[quote]humble wrote:
Personally I would skip the powerlifting for a while and concentrate on agility movement and training. Perhaps switch to Oly lifts but there is a steep learning curve so it may not be timely.
The simplest way is then to start kettlebelling which will activate your hips and program your cns to work as a whole rather in segments. It also teaches effective breathing, letting momentum work in parts and actually exerting your strength only when needed and relaxing when needed.
Concentrate on bodyweight movements that move you through space, there are tons of variations of pull ups that you can employ to help you better in bjj. One such pullup is the kipping pull up which is a highly metabolic movement and at the same time teaches an effective cns activation sequence transferable to bjj etc.
Think bear walks, crawls, various pushups that move your body in dynamic/multiple planes rather than just up and down. One legged or one limbed movements also help.
Contreas had an article the other day on torsional strength as well. Check that out.
POwerlifting is so rigid and lacking in dimension, the breathing involved counter productive to fight training. Breathing should occur as a by product of your movement not a concentrated effort. It kills me when I hear coaches screaming breathe, breathe and then athletes get into this stupid concentration trying to breathe which only makes them more tired in effect since they’re exerting effort to do it. Breathing should come naturally through the movement, for example when punching the movement involves contractions of certain muscles in the chest, ribs, diaphragm and more likewise in retraction of the punch their is activation and relaxation of various muscles. The aim being to tune these muscles which are working to perform the movement anyway to be the source of your breathing at the same time, without mentally thinking about trying to breathe.
The russians are famous for this and why they can actually fight in a lot calmer manner than many of us, their movements automatically facilitate breath[/quote]
I might agree with you if he was looking to seriously train BJJ… but the dude seems to like powerlifting better, and that’s what he’s truly “training” at, with BJJ being more of a supplement.
That being said, if he can handle the volume of what he’s doing, he should stick with it, simply because doing what you love is important.