Use Adrenaline As The Surge of Power That It Was Created For!

Adrenaline is a pain killer and a stimulant which prepares the body for extreme physical efforts or the shock of severe physical stress. Prior to a contest most players feel physically weak and nervous as result of the adrenaline surge. However once they take grip and begin to fight, the feeling of weakness passes.

Regardless of the effects of the adrenaline, everyone remembers the horrible, pumped-up, painful feeling of lactic acid build-up in the forearms from gripping too hard, the trembling muscles and breathless-ness after such encounters, not to mention the aches and pains, particularly the muscular stiffness which sometimes lasts for days.

How to use the Fight of Flight Response

There are numerous reasons for this; one is that in the early months, and in some cases years, of training, the individual fighter is not adequately conditioned for the stresses of contest. The situation is new to them and is as close to a real fight as many of them will ever experience. Consequently the body’s adrenal glands kick into action and pump adrenaline around the body. This chemical is a hormone, the action of which everyone may experience when in situations of physical danger. It is often accompanied by a churning stomach, trembling legs and even facial tics and twitches. This condition is usually described as the ‘flight or fight’ syndrome by biologists and zoologists and exists in all mammals as a crucial component of their central nervous and glandular systems.  MMA training can be done so this surge in adrenaline will trigger the anticipation of a victory.