JRE MMA Show #165 with Jiří Procházka

Joe Rogan (0:01)

Joe Rogan Podcast, checking out The Joe Rogan Experience.

Jiří Procházka (0:06)

Trained by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.

Joe Rogan (0:12)

Great to have you in, man.

Jiří Procházka (0:14)

Great to be here.

Joe Rogan (0:14)

How you feeling? You must be feeling fantastic.

Jiří Procházka (0:18)

Many things were successful, so even if I was a little bit, had a flu, many things...

Joe Rogan (0:29)

You had a flu before that fight?

Jiří Procházka (0:30)

Yeah, for one week, like five days. Five days before five week, I was in, like, how to say that?

Heat, like, body's warm.

Joe Rogan (0:43)

Fever?

Jiří Procházka (0:43)

Fever, fever, fever, yeah, fever. So, yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:47)

That's crazy.

Jiří Procházka (0:49)

That was, yeah, that was something what I... But every time, maybe I'm a little bit glad for that because I'm every time trying to push my preparation too much, that I'm every time, like, hurt myself or I'm over trained.

Joe Rogan (1:07)

Right.

Jiří Procházka (1:08)

So, that's why I'm maybe just a little bit glad for that.

Joe Rogan (1:12)

That's interesting, right? Like, it's so hard because you want to prepare so hard, you're so disciplined, so driven, but you can do yourself a disservice. You can go too far and then you don't recover enough and then you go into the fight a little compromised.

Jiří Procházka (1:28)

Yeah, that's right.

Joe Rogan (1:29)

Yeah, we've seen that many times with fighters who just get so enthusiastic about their training.

Jiří Procházka (1:33)

Yeah, because I feel like self-confidence and still there is something what you can do better, yeah, every day. And that's my idea of the training life idea to go better every day, one percent better, one percent better. Even if you can't train, you can sit in the meditation and visualize it, how you train, how the body is working. Sometimes is the most biggest thing, what you can do is just like you show me the floating.

Joe Rogan (2:19)

Yes. Yeah, you need one of those, man. If all the people that I know, you need one, sensory deprivation tank, you should get one of those. Because I know you're into meditation, I know you spend a lot of time in dark rooms. That's meditation times 100

Jiří Procházka (2:35)

That's right.

Joe Rogan (2:36)

Do you monitor your heart rate every day to see what your recovery is at or you just go by feel?

Jiří Procházka (2:42)

Feeling, feeling, feeling. I did that in high-altitude training in all the November in Mexico, Mexico City, where there is a 2300, 200 meters.

Joe Rogan (2:56)

Yeah, 7,700 feet above sea level, I believe.

Jiří Procházka (2:59)

Yes. And there I monitor everything, like take a blood exams before, in and after this camp, four weeks camp there. And man, amazing, amazing.

Joe Rogan (3:14)

Well, your endurance was incredible in that fight, because that was such a high-

Jiří Procházka (3:18)

And still.

Joe Rogan (3:19)

paced fight.

Jiří Procházka (3:21)

And still, I felt like after that flu, I felt a little bit down, but-

Joe Rogan (3:29)

Well, that's pretty amazing then. You must have been in an insane shape before the flu. Yeah. It's that fine line, that balance.

Jiří Procházka (3:37)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:38)

So, you went to Mexico City. Did you know a gym up there? Did you bring your camp up there?

Jiří Procházka (3:44)

I was there in UFC Performance Institute there. There's a new one.

Joe Rogan (3:49)

Nice.

Jiří Procházka (3:50)

Man, you have everything here in the Performance Institute, like regeneration, training, coaches, coaches with the pads. So, yeah, I was there for, especially for, to work on the things what I took from the last fight with Pereira, to work on the hands up a little bit, just a little bit.

Joe Rogan (4:17)

A little bit. But we were talking about it in the broadcast. Your hands down sometimes has a benefit. There's a real advantage to it because no one sees where those punches are coming from.

So for the people that don't know what I'm talking about.

Jiří Procházka (4:33)

Not just punches. Movement. Movement. Head movement.

Joe Rogan (4:36)

Head movement was excellent.

Jiří Procházka (4:37)

Everything.

Joe Rogan (4:37)

Your head movement was excellent.

Jiří Procházka (4:39)

And the feeling with the hands up is another one with the hands down. Yeah, because this is your natural posture.

Joe Rogan (4:54)

Right.

Jiří Procházka (4:54)

Yeah. So you spend more most of the time in this. And it's about just feeling the space, feeling the... I can't explain to another person like this one, because when I am in, in the flow, like you want to be in the flow, in the fight, some between the flow and uncomfortable, some somewhere in the center. So when I achieved this attitude, that's why I don't need to keep my hands up, because this for me means, and for everybody, that means defending. I don't need to defend myself when I see everything, when I feel everything.