In a recent interview with Sherdog, Zahabi explained why GSP’s training camp can’t be sustained for several more years of competition.
UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre is only 31 years old, but the reason why he can't continue for so many years is because of his devastating knee injury that had him sidelined for 1 year and a half. And when you get older, it's easier to get hurt and get the same injury, again and again. It could also explain why GSP injured his achilles heel in his last training camp, when he was training to fight Nick Diaz.
Zahabi explained why GSP’s preparation can’t be sustained for several more years of competition (via Sherdog).
His training camps are very difficult. I’ve done a lot of training camps. I could tell you the energy, time and money and hours spent doing a GSP training camp is ridiculous. It’s borderline insane. There’s a lot of effort going into preparing him for his fights. Can he live this lifestyle for another four or five years? I don’t know. Because it’s not a balanced lifestyle. It’s not a balanced lifestyle for him.
He’s giving up a lot of free time and leisure time and experiences he could be having in life to maintain his title, to maintain this excellence. It’s a difficult thing to do. He’s going to have to make that choice one fight at a time. Does he want to go through another training camp? Right now at this time, yes, for sure. There’s no doubt in my mind he wants to do another one, but down the line, two or three more training camps, is he still going to want to do it? That’s up to him. Does he still have the fire and the passion? We’ll see.
He’s giving up a lot of free time and leisure time and experiences he could be having in life to maintain his title, to maintain this excellence. It’s a difficult thing to do. He’s going to have to make that choice one fight at a time. Does he want to go through another training camp? Right now at this time, yes, for sure. There’s no doubt in my mind he wants to do another one, but down the line, two or three more training camps, is he still going to want to do it? That’s up to him. Does he still have the fire and the passion? We’ll see.
St-Pierre is expected to put his 170 lbs title on the line against number one contender Johny Hendricks. But we still have to wait some time before that happens because Georges St-Pierre would like to take some time off and that has, most likely, to do with the injuries he sustained in his camp before the Diaz fight.
