Thank you for posting, brother!
And THANK YOU TO EVERYONE ELSE WHOS CONTINUED POSTING
And to be clear, I’m not currently training but yes, I was in all types of martial arts growing up until my 20’s, then took a big hiatus, got into solely BJJ/Grappling for a while then stopped because of covid and the shut downs but found another really good gym that has coaches who specialize in everything so I plan on attacking these hobbies full time again… Both striking and grappling..
Though I have absolutely zero desire to compete.. I’m 32, and although I have a “base” per se, it’s waaaayyyyy different starting up again, even with muscle memory and privates, at 32 and then having to compete with some 22 year old monster who’s been doing this shit since he was 5 who’s absolute dream is to be in the UFC or something like that lol
I’m not trying to be some kid’s lunch and be made of fool of..
Only way I would compete is if my coaches saw some type of phenom material and told me I had world champion level potential… Otherwise, I’m cool just training and learning with the best and being able to efficiently defend myself should a situation occur that I need to use it… That’s a different kind of power/confidence…
Knowing you have the skills to absolutely destroy a man across from you at your will, unless, of course, they themselves are a professional in the same skills, but usually MMA/Martial Arts guys are NOT the type of guys out there looking for trouble… It’s the insecure Beta males that are..
But let’s keep the “Performance Based” conversation going guys…
Very interesting to see what guys are doing on the performance side VS the “take as much as you can” for the bodybuilding side of things..