I’m baaaaaack with another Ask EricWongMMA segment.
But I almost didn’t make it back.
I was in the airport waiting around and was making my way to the departure gates.
I walked through some doors, thinking they led to my gate, but when I looked back I thought, “Uh, oh” because they had those do not enter signs – you know the big red circle with the white line through the middle.
DAMN YOU Chinese genes and your malfunctioning GPS for a brain for leading me astray (yet again).
I asked one of the workers where to go by pointing to the gate on my ticketand he simply pointed to go that way to the end and up… When I got up there, I realized I WAS BACK WHERE I’D STARTED.
I had to check in again, go through security and sprint to the gate. When I arrived, they looked a little upset and said I might have to stay another night in Barcelona. But they eventually let me on and my wife greeted me by laughing at me.
Barcelona was a lot of fun and is very beautiful as well, as you may have seen in my Muscleups in Barcelona post.
But all good things must come to an end and every ending is a new beginning so this week’s Ask EricWongMMA question came from Steve from New Zealand and I throw in some clips and relate my answer to this past UFC, specifically the two light heavyweight main event bouts.
He asked about how to not tense up when sparring, and in answering it, I reveal 1 “Little-Known” Secret to Endless Cardio…
Discover this secret in today’s Ask EricWongMMA video:
The exercise I show you in the video above is best performed daily. It won’t feel like much. But it works.
The keys are to:
- Inhale, focusing on expanding the area below your nipples while relaxing your neck and shoulders
- Breathe in through the nose and out through either the nose or mouth
- Practice regularly!
If you try too hard, you might even feel an intense shooting pain in your left chest/neck – this is a “spasm” in your diaphragm and nothing to worry about. It’ll go away after a minute or so.
I’m going to do a post on the “hyperventilation” concept next week so stay tuned for that… It’s going to be pretty cool.
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