Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 1271: How to Get Back Into Weight Lifting After an Injury, the Link Between the Microbiome and Anxiety & Depression, Ways to Fix Hip Shift & More

Episode Date: April 15, 2020

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about fixing hip-shift, transitioning into weightlifting after an injury, how the microbiome is linked to anxiety and depression, and things they’ve taken for granted that has come to light during the coronavirus lockdown. Signs that it's time to stop the snacking. (5:34) Dave Ramsey on answering the call, dealing with hard truths & MORE. (8:00) Are the cops going too far with giving out citations? (19:28) A sign that SNL needs a live audience. (22:00) A Mind Pump Easter. (23:19) A man sets a Genesis Book of World Record for bench pressing underwater! (29:51) Wild animals are coming back into the cities. (32:50) The rise in virtual strip clubs during COVID-19 times. (34:49) How to get your greens in without going to the grocery store. (36:09) MIIR doing their part to assist with COVID-19 relief. (38:45) Update on Adam and Sal’s antibody test results. (39:53) Top Gun: Maverick making cinematic history, Justin’s F16 experience & MORE. (45:41) #Quah question #1 – How do I fix hip-shift? I am always favoring my right side when I squat. (51:03) #Quah question #2 – How should I transition into weightlifting again after an injury? (58:24) #Quah question #3 – Is there any truth that an imbalance in your microbiome can be directly linked to anxiety and depression? (1:03:32) #Quah question #4 – What's something you’ve taken for granted that has come to light during the coronavirus situation? And as a result, what will you do differently once your back to normal? (1:09:17) Related Links/Products Mentioned April Promotion: MAPS Prime/Prime Pro ½ off! **Code “PRIME50” at checkout** Special Promotion: MAPS Anywhere ½ off!! **Code “WHITE50” at checkout** Mind Pump #1270: Peter Schiff on the Post COVID-19 Economy & How to Thrive Church suing City of Greenville over drive-in church service ban Review: ‘Saturday Night Live’ returns in a remote-from-home coronavirus quarantine episode Watch This Guy Set a New World Bench Press Record... Underwater Coronavirus Is Having a Major Impact on the Environment, With Reduced CO2, Better Air Quality and Animals Roaming City Streets Visit Organifi for the exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Code “mindpump” at checkout** Visit MIIR for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! Red Dot Fitness Antibody Test Dead lifts to blood draws: San Jose fitness center starts COVID-19 testing - San José Spotlight ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Featurette Shows How the Filmmakers Fit Six IMAX Cameras in a Fighter Jet Cockpit Mind Pump #1000: Live Studio Audience Quah, Justin’s F16 Flight Recap, Mind Pump Past, Present & Future & MORE! Mind Pump TV - YouTube Mind Pump Free Resources People Mentioned Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff)  Twitter Dave Ramsey (@daveramsey)  Instagram Jon Call (@jujimufu)  Instagram Justin Brink DC (@dr.justinbrink)  Instagram

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Then Adam brought up a story told by Dave Ramsey. He's an economist. We talked about church goers getting citations in America, believe it or not, thrown with you guys, just then brought up a Saturday night live and how they did everything through Zoom. It gets to turn out too well.

We talked about our Easter and how it was all done virtually with our families, but it was still a good time. I talked about the Guinness Book of World Records, a brand new record was set for bench pressing, under water. We talked about how wild animals are coming back to the city because everybody's at home right now, not going out.

Adam brought up strip clubs, virtual strip clubs. All right. Then I talked about getting greens in the diet. I've been eating less vegetables than ever. Part of it is because vegetables are perishable. I'm not trying to go to the grocery store every single day. They're also sometimes hard to find. So I've been drinking Organify is green juice once or twice a day far more than ever have to help make up the difference.

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And then we talked about the movie TopGum. That'll be coming out at the end of the year. Bannet, dunet, dunet, dunet. It's good times, yeah. Then we got into answering the questions. The first question was, how do I fix hip shift? So hip shift is when you squat or you do a deadlift and your hips kind of moved to one side.

So we talk about remedies for that with exercise. The next question, this person wants to know how to transition into resistance training after an injury. So we talk about that. The next question, this person wants to know if there's any truth that an imbalance in your microbiome can be causing depression and anxiety. So we talk about how your microbiome

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and we'll get that shirt right out to you. Do you guys have a sign? Because everybody I think has their own personal sign or signal when they know that it's time to reverse action, reverse course with diet and lack of activity. Do you have like some people have like a favorite pair of jeans or they put their weight belt on and like, oh, this is a two not just two, what's yours?

So mine's, it's, you know, I think we talked, like it's been a while actually since we talked about this. I lose muscle like as fast or faster than I put body fat on. I lose muscle, like, as fast or faster than I put body fat on. So for me, it's the way I fill out my extra large t-shirts, my arms. I can go off the diet a little bit, but if I'm training good still, I'll just be thicker, thicker, but still muscular.

Yeah, still the snugness, or? Yeah, still, I'll still be snug in the t-shirts. I'll still look like a buff fit guy, right? Even if I'm a little bit higher body fat percentage, but the men and I fall off of training hard consistently, and if the diet does that too, it doesn't take that many weeks, probably two weeks, when this starts to happen,

where I throw on that extra large t-shirt that I normally fill out, especially the arms, and there's a gap in there. Like that's the, like, oh, you gotta get my fill out, especially the arms, and there's a gap in there. Like that's what it's deemed. Like, oh, you gotta get my shit together, type of deal. So. You have one Justin?

Yeah, I just wanna look at myself in the mirror, I'm like, you're a fat fuck. No, you don't. Yeah, look at this. What is that, little pat, you know, my stomach. That's when you get the dick do. Yeah, you know what a dick do is? A dick do?

Yeah. It's when your stomach sticks out more than you're dick do. Oh yeah. Mine never happens to me. So when your stomach sticks out more than you're Dictu. Oh yeah. Mine never happens to me. So mine is a weird one. Okay, so if I sleep on my back, then I may or may not snore. Sometimes I snore and it's annoying for my partner, right?

They're gonna wake me up or whatever. When I start to snore, even if I'm sleeping on my side, that's when I know it's time. This was happening last night. So last night, the first time, you know, Jessica, like, you're snoring, you're snoring. And I'm like, I'm sleeping on my side. So I'm like, oh fuck, I just myself a little bit.

Third time. Hey, hey, you're the final time. Wake up, you're snoring, yelling at me. You wake up, you're snoring. And I'm sleeping on my stomach with my head turned. So I'm like, all right, my tongue is getting too fat. Remember that article I shared with you guys? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, that's why you snore when you start gaining a little body fat. Your tongue actually gets larger. Yeah, that's a shitter. So I'm getting a fatter tongue and that's not cool. So I'm gonna not buy potato chips anymore. I had a story I wanted to share with you guys. Could we just recently release the Peter Schiff episode? Oh, I loved it.

Yeah, for sure, one of, if not my favorite, interview we've done. It was really, really good. And here's the thing, when we were, it's a hard message for people to take. It is, but it was a ring true. And this is why I wanted to share this story, because I know it hit probably pretty hard

for a lot of people and maybe even nags some people out. And when I was doing all my personal homework, each of us, in a time we have an interview, everyone's kinda doing their own research and reading, watching, looking up stuff on our guests. And while I was doing that, I found who Peter's antagonist is. That's Dave Ramsey.

Dave Ramsey and him have gone back and forth quite a few times. In fact, a lot of probably how Peter really started to explode was Dave Ramsey back in 2007 called Peter an idiot for his prediction on what happened to the housing crisis. It turned out to be correct. Right. And Dave Ramsey at that time was much bigger than Peter Schiff.

So he had a lot more people following and listening to him and then he comes out and he says that I think that had a lot to do with helping him actually catapult to the size he is now. So anyways, Dave was sharing a story the day. And Dave has more of a kind of an optimistic outlook on the economy, his argument to what the things that Peter Schiff says about, it's inevitable, the direction we're going with, the money and crashing is that we're just

a way more sophisticated economy now, and there's too many safeguards to ever allow something like the depression to happen again. And so that's kind of how it counts. But he did say some things though, in agreeance to Peter, where they align and he says, this is the way I'm talking about this to people right now is everybody is getting a phone call.

Everyone's getting a call right now and it's up to you to make the decision if you're going to answer or not. And then he goes in and tell this story, and Dave Ramsey is like, I think it is 50s or 60s, even. And he goes in and tell a story about when he was working with his father in the early 70s. And his dad was rebuilding a deck.

And his job as a son was, as they were tearing up the old nails in this deck to rebuild, he would collect all these old nails. And he says, you know, that is an example of my father's reaction to the great depression that he lived through. It forever changed the way he was with money or anything of value. And it just made him way more cautious and prudent about anything like that. And he goes right now, there's a lot of people that are getting calls and are finding out that maybe they were overleveraged or they hadn't saved for a rainy day. And they were living a much more lavish lifestyle and they probably should have. And these people, the ones that will answer,

this potentially will forever change their life and their spending behaviors in the way they think about finances. And some people has nothing to do with finance. Somebody could be listening right now and they are saved for the next six months to a year and this wasn't that big of a deal financially for them. But then they're now at home with their kids and they're spending more time with their kids they ever had and maybe they thought they were spending a lot of time with their kids before

until now and maybe they're getting a new connection to them and maybe their phone call is spending more time with the ones that you love and he said the same thing about with your spouse and really being home with them. He says, a lot of us are getting phone calls right now and some of us will pick up and this will forever change behaviors and some of us may find ourselves in this situation another decade. I like that message because when you're communicating hard truths, which the three of us are very experienced doing, not in finance, money, economics,

but in fitness, we are very, very experienced at communicating hard truths to people. Now, one of the things you learn when you work with people long enough is you learn how to communicate hard truths to people. Now, one of the things you learn when you work with people long enough is you learn how to communicate hard truths in ways that are effective. So I could easily tell somebody, you know, whose 60 pounds of away, well, it's because you eat like crap

and you don't move and if you don't change that, it ain't gonna happen. It's true, terrible way of communicating. It's not effective. I'm not gonna get the person to understand how to make those changes. It seems not effective. I'm not gonna get the person to understand How to make those changes it seems to daunting it actually makes them feel terrible and it ends up pushing them in the opposite direction And so what you end up learning over time is how do I communicate the hard truth because here's the reality if you want to Change your body composition if you want to improve your health

There is no shortcuts and the truth is it takes Hard lifestyle changes. You cannot continue to live the way you've been living and expect to have better health. It's just can't do that. And it's more complicated than that, but that's what we try to do on the show. So what Peter Schiff says on the podcast is hard truths.

He's telling the truth, but the problem is, a lot of us don't want to hear it because I don't want to hear that it's going to get hard. It's telling the truth, but the problem is a lot of us don't want to hear it because I don't want to hear That it's gonna get hard and I don't want to hear that maybe the way I've been living is Part of the reason why it's getting so hard because he made a really good point and think about this. This is true now How come so many companies and so many people are so screwed after not working for just two months? Think about that for we're just talking two months here. It's because they were living so close to their,

they were pushing the limits so much on their lifestyle. They didn't save, they might have credit card debt. They spent money on streaming services and video game consoles and maybe I buy cigarettes or maybe I buy eat out here and there. And over time, what that means is, I am totally screwed if I don't work for two months. For two months, I am done. I'm out.

A lot of companies, a lot of big companies, not just people, by the way. A lot of big companies ran this way. And so a Peter Schiff is doing, he's telling the truth about, because the decision was, that was made by the infectious disease experts, which who are experts at this?

They said, look, if it's better, if we stay at home, shut things down, isolate ourselves for a little while, but that comes with consequences. You don't have people who are working, you don't have companies producing products, people aren't making money, so you can't just do that and not have a consequence.

Just like the consequences of leading a healthy lifestyle mean you're not going to indulge, like you normally do, you can't just be lazy all the time. I think of like liposuction, that's what that is. The way we're infusing money is like somebody who is obese going and getting liposuction. You don't fix the root cause of how you got to that situation. And what ends up happening to almost every client that you guys have had that have done liposuction

or had gastric bypass. It's never a long-term solution. Right. Because you didn't fix the behaviors. You didn't. And so what he's saying in that, and some people got pissed off listening to that. Oh, he's just saying, then people should suffer

and businesses should, no, what he's saying is, it's inevitable that not that they should, that that's just inevitable. Just like if you want long-term fitness success, it's inevitable that you have to follow certain steps. And if you don't, it's inevitable. If you don't stay active, if you eat terribly, and don't take care of yourself,

100% you will suffer from worse health than if you did all the right stuff. And there's nothing that I can do. I can't make magic and change that for you. And so that's kind of what he's talking about. And you know, it leads me to another point here. And this is an important one. And again, none of us are infectious disease experts.

I'm gonna leave that up to the scientists, but I will say this, there are health consequences to what we're also doing right now. So I don't mean, forget the economics for a second, but are there health consequences from not having your going to work and having that sense of purpose? Is there are there health consequences from not seeing your going to work and having that sense of purpose. Is there are there health consequences

from not seeing and meeting with people, the physical touch and that connection that you have, that we all took for granted, you know. Just not going to work and seeing co-workers, a lot of people are starting to feel like, oh man, I miss around people. I just had this debate with my friends that, you know, because everyone goes back and forth

on the argument of the death rate, the infection rate, how serious it. It's like, okay, no one is talking about the suicide rate going up, depression going up, spousal abuse going up, child abuse going up, alcohol, 50-something percent increase. So there's a lot of other things that are happening right now that potentially could be very harmful to our society that we're not addressing or talking about either. Right, so here's the mental space that, and remember, if you're new to the podcast, I'm a hypochondriac, okay.

So I am trust me, I worry about a lot of stuff like this, but I try to put things in perspective, and the reality may be this. I don't know if this is the gonna to be the reality, but this might be the reality. We might be in a position where we have to make a choice where they open up the government, the government opens up the country because they realize if we don't have people producing shit, we don't have people working, that's going to kill us more than this potential virus. Doesn't mean the virus went away though. So we have to go back to regular life

and we have to willingly accept the risk and that means we can't let fear destroy us. So you take your precautions, you wash your hands, you know, some wouldn't sick, stay at home. If you've been around someone sick, stay at home. If you're at high risk, you probably should take more precautions. But we're gonna have to, just like every day

when I get in the car and I drive, I willingly take the risk that I may die in a car accident, which if you add up your entire lifetime of driving, that's actually a decent risk, right? But we take their risk because we have to live our lives. So we might have to be in that situation soon. This is right. I'm actually a little bit on the optimistic side in terms of like us being quarantined and really like having to evaluate what your true values are

and what that looks like going forward in the precautions that you're gonna take, where you probably wouldn't even consider them before and like how you can wash your hands and still making contact, but there's gonna be different behaviors that are gonna result out of this going forward. But also just like, in terms of your own life,

using this time, this is a hard stop. Everybody had forced, you know, it was forced to stop, which, you know, either you could use it to your advantage like you were bringing up earlier, or you could not receive the call. And I think this is one of those things. You really like need to do a lot of soul searching, deep dives with what the landscape looks like

for you individually going forward. What does the work look like? What does the family schedule look like? All these things that are super valuable to you, really put those in the forefront. Yeah, and I'll tell you how, I'll tell you, I'll give you an example how they went too far. Like there was, I don't know where this was, but there was, you know, really put those in the forefront. Yeah, and I'll tell you how, I'll tell you a given example of how they went too far.

Like there was, I don't know where this was, but there was, you know, Easter, right? We just had Easter. And first time, I think in modern history where Easter wasn't celebrated with people together, whatever, everybody had to stay home. Mm-hmm. But there were some church services

where people drove their cars to a parking lot, kept their windows rolled up, everybody stayed in the car, nobody got out of the car, everybody's in the car. And they were literally, I don't know what this was, but they were, I think it was in Texas. They were police and government officials

walking around these parking lots with people staying in the cars, meeting for, and taking down license plates, so they could give people tickets. You went too far. What? You went too far.

That didn't happen. Yes it is. Really? Yes it did. Yeah, there's stuff like that that makes me preconcerned. That makes me really upset because part of people's health is, for some people, is having these services, they stayed in their cars. Why are you writing citations?

Why are you giving people tickets for shit like that? You piece of shit. If that's a terrible, I get it, if they got out of the car and they're all hanging out, whatever, totally different. But they were in their cars. Well, I would take it. Now, I wonder if, I didn't even think about this, right?

Like, because don't, I mean, CHPs and just your law enforcement, don't they have quotas that they have to hit for tickets? And if nobody is on the road, and that would be more aggressive, which is kind of what I'm experiencing, like I'm driving around, like I can see a lot of people getting pulled over. I don't know how often this has happened,

or if it's just coincidental, that I'm like seeing this quite more frequently, but it's like anything else, right? You need money coming in, I would assume that they would probably be a little more aggressive right now. Yeah, there was some dude who went on his boat. You got a, the net, they pulled them in and impounded his boat and gave him a ticket. He was by himself.

That's pretty isolated. You can't get more self-isolated. Come on, you're a sneeze on a fish. It's got to be that then, right? It's got to be that they're trying to make quot quotas and so they're doing things like that, right? Yeah, and fear is a really bad motivator when people are scared, you know? Yeah, do you?

Then they start to do stupid things. I think we need to be smart. And it's good, look, it's coming soon. We're gonna be told to go back to work. I think it's important that we don't let our fear, we're still gonna be smart, but don't let our fear crush us and realize that there are other aspects to health, avoiding getting sick as one of them.

The other one is we need to be around each other, we need to work, we have to have a sense of purpose. Otherwise, you're gonna see people's health start to decline just from that. You already are, I think. It was interesting. Did you guys get a chance to check out like SNL? They, I think I guess Saturday Saturday night they released with Tom Hanks

being the host and they did it all remotely. So it was like all on Zoom and so he presented as like the host and did his whole thing but there's no audience. So it was just like dead air and there's no energy and then the skits were all one-on-one kind of skits. So it's like, you know, I guess they had like a responsibility to do a skit within no energy and then the skits were all one on one kind of skits. So it's like, you know, I guess they had like a responsibility to do a skit within their house and then kind of try and make it funny. And then they had one where they were like all like zooming in together and they tried to like collaborate on a skit. And it was just like, I was really hoping for them. Like, that's a great idea. You know, kind of showing that, you know, we can still keep going on with this. But it was like, it was painful, idea. You know, kind of showing that, you know, we can still keep going on with this,

but it was like, it was painful, dude. It was tough to watch. You know that the back in the day, they used to have laugh tracks, where they would have fake laugh. They needed that. You make a huge difference. Yeah. Yeah.

You ever watch it, like watch an old sitcom? Yeah, like three-s company, take out the laughing. Oh, so, there's crickets, you know? I was just like, I felt bad, because like, you know, they've had hits like, there's crickets, you know? I was just like, I felt bad because like, you know, they've had, they've had hits and messes quite a bit. But this was just like one of those where if you don't have audience responding, like that was a major part of the show that just got eliminated.

Did you got, what did you, now? Did you guys use Zoom for Easter? Yeah, you did. Yeah, we did. We did a family Zoom church session. So it's tradition for us, my wherever all my siblings are at, we come back in a town,

and my mom's like one mom request is like, can we all go to service together every, and that's her thing, right? So she sent out a thing earlier in the week that, okay, we could stream it. And it was cool. I mean, a lot of churches are doing this right now, right? So a lot of churches are doing the streaming service.

They had a lot of them were doing it before. So it wasn't that big of a hard transition for them. And that's what we did. We just pulled up. So I had the iPad with all of my family. So all my siblings and my mom and her husband. And we're and then we're watching on the television. We're watching the actual service.

So we're all watching the same service. And then we're all zoomed together. And so we did that. That was really nice. Yeah, it was. We did it with my family. One of the drawbacks to have such a, well, I mean, it's not a drawback.

I love this about my family, but it's huge, right? So we're on Zoom with 30 or 40 people. Wow. And it's a lot of people. Yeah. And then there's other people who don't understand how to get on and use like my grandparents or whatever So then like my aunt will like FaceTime my grandma and put her on the camera

Yeah, so we all saw each other that way and then Jessica's family did something really cool her friend Jessica and her friends mom made Easter dinner and then what they did is they she drove by and kind of dropped off food at people's houses. Then all of us went on Zoom and ate together. So we pulled up the screen and everybody's eating together and having conversation. It was really nice. So we did this with, so being in service is my mom and our family's tradition and then

Katrina's family, every Easter we've been together with their family and it's normally like yours she's got a very big family and we get together and it's food and drink and music and having a good time and what we did so Joey my brother-in-law like he's a musician and plays the guitar normally always for us when we're there so he actually came on while everybody was kind of cooking in their kitchens and preparing for Easter dinner. He came on Zoom and like you guys, we had like 30 people all on there, all of her family and stuff. And he's playing music for everybody. So that was, you know, what it did make me think about. And you know, this is a cool that you brought this up because, you know, and again, thinking back to the day, we have the thing of, you know, answering the call and like, what is my message behind all of this

that we're going through and stuff? And I think, you know, I definitely don't see my family as much as I like to. We're all in different places, right? So we all live in different cities within a few hours of each other. So occasionally for these holidays and stuff, we get together.

But it just made me think like, you know what? Of course, getting together in person, it would never replace that. But this is something that could potentially complement my family that we weren't doing before. Totally. Instead of us waiting every three months to get together for a holiday and all finally see each other,

what if once a month we at least did a family Zoom where we all get together and like have a glass of wine or have a dinner and interact. So there's some things that I have a feeling that I can't be the only one that is noticing stuff like that that may change. That may stick. Yeah, that may stick around.

I think back to investment, I think Zoom is a great investment because of it. I think that you're gonna see it stick after this is done in many ways. I think that's one thing. Yeah, even like, I mean, that's a really big deal for my mom for us to come to church with her.

And, you know, she feels like she gets it once or twice a year. No. I mean, that's something we can give to my mom now, once a month, you know? Like, that would just, oh my God, it would just totally make her day. Like, if just, you should have seen how excited she was, just having all her kids on the screen

and our grand babies, right? So I'm holding Max and my sister's got her three kids. That's great. So she's like looking at all our kids while she's watching church. And you know, so you know, these are things that we could do for our mother that takes an hour out of our Sunday once a month

and would probably just make her over the world to be able to do that. And so valuable, you can sense the value. Right, right. And of course, it doesn't, again, it doesn't replace human contact and being together, I think that what we're all learning is how much we value and probably appreciate that. But some things that, hey, maybe we're going to start to do some more stuff like this

in the future, I think. Now, so we also watched a streaming service and got the pastor, such a good speaker. And he said something that was so powerful. He goes, you know, in many ways, he goes, this Easter is much more like the first one, much more than any other Easter. He said, a lot of uncertainty, a lot of fear, people feeling isolated. And when he said that, I was like, wow, that is really power. I heard like the same message. He the guy that, the guy that, that Shari was an original, yeah. He's like, he's good, but he's also like radio DJ.

Yeah, he does. That's hard for me to like take that out of it. He's like, yeah. Yeah, like, he does a good job, but like it's funny. So one of my goals this year, you know, because every year, maybe not at the beginning of the year, it's not necessarily a resolution, but every once in a while I'll make a goal for myself

on something I'm gonna improve. And one thing that I said to myself last years, I wanna get a lot better at public speaking. I wanna get really, really good at public speaking. I had no idea that pastors and people who speak at church the best speakers, the best speakers you'll ever hear well think about it first Think about it for a second practice every day. You know the school Not only not only that their their ability to survive

Financially depends on that. Yeah, I mean the practice for years and years right the community The community they rely on their community to tithe in order for the church to be able to survive. So, and you being able to obviously draw more people in that do that, you gotta be one hell of a speaker else, you're not around. Well, I mean, and right, and then the other part is this is like, you know, there's some great famous public speakers out there that you could listen to

and watch, they also make money off of their motivational speaking and all that stuff, but they're well known. Many of these pastors I've never heard of, but they're exceptionally well, and I think a big part of it is, they literally are speaking in front of a group of people several times a week for decades. Of course, you're gonna be amazing.

100% of them. Yeah, every time I hear one, there's some. In a lot of other school, like challenges you, like seminary school, I always puts you up in front of people to speak, you know That's like the that's what you're being educated on. Oh, wow, so yeah Hey, did you guys hear about the new Guinness Book of World Record that was just set for for working out? What yeah, there's a new one for I'm gonna pull it up just so I know I don't screw it up

So this guy broke the Guinness book of world records for bench pressing underwater. I don't even know this existed. I know, I know, I, Juigi has done that before. I've seen him, I've seen him bench pressing underneath. So here's the, here's the record, okay? Bench pressing under. Greg Whitstock from the United States,

bench pressed with a 50 kilogram barbell. So what is that? 120 pounds. 62 times underwater. So it's the record for how many reps you could do underwater. You've gotta send that over to Judy. You leave it to him to try and beat something like that. 62 times.

So it's not a strength beat. It's holding your breath. Yeah, it's holding your breath. Which to be honest with you, 62 is not that crazy. I mean, you could probably get 62 done in what, two and a half minutes maybe. Well, bro, it's underwater though. Well, you think about the oxygen? Right.

Your blood oxygen going down so quickly. Yeah. You know what I mean? And you're just, I mean, it made a record. So it's not like not impressive. But I think that I could see somebody, you know what I mean, how many people have tried to beat that.

That's what's, that's comical about the Guinness World record. Remember, did you ever watch, did you guys watch, uh, did you guys watch Robin Bigg when you were growing? Yeah. I watched on an I've seen every episode. Like I love Robin Bigg and one of the episodes, yeah, that was his mission.

Yeah, well, he looks up. He's like, I wonder how many skateboard Guinness World Records there are, you know, how many kick flips in a day, and he went, I think they crushed like 12. It was the biggest skateboard. Yeah, you're having it through like downtown LA. Yeah, they did, they went and they like listed all the ones

that they, okay, I know it could be this, this, this, and I think you got here, owns like 20 something Guinness World Records. You know, that was one of my favorite books as a kid. I got it every single year from 19, I wanna say 85 until like, I was like, maybe 1993, I would get every year Guinness Book of War, I loved reading the Guinness Book of War Records.

And there was one, there was one in particular that might still stand today, and I guarantee you if I say it, you guys will know what I'm talking about. It's the world's heaviest twins. Yeah. You know what I'm talking about? Brought them up a few times.

Yeah, down the motorcycle. The two best. You know what I think about immediately is the guy that had the longest nails. Oh, I remember it. That was like curls all the way under like the spiral disc. Why do we have a few of those records that are just ingrained in our brains?

I remember. That was just so nasty. It was. I remember that one. I knew I'd be asked what that was. Yeah, what do you do? Like you're just like carrying someone takes care of nails. You know, there are spiritual people in India that are known for a lot of this kind of

stuff. Like there's one man in India he's considered a spiritual guru and he are known for a lot of this kind of stuff. Like there's one man in India, he's considered a spiritual guru, and he's known for, apparently, you know, what he believes in, his God told him to raise his arm and never put it down. So he holds his arm, and it's like all atrophied and weird, because he's been holding his arm up for, I don't know how many decades or whatever.

I've got a question! Somebody! So, I'll tell you guys. I'll't know how many decades or whatever. I've got a question! Somebody! Yeah. I'll tell you guys. So I'll tell you guys. I'll tell you something. Finally, I'll tell you something weird that is going on right now during this whole, you know, COVID-19, all of us being at shelter in place.

So you know what's happening here in the Bay Area? That's tripping me out. It's because everybody is indoors so much. The wildlife is coming down into the city. Oh wow. Yeah. So my mother-in-law, Cimio, sent me over this, you know, pictures of mountain line footprints and a picture of it on from their her neighbors, Cam, you know, whatever security camp of it walking in the backyard, putting its paws up on the window seal, looking into the living room and stuff.

So, mountain, I never had a mountain. This is like down the city right here, right, where I used to live. She sends me a video the very next day after sending me that one of just like a whole family of wild pigs, like 15 of them running down our old neighborhood. You would noise has gone down the, you know, at night the light, you know, has gone down in terms of light pollution. So they're getting all the signals that this is like, okay to come. Yeah, you're not hearing cars driving around like crazy like you normally would and people being out and loud and lights like car lights and everything like that.

So it's just they're all kind of creeping in right now. I wonder if we're gonna see Bigfoot. Stupid. Thank you. What if all these are dimensional, dude? Yeah, squash. You don't think squash lives in this dimension? No. What if the these are dimensional dude? Squatch? You don't think Squatch lives in this dimension? No

What if the animals are live? Yeah, the animals are probably like, what the fuck is going on? No, are we taking it back? No, all right, are we sure? Is it our time? I don't know, have you guys ever seen a mountain line in real life? Not in a zoo, but like in real life? I told you guys, we had one like walking down our neighborhood

one time, they caught it on camera and everything and it was, it was creepy. Yeah, isn't it creepy? Isn't that because we're in California, right? So you get the foot hills right there. I remember, I went time out on a trail and I was walking and I go around the corner and there's a mountain lion sitting on the side right there

and I remember thinking like that could kill me so easy right now. Slowly back up, you know? And it was all good, but I can't believe that they lived. So tall. That they lived right there. Slowly back up. You know, and it was all good, but I can't believe that they live right there. Yeah, it's crazy. Hey, we brought up on the show the other day, I think Justin made a funny meme about the fans only,

or only fans pages. Oh, what was that I'm hoping for right now? So we've been like joking about it, kind of talking about it, and like, you know, we'll even notice her, dude. So I love it. So is it true or what? So we have a discount code now?

Not only is it true, 76% increase. No. Whoa. That's how true it is. That's amazing. I thought I read the article this morning, oh this is so great because we've been talking about this for a while now, not only that,

but what's making its way right now are virtual strip clubs. Yeah. So does it just call that porn? Yeah. No, what they do. Oh, honestly. No, it's set up different. It's set up to where like they're dancing.

You can dance, yes, you can give tips while she's dancing, right? So you're watching virtually, and this, the stripper just reported this that she did 18,000 in one night. Oh my gosh, yes. Yeah. So, you know what, you know what?

I don't like most about that industry, I'm not gonna lie, the gender pay gap is terrible now. No, no. No, no. Man, don't make equal wages. I mean, there ain't no dude stripper making 18 grand on a webcam, you know? You just get made into a meme like that one guy.

Yeah, it's partially our fault because guys just, can I have a dick picture? What are you doing giving it away? You're crashing the price of it anyway. How are you guys doing with your you know? I was talking about that. I'm trying to you know get my my body fat D'O because it's a little high one thing I haven't I've definitely neglected is my vegetable intake Because I'm making far less trips to the grocery store because well there are a bit of an it they're a lot. We just went yesterday. It's been tough. Yeah, really you saw it being sold out Oh, yeah, just we're just so okay now you're talking about frozen afresh fresh Oh, so we went we went to go get

So we we normally go to our little we had this little no I don't even want to share it on the podcast because then I want to know Yeah, yeah, don't bring we have this nice little grocery store I'm gonna say where, that actually has almost felt like nothing's happened. It blows my mind. It's in this little nice rich pocket neighborhood. I'll give you that much.

And when we go over to it, it's always got everything stopped. Yeah, that's a good experience. So they were close for Easter. So at Forest, Katrina and I, to go over to Safeway. And when we go in there, all the frickin' fresh greens are gone. I'm like, fuck, dude, it's still bad this way.

So yeah, no, Safeway's like post-apocalyptic. I guess I should have for our partners. It probably they probably would have appreciated, but I just, I took a picture of what we made last night and we had very minimal greens on there. So we always like, I mean, Katrina and I will pound a green juice, the organophile like right afterwards or right before, whenever we have days.

I've never had so much of a savior. Yeah, I know, I've definitely had more of it now. I'm having it, dude. I'm having it once or twice a day because of exactly what you said. And the other reason why, I'm not getting a lot of vegetables because I don't like the grocery store experience right now. You go in there, you're separated,

it's all anxious with the masks and everything. Then you come home, you gotta wipe everything down, takes forever, it's like, I go, once a week. Yeah, you're separated, it's all anxious with the masks and everything. Then you come home, you've got to wipe everything down, takes forever. It's like, I go once a week. Yeah, you're gonna do it as less as possible. Yeah, and fresh vegetables, you can't go buy a shit ton of them once a week, because of the burger. Or you can, and you'll be like me, where we signed up for this whole thing where you get a box straight from the farm.

We did that, and so we're still getting that, but now they're given a stock of all these like, like a Rougala, or like real random stuff, like celery, like this huge thing is sell. I'm like, what am I gonna do with this? This is like regular carrots and lettuce and all that, like kale, this is like all these like randos, sprouts and stuff.

Now is that what happens with those? Cause I haven't done, could you don't you can't pick They just give it to you. They give you these huge bushels of these things and you're like I could use like maybe some dishes But you're like this is weird like I'm not using all these leaks for everything other than soup Bro, celery. You just just covered in peanut butter. We're talking about it. Yeah, that's like the best thing in the world No, it's like you know zero nutrients speaking of our partners We've been sharing like all of our partners that have been doing really cool stuff. And here's another one, a mirror is doing this. So they had that they had got this famous tattoo artist to draw

like this really cool image on on their mirror cups. And then they're selling those. And then $5 for every cup that they sell is going to your COVID relief. Wow. I feel like I'm trying to... It's good. We've gone through most of our partners and most everybody is doing something really cool to get back. Makes me feel really good.

So hold on, Doug, scroll down. It's cool design, too. It's like this octopus holding these people up from different. So the whole thing behind it is basically like we're're all, like sort of, like riding this tide together or whatever. Yeah, so it's okay. So the artist is Kyler Martz and that's the one that they created, the artwork that you're talking about

and then because Doug just pulled it up. So $5 of every alone together camp cup gets donated to feeding America's COVID-19 response fund. That's so good. Yeah. See, I like seeing that right now. Yeah, it makes me feel really good to see that, you know, what people are doing or whatever.

I can't wait to find out our antibody test. We're not gonna find out till tomorrow, right, Pratt? Are you guys just like, oh, man, just totally anticipating it. So, since we brought it up on the show, I've been getting DMs. Same here. Like crazy. And I shared my best friend who the the baby who was having seizures. I had two people that had the exact same scenario as that went in got tested

actually Found out that this was back in mid-January got tested They for flu they said it wasn't the flu they couldn't figure out for sure what it was. Thought maybe it was an ear infection or whatever. Her and her husband both, just recently, tested for COVID-19, then they both have the antibodies. Oh, wow. Interesting. Wow. Very interesting. Where did they test?

I didn't ask where they tested it out. I just shared that information. I just had a lot of people that said, hey, I heard you talking about that you think you might have. And I shared the symptoms and everything. And it seems that it's about everybody around the same time. January or February, there was quite a few people here that thought they had it based off the symptom. Well, see what I, so the messages I've gotten are people who say that and also went to the doctor

and got tested for the flu. And they weren't in the war. Came back, yeah. So they have all the flu for the flu and they weren't came back. Yeah, so they have all the my youngest in December. Yeah, he had real bad flu symptoms. Did they test them? Yeah, and he didn't have any any flu. So what did they think it was just a they're all I know. Yeah, it's the real bad cold, I guess. I hate that answer. Yeah, you go to the doctor and that that and that's that it's their fault. But you know, when you got something and they're like, it's probably just a virus. Yeah, it's just a virus. Yeah, I feel like that's just a random virus.

It's just an answer. Yeah. Why is my leg falling off? So you're in the newspaper too. I don't think we've told on the podcast, which like a lot of people are like, oh my god, like, out of your newspaper. You know, it's so funny about that. That's how old we are. I know.

That's Katrina and I were talking about this because I did. I got all kinds of phone calls from people and text messages. And the irony of that is that, you know, San Jose spotlight newspaper, what do I thought is smaller than Mind Pump Media. So, But it's a news paper. And because that just shows you how we're still kind of stuck in those ways, right?

Because it was in the newspaper. So like my family, like, oh my God, you were in the newspaper. I'm like, I put this in my refrigerator. Are you fucking kidding me right now? Like literally Mind Pump is like, oh my God, you were in the newspaper. I'm like, put this in my refrigerator. Like, are you fucking kidding me right now? Like, literally, mine pump is like probably five X that newspaper is.

You don't say it as far as the reach that they hit. Yeah. But because it hit people's feeds on Facebook and shit like that and it popped up, people were tripping out. But it's totally true. That's a funny thing. For example, let's say your face was on someone on Instagram

or whatever Twitter with like a million followers posted a picture of you versus a billboard, like hundreds of people, thousands of people drive by every day. If your family drove by a billboard, oh my God, he made it. Because it used to mean something. I know, totally good.

It is funny, but fun. I was just having a, she was in there when I went in to get my antibody testing and she just wanted to chat and talk about what I thought. And you know, I seen the thing that I was sharing with her too is just it's unfortunate that some people are gonna have the attitude of this is like, you know, taking advantage of COVID-19. And I just, that type of stuff irritates me.

Yeah, if you look at, even look at, because you paid for a test. Yeah, and I almost and I stayed out of this Somebody twisted your arm. Yeah, I didn't pick the brick up. I know that you know when I saw I looked at like When red dot posted they posted that the the newspaper article they posted something else that I'd done and You know underneath it, you know people are like just so people know You know they're offering this for free here, here, and stuff like that. I'm like, you know what, what is your, what is that person's desire to outcome

to come onto red dots page and do that? And I did and I was gonna engage, because it just, it really irritates me when people do shit like that. And it's unfortunate. I don't know, I feel like I want to be someone from the other side to like, we need to get away from this like in fucking entitlement thing

that we just, we all should have everything for free. Like we're, it's heading us down the path where a lot of people are at right now where we expect that we're supposed to have all these services. No, it's just, it's not all Peter Schiff thing is so hard for people to digest because it's like money just doesn't fucking come from nowhere Yeah, there's there you know, it has to be backed by something and the reality is this is there are gonna be

Free COVID tests or paid for by your insurance, but the problem is gonna be access to them. You're probably gonna need Access because people will be lining up like crazy, so you might not be able to get one. And the way they may ration them is by saying you need a prescription from a doctor versus a company who sells them. And maybe you don't have a doctor's prescription. Maybe, you know, it doesn't matter, I'll pay anyway. By the way, that money that you pay,

that company profits with that money, all it's gonna do is help them create more of these tests. And it doesn't take away from free tests. It only compliments, it's adding more to the market. So it's not a bad thing, it's going to do is help them create more of these tests and it doesn't take away from free tests It only complements it's adding more to the market. So it's not a bad thing It's actually yeah, overwhelm the places that are doing it for free, right? You get more options and here's a deal if you're someone who doesn't spend and doesn't do it then who cares? Exactly right. Why do you have an opinion exactly if you're not gonna do that but because there's trust me I'll tell you right now it's filled the fuck up

You know saying because there's a lot of people just like me or like, it's filled the fuck up, you know what I'm saying? Because there's a lot of people just like me who are like, hey, I really wanna know. I have nowhere else to get this stuff. Yes, because you get put on the back burner right now. If you're somebody who thought they had it a month or two months ago, if you're not currently sick right now and you wanna go get an antibiotic,

no one's giving you that for free. Nobody is. You have to get in the back of the line because they're trying to treat people right now that are in the middle of it, which is understandably so. You should. Yeah, it should be that way and I I agree with I'm not saying I should cut in the front of the line But if I if I could pay $250 to someone who's providing a service out there so I can come get it done right away absolutely

I'm going to right right right I want to talk to you guys about top gun Okay, have you guys seen the trailer for the Mavericks, the new one? The Spada. Yeah, so they've been delaying it a bit and all this, but I guess they're still really trying to push it through to December 23rd, right before Christmas. And so I actually got to see some of the, and read a little bit on it, like how they shot some things and everything. So they have like IMAX cameras and everything inside the cockpit.

And they're actually taking actors and they're doing these crazy maneuvers like super low altitude And with G forces all the thing like with the cameras inside with no CGI so for real How are they not like real puking their guts up? Well, I guess they had to go through all this extensive training and then you know Tom Cruise had already gone through that and he was trying to get the other actors to do it too and get conditioned

because they were puking quite a bit in the very beginning, trying to get used to it. Now I would assume too that we probably, is this ever been done? I mean, have they ever shot IMAX through it from a jet? No, it's revolutionary. People leave just and you need to educate people on just how insanely difficult it is to sit

in a high performing jet and go through. How many Gs did you hit? 9.3. Yeah. I know. I know how many. Yeah, because I earned that shit. Justin came back, because he got taken up by the

Contra Berber. He got taken up and they took him through nine Gs and when he came back, remember when he left, he was super hyped and he's like, yeah, it's gonna be so awesome and I'm like, I don't know, he comes back and I'm like, so what did it feel like and he goes, the words he used was, it feels like every molecule and atom on my body

was taken apart and he goes, and I said, would you do it again? He scrambled my DNA. He's like, no, I would never do that again. And he goes, and I said, would you do it again? He scrambled my DNA. He's like, no, I would never do that again. Now, when you were doing, obviously, you didn't go from zero to nine Gs, right away. You were, you were a little bit faster, a little bit faster. Was there, was there a, was there like a major difference

between four and nine or four and six? Like, fuck yeah. Oh, so each G you could feel. Oh, hell yeah. Really? Like, four? Like, two to, I think out of the gates Like we got up to like four or five because like he was going like vertical straight up and then start spinning

And I was like whoa And like I thought that was gonna be like the extent of it. I was like I can I can do this You just kind of bear down and like it feels like you know Like I try to think of like if have you ever seen that that that Maxwell commercial with the guys getting blown like his whole face? Oh, that old laughing with the speaker? Yeah, I just felt like, it just felt like, you know, like a huge like thousand pound person is just smashing you

and like all of your body parts at once. And you're like, ah, you know, trying to like squeeze yourself to stay in one place. And that's four, that's four. Yeah. And then like you started to do all these maneuvers. And that's where I think that's where most people

get like, queasy. And you know, because you start spinning and you're trying to like regain your semblance of where you are in terms of space and like where your center of gravity is, all that gets fucked. You know, and so just going through that, we did a bunch of maneuvers for a while,

and then he's just like, okay, we're gonna start ramping it up, and we do a little test and it was like, I don't know, like six or something and I was like, holy shit! Because they had these compression pants that if I didn't have those, for sure it were blocked out. So that's what sends all the blood back up. So yeah, just immediately when we hit the G's, it just squeezes your legs really hard and then it comes back up.

But yeah, does it feel like it's almost cutting the circulation off? Is it feel like that? Yeah, wow. Like you just, like you have to actively squeeze and tense up like every like fiber of your muscles to be able to keep the blood. Yeah, just to keep it, you know,

pulling back into your, in your dome. So yeah, I was like those, those hard, it's basically like almost like a 90 degree, you know, hard stop, turn like, you're like a abruptly turn and go the other direction. That's where you get the nine, something tension. So when you hit nine, do you even know what's going on, or you're just like, I'm surviving. Yeah, it's like you can't see, because your eyes are really blur, and I think the pilots probably are conditioned to where they can still, obviously, they can still see it's not just feel,

but I think I probably would have done better. I think there's something about being in the driver seat. You know, and you're not like, you know what the fuck you're doing. You're like, I would have done better roads driving. No, but I would have felt better. You know, I would at least have been like, oh, I have a handle on that.

No, no, I could get, because you know, it's just like when you are driving, like if you're driving really fast like that, you shift to the right, because you know you're about to throw it to the left. You know what I'm saying? You're feeling your way into it more, like I was just like, it was like,

somebody's just smack me with their rag doll, yeah. And so these actors are going through the eyes are popping out and like, yeah, so, and yeah, I guarantee they're puking their guns. Well, top guns probably gonna crush. There's so many guys our age who grew up watching that movie soon as that comes out it's kids sucking I mean I want to watch that no I feel like it's gonna be bad yeah it looks like they did a good job too I'm excited for this clause brought to you by organified for those days

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Yeah. You know, one of the best ways, just kind of basic, because there's a lot of techniques that I would employ to work on this with someone and, you know, it depends on what's causing the hip shift in a person for me to determine what exactly I would apply. But one general piece of advice I can give on the podcast that I think would help most people is to start doing unilateral work, one legid or split stance work. And then the idea is to mimic, make sure both sides are mirror images of each other. That's a really big one. So what you want to do is you want to, let's say you do a standing

lunge, which is a bit unilateral or more so than a squat, go down with your strong side, film it with your phone from the front and the side, and then try to be exactly the same with the other leg. It's kind of an easier way to, I'd say more general way to address the differences. Yeah, and also, regressing it down quite a bit and like doing those exercises like bird dog and these things where we're really just focusing

where your hips start to rotate. And like you're losing that, that bracing tension that you need, evenly distributed and being able to anti-erotate. So, without getting too complicated, really just trying to keep the hips from moving at all and really like having that proper bracing in the core and connectivity in the hips to keep everything straight ahead. There's lots of exercises for that you can regress to to kind of stay in there and really

work on that. So, this is a little bit of a depends question, right? Because everybody's gonna be a little bit different. But I do wanna share probably two of the most common things that I see when I see this in a client. One of those being it tends to happen a lot when somebody had some sort of an injury on one side, especially when it's a major one.

They broke an ankle, they tore an ACL, MCL in their knee, they had hip surgery on one side. And then during that time, that side tends, the atrophy, the other side tends to overcompensate because you were injured on that side. And then when the rehab happens, a really good person that was rehabbing probably didn't do a good job of making sure that you started to catch everything back up and were balanced. I see this a lot. And so then what ends up happening

is you have a very dominant side. And then it's just the body's natural, the body will naturally go to that more dominant side like when you're in a deep squat. So you go down to squat. And so let's just say like, so I had knee surgery on my left side. So after that, when I would go to squat,

my right side was much more dominant and stronger. So at the very bottom, I would have this shift to the right. My right side that's stronger at the bottom would want to take over and then you would come out of it. So that's one really, really common area that, and one of the best ways to address that is unilateral trading is to go back and do a lot of split stance stuff, one leg of stuff and try and catch the legs up. Against stability. That's right, regains a lot of stability training. That's gonna be really good.

And it could take a while. Yeah, it does take a while. It takes a while to catch that up. And you gotta be okay with the dominant side, maybe getting a little weaker in while you try and catch the weaker side back up and to try and level that out. And you're allowed allowed to train,

I think is really good for this. Now the second thing, and this was really, I was way more enlightened by this after I met and started hanging out with Dr. Brink. So those that don't know the Maps Prime Pro program was written with Dr. Brink. And he was probably very, very crucial to all of our mobility knowledge, our movement.

He's just on another level as a movement specialist and a very good friend of ours. And I'll never forget the first time that I was in his office and he had me take off my shoes and he wanted just to watch me walk and squat and move. And he broke down the shift and everything going on in my squat that time all the way down to my feet. So a lot of people have really weak feet and they tend to pronate and they

typically do that one side more than the other. And if there's a breakdown in the foot and the foot, you know, internally rotates or what they call flatten your foot, flatten's more on one side, it'll bounce its way all the way at the kinetic chain until it gets to your hips and what'll happen is you shift the opposite direction, right? So that is really common is to look at your feet and get barefoot, squat down, and pay attention to see if you notice one side

is doing really, really common. And it was something that I just was not trained. We were trained as trainers early on to really kind of watch the hips and the knees. More. Never the feet, right? We were never really watching the feet, which explained a lot of the reason why

this was broken down in myself. And boy, once I really started to work on my foot strength, my ankle mobility and address how I was planning on the ground, it started to take away any sort of shift that I had in my hips. So those in my opinion are the two areas to really look at for the majority. And you know what the challenge is with this is that we can get really good at compensating. In fact, you can get so good at compensating. You don't know.

That's the average person you may look balanced when you squat or lift because you've gotten so good at this particular pattern. And then what ends up happening is, when you try to correct this pattern, you have to back way off on the weight because you're better at lifting weights poorly than you are at lifting weights properly. Okay?

No different than if you always typed with your two index fingers. The first time you go and practice typing the correct way, you're still going to be faster with your two index fingers. You're just better at doing it the wrong way. But over time, we know that the right way will get you better results. You'll be able to type much faster. The truth is the same for the body, the absolute truth, because you are limited by the weakest link in the chain. So what I mean by that is if your squat has been stuck at, you know, X amount of weight or so many reps, what might be preventing you from progressing

isn't your total genetic potential for strength. Often, actually, more often than not, it's not that. More often than not, what's stopping you is some kind of a mobility issue where your body just stops you from going any stronger or faster because there's something that's weak. This is why mobility is such or mobility work can be so valuable for a lot of people.

Because you may think, I feel balanced, I'm good, but you got all these plateaus. I've been stuck at 250 pounds squat, been stuck at a 150 pound bench press or whatever, forever. Well, try this. Try working on mobility. Try following a program like Prime Pro, work on the major areas of your body and spend the next two months making that a priority, two or three months, making that a priority. The good news is you don't need equipment to do this. You can practice this anywhere. You don't need a gym.

And then go back to lifting and then with your new mobility, your new connection, start to add weight. And then don't be surprised if your old plateau is shattered because you've now fixed that weak link. And this is something that's extremely, it's far more common than not. Next question is from Sophia Northrup. How should I transition into weight lifting again after an injury? You know what's funny about this question?

Is that people don't realize that the best way to rehab or correct or fix or work on the body with after an injury is resistance training. It is weight training. Yeah, if you go to, and here's, there's a couple reasons why it's the best. There is no form of rehab or strengthening or correcting imbalances that even comes close to resistance training.

One of the main reasons why it's in a league of its own is because resistance training is formless in many different ways. There's, I can change my form technique and I can mold the exercise around my body. That's what is unique to resistance training. You go to a physical therapist, and almost, most of the things that they'll do with you to fix your problems or rehab you, revolve around resistance training.

Now sometimes that means weight that you're actually lifting a dumbbell. Sometimes it's a resistance band. Other times it's just intrinsic tension in your body, isometrics, but all of it is considered resistance strength. So it is by far, and it's the one that's used by professionals, the best way to work or correct injuries. Now, how do you get into resistance training after an injury? Number one, very slowly.

Number two, special emphasis is in prioritized is mobility work. That's what you need to focus on. Correctional exercise and mobility work. And that'll get you not just to the point where you feel better after an injury, but get you to the point where you're now better off than you were before because that's probably why you got injured in the first place. I want to add to that. And I have a story to share, because I'm really passionate about this topic, because when I had my knee surgery,

this was not my first injury that I had had, but it was my first injury I had after I had already, like almost a decade of personal training under my belt, and I was far more educated than what I was with previous injuries. And I'll never forget after I'd recovered from the knee surgery, signing up for my rehab and going there. And I go to this rehab center and I meet the physical therapist. And then after that, he hands me off to the lady

who was overseeing the area, which was a PT, right? So they typically have most therapies are like this. You have a physical therapy office, which is that's the main doctor where it's held under then they have a bunch of PTAs, physical therapist assistants that work underneath them that are helping all the patients

and they try and bust as many people as they can through that. And so they'll have a facility like this one that I went through where there's about 10 of us that are all rehabbing, someone's rehabbing an ankle, someone's rehabbing a knee, a hip, there's all different ages, we're all in there together. And then there's a PTA who's kind of overseeing everybody. And I'll never forget, I was doing, she came over to teach me,

I was doing like these little stations. And she came over to have me do these ball squats where she put the wall behind my back and then I was squatting up and down. And she wanted me to do that for like two minutes and she'd just take your time if you need to and between and rest, but for two minutes you do this and she went to the other patient, how'd you stop?

And she basically showed me and then, yeah, I get it on my trainer, she walked away. And what I remember, you know, the first time squatting down again after the injury was holy shit, I was like shaking like a leaf. And when I would get down towards the bottom, the natural thing that my body wanted to do was again, like we were just talking about,

is the dominant side that was an injury would take over out of the squat. And I would shift over to the right really hard, and then it would shoot me out of the squat. I would shift over to the right really hard and then it would shoot me out of the squat. Now, I know as a trainer that mechanically, what I'm trying to do and I'm rehabbing right there is to be very meticulous about my form

and not allow the body to just take the easiest path. And so that got me really, I ended up quitting the rehab because this happened two or three times in a row. And I'm like, why the fuck am I doing this? If I'm doing the real train at the hard part is the form and the technique while you're rehabbing. Because if you just go through the movements and you don't think about what you're trying to accomplish, you just solidify bad patterns.

And this happens to so many Americans that come out of our surgeries and our rehab is they just, you know, they get them working, you know, they get them working again and able to go back to their daily life and walking, but they didn't really fix the over compensation that naturally happens in all of us. So your attention to detail and form is more important than it ever has been when you are rehabbing in injuries. So, you know, when you do go back to weights, So, you know, when you do go back to weights, it's go start with very lightweight and put all of your energy and emphasis on mirroring the other side or being symmetrical when you move

and really focus on the mechanics and trying to perfect your form. That is far more important than just seeing, hey, last week I did five pounds. Now, this week I'm doing 10 pounds, I'm getting better. No, no, no, pay attention to the movement and the detail that otherwise, you're setting yourself up for a headache long term.

Next question is from Kathleen Jürgen Symbaleo. Is there any truth that an imbalance in your microbiome can be directly linked to anxiety and depression? Yes, 100%. So there's two reasons why this is true. And by the way, this has been now, studies are showing that there is a connection between our microbiome. And microbiome represents all of the bacteria in fungi

and all the different cells in our body that are not human cells that also that lives symbiot cells, that also, that lives symbiotically, usually symbiotically with us. So you have a microbiome that's in your gut, there's a microbiome that's on your skin, on your eyes, your genitals, your feet, you know, in fact, if you were to count all of the cells that are human cells and compare them to the cells that are in and on your body that are not human cells, they would actually outnumber human cells. So we evolved with them.

They are definitely a part of who we are. So there's two reasons why microbiome, you know, what do they call dysbiosis or, you know, it's off, let's say, could cause you to feel anxious or depressed. Number one, this is a very obvious one You don't feel good, okay? So how imagine if you were chronically bloated after eating meals which happens to a lot of people or you you're constantly battling constipation or diarrhea or heartburn, you know really bad acid reflux That's obvious if you have any kind of a chronic health problem,

it's probably, you're more likely to feel anxious and depressed just because you don't feel good. Okay, that's a very easy one. But there's also a much more direct link. Your gut, for example, produces quite a bit of the feel good chemicals in your body, like serotonin. In fact, there's all, there's the second part of your body that has the most serotonin receptors. Receptors are where the serotonin chemical attaches to is in your gut. The first place is your brain,

second place is in your gut. I think the third place is in your heart, which is kind of interesting, right? We've for thousands of years, we've talked about listening to our minds, our guts, and our hearts, which is kind of interesting. And remember, serotonin is that kind of love, feel good chemical, but there's other ones that are produced quite a bit by this microbiome. So if it's off, you're probably going to have less, potentially potentially of these kind of feel good hormones. Your microbiome also is connected to your overall inflammation in your body. Well, systemic inflammation, we know, is connected to depression and anxiety. When you're just inflamed overall, they find that you tend to have those types of problems.

So it's definitely directly connected to those things. It's more of a physical, and then there's this kind of, this feedback loop that happens. So I have, let's say I suffer from digestive issues. That makes me feel bad. The microbiome is off, which also directly makes me feel bad. But now I start to feel bad about feeling bad. Now I start to feel bad about why the hell am I start to feel bad about the, why the hell am I always bloated?

Why am I always feeling this way? Now I feel bad about feeling bad and it kind of becomes helpless and it's perpetual. Yeah, and it starts to become this problem, so it's definitely connected. Your gut health is a huge part of your overall health. Well, I think that's it. I think you beautifully broke that down scientifically, but I think there's a really simple way to show this or explain this to someone. I mean, you've ever been so scared to get up and do a talk or do something that you threw up or before a big event or a game like that makes you so anxious and you're so afraid or someone give you the most

awful news you've ever heard in your life and it makes you puke. I mean, there's obviously communication that's going on. That's all mind that's happening, right? You're freaked out, you're paranoid, you're scared. That's all stuff that's happening in your head. And if it somehow made you throw up, there's obviously communication that's happening there. Yeah, they call it the gut brain access. And there's a direct communication between the gut and the brain. And they're connecting it to all kinds of different things.

And it's the two ways foods too. We've talked about this about how we visibly see this more in our children after they eat certain types of foods. What types of behavior happen as a result if it's a bunch of sugar, a bunch of simple carbs. What that reaction looks like versus a a different type of like a balanced nutrient meal. You know, all these things, like it's very visible when you kind of take yourself out of it and look from the outside.

Yeah, totally. And again, this is probably going to be in the future that will probably be future treatments that use gut treatments as part of therapy. I don't know if it'll necessarily be the cure by itself, although in some cases it might be, but I think it'll probably be in combination with other types of treatments because again, I mean, look, I've battled with gut issues

for a long time, luckily for a while now I've had zero issues, but I know when my gut is off, man, I definitely don't feel as happy in his calm and part of it is just not feeling good the other part of it is just Physically, you know because there are you know there are emotional Components to depression and anxiety, but there's also physical components you can also have a physical body That just feels Down and depressed. This is how medications will treat it when people take an SSRI.

They're not fixing the problems in your life, but maybe it's helping with the physical feeling of those things. Next question is from Ty Finicum. What's something you've taken for granted that has come to light during the coronavirus situation? And as a result, what will you do differently once you're back to normal? You know, it's interesting is that we were kind of talking about this already right in the intro. And you know, while we're having conversation like

my mind's been spinning about that, because I knew it while it was happening. And then having to say it on this podcast made me really think about it. And now my brain's been going like, you know, what am I, now I realize that, now how can I organize something for my family? And so I have two, I have two brother-in-law's that are like musically talented,

both of them play the guitar and have incredible voices. And one of my personal favorite, and I'm pretty sure most of my family members, favorite things to do is to get together as a family. And these are opposite sides, right? So actually never do the two of them get together. We've never, both my brother and laws that are the musicians have never been

in the same family party or without that. They're on different sides of the family, but both very talented. And both sides of these families love to get together, have food, have some wine, and then play music. And I was just thinking, you know what I should do? That would be fucking really cool. So I'm gonna talk to each one of them individually.

And I'm even gonna offer to pay for their time, an hour. I'll pay you to play for $100 or something an hour for the family once a month, that we just make a consistent time that we on Sunday, the first Sunday of every month that you play for one hour, and we all get it on a Zoom and enjoy it together. And I just think that would be so rad and something that we had never done before.

And I wouldn't even have thought to do that with until this whole COVID situation. And who knows, maybe both sides of my family start getting together, and if it becomes a regular thing, and we've got everybody on there and enjoying music and seeing each other, and I think that's what I'm gonna do. I mean, I literally just came to mind

as we were talking about this because that was something that I noticed. I thought, you know what, as much as we all do, because together as a family, we don't do that that consistently, and that could be a very easy thing that I make as a monthly much as we all do, get together as a family. We don't do that that consistently. And that could be a very easy thing that I make as a monthly thing that we all do.

Yeah, I love that. I love that idea. I'm on the same wavelength. I, as much as I value family, I realize that I took a lot of it for granted. And what I mean by that is, I see certain parts of my family regularly. I see my parents, you know at least once a once a week Maybe we'll have dinner together whatever. I'll see my siblings, you know

You know twice a month maybe once a month Maybe I have cousins and stuff that you know, I'll see a big family events But I don't see a lot of them enough. And what's actually happened is because of this, because I think all of us want to check in on each other. And we do love each other. My cousins and I, we care for each other, my aunts, and uncles, although I only see them for birthdays and Christmas and stuff like that,

we definitely care for each other. And what's ended up happening is we're contacting each other more often than we ever have through FaceTime and through that type of stuff. And I'm really enjoying it. And I'm realizing I don't have a relationship with a lot of these people aside from the big family functions. And I did take them for granted. And I'm going, and that's what I do now. So on a weekly basis now, Jessica and I will sit down.

Actually, on mostly daily basis, we'll sit down and be like, who haven't we FaceTime recently? Oh, my brother, oh my cousin, let's get him on. It's 10 minutes. 10 minutes on the phone, FaceTime. And I think I'd like to keep doing that. I think as much as I value family, I still took some of it for granted, that's for sure.

Yeah, I totally agree with you guys on that. I do think, too, one thing that I've really been stoked on, that we've started to kind of do it with our own family and our kids, besides always just kind of going outside with them, horse and around, doing activities outside and enjoying the sun and climbing and all that, which has been great, we've designated like an hour of just creative time. And so this is something like we have been able to like my oldest for instance has started to draw a comic and he's really

getting into that. And like I've never seen them really gravitate to doing artistic things. And my youngest is building all these elaborate things right now. And he's really getting into that. And then we spend time of the three of us like learning guitar. And I'm kind of walking them through and they're, you know, working their way through that. But it's just something that, you know, besides getting all of the education from school, of, you know, hanging out with their friends and all that,

that's like really like rich time that I get to spend with them. And I wanna see if I can maintain that going forward. Yeah, you know what's something else too that I never used to do that now I do a lot. When I would go on walks, cause I would still do walks and stuff regularly, just to keep activity or whatever. If I passed by someone or someone's out in the garage

or whatever, I never used to say hi to anybody. Oh, that too, yeah. I used to just walk, you know, walk, do my own business, maybe if I'm with Jessica or the kids, I'm say hi to anyone. I used to just walk, do my own business, maybe if I'm with Jessica or the kids, I'm paying attention to them. Now I make it a point to say hi to anybody I pass, or on Easter, Jessica and I went for a walk

and we saw people out or whatever. And now that I've been saying hi to people, now they're starting to have conversations. So I walk by this lady and she was talking to her neighbor and I said hi and she's like, hey, how are the, how are your babies? How are your kids? How are they doing? And I realized like, oh, she knows I have kids

because I've walked by now several times and said hi. And so we're starting to build that community feel that I didn't have before. 100% took that for granted before. And with that, go to mindpumpfree.com, download all of our guides, resources and books. I'm gonna start with the Ben, shout out. Yeah, yeah.

Okay, what's his last name? Lawson. Okay, and what was his deal again, Luke and me? Luke and me. All right. Hey, before we sign off, I do wanna wish one of our listeners and friends, Ben Lawson. We wanna wish you good health.

And if you could send him your prayers and good vibes, that would be awesome. He's battling with leukemia right now. He's been listening to us for a long time. He was up to like 600 pounds, like dead left and he was really strong and just got hit hard. Really, really good dude. So Ben, you're on our minds.

We hope you do well, hang in there, buddy. And with that, go to mindpumpfree.com, download all of our guides, resources, and books, they're all totally free. You can also find the three of us on Instagram. You can find Justin at Mind Pump Justin. You can find me at Mind Pump Sal, and Adam at Mind Pump Adam.

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