Judo gym exercises from the 1970s

This video discusses the old exercises that are oriented towards a stronger and more explosive judo, and contributes to overall fitness.

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[Chadi]

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Thank you all.

[Tyler-he]

An old timer at my Dojo told me he trained falling on his head because the rules back then made that you avoid an ippon if you were landing on your head first. That gave him lots of health issues to this day because of concussions were not taken seriously in the 70's and 80's. That's wild!

[johnlopez]

During the pandemic, I took on a bodybuilder approach on my workout and the benefit I saw when I went back to grappling was less knee pain and back, because the nature of bodybuilding. Bodybuilding you don’t ignore body parts

[oddjobtriumph]

i started my Judo journey in stopped in 2006 due to injuries
fittest i have ever been in my life .
Arthritic fingers and Knees were my downfall ..but great memories ...dabbled in BBJ later on for about 5 years ....but body couldn't cope anymore .
Judo will always have a place in my heart

[ornsteinsolaire]

@ 3:55 almost looks like Judo's version of shadow boxing! I'm a white belt and just started a few months ago but i find that helps me learn the movements even without a partner or bands.

[Fred-pxxu]

Chadi I am impressed bye the variety of exercise variations found in Judo. Thank for producing another brilliant documentary/lecture. I enjoyed it immenselylp

[christopher_schwab]

I understand this is about Judo, but just wanted to recommend you check out traditional Okinawan Goju Ryu conditioning as well. There is a lot of interesting overlap despite how different the origins of the two arts are, and the conditioning is so unconventional, yet fantastic.

[Ecojock]

Another great video. I will say deadlifts and its numerous variants do have a place in most health/performance based exercise programmes, the issue is most people have poor form and use too much weight. This combination leads to so many injuries.

[claynabess]

Well thanks for this video, my Uncle was my sensei, or as i called him, UncleSensei, he was a 6'5 Giant who taught some kids some value and gave gave us a chance at something. Made me think if he was doing some of that stuff back in the 70's.. I still want to Honor my Uncle in a few more Judo matches before i die, I'm only 49. My Sensei past last year @ 79..RIP Uncle... Rip Sensei.

[alexanderren]

Great video! I’ll say deadlift, deadlift, deadlift is also extremely important for everyone regardless of whether they’re a martial artist or anything else.

What’s one of the most common injuries all of us are at risk for, especially as we get older? Back injuries from lifting things off the ground.

I completely recognize that deadlift itself can be a risk first back injury. But you don’t need to go nuts and try to max out or go heavy all the time. Just doing light-moderate weight, in a controlled manner, with good technique, will strengthen the back and reduce the risk of injury from doing day to day lifting activities

[cwilkinsonwck]

6 directional force.. very good. Thank you for all the informations put out.

[mikedok]

Very informative and helpful. Thank you 🙏🏿 😊

[Goon.]

People say "bodybuilding" but what they mean is "general strength training". The common misconception is they want to look like Ronnie Coleman but its really just using isolation exercises, higher reps, and some kind of bodypart split routine instead of full body workouts with ONLY compound lifts. All lifting just just GPP either way.

[jiujitsuismyoutlet]

Great video Chadi. Just ordered your book ❤

[stefanschleps]

Thank you Chadi. As always we are indebted to you.
Serious students, regardless of their chosen art, need to develop both fast twitch and slow twitch muscle fibers.
As we age the focus of our training will naturally swing back and forth in the other direction.
Keep practice and train for life.
Laoshr #60
Ching Yi Kung Fu Association

[kananisha]

Functional Athletics is what I have seen the most benifits from when it comes to grappling.

[hendrikmoons]

Uchi komi and these band resistance trainings, Turkish getups, this takes me back to the entire 1980ies non-Olympic Judo. I loved it, sadly, when I started to work, I stoped with all sports, including martial arts....
I was better of in my teens, aduld life to me is .... well to demanding on the paying bills versus taking great care of my body.

[Yupppi]

This brought up a lot of thoughts, sorry to the person who happens to read it. A lot of nonsensical train of thought.

Bodybuilding style training is an interesting term because without further specifying, it can imply just about anything. Like is it using hypertrophy training methods or does it mean training the whole body? Because hypertrophy training can surely be effective for becoming more efficient, being restricted by a weight class and fat doing nothing for your performance over muscle, so body recomposition is definitely useful for competition and in general. And with the proper exercises like high bar back squats, deadlifts and barbell rows, you can easily improve your strength even in hypertrophy training setting, power as well.


I also think people slightly overrate grip strength training over grip technique and overall strength. I can't remember from the top of my head people saying things like "the reason why I always struggled to win against this guy was his pure grip strength". Rope climbing seems more like a great conditioning exercise, but perhaps a bit low on stimulus to fatigue ratio. Like you do a lot of effort without exactly being able to specify what traits and muscles you're improving effectively. For people who aren't very experienced in training, it can provide improvements for a good while. On the other hand for someone who is very experienced, it might not do anything for improvement, a bit much for maintaining.

Sometimes trainers get a bit head over heels on going overboard in training specificity and ending up with just slightly inefficient workouts due to training the qualities necessary less and mixing sport training and strength/power training, where usually it's recommendable to build strength in sport specific areas with the most efficiency (say pulling, squatting, hinging, pushing type of movements in necessary ranges of motion like squat, row, deadlift, bench) and doing the skill work on tatami, adapting the gained strength to the sport. I find that it tends to help every single judoka just because it allows them to better access the positions and feel strong and in control in those positions. Like it's shocking how many people can't do a comfortable bodyweight deep squat, sometimes not even parallel squat, let alone another person on their back. Or not being able to lift their leg straight as their upperbody tilts forward. And it really hurts their technique, you can see how their body says "nope, we're not going there" in the middle of their technique and no amount of cues and advice will help them to improve the technique until their body gets stronger and more comfortable accessing those positions. After all, the best transfer from strength to producing powerful moves in sport is building the strength at the gym and then doing the desired movements powerfully in the sport itself with the least amount of weight required in the movement to avoid it slowing you down. Like practicing moves on a partner in judo. Very common to have curious workouts in martial arts that aren't olympic sports for example, most of the olympic sports athletes have a really serious system of S&C smart people behind them, like Shohei Ono.

Looking at the best on the sport on their training is a bit like looking at top bodybuilders. Copying them will not make you them and can just be negative for you, and they might have a wide variety of contradicting philosophies with each other so you are left none the wiser about the effectiveness. Especially if you don't know the context of why they did what each one of them did. However the beauty of physical adaptations is that if the baseline is zero, anything will improve it for a long time effectively. Even a bit more advanced person if they ramp up the intensity/volume will keep improving if their recovery doesn't hinder them. It comes more of a question of how much effort you want to use per unit of improvement and how far you want to go. For someone it's enough to just get some fitness and be fine with what you get, for someone else the goal is to maximize the results for the effort and time spent.

Personally I love tandoku renshu and uchi komi for developing that powerful technique, doing it with conscious effort. Banded uchi komi is also nice just to get that little bit of feedback from the bands to get the motorics feel right or to fix some oddity in the timing/synchronization. Of course for sport specific endurance development nothing beats randori after randori round. It kills a man, but it's hard to get more specific than that about using your cardio and strength, and you get more efficient in it while doing it.

Also personally I think that everybody should be lifting at some regularity for life quality, even if they're not doing judo or grappling. But it's a solid reminder that in the beginning judo itself is plenty enough for someone who hasn't been training actively, and plenty of people who start judo don't come from sports or physical activity background, and the older they are when they start, the worse the situation is. It'll take a long time to build up fitness to be able to add anything on top of judo. Judo is so demanding until you develop that fitness required. At that point it makes sense to start introduce lifting and other exercises. I was myself the guy who struggled to join the third session of the week when I started, because I was hurting just sitting down in place at school. Even after I had lifted for a while and returned to judo, it took a while to get used to judo intensity to be able to add the lifting back. Not to mention that many instructors also like to run people down in the warm up with all kinds of mixed up training modalities like trying to implement power, strength, hypertrophy and cardio everything in one, that make a beginner not able to effectively train judo technique for the next 15 minutes or subpar effort for the rest of the 90 minute class, but also don't meaningfully develop any of the desired qualities due to competing attributes that limit each other's stimulus, just get you exhausted. But at least some of them make sure to have the warm up exercises to help you develop the motoric skills necessary like for newaza. On the other hand once you're fit and can tolerate judo and lifting at the same time, it's a nice ego boost to be able to do the warm up with good effort and still recover quickly afterwards. Sometimes it becomes a bit like those 80's fitness tv shows where you had no idea anymore if they're just trying to mess with you and call it exercising, like when it is so far away from being effective or being useful for what you're supposed to be doing in any way, just doing activity for its own sake and exhausting everyone.

Personally I prefer training so that it has purpose and reasonable design. For beginner class all around fitness to build up to be able to do judo as they also learn basic things. But preferrably warmup is just warmup in the beginning, a bit of light dynamic mobility things and raising the heartrate. The end of the class after technique is the point where you can physically exert them and the ending is the spot for cardio. For a bit more advanced regulars judo during scheduled judo, physical training on your own time as you see fit, because you're in judo for judo's sake and gym and other stuff you can do in another time window that doesn't take away from judo. I also like to see more experienced people arrive just tad bit early and start warming up by themself for what they feel their body needs to be prepared for training. It shows dedication to the activity and understanding of what's important and what's not. Say in the days when there's no full class and group warmup, I tend to do a bit of speed/sport ladder drills because it gets feet moving with finesse and raises the heart rate and a couple of hip airplane/single leg rdl type bends to get used to uchi mata demands on balance and mobility. Perhaps a couple of morote seoi nages in tandoku renshu to get used to squatting low and keeping controlled upright posture. If I feel my thoracic spine is for some reason stiff, I do some moves for that. Whatever I will be doing, very submaximal and just getting heart rate up and body used to moving and positions. Shintaro Higashi has actually had multiple podcast episodes talking about how in his opinion a ton of judo classes for beginners (maybe for advanced too) are taught mindlessly, and he's gone to think about it and prototype and design a program where the beginners learn something useful that builds up to practical skills instead of running them down of exhaustion and focusing on some isolated nuances like drilling osoto gari.

All the yapping aside, always fun to watch old footage. They figured out a lot of things and had interesting ideas. And good food for thought. Also the book seems just great, can't help but love deep diving history books on specific subjects.

[brahamwijaya]

In jiujitsu especially BJJ school. there is basically no warmups. only drills. me as a karate practicioner. i was baffled at how light the warmups is. when karate warmups already makes me like sweat hard and like say to myself, god damn that was a warmup and im already sweating... thats explains a lot, why these BJJ grappler in my school has a really bad cardio.

[brahamwijaya]

i think shuai jiao style of belt whipping takedown a really good exercise to replace bands. because bands are expensive and using cable pulls might be impractical