I train six days a week for four to five hours a day. I like to keep the same schedule when I'm in camp for every fight.
I attended sports school in Bulgaria just like my parents. I attended class twice a day and trained twice a day.
When I was competing, I trained between three and six hours a day, seven days a week.
It was almost like I was in the army: school, work, homework, fly to New York, get in at 2 in the morning, do a morning show at 5 A.M., then another one at 7, then a radio interview at 10, you know?
Unluckily actors don't get much free time, they are demanded every time and everywhere.
The only 'special supplements' I'm using is two hard and bloody trainings per day, five days a week.
Big-time college ball is a business, and they work you to death. You're in the gym at 7 A. M., got classes all morning, then five hours of practice a day.
I come from the theater. Nothing is as difficult as working eight shows a week. Period. End of story.
I've been working since I was 9, and I've never known a life without a film set.
I trained with Olympics Athlete Jeanette Kwakye - who is amazing! And Shani Anderson, who is an excellent Olympic runner. We trained five times a week; running, circuits, weights, working out in the gym, and on the track. It was an insane time.
Single-camera is more relentless because it's eight 14-hour days no matter how you slice it.
After hours, I would train, train, train, six or seven days a week, until 2 or 3 in the morning sometimes.
The overall physical demand that Iraq has is pretty amazing. It's 130 degrees, and the soldiers are carrying about 100 pounds of extra gear. It's a pretty rigorous schedule and routine for them.
You can do anything you want to [ in ashram] if you can find the time. It's a very rigorous day. It starts at 2:30 in the morning and often doesn't end until midnight, so if you can actually find a moment to have a drink or a smoke, you're quite welcome to, as long as it doesn't interfere with your capacity to follow the schedule.
I train six to seven hours every single day. I wake up six days a week and know that it's going to be the same thing.
A talented child will have a schedule that is horrendous. You get up and practice, go to school, practice some more, eat dinner, and then you have homework.
With such a rigorous schedule, it's important that I do everything I can to maintain my health and wellness.
It's hard to understand the athlete's lifestyle. You literally eat, sleep, train. You go to training camps in the winter where there is no Internet, you can't make phone calls.
Sundays in my teens were spent on homework: from 8 am until at least 8 pm, with stoppages to be fed and watered. I was carrying up to ten subjects simultaneously.
People have no idea how physically tough doing a film is.
