Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 1168: How to Build Side Butt, When to Deload for Recovery & Gains, Using Isometrics to Build Strength & Stability in Greater Ranges of Motion & MORE

Episode Date: November 22, 2019

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about how to incorporate a deload week into programming, how to develop side glutes, how to strengthen and stabilize hypermobile joints and the most memorable client that they have ever had. Mind Pump Recommends Jojo Rabbit in theaters now. (4:34) Mind Pump Recommends The Morning Show on Apple+. (6:17) Does Sal need an intervention? (9:10) What looks good in real life is often different than in pictures. (10:55) Why is Christianity triggering to most people? How you are doing yourself a disservice by being close-minded. (16:57) Kanye West the contrarian. (22:53) The benefits of pine bark extract & MORE in Organifi’s new product Move. (26:05) Can how you eat help your body fight the flu? (29:17) How we have engineered almonds from deadly to delicious. (33:00) Having a healthy diet can lower your risk of hearing loss. (36:17) Airbnb signs '$500 Million' Olympic sponsorship ahead of IPO: The advantages of a shared economy. (37:41) #Quah question #1 – Can you go deeper into what a deload week looks like? How to incorporate it into your programming and the purpose and benefits of doing so? (43:20) #Quah question #2 – How does one develop side glutes? I have a weird concave between my leg and hip, instead of side glutes being round. (54:01) #Quah question #3 - I have hypermobile hip joints that have led me to have terrible recruitment patterns in my lower body. I try to strengthen the muscles around my hips, but I still feel like I’m not able to engage them correctly. What can I do to fix this? (59:22) #Quah question #4 – What’s the most memorable client that you have ever had? (1:05:11) People Mentioned Bret “Glute Guy” Contreras PhD (@bretcontreras1) Instagram Bishop Robert Barron (@bishopbarron) Instagram Joe DeFranco (@defrancosgym)  Instagram Related Links/Products Mentioned November Promotion: MAPS Performance ½ off!! **Code “GREEN50” at checkout** Jojo Rabbit (2019) - Rotten Tomatoes The Morning Show on Apple TV+ Apple’s Gadgets Co-Star in Its New TV Drama Mind Pump 1160: Bret Contreras- The Glute Guru Mind Pump 1165: Bishop Robert Barron on Physical Fitness, Satan, Evolution, Psychedelics & Much More Kanye West and Dr. Dre Announce 'Jesus Is King Part II' Visit Organifi for the exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Code “mindpump” at checkout** New study: pine bark extract boosts nitric oxide production Ketogenic diet helps tame flu virus How Almonds Went From Deadly To Delicious Visit Skinny Dipped for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Code “mindpump” at checkout** Healthy Diet May Lower Risk of Hearing Loss in Women Airbnb seals $500m Olympics sponsorship deal ahead of listing MAPS Powerlift Activate Your Glutes with Tube Walking – Mind Pump TV Why Your Butt Won't Grow: 3 Exercises to Wake Up Your Sleepy Butt – Mind Pump TV 3 Best Secrets - How To Make Your Butt Grow (AVOID MISTAKES!) | MIND PUMP Dunphy Squat- Improve Your Squat with this Secret Exercise – Mind Pump TV Mind Pump Free Resources

If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, with your hosts. SALDA, Steffanau, Adam, Shafer, and Justin Andrews. In this episode of Mind Pump, we answer questions asked by listeners like you. What they do is they go to our Instagram page, Mind Pump Media, they post the question, we pick the best ones, and then we have a lot of fun answering them. Only the best ones. Now, in the introductory portion of this episode, we talk about current events and whatever

we feel like talking about, and you'll realize that when you listen to this episode. So we start out by talking about the movie JoJo Rabbit, we think that's going to win major. Excellent movie. A war, super good movie. We talked about how Apple, there's a bunch of plugs in the morning show, which is a show on Apple Plus. I have yet to watch it because I'm not paying for one more service.

Yeah, stick it to the man. Then I talked about how I needed intervention because I'm getting fatty cakes. I love it, Sal. We talked about how Dr. Dre is going to be working with Kanye on the next... Jesus is Kanye. Is that crazy be working with Kanye on the next Jesus is Kanye. Is that crazy?

We're gonna the next Jesus is King album. That's gonna be massive. It's gonna be awesome. I talked about Pine Bark Extract, which contains picnoginal. It's got some interesting properties. It's one of the ingredients in the brand new organized supplement move.

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And then we got into answering the fitness questions. Here's the first question. This person wants to know what a de-load week looks like and what the value is of a de-load week. Next question. This person wants to know how to develop their side, but this is the part of the butt that's on the side. Yeah.

It's kind of obvious. Right. These muscles are the gluteus minimus and gluteus medius. So we talked about. That profile butt. Exercise is for that. Next question. This person is hyper-mobile, meaning they have, and Glutious Media. So we talked about. That profile, but. Exercise is for that. Next question, this person is hyper-mobile, meaning they have like lots and lots of flexibility.

They've got pain. How do we address hyper-mobility through exercise? And the final question this person wants to know, who our most memorable clients were ever when we were personal trainers. Also, this month, Maps performance is 50% off. So, maps performance is a workout program that is all based around functional, athletic-based exercises.

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with mobility sessions. These are sessions designed specifically to improve your mobility. And again, it's 50% off. Here's how you get the program with the discount. Go to mapsgreen.com and use the code green 50 g re and five zero no space for the discount. Dude watched jojo rabbit. Yeah I told you it wasn't that a great movie for such a good movie. Really? I feel like it should be up for an Oscar. It will, how much I like it. It has to be, yeah.

Wow, that good. It is, I mean, it looks funny. Don't get me wrong. It looks, but you're, yeah, that's not just funny. It's not just funny. That's the thing. It's so well intelligently written. And it really makes you feel something,

you know, which you don't get a lot of times for movies like. Interesting. Controversial at all. It's everything. It's a. Controversial at all? It's everything. It's funny. It's social justice done the right way, because it takes you on a journey.

It pokes fun at stuff that's hard for you to at first kind of, am I really laughing at this? But then they do it in a way that you can laugh at it. But then it gets very serious. It pulls at your heartstrings. It's an emotional humanizes these villains out. Everybody's so quick to call somebody a Nazi.

Everybody's so quick to try and figure, like find that extreme of, you know, okay, so this is the most evil example I can come up with, right? But you have to realize there's still human beings and there's people that were in that situation that didn't wanna be in that situation and were playing the part of Nazi, but also having all this extra stuff

that they were dealing with to try to cope with that. Yeah, it's such a smart writing. The comedy was excellent. It's written so well that it challenges you. Wow. I'm excited to cope with that. Yeah, it's such a smart writing. The comedy was excellent. It's written so well that it challenges you. Wow, I'm excited to watch it now. And again, it pulls at your heartstrings. I mean, there's a few moments, there's a few points in the movie where you're like,

you're moved to a motion of tears. Did you, Justin, did you start watching the morning show that I talked about? I did. You liked that? So I was, somebody shared an article from Wall Street Journal with me about the show. And now that you're watching it,

you'll have to, because now I read the article, now I can't help but like pay attention and count. But on average, Apple is in 34 to 50 scenes in every episode. Like the branding of the background, everything? What? Oh, I didn't notice that.

Yeah, yeah. It's produced by Apple, right? So they, of course, I mean, would product placement everywhere. Yeah, no. So after I read the article, now I watched an episode night before last. Yeah.

And, you know, I'm like, oh shit. Now, where do you guys find the show? I'd look for it the other day and I couldn't find it. So an Apple Plus. That's the only place. Yeah. Oh, man. Yeah, no, damn, I'm like, oh shit. Now, where do you guys find the show? I'd look for it the other day and I couldn't find it. So Apple Plus. Apple Plus. That's the only place. Yeah, man. Yeah, no, damn, I gotta get everything.

Oh, it's good, dude, it's great. I mean, it's interesting how they brought up, you know, the Me Too movement and all these examples of, it's like, it's a great insight into the, like, how, you know, these massive egos going into a news cast, like how, you know, these massive egos going into a news cast like how... Well, you got dynamic words. You get a sense, and I haven't actually read on this if it was. Maybe you have Justin.

But I remember, was it loudest voices, Doug? What's the other one that I turned you guys on to? I know you watched a Doug. How do I call? Russell Crowe. A lot of his voice, right? A lot of his voice, right? That's what that one was called.

And that one was all based on true events that happened in Fox News. So now this is like a more liberal slanted show that similar type of issues were happening behind this. Is it comedy though? No. Oh, this is a serious this. Is it comedy though? No. Oh, this is a serious show. Yeah, it's more drama.

Oh, okay. Yeah, although it has bits of humor in it, but it would be considered a drama. But I feel like they're, it's like Justin said, they're kind of wrapping in the me too, that timing when that was all going on and it's called The Morning Show. And the actors and actresses are phenomenal.

And I like where it's going so far. I mean, I think four or five episodes in, and it's pretty bad. But I don't have to get into that. Yeah, it gives everybody's perspective on how all these things kind of come to, like, it's a peak in terms of bad behavior and all that. That's the only streaming service they don't have.

Gosh. Really? Yeah, I got everything already. Well, I got another one for you that I didn't know. I just keep adding because it's like screw cable. Yeah. I'll just keep adding all these next little things. You canceled cable. A long time ago, dude. Like, like, two years ago. Somebody was, I saw like a meme that was floating around that, you know, oh, this is so brilliant. All this stream that we're doing and then sooner or later someone's gonna evolve and put it all together and call it cable. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's a very, very nice thing it cable. Yeah, it's weird. No weird. Yeah, that's a very nice thing.

Oh, yeah, it's a reverse engineer. Dude, I might need an intervention. What's going on? Fucking, what you want to know? You want to know what I eat for breakfast this morning? What? So I had eight egg yolks. I had a half a pound of ground beef.

And then I had a bolserio. Wow. That was my breakfast. Look at you. I don't know what's going on next. I don't know, man. breakfast. Look at you. I don't know what you want to ask. Monster. I don't know, man. Jason cholesterol, I can't see. I don't know what's happening.

I remember I told you the weather as it gets colder. I get a little sad. It's fluffy season. Yeah, dude. Ah. I love it. It's my fair time. I gotta be careful.

Well, the fat cakes are starting to pile on a little bit, man. I embrace it. It's winter time. Put your winter coat on. I put on my pants. It's more like being strong, dude. You still look sexy, fluffy. Yeah, on. I put on my pants this morning. You're being strong, do you? You still look sexy, fluffy. Yeah, fluffy.

You say, fluffy sex. Yeah. That's what Jessica says. Yeah. She just wish it tells me, you don't look any different. I'm like, babe, I'm approximately 18 pounds heavier. It's impossible to look exact the same. No, I'm convinced all of our girls like us a little bit.

Which, you know, how funny is that though, talking about like our insecurities and why we got into fitness and stuff like that to look a certain way. And, you know, meanwhile our wives are all like, hey, I prefer you a little bit on the thicker side. Oh, it's the same on the other end, right? Like they'll gain a little bit,

but like in good places and like, yeah, you know, they're more slapable. Whoa, whoa, whoa, guy. Well, tapy tapy. Somebody had a good weekend. And it's great. You're saying, like, things move and it's great. Like it, it's fun.

You know, it's fun. You know, you have to be all musculoskeletal. It's a good nighttime, dude. Let's kill it soft. Is that what you're, it depends how you say it though. I know that. You're not like, it might be a little aggressive. You're not like, hey babe, I like it when you're a little chunky. Yeah, yeah, you got to it though. I know that. You're not like, you might be a little aggressive. You're not like, hey babe, I like it

when you're a little chunky. Yeah, you gotta dance a little bit around it. You're like, what do you say? Like, ooh, yeah, you're getting very curvaceous. I don't know, that's not how I use it. Now like, Courtney's, you know, stay at home now, is she training more often, is she use your gym? Is she go to the gym?

Like what is she, she's actually been on a massive kick with that? And it's been good because she's like, and I talked about this on my IG story a little bit that I, she basically did like a soft break up with her workout partner that she was working out with a lot and doing all these like cardio circuits and all this kind of stuff.

And she's been really consistently doing like, like maps of static and using whatever we have at our house. And I've been working out with her too, like maybe twice a week. So like, but she's been on it. And also, we just started throwing in the hip thrusts, you know, because I have like a secret agenda with that. Obviously, I mean, we had a break of chairs on here.

He showed me that book of all his success stories and I'm like, yeah, you're not doing these. Yeah. Let's, so this is a mix on top of everything else. So yeah, I'm curious to see that development. That's what I'm considering his favorite. If you ever catch her working out in here, she's always doing that.

Is it not up yet? That's great exercise. It's just like, I always don't think of it, you know, because I'm always like so squat focused. Yeah, it does bring up a good point though, that in pictures versus real life, what looks good in real life is different oftentimes than what looks good in pictures.

Like when you see someone who's like shredded in a picture, like wow, that looks really cool. When you meet them in person, it doesn't typically look that good. It doesn't look that healthy. Like, I've been shredded. My face looks gond, you know what I mean? And besides my abs and all that stuff,

it doesn't look that good. I think in reality, in real life, people prefer other people that are still healthy in the healthy fat range, but in the little bit heavier, healthy fat range, than the super shredded, healthy fat range, but in the little bit heavier healthy fat range than the super shredded healthy fat range. What do you think that is? Do you think it's because we want something

that we identify more closely with? Do you think that's why? I think it's evolutionary, dude. I think if a man that's walking around at sub 10% body fat all the time, probably less fertile. His hormones probably are less balanced. Yeah, it's a sign that he maybe doesn't have as many resources

versus a man that's to say 15% body fat, which is still healthy and still considered relatively lean. It's just not, you don't have a six pack. You've got kind of a, you don't have a big beer belly, but you don't have a six pack. Same thing with women, like a woman who's too lean, probably not fertile. And so it's that biological evolutionary thing

that you look at someone and it's like, yeah, you're shredded, but it doesn't look as good. You ever look at, like, go back. So you think it's more like we feel like they look like us, but a little bit better version of us, therefore I want to hang because you're thinking about the same sex. I'm not attracted to men, but then if I would always, right, yeah, besides that time,

yeah, listen, you know, I think, do you really think it's always evolutionary? I don't think that's why the same sex is hanging out with other people, the same sex that feel that way too. You don't look at a girlfriend and say, oh, she looks good with an extra 10 or 15 pounds on her when you're not thinking about reproducing with her. You mean like your friends? Yeah, yeah.

It's not saying. I don't know. I don't think it's just, I think it's more we, I've never really thought of that. I think it's hung out with a dude because you're not hung out with a guy like this. No, I'm not gonna hang out with you. You avoid shredded guys. Yeah. I think it's more subconscious. I think it's just like you tend to hang out with others.

You look and feel your like, but then there's a party that like them, that you're like, oh, wow, they're a little more fit. I want to obtain that or be like that. Anything that's at extreme, it makes it is like. Well, when they do this, they do the surveys on, so for women, when they do the surveys on whether or not they, what they prefer, what they call a dad bod versus shredded, like, it's a majority, it's an, actually, it's a large majority of women prefer the, you know, quote unquote, dad bod. Then when it comes for men, you know, when they do studies on what

men find visually attractive, it's about hip to waist ratio. And that is a huge, there's a huge range. You could be 50 pounds heavier, have a good hip to waist ratio. And a man is going to consider, or men will generally consider you physically attractive. You could be a lot smaller than have a good hip to waist ratio. And they found that throughout the world, that ratio is consistent. So it's got to be evolutionary. It's got to be even though some cultures consider people, you know, to be smaller, to be more

attractive or bigger, to be more attractive. But look at like the last. They should base all this off with porn searches. Whoa. Yeah. You know, like what people really attracted to. So it's weird. Yeah. I feel like someone had morning sex this morning. It's weird. I feel like someone had morning sex this morning. Yeah. Don't fucking lie, guys. No, man. No.

I'd be glowing. Yeah. I am not glowing. I got bags under the eyes. Well, yeah. No, but you actually makes a good point because porn, although porn, I don't think is, I think it's the extreme, you know, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, but then you find the somewhere in the middle, the based off the extra. Like realistic. But yeah. But I mean, I just think that it's, I mean, we come up with these standards just because we're trying to create the standards, but it's just like people are so, you know, varied across the board of what they're interested in. You know, and like, what's, they find attractive.

At the end of the day, it's, what is healthy? Is in real life, healthy, it's the matter. That's the most attractive thing. It just really is when someone life, healthy is the matter. That's the most attractive thing. It just really is when someone has physical signs of real balanced health. Generally speaking, they're gonna be considered more attractive to more people.

Now, I will say this, unhealthy people tend to find unhealthy people attractive. So if you're like super body obsessed, you're probably gonna be attracted to the more extreme, you know, body image type stuff, you know what I mean? Like, no, only like women who are really just staying in their lane. Or whatever.

You probably connect with other people that have the similar insecurities as you have. Sure, sure. Absolutely. Anyway, did you see Kanye West, looks like he's collaborating with Joel Steen? No, but well, besides that, that too, yeah. Yeah, he did a service thing or whatever I did.

Boy, yeah, I saw he's getting, you know, crucified, no pun intended for that. I see everybody just, you know, it's so... We're gonna be nasty them. It's, we're, it's an interesting time right now. Like it really is like a open season if you're a Christian, man, I tell you what, people actually... Actually, you make a good point.

They will, if he came out and was, he was about some other religion, or said he was Buddhist, or he said he was almost any other thing. It's very, it's very what's the word, politically incorrect to say things against that. Man, after Christian is the opposite. Yeah, it's unfortunate that you see that. I mean, I even noticed that with,

you know, you did a post on your Instagram of After Bishop Baron, you know, great interview too. I noticed that with, you know, you did a post on your Instagram of After Bishop Baron, you know, great interview too. I thought that was, you know, he's always one of my favorite people to talk to. And, you know, there's always a handful of people that are just triggered by that. Just a notion that we interview. And the irony is that I don't think any of them

even fucking listen to it. And then they get on there and they comment on your page about how repulsed they are by it or how fringe worthy it is. And I'm just like, I tell you what, you're missing, if you're, I don't care what you believe in. I really don't, as long as you don't hurt anybody and you're a good person,

I don't give a shit what you believe in. But you're really doing yourself a disservice by being closed-minded and not seeing if you can gain any kind of wisdom from other beliefs. I don't mean you don't have to adopt everything that the other belief is all about, but if there's millions of people following something or saying something has value, the odds are that there's probably something you could take from it. I feel like a lot of people something you could take from it. And I feel like a lot of people, they're so, like you said, Adam, so triggered and so, you know, anti that they won't even open up and say, okay, fine, I might believe all of this, but there's some stuff that I may gain some and spiritual leaders,

I don't, regardless of the religion or, you know, practice, oftentimes have a lot of, you know, very applicable wisdom, whether you're an atheist, agnostic, or Christian Muslim, whatever, there's a lot of wisdom there. So it's sad to see that, because even back when I was a hardcore atheist, I would still at least be open-minded enough to look and say, okay, what is the wisdom

that you can find in some of these practices? Like why would they fast, or why do they practice abstinence in certain situations, like why would they fast, or why do they practice abstinence in certain situations, or why do they preach silence, or what is spiritual value, and what does that mean? And I think you can find that regardless of your, there's wisdom there, like don't be so close-minded and pissed off.

Well, I just think that there's wisdom and value in diving into anything that you feel so strongly opposed to. Oh, that's a good point. So if there's something that I just believe to be true with all whether, no matter what side I'm talking about that I'm on and I believe it to be the truth the most. I think there, and I know there's some stow it quote around this, but you know, diving into the things that we believe to be the truth the most. I think there, and I know there's some stoic quote around this, but diving into the things that we believe to be true, or is probably the areas and challenging

that, I think is probably one of the most important things growing as an individual that you can do. So if you're repulsed by something, or you think it's cringe worthy, just because the thought of it, or somebody mentioning something, that, I mean, if that was me, that would make me really dive into that and unpack that. What makes me so appalled by somebody else presenting something like this, especially when it's something that, like that, that's a positive.

I mean, there's this weird notion that it's gonna deter us from progress, right? It's ancient practices and it's ancient ways of thinking and therefore we need to abandon, you know, whatever sort of like wisdom, lied in, you know, old ways of thinking and really adopt these new concepts and create these new concepts. Let's see how that's been working out for us so far. Not so great. Well, it's arrogant. It's extreme arrogance because it's as if we're considering people from thousands of years ago as entirely stupid, entirely ignorant. Now there may be things

that they were ignorant about and there may be things that they were not privy to. But there are things, there is wisdom in people from thousands of years ago too, especially if it's a practice, that's a lot. See, here's a deal. Scientists are people who support science believing evolution, which they should, right? So much evidence to support that. But there isn't, it's not just biological evolution. It's one thing we have to understand about evolution.

Yes, biology evolves. And the way that things evolve biologically is the things that work best tend to stick around and things that don't work tends to- There's trace get passed on. Tends to go away. So the best things tend to continue to pass through. And that's what happens. So what exists today is probably better suited than what maybe existed 10,000 years ago or

whatever, just because of the evolutionary process. Well, customs and behaviors also pass through an evolutionary process. So if there's things that we consider outdated and we're like, oh, fuck it, throw it all away, stop for a second, pause, look at it and say, okay, why does this exist? Why do humans live this way for thousands of years

and believe in certain things for thousands of years? These beliefs evolved because they work, or at least some of it works. That doesn't mean we shouldn't examine things and we shouldn't look at things and say, okay, maybe this doesn't work anymore, totally fine. But the idea that you throw it all away, you're being very arrogant.

It's a very, very arrogant way of living, and you're gonna hurt yourself that way, or cause a lot of problems. Especially when you've only been on this earth for 40 or 50 years. Yeah, it's just like, or younger, you know? It's crazy to me. But anyway, he's Kanye is collaborating

with Dr. Dre, dude. Oh, he's on his second. There's a powerful album. Do you owe right there? Really? I can. Have they ever worked together? I don't think so.

That's... I'm pretty sure because Kanye has been able to like, basically construct his own beads and put everything together himself, producing himself. Wow. Now, are they announcing what the album is gonna be? Jesus is King too. Oh no, shit.

Yeah, they're doing part two of the Jesus is King. Oh no, shit. Now Kanye is releasing a, Jesus is born album on Christmas, which is separate, but then he's gonna do part two of the one he just dropped with Dr. Dre. That is gonna be one of the biggest collaborations. Now, what are your thoughts on the people?

There's a large portion of the population right now that are just like, oh Kanye is taking advantage of, it's an opportunity to make a lot of money. You know what's funny about that? So part of me is like, oh I could see that. I can understand what it's like. Yeah, if he comes totally cash in on that. But here's the other part of me.

Let's reverse for a second. Now it's easy to say that because Kanye's album hit number one in his crushing. Let's go back five years, let's go back three years. If an artist were to say, you know what I think I'm gonna do? I'm gonna come out with a Christian album. Everybody be like, you're an idiot, you're not gonna make any fucking money. To the point where most people that are are actually still go in the secular section

because they know that it's suicide. That's right, so I don't think he did it for money. I think he made money because it's good music It's good album and the guys obviously a genius when it comes to music But I don't think I don't think he was thinking hmm what's gonna make me a lot of money I'm gonna come out with a Christian album that is not a way to make money And he's kind of always been like the ultimate contrarian like even with fashion and different things like that where You know, he'll he'll spot something that like people might people might, there's no way they'd rock it

and he'll do it. He has that kind of, he'll just put himself out there like that and he's always had that. No, Concernion is a great word for him, I think that's great. He's been doing these free, whatever you want to call him, concerts or performances at churches and people are paying to come watch them. All the money is getting donated to charities.

That's fantastic. And then he recently did a surprise concert at a, forgot what prison it was, but he showed up and did this for a bunch of inmates and let a prayer with all of them, whatever. It seems to me, seems genuine. Now here's a deal. He's, Kanye's got one of the biggest egos of all time. So I don't know the guy, but it seems interesting to me seems genuine. Now here's a deal. He's Connie's got one of the biggest egos of all time.

So I don't know the guy, but it seems interesting to me at the very least. And the fact that he's working with Dr. Dre, that's like two of the most brilliant people in music that I can think of. Like two, it's in the hip hop community for sure. Oh, just period. I mean, can you think of two, another collaboration that sounds more? No, no, no. Well, you just see what an impact it's making on the culture. You know, it's very interesting to watch, you know, how like the swing is starting to come back in a different direction. Now, do we know the release date

when it's supposed to potentially know? No, just right now we know the collaborate. Yeah, it was like a picture of them together. You know, we're working on the next album and whatever, so it's gonna be kind of interesting. Anyway, I was reading up on, you guys saw Organifies New Product Move. Yeah.

So. Yeah, I've been using it. Now, it's replacing completely their, their turmeric line, right? Yes. Okay. But it's got other stuff in there. It's got Pine Bark extract in there.

It's got Holy Basil in there. It's got Holy Basil. I've been waiting to say. I saw that on there, not like immediately in my head. As the Xanthin is in there. It's called holy basil. I've been waiting to say that. I saw that on there, not like immediately in my head. As the xanthin is in there. So transitions from the holy top. I love it. So Pine bark is really interesting. Pipe, but pick noginol is one of the active ingredients in Pine bark. Now, I was very happy to see that they put this in their product. Pick noginol is one of those other rare things out there that actually legit boosts nitric oxide.

In fact, I used to take it back in the day as part of a pre-workout regime that I would do. It actually legitimately works for that. It's got great effects for asthma and inflammation. And this is actually proven in some studies. So if you take Pine barkark extract before allergy season, your instance of getting allergies goes down significantly. Really?

Yes. And then there was another study that showed that PineBark extract has a positive effect on boys with ADD and ADHD. That's just one of the ingredients. That's interesting. Yeah, and I like that they put that in there, but it's reminding me about that supplement.

I haven't taken it for a long time. Yeah, the bulk of it I'm assuming is turmeric. So I mean, though, I guess that's the large thing. It's got a pretty good mix. It's got 300 milligrams of the turmeric extract. It's got 100 milligrams of arctic pine, which is a decent dose. It's got six milligrams of astasanthin,

and then holy basil, that's at 100 milligrams, and that's just for one serving. So this is a legit product. Now that was, you mentioned something that I didn't learn until later on, how much that could benefit me is, when allergy season kicks up, is understanding how you are systemically inflamed from that, right?

And taking things like turmeric or supplements like that and or in conjunction staying away from inflammatory foods, how much that can impact, how bad your allergies feel. I notice a huge difference. In fact, I try and like, those are days like I like to intermit fat to talk about different ways to, you know, intermitently throw in fasting. One of my ways of doing that also is again,

is when I know that it's really bad allergy, like that week or it's gonna be bad, that's another great time for me to throw something like fasting or include things like turmeric or supplements like that in my diet. That's a great idea. And you know, I noticed I've started practicing that just a few years ago and it makes a big difference. Now it's hard to say because I don't know exactly how I would feel that day, but I've had allergies long enough and know when a bad day is coming, the symptoms that I get and how debilitating it can feel. And so me fasting and throwing in things like tumor, can stuff into my diet around those

times totally helps. Well, as you along those lines of diet, this just came out on the 15th of November. This is from Yale University. A bit shocking. It's not in a bad way. Just interesting. I don't realize that diet could have this much of an effect on influenza. A bit shocking. It's not in a bad way. Just interesting. I don't realize that diet could have this much of an effect on influenza.

So we're in the middle of flu season, right? When people start getting, and by the way, the flu has been calling me. I'm in for your show. No. But by the way, the flu has killed. I was doing reading on just influenza in boy. That influenza has killed so many people. It's absolutely, at one point it killed like one of every three people.

You know, in the world, it's insane. And it's just as scary virus. And even if it doesn't kill you, it just makes it feel like complete shit. Well, believe it or not, how you eat can actually maybe help your body fight the flu. So they found in this study that a ketogenic diet, believe it or not, reduced the rate at which mice got infected with the flu and the ones who did get the flu were able to fight it off better because they were on a keto diet. And in this study, they talk about how the keto diet activates a subset of T cells in the

lungs that are associated with your immune system's response to influenza, enhancing mucus production from airway cells that effectively will trap the virus. So they think that's one of the reasons why it works. Wow, interesting. So the keto diet. Yeah, so the keto diet, in at least the study with mice, was a great diet for the flu. That's good to know for somebody who's afraid of getting like really bad flu. Now is it the higher amounts of fat and the reduction of carbohydrates? Is it the caloric difference you think? Because like,

you think I can get the same benefits from potentially fasting. What do you do? That's a good question. Well, fasting probably, right? Because fasting can kick your body into ketosis. I think it was the ketosis that did it. Because it was specifically a ketogenic diet that they fed the mice. But how crazy is that, right?

Yeah, but this is also, this is what I really like to like, when stuff like this comes out, this is the stuff I like to share with clients and how to use a lot of these different tools, like intermittent fasting and the ketogenic diet. Unfortunately, they get popular because of fat loss and muscle building, and we focus so much on that, but what a great way to use tools like this for seasons. But definitely, yes. And now think about it, right?

Think about it. When would humans be more likely to eat a diet that is closer to? Exactly. Yeah. Because plants are not easily accessible, you're probably gonna survive off of meat in fat. Fat sources. And so you're gonna be in it. So it's almost like your body, it's like a natural part of that, your body's ability

to fight. A virus that tends to pop up during the winter season. So you think that in combination too with like feeling the onset of like feeling like a little bit depressed and down, like jumping in the sauna is having benefits to that too, getting your core temperature. Oh, yeah. The sauna is another one. I mean, it stimulates a fever and it probably strengthens you.

Now, the sauna's got way more study supporting it in terms of helping your not viruses. Yeah, that kind of stuff. Yeah, there's some really interesting research on, what do they call, what is it, temperature? Contrast. Yeah, contrast therapy, which would be like, cold dip or going in a sauna. Also, along those lines of diet, right?

So there's been a lot of controversy around, game changers and veganism and this and that. And I've been, people are still bringing it up. I know. So funny. Anyway, so I've been readingism and this and that. And I've been, you know, people are still bringing it up. I know. So funny. Anyway, so I've been reading all these articles and stuff. And this is interesting to me. So now this is, this is not controversial, okay?

But if we were hunter-gatherers, going vegan would kill you. That's a, that's not a, probably kill you. This is not a controversial statement. It's a fact. Modern life has afforded us the ability to go vegan if we want to because we can have a wide variety of readily available year round. Yeah, high, you know, calorically dense or nutrient dense vegetables and plants that we can combine. But in nature without agriculture without all that stuff, you're walking around. You just wouldn't get enough calories. By saying you know, walk upon a, you know, a field of whatever. So then I read something else that was interesting. I did not know this.

Did you know that wild almonds are for the most part deadly? Do you guys know that? Really? Wild almonds. Yes. So today, this is even true today, consuming even 50 wild almonds could potentially kill an adult. What? Yes, so we've farmed almonds to become not bitter

and to become sweet and to have low or no levels of, you know, deadly, what would even consider deadly poisons. For example, wild almonds will have a little bit of cyanide in them. And we've actually, yes, so over time, farmers basic arsenic with the arsenic, sorry, that's yeah, yeah, yeah, actually, yes, so over time, farmers are like arsenic with... Arsenic, sorry, that's, yeah, yeah, yep, yep, yep. So, yeah, apples have that.

Yeah, so over time, farmers have domesticated almond trees to produce these sweet seeds, but through crossbreeding over so many years, is that way? Yeah, we just bred them that way. It's like breeding, yeah. How many people had a die on the way to that? But the wild-

All right, so, oh, crossbreeding with this one, that didn't work. But why I mean, we've done that with a lot of plants. Yeah. Well, we've we've turned them into, you know, being able to produce, you know, to more of the fruit, something that we can eat, right? Look at that. Bitter almonds may yield four to nine milligrams of hydrogen cyanide per almond and contain 42 times higher amounts of cyanide than the trace levels found in sweet almonds. Interesting. Eating such almonds could result in vertigo and other typical bitter almond poisoning effects.

Isn't that crazy? So where would you even find a wild almond tree? That's how I was like. I didn't even think about it because my mom actually grew up on an almond ranch and the almond or almond. Yes, she called them amines grew up on an almond ranch. And almond or almond. Yes, she called them amines. Yeah.

What is an amine going? I don't know. Like that's, apparently that's what they call it. Like almonds become amines for some reason. Like this one to be cool. Is this where you developed your passion for skinny dipped almonds or almonds and donuts? It's probably, I could probably trace it back.

It's in my DNA. Yeah, that's a lot. Really drawn to almonds. But isn't that weird? So here you are, you're out in the wild. You're like, I'm gonna survive off of plants. Oh my God, I look wild, almond tree. Oh, this is safe.

Had a John die. It's a safe. What the fuck happened to John? Well, I didn't even. I didn't even realize that there was two. Yeah, cyanide. It's crazy. A sweet and a bitter type.

Like I've, I don't think I've ever had a bitter cyanide. That's crazy. A sweet and a bitter type. I don't think I've ever had a bitter almond before. That's interesting. I know, right? You and your random studies. Yeah, I love it. Isn't that cool? Well, here's another one on diet.

This is another interesting study on diet. I'm gonna bring it up because I don't want to miss, represent it, but this one's really fascinating. Oh, here we go. So this was published November 18th, 2019, from Brigham and Women's Hospital. So investigators found that eating a healthy diet may reduce the risk of acquiring hearing loss. Believe it or not. So eating a healthy diet, they've now connected to a slower loss in hearing as you age. So not only does a healthy diet,

you keep your leaner, good for heart health, reduce cancer risk, but other stuff like hearing loss. Like if you be a healthy diet, you're less likely to have that hearing loss. So if you were to be a... How does that affect hearing? Well, this is what they theorize. They theorize things like long chain fatty,

omega-3 fatty acids, other types of nutrients like beta carotene, caratonoids, just the fact that healthy foods just are healthier and have nutrients or contain nutrients that are better for your body. We're more... What a nice transition from the almonds because you can find that in almonds, right? What?

The omega, your omega, as you can also... Just the healthy fat, yeah, omega's, I mean, almonds are very healthy. Yeah food It's probably one of the best one of the healthiest snacks you should have until skinny dip could be a new tagline Each are almost don't go deaf So you guys know that the Airbnb's been under some bit of fire recently in terms of like whatever The shoe tax dotting. Oh, they're shooting that too, right? They're shooting that long ago.

Well, they're making a push right now to sponsor the Olympics, the next five Olympics, for 500 million. What? Yeah. And I think this is like a big public kind of like trying to like help their, their, the look of the brand and everything. And what they're doing too, which is kind of interesting with this, is providing opportunities for some of the athletes to kind of cash in on experiences through like renting through

Airbnb and so they plan like, if it's somebody that's running an event, they're planning like run with me through the city or like learn boxing with so and so and like all this you know tied into the Airbnb they're staying at and they have like all these like pop-ups with these athletes which is interesting because it's also think about how much money like these athletes aren't getting paid anything until after they're done maybe if they're lucky and they're popular with sponsors they don't make anything. I'm just I'm fascinated by their business model period.

When we started shopping around for properties, it's about that. When we were looking at Airbnb, I started digging around their business model. I didn't realize how much money somebody can make as just what they call a host. You can, in what a cool part-time gig or if you're a stay-at-home mom, it's a very uberesque type of model where I can sign up for this and I can be a host for wherever I live in my area, pick like 10 homes that are rented out. And so you go let people in and keep tabs

or like a manager or a proper, you're like, and it's funny, after I read that it made sense because we've stayed at so many Airbnb's and VRBOs traveling with Mind Pump and we've had this before where you know, remember when we were at the Hollywood house and they had like one of those crazy remotes that turned on the sauna the TV they control everything and we couldn't figure it out and somebody shows up to the house They're not the owner of the house, but they're like a hostess. They're that's kind of their job is to make sure that people like us that come and rent the property

have a pleasant experience. We don't get locked out. Yada, yada, yada. But you can do that as like a little side gig. And they get paid decent, I think. Sure. Airbnb is got to scare the shit out of these hotels and these big, they've got to be shaking in their boots

because I mean, I don't think it'll kill them. I think there's always going to be a place for the hotel experience, but for sure they're dipping into their pockets, 100%, it's got to be frightening. So I have an old client and who's a friend of mine who their family is in the hotel business. And so one of the things that she's,

in fact, we were just talking about this last week, she's looking into doing and what they're trying to do to pivot and handle this is creating more of a unique experience at the hotel. So being more like these smaller, you know, 50 to 100 room hotels that create more of a Airbnb, Airbnb type of experience

or just a unique experience in itself, whether there'd be like entertainment that's in there, it's kind of got like a swanky lounge in there, but attracting people to the hotel for other reasons than just staying there in the nice rooms is where they're gonna have to pivot to. And so I think we're gonna see the hotels that do survive, we'll probably start seeing more of these kind of

boutique-esque type of hotels. So cool. I know, I think it's- I love this sharing economy. I really love it. My cousins live in the city. None of them own a car. When they want to rent a car,

they don't go through the big car rental agencies. There's apps and they literally will go up to some dudes or women's garage or parking spot or whatever. They're the app on the phone opens the car, they get in there and they drive away. I think that one is crazy to me. That's such a wild. So you say, if you own a car and you live in the city, you're not going to drive it that often.

Why not rent it when it's just sharing economy? What this is doing is it's giving everyday people access or more everyday people access to luxury items or expensive items, like before, imagine trying to rent a big old mansion, how much it would cost or a big old house. Through Airbnb, you're saving money if you count the rooms and all the people you can fit in there.

I think it's neat what the job opportunities that it's creating for people. Oh, it's huge. I mean, I imagine being a teenage kid now, like for sure, we'd be doing Uber and DoorDash and like on the, as a side hustle, like what a cool thing that you can, how many, how many cool jobs can you write when you start basically dictate your schedule and work as much as you want to work to me? I mean, that's pretty rad. If you're, if you are a college student and you need to make some money and, you know, all these jobs are saying, oh, we need you 9 to 5 or the shift from

4 to 8. You know, like, oh, I have this class. Oh, but what I can do is I can uber or door dash between those two hours, shut it down, go back to school, then come back three hours later, work one hour, like, and still make a little bit of money. Like, that's really cool to me. Shhh. Shhh. Shhh. Quick call. I'm going to fly everything. Max.

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It's the motherfucking car! An eagle is landed! Quikwa. First question is from KCI and Wojo. Can you go deeper into what a D-Load week looks like? How to incorporate it into your programming and the purpose and benefits of doing so. Now before we do that, D-load. I'd like to hear your guys' opinion on how important you think this is for the majority. Like how many people really need a D-load week?

Do you think when you think about all of your clients that you've trained and the average person that's going to the... Consistencies always the biggest hurdle for clients to begin with. Well, yeah, the value, I mean, that's a tough question because when I would train a client, I would go based off of their feedback and I'd know when I'd need to train them easier or lighter, lower the intensity of that type of thing, which is essentially what a D-load week is. It's, you're doing what the D-load week is, you're reducing the intensity among other things, that's the main thing of the workout, but you're still working out. Now why the big question is why is a D-load week better than just not doing anything?

Like if I need to rest, why don't I do anything? Why don't I just sit around and do nothing? Or why don't I just be active? You can just be active and that's better than doing nothing. But the value of doing a D-load week is that you're allowing your body to rest, but you're still training the movements. You see, you want to practice movements consistently, but to give your body the capability, the capability to recover and adapt. And you think, well, why is it important to continue practicing the movement? Because you're only in on that signal.

Yeah, and you lose your ability to do the movement exceptionally well when you stop even for a week. So it's like practicing throwing a football, maybe you don't throw it as hard, but you still practice throwing it, because you want to always remember that skill, always keep it cemented into your brain. So that's one of the big values

of an actual structured D-Load Week. The other value is moving, even when you reduce the intensity, moving actually facilitates recovery better than not moving at all. Yeah, I think like it, when I think of a structured D-load week and when and how to do it, I typically think of,

like for example, I'm running Maps Power Live right now. And the way the program is designed is like week over week, I am scaling volume, adding, adding, adding. Now I'm guessing that towards the end of this program, I will have definitely, I'll definitely be stretching myself and have a pretty, and I'm also pushing heavier weight, heavier weight, heavier weight, including an increasing overall volume. So there's a good chance that after I finished the program, it would be ideal to probably, scale back on the intensity and or volume for about a week, but like you said, still practice.

Now the other way that I think I've used, you know, de-loading for clients is actually more for the client who is, they are attracted to the high intensity training like the orange theories and the, you know, those circuit based type of classes that are high intensity for an hour and they've been doing that consistently and they have a ton of stress throughout their day because of work, they work long hours and they have a very important job

and responsible for a lot of things or a lot of stuff going on with their family and they're just getting an overload of stress and that can happen and build up in a matter of stuff going on with their family. And they're just getting an overload of stress. And that can happen and build up in a matter of just a week. They don't have to necessarily be have consistently been lifting for months on months of scaling volume.

They could just be throwing a lot at the body all at one time stress wise. And as a trainer, I could see that and feel that from the feedback that they're giving me when I'm talking to them to Salis Point. And so then I would do like a quote unquote deload week with them and say, hey, you know, see that and feel that from the feedback that they're giving me when I'm talking to them to Salis Point. And so then I would do like a quote unquote, de-load week with them and say, Hey, you know, let's do this.

Let's scale back on some of the intense training that we're doing. Let's do straight sets with longer rest periods. Let's maybe take that that fourth or fifth day off in the gym. I want you to replace it with something like yoga or just go for a nice walk or hike that day. And so as a trainer, that's kind of how I think I would say I use de-loading on the average client. Because not a lot of people are training like some of our power lifter friends or somebody who is a bodybuilder. If you're one of those people, I would say programming a de-load weekend, knowing that you're scaling up, scaling up, scaling up week over week, week over week consistent, not missing, that makes more sense.

Yeah, I think it definitely depends on the time length of training. Like, I don't really anticipate a deload week with a beginner that we're trying to establish, like the routine and we're progressively overloading continuously from a baseline where this is where we're starting from and we need to increase your skill set, we need to get adapted towards how you respond to lifting weights in this direction. And we can always alter the weight based off in intensity.

I'm gonna play with that, but I'm still trying to scale you up to a point where you're like self-sufficient and like your body is pretty well adapted to weight training. And then after that, now we intensify it further, we get into like the intermediate to advanced and you're doing like a powerlifting program and you are like really stretching yourself. Like that's where I doing like a powerlifting program and you are really stretching yourself.

That's where I feel like a good, de-load week will tell you, man, yeah, we need to now recover. Yeah, we tend to think of working now because training exercise has a lot of different values. But the main one that we tend to focus on is on its ability to force your body to adapt. You're breaking things down, you're pushing your body, you're stressing your body getting

it to adapt. And that's definitely one of the values of exercise. But exercise can also be restorative, which is different. Restorative exercise isn't aiming to break the body down. It's not aiming to force the body to adapt. Restored of exercise is literally, like the word says, helping you restore your own natural abilities, helping you feel better

and recover. I've been through periods of my life where stress was very, very high. During those periods of time, I was not working out in the gym, trying to push my body to build muscle or get stronger. I was going in the gym to keep myself healthy, to keep things feeling good,

to help alleviate stress, not to add stress, because exercise, when you're pushing your body to adapt, you're actually adding stress on your body. Not a bad thing when you do it right, by the way, but that is what you're doing. But if your stress is always, it's already at a top level your body's already having trouble adapting to the stress that's being placed upon it.

Sometimes you wanna do something and you exercise a good way to do this, you throw something on it that helps your body deal with the stress, which is restorative. And that's what a de-load week is supposed to be. When you go into a de-load week, it's an easier week of exercise meant to have restorative effects on the body,

not meant to push your body to adapt like your other workouts to it. And when you say that, that's probably the most common thing, right? I just feel like, and no one knows this answer better than you who's listening. You know, what is it been a crazy week for you? Have you been, you know, burning the candle

with both ends at work and you've got family stress going on? And then on top of that, you've got this personal fitness goal you've been, you know, cracking away at every week over week and you've been consistent with, you know, learning to become aware of that yourself and knowing that, hey, maybe this week of my workouts is not gonna look crazy intense, maybe this week's workouts are.

I'm gonna practice the skill of moving better or doing things like yoga and more mobility and stretching type work. You know, you have to learn to do it. And as trainers and coaches, I mean, it was our job to try and to read that by asking the right questions from clients like, Hey, how was your work? How was sleep last night? You can tell sometimes once you've been training for someone for like a few years or

their eyes. And they'd walk in the gym and I'd look at it and be like, yeah, today's going to be a restorative, you know, deload workout. So, but now here's a deal. It's hard. This is a process of learning yourself because here's what happens. Some people will be like, I don't know when I need a delo learning yourself because here's what happens. Some people will be like, I don't know when I need a de-load week because sometimes when I'm really stressed and tired, going into a really hard workout makes me feel better.

And so they're kind of misreading the signals. In which case I would say this, it's probably a good idea to schedule de-load weeks when you're just learning how to read your body or if you have a history of overdoing it. If you're the kind of person that just either ignores the signals willfully or you just not able to read them very well, structure in your workout, a de-load week. And typically, for some people, it's once every

four weeks, once every six weeks, maybe once every nine weeks where you have a week that's in your schedule and you know no matter how you feel, I'm going to go to the gym and that whole week is going to be a deload week. That whole week is going to be easier, that whole week is going to be focused on restorative type exercise, even regardless of how I feel. And if you do it that way, if you structure it that way, you may prevent ever having to do it or forcing you know needing to be in that position in the first place. Well, and when you go that route, or forcing, you know, needing to be in that position in the first place. Well, and when you go that route,

trying to connect the dots with the other aspects of your life besides your performance goals in the gym, right? So obviously when you're deloting, you're not gonna see, you know, bench press go up, you're not gonna see you get the most shredded you've ever had or see major progress. Look at the other things in your life. You're sleep, how is that going?

Your energy levels throughout the day, any sort of cravings you may or may not have. Pay attention at the performance at work. Like think about the benefits that you're getting overall health from that de-load week. And sometimes we get so myopic about, oh, this is my fitness goal. And you know, how's this de-load week gonna,

you know, serve my, you know, big fitness goal that I have. And then you go, oh man, I took that week off and I didn't get stronger, I didn't get leaner. It's okay, those aren't the only things that you should be paying attention to, pay attention to the other aspects of your life and how that D-load week serves you. And then you just learn to kind of do it more

on the floor. Here's a good sign that a D-load week was what you needed. When you come back and you have better workouts's a good sign that a D-load week was what you needed. When you come back and you have better workouts. When you come back after a D-load week and you're like, whoa, I feel good, man, I feel strong, I feel less pain or whatever, then you know, okay, that was something that I was needed. Next question is from Tiffy Leap. How does one develop side glutes?

I have a weird concave between my leg and hip instead of the side glutes being round. Side butt. I did a YouTube video on this. Yeah, build that side butt. What did you do in the video? We should link that in the show now. Yeah, I'm trying to write, so I think I did

lateral tube walks, I did sumo deadlift. I'm not a big curtsy lunch guy, but that is something that you could definitely do. I don't remember all the stuff I did there, but honestly, actually, the Sumo deadlift is one of my favorite things to teach to somebody trying to do that, just because of the extra ... You've got to push out. Yeah, you got to know that that's what that's responsible for. And this is actually really common.

A lot of people, the side butt or side glute becomes really dormant because we don't do a lot of things laterally or moving in different planes as we get older. And so we just, we lose that good connection there. And so then when you do an exercise like squats or hip thrust or some of these traditional movements that should develop the entire butt, that part of the glute is kind of and I hate saying turned off because it's not completely turned off. It's less dominant and you're not getting a lot of extra help like you should from there. And knowing to open up your knees or push your knees out, which is why it's really popular.

So I did another YouTube video that will go live. It's not live yet. On the... Hip circle? Yeah, the hips, thank you. Yeah, that's a hip thrust. Yeah, so the hip... This is what's great about using the hip thrust,

the hip circle, four things like the hip thrust, deadlifting, and squatting, is that because the band is pushing your knees in, you have to fight against the band and push the knees out, that's your side butt that does that. So it forces you to turn that on while you do a movement like squatting, like deadlifting or like hip thrusting. So this is where this tool is a really beneficial tool

to help somebody engage that part of their butt while they're doing these traditional movements. But like I talk about in this upcoming YouTube video, it's a tool, use it that way, to get reconnected to that area and utilize it, but learn to do it without the bands so you don't have to use a band forever. Yeah, the side butts referring to, so when you look at the glute complex, that's like the butt, the whole butt cheek, right? There's actually more than just one muscle, it's three.

You have the gluteus maximus, which is the big, meat part of the butt, and then on the side, you have the gluteus, medius, and the gluteus, minimus, which are kind of sit on the top side of the butt, and then one that's right on the side of the butt. And they're actually small muscles, and they stabilize the glutes, they actually stabilize the gluteus maximus,

they help when you squat and you leg thrusts and lunges, but they also bring the leg out in what's called abduction or lateral. So if you're standing, if you're confused the words I'm using here, if you're standing up and you just bring your leg out to the side, like you're gonna do a karate kick while keeping your foot pointing straight.

You're activating among other things, those muscles on the side of your glutes. So exercises that work on that function, help work those muscles. Now we'll say this, they're small muscles. So if you go to the gym, you're like, you know what, I wear a work on my side butt, so I'm not gonna do any more hip thrust.

I'm not gonna do any more squats. I'm gonna do all the abduction machine, you know, AK. Dog peas. Yeah, dog peas, the good girl, bad girl machine, all that stuff. Side karate kicks. You'll actually lose size and roundness and firmness to your glutes because you're going to sacrifice working the big meaty part of the glute for the smaller part. So what Adam's talking about is just being able to feel them when you're doing the big exercises.

So one way you could do it. Now a hip circle is basically a band. So you can either buy a hip circle or you can get yourself a resistance band and tie it around your legs. This is what I used to do with my clients. This is before I knew hip circles existed. I would take a resistance band, put it on my clients knees and tell them, all right, push your knees apart while squatting. That way we could activate those muscles and you can kind of feel them a little bit. It's not making it necessarily making the squat more effective for those muscles. It's making you feel those muscles more so that when you do your squats, they do become more effective for those for those areas. So that's kind of one way you could do it. Abduction machines or abduction in general, like two-bawking. That's another way to do it. What thing I recommend is this.

If you have a weakness or a weak area or part of your body, train that first, then go to all your big movements. So this is one of the few times, and I'll tell someone to do a small movement before they do their big squats and lunges and thrust. Go ahead and do your two-walking. Go ahead and do your abduction machine, do your exercises that kind of activate those muscles,

then go do your barbell squats and your hip thrust, but stay mindful of those area, that area that you're trying to feel and work on, and do it before every single leg workout, we call it priming, right? Before every leg workout, do that to target those areas, and then watch what happens to your, this is one of the things I love about resistance training. It's like a sculptor. So it's the only form of exercise where you could

specifically target parts your body and sculpt it as you see fit, of course, with limitations. And this is one way to do it. Next question is from Joyful JJ. I have hyper-mobile hip joints that have led me to have terrible recruitment patterns in my lower body. I try to strengthen the muscles around my hips, but I still feel like I'm not able to engage them correctly. What can I do to fix this? This isn't another... Who picked this? That was a good question. I did.

So the kudos to you. This isn't normally a good Justin question, because Justin is a big isometric guy. Isometric is. Yep, and this is a great great way to Incorporate isometrics and I think why it's such an underrated tool in our space so I would definitely incorporate some of that That's the first thing that comes in mind. Oh, I remember the first time I had a client who was actually hyper-mobile. And the reason why I remember is because it's way less common than a person who's tight. The average person is tight.

So when I was a trainer, my first became a trainer, I'd get clients. And almost every single one of them, I had to work on improving their mobility, the range of motion, getting them to be able to squat deeper, loosening up their up their hamstrings and their hip flexors and their hips and their shoulders. And then I remember I got this one client that, and I didn't know that this was a problem because I was a new trainer. So I had this one client. I did my assessment. I'm like, whoa, you're super flexible. This is going to be easy. It's going to be great. Like you can, like you could, you could fold your body in half. You could, like your form looks perfect. Yeah. Oh, yeah.. You could totally move and everything.

And then we would train and everything would hurt. Yeah. And I'd be like, this is very strange. Why is everything hurting? And luckily, I had another friend of mine who was a trainer who was also a physical therapist and they explained to me that having the extreme range of emotion without strength is just as bad.

It causes instability. And so the way I train this person, this is the way I always approach this, because I've had, since then, I've had several clients who are hyper-mobile, is very different than the way I train other people. So other people, I'm constantly challenging range of motion. I'm constantly trying to get them to be able to squat deeper.

Of course, everything with good form, not stuff. With a person like this, I stopped them from full range of motion. So when I have someone like this, we're not squatting, ass to grass. I'm stopping them a little bit. I'm letting them go past parallel just a little bit. Pause there, hold this squat, come up real slow.

Now go back down, stop, and I would have to tell them where to stop the rep. I would not let their flexibility determine where to stop the rep. We'd have to go lighter, and we'd have to keep lots and lots of tension and go slow. And then over time, we rebuild stability in their body, but it's a very different approach.

It's stability training too. Yeah. Like someone like this that's in their hips, I think right away, like single leg toe touches is such a great move for that person, and you don't need to do it holding very much weight whatsoever. And it's back to what Sal and I know what Justin will go towards, which is the isometric stuff is you move them all the way down.

You get them to that point that you want to stop them at. And in that point, you have them hold like an isometric pose there for a second, maybe five seconds, and then come back out of the wrap and then move back down and just work on stability and isometric together. You know? Yeah, it's a totally different way of approaching reps too. So like, there's gonna be less reps

because it's very taxing when you're trying to irradiate this muscular tension throughout your body and just basically meaning like you're squeezing all these muscles and really trying to fuel your way through where, you know, you may have a loss in terms of, like I can drop into that position, but I'm not necessarily, you know, tight and strong in that position. So I would work in one of these techniques that was really drawn to like the stick mobility

guys and what they're doing with adding in isometric components to it. There was a way to add and we did a video on this long time ago called the Dumpy Squat. But the concept there was really to then add more muscular tension even with the upper body getting involved in squatting. And so this was a way to push up and create you actually feel like your muscles get that tension get tight and that kind of cascading down into the hips. And so as you slowly lower, you could just feel this resistance through your body. So I'm going down real slow. I'm feeling that resistance and that tightness. If I feel at all, there's a loss in that tightness, I'm going to stop right there.

And then we're going to squeeze. Like you said, we're going to go ahead and hold like for that five second hold to try and reestablish that connectivity there. Like there's a drop and that's where the instability, you know, that's a problem to where if I'm in this and I can't get out of it with strength, that's an issue. What a great video you just referenced that should definitely be linked in the show notes, especially for this person, for someone who's got hypermobile hips, the Dumpfee squat would be fantastic.

So I can always tell a client, because they, especially with squatting in their hypermobile is their legs kind of flop everywhere when they drop, they can drop all the way down, ask the grass, but the knees are wobbly all over in and out of the squat and you could tell. Even if their form looks good, when you watch somebody who's hypermobile,

even if everything looks kind of perfect, you can tell that they're losing tension the whole time. You can just see them move through the squat and it's as if they're not tight intense. So this is the thing. Do your exercises. Don't let your body tell you how deep to go with the movements. Stop just a little bit before you know you could go any deeper and then stay tight with everything.

And then here's the good news. For people who are hyper-mobile, you start building muscle. It's really a great solution. You pack muscle on someone's hyper-mobile and they really start to solve a lot of problems. Yeah, and just reminding me and Joe DeFranco, certain like they're talking about either need a mobilizer stabilizes. So this would be it like on that side of needing to stabilize. Right. Next question is from Kyler Carpenter. What's the most memorable client that you have ever had? Oh boy. You know, I've trained, I have a few that pop up to mind immediately.

I've trained a lot of people. I've trained, I don't know, probably one on one, a hundred or more and then through proxy thousands, right, meaning through trainers that have worked for me or in gyms that I've managed. But there's a few that pop up. The ones that I think about immediately are the ones that became trainers themselves. So one lady I trained, Nicole, she was actually the first client

that I got when I started my personal training studio. My very, very first studio was in the back of a tanning salon. I rented a space in the back. She was in there. She was on cardio, doing cardio. My very first day of having the place, I walked up to her and introduced myself. She hired me. She'd never worked with a trainer before.

Then we became, you know, I trained her for a little longer after that. She got so interested in fitness that she became a trainer and then was a trainer in my facility. So that's why that was so memorable to me. Another kid Colin, he was actually here for the Joe DeFranco certification. I trained his parents Martin and Annette. I trained them for years He was like I want wanna say six or seven when I started training them. So they would bring him in and he was this cute little kid,

you know, come in and hang out or whatever and I hang out with them, play with them. Then as he got a little older, his mom and dad hired me to train him. How crazy they're in there. And he didn't even hear for a certification. And he became a trainer and now he's in here, you know, getting a certification.

And so that's, you know, super mobile, super memorable, I should say. Carol, she's the longest client that I ever trained. Carol was, you know, older when I first started training or she's got to be now in her late 70s. But I trained her for 13 years, every Monday at 3 p.m. Every Monday at 3 p.m. I trained her say 13 years, every Monday at 3pm, every Monday at 3pm, I trained her for 13 years. And she almost never, the only time we missed workouts was when I canceled because I had to go on vacation or something like that.

And she had a big picture of me in her house and people thought, you know, that was her son that come in and be like, you know, it's a nice picture. So that's just my trainer's out. That's great. That's what you know you've made it as a trainer, right when you made the the mantle. Yeah She was it was really hard to tell her I wasn't gonna train anymore. I picture like a big picture like the cramer the big Cramer picture, but a fire of Sal. Look at that. This is a big ass fucking cringot. You know, it was really hard to tell her that I wasn't gonna train

anymore when my pump was started growing and I sold my facility or whatever. And I remember telling her, she knew too. She's like, well, I knew this would happen when they are whatever. And it was so hard to say that, say bye to her that way or whatever. And then I've got the clients who lost lots of weight

and all that stuff. You wanna get one? Yeah, as you can see, he's like on seven right now. I feel like I'm leaving him over there. Yeah, I've had a lot of like, it really impactful clients and it's really hard to reduce it down to one.

I mean, I do still occasionally, like I'll train, you know, this client of mine because she has made such a massive impact on my life in all kinds of different ways. Business-wise, just overall, the character that she exudes as a human being is just admirable. The type of network she has is unreal in terms of ex-presidents and people amongst the top tier companies out there, like, you know, work side by side with Steve Jobs

and like I was training her in like sessions where there was a conference call which is her and Steve Jobs, I had to be super silent and not, you know, say anything. She probably said, don't say that. She probably, I don't tell anybody Justin. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. And now I tell everybody, she doesn't work there anymore. It's like it's all good. He's passed away, I think you're okay. I'm not revealing anything, anybody doesn't know. But yeah, no, it was crazy. To watch that lifestyle was just, I couldn't understand how she was able to manage all these things and be a good person and be, you know, have this, like philanthropy and like trying to make an impact in the world for the

better. And so anyways, I just admire the hell out of her. And, you know, and she, she reveres me the same in terms of being able to be a, you know, an integral component to, like managing her health and my knowledge that I've acquired over the years, like she's benefited from and like we go back and forth all the time about what's the newest, latest, you know, out there for me. And it's always something like it's always another key that we just unlocked, which is like the coolest thing ever. Like I, she's like this massive puzzle of like the most high demanding stress that impacts your body and sleep and everything, and to be able to apply one new thing.

Every time I learn something, and it benefits her life for the better, has been super impactful. It is really hard to nail down one memorable client, because I think so many clients are extremely memorable for me. A lot of them have played huge roles and developing me as a trainer, developing me as just a human being and make me a better businessman. Like there's so many things that I think I have gotten

from many clients that I have helped with their health and fitness journey. The one that comes in mind that I haven't shared on this podcast before was a client named Tracy that I got about, I don't know, I would say, eight to 10 years into my career as a personal trainer. And I remember when I took her on as a client, I was already managing team. So I, once I took her on as a client, I was already managing team,

so I then once I became a manager where I was overseeing personal trainers, I was obviously training a lot less clients and developing trainers for most of the time. And I'd always have five or 10 clients that I loved training that I kept that I would still be servicing, but I remember kind of like checking myself on,

you know, it's been quite a few years now where I haven't taken on a hard client. Like I have, I've been taking clients that I liked training and that I enjoyed selfishly. And, you know, and I told myself, you know, the next real hard challenge that comes across my table, I want to take and it just happened to be this girl. And what made me pick her up as a client, because normally I would meet someone like this and I would delegate out to one of my trainers

or match her up, was she had her sports medicine degree. So I knew she was educated in my field. She was an ex-athlete. So she had the discipline, the motivation. She was playing softball at the time and was pretty active. And she was a nurse working long hours. And on top of that, she had basically battled with obesity her entire life and couldn't solve it. Just couldn't figure it out, couldn't, and she was probably 80 to 120 pounds or so over weight.

So she was reaching that biggest loser type status. It was around that time too when that show was so popular. And she was looking for help. And I knew that, okay, this is gonna be a challenge. Like this is going to stretch me as a trainer. And this is actually the beginning of me really learning the importance and we answered a question on the last qual about, you know, taking, starting everybody on a bulk,

right, or in reverse dieting basically everybody. Up into her, I didn't think that way. If I got a client normally like her, it would be cut her calories, move her more, but here I have a person whose honor feet moving all day long. She's an ex-athlete, so she's got the intensity side to her. She's got the sports medicine degree, so she understands nutrition and exercise pretty damn well, and she's extremely overweight and so Holy shit, where do I start this person? And so it really made me dive into being a better trainer and this is when I

I had to start applying these these these principles of taking someone on like that and kind of Deloading, you know Talking about that in the last question and going, okay, how do I reduce stress in this person, improve sleep in this person, reverse diet them out to speed their metabolism up and then get her to these goals. So she was quite the project for me. And I would say she's most memorable for a few reasons. I think she took me to another level as a coach and a trainer.

I think I evolved through our relationship. And she also later on became a close friend and advocate of mine. I'd still stay in touch with her and consider her a good friend now. We ended up losing. I think she dropped 80 pounds with me over the course of a few years that we trained together, but That was a really challenging client and because of that It's the first one that stands out when we talk about most memorable clients I have to say that's the biggest value of a personal training if you do it right is you get training back

Yeah, you know, I mean it's like selfishly, you know You you learn a lot from these people. Oh yeah, no, taught me so much. And if it wasn't challenging and hard, because you could really easily become a trainer who just gravitates to the clients that you do well with and you, you know, you have the answers for them. And so you kind of, you build your whole business around this demographic, which is common in our space. We have a lot of friends and peers, I think. You get comfortable. Yeah, and they forget sometimes that they're speaking to their majority or their population

of people they always help. I knew that this was going to stretch my capacity as a trainer. It wasn't the type of client that I normally gravitated towards or I had a lot of success in and I knew I wanted to stretch myself and She did she taught me a lot about myself and as a coach and as a leader as a trainer and I'm forever grateful for that relationship Excellent good a mind pump free dot com and download all of our free resources. We have Guides on everything from fat loss to muscle building to specific body part training. We have guides on guides Again, it's mindpumpfree.com. You can also find all of us on Instagram

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