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#223 – Travis Stevens: Judo, Olympics, and Mental Toughness

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Are You Thinking You're Going to Die?

I remember like being in the sauna and like, oh, I'm 80.9 kilos. weigh-ins aren't for three hours. Fucking I'm gonna have lunch. Because I mentally understand that what I eat right now is going to fuel me for tomorrow. So I don't want to skip it. I have the time to put it into my system and still lose it. It's almost like a computer program. You're running through the process. Some people don't cut that much. Some people can't weight cut at all. They would rather have been like 83 kilos fighting 90 than you know, be 83 kilo fighting 81. Like those monks who med

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