Do all BJJ classes have a conditioning class?

[Dayuum]

I do BJJ 3 times a week and lift 3 times a week and run every other day in the morning. I feel that the conditioning I do in BJJ (mostly body weight exercises) are completely useless since I'm already hitting the weights and all they do is hamper my lifting and seeing how we do them at the start I can't even roll at full strength anymore.

I would rather not drop lifting but I can't sit them out either, any advice?

Edit:Title should say conditioning part

 

[shunyata]

No not every bjj class does crossfitsu.

But at the same time if warm up conditioning impairs your ability to roll later, either your coach is a crossfit sadist or your conditioning is actually not good and you need to do more.

 

[Dayuum]

No not every bjj class does crossfitsu.

But at the same time if warm up conditioning impairs your ability to roll later, either your coach is a crossfit sadist or your conditioning is actually not good and you need to do more.

My conditioning is good but if I deadlifted/squatted heavy the day before then doing those exercises just makes me feel overtrained

 

[Chalito]

Depending on the school, some have really intense warm ups and others very mild. Depends on school to school.

 

[shunyata]

Then you have to consider the possibilty that you overtrained on squat day or that your conditioning isn't as good as you think it is.

If you're going that hard on squat day schedule a rest day after it or go less hard.

 

[HHJ]

Id RATHER roll from the beggining,but i could use the conditioning so i dont complain

 

[Pro Killer]

Then you have to consider the possibilty that you overtrained on squat day or that your conditioning isn't as good as you think it is.

If you're going that hard on squat day schedule a rest day after it or go less hard.

This, Don't be crying because you can't keep the pace of your class, Your probably 1 of them noobie idiots with no real direction who is trying to grapple whilst doing a powerlifting routine anyway !

 

[Unr8dBJJ]

I do BJJ 3 times a week and lift 3 times a week and run every other day in the morning.

Edit:Title should say conditioning part

We mostly start with a good stretch before class, most guys show up early enough. Odd days I'll do the kick-boxing course before hand, then go into BJJ, I'm usually fine rolling.

I can't imagine you rolling 3 times a week and running every morning as you said and you being out of shape to start a roll.

Our class does conditioning once in a while. depending on the size of the class, newbies get introduced to conditioning right away. I would think with your routine you'd be a cardio machine.

We have a couple guys who lift then come to BJJ some nights, they gas out stretching lol

 

[Gawd]

One of our instructors would sometimes have us do sprawls and pushups towards the end of class and then start another round of rolling. Rolling when you're gassed is really a different game.

 

[hell wall]

Dayum you should ditch the weight lifting and focus more on your grappling and body weight excercises....

 

[dalexan242]

Depending on your size, strength and level of experience you may be a lot better off in the long run if you are 'not at full strength' by the time you start sparring. I'm a big guy and I find that I'm forced to be more technical in sparring if my muscles are more tired.

 

[winterbike]

I'd ditch any place that has you doing significant general conditioning* during the class, it shows a poor understanding of learning patterns and of maximizing time spent on the important stuff. If the warm-up doesn't apply to grappling, it's useless.

If push-ups, sit-ups and jumping jacks made you a better grappler, crossfitters would own the next ADCC.

* As opposed to specific conditioning, like escaping the guard drills, movement drills, etc.

 

[Unr8dBJJ]

We did a cool exercise the other day before starting,

Groups of 3: two guys stand on opposite sides of gym, both have arms out, guy in the middle runs to one and does basic Shoot and spins around to the back and then jogs to the other guy on the opposite side. There he goes into jumping guard. jumps and wraps legs around the waist and jumps off, then repeats for as many reps he can get in within 2-3 minutes.

We did this so all three guys ran the drill. It wasn't super demanding (for some it was) but it was a different exercise we hadn't done before, better than just sit-ups and push-ups

 

[LS1Rx7]

We don't do conditioning at all. We roll more if we want more work.

If I did do conditioning though it would be the body weight / wrestling type workouts. I don't really believe in weights for the most part when it comes to translating to BJJ, others will disagree.