It's a new edition of coffee talk. Today we're going to talk about solo
workouts in the context of the times that we're living.
living through. So we all like live action partner training
because partner training enables us to work out the kinks in our techniques.
Allows us to socialize and allows us to experiment and exchange
ideas with the training partner. Of course, we all prefer to train with a
partner. There's just no question about that. It doesn't matter if you're
in Filipino martial arts Brazilian jiu-jitsu, karate, kung fu,
whatever. We all prefer workout partners
And the one thing that workout partners or training partners provide
besides feedback is accountability. Okay. What I mean by that is that they
can turn into "accountability buddies." They can call you up and say "Hey want to
get together and train today?" Or "Are you going to class tonight?" That
sort of thing. We don't have that now. Okay. All we have
right now are solo workouts. And this is a good time to
really hone your solo workout skills. And if you're thinking about what to
work on, I would suggest basics or fundamentals.
In the case of Modern Arnis that would be the
12 angles of attack with control, pull back, follow through, the
traditionals. You can do the solo versions of
palis palis, abanico corto. Nothing's gonna stop you.
Only your imagination will limit you in terms of
the ideas you can come up with for solo workouts.
it's one of the reasons why I've done the solo workout tutorials on YouTube;
to try to provide some ideas for some of the folks out there.
If you come up with your own ideas that is inspired by
by my videos, great! Awesome! Do it! All right. All of that is easy. But when you
really get down to it, you learn something about yourself.
Because you're going to be dealing with two voices in your head.
There's the workout angel here and there's the complacency
devil over here. And the workout angel says
"Hey let's get up off the couch and practice
something today. Let's do 12 angles of attack or whatever." The complacency devil
says "Hey, you've got all the time in the world.
Wait till tomorrow when you got something else going on. There's a cool
series on Netflix." So that's a constant battle. So
in these times you have to dig down deep and decide
"can you overcome the mundane aspect of solo work?" "Can you
overcome the boredom and really work on your fundamentals?"
Now's the time to work on the fundamentals.
Make your foundation stronger than it was before this
pandemic crisis came along. So that's the real battle. It's not
so much how much you can work on your 12 angles of attack. It's "can
you overcome the complacency?" The amount of time you
have on your hands. For some who are still working, maybe
working from home, and not have to deal with the commute. All of a sudden you got
extra time. That's an extra 15 minutes a day to work on
on your skills.
So this is a mental game to show you if you have the resiliency,
the discipline, to be able to ignore that complacency
devil and go with the workout angel and
just get down to it. Just 15 minutes a day minimum. You can do
more. Two or three times a week, awesome!
Every day, outstanding! Okay.
So that's for me the true meaning of what we're going through here;
is "can you sustain this?" "Can you sustain solo workouts and
motivate yourself on a day-to-day basis in search of that
one percent improvement?" "Can you be one percent better today
than you were yesterday?" I think that's a very worthwhile goal
for us to shoot whether it's in martial arts,
professional life, personal life or what have you. So those are my
coffee thoughts for the day. Listen to that workout angel.
Okay. Now when you get a chance, grab a cup of coffee
and then get up and work out!
We'll see you soon. Thanks for stopping by!