Snapshot of the Day: BJ Penn

"When I was cutting weight for my last fight against Joe Stevenson, we were in London trying to find water that I could drink; all their water had at least 5mg of sodium in it. I finally found one that had only 3mg, so I downed an entire gallon before reading on the label that there were 56.3 mg of sulfate in it. Stressing, I woke Jason to ask, "what the hell is a sulfate?!", but he didn't know. Rudy went upstairs to find out from someone else, but we ended up calling the nutritionist in Seattle. Turns out a sulfate is a salt of sulphuric acid. I started freaking out! I was at 158 before drinking the water. The nutritionist told me to not stress out, that I would make it worse although I was close to having a nervous breakdown. She told me to go to sleep and not stress too much. I told myself, 'This is a test; this is all part of being a champion. The fight is only a portion of it.' So I had to talk myself down and relax and concentrate on breathing to go to sleep. I woke up at 163 and cut back down to 155 pretty easily."-- Tracy Lee writes about her first day in Hilo covering BJ's training.
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Re: Snapshot of the Day: BJ Penn
Wasn't she covering Urijah Faber's training in California like 2 days ago? And covering American Top Team in Japan 3 days before that?
by Tonley on
May 8, 2008 4:06 PM EDT
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by Luke Thomas on
May 8, 2008 4:07 PM EDT
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"I can do anything!!"
hehe, thanks for the support...
by tracylee on
May 9, 2008 5:23 PM EDT
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by Tanner on
May 8, 2008 4:27 PM EDT
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by BeerMonster on
May 8, 2008 4:52 PM EDT
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Re: Snapshot of the Day: BJ Penn
and yes, I was doing all of that...
by tracylee on
May 9, 2008 5:21 PM EDT
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Re: Snapshot of the Day: BJ Penn
Does she sell the photos she takes?
by pr0cs on
May 8, 2008 4:34 PM EDT
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Re: Snapshot of the Day: BJ Penn
:)
by tracylee on
May 9, 2008 5:20 PM EDT
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BJ's a good example of a guy who has clearly focused on weight-training for strength instead of size. He hits as hard as anyone in MMA while appearing to be made out of cookie dough.
by jemaleddin on
May 8, 2008 8:33 PM EDT
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by dohfil on
May 9, 2008 3:49 AM EDT
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Re: Snapshot of the Day: BJ Penn
HUGS hope you're doing well!!
by tracylee on
May 9, 2008 5:22 PM EDT
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