Superhuman Fitness

So I started juijitsu back in April 2019, only did it for about 2 weeks at that time before quitting due to unsatisfactory with my teacher and the gym contract in general. Eventually started again in January 2020 for another 6 weeks until the covid19 lock down closed down gyms temporarily. On May 26th I joined ohana juijitsu mma and muay thai after they bought out ufc gym where I was going previously. 

I have now been going to ohana for approximately 6 weeks. 

I noticed in all juijitsu programs I've been to there are a large amount of juijitsu practitioners that seem extremely outbof shape. Even at the higher belt levels. Ive seen tons of blue and purple belts who get out of breath from the dang warmup for crying out loud. Then drilling comes along and they're terribly gassed and out of breath. 

I mentioned this to some of them and they claim its because they're at a higher skill so they go harder or they say they're just old or some excuse like that

However for one thing, greater skilled practitioners in juijitsu generally boast about how much more eggecient they are due to having higher skill and proficiency which allows less overall effort strength and exertion. Always they say "use less strength and more technique. Strength and cardio isn't overly important as long as you have good technique" and things along those lines. And so if this is true, then how come you use skill as an excuse for why they exert themselves more than me? It doesn't really make sense especially considering many of these people are out of breath after the simple warmup that everyone is about equally skilled at. In fact I'm far more skilled at the warmup exercises than they are due to being a strength and conditioning coach and I always push the warmup way harder. The drilling shouldn't make people out of breath no matter their skill level. In fact more skill should equal less effort for drilling. During sparring or rolling i can understand more skill means more ability to roll with more intensity. However as a white belt who also had years of experience in kickboxing and muay thai I am certain the amount of effort a beginner puts into trying to push a giant blue belt off you while you're on the bottom in full mount is way more exaughsting than having a graceful roll as a purple belt with another purple belt of equal skill even if you roll harder.

Then the age excuse. So common in all areas of life. Honestly I think the main problem here and real reason behind every excuse listed so fsr is that these people just don't do effective strength and conditioning work. Most martial artists in general for some reason assume proper strengtg and conditoning is a waste of time or isn't as effective compared to the bit of conditioning you might get from actually just practicing the sport.

The fact is I've been doing dedicated strength and conditoning consistently since 2016 and I've found it extremely easy to do 2 to 3 sessions usually back to back after max strength and conditioning sessions while not getting gassed or exaughsted during warmups, drilling or sparring. Even on days I go super hard. despite being a white belt who is almost always full mounted on bottom of higher belts i always have such an easier time enduring hard training compared to everyone else.

Everyone else is gassed the entire time complaining about being tired or being old or what ever. Where as I secretly smirk feeling proud and strong knowing I woke up and went straight to the gym for max effort powerlifting squats and desldifts then straight to juijitsu, now in my second bjj session directly after. Still not exaughsted. AND IM FASTED. Meanwhile these fellow men are complaining about how hard it is for their bodies to handle that simple one bjj session even though they probably binge on carbs most of the day

As much as I appreciate humanity I must say its incredibly challenging not to notice how much more physically healthy, fit and vigorous i seem to be compared to the rest of the world.