Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 1251: When Going to Failure Increases Gains, the Risks & Benefits of Jefferson Curls, the Truth About Being Big-boned & More

Episode Date: March 18, 2020

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about whether going to failure can be beneficial every once in a while, if “big-boned” is actually a thing or just an... excuse for individuals who are overweight, whether Jefferson Curls are good or bad, and tips for mental exhaustion from the gym. Justin’s impressive tongue. (4:40) Sal’s possible replacements. (5:55) Mind Pump’s #staycation is on! (8:00) Adam and Justin geek out over Westworld. (9:40) How the coronavirus hysteria is impacting us + how Everlywell is there to help. (19:17) Adam’s Top 10 Coronavirus List. (22:50) Tom Brady’s HUGE announcement. (32:50) No one wants to be on a cruise ship right now. (36:57) #Quah question #1 - Can going to failure be beneficial every once in a while? If so, how often? (39:04) #Quah question #2 – Is the term “big-boned” actually a thing or is it an excuse for individuals who are overweight? (42:43) #Quah question #3 - What are your thoughts on Jefferson Curls? Good, bad, neither? (47:53) #Quah question #4 – What are some tips for mental exhaustion from the gym? (52:06) Related Links/Products Mentioned March Promotion: MAPS Powerlift ½ off! **Code “POWER50” at checkout** Special Promotion: MAPS Anywhere ½ off!! **Code “WHITE50” at checkout** Westworld - Official Website for the HBO Series Visit Everly Well for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Code “mindpump” at checkout** Google Arts & Culture Watch the Dropkick Murphys St. Patrick's Day concert livestream Smart Video Calling with Alexa Built-in | Portal from Facebook MAPS Prime, Prime Pro, AND Prime Bundle are half off! ((ends Saturday night-March 21st, 2020) **Code “PRIME50” at checkout.** Class Central Trump Administration Swears Proposed Hotel, Airline, Cruise Bailout Is Totally Not a Bailout Mike Mentzer Heavy Duty Mind Pump Free Resources People Mentioned Lewis Howes (@lewishowes)  Instagram Aubrey Marcus (@aubreymarcus)  Instagram M. Bledsoe | Leadership Coach (@mike_bledsoe)  Instagram Steve Cook (@stevecook)  Instagram Bradley Martyn (@bradleymartyn)  Instagram Jillian Michaels (@jillianmichaels)  Instagram

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Starting point is 00:00:00 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. Salta Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. In this episode of Mind Pump. Oh, the Mind Pump. Yes, we are the premiere, health and fitness podcast. However, we do like to have a good time here. In the first 34 minutes of this
Starting point is 00:00:26 episode, we have some casual banter between Justin and Adam. Yeah, no, Sal. Yeah, he is missing today, but he will be joining us later for the questions. The episode starts out with Justin demonstrating his tongue dexterity. Don't act like you're not impressed, Doug. I was indeed. his tongue dexterity. Don't act like you're not impressed, Doug. I was indeed. Lele. Then the conversation goes into Sal's replacement because as you will notice, he is missing
Starting point is 00:00:51 and we need to find somebody to replace him. Yeah. We talked about the episode for season three of Westworld and some interesting speculation there. We also talked about the coronavirus and the stress this virus has inflicted on so many of us, which brings us to guess what Justin what's that? Everly well. Oh yeah. So Everly well right now is offering a stress test for 30% off.
Starting point is 00:01:19 Now Everly well is a company that specializes in at-home testing kits, such as testosterone, cholesterol, all that stuff. But this month, they're offering 30% off of their at-home stress test. You can get that over at EverlyWell.com. That's about EVER, LYWEL.com, and use the code MindP mine pump to get that discount and they also offer 25% off of all their other tests. Use this time to maximize your sleep, everybody. Next up in this conversation, we had Adam's top 10 lists.
Starting point is 00:01:55 Adam talks about 10 different things you can do at home while you're homebound because of this coronavirus situation. None of them were masturbating, surprising. Next up is he talks about Tom Brady and some speculations there. Talk about cruise ships, how they may want to get bailed out, but they haven't been paying many taxes. Oh man, they're floating cesspools.
Starting point is 00:02:20 And then we get into the question portion of this episode. The first question is going to failure of beneficial thing to do every once in a while? If so, how often should you do that? The next question is about the term big bone. Is that actually a thing or is it just an excuse to eat a lot of food? I think it's an excuse to. The next question is about the Jefferson curl. If you've seen this one, it's really quite an interesting way
Starting point is 00:02:48 to contort your body. Is it safe? Is it something that you should use? The guys talk about that. And then the final question, what are some tips for mental exhaustion you'll be getting from the gym or in this case, probably now from your home workouts? By the way, one of the things that we decided to do, this was totally out of the normal for us.
Starting point is 00:03:08 We normally run a sale all month long, one program, like this month has been power lift, but obviously, the coronavirus has hit a lot of us really hard. Most people are now being confined to their homes, and a lot of people are scrambling on what do they do in order to stay healthy and stay fit. We created a program, Maps Anywhere, it's a no equipment required program, incredible.
Starting point is 00:03:33 We've decided to put that half off right now, and we're gonna run that, at least until the end of the month to help out all those that are looking to stay fit and work out without any equipment. Yeah, and to get the program, go to mapswhite.com. That's M-A-P-S-W-H-I-T-E.com and use the code white50. That's W-H-I-T-E-5-0 for the discount.
Starting point is 00:04:00 T-shirt time and it's t-shirt time. Oh, yeah, Doug. You know it's t-shirt time Yeah, dog you know it's my favorite time of the week. Oh indeed it is you'll see your voice out Oh, man, I'm so excited to be here in Tahoe. We have three big winners today We have one winner for iTunes and two winners for Facebook The winner for iTunes is Haley with lots of exclamation marks. And for Facebook, we have Kylie Lunsford James Burnham. All of you are one of all James. Send the name I just read to iTunes at mindpumpmedia.com, include your shirt size, your shipping address,
Starting point is 00:04:37 and we'll get that shirt right out to you. One had two ducks, three squawking keys, four Limerick oysters, five corporate purposes, six pair of pair of dono versus tweezers Seven thousand worries of full battle array eight brass monkeys from the ancient sacred crypts of Egypt Nine sympathetic apathetic diabetic old men and roller blades with a defined propensity towards procrastination and sloth Ten lyrical spherical diabolical denzy ends of the deep who waltz around Quokie and quiv all the same time Wow, do you know what we don't need fucking sell yeah, right? Quokki and Quiv all the same time. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Oh, impressive.
Starting point is 00:05:06 Wow. Do you know what? We don't need fucking sell. Yeah. Right? I'm trying to work on my silver tongue. Man, we should, we gotta tell the audience. You know, Sal was up on his five year contract just came up.
Starting point is 00:05:21 We had him on lease. And, you know, we just, we didn't have the budget to resign him. Yeah. You know, he's, you know we just we didn't have the budget to resign him. Yeah you know he's and you know after we fortunate we met with a board and everybody said that Justin was their favorite so we knew we had to allocate most of our funds that way naturally and you know we figured out if one of us could just bring some studies to this conversation every once in a while we should be okay. Yeah. I mean, that's a bit of a load that we're gonna have to carry
Starting point is 00:05:47 in our back for now, but eventually I think we might find somebody that could carry that. Well, so speaking of that, here's some of Sal's possible replacement, so I wanted to. Oh my God, you've thought about this already. Well, no, we didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. So recent, these are possible free agents that are coming up. So number one on the list, we have Lewis House. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it.
Starting point is 00:06:05 We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it.
Starting point is 00:06:13 We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn't just think about it. We didn just think about it. We didn just think about it. We didn just think about it. We didn talk about very bizarre ayahuasca-esque ideas. Maybe we could paint. Maybe we could get a mushroom sponsor by then, huh? Yeah, maybe. Number three, Mike Pouletso. Now you're insulting me. Number four, the infamous Steve Cook from the biggest loser. Wow. Yeah, I mean, he's definitely made an impact on that show. Bring up our, I don't know. We'll bring up our handsome points.
Starting point is 00:06:54 Well, who we definitely will be handsome on social media. We could use that. Yeah, we could just have you as those points. It would just sit there, run the camera on it. You're not allowed to touch. Look, he's handsome. We get it.
Starting point is 00:07:04 Everybody just check him out. Anyways, let on him. You're not allowed to touch. Look, he's handsome, we get it, everybody. Just check him out. Anyways, let's throw some facts in there. Well, we could exploit him. I don't know, it's not a bad idea. Okay, five, Bradley Martin. Oh, man. I don't think anything's going on with culture cast.
Starting point is 00:07:17 I think it's kind of plateaued over there. So he's looking for options. I mean, he's a buff guy. I mean, we've kind of dwindled down over the years here. So yeah, maybe he'll help us with our lifting weights and getting attention that way. I don't like bringing on anybody though that's stronger than we are, so that's my problem.
Starting point is 00:07:31 I don't like that either, that's, you know. And then our last freaky, free agent option is Jillian Michaels. No, that's a hard no. It's a hard no. Not at all? No. I mean, everybody keeps telling us
Starting point is 00:07:43 that we need more girls involved in this. Yeah, I mean, I could see that in terms of diversifying our conversations a bit. Yeah, but I think it would get away away from us real fast. Yeah, that's just not smart, it's not smart business. How's the family handling everything that's going on right now? I mean, there are obviously everybody's off school
Starting point is 00:08:03 and they're at home and hopefully we can get them up here with us right now. But yeah, they're doing fine. I mean, it seems like it's this, like, stacation is sort of the thing right now, right? It's lockdowns happening in Santa Cruz area in the Bay Area. Everybody's sort of like just kind of confined and hanging out. Well, that's the real reason why Sal's not with us today.
Starting point is 00:08:27 So just joking around about him, not being honest. Yeah, we're not losing Sal. Yeah, the worst thing. Don't get crazy. We're all connected. He actually though, probably should have got a different car. We came up to Tahoe, get away at the Tahoe place and record, maybe hang out here for a week or whatever.
Starting point is 00:08:45 This was planned on the schedule for a couple of weeks. He was coming behind us and this, literally, the timing, this is crazy. It's right when Santa Cruz, San Jose, San Francisco went to full on lockdown and we are already up here. Plus, we are right in the middle of a storm. So there's like a good five feet of snow outside of our house right now. And it's beautiful and majestic up here, plus we are right in the middle of a storm. So there's like a good five feet of snow outside of our house right now.
Starting point is 00:09:06 And it's beautiful and majestic up here, man. It's like I'm trying to get everybody up here just so that way we can actually enjoy it. But this has been interesting. This is the first time we've used the studio, which is pretty exciting. I know that's too bad for he doesn't get you know what though. That's what he gets for buying an infinity. I don't think that thing would have made it up here. So yeah, no, we'll drive.
Starting point is 00:09:23 But yeah, still a bit risky, right? I don't think that thing would have made it up here. Yeah, no, we'll drive, but yeah. It's still a bit risky, right? I don't know, not with that crown. The ground coverage is what? Maybe six inches on that thing. There's no way he's getting up here with all the snow up here. Oh, those in bank, we were already doing a little off road and on the way up here, I got pretty sketchy.
Starting point is 00:09:38 So we're all, we're like the four amigos with Doug, right? And anytime one of us is missing, it's just not the same. So we absolutely do miss out. But we do recognize that. There are some perks to this. One of those being last night, the television selection or the movie selection, we got to watch Westworld. Yes.
Starting point is 00:10:02 And I still cannot believe this motherfucker does not watch Westworld. Yes. And I still cannot believe this motherfucker does not watch this show. This show is like, it's so insulting to me. Like, dude, it was epic. I don't know how you felt about the very first episode of season, what is it, season three now? Yeah. I was just like so excited about it
Starting point is 00:10:20 because it took you from the actual Westworld like what they created with that to now the real world, the future real world that they have created with that. I thought they did an amazing job with that in terms of the type of technology and things they showed and kind of where, you know, things would progress naturally from what we see already today. Well, you're the biggest sci-fi nerd probably out of all of us. Is that what makes a good sci-fi?
Starting point is 00:10:48 Is something that is most realistic, or the furthest fetched, or the best grad? I mean, what makes a great sci-fi? Now, when I watch Westworld, and I'm out of the three of us, I'm probably the least geeky when it comes to watching sci-fi movies, but I absolutely love it because when I watch it, I feel like I see the stuff that they put out there and I go, fuck that, that could have. That's possible, right?
Starting point is 00:11:13 Yeah, that's my favorite sci-fi is definitely like a minority report and things out there that are trying to kind of press our ideas and stretch them out and see what that looks like. And so it's like you put visuals out there of ideas that people that are innovating different technologies out there, like how does that look
Starting point is 00:11:38 and how does that interact in society and culture and I saw some cool things. And there are gonna be a bit of spoilers and this is if you haven't seen the first episode then you might wanna fast forward a little bit of this part but there's just some technology I wanted to address that they- Oh I think you should, it doesn't even matter
Starting point is 00:11:56 if you give this, here's the thing, I had to go back. I know and watch some of season two because the gap between season two and season three was so long, and then the plot is so deep, and they play with so much back and forth of the, well, with this was something that a memory, or is this happening currently right now. So I had to go back and watch about four or five episodes from the recap just wasn't enough for me. And then last night, we watched the season three, episode one, all together.
Starting point is 00:12:29 And I'm gonna go back and watch it again, because there's so much stuff. So I don't think, even you giving away some of the stuff that was happening. Like for example, there's a part in there where I had to ask you what he was doing, and I would have not have known, had you not told me. And that's only because you watch the directors cut
Starting point is 00:12:45 out towards where he's scrolling through and picking crimes to do. Yeah, so cryptocurrency, they're kind of playing with the idea of, having a separate way to earn income and there's an app that some people have access to that can basically you can opt into like a specific type of a crime that you know You had there's levels of it. So basically like the new character that they show Ops in to like these petty crimes and like you know
Starting point is 00:13:21 burglary and like you know petty theft kind of stuff versus doing personals where the kidnap or they kill people or all that. He's like, I don't want anything to do with that kind of stuff. And you could see how they organize really efficiently with other people that use the app. And so it's this whole ring that they get around this algorithm that basically, what you find out is this whole, like, mother AI
Starting point is 00:13:49 has been able to sort of, you know, outline like what everybody should do for a living, like how they should live their lives, like everybody sort of dependent on this AI to kind of dictate what they should do with their life. Well, this is why I think that, I mean, I think it was what maybe a year ago when we were talking a lot more about cryptocurrency
Starting point is 00:14:09 when it was getting all popular and it was skyrocketing. Part of the reason why I had bought some cryptocurrency was for this exact reason is whether we decide to adopt this as for everybody to be able to use and as a new form of money and money transfer. 100% the black market will still use this because of the inability for people to trace who's giving it to who. You can remain anonymous for things like this.
Starting point is 00:14:40 That's why I like so watching the show like that. And that was even a concept or an idea that I thought of. Just from my little experience in being in a gray market time with medical marijuana coming on the scene and seeing a lot of the black market still and knowing how people were exchanging funds and all the shit that went on back there, I saw the opportunity for cryptocurrency just in that itself. My mind didn't even go to a place like this. And that's what, I mean, there were so many things that they had on the show that,
Starting point is 00:15:08 I was like, oh, shit, I didn't even think of that. One of my favorites was when you, and you actually pointed this out to me the second time, I thought that it was a flashback of him having a conversation on the phone with somebody that is from his past. So he went through a traumatic experience. And again, this was the kind of spoilers happened,
Starting point is 00:15:27 but he was involved in military activity, like his friend dies. Anyways, you find out that he's talking to his friend in this earpiece. And I think that his mind is talking to this earpiece that's kind of picking up on his thoughts. That's it, like it basically, it's an AI version of his friend. Right, it has like therapy.
Starting point is 00:15:53 Predictive algorithms, right? Yeah. And we were talking last night, speculated on this, how crazy this is that this is going to be possible. Think about, like, think of us right now. The amount of words that we've spoken on the podcast alone, the amount of written content that we've done on blogs and emails and social and imagery and everything that's connected to us.
Starting point is 00:16:15 Imagine 20 years more or 40 years more from now, we pass on and our sons could have potentially this ability to download almost like our consciousness. And that quite our consciousness, but our, our personality and predictive, sure, the way we respond, the way we talk about things, like they actually, I was reading a bit more about some of this technology and they, they speculate that storing the equivalent of human brains would potentially be like 50 years out. So they think that they'd be able to obviously there's going to be a lot to that in terms of like the bandwidth that that would take. And the brain is much more complex. It's not like a computer.
Starting point is 00:16:59 So there's a lot that they still have to work in that direction. But that would be the ultimate, right? It's to get all these data points in the way that you inflect the way that you respond and answer questions, which are into all that kind of stuff like feeds into this algorithm that then can carry on. It'd be such a trip, right? Your kid can still talk to you after you've deceased.
Starting point is 00:17:24 There's lots of interesting ideas that would lead in that direction. I didn't even think, you know, after watching that show, though, maybe we start thinking about it. Well, the thing you have to think about too is to speculate on is, wouldn't necessarily be a good idea, though, right? Like it's, to me, it sounds amazing. Like somebody who's lost his father, if, yeah, it's seven years old, right?
Starting point is 00:17:46 So imagine me as a grown man now, if we had the technology we have today, if I was able to, you know, put up earpiece in and have this conversation that feels like I'm really speaking to my father. I mean, I, to me that sounds like no brainer. I would, well, pay whatever it would be amazing to have access to something like that. But then I think of like, I think how they were using it on the show where it was like a therapy for him, like his brother or his best friend dies. And he's mourning his death. And so part of the therapy is that he's able to communicate with
Starting point is 00:18:20 him. I wonder if that technically would help people move on longer or that would keep you hanging on. Yeah, right. Yeah, I wonder about that too because it would be a comforting thing and it'd be hard to get rid of the comfort of that. Right. Yeah, so and imagine losing like a spouse or somebody really close to you, bearing yourself into that and like not coming out because you don't want you, you want to hang on to
Starting point is 00:18:43 the last piece and that's the closest piece you have to him or her. So yeah imagine that's going to be a new especially if that's out that'll be a new struggle for people is like how do you consciousness. Like there's lots of, you know, people working on this as we speak to try and solve whatever they think is. Like they think death is an illness at this point that we need to solve. Right, right. Speaking of moving on,
Starting point is 00:19:16 what are you hearing right now through messages that you're getting and friends like with this, with the coronavirus going on? Are you feeling that people are starting to turn a more positive attitude about everything and look at the silver lining and things or do you feel that their people are still freaking out and it's getting worse? Yeah, I think it varies still because we're finding out some businesses have obviously had
Starting point is 00:19:43 to shut down and so I think that that presents a new challenge for some people that are living paycheck to paycheck and are uncertain about when they're gonna be able to open up shop and everything again. And so, but for the most part, most of the people I know that are relatively okay and financially are, you know, they're doing okay. And they're actually like trying to use this as an outlet
Starting point is 00:20:06 to be productive in other ways and like you know, whether that's working out and really working on their body or like reading and you know like getting into like skills like for myself if I wasn't doing this right now I would be trying to really get it back on my chops on guitar and start like Igniting that passion of mine and I know some of my friends have kind of gone that direction get back into music and Something some kind of outlet that's gonna keep you busy. I mean, we're like cooped up You know and confined right now. So might as well make the most of it right? I feel like a lot of people are
Starting point is 00:20:42 stressing out and don't realize that That can be more detrimental to protecting them than anything else. Yeah, stress is definitely one of those things that will exacerbate the problem for sure, which by the way is a very perfect time to bring up what Everly Wells doing right now. Oh, man. Sal Cohn. Yeah. Of course. Doug's the pitch man. I'm the pitch man today because, every well, of course, yeah, everybody's a little bit stressed and on edge right now. And what they're offering exclusively
Starting point is 00:21:13 to mind-pump listeners is 30% off of any order that includes a sleep and stress test. Oh, I didn't even know they had that. Yeah, I didn't know that news. Oh, it is new. I think it's new and it covers like four different of the sleep hormones. Yeah, so it's a panel that measures the levels of cortisol, cortisone, melatonin, and creatinine at four points throughout the day.
Starting point is 00:21:36 So it'd be morning, afternoon, evening, and night. I was just going to say they have to do it multiple times. It wouldn't make sense to do it one time because that could easily change fluctuation. Right. Correct. And the collection method is urine, so it's easy. Oh, wow. You're probably peeing four times a day, right?
Starting point is 00:21:52 Oh, wow. Oh, that's... That's at least 20. Yeah. So what it does is... It's got a small blower. Evaluates the fluctuations of hormones needed for a restful night's sleep, and that way you can determine actually why you're not getting a good night's sleep.
Starting point is 00:22:06 Good timing on this too, since we've been talking a lot of, we just went last week or the week before we did an episode on talking about cortisol junkies, people that are hyped up on tons of caffeine and then not able to sleep and how much that plays a role in your guys's recovery and building muscle and burning body fat. And we've talked a lot about sleep rituals and how to improve that to get deeper sleep.
Starting point is 00:22:26 And you know, this would be just another way to then like measure that and test it out, which is a pretty cool offering for that. That's great. Well, think about that though, right now is a perfect time to work on getting better sleep. I know. You know, if we could just like, you know,
Starting point is 00:22:40 relieve a lot of this, this outside stress and just focus in on, you know, yourself, your family and like how to improve your own health. Like that's gonna be the best. Oh, you just reminded me. So I made this, and we'll recall it to Adam's top 10 coronavirus list here. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:57 So I made a, I was reading a bunch of different articles of like, you know, because of course, right now everybody is locked up. Most people are lost with what should I do. I've got a couple of friends that wanted to play Monopoly and almost killed each other. Yeah, right. 20 times. I've got some people that got their kids and they're freaking out.
Starting point is 00:23:15 Like, I don't know if I could be in this house with my kids locked up for the next three weeks. So, you know, I was searching like all these different things that we can do. So, I made a list of what I thought were my favorite top 10 things that I read. So the first one I thought was really cool. So the number one thing that I put on this list was virtual museum tours around the world. So you can, it's called Google Art and Culture. And I think there, I believe there's hundreds that you can do,
Starting point is 00:23:45 but you can take virtual tours of museums all over the world. Dude, that's awesome. Right, so I think, I mean, how cool is that? Sit down with your significant other or even your kids and crack open a bottle of wine and throw it up on the big screen. Right, right, right.
Starting point is 00:24:00 So I thought, and speaking of cracking, so my second one was have a fancy picnic in your living room while supporting a local restaurant. So a lot of the companies like DoorDash, GrebHub, they're offering like these no contact drop. We saw this last night, we went over to our clubhouse here where our place is and there's a bar and grill in there.
Starting point is 00:24:21 And they're encouraging people not to come into the restaurant. One of the ways they're doing that is you can call in, they'll have the food and they'll actually come outside, drop it off so you just pick it up with your car and then drive back to your house. So, you know, setting something up like a fancy picnic in your living room, being creative. Be creative, be romantic.
Starting point is 00:24:37 Right, yeah, that's not a bad idea. And order out, and then, I mean, encouraging people to order, obviously, if you go grub hub or one of those, you have to go local restaurants which I think right now it's a great time for local businesses to try and support each other. During this time, so I think that's a great thing to do. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:55 Also, here's a third one, attend a, attend or host if you're, if you play an online concert. And I think you brought this up. I heard you talking about this, and this is what made me go down this. Happy St. Patrick's Day, everybody, by the way. I know this is probably the next day, but right now it is. And speaking of that,
Starting point is 00:25:14 so the drop kick Murphy's, one of my favorite bands, they always crush it on St. Patrick's Day and they have throw a big, huge concert. And so obviously, they've canceled their live performance where they're going to bring a lot of people in, but decided to now live stream it. So hopefully you guys caught wind of this. I know it's in the news a bit, but they're going to offer that out
Starting point is 00:25:36 so people can watch, you know, a live stream concert of them for the festivities. Pretty cool. So something that we're going to do with our family. So for Christmas, I got all of my mom, my sister, oh, my family members, I got them all Facebook portals. And you can do this with Zoom. My buddies are doing this with Zoom. They did this yesterday. They did like a hangout with all of us.
Starting point is 00:25:58 So this is another cool creative thing you could do is log into like a Zoom account if you have Facebook portals. But just do like a online dinner party where you have the mounting their mount on the TV, or on a laptop, and then you all have like, you got your family member represented as a TV screener as a top of rear.
Starting point is 00:26:16 It seems ridiculous and crazy, but I mean, what a time to have fun with these things that we have, the capabilities to do with tech. So I thought that was creative. You gotta explain those more, because I don't know if everybody knows what a Facebook portal is, and it was pretty cool what you could do,
Starting point is 00:26:34 more than just a FaceTime, it actually. Oh yeah. So they have multiple ones, right? They have an iPad one, a picture frame size one, and then they have the one that mounts on your TV. So I bought the ones that mounts on your TV, so I have a an iPad one, a picture frame size one, and then they have the one that mounts on your TV. So I bought the ones that mounts on your TV. So, you know, I have a big screen TV and the way my living room is set up,
Starting point is 00:26:50 it's like my living room, my dining room, my kitchen, it's all in one long row, right? So I can have this on my TV. I can be in the dining room, I can be in the kitchen, and the thing, the camera actually follows tracks me. So I could be like, you know, taking a max, we have a max is portable crib is up there too. So it could be pulling him out of his portable crib,
Starting point is 00:27:11 we could be cooking dinner, we could be sitting down eating dinner and the camera, you're always in screen. Yeah, I'm always in screen and it follows us wherever we're at. And then it projects, you know, if I'm talking to my mom or my sister, their image like FaceTime on the big screen TV. So you're seeing like, I get to see them on the mask. Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Starting point is 00:27:29 Yeah, yeah. They're relatively inexpensive. They're pretty expensive. So, they're, I mean, they're not that bad. I think I got them at 150 a piece. They did a thing when they first law. I missed out. I think they sold them for like 50 bucks when they first dropped, but they sold out.
Starting point is 00:27:44 Like, I actually just got, I finally 50 bucks when they first dropped but they sold out like it to I actually just got my I finally got them because I they were Christmas gifts that I originally got but they were sold out for so long That I didn't get them till like weeks after Christmas so my family barely just got theirs from in fact my sister I'm still waiting to get mailed for me. Yeah, I gotta get some of those for sure But so that that's a cool thing to do right Obvious one I think dive into a good book. If you haven't been reading, this is a great excuse to dive into some material.
Starting point is 00:28:12 We had some people in our community that were trained, we have a large, obviously trainer following and a lot of them use this opportunity to kind of educate themselves on mobility. They're going through our, they either owned prime and prime pro already, or they decided to go through it and like elevate your knowledge. And then you can bring that back to your clients and, you know,
Starting point is 00:28:33 really enhance your experience with your clients too. It's a perfect opportunity for that. Yeah. And, you know, and this was something that I actually had, I had wrote well before I even got the news this morning. I was on the phone with our marketing team. It got just released via email. And we're doing both our prime and prime pro, which are at home, don't require any equipment, programs that you can do for mobility and corrective exercise and addressing joint pain.
Starting point is 00:28:59 Those are all half off right now too. So I mean, if you're somebody, if you're a trainer, highly recommend using that time to go through that. This is also something that we've encouraged a lot of trainers that are like, what the hell do I do right now? My clients aren't showing up to appointments. My gym is closed down, trying to get creative ways that you can still generate revenue for
Starting point is 00:29:18 your business and support your clients. One of the things that I've been encouraging a lot of the trainers that I mentor is this is a great time to pivot to like a Maps Prime Pro, which is like all corrective exercise stuff, mobility for each we address every joint in the body. And we go through mobility exercises for each joint. And so walking your client through virtually, incredible session, they'll they'll love it. It's something they probably should have been doing anyways, and then now that you guys are limited to being at home, I think it's a great resource to be able to do that.
Starting point is 00:29:51 Was that the last one, or do you have any more on that? No, I've got a couple more, I get 10. So I have 10 on this, that's only what, five or six right there. And then spring cleaning, you start early. So, get on your spring cleaning. Get that done. To that point, as far as starting things early, I never do this. This is something now because of if
Starting point is 00:30:12 we're going to literally be cooped up for maybe three weeks, this is on my list now, is to actually start Christmas shopping early. And the and you could do everything online. Wow, dude, you're going to see a lot of business. And here's my reason why I like this one a lot too. It is, my theory is a lot of businesses are going to be suffering because of this. Because of the big scare, everybody is going to hoard money
Starting point is 00:30:34 and you're gonna see a lot of businesses trying to pivot and figure out ways to drive revenue. The best way that a lot of companies can do that is by offering great deals or discounts or specials. So I think online shopping for those of you that have the abilities to either one still have income or have been making a made enough money that you have a nice nest egg. It's going to be a great opportunity to shop online. Yeah. And then there's another one that I thought was really dope. This if I had these these aren't technically in order. This probably would it be in my top three
Starting point is 00:31:06 because I didn't know this was something they offered. So there are over 400 free classes that you can get from Ivy League schools. And yeah, it's called classcentral.com. And everything you could probably think of and they're completely free, it's online, and you're talking about video lectures. Oh, that's awesome.
Starting point is 00:31:26 Yeah, so I think that's really cool. And then the last one, my 10th, of course, shameless plug maps anywhere. I mean, probably one of our sleeper programs of all our programs, a lot of people I think, because the image on the front has a girl holding a yoga mat, so I think a lot of guys look at it and go, oh, this isn't tough enough for me.
Starting point is 00:31:45 I think a lot of people think it's not a great program to build muscle. It's a phenomenal program to do that. It's we've scaled it too to where whether you're a beginner, intermediate, or advanced, you have the ability to start at one of those levels. Yeah, it could be corrective or you could ramp it up to like incredibly difficult, challenging, intense,
Starting point is 00:32:04 like bodyweight exercises Primarily the the focus is bodyweight and also bands We did have a little bit of isometric type exercises in there too, which are incredibly difficult once you get into them That's what I always found with a lot of my clients were like wow I didn't realize you know how Strenuous that was to like hold that pose and then really squeeze my way through it. And it's funny because like it doesn't sound like the sexiest program or the most, doesn't have the most appeal,
Starting point is 00:32:33 but like in these circumstances, it makes so much sense. Like, you know, like it's very minimalist and it is, it's very effective. So did you see the other thing on TV right now that the two most popular things on television, obviously number one, coronavirus. You know what the number two one is? Uh, no, Tom Brady.
Starting point is 00:32:52 Oh, Tom Brady is, uh, everywhere. Can we confer him to do podcasting? Yeah, I'll throw him on that list of people, potentials that you've been to. I want Brady. Yeah, so he announced this morning, first thing I saw on his social man and then obviously it's been taking off everywhere right now
Starting point is 00:33:12 that, and I can't believe this. I, so I was wrong. I think I, I don't know if I said on the podcast, I definitely said it on my Instagram post. Oh, you're gonna say he was gonna stand. I, yes, I swore up and down. He would never leave the Patriots. I thought for sure he would retire there. But he wrote a great thank you to the organization, but also announced that he would be moving on elsewhere. And
Starting point is 00:33:38 rumors are buccaneers, raiders, and somebody else are really interested, which is interesting to me because the Raiders just picked up Marcus Marriota from the Titans. Right. And rumor is that... Well, he's unhappy with car, we know that much. Yeah, Grootin's not a fan of car, and so by bringing Marriota, and you're basically definitely saying that,
Starting point is 00:33:59 that he's going to either one compete for the position or potentially... Or just take it. or it's some sort of trade bait so you can get Tom Brady. So I don't know, yeah, I don't know what's gonna happen but I was completely wrong. I would have thought for sure Tom was gonna stay there. Yeah, but that's gonna be big news over the next couple of weeks for sure.
Starting point is 00:34:19 Oh yeah, finding out where Brady goes. I mean, I'm sure there's like hopefuls that are just like salivating right now to see if you know like like Cleveland Browns or something like that. You know, there that it's just had nothing but shit seasons. That's it. Honestly, the biggest thing that's bothering me with all of this, right? Being trapped at home is there's no sports. I know if we if I had sports going on right now, bro. Yeah, I'd be like, hey, this is cool. I get to catch up with all kinds of stuff.
Starting point is 00:34:47 So the fact that we don't have that, that's been, and I don't know what we're like, how do you do this if, so, you know, MLB, just got, I can use all the acronyms, right? Cause you know what they are. Yeah, that's how I can use it. I know, it's MLB. MLB, you know,
Starting point is 00:35:00 it's a lot of fun. Yeah. You know exactly what's happening. Yeah, so MLB has been postponed, you know, obviously the NBA has been pushed back now. Yeah. Like, what do you do? And is that an asterisk if you win that year? Yeah, what does that mean?
Starting point is 00:35:16 So are we, and then as it pushes on indefinite, the whole season's done. So they're not even have like playoffs or you know, I had heard somebody say they might want to introduce like just the playoffs. So they're still practicing and everything and then they're going to compete. So according to everything I've read, all your postseason stuff is still on the NBA still plans to have playoffs. How does that work? But that all will dictate that is how long this goes on for. If this goes on for two to three weeks, and then we start to go back to normal life, I think that we'll see,
Starting point is 00:35:49 missing a couple of weeks of the NBA's not a huge deal. Well, let's talk about the positives to that. Healthy players, right? At least the ones that didn't get the coronavirus. But did you see the meme that I post? Somebody shared with me, and it went over so many people's head because my DMs got filled up. It was, I have to look at the picture so I can tell
Starting point is 00:36:07 you who was all on there. So it was, you know, Michael Jordan and Scotty Pippin, Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neill, Rudy Gobert, and Donovan Mitchell, and then one other person. And it was like, who was the deadliest duo of all of them? Oh yeah, yeah. And everybody was, oh, Jordan, and Toby, yeah, they're all we're sitting in there. That'd not be my pick. Right, exactly.
Starting point is 00:36:31 But the joke is that go bear and Mitchell have the virus. Oh, right. Well, over everybody's fucking head. I had DMs full of people arguing over like, who is like the best duo in the NBA ever? And I'm like, that was the biggest snap, when they caught them on camera, coughing and wiping on everybody's gym bags and stuff.
Starting point is 00:36:52 Oh my God, dude. How bad does he feel about that? Dude, you know, check this out. Okay, so you know what's been going on, obviously with the cruises, right? Yeah. So, I didn't know this, and this is bringing all kinds of attention to them. So, So this is, I didn't know this. Um, and if this is bringing all kinds of attention
Starting point is 00:37:05 to them. So, uh, cruise liner is, I think it's like a 40 something billion dollar industry. Oh, it's massive. Yeah. And there's three of them that own like 75% of the market, like carnival and I forget what the other two row Caribbean, yeah, row Caribbean. And then I forget what the other one is, right? So they, and they, they dominate the market. So they are looking for, are asking for a bailout right now because they are just being crippled. I mean, I mean, the ships make millions of dollars on a daily basis and now everything's being docked
Starting point is 00:37:36 and shut down and nobody's doing that, right? Right. So they're looking for a bailout. Now here's the irony in all this. They're asking for a bailout. A bailout, meanwhile, for the decades now, they've been operating, flying under the radar for like taxes on stuff. So even though that like 90% of the people
Starting point is 00:37:54 that you know use all these cruise liners that are coming from ports all over, all over the United States and going everywhere, they have their, you know, business, you know, offshore somewhere else to avoid all the taxation on tax breaks. Oh, yeah. And then of course the gambling laws that they have loopholes because of that because they're
Starting point is 00:38:12 on the water and shit. So they don't really want to open their books up to the government completely. So what I'm just curious what's going to happen. I mean, they're asking for a bailout and that meanwhile they have been getting away from paying taxes for so many years So I wouldn't think that they would be one of the first people to get bailed out of this whole situation. Yeah, no I yeah, there's there's some flaw there for sure. Oh my goodness. They're asking for money. That's crazy This quaz brought to you by organify For those days you fall short on getting your organic veggies or whole food nutrition
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Starting point is 00:39:13 So personal story. So when I was a kid and I started working out, um, I followed the, the routines, the bodybuilding routines of the bodybuilders of the 90s and of the, the kind of routines that Arnold Schwarzenegger used to write about. And of course, he was one of the most well-known bodybuilders who competed in the 70s. And so my routines were high volume, lots of sets, 15 sets per body part. And I did that for a while, but right around the age
Starting point is 00:39:36 of about 15 and a half, maybe 16, my body plateaued really, really hard. Then I found a book was actually advertised in one of the bodybuilding magazines I was reading, and it was called Heavy Duty, and I had a picture of Mike Menser on it. Now Mike Menser, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, just as we're free to say that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, yeah. Now Mike Menser, it was this really impressive looking bodybuilder from the 70s and 80s. Super, super smart dude. So it's really smart guy.
Starting point is 00:40:07 And in the book, he talks about training to failure. He said that there's a signal, there's a kind of like a trip wire that you hit. When you work out that sends the muscle building process and motion, he thought it was intensity that did that. So he said, we'll just go to failure so that we know we hit that signal. But to offset the intensity,
Starting point is 00:40:28 he only had people doing one set per body part once a week, super low volume. Literally, it was like one exercise for chess, one for shoulder, one for back and so on. And I didn't do that again till the following week. Well, believe it or not, I got great response. Now it lasted about a couple months and then I plateaued super hard again,
Starting point is 00:40:47 but I did learn that, you know, that there is some value to manipulating some of these factors, but failure for most people is just too much. It's just too much intensity, because then later on, what I learned was not trained a failure more often, I just got more consistent results, always. And for my clients, I almost never trained them to failure more often, I just got more consistent results always. And for my clients, I almost never trained them to failure.
Starting point is 00:41:08 And it doesn't impede the following workout. No, that's the thing that I think where I really started to connect it is you get so sore, and I'm sure everyone's been in this position where you've trained so hard, and let's say I had plans that I was training Monday, Wednesday, Friday, this week, and let's say I'm running a full body routine, and I just crushed squats on Monday training Monday, Wednesday, Friday, this week, and let's say I'm running a full-body routine,
Starting point is 00:41:25 and I just crushed squats on Monday, and then Wednesday rolls around, and I'm still... I'm limping in, because it's the second day after two hard-of-a-workouts when it's worse anyways. So here I am, I'm supposed to be lifting again on squats, and my legs, I can barely walk. I don't care what you say, like that's going to hinder that workout. You're not going to be as strong if you're still recovering from how much damage you did on Monday. And so when I backed off of that and I wasn't doing as much damage,
Starting point is 00:41:51 it allowed me to not only be more frequent about it, but then also to push myself at a more even consistent rate versus these high peaks and lows. So I peak real hard with the hard ass intense and then I have to go super light the next time because I'm so sore. And intensity is much, it's easier to over do intensity than almost anything else true I could literally take a
Starting point is 00:42:12 Deconditioned person off the street bring him into our studio And I could have them do leg exercises every single day So long as the intensity is appropriate they can do that I could take someone off the streets of decondition, take them through one set of squats to failure and crush them and destroy them, completely destroy them. So for most people, most of you listening right now, stop your sets about two reps short of failure. If you're advanced, going to failure is a tool
Starting point is 00:42:39 that you can utilize, but I would even suggest you use that infrequently. Next question is from Andrew Beth. Is the term big-boned actually a thing or is it an excuse for individuals who are overweight? Absolutely, it's a thing. You guys ever see that famous image? It's used as an excuse quite a bit. Yeah, you guys ever see that thing?
Starting point is 00:42:59 It's kind of next right, but it's got an image of an obese person. It sells. Next to it's an obese person. Yeah, it sells. Next to it's an obese person, next to an average weight person. And the skeletal structure looks almost identical. Almost identical. Yeah, I mean, yes. But then, I mean, there is a, if you were to measure, measure. Measure?
Starting point is 00:43:19 Yeah. If you were to measure my wrist and Justin's wrist, and I'm a six foot three guy guy so I'm a taller guy. I have a lot more muscle and I'm better looking. Whoa guy. He just slipped out of there. Yeah, that's not a truth. I mean, this. But yeah, but yet he has a much bigger wrist. You know, so. All right, you came back. He came back. He gave me something. No, I've been working on it. I mean, All right, all right, you came back, you came back, you came, you saw this. No, I've been working on it. I mean, husky. Semano types has been debunked, right?
Starting point is 00:43:49 Which is the Ecto, Maso, and Indomorphus, which is what was in our old textbooks. Yeah, the typical like skinny tall, then the like athletic, easily muscular person, and the kind of overweight, shall be personal. But the one thing I don't like about them getting rid of those or debunking the semano types is there is some truth to that. There are certain people. There are different body types. I'm gonna kind of overweight. Should I be patient? But the one thing I don't like about them getting rid of those are debunking the smell types is there is some truth to that. There are certain people. There are different body types.
Starting point is 00:44:09 Yeah, and there are people that respond very well to building muscle and struggle with losing body fat and the opposite should. Some people respond really, really well, have really fast, healthy metabolism and burn body fat really quick, but struggle to put on muscle. So I do believe that there is, now to Justin's point, I do believe there's a lot of people
Starting point is 00:44:32 that use that as an excuse for being overweight. And what I think, a lot of those, a lot of the people that fall into that category are the ones that struggle with fat loss. That's, you know's whether it be genetic, it's not necessarily directly correlated with their big bones. It's just genetically, they have a harder time losing body fat.
Starting point is 00:44:52 But what I would always tell those clients that would complain about that is, yeah, but we have an advantage for building muscle. If you're normally the person who struggles with losing weight, and you can put on weight really well, if you can put on weight really well, you normally can build muscle better than the person who has the opposite struggle, right? So there's advantages to both sides.
Starting point is 00:45:12 But the whole like genetic, you know, I'm overweight because of my genetics, I'm heavy because of my genetics. There's some truth to it, but there's also a lot of false to that, okay? So if you go back 100 years, 200 years, that you're not gonna see nearly as many obese people as you see today, that's not the result of our genetics changing in that short period of time, because over the course of evolution,
Starting point is 00:45:40 100 years is nothing. What that's a result of is lifestyle. And when you see families that are overweight, it's not their genetics either usually. It's usually because they all eat the same way. It's their family culture. Product of the environment. Right, so if you see an overweight kid,
Starting point is 00:45:55 chances are you're gonna have overweight parents. And in the past that we thought, oh, it's because the genetics of the parents, no, it's their lifestyle. They have a lifestyle that promotes, you know, that kind of obesity. If you can find pictures, you can actually go online and find pictures of circus,
Starting point is 00:46:12 they used to call them the circus fat man, right? So back in the day, circuses used to have this really terrible side show act where they would have people with deformities or people with a beard. Yeah, that kind of stuff. And people would pay to stare at these people. And the circus fat man at the, you know,
Starting point is 00:46:28 in the late 1800s, like 300 pounds, right? They would walk through Walmart, nobody would even bat an eye. But back then, they were so considered so different that people paid money to look at them. Yeah. And it's really because, you changed. Our lives have changed.
Starting point is 00:46:46 Our lifestyle, our calories are available. That's right. So it is often uses and is huge. But there is some truth in the sense that some people have bigger bones than other people. I would say genetically speaking, you're probably, you know, that probably will count for something like 20, 30 pound difference, not the 50, 60, 100 pound difference that we see today where someone says it's my genes, probably, probably not true. But as far as your bone structure is concerned, you can't do much to change that, right?
Starting point is 00:47:15 And I think if you want to achieve any type of satisfaction with your life, you're probably better off not focusing on the things you can't change not focusing on the things you can't change and focusing on the things you can. Well, I liked what you brought up at. I mean, in terms of like turning that into a positive, like I can, you know, more than likely,
Starting point is 00:47:34 you're gonna have the propensity to be able to build muscle if you have that as, you know, like it's an issue, like that you will put on weight easily. Well, let's change what kind of weight that is. Right. Yeah, I think a lot of things like that have another side to it that people aren't really focusing on enough. Next question is from Brady Thomas too.
Starting point is 00:47:56 What are your thoughts on Jefferson Curls? Good, bad, neither? That's the one exercise that I could guarantee if you were to go into a gym and start doing them. Oh. You everybody would freak out, right? So this, if you don't know what this is, it's literally a movement where you're holding a weight and you are bending over what you would think is the wrong way. Rounded spine.
Starting point is 00:48:18 Totally rounding the spine all the way down and then coming all the way up. Basically lifting with your skeleton. Now here's the thing with exercises. There's a hierarchy of them. Some are more effective than others, some are more high risk than others. I would say a Jefferson curl is a high risk exercise. Does that make it an exercise that has zero value? No.
Starting point is 00:48:41 There is some value to a Jefferson curl for somebody that's got phenomenal Stability in their spine and good controller spine because it does exercise the muscles that articulate the spine from Extension flexion to extension, but it has to be done really really controlled And I would never do a Jefferson curl with a lot of weight. Wow, and we've the type of clients that we would receive, I've never ever taught a Jefferson. I have never taught one. Yeah, because there's way too many other things that I need to address before they could even do it properly,
Starting point is 00:49:17 much less gain a lot of value from it. But that doesn't mean there is not a gymnast or athlete out there that has got this stability, strength the control the flexibility to do that And any any exercise that you can perform safely and controlled can be a very good exercise so if they have but 99.9% of you listening Could probably live without a Jefferson the rest of your life, and still build an amazing physique, physique, and work on a ton of other things that you should be doing. So I wouldn't teach it.
Starting point is 00:49:50 Yeah, and I would think a prerequisite for that. I've actually, when I attended the FRC course, I knew maybe one or two people there that probably could pull it off because they had that kind of articulation and control over each individual spine. And so it was like, I mean, they had that kind of articulation and control over each individual spine. And so it was like, I mean, they had that kind of accessing control. You don't see that. That's very uncommon. You have to train your way there in order to then even load your back with that type of, you know, that type of angle and everything else.
Starting point is 00:50:21 So it's very, it could potentially be a very dangerous exercise, but there is a way to lead up. And what makes it dangerous is most people just don't have the control and the ability. Most people, if they did a Jefferson curl, what would support them on the way down was the, was there an end range of motion with their spine? Yeah. And that's where you can run into problems.
Starting point is 00:50:39 You know, I remember learning this lesson as a, maybe trainer 10 years in the business. Because when I first became a trainer, there were literally exercises that I was taught that were bad. They would say to me, don't do behind the neck pull downs, terrible exercise. Don't do behind the neck overhead presses,
Starting point is 00:50:56 bad exercise, real bad for the shoulders. It'll always hurt somebody. Don't go all the way down with the bench press. Very bad for the shoulder. Don't go below parallel for squat, totally bad for the back and the hips and everything else. Later on, I started experimenting with these exercises and the way I experimented with them is,
Starting point is 00:51:14 the first one I did was the behind the neck pull down and I just started real, real light and I did it in a way to where I could control the position I could do in a way where it didn't hurt and I felt like I was connecting to the muscles. And then as I got stronger doing it, I just noticed greater ranges of motion in my back and my shoulders, I got stronger.
Starting point is 00:51:31 Same thing with the behind the neck, shoulder press and going all the way down with the bench press. I noticed that if I treated them wisely and I took my time, allowed my body to connect to these exercises that because they were new and because they were different and because I was working in ranges of motion, I wasn't used to, I would gain from that, I would gain strength, I would gain muscle. So when I hear somebody say, this exercise never do it, it's bad.
Starting point is 00:51:58 I'm always very, very skeptical. I have yet to see exercises that I really think I look at and I go, nobody should do those. Next question is from twin sanity fitness. What are some tips for mental exhaustion from the gym? Oh boy, change your focus, change your goals, or get out of the gym and do something outside. I go outside, man. Yeah, do something else.
Starting point is 00:52:21 I think if you're, you know, there's a million and one ways to be active and There's nothing wrong with if you're bored or burnt out from your modality of training And you're just sick of the gym sick of the weights and whatever go do go work out in the park or outside or do bodyweight exercises or Use rings or do other there's so many different ways to be active. That's one of the best ways I've ever found to keep myself motivated was to change the focus from strength to maybe endurance or mobility
Starting point is 00:52:54 or to jujitsu or something else. Yeah, one of my favorite things to do is to take kettlebells and bring them outside and do things outside in nature. And I've been able to take a mace belt. And like you said, the Olympic rings and things to hang over like tree branches. And just that new environment, new stimulus
Starting point is 00:53:12 like creates a whole new spark, which then, you know, like inevitably, the novelty of that will kind of wear off. You'll find yourself back in the gym. You'll go through that again. It's just a nice window of change, I think, to think like that. This has happened to me a ton of times just in the time we've had this podcast going. We've only been doing this podcast for five years in that time. I took like a
Starting point is 00:53:37 strength training bodybuilding type of hiatus where I was 100% mobility focused. I didn't need to be in the gym for that. I was doing a lot of that stuff at home. Then I went on a swimming kick for a while where I was rarely weightlifting maybe once a week and then the rest of the time was swimming and I'm currently playing more basketball than I'm lifting weights right now. I lifted one time last week.
Starting point is 00:54:01 I played ball three times. Yeah, a lot of what drove me to weights early on was my insecurities of what I needed to look like. And I occasionally feel that again. Like I just did a YouTube video and, you know, it's an evidence to why I get a, you know, a troll on there that will say something about me looking like I don't lift weights. And it reminds me. like I don't lift weights. And it reminds me, it stings in the inner. You sure?
Starting point is 00:54:29 Yeah, it reminds me of that insecurity that I had as a kid that that's what drove me into lifting weights. Now, I'm way more comfortable with where I'm at. For me, as long as I'm healthy, I'm flexible, I'm mobile, I'm strong, and right now I'm currently not very athletic. And so a lot of that, my focus, the little bit of weight training I am doing, I'm mobile, I'm strong, and right now I'm currently not very athletic, and so a lot of that, my focus, the little bit of weight training I am doing, centered around athleticism and I'm playing basketball. So yeah, I won't look like a bodybuilder, I won't be impressive for Instagram or YouTube, but I'll continue to remain healthy and I'm
Starting point is 00:55:00 focusing on something else. And I know me, I'll be on that kick just like I was swimming last, I'll be doing it for a while. I like to work at something and show myself improvement and prove that I can be consistent with it and show improvement. And then I like to move out of it. Like I've kind of already reached the pinnacle for myself in bodybuilding.
Starting point is 00:55:20 I don't think I'll ever take my body to a more of an extreme than what I did getting on stage. And so I just have less of a desire to do that these days. And so I don't need to be in the gym lifting five, seven days a week. Not that I won't do that again or I don't enjoy that sometimes, but I'm also comfortable moving in and out of modalities to keep myself healthy. And the cool thing about resistance training in particular is it's so versatile. You know what I mean? it's so versatile, you know
Starting point is 00:55:45 what I mean? Like, you could do, you could work out with barbells and dumbbells, you could use kettlebells, you could do body weight, there's stuff you could do outside, stuff, course stuff you can do in the gym, you could use bands, you could use suspension trainers. There's so many different ways that you can train and work your body out. I know, look, here's the other thing. We have created many, many workout programs, and part of the reason why we've done this,
Starting point is 00:56:11 not only is because there's people have different goals, but it's also for the fitness enthusiast, who is a long time, they're gonna be working out for forever. So if you're working out forever, you could follow this Maps program, which like maps at a ball, like the maps aesthetic, maybe go to maps performance, maps strong, maps, OTF, and they're all very different. And it keeps that spark alive because you're training for different things. So, you know, if you want guidance, that might be something I suggest.
Starting point is 00:56:39 Try some of our different programs that have totally different, like going from maps and a ball, like to like maps, you know, OTF, very, very different. Excuse me. Oh, I don't know why I said that. Oh, see your TF or in three. I think. Yeah. Oh, OCR, excuse me, obstacle course racing. That's a very, very different workout program and it's totally, it's, it's, it's different. So for some people, that's fun and exciting. So here's the, that's fun and exciting. So here's the thing I suggest you don't do.
Starting point is 00:57:07 Try not to stop. Like try to not stop working out because you're bored with what you're doing rather than stopping, just change it. I think that's the message we're all trying to convey right now. And with that, go to mindpumpfree.com and download our guides. They're all totally free. You can also find the three of us on Instagram.
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