Whenever I watch ufc or ofc, I notice the fighters are flooded with so much impact to their bodies. How are they so durable tho? I get they do conditioning. I also do body conditioning because I do mma too. But whenever I spar someone it hurts so much after. In the moment, my adrenaline deals with it but afterwards everything hurts so much. Do they also feel this?
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I MMA/spar as well. That difference between you, me, and other people who do extreme sports/fighting sports is that we’ve been conditioned over a long time to take the pain and retranslate it into something else temporarily. The body deals with it in various ways. Adrenaline for sure plays a big role, but the mental fortitude to withstand pain is also a big plus. You have to remember that 99% of the people on the planet have never really experienced or can withstand the violent pain of being hit in the face, felt bones break, or endured long bouts of physical exertion.
I’ll give you an example from my personal experience. My father was an abuser. He wasn’t a slapper, or a belter, or a switch user. He was a puncher and a torturer. His abuse while horrible taught me how to handle violence and pain and make it into something else. It is so now that my tolerance to pain threshold is in fact very dangerous to myself in that if I have damaged myself I risk doing even more harm because my pain response is delayed by my mental conditioning to it. In the ring that’s fine, out in the real world? Not so fine. It may prevent me from seeking help and just dealing with it and I may live with an injury that may cost me my life. I have to pay really close attention to that and be cognizant of it. Also, when I do experience extreme pain, I laugh. Pain induced in me translates into actual laughter, almost like I’m being tickled.
I get hit in the face, I laugh. I get a really hard/deep tissue massage, I laugh. Oddly if I cut or burn myself, I feel that and it hurts but in a different way and I react by standing still and breathing through my nose and out of my mouth for a few minutes. But this is my and this is how I deal with pain. Other people deal with it differently, but now I’m curious how other people deal with theirs.
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