CrossFit: Is It Bad for You? | Joe Rogan and CT Fletcher

The Avengers are out. Yeah man, three hours long. I stayed awake. I haven't seen it yet. I heard it's great. Oh, I stayed awake. I heard it's great. Good enough to keep me awake. That's saying something. I go to sleep all the time. Is it from the heart transplant? Are you sleepy or no? No, no. I went to sleep all the time before the heart transplant. No, I get comfortable. Fuck, and it's over, man. Yeah. Yeah, it's over. Lights are out. That's the thing too, with people who train a lot. Nobody fucking with me. Yeah. If you train a lot though, you're always ready to take a nap. Oh yeah. Because your body's always like recovering. Yeah. I'm out, man. No problem. But over training is bullshit. You think over training is bullshit? Uh oh. Uh oh. I know you don't. I bet you think that it's not bullshit and over training is very real, don't you, too? Yes, I do. I knew you would say that. You know what rhabdomyelosis is? No, I have no idea. It's when you over train and your muscles start breaking down and it pollutes your kidneys. People die from it. Wow. That was a big ass long word. And if you look in the dictionary, it'll say bullshit. No, I think there's under resting, under recuperation. That's true. But over training, no. If you get enough rest and enough recuperation, I think over training is bullshit. Right, but if you have to work out hard and then you have to work out again the next day and you work out hard the next day, that's rhabdomyelosis piss. When you get rhabdo, your piss comes out looking like iced tea. Yeah. And I don't mean the rapper. I see he's more than a rapper though, right? It's hard to say he's a rapper. He's a rapper actor. He's a lot of things. He's a cool dude. Yeah, I mean he has body count. That's a metal band. There's that too. Yeah, right, iced tea is cool. But yeah, it looks like Diet Coke. Let's say that. Yeah, it's fucked. That's what piss looks like. Yeah, it's fucked up. Yeah, that's what happens. And I train every, I work fucking eight hours a day, eight, 10, 12 hours a day at the post office, went to the gym, put in another four to six hours for fucking 25 years and my piss never looked like that. Yeah, I think that's more endurance athletes. And particularly CrossFit, a lot of CrossFit people get wrapped up. Oh yeah. Because they're competing against other people and they get real wrapped up in it. I gotta ask Jason Khalifa about this. Good friend of mine. See if he's piss ever looked like root beer. It's a real issue for CrossFitters and like ultra endurance athletes. Yeah, he's one of the top CrossFitters guys. Is he? Yeah, he's like world champion two or three times. Those guys are ridiculously fit. Oh man. Ridiculously fit. I had him in my gym and I put him through my training. He was one of the, he did the shit. Like he was nothing. Yeah. Yeah, he's fucking out guy. CrossFit and you know, white with his kind of laughing CrossFitters and like, that's you know, girly shit man. It's bull, CrossFit is bullshit. But that motherfucker is in extremely good shape. Yeah, CrossFitting is definitely not, is that him like that? Yeah. It's definitely not bullshit. No. It's very hard. What those guys do is very, very, very, very hard. The real question is whether or not it's good for your body. And that's where, that's where, and I'm not qualified just to judge, but there's a lot of people that are professional strength and conditioning coaches that frown upon it. Because they think that those kind of movements like powerlifting movements, like clean press, that kind of shit, that should not be done for the maximum amount of repetitions. They think that should be done for power. You should, you know, you should hoist up your maximum or 85% of your maximum for X amount of times and that's it. But what they're trying to do is just, you know, if Mike does 10, I want to do 12. Mike does 12, I want to do 15. You know, and they think that there's like Steve Maxwell, who's a pretty famous strength conditioning coach. He frowns upon it and he just thinks it's just, those movements are not designed for endurance. Those movements are designed for power. He thinks ultimately it's detrimental for your body and that if you want to have a long career in fitness and constantly be able to work out like deep into your fifties and sixties, he just thinks it's very detrimental for your body. Again, I'm not the guy to tell. That's true or not true. I'm sure a lot of these, I need to get one of those top level crossfit guys. I don't, I've gone back and forth with Rich Froning, is that how you say it? Online, but I never got him on. Oh yeah. I reached out to him again. I'm sure Jason would die to be on here, but he is exceptionally fit. You know, the longterm, I don't know, cause he's still a pretty young guy.