Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - A review of Episode 1200 Ross Edgley

Episode Date: November 19, 2018

Ross is an endurance swimmer who recently swam around England at over 2000 miles. He has other great endurance achievements and is a really well thought out guy. Joe and him had a great conversation and I really enjoyed reviewing the podcast. Enjoy my review folks! Please email me with any suggestions and questions for future shows :   [e-mail]

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Los enbases del verano Siempre van a la amarillo Hello and welcome to another episode of the JRE Review, where what we do on this podcast is we review the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast for the week. We talk about the best, the most most interesting parts things that have inspired people I often have what we'll have guests on it basically this podcast is like the news is the current events there's no affiliation with Joe Rogan experience but I just report on the most fascinating parts things that were interesting and then I love to have guests on that have been inspired by the Rogan podcast series over the years and they get to talk about things that they've implemented and changed in their life for the better. This

week we had podcast 1200, 1200, he's done 1200 fucking hundred, well more with the MMA ones, but Ross, EGLY, now Ross is an English guy, awesome dude. First man to swim around England. There's a lot of different like endurance beats of swimming, but swimming around England is incredibly difficult. It's 2000 plus miles, it took him like six months, he was swimming like 12 hours a day, some parts are so cold, especially up around Scotland. I just can't even imagine how this guy was able to do it absolutely, unbelievable, or water-feet and well-done Ross, super inspiring, and a really well thought out

intelligent guy. And not someone you think of to be a swimmer, the dude is jacked. Following him on Instagram, he's got a great Instagram. He was at sea for 157 days, which as you can imagine, it's a huge mental toughness. And really what God himself started is he was talking about wanting to do these big swims and he was talking to some military guys, British Marines, and an officer came up to him and said, why don't you just step it up and swim around England?

Almost a bit kind of like tongue and cheek sarcastic, but at the same time, it resonated with Ross, and he said, you know what, fuck it, I'm gonna do this, and decided to do it. Now people were like, that's impossible. You can't do it, it's too far. But he makes the point that a guy in 1870 called Captain Webb was told the same thing

that it's impossible to swim the English channel. And he went ahead and did it. So, you know, Ross talks about how it's just, you know, it's about pushing your boundaries, which is something that resonates always with Joe and Joe is really impressed by you can tell the Joe when it comes to these sorts of activities just sees them as just bonkers really like so insane that anyone would try it but definitely something to be admired he talks about going around Pendlin Firth in Scotland, which is a really

difficult portion because they have to be very careful about the currents. The currents would get up to like ten knots, which I guess is he rost was saying is similar to ten miles an hour. So you can imagine if they're coming against you, you're not swimming anyway. You can't swim ten miles an hour. I don't know how fast someone swims with. It's not very fast. Mile an hour maybe too, I don't know. So you've got to get the currents right. Another thing that was a problem for him is he got stung by jellyfish and a tentacle actually got stuck in his face. He didn't even realize because he couldn't kick it, kick the pain and he was just like, why is this not going away? Well it was a jellyfish stuck to his mask. So you know that kind of was there. Another issue that he came up against,

he was telling Joe that his tongue started to fall apart because of all the salt water. So it would like dry out and kind of peel, which was really brutal. And, you know, he had to take his mind off these things. Joe gives the example of some of the work he did with sober October and how you get a lot of mental toughness just by like listening to a great song or watching a really good movie, you can get motivated to have a lot more energy and obviously Ross when he was in the water was unable to do both of those things so he really had to dig deep to find his reason for getting around. They get into different types of exercises, what's really useful.

They talk about how the deadlift is really, in a lot of ways, the ultimate exercise, just because it engages every muscle. So if you've got a solid deadlift, you're in a really good setup for that. Then they talk about, Ross was talking about efficiency, efficiency for endurance acolytes. It's not just about having great endurance and being able to push yourself, but if you're really efficient, you can stretch out that time and then he talks about women that like to run and women in a lot of ways have a higher threshold to pain, maybe because they give birth or whatever, so they've got to be a little tougher in that sense.

But long endurance athletes that run a long, you know, very long way, oftentimes women are very good at this. And Joe gives the example that he thinks women learn quicker. He noticed that with Taekwondo and one of his friends, who's a big bow hunter, said women learn better. Joe gave the example that maybe they don't muscle things, you know, that they listen better and they have to use greater technique so therefore they're improving instead of letting their ego just kind of like push them through things. Joe was talking a little bit about how he really

thinks that Ross could do anything after that swimming challenge because they were talking, Ross talked a lot about the UFC, so he's obviously a big fan, he was talking about tough guys and the heavyweight guys and how they're able to learn and push and then how wrestling is one of the best backgrounds just because wrestling really does build up the most incredible mental toughness. And when you build up mental toughness like that, you can apply it to a lot of different things because you don't have any quit in you, which allows you to systematically chop away training every day without quitting, without giving up,

you're always improving. And Joe said, look, you know, you're Ross is a big dude in good shape. And with that kind of focus that he has, he could really apply it to just about anything and succeed at it. Which is really fascinating. It's a cool thing. And it's probably super inspiring to ross. It sounded like he's a huge fan of Rogen, which is cool. They've been having quite a few guests on recently. I think just because Joe's show is so big now and it's been around so long

We almost forget that these people are not just guests coming on and talking and promoting something that they are into They're huge fans of Rogan's podcast. I mean Like I said the point of doing this is to really just show respect to How inspiring this podcast has been to people and you're seeing it now in these guests that are doing amazing things. And I would just love to know how much of the inspiration of these podcasts has led to these people that do these great things coming on talking about it and kind of giving that respect to Joe. I don't think Joe would accept it too much. He would say, no, you did this. I didn't have anything to do with it. I'm just talking. But that's just Joe. He's modest, dude. And speaks a lot to his character. I think that's why people really like him a lot. Ross also talks about when he came back to land. He couldn't really adjust

to it. He was on the water so much and his feet were kind of weak because he hadn't been walking around a lot. Then he felt unstable, like he could fall over and struggle to kind of stay up, so he was a little worried about that. Obviously when he was in the water he was drinking an eating, I mean, as much as 15,000 calories a day. I can't even imagine what that would be. You know, what are you eating? Is it just like fat and syrup? I think he was talking about granola and beans and it's just so much energy. But, you know, he's got to move in that water, swimming is hard, and then keeping his body temperature up. Very, very difficult. I'm amazed that anyone's body could stay together that long. That really is just a testament to how tough a human can get with the right training and and all Ross wanted to say is just someone as big as bird. It's really impressive that he ran the marathon and Joe was like what do you mean big like fat is he fat you're saying he's fat and he just kept going over and over Ross would not give into it he kept saying but is a specimen of a

man and he's strong and all these things and I felt that was hilarious that was really cool. Sure'm sure Bert loved hearing that compliment too. But the Bert fast stuff just cracks me up, cracks me up every time. They talk a little bit more about the UFC and the best way to be for like heavyweight. It's around 240 because it gives you power, gives you size, but it also gives you speed agility and endurance. And know, and Joe points out Kane Velasquez and how he thinks he's maybe the greatest of all time. Then they get into the Mayweather stuff and Connor and just saying that even though Mayweather

was always gonna win the boxing, one thing that he had to think about is that Connor could have killed him. If it was a real fight, Connor would have picked him apart and just smashed him, but Mayweather stayed calm, kept it professional, and it's just a testament to the level of professionalism in the sport that Mayweather has. He knew exactly what to do, how he was going to deal with it, how he made the money, and yeah, he was a boss in that. And I think Connor learned a lot, for sure. Connor definitely would have learned a lot in that fight. And it was probably really important for him to be around somebody like,

may whether see how he reacted, how he worked, just so Connor can build his brand and get to that level. But anyway, Ross is a super interesting guy, a fantastic athlete, really impressed that he was able to do that swim. I can't wait to have him back on Joe and on Joe's podcast just to hear more about what he gets up to. And yeah, make sure you follow him on Instagram.

He's got a really cool Instagram. It's definitely worth looking at great conversations to check it out. And thanks again for staying tuned, guys. I appreciate it. Peace.