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19th July 2017
01:11pm BST

"There's no padding on the elbows, there's no padding on the shin bone, on the foot. It's like going through a car crash - a five-minute round in MMA. "That's why I'm saying this here - this game is easy! I'm telling you right now. I wake up feeling so good... and I'm getting in super shape."McGregor is now in Las Vegas as the clock winds down to his August 26 clash. He has been training at the UFC's Performance Institute just off South Torrey Pines Drive and no-one can deny that he is in incredible shape. https://www.instagram.com/p/BWtpxELgAJj/?taken-by=thenotoriousmma&hl=en The institute's 'Performance Optimization Floor' boasts nutrition consultation and physical therapy suites, a hydrotherapy area, recovery zone [with cryotherapy chamber & low level laser light therapy pod], altitude chamber, S&C area, indoor and outdoor tracks. The UFC also has a full-size boxing ring and McGregor took full advantage of it. That looks like Owen Roddy, his striking coach, absorbing the barrage. https://www.instagram.com/p/BWtp4f6gOmC/?taken-by=thenotoriousmma&hl=en Once the Dubliner's heavy work-out was done, it was off to the cryo-chamber for recovery, in temperatures of -278 degrees. He then visited the hydrotherapy area and did some endurance work on the underwater treadmill: https://www.instagram.com/p/BWuJXBRAvo3/?taken-by=thenotoriousmma&hl=en Another day done. Another day closer.
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