ENOUGH WITH HUSTLE

SEVEN YEARS BEFORE Glover Teixeira earned the UFC light-heavyweight championship in 2021, he was wiped. “All I wanted to do was train more than anybody,” he says. But despite his hustle and his experience as a 35-year-old fighter, Teixeira was no longer competing at the same level as his much younger opponents.

So he turned to the UFC Performance Institute in Las Vegas for help. After trainers there assessed everything from his workout regimen to his nutrition