Chris Masterjohn

Right.

So I think you have to say like, okay, do I want to be really good at Muay Thai?

And that's, you don't have to do that to have healthy aging.

But there are things that you do at Muay Thai that you do have to be able to do to have healthy aging.

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.