the feeling you get from your gym/training

I was wondering how other people feel when they get done with their training at night. be it bjj, mma, etc. I've been going to my gym off and on as i could afford it for years. I love the coaches and the drills and most of the dudes in there. However, i usually feel like i didn't train or learn ( usually) but more of like a losing feeling. Probably mostly on myself and i feel like i should've done better and it's frustrating, but motivating at the same time. The problem is this is becoming a pretty regular occurence. not just a once a week, or less, thing.
So the main question, do you usually feel, frustrated, motivated, satisfied, or what after training?

Unless you're trying to be a professional mixed martial artist, shouldn't training be FUN first and foremost? If you aren't leaving the gym satisfied you should probably find a new gym.

What are you frustrated with? Your gym or yourself? Its normal to be frustrated at some point in yourself and take that out on other people but if its the place your training find a new gym.

Yea, you shouldn't be frustrated. Practice, practice, we're talking about practice. It's not competition, don't worry with how your doing. Practice is for trying new moves or drilling your favorite stuff. Don't try to concentrate on winning every time you roll in practice, focus on trying to get your favorite sweep down, or a new guard pass.

I usually feel beat-up, spent, and happy. Sometimes I have a bad losing streak and get frustrated (which only makes it worse) but I usually make fun of myself and joke about what a great job my training partners did.

I usually feel pretty good mentally when i leave the gym but im always physically tired when i leave though. I always feel like i have accomplished something.

I feel like the man when I leave.

I used to feel like this sometimes. Chances are if you feel like you're not learning then you're not learning nearly as much as you could be. The problem tends to be retention, try this: lets say during the instruction portion your instructors are showing moves from back control, you could do them in class and then during open gym just roll. In most cases you may be in that position once maybe twice during that hour and you may or may not get a chance to use the techniques that you just went over in class, then you go home and forget them. But if you spend that hour drilling that position(Starting with one partner on the back with hooks in and going until one guy escapes or the other guy submits) then you get a chance to see and use those techniques over and over again not only solidifying those memories but you also start to develop the sensitivity to react to all the little variables that can pop up when you go for a move.
Staying disciplined when people just wanna roll for fun and drilling has truly taken my game to the next level.
At my gym we spend a week working different attacks/escapes from a particular position before moving on so I've been drilling just one position in open gym for a week at a time and I NEVER feel like that anymore. Hope that helps.

When I walk into the gym I feel like I'm at home. Somedays you need to get out of it and have some fun and others days its the only place you want to be!

great replies. I eventually want to fight professionally. not that concerned about making it "big" but i just want to fight. i have a good time, it's still fun...i think the main problem is convincing myself that i'm in there to get better, not too see how good i am right now.

I walk in to mine all nervous like the first time you sleep with a chick you really like giddy almost then when its time to leave im out the door bang ;) ( to the heated pool at the regular peoples gym for a swim )

I do get the feeling that maybe i could have done the class a bit better, whether it be me having the wrong grip that caused me to get tapped, or like not putting enough effort into class, or w.e. i definetely get frustrated at times. but one thing i always tell myself is that i am there to learn. whether i get tapped out a million times or i feel i cant keep up with the rest, i know i am learning while im there, even when it doesnt seem that way i know i am. one suggestion is to keep a journal on class. i do. i pretty much just record how the class went, who tapped me with what and how ( and of course taking the partners strengths+weaknesses into account). what i felt i did great in, what i felt i need more work on, where i struggled, and where i notice progression. all these things i now keep on record, and review it everyday. some may say thats overkill lol but i want the most out of class. try taping urself during sparring, thats always a good feeling when u watch urself get a sub or a sweep, or even just defending something ur partner tried on u. and remember not to overlook even the smallest progressions. like say joe smith tapped you out in like 30 sec last practice, and it took him a whole minute this practice, thats a sign u may be getting better. but yeah like everyone else said... HAVE FUN. dont worry too much on getting the sub or w.e, worry about what ur taking in from all that. a good quote i heard is in order to advance to blackbelt u need to tap 10,000 times first. made sense to me anyway

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Originally Posted by Garrett

great replies. I eventually want to fight professionally. not that concerned about making it "big" but i just want to fight. i have a good time, it's still fun...i think the main problem is convincing myself that i'm in there to get better, not too see how good i am right now.

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My whole objective in class is to get a little better everytime I roll. I really could care less about winning and losing its not why Im rolling thats what they got tournaments for. Im really trying to learn what I can and cant do, what works and what doesnt work. I guess im lucky that at my gym everyone has that same mentality. Were all here to get better and when we roll its a chance to practice what were learning.

To add onto my original statement. Some days the feeling I get resembles what I would compare to being hit by a truck

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Originally Posted by Chris Leavelle

My whole objective in class is to get a little better everytime I roll. I really could care less about winning and losing its not why Im rolling thats what they got tournaments for. Im really trying to learn what I can and cant do, what works and what doesnt work. I guess im lucky that at my gym everyone has that same mentality. Were all here to get better and when we roll its a chance to practice what were learning.

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That's one thing here is the different mentality. I was training with some brown belt judo guys that kind of crossed over and became really good over-all grapplers. And rolling was how you described. Now that i'm back at the mma gym dudes go super hard, when i'm under the impression we are not supposed to. It's fine i'll roll against whomever, however they roll...but i'm still hesistant to get aggressive back because i don't want to seem like the dick. The one time i tried to match aggression i got called on it, and it was kinda awkward. that guy is just the worst to train with for me though. It's just some getting used to and getting my mindset switched up a bit. still like hearing what you guys take away from class.

sometimes i gott drag myself to class but once i get into the gym im pumped and when i leave idk what it is but i have more energy then when i went in (until i get home and crash) :P

I have been to every gym in my area ( i live in southern Ca so that A LOT! ) and had a hard time finding one that when you walk in you don't get stared down like fresh meat in a loins, you can smell the testosterone we are gonna kill you to prove how bad you suck and you need to train here so you wont suck, or you roll with the instructor and tap him 9 out of ten time and tell you hes going light cus hes injured. and both of those make you feel crappy. i go to 10pjj Riverside and every time i roll win or lose i feel like i learned something so i feel great.

Long story short if you feel crappy after training go somewhere else ;)

Even on my worst days I usually leave the gym feeling 1000% better. It's come to where I NEED to gym or I'm just completely out of sorts. I've been off for a while now with a respiratory infection that's been going around and I've been going bonkers not being in the gym.

just got home from 10th planet phoenix with john and the team and i felt super energized on the car ride home but i just sat down and im ready for bed lol

I think everyone has those days when stuff just doesn't go right. Granted I have only been training 10P for about a month now, so it happends a lot. Remember what you were attempting that didn't work and next time you hit the gym and ask what your doing wrong, for me it is always something little, that is important, that I missed. The hardest are when things are just going over your head. Was a Eddie's seminar this weekend and I hadn't even pulled rubber guard much less the crazy stuff a lot of people could do. But manged to pull rubber guard (kung fu correctly was a different matter) and learn some cool stuff. Keep your head up and keep rolling along.

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Originally Posted by Greg Allum

I think everyone has those days when stuff just doesn't go right. Granted I have only been training 10P for about a month now, so it happends a lot. Remember what you were attempting that didn't work and next time you hit the gym and ask what your doing wrong, for me it is always something little, that is important, that I missed. The hardest are when things are just going over your head. Was a Eddie's seminar this weekend and I hadn't even pulled rubber guard much less the crazy stuff a lot of people could do. But manged to pull rubber guard (kung fu correctly was a different matter) and learn some cool stuff. Keep your head up and keep rolling along.

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"Your Kung Fu move looks like garbage." -Eddie Bravo
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Every time I walk in there I take a deep breath and say I am home. The people there are my second family.

I'm kind of in the opposite position as you. I'm usually the best at 2 different gyms that I go to and I have so little ambition to get better because everyone is already so easy. It's depressing, so I LOVE it if someone catches me in something or some new black belt comes in and mops the floor with me. It lights that fire under my butt + I know exactly what to work on. So look at it as, every time you get owned at something, that should be the first thing that you go back and study up on. Memorize the move in it's entirety and you'll always be able to mentally check if you're doing anything wrong at the gym. The more you do this, the more your techniques will accumulate, the less holes you'll have, the better you'll get and the more fun it'll be. Being a beginner is always the hardest part of anything.

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Originally Posted by Ryan Cook

I'm not motivated by mma at all so we may have a different outlook on training. However, I know what you are talking about. The trick is not to compare yourself to the people that have been there as long/longer than you. Look at how you stack up against the new people. If people are catching you or if you want to catch the upper belts, you'll need to change your methods. Be consistent and revisit old techniques that you think you "know." Also, try new shit on the newest, smallest whitebelt that you can find. Alot of times you will end up trying some shit in sparring that you have no business doing against the person you are with... I think that's bad for you because it just discourages you and makes you lose faith in the technique. Smash the little guys first.

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you're mean, I'm one of those little guys! haha

felt good last night, got a gogoplata from mount on one guy, and took the other guy to sweep city. it was a good night.

My mood depends on my performance. If i get a new move on someone... I usually feel high after a session.. however, if I'm getting tapped out left right and center... then I usually feel depressed and self harm myself when i get home:p

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Originally Posted by Tyler Frazier

My mood depends on my performance. If i get a new move on someone... I usually feel high after a session.. however, if I'm getting tapped out left right and center... then I usually feel depressed and self harm myself when i get home:p

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For me the jiu jitsu is the self harm

I used to get depressed if my performance wasn't up to par with where I felt it should be, but my coach and everyone I train with insisted I was getting better. Now i am just happy to train with my team and tend to get excited when I do something I learned months ago and even more excited when I get caught in something crazy.

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Originally Posted by Art "ART OF WAR" Belarde

Every time I walk in there I take a deep breath and say I am home. The people there are my second family.

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I know exactly what you mean. I am fortunate to train with some of the greatest guys in the DE/NJ area at a gym where the owner/coach cares more about training than money. unlike some of the other gyms around here.

Guess fighitng and just training are 2 diff. things completly. Even when i dont have any fights coming up other guys in the gym do and that seems to keep my ultra competitive side going. Theres always going to be a few days were you might get tapped by a prospect or get tagged by someone that can barely get there gloves on by themselves. It happens. But to feel bad about yourself or like your not learning as you put it . Sounds like the instructors arent paying attention to everyone and might be ore focused on the few maybe in training. They have to remember everyone should get some attention not just there favorites . If you still feel that way take a drop in fee at another gym workout with them and see if you still have that feeling there , People do get burned out sometimes