Key Takeaways
- A DVD instructional teaching you how to properly set up weight training for BJJ.
- Taught by a sports performance expert with a PhD in sports physiology and a BJJ black belt.
- Features methods for building, updating, and organizing weight training for grappling.
- BJJ World Expert Rating: 7.5 out of 10.
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One area that is full of myths and misconceptions is the subject of weight lifting for the purpose of improving your performance on the mats as a grappling athlete. There is more information than anyone can go through in a lifetime, most of which is useless. So, how can you make sense of the clutter and set up a program that will actually help you?
It takes someone who knows grappling (and not at a white or blue belt level) and who is an expert at sports performance to teach you what you need to know about weight training. That’s exactly what the Weight Training For Grappling Michael Israetel DVD does – it teaches you how to train, rather than give you a program of exercises and the sets and reps to follow it.
Personalize Weight Training for Grappling
What is the best way to lift weights for BJJ? If I had a penny for every time someone asked me this question on the mats. My answer is always the same – it comes down to you. There are no two athletes who can use the same training methods and yield the same results in the world.
If there is one thing you need to figure out when thinking about supplementing your BJJ training with weight lifting, it is personalization. The program must reflect your weaknesses, areas you want to improve in, and most importantly, your ability to stick to it.
Even the best program in the world, tailored to you, won’t work if you don’t follow it. Failing to factor in the aspect of scheduling and life obligations is where most people fail. Interestingly enough, this aspect is very much in the focus of the material presented in the Weight Training For Grappling Michael Israetel DVD.
Why Listen To Michael Israetel
The name Michael Israetel is probably one you know as a grappler if you like to lift weights and follow trends in high-performance training for combat sports. I’ve long claimed that the best people to provide training programs for grapplers are ones that profoundly understand grappling and Michael is exactly that.
Although we see him teach with a brown belt in the Weight Training For Grappling Michael Israetel DVD, Michael is actually a black belt, earning the promotion towards the end of 2024. His coach is Josh Vogel from The Jiu-Jitsu Company.
From the other perspective, Israetel holds a PhD in sports physiology and is the co-founder of RP Strength and author of the Renaissance Diet. He has spent a lifetime exploring the field of fitness for sports performance and has paired that knowledge beautifully with his love and understanding of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
Weight Training For Grappling Michael Israetel DVD Review
This particular instructional has no volumes, as Michael delivers all the material in one highly conceptualized DVD. Don’t be fooled by the ‘lack’ of separation though – there’s still over 2 hours of super valuable material here.
Kicking the Weight Training For Grappling Michael Israetel DVD off is an overview of what weight training requirements are for grappling athletes, and how to adapt to the shared workload of technical training and supplemental lifting.
After making his intentions with the instructional clear, Mike moves on to explore movement patterns that grapplers should aim to improve. He follows that up with the optimal intensity and frequency of weight training to create a balanced program that will fit the different needs and schedules of different people.
In that regard, Israetel shares a way of devising weekly schedules that are very flexible and easy to adapt to a specific lifestyle. He uses sample programs to further provide clarity on his programming principles, but those are not meant to be used as follow-along templates.
Around the halfway point of the Michael Israetel Weight Training DVD, he covers how to progress by updating your training program, and shares the role of reloading at regular intervals. I found the information on adjusting training loads near a competition particularly helpful.
Towards the end of this instructional, Mike focuses on delivering advice based on decades of experience that most grapplers tend to overlook. He clears up some weight training myths in terms of BJJ-specific training and provides broad nutritional guidelines to follow.
Strength Matters
And then some! Whoever tells you that it doesn’t matter if you’re strong as long as you’re technical in BJJ, clearly hasn’t rolled with someone who possesses both. As it happens, those types of athletes are becoming the norm rather than the exception, so developing strength is a non-negotiable aspect of training BJJ, especially with longevity in mind.
Another key benefit of introducing weight training for grappling athletes that everyone overlooks until it is too late is injury prevention, PRehab is better than rehab, and that’s exactly what you’re getting with carefully organized and personalized weight training programs.
Plenty of resources out there claim to deliver the best programs for BJJ. Most will fail you. If you need to pick some of them, pick the Weight Training For Grappling Michael Israetel DVD. It will teach you how to organize weight training and put together programs yourself, rather than following someone with a camera as they lift.
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Get Strong, Now!
Undeniably, you need to get stronger for BJJ. I don’t care how strong you are, or think you are at the moment – you need more. Bulletproofing yourself is not easy, and unless you have a personal coach at your disposal, to follow and adapt your training every 3-4 weeks, then the Weight Training For Grappling Michael Israetel DVD can assume that role. Actually, you’ll become your own coach once you go through the DVD and understand how weight lifting for grappling works.
Travis Stevens’ 3 weeks / 3x per Week Weight Lifting Program for Grapplers
