Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2356 - Mike Vecchione
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Joe Rogan Experience #2356 - Mike Vecchione

Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
Feeling better now?
It's awesome.
Does it feel a little better?
It does feel better, yes.
A little bit?
Yeah.
It's just a consistent thing.
You have to do it every day.
We're talking about decompressing the back, ladies and gentlemen.
Lower back pain.
Another thing you can do without a machine is just bend your knees.
Just bend slightly, grab your arms like this, and just go forward and relax
your back.
It'll pop your back that way, too.
I know how to pop an upper back.
That's where you have the person to grab you and then hold you, and then you
can hear it crack.
I don't know how good it is.
But the lower back is when I played football, I played contact football, and we
used to go to physicals.
You had to get a physical, and it was just a gigantic room.
And you'd go from doctor to doctor, so everybody could do it at one time.
And I remember I laid down, and the doctor grabbed my leg, and he was trying to
get range of motion.
And he got it like three-quarters of the way up, and it stopped.
And he said to me, you're going to have lower back pain when you're older.
And that's exactly what happened.
You can avoid it.
He predicted it.
There's a lot of ways to avoid it.
You know, people just accept it.
But what you're telling me right there, with not being able to get your leg up,
that's a hamstring issue.
So one thing, hamstrings and quads and glutes, all the tightness in those areas
will absolutely affect your back.
Because any time you have restricted range of motion, and you're really tight,
everything else is tight, too.
Yeah, yeah.
I'd say everything you're like kind of pulled down.
And you have to figure out a way to lengthen that shit out.
And there's a lot of different stretches you could do, but you definitely
should be doing them.
Nobody likes to stretch.
It sucks.
Everybody hates it.
It sucks.
But if you don't do it, you're going to go to a doctor, and they're going to
want to cut you open.
Yeah.
And don't do that, because there's other ways around that.
If you're listening to this, and you've got a bulging disc in your back, there's
ways around it, folks.
There's decompression.
There's stem cells.
There's a thing that I did a long time ago in California called – oh, my God.
What is it called?
What is that shit called that Peyton Manning did?
Regenikine.
Regenikine.
Thank you.
It escaped my mind.
It's early.
Regenikine is where they – it's like platelet-rich plasma, but it's a more
sophisticated version of it.
They first started – pioneered it in Germany.
You used to have to go to Germany to get it.
Right.
But now you get it in America.
But –
Stop over in Turkey for the hair, and then hit Germany for you to go over back.
You don't have to do it.
It's in America now.
Is it – what is the name of the place?
Life – Life Cycle Medicine in Santa Monica?
What is the name of the place?
Why am I not remembering?
My brain has way too much extra information, and my hard drive is so full.
Lifespan.
Lifespan.
Lifespan Medicine in Santa Monica is where I had it done.
It was amazing.
My neck was fucked up for like almost a year, and I was going to chiropractors
who are all goofy.
It's all nonsense.
And then I finally went to this guy, Dr. Ben-Ruhi there, and he said, you have
a bulging disc in your neck.
We got an MRI.
He's like, this is what we could do.
Spinal decompression, and we'll use Regenikine.
It's a very potent anti-inflammatory.
It'll relax all the muscles around that area, and, you know, slowly it'll go
back, and it went back.
No, it's 100%.
But you had to go in for several treatments, though?
The Regenikine?
No.
I think it was one treatment.
Oh, wow.
That's great.
One treatment did it.
I did go back again to get another treatment, but that's just because I do jujitsu.
And jujitsu is you're just always getting your neck ranked on.
I went back to get, like, mid-back.
I think I did one more on my neck, too, but it was – I might not have.
But it was more like maintenance than anything.
The big issue had been resolved.
And then I started strengthening because I never really did anything to
strengthen my lower back, my neck, any of those things while I was training jujitsu
in the beginning.
I just worked out normal stuff.
I lifted weights.
But doesn't deadlifting – and I don't know if you did these things, but deadlifting
and squatting – I squat lightweight without a belt.
Doesn't that automatically strengthen your lower back?
I thought it automatically kind of did.
Well, I mean, it does a little bit, but it depends on what –
But not the focused exercises that we were just doing.
Right.
Those are just lower back.
Squats are really for your legs.
But it does – your lower back.
But also, it gets compressed because you're carrying weight in your shoulders.
But I do belt squats, which I really like.
So what belt squats are, it's a different machine.
There's another one out there, too, that was created by Louis Simmons from Westside
Barbell.
And it's a strap that goes around you, and it goes to a cable that goes in
between your legs.
And the weight is pulling down from your hips.
Right.
So it's not on your shoulders compressing your spine, which is great if you
have a back issue.
Yeah, yeah.
So you can squat a lot of weight, but all of it is, like, resting on your hips.
Wow.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
I can definitely feel the difference in my strength when I squat and when I don't.
Like, I'm a guy who needs to lift weights.
I was – I wrestled with guys and played football with guys who, like, were
naturally just shredded and did not need – it was annoying to them to lift
weights.
Not that it didn't benefit them, but they were just very muscle-bound, and they
kind of didn't need it.
I need to lift weights.
Well, everybody needs it if you're competing against elite guys.
That's the thing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, obviously.
But, I mean, yeah.
To a certain level.
Right.
They're doing it in – you know, you have great genetics, and they have great
genetics, and they're doing strength and conditioning, and you're not.
Right, right.
They're going to win.
Yeah.
Or at least they're going to have at least some kind of an advantage.
Yeah.
But I tell everybody, like, my age, I'm 52, it's like, do a circuit.
Do a 40-minute weight circuit.
Do three sets of – just go.
Just – you got to do it.
Because I think it affects your – I'm not an expert on this or anything, but
I think it affects your testosterone.
I can feel.
Oh, it definitely does.
I can feel it.
Yeah, definitely.
Lifting weights definitely affects your testosterone.
Here's another way to boost your testosterone.
Cold plunge before you lift weights.
That's a big one.
Or if you don't have that, cold shower in the winter.
Yeah, yeah.
It's great.
You do that before you lift weights.
Before any kind of training, actually.
You know, because there's been some negative press lately on cold plunges and
hypertrophy.
But it's all about doing it right after lifting weights, which is – you're
never supposed to do that anyway.
You're not supposed to – the whole idea about lifting weights is you're
breaking your tissue down.
The inflammation helps you.
Right.
Because your body heals, and then it gets stronger.
And you don't want to, like, kill the inflammation right after you work out.
And the cold is killing the inflammation, right?
Exactly.
Exactly.
So I do that.
I do that.
I – we just moved into a new building.
Gym in the building.
Oh, nice.
And that's great.
Yeah, we just – we just bought a condo in New York.
Right in time for socialism.
Nice.
Right in time for the fucking communist takeover.
Good job.
Right in time for all of us to have to share.
Yeah, you're going to have to share.
You're going to have to have immigrants move into your apartment.
I mean, I just did – I just – 20 years living with roommates, and I just
finally got married
and bought a place.
This is the first time you've had your own place?
Yes.
Whoa.
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
Well, no, no, no.
Not the first time I had my own place.
We were renting – we rented for four years.
Oh, okay.
But this is the first time I've bought something.
Oh, okay.
So I bought property in New York.
I don't know if that's a good idea or not, buying things.
I go back and forth on that.
Really?
Yeah.
It's like –
I just was told diversify.
You're responsible for all the problems.
Yeah, yeah.
You know.
Yeah.
It depends on where you are.
New York City, to me, seems like a fucking time bomb.
It's like there's a whole bunch of crazy people with a bunch of wacky ideas.
Right.
And they're getting voted in.
Yeah.
And you're like, good luck with all that.
And your options are them or the guy from fucking Guardian Angels.
Curtis Sliwa.
The guy with the fucking beret.
Curtis Sliwa.
What if he comes into office and he goes, everybody wears berets now.
Listen.
It's a beret city now.
If he didn't have the beret, the things he's saying make sense.
Like a lot of the stuff he says makes sense.
If he didn't have the beret, I'd be like, maybe I'll take you a little more
seriously.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
What are you going to do?
Paint?
Where's your cigarette holder?
No, I love it.
Yeah.
I love the Guardian Angels because they don't have weapons, right?
Isn't that their whole thing?
I came after that whole initiative.
But I do like the idea.
I do like the idea of someone out there to protect the public other than cops.
Yeah, there he is.
He's been doing this forever.
I remember in, I guess it was the 90s, I was in New York City and I was in
traffic with
my girlfriend at the time.
She was sitting next to me and we're looking at this Guardian Angel guy.
I go, why do you have to wear the hat?
Like, what is with the hat?
Like, why do they make them wear that fucking hat?
And her and I are just laughing and the guy looks at me and goes, fuck you.
Like, with a real angry face.
I'm like, hey, that's not serving and protecting, sir.
If you don't think that hat is funny, the fuck you, like, what if I say, no,
fuck you and
I get out and I want to fight.
Yes.
Come on.
This is so stupid.
You're not, you're not helping.
This is not good.
I would hate to lose to a guy with that hat.
Yeah.
Probably you're not going to.
I would imagine anybody that really knows how to fight is not going to put that
fucking
hat on.
You're going to be like, what am I doing?
What is this organization?
I think that what they did is if there was a disturbance or something or
somebody was
acting nuts on the subway, they would just surround him, surround the person.
Well, that's good.
Yeah.
As long as the guy doesn't have a gun.
Yeah.
Or a fucking samurai sword or whatever.
Or a tiger in his apartment.
Yeah, there's a bunch of those guys.
Yeah, yeah, that was, that was a big thing for a while.
Guys having just wild, wild life in their apartment.
Yeah, just tigers and crocodiles and shit.
Wasn't there a thing with Curtis Sliwa where like, there was like a fake crime?
And he was, he was like saving someone, but it wasn't, wasn't real.
Didn't something like that happen like back in the day?
I don't remember that one.
I remember, um, was it?
Jamie's going to look it up.
Oh, okay.
There was something like that.
I remember, um.
Maybe it was an exaggeration or something.
John Gotti Jr. was brought to trial for trying to kill him.
Oh boy.
Yeah, for saying stuff about his dad.
Oh Jesus.
Oh boy.
He got, I think it was just a hung jury five times and he never got convicted
of it.
But yeah, that was a, that was a thing.
I remember that.
Yeah.
And we tried to shoot him in a cab.
Whoa.
Yeah.
Cabs are bad enough.
That was John Gotti Jr.
Interesting.
You know, John Gotti the third's an MMA fighter.
Yeah.
He's fucking good.
He's good.
Yeah.
He's good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He's real good.
He fought Floyd Mayweather.
I saw that.
It was crazy.
I think they fought twice.
Admitted he and the Guardian Angels faked heroic subway rescues for publicity.
Okay.
So in 1992, Sliwa admitted he and the