- Tom Aspinall suffered a knee injury in the last game against London
- A return match at the same venue will help quell the demons.
- Aspinall has used layoffs to make as much profit as possible.
Tom Aspinall was dragged out of the O2 Arena last summer with a serious knee injury, so it was understandably impossible for him to see any signs of light.
He went under the knife with a torn MCL, torn meniscus, and torn ACL just seconds before his headline match against Curtis Blaydes.
Although his limbs dangled for a while, Aspinall won the battle and pushed through, adding to his growing fame.
He paid the price in brutal fashion and was sidelined until this Saturday, when he plans to return to the scene of his suffering in hopes of exorcising his demons.
Despite some dark times in between, the British UFC star has used his layoff and recovery to become the type that became mainstream during the era when Team Sky’s Sir Dave Brailsford was winning the Tour de. In pursuit of small profits, we have found signs of hope. France.
“Training is just part of being an athlete. At least as a heavyweight, you only spend three to four hours a day in the gym,” Aspinall explained exclusively to Mail Sport.
“That means you still have to concentrate for the remaining 20 hours of the day. Do you go to the chippy every night? Do you drink beer? Do you stay up from 2 to 3 a.m. every night on your iPhone? ?
“Are you doing everything right, making sure you’re getting the right rest and stretching?” That’s something I’m still figuring out and still learning.
He continued, “For me, diet and everything else has more to do with recovery, so I want to put the right things into my body.” This is all something I’ve learned – I’ve had quite a long time I’ve been on a diet for a while now – but since my injury, I’ve recovered much better by listening to my nutritionist and pushing my body when it needs to be pushed, not every day.
“Being mindful outside of the gym is something I’ve learned over the last few years. I used to think it was all about training. That’s not the case.’
Aspinall lives and breathes the sport without external distractions, living a Spartan-type lifestyle in the modern sense of the word.
“I’m preparing to be one of the best heavyweights to ever walk the planet. That’s always the plan,” he continued.
“I’m both a fighter and an athlete, so I train whether there’s a fight or not. To be honest, I don’t have much else to do. I live and breathe this sport and hobby. , breathing. Nothing else occupies my time: training, spending time with my kids, resting.
“I also started taking rest a lot more seriously. Since my injury, I’ve learned more that I need to rest my body, that I need to eat the right foods, that I need to make sure I do things like massage, physical therapy, etc. I started to realize that.”
The pursuit of marginal profits extends to the field of hypnotherapy.
“Training is very important, but it’s not everything. I started going to hypnotherapy once a week, because with all this going on, I give myself as much of an advantage as I can to win.
‘I’m a winner. Especially now I want to win. I will give you anything that I think will be advantageous to me. If I find out that someone else is doing something I haven’t done, you better believe I’ll go and try it out in case it might help.
“If I can get even half the training and recovery benefits, I’ll do whatever I can to get there.”
Gone are the days of gutsy heavyweights who limited their movements and offset blows in the center of the octagon.
Aspinall is 6 feet 5 inches tall, and there isn’t an ounce of fat to be found on his massive frame.
Aspinall previously suffered from a fatal condition with one and a half legs, but has now made a full recovery and is expected to show further levels of athleticism.
“Before, I couldn’t do very technical things, like I couldn’t sit on my knees for long periods of time or stand up for long periods of time,” he says. .
“It would quickly expand and harden. I can cover a lot more ground in the gym and there’s a lot more I can do. I also have a confidence now that I didn’t have before. I was always on guard that I was going to start giving up, and it happened many times. It’s completely gone now.
A title fight between the winner of Jon Jones vs. Stipe Miocic is just around the corner, with Marcin Tybura coming away victorious this Saturday.
And Aspinall also needs, for his own peace of mind, to consign the memory of his very public injury at the O2 to the history books.
He admitted: “I’m a bit of a mess mentally until I can fight again, but I can’t seem to shake it off.”
“I don’t think I’m going to shake it until we get a good win, and I think we can get an even better win, especially in London.”I feel like I owe it to everyone now, and I owe it to myself. I feel that. I want to return to the same ring again.
“I don’t want it to be a taboo process where I get injured if I fight there. That’s not going to happen. I want to get back to the O2 and put on a great performance for Britain.” Fans. ”
