Today during my weekly combatives training session I was feeling uncoordinated, like my strikes were weak and just not explosive, and I was connecting less with the controlled aggression.
Wheras last week my strikes were explosive, my controlled aggression was on par and I felt like I was just putting everything together well.
This might sound familiar, whether it’s with working out, or your own martial arts training or some other kind of physical endeavour. Some sessions you just smash it, everything flows perfectly, other sessions you feel uncoordinated, weak, tired and make all kinds of excuses and think about just skipping it.
When you’re thinking about skipping it, you have a choice to make. Think about if this is something you really want to do, why did you start it? Is the goal or developing the skill more important to you than this temporary tiredness, feeling sore, feelings of “I can’t be bothered” and wanting to make excuses?
If you took a session off every time this happened how many sessions would you miss in 3 months, in 6 months, in a year?
Of course you have to be intelligent about this and listen to your body, is it legitimately a good idea to take a day to just stretch and be gentle on your body? Or is this just some kind of ‘resistance’ or laziness or excuse creeping in? Alot of the time when I feel like this and I do it, I feel much better and i’m glad I did so.
What is the secret to dealing with this?
Yes, there is a big secret that has been around for millions of years, passed down from generation to generation, only known to secret societies of men who refused to share it until now under punishment of death! (or not, but it sounds exciting doesn’t it!).
This great secret is..
SHOW UP ANYWAY.
Yes, it might sound too simple.
If you can’t be fucked doing your martial arts training today, show up anyway! You might change the session with some gentler drills and work other things instead of going full on.
If you can’t be bothered doing your workout, show up anyway. Alot of the time you will find that everything is okay and you actually are able to do your normal workout. As I said learn to read whether you legitimately need to take it gently, or if it’s just making excuses.
How do you get results at the gym?
How do you get in shape?
How do you get good martial arts/combatives/self-protection skills?
By constantly and consistently showing up! Show up anyway even if you’re a bit tired or don’t really feel like it.
Don’t fall for the bullshit society is telling you constantly that is weakening men “oh just follow your feelings, if you don’t feel like it, don’t do it”.
Fuck that, no wonder so many men are out of shape, weak and don’t follow any kind of routine to get into shape or learn how to protect themselves and people they care about.
I’m not saying i’m in amazing shape, i’m struggling getting back to where I was, but i’m still doing it consistently!
I’m not saying that i’m some kind of ninja, but i’ve developed a good baseline of my combatives skills and am showing up consistently. After 10 months of not having a training partner I am building it up again. My fitness and ability is improving again.
If I didn’t show up, because of bullshit excuses or going with “how I feel” because society gave me that bullshit advice, I would have missed todays session, and sometimes other sessions, then by the time you know it you miss another session, and another session and you aren’t getting the same amount of development because you aren’t consistent.
So…
SHOW UP ANYWAY!
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