#2429 - Tom Segura

Joe Rogan (0:01)

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out!

Tom Segura (0:03)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Joe Rogan (0:06)

Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day!

SPEAKER_3 (0:12)

Is that hat your croissant? Bro, those croissants are a real fucking problem. I was gonna eat one bite, this is what's left. I was like, I'll have a bite.

SPEAKER_4 (0:21)

They're so good, man.

SPEAKER_3 (0:22)

Too buttery. How can a guy lose as much weight as you lost and then open up a fucking bakery?

SPEAKER_4 (0:27)

Because I started with them when I was so fat. It was perfect. I fell in love with that place when I was close to my fattest. I was like, this is a match made in heaven.

SPEAKER_3 (0:35)

How big were you when you were your fattest?

SPEAKER_4 (0:37)

The most I ever weighed was 265

SPEAKER_3 (0:40)

Holy shit. Yeah. What are you now?

SPEAKER_4 (0:42)

187

SPEAKER_3 (0:43)

That's insane. Yeah.

SPEAKER_4 (0:45)

That's like, what, 80 pounds?

SPEAKER_3 (0:46)

What does that feel like on your joints?

SPEAKER_4 (0:47)

Feels great. I feel so much better. I feel so much better.

SPEAKER_3 (0:50)

Of course.

SPEAKER_4 (0:51)

I'm lifting four days a week.

SPEAKER_3 (0:52)

Wow.

SPEAKER_4 (0:53)

Yeah, I just lifted this morning. Do you have a trainer?

SPEAKER_3 (0:55)

Do you go on solo?

SPEAKER_4 (0:56)

No. He meets me there every day or every day that I'm-

SPEAKER_3 (0:59)

Do you do that for accountability?

SPEAKER_4 (1:01)

You know, I just realized that, I mean, I've trained enough now where I can do a good workout on my own, but I always feel like it's never as good as when he's there. It's always, you know what I mean? It's always a little bit harder, and I always feel like it's a better workout when he's there.

Yeah, he pushes me, Sean.

SPEAKER_3 (1:22)

So you've been with him for a while?

SPEAKER_4 (1:24)

I've been with him for years. The other difference, the big difference is that I've been, I dialed in not with croissants, but I've dialed in my nutrition a lot more. Like I eat four times a day now, and I'm on top of my macros. You know what I mean? Things I've never done before.

SPEAKER_3 (1:38)

Why do you eat four times a day?

SPEAKER_4 (1:39)

This nutritionist just gave me this plan, and I've been just doing it.

SPEAKER_3 (1:42)

Interesting.

SPEAKER_4 (1:43)

Yeah. So I eat 50 grams of protein at each of those four different meals.

SPEAKER_3 (1:49)

Okay.

SPEAKER_4 (1:50)

So I end up getting 200 grams.

SPEAKER_3 (1:52)

So you do smaller meals that are lower in calories but high in protein?

SPEAKER_4 (1:58)

Yeah. And then I also, I carb cycle. So I know on a, and like if today was legs, I know that it's a more intense workout. I'll do the full portions of these carbs, right? Which sometimes is sweet potatoes or white rice. But on a day, if I'm like, if it's a rest day or I'm doing like less intense workout, I'll dial back how much of those carbs I eat.

SPEAKER_3 (2:24)

Hmm. Do you take a pre-workout?

SPEAKER_4 (2:27)

I have a pre-workout meal every time. So like in the morning, I get I've been getting up at 530 So I get.

SPEAKER_3 (2:34)

What?

SPEAKER_4 (2:34)

Yeah.

SPEAKER_3 (2:35)

What the fuck are you doing, man?

SPEAKER_4 (2:36)

I mean, because I've been in the writer's room on my on season two of Bad Thoughts. So I've been I've been getting up at 530 And my pre-workout meal are these like, I guess it's like muesli kind of like grains, you know, with with some honey, a little bit of almond butter. And then I have Greek yogurt with a scoop of whey protein. So that's my pre-workout. And after that, I go to the gym. And then during the workout, I sometimes have like an intro workout shake. Sometimes I just yeah, yeah. But I mean, I feel much better doing it that way.

SPEAKER_3 (3:13)

I do.

SPEAKER_4 (3:14)

And then and then I eat again about an hour after that workout. So that's my second meal. Then a few hours later is three. And then my fourth one is like around six.

SPEAKER_3 (3:23)

So you have your second meal by the time it's like 8 a.m. And maybe like 9.30.

SPEAKER_4 (3:29)

That's so crazy.

SPEAKER_3 (3:31)

What time are you going to bed at night?

SPEAKER_4 (3:32)

Well, that's the key to this whole fucking thing. That's the key to the whole thing. Is that you go, to do this, I got to do this. And to do that, I got to do that. And to do that, I got to get up early. And the only way I can get up early is by staying on top of when I go to bed. You know, when we met, I was going to bed at 3 o'clock in the morning.