JRE MMA Show #152 with Sean Brady

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience. What's up?

Sean Brady (0:13)

What's going on, Joe?

Joe Rogan (0:14)

Good to see you, brother.

Sean Brady (0:14)

Thank you for having me, man.

Joe Rogan (0:15)

So we were just talking about injuries, like the life of a fighter.

Joe Rogan (0:20)

You always have something wrong, right?

Sean Brady (0:22)

Yeah, it's rough, especially for someone, I'm getting a little bit older now, and I'm being smarter, but I was training, I still kind of do almost three times a day. So I would do a morning skill session, an afternoon run or an afternoon strength session, and then another skill session at night. And I did that for 10 plus years. So, but I love it though. So, but I'm finding now, I'm trying to find that balance of, if it's a hard morning MMA sparring session, nighttime will be jiu-jitsu, and I'll try to make it light. But you know how that like, you drill, then you start rolling. And when you're rolling hard, it's almost just as, I get injured sometimes more during jiu-jitsu.

Joe Rogan (1:05)

The whole rolling light is.

Sean Brady (1:07)

It doesn't happen.

Joe Rogan (1:07)

Never happens.

Sean Brady (1:09)

I was telling my wife, cause my hand, I was coming out here, I was like, maybe I can go, and I can just like drill with Gordon and those guys. She was like, you ain't fucking drilling with no, if you guys start rolling light, like there ain't, there's not gonna be any of that. And I'm like, you're a hundred percent right. So, yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:26)

That's smart though. That's like smarter Sean, like older.

Sean Brady (1:29)

A hundred percent. And that's where like before, I'd like, nah, fuck that. Like I'm going, I'm gonna go hard, and then I'd be injured, and then I wouldn't be able to fight.

Joe Rogan (1:37)

The problem with injuries is, if you don't give them respect, they get chronic. They just, they, they, there's so many guys that have an injury, and they try to train through it, and it just gets worse and worse and worse. And then instead of being out for six weeks, now you're out for six months.

Sean Brady (1:52)

And that was me after my Balal fight.

So I came home from Abu Dhabi. I didn't have any injuries. I wanted to get back, and I wanted to get that taste out of my mouth. So I'm back training, I'm back running, and then I started to feel that pain I was telling you about.

And I literally just kept running. Like I'd run once I was warmed up, like you know how it is, you warm up, the injuries kind of go away. Like you feel good until you cool down. And I did that for a couple months, and I had a fight scheduled, and I tore my groin. And then I rescheduled the fight. I did my rehab, and the first week back of training, it tore again. So it was a shitty road.

Joe Rogan (2:29)

Have you had any surgeries?

Sean Brady (2:31)

I've been, I had my deviated septum done. Obviously they didn't fix the outside because this shit's fucked up.

But besides that, like I broke my thumb. I'd never had knee, never had any, I've been pretty lucky with no surgeries, but a lot of injuries.

Joe Rogan (2:45)

Isn't the deviated septum one amazing?

Sean Brady (2:47)

When I got it done, and they, when you have to have those things in your nose for a week though, as soon as they pull them out, you feel like a new human. It's like, oh, it's the best.

Joe Rogan (2:57)

It's incredible.

Sean Brady (2:57)

It's the best.

Joe Rogan (2:58)

I never knew how much cardio I was missing, not being able to breathe out of my nose. Look at like Drekus.

Sean Brady (3:04)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:04)

Like, Duplassie, when he got his nose fixed, he used to always fight with his mouth open and people thought he was out of shape. And the guy just can't breathe out of his nose.

Sean Brady (3:14)

I think at some point though, you have to open up your mouth, obviously. But I do all my Zone 2 now on the eco bike, mouth closed.

And now I just started doing mouth tape. When I sleep, my recovery on my aura ring went through the roof.

Joe Rogan (3:27)

Just from mouth tape.

Sean Brady (3:28)

Just from mouth tape, yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:29)

You use like hostage tape?

Sean Brady (3:31)

I had this one called Dream that I got, but hostage, it's the same thing.