What’s beautiful is when your growth suddenly starts influencing the people closest to you—completely shifting their perspective on reality and naturally removing the things that only steal time and drain your awareness of being happy, through discipline. And as you already know from the lecture: it’s not the team that’s weak, it’s the individuals. At some point, one person starts pulling the other upward—and that’s the signal that there’s no limit to how much happiness life can hold.

108kg Speed is the nervous system’s ability to generate force through the muscles. Agility is either innate or trained; nonetheless, it requires a high level of proprioception—feeling your body and its position—so you can slow down, accelerate, change direction, and, most importantly, produce force from uncomfortable positions. All of this requires both targeted work and the “behind-the-scenes” work, based on converting between three types of muscle contractions: - Eccentric - Isometric - Concentric That’s why I’ve always felt greater benefits and enjoyment from athletic training in the broad sense, which demands: strength / speed / agility / endurance / explosiveness / change of direction. Now that I’ve returned to combat sports training, everything feels easier—and in general, whatever I start training now, it’s easier for me.

ECCENTRIC TRAINING - Reduces injury risk. The stronger a muscle is in the eccentric phase, the lower the risk of tissue damage. - Increases tendon hypertrophy, which allows more elastic potential energy to be stored during absorption (deceleration). - Desensitizes the Golgi tendon organs (supramaximal eccentric work). - Improves exercise technique (slow eccentrics). - Increases hypertrophy of the distal portion of the muscle, as well as the muscle–tendon microstructures. By training eccentrically, you develop two physiological processes that influence strength development: the stretch reflex and the stretch-shortening cycle (SSC). Every dynamic movement starts with an eccentric action. SPORT PERFORMANCE improves when MOVEMENT TIME BECOMES SHORTER — V. Zatsiorsky

GPP is simplicity and the base layer — powerlifting staples with a touch of plyometrics, safe and effective for most athletes early on. However, as training age and performance level rise, GPP alone (lifting + basic jumps) may not be enough to close specific gaps, such as rate of force development (RFD) across different vectors/planes, or sport-relevant isometric strength-endurance. Either way: Strength is the Mother, and RFD is the Father. 💪

I’ll give you one important piece of advice: remember that the bad days are the most valuable. Only then do we ask ourselves questions we normally wouldn’t ask—questions that push us to look for deeper answers—and we grow as people when we’re aware of it. And only then, by adopting the mindset that the problem becomes a path—one I accept, but do not consent to—do we gain new possibilities.