Joe Rogan recently had Georges St Pierre’s on an edition of his popular podcast, Joe Rogan Experience. They talk about how Former UFC lightweight Kevin Lee should recruit Firas Zahabi as a coach, according to the UFC commentator.
He tells Firas, “The reason why I recommended Firas Zahabi is first of all he one of the smartest guys I’ve ever talked to. Firas is a fu***ng genius, legitimate genius, knows everything about MMA. I mean there’s not a stone unturned. I think he’s got a special mind.”
Rogan recommends Zahabi because George’s coach is an MMA genius in his perspective. Joe even explains that GSP and Lee have similar grappling and striking styles and that Zahabi would be an excellent match for Lee. Joe Rogan elaborates his opinion by saying, “He coached GSP and I feel like your style and GSP’s style are very similar and you’re both very good wrestlers and you’re both very good at mixing up the wrestling and the striking… And I think that his experience and coaching one of the greatest of all time in Georges St-Pierre would just slide right into coaching someone like you. I really believe that.”
Firas Zahabi reveals how he coached Georges St-Pierre on The Joe Rogan Experience
On an episode of the Joe Rogan Experience, renowned MMA coach Firas Zahabi revealed that he designed GPS’s training sessions with just the right level of energy, training him hard and fiercely.
Zahabi went on to state that he only subjected his fighter to high-intensity training levels a few times a year, and that a fighter’s intensity level should be neither too high nor too low. Zahabi even acknowledged that he occasionally urges his training partners to punish the boxer in order to correct flaws in his game.
“It has to be challenging but manageable. If I’m make it too challenging, I’m redlining him, he is going to break, his knee is going to pop, he is going to be unmotivated,” Firas tells about his coaching regime. “If it’s too easy, he’s going to be bored. I have to find the right amount of stimulus.”
Firas further explains on the podcast,“In the practice room, if I see Georges is just mauling guys and destroying them, I have to scale it – the work out – so its harder. But I don’t want to scale it so high that I injure him and break him.We reach those high intensity levels periodically throughout the year.”
