The Josh Button Podcast

What if the most important stories in jiu-jitsu are the ones nobody is telling? Professor Kenny Kim — @KennyKimBJJ, Kenny Kim Academy Marietta GA, creator of Mat Made, author of The Jiu-Jitsu Millionaire, president of...

What actually separates the gyms producing ADCC and PGF athletes from everyone else? Sean Applegate — head coach of 10th Planet Atlanta and PGF Twisters, 10th Planet black belt — built his room from nothing in South...

If you're doing BJJ over 40 and still competing — or want to — and you've ever wondered what it looks like to accumulate 58 IBJJF gold medals, two Masters World titles, and over 400 matches while also running...

If you've been doing the sunrise, the grounding, the cold plunge, the sauna, and the fasting — and you want to understand what's actually happening in the biology underneath those practices — this episode is the bridge...

If you're doing BJJ over 40 and wondering whether there's a smarter way to train that protects your body, keeps you dangerous, and lets you still be on the mat at 79 — this episode is the blueprint. Coach Manny Alonso...

If you're doing BJJ over 40 and wondering whether it's too late to build something real — on the mats or off them — this episode is proof it isn't. Mike Stewart Jr. opened Rising Tide Martial Arts as a white belt with...

If you're doing BJJ over 40 and wondering what it looks like when a two-time world champion gi and no-gi approaches 50 with the same tenacity he brought to his first world title — this is the episode. No coasting, no...

If you're doing BJJ over 40 and wondering how a 46-year-old black belt trains six days a week, competes in adult divisions against athletes half his age, and posts a resting heart rate of 45 BPM at competition prep —...

If you're doing BJJ over 40 while working a full job and raising a family — and you're trying to figure out how to stay on the mats without burning out, burning bridges at home, or burning through your body — this is...

A purple belt physical therapist who started BJJ at 28 and a ten-year black belt who became a PT to fix himself walk into the same gym and build the resource that should exist for every midlife grappler who has ever...

He has six herniated discs. No ACLs. Arthritic hands and fingers that are now permanently deformed. And he loves jiu-jitsu. Professor Jay Pages — founder of one of Arizona's premier no-gi academies and a black belt...

If you're training BJJ over 40 and still treating weight as your primary measure of strength progress — this conversation will change how you think about every session.Dr. Lyneil Mitchell DPT returns for part two to...

Most midlife athletes aren't getting hurt because they're training too hard. They're getting hurt because nobody taught them the one question that determines whether a training session builds you or slowly destroys...

He started jiu-jitsu in 2006 when a 120-pound woman in a Hawaiian shopping center handed him his wrestling credentials back. He went home and trained harder. Two decades later, he's a BJJ black belt under Gustavo...

Sick care is not the same as healthcare. Kristin Oja, DNP — founder of STAT Wellness and the first person in the US to build a gym inside a functional medicine practice — joins Josh Button to break down what root cause...