Hendricks pushing in camp for next middleweight fight
Johny Hendricks: “If I’m doing three workouts in one day, I want to make sure that I’m pushing myself to where the next day I’m sore.”
For years former UFC welterweight champion Johny Hendricks struggled mightily at 170, losing his final three fights at the weight, and missing weight for two of them. Worse, at UFC 192 Hendricks was hospitalized trying to make weight, and never even fought. He has now moved up to middleweight and looked excellent defeating in his debut vs. Hector Lombard UFC at Fight Night 105, winning a unanimous decision.
Hendricks appeared recently on MMAjunkie Radio and discussed his training for Tim Boetsch.
More than anything, I just want to make sure that each workout I do, I am pushing myself to the limit, said Hendricks as transcribed by Matt Erickson for MMAjunkie. So if I’m doing three workouts in one day, I want to make sure that I’m pushing myself to where the next day I’m sore. That’s really what I’m trying to do.
Hendricks is in a long camp, and it is hardest right now, with nine weeks to go.
It’s usually Week 3 because I’m going to push myself really hard, he said. It might even be Week 4, because I still have enough time to add shape, lose weight, whatever it might be. So I have some leeway once I do that push.
Johny Hendricks fights Tim Boetsch on June 25, 2017, at UFC Fight Night 112.