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00:03:05.000I knew if I took him on, that'll get me straight to, you know, 5th rank.
00:03:09.000And then that's why I wanted to call out, you know, Aldo after that, because I knew that'll put me in a position where I could, you know, fight for a title.
00:03:36.000About two hours, two and a half hours.
00:03:38.000What made you decide to make that trip?
00:03:40.000Well, I've known the guys for a long time, Eugene, Izzy even, and Brad Riddell.
00:03:45.000Brad Riddell was actually, when I was in Thailand, Tiger Muay Thai, I do a bit of training out there, and he was a striking coach for a while.
00:03:53.000So I was working with him a fair bit, and that's when they bring Eugene and Israel.
00:03:59.000That's when I got to know them and stuff like that.
00:04:02.000Ever since then, we've always got along.
00:04:14.000We'll go there a couple of times each camp.
00:04:17.000I'll do two or three weeks, get back to the family and train and then go back there again for the last couple of weeks and then I head to my fight, usually.
00:04:43.000We've got some people, but it's just, you know, we're starting to get a team in that now, but that competitive sort of training partners is a big deal.
00:04:50.000And my coach has always, you know, Joe's always been a strong believer of training with so many different levels of, you know, styles.
00:07:03.000Obviously, wrestling's not as big in Australia as it is over here, but I still won the Australian Championship twice and stuff like that, but then I just gave it up and started playing football.
00:07:31.000Usually they'll have like games nights and they had wrestling there.
00:07:35.000And I just went there one time and the trainer was just like, oh, you should come and do training because I was doing all right.
00:07:41.000So I just started doing it and then I was actually pretty good.
00:07:44.000Again, I was always – like I literally come out the mother's womb like this, you know what I mean?
00:07:49.000So I've been this big since – I've been this big or this high and looked this old since I was like 12. So I was always – So I was always versing guys twice the size of me, you know what I mean?
00:08:01.000So I was older, much older as well, and I used to do well.
00:08:05.000So that's why a lot of people thought I was mad when I gave that up because I was doing so good.
00:09:29.000It's obviously a very rough combat sport.
00:09:31.000I mean, it's kind of like a team combat sport, almost.
00:09:35.000But you were at least not under the illusion that you're protected like American football players have been for so long with the helmets and the pads.
00:09:43.000And that's what's causing a lot of the brain trauma.
00:09:46.000Yeah, with them hard helmets and all that.
00:10:03.000Well, I think they've considered this, but people are so accustomed to football helmets, football pads.
00:10:10.000So the idea is to just make better helmets and better pads.
00:10:14.000According to the guys who really study traumatic brain injury, that's not really going to help because it's the impact, the head, the brain swashing around inside your skull, that is just so...
00:10:26.000The amount of mass that you have, these guys colliding into each other, it's almost unavoidable.
00:10:31.000Yeah, it's like actually when you're talking boxing and that as well.
00:10:34.000And a lot of people, you know, obviously we've got the smaller gloves, but then the boxers, they have more padding, but it's just so many more strikes to the head day in, day out.
00:10:42.000And they reckon that can be actually worse for you.
00:11:54.000I love the fact that if I am half-arsing it in the gym, you're going to see that come fight time and I've got no one else to blame but myself.
00:12:03.000And again, I've just always loved martial arts, even boxing, UFC. Even, you know, before I even started, you know, training MMA, I'd like, you know, listen to music and I would, you know, just picture myself winning the world title.
00:13:16.000Especially, as you were saying, me being looking like this since a young age, obviously I'm not the type to brag that I get into fights and all that sort of stuff, but when I was younger, that would happen.
00:15:39.000You know, I'm a pretty competitive type of guy.
00:15:41.000And the fact that, you know, I wasn't at the highest level in rugby league yet, you know, I was 22. And, you know, at that age, usually, you know, if you're not in, you know, not NRL, as that's the highest, if you're not in the NRL by like 22, you're You're pretty much yanking in, sort of like that.
00:17:54.000And, you know, as I say, again, that's when I started dieting as well.
00:17:57.000But I remember doing that jiu-jitsu comp.
00:18:00.000And I was on the podium, I ended up getting the gold.
00:18:02.000So I was on the first podium, they're on the second and third, and they're still taller than me.
00:18:05.000So these are the guys that, you know, I'm so familiar.
00:18:09.000That's why now I fight at featherweight, and I really do look at these, even though they still tower over me, because I'm still short in my division, but I look at them and they're like, you know, I'm used to footy players, big front rowers.
00:18:18.000You know, props and fighting middleweight and all these different divisions that, you know, I look at these, you know, featherweights, I'm just like, they're puny compared to what I'm used to, but...
00:19:54.000But again, I didn't, you know, having the broken hand, you know, I want to train.
00:19:56.000I'm the type of, you know, I try and be a, you know, I'm a professional, so I'll do what I can.
00:20:01.000I was still doing as many things as I could, you know, strength condition, building them legs.
00:20:06.000Being able to just throw, you know, a shitload of left hooks and jabs, so I should have a good left hook and jab come next fight, so I got to work a lot on that.
00:21:07.000Where now it's an absolute game changer.
00:21:09.000So I just, yeah, pretty much lost my weight that way.
00:21:12.000So I used to be a little bit, you know, bigger.
00:21:13.000Obviously, from eating like that as well, you know, you lose muscle, you lose, you know, you're probably losing strength and everything like that, obviously.
00:21:45.000How long were you in the hospital for that?
00:21:47.000Yeah, I was in the hospital the first day, but then they just had a nurse that come to your house every morning and night to give you everything.
00:22:08.000We always talk about how MMA is such a rollercoaster ride, you know what I mean?
00:22:13.000So many highs and lows, and that's a perfect example.
00:22:16.000You go over to Brazil and then beat one of the greatest featherweights of all time, and then you get put in hospital, and I was there for like a week.
00:23:33.000You know, you always go on your social media and there's always like these things like, you know, they just roll on with like certain things.
00:23:40.000Like, you know, whenever I'm posted, everyone will try and say I'm a New Zealander.
00:23:43.000And like, they just start like banter like that.
00:23:46.000And like, you know, everyone's into each other on there.
00:23:48.000But there was one that the same as, oh yeah, I got told that he was 240.
00:23:52.000And it's like, they're just sort of trying to quote you.
00:23:54.000And they're like going and just keeps growing and growing and growing.
00:26:39.000I didn't know what it was, but I thought I could fish, but maybe little small fish and that I'm all right with, but the big fish, I need to work on that.
00:26:46.000Well, it's a skill, like anything else.
00:26:48.000Fishing, the guys are really good at it.
00:27:11.000So he takes me to pretty crazy places, like in the middle of the ocean, just where there's a buoy, I don't know what you would call it here, just a chain, and there's a floaty buoy, we call him.
00:27:21.000And they're just there, and then we'll go there, fish off there, and go for dolphin fish and stuff like that.
00:27:27.000You literally just see a chain that goes down, and it just disappears.
00:27:30.000It's pretty scary when you're out there, and sometimes you're on your way, and you'll see a shark on the way over there.
00:27:35.000And then you've got to jump in and you luck flower out.
00:27:38.000Yeah, I've had friends that were hunters that got into spearfishing.
00:32:04.000I was going to actually get you, they even had crocodile belts and stuff like that, but I wanted to actually get you a knife, a custom made one with luck, and I was going to get maybe crocodile skin around the time.
00:32:48.000And the fact where you could be going past little ponds, or not even just a little puddle, and there'll be a big croc laying in it and stuff like that.
00:34:34.000We haven't even really had that conversation yet.
00:34:37.000But all, you know, everything's pointing to, you know, Perf, and even Max being the rematch, you know, that's what Dana White keeps bringing up, but we haven't had that conversation.
00:35:27.000Because Jay Park was translating for Korean Zombie, and supposedly he said things that insulted Ortega, and Ortega didn't like it, so he said he was going to...
00:35:36.000But did he say things, or did he translate the things?
00:35:40.000Yeah, that's what a lot of people are saying, but I think...
00:35:43.000He didn't translate fully and then he just sort of had his opinion as well.
00:37:27.000Again, when you're talking about the division and what's next for me, while I was injured, I thought there's so many people that are probably one fight away From a title shot, I believe.
00:38:33.000There's a lot of killers in there, and now they've all got their eyes on me.
00:38:38.000Well, I was so impressed with the fight you fought against Max because to fight your style for five rounds, you have to be in tremendous shape because you have such an explosive style.
00:38:51.000Your style is so movement, leg kick heavy, and then power shots.
00:38:56.000I mean, you're throwing so many power punches.
00:40:32.000During that fight, we both were adjusting.
00:40:34.000So, you know, I don't know if many people would have seen it.
00:40:36.000But even when it comes to just the way, like, you know, I'll go and then he'll try and counter and then he'll be like, pretend to counter, then pull back, then counter, you know what I mean?
00:40:43.000We'll sort of just have these little battles.
00:40:45.000But always leg kicks were going to be a big part, not just to hurt his leg, but just to really break his rhythm and, you know, and make him, you know, obviously he loves that jab.
00:40:54.000And he stays pretty heavy on that front leg.
00:40:58.000Whether that's making him adjust his stance and just putting him in a position that he's not comfortable with.
00:41:04.000He's been fighting forever in this style and it's been so effective for him.
00:41:09.000Him even being a couple of inches back so he's not so heavy on that front leg.
00:41:13.000That just throws his whole rhythm up, you know what I mean?
00:41:15.000And that's why a lot of people, it's funny, a lot of people are going to go, oh, he's going to make adjustments and he's going to check the kicks and all that.
00:41:20.000But you've got to remember, he's a volume fighter.
00:41:23.000If he starts adjusting so much, you know what I mean, starts worrying about all that, then he can't stick to a game that's been so successful for himself.
00:42:59.000Again, I've trained with a lot of people and I'll go there and I'll have this guy that hasn't even had an amateur fight and he's giving me problems.
00:43:06.000And you're like, what's going on here?
00:43:18.000Well, that's, again, no one's, you know, even in our gym, you know, we've got a couple of guys, even amateurs, that fight, you know, we're all treated the same, you know what I mean?
00:43:24.000When it's fight time, if they're doing that spider workout, everyone's here, you know, even when you're at City Kickboxing or at our gym, like, you know, the champions will still be there supporting the other guys that are doing their spider, you know what I mean?
00:43:36.000So everyone's, it's just one big family sort of feel, and, like, again, we're obviously a freestyle fighting gym, but we've been welcomed as a part of the family, and it's, I think that's a big part of why they were so successful as well.
00:43:49.000Just that sort of team camaraderie, you know what I mean?
00:49:33.000He said he had some sort of serious neck injury.
00:49:36.000When you're a silver medalist in the Olympics in the Cuban national team, the fucking wrestling practices those guys must have, the wrestling...
00:49:45.000The actual matches that he's had, I'm sure the wear and tear on the body is unbelievable.
00:49:56.000You obviously do an MMA, you've got to do a lot of wrestling.
00:49:59.000Just seeing them scramble, there's nothing like a scramble.
00:50:02.000To see the scrambles they have to train for, imagine the training you've got to do to be able to just do a two-minute scramble or something like that.
00:51:46.000I've always been, even from the first day of doing MMA. You know what I mean?
00:51:50.000I'm the type of person, when you're always doing that, when you're always...
00:51:55.000Like, putting yourself in uncomfortable positions and then, you know, you always got to figure ways out.
00:51:59.000So if I'm first in heavyweights, because that's the type of guy, I'll train with heavyweights, and you'll be losing, but, you know, you can just sit there and accept that, oh, I'm going to find a way to get up.
00:52:07.000And you're constantly doing that over the 10 years you're training.
00:52:11.000You know, that's where a lot of people are like, you know, how the hell are you so fit and all that sort of stuff.
00:52:14.000I think it's just through so many years of putting myself in uncomfortable positions that When training does get tough, I'm still going to go.
00:53:05.000I think it's something that I could definitely invest in and look into because, again, this is, as they say, you know, there's so much mental in this and it really is physically and mentally draining.
00:53:16.000But I think I'm really good in them situations, to be quite honest, you know what I mean?
00:53:33.000I'm having a laugh with the coaches and the boys.
00:53:36.000We even have people that work with the UFC and be like, with my max fight, and they're like, do you realize you're about to fight for a world title?
00:53:43.000I'm like, yeah, yeah, you're all good.
00:54:21.000And I remember on his podcast, he was talking about how, you know, like just the fact that I was able to be so chill and I'm about to walk out for my title fight.
00:55:28.000I've got a game plan to stick to, so I've always done that.
00:55:31.000And because I've always done that in my fights, And in all situations, I really am level when I fight.
00:55:39.000So sometimes it was hard for me to realize I won a world title because I'm so used to keeping myself so composed that it was like it didn't happen.
00:57:49.000That's one of the reasons why it almost went extinct.
00:57:52.000Elk, deer, all these animals almost went extinct at the turn of the century, the 20th century, because they did what's called market hunting, when there was no refrigerators back then.
00:58:02.000They just fucking shot everything and just served it to people.
00:58:05.000They didn't think about conservation at all.
00:58:07.000So they got white-tailed deer down to a really low number.
00:58:46.000And I wanted to go and explore because I knew there was a lot of big hunting over there.
00:58:51.000So I was like, I want to at least go for a drive and see if I could see any deer or elk or whatever it was, but I didn't get a chance to do that.
01:03:02.000There are a lot of snakes and spiders and stuff like that, but even that mate that I talked to you about, the spear fisherman, he's like a Steve Irwin.
01:04:53.000Obviously in the wild in Australia, we've seen some pretty crazy things.
01:04:58.000As you know, the hunting stories are always some crazy stories.
01:05:02.000Well, you have a crazy place too because so much of your wildlife is invasive.
01:05:06.000So much of your wildlife has been introduced because the people that put your ancestors there, they decided they were trying to turn that place into some wild hunting habitat.
01:05:16.000So they brought over stags and red deer and all these animals that thrive over there.
01:06:58.000They killed them slowly and then they got them all at once.
01:07:01.000We had a fire out here and the fire burnt down my chicken coop so I had to put them in a smaller chicken coop and the coyotes tore open the chicken coop and killed my nine remaining chickens all in one night.
01:08:19.000Well, cats in America kill billions, with a B, billions of birds and mammals every year.
01:08:26.000Every year, they kill billions of birds and mammals.
01:08:30.000That's why I know a lot of the farmers and that, they obviously can't, you know, even, again, my mate, like, you just, you know, they kill so many native birds and all that sort of stuff, and that's why he's not a big fan of them, but, yeah, yeah, it's just, yeah, again, like, it's bloody crazy.
01:10:00.000Because you're out there, you're putting yourself in the food chain.
01:10:03.000Obviously, we've got a lot of poisonous things and little things that'll get you, but then over here, it just seems like everything's big that'll just fuck you up.
01:10:12.000Well, Australia's crazy, too, because most people live on the outside, and the inside's just madness.
01:10:20.000Oh, mate, they're a bit different as well.
01:10:22.000I don't know what's lucky, but when you go out west and all that, they're just bred a bit different.
01:10:27.000So we'll go out there, and even just driving on the roads, and we'll sit there, and we'll wave at someone, and the Westies, they'll just be like...
01:10:34.000They just lift their finger up, as in, that's a hello?
01:10:37.000They're just bred so much different over there, it's crazy.
01:13:40.000Have we talked about the For Pest campaign?
01:13:42.000It's like an ancient, not ancient, but like it's a historical event that happened that led to like the death of 35 million people in China.
01:13:55.000So they were an annoyance that they allowed people to kill them.
01:13:58.000They were like banging pots and pans to get rid of them.
01:14:01.000That worked to get rid of them, but then all of the bugs then ate all the rice fields that led to a famine that led to 25 to 35 million people dying.
01:16:26.000Yeah, and the fact that it's poisonous, not venomous, poisonous, which means if they eat it, they die.
01:16:32.000So these predators, if you brought over a bunch of fucking jackals or something to go eat the frogs or the toads, they would wind up dying.
01:16:39.000Cane toads, oh, they do have venom secreting poison glands known as paratoid glands or swellings on each shoulder where poison is released if they are threatened when they're threatened if ingested the venom can cause rapid heartbeat excessive salivation Convulsions and paralysis and can result in death for many native animals great So you can't even fucking kill them with predators.
01:17:06.000God, well, maybe we can get the cats to eat the cane toads.
01:17:28.000The once popular method was used to kill millions of poisonous pets until it was banned 20 years ago because animal ethics committees considered it inhumane.
01:19:52.000I was ranked and I was just eating like chicken and nuts and just to plead myself so much, don't get me wrong, I'd end up pretty light, but I mean, it was not good for the body, that's for sure.
01:20:03.000So when will you start, so like say if you have a fight and it's eight weeks out, when will you start the dieting process to try to lose weight and when are you just eating just for health?
01:20:12.000Yeah, well, I'm always trying to, all year round, I try except for the last few months.
01:20:16.000All year round, I'm trying to eat reasonably good during the week, and then the weekends, I'll sort of just do whatever.
01:20:22.000And I still do that all the way through to about two weeks is my last cheat meal, as people would say, my last time I'll actually do that.
01:20:32.000I don't know if my body just knows, but sometimes I swear I'm eating the same as I get closer to the fight.
01:20:39.000Maybe I'm training that little bit harder or maybe I'm having that little bit less sugar or whatever it is.
01:20:44.000The sauce I'm cutting, I don't really realize, but it's just fine little things I'm doing and the weight just falls off.
01:20:50.000How much do you cut the week of the fight?
01:20:52.000The week of the fight, I'm usually about 7 kilograms out.
01:20:55.000So it seems like a lot, but I hold a lot of water.
01:21:13.000So I actually, I mean, I'll probably get myself in trouble, but I end up weighing in at 145. So yeah, 145. Usually a little bit less, actually, the last few times.
01:21:52.000And again, to be able to eat what I eat, you know, Fight Week, and I look at the food now at Fight Week and be like, what, how good is this?
01:21:59.000You know, all over my social media, I'm just like, what?
01:22:03.000Before, when I used to do that, like, you know, Fight Week and do my stories, I'm just going to literally show, like, six pieces of nuts and a little piece of chicken, where now I got, like, mad, like, in meals and, you know, obviously decorating.
01:23:25.000Yeah, because we do three or four sessions a day, and some of them, we tell them what workouts, and we've got to scale them one to ten, how hard they are.
01:23:32.000You're doing four workout sessions a day?
01:23:45.000But I'll do strength and conditioning a couple of days a week.
01:23:48.000And then usually when I'm back home in Australia, it's the free sessions every day.
01:23:53.000And then sometimes I do strength and conditioning.
01:23:55.000So when we go to New Zealand, it's usually in the morning we'll do a couple of sessions and then we'll get a session at night.
01:24:02.000But again, with some of these sort of training sessions, full on, like I said, we're burning anywhere from 1,200 calories to more, like 1,400.
01:24:35.000Yeah, that's where the value of having someone as an actual nutritionist really comes into play where they tell you, no, this is the calories that you need and this is going to give you all the electrolytes and the protein, the carbohydrates.
01:25:59.000You know, he knows when something's happened.
01:26:01.000So there was before the Max fight, there was a, you know, I don't want to miss training sessions, you know what I mean?
01:26:06.000So I'm going to go there, but they could see I was run down and that's when injuries can happen and that's when you can get sick and all this type of stuff.
01:26:13.000So they pulled me up and as much as I didn't want to, no, no, I'll be right.
01:26:16.000They didn't let me train that night and have like the day off.
01:26:20.000And, man, honestly, the next day, the next sessions after that, I was on fire and I finished, you know what I mean?
01:26:36.000Thinking, but then the next day it just made me even work so much harder and I've done the VO2 max session, wrestling session and absolutely killed it, you know what I mean?
01:26:44.000And that just, and that was my last week of training and I just finished it perfect, like sort of, you know, right on peak, you know, obviously that's why you structure to peak, you know, a week out and that was, you know, it was perfect.
01:26:55.000As with the nutritionist, it shows you the value of having a real professional and particularly someone who really knows you and knows you're not going to slack off.
01:27:04.000You're a guy who's going to go balls out.
01:27:07.000So if you're tired like that, something's up.
01:27:09.000And so many coaches or so many fighters rather don't have a coach like that.
01:27:13.000And so they will overtrain and they'll come into a fight beaten down.
01:27:19.000The 1%ers, and you were saying with the mental coaches and all that, I just think there's so many places that you could really work with, and I think they're all that will help in the end, that 1%.
01:27:30.000Now, how much of your camp is dedicated to strength and conditioning?
01:27:33.000How many strength and conditioning sessions do you do?
01:28:09.000I have a bulging disc but I would get all the sciatica down the leg and at the time I just thought it was so much worse than it was and it was mentally getting me.
01:29:29.000I was doing next to nothing in between the fight and then literally having six weeks training.
01:29:34.000Wow, so you're trying to recover and just dealing with the pain.
01:29:38.000Yeah, so my back will go and then I'll have like two weeks off, try to get back into it, but it'll happen again.
01:29:44.000And I was doing this for like 14 weeks straight and then getting told I'm fighting and then, you know, do a camp and be like, I've got six weeks to get myself ready.
01:29:50.000Do you do any spinal decompression or anything like that?
01:30:45.000You climb your upper body up on the bench, and then you hook your legs into this thing, and you lift your legs up, and then you let them drop down.
01:30:52.000And as it drops down, it decompresses.
01:30:53.000And as you lift it up, it strengthens.
01:30:56.000It comes from this guy, Louie Simmons, he's a powerlifting legend, and he had a back injury and they were trying to do surgery on him.
01:31:03.000And he was like, well, what's it from?
01:31:04.000They were like, it's from compression.
01:31:05.000He's like, well, I've got to figure out how to decompress it.
01:31:07.000So he figured out this machine that created active decompression.
01:33:01.000They had to, you know, relax and let me, like literally, they said, if you, you know, if you drop a, like this one thing he said to me the first time I met him, he goes, you drop a pencil, Pick the fucking pencil up.
01:33:12.000Don't fucking game plan how you're going to pick up that pencil.
01:33:18.000And the training, even the first few sessions I started doing for my strength program, I would always really hyperextend my back and thinking I'm keeping it straight and think I'm doing the right thing.
01:33:29.000So they had to try and change my posture and everything while I was doing workouts just so I could start You know, doing things properly.
01:33:36.000Like even when I used to do deadlifts, I would like try and stay as upright as I could because I thought my back would go.
01:33:42.000My back would go every time I did deadlifts and that because my technique was bad and just little things like that.
01:33:48.000So that's what I mean by having a strength program and all this sort of stuff.
01:33:51.000And now, like if I do get a flare up, Even the next day, I'm back into training.
01:33:56.000Before, I'd have two weeks off, literally two weeks off, where now I'm back at training.
01:35:02.000I do my mobility and I get the glutes firing and stuff like that.
01:35:05.000And every time I do that, I feel good.
01:35:07.000So a lot of the strength program is still building the glutes and stuff like that.
01:35:11.000Obviously, you're still doing your core exercises.
01:35:13.000Now we're at a stage where we can just sort of build everything, you know, and even just having people that know what they're doing.
01:35:19.000Again, you could go there and they can just work on everything and, oh yeah, let's go nuts.
01:35:23.000The specific sort of training, knowing that I've got to go and do my other sessions at the other gym and all that, so they all take it all into play.
01:37:09.000Even with my daughter once, actually, I'm going to probably cop some flack for this, but I remember I was, you know, sometimes I just, I didn't know.
01:37:19.000So one time she just like sort of fell and I was like holding her by her arm and she ended up like having like a little dislocated like sort of elbow and I didn't know.
01:37:37.000And just, again, hyperlucky, it didn't break her infant, but obviously being young, and they're a bit more flexible, but hyper-extended her arm, but she was all right a couple of days.
01:38:12.000Sometimes I do weight loss and all that, but obviously when you try and get your You know, your heart rate at a certain amount and doing your, what is it, the endurance, you would know about this.
01:38:24.000Yeah, no, not VO2 max, like when you're doing the, like when you're running, a consistent run or something, you're keeping your heart rate at a certain amount.
01:38:30.000I'd rather, I'm the top person, I'd rather be drilling at the gym.
01:38:34.000I'll keep my heart rate there and I'll be drilling and I'll just do hours, you know, an hour.
01:38:37.000And do you use a chest monitor or something like that?
01:38:38.000Yeah, we do, yeah, we do that with a lot of our sessions.
01:38:41.000And, yeah, that's, again, we just try and structure everything.
01:38:44.000We're all about the science and stuff like that.
01:38:46.000Yeah, I mean, it's so important, but so many people don't do it.
01:38:51.000But if you really have great coaches, especially great scientific-based strength and conditioning coaches that really understand the science behind getting your body into a great endurance spot, Even though we even do, like we get our HRV, so every morning to see if, you know, it tells us if we can train or usually say, yeah, you're good to go, or something like, all right, pull up, you know?
01:39:21.000It shows you if you're fucking wrecked.
01:39:23.000Because sometimes you feel like, maybe I'm just being a pussy, and then I can look at my phone, and they'll go, no, man, you're fucking, you haven't recovered.
01:39:30.000There's a thing that'll show you where your static heart rate is, where your normal resting heart rate is, where it is now.
01:40:11.000Well, I mean, obviously it's working for you.
01:40:12.000Yeah, you know, sometimes that's a big part of it, too, is like having a thing that you believe in and the thing that gives you confidence.
01:40:19.000And, you know, it's obvious that you have great endurance as well.
01:40:22.000So it is physically working for you as well.
01:40:25.000So you'll do three different sessions at least a day, and you're breaking them up like a strength and conditioning, maybe a boxing workout, kickboxing, jujitsu, maybe an MMA workout.
01:40:36.000Like, how do you, how does it structure usually?
01:40:39.000Yeah, most mornings you'll do an MMA sort of workout.
01:40:42.000I'm all about putting it all together.
01:40:44.000I don't like to separate each discipline, but obviously we still do that as well.
01:40:49.000We'll do wrestling some days, a couple of days a week, and then the jiu-jitsu every morning we'll do as well.
01:41:53.000If you're going against someone that's better than you or just as good and you can't make any mistakes, so you're playing it safe, like in sparring every day, you know what I mean?
01:42:02.000But again, we're all about keeping it pretty chill, especially during the week.
01:42:06.000We spar probably anywhere from free...
01:42:09.000Four sessions maybe, even a week, but a lot of times it's very, very, very chill, you know, very technical, we call it technical sparring.
01:42:17.000And again, that's where you learn and that's when you, you know, I think it works.