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Originally Posted by Saith
How important is upper body conditioning for grappling? I know that lower body, core, and back is more important, but if you have really easily tired chest and arms would that be detrimental to your performance?
The reason I ask is because I can do lower body conditioning work (sprints, running, skipping, etc.) and keep up with other students fairly well, but when it comes to the crazy upper body/chest conditioning portion of our warmups (things like hindu pushups, frog pushups, etc.) I usually can't do much more than 1/4 as much as the other students are doing. Is this much of a difference something I should work on, or will it even out over time?
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If your weak in something its generally a good idea to work it and that is often the things that will reap serious short term rewards!
Generarely for grappling pulling is more important than pushing, but for general athletisism you want to be strong all over so you still need to balance it out with pushing...
...so I guess the answer is yeah..