[bayboy4life]

I have my first bjj tourney coming up on Jan 26th. Is it to soon to start conditioning??? I dont want to over train. Thanks for the help.

[John L Sullivan]

*Not* too soon at all. Maybe a couple weeks late.

[rainbowchild]

Get your arse in gear boy, that's only 4 weeks away!

[bayboy4life]

Originally Posted by rainbowchild

Get your arse in gear boy, that's only 4 weeks away!

I just found out about it last night

[Technomad]

You are starting late man,

overtraining is when you train balls-to-the-wall day after day without a proper ammount of time off, I go 6 days a week 2 workouts a day and take sundays off. Since you're starting late I would say to train everyday until a week out, then start to taper, and then do very very light work/ streching for the 72 hours before the tournament. But thats my own personal preferance

[Standard]

Overtraining is completely individual and is based on alot of factors like intensity, workload, rest time, nutrition etc. It is a hard state to acheive for most people but i think it is safe to assume you shouldn't be able to overtraing yourself in 4 weeks. I would get at it if i were you

[TheDavid]

That's funny...I'm expecting to have a judo competition on the same day.
Although I always keep myself in as good of shape as possible, when you know something is coming you have to step it up for the rigors of battle!
I'd say mix up pre-fatigued sparring and pre-fatigued from sparring conditioning.
I'm a huge fan of drills that mix up sport-specifics with conditioning work.

[mschatz]

Conditioning should be a all-year-long thing

[Blast D]

Pffff. never too soon. you wont overtrain, start now.

im appalled at this thread. what kind of athlete are you.....

[wildman1717]

Get to it and good luck, you shouldn't overtrain in four weeks.