I Can Do More (And So Can You)

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VIDEO DESCRIPTION

Rick Ellis was inspired while watching the older competitors at ADCC.

[ctcm]

Congrats on the new website and the educational platform, Rick! Keep riding the momentum and keep stacking success!

[jenniferferrer]

For me, if there is something that I'm trying to accomplish or change in my life, it has to become a new lifestyle, not just getting into a habit. Habits can be broken, making it a lifestyle more long-term because it molds into everyday living.

[TheloniusJ]

Agree with everything you have here, though I might emphasize the importance of a specific stretch goal. Like instead of saying “I’m going to get fit”, define an objective, near-term goal that requires being fit. For example, this year I committed to being able to do a legit one armed pull-up again (I’m 53 and could do this in my mid-30s). I gave myself a deadline for it. I find when I do this, everything else just falls into place. There is a strong underlying “why” in place, so the “how” becomes much easier.

[KhileshJairamdas-gf]

Reminds me of something a mentor used to say: strike while the iron is hot. Don't let the inspiration cool off and deploy as much as you can while it's around.

[nbj]

motivated but hurt... but will continue to train smart and cautious... till I can no longer do it without medical surgical intervention...

🙏🏾💪🏾🤙🏾

[RicoMnc]

How much "more" someone can do as they get older depends on many things. Someone who is in there 40's who has been training 20 years or more is very different than someone like me, in their 60's, who's been training 5 years.

[boyink]

Man, not sure why I googled you up tonight but I'm a bit gobsmacked at seeing so much content from the reclusive Rick Ellis! Glad to see it though - you were always a good communicator...when you chose to be...;) Cheers!

[Brian-bnqp]

I think if you want to be successful at a certain thing you need to make it a part of your routine. That has been the best way for me personally. And when the routine becomes dull or boring I try and reflect back on why I started this new thing in the first place. That usually gets me going again, and gets me back on prioritizing it in my routine. Started jujitsu three months a go at 46.

[danilecashin]

Without a shadow of a doubt CJI is the future is jiu jitsu is going to grow. There is more of a emphasis on wrestling and the slanted wall/ alley was the game changer. CJI is it

[mkinghorn]

I think for me is a combination of knowing what my goal was and knowing that if I Stop doing even the smallest of things that are required to obtain that goal then I'm cheating myself. It's kind of like if you were going to do a set number of push-ups every day and you wake up one morning and you just don't feel like doing them and you skip a day. All you are really doing is kind of cheating yourself. This is where that mental part comes in that you just have to push yourself to do something on the days that you don't want to. So I think for me it's just having mental toughness to keep doing it even on the days that you don't want to.

[ticoman]

I’d love to visit your school and train one day with you guys

[DaveM]

Good video. The incessant whining in the comments section about gear and TRT is tiresome though. Grow up. Professional athletes have been competing into their 40s and in masters divisions since long before the invention of any form of steroids, you're just making excuses for not pushing yourself. What these other guys are or are not on is irrelevant to you, the individual.

[DAS]

I'm sure Steroids helps at least one of them.