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The Ronda Rousey diet? One meal a day with lots of coffee - MMAmania.com

"It's kind of a combination of The Paleo and The Warrior diet. I pretty much eat one meal a day - which takes place at night... There is one exception to all of this each day: I get to have coffee every morning. That's the only thing I really fudge on... I thought it was crazy at first. Especially since breakfast was, and still is, my favorite meal... I sleep a lot better than I used to and I have a lot more time because I'm not planning meals all day long... The philosophy is, when you're digesting food then your body wants to rest. If you're hungry then your body wants to go and get food. So you have more energy when you're not digesting food. So I can get more out of training on an empty stomach than I would on a full stomach."

Mike Dolce says Ronda Rousey's 'fringe approach' to healthy eating will eventually catch up to her - MMAmania.com

What Ronda is doing, like I said, works very well for her right now, but she became an Olympian, the highest level an athlete can achieve, doing something different, and as far as I know, very few Olympians in 2012 competed on that type of diet. Id say almost none. I'm certainly not bashing the diet, but it's just a very fringe approach to an overall healthy eating regimen... I think for a high level athlete like Ronda Rousey or any elite mixed martial arts practitioner that's training twice a day, in my opinion, it's impossible to sustain the level of performance in training necessary on just one meal a day. There's overwhelming scientific data and practical data that supports this. Athletes in the gym need to replenish glycogen delivery and restore insulin levels immediately prior to training. If you're training twice a day, but only eating once a day, you're at a deficit. An elite athlete like Ronda Rousey genetically and through her work effort might be able to outpace some of those issues, but eventually, it will catch up. It always does."

Cris: ‘Ronda has never been hit in the mouth before’ :: TATAME

“I don’t need to prove to no one I’m the best. I defeated them all. If Ronda says I wasn’t clean in any of the fights I won, she’s disrespecting the commission. She’s challenging me and I gotta laught at that. I’ve never fought on the bantamweight, I’ve always been a featherweight and I can drop like a couple of pounds. If Ronda challenged me, she gotta face the consequences of her actions and I hope she does alright. I never knew she existed. She just can’t do it like Sonnen, who talked a lot and when the time came he felt like a chicken. I never talked about her because I had no intent to fight her. She’s running away from me, ran away to another division and started saying shit. She chickened out”.

Not dodging, Cris Cyborg guarantees that Ronda has never been hit on the month and that, when it happens, she’s crawl her way home.

“I’ve never liked to say things about anyone because when you say things you carry a big bag of responsibility. It’s easy saying things behind cameras. Even a parrot can talk. She knows I can’t drop that weight but it’s easy for her to come up, since she started fighting at my weight division. I’ve never been more excited for a fight like I am right now. She has no idea what is a knee, a punch in the mouth. I was born at a gym where I used to be beat up every single day, but I wasn’t afraid to come up and fight again. When she gets hit on the mouth and loses her teeth she’s gonna crawl her way home. I’ve never ran away from a fight and I’ve never picked out opponents. I fight anyone”.

In December, Cris Cyborg’s suspension will be over but the future of the Brazilian is not sure. That’s because her division might be extinct, forcing her to leave the organization.

“If they close this division up I might be dismissed. I can’t cut my arm off to fight. I’ll wait for a definition from Strikeforce. I want to fight, I’m motivated and training a lot. This year off hasn’t changed one bit. Talk good or bad things about me, I just want you to talk about me because that proves I still bother people”, said the fighter, who then completed:

“I wanna thank my fans. About the critics, you can go on because that only motivates me to get better and better. If you say ‘she’s like a man’ it’s because they can’t admit a woman can hit another woman like a man in the octagon. I wanna thank Chute Boxe and all the people who’re with me. I wanna fight and I’m prepared to fight anyone”.

Olympic Medalist Marti Malloy Says People Haven't Even Seen Ronda Rousey's Fighting Spirit Yet | MMAWeekly.com

This year in London, two American women captured medals in judo including Kayla Harrison, who won the gold at 78 kilograms, and Marti Malloy, who grabbed the bronze medal at 57 kilograms. Malloy, who grew up on the mats working alongside Rousey in the American judo program, says that her fellow Olympic medalist has been a huge influence and attraction for the sport as they continue to look for national exposure.

“Everyone knew who Ronda was in the judo world, like across the whole globe; she was a bad ass. She was beating people up everywhere she went. So when she went over to the MMA world, I gave a little ‘duh,’ she’s been taking judo girl’s arms off for years, of course this is going to work in MMA,” Malloy said in an interview with MMAWeekly Radio.

“Now that Ronda has this great fan base and following because of her incredible skill in the ring, it’s doing great things for judo.”

Malloy knows that judo isn’t as popular in the United States as many Olympic sports such as basketball or the track and field events, but that’s what she’s hoping can change over the next few years leading into the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

“My dream would be for judo to be just as popular and shown on all the sports networks as much as it is in the other countries. I always say this, but in France and Japan, judo is just as popular as the NBA or the NFL on TV and their judo superstars are hailed as heroes. If we can help make judo be that in a few years or however many Olympics, we’d be part of help making that happen,” said Malloy.

As far as her former teammate, Malloy loves watching Rousey continue to accomplish her goals in the world of MMA with the same tenacious attitude she had in judo. There was no surprise that Rousey rose as fast as she did when she started fighting, according to Malloy, because she’s already been fighting her entire life.

“Ronda and I fought I can’t even tell you how many times growing up and I want to say we were nemeses because I never beat her. I was like never able to beat her as a teenager and that was my goal, who I trained to beat. So now seeing her on the top, it doesn’t surprise me at all because Ronda has this fighting spirit, and nobody has been able to even take her out of the first round, so they haven’t even seen the fighting spirit Ronda has,” Malloy stated.

“She will fight to the death to win and people haven’t seen that yet except in the judo world. We all get excited to watch her matches, but we know better than to think she’s going to have any trouble.”

As far as the detractors that have gone after Rousey because she only has five professional fights in MMA and didn’t “earn” her way to the top, Malloy is quick to shoot it down in defense of her former teammate. If anyone earned her place, it was Ronda Rousey.

“She earned it,” Malloy commented. “She has not only these amazing technical skills that are just judo, but jiu-jitsu, wrestling, everything she trains and in the judo world we’re all really, really proud of her. She sets a good example of what it means to be a true athlete.”

[H0SS]

Originally Posted by Lazarus

I also like Chael Sonnen when he talks, it's entertaining to me. I don't take it seriously, but I also know the dude can fight, same as Rousey. While her being hot does make it a bonus, that is not the main or only reason as you imply.

Chael's also hot. O_o

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Originally Posted by H0SS

Chael's also hot. O_o

True that.