Name: Michael Chandler | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #305
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Michael Chandler | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #305

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Today's guest is a mixed martial artist. He's a three-time Bellator lightweight
world champion.
He's a fitness and training entrepreneur as well. I think it's safe to say and
he just signed his
contract for the UFC entering an insane lightweight division. Happy to have him
here today Mr. Michael
Chandler.
What are you taking right now Michael?
This is just my vitamins. I freaking completely forgot all the way.
Okay because a lot of rumors about you out there. What are you taking right now?
I just want to know exactly.
It was fish oil. It was fish oil,
turmeric, beta alanine, magnesium, BCAAs. And you take that once a day?
Twice a day. There's the formula in the end at night. There's like one or two
other things that help me sleep. I think that's about it.
Okay. And how uh... I'll send you my supplement list actually. Will you? I do.
I just did it for my buddy yesterday.
Dude, I need a little bit of rest. I don't know if I could take your supplement
list man.
No, it's dude, it's all just, it's all just like the little micronutrients that
you're probably not getting from your food and that's it.
And then for me, for you, for all of us, like just anti-inflammatory,
antioxidants. Like that's the most important thing.
Did you see a blood specialist or how did you, how did you start to get on this
regimen?
I did. I did a couple of years ago just to, just to look at all my stuff, like
where I was at, hormone levels and all that kind of stuff.
Cause that's the idea. Like we, how do you, how do you legally keep your body
in tip top shape?
Good diet and rest are like the two most important thing, but then it's
supplementation, making sure you're taking care of your body every, after every
single workout.
Like BCAAs, protein, those are the two things that I would die on a, die on a
freaking mountain for.
Those are the two things that I've been taking over the last 10 years that are
just, that have always kept me feeling good.
So you take them right post-workout, obviously with protein and then you do the
BCAAs.
Yeah. I mean, pretty much, I have a blender bottle with me three times a day.
Like in the morning I get up and I, oh, creatine. So I do creatine for the
brain benefits.
I do creatine when I would bust boy actually, when I bust tables.
Well, that's the thing. Like I kind of steered away from it.
Cause I thought, I thought creatine was just like, you know, the freaking dudes
who just wanted the big biceps and they freaking lift weights in high school.
It was NO explode and freaking creatine.
That's all it was back in the day.
We didn't even read the whole label. We just thought it said Knox on it.
Nobody knew what the heck it was.
Like it was just like, just get all tingly.
They busted some kid at our school with two things of it.
And they called the police on it.
Exactly. He was trying to sell it.
Trying to sell it.
Freaking snorting NO explode.
He's just spooning it out to people.
Here, put this in your mouth.
Some dumb kid's out there before his test getting two hits of it.
Like, bro, you're just going to be an awake idiot.
I'm pretty sure I got an A, man.
I'm pretty sure I got an A.
You got an A, for sure I got an A.
You got a D, Kevin.
Yeah, Kevin always got a D, dude.
Sorry, Kevin. You got a D minus, man.
Kevin always got a D.
Kevin was that kid who would sit in class and he would have the hoodie and he
would close it completely and then sit there the entire class.
Yeah, exactly.
Just draw both strings down and just have it completely shut.
I'm cool, Ms. Davis.
Leave me alone, man.
Had a rough night.
So, what else?
So, your regimen is sleep?
What is it?
Because when I watch you, man, like, you know, when I watch your fights, it's
like, Jesus Christ.
Even as a viewer, I'm like, will this guy stop for a second so I can, like, it's
too many frames per minute.
It's like, how can I visually catch up to what's going on here?
Dude, I mean, that to me is just, that's God's gifts, man.
Like, some people, because you know what it is?
It's, I'm not afraid to freaking lose.
And I'm not afraid to, I'm not afraid to, not, like, it becomes cliche.
I'm not, I'm really not afraid to die in there.
And I'm really not afraid to get tired either.
Trust me, I've been tired.
I've passed out.
I've passed out inside of a fight.
Oh, that's interesting.
I'm not afraid to get tired.
Yeah, I passed out inside of a fight once.
Really?
From just exhaustion.
Woke up before the fifth round.
Coach carried me to the stool.
Woke up on the stool.
And then fought the fifth round.
So, once you've been there, you're just like, well, there's really nothing that's
going to stop me.
You know?
And I think it's just, it's wrestling.
Like, in wrestling, it was seven hard minutes in their face.
Push them out of bounds.
Take them down.
Do whatever you got to do.
Like, to win the match.
Like, shoot more times than he does.
Go harder than he does.
Foot on the gassed.
All gassed.
No breaks.
Like, and just go.
So, I think that wrestling mindset is just like, now it doesn't work as well in
fighting.
Because it's 15 minutes.
It's 25 minutes.
You got to be a little more.
You got to negotiate those spaces a little bit more and not go so hard all the
time.
Or else you will die.
Yeah.
Do you, is it a psychological thing for you in that first round?
Because, I mean, you come out in some first rounds like, dude, I would even,
you know,
if they let me wear a ton of padding, I might go against you in like a ninth
round.
But a first round would be somebody wanting to die, it seems like.
Yeah.
Do you come out there with a different psychology in the first round?
Kind of like, is that part of your mindset?
Like, I'm put, everything is right here?
Yeah.
Because I think some people, some people are slow starters.
And case in point, like I think Khabib, Khabib finished Justin Gaethje the way
that he did.
Because I think Justin Gaethje wasn't ready for Khabib to come out with him,
come out the way they did, come out that hot.
So you can usually, you can get guys flustered, you get, get guys nervous, get
guys scared.
They immediately become a defensive fighter right away.
And that's why the only fights I've lost are the ones that people ran away from
me, you know, and I lose a split decision.
You know, like that's literally the only, pretty much the way that I've lost.
When you were watching the Khabib and Gaethje, what were you, what did you
think after that first round?
Because I felt like Gaethje got a lot of time on his feet against him.
A lot of, it got, a lot of guys don't get that.
It seemed like do not get as much time against Khabib on their feet.
Yeah, no.
And I think, I think that's, I think that was the most surprising thing is, is
we thought the striking was going to lean towards Gaethje's favor.
Yet Khabib, I think the manner in which Khabib fights is just hectic, crazy,
fast pace.
It's not that skilled.
If you go back and watch the fight, there really wasn't a ton of strikes that
were landed.
They landed on Justin's hands.
They landed on Justin's elbows, forearms.
Like it wasn't like he hurt Gaethje numerous times.
He just got, I think he just got Gaethje scared.
And I, and I hate using the word scared because I don't like to talk about the
guys in my division.
Right.
And obviously Justin's not a guy who gets scared, but I know what you're saying
that, that nerd, that energy in the beginning.
Or it's even like, uh, who was I just talking to?
Oh, uh, well, I was talking to Brendan about it.
I think like it's almost like if you get thrown into a scenario
where you're not, you're just not ready, you can make bad decisions, you know?
And I think Justin Gaethje also just was making bad decisions on the ground.
So I don't think necessarily think Justin Gaethje is that bad on the ground.
I think he just got there and he was just like, what do I do?
This guy's nuts.
You know, this guy's a freaking mauler.
Yeah.
He's like a rare snake kind of.
Yeah, exactly.
They're like, why haven't scientists found this dude yet?
You know, it's kind of like, it's almost like you would see him more on one of
those like
David Attenborough kind of like, you know, the, the, the, the Russian, I'm a
gun.
Then you would like, it seems like he hasn't been discovered.
It's like, well, somebody test this dude for reptilianism.
Or reptilianism.
Yeah.
Or like, or like 3,000 miles below the sea level.
Yeah.
Down there in the bottom of the ocean somewhere.
He's running on some old water for sure.
When you're watching that fight, did you think at all, and I'm a novice fight
watcher, you
know, I'm new into like just even absorbing a lot of what you guys' world is
like.
And it's, and the biggest reason is just because it's something that's so
scared me my whole
life, like any like physical altercation, like never learned how to defend
myself, never
learned any of that growing up.
Nobody even in my ear, like, Hey, just at least stand there and get hit.
You know, none of that.
So I definitely come from a place of fascination.
Did you think when you were watching the Khabib and Gaethje that, that Khabib
kind of let
the first round happen?
Do you feel like he could have finished it earlier?
Or do you feel like, um, it just that the way it played out was the way it
played out?
I think the way it played out was the way it played out.
Cause I think, I mean, I think Khabib just was going and going and just turned
it into a
fight real quick, fast paces.
And I loved it.
He just fought with reckless abandon.
And this is a guy who's undefeated.
Most of the time you see guys who are undefeated protect that record by
fighting a little bit
more, uh, you know, a little bit more timid or a little bit more diplomatic, a
little bit
smarter, you know, if you will.
But he just went, he went in there and wanted to get into a fist fight with,
with, you know,
the craziest striker in the division.
It kind of goes back a little bit to what you were just saying about, uh, the,
not, not being afraid to be exhausted, you know, not being, cause I've never
thought about it like that.
Like I go into any sort of physical, if I'm at the gym or if I'm training or
something like,
yeah, I'm thinking, okay, in a little bit, I'm going to be exhausted.
And I, that fear is a real, like a living fear that's in me.
I think, I think that's one of the greatest fears of, of anybody across all
walks of life.
When it comes to athletics, like nobody likes to get tired.
You know, people are afraid of getting hurt.
People are afraid of, of losing, but man, getting tired is the worst thing in
the world.
Now also getting tired on the football field means you got caught, you know, it
means you're, you're running down, you got 80 yards and you're running and you
get caught by the D back.
Who's just faster than you.
Cause you slowed down.
That's not that big of a deal, but you get, you get tired and locked into a
cage with another man with four ounce gloves.
Like that's a scary spot to be in.
Cause when, when, when the lactic acid builds up and the heart rate is through
the roof and you can't feel your arms and legs, and then you got a man coming
at you trying to knock your head off.
That's a scary place to be.
And that's a place where nobody wants to be.
So, you know that, you know, that scenario was all always right there.
It's only a couple, a couple crazy moves away or a couple scrambles or getting
hurt and get your heart rate up.
Like it's always there.
So you just have to, it's like the movie 300 where he always talks about fear
is al