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00:01:16.000I think that all that stuff about contracts, it's a scam.
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00:01:24.000Like when you buy a phone from a normal carrier, say if you buy an iPhone and you sign up for a two-year contract and you buy an iPhone, you're not really buying that phone.
00:01:33.000You're buying a piece of that phone and then the rest of it you're paying off over a long period of time.
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00:08:04.000If you have bad posture and you sit in your chair, you really are putting tremendous stress on just a few of the parts of your spine, like a few of the discs.
00:08:13.000And those discs oftentimes can rupture.
00:08:16.000They say that people get herniated discs from wearing a wallet.
00:08:19.000If you have a wallet in your pocket, like say if you're a cab driver or something, and you sit down all the time on a wallet, you can get a herniated disc from that.
00:10:05.000I can't tell you the horrific injuries that rolfing helped me get over from both wrestling, jiu-jitsu, and so forth.
00:10:12.000So the body is very malleable, very pliable, and can be moved if the practitioner knows how to do it.
00:10:23.000Yeah, I went to Rolfing at the suggestion, one of the guys from my jiu-jitsu class who had a bulging disc and dealt with it with Rolfing, and he went to this guy, but the guy was really wacky.
00:10:33.000Well, they can be a little strange, some of these bodywork types, you know?
00:10:39.000He also believed that Bruce Lee could kill people with one punch, and he kept telling me this, that, you know, Bruce Lee could kill people with just one punch.
00:11:08.000So this guy was a little wacky, and he had some very interesting ideas about what he was doing.
00:11:13.000He would push down your ribs and think it would release your neck, and I wasn't exactly sure if there was a lot of logic about how he was doing it.
00:11:19.000Well, there may be something to that, Joe, you know, because of the way the connected tissue spirals through the body.
00:11:36.000How the guy ever figured out the chemicals to use to dissolve away all other tissues and leave the one intact that he wanted is just mind-blowing.
00:11:45.000But anyway, it looks like DNA strands all spiraled up.
00:11:49.000So really, truly, your ankle bone is connected to your neck bone.
00:11:53.000And if one part of your body is out of alignment, right, or, you know, stress or immobilized, it can cause some problems in other areas of the body.
00:12:02.000Well, this guy would, like, push down on your ribs with his elbows, like, to loosen up things in your back.
00:12:08.000It'd be unbelievably painful to just dig in your, you know, his elbow into your ribs and moving things around.
00:12:14.000And then he'd have you stand up and he'd look at you.
00:12:17.000See if you're leaning to the left or leaning to the right and where your posture is.
00:12:21.000I don't know about all that, but when he got down to business on your back and would, you know, break, it would, you want to tap out.
00:12:47.000And I think that there's a lot of folks that go out there And they, you know, they hit the gym, they lift weights, they'll do jujitsu, do all these different things, but they never get massaged.
00:12:56.000And I think they're doing themselves a huge disservice.
00:12:59.000You know, I've said that to many, many jujitsu guys.
00:13:03.000Like, if you can, just at least once a week, just go to one of those Thai massages and have one of those people work on you.
00:13:10.000Or if you can, go to a real good sports medicine place and have someone do some deep tissue on you.
00:13:26.000So, I mean, for sure, it takes a toll on the body.
00:13:28.000And you have to do these things in order to keep yourself in alignment because there's just no way you can do heavy combat sports like that without suffering.
00:13:36.000So you're going to definitely get knocked out of alignment, have things move that...
00:13:47.000I mean, the foam rolling and a lot of times mobility exercises work pretty good for that, self-treatment.
00:13:54.000But usually after a couple days and that stuff isn't working, that's when you know it's time to get to...
00:13:59.000A therapist to actually put stuff back in place for you.
00:14:22.000But, you know, sometimes that just doesn't work, and that's when you know it's time to get to the therapist.
00:14:28.000Yeah, it's one of the things that I'm finding out through this last year, because this last year has been the year of this back injury that I had, which is way better now.
00:14:38.000I mean, now I'm lifting heavy kettlebells and doing all these different things.
00:15:02.000It is very crazy, because I'm running into a series of these guys, once I started opening up about this, whether it's from the underground, guys that I know on Twitter, or guys that I know from Jiu Jitsu class, who now have atrophy.
00:15:14.000And according to the doctor that administers that Regenikine, that blood spinning procedure that I had done to reduce inflammation, he says once you have atrophy, like, that's really bad.
00:15:25.000He's like, a lot of people think they're going to have atrophy and they're going to put it off and put it off.
00:15:29.000It's like, if you have that for more than, like, you know, X amount of months, a lot of times those nerves never get fully, they never return 100%.
00:15:38.000He said that there's surgery that they have to do to open up the pathways to alleviate the pressure on those nerves.
00:15:45.000And if that doesn't happen, if you don't do that, like, you run the chance of...
00:15:50.000Having permanent atrophy of your muscles and having permanent loss of function of your limbs.
00:15:56.000Well, it blows my mind how people just don't pay attention to their body.
00:16:00.000Like, pain is a signal that something's wrong.
00:16:04.000And to ignore it and just keep pushing and driving through.
00:16:07.000And of course, you know, MMA guys, jiu-jitsu guys, wrestlers, you know, gridiron football, rugby guys, they're pretty tough guys.
00:16:16.000And a lot of times they just, you know, are very stoic.
00:16:20.000And love doing what they do and just don't want to stop and will just continue to drive themselves, you know, long after they should instead of just taking care of it.
00:16:29.000Yeah, and you got to know when to tap out.
00:16:31.000You also got to know that if you don't, there's guys that like let themselves get injured, you know, they're like, oh, I'm not tapping.
00:16:39.000If you tap, you learn the same mistake than not tapping.
00:16:43.000The mistake is you got yourself into a bad position.
00:16:56.000And there's a certain point where you have to realize you got got and you got to tap.
00:17:00.000Because if you don't tap and you get your elbow snapped, A, it might not ever be the same again and B, you're going to be out for a long time.
00:18:01.000People don't like getting thrown out in softball.
00:18:05.000Nobody likes when you hit a fly ball and someone catches it.
00:18:08.000But if it's a softball game and everybody's drinking beers and you're having burgers, it's no big deal.
00:18:14.000But if you're on the mat and you're doing jujitsu and someone catches you with something, there's so much pride and machismo involved in that position, in that situation.
00:18:24.000And if you can get out of it, you know, yeah, you didn't get me.
00:18:28.000You know, even though your arm's all fucked up.
00:18:30.000Like, I've not tapped the things before and got out of it and been okay.
00:18:33.000But then my arm is fucked up for months.
00:18:36.000You know, like, I had a bad elbow for probably three months.
00:18:40.000Because one guard pass, I'm passing, and you know, sometimes you pass, you leave your arm out a little bit.
00:18:44.000Try to bait the guy to go for a Kimura so you can try to get over the knees.
00:18:48.000And as I'm passing and he locked in the Kimura, I'm like, oh shit, like this is tight.
00:19:20.000And then by that point, it's already too late.
00:19:23.000So the risk-to-benefit ratio, the idea, oh, I got out of it versus not being able to train for weeks or even months, just never makes it worth it.
00:19:35.000And that's one of the big differences as you get older.
00:19:59.000If you teach them the technique correctly and they get in the right position and your arm is deep in their crotch and they got your thumb up and they're pulling on it, they got it.
00:20:37.000And that's kind of the difference between a real legit black belt like Rhonda and someone who's never done it before, maybe just learning the technique.
00:20:45.000And maybe you can kind of get out because if you just turn your arm a little bit and now your elbow's up instead of down and there's no pressure on it, you can kind of If you're good, you can kind of get out of the position.
00:20:56.000That sort of is the difference between, you know, maybe someone like...
00:20:59.000Maybe the difference between a purple belt and a black belt.
00:21:01.000The difference between a white belt and a purple belt.
00:21:03.000You know, there's like the ability to hang on longer.
00:21:12.000The exact opposite of something that is easy and predictable and like a Nautilus machine.
00:21:21.000You push that thing forward, it's going to go on the same track every time.
00:21:26.000But when you're grappling with a person, even if you know how to execute the technique with the perfect leverage and all that...
00:21:33.000People are moving and resisting, and it's a little bit different every time, and their foot's in a little different position every time, and their arms are a little bit different, and it's so interesting in that sense where you're constantly adjusting.
00:21:46.000It's like a fingerprint or a snowflake.
00:21:48.000Every time you do it, it's just a little bit different.
00:22:24.000He had actually been released from the team, but they had a couple injuries, and they called him in and went in there and caught a couple of touchdown passes.
00:22:30.000So he comes to my jiu-jitsu class, and it's like, whoa, wait, man.
00:22:36.000Jiu-jitsu was designed to protect us from guys like you, man.
00:23:19.000Probably about 148 pounds at the time, 150. And, you know, this guy's like 275. He literally does a Turkish getup and is putting Ron's head through the ceiling.
00:23:26.000And I remember screaming because, you know, this guy was like really an important part of our team.
00:23:37.000Just insane just how strong some people can be.
00:23:40.000Especially people that are like real super athletes like football players, guys that have been slamming into other 300 pound men for years and hitting sleds and doing power cleans and just...
00:25:21.000And I probably weighed—I was a lot heavier back then, maybe about 177. And we get to messing around, and this guy literally just grabbed me by the ankle and picked me upside down.
00:26:18.000Huge guy, but not doing so well in MMA. You know, he got manhandled by Tim Sylvia, which was a fascinating fight, because Tim Sylvia, obviously a very skilled guy.
00:26:30.000I don't know why Pucinowski took that fight.
00:29:07.000We talked about this last time, the vasava sink, where there's a partial glottal closure, and they're making these grunts, and their blood pressure's building up.
00:29:16.000That in itself, not knowing how to breathe, very exhausting.
00:29:20.000Yeah, that was one of the things that separated Hickson from a lot of the other jiu-jitsu guys was his work with yoga.
00:29:38.000His son Krohn was on here and he was explaining the diaphragm thing and talking about how much emphasis he puts on breathing in his training.
00:29:46.000That stomach churning is supposedly really good for digestion.
00:29:51.000It's like an internal massage for your organs and so forth.
00:35:41.000Yeah, well, I mean, isn't it the way it is with everything?
00:35:43.000Because, I mean, some of the statistics you come up with on the fighters during the show, you know their coaches, where they trained their records.
00:35:51.000Joe, your memory is like a freaking elephant, man.
00:38:02.000And when you find out your body type or you find out...
00:38:06.000There's a dietary regimen that goes along with this, and there's even exercise that's more beneficial or less beneficial for different types.
00:38:14.000And is the idea of balancing yourself?
00:38:19.000Yeah, you want to keep as balanced as possible, and you have to be very careful with imbalances.
00:38:25.000This is what manifests all sorts of illnesses, diseases, and so forth.
00:41:09.000I mean, everything they need is provided by nature.
00:41:12.000And us as the highest form of animal on the planet, I mean, what makes us think that God didn't provide this stuff or nature didn't provide?
00:42:56.000Probably there's no real harm in taking supplements for regular people.
00:43:00.000Well, there's certain supplements that you're just not going to get the right amount with foods, like fish oil, like omega-3 fatty acids and things along those lines.
00:43:08.000You would have to eat a shitload of fish every day to get the proper amount, to reduce inflammation, to increase cognitive abilities, to help muscle growth.
00:43:17.000There's a lot of benefits of fish oil that's been shown, and it's incredibly difficult to get that amount of fish oil just from eating fish unless you're eating salmon, fatty salmon all day.
00:43:25.000Or getting fish that isn't polluted with mercury and all that crap.
00:45:34.000Like, guys would walk around with these giant jugs of water, and they would say that the average person walks around dehydrated all the time.
00:45:40.000But I would watch them, and they'd be peeing every 20 minutes, and I was like, you know, well, you're flushing your body out of toxins.
00:46:57.000Well, you know, infrared sauna is so good at helping the body detoxify that drug and alcohol clinics actually install infrared saunas to help people kick drugs and alcohol and cigarettes and so forth.
00:47:50.000Dr. Rhonda Patrick, one of the people that I've had on the podcast as a regular, she's fascinating and she's got so much knowledge.
00:47:58.000And one of the things that she wrote a paper that was recently published, it's on the benefits of sauna and really incredible on hypothermic conditioning on muscle growth.
00:48:43.000More than exercise alone, when used in conjunction with exercise, this is important because this brain-derived neurotropic factor increases the growth of new brain cells as well as the survival of existing neurons.
00:48:57.000An increase in neurogenesis is thought to be responsible for enhancing learning.
00:49:37.000You know, when you look at people that used to live a long time ago and used to be able to survive out in the woods and survive without technology, and then you look at...
00:49:45.000You ever watch that show Naked and Afraid?
00:50:55.000So these people are out there, and they have to build shelter because they're in the rainforest, so there's all these fucking bugs, and they see bullet ants.
00:51:03.000Bullet ants are some of the most painful stings known to man.
00:51:07.000They say it's like getting your hand slammed in a car door for 24 hours.
00:51:11.000That's what it feels like if one bites you.
00:51:13.000Well, I would definitely be naked and afraid if I was around the freaking bullet ants, man.
00:51:17.000Well, they have these rites of passages they do with certain indigenous tribes in the Amazon where they take what looks like oven mitts and they embed bullet ants in these oven mitts all throughout the – like they stick their stingers through.
00:51:31.000So they're trapped, and so they just keep stinging.
00:51:34.000And then they make these guys wear these gloves and get the shit stung out of them by these bullet ants.
00:51:41.000And there was one show, I forget what the show was, but the host actually took part in the ritual himself and put these gloves on.
00:51:48.000On his hands, he got his hands all stung.
00:52:45.000They're called, there's certain rituals where it's not called a psychedelic, it's called like an ordeal poison.
00:52:54.000An ordeal poison is like what tribes, where they don't have access to psychedelics, oftentimes they come up with these rituals based on poisoning.
00:53:02.000So they'll give someone a poison that gets you to the brink of death.
00:53:08.000It gets you like, you're sweating, you're dying, and then it releases you when your body processes it.
00:53:25.000And you're taking all this plant matter, and it's just a horrible foul taste, and purging anything that might be in your stomach.
00:53:33.000But the active ingredients in ayahuasca, not only is it not toxic...
00:53:38.000But it's also one of the most transient drugs ever exhibited or ever observed in the body because of the fact that it's a normal human neurotransmitter.
00:53:47.000Your body knows how to process it, so your body just can bring you back to baseline very quickly.
00:53:52.000You know, I bought some of that stuff one time.
00:55:40.000It's just really something that just sounds fascinating to me because apparently people have some really amazing psychedelic experiments and just kind of expands the consciousness and they have some pretty intense experiences.
00:55:55.000But you would definitely want to be with someone that has taken people through it before.
00:56:01.000Definitely not something to mess around with on your own, man.
00:56:03.000Well, it's also the environment that you do it in is really important, too.
00:56:07.000You don't want to be in an unsafe environment.
00:56:09.000You don't want to be tripping your paws off and then something goes wrong.
00:56:12.000There's no one there that can handle everything.
00:56:14.000You don't want to be caught in a forest fire while you're tripping on DMT. I've only had the synthesized version of it, the hard version of DMT. I haven't had the orally active version of it, which is what ayahuasca is.
00:56:29.000And again, you're talking about the ancients knowing their shit.
00:56:42.000If you took DMT in an oral form, monoamine oxidase, which is produced in your gut, would kill the DMT. So they figured out how to take the leaves of certain plants, which have DMT, or the vines of certain plants, which have DMT, and then the leaves of other plants,
00:56:57.000which have harmine, which is a natural MAO inhibitor, and then they brew it together in this really sort of complicated process and develop this ayahuasca, which is essentially, it becomes an orally active version of the drug that I took.
00:57:49.000And then eight of the ten, one had a bad trip, like freaked.
00:57:54.000And then the other seven had fantastic consciousness-raising experience.
00:57:59.000Yeah, I wonder what makes people trip because the shamans say that the people that have these bad trips of what's going on is that they're trying to fight it.
00:58:07.000They're trying to control the situation and your ego doesn't want to let go and you try to resist and then it just sort of chips away at your inner soul and finds out what's causing this resistance and then penetrates it and freaks you the fuck out.
00:59:14.000Well, that's what's really crazy is they believe that the experience that you have while you're taking DMT is the exact experience that people have when they're dying because when you're dying, your brain produces dimethyltryptamine.
00:59:30.000Well, it's in so many different plants.
00:59:32.000The reason why your gut produces this monoamine oxidase, or one of the reasons, it probably serves many purposes, but is that dimethyltryptamine is in a lot of different plants.
00:59:42.000So these plants that we eat, Would give us DMT. Like, you would get high off of certain plants.
00:59:48.000Like, it's in thousands of different plants.
01:00:42.000But, you know, sometimes you have to think about these so-called studies, you know, with the agendas and so forth.
01:00:49.000Well, there's definitely a lot of that, right?
01:00:50.000And, you know, of course, you know, some monetary incentive.
01:00:53.000How many times have we seen drugs being totally promoted only to find out later when they're recalled, like all these horrors, you know, like thalidomide in babies back in the 70s or whatever.
01:01:31.000Chris Weidman recently had both his knees scoped, and before that he had gone through Regenikine on his knees too, but he's had arthritis in his knees so bad, Weidman can't even pull his heel up to his butt.
01:01:42.000He's a UFC middleweight champion, and his knees are so stiff from all the years of wrestling and all the years of what we were talking about before, plowing through injury, which is something that wrestlers are so accustomed to doing.
01:01:57.000In my opinion, no one's tougher mentally than amateur wrestlers.
01:02:02.000I think the ability to become a successful amateur wrestler...
01:03:51.000But, you know, sometimes you think, like, was it worth it?
01:03:56.000I think when you ask a lot of these guys, you know, the glory that they had, they might say, yeah, it was worth it.
01:04:03.000Because a long life of never having done anything, I mean, that's not a life worth living either, in my opinion.
01:04:12.000Yeah, it's a tough call because we're all going to die.
01:04:16.000And eventually all of our bodies will give out.
01:04:18.000And that's one of the things that I wanted to talk to you about because...
01:04:22.000You, early on in one of your early DVDs, one of the first ones that I got, which, boy, I don't know, when did you put out your first DVD? My God, I don't even know.
01:04:43.000And you were talking about the aging process, fighting off the aging process, and exercising to fight off that aging process, and being conscious about doing that.
01:04:53.000And that's something that I think very few people do.
01:05:00.000But you were one of the first guys that ever saw that was talking about it pretty actively on a DVD and teaching people strategies and techniques to fight off the aging process.
01:05:11.000Not just through exercise, through manipulating your hormones, through certain types of exercise, and joint mobility.
01:05:34.000But it's basically being able to move through full range and keeping complete joint function and the specific exercises that a person can do to enable them to do this.
01:07:38.000I also have a special little scraper thing, like little fingers that you really massage the head.
01:07:45.000Then I use a neti pot, N-E-T-I. It's an Ayurvedic technique where you rinse your sinuses so that you can breathe through the nose really, really well.
01:08:59.000Yeah, there's a way that you can briskly use a coarse towel.
01:09:04.000Rather than having these soft towels, you make them sort of like they're almost sandpaper.
01:09:09.000And I learned it from this Russian guy, this old Russian sauna master, who showed me how to do this very vigorous towel rubdown.
01:09:16.000Of course, all the old-timers knew about this stuff, you know.
01:09:18.000A lot of the, you know, mighty men of old, you know, Georges Hackenschmidt, the Russian Lion, and, you know, Air Wereland, and Pavel Arola, a lot of these old health pioneers, Bragg,
01:09:34.000McFadden, Harvey Kellogg, all these You know, turn of the century guys.
01:09:38.000Harvey Kellogg, the guy from Kellogg's?
01:09:44.000Well, we were talking about him on the podcast yesterday.
01:09:46.000That guy, he used to take, he created Kellogg's and created the bland cornflakes to keep people from masturbating.
01:09:55.000He bragged about never having sex with his wife, although they were together for 40 years, but he would have a daily enema by his handsome male assistant to give him a daily enema.
01:11:08.000It was written by a British army major that happened to be stationed in the northern territories of India and Nepal.
01:11:15.000And he observed these monks, these Tibetan monks, and how spry and how young they were and how even these guys in their late 80s were able to bound up and down the side of the Himalayan mountains somewhat effortlessly.
01:11:28.000And he noticed and took great note of their exercise system, which was basically these five exercises every morning.
01:11:36.000Are you familiar with the prostration exercise?
01:13:23.000Every time I come from being overseas and I come back to the States, I'm just blown away with the obesity and just the poor general health and just how bad people look.
01:13:35.000Do you think that's just the peripheration of sugar in the diet, corn, corn syrup?
01:14:21.000So you're going, you're sitting in the car to go to, or you sit at the breakfast table, then you sit in the car to go to work or the train or the bus.
01:14:28.000You sit at the desk all day, then you go to lunch, you sit some more, go back to the office, sit some more, sit in the car going home.
01:14:35.000Then you sit down on Facebook or you, you know, you answer your emails or whatever.
01:14:40.000Then you sit down, watch some television, then you're lying in bed.
01:15:52.000All those movement patterns that you need to sit up in the elbow, on the hand, and it's kind of like standing up in base, like in jiu-jitsu, and then transferring the weight.
01:16:03.000I mean, all those things, proprioceptive movements and so forth.
01:16:07.000And I think it's really one of the finest things you can do.
01:16:10.000But just getting up and down, even with your body weight, using this prostration exercise, it's fantastic.
01:16:22.000Steve Cotter has this exercise that I got from him where you take two kettlebells, you lie on your back like you do in a sit-up, you press them, and then you sit up with the kettlebells, you sit up with them pressed, and you do a sit-up essentially,
01:16:57.000I mean, obviously, you wouldn't take a deconditioned businessman and start out with a movement like that.
01:17:04.000That's a good term, deconditioned businessman.
01:17:06.000I have a friend who's a great guy, but I went to hug him the other day, and, you know, I hugged him, I put my hand on his back, and I was like, I was thinking to him, I didn't say anything, but I was thinking to myself, like, how does it even support your spine?
01:17:56.000I've been pretty shocked at how much decompression relieves a lot of pain in the back and about how much...
01:18:06.000I take one of these harnesses, and I attach it to the top of a door, and I strap my neck in it.
01:18:11.000After I train, especially, I like to do that.
01:18:13.000It sort of just pulls on your head, and you can pull the string, tick, tick, tick, and it pulls you up, and then it puts even more tension.
01:18:25.000I feel this rush of blood through my neck, and it's amazing how good it feels.
01:18:29.000As long as you make sure that sucker's tied down good to the door, because one time it wasn't, and it bounced off and clocked me on the fucking head, and I had a cut on my head for a couple weeks.
01:18:40.000It was right when I was doing my sci-fi thing, too, so I was doing all these press junkets with a big fucking scar on my head.
01:19:16.000And I had developed the ability to go from the toes completely out and come back, but I went too deep in fatigue and kinked my back and gave myself a horrible case of sciatica.
01:19:26.000I actually rotated a vertebrae, subluxation, rotation, and spondiothesis.
01:20:30.000It holds you around the ribs like a clamp, and you're sitting on a sling, and then you release the sling, and your back goes into traction, and you're being held up underneath your armpits.
01:22:02.000What we're talking about is there was a CrossFit competition and there was a guy who was a CrossFit instructor that was doing a clean, was it a clean press?
01:23:16.000And by the way, I'm not down against exercise and anybody else's methods.
01:23:22.000And I know that some people like CrossFit and they get a great deal of pleasure out of that kind of exercise and pushing themselves and all that stuff.
01:24:26.000But goddamn, man, you got to be real careful when you're throwing real heavy weights over your head and you're completely, totally exhausted.
01:24:34.000I just don't think it's the right way to do it.
01:24:37.000And listening to Steve talk about the importance of when you're doing these Olympic movements, like Olympic powerlifting movements...
01:24:47.000They're supposed to be done like very small reps, like one and two and three reps.
01:24:51.000These are like explosive exercises that are supposed to be done just for developing strength.
01:24:57.000I don't think you're supposed to do them at high repetition.
01:25:01.000I know some people do it, but god damn, it just doesn't seem to be the right way to go.
01:25:06.000Take care of your meat wagon, ladies and gentlemen.
01:25:10.000The problem that I have with CrossFit, most of it, is the same problem that I have with people who are vegans.
01:25:15.000They cannot shut the fuck up about being involved in CrossFit.
01:25:19.000They would just ear-beat you to death about CrossFit.
01:25:23.000But, in all fairness, with all objective thinking and introspective thought, when I first started doing Jiu-Jitsu, I couldn't shut the fuck up about Jiu-Jitsu.
01:25:32.000So, maybe it might just be something that, you know, when people are excited about something.
01:29:55.000I don't know if different police departments have different standards that they have for physical fitness or for self-defense, but when training, when a guy would come in and they tell me that he's a police officer, and he literally can't defend himself at all.
01:30:13.000Because of this whole equal rights and all this stuff, and I'm not against equal rights, But they really dumbed some of the standards down in some of the police forces to make room for women.
01:30:24.000And there was these little tiny women on the Philadelphia Police Force.
01:30:29.000I swear to God, any 12- or 13-year-old kid could just take their gun and beat them up.
01:30:51.000I did a lot of work with police and law enforcement with jiu-jitsu.
01:30:56.000And I was utterly shocked sometimes when some of these people would come in.
01:31:01.000The National Park Service guards, you know, the guys that wear the little mounting hats that are hired at all the national monuments and so forth, How those guys were licensed to carry guns sometimes was just mind-blowing.
01:31:15.000It was like, wow, dude, you were so overweight and so obese and so immobile.
01:31:22.000How are you going to put somebody under arrest when you can just barely even mobilize yourself?
01:31:33.000And a lot of the cops that come to my seminars and so forth, they'll agree.
01:31:37.000Most of the guys that go to my seminars are pretty motivated to stay in shape, but not so with their comrades.
01:31:45.000I've met a lot of cops through martial arts, and it's one of the reasons why I have a good opinion of cops is because I know so many of them that are good people.
01:32:00.000Or even if they could handle that, look, stress levels vary day to day.
01:32:04.000Who knows what's going on in people's personal lives and how that manifests itself in a job like being a police officer.
01:32:09.000But if you're a fat fuck on top of that, Jesus Christ.
01:32:13.000I can't tell you how many times I've seen guys come to the gym and they've never had any training before and they're already a police officer.
01:32:19.000And you're like, what would you do if somebody just tackled you?
01:32:23.000Like, what would you do if you didn't have your hand on your gun at the time?
01:32:27.000And even then, if a guy smacks it and it goes flying and he's on top of you, you're a dead man.
01:32:34.000I would think that that would be like a writer who doesn't know how to spell or doesn't know how to type or literally doesn't know how to write English language.
01:32:42.000To be a police officer and not be physically fit or not have any knowledge whatsoever of self-defense, it seems insane.
01:32:50.000There's a very famous training video that they show, I think it was in Texas, where there was a pretty big guy, he's probably about 250, huge cop, but obviously very fat and out of shape.
01:33:00.000And these two little guys that tackle him down and take his gun and shoot him.
01:33:04.000It's used as a training video for new recruits and so forth.
01:33:08.000And boy, if that wouldn't give you the incentive to at least learn some basic self-defense on top of whatever they show in the police academies and so forth.
01:35:53.000And then they just freak out of that stuff, man.
01:35:55.000And it's so funny, I had this one lady that was like this really, really snippy eater, and everything was fresh and organic, and she was so proud of her son and his diet that she had him on.
01:36:08.000Man, every time I saw that kid, he was with a friend, and they would sneak bags of candy and stuff.
01:36:34.000And then when no one's around, like she was at a party the other day and I watched her just eating, like eating cupcakes and just looking around and eating, like just frantically stuffing them in her face.
01:36:59.000Children, they're developing, and that's the thing that people don't understand.
01:37:04.000To raise a kid, you can't just go on your instincts.
01:37:08.000You can't say, oh, you need to toughen them up and tell them what to do.
01:37:12.000No, you're going to develop all sorts of weird, crazy things in their head.
01:37:15.000You're going to develop blocks, and they're going to have these mental blocks they're going to have to work out in therapy for the rest of their life if you fuck with their head too much when they're little.
01:38:35.000I think if you want to have a life where you contribute, a life where you're a person who is a beneficial person to society, it's real simple.
01:40:05.000You know, they talk about lack of esteem.
01:40:07.000I think most modern kids have too much esteem.
01:40:10.000They've been, you know, they grew up like a little prince or a little princess.
01:40:14.000And it's like, man, the best thing a guy could do is continue to work out, keep yourself in great shape, take that time for yourself to keep yourself healthy.
01:40:23.000Because, I mean, what use is a man to his family if he's broken down and sick and he just works his ass off all the time and doesn't keep himself healthy?
01:40:32.000And, my God, go to the mat and get your time in, man.
01:40:36.000You know, to keep yourself mentally healthy and happy.
01:40:39.000But I can't tell you how it used to bug me when I had my jiu-jitsu school, how many guys, you know, they let family just completely undermine everything they were doing for their health and their well-being.
01:41:27.000If you have a mom that's a fat fuck that sits around watching Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and eating Cheetos and complaining about people and talking shit, those kids will develop that sort of a habit.
01:43:16.000And the kids grow up in that toxic environment.
01:43:20.000But what you were saying before, kids do emulate what you do.
01:43:23.000And by being a good example, by taking care of your health and taking time to work out and pursuing your own interests and not just making everything about the kid, about the kid, about the kid, about the family, you know?
01:44:10.000I mean, obviously, kids, when they're small, they don't have good motor control or good motor skills, so you don't want them hurting themselves.
01:44:20.000I mean, your daughter probably tries to emulate you already anyway when she sees Daddy in his home gym or whatever.
01:44:27.000She wants to do some push-ups and stuff, and that's fine.
01:44:30.000Usually by the time a kid's old enough to start doing household chores and helping around the house a little bit is a good time to get them in some type of formal training.
01:45:51.000I used to bet him that he couldn't go from the basement of our four-story brownstone in Philly from the basement to the top floor where my bedroom was without touching the stairs.
01:46:00.000So he was doing like Ninja Warrior stuff, like bracing himself in the wall or walking with his feet in one wall and his hands in the other.
01:47:56.000So they get this inborn fear, especially of falling and so forth, one of the five big human fears.
01:48:05.000And when I used to teach wrestling and jiu-jitsu and so forth, teaching people throws was really hard as an adult because they had this terrible fear of falling.
01:48:16.000But it was misguided because, I mean, when you're a little kid and you learn how to fall and roll like Zach did...
01:48:22.000Man, you can take falls and throws and you're absolutely fine.
01:48:26.000Bodies are so mobile, so resilient, they haven't built up all that stiffness.
01:48:30.000But when you put that fear in a person's mind, you get that fear reactivity, for sure you're going to get hurt because you stiffen at the wrong time.
01:48:37.000You know, the difference between like dropping a ball on the ground and a brick, you know?
01:49:02.000My mom would always hear me say I broke my arm when I didn't break my arm, but she looked at me and she goes, wow, you really broke your arm.
01:50:08.000And that's one of the best things I ever did for my kid.
01:50:11.000I just hung a rope in our foyer of our house.
01:50:13.000We had like one of those architecturally designed houses that the kitchen went up three floors, you know, with like a bi-level type thing, split level.
01:50:24.000And took my life in my own hands with my drill, trying to hang that damn rope, man.
01:50:30.000I tied myself in with my jiu-jitsu belt and was leaning over the balcony trying to Find a beam with a beam finder and got the drill.
01:50:39.000This is all while the ex-wife is out of the house.
01:50:41.000She comes home and she has this rope hanging down in the middle of her foyer by her kitchen.
01:51:25.000We're together because we want to be together.
01:51:27.000We don't need a government agency to tell us that we can live together, and we definitely don't need a government agency telling us that we're allowed to be a partner.
01:51:35.000Well, that doesn't sound very romantic, Steve.
01:51:38.000I don't know what kind of woman's going to accept that, but I'll tell you right now, I am not going to.
01:52:15.000It's a completely different experience for the male.
01:52:17.000Women have got it in their head, or some, I should say, because of movies and of the stories, you know, this romantic happily ever after idea that they have to get legally bound.
01:52:29.000They don't think of it as, you know, the way you look at it is so harsh and so jaded.
01:52:36.000It's a beautiful agreement, and you take your relationship to a next level.
01:52:41.000Yeah, until you hit those divorce proceedings, and then you realize, oh, this is a contract.
01:52:47.000Like, this is a legal contract with the state, and now I've got to bring in lawyers, and we've got to figure out how to fucking divvy up my money, and the lawyers get a giant chunk of that action.
01:53:37.000Of course, I guess when you have billions and billions, it's probably not that big of a deal.
01:53:42.000It's a big deal, no matter how much money you got.
01:53:45.000The idea that some chick is going to be going off banging other dudes with your money and riding Ferraris and flying private jets everywhere and buying castles, all with your cash.
01:54:10.000He pushed all his chips on the table and...
01:54:12.000You know the thing that I think sours a lot of marriages, and I can speak from experience because I've been married and divorced three times.
01:55:40.000I mean, I wouldn't want to generalize, but what I've seen from the women that dominate the men, like the guys that I know where the woman tells them what to do, and those guys also have a hard time getting sex.
01:55:54.000Like, if the woman dominates and the woman tells you what to do and the woman just controls your spending and controls, you know, what your hobbies are and tells you what's going to happen and where you're going to go, those guys don't get much sex.
01:56:04.000And I don't know if that's related to, like, a woman being attracted to a man that she can't control or not attracted to a man she can control, rather.
01:56:18.000And that's what happens so often in these marriages.
01:56:20.000And, you know, I've had a lot of women that are masseuses and, you know, body workers.
01:56:26.000And man, when, you know, they tell me it's uncanny how many other male clients will always proposition and We try to rankle sex out of them.
01:57:50.000But when that friend happens to be someone that you have sex with or you're romantically connected to, girlfriend, fiance, wife, whatever you want to call it, that person all of a sudden has some sort of a role they can dictate.
01:58:05.000Whether it's a guy doing it to a wife or a girlfriend or a woman doing it to her husband or a boyfriend, it's a weird thing that people just sort of accept.
02:00:04.000Hoist has kind of done that too, right?
02:00:06.000Neither one of those guys, they just decided to not have an academy.
02:00:09.000Yeah, it's hard being tied down to an academy.
02:00:12.000It's better just to have maybe a place where you can let someone else run it, and then you can go out on the road and do the seminar circuit.
02:00:19.000And there's still a lot of call for...
02:00:21.000The seminar circuit is a big thing for jiu-jitsu guys.
02:00:24.000Eddie Bravo makes a lot of money doing that.
02:01:12.000Yeah, bear hugs and grabbing you by the hair, by the throat, or grabbing your jacket, or pushing you up against a parked car or a wall.
02:01:19.000There are self-defense systems in place to either prevent those things or to get yourself out of a bad situation.
02:01:27.000It doesn't always involve going to the ground per se.
02:01:31.000And Elliot Gracie was a real master at adapting the old Japanese system and making it more applicable to smaller, weaker people through the use of leverage.
02:02:00.000But at least with jiu-jitsu, you know, you can use other means that's not going to get you suspended from school for, you know, two or three or four weeks or whatever.
02:02:09.000I was watching one of the UFC Ultimate Insiders yesterday.
02:02:15.000You know, they have those shows where they detail training camps and stuff.
02:02:18.000They were talking about T.J. Dillashaw was preparing for this fight, and they had a scroll at the bottom of the screen, and it was about a football player who was under arrest for kicking another football player in the head, and the other guy was in critical condition.
02:04:38.000But the after effect, you know, the ramifications of using that type of violent behavior, and for children in particular to teach them that...
02:04:48.000Wow, they're going to be thrown out of school for sure.
02:04:50.000That's why I always like the wrestling and the jiu-jitsu.
02:04:52.000You can control it without necessarily having to smash somebody.
02:05:55.000And so after they're chasing after this guy, they get out, people start arguing, and they're chasing after him, but the guy knows how to fight.
02:06:51.000I think if you're, you know, imagine trying to fight trained guys, but, you know, how often do you ever find trained guys out in the street?
02:06:57.000And if you do, what a terrible situation.
02:06:59.000That'd be a horrible situation, but for the most part, you know, thugs aren't well-trained.
02:07:04.000Well, I had a friend who got in an argument with a guy while they're in their cars, and they're yelling at each other, fuck you, fuck you, and pull over, fuck you, and they pulled over, and they both got out of the car, and both guys could fight.
02:07:17.000One guy shot, and the other guy stuffed the takedown.
02:07:20.000They start duking it out on their feet, and they're like, holy shit!
02:07:23.000And they were both, like, really well-trained.
02:07:26.000And he said, we were going at it for, like, ten minutes before both of us were exhausted, and they wound up high-fiving each other and get back in their car and drive it away!
02:07:35.000So they fucking both realized that they thought they were going to tee off on some dude who didn't know how to fight.
02:08:14.000Well, the worst is the drunken moments, like probably these guys that are at this nightclub, this football player, kicking this guy while he's down.
02:08:20.000And also, the crazy thing is movies that show head trauma and make it out like it's no big deal.
02:08:26.000Guy gets pistol whipped and he wakes up later, what happened?
02:08:29.000Meanwhile, he's fine, you know, and he's just still saving the day.
02:08:32.000You know, you get pistol whipped, you're probably fucked up for about six months.
02:08:35.000You're going to be, yeah, a serious concussion, man.
02:08:38.000Yeah, I mean, Matt Grice, I don't know if you know who he is, UFC fighter, great guy, was hit in a collision, was rear-ended, going 65 miles an hour.
02:08:47.000Somebody just wasn't paying attention.
02:08:50.000I don't know what the details were, but his car was plowed into.
02:10:50.000So many guys get knocked out in training and then wind up fighting.
02:10:55.000Eddie Alvarez just pulled out of his big fight with Michael Chandler, and one of the things that he was talking about was that he had gotten knocked out before their last fight.
02:11:02.000He got knocked out in training a few weeks before the fight and got through it okay, but that this one, he had gotten hit in training wrestling.
02:11:12.000Someone sprawled and he got hit in the head when a guy used his hips.
02:11:19.000And then another random collision while he was trying to get a single, the guy pulled his leg out, and as the guy's kicking his leg out, he hit him on the chin.
02:11:26.000And, you know, thinks he's fine, just training hard like normal, but then can't get over the headaches.
02:11:32.000It hurts him to move his head around and then he goes to a neurologist and he gets CAT scans done, the whole deal, and they realize you're not going to be fighting.
02:11:42.000It's going to be very interesting to see what happens in these next 10 years with the first crop of mixed martial arts fighters and how they age.
02:11:50.000Some of these guys are getting a little bit older now and what the permanent ramifications are going to be from all those brain injuries and so forth.
02:11:58.000And I think it's going to be similar to what we saw in boxing with a lot of these guys.
02:12:02.000Having dementia and the classic punch drunk.
02:12:09.000I agree with you, and I think that it kind of brings up the question that we were talking about with Dan Gable.
02:12:14.000Like, is that glory worth having those hip replacements?
02:12:17.000Is one thing to have your body aching, But it's another thing to have your mind compromised to the point where the quality of your thinking has greatly deteriorated.
02:12:26.000Not just your ability to move your body, but your ability to communicate with people.
02:12:30.000Like when you used to hear Joe Frazier before he died, it was painful to listen to.
02:12:34.000I actually saw him out on the street, you know, because I lived in Philly.
02:12:37.000And I, you know, I actually saw him walking down past Yonk Avenue right where I lived.
02:12:48.000It was like really, really, really sad.
02:12:50.000Do you ever foresee in the future, remember how McCain was trying to ban MMA for the longest time right after the initial thing got started?
02:14:09.000A hard shot to the chest, like football players colliding with each other.
02:14:13.000Not even making contact with the head, but just the boom, the impact of these enormous, powerful bodies slamming into each other causes the brain to rattle around inside your skull.
02:14:25.000They wash up against the side of the brain pan.
02:15:37.000There's a lot of those fucking dudes that are on the juice.
02:15:40.000If you go back in time and you look at the football players from the 1960s and you look at the football players of today, sure, you had your guys.
02:16:46.000He had actually got paid – made a nominal amount of money, I don't know, $15 or something for playing a game and he was stripped of his medals.
02:16:54.000But he died just basically a ditch digger and a penniless guy.
02:16:58.000But to give you an idea of how versatile the football players were in those days, my – My friend, the nephew of Jim Thorpe, told me this story that he missed the bus from Carlisle to Harrisburg to play the game.
02:17:13.000So he ran from Carlisle to Harrisburg, which is about 18 and a half miles, to the game and got there in time to play the second half and scored several touchdowns.
02:17:54.000But, I mean, that was back in the day where they didn't suffer the terrible head traumas because it was more of an arm-grabbing wrestling kind of game.
02:20:31.000Pancrase, Bas figured out, Bas has like really flexible wrists in some way, and he figured out how to pull his hands His hands go, like, you see how my hand, like, if I was striking, my hand goes out.
02:20:43.000It's like, sort of, like, not even 90 degrees, not quite.
02:22:28.000He had hurt his knee jumping off the back of a truck.
02:22:32.000Yeah, so he was a little stiff in his knee, but he was a pretty mobile guy.
02:22:37.000Even in his 90s, it was amazing how well he moved around.
02:22:41.000What do you think about, like, there's techniques today that you're seeing in jiu-jitsu, in MMA, all these jiu-jitsu techniques that were not in the original systems.
02:22:52.000There's all these newfound movements that some guys just don't want to adapt to.
02:22:57.000They don't want to incorporate them into their strategy, into their game.
02:23:03.000I find that to be incredibly weird because jujitsu itself was like this new thing, these new effective techniques that the folks that were originally learning them didn't know.
02:23:15.000Elio Gracie, Carlos Gracie, they take these techniques, they modify them, they make them even better, so they essentially have this completely new system They brought it to America, especially in 1993 when the UFC came along.
02:23:25.000That's what the whole thing was about.
02:23:27.000It was about these new techniques that people couldn't defend against because they weren't aware of them.
02:23:31.000But now they don't incorporate new techniques into this system.
02:23:36.000And the idea that it's perfect as is and that it can't be improved upon, I think that's a little short-sighted and a little weird considering how the system started in the first place.
02:23:46.000Well, you have to think of it like this.
02:24:08.000The original Judo was basically identical to Jiu-Jitsu, but once it became an Olympic sport and people started practicing it within the rules, they became more and more stylized to the point where Judo lost any semblance of being a real martial art that you could use for self-defense.
02:24:24.000So I think what the Gracie Jiu Jitsu practitioners are saying is we don't want to take some of these newfound techniques and incorporate it in our style because this is for sport only.
02:24:35.000This is stuff that you would only do in the sport itself.
02:24:40.000And that we want to stay with the more traditional combat-oriented techniques that have been tried, true, and proven for many, many centuries, really, if you think about it.
02:24:50.000That being said, my son said something to me, because I was kind of ragging on 50-50 and Barambolo, and he says, yeah, but Pop, if you don't know this stuff, you're going to get your ass handed to you by some guy that does.
02:25:04.000So it's best to be familiar with All of the stuff.
02:25:07.000So I thought that made an interesting point.
02:25:09.000But, you know, when it comes to UFC, I mean, obviously you're not going to bear and bowl of somebody.
02:25:13.000You're going to get your lights punched out.
02:25:15.000I'm not going to jump guard in the parking lot out here if some guy would give me a hard time.
02:25:20.000Right, but if you do wind up scrambling, you fall on the ground, the guy's on top of you, the guard does work in a street fight.
02:26:05.000If you're in a situation where somehow or another in a mad scramble you wind up with a guy like that, boy, a heel hook in the fucking street would be absolutely devastating.
02:26:13.000Well, if the guy wouldn't get up and chase you, you could just walk away and he'd be laying there.
02:26:18.000Oh, the heel hook is one of the worst techniques ever as far as going from not feeling any pain to irreparable damage or damage that you're going to have to get surgery for.
02:30:20.000I mean, it went away a little bit on its own.
02:30:22.000It got better on its own, but it would click all the time and it would just...
02:30:24.000It would ache after it would train for a long time.
02:30:27.000But this prolotherapy, somehow or another, by injecting it directly into the ligaments, it forces the ligaments to swell and then strengthens them.
02:30:58.000And this is about the time when all the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, you know, like ibuprofen or Advil or whatever, We're good to go.
02:31:34.000It has this unique property of sinking right through into the connective tissues.
02:31:38.000And it has an amazing anti-inflammatory effect.
02:31:42.000It really helps the body with its own healing process.
02:31:47.000Yeah, I remember guys used to use it back in the Taekwondo days when they would get injuries to their feet, like kicking things, kick elbows and stuff like that.
02:31:55.000Guys would rub it on their feet, their shins, things along those lines.
02:32:49.000You take a heavy weight and you continuously throw it over your head, continuously, over time, and of course you're going to get repeated trauma.
02:34:20.000If you think about it, it's like a rotation and a twist of the spine.
02:34:24.000So you've got to be really careful when you're loading up these type of flexi-bendy postures like that.
02:34:30.000A lot of the overhead squat stuff, I mean, just because you can do it doesn't mean you should.
02:34:37.000Yeah, I was going to a guy who was saying for shoulder stability that it's a really great one because of the fact that it's got all this twist to it.
02:34:44.000Well, I mean, the get-up is going to get all that.
02:34:47.000Everything the windmill does, the get-up does even better.
02:34:49.000Plus, you get the benefit of moving your body from the ground and standing up and back down and so forth.
02:34:54.000The windmill has a weird sort of hamstring thing going on with it, though.
02:34:58.000Because I get a lot of hamstring soreness when I do heavy windmills.
02:35:01.000Well, yeah, you're lengthening the hamstrings out really good, so it's quite a severe stretch, like a form of loaded stretching or weighted stretching and so forth.
02:35:10.000But, I mean, if you really wanted to get down to brass tacks, if you're pretty much just doing get-ups and swings, you pretty much have the perfect workout right there.
02:36:41.000If anything, people ask him, you know?
02:36:43.000Yeah, well, your website, what do you have on there as far as, I know that you develop, you have like people that you train online, you develop programs for them.
02:37:58.000All you really, truly need is just your body weight.
02:38:01.000I just carry this stuff around because I can, but maybe I'll dump it and go even more minimalist like Teresa, you know?
02:38:07.000So how do you, when you develop these programs for someone, say I'm Jamie over here who likes to exercise, if you wanted to build a program for someone, do you let them fill out a form?
02:39:06.000In the meantime, he takes three photos, non-posed, just like in a pair of shorts so I can look at his structure.
02:39:13.000I particularly need to see the feet and the knees and see how the guy's standing, his posture, you know, back, front, side.
02:39:20.000So I need to look at his spine, his shoulders, look at if there's any structural stuff going on.
02:39:25.000And based on those photos, sometimes I'll have different fitness assessments because before I can take him where he thinks he wants to go, I've got to know where he's at.
02:42:49.000So I have a universal translator on my iPad and iPhone that I can write a question out and then show it in Russian and then hit a button and change the keyboard to Russian.
02:43:03.000And then they can type back and be in English.
02:43:05.000So you can communicate with this modern technology.
02:43:08.000That's crazy though, but what if you want to get something to eat or you want to get a room in a hotel or something like that?
02:43:15.000Well, usually hotel personnel, someone there speaks English.
02:43:20.000That's one of the nice things about being a U.S. citizen.
02:43:22.000I mean, there's a lot of things I don't like about this country, but it's still a superpower, and it's still the country, so to speak.
02:43:31.000So most people speak English in these hotels, because tourism is a real big thing for a lot of these places.
02:43:38.000That's so fascinating that you do that.
02:43:40.000You go from one place to another like that with no stops.
02:45:22.000That guy can put his legs up there in the air.
02:45:24.000What do they do for their lower body, though?
02:45:26.000There's so much upper body stuff in all these exercises.
02:45:29.000You very rarely see them doing lower body stuff.
02:45:32.000I didn't get a chance to actually see it, you know, what they did for the lower body.
02:45:38.000For sure what they do is pretty amazing, but it might not be the best way to go for especially people over 40 because of the joint trauma.
02:45:46.000Because remember, there's a difference between working for strength and demonstrating strength and doing feats and stunts versus just regular exercise.
02:46:46.000But amazing that you never did this before, and I hear you're doing that.
02:46:49.000Nah, I've never done any of this stuff.
02:46:51.000You know, most of my training was all geared towards trying to make myself a better wrestler or a better jiu-jitsu fighter.
02:46:59.000So it's a slightly different energy system and a whole different emphasis with the workout, so...
02:47:05.000That's incredible that these guys have developed a sort of way to work out on these playground workouts that has gone worldwide.
02:47:13.000I mean, there's so many of these people.
02:47:15.000Oh, yeah, there's the Bar Stars, and then there's, when I was in Australia, there was the, what was it, the Bar's Beasts.
02:47:22.000Down in Bondi Beach, these Australian guys that, you know, so in every country, especially the poorer countries, you know, most of these outdoor playgrounds and gyms are pretty available to a lot of these guys, whereas they couldn't even afford a regular commercial gym.
02:48:50.000I don't care how much dance you do, you're never going to develop the long lean lines of a dancer.
02:48:56.000And the same thing with the urban gymnastics.
02:48:58.000You know, really big boned guys with big heavy legs, they're never going to be successful in that type of activity no matter what they do.
02:49:06.000Just as they wouldn't be able to do what the football player does.
02:49:10.000Isn't that also a case for guys that want to compete in MMA? Like those big bulky football player type dudes, they're never going to be able to have good endurance.
02:49:18.000It's going to be really hard for those guys, you know, because they're kind of like just naturally fast-twitched guys with low anaerobic endurance levels.
02:49:26.000And no matter how much they train for endurance, they're always going to be lacking in that particular department.
02:49:32.000You know, the cool thing about combat martial arts though, And combat sport, there's a whole array of physique types that seem to do pretty well.
02:49:43.000You have like little fireplug guys that do pretty good.
02:49:53.000You find like what's good for your body style.
02:49:55.000You start to develop a style for your particular physique type and all that, which makes combat martial arts different than any other sport on the planet.
02:50:03.000Because you won't find a big rare physique playing NBA basketball, for example.
02:52:55.000Well, he's doing, obviously, he's doing some sort of body weight conditioning, strength conditioning.
02:52:59.000Well, I mean, there's no doubt he works really hard.
02:53:02.000Yeah, but the other thing about Hershel Walker that's really crazy is he said he eats like a bowl of soup and a salad every day and that's it.
02:54:33.000I mean, I've never seen anyone with that type of musculature that just did it on bodyweight training, but that's not to say that maybe he's an exception to the rule.
02:54:41.000He just might be that type of, you know, have that type of genetics, you know?
02:56:00.000And they had trained for three months, according to Kirk Douglas' biography, they had trained for three months with those weapons in order to put on that fight scene.
02:56:09.000And Stroud just had a magnificent physique, man.
02:59:29.000That if you have a guy throwing thousands and thousands of balls with your one side, wouldn't it make sense to do something with your left?
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