The Good Life – January-February 2016
Featuring UFC Fighter, Timothy Johnson. 13-time X Games Medalist, Tucker Hibbert, Local Heroes - Fargo Vet Center and more in Fargo Moorhead’s only men’s magazine.
Featuring UFC Fighter, Timothy Johnson. 13-time X Games Medalist, Tucker Hibbert, Local Heroes - Fargo Vet Center and more in Fargo Moorhead’s only men’s magazine.
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“I like to stay pretty busy, otherwise too much down time is never<br />
a good thing,” he said.<br />
Johnson is hoping to go back to school this next spring to finish<br />
the last seven credits he needs to get a degree in criminal justice.<br />
He was close to getting two different degrees before, but he<br />
switched majors in his last semester of both.<br />
He considers himself a Jack of all trades, but currently he keeps<br />
busy driving a truck, working security, and being involved with<br />
the Minnesota Army Guard, apart from all his MMA and UFC<br />
work.<br />
Making sacrifices to make it big<br />
Before he signed with the UFC, he said there were a few things he<br />
didn’t really think about: fame and travel.<br />
“Being known was the biggest thing, I guess,” he said. “And getting<br />
to travel. My first fight was in Virginia, outside of Washington,<br />
D.C., so finally being able to go there and see everything was<br />
great.”<br />
He’s traveled all over the place, but Washington, D.C., has been<br />
his favorite to visit so far. Also, he said he’s learned a lot about<br />
himself since joining the UFC.<br />
“I’d say that probably the main thing I’ve learned is once I decide<br />
to put in the work, things do happen,” he said. “In my first three<br />
years of MMA, I just did it as a hobby, and then about 18, 19<br />
months ago, I decided to actually start taking it very seriously and<br />
up my training and sacrifice a lot of time and money and miss out<br />
on a lot of hours working.”<br />
‘At least two workouts a day’<br />
When he’s not preparing for a fight, Johnson said he only works<br />
out once a day. When gearing up for a fight, he works out two or<br />
three times a day with higher intensity than his workouts during<br />
the “off season” between fights.<br />
Somewhere between eight and 10 weeks before a fight, he likes to<br />
start training and working out at those higher intensities.<br />
“You won’t do a day when you won’t do at least two workouts a<br />
day,” he said. “And generally they’re a little more higher intensity<br />
workouts, too.”<br />
He said this is when he really focuses on getting his cardio up and<br />
going as hard as he can every single day.<br />
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