MMA Life

“If you choose your martial art over your family, your friends, and your career, you will end up broke, alone, and injured.“

-Some guy on an Internet forum somewhere

This quote is precisely what MMA Life is not about. Mixed Martial Artists are not all young strong men who aspire to be professional fighters, nor are we UFC fanboys who spend our lives following the pro MMA scene. Rather, we write to the people who want to have their families, their careers, their friends and loved ones, their work and their play, and still feel proud to call themselves what they are – fighters. This site is about taking the lessons learned by the pros and our peers alike and making them available and accessible to anyone, in the hopes that they can supplement their own lives with a healthy dose of training. And anyone is welcome to join us.

There is a lot of information about health and nutrition, and most of it is contradictory. There are plenty of scientists out there with very good ideas of what the human body does under perfect laboratory conditions, and there are plenty of experienced trainers out there whose routines are steeped in both real-world efficacy and pointless tradition. There are nutritionists out there who are at the cutting edge of a new science, and there are journalists and philosophers who speak to a wholly different body of knowledge. We at MMA Life do not pretend to know the capital-t Truth on any of these issues, nor are we particularly concerned with finding it.

Rather, we want to focus on what we think works for ourselves. We want to talk about whether X nutrition plan or Y workout plan feels like it has worked for you, not what everyone else thinks you should be doing, but we also want to keep our minds open to suggestions, so we can constantly push ourselves to improve. Essentially, we’re open to healthy experimentation and healthy skepticism – and what matters to us most are the personal experiences, not the hard data or the snake oil. These personal experiences are the only qualifications we have – no fancy certificates or (relevant) degrees – so don’t regard what we have to say as anything other than a story of what has worked, or not worked, for us. In other words, if something worked for you, that’s great – but if it didn’t, don’t blame us. Instead, do what we do: be grateful that you have found a point you can improve on, and find a way to fix it so you end up stronger.

And above all, have fun.

pat m.