Strength and conditioning for combat sports
Subject in Fitness
Strength and conditioning for combat sports has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Joe Rogan Experience. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Robert WhittakerAustralian mixed martial artist, former UFC middleweight champion now competing at light heavyweight, and host of the MMArcade podcast
Whittaker argues that conditioning to exhaustion should be sport-specific, such as wrestling to fatigue.
“if you want to break yourself doing something, it needs to be in the craft you're doing”
The Joe Rogan Experience: JRE MMA Show #187 with Robert Whittaker (Oct 22, 2026) · Listen from 1:09:18
Whittaker says he could not perform if he drank and smoked before fights the way Carlos Prates does.
“Because I guarantee if I started drinking and smoking before a fight, I'm gone. Within seconds, within seconds, I'm gassing on the walkout”
The Joe Rogan Experience: JRE MMA Show #187 with Robert Whittaker (Oct 22, 2026) · Listen from 8:09
Joe RoganAmerican comedian and host of The Joe Rogan Experience
Rogan believes skill work should be done fresh and hard conditioning should come afterward.
“I think if you're going to do strength and conditioning like that, it should be after your skill work. This is my personal opinion”
The Joe Rogan Experience: JRE MMA Show #187 with Robert Whittaker (Oct 22, 2026) · Listen from 1:06:27
Podcasts
- The Joe Rogan Experience · 1 episode
Episodes
JRE MMA Show #187 with Robert WhittakerThe Joe Rogan Experience · Oct 22, 2026 · 2 h 55 min
Joe Rogan and UFC fighter Robert Whittaker discuss MMA outliers, fighting styles, training philosophy, weight cutting, his move to light heavyweight, and life in Australia.