Joe Rogan Experience #2242 - Bert Sorin

Bert Sorin brings his new Sorinex XOR rotational-power machine to the studio and the conversation opens on training innovation and the evolution of strength work in combat sports. Joe and Bert trade deep nerd talk on bowhunting gear, rangefinders, binoculars, and elk and big-game hunting. They explore the strongman and catch-wrestling history (Bill Kazmaier, Louie Simmons, Carl Gotch, Farmer Burns) and rank heavyweight boxing greats. The back half drifts into free speech, social media, the 2020 unrest, Elon buying Twitter, and the philosophy of choosing between being a 90-percent generalist and an all-in obsessive. They close on cooking wild game, carnivore eating, and hot sauces.

• Joe details pulling his 84-90 lb bows up to 100 times a day, causing lower-back tendonitis he is rehabbing with NewFit EMS therapy.
  00:32:50
• Bert says he has been taking BPC-157 for eight years and is shocked strength professionals still don't know about it.
  01:34:06
• Aaron Rodgers' doctors told him not to do stem cells after his Achilles repair; he did them anyway and returned months early.
  01:32:33
• Joe recounts the Antonio Inoki vs Muhammad Ali fight where Inoki's grounded kicks gave Ali blood clots and infection that nearly required leg amputation.
  02:59:48
• Bert reveals a hammer-throw ankle injury caused a blood clot from knee to hip that doctors said should have killed him.
  03:02:54
• Bert's father was with Bill Kazmaier in 1980 at the Playboy Club for the silver-dollar deadlift of ~900 lbs.
  02:47:48
• Joe recalls a 40-year-ago house party where a punch sparked a house-wide brawl 'like World War Z.'
  02:19:40

• The Scottish 'clach neart' (stone of strength) was a family stone; departing warriors piled theirs as a monument so survivors knew who never returned.
  00:22:56
• The 265 lb Inver Stone sits in an old lady's garden in Scotland and strongmen make pilgrimages to lift it and sign her book.
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• A study by strength coach Loren Landow found increased ground force from squats/deadlifts equated to roughly a 12% increase in punching power.
  00:58:19
• Alex Pereira worked in a tire shop and Francis Ngannou worked in a sand mine, building rotational and digging strength before fighting.
  01:04:32
• Cadaver-graft ACL reconstructions act as scaffolding the body re-proliferates, leaving the knee vulnerable until about the six-month mark.
  01:29:28
• Kamaru Usman has to walk backwards down stairs because his knees are so bad he can't get knee over toe.
  01:26:53
• Bert uses a Deep Glow green dock light that schools striped bass nightly, catching 4-15 lb fish in the first few casts.
  03:21:35
• Bert marinated his son's first-pig backstraps in Coca-Cola for 36 hours; he learned soda marinades break the meat down.
  03:24:43
• Tucker Carlson learned the government could access his Signal app; a government contact told Bert a state actor only needs your phone number.
  02:01:42
• Catch wrestler Farmer Burns built such a strong neck (on a 160 lb frame) that he performed hanging-by-the-neck stunts for crowds.
  02:56:39

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