By Nate Winkler There are few days in the year more important than ‘Game Day’ for athletes, if any.  Every month away from season is spent preparing, training, dieting, and dreaming of what will happen next season, when all the hard work culminates in dominating performances.  Making all that pain, practice and sacrifice worth it [...]

By Chad Wesley Smith Here at Juggernaut I have the awesome opportunity to work with some of the nation’s best high school football talent, many of which play for some of the state and country’s top teams. Recently I began working with one of the Class of 2013’s top offensive line prospects, unfortunately he is [...]

Consistency is king, right? Everyone knows that some things work better than others, but no matter what, if you workout more, and eat healthy foods then you will lose fat, get more ‘ripped’, and increase your strength. What if I told you that all your hard work, dedication, time, and effort are being wasted because [...]

Kevin M. Pierce, DC, DACBSP In Augusts’ article, Muscle Healing…an Internal Clock to Recovery; we talked about types of tissue injuries, physiological time frames for healing and the Paradigm approach to managing the return from a muscular injury. In this month’s article, we will examine a nutritional approach to what the body needs on a [...]

By James Smith Director of Sports Programming Juggernaut Training Systems www.powerdevelopmentinc.com The problems have been identified as: -        Inadequate Coaching Qualification and Instruction of Youth Movement Skill Development -        Lack of Collegiate Sports Physiology Curricula -        Inadequate Collegiate Physical Education Curricula The immediate solution demands that existing coaches and educators assume the responsibility of overcoming [...]

  By Chad Wesley Smith I started lifting weights as a rollie-pollie 5-8 175 pound 14 year old with a massive bench of 155 pounds. Eleven years and several million calories later, I am 6-1 315 pounds with the #1 powerlifting total in the US for the 308s weight class. I can say with full [...]

When Do I Eat What? This is one of the most common questions we hear at Juggernaut. Sadly, protein and ‘nutritional’ food companies have clouded this concept and left many working hard in the wrong direction.  The two most common misconceptions are that you need to ‘carb load’ before you work out and immediately after completing a training session, [...]

Take a step behind the scenes at Juggernaut and observe some of our Brazilian Jiu Jitsu athletes in action. In today’s session we follow Diogo Lacerda, a brown belt and professor at Gracie Barra Huntington Beach, as he performs the main portion of today’s training session. Lacerda is one month away from competing at No-Gi [...]

As you progress in your mass and strength gains, 3 big meals a day just wont cut it anymore, so you are gonna need to feed in between your big meals. These snack recipes will provide you with lots of quality calories and can either be prepared very quickly without much equipment or made ahead [...]

[youtube height="344" width="425"]pB29lyTZP0k[/youtube] CLICK to Buy The Juggernaut Jiu-Jitsu Physical Preparation Manual available at EliteFTS.com… Five Training Tips, Myths and Guidelines to Become a Nightmare on the Mat 1.  Improve Your Maximal Strength and Everything Improves- Increasing your maximal strength will have a positive benefit on your jumping, sprinting, pushing power and conditioning. Jiu Jitsu has [...]

Disclaimer: Any claim and recommendation that I make in this article is buttressed and developed out of the research that is cited in Explosive Nutrition Part I. In Part I we discussed that when it comes to performing well aerobically, explosively and mentally,  carbohydrates provide the fuel our bodies prefer, not fats.  When there is [...]