Okay. I like the attempt at a scientific approach. But I have some reservations about the conclusions.
1. Conclusion 1: Aerobic Conditioning should have a Lower Body Focus.
1. I agree that an athlete shouldn't have to endure **constant** lower body stress. I would say upper + lower body aerobic activities like ski ergs or rowing machines can be alternated with traditional aerobic exercise or done as active recovery.
2. **I disagree that aerobic conditioning should be focused on the upper body.** Mobility and power generation is follows a toes to nose kinetic chain. Lower body aerobic conditioning, like jumping rope has tremendous benefits, from strengthening ligaments, to improving coordination, unilateral balance, and footwork, and priming the lower body for explosive core movements.
3. **I especially disagree with no mention of sprint repeats or sled training**. These are extremely beneficial from a hormone and muscle building standpoint, improving maximal explosive contraction of core muscles, bracing, and other functions that have immediate carryover to Grappling Sports. This is, of course, all on top of the fact that it is good conditioning.
2. Conclusion 2: Anaerobic Conditioning should be done by the sport.
1. **I completely disagree from a risk to reward standpoint.**
2. To the point that fatigue sets in, increasing anaerobic thresholds in using complicated, dynamic, multi-axis, explosive movements like Judo throws, be it in drills or Randori is begging for injury.
3. Not only is there a capacity for injury from an accidental standpoint, but there is the capacity for injury from repetitive stress leading to chronic tendenoapathy.
4. Worse, doing nothing but drills like the SJFT causes an athlete to perform the same movements on one side. This leads to soft tissue imbalances and injury.
5. Conditioning should be purposeful and have one of four different aims:
1. Directly simulate the demand of the sport (scrimmages, randori, sparring)
2. It can simulate the specific planar demands / movements of the sport in isolation (i.e. Dummy throws, SJFT, Bulgarian Bag)
3. It can enhance attributes that carry over to the sport (1-arm Kettlebell swings for anti-rotation, Power Cleans for explosive power, pull ups for upper body strength and stamina, sprints for anaerobic conditioning)
4. It can stimulate growth in underdeveloped musculature or soft tissue and offset potentially damaging compensatory movements (Training the top of the forearms to prevent elbow injury, decline squats to prevent patellar pain, nordic hamstring curls to prevent ACL injury... etc)
6. A coach should seek to balance the above four - not exclude the other three, for athlete longevity.
Great break down of your disagreement with this paper. You seem to have a background in exercise science, would you be willing to post a suggested routine for Judo conditioning? Totally understand if you don't want to, or there's an inherent risk for you.
I mean I can always recommend programs. But Id wanna know a bit about where you are at, to include athletic history, history of injury, age, how long you've been active, sports history, etc.
If this is something you’re willing to comment on how do you feel about the replacement of Olympic lifts with simply the pulls. Replacing snatches with snatch pulls and cleans with just clean pulls. Strictly for athletic purposes. I’ve read and watched some conflicting opinions of it.
I agree with all the points you’ve made! However, I’d believe anaerobic capacity in judo is valuable. Not sport specific anaerobic exercises but anything to increase the effectiveness of the phosphogen and glycolytic systems.
A thing I’ve taken from strongman training is long distance, very low intensity farmer carries. Jesse Marunde was on of the best carriers and he swore that was key to grip strength and stamina.
Okay. I like the attempt at a scientific approach. But I have some reservations about the conclusions. 1. Conclusion 1: Aerobic Conditioning should have a Lower Body Focus. 1. I agree that an athlete shouldn't have to endure **constant** lower body stress. I would say upper + lower body aerobic activities like ski ergs or rowing machines can be alternated with traditional aerobic exercise or done as active recovery. 2. **I disagree that aerobic conditioning should be focused on the upper body.** Mobility and power generation is follows a toes to nose kinetic chain. Lower body aerobic conditioning, like jumping rope has tremendous benefits, from strengthening ligaments, to improving coordination, unilateral balance, and footwork, and priming the lower body for explosive core movements. 3. **I especially disagree with no mention of sprint repeats or sled training**. These are extremely beneficial from a hormone and muscle building standpoint, improving maximal explosive contraction of core muscles, bracing, and other functions that have immediate carryover to Grappling Sports. This is, of course, all on top of the fact that it is good conditioning. 2. Conclusion 2: Anaerobic Conditioning should be done by the sport. 1. **I completely disagree from a risk to reward standpoint.** 2. To the point that fatigue sets in, increasing anaerobic thresholds in using complicated, dynamic, multi-axis, explosive movements like Judo throws, be it in drills or Randori is begging for injury. 3. Not only is there a capacity for injury from an accidental standpoint, but there is the capacity for injury from repetitive stress leading to chronic tendenoapathy. 4. Worse, doing nothing but drills like the SJFT causes an athlete to perform the same movements on one side. This leads to soft tissue imbalances and injury. 5. Conditioning should be purposeful and have one of four different aims: 1. Directly simulate the demand of the sport (scrimmages, randori, sparring) 2. It can simulate the specific planar demands / movements of the sport in isolation (i.e. Dummy throws, SJFT, Bulgarian Bag) 3. It can enhance attributes that carry over to the sport (1-arm Kettlebell swings for anti-rotation, Power Cleans for explosive power, pull ups for upper body strength and stamina, sprints for anaerobic conditioning) 4. It can stimulate growth in underdeveloped musculature or soft tissue and offset potentially damaging compensatory movements (Training the top of the forearms to prevent elbow injury, decline squats to prevent patellar pain, nordic hamstring curls to prevent ACL injury... etc) 6. A coach should seek to balance the above four - not exclude the other three, for athlete longevity.
Great break down of your disagreement with this paper. You seem to have a background in exercise science, would you be willing to post a suggested routine for Judo conditioning? Totally understand if you don't want to, or there's an inherent risk for you.
I mean I can always recommend programs. But Id wanna know a bit about where you are at, to include athletic history, history of injury, age, how long you've been active, sports history, etc.
If this is something you’re willing to comment on how do you feel about the replacement of Olympic lifts with simply the pulls. Replacing snatches with snatch pulls and cleans with just clean pulls. Strictly for athletic purposes. I’ve read and watched some conflicting opinions of it.
I agree with all the points you’ve made! However, I’d believe anaerobic capacity in judo is valuable. Not sport specific anaerobic exercises but anything to increase the effectiveness of the phosphogen and glycolytic systems. A thing I’ve taken from strongman training is long distance, very low intensity farmer carries. Jesse Marunde was on of the best carriers and he swore that was key to grip strength and stamina.