I think I train too hard.
I'm more vicious in sparring when I am around 160 pounds or coming down from heavier than that.
I train about six days a week. I'm training at the same intensity as I did when I was playing football. I've done it for my entire life, and I love it.
I train hard. A lot of people that I train with, they get blown away by how hard I'm able to train.
I was so good at boxing because I worked hard. I worked harder than anybody. When other boxers used to box in the gym, three or four rounds, I used to box 10-20 rounds.
Fighting is different than other sports because you're not competing as regularly.
You have to be sharp, you have to be ready. You have to have guys that can push you in terms of these high-level fights or otherwise you're going to get out to these fights and your opponent has been pushed and they are ready to compete. If you have not been pushed and you're not ready, you can't just turn that switch on that night.
In my day, at 12 years old, which was 38 years ago, we worked out in summer months for two and a half hours. Today someone in that age group might work out for four hours, two hours in the morning and two at night.
Being a midfielder, I need to get up and down, whether it's to get back and defend or get away from my opposite number. Extra effort in training makes all the difference.
Practice gotta be harder than the games and it never is unless you want it to be as a player. The coach can't drive that
An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.
I train five days a week hard - but it is short and sharp - 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest.
If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.
If you train badly, you play badly. If you work like a beast in training, you play the same way.
It was pretty extensive - we worked out 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 3 months, which I think is more than anybody in the Olympics. I thought well I don't need this, the girls need it, but it was a gift.
You can actually suffer a little bit more going slowly than when you're going really fast. A faster marathon might even be easier than a slow one, in terms of what it takes out of you mentally.
During a packed season, maintaining fitness becomes tough because you can't put too much effort into it. You're constantly monitoring workloads.
In the modern game, players need to train harder than they did in my day.
I'm a smaller guy, so I train at a high pace.
When you go into MMA you really can't do it half-assed. If you do it half-assed, then you're going to get annihilated. You're going to get destroyed out there: there are some really good fighters out there.
Since weight training involves repetitions, a great deal of energy must be exerted. Therefore, weight training should be practiced only every other day.
I don't stick to a routine, because I like to mix things up, which stops training becoming boring and helps shock muscles into firing up.
I feel as good now as I have any other spring training.
Our standards at Bayern are extremely high, with every training session at very high intensity.
