Be really interested in some thoughts on this. Sure there'll be plenty of "stop being a ..." responses, but that's OK.
So I've been training in Muay Thai for a year now, and I'm going through a low patch in motivation. I often question whether I'm actually making progress, and frankly juggling the career/phd/family life etc with training is exhausting. I used to want to train all the time, now as often as not it's a mental war.
I get motivated by competition, and I love sparring, but my club doesn't compete but focuses on technique and fitness. I get geared up for our sparring sessions, but sometimes I wonder if competition might fire me up a bit more. But then in moments of honesty, I face the fact that I'm not going to enter myself into some K1 rules or similar fights any time soon. So I guess my first question is whether there are opportunities for people at clubs that don't compete to enter amateur kickboxing or Muay Thai contests that are more in line with inter-club type rules, with the usual protective gear and less of an emphasis on killing each other? Essentially the motivation of competition without the need to make it my life, which at 32 years old with a career I care about is not going to happen.
If not then I do wonder if it is time to move on to a club where such a level of competition is available (perhaps an MMA gym where I could compete in sub grappling, or a judo club). Or maybe I need to add a style that is not competitive but rather holistic. I do wonder if my motivation is being sapped because Muay Thai doesn't make sense without competition, and adding something more traditional (my club offers JKD and Silat, for example) might make more sense of it all. Or more radically still there is a Systema club near me gaining a terrific reputation for health and physical preparedness.
I would really appreciate your input. I'm not asking anyone to tell me what to do, that would be odd, just hoping to clarify my own thinking through conversation with you fine people.
So I've been training in Muay Thai for a year now, and I'm going through a low patch in motivation. I often question whether I'm actually making progress, and frankly juggling the career/phd/family life etc with training is exhausting. I used to want to train all the time, now as often as not it's a mental war.
I get motivated by competition, and I love sparring, but my club doesn't compete but focuses on technique and fitness. I get geared up for our sparring sessions, but sometimes I wonder if competition might fire me up a bit more. But then in moments of honesty, I face the fact that I'm not going to enter myself into some K1 rules or similar fights any time soon. So I guess my first question is whether there are opportunities for people at clubs that don't compete to enter amateur kickboxing or Muay Thai contests that are more in line with inter-club type rules, with the usual protective gear and less of an emphasis on killing each other? Essentially the motivation of competition without the need to make it my life, which at 32 years old with a career I care about is not going to happen.
If not then I do wonder if it is time to move on to a club where such a level of competition is available (perhaps an MMA gym where I could compete in sub grappling, or a judo club). Or maybe I need to add a style that is not competitive but rather holistic. I do wonder if my motivation is being sapped because Muay Thai doesn't make sense without competition, and adding something more traditional (my club offers JKD and Silat, for example) might make more sense of it all. Or more radically still there is a Systema club near me gaining a terrific reputation for health and physical preparedness.
I would really appreciate your input. I'm not asking anyone to tell me what to do, that would be odd, just hoping to clarify my own thinking through conversation with you fine people.
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