested in MMA or fitness, and not solely and specifically BJJ, is certainly a sign of delusion. The two fields are in absolutely no way related. Where I might have got the idea that somebody involved in MMA would know even the first thing about BJJ or would have advice or thoughts about training in it is beyond me. I hang my head in shame at the very thought of it now. What a fool I was! I shall tear down my Royce Gracie, Thales Leites and Damien Maia posters as soon as possible, burn them and smear the ashes upon myself in an act of contrition.

Any suggestion that my post may be better suited to another forum was clearly something that you needed to draw attention to in the most polite manner possible. Thank goodness you felt PMing me or, indeed, saying nothing at all on the matter were unsuitable methods of dealing with my tragic lack of knowledge.

I applaud your wise and well chosen words and feel warmed by the gentle online embrace of a Mod who really knows how to make a poster -who may, God forbid, simply have been trying to be helpful by suggesting their comment may be more suitable elsewhere - feel welcome and inspired to return often to their forum.

sarcasm - heavy use of apparent praise for an actual dispraise: it is the common man's usual form of irony; sarcasm is personal and intended to hurt. tut tut

BossArky

Back on topic please.

brianblaze

mickmac wrote: »

Thank you gentlemen for your suggestions. Your help is appreciated. Thanks too to Makikomi for the suggestion of using a towel instead of rope. I tried it there a few minutes ago and it is harder. An excellent and practical suggestion that I'll add to my training.

Also thank you so very much for clarifying that BJJ is not MMA Makikomi, the issue had been confusing me terribly of late.

That I thought that seeking training advice from people interested in MMA or fitness, and not solely and specifically BJJ, is certainly a sign of delusion. The two fields are in absolutely no way related. Where I might have got the idea that somebody involved in MMA would know even the first thing about BJJ or would have advice or thoughts about training in it is beyond me. I hang my head in shame at the very thought of it now. What a fool I was! I shall tear down my Royce Gracie, Thales Leites and Damien Maia posters as soon as possible, burn them and smear the ashes upon myself in an act of contrition.

Any suggestion that my post may be better suited to another forum was clearly something that you needed to draw attention to in the most polite manner possible. Thank goodness you felt PMing me or, indeed, saying nothing at all on the matter were unsuitable methods of dealing with my tragic lack of knowledge.

I applaud your wise and well chosen words and feel warmed by the gentle online embrace of a Mod who really knows how to make a poster -who may, God forbid, simply have been trying to be helpful by suggesting their comment may be more suitable elsewhere - feel welcome and inspired to return often to their forum.

Definitely go for the big lifts for strength, and then Plate Curls are awesome for grip!