If you ask UFC Welterweight Champion Kamaru Usman (and UFC President Dana White), the fighter who proudly goes by “the Nigerian Nightmare” is the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world. In our latest installment of Men’s Health Gym & Fridge, the 35-year-old fighter took us through the gym routine, health-conscious diet, and cheat meals that helped get him in shape to claim that crown.
After waking up at 6 A.M., preparing breakfast, and taking his seven-year-old daughter to school, Usman is in the gym. Arguably the most important part of his workout is the warmups, where he’ll do fire hydrant workouts to warm up his glutes. Next, he incorporates some functional lifts that help him work on how his body will move in a real fight. Of all of his workouts, it’s his wrestling practices he enjoys the most. One of those practices that helps build his forearms dates back to his college days when he would hold a weight plate in between the index finger and thumb on each of his hands until “either my fingers were about to fall off or I’d drop the plates.”
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