Born on May 19, 1981 in Saint-Isidore, Montérégie, Quebec, Canada, Georges St-Pierre, often referred to as GSP, is a retired Canadian mixed martial artist and the former three-time Welterweight Champion of the Ultimate Fighting Championship having won the title twice in 2006 and 2008, as well as an Interim title in 2007. He is famous for being the #1 welterweight in the world for several years by Sherdog. He was also popular for being named as the Canadian Athlete of the Year by Rogers Sportsnet.
So how does the martial artist maintains his fit body? Here’s what he said in one of his interviews: “I always train with better wrestlers than me, better boxers than me, better jujitsu guys than me. When you train with people who are better than you, it keeps challenging you. By challenging me it makes me better. It makes you better develop your skills than someone who is always training with the same people over and over again. I have a very good team.When I go there other training gyms I play their game. When I wrestle a guy like David Zimmerman, I don’t have the best of him. I wrestle well but not the best of him. But when I get into the sport and have myself in a takedown position, the guy that I’m fighting isn’t a guy like Zimmerman. It’s the same thing in boxing, jujitsu, Muay Thai. So that’s why I try to train in every single discipline with the best guys.”
For his diet, he said, “I tend to eat as well as I can, but I use the diet to lose weight. I weigh 185 pounds, and I have to be 170 on the scale [for the weigh-in], so in four days I’m going to lose 15 pounds. I’m gonna cut down the carbs, the sodium, and I’ll be eating a lot of greens and a lot of protein. By doing so, I’m going to restrict myself and make the weight. And after the weigh-in, I’m going to do the opposite by eating a lot of carbs and get all my weight back.”
Body Measurement (2014 – Age 33)
Height: 179 cm | 5 feet, 10.5 Inches
Weight: 77 kg | 170 lbs
Chest: (not known)
Bicep: 41 cm | 16 in
Waist: (not known)