Coach Sonnon - Cutting The Sandbags On Your Balloon!

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If you understand how things fit all together. You don't need to sit down and create a thesis on your life (though that's a great exercise in itself.) Merely having the skills developed from this exercise, you'll instantly start to innervate your life's details sending tendrils to all of your activities, pulling back anchors and releasing attachments… cutting the sandbags.

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this article is too general and philosophical to be really engaging, even though it makes sense. i suggest poeple look at some other articles and interviews with sonnon. he is an extremely intelligent trainer and innovator. check out his clubbells, these are long club shaped steel weights used for what he calls, circular strength training.

The message may be vague and philosophical, but it teaches an important lesson in applying the fighter's mindset to obstacles faced in life. Especially in concert with Coach Sonnen's other articles, about martial arts or simply training, which often make reference to training past certain barriers; pain, respiratory response, mental barriers etc. This is about overcoming existential obstacles. The point is that being a fighter isn't only about fighting in the gym, or in the ring, its about pushing through the membrane in all your activities and becoming masterful at anything.

I read this once at a low point. My training had plateaued, my relationship was sinking, and my job was dragging me down. I remember it meaning a hell of a lot to me then, it gave me hope. I revitalized my training by changing routines, and I just got out of that relationship and revisited this article. It serves as a good reminder about who is really in charge in your life: you!