Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 1234: Jenny Craig DNA Decoder Plan Review, the Best Way to Build a Solid Core, the Single Most Valuable Piece of Exercise Equipment & More

Episode Date: February 22, 2020

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about the Jenny Craig DNA Decoder Plan, building a good core by only doing compound lifts and mobility exercises like the ones in MAPS Prime, the one piece of equipment they would take if the last gym in the world was on fire, and what to do when you have the right mindset to achieve your goals but have too many distractions keeping you from reaching them. Insecure people are intimidated by confident people. (4:30) Coming full circle with not caring and creating an artificial status. (7:28) Mind Pump on their old school porn stories and getting caught in the act.  (10:15) The pros and cons of cooking in a cast-iron skillet, farm-raised vs wild-caught fish, favorite cuts of Butcher Box meat & MORE. (16:36) New guidelines being put on heading in soccer. (21:57) Mind Pump on the coronavirus. (24:48) Justin Bieber reveals he has Lyme Disease. (27:15) Wayfair’s poor business model resulting in hundreds of layoffs. (29:50) Weight loss drug being pulled from the market over cancer risk. (34:34) Nike extortion case. (38:05) Mind Pump talk politics. (41:32) #Quah question #1 – Saw an ad on TV for the Jenny Craig DNA Meal Plan for weight loss. It seems like clever marketing B.S. Any viability to this? (46:27) #Quah question #2 – Can you build a good core by only doing compound lifts and mobility exercises like the ones in MAPS Prime? Or should you incorporate certain core and ab exercises as well? (52:16) #Quah question #3 - If the last gym in the world was on fire, which piece of equipment would take with you and why? (57:46) #Quah question #4 - What do you do when you have the right mindset to achieve your goals, but you have too many distractions keeping you from reaching them? (1:04:15) Related Links/Products Mentioned February Promotion: MAPS Split ½ off! **Code “SPLIT50” at checkout** Visit Butcher Box for this month’s exclusive Mind Pump offer! Use Cast Iron Cookware as an Iron Deficiency Treatment No more heading: US Soccer out with new guidelines for youth soccer Cleveland Clinic, NFLPA start program to look at ex-NFL players' brain health Justin Bieber Talks Cancelling His 2017 Tour, Contracting Lyme Disease, and Fighting Temptation Wayfair Gave Its Employees A Sour Valentine’s Day Present: Hundreds Of Layoffs Weight loss drug Belviq pulled from market over cancer risk Disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti found guilty in Nike extortion trial Trump Job Approval at Personal Best 49% Sole Man - ESPN Films: 30 for 30 Unplugged: Evolve from Technology to Upgrade Your Fitness, Performance, & Consciousness – Book by Dr. Andy Galpin Mind Pump Blog Visit Brain.fm for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners. Mind Pump Free Resources People Mentioned Dr. Dan Engle Andy Galpin (@drandygalpin)  Instagram Dr. Ben Pollack, PhD (@phdeadlift)  Instagram

If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. Mite, op, mite, op with your hosts. Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. Welcome to Mime Pump. This is the top fitness and health podcast in the world. In this episode, we answer health and fitness questions asked by our audience. But we open up the episode with our introductory conversation where we talk about our lives, we tell stories, we mention our sponsors, we bring up scientific studies.

Here's what went on in today's episode. We start out by talking about old school porn. That's right. Well, somehow we make it back to that. We grew up during the age of no internet porn, and we had to get very creative. Oh, the good old days. Yeah, so we tell some stories there.

Then we talk about cooking in a cast iron skillet. Believe it or not, when you cook in a cast iron skillet, you actually add iron to your diet. So it's actually an interesting way to raise your iron levels. But I talk about how I cooked butcher box steak in there. Now butcher box is a company that delivers grass-fed meats to your door, heritage pork,

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with your head and soccer in the UK. They're now starting to put limits on under 18 players. We talk about the coronavirus and what's going on over in China, which leads me to talk about just them beaver and Lyme disease, because you know, it goes good with the coronavirus. Lyme disease. Come on, man.

Then we talked about wayfair and how they... You planned that like for a while. It just came up, dude. It's like, I don't know about that. Then we talked about the wayfair, the company, how they're cutting their staff. I talked about the weight loss drug, Belvic, and how it's being removed from the market

because it causes cancer. Uh-oh. We talked about Nike, X-Jut, the old way. Extortion. There's a documentary around that. Adam totally forgot the documentary name, but 10 minutes later, pop it up. I talked about, I talked about, I talked about the latest Gallup poll that shows Trump's economic approval or through the roof. Then we talk about Bernie Sanders and how he wants to destroy the country. Then we got into the fitness questions.

The first question was, was, this person says, hey look, I saw an ad on TV for the Jenny Craig DNA meal plan for weight loss. What's the deal? Is it good? Is it baloney? We give our opinion. The next question, this person says,

can you build a good core by only doing compound lifts like squats and deadlifts? So we talk about training the core. Good, not great. And whether or not you need to work it directly. The next question, this person says, look, if the last gym on Earth is on fire, what piece of equipment do you save?

So we talk about our favorite pieces of equipment. Let's hope it was a planet fitness. And the final question. This person says, look, I have the right mindset, but I keep getting distracted. Give me some advice, please. By the way, in that part of the episode, we mentioned something called brain FM.

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and I look at you guys and I think handsom. Yeah, hands. That's it. It's one word. Is that word just pop so? This episode one, two, three, four, by the way. Oh, is it? Hey, who wants to three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, three, four by the way. Oh, is it? Hey, who wants to do five, five, six, seven, eight, nine,

ten, eleven, twelve. So Justin can go up to 12. How about you Adam? That's it. That's all I have. That's as much as I got. 13. Yeah, because he can get to 12.

Because he's got throwin' on. You got to win again. You got to succeed. Yeah. I always got to win. Damn it. I mean Adam, it's like an age old battle. Yeah. What do you always say Adam? You have biggest strength as your biggest weakness. Yeah, I always got a win. I mean Adam, it's like an age old battle. Yeah, what is that?

What do you always say Adam? The biggest strength is your biggest weakness. Yeah, your greatest strength is your greatest weakness. Yeah, yeah. One of these days, you're gonna, you know, like in movies, it's like when you like you encounter a demon and he's like in order to escape, like he gives you like some kind of riddle.

Yeah, like you must lose. Oh, I don't lose. Oh, no. No. You must willingly lose. You're sold as mine for eternity. Yeah, that's what would happen I don't know man. It's how you win a lot with us. I don't know what what that is Huh, you don't you care the least about it. Yeah, you that's why it's humble is the word that

You know that way. Can you play as I say can you put humble in your name and say since I don't know you totally Yeah, I'm the humblest. The most humble. I so want to ask you, I already wrote the question, was somebody asked me on my Q and A other day, and I was like, will the humble answer be no, but the truth is yes. Yes, I knew I was going to do that.

Have you ever been told you're cocky? Be honest. Yeah, of course. Of course. You mean today? Yeah, like what time? How many hours? Well, you know what though,

in the defense of... Yourself? Yeah, in myself, and anybody else that's been labeled as cocky before, insecure people are intimidated by confident people. Yeah, they need a word for that. It's their fault. It is their fault. Yeah, it is their fault. They can deal with that.

I've been caught in your insecure. I've been called cocky, but it's not because I'm confident. Bing. I would, I would say my boot cocky. Whoa. Whoa. Wow. Just had to go one more step further right there.

That's not a good category of video. Just wound up it. Don't look at that. Yeah, that's a group effort. Yeah, you don't want to do that. Yeah, anyway. What are you drinking there, Adam? Is that just water?

Just water. I've got a hydrate. I'm still hydrating from last year. Yeah. You know what I'm doing right now? I'm sweating weird. What do you mean by that? So my hands are sweaty.

It's probably your hippie deodorant's making it. And come on, you don't know where deodorant. Hands are sweaty and my knees are sweaty. Poms are sweaty. Moms are sweaty. Moms are sweaty. I have no idea why. It's what he needs.

I know, right? It's a big, old man thing. Is it really? It's what he needs caps. That's why I'm going to start wearing. Is that a stress thing? That's why I'm starting wearing shorts like this. Did I ever tell you guys when I used to go work with my dad? He, cause you know, you guys think I don't care.

You haven't met my dad, right? Is where you get it from? Oh well, you mean he's always, it was a poor Sicilian. I don't even think he knows he's supposed to care. I would go to work with him and he would wear, you know, work pants and my dad, because the way he grew up, he ain't gonna buy nothing new until the old stuff is destroyed and disintegrated.

It's like no reason. He's on my work pants, right? So he'd wear work pants until they were just shredded and then he would have my, my mom cut them to shorts, but they were hellish short and they're like right here. So he would wear. Serious shorts. That's embarrassing. And then he would continue to wear them so that the bottom were frayed.

Listen, if the pockets are longer than the shorts, if the pockets are longer than the shorts, you can't do that unless you're checking. Well, and the worst, that is a rule. Me and my cousin, we were like 14, 15, and my dad's cool so you could tease him. And we'd make fun of him for his little short shorts. And you'd be like 14, 15, and my dad's cool, so you could tease him. And we'd make fun of him for his little short shorts. And you're like, that's, like,

Papa, that's girls wear shorts, I can't wear that. And he goes, oh yeah, you think so, huh? And then he would have, you'd wrestle us and kick our ass. Nice. Yeah, so you can't, you can't make fun of a guy wearing short shorts who beats you up. No, you think you're gonna throw it on? Do you think we're gonna come full circle with stuff like that?

Like, I hope not. But no, I mean not so much the short shorts, but they're not caring like about materialistic things. Oh, because we, you know, I feel like I'm starting to see that lately. Right, everywhere I go. And we predict that. That's what's your peers, cause I'm old.

Much of, yeah, that could be that, people. I can't give you that, it's just because a bunch of old friends, because we are now in our 40s that we hang out with other people in their 40s and they just don't give a shit. They gave up 10 years ago, so that maybe that's why. You know what's, no, I just mean because things

are becoming more readily available, and in our lifetime, I think we all agree that clothes and sneakers and anything that can be printed by a 3D printer. Oh, do you mean everybody just can be aware of what they want? Yeah, and so then- It loses its status.

Yeah, you're right. Like, and I'm sure something will replace it, right? That I can't predict or figure out, because I still think that we will have, we still will find a way to create a hierarchy amongst us. Like right now, that's clothes and cars and things are a way that people create. Well cars are official status. Cars don't even matter that much with kids like they use.

No, they don't already. And high school nobody cares. Yeah. You know, when I was when I was kid, that cars were you know, I had all kinds of car magazines I subscribe to. Yeah. That was a thing. Like you like I remember just thumbing through car magazines

and like, oh man, I would love to have like you really, no kid gives a shit about. What was that time you see a kid looking at a car magazine? You guys remember Maxum? Yeah, they don't. Yeah. Whatever happened to Maxum. They still exist.

They have a website right there. Pull up Maxum.com. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they, they just, they just, they just, they just, you know, some of these big magazines, you know, like your Playboy, that's still a magazine,

but also it's just hard. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pull that one up. Yeah. So Maxim exists, huh? Yeah, look, yeah. Oh wow, look at that.

See, I used to, see, now Maxim. Now Maxim, like GQ now. Maxim was basically how you got away with getting a magazine, with girls on it with your parents. That wasn't porn. Right. Because it would have the car on the cover. Yeah. And Mom, that was the worker parents. That wasn't porn. Right. Because it would have the car on the cover. Yeah.

And mom, that was the worker. She would never open it. Yeah. I mean, so she's always reading about cars. No, I'm not. Did you ever do that trick where you'd have like the magazine cover that was different than the actual magazine? Oh my God, dude.

You know what I did? You know what I did? One's almost got caught. So this was the jam. Kids have no idea. When you had a dirty magazine and you're going to go take a shower, what you do is you take the dirty magazine, you fold it in half and then wrap the towel around it, walk into the bathroom, right? And as you guys have done that, and then it falls out of the towel.

No, this is just right. You brought it with you in the shower? In the bathroom. You understand? Because I got to pull it out my hiding spot. I pull it from the hiding spot, wrap it in the bath towel, and then I'm holding it like oh, I'm gonna go take a shower now, right? But I'm actually bringing the bathroom. I see so I bring it in there one time and it fell out of the top out of the towel Yeah, and it hit the ground and my mom was standing right there and I kicked it under the door. No, I was like Probably it's the most matrix thing I've ever done my life. You got away with it? No, but he's nothing.

Proud. I was proud that I better than me. I got caught a few times. You got, you know, what? You know what? It doesn't surprise me at all. Yeah, I did. Mr. I had an apple on my face yesterday.

You just slap me. I have like clean up skills. Oh, whoa. How'd you get caught? Dude, I did. Did you have it? did you stick it to the chow wall? I told this story in the very beginning of the podcast where it was like, I, I base this, this is in the era of like AOL, you know, where stuff like, you know, is available online

all of a sudden and it's this whole new world. And I printed it and it took about an hour, but it was so worth it. You know, I don't even know if it went all the way through. It was like, you know like three quarters of the way. I'm like, that's enough. Snatch. And then brought that with me in the shower.

So I actually put it up in the corner where it wouldn't get water. Just for inspiration. It's just there. And then you forgot to take it out. It left it in there when mom found it. Oh my goodness. What a hundred percent.

No way out of that too. No, no, no. No way. Or like, oh, you know that fell out of my pocket. Yeah. That's dead. And mounted itself for the bathroom shop. You know the worst part about that is I'm sure they had like counseling and things around

it, you know, because they probably went to the pastor where like, you know, trying to figure out how to like approach me. No. You know, because they sat me down and they're like trying to discuss, like, I told you my mom ever. I wasn't like, oh my God, don't wanna talk about this. Was it a really bad one or was it just regular nudity? No, it was like aggressive two girls and a guy kind of a thug.

Oh yeah. So it was so impressive. Dude, the dirty movie I almost got caught with, I can't even say the title on this podcast. That's how bad it was. Wow. Yeah, and my mom, you were bad early then, huh?

Oh yeah. And my mom tried to grab it out of my hand because I was watching my cousins, she walks in. I hit, eject and the VCR back in those days took forever to eject. So it's like, you hit the button. It's like me, me, me, me, me, me, me. And then she's like walking up and I grab it. And she's like, what is button, it's like, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, and then she's like walking up and I grab it.

And she's like, what is that? What's that movie? And I have the title looking rad at me. And she just read the title, it would have broke her heart. So I literally, this is what it causes a true story. I was snap it off. 14 years old, I crushed it. Yeah.

I crushed it with my bare hands. That was pure fear generated there. Oh, I just, and I remember the, when AOL first hit the scene, right? And in printing off nude photos that you wouldn't need to have to wait, right? For the window that one of our moms went, yeah, but yeah,

but to the store, something, and I remember like, you know, her pulling up and then, like, come on, come on, come on, hurry up. We a little bit further, we're almost there. Like I remember that, dude. But says, one buddy is like standing watch at the window. You know, she's coming, she's pulling up right now.

She's pulling up. I got a story for you. So you know how when you try to print something, if it doesn't print, because there's a paper jam, or something like that, it keeps it in queue. Yeah, okay, it's having my cousin, dude. No. Yes, my cousin was going to print some shit

and got his copy, something happened, didn't come out, but it was in the queue, little sister doing a report, hits print, oh, guess what, oh, we need paper, puts a paper and guess what comes out first. Naked shit. Naked stuff, right on the printer. Oh, the good old days, right? Yeah, now it's easy, see this.

Now, yeah, it we'll be cares. You know what's crazy now is that you're seeing because how accessible pornography is, it's actually a problem. Yeah. It was a good thing that it was hard to get to when we were younger because now your kids have a retpal dysfunction and pornography addiction.

So just there's no way too much, way too soon. It's too, it needs to be. It's a problem. Yeah, there's no way too much, way too soon. It's too, you know, it's too, it needs to be. It's a problem. Yeah, it's like you have to, well look what you're gonna have to fight for it. Well, look what you're getting on Instagram now. Like what you get, you in, at what we're getting on Instagram today

is more graphic than what I was looking at in magazines or what I was printing off online that I was super, it would get me in trouble, right? Like that, a normal, just a random girl's Instagram feed today would get me in trouble for looking at that just, you know, two decades ago. Yeah, so, you know, and so imagine if you're a kid where that's like, you see that all the time, you have to escalate that to the next level. Do you? Well, you don't get arouse by that anymore, because it's everywhere. I used to watch the scrambled channel.

You guys remember that? Yes, this is when, so back in the day, you used to do the satellite back from G6 to N7, and you do toggle it back and forth. N7, G6 and that's a satellite. You see a bunch of snow, and then every now and then you get a moan. Yeah. Yeah.

One nipple. Yeah. You know what I'm talking about? and you get like a moan. You're like, yeah. When nipple, you know, pops up. Look at that. That's crazy. Yeah, dude. Oh man. And GCP, catalog or whatever, like that's what that's the extent of it. Crazy. Crazy.

Anyway, dude, I wanted to tell you guys something very interesting. What's that? So Jessica got some blood tests and stuff done to look at her nutrient levels and her iron levels, which were low before. They were kind of low before. Now are in the upper limit and so now where she's like, oh, I got to be careful with eating red meat, like how did this happen? Now part of it is she started eating some organ meats and organ meats in particular liver, super nutrient dense. But do you know what the other reason why

her iron level started to get pretty kind of high? Because we cook our steak in a cast iron skillet. I forget about that. Did you know that? Yeah, I had definitely heard about that. When you cook food in a cast, and this is not necessarily a bad thing, it depends, right? If you have too much iron or supplementing with iron,

you might want to be careful. But if you cook food in an iron skillet, some iron goes into the food. I think it's between four to eight milligrams, depending on what you cook in there. Now, the bad part is I love cooking steak in a cast iron skill. It's my favorite thing. Oh, it's one of the best. Oh, dude, we got the New York strip from But from butcher box. Mm-hmm. And she, I don't know, I don't cook. I don't I don't do a lot of cooking, but she puts this like garlic

marinade on it, puts it in the skillet both sides, throws in the oven. Oh my. So you sear the outsides, right? Yes. You use this and you put it in the oven. I don't even like barbecue the rest. I don't like barbecue. I know. It's exact. I know. Well, especially if I'm doing like a filet, you know, one of their filets like I do that all the time from butcher box I love that dude That's the New York cut you got from that. I haven't used I haven't or bought that That's but actually it's about the only thing I think I have. Oh, it's tried almost everything Yeah, so the rib eyes good the New York believe it or not usually like rib eye more

But I like their New York more has either one of you guys had their fish yet. I haven't had their fishy That's the other thing I haven't had. I know they're doing something right now. They were doing something for Valentine's Day. I know they did something for the salmon and the flame and you all. I saw that. Yeah, I was like, oh, that would have been a good idea. So have you had their salmon?

I have. I've had their wild, it's wild salmon. It's some of the healthiest salmon you can get. And it's good. It's very good. But you know, there's a difference between farm-raised salmon and taste and the wild stuff. The wild stuff is leaner. It's a lot leaner. So you have to be care, you can't overcook it. If you overcook it. Yeah, it cooks fast. Yes.

Do you know, maybe Doug can fact check this? I don't know if someone told me this. Sure, I could fast. Right it somewhere. But you know that fish that are in farms, they change their sex. What? Yeah, because they're confined so much together that they... Is that prison? I don't think it's the same idea. Like, fuck it, there's no way out there. Look up farm-fished change sex.

I think that's a thing, Doug. I think that's a habit. I think they do that in order to mate, right? No, no, no, no, no, it's not a good thing. It's something that happens when they're only in farms. It doesn't happen in wild. You know what they do to some salmon that's farmed? They add, they die it.

So when you buy it at the store, it looks nice and pink. Oh yeah. I have a chance against like that. Now here's a thing with farmed fish. That's probably the future of fish. It's, if you think about it, fish is one of the only widely consumed foods that we still hunt in the wild. Like we don't do that with beef or we don't do that

with lots of other stuff, but fish we still fish in the ocean. And because of the, because there's so many people on earth and how much we're consuming, farmed maybe just the future. And there are different ways of farming that are a little better. Of course, still today, wild is your best bet.

Were you ever to fact check me, Doug? Yeah, it looks like it's tilapia. Only tilapia does. So what they're doing is they're using some type of hormone drug to change females to males. And that makes larger fish. In a shorter period of time. What's Jones was right.

Hold on, what if those, this is okay. What was the conspiracy that those chemicals are getting in our water? It's something like that. Really? What was the whole thing with frogs? What did you say? Alex Jones conspiracy about misty? Alex Jones, conspiracy about.

I missed it. Frogs changing the, or sex. Doug, didn't you, have you guys done the ribs from? Yeah. I have not yet. I did them last weekend for the first time. How did you cook them? I actually went to Tragger to get the recipe

because I have a Tragger grill. Yeah, yeah. And it's called, I think, fall off the bone ribs. Takes three hours to do them. Oh, okay. Amazing. I saw, I had, I didn't do butcher box hours to do them. Oh, okay. Amazing. Amazing. I didn't do butcher box, but I did the Traeger recipe.

So that's normally where I get my recipes. As Traeger's got some killer recipes. And Traeger also sponsors some of these barbecue guys. So I like to get my butcher box meat, but then I actually go to Traeger because I have a grill also. And actually get a lot of their recipes and cook them in.

And I've had, I did the fall off the bone one, but I wasn't the time I did it. I didn't have butcher boxes ribs at times. So I'll have to try those. They were really good though. Did it fall off the bone? It did. My friends who are food snobs,

I mean, they spent a lot of money going to San Francisco and eating at nice restaurants that these are the best ribs they've ever had. Oh wow. They've been to all types of different barbecue places in the area. Wow. I gotta say, I did a pretty good job.

Well, you're a whole bunch of things. It helps have good meat to start with. Doug is a good cook, isn't it? Yeah. I love it when you cook for us. Dude, did I tell you guys, I didn't bring this up. I don't think I did. Did I tell you guys about the heading limits

that they're starting to put in soccer in the UK? Oh, because of concussions and CTE. Soccer. Soccer. So under 18, now they're starting to put in soccer in the UK. Oh, because of concussions in the CTE. Soccer. Soccer. So under 18, now they're putting limits on how often or how they allow them to hit and head the ball. The sense because of volume, right? Yes.

And I know this. I don't have the name on it. I thought I saved it, but I didn't. I don't have a guy's name, but there was a famous UK soccer player who died, I believe before the age of 60 from CTE, from playing soccer. Wow, I didn't know there was a case like that in soccer. Yes, from soccer.

Well, I thought I saw somewhere that they actually said that it's worse, that heading the ball is worse than like most football hits. No. Really? Yes. I could have sworn I read that somewhere too, where if someone gets up, if someone heads,

and think about that, a ball traveling at like 40 miles an hour at you and you jump and hit it with your head. Yeah. It's because it's more of the vibration than I think is the actual impact, right? It's the, the brain bouncing off the back of your skull, right? That's what causes concussions, right? Well, what it is is the, it's not, of course,

what is it called when you get knocked unconscious? Concussions, concussions are bad, but what's causing the problems is just the repeated blows. It's just the over and over. That's why boxing has, that's why boxing can be so bad. It's not the knockouts, it's that they wear gloves and that that allows you to pound someone in the head without hurting your hand. Yeah, that's why UFC knockouts, it's that they wear gloves and that that allows you to pound someone

the head without hurting your hands. That's why UFC is healthier, right? And that's why bare knuckle boxing would probably be safer. Not for your obviously your skin and bones, bare knuckle break your hands. Yeah, and you can't just pound someone that doesn't allow you to just keep going. So yeah, that's the thing, too.

And any impact, any physical impact where you're like colliding with somebody. All these sports are going to be susceptible to CTE when they start really appearing into that. It's interesting. I've been looking into that a lot. I saw there was this Dr. Dan, something I forget, but he runs a clinic. I think it's in Vegas, but they do a lot of treatments for CTE

and they were using, I think it was like, psilocybin, they were like using, or what? Yeah, they were using like some unconventional methods to try and treat it. I wanna look, I wanna even have them on the show, I'm gonna look into that because I'm really interested in treating and getting ahead of this

before it becomes a problem. Well, you guys remember when I told you about Crating and how they're finding that that helps prevent brain trauma? Right. I actually got a DM from somebody who got in a car accident and had a concussion, started supplementing with Crating right afterwards and he said he noticed

a pronounced difference. No, interesting. And his recovery from taking the Crating, which I think is absolutely fascinating. Wow, wow. Hey, what's going on with the coronavirus right now? I keep getting mixed. Dr. Dan Engel, sir, making it up mixed messages from him.

So, should we be scared? Are we worried? Well, so we thought that the cases flattened out, but now it turns out they didn't, they're actually spiking. So there's far more cases, and Chinese state-run television announced on its website that everyone returning to Beijing is required to isolate themselves for two weeks.

So anybody going to Beijing from other parts of China, they're required to isolate themselves. And they're also saying that anyone who does not comply will be held accountable according to law. So what's also happening over there right now, which is really crazy, is you have people who are making videos, like social media videos, getting them out into the internet

and saying things like, you know, they're not letting us out of our house, I can't visit family or they took away my aunt or whatever. And then next thing you know, video gets taken down. That person no longer be heard, probably thrown in jail or whatever. It's getting really, it's interesting. It's very interesting in the trouble with a country like China that is so centrally controlled is that it's hard to know what to believe. Because they have a history of, I mean, all these state run media, all these communists or centrally planned governments

tend to put out news that's not true. I mean, we have enough trouble here with our media, but at least our media is a little bit worse. They don't like individuals, like just putting it out there without them screening it first. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, they just showed that, I think something like 1700 health Chinese healthcare workers came down

with the coronavirus. Wow. So yeah, I don't think we should be scared, but it did surpass SARS. Remember when SARS was a big deal? But it still pales in the comparison to the... And this was all like like centrally located China like in mainland China not like towards the coast most of it

Yeah, now North Korea that shares a border with China And a lot of the the people who are infected are around that area They said they have zero of course. No. No. We have nothing here in North Korea in scientists are like that's impossible Yeah, there's impossible. There's no way you guys are so close. There's no way you guys don't have any infections coming in here. But again, North Korea. That's Korea, yeah, I don't know.

They don't seem to tell the truth. That information is there. Speaking of illness, you guys hear about Justin Bieber? No. He's got Lyme disease. Oh, really? Yeah, he... When did that come out?

Recently, he revealed that he got a diagnosis of Lyme disease. That's a tough one to deal with. It is because the symptoms can be pretty bad and pretty, and sometimes general. Do you ever really get rid of it, either? It seems to stay for a while. You can if you treat it early. Is it considered not all immune? No, no, no, it's an actual disease you get. And I believe, I don't know if they're bacteria, I think they're considered bacteria, but they burrow themselves in your body and they can cause all kinds of different problems.

And the treatment for Lyme disease, at least the conventional treatment is a long, heavy, heavy dose of antibiotic. Isn't it where it originally came from, like, ticks or someone like that? Which is that what, is that the only way you get it still? It's still in what I know. Well, you get it from ticks and then there is some

controversies to whether or not it can be transmitted through sexually transmitted, sexual contact. The official statement is that you can't, but then a lot of people are saying, no, I think you can. But it's crazy because it's something that causes like fever, joint pain, fatigue, neurological type issues.

Sometimes you'll get it and then you won't get any symptoms for years. Or you'll get crazy symptoms and they'll go away. Then they'll come back. Yeah, I knew a few people had it and then one that had symptoms, a lot like mono, like where they just were so extremely fatigued, they couldn't do any. I know somebody. I've had clients. You guys never had clients that have it? I don't think I know.

Oh, I've had a couple of clients. I've not put a lot of clients that I've had it. Yeah, and it is. It's so like they could be totally fine one day and then the next day just fatigued. And that's a good, I think it's a good example. Like it's like mono, like they just, they're so fatigued, we can tired,

but they could have been just perfectly fine the day before. So I had a friend, a friend of the family who got lime and one of her symptoms was she would have ravenous, insatiable hunger. Like now she was normal body weight, didn't have any issues with food or anything like that. Once she got the lime, her appetite was so ravenous.

She gained, I mean, she got her body weight over like 300 pounds. Wow. And she's like, she tries to explain it. She says, my appetite, she's like, it's not a normal appetite. And it was never satisfied, like even after a big meal. No, she said she'd be stuffed and couldn't eat anymore, but she would still have this ravenous appetite. That's terrible.

And she said, yeah, it's a terrible, terrible feeling to have. Yeah. Wow., rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, I haven't just seen them off of 580 that they just built that massive like right when you I think it's Let me think you're I'm try I think it's like Tracey area. Yeah, no, so right when you're heading off of oh right when you come over the the ultimate pass And then you see they built this massive one you can also buy stuff online right there Yeah, so that's what they're known for and I remember with Katrina wheat So we bought was half of our furniture'sfer, the other half is from the other, like their competitor and I can't think of the name, I'll top my head and there's,

that one's not too, there's wafer right there. But Kea, no, no, it's not, actually it's really nice. So wafer and the other company that I can't think of right now are they, and what makes them really competitive and not like Kea is although they have some comparable things, like so you'll go to these warehouses and they are bigger than any mall or any shop or anything I've ever been in my life. They're just, they're fucking massive. And they have it set up where it's like, okay, you go to like kitchen dining sets,

like that's what we're shopping for. And they have it for things that I wouldn't say as cheap as Ikea, but like reasonably priced, like on the lower end, to all the way to like super custom, very expensive and everything in between. So if you can imagine like a store the size of target, of that would be just the section of dining rooms. Oh right, so that's what I'm saying. And it would be like everything,

everything from that cheap, like you're saying, all the way in everything in the middle and I'm Remember telling Katrina when we were shopping. I'm like how the how the hell they make this profitable like just the square footage Building right the their prices are unbelievably competitive. I don't get it and I this article popped up in my feed The other day Just like a showroom or do they actually buy on site? No, so it's the showroom that massive. What's the, do you know the living spaces?

Thank you, Doug. Living spaces is the other company. And they both have, there's living spaces in Fremont. You guys have driven by it, I guarantee. This is one over here, buy it. I'm on Blossom Hill and what is that? It's next to, is there one over here, Doug? Yeah, there is, right by over here, no?

They just opened it. They just opened it. They just opened it. I mean, these things are, I mean, when you're driving on a free-mot, you'll see they have, and not only do they have this massive showroom, like warehouse size I'm telling you, is literally the size of probably three or four cascows

could fit inside of it. Then they also have the warehouse is that store all the furniture, which is probably 10x. Yeah, the size of it. And I remember telling Katrina, it doesn't mathematically make sense to me. So anyways, this comes in my feed just to have the day,

that Wayfair lays off, I think 550 employees, so 3% of their working staff, stock drops, like 28%. And they've been in business for 14 years and they still are not profitable. So it's one of these businesses that have been playing for the long game that just nobody is ever going to buy a furniture from stores and the future is all online. And so they've been running it for 14 years in the red. Like you have to have so much capital to be able to do that and you have to be banking on that in order,

and I don't know who is behind it financially. I don't know if you can find out who way, fair, and who living spaces, but they're a New York based company. So they're East Coast and they've made their way over here. But I've seen them popping up all over the valley and now the bay and they are just massive. Wow. You know, I would never, you know, and to anybody who's in the retail business, like, good for you,

but what a difficult, the cost, the capital requires to start that kind of a business. The margins are not phenomenal whatsoever. The amount of people you need to run something like that, it's just a big monster, you know what I mean? And that's why they fail oftentimes. So you neither one of you guys have actually been in one of these though, huh? No, actually I wouldn't mind checking it out because there is that component to buying,

you know, stuff for your house. Like I do want to go physically and look at things a lot of times. It is kind of, they're dope. I mean, you see the way my house is staged right now. That's from walking through those. Like we literally put like rooms together. You know what I like to do for that?

Is I like to go to model homes and see how they staged their houses. Oh yeah. I love doing that. Just walking through and seeing how they're doing. And a lot of them get that from these places. Sure, yeah, absolutely. They get it from these places and it's,

but now it makes sense to me that they've just been running it. They're betting in the long game that this is how everybody will buy a furniture in the future because it's, but now it makes sense to me that they've just been running it. They're betting in the long game that this is how everybody will buy a furniture in the future because it just, it didn't get a scary business model. I know, though, right? Like seriously. So I got some news about a drug that just got pulled off or is about to get pulled off the market. And I find this fascinating because the R FDA that approves drugs is one of the most extensive regulatory

processes that exists. I don't remember what the cost was to get a drug from inception to FDA approval, but it's 10 years. I think it's $100 million in the same amount of money because the regulations around are incredible. And yet stuff like this happens all the time. So there's a weight loss drug called Belvic. And Belvic now is going to get pulled off the market because it's been shown to increase the risk, significantly increased the risk of cancer, including pancreatic and lung cancer. So now it's going to get pulled off the market. One billion dollars to get to market.

Yep. Oh, one billion. My bad. That is crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, but you know, here's the thing too, our regulatory agency, you know, I understand that we want to go crazy with how safe we things are. But you know what that actually does?

It actually prevents a lot of innovation and a lot of drugs from coming to market. Of course it does. Because the cost is just crazy. And when you, let's say you're going to come out with a new pain medicine, are you going to just manipulate an opiate that you know, they all kind of work? Or do you want to go with a new radical new innovation?

That might not work. That might not work. That's why you see like a million different variations of chemotherapy, opiates, and shit like that. And you don't see like a lot of innovation because the cost is insane. And yet still, this stuff happens like this all the time. You have a drug that I got approved,

it went through the whole thing, got approved, and now they're like, oh, it causes cancer. Imagine how irritating that is. You take this drug, and the way it works is fine. How long was it on the market? I don't know. Yeah, because I mean, a study to find out if it causes cancer, that must have taken a long time.

Well, sometimes we don't find things out until people have been using them for a long time, and you look at generational studies. This is why I tend to opt for nature. And it's antibiotics, it's examples. And the reason why I always go the nature out when people compare, what about artificial sweeteners versus natural sweeteners? The reason why I'll typically go natural

is because natural stuff has been used for thousands of years. So although we don't have, maybe you know, maybe didn't have to pass FDA trials and stuff like that, although it did pass certain ones, it's because it's been used for so long and humans have been observing what it does and what it doesn't do for so long, that to me is more trustworthy than the $1 billion FDA approval process, which literally every single day drugs get taken off the market because they find

out that they cause some bit. Do you know what the number is? Is it like, A drug gets pulled off every day is is it like is it like a drug gets pulled off every day or is it like I don't remember maybe that can find it but like how many yeah how many drugs a year get pulled off because that's crazy to me to think that you go through the billion dollar process to get it done it's out and and everyone's taking it for five ten years and then it gets pulled off like that's crazy yeah what was that one

there was that one and some and some not all I mean of course most of them don't make the news it's usually the big ones that make the news What was that one? There was that one and some and some and that all I mean of course most of them don't make the news It's usually the big ones that make the news there was that one arthritis drug a while ago That they pulled off because they saw that caused you know heart damage and problems with the heart But this stuff happens all the time Doug did any any luck finding No numbers yet, okay, but I do know that it happens a lot That drugs get pulled off all the time What was the the Nike extortion thingortion thing that Doug was talking about?

What was that all about, Doug, that somebody tried to start Nike? I read a little bit of that. Like there was this lawyer that represented stormy Daniels, I think, about whole case, right? So this guy's already kind of a shuckster. I don't know. I guess he had been in a meeting with Nike

and basically was kind of confronting them, telling them he knew information about some leads about like shenanigans in the high school level of them paying for athletes. That's been happening forever. That's been part, so there's a good documentary on, oh God, I think it's HBO that did a good one. And I don't know the name of my head. But it's like, it was all about the sneaker culture

and like how that all got started. Yeah. And how they started a first influence kid. So and Nike was the ones who did that. And I cannot think of the guy. There's a, oh, the documentary is about the guy who's responsible for that. Michael Avanari. Not him though. No, that's not him. No, no, that's not for that. Michael Avanati. Not him though. No, that's not him. Yeah, so he, I mean, basically he was trying to extort money from them. It's basically like quiet him about all this information

that apparently he had or whatnot. And then in court, he was trying to like defend himself. Like he was just, you know, he was just trying to play hard negotiations, you know, with them in terms of like him being able to represent them in other cases. So it started off as something really brilliant and then got really corrupt, right? So I think it was one of the most brilliant moves ever made. I can't think of the guy who did it for Nike originally, but he was smart.

He went and saw these programs with kids in high school and stuff like that and that they didn't have gear. They had to go buy their own stuff and said, wait a second, these are all the athletes of the school. Yeah, these are the future of college and potential professional athletes. Let's give them all Nike shoes. Let's hook them all up with Nike shoes and get these kids wearing all this gear and they give to them for free. Makes sense.

And because that became such a money maker for Nike, because it became so popular, now that they would just, they start swooping up all these schools, because it became such a big deal, it became a back door thing now. Like, okay, I'll tell you what, it's coaches, you know, as a high school coach, I would say, yeah, I'll let you do sponsor all my kids, but I

want a kick back of X amount of dollars. So it started off as a really brilliant way for Nike to market, and then it got shady and dirty like anything does where there's money involved, and that's exactly what happened. But really though, the guy who did it, he did it first with Nike, then I think he went over work for Adidas for a little bit. I wish I knew the name of the documentary. I felt maybe Jack you'll remember, because I know I've talked about that documentary

about a year ago. It was a really good documentary, but they kind of get into that. And it sounds like that's what this is connected to is that there still is, even though they've been, it's already been out, outed about all this. Are you looking for right now, Doug? Yeah, Nike documentary?

No, I don't think that's- There's a lot of Nike documentary. I've not realized there was so many. Yeah, no, I'll look it up and I'll find, maybe I'll put it in my story so people know. I think I posted it in my story when it first came out. So it's been a while since this was, we've talked about this,

but I think it's connected and tied to that. And I'm sure he's got inside information of it still going on. Interesting. Interesting. So are you guys ready for this presidential election to start heating up or what? Yeah, you said this is what?

We're the front runners now. Oh, dude. So, well, Trump's gonna be so hard to beat. A Gallup poll just came out and Trump received the highest approval rating for any president in the last two decades. 63% of the public support his handling of the economy, which I mean, let's be honest, the economy is, this is one of the best economies we've had in a very, very long time. And it's hard to beat that.

Yeah, that's a hard one to fight. It's very, very hard to fight and unless the economy takes a dump or something happens, I don't see anybody challenging him. As of the recording of this podcast, Bernie Sanders seems to be doing pretty well. I do not see him beating trump at all

soul man okay soul man is the name of the documentary and i did bring about i talked about it before sunny sunny valcro or valko is the the guy that was behind yeah like a rich it's a really good documentary so what if you're interested in the nightly story and all that he's gonna run as democrats didn't the dnc like pretty much snub him last time?

They did. So we'll see what happens if they end up giving him the nomination. But I really, I mean, Tulsi still in running. She's not even Tulsi. But you know, here's something that he just said, you know, Bernie Sanders just proposed

a full government takeover of electricity production. So let's just centralize energy production in America. And the way he, as if it's not centralized enough with PG&E. Oh, and you know, it's a kid even more. I know. And what a terrible idea to give them that much power

and control. I mean, I, you know, I used, I had a client that, they already have hell of power and control. It's ridiculous. Unbelievable. I can't believe somebody who calls themselves an open socialist is even getting that many votes

as if socialism has had enough of a terrible track record. That's why I won't work. Did you, is the Michael Bloomberg thing, a real thing or whatever, the whole tweeting thing that's going on? I don't know about that, but I know he's paying his way to the front. I mean, I think in a gear there.

I think it is. I've already seen a bunch of people that have like millions of followers that are, and they're puttingag ad afterwards and saying that Bloomberg paid it paid them to do an ad or whatever like that to make them cool It's it's very smart if it's if it's true because these people you got all these influence that are posting about Bloomberg And he's the kind of making fun of himself a little bit in it. So you can look that up like a Bloomberg He's kind of making fun of himself a little bit in it. See if you can look that up. Like Bloomberg, you should have a pass. He surpassed Biden in a Florida poll.

Well, you look at that. But to be quite honest with you, if I had to pick somebody to go against Trump, if I was like, I want to, you know, if I was a Democrat, if you could do a good pick, like what would you want to be? I would pick Bloomberg or Biden.

I don't see anybody else even. No, I still don't think they'll beat him because again, the economy's just crushing and that's hard to beat. When the economy's crushing, it's like trying to knock out the champ. Well, especially when you, even people that hate Trump and don't like them,

if you're making more money or you're doing better because he's in office, it's hard to like completely. The unemployment, I hate him as a person, but his policies are kind of benefiting right now. Well, the unemployment rate is at all time lows, but even more, when Obama was president, we said we had declining unemployment numbers. Of course, he was coming out of a terrible recession.

So it wasn't too hard to come out of that. I mean, any improvement, you're gonna improve naturally. But what happened during Obama was you had a massive amount of people dropping out of the workforce. So, and they never reported that. So they would say, oh, you know, unemployment's going down, but they wouldn't report that far less people are working, are participating in the workforce,

and they don't get counted. So because they drop out and stop looking, they're not considered unemployed. Now under Trump, that started to reverse. More and more people are entering into the workforce. So this is all good news. This all looks very very good. So who you got left? Is Michael Chang? Is that another candidate? No. You have a 10-year player. That's good to say. It's a wrong name. I thought that was a new stage. Tell me the other guy who promised everybody

a thousand dollars. Yeah, yeah. Universal basic income. No, he's just huge pitch for that. No, he's done. You got Bloomberg, Biden, Sanders, Warren, and I am beautiful. You're a pet. Yeah, no, she's not even... Oh, she's not even... I mean, they're trying, but she ain't gonna do it. Yeah, we'll see what happens. Interesting.

This quaz brought to you by Organify. For those days you fall short on getting your organic veggies or whole food nutrition, Organify. and use a coupon code mine pump for 20% off at checkout. First question is from CDChamps17. Sohn add on TV for the Jenny Craig DNA meal plan for weight loss. It seems like clever marketing BS. Any viability to this. It is clever marketing BS. So the science. Next question, yeah. Now next, the science on DNA and how nutrition affects DNA and what works best for you is still in its infancy, not to mention we're finding that they're jumping the gun fast on this.

They are, and because it sounds cool, it sounds individualized. There's so many, by the way, here's the thing you need to understand. There is a very, very, very strong individual variance with how you react to food. And it's, there's a lot of factors. One of them is DNA. We still don't understand it fully, but it is one of them is DNA.

You have your microbiome. That's another thing that affects how you respond to food. You have your own emotional reactions and connections to food. And nobody ever takes that into account. And that's the thing that you coach when you coach people and some people claim Blood type makes a difference too. Yeah, well, I haven't seen any science to support that but you're That's diet still out there. No, yeah, no, I read I read the book like a I don't know was probably six seven years ago I read diet. Yeah, yeah, and you know they they try and support it with some science, but you know

I think at the end of the day and why this works anybody, is if you take somebody that is on no diet and they start following a DNA protocol diet or a blood type diet, yeah, you'll see what they all do is they point you in the direction of whole foods. None of these recommend processed foods, none of these recommend high calories, so it's a restricted calorie diet, they eliminate foods, they normally drive towards whole foods, none of these recommend high calories. So it's a restricted calorie diet. They eliminate foods, they normally drive towards whole foods, and then they attach it to your DNA or your blood type. And then you go through it and you're like,

holy shit, you know what, I do feel better. Information is down, my gut does feel better. It's like, okay, well, is it because you're following the blood type or the DNA diet, or is it because you're actually following a diet? It is, that's why. And you have to, the thing that none of them take into account are the emotional connections and reactions to food,

which is huge, it's massive. Let's say you eat a food and you know it's healthy, but you really hate eating it. I'm just using a stupid example and you force yourself to eat it, right? Now that food is gonna cause a, potentially a stress response in the body. Was it the food that causes stress response physiologically or was it the emotional reaction

to that food? There's a lot of this and these are the things, when I used to coach people or train people, the main thing that I would coach to was that. That was the main thing. It was very almost never what I do things like, you know, oh, what's your ethnicity or what's your DNA or how are we supposed to eat with it? It was always like, how does it make you feel? You know, what do you crave your ethnicity or what's your DNA or how are we supposed to eat it? It was always like how does it make you feel? You know, what do you crave? How do you feel afterwards?

What are the things that you're noticing? Oh, and by the way the stuff that you're finding that works for you really well now Don't marry it because context change changes things change and so might the way you react and respond to these different foods But you're 100% right this diet is a low calorie diet. So will people lose weight on it? Of course, because it's low calories. But there's no magic in it. Do you know if they're using like ancestry.com or one of those like other things

to try and pair and attach like the lineage of, you know, their DNA and their gene pool? No, but you know what I think is, I don't know about that. But here's what I think in terms of technology might be interesting. I think these continual glucose monitors and technology that measures actual reactions

and responses to your body to food in real time. And only to you as an individual, that's where I could see some potential value. So something that you wear because they have these glucose monitors, but there's other technology that's emerging, right? Or you put on a patch or whatever and attach to an app on your phone, you eat a food and you can see in real time insulin, cortisol, and soy milk. That much for me.

I heard rumors that the Apple Watch was going to incorporate a lot of that in the next generations to come. I heard rumors that the Apple Watch was gonna incorporate a lot of that in the next generations to come. It'll be interesting to see if they can do that and attach it. That'll actually be something of value, a metric like that. It would be helpful. Yeah. Now, the thing that I don't like about all these metrics is that here's what I...

It's a cool website. I know, isn't that great? Well, Jenny Craig's massive, dude. Yeah. They have so much money. Here's something that I see as a drawback. And I'll use an example of like a keto diet, right? All these studies coming out and people saying,

oh my God, ketogenic diet works well great for me. And you know, studies come out, show it, reduces inflammation, great for cognition. Look at these blood level markers going down, then people make the case. This is how you're supposed to eat. Carbs are harder to find in nature, whatever. So super, super compelling.

You get very, very sold on this diet. This is it. This is the one. You try it, you lose weight, and you're like, wow, I'm losing weight, then you start not feeling good, but you ignore it. You ignore your body, how it feels, because you've been so sold on the metrics,

on all the information that you've heard about this diet and you start ignoring your body. I fear that can happen with stuff like this where you get this diet and like, what this is supposed to be good for my DNA? I'm going to ignore these signals and signs that my body is telling me, the constipation to lack of energy, my skin issues. It has to be something else because this says that it's perfect for my DNA. These types of diets are the way they market them.

I feel like I can start to push people away from paying attention to their body. When our problem with nutrition is not lack, necessarily lack of information. In fact, usually it's not lack of information, especially nowadays. It's usually a lack of connection to yourself. Yeah, that's the argument that Dr. Andy Galpin makes in his unplugged book is that we just almost, you know, too much information that people are relying on these tools to provide this versus trying to learn and figure it out yourself. Totally.

Next question is from Oliver J. Murf. Can you build a good core by only doing compound lifts and mobility exercises like the ones in Maps Prime, or should you incorporate special ab and core exercises as well? So I used to, for a while, I was in this camp, and I did heavy squats, heavy dead lifts, heavy overhead presses, because you're stabilizing all that weight with your core.

You are, right? So my core is strong enough to stabilize a 350 pound squat, or a 500 pound deadlift or over a press or whatever And so I'm like, okay, my core is perfectly strong and then at some point I wanted to start developing my abs So that they could become more visible and I thought well, I'm gonna start doing some more direct work And I realized just how weak my abs were Because when you get stronger You the strength that you gain tends to be quite pretty specific to the way you're gaining that strength, or to the stimulus.

So my core was strong to stabilize for squats, deadlifts, and overhead presses, but it wasn't super strong to do crunches and leg raises and cable chops because they never did that. Well, think of it no different than any other muscle. Imagine if the only type of exercises you did for your biceps were isometrics. If you only did, now you could actually build a little bit of muscle and you could have decent, decently strong biceps by doing just isometric holds for your bicep. You could get some value out of that, but you're missing out on a tremendous

by not using the full range of motion and the eccentric and centric portion of the exercise. The isometric is one of the three and one of the more important ones for sure. And I think you can get by, like at least you have some core work being done there. If you're squatting 350 pounds or dead living 500 pounds, you've definitely got a pretty strong core

to stabilize and support, but it's not gonna contract very well or Decelerate really well. So you know, there's so there's definitely value in that. This is an area if I'm being completely transparent With my own programming that I neglect I'm bad at and I know I need to do it better And I can always tell when I've been neglecting it for a really long time is my low back starts to bother me. Because I have that anterior pelvic tilt and sure I can hold my core in that position, but to correct that, I should be doing reverse crunches a lot more than what I'm currently doing.

Whenever I get on it and I start incorporating it into my routine, I always feel the relief because it better supports my low back. Just talking to Sal about this, I've been a little bit more intentional about putting like sit-ups and crunches and rotational moves, like wood chops and things like that into my routine again, because of that simple fact of like,

I'm already trying to address my posture just from sitting more often, and then also sitting in my truck and like commuting back and And then, you know, also sitting in my truck and like commuting back and forth and, you know, already starting to feel the effects of that on my joints and like, just the way that, you know, I wake up in the morning having certain pains, I shouldn't have, but it's really like, I need to put more emphasis and attention back on, you know, my core and stability. Well, here's an example of like, where I, and it's like, I'm so aware of this. So when I hold max, like when I get them up in the middle of the night,

and I kind of have to rock them to sleep and he's in front of me, right? After about like five or 10 minutes, I start to feel my low back. And the way I relieve that is I squeeze my glutes and I rotate my pelvis under, which is activating my lower abdominals to kind of rotate my pelvis. And that's because I'm weak there, because I don't train it. So default is it kicks out. I'm holding a baby in front of me, now I feel this sit back on it.

Right, and then I feel this in my low back. And so now at least I'm aware of that, and while I'm holding him, I'll actually almost do like an ab crunch while I'm sitting there rocking him to try and get some work out of it. But that's always a glaring to me that I'm not doing enough work on my abs abs and just because I heavy deadlift and squat, it's not enough for,

for support. Yeah, you know where this came from, right? Where this, this myth or whatever came from? Came from powerlifters. It came from powerlifters who didn't want to work out their abs. Yeah, it's no-sickly. True, you know, I squat deadlift and overhead, you know, bench press and do all these other, I don't need to do abs, plus I have a belly anyway. This is kind of a stereotype, but a lot of power lifters really don't care too much about aesthetics. Yeah. Make sense.

Your, your, your sport is to lift a tree stereotype. Yeah, and to lift the max weight, right? Although I do know some really lean power lifters. A lot of them could care less. And so abs is kind of like a show muscle. It can bend polyp. Yeah, I know. Well, he's, he's unicorn.

Yeah. And you know, it also reminds me, know, well, he's, he's a unicorn. And you know, it also reminds me, it reminds me. Yeah, but look at all the work he does on his abs. You ever, I mean, he knows. I know, have you ever talked to Ben, like Ben, that's in everything. I mean, that's why, part of the, there's, there's, planks and app,

there's, ab work in all of his stuff that he does. Right, incredibly strong abs. And, and this also reminds me of athletes who are like, don't like to work out their biceps. Why do I work out my biceps? That's a body builder muscle. Well, your biceps helps stabilize the elbow, helps decelerate extension.

So if you're a boxer or football players a lot of times, don't wanna work their biceps because it's all about pushing. But you notice more injuries when you have imbalances. It's really, you know, here's the thing, and we all have this, we'll have the body part. We don't necessarily like to work as much as the others,

but really if you wanna maximize your potential for performance, minimize your risk of injury, balances the key, and regardless of what you do, that means you should train the whole body, including the core. That's right, calves are the only worthless one.

Yeah. Yeah. Just be born with it. Yeah. Next question is from only worthless one. Yeah. Yeah. Just be born with it. Next question is from Rory Fossett. If the last gym in the world was on fire, which piece of equipment would you take with you and why? It's easy, Barbell.

Barbell for me. If I can count that as an equipment that he's counting, the Barbell is the most versatile and dumbbells to. Yeah, as I say, I would make the case of dumbbells. Yeah, but I can't, I mean, they're interchangeable, in my opinion, if you had to pick just one, but it's the most versatile piece of equipment that exists. What about if it was actually a piece of machinery?

If it was just a machine. Yeah, like what piece of machine? And I feel like this person has to know that we would say barbell, like if a piece, if we're including barbells and dumbbells. Does that include the rack and all that or just this the barbell? All right, well.

Even that though, I would take a barbell over the, I mean, or I would, the rack isn't needed. You could, you could, you could, I mean, because that's how they did it back in the old days, right? You could really clean the bar, you'd have to put it over, which talk about, I know some people that train this way, and I think it's a really good rule.

Like if you can't pick it up and put it over, over your back, you shouldn't squat it. I've heard that. Yeah, it's not a bad, it's not a bad rule to have, and talk about training here. And they'll do that move too, where you see where they put it the end of it, on the ground, and then they get into it that way,

and tilt it up with it. That's the old school way. I've actually tried that before, and it's cool. I think how strong you get, like far you talk about your your anti-rotational stuff that you love to do. Yeah, you know how they used to do in Climberl strength. In Bench Press, there was no rock.

You cleaned it, you laid back with it, and you did your press. Right, right. That's how they used to do it back. So if we were, if we're not gonna go, if we're not no free weights, yeah, we're gonna go. No free weights and no squat racks.

You have to pick the name. You have to pick like a machine type of thing. So now can I say cables? Yeah, cables. I would pick a big cable machine because it's the most versatile piece of machinery. I know it's kind of cheating to say cables. It is. But that would be that. But if we eliminate that one even, I'm gonna say peck deck.

Yeah. Stupid. I just like, you know how to use a peck deck? No, I don't think so. You know what's funny? You. You know what's funny? You know what's funny? I work out at a gym, at a commercial gym, maybe four times out of a month, right? Four times out of a month, I'm there.

Because then they're so rarely, you'll see me on a lot of machines. Just add knowledge. I know, he's funny. How many people are probably like, oh, that's a lot. You know how funny it is? I'll be in there using like the machine curl or like the peck deck or something like that. And inevitably someone comes up and they're like,

hey, I love my pump. And I'm thinking in my head like they probably think I'm a foolish, like you're so old. I feel the same way when I run on the treadmill. Yeah, because I, you know, I give my occasional runs in to make sure I can still do it, you know what I'm saying? So like even though we talk about, you know, cardio, we always poop, we want cardio,

it doesn't mean I never do it. It just means that for the majority of people, most people should be resistance training and focusing on that more, right? So I always think when I'm running, I'm always thinking, do there's at least five people that listen to mine, pump in here I know that are like looking at me like,

this fucking liar, it's like this cardio. So do you have any favorite? I don't just importantly, can I say name a sheet? I don't even know, yeah. Like what am I supposed to say? Like hammer strength stuff. Well yeah, so I love.

Just throw name out. Yeah, just random. I love all of their stuff. The hammer strength row machine. Oh yeah, the old Doreignate's one. Yes, I do, I do with all the different handle angles. I do like that. It's probably a, it's a top 10 favorite machine

if we're gonna throw those in as machines. And if I can include things like, in-client bench, because in-client bench for me was, maybe, like when I think of later in my life, probably one of the biggest game changers for like building my physique. It was something I neglected as a teenage boy and like even in my 20s, I avoided in-client bench forever.

It's always terrible at it. Bench press all the time. And plus, nobody ever asked you how much can you incline. Exactly. Everybody wants to know how much you can bench. Yeah, it took me a long time before I really, and when I focused on it, it just, it really changed my whole upper chest

and my front delts. Like it was a big game shape. So, okay, so besides cables, because I love cables, I love low cable pully row, I love pulled out old school, you, I love pulled old school cable equipment, but besides that, there's certain machines that if they're in a gym, I'm gonna use it in my workout. Donkey calf race.

Not that one. Although, that's one of my favorites. That's not a bad one for calves. But if I see that one, I'm gonna, oh, I gotta use it, only if I'm working calves. But there are certain ones like pullover machine. Love pullover machines, don't ask me why. I fell in love with them when I was a kid.

One of my favorites, I like dip machine. I love doing stuff on the dip machine. And then preacher curl machines. And it's a whole variety of them. I love preacher curl machines too. Yeah, I'm with you on that one. Yeah, what about a cute, now have you ever done the, there's some preacher curl machines that are like a preacher curl, where the bench, yeah. I'm with you on that one. Yeah, what about a cute, now have you ever done the, there's, there's some preacher curl machines

that are like a preacher curl, where the bench is in front of you. And then there's some that pull the elbow way up here and allow you, so it's almost like your elbow, you're, you're almost doing like a modified concentration curl. Which I like that machine, but I prefer the preacher. Preacher is the best. Yeah, preacher is the best. Oh, here's a machine that if I see it, I'm gonna use it,

and I don't see it very often It's the overhead tricep tricep extension machine and has the bar like this and you have to push the pedal with your feet and it'll lift it up And then you do triceps on it. It's not even a cable. It's actually a fixed machine. Love that extra Yeah, yeah, no, those, those are all great ones. T-Bar row. Oh, well that's cool, right? I don't even count that as a machine.

I love it. Really? I mean, you can count that as a machine, I feel like. That's an apparatus. I think you can count that. Oh, you know, it also is a great one. When we filmed the original map, Sestetic, we did it at that gym that used to work out back in the day and they had so much old equipment. They had equipment that was run on chains. It wasn't even cables

They had like the bicycle chain which by the way bicycle chain equipment The reason why I know why they took it out because people get their fingers caught them and then get their fingers cut off But they were the smoothest machines you could use way better than cables because it was all on a track or whatever But they had the one where you stand up tall you grab the handles and it's a machine with a long arm, you do laterals, you do shoulder laterals. What a great pump you would get on that one. I like the assisted pull up when I'm feeling lazy. Shut up. When you do your glute pumps. Yeah, just my lazy. You know, you know, you's the cravitra dude. You know, you do some type of stuff. You pull what I'm saying? He needs a gluteus. Yeah, he needs a little assist. Lift these cakes up for you. Yeah, a little person down there.

Next question is from Mini Fig. What do you do when you have the right mindset to achieve your goals, but you have too many distractions keeping you from reaching them? All right, let's butt-p's take this to me all the time. Totally understands. Totally understand this question. Through story. Right when you're reading an article, you know,

science and then see, this is how I don't know how you do stuff. Oh no, okay, so here, so we got it right away, the way you're asking the question tells me you don't have the right mindset. It does because. Just could call you out. Well, no, I mean, listen, what do you do when you have the right mindset, but you keep getting distracted?

You don't have the right mindset. You're not focused. No, you don't have the right mindset. The right mindset doesn't allow you to be distracted. Now, if you find that you're having issue with distractability, change your environment. Change things around. I know for me, when I'm writing, for example, and I need to create content.

Now, in the past, anytime I create content, because I used to write, I wrote a lot of blogs before we started Mind Pump as part of the original maps program, but a lot of those were based off of inspiration, and it's not a problem. When I'm inspired, I'll just, I can pump out, you know, 2, 3,000 words, no problem. The problem was when I'm inspired. I'll just I can pump out you know two three thousand words no problem The problem was when I'm scheduled to write something then I'm like, okay

I have to create some content if my phone is next to me. I mean it's gonna take me forever I get distracted. Oh, got a check Instagram check Facebook. Oh, I got a text zone So what I do is I take my phone I put on my brain FM, which is why which is wireless or whatever Bluetooth brain FM by the way if you don't know what that is, it's this company that produces these sounds that can produce different brain wave states. So like sleep, meditation, and then they have a... They actually made it into music, which is the cool part.

Yeah, so it's music and it's background sounds, and they have one called focus, and it legit works. Like you put it on. It's how our brain washing our hands. You put it on in 10 minutes. I mean, so I put it on my phone, but I moved my phone away from it. I'm apps. I put my phone on the table away from me and then I work so you have to change kind of change your environment. You know, I have something for you. Like so, um, Adderall. Yeah, it actually could be right. You know, uh, so sometimes we, we said like, he we set like these like we have the right she maybe

she has the right mindset because she really wants this goal she she starts off really focused and then eventually what happens maybe the distraction is like a day she falls off or you know I saw that she has a kid and maybe the kid gets sick or you have something that hits you like that right so I totally understand so something that I've done with myself for a really long time, it's how I started to really get into, in order to compete at the level that I competed, there was no, I didn't have an option, right? I had to have the right mindset to be able to compete

with the 1%. And I, Down to the gram, with your diet. And no missing workouts, no nothing, tracking volume, all that. And so before I even announced that I was going to compete, I was training for a year to even check myself

what I have the mindset for this. Like, am I, you know, am I just gonna say I wanna compete and then when it really comes down to like the discipline that it's gonna take, am I really gonna follow through? So before even announced it on Instagram or told the audience or told anybody I was gonna do something like this, I was already like training as if I was going to.

And what I had found would happen, just like anything else in my career, I'd be going along and then something would happen. It wouldn't be like a distraction that was like distracting me in my workout as much as it was a distraction in my life that would make me fall off a day or whatever. And so I do this thing where I compete with myself where

and this is where you have to decide what what a good first goal is for yourself. So for me it would be like, okay, I'm going to be perfect on my diet for the next two weeks and I'm not going to miss a single workout and I already have them scheduled out what I'm going to live. So if like if you're following one of our programs and you know what you need to be eating and I'm tracking on my food tracker. So that's my first goal. Now of course, when I hit that two weeks,

I don't go celebrate and fall off. I try and stretch it as long as I can, but I set a goal of something that maybe I haven't achieved yet. Like maybe lately I've stringed five days or seven days, I haven't been able to stretch beyond that. So I set a goal that's going to stretch me a little bit from what I've done before, and then I try and build on that. And so let's say I get past that the two week mark,

and then day 19, I was consistent for it, and then day 19 distraction happens, just a terrible day, or the diet didn't come through, or I missed a workout. What I do is I just go, okay, I just don't beat myself up over it. I go, okay, I made 19 days. Guess what the next goal is?

20 days. Can I now, the next goal in my head is 20 days. Can I give 20 days of this consistency? And I just keep playing that game until it eventually builds on months, where I'm starting to say like, okay, I've strung months and months and months together. And that has always helped me build momentum and consistency

is not beating myself up over the setbacks that are inevitable to happen with most people, but always challenging myself to stretch myself a little bit further each time than before you know it. You've created a habit. I do a very similar thing to that. But also in terms of the environment that I need to be able to maintain this level of focus, that for me is essential.

Whatever I have to do, if I have a very specific goal, for me, it's usually my office and I'll go in downstairs and I'll basically turn on Brain Affem as well. That's something that just helps me because my mind is so distractable already to think about all these other things coming up. And plus, too, having it on my phone, it helps me to kind of put my phone away. And then I can have that music playing over the speaker in

through my earphones. But just for me to kind of create that space and environment, it gets everything working in that direction so much more effectively. But on the day-to-day basis, this is something too, where I have a list. I have a list of priorities when I'm really focused and dialed in on this is a goal I need to achieve.

I am notching off a list. I physically write it with a pencil on a pad and it's like old school, but it looks to me like, what's the most achievable? And like, and so I'll write that at the top and then like the ones that are gonna take a little bit more time towards the bottom and I just etch away at that. And it's something that I've, I try to be as consistent as that,

but it's only for something like, I know I need like massive focus on. Yeah, I think creating the environment and scheduling the time is, is the big one, right? Like schedule the time block, create an environment that is... Immovable time. Yeah, that, and you know what? Sometimes that means you're in that time space and you can't think of, okay, so you just sit there and that's okay. This is the time I'm supposed to do what I'm supposed to do and maybe not as great

as I want it to be, but I'm going to block off this time and sit here and try and at least try because this is a skill that you build over time, just like any skill you practice it and practice makes you better at it. And you need to practice not being distracted. Set up your environment, set up your situation, block off some time, and little by little, you'll find that each time you do this, your focus is better and better and better.

It's also important to evaluate your priorities too. I mean, some people say this a lot to me, that they're so serious about a goal. And it's like every holiday, every birthday, everything, you know, cousins, basketball, everything that comes up, like they, everything, you know, cousins, basketball, everything that comes up, like they don't want to miss because that is a more of a problem. And not- Which is fine. Exactly. Not to judge anybody who does that. Like,

family is very important. There's a lot of things that are really important. Like, you have to be honest with yourself and what your priorities are. And I'll tell you, getting in competitive shape is very selfish. And I remember during that time, I was constantly apologizing for that. Because there was many things that I opted not to do because I knew it was gonna get in the way of this goal that was really important to me. So people say like, oh, I have the right mindset

or this goal was so important to me, but then they let the most basic things distract them or get in their way. It's like, well, it's really not that important to you, though. These other things are actually really important to me, but then they let the most basic things distract them or get in their way. It's like, well, it's really not that important to you, though. These other things are actually really important to you because every time one of these other things come up, you tend to let that become the part. Yeah.

And factoring that in is a lot of times what determines your success at that. I think it's tough because people don't like to admit that the prioritors are different than what they would like to project. You need to be okay with what your real priorities are, and your actions actually tell you what your priorities are, your words and your feelings. You know, they can give you hints, but at the end of the day, you know, if you're somebody that really, for example, if you really, really value animal rights, you can tell me all day long, but I can tell by your actions. Your

actions will tell me if that's what you really believe in. You know, you could say that your hardcore business person entrepreneur and you'll do anything to grow your business, but I can tell by your actions. And that's okay. You can be, you don't have to be all these other things. You can be just what you are, sometimes making that admission to yourself, and be like, you know, this is actually my priority. Actually, loosens you up a little bit and actually results in better focus. Well, 100% my fitness and my physique right now

is a reflection of the priority, of my fitness as a, it's priority list right now. The business is far more of a priority right now. Max is far more a priority to me right now. I've got other stuff going on in my family, more of a priority right now. The business is far more of a priority right now. Max is far more a priority to me right now. I've got other stuff going on in my family. More of a priority for right now. And me, like, so I look like to the average person, somebody who works out is healthy, but I'm by no means impressive right now. But I'm okay with that. Like, it's not a priority

right now. I'm taking care of myself. I'm staying on my mobility. I'm training. I will pay attention to not over-consuming, or over-indulging. Your fitness is serving your other priorities, rather than your other things serving fitness. Right. And I'm okay with that. I'm okay with knowing that I'm not the most

impressive fitness guy on Instagram right now. I don't need to prove that to anybody, and it's not a priority right now. So I think a lot of times it's just checking in with yourself and really gut checking, saying, is this as much of a priority right now. So I think a lot of times it's just checking in with yourself and really gut checking and saying, is this as much of a priority and a goal and a mindset that I think I really want? And maybe you're fooling yourself.

Everybody wants their cake and eat it too. You want to, yeah, I want to look like the cover of men's health. But then I also want to work on my business and grow and scale this massive company at the same time be there all the time for my son like fuck something's got to give. And in this case what's going to give for me is my commitment to the gym five to seven days a week is not as much of a priority to me. I can turn that up whenever I feel like it.

Yeah, you got you you if you practice not being distracted you'll get better at it also distractions getting distracted is and learning to not be distracted is a skill and it's just like meditation when people meditate part of what meditation involves is learning how to keep the brain from getting distracted you ask if you've ever tried meditating enough frustrating It is when you've only done it for you know six months But then you talk to somebody's been doing it for three or four years and you find that they're far better at it They didn't start off that way. It took them practice. So be easy on yourself, and be honest with yourself.

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