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Cut To The Bone Dr Luke”🦴Board Certified Orthopedic Surgeon and Hand Surgeon. BA-Psy, BS-Bio🥋Black Belt in Brazili

09/18/2026

Sometimes the thing you call “help” is actually helping you avoid the problem.

Maybe it’s something to sleep. Something for the pain. Something to calm your anxiety. Something to get through training when your body is telling you to slow down.

For fighters, the question isn’t about judgment. It’s about understanding what you’re using, why you’re using it, and what you’re trying to push through.

Because real strength isn’t always finding another way to keep going. Sometimes it’s figuring out why you feel like you can’t stop.

09/16/2026

Getting older doesn’t mean you stop being a fighter.

It means the goal starts to change: not just pushing harder, but knowing how to train smarter, recover better, and reduce the damage that can accumulate over time.

Longevity in combat sports isn’t about stepping away from the art. It’s about finding a way to stay in it for as long as possible.

Train for the fighter you want to be years from now.

09/14/2026

The hardest thing to manage as a fighter may not be the training.

It’s everything around it.

Work. Family. Stress. Sleep. Finances. Responsibilities. As life gets more complicated, your ability to recover and adapt becomes just as important as your ability to push yourself.

Longevity isn’t about doing less. It’s about building a life that allows you to keep doing what you love.

Train hard. Live well. Stay in the fight.

09/11/2026

The real advantage of an aging fighter isn’t trying to move like they did at 24.

It’s knowing what deserves to be sharpened.

When physical advantages start to narrow, the game becomes less about winning every exchange with athleticism and more about making better decisions before the exchange even happens.

Timing. Positioning. Distance. Pacing. Efficiency.

That’s where experience becomes an advantage.

You may not be the fastest person in the room anymore.

But you can become the person who wastes the least movement, makes the fewest mistakes, and sees the game sooner.

That’s not giving up your edge.

That’s evolving it.

What part of your game has gotten better with experience?

09/09/2026

There’s a point in an athlete’s life when discipline stops being about how much you can endure and starts being about how well you can manage yourself.

When you’re younger, you can sometimes rely on physical advantages to compensate for poor decisions. As you age, those margins get smaller. And that can actually be a gift.

Because it forces you to become more deliberate about what you do, what you recover from, what you prioritize, and what’s no longer worth sacrificing for. The goal isn’t to preserve the athlete you were at 24.

It’s to become a more intelligent athlete at 35, 40, 50 and beyond. Sometimes getting older doesn’t take the game away. It teaches you how to play it better.

What has getting older taught you about how you train?

09/07/2026

At some point, you realize that you can’t train the way you did in your 20s and expect your body to keep responding the same way.

You still want to get stronger, move better, and perform at a high level. But now, every session needs to have a reason.

Maybe you need more conditioning. Maybe you need to work on a technical gap. Or maybe you simply need to recover instead of pushing through another hard session.

Getting older doesn’t mean you stop improving. It means you get smarter about how you improve.

It’s always a good reminder. I am often just trying to do my job. Nothing more and nothing less. I also often forget tha...
09/04/2026

It’s always a good reminder. I am often just trying to do my job. Nothing more and nothing less. I also often forget that my words have weight and my actions reverberate throughout the clinic and surgery center. This is a note from an excellent colleague who was changing jobs. It reminds me I have responsibilities other than patient care and just doing my job. I have to be a leader. I choose to lead by example (since words are not my strength). While I am sure I made some mistakes, it feels good to know I had connected with this person who was also trying to be better. Jocko Willink

08/28/2026

If you’ve been around combat sports long enough, you know that getting better isn’t just about training harder.

You spar. You lift. You cut weight. You push through pain. You recover from injuries and somehow convince yourself you’re ready to do it all again.

But eventually, you realize that staying in this sport for the long run requires more than toughness.

Sleep, nutrition, stress, recovery, and the people you train with all play a role in how long your body lets you stay in the game.

The goal isn’t to squeeze a few more good years out of your body. It’s to build a body that can keep showing up for decades.

What are you doing differently now to make sure you’re still training years from today?

Catching up on some writing while on vacation at the ORIGIN® BJJ immersion camp. Beautiful setting. Amazing Jiu jitsu. R...
08/27/2026

Catching up on some writing while on vacation at the ORIGIN® BJJ immersion camp. Beautiful setting. Amazing Jiu jitsu. Restoration of the soul.

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