Dr. Duncan French

And I think it's the best professionals, the most successful professionals do that really well.

They listen, number one, they educate themselves and then they build structure.

And I think at the most elite level, we always talk about it here at the UFC, but the most elite level,

You're not necessarily training harder than anybody else.

Everybody in the UFC trains hard.

Like everyone is training super hard.

But the best athletes, the true elite levels are the ones that can do it again and again and again on a daily basis and sustain a technical output for skill development.

Therefore, their skills can improve or physical development, their physical attributes can improve.

So that ability to reproduce on a day-to-day basis falls into a recovery conversation.

Now, when is the right time to use something like an ice bath and when isn't is part of the high-performance conversation for sure.

No, it's not a volume driven exercise.

It's a quality driven exercise.

It is about rehearsal of accurate movement, accurate movement mechanics.

And as soon as that becomes impacted by fatigue or inaccurate movement,

you're now losing the motor learning.

You're losing the accuracy of the skill.

People can call it muscle memory or whatever they want, right?

But essentially, you're grooving neural axons to create movement patterns, and they're situational throughout sport, right?

Whether it's a Cruyff turn in soccer or a jump shot in basketball or a forehand down the line, you can carve out that particular posture and position and skill, and you can isolate it.

And you can drill it again and again and again.