Este es de Eric Wong, BSc, CSCS, MMA Performance Coach y me gusto mucho por el contenido sobre el elemento mental, clave para esforzarse más botar barreras y alcanzar nuevos niveles de desempeño, pónganle coco!
Your Most Powerful Weapon
Joe and I were working together preparing for his first MMA fight which is coming next month… He’s been training hard and he started training with me because he wanted to be 100% confident that he was in top shape going into this tournament… By doing so, he feels that whatever the outcome, he’ll be his best come fight night…Atta boy Joe!!
So we started the session off doing strength training and finished with some intervals on the Airdyne… if you don’t know what an Airdyne is, it looks like this: It’s an awesome tool for interval training because the harder you push, the more resistance is created since it’s driven by a fan…. plus it’s virtually indestructible… Anyway, this is NOT the most powerful weapon for MMA…
The most powerful weapon was revealed to me as Joe was in the middle of the 5th 60 second hard interval…
The interval started off like every other one, nice and strong, lots of power.
But about 20 seconds in, Joe cried, "My legs feel like Jello!"Right after he finished saying the ‘o’ in Jello, his speed dropped dramatically and it looked like all of the gas was sucked right out of his body with a shopvac. The rest of the interval was a bit of a drag, despite my coaching and cheesy motivational lines "Come on man, it’s all you!!" (just kidding, I don’t use ‘it’s all you’)
Once the hard interval was done, I asked Joe if he realized that right when he said "My legs feel like Jello" his speed completely dropped. He noticed it too and for the next and final hard interval, I coached him to get ready to give 100% for the entire minute and stay positive, only thinking about the next pedal stroke.
I told him to imagine that it was the last minute of the fight and push as if the title was yours if you just gave 100%.
Guess what? Joe killed the last interval. Absolutely KILLED it! It was his fastest one of the entire session! After he finished up, we sat around and talked about it, and it’s like a new skill was revealed to him (and me)… Now, he knows what he’s got to do to make sure he’s at the top of his game when it comes time to fight.
Here’s the truth about what it takes to be a champ in MMA: You don’t win the fight during the fight, you win the fight in all of the little battles you have with yourself, day in, day out.
If you can harness the power of your mind to be at your best everyday, you’ll go far. It’s making it to all of your training sessions instead of tapping out to some lame excuse…
It’s pushing yourself through grueling workouts even though you want to quit…
It’s eating properly and fighting the urge to pig out on junk…
It’s getting to bed on time instead of dicking around on the internet so you’re fully recovered for the next day of training…
And everything else that goes into being a champion. So I’m wondering, how are your day-to-day battles going? Are you winning, or are you losing?
Every choice you make is either getting you 1 step closer to your goals, or 1 step farther. So start making the choices that will get you closer to your goals today!
Your pal,
Eric Wong
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