Joe Rogan opened up on the extreme lengths he has to go to to be ready for a week of deer hunting.
The podcast host and comedian spoke about the physical preparation he has done before going out with a bow and arrow to hunt the wild animals.
The conversation came up during a December 5 episode of his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, where he spoke about the medication beta blockers with his guest, simply known as Derek, who is a fitness educator behind the “More Plates, More Dates” website. Beta blockers are medications used to treat “heart problems, help with some of the symptoms of anxiety and prevent migraines,” according to the National Health Service in the U.K.
Derek said how people used beta blockers in a number of different ways to lower heart rate, including ahead of a public speaking engagement or archery athletes before a competition.
However, Rogan, who is a well-known fan of elk bow-hunting, said using beta blockers felt like cheating at the sport.
“I thought about doing it once and I even asked my doctor about it, and he was gonna get them for me. But I was like, ‘I don’t want to cheat,’” he said, adding, “Half of the bow hunting thing is about being able to keep your s*** together … if I shot at a deer the way I had to shoot at a target, I don’t think It would be the same.”
Rogan said bow hunting was “f****** hard and that’s literally why I like it,” but he did sustain some serious injuries preparing for a hunt once. “I don’t want it to be easier … if I could take a drug that would make it easier to do, I don’t think I would like it,” he said.
“The really intensive part, though, is the preparation for it … I actually f***** my body up getting ready for this one,” Rogan said, describing how he increases his cardio workouts and practices his archery relentlessly.
He added that shooting an 84-pound bow, around a hundred times a day, five or six times a week, led to him “developing severe pain in my lower back on my right side that led to sciatica.”
“And I was also developing some severe neck pain on my right side … it was just getting locked up painful and stiff and sore and hurt even when I walk,” Rogan said, but added that he kept training through the pain for hours at a time.
“I just developed a real problem to the point where, like, when I was the last trip when I was going up hills, my, my hips were getting numb, my glutes weren’t firing, I was getting sciatic pain,” Rogan added.
So, after the most-recent hunting trip ended, Rogan knew he was going to “address it,” and got stem cell shots, did stretching and intense rehabilitation on a hard foam-roller.
“I was doing a lot of rolling in the sauna, cold plunge, and sauna stretching. It was getting a little better slowly, but it was brutal,” Rogan said.
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