Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 1121: When to Use Cheat Reps, Avoiding Sex to Keep Testosterone High, the Truth About Chiropractors & MORE

Episode Date: September 18, 2019

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about how and when should one use “cheat” reps, how to adapt workouts to fit a physical job, avoiding sex or masturbation at least 5 days before a competition to keep testosterone high, and whether regular chiropractic adjustments help with improving mobility.   Adam and family take an unplanned trip to their favorite spot. (6:06) Sal and Jessica take a hike to the Pinnacles. (9:02) Catrina outfitting her companies’ new gym space using PRx + the guys' favorite way to workout. (11:06) Comparing the macro profile of regular almonds to Skinny Dipped almonds. (15:52) Settling an old debate between Sal and Adam: What is the greatest cinematic picture of all time? (18:15) Why do we focus so heavily on high cholesterol in medicine? (21:35) Mind Pump Recommends ‘The Mind, Explained’ on Netflix. (28:45)   A white couple gives birth to an Asian daughter after alleged fertility clinic mix-up. (35:36)   #Quah question #1 – How and when should you use cheat reps? (39:04) #Quah question #2 – I have a fairly high labored intensive job that involves a lot of bending and lifting in front of me. How should I adapt my workout to fit my activity? Should I focus on pressing movements to counter the pulling I do at work? Or should I just stick to a balanced routine? (46:12) #Quah question #3 – As a collegiate track and field athlete one of my coaches told us not to have sex or masturbate at least 5 days before a competition, because it would keep our testosterone high which would help us perform better. Is there truth to this? (52:35) #Quah question #4 – What are your thoughts on chiropractors? Do regular adjustments help with improving mobility? (56:32)   People Mentioned Jim Kwik (@jimkwik)  Instagram Justin Brink DC (@dr.justinbrink)  Instagram Dr. Jordan Shallow D.C (@the_muscle_doc)  Instagram   Related Links/Products Mentioned September Promotion: MAPS Starter ½ off!! **Code “STARTER50” at checkout** Visit Vuori Clothing for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! Visit PRx Performance for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Code “mindpump” at checkout** Visit Skinny Dipped for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Code “mindpump” at checkout** LDL-C does not cause cardiovascular disease: a comprehensive review of the current literature The Mind, Explained | Netflix Official Site Mind Pump TV - YouTube Check out Mind Pump Live to get tickets for their next live event! How to manage your mental health | Leon Taylor | TEDxClapham White couple gives birth to Asian daughter after alleged fertility clinic mix-up The ONLY Way You Should Be Doing Dumbbell Bicep Curls! MAPS Fitness Products Mind Pump Free  

If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, with your hosts. Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. In this super fun express episode of Mind Pump. So first we do our introductory portion of this episode. This is what we talk about our lives and current events and studies. Then we get into the fitness questions, this is where our audience asks us questions

about their health and fitness, and we answer them to the best of our ability. We get through the hell out of it. Here's what we did in the first part of this episode, the intro portion of this episode. We started by talking about Adam escaping his house and going over to the beach. That's a nice place to escape to.

It was really hot at his house. We talked about how PRX is going to be outfitting Adam's wife's work. Her work is building a new gym for the employees and it looks like they're gonna be going to PRX because they make phenomenal. It only makes sense. Equipment.

Now PRX, you can use in your home. They have squat racks that fold into your wall. They have a low profile. They're also extremely sturdy and they come with payment plans instead of paying your gym every month. Why not have your home gym and pay them every month? Then you can work out naked if you want. It's my favorite workout, by the way.

PRX is one of our sponsors. If you go to PRXPerformance.com forward slash MindPump and use the promo code MindPump, you'll get 5% off your total purchase and a free Maps Prime program. Oh, and this is only for purchases over $500. Then I talked about the macros of skinny dipped almonds. Skinny dipped almonds are delicious chocolate coated almonds

that their macros are almost the same as regular almonds. In other words, you could have chocolate almonds if you're willing to eat another five grams of carbs. That's it. That's how awesome they are. Now, skinny dipped is one of our other sponsors. If you go to skinny dipped.com-minepump and enter the code, minepump,

you'll get a full 20% off. Then I talked about the greatest cinematic movie of all time. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, slow your roll. Rocky, great love story, right? Yeah, there you go. I talked about the cholesterol, meta analysis. It's not as bad for you as you've been led to believe. We talked about the show on Netflix.

It's a like a docu-u series called The Mind Explained. This thing will blow your mind literally, great, great information. I talked about an article about a surprise baby, a couple did in vitro fertilization, and what came out was not what they expected. Also, I would like to announce that we have a new YouTube video up on our Mind Pump TV channel,

teaching you how to start bench pressing. So, if you wanna start bench pressing or you wanna maximize your bench press, make sure you go to Mind Pump TV and check out that video. I also have another announcement. We are still selling tickets for our live event in San Jose with Mike Matthews. There's only 15 tickets left.

Oh, sweet Sassafras. So we've expanded it and now we have 15 left. It's first come, first serve. Here's what you do to get the tickets. Go to mimepumplive.com and get yourself a seat. Then we got the fitness portion of this episode. The first question, how and when should one use cheat reps? So cheat reps is when your form gets a little sloppy.

It's not when you work out with your boy. Cheat on me, bruh. It's not when you're working out with your boyfriend or your mistress. It's when you're working out on your own and your form goes a little off. Is there any value there? Next question, this person has a labor intensive job

and they wanna know on what kind of exercises and movements they should focus on to help them improve their fitness, but also compliment their work. Next question, this person is a college track and field athlete and their coach told them, hey, you shouldn't have any sex or masturbate for five days before a competition

because he keeps your testosterone high. Like, ah, come on, coach. We've heard athletes say this before, boxers are known to become abstinent for a little while before fight. Is there science to support this? Or are they just kill joys? Hang up the lotion. And the final question, this person wants to know what we think about chiropractors. Are regular adjustments good for you? Do they help with your mobility? You'll love that part of the episode. We get real fired up

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It was our first, I mean, what a weird Ford. It lasts what three days or four days. So Friday, I don't know if you guys saw, I took off to Sanctuary again. But so Friday we... Unplanned. Yeah, totally unplanned. Friday we go to Katrina's mom's house for just a dinner with the whole family got there

and we were all hanging out because we do that all the time there. So we're there till like, I wanna say like 8.30 at night. Now Friday was the day here in San Jose that we hit 100. We have it in 100 I think all like summer, right? This was our first day. Hot as balls.

Yeah, I think I even hit 102. It's just, right. was our first hot as balls. Yeah, I think I even hit 102. Just, right. Just balls, hot as balls. It's Santa Cruz taking balls. Now Santa Cruz is always a little bit cooler though, right? So, oh really? So when we're in hunter two, you're hitting, yeah, it goes back and forth like sometimes

we're 10 degrees hotter over there than over here. No way. I'm serious. Was it hotter, Friday? Yeah, but it's like right now it's raining really hard and it's not really raining here. So yeah, it's like, it's weird. There's a little bit of a difference.

So on Friday was our 102 day, we're at her mom's house till 8.30, 9 o'clock at night. We come home and my house is still 85 degrees. And I'm like, and your AC's done. It's still broken. Yeah, it's still broken. So it's still, we haven't got a fix. And of course, it's probably gonna get fixed this week,

which I think we have a cold front coming through right now of like sleeping in the garage. No, what we did is I told, I looked at Katrina, because this was like our first weekend, we didn't have to be somewhere or we didn't have plans already. But you have no AC at the top of the park. Yes, no AC.

We're gonna be, so it was like, honestly, my plan was to kind of lounge around all weekend, it's out of the fuck. Yeah, it's no AC, we're gonna be, so it was like, honestly, my plan was to kind of lounge around all weekend, look forward to watching football Sunday, and I'm like 85 in my house, like no way, dude, I'll be miserable. So I asked her, I'm like, hey, how fast do you think you can be ready? She's like, why, I'm like, let's go back to sanctuary.

And she's like, are you serious right now? I'm like, yeah, I said, we'll just load the dogs up, we'll load Max up, throw some shit in there, and we'll just go. Yeah. And we'll book a room on the way there. And she's like, yeah, I said we'll just load the dogs up. We'll load max up, throw some shit in there, and we'll just go. Yeah. And we'll book a room on the way there. And she's like, are you serious? I'm like, yeah, I'm fucking serious.

She's like, I can be ready in 30 minutes. So we should put everything in the truck. That's every woman's dream, by the way. You know what I mean? Husband comes home, you know? 30 minutes be ready. We're going somewhere nice. Oh my God.

Yeah. So we hopped in and just- She broke the AC. We just, yeah, right. She's like, I don't nice. Oh my God. Yeah. So we hopped in and just, she broke the AC. We just, yeah, right. She's like, I don't mind living in a road by the beach and fireplace. So, yeah, rough life. I wasn't up there.

That was beautiful. It was perfect. Yeah. 69 degrees. You know what I'm saying? It was nice. Coastal breeze. It was great.

See, I picked this weekend and I didn't realize the heat, I picked to go hiking this weekend at the pinnacles. Do you ever hike at the pinnacles? That's your spot. Long time ago. Pinnacles is beautiful. Great. It's a wonderful park, but it's also 10 degrees hotter on the hikes than it is everywhere else because it looks like Mars. If you go to the pinnacles, it's like rock and really cool hikes But also very very hot so we're up there and we're hiking and I'm like we're gonna go fucking you know

I'm thinking I'm like yeah, we're gonna hike all day. We're gonna do all kinds of exploring Now man, we were there for an hour. I don't have very just melted. We were hot dude my cousin I look back at my cousin and she was just her face was just red Was it you and Jessica or the kids go to no me Jessica my cousin and she was just, her face was just red. Was it you and Jessica or the kids go to? No, me, Jessica, my cousin, Daniella, and then her boyfriend, Joseph, which I mean, my cousin, Daniella, growing up, I didn't have a super close relationship with her,

but her and Jessica have gotten close, and now I'm getting close to her and her boyfriend is this really brilliant engineer, super smart dude from Ireland, who like for fun, I think I told you guys about him, he, when he was a kid for fun, he didn't want to take other garbage, so he just designed an automated machine that would drive the garbage out to the curb

and then come back. And then someone stole it. And so then what he did was, he said, was easy, he said, you know what, I got to figure out a way to get this to do it, but without garnering too much attention. so he designed the machine to move so slowly that it doesn't look like it's moving But we'll get there in time that way nobody steals what's underneath the garbage So it just looks like as a garbage solving problems that didn't need to be solved super smart

Yeah, super serious. That's great. That's like my neighbor down the street He's a robotics engineer same kind of mentality. Yeah, dude. He's showing me all these things. He just built them like, why? Yeah. He's like, we mean why? Like, you know, they just want to build things. They love it.

Yeah. But anyway, the hike was great, but it was too damn hot, man. I picked the wrong week. And now it's raining. What the fuck's it going on? That's what I'm saying. It was a weird, we went from 102 today.

I'm wearing a jacket because it was raining this morning. So it's been crazy. You know what else this weekend? That I thought was kind of cool Katrina's work actually gave her You know basically full rain on Designing their gym. Oh cool. Yeah, so it looks like it's a yeah, it looks like it's about three or four thousand square feet Wow really yeah, that's a big company gym. Yeah, no, they just I's a yeah, it looks like it's about three or four thousand square feet. Wow really?

Yeah, that's a big company Jim. Yeah, no, they just I mean they're they keep growing I mean that her company has been exploding for quite some time and they just I think they just took over You know where they're at right over the earthquakes Over there by the sounds of earthquakes. Yeah, I know that all those major buildings that are there by coalmen or whatever Yeah, yeah back over there They they just they're taking over a whole other massive building and getting everyone's getting. Dude, is she connecting,

she can outfit it with PRX? Yeah, actually she is. So we actually, she had me this weekend, that's what reminded me of this, is that we were on the website, because she was talking about like all these different areas. And I'm like, you know what you should do, so you can save space and do more stuff is

Do the PRX racks? Yeah, so you can actually have at least one or two of those racks inside there It'll fold out the way so then you have four space to do whatever You know why that's also smart besides the space is that people who tend to use squat racks are usually this more serious People working out and then there's a lot of people that aren't serious. So it's nice to, the serious person is gonna fold it out when they want to use it, and then they'll fold it back. And then, cause you guys know how it is, when you go to these gyms, these company gyms,

they usually have only machines, dumbbells. Yeah, that's about it. Because that's what people want to use. They're not for my mats. But if you're like serious into working out, you want a squat rack. Well, so the way, so I was like working with her on the layout. And what I'll show you guys, what do you think?

But what looks really cool is they had this area that they designated and they thought, oh, they want to do this for a stretching area that's just kind of empty floor space. So that's where I'm actually going to put the squat rack there because, you know, you can push like you're saying when it's somebody who wants to do yoga right there or stretch or do ab work on the floor, they can do that. These are ones with the safety, right? These are the cages with...

Yeah, so that's what you want. She's also going to do the full blown, you know, on PRX they have all these different packages. And it's like the biggest package that includes all the weights and everything. Yeah, all the weights, the dip bar thing, the, I mean, even the way to go. Yeah, I mean, because you're gonna want all that stuff eventually. So if you do it all at once, you save a lot more. And it's quality.

You know what I mean? It's all super quality. I actually was talking to a guy like one of my good friends too who was outfitting, like he just bought this like big, it's like a work shed that you can get like at home depot or at like a work shed that you can get at home depot or at like a lows or whatever. And I forget the dimension,

but it's just big enough to where it's basically like a quarter of this room. And I was like, dude, you have to look at PRX. I've seen a couple people do this now, where in their backyard, because they don't have a garage, they put up this like work shed, and it's like the perfect size. Oh my God, that's brilliant.

Yeah, I mean, you get the squat rack, you can put a platform in there, and then you got dumbbells over there. Well, that's a pop-up gym. It's just like boom, ready to go. I never thought of that. Yeah, that's what I was doing. That's the rack work with that,

because the sheds aren't like, you bolt them to the side. Yeah, you have to bolt eat. So there's one that had like steel beams, like you can buy that's... And you're anchoring them in the ground. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, I mean, there's a way to the side. Yeah, you have to bolt it. So there's one that had like steel beams, that you can buy that's in the ring. In the ring, in the ring. In the ring. Yeah, so I mean, there's a way to do it.

Obviously, that would be the concern is making sure it's secure, but there's a way to do it. I've seen a lot of cool people's back of their house. Yeah. So if you have like an overhang, that too, yeah, you know, like something cool. Yeah, and just put it against that back of the house,

which I think is super cool. Do you guys like lifting weights outside? If I had to, 100% I would do that. The back of the house, which I think is super cool. Do you guys like lifting weights outside? If I had to, 100% I would do that. That's my favorite. Especially living here in California, where we're at. Yeah, great weather. Yeah, that is my favorite way to work out. Harkins back to when I was a kid working out my backyard,

when my dad had his basic weight set, and I would take the weights, and I always, he had a patio cover, but I always would take the weights out to the lawn when I would do curls or trisip extensions or overhead cover, but I always would take the weights out to the lawn. When I would do curls or trisip extensions or overhead presses because I loved being in the sun. And now we know that the sun has got some anabolic properties. Old-school bodybuilders used to always, all the guys at Venice Beach, Arnold and all his buddies, whatever. After they lift, they would go out and lay out in the sun,

and they would write about how they would notice improvements in recovery and strength. I did this as a kid, and then I did it again when I had my studio because I had a gap. I would always create a two to three hour gap in the middle of my day. I would always lift, and then I do this four mile walk, outdoors with my shirt off, after I was finished my workout.

Oh, you've been advocating for that since we started the podcast. Dude, I love outdoor workouts. This is one of my absolute favorite things. Oh, I looked up, I was doing a comparison for a client that I used to work with for snacks. So this person was looking for a small, like something I can eat when I'm driving because I get real hungry between my commute from work to like at home.

And I said, you know, you can wait to get home and he said, yeah, but I like to eat things while I'm in the car and keeps me awake sometimes I'm tired. So we were talking about easy to, you know, eat and consume snacks or whatever. So I told him about skinny dipped almonds and then I compared the macros of one ounce of almonds, regular almonds to one ounce of skinny dipped almonds.

Do you know what the, consider this, so for the listeners who don't know, plain almonds versus thinly chocolate coated almonds, that's what skinny dipped almonds are. You want the differences in macros for an ounce? How much? Five grams of carbs. That's it?

Just five. Five grams of carbs. Wow. That's it for an ounce. So you of carbs. That's it, for an ounce. So you're basically, what is that? How many more calories is that? 20? It's like nothing. It's like nothing.

Wow. I mean, it's just like barely powdered on there. Like, you know, if you taste it, it's like, I mean, but it tastes just like it's fully covered in chocolate. I prefer it that way. You ever get chocolate almonds, and then the almond is like the chocolate part is like

most of the damn. That's how most of them are. Yeah, it's like chocolate with almond. Before being introduced to these, that's the only chocolate almonds I had. And because I'm not just like a big chocolate eater where I want like a big ton of chocolate, I've never been into chocolate almonds at all because it's mostly chocolate with a little bit of almond where they flip it on its head and it's the opposite where it's mostly almond. You have just a little bit of the chocolate coating on there.

Yeah, I had to double check because I was like, yeah, that's not bad at all. I knew the macros were good. I mean, that's kind of part of their brand, right? That's what they're called skinny dipped. It's because they have, you know, the lower and sugar, lower and the calories are not that big of a difference at all from regular almonds. Right. So I knew that was a thing but I didn't realize it was that, I mean five grams of carbs.

I was on the peppermint ones this morning. I didn't have those ones yet. I thought I had all of them but I guess I hadn't had the peppermint. Dark chocolate peppermint. Yeah, is it good? Oh, it goes great with coffee too. Oh yeah. So the dark, the dark dark dark dark dark dark dark dark dark dark dark dark dark dark.

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Don't bring up that argument. It's a love story. Ever. That was your argument. I mean, winner of Academy Awards, written by an unknown person who won an award for the acting, the screenplay won awards. It's a great movie, yes. We're talking about Rocky.

The original. Forget all the sequels. Okay, I'm talking about the first Rocky, the one that just blew everybody's minds at the Academy Awards in 1976, I think it was. And the debate we had when we were talking about, because I consider myself a rocky expert. I'm also a tie-in, so that kind of puts me at a different, different layers, kind of in the genetics.

I remember this argument. You remember this? The debate was, I said, I said Rocky, really, if you really look at it, it's a love story. It really is. It's a love story between Rocky and Adrian. And Adam said, it's a boxing movie. It's all about boxing.

So anyway, I watched it with Jessica for the first time she'd never watched Rocky. Did you get some afterwards? Yeah, huh? Did you get some afterwards? It worked. Come on, dude. No, we watched it. We watched that she'd never seen the movie before.

So we're watching, I was so excited, she's the one that brought it up. So I was like, what? Let's do this. So we watched it and at the end of Rocky, here's what confirms my, what I say. At the very end of the first rocket, do you remember what happens? I don't tell me. Okay, so at the very end, first of all, the whole movie's about this down and out guy, whatever.

Super down and out guy, whatever, you know, 30 years old, washed up, gets the chance to fight the champion, and then he meets Adrian and all that stuff. At the very end, he goes the distance with the world champion. He's a total unknown. He's like an amateur boxer, kind of a bum or whatever. Goes the distance with Apollo Creed. At the very end, they're calling out the card split decision. That's in the background.

All you hear is him calling for Adrian and for her coming through the crowd to meet with him. And you almost don't even realize what happened, but at the very end, you hear that Apollo Creed won the split decision fight, but that's not the focus. The focus is on Rocky and Adrian in the ring, Mindblown. Yeah, so I asked Jessica, I said, what did you, she was like, who won?

She's like one of the best romance movies I've ever seen in my life. So she said, she said it is a love story. She's almost as good as Twilight. It is a love. Oh, fuck. Watch it again. I love Rocky.

I'm just joking. I love it too. I remember that. Watch the first half, but I remember that. I'm just joking. I love it too. I remember that. Watch the first half, but I remember that. I love, yeah. I'll have to watch it and it's a confirm that. I am so excited to watch part two with her because I think part two, in my opinion, is almost if not better than part one. Especially the part where Adrian comes out of the coma. Remember that? He doesn't remember that part? Powerful, dude. Remember that? She tells Rocky to go fucking win

and he just becomes a tornado. Oh my God, my God. I love the diaries. I'm gonna start crying right now. Actually, no, no, no, no, no, no, me pull it up. There was this huge cholesterol paper that was actually printed, it was done back in 2018. You said it was made of a made analysis, right? Yeah. You had to hear Sal like reading this and he's, no, you asked, no, you can't believe it. He's like reading it to himself.

Yeah. So this was a comprehensive review of the current literature. So what these scientists did is they went in and reviewed current literature on cholesterol and here's some of the findings that they found. What they found was a lot of the studies that showed that cholesterol was bad, having high cholesterol. This and that and the other said, the studies were done poorly and they were cherry picking. When we look at all the data, here's some of the stuff that they found. There's no association between total cholesterol

and degree of arthorosis. So that's the clogging of the arteries. So they found no degree. It's actually what they found. There was a 2% increase in one study, but not a big deal. They also found that the support for high cholesterol being bad for you was supported by fraudulent reviews of the literature. So they were like, yeah, we didn't see like real good evidence at all. The association between total cholesterol and cardiovascular

disease is weak absent or inverse in many studies. Do you know what that means in verse? The opposite. That means in some studies, they found that people with higher cholesterol had better cardiovascular health than people with lower cholesterol in some studies. So at the very least what you can take from this is, it's not that, yeah.

Are they pinning down the cause of the plaque? Well cholesterol acts like an antioxidant and in particular LDL, the bad cholesterol, it goes up and tries to fight. It's very important. So when you have low LDL, your rate of infection goes up and so does your rate of cancer. So it's almost as if that goes up to help meet some kind of an infection or an immune response. Some kind of an insult in the body. Yes.

How crazy is that? I've always wondered that because this has been a tough one for me because my grandpa died of a heart attack and they attributed it to high cholesterol. And so that was always one of those, and I'm trying to explain cholesterol to my parents in that, you know, yeah, I don't know that that's the actual cause. and I'm trying to like explain cholesterol to my parents and that, yeah, I don't know that that's the actual cause. Like, I don't know that's the case now. Well, trip off this, and I've known this statistic

for a long time. I'm gonna read right off the study, so I don't mess this up. Total mortality among those with LDL levels below 105 milligrams per deciliter, so below 105. 105, this is LDL, I'm not talking about total cholesterol, I'm talking about the bad cholesterol. Total mortality with people whose levels were below 105 was twice as high as when compared to those with a higher LDL, even after they adjusted, after they did adjustment for confounding variables. So having really, really low LDL, total mortality goes up, which is the opposite.

And they said it's been suggested that the inverse causation explains the inverse association between mortality and LDL. For example, cancer and infections, lower LDL. A more likely explanation is that cardiovascular disease may be caused by infections, and that LDL directly inactivates almost all types of microorganisms and their toxic products.

So you gotta ask yourself why we focus so heavily on cholesterol and modern medicine. Get your whole eggs, kids. And I think it's because we came up with a medicine that effectively lowers cholesterol. So it became beneficial to make that such a strong focal point because we got a medicine that lowers it So if we demonize it now you've got

Easy solutions take this back those were metrics that easy to translate to patients now when you read that does that mean that Statons are completely obsolete So from what I have read and I am not an expert in this I'm not a doctor in this, but this is based off of what I've read, that there's a small percentage of people that may benefit from taking statins, and that is, from my understanding, people who have suffered from heart attacks already, other than that, there seems to be no benefit.

Based off of what I've read, now, if you're listening and you're a scientist, you're somebody's an expert in this field, I would love for you to DM me some other information. But no, and you know, statins have their own problems because they stop the production of cholesterol on the liver, they can also cause the depletion

of key nutrients like co-Q10, and the weakening of muscles and maybe even increasing risk for certain degenerative disorders of the brain and nervous system, because cholesterol is such an important, it's so essential for humans that our body makes it. You know what I'm saying?

You would 100% die without it. Now, do you guys have anybody close, like just you mentioned your family, but that seems like it was probably a while ago. I'm assuming. Yeah, I was. Do you guys have anybody that's recently gone to the doctor that's being prescribed, statin, I don't know anybody right now that's. I don't. Yeah, I was. Do you guys have anybody that's recently gone to the doctor that's being prescribed, statin

so I don't know anybody right now that's? I don't have anybody on my family. No, statins. No. I definitely blood pressure medication like my dad's on this and I'm trying really hard to get him more active to where, you know, that can be something that we eliminate, you know, in terms of like medication. Blood pressure medication's got good results but if you obviously want a lower blood pressure naturally.

Naturally, right. But you don't want high blood pressure. So those medications actually have a lot of value. Sure. But cholesterol is one of those things. It's very controversial. And again, you can find studies that show that low cholesterol, low LDL, bad for total mortality.

And some of the longest living people on Earth when they test their cholesterol seem to be much higher. There's one theory that I read that the plaque that they see in the arteries is your body's attempt at repairing inflammation in the artery, almost like it's spackling the walls to try and protect it. And if you don't fix whatever the problem is, of course, that can get out of hand and cause

a blockage or cause, you know, a rupture of, you know, part of the, like, there's little, like, inflammatory, I don't know what to call them, what they would be like, a little bubble that happens inside the outer, and when that ruptures, that can cause problems as well. But it's far more complex than... A lot more to the story than what we were told, I guess, huh? Well, if statins were the answer, we would see dramatically lower rates of cardiovascular disease and heart disease, but we're not seeing that. We're not seeing these huge reductions.

So, and I used to train a few vascular surgeons, and they even told me that the survival rate and the treatments that we have now when you have heart attacks, I've completely revolutionized how long people survive, but they'd say a large part of that has to do with the way that they can put stints in the modern operating procedures that they can do with the heart. And they say that really does, that's really amazing, you know, medicine. But the statins, it's kinda,

iffy, yeah, isn't that kinda interesting? Have you guys checked out, speaking of interesting things, the mind explained, it's like a series on Netflix that does like 20 minutes long. Oh my God, I love it. I just watched a couple of those episodes. I watched the psychedelic one and then the memory one.

Oh yeah, I watched the memory one and then all about anxiety. And it was so enlightening, like especially the memory one, of course, as far as the memory being so fallible and all those studies they found with eyewitness accounts. This is a real statistic. After one year, if something happens, you have a memory based on it, right?

After one year, about 50% of the details are off or wrong. Yeah, 50% right away. Right away. Right away. That's crazy. There's a chart where everything degrades and you could literally like track it. But you know what doesn't change?

Your confidence in the memory. Yeah. How fucked up is that? It's not like at all, right? Yeah. I'm more productive. I'm so cute. Yeah, exactly.

No, you just feel good. Yeah, you suck. Isn't that wild? No, it's super crazy. Yeah, so you know what influences your, because did some that that episode in particular blew me away because One thing that I always try to do is examine my own Self-confidence for certain things because you ever find yourself where like you'll say like thinking that Rocky's a love story Yeah, no, I watched the last night. I watched the last night

You ever do this where you and know, this happens more often now that we record our podcast and stuff, where you're so sure that you said something or did something. Oh, yeah. You're 100% positive. And then everybody else is like, no, you didn't. And then you listen to it and you're like, what? I did say that.

I totally was 100% confident. That's a scary place to be. Think of all the shit you could fuck up or whatever. Did you guys see the girl that they highlighted in there, the memory girl that could do, what she do? Insane, it was like 20,000 numbers, 20,000 numbers, she memorized them in 10 minutes or something. Yeah, that is insane.

I was sticking immediately of Jim Quick and we had him on the show. Although, she would eat Jim Quick for lunch. I know, she's the world champion. But I'm saying what I'm saying is like her techniques of how she built associations with each one of the numbers. She changed them to like a sound. And then also created a whole story.

So she was walking, going through all these numbers. Well, they made a very good point in that. And that, think about memorizing 50,000 numbers. Could you ever imagine memorizing 50,000 numbers? Well, people memorize, yeah, people memorize 50,000 words all the time. You see people who know all the words to a play. It's very easy. And so they were showing how the memory works and that we remember words and associations.

Like if I gave you 15 words to memorize, if you put them all in a sentence, even if it was weird or whatever, you'd remember them versus if they were just random. You know what I mean? Yeah, I wonder about that too. Like in terms of, if we're in conversation

and there's certain facts and things floating around, like how good the memory is, if you're like one of those people that has this whole process of creating all this dialogue and association, like how good your memory is with just like, you know, random things coming at you. Yeah. The thing that was really cool about the, or that made me think a lot about the memory one was just that how wrong we often are and how right we think we are all the

time. That's scary. I mean, especially for people that are wrongfully in prison. Oh, it's just that's maddening. Did you know that that a significant percentage, I mean, especially for people that are wrongfully imprisoned. Oh, it's just, it's maddening. Did you know that, that a significant percentage, I don't remember what it was, it was something like 40% of people who were on like death row or jail for life were getting exonerated through DNA evidence. And, and they were all, I witnessed, they were all put to jail because people saw them. That was the standard back then. What else did they have?

Yeah. This is, this is 100% the reason why I don't support the death penalty because I know we fuck up. Yeah. So if we accidentally kill someone that was innocent, which we have, we totally have. I'm against it. That's crazy. There was one common theme among a lot of the episodes and that was mindfulness. Oh, yeah. How being mindful dramatically improves your memory, reduces anxiety. That was the one about anxiety too, and they were bringing up a good point about it with anxiety, how it's not like a new thing,

that all of a sudden, I mean, yes, it's more apparent to us now because we think we're so bombarded with this work schedule, but back in the 20s, and they were dealing with anxiety, they're taking alcohol with opiates and things to cope with it. They called it Americanitis. There was actually a name for example.

Yeah, the TED talk that I had watched, I mentioned recently, he talks about the importance of just exercise and movement to combat anxiety, depression and all those things with that. And that's something that he attributed part of the rise today in that what we see with ADD medications, anxiety, depression, all those things on the rise is just the lack of movement we are. I mean, you figure just factor. 50 years ago, I mean, you just had to be so much more physical and we don't really talk about, you know, going out and having to hunt, kill and then prepare your dinner, the

mental benefits of that. You just don't think of that. You think survival, like, oh, I gotta go out, I gotta hunt, kill, and then prepare your dinner, the mental benefits of that. Like you just don't think of that. You think survival, like, oh, I gotta go out, I gotta hunt, I gotta kill, I gotta go. Not only are we not active, but we're also distracted all the time. Right. And if you look, because again,

this, this, this, this, and a lot of those, the things that you're distracted by are giving like negative feedback. It dude, totally. Yeah. This documentary series really got me to do more research and mindfulness, mindfulness is the most effective natural thing you can do for anxiety. You know that?

It's almost as effective as medication. It's also the most effective thing you can do to improve your memory. And mindfulness literally, this is all it is, and I finally understand it. Finally. It's literally being totally present. I know my body feels like. I know what everything's happening right now. I'm not thinking about the past or present. Try being mindful for longer than fucking 10 seconds. Right. Hard. Right. It's so, and then the way that there was a

monk on there that was explaining and he's like, you just train it. Yeah. You're just exercising. Come friends with it. Yeah. You just exercise with being exercise your mind just like your body with being present. So I'm going to really make a focus on doing that. Yeah, it's interesting. They're going back to the roots of it from Buddhism, I guess, which was interesting to me. Yeah, because what, so check out one of the studies. They, they had these Buddhist monks who practice mindfulness, obviously, as part of their lives or whatever, and they tested their, their, how they felt pain versus other people. And they felt pain just as much as other people.

The difference is it caused them way less, it was way less unpleasant. It caused way less stress. So they still feel it, and like they're blocking it out, they feel it. They just made friends with it, like Justin said. And it's way less unpleasant, whereas everybody else is like, it hurts, I need to avoid it, I need to distract myself,

and I gotta fight it. They recognize it, and then they can still function in it, you know? Totally, totally. Isn't that wild? Super fast. Yeah, it's a really, really good series, highly recommended. Speaking of Buddhist, this reminded me of this, that's funny article that I just read.

So there was a couple that, white couple, so husband and wife, white couple, so husband and wife both white, and they did fertility treatments. So they did, I think in vitro, where they take his sperm, her egg, and they fertilize it outside of the, you know, the mom or whatever.

Once it's fertilized, put it back in her, then she has a beautiful baby, because they were having trouble conceiving. Well, they did that, and the baby came out, and it was Asian. Like, full. Whoa, somebody mixed the, the little swimmers there. With the baby was two, the dad was like,

was that like a little joke? Yeah, I don't know. Doctor's office, that's what he did. No, he didn't notice until she was two. When there were two, he was like, he's like, oh man, what is it going on? Yeah, like this night. So they did some DNA tests and they found that he wasn't the father.

So then they went through the whole process or whatever. Oh my God, what do you do with that point? You've already committed, like, I mean, you can't go and you can't do nothing about that. I think that's your kid, right? You don't give a shit. At that point, you're like, I love the kid, right? Yeah. But they, but they went and found that the fertility clinic or whatever makes it up. Major lawsuit coming from that?

Because that's not cheap. Those things are like 10 grand to do those. So you spend 10 grand to get your offspring and you get another offspring. I'm fucking live it. Sure, I love the kid. I'm gonna raise you milk man somewhere. I'm gonna raise the kid.

But at the same time too, I'm fucking pissed. Well, what do you do? What kind of mindset would that put you in? You'd be mad, but at the same time too, I'm fucking pissed. Well, what do you do? What kind of mindset would that put you in? You'd be mad, but then you'd be like, well, obviously, I love this child. Yeah, obviously. The way it was supposed to be. I mean, I'm suing and I want money back and then I want another kid, but I wanted to be my kid this time, right?

That's my DNA. Mine is mine. Yeah. You wouldn't be pissed. Oh, yeah. Of course. That's unacceptable. I mean, especially being the father

and you're wanting to pass on, I mean, for sure. I mean, I would be completely... I would love the child 100% I agree with that. But man, if I didn't get my kid after that, that was my DNA that happened. Like that needs to be investigated. It was a mix up in the sperm. Yeah, so they had the right egg I mean it all looks the same kind of right, but they

Maybe on this So I'm carrying like a tray. It's my envision you know, I said Shit the y'all scrambled up. You're like oh, hold on a scrape this is Smith. This is me win. This was Like a tray with like that holds them all Moe that's fucked I'm sure he probably was like did you have did you cheat on me? You know I mean I go in but then again no because they knew he she knew she got pregnant with the right right in vitro So yeah, cuz I was thinking myself like what if she like maybe she tried with a one another one of friends Like let's hurry up and get this in vitro going. Yeah

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or something like with my arms, I'll do some cheat reps. Now Arnold had it in his book, didn't he? That's where they got popular. They got popular because Arnold and other body builders talked about using cheat reps to do more reps and get the body to force the body to build muscle. You know this is an interesting one

because I never consciously do use cheat wraps, but there are times when my form is looser than other times. You know what I'm saying? Where I'm, if I'm curling or I'm doing an overhead press, I'm gonna use a little bit more body English to get the, to get the bar to move. But I never think to myself, you know,

hey, today I'm gonna do a cheat wrap or whatever. It's definitely not a technique that I teach. Oh, I never cheat. You have to be here. Super good. Here's a deal. You could go the rest of your life and never use cheat reps and get phenomenal workouts, change your physique, looking however you want, and you're not missing out on this major

component. It's a cool thing, I think, it's a cool tool that advanced lifters can intermittently use in their training that sure has some value because of the amount of load that you're gonna put on there. If you're cheating it up and using momentum, you're gonna be able to do heavier weight and do I see some value doing that?

Absolutely, I think if I had to kind of guesstimate like how often I use cheat reps, I'd say in a total, in a year's time, maybe five workouts in the year. That I, in, you know, what are your lifts that you guys do? Chew reps with. I would, well, I would consider,

well, would you consider a push press, a cheat? I was just gonna say, do you consider that? Yeah. I was just gonna say, well, it's kind of, I don't consider them cheat reps, I consider them different exercises. Yeah, well, I think that's a different focus. Well, it depends on if that's like, I just wanna be able

to get up the weight and that was the entire intent of it versus like making it a power exercise. So the way that they were used back in the day, it was almost entirely applied to curls. This is where Chi-Reps got popular. And it's when, you know, you're doing your strict barbell curls and then the last few reps get difficult.

And so you use your hips a little bit and swing the weight up a little bit to curl the bar. That's when I used it, yeah. You know, other people will use it, you know, when doing a lateral exercise, they'll use a little bit of body movement to get the dumbbells up.

I don't look at them as cheat reps. I used to when I was younger, because that's what I read in the magazines. But as I got older, I just realized they're different exercises. If I want to do a lateral with body movement, it's kind of like a clean. If I want to do a overhead press with some boost, it's a push press and it has its own

value. So that's the way I look at them. I don't like applying cheat reps to other exercises and calling them cheat reps. I think it's just a different movement. You know, if you want to do a tricep press down and you want to use more weight and you angle your body differently and flare elbows out and you call that a cheat rep. I call that a different exercise. Is there value to it?

Sure. There definitely can be a value to it, but I definitely don't think people who don't have a lot of experience and consistency. I don't think they're gonna benefit much from cheat rep. They have difficulty maintaining tension to begin with. A cheat rep is just gonna increase the risk of injury and they don't get any value for that, that trade.

Yeah, to me, it's, it's way too high of risk for very low reward. You're not the, the person that's going to benefit the most from this is somebody who is an extremely advanced lifter that has really good mechanics already, really good body control. They, they train extremely consistent all the time, and this is a nice little curve ball that they could throw into a routine occasionally. I see some value there. Anybody else that's thrown it in there,

it really does it. There's more risk, and there's more to lose, even if it's not risk. Like maybe you're not hurting yourself, but you're trying to do cheat reps for bicep curls, but you're cheating so much that the biceps are getting very little work. Like you need to have really good mind muscle connection.

You know what used to happen to me as a kid? I would do cheat curls, cause Arnold, dinner, whatever. And my friend, Delts will get sore. This is why all the swinging. This is one of our most popular videos is the video where I did the bicep curls and I taught the split stance. And it's one of our most popular videos

because it's like 50, 50, 50. You absolutely love it, see the value in training that way, and then the other 50 are the idiots that are coming in there, and they're trying to explain to me the action of the bicep, and that there is some sort of shoulder flexion in there, which I understand.

The problem is I've trained so many people in my career that I know that most people actually struggle with keeping it out of their shoulders and the front delt tends to take over in a bicep grow because it's natural for the elbows to kind of roll up as you lift the bar closer to your neck. And the bicep is involved in that action a little bit. It is shortening the bicep a little bit. But I don't see the value and I'll tell you what, really, really good form is always the best.

It really is always the best. But if you want to use movement and swinging and stuff, then start to practice more explosive exercises, where it actually makes sense to do that. Like, practice a kettlebell swing or practice a high pull or a clean. Now you're using body movement, but it's a part of the exercise itself. And what are you getting from those exercises? You're building power. And how many people should we

apply that to? Very little. Very little population. Very small because it's very complex and what ends up happening is if you, because here's what happens with exercises, you look at, you can take all exercises and list the risk versus reward. And then you could also make a separate category and say, okay, when form is off, how fast does this exercise become very dangerous? So some exercises like curls, it forms off a little bit, it's not gonna be that dangerous.

If you do like a deadlift, form is off a little bit, the danger factor is much higher. Right, so if you do wanna use cheat reps, I would say pick the exercises where your if your form goes off, the risk of injury isn't super high. I don't think you should do cheat squats, I don't think you should do cheat, you know, deadlifts or even cheat bench presses or anything like that. I think it's probably would save it for a lot of the single joint exercises, which to be honest with you, cheat reps on single joint exercises which, to be honest with you,

cheat reps on single joint exercises, are you gonna get any real value out of that? Not very. Aside from your ego, not much. Next question is from PJ Cliff. I have a fairly labor intensive job that involves a lot of bending and lifting in front of me. How should I adapt my workout to fit my activity?

Should I focus on pressing movements to counter the polling I do at work? Or should I just stick to a balanced routine? Matt, strong will be great for this person. Good upper back strength in that program and there's a lot of, there's rounded back lifting that's in that program. You do have to train. Yeah, yeah. Which would be a good idea for you to train.

You're best bet with repetitive chronic movements where you're doing the same kind of movement over and over again. You run the risk of having, of encountering these overuse injuries. So like, you know, if you're doing this kind of a job where you're bending over a lot and lifting in front of you, you run the risk of having probably lower back problems. So I would say work on hip-hinging exercises and then work on a lot of mobility, you know,

and core strength. Yeah, because when you do mobility movements, your imbalances kind of reveal themselves. So you'd be doing core exercises and mobility movements for the spine, mobility movements for the hips and ankles, and then that should help prevent you from, you know, having some of these kind of overuse injuries that can occur from doing something over and over. It is a factor too and it's a good question because sometimes people do have really rigorous jobs where they don't realize all that stress and then adding in a really heavy workout on top of that

may be overreaching at that point. Which is being beneficial to you. Yeah, I had a client that did a lot of work like this where he was bent over a lot and We had to be careful with heavy deadlifts because then he couldn't do his job like if we did really heavy deadlifts And he got sore and his glutes in his back, especially his low back if the muscles got sore You know he would come back to you know a few days later and be like man it was really hard for me to do my job And it was really sore and you, you know, because the muscle function

or your function reduces a little bit because of the soreness, his risk of injury went up. So we were very careful when we did those types of exercises, because I think your tendency or what you think may be natural is to work the muscles you're working a lot, right? Like, yeah. Okay, since I'm swinging a hammer a lot,

I need to exercise my forearms a lot. But sometimes that's not a good idea, because you're just, you're overcoming your body's ability to recover your diet. I like to, I like to, he also addressed that right away. I mean, like, should I be doing counter movements? Should I be doing things like pressing more when I'm not doing that in my job?

And I totally think that's a smart idea. Alongside that, having rotational movements and things that you could strengthen the patterns of your support system. So that way, it'll, your body will function overall better which will then make your job easier and more manageable. Yeah, I was gonna say there's something value too. Because if it's that labor intensive that your your your back is getting sore

I would also be thinking about okay. How am I moving throughout the day too? Like that's this is the hard part about answering these questions Virtually and like not seeing how somebody moves because you know part of somebody being having chronic low back pain or being bothered from their labor intense job could be like a movement thing. And then my routine is really kind of around like a Maps Prime Pro where I'm looking at, you know, your imbalances or I'm looking at how you hinge and how you do pick things up.

And I'm actually just trying to get you to learn how to move better, which then will carry over into your work. Now if your movement is all great and you don't, I don't need to correct anything, then I would want to strengthen the exercises or the types of movements that you do throughout your day. So I may not stretch you, like, or I'm not, I may not push you, like what Salah is saying on deadlifts, I don't want to get you sore to where you're but I definitely want to strengthen you in like deadlifts and movements like that because the stronger you get at movements that you're going to have to perform throughout your day, the

easier your light day work is going. You know what's funny about this is that you guys remember the first time you got a client whose job was very labor physical intensive. Yeah, I had aEx loading guy, the first guy that came to mind when I was listening to this. Yeah, and the reason why this was weird was because the vast majority of my clients were super inactive, just because that's the average job nowadays, especially in Silicon Valley. Yeah. So it was like, I remember the first time I had someone was like, oh, this is going to be very different. Like, for you, I'm going to have you stretch and get massage and relax. We're

going to do recuperative movements. Whereas when I had the other people who were working on computers all day long, I was like, yeah, we just need to increase your activity constantly. Very, very different approach. So, to me, when I think of how I would, with what we have, because we're dealing with this all virtually, I don't have this person in front of me. To me, I see a lot of value with this person owning like a map strong and owning a prime pro. And I would weave in and out. Map strong, I think, does a lot of like upper back strength

that a lot of hinging front rounded stuff where you'd be carrying loading. So that program, as far as the training, great at strengthening and supporting somebody who's doing a job as now, where you have to be able to come in as your own coach and know that if you had a crazy loaded week of work and your low back is killing you and fried, I wouldn't be

following what maybe MapStrong says for that day. Maybe that day I'm working out of Maps Prime Pro and I'm addressing my hips and opening up my shoulders and I'm doing things like that to support what I just did. So, you know, that's where even as great as we've done as far as creating all these great programs, where you have to learn to customize things for each individual and what they're doing.

Somebody like this, you know, some days maybe he can get after it in the weight room and it's really strength, train hard, but other days maybe it was a really labor intense day and he's fried and that day he might be living more in prime prime. You know what else so good for these people is deep tissue massage but if that's too expensive or difficult foam roll. This would be a case where I'd say foam roll at the end of the day every single day.

I did that for my dad. My dad, you know, he worked hard labor and he doesn't do it anymore but when he did I got him a foam roller. I taught him how to use the foam roller. And it made a huge difference for him. He felt, because you know, after working all day long, like that, things get really, really tight. And the foam roller does a good job of kind of loosening things up so you can get good sleep and then go back to work the next day. Next question is from Captain Jake Spara. As a collegiate track and field athlete, one of

my coaches told us not to have sex or masturbate at least five days before a competition, because it would keep our testosterone high, which would help us perform better. Is there truth to this? This is the old myth. It is an old wise tell, isn't it? You know what's funny about this? I know people that still do.

You guys might not was told to me even when I was in football. You guys might know what's funny about this. So, okay, so there are no studies to support that you'll perform better if you don't have sex or don't masturbate. Essentially, don't ejaculate, you know, for a week or whatever. Boxers would do it for longer. Boxers would go months without any of that before a fight. I had a buddy like in football season, like when season started, like he's, yeah, just

no girlfriend, yeah, no girlfriend. Yeah, I'm good looking dude too. That was me too. Yeah, were you that way too? I was not like going out, interested in girls, nothing. I was like super focused. You weren't even, you weren't even him on the show. Save it all for the boys.

Just, yeah, I'm coming out in the field like angry. Yeah, there's, I don't know, there's something to it though. I mean, it's like, it is like a little more aggression that you sort of keep in store. And obviously this is anecdotal. Like, craze, there's no signs behind it, but yeah, the more I would like hold out the more like aggressive, that's why I find it.

Do you have any accidents on the football field? Oh, there's a puddle over there. No, no, there has to be some sort of value to that. There actually is. Okay. So I was going to say what's funny about this is studies show that if a man does not ejaculate his testosterone levels will climb. Here's the caveat. After a certain period of time, I don't remember what the length of period of time is. I think it's, I want to say three weeks, two or two or three weeks or four weeks, the spike of testosterone declines and then they start to go down and testosterone. testosterone starts to lower. Now this makes perfect sense because if you're not, if you're not ejaculating, right?

If you're not putting out your, your seed, your body, thinks, oh, we need to ramp up the signal to motivate this person to spread their DNA. And so at first your testosterone goes up, but then after a while your body's probably like, well, nothing's happening. This person must be a pariah. Let's triangulate now. Let's bring everything down and down.

Now this is the same thing with fasting. You'll notice when you fast, your appetite, at first you're hungry, and then your appetite goes away. But if you fast-long enough, appetite comes back really strong. It's an adaptive process. It drops.

It's in your mid and mastermating. Yeah, that would be a thing. Your appetite will drop to keep you focused. You guy for salad, right? Yeah, it's wet about how to raise your testosterone without pictures of Justin's feet. That's what these... The ultimate deterrent.

Yeah. So there is some value in it. With the testosterone. Now, as far as increasing and improving performance, there's no studies to support performance increase. But there are studies to show at testosterone increase. Well, the testosterone increase, which could correlate to somewhat of aggression and energy possibly.

I mean, come on. I feel like you're more motivated to get out there. I mean, there's some angst. Yeah. I mean, come on. I mean, I feel like you're more motivated to get out there and I mean, there's some angst. You know what I mean? Like, ah! Yeah, I think it's real. I think part of it too is just the distraction, right? Like the coaches are like, you're not gonna,

if you're not thinking about sex or you're not having sex, you're probably not going out much. There's a lot of part. You know, you're going to bed early. You're very focused. Yeah, so you're probably more focused. I know that's why boxer, they used to say that sex weakens the knees in boxing.

Oh yeah. Yeah, weakens the knees, so I don't know. I'm with coach, then, man. I'm gonna last baby for five days. I don't know, man. How do you guys feel when you haven't done anything for like a week? I'm energized.

I get angry. Like very motivated. I'm like, I'm motivated. This is probably good for sports, you know what I'm saying? Take it out on the field or the track. We should try it before podcasts, if we do better podcasts. Yeah, you can do that.

Next question is from Kyle Grego. What are your thoughts on chiropractors? Do regular adjustments help with improving mobility? Depends how they're used. I, you know what, I used to, I used to hate cariproachers for a long time. And that was a total over-generalization because in my experience, all the ones that I had spent time with, I just wasn't impressed. I wasn't impressed with, they were all the whack-a-moons.

Yeah, especially, now remember, I've been doing this now for almost two decades. So 10, 15 years ago, the type of chiropractors that I was meeting compared to what I've met now is like night and day difference. I mean, when you look at the doctor, brink, doctor, shallows, I mean, these guys, the information that they're putting out, I know the move you guys, I believe are also chiropractic doctors too. And I don't know when this transition happened for them.

This would be great to actually ask Dr. Brink when this started to happen, but at one point, they started to kind of move away from only those types of doctors. And a lot of this newer breed that's coming through, in fact, I would have had my high school reunion, one of the girls that I went to high school with became a chiropractor and the very first thing I asked her is like, are you big on adjustments? And she's like, no, no, she does all more movement

focus movement and self-mile fashion release. And then just you just did not hear that before. Yeah, I mean chiropractors were what the old school way and the ones used to come through my gym. It was they used to do an assessment back then they had either the, the polls with the strings that were across and they would, they would assess you by moving them around and showing you your, oh, your shoulders elevated by one inch here, your hips, you know, one, you know, elevator depressed over here, like, and then they would, they would basically adjust and crack you and say, oh, look, we fixed you there. And then you would see, or you'd see like the ones that are digital later on.

Well, that I am not a fan of, especially when you do an adjustment, and there's no prescription of what to do afterward. That's where I'm like, there's no fixing the room. They want you to come back so they can give you temporary relief again. I mean, this was my experience even like, because I took a lot of damage from football

where I had ribs out and things and they would actually help a lot because it was like restricting my breathing on some level and I had pain. And so it's like they could adjust my rib to be set back. But then the pain would be worse a lot of times. And like I didn't really have any kind of like strengthening protocol or anything I could do which was frustrating. Well, the science supports chiropractic adjustments for certain kinds of pain relief. That's why it's covered by insurance.

Studies do support that it does provide pain relief. I believe it does. I've experienced it myself. I've had situations where I've hurt myself, gotten adjustment and had a 70% reduction in pain immediately after the adjustment. So as far as that's concerned, it definitely works. The problem is if you just do adjustments, then you're not really solving the root cause.

It's just like foam rolling or other type of tools where you get things out of the way, things feel better for a second, but you don't fix why that was happening in the first place. And so you have to continue to get adjusted, you know, a week in and a week out. Dr. Schalo actually explained this quite well. So there are lots of small joints and areas of the body that are very difficult to articulate. And so what ends up happening is, for whatever reason,

let's say you have poor mobility, overuse, or maybe you have an injury, some of those small joints and what areas freeze up because the muscles in between them tighten and tense up. This is the body's way of protecting itself. So if you hurt a joint, especially if it's a small joint, the surrounding muscles seize up and tighten to prevent it from moving. This is, again, your body's way attempt at keeping it from getting any more hurt. The problem is that itself then causes pains. Now, you've got these joints that don't want to articulate, muscles around them that are really, really tight,

and it just hurts. And so what an adjustment will do is quickly articulate, move those joints, get those muscles to stretch a little bit, and then you feel that immediate relief. It's just like when you have a client with a tight, periformis muscle on their hip. Like, oh, my hip bothers me, and then you have them do a hip stretch,

and they stand up, and they're like, oh my God, it feels so much better. All we did is send a signal to the central nervous system that told the CNS, hey, this muscle doesn't need to be tense. It can relax a little bit. That takes away the pain. But if we don't fix why the person's hip got to that point in the first place,

the odds that it'll get back there are quite high. To unlock the joint's potential and to show that you could still do the movement relatively safely and like train immediately after that and like try and repattern those movements is then it's beneficial. It's like I just helped to guide you back into, you know, right?

And so what makes things go back in alignment is that they articulate these joints, CNS gets the signal, cool, we could back off a little bit. Now the tight muscles loosen up and things kind of balance out again. But again, if your movement, if your daily movement caused that to happen in the first place, or whatever you're doing, caused that to happen in the first place, and you keep doing it, what is going to happen? It's going to right back.

You're going to right back to square one. A real easy way to tell if you have a good chiropractor or not is if they do or do not prescribe work for you to do outside of the adjustment. We do exercises with you. That's well, yeah, or that, I mean same difference. I mean, Dr. Brink's office is mostly, I can exercise. Yeah, I mean, that's how he won me over in the first place is when I came in to see him, we never once even,

I didn't lay on Dr. Brink's adjustment table for like a year and a half of knowing him. Well, a lot of it's the patient's fault, right? Like, they want, I want that, like even me going in and I had hit problems, I wanted him to just crack and give me that relief and he's like, do these really uncomfortable movement trails. So I'm like, like flipping them off, you know,

as I'm doing it, but it was way better that he had that approach. Yeah, and I'm glad that it's changing. There was a period there, and I'm sure there's a lot of higher pressures I still do this. I don't remember what method it was, but there was this, it was popular where chiropractors were learning how to maximize their revenue.

And one of the ways that they were maximizing the revenue, and it became this like, they actually gave it a name. It was like a way of doing this, of adjusting people. Yeah, it was like a 15 minute protocol of cracking. And they act the shoulder, the spot, they would do this like that.

So they're conveyor belt. They're just getting everybody's. Well, they would, yeah, they would actually have multiple beds lined up or have clients and patients in four different rooms. Crack this one, crack that one, go, boop, boop, boop, and now you're seeing five or six patients in an hour versus one per hour.

That's when I think shit started to go a little south for me. Oh yeah, all you have to do is, I mean, we know what, common, I mean, what 80% of the population suffer from upper cross syndrome and lower cross syndrome. So if you understand what that is and you know what areas, like a chiropractic adjustment would relieve those things, it's like you're almost guaranteed to help everybody real quick just by popping all of them in place

and they come out and they're like, oh wow, they can open their chest up all over. Stacking everything so it's nice to line. Right, it's like, if you just hit everybody with those four or five adjustments, everybody will walk out feeling better than what they did when they walked in. And then that sells everybody on this belief

that they need to have this chiropractor every single week. But in reality, the reason why they have upper cross syndrome, lower cross syndrome is they have these tight muscles that are pulling and rounding the body into that position, and they're not addressing the imbalances through corrective exercises. And that was what I always tell clients that were in love with their chiropractors is, hey, I'm okay with the chiropractor working alongside with us, but we should be communicating like what he's adjusting and what he's trying to work on with you.

And then I should be getting things from him that are telling me we should be doing these exercises, these stretches when you're coming into see me. If he's not giving you that, he's fucking worthless. That's all I'm saying. And you also cannot write off the powerful placebo effect. Okay, so let me explain for a second. When they do studies on the placebo,

first of all, we know the placebo effect is real, but the most powerful placebo effects have the addition of something, of some kind of a signal or something actually happened. For example, if you do a fake surgery, but you actually cut the body part open and then sew it back up but don't actually do anything inside the joint,

the placebo effect is way more powerful because the person who's getting the placebo effect has a stronger belief because, oh, I do have stitches. So now you go to a chiropractor. So now you go to a chiropractor. Yeah, you go to a chiropractor and he moves you or she moves you and you hear, pop, pop, pop. So the odds of a placebo effect, yes, the odds of a placebo effect being more powerful in

that situation are far, far, far higher. The other thing that really annoys me about some higher practice, and luckily there are a few and far between, are the ones that say they can cure everything. Like, oh, adjustment to common colds. Yeah, and what they say is that, oh, if the central nervous system is operating optimally then your body cures itself. And so if you have a cold, come get adjustment. If you have a flu, come get an adjustment. If you're depressed, come get a, I've had people say,

take these supplements, like out the door. Yeah, no. There's a lot of that. No, the good ones do some adjustments, but mostly movement. And that's what we've seen so far with the two that we respect the most, Dr. Brink and Dr. Shallow. And with that, go to mindpumpfree.com

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