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Podcast: Heatrick Heavy Hitters – Muay Thai Performance
Episode: Feeling Tired During Fights Isn’t The Same As Being Tired
Description: There’s a difference between feeling tired during fights and being tired…
Competing as a fighter is stressful, and the cocktail of neurochemicals and hormones this dumps into your body drastically affects how you feel. Especially early in a fight career, nervousness, anxiety, or even all-out fear, will leave you feeling exhausted without even exerting yourself!
But, I’ve found there can be a disparity between the sensations you feel, and the performance you can produce if you can override them. From the top down, emotion affects posture. And from the bottom up, posture affects emotio...