So I wanted some opinions about cardio related wrestling. I've wrestled in my high school days with some minor success, nothing near National champion level but enough to net me a partial scholarship to university. High school was years ago and since then I've tried other sports, mainly MMA and bjj.
Recently I've decided that I missed wrestling and wanted to get back into it and I've been fortunate enough to find a gym near my place. I've done bjj for a few years now and I feel that though bjj is my mistress, wrestling will always be the wife.
Today I went in for a trial lesson and long story short, I'm dying. Anyone that's wrestled before knows that it involves miles and miles of running to keep up your conditioning. To this day, I've never found anything quite like wrestling conditioning. Now, I don't want to turn this into a bjj vs wrestling thread but throughout the years that I've done bjj, I've never felt the need to do separate cardio, to avoid getting gassed. Now that I'm considering wrestling again, I feel, there's no way that I'll be able to perform at the level I want to, without some extra conditioning on my own.
Jiu-jitsu is tiring no doubt but I have never felt like I was going to die after a session,
but today, I honestly worried for a second, how I'd get home. Do you guys think I should start conditioning on the side or do you think I'll eventually be alright going 3 times a week?
I've dedicated 4 years of my life to wrestling and they were great years I look back upon fondly but it's the first time I've ever considered getting back into it as an adult. Wrestling gyms in general just aren't that common compared to MMA and bjj. I sincerely hope there isn't a separate wrestling thread I should've posted in, but if there is, please excuse me due to extreme fatigue.
Oh and just a side note but the instructor and I had a match and I know back in the day I would've given the guy a run for his money but he pretty much treated me with kid gloves today due to my gasping, dying breaths.
** Edit
Changed title from "wrestling cardio" to "wrestling conditioning" due to the fact that "wrestling cardio" sounds like "boxercise"
Recently I've decided that I missed wrestling and wanted to get back into it and I've been fortunate enough to find a gym near my place. I've done bjj for a few years now and I feel that though bjj is my mistress, wrestling will always be the wife.
Today I went in for a trial lesson and long story short, I'm dying. Anyone that's wrestled before knows that it involves miles and miles of running to keep up your conditioning. To this day, I've never found anything quite like wrestling conditioning. Now, I don't want to turn this into a bjj vs wrestling thread but throughout the years that I've done bjj, I've never felt the need to do separate cardio, to avoid getting gassed. Now that I'm considering wrestling again, I feel, there's no way that I'll be able to perform at the level I want to, without some extra conditioning on my own.
Jiu-jitsu is tiring no doubt but I have never felt like I was going to die after a session,
but today, I honestly worried for a second, how I'd get home. Do you guys think I should start conditioning on the side or do you think I'll eventually be alright going 3 times a week?
I've dedicated 4 years of my life to wrestling and they were great years I look back upon fondly but it's the first time I've ever considered getting back into it as an adult. Wrestling gyms in general just aren't that common compared to MMA and bjj. I sincerely hope there isn't a separate wrestling thread I should've posted in, but if there is, please excuse me due to extreme fatigue.
Oh and just a side note but the instructor and I had a match and I know back in the day I would've given the guy a run for his money but he pretty much treated me with kid gloves today due to my gasping, dying breaths.
** Edit
Changed title from "wrestling cardio" to "wrestling conditioning" due to the fact that "wrestling cardio" sounds like "boxercise"