Rich Franklin || Math Teacher to Middleweight UFC Champ || w/ Mike Dolce

Timestamps by Jax:
0:00 Intro
0:25 Rich’s schedule
0:55 Oblique kicks (knee kicks)
2:31 Why the controversy started
5:05 Tiquando stance
7:56 Introducing Rich Franklin
8:25 Quite Franklin podcast
9:15 Why Rich didn’t coach or open a martial arts school
10:59 Rich’s background
14:09 Rich’s faith
17:44 Atheism and dogmatism
19:46 Franklin on avoiding substance abuse
22:23 Discipline and not losing belief in your concept of the world
24:50 Rich’s loss to Anderson Silva/ Not wrapping up your identity in one thing
27:10 Rich’s karate experience/ Taking what works and leaving what doesn’t
32:00 Intense martial arts training/ Building mental fortitude
33:53 Starting over multiple times
34:54 Did Rich have pushback for cross-training?
37:50 “Functional” training
39:25 Ups and downs to mixed training
40:35 Were people still going into the ufc with only 1 discipline in 2002?/Would coaches help to combine styles, or was that up to Rich?
43:03 Randy Couture and wrestling
42:32 Rich’s skill matrix
45:32 Pursuit of excellence
47:00 Why Rich became a professional fighter
48:55 How did Rich decide to major in math?
50:32 Rich’s speech on Algebra and how he almost became a teacher
54:41 Rich being small in high school
56:46 Rich, football, and other sports
59:12 How Rich got into Karate
1:00:27 Early MMA and BJJ
1:01:34 Analyzing strategies during a fight
1:02:24 The importance of keeping a level head/ Rich’s funny fight story
1:04:41 Rich on being concussed in a fight
1:07:14 Moving toward a goal vs living in the present
1:11:05 Rich pulling up to his hotel after a rough fight
1:12:28 Rich fighting Ken Shamrock
1:15:15 Weight classes when Rich first started
1:17:15 Rich was almost late to a fight because he watched The Matrix 2
1:17:59 Adrenaline control
1:19:30 PTSD and fighting
1:22:20 Rich’s training partner and killer instincts
1:25:10 Mike on bodies shutting down after bad enough fights
1:28:34 Genetics vs epigenetics and breaking points
1:30:18 Indecisiveness and apathy as a result of trauma
1:32:30 Leo on genetic analysis
Cetp, Apoe4, Apoc3
1:34:40 Wim Hoff and brown fat
1:38:07 Going to sleep instead of tapping
1:40:54 Did Rich’s first loss impact him?
1:44:20 Ted Talk Rich Franklin
1:46:08 Rich’s father coming to his fights
1:49:27 Rich on his father’s passing
1:52:19 Patients from the methadone clinic coming to his father’s funeral
1:54:31 Going back to school in your 40s
1:56:13 Rich on pursuing your interests
1:57:33 How do you measure success
1:59:25 Not having a persona in MMA
2:02:02 Mike on modern ufc and personas
2:04:58 Rich’s workouts
2:07:51 Starting slow and getting better over time in a fight
2:09:20 Mike on deflection points and lactic acid
2:12:14 Lactic Pulse Rate Training: by Peter Janssen
2:15:39 Will good fighters are pushed back for louder fighters?
2:18:41 Leo on cardiovascular disease
2:19:20 Mike and Rich on weight cutting

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