Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 1209: The Importance of the Anabolic Window, How to Determine If Your Metabolism Is Actually Slow, Protecting Your Body from Repetitive Movement Injuries & More

Episode Date: January 18, 2020

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about whether it is better to drop a rep and increase weight by a larger amount, or progress with smaller fractional plates, how to determine if your metabolism is slow,  whether not eating right after a workout slows down progress, and exercises to keep your back strong and healthy. How we all have that overly friendly friend, ‘Bro Code’ rules & MORE. (4:01) Is Sal’s brother the best ChiliPad salesman ever?! (11:51) The online mattress market is massive! (14:30) Mind Pump is sold on Walmart. (21:04) Jeff Bezos is catching some heat on his Australia donation. (25:51) Nike banning their record-breaking shoe. What are Mind Pump’s thoughts? (28:16) Scientists have created the first living robot! (35:56) Unbelievable instances of animals in the military. (37:49) Are women less likely to receive CPR than men? (41:40) How being a Taco Bell manager is now a viable career choice. (45:56) #Quah question #1 - Is it better to drop a rep and increase weight by a larger amount, or progress with smaller fractional plates? (48:36) #Quah question #2 – If someone is having a hard time losing body fat, how do they determine if it is a slow metabolism or just overeating? (53:16) #Quah question #3 – Is not eating after a workout slowing down my progress? (57:36) #Quah question #4 – Since repetitive movement injuries are so common in the construction world, what kind of lower back work would you suggest to keep our back strong and healthy for years to come? (1:04:10) Related Links/Products Mentioned January Promotion: MAPS HIIT ½ off! **Code “HIIT50” at checkout** Visit ChiliPad for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Code “MPOOLER” at checkout** Puffy™ | Official Puffy Mattress Walmart appears to be gaining ground against Amazon Jeff Bezos is getting slammed for his donation of $690,000 to the Australian wildfire recovery, which is less than he made every 5 minutes in 2018 Nike’s record-breaking running shoes to be banned Scientists create first ‘living robots’ in major breakthrough Elephants, rats and dolphins: Eight ways the U.S. military has used animals Men Are More Likely Than Women to Receive CPR in Public, Study Finds Taco Bell will test a 6-figure salary for managers and roll out paid sick leave as fast food's war for talent continues to rage The Active Plank- An 6-Pack Building Powerhouse – Mind Pump TV How to Perform a 90/90 Hip Stretch (HIP FLEXOR STRETCH) - 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, with your hosts. Saldas Defano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. In this episode of Mind Pump, we answer fitness and health questions. We actually answer four of them. And then at the beginning of the episode, we do our introductory conversation, where we talk about current events, talk about our lives, sometimes we mention sponsors,

but we do always have a lot of fun. Always. Here's what we talked about in this episode. We start out by talking about overly friendly friends. You know, when you got those friends that hug your wife for too long, what's wrong with you, bro? Yeah, stop tickling her.

Then I talked about my brother becoming the best chili- chili pad salesman. I've ever seen him in my entire life. He was at my family function telling everybody about how awesome the family. The chili pad is now, chili pads are pads you put on your bed and they use water, circulating water to either warm or cool your mattress.

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forward slash mind pump, use the code on the page for the mind pump discount. Then we talked about Walmart and how they're gonna start challenging Amazon pretty soon. That's gonna be interesting. Which led us to talk about Jeff Bezos and how he donated a million dollars for the fire. That asshole.

In Australia, people complain that he donated a million dollars. So funny That asshole. In Australia, people complain that he donated $1 million. So funny. Crazy. Then we talk about Nike and how one of their shoes got banned in races because it makes people too fast. I'm gonna buy a pair later. And we talked about living robots.

Scientists actually have created robots out of living cells. I think I've seen this movie before. It doesn't end very well. Then just them brought up military animals. I don't know if you knew this or not, but the military actually trains animals to find bombs. And in the past, we've trained animals to drop bombs and kill people kind of crazy.

Bat, bomb, na na na na na na na. Then I talked about a recent study showing how women are far less likely to receive CPR when they need it than men. And then Adam talked about Taco Bell and how they're gonna be paying their managers lots of money. That's pretty cool.

Maybe pay money for the quality. Then we got into the fitness questions. Here was the first one. This person wants to know if it's better to lower the weight, to lower the reps and increase the weight by a lot or to increase the weights by a little bit every time they work out. Next question, this person is having a tough time losing weight.

Is it because they have a slow metabolism or are they just eating too much food? We answered that question. The next one was, is it not a good idea to eat or not eat after my workout? If I don't eat after my workout, does it slow down my progress? So we tackled that whole thing about post-workout food. And the final question, this person works in construction wants to know what they can do to help prevent lower back pain because of all the activity they do at work. Also, this month, Maps Hit is 50

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That's H-I-T50 no space for that discount. So Justin, you were telling me, you have a buddy that just hugged your wife too hard or too long? Don't you guys have one of those? I feel like everybody knows a guy like yeah, I do his name is Adam Yeah, yeah, I'm a I'm a long hugger long hugger only only for girl. Yeah, only the wives Knows right away if they've been working out consistently. Yeah, really paying that much attention Look at your hamstrings. Let me touch. me touch it. No, you know what though? The guys that you probably shouldn't worry about

or the ones that are, you know, friendly in front of you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Offer, off-ler with you, girl, right in front of you. Right in front of you. But that's a compliment. Yeah, I'm okay with that. Yeah, that's a compliment. It's complimentary, especially if you're not insecure

because I'm not insecure, I don't care. I think it's, you know, great. But it's when you're not a writer. Yeah, if you're trying to hit outside your league. You know, like you should just expect that. Yeah. Have you guys ever had a buddy like that, or were you just like,

we need a minute. Yeah. Yeah, I've definitely had that. And it's like literally picked like Courtney up in front of me and like twirls are around and like hugs are real tight. And I was like, what are you doing, dude? Like, okay, like I understand the world, but then this?

The pickup hug is one thing. The twirl is like, she's over the top. Yeah, like she's leaving the ground now, like where else are we going? That's him being insecure. I had one time, this back when I was married to my ex-wife, we went to Italy and she lived there for a little while when she was, I don't know, between 13 and 16,

so she had old friends or whatever we go there. And this dude comes over who was friends with her back in the day. And he, now I speak Sicilian a little bit. I don't really speak Italian super, super well, especially if it's fast, conversational. I'm not gonna understand most of it. And this dude completely ignored me and spoke

really fast just to her and it was like, I wasn't in the room. So about 45 minutes into the conversation, I say in English, I say in English, I said, hey, I said, you need to include me in the conversation because otherwise I'm going to kick your ass and he goes, huh, I don't understand. And then my ex-wife looks at me, like, can you translate to him what I just said? You need an interpreter, buddy, Or can you read my body language? Yeah, I was a little younger.

I used to give it more insecure. I used to give my buddies the green light. The rule was though that you had to tell me before she did. So that's the deal. Like if you get after my girl, cool. Just, I went on. You got to tell me though. Beforehand, like, yeah, I tried to flirt with your girl.

No, no, I slept with her. I'm saying, yeah, and I'm, we're cool. If you tell me, but if like, with your girl. No, no, I slept with her. You know what I'm saying? Oh shit. Yeah, and we're cool. If you tell me, but if you don't tell me, like you're in trouble, you know what I'm saying? Like that's a, I have a problem. Because the way I look at it is like, it's more on her than him.

Exactly. If my, if my boy comes out, if I was dating a beautiful girl, right, that everybody or all my friends. Are you controlling themselves? Right, I'll, y'all. No, it's not even a matter of control yourself. If she's gonna give in like that to my boy,

who's my boy, she's gonna do it with anybody. Y'all, so I'd much rather. That's a cancer you wanna have. Right, I'd rather my buddy figure it out. And then come to me and say, yo, hey, you know the girl, you're sprung on right now and you think she's all great and everything, then? Yeah, I worked out.

Dude, we hooked up last night. I'll tell you what you're gonna do. I'll tell you what though, dude. Like, thanks for doing me a solid. Right, that's how I would look at it. Yeah, no, I don't look it that way. I think you wouldn't know. Both ways is shitty. I mean, if you're friends with someone,

and you do that, and you go out, you know, if you came to me and said, Hey, man, I gotta tell you something, dude, like your girl, I think she wants to like hook up with me. That's different. Then, oh, I hooked up with her last night. I'm like, you went through with it? Yeah.

Wow. Yeah. Yeah. That tells a whole another story. You were a pure shithead. Really? Yeah. I don't know.

I'm okay with it. It's kind of. You must have done that to someone. No, no, no. No. And I was like, why was the big deal? I think so. No, I don't think so.

That was just so, that was like the, that was like the bro rule, right? With all of us guys, it was just, you know, if the girl was, if she would, if she would, but what if it's like your wife, like your girl girl? That's the difference. You're talking about girls you were just time away. I, come on, I'm the guy who's not married, right?

I wouldn't marry a chick that I, what was sure that she wouldn't do something. I think you would have, like, met in, at that point. Right, exactly. Like, Katrina's been in enough situations like that already that I know she's a solid chick. So, you know, that I wouldn't, I'm not the guy who falls in love in six months

and gets married a year later and then finds out like, oh shit, she's the type that I know about this. Yeah, yeah, right. But dude, I've heard, I have, you know, I know people personally who, like couples where the wife or the husband, you know, was cheating, and it was a complete, like, shock, you know, like, and I know the people very well,

and I know, and they obviously, the spouse knows them very well, and it's just, it's crazy how, how that can happen, where you just get totally blindsided. It doesn't hurt, it crushes people. I have a friend right now who that happened to. She found out her husband was fooling around and they were trying for a baby. They're in the whole process, got her pregnant, still did it.

And got caught and then now on top of it, I'm gonna do a little rant here, just in case he's listening because he deserves it. He, here's the thing that I look, I'm very, very understanding, because I don't know the whole situation, right? I mean, not always, but sometimes when somebody leaves a relationship, they're not the first one to leave.

In other words, just cheating isn't the only way you can leave a relationship. Right, right, I agree with that. You know, maybe there was a bad relationship or whatever is the last stuff leading up to. And I would actually speculate that more often than not, that's the case. Probably.

I mean, there's of course, there's like a husband, there's dog. There's dogs in the world for sure. But I know that the one time that I've been cheated on, and I remember people, like we were in two years together, it was first and only time that I know of, right, that happened to me. You know, of course it's stung, and yeah, I was upset

and we ended things right away But I wasn't I wasn't that mad at her and remember people would be like oh my fuck her this time. I'm saying well, you know I kind of got what I deserved. I know that I was completely disconnected in the relationship You know she would go off and she was trapped. She was like a you know model model for pre-core and stuff like that. And she used to travel to the Europa and all over. And I, you know, I'll go do your thing and she'd go five days. I wouldn't even talk to her or call her. Like, I was so into my work at the time and the relationship was kind of...

That's what I mean, you kind of left. Right, like I checked out. You know what I'm saying? I wasn't a good partner. And so, yeah, so you know what? She was on one of these trips and some fucking dude said the right thing while she was out drinking and doing a thing and they hooked up and whatever and so and not making an excuse for her but I also own up the side that I played in that role even though

I didn't go out and go fuck somebody else I you know I also I checked out in the relationship. Totally and I get that and so it's why you know I'm not trying to pass too much but here's something that I have a difficult time. I have a very, very difficult time having empathy for. The same friend of mine who's got a kid and one on the way now has pretty much checked out as a father. Now that to me is very, very hard to have empathy and to forgive.

If you're a man or a woman, but I'm more often this happens with men, and you skirt the responsibility of being there for your children, because now you're really impacting an innocent soul. You know what I mean? There's a big, there are kids, they didn't do anything to you,

and you skirt that responsibility. It's hard to convince me that you're not a piece of shit, you know what I'm saying? That's a tough one. How do you try for a baby and then skirt their responsibility? That's what I'm saying. Yeah. You're...

Yeah, fuck that guy. Yeah, fake. Yeah, fuck that guy. A child. And I think... See, there's times for shame. Yeah. Yeah.

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So we're at a big family function. And I told you guys how I had to, I convinced my brother to get the chili pad for his house, right? What do you guys about this? Okay, so he got one and now him and his girlfriend use it, you got the double-sided, because this girl, you know, saves a lot of relationships, by the way. So I'm sure of it.

So here's the thing I love about my brother and generally my family, my whole family generally tends to be this way. So he was a pain in the ass to convince first off, you know, because he's very frugal, even though the kid crushes it. He's an investment baker and he crushes, he's still frugal with his money.

But and it was hard to convince him. But now that he's convinced, he's like a, the best chili pad salesman in the universe. He's like an evangelist. Bro, we were at my family function. And he was discount goes. He was selling my aunts, my uncles, my cousins, you doing presentations, you don't understand how great the whole freaking party. I'm the same way too though. You get excited.

Yeah, I get excited about something. Especially at his point where you were really hesitant and skeptical, and then your convinced, like your. And then you, then you're convinced, like your paradigm shattered. Oh man, then I become, you know, evangelized. It's fun. It's fun. It was funny listening to him, like,

sell it to the different people because the way he would sell it would be different. Yeah. Like he's talking to my grandparents and he's like, I sleep so soft. I don't have any stiffness when I wake up. Then he's talking to my cousins. He's like, I think I'm getting stronger in the gym.

Oh man. Wow. It's just accelerating. Yeah, dude, this is so funny. Dude, that's how it is. When you're like, I can't believe I've been doing it without this for so long. Yeah.

And it dawns on you that a product or something like that existed and it could have been used that whole time. You know what, it's necessary for memory foam mattresses. Memory foam mattresses, they don't tell you this when you get them, yes, they're comfortable, but they also are sheet generators. Like they absorb and reflect your heat, dude, I irradiate heat so much.

Yeah. So just to have it kind of regulate that temperature is everything, man. Yeah, yeah. Well, it's cool for winter time right now too, you're cutting it up. Are you using it because you got the baby in bed too? I'm not using it right now because I'm not in the bed. I'm so good.

Yeah, yeah, so. Katrina is using it right now. I just picture, I just picture Maximus on your side of the bed, just chill him. Did I tell you guys what happened? Did I tell you guys what happened? So I bought my first online mattress, never bought a mattress like that before. By the way, we're not sponsored by this company at all.

So I had an insane. Yeah, but yeah, I did all my research, right? So I get online and checked all the, I mean, how you buy everything now? Yeah, read the reviews. It's so, to try and make fun of me for doing this, and I think it's funny that she thinks that's silly, that how accurate reviews are.

It's like maybe when that shit first started, it wasn't very accurate, but now you've got tens of thousands of people that have reviewed products. And if it's four and a half plus stars on something with 10,000 plus degrees, and read them, people are lost. They'll take pictures.

They'll read a really good one, read the really bad one. Right, and there's a website that'll actually verify that. Rate the reviews and will tell you, oh 75% of these seem real. Right, right. Yeah, and I'm sure every company has a hundred family members so they get on there and five star everything, right?

Yeah, you got 10,000 plus reviews on there that are. You can trust them. Right, and then I always like to read the negative ones, right, because the negative one isn't like negative enough for me to like, you know, I really didn't like the shape of it. It's a little like a, you know, I always like to read the negative ones, right? Because the negative one isn't like negative enough for me. Like, you know, I really did like the shape of it. It's a little like a, you know, I thought, I don't even shit about that. I don't know how comfortable it is.

This one gave my wife cancer, then you don't get it. Yeah, right. You're like, whoa. But I, because I've been sleeping in the guest room, I felt so bad. So we have, I have family that come over a lot. To my sister stays every month right now and sees Maximus. When we travel, we always have somebody house sit and watch the boys inside the house.

And, man, I called both my uncle and my sister who probably stayed in most in our guest room. And I apologize. I was like, oh, I'm so sorry that you were sleeping on that fucking mattress. I cannot believe that we did that to you. And it was just that, and I think I can't be alone. Was it an old mattress? Yeah, yeah, it's like, everybody does this, right? You move into a new house, and you've got an extra room,

and you have the bed that you've had that was. That's the afterthought. Oh yeah, this bed's been like passed down, and like when I finally, like, where did this come from? Right, because it wasn't mine, it was Katrina. It slopes in the middle, it's like a hammock. She's like, oh, my mom gave it to me, and it came for my brother who had it for like 20 years,

and it's like 30 years old. Oh, geez. Yeah, you could feel the springs in it and everything like that. It's like, oh my God. And they used to throw this little foam thing over it, so it kind of like disguised how shitty it was. And we didn't have that anymore. And I was like so uncomfortable.

And I finally just, I said, fuck it, that's it, I bought a hell of nice mattress. I got this company called Puffy, which by the way, we're not supposed to. Are there the ones that fold? Yeah, they come in a box. Yeah, I have a, I bought one from a different company. Yeah, it's weird, right?

You open the box and like, you have a box open. And boy, was it comfortable? Now, was it memory foam or? It's like, yeah, it's a, it's like, I have like, there's levels to it, right? Doug could pull up the website. We want to Puffy mattress,es is what it's called.

And again, they're getting like a free commercial. I know, we're not even sponsored. No, no, no, you know what I did. I reached out because I was like, I can't wait. You're like, I said, fuck it, I just paid for the thing. Yeah, that's what it looks like right there. And there's like a, Dude, the on three levels, right?

So of course I got the crazy one. Yeah. And it's, you got the ludicrous speed one. Yes, ludicrous speed. It's like sleeping on a fucking cloud. Is it really? Oh, it's amazing. So the online mattress market is massive.

Now when it first started, and I want to say it was Casper, I think it was Casper that was the first mattress. Yeah, I was a disruptor. Yeah, and it did that, it came in a box, right? Oh, little boxes, yeah. I know, yeah. And Casper did that, that was the first one. But I remember when they first came out,

other people and companies laughed at him. Like nobody's gonna buy a mattress online. People wanna try it out. They have to come to our store and land it. But dude, it's become a massive competitor too. And no, for sure. I would have never done this 10 years ago. But again, because reviews are so reliable now,

and I could go through and someone would be like, oh, I was on a chat-am in Wells for this many years, and now I got this, and it's amazing. someone be like, oh, I was on a chat, I'm in Wells for this many years, and now I got this, and it's amazing. I'm like, oh, fuck, that's a badass bed. And you say this is better? So you start to read enough of things like that. I'm willing to take a risk on it. You know who makes a decent,

we know what kind of salesperson used to, I don't know if it still works like this anymore, but they used to make a lot of money. Match for salesman. A lot. Mark up this massive. Did you remember the mattress wars? The Wars.

The mattress. I had a guy that worked for me and he sold memberships and then he got fired because he's an idiot. And then he went to go sell mattresses and this guy used to send me, I know you're talking about it. You know exactly what I'm saying. I bought a mattress from him.

Did you? He used to send me toys like presidents weekend and like, you know, those like three day weekends. They used to take pictures of his paycheck. No, no, he would scan his paycheck is back in the day and facts me. Yeah, he faxed me copies of his paycheck just to talk shit because he got fired.

Like, we covered him, and this guy was making like $10,000 every couple weeks, you know what they mean? They made big money. Well, the markup is slated. Like double dude. Yeah. So you see a mattress for like $5, $7,000 there.. They made big money. Well, the markup is slated. Like a double dude. Yeah. So you see a mattress for like $5,000, $7,000 there. You can get that thing way down if you want.

Way down. I mean, he could drop a few thousand off and still make his commission of like $1,000 off of that. Oh, it's insane. But it's crazy that market. But because of that, it's now become competitive for like companies like this. Like, you know,

because you can get a nice mattress for way less. Oh, yeah. You could have got the, which I imagine, even the, you know, because you could get a nice mattress for way less. Oh yeah, you could have got the, which I imagine even the, you know, this thing had three tiers, the cheapest level for the king was, I wanna say like 800 bucks. I mean, I bought the $1800 one that's like really nice, but that's, that's nothing. Oh no, I paid 10 grand for my bed when I,

my bad ass bed that I was for. One second, you spend $10,000. Yeah, Chattam and Wells came, crafted bed when that was the shit back then. Like now it's not even, that company doesn't even exist anymore. The Cadillac of Bence. It was, it made love to me, bro.

It did. I know you spent $10,000 on a bed. Made love to me. Oh my God. It cuddled you into the nether. Oh, for a bachelor, bro, that was a game changer. You come into my house, whereas a bachelor was all clean, it was all nice.

And then you sat on my bed, it was game over. I think if they sit in here. I think if a girl comes over and sits on your bed, no matter what, it's game over. That's probably a game over. Now it's for sure. That's hilarious. I don't know if I was a chick and I became

over some bachelor's house and I sat on like some fucking food ton. Like, I'm out of here. See, if any of us had a rotating bed, I feel like it has to be Adam. Rotating? Right? Do you remember old hotels,

the beds would have a little quarter thing next to it? Whoa, bro, that's the coordinate elevator. That's before just a nice time. That was, that's probably like three years older than you guys. You know what, you know one thing that I look out for now that I had zero awareness about back in the day was the chemicals and fumes that mattresses give off. That's like a thing, you know that, right?

There's all kinds of toxic chemicals. Yeah, because you'll buy a bed, you'll smell it, and you're sleeping on it, you know? So now they make these organic beds, they made that organic latex and all that stuff. Yeah, that'll be an emerging market for sure. It still already is, it's already growing market. Anyway, dude, that article on Walmart. Crazy, right? Holy. Look out. Brilliant. Good time to buy a 115 of it. 15 is where the stock sets. That's reasonable. Are they 115 right now? Yeah, I'm unaware. What was the article?

So check this out. So, and they've been talking about this for a while. So we'll see what happens and how this plays out. But everybody's always said if there's anybody that has a chance to rival Amazon and the momentum that Amazon has it's Walmart. Uh and Walmart has 4700 locations in the United States. Basically they're they're the largest employer. There is a Walmart within 10 miles of everybody. Yeah, me too. So that's how, I mean, and Amazon has 110 warehouses for distribution. So that, I mean, the way they get to you the next day with prime and everything like that is because they got 100 something warehouses all over the United States. Walmart is taking 4700 that are located, they're taking 1600 or they're 4700 locations and are turning them into distribution warehouses.

Yep. And they're going to make a run. And they have their own cloud. So they don't have to rely on Amazon's cloud. Right. So now you buy something on Walmart. Because here's the thing that Walmart has that is amazing. Their distribution channels, their ability to deliver their locations.

They are superior to Amazon. In fact, I forgot what natural disaster it was. Can't remember what it was. It was huge natural. It might have been Hurricane Katrina where people couldn't get water. Walmart stepped in and was able to do it. Now is it just nationally or they internationally that?

They are international, but nationally for sure. And so what does this mean? This means that maybe Walmart can get to the point where they can deliver to you within hours. And they do that in Amazon's dead. Well, I wouldn't, whoa, we care for that. Yeah, I care for that. We're talking about this.

Bro, if you could buy, pull us a second. If you could buy products. If you see Emily, Jack. If you could buy products for competitive prices to Amazon, and the only difference is I buy it on Walmart, I get it here in a few hours versus I get it here tomorrow. That's a game chain. Well, they do that.

Amazon Prime does that. Not on most products. Not on most products. Well, in case you're assuming that Walmart will be able to do that with most, I doubt they're going to be able to do with most, it'll be competitive still. It's that's, I think it'll just be amazing

if they stay alive. I mean, Amazon is on a rampage of just putting companies out of business. And the only reason why I think Walmart's been able to survive is because of how big it is and because they've been able to sustain all this. And during the times when the economy was really bad, Walmart was on the rise because of how cheap it is

to go by thing. So everybody that was spending bad, Walmart was on the rise because of how cheap it is go by thing. So everybody that was spending extra money before was heading over there. So they definitely managed during this time. And because they're so big, they do have a chance. But I would never say that Walmart has a chance of putting Amazon out. Well, don't forget, Amazon doesn't charge.

So I don't know what Walmart's what it will look like for them like if they have like a but Amazon deal well Amazon You get part of why Amazon so amazing aside from that it can come the same day or the next day is also you don't pay If you have prime for shipping. Yeah, so Walmart will have to do that also I forget it compete so you're not you're gonna be able to get it there as fast and you're also gonna not have to look here Okay, Amazon as of 2018, their total revenue was $232 billion. I have right here. In Walmart in 2018 was $500 billion.

In 2019, it says $414 billion are extremely profitable and they're still growing. So Walmart is the monster. So if anybody is gonna go up to Amazon and have the potential to knock them down a little bit, it's Walmart. I can't think of any of the company. No, no, there's no.

There's no, there's no. They would gobble up anybody else. So, no, it's gonna be. I think they were good by and I do too. I think get a $115 a share, you know. They also pay dividends. So if you buy Walmart star, if I'm not mistaken, okay, I'm not an investor.

So there's your disclaimer, I'm a trainer. I'm pretty sure. And we're wrong sometimes. But I'm pretty sure. You talk outside of your lane. When you buy Walmart stock, you get paid dividends. So it's one of those stock that's not super volatile. You buy it. You actually get income every single year. So it's like an income producing stock. It's not just speculating on the price of it. So it makes it a

good Amazon is very expensive. Is Walmart still the the leader in organic? Yes, yes, yes, produce, which is that's interesting too. Isn't that crazy? Yeah, that wouldn't I'd never assume that It's their sheer size. Yeah, that's what they are massive. You know speaking of Bezos You know that he donated a million dollars to the the fires where Australia Australia. Oh did he really yeah, he found that into the couch well, okay So rich he's looking funny you say that funny'm gonna make that. I'm gonna make that. You're funny, you say that, because why I was bringing it up was because

he got a lot of shit for that. Because he only donated? Yes. How do you feel about that? I think that's a stupid idea too. You're such an asshole if you, if you give him shame him for that. Yeah, like, okay, fine.

He's got a lot of money, but he also didn't have to do anything. It's like, okay, here's your example. I'll give you an example. I'm gonna explain that. So he got shit for donating money. Okay, Bezos makes so much money. Okay, you can mathematically break it down, okay,

by the minute, right? What he's making. And a million dollars is like one minute of work, right? Or a couple minutes of work for him. So the idea of him throwing a million dollars at a huge problem like the fires in Australia is some people people a lot of people got online and were like hammering him over it because it's chump changed. That's such an

ass-line way of looking. It is and these are angry. Okay, there it is. Like per hour he makes a whopping $8,916,961. Wow. $8 million every hour. That's crazy. That's awesome. So, right, so another word, another word, he hooked them up with like five minutes of work. So, okay, fine, okay, here's a deal. Let me put it in perspective for a few. I agree with you. Number one, you are a jealous, insecure,

probably virtue signaling person because I would like to see how many of these people who complained donated themselves, probably none of them, right? They all sit around, you know, talking all this shit, but they have way more money than a lot of poor people do in the world. Number two, imagine, let's say you may, what's the average person in the US make per hour? I don't know. What is it? What's the average salary? 50,000 a year? 60,000? So what do you make in, you know, what is that per hour? 30 bucks? Someone do the math for me.

Anyway, imagine you make your guy. Yeah, whatever. Okay, fine, whatever. You're making 50, 60 grand a year, average person. You see a homeless person outside of the grocery store. You give them a dollar. He looks at you and complains to you and says, your piece of shit forget all the.

How dare you. Yeah, where's my 30 bucks? Like fuck you, man, I just gave you a dollar. I don't have to give you anything. I agree. That's why I thought it was an interesting conversation because I thought this is funny that people are getting pissed off that somebody actually gave money without knowing everything else.

So that's definitely, you know another one that's stirred up controversy right now is Nike. So still, yeah, well, no, this is something totally different, though. So they are talking about banning a shoe. So of their own shoe, they're not banning a shoe. Like a shoe is going to be banned from certain sports, like running. So for example, is the Olympic committee?

It's the vapor fly is the type of shoe. And you've seen these before. Taylor used to rock these He's got them they have to have the kind of the big foamy soles. They're a running shoe And they have this technology inside the foam that is Kind of springs you forward And so here they are there. There's a captures kinetic energy and somehow uses it again And it's crazy back. Yes. Wow. So Nike's record breaking vapor fly. Yes

That's the one that they're gonna ban and it's it's these it's the organizations that do like world championships with Marathons and stuff so performance enhance Why you are about to sell more shoes and you've ever sold your whole life. Oh, yeah Just like the jargon she right. That's amazing for them But now what do you guys think of organizations banning that because it's like a performance answer? What's your thoughts? Well, I have a thought I want to hear what you get. So here's what I, first off, here's what I think. I think it's great because it confirms all my childhood beliefs and shoes.

You know, when I was a kid, I go to store my mom as like testing out the shoes. Y'all fast there. And then when I get older, I'm like, they don't make you faster. But apparently they're magical at that point for you in your mind. Yeah, apparently they do.

So thoughts on the band. I mean, look, they banned, there was a swim suit that was banned at the Olympics at one point because it was, you know, making people break records. They're just trying to stay ahead of the technology. But what sucks is the guys who, the world record setting run was setting those shoes I read. So the guy who broke the world record. Why not leave it open for everybody to use it? So I'm on your page, Justin. And here's why, okay.

Cause everybody's gonna use it. And that creates a new market. It does, it does, and it's fair. It's not like if the shoe's unaffordable and only certain people can have it. It's not exclusive. If we can go run down right now and buy a pair of these. Okay, so every runner that's competing

can go out and get a purge. And hey, Kudos to Nike for the coming out with a technology. They're innovating. And I remember when I watched that TED talk that completely shattered my paradigm about the evolution of sports and all the records that we've seen broken over the last 30 years now. And they give most of the credit to technology.

Yes, I tracked and drew. Yeah, I would have said, if you would have asked me, I would have bet my bankroll that had to do steroids and all the training. Yes, and nutrition, all that, no. And almost everything was attributed to the evolution of technology with gear, with the suit, the suits, the caps, the caps the shoes the track the courts the the pool even how the water comes out of the pool for

Swimmers like all that stuff is what has evolved us in sports so much so this is no different to me This is no different than a better track. Yeah a better swimsuit cap a better pool Little armad yeah, so and and it's and anybody can go buy it and purchase it and use it. So why the fuck not let it happen? If I was the Nike, if I was in charge of Nike and that news came out, I would have sold the biggest celebration of all time. Oh, you can't think of better. There is no better advertising than your shoe getting banned because you know the first,

it makes you too fast. Do you know the first biggest apple of something like that? No. The Jordan, Jordan ones. Jordan ones. Jordan ones. They got banned because they were too, they got banned. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no was they were too good. Try to get too hot for everybody else. Too hot for NBA. Yeah, and so every fucking kid ran out

and but that's what blew up the first job. Now where do you draw the line? Like for example, in baseball, you know, aluminum bats or juiced balls or. For those cameras now they're catching the high speed. Because at some point technology is gonna get really crazy. At some point you might have nano technology on your shoes that springs every time you take a step. You have to keep up, man. You know, I mean, who? technology is gonna get really crazy at some point you might have nanotechnology on your shoes that

Springs every time you take a step you know, I mean Just keep wearing better technology. Keep up. They got that we got that hover shoes You bring up a good point that they have to draw the line somewhere. I agree. I don't think this is where you draw it though Some fucking foamy shoes. Okay, come on get out of here. Well, what they did, the way it worked was they effectively banned the shoe, but really what it was is they made a rule on the how thick the soul had to be. So that effectively banned the Nike vapor flyer, whatever. Yeah. But it wasn't specifically to ban that shoe. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I made a new rule. It was though. It was. I think the way they wrote it in the rule.

Right, right, of course. But I mean, it just, you know, someone figured that out. I mean, that's awesome. I think it's awesome that somebody figured out that okay, if we put this type of foam in there, we add some carbon in there, we make it a millimeter thicker. We're gonna get this much more propulsion that could shave, you know, one 100 to a second off of,

you know, I mean, fuck, is that swimsuit still the case? Like 100 to the second off of, I mean, fuck. Is that swimsuit still the case? For the Olympics, do they still ban certain types of really tight swimsuits, keep everything super aerodynamic? Yeah, what it was, I think it was a swimsuit that was like pants, it was like Spandex pants. So it wasn't just the speedo.

And it was the design of the swimsuit that reduced drag. And it's interesting. I remember Adam when you were going through your swimming kick, and you were talking about how when you're doing freestyle, for example, the legs, you're just, you're basically, they're doing that doing very much. You're dragging your pull in them. Right. And so it makes perfect sense. Right. The more you can make your legs glide through the water, the faster it is. Or even like a swimsuit that allows you to float a little bit would make a big difference. Yeah, sure. Yeah, yeah.

It's a little floaty. Yeah, it gives you a little bit of flow. Yeah, a little floaty. Yeah, it gives you a little flow. A little bit of flow. A little bit of flow. A little bit of flow. Yeah, yeah.

A little floaty. Yeah, yeah. It gives you a little bit of flow. A little bit of flow. A little bit of flow. A little bit of flow else. You just who makes web to glove. What happens when someone makes rocket shoes, you know what I'm saying? Well, I mean, it will always start adding like engines and shit. Like, come on.

I would like to see a sporting event that allow, that me, you know, with equipment is kind of like limited, but they allow them to take whatever drugs they want. Let's see how hard we could push. It's a hard we could push the ball. Murder ball. Yeah. Let's see what happens. I mean, I agree too. What you did and the truth is,

no drugs banned. Nobody's watching the drug-free one. I mean, I've talked about that with football, right? Like we've talked about like, what do you do? Like, steroids are so rampant. How do you pull back on it? It's too late. Yeah, it's too late, right?

So what you would potentially open up a league that is completely drug tested, no drugs whatsoever. They're super strict on it, but the reality of it, why they would never do that is because no one would watch it. Doesn't make any sense. Have we sort of seen an example of that with like Pride versus the UFC and like,

how it was like, it was understood that it wasn't against the rules. But they didn't like necessarily put it in the rules. I remember when Vanlei Silva who was murdering people in pride Went to the UFC and he's like, oh, he lost like 20 pounds. What happened? Or what's his name? What's the name? Kickbox or Dutch? Dude with the kind of spiky hair. He still fights. He was jacked in pride. Then he fights in UFC and he's, God, what is his name? You guys know I'm talking about it.

I know you're talking about it too. Yeah, Crocop? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, have created the first living robots. Okay, now explain that. Okay, so what define living? So a team of researchers took cells from frog embryos and turned them into a machine that can be programmed to work as they wish. A programmed living being.

So they literally took cells, put them together and program them to do what they want. So it's a organic carbon-based machine. It's a robot in essence. Okay, now what's scarier? Yeah, yeah. Like a biological programmed thing. Or a mechanical metal thing.

Yes, they were very, very small. So it doesn't look like anything cool or crazy or whatever, but here's what the article says, they could dispatch the tiny Xenobots to transport medicine around a patient's body. Xenobots assemble. Or clean up pollution from the oceans. They can also heal themselves if they're damaged.

You look like a space bear. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no more space Remember the dude Was they call what they call bear they're not they're called the space bears their water bears But they have another apparently learn the moon. I'm your screw me up, dude But it looks like him doesn't it it does these things are tiny but dude It's it's starting on the cellular level. Yes, and they take the cells, they put them in the program. So they do what they want. But you know that means. And it, well, I tell you what, here's what I love about sci-fi. Sci-fi means a lot of cool, a lot of cool sci-fi movies. Apparently, there needs to be more sci-fi movies because it's a warning. Like, stop playing, God, you dumbasses. What, water bear, tardigrade? Tardigrade. Tardigrade. Water bear.

You look like little bears. When you say space bearers, I imagine like a bear and like a spacey with a laser. Speaking of animal, this is way less scary than that. I thought it was actually pretty cool, but like I was talking to my sister and I actually, like we were up in Tahoe, she was like, tell me about one of her clients that she had that was actually a part of the process

of military training for animals, like say a bottled nose dolphin or a sea lion in the Navy. And they use them and they teach them how to basically look for invading like divers and look for like mines and look for like all kinds of stuff on ships. Now you know that's been happening for a long time, right? So in World War II, there were plans, and then in the Cold War, they even examined this, and the Cold War, we examined all kinds of crazy shit. But in World War II, there were plans too.

They would put birds in planes, in the nose of the plane, and then they would, the birds were trained to peck at a ship. So they'd launch these planes, fill them up with bombs, then the bird would peck at this image of the ship and as the camera moved, they peck at it and that essentially guided the plane.

So it was a heat-seeking plane in World War II. Oh, he explained this again. Okay, there's birds in it. No, there was a nose of the plane. There was something in the plane where the bird was trained to peck at a ship. So they'd looked through the window, they'd peck at the ship,

but they're pecking directed the plane and it would become like a guided missile. So they'd launch these planes, the bird would peck at the thing and then if the plane went too high, the bird peck down because there's a ship and there's a ship and boom, they'd aim at that and just blow up ships.

It's just like, okay, what's the idea behind it? Because the birdpeck down because there's a ship and there's a ship and boom, they name that and just blow up ships. Okay, what's the idea behind that? Because the birds perception of like... It's looking, birds have great vision. That's what I'm saying. So they're literally guiding the plane to crash into the... Were these manned planes? No, why would they do that?

I was a person talking about it. That's why I was confused. Like, no, there's no people on there. So the birds would do this. And then bottleneck dolphins, they've been training a lot of time. I was a person. I was talking about it. That's why I was revealed. Like, no, there's no people on there. So the birds would do this. Okay. And then bottlenecked dolphins, they've been training for a long time to find ocean.

So the, the Baluga whale as well. Did you hear about that with, with Russia? How they were like messing with that? So they'd, same thing, like they were looking for like mines, all these kinds of things, but they also trained them to kill, uh, potential like divers and people in the water. Like they would kill their enemies.

Wow, getting whales to kill people. This is like, what the hell's going on? Yeah, it's like the comic book, what's his name? Leave it to the Russian, though. Yeah, they do. Oh, oh, here's it. So pigeon guided missiles, this was in World War II. And then you know what else they did?

They were going to strap incendiary bombs or little tiny bombs on bats. They were gonna, this was World War Two. They were going to release hundreds of thousands of bats over Japan. Then the bats, because what bats, he's called bat bomb, and what bats do is bats, bats, they find like underhangs, they go underneath like the roofs of homes and stuff stuff and the way that the Japanese homes were constructed

Would have been perfect. So we release Thousands of bats. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, right? Like, so you strap a couple dolphins up with some like rockets and shit and then they die. You know people are gonna be fucking Pete is gonna be all over your ass, but you kill some bats on the way to a winning award You would have put a rock on a flying rat. You put a torpedo maybe but a rocket on a dolphin This is summer. It's made for hot dolphins. Nuffins are made for water We have underwater rockets. Well, you can do water. Yeah! It's just like, that's what we have underwater rockets. Well, you can do that. No, that's scientists got fired. We designed a space missile.

Save guy put this thing down to somebody. By a fish. I don't know, the idea of this foot bear is on the moon. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, good job, Johnson. Anyway, so I was reading this article on CPR. So you guys know what CPR is, right? Cardiovascular, respiratory, cardio, primary, whatever, whatever know what CPR is right cardio respiratory

cardio right really they don't even like breathe into your mouth anymore now the protocol is just doing the compressions yeah what's up with that they've I've taken a CPR certification probably a hundred times I mean call a MSTD's man look at that's all main importance thank you Doug for all that's a video game thank you for getting my back there that's a video game. Thank you for getting my back there. Yeah, that's a video game. Rocket Dolphins. You see one just exploding. With an ineffective weapon. Terrible.

Wow. Anyway, so I'm reading this article on CPR and... Look at that one too. I'm sorry, dude. Messing everybody up. He's talking about me on that one, Doug. And this is crazy now. So statistically speaking or percentage wise,

a woman who needs CPR in public is a lot less likely to receive it than a man. So if a woman goes down and she's like, yeah, whatever, oh my god, she's not breathing. Somebody needs to give her CPR less likely than if it's a guy. Did they say why? Well, I can guess why. Because you don't want to be a perv about it.

That's 100%. That's right. I put my hands. People are so, men are so afraid of, inappropriately touching a woman or having people think that that's what's happening, that they're less likely to get CPR. It's so crazy.

And there's been lawsuits and things where people, they had to actually create a law for that, right? The good Samaritan law, I think. yeah yeah where it's like people have helped people in the past and then get sued later and it's like do what the fuck is wrong with people yeah it says that they're they're also more like they're more likely to die as a result from it that's pretty crazy there there the men are one point two three times more likely to get cpr from a bystander than women well isn't that isn't the uh... the survival rate of cpr really low anyways,

like if someone were, if someone were, it's better than zero. No, no, you're right, of course. Have you guys ever had an incident like that where you've had to like apply emergency help? Almost. I almost had to do CPR. Somebody went down in the gym and they passed out,

which happens a lot. So you don't freak out initially when someone passes out because it probably, it happens at least, I don't know, every other month. So, of course, people, oh my God, so and so pass that. So you walk over there, and the first thing you do is you check to see if they're breathing, and you know, check to see if they have a pulse, and this person had neither. And so I'm like, call 911, and I'm like, you know,, I'm gonna do CPR. So we're checking. Look at you Protocol now. We're checking to make sure you go call 911 the training kick in Now first dude

Horse I'm a what a great opportunity your health ambassadors Health and best here. You know what I'm sad to Stephanie. You know what you're service personal training. I would have sold right after that Oh, by the way, I'm the trainer that saves somebody. 50% anyway. Jew, come on one. Anyway, so it called 911 and we're checking the pulse, making sure that there isn't one. And then I think, oh wait, I think there's a pulse,

I think they're breathing. By the time we are, because you gotta be, you gotta be sure, you don't wanna go and do CPR on someone who's got a pulse and stuff. So while we're checking, now remember the 24 that was on Santa Teresa across the a pulse and stuff. So while we're checking, now remember the 24 that was on Santa Teresa's across the street from the hospital. They, ambulance got there so fast,

by the time I was ready to start doing CPR, they run in the room and I was like, oh, thank you. Yeah, I didn't have that, but I did have an incident when I was at this restaurant where a lady outside, I could, it was so crazy, because like out of the corner of my eye,

I could just see, you just noticed something that's off and like, she was up and kind of looked pale and was like kind of doing the universal choking sign. And I just like, immediately just be lined it over there, just not even thinking. And nobody around there was doing anything, she's like, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, like holding herself.

And so, yes, I had to do that, the maneuver, you know, from that time, and then thankfully didn't take too many because like sometimes I guess I've heard people have had to break ribs and have had really had to like smash you don't work? It worked, yeah, popped it out. And then it was so weird, because I don't remember anything after that.

Like I just, I got like more emotionally involved in this whole thing. I was like, oh my god, so he's gonna die. Like in my head, I thought she was gonna die. And so I had to go sit in the cooler for like an hour after that. I was like, I was like so amped. Wow. Speaking of restaurants, since Taco Bell is a super fancy restaurant,

did you... Resort. Resort. Resort the best transition I could come up with that one right there. That's good. Did you see what the Taco Bell announced as far as raising their general managers up to? I thought this was kind of neat. So a general manager of Taco Bell, somebody who manages one location.

Correct. Okay. 100K year. What? Right? You make six viable career to manage a Taco Bell. You do now. It's new.

Wow. Yeah, so average country wide used to be between 50 and 80 on the top tier. Now everybody is up to 100. They're moving in. Is that mean of being burritos now $2.50? Is that a dollar whatever? No, I think it's a strategy that they are trying, which is interesting and I'm really curious to watch is,

you know, the talent pool has been declining in fast food management and, you know, and everybody's been cutting, cutting, cutting, cutting and becoming more efficient and AI and all these things like that, that they are kind of going back to, let's see if we could actually get some really qualified good people to come in here and run these facilities and make a difference. And, you know, that's interesting, man. $100,000 a year for to GM a talk about. Now mind you, I know, like, so I have a client. First of all, it's a lot of work, too.

Yeah, you know, I have a client of mine that. Right, right. They manage several million, like, one location makes several million dollars a year. And you've got, you know, quite a few employees had managed to probably somewhere between 30 plus employees and you've got a lot of moving parts and you've got food a few employees and managed to probably somewhere between 30 plus employees and you've got a lot of moving parts and you've got food and all that shit.

So I know that it's got to be kind of a nightmare but still 100k. You know what this reminds me of? Do you remember the movie Demolition Man? Yeah, yeah. You remember the Taco Bell with the fancy restaurant in there? Do you guys remember that? I still remember that.

Now that you say that, right? Yeah, it was like Snipes. Yeah, it was like Snipes. That's actually a good movie. Yeah, it was a great, you know, it was actually a good movie. Classic. Yeah, it was a great, you know there was one thing in that movie that I wish they would really invent. Joe's dread better. That was terrible.

Yeah, it was. Remember when he crashed the car, but in the car filled up with foam before, like, he was like it, you know, and it was stuck in there. Yeah, I feel like a big canola. I mean, we kind of do that with the, with the bags now, almost all your new cars now have airbags that shoot out of every with, which way in direction. Or it's getting super safe when it comes to that. This Quas brought to you by Organify. For those days you fall short on getting your organic veggies or whole food nutrition, Organify fills the gap with laboratory-tested certified organic superfoods to help give your

health a performance-the-added edge. Try Organify totally risk-free for 60 days by going to organify dot com that's a large a n i f i dot com and use a coupon code mine pump for twenty percent off at checkout first question is from red surf bus is it better to drop a red rep and increase weight by a larger amount or progress with smaller fractional plates? Either. They're both good. Now, here's the thing. I've experimented. Have you guys ever experimented with adding a quarter to a half pound in your workouts on an incremental slow basis? What was your guys' experience? It's a very smart strategy. Most people don't

have the patience to do it, but it's actually a great strategy. I think that's the key there. It's like, you have to be patient and you have to be proactively doing that, like every workout you're thinking about that. I don't know. I went through a phase where I did that and it did pay off for me, but it felt like more of a struggle to do it. Now, the problem is that the plates that you get now conventional plates don't go lower

than two and a half pounds. So that means if you add one on each side, you're going up by five pounds, which is sound small, but it's still a substantial amount to go up. But at one point, I used to have these collars that you put on the sides of the bar and the collars themselves weighed like half a pound or whatever. And so I'd go up by like a pound at a time. That really was actually quite remarkable. I got pretty good results by doing that.

But anyway, to answer the question, I think there's value both ways. Yeah, totally. Either way you're adding, you're adding volume in the form of adding weight to your workouts, it's progressive resistance regardless of how you do it, both ways have total value.

Yeah, I think something like, if I really got into something like powerlifting, I would totally like apply this method, like more, and be more detailed, because I'm writing down like very specifically, like each time I'm trying to progress, and I'm writing down my results, and then what I've added on, you know,

like even if it's fractional, I'm adding that on. So, it totally adds up over time. People always want us to tell them, what is better this or that? And usually it's either both. And it's almost always that, right? I'm trying to think of a case when it hasn't been. I mean, there's some examples, I guess,

that are very obvious and extreme, but for the most part, it's rarely ever, and either or, I guess, that are very obvious and extreme. But for the most part, like it's really ever in either or, it's, you know, whichever one that you probably do most of the time, the other one is super beneficial at that point because your body is got used to that and adapted to that. So doing it, doing something different is going to add more value.

So, and both have value. So there's, and I think why this, and this is part of what annoys me about our space, is that, you know, you take something and you could separate this, right? We could totally separate these two things. Two camps, immediately. Right, we could do a study, we could go for six weeks, and we could show this, control all these things, and go like, oh, what looks like that, the group A, that incrementally

went up, you know, gained, you know, 1% more strength than group B. But the truth is if group A continues on doing the same thing as group A forever, then switching things up and being group B would actually probably be the most beneficial thing. And that kind of false suit, I think, with almost everything we discussed. Now, that being said, just to be completely honest, I don't know what this is, but I rarely ever add anything under 20 or 50 pounds on the bar when I want to go up. I tend to, I just don't like adding small plates. Maybe it's an ego thing. I don't

know what caught up in that too. So I know we're not alone with that. It's just one of those things. You just kind of like pick your next amount and sometimes 20 something. You just know how you can ramp it up. Like space on the feeling of where you're at. The smallest amount is 20 pounds, which is not small. That's a big job.

And what I do is I wait till my reps get high. And then I say, oh, I can add 20 pounds and I slap, you know, 20 pounds. We used to say, so for chest back at legs, okay, so the big muscle groups, like, you're not allowed to do anything less than a quarter. That was like, that was the only way to go. Tens of fives were for arms, bro. Yeah, so like, if somebody went out, yeah, somebody slid a tent on a squad, it'd be like,

we'd laugh at each other and be like, can't do your ego. No, but totally wrong. But to be honest, it's smarter to incrementally add weight. Sure. You know, you don't necessarily, I mean, I never did with a client. I'd never train clients where I'm like, oh, looks like you're stronger.

Let's add 50 pounds. Like, I never did that. I did that to myself because, you know, I'm a, as a trainer, I train other people better than I train myself. So, but yeah, either one can definitely have value. Do the one that you haven't been doing. So if you tend to add larger amounts,

go to the fractional adding of the weight, if you tend to do the fractional one, which is probably more rare, then I'd say go the other direction. All right, next question is from caffeine and counseling. If someone is having a hard time losing body fat, how do they determine if it's due to a slow metabolism or just overeating? Okay, so first of all, if you are gaining weight or not burning body fat, you are eating more

than you're burning. So it's technically all overeating. Okay, so let's get that out. Now, that being said, okay, can you change the energy balance by speeding up your metabolism? In other words, can you get your body to burn more calories on its own by using certain strategies to speed up your metabolism? Yes, you can. So I wanna be clear there because you only gain body fat

if you're eating more calories in your burning. Now, if you're not burning very many calories, it doesn't take much to do that, but you're still eating fat if you're eating more calories in your burning. Now, if you're not burning very many calories, it doesn't take much to do that, but you're still eating more than your burning. The strategies to getting your metabolism to speed up all include lifting weights, all of them. Now, there's other things you can do. Get good sleep, you can, you know,

slowly increase your calories over time, that tends to speed up the metabolism a little bit, but you lift weights always. Because lifting weights tells the body to build muscle. It also sends a signal to the body, and this is something that we've never really talked too much about on the podcast. It actually tells your body to become less efficient with calories. We see this, and it's interesting, when you look at studies, you find that the body becomes less,

in other words, it doesn't conserve calories quite as much. It burns more through heat because it doesn't feel like it needs to. Resistance-crying tends to promote that. So when you look at somebody who gains a pound of muscle, but they're burning 500 more calories a day, one pound of muscle on its faces and burning 500 more calories. But the signal that told the body to build that pound of muscle does tell the body

to become less efficient with calories, which causes a faster metabolism. Well, wouldn't you first want to look at, if you're overeating? I mean, I would just make the most sense before you go into, like, well, I have a slow metabolism like can go in that direction. Just to really know very specifically,

like I've been tracking, I know what my maintenance is, I know that just by manipulating this amount of calories up, I could see how that affects my composition, and then go from there and then see, okay, obviously the weight training's gonna have the best effect on your metabolism and you're gonna go in that direction, but at least assess that first.

Well, I mean, like Sal said, if you're putting on body fat, regardless if your metabolism is slow, you think it's slow or not slow, you're overeating, right? So you're overeating for where your current metabolism is at. And really, nobody knows the answer to whether it's slow to you or not. Like, if you find yourself eating very low calorie

and still putting body fat on, well then and you're not satisfied with the calories you're consuming and you would like to eat more, well then sure it's slow for you. It's slower than you would like it. So work towards building it up. But if you're putting body fat on just because

you had a crazy day where you had 12 alcoholic drinks and swung by Taco Bell and had 20 tacos at the end of the night and you put on some body fat afterwards. I think it's you ate 6,000 calories. Don't wait 100 metabolism. Right. It's not the metabolism's fault, but I mean, you are the one that decides whether you think your metabolism is slow or not.

If you're putting body fat on, you're overeating. Whether regardless of that's 900 calories, you're eating from that, or it's, you know, 6,000 calories, you won't put body fat on unless you're over-consuming where your metabolic rate is. Now, here's where the value of tracking comes in, because nine out of 10 people that I've ever worked with underestimate their calories, okay? Almost every single time somebody will say,

oh, I'm eating around this much, or I'm not eating too much. And then I have them tracking back. Actually, you're eating 3,500 calories a day on average. Why? Because yeah, you had a couple of low calorie days, but then Saturday and Sunday, you ate pizza and you went out and you did this and that.

When we added all up, it averages out to quite a bit. So track, track your food, see how many calories you're actually consuming. You may be surprised, you may be shocked. You may think you have a, I can't tell you how many times I had clients tell me that slow metabolism, but in reality, it's just a too much. They just say, shit, low calories. I'm like, well, you're actually eating a lot more than you think.

Right. Next question is from Alexandria. Is not eating right after I work out slowing down my progress. Probably not. You still picked all these macro questions, guys. Hey, man. You talked all this. macro questions, guys. Hey, man. You talked all this, you know, workout component to it. You talked all this shit, then you had to pick

it all these macro questions. I spread it out because I know you guys love talking about it. I was like, trying to include you guys. I've been handling all training the conversation today. It's okay. No, no, not really. You're not really slowing down any progress.

There are studies that show, if you eat after your workout, it speeds up the part of the recovery process, which would be to replenish energy that you've expended in the muscles. That's part of the recovery process. But it really doesn't matter when you eat. If you eat later on, you still replenish those energy stores. Really, the only value that goes into eating right after you work out is if you plan on

working out again later in the day. And you need to replenish those energy stores. You know, I blame the bodybuilding community for this one. This was something that I remember when I was at anabolic window. Eat right hand. No, totally. And I remember when I was competing that this was like, one of the easiest strategies I used to lean out. So like I would work towards building my metabolism up

and consuming five, six thousand calories. And then now it's time to cut for a show, six, eight weeks out or so, and I start coming the other direction. One of my favorite things to start to restrict calories is post workout, I just stopped eating that meal. And I would try and stretch myself for as long as I could until the next, until I was like, I gotta eat. It's been, you know, it's been a couple hours after my workout.

Now, when he, who cares about this, this, this anabolic window that everybody hips up, like it's that important. What I know is that when I go into a workout, especially when I'm following a diet where I'm already eating on average a lower amount of calories, and then I go workout, I've completely depleted my glycogen stores. And if I'm still walking around, I go home from the workout, I shower,

I'm doing things around how you're fat burning. Right, my body is now I'm gonna switch over to metabolizing fat as a source of energy because I've already tapped into all my stored energy. So I used to look at it like, wow, this is a great opportunity for me to just stay busy, keep going through my day, restrict from eating for a couple more hours to maximize the fat brain.

But even that doesn't matter unless you're in a calorie deficit. Even that, if you're in a calorie deficit, then yeah, if you're not, even if you wait after your workout, it doesn't make a big difference. It literally really doesn't matter unless you again, you're working out multiple times a day and you need to replenish some energy to have another workout. Now why is this something that's pushed so hard in the fitness space? Why is this something that I even believed? Because you want you to take your product right then.

That's it. What they did is with very brilliant marketing is they ritualized the consumption of protein bars and protein shakes. And what they did is they said, hey, if you eat this right after you work out, you recover faster, build more muscle, you have to do it, then they knew if they pressured that and pushed that, people would believe it and ritualize it. And they did, they sold way more products as a result of that false belief.

But no, it's because again, post workout, you're far less likely to eat a home cooked meal, more likely to have the shake that you saved it. You're right, though. I mean, the only time it's important is if, because of you not eating right if you work out, you're missing your macro targets. That's it.

Right, so if, and that's where I would say, yes, this has a lot of value. Yeah, because you need to eat a little, you know? Right, I mean, if your body needs 150 grams of protein every day, it needs 150 grams of protein regardless if it's getting right after your workout or not. So, and if, like in my case, when I decided to start skipping that meal, you know,

if that now all sudden I lose 30, 40 grams a day that I don't get that made up somewhere else in my meals, you will then yes, that could affect my progress. But, you know, all I would do is now my other five meals that I had the day instead of having six ounces, I'm having seven or eight ounces of meat, and that would make up for that difference of now skipping that meal and not getting that protein

right afterwards. The difference of missing that anabolic window is so negligible, it's not even worth, I think, paying any attention to it. And in fact, like I said, I found it, right after a really hard workout, I'm not starving. It takes, personally, myself, it takes me a while to come down before I even want to eat. It was only in my early years of personal training and when I fell for that same myth where

I used to pound a shake right afterwards, I thought I had to get into this anabolic window, but I found for leaning out, it was one of the best strategies was for me to skip that. What about gut health? I know you guys interviewed specialists on this in terms of the timing of that. And right after you work out and your body's inflamed and then you're adding certain types of food that might add to that inflammation in excess.

Well, that's the irony. The irony is eating right after you work out could contribute to gut health issues because when you're working out and pushing yourself, you do get localized inflammation on the areas that you work out. You also get the systemic rise in inflammation, the whole body, including the gut, including the, by the way, it's, you know, when you push yourself really hard and you throw up,

or if, you know, it's part of your body doesn't want to do both, right? It wants to not have to digest while you're exerting yourself. So the gut gets inflamed along with the rest of the body. Now you're gonna throw food at it or a shake at it. Inflammation increases the odds that you're gonna get what's called intestinal hyperpermeability, meaning that food particles, protein particles, pass through the gut and

the intestine when they shouldn't into the bloodstream, your body makes some invaders. Yeah, and your body, exactly, it reacts like it's a foreign invader develops an immune response. And this may be why that protein shake that you've been having post-workout for the last five years, all of a sudden gives you gast, diarrhea, and other issues. You've developed an intolerance to it. You've actually trained your body to become intolerant to it by having it right after your hard work. Now I remember when we discussed that,

and I kind of afterwards, I remember digging into that because I found that very fascinating. And the likelihood of that is really small. Although, if you're somebody who trains like CrossFit, or you train, excuse me, really high intense, different story. Your average person who works out in the gym that does a 60-minute maps workout or whatever, the intensity level of that, you're not getting the effects of like-

But if you already have gut issues, yeah, probably not a good idea to do your hard work out. Not ideal. And again, you're splitting hairs on the actual benefits to all the science supports of doing that for insulin spike reasons and all that bullshit. Next question is from Romine Tyler. Since repetitive movement injuries are so common in the construction world, what kind of lower back work

would you suggest to keep our backs strong and healthy for years to come? Now, when you look at the lower back, you look at the spine, the lumbar spine, it's not just the muscles of the lower back that support the spine, it's all the muscles that surround the spine, which include the muscles of the core, the obliques, internal obliques, the abs,

the transverse abdominis, as muscles underneath both those, all the pelvic floor muscles, all the muscles that muscles, all the muscles that surround the lower back support the lumbar spine. So what should you do? You should do exercises that strengthen them through full ranges of motion. You should do exercises that strengthen them as they stabilize.

So a good example of simple exercise exercise helps you strengthen stabilization of the core would be like a plank or you know farmer walks is another good example one one arm farm hollow body. Yeah hollow body that's a great exercise. You want to do rotational movements with like cable chops and then you want to do counter rotational movements. This is where you're you're resisting your body's ability to rotate. You want to really strengthen the entire Surround the whole area surrounding the lumbar spine to help protect your spine. Well along those lines So I'm gonna give you some generic advice too because I've trained a lot of construction workers and two areas that I

Tend to just spend a lot of time focusing on to help them hip mobility and training your abs and core. Obviously core and abs is, it's the antagonist muscle to your low back, right? So it's what supports the low back. So you have low back issues or you have a weak low back, strengthening the opposing side is gonna be a great strategy period.

So having strong core, strong abs is a must for somebody like this. And then, you know, a lot of times low back pain, people don't realize too, just it comes from the lack of mobility in the hips. And because the hips get so locked up and tight, it pulls on that low back because it's all interconnected. And so I found I had a lot of success when I got a client to really open up their whole hip, open up their hips by doing exercises like the 90, 90 or like Doug's favorite, the Frogger, and doing moves like that that really promoted

good hip mobility and then strengthening the core to support it. And then of course the things that the boys were alluding to too, I think are very important to strengthen and have a strong back. But a lot of times the chronic pain that we feel, and this is near and dear to me, like the pain that was from my low back was, it was, it was more due to the lack of mobility that I had in my hips

and then it was then pulling on my low back and causing that. Much like with the hip flexors, that's one of those things you got to make sure, wow, doing those types of exercises that we're stimulating, the abdominals, the transverse abdominals, we're not over-emphasizing the hip flexors, which are probably already in a shortened position and being overly underutilized and not in an extended position very often. Didn't you write a really good low back pain guide? Yeah, we have one at MyPumpFree.com and it talks about some of this stuff.

Here's something else. Start to change the technique that you use at work. Working with, I never did this as a trainer until I owned my own studio and I had a physical therapist that worked in there and she was exceptional, I learned quite a bit from her. And I would see her training, her clients who worked in these types of jobs. And she would definitely do this stuff I talked about earlier,

strengthening the core stabilization exercises, counter-rotational, all that kind of stuff. But then she would also work on their technique at work. What she found was, or what I actually observed, was oftentimes their technique was bad because of what you said, poor mobility. Here's an easy one. Poor hamstring mobility. If your hamstrings are really, really tight, every time you bend over, you're going to

really round your lower back and your hips are going to be tucked underneath your great point. So she would work on their hamstring flexibility and mobility, and then their technique changed. Now when they bent over, it was more at the hips, less at the lumbar spine. So that's something else you can pay attention to. As far as pain relief is concerned or speeding up your ability to recover, from lots of repetitive work, stretching after work makes a big difference. Sonna use can help.

And red light therapy, red light therapy on your low back has can will likely speed up the recovery process that's happening with those muscles. And with that, go to mindpumpfree.com and download all of our guides. There's including that low back guide that Adam referenced. You can also find all of us on Instagram. You can find Adam at Mind Pump Adam, Justin at Mind Pump Justin, and me at Mind Pump South. Thank you for listening to Mind Pump. If your goal is to build and shape your body, dramatically

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