Lex Fridman Podcast - Khabib vs Lex: Training with Khabib | FULL EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE
Aired: 2026-02-25
Duration: 22:06


=== Training With A Legend (02:16) ===

[00:00:00]  Alright, we're training with Habib today.
[00:00:02]  One of the greatest fighters of all time.
[00:00:04]  A great human being.
[00:00:06]  It's honestly unbelievable that I have the honor to be able to train with these guys today.
[00:00:10]  I trained with the team yesterday as well.
[00:00:13]  I feel a bit beat up.
[00:00:15]  I actually before this texted George, GSP, asking if he has any advice.
[00:00:20]  I told him I'm training with Habib.
[00:00:22]  He said if you die, you die.
[00:00:26]  Thank you very much for that advice, George.
[00:00:28]  I love you, brother.
[00:00:29]  You can tell on these maps, there's been champion after champion after champion.
[00:00:33]  You can feel the history.
[00:00:34]  I'm going to do a podcast with Habib tomorrow.
[00:00:36]  So this is epic.
[00:00:39]  I'm the luckiest kid in the world.
[00:00:42]  Alright, now we're going to get back to training.
[00:00:43]  Let's go.
[00:00:46]  How are you, my friend?
[00:00:51]  My brother Habib on this hotel.
[00:00:55]  It's like Zatlex Friedman.
[00:00:56]  Nice to meet you.
[00:00:58]  Wait.
[00:00:58]  Yes.
[00:01:00]  Tomorrow training with him.
[00:01:03]  Good morning.
[00:01:06]  He's always got a smile.
[00:01:18]  You've got some of the greatest of all time on the mat right now.
[00:01:21]  Alex, Habib, Amanda.
[00:01:22]  Talking, he's gonna win.
[00:01:24]  Just be quiet and go to the meds.
[00:01:34]  He touched
[00:02:14]  the wrong leg.

=== Hold On, Bud (02:52) ===

[00:02:16]  That?
[00:02:17]  Which leg I need to touch?
[00:02:19]  Help me.
[00:02:22]  It's cheating.
[00:02:26]  He tried to run like nothing.
[00:02:28]  He tried to run like nothing.
[00:02:30]  I'll hold his legs.
[00:02:34]  This is not going to end, though.
[00:02:51]  It's hairy.
[00:02:55]  What's going on, legs?
[00:02:57]  Hold down, legs.
[00:03:00]  Hold on, bud.
[00:04:00]  Let's see what's happening.
[00:04:25]  This pressure
[00:05:01]  is fucking insane.
[00:05:02]  It must be nothing to happen.
[00:05:04]  you don't give a return, you're gonna go and do a podcast.
[00:05:07]  He's here, don't give me some wisdom.

=== Go Alex, Move! (16:58) ===

[00:05:10]  What do
[00:06:33]  you remember?
[00:06:35]  Yeah, black belt.
[00:06:36]  Jiu-jitsu or some belt?
[00:06:38]  Jiu-jitsu.
[00:06:41]  They have belt.
[00:06:42]  Some have belt.
[00:06:45]  They have belt but not belt.
[00:06:47]  They have labels.
[00:06:50]  They have labels.
[00:06:51]  They have levels, but not belts.
[00:06:54]  You should get them for competing.
[00:06:59]  I was right?
[00:07:01]  Yeah, I was right.
[00:07:03]  I told him you guys are not going to try to submit you.
[00:07:05]  It's gonna make you suffer.
[00:07:07]  You don't try to submit people.
[00:07:08]  You just drown, you're drowned, you're drowning.
[00:07:12]  It's like the present.
[00:07:14]  It's like it's gonna be stressed.
[00:07:17]  I think we do like landing fresh and fresh.
[00:07:25]  Yeah, I scream inside my brain.
[00:07:28]  John Smith, no single.
[00:08:04]  First round.
[00:08:06]  First round.
[00:08:09]  No, we'll go five.
[00:08:10]  Four minutes?
[00:08:11]  Yes.
[00:08:15]  We'll be getting one more.
[00:08:19]  Thank you.
[00:08:22]  How are you feeling?
[00:08:23]  Good?
[00:08:26]  I shouldn't have gone with him.
[00:08:28]  I'm a simple office.
[00:08:30]  That's him.
[00:08:33]  Or just this?
[00:08:37]  No, I'm a heavy, first of all.
[00:08:39]  Amazing training partner.
[00:08:41]  No, no, but no injury.
[00:08:42]  No injury.
[00:08:45]  Stay heavy, stay heavy, stay heavy.
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[00:09:09]  Alright.
[00:09:09]  Now back to training with Khabib.
[00:09:12]  You can teach me some wrestle.
[00:09:14]  Here you go.
[00:09:15]  I'm here.
[00:09:16]  Alright.
[00:09:17]  Oh!
[00:09:17]  Oh!
[00:09:20]  I'm here.
[00:09:20]  I'm here.
[00:09:21]  Try it.
[00:09:22]  Try it.
[00:09:23]  Oh, try it.
[00:09:26]  It's okay.
[00:09:27]  Go.
[00:09:28]  I'm here.
[00:09:36]  Okay, guys, finish, finish.
[00:09:41]  Keep going, keep going, keep going.
[00:09:43]  Now I'm down, I see no good power lead.
[00:09:46]  Ow!
[00:09:50]  Thank you.
[00:09:59]  Thanks for going again.
[00:10:00]  Thank you so much.
[00:10:02]  That's got to.
[00:10:04]  That's former champ.
[00:10:09]  Wrong leg.
[00:10:11]  Now the beginning.
[00:10:12]  Hey, this go up, okay?
[00:10:18]  Let's go, Alex.
[00:10:18]  Let's go, Alex.
[00:11:56]  Let's go.
[00:12:02]  Let's squeeze his legs.
[00:12:19]  Now, for example, you move.
[00:12:21]  Move.
[00:12:22]  Don't go down.
[00:12:27]  What's all this?
[00:12:28]  Yeah.
[00:12:30]  Nothing here.
[00:12:37]  It's gone.
[00:12:38]  It's gone, man.
[00:13:15]  Let's see.
[00:13:15]  Let's see.
[00:13:15]  Let's see, let's see.
[00:13:18]  Don't go down.
[00:13:19]  Can I escape here?
[00:13:21]  Yeah, let's see.
[00:13:23]  Yeah, no.
[00:13:28]  Let's just go over this one.
[00:13:31]  But this one is better.
[00:13:32]  But sometimes when I want to put...
[00:13:39]  Here, here, here.
[00:13:53]  Let's see.
[00:13:55]  Just stay.
[00:13:57]  Let me go.
[00:13:58]  don't need to do nothing.
[00:14:00]  You have to spend your energy to get up on the sun.
[00:14:03]  You have to.
[00:14:04]  Why I have to force?
[00:14:21]  I make you work.
[00:14:23]  I make you work.
[00:14:26]  I give you.
[00:14:27]  Try the water, try the water.
[00:14:30]  If you jump, I miss a stick with gravity.
[00:14:32]  If you jump something.
[00:14:34]  Alright.
[00:14:35]  I understand why people run
[00:16:39]  This is not creepy.
[00:16:40]  Look at this, look at this.
[00:16:43]  Oh, oh no!
[00:16:44]  Look, look, look, look!
[00:16:46]  Be careful, be careful.
[00:16:48]  Be careful son, hey be careful.
[00:17:05]  Ask how much you think it doesn't matter.
[00:17:08]  You give your battle.
[00:17:10]  So much pressure.
[00:17:12]  I never give him my bed.
[00:17:14]  I never give him a choice.
[00:17:16]  You agree or not?
[00:17:17]  Agree or people not do this.
[00:17:20]  I didn't give him, Manuel.
[00:17:21]  I can't see it in my eyes.
[00:17:24]  I'm all crying for nothing.
[00:17:28]  You can't tell, but the pressure and the hips is insane.
[00:17:31]  You can't do something.
[00:17:32]  I belong.
[00:17:34]  He's singing, too.
[00:17:39]  Hit, hit, hit.
[00:17:40]  You're not the same, man.
[00:17:41]  Hit, hit.
[00:17:42]  Pressure.
[00:17:53]  Watch, watch, watch.
[00:17:55]  Watch it.
[00:17:57]  Hey, Maldi, move.
[00:17:59]  Move, move, move.
[00:18:01]  Hey, move.
[00:18:02]  He wants to hear us.
[00:18:05]  Thank you.
[00:18:06]  Thank you.
[00:18:07]  Thank you so much.
[00:18:09]  They're gonna give you same position.
[00:18:10]  You know, I won't give you pressure because I play he play.
[00:18:16]  He can play with anybody anytime.
[00:18:18]  But I go, I want to show him a little bit like pressure, you understand?
[00:18:26]  Scramble after scramble, scramble after scramble.
[00:18:28]  And I put him in my position.
[00:18:30]  But it's not interesting.
[00:18:31]  Meaning, guys, stop.
[00:18:32]  You do never stop.
[00:18:34]  You're my brother.
[00:18:36]  You're a real one.
[00:18:37]  But he felt, he felt.
[00:18:38]  He felt.
[00:18:39]  I feel psychologically chilled.
[00:18:45]  Oh my life.
[00:18:46]  I feel psychologically want to give up.
[00:18:49]  He don't give you a tap.
[00:18:50]  He won't tap you.
[00:18:51]  He keep going.
[00:18:52]  Sometimes you tap it, reset.
[00:18:53]  It's done.
[00:18:54]  Mentally smash.
[00:18:56]  Mentally smash.
[00:18:58]  Has anyone ever done that to you?
[00:19:00]  The last time?
[00:19:01]  It was me now.
[00:19:02]  Me when you were kids.
[00:19:05]  You know, since when I was 18, 19, I always was against high-level guys.
[00:19:14]  Because in my gym, I have always high-level guys.
[00:19:17]  This is who I grew up.
[00:19:18]  at the ground games and they're always ground games.
[00:19:20]  Brother, I know him drove here.
[00:19:22]  This is true.
[00:19:23]  I never see somebody pass as God or tap.
[00:19:26]  Sometimes, sometimes in the gym, I just come, change clothes.
[00:19:30]  Sometimes we go one and a half hours, non-stop.
[00:19:35]  120, 110, one hour, one and a half hours.
[00:19:37]  More than one hour.
[00:19:38]  Non-stop.
[00:19:39]  Maybe changing four or five opponents.
[00:19:42]  10-15 minutes, another guy.
[00:19:43]  10-15 minutes.
[00:19:45]  You keep going.
[00:19:45]  I keep going.
[00:19:47]  I used to eat like a long time.
[00:19:50]  And what happens to yourself?
[00:19:52]  Mentally, in my mind, I was like thinking how or how somebody can make me tired.
[00:19:58]  So you wanted to go on the map?
[00:20:00]  Keep going all my life.
[00:20:01]  Keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going.
[00:20:06]  Yeah, keep going.
[00:20:07]  You know, Dan Gable, the wrestler?
[00:20:10]  Yeah, he always said that in practice he wanted to go until he quit.
[00:20:15]  He never got there.
[00:20:16]  He kept trying.
[00:20:18]  He was a limit.
[00:20:20]  I just come back from a training camp.
[00:20:23]  I have training camp in Dubai.
[00:20:24]  I have 25 people.
[00:20:25]  They know, every day I go.
[00:20:27]  Morning and night, morning and night.
[00:20:28]  And all champions.
[00:20:31]  Big, big names.
[00:20:32]  I know.
[00:20:33]  You can move it.
[00:20:34]  No, my body is very good.
[00:20:35]  My body feels very good.
[00:20:39]  Sometimes when I travel for one week, I feel so bad because I can only run and leave.
[00:20:44]  Because there is no spunning partner.
[00:20:46]  And I miss you so much.
[00:20:48]  I can tell you still love it.
[00:20:51]  I can feel it.
[00:20:51]  No, no, no, no.
[00:20:52]  I love it.
[00:20:53]  Now I'm going to move this home.
[00:20:55]  Be careful.
[00:20:56]  Be careful with this.
[00:20:58]  Be careful.
[00:21:01]  A little pressure.
[00:21:03]  It's a lot of pressure, but it's a huge honor, man.
[00:21:05]  I'll just say one thing.
[00:21:06]  This witness, this witness.
[00:21:08]  When I go deep, he don't let me get up.
[00:21:11]  I'm all the time on this position.
[00:21:17]  Oh, why the hell?
[00:21:19]  Because if you don't escape here, you will play.
[00:21:24]  Don't escape?
[00:21:26]  Yeah.
[00:21:28]  No way I'm a small guy anymore No, he killed like 280 pounds.
[00:21:44]  It's incredible, man.
[00:21:46]  That's shooting around with Michael Jordan.
[00:21:48]  It's shooting with Michael Jordan, yeah.
[00:21:50]  They say one-on-one basketball at night with Guego Jordan.
[00:21:55]  Yeah, in the YMCA.
[00:21:56]  Yeah, in the YMCA.
[00:21:58]  Thank you, brother.
[00:21:58]  Thanks.
[00:21:59]  Not a good job.
[00:22:01]  Tomorrow, work tomorrow.
[00:22:03]  Oh my god, this one.
[00:22:05]  Yeah, we'll go together, right?