How often do you push yourself to actually feel physically fatigued? On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being complete absolute exhaustion where you can’t even pick yourself up, where do you normally stop? Have you ever actually challenged yourself to reach that Level 10 fatigue? Finding that Level 10 fatigue is the only way to find your true limits and to see what you’re truly capable of. Yes, pushing there will be uncomfortable, but when it comes to mind-over-body, there is a rule that you must follow. This is the 40% Rule.

HOW to eat to fuel your weight cut in a way that doesn’t drain you and instead allows you to eat full meals and stay hydrated without all the suffering to perform your best.

For big matches, it’s super important that we be in the right mental state so we can perform our best, but how can we go about putting ourselves in the right headspace when there’s so much on the line? By improving a skill called psychological flexibility.

When it comes to recovery, most of us either entirely neglect it or do the absolute bare minimum, most times not even enough to fully recover. There are several options in terms of recovery: heat immersion, contrast therapy, stretching, myofascial release, steady-state cardio, cupping, and many others. One method which commonly serves as a staple for higher-level athletes is cold immersion using an ice bath. So how can an ice bath benefit your recovery, how does it work, and how do you do it?

Think about this…how many big moments throughout a lifetime do you really get to show the whole world what you’re capable of? Those moments don’t come by very often, for most of us we get only a handful throughout an entire lifetime. In an ocean of seconds throughout our lives, we get only a handful of chances to show the world what we can do and who we really are. In these big moments, how can we best seize the opportunity and win?

Stretching. Flexibility. These are all too often parts of our training that go overlooked. We wait to focus on them until something hurts and at that point the damage is already done. Maybe we add it into our warm-up but spend less than sixty seconds doing it. Neither of these is maximizing the full potential of what stretching can do for recovery, for strength, or overall performance. If you’re really trying to maximize who you want to be as a competitor, stretching is an important part of that process, and if you’re wanting to do it right…here’s how.

Wrestling is 90% mental. It’s a saying that we use all the time to describe the grueling aspects of being in a combat sport and the relentless toughness it takes to persevere in both training and competition, but what you less often here it used for is describing the fight within a match itself. Technique, strategy, strength, speed, these all play an important role…but the real indicator of who comes out victorious is determined by who wins the mental battle.