New found love!!
I have a new found even greater love and increased respect and admiration for ALL MMA Fighters!
After many years of following MMA, I had always thought these guys must be fit and strong and always thought ouch that must hurt when one of them gets punched, choked or is forced into submission. I now realise I totally underestimated the pain and hard work these fighters have to go through!
Last night me, Jarrod and another forum member Keiron went along with James Knight (also a forum member and a MMA fighter for some years) to Evolution gym in southend to attend a training session.......
OMG I have never ever ever been so exhausted in my life!! I go to the gym at least 4 times per week and i considered myself to be at a reasonable fitness level but now I realise how wrong i was! I seriously feel like I have been in 10 grueling rounds with the likes of Liddell or GSP! Every muscle in body is aching! and they went easy on me!!LOL There are so many things that hurt that I just haven't thought about before because they look so painless when watching. I seemed to have got into this mind set that ment if i didn't see blood or someone knocked out then it didn't look like it hurt. Even a tap from a stray elbow or foot and I was thinking blimey, Imagine If he actually ment to do that and put force behind it, that would of seriously hurt! and just the fact of having someone smother you with their body weight wasn't something that I had ever thought about before. Its bloody hard work!! I also cant believe the levels of stamina these guys have, I only wrestled for about a total of ten minutes and that was without punching, elbowing or kneeing etc. and I was absolutely shattered! I had admittedly been running around and doing press ups and sit up etc but still, it totally drained every drop of energy out of me. God knows what its like when you have someone who is actually trying to knock your head off too! lol
Anyway It was absolutely superb and I cant wait for next week now, think im gonna get even more hooked into this superb sport! :-) .I haven't been able to let off that much steam in as long as i can remember!! :-)
For any MMA fans that watch it but don't do it, I gotta recommend you try it out, It gives a whole new outlook on the sport and the heroes that compete in it!
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