The Mental and Psychological Aspects of Conditioning

Definitely. And that's, you know, you touched on kind of the mental aspects of conditioning and that's definitely something I want to touch on at some point about that. When I did the Joel Jameson certification they spoke about that you know the different components of conditioning and the mental side of it was super interesting how we can literally use use up physical energy that we can use on physical performance just kind of worrying and not going into a combat situation in the right mindsets definitely something super interesting absolutely because look all of these things are going to be they going to be dictated by asterisk effectors so the more stressed I am going into a match or going into a role the more likely I gonna gas out really fast because I'm gonna have a huge adrenaline a huge adrenaline um um I'm looking for dump which is then going to make me shaky I'm gonna I'm gonna screw up my bioenergetics I'm not going to be able to compete very long. I found that out. And the thing is, I know all this stuff, right? And then but nothing prepares you for your very first match at a competition. And I remember, I was fighting a guy, it was my first fight ever at a tournament, it was his first fight ever. I walked up, he's probably, we're about the same age, he was a bit more weathered than me. You could tell that he didn't take care of himself. And I just saw the fear in his eyes when I walked up because I walked up, I was shredded and jacked. And he's looking at me like, Oh my god, I got to fight this guy. And I'm looking at him thinking, fuck, it doesn't really matter how jacked and shredded you are. This guy's techniques better than mine. He's going to choke me out in 30 seconds. And the minute I got him on the ground, I could tell like, Oh, this is not going to go well for him. He is not ready and not conditioned for this. So kind of the start of the fight, everything was going well for me until about three and a half minutes in when I realized I'm holding him too hard and I'm working too hard. And I remember I had his back and I had my hooks in and I'm, I'm reaching across trying to grab his lapel. And I just realized I can't, I can't flex or extend my arm and my hands don't work anymore. Yeah. And I got real shaky and I, and I'm like, I don't understand like my brain is telling my arm to go across his neck and I can't actually get my arm to go there. And my elbows started to seize up. Then my adductor started to seize up and I went, okay, this is what my coach was talking about when he says I need to relax, you know, because that, that, that mental side, your brain's going to control everything in the peripheral system. And if your brain feels like it's in a threatened state, especially in combat, it's going to overreact and it's going to then push out too much adrenaline and things which is going to exhaust you much faster and make you cramp a lot faster okay