Yoga Warm-Up for BJJ: Standard Intro Routine

If you have been to one jiu-jitsu class in your life you know that the most awkward moment except when you get choked out in front of everyone is the warm-up. Your standard warm-up contains classics as jumping jacks, squats, neck rolls, running in circles with high knees, touching your feet and a hundred other absolutely useless exercises. Why do we do this? Why do we do them?

Because we have no better alternative. So the standard warm-up yoga for BJJ class is made to be a hundred times better than this. Actually just a couple of hours ago I saw a meme on jiu-jitsu warm-up. Like it's people say it's really bad through memes because it's so bad.

So why we do this warm-up and how we do it we try to think that okay this is probably people that coming straight from their car maybe they've been in traffic for hours they've been sitting at the desk for hours or they come straight from bed if there's if there's a morning class. Basically people have not been moving so much their joints their muscles everything is just tight and stiff and the first thing they get asked to do when they come onto the mat is do a forward roll. So no wonder why people's necks and backs and knees are hurting. So this this warm-up is really soft and gentle in the beginning you just start warming up the joints and you move and then going from gentle and soft stretches to do bigger movements and also in the end creating more heat and getting ready for drilling.

So the the trick with this with this class that tricks people because nobody really it's hard to start moving when you come to a jiu-jitsu class so we want to make people feel super chill and easy in the start and then progressively over the course of 25 minutes make them come out of their head and into their body and feel groovy and ready for jiu-jitsu and I think we did a really damn good job of creating a class that does this. Progressive and twisting the hips and spine and neck and shoulders in every possible direction a few times and then building up the pace so that you're really set and ready for jiu-jitsu. The only thing I don't like about the warm-up is that it's too short because we but we also know we made it short because we know that most jiu-jitsu schools they won't allow for more than 20 maximum 30 minutes warm-up. Right so we do the best we can with the time allocated but if we can do 25 minutes of yoga for BJJ warm-ups it's incomparable it's a on a different planet than your standard running in circles warm-up and that is what this warm-up is about.