"All you have to do is look at the results. From the first Diaz fight to the second Diaz fight, it took me three months to get that."
Conor McGregor's cardio certainly looked markedly improved from March to August as 'The Notorious' employed a more detailed, structured and scientific approach to training for his rematch with Nate Diaz at UFC 202.
McGregor brought in 1990 Irish road champion Dr Julian Dalby to assist in his conditioning programme and it seemed to do the trick as he was able to beat Diaz over 25 minutes when they met for the second time.
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"It took me three months to go from not lasting two rounds to outlasting a triathlete over five rounds who has 30lbs on me," McGregor said on a recent episode of his
Mac Life video series.
And the Dubliner also revealed that he is currently developing a training programme that fans and fellow athletes can use which incorporates the same principles that got him in such great shape for the UFC 202 headliner.
"We’re releasing a training programme, a three month training programme where people can join the training methods that I went through in my preparation for the second Diaz fight," McGregor explained to John Gooden.
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"It’s currently in progress, we’re currently making it. You’ll type in your results, you type in how serious you are when train two days, three days, four days, and the site will let you know the sets you should be doing, at what range, at what heartbeat.
"It’s very scientific and we’re looking forward to getting that off the ground and changing people's lives with this.
"It changed my life."
We reckon the programme will fly off the shelves with the endorsement of 'The Notorious'.
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