"Let's always choose to give everything."

Some of our team from Australia trained with Marcelo a few months back and brought some awesome knowledge back, this Guy is a LEGEND in our sport. OSS

Look at all these people disagreeing with a multiple time World Champion and possibly the greatest bjj practitioner of all time. Yeah I'm sure you know better than him.

One of the first things they teach you in exercise physiology is the Principle of Specificity. Marcelo knows what he's talking about, even if he's not getting scientifically technical.

He's saying You can work on cardio and practice at the same time. By just going at a more intense higher pace. At the same time practicing and improving your skills.

0-100 real quick,real quick

I think I understand what Marcelo is stating. Lots of guys in sports like to do conditioning that is maybe sport specific but not as specific as actually practicing their sport of choice. We have lots of guys supplementing their BJJ with activities like cross fit and the like but nothing beats doing the actual activity you are trying to get better at. So to get better and get the benefit of conditioning you have to train more intensely focusing on more fact twitch movements like a sprinter or a wrestler. Obviously not all the time but doing fast sprint like rolling can really take your conditioning to the next level without sacrificing mat time for other activities.

Holy fucking minute.

Most people just don't get it. If you love something you have to be willing to die for it. That means not being afraid to die on a tread mill, shooting free throws or whatever else it take to make yourself great at your passion.

At 1:43 he's like a normal person, and at 2:43 he went berserk. :)

That intensity is absurd! It's just beautiful to watch.

Nothing is like Jiujitsu. It has all the elements of Fitness Training - Stamina, Muscular endurance, Neuromuscular efficiency, Agility, Dynamic stability, Strength and Power training all in one thing. So yeah, Grandmaster Marcelinho is correct. If you actually train Jiujitsu full on, you literally train every aspect of Fitness.

Two points I like from this: 1) If you want to get better at jiu jitsu, train jiu jitsu. And push your limits IN jiu jitsu 2) Even if it is difficult, you should be trying to get out the much as you can from a single roll. And this is more like a mental fight with yourself. I am personally very afraid of pushing because I gas out immediately, that's why I am most of the time too conservative, and eventually end up losing the roll. This is a big piece of advice, my question is just if it works for everybody....

The intensity of the second roll was top, and that blue belt did very well with marcelo pushing him that hard! Brilliant video

This training philosophy might hold up when one or both partners have a baseline level of skill and control. But at lower levels, I see this approach resulting in a lot of unnecessary injuries.

whenever i watch a mg video i learn something new, thank you for capturing and sharing this gold! awesomeness

2:45 Marcello turns it up to 17% of his optimal performance

its like its on Fast Forward wow

people want to say that its partly due to "genetics" no, its just working hard on your craft and doing it intelligently. Many people are Marcelos size, have freak genetics and cannot due what Marcelo does. Its just superior technique.

This guy is crazy good, and a great teacher as well.

OMG..that was amazing!!!! This is why he is one of my favorite grappler.

Marcelo is a beast.

I view this clearly as a point for conditioning training. Not for learning technique, but for improving your cardio in prep for competitions, and also improving your understanding of how you perform while close to your limit. It is certainly useful and approaching a competition I may go to the higher belts and ask if I can have a 100% competition roll with them for conditioning. I may do a couple of weeks like that in the lead up to a competition. Its one thing to know the moves, its another thing to apply them when you are under 100% pressure from a skilled opponent. That being said, I wouldnt recommend doing this all the time because you increase the possibility for injury. Also for the newer belts conditioning is less important than technique and general gamemanship imo. The higher the level you get in terms of competition, the finer the difference between competitors becomes and any edge you can gain over your opponent is an advantage. If you're at elite level, then I would imagine that a fair chunk of your training would be at 100% so you can stay competition ready.

OMG this guy is a beast! I’m pretty sure he can get me in a submission before we even start rolling! Hell, I tapped out just watching him roll 🤔

What a mentor to have 🙌

My professor always says that one beautiful thing about Jiu Jitsu is that it varies a lot from one person to another depending on their physical and mental particularities, I think that applies here, there´s some people with gifted genetics that don´t need further conditioning but most of us need to work on some particular issue (If you´re a big guy most likely you need to improve your cardio by jogging or skipping rope, if you´re slender perhaps you need to build some strenght and explotion)

The best ever, such a cool and passionate guy 🐐

Wow, brilliant advice!

Wow, that was Awesome.

MG went into beast mode that second round for sure!!

those are really awesome tips.

Saw this guy toy with maybe 35 high level guys after a workshop, he just let them work and reversed and shut them down then let them come back, few mins one guy, then onto the next, the whole time he was so polite, always smiling ,encouraging..

true inspiration!

I think he meant not every time u go train give it your all, but i think he meant if ur preparing for a future competition give it your all and see where u gas out. If we gave it our all all the time there would be more injuries and reaching ur goal to black belt would be even longer. I would start making excuses to not goto class if everyday was abu dhabi. I dunno, if ur a young stud and not worried about injuries go 100% but if ur older u want to train and be able to train till ur 90 like Helio roll for fun.

nice that he can go hard all the time. preparing for tournament I can totally see where this is appropriate. If I have to roll with people going 100% (like spaz level almost) all the time I'd probably look for a different school, since I'd get hurt all the time and I couldn't work on techniques with someone going 100mph every second of every roll...

He has competed in grapplers quest before but the man is a living legend that will only compete at the big world tournaments.

Once you are at a certain level of fitness and athleticism, then I agree. You will see most gains in BJJ by doing a lot of BJJ(and like MG said, pushing it hard in training). But for myself personally, as someone in his mid-thirties returning to grappling after a 7 year absence, I have found it very worthwhile to supplement my training with both weightlifting and battle ropes - I got physically more fit faster that way. In a year or so I might stop and just roll all the time though.

Wow good teacher

he is at another level

his point is that training hard durring the technical phase of your training is better then doing strenght and conditioning excercises and cardio. you get the cardio plus neuro-motor efficiency for the real thing.

wow. Point made!!!

I agree you have to come out with that intensity sometimes. And the opponents may not expect that intensity because Bjj is “calm”

I think his talking about if you were preparing for competition. Of course newbies need to focus on the basics first.

Marcello is awesome

I reckon most people would say that if you can do BJJ, do that instead of lifting/cross-training etc - swimmers don't run to get better at swimming. But if you can't do BJJ, auxiliary training is obviously still going to be helpful.

legend

It´s true...

Put playback on 0.5x speed and it still looks like a normal roll lol

2:11 that base and balance by marcelo during the single leg takedown attempt

I do strength and conditioning daily, and so do many others. Marcelo Garcia is a special fighter and what he’s saying is not a good formula for most people. Strength and conditioning will prevent injuries and help your technique. Again, he’s a world class grappler and just because it works for him does not mean it’s a good plan for everyone. Most of us will need three lifetimes to reach his level. But, I love this approach to rolling and pushing yourself. By no means am I arguing with someone who can tap me with ease, but I am saying you can’t just think you don’t need to work out just because he doesn’t.

I understand exactly what he's saying.

First how can you not like Marcelo, but I agree with Marcelo to a point but I like doing different kinds of training I am 52 and have done many different styles, BJJ for the last 3-4 years if I had the money I wouldn't work I would be training, I still try to keep up with my boxing, Muay Thai, and Kali as well as others after a while you get really smart about how you use your time and money, one of the reasons people like Bruce Lee, Marcelo, Andre Galvao, Fedor, GSP, etc, to name a few is they now have the funds or situation to make it there living yes they most likely had nothing at the start and had to fight through poverty to get where they are which I think makes you stronger, but for MOST, it's harder in a different way if you have a family money and more so time make it very hard, to try to devote everything to what you love means something has to give ''The tree that will not bend will soon break'', many people leave just when there starting to get it, I think that people like Marcelo have reached the top he has nothing to prove to anyone, while they should teach others, in there minds they need to move on try another Martial Art I don't think it would take him long to master another art or arts, also seeing what works with different situations, many fighters and Martial artists cannot defend there own life in a real life scenario, sports, and fighting is different to self defence.

Osss Marcelo..!

what gear did he use on 2nd round? lol :p

2nd type sparing is what type??

the 2nd round looked like 3x normal speed that was sick!

Has there ever been a badder nice guy than MG? The nicest and the baddest!

you know like a, get the lever-ege so you can like a get the like sweep from the gourd

WoW

what about mendes bros

His idea on conditioning is much like mines! He believe in physically evolving in whatever it is that your doing than that's what you do to become superior in all aspects of it....just as how a lion conditions itself to be able to eat he chased down its prey than kill it and the body and mind is worked exactly the way it would be for hunting another meal...its primary to what your doing, and anything else is only secondary to the task at hand

Guys look at the title of the video... "Training for CONDITIONING" I'm only a white belt. However, even with my low knowledge, I can also say when rolling with other white belts, a BIG part of me being tapped and giving up positions is because I get tired early. I'll roll two 6 minute rounds with two guys, and by the time i'm at the 3rd or 4th person, i'm EXHAUSTED to the point that I can't even think straight lol. Sure i'm not in the best shape, but i'm not in terrible shape either. If ANYTHING, what i'm seeing from Marcelo is that if you go hard ALL the time, and push yourself to the limit ALL the time, you will begin to push that WALL further back so you can go longer and longer in deep water. I admit, there are times where if I roll with someone and we are both tired, we're take it lightly on our roll, sitting in guard for a while, achieving mount and just keeping the position etc etc.HOWEVER, even when you're tired, if you keep pushing yourself harder, you'll be able to gain more endurance and be able to roll better and be able to use your skill at full capacity. It has nothing to do with going HARD like a steroid roid rage practitioner. If anything, it's more about getting your body in the shape it needs to be for your own good.

I heard he isn't doing ADCC this year :(

Real life ninja.

I'm a huge fan of Marcelo's, and I try to understand and apply everything he says, as long as it seems reasonable (99% of it does). Here, though, I have to point something: if you've seen Marcelo fighting/training when he was younger, you know how awesome his genetics is. Supposing he always went 100% jiu jitsu, no lifting, no cardio, then he is an absolute beast. I agree that you can stick to Jiu Jitsu, IF YOU CAN. I mean, if you're a heavy guy, you'll probably want to run, swim, or do some other form of cardio. HOWEVER, if you CAN apply yourself to Jiu Jitsu as long as necessary, I can't see why you wouldn't. I mean, if you have the time to train Jiu Jitsu for long periods, I say you go for it. There's no lifting/running that's gonna make you better at Jiu Jitsu. First and foremost, you'll get neuromotor coordination. That, by itself, is a huge advantage. Then, you're getting fit FOR Jiu Jitsu WHILE training Jiu Jitsu. You should get quick and flexible while learning techniques, as a natural part of your development. Then I can't see downsides. Unless, of course, you're into bodybuilding. If you're a bodybuilder, I'd say you should use BJJ as cardio AND isometric exercises. The level of definition you'd have by aligning jiu jitsu AND bodybuilding would be insane. I think I've said too much already. Sorry, folks. Stay strong.

not this year

With all due respect to this great champion, lifting weights also aids on preventing injuries and rehabilitating. Doing only BJJ is great but you are gonna get hurt and wish you had taken the mix route martial arts/conditioning

True cross training won't hurt but I think he is saying that it's not mandatory for BJJ training. Jujitsu was designed to be a complete strength and conditioning regime by Jigoro Kano.

This is brilliant. To summarize: hard sparring= good.

2:45 im afraid Jimbo...

Good stuff! My exact concept of jiujitsu train hard in what u train for not because u think its gonna help with your jits game!( lifting,swiming,joging,etc etc etc) lame all mental!

I wish I could get my son to understand what MG was getting across.

He doesn’t always train like that. In another video he talks about three modes of training

Why doesnt he compete at american tournaments?

Great advice. I need to be more explosive. I'm the person that goes borderline too hard but I understand it works both ways. Higher belts still smash me but they know we are going to work. I let go of subs before anyone gets hurt and do them slowly enough to allow a tap. I like rolling when I'm tired because it forces me to use technique more than strength.

Conditioning is not the primary subject of Marcelo's talk, and that could understand as just a person who trains BJJ. It's about risking and putting the extra mile effort with also lower BJJ ranks and constant exposing yourself outside a comfort zone.

holy shitttt

He has the legs of a 250 pound rugby player naturally, not everyone can say the same. I do, but I'm 260 pounds.

👍ty

Sounds great if you can find a training parter whose not being a baby

MG looks intimidating with his bread.

what about em????????????????????????

No, it certainly couldn't hurt, depending on where you train. But having rolled with Mr. Garcia and his club for a week, I can tell you that you wouldn't need any extra conditioning after rolling that hard and that often. In fact you need to rest.

Smart explosions

omg fast

some people just get naturally stronger than others. Marcelo doesn't do anything but train jiu jitsu and he still manhandles bigger men. His grips are probably stronger than almost anybody's and they all do strength training too.

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So I gas out even at the slowest pace.... :(

Hold my beer.

Guy at 3:45 ... gods plan

God imagine how incredibly ridiculously strong marcello would be if someone put him on an intelligent, catered, S&C program.

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From 2:45 to 3:03 = HOLY SHIT. Too bad there is no striking in BJJ because i could only compare that to going in a Boxing Ring for a 1 minute sparring session with a 20 year Mike Tyson going full speed at your ass. That's how intimidating that was to me.

Marcelo is definitely naturally strong so he can get away with just training bjj, but for us regular folks do some weights.

+Brendan 99.18% of people upvote this to down vote this. the rest are (as we know) neutral. no reason to be upset. they are probably a minority ie they don't like his accent or something stupid. anyways, thanks for the video. Marcelo is a beast.

Wake up, look this, go train. Repeat every FUCKIN day.

Anyone else catch the gassed Jon Satava in the back. Purple rash guard.

I think his body is just genetically very strong/ fit for bjj without lifting, but i think if i where to do the same i would turn back into a very very skinny weak kid. It's obvious it works for him, but i dont share his thoughts on this and dont think it is the way for everybody.

i can't fucking wait to see marcelo at the next abu dabi