BJJ Recovery

My wrists were the last thing I expected to slow me down. Everyone warns you about the knees and the lower back. Nobody sits you down at white belt and explains that the joint you use to post, frame, base and hand fight is going to file a complaint somewhere around your fifth year. The […]

Short answer: Most BJJ shoulder pain is irritation from posting on a straight arm, defending shoulder locks a beat too long, and getting stacked — not a tear. Modify before you rest. Post on your forearm, tap early on kimuras, and give up the underhook war for a few weeks. Rebuild with boring scapular work:

Short answer: Most BJJ hip pain after 40 is a load problem, not a damage problem: eight hours in a chair, then a guard game that lives at the end of your range. Cut the positions that park the hip at its limit under someone else’s weight before you cut training days. Strength through the

Short answer: Fingers, knees and shoulders account for most of it. Fingers are the most frequent, knees the most disruptive, shoulders the most likely to put you in front of a doctor. Per hour of training the risk is low, around 5.5 injuries per 1,000 training hours in one survey. Competition is roughly ten times

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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

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. 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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