THIS is my favourite part of fight camp.

After weeks of pushing hard through training and sharpening all my tools, I’m at the point where there’s nothing left to do at the gym.

There is no drill, sparring session or pad exercise I can repeat that will affect my chances on fight night against Uriah Hall.

Now it’s all about being confident in the work you’ve put in. If deep down you know you didn’t give your best in training, you’re going to crash a burn at the top level of mixed martial arts.

When I’m training, I listen to my coaches and remember that I’ll be stepping into the Octagon against an elite athlete who has dedicated the past few months preparing to take me out.

My coaches are here to ensure that doesn’t happen. They tell me what I need to do and when I need to do it. I’m not my own boss — and I think that’s the key to success. Unless my coaches say I shouldn’t, I’ll go train. You just need to surround yourself with smart people.

I’ve done all that. Now it’s just about showing up weight and getting the job done against Uriah.

But building up your body also serves another purpose. Mixed martial arts is 90 per cent mental, 10 per cent physical. Having already left it all in the gym, now it’s just about getting your head there, and confirming with yourself that the hard work’s done — that you’re fit enough and tough enough — because there’s nothing else that can be done now.

If you’re confident in your camp and you’re confident in your training, then there’s no reason to doubt yourself. The rest is pretty easy.

But the feeling of supreme confidence I have right now isn’t the main reason I cherish this period of time before a fight.

To be honest, this is the phase of my camp where I can dedicate more time to video games — guilt free.

I play them a lot. At the moment, I’m smashing through Dragon Age: Inquisition — that’s a dope game. I spend time with my family, have coffees and then sit on the couch and play my video games. That’s my favourite part of camp.

It’s hard to say whether video games get my mind working in a different way, because I’ve been playing them my whole life — obsessively playing them. It’s the way I am. I play video games.

Whether I use them as an escape or not, who’s to say. But because I do so many physical activities, and because my career is very physical, I do enjoy just sitting down doing nothing.

I shouldn’t say “nothing,” because mentally stimulating myself in these video games is what I do. I immerse myself in the worlds the game developers have been crafting. It only seems fitting I sink hours of my life exploring them.

I just finished Witcher 3. It’s a mental game and I spent 160 hours beating it. I’m a “completionist” — I make sure I get everything.

So with the hard work over, I’m going to enjoy the calm before the storm. I’m going to try and fit in like eight hours of video games, eat well, hit the gym and get a bit of a sweat going — I want to make sure the gears are oiled.

After I weigh in the day before the fight, I’m going to look into my opponents eyes and try to see if he has the same confidence that I carry in myself. I hope he does. He’s going to need it.

Robert Whittaker will face Uriah Hall at UFC 193 at Melbourne’s Etihad Stadium on

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