Joe Rogan - I'm Winning Sober October

Fitness is really entertaining to me and it's what's kept me like I've usually don't wear a smartwatch for very long But I think it's been about a month and I just keep like check So there's a feature now where you can challenge people to a one-week long challenge to whoever Burns the most calories and has the most points or whatever There's like a point system right and that gamification of fitness has been I think pretty special. It's been pretty good Well, this contest has been really crazy with me and my friends. So what are you trying to do? Well, I If the winner is going to get a belt like a WWE style belt. Nice. It says intergalactic Sober October champion and it has like marijuana leaf of the line through it and a bottle of booze the line through it and You wear these things which is It's uh, it's called a my zone and it it works with an app It works pretty good and it registers your amount of your heart rate the amount of calories you burn And it gives you a point system and the point system is I don't know what it what they call it's MEPS I don't know what it stands for but this the amount of points over the month is What everyone's shooting for right and so today we're at October the 23rd, so we have eight days to go and I have worked out more in these 23 days than I have in like the last six months and I'm not exaggerating. Yeah, I put in five and a half hours yesterday Hard I got more than 900 points then after the podcast I said fuck it we're gonna go for another hundred and I worked out and I got another hundred points put in another hour Yeah, it's maniacal because you see you actually see the number and because I could see the number I could see all my friends numbers Yeah, and I'm way ahead. So I'm what I'm just keep telling them that I'm twisting the blade Because I'm so far ahead like right now. I am 1500 points away from everybody else. Okay. Oh birth trying to work out again that slob So when you see somebody catching up, you're like, well, I better hit the gym. Exactly. Yeah, and so I'm Planning on staying so far ahead that they must die In order to beat me the iPhone or the Apple watch when you have people connected with the fitness part of it it will literally notify me when one of my friends has finished a workout and Tell me like how good there were how many points they just got Like as they finish it like you you hit the finish button and you know, everyone's getting a notification Yeah, that's interesting. So I'm gonna put in the extra four or five miles on the bike So if they get that notification that I did that and then really does work. Yeah, I mean, there's no doubt about it Yeah, just having that External motivating factor and then seeing a number there's something about like with this with the MEPS MEPS whatever the fuck that stands for. Yeah, that stands for And I don't know how the Apple watch measures points either I think there's a because it's measuring I mean there's a lot of sensors in this thing So not only is a heart rate monitor. There's an accelerometer and a gyroscope So it knows when you're standing knows when you're moving quickly And I it basically just comes up with a points number at the end of the day I every time I fly I just don't get any points because I just sit there right but yeah, there's like a Live counter constantly going of like you and your friends and you got to have the highest number So out of all the stuff that you do doing my zone effort points, that's what it is That's the maps points. But here's the thing about that maps points and we were trying to figure out why It does it gives you the same amount of points for 80% of your max heart rate as it does for 90 So like the first day I said I'm just gonna sprint and try to bury these guys So I put them in 90% for 35 minutes. I was like they can't do that I'm just gonna do some shit they can't do but it doesn't give you any more points for 90% 90% gives the exact amount of Points is 80% so it's their own proprietary. See those two there Piece of shit, so it's so dumb. So I think the reason why they did that is to keep people from killing themselves That's what I think. Yeah, just get somewhere in the 80 to 90 range Fat Burt is always in the two and three fat Burt never gets in yellow. That's slob I just waddle it around waddling around with blue and green mostly gray. He gets a lot of gray He'll get gray for hours just waddling complaining thinking about vodka dreaming about food He's gonna watch this and hit the gym. I mean he's on the gym right now. He's at the gym right now Trying to catch up So he's playing catch up. Yeah, the thing you gotta stay ahead Stay ahead like yeah when you fall behind in the distance You gotta think of him as wolves barking in the distance chasing you like no fucking way You're not eating me bitch wolves 10 miles away and not gonna get you but wolves a hundred yards away They they're gonna get you gotta keep the distance 10 miles way too far 10 miles that you want to hear You know, he's saying at least just slob he's gonna double everything I do look at that face that's not even possible I do two miles and I brought my dog up here too Fuck yeah, baby. It's all so bro. Stop this before I throw up He's chasing dog. He's so far behind. It's impossible to win But that's the point the point is to keep the keep the boot on his neck Yeah, this is this only does seven day challenges. So you basically like you get you start it and They accept and then it counts for the next seven days all your cumulative points Oh, well, that would be good then you just do four and they just keep going. Yeah Yeah, you're do the mother. Yeah, that's I like the challenge aspect of it. It's it's really mean all jokes aside It's been really fun. Yeah with my friends poor Tommy buns way behind. I know what's going on Tom Segura's way behind He's like 1800 points behind me right now. I'm up is he like saving a couple days might be might be sandbags Then just comes full strength all day You sort you store them up in your in this device and then you sink so you could pretend that you're not doing any work I could sandbag. Yes. No one knows then the last day like you son of a bitch goes online. He's 10,000 points ahead Oh real issue. So the key is just keep the work rate at an almost impossible level So like yesterday, like I said, I worked out five and a half hours and then another hour Yeah, and today I've already put in two hours and put in two hours at seven o'clock this morning So I tell him doesn't have any the thing is I'm putting two hours in at yellow I'm hitting 80% for two hours fat Burt's out there waddling around with his dog Pretend he's working hard making videos. That's he's got like gray and a little bit of blue He may be green a little green then he takes a break cries And his numbers are low Near the lower than mine. That's a fact. I worked out more yesterday last night and this morning than he has in a whole day