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This thread is a mess. In any event, you get in shape by pushing yourself harder than you really want to on the mat, whatever the grappling art may be. The harder you push, the longer you work, the better the shape you get in. If you throw in some physical training time as well, you get in even better shape. It's not rocket science. I will say that live takedowns is more tiring than live matwork, but that goes for matwork in wrestling and matwork in bjj. Standing grappling just involves more total body muscles at any given time than matwork, and since wrestling practices work more stand-up grappling (50% or more of practice), they probably get you in slightly better shape than most bjj practices, which go 90% on the mat.