Staying Fit & Healthy At Any Age | Laird Hamilton & Joe Rogan

[Music] i'm always very appreciative of guys like you that are in my age range very fit and very active and you keep going whereas a lot of guys around 55 like it's a wrap [Music] i'd like to see guys that are in my age bracket or a little bit ahead of me like oh he's going go i can keep going too i think a lot of that is just thinking and knowing that you can so many people feel like hey i'm 45 it's time to settle down it's time to relax and you know and wind down this exercise people use that as a disclaimer to not do the work i'm too old i think that's a way out the body the adaptation if you ever put yourself under some real severe stress in multiple days the first day you feel like you're not gonna be able to make it the second day you're feeling you know like you can't the third really can't make it pretty soon the fourth day the body's like oh this is the new house we're living in like this is where we're at okay well we're gonna adapt and modify and then pretty soon you're doing even more than you were doing the first couple days and you're not even feeling it we're an amazing machine you know we're an amazing creature you know who eddie izzard is yeah he ran a series of marathons all around the uk and he did one in south africa and he was telling me that when you first started doing it like the first few were really hard but then your body's like well this is what we do we run marathons and then like day three day four things started picking up day five and by the time day ten came along he's just running for sure yeah for sure i got a friend ran 125 in a row and then he ran the boston after that and then he had a fight in vegas and he ran a marathon in the morning and then he like knocked the guy out in the third round after holy [ __ ] tom jones seven seven-time muay thai world champion [Applause] that's crazy so he had 125 marathons in a row so 125 days of marathons to boston and then he ran the boston when he got there he ran across the country a lot of hard work and dedication and not being willing to give up one of my best friends just passed this last year and he was 85 when he passed and he did the ironman 10 times the first time was when he was 50. he's done the race across america three times i mean bang iron every day ride the bike at 85 he was doing all that stuff an animal an animal until the day he died the irony was his name was dawn wild man i go anybody named the wild man's got to keep it up [Music] it's interesting to see in sports we have a lot of athletes right now that are the oldest that we've seen [Music] i believe a lot of it has to do with the fact that they've have some examples but they're also not accepting that hey now you're too old because that's a decision like hey oh now you're too old you're gonna keep doing that it's like yeah you're gonna do it all the way until they throw the dirt on the box you know like we're going all the way full speed until we're not and then when we're not we're not i always say if people stop doing something like they go oh i'm going to retire now then i'm getting old in the sport it's really not that they're getting old it's just that they've made a decision that they don't want to do anymore and they just use the age as a like a disclaimer like hey i'm [Music] good for some folks i think it's a mental tiredness keeping up their enthusiasm is probably the difficult thing i think a lot of people look forward to retirement right they look forward to those golden years where they're just holding hands and walking towards the sunset where some people look forward to some day where they don't have to struggle the system is a little bit designed to struggle everything that we do that's good for us has a has a certain amount of stress you want to get that sauna want to get on the assault bike you want to jump in that ring you want to hike that mountain it's all stress driven the fact is that's our universe that's the universe we live in i appreciate let's hack our way through it and i think there's ways that hacking supports us but thinking that you can just hack your way through and not actually suffer it's impossible you just you got to suffer i also think you don't appreciate the good times unless you suffer [Music] i think i appreciate food more when i work out i appreciate life more i like doing things more when i struggle [Music] but a lot of people don't recognize that that's a lesson i think people really need to get drilled into their head it's it's not that tricky right no i'm just saying this isn't rocket science this isn't like elaborate it's available for everybody just [Music] move the future of humans does not look so rosy when you really think about how we're slowly deteriorating becoming these gelatinous balls of meat stuart and the bodies are connected to the brains and so that's why we have some mind issues too because at the end of the day the bodies aren't functioning correctly so that's not feeding the brain correctly when you're really physically well then your thoughts are physically well well they've shown in studies that regular exercise is as effective as ssris i think also diet because of inflammation like the inflammation for sure leads to all sorts of different ailments which could lead to a depressed feeling a feeling of unwellness eat a bunch of garbage for a week and see how you feel i really believe that to truly have optimum performance that you have to have every spoke in the tire that you need every single spoke [Music] that you have to have a good relations with your family you got to have love and you got to have good things with your kids and you got to have friends and you gotta have your health and you gotta sleep well and you gotta be hydrated you gotta work out and you gotta have a business thing i think you just have to have all these things to really have balance if one of the spokes isn't tight that there's a bump in the wheel i don't truly believe that you're performing at your optimum because you need your head needs to be clear when you go into your performance whatever that looks like [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

Channel: JER Films

Views: 598,450

Rating: 4.9359431 out of 5

Keywords: Laird Hamilton, Joe Rogan, exercise, working out, never too old, pushing the limits, old guy, shredded, ripped, surfer, surfing, health, elderly, fitness, nutrition, motivation, life lesson, hype, documentary, short film, video essay, jre clips, jre films, jre, getting fit, legend, pioneer, take every wave, staying fit, tom jones, Donahue Wildman, Don Wildman, joe rogan experience, laird hamilton surfer, laird hamilton interview, joe rogan experience clips, laird hamilton diet

Id: bMqSmj-X4ls

Length: 9min 48sec (588 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 21 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/tedkazcynskimaillist]

I simultaneously love and hate Laird Hamilton

[u/[deleted]]

As much as I love Joe's podcast, he can fuck right off with his "staying fit and healthy" bullshit.

He's fit and healthy not for the same reasons laird is.

Joe is jacked to the fucking gills on HGH and TRT, whereas my belief is laird actually believes in healthy eating, stretching, mobility, staying fit his entire life, so you don't have to do HGH to and stem cells to function like a normal human.

[u/[deleted]]

two kooks

[u/Jormungandr617]

Keep fit and have fun