The final advantage

Let's say you have the fastest car in the world, and you're in a race with another car, a 20 mile race. Say your car is the fastest, you spent the most time energy put the best fuel, and equipment in this car. He spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to make this car the fastest car in the world head but the day of the race you forgot to fill up the gas tank. You're at the starting line your $500,000 car is looking fantastic, it has much more horsepower, speed, and mobility then the car is racing against the 2 miles into the race, since you forgot to fill it up with gasoline, it runs out of gas and it comes to a complete stop. Now you have this $500,000 beautiful vehicle with all of that highly expensive equipment, unable to take advantage of anything, it's stuck on the side of the road and it's not gonna go another foot. It is out of gas that's a terrible scenario to be in in a car race, but imagine how much worse it would be, if somebody just attacked you in a Walmart parking lot and you were trying your best to defend yourself, you're bigger and stronger, much buffer than your attacker, but you don't have the physical conditioning, so two minutes into the fight you yourself run out of gas. And even though you're bigger, stronger, and faster than your attacker, you are now completely defenseless, because your gas tank is empty.

If you have never been in a fight, and run out of gas, it's hard to explain that feeling. I've seen so many fights on the mat, in the ring, and in the cage, where one fighter clearly has the upper hand throughout the fight, he has more skills, speed and power, and he's landing much more techniques, but his opponent is in better shape than he is, so when they come out for the third round, The better fighter runs out of gas and he is completely defenseless. This situation is 100% reversible, so why does it happen so often.

Well, unlike the fancy and sexy techniques like spinning, hot kicks, and left her combinations and beautiful, take downs and submissions training your cardio is a grind. It's painful and it's not fun at all. That is probably why if somebody is to shrimp on any part of his training. It will probably be on his cardio. Lifting weights makes your muscles bigger so you look better at the beach, doing a lot of sit up schedule a six pack, but hard cardio just hurts. Sometimes fighters are in denial about their level of training. Some fighters like Glover Teixeira, and Court McGee have to be pulled back because they push their cardio so hard, however, they are the exception not the rule. Most athletes need to be pushed on their cardio more than any other part of the training, because it is repetitious, monotonous, uncomfortable to the point of painful, however, it is as, or maybe even more important than any other single part of your training. If your opponent is faster than you, there are ways to overcome their speed with timing and aggression, if your opponent is a better grappler, you have a chance of takedown defense and beat him, striking, if your fighter is a better submission fighter, you can keep the fight standing again, or if you're a better wrestler, you have the chance to take your opponent to the ground and win the fight. As you can see all of the advantages and disadvantages can always be beat, sometimes it's just who is better at imposing their will. None of that holds true for cardio, if you're lacking cardio, there's nothing you can do, but lose. You cannot overcome a lack of cardio, like you can a lack of speed, or even power, sometimes a good strategy will work. If you don't have a good cardio, there is no strategy for that.

You're just like that fancy souped up car that is so fast and powerful, but it's out of gas. Once the car is out of gas, it's not going anywhere, and once a fighter runs out of gas, he has no chance of winning.

So that's the bad news, the good news is with discipline you can work on your cardio, with discipline you can push yourself past the point of pain to make gains in your cardio. You'll have to push yourself hard and go from aerobic to anaerobic metabolism at times, but I'm telling you right now it's better than running out of gas in a fight and knowing you have no more defense or office Just no sense. Push yourself hard in your cardio people, if you're a Coach, it's instructor make sure it is a part of your core curriculum, that something you guys do at the end of a training session or have your fighters go to a local gym to do their cardio, this should be part of your core curriculum, because in any fight, great cardio is just as important as great striking, great wrestling, and great jujitsu. Live clean, train, hard, and don't let anyone take your lunch money.