Disclosure: Jiuoss is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend gear I’d train with myself. Somewhere around my late 30s I noticed I couldn’t just eat whatever and roll five rounds on fumes anymore. I’d show up to […]
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Disclosure: Jiuoss is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend gear I’d train with myself. I didn’t think about cauliflower ear until my third year of training, when a blue belt half my age drove his forearm into
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Disclosure: Jiuoss is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend gear I’d train with myself. My lower back used to only bother me after a hard week of squats. Now it talks to me after a bad round
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Disclosure: Jiuoss is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend gear I’d train with myself. I put off creatine for years because I thought it was a young guy’s supplement — something for 22-year-olds trying to add ten
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Disclosure: Jiuoss is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend gear I’d train with myself. My calendar for a normal week has back-to-back meetings from 9 to 5, a kid who needs picking up at 5:45, and about
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Disclosure: Jiuoss is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend gear I’d train with myself. My hands used to just work. Now every Monday morning I look at my fingers before I even get out of bed and
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Disclosure: Jiuoss is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend gear I’d train with myself. I’ve taken three real breaks from jiu-jitsu in my training life. A blown MCL that cost me four months. A work stretch that
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Disclosure: Jiuoss is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend gear I’d train with myself. For about two years I thought my hips were just “tight” and that was that. I’d warm up, roll, get stuck flat under
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Disclosure: Jiuoss is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend gear I’d train with myself. For about a year I trained five days a week because that’s what the 24-year-old phenoms at my gym did, and I figured
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Disclosure: Jiuoss is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend gear I’d train with myself. A guy named Rich walked into my gym last spring. Fifty-three, knees that had already had one scope, a desk job, and a
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Disclosure: Jiuoss is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend gear I’d train with myself. For about three years I treated the warm-up as the part of class I could skip if I showed up late. Roll in,
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Disclosure: Jiuoss is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend gear I’d train with myself. The first time a 23-year-old blue belt called my game “old man jiu jitsu” he meant it as an insult. He’d just spent
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Disclosure: Jiuoss is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend gear I’d train with myself. I tweaked my right knee in a scramble about four years ago, and for a while I figured that was it for my
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Disclosure: Jiuoss is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend gear I’d train with myself. For about two years I trained Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, and by Saturday I felt like I’d been hit by a truck that
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Disclosure: Jiuoss is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend gear I’d train with myself. My knees started talking to me around the time I hit 36. Not screaming, just a low grumble after a hard round of
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Disclosure: Jiuoss is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend gear I’d train with myself. The first time I walked into a jiu-jitsu gym, I was in my early thirties and I still felt ancient next to the
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