What Does UFC Fighter Chuck Liddell Eat for Breakfast?

How does MMA champion Chuck Liddell start his day? With multiple workouts--and the power of juice

August 6, 2013

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What Does UFC Fighter Chuck Liddell Eat for Breakfast

Welcome to My Morning Routine, where we take a look at how people kick-start the day. And by "people" we mean celebrities.

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Every sport has only one, maybe two, figures like Chuck "TheIceman" Liddell. Arguably the most well-known fighter in Mixed Martial Arts,Liddell helped mainstream the sport in America with his appearances on SpikeTV, Dancing With the Stars, and The Simpsons among others. As one of the mostdominant champions of the UFC, he achieved the most knockouts in his weightclass, with a career of 21 victories, before retiring just over two years agoas a Hall of Fame member. We asked the, uh, retiree how he starts his mornings:

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By nature, I'm not an early riser. But I get up at 6 a.m. towork out with my kids, who are 12 and 14, before school. My son is new to ourhousehold full-time. I vary the workouts, we run about 2 miles, and we changethat up, sometimes we do sprints instead, that's about 15-20 minutes, then westretch out, and I do martial arts with them, body weight exercise, core work.My 8-year-old girl tries to copy us. We'll do a yoga tape, different things,mix it up so they don't get bored.

I think it's good for them to work out, to be in shape to behealthy, and that's when I get to talk to them every day. They hit showers at7:30, and I get breakfast ready.

Breakfast changes from day to day. My wife does most of thecooking, [but] I like to get breakfast together. The kids eat what we eat. I doegg whites with a couple whole eggs, vegetables, we throw in some baconsometimes, every once in a while some pancakes, fruit--a lot of fruits. We do alot of juicing, too--different recipes, my wife likes kale, beets, celerycucumbers. If you play with stuff enough, you can make it healthy and taste goodat the same time. I drink one of the Xyience hydration drinks, fruit punch ismy favorite.

I am a food person, so I like good food. If you say ittastes good, I'll give it a shot. When I'm training for a fight, though, itbecomes pretty regimented.

I might take the kids to school--or my wife will or ourfriend--and then come home and get the rest of my day figured out. Usually Iget another workout in: I go and hike a lot of times--It's a way to wakemyself up. I always end up getting more done on the days I work out in themorning.

When I was a kid, my dream was to open up a martial artsschool, so we're working on that now, just figuring out what size we want to do,near where we live in Calabasas.