{"id":533,"date":"2018-11-09T03:20:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T03:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.njtraininggrounds.com\/bjj-in-nj\/?p=533"},"modified":"2023-04-10T09:39:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T09:39:45","slug":"the-most-important-factor-getting-better-at-jiu-jitsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.njtraininggrounds.com\/bjj-in-nj\/the-most-important-factor-getting-better-at-jiu-jitsu\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Important Factor in Getting Better At Jiu Jitsu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Personally, I&#8217;m always trying to figure out ways that I can get better at jiu jitsu. I&#8217;ve scoured the internet for tips on training, watched youtube for hours, and saved countless clips of technique to my hard drive (it&#8217;s actually stored on cloud, but hard drive has a better ring to it). Despite this, over the years I realized that all of this was just icing on the cake.<\/p>\n<p><em>Consistency\u00a0<\/em>was what really mattered.\u00a0The innovative techniques and training theory, interviews with top coaches and athletes, the sports psychology &#8212; all of it goes to waste if you don&#8217;t consistently get yourself jiu jitsu class and train. Why? Because unless you&#8217;re actually on the mats applying them, all of the best techniques, theories, and mindsets are just ideas in the mind.<\/p>\n<p>Thus we reach the following logical argument:<\/p>\n<p>Consistency = C<br \/>\nProgress = P<br \/>\n&#8220;+&#8221; = increase<br \/>\n&#8220;-&#8221; = decrease<\/p>\n<p>If C = P, then +C = +P, and -C = -P<\/p>\n<p>In other words, whatever adds a &#8220;+&#8221; to consistency (increases it) also boosts progress. On the other hand, whatever adds a &#8220;-&#8221; to consistency consequently limits progress.<\/p>\n<p>Top 5 Things that increase consistency<\/p>\n<p>Top 5 Things that limit consistency<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personally, I&#8217;m always trying to figure out ways that I can get better at jiu jitsu. I&#8217;ve scoured the internet for tips on training, watched youtube for hours, and saved countless clips of technique to my hard drive (it&#8217;s actually stored on cloud, but hard drive has a better ring to it). Despite this, over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[25,26,24,27,34,28,42,7,6,4,29,37,32],"class_list":{"0":"post-533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bjj-in-nj","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.njtraininggrounds.com\/bjj-in-nj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.njtraininggrounds.com\/bjj-in-nj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.njtraininggrounds.com\/bjj-in-nj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.njtraininggrounds.com\/bjj-in-nj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.njtraininggrounds.com\/bjj-in-nj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.njtraininggrounds.com\/bjj-in-nj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2519,"href":"https:\/\/www.njtraininggrounds.com\/bjj-in-nj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/2519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.njtraininggrounds.com\/bjj-in-nj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.njtraininggrounds.com\/bjj-in-nj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.njtraininggrounds.com\/bjj-in-nj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.njtraininggrounds.com\/bjj-in-nj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.njtraininggrounds.com\/bjj-in-nj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}