Jinh Yu Frey is sweating up a storm – in her workout clothes. In a new social media post the UFC fighter shows off her amazingly strong body post workout. “If you know you know…I sweat a lot,” she writes across the Instagram video. “What can I say? It’s hot. 🥵” she added in the caption. How does she approach diet, fitness, and self-care? Here is everything you need to know about her lifestyle habits.
“I got into MMA by just going to a local gym and they started an MMA programme so i joined the class, i started training with a girl there who asked me to stay behind and help her for kickboxing or juijitsu, and after 4 or 5 months after being there every night i thought i can do this,” Jinh told Be the Fittest. “I try and stay in pretty good shape all the time, but like about 4 weeks before a fight I really start sharpening up my skills and with these title fights.”
When she isn’t fighting Jinh will hit the gym four times a week. “I’ll go to the classes at my jiu jitsu gym and do like 40 min of rolling and technique work but then i will also do wrestling or situational drills in the cage, a lot of time there’s fights about to happen so I’m always helping them get ready in the cage and do rounds with them,” she says. She also does cardio.
Jinh gets help with her diet from her husband. “My husband is going to school for a nutrition degree so he takes care of this,” she says. “I always eat healthy so I always try and keep lean, so i don’t have a lot to lose but i do extra cardio and really cutting out dairy products and cheese which are high in fat and cutting down portions too,” she adds. “I don’t eat processed foods and I try to stick organic and as close to raw as I can. Mornings I do usually eat oats with chia and hemp seed and honey. After that it’s lots of legumes, nuts, and vegetables. I really don’t eat much meat. Mostly vegetables and quinoa, especially during a fight camp.”
Jinh also pounds pavement. “When I’m tired I take a day off, when I’m not I keep going. I run 2-3 times a week,” she adds. According to the Mayo Clinic, running is great for cardiovascular health, muscle building, and weight loss. “For every mile run, the average person will burn approximately 100 calories,” they say.
Surprisingly, Jinh isn’t big into strength training. “My last amateur fight i started doing crossfit in the morning and then done specific training in the evening, and it just burned me out. By the time i got to the fight, i had a really poor performance and lost the fight by split decision, my body was just exhausted. So now with the time i have, i don’t have time to devote to lifting weights,” she said.