The UFC’s resident female Olympic Silver medalist Sara McMann has relocated her training camp to Sacramento, California, under the tutelage of Urijah Faber at Team Alpha Male headquarters.
And while she is more than pleased with the result of Faber’s guidance and coaching, she admits that during his rigurous training camp demands, she pretty much wanted to kill him.
In a new chat with MMAJunkie radio, the top UFC female broke it down.
Check it out:
“If I don’t look across while the practice is going on and wish I could set my coach on fire, it’s not the right camp. That’s what his job is. His job is to bring out every bit of talent and hard work and every bit of will inside me and push it to its maximum. He did it, and he did a great job. You’re finding your breaking point, and you’re pushing that point back.”
“It’s not that I hadn’t experienced it before. … Every different type of way I could be in bad position and dogfight my way out of it, that’s what it was. While you’re going through it, you just have keep pushing yourself and rallying, and it seems like it’s never-ending. I was like, ‘Man, Urijah Faber is a freakin’ slavedriver,’ and he was. He was like, ‘I don’t care – do more … I don’t care – push harder … OK, time to go … OK, go faster … Nope, do it again – do it faster.’
“And I was just like, ‘Oooh, I wanna kick him – I just wanna miss the pads one time.’ At the end, I was like, ‘Thank you.’ That’s the best time of training. Now I get to reap the rewards of all that work. Now I’m good. My boyfriend was like, ‘You’re gonna love him when you go out there and win.’ I’m like, ‘I’ll hate him slightly less.’”
McMann returns to action this weekend as part of the UFC Orlando fight card. She will fight the always dangerous Marion Reneau.
