April 26, 2025 • 16 mins
We recently got a comment saying lifting weights was un-natural. There are a lot of reasons why we believe this sentiment to be wrong. If you take it literally, sure, humans did not lift weights... but they also did not sit in front of screens for 10 hours + every single day. Learn here why lifting weight might actually be the MOST natural thing you could do and how it could benefit you starting today.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
A good martial artist does not become tense but ready
.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Essentially, at this point, the fight is over.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
So you pretty much flow with the goal.
Who is worthy to be trustedwith the secret to limitless
power?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Lifting weights is unnatural, or so they say.
I'm here to tell you folks,this is completely freaking
untrue.
Lifting weights is actually themost natural thing we can do
and we're going to get into it.
Joe, Wow, I sparked.
It was a comment.
I believe it was a comment on apiece of content which was
(00:55):
appropriated by a fellow creatorand somebody had come in and
said hey, man, you're veryopinionated about this stuff
because we, you know, we canjust do jiu-jitsu and that's
enough.
He said martial arts, right.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
He said martial arts.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
And then he's like locks and strangles and stuff.
I'm like, bro, you don't knowshit about BJJ.
Tell me you've never donejiu-jitsu without telling me
You've never done jiu-jitsu.
It didn't reference anythingactually a jiu-jitsu person
would talk about.
Yes, I am heavily opinionatedfolks, you know it.
(01:32):
Uh, you know he was right aboutthat.
He's, he's right.
That's fair observation, that'sfair.
But here is the problem.
Here is the problem.
There are many of our friendsin the martial arts community
purists, you might say, peoplewho believe like lifting weights
is like not cheating, but it'sunnecessary.
You can be a pure martial artistwithout it you know, it is
salty water yeah, a bit ofsurfing stretching that's it
(01:54):
natural, and actually that'sfucking bullshit, and I'm gonna
break down for you.
Why, my friends, if we lookback at human evolution and we
look at just the way our liveswere, not even a thousand years
ago, we just say, a couple ofhundred years ago we had to be
so physically active, like wehad to, and we're very fortunate
in a lot of ways now that ourlives are so freaking easy for
(02:20):
many people.
Not not if you have bloody,hauling bricks or concreting, or
whatever it might be.
We've talked about that.
But here's the problem Becausewe don't have this physical
stimulus, we are actually lesshealthy.
Our technology has gottenbetter, but physically we are
worse off because of it.
We walk less, we carry less,our bone density is going down.
(02:43):
There's all these problems wesuffer.
Our blood sugars are throughthe roof, and you know what.
It can all be fucking solvedthrough activity and exercise.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Here's the thing, though, but not just like no,
not just just going to yourmartial arts class doesn't quite
tick the box doesn't quite tickthe box because it presents
problems.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
And this is the thing that they don't tell you when
you sign up for jujitsu.
Yes, it is a form of activity.
Can you get fitter and strongerdoing it?
Yes, of course you can.
But it also puts crazy demandon your body which can result in
injuries.
If you have not fortifiedyourself, you are vulnerable to
injury which can totally undothe whole thing of being
(03:22):
healthier, fitter, stronger, etc.
And if you haven't done jujitsu, you don't really know this.
And if you've only done it fora short period of time, you may
not have copped that big injury.
But once you cop that biginjury, then you go fuck, now
I've got to do some rehab andgym stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah.
So the strength thing I canunderstand where this comes from
for some people, where theylook at it and think like I can
understand where this comes fromfor some people, where they
they look at it and think likeno, like why should I have to go
to the gym and do this, like,go to this place and do these
funny exercises?
In this abstract?
It's artificial.
I just want, I'm just going tolike, I'm just going to fight,
I'm just going to do combat andthat's going to give me
everything I need.
(03:58):
Now, yeah, I can, I can likethere's a romance to that idea,
right, and it kind of, you know,you kind of feel like a bit of
a kind of I don't know like a-.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Renaissance man.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, sub, you know, like I'm going against the grain
man and I just keep it fuckingnatural and flowy and that's why
I look like Bruce Lee and shit,and it's like like, yeah, I get
that it's a myth, but itdoesn't work that way.
And the reason is that our lifedid used to be full of
resistance.
Yes, like actual physical, likeyou had to carry things, you
(04:32):
had to lift things, you had toshift things around manually
constantly, you had to chop wood, carry water, like all this
shit comes from somewhere, right.
And so the fact that you don'tdo those things, sure, like
jiu-jitsu, gives you like alittle taste of resistance.
Yeah, but it doesn't replacewhatever four, five hours of
(04:52):
heavy manual labor performed ona daily basis.
And that's what the fucking gymdoes, right?
So you could take the glitzygym with the mirrors and the
rubber dumbbells and all thatand fuck it off and chop wood
and carry water, yeah, and thatwould do the job yeah, but it's.
You're not going to be able todo that at this, like with the
(05:14):
same consistency likely and thesame intensity and regularity
that you can just show up to thefucking gym and do the five by
ten squats yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And I mean, look, they talk about farm boy
strength.
Right, we're all aware of it.
People who grew up physicallyactive are stronger and more
athletic.
They have more stimulus to bethat way.
And what we forget is ourgenetics are only a blueprint.
Right, the blueprint doesn'tbuild the building.
The stimulus builds thebuilding.
(05:42):
That's the builders.
If you don't lift the weights,you don't really get the muscles
.
The stimulus builds thebuilding.
That's the builders.
If you don't lift the weights,you don't really get the muscles
.
I mean, sure, you might haveyour height, maybe your father
or mother was tall, so you haveyour bone structure, but it also
doesn't give you the skill.
There's plenty of like.
I met a guy in Scotland, sevenfoot two, had the worst stoop,
like stooped Seven foot two,seven foot two, a giant.
(06:02):
Fuck my God.
I was like, wow, you're a bigbastard.
Look at the size of you.
Look at the size of you.
You want to fight?
No, he was like a doopy gothyart student handing out flyers
for a comedy show.
Wow, he should be playing NBAbasketball.
That guy's not going to do that.
(06:22):
You know like, even though hehas a genetic predisposition
which would be advantageous,he's not interested.
He hasn't got the skills, itdoesn't matter.
Why do I say this?
You could have the bestgenetics in the world, but if
you fuck it up by just drinkinga ton of beer and not doing any
sports, it doesn't matter, itdoesn't mean anything.
So it's really important for usto understand that.
(06:45):
Even though, yes, jujitsu isgreat, martial arts is great, if
we look at athletic developmentand we look at people who are
stronger, faster, all thesethings they are putting the
stimulus in their life and gym,the weight training, the, the
different amounts of flexibilitytraining, and everything
(07:07):
they're doing is simulating thatcaveman-esque shit we used to
fucking do yeah, I want to, um,I think, like even the term you
use, their athletic development.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I think for the this person, right, that doesn't
speak to them because they'relike I'm not trying to be an
athlete, no right, but so whatwe're, but I like.
So the a better way to frame itfor this, for this person right
, this guy that commented on thething, is like just human
health, like if you're justtrying to be strong, like
healthy and live a long life andbe in good shape, and that
(07:41):
means being able to do jiu-jitsufor as long as you want to,
sure you need to fucking do someof that.
You don't have to do it to thelevel of a of an athlete, but
you got to do some of it.
Now we all know the grapplerand I can think, like there's a
couple people that come to mindright now who are like that.
They, they show up to classevery now and again.
They've been in the scene foryears and years and years and
(08:01):
they're out of shape as fuck.
But they've been doing it forlike, like super casually, for
like 15 years.
Yeah, they got some shit.
Yeah, you know, they catch awrist lock on you they let you
pass the guard and they got thatone fucking reversal they
always do, or whatever andyou're always like ah, that
can't.
Often, you know, like, and andfor them it's like a video game.
Yeah, right.
And the guy that I'm thinkingit like it's like a video game
(08:22):
and like, I totally get thatit's great, but it doesn't keep
like, it doesn't fulfill all ofthat human's health requirements
.
No, and this is, this is thething.
You get so much from grapplingso many awesome benefits as a
result of doing it, but youdon't get all of them, and so
(08:46):
you can push back as hard as youwant on the idea of being
athletic and using athleticismin jujitsu.
You don't have to be that way,but you can't push back on
training.
Some strength is what allowsyou just to be a healthy human
and every like everyone needsthat.
Hey, you know what the gym isfull of?
It's full of people who aremessing around on machines and
lifting weights and stuff withno real plan about what they're
trying to get out of it, andthis results in people using the
(09:06):
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as a result of that.
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Speaker 1 (09:41):
And I think what's underestimated here, the reason
I said athletic development.
It's probably just a habit,right, but being strong is an
athletic skill.
Being flexible is an athleticskill, having cardiovascular
endurance is an athletic.
It falls under the umbrella ofwhat makes athleticism.
Now, I'm not saying thisbecause I want everybody to be
(10:02):
killer athletes, doing backflipsand all this shit.
I mean, if you want to get downlike that, I encourage you
happy days.
But what I'm saying is thisdefinitely off what Joe's saying
there is.
What we don't realize is that,yeah, you can act a certain way
when you're 16 or you're 21 andyou've just got it forever at
(10:23):
that time.
Because, as far as you know,you got it forever, but you
don't.
And then, yeah, you can comeinto it going no, I'm a purist
and I don't even do my rehab,man, I just drink my water and I
got my Himalayan rock salt.
Yeah, okay, great.
But what we know inevitably is,if you don't look after your
body by getting stronger,strengthening your bones,
(10:47):
increasing your bloodcirculation, looking after your
hormones, it will all justdeteriorate.
We're fighting against time andjust our own expiry date as
humans.
So if you do care about jujitsuand you love martial arts, you
want to stay in it, you do haveto have a method of maintaining
(11:08):
yourself, and the problem is wethink our healthy default mode
is not lifting weights, and whatI'm trying to get across here
like it or love, it is whatmaintains your health.
Like your base for building anykind of athletic ability on top
of or any sport or any martialart is you have to do some
(11:31):
resistance training to lookafter your body.
It doesn't matter what ageyou're at.
This is what will sustain youon the martial arts path.
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, I'm blown away whenever there's an article in
the paper that's likeunbelievable new study shows
that when older people liftweights, they fucking live
healthier, happier lives.
Yeah, you're like guys.
How many times we need?
We've got this article everyfucking other week, every every
you know, or guys?
Unbelievable study shows thatpeople who suffer from
depression actually feel animprovement when they do regular
(12:03):
exercise and you're like fuck,I'm not trying to throw a shout
out at anyone.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
A lot of people go through that, but you're like
motherfuckers.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Our bodies thrive on being used.
They thrive on an appropriatedosage of stress and mechanical
stress, which is a large thingthat comes from jujitsu, right,
Like that fucking stress andthat squeeze and that feels
great afterwards.
So, yeah, shit, Like it isquite riling when people kind of
(12:31):
refuse.
It can be one thing to be likehey, I don't want to do that,
but I can see that it's a thingwe're like no, no, no, you don't
need that.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
All you need to do is just fucking use your body like
a martial artist and you'll besweet.
Hey, feel free to get in thecomment section and act like a
fuckwit, but don't expect me tonot come back on you,
motherfucker, because my wholecareer is based on trying to
help folks be healthier, fitter,stronger, all these things,
because that's what I care about.
It changed my life and it'smade me happier.
It may surprise you, I was lesshappy than this at one stage,
but I do not like it when peopleadvocate for things which, in
(13:08):
time, will actually have anegative impact on others.
So the fact that you want to beout there advocating for
something maybe you don't knowbetter and, based off the way
this guy was commenting, hedoesn't really understand
jujitsu.
But regardless, we want to helpfolks and we love people doing
jujitsu.
You are our people, butultimately you got to know that
(13:30):
to stay healthy, you got to liftsome weights, you got to go for
walks, you got to really give astimulus to your body to renew.
And jujitsu, even though it isgreat and it is fun, it's as
much breaking you down as it isbuilding you up, and so we've
got to spend some time workingon this other stuff.
And look, I think the thingabout this is I've realized that
(13:55):
more and more, as soon as Ineglect an element of my
training whether it be mobility,or maybe it's cardiovascular
activity or something to keep mefit, maybe I'm not walking as
much or not rolling as much assoon as I do the thing it is
like oh, slapping the fuck, Ithought I was staying in shape
just lifting these weights.
(14:15):
No, you got to walk as well, oryou've got to make sure you're
stretching as well.
Just looking after onecomponent of what you're
interested in is not enough.
You've got to eat thevegetables.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
You just sold them on the weights.
You can't tell them no, theweights is fucking fantastic,
bro, stop that guy.
No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
But I'm saying that, like, regardless of whatever you
might focus on, we do have toconsider ourselves.
We're not a machine.
We can't just go.
I am just a widget and I justdo a thing.
It is a much more holisticthing.
So we're talking about healthand we're saying that weights is
a key piece of the health,whether you like it or don't.
(14:52):
So accepting that we also haveto accept that going for a walk
and being outside and gettingsome oxygen and spending some
time in nature, this is also akey component of human health,
even though it's been taken outof our day-to-day.
You know, they say it's reallygood to either get your eyes on
blue or get your eyes on green,and that's talking about either
being like in a naturalsituation, like a forest, a
(15:15):
mountain, whatever or near thewater, because there's something
it does for us which brings ourstress levels down.
It brings our stress hormonesdown and is actually very good
for us, and they can't reallypinpoint exactly what it is,
other than we are these animalsand we're used to being in those
environments, not just shut inthese artificially lit podcast
(15:38):
studios.
I'm saying, basically, we haveto get a podcast by the beach.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
That's what I'm saying Joe, yeah, let's do it,
bondi, we're coming.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Yeah, believe it, but there it is.
Folks Get healthy and it willimprove your jiu-jitsu.
You broaden that base, thathealth base.
You can build higher, no matterwhat you want to do, and that's
what you need Now.
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We recommend you check it out.
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Jump in app store, play store,download the app, try it out and
(16:06):
you can also have a chat to meand Joey.
We can help you out.
We'll see you in there, shoo.
A good martial artist does not become tense but ready
.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Essentially, at this point, the fight is over.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
So you pretty much flow with the goal.
Who is worthy to be trustedwith the secret to limitless
power?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Lifting weights is unnatural, or so they say.
I'm here to tell you folks,this is completely freaking
untrue.
Lifting weights is actually themost natural thing we can do
and we're going to get into it.
Joe, Wow, I sparked.
It was a comment.
I believe it was a comment on apiece of content which was
(00:55):
appropriated by a fellow creatorand somebody had come in and
said hey, man, you're veryopinionated about this stuff
because we, you know, we canjust do jiu-jitsu and that's
enough.
He said martial arts, right.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
He said martial arts.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
And then he's like locks and strangles and stuff.
I'm like, bro, you don't knowshit about BJJ.
Tell me you've never donejiu-jitsu without telling me
You've never done jiu-jitsu.
It didn't reference anythingactually a jiu-jitsu person
would talk about.
Yes, I am heavily opinionatedfolks, you know it.
(01:32):
Uh, you know he was right aboutthat.
He's, he's right.
That's fair observation, that'sfair.
But here is the problem.
Here is the problem.
There are many of our friendsin the martial arts community
purists, you might say, peoplewho believe like lifting weights
is like not cheating, but it'sunnecessary.
You can be a pure martial artistwithout it you know, it is
salty water yeah, a bit ofsurfing stretching that's it
(01:54):
natural, and actually that'sfucking bullshit, and I'm gonna
break down for you.
Why, my friends, if we lookback at human evolution and we
look at just the way our liveswere, not even a thousand years
ago, we just say, a couple ofhundred years ago we had to be
so physically active, like wehad to, and we're very fortunate
in a lot of ways now that ourlives are so freaking easy for
(02:20):
many people.
Not not if you have bloody,hauling bricks or concreting, or
whatever it might be.
We've talked about that.
But here's the problem Becausewe don't have this physical
stimulus, we are actually lesshealthy.
Our technology has gottenbetter, but physically we are
worse off because of it.
We walk less, we carry less,our bone density is going down.
(02:43):
There's all these problems wesuffer.
Our blood sugars are throughthe roof, and you know what.
It can all be fucking solvedthrough activity and exercise.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Here's the thing, though, but not just like no,
not just just going to yourmartial arts class doesn't quite
tick the box doesn't quite tickthe box because it presents
problems.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
And this is the thing that they don't tell you when
you sign up for jujitsu.
Yes, it is a form of activity.
Can you get fitter and strongerdoing it?
Yes, of course you can.
But it also puts crazy demandon your body which can result in
injuries.
If you have not fortifiedyourself, you are vulnerable to
injury which can totally undothe whole thing of being
(03:22):
healthier, fitter, stronger, etc.
And if you haven't done jujitsu, you don't really know this.
And if you've only done it fora short period of time, you may
not have copped that big injury.
But once you cop that biginjury, then you go fuck, now
I've got to do some rehab andgym stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah.
So the strength thing I canunderstand where this comes from
for some people, where theylook at it and think like I can
understand where this comes fromfor some people, where they
they look at it and think likeno, like why should I have to go
to the gym and do this, like,go to this place and do these
funny exercises?
In this abstract?
It's artificial.
I just want, I'm just going tolike, I'm just going to fight,
I'm just going to do combat andthat's going to give me
everything I need.
(03:58):
Now, yeah, I can, I can likethere's a romance to that idea,
right, and it kind of, you know,you kind of feel like a bit of
a kind of I don't know like a-.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Renaissance man.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, sub, you know, like I'm going against the grain
man and I just keep it fuckingnatural and flowy and that's why
I look like Bruce Lee and shit,and it's like like, yeah, I get
that it's a myth, but itdoesn't work that way.
And the reason is that our lifedid used to be full of
resistance.
Yes, like actual physical, likeyou had to carry things, you
(04:32):
had to lift things, you had toshift things around manually
constantly, you had to chop wood, carry water, like all this
shit comes from somewhere, right.
And so the fact that you don'tdo those things, sure, like
jiu-jitsu, gives you like alittle taste of resistance.
Yeah, but it doesn't replacewhatever four, five hours of
(04:52):
heavy manual labor performed ona daily basis.
And that's what the fucking gymdoes, right?
So you could take the glitzygym with the mirrors and the
rubber dumbbells and all thatand fuck it off and chop wood
and carry water, yeah, and thatwould do the job yeah, but it's.
You're not going to be able todo that at this, like with the
(05:14):
same consistency likely and thesame intensity and regularity
that you can just show up to thefucking gym and do the five by
ten squats yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And I mean, look, they talk about farm boy
strength.
Right, we're all aware of it.
People who grew up physicallyactive are stronger and more
athletic.
They have more stimulus to bethat way.
And what we forget is ourgenetics are only a blueprint.
Right, the blueprint doesn'tbuild the building.
The stimulus builds thebuilding.
(05:42):
That's the builders.
If you don't lift the weights,you don't really get the muscles
.
The stimulus builds thebuilding.
That's the builders.
If you don't lift the weights,you don't really get the muscles
.
I mean, sure, you might haveyour height, maybe your father
or mother was tall, so you haveyour bone structure, but it also
doesn't give you the skill.
There's plenty of like.
I met a guy in Scotland, sevenfoot two, had the worst stoop,
like stooped Seven foot two,seven foot two, a giant.
(06:02):
Fuck my God.
I was like, wow, you're a bigbastard.
Look at the size of you.
Look at the size of you.
You want to fight?
No, he was like a doopy gothyart student handing out flyers
for a comedy show.
Wow, he should be playing NBAbasketball.
That guy's not going to do that.
(06:22):
You know like, even though hehas a genetic predisposition
which would be advantageous,he's not interested.
He hasn't got the skills, itdoesn't matter.
Why do I say this?
You could have the bestgenetics in the world, but if
you fuck it up by just drinkinga ton of beer and not doing any
sports, it doesn't matter, itdoesn't mean anything.
So it's really important for usto understand that.
(06:45):
Even though, yes, jujitsu isgreat, martial arts is great, if
we look at athletic developmentand we look at people who are
stronger, faster, all thesethings they are putting the
stimulus in their life and gym,the weight training, the, the
different amounts of flexibilitytraining, and everything
(07:07):
they're doing is simulating thatcaveman-esque shit we used to
fucking do yeah, I want to, um,I think, like even the term you
use, their athletic development.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I think for the this person, right, that doesn't
speak to them because they'relike I'm not trying to be an
athlete, no right, but so whatwe're, but I like.
So the a better way to frame itfor this, for this person right
, this guy that commented on thething, is like just human
health, like if you're justtrying to be strong, like
healthy and live a long life andbe in good shape, and that
(07:41):
means being able to do jiu-jitsufor as long as you want to,
sure you need to fucking do someof that.
You don't have to do it to thelevel of a of an athlete, but
you got to do some of it.
Now we all know the grapplerand I can think, like there's a
couple people that come to mindright now who are like that.
They, they show up to classevery now and again.
They've been in the scene foryears and years and years and
(08:01):
they're out of shape as fuck.
But they've been doing it forlike, like super casually, for
like 15 years.
Yeah, they got some shit.
Yeah, you know, they catch awrist lock on you they let you
pass the guard and they got thatone fucking reversal they
always do, or whatever andyou're always like ah, that
can't.
Often, you know, like, and andfor them it's like a video game.
Yeah, right.
And the guy that I'm thinkingit like it's like a video game
(08:22):
and like, I totally get thatit's great, but it doesn't keep
like, it doesn't fulfill all ofthat human's health requirements
.
No, and this is, this is thething.
You get so much from grapplingso many awesome benefits as a
result of doing it, but youdon't get all of them, and so
(08:46):
you can push back as hard as youwant on the idea of being
athletic and using athleticismin jujitsu.
You don't have to be that way,but you can't push back on
training.
Some strength is what allowsyou just to be a healthy human
and every like everyone needsthat.
Hey, you know what the gym isfull of?
It's full of people who aremessing around on machines and
lifting weights and stuff withno real plan about what they're
trying to get out of it, andthis results in people using the
(09:06):
gym for like 12, 18, 24 monthsand not really getting anything
as a result of that.
We have created the Bulletprooffor BJJ app so that you do not
have to go through this processof no results the Bulletproof
for BJJ app equals instant gainswhen you start training your
strength and flexibilityspecifically for jiu-jitsu.
You can take a two-week freetrial right now.
(09:28):
All you got to do is go to theapp store, download the
Bulletproof for BJJ app andstart training.
And the best part is JT and Iwill be there to coach you along
the way.
And if you don't love it, weoffer a 100% money back
guarantee.
Go get it, we'll see you on theinside.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
And I think what's underestimated here, the reason
I said athletic development.
It's probably just a habit,right, but being strong is an
athletic skill.
Being flexible is an athleticskill, having cardiovascular
endurance is an athletic.
It falls under the umbrella ofwhat makes athleticism.
Now, I'm not saying thisbecause I want everybody to be
(10:02):
killer athletes, doing backflipsand all this shit.
I mean, if you want to get downlike that, I encourage you
happy days.
But what I'm saying is thisdefinitely off what Joe's saying
there is.
What we don't realize is that,yeah, you can act a certain way
when you're 16 or you're 21 andyou've just got it forever at
(10:23):
that time.
Because, as far as you know,you got it forever, but you
don't.
And then, yeah, you can comeinto it going no, I'm a purist
and I don't even do my rehab,man, I just drink my water and I
got my Himalayan rock salt.
Yeah, okay, great.
But what we know inevitably is,if you don't look after your
body by getting stronger,strengthening your bones,
(10:47):
increasing your bloodcirculation, looking after your
hormones, it will all justdeteriorate.
We're fighting against time andjust our own expiry date as
humans.
So if you do care about jujitsuand you love martial arts, you
want to stay in it, you do haveto have a method of maintaining
(11:08):
yourself, and the problem is wethink our healthy default mode
is not lifting weights, and whatI'm trying to get across here
like it or love, it is whatmaintains your health.
Like your base for building anykind of athletic ability on top
of or any sport or any martialart is you have to do some
(11:31):
resistance training to lookafter your body.
It doesn't matter what ageyou're at.
This is what will sustain youon the martial arts path.
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, I'm blown away whenever there's an article in
the paper that's likeunbelievable new study shows
that when older people liftweights, they fucking live
healthier, happier lives.
Yeah, you're like guys.
How many times we need?
We've got this article everyfucking other week, every every
you know, or guys?
Unbelievable study shows thatpeople who suffer from
depression actually feel animprovement when they do regular
(12:03):
exercise and you're like fuck,I'm not trying to throw a shout
out at anyone.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
A lot of people go through that, but you're like
motherfuckers.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Our bodies thrive on being used.
They thrive on an appropriatedosage of stress and mechanical
stress, which is a large thingthat comes from jujitsu, right,
Like that fucking stress andthat squeeze and that feels
great afterwards.
So, yeah, shit, Like it isquite riling when people kind of
(12:31):
refuse.
It can be one thing to be likehey, I don't want to do that,
but I can see that it's a thingwe're like no, no, no, you don't
need that.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
All you need to do is just fucking use your body like
a martial artist and you'll besweet.
Hey, feel free to get in thecomment section and act like a
fuckwit, but don't expect me tonot come back on you,
motherfucker, because my wholecareer is based on trying to
help folks be healthier, fitter,stronger, all these things,
because that's what I care about.
It changed my life and it'smade me happier.
It may surprise you, I was lesshappy than this at one stage,
but I do not like it when peopleadvocate for things which, in
(13:08):
time, will actually have anegative impact on others.
So the fact that you want to beout there advocating for
something maybe you don't knowbetter and, based off the way
this guy was commenting, hedoesn't really understand
jujitsu.
But regardless, we want to helpfolks and we love people doing
jujitsu.
You are our people, butultimately you got to know that
(13:30):
to stay healthy, you got to liftsome weights, you got to go for
walks, you got to really give astimulus to your body to renew.
And jujitsu, even though it isgreat and it is fun, it's as
much breaking you down as it isbuilding you up, and so we've
got to spend some time workingon this other stuff.
And look, I think the thingabout this is I've realized that
(13:55):
more and more, as soon as Ineglect an element of my
training whether it be mobility,or maybe it's cardiovascular
activity or something to keep mefit, maybe I'm not walking as
much or not rolling as much assoon as I do the thing it is
like oh, slapping the fuck, Ithought I was staying in shape
just lifting these weights.
(14:15):
No, you got to walk as well, oryou've got to make sure you're
stretching as well.
Just looking after onecomponent of what you're
interested in is not enough.
You've got to eat thevegetables.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
You just sold them on the weights.
You can't tell them no, theweights is fucking fantastic,
bro, stop that guy.
No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
But I'm saying that, like, regardless of whatever you
might focus on, we do have toconsider ourselves.
We're not a machine.
We can't just go.
I am just a widget and I justdo a thing.
It is a much more holisticthing.
So we're talking about healthand we're saying that weights is
a key piece of the health,whether you like it or don't.
(14:52):
So accepting that we also haveto accept that going for a walk
and being outside and gettingsome oxygen and spending some
time in nature, this is also akey component of human health,
even though it's been taken outof our day-to-day.
You know, they say it's reallygood to either get your eyes on
blue or get your eyes on green,and that's talking about either
being like in a naturalsituation, like a forest, a
(15:15):
mountain, whatever or near thewater, because there's something
it does for us which brings ourstress levels down.
It brings our stress hormonesdown and is actually very good
for us, and they can't reallypinpoint exactly what it is,
other than we are these animalsand we're used to being in those
environments, not just shut inthese artificially lit podcast
(15:38):
studios.
I'm saying, basically, we haveto get a podcast by the beach.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
That's what I'm saying Joe, yeah, let's do it,
bondi, we're coming.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Yeah, believe it, but there it is.
Folks Get healthy and it willimprove your jiu-jitsu.
You broaden that base, thathealth base.
You can build higher, no matterwhat you want to do, and that's
what you need Now.
If you want to know more aboutthe health and fitness thing, we
do have an app.
We recommend you check it out.
You can take your 14 day freetrial.
Jump in app store, play store,download the app, try it out and
(16:06):
you can also have a chat to meand Joey.
We can help you out.
We'll see you in there, shoo.
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