Little different. I agree with Chael but Nursing takes about 5 more years of school than being a firefighter. Even you could become a firefighter within 1.5 years!
Rumor has it...Chael dropped out in elementary....home schooled himself....college also.....all while teaching himself how to fight. That is how you become the greatest.
Building on that: Those are wrestlers that not only became UFC fighters but champions as well. Cormier Khabib Cejudo Usman Covington Woodley See a pattern here?
For those who have never been to nursing school it’s like 60+ hours a week of class/clinical time and then you have homework. Plus, most people try to work part time to pay off the colossal loans they are accruing. Asking about quitting means his/her heart might not be fully in nursing anymore, it’s not about the hours.
100% agree with you Chael! I’m 2-1 pro fighter.. I run at 6 am come home shower lay down for a hour or two get up go to the gym at 11am. Do 30mins of bag work and drill for an hour, then go home shower put my son to sleep an relax. Go back to the gym at 7 for an hour of bjj. I have a lot of down time!
I think this should apply to life in general - never put all your eggs in one basket. In the event that MMA doesn't work out, you always have a safety net to fall back on.
i love it when uncle chael answers his own questions. 'you should be able to do a workout in 2 and a half hours that will leave you so exhausted you go home uncomfortable and wait for the next morning to come... so why couldnt you do nursing??' because those two and a half hour workouts make you a bit useless at those 12 hour standing shifts on the back end, good sir.
Well said Chael. I played amateur open hockey for 38 years. And at the open level I can tell you most have no clue how grueling it is on the body. If you are practicing 3-4 days a week with 1 - 2 games in there as well that is 6 days a week, about 2.1/2 hours a day. Our practices were full blown scrimmages for 2- 2 1/2 hours and you were spent after wards. At 4 - 6 days per week year round and after 3 - 5 years of that beating over and over getting hurt and never fully healing. To recover we would do a regular season, and then spring league at 2 days a week, only to stay in shape. So you would have June, July, August, of just 2 days a week. That was the rest time of the season. Sept. you were back at it 4-6 days . You had to take that rest about every 3 - 5 years. At the open level know body played just the regular season. Spring was a must to stay in shape and most of us played a couple more days if we could find ice on the off days. But yeah, at a high level 2 - 2 1/2 hours a day and that is all you need at any given sport. Anymore is counter productive IMO
I just finished nursing school, I suggest you continue it while you work on mma or whatever you are passionate about, it’s a back up for me, make it a back up for you
Daaaaamn, this went in a completely different direction than I thought it would. Great damn advice Chael, obviously coming from a true champion mentality.
The fact that he called the guy lazy for only pursuing mma AND nursing school really resonated with me, I need to go practice some fucking keyboard and study my economics homework, and get back into indoor climbing.
The chances of doing well with a nursing degree are far greater than quitting school and focusing totally on MMA. Only a select few make it to the top. If you have a nursing degree you are pretty much guaranteed to do pretty well.
I would hire uncle Chael as not only my mma coach with his perfect undefeated record but as a life coach as well, he's the man that seems to be beating life and no one I mean no one can do that besides him!
Here's the thing though. You can always go back to school. You only have a small window of your athletic prime. But you have to be unusually great to be successful in professional mma. If your school work is suffering because you are obsessing about training while you should be studying, then what good is wasting time and money in school? Whatever you feel driven to do, do it. That way you won't look back later and have regrets.
You can train MMA without exerting yourself. Sparring, grappling, cardio, weight lifting, these are the things you should only spend an hour or two a day on. But you can improve your skills without destroying your body all day, every day.
If you cant sustain yourself with fighting, then keep a job or go to school and train, if you can’t train AND work a job/school then you don’t truly love it!! Goin to the gym after workin a 9-5 is rough, but living with myself after not sacrificing enough “precious” time to reach your goal would be a travesty.
I haven't studied nursing before but I would imagine it requires a lot of work. 2.5 hrs of training per day might not seem like a lot but you also have to rest after training... juggling both could be quite a strain.
The key is having a flexible work schedule. I train for MMA twice a day, five days a week, sleep as much as I need to, but still work 40 to 50 hours per week doing Uber and Lyft. Getting paid to sit in the car and drive people around LA (when I choose to) does not interfere with my MMA training or competing in the slightest.
Al iaquinta worked part time as a ufc fighter and took it to khabib. Kid asked the wrong person, you don't ask a 3rd string qb if you can make it in football. You ask a coach or a real champion imo.
1. Even if you only train 2.5 hrs a day, you’ll consume at least another 1.5 hrs to commute to:from the gym etc. 2. There are very few legitimate MMA schools in MI. They may be considering putting school on hold in order to relocate to an area with a more robust MMA infrastructure. 3. Nursing school, depending on the type of program, can entail a very intensive time requirement. An accelerated program can involve as much as 45-50hrs per week of classroom and clinical time.
The average RN school for associate degree is 22 months of studying and clinical. Ruthless schedule. But. You can fight all day....work 2nd shift....and make bank. 👊
Oh man you had me laughing when you said you should be uncomfortable, that’s how i used to feel when I was boxing. laying in bed at night fucking uncomfortable...but it was great
I trained 4 hours a day for my last year of college while playing club soccer. I was a math major only taking 12 and 10 hours respectively. With easier classes I think it would be very doable
here's an example stipe miocic is the heavyweight champion of the world. His second job is firefighting. So of course you can do both its time management.
Mighty Mouse was a UFC champion and still worked construction. Stipe is a champ and still works as a fireman. Very easy to manage both. Being frugal also helps.
Certain sports require min 6 hours a day to get to a pro level maybe not fighting but like you mentioned golf if your not hitting balls or on the course 6 days a week 6-10 hours a day you have almost no chance to make it to a professional touring pro level. You could never ever never be a pro golfer playing 1-2 hours day would never happen.
I'm a Nurse. We're supposed to work 3 days a week and 12hr shifts(most of us). With that schedule its def possible to train MMA cause I do it right now. But I o ly do it for the training and cause I love combat,I'm bot competing. It is possible I believe to compete as well,just have to have a solid mind and discipline on those four days off to train and eat right. I have a male friend nurse who also does MMA,I wonder if he was the one to ask Chael hahahah I swear it was probably him
In my opinion you can drop out of school but see it only depends on how hard and long you will be practicing im 13 i have not been training yet but i know what i can do and im dropping out mostly because school teaches you to become an Employee not a Ceo or a pro Ufc fighter school is not worth anything
I agree with Shale's general message, but I doubt that any top athlete in most disciplines can get where they are with only 2 x 1h30 training per day. Pro MMA fighters train more than that, Muay Thai fighters train much more than that, etc.
I dont think Chael knows that nursing school is basically 60+ hours a week of studying/school. I get what he's saying but nursing school isn't as easy as it sounds.
I haven't seen the video yet. However, I dropped out of school when I was 13 to pursue MMA. I'm 30 years old now and although my little brother is a fighter, I don't even train anymore.
How has your life worked out since? (not asking in a rude way) -- but even if you don't train anymore what avenue did you take career-wise after stopping to train in MMA?
Chael!! THIS COMMENT IS A MUST READ!! .. i'm a guy don't mind the chick name.. But could you do a video about... why using jui jit su & counter striking is a bad strategy cause i noticed if anderson silva hadn't had relied on counter striking and jui jitsu so much he'd probably still be a champ ... idk but i know you'll know what i'm trying to point out.. ppl who rely on ju jitsu get out pointed everytime.. pls repl yes or no so ATLEAST know you saw this comment .... Love the channel
I mean what can anyone say that’s negatively legit about what Chael just said. Chael is right on, and he’s giving this advise for free. Take it. Not everyone cares.
Chael's son : Dad I wanna be a doctor
Chael: Ok great. But where does Kevin Lee fit into all this?
This comment is simply Legendary!
I lol’d thank you sir
Mig Kevin Lee went to school for nursing
I was gonna like this comment but it's at 69 and I'm not messing that up.
Bravo sir. Bravo
stipe can be a fireman and heavyweight champ of the world so get a nursing degree and train mma
Little different. I agree with Chael but Nursing takes about 5 more years of school than being a firefighter. Even you could become a firefighter within 1.5 years!
Jake 1 thats not the point. Stipe is a working fireman while training for MMA at the championship level.
Bit different and we arent all one of the best heavyweight champs of all time lol
Wtf, what kind of shitty money he makes at UFC while he has to keep a fireman job???
@@ivansestanovic9108 wtf dude, why would someone want to be a fireman whiles he's making hundreds of thousands of dollars😂
I spend 60 hours a week in law school and I still have time to watch 20 hours of chael videos a week. Be great at two things
Ok great but what else ?
60 hours a week???!!!!?!
But where does Kevin Lee fit into your law school leisure time??
@@huzaifaali4066 yea buddy the first year of law school is obscene. The amount of studying you have to put in should be illega
Lol
I thought i was good until i went pro and went 3-7 then realised its a whole new ball game
Thx for sharing. What was the thing that surprised you the most on your journey?
Good on you for attempting your dream. You got more balls than most.
Mad respect to you owning your record, you've got balls
@@matondovita2684 Probably the degree of ass-kicking he took. If yours has ever been kicked, you sure remember.
Mad respect for you bro for going out there and attempting it!
The one dislike is from the guy who just quit school to pursue mma.
Mark Nelson No it isn’t. I disliked the video but just bc my smartphone was upsite down!
@@sterlingarcher2653 lol🤣🤣
Tony Ferguson the type of guy to actually say it again after someone says ''you can say that again''
Toni Vukovic shite
Josh Hanlon you a bitch
Wow this is actually a clever one. Well done ✔
Ok great but what else ?
Took me a minute to get it. LAWLd 🤣🤣
The only guarantee in MMA is Chael Sonnen is the greatest of all time
Also, water is wet, fire burn, and GSP is gonna beat Micheal "Intox-ee-cay-ted" Bisping.
Only Artem the Great comes close. But he's still the robin to Chael's batman.
HAHAHAHAHA WHAT A FUCKING LOSERRRRR
Ok great but what else ?
Absolutely
Rumor has it...Chael dropped out in elementary....home schooled himself....college also.....all while teaching himself how to fight.
That is how you become the greatest.
I drop out of High School to become an MMA Fighter! I am now a millionaire and smoke weed on my free time!
Well done, Mr. D
Ok great but what else ?
One of Chael's best videos.
No. Never.
Most UFC fighters with wrestling pedigrees, had to finish college.
Building on that: Those are wrestlers that not only became UFC fighters but champions as well.
Cormier
Khabib
Cejudo
Usman
Covington
Woodley
See a pattern here?
I watched this sitting on my couch. I’m the bum Chael is talking to 😞
Go out there and Become the Bad Guy!
Or the good guy, bad guy seats are taken bitch.
@@JackRabbitSlimz1 😂
GET OUT OF MY HEAD
@Sprint OG to compete
For those who have never been to nursing school it’s like 60+ hours a week of class/clinical time and then you have homework. Plus, most people try to work part time to pay off the colossal loans they are accruing. Asking about quitting means his/her heart might not be fully in nursing anymore, it’s not about the hours.
100% agree with you Chael! I’m 2-1 pro fighter.. I run at 6 am come home shower lay down for a hour or two get up go to the gym at 11am. Do 30mins of bag work and drill for an hour, then go home shower put my son to sleep an relax. Go back to the gym at 7 for an hour of bjj. I have a lot of down time!
Shawn Brown Respect to you. That’s a hell of a grind. Especially on an everyday basis
How often and how hard are you sparring? Do you believe in lightly sparring multiple times a week or having one hard session at the end of he week?
Shawn Brown good shit
i mean yeah alot of down time
Chael would say get a job
I think this should apply to life in general - never put all your eggs in one basket. In the event that MMA doesn't work out, you always have a safety net to fall back on.
and then tony full hardcore training 8 hour sessions never gets tired
tony the type of guy to make training sessions tired of him
Ok great but what else ?
Okay great, but where does Kevin Lee fit into all of this
It’s content like this where Chael has earned the name “Uncle Chael”
It's videos like this where Chael has earned the name "Uncle Chael" NOT It’s content like this where Chael has earned the name “Uncle Chael”
Appreciate vids like theses give me clarity as a 18 year old pursuing a career in mma
This video speaks to me as well. In university doing a degree I dont care about because boxing is the dream.
@Adam soucie you're so cool bro 🙄
Ok great but what else ?
Adam soucie shut up bitch, why you even on this page. Have fun with your boring ass engineering job
Adam soucie each to their own, I want to be a business owner aswell. Don’t hate on someone’s passion
Being an MMA fighter is a pretty bad career choice, monetarily at least. MMA fighters get paid pennies unless you’re a superstar.
Meanwhile, I am complaining about being too tired after work to train these days... Just what I needed. Thanks, uncle Chael
Tekashi69: gives evidence
Judge: 2:02
i love it when uncle chael answers his own questions. 'you should be able to do a workout in 2 and a half hours that will leave you so exhausted you go home uncomfortable and wait for the next morning to come... so why couldnt you do nursing??' because those two and a half hour workouts make you a bit useless at those 12 hour standing shifts on the back end, good sir.
Chael "I can make you hate a man by telling you a story about them spitting chewing gum on the ground" Sonnen
Well said Chael. I played amateur open hockey for 38 years. And at the open level I can tell you most have no clue how grueling it is on the body. If you are practicing 3-4 days a week with 1 - 2 games in there as well that is 6 days a week, about 2.1/2 hours a day. Our practices were full blown scrimmages for 2- 2 1/2 hours and you were spent after wards. At 4 - 6 days per week year round and after 3 - 5 years of that beating over and over getting hurt and never fully healing. To recover we would do a regular season, and then spring league at 2 days a week, only to stay in shape. So you would have June, July, August, of just 2 days a week. That was the rest time of the season. Sept. you were back at it 4-6 days . You had to take that rest about every 3 - 5 years. At the open level know body played just the regular season. Spring was a must to stay in shape and most of us played a couple more days if we could find ice on the off days. But yeah, at a high level 2 - 2 1/2 hours a day and that is all you need at any given sport. Anymore is counter productive IMO
I just finished nursing school, I suggest you continue it while you work on mma or whatever you are passionate about, it’s a back up for me, make it a back up for you
Daaaaamn, this went in a completely different direction than I thought it would. Great damn advice Chael, obviously coming from a true champion mentality.
Tony the type of guy to start school, so he can drop outta school to pursue mma
Uncle chael dropping straight knowledge bombs
The fact that he called the guy lazy for only pursuing mma AND nursing school really resonated with me, I need to go practice some fucking keyboard and study my economics homework, and get back into indoor climbing.
The chances of doing well with a nursing degree are far greater than quitting school and focusing totally on MMA. Only a select few make it to the top. If you have a nursing degree you are pretty much guaranteed to do pretty well.
While Chael offers this advice, Ferguson is out there somewhere doing 6hr days in the gym and doing his own strength and conditioning outside of that.
Might be Chael's best video.
Chael spitting a LOT of wisdom in this one
Uncle Chael dropping some truth.
Friendly reminder stipe is the two time heavy weight world champion and a full time fireman
When I have a child I want him to say when he is grown up he wants to be Uncle Chael P Sonnen.
The concept of doing only one thing was started by the quotes that you wanna be successful in anything you have to be “all in”
Videos like this are why I love this channel
Awesome message Chael thank you
I would hire uncle Chael as not only my mma coach with his perfect undefeated record but as a life coach as well, he's the man that seems to be beating life and no one I mean no one can do that besides him!
I put in two hours of training Muay Thai and I feel like dying.
Chael at 1:48 you taught me a life lesson that i will use with my kids when i have them in the future! Thank you 😊
I was waiting for "Nobody trains for 8 hours a day....
unless your name is Tony Ferguson."
Here's the thing though. You can always go back to school. You only have a small window of your athletic prime. But you have to be unusually great to be successful in professional mma. If your school work is suffering because you are obsessing about training while you should be studying, then what good is wasting time and money in school? Whatever you feel driven to do, do it. That way you won't look back later and have regrets.
Well said uncle Chael !! wise approach man.
There's no way around it, i love this man
Needed to hear this when I was a teenager. Brilliant advice Uncle Chael.
You can train MMA without exerting yourself. Sparring, grappling, cardio, weight lifting, these are the things you should only spend an hour or two a day on. But you can improve your skills without destroying your body all day, every day.
If you cant sustain yourself with fighting, then keep a job or go to school and train, if you can’t train AND work a job/school then you don’t truly love it!! Goin to the gym after workin a 9-5 is rough, but living with myself after not sacrificing enough “precious” time to reach your goal would be a travesty.
I haven't studied nursing before but I would imagine it requires a lot of work. 2.5 hrs of training per day might not seem like a lot but you also have to rest after training... juggling both could be quite a strain.
The key is having a flexible work schedule. I train for MMA twice a day, five days a week, sleep as much as I need to, but still work 40 to 50 hours per week doing Uber and Lyft. Getting paid to sit in the car and drive people around LA (when I choose to) does not interfere with my MMA training or competing in the slightest.
Paul Rockey what gym in LA are you at? I'm in Seattle and moving to LA for school and looking for a gym to train
You've never been mugged or anything being an uber/lift driver in LA?
Al iaquinta worked part time as a ufc fighter and took it to khabib. Kid asked the wrong person, you don't ask a 3rd string qb if you can make it in football. You ask a coach or a real champion imo.
Hey Chael if you read this can you tell me where Kevin Lee fits into everything? Thanks
1. Even if you only train 2.5 hrs a day, you’ll consume at least another 1.5 hrs to commute to:from the gym etc.
2. There are very few legitimate MMA schools in MI. They may be considering putting school on hold in order to relocate to an area with a more robust MMA infrastructure.
3. Nursing school, depending on the type of program, can entail a very intensive time requirement. An accelerated program can involve as much as 45-50hrs per week of classroom and clinical time.
Just one point, if you spend more time than an hour in an average day commuting to anything, reevaluate your life.
The average RN school for associate degree is 22 months of studying and clinical. Ruthless schedule. But. You can fight all day....work 2nd shift....and make bank.
👊
@@JackRabbitSlimz1 😉🙏
Chris 'No Pants' Laymance I’m pretty sure that’s what the person is doing...hence their question “should I quit nursing school...”
Hidden Harvest Grow Lights I understand. This is why I stated “depending on the type of program”
Chael is a legend
well, i thought that too, but gave up. now i hope that i will be GSP in law school.
Don't hope, make it happen. ;)
@@magnus3716 thanks for sup 🙏 100% i will!
All the best my guy chase that dream before it's too late
Chael laying it down hard! 👍🏻🙏🏻👊🏻
This is my to go video for motivation, not just workouts but life
Came for the advice, stayed for the brekfrest
Tony Ferguson the Type of guy to train 6 hours a day
Oh man you had me laughing when you said you should be uncomfortable, that’s how i used to feel when I was boxing. laying in bed at night fucking uncomfortable...but it was great
I trained 4 hours a day for my last year of college while playing club soccer. I was a math major only taking 12 and 10 hours respectively. With easier classes I think it would be very doable
here's an example stipe miocic is the heavyweight champion of the world. His second job is firefighting. So of course you can do both its time management.
If you have to ask the answer is no
It's either in you or it isn't.
Ok great but what else ?
Always great listening to you
Mighty Mouse was a UFC champion and still worked construction. Stipe is a champ and still works as a fireman. Very easy to manage both. Being frugal also helps.
Look at Al Iaquinta too, he’s a real estate agent on the side
Chael, thank you for this video. It was 100% on point!
Certain sports require min 6 hours a day to get to a pro level maybe not fighting but like you mentioned golf if your not hitting balls or on the course 6 days a week 6-10 hours a day you have almost no chance to make it to a professional touring pro level. You could never ever never be a pro golfer playing 1-2 hours day would never happen.
I'm a Nurse. We're supposed to work 3 days a week and 12hr shifts(most of us). With that schedule its def possible to train MMA cause I do it right now. But I o ly do it for the training and cause I love combat,I'm bot competing. It is possible I believe to compete as well,just have to have a solid mind and discipline on those four days off to train and eat right. I have a male friend nurse who also does MMA,I wonder if he was the one to ask Chael hahahah I swear it was probably him
Mr. Chael: Stay in school, fool. He just said it politely, right on.
Honestly surprised you didn’t mention Stipe being a full time firefighter
Hes part time
In my opinion you can drop out of school but see it only depends on how hard and long you will be practicing im 13 i have not been training yet but i know what i can do and im dropping out mostly because school teaches you to become an Employee not a Ceo or a pro Ufc fighter school is not worth anything
Chael compares a nursing degree to his rich friends golfing
Excellent video Chael!
This coming from a legit Chael of all trades!
Hey Chael, what about studying film and studying theory? Does this take significant time outside of physical practice?
Tony Ferguson the type of guy to know where Kevin Lee fits into this and not tell him
Brilliant!! Thank you Chael 🙏
I agree with Shale's general message, but I doubt that any top athlete in most disciplines can get where they are with only 2 x 1h30 training per day. Pro MMA fighters train more than that, Muay Thai fighters train much more than that, etc.
I have 3 daily activities :
1) Nintendo
2) PlayStation
3) Xbox
Mah man
uncle Chael thank you for addressing this topic
I've had 3 mma fights I never wanted to be pro but as an amateur it was still tough training and working. I wasn't very good either.
How long you been training and how old ?
I need to listen to this every morning.
Being a nurse might give you more insight to what your techniques are doing to your opponents.
Bent Paper Good Idea of a joke, very poor execution
Ok great but what else ?
Actually very true
Chael hitting the nail on the head as perusal.
I dont think Chael knows that nursing school is basically 60+ hours a week of studying/school. I get what he's saying but nursing school isn't as easy as it sounds.
Best advice I've ever heard.
Tony Ferguson is the type of guy to drop out of MMA to pursue an education.
I haven't seen the video yet. However, I dropped out of school when I was 13 to pursue MMA. I'm 30 years old now and although my little brother is a fighter, I don't even train anymore.
How has your life worked out since? (not asking in a rude way) -- but even if you don't train anymore what avenue did you take career-wise after stopping to train in MMA?
Breakfrast and Yarir. The man loves an R.
If you're really that good, you don't have to be full-time MMA to beat guys before the big leagues
Uncle Chael with the life gems!
Philip Nova was a nurse and pro. Good fighter
Nursing is the best job field to have a hobby or side hustle. 3-4 12 hour days a week and then you’re off for 3-4 days.
Goat stuff from chael sonnen
Good to know I’m doing at least 5 hours of hard training a day
If you gonna study something, then study your passion for MMA or boxing. You gotta choose the school or fighting at some point in your life.
Tony Ferguson is the type of guy to train 7 hours a day
Okay great, but where does Kevin Lee fit into all of this
PsychoticPurse 6 In Ferguson’s triangle choke lol
Chael!! THIS COMMENT IS A MUST READ!! .. i'm a guy don't mind the chick name.. But could you do a video about... why using jui jit su & counter striking is a bad strategy cause i noticed if anderson silva hadn't had relied on counter striking and jui jitsu so much he'd probably still be a champ ... idk but i know you'll know what i'm trying to point out.. ppl who rely on ju jitsu get out pointed everytime.. pls repl yes or no so ATLEAST know you saw this comment .... Love the channel
I mean what can anyone say that’s negatively legit about what Chael just said. Chael is right on, and he’s giving this advise for free. Take it. Not everyone cares.