Train for decades
Body & Recovery
Sleep, food, injuries, mobility and the hard questions about weight. The side of training that decides whether you are still doing this in ten years.
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Everything in this topic
- Sleep: The Training You Do Lying Down Nothing you buy comes close. What sleep does for skill learning specifically — not just recovery — and the handful of changes that actually move the needle.
- Fuelling a Training Week Not a diet. How to eat so that Thursday's session is as good as Monday's, written for people with jobs, families and no interest in weighing their food.
- The Injuries Martial Artists Actually Get Not the dramatic ones. Fingers, ribs, knees, ears, skin and necks — what is common in each art, what is worth a doctor, and the ones people ignore until they cannot.
- Mobility That Survives a Hard Week The stretching routine you will actually do, which is the only kind that works. Ten minutes, no equipment, aimed at the joints combat sports actually punish.
- Weight Cutting: What Parents and Young Athletes Need to Know This is a safety article, not a method. What weight cutting does to a body, what the real risks are — especially for growing athletes — and the exact questions to ask a coach.
The other three topics
- 12 articles Martial Arts Styles What each art actually is, where it came from, what a real first class looks like, and what it is honestly good and not good at. Written for the person deciding where to walk in.
- 5 articles Self-Defense The unglamorous truth: almost all of self-defense is awareness and avoidance, and almost nobody teaches it because it does not look good on video. Here it gets taught first.
- 5 articles Mind & Mental Health What training genuinely does for your head, what it does not do, and where to get real help. Honest about both, because the person reading this at 2am deserves honesty.