{"id":35708,"date":"2016-12-01T22:33:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T04:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=35708"},"modified":"2016-12-01T22:33:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T04:33:39","slug":"podcast-recap-steve-austin-interviews-ufcs-sam-alvey-talks-bisping-henderson-jon-jones-mma-training-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/12\/01\/podcast-recap-steve-austin-interviews-ufcs-sam-alvey-talks-bisping-henderson-jon-jones-mma-training-process\/","title":{"rendered":"PODCAST RECAP &#8211; Steve Austin interviews UFC&#8217;s Sam Alvey who talks about Bisping-Henderson, Jon Jones, MMA training process, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-707816481\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>The Steve Austin Show<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>Guest: MMA Fighter\u00a0Sam Alvey<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>Release date: November 29, 2016<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>Recap by Rob Gladding, Torch contributor<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Top Newsworthy Items<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8211; Sam Alvey discusses his participation on a recent episode of the Broken Skull Challenge<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8211;\u00a0Alvey talks about his recent fight with Alex Nicholson and training for the Mexico City altitude<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8211;\u00a0Alvey describes his general MMA\u00a0training regime and cutting weight<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8211;\u00a0Alvey gives his thoughts on UFC 205<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Subjects Covered (w\/time stamps)<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">0:00 &#8211; Sponsors ad<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">1:27 &#8211; Introduction<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">14:58 &#8211; Sponsors ad<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">17:05 &#8211; Interview with Sam Alvey &#8211; BSC Participation<\/span><\/p><div id=\"pwtor-915118446\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">32.02 &#8211; Sponsors ad<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">33:21 &#8211; BSC Training\/preparation\/Strategy<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">45:40 &#8211; Sponsors ad<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">47:40 &#8211; Fighting Alex Nicholson in Mexico City<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">51:31 &#8211; Training for MMA<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">57:07 &#8211; Cutting weight<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">58:57 &#8211; Henderson v Bisping<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">1:01:38 &#8211; UFC 205<\/span><\/p><div id=\"pwtor-1199679415\" class=\"pwtor-content-1 pwtor-entity-placement\"><!-- Tag ID: pwtorchcom_test_300x600 -->\r\n<div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __300x600\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">01:10:14 &#8211; What\u2019s next\/Henderson\/John Jones<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">01:15:08 &#8211; Interview ends\/Conclusion\/Plugs<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">01:20:05 &#8211; Show ends<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Show Highlights<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Introduction: <\/b>Austin is Joined by Ted Fowler. They discuss feeling rough and hungover after a heavy night of drinking. Austin tells a story about Hershey the Wonder Dog encountering a skunk and narrowly avoiding getting sprayed on a hunt. Austin and Fowler talk about hunting for a few minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Interview with Sam Alvey \u2013\u00a0Broken Skull Challenge participation:<\/b> Sam watched the BSC before he participated and was a fan. He said that when the show that\u00a0he appeared on aired he threw a party and everyone was cheering him until he failed to climb a rope.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Austin recalls when he first met Alvey on the\u00a0BSC and Alvey asked him what was wrong with his elbow because of the fluid retention Austin recently had surgery for. Alvey said it looked like there was a softball in Austin&#8217;s elbow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">When Alvey was applying to be a contestant on the\u00a0BSC he was dehydrated and hungry from training to fight Eric Spicely, so he didn&#8217;t put a great deal of effort into his application and just answered every question with variations of \u201cI fight in the UFC\u201d so he wasn&#8217;t expecting a response.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The show was recorded 2 days after his fight with Kevin Casey and he was competing in the\u00a0BSC with a broken foot and dislocated thumb that\u00a0he\u2019d sustained during the fight. He also added\u00a0that he got hemorrhoids for the first time in his life shortly before taping the show and joked about that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He compared the casting processes of BSC and Ultimate Fighter and said the process for BSC was very different and involved a lot of Skype interviews. The recording process was a long, hot, dirty day but it was cool to hang out and perform. He was about 20 pounds lighter than he was expecting to be because it was so soon after a fight so he was conscious that he was going to be small in comparison to the other contestants and was sizing everyone up as a result.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He said the challenge which\u00a0he was most hoping to avoid was the trench run because he didn\u2019t want to get wet. The first challenge was the rip off and he felt that it was made for him and he had an advantage over the other participants. There was a contestant with a judo background, which he thought would give them an advantage but he thinks that they used the wrong strategy and that\u2019s why they lost.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">After seeing the first 2 contestants struggle and possibly get hurt doing the trucked up challenge he decided to start a little slower with it and go \u201cballs to the wall\u201d once he was settled. He thought Austin was exaggerating about the crates in the pit challenge weighing 600 pounds, but they were every bit as heavy as that. He said he was bragging to his jui jitsu coach about the fighting strategy he used on the show when he got home. He said he enters all competition expecting to win and expected to win BSC so he was disappointed that he failed to climb a rope. He joked about the sun being harder on him during the day because he&#8217;s ginger.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>BSC Training\/preparation\/Strategy:<\/b> Alvey said his preparation for the\u00a0BSC was just to eat a big dinner before going to bed and getting a lot of rest because he had previously been training hard for his recent fight. When he heard the current\u00a0BSC champion&#8217;s time he didn\u2019t think he would be able to match it and his strategy changed to just completing the course and not embarrassing himself by failing early.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The dome was one of the harder obstacles but once he had gotten the hang of it, it got easier. A lot of the stuff was making his broken foot hurt and he had to ignore the pain. He was annoyed when he missed one of the landings on the course and thought \u201cI hope that looked cool at least\u201d but got it a little faster on the second try.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He felt fine doing the monkey bars during the lightning bolt challenge due to having a great grip strength from pull ups. He said that it was so hot, going into the water for the deep freeze challenge was actually quite refreshing, but because he was wet afterwards everything was sticking to his shoes and thought that played a big part in him failing to climb the rope during the rope burn challenge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He started to tire by the time he reached the rope burn challenge and was just trying to hang in there because he knew it was getting filmed. He said that in hindsight, kicking his wet shoes off would have helped, but he just couldn\u2019t get up there and he knew it wasn\u2019t going to happen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In summary it was a great time and fun to see how his sport translates into other athletic endeavors and having done it he would like to do more. Competing through injuries is part of what he does every day and now he\u2019s concentrating on healing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Fighting Alex Nicholson in Mexico City:<\/b> The talk switched to MMA. Alvey said his fight against Alex Nicholson was supposed to be in Manilla, but that whole card got scrapped and the fight got moved to Mexico City about 3 weeks ago. He won the fight and he\u2019s on a 3 fight winning streak. During the fight the elevation got to him because the altitude in Mexico City is significantly higher than Denver, but it was a good fight and he got his hand raised again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He wasn\u2019t able to go up there to acclimate his body beforehand, but he went up to Denver which is a higher altitude to find out how uncomfortable he was likely to be during the fight which helped a little bit. Austin noted that before Fabricio Werdum fought Cain Velasquez in Mexico City, Werdum went 2 months early to acclimate his body, whereas Velasquez only went a couple of weeks early. He said the extra time acclimating seemed to make a big difference for Werdum and maybe if they\u2019d been fighting at sea level it would have turned out differently because Velasquez didn\u2019t seem as dangerous as usual.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Alvey said that there\u2019s a whole science behind altitude training and you need to be there for 90-120 days for your body to acclimate, but 2 weeks there won\u2019t make very much difference. He said with the location of his fight changing at short notice he didn\u2019t have time to plan for acclimating his body and just had to prepare for fighting in uncomfortable conditions. He did some altitude mask training which simulates altitude but doesn\u2019t change the way your body absorbs oxygen. His trainers said the best way to prepare was to just make yourself as miserable as you can in the lead up to the fight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Training for MMA: <\/b>Alvey says that sparring is the best form of training but he loves doing circuit training and simulating the cardio level required for a fight as best he can. If it\u2019s a strong upper body opponent he\u2019ll do more upper body cardio, if it\u2019s an opponent who kicks a lot he\u2019ll do a lot more kicking drills. He says he doesn\u2019t do much burpee training because he\u2019s constantly sore so the motion of it makes it hard for him to do in training.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He says that something he didn\u2019t know until recently is that over training is a physical thing and not a mental thing and his strength and conditioning coaches make sure that he doesn\u2019t over train. He has a lot of input into his MMA training and every time a part of his body is hurt he\u2019ll focus on using another part of his body instead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He trains between 4-8 hours a day. He does 4 hours a week of strength and conditioning training depending on where he is up to in the camp. The trainers have his regime down to a science and know exactly what he\u2019s supposed to be doing, when he\u2019s supposed to be doing it and how much of it he should be doing and the guys from Dynamic Fitness organize everything for him. For the MMA coaching he uses his boxing, jiu jitsu and muay thai coaches more and they organize it for him. He says that you\u2019re training to be perfect for 15 minutes in the octagon and outside of that 15 minutes you feel terrible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He weighs 210-211\u00a0pounds at the moment. To fuel workouts he\u2019s eating between 2000-2500 calories a day depending on how intense the training session is on that particular day. He always has to balance losing weight and being able to function, so if he feels like he needs more energy he\u2019ll contact his nutritionist, George Lockhart, to find out what he needs to eat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Cutting weight:<\/b> They discuss how agonizing the process of cutting weight is and Alvey jokes that he\u2019ll fight for free but you have to pay him to cut weight. The final week where you\u2019re eating just enough to function is terrible. He also has 20 minute baths as hot as he can physically stand rather than going in the sauna and keeps doing that until he makes weight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He fights at 185 pounds. He doesn\u2019t think that cutting weight takes anything out of him and the only time he\u2019s ever felt depleted was when he was on Ultimate Fighter and UFC asked if he could get to 170, but he\u2019s used to the process and knows how his body works so he always feels good going into the cage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Henderson vs. Bisping: <\/b>He says that his close friend Henderson was disappointed with the result. Everyone told Henderson that he\u2019s done more in this sport than Bisping or anyone else could ever wish to do, and he knows it so he was trying not to take it too hard, but he was very disappointed in how he thought the fight went and how 2 of the judges felt the fight went.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Austin said Henderson gassed trying to finish Bisping and should\u2019ve been more patient. Alvey agreed in hindsight, but in that moment he was one punch away from finishing the fight and if he\u2019d landed any of those punches cleanly, Bisping might still be asleep, so it\u2019s the chance you have to take and sometimes it doesn\u2019t pay off but everyone thought it would because that\u2019s the way it went in the first fight they had.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Alvey says that when he fights he is relaxed and calm, but when he\u2019s watching his friends fight he\u2019s sitting on pins and needles and bobbing and weaving along with the fight. He finds it much more fun to watch his friends fight than himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>UFC 205:<\/b> He thinks it was one of the greatest events he\u2019s ever seen. He thought Alvarez had the skill\u00a0set to beat McGregor and all he had to do was not circle towards McGregor&#8217;s strong side and box him, but as soon as the bell rang that\u2019s exactly what he did. He got blasted then got up and did the same thing and got blasted again. He loves the way McGregor runs his mouth but he\u2019s not a big fan of his fighting style and he wanted Alvarez to win but he just did everything wrong. McGregor looked bigger and had the range on Alverez and that\u2019s why he should not have engaged in a boxing match with him. He said it wasn\u2019t Alvarez\u2019s game plan, but he knows as well as anyone that as soon as the bell rings that the best laid plans can sometimes go out of the window. McGregor has gotten really good at getting into people\u2019s heads, it\u2019s the reason he beat Aldo, and Alvey speculates that it might have been the case with Alvarez too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Weidman v Romero was the fight he was most looking forward to on the card. It was a good fight with a great finish. Round 1 probably went to Weidman, round 2 to Romero and to finish with a surprise flying knee was cool.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He says that he doesn\u2019t think that Miesha Tate is going to stay retired after her fight against Raquel Pennington and he thinks she\u2019ll be back in the cage by July because she won\u2019t want a loss like that to be her final fight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Alvey says he was at the event where Bisping beat Rockhold for the title and on paper Rockhold should have won. He\u2019d beaten Bisping a year earlier and made it look easy, but he had a feeling in his stomach all day that Bisping was going to win. Rockhold took him lightly and he shouldn\u2019t have because now he\u2019s at least 2 or 3 fights away from holding a title again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He says that he hopes Nunez wins against Rousey at UFC 207 but he doesn\u2019t think that she will. He thinks that she\u2019ll do what everyone but Holly Holm has done against Rousey which is blitz in and get taken down and caught in the arm bar. If she follows a good game plan and hits hard she\u2019ll be fine, but he just doesn\u2019t think that she will. Holm maintained a game plan perfectly because she\u2019s had so many fights, but with a lot of the female division a big record is 10 fights, and that\u2019s not very many.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>What\u2019s next\/Henderson\/John Jones: <\/b>Alvey says he likes to keep busy so he\u2019s hoping to fight soon and he\u2019s keeping himself light so he can fight on short notice if necessary. He\u2019s had 4 fights in 4 months and has been dieting none stop for 7-8 months so he has been relaxing and eating junk food over the last couple of weeks but intends to get strict with his diet again\u00a0starting now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Austin suggested a 3 way podcast with him, Alvey and Henderson which Alvey agreed to. He says that Henderson is a hunting enthusiast and he\u2019s just got back from a hunt but is now in training for his jui jitsu fight against John Jones at the Submission Underground event in December. With Jones being suspended for 6 months all he\u2019s allowed to do is jui jitsu<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He says that Jones is a cheater. He likes to watch him fight but if he\u2019s stuck in jui jitsu for the rest of his life that would be fine with him. He agrees with Austin that it\u2019s a waste of talent and hopes that someone sets him straight because he\u2019s a fun fighter to watch but outside of the cage he has a lot of problems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Score and review<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Score (7): <\/b>There was a lot of insight into training for fights and Alvey\u2019s take on a few UFC-related happenings which was interesting and well worth a listen. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3792016253\"><div id=\"pwtor-834259407\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Steve Austin Show Guest: MMA Fighter\u00a0Sam Alvey Release date: November 29, 2016 Recap by Rob Gladding, Torch contributor Top Newsworthy Items &#8211; Sam Alvey discusses his participation on a recent episode of the Broken <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/12\/01\/podcast-recap-steve-austin-interviews-ufcs-sam-alvey-talks-bisping-henderson-jon-jones-mma-training-process\/\" title=\"PODCAST RECAP &#8211; Steve Austin interviews UFC&#8217;s Sam Alvey who talks about Bisping-Henderson, Jon Jones, MMA training process, more\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,3977,27],"tags":[4326,353,188],"class_list":["post-35708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opnionandanalysis","category-podcast-recaps","category-specialists","tag-sam-alvey","tag-steve-austin","tag-ufc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2016\/12\/Podcast_AustinSteve.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35710,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35708\/revisions\/35710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}