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Fight Science Made Simple is for fighters and martial artists who want to train harder, recover faster, and stay on the mat for life.
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What is going on? Welcome to episode 16 of the Fight Science made simple podcast.Every week that I do these episodes of my. Damn, I can't believe I'm doing episode sixteen. I'm just really grateful to be able to come on every single week and consistently provide value for all you fighters, martial arts combat athletes out there.If you're new to the podcast, welcome, I'm Coach Adam Snyder. I'm a lifelong martial artist. I'm an anime fighter. I'm also a performance and recovery coach. Um, I make these podcasts every single week, like the title of the podcast suggests to make fight science simple.So each week we're going deep into straining, conditioning, nutrition, recovery, mindset topics.My experience as a fighter sometimes would bring other fighters on as well to share their experiences to help you grow, help you perform at your best, recover at your best, get stronger, have better cardio, stay on the mat for life.Whether you're a hobby is looking to protect your family, or a professional that's looking to make it all the way to top and build a career.Podcast designed to help you reach your greatest potential on and off the mat. So the best thing that you can do to support the podcast is to follow the podcast, so you don't miss out on anything that we're dropping every single Tuesday.We're dropping episodes, used to be Monday. I had a schedule change with training. My Muay Thai class is a little bit longer on Mondays now, and so I changed it to two day Tuesdays.So now every week on Tuesday, we're gonna be doing our podcast. So definitely follow if you're finding a lot of value out of this podcast, and share, [...0.8s] share with a teammate, with a training partner, anybody that you think can benefit from the information that we're dropping here.The more years that we can get this into, uh, just the more impact we're gonna be able to have on the sport. So drop in.I'm really excited for today's episode. Um, today I'm going to be talking about my personal experience with tearing my ECL. If you don't know in may of 2025, I tore my ACL. So just about seven months ago, I tore my ACL. Um, it was a complete ACL tear, which means my ACL is gone 100% separation.I do not have any CL [...0.6s] anymore. And I know knee injuries are very common in the combat sports world, especially in MMA and grappling sports like jiu jitsu.And I know a lot of people [...1.0s] don't just struggle mentally with getting back to sport and getting back to winning and competing and feeling at their best, um, but they also struggle mentally. It's a very mentally challenging thing to do to struggle with injury and recover and rehab from injury.And so I want to make this podcast because just I would say five months after tearing my ACL, I opted to [...0.6s] go through rehab without surgery. And just 5 months after completely tearing my ACL with no surgery, I was back to sparring.Now, 7 months later, I'm looking to gear up and get back into the cage and take a fight in jeez. I haven't fought in over a year.No, almost a year. It'll be a year in February that I haven't fought because of injuries. And honestly, I, I would have been back faster, but I've also been dealing with some pretty consistent staff outbreaks.It's been a crazy year in 2025. Maybe I'll record a whole other episode talking a bit more [...0.9s] about the staff, but today is all about my knee injury and the ACL. So I'm gonna go into just a little bit of background about specifically what caused the ACL tear.And I'm gonna talk about [...0.7s] my decision to rehab without surgery, what my rehab process looks like, what I'm continuing to do to make sure my knee stay strong and I don't further my injury. And I'm also gonna talk about the mindset a bit about it because that's really important.So like I said, I tore my ACL in the middle of may. Um, what happened originally, so [...1.0s] my last fight was towards the end of February in 2025. And in that camp, I actually hurt my knee, my, my left knee. Um, there's this area right on the top of your shin.It's called the Pez anserine where a lot of your quad muscles connect [...0.5s] and inspiring. I actually tore that little connection area in my knee. And [...0.4s] honestly, it was some of the worst pain that I had ever experienced. Like I couldn't even sit down without feeling shocks of pain in my leg. Um, and that was only three weeks out from the fight.So my last three weeks of fight camp, I [...0.4s] really wasn't able to train. And I talked to my teammates and my coaches about it over the decision to either continue to fight or pull out from the fight.Cause I was just in a ton of pain [...0.5s] and I was in a spot where it's an amateur fight, your amateur record doesn't really matter that much. Um, I needed to get more fights in Florida. You need to fight at least five times in order to go pro. I was gonna be 29 that year.I'm 29 right now. And so [...0.5s] also just a stake of like getting as many fights in as possible. Truthfully, if I [...0.6s] was pro at the time and it was a pro fight, I would have pulled out from that fight. Um, but I chose to fight anyway.And, um, that couple with staff, it just got in my head and mentally I beat myself. Props to my opponent. I mean, he got the win, but I did not show up at 100%, um, of myself with the knee and the staff and my mindset. And that's what got me, uh, the loss last year.So my knee started feeling better. It was the same knee. It was the left knee. I did some strengthening to build it back. Um. Honestly, all the professionals that I talked to said that that injury wasn't that serious. So I didn't go through a massive rehab process to rebuild it.And I would say I took a month off after that, so February and then [...0.5s] April, end of April leading back into may, I was gearing up for another fight in June to get back to it.Um, my first week of fight camp I went pretty hard. I was feeling pretty good, my knee was feeling strong. And then the [...0.4s] Thursday before I tore my ACL. So I tore my ACL on a Friday, my first week of fight camp on the same knee that had been injured in the previous fight camp. Um, the night before actually went out for my partner, Alexandra.She had a networking event for work and I went to support her. I didn't drink or anything like that just because I was in fight camp, but I wanted to be a supportive partner. So we were just out late. I probably didn't get to bed probably like one in the morning, only got like four hours of sleep.And I woke up [...0.5s] on sparring day, my whoop recovery was in red [...1.1s] physically and mentally, I felt lethargic and slow. And, you know, I had the thoughts in my mind of, man, I probably shouldn't.Spar today. I just don't feel great. And, you know, this is something that I coach my athletes all the time. Data is just a tool. And so if your data is telling you that you're under recovered, but you feel great or you're not having any issues, you might be able to train.If your data is telling you you're under recovered and you feel shitty, you probably shouldn't train. And [...0.5s] my data showed I was under recovered and [...0.6s] I was feeling shitty. So I probably shouldn't have went to sparring.But the [...0.9s] fighter athlete ego in me was like, fuck it, bro, it's your first week of fight camp. You've been out too long already. There was a little bit of scarcity, like gonna be 29 this year, amateur coming off of a loss, got a lot to prove. So I sucked it up. I went to sparring. I slammed the Celsius.First couple of rounds I felt okay.And then third round, I was defending a single leg and my partner transitioned to just like an inside sweep and he was a little too high in the way we planted. The ACL just went. Um, and what's really interesting that will first and foremost, like, [...0.6s] I'm a much better coach than I am an athlete.I'm not the best at taking my own advice and what I would coach other athletes for.I guess that's why my coaching business is as successful as it is. And I [...0.6s] struggle with an ACL tear. Um, [...0.8s] but that's besides the point. It was actually pretty surprising like when I tore my ACL, [...0.7s] I didn't think I had an ECL tear. Like I heard a pop and there was an immediate amount of pain. Um, [...0.6s] but I was able to stand up. I shook it off a little bit. I just boxed the last round and sparring that day.And then there was some immediate swelling. I actually ran sprints the next morning [...0.7s] because [...0.6s] truthfully, I didn't think it was that bad. Like, I've tweaked my knee in the past.It was just a bit swollen. Usually when you tear an ACL, there's some, there's some buckling, so if you walk, you buckle when you walk. And what happens is, [...0.5s] so you have your knee and you have your, your femur, which is your, your thigh bone.And then you have your tibia, which is the front bone of your shin. And they connect inside of your knee, and then your ACL is basically like a guard that keeps them in place.And when the ACL isn't there, and when someone experiences buckling, typically their tibia is popping out of that knee joint. And so [...0.5s] that's actually what that popping sound is. It's like those bones clacking together, and that's, that's what a pop is when you tear an ACL or have any injury. But I had no buckling, like I was walking fine.I was moving fine. I was actually sparring, like, just boxing, sparring for a couple weeks, because, like, I thought okay, I thought I was gonna be fine.I was full intent on fighting my fight in June. Um, [...0.9s] I thought maybe like, a little meniscus, maybe it was just a sprain, but I had no thoughts of it even being an ACL tear or [...0.5s] especially a complete ACL tear, just because I was coping so well.It wasn't that bad. Um, maybe it was a bit of denial, maybe it was like just hyper focused on I'm taking this fight, and I'm winning this fight, and this is my opportunity to [...1.3s] work on my mindset and not let my mindset beat me taking a fight when I'm going in not 100%, cause you're never gonna be 100% when, when you take a fight.So there was just a lot of areas of improvement, plus, like, I, I knew I could beat this guy, so I was just ready for it. Um, [...0.7s] but then, like, maybe four weeks out from the fight, um, I saw that my opponent [...1.0s] had taken another fight the week before we were supposed to fight. So I dmed him on Instagram.I was like, bro, aren't we supposed to be scrapping a couple weeks? He's like, dude, I didn't even hear about this blah blah blah, blah, whatever. Needless to say, like, he ended up pulling out of that fight, and honestly, was the best thing that could have happened for me. Because then I decided to go get an MRI.And when the MRI results came back again, this was all in may boom ACL tear, shocked, like, [...0.8s] very shocked, um, and pretty devastated.And all the feelings, right, like the scarcity and the doubt and the uncertainty and the [...0.5s] anger and the frustration and just, just all of these things, you know, 20, 20, four, I was undefeated. I fucking wanna tear three wins.I was crushing. It felt amazing. Then coming in to 2025, dealing with staff infection, hurting my knee, taking my first loss, learning a lot of lessons from that, handling outside life stress and still being able to perform, ready to prove that I Learned those lessons and make corrections to fight again in June and then tearing my ACL. Um.So it was a lot. But, [...0.8s] you know, one thing that I always preach [...0.4s] to our athletes, I've coached a lot of athletes through [...0.5s] injuries, is that [...0.6s] your mindset is 90% of the battle.And I have some pretty strong opinions on what [...0.4s] your body is capable of doing its healing capabilities, and what you can do with perseverance, belief, hard work, [...0.6s] dedication, and trusting in your body.So although there were a lot of negative emotions and the entire rehab process was a journey, um, I was also kind of excited because it was my opportunity to practice what I preach and put my philosophies and action.I helped other people do it, but then I had a chance to do it on my own, which was pretty cool. So I opted to rehab [...0.6s] my ACL.Well, my knee, my ACL is gone. Like, it's not coming back. So I opted to rehab my knee without surgery, which [...0.4s] first and foremost I wanna preface. I'm not a doctor, [...0.4s] I'm not a medical professional, I'm not a physical therapist. Um uh, this is not [...1.1s] medical advice.Okay, I am not anti surgery. I think there are a lot of people that get major injuries that should get surgery.If there was a ton of buckling and I couldn't walk and my entire lifestyle was completely ruined because of the knee, I would have gotten surgery. The reason I did not get surgery is because I was coping so well. I was handling it so well.The other side of it was like, I talked to my partner, Alexandra about this and I, I bet on myself with it. I was like, if I get surgery, [...0.7s] is this a guarantee that I'm going to be out for a year [...0.5s] at least? I'm gonna be fighting June, July of 2026. I'm a 3 in one amateur. I'm gonna be 29.I don't wanna [...0.6s] have to get two more fights in at 29, 30 and then go pro. Whereas if I choose to rehab this without surgery, then I can probably fight within [...0.5s] seven to eight months [...0.4s] and save myself an entire year of rehab. And if the knee gets worse or other ligaments tear or something else happens and I'm forced to get surgery, surgery is gonna happen either way.So maybe I can avoid surgery by going through this rehab process and doing it the right way and building strength.And by the way, like 50% of ECL surgeries end up in retailing anyway. So people that [...0.5s] 50% of people that get ECL surgery end up reterring their ACL, but that's just because they do their rehab wrong. They don't actually like get strong and do the striking conditioning that's required to have a strong resilient knee.They just get the surgery and then go to physical therapy, and then I'm cleared for training, and then go back to training in everyday activity and keep doing all the things that they were doing, like their knees perfectly good. And then it just tears again.And that's a, a failure on them to do, like, the research, but also b, a failure on our medical system. That's a whole other conversation, haha. But [...0.8s] anyway, it just made more sense, like, for my goals what I wanted to do. It just made more sense not to do surgery.Um, so the very first thing that I did was I invested in a physical therapist and a coach.I have the skill set in the ability to rehab my knee myself. I could have done it on my own, but I also know that you go farther faster when you have coaches and people in your corner, when you invest in yourself and put energy and skin in the game. This is what I coach athletes to do, and it's very important to me that I practice what I preach.So [...0.4s] Nick Smith, he's a physical therapist that physical therapist that specialize with combat athletes. Check out Smith Forge on Instagram. He's the man.Um, I linked up with him and we got to work right away. Um, the initial [...0.4s] phase of my rehab was first to get [...0.8s] swelling down and reduce some of the pain, um, and then also to regain range of motion. Um, I wasn't able to fully extend my [...0.6s] me, and I wasn't able to fully flex my knee. So I wasn't able to sit on my heels. And actually flexion took a really, really long time to get back. Like my strength progressed [...0.4s] way quicker than my range of motion did, which was pretty interesting. So we went pretty hard on range of motion. We started working right away together in June.We worked together from June to November, so about five, six months [...0.4s] that we work together. Um, and the main reason, like I said, was just to have another set of eyes looking at it to put my programming into somebody else's hand.So I didn't have to handle the programming and basically tell god in the universe, like, hey, look, I'm serious about healing this, and I'm doing everything in my power possible to do this. So, like, my heart and my mind and my actions and my spirit were all [...0.5s] 100% aligned on me getting back.Like, that's so important, you have to have full alignment on anything. If you have just a little bit of doubt that you're cutting corners, you're not doing it the right way, and that's in your brain that's going to manifest into what you're doing.So we got my swelling down, we got my range of motion back, and then we built, we started rebuilding strength, and honestly bro, like, [...0.5s] and broettes, [...0.4s] it's mostly dudes watching this, but we got some chicks as well. [...1.0s] We just did the fucking basics.Okay, and that's one of the main reasons why I wanted to do this podcast and talk about my ACL experience.Because [...0.5s] not once have I inject any BPC or TB, five hundred, [...0.5s] no peptides have been injected, not once have I worn a knee brace, no anaconda braces, no sleeves, nothing. Okay, I've, haven't done any ice baths, no dry needling, fucking any of it.I haven't done any of it. All I did was basic strength and conditioning, basic pliometrics. I slept, I ate good food, and I worked on my mindset, and then I showed up and did the skill training that I did. That was it.No shortcuts, no secrets. I didn't do any fucking like balancing on half Bosu balls or anything like that. We just got strong as fuck and made sure I was able to jump, run and sprint and move in full ranges of motion. That's all we fucking did.And [...0.8s] I'm a very big believer that the reason I cope so well [...0.5s] from the injury and didn't have to get surgery is because [...1.0s] all I have been doing for the last decade is basic strength and conditioning.Like, I'll experiment with, with advanced tactics and advanced tools, cause it's important for me to know as a strength and conditioning coach.But I squat, I deadlift, I bench press, I pull in all ranges of motion or planes of movement. I rotate, [...0.7s] I do single leg work, I jump, I throw, I do Olympic movements and I sprint. Like, that's it, and that's all I've ever done.So my body is strong as fuck, my quads and my hamstrings and my calves are strong as fuck, my ligaments are resilient as fuck. We do combat sports, especially in MMA, it's a fucking wild sport. Injuries are going to happen. They're not 100% preventable.Freak things are gonna happen no matter how strong you are, how well prepared you are. But being well prepared and doing your strength and conditioning the right way is an investment in your longevity and in your future.Because if I wasn't doing strength and conditioning for as long as I was doing it and practicing what I was preaching for as long as I was doing, if I wasn't strong, powerful and explosive and well fed well, then maybe I tore my ACL and I would need surgery.Then I'd be out, who knows what for a surgeon and follow UPS, all that bullshit, and then another year for rehab. So [...0.8s] I tell you this because [...0.9s] you should always be a pro active athlete versus a reactive athlete.The proactive athletes win. If you are waiting until [...0.5s] a rock bottom, catastrophic moment, an injury, a loss, a weakness to take your training and nutrition more seriously, to invest in a coach, [...0.5s] to do things like a professional, then you're a ticking time.Mom before you, you might have one of those more severe moments and then if one of those moments happen, they're going to impact you less intensely.I'm proof of it [...0.5s] right, because I've been doing things the right way with my australianitioning my nutrition, my recovery, my mindset for so long. I was able to avoid surgery and then immediately invested in a coach.Like I said, I could do this myself, but I invested in a coach immediately. I didn't have the cash on hand to invest in a coach. Okay, we had some challenging months at the end of 2024 with, with my coaching business financially, just part of life it happens in business.It's amazing, it's how we learn and grow and get better. But I wasn't in a place where I could take cash out to invest in a physical therapist, so I put on a credit card.I increased my credit card debt in order to rehab my knee. Why? Because a, when you die, where the fuck is that money going? Like, what the fuck, it's not even real, like, money, it doesn't actually exist.It's not a real thing, we made it up as some fucking monopoly currency, so that's the first thing.Second thing, you can always make more money. There's literally infinite amount of money out there. You can do anything. Like, you can make more money always.The third thing [...0.7s] is, [...0.7s] like, I wanna fight. I wanna be the strongest athlete possible. I wanna fucking have incredible experiences in life. I have big goals for myself on and off the maps, and I'm willing to do whatever it takes to make those things happen.So, like, if I [...1.4s] wasn't willing to invest in myself, and take out a little bit of extra credit card debt in order to rehab my body the right way, that's me telling god. That's me telling the universe.Oh, all of these things that I say I want, I don't really want, because I'm scared, because I have a little bit of scarcity, because I wanna save a quick buck, because I don't actually believe in my abilities to do that.Fuck that bro, like, I'm all in. If you wanna achieve great things in life, you gotta be all fucking in. You gotta bet on yourself, you gotta be willing to lose it all. You gotta be willing to put yourself in a position where it could all fall apart.But you have so much confidence and belief and trust in yourself and your abilities and where you're going that no matter how hard and sucky it gets, you're gonna fucking pull it off anyway.And that's what you gotta be willing to do [...0.5s] with everything, not just in your fight career, not just in your training, but in every single aspect of your life. You're gonna feel fear, you're gonna feel uncertainty, but you gotta go all in. That's the only way you're gonna win.And that's another reason why [...0.9s] I'm pretty grateful for the ACL tear, because these are things that I practice, these are things that I preach.I understand that when you're young, like I started doing this as a coach in 2,019. I was right out of college. I was like, 22, I'm 29 now. The older you get, the more experience you have, the more credibility you have, the more, [...0.5s] ah, just the more life experience you have, right?And so this is my opportunity to practice what I preach and show that what we do actually works, and then hopefully help some of you achieve your greatest potential as well.And, and that was really it, like really consistent strength training, talking to my coach every single week, eating a lot of protein and good carbs, prioritizing sleep, being smart about [...0.5s] how I spent my time.Like there were some times where I was feeling really good, and I went a little bit harder than I should have in the beginning, and then I had some flare UPS and was set back a little bit.But I would say by month two or three, I really Learned how to listen to my body, understand. Okay, I'm feeling really good, but I'm not going to push it, because if I do these things, it may have me flare up and set back.And once I did all those things consistently and really dialed it in, everything started to click. And I tore my ACL in may, and [...0.6s] by November I was doing full MMA sparring again. And I'm doing full MMA sparring now my knee feels incredible, doesn't even feel like I injured it.I'm looking to fight. Hopefully next month, we'll see. We're moving to Thailand at the end of February.So I'm gonna be living in Thailand [...0.8s] for three months. So hopefully I can secure a fight here in the States before we go out and do that. But we'll definitely try to get some kickboxing fights, Muay Thai fights going in Thailand. But be training full time out there.My knees healthy and ready to go. And look the physical part of it, the training part of it is really important. But like I said in the beginning of the pod, the number one most important thing, like 90% of your success with anything, but especially with injuries is your mindset.I know first hand how challenging [...0.5s] injury mindset is. You go to dark places. You're not able to do the things that you love. You have doubts and fears about will I ever get back to 100%? Am I always going to be like this? Am I falling behind?I can't train the way that I want to, and my teammates are leveling up, my opponents are leveling up. What if I get back to training and get in it, gets injured again?There's the depression that comes, like, you're not training, you're not moving your body, you're not around your teammates, like I was basically in my house for fucking all the time and not rolling with my friends and pushing myself to my physical limits, and you start to feel low, like your testosterone is low, your energy is low, you fucking, you feel like a shell of yourself, you wanna quit every single day so many times am I doing this?Maybe I should just get the surgery, like, maybe I should just give up, maybe I'm getting too old, like, am I really going? Like, all of that bullshit shows up, and that's okay, and that's normal. You can't let that shit stop you. You gotta just show up and take consistent action every single day.And this is where faith comes into play. When you have the doubt, when you have the uncertainty, when you have the fear, you have to have faith in yourself.You have to have faith in your abilities, and you have to have faith in some level of higher power, whether it's the universe or god or just the belief that everything is going to work out.You don't have to be religious, but you have to have some kind of faith, and those things are gonna carry you through. One more thing about mindset that's really important is your words, your words have power.The thoughts that you have are powerful. Your subconscious brain, which is basically the part of your mind that runs the show and holds the instructions and the programming for how you do anything. Like you put your shirt on this morning, which arm did you put in first?Your right or your left? I don't know. You don't know, but if you think about it, maybe it was your right arm, right? Like why? It's a decision that you made. Why did you make that decision? Well, it wasn't a conscious decision. Your subconscious mind made that decision.And [...0.4s] most of the decisions that you make, and most of the actions in the ways that you act in the words that you say, in the things that you think are not conscious decisions. You're not aware of what you're doing. Your subconscious mind is running the show.And so [...1.0s] being really intentional with your word choice, and how you speak about yourself, and how you speak about your injury, and how other people speak about you and your injury is really important. Because [...0.5s] your subconscious mind is unemotional. It just gets instructions and takes coding and programming, [...0.5s] creates beliefs.And those beliefs become how you act. So if you're someone that's like, yeah, I fucked up my knee, or this is my bad knee, or man, like I just keep getting injured all the time, or I'm injury proof, or like you're making jokes about being injured and all, and you're just talking about being injured and identifying as an injured person all the time, and your subconscious brain is going to [...0.8s] accept that belief as the truth.And then without you even knowing it, it's going to [...0.4s] have you take actions to [...1.3s] ensure that, that belief is a reality, which means like, you might continue to get injured, or you might have a harder time rehabing, or it might take longer, because your subconscious brain believes that its identity is an injured person [...0.8s] so many times even to this day.Oh, is that your fucked up knee? Oh, that's your bad knee, oh, you're a cripple, right? Like like coaches will say that joking, teenage will say that joking, but I will correct them on the mats. That's not my bad knee. That's my healing knee. Bro, I'm not a fucking cripple. I'm stronger than ever. What the fuck are you talking about?And they'll look at me, and they'll like, roll their eyes, and they'll be like, don't take it that seriously, bro, or, like, whatever. But it is that fucking serious, [...0.7s] it is that fucking serious.You have to reprogram your subconscious brain to be that identity of a healthy strong person. If you're struggling with an injury, and you're identifying with that injury, and you have a negative relationship with that injury, you're probably going to be injured longer.You're gonna have a fucking rough time throughout that process, cause you're just gonna be a fucking miserable human all the time, [...0.6s] and your chances of getting reinjured are drastically increased.So honestly, like, [...0.5s] doing the strength work is easy, doing the rehab is easy, especially for fighters. We like training, we like doing the physical, we like doing the work that's not hard to do.The hardest part is the mental work, the reframing. Catching yourself every time you have a negative thought, you have an unaligned thought, you catch yourself speaking negative or unaligned words, you catch other people saying negative or unaligned words about you and your injuries.Reframe them, [...0.7s] reframe your thoughts, reframe your words, reframe other people's words, and do it unapologetically. You don't have to be a dick about it, but you have to be unapologetic, not afraid to offend anybody. Because this is your future, this is your well being, this is your health.And [...0.6s] truthfully, like, mastering your mind and your belief in yourself, and your ability to reprogram your subconscious mind [...0.6s] is one of the hardest things to do with. That small shift will 10 x, fucking 100 x, [...0.4s] I don't have studies on it. I'm throwing numbers out there 100 x your success rates.Okay kind of a blabble of a podcast today, but that's all I got, had to be a quick one. I gotta get ready for sparring here in an hour or so, gonna fuck some shit up, gonna put some pace on some motherfuckers, can't wait to get after it.I hope that you found this episode [...0.6s] helpful. If you're struggling with an injury, [...0.5s] you got this, [...0.6s] you're gonna get through it, but you have to take the right action.You can't just sit around and be passive and hope for it to get better. You can't keep bumping yourself with BBC and taking rest days, and throwing a brace on it, and resting and hoping that your injury is gonna get better. It's not [...0.5s] okay, throw your fucking knee brace, throw your braces away.Okay, inject BPC fine, but also get strong as fuck, [...0.6s] okay, getting strong as fucking being able to jump and throw and sprint is more important than injecting BPC.Cause if all you do is inject yourself with BPC, you might feel better, but you're not actually gonna prevent further injury and fix the thing that caused the injury, and then you're gonna get fucking injured again.So get strong as fuck, [...0.6s] jump, run, sprint, get your mindset right [...0.5s] full of belief and faith and certainty, and fucking take some action. Eat the right foods, eat healthy, eat for performance.Get a gram of protein per pound of body weight, eat carbohydrate, sleep 7, 8 hours a night, [...1.1s] better yourself in other ways.If you can't go on the mat and train the way that you want to watch some fucking film, [...0.7s] learn a new skill, read some more. Don't just fucking sit on your phone and scroll, and watch TV and play video games and Jack off. Like, that's some loser shit right there.Fucking lock in, and be a champion, and be a winner, no matter what adversity life is being thrown at you. That's all I got.If you want some help rehabing injuries, building back from injuries, being the biggest badass fighter on the planet, shoot me a DM on Instagram. We'll see how we can help. We're the best of what we do.We got four guys looking to make Contender Series runs this year on the Fight Science Collective. And we got more common. I got pro fighters knocking at my door every single day, because we're the best at what we do.Best believe we're gonna be getting guys to the UFC this year. And best believe our team is filling up fast. So if you don't wanna get left behind, shoot me a DM and let's level up together. Thanks for listening. Have a great rest of the week. I'll talk to you soon. Peace.