Why You’re Really Training: A Journey Beyond the Workout

I want to start off this blog with a thank you to everyone training with us, a “keep going” to you if you’re training elsewhere, and a “give it a try” if you’ve ever thought about it. Muay Thai, kickboxing, grappling, MMA - they’re all a beautiful journey, and we’re fortunate to get to work in what we love.

My goal is to give you short and actionable insight, tips, and information from my and the FightFit team’s collective experience to put some wind in the sails of your training journey.

Let’s start this whole thing by talking about… well… starting the whole thing:

Mindset

Why are you doing this? Let me start by asking you exactly why you're training. Your reason might be very specific, perhaps you were attacked, or know someone who was. It might feel a little lighter or be more broad, like simply wanting a fun, different workout (for a rounder butt, or whatever it is). You might have tried on pure impulse.

Whichever it is on the surface, I want to recognize the throughline between all these training pathways: combat. We're not dancing, we're not doing Barry's Bootcamp.

We are very specifically setting out to get you in touch with this piece of life that is tied to our very genetic makeup. In the same way the "fight or flight" response comes from a deep, instinctual and ​subconscious​ place, part of the end goal --the throughline-- is familiarizing you with this aspect of life that you are literally hard-wired for, but that we rarely experience in day to day life (thankfully).

There is some degree, large or small, of wanting to get in touch with that true combat experience that has gotten you started training with us.

Tapping into this can help you find results that you wouldn't have thought possible.

I'll have more on this in the future...