Strength and Conditioning Standards: For Athletes

How strong is too strong? How to achieve game changing performance? How to prioritizing multi-layered training? Answer these questions and and find out how you size up against UFC fighters, professional cyclists, and elite lifters.

Strength doesn't matter in jiu jitsu, right?  Wrong.  This is an oft touted adage that is flat out inaccurate.  John Danaher describes jiu jitsu as a contest where you need to dominate the areas of:

• Pace

• Direction

• Set Ups

In other words:

• physicality (strength, size, conditioning)

• strategy (tactics)

• technique (efficiency of control / breakage)

Obviously, two ath…