The Winner Wolf
I DROP TO THE GROUND WAITING FOR MY TRANSITION TO COMPLETE. THEN I FEEL IT, THE POWER OF A THOUSAND WOLVES AS THE VENOM FLOWS THROUGH MY VEINS. A DEEP GROWL PIERCES THROUGH THE ARENA, RUMBLING LIKE ROLLING THUNDER.
I STAND ALONE, NOT AS A MAN, BUT A WOLF. NOT JUST ANY WOLF BUT THE FRIGGING WINNER WOLF!
I'm All Season
When it comes to my training.
I stay ready, I don't have to get ready.
I train to be a f'n weapon and look good all year round. I don't have an in season, I'm all season.
The way I train is self-inflicted pain.
No it doesn't feel good. I want to get better by pushing myself, testing this engine.
I want to look good all year round. If this is too intense for you then go hang out at Planet Fitness where you can feel comfortable.
I'm not a bodybuilder or a power-lifter.
I want to be a weapon & I don't need a warm up.
100 pull-ups, yep, all day. Push-ups, Dips yep,.all of them.
I'm never satisfied. I want to push for more and thus I look in shape, I speak the shape. Stay ready. I don't have to get in shape. I keep going.
The fun is in the building phase, daily training, indomitable will, discipline and consistency. We are not the same.
I smell different, no odor here, I ooze testosterone and confidence.
Period.
-Machine
Shootfighting
I started competing in Shootfighting back in 1996.
Many of my fights were not accounted for in any database which seems to be the common norm for many at that time due to being the inception of MMA etc. They were often titled exhibitions and held underneath boxing and kickboxing cards. Unless you were on one of the considered main stages back then aka Hook-N-Shoot, UFC, Extreme Fighting etc. I competed all over the New England area in the 90's. I'm now #fitover50 but I want to share what my actual record was from a newspaper excerpt recently sent via my former Coach Tim Gillett.
Don't take my word for it, I always bring FACTS/RECEIPTS.
I've got over 38 years of wrestling experience with skin in the game. Never was a world beater or considered elite. But, competed regularly back in the 90's and amassed a pro record of 18 wins, 5 losses with 13 wins by submission. From Thre SOUTH-COAST TODAY NEWSPAPER ARTICLE 1999 NEW BEDFORD/FALL RIVER Mike Bruce, Gillett’s protege and top student, had a fight earlier this year in which he held his opponent in an arm lock and was applying increasing pressure. The opponent refused to submit. So Bruce broke the arm. Snap! Like a stick of wood. “But that’s uncommon,” said Gillett, a Fall River native and Durfee High graduate. “That doesn’t usually happen. The kid just wouldn’t give up, and Mike Bruce means business.”Bruce, who only started submission fighting a year-and-a-half ago, is 13-4, but it is a tribute to his growing reputation that he was invited to train at Severns club. The way fighters in Ventura’s gym talk about Bruce, you would expect a giant of a man, but he is only 5-10 and weighs less than 200 pounds. “He looks 225,” said Ventura. “That’s what it is with those guys,” said Tony, who still works out with Gillett. “They pack so much into that small frame. He’s an ex-Marine and that Marine mentality has never left him.” “He was telling me about one fight he had, how he put the guy out with three elbows to the face,” said Ventura “He had the guy pinned down when he delivered the three elbows. He’s something else.”“But when you talk to him,” said Tony, “he’s always a gentleman. Still the Marine.” Bruce lives in Milford and comes all the way to New Bedford once or twice a week to work with Gillett.
*2x New England Grappling Champion
*Ct State Judo Champion
*VA Beach State Shootfighting Champion (Pro)
*Western MA Submission Wrestling Champion (Pro)
*East Coast Shootfighting Champion (Amateur)
I love training
I love training, I love it.
I love being strong, being in shape, feeling good, feel like a man and not some simp weak beta boy.
I personally do better mentally when I have a physical goal. When I don't,
I find myself wandering.
I am the standard, my baseline is 100 push-ups, 20 pull-ups anywhere anytime.
You think you have strength?
You think you have endurance?
Let's see if you can combine the two.
Conditioning & Strength, not just for one rep, not two, not 3 reps. Get used to doing 20, 30 and more. I'm enduringly strong.
You want to look lean all year round?
Endurance training with implements of strength.
100 reps of body-weight, but 100 reps with 100 lbs on the dip belt.
That's the philosophy I'm looking for.
You can do all the one rep maxes that makes you feel good...good job on your ego. But, you can't deny 100.
BE BETTER
If you can go forward daily and be better you'll be part of a the 1% that actually does this. Everyday get just a little bit better physically, mentally and spiritually. I call this the TRIANGLE of GREATNESS.
Quit worrying about what everyone else says, do your "THING".
People are going to talk bad about you and disagree with you daily.
Stop getting all up in your feelings because someone has a different view than you.
I cut these people off, they're ghosts to me, they don't matter. If they're not hurting me directly I let them be. Often times the best STRENGTH is shown via RESTRAINT.
Get over yourself and be the 1%.
Be BETTER.