Joe Rogan Describes His Workout Program to Judd Apatow

Hello freak bitches. So I'm fascinated by your general program, like what you're doing all day with all this stuff. Like what's the current Joe program? Well I'm always doing something, you know, in terms of like diet you mean or in terms of like exercise. What's the workout, diet, what's the meditation, what's the main tenants of your day? Well my workout I schedule every Sunday. I schedule everything that I'm going to do during the week. I say I have to do yoga two times this week, I have to lift weights three times this week, I have to run twice this week and however I fit that in I fit that in but I owe those things. So I have to get those things in. The only exceptions are injuries and sickness. Those that's the schedule. And then on top of that there's other things that I enjoy doing, kickboxing, jujitsu, work those in when I can. Then diet, the diet is pretty strict in terms of like no bread, very few carbs, no sugar, no bullshit. Like healthy food, a lot of vegetables, a lot of meat, game meat mostly, wild game. And I take vitamin supplements every day. I take multivitamins, I take probiotics, I take vitamin B12 and D and a lot of different things. Just I do everything that I can to put my body and my brain in a good place so that I'm keeping my engine smooth. I'm changing my oil, I'm changing my spark plugs, I'm making sure that it's operating. I mean it's not going to be perfect but I know that I've done my best to keep it working the best that it can. And who's the person that advises you on like nutrition? Is there a guy? No. Is there a woman? Who taught you how to do it? How do you do it? There's a ton of people that I've used as a resource. There's a woman that I have on the podcast on a regular basis. Her name is Dr. Rhonda Patrick and she's probably the best resource. I sent her something the other day on some new study on saturated fats. Whenever there's some sort of an issue, there's a new study on cryotherapy or saunas. The saunas are incredibly effective. I don't know if you ever- Do you have a sauna? Oh, so huge. Would the UV rays or what is it? What is it called? Not ultra-violent. Infrared. Infrared, yes. We just got one of those. Saunas are giant. The raising of the body temperature like that and the heat shock proteins, incredibly beneficial to your body. There was a study that they put out recently that showed a 40% decrease in mortality from all causes due to people who take regular sauna. It just literally keeps your body healthier. Having that massive exposure to heat and your body producing these heat shock proteins, it reduces inflammation. It helps in so many different areas for people. It's just sit down in the hot room. It's really good for your body. Regular is how many times a week? For a sauna, I think they were saying four times a week. How hard is that, man? Just force yourself to sit in it. If you have it at home in particular or at your gym, just go there and sit in that fucker for 15 minutes. It doesn't take long. I'm going to have to get all this written up. How about this? I do everything you do. We make that a special. It's the Judd Does Joes Programs year. You have to build up. I got a bulk up. I may have already bulked up. I may have already bulked up. I mean build up your joints and all that stuff. It's got to get used to that kind of a pounding. There's a lot of shit that's going to be happening if you want to do everything I do. I can't just do 12 pounds on a free weight. You don't want ... I mean, it's not even ... You're not going to want to do everything I do. I have a friend who runs ultra marathons and I just started running recently within the last couple of months. I'm not running a fucking ultra marathon. I'm not doing everything. Hey, I'll do everything you do. It would break. It would break my feet. It would break my knees. You got to just build up. You got to have time too. There's something about when you run TV shows, it's all freaking day every day. People say, when you work out, I'm like, there's no time. What am I going to wake up at five in the morning and put in two and a half hours? I got to drive my kids to school at 7.40. That's one thing. You don't need two and a half hours. You could get a great workout in 40 minutes and that's all you need for the whole day. 100%. You really can't, especially if you run. I run hills and I can get it done in a half an hour, like a fucking brutal workout, a two mile brutal hill climbing workout in a half hour. I'm exhausted. This idea of time, like how much time did you put in today? You could work out in a bullshit manner for two hours and not get nearly as much done as you can for a half hour hard just running. Like interval training. Yeah, sprints and then relax, then sprints again. I just think being active and doing something on a daily basis, forcing your body to get used to the fact that it's going to constantly be working, constantly being under stress. It gives you more energy. It's like you have more of a gas tank. You have more enthusiasm for things. That's the scary part about Trump. His theory on exercise is you only have so much energy per day and he thinks that exercise uses it up. So he doesn't ever exercise. That's got to come back at him at some point. He's not fucking 70. I come back at him already. But he also, he's not mitigating his stress. That's part of it as your perspective enhancing. For me, the most important thing about ... I don't think maybe they're not the most important thing. One of the best things about exercise is that it gives me a perspective, a better, a more enhanced perspective because I'm not coming at it from a stressful body. My body's not tense. So I can come at things in a calm way. I've drained all the bullshit out of my body. That's interesting. Yeah. Are you doing meditation or what are you doing in that way? I have a sensory deprivation tank. So I do most of my meditation in that. You do an ultra-climb in. I climb in and I float. I love that. That's one of my favorite things. You ever do it? No, I couldn't imagine. You must. You must. Especially for you because you're working on things all the time. If you go in there with an idea, I'll go in there with a bit. I got this bit that I'm working on. Right now that's kind of complicated and sometimes I'll just be sitting there staring at the wall just thinking about this one bit because I'm trying to figure out how to structure it. It's a super complicated bit. And I'll go in that tank and I'll just sit there for an hour and I'll just try to work out this bit. Try to figure out if there are other angles to it, there's other ways to come at it. The only confusing thing is when I have an idea in the tank and it seems like I got it. I got to get out of the tank and I got to write things down. No, you need a special pad of the tank. I think I need a voice activated recorder. I think that's a good idea. Yeah, I think that's what I need where I can just talk. Yeah. Okay, so I need the tank. You need a tank. I have the spa. You have a spa. I need a hill to run on. Hills are good. I need more of my on it products. Do you lift weights at all? No. Good idea to do a little bit of something just to keep your body strong. As you get older, your body atrophies and there's just no way around it, especially if you're not using it. The only way to keep it from atrophying is to make sure that you put it under stress. You have to lift weights. That's the only way. It keeps your bone density, keeps your tendon strength, your muscle strength. There's no other way. Otherwise, you just get injuries. People get back injuries and arm injuries and shit just starts falling apart on you. See, I've had no injuries due to not doing anything. That's how I've been protecting my body. But yes, I do know that that's the thing to do. I remember I always heard about Clint Eastwood doing that. I met Clint Eastwood when he was like 80. I know he's like he lifts heavy weights. That's his thing. He's like heavy weights. He was like a truck at 80. But I don't like lifting things. I don't even like counting. I don't really like counting. Well, you should hire a trainer. Get someone to devise a program. Have them come to you, work you out. You don't have to do shit. You just show up. You could do it in your house. They show up at 6 a.m. or whenever it is and they're like, come on, Judd. I got you for the next 45 minutes. And you're like, all right, here we go. It's tough when you hate that stuff. It really is tough. When you haven't built your brain to love it. I've been playing a lot of tennis lately as a way to wake up. But I do know that I need to do it. But man, when you're like of the mindset that when the trainer comes, you want to punch him in the face, it's a tough thing. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it.