Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 1259: How to Properly Use Full Range of Motion When Lifting, Ways to Get Kids to Eat Healthy, the Pros & Cons of Artificial Sweeteners & MORE

Episode Date: March 28, 2020

1259: How to Properly Use Full Range of Motion When Lifting, Ways to Get Kids to Eat Healthy, the Pros & Cons of Artificial Sweeteners & MORE Breaking down what the stimulus package means for you. (4:50) What would you do for bailout money from the government? (8:22) Elon Musk is still operating at full speed and looking into the future. (14:40) Mind Pump Recommends Tiger King on Netflix. (20:15) Mind Pump talks about politics. (22:15) The false perception that you know how to run a business. (24:50) Should we be concerned about our internet bandwidth slowing down? (29:26) Magic Spoon is crushing it and doing well during these tough times. (31:32) Home-schooling is a full-time job. (33:55) Could the blood from coronavirus survivors be used to treat current patients? (37:50) Some statistics to give you some perspective and put your mind at ease. (41:11) How the guys have been consuming Organifi Green Juice to get their daily veggies in these days. (46:18) #Quah question #1 – How do you guys get your kids to eat healthy? Mine refuse to eat most of the healthy meals I make. (49:32) #Quah question #2 – Is it bad to extend all the way in a push movement like a shoulder press? People keep telling me not to lock out my arms, but if I don’t extend all the way that’s not full range of motion, right? (1:01:55) #Quah question #3 – After all this coronavirus stuff blows over and gyms are back open again how do you go back to lifting heavy without injuring yourself? (1:06:50) #Quah question #4 – What are the pros and cons of artificial sweeteners? Is there one that is better than the others? (1:12:23) Related Links/Products Mentioned March Promotion: MAPS Powerlift ½ off! **Code “POWER50” at checkout** Special Promotion: MAPS Anywhere ½ off!! **Code “WHITE50” at checkout** House Passes $2 Trillion Coronavirus Stimulus Package Man starts airplane company last week: expecting $10 million bailout from government A record 3.3M Americans file for unemployment benefits as the coronavirus takes a big toll on the economy Elon Musk wants to hook your brain directly up to computers — starting next year Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness | Netflix Official Site FCC works to handle soaring demand for internet bandwidth Visit Magic Spoon for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! FDA will allow doctors to treat coronavirus patients with blood from survivors COVID-19 May Have Been Around A Lot Longer Than We Thought How antibody tests work and could help fight the coronavirus Visit Organifi for the exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Code “mindpump” at checkout** Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food – Book by Jessica Seinfeld Z Press to take Your Shoulder Development to the Next Level – Mind Pump TV Stop Working Out And Start Practicing - Mind Pump Media Mind Pump Free Resources  People Mentioned Arthur Brooks (@arthurbrooks) Twitter Layne Norton, PhD (@biolayne)  Instagram

If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. Mind up, mind up with your hosts. Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. What's up everybody? It's Mind Pump, your favorite fitness and health podcast. Now I'm one of the hosts and I'm still self-quarantine. There's only two more episodes that you're going to hear where I'm calling in from the phone. And then I get to see my best friends in person again to record in

our studio. But anyway, in this episode, we answer fitness and health questions asked by listeners like you. And the way we open the episode is by talking with each other about our lives. We talk about, you know, the current events. We mention our sponsors. So here's the rundown of what we talked about in this episode. Now we started by talking about the stimulus package that was passed by Congress that's supposed to help us all out with the economic repercussions

of this coronavirus pandemic. Then we talked about a guy who started an airplane company last week so he could get a $10 million bailout. Brilliant. Brilliant. We talked about the neural link, Elon Musk is saying that that's moving ahead. We talked about Tiger King on Netflix. That is a crazy, crazy show.

We talk about the presidential election and what that may look like if we're all still stuck at home. We talk about rise supplements and how they're crap. We talk about one of the fears of the internet. I guess they're talking about how some companies are just can't handle the bandwidth. Now that everybody's at home streaming videos and stuff like that. And then we talk about companies that are doing really well during the shutdown. One of them is magic spoon. Now magic spoon makes kid-like cereals. so they taste like kid cereals,

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So we talk about our strategies at home. The next question, is it bad to extend all the way in pushing movements like shoulder presses? Should I lock my arms out? Because I've heard that that's a bad thing. So we talk all about full range of motion, versus partial range of motion, the pros and the cons. The next question, this person says, look,

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That is the largest stimulus package in history. It was more than then 2008 Wow, this is this is the the most we've ever seen in history and On that note, I like, what is it? And we give the credit to the hustle did this. I thought this was really cool. The hustle actually broke down what's allocated to what out of the $2 trillion stimulus package.

So individuals and families, it'll be dispersed $301 billion to direct assistance. So individuals who earn less than $75,000 a year will get a $1.2,000 check. 1.2,000? Yeah, so 12 hundred. That's how they wrote it. Families will receive it.

Families will receive it's probably what they wrote that way. Families will receive an additional $500 per child assistance decreases for people who earn greater than $75,000 a year and stops for those who earn $99,000 plus a year. So if you make a hundred grand a year, you're fucked. You don't get nothing. Two three hundred fifty billion in loans are earmarked for small businesses. So they'll be available through June 30th and forgiven for businesses that keep paying their employees. So companies with less than 500 employees can access loans up to 10 million to pay their staff.

But many small businesses say they're already running into problems, getting financial assistance and say they could go under before the new rescue money is dulled out. Number three, unemployed workers will get 250 billion in benefits. So unemployment assistance will increase by $600 for the next four months. Benefits will extend for additional 13 weeks and will apply to non-traditional employees like gig workers. And then for 500 billion in loans and other aid will be set aside for corporations, states, and local governments.

So 454 billion of the money will be available through a fund controlled by the Federal Reserve. Oh yeah, we trust them. Yeah. The rest will be set aside for specific industries, including 29 billion for passenger and cargo airlines. State and local governments will get $150 billion when news of the deal broke yesterday that Dow Jones rose more than 11%.

Wow. You know, this is so crazy. It's like, for example, you think of the loans that they're going to give to businesses, and if they keep paying their employees, they get forgiven. How are they going to control all that? And I feel like that's such a, that could be something that could be totally taken advantage of. Oh, yeah.

And it will just like any welfare, right? It's like there's always, there's going gonna be people that absolutely need it and deserve it and use it to keep themselves just afloat and their head above water and survive and keep their employees and then there'll be many that shucksters will take advantage of it like I said like you see with welfare. Well here so so so hear me out? So I read an article that I thought was satire. I thought it was a joke, but it's actually true. And quite a few people have done doing this. So there was a man in Indiana who started an airline company last week

so that he can get, so that he could get $10 million bailout. No, no. He did not. Yeah, now I thought, oh, this is a joke. There's no way. No, it's real. And he's not the only one. He's not alone. There have been 25 new airline companies

started in the past week and over 50 cruise ship companies. Oh, that's some bullsh**, bro. So you, so I mean, so so smart though. I mean, you just what do you do? You go buy you buy four points. Yeah, you check the date of when they formed a company and be like, oh, no, like this is complete bullshit. It's hilarious. Half of these companies are headquartered in Florida. And the other, the other half in Invermood it so they interviewed this guy so this guy is purposely Doing this and he's not like lying about it. He's being so he called you know what he called his airline company what? bailout flights

No, he did like just straight up. It wasn't this isn't from the onion like this has to be dude No, this is this is a real this he's actually doing this and he says This is no joke. They interviewed him. I swear to God. I'm reading this article right now and I think he's doing it You know on purpose to try to what to kind of make fun of the whole thing, you know or come up come up on four or five planes Well, he says he says they interviewed him and it said that here he has planes what he want plans. Excuse me, what he wants to do with the $10 million paycheck. They interviewed him. They said, what are you going to do with your $10 million if you get a bailout? He says, hooker some booze. He didn't say that. Yes, he's just guy. Wow. Yeah, but but but again,

there's been 25 new airline companies started in the past week as soon as they heard You know as soon as people hear yeah, there was rumors of money. Yeah, there was rumors Yeah, the cruise line again the cruise lines and the airlines would have to be bailed out because again too big to fail right yeah So that was it so soon as people started hearing that probably three weeks ago whenever it started yeah, I mean what a smart strategy though You go by go buy two planes on credit, you know, and before your first credit card payment is due, you've already got a stimulus package out that bails your company out

because you have a quote unquote, airline business that's never probably flown a single person fricking anywhere, but you started it up before the bailout, you now can get your probably your $10 million that you can now pay off your jet. That's crazy to me. This guy's just straight calling it out. Look how easy it is, you know, just like out in the open with it.

That's hilarious. Well, it's an extreme example of like what's, you know, that's a very extreme example, but how many people are going to take advantage of the trillions of dollars that's going out? Yes, fortunate part. Oh, so many people are going to take advantage of it. It's like they're what they're doing right now. Arthur Brooks used a great analogy.

He said it's like they're flying a helicopter above us and just throwing money out to try and fix the problem. And I get why they're doing it. I definitely think that in many cases this is probably going to be a good thing. But all these bailouts of industries and all this money, it's not going to be without its own repercussions. It's not like there's no side effects to this medicine that we're taking. Where's this money coming from? It's not like there's no side effects to this medicine that we're taking. I mean, where's this money coming from? It's literally...

Where's the value of our dollar going to be after all this? It's printed at a thin air. So I think that maybe investing in gold is probably going to be a good idea because what happens when the dollar goes down. I don't know, but so many governments are doing this. Is it even going to matter? Will it just'll just bring everybody down at the same time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. As the whole world, you know, it's crazy. I know, I know in some, I kind of, where was it? I can't remember what it was. I think it might have been San Francisco where

they're trying to pass a law where everyone's going to get 90 days of rent forgiveness. So that's one thing. I know in Italy, there were mortgage companies were letting people not pay their mortgages for the next couple months. Yeah, that means it's to me. Yeah, but there's gonna be some repercussions to all of this. There's gotta be.

I think I read that unemployment or claims or something like that is like the largest. Ever. Ever. Yeah, it surpassed. It surpassed. It surpassed. Great depression times. It's been the unemployment rate went up so hard and so fast.

And just a matter of two weeks. It was three. I think three million is what a file for unemployment. The highest before that was like 200 something thousand all time highest. I think it was 600 something thousand. Do you guys find yourself, I'm sure I'm not the only one. Do you guys find yourself going back and forth between like this is the right thing to do. We got to do this and oh shit. We're going to cause more problems like this is where all the time do. We got to do this and oh shit. We're gonna cause more problems like this is where. All the time.

Yeah, I'm wrestling with it back and forth. Like, you know, how are they gonna remedy all this, especially the economic impact? Well, the truth is, I recognize this as far above my pay grade as much as I, yeah. Yeah, shit. I love economics and I like paying attention to that. I have no idea what's gonna happen.

I have no idea if this is the right move or it's the worst move. Yeah. You know, like it's hard to say. It sounds pretty fucking scary though, to just infuse two trillion dollars into our economy and hopes, and I like Arthur Brooks analogy. It's just like dumping it out of the plane and know, the right people get a hold of it, you know, but in reality,

a lot of people that don't need it or shouldn't get it and a lot of it's probably going to go to waste and you have to ask yourself, what will that, you know, what will the ramifications be from that? Well, meanwhile Elon Musk is still operating at full speed and innovating and doing crazy things, did you see, like, so Tuesday, I guess, he announced that, like, by next year, he's going to be able to implant a chip for this neural link into human beings. And he's already done this with a monkey. Successfully, in the monkey's been able to control computer with his neural link. So that's pretty insane.

Like, and of course, his whole motivation with this is to basically get ahead of this whole AI thing and the scare. Like he wants us to be able to have this symbiotic relationship with it with this neural link thing. But the early adopters, man, like who's going to like take that chance right now? That just seems so crazy and out there for me. It sounds like end of times like, you know, it started with a plague.

You know, that's crazy thing. And then all of a sudden now we're advancing, you know, to new levels we've never seen. You know, I mean, I don't know. We've been watching Westworld and it makes me think too like obviously they they make an extreme Like oh shit. This is this how bad it could get But then there's another part of me too that like if you're when you're that far in the future and you're looking back at even our time And how we like freak out about kids being on social media and texting all the time and no one called or talk to each other

I mean, is it is it just the natural progression of this is how communication will be done in the future? You know, we'll just be able to have these narrow links in our head and we could all be just looking at each other and you can read my thoughts. I could read your thoughts and you have the ability to have connections to people across the world and have those conversations as if they're in your head instantaneously. Like is that bad or is it just the natural progression of like how communication is slowly start with us so it quickly starting to evolve in the last few decades?

I don't know if it's good or bad, but because it's so radically different, it's going to present unforeseen challenges. Any time that we have an invention. That's what everything though, right? Yeah, but some things are much more, some things are bigger changes than others. For example, like the birth control pill, for example, separated the fear of pregnancy with sex, and it gave that power to women, and

a lot of people. And after that, you saw a lot of relationship issues between men and women. And I'm not saying it was a good or a bad thing. I'm just saying it posed completely new challenges, and some people would say that, you know, divorce rates spiked, and that was a kind of part of it was part of the growing pains of it getting our you know connecting through the internet and having access to all that information without that's like unprecedented. It's game changer. Yeah, it's going to completely change the way that we do business, the way that we learn, the way that we

interact with people have, relationships, it's across the board. So this is one of those things that has the potential to really just completely recreate the environment around us. It's gonna be interesting. Well, I feel like there's already examples of us starting to do that.

It's just the one step closer, right? Like what do you do right now that you couldn't do just a decade or two ago, two decades ago for sure? You're in it, argument with your buddy, and whether it be political, whether it be sports, and you guys are debating something back and forth via text, what are you doing between every text message? You're fucking searching. Yeah, you're researching. You're googling as fast as you can. You're going to know Yeah, you're researching. You're Googling. It's fast. You're again. You're gonna know it, right? Right, right. You're already Googling all the things to rebuttal what you think he's already in a couple.

So the difference is now you just have this hyper speed connection to that. I can access that information faster. I'm already doing that though. Yeah. So, you know, is it that radically different or is it getting just more efficient? So here's along those lines, right? So here we are, we're looking things up on the internet.

You would think that if you were to go back 50 years and say, we'd have access to all the information ever recorded, then we would think, oh, arguments are going to be settled super fast. People are going to, it's not going to be a problem. We're going to have all the information. But the opposite is true. You and him, You and your friend argue or debate over something, he goes and finds three articles that support what he's saying. I go and find three that support what I'm saying. And we just dig our heels in the dirt.

So stay awake. Yeah. Yeah. So I mean, sure, sure on uh... debates but when you're debating hard facts you know that are mathematical or scientific it's gonna be a lot more cut and dry and we weren't able to do that so there's the pros to that but sure if you're if you're debating something that's you know philosophical that's it's never going to be i mean there's going to be uh... definitely a strong supporting Information on both sides that will cause consistent will do sometimes, but I mean I don't ever remember a flat earth movement You know when I was younger it was Yeah, I'm saying

A bad byproduct of yeah, sometimes it's that's I'm saying I think we think that information Is gonna solve all of our problems and if we could just connect with of yeah sometimes it's that's i'm saying i think we think that uh information is gonna solve all of our problems and if we can just connect with that i just think that there's there's still going to be outliers that are just delirious right i mean did you finish uh... tiger king yet no i haven't oh please please that show i do that that show is just so it's the hero of this whole state home uh... experience

he's my hero well to it's alsoat-home experience. He's my hero. Well, too, it's also an example of how people can just be so out there in their own world. This dude had his own reality TV show that he was creating for himself and literally thought the whole world was paying attention. Meanwhile, the dude probably had a few hundred, maybe a few thousand people paying attention to what he's doing. But his ego was so inflated. It's, yeah. I mean, there's definitely going to be outliers in every scenario you have. So the part where, you know, he takes on another husband. It was that young kid, the real tall, like he

looking kid, the photo. How about the photo? We want to order the photo and hang in the road, the fireplace. We think, God God with their laying down with their shirts off. Oh Did you guys feel bad for the kid because I'm looking at this kid and I'm like you're like so confused Yeah, you just kept feeding them drugs. He's like you'll stay you're not even far enough to see what happens Wait till you see what happens. Yeah. Oh, it gets worse. Oh, it's been every wasn't even gay every single episode It they they do a great job whoever whoever directed it a phenomenal job. I mean, I guess you First time in every single episode, they do a great job, whoever directed it,

a phenomenal job. I mean, I guess you couldn't script a crazy or story, but they did a really good job about how every episode like took a huge turn. Right at the end of, just every episode, you like a new character is introduced. Everybody's a character, everybody's crazy. It was like across the board

like you had so many like interesting characters in there that were just had fucked up ideas. Yeah, and so I can't believe people like that exist. I don't know. Yeah, it's fun to watch. It felt like it felt like an eight series part of Jerry Springer. Yeah, just never. And here's your cousin. And here's your cousin. Yeah, who could lead your dad and your brother? We could save your arm or you could just amp you tan it. Yeah amp you tan it. Best decision I've ever made. Hey, so, so I was reading some, you know, an article about the election.

And I didn't even think about this. If this whole thing is, is still going on by the time the election is coming around Um, I didn't even think about this right so a lot of most votes or a lot of votes happen at booths Oh, yeah, they were talking about having to maybe postpone it. Well, they were also talking about passing uh passing something that you could take it uh virtually now Yeah, is that what well that's part of the debate right now So uh, yeah, that's scary because of hackers and shit, right? Yeah. Well, they're talking about doing it by mail. You're right, because because it was done, you know, the way that it's decentralized now, it's really hard to, to like mess with, you know, I mean, but if it was all virtually, could you imagine the way people, because you remember how people were when, when Trump won, or even go when Bush beat what's his name and there were all those debates that had to go to the story court yeah yeah I've a gore yeah so so imagine if if it's all virtual and people

don't like who won it was really really close you know they're going to be like oh it was it was totally faked and oh my god God, it could cause some serious problems. But they're talking about maybe doing it by mail because so many of the people that worked the booths are like over 60. And you know, this can be crazy. And if they postpone it, that would be a bad thing. Yeah, they're not going to want to do that. Yeah, they're going to want to do. Yeah. Well, what do you think so bad about that postponing it? Oh my God, that would fuel the the the anti, you know, the the side that hates Trump. That's like, he is taking power. He's going to be trying to be trying to be king, you know, like, yeah, by changing all these policies and everything. Oh, wow. Yeah, I would never want that. I would never want to care who the president is. I don't care much. I like them. I would never want anything to get them to justify.

Well, yeah, it's changing the rules, right? Every four years you're supposed to get there's an opportunity for the country to put their vote in and say, yeah, and that's you're robbing them of that, right? You're bending the rules. You don't want to take it in the game. It's never a good idea. I get that. I see what you're saying. No, because if that would be, that would set a completely new precedent. And then you would see it happen with other presidents. Like, oh, we got an emergency right now. The economy's down or oh, this, you know, we got a terrorist attack. And then next thing, you know, you got some president who's tracking it on. As long as they can. Yeah, 15 years, you years, 16 years like Putin,

just remaining in power forever. Yeah. No, that's not what that was. Scary thought. You speaking of clown world here, you see that Jeremy Bundia is now tied with rise supplements. I'm so glad you brought this up. Yes, dude.

You remember we brought up rise supplements like a couple of years ago when they first pivoted and I told everybody that that was a shreds pivot right yeah, yeah, the you know SEO Marketing manager guy from shreds when shreds went under pivoted and opened up Rye supplements and right away. I know Joey swole was a part of it So my guess would be that he's a silent partner who's probably wise enough not to put his name on it but is invested in it or connect to do it somehow because he was the first knucklehead of the shreds group.

You found a new gullible candidate. Yeah. So yeah. So fitting Bwindia would go to watermelon. VCA is very nice. 9th supplement company's been tied to since he's been competing. But this is the one. This is the one's been competing, but this is the one. This is the one's going to stick. This is the one that got me to look like this. You got this. Yeah, I really hope that guy like saving his money and investing it because his his his moment in the pan and I was flashed on the pan moment.

That's going to end at some point. And then he's going to be screwed. So I really hope he's saving his money and taking advantage of happens for a lot of these young guys, man, especially with, and I think we see this, the rise and fall faster now, right? I mean, because you could, you, because you can become famous overnight on social media and, you know, go from somebody who's got a few hundred people paying attention to the also millions. Boy, does that really, that really inflate your ego in so many ways?

And also give you this false perception that you actually know how to run a business because by default, when you have that many eyes on you, I mean, you could be selling anything or doing anything and as long as you're getting a half a percent of a percent on millions of people, you've got a viable income right now. And so it gives a lot of these these young kids that get that attention, this false perception that they actually could run a legitimate business. So yeah, I know I think you're going to see a lot of rise and fall.

And this will be interesting during this time too, because I mean, Justin was bringing up to me when we were working out. He's like, dude, you see some of the fitness girls that are pivoting to the fan page, the fans only page right away? No, all over the place, dude. Yeah, yeah. I was just following people for legit content,

for like, you know, kettlebell training, whatever. And of course, yeah, they have great bodies or whatever. And then they realize, you know, whenever they do a certain pick with their butt, they get way more attention. Next thing you know, I'm looking and they're all kind of directing and funneling you into this like website that they want to, you know, get you to subscribe and see all the extra stuff, you know. What?

Okay. Justin's all, Justin's like, yeah, no, I'm following them for the exercise technique. Yeah. Yeah. And then, you know, it was legit. Just like yeah, no, I'm following them for the exercise technique And then come on man, it was legit So I paid the 1999 to find out if she had more impressive kettlebells still doing the good exercise is just without clothes Yeah, that's all no, you know the I you know the IRS has been going after all these like you know these types of business these cam girls and this, whatever. Are they?

Yeah, and you know who's, trying to tax it? Yeah, trying to tax them. You know who's reporting them? Guys that are angry, they paid six months membership and got to see not what they wanted. Yeah, all these disgruntled rights. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, of course. Of course. It's all who's supposed to be. Yeah, all the guys that, she's told me I was her favorite. She's my girlfriend. Yeah, that's it. That's it. I'm 1-800-IRS.

I'm telling them. You're screwed. I wonder if we will see, I wonder if we'll see a lot of that go under. I mean, you got to think that there's a ton of these girls that aren't paying taxes on this income. I'm sure it's a hustle through, you know, pay pals and the, which I'm gonna call it quick. Well, it's definitely a way to make money right now.

Yeah, like, well, everybody's at home. Yeah, well, the, I mean, what it, it's gonna be an interesting to see how many people actually pivot to that. Imagine you're a, you know, hundreds of thousands or millions of people watching you and your hot fitness chick, you know, the and now suddenly you're confined to home and nobody's buying anything that you're selling. And so, uh-oh, you know, porn hub's doing well though.

So maybe that is. Maybe about that. Maybe about that. Maybe about that. Maybe about that. Maybe about that. Maybe about that. Maybe about that. Maybe about that. Maybe about that. Maybe about that. right now must be. They're hitting record numbers apparently. They are. Well, did you see that one of the biggest concerns right now

about all of us being home is the bandwidth for the web. Yeah. Everybody's using it right now at the same time. Think about it. Have you already had issues? I mean, I've already had issues with us streaming Netflix and stuff like that. I'll go, you know, sometimes, like,

especially when it's like in the five, six o'clock at night when probably most people are sitting down after dinner to watch a movie or show. You know, sometimes it takes a while for it to load. Fones really slow and certain, and it's, I'm sure everybody's starting to feel getting bogged down and they're scrambling to find ways to open it up for more traffic, more people, but that's

like one of the things. No way. So I haven't noticed any of that, but so what you're saying then is not necessarily like the whole internet, but rather these companies like Netflix were unable to provide the service to as many people because the internet was being used like crazy before. It was just so much volume, so much traffic at once. I don't think they've ever had before. And so like the back end, I'm sure, is, you know, it's not running.

It's optimal. It is. Right. So your company's like you're saying Netflix, the sprints, you know, this all the streaming services. You know, if I understand it correctly, like, you know, they allocate a certain amount of bandwidth that they're utilizing to run their community and they have enough analytics that, oh, we have, you know, 10 million people that are subscribers and users at the average

rate of this many hours. Okay, we need this much bandwidth to manage that, but that's getting blown out of the water right now for all these companies because everybody's home and on their phone or on their TV streaming. Yeah, I wonder if Netflix and companies like that, if their revenues are going to be, if they're going up right now, if they're going to be making more money because of this, what's going on? Gotta be, dude. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, I gotta think the streaming services are killing it. The the food delivery services are killing it. Oh, dude. So, you know, I talked to our friend. I don't want to say their name, but I talked to our friend who is an investor with our sponsor Magic Spoon. And they're they're they're crushing. They're selling boxes left and right because people are afraid to go to the grocery store. And Magic Spoon is kind of comfort food. It tastes like kid cereal, but then it's also high in protein. And it stores as well for a long time too.

Yeah, dude. They're selling crazy. Did you guys hear what they did in New York City? Yeah, I didn't have Doug read that. I know I read the article and then a Doug had it. So did you have it in front of you? Yeah, so they teamed up with rethink food, New York City and the food bank of New York City

and they donated 20,000 boxes to children in New York who no longer have access to school lunches. That's right. We no longer have access to school to school lunches. That's right. So yeah, you don't even think of that, right? You don't even, I didn't even consider that you know school is out, right? Okay, so kids aren't in school, but you know a lot of a lot of parents rely on the school lunches to feed their kids. Yeah. And so now they're not at school. They're at home. If They don't get those school lunches. The parents might, you know, be financially strapped on top of it. That's got to be a real tough situation. So I thought that the fact that magic spoon donated 20,000 boxes,

that's a lot. Now that's actually one of the big concerns with a lot of public schools right now. I mean, my buddy who's the principal at a public school over in the valley is that's like one of their biggest stresses is that, I think he told me like over 60% of the students rely on meals one and two from the school. Yeah. You know, because their household doesn't make enough income to feed the kids, you know, three to four times a day. So the schools carry a big part of that burden. And so obviously with the school shut down everything going on,

they had to pivot and find a way. They're getting food donated and they're out there with trucks and fold out tables. And then the kids are still able to come and pick up meals. The kids are going to be, you know, when school's back in session, Tim, he's going to show up like, you know, five pounds of lean body mass. All Jack from his high protein, you know, when school's back in session, Tim, he's gonna show up like, you know, five pounds of lean body mass. All jack from his high protein, you know, cereal that is having a bad day or whatever. Ready for recess, man. Yeah, just jacked or whatever. How are your kids doing with all this?

I know I see Justin and Courtney every day, you know, constantly getting onto this. Trying to wrangle the yeah the kittens around Well, you know as the listeners know I'm self-quarantining. I think either tomorrow or Saturday or the at the latest Sunday. I'll feel like it's gonna be safe to I'm just being over over cautious right to go get the kids because they're with their mom right now and she's losing her mind cautious, right? To go get the kids because they're with their mom right now and she's losing her mind. She's like, she's sent me a message and she's like, I think you're fine now.

Come get the kids. I can't take this anymore. Well, the whole story is tough. Yeah, of course, especially if like in your ex's case where she's also still trying to work right so I can't Imagine trying to work and then I mean it's a full-time job to be a teacher So to try and be a teacher and working your job at home and it's not something that you're loving passion obviously because you're not a teacher I can't imagine how stressful and how many parents are going crazy right now. Yesterday, when Justin's kids were at the table working on their stuff, I hear them all yell in the dining room, oh my god, a bobcat. And I get up and I walk over the window and there's this bobcat running through the snow, like from our house, over to our neighbor's house.

And we're all kind of watching it. I actually videoed it. It's on my Insta story. But they this bobcat went into the neighbor's garage and so we're like, do we go over there and tell them? I think that's the right. Be a nice surprise. You know, going into your car. Justin had to go over the neighbor's house. We sent him we figured that was the right idea Neighbors. Yeah, yeah, what's the Bob champ sound? So like fucking Donald

I only got a few you know noise effects That sounds I sort of got if I heard that I'd be like, that's a fucking bobcat right now. I know, right? Nailed it. I would 100% say that. No, you know, my daughter's having the most difficulty because, you know, I've talked about this before, I always stress to my kids like hard work. So I don't tell them, you know, I try not to say things like, you're so talented, you're so smart.

Instead, I say things like, wow, I can see that you really worked hard on that. I can see that you tried hard because I want to emphasize working hard because life is going to post challenges. Hard work is having attitude that you're a hard worker is better than thinking that you're talented because at some point, that will get challenged and then that will kind of crush you or whatever. But there's a little bit of a drawback to that, and that's that, you know, like, my daughter is really demonstrating this.

She's like a perfectionist, so if she misses like one thing off of her test, or if she, you know, dead her homework and forgot something, holy shit dude, it's like she won't go to bed. She won't go to bed. She just won't go to bed until she gets it all absolutely perfect.

And so I'm like backtracking right now. I'm like taking some steps back and I'm trying to like talk to her about the benefits of being calm and how to handle stress and how that is going to contribute to her success. Like, I don't need to push that kid at all. She pushes herself. Wait, and that's why her mom is having trouble because she's losing her shit every single

day because it's all new doing stuff at home from school. And so she's messing up here and there because she's got to get acclimated to this new way of doing school. And she just losing her mind. So it's a little warning to those parents out there who took my advice before. It might go too far, basically. Yeah. Hey, did you guys, have you guys heard how they may be using the blood from people who had coronavirus and recovered?

How they may be using their blood to treat other people? I heard that from their antibodies that they formed. Yeah, so it's an old approach. According to this article, so I read this article, this is from Scientific American, great publication, by the way. So if you like science, yeah, you like to get deep into things that you gotta check them out,

but they're saying hospitals in New York City are gearing up to use the blood of people who have recovered from COVID-19 as a possible antidote for disease. Researchers hope that the century-old approach of infusing patients with the antibody-laden blood of those who have surviving infection will help. Which is, I did not know this, this is an old century old treatment. And I guess that they're basing this off of studies in China that showed that the blood of survivors contained all these antibodies

and that in the preliminary results, they actually showed some benefit. Are we finally seeing China and Italy both flatten out and begin to decline? Or are they, are they, are we still seeing more and more? Well, China is hard to believe because it's hard to, it's hard early to tell but it looked like the deaths have Flattened out a little bit or dropped a little bit, but it's too it's too early to tell because what what tends to happen with these types of things is you see it Spike spike spike spike and then they'll be like a couple days what looks like it's going down, but then boom

There's another you know really big day, so I don't know Well, we'll see I hope it I hope it's, I hope it's, definitely, I hope it's, it's reached its spike already though. Yeah, it's hard to say, it's hard to say right now. Even like us, it's hard to say what's happening. I mean, we're at, I think, we just passed over a thousand. Yeah, I was talking to my dad last night. So my dad is, um, he can't sit still. The guy needs to always be doing something

productive. So this is like torture for him. He's stuck at home. So he's remodeling the fat. He's doing the whole backyard. He's doing the front yard. He's tearing up cement. He's laying down brick. He's just, you know, he's doing all kinds of, you know, to the best of his ability. He's got a lot of pain and stuff. So he's doing it in chunks, but still the guy has such a tough time sitting still. But anyway, he was grinding cement down to try and level out the backyard. And, you know, it creates a lot of dust, right? Yeah. So last night, my dad calls me on the phone and, you know, and I can hear in his voice that he's a little worried.

And he said, it goes so, so he goes, uh, you know, I I can hear in his voice that he's a little worried and he said He goes so so he goes You know, I have a little trouble breathing, you know, I have a little partner for breath So I'm like, oh, I'm like do you have a fever? Do you have a cough? Have you been around anybody? He goes, no, he goes, but it's really weird. I got a little bit. I'm like, weren't you grinding Cement yesterday? He's like, yeah, I'm like, I think it's the dust I think it's probably the bit that I said, you know, I totally get my hypocondria tendencies from my dad. But anyway, we're talking about this. I'm trying to calm them down. So I pulled up some statistics just to give him a little bit of perspective, you know, and these statistics help me out

too. Not, again, I'm not making light of anything because I still think what's happening right now. We've got to be careful. And it could be very dangerous. But Now, again, I'm not making light of anything because I still think what's happening right now, we gotta be careful and it could be very dangerous, but I pulled it up for him and I said, look, I said, there's only, there's been 1,000 deaths due to coronavirus in the entire United States. It's probably gonna go up, but as of right now,

there's 1,000 deaths between October to February. There's been a, between 30 to 50,000 deaths from the flu. So I said, just to give you some perspective, we weren't walking around super, super paranoid and afraid of the flu. And that's killed 50 times more people. And I said, not to make light of it, you still got to be careful not to stop. I said, but our fears can really get the better of us, especially right now, because he, you know, breathed in some dust. Now he's like, oh my gosh. Oh yeah. And I can't, there's so many people I guarantee right now getting allergies and stuff who are like,

well, I know it's tough because I have this feeling that there's a lot of people at the hospital with, I have this feeling that there's a lot of people at the hospital with probably not as severe symptoms as you know, should be at the hospital with, but it's like it's hard to tell people because the fear really sets in and if they feel like they're really sick, like they want to get treatment and get it all taken care of.

But at this time, we need to really like make sure like those hospitals are apt to take care of people that really need it Well 97% of them aren't you know 97% of them are Reporting mild symptoms and those are the people that are reporting which these are people that have been told They have it which means they've tested which means they probably came into more likely came into a hospital He gets tested so 97% of the people that are going to the hospital, that are overwhelming the hospitals right now, have mild symptoms. So, there's still only 3% of them that have this severe symptoms.

I read an article from a researcher from Oxford University, and it's a data, I guess this person analyzes data, and they came up with a theory that this virus has been circulating for much longer than we think. That it might have been circulating back in January or even December and November, and that there's far more people who've already had it than we realized. And that actually makes me feel a little bit comforted, if that's true. I feel good. If that's the case, then I realized and that actually makes me feel a little bit comforted if that's true.

I feel a little, I feel good if that's the case, then I feel like okay. Yeah, there's probably a lot more cases of people recovering, you know, from earlier, but yeah, that that that is somewhat comfortable. I wrote, why were the same article and I remember I was talking to my my two best friends and we all went through this thing when we came up to Tahoe two months ago and every one of it took the whole house, the kids got it, everybody had fevers, it lingered from almost three weeks. And every one of us were all, man, that was either the worst flu I've ever had

or it was one of the worst I've ever had in my life. And we were all sick for like two, three weeks. And the symptoms that everybody is talking about for COVID-19, I swear we're all the symptoms that we all had. So I feel like, and that was two months ago when we were all up here. So yeah, I would be curious to know

like how many people, one, aren't going to the hospital and reporting it because they're managing through it, right? Because it's mild symptoms. And I mean, if I can't be alone, I can't be the only man who's like this, who like, I have to be dying to go to the hospital. Katrina, anytime you've ever heard of me going to the hospital, it's mainly because Katrina's forced me into the car

and she's like, you need to go. Yeah. You need to go, you're really bad. Otherwise, I'm like, no, I'm fine. I'll let you know when I feel like I'm gonna die. I'll then tap out and go. Otherwise, I'll fine. I'll let you know when I feel like I'm gonna die, I'll then tap out and go. Otherwise, I'll fight this thing. And so there's gotta be thousands of people

that have mild symptoms like that and are just staying home and sick and bed and fighting through it. And we're not getting the reports of those numbers either. So. Now, did you have all the symptoms? All right. Oh, I had the dry cough.

We had the fever. And the fevers were up and down like constantly and it was bad, dude. It was really bad. I remember your son too. He had a fever like on and off. My son both Jared and Justin's son and daughter were having her the hospital. I mean, it was it was bad. You know, they were all we're all hitting 103 temperatures and stuff. So well, they're coming up with a they're coming out with a test because right now the I mean, it was bad. You know, we were all hitting 103 temperatures and stuff. So.

Well, they're coming up with a, they're coming out with a test. Because right now, the test they have shows if you have the active virus, but they're actually in the process of working on a test that will see if you had a test your antibodies. So, oh my gosh. Can I tell you something right now? Like, because you guys know I'm obviously getting I'm on the man. I will be so happy if I got tested and they found that I had

Antibodies and like actually you had it. I'm doing. Yeah, yeah, that over with yeah, right. I feel like Superman, you know, I mean walking around just you know not even Karen high five and people. You know, are you are you guys taking a lot of supplements right now since you guys are locked up because I'm I'm on I have a care. Just are you just the usual I mean whenever, this is like, even though we're not traveling, right? We're up at the other home, but it's still tough to get a consistent green. So for me, it's the usual green juice. I mean, I probably utilize that more than almost anything else when we travel.

I mean, I've used the pre-workout a few times to get myself going in the morning to live, but for the most part, it's been green juice for me. I mean, that's what I pre-workout a few times to get it, get myself going in the morning to lift, but for the most part It's been green juice for me. I mean, that's what I probably use more than anything. Oh, dude I'm doing the green juice the organically green juice three times a day right now Just I'm mixing it putting it on ice Sipping on it and it just You know, I'm not getting as many vegetables either because vegetables go bad, so that means you have

to go to the grocery store more often. I really don't want to go through the whole process of going to the grocery store, putting on the mask, bringing everything home, washing everything with soap, this whole, whatever, paranoid thing that I do. I'm drinking that thing three times a day. I don't think I've ever taken it that much. It's actually helping. It's you know, it's a it's a poor substitute for vegetables vegetables are the best possible You know real vegetables are the best possible thing, but I do notice that helps with my

digestion You know more so than if I didn't take it at all. Oh, we were we were I mean It's not it's not even by choice for us. I mean, it's the this time It's like we have to I mean we were we went to the grocery store all there was literally only just Frozen and there was only two bags of it. I got the last of it. Just Doug was like we got to get some greens He's like I'm dying for greens and we ate those in like two seconds. Yeah, so like oh now what yeah So we had we had frozen broccoli and frozen green beans there was one package of each of those left I grabbed them dug did them in the air fryer for one of the, or two of the days.

We had veggies. Other than that, we've had to pretty much utilize the green juice. I mean, they're very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, Available are you guys all constipated or what you take the psyllium husk? I know Doug's got some psyllium husk That's up in help. I don't know maybe okay. Yeah, I've been good. I've actually been good It's kept I mean as long as I'm taking that I feel like I'm pretty regular and it doesn't really throw me off I don't believe you Justin you always say you're good I always see what happens after yeah, but I you know, I blasted out it gets out. Yeah, I can't prove it wrong I can't prove wrong. He's in the what he's in the the the maids unit, right? So he's got the whole place to himself over there. So I can't

check his bathroom. Everything like that. So I just heard it up. Asper report from the cleaners. Say, hey, just, you know, let me know if there's anything. Yeah. Yeah. You know, high pressure washer to get off. What can I say? by going to organify.com. That's O-R-G-A-N-I-F-I.com. And use a coupon code MindPump for 20% off at checkout. BEEP First question is from Tansen82. How do you guys get your kids to eat healthy? Mine refuses to eat most of the healthy meals I make.

Well, mine's on the same diet. He's a 100% boob right now. Well, the boob diet? Yeah, he's on the bo diet. He's a he's a hundred percent boob right now Yeah, he's on the boob diet, so he doesn't stray from that. It's pretty easy Fact he seems to love it Who doesn't know qualms from him whatsoever. So he pretty much listens to everything I tell him to as far as Enjoy while last my friend enjoy Exactly enjoy while last this is a, really tough one for me, especially because I was raised in a culture that were feeding people and just making them eat a lot

is how you show them that you love them and you care. And if a kid skipped a meal, it was like the worst thing ever. I mean, my mom takes pride in the fact that she can get kids to eat more and she follows kids around while they play and she distracts them and when they, you know, then they're not looking, you should put slipscood in their mouth and they eat. I mean, it's, and so I grew up that way.

So this is a really, really tough one because, you know, telling my kids, this is all we're having for dinner and then them saying, well, I don't want that, and then I have to be okay with them not eating like that, is really, really tough. So this could be really hard. I think you have to just, you have to get creative.

The biggest thing is this, is that the kids largely, largely follow their parents' behaviors and their lead. So if you don't want your kids to eat snacks, chips or cookies or things that aren't necessarily healthy, then you can't have them in the house. I know a lot of parents that they have the cookies and what they say is like, oh that's just for me every once in a while and I manage that, know no one else can have it or the kids can't whatever. That's it's harder to deal with that than just not having it in the house if it's not there it's not there so if you can get up and says. You know i'm hungry i want to snack on something and you say okay go go look in the fridge and eat whatever you want their options are.

eat whatever you want and their options are a cheese stick and apple and peanut butter. Then that's what they're going to choose if they're really hungry because that's all there is. The one strategy that Jessica really helped me with and this one was a tough one for me to adopt because it was so different. Again, from how I grew, was feeding the kids in order of priority. So let's say we have, let's say our dinner consists of vegetables, meat, and maybe some pasta or some rice or something like that. We're going to serve the kids the vegetables first, you know, I'll make sure it's a reasonable amount So I'm not pushing it too hard and reasonable is different from from child to child So with my daughter it's a lot less because I know she really doesn't like certain vegetables with my son

I can give him a little more you might have a kid that so reluctant to eat anything that what you put on their plate is like one Broccoli, you know, something like that. And then in order for them to go to the next course, they have to finish the vegetables that are on their plate. And that's their choice. It becomes their choice. They can choose, I don't want this, in which case you say, okay, well then you're done within her, which is a tough one.

That's a tough one to do with your kids, because if they don't want to eat, it's hard to leave them without any food. But it actually does work if you're if you're consistent So you put the vegetables and then you know they finished that and then you give them the next priority Which would be meat and then they finished that and then maybe the rice and it depends on the kid like if you have a kid Who loves meat, but refuses? Any type of you know carbohydrates or refuses to have vegetables, then maybe you leave the meat last because you know they're going to eat that no matter what. So I know that this order can change from family family. For my kids, it tends

to be vegetable meat and then starch or carbohydrate, it tends to be in that order. Now I have no experience with this yet, but I do have a question that's related to this for both of you that I'm curious about because my theory is that a lot of this starts now for me. And I was joking, you know, the only thing that Max is not eating is the food. We've introduced foods. We started introducing foods about a month, a month and a half ago. He gets like, we'll take a avocado and a piece of banana and it gets blended together

and then she feeds them that or it's blueberry and spinach. We've introduced foods like that and we puree it ourselves and then feed them like whole organic foods. And my theory is that if we stay consistent with feeding him that way, as we've introduced these certain foods, and then as he starts to progress, we'll keep him eating like Katrina and I eat, that the struggle, hopefully, will be a lot less than what a lot of parents claim. And what I wanted to ask the two of you because you both have two and That are different ages. Do you feel that? you

Were like this with one better than the other and do you see a difference in their because they're now both you have grown kids that have been Eating their foods for a long time now Now both of you have grown kids that have been eating their foods for a long time now. Do you see a difference in the way you raise the two of them and then how their eating behaviors are today? I have to go on record and correct myself with this as well. I was talking to Courtney about this because we were so focused on our first born for sure. Doing everything to the tea, blending all the whole organic foods, and then like freezing them and then being able to feed them

just like once they were able to eat like real foods. And I was under the impression that that was sort of like to the wayside, which she corrected me and was like, no, we did the same thing with our youngest. And what we've actually found is they're completely two different personalities. And that's something that's, you know, not really something we could have accounted for. So it's two completely different strategies that we've had to apply with both our kids.

And again, they're just, they just gravitate naturally, I think towards like certain types of foods that they enjoy, they completely are, for some reason are repulsed by and either that's because of the texture, the color or whatever. And so honestly, it's been a real struggle with our young guys because he, he's just like, yes, he's very specifically, like he needs things to have a certain color a certain texture Like in order to be even remotely interested and he will battle To where I apply the same principles like you're talking about Sal where I'll introduce it first You know, then we move on to the next and then he will actually will stop eating and then won't eat the whole entire rest of the night

And then go on into the morning and he's fine with that eating and then won't eat the whole entire rest of the night and then go on into the morning. And he's totally fine with that. And he's like super, like crazy stubborn with that. And so this has been kind of like an interesting battle, but one win, and this is where we get a little creative. We got inspiration from Jerry Seinfeld's wife initially. She wrote this book that was helpful with introducing ways of sort of ninja-ing vegetables

into certain types of foods and being able to sneakily kind of add that in. So we had like Hulk pancakes and so we'd able to kind of blend in spinach into a pancake mix and waffle mix and things like that. And then also like within burger patties, we've been able to kind of like stuff that with vegetables as well and kind of sneak that in through that. And we just got like real creative over the years with between that and like spaghetti sauce. Like there's there's a lot of ways you can blend it all in. So they really have no idea. There's that much vegetables within the mix of the sauce. And so I get it, man. I get the struggle of certain kids are just

have really strong personalities when it comes to what they like, what they don't like. But it really is about the parents having consistency. And so we take ownership of that. If we're inconsistent, it shows in our kids. Like, the way we eat, if they start kind of going off track, it's because we've been going off track and have been introducing things in the house.

And so, again, it's a reflection of, I guess, like us. And then also, just trying our best to move, especially our youngest, move him along on his palette in terms of, okay, well, let's introduce Pepper, let's introduce these other types of vegetables we think he'll be able to be cool with now and then build upon that. Adam, I see a difference between my two for sure.

Like when my ex-wife was pregnant with my son, she ate healthier. Now, I know some of it has to do with the pregnancy. I think watching Jessica be pregnant, like the first trimester, she's so nauseous and apprehensive. Like so many foods just disgust her. So it's hard. It's really hard in this first trimester to eat, you know, foods that you would consider healthy.

So I get there's that part of it, but my ex-wife definitely made a bigger effort to eat healthier foods when she was pregnant with my son. And when she was with my daughter, she was much looser. And then when they were babies, I think this is true for a lot of parents. When you just have one kid, you tend to, everything's much more perfect than the second and third one or whatever,

you tend to elucer with each one. So, yeah, and so my son, his palette is, he likes, we joke around, like he's got the palette of an old man. Like he likes- Very diverse. All of them. And fish, and he likes, you know, healthier foods,

and then my daughter, she definitely gravitates more towards bread, starches, and sugar. So there's, I see that difference there, and this is just my own kid, so I don't know how much of an impact that had with, you know, what her mom ate when she was pregnant, and then, you know, how we fed them his kids. So I don't know how much of an impact that had with you know what her mom ate when she was pregnant and then you know how we fed them as kids. But man this is a this is a really tough one. This is a tough one for me. I mean I'm a you know here I am a fitness expert or whatever. The health ambassador. And but I you know I grew up a certain way and

it's so ingrained in me. And then the other side of it is, I don't want to push too hard. You don't want them to rebel. You don't want them to rebel. They're going to get complex. Well, you don't want them to rebel when they get 18 and then all they eat is gummy bears and fire cheetos. Because dad never let me enjoy anything like that.

Right. Or I don't want them to develop, you know, body image or footage image issues because their dad is always on top of them, you know, about what to eat. And then to make it even more challenging when my kids go to their grandparents house so they go stay somewhere else. That's the biggest challenge. It's all out the window. So, you know, my point is saying that is you also got to be, because I know we have a lot of fitness

fanatics listening, you know, it's like be kind yourself. You don't have to be super crazy strict as it could be a nightmare. You know, kids' bodies are more resilient than adults are. You know, they can get away with eating not eating as perfect. You know, now in my 40s, if I eat a bunch of garbage, I pay for it big time. When I was a kid, I could eat a bunch of garbage. I'd go trick or treating, I'd come home, and I had no governing on how much candy I'd eat one night. I'd literally sit there and eat as much as I wanted. If I did that as an adult now, I'd probably have a little hospital. Their bodies are more resilient than adults. Be kind yourself, but the vast majority of your kids' behaviors are learned from watching the parents.

That's the vast majority of anything you're trying to teach your kids, how you are yourself is the big chunk of how they're going to be for sure. Next question is from Spoil Me Silly. Is it bad to extend all the way in a push movement like a shoulder press? People keep telling me not to lock out. But if I don't extend all the way, that's not a full range of motion, right? Bodybuilders, you know, kind of popularize this, right? Where they're like, keep the tension on the muscle and shorten the rep and that kind of stuff. And I can see some value in that, especially for bodybuilders who are

very, very developed, you know, big muscles, and they've been training for years and years and years. But for most people, cutting your reps short is going to be cutting your gains short, 100 percent. Like a full range of motion, studies have proven this time and time again, leads to better strength gains. And one of the reasons why you get better strength gains is the strength gains are spread out over the whole range of motion that you train. So if you stop your ref short most of the

strengthings you're going to get are going to be in that short range. If you if you train a full range of motion then you're going to get strength gains in that whole range of motion. And then of course in the study show that you build more muscle as well. I think the big caveat to this is when you do full ranges of motion is to not rely the don't let the weights sit on the joint don't let the joint support. Well that's the real issue is how you're distributing the force, right? So if you if you have good control and you're able to then stabilize properly with your shoulder blade kind of activated and you're activating your back muscles, your lats, and your rhomboids.

You're able to then transfer a lot of that force down through your arm in the lockout position so it goes down properly through your back. It doesn't stop right at the joint. Then there is absolutely nothing wrong with the lockout. That's something that people need to learn how to properly do that first and stabilize overhead before even going through with heavy loaded overhead pressing. So these are sort of the prerequisites to like standards in order for you to even attempt that exercise. Well, to that point, that's why I love the Z-Press, what you just said, because it helps

take somebody who doesn't understand what you just said and it kind of forces them to do that. Like if you do a Z press and you press the barbell above your head and you don't fully lock out, it'll tip you back over. And in order for you to lock out and stabilize all those muscles that you just listed off end up engaging and stabilizing. And so it really teaches you how to do that properly.

But yeah, I know, if you're locking out, as long as you're keeping tension in the muscles, and you're not relaxing the weight on your joints, and there's a big difference in that. Like if you are relaxing and the joints are taking all the stress, you could probably hold it there for a very long time. If you're keeping tension in the muscle,

your muscles will fatigue and you'll have to set it back down. So just keeping your muscles tense and that goes for every exercise, not just shoulder press. It can be bench press, tricep push downs, it can be squatting. When you come up from a squat and we come in the lock out position, you're not supposed to relax your body. You're supposed to stay tense even in the full lockout position and keep the quads tense, keep the glutes tense even when you're completely locked out. Right. You want to remain active, remain active throughout the whole range of motion. So think of it this way, right? Imagine you're standing up straight. You can lock your knees and somewhat relax your body. And now what's supporting you are

your joints. The ligaments of your joints are supporting you standing or you can stand and remain active where your muscles are active in supporting you. Now locking your knees out and just sitting on your joints, I mean you put weight on that, you're going to cause problems eventually. That's true for locking out your arms or any other joint You don't want the ligaments

Just support you because ligaments have a finite amount of strength. They have a finite amount of elasticity and Eventually over time you can cause yourself big problems now muscles if I remain tense and active Then my muscles will tell me when I can and can't lift the weight and then I lower the weight if I need to and the chance, the risk of injury, is far lower. It's like, it's like when you watch Olympic weightlifters and they do like really good ones and they do like a snatch and you look at their elbows at the top of the snatch and their arms are totally locked out and straight, right? Because they're supporting a very heavy weight. But you ask an Olympic weightlifter, are you resting this on your elbow joints, or are you staying active and pressing

out while you're holding the weight up? And they'll tell you, you better stay active. If you lock the elbows out and relax, you're going to have a hyper extended elbow. Oh, yeah. You're going to hurt yourself. So you've got to stay active throughout the full range of motion, the problems with locking out come from losing the connection. That's where the problems come from. Yep. Next question is from Alexis Swacey.

After all this coronavirus stuff blows over and gyms are open again, how do you go back to lifting heavy without injuring yourself? Oh, geez. Take your time. Yeah. Just take your time. There's no rush. I don't think you can stress that enough though. I think I still learn this lesson every time I'm out of the gym for a few weeks.

Because it's rare that I have more than a couple weeks that I take off. Maybe if I was really sick or an injury or something that kept me down for a month or more. But for the most part, if I take a hiatus, it's maybe a week or two that I take a hiatus from lifting consistently. But for the most part, if I take a hiatus, it's maybe a week or two that I take a hiatus from like lifting consistently. But it never fails. How quickly the body adapts back the other direction and how little of volume and intensity that I need to stimulate growth again. And I always, almost always, end up overreaching. And I think I can't be alone in this. If you're a advanced or

consistent lifter and you've been lifting for years and you take a few weeks off, you're better off probably starting with less than you think you need and scaling up than thinking that you can go right back to where you were or even anywhere close to that. Like I always I always tell clients and again this is like to your points I always make or so much better coaches than we are coaching ourselves. I'm so great about doing this well with my clients like oh you have you've been gone for two weeks this is all we're going to do today and they always go oh that's it I can do I said I know you can do more it's not about you can do more it's all we want to do is enough to elicit some change. And this is going to be enough to do that.

And the next week we'll build on that. And I do that really well with clients, not so well with myself. So if you're listening and you are training yourself and you're getting back from being home and probably very inconsistent with your lifting or you haven't been training heavy, ease yourself in, probably start off with a lot less than

what you think because you can always build on that. But if you overeach, you're setting yourself up for a quicker plateau. A lot of times it requires even more discipline to have that mindset and to really listen to your body is paramount coming back into the gym because you already have this thought. I've done this weight a million times. I know what that feels like. So I've tried to train myself to do this more consistently when there's been a big break in between training sessions is to just,

you know, get under the weight slowly ramp my way up, but I'll tend to do things like pause squats and I'll, you know, I'll tend to do like reps where I'm really taking my time with it and trying to, you know, get some more isometric tension in place so I can really feel, you know, mechanically going through like what weight I feel like apt to lift at the time. And so a lot of times I'll reduce a lot of the volume of what I used to work out and slow down my reps and my cadence a lot and then start like re-acclimating myself towards

the heavier weights. Yeah, a good rule of thumb, and this is different from person to person, but I'm gonna give you a general amount of time. So however much time you took off, cut that in half, and that's the amount of time you gotta give yourself to slowly ramp up. So let's say you took six weeks off from the gym. So for six weeks you haven't worked out.

You go back to the gym. Give yourself three weeks of basic beginner slow ramping up. Give your body at least three weeks to start to get back to where it was before. So just take the time to about half. Now here's the other thing. If you're being consistent at home, let's say you're following maps anywhere,

and you've been working out at home this whole time. You're going to go back to the gym, and it's not going to take much time at all to get back to lifting weights. The amount of time it's going to take is just enough time for you to get used to the new movements again, because you haven't maybe deadlifted in Barbell Road or whatever for a few weeks. But if you've been staying active and you've been following good programming this whole time, you're probably, you know, you're gonna bounce back really fast.

But if you're taking this time off, take that time, divide it in half, give yourself that much time to get back into the gym, to practice movements, have the attitude where you're going to the gym to practice movements versus going to the gym to work out. So let's say, okay, I'm back in the gym, I'm just going to practice my squat. I'm just going to practice my bench press, just kind of go through the motion, full range

of motion, feel it, get connected to it. I've been off for four weeks, so I'm going to give myself two weeks of doing this. By the time you get to the third week, then you can ramp up the intensity again, see how you feel. This is how I like to use soreness. I don't use soreness for any other gauge of my workout effectiveness. It's not, I think, it's a terrible way to gauge whether or not a workout was effective, but it is okay. It's not perfect, but it's an okay way of telling yourself, if you overdid it. So, if you go back to the gym and you're like, wow, I'm exceptionally sore,

like I'm way more sore than I normally get, you overdid it, you probably overdid it. So go weight easier and try to find an intensity that causes you to feel either no soreness or just a little bit of soreness. That's how I would use that day, right there. Next question is from Shan Fit Life. What are the pros and cons to artificial sweeteners?

And is there one that is better than the others? Oh boy, big debate here. This has been an ongoing debate in the fitness space, the health space. I had an online insta, it was like a story on Instagram. Lane nor debate with with Lane Norton over this. I like how she I like how she worded it though with the pros and cons versus sometimes people ask our artificial sweeteners bad and I think that's where that's where this gets really tough to have this conversation. But I can I feel like we can list pros and cons, you know, yeah, yeah, I'll do that.

I'll start with some. I think, are they, first off, let's start up with, are they bad for you? They're not poison, so you're not going to poison yourself with them, but there's some studies that show that they may not be ideal for the body, that they may potentially have some negative impacts on your microbiome. They may have

impact your body's ability to utilize insulin or how it responds to you know sugar when you do consume it or how it changes your perception of taste and flavor. So there's studies on that. We can go back and forth on that. Here's some pros. I'll start with some pros. One of the pros is if you are somebody that tracks your food and you know what your calories are that are coming in, what your carbohydrates, proteins, and fats are, how many calories you burn, then you can utilize artificial sweeteners as a way to give yourself a treat without taking in more calories. Now, the reason why I said if you're that person that tracks is because studies are pretty

clear on this, people who don't track, who just try to reduce their sugar by consuming artificial sweeteners, actually don't do so. They actually end up eating, making up the calories in other places because, and probably because the sweet flavor, you know, makes you crave more food to begin with. So studies are pretty clear on this. When people replace their sugary drinks and foods with artificial sweeteners, they don't lose any weight. You would think they would because they cut out calories, but the reality is they're probably replacing them with other calories. But when they have studies where people control their calories, well then yeah, people can lose weight because now

they're actually reducing their caloric intake. So that, intake. So that will be one of the pros. If you track, then you can probably use them in a way to help yourself get leaner or whatever. This is exactly what happened with me. Now, I've openly discussed my love for diet coax. And it's not something you, occasionally you'll see me with one. I think I had one when we were in the Ohio trip, I think I picked one up in the airport. I don't know if it's been probably been months before that, but what I've done now is I've switched over to the,

the Hanson's real cane sugar root pears. And if I have a craving where I want a soda or some of that, I'll go have that and I have to take into consideration the 180 calories that it has and I think about that and I go Okay, well I gotta be careful if I've had that I can't I'm not gonna let two or three run back or what else I'm gonna have with my dinner I got to take an account that I'm eating an additional or drinking an additional 180 calories and That's how I have managed now. And I actually have lost the craving that I used to have for diet coaks.

And the craving for the diet coaks really came from competitive days. When I was competing and tracking everything, it was my treat. It was my sweet tooth. If I, because I wasn't eating sweets, I was dialed nutritionally. And if I was like really craving something sweet

I'd have like a diet coke or something and it would it would fulfill that sensation and it would also keep me from overconsuming on calories So it worked incredibly for me when I was tracking when I was no longer tracking I fell under the category that you just said I would drink the diet cogs But it wasn't keeping me from putting on body fat. I was, because I wasn't tracking. I was, you know, I'll drink the diet coke that would promote more hunger

and make me want to eat something else. Because I'm not tracking, I would easily over consume without even really noticing and I was putting it on body fat that way. And then I thought, okay, let me see if I switch to a real sugar drink and still allow myself to have it. If I have a craving, okay, I'm gonna go have it. But now because I'm having it, I recognize like,

okay, this isn't like free. It's costing me 180 calories to have this. I made me more mindful. And so I'm seeing the same weight, right? Like I'm not going up or down and now I'm having real sugar in my drink. And it's mainly because I'm not tracking it and I'm kind of intuitively eating.

If I was back in, if I was trying to really make aggressive moves, I probably would utilize Diet Coke again because I'm tracking, I'm counting, I'm paying attention and I know that I have no calories left today, but I have a sweet tooth, I'm gonna go have a Diet Coke, I'm gonna fulfill that. Okay, I feel okay, I'm fine. But if I'm not tracking and I'm still in the habit of drinking those Diet Cokes, then I'm gonna go have a diet coke. I'm gonna fulfill that. Okay, I feel okay. I'm fine. But if I'm not tracking and I'm still in the habit

of drinking those diet coaks, then I'm still making up the calories other places in the day. Yeah, we always talk about, again, you gotta consider our backgrounds and our experience. You know, Adam Justin and myself trained people for two decades. Coach, people, work with people,

and what you learn through doing that is that you have to work with the behaviors, not the mechanistic physiological aspects of food, because if we look at it from a mechanistic standpoint, and this is what a lot of people in the fitness space do, especially a guy like Lane Norton, who's like super defense artificial swimmers the vast majority of his coaching is with competitive bodybuilders busy competitors makes a lot of sense for those people now somebody like Lane does he

have an actual hierarchy of like a difference between like aspartane versus stavia's there some kind of like a list that he has in terms of like priorities for those he says they're all fine they're all fine. They're all fine. Yeah, as long as they're used, that abuse, they're totally fine. But again, his experience is working with those people. And so everything's very mechanistic. You know, calories in versus calories out.

Here's your macros. You're good. Now, the average person, that just doesn't work. You know, count your calories. Count your macros, watch. Okay, there's definitely some value to that, but that is a very ineffective long-term strategy for the vast majority of people out there.

And if you're somebody that's counting your calories and your macros all the time for the rest of your life, that's also dysfunctional. So, behaviorally speaking, okay, when we're speaking about the behaviors that people have, here's what ends up happening when people consume artificial sweeteners. Number one, when you're consuming something that's really sweet, it does change how you perceive the taste of food. Now, can that have an effect on the food choices that you make? Absolutely. Have a bunch of

artificially sweetened drinks throughout the day and then go have some fruit. You're going to find that fruit starts to taste bland. You're going to find that you're going to crave more of that really, really sweet taste. Here's the other problem. You know, there are natural barriers that help us kind of stay conscious of what we're doing. Like, here's a good example. Okay, you look back in the 60s, the free love era of the 60s and the 70s when birth control first hit the market and people were just banging each other, left and right, no condoms, no, not worried, no one's gonna get pregnant

and then HIV hit the scene and all of a sudden you've got this new fear, oh my God, like what's going on? There's this new barrier and people did have to kind of change their behaviors a little bit, right? So when we're looking at like food that's taste sweet but has calories, there's a barrier there, you know, when Adam reaches for his root beer with 180 calories, there's a natural barrier. He's aware of, oh, that's 180 calories. I'm not, I'm only having one. Okay, but if it's an artificially sweetened Coke or whatever, there's no barrier there. Oh, that's 180 calories. I'm only having one. OK, but if it's an artificially sweetened Coke or whatever, there's no barrier there.

Oh, there's no calories. I'm going to have as much as I want. So behaviorally speaking, this is what I would end up seeing with clients. I almost never saw clients who had artificially sweetened beverages have won every once in a while. It was typically three or four a day. They would just consume them like crazy

because there's no natural barrier of calories. So they never developed that relationship of I should probably watch this a little bit. So they'd consume a ton of them. That in effect, then, would change how they perceive taste and they'd eat more calories. And again, the studies are clear when people just replace sugary beverages with artificially sweet ones and then don't track anything.

They don't gain or they don't lose weight, nothing happens. They trade one for the other and they end up consuming more food. And so in my opinion is if you're not going to benefit from it, if you're not an athlete that tracks constantly, you're not going to benefit from it, why not just have the sugary drink be aware of this has extra calories and go with the real stuff. Plus, sugar is not as sweet as artificial sweeteners. So, I'll make the argument that consuming a lot of artificially sweetened foods will

actually skew your perception of taste worse than sugar well. In fact, if you know somebody, maybe this is you listening, and you consume a lot of artificially sweetened drinks, when you go have a regular sugar one, it doesn't taste as good. You're used to the extreme sweetness of artificial sweetened. In fact, I think Adam, you told me that. Yeah, no, I didn't eat fruit before. Because I was such a sweet candy eater and artificial, I mean, I had it all as a kid. And I for sure hated fruit. But the reason why I hated fruit was because it tasted,

it tasted like nothing to me. It was so bland. And so I didn't enjoy any fruit. And it wasn't until I went on a really hardcore diet where I was all whole foods And I eliminated all that and then I reintroduced and I'm gonna tell you what I mean It's like if you go look at a whole 30 like their reviews or you talk to somebody who's done the whole 30 diet Especially if you talk to like like a just a normal person like my mom and her husband They did the whole 30 last year and that that's like the number one thing that those like somebody who has just never really

paid attention to that before, like how does fruit taste to them? And could it potentially have something to do with all the artificial sweeteners that they consume? And then now when they eliminate that and they're only eating whole foods, what a difference? It's mind blowing to them. They're like, oh my God,

I've never tasted so amazing. Oh my God, blueberries and strawberries are so rich and sweet. Like, that wasn't like that for me. I'd eat fruit and it tastes, everything tasted like a watermelon or a melon to me. You know, like a water, watered down and real basic with a little bit of flavor to it. Just didn't enjoy it until, until I dyed it like that.

And boy, did it make a huge difference. Yeah. Now, when you were consuming a lot of artificially sweetened drinks, how did sugar drinks taste? Did they taste less sweet and a little bit more bland? Yeah, no, that's why I think you end up doing so much of it is because it's a, I mean, it keeps stretching how much sweet you need

to get that same punch. Mm-hmm. You know, I mean, you see, and you see candy brands do this all the time. I mean, I just saw somebody sharing the extra sweet sour patches or whatever. It's like, Jesus, the first ones were, it needs more.

Yeah, like the first one wasn't, I mean, they were, they're made of sugar, they're drowned in sugar. They're not sweet enough as it is. Like, yeah, no, there's, and that's definitely, I mean, they're following the market, right? I mean, the consumer is telling them that, they're wanting that, people are pushing that. Well, the reason for that is because you just keep, put your body gets adapted to that,

that level of sweetness. And so then it needs another level of it, and then another level of it. And then, and then when you try and have normal things like a, you know, whole organic apple, and then you think it's gonna taste like your extreme sour patch kids, or all your artificial, artificial favorite pre-workout drinks. Like, no, it's not, because you've been consuming so much that the body's got adapted to that level of sweetness,

then you go back to having, the same thing looks for vegetables. Vegetables were very bland to me for the same reason. I felt like it, because even vegetables have this kind of like natural sweet tasting flavor to them when you have a very clean pure palate, but when it's been doused with all these artificial sweeteners all the time, vegetables tasted like nothing to me. Both vegetables and fruit had a whole new taste for me after I eliminated the artificial sweeteners.

Oh yeah, it's, again, you want to be aware of how it's influencing your behaviors. You don't want to necessarily just look at it from a mechanistic standpoint and say, oh, it's no calories, and the FDA approved it, and therefore it's fine. There's no potential negatives. The vast majority of the negatives of consuming these things are how it influences your behaviors, and if you think of what's going to determine your success long term, it's all about your behaviors. I mean, it's really no different. It's literally no different than what we're seeing with young men and the rise of impotence, the rise of erectile dysfunction among young men.

You're seeing 20 year olds and 30 year olds with erectile dysfunction, and you never saw that before. Now, why is that happening? That's the rise of pornography. They're exposed to so much of this extreme stimulus that the real world is like the fruit was for you. It's bland. So you just want to be aware.

So what does this mean? Does this mean the occasional, you know, artificially sweetened, you know, products is bad? No, it's that's okay, but you want to be aware of what it's doing. You want to be aware of what we're doing. That's a great analogy. You should probably use artificial sweeteners as much as you use pornoHub. Yeah, so for Justin, that's why I come down. And with that, go to mindpumpfree.com. Go check out all of our free guides and resources if you're stuck at home.

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