Bulletproof For BJJ Podcast
Discussions on improving your BJJ, navigating mat-politics and all aspects of the jiu jitsu lifestyle. Multiple weekly episodes for grapplers of any level. Hosted by JT and Joey - Australian jiu jitsu black belts, strength coaches, and creators of Bulletproof For BJJ App. Based out of Sydney, Australia
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Somedays Porrada: The 5 Keys To BJJ Longevity
We talk about the Somedays Porrada lifestyle and you may have even gotten a shirt repping our mantra. In this episode we give you the framework to live this lifestyle and make your BJJ journey one of longevity and prosperity. Try out these principles and let us know how you go, and comment below if you think we missed anything.
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Speaker 2:You go ham on the mats and you know it's not sustainable and you're on a collision course. You've heard about our someday's poor heart of principle and a part of that speaks to you, but you're not sure how to implement it. Today we are going to explain the five things you need to do to live the some days poor, harder lifestyle.
Speaker 1:Yes, indeed, it's pretty important, guys. I mean that is the thing. Joe's right in saying that we love jujitsu. We go as hard as we can, but you know that you are on a runaway freight train to fucking disaster. How do we avoid it? How do we stay in the game? How can we get this thing working for us? And step number one, super important friends, I mean we're going to save the best to last, but stay with us for the journey. Step number one BJJ. Now talk to me, joe, you've you mentioned this to me and I thought, oh, that sounds very good. 50% high, 50% low. What does this mean, joe?
Speaker 2:So we're talking about intensity here, and some of you are training two days a week. Some of you are training nine days a week. Essentially, you want to do half of your training sessions at a lower intensity, half at a higher intensity. But, joe, I like to go hard all the time. Right, and we all do, and this is the culture and this is what poor harder is, and this is a beautiful thing, and only jiu-jitsu lets you do that.
Speaker 2:However, when you go hard day in, day out, every fucking session. One, it slows down your technical development of jiu, as we know. But two, it exposes you to a greater injury risk than is necessary, and for a lot of people, that is the kind of that is a nail in the coffin, right, over time consists. I go super hard and it's like you look at your older training partners and like they're a dying breed, right, like they reach up and then they start disappearing, or even younger ones. It's not actually an age thing, but it's usually. People can only go hard all the time for a certain period of time, and when you look at the folks who are in the game for a long time, they usually have some kind of they reflect kind of what we're getting at today, some kind of method around staying training as long and as best as you can.
Speaker 1:So when you say 50% high, 50% low, what does that actually look like in a week? For someone who trains three, maybe four times a week.
Speaker 2:Let's go four, because it's a nice even split, and I'll explain how you do this for three, but that would mean two sessions at low intensity. What would be a low intensity session? That would be avoiding roles with people that you know light the fire inside you, right, so I wouldn't train with you on those days, right? Be like, yep, no, I'll save that for next week you know, later in the week.
Speaker 2:But it also might be changing the nature of your role, so it might be starting in a certain position at every like restart, right. So I'm just going to do positional stuff. Today I'm going to get every opponent to start on my back and I'm just going to work on my back defense, as we've spoken about in other episodes. But when you do positional sparring, you you are closing in the amount of variability in what can happen, and that's a really good opportunity to shine a spotlight on a specific aspect of your game.
Speaker 2:But it also is a great way to take away a lot of the chaos that can come from freestyle rolling. And so if you just do positional sparring with every training partner in that session let's say you do four rounds at the end of your class you still get a really hard session. Like don't get me wrong, you're working, they're still working, but you walk away from that session usually not feeling like you just went to hell and back Obliterated. Yeah, I mean, maybe, you know, maybe maybe you got choked a bunch of times because they were starting on you, right, sure, but it's like a controlled chaos.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So that to me would be a low intensity thing. Or another option could be let's say you are the 52-year-old brown belt and you do the comp class and you love that, but you're like fuck this. Like 60 minutes of rolling is getting too intense for me. I would be an advocate, if you are wishing to live the some days poor hearted lifestyle and adhere to the 50-50, maybe sit around out every other round or every two, do two and then rest one, but it's basically reducing the total intensity of the training in that session.
Speaker 1:I think the difficulty of what you're saying, joe and you know you might relate to this is that when you are not not a black belt or you're not a coach or anything like that, your coach is watching and so the expectation of the coach kind of can weigh on you a little bit. You know, like I think we've all felt that way. We're like fuck coach is watching, like do that, take down, he showed. Or fuck coach watching, don't get swept. You know, like it's so important, like it's funny, how important it is to somehow meet some invisible expectation, satisfy the leader.
Speaker 1:When your coach is maybe not even giving a shit. They're just kind of glancing across and you're like the eye of Sauron is on me. You know like it's maybe not like that. So I think the difficulty for people with the idea of doing reduced intensities or sitting rounds off. They feel like maybe they're letting the coach down or whatever like that.
Speaker 2:I think that's absolutely true. I reckon, and of course, yeah, like it's a bit of a privilege at our stage because we're very confident in how we manage ourselves at training and we're not, we got not like not, you know like no qualms.
Speaker 1:And being like I'm not doing this round, that's right. And and feeling like like someone's going to judge us or who gives a shit, right, yeah?
Speaker 2:But so in that regard if I you know, I'm thinking for the, for the newer person that doesn't feel that um, it would be about having a conversation with your coach before the session and be like hey, look, I'm fucking really digging this, but I'm actually going to try and go a couple of days lower intensity. So what I wanted to do is X and assuming your coach is a moderately understandable human or understanding human, they'll be like okay, yeah, I can dig that. So just letting them know, because otherwise coach would be like hey, why are you sitting out? Sure, because they're there, right, they want to make sure you get a good session. And sometimes people do sit out and they need someone to say hey, you should do this round, like you look fine. So I think if you've pre-framed it with them and then it's like everyone knows what's going on, then it's fine, and what's a high intensity day?
Speaker 2:look like joe so high intensity is where you can just go balls to the wall. That's where it's like go with the fucking person that lights the fire like, do the hard rounds. Um, you know, you've basically got license there to do whatever you want, flying leg scissor on every white belt you know what I mean? It's just like I'm hitting khani basamis exclusively to cannot conduct. I'm jumping close guard on everyone.
Speaker 1:Yeah, regardless of weight, class. Who's?
Speaker 2:the trial guy? Where's the trial guy at? I gotta try this new jumping technique. No, I'm only kidding with that, but but you know, within, within the uh, within the, because this is rolling right where it's.
Speaker 1:It's live training, so go as live as you want, yeah I think I think, just as a as a side note on that, you can actually go really hard in specific training.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, you know, like one of the hardest drills that we used to have to do whether it be um at jujitsu, in the pro class or even in MMA, when I was training for MMA was you're on the single leg and the person just has to fight out of the single leg, oh yeah, and you've got to complete, finish it, and you're not allowed to change.
Speaker 1:Like you know, like typically, if a single leg's failing, you can switch to different takedowns, but it's like no, you have to complete on and they're working your fucking face and just you're like, oh God, and just three minutes of just you. You know, if they get out or you take them down, you stand back up, you do the same fucking thing. Dude, just a three minute round of that is very tough. So I think if you're out there and you're thinking, man, we only ever get two rounds of rolling at my gym, like that's just the class format, unless we do open mat or unless we do comp class format, unless we do open mat or unless we do comp class, I think you can still have a really high intensity class without necessarily having heaps of rounds of rolling. It just depends on, like, how hard is the specific training?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'd agree, and for sure anytime you're doing takedown related stuff that cooks you.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know, I suppose the the the sort of side note on this discussion is that, like if you train the classic morning class, where it's like I suppose the sort of side note on this discussion is that, like if you train the classic morning class, where it's like it's the quick pre-work, one hour session, maybe there's two rounds at the end, and you do that three times a week. You might not need to heat any of this because you might be like no, I'll wake up fine, because you got the whole day to recover and then that night. But I do think for people who train evenings, where it is often a longer session maybe it's 90 minutes, maybe you're doing 30 minutes of rolling.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And then you're going to try to go straight to bed, waking up the next morning feeling a bit cooked. I think this is a thing, really for those folks Like if you feel like you are on this runaway freight chain, as you said, then heed this message. If you're like no, I feel good, Then as you were, sir.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I feel great. You just fucking ripping the seats out and throwing them in the fire of the train.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Fuck yeah, I'm on fire, bro. So 50% high, 50% low, very nice. Number two honest self-evaluation. Now, this is.
Speaker 2:This is very challenging, and we were talking we're talking a few different things about knowing where you're at on a given day yeah, I think, um, if you have a process of journaling, say as we do I mean, I I don't actually address this in my journaling, but but you know you could have a thing there. That's like you know, how recovered are you today? And we spoke about, like, um, a lot of athletes and bodybuilders and whatnot who have used this right. They would ask themselves in the morning, like, how are you feeling? And it's like, uh, dorian Yates was famous for it. It was like a certain score out of five, it was a three or less. He's like, well, that means I'm having a light day today or I'm doing half sets or whatever. If it was a four or five, I'm going balls to the wall.
Speaker 2:Yeah, now, I just think it's important for people to ask themselves that question as they're going into the session. So, let's say you're in the car on the way to training and then and you're like, oh, how am I actually feeling today? You will usually have a gauge on. I'm actually feeling cooked, like I'm really tired today, or I had a shit sleep, or I went to the gym last night and I feel fatigued, or like I'm feeling pretty good today. You know, and that could be the guide on how you approach the session, so you might feel like shit and you're like well, today's a low-intensity session.
Speaker 1:Okay. So what if you friend and me we're feeling like shit pretty much every day? Does that mean every session is a low intensity session?
Speaker 2:well, I would think yes, but more pertinent would be to then ask well, what is it that I'm doing? That's that's keeping me showing up feeling like shit all the time, like where am I fucking up? And that's keeping me showing up feeling like shit all the time, like where am I fucking up? And that's like what's my sleep, like what's my workout? You know what am I? What fucking? Am I drinking alcohol before I go to bed? Am I watching TV late? Blah, blah, blah. All this stuff. We talk about that a lot.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But I think that's yeah. It's like, and you're not going to be able to keep this up for long.
Speaker 1:And the honest self-evaluation has to go beyond just how am I feeling now. It's like, what am I doing that is leading me to feel this way?
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's right and I would say for most people you should be feeling pretty fresh. Monday to Wednesday. It's like you've hopefully got a little bit of rest over the weekend. You've had a slightly longer sleep than maybe you do during the week. Of course, you know weekend workers, shift workers and stuff excluded from this, but, um, but for most folks who are doing the bulk of their work during the week, um, it's usually once you've accumulated a few days of training, that Thursday, friday this week, you're going to start to feel a bit more fatigue. So if you're showing up to a session on a Tuesday night and you're like I'm cooked, there's a problem.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that should really be kind of peak. Yeah, you should be feeling pretty good at that time.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And it's understandable. We all get to a point in the week where life and jiu-jitsu has taken a certain amount of energy and we're working with less optimal circumstances. But I mean even myself, like I had said to Dan who helped me with my strongman training he always wanted me to do deadlifts on Friday. I'm like dude, I've already done three sessions, I might've rolled ones Like I'm fucked on Friday, like, even though it's good for the team. You know, like everyone, big big deadlift.
Speaker 1:Friday, like, yeah, everyone gets G'd up and does big deadlifts. I'm like that's the worst time for me to do deadlifts. I mean, yeah, I can show up and try, but I know that that's wrong for me. And so it's taken me a little while to like just keep chipping away at him. And he's like, all right, do you deadlifts on Tuesday?
Speaker 2:And I'm like, fuck, yes, that's what I fucking need, bro, we'll just play a little video of you deadlifting on the Friday night in the corner. Yeah, everyone feels like you're part of the team.
Speaker 1:No, I do my squats on Friday, which is now acceptable you know, so that's like less taxing then?
Speaker 1:Well, no, squatting isn't less taxing, it's just. It's not the priority lift, that's not the to get better at right. The thing that I have to push and really drive myself with is my deadlift right now. So, because that's a focus, I bring that in earlier in the week. Smart, and this could be relate to your jujitsu, say, comp classes on friday night. This is a very common thing, is it? Yeah, yeah, I mean depending on what gym you go to, but I've been to a number of gyms. They're like yeah, we have like a real barn burner of like rounds on a fr night.
Speaker 2:You're like okay, I guess I don't know, guys, yeah.
Speaker 1:I feel that really with any athlete that I work with or it doesn't matter if you're an athlete or not anyone who I'm giving advice to about training I always say try to have your heaviest jujitsu session and your hardest rolling somehow in the first half of the week.
Speaker 2:Yeah and your hardest rolling somehow in the first half of the week, yeah, and then you can kind of moderate it from there. And I mean, I think a lot of people like to really light shit up on a Saturday mid-morning open, matt, sure, and that's great, you know, because you usually got the rest of the day and the next day, sunday yeah. But I mean I feel that right. Yeah, you wake up on a Saturday.
Speaker 1:Even when you you're going to train at 10 30. Yeah, you're kind of sluggish, yeah, like you've usually woken up a bit later. Anyway, you know not to get caught up all to the side. But yeah, the honest self-evaluation you shouldn't, even though I think jujitsu teaches us a lot about toughness and just continuing on having an honest stop and think to yourself before you walk into training, like where am I at today? Just taking that little bit of time allows you to train more appropriately. Yeah.
Speaker 2:And that actually raises a good point, which is that, like, a lot of people will be hearing this and be like fuck that, like that sounds weak as and yes, that's what I would have thought too when I was 26 in a blue belt. You know what I mean and it's just like, nah, no, I can't, I'm getting after it. But the reality is, most people get forced out of the game after a couple of years. Yeah, right, and so this is. While this might, in the moment, be, you might see it as taking something away from your enjoyment of jiu-jitsu. It's actually giving you this entire longer lifespan in the game, which is way more than just, oh, I, I go hard every night.
Speaker 1:Well, I think this is also another thing, which I've mentioned it before, which is a really good lesson I got from my old Russian coach at FIM shout out, there's a difference between training and testing. And look, training is the process of. Some days are a bit easier, some days are a bit harder, but you're working it towards the ultimate goal of getting better and your test might be a competition or your test might be grading or whatever it is, but the testing comes later, because if you test right now, what you know is you're not as fit or you're not as strong, or you're not as good at jujitsu as you want to be. Therefore, you must endure these ups and downs of training in a sustained way to get better, to then test better where you know improved improved performance.
Speaker 1:So I think the problem is and don't get me wrong, I'm the kind of person who loves to fucking send everything. I know absolutely in my gut, on a very deep level, that that is not how you get better, even though I crave the fucking excitement of it. Yeah, and that's the difficulty. I think the juggle now number three. Now, this is something, um, it's uh, it's interesting because it's something joe's mentioned before and I I haven't adhered to this at all which is the uh, selective with your roles. It's like a selfish self-preservation. Can you speak on this show?
Speaker 2:yeah, so um, the prevailing culture in jujitsu is that you are just obliged to roll with whoever right idgfa brawl fight king kong yeah, and it's like whoever makes eye contact first and says you want to roll, man and and like that, that's great and you need to be kind of, you know you need to be a part of that Um, but there is a point where you need to be selfish about who you roll with.
Speaker 2:Now, when I say selfish, I don't mean that you should completely disregard rolling with the person who's doing a trial class, or perhaps rolling with a teammate that is 40 kilos lighter than you, that you know you could just crush, you know, if you want it, because you have an obligation as a teammate to contribute to other people's training, right, but I'm talking more about being selective with the people that you know could be problematic for you. And so again, kind of to the first point, when you know there's that person that really riles you up, that sort of pulls you, it just always turns into chaos and maybe it gets emotional when you roll with them, maybe you fucking see red and bodies at the floor, you know. And then you wake up and you just got choked out. Um, but like, but you know, when it's those, that person, you're like, oh, it's low intensity day, not today, yeah, and I always found like those people usually feel the same about you and there's often and we've spoken about this, like you often will have that kind of.
Speaker 2:You'll both acknowledge your ignorance of one another this evening.
Speaker 1:Right, like you'll kind of see each other and then you'll both separate ends of the room.
Speaker 2:Not choose to roll with each other. Yeah, and it's kind of like, you know, that thing that happens in the uh in uh, where, like in the, in the plains in africa, like serengeti and whatnot you see it in the nature, docos I've never been there, um, but where, like, there'll be like a herd of fucking zebras and then there'll be, um, you know, some lions, and the lions will be like threatening the zebras and the zebras will do like I don't know if it's zebras that do this, or like antelopes or some shit, but they'll do some kind of like funny postural little dance thing. And what it is is it's basically sending a, it's sending a message to the, to the lions that like, hey, I'm pretty fit, I'm feeling pretty springy. If you want to try and cover that 150 meter distance, I'm probably going to get away, so it's not even worth trying.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And, the and and the lines like yeah, nah, let's fucking go get someone else, and it's like we both agreed to set it like to not go into the fire In any case. I think that's really important, and so to do that, you have to be okay with being a bit selfish.
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Speaker 1:And it also takes like a little bit of courage in yourself to turn someone down if they call you to roll and you know that it's kind of like your gym nemesis or it's a hard roll, and it because no one wants to feel like a coward or no one wants to feel like they didn't rise to the challenge or whatever it is right, like we all have a degree of ego or pride, regardless, like I.
Speaker 1:I know there's been moments. Ben Hodgkinson and I have had so many wars right, and when we were at South Yarra gym, when it was absolute South Yarra before it became St Kilda, he was just like my main training partner. It was like him and Craig Lockie and a couple of other guys. But we'd always end up together and there was definite times where he didn't want to roll with me because he would just avoid my guy. I'd walk, I'd walk over to him he's sitting on the wall and I would go to be like, oh, you want to write? He just would not look me in the face, right. And there was definite times where he would be like like looking for me and I'm just like I just, I, just, I just go hey, hey, zach, amen, do you want to roll like?
Speaker 1:just who's that gay man? Uh, zach was the commentator on the cji trials. He called him the c? G. I try, oh wow, he's a wild man. Anyway, I shout out zach, he's a funny guy, but he's a smaller, not as frightening human as uh hodge hodge. And there were also times where you're talking, we would both look the other way. Yeah, you know, like because we were, we both, either for injury reasons or energy reasons. It just wasn't the time, yeah. But then there was also times when we both lock in and be like you want a role mate? Sure sounds great. I've been waiting for you to come, you know you.
Speaker 2:I think it's totally fine to openly acknowledge that with someone and be like brother not today. I can't go into the fire with you today and people take that as fuck. Yeah, like he didn't want to roll me cause I'm a tough role and so that's great. It's not. It's respectful.
Speaker 2:It's respectful and you're not sending the wrong message, right? Um, I do also like there's. I've encountered people over the years who are just kind of injury machines, oh my God. And usually with them like I don't feel the need to explain anything, I'm just like no, thanks, no, you know. No, I'm good, I'm going to rest this one, I'm going to go so-and-so, and, of course, when you're brand new, you're probably not going to feel confident to say that and you're not going to the lay of the land, you don't know who these people are. But your job is to get the read on the different characters in your, in your team and start to make those kind of you have those little invisible labels real.
Speaker 1:Okay, not that guy injury machine yeah, yeah, yeah, there was a guy, uh, arno. For anyone who used to train at cbd, they know who this guy is. Arno always had like knee, braces, wrist. He was always strapped up. He looked the most injured out of everyone, right, but he actually was the injury machine. He would spend 10 minutes telling you oh man, my wrist's bad, my knee, my fucking neck, and you're like. So it puts you in this mindset of like, oh man, really I'm sorry, yeah, so you don't roll hard.
Speaker 1:Let's start chill, and then you just bam, and you're like, oh God, fucking Arno, this guy. Oh no, oh no. It's like man, fuck that guy. Shout out, fuck you, arno. If you ever see this, you prick. No, he was really into hurting people.
Speaker 2:Yeah right, he was really there for it, and Arno went on to create a brand called Anaconda, highly successful.
Speaker 1:He called anaconda. Highly successful. He probably did um. So let's go to number four. Number four injury is part of the game, and this is something which we are not accepting. No, not me, it'll never happen to me. Talk, talk to us about this, joe yeah.
Speaker 2:So acceptance is the key thing here and it's it's it's injury, but it's also time off, and that there are going to be things that happen in your life or within jiu-jitsu that force you to take time off training. You know, it might be like I don't know, the fucking birth of your child and you know your wife needs extra help around the house and you know, or your husband needs extra. You know, whatever the fuck, it is right, a significant life happening. Yeah, something goes on and you can't train, and um, understanding that, because it's often when you try and force it, during those periods where you can fuck yourself up, and particularly if injury, if injury occurs right, and you're like, oh, I took a couple of days off and then got back in. It's like no, you came back too early.
Speaker 2:I think if you can accept that it's going to happen and that if you're going to do this thing for 10 years, 20 years, there will be so many times in your life that you will be off the mats for whatever reason, if you can be okay with that and just manage yourself well off the mats and let that time play out for whatever it needs to, that's going to keep you in good stead, then, to stay on the path yeah but if you're always trying to force your way back in under unideal circumstances and then getting hurt again or pissing off your partner, you know, or whatever the fuck you're cutting or ruining the holiday because I thought it was just us, but you've gone to visit the fucking Ralph Gracie Academy down the road.
Speaker 1:Hey babe, we've got this really nice getaway for us. We're going to Byron Bay. Oh, by the way, the Meow Brothers are having a seminar at the academy I booked in two privates with Taliesin. If you could just record for us, if you could just get our footage of our private lesson.
Speaker 2:I'm going to need you to mix the assay for when I get back to the cabana. But the but yeah. So you know, like it's an, it's there's an immaturity in, in, in not accepting the time off, yeah, and you pay a price for that I.
Speaker 1:I actually had done something similar actually with taekwondo. I pretty much completely torn my mcl and I had to have a leg brace. I had crutches. I Basically physio said if you do this wrong you're going to have to have knee surgery, like you're going to have to have it reattached, but right now it's hanging on by a thread. So I did what I thought was right in terms of that and I did get in, but I got a fucking impatient. It was actually doing my fucking head in because I'd gone from training twice a day at gym, everything just wanting to be the best, to now I can't walk. The impatience wasn't actually going back to Taekwondo early, it was that I tried to do something else because I was going a bit stir crazy and I decided I was just going to play a bit of pickup basketball, of course, because it's not that demanding.
Speaker 1:I just got out the brace and I was like, oh, it's not sore's not that demanding. I just got out the brace and I was like, oh, it's not sore, it's kind of a bit felt a bit wobbly, like almost a little bit unstable, but I was like I'm just jogging around, you know, mate, went up for a rebound, came down, stood on someone's foot and like rolled my knee in and felt like, and I was like why? And then I went back and and the physio's like what have you fucking done? Like you you've gone three months and you're kind of back to square one. And I will always remember that, because it took me that same bullshit of the leg brace, the crutches, another three months, again, again, and that is, you can't get that time back. And that was just like you say, it's kind of immature, because I just refused to accept that I'm not there yet.
Speaker 2:Fuck yeah, that's that's got to hurt, oh Jesus. I mean and you hopefully made that mistake once. No, no, Well, I did it to myself right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's the way I got, no one else to blame, it was on me, but it was a tough lesson to learn. And so this is where we get to something which is something you've probably never heard of or you're not thinking about with your jiu-jitsu, which is, I think, one of the most important things in terms of the some days poor harder which is life load management. Let's talk about this, joe, because this is something that's not talked about in jujitsu.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so you have, um, a bunch of different roles in your life and you could look at these different roles. Let's say you have your career, you have your family, you know whatever like home life, maybe. You know, maybe you've got a role to play with your, your parents or your siblings or something like that. You know, maybe you work at a fucking soup kitchen and that's a thing. But you have these competing obligations, right? These things are competing for your time and energy and you only have so much time and energy in a given week.
Speaker 2:And so there is an organic balance of sorts, when everything's kind of floating along at a pretty even keel. But as soon as something gets busier let's say work asks you to cover a couple of extra shifts this week, or let's say you have a newborn now in the house, or let's say your fucking car breaks down right, whatever it is, maybe you've got a holiday coming up, or it's a long weekend or some shit All of a sudden it's going to throw the other things out of balance, and we all feel this, right, it's like we just had a run of public holidays here in Sydney or in Australia and it actually fucks you up. It throws the rhythm of life out? Yeah, cause you got like this these two short weeks and you know, you kind of take a little bit of time off and then you're like, well, I've actually got extra work to do, but in less time. So, yeah, your routine's sort of out of whack.
Speaker 2:But the point here is that when other things happen outside of the mats, they're going to affect your ability to be on the mats yeah definitely, um, and I think that like we've like we've spoken about people like it's really good to just try and keep your routine, like that's an important discipline to have, but you also have to be aware when something starts competing harder for your time and energy, you have to make allowances for that.
Speaker 1:Definitely yeah. And and here's something like so I I got this from, uh, paul, check, actually it's. It talks about physiological load that someone coming to you, if you're a trainer, and you're looking at them when you ask them more detailed questions about the stress on their bodies, they may already be carrying 50 kilos of physiological load before you put the bar on their back. So even though they tell you, hey, I can squat 100 kilos because of the amount of time they spend sitting down, the physical work they did on the weekend, all this stuff that you could put 50 kilos on their back and that's going to feel like 100 kilos because of all these other factors.
Speaker 1:And we all know it right, like it doesn't matter if it's tax time, christmas, something where your life outside of jujitsu is loading you up with stress. You've got a presentation for the boss, you've got to manage staff because you got promoted to manager, whatever the bloody hell it is, you're like I feel shit when I get to jujitsu. I just can't. Why am I not? What's wrong with me when I go to jujitsu?
Speaker 1:It's because we can acknowledge that there's busyness and stress and stuff in life, but we somehow forget that that can impact our jujitsu and we expect that every time we go we're going to be better or find a way to improve. And yeah, in ways you could improve technically. But if you're exhausted because you've been up all night with a crying baby, it will be hard for you to learn the lesson and it will be hard for you to perform. So you do have to factor in these other parts as really having a positive or negative effect on your jiu-jitsu. Because that's the thing when you've got less on you can obviously sleep better, train more, all this stuff, but when you've more on it it's got to be considered as part of the things.
Speaker 2:That's right and I think that you know most folks could probably like vibe with. When things get busier in life, probably their jujitsu tends to drop off a bit. Right, it's often our training is often one of the first things on the chopping block that we do sort of subconsciously, and so that is. You know, life has a way of maintaining a balance there. But it's often during those times when you try to force it that you can run into a bad situation. Here's an example.
Speaker 2:Let's say you've picked up an extra couple of shifts at work. It's a really busy work week and you're like, no, I'm still going to get to the gym. But you find that you're kind of hustling all week. You're rushing, you jump in the car trying to fly to training, blah, blah, you're running a little bit late to get there. You skip the normal warmup that you typically do. You jump into the session Like okay, maybe it's fine once, maybe it's fine twice, but if this is something that you're doing chronically, you're not sleeping particularly well. Your meal timings are also out a bit this week because you're fucking hectic and you didn't have time to prep on the weekend. All of a sudden you've now got like eight or ten or a fucking 50 contributing sort of factors that are making it you're in a more injurious environment now hanging above you like a boulder.
Speaker 2:That's right, it's going to smash you and so it's like whatever short term, usually not a big deal. But for some of us this is the nature of life, right, like it's up and down in terms of the obligations that we have and the time and stuff. So if you find that you're always grinding in that way and like pushing and just sort of hanging on by a thread, maybe heeding that message and just going all right, well, I'm going to apply a similar kind of up and down or like peaks and troughs to my training approach.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and the big challenge here is actually tracking it, like keeping track of it. In the same way, you might have a calendar, google calendar, whatever you, whatever you put your meetings in there or you put your jobs in there that you're trying to manage for your business. Factor in that things often cost you a bit more than you expect, whatever that is, even having family over. You've got family around for the holidays or for some special event. Family around for the holidays or for some special event. I love my family. They're great, but I do find, after a certain amount of time spent with them, it goes from being like rewarding to being stressful, and that takes a toll on your energy and running around and doing things on behalf of others, even though it feels good because you're helping people, people that can leave you with a lower charge. So therefore, for you to expect that you can walk into jujitsu and perform the same is kind of unrealistic.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so that's the five things, folks. That's the some days poor heart. I really wanted to stretch it out to a 12 rules for life. Some days poor heart. I kind of look thing.
Speaker 1:But the book will be available on amazon at the end of the year.
Speaker 2:Fucking you bet, um, but I did want to just close on that point that it is not about not being savage, it's not about not going hard, it's it's not about avoiding the challenge, because these are all the things that jujitsu allows us to do, which make it inherent, make it special and make it a very powerful, um, game to play, or fucking hobby to have, or sport to pursue, uh, but it is about understanding that that takes a toll and then, if you don't manage that intelligently, you probably won't be able to do it for long. So we want to see all you guys be able to train for as long as you want and then, when the day comes where you decide I'm going to stop training. Now it's a it's a voluntary choice, not an involuntary, uh, something that's forced upon you. There it is, there it is. Appreciate you guys.
Speaker 1:Tell a friend Boom.
