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TJ Dillashaw on Overtraining, Burnout & the Missing Piece in His Career

Name: TJ Dillashaw on Overtraining, Burnout & the Missing Piece in His Career
Uploaded: 2026-01-23T17:00:52+00:00
Duration: 4 s
Channel: Darrian Peck
Description: TJ Dillashaw trained six or seven days a week throughout his 20s, a wrestling-culture mentality that burned him out and caused injuries despite making…

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TJ Dillashaw trained six or seven days a week throughout his 20s, a wrestling-culture mentality that burned him out and caused injuries despite making him a world champion. He's now reckoning with how that relentless approach undermined his performance and recovery.

What was missing. Do you think that would have changed the trajectory of your career when you made your comeback?
100%. It would have changed. It could have been even better in my mind, if I could have become, you know, a national champion, All American. And maybe I stick with wrestling, which I'm so glad I was meant to become a fighter. Just my mentality, so that could have happened. But even the way that I was training in my 20s, I became a world champion training this way. But I was burning the candle at both ends. I was training six, seven days a week, as hard as I possibly can, two or three days. And growing up as a wrestler, you're always taught just to outwork your opponent. Just do it harder, do it more, do it better. Which leads to being over overworked. And I had no idea what being overworked was. I was either really injured or I felt like I was out of shape. And I was like, how is that possible? I've trained so hard, doing all the right things.
I'm getting up in the morning and.
I'm running, and then my body would just crash.