5 UFC fighters with the most unusual training methods

#4. Conor McGregor

While the former UFC lightweight and featherweight champion is currently better known for his peacock suits and abundant personal wealth, there was a point in time when Conor McGregor was a dedicated martial artist.

At the time, his focus on progressing as a fighter manifested in an obsession with movement. This occurred during the peak of his featherweight run.

During that period, the Irishman expressed a deep interest in studying animal movements, often mentioning the posture of gorillas. This interest in movement culminated in McGregor hiring the controversial fitness expert Ido Portal. It led to Nate Diaz's now infamous description of McGregor's training as "playing touch-butt in the park."

These training methods involved balancing exercises, jumping over logs, and other practices. Additionally, during the buildup to the Irishman's historic boxing match against Floyd Mayweather Jr., he would often shake his arms in a noodle-like fashion to loosen them up. This briefly turned McGregor's practices into internet memes.

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#3. Sean O'Malley

Rising bantamweight star Sean O'Malley is an admirer of Conor McGregor in more ways than just his attempt at emulating the Irishman's popularity using trash talk. O'Malley is similarly obsessed with bizarre training routines like the McGregor of old. A series of videos that offer glimpses of O'Malley's training can be found across the internet.

In some of them, 'Sugar' is practicing his punching form in a light sparring session while hopping on one leg as he smokes his drug of choice: marijuana. Furthermore, O'Malley also created his own training circuit, consisting of tackling mannequins, throwing tennis balls to sharpen his reactions, and throwing strikes at multiple punching bags at once.