TJ DILLASHAW ｜ The Fighter's Mindset
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Summary
TJ Dillashaw is the current UFC Bantamweight Champion and is fighting this weekend for the UFC Flyweight Championship. In this episode, we talk about what it means to fight for a living, where loyalties should lie, how to optimize all factors of your health, and how to develop the fighter s mindset.
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If you follow the UFC at all, you know exactly who my guest is today. His name is TJ Dillashaw,
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and he is the current UFC bantamweight champion and is fighting this weekend for the UFC flyweight
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championship. Today, we talk about what it means to fight for a living, where loyalties should lie,
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how to optimize all factors of your health, and how to develop the fighter's mindset.
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You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest. Embrace your fears and boldly
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charts your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time, every time. You
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are not easily deterred or defeated, rugged, resilient, strong. This is your life. This is
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who you are. This is who you will become. At the end of the day, and after all is said and done,
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you can call yourself a man. Gentlemen, what is going on today? My name is Ryan Mickler,
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and I am the host and the founder of this podcast, The Order of Man, and frankly, the movement. And
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it is a movement, guys. We are expanding the entire planet. We continue to see growth in the
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podcast. We continue to see growth on our social media accounts and website and all the places
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that we are. And obviously, that couldn't be done without you. I'm glad that this movement is growing
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and we are doing what we're doing. It's much needed. The APA, American Psychology Association,
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just came out with a quasi-study. I say quasi, I should say pseudo-study because it's not really
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backed in science. And what it had said is that, frankly, traditional masculinity is a problem. It
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is what's wrong with the world today. And obviously, we know that's not the case. It's my job to debunk
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some of that and to talk about what really is the problem, which is a lack of masculinity. And to that
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end, my goal is to bring these conversations to you, have conversations with powerful, powerful men,
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guys like Chris Hogan, Andy Frisilla, Grant Cardone, Tim Kennedy, Jocko Willink. The list goes on and on,
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including my guest today, the one and only TJ Dillashaw, which I'm really excited, needless to
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with that said, I want to introduce you to my guests. So excited about this. You guys will have to forgive
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the sound a little bit. I was on a hunt. Like I had mentioned before, TJ reached out to me and said,
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he's got this very, very small window to be able to meet before he left for fight week leading up to
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his flyweight championship bout. So I moved some things around. I made some quick changes and
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made sure that we got this done. So I had to head into a little small diner where we were hunting and
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just did that right there in the diner. So you may hear some background noise, but either way,
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this is a powerful, powerful conversation. And if you don't know who TJ is, he's, like I said before,
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the UFC bantamweight champion. I've been following TJ for years. He's one of my favorite fighters because
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of the passion and the level of discipline that this guy possesses. It's absolutely inspiring and
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unbelievable, which is probably why he's been so successful as a fighter. In fact, I think he's
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arguably one of the best pound for pound fighters in the UFC today. So guys, I hope you enjoy this
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one. Let it inspire you the way that TJ has certainly inspired me. TJ, what's up, man? Thanks for joining
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me. Oh, absolutely, man. Thanks for having me on. Yeah, you bet. I know it's kind of crunch time.
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You've got fight week next week. You've got a big fight coming up. What, the 19th, right?
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Yeah. Yeah. 19th. Yeah. It's going to be awesome. How are you feeling about it?
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So I'm over here. It's off my face as I'm losing weight at the same time. It's quite amazing.
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Yeah. That's amazing how you can do that. The diet, right? I'm sure it's pretty intense.
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There's a lot that goes into it, man. It's been a 12-week process of me bringing my weight down,
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you know, and doing it very smart. I'm actually closer to weight now, this far out to 125s than I would
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be at 135s just because I've taken it so serious and that, you know, this will be the first time
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me fighting 125s. So I just want to make sure I'm crossing all my T's and all my I's and doing it the
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right way, man. Yeah. Because the way I understand it is even if you don't hit 125, you still fight,
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but then it's no longer a championship fight. Is that right? Yeah. The fight only makes sense for
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me if we're fighting for the belt, man. I'm coming for that belt. I'm making the weight. He better make
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the weight. I'll be pissed. I'll let him be 10 pounds over and I'll still fight for the belt. I don't even care.
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Yeah. So what made you want to go down? Because you're going down, what, 10 pounds? Is it 10
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pounds? Yeah, I'm dropping down 10 pounds. It was first being talked about when Demetrius Johnson
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didn't have a fight lined up and he had a record-breaking title set, 10 consecutive title
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defenses. He was going to break history, this and that. Yeah. Well, Cody, the guy I was supposed to
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fight, dropped out of his fight. So I told Dana, like, look, I want to fight for the belt. I'll drop to
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25s. I'll stop Demetrius from breaking the record. He loved it. Tried setting it up, but Demetrius was scared.
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Demetrius was number one pound-for-pound fighter at the time. Yeah. And I've always known that I
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can make the weight, especially after meeting my new strength conditioning slash nutritionist
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coach, Sam Calvita, out of the training lab. I knew the 25s was possible. I'm not like a big 130. I
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mean, I can be a big 135er if I want to be, but I'm not. I was walking around at low 50s naturally
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before I even started to even think about weight when I was fighting 35s. Right.
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It wasn't even that bad at all. And so I knew it was possible. And so I don't know, man, just something
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intriguing. Obviously, getting that second belt, continuing to grow my name to be the best, greatest
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fighter of all time, and just to show everyone how professional I am. You know, this isn't an easy
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thing to do, but I'm doing it the right way. I'm going to come out and be in my strength to weight
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ratio right now is insane, even just my strength in general. But yesterday was one of my last hard
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strength conditioning days, and I lifted heavier than I was at 135s, and I'm lighter. So really?
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Not only is my weight going down, but my strength is going up. So my strength to weight ratio is
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amazing. And I owe it all to Sam Calvita at the training lab, man. He's a straight up scientist.
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What's changed? Like on a tactical level, what's changed to help you get stronger than you've been
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in the past? You mean stronger than just my last couple of camps?
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Right, right. Because you're talking about strength to weight ratio. So for your weight,
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you're stronger than you've been in the past. So like, what is it that's changed in your training
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that's helped you get to that point? Yeah, I always talk about Sam, but he's got it all mapped out,
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you know, and I think it's the work that I've had to put in to get my weight down.
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Yeah. And how consistent I've had to stay. And my diet has been insane. I'm grain free. I'm in
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and out of ketosis. I don't stay in ketosis, and I don't stay on a perfect ketosis diet because
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I don't feel it's healthy, and I don't think it's great for an athlete. But I do come in and out of
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it. And just being on that strict diet, being on that strict supplementation, and sticking to the
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program. And now I've been with the guy for two and a half years now, and I've just continued to get
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stronger. We really don't take down times. The first Cody fight, I felt great and strong. The second
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one, I was even stronger. Yeah, I mean, you look solid in both fights, for sure.
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Yeah, man. And so now I'm, I don't know, man, just sticking to the plan and not ever veering off of
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it. That's actually a really good point, because I think a lot of people, they bounce from program
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to program, nutrition, you know, diet to diet. And they think that if they can bounce around to the
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next greatest thing, that somehow that's going to be better for them, rather than just consistently
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maintaining one course of action. Yeah, as long as it is something that seems smart, I mean,
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you can follow the dumbest plan ever, and it's not going to help you out. True,
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yeah. It's got to produce results, right? Exactly. It's got to produce results and stay
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consistent, you know? But I say that, but then my diet plan, like I said, like I'm bouncing in and
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out of ketosis. I'm doing different kinds of workouts. So I guess I am bouncing from plan to
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plan, but it's all underneath one plan. Sure. If that makes sense. Yeah. It's just a tactic of the
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overall strategy. Yeah. Like if you want to lose a bunch of body fat and be lean, man, being keto is
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awesome. Sure. Yeah. But that's not going to help you to fight. Yeah. I need, I need the simple carbs.
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I need carbs for energy. I don't need any complex carbs. I don't need grains. I don't need complex
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sugars, you know, but I eat sugar from fruit. I eat carbs from simple carbs, things like that,
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that are going to continue to help boost my testosterone and not hinder my performance.
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Yeah. Yeah. Are you feeling good about the fight? I mean, this is going to be an interesting one
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because you guys are both wrestlers. I mean, you're going up against somebody who's an Olympic athlete
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and you've got that wrestling background too. So it should be really interesting.
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I'm interested to show what MMA wrestling is because I don't think he has MMA wrestling.
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I'm sure he's an Olympic champion, but that's also in freestyle. You know, it's completely different.
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Not only is it a, not MMA wrestling, but it's also a different sort of wrestling that, you know,
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you're not as good on the ground. You're, it's mainly like you're on your feet. And look,
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I'm coming to show that I'm going to outwrestle him as well too, because the sport of MMA has its own
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How do you think it varies? I mean, you're talking about being on your feet. How else does it vary
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It's how well you can mix things together. You used to be able to get into this sport of MMA and UFC
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and be able to be a boxer or be a wrestler or be a judo guy. Not anymore. You have to know
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everything and blending it together is its own sport. And so keeping your opponent guessing what
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you're going to do, he doesn't have that. He's either one or the other. And that's how it makes
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It is interesting because I was talking to my wife about this just the other day,
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and we were talking about UFC in general and, and how quick everything evolves. And it seems to me
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that the guys who are consistently good are the ones who can evolve the quickest. Otherwise,
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I think just the sport just out evolves certain athletes is what I've seen.
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Oh, a hundred percent, man. I mean, you've seen day in and day out,
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or if you come into the fight and you're the same fighter every time,
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people are going to take advantage of that. You know, you have to make gains.
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And that's one thing that I've made sure to do is I've traveled the world
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and I've trained with the who's who. I've trained with the best coaches. I've trained
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with the best training partners. I found what works for me. I got a coach, Dwayne Ludwig,
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that is growing with me. You know, he travels the world with me and learns from other coaches
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and wants me to get with other people. And, you know, it's hard to find that in a coach.
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Yeah, for sure. How did you come across him? Is this like a recommendation or did you meet him
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at the gym? Like, how do you develop that relationship? I knew a little bit about Dwayne
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because he was fighting in the UC back in the day and being a kickboxer. But I was training up a team
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off a male and we never had a coach. It was just fighters beating the shit out of each other. Excuse
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my language, but beating the crap out of each other every day, day in and day out. We didn't have a
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coach. It was just show up, practice, go hard. Right. Not the healthiest way of going about it.
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No, man. I mean, it's not healthy. We weren't winning world titles. Right.
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Chad Mendes tried for two times and lost. Joseph Benavides tried three times or four times and
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lost. Uriah Faber, who knows, endless amounts of tries and he couldn't win. So we all came together
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and was like, look, man, we need something to push the next step. And we all put our heads together
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and it just naturally worked out perfect. It was just meant to be that Dwayne Ludwig blew his knee out,
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couldn't fight anymore, retired, and was looking for a coaching position. And we heard that he was
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going to go to Vegas and start coaching out there. We swooped up on him instead. We picked him up,
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brought him out to California, started coaching at Alpha Male. And we went on a crazy killing streak
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for two years. I won a world title. Everyone else started winning. And we went from wrestlers to
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kickboxers within a year. And so then Dwayne decided to move back home after a couple of years. Him
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and Uriah didn't see eye to eye. Uriah kind of shady with business and wasn't paying what he said he was
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going to. And so I decided to move back home and open his own gym. And when he did that,
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I followed him. So ever since then, we've been family. I followed him out to Colorado and now
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I'm back down in Southern California. He flies out every week, four days a week to train me for
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my training camp. I think that's pretty interesting because I know there was, well, from my perspective,
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quite a bit of a falling out, right? And so of course, there's a lot of speculation and talk about
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why that is and loyalty and everything else. But at the end of the day, it sounds like you want to be a
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fighter. You want to be the best. Yeah. It's funny. People want to talk about this loyalty crap and talk
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about everything, but they want to be the best in the world. But I was loyal. I was loyal to the
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coach that put the most effort into me. I'm still loyal to him. I'm following him. Like if you want
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to talk about loyalty, like you guys are bouncing around, not knowing what you're doing, just
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training. I'm the one that's loyal to someone that now I call family. Dwayne Ludwig's now family.
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That's how loyal we are, you know? So yeah. Talk about loyalty is one thing. Then also
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finding someone that's going to help you grow. Dwayne Ludwig cares about my career just as much,
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if not more than I do myself. How do you get to that point? I mean, is that
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because I'm sure he's training or he has trained other people. Like how is it different for you
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guys? You know, it's, that's the best point about traveling the world and seeing what works. You
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know, you might be at the right spot and you don't even know it, but the only way you're going to know
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that is by traveling and seeing what other great camps do, other great coaches do, other great fighters
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do and seeing like what kind of hits home with you, what resonates with you, what gives you the most
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confidence that night you walk into the octagon and know you could be your best. You know, if that's
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somewhere else, then go for it. Cause this is a selfish sport, man. It's a one man show out there.
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You don't play with the team. You know, a team helps you get there, but ultimately it's about
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what's going to make you best. So figure out where that spot is. Yeah. And I, and you know, the other
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side of it too, is like, you think about it. And again, I'm, I'm speaking from, I wrestled for a year
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in high school. Like that's the extent of my competitive sports as regards to like combat
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sports. But it's really interesting to talk with an individual who's literally the highest level
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they could possibly be at right now. And of course I know you would say there's room for growth,
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but they've taken upon themselves to like live this lifestyle that I want to fight other men for
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living. Like that's a really fascinating thought to me. Yeah. It's pretty crazy. Where does that come
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from? The way I was raised. I, uh, well, I don't come from like a normal fighting background. I guess
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you would say, you know, I didn't come from like a dysfunctional family. I was, you know, I was raised
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by a great family. I was very fortunate. And I would say that every day, every interview, I was a very
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fortunate kid to get to grow up with a family like I did, but we were very competitive and we are very
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aggressive. And I think I was just seriously, not only meant for it, but raised to fight. Like I'm just a
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very aggressive person. I was just meant to do this, man. I mean, I wrestled my whole life. I did
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good. Yeah. I didn't do what I should have, you know? Sure. As soon as I started training fighting,
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like it just clicked, man. As soon as MMA came to me, it just clicked. I knew exactly what to do. And
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things were kind of in slow motion for me. And now it's just, I don't know, man. It's just something
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that is so primal. Hmm. You feel that way even more so than your wrestling career? Yeah. Way more.
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Fighting comes way easier than me. That's interesting. Yeah. I mean, and it's cool to see,
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it's interesting to see everybody's style, but to see your style and then to see your level of
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heart and passion that goes into as well, which I imagine a lot of people mistake for
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cockiness or arrogance. And I think there's probably a fine line between that and being
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passionate and also being confident in what you can do. Yeah. I mean, you hit the nail on the head.
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It's funny. Like you want me to be the best in the world. You want me to go out there and
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have these awesome performances, but then I'm not allowed to believe in myself. You know, like,
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you know, I have to be cockiness. That's what I need to do. That's why I'm here. I get to go out
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and put a smile on my face. Cause I know that not only have I worked harder, but I've worked smarter
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than you and I'm there to enjoy it. Like why be nervous? Why be so, so scared to fight? You don't
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even remember the fight. Like I want to be able to look back on my career when I'm done and be able to
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say like, damn, that was crazy. That was fun. Cause I remember it rather than being so nervous and
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scared that you don't remember the walkout. You don't remember Bruce Buffer announcing your name.
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You don't remember all that stuff because you're so scared. Yeah. Instead, be confident, have fun.
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I don't know if this is the right term, but do you have to condition that fear out of you? Because
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I think about it in other contexts, even out here, I'm on a hunt right now, which is we're both like
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super, super busy right now. But I think about, you know, you get in front of a deer and you pull
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your bow back and you want to take a shot and everything else kind of like you get so hyper focused on
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that shot that everything else goes by the wayside. And some of those details are hard to remember
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because you are so hyper focused on that one thing. Like how do you condition yourself to be
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so fully present in the moment? Well, experience is one, you know, doing it over and over again and
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getting rid of that adrenaline rush, but you never get rid of it. That's why we do this stuff. That's
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why we hunt, you know, I'm an avid bow hunter in the world too. And when you get to do that, pull that
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drawback on a big buck or an elk, your heart's pounded through your chest and there's so much that can go
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wrong. But if you worry about those things that can go wrong, you're going to mess it up. So I think
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just learning to be in the moment is something that comes with experience and really visualizing,
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you know? So when I train for my fights, I train certain techniques, I train certain game plans.
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I see myself winning. I see myself walking out. I've gone through this fight thousands of times in my
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head already. Every time I pull my bow back when I'm shooting at Bela Hay, I always envision that
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it's a big four by four right there that, you know, I'm, I'm nervous to shoot. What's what,
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you know, is he facing downwind? Is he, you know, uphill, downhill? Like what's my range? Do I need
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to crouch under a tree? Like just envision those things to what any kind of possibility can happen.
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And then when the time comes, it should just be able to shut the brain off and enjoy the moment,
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you know? Yeah. Don't be like one of those people you see walking around with their phone out,
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trying to film everything. Just absorb that shit. Yeah. Yeah. No, it makes sense. And it's hard,
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right? I mean, of course, having the phone out and being distracted and everything else is a
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challenge, especially in this day and age when there's, especially for you, like I think about
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next week, you're going into, you know, fight week and all the press conference and all the
00:18:56.420
media and the attention. And even this podcast could potentially be looked at as a distraction
00:19:01.720
from your ultimate job, right? How do you tune that stuff out? You got to remember this is part of
00:19:06.900
my job though, too. Sure. That makes sense. Yeah. Self-promotion. This isn't bad. You seem like a very,
00:19:12.000
a very wise person, easy to talk to. So, I mean, this is things that I don't, I don't mind doing
00:19:17.040
to an extent, you know, I'll pick and choose what seems the best for my career and you got to run
00:19:21.720
with it. You know, this is part of my job, letting you guys know who I am, you know, because I feel
00:19:26.880
like the more someone gets to understand me, the more they're going to, they're going to actually
00:19:31.120
like me and understand that my cockiness or my confidence comes from my hard work. Yeah. I put in,
00:19:37.640
I put in an insane amount of work, man. I don't think there's any other professional athlete that
00:19:41.940
puts in the work like I do my, my strength, conditioning, my nutrition, my, I'm doing three
00:19:46.860
training practices a day. I'm killing it, man, but I'm also doing it very smart. And so that's where
00:19:51.780
that confidence comes from. And I want people to be able to see that hard work or hear it coming from
00:19:55.800
my voice. And it makes it better when I do these podcasts or interviews or media, you know, sure.
00:20:01.080
There's the media where you got to get out in front and talk crap, right? Right. Do that kind of stuff.
00:20:06.380
But this is actually a little bit more meaningful to me because I actually get to really tell you
00:20:10.700
who I am, you know, that look, man, we just found out we both like to hunt. You know, I grew up
00:20:15.660
hunting since I was 12 years old. My dad got me into it. You know, I just found out you wrestled
00:20:19.660
things like that. Same thing for everyone else listening to me talk. It's, I'm just a normal
00:20:23.880
human being trying to live my dream out and enjoy it at the same time. Yeah. That's interesting
00:20:28.700
because just in, in being in this world, doing the podcast for the past four years or so, we see these
00:20:33.340
people that we place on pedestals, right? Whether they belong there or not, we do. And we see somebody
00:20:38.360
like you who's at this highest level they can achieve at this point and think, you know, this
00:20:42.900
guy's got something figured out or he's, or they dismiss what it actually took to get there, which
00:20:46.820
is even worse. But then you start having conversations like this and I've been following you for a couple
00:20:51.200
of years now. And it's like, oh, there's a reason that he's at the top. It's not just that it happened
00:20:55.980
to work out or he got lucky a few times. Like there is a legitimate reason. And I think that humanity,
00:21:01.300
I guess, if you will, like learning more about your story and your struggles and the things that
00:21:04.860
have gone well and not so well, it makes you a lot more relatable and understandable when you go out
00:21:10.300
into the cage and do your thing. Absolutely, man. I couldn't agree anymore. You know, it kind of
00:21:15.680
resonates with everyone at home. I have a normal life at home. My son is napping. This is why it was a
00:21:21.320
good time to do a podcast because he's taking a nap. Yeah. I love that, man. That's awesome.
00:21:26.200
I got a one-year-old just had a birthday party for him, made it to the holidays. Like everyone does.
00:21:30.860
It's crazy. You know, just living that normal life with a crazy storyline, you know, but it's,
00:21:36.600
it's, it's normal. It really is. I think that's the best thing to do is it kind of resonates at
00:21:40.060
home. Like when you watch the countdown shows, it makes people more fans when they can see like
00:21:43.600
what you're going on and like, oh, damn, I do that same thing. You know, like,
00:21:47.700
oh, Dillashaw's a hunter, man. That's awesome. I love hunting and things like that.
00:21:51.600
Yeah. Yeah. I know you're, you're already thinking about, I don't want to say the future necessarily,
00:21:56.180
but you're doing this right from my perspective because you are building a personal brand. You
00:22:00.840
are putting other services and offerings out into the world that are going to help other
00:22:05.760
individuals, which is the one you have right now, fit to fight. Right. And so how does this tie into
00:22:11.220
your long-term play? Because relatively speaking, fighting is not a long career compared to something
00:22:17.540
more average or ordinary might be. Yeah. I mean, this is definitely a long career. It's very short.
00:22:23.160
I've already lived a longer career than most in this sport and I've been fighting 10 years now,
00:22:29.500
you know, so that's pretty long already, but it doesn't, that's not the reason why I'm starting
00:22:33.260
all these things either. These, all these other things that have happened, have happened so naturally
00:22:37.200
and organic that it's been awesome, you know, and like there's so much I could do outside of my
00:22:40.800
career. I'm done fighting. The things that I've started have happened so naturally because it's part
00:22:45.260
of my life. I love coaching. I used to coach off and off. I've been a great coach. That's something I've
00:22:50.580
always really done. I've really been into my technique and I feel like there's so many people
00:22:55.200
as well as fighters out there that ask so many questions about my MMA training, my diet, my nutrition,
00:23:02.260
my strength conditioning. So I said, you know what, like let's put this all together. And so I finally
00:23:06.820
started my website, TJDillashaw.com. I have a fit to fight program. So it's one of its kind for sure.
00:23:13.700
I mean, no one ever does like a full MMA breakdown. Like I'm teaching boxing, kickboxing,
00:23:18.780
wrestling, jujitsu, my strength and conditioning. So that's why it's fit to fight. Like you're going
00:23:25.140
to learn MMA techniques everywhere from someone learning to throw a jab. I teach the exact
00:23:29.560
fundamental basics all the way up to some like ninja stuff to where the people just start now,
00:23:34.500
it might take them a while to get to that spot, but at least they have that opportunity. And once you
00:23:37.840
buy it, you have it for life, you know, it's an a la carte kind of buy it. And it's anywhere from
00:23:42.560
learning MMA techniques to learning how to get in shape using MMA as well as you using strength
00:23:48.060
conditioning. And the cool thing about it is that these are things I do in my camp. Like when you
00:23:52.880
see the countdown shows or the videos of me working out, you'll be doing the same things as me. And I
00:23:57.360
would tell you why I do them together. So if I'm showing you a striking technique, I also pair it up
00:24:03.260
with a certain sort of strength conditioning technique that will make you better at that
00:24:07.300
striking, have better endurance for that striking, as well as maybe get you a six pack, you know,
00:24:12.240
the fun stuff. Well, it's layers, right? I mean, so often from the outside looking in like a lay
00:24:17.060
person, and I would consider myself in that camp, you know, we look at it and think, oh, that's easy.
00:24:20.940
You just throw a punch or that's easy. You just, you know, you go for a shoot, right? And so we look
00:24:25.540
at it and think it's easy, but there's so many different layers on top of that one move that actually
00:24:30.160
make it an effective thing to do. Oh, it's insane, man. I have to drill certain techniques
00:24:34.620
just thousands of times every camp, even if it's me doing the basics. Like for instance,
00:24:39.560
there's a hands and footwork drill that I do in my fit to fight course that I do for every warmup
00:24:45.060
before practice. I'm not showing just crap to show it and hoping to make some money. I want people to
00:24:50.720
let me know how they like the class, if I help them out. I'm getting like money back guarantees. It
00:24:55.480
doesn't feel like you like it. I've gotten nothing but insanely good reviews. It's only been
00:25:00.140
out a week. It's been doing great. Again, like you're going to get in shape or you're going to
00:25:04.260
learn a healthy lifestyle. I'm going to do injury prevention, strength, conditioning, nutrition,
00:25:08.820
MMA. It's, it's, I'm telling you now, if you're interested in just getting in shape or if you're
00:25:12.660
interested in learning martial arts, you got to check it out, man. TJDillashaw.com. I'm kind of
00:25:17.320
sounding like a salesman now, but it's just so true. You know what I mean? I stand behind it 100%.
00:25:23.300
I'll be a bit of a salesman too, because I see the videos and I've seen how it breaks down and I see how
00:25:28.000
interactive it is, which is actually pretty cool. That's kind of a cool thing about it.
00:25:31.320
And I'm excited. That's why I reached out to you is because I wanted to get you on the show to talk
00:25:35.200
about not only your life, because I think it's important when we look at somebody who's at such
00:25:38.820
a high level and realize, oh, this is, this is an ordinary guy who's done some extraordinary
00:25:44.120
things through his own efforts and work and challenges and hardship. And again, I go back to
00:25:49.260
that thing where a lot of people listening think that some of these guys I have on the show are just
00:25:53.580
somehow gifted or miraculous or lucky. And it's just, it just has not been the case.
00:25:59.160
And I need people to understand that that's how they're going to thrive for expand and grow in
00:26:02.880
their lives. Yeah, man. It's the belief, you know, it's the belief in fighting that right path.
00:26:07.760
And that's why I put that 10 to 15 years worth of experience I've learned through MMA
00:26:11.440
on the website. I wish I would have had this when I was coming up. I would have got to where I'm at a
00:26:16.060
lot faster. I'm not saying that would have been the right path, but if I could point just a couple
00:26:20.660
of people in the right direction and doing something differently in their MMA career or
00:26:24.100
even just getting in shape to prevent any disease or whatever it may be, like, I feel like that goes
00:26:29.460
a long ways. And that's the kind of way I think about it, you know, because if I could look back
00:26:34.420
and realize like how to train my body when I first got into fighting, there's so many injuries I would
00:26:39.440
have prevented. Yeah. The shoulder surgeries I've had, the knee surgeries or overtraining my body or
00:26:44.700
certain techniques that I had no idea what was going on that are so accessible now because the
00:26:49.820
internet, you know, because of YouTube or programs like mine. So it's quite awesome, man.
00:26:56.060
Yeah. No, you're doing great things. And it is cool too, because it's so translatable,
00:26:59.700
like the course and just the tactics and everything that you're teaching as well,
00:27:02.860
isn't because you're going to go fight in the UFC. It's because you want to be a better father,
00:27:07.760
right? You want to have more energy to be able to bounce around with your one-year-old. You want to
00:27:12.020
do all these great things. That's why it's so powerful is because it's translatable to everyday
00:27:16.080
ordinary life. Yes. Yeah, absolutely. I didn't only make this for someone that wanted to be a
00:27:20.740
professional fighter. I made it for someone that could work out at home. You can do all this stuff
00:27:24.660
that it's on my website for the most part at home. Yeah, sure. There's some more advanced stuff
00:27:28.900
that you might have to go to a gym or have a partner to do it with, but I would say 90% of the
00:27:33.580
course you can do in the comfort of your home. Yeah. Which is wonderful because not everyone's got time
00:27:38.040
to go to the gym or, or the confidence to go into the gym until they get better, you know,
00:27:42.260
this will help you get to that point so much faster. Gentlemen, let me hit the pause button
00:27:48.080
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that after the show. Right now, I want to get back to my conversation with TJ.
00:29:00.800
What do you feel like are some of your greatest strengths, whether that's fighting or just
00:29:07.760
personality strengths that you feel like are some of your greatest and maybe even some of those
00:29:11.160
things that you feel like you need to shore up some of those weaknesses you need to work on as well.
00:29:14.580
That's always tough, man. It's always been tough for me to look back and kind of
00:29:17.700
pump yourself up. It's always easier to pick yourself apart.
00:29:21.180
Say what you're good at, you know, but I feel like it's something that was something I have. I've noticed
00:29:26.000
people tell me that I am throughout my career now and something I've had to learn from experience
00:29:31.180
because I was not this way growing up. I was not this way within wrestling. It was just
00:29:34.820
my mindset and my belief. I don't know, man. It was something that I learned throughout my career
00:29:39.960
that, and it really comes with, I kind of let it all go and decided to have fun, you know,
00:29:45.180
and be able to really go for it. You know, like who cares? I think the mental strength is a big power
00:29:51.220
of mine, my willpower that, you know, what I do is a crap ton of work. I mean, if you guys follow me
00:29:57.300
on Instagram at TJ Dillashaw, you'll see, you know, the photos or the videos I'm posting, and that's
00:30:02.380
just a quick glimpse of what I do in a day, you know. You don't even get to see the home life,
00:30:07.860
which I need to start a YouTube channel and start showing people my day in and day out because it's
00:30:12.460
a full-time job. I don't get to sit down and watch TV, you know. I don't. Yeah. It would be nice if
00:30:17.520
today's my day off, but, you know, I'm going to be doing something that's going to be helping me
00:30:21.780
out for my career or spending time with my family. Right. Do you think that attitude about just
00:30:27.080
having fun and letting it all go helps you deal with a loss? You know, I've always thought, I'm
00:30:32.500
like, how would it feel to lose in front of those people? You got to be able to rise above that. And
00:30:38.440
I've seen UFC fighters who can't, you know, they have one loss and then they're completely
00:30:43.760
destroyed mentally. I mean, they just can't ever get back and come back from it. Yeah, man. I mean,
00:30:47.980
I never had the loss where you go out there and you get dominated and you don't understand, like,
00:30:52.660
how someone was so much better than you. You know, I've never had that situation. The losses I feel
00:30:56.820
are even harder to handle are the, like, a loss against Dominic Cruz that I had or a loss against
00:31:01.880
Rafael Sinsa that I had or split decisions that I should have won. Those ones are hard to get past.
00:31:07.260
When you say you should have won, are you saying that you should have performed better or you feel
00:31:10.980
like it was miscalled? It was miscalled. If it was a fight where I should have performed better and I
00:31:14.600
know that I got beat, that's one thing. I feel like that doesn't bother me. Like, I just got to go back
00:31:18.560
to the gym and get better. Right. You can do something about that. Yeah, but when it's something
00:31:22.520
you can't control and they steal it out of your hands, that's something that really makes you mad
00:31:27.680
and you focus on. It makes you bitter about the sport and pisses you off. And that's something that
00:31:32.020
was a big growing experience for me. I got mad against this since I won when I lost, but even
00:31:36.860
obviously more mad when I lost to Dominic Cruz and lost my belt when I shouldn't have due to a
00:31:42.000
decision that wasn't right, you know, because I should be on a 14 fight win streak right now,
00:31:46.260
a 13 fight win streak right now. And, you know, it's something that really bugs you, but you still
00:31:51.260
have to let it go. You still have to learn to, and that's why I'm getting back to is how hard it is
00:31:56.280
to do it because I have experienced the losses and how hard it is to come back from them, especially
00:32:01.060
those kinds where I feel like they dig deep where you don't actually feel like you lost is
00:32:05.060
overpowering that with, again, enjoying the process. Cause I was mad at fighting when I
00:32:10.380
lost to Dominic Cruz. They wouldn't give me a rematch. Like I swear, I had like a year and a
00:32:14.260
half of like thinking back on it, like where I wasn't happy, you know, like I wasn't doing things
00:32:18.820
to make myself happy. I was pissed off every training practice. I was probably hard on my
00:32:23.200
training partners. It was a tougher relationship with me and my wife and my coach. I wasn't happy
00:32:28.580
and everything was altered because of it. So when I decided to kind of let loose again and start
00:32:34.960
revamping my mental mindset, I came back and everything started falling into place. For
00:32:40.780
instance, I'm back down in Southern California. We started a gym training lab. I have my own spice
00:32:46.840
company that's doing awesome right now called Flavor Republic. My fit to fight course is killing
00:32:52.560
it. It's only been a week and people love it. I'm back down closer to family, back to friends that I
00:32:57.320
grew up with and went to college with. And so finally, when I decided to like, kind of just like let go
00:33:01.880
and let life guide me in the direction it was supposed to and just enjoy the process and only
00:33:06.240
control what you can and worry about what you can control, everything kind of fell into place.
00:33:10.860
You know, it guided me in the right direction rather than me trying to get pissed off and
00:33:14.280
control the situation. It would just get worse and worse. And I wasn't a happy person. So I think,
00:33:18.780
yes, being happy will help you deal with so much. I mean, it's tough. It's tough to say,
00:33:24.040
be happy, right? Yeah, yeah. Just do it, right? Just be happy. Yeah, that's it. You know, but just
00:33:29.560
I think if you start focusing on how negative maybe you're being, you'd be like, okay, you know,
00:33:34.320
just positively. Like, for instance, I say this metaphor all the time when I go into a fight,
00:33:38.720
everyone has negative thoughts. That's why you get nervous. Yeah. Like, oh, what if this guy does that?
00:33:43.080
What if this guy does what if I lose this and that? But like, you end up hearing yourself say that
00:33:46.940
and you like instantly catch yourself and you use positive affirmations that talk that out of your
00:33:52.260
mind. And that really does work. You know, like catch yourself being negative, catch yourself being
00:33:57.160
in a bad mood. And just, even if you just realize like, damn, I'm in a bad mood. It's something
00:34:01.080
you kind of start like just acknowledging it, right? Yeah. Yeah. Just acknowledging that situation.
00:34:06.300
What are some of the things that you tell yourself? Cause when, you know, when those negative
00:34:09.500
emotions or thoughts come into your mind, like I'm sure they do, what is it that you tell yourself?
00:34:14.200
I look back on my day-to-day training and how hard I go and just know that I'm giving myself a hundred
00:34:21.900
percent chance and what's meant to be is meant to be, I guess. It's so generic, but it really,
00:34:27.900
I mean, everyone says it for a reason, you know, but because I don't cut corners, it's easy to do that
00:34:32.360
because I'm putting in those hard days at the gym. I'm putting in the diet. I'm taking the right
00:34:38.120
supplements. I'm doing my hair analysis, everything. What is, what is that? Tell me about that.
00:34:42.720
Yeah. Okay. So, oh, there's another, there's another thing I've started. So I have so much
00:34:46.080
stuff going on in my life now. How do you decide what to do? What fits my life the best? What is
00:34:50.900
the least intrusive? So I'll give you a list real quick. So the gym, that's easy. That's the
00:34:55.900
more I train. Sure. The spice company, you know, I'd say all natural, all great products, non-irradiated,
00:35:02.680
non-GMO, healthy products. I'm into my diet. So when I first, I first got on this ketogenic-esque
00:35:07.900
diet with my coach. Every time I wanted to like meal prep, I'd want to season my food
00:35:12.440
and I couldn't because it had so much sugar in it. You know, I had a bunch of table salt. So I was
00:35:17.320
like, you know what? I found an avenue here. Everyone's wanting to be healthy right now.
00:35:20.960
Everyone likes his keto, these paleo diets, which are huge. They're awesome for you. I was like,
00:35:25.880
I'm going to create my own company. So me and my two friends, which are in different parts of their
00:35:30.260
life, you know, Steve Martin, he's a, he's a normal average guy that likes to work out,
00:35:34.700
just come to the gym. Kenny's a black belt in jujitsu and myself, professional fighter.
00:35:38.600
We all came together and created this company and it's been awesome. So yeah, I mean,
00:35:43.140
that's been a blessing, right? Yeah. So I have, I have the gym, I play for Republic. I have my fit
00:35:47.600
to fight, which has been so natural because all I'm doing is filming what I do on a daily basis and
00:35:53.060
teaching it to the public. Sure. You're already doing it anyways. You might as well film it, put it out
00:35:56.440
there. Yeah. Not only for me to, to benefit off it, but also the public, you know, like that people can
00:36:02.000
learn so much from it. And then also you talk about this hair analysis. I have an app that came
00:36:06.660
out with my strength and conditioning coach. The one I talk about helped me make the weight,
00:36:10.400
push me in the right direction. It's called train champ. It's off of training lab.com,
00:36:15.580
which training is spelled weird. It's T R E I G N I N G lab.com. Yeah. Like rain, right? Train rain,
00:36:24.640
right? Yeah. Yeah. And so the app is on there. You just go to the app store and look up train champ,
00:36:29.440
but we have our own program on there that I've started where you can follow me. The workouts I
00:36:33.940
do in his garage, which are insane. You can do the exact same workouts with me at the same times,
00:36:39.040
the same reps. We have it all done on this app, as well as we have my recipes for nutrition that I do
00:36:44.820
as well as supplementation you can take. And then last but not least, I talked about the hair analysis.
00:36:50.400
So the hair analysis has changed a lot in my life. You can test what's in your body, the toxins. You can
00:36:56.660
test what supplements are in your body, what minerals you have too much of or too little of.
00:37:01.440
And really what the biggest thing to do is to get your body back to homeostasis. You've already
00:37:05.740
worked the best at homeostasis. So if I have way too much potassium in my body, other parts of my
00:37:11.640
body are hindering because of it. Maybe my kidneys are taking too much work because I have too much
00:37:16.340
potassium. Or for instance, I have very high levels of arsenic in my body. And so do a lot of people
00:37:21.740
today from the things we eat out of, the preservatives in our foods or the tattoos that
00:37:26.840
I've gotten. So I found out that I have an insane amount of arsenic. So what I've been doing is
00:37:31.560
I juice a certain recipe. There's the cold press juice that I do. There's certain supplements I
00:37:36.960
take like methionine and chlorella and spirulina and also the juice and the pectoclear. There's all
00:37:44.300
these supplements to help get the arsenic out of my body. As well as I needed more magnesium. So I
00:37:49.640
started taking magnesium. I realized I needed more vitamin D just to get my body back to firing at
00:37:54.660
all cylinders. It makes your brain fire better. It makes everything back to homeostasis, which is
00:37:59.960
what you want. A perfect balanced lifestyle, you know? And so that's on that. Everyone can do that
00:38:04.620
hair analysis on that app. Like you can order it. We send you to package your house. You cut off some
00:38:09.200
of the hair off the back of your head where your brainstem's at. You send it back in. We send it to
00:38:13.380
the lab. We burn it. We find out what toxins and what supplements are in your body, what you need
00:38:19.120
more of. And then we can put you on a specific supplement plan. Like I don't take the same
00:38:24.920
supplements as my training partners do because I need different things. My body works differently,
00:38:29.320
you know? So that's a really cool thing we've started. I haven't even promoted this app yet
00:38:33.200
because it just came out the same time as my online academy came out. So I will be promoting it,
00:38:40.460
but it's amazing. What's the turnaround time on that from the time that you send in a sample to
00:38:45.320
the time that you get the results back? Results are pretty quick, probably within a week. And then
00:38:50.800
you can call them for a consultation. You actually talk to my coach, which is pretty crazy.
00:38:56.140
You know, either if it's through email or through phone, and then they'll talk about what supplements
00:39:00.400
you can order. And we order them all from our lab. Everything's third-party tested because
00:39:05.620
I can't buy normal stuff at GNC. I can't go in and buy a normal creatine because I don't know what's in it.
00:39:12.180
Right. And there's so many fillers and different stuff in there that's actually going to probably
00:39:20.700
There's even more on the line for me. But yeah, the fillers, like the things like that. So when I
00:39:25.440
first started working with my coach, I had like all these supplements I was taking. And we stopped
00:39:28.340
taking all of them because they don't have to go through the FDA, all the regulations and the food
00:39:33.720
administration stuff that everything else does. So you can be taking a bunch of nothing or a bunch of
00:39:38.620
crap that's actually hindering you. So all the supplements we sell to are from our lab,
00:39:42.800
third-party tested, like cutting no corners. Yeah. We make less profit, but we know we're
00:39:49.600
Well, and I mean, that's just, that's evident just in your life. You know, I was thinking about
00:39:53.080
your training schedule and I was following you on Instagram and social media and just seeing like
00:39:56.700
your actual regimen. It's evidence that you don't cut corners. Like you're, you know, you're doing it
00:40:01.580
right. You're doing it the right way. And then naturally the results that you've been able to produce
00:40:05.200
in your life are because you do it the right way. Exactly, man. Yeah. I mean, there's so many guys
00:40:10.040
out there who are looking for the shortcut, right? They're looking for the get rich quick scheme or
00:40:15.040
the six pack abs overnight. And yeah, some of that stuff may work, but it's not long-term success.
00:40:20.580
Definitely. I would say 99% of people try to look for that when it's not the way the world works.
00:40:26.700
You know, like you have to work for what you want. You got to put in the time. You got to find the
00:40:30.640
right things like do your homework. Things don't come easy. Everyone wants it to, because look,
00:40:35.180
you can be on your phone looking at whatever you want. You know, entertainment's easy. Like
00:40:39.140
sure. We're trying to make life as convenient, as easy as possible. And that's just the way things
00:40:44.740
work. What drives you when you are tempted to shortcut or you are tempted to, I'm assuming that
00:40:50.320
you have those temptations, but what is it that drives you to keep charging forward and do it the
00:40:55.580
right way when everything's telling you not to? I don't know, man. Cause I feel like it's not a
00:40:59.860
shortcut. It might look like a shortcut. Like I could take practice off today. I'm just gonna go
00:41:03.980
hang out at the beach. I'll get a tan. But really that's not a shortcut. You know, I mean, I guess
00:41:09.220
if your shortcut is to being tan and fat, then yeah, you know, but my objective is to be in the
00:41:15.080
best in the world. You know, I want to retire from the sport of being the greatest of all time
00:41:18.560
and doing that. I have to have the greatest of all time training. So if you want to be a successful
00:41:23.220
person, you want to accomplish certain things, at least just give it your all, you know, give it your
00:41:28.420
best effort. If that's not what you want, then don't do it. Don't lie to yourself either.
00:41:32.440
Yeah. How do you define the greatest of all time? That's subjective, right? And there's a lot of
00:41:36.240
different metrics that you can look at. So how do you personally see that or envision that looking
00:41:40.400
like? Just my performances and coming out and for instance, like me dropping that extra 10 pounds to
00:41:46.260
go down and get this belt. Yeah. It's a big deal. And doing it in impressive fashion. Me dominating my
00:41:51.680
weight class. I mean, I can go up to 145s. I'd be the only one ever to go three belts.
00:41:55.420
Is that your goal? Yeah. Hell yeah, man. That's the thing, man. As my coach and my training and
00:42:00.840
how professional I am, I can go either direction. I could have packed the weight on, right? And gone
00:42:05.060
that direction first. This opportunity came up first, as well as it's easier for me to get my
00:42:10.220
body to lose the weight first before I go up to 45s and then go back down to 25s, you know? So
00:42:15.920
again, it's all a plan. Everything I have going on, that's another good thing for success is
00:42:20.580
right now, short-term and long-term goals. You know, it's always a generic thing you hear people say,
00:42:24.720
but it works. Keep your life on path and keep your life organized. It helps out so much.
00:42:29.940
Yeah, for sure. Well, that's cool, man. Hey, I don't want to take a ton of your time. I know this
00:42:33.820
is an insane time and schedule for you right now. So I want to stick to that committed time, but
00:42:38.400
I do want to ask you a couple of questions and one I didn't prepare you for. I apologize. I didn't,
00:42:42.560
but I think you got this. But that question is, what does it mean to be a man?
00:42:46.040
To be a man? Well, it depends which way you look at it. For me, it's providing for my family.
00:42:50.060
You know, I'm a family man. I've been wanting to have a son for a long time now. And it's funny.
00:42:55.600
It wouldn't have, we tried for like three years and we couldn't have a kid until I met my coach
00:43:00.780
and I changed my diet up. I did my hair analysis and got my body back to homeostasis. And within
00:43:09.760
I meant to ask earlier when you were talking about is like, have you noticed a physical change
00:43:14.040
from those micro adjustments? But it sounds like you obviously have.
00:43:17.820
Yeah, man. It's cool because one thing about what I have going on out here too,
00:43:21.540
is it's not what I like to call bro science. And I'm like, yeah, I think I feel better.
00:43:25.460
Right. Yeah. Cause it's easy to trick yourself, right?
00:43:27.840
Yeah. I think I'd look better. No, but like everything I do is put down to numbers.
00:43:31.840
You know, if it's my hormone test that I'm doing, I, you know, I've tripled my hormones
00:43:36.340
naturally, which is insane. Like that doesn't happen. By the way, I've changed my diet,
00:43:41.580
which has been a huge one. The way I work out my supplementation, I've gotten the arsenic out of
00:43:47.740
my body. You know, I've been able to get pregnant after trying for three years and I'm able to do
00:43:51.880
it after changing my diet up, seeing the numbers of my strength and my times on my running.
00:43:57.460
Everything I do is very calculated and has number proof behind it. We have exact science
00:44:01.780
behind it rather than just guessing. Well, and it has to be for you because you're
00:44:05.360
playing at such a high level, right? I mean, it's important for anybody, but to play and be
00:44:10.260
competitive at the level that you are, it's critical that it's not just guesswork. And hopefully
00:44:16.300
some of this stuff works out. Yeah. Otherwise you're wasting your time, right? Well, and you're
00:44:21.300
just not going to perform the way that you want to perform. And that's why I put my fit to fight
00:44:25.180
course together too, because I feel like there's a lot of wasteful plans out there. There's a lot
00:44:28.800
of wasted time out there and I'm not here to waste anybody's time. I gave real deal stuff that I've
00:44:34.700
been using. I still use it to this day on that website. Cause I know that I don't want to feel happy
00:44:38.880
by doing that. You know, that's why I asked everyone that asked me about it. Like, Hey,
00:44:42.340
where can I get it? I'd say, Hey, get it at tgloshaw.com, but make sure to let me know what
00:44:45.780
you think, you know, like tell me what you think of it. I'd love to hear your opinion because if
00:44:49.740
it's not good, I don't want to put something out like this. It's great. It's not that it's not good.
00:44:54.340
I just want like, it's just me of like showing my confidence behind it. I know it is.
00:44:58.080
Sure. Yeah. What do you feel like you've sacrificed to get to where you are? Not only with
00:45:02.860
your career, your fighting career, but with your family and everything else that you have going on
00:45:06.740
at what expense has that come? If that makes sense. Um, I guess time, you know, effort,
00:45:11.600
but those are all things that have made my life better. So I wouldn't call it a sacrifice. I'd
00:45:16.520
call it a gain. You know, I've become a better man because of it. I've been able to provide for
00:45:21.340
my family because of it. But I say the only thing is, like I said, if you're not cutting any corners,
00:45:25.580
you're going to put a lot of time and you're going to put in a lot of work, but ultimately it won't be
00:45:29.740
giving something up because in return, you'll get so much more out of it.
00:45:33.500
Right on. I like that, man. I like that. Well, cool. Well,
00:45:36.180
let me know again, how do we connect with you? Where do you want us to go? I'm going to make
00:45:39.480
sure I link everything up for the guys so they know exactly where to go and figure out more about
00:45:43.340
what you're up to and what you're doing. Yeah, man. Anytime. Check on in. Let's make this a
00:45:47.360
regular thing. You sound like a pretty interesting guy. So, uh, appreciate you reaching out. And it's
00:45:52.180
funny. We just got connected through Instagram, you know? Yeah. Isn't that amazing? I mean,
00:45:55.960
we're so well connected. If we utilize it right, we're so well connected with incredible,
00:46:00.740
incredible people. Yeah, absolutely, man. And that's another thing too,
00:46:04.520
is it, I pay attention to my fans, you know, I comment back to them. I'm looking at my direct
00:46:09.380
messages and that's how we met, you know? So yeah, feel free. Cool. Ask some questions about my,
00:46:14.720
my nutrition, about my spices, about my fit to fight course. Um, ask about it all and I'll get
00:46:20.160
back to you guys on it. And that's a hundred percent true. I'm glad you said that because
00:46:23.340
that is one of the things I noticed is naturally I reached out to a lot of people and I'm following,
00:46:28.580
you know, big quote unquote influential people. And it's very rare to find somebody at your level
00:46:35.240
who's responsive to the people that he's wanting to inspire and motivate. And so I got to tell you
00:46:41.860
the fact that like, I look in your comments, not just me, but I look in, in your comments and you're
00:46:46.200
responding back to people and you're hitting direct messages back. That says a lot about you
00:46:50.320
and your desire to connect with the people who are, who are helping you.
00:46:53.220
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's why I get to do this job. You know, I, that's why I get to go out there.
00:46:58.240
That's why I get to, in my mind, say show off is because of everyone that is following me.
00:47:04.780
Right on, man. Well, I wanted to tell you that my boys made sure that I, you know,
00:47:09.720
that I said hello to you from them specifically, cause they wanted to make sure that I did that.
00:47:14.920
Eli and Brecken, my two oldest. I've got four kids, but Eli and Brecken specifically wanted to make sure I,
00:47:21.040
Oh, that's awesome. Well, make sure to tell them hello for me.
00:47:23.220
I will. Yeah. And we'll be watching the fights. I was going to say good luck. I don't like that
00:47:29.620
Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Good skill. There you go. So we'll be rooting for you, man. I appreciate you
00:47:34.480
Of course, man. You have a good day and good luck on your hunt.
00:47:40.320
All right, gentlemen, there it is. What did I tell you? Amazing, amazing conversation with an amazing man.
00:47:44.800
I'm really excited for me and my boys to watch the fights this weekend. We're rooting for TJ. Of course,
00:47:50.600
he's been somebody that I've admired and respected for a very long time. And to be able to have a
00:47:55.600
conversation with him was really an honor. I hadn't had a conversation with him before, but to
00:48:00.780
see the, like I had mentioned in the conversation, the humanity, the other side of TJ that we don't
00:48:06.300
see a whole lot was pretty cool. It's a great experience. I hope you enjoyed it. I hope it
00:48:10.140
inspired you to go out and follow TJ, to root for TJ, and then also to see what he's doing with his
00:48:16.700
fit to fight program and some of the other products and services and things that he's doing because
00:48:21.480
man, it's, it's inspirational to say the least. So go check that out. TJ Dillashaw.com. You can see
00:48:27.040
what he's up to and what he's all about, or you can head to order of man.com slash two zero zero as
00:48:32.960
an episode 200 and get all the links and social media channels and whatnot. So anyways, guys,
00:48:38.200
that's all I've got for you today. I hope again, that you enjoyed that one. I appreciate you being in
00:48:41.800
this fight and on this journey with me. Couldn't do it without you. I love seeing the growth. I mean,
00:48:46.420
the growth that we've experienced over the past two to three months has been absolutely,
00:48:50.400
absolutely mind blowing. And it's a testament to what it is we're doing here and the importance
00:48:55.760
of the mission that I am trying to lead and the service that we're doing, not only in families
00:49:01.700
and communities, but the world, frankly, at this point. And that's pretty incredible. I never thought
00:49:07.240
we would be here when we started four years ago, but here we are, and we will continue,
00:49:10.480
continue to develop and move forward and progress, uh, with your help. So go out and share this
00:49:14.780
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00:49:19.040
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00:49:23.580
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00:49:29.580
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00:49:34.620
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