Joe Rogan gave the best advice I’ve heard for anyone out of shape who wants to get serious: Don’t try to make up for years of neglect in a few weeks.
Start stupidly light - 20 minutes, 5 push-ups, 5 squats, 5 sit-ups. Take breaks. Build slowly. Use the sauna and cold plunge for recovery. If you jump straight into what fit people do, you’ll wreck your body and quit.
Consistency beats intensity when you’re starting from zero.
Research on exercise progression (including the popular “10% rule”) shows that gradually increasing training volume by no more than 10% per week dramatically reduces injury risk in beginners and previously sedentary people, while still producing significant strength and fitness gains.
New: Joe Rogan just sat down with UFC champion Justin Gaethje who dropped the cold truth that Ilia Topuria may never become champion again:
ROGAN: “Ilia still might go down as the greatest fighter of all time. He’s only 29 years old.”
GAETHJE: “The odds of that happening are so low now.”
ROGAN: “Because he lost to you?”
GAETHJE: “He has the skills to do it, but I broke his identity. I did the same thing to Tony Ferguson.
When you show the world how to beat fighters that look unbeatable it changes how future opponents will perceive them. His opponents will have confidence now because they know he’s beatable.”
ROGAN: “That’s interesting. That was what happened to Mike Tyson in his prime and also guys like Anderson Silva and Ronda Rousey.”
GAETHJE: “It’s going to be such a tough task now that he has to fight people that aren’t scared of him.”
ROGAN: “The reports are saying that he has two fractured orbitals and a broken nose.”
"I felt embarrassed to even be sitting by [Gaethje] because I was counting him out. It was one of the most inspiring fights I've ever seen.
Ilia did not know what to do. Ilia would still crack him, but Justin didn't even look like he got in a fight.
It was one of the sickest performances of all time."
Sean O'Malley was blown away by Justin Gaethje's performance against Ilia Topuria.
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Veneers destroy athletes.
From UFC fighters to footballers.
From Conor McGregor to Kevin De Bruyne.
Everyone falls for this trap and nobody is talking about it.
This is the science behind it:
(scientific literature mentioned in thread)
→ Around the root of each tooth sits the periodontal ligament, a sensory organ packed with mechanoreceptors. Every time you bite, it fires signals up the trigeminal nerve, straight into the brainstem.
That feed is what calibrates your balance, your posture, your jaw position, and your muscle tone in real time.
This is the proprioceptive feedback loop.
→ The moment the enamel gets shaved and a veneer is bonded on top, that signal deteriorates.
The brain stops reading the bite correctly, and the TMJ and masseter drift out of alignment.
From there it cascades:
→ Bite misaligns
→ Masseter goes dormant
→ Jawbone demineralises
→ Fascia thickens and stiffens
→ Posture collapses to compensate
The WHOLE chain locks up.
And the epicranial fascia on your skull is one continuous sheet with the plantar fascia in your foot. So a corrupted signal at the teeth travels the entire chain and changes how the athlete moves, lands, and absorbs force.
McGregor took it further and pulled his wisdom teeth too, which kills posterior support, severs more of the trigeminal feed, drops bone density, and even cuts neurogenesis.
Which turned his chin to glass.
Dental work destroys more primes than age ever has.
Justin crossed a line.
What happened between my ex-wife and me is our business. We may no longer be together, but she is the mother of my daughter.
To everyone insulting her or speaking about things they know nothing about: show some respect.
You don’t have to respect our relationship. But respecting someone’s mother should be one of the most basic codes in life.
Be better.