The Strenuous Life Podcast With Stephan Kesting / Grapplearts Radio

Peter Drucker, the godfather of modern business management, once said, “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” Now I don’t think that Peter Drucker did Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (or any other form of martial arts) but the idea of measuring things in order to improve them applies to every field of athletic endeavour. So let’s look at some concrete ways that we might quantify our training and improve the results we are getting… Quantifying Your Nutrition Nutrition is a fairly complex field but there are certain tenets that most thoughtful people agree on. For example, almost everyone agrees that you should drink enough water but not too much water. But most athletes still drink way less water than they should be. For me the problem is even worse… I’m a kidney transplant recipient which means I only have one kidney that needs to remain well-flushed.  Furthermore I exercise a lot which means that I’m sweating out a lot of fluid. To stay well hydrated I have to drink about 4 to 5 litres of water a day, which is rough