Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 1418: How to Critique Your Physique, Adding Twisting & Rotational Exercises to Improve Body Appearance & Function, Ways to Reverse the Effects of Diabetes & More
Episode Date: November 6, 2020In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about how to analyze a physique, favorite exercises & movements in the sagittal and transverse planes, the best advice ...for someone who just recently found out she’s diabetic, and what they would like to say if invited on the Joe Rogan podcast. Welcome to the world Aurelius Jordan Di Stefano! The harrowing tale of his birth.(4:40) Adventures in Truckee with Adam and Justin. (31:57) Adam’s BIG scare. (40:12) #Quah question #1 – Can you guys break down how to analyze a physique with terms like origins, insertions, muscle belly’s, etc.? I’ve heard these terms thrown around a lot and I’d love to hear from you guys about it. (43:04) #Quah question #2 – What are your favorite exercises and movements in the sagittal and transverse planes? (49:15) #Quah question #3 – What’s the best advice I can give to my sister who just recently found out she was diabetic? (55:34) #Quah question #4 – Here’s a scenario, you're invited on the Joe Rogan podcast. What are the top three messages you would like to send out to his audience with the reach that he has? (58:41) Related Links/Products Mentioned November Promotion: MAPS Ultimate At-Home Workout Bundle for Only $99.99 Visit Organifi for the exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Code “mindpump” at checkout** Visit Felix Gray for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! Franco Columbo - Greatest Physiques One Arm Arnold Press- Improve Shoulder Mobility & Development – Mind Pump TV MAPS Fitness Performance - Mind Pump Media The BEST Anti-Rotation Exercises for a Strong Core #2 | MIND PUMP Add Windmills to Your Workout to Increase Your Deadlift Strength RGB Bundle | MAPS Fitness Products - Mind Pump Media Mind Pump Podcast – YouTube Mind Pump Free Resources People Mentioned Joe Rogan (@joerogan) Instagram
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Salta Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.
You are listening to Mind Pump the World's Top Fitness Health and Entertainment Podcast.
Now, in this episode, we answer fitness and health questions that are asked by our audience,
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Here's the first one.
This first person says they want to know if we can break down how to analyze a physique
with terms like origins, insertions, muscle bellies, etc.
In the competitive sports of bodybuilding, physique, bikini, those terms are thrown around
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What does it mean when we talk about muscle insertions, muscle bellies?
What does it mean when you have good genetics in terms of your aesthetics?
The next question, this person wants to know what are favorite exercises of movements in
the sagittal and transverse planes all. Okay, so sagittal transverse planes. That means
exercises that happen in front of you, and then ones happen to the sides of you or ones that
happen when you twist. So we go through all the different planes of movement, and why you
should pick exercises in all three of them. The next question, this person says, what's the best advice
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The audience doesn't know this like you didn't tell us one that you chose not to know what the sex was until
He was born. You also didn't share with us the name
that you were going to choose.
So when you sent over, not only you had a boy,
but you also named him a really,
Jordan, I was just like, oh, bro.
Yeah, I know, yeah, little boy.
So that's, I mean, I would have been happy either way, right?
Boy or girl, but, you know, he came out and, you know,
you see the package.
So you're like, it's a son. Yeah, Aralius, we love the name. It's, you know, after the
Marcus Aralius, they call him the last great Roman Emperor, the Stoic philosopher. Great quotes.
You can look them up online and see some of the quotes that he, he put out there and Jordan
because his nickname is going to be AJ. I love that. Yeah, so like, Jessica's brother is AJ,
so we wanted an AJ and we're thinking,
I got a good name for the middle name
and you guys know I'm a huge fan of him.
Yeah, so I thought like,
you're a big fan.
AJ, nobody believes that.
Yeah, man, I'm like on.
You wrote what a roller coaster for the guys.
It was intense, dude, it was intense.
So we planned on a home birth.
There's a few reasons for that.
I mean, I talked about it on the show a little bit,
but a home birth, mom's healthy and everything.
It's a different experience.
Midwives are experts at vaginal delivery, natural delivery.
Jessica was healthy, fit, and we wanted that experience.
And then there's another side to it that I haven't really
shared on the podcast.
Jessica's had some pretty bad experiences in hospitals.
She was a kid, she had severe migraines,
they didn't know, caused them.
So when she was like a baby and a kid,
they would tape her head to the CT scan board
or whatever and put her through. What are those kids? Oh my God, I know she tape her head to the CT scan board or whatever. Whatever.
What's it?
Oh my God.
So she never chose that.
Yeah, she hates hospitals.
And then when she was 12, her mom had her in the delivery room when she was delivering
her younger brother.
She's just 12, 12-year-age difference between her and her younger brother.
And it was really bad.
I mean, her mom passed out several times.
In the delivery, lost a lot of blood.
So she just traumatized with hospitals.
Did not want to go.
So, we want to do home birth for that reason,
but all the other reasons that I said.
So that was the plan.
We had a great midwife, Melissa Dean, give her a shout out.
Just excellent care leading up to the due date,
but she missed the due date,
and the law says that you can't go.
So that's an actual law.
So that's an actual law.
It is.
And has that a state law or is that,
I don't know, it might be a state,
or I don't know, I think it might be a state law,
but they don't allow midwives to deliver babies
at home past 42 weeks.
Now, what was that feeling like for both you and Jessica that
because you guys put so much energy and effort into set that up?
Right.
How did it have to be some disappointment there on some level?
You know, she's a champion.
My wife's a champion.
Once you hit that due date and then you know there's a time frame.
So we're doing all the stuff and I talked about it on the podcast and trying to get it to happen
and the Castro oil and stuff.
Castor.
Really greasy.
Race card.
Yeah, that'll get it glided out.
Maybe that's why it didn't happen.
You guys use the wrong oil.
You did the wrong oil.
You used the wrong, you should have used it.
We did mobile one.
30, the 30, 40 WD, you know what I'm saying?
So, no, so. High octane. Yeah, so. No, so.
Hyoctane.
Yeah, so no, we're doing all the stuff
and she's being active and everything,
but everything looks good and healthy.
And, you know, we did the,
she did the enema a few days before.
That didn't work.
The castor oil, they save that towards the end
because what you don't want to happen with,
because castor oil is a laxative.
And what you don't want to happen is that you get,
to hydrate it, when in convalment,
not a good way to go into natural childbirth.
So they always wait to last minute, but,
we were up to the last minute,
so she did the castro oil,
once didn't work, did again the day before the last day,
and it started to work.
So she starts going into early labor the last day, like that
morning, right? So she's feeling some contractions, but they're sporadic, they're not consistent.
And meanwhile, we're trying to stay calm because you don't want to get, you know, stressed
or anxious because that can prevent things from progressing. And it just didn't happen.
She was in this kind of early labor.
So we knew we had to go to a hospital.
And Jessica's just like,
is the midwife with you guys the whole time right now?
No, the midwife, she's just talking to you
until it's game time.
So we had a doula carry, I wanna get her last name.
Because when I tell you guys about this doula,
I mean, she's just, she carry castle.
So if you're in the San Jose area, phenomenal doula,
and you'll know more as I tell the story.
But what will typically happen is you'll do early labor at home,
once the contractions get like five minutes apart
and they start to get a little intense,
then the doula shows up.
Then the doula is the one that makes the decision
to call the midwife.
And the midwife comes to deliver the baby essentially.
Okay.
So that's kind of the process of what goes on.
So she's in early labor, so doula is not coming.
But we're texting back and forth, she's in contact with us.
We miss the deadline, so we're like, okay, let's wait during this day,
the next day, and then if nothing happens, we'll go in at night
to get induced.
Now, okay, sorry, I'll stop you, but I'm curious, right.
How do you control, like, the law, if you've 14 days,
if you're like, what would stop you guys from like,
let's just stay here and push it two more days or whatever?
We can, the problem is, then the midwife can't come
and help with the delivery.
So you essentially then would be home.
Legally, right?
Yeah, you would be home birthed by yourself.
Oh, wow.
So she's held responsible to come deliver a baby beyond for she does.
So we wouldn't have anybody supporting us.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
So believe it or not, there's women that take that risk.
Why?
I bet.
I bet.
I call it free birth.
I would not recommend. It's like a Leonard Skinner song. I bet. I call it free birth. I would not recommend.
It's like a Leonard Skinner song.
Free birth.
Let your layer.
Yeah.
So, and I wouldn't recommend that, you know, but whatever.
So, but it is, it's up to us, but we thought, you know, all the risks and, you know, and
all that and so we're like, let's go worth it.
Not worth it.
Let's go get induced.
So we go to the hospital at night,
we check in and El Camino Hospital in Los Gatos,
great staff, the nurses are phenomenal.
And we're there and we're checking in,
and Jessica's already upset, she's like, damn it,
I didn't make it.
She's got to battle that whole,
why didn't my body do this?
And this arbitrary timeline, that's another thing, because you know
that they designed this time, and there are increased risks,
but it's a general risk.
Right, it's just a guideline.
It's not, on an individual bait,
I mean, Jessica's healthy, she's relatively young.
So, you know, you're kind of fighting that,
plus then you're thinking, but I want the baby to be safe,
because now you're considering everything.
So we're there, we're there at night.
Dr. comes in and he's like, yeah, I'm not going to induce you because you're,
we're going to wait till tomorrow morning.
And so I'm like, what are we going to do?
Stay in this hospital till tomorrow morning.
Yeah.
If you're not going to induce us, we're going to leave.
That's why I told you guys, hey guys, long story, we're not going to be here.
Yeah, you're almost on home again.
Yeah.
Yeah. So the doctor tells us that. So I said to him, I said, long story, we're not gonna get you. You're over so in home again. Yeah, so the doctor tells us that,
so I'm like, so I said to him, I said,
well, why am I here?
And you can see that he's trying to switch.
Well, I recommend you stay so that,
I'm like, no, we'll come back tomorrow.
I said, unless she gets into active labor,
then we'll just wait till tomorrow,
because we're not gonna stay in this hospital,
have her hooked up to machines,
watching the heartbeat of her,
the baby creating more anxiety.
Yeah, so we went home,
and she was in this early kind of sporadic,
one contraction would happen,
and then 30 minutes later,
another one would happen.
They weren't even within five minutes.
No, nothing would happen for five hours,
and then she'd get a couple more.
So that happened until the next morning,
and then we're like, okay, now we gotta go,
and let's go see what happens.
So we show up at the hospital 10 a.m.
And again, great staff there, by the way,
they knew our situation, the nurses are like,
we'll let you guys try to create
whatever environment you want. Oh that's nice. Yeah so we had candles. They were like that huh?
They were so we had candles we turned the light because you know hospitals are like bright-ass lights.
Super sterile environment. Sterile machines everywhere. It's like you're just gonna make you know
my wife mooring just about this anyway so lit, put on the music, and we waited a little bit, and the like,
doctor comes and's like, okay,
we're gonna do this very slow.
We're gonna do a very slow induction.
I'm not gonna give you Patosin,
unless I think you need it.
We're gonna start with, there's something called Cytotech,
which is a synthetic prostacladin.
You take that orally, and it can kickstart labor itself.
Did you know about this before going in?
Or did it, okay, you did.
I knew that the,
I wanted to know what the doctors recommendations were.
And they knew that we wanted a home birth,
they knew that we wanted minimal intervention.
So she was cool with it.
She's like, we'll monitor you
and we'll go really, really slow.
So we go on the side of tech
and we wait, wait, wait.
I don't know how many hours later,
like 15 hours later, whatever,
they give her a couple doses of that,
and then it does.
It kicks in to labor.
So now I call the, the dual us,
so Carrie shows up and-
Oh, they better be there?
They better come in.
Oh, wow.
I know, right?
During COVID, a lot of hospital work.
Yeah, yeah, I thought maybe it was just gonna be you.
No, Carrie went a couple days before and got like a fast 24 hour COVID test.
Oh, perfect.
And they were cool with it.
Oh, cool.
Yeah, I'm very thankful for that.
So, Kerry shows up.
Now here's the thing with side attack.
It can also cause contractions to be stronger and faster.
So typically with natural childbirth, you have a little bit more time in between contractions
and they're not as intense.
Every time you add an intervention,
whether it's like the cytotech,
which I think the generic name is misopropyl
or something like that,
or pitosa and especially, contractions can be stronger.
So now Jessica's getting,
she's kicking into active labor, but it's intense.
It's getting really intense.
So do that comes there and we are, we're doing it.
We're going through it.
We're, you know, and it's, you know,
watching Jessica, it's like, I tell you,
that's hard not to get emotional.
Her strength, going through, knowing that she's going through
this more intensely than it probably would have been,
had it not been induced.
And it's crazy to watch.
And then there was this switch with her.
It was six hours of this labor.
And it was like a minute in between contraction sometimes,
sometimes two back to back,
where she's like losing her breath and doing the thing.
Then she had to switch and she went into the space
and she's like, breathing and I'm hanging on to her.
She's kind of hanging on my body,
carrying, this is the funny thing.
Oh yeah, how are you positioned?
Do I, she's standing, how did you guys,
everything?
You know, what's funny is Jessica's very modest.
So she doesn't like to be naked in front of other people.
She doesn't want people around her
when she's naked or whatever.
And she was worried about this.
She's like, how am I gonna be like,
when's you getting the labor?
She don't give a shit.
Fuck, it's not a joke.
I'm the widow, dude.
She's black naked.
She's on all fours.
It's a pain, it's a pain, it's a pain.
Midwife is behind her squeezing her hips. You know, this has got the whole view, you know,
that I'm rubbing her and holding her.
And you know, we're going in the shower,
we're doing the whole thing.
And they checked her as we're getting into this
and they saw her at about four or five centimeters.
So her cervix was dilating,
it looked like we were,
so we're going into active labor
at about four or five centimeters, which is what you want to we're going into active labor at about four,
five centimeters, which is what you want to do, right?
So she's going through, and it's six hours of just,
it's intense, it is intense man,
and there's moments where she's like,
I can't do this anymore,
and the duel is like, yes, you can,
you can totally do this,
and then the contraction would go away,
and then she'd gain her strength back,
and then we'd go into it again. This is six hours, dude.
So what are the breaks between contractions at this moment?
Some of them are, I do. They're like,
I said, some are short like a minute back to back, but what's the longest that the
one would go?
Man, we were lucky if we had a few minutes.
Wow. Yeah. Wow. I mean, at some points, she was like, you know, one would go away
and she'd be like, okay, and she'd just start talking to God.
Okay, God, just give me two minutes.
And then twenty seconds later, she'd have one.
She's like, I made a deal with you!
She starts screaming, you know, and she's just going through.
So, six hours of this, and we're just creating, and the nurses are coming in every once in a while and checking.
And one of the nurses is like, can I check you? Can I check your cervix?
Jessica's like, no, don't check me.
No, don't check me.
Finally, she's like, okay, let's see where I'm at.
This is when shit starts to get really hard, right?
She finally, she lays down, the nurse goes in, checks her,
and she's like.
That much further along.
Three centimeters.
Went backwards?
Backwards.
What? Three centimeters? That backwards? Backwards. What?
Three centimeters.
That happens?
Yeah.
I didn't even know that happened.
Neither did I.
Oh my God.
She's like three centimeters.
Oh my God, that had been devastating for her.
Well, Jessica's like, fuck you.
She's like, what a punch.
Oh, no.
This is what she said.
You're lying.
And the nurse is like, I'll have someone else come and check
just so you can see.
Oh, no.
Another nurse.
Oh, yeah, dude.
It's another nurse comes in and checks her
and she's like, I'm sorry, you're only at three.
So at this part, at this point,
oh my God, that had, that felt so bad for her.
I love poor thing.
At this point, mentally, you're just, you break.
You know what I mean?
Oh, I remember when Katrina,
what, when we, she had already been going for a minute, right,
with contractions and they were starting to get really hard
and then they put her on the bed to check
and we just found out she was only five.
And I remember just, when you're,
I mean, I can imagine, right?
When you know you gotta get to 10
and you're only at five and you're like,
oh, I'm only halfway there, so I can imagine feeling
like you're halfway there and then getting on there
after probably hours of contractions
and then being told you're going backwards.
It's a few days of early labor after missing the deadline,
then having to do, take a intervention, right?
And then going through hard labor.
And then, and so it's like, she's just like,
this is insane.
So she's now, she's starting to break.
And she's like, what do I do?
Like, what's going on?
So the nurses of course are like, well,
we could give you Patosin to speed it up in this nap,
but we think you're, you know,
you're maybe are afraid or too much pain
or maybe you're pushing when you're not supposed to.
So they're saying all this stuff.
So I'm looking at, you know, Jessica and I'm like,
you know, look at honey, there's nothing wrong
with getting on an epidural.
So you can stop with these intense contractions. Maybe that'll
relax your body enough so that your cervix will dilate. And so we made the decision to get
there. And what's funny too is the switch happens again mentally. Once she's like, let's do the epidural,
now it's like, get this motherfucker in your fast. Yeah. Yeah. That's all you need is to allow
yourself, like, yes, I'm gonna do this.
Yeah, so then just like, get him in here right now.
I don't want to do that.
So the anesthesiologist comes in, hooks her up,
pain is gone, they do the pitosa,
so now the, and we're just exhausted, everybody's,
I'm tired, I'm exhausted from supporting her
and holding her up, so I can't even imagine
how my poor wife is doing.
I mean, again, I tell you what, man,
she's so much stronger than me.
If you were up to guys, and I hate to say this,
but if it was up to man, I think we'd make
natural labor illegal.
You probably would make it like you have to get,
under general anesthesia.
Oh, for sure.
No way.
No way. No way.
So, they put her in the epidural and they put her on a little bit of pitose.
And because, again, we want to do the slow.
And the doctor's like, go to sleep.
Let's go to sleep.
Gather your strength.
We're going to monitor the baby.
Monitor you.
Well, wake up in the morning and then we'll see how everything is.
So, we're able to get some sleep and...
God, what a crazy feeling to have gone through.
Hours and hours and hours of contractions, labor, the roller coaster.
And then I'll send it, it's like, okay, let's put a pause on this.
Go to sleep for a little bit. We'll resume tomorrow.
Dude, taste it. What a weird feeling.
And the biggest fear was, you know, she didn't want to have a C-section.
Yeah. She's like, I don't want to end up having to get a C-section.
I don't want to go through a surgery and whatever.
So, we're like, listen, once that bit of time, you can still do this.
So, epidural, a little bit of pitocin at when we wake up in the morning, and they're
still monitoring her.
And so now this is all day.
Now she's still laboring all day long on the epidural, more pitocin, more pitocin, you know,
little by little, you know, it's hours and hours and hours later, and doctors
are monitoring the heart rate and they're like, look, we think you can start
pushing you're at 10 centimeters, although the cervix, I guess there was like a,
the way they explained it, there was a lip, I don't know how they explained it, but they were saying that there was some of the cervix was I guess there was like a, the way they explained it, there was a lip,
I don't know how they were explaining it,
but they were saying that there was some of the cervix
was still there, could get in the way,
but they're like, we can try pushing now
and see what happens.
So she goes and they're like,
and time is now getting a little short
because the baby's heart rate,
the variability was starting to change a little bit.
So what they're looking for is the baby's heart rate to, when there's a contraction slow
down and then when the contractions gone, it speeds up very quickly.
And that means baby's okay.
When that variability starts to reduce, that means the baby's exhausted, starting to get
tired.
And that's when they start to say, okay, we need to make this happen.
So we get her in position to push, we need to make this happen. We gotta get into this. Yes.
So, we get her in position to push.
We're going through the pushing.
Doctors up there feeling around and is like, okay, I don't know if we're going to be able
to do this because of your cervix is, although it's dilated, there's some of it's in the way.
Baby's heart rate, now the variability isn't doing so great.
So the doctor's need, we recommend that
we get this baby out right now. And so, you know, guys, it's such a hard thing to hear.
Oh, yeah, dude, yeah, she broke down and, you know, it's like, okay, and I'm like, listen,
we're gonna see the baby, you know, we're gonna see the baby. Right. She soldered so hardly
not to that. It was, yeah, it was rough. So, you know, they take us in to, they take her in,
and they take me in there, you know,
they put up a big, like a big sheet or whatever.
So she can't, because they keep her awake
when they do the procedure.
She's on epidural, can't feel anything,
but they keep her awake.
So I'm next to her, and it's like, for her,
it's like her worst nightmare.
She's doing what she didn't want to do.
She's now in surgery, now surrounded by all these doctors, bright lights or whatever. They're doing the thing, and I'm with
her, I'm holding her hands, and then you hear the baby cry. And it's like, we just both lost it.
Yeah, yeah. That, oh my God. We both lost it. And because of the circumstances,
they had to check the baby first. So they take the baby over for about 10, 15 minutes.
Now at this point, if Jessica could have got up off the table
and Karate kicked everybody in the room to get the baby,
she would have.
Because now she's hearing the baby cry.
They're not putting it directly on her.
So now she's like, give me my fucking baby.
She's like, luckily she was not, she could have moved.
You know?
And I'm like, honey, I'm with the baby, everything's gonna be fine.
I'm with the, about watching them,
but they're doing all the checking and stuff.
Then they put the baby on her chest and it was like,
oh, here we are, you know.
Here we are, with the kid, I see it's a boy.
And that's it, man.
And so, yeah, so.
So what's post looked like that?
So after a C-section, she has to stay there for a couple days, I imagine.
They say they recommend four days, but if she could, if everything's going good,
she can pass gas, they're looking to see if her pals are working, then they'll let you go home earlier.
So we're going to she's only going to be there for a few days.
Okay.
And then we'll be able to go home.
The doula was there the whole time when we went when
we went to sleep, the Dula went to the parking lot and fell asleep in her little car. Oh, what a
champion. Waited for me to call. She waited for after the the C section. She went into the recover room
with us. She's, you know, doing helping her with the with the latching. I mean, just unbelievable.
Like the biggest best investment you can make.
I was so that I didn't agree to 100%.
100% our duel was amazing too.
So, a duel midwife, was that like a package deal
for you guys or were that two separate?
They were separate.
Yeah, they worked together, but they're separate.
And so, just curious, what happens
when the midwife doesn't deliver the baby?
Do you guys already pay that pay for that
and then you lose that or what happens?
I don't know, but there's a lot of before and aftercare.
So we're still doing it.
You've already got a lot of value in them.
And we're still gonna get the aftercare.
So then the midwife comes, checks on mom,
checks on baby, does a lot of stuff at home,
so it's home visit.
Because I hear two, it's, I mean, with the C section,
it makes it hard for breastfeeding
to be a little more challenging, right?
Just because she's been opened up right there.
Yeah, well, baby latched fine.
Oh, right away.
Yeah, baby latched fine.
Awesome.
And milk takes a little longer to come in.
I think it's like average four days with the C section
and without it's three days.
But, you know, Rayalius is a big kid.
You know, he's 22 inches long.
He's a strong boy.
Eight pounds.
Yeah, he's healthy, super alert.
Now that was a thing that we had to battle a little bit
because we were really adamant too about not using formula
or anything and sometimes they give you a little bit of pressure
about the milk coming in.
If it's not coming in fast enough,
oh, we need to give them some food.
And so, you know, luckily again, we had our duel there.
It'd be like, she'll be fine.
She'll be fine.
She's getting some.
We'll get there.
We'll get him enough food.
Don't worry.
But they start really quick trying to push
the formula even on us.
Well, the thing about the hospitals is they'll just do stuff
without even asking you.
Right, right, you have to be like,
what are you doing right now?
Down there procedures.
Yeah, so we were adamant.
Everything you do, tell us first,
and get our permission first.
Anything you give, Jessica, anything you want to do, baby,
you let us know before you do anything anything and they were really good about that
So that was really good, but I'll tell you what man's like seeing my boy
You know holding them being with with Jessica. I haven't seen my my other two kids
Yeah, so they have it now has any of your family been able to see the baby yet nobody's because because of COVID
I know I know so nobody's seen the baby. No.
That's crazy.
Yeah, so we're face timing people and stuff.
Now, how are you family doing with that?
My family would go insane.
Katrina's family would go bananas.
I had like half her family in the goddamn labor
in the room.
I was like pushing people out.
Yeah, they wanted to be a part of everything.
Lot of tears, a lot of talking to my aunts,
my mom and everybody's bawling and they want to see,
they can't wait to see the baby.
And it's just, it's, it's amazing, man.
It's the greatest feeling in the world.
I am, you know, I thought going into this, I couldn't love my wife anymore.
And, and I do, I do.
It actually, I love her even more.
Oh, that's, that's the joke that goes around our house right now.
I'll time my kid Trinol always says that after, after she had max, she's like, I,
I didn't realize like how much you didn't really love me before until I add your son.
It's another level.
It is another.
And the respect I have for more, it's just,
it's on another level.
She was such a warrior champion throughout this whole thing.
Tackling all these scenarios that she really didn't want
to have to do, tackling her own, you know fear of the whole situation
Seeing her with my son just and now I'm now the next thing is I'm so excited to see my kids meet
Their baby brother. It's gonna be amazing to see them. I'm a rock. I can't I haven't seen them
You know, I haven't seen them now for a week and so I'm just like can't I can't wait to see them
Did you eat? Yeah, I mean't seen them now for a week and so I'm just like, I can't wait to see them. Were you, did you eat?
Yeah, I mean, you hospital food.
Okay.
Garbage.
Yeah, I get you some food, man.
Yeah, yeah.
Garbage food, and I brought my, you know, my, my shakes, so I had my, organify shakes.
I'm drinking that.
That's what I figured out.
I figured it would be sucking on green juice all day long.
Hey, it's all right.
Though I was bulking into it, you know.
I believe so much food going into this.
I got a lot of reserves.
Hospital foods terrible.
But I did.
I got that, I'm on that adrenaline.
Like I know I'm tired.
Yeah, yeah.
I feel my body's tired, but I'm high.
I was that way for like almost two weeks.
I remember I was talking a little shit even.
Remember I talked, I talked a little shit too much, you know.
I know better, because I got you.
Yeah, you've already done this.
You're like, oh, ain't confident.
Yeah, I was like, oh, this is dope.
You know, the other one I was totally deceived.
Like, and it's funny because you sent a picture over
and I'm like, oh, his eyes are open.
And I'm like, because Max was premium,
he was a month early, his eyes were closed,
he didn't cry, he didn't do any of that stuff.
He still supposed to be inside.
You know, you guys are tired.
Yeah, so for like the first two weeks,
like eyes closed, slap on me all the time.
Nothing, I'm like, this shit's no big deal.
I know.
It was at four weeks hit and he was,
you know, he knew he was supposed to be out.
I'm saying totally changed, you know.
Totally changed.
It's great.
I mean, that's a challenge is because she had a C-section.
She can't move a ton, so, but that's okay.
Her mom's with us.
I'll be there.
Oh, so her mom did extend her stay.
She was able to extend her stay.
And then we have a postpartum dola that'll be coming,
which I think that's going to be a pretty coming to collect.
Yeah, so she'll be with us a few hours a day to help with.
Well, I was a C-section baby just so we'll have that connection.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Yeah, I was coming out feet first.
And so they're like, nope.
Yeah, we gotta intervene.
Always doing shit back.
You know, like, it's have different ideas.
It explains a lot.
The cake said to come out for it.
Yeah, they can push those through.
They're like, oh my god, we're gonna make up.
His head is so big.
Just on his head.
Just the legs got out.
Yeah.
The big ass ass truck's got stuck.
Rending his mom around.
Yeah.
Well, you're healthier shit.
Yeah, I don't know what I'm saying. Don't even worry about it. I don't know if your big ass head would have made it through anyway. Running his mom around. Well, you're healthy as shit. Yeah. Yeah.
I don't know if you're saying don't even worry about it.
I don't know if your big ass head would have made it through anyway.
Not probably.
It's a cranium dude.
Yeah.
It's done damage.
Yeah, dude.
So, oh man.
Well, we timed it wrong.
I tell you what man, that was, we were off on that.
We all thought we would the week, the week, the week, the week before when we all took
off.
We're all up and going to thought.
I know.
I would have never, I would have never guessed it was gonna go that long.
I'm never thinking like every day like, dude,
when's the sound of a synthesis tech?
Gotta be today.
Yeah, we just kept saying this.
Gotta be today.
Yeah, but yeah, but I mean, here we are, you know,
everybody's healthy.
I'm over the moon.
I'm like, so again, I'm on cloud,
it's like I can't even think straight.
I'm so on another level.
It's such a rad feeling.
It's, I love, I love when people go through,
it gains you remember what that feels like.
The first night, so funny, because obviously Jessica's,
she's on pain medicine and she's just been through a lot
and the baby's laying there.
And I'm like, I wanna play with this kid.
You know what I'm like?
As soon as she's like, a little bit of movement,
I'm like picking them up and she's like,
put them back down.
He needs to sleep. But I wanna play with them. Have you got to do skin to skin yet?
Oh yeah, right right away. Oh yeah. So I took my shirt off and had a mommy and did the whole thing.
And exciting. I know. So what are you guys? What you guys been up to? I haven't seen you guys.
We were up in Tahoe for damn near a week, huh? Yeah, yeah, yeah, a few days. And then I went to Pasero Balls like the other half of it
for hanging out and doing quote unquote camping
with the kids for Halloween.
Why quote?
Well, I don't know if you consider camping
if you're in like a trailer.
So we like rented a trailer, okay.
That's jammed.
Adam's like, that's hella rough.
Yeah, exactly.
To me, that's glamping.
But yeah, so we had a good time down there,
just because there was only a few families
that we knew from the school.
So it was like, we didn't really know what it was going to be like
with COVID and everything in Halloween.
And so we kept it pretty much within like four families
that we all just kind of knew ahead of time.
And we were able to kind of make a party out of it,
have them trick-a-treat a little bit.
And I also went to the Gun Range,
and that was fun with one of the guys.
It was funny.
The story was we were driving to this gun range,
down in Pesaroa Bulls,
and all of a sudden we just ended up in a Trump rally.
This is before the election and everything kind of went down,
and we were just driving,
and we became part of the parade.
Without even trying, yeah, we were like,
what's happening?
Like all of a sudden, there just flags everywhere
and we were just immersed in this.
And we couldn't move.
We were like trying to drive, like,
you know, like a couple miles down the street
and like we were just in it and everybody's honking at us.
Some people yelling at us, flipping us off.
And I'm like, I'm not, I'm just here.
You know, we're just driving, you know, to. You know, to try and get to this gun range,
it was just hilarious how that happened.
What did you fire?
So we did like a 44 magnum
and we did like a nine millimeter.
Yeah, just like the indoor range.
Dude, so yeah, so of course my son was born on election day.
Yeah, I know how crazy it is.
That's it, so appropriate.
You know what though?
So appropriate.
I'll tell you what, I couldn't crazy it's that dude so appropriate. You know what though? I'll tell you what I could explain why that was a little chaotic
I couldn't give a shit about you know because I might so yeah, you didn't know anything did not care
I know and it felt good. Yeah, maybe realize just the insanity the whole thing
Yeah, you're not care. Yeah, what's going on even even now?
I look up there are really not as important as people making it
Yeah, I have a funny story for you that happened to Justin
He's probably not gonna to share it because he felt guilty.
But I think it's just every time I see these like dad situations happen that are like early
for, I'm early, right?
So I don't see these things.
We're hanging out.
We're in trucky, right?
And I think Courtney puts the kids to bed at this point.
And Justin's youngest comes downstairs and he's like, he's devastated.
He's like, he's like, just's like, he's like just so upset.
Like first of all, they don't want to go to bed at this time,
right?
I can't remember what time it was,
it was like nine o'clock or whatever.
Yeah, it was nine o'clock.
It's their bedtime and I think where we're watching a movie
or doing something, they wanted to stay up,
they wanted to stay up.
Yeah.
And you know, Justin was like, no, it's bedtime
and so they put it to bed.
But and this just shows you how great and manipulative
and smart kids are.
So it sends them to bed and he remembers that
Justin promised they would go fishing that day.
And so he comes down like crying, you know, that they,
you know, dad made a promise that we would go,
you promised me dad, like with that voice.
It just killed me.
You know, like, totally destroyed me.
Like, I'm a terrible father.
You know, this has helped that I'm
putting a few on the fire afterwards to
like, oh, I can't think you didn't take them.
I know you did.
Yeah.
I'm going up there trying to good
solemn, you know, like, trying to figure
all this stuff out because, I mean, it was,
it was cool because Adam and I both, like,
were thinking about like trying to get
back into fishing and like, learning fly fishing because I had, I had, it was cool because Adam and I both were thinking about trying to get back into
fishing and learning fly fishing.
I had, this was when I was a kid, I was introduced to it, but I never really learned it.
It was one of those cool things that later in life, I'm like, wow, this would be cool
to pick it up and do it with my kids.
And Adam's doing it the same time.
It's kind of good timing.
We made a big purchase.
We went down to Cabela's and we bought like all the gear.
All the stuff.
You let Adam influence your face.
Oh, dude.
I mean, that's part of it.
That's an Adam movie.
That was easy though, because I was all about the fishing anyways.
So I was like, hey, really?
You commit yourself to doing it right?
Yeah, that part.
Yeah.
That's way too much money.
I bet you guys spent like a thousand dollars.
Oh, yeah, we did.
Way too much money.
Hey, bro, we Just under geared up.
Of course you are.
Boots, the stupidest, stupid amount of stuff.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
We will not need anything though.
No, make sure you leave it up to the house like a bar.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So it's up there.
Yeah, no, it's all set up for you.
So I had to like, so basically the next day, why they had to go to bed, because they
had school next morning.
And so like anytime they have to school night, I'm like, I'm just like firm. You gotta go to bed because they had school next morning. And so anytime they have to school night, I'm just like firm.
You gotta go to bed.
And so I'm just thinking I'm milling the sofa,
I'm trying to tell them I'm gonna make it up,
see whatever, I'm trying to figure this out.
And so I'm like, you know what,
why do we always have to do what school says?
Let's just not go to school tomorrow.
You know, I'm just not gonna have them sign in.
We're just gonna go fishing.
I'm just, I'm making this decision for the family.
You know, we're doing this.
Like, and so I just threw this dad's guilty.
That's what it's been.
Yeah, I felt like, oh, it just, it really was this like punch
in the nuts.
You know, that I had to deal with.
And so we went in first thing before we left in the morning.
Like we went out and went fishing.
The kids, you know, had a great time. The thing, the thing before we left in the morning, like we went out and went fishing. The kids had a great time to think,
the thing that warned me up the later is when we were down
and Pes Robles and they're talking to their friends
and they were like sharing that.
Yeah, sharing that, it was like such a big deal to them.
Now, this is comical for me.
You hadn't understand that.
So I see all of it on the outside, right?
I know that the kids just want to stay up
because it's fucking TV.
You know, they want to watch TV.
There's nothing to do with fishing,
but now that they have to go to bed, they remember.
Oh, they remembered and then they pulled that.
You probably held that in the back.
Oh, totally.
And then I watched Justin, I can see him get manipulated.
Just like, you could just see his heart sink.
Like, you see your little boy cry.
Like, you're still taking me fishing, dad?
Well, because I said it, I remember saying it too.
It's like, my promise is something I'm going to do.
Well, this is where this gets better though.
And he's leaving this part of the story out
that I think is funny. This is the day before they have to get up in the morning,
get the house all clean, pack the cars up, drive back
to San Jose, then drive down to pass Rose.
They got six hours of driving ahead of them.
They got to get everything already.
And this motherfucker decides to get up, go fishing
in the morning before all this.
Yeah, because he felt so guilty.
And packed everything and did everything beforehand,
and it was like getting the gear ready
all night before, and dude, it was madness.
And then driving all the way down there,
I didn't even bring up this part of it,
so my truck broke down again.
Wow, what?
Yeah, so we were down in past aerobols,
and I realized there's this like pool,
and I'm like, what is this?
I thought it was oil, but it was like,
turns out it was radii air fluid.
And I had just got it back
because they had fixed my air conditioning.
And so I was like, what is happening?
And we ended up pulling over
because my water temperature was going pretty high.
And it was fluctuating a lot.
I'm like, I can't drive another three hours back home
without like taking care of this.
And the course is on the weekend.
So you can't just take it to the mechanic,
you know, nobody's open.
And so like basically, I saw that one of the hoses
had gone down into the fans and had chewed it up.
And so it was just spraying everywhere.
And so I'm here with both dogs.
So not only that, I had the dogs with me,
which is like a whole other nightmare, right?
And then the kids and then, you know,
Courtney is like,
and I'm trying to calm everybody down
and be super calm about all this stuff.
And so I stopped at like Home Depot,
and I'm trying to find parts and things,
and I'm like, Home Depot doesn't have shit.
You know, like, I got like that flex,
flex all like tape, flex seal, flex seal.
You know, they got the boat.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I was like, maybe this guy knows who's talking about it.
Oh, he paints the side of the boat and floats it.
It's got to work. Yeah. I just got to keep the water out. You know, like, yeah, I was like, maybe this guy knows who's talking about. Oh, he paints the side of the bone and floats it. It's got to work.
I just got to keep the water out.
You know, like, this is going to work.
And so I do that and I'm like taping it up with like a lecture tape and like, I'm like,
this isn't going to hold.
And so I have to go find like an auto park store, hold just enough so I could like drive
across town to another place.
And so I'm out there like in the parking lot, like getting different
hoses, different, like attachments and grommets, all these types of things. And I'm like putting
it all together. And, you know, I finally, like feel like, okay, this is gonna hold. And
then it's like kind of leaking a little. But then I like, you know, tape a bit of that
and I get home. And we were the whole time just stressed out, you know, driving home and
all this stuff. And then, and then I went and found like the right parts,
I fixed it, you know, with the hose,
but now I gotta take the dealership.
But anyway, that was a whole nother thing.
So I had a big scare last week too.
I was, you know, and I don't know if it's because
of the conversations that we were having in all this,
like, turning 40, UT's of me for going ball,
Justin tell me I'm gonna get a finger at my ass
really soon here, like, hey, I've got all this,
like, old man's
Still a fort too good time and I I go over to grab my Felix crazy. I'm getting ready to it's like we're in Tahoe
I'm getting on my computer do some work and I grab him I put him on and I start like and the computer is like
Super blurry dude and I'm fucking freaking I'm freaking out
Yeah, I'm like oh my god a, a bug. You figure my ass out.
Now my eyes are spinning.
Oh, dude, I freak out and I'm like,
and I pull them off and I keep pulling them on,
I'm like, what the hell?
And then I didn't realize, I thought,
because Justin's face is so fat,
I didn't think that he's,
I didn't think that he had insert the,
the fat cheek.
I didn't know that he were the same Nash feel of Scraze.
I thought I was the only one that,
cause those are for like narrow faces.
So I thought I was the only one that had that.
So I guess he left me that well.
He left his on the table.
I have the same black pair,
but mine are just like the regular ones.
He has a prescription.
So he's got the prescription ones.
And I've got the prescription on them.
I'm like, the screen's all blurry and shit.
I think it's my eyes.
How long did that freak out?
Oh, it only lasted about three to five minutes
because I have called Katrina.
And I'm like, I don't know what's going on with me.
You can't see.
And she's like, oh, Justin was looking for his,
it's Felix Grace.
And I pull him off.
I look at, these are the gnashes.
He doesn't have gnashes.
Thank God that, to see, thank God that's not me.
You know, you know what I would have done.
I would have been on Google, I had brain cancer.
I knew it.
I told you guys about the time I thought I had
to stick your cancer.
And then there was another time when,
I don't remember what was happening,
but I was getting like these tingling sensation.
I was just a lot of stress.
This is what it turned out to be.
But I am of course, I'm thinking of myself like,
this is how MS starts.
Oh my God.
What if I have MS?
Anyway, so I'm freaking myself out
because I'm paranoid about this kind of shit.
And I didn't, I'm in my bedroom,
and I keep smelling the strange smell.
So at the time I'm asking everybody in the room,
do you guys smell that?
Do you guys feel like I don't smell anything?
And I'm like, this is a sign of either brain tumor
or amass, like smelling weird,
anyway, it was a freaking teacup.
I had links to my bed with an old tea bag in there.
I lift it up, I'm like, oh my god, dude.
But I stressed myself the fuck up for like a day
over that kind of stuff.
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Quikwa...
First question is from Brian Pata.
Can you guys break down how to analyze a physique
with terms like origins, insertions, muscle bellies, et cetera?
I've heard these terms thrown around a lot,
and I'd love to learn from you guys about it.
All right, Justin.
Yeah.
No, I got this guy.
I'm going to defer to Justin.
I'm going to steer this conversation
where I want wanted to go
Really what you're gonna look for is you know that sort of like symmetrical V tapering, you know I don't know what to talk about
Oh my guys help me is that what I sound like when I talk about
I just know enough terms to like pretend I'm in this conversation
So these are all these are all terms that were used and created
and by the physique presentation,
spaces and in some of them.
Well, some of them, I mean, some of them's anatomy, right?
So origin and insertion is just where the muscle attaches
to the bone.
Yeah, but the way that they use it and anatomy
and the way bodybuilders use it is a little different.
So, yeah, I'll give you that.
Yeah, so these are terms that were...
The bodybuilders are using that are just trying to sound fucking smart.
Yeah, yeah.
You see that nice cat insertion.
Oh, wow.
The insertions are the same.
Yeah.
Okay, so these are terms that are...
We're used by bodybuilders, physique competitors, the judges, bikini, fitness competition figure, to kind
of explain what causes someone to have the right aesthetics for that sport.
So bodybuilding aesthetics, what are they looking for?
They're looking for a good shoulder to waist ratio. Typically the
wider the shoulders and the smaller the waist, the better. They're also looking for symmetry,
symmetry meaning that both sides of the body match, you know, you're right and left match.
Balance. Well, balance means, does my chest overpower my back or vice versa, my legs match my upper body do I have big upper legs
But do I have small calves that would be do you have drag glutes bro?
You know what I mean actually that's a good one. I'm glad he said that yeah
It's dry it includes right when someone says you're very all man
He came in real dry what they mean is not only are you lean but you don't have any water on your skin
So you look like an anatomy chart, right?
Your shred, it's striations,
refer to the lines and the muscle, a lot of stuff.
So origin insertion in this context means
how big or how long is the bicep?
Yeah, I would say how long or how bubbly.
Yeah, right.
So someone's gonna say they have like a long origin insertion
if they have like a big, big long muscle.
If they have like a short, small bubbly,
like a, a, Colombo, like a physique.
Yes.
Versus Arnold, right?
Yes.
Arnold would be like, oh, he has long origin insertions
and Colombo would be, he's got this short origin insertion.
What a great example.
Look at Franco Colombo's bicep, if you want.
You could pause the podcast, look at up,
put Google, Franco Colombo's bicep. And then Google Arnold Schwarzenegumbos bicep, if you want. You could pause the podcast, look at up,
put Google Franco-Columbos bicep,
and then Google Arnold Schwarzenegger's bicep.
And one thing you'll notice besides the different shape
is that Arnold's bicep seems to be longer.
It seems to get closer to the elbow
than Franco-Columbos bicep does.
So that's what they're talking about
with muscle bellies and certions and origins.
Now in bodybuilding, long muscle bellies
is, it looks more aesthetic because, you know,
if I have a calf that is really short and up near my knee
versus a calf that seems to go all the way down to my ankle,
when you develop both of them, the one that seems to go down
to the ankle is just can look bigger.
It just seems to be more visually appealing from a bodybuilding standpoint.
What a great picture.
Actually Doug brought, actually pulled up a picture of Arnold and Franco flexing next
to each other and you can see the clear.
You almost said naked.
Sorry, it's keep going.
That's the other picture that Doug has on Doug's hard drive.
So that's kind of what they're referring to. And, you know, aesthetics in physique competition sports are more extreme.
But they're based off of what we naturally would consider to be healthy.
So a man with a small waist and wide shoulders, what does that usually mean?
Well, it means he's lean.
It means he probably has good testosterone levels, or at least it points in that direction.
It means that he probably has good testosterone levels, or at least it points in that direction.
It means that he probably has good use of his arms and legs,
which might have been beneficial in hunting and in running,
wide hips and narrow shoulders,
probably you're not gonna be able to throw as well,
or run as well.
But what about women?
Why do women have such wider hips than men do it?
Well, they need a wider pelvis to birth a child,
so we consider that to be more attractive,
of course, smaller waist also.
It's really just an exaggerated version of that.
Totally exaggerated.
Yeah, that's exactly what it is.
I mean, it's balance and symmetry.
It's a, and I think a lot of the terms that,
I honestly, I've sat with many competitors
and talked about other people on the stage.
And I think probably 80% of what you hear
is a bunch of fluff.
People sounding acting smarter than what they really are,
trying to sound like they know it.
The guy is throwing the random term.
Like Sal talking about sports,
that's exactly what it sounds like for me.
When I hear guys talking about stuff like that,
because it really just comes down to that.
Like having a really good looking physique,
coming in super lean, so all the muscle is defined,
and the smaller the waist, the broader the shoulders for a male and body building, I think,
and the better they're going to score.
Yeah, and I'll tell you what, if you're just, if you don't care about competing, which is
99% of the people listening right now, this is what you do.
Train your whole body.
Don't leave out an area.
Train lots of different movements. Make sure you squat. Make sure you do. Train your whole body. Don't leave out an area. Train lots of different
movements. Make sure you squat, make sure you press, make sure you row and you pull, make
sure you twist and rotate with your exercises. Make sure you do split stance type squatting
exercises. Do all those things. Develop your whole body, maintain a decent body fat percentage
by not overeating and eating a healthy diet. And you're going to look phenomenal. Don't
worry about all these insane terms
and how you can exaggerate your...
Translucent dents, bro.
Yeah, that's not a thing.
That's not what, yeah.
You don't want Translucent dents,
that means you're not there.
Okay.
Next question is from Zach Thompson 15.
What are your favorite exercises and movements
in the sagittal and transverse planes?
There you go, Justin.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
So in terms of a transverse plane of movement, this is one
of those that a lot of people like you never see this
in the gym.
I always get excited.
You guys get excited, seeing certain exercises when you
walk into a gym.
This is where I get a little bit excited when I see
somebody actually intentionally
trying to do something even if it's as simple as a step up, but they're now adding in rotation, which you know that gets me excited because you're actually considering the long-term
effects of training on the body. And I think that to not consider these things, you're going to
put yourself in a position where you're going to suffer the consequences of that later.
I really like, even if it's like a bodybuilder move where it's like an Arnold press, for
instance, like getting rotation out of the shoulders and adding the strength and muscle
development, that's a great exercise for that alone and it's not that complicated.
To be able to do things that aren't quite as complicated
one of my ultimate favorite
exercises that uh, you know, I get a lot of feedback from when people actually go into our maps performance program is the the lunge matrix. And the reason why I like that so much which I
could have done that too is step up. So a very similar type of a complex with that. Um,
because we hit all those different
planes. I have to move and adjust my body and plot where everything is going to land
and be able to stabilize and be able to control my body in those different movements and express
strength to dig my way out of those movements as well. So, I mean, you go forward in the sagittal plane,
you go out to the side, you know, in the frontal plane,
and then we twist our body intentionally,
and we pick a spot, we come down,
so we get that rotation, we control the body again,
we drop, so, I mean, that's pretty much
one of the better exercises for encompassing all of it.
Yeah, transverse plane really involves a lot of rotating,
right, rotating and twisting.
It's probably the most neglected plane of exercise, right?
When you go to the gym, you see people doing things
in front of them, right, curls and tricep press.
That's why I thought it was weird.
I thought it was weird this person asked,
the sagittal.
Yeah, everything's in the damn everybody's doing that.
Yeah, everything, every common exercise you see is sagittal. Probably meant frontal. Yeah, frontal is, I mean, there's in damn everybody's doing that. Yeah, everything every extra every common exercise
You see exactly frontal yeah frontal. It's I mean, there's a lot of common exercise in front all laterals side laterals
And it is inside lunges side lunges transverse is where a lot of people miss they miss out
They don't do a lot of stuff in this plane and and as a result
They don't develop a lot of balance and nice insertions and they're not just kidding
They don't develop balance in their movement. That's the area. I would say if you if you work develop a lot of balance and nice insertions and they're not just kidding. They don't develop balance in their movement.
That's the area I would say.
If you work out a lot, pay attention to how many exercises
you do that involve rotation,
because you're probably not doing a whole lot.
Everything else is, every other common exercise
is sagittal usually.
And then, I'd say the second most common is the frontal, right?
Yeah, no, everything is in the set.
I mean, so simplify this for everybody. So the fact that we're even using these terms, I think, is the front all right. Yeah, no, everything is in the set. I mean, so simplify this for everybody.
So like the fact that we're even using these terms,
I think, a silly for most people,
sagittal is just forward and back, right?
So exercises in front view or back view,
basically almost everything you do, squat,
forward, lunge, all right?
Yeah, deadlift, everything is,
yeah, everything is typically in the sagittal plane.
So that's pretty basic.
Transverse plane is mostly rotational movements
and you just don't see a lot of people doing that.
I don't hear either one of you guys say like landmine rotation.
Oh, I am.
That's a great one.
Yeah, that's a great one.
Trunk rotations.
Yeah, yeah.
Lizard with rotation for like a mobility drill.
Like any sort of, and we talk just and especially talks
a lot about, or like a medicine ball throw against the wall.
Like, these are just, anytime you start to incorporate rotational movement, you're in the transverse Justin especially talks a lot about, or like a medicine ball throw against the wall.
Like, any time you start to incorporate rotational movement,
you're in the transverse plane.
So focusing on that and incorporating that,
I'm a fat windmill.
I mean, we didn't, you know,
that's your go-to.
Like you always love to talk about the windmill.
I think just incorporating rotational movement
in your program is that's all right.
If you follow, and this is, you know,
we've actually talked about this recently,
the RGB bundle where you go through our
antibiotic performance and then aesthetic,
we make sure to address that, like,
especially in performance.
Performance has a lot of the transverse plane
incorporated it, and that's because
antibiotic is mostly in the sagittal plane,
because we are focused more on building metabolism, building strength, and a balluck is mostly in the sagittal plane, because we are focused
more on building metabolism, building strength, laying a good foundation like you should, and
then we transition where we start to incorporate more rotational movements in there.
And so if you're programming yourself, I think that that's something that should definitely,
you either should intermittently always be putting that in your routine, or it should be something
you phase into every few months, for sure.
Well, that's how you develop balance.
Yeah, and I think, too, because I know initially when we started this podcast, we were very
much heavy in the bodybuilding type community.
So that's where I really saw a deficiency there in terms of having twisting and rotation
incorporated in the programming of a lot of these, even if it's, you know, because we're trying to single out these joints
and really like focus in on like very specific muscles
by themselves, but, you know,
talking to bodybuilders and having bodybuilder type
models come in and do these exercises for our programs
and stuff, I get to talking with them.
And it's just neglecting those have caused things like shoulder impingements, like they're
suffering certain issues and pains and arthritis and whatnot as a result, because they're not expressing
their joint to its full capacity.
Yeah, I mean, if you're looking for balance in your body and you want it to look well put
together, you work in all these different planes.
And like Adam said, if you were to do like our RGB bundle
You know the first program in there is about building maximal strength and muscle and then you move into
Working so many different planes of movement to develop balance and then you move into at the end
sculpting and shaping the body with a with a legit body building type workout
But what that produces in terms of physique is
a very well put together, well balanced, a nice looking body and physique.
With longevity.
With longevity.
Next question is from Shelby Percer.
What's the best advice I can give to my sister who just recently found out she's diabetic?
You know, so step number one, I would do this.
Have her trained to build muscle, and here's why.
Building muscle is a phenomenal insurance
against diabetes, or at least getting your body to manage
its blood sugar and how it reacts and responds to insulin.
Muscle uses up glucose and glycogen, it stores it.
It's a very active tissue.
When you build muscle, you'll find I found clients
have to use, for people who are type one,
have to use less insulin.
I've seen other clients use less medication
to bring their sugar down because now they've built muscle.
So building muscle, very important
to make a huge difference for diabetics.
As far as diet is concerned,
there's a lot of mixed messages you get out there.
Some people would say,
studies show going real low carb is the best thing.
Other people would say,
well studies actually show eating lower fat is a good thing.
Here's what they all have in common.
They're not overeating.
Getting yourself at a nice lean body fat percentage. You don't need to get shredded, but in a healthy body fat percentage
range. Not overeating, avoiding heavily processed foods, because that really encourages overeating,
avoiding, because you're automatically avoiding heavily processed foods, you automatically avoid
things like lots of sugars and lots of added sodiums and stuff like that, you'll find that it'll be easier for her to manage her diabetes.
And I've even seen, and I'm not saying this will happen
your sister, but I've seen with friends of mine
where they've really done this and taken this seriously
and over the course of a year.
Got rid of it.
Yeah, got to the point where it was barely measurable
or not measurable at all because they did those things.
Well, I was, first of all, I'm not a doctor
and I'm not a nutritionist.
Okay, so definitely I think you should seek out
somebody that is a professional in the field for sure
and we're talking about an individual
that I don't know anything about
other than what you're just telling us right here.
But I will share with you some generic advice
that has worked for many of my clients
and that's similar to what Sal said.
As far as nutrition, a paleo-esque diet has worked best for me with clients like this.
So like in eating like a paleo type of diet,
it's not super, super low carb,
but you're making better choices as far as your carbohydrates.
It's moderate protein, moderate fat, whole foods.
So I think that's a really good place to start nutritionally,
generically, generic answer, right?
And then as far as like exercises, it's getting the weight down.
I've seen many people that are either borderline diabetic or become diabetic,
and because we're on top of it right away, that six months of training
or without, we can completely eliminate that, and through losing body fat,
getting their body fat down a lot of times we'll do that. So, you know, I would look into a nutritionist or following a routine, a nutrition routine
similar to something like paleo, and then I would just really focus on being in a caloric
deficit and focus on building muscle, like Sal said, and those two things should hopefully
combat this.
Next question is from Jeff Dillstrap.
Here's a scenario.
You're invited on the Joe Rogan podcast.
What are the top three messages you'd like to send
out to his audience with a reach that he has?
Oh, yeah, Rogan's the king of the podcast spaces.
Yeah, what are his numbers these days?
Cause I know it was like a hundred million
or something a month at one point and I'm sure he's skyrocketed.
He's doing like several million per episode on that.
Yeah, at least.
Yeah, it's ridiculous.
It's yeah, it's got a huge reach.
You know, I think one of the things I would like to talk about is how resistance training
really should be the go to form of exercise for everybody, form of exercise for everybody. A form of exercise for everybody.
It's not right now.
People who lift weights tend to be people who think to themselves,
oh, I want to shape and sculpt my body.
I want to build muscle.
There's still that bodybuilder stereotype.
I mean, if you step outside of the fitness space,
talk to the average person, your mom, your dad,
your aunt, your uncle, your neighbor,
about lifting weights, you'll probably get comments like, oh, I don't need to do that. I'm not trying to look like a bodybuilder.
I don't need to build huge biceps. That's that big of a deal. The go-to form of exercise
typically is walking, running, swimming, biking tends to be cardiovascular exercise. But in reality,
it should be resistance training. That should be the first line of defense. That should be the first form of exercise that everybody gets recommended to do and this is for a few different key
reasons. One, there's no form of exercise that can be modified like resistance training. There is no form of exercise
I can think of that's appropriate for everybody like resistance training. I can literally design a resistance training workout for someone who's paralyzed, someone
who's 85, someone who's 15, someone who's mobile, someone who's terrible mobility, someone
who wants to lose 100 pounds or someone who wants to gain 30 pounds of muscle.
Resistance training is the most modifiable form of exercise, especially when you use free
weights as a matter of tall, short, you are, or how you move, you can train anybody.
The second reason that I would recommend it is if you consider most people's situation
in modern societies, busy as hell, but very inactive.
So they're not moving a lot, but they're really, really busy.
So they don't have a lot of time to exercise, and if they tell you they do their lying, most people will not dedicate more than a couple days a week to exercise. I'm
talking about the average person. They're also surrounded by a lot of food. So there's a lot of good
food around us. It tastes really good. We're blessed that we live in a society like that, but that also
poses challenges. I'm not moving much. I'm really busy, and I got all this food around me. Okay, what can
I do? What kind of exercise can I do that's two days a week
that will give me the most bang for my buck?
Resistance training, it's gonna speed up your metabolism,
which allows you to eat more,
and you don't need to do it every single day
like you would with cardiovascular activity
in order to reap the benefits
because it directly speeds up the metabolism.
Even when you're talking about older population,
it, you know, they lose mobility, lose strength,
they have bone loss, hormones go out of balance,
men testosterone levels go down,
women's progesterone and estrogen, excuse me,
out of balance, no form of exercise,
directly reverses bone loss,
directly helps with mobility, of course muscle.
No form of exercise has been positively shown
to improve hormone levels,
especially testosterone levels and men,
like resistance training.
So in today's world, with all that,
when you go to the doctor, or your mom goes to the doctor,
and the doctor says, you need to start exercising,
what they should be saying is,
you need to start lifting weights,
let's start you off 30 minutes twice a week,
and let's get going.
Yeah, I think to listening to his show as long as I have have and have appreciated a lot
of different guests he's had on, but there's still like, and he's brought a lot of really
good guests in terms of fitness professionals, nutrition experts and had like his own debates
that he's presented to give points on both sides and tries to be measured.
I do sense a lot of emphasis though on still a lot of the punishment mentality.
What I mean by that is a lot of the guys that come on there for motivation and for inspiration.
A lot of that is led by these crazy bad ass Navy SEAL guys and people that come on there that
really hype a lot of that particular demographic into working out and trying to improve their
life.
What's not being highlighted is how unsustainable that is.
What we try to voice out is where I think you should consider like really like if we
were to go on there, I would try to hype up a different message in terms of you don't
have to punish yourself.
You can actually benefit yourself and do this and get all the results that you want by
approaching in a completely different way and loving yourself and going into it with
that mentality,
and we get into the psychology of,
how we trained our clients with nutrition
and training and what a difference that makes
for longevity and sustainability.
So that's definitely something that I would like,
if we had the chance to really kind of bring that
into the conversation more,
because I just don't think that, you know,
he's really addressing the average person that's listening.
He's really like emphasizing more to the athletes
and the people in that category.
That's a great answer, Justin.
I was actually looking at this going like,
I don't know because, well, first of all,
I don't think if we were going on Joe Rogan's podcast,
this is how I would think about it.
Like, I wouldn't go like, I've got some messages.
I want to make sure I get out there.
Like I literally would just enjoy the moment.
The fact that just having a conversation.
Yeah, having a conversation with Joe about life
and podcasting and just shooting the shit
probably smoking a joint with him,
I think would just be an epic fun conversation for me.
So I wouldn't go in there, but I'll play this game, right?
So I'll play this game.
Yeah.
I'll play this silly game. You want to play the game? So, you, I'll play this silly game. Yeah.
I'll play this silly game. You want to play the game? So, uh, you know,
first all, Sal's right, we'd probably stay in our lane most of the time, which would be talking about exercise, which is where we're at. And I think
Justin alluded to that also. Like, I mean, that's definitely our
expertise is training average people and, you know, programming for
them and addressing like Justin's saying, like the David Goggins, the
Joccos, the type of Ben Greenfields, the kind of extreme guests that he's had on the
show when it's related to fitness.
I just end the fact that he's attracting the masses.
That message doesn't really, I think, apply to most of the masses, but yet that's what
they're getting on that show.
So I would love to counter that with you.
And then a nutrition along that line too. He's also done the same thing with nutrition like a carnivore expert, a vegan expert,
a keto expert. And the truth is like none of those one diets is great for the majority.
It's more about teaching people, about learning about their own body nutritionally versus like
a diet. So I think we would get into that. And then third, I would tell them that gorilla kettlebells are stupid.
Oh snap.
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