Dan Lawrence

And he just watched.

And he couldn't get his head around what he was watching.

Basics, fundamental drills, each and every time, repetition, repetition, repetition.

He spoke to him after and said, I've just watched you practice.

And again, thank you so much for allowing me to do that.

But I do have a question.

Why is it all so basic?

And his reply was, I paraphrase, something along the lines of,

you never get tired of the basics.

You have to do the basics because the basics work.

So going back to your point of non-negotiables, even though these are supreme level athletes at the summit of the proverbial mountain, and they are high performance in everything that they do, daily non-negotiables reign true for someone starting their fitness journey at 132 kilograms or

or someone like a Kobe Bryant, or in my instance, a Conor Benn.

So for an American audience, Conor Benn is a supreme superstar athlete boxer in the UK.

He's just successfully beaten Chris Eubank Jr.

Their fathers had a fight in the 1990s.

This galvanized the British public.

It was at Tottenham Hotspur football stadium in front of 62,000 people out to millions across the globe.

For context, he's potentially fighting Ryan Garcia in the next fight in Las Vegas, providing Ryan Garcia gets through Mario Barrios on February the 21st, but that's for a world title at 147 pounds.

Just to paint the picture.

In our training camp before last, in Mallorca, Spain, Conor Benn was doing non-negotiables.