Why Wladimir Klitschko Has No Time For Bad Habits

Vladimir Klitschko is in the Young Hollywood studio. Leslie Robbins here. But you've been here before. So, I don't wanna say welcome, I wanna say welcome back to Young Hollywood Studio.

Thank you so much, Leslie. Thank you.

Time's flying. Professionally speaking, a lot has happened since you and your brother were on this couch.

It's such a great thing to enjoy the success together as as as as a team.

You've now retired from professional boxing.

Yeah, after 27 years. Wow. It was great to be an athlete, and it's so fantastic to retire under my terms. Not some people's terms, not destiny, and God forbid, not health.

Well, you talk about that in your new book. Doing things on your own terms. So, this book is is a method.

Challenge management is a philosophy, and the method's called face your challenge. Why face your challenge? Because you cannot show back to your challenge. So, face it. You know, boxers are always like stare down. So, they're turning face to each other, and never back. When they fight and also at the press conference weigh-ins, they're always like staring at each other. And showing the face to the challenger, or a challenger in this case. But face has also principles, this is four letters. Focus, agility, coordination, and endurance. And that's exactly the qualities that every person that is successful or want to be successful or creative, and doing something in his life, those four principles are crucially important. So, it all starts with a belief. You need to really strongly believe in something. That's how you break the ground. Then, it gets to willpower. Willpower is kinda really also something that makes you to make first step, which is really important. Then, motivation kicks in. And it's so great to be motivated, especially in the morning when you have a cup of coffee and maybe cold shower and a workout, and then you're so motivated for whatever you want to achieve in your life. Then, from motivation, you get to discipline. And I've been in the mind of 27 years, so disciplined. So, discipline is like a train on a railway. It gets from A to B and from B to A. So, there is only one way. Discipline is great, but it's kinda tough. It's kinda hard. And eventually, you get on this call to the fifth step. Habit. Be careful, though, there are some other habits.

Like?

Bad habits. Like anything. So, it's pretty much the same coding going on with the bad habits.

Do you have bad habits?

I can't even consider it as bad because I'm always on the move. Always on the move because if you stand still, you kinda fall back. And sometimes you have to reflect. You kinda need to lean back and reflect. And I think that's what I don't do because I'm just always on the move. Always on the move. I'm always talking. See? And on one side, it's an advantage, but on the other side it could be like, you need to sit back and reflect. Sit back. Relax. Reflect what is going on. Yeah, he's up there. Thank you. You know what? You're good.

You said you drink coffee in the morning?

Yes, I do and a workout every morning.

Workout coffee every morning. You said cold shower? Really cold?

Yeah, like super cold.

What? Yeah. That's so great. You just got like really excited.

Yeah, I love it. I love it. The colder it is, the better it is. I can tell.

Wait, there's no warmth at all in the beginning?

No, no, no, you start with a warm shower and then you end up for another like three minutes or five minutes, just really cold, not longer than that. Otherwise, you're gonna like get cold.

Does that just wake you up?

Uh, it definitely gives me a boost of energy and motivation all of this for the day.

Wow. And then, any nighttime routine that you have?

Uh, I sleep like a bear. Or like a champ. And what bear does, it snores. So, that's probably, hmm, not that good.

You snore?

Who doesn't?

I don't snore.

Oh no, of course not you. No, no, no. I didn't look at you. No.

So, of course, you mentioned you're in retirement, it's treating you well, you're busier than ever.

That sounds like, you just said retirement. Sounds negative. You know, I'm too young to retire. But yeah, I'm busier than ever. Yeah. It's true. Because my schedule during the sporting times, being in sport, it was all kinda scheduled and, you know, I had time to reflect and all this, but now, as soon as I stepped out of the ring, things got wild. There's so much to do and the world is so big, and I'm so hungry for a lot of new things to do, achieve, and I'm just moving on in that direction.

I think the world is hungry for you to get back in the ring. Just between you and me?

Yeah. I still got it.

You still got it.

I still got it. Think about it. Yeah. To become a champion at 45. I'll think about it.

When you are a champion again because you will be a champion again. Because he's ready and he's got it. You'll be back in the studio. I think it's a good deal. Good deal.