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chris wojcik

7 months

Do you HATE wrestling? Are you a shameless guard puller? Do you love scooting around on your booty? I have just the instructional for you. DON’T STAND UP — available at the link below.

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2 years

“Jiu-Jitsu is great for your health” okay bud I’m 25 and I have 3 herniated discs and my ears look like chicken nuggets.

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Jiu-Jitsu is not good for weight loss. However, being bad at Jiu-Jitsu is incredible for weight loss.

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2 years

I just feel like this dude maybe hasn’t read any philosophy books??? Or ever been to an Ivy League school??? Or knows what philosophy is???

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7 months

rear body lock defense 🤌🏻

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2 years

10 lessons from John Danaher that will make you better at everything: 🧵

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10 months

Most beautiful part about Jiu-Jitsu is the social lubricant effect. At 20, I was friends with people twice my age. Veterans, drug addicts, dads, mothers. Successful ppl, failures, basket cases. Everyone. Good ppl and bad ppl all vibin bc of grappling. Fckn love it.

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2 months

It's been a crazy and (a bit dramatic) few weeks of Jiu-Jitsu, but excited to finally announce that I'll be competing in the 2024 ADCC World Championship at the T-Mobile Arena in Vegas.

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20 days

Doing Jiu-Jitsu full-time is extremely weird because in the small niche Jiu-Jitsu community, I am "living the dream" But literally every normal person I meet thinks I am a crazy adult doing Karate all day long

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2 years

Nutrition advice for grapplers: stop taking diet advice from a podcast run by a fucking stand-up comedian.

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10 months

“Bro just come to BJJ with me. It’s life-changing bro. On your 1st day you will get tapped out 73x by a 110 pound woman. By the time you get a blue belt you’ll have 17 injuries and a closet full of combat bathrobes. You’ll still suck at blue belt - and purple and brown. And

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The fact that submission grappling isn’t in the Olympics just feels wrong to me. We have ADCC and that’s cool, but like submission grappling just seems like a sport that it should be in the Olympics. Will Jiu-Jitsu, in some form, ever be in the Olympics?

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9 months

"sugar is poison and my body is a temple" bro there are professional athletes who do cocaine before they compete and still perform at a world-class level will you shut the fuck up and let me have my twix bar in peace

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2 years

If I were a Jiu-Jitsu white belt, I'd focus on these 10 things: 🧵

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2 years

“i love jiu-jitsu there’s no drama no bullshit just nice people and learning” lol just wait

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"tough guys" in jiu-jitsu are always funny to me because like one of the best jiu-jitsu guys ever weigh 140 pounds and eats nothing but pizza. like congrats you're tough now shut up and let's play fight in our bathrobes.

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8 months

If you are taking steroids JUST so that you can win at Jiu-Jitsu but you are also a HOBBYIST, you are out of your damn mind. If your coach is encouraging this behavior of you for your HOBBY, they are out of their damn mind. This sport is full of crazy people lol

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@chrismwojcik

2 years

5 lessons on Jiu-Jitsu from my weekend of training in Austin: - guard is dead (unless you’re good at wrestling up) - if you can’t wrestle you have no vote in where the fight happens - passing meta is ahead of the guard - wrestle-judo-jitsu 😵‍💫 - everyone good is good at leg locks

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2 years

i don't know which blue belt needs to hear this but sir you are a person and not a lion/shark/gorilla

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2 years

being a jiu-jitsu athlete is just going from injury to injury without losing enthusiasm.

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2 years

Maybe if BJJ warmups weren't stupid people wouldn't skip them. My warmup every day consists of light hand-fighting, takedown drills focusing on setups (shots w no finish), and working up to finishing full-speed takedowns. Takes about 15 mins. I've used this for about a year.

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9 months

the jiu-jitsu urge to call people you barely know “brother”

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24 days

Jiu-Jitsu in the 90s was basically MMA fighters, bouncers, and law enforcement officers fighting each other in garages. Now people think "traditional Jiu-Jitsu" is bowing, wearing matching gis, and odd formalities. I mean come on lol

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2 years

10 of the biggest lies in Jiu-Jitsu: 🧵

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2 years

One time I lost a Jiu-Jitsu match to a guy who thinks the earth is flat and honestly I feel like I let the entire public school system down.

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7 months

Been a weird place with BJJ lately. Never enjoyed training BJJ more than I do right now. Never disliked the culture surrounding BJJ more than I do now.

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8 months

Jiu-Jitsu coaches be like "I have a very high standard for my students" When their student is a 40-year-old insurance agent who literally just wants to not be fat and learn some skills.

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1 year

lol remember when gordon gained 50 pounds of pure muscle in 3 months and all the jiu-jitsu websites were like “omg wow such dedication”

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8 months

What Your Favorite Submission Says About You (Part 2) Are there any submissions I'm still missing?

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@chrismwojcik

8 months

Leg locks are the best way to submit people who are more athletic than you, more experienced than you, and more knowledgeable than you.

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1 year

tom hardy competes in bjj and does well and everyone loves it cuz he pretended to be bane in a movie zuck competes and does well and gets made fun of cuz he’s a billionaire nerd am i missing something bjj ppl are so weird lmao

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1 year

10 things I'd tell my blue belt self: 🧵

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8 months

One time I was training with someone who was bigger and stronger than me, and also known for their guillotine. I had a neck injury. Tingling in my fingers. Pain. They guillotined me so hard that they fixed my neck. I haven't had a neck issue since then. Jiu-Jitsu saves lives.

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8 months

What Your Favorite Submission Says About You What subs did I miss?

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2 years

10 ways to get better at Jiu-Jitsu faster: 🧵

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2 years

“i’m a free thinker” sir you have listened to 700 episodes of the joe rogan experience

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2 years

it’s always been weird to me that jiu-jitsu attracts these people who are like using grappling to “silence their demons” or whatever like bro i’m literally here cuz i was bad at basketball 😂

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8 months

avoid jiu-jitsu because it is gay

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6 months

I've played sports for my entire life and I have never met a higher density of actual insane people than in the competitive Jiu-Jitsu world. It is perhaps the smallest niche sport with the most lunatics.

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@chrismwojcik

7 months

Adults who do BJJ: Man, I wish I did wrestling as a kid! That would have been fun! People who actually wrestled:

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2 years

jiu-jitsu guys be on instagram like “don’t talk SHIT if you can’t FIGHT” and then they go drill butterfly guard sweeps for an hour 🙈

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@chrismwojcik

9 days

I taught kids BJJ for 2 years. Kids who stayed in the class for several years developed discipline, focus, and resiliency. It really stood out when compared to new kids in the class. Anecdotal evidence, but I'm confident BJJ is one of the best sports for kids.

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Maybe we should put our kids in BJJ. This study looked at Brazilian Jiu Jitsu's effect on young people. The results are incredible. Kids did jiu jitsu 1-3x per week, 45 minutes on average, and they increased their self control by double digits compared to their peers. They

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4 months

If you're a young guy and you want to do Jiu-Jitsu full-time the 2 most important skills you need to develop that no one takes the time to develop are: • Wrestling • Making money Don't wanna be 30 with no money and crap takedowns lol.

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2 years

How to get really good at Jiu-Jitsu really fast: - QUIT your job - BREAK UP WITH your significant other - LIVE in a laundromat - EAT a lot açaí - BOW to your professor - TAPE your fingers excessively - PRAY to the lord and savior - TRUST me I’m a black belt

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@chrismwojcik

4 months

Countering the single leg counter 🤼‍♂️🐢

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10 months

guy who's tried 100 jiu-jitsu classes: the inside sankaku is probably the most dynamic leg entanglement, although the meta is shifting from leg locks into a more complete sport, with more emphasis on wrestling and pinning guy who's tried 1000 jiu-jitsu classes: this shit is gay

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@chrismwojcik

9 months

Grappling is HIGHLY anabolic. - weight cutting - extreme stress on the joints so that lifting heavy becomes a safety hazard - multiple sessions per day burn so many calories gaining weight is extremely difficult - if you train hard, you could damage your body with injuries

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2 years

I've been in the Jiu-Jitsu world for a long time. I've seen the WORST sides of this martial art - massive egos, McDojos, culty shit, and more. That said, I'm a firm believer that if you can avoid the bullshit, Jiu-Jitsu is one of the best tools for personal development.

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4 months

lucky is better than good ☘️

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2 years

if anybody on twitter who isn’t a serial killer or a convicted felon ever wants to come train at my gym there are no drop in fees no bullshit and you can wear whatever gi you want and we will teach you cool things.

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4 months

After West Coast Trials coming in #12 in the @FloGrappling rankings 😊

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23 days

Judo and wrestling are way prettier than Jiu-Jitsu.

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2 years

How Jiu-Jitsu athletes make money: 🧵

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8 months

blue belt: now that I’m a blue belt, there’s a target on my back black belt: hey man what’s your name again?

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4 months

ADCC West Coast Trials 88 KG — 4th place 200ish people in the bracket and I managed to come away with 4th. Had a blast seeing friends and competing. Thank you everyone for supporting all weekend long, especially @__sheeks ❤️ Time to rest up and then it’s just back to work 💪🏻

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1 year

Signs Your BJJ Gym May Be a Cult Daily reminder that Jiu-Jitsu is not real life.

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1 year

What Your BJJ Gear Says About You

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5 months

One of my favorite low-risk options off the Russian

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4 months

let’s gooooo

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Aaaand @chrismwojcik is through to the semi finals!!!

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1 year

reverse aoki lock from 50/50 — one of my favs

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8 months

been focusing on adding upper body subs recently bc most people expect leg attacks from me, they often keep their legs back and weight forward this opens up triangles old school triangle finish, using the “wrong side” triangle to tighten up the “right side” finish

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8 months

in my time in jiu-jitsu i’ve found out that a lot of people are on steroids i’ve also found out that not everyone on steroids is… good at jiu-jitsu

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The reason making friends as an adult is hard is because most people don't do anything. All my best friends have come from Jiu-Jitsu all over the world (and I am extremely introverted). If you're lonely, do shit (alone at first). You won't be alone for long.

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7 months

When I was younger, Anthony Bourdain inspired me a lot. He was a free-thinker, outspoken on his beliefs, and an aura of "I'm flawed and I don't give a fuck" to him. A modern Hunter S Thompson, if you will. People always talk about Bourdain's wildly successful memoir, Kitchen

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8 months

The best way to improve your confidence in your BJJ is not some self-help mumbo jumbo about "believing you can do it" or whatever. It's getting good at submission defense. That's it. If you're hard to finish, your confidence to try to attack will skyrocket.

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4 months

Only in ADCC rules do you get hit for passivity while passing the guard lol

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2 years

Ankle lock tip: practice with no hands so you look cool and so your body movement breaking mechanics improve Notice how fast the tap comes from the no handed version vs the figure 4 grip. People think straight ankle locks don’t work in high level competition. They’re wrong.

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BJJ student: "How do I get out of ____" BJJ coach: "Just don't get there" If your coach gives you this response frequently, they are lazy.

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11 months

50/50 darce choke — another one of my fav weird moves from 50/50 clip from my seminar last weekend in georgia

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2 years

Jiu-Jitsu ppl: Jiu-Jitsu gets you in the best shape of your life!!! Also Jiu-Jitsu ppl:

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9 months

Translating Things People Say After Rolling What'd I miss?

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How to Go From "Good" to "Dangerous" in BJJ What to do after you get good at the fundamentals.

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2 months

The world of "professional", competitive Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is just the show Cobra Kai featuring an adult cast. Almost more ridiculous.

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9 months

luckily the people who are offended by this tweet won’t be able to hurt me

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"defensive jiu-jitsu" AKA "being bad at jiu-jitsu"

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10 months

On the surface, the comfort of training every day is far more appealing than the unpredictability of competition. Going to the gym is easy. Almost without fail, every time you show up to the gym, you get at least a little bit better. You get a nice dopamine hit to validate your

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9 months

"defensive jiu-jitsu" AKA "being bad at jiu-jitsu"

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8 months

woke up at the crack of dawn to fly home and see my homies get their black belts been training with these guys since i was a 17 jiu-jitsu is awesome

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2 years

When I was 17, I was severely depressed, chronically anxious, and lost as to what I was going to do with my life. Then, a few weeks before I graduated high school, I started Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Here's what happened next: 🧵

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1 year

3 single leg counters 1. cheeky lil foot sweep guy 2. sumi gaeshi 3. harai goshi mats were v slippery after training this am so i apologize for our lack of grace 🙏🏻

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9 months

A major error than I made in Jiu-Jitsu and my life when I was younger was that I cared too much. I was so nervous before competition matches that I'd let the mere possibility of negative results affect my relationship with the sport. I'd tell myself that if I lost at some

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Dudes will really post Andrew Tate motivational videos all day and then pull out of their Jiu-Jitsu tournament because they got a wittle scared.

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These Techniques Should Be Banned From Every BJJ Gym What other moves should be banned from training?

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9 months

Why "ego lift" when you can "ego let your arm break in front of your coach and family and friends"? Jiu-Jitsu is the way.

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2 years

“i don’t understand why you think the gi is silly”

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2 years

forcing someone to pay for training after only one free trial class is fucked up. forcing someone to sign contracts to train at your gym is fucked up. forcing people to buy your gi after signing up is fucked up. carry on.

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5 BJJ Instructionals That Impacted My Game the Most There are too many good instructionals for me to name all of them. These were just a few that were extremely helpful to me and building my game over the years. What's your favorite instructional?

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dudes on twitter in their 20s like “sign up for my life coaching program” bro your brain ain’t even done developing yet lol relax

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2 years

"My gym doesn't allow white belts to do no-gi" I can't believe this is real. But like white belts start out not having a gi... They start out not having that many gis and not being sure if they like Jiu-Jitsu. No-gi classes are perfect for white belts.

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1 year

The best thing you can do for your BJJ performance is learning to love weightlifting and sprinting.

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1 year

one time a guy i know got his leg broken in a jiu-jitsu match and after he got carried off the mat he said “get my CBD!” and i think that tells you everything you need to know about the knowledge level that jiu-jitsu guys have when it comes to recovery lol

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the rise of “professionalism athlete-ism” in bjj:🧵

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being good > being a “black belt”

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Back takes are the highest expressions of Jiu-Jitsu.

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Most “BJJ fundamentals” classes are teaching the easiest moves to teach. Not the “fundamentals of grappling”.

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The non-negotiables: - grappling - lifting - writing - walking - time with loved ones - reading - thinking - conversation Do these things daily for a year and you will be so much happier.

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IBJJF Worlds is barely on my radar compared to EBI, Karate Combat, CJI, and ADCC. Flashback 5 years ago, I'd be the guy sitting on his couch all weekend watching every single black belt match on Sunday. Wild how much the sport of grappling has changed.

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How to get strong on the mat: - lift weights (the heavy kind) - do sprints (the fast kind) - eat a lot of food (the protein kind) - sleep a lot - isometrics - wrestle - tap before your shit breaks Carry on 💪🏻

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lost 3-0 in the round of 16 bummed, but i’ll take it on the chin and keep working had a great time competing this weekend and looking forward to the rest of the year hopefully one day kody and i get to run the rubber match 💪🏻

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“How do you do BJJ and not get injured?” Lift weights. Multiple times per week. Every week. For the rest of your career (and probs your life tbh lol). Also tap early in training. Also warm up. Also sleep better. Speaking of which… Goodnight.

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