“With stuff like that it starts to become a lot of pressure. Because my motivation was to just go back into camp hard. But also that’s my body telling me, ‘Look, you’ve been training for three months. You’ve been going really hard. You don’t need to put in more hard sparring.’ It just needs to be a lot of drilling and keeping yourself sharp. I think that was a good thing for me to be like, ‘Hey, let’s just chill out and get to the fight, because you’re already ready.’”
Chilling out for Chiasson probably doesn’t look like it does for you or me. It means going from three or four hard practices per day down to “only” two.
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“I’ll go on a walk, I’ll take a hike in the woods, I’ll sometimes just lay outside at the park. Maybe being under a tree or something, sitting on a bench. Doing things that get me…zen,” she says, trying to convince us that it’s not all work and no play. “It’s all about being in a good mental spot. I think that’s hard for a lot of people, especially people that are working who love to work. And I love to work. So I’m happy that I’m starting to find a balance.”
“I dialed it down to two sessions a day. But then I would make sure I was outside, grounding myself and being sure that I was in nature; being in places that had more of a meditative effect on your mind. Just trying to be in the moment and not be thinking so much about the future and so much about the past. I think that’s really important for athletes to have that middle ground.
