Specific Conditioning Methods and HICT Training

yeah it can there are techniques you can you can do and you know look if somebody thinks that they're going to be able to prepare themselves for jujitsu they're out of their mind i thought the same thing and within the first 45 seconds i was in the bathroom puking my guts out so there's just nothing that you can't there's nothing you can do to prepare you but there's things that you can do once you get used to it that can make you a better fighter and some of the things like i like joel jameson's his uh hict training um which you can do in a localized manner so say like an upper body ergometer where you would crank the intensity up so high where you have to really grind against it and the the machine's only moving at say 20 25 rpms or single strokes right what's that or single strokes and you do that you do that straight for 10 minutes And what it does is it teaches your fast twitch fibers to be more oxidative so that you can have repeated bouts of punching or repeated bouts of grappling without building too much lactate and without losing fatigue. And it simulates a fight more in that respect as well, more bursts of energy as opposed to sort of sustained application of force. Exactly. And, you know, when you look at conditioning, you have to look at systemic conditioning, which would be your cardiovascular system, right? So what adaptations are you trying to create in the heart? So what's the number one thing you need to create more fuel is you need oxygen. What do you run out of when you fight? You start running out of oxygen. So building things like left ventricular size, building things like better vascular networks, increasing nitric oxide, things like that, you do systemically with generalized conditioning. But then you also have local conditions where you can target train those specific muscle fibers in in your extremities by doing things like upper

lower body ergometers and certain strength training movements. But you really need something, too, in my opinion, that's very concentric versus eccentric orientated, right? So making sure that you don't want a lot of eccentric work when you're doing your conditioning because the eccentric work is what causes a lot of the muscle breakdown. All you really want is that concentric work mainly, right? So doing things like hitting the bag, you know, but doing it in specific intervals.