The Ulysses Gomez Experiment: Religion and MMA
So I’ve been told many times that if you bring up one of these three things that you will automatically start a fight. Politics, Abortion, and Religion.
Well my goal in this blog isn’t to start a fight, I just want to give people an insight on my beliefs and how it pertains to MMA. Whatever you believe in is your business; you can believe in Allah, Zeus, Jesus, or no one at all.
Whatever you believe is your decision and your business I’m not one to try to change your mind to believe in “My God”. This is just my beliefs on God and what he has to do with MMA. With that being said, here goes.
When people find out that I fight MMA they give me a funny look, but when they find out I fight MMA and I believe in God they give me a shocked look.
I think a lot of people still consider this sport barbaric, sad but true. Anyways, I consider myself religious, especially when I’m in the sauna cutting weight. Ha-ha.
I try to go to church once a week and I also try to read the bible daily. “Try” is the keyword because sometimes I get so tired from training that all I want to do is stay in bed and let my body rest.
I believe that there is a God, some people don’t and like I said earlier that’s fine, your beliefs are your beliefs.
One of my good friends, David Bollea , isn’t that religious. We’ve had numerous talks about God and how he pertains to fighting. He asked me if I pray for victory before every fight.
I looked at him and kind of chuckled and told him that I don’t pray for victory. I explained to him that I would love to win my fight but that I didn’t think God looks at it that way.
Like I don’t expect for me to win the fight just because I’m more religious than my opponent. I expect to win the fight because, well frankly, I believe that I’m the better fighter.
I told him that all I pray for is that both me and my opponent stay safe during the fight. Even though this is a competition, we both can seriously get hurt.
You hear a lot of fighters saying they would rather die than lose a fight, but let’s be realistic, most of the time they are just talking out of their well you know.
Anyways I told Dave that I do pray for other specific things but that I don’t pray specifically for victory. He asked me what things I pray for and I gave him my list.
Besides staying safe, I told him that I pray that I can go out there and perform to the best of my abilities. I pray that the better man will win the fight.
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But if I lose because I didn't live up to what I am capable of then that's no one's fault but my own. I also told Dave regardless of the outcome of the fight, I will be able to accept it. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I don't make an
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Making Weight For Peak Sports Performance
The more important something is to us, the more we tend to obsess about it. It’s the human condition. Competitive fighters tend to take their lot very seriously, and as fight night approaches and the weigh-in looms large perspective tends to be lost and panic can set in. This really isn’t necessary, and any good sports conditioning coach should have his athlete ready and stress free, with both his eyes set on just one thing – knocking his opponent senseless and emerging from the ring victorious and with head held high. In actual fact the practice of “making weight” for a weigh in the day before a bout should be seen by most fighters as a way to gain a distinct advantage come fight time. Screw it up and woe betide you, but get it right and you will be amazed at what can be done. There is massive potential for coming in under the weight limit and then loading up by anything from an extra 5-20lbs, making you one hell of a bigger and stronger animal!
Who Needs To Make Weight?
All fighters (indeed all sportspeople) who compete in classes with weight limits. Everyone wants to be the largest and most powerful man in their class and the best way to do this outside of the super heavy / heavyweight categories is to come in at the very top of the allowed weight limits. To do this raises the two main points of this article and the two main functions of “making weight”, namely longer term fat loss in order to be a lean and muscular machine, and short term water weight loss that can quickly regained making a middleweight a super middleweight in just 24 hours.
Fat Loss Before a Fight
It is beyond the scope of this article to go into great detail about the intricacies of fat loss. Instead let’s keep it to this – common sense should always prevail and crash dieting is not the way to go. The myopic “bulk and cut” approach of many fighters is not merely archaic and unhealthy, it is also just plain wrong. In order to drop body fat quickly it is essential to have a significant calorie deficit, and what do you think this does to energy levels for training, and your ability to exert force and power in the ring? Not a lot, that’s for sure. Overtraining and over dieting are the bane of any athlete in any sport, so if you want to optimize your performance in the ring then the only strategy for fat loss is slow and steady.
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