The Church of What's Happening Now: The New Testament - #508 - Rene Estrada - Head Strength and Conditioning Coach for Blackhouse MMA

Episode Date: August 17, 2017

Rene Estrada, the head Strength and Conditioning Coach for Blackhouse MMA (Lyoto Machida, Tony Ferguson, Alan Jouban), joins Joey Diaz and Lee Syatt LIVE in studio. This podcast is brought to you by:  Onnit.com. Use Promo code CHURCH for a 10% discount at checkout.   Recorded live on 08/16/2017.    

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Kick that meal, Lee. Wednesday, August 16th, you bad motherfuckers. Let's kick this fucking meal, Lee. Oh shit. He looks in your eyes. Are you fucking getting me or what? Oh shit. Here we go.

Kiggily. It's the church, bitches. Wern those motherfucking dears. Uncle Joey here. Letting you motherfuckers know what time it is. We had a good time. Deon Night with Action Bronson. My throat is still fucking sore.

My throat was sore when I came back from San Francisco. Then I teamed up with that animal. And between the fucking papers and the fucking blunts with the fucking bong hits. I lost my voice somewhere. But who gives this shit? You lose it. You'll find it.

It's like a fucking nickel. You know what I'm saying? Lee Syatt's here. I actually saw a pretty interesting story about, like, there's a voice coach who specializes in scream rock. And she was saying, like, they had a few of the musicians on saying how they were losing their voice every show. Weird. And this, like, teacher looking all, like, she looks like my mom is teaching these people how to, like, instead of straining it, they're, like, vibrating their vocal cords so they can sing all day. And they can sing for tours now.

Well, there's a whole, you know, thing. that goes at that. All those singers have like some type of coach and they do warm-ups and they wrap their throat with a fucking scarf when they go out of the house and there's a bunch of shit you got to do when you're a singer, you know,

when you're on tour and you're making that type of paper and you know you can't cancel shows you could strain your fucking throat and shit and most of those people do. Whenever I hear stuff like that, whenever they say like oh there's no cure for the cold but then there's a show or a movie and that you hear like

Like, you can get a shot. Like, there's stuff you can do to get rid of the flu. I just don't think it's available to everyone. Like, if you had a movie, don't they have special shots that will get you through it? Or I don't know, I figured. I don't know. They give you, like, vitamin D. Renee Estrada's in the house here.

What's up, ladies and gentlemen? Fucking train over at what's the place? Fast Twitch. Fast Twitch. Down at Black House. Okay, so it's down in Huntington Beach? No, we're down in, right outside of the South Bay Area. We're in Gardena.

So right off the highway, little hidden warehouse. It's a pro-only facility. So we got all our UFC guys, Belator, Anderson's in there, too from time to time, still stopping his head in there. But, man, we're building up a dope team. We got our whole underarmor facility there in the back. So we're making everything, man. Back to what he used to be, building up a team, man. And not paying people to be there.

Everybody who works there works their ass off. It's a whole team. Like, it's a whole different thing we're trying to do. We're trying to build, like, the first real pro-MMA team to where. everybody's like contributing and not just you know paying people to be there or just bringing in their own training partners like no we have our each coaches we have our wrestling coach we have our more tight coach and then we have me doing strength and conditioning so it's like how many strength and conditioning guys are they have just me right now just me running the show right now and how

many guys do you work with a day a day um fighters anywhere from five to 12 of our guys we we sponsor our guys we take care of them um we work with some guys individually and then um i have We're open to the public as far as like regular clients. So executive clients, I'm training some of the USC football guys, things like that. So it's the strength and conditioning is open to everyone. And then the whole MMA side is our pro-only team. So it's not like we have classes going on or anything like that. So it's pretty secluded.

It's cool, man, because there's some cool stuff that goes on there that you don't necessarily see out of the gyms. You know what I mean? Like even today, man, just the type of shit that's going on when those animals throw down. You got Joe Ban, Kevin Casey, Tony Ferguson, all those motherfuckers in there. Is it hard for a fighter to get a camp? Like if there's a young up-and-coming fighter right now, how do you get into a camp? Exactly. So that's the thing.

We have an amateur program too where people, man, like we make it affordable for people, man. We make it, you know, like 100, 150 bucks a month. They come in, they wrestle. They train with our guys not during our pro session, but like when our guys come in three o'clock in the afternoon, they work with our coaches and then they develop up. But even our pro fighters, we have it so that we're giving them everything. They get taken care of strength training. They get taken care of on the mats.

We have therapy for them too. So we get all that shit taking care of, fight contracts, all that stuff. Do you have an acupuncture down now? We do. We do. Now, somebody comes to you and they said, I just want to work out. What's in between getting in shape and strength and conditioning? I mean, there's a big difference.

Just the way that we look at things, we look at the individual. It's not just like, oh, I'm training a football player. I'm training somebody like yourself. So what we do is we put somebody through an event. We put we get all their measurements, all their baro measurements, all that stuff. And then we have them go through a session. We see where they're strong, where they're weak, what their goals are. Like, what are you actually trying to do? Are you trying to be, you know, an NFL top lineman? Are you trying to be a pitcher throwing 95 miles an hour? Or are you just a regular executive client that you want to train at six in the morning and you have your own thing going on. So like, we take what the individual wants and what are the actual like data of what's going on with their body and whatnot and adjusting it to the person. So we take data. driven shit and put it towards the actual the actual program so it's not like oh this person's doing that same they're not fitting into the fast switch program i always knew so that it work like that but let's pretend i'm uh let me see i'm trying to find an example for you let's pretend i'm

george mozdevaal i'm fighting uh johnny jujitsu what's his name damien maia yeah okay you're gonna look at him you're gonna look at my his strengths You're going to look at his weaknesses, and you're going to look at Maya's weaknesses and try to strengthen George's. Yeah, so especially for individual fighters, for like a camp, for a specific type scenario like that, especially for some guys training for the combine and shit like that. Like, yeah, we get it specifically for that. So, like, if we know Maya is going to be more on the jiu-jitsu, more stuff, so we're going to be doing like bear crawls with weighted vest, pushing the sled more, more things, dragging him out, putting them in more of those situations that they're going to be dealing with in the actual fight. That's right. Yeah.

I just wanted to ask you the difference between working out and strength and conditioning. I had, last year I used to go to Higgin two years ago. And he had a brown belt there and he'd say, come work with me at this gym. Just so happened that the fucking gym was, what's his name is Jim? The guy from the UFC that the little bald had a duty's on it. He does the football too. Yeah, he does football too. College football.

He's from Jersey. Sweetheart of a guy. He owns the gym with the old. old linebacker from the Chicago Bears. Erlacker? Yeah. Oh, so, okay. So it's Brian Erlacker and...

It's a sideline announcer from the NFL on Foxx. And he's a little bald-headed guy on fucking... You guys don't know, especially you don't know what I'm talking about. He does the UFC with, like, on Saturdays. He sits with them and he's a little chubby, bald with a mustache and shit. I forget what the fuck him, look him up before I shoot myself. I don't watch that team that much TV, bro. So that's the one thing.

Jay Glazer. I watch the game. Jake Glazer. Unbreakable. Oh, unbreakable. Okay. Yeah, I know there. That's what he did.

His jihito things. You know, the guy was cool. And then one day he told me he was broke and he wanted to borrow $2,000 and he gave me a- and it was a scam. Then the other day, I go up there to work out and bring me a contract to me to sign to join Unbreakable for like 300 a month. I'm like, dog. You told me to come up here and fuck around with him. which when Hegan didn't show up.

And now you want me to, I mean, it was just fucking crazy. But I was watching what they were doing. And it fucking blew my mind. Like they had to do from the Giants in there. O'Dell Becken was in there. And I was watching, like, as I was getting dressed, making believe it was real slow. Because fat people take a long time to get dressed and shit.

It takes me like 10 minutes to put my belt around my waist and shit. The beginning, when I'm not cold, when I'm cold and I got thrown around, I can't reach. At the end of the class, I can throw my hand all. the way around. Just put your belt on before you put the pants on. I put it on the pants. I don't put it through when you're standing up. That's like a, that's like a torture chamber. Jujitsu.

Oh, Jiu-Jitsu. Oh, jutsu. Yeah. I'm talking about your jeans belt. Oh, what the fuck it's wrong with you? So when I'm cold, I can't rip my arm around my shoulder. Once I get warm at the end of class, you got to see me. I'm like a fucking octopus. But I would go in there and I'd watch what they do, and it was pretty mind-boggling. Like how much, you know, In the 80s, I had a friend of mine that was a strength and conditioning coach for the Olympics. And I watched what they were doing in the 80s.

They were doing great stuff. But everybody was kind of doing the same thing. So if I came into the gym, you came into the gym, and Becky came into the gym, the workout was on the wall. It wasn't really specialized. There's still a lot of places like that, man. You'd be surprised. And now it's evolved like so much. You know, I turned Leon to this guy, Dave.

That was fucking great. He was a great dude. Cattlebell. Oh, that's when you guys were doing the kettlebell. He was a fireman. And he just really, and I believe, I'm like you, listen, I like the guys that go to Boston College and take kinesiology and they do the other thing that you study for. Sports management. No, the other one.

Well, you have to walk downstairs and see a cadaver for breakfast and shit. Exercise science, can you see all the same shit. That's all great. That's all great. But I like the guy that did. Get it, did it, and did it. I've always been one of those guys. I like the school book guy.

When I first met Lee, the first time I met Lee, the first thing I said to him was we were shooting something. I go, Lee, whatever you learned to them some college, throw it away, because I don't want it around here. Because if not, we're all going to look like we're shooting the same fucking shit. Yeah. And it's so weird how, with what you guys do, you know, I'm stoned. I forgot what the fuck I'm going to. Well, no. No, I get it.

I get what you're saying. Like, it's a whole, it's a whole different thing because at least, at least what we try to do, man, is just, it's just like that. Keep it to yourself. My thing is, is we're trying to blur the lines a little bit, like show people, like, there's not that much of a difference between where you think you're at and where these high-level people are at. Like, you can get there too. It doesn't take, like, well, I got to show up at 6 a.m. and do all this stuff. Like, no, you can do it at your place and work. And there's steps to it.

Man, there's people that, you know, they work out once a week and then they, fuck, I'm sore, blah, blah, blah. Then they go, you know, take a few days, five, six days off, and then they go to work out again. Oh, I'm so sore. I never get better. I never get better. Man, it's like trying to start the car every single time. Do, do, do, do, like, it's never going to start up. You got to keep it going.

Even if it's the most basic things, like when I tell people, oh, I'm sore, what should I do? Go for a walk, man. Walk on the beach. We live in California. Go for a swim. Do something. You got to move. When you're sore, the muscle needs blood.

You got to move. It's amazing how many times I'm sore And I go, you know what? I'm going to do something today I'll go out in the back And I swing back You have to. Kettlebell, I'll do three sets of cleans

And I'll punch the bag or something And I feel completely better Sometimes my knees feel tight I put fucking ice on them They feel a little better But I go outside and kick the fucking bag And it loosens all that shit And next thing I'm walking tip-top Magoo

And I believe in giving blood I've always And I learned that when I was 14 from basketball these guys I know what an injury is I know what an injury is you know what an injury is and you know the difference in an injury and soreness there's some soreness that Jesus Christ you can't get ready for you know but it I you when I first started working out Joe you told me like not to overdo it because a lot of bigger people will do it get really sore never go back I've never really experienced that and I recently went to a gym that I'm not a huge the guy's very nice but I'm I'm

I'm starting to see why people go and choose different gyms because it's a little bit what you're talking about. It's just like the list on the wall. He just kind of lets you do it and then didn't really... He adjusted some things, but I was doing... He had the rings hanging from the wall and I was doing polls and I literally couldn't move my arms for about four days. Yeah, for sure.

No, I understand what you mean. Like, the other day, I was... I had a strengthening session with Tony Ferguson and we're just sitting there talking shot, man. That guy's such a cerebral fighter. People don't understand the type of brain that that guy has. Like whenever he retires fighting, the mind of that guy as a coach and just as an individual is, is amazing how he breaks things down. And like that, it's just, there's a lot that goes into being a coach.

It's not just instructing somebody, hey, do this, pick this up, put this down. Hey, bro, how are you feeling today? Hey, what's up with that thing that I see walking a little bit different, bro? I see you arguing with your kids, whatever. It could be any little thing and you just break that person down the same way you would for anything else. And all of a sudden, their shoulders relaxed, they're telling you about all these different things that they might have not told you about before. Then they're relaxing. Then they're actually doing what you're telling them.

Then they're thinking about what they're doing. And it's a whole process, man. Especially you want somebody to get better and like showing up to you every day and like showing up six in the morning, whatever it is. There's a whole process calling people and just saying, hey, man, how are you doing, bro? I saw you did this at this event, whatever, especially now that we have social media and half the people that are on their phones all the time. There's no excuse for you to say, no, I didn't see that or not even just, you know, just comment, say something to somebody and just like, it changes their whole mentality and attitude about coming to you. And then they actually, you know, listen to what you're saying. When you see the results, it's like, oh, shit.

I had a- It's got to be fun for people. Yeah, yeah. I used to walk that park. When I used to drop my wife off, I would walk and walk that park in the mornings. And I would see three or four personal trainers. And that's what Lee was just saying. I'm a fucking trainer.

Lee comes into me with a fucking group on. I take a look at Lee. I know he's not Joe Muscular. If I walk in there, you don't look at me and go, he's not. not Joe Muscular. Let me, before I even throw him to the wolves, let me see what his capacities are.

Let me see what his capacities are. I'm going to talk to him and tell him that if he does this today, I want to see him for sure on Wednesday. Like, what time can you be here Wednesday? Because I do not want you to miss Wednesday for this reason. And if you saw come, I'm going to take care of you. No, and then people try to pull the, no, I can't pay.

No, no, no, no, show. Show, show. Work it out. Figure out. But I think a lot of people join the gym and they tell them you get three free training sessions. They don't even test the people to see what they could do for them. Listen, bro, I'm a fucking animal. I don't give a fuck about anything.

Before I do anything, and I've always been like that, I go to a professional. And I go, do me a favor. I won't want to shoot a gun. Do me a favor. You know, you could, well, Joey, you're an asshole. You could go on YouTube and learn that. Okay. But you might miss something that, you know, especially when it comes to your body,

especially when it comes to deadlifting or overhead presses or anything that, you know, it's like we, Lee and I were going to a place and we're swinging 85-pound kettlebells. What is the purpose of that? I left there thinking one day, what was the purpose of that? Now, guess what? I can't go to the Jitsu until Monday. I can't walk. I can't do it.

The fucking, you know, let me tell you something. The fucking doing comedy is just as hard as working out. That hour on stage, my gorilla feet are clamping to the ground and shit's moving through my hips. There's times I go home at night. I'm like, what the fuck happened tonight? I did two fucking shows. That's what fucking happened. There's nights I go home, bro.

Take a shower, drink coffee, and do a 30-second stretch while I watch Law & Order. Because I know it's going to make me feel better the next day. Or even just laying on the foam roll or anything. Anything. It's amazing. Like, nah, I just don't go to bed no more. I take a shower and I take cold water now. Fucking cold as a motherfucker.

You know, I started off warm so you're not going in there like a penguin. And then as you're getting out, you fucking put freezing. Every two minutes, you just keep it low, low, low. And by the end, this is a fucking ice cubes are coming out. And you don't even think about it. It's hitting your back. Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. We have our guys do ice baths all the time.

Especially after training, we have Kevin Casey and another one of our guys go. They grab the ice, throw it in there. Boom, that's right. Everybody, at least nine minutes. Let's go. Let's go. And you just see all the guys going like that, man. It's so important.

People don't realize how much just even taking care of your body does for your mental spirit and just everything that's going else on around you. Like even when I first moved here. So I moved from Miami to L.A. about seven months ago. So that first whole transition, I was a trainer over there. I was working out all the time. I came over here. I'm like, oh, no, jet lag. It's not going to bother me.

I'm going to be able to work out. I'm going to be able to do all this. Boom, hit me. I was just extremely tired. Just too much. Then I stopped completely working out because I'm like, man, I got to rest. It's just too much. And just from the one to two weeks of just like trying to stop everything and like,

oh, let me get my stuff organized. Just your mentality, the way everything goes. You start to feel bad about yourself and what's going on. Yeah. Shet enth is your mind. Yeah. Just not, not positive thoughts, man. And that's the thing.

Even like what you were saying the other day, just to go for a walk, to walk down, the street to just like breathe in the air here just get get away from everything that you do every single day and just be with yourself and your own thoughts and just the most simple thing from going to a walk can turn you know your life into man this walk feels good or whatever it is you think about something boom you're going somewhere else like these things get your mind going to it's not just oh i'm working out to work out no man i'm thinking i'm doing it's a part of everything they show a graph what happens to your mind after 20 minutes of any type of workout what happens to your mind how the blood affects your mind, what parts of the brain it goes to, you know, number two, I just, I grew up on

that thought. Listen, think about something. You are, who you are, who you are. We come from Cuban descent. That means we were on a fucking island with no palm trees for a long fucking time. Your grandparents took to the son with no skin cancer. SPF number eight Oh, that's bullshit

Cubans defied it Cubans defied it The ones that you see In the real dark They got no SPF on that side of the island And the ones that are the real light From the one side to the other side It's like a fucking graph

Like then when you were kidding You got the toaster You got the toaster Whatever you wanted That's how Cuba is And this is a joke But it's the truth With some people

Yeah Israel That's a, that's a desert, ain't it? It's a desert, but we're all from fucking Russia and the no sun. That's why I get spots in my head. Like, there's Israeli people who are from, who've, like, grown up there now, and they're tan. Like, the way, yeah, they're really tan. Everyone goes in the army.

They're badass. But, like, there's Jews, there's a lot of Jews like me here who just, but there's Jews who work out. I'm just one of the indoor Jews. I was a Coke fiend. I was a Coke fiend. And when you do Coke, nobody does Coke outside. No.

You know what I'm saying? Nobody goes to the park. It's not an outside activity. It's not an outside activity. So when you tend to do coke, after you do coke, that same shit that you get on the Coke stays. You don't want to go outside. You're depressed now. It's the other side of the coin.

Now you don't want to go outside. And I learned from that, that just going outside, going for a walk, no matter how bad I felt about the night before, how much I spent. I didn't have the rent money. all that shit went away when I went for the walk and I could put the pieces together. Yeah. I could make up my mind on what my next move was

from just going on that walk. Yeah. Because one minute you're thinking about one thing and all of a sudden your mind takes you somewhere else, but you said something we were just sitting early here on the couches, which I'm a firm believer on. I really am.

Like I just did it this last week. Becky called me. She goes, what are you doing in San Francisco? You don't work on Sundays. I had to work on Sundays. But I did it for, Like, as soon as I was delayed on Thursday, I was like, I'm not going to do the show tonight.

Like, I'm going to force myself to do it Sunday. The more the plane got delayed, it was like I was getting happier and happy. Like, I was like, no, I'm going to force myself to do it Sunday, just to see what it felt like. And what happened? Nothing. I still came home Monday.

I missed Jiu-Jitsu Monday because I got up too early. I got up at 5 to catch the plane. But I still worked out. I felt that jet lag, and I go, fuck this motherfucking jet lag. and I went outside, I hit the bag for 20. I did three sets of cleans with cattle bells. I did the fucking swings with the bats.

The whole deal. I did sit up some push-ups. I let the sun hit my face. And then the last 10 minutes, I take my shirt off, and I let the son get the fucking sweat off my body. And that's my SPF is the fucking fat sweat that comes out. You understand me? There's got to be some fucking coconut oil or something in there

to fucking block the sun. Have you heard of like these people who are awake? up it's like a lot of them navy seals wake up at 4 a.m. to work out. Yeah. Is that, I mean, I'm not going to say it's bad. I would never say it's bad. But is there like, are there benefits? It just seems like crazy to me to wake up at 4 a.m. and be doing these crazy workouts. I think a lot of people do things like that for the sole purpose of discipline. Because if you really look at it, I mean, man, it's a whole different time in China. We all got 24 hours in the fucking day, right? 24 hours don't change. It's a different time in China. It's a different time in

Portugal, it's a different time, you know, in Miami. There's still fucking 24 hours. You can work out whenever you want. It's like, it's just giving yourself the actual breaks in between. And that's another thing. People don't focus on rest, man. Rest and recovery. A lot of people just try to hop into a gym and try to do all these crazy things,

hop in with the guerrillas and then like, oh, all of a sudden, oh, I'm hurt on this. And man, like, give yourself a rest. You don't want to make it to something to where you start to hate it like that because you go so hard and you put it as this big roadblock. Well, as an adult, you see that. Yeah. As a 20-year-old child or a 25-year-old child, you do not see those things. I see it.

Ever since I joined out, Brett O'Krake. I've been there for like 18 months. I see people who come in, and I would giggle. They would look at me and go, you only come twice or three times a week. That's it. I go on the road, man. I'm old. It takes me a little harder to recover.

And they'll tell me how they came 19 days. in a row, 26 days in a row. And Becky, what happens? And where they leave? They get too much. Yeah. They end up hurt. You, I don't get how old you are.

We get a lot of clients like that, man. Just because people end up like, oh, no, I got fucked up at this place. And then we offer like, you know, recovery training and whatnot. So they come to us after that. And it's just like, man, like that. You see the people, you know, suffering from whatever it is. And it's like, man, no, it doesn't have to be like, that's it's all we're doing today. That's like, no.

Yeah, you're getting out of here. You're done. karate there was a white kid there that I didn't know but every time he put his shirt on he was fucking bruised like I thought his wife was beaten like that type

and I said to him and I don't mean to be nosy why you always bruised he goes because on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10 in the morning I go to Thai town off of Hollywood and Western on Hollywood Boulevard two blocks down there's a there used to be a

eye center and then a place that did massage and then a place next to that was a restaurant well behind the restaurant on Friday on Tuesdays and Thursdays the cooks would beat the fuck out of each other. What the fuck?

Beat the fuck out of each other and this white kid would go over that because hopefully it was for money I'll leave no no no movie tie training with the tree his legs were always fucking blistered and bleeding his feet were all fucked up and I asked him what the fuck is your problem

He goes, don't tell nothing to sense. You know, because we were learning like Tangs Nudeau. He goes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, like over by the Thai side. To a Thai fight club? It was like a Thai fight club. Backdoor chef's club. All fucking all chefs, all the cooks and the wait staff. Oh, my God.

And they had the trees set up back there, the trees. Whatever they kicked to get their shins into. Yeah, they get trees. And bro, he goes, it was full contact. It was on. He would come in with black eyes and fucking. It was on. And I applauded him.

Like I for a couple weeks and then when I said to him in class I go you know Jesus Christ I loved that you know at that time I was 400 pounds so I would admire anybody who was working out but I said to him unless you're in the UFC or something why are you doing this I mean he was like an accountant it wasn't like he was working security or he worked at the at the fucking roxy or he worked at the comedy store and then he'd like one badass security guy he was was just and he thought about it and he goes you know you're right i go it's not worth walking around lumped up yeah unless you're really a fucking fighter it's not worth even then with my fighters i'm still super yeah you got a super be on top of it because especially some of the stuff that they go through

with the train some of the younger guys up and coming they're trying to prove something in training and you know you're dealing with this ufc fighter in front of you you're one of the smaller guys in the lFA or something you're trying to prove a point and then you want to go do strength training after and show out there too so it's like man it's just it's approach you in in a different way man and just, man, trying to change the game, for real. That's why it's just trying to get it out there to as many people as possible, showing them, you know, what I do, what our program does. And it's not, it's really not like a gimmick.

We're not sitting there trying to advertise stuff on Groupon. Hey, everybody, come in. Man, if you know who we are, you want to reach out to us, great. Like, let's work. You know, we always give people, you know, a trial session like that. That's the first thing we do. Just to see if it's something that they actually want to do or come in or if we see that we can work together.

Because like that, man, sometimes you get. of people that come in and they just, you can tell from the get go, they just look at you with a dead stare and they're like, oh, I don't want to be here. Some of these parents, man, unfortunately, that you, you know, you bring in a six-year-old, a seven-year-old kid, and the kid's in there and the kid doesn't want, man, the kid wants to be outside playing around, doing all these things. And there's certain kids who do want to be, you know, running, con, touching drills. But, man, it's all got, it's, there's, there's all an approach to it.

There can't just be one way of, oh, this is, this is what it is. This is, you know, straight up. A lot of people since they, like you said, see it by the books. Sometimes we get people, you know, out of college, they have master's degrees. They have all these things, the internships, all this stuff. And then you put them there with a client and the client, even you can learn all the stuff you want in the books. And they're doing the exercise. They're like, oh, I don't feel it here.

What do you mean? You don't feel it here. All of a sudden, what, now you got to change it. Now you got to talk to them differently. Because if now you look like the asshole, they're, oh, I don't know what I'm doing. No, you got to know what you're doing. You got to realize that there's so many different things, man. It's a whole different game, man.

You know, just to hit lead back before. Before I got locked up, I rode my bicycle everywhere, and I hit the bag, and I lift weights. I just liked it. And the UPS dude was yoked. This UPS dude that delivered, not yoke, like bodybuilder yoke, but yoke that he did pushups and ate well. And I said to him, dog, where do you lift? He goes, I don't lift weights, I swim. So I go, where do you swim?

I love to go with you. And he goes, okay, I'll pick you up tomorrow, 5.30 in the morning. I go, 5.30 in the fucking morning. He goes, it's only two classes a day. Six and seven, 15. There you go. Six or seven. And I put my mouth in, I put my foot in my mouth.

I go, okay, pick me up in a fucking 5.30. And to jump in that cold pool. But you know what, bro? I stuck with it for nine months until I got locked up. I got locked up on a Monday and that Friday. I was at the Master's swimming program. I even did a biathlon. Like, that's how much I fucking.

like swimming at that time. But it wasn't just jumping in a pool. She had gone to the Olympics and she had been one of those chicks that goes to Hawaii and the Hamlet chicks. What do you call those people that they fucking run 40 miles? Triathletes. She was the one that went to the big

one. Why? Yeah, the big one. So she would, you know, I love the. Iron man. Because you come in and you can tell her, hi, I'm Becky. I've roller skated. I swear, that's great Becky. Jump in the fucking pool. And you jump in and she goes, come here.

Do me a favor. Hold on to the wall and just kick. Just kick until fucking next Tuesday and then talk to me. She was badass, but you know what? I remember the first time I got to pull. I jumped in at six. You swam before? Oh, fuck yeah.

I jumped in. I started doing a bunch of these, like Johnny Olympia. And I looked up. And I moved three feet. Like I was backwards. I was sideways in the water. And she's like, okay. Come here.

Hold on to the wall. Just kick. and she would make me hold my legs a certain way and she'd jump into water and hold your feet a certain way she was technical by the book and you could go in there in a week and a week she'd make you do laps or two and you'd be like dying after one week

she'd jump into fucking water come up this is how I want you to do it and she would break it down for you Becky that you could do 20 laps and not stop she was a fucking genius bro I never saw anything like that No wasted movements. No wasted movement.

Perfect breathing. You're where your head turns to relax your muscles and your neck. I mean, she would hold you. The details. The details. And then she would, after three or four weeks, you'd go, okay, I want you to come Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Why? I could only come Wednesday because Thursday.

I want to put you up against this other guy because, I mean, she was fucking brilliant. But to get back to what you said, Lee. Let me tell you something. Today, in my world today, I wish I could go to Coach Joey on Wednesdays and Mondays. Coach Joey at Alberto Cranes is creating killers over there on Fridays. Yeah, I've seen them. Those three days, he's creating killers over there. I can't do it.

I need time now when I wake up. In the old days, let me tell you something, Lee, there ain't nothing like waking up. I would smoke and join, drink a protein shake and get on my, beach cruiser and I'd ride over there on the bike over the lane you can't even believe this shit. No better way to start the day. Lee I'd be out of there by seven I'd go to King

Supers and get a big fucking, this is before people took, said how bad sugar was. I'm a Cuban dog. They ain't nothing like freshly squeezed orange juice I would go buy a fucking container of freshly squeezed iron shoes and just drink the whole thing ride my bicycle home and Lee

I would feel like I could take over the world You did the hardest part of your day right there? That was the hardest part of my day. Mentally, physically. I understand that part of it. I really enjoy. Plus, if your fat fucks like us and you lift and do cardio, it goes with us the rest of the day.

So your metabolism is lit and going. You're cooking all fucking day. So it helps for different things. For sure. That's why people tell you, when you wake up, go for a walk. Go for a brisk walk. If you're a fat fuck, go for an hour walk. That's it.

Your metabolism is. I'm fine. Stay away from the ringdings, don't drink sodas, and it's all going to work out for you. You know what I'm saying? It's that easy. It's that easy. Yeah. No, I was doing it. It's an 8 a.m. class that I've been going to, and I like it, but I think it goes back to what you're saying about knowing your clients. Like, I'm sure there's something. Like, he has these warm-ups that, like, you're supposed to do every class. And they all have special names. And I'm sure there's some, like, like, fit people who know them and can just do them by seeing someone do it. He was having this, like, 67-year-old

guy who's been there for three years teach me he's very nice but i i can't i need someone like you someone who's worked out knows how to work out like with me to give you that confidence just from the beginning yeah in the beginning i'm the same way bro yeah i can't i can't have someone showing me i'm the same fucking way no it's different when you approach people like and even everything can you can have something planned all the way up until that person walks through the door and and you were talking about it the other day on the podcast when somebody walks through the door. That's why you have Lee stopped. You slow them down a little bit. So even through the warmup, you kind of slow them down. Hey, man, what's up with your day? What's up with this? What's up

with that? You start to figure out a little bit more. Man, like you can really get to know people and change people's lives in a way that that you don't really realize because like I get clients that sometimes, I actually gain 10 pounds. I used to be super skinny or just like, you know, a mom that has had three kids that, you know, wants to get surgery to take off all the skin and everything and is going through all this program. And now, you know, I have, I have women that are going in there losing 10, 15 pounds and like taking a picture. And it's, it's way different to tell somebody that you're just, like, this is just the way I am. I'm not drinking any fucking protein, like any teas, fit teas.

I'm not taking this pill. Like, no, man. It's just like my life. Coming to the gym and you're fucking dealing. Yeah, like that, man. And people don't realize, like, how much that plays into it. Well, people quit before anything happens. That's the number one problem with our country.

that you go to any type of martial art, you go to any type of gym, and if they look at the percentages, you know, these gyms, when you go in there and you sign up for the year, that dick gets hard. When you go into fucking 24-hour, any of these places,

when you do that three-year program, their dick gets hard. Didn't you say someone of our friends had like a seven-year plan somewhere? Yeah, they got beat, and then they went, no. Because when you buy them, when you buy the memberships, they go, do you travel?

You're like, I don't know, sometimes, okay. Well, for an extra $200, you can work out at any 24-hour fitness in the country. She went to New York, walked in, they almost called the cops on it. She came back, and she couldn't get her money back. You know, they have different fucking things. That's funny.

Yeah. Well, they used to be a guy on Wilshire. He's still there. Okay, Wilshire and Fairfax. You make a right, and you go down there. There's a guy there that you walk in. and smoke comes out of the office. He comes out.

He's a little Chinito. He's a little Chinese guy or whatever. And he'll come out. He'll train you in Taekwondo. But the first thing he'll look at you and he'll go, you want to be black belt. And you're like, yes. And he's like, I make you black belt in three and a half years

with my accelerated program. Only for you, I do. Give me $15,000. Brother, there was a girl in my building, on Schrader. that gave him 15,000 for three years. Unfortunately, out here in LA, I believe it, man. Accelerated Black Belt Program.

15,000 a year? 15,000 for the three years up front for the accelerated Black Belt Program. Man, there's people, the thing is with LA, like, there's a lot of people that buy into the hype that buy into the Bush. There's a lot of people that have money, dog. Listen, in LA, I knew a guy, God rest of the soul, Macafoli. He had a client that would give him $500,000. an hour. What?

And take him on the row with him to shoot movies. And on the movie sets, he was just paying him 1,500 flat. And Maca Foley would call me every day and go, I go, what, Mac, what are he doing? And he'd be in his room smoking dope. And he'd tell me how he just trained such and such for 45 minutes. And that was it. He did six movies with him? Oh, and did I tell you, he put him in the movie, too.

So he collected fucking residuals from the movie, too. Yeah. If you get your hand on one of those guys, the studio, they don't give a fuck. The studio will pay you 500 and bill him a thousand. Oh, it's a standard. I mean, so it's a scam. It's just in fortune has 10 studio racks down there. It's like a status thing, I think.

Yeah. I've seen people take without a facility without anything. I've seen people take climbs down to the beach, no, no equipment, no anything, train them for 45 minutes. A, it's 100 bucks. What you mean, bro? We just ran on in the cent. Yeah, 100 bucks. People pay it and it's crazy.

First of all, you have to figure in L.A. that 40%... I knew a comedian who took his trainer on the road. Things got bad quick. That trainer ain't on the road with him no more. He took his trainer on the road. But I'll tell you one thing. De Niro and Grudge match. He had the trainer he hired for the raging bull.

Now he was a grown man. He hired him when he got out of college. He was doing what you were doing for the Jets. De Niro hired him to train him Found love with the kid and said Quit your job You do every movie with me So at 8 in the morning

The guy trains De Niro every morning Excuse me They run They do calisthenics one day The other day they do pushups They do rings He's 70 You know what I mean

It's not like he's got them fucking doing It's got to be a match man That's why we have people come in And do a preview session Or whatever it is first To like hey let's see if you're Before we even tell anybody about price hey don't even what do you what does it cost bro just come in come in we'll figure it out let me train

you let's see what are you looking for what do you want what are we trying to do here and then after that we'll talk about price because if not man you're gonna give yourself such a headache like that charging somebody and it doesn't feel right man to be you know you charge somebody something and you know they're looking for something else and then it just it becomes this whole whole thing man the guy downstairs from me that finally joined the name because he couldn't he was worthless And I think he's back or home. I just saw him, yeah, he was the guy, the girl's girlfriend that threw a safe out of the head.

He, that was his gig. He was just juiced up. He was a good-looking juice. He looked at the guy from Suns of Anarchy, but only on juice. Not the blonde good-looking one. The Bordeaux, Puerto Rican kid. Oh.

What's his name? The guy with the, yeah, with the lightning rods in his head. He looked just like him, only. huge. And that guy, I would see what he was doing with people. And I go, what the fuck is he doing? You know? And that's why he ran out of clients, because he would run them the first day, like fucking run them like bulls.

Like, you know, so you got a fat chick that weighs 200 pounds. You can't run her like a bull. You run her a little bit, you stretch her out, talk to her by the diet, until you'll see her Wednesday at 10, and then just build her up little by little. but if that shit gets sore see half these people don't want to get sore anymore see once you go into that type of clientele if you make them sore

that's not good yeah they just want to do enough to tell their friend I kickbox with Renee today oh my god I love Renee Renée exot he's Cuban and oh my God we kick he was so great and

and Renee just for that they'll give you the deuce in Hollywood up here in Hollywood these fucking actors and they're going to go crazy. I got his time Asthmaelorne there, Justin Fortune, the actor that kept coming in, and he went Fortune, put him with somebody finally, he said,

fuck that, I want to box with you. Oh, shit. So Justin Fortune started working with him, but Justin Fortune told him it's 400 an hour. So it's bingu. So it was 400 an hour. Yeah. Dude was coming two hours a day. And one day

he told Justin, put me in the fucking ring against one of your pros, and Justin goes, bro, you're an actor, bro. This is bullshit. You know, just have you throw jabs into the air to make you feel good about you so don't get confused the dude well in there he never came back of course and that's what happens huh but just the news just because i got him i had him for a fucking year give me 800 a day what don't i give a fuck he's a fuck he's somewhere else paying some other jerk off a thousand now not to hit him you

something saying it's so fucking weird life is fucking weird bro it's like when you bartend i me and lee were were talking about this one time. You know, your friend hooks you up. You always have that friend that's the hook up. Right? And you go in there. And then one day he comes to you and goes, bro, I can't hook you up no more.

The owner's wife is he. What do you do? You're like, fuck this point. You cross the street and you actually pay full price for the drinks across the street. This guy just wants you to give him a 20. That's it because you've been drinking there for eight years for free, like an animal, you know what I'm saying?

Eating and shit, bumming cigarettes. Finally, he says, bro, at least throw me a 20. And you get insulted across the street and pay full price and shit. Well, you know, I've known a lot of personal trainers with different types of experiences. And it's so weird now. The guys that knew I knew that were still successful are the guys that were athletes, former athletes, that had a kinesiology degree or whatever the fuck they had from playing in college. and now they figured how to put it all together, you know.

But I believe you guys, like you were saying that you play baseball. So if I come to you tomorrow and go, let me tell you something, bro, my fastball's 88. How long would it take me to get to 94, which is a pretty not a bad goal. No, no. Considering that I'm coming to you at 88. It's an achievable goal. I'm 24 years old. And that's just mechanics.

That's a little bit of mechanics. You work with me on mechanics. We do some fucking, we throw some balls like in the Olympics and shit. You know what I'm saying? We spin around. Yeah. Throw a ball. You know, is that possible?

Like, if I come. For sure. 100%. How much, I've always been curious with baseball. How much of a difference could I? Like, if I came to you at 88, could you get me to 100? I mean, there's. Depending on my age?

Yeah. Well, not so much, man. Like throwing 100 miles an hour. Throwing a baseball is the fastest movement a human body can do because of just the angles that everything is going at and how hard. I mean, man, what else can we do that we put out with our own body to 100 miles an hour? That sounds crazy, you know? So something like that, there's a lot of structural things too to get to 100. But 94, like you were saying, is for sure 100% possible because it's just showing people how to use your body.

Because a lot of guys, you just throw a ball your whole life and you don't necessarily learn how to throw a 30 pound medicine ball into the wall, have to drive everything behind it with good form and realize like, man I throw with my feet. I don't just throw in my arm here at the end. I need to use my feet. I need to use this. I need to use that. All of a sudden you start putting all those little pieces together. That's one mile an hour by just extending your ankle just a little bit more. That's one mile and then you're using your hips a little bit more. Then you're putting a little bit more on it. And then that's how that's how it grows. I went. I was like that. I was a kid throwing 88, 89 miles an hour. By the time I was done playing, I had topped out 93, 94. I'd had a L.E. I'd had a L.A. That's how it grows. I went. I was like that. I was a kid throwing 88, 89 miles an hour. By the time I was done playing. I had top down 93, I'd had L. elbow surgery, Tommy John with James Andrews, the whole deal. But at some point like that, I had to go from one place to the other. And it was just, and it was more of the training more so than the throwing. A lot of people get fed into, oh, I need to buy this book with this many drills and this guy's drills and that guy's drills. Man, it's throwing baseball.

How many ways is there to throw baseball? Like, for real. You know, it's more about teaching your body how to get the most out of what you're doing to get that result, you know? Now, why does the elbow go with baseball? The elbow goes with pitching. With pitching, man, like that, because our, an elbow is just really meant to extend back and forth like this. That's what we're made for.

It's not once you start getting into the rotation of everything and people start leaning behind and all that stuff, it starts putting straight on the elbow and like, and it's just, it's a compounding thing. Like when I tore my elbow, it wasn't, it wasn't just like, oh, I threw the game and it popped or whatever. Like it was a thing that happened gradually over time. And then one day, it kind of, kind of gave out like, man, I was throwing, it was cold weather. I was throwing, I threw, I was throwing long toss and I heard like kind of like a crack, like how when your back cracks like, like da-g-da-da. And I was like, man, that felt kind of weird.

And then I threw the next one and it didn't feel that good, but I still was 88 to 90 that day. So I'm like, bro, nothing wrong. And then I go somewhere else to another visit the next week. And I was throwing 85, 86. And I'm like, fuck, man, my elbow's kind of sore. What's wrong? And then all of a sudden next thing you know, I go get, I pitched a whole year like that with torn elbow trying to rehab it because people tell you, oh it's tendonitis it's this it's that so i did everything to try not to get surgery and then um i went

to andrews james andrews andrews andrews andrews his shoulder he does everybody yeah mariano rivera all these guys you always hear him on sports center he's like the the Tommy john yeah he always that's pretty so you were doing that in college yeah so i that was my freshman year of college that i got my elbow surgery how do you pay like do you have to pay for that my school paid for it because i got injured i got injured at school at school Cool. So that's how it was. And they picked that doctor? Well, no. We pick that doctor.

Somehow, some way, you know how it is. When you know the right people, I got to move the, no, he can't go to the doctor because this and that. All of a sudden, next thing you know, I go up to James Andrews, cost me $15 to see the best doctor in the world. Like that. The guy comes in, grabs your elbow, does a bunch of things. He doesn't even look at the report. He says, man, he's got about like a 40% tear. He's got like three other doctors there just watching you, just riding down, writing shit down.

Look at him. Look at you. Writing shit down. He opens up the paper. Oh, 45% tear. Boom. Next thing you know, we're there the next day in surgery at his facility. He even brought my parents into the room like that to watch the surgery, like on the screen and everything.

Opened up my elbow and like that, man. I saw him. He wanted me back two weeks later and I was there with Sam Bradford and another one of the NFL guys just there chilling like that just hanging out. It's just me getting my thing done. So it's cool, man. It's a cool experience. Like what we were talking about earlier, like just where sports takes you and all the different experiences you see and sometimes you need to go through like those bad times to kind of like

push you to those points because if not man when everything's just nice and breezy like you don't get pushed anywhere sometimes when people don't have that motivation to go and they're just comfortable in their thing like sometimes you got to get put in a shitty situation like that to get everything taken away from you i thought i was going to college all this shit uh you know scholarship lSU all this stuff next thing you know your elbow goes what now like what are you going to do you're going to sit there and cry you're going to like you got to figure something out but And it's not to be, you know, like that, like to the extreme of waking up at 4 in the morning. But like what we were talking about, like, my thing for me that would get me over everything

was just going for a jog at night, at night. Everything's just dark. You're there with your own thoughts, you're thinking. Let me ask you something. You made a pretty interesting statement. You said that pitching is what is the only thing you could do with your whole body. That quickest. The quickest thing.

That's fucking crazy. Yeah. Throwing a fastball like that 100 miles an hour is the fastest, is the first. fastest thing a human body part can move like what about those things they throw in the olympics the javelin very similar yeah but they're a little bit heavier so like that the same thing with the football it slows your arm down so it actually it's safer to throw football than it is a baseball because your arm's not going through the speed that it would be in a short amount of time because think about as soon as you let it go you got to decelerate and slow your arm down

because if not your arm pops out of the socket that's why people pronate and then they slow their arm down and that's why sometimes people when they get the shoulder problems is most because either they're flying open or when they don't know how to decelerate because they throw hard, but then you need the brakes for the car too. You know what I mean? If you fucking just got a car with an engine and no brakes, you're fucked. You're fucked. You know?

So that's why a lot of people mess up their shoulders and things like that too. There's a lot that goes into it. And I mean, it's just the same thing, man. It's the individual. It's who pays attention to the detail of the individual. A lot of people, the thing is with social media and with everything, like it's nice to get everything out to everybody. It's nice. But when you start to try to sell every,

everything to everybody and trying to just sell it as one general program, this and that, then that's when you start to show your ass. You know, because it's just that's, it's, it is what it is, man. It's so detailed when you want to be the best, like especially with everybody now, 94 is a good speed, but everybody in the, a lot of people in the major leagues throw, you know, 95, 96, 97. It's a lot more common now. So now that level is getting that much more higher. Man, I see kids, like we were saying seven years old, eight years old, doing strength and

conditioning. You weren't doing that as a kid. I wasn't doing that as a kid. When I started doing bands as a sophomore People would laugh at me Well, you weren't supposed to Until you got hair on your dick You weren't supposed to touch fucking weights

I don't know you You're not supposed to touch your weight Until you get a couple hairs on your dick And you can lift weights And shit like that I had to hide weights My mom wouldn't let me lift She's like wait till you fucking get hair on your dick

And you can lift weights Because So I had to take those sliding doors You like when you ever take Like a wooden sliding door You like that A closet If you take that

And put it on two chairs you got a bench. There you go. That's a Puerto Rican bench right there. I got myself some dumbbells and I would do the fucking things downstairs and hide them. And she'd go, how the fuck are you lifting weights

with the closet, you son of a bitch? I figured it out. You figure shit out, you know what I'm saying? No, I didn't know if it worked like that. How about for punching? Yeah. I could get, you know, I'm not saying me.

I'm saying a fighter could punch harder with a training regimen. 100%. Same thing. You're learning to drive through your whole body. There's one thing just tapping somebody and then driving through somebody. And then being able to do it consistently too. It's great if you can do it for the first round.

But then once you start to get into those later rounds and you still have that, you still have that preciseness that's still that same edge. It's a whole different game, you know, because people like, man, we train all this time, especially for the fighters, the same thing I tell them. You guys are training for at most five minutes. Like for championship fights, it's five minute rounds. You're training for a five minute opportunity because you're training for a five minute opportunity because you don't know if you're going to get past the first round you're assuming you think

you're that fucking good for real the guy you're fighting is just as good as you are so you got to train like that like these are i'm only getting these five minutes i better fucking maximize everything i'm doing to that so the same thing driving through everything you're doing activating just different things um depending on who same thing what kind of camp you're going through where your meals are at one thing that i really try to focus on my fighters is having to avoid a weight cut a lot of people like the old school mentality is oh you don't want to really be walking around that way you don't want to be why not why do you have to cut 26 pounds to get to where you're fighting and then all of a sudden like it's just it's it's a very old way of thinking you know i don't

understand why it's not done at the beginning of the training camp so he doesn't go in there i i don't i just never understood that so the guy doesn't walk in there sucked out the death yeah for sure i at least try to get if somebody's like really overweight with me i try to at least get two pounds a week and with our guys um a lot of people like to do four week training camps we like to do six and just like that like that like those first two weeks we focus a lot more on the strength and conditioning and more wrestling like grappling stuff to get them sweating to get all that shit out of them to get whatever if they had you know some some guys like to take a long break after fights so they eat all this terrible food which is another thing too these fighters starve themselves so much

and then all of a sudden when they're done with their fight they're so happy they're celebrating They got all this money now and then they eat all this shit food for two weeks and you just went, you know, back a step. And then, you know, it's just it's a constant thing. So that's why we're there. We're trying to create the first like real pro team to change the game, man, to show people that fuck man. It's not just a bunch of people hopping in a room, fighting, punching each other. There's a whole process to this. That's why Black House has been around for so long.

That's why, you know, they partnered up with the Under Armour Company with us now. Like, there's a whole, there's a whole thing to it. Like, I didn't just. How many black house gyms are there? Around the world, I think there's seven. Here's the headquarters. We have one in Redondo Beach, too, that's open for classes and whatnot. Then we have one in Miami Beach.

We have one in Brazil, one in Mexico. So they're kind of around everywhere. But this is our main one to like, it's only the pro guys. So that's why it's a whole different level. When you walk in there on any given day, there's four UFC guys, three Belator guys. And then three guys coming up, just, you know, hunters coming in from Brazil. because we bring we we have guys coming in everywhere because like even through my training through my Instagram I want to have guys hitting me up hey how do I train at black house like bro I'm just a

strength and conditioning guy yeah yeah but how do I get in there because like people know the name they know Anderson they know leoo they know you know RDA's training with us now Tony Ferguson you know Alan Joe band Kevin Casey like the names that are in there are legit guys so you go in there you're finding training partners from every weight class from every different organization and And there's no, there's no bullshit. There's no, oh, I'm just going to sit out this round. No, they'll call your ass out. Hey, let's go.

Let me ask you something. So somebody's getting ready for a fight. And they're six weeks away. How many days a week do they do the strength and conditioning classes? Three. Three out of the six. Three. And that includes a solid three.

Same workout to three days or all different. No, everything. Yeah, yeah. It's a very interesting fucking occupation, man. You know, that was why I told Begg, I want to talk to him about because that's what people at home want to know. Like, why would I need a strength and conditioning coach?

Why can I just work out? Because you're a fed fuck. And you're not about to go to the Olympics, so you don't need a fucking strength and conditioning coach. When you decide what you want to do and what your holes in your game are, and then you go see him and go, you know what? I'm fucking terrible with hip escapes

and we're trying to fucking throw people off me. You'll put a workout for them design specifically. so that with the cardio and the whole fucking deal. And if people don't feel something, and that's what I tell my clients all the time and some people, they show up to me and they show up to the gym and they're kind of like intimidated because they see everything going on and they think it's a big deal.

For us, it's a normal day. For other people come in, it's a big thing. And you're always, people, listen, it's tough enough to get regular people to go to 10th planet Jiu-Jitsu and Burbank. Do you understand what I'm trying to say?

I mean, people watch the U.S. see so a stigma goes with it. So there's some people, there's a guy next to the guitar center where I used to take Tank Sudo. That dude, they teach Gracie whatever there. It's $180 a month

and nobody rolls. You didn't know that? It's called Gracie Combatives. You get real hard at doing, you get really good at doing an arm bar and practice and the technique and stuff. But you're not allowed to roll. They don't roll over there on sunset. I do not

fucking know. I do not know. But the point was that you know, everybody's looking for something different. So if you go into it, like if you go into a place and I do so Leo deemachita, I'm going to run the fuck out of that.

In the back of my mind, I think I'm going to get beat the fuck up, you know? People want to feel like they're not going to fucking die. Yeah. That's the main thing. Nobody wants to die. And that's what you were saying. earlier that you take them off their focus

and you talk to them about what's going on in their life and stuff and let's start off real fucking slow here. I just want you to throw the ball ten times or jump up 22 times and even the most muscular guy which those motherfuckers need, you need oxygen to have those muscles. I've had guys

that are huge that can't even do a plank on my back. It's because you've never held yourself up. You're just standing up doing curls and benches and you've never done a plank in your life and it's amazing. It's so crazy what we're finding out now over the years like when I first started lifting I used to read muscle and fitness

you know to the fucking T I loved it I read about Tom Platz and all these dudes that dude Mike Metzner he did 20 sets per body part so I was like fuck it I'll do 20 cents for body part and shit and that's exactly what I did I loved it and I fucking

you know but it was I worked myself up into it the people I lifted with knew a little bit about it and then I met more people and then the dudes I moved to Colorado In the Colorado, not strength and conditioning dudes, those dudes that do fucking deadlifts with cars and they pick up strong men.

Strong men, those two dudes. Both the brothers, you know, we built racks downstairs and it was fucking crazy. But I remember that they would bring like muscle-bound dudes over and the muscle-bound dudes couldn't even move the bar. And these guys were doing it all. It was just technique. Yeah.

Whether it's jiu-jitsu, lifting weights. I was a kid. I used to go to Joe Namath football camp. First thing they did to your Joe Namet football camp after you dropped your fucking clothes off was you went out there and you did the 40. And they timed your pick. You're like, why am I doing the fucking 40?

Well, every day before breakfast is a 30-minute workout. And all they did was you was extend your legs, kick out like you're a fucking Nazi. Like you're one of those Russians that do this shit. The Gulaff dance. That's all you did. I think that's a soup. I don't know.

I don't fucking know. You know when you do this, hey, and you kick your legs out. That's how you had to run. Look at me, Lee. So you got to run like this. So you have to kick your leg out. And you did so, you stretched,

and you did something else. At the end of the week, you go, you ready? Do the 40. And also, they tell you what your speed was in your leg. What happened? And the guy goes, we broke down your mechanics.

and we pre-programmed you. You just picked up two seconds on your time or some shit. Yeah, whatever it is. Because it was all mechanics. It's all... You ever see Diastino's wife run? No. Watch the Agostino's wife run.

She's Russian. She runs perfectly. On point. You look at her and you go, oh shit! That's what you're supposed to look like. Not like these fucking people running, killing themselves.

Because in Russia, they teach out of March. They teach you. how to walk, they teach you how to fucking run they teach you how to do all that shit when you're a kid so there's no misunderstandings. You know what I'm saying? They teach you the fucking basics. Bro, when you see her, it's a thing of beauty.

In Vegas one time, I went to the gym and she was in the gym working out because Diagostina's a comedian and she came with him and she was just running. He tells me she'll get up at four and run 12 miles. So when you see her form, like I'm, bro, and I lived in Boulder, I've seen all those

people run. I've never seen anybody. run like the accident. You know what? I've never seen it. It's perfect. It's a thing. And when you see it, you'll go, wow, they really do a good job in Russia. They piece these motherfuck as hot. And it's perfect. Her arms don't go

high. They come up to like here and you go, oh my God, that's the mechanic of the run. Yeah. Speaking of that, what do you see or what do you think when you see someone doing like bad form? When we were talking about baseball, there's a bunch of people who've done it, but on the Red Sox

there used to be a picture called Beyond Young Kim and he was sidearm. And like I just imagine his elbow like snaps every third week or something. Like when you see that, do you get upset? I mean, the thing is what we do too, man, is we break it down. There's one thing between skills and then training. So like the skills work. We bring in a lot of the best coaches like that to work with our guys on skills work. And then we do a lot of like their strength training to build in to work with these guys.

Because we know, man, that's two different, two whole. different things because like that because with like how bion young kim throws right there is people who like to throw sidearm and whatever it is but you'll find the way to strengthen that arm yeah so they won't fuck it out and continue to get the best we work we work with the pitching coaches we work with their skill specific coaches because man you know how it is in coaching or whatever it is anything bro everybody's got an attitude everybody wants to show that they're the big dick whatever it is so we're like not if they're cuban now in cuba we did it this way no because in cuba that's not In Cuba

No, especially when you're dealing with that type of ego. Miami, everybody's played for the Cuban National team and Yohoaaki and this and that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everybody, there's a guy in a park with a bad doing all types of shit.

But like that, man, it's, it's, we work with those guys because there's, there's so much more room off the field to do shit because, man, when I was, I was trying to get better all this stuff, I was deadlifting. I was putting up a shit ton of weight,

getting stronger, fucking protein shakes, everything. but my fastball stayed the same. Everything that I was doing on the field, I'm like, fuck, bro, I'm not getting better. I'm getting lit up. What the fuck is happening? Like, I'm training.

I'm doing this shit every day. But if you're what you're doing in training and in the gym isn't benefiting what you're doing outside, like whatever your goal is, whether it's being a fucking executive and walking better and your back not hurting or trying to throw a hundred mile an hour fastball, it's then what the fuck are you doing? What are you doing?

What are you doing here? You're just sitting here throwing up weights, wasting your time. Like, it's great to look good. It's great to run fast. It's great to all the shit. But if you can't do what you're doing, what do we got like you know so that's that's the whole thing especially with with anybody so that's

why we work with these guys hand in hand close so they tell us hey this person sucks at this whatever it is when we when we uh when we train some of the USC guys you know like we we we know what they're doing we know exactly what's going on so we we try to work with them not necessarily against these guys because every every pro athlete everybody has a coach already from somebody growing up there oh no i've had this coach since i was 12 i've had this coach and so good cool I'm glad to I love the stuff you're doing because it got you to this point. I'm not here to change your shit. I'm here to strengthen what we got.

Yeah. And get your weaknesses up to point. It's six weeks. I'm not going to fucking make you Damien Meyer in six motherfucking weeks. But I'll teach you how to not get submitted by a triangle, this, dad, and omelotta. I'll teach you all the defenses and you just get the fuck up and run away. Yeah. That's it.

Get up and run away to the other side of the cage. Yeah. No, it's not running away. I mean, just get up. And then you come back for that second camp and then it's a whole different game. Boom, the game changes the game. You don't know. See, if you watch some of those 30 for 30s, a lot of those things, they'll tell you how they went to a certain football program.

And they were a quarterback, but they tried to make them a wide receiver. And then they got, the kids got no career because Jamie Fox in that movie that went to Miami. Remember when he got into it with, what's his name? That's what he told him. He goes, you know why? I went in the third round? Because that dumb fucking coach, my freshman year, made me a DB instead of a fucking quarterback

because he said I would have made a better DB and I would have played. You don't do that to people. You don't do that to people. You take their strengths. It's like if I'm 13 and O in the UFC with knockouts and 11 of them have been with this fucking left hand. You're not going to come to me and go,

dog, we got to start fucking curling and doing one-arm pulls The left hand is fine Don't bother nobody mind your business Let me do some shoutouts To we get the fuck out of here Lee how you feeling Feeling beautiful

I hear you making noises You ate how many edible's three You really went low to an all-time low tonight I thought I was going to show up There's no more stars You gave them all the way You didn't bring the ones at the house I thought you were going to eat these coconut things

I mean they taste delicious Yeah But then I saw you bring I met the fives and it just broke my heart. I couldn't do it anymore. I tried, but I couldn't do it anymore. Don Rangley, you know, I love you.

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I'm too listening. Don't forget next week, the Ontario Improv. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Tickets are available. Knock yourself the fuck out. You understand me? What's going on? Becky, got your hair up tonight?

It's looking good. Becky had a boyfriend a few weeks ago. She doesn't think I know. They tied her up and shit. They did a lot of nasty things to her, but she looks good. That's all that matters. That's crazy.

How are your legs doing, Becky? Are they... You get some son on those fucking things? You get some son on those goddamn things? Yes. Get the edible hit you? A little bit. Yeah.

It's funny, like we were talking about earlier, how all the Cubans end up finding each other, especially out here in L.A., man. It's just crazy how it is, how life takes you places, man. Like, you just, how I met Becky, like, through a mutual friend and all of a sudden, man, maybe I might move out here and boom, all of a sudden we're friends. And then, oh, well, I know you're Cuban, all this stuff. And it's just like, man, how we always end up finding each other? Because there's not that many Cubans spread out.

There's a lot of us. but we're in concentrated areas like that. Like, you know, it's funny how life works, man. You're going to be really surprised. You know, we were talking about people who don't leave their neighbors. And I got nothing against you. People, like if you, you know,

I grew up with a thousand people who go to Florida once a year in the Atlantic City the other side of the year. And that's what they've done for the last 40 years. And that's what they're going to do until they die, guys. they don't want to go out to California there's a lot of crazy people out there and all those wackadoos out there people walking around naked

my nephew told me that was people walk around naked and how you know Are you scared of earthquakes? People would hit me with that I'm like come on, bro, you know, it's kind of weird but in real life you'd be very surprised what happens

when you do go out of your comfort zone you pick up your backs and you give life a try and that's what people have never realized I don't realize that an early age, the cops were looking for me, so I went to Sarasota, Florida, and I met 15 people. And other 15 people, nine of them offered me jobs, and three of them offered me places to live. And if you move here, you could go to this beach with us on Saturdays. You know, nothing happens, again, to leave the couch.

If you want to stay on the couch, you're never going to meet nobody, nothing's going to happen. You know, when you put those wheels in motion, you know, you might meet somebody who mugs you. you. You might say fucking, I'm going to take a bus out to California with the last 8,000 I got. I'm going to get an apartment. Joey told me there's an apartment's by his house. You can land

on a fucking Saturday. I'm out of town. I can't pick you up. You're down in Union Square. You get mugged. You know, you get like a hit in the head. And also some chick walks by and takes you to a house and makes you... You never know what could happen until something happens. And then you see the beauty of people

and what's really out there. Yeah. You know, what the fuck is really out there? And what do you really have to lose, man? Just by making a decision, like the smallest thing, just by saying what's up to somebody and just like, man, the small thing, it's crazy how many people don't talk. You know, man, 100%. You know, when I left New York City, I went to Colorado, and people would say good morning to me. Monsters.

Are you fucking crazy? People wave at you driving. People would wave and say good morning. I would go in that apartment and yell at my roommates. What the fuck of these people crazy? Saying good morning to me, whether you fucking retarded? What do they think I have? No, it was a different thing.

It throws you off. It would throw me off. It would. It really would, man. I was from New York and people don't talk to each other in the morning. They just look at the floor and walk straight ahead. Now people make an eye contact going, good morning. How's your day going?

What the fuck do you care? I don't even know you. What the fuck is your business? Bro, and in Colorado, they used to hit... When I first moved to Missault in 1983, you know, I was raised. You don't get a nobody's car. And when I was 14, 15, one time I got somebody's car,

he felt my dick, then got the door open and I ran out. He did. I had a basketball between my legs, and he asked me if I like playing basketball. When he went to hit the basketball, he purposely let his hand slip. And he touched my dick. I was 14. There was 22 feet of snow, and God was in the fucking car, because the door mysteriously opened.

And I ran out, and I ran behind the car into the situation. Yeah. But this fucking German park, what the fuck is it, Shudson Park? And I fucking, he made a U-turnernerner, went in there looking for me, come back. Yeah. But I was going to report him. People are crazy. And I said, I'll never get into nobody's car.

Well, here I am. Five years later, if you're walking on Route 82 from Glenwood Springs to Aspen, people will pull over and ask you, hey, how far are you going? You're like, fuck you. I'd be like, fuck you. fucking, fucking pervert. And then when day a woman picked me up and you want to ride, I was like, oh shit. And at that time, HBO's

big show was the hitchhiker. It came on at night about a good-looking hitchhiker that could go out and women would pick him up. Then he'd take him back to this fucking log cabin. He'd fuck them and shit. They wouldn't show his dick or her pussy. They'd just show her on the fucking bed going like this and him looking at her like,

then they'd show him like eating peanuts. and the next day he'd be a hitchhiking again. Look it up, Lee. Look up the hitchhiker on HBO. Circa 19-fucking 80. See if they have the... Wait till you see that. So that's just you going around Colorado?

No, I didn't say that. I said that when the woman picked me up that day, that's what I thought of, the fucking hitchhiker. Listen, another time my car blew up in Nebraska. Oglado, Nebraska. The frame, bro. I got a pimple right outside my ass sheet that is so fucking itchy

There's no head on it I don't even know if it's a pimple It could be like a fucking Like a bite or something A bite Then One time I was in Okola Nebraska and I'm fucking

The frame broke on the car I was coming back from Michigan The fucking frame broke I got two flat tires One after the other Pah And then the other time So I figured out the frame broke

He kept rubbing against the ties and make them blow up. So fucking this chick pulls over. Oh my God, didn't have a bra on. But just a shirt. You can see the sun. You can see her little baby tinnies. She had no shoes on. And she had armpit hair, which sent me over

the top. I'm like, this lady's an animal. She'll let me kill her. She'll leave me money for killing her. What is that? Scroll down. There it is right there. Which one? Ten years ago. your intro, the hitchhiker.

Oh, there you go, you. You just said there. Fucking Malook. Hey? There's the hitchhiker. Look at the intro. See, do I fucking bullshit, you motherfuckers? I'm always dropping knowledge on you.

Look at him with a jacket. That was Uncle Joey. Just that day. Just that day. Slingin dick. No. No, nobody. That day that woman stopped.

I was so excited. What woman's going to get it today? I thought she was going to link my nuts. And the one with the no bra, she lived in a commune that they did religious things. She kept telling me, we'll go back to my place.

Oh, thank you. And we'll pray, pray. I don't pray. I want to eat ass. I don't want to pray. We'll pray after we eat ass. I got to get back in the world. You can't eat ass and pray at the same time.

No, no. I could. I'll say a prayer at the same thing. Jesus praise. I'll say a prayer for your clit. I won't bite that motherfucker while. It's just sticking out like that. Look at Becky.

Becky, what was the last time somebody bit you, Luke? How did he get up there? Do the other girl just leave him there? Oh, yeah, being a... You got to torture Becky. It's Cuban, man. Of course, man. Look, see, see it?

So now they don't show it. See, but that was it. Oh, shit. That's like a Cuban thing, man. I've always heard that, like, even growing up, you're not a man until you eat someone's ass. Like that, like, that's what the one goes used to go. grab us a little.

Bro, I say it on stage. The first time I heard it, what you're talking about? Yeah, like serious talks, though. Serious talks, though. Serious talks. I was about five. Then you're a real woman, Becky?

When I was about five, I was watching TV, and on Tuesday nights my mother would play cards with four other Cuban women and one chick that was Cuban Chinese, La Chita. And they would play cards. Until his dad, I don't remember this lady's name. My goal, something.

Her husband had just gotten out of jail. They would play cards on Tuesday. Tuesday night and stay up all night. I don't know if I was doing something watching TV. And my mother was on the phone and she was bishing to my mother in front of me. Then let me tell you what that son of a bitch did to me last night. Last night,

he said, oh, oh, my man, do me la babaya. He fell asleep sucking my pussy. What kind of man died? She's talking to my mom. My mother's like, I don't want to hear about that. That's just me. I would have thrown him out. My mom's like, I would have thrown him out.

You fall asleep eating my pussy. I'm sitting there watching cartoons like, what the fuck? Are these two fucking savages talking about? I'll never forget her telling my mom that the motherfucker fell asleep. How do you fall asleep? I don't even know. I would never fall asleep eating somebody's pussy. Just sniffing that little caffeine from that monkey will keep you up for 24 hours and shit.

But like that. You didn't know that little monkey got caffeine and gunpowder in it. From the coffee and soda you drink? Whatever. I don't know. I'm just saying, Lee. It's a fucking joke cuck, cuck. I'm just saying that.

Nah, some place is no joke, man. I'm telling you, like, one time I was there with a few of my buddies like that. And his friend, his dad comes in. He's like, hey, guys, I got to talk to you. Hey, you guys? Yeah, like that straight. He goes, you guys want a girl to ever remember you? Bro, lick that girl's ass.

I'm like, come on, bro. And he's like, no, bro, I'm being dead ass serious like that. And you're just like, bro, what the fuck? You're like, 11, 12 years old? You're like, what the fuck? I told you that my fucking mom's friend gave me a little violation. of Coke and told me next time my skinny girlfriend came over to put it some coke on a pussy.

I'm like, what the fuck are you talking about? And I held that coke for like six months in my draw. I put it in a drug capsule. Like I took a, what do you call those things, the cold? I have a contact. Contact. And I emptied it out and I put the coke in and I put that clothes and I put it in the back of the drawer.

So nobody would know him. One day my mother came in, she goes, hey man, doctor told me something disturbing that he gave you coke to put on that girl's pussy. Is that true? I go, maybe. And she goes, fucking give that to me right. Is he crazy? And are you fucking crazy?

So I gave my mom the little capsule with the Coke and it. It's that whole Hispanic thing, man. Growing up. I used to have a guy that when I went to... Can you say the suspense? Yeah, man. It's a much more thing. Yeah, man.

Because when I went to Catholic school, there was a guy at my mother's bar that would say to me, they suck your dick down at that Catholic school. And I would look at him and go, what the fuck are you talking about? It's a boy school. He goes, so what? He goes, just let him suck your dick.

It's a party. You don't have to suck that dick. And I would look at him. What the fuck? The priests? No, no, no, no. Like the other kids. Like, he would goof on me and go,

and then one day he told me, a faggot once sucked my dick. His mouth was cold. I'd never forget that I was a young kid. I was like fucking 12. And he was telling me, let me tell him, let me tell you something, there ain't no big deal.

A faggid suck my dick one night. We might need censors in podcasts. He said, he goes, um, marico, me a ma'm a man, when I know that I walk out for you I have. Oh my God. And there's nothing off limits.

You walk into the room like when I was a little kid, I was a little chubby whatever. They'll be like, oh, yeah, Barrialeche. I'm like, bro, come on. They'll say some fucking crazy shit, man. They really will say some crazy. They break you down as a kid so that when you get older,

that's it, man. You're ready for whatever. Because people know, man, you're going to get taking advantage of. Like, older adult people have seen it, man. So they like. They try to break you the idea. I like when they ask you if you're still pissed sweet.

In Spanish, Dorea me al-Luza. That means that you're still a little fucking kid. Once you start pissing sour, that means that cum comes out of your dick. And they'll ask you in front of your mother, like, hey, you still piss sweet. And you're like, what the fuck?

Why are you asking me in front of my mother? Or don't try to embarrass you and ask you if you fucked before in front of your mom. You ever get some of your little stabbing? And then your mom would chime in. He likes black girls. No. Black girls, too.

Like, who's on my negative. Oh, my, okay, well, ah. And so everybody's on top of you in the family parties. That's one thing, too, as a fan, and just in the family parties, man, everybody's dancing, everything. You're growing up in your dad's like, or whatever, it's like, go dance, go dance with your grandma. Go dance with it. Oh, no, I'm embarrassed. No, you just throw them in there.

And all of a sudden, next thing you know, you're dancing in front of the whole family. And, bro, what is this? Like, it's a whole, they break you down like that. You don't get shy in front of anybody. You're like, you know where to go like that. They tell you, hey, don't get into anybody's cars, don't this, don't that. Why, why, why, boom. all of a sudden everything happens oh fuck okay damn bro that makes sense my mom isn't crazy she knows

what the fuck she's saying like that because i mean as a spanish like at least in miami like it's not i don't want to say that like it's sheltered that that our families try to keep a shelter but it's your mom's man your mom keeps you tight your family keeps you tight close to you they want to know everything you're doing especially hispan oh yeah don't it's not in la kina hey whatever like oh you know like it's just it is how it is man they hold you tight family is a fucking great thing to have and having like a Cuban family or any family for that matter

that's, you miss that. And that's why I was telling you our friend Ricky that used to live out here. He said he loved L.A., he loved acting, he loved stand-up, but there was times he couldn't, it didn't add up for the, he wanted to be with his family. What days are you

down there? I'm down there every day, man. Sunday through Sunday? All day every day. All day. What times? We're open by appointment, man. So it's like, whenever people make sessions but I have a lot of people that like to work in the morning we have classes going on too so like I'm always putting that out on social media and through our website and whatnot so constantly putting that out they called on there they ask for Renee yeah and Renee's good to go yes sir yes sir thank you for coming on no I appreciate you guys talking about it what

do you got that Lisa Ann what do I got I uh you look all fucking mummified for me if you're you bring him back stronger weed um I'm doing I don't have anything coming up this weekend I I went to the daughter's game the other day. You're talking to the lady this Friday? Yeah, third time. People have been hitting me up. I've been twice. Making sure that you're taking care of stuff.

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