If you haven’t heard of Dan Gable he is an Olympic, World, and Pan Am freestyle wrestling champion.
What I find very motivating about him is the fact that he won the 1972 olympics (he had to do 6 matches) without anyone scoring a point on him.
In addition to that, he tore his ACL 2 weeks before the olympics. Still nobody scored a point on him. What a monster!
I have a torn ACL right now and I am waiting for surgery. It feels like the knee is wobbley and unstable. To train is very hard and painful, to win the olympic gold medal without allowing a point…man that’s next level.
Check out the video below for a brief look at his training and his mentality going into the Olympic Games: