Strength & Conditioning for Combat Sports
Your technique might be sharp — but are you strong enough and fit enough to apply it? Gassing out in the third round, getting overpowered by stronger opponents, picking up niggles that won't shift? That's not a skill problem — it's an engine problem. I will help you build the strength, conditioning and resilience that keeps you on the mats: training harder, for longer, and actually progressing at your sport.
Let me show you how ↓
What wins rounds
Three things every combat athlete needs underneath their skills — and exactly what I build with you.
Stop getting out-muscled. Build the kind of strength that holds top pressure, breaks grips and lets you impose your game instead of surviving someone else's.
Finish every round at the intensity you started. Conditioning built around how combat sports actually tax you — not random cardio that leaves you flat on the mat.
Train more, miss less. Bulletproof the joints and tissue that take the most punishment, so niggles stop quietly stealing weeks off your training.
Train with me
From a tried and tested group program to fully personalised 1-1 coaching — there's a way in at every level.
The tried and tested group program — a complete strength & conditioning system that runs alongside your skills training.
A one-time block with no subscription. Three ways to split your week depending on how much time you've got to train.
Three months of strength programming built around you — your sport, your schedule and the weak points holding you back.
The complete package — personalised programming and nutrition with me in your corner for three months.
Fuel your training and recovery without the guesswork.
The strength, engine and durability behind grapplers competing — and winning — on the world stage.
The athletes I work with compete at
Real athletes, real results
The grapplers and competitors I work with — in their own words.
“Charles is one of the best trainers I’ve had the pleasure of working with.”
“The best.”
“Charles has a wealth of knowledge in helping you put on muscle mass, build strength and create sustainable results. He understands the game of jiu-jitsu and managing fatigue. He has helped me perform and compete at the highest level.”
“Great coach. Extremely knowledgeable and will push you to a new level. He recently helped me achieve a gold medal in the ADCC trials. Couldn’t recommend a coach more.”
“I used the Mat Strong program to boost my cardio between CJI and AIGA and noticed an improvement in my performance in training. This gave me the confidence to perform at my best at the competition. A huge thanks to Charles for helping me out.”
“After 2 years training under Charles’s program, I can honestly say that prioritizing strength and mastering the basics has been one of the biggest game changers of my career. At 37 years old, staying strong and sharp isn’t just improving performance — it’s helping me keep competing at the highest level and pushing retirement further away.”
“Training with Charles has helped me improve my athleticism tremendously. Through his guidance and programmes he’s allowed me to become a better BJJ competitor with sport-specific exercises, as well as educating me on nutrition — whether the goal is gaining muscle or cutting weight for an upcoming competition. His platform can help you regardless of whether you’re a hobbyist with not much gym experience or a professional athlete, with easy-to-follow programmes that take the stress off when you go to the gym instead of trying to figure out which exercises to perform. Would highly recommend.”
“I started training with Charles when I was 16, and he really made me realise the importance of lifting weights not just for getting stronger, but for injury prevention too. That’s so important whether you’re a professional athlete or just a hobbyist. At the end of the day, you want to stay healthy and injury-free so you can keep doing what you love. One of my favourite things is that I don’t have to think. I just turn up, put the work in, hit the numbers, and see the results. I’d highly recommend Charles to anyone looking to get stronger, stay healthy, and perform at their best.”
“Two years — that’s all it’s been, and the difference has been incredible. Charles’s strength coaching and the Mat Strong program have completely changed how I perform on the mats: real strength, better power and stability, and the physical edge to compete at my best. If you’re serious about getting stronger where it matters most, I can’t recommend Charles and the Mat Strong program enough.”
Meet your coach
I'm a strength and conditioning coach who works specifically with combat athletes. I've spent years on the mats and in the gym working out what actually carries over to grappling and fighting — and what's just wasted effort.
The strength, engine and durability I help you build is the same approach I've developed coaching everyone from hobbyists to competitors. My job is simple: keep you on the mat, make you harder to deal with, and make sure your body is never the reason you lose.
Have a question?
Once you buy, you get access through Fitr — the app I run all my programming through. Your sessions, video demos and tracking all live in one place, on your phone or laptop. You just open it up and train.
For the group programs, access to a standard gym (barbell, dumbbells, a rack) is ideal. If your setup is more limited, the personalised and 1-1 options can be built around exactly what you've got.
Yes — that's the entire point. Everything is designed to run alongside your skills training and leave you fresh enough to perform on the mat, not so smashed you have to skip class.
On the personalised and 1-1 options, yes — you get a direct line for form checks, questions and adjustments. The group programs include clear video guidance for every movement.
Absolutely. Start with Upper/Lower/Full or Mat Strong, follow the structure, and lean on the demos. Everything scales to your level — you don't need to be strong already to start.
Pick your program and start training like the athletes who never get out-worked.
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