Chris Masterjohn

So if you're just thinking about it from the perspective of how do I know that I'm engaging in healthy aging?

I think you don't want to say like, oh, I need to be as good as I ever was at Muay Thai.

You just have to say, okay, like, why am I bad at some of that?

And is that something that I need in general?

And I think oftentimes by doing something like that, you can think about it and you can realize, oh, what I really can't do is I'm not agile anymore.

I really can't like shift my weight quickly anymore.

Or I really can't, like my reaction time is slow.

Like,

I just keep getting hit in the head because I don't move it.

You know, if you're realizing those things, then I think you got to you have to find some way to train those because you need those for everything.

And it's just it's easy to not challenge yourself in life and don't realize what you're losing.

So you do have to challenge yourself with something you're not able to do to figure out what you're weak in.

Yeah, I mean, I think there is a degree of subjectivity to it.

If your idea of what a life well lived is, is to win an event that might have you die in the next three years, then how are you gonna argue with that value that someone has adopted?

But if you are thinking about it from the perspective of how do I stay healthy through, how do I live a long, healthy life?

then injury prevention has to be your number one consideration, not your number two.

I think even if you were just trying to say like, how can I be the strongest I could be?

You would still need injury prevention to be number one because how many people take three months off from a lift that they're working on and wind up six months behind where they had been

when they start again as a result of that injury, and where would they have been if they spent that six months getting stronger?

And if you're gonna do that every two or three years, that's taking a huge toll off even the skill that you could develop and your maximal capacity at that.