In his last program Pablo Motos has done one of the interviews most anticipated of the season of “El Hormiguero”.
The guest was none other than Ilia Topuria: UFC featherweight champion and one of the brightest stars from the world of mixed martial arts.
Known for his impressive run inside the octagon and his ironclad mentality, Topuria hhas shared throughout the evening some of the most unpublished details of his personal and professional life, including his exhaustive training routine and his constant struggle to stay in shape, a crucial aspect for any elite fighter.
Born in Georgia in 1997 and naturalized Spanish, Ilia Topuria is one of the most feared fightersand respected in the UFC.
Despite his youth, he has gained recognition for his skill in the cage and his relentless focus on every fight.
Known worldwide as “El Matador”, His unbridled career has taken him to the top of the featherweight division
The interview on ‘El Hormiguero’
During the interview, Pablo Motos He has wasted no time in investigating and searching into the most personal aspects and professionals in Topuria’s life, including her mental approach, the emotional challenges she faces, and of course, her diet and fitness regimen.
One of the most interesting moments was cWhen Topuria reflected on how his childhood in Georgiaduring the war with Russia, made him mature before his time. “These are things that make you mature before your time. These are lessons that I am grateful for,” said the champion, who also stressed the importance of staying calm and emotionally controlled before each fight.
Regarding how he faces his rivals, Topuria made it clear that his respect is unwavering: “I have a professional respect for my rivals, even if I don’t have the opportunity to meet them. I show respect in my preparations.”The fighter also shared his approach to visualization, a process that helps him stay focused and achieve his goals: “The first thing you need to know is what you want to do in your life. When you are clear about what you want to become, you have to have faith that it will happen.”
A champion’s diet
One of the most anticipated moments of the interview was when Ilia Topuria spoke about his strict diet: a crucial aspect of his career as a UFC fighter. Your physical preparation It not only involves intense training, but also a strict dietary discipline, especially when a fight is approaching and he has to reach the weight limit for his category.
Topuria also talks about the sacrifices that her diet entails and the mental impact it has: “Everything makes you very angry, you are much more sensitive to things and you don’t have the same thought process that you have when you are well hydrated and fed. The last thing you can take away from a person is food.” He said that the process of losing weight is one of the hardest moments which he has to face, describing it as “going through hell,” but at the same time, he explained that these moments allow him to get to know himself better.
Talking about her weigh-in ritual, The champion commented: “It is a blessing. Never in history have I been “I was weighing myself the day before the weigh-in. Every second counted.” After the intense sauna and dehydration sessions required to reach the limit weight, the first thing I consume after the weigh-in is water: “The first thing after the weigh-in is water. I go 24 hours without drinking and with saunas.”
However, after the weigh-in, Topuria admitted with a smile what her guilty pleasures are: “I always dream of pasta, pizza. I also like Nutella, it’s my ritual: with Omar (Montes) We eat a whole can between the two of us.” Although strict, Topuria’s diet includes these moments of indulgence, which he says help keep his morale high and recharge his energy before each fight.
Ilia Topuria’s trick to lose weight with 10 minutes of exercise a day
PAsked about his new projectOr, Ilia Topuria has spoken about ‘Invictos’: a tool where she makes available to the entire population the experts who have helped her get to where she is and where she is going to talk about health and well-being through modules so that everyone can reach their best version.
This is when it was Pablo Motos asked him what a father or mother can do to lose weight if you don’t have much time. The champion has answered that the key is to know how much time you have and to be consistent. Thus, he has revealed that with only “10 minutes a day” being consistent, the first day you won’t notice the change but with the passage of time when you look in the mirror “you won’t recognize yourself.”
