Mitochondrial Health and Energy Production

so i mean this is where you're making the majority energy right through the mitochondria so if i have someone who is chronically stressed out over time if their metabolic flexibility is very low we get to a point where the mitochondria is not working as effectively as it should we're not oxidizing things as effectively as as we should once you stop oxidizing things effectively and if you think about that word oxidizing what element on the periodic table do you need to oxidize things you need oxygen so that that in and of itself should be a case of hey maybe i do want to do some aerobics because that's the one thing that gets more oxygen into my body and allows me to oxidize better the better my mitochondria work and the more mitochondria i have up to a point the more energy i can make faster and the more endurance i have as well as the more food i can eat because i can churn through that much better and then when you think about the majority of your fighters that you that you're in contact with how do they eat yeah it's yeah it varies but some of them not great some of them but often they're you know probably in a calorie deficit more often than not I think oh and they're in a massive calorie deficit I know guys I know guys that compete at the at the top levels that they're lucky to eat 1200 to 1800 calories a day. And it just blows my mind because I remember getting ready for my first tournament, I was eating five to 6000 calories a day because I was dropping weight too quickly. And so then I look at my competition coach and I'm going, how are you surviving on 1800 calories a day? And then I realized because I trained, I was training him at the time as well. Well, no wonder you're getting gassed out. No wonder you have all these injuries that won't heal, you're not feeding yourself enough, enough to make the stuff heal. So the first thing is if we work on that mitochondria, sorry, the dog just walked in. Right. If we're working on the mitochondria initially, we're going to have a lot more energy to perform and keep that performance higher over time because that really the that really the First you have to perform but then you have to keep that performance high over five minutes Or what if you in a super fight and it a 20 submission fight What happens if it gets past 10 minutes and you don't have the ability to manage the next 10 minutes? You're pretty screwed. So what we like to do is work on that aerobic base first, get the mitochondria functioning much better initially. then we can then to me you now deserve to do the higher level stuff now if you want to do hit training and you want to do all that that's great you can do all that but you can't a lot of people will start with the intense stuff before they've laid the foundation of the easy stuff first right so it's not and it sounds uh it sounds counterintuitive to take a step back and able to go forward. But, you know, there's also the saying in judo, slow and smooth, smooth is fast. Sometimes you have to slow things down, right, before you can make them fast. And the same thing with weight training as well. Why do we teach people to go with slow tempo weight training initially? It's to get very good at the exercise before you speed the exercise up. And so the same thing goes with the conditioning too. I need to lay down the machinery that's going to allow me to have the endurance and the recovery capacity to uh to perform at a high level which means that in a lot of cases i want to make sure that that anaerobic and aerobic side of my metabolism is balanced out okay so um you'll see a lot of the fighters are very anaerobically conditioned they're just not very aerobically conditioned right so we're