Guides
Strength and conditioning, with the sources attached
Most training content for grapplers is written from experience and asserted with confidence. Experience matters — but where there is research, these guides cite it, and where the research does not exist, they say so instead of rounding it off.
Mat Strength
The quality every grappler can name and nobody can define. Squat 1RM does not separate elite from non-elite BJJ athletes; grip endurance does, and maximal grip force does not separate winners from losers. What the measurements actually show.
13 cited sources BJJ athletesStrength and Conditioning for BJJ
What a jiu-jitsu match has and has not been measured to demand, what separates better athletes, how to lift around a mat schedule — and why no published work:rest ratio for this sport is trustworthy.
18 cited sources High school, college and adultWrestling Strength and Conditioning
What separates wrestlers who place, what a competitive season measurably costs you, in-season lifting, neck training, weight cutting and injuries. Including the fact that wrestling’s energy-system split has never been physiologically measured.
21 cited sources Coaches and parentsYouth Wrestling Strength Training
What the position statements and primary research actually support for middle school and high school wrestlers — safety, supervision, age-appropriate programming, in-season dosing and weight management.
7 cited sources