And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense.
I train six days a week for four to five hours a day. I like to keep the same schedule when I'm in camp for every fight.
After hours, I would train, train, train, six or seven days a week, until 2 or 3 in the morning sometimes.
Most important, for openers, work six hours a day, seven days a week for six years. Then if you like it you can get serious about it.
As you get older, it's harder to maintain your weight and to fly through the air for those routines. It's also the lifestyle; you train seven to eight hours a day, five to six days a week.
I train for six days in a week for eight to ten hours of practice per day.
When I was competing, I trained between three and six hours a day, seven days a week.
I write about six to seven hours a day, five days a week, unless I'm traveling.
I worked out six hours a day, six days a week, to get 16 pounds of extra muscle.
I train six to seven hours during the three separate sessions every day while in camp.
It's a job. When I'm writing I'm going to do it five to six days a week and I'm going to work for four to six hours a day. There's no magic writing fairy. It's just hard work.
You know, on the road, I never miss a meal. I eat five, six, seven times a day, depending on when I wake up and when I got to sleep. I never miss a training day. I always get my four days out of my seven.
When you train six to seven hours a day to be the best in your sport, you don't want that to be overlooked. I don't train for my looks.
I've been working pretty much 12-16 hours a day, six or seven days a week since May of 2003, and every time I see a photo of myself, I realize that there is never a time when I don't look exhausted.
I'll get up at 5 or 6. I try to catch up on sleep on the weekends, so I'll try to get seven hours of sleep. During the week, my ideal is to go to bed at 9 and wake up six hours later.
I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart.