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Former UFC Champion Explains Starvation and Abstinence to Unleash the Caveman Mindset

January 3, 2025 3 Min Read
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Former two-division UFC champion recalled the times when he’d must starve himself forward of a combat.

Turning into a combined martial artist isn’t any straightforward activity. Except for the years of dedication, limitless hours of coaching, and the dietary self-discipline essential to succeed, there additionally comes the duty of constructing weight which regularly sees fighters considerably reducing down their meals consumption and dehydrating themselves to the purpose of exhaustion simply earlier than a combat.

Some fighters wrestle so severely that they wind up fainting whereas attempting to climb on or off the size.

Taking away ‘the pleasures of life’ turned the UFC Corridor of Famer into a distinct man

Throughout a current episode of his Funky and The Champ podcast with Ben Askren, ‘DC’ regarded again on a few of his harder weight cuts and the way the shortage of meals and abstinence from intimacy would make him really feel like somebody straight out of the Paleolithic period.

“I attempted to recreate that caveman sh*t in me each combat,” Cormier started. “Hear, I’m abstaining from intercourse for like a month, after which don’t eat like, actually don’t eat. So, most important occasion often walks out at 10 o’clock at evening. Don’t eat previous 2 PM within the afternoon. Ravenous. Like, actually simply ravenous. As a result of whenever you’re hungry, proper, your thoughts goes to a spot. Like, if I needed to go and kill one thing to eat proper now, I might.

And clearly, we’re not at that degree of starvation, nevertheless it’s like if I have to go… Sure, proper. You’ll be able to put your self nearly in a caveman mindset, to the place you’re like taking all of the—the—the pleasures of life that we as males love a lot—meals, you understand, ladies, these issues—you’re taking it away from your self.

After which by the point you get in there with this dude, you’re like, “Yo, you’re the explanation that I didn’t get to do that. You’re the explanation that I’m hungry.” Critically.”

Luckily, these days are lengthy gone for the previous champ-champ.

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