Valentine's Day & The Gym

Happy V-Day MMA fans!

Though this will be mainly another G-Day for your combat-loving Fighter...

G-Day. Gym Day. Don't send flowers, no chocolate, no romantic rich-food lunch date. And definitely no balloons.  (Unless you've devised an ingenious way to use them for a timing and accuracy drill.)

He's going to the gym. He's going to workout. Remember, part of his happiness comes from hitting and submitting those who are game enough to step into the ring today.  The nirvana-zen experience that makes them forget their stresses, their external surroundings, everything, while they're in the ring. 

Perfect Example:

Post by Quinton "Rampage" Jackson.

I commented on this video: "You should have said 'I'm working on my JiuJitsu 'cuz I've got some moves to show you tomorrow night baby.' But he was distracted."  

More than likely, your love will join the ranks of the everyday man who will rush to get you something so that maybe you won't be mad at him.  IF you are putting some significant amount of stock on Valentine dreams and wishes. 

J probably thinks I was setting him up, or dropping hints, when I dropped him off this morning, got coffee, came back to the gym and put an awesomely mushy card under his phone.  I wasn't! I swear! It's just that, it's Valentine's Day and I wanted to make him smile!  He did. 

Disclaimer: I put minimal stock in Valentine's Day. They put out great cards, so it's a perfect opportunity to give him something that says something special.  And I smile if he brings me flowers.  They just mean more to me if they aren't given on an 'expected' day.

So when he's limping into the house, spent and sore from drills, sparring and cardio; carrying whatever Valentine stuff that was left for him to buy at the grocery store, know that he is thinking of you, and wants you to be happy, or, at the least, not mad at him.  After all, he's been working on his JiuJitsu for you!