Feel good about yourself, you are still under construction

Whatever we do in our lives, the way we feel about it is the main factor which is going to decide what outcome has that experience going to have on us.
Is it going to be positive or negative outcome ?!
Is it going to be our step up, step down or just another act of killing the time ?!
It is us who decides how much we are going to learn and benefit out of it.

We all have our own story and our own way of living. We are all having our own, individual approach to everything we do.

As a GMMA Academy fighter and martial arts instructor, guy who spends most of his day in the gym. I do look at training as a way of development of my life.
I do look deep inside of my own performance and performance of others. When I look at it I do see much more than just physical abilities.
I see it as a great example of human psychology tool.

Training with and around others everyday gives me great opportunity of meeting countless individuals with so many different approaches and attitudes towards their training and development.

I meet people who are coming to the gym only when they manage to get a bit of time off  from other duties,  once or twice a week. Most of those people  understands that it isn't going to be easy but still decide to do it as they believe in advantages of their training. Even though they are having hard time they are still happy and proud of their achievements.

I also meet people who train regular, at the competing level and they are being quite hard on themselves. When the struggle comes, pain kicks in and body slows down, they become to feel bad about their performance and excitement drops down.

There are people who come to the gym once in a while, with great enthusiasm which fades away as intensity of workout increases.

There are individuals who practise on general bases and understand that when struggle begins is when training really starts.

I have been wearing all of those pairs of shoes. I have trained less and felt positive about my progress, what was giving me that extra boost to train more and harder.
I have been training a lot and very hard then I have reached to a point when not only my body was fatigued but also my brain was telling me that I am useless and I should stick to do my work and train for pleasure only.

I am still learning and developing myself as a fighter/student/Instructor. I do really believe that I have got an amazing opportunity of doing something I always loved to do and improve my private life and my other passions at this same time.

Seeing it this way gives me that push to get out of the bed and hit the road for morning run, even thought I have slept very little and my body still hurts from last night's training.
It has been my own choice and it is the only way forward to achieve my goals.
Seeing it this way gives me a lot of positive energy and power to keep going even when my performance doesn't satisfy my ego.

I give myself credit, understanding that fighting and coaching is something that you never stop to learn. Believing in myself and the fact that I am on the right track.

It makes me feel good about myself.

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Krystian Ozog Fighter/Instructor, GMMA Academy 07928093841 | KrystianGuruMuayThai@gmail.com | http://www.gmma.co.uk/ | London/Great Britain

Three minutes = 180 seconds

When you stepping into the ring.
Standing face to face with your opponent. Referee briefly remind you rules, then asking you to touch gloves and return to your corners.
Ring bells and three minutes of the truth begins. Every second counts,every second can change final results.
You loose your focus for a bit and that can cost you an early stoppage. You freeze for some time and that will surely be noticed by the judges and can cost you loss by the decision.
Three minutes of your precious life, three minutes of an exam. Three  minutes =180 seconds.
No more, no less. In those three minutes you both giving it all. Winner becomes the one who wants it more, who is mentally stronger and is willing to put more work from the beginning, right to the end.
How do you prepare so you are able to perform on the highest level for those three minutes in the ring?
By being honest to yourself in the training. Skipping, shadow boxing, bag work , sparring,  circuit, running all those simple routines can be done two ways. Can be done so you benefit out of it or can just be done. Hard and honest training is one and very important way to prepare yourself for the event of fight. Making sure that you work hard from beginning of the workout right to the end. Not looking for the short cuts, not buying the time.
When you working with the clock work for all the time you supposed to. Three minut rounds lasting three minutes not 2 minutes and 50 seconds. If you are working by the repetitions, ten reps should really mean ten. Not nine and half.
That's the only way forward.
When the bell rings you got to stay busy and focused right to the final bell.
There will be no excuse if you switch of ten seconds before it ends and your opponent use it and give you the stoppage.
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What would you do if you weren't afraid?

What will they say ? How will they react ?
What if they disagree ? Can I really do it ?
Maybe I am not fit for it ?!
Am I not to old ?
What if this and what if that ?!?
So many questions and doubts  comes to our heads every day.
Conversation with our innerself is never ending.
In sports, career, everydays life. If we allow our innerself, nerves, emotions take control of our reactions and decisions we might miss great opportunities and and go through our lives to cautious.
Not achieving our best, not allowing ourselves to live our lives.
Of course, we can't jump of the boat in the middle of the ocean without the life vest and not being able to swim.
But at this same time not doing things because they might go wrong is a bit like; not getting of the bed because at night we are going to go to sleep again anyway.
Physical  exercise has always been great motor to my life, even before I gave started with fighting and martial arts.
It has always been great tool to work on my mental strength and confidence.
Of course I do still ask myself  ( obvious ) questions like; "can I really?" and "what if?".
I ask those questions in my sport career, professional career as well as in my private life.
And trust me I do fear and I do do doubt.
When emotions begin to take over I simply try to turn of and try to think "what would I do if I weren't afraid? ".
I try to think what has brought me this path, what am I hoping to achieve and where am I going to.
I do train hard and devote my life to become better  fighter, martial artist and instructor. I do work hard to become successful in every aspect of my life and being able to share with others.
Even I do feel tired I've got great believe in myself and my abilities and my plans.
But like in the fighting career.
In a sparring and preparation I feel sharp,strong and able to move mountain.
I do look for the way and plan how to get titles and be a winner, how to develop for myself and for our team.
Then when it comes to the fight day;
I I still question myself if I have done enough and "what if this?"or "what if that?". I suppose it is natural.
It is related to our survival instinct which should help us make the decision at the moment of danger.
But do we not become to cautious at some point?
We do wanna get better job, but we are afraid of changes.
We do wanna travel, have lots of adventure and achieve big things but we are not willing to risk.
If I weren't afraid would become a world champion in kick boxing, I would educate myself in psychology I would become successful in all aspects of my life to be able to take care of my family as well as  help others. Still getting more out of my life, achieving my goals and passions.
What would you do if you weren't afraid?

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How to handle the Bullies

Yesterday, I had chat with some young man, telling me that he gets bullied.
He seems to be intelligent, and very open minded person with very low self confidence.
He has asked me, as a fighter for some advice of; how can he handle out when gets bullied?
I've told him straight away; if he thinks that knowing how to fight and challenging everyone at the moment of disagreement is the way to solve the problem.
He is not thinking right.
You can't fight everyone and everywhere.
Your friends at school, your boss at work, your relatives or your work mates.
You will always get some trouble with people, because we are all different and seeing things differently.
Bullies are usually trying to hide their weaknesses behind their acts.
What I have experienced many times; kindness can often be taken by weaknesses. Then you will become a target of those weak people who wants to lift themselves up by putting you down.
Fighting them,( unless they putting physical force on you ),would only bring you down to their level.
Training Martial arts, if it's  done right way should bring you well above that.
In my case it gives me more confidence, focus, self control,  better judgement and finding the solution under the pressure.
As a young Polish lad,with very basic English, working in construction, around London, in the past. I have been in many different situations when I was put in a test.
The better I become in my training and fighting career the better I began handle those people and situations.
I would always explain to myself that this people know nothing about me and I know what I am made of because I test myself every time I step to the gym or into the ring.

	Krystian Ozog Instructor/Trainer/Fighter, GMMA Academy Mobile: 07928093841 Email: KrystianGuruMuayThai@gmail.com Website: www.GMMA.co.uk

It is all in your head

A lot of sports and athletes having some time in a year called "off season".
Time to recover,time to rest.
So do boxers.
At the beginning of boxing season I could feel that I was well above the other boys who took time off.
It took them while to get back in shape.
As I was constantly training Thaiboxing, Taekwondo,running and conditioning.
I always believed that my passion and state of my mind is going to take me well above the tiredness and I will move forward with natural way of ups and downs.
Didn't really learn much from my past experience. For example,  when I have worked nights on the building sites  for almost three years and sacrificing sleep time to get some extra training.
It all developed my mental strength, on some point.
But my performance was going down.
My speed,stamina and drive to push harder would go low .
I begun to feel similar few weeks back.
First few weeks after training camp and fight in Thailand I have felt very energetic and motivated.
I have felt like I wanna fight everyone and everywhere.
I still feel like this but I can tell that my energy level is gone down.
My mind wanna push it to the next level but my body doesn't really follow.
I've been trying to get some extra sleep,change my diet a bit,change my training routine...
Nothing would work as it is not just fatigue from single training.
It is chain of things going on together for a bit longer time.
Tonight's session wasn't easy either.
I have started sharp and went through few rounds of good sparring.
But then again fatigue would catch up.
When we were finishing with some tough groundwork  ( series of bodyweight exercises ) I didn't really feel like I wanna to kill it.
I felt more like I just wanna get it done.
But then in the process my attitude has changed to what I have been always practicing,"never give up attitude ".
I have pushed it harder than I planned it at first.
Which made me feel better, made me feel happy and made me feel that I am moving forward and my time isn't waisted.
We all get tired, we all get down.
But training our mental strength and positive attitude as well as our body can keep us going and get closer to our goals.