I have known for a while now that our minds are great at creating imaginary comfort zones - telling us to stop way before our actual limits. Whenever it’s telling me to push the breaks and stop, I do the exact opposite and push harder - going even further than I had planned initially. What Griffin says here reminds me of the Resistance that Pressfield talks about or Julien Smith’s Flinching.Įver since I read their books I’ve been using that little voice in my head as a guide. You can walk away from it afterward knowing that you surpassed a barrier that makes most humans curl into the fetal position and weep for Jesus. You prove to yourself that pain is just that, pain. But by pushing past the pain, you become progressively tougher. Running at that speed for that duration doesn’t come naturally to anyone - it’s hideous, absolutely horrible. Every other day, I’ll rev that sucker up to twelve miles an hour and do three five-minute intervals. Personally, I use the treadmill to accomplish this. How do you develop this kind of toughness? The answer is simple - do things that make your body and mind scream at you to quit, but don’t. He will be missed.”Ĭlick here to subscribe to The Independent’s Sport YouTube channel for all the latest sports videos.Here’s a great paragraph on developing mental toughness I read in Got Fight?, Forrest Griffin’s book on… well, everything. The fans loved him, related to him, and he always gave them his best. “His fight with Forrest Griffin changed the sport forever, and he will never be forgotten. “Stephan Bonnar was one of the most important fighters to ever compete in the Octagon,” said UFC President Dana White at the time of Bonnar’s death. The fight is widely considered a pivotal moment for the UFC, sparking a period of significant growth among the company’s audience.īonnar went on to compile a 15-9 professional record, facing UFC greats Anderson Silva, Jon Jones and Rashad Evans along the way – as well as Griffin a second time, and another UFC champion in Tito Ortiz. In the season finale, the American was outpointed by Forrest Griffin while challenging his compatriot for the light-heavyweight title. He then retired in 2014 after a single bout in Bellator.īonnar’s first appearance in front of a UFC crowd came during the first season of the television show The Ultimate Fighter. Bonnar made his professional MMA debut in 2001, before fighting in the UFC between 20.

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