Joseles Nieves

[Zac Pauga @ZacPauga]

I’ve been trying to not make this a huge long post but eff it I’m passion about this topic so you guys are gonna get all of it 😂

We have this weird desire in mma to glorify the grind and hard work. How many quotes have you heard about “being the hardest worker in the room”, my wrestling coach even breaks practice down with hard work.

I could give you 50 different anecdotes about how this is all bullshit but I’ll start with my own experience. I came into fighting as a hobby and was working at the same time, I lifted and trained the exact same way I did as a football player.

I was immediately labeled a prospect because my size, power and explosiveness. 5 amateur fights just blowing guys out of the water.

I turned pro, started making every practice, joined the fighters lifting group, training twice a day 5 days a week and a bonus session on Saturdays, i slowly burn everything special about myself out. Look up My tapology, my pro career starts of so lame because I have nothing left for the actual fights.

I start training with Alistair Overeem who’s 44 years old and in the top 5 of the UFC. He tells me he trains once a day and takes Thursdays off so he can kick ass at sparring on Fridays. Mentally I cope and make up excuses about him being “talented” or “gifted” or whatever.

I get in TUF and just through the process of filming and not cutting weight I’m well rested and just smoke these guys. Go back to my team and decide I’m gonna work 10x as hard to win the finals and we saw the result. I tell myself I wasn’t working hard enough so start cutting weight again and work my ass off to have a garbage ufc career and get cut.

Now I’m out of the ufc and back to doing my own thing again, not paying extra money for personal training, not cutting weight, and I’m honestly the best I’ve ever been.

Being fresh and healthy is infinitely more important then winning some made up hard work competition, the honest truth is I would prefer to win my fights with the least amount of work. Understanding this is part of what makes volk so damn good.

[Joseles Nieves @JoselesNieves]

Why’d they get Robert Downey to play Victor? he’s very good but it still feels off when he’s thee Iron man

[☔ @Whotfismick]

mfs when they try to manage

> 9-5
> gym
> 10 hrs of sleep

all together:

[teKa @teKa088]

como quitar la depresion en un video de 1 minuto:

más eficaz que los libros de autoayuda

[Chelly @chellgod]

When the first leg of your parlay hits immediately but you still have 14 more legs

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“It's hard to beat a guy when he's got his mind made up that he's going to win.”

— Muhammad Ali

[TJ @EliteFourDan]

Tell her Messi still doin it

[. @tosinmm_]

There’s 4 World Cup games and game 5 tomorrow

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“We don't have to be smarter than the rest.

We have to be more disciplined than the rest.”

— Warren Buffett

[Jena Garcia @VidaVivaDiva]

You’re telling me I have League Pass, Peacock, Prime, Hulu, Apple TV, Prime and Netflix and still can’t watch the NBA finals?

[Tim Denning @Tim_Denning]

The goal isn’t to never work again. It’s to never do bullsh*t work again.

[The Shift Journal @TheShiftJournal]

“The biggest mistake we make in life is thinking we have time”

―Kobe Bryant

[Andy Wang🕊 @andysvibe]

Success literally is a reflection of your daily self talk. Think better feeling thoughts and watch your life rapidly change.

[𝗸ā𝗻𝗲 @KaneOfLife]

your body can stand almost anything, it’s the mind you have to convince.

[Justin Welsh @thejustinwelsh]

Marry well, stay in shape, build something you own, and protect your time.

[theendeavorpath @theendeavorpath]

“To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish.”

— Michael Jordan

[Ithacan Hermit @IthacanHermit]

Pussy feels great. Fighting feels great. Winning feels great. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Life gets a whole lot better when you’re not being forced to feel bad about being HUMAN.

[Elai @elaifresh]

Unfortunately, you do indeed have to wage a 24/7 war against your own body getting stiff from modern sedentary-sitting life

Fortunately, it is curable

[Douglas A. Boneparth @dougboneparth]

My daughter’s lemonade stand was struggling, so we pivoted to AI compute.

She’s been acquired by Microsoft for $1.2 billion.