Ryan Hall Quotes

Fighting isn't an ordinary career, so you have to allow your body time to recover in between training sessions.

Sleep plays an important role in overall well-being and especially in recovery during particularly intense training.

Of course training is very important, but resting is just as important. You have to get your recuperation, and I think all players make that mistake where they train hard but they don't rest enough, and even our school boy players, we tell them to get a lot of rest.

I constantly remind myself that resting takes confidence. Anyone can train like a mad man but to embrace rest and to allow all the hard training to come out takes mental strength.

Resting for me is fitness training.

If I go out one night, I must stay in the next. It's the same with my golf. If I play one day, I don't play the next. I try to pace myself.

I didn't give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn't understand the power of periodization.

At 28, you need recovery time after training.

Rest is obviously a key in the offseason.

I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week. I will again have to sit out the weekend action, but the lads are climbing ever higher to safety.

When I was younger you think you know it all and after games you probably just go for some food or sit on your PlayStation. Now I take it a lot more seriously and recover properly because I know I need to give myself the best possible chance to be as fresh and as fit as I can for the next game.

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

Every single workout counted when I trained, I didn't miss any meals and made sure I got my sleep.

Every December I take two or three weeks off. After an entire season of training and climbing, my body needs the break.

The best fitness and training advice has to be: Listen to your body.

I've actually done a really good job listening to my body, relaxing. Some days you train hard, some days you rest a little bit.

I still work on it almost every day in the gym. You have to know your body and that also means knowing when it's time to rest. Sometimes the coach will manage me and give me a day off so that I'm right for the weekend.

Nutrition is important, training is important - but so are rest and recovery, massages, acupuncture. Your body is your temple, and you've got to take care of it.

My body knows my limits.

I try to take two weeks off after a fight and then get back to working out four or five times a week.

I didn't worry too much about staying in shape once I'd stopped dancing. You get to the point where you just burn out and have to give your body a chance to heal.

After a two-hour session in the gym, you can't then go out and be up for looking for trouble, you just want to eat and sleep.

My idea is that players need to recover first, train later.

It was one of those things that I set forth as a goal after my surgery. I have been working very hard with the trainers and the team personnel.

I know how much sleep I need, how much time on the elliptical I need, and how much chocolate that buys me.