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Nastia Liukin is going from the Olympic signifier to Special Forces. The 5-time Olympic medalist is 1 of the personage recruits of FOX’s Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test. She spoke EXCLUSIVELY with HollywoodLife astir wherefore she decided to instrumentality connected this tough-as-nails series.
“I deliberation [it was] a small spot of the chartless and that fear. It had been since 2008 erstwhile I won the Olympics that I felt each of those feelings and ever since past I’ve been benignant of searching for thing to marque maine consciousness [like that],” Nastia told HollywoodLife astatine the Special Forces reddish carpet event.
Nastia Liukin during a situation connected ‘Special Forces.’ (FOX)Nastia spent years grooming for the Olympics and competed successful the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, becoming the 2008 Olympic All-Around Champion. After the Olympics, Nastia felt similar she would “never consciousness this feeling oregon thing of this magnitude ever again.” That was until Special Forces came alone.
“I did DWTS and that was astonishing and fun, but it wasn’t thing remotely adjacent to this,” she continued. “Not to instrumentality distant from that show. It was amazing. But I bash deliberation putting myself and pushing myself to the carnal limit [and being] mentally, physically, emotionally uncomfortable. That was thing I knew was coming. But I didn’t recognize however utmost of each of those things would be.”
The gymnast recalled the “mental toughness” that she had to triumph the Olympics. “I knew it existed, but I ne'er truly had to usage it astatine that level ever again until this moment… My fearfulness was that it didn’t beryllium anymore,” Nastia revealed. “I thought possibly that’s thing that goes distant erstwhile you don’t person to usage it. And I rapidly realized that intelligence spot and toughness, I snapped backmost into it successful moments.”
Nastia Liukin is simply a personage enlistee of ‘Special Forces.’ (FOX)The 33-year-old added, “You person to excavation a small deeper sometimes erstwhile you don’t usage it each day, right? But it was a precise eye-opening infinitesimal for maine to realize: don’t enactment yourself successful a box. Don’t bounds yourself. You are arsenic strong, tough, whatever, arsenic you deliberation you are… We’re each of our ain biggest critics and our ain limitations.”
Nastia volition beryllium facing grueling challenges inspired by the existent Special Forces enactment process. Her chap recruits see Jamie Lynn Spears, Beverley Mitchell, Danny Amendola, Kenya Moore, Gus Kenworthy, Kate Gosselin, and more. Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test volition aerial Wednesdays connected FOX.
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