Been enjoying putting together exercises routines and running class warm-ups that are outside the standard running, push-ups, crunches and shrimping.
I really like ones that make me feel uncoordinated and off-balance at when I first try them. There’s probably some neurophysiology reasoning I could make up about the brain and body struggling to adapt to a new movement and how this develops reflexes and “body awareness” or whatever, but really they’re just fun.
Bonus points if the moves makes you look stupid. Get a room full of guys Indian leg wrestling or crab walking and you’ll put them in a more relaxed mood.
Here are the best drills I’ve found online so far.
Komodo Dragon Crawl
Monkey Run
Backward Dolphin
Armadillo
5 Partner Exercises
Individual Exercises
Milanimal Workout Series
Grappling: les bases. Les drills seul.
Les Drills à deux en JJB
Arte Suave – Andre Galvao
Open Door Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Warm up
About: “Les Drills à deux en JJB & Grappling: les bases. Les drills seuls”
This is Pierre Pilat. A french grappler & jiu-jitsuka, brown belt under Jeremy Idels (Nova Uniao) and his assistant.
These exercices & drills are our regular warm-up…
These videos are great. As soon as we move separate out our classes into beginners and advanced, I’ll be responsible for setting the warm up drills for the beginners class.
These are great ideas.
Thanks for the compilations
Nice article. I’ve noticed that when I get into the later rounds of rolling, my core muscles were getting so fatigued that it was almost impossible for me to stop guys from passing into side control. I’ve been wasting money on these ab belts (i linked it so you can see how ridiculous they are), and although i feel like my abs are stronger, their conditioning is just as bad and after a few rounds of heavy rolling it’s still open season for everyone to pass my guard. I’ve doing these ones for about a week, and idk if it’s mental, but it seems like they’re helping with the endurance aspect of my game.