It’s important to understand that if you want to the very
best in your sport or in your training, you want to be in the best condition as
possible. Karl Gotch put this rule to a level not many want to achieve. It doesn't matter if you’re in Wrestling, Football, Baseball, Basketball, Hockey
or Soccer for that matter, you can have all the gnarly skills you want but if
you can’t last the way you need to, you’re done. A lot of people seem to have
this notion that if you just train a little and work on the skills you’ll be
fine. Wrong. Conditioning and technique go together like a Horse &
Carriage, one without the other is worthless.
When it
comes down to conditioning, there are many ways to do it and like everything
else, it takes time and patience and building your mental strength as well. One
of the things I admired about Gotch was how he can make cardio look like a
firestorm with just a good old deck of cards. I’m sure he might not be the
first to come up with this concept but he did make it worth it in gold. Take a
deck of cards, shuffle them and get to work. This makes training a little
different because it’s never the same workout twice. If you can get through the
deck, you’re in pretty decent shape and if you do it twice in the same workout
you’re a terror practically on the mat, floor or on the field.
The cards
have a way to test your mind power and see how far you’re willing to push
yourself. Yes it takes progression to work up to a full deck but after that
it’s more of a mental game than a physical. The more you generate power in your
mind; the body will give in and do more. It’s the mind/muscle connection that
brings together the most powerful type of training of all.
Remember
about basic exercises? This is no different and your best shot is to stick with
the fundamentals as best as possible when it comes to bodyweight…Push-ups,
Squats and Bridging. These three alone can be beneficial to your health and
strength training because there are many variations of them, some are easy,
some are harder than others but once you have them down and you can train hard
on them, you have the idea of mastering your own body in a way most will never
understand. Like the old man once said “Conditioning is your best hold.”
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