Why Joe Still Lifts Weights w/Michael Yo

We are so opposite because I've only been in one fight in my life. It was in ninth grade playing basketball and it was against a dude named Matama. Like I'll never his name is Matama Drake. And I threw one punch and I hit him right in the face and he looks at me and goes, what's up? And I was like, no, no. Oh, no. Oh, my God. Did you let you get away with it? Oh, yeah. We started playing basketball. Thank God. Like, wow, that's it? That was it. Like, literally, I hit him as hard as I could. I could take a shot. Oh, and he was just like, what's up? I was like, nothing. Nothing is up. So that's the only didn't hit you back. No. Wow. No, because then I started, you know, oh, OK, it's your ball. You know, confident man. Yeah. Did not try to get you back. I mean, and then I was there was a club in Houston named Power Tools that I used to. A gay bar? No, it was. No, no, it wasn't a baby, right? It sounds like one. Sounds like a hardcore gay bar. In Houston, the gay bar was called Riches at the time. But I worked at Power Tools and I was a bouncer. So that's when I was like 250 pounds. You know, you were a lot bigger when I met you. Oh, yeah, because I played college football for Arkansas. So I played outside linebacker. So I was just stop lifting weights or do you still look a little bit? No, I'm all cardio now because, you know, like trainers, any trainer I work with since I got a big frame, they're like, well, put some. No, I want to stay lean. You know, but it's good for old age to man. You know, back problems like I'm 44 years old now. Yeah. Isn't that crazy, dude? Do time flies. 51. See, 55 zero. Do it. And it's so scary when you read stories about people just dropping dead. Do like a rare age. Luke Perry. That's what I'm saying. Basically my age. Well, they said what is the danger zone is like 45 to 55 with heart failure. It's like in. Oh, man. Did I beat my body up? I'm running that bitch until the wheels fall off. I'm always getting stem cell shots and I'm up fucking running hills and lifting weight. I still live heavy weights. I'm retarded. Yeah. Why do you do that word? I said it again. Trying to get rid of that word out of my vocabulary. It just comes out sometimes. Why are you still lifting weights like heavy like that? Like what does it do for you? Well, it does a bunch of things. First of all, if you want to train jiu jitsu, it's very good to be strong. Yeah. It makes a big difference. First of all, for defense, especially for defense. You know, like for offense, for sure, too. But really, you want to be able to defend, you know, like defending. And you have to be strong. But also you just like being bigger. It helps. Yeah, I like it. Yeah, I like being able to pick up things. I like the physical ability of being strong. I like being in shape, too. Yeah, like being able to run for long distances. I like knowing that I can go rounds in the bag. Like I'll do five hard rounds on the back. So you can run. My knees are messed up. I can't like get on a treadmill. I can do like I've done the stem and the knee and it's helped out a lot. But I'm still that dude that's on. I'm like on the elliptical. I'm super fortunate. I'm super fortunate about my knee injuries. I've had knee injuries, but my meniscus, I only had one meniscus scope on my left knee and it wasn't terrible. Like I was back to full 100 percent function after that. And my right knee, I didn't have a little baby tear that I got some stem cells shot into, but I had both of them reconstructed. The ACLs were replaced, but no problems. They work. They work great. Yeah, see, I just need to. I listen to you and it's like you always taking something and I'm like, oh, I got to find out what that is. And now I just want to get in better shape. I'm in shape, but I it's when you get older, it's just like tough. It is tough. It just is writing it down like you have to do it. Like, do you do you keep a daily schedule of shit you have to do? No, I just wake up and go. I do have I wake up, I work out like a cardio workout. And then I do infrared sauna, which has changed my life. I do life. Right. Every morning I infrared sauna for now. It's the best. You sweat all that shit out. You like you feel great. Your skin glistens. Like, I think it's actually like changed the game for me. I have more energy now. Everything's better. It's so good for your body. They did a study that showed a 40 percent decrease in mortality amongst all causes, heart attack, stroke, cancer, 40 percent decrease with people that were doing the sauna four times a week. Well, I will tell you this, because the whole thing is everybody wants to feel young. And when you were young, the thing you did most was sweat. And I feel like when I sweat, it just it's a it feels I don't know. I just feel good sweating because it reminds me when I played sports. It reminds me, even though I'm not doing on the you know, I sweat a little on the treadmill. But when I do that infrared sauna, it makes me feel great. Well, I think there's a bunch of shit going on with this. Yeah, for sure. Like, it's good to feel good like you're sweating. But there's heat shock proteins. Your body actually produces anti-inflammatory properties. It's really good for you. It's really good for joint aches and all kinds of like this. I used to think of the saunas being nonsense. Like, what are you fucking laying in a sauna for? Like, what are you doing there? Just getting hot? Yeah, it's good workout. But what kind of what kind of sauna do you do, though? I do a regular sauna. OK, see, super hot, regular sauna. I'm telling you, you need to try the infrared. Yeah, you can. Yeah, I mean, but look, it's all just about getting your body hot. Yeah. Like, it's good to try the infrared. I'm sure. I'm sure it works great. But this study, the 40 percent decreased mortality, that was with a regular sauna. OK. Yeah. That's why I got a regular sauna because Dr. Rhonda Patrick told me that the studies that have been done, have all been done with a regular sauna. And she said there might be some benefit for infrared sauna, but I don't know what's published. What is it? See if there's a benefit. See if this they could say, what's the benefit to infrared? I'm probably cooking my organs. I don't even know it. No, I don't think so, man. I think it's great for you. I just feel amazing after that. Supposedly what happens, right? It gets deeper in your tissue. Yeah, it's supposed to go deeper. Yeah. I remember us texting back and forth. I was like, you got it. Like if you do the infrared sauna for like a week, it's a game changer. It's just like saunas, too. So I don't know. I would like you to try a regular sauna, too. How hot does the infrared get? Like a hundred and forty hundred forty. That's not hitting the air, though, too. It's a difference. Yeah, it's not. It doesn't heat the air. Like you walk in and it feels it doesn't feel like it's that. But that's just weird. That's your microwave shit. I'm not into that, man. It's like hot pockets. Can you turn me into a hot pocket? That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. I'm probably burning up all my organs right now, but I love it. I love it. And then feeling that super heat. You go in there and you're like, oh, it feels so good.