You have to pace yourself jumping off the stuff so it makes you have enough energy to pick another person up if you have to do it, like 10 minutes into the match.” So you have to pace yourself with running the ropes. “But then there’s times you have to do a 15 or 20 minute match. “Sometimes we have to do an eight minute match, which is easy to do,” Martin said. Though it is widely known the results of matches are predetermined and the brawls are largely for entertainment value, the activity within the ring is very much real, and like Martin says, it requires wrestlers to be in tip top shape when they step inside it. You can run the stair stepper, (but) nothing really replicates running full force and then hitting the ropes. “You have to be able to be out of breath and still keep going. “Cardio and endurance,” Fiser said, noting the key training areas they practice at The Forge. Yet, the path to becoming a professional wrestler is often as arduous and physically intensive as any other professional sport, with long hours spent in the ring and the gym strengthening their bodies to be able to handle everything that is thrown their way during a show. If you want to go somewhere, you have to give up a lot of stuff like anything else.” “It’s something you have to sacrifice a lot of stuff in your life,” Martin added. “You just give up everything else for a little bit.” “It’s one of those (where) if you want it, you pour everything you have into it,” Fiser said. I want to be able to get to the point where I can go down part time from my job and do this for the majority of my life.'”īut the goal of making it into the professional wrestling business can sometimes be all consuming for the two, who sometimes might drive to three different states in a weekend for shows.

“I said, ‘I just want to be a professional wrestler, I just want to be able to do this every single week. “I talked to about joining the school, he asked me, ‘What do you see out of this? What do you want?'” Martin said.

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