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One thing that I have learned over the years of training is to train with intent. It is an inevitable characteristic that training should contain. Particularly, if you want to progress in your practice, no matter whether it is strength, mobility, skill or a combination of all – the drills you do should all have a specific reason. Yes, on the one hand you should be able to cognitively understand why you are doing what you do, but what is more important, in my opinion, is to ha

5 a.m. - my alarm goes off; I wander to my phone placed 5 feet away from my bed; I stop the alarm; I also stop all emergency alarms I manually set at 15-minute intervals until 6 a.m., as if iPhone technology weren’t advanced enough to take care of the following alarms if the first one was missed. Next stop: bathroom – on the way, I turn on the coffee machine. I pee. Then - coffee ritual - weighing beans, grinding beans, tamping ground beans, inserting tamped and ground beans