Competitive wrestling program is one thing. I’m taking your standard nightly class. A mix of 20 year old fighters, dad’s, school teachers, women, etc. Just there to learn to fight. Not there for a bootcamp fitness course.
I train to the point where I’ll get injured and back it off a notch
When you’re that exhausted, your technique is going to suffer, and you’ve got a higher risk of injury.
Form before function as they say. Light warmup, do the hard conditioning after you’re done drilling technique.
Ok ?. .
Competitive wrestling is different.
We usually maintain eye contact with a partner and slow stroke our meat for no more than five minutes. Anything more than that is fluffing.
I agree. I don’t train combat sports at all any more, but when I did, I did a basic non-technical warm-up prior to the class starting (I should have stretched as well, but I fucking hated it so I rarely did), then there was a short group warm-up that was usually a little bit technical, and then we were into technique, touch sparring, pad or bag work and so on. After the session, there was a separate session by invitation only, and that included much more challenging fitness and conditioning work, plus hard sparring. Full conditioning - fitness work that’s sufficiently intense that it might lead to injury - was generally reserved for camps.
That being said, I wasn’t very good, so I made sure I was always extremely fit by working hard outside of sessions. I knew I couldn’t improve my talent level, but I was determined that no-one was going to be able to outwork me, ever.