August 12, 2025 • 20 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
A good martial artist does not become tense, but
ready.
Essentially, at this point thefight is over, so you pretty
much flow with the goal.
Who is worthy to be trustedwith the secret to limitless
power?
I'm ready.
(00:27):
The shame of injury whyjiu-jitsu folks want to hide the
injuries and don't address them.
I believe there is anembarrassment around injury and
I have recently suffered this.
Can I give a reframe?
Believe there is anembarrassment around injury and
I have recently suffered this.
Can I give a reframe titlethere, please?
(00:53):
Why JT is ashamed of beinginjured, maybe, maybe, why you
got to like disperse it aroundthe community.
This is a fucking new thing,bro.
No, dude, no, well, it's an usthing.
It's an us thing.
It's an us thing, but theframing is your recent shameful
behavior.
I wouldn't say it's shameful,oh, I would say it's very
shameful.
I will let the audience be thejudge.
How fucking dare you cunt, howdare you try and shame me?
(01:17):
I am being open and honestabout a thing and I believe it
to be I've been waiting for acouple of weeks now, but please
Get the fuck out of here.
I would say that with this, itis something that people
experience and that is often whywe don't address our injuries
Because it feels like weaknessIn a way.
It is when you're injured youfeel weak, and if you're someone
(01:40):
who likes to train and doesn'twant to complain or doesn't want
to talk about because it's alsoit sucks to talk about, it's
like, oh, you're injured, how'sthat going?
It fucking sucks, but you don't, you don't want to have that
conversation.
I honestly don't want to havethat conversation.
Some people do like to maladyand talk about I don't know
about that shit, I don't knowabout that shit, I don't want to
(02:02):
get into it.
I'd rather just, you know,carry on.
You know, that's the kind ofthing.
I made a miscalculation, folks.
I did actually injure myself.
It's very rare that I have beenhurt in the gym.
That's where it happened.
That was the Like lifting.
Yeah Right, it's very rare thathappens.
I think there's probably onlyone other serious time in my
(02:24):
lifting career where I hurtmyself.
It's mainly been in jiu-jitsuthat I would get an injury in
the heat of the moment, you know, and so I had just got off my
many hours of flying.
I think it ended up being about28 hours all up, almost 30
hours of flight time and justsitting down and just sitting,
(02:45):
and so I was pretty jet lagged.
But I was like you know what,I'm fucking stale and I've got
this strongman comp in eightdays.
And you know I had been doingsome lifts while I was away.
This is a fight back fromKazakhstan, right?
Yes, from Ayiga and I got inthe gym and it was like I had to
do a 90% effort across all mymajor lifts for the strongman
(03:09):
comp.
So I did my deadlift ladder andthe last rep.
I didn't hurt myselfdeadlifting, but it's a ladder
where you do like 200, 210, 220,230.
You have to do a rep, put theplates on, step back, do it
again and because in thecompetition you have to do it as
fast as you can Right, workingup to a max weight of 240.
(03:31):
And I've done 240 before, butnot in a ladder format.
So I did my last rep at 230 andit felt pretty hard, whereas
I'd done it previously for acouple of reps.
So the fact that it was hardshould have told me, hey, you're
probably not, you're not 100%today.
But I was like, no, fuck it.
(03:51):
You know, like I'm here, I'vegot to get this work.
So it was max sandbag toshoulder and so Did you do the
240?
The 240 was for comp day, ohright, so that was it's kind of
90 something.
Stopped at 230.
230 is where it needed to stopand I did it.
I would have done 240.
Continue.
I appreciate that about you,joe, but you weren't there.
So that's how it goes.
(04:12):
Sometimes Max sandbagged theshoulder, so the sandbag I had
was a 125.
And I've done that shoulder acouple of times before.
How much 135?
How much 135.
125.
125.
That's a big fucking sandbagdog.
Well, yeah, there's some weightto it.
But in the comp there was goingto be like 130, 140, 150, like
(04:32):
you know, like bigger bags,right.
And so, because I'd done 125easier, I thought, oh, you know,
maybe I can do more than acouple of reps.
Right In the warm-up felt fine,like just lighter sandbags and
bringing it up to my rightshoulder it was a bit harder
(04:54):
than usual and I could havestopped there and just gone.
No, that's me for today, but Ididn't.
It's always when you go, ah,just, you know one more like
what's, you know, like what'sthe worst that could happen, joe
, you know what could possiblyhappen.
That would be bad about this,about getting stronger, and so I
was like I'll just do my leftshoulder, I'll do my left side.
And coming up, it wasn't aseasy and I was kind of you know,
(05:17):
I wasn't like super clean to myshoulder, it was definitely
like top effort and I just wentto adjust it and you kind of
jimmy it up onto your shoulderand you've got to take your hand
off for it to be like a cleanlift, you know Right.
And so as I was jimmying it, Ikind of went a bit wrong and
instead of going like over myshoulder, it kind of went to my
neck and it just kind of pulledme sideways and I honestly just
(05:42):
felt like this fucking whack inmy hip.
The thing is, I couldn't haveimagined what had actually
happened.
It felt like a 10 kilo weightplate had fallen out the top of
the bag and somehow pendulumswung down and just smacked me
in the hip sideways.
Wow, it felt like I got fuckingkicked and it was audible.
(06:03):
It was like bah, snap.
And I just went, oh dang,dropped the sandbag and then I
tried to put weight in my leftleg and I couldn't, couldn't
stand.
My hip was completely unstable.
So I had to like stagger andsit down.
And Sean, who's one of thecoaches.
He's a big, strong man.
He was sitting there.
He's like he came out.
He's like what was that sound?
(06:23):
Like what just fucking happened?
I was like, oh, I think I justpopped my hip.
I don't, I don't actually know.
And I was like what the fuckhave I done to myself?
I'm a week out from thisstrongman comp and now I've got
this crazy pain in my hip and Ican't stand.
What the fuck?
So I sat there for a moment andjust took stock and Sean's like
(06:46):
dude, do you need to go to thehospital?
And what's going on right now?
And I was like I don't know,let me try and stand up.
You in pain, a little pain,yeah.
And I tried to stand up and Itried to put some weight in my
left leg and my hip wouldn'tstabilize at all.
Like I was just going to fallover.
It's like I didn't have a legand so I sat back down.
He's like mate, do you needhelp getting home?
(07:07):
Like what's going on?
I'm like no, no, no, no, I'mfine, I'm fine, it's good.
No, it's just a bit sore.
Sweet, I'm sweet.
Thanks, shorty.
Yeah, see you later boys.
Yeah, there's no one around,it's just Sean so limped my way
out Like I just couldn't putweight in that leg.
I got to the car and I washaving a bit of a fucking crisis
Cause I'm like, is this reallyserious?
(07:27):
Is this like a surgery levelinjury, or is this going to be
okay in a couple of days orwhatever the fuck?
And I didn't, I didn't know.
So in that moment I did it waskind of scary, cause I thought,
fuck, am I going to have to havehip surgery?
Cause that is not what I wantright now or anytime ever.
I want to avoid surgery at allcosts.
So yeah, it was a bit of amoment and I did not want to
(07:51):
talk about it.
But here we are, we're talkingabout it.
Fuck, I mean a collective headshake from the audience.
Just JT, we expected better.
You fucking idiot.
28-hour flight Mate.
I just I'm not the person toask Going 90%.
I'm not the person to ask Ifsomeone goes, do you reckon you
(08:12):
could do that?
I'd be like, yeah, I just yeah,I know I can see.
If someone posted in thecoaching group in the
Bulletproof app like, hey guys,I got hurt doing a workout.
Oh, what happened?
I got off a 28-hour.
You're like you fucking idiot.
It would just be a torrent ofresponses from JT.
Some hardcore coaching would befucking ensuing, okay, so I
(08:35):
fucking contacted my variousphysio friends and I couldn't.
No one was available, right,it's like a fucking thursday,
and I'm like, could I stillcompete?
Like I'm a week out, like howis it?
But the pain kind of continuedand I couldn't walk properly and
I couldn't stand properly, andI'm like, well, fuck, if I can't
even stand up, there's no wayI'm doing farmer's carries with
125 kilos in my hands oranything else like that.
(08:57):
But I I've been training forthe Strongman comp for months,
my whole life, basically.
I really wanted to do somethinglike this, so I had to admit I'm
fucked, but I did not want totalk about it.
I was embarrassed, one becauseI hurt myself, two because I
should have known better, andthree because she's fucking dumb
(09:18):
.
I don't want to admit howfucking dumb I am, joe.
Fuck, now everyone knows.
Fuck, bro.
So, anyway, I was able to getYou've been able to hide it for
like 400 episodes, and now themask has come off and they know
no man, fuck, I mean, look, youguys know I am.
(09:38):
The beauty of this is, though,is that no one's immune right?
Like even and I mean, fuck, Idon't even know how many times
I've been injured, you know,over a recent year, and it's
often something stupid.
It's often something that youmaybe had some intuition about.
There was some rumblings yeah,you're like, maybe I shouldn't.
(10:01):
No, I'll do it, you know.
Or you know it's like, no, no.
Like last night, you know, I'dcooled down, but it was an open
mat, and we stopped to do thegrading ceremony, and then we
got another 40 minutes ofrolling or whatever, and I was
like, I'm good, I've cooled downnow.
(10:23):
We just had 30 minutes off.
Yeah, um, but I was like, oh,I'll jump back in with so-and-so
, and then I was like, no, don't.
But you know, any grappler canvibe with part of me that moment
.
Where you're, where you go,yeah, go on.
Yeah, you know.
And.
And then you get hurt, andyou're like I fucking knew it.
In the back of mind, there was alittle voice that said don't do
it, it doesn't make sense.
Like, my name is Jeff.
(10:45):
The irony is too, though, isthat your Push to get stronger?
Well, I mean, yeah, that's agreat irony, but the other one
is that, like, you're not theirony, but maybe the other side
of this point is that yourphysical readiness and physical
capacity allows you, permits you, to make reckless decisions
(11:09):
Sometimes.
You know, and it's probablyserved you well 95% of the time,
but it fucked you up the otherweek.
Yeah, I know you'd love to bestronger.
We all want to be a bitstronger.
I know you'd love to be moreflexible.
I mean, when is being flexibleand strong not an advantage,
whether you see yourself as apowerhouse grappler that's just
putting crush on fools or youjust want to have like a nice
(11:31):
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(12:15):
And look, my mentality has gotme to where I am right.
My willingness to just fuckingdo it, even though I felt a bit
shit, has enabled me to getstronger.
But when you are playing at thetop end whether that be a
really hard role against areally good opponent or it's you
trying to really push yourweights or whatever it is that's
(12:37):
the danger town.
You're very close to the redline and you push your limits
and you'll fucking find them.
So I think that many people injujitsu experience this, because
if you've told yourself becauseit's all a story, you tell
yourself right, you look in themirror, you go I'm fucking, I'm
tough, I can do this, you can dothis.
You do things to reaffirm yoursense of identity.
(12:59):
And so what I've done over timeis told myself nah, fuck, how
you feel, do it anyway.
It's just a very undercurrentthing in me.
So I don't even think I won'twork out, I'll just go do it.
I could have easily just backedit off a little.
But the program said like 90%,so I'm like well, I'm going to
go to 90%, you know.
(13:20):
But the fatigue meant I wasprobably not, you weren't at
100%, I wasn't at 100%, so 90was 100.
Yeah, exactly, exactly right.
And this is the things we don'tconsider.
And I think for many jujitsufolks, when you do get injured,
it can be embarrassing,especially when it's I don't
know if you've ever had this.
Folks, it's early in themorning and maybe you open a
cupboard or maybe you're a bittired and you lean forward and
(13:43):
then you stand up and you bangyour head on the cupboard you
just opened, or you know, you'relike you hurt yourself.
Yeah, it's fucking dumb, youonly have yourself to blame and
you're mad because you're hurtand you're like why am I an
idiot?
Why didn't I?
You know, like I set myself upthere.
It's like some fucking comedyof errors.
Right, joey, saw it coming amile away.
(14:08):
But I guess the thing WheneverI have a thing like that, misa
goes ooh, like you know, shehears me hit my head or whatever
, like kick my toe or something,and she goes ooh, and I
immediately go to this thing andthen she says are you all right
?
And I'm like don't bringattention to it, just don't Act
(14:29):
like nothing happened, don'ttalk about it.
And I'm like I got the fuckingshits with myself, I don't need
to talk about it, let's justfucking move on it self.
I don't need to talk about it,let's just fucking move on.
It's hard right.
And so I didn't want to talkabout it either, because I'm
just like, yeah, I guess youknow I am a little bit
embarrassed because, one, it wasin the gym, which is very
controllable, and two, it meantI couldn't do my strongman comp,
(14:50):
which is something I had builtup and or something that I
thought I could be proud of,because I thought I could do
well at it, and and I fuckingsidelined myself and and so,
yeah, it's disappointing.
Yeah, as much as I didn't wantto talk about it, I figured like
you know what, in all honesty,yeah, I'm doing fucking rip rip,
I'm doing hip rehab.
(15:11):
Now I've gone from fuckingstrongman Marius Pudzianowski
type shit to Jane Fonda fuckingleg holds, like I can't even.
It's fucking so humbling.
That's the truth.
So what have you actually done?
What's the injury?
So I've got like a middlethickness tear to my medial
glute and a grade two tear tothe tendon.
(15:33):
So middle thickness of theligament, no, of the medial
glute Of the muscle, of themuscle Of the muscle.
So I've got a muscle tear and atendon tear and a tendon tear.
How about that?
It's kind of-.
Yeah, it's fucked, it'sreasonable.
And when I said to Nick I thinkI've torn my medial glute, he
was like nah, he was like yeah,yeah, sure, sure, see me and
(15:59):
we'll see.
He's like whenever anyone saysthey've torn their medial glute,
they haven't.
And then he like was testing me, he's like fuck,
congratulations, I think you've,uh, you've torn your medial
glute.
He was like you did it, you'vearrived.
And I was like yes, and so whatthat means is because there's
tendon damage there, I, I, I'mnot meant to be stretching, I
can't actually do reps, I've gotto do just ISO work, like side
(16:20):
plank, kind of lateral leg holds, yeah, like banded clam shit,
but just you just hold it, yeah,just to form tension, to try
and repair it.
And it's going to take six weeksor more, depending on the
scenario.
And so deadlifting and stuff isoff the menu for a while.
Um, yeah, yeah, like a bunch ofstuff's off the menu.
(16:42):
He said I can do some legextensions, hammy curls, but
it's just gonna get fuckingupper body jackness.
Yeah, um, so funny.
I was telling uh, big bennyprags, um, like king, king,
bench press monster of our gym,uh, that I'd hurt my hip.
He's like oh, it's great, youcan do bench press with us.
You get so good at bench press,bro.
He's like oh, it's great, youcan do bench press with us, you
get so good at bench press bro.
He's like, oh, when I hurt myknee and I couldn't squat, my
(17:03):
bench press went from 180 to 220, bro, like, like that could be
me.
And I'm like, bro, my benchpress is garbage.
But it was so funny.
His mentality was like, nah, yougot something else you can work
on, so good, injury is alwaysan opportunity and you can.
Yeah, it's.
It shortens the scope of whatyou can work on and say, oh,
I'll just dive in on this, yeah,and and I definitely look at it
(17:24):
in that way you know, um, yeah,doing the rehab every day and
I'll go see nick this week andjust get see where it's at.
And yeah, it's just confrontingbecause, like, I can't stand on
one leg to put my shoes on, youknow, like just basic shit, and
then it just brings you backdown to earth and, honestly, I
the reason why I didn't want totalk about it is because people
feel obliged to give you adegree of, uh, sympathy or pity
(17:48):
or, and I don't want any of that.
I honestly just want to get onthe conversation.
I'd rather be like oh, what areyou, what are you doing man?
But people like oh, why aren'tyou squatting, why aren't you
deadlifting?
No, admit you made a stupiddecision.
I need you to admit you're afucking idiot.
No, no, I will never admit.
Yeah, it was definitely an errorin judgment.
(18:10):
Take from that what you will.
Yeah, yeah.
But I think that the challengeis that admitting you made a
mistake and then it's notrepeating the mistake.
I think this is this is you?
You demonstrate your learningby not repeating.
So we'll see where we are in 12months.
(18:34):
Ah well, um, I hope, I hope, Ihonestly hope that you can make
it back to that strongman comp.
I'm sure there's a lot ofpeople listening that just want
to fucking hear about the heavyshit you lifted, and if you made
it onto some podium, that'd bedope.
Nah, man, I think it's like Goon next year, bro.
No, 12 months.
But here's the thing.
In complete honesty, I thoughtbefore the strongman comp I'm
(18:55):
not strong enough, like I knowhow strong some of the guys are
who were there.
But strangely enough, I went tothe strongman comp and there
was two very strong guys there.
One of them got injured duringthe comp.
So if I'd shown up healthy Icould have got on that fucking
podium.
Bro.
Apparently like 10 dudes pulledout, I was one of them, but
(19:17):
like there ended up only beinglike five or six dudes in my
category and the two strongestguys one of them got hurt during
the comp, which is veryunpredictable and the rest of
the guys were not that strong.
So here's the fucking lesson,bro Sign up and don't train,
because that's obviously themost precarious.
It's the lead up to the comp,right, it's the training.
That's the problem.
Training is the problem.
(19:37):
No man, give me 12 months I'llbe ready, but in the meantime,
folks, do not be ashamed of yourinjuries, but definitely you've
got to learn the lesson.
There it is.
A good martial artist does not become tense, but
ready.
Essentially, at this point thefight is over, so you pretty
much flow with the goal.
Who is worthy to be trustedwith the secret to limitless
power?
I'm ready.
(00:27):
The shame of injury whyjiu-jitsu folks want to hide the
injuries and don't address them.
I believe there is anembarrassment around injury and
I have recently suffered this.
Can I give a reframe?
Believe there is anembarrassment around injury and
I have recently suffered this.
Can I give a reframe titlethere, please?
(00:53):
Why JT is ashamed of beinginjured, maybe, maybe, why you
got to like disperse it aroundthe community.
This is a fucking new thing,bro.
No, dude, no, well, it's an usthing.
It's an us thing.
It's an us thing, but theframing is your recent shameful
behavior.
I wouldn't say it's shameful,oh, I would say it's very
shameful.
I will let the audience be thejudge.
How fucking dare you cunt, howdare you try and shame me?
(01:17):
I am being open and honestabout a thing and I believe it
to be I've been waiting for acouple of weeks now, but please
Get the fuck out of here.
I would say that with this, itis something that people
experience and that is often whywe don't address our injuries
Because it feels like weaknessIn a way.
It is when you're injured youfeel weak, and if you're someone
(01:40):
who likes to train and doesn'twant to complain or doesn't want
to talk about because it's alsoit sucks to talk about, it's
like, oh, you're injured, how'sthat going?
It fucking sucks, but you don't, you don't want to have that
conversation.
I honestly don't want to havethat conversation.
Some people do like to maladyand talk about I don't know
about that shit, I don't knowabout that shit, I don't want to
(02:02):
get into it.
I'd rather just, you know,carry on.
You know, that's the kind ofthing.
I made a miscalculation, folks.
I did actually injure myself.
It's very rare that I have beenhurt in the gym.
That's where it happened.
That was the Like lifting.
Yeah Right, it's very rare thathappens.
I think there's probably onlyone other serious time in my
(02:24):
lifting career where I hurtmyself.
It's mainly been in jiu-jitsuthat I would get an injury in
the heat of the moment, you know, and so I had just got off my
many hours of flying.
I think it ended up being about28 hours all up, almost 30
hours of flight time and justsitting down and just sitting,
(02:45):
and so I was pretty jet lagged.
But I was like you know what,I'm fucking stale and I've got
this strongman comp in eightdays.
And you know I had been doingsome lifts while I was away.
This is a fight back fromKazakhstan, right?
Yes, from Ayiga and I got inthe gym and it was like I had to
do a 90% effort across all mymajor lifts for the strongman
(03:09):
comp.
So I did my deadlift ladder andthe last rep.
I didn't hurt myselfdeadlifting, but it's a ladder
where you do like 200, 210, 220,230.
You have to do a rep, put theplates on, step back, do it
again and because in thecompetition you have to do it as
fast as you can Right, workingup to a max weight of 240.
(03:31):
And I've done 240 before, butnot in a ladder format.
So I did my last rep at 230 andit felt pretty hard, whereas
I'd done it previously for acouple of reps.
So the fact that it was hardshould have told me, hey, you're
probably not, you're not 100%today.
But I was like, no, fuck it.
(03:51):
You know, like I'm here, I'vegot to get this work.
So it was max sandbag toshoulder and so Did you do the
240?
The 240 was for comp day, ohright, so that was it's kind of
90 something.
Stopped at 230.
230 is where it needed to stopand I did it.
I would have done 240.
Continue.
I appreciate that about you,joe, but you weren't there.
So that's how it goes.
(04:12):
Sometimes Max sandbagged theshoulder, so the sandbag I had
was a 125.
And I've done that shoulder acouple of times before.
How much 135?
How much 135.
125.
125.
That's a big fucking sandbagdog.
Well, yeah, there's some weightto it.
But in the comp there was goingto be like 130, 140, 150, like
(04:32):
you know, like bigger bags,right.
And so, because I'd done 125easier, I thought, oh, you know,
maybe I can do more than acouple of reps.
Right In the warm-up felt fine,like just lighter sandbags and
bringing it up to my rightshoulder it was a bit harder
(04:54):
than usual and I could havestopped there and just gone.
No, that's me for today, but Ididn't.
It's always when you go, ah,just, you know one more like
what's, you know, like what'sthe worst that could happen, joe
, you know what could possiblyhappen.
That would be bad about this,about getting stronger, and so I
was like I'll just do my leftshoulder, I'll do my left side.
And coming up, it wasn't aseasy and I was kind of you know,
(05:17):
I wasn't like super clean to myshoulder, it was definitely
like top effort and I just wentto adjust it and you kind of
jimmy it up onto your shoulderand you've got to take your hand
off for it to be like a cleanlift, you know Right.
And so as I was jimmying it, Ikind of went a bit wrong and
instead of going like over myshoulder, it kind of went to my
neck and it just kind of pulledme sideways and I honestly just
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felt like this fucking whack inmy hip.
The thing is, I couldn't haveimagined what had actually
happened.
It felt like a 10 kilo weightplate had fallen out the top of
the bag and somehow pendulumswung down and just smacked me
in the hip sideways.
Wow, it felt like I got fuckingkicked and it was audible.
(06:03):
It was like bah, snap.
And I just went, oh dang,dropped the sandbag and then I
tried to put weight in my leftleg and I couldn't, couldn't
stand.
My hip was completely unstable.
So I had to like stagger andsit down.
And Sean, who's one of thecoaches.
He's a big, strong man.
He was sitting there.
He's like he came out.
He's like what was that sound?
(06:23):
Like what just fucking happened?
I was like, oh, I think I justpopped my hip.
I don't, I don't actually know.
And I was like what the fuckhave I done to myself?
I'm a week out from thisstrongman comp and now I've got
this crazy pain in my hip and Ican't stand.
What the fuck?
So I sat there for a moment andjust took stock and Sean's like
(06:46):
dude, do you need to go to thehospital?
And what's going on right now?
And I was like I don't know,let me try and stand up.
You in pain, a little pain,yeah.
And I tried to stand up and Itried to put some weight in my
left leg and my hip wouldn'tstabilize at all.
Like I was just going to fallover.
It's like I didn't have a legand so I sat back down.
He's like mate, do you needhelp getting home?
(07:07):
Like what's going on?
I'm like no, no, no, no, I'mfine, I'm fine, it's good.
No, it's just a bit sore.
Sweet, I'm sweet.
Thanks, shorty.
Yeah, see you later boys.
Yeah, there's no one around,it's just Sean so limped my way
out Like I just couldn't putweight in that leg.
I got to the car and I washaving a bit of a fucking crisis
Cause I'm like, is this reallyserious?
(07:27):
Is this like a surgery levelinjury, or is this going to be
okay in a couple of days orwhatever the fuck?
And I didn't, I didn't know.
So in that moment I did it waskind of scary, cause I thought,
fuck, am I going to have to havehip surgery?
Cause that is not what I wantright now or anytime ever.
I want to avoid surgery at allcosts.
So yeah, it was a bit of amoment and I did not want to
(07:51):
talk about it.
But here we are, we're talkingabout it.
Fuck, I mean a collective headshake from the audience.
Just JT, we expected better.
You fucking idiot.
28-hour flight Mate.
I just I'm not the person toask Going 90%.
I'm not the person to ask Ifsomeone goes, do you reckon you
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could do that?
I'd be like, yeah, I just yeah,I know I can see.
If someone posted in thecoaching group in the
Bulletproof app like, hey guys,I got hurt doing a workout.
Oh, what happened?
I got off a 28-hour.
You're like you fucking idiot.
It would just be a torrent ofresponses from JT.
Some hardcore coaching would befucking ensuing, okay, so I
(08:35):
fucking contacted my variousphysio friends and I couldn't.
No one was available, right,it's like a fucking thursday,
and I'm like, could I stillcompete?
Like I'm a week out, like howis it?
But the pain kind of continuedand I couldn't walk properly and
I couldn't stand properly, andI'm like, well, fuck, if I can't
even stand up, there's no wayI'm doing farmer's carries with
125 kilos in my hands oranything else like that.
(08:57):
But I I've been training forthe Strongman comp for months,
my whole life, basically.
I really wanted to do somethinglike this, so I had to admit I'm
fucked, but I did not want totalk about it.
I was embarrassed, one becauseI hurt myself, two because I
should have known better, andthree because she's fucking dumb
(09:18):
.
I don't want to admit howfucking dumb I am, joe.
Fuck, now everyone knows.
Fuck, bro.
So, anyway, I was able to getYou've been able to hide it for
like 400 episodes, and now themask has come off and they know
no man, fuck, I mean, look, youguys know I am.
(09:38):
The beauty of this is, though,is that no one's immune right?
Like even and I mean, fuck, Idon't even know how many times
I've been injured, you know,over a recent year, and it's
often something stupid.
It's often something that youmaybe had some intuition about.
There was some rumblings yeah,you're like, maybe I shouldn't.
(10:01):
No, I'll do it, you know.
Or you know it's like, no, no.
Like last night, you know, I'dcooled down, but it was an open
mat, and we stopped to do thegrading ceremony, and then we
got another 40 minutes ofrolling or whatever, and I was
like, I'm good, I've cooled downnow.
(10:23):
We just had 30 minutes off.
Yeah, um, but I was like, oh,I'll jump back in with so-and-so
, and then I was like, no, don't.
But you know, any grappler canvibe with part of me that moment
.
Where you're, where you go,yeah, go on.
Yeah, you know.
And.
And then you get hurt, andyou're like I fucking knew it.
In the back of mind, there was alittle voice that said don't do
it, it doesn't make sense.
Like, my name is Jeff.
(10:45):
The irony is too, though, isthat your Push to get stronger?
Well, I mean, yeah, that's agreat irony, but the other one
is that, like, you're not theirony, but maybe the other side
of this point is that yourphysical readiness and physical
capacity allows you, permits you, to make reckless decisions
(11:09):
Sometimes.
You know, and it's probablyserved you well 95% of the time,
but it fucked you up the otherweek.
Yeah, I know you'd love to bestronger.
We all want to be a bitstronger.
I know you'd love to be moreflexible.
I mean, when is being flexibleand strong not an advantage,
whether you see yourself as apowerhouse grappler that's just
putting crush on fools or youjust want to have like a nice
(11:31):
passive, chill sort of game.
But have the confidence thatyour knees and your hips and
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And look, my mentality has gotme to where I am right.
My willingness to just fuckingdo it, even though I felt a bit
shit, has enabled me to getstronger.
But when you are playing at thetop end whether that be a
really hard role against areally good opponent or it's you
trying to really push yourweights or whatever it is that's
(12:37):
the danger town.
You're very close to the redline and you push your limits
and you'll fucking find them.
So I think that many people injujitsu experience this, because
if you've told yourself becauseit's all a story, you tell
yourself right, you look in themirror, you go I'm fucking, I'm
tough, I can do this, you can dothis.
You do things to reaffirm yoursense of identity.
(12:59):
And so what I've done over timeis told myself nah, fuck, how
you feel, do it anyway.
It's just a very undercurrentthing in me.
So I don't even think I won'twork out, I'll just go do it.
I could have easily just backedit off a little.
But the program said like 90%,so I'm like well, I'm going to
go to 90%, you know.
(13:20):
But the fatigue meant I wasprobably not, you weren't at
100%, I wasn't at 100%, so 90was 100.
Yeah, exactly, exactly right.
And this is the things we don'tconsider.
And I think for many jujitsufolks, when you do get injured,
it can be embarrassing,especially when it's I don't
know if you've ever had this.
Folks, it's early in themorning and maybe you open a
cupboard or maybe you're a bittired and you lean forward and
(13:43):
then you stand up and you bangyour head on the cupboard you
just opened, or you know, you'relike you hurt yourself.
Yeah, it's fucking dumb, youonly have yourself to blame and
you're mad because you're hurtand you're like why am I an
idiot?
Why didn't I?
You know, like I set myself upthere.
It's like some fucking comedyof errors.
Right, joey, saw it coming amile away.
(14:08):
But I guess the thing WheneverI have a thing like that, misa
goes ooh, like you know, shehears me hit my head or whatever
, like kick my toe or something,and she goes ooh, and I
immediately go to this thing andthen she says are you all right
?
And I'm like don't bringattention to it, just don't Act
(14:29):
like nothing happened, don'ttalk about it.
And I'm like I got the fuckingshits with myself, I don't need
to talk about it, let's justfucking move on it self.
I don't need to talk about it,let's just fucking move on.
It's hard right.
And so I didn't want to talkabout it either, because I'm
just like, yeah, I guess youknow I am a little bit
embarrassed because, one, it wasin the gym, which is very
controllable, and two, it meantI couldn't do my strongman comp,
(14:50):
which is something I had builtup and or something that I
thought I could be proud of,because I thought I could do
well at it, and and I fuckingsidelined myself and and so,
yeah, it's disappointing.
Yeah, as much as I didn't wantto talk about it, I figured like
you know what, in all honesty,yeah, I'm doing fucking rip rip,
I'm doing hip rehab.
(15:11):
Now I've gone from fuckingstrongman Marius Pudzianowski
type shit to Jane Fonda fuckingleg holds, like I can't even.
It's fucking so humbling.
That's the truth.
So what have you actually done?
What's the injury?
So I've got like a middlethickness tear to my medial
glute and a grade two tear tothe tendon.
(15:33):
So middle thickness of theligament, no, of the medial
glute Of the muscle, of themuscle Of the muscle.
So I've got a muscle tear and atendon tear and a tendon tear.
How about that?
It's kind of-.
Yeah, it's fucked, it'sreasonable.
And when I said to Nick I thinkI've torn my medial glute, he
was like nah, he was like yeah,yeah, sure, sure, see me and
(15:59):
we'll see.
He's like whenever anyone saysthey've torn their medial glute,
they haven't.
And then he like was testing me, he's like fuck,
congratulations, I think you've,uh, you've torn your medial
glute.
He was like you did it, you'vearrived.
And I was like yes, and so whatthat means is because there's
tendon damage there, I, I, I'mnot meant to be stretching, I
can't actually do reps, I've gotto do just ISO work, like side
(16:20):
plank, kind of lateral leg holds, yeah, like banded clam shit,
but just you just hold it, yeah,just to form tension, to try
and repair it.
And it's going to take six weeksor more, depending on the
scenario.
And so deadlifting and stuff isoff the menu for a while.
Um, yeah, yeah, like a bunch ofstuff's off the menu.
(16:42):
He said I can do some legextensions, hammy curls, but
it's just gonna get fuckingupper body jackness.
Yeah, um, so funny.
I was telling uh, big bennyprags, um, like king, king,
bench press monster of our gym,uh, that I'd hurt my hip.
He's like oh, it's great, youcan do bench press with us.
You get so good at bench press,bro.
He's like oh, it's great, youcan do bench press with us, you
get so good at bench press bro.
He's like, oh, when I hurt myknee and I couldn't squat, my
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bench press went from 180 to 220, bro, like, like that could be
me.
And I'm like, bro, my benchpress is garbage.
But it was so funny.
His mentality was like, nah, yougot something else you can work
on, so good, injury is alwaysan opportunity and you can.
Yeah, it's.
It shortens the scope of whatyou can work on and say, oh,
I'll just dive in on this, yeah,and and I definitely look at it
(17:24):
in that way you know, um, yeah,doing the rehab every day and
I'll go see nick this week andjust get see where it's at.
And yeah, it's just confrontingbecause, like, I can't stand on
one leg to put my shoes on, youknow, like just basic shit, and
then it just brings you backdown to earth and, honestly, I
the reason why I didn't want totalk about it is because people
feel obliged to give you adegree of, uh, sympathy or pity
(17:48):
or, and I don't want any of that.
I honestly just want to get onthe conversation.
I'd rather be like oh, what areyou, what are you doing man?
But people like oh, why aren'tyou squatting, why aren't you
deadlifting?
No, admit you made a stupiddecision.
I need you to admit you're afucking idiot.
No, no, I will never admit.
Yeah, it was definitely an errorin judgment.
(18:10):
Take from that what you will.
Yeah, yeah.
But I think that the challengeis that admitting you made a
mistake and then it's notrepeating the mistake.
I think this is this is you?
You demonstrate your learningby not repeating.
So we'll see where we are in 12months.
(18:34):
Ah well, um, I hope, I hope, Ihonestly hope that you can make
it back to that strongman comp.
I'm sure there's a lot ofpeople listening that just want
to fucking hear about the heavyshit you lifted, and if you made
it onto some podium, that'd bedope.
Nah, man, I think it's like Goon next year, bro.
No, 12 months.
But here's the thing.
In complete honesty, I thoughtbefore the strongman comp I'm
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not strong enough, like I knowhow strong some of the guys are
who were there.
But strangely enough, I went tothe strongman comp and there
was two very strong guys there.
One of them got injured duringthe comp.
So if I'd shown up healthy Icould have got on that fucking
podium.
Bro.
Apparently like 10 dudes pulledout, I was one of them, but
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like there ended up only beinglike five or six dudes in my
category and the two strongestguys one of them got hurt during
the comp, which is veryunpredictable and the rest of
the guys were not that strong.
So here's the fucking lesson,bro Sign up and don't train,
because that's obviously themost precarious.
It's the lead up to the comp,right, it's the training.
That's the problem.
Training is the problem.
(19:37):
No man, give me 12 months I'llbe ready, but in the meantime,
folks, do not be ashamed of yourinjuries, but definitely you've
got to learn the lesson.
There it is.
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