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Joe Rogan Experience #2242 - Bert Sorin

This episode is brought to you by The Farmer's Dog. Get 50% off your first box by heading to http://thefarmersdog.com/rogan today! Bert Sorin is the president and co-founder of Sorin Exercise Equipment, as well as an athlete, hunter, and advocate for the health and wellness of veterans. http://www.sorinex.com

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  1. 0:001:53

    Sorinex “X-Factor” machine: rotational power training for fighters

    1. BS

      (drum beat plays) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

    2. NA

      The Joe Rogan Experience. Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night. All day. (rock music plays) Hello, Joe.

    3. JR

      (laughs) Good to see you, Joe. What's up, brother? What's going on, man?

    4. BS

      Good to see you, man.

    5. JR

      Thank you very much for that, uh, extraordinary piece of, uh-

    6. BS

      (laughs)

    7. JR

      ... athletic equipment you brought to the gym.

    8. BS

      Absolutely, right?

    9. JR

      Is there a photo of that so we can show people what it looks like?

    10. BS

      Uh, yeah, it should be on the website, uh, X-Factor.

    11. JR

      And what is it called?

    12. BS

      Uh, it's called the X-Factor.

    13. JR

      Oh, it's called the X-Factor.

    14. BS

      Yeah, it's called the X-Factor.

    15. JR

      What is the website?

    16. BS

      Sorenix.com.

    17. JR

      Go to Sorenix.com, check out the X-Factor.

    18. BS

      It's all you, it's actually ... Pull it up, Jamie.

    19. JR

      Pull it up, Jamie. Isn't it nice to say that?

    20. BS

      Gosh, man, I'm telling you-

    21. JR

      It's fun, right?

    22. BS

      It's, uh, it's big.

    23. JR

      So this is the machine.

    24. BS

      Yeah. It's actually Judd who was here a minute ago.

    25. JR

      Yeah. It's a- a brilliant machine, man. The idea that you could push and pull rotationar- r- rotational power machine.

    26. BS

      (laughs)

    27. JR

      It really is a- a genius idea, man. And, uh-

    28. BS

      Thanks, bro.

    29. JR

      ... for things like striking sports, that's huge. Like, the ab- ability to push and pull at the same time while stabilizing your core. I mean, that is undoubtably gonna help w- people, like, i- i- it's ... You're definitely gonna be able to deliver more power and strikes.

    30. BS

      Right. Because you- you take the ground force-

  2. 1:532:52

    “Remastered” strength equipment: reviving old ideas with modern design

    1. JR

      It's pretty dope. And you were telling me that this was originally, uh, like you- you came up with this idea from an older machine that's not around no more?

    2. BS

      Yeah. Yeah. So we've- we ... You know, I've been in this industry a long time and as well as you have, but it's kinda taken a remastered series where we're taking all, like, the cool stuff that was- could have been our designs, but could have been just old designs that are just, like, kinda lost to the ages.

    3. JR

      Uh-huh.

    4. BS

      And we were like, "Hey, that was a cool piece, but it sucked because you had to load it weird or it was like ... Maybe it wasn't as safe as it could have been." And so it's like, let's- let's break the whole thing apart, figure out what was good about it, and then ... That was like the eighth iteration. We just kept playing with it, and then it was like, when you realize the double axis is what made the user experience cool-

    5. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    6. BS

      ... then it was like, "Okay, this is badass," and you know. I sent that video to you, and- and then, uh, a couple colleges have already bought them, and then, uh, Ryan Crouser, the world champion w- uh, and record holder in the shot put was like, "Yeah, like, this is all rotational power."

    7. JR

      Mm.

    8. BS

      "How do we turn that on?" So ...

  3. 2:524:37

    Old-school training culture: bro science, martial arts myths, and learning from winners

    1. JR

      Yeah. It's- it's so cool today because there's so much social media and there's so much- so many videos and YouTube videos-

    2. BS

      Mm-hmm.

    3. JR

      ... of people using equipment. Like, 15, 20 years ago, you had to go to a gym-

    4. BS

      Yeah.

    5. JR

      ... and go, "Oh, what is that? Oh, that's cool."

    6. BS

      Yeah.

    7. JR

      "Where'd you get that? How's that work?"

    8. BS

      The big guy in the gym-

    9. JR

      Where's the company?

    10. BS

      You had to, like, go, "Hey."

    11. JR

      Yeah.

    12. BS

      "What's the deal?" Yeah. I mean ...

    13. JR

      Yeah. Yeah.

    14. BS

      You and I grew up in the same era where we're going to gyms all the time, and-

    15. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    16. BS

      ... there's a bunch of quacks telling you to do stuff (laughs) and-

    17. JR

      Always. Yeah.

    18. BS

      And then you-

    19. JR

      And then there's bro scientists.

    20. BS

      Total bro scientists.

    21. JR

      (laughs)

    22. BS

      Yeah. And then- and then you're just like, "Hey, if that guy's really good at something," you know?

    23. JR

      Yeah.

    24. BS

      Back in the day, I would ... After I'd compete, probably much like you, after I'd compete, I would get whoever was better than me, and I would offer to take him out to dinner. And I would just go, "Hey." Like, I'd feed him beers until they basically told me w- how they beat me. (laughs)

    25. JR

      (laughs)

    26. BS

      (laughs) Like, I'd just like, "Well, how much are you cleaning," or, "What are you doing?" Then I would pick up some little idiosyncrasy of training, and they're like-

    27. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    28. BS

      "Oh, we would do this contrast." And I'm like, "What's that?" And I would just keep digging and digging and digging. I'd go back and figure it out.

    29. JR

      Well, I remember when I was competing, they would tell you to not lift weights, which is so hilarious.

    30. BS

      (laughs) Right. You don't get muscle bound, Joe.

  4. 4:3711:43

    Steroids, legality, and the “you can abuse anything” argument

    1. JR

      I think it was Evander Holyfield.

    2. BS

      Yeah.

    3. JR

      I think it was Macky Shillstone-

    4. BS

      Hmm.

    5. JR

      ... trained Evander Holyfield when he went up to heavyweight.

    6. BS

      Okay.

    7. JR

      And I- I remember myself at the time, so this was in the '90s, I remember thinking-

    8. BS

      Sure.

    9. JR

      ... "What is he doing? He's lifting weights. He's gonna fuck himself up."

    10. BS

      (laughs)

    11. JR

      "Don't- doesn't he know that all these coaches have already figured it out?"

    12. BS

      Right.

    13. JR

      And then all of a sudden, Evander got all these traps and shoulders-

    14. BS

      Dude, he was trapped and deltaed out.

    15. JR

      He got jacked.

    16. BS

      What?

    17. JR

      He got jacked.

    18. BS

      Yeah.

    19. JR

      And he became a legitimate heavyweight. Also, pretty sure there was some Mexican supplements involved.

    20. BS

      Yeah, he might have gone across the border to-

    21. JR

      Ah.

    22. BS

      I mean, I didn't ... I'm not ... (laughs)

    23. JR

      I think it's a strong possibility.

    24. BS

      It was the '90s. The '90s were a good time. (laughs)

    25. JR

      I think it's a strong possibility that there was some help because also, like, you never heard of anybody testing positive for steroids back then.

    26. BS

      No.

    27. JR

      And I know for a fact that some of those guys were on steroids.

    28. BS

      I would not-

    29. JR

      Yeah.

    30. BS

      ... disagree.

  5. 11:4315:20

    ’80s nostalgia to archery obsession: compound vs traditional bows

    1. BS

      Where were the '80s not so awesome?

    2. JR

      The '80s were pretty cool.

    3. BS

      The '80s were pretty cool.

    4. JR

      Except everybody's worried that Russia was gonna blow us up.

    5. BS

      (laughs) That's true story.

    6. JR

      Yeah.

    7. BS

      True story. Yeah. I remember '85, I believe it was '85, going to, uh... I know obviously we're both into archery, so '85, Rambo First Blood Part Two came out.

    8. JR

      (laughs)

    9. BS

      Pops took me to the movie theater. He and I saw it, and we went straight from there to the archery shop, and I got my first bow that day.

    10. JR

      Really?

    11. BS

      Yeah, I still have it.

    12. JR

      Wow.

    13. BS

      Yeah, it was awesome. I still have some of the same arrows.

    14. JR

      No shit?

    15. BS

      Yeah, I g- I s- I d- I strangely don't lose things. But yeah, I remember in the backyard shooting 'cause, like, he kinda half taught me, and then I was in the backyard zinging arrows and thinking, like, "If I had explosive tips, like, how badass would this be?"

    16. JR

      I went to, uh, Lanai, and, uh, you know, they have, uh, the Pineapple Brothers has that archery-

    17. BS

      Yeah.

    18. JR

      And I brought my whole family. And then, um, they also have this area where you can go and you can, like, shoot skeet, and you drive, like, uh, four- four-wheelers up in the mountains.

    19. BS

      Mm-hmm.

    20. JR

      And then they had, like, traditional archery, like bows and arrows. And I was like, "Oh, let me try this."I don't know how to fucking aim. I'm terrible at it. I was like-

    21. BS

      Uh-huh.

    22. JR

      ... "I'm a good archer. I should be good at this."

    23. BS

      Or thought. (laughs)

    24. JR

      I could barely hit the fucking target from 20 yards away, like, "Eh."

    25. BS

      It's like the science and the art, two different things.

    26. JR

      They're totally, totally different.

    27. BS

      Yeah. I've always said, like, the guys that are traditional hunters, you know, trad guys, they're either weirdos or they're absolute killers.

    28. JR

      Right. It's like Aaron Snyder-type dudes-

    29. BS

      Yeah.

    30. JR

      ... who are so good at compound archery they get-

  6. 15:2022:06

    Jiu-jitsu mastery: drilling, flow state, and why strength still matters

    1. BS

      It is. It, does... Can you see the arrow... Does it slow down when you shoot at animals like it does for me? It looks like there's no way this arrow is ever gonna get to... It's like everything in my m- brain do- it's like, uh, that book, The Rise of Superman, when you go in a flow state. And like-

    2. JR

      Mm.

    3. BS

      ... everything speeds up in your brain, so actually the perce- uh, per- uh, well, it'd be the perception-

    4. JR

      Perception?

    5. BS

      ... all sh- all lengthens out. They say your brain actually starts firing three times faster, the little pictures.

    6. JR

      Ah.

    7. BS

      So that's why the, it slows down. This morning, I watched that arrow just right-handed turn. I'm like, "That g- that deer's gonna move." And it was only 27 yards. But I'm watching it. T- t- t- t- t- t- t- t- t- t-

    8. JR

      Oh, that's interesting.

    9. BS

      But when I, but when I'm shooting targets, I'm just like, "Nah, whatever."

    10. JR

      I don't seem to think that. No.

    11. BS

      Really?

    12. JR

      No.

    13. BS

      I always think it takes forever to get to the ar- to animal.

    14. JR

      No. Um, I'm trying to think of when do things slow down for me? No.

    15. BS

      Jujitsu?

    16. JR

      No. Jujitsu just, whe- when you're really in a, a good state, y- it's just almo- almost like you're not thinking.

    17. BS

      Hmm.

    18. JR

      It's like all of a sudden you have an arm bar. It's like...

    19. BS

      So it is a flow state.

    20. JR

      Yeah.

    21. BS

      Just maybe if you're-

    22. JR

      It's a complete flow state. But it's a flow state that's established after, you know, thousands of hours-

    23. BS

      Right.

    24. JR

      ... of drilling. And that's the most important thing in jujitsu, really, is drilling.

    25. BS

      Mm-hmm.

    26. JR

      Everybody loves to roll 'cause it's so fun.

    27. BS

      Sure.

    28. JR

      You know, 'cause it's like you're playing a video game, you're, like, trying to kill each other.

    29. BS

      (laughs)

    30. JR

      But the really important thing is drilling. And drilling with, like, a certain amount of rigor, like a certain-

  7. 22:0628:57

    Bert’s ‘throws world’ origin: hammer throw, Highland Games, and Scottish stone lore

    1. BS

      Sure. Now is there... Like in the throws world, we always talk about like technique... Speed is everything.

    2. JR

      Explain to people what you're talking about when you say throws world.

    3. BS

      Okay, so throws. Uh, I, like yes. So I'm, I'm one of those nerdy guys that pick the sport that's like the least paying sport of all time. (laughs)

    4. JR

      (laughs)

    5. BS

      So I was a hammer thrower. So it's like a shot put. Steel ball, 16-pound steel ball, on a one-meter, you know, three-foot-long wire. It's what you see on the Olympics. They spin around really, really fast-

    6. JR

      Yeah.

    7. BS

      ... and yell and scream, and always make like the highlight reels of guys that scream.

    8. JR

      Where did that come from? Was that a weapon at one point in time?

    9. BS

      Yeah, yeah. So they actually... In Scotland, they, they would use... It was a hammer they would literally have, like, for agrarian society, and they have a, a cylindrical head on it so they could use it every side. And so that w- that became a, a way to train for battle because they weren't allowed... The Scottish weren't allowed to have weapons.

    10. JR

      Oh.

    11. BS

      Yeah, so they would start throwing stones and-

    12. JR

      After the Braveheart days?

    13. BS

      Yes. Or during those days.

    14. JR

      Damn.

    15. BS

      So they weren't supposed to have weapons, so they're like, "F this. We're just gonna take all the stuff we, we have and stay strong, stay ready." Um, and then actually their, their stone was called the Clachnart, which meant, uh, stone of strength.

    16. JR

      That's a great name.

    17. BS

      It's a wonderful name.

    18. JR

      That's a Viking name if I ever heard one.

    19. BS

      Viking.

    20. JR

      Clachnart.

    21. BS

      So tell me how badass this is. So like each family, like the Rogan family. Like you're the patriarch, right?

    22. JR

      Okay.

    23. BS

      You'd have your Clachnart up on the-

    24. JR

      (laughs)

    25. BS

      ... mantle (laughs) or whatever it is. So at your family outings, whatever outings those may be, all the men, very much like in Braveheart, they would go and throw it. The fur- the guy who throws the Clachnart, the family stone, the furthest is kind of like the dude. Like he's like-

    26. JR

      (laughs)

    27. BS

      ... "All right, all right. You... Now my son has surpassed me. He's shown he's a man now."

    28. JR

      Right?

    29. BS

      Here's the wildest part. This, this gives me chills. So they would... If they went off to battle, they would take their Clachnart, their stone, and on the way out of town, they would all put it in a pile and they'd call it a... I think it was called a cairn or a carn. So they would put it in a pile. So if they did not return to battle, they had placed their own monument to their town of their sacrifice.

    30. JR

      Whoa.

  8. 28:5732:12

    Cardio vs power: Cam Hanes, runner’s high, and training specificity

    1. JR

      Have you done, uh, Lift Run Shoot yet with Cam?

    2. BS

      I haven't done it with Cam. Uh, no, I've... We played around and done some stuff like that at my farm, uh, you know, during different events.

    3. JR

      You should do his, his podcast, the Lift Run Shoot Show.

    4. BS

      That'd be great. Heck yeah.

    5. JR

      Where he makes you carry a rock up the fucking mountain.

    6. BS

      I went up Pisgah with him. I haven't carried the rock, and, uh, but I'm sure you've done Pisgah.

    7. JR

      It's like the Cam Rock.

    8. BS

      That's insane.

    9. JR

      I haven't done Pisgah.

    10. BS

      No?

    11. JR

      I'm not doing that. Fuck outta here.

    12. BS

      That was rough.

    13. JR

      Yeah.

    14. BS

      That was rough. I started running, I'm not a big cardio guy.

    15. JR

      Not interested in going a- anywhere where that guy's running.

    16. BS

      Dude, he is...

    17. NA

      (laughs)

    18. BS

      He is as advertised as a badass. Like, he is-

    19. JR

      Oh, he's a complete psychopath.

    20. BS

      ... legi- legit.

    21. JR

      He's one of my best friends. He's a complete psychopath.

    22. BS

      Uh, we did, we were, I, we all got running, and then he kinda left me. And then, like, he got to the top and then did his dance, and then he came back down, and like, "Hey, man." And it was ka- it was very remarkable. Like, it, he goes, "All right, why do I do this all the time?" He goes, "If we crested this corner right now, and you saw the biggest bull of your life at 70 yards, could you make the shot?" And I'm like, "Bro, I'm looking out my ear hole right now. Like, I'm screwed."

    23. JR

      (laughs)

    24. BS

      He goes, "That's why I do this every day." I'm like-

    25. JR

      Yeah.

    26. BS

      ... "I'm tra- I'm tracking."

    27. JR

      He's also addicted to exercise. He's addicted to cardio.

    28. BS

      Yeah.

    29. JR

      I think there's, uh-

    30. BS

      Me, me not so much.

  9. 32:1243:13

    Injuries, rehab tech, and peptides: knees, backs, and healing debates

    1. JR

      I just can't run. My, I have a bad left knee that's been really bothering me the last few years.

    2. BS

      Yeah.

    3. JR

      And I just twisted it again this, uh, September while I went hunting.

    4. BS

      Yeah, you were saying your sciatica was a little tweaked up.

    5. JR

      That was another problem. That was from-

    6. BS

      Getting old, Joe.

    7. JR

      ... overuse of ... No, it's just being stupid.

    8. BS

      (laughs)

    9. JR

      That's overuse of, uh, archery. So-

    10. BS

      What?

    11. JR

      I was... Yeah. Because, you know, I have two bows. I have a bow that's 84 pounds and a bow that's 90 pounds. So, I'm pulling these 90-pound bows 100 times a day.

    12. BS

      Are you shooting that many times a day?

    13. JR

      Every day. Oh, yeah.

    14. BS

      Good for you.

    15. JR

      Oh, yeah. Oh, d- you have to.

    16. BS

      Yeah.

    17. JR

      It ... For that moment when-

    18. BS

      Mm-hmm.

    19. JR

      ... like, a fucking giant bull walks in between the trees-

    20. BS

      It's tight, isn't it?

    21. JR

      ... and you have a 70-yard shot, you have to-

    22. BS

      Yeah.

    23. JR

      ... 100% be confident-

    24. BS

      Yep.

    25. JR

      ... that you can make that shot. And so I'm shooting it 84 yards over, and over, and over, and over, and o- ... I'm obsessive, but the problem was, I'd developed, like, tendonitis in my lower back.

    26. BS

      Mm.

    27. JR

      And so it's overuse from the stabilizing.

    28. BS

      Mm.

    29. JR

      From, like, holding yourself.

    30. BS

      Really?

  10. 43:131:08:19

    Archery tech rabbit hole: rangefinders, apps, arrow ballistics, and bow draw weight

    1. JR

      Imagine those poor fools that had to hunt with traditional bows-

    2. BS

      Dude.

    3. JR

      ... no binos, no spotting scopes.

    4. BS

      Dude. If anything got killed-

    5. JR

      No, no wind checker.

    6. BS

      No app. (laughs)

    7. JR

      No range finder-

    8. BS

      They didn't have the app.

    9. JR

      ... no apps. I have apps. I have everything.

    10. BS

      Oh, yeah.

    11. JR

      I have a range finder that syncs up with my app.

    12. BS

      Of course you do.

    13. JR

      Well, I don't even, I haven't even set it up yet, but it's, uh-

    14. BS

      Do you nerd out on all that stuff like I do?

    15. JR

      I do. See, the, here's the problem. Uh. I have a Leupold rangefinder. I really like-

    16. BS

      Mm-hmm.

    17. JR

      ... Leupold's Full Draw.

    18. BS

      Yep. Used it this morning.

    19. JR

      The reason why I like it is because it'll show you the arc of your arrow.

    20. BS

      Yes. That little line?

    21. JR

      This is how nerdy it is, folks. So, my arrows go 294 feet per second.

    22. BS

      Okay.

    23. JR

      And-

    24. BS

      How heavy?

    25. JR

      They're, these are 475.

    26. BS

      Okay.

    27. JR

      475 grains. And you calculate all this stuff. You put all this stuff into the rangefinder.

    28. BS

      Mm-hmm.

    29. JR

      And the rangefinder knows exactly how heavy your arrow is, exactly what the peak of it's gonna be-

    30. BS

      Yeah.

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