Name: Joe Rogan Experience #491 - Steve Maxwell
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #491 - Steve Maxwell' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2014-04-29. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #491 - Steve Maxwell

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the music, Jamie.
Good to see you, my friend. Hey, great to see you again, too. Steve Maxwell is,
for folks who don't
know, a longtime Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt, longtime strength and
conditioning guru,
uh, and my friend. And I found out about you from, uh, DVDs, actually. I think
someone from the
underground posted up, uh, a link to one of your DVDs a while back. And I got
one of your kettlebell
DVDs, um, which I thought was, uh, very informative and, and very interesting.
And then I started reading
about your lifestyle and reading about your, your philosophies on training and
reading some of your
blog entries. And, uh, you're, uh, you're an unusual dude when it comes to the
strength and conditioning
and fitness and, you know, just, uh, uh, the, the wellness advocates, you know,
usually have, uh,
a bunch of different schools of thought when it comes to those. You got meatheads
who are just into
lifting the heaviest, you know, weights that they can and getting as big as
they can. But
you're sort of a weirdo, man. You're like traveling the world. You're doing
seminars all over the place.
You're, you're eating very little food. You're, you know, you're, you've, you've
sort of like
I've got a lot of people interested in how you're living your life these days.
Well, I've, uh, definitely gone through evolution. You know, I've been at this
for 51 years. I started
when I was like 10 years old. That's when you started working out. Yeah. When I
was 10, my father
got me, uh, uh, a York barbell set. York was just down the road from Carlisle,
Pennsylvania.
And, uh, I was one of those kids that was sort of weak and scrawny and, uh,
basically getting picked on
by some of the neighborhood kids. And my, my father kind of saw where this was
going,
got me the barbell set and, uh, literally made me go out for wrestling.
Really? Made me. I went kicking and screaming.
And then I found out I was actually pretty good at it.
Well, you, uh, you must be happy. You must have thanked him at some point in
time.
Oh, for sure. Absolutely. I mean, he had tried to teach, uh, both me and my
brother boxing and so
forth in the backyard. And, uh, I, I learned early. I didn't like to get hit,
but I sure like to clinch.
And take guys down, man.
Well, that's a sign of intelligence.
It was just a natural evolution. And then I discovered, Hey man, I really got
this thing
for wrestling. And all my training was geared to making me a better athlete as
opposed to
the body beautiful or even, uh, power lifting or Olympic lifting. I was always
interested in
improved performance for my chosen activity.
And back then that wasn't that common, right? I mean, back then, uh, everybody
was trying to be
like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Everybody was trying to lift weights and get huge.
And
well, this was in the sixties. And at that point, bodybuilding was still in its
infancy. I mean,
up to, up to the 1950s, bodybuilding was actually a really honorable profession.
It was,
it was pure. There was no anabolic steroids. I mean, they didn't even have so
much as a Flintstone
vitamin. I mean, there was no creatine or, you know, protein powders and such.
What was the diet like back then when, when guys would like try to get big?
Like, did they have
any idea of what the, what the correct foods to eat? Like what did?
Well, yeah, for sure. A lot more emphasis was placed in health. Health was
always first with a lot of
these old, old, uh, bodybuilders and, and, um, they call themselves physical
culturists.
Right.
You know, Jack O'Lean was one of those guys.
Well, I, I first heard that term from you actually, from, I believe it was
reading your blog or,
or, or reading, you know, something that you had, uh, a conversation that you'd
had with someone,
but, uh, the, the term physical culture, like being involved in physical
culture. I like that term.
It's a good term.
But it's a throwback to ancient Greece. I mean, if you think about it, the
standard for male beauty
and male excellence for 2000 years was the ancient Greek statue, the Greek God,
the Greek God.
And, you know, if you look at the sculpture from that time, it's just
magnificent.
Something got very skewed right towards the end of the sixties, early seventies.
And a lot of it was the anabolic steroids and, you know, guys, let's buy,
let's face it, it's the human condition, right? If, if people will do things
because they can do things
and people just wanted to get as big and freaky as possible.
It's a bit of dysmorphia too, isn't it? Isn't it sort of like, like an anorexic
that doesn't realize
they're so skinny looking or a woman who has enormous fake breasts and still
doesn't think
they're big enough. There's some sort of a weird psychological condition where
people can't
definitely disconnect in there somewhere where they, they, they, they have a
very skewed image
of body image of themselves. But, uh, yeah, back in the sixties, it was pretty
innocent still.
I mean, steroids existed, but it wasn't prevalent. Most of the, uh, information,
if you're looking
for really good, solid information about sports training, uh, you have to go
before 1950.
Really? Yeah. Why is that? Well, I mean, that's when steroids be, uh, began to
make, uh, inroads
into Olympic weightlifting. And of course, that's when the Eastern block really
started getting into
this stuff. Of course, it's not like, you know, the U S didn't have, you know,
plenty of drugs too.
Sure. But in those days, you know, it was still legal in the, in the early days,
but you had asked
me about what the guys eat back, you know, the mighty, mighty men of all, just
normal food,
just good, basic food. Uh, they drank a lot of milk. Milk was considered a bodybuilding
food
and you can trace that clear back, you know, thousands of years ago, even into,
uh, India
where they would, uh, the Hindu wrestlers would, would drink the milk and eat,
eat almonds and,
and, and, and, and in an effort to get, uh, build mass on their bodies. So it's
been well known.
Well, everyone, you know, talks about lactose intolerance and, and things along
those lines,
but a big issue with lactose intolerance is just homogenized and pasteurized
milk. And,
you know, I've talked about that in the podcast and people have said, yeah,
well, if you don't
do that, people are going to get sick. And that's not because of the milk. It's
because of the way
we're raising cattle. It's because of what we're putting in these