The Mental and Psychological Aspect of Conditioning

definitely and that's you know you touched on kind of the mental aspect of conditioning and that's definitely something i want to touch on at some point about that when i did the the joel jameson um 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 dictated by the steric effectors So the more stressed I am going into a match or going into a role the more likely I'm going to gas out really fast because I'm going to have a huge adrenaline, a huge adrenaline, what am I looking for? Dump, which is then going to make me shaky. I'm going to, I'm going to 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 technique's 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. Because 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 so much stuff that you kind of mentioned and there are a few things that i want to go back to and dig into um you mentioned about you sort of briefly just mentioned about the impacts of you know about um aerobic training on our mitochondria and this is something that we're hearing a lot more about lately is you know mitochondria being you know powerful for the cell and being so important for for health and fitness do you want to just touch on that a little bit because i know that was something that we spoke about a lot in the course and the impact of a good training regime one on mitochondria and how that can benefit our health yeah