my Arte Suave

Bodybuilding in BJJ.

Derrick Johnson who is one of Americas best Olympic lifters currently breaking a shit ton of US records. If you don’t look good you wont lift good, and if you look at a lot of these lifters you wouldn’t even think they lift weights. Derrick “goes into the gym to do some bodybuilding which is under appreciated in Olympic [weight lifting]”

Derrick goes on to say that, if you dont look good you wont lift good. As a BJJ player, if you looked better, would you perform better?

I know a lot of Russian weightlifters, include bodybuiding, even Greg Everette and Louie Simmons, to make the body stronger overall. Even Gymnast use body building to bring it all together.

And I am talking about doing bodybuilding every so often, not as a staple.