In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with one of the best fighters in the UFC, Jose Aldo. We talked about how he deals with his anxiety and how to deal with it in order to be the best in his sport.
00:00:00.000you feel fear while you're going into the rink or at that point you're not when you are in backstage
00:00:05.100you feel that you feel fear backstage of course adrenaline right here of course you do everyone
00:00:10.440does it everyone how do you deal with it how do you deal with it i i use it like uh from a positive
00:00:17.740way i use it from like i don't know the first thing that happens where you are in backstage
00:00:27.080you you might you might used to take you to to the octagon and in reality you are in the backstage
00:00:33.660and i'm like listen right now i'm with with my people wrapping my hands warm up i don't know
00:00:40.340whatever i'm doing but i'm not fighting with with anyone so don't worry about anything just
00:00:46.140save that energy because you are going to need that that concentration that focus inside the octagon
00:00:52.480so if you are able to don't let your mind to travel to the future you are ahead of of your
00:01:01.020opponents when you're backstage and your anxiety goes is there anybody you want around you that
00:01:06.660brings you down no or is it like your brother calms you down is it a coach that calms you down
00:01:12.920you just want to be left alone to yourself to have the conversations in your mind yourself
00:01:16.700myself nobody else nobody else i just go i watch myself in the mirror and i'm like this is the
00:01:23.200the person you have to beat the person in the mirror yeah this is the person yeah this is the
00:01:28.220person yeah are you listening to any music or no i don't like whatever like oh i play the music
00:01:35.580someone from my team plays the music i don't have any uh
00:01:39.800i don't know how to say it in english ritual supersticiones oh supersticiones got it you're
00:01:47.360not superstitious yeah you're not at all not so you will step on a line you won't step over a line
00:01:52.860you're not if you touch something you won't have to touch it three times exactly you're not like that
00:01:56.800no no no no really no not at all why not that's interesting because i don't like to to depend on
00:02:04.140anything i'm like you wake me up at four o'clock you tell me that i gotta fight with someone i do it
00:02:12.500i don't care so that's why it's like i don't need my shorts if i don't have my shorts i have a bad
00:02:20.660lack or if i'm not wearing this or he's not able to come to watch my fight or whatever i don't know
00:02:27.940nothing you're that ice cold nothing mentally you're that ice cold they call that ice cold that's
00:02:33.800great i don't know nothing gets through nothing i can walk like i can go alone like just imagine
00:02:41.560that my coaches can come with me but my brother can come with me no one and i have to go alone
00:02:48.100no problem can anybody get under your skin does anybody get under your skin you know what that
00:02:55.300means like you know what i'm saying like somebody that knows to say something that triggers
00:03:01.300they see your face is saying something though
00:03:03.960i think the only person is my wife probably
00:03:09.320she's the only person no one else i think seriously i think so that's very good yeah you know because
00:03:19.660um you know that that is that is a a big strength of a lot of uh great ones were like that some of it
00:03:28.080you wanted it some people wanted like michael jordan's was he he wanted you to say something
00:03:34.360to him yeah and he would convince himself that you said something about him really bad and then he
00:03:39.420wanted to kill you that's what michael would talk about you know yeah but at the end end of the day0.66
00:03:44.340he was playing basketball right and i have enough of that energy that i want to i want to go in and
00:03:50.560take his head off you know i'm fighting what are you telling yourself when you're looking at your
00:03:55.180opponent are you telling anything yourself about the opponent right before the fight or no before
00:03:59.180the fight no i'm just telling to myself that i need myself called to be calculated this is how i need
00:04:05.560myself emotions underground i don't need my emotions at that moment who taught you this who shared this
00:04:13.760with you who is it a mentor a coach somebody that book or brother or family or no it's just you
00:04:20.580maybe i read it somewhere because i used to read a lot of books but it was like i always had that kind
00:04:28.860of mentality and also i i proved it that it was working for me in the in the fights so all the time
00:04:37.180i go in i'm like my emotions are under zero underground i'm very calm yeah because you know when you when
00:04:47.620you think about rituals right like you're saying superstitious i remember uh back in the days
00:04:52.200diego sanchez i don't know if you remember the he's one of my favorite guys to watch yes yes yes
00:04:58.860and he was just fire young exciting uh uh ali used to predict rounds i'm gonna beat you in this round
00:05:06.740right tyson used to look at the person in the eyes until the person looked away like he wanted to kind
00:05:11.200of do that tyson fury would sing after the fight and he would like to sing for uh the fighters manny
00:05:17.680pacchia would take ice showers ice cold showers and pray before the fight there was another guy
00:05:21.980uh uh uh lioto or something lioto machado where he would drink urine before a fight i don't know if
00:05:28.680you've heard this or this or not very weird stuff that you think about before fights you don't have
00:05:33.140no rituals like that no ritual i i used to pray of course i used to pray and i used to yeah i used to
00:05:40.440pray this is what i do all the time i wake up in the morning i pray and i feel thankful about
00:05:47.560everything that's happening to me for the opportunity and i thank the gods before i'm getting the victory
00:05:54.360i'm i'm i'm thinking to him like thank you for the victory as a kid did you watch something a lot like
00:06:01.820are you you know do you link your mindset to like a rocky did you watch gladiator were you a movie
00:06:09.240person did you watch somebody as a fighter coming up did you aspire to be somebody did you look up
00:06:14.360to someone what was it for you as a kid as a kid my my coaching in greg romo wrestling he used to
00:06:21.980say it like this like you were you were you win the medals in the training you just go to collect them
00:06:30.280in the in the fight so this like my mentality i think so i work so hard i know everything that i did that i did everything that i could and there's no way that i'm not gonna walk out from that octagon with the victory this how i feel
00:06:49.400really what's the one fight where you got a call for a fight i think it was two weeks out
00:07:00.040where you got kicked on the side who who was that the the and jai herbert that's right jai herbert and
00:07:06.040i think even rogan talks about this where yeah he explains where you got kicked and you know and then
00:07:13.000everybody's like oh my god this thing's done with and then boom boom boom it's over with yeah right your
00:07:18.040opponents who you've gone up against who have you fought where you sat there and when they hit you
00:07:24.600obviously let's just say he's one of them who hits you where you felt the pain or you saw their technical
00:07:30.200skills to say this guy's legit this guy's very capable your opponents people you've gone against
00:07:36.920the last two opponents i had wolk and max holloway they both were very skillful what was different about max
00:07:44.360versus vogue what was the difference between max and wall good question i never thought about that