JRE MMA Show #152 with Sean Brady

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drumming music) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:00

      (drumming music) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out. The Joe Rogan Experience. Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music) All right. Well, what's up?

   2. SBSean Brady0:13

      What's going on, Joe?

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:14

      Good to see you, brother. What's happening?

   4. SBSean Brady0:14

      Thank you for having me, man.

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:16

      So we were just talking about injuries. Like, uh ...

   6. SBSean Brady0:18

      Yeah.

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:19

      ... the life of a fighter.

   8. SBSean Brady0:20

      Yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:20

      There's always ... You always have something wrong, right?

   10. SBSean Brady0:22

       (laughs) Yeah. It's, uh, it's rough. Like, especially for someone m- Like, I'm getting a little bit older now and I'm being smarter, but like, I was training, I still kind of do, like almost three times a day. So like, I would do a morning skill session, an afternoon run or an afternoon strength session, and then another skill session at night. And I did that for 10 plus years.

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:44

       Wow.

   12. SBSean Brady0:45

       So, but I, but I love it, though. So, um, but I'm finding now, like I'm find- trying to find that balance of like, if it's a hard morning, like MMA, like sparring session, nighttime will be jujitsu, and I'll try to make it light. But you know how that like, you drill-

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:58

       Right.

   14. SBSean Brady0:58

       ... then you start rolling. And when you're rolling hard, it's almost just as ... I get injured sometimes more during jujitsu, so ...

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:05

       The whole rolling light is-

   16. SBSean Brady1:07

       It doesn't happen.

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:07

       Never happens. (laughs)

   18. SBSean Brady1:09

       I was telling my wife, 'cause my hand, I was coming out here, I was like, "Maybe I can go and I can just like drill with Gordon and those guys." She was like, "You ain't fucking drilling with no ... If you guys start rolling light, like there ain't, there's not gonna be any of that."

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:22

       (laughs)

   20. SBSean Brady1:22

       And I'm like, "You're 100% right."

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:24

       Yeah.

   22. SBSean Brady1:24

       So yeah. All-

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:26

       That's smart, though.

   24. SBSean Brady1:27

       Yeah, I'm-

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:27

       That's like-

   26. SBSean Brady1:27

       And I'm-

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:27

       ... smarter Sean, like older.

   28. SBSean Brady1:29

       100%.

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:30

       Yeah.

   30. SBSean Brady1:30

       And that's where, like before I was like, "Nah, fuck that. Like, I'm going, I'm gonna go hard," and then I'd be injured.
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Mm-hmm. …

   1. SBSean Brady15:00

      us. I cut eight pounds by accident. I cut all my weight. I weighed myself in an hour, I was on weight. So, I hit up... I work with Charles from, uh, The PI, like they're the best.

   2. JRJoe Rogan15:08

      Mm-hmm.

   3. SBSean Brady15:08

      Hit him up, told him what happened. He was like, "Hey," like gave me the exact amounts to drink, and I was drinking and eating all on Thursday. I think I put back on four pounds. I went to the sauna that night, I cut all of it in 30 minutes. I was a- I'm always on weight the night before. I never ever wanna wake up and know I have to go cut weight, 'cause those sweats are so hard to- to break. Like, when your body fat's that low, to break that first sweat, like, it's fucking hard. So, I like to get on the night before and just be done with it.

   4. JRJoe Rogan15:37

      There's different schools of thought. Some guys like to just have a good night sleep-

   5. SBSean Brady15:41

      They don't wanna be-

   6. JRJoe Rogan15:41

      ... 'cause they say they can't sleep when they're cutting.

   7. SBSean Brady15:43

      Yeah. I feel like you're already, like you're already into that cut though, so you're al- like if you're gonna sleep bad, like you're gonna s- I think you're gonna sleep bad regardless. So, I'd just rather not have that stress of like, "Fuck, I gotta wake up and c-" I know guys who wake up, they cut 10, 15 pounds. But that's how we used to do it when the weigh-ins were at six o'clock.

   8. JRJoe Rogan15:59

      Yeah.

   9. SBSean Brady15:59

      'Cause you had all that time. Now, they're at nine. So, I try to sleep till 7:00, get up, and then you have to be over there by 8:00, 8:30, try to be one of the first ones on the scale, and then just start hammering those-

   10. JRJoe Rogan16:10

       Right.

   11. SBSean Brady16:11

       ... hammering those liquids back in.

   12. JRJoe Rogan16:13

       I wish they would let people do IVs. I feel like if you're gonna l- allow people to have these massive cuts-

   13. SBSean Brady16:18

       Yeah.

   14. JRJoe Rogan16:18

       ... they would have better performances if you get- let them do IVs.

   15. SBSean Brady16:21

       We used to fucking, like-

   16. JRJoe Rogan16:22

       Right.

   17. SBSean Brady16:23

       We would get hooked up with the IVs and we'd feel like Superman, like 10 pou-

   18. JRJoe Rogan16:26

       Yeah.

   19. SBSean Brady16:26

       ... 10 pounds immediately. But-

   20. JRJoe Rogan16:28

       That's the only be- negative aspect of it is they say that it can mask performance-enhancing drugs.

   21. SBSean Brady16:34

       Mm-hmm.

   22. JRJoe Rogan16:34

       But I think the solution to that is test the guys, like, as they're cutting.

   23. SBSean Brady16:39

       Yeah.

   24. JRJoe Rogan16:39

       Like, te- test the guys before-

   25. SBSean Brady16:40

       Yeah.

   26. JRJoe Rogan16:40

       ... they rehydrate.

   27. SBSean Brady16:41

       Yeah, yeah.

   28. JRJoe Rogan16:41

       Test them then.

   29. SBSean Brady16:42

       Yep.

   30. JRJoe Rogan16:42

       So that way you know-
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   Yeah. …

   1. SBSean Brady30:00

      So they were getting tested, uh, they made, they...... made a super small window where they had to be there, whether you had work or if you didn't have work, and you had to get tested, like, three times a week or some stupid shit like that. So, they're making it super hard for the nurses who didn't get vaccinated to-

   2. JRJoe Rogan30:15

      Yeah.

   3. SBSean Brady30:15

      ... to do their job. I'm like, "Yo, these are the people who are saving these fucking people who are coming in who are sick." And-

   4. JRJoe Rogan30:20

      And almost all of them get exposed to it, and almost all of them develop an immunity.

   5. SBSean Brady30:24

      Yeah.

   6. JRJoe Rogan30:25

      Natural immunity.

   7. SBSean Brady30:25

      Yeah, 100%.

   8. JRJoe Rogan30:26

      Yeah. They were trying to pretend that natural immunity was bullshit. I've- I've heard people say it recently, "Natural immunity's been debunked."

   9. SBSean Brady30:32

      Yeah.

   10. JRJoe Rogan30:33

       Like, no, it hasn't.

   11. SBSean Brady30:34

       Yeah.

   12. JRJoe Rogan30:34

       There's- there's actual studies-

   13. SBSean Brady30:35

       Nah.

   14. JRJoe Rogan30:35

       ... that show it was multiple times better than the vaccine.

   15. SBSean Brady30:38

       Yeah, yeah. When I, uh, when I faced Craig Jones in that grappling match, my whole fucking team was sick. And at that point, we're like, none of us were getting tested. I'm like, I'm like, "Dude, we definitely all have COVID." Like, but I- I'm like, "I'm not getting tested," like, I'm not doing it, just 'cause I just, I feel like shit. I don't know if I'm run down or whatever it is, but I'm not saying it's COVID and I can't go do what-

   16. JRJoe Rogan30:59

       Right.

   17. SBSean Brady30:59

       ... I wanna do this weekend. Like, I'm not doing it.

   18. JRJoe Rogan31:01

       When you do something like that, like, so you're one of the most promising welterweight contenders in the sport, you know? As your career progresses, you'll probably get a shot at a title within the next couple of years. Taking a grappling match is, that's a risky move.

   19. SBSean Brady31:17

       Yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan31:17

       Especially against a world-class guy-

   21. SBSean Brady31:19

       It-

   22. JRJoe Rogan31:19

       ... like Craig Jones.

   23. SBSean Brady31:19

       Yeah. Well, it's funny because, so only thing Craig couldn't do in that match, he couldn't heel hook me, but he could, uh, straight knee bar me, straight ankle lock me, anything besides heel hooks. So, after the match, like people-

   24. JRJoe Rogan31:32

       Is that your idea? Did you say that?

   25. SBSean Brady31:33

       No, that was Fu- that's the UFC's. So, Fury was working with the UFC and they're like, the UFC told them like, "Hey, all UFC guys, just no heel hooks." Even like Aldo just did that match for them, and the only thing they couldn't do was no heel hooks. So, I mean-

   26. JRJoe Rogan31:45

       Just because of the likelihood of tearing.

   27. SBSean Brady31:47

       Yeah, yeah. But like, a leg locker like Craig or anyone else, like you still have all those other submissions you can do. So-

   28. JRJoe Rogan31:52

       Right.

   29. SBSean Brady31:52

       ... it's not like you're getting handicapped that fucking bad where, like, people were giving me shit online like, "Oh, you had a handicap on this and that." I'm like, I was like, "I'm a UFC fighter." Like, this was the rules. I didn't, like, he-

   30. JRJoe Rogan32:03

       You didn't make the rules.
4. 45:00 – 59:38

   Yeah. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      is, like-

   2. SBSean Brady45:00

      Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      ... when he beat Bisping. Like-

   4. SBSean Brady45:01

      Yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan45:01

      ... Tim Kennedy was a fucking monster.

   6. SBSean Brady45:03

      He, uh-

   7. JRJoe Rogan45:04

      But-

   8. SBSean Brady45:04

      Yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan45:05

      And he just ... He did ... Went through two camps in a row.

   10. SBSean Brady45:08

       Yeah. And it's almost like ... In our minds, we think always ... We always think more is better.

   11. JRJoe Rogan45:13

       Yeah.

   12. SBSean Brady45:13

       And when I ... I'll take a day off now, or even just a session, like a night session, and then I'll come in the next day, and I'm like ... And you wanna get after it more. Like, it gives you that, like-

   13. JRJoe Rogan45:22

       Right.

   14. SBSean Brady45:22

       ... "I fucking can't wait to get back in there." And then you feel fresh when you go into that. Like, we'll train till 8:30, nine o'clock at night, and then we have practice at 9:30 the next morning. So, like, you're at the gym. You go home. You sleep. You're right back at the gy- ... Like, I'm ... I do the same drive from my house to the gym, so, like ... I just ... I could close my eyes and drive there, 'cause, like, I'm there all day fucking long. But when you have those little breaks in between, you go back in, you're like, "All right." Like, "I can't wait to fucking get back in here."

   15. JRJoe Rogan45:49

       Yeah, that was interesting talking to Bo Nickal about that, because Bo takes two days off a week.

   16. SBSean Brady45:54

       Yeah, I s-

   17. JRJoe Rogan45:54

       And I was-

   18. SBSean Brady45:54

       I listened to that.

   19. JRJoe Rogan45:55

       Yeah, and I was like, "Why do you do that?" And he's like, "It just ... It's the right way to do it." Like-

   20. SBSean Brady45:59

       S- Sundays are, are my day. Like, I, like, m- ... Like, I try to do nothing. Like, not lift. Like, if ... I'll go on, like, a long walk or, like, walk my dog, or run my dog, or something like that, but I try no, no training on Sunday regardless. But I think two days is probably the ... like, the way to go. Or even, like, Thursday, like, I'll do a jujitsu session in the morning and take the rest of the day off. And that'll be, like, a lighter day or something like-

   21. JRJoe Rogan46:22

       Mm-hmm.

   22. SBSean Brady46:22

       ... that, 'cause we're doing so ... Like, I've counted my sessions, and by the end of it, including, like, every workout I do, I'm at, like, 22 or 23 workouts in a week. Like-

   23. JRJoe Rogan46:31

       (laughs) That's so insane.

   24. SBSean Brady46:32

       Like, it's-

   25. JRJoe Rogan46:32

       There's no other sport like it.

   26. SBSean Brady46:33

       It's nuts. It's nuts. And then we start ... Like, I'm eating, like, 3,000 calories, 2,700, 2,500, and I'm cutting my calories down. Like ... And you're still ... And we still ... In our minds, we're like, "We have to keep that same, that same workload."

   27. JRJoe Rogan46:47

       Yeah.

   28. SBSean Brady46:48

       Or ramp it up even more, 'cause when you're in camp, you're trying to ... You're going a little bit harder, so it's a motherfucker.

   29. JRJoe Rogan46:54

       It's gotta fuck with your mind. Right?

   30. SBSean Brady46:56

       Yeah, yeah.

Episode duration: 1:59:03