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Top Five Diet Tips for BJJ

February 8, 2021 by Stephan Kesting

Stephan Teaching a Jiu-Jitsu seminar

I often get questions about diet and nutrition from grapplers and martial artists.  People want to eat correctly because they think it will make them more effective in BJJ class, allow them to recover faster after training, and provide them with better health overall. Well, it's true.  What you eat can have a HUGE effect on your performance. Nutrition is a super-important piece of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Health & Nutrition Tagged With: Diet, Nutrition, Supplements

BJJ Exercises with Coach Ben Zhuang

April 26, 2018 by Stephan Kesting

BJJ exercises, conditioning, supplements with Ben Zhuang

I've long been an advocate for weight training and additional conditioning to improve BJJ performance and a skeptic of most sports supplements. So given all that I really enjoyed picking Ben Zhuang’s brain for his suggestions for exercises, supplements, recovery and other information that is going to benefit you. I’ll summarize and break down our discussion into different topics. Let's start … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Conditioning, Interviews, Podcasts Tagged With: Ben Zhuang, BJJ, Conditioning, Cutting Weight, Interviews, Supplements, The Strenuous Life BJJ Podcast with Stephan Kesting, Video

Pre-Workout Supplements for BJJ

March 29, 2016 by Stephan Kesting

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Pre-workout supplements used to be mostly for weightlifters and bodybuilders.  But now more and more jiu-jitsu practitioners are taking them before BJJ class in order to train longer and harder. Do they work?  Sorta, kinda... Are they safe?  Not at all. Is there a better alternative?  Definitely! Let's look into pre-workout supplements, especially with regards to students of BJJ. In … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Conditioning, Health & Nutrition, Training Tagged With: BJJ, Conditioning, Nutrition, Supplements, Training

Bodybuilding, Jiu-Jitsu, and My Quest to Make 240 lbs with Abs…

July 28, 2015 by Stephan Kesting

Bodybuilder

In my late twenties I went through a phase that most young men go through - I wanted to get big.  Maybe not as big as Dorian Yates and the other professional bodybuilders active at the time, but certainly bigger than most other men in my peer group.  Yes, I admit that there was a certain element of vanity at work,  but I also told myself that it would be good for my jiu-jitsu. The trouble was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Conditioning, Miscellaneous Tagged With: Cardio, Conditioning, Nutrition, Supplements

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