It All Starts in Your Head
In this episode, John and Josh take on one of the toughest opponents you’ll ever face: the voice in your head.
That voice that says:
- “You can train tomorrow.”
- “Take it easy.”
- “You’re not ready for this.”
Whether it’s sparring mindset, belt progression, or pushing through a workout, they get brutally honest about what it takes to stay consistent—and how to shut down the internal dialogue that holds you back.
Highlights From the Conversation
Sparring Isn’t About Domination
Sparring is a two-way street. If you’re just trying to land your techniques, you’re missing the bigger picture. Training should be mutual—especially in drills like offense/defense sparring. It’s about helping your partner grow too.
The Truth About Mastery
Reaching 5,000–10,000 hours of training? That’s a decade or more of consistent effort. Want to be a 4th or 5th degree black belt? You’ll need to show up, even on the days you don’t want to.
“Two hours a week won’t get you there. Not even close.”
Shut That Voice Up
From sipping water mid-workout to skipping a class because you’re “tired,” we all rationalize our excuses. But that little voice is always looking for the easy way out—and if you listen to it, you’ll stay average.
Actionable Advice
- Replace “I should train” with “I am training.”
- Find a training routine that’s sustainable for the long haul.
- Don’t aim for the minimum—aim for mastery.
- Injured? Adjust your training—don’t stop completely.
- Remember: even a 10% day is better than 0%.
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Transcript:
Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the podcast. Today, we’re gonna be talking about some mindset, you know, maybe answer some questions Josh might have. I was telling him he was annoying yesterday, so we probably have to do some therapy to start this session off. It’s okay. I only thought about it from the moment I came home, when I went to bed, in my dreams last night, and then the shower this morning, like, “Am I really that annoying when I spar?” Jeez. Well, that mindset, you know, like what you’re thinking, you’re just thinking totally about yourself. You know, you’re trying to work all your technique, and you’re not letting the other person work. You know? There go. Sparring is a mutual thing, unless you just wanna do an ass-kicking. No. No, ’cause I usually, I’m on the receiving end of that so I don’t wanna… But I mean, just trying to think about letting them work, it’s… I don’t know. it’s just hard enough for me to see what’s going on. I don’t even know how to think for the other person here. Like, my mind’s not even there. That’s, you Yeah, you’re trying to … so much things work. I mean, it’s tough, so many to put everything together. But letting the other person kinda have some mutual Mm-hmm. you know, by coincidence, one of the guy- newer assistants was running a class ’cause the one of the black belts was on vacation and I made a comment ’cause it was everything we were talking about. I’m like, “We were doing this in the advanced class, by chance, today, and we were doing offense/defense. You guys are just doing some slow touch sparring, you know, 10%, 20% speed and power.” And they were just going just, you know, kinda crazy, out of control, trying to sneak things in, and I made the comment, you know, that’s why I like offense/defense, ’cause it takes some of the pressure off Yeah. … each guy, girl of going, you know, trying to sneak something in, and if you’re just working your defensive skill, but you also gotta let that person work their offensive skill. If you’re always going too fast, and accelerating, the other person’s, you know, not realizing that they’re missing. You know, I see a lot of people defend things that are actually missing, you know, just trying to make that work. So, so just slowing it down. Slow it down. It’s where… I was talking before we got on, I’ve been thinking for a bit about slowing down the belt progressions. I think it’s great to see your progression, and that’s one of the harder things as a school owner of, you know, you wanna keep people interested and keep them engaged and showing their progression, but at a certain point, you know, sometimes you’ve just gotta buckle down. And Yeah. … it’s gonna take you longer. We’re really here at RMSDF. We’re thinking about, you know, bringing those things up, you know, as we go. Because getting to that, you know, as Malcolm Gladwell, I think I said Glidewell I can self-check somewhere. I had a note on that guy of who wrote that book, Outliers, that 10,000 hours to reach mastery. So, you know, you start to adjust that, and look at, you know, okay, well a master in most martial arts, you know, fourth or fifth degree is kind of where that’s at as a standard. Wow. So, you know, how many hours does a black belt have? You know, even if you go 5,000, you know, 3,000, how long does it take To get there? … to get to that level? Well, let’s think about it. If if you do what the average person does, I think it’s two days a week, 52 weeks in a year, that’s 104 potential hours you could do in one year. Just 104, and it takes 10,000 to get there? That’s a long time. That’s a Yeah. … time. That’s that’s a long time. I just threw up a quick chart I had ChatGPT do for us. You know, if you’re looking at that, you know one hour a day, seven days a week, that’s 27.4 years. Holy smokes. And that’s seven days a week. Yeah. You know? That’s doing every single day, an hour a day, which would be Yeah. … for your training, Yeah, and then you start to look at just being involved if you are, like, teaching, you know, four hours a day, six days a week. You know, that’s still eight hours, or sorry, eight years to reach I know. … 10,000-hour mark. Right. You know, it is quite a bit of time to get there. Let me throw the other one up there. It might be good for comparison while we’ve got these guys up on the stage here. And, you know, there’s 5,000 to 10,000 hours, you know, and the difference of just the two. You know, just to try to get to that 5,000 training hours, you know. Now you’re at 24 years to get at two days a week, you know, three days a week, five days a week, you know. and we’re assuming you remember More realistic. … for 24 straight years. You know, a lot of our black belts, you know, end up around that, you know, nine, 10-year mark. But that’s five days a week right there, all the way to the Wow. on that chart. So, you know, some people might look at that as daunting, but, you know, do you wanna get to that level? Yeah. … bringing them down, you know, more realistically is a much harder thing to to be thinking of, right? Right. And it’s it also shows you the dedication you have to have. I mean, if you wanna do it, do it. Right? Make it happen. All right, this is the thing that makes you better as a person, just shows you how…… Hard it is to do, and two, how rewarding it is once you get there. But you gotta put in the hours. Yeah. You know, definitely gonna take some time to get there, you know, and that’s where I’m thinking of redoing, you know, what we have, you know, and just upping it even, you know, just another five hours on, you know, some of our basic belt levels. You know, that, that just adds up, right? It just adds up, and, you know, people try to push it sometimes, and we always say, “That’s the minimum.” So, I think people just look at that minimum mark and I can’t get it through people’s heads even though, you know, I joke, even though I was just saying it as we presented the yellow belt in the TNT, our tweens and teens program. To the other white belts, you know, “Hey this is a… It’s, that’s the minimum, guys. It’s the minimum.” Are you striving for the minimum standard? And unfortunately, I think a lot of people are just going for the minimum standard, you know? Well, yeah, that’s, that’s people, right? I mean, they’re… They wanna put the minimum amount of work into something, and that seems to be everything we do. They want a really large result for the minimum amount of input, and it’s just not gonna happen that way. You’ve gotta put in the time. You know, what, with my mindset is, is, I just try to keep going. Like, I don’t… you wanna matriculate, you wanna get there, but if you just keep going, “I just wanna learn day in and day out.” The more I can learn, I mean, I wanna be able to look at a technique and say, “Yeah, I’ve at least done that before. I could, I could work my way through it,” right? Just, just learn. I mean, I, I, I’m also a lifelong learner. I love education and that piece, which is why I love teaching so much. But, you know, being able to… It’s kind of like going to college, but for my body. That’s the way I see fitness and martial arts. You know, it’s, it’s educating my ability to preserve myself and protect myself. So it’s just like college number three. Like, I’m gonna get another it just takes, now, 30 years! Yeah, it takes a, takes a whole heck of a lot of time. You talking there reminds me of my friend, Tom, that, you know, reached, you know, the pinnacle of football. He, you know, made it to the NFL, and not only, you know, made it to the NFL, but played in multiple Superbowls. Wow. Wow. That he just loved the game. Mm-hmm. “I love the game.” And I think that’s what it takes sometimes. You know, if you don’t really enjoy it, you’re not gonna make it to that upper level. You gotta enjoy the training, you know? Enjoy, you know, that benefits and aspects of training, like, “I’m getting in better shape. I’m physically better, more capable of defending myself,” that you love it, that that training time just flies by, so to speak. Yeah. Yeah, … it takes dedication. People hate that word. Yeah. Just dedication. You know? Just… I, I try to just take that kind of word away. I just keep telling, “Just show up,” right? Like, walk in the door that day, especially the day you don’t wanna go into. Your mind’s always gonna tell you you shouldn’t go in. There’s always that little voice that’s like, “Let’s just stay here. Let’s not… It’s okay, you’ll be fine. You’ll get it on Thursday.” Yeah. “I’ll train again tomorrow,” yeah. You know, just Come Listen, that was that was my lesson to the new fitness student the other day. Yeah. I was like, “Don’t drink water during your workout.” I don’t know if we’ve talked about this one that much on the podcast, but I kinda look at it as telling that voice to shut up. Like, yeah, of course, you know, do you wanna pace yourself? Do you need to hydrate? Yes, of course, but during that 20-minute workout, you don’t need to hydrate. That’s the little voice in your head saying, “Quit.” I try not to listen that voice. Sure. Of course, yeah, if you remember everything, you know, she was trying to say to rationalize getting water. “Well, I wanna pace myself, and this and that, and I need to drink water.” It’s the same thing. “Oh, I can train tomorrow. I’ll make it tomorrow.” Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. You know? “I’ll do that tomorrow.” And that goes with anything in life. Its not easy. I’m not saying any of it’s easy. But I, in a workout, I just try to tell that little voice to shut up. You know? If the kid’s I not What are you saying? I try not to talk to that voice. I’ll just start thinking of things. Like, I, I’ll just go through my day and as I, as I’m going through what I need to do and stuff like that, I’m just working out at the same time. So I keep my mind on something else. Sometimes I don’t even listen to music. I just do the work, and that seems to be kind of It, it’s kinda like it’s relaxing, sometimes if you can just put in the work and you’re doing, like, a strength day or whatever. Like, you, you, you gotta turn the workout into something that you know you need to do, it becomes part of your day. When you’re done with it, like, it gives you a sense of satisfaction. It really does. Yeah. the mindset of everything going into it. Don’t, don’t even listen to the voices in your head. Just be, be in a zen state and just get through all of your stuff. Work hard, and come out on the other side sweaty and happy. Yeah. Sometimes I’m, you know, thinking of pushing myself or picturing, you know, sparring or whatever else, or a bad scenario, you know, and trying to push it there. I hate running. I’ll picture, like, running into a burning building to save a member of my family, you know, to then, like, push it, go harder, go harder, versus, you know, you’re saying, like, don’t think. If, you know, whatever works for you. But the biggest thing is, like, not listening to the voice in your head that’s like, procrastinating. I think strength is different than a MetCon Oh, yeah. … that, you know, you got an intense… You know, you’re trying to get five heavy reps, you know? That’s, that’s you know, it’s similar, but it’s not like when you’re breathing just so hard and dying at a workout. Yeah, and you’re running again. You’re coming back in and going straight into push-ups. But yeah, again, I just try not to get in my head. I just… Like, I get caught in numbers, I’ll just count out my stuff. I don’t know, I like to find, like, the, this empty mind state and just let the body take over and just keep pushing, pushing, pushing. ‘Cause I got nothing in my head saying stop. Yeah. So Yeah. Yeah. At all. It’s you know, the same thing, ’cause I had told… Like, “What round… How many more rounds do we have to go?” And just somebody else in the workout kind of just, you know… They want to know, you know, for all sorts of reasons. And it’s like, “Who cares? Just keep going.” Going. You know? Sometime… But, you know, people are looking for that, you know, “Oh, it’s just 10 minutes more. It’s just five minutes more,” whatever it may be. And I just try to shut it out. I mean, we all… Like, okay, you can use that. Okay, it’s 10 minutes more. Okay, pick up the pace. Mm-hmm. All those things. But a lot of times, I just like not having a clock different You just don’t. … to push. But, you know, that little voice in your head pops up. Mm-hmm. You know? Im good. I’ll make it tomorrow.” Just tell it to shut up. Yeah. That’s the… And kids always it goes beyond the gym. I don’t know if you were planning on going this direction with it. But that little voice is also there saying, you know, “Eat those donuts,” or “Make a bad food decision today.” Get something Oh, yeah. It’s all the same, right? “… ’cause in the time.” They’re all the same voice in everything I do. Even on laundry day, it’s like, “So, put off laundry today. Mm, can I do it tomorrow?” It’s always there, and you gotta fight through it. Yeah. I try to stay very routine. Like, this is the day. Yeah. It gets done today. Yeah. That’s the day. Stick to it. Yeah … with laundry. It’s every Sunday. Yeah, well, us too, right? When we know when we’re gonna be doing laundry for two, three, four solid hours, just to get it done and get it out, right? It’s too how much laundry do you have? You’re doing four hours of laundry? You have a lot of clothes. Well, I, I got through a lot I am not a, a particularly wonderful smelling person, so… But you know what I’m saying. Like all those days Yeah. wanna do the towels, and we do the bedsheets and all that stuff. Yeah, like, everything gets done, you know? Yeah. It’s… you gotta find that routine. Otherwise, the voice says to you, “Just, just, just wait. You’re fine. Just, just… Let’s just, let’s just watch that next Netflix series. We’ll be good.” You Yeah. I, I always say that, that voice is the little devil on your shoulder. It’s the same voice. Like, you know, “Pace yourself. What… You know, I need water,” whatever it may be. And it’s freaking hard. You fight that demon all the time. I’m constantly, “Shut up. Don’t let that voice creep in,” you know? Like, “Just keep going, keep going.” I use fighting a lot in the workout to try to push myself. But, yeah. And again, every day, you don’t… You don’t have to kill yourself. You know? It’s so different, but people get so caught up in, you know, looking for the excuse. But I’m like, that’s the same voice that says, “Eat the donut.” Yeah. Follows another glass of wine.” “Take a nap.” Take a nap? I mean, sometimes naps are okay after a hard workout, so I might leave that one alone. Well, you need your recovery. Yeah. Just don’t nap during the workout, Josh. No, I try not to. I’ve yet to been able to take a nap during any one of your workouts. I’m just gonna say that. I, I… There’s not been a single one where you’re like, “Yeah, go ahead. Go sit in the corner. That’s fine. If you wanna-” Yeah. “… roll over blanket too.” Slide out. Yeah. That, that’s never happened. So, yeah. You know what I’m sick of? Me? No. I’m not sick of you. What? Oh, my gosh. Just all the, you know… It’s insurance, health insurance, all that stuff. It is so annoying. And it’s like one of those things that so many of us, like, “What are you gonna do about it? What are you gonna do?” the… And there’s that other little voice in your head and mindset. Like, you’ve got all these things to do, and you have to start choosing what you’re gonna be doing, right? It… The, the mind can get real full of thoughts fast, and it’s easy to get a bunch of conversations in your own going. Sometimes you just gotta start going after those one at a time. One of those should always be a training and at least exercise all the time. Because the benefits that you have long-term, just moving, are huge. So don’t listen to the voice. Get out there and do something. Keep the body going. We’re, we’re all about health and wellness too. We want you to have a body that lasts a long time, which is why we do our fitness stuff. Like, you need to come in and just put in the time. I got a guy who’s not a spring chicken anymore, we’ll say, and he is still doing it, right? ‘Cause he knows the long-term benefits. So. Yeah, it doesn’t have to be crazy. No. Doesn’t, you just, yeah, you have to, it has to be sustainable that you can be working out when you’re 80 years old. Yeah. Plus, ’cause you’re gonna be just so much better off than anybody else in your age bracket. Yeah. So, but back to that, you know, mindset of getting to, you know, your next belt, whatever it may be it’s just training and telling yourself, “I can, I’m going to.” I am. Any, any mantra that you can Yeah. … up with that works for you, you have to say it and repeat it over and over again. And don’t let that little voice creep in and go on. Yeah. “Oh, it’s pretty good, you know, I did two hours.” But if you start to look at two hours a week and how long that takes, it takes a significant amount of Yeah. to get there. You know, it’s, you know, just putting in, you know, 40 hour work week, you know, in training hours, that, you know, at two days a week. That’s a lot Why not? You know, two training sessions an hour? You know, even our advanced peaceful warrior training for an hour and a half, Yeah. … you know, how long it takes you to get there. Or if you’re doing a, an AM session and a PM session, you know, “Okay, I did two hours in a day,” you know, times two days a week, three days a week, you know, five days a week, what it’s gonna take. You you gotta fight those obstacles, right? All the things that come up, injuries, working around injuries being smart, you know, going, you know, that knee surgery, you know, might put you out six months, but you’re putting it off and now you cause yourself a whole lot more harm by putting something off. So I’m always, not saying, you know, injure yourself, it’s not, you gotta take that recovery time, but sometimes it’s just a matter of, you know, I’ve got an ankle injury. Okay, so maybe you’re not doing a whole lot of standup. You know, what can you do to work around it to, you know, let it heal, but you’re still doing something? You know, you don’t go to zero, which, you know, a lot of times people break their fingernail It hurts. … they gotta take ten days off. You know, I mean, how many… Your your thumb injury. Oh my gosh. Right? And you kept aggravating it until I was like, Josh, you gotta tape that thing up or use a hand wrap and-” Yeah. “… support that thing.” I’m like, “You keep hurting your thumb, you gotta take care of it, dude. You think it’s good, but it’s not, ’cause just a little tweak reinjures it and it sets you back by just, you know, wrapping it, supporting that thumb, protect it as best you can and, you know, know things as you…” Oh yeah, that hurt. Yeah, no kidding. Okay well maybe next time, you wrap that up, I forgot that would, that was gonna hurt. So people get in their own head, they don’t think they’re good enough and you gotta fight that voice, you know “This stuff’s too advanced.” You know, no it’s not. Just try it. You know? And it’s a total beginner feeling to be like, “Oh, this class is too advanced.” You’re going, “It’s really not.” It’s just getting in your own head of going, “I’m slowing down the class,” “This stuff is too advanced,” ’cause you can break down stuff in our curriculum, you know, slow and easy, and you can learn it being able to do it under pressure and other things, yeah. I That’s just time. Yeah. As a beginner you just need more time, but you can, you know, learn an advanced Mm-hmm. … and get fairly proficient at it in a drilling setting, you know, especially when it’s something that’s not like super physical, like you know, we were just doing, somebody jumps on your back and try, you know, wraps an arm around you trying to choke you or whatever. Its a low probability thing, so it’s an advanced and it involves falling and getting thrown, but, you know, as we did, you know, we did that what class was that? Yesterday evening. With all… The little kids. Yeah. I thought you just wanted to throw me. Well that too, I just wanna throw you on the ground. Yeah, but they thought it looked cool. No. And, but that’s the thing But, you know, what was their problem at, you know, young and sprywe’ll say. That’s an old guy word. Their biggest problem was, right, physically they couldn’t hold the person up. Yeah. You know, they had all those little problems of learning that technique, but they had fun doing it, you know. Yeah. And they saw where the progression went because, you know, we were even doing just jump up on your partner and we’re letting them do it piggyback style. Right? Can you just hold your partner up in piggyback and you know, some of the kids are doing the whole dad thing and they’re squatting down. I’m like, “No, make them jump up.” Yeah. Like half of the Make … is jumping up, but … they couldn’t, you know, actually jump up, so to get him to piggyback. You know, when the kids are, you know, bending, you know, squatting, bending over so the other kid can jump on their back. But, you know, and it’s all good because now they gotta stand up, ’cause the whole goal was, right, to stand like an oak tree. Stand there tall with somebody on your back, you know, without wavering down. I mean, how many kids just, like, crumbled with it like that after a couple. Yeah. I thought you were gonna make them do the koala thing and then I would… realized, I was like, “Wow, they can’t even just hold the one person up.” I mean, being able to crawl around that person while they’re standing, Yeah. I was gonna … maybe Wow. They couldn’t do that stuff, so I didn’t go to the koala Yeah. Yeah. … drill. And I figured you would die, and probably squish a little kid falling off of me. So, I just love to be so close to the huddle up in demonstration in the little kids’ class. I didn’t have anybody to hold me up as I got around the front. Now I may have been going a little fast, Yeah. Yeah. ‘Cause you’re panicking, and you’re like, “I gotta do it as quick as I can.” Right? No, I wasn’t panicking. I was trying to make my move. I was like, “I can do this, I can do this, I can do this. Just keep moving.” Well, I had that one. The last time we did an adult class everybody just… they were going so fast that they throw off if you’re going slower, it gives the other person, right? It’s Yeah. You might be able to maybe get around there fast, but maybe not. Like you can’t shaking down the tree, ’cause Yeah. … you gotta try to keep that tree steady and help that person, ’cause it Just… Yeah. You come around the front and you’re, you’re pulling me forward. Oh, my. you don’t realize what you’re doing, ’cause you’re trying to go fast. Yeah. If I had gone That’s a hard drift. … like you saying, I would’ve gotten hurt. So, you know, a lot of those things in our curriculum, for advanced, you can learn them as a beginner, but people get into their own head. It’s, you know, it’s our biggest enemy. You know? I mean, the world’s tough enough with stupid people. Who Ooh. Can I mention something about the, the words you should use in your head? I don’t want you guys using words that give you outs anymore. “I should go train.” “I can go tomorrow.” No. You sh-… “I am going to train,” is the word you’re going to use. Yeah. If you’ve “I going to do it.” It’s happening now. Yeah. “I’m I’m going to train.” There. Like, “Oh, if I have time I’m gonna go.” No, you’re going to train. give yourself the out, you’ve gotta just stick to it. And yeah, things come up, and family, you know. There’s those emergencies, and… But people can, you know, more than likely it’s an excuse. Yeah. Stuff happens. I know that. But so many times it’s just an excuse. It’s just an excuse, and you just pop in your head and you rationalize it. It’s just like our example yesterday in in our project fit class, you know? It’s, you know, she’s you know, really good she’s got a ton of, a ton to go in her fitness journey, but she’s got the mindset and wants to, like, “I’m coming five days this week,” you know. Like “Gotta get on it.” Yeah. But how easily, “Oh, let me get a sip of water. Let me get a sip of water. I need to pace myself. I need to hydrate.” Im trying to think of something else she said that was just, you know, trying to rationalize the rest. And I was giving her… You know, “Don’t listen to that boy. You don’t need the water. You’re gonna be fine.” “My mouth is dry.” “So what?” You know? Like, especially for people in self-defense. You know, if your mouth is dry, what, are you gonna ask the person for a time out for a water break? You know? “Let me get my hair. And I need some water.” “Where’s the water guy? I need water.” We should do that. My mouth little squirting bottles, hit them like Yeah. football players Yeah. That’s not happening in a real world You know, as soon as you gotta get quiet that voice and learn to quiet it. So… But we all go to those excuses no matter what it is, and you know, you’re gonna progress further and be a better person if you can tell those voices to shut up the majority of the time. Yeah. Yeah, the You know? 80%. Mm-hmm. That’s your majority? Yeah. That was other 20% wins, like, “Let’s go get a pizza! You’re like, “No, we shouldn’t go get a pizza tonight,” Yeah. it’s tough. But you know, I don’t know. Stop making the excuse. Just come in train. the biggest thing. It’s the biggest thing you can do, is just make that change in your head that, “I, I am going to do this now, today.” It has to happen right now because you can’t… it, it’s never gonna happen if it’s always tomorrow. You know? You can’t, you can’t live in tomorrow. You gotta live in the day. Otherwise, you’re just gonna sit there and do nothing. Yeah. You know, how good was your last class? I forget Mm-hmm. … what martial arts conference I was at that somebody said that. You know, you’re only as good as your last class. You know? You know, teach that class like it’s your last class, you know? Mm-hmm. Train in it like there isn’t a tomorrow, you know? But, duh, don’t be don’t be stupid in your training Mm-hmm. … you do wanna walk tomorrow ’cause, you know, the odds say that you’re gonna have another training day. Yeah. … you know, it’s that whole thing, leave it on the floor. Yeah. You know, practice hard. Give it your all. And it might be your all for that day. You know, people get so caught up in some of those things. “Well, give it your all.” Well, that’s where I’m at today. And it might not be my 100%, but I’m giving it my all by, you know, just showing up. Like, “Hey. I’m just here.” And Yeah. going through the motions, and let’s just call it 10%. You know, it’s better than zero. Right? And a lot of times when you get in there and you’re just going through the motions just to, just to do it, you know, whether it’s a strength workout or a cardio workout or, you know, you’re sparring or just running through combatives-You know, chances are you get in there and you’re like I am feeling better.” You know, a lot of times when I’m going through a workout by myself or, you know, even in a class, I’m like, “All right, I’m just going through the motions today. I just, just doing something.” And then the majority of the time I’m able to pick it up, let’s just say halfway through, “You know what? I’m, I’m feeling good. You know, I’m all right.” That, you know, so much was that, was in my head where it is very rare that I’ll get into a workout and go, “You know what? I’m done.” You know? Yeah. … I’m calling it. Like, I’m just so depleted, you know, that a lot of times you can just go through at that nice easy pace even when you’re pretty darn tired. Yeah. Or your stupid watch. Oh, yeah, I hate that stupid water bottle. What’s wrong with my water bottle? Hold that up there. Yeah, that exactly right there. What’s wrong Sipping out of a straw. I think that’s gonna up you like 10%, maybe even 20. Up me, like in status? Of course it does. This is a status symbol. If you no, no, no. If like your fighting ability, if you stop sipping out of that little sippy straw cup, you would be a, a 10 to 20% better fighter. John, that’s just a little think there’s a study, I think there’s a study that says if you drink out of that you are, you have like a 20% chance you’re, Of being awesome. of losing the fight, of losing the fight. How awesome? Of This thing is amazing. You’re be awesome. insulated, it keeps me cool. It’s I have to, I have to hydrate during these workouts.” And frankly, that’s just the little voice in your head saying that you just hate my straw. I hate the straw. You’re jealous.” That’s what it is. Jealous. I’m jealous of your straw? Mm. Plus, you That says it right there. … I two or three times, I get all my water for the day because you gotta plan your hydration before you work out. Like, that’s a thing do. change the subject, Josh. Don’t change the subject. You just went into I have to. … a whole It’s called deflection. Because I’m not getting rid of my sippy cup. I just think they’re a little kid sippy All right, so you’ve called They’re an adult sippy cup. annoying spar. I, I’m less of a fighter because of my sippy cup. Yes. It’s just a straw. People on construction sites use this. Im just gonna go dead air on that. I’m just gonna let people ponder what they think. Yeah. That’s fine. And, you know, hey, put a comment in, in the comments, whatever you’re doing. Did you know that sippy cup, is that a thumb up or thumb down?” Dude, oh, it’s thumbs up. This is ice cold throughout the day. Yours is just one of those plastic it’s nothing to do with ice cold. It’s room temperature. It has nothing to do with ice cold. I love ice cold. That’s a preference. It’s a preference? It’s a preference. It’s not even a voice in It’s don’t like ice cold water. … I don’t care. So only on a super occasions, but usually I just drink at room temperature. Lose So
