BJJ LIFESTYLE

At Fighting Fit Health & Wellbeing we believe that living a BJJ Lifestyle is about so much more than just training and competing in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.  It is about having control of your life and living in a way that promotes optimum health and wellbeing.  For the Gracie family who pioneered and developed BJJ it meant eating according to the Gracie

Diet and living a healthy lifestyle with lots of exercise, relaxation and play.The Primal Blueprint is a great book that offers a very balanced and scientifically backed model for living a healthy lifestyle.  Not a diet book this is a whole lifestyle plan that will get you of the treadmill (literally) of modern living and get back to the way we lived in a more primitive time before farming and our dependence on grains and sugar.  Check it out here - primalblueprint.com/

Exercise is so obviously a key element to living a healthy lifestyle, but don’t be fooled into thinking the key to exercise is finding a flash big gym full of fancy looking machines.  The key to real fitness is finding a functional full body fitness program that is scientifically designed to put the right stressors on your body and utilise all of your muscle groups and all of your energy systems.  An exercise session of this type may only take 15 to 20 minutes 2 to 3 times a week but will give you alot more benefit than a conventional gym program or class after class of aerobics.  Some examples of these types of programs are:

Caveman Training by API - www.athleticperformanceinc.biz

Crossfit Training - www.crossfit.com

Both of these companies have affiliates in Australia.

Also check out Ross Enemait’s Ross Training - rosstraining.com

Some of the “Bootcamps” also offer this type of training.

This one does - www.bootcampgeelong.com.au

There are lots of videos on youtube showing these and other various functional training models at all levels.

This one is pretty advanced but gives you an idea an elite level workout - www.youtube.com