Recovery Is a Skill | Move Better, Heal Faster, Stay in the Game

Nsima Inyang (0:00)

You need to be able to create tension when you need it, and you need to be able to not have tension when you don't need it.

Mark Bell (0:05)

We have a tendency to just think the best athletes ever are only smooth, but they're not only smooth. They're able to create a lot of force and a lot of tension.

Tom Brady (0:12)

The doctor said, there's a 99% chance that I'm gonna have to cut your adductor tendon at some point. And I worked on it, he worked on the adductors, and then three days later, no more pain.

Nsima Inyang (0:22)

Soft tissue work and being able to do this, especially self-mild fast release, is really a skill.

Mark Bell (0:27)

Sometimes something that's bothering you from the back side of your body, comes from the front side of your body. Your pain could be upstream or downstream from wherever it is that you have the targeted pains.

Nsima Inyang (0:36)

Invest in your awareness of your own body. It will give you an awareness and a tool that will allow you to heal yourself for the rest of your life.

Mark Bell (0:47)

Body liver feels good. You know, the ropes actually are great for foot stuff. I don't know if you've ever like massaged your feet on the ropes. I have not. Those thick thicker ropes are great for that.

I'm kind of linked to all this stuff. I've been, you know, working on a little bit like striking.

Andrew Zaragoza (1:03)

I saw your video.

Mark Bell (1:04)

And a lot of what I used to work on, I used to be like a little bit more square. That's how I kind of learned how to box was to be more square. And I'm trying to learn to like get a little bit more bladed, you know, to be turned a little bit more.

Andrew Zaragoza (1:15)

Yeah.

Mark Bell (1:15)

And I because of the breathing, because of the mechanics, and because I'm trying to like just like relax and just let everything go, I kind of tweaked my neck. So now I can't, now I got to be like this.

Nsima Inyang (1:27)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, well that that'll be.

Mark Bell (1:28)

A lot of it was the breathing. I just, I didn't like have a good exhale. It was kind of like, it was kind of like, I was holding on to too much tension.

Nsima Inyang (1:35)

Yeah, yeah. I remember like, and it still will happen from time to time. But when I was when I was first starting to throw those strikes, I noticed like, I'm holding my breath while I'm doing this because I'm trying to throw hard, fast strikes. Like I'm not relaxed. So you mentioned this, I saw a few comments like, I've had to just, you know, slow down, breathe and just try to be smooth. Like I treat it like, I treat it like everything. Just try to be as smooth as possible, as efficient as I can be. And the speed, it'll just get faster.

Mark Bell (2:03)

It's so strange because a coach will show you, like just put your hand up. A coach will show you, they'll say, hey, throw a jab like this. And then you'll go. For some reason, right? Isn't that so weird? Like you're trying to like do good for the coach as if the coach is going to see some miraculous jab that he's never seen before. But someone who's newer is not going to like impress anybody anyway. So just, you know, but it's hard to, that whole thing, it's an art to like slow down or to relax. You know, we mentioned this before, how are you going to relax in jujitsu if the other guy is way better than you? That's the guy is going to probably try to make you uncomfortable, right? Get you in some shitty positions.

But I have a question before we get started on everything today. Why is soccer gay?

And why is everybody paying attention to it right now?

Nsima Inyang (2:54)

You know, it's funny. I've seen like a few soccer. Otro Cinco has a soccer based podcast. There are a few others. I think people like a lot of athletes, first off, are realizing people know how big podcasts are. Athletes have started getting into podcasts in the past few years. And then these athletes now realize soccer is the biggest sport in the world. And that show probably should be talking about it on the podcast.

So I'm glad that there's more respect that's put on soccer, because that game, I mean, fucking, I think I saw a really cool video of somebody mention how American football is kind of like a literal battle in a sense, because you have your whatever your director who's calling out a play and then boom clashes, right? Soccer is like just like constant military shifting and constant strategic shifting of the whole, you know, everyone trying to adjust on the field. So that's why they call it a beautiful game, because there's to be able to penetrate with 11 players towards a single, like towards that net, the whole team has to be working together and they have to find the gaps within the defense. It's like, it's fucking awesome. But people don't like those lack of goals.