Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 1553: The Best Exercises to Build 6-Pack Abs, the Benefit of Doing an Exercise Sitting Vs. Standing, How Front Squats Are Superior to Back Squats & More

Episode Date: May 14, 2021

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about the most effective abdominal exercises, the benefit of doing an exercise sitting vs standing, whether front squats train the body differently than back squats, and the benefits of static stretching. Is Justin’s tan killing the environment? (3:40) The Di Stefano’s Vegas adventure. (8:48) Is Justin now blacklisted at Disneyland?! (13:11) Swimply, another BRILLIANT business concept. (20:06) Is inflation coming back? (26:24) The casino ALWAYS wins. (30:46) Shout out to the firehouses across the country! (34:18) The Las Vegas Raiders new ‘end zone’ concept making waves. (39:54) Justin’s “magic juice” brought to you by Zbiotics. (42:26) Are Sal’s hip thrusts out of control? (44:15) #Quah question #1 – What are the most effective abdominal exercises? (49:03) #Quah question #2 – What is the benefit of doing an exercise sitting vs standing? (56:31) #Quah question #3 – Are front squats the incline bench for legs and should you be able to front squat the same weight as the back squat? (1:00:51) #Quah question #4 – Do you see any benefits to static stretching? If so, how would you apply it? (1:04:15) Related Links/Products Mentioned May Specials: MAPS Aesthetic & the Extreme Fitness Bundle 50% off!  **Promo code “MAYSPECIAL” at checkout** How 4 New Jersey pools turned into a startup that just raised $10M | TechCrunch Is inflation coming back? Warren Buffett and the return of the ‘inflation nutters’ 14684 - Marina Fire Department Las Vegas Raiders to launch end zone nightclub at Allegiant Stadium Visit ZBiotics for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! Visit Blue Chew for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Promo code “MINDPUMP” at checkout** The (2) BEST Ab Exercises You’re NOT Doing Properly (STRONG CORE) | MIND PUMP You're Not Training Your Abs Correctly! (AVOID MISTAKES!) - Mind Pump TV At Home Gym Equipment – Mind Pump Store How to Build Ripped 6-Pack Abs (No BS Exercise Series: Video 2 of 6) - Mind Pump TV Which is Best - Mobility or Stretching? - Mind Pump Blog Is Warming Up Before A Workout Necessary? - Mind Pump Blog Mind Pump Podcast – YouTube Mind Pump Free Resources

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We mentioned scientific studies. Science. Today's intro was 46 minutes long. After that, we got to the questions. All right, so we opened up by talking about Justin's tan. Oh yeah. It's more freckles here. That's nice.

Then I talked about my Vegas adventure went there with my wife and six month old baby. So it's not what, it was a really fun time. It was like a party. Yeah, it wasn't that fun. Actually, it was great. Then we talked about how Justin almost got kicked out at Disneyland.

Again, I think he's on a list now. Put me on this Mickey Mouse Cuffs. By the stump. Then Adam brought up a Swimply app. There's an app, apparently, that's you. Rent out people's pools, which is kind of cool. Then we talked about inflation, not the fun kind, when you get a pump after your workout,

but the kind that devalues your money. That's awesome. Not good. Then we talked about the new fire trucks here in the Bay Area, made by Germany. I don't know, that sounds kind of interesting. Yeah, good job. There you go.

Then we talked about the Raiders Stadium in Vegas and how there's an end zone. What is it? Nightclub? Kind of cool, interesting. Then Justin talked about his magic juice. Now what he's referring to is not what you think. I didn't call it magic juice.

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of my hip thrust. That's right, they really enjoyed my hip thrust. Absence of love. Again, then we got to the questions. The first question, this person wants to know what the most effective ab exercises are. By the way, in that portion we mentioned our ab roller that you can find at mindpumpstore.com.

The next question, this person says, we're the benefits of doing an exercise, seated versus standing. The third exercise, this person says, look, our front squats, valuable to the legs, like incline bench is for the chest, like what's the deal with front squats? And then the final question, this person says,

look, I know priming is the best way to get your body ready for a workout, but what about static stretching? Is there any value at all to static stretching? Also, all month long, we are running a massive promotion on one of our most popular workout programs and one of our most popular workout program bundles. Both of them are put 50% off.

It's huge, that's a huge discount. Maps is static, 50% off, and the extreme fitness bundle put 50% off, it's huge, that's a huge discount. Maps aesthetic, 50% off, and the extreme fitness bundle, 50% off, go check them out, go to my, excuse me, mapsfitinistproducts.com and use the code mayspecial with no space for the discount. Why you look so dark at them? I was in the sun like crazy this weekend. Look at you, you look all, yeah, I was so,

you look all tan. Just tonight we a tan just and I were talking outside I was at the studio about God I got a ton my Can't tell you got more freckles. Yeah You got some color I see a couple skin case and you actually don't look red you I mean You're like my best friend. He's either white or red. He doesn't have a color I tried not to get red that're like my best friend, he's either white or red, he doesn't have a color. I tried not to get red, that was like my whole goal. So what is the secret though, do you have to use like a,

like 50 strength SPF stuff? Sure, yeah, go 50 and kind of grade it down based off of like how many times I've been going to be each or wherever else I'm going, like, yeah, like I eventually, I can, it takes the whole summer, you know, but by that point, I'm over it. Do you use the zinc oxide or the titanium oxide one? I'm not a dork, yeah.

But I, no, I use it on my face. Like I was using some of them. You're gonna get estrogen and not shit from. If you use that, you use that, won't that like reflect and block the sun, you don't get any tan. Okay, there's two types of, what do they call it, sunblock or whatever, or you know, protected.

I didn't have my nerdy friend around, didn't know. So the zinc oxide or titanium oxide ones are the ones that reflect the way. And then the chemical based ones are they absorb and scatter the UV rays. Now the problem with the chemical based ones is those are all like Zenoestrogenic weird chemicals. My nipples are hurting a little.

Yeah, they do might be it. Yeah, they do weird things to you dude. My nipples are hurting a little. Yeah, they do, they might be it. Yeah, they do weird things to you, dude. Alright, that explains a lot. The other stuff, although it makes you a little bit white because now they make it so that you get a little bit of white sheen, but it doesn't like, it's not like in the movies where I hate that, dude. Okay, but, you know, like I'm already white.

Why are you gonna make me glow, you know? Like I'm already out there, like hey, look at me. You know, like I don't need like, you know, to blind people. Yeah already out there, like, hey, look at me. I don't need to blind people. Yeah, but deal with stuff's bad, dude. It's bad for you, bro. And then it's bad for the coral reef. You know that?

It's bad for the ocean. Well, you weren't swimming in the ocean, were you? No, I wasn't a pool. The fuck does that matter? Oh, yeah. It's bad for the ocean. I'm a huge environment, too. He literally sings you're doing. I just tried to throw a little more thing

and I was like, man, make him feel bad. I was doing all that stuff. You're gonna grow up with a Jaina and kill fish. Well, like, hey, some people are it. Yeah, I don't know. But you're gonna have an awesome 10. Yeah, I mean, it's, you know? Honestly, I could probably not wear any kind of sun block,

but it would take a lot of like small doses. I just come out like 10 minutes. You have to go swimming all out too much. You have to go swimming in a sweater in this. Yeah. And I feel like. Well, dude, my kids wear like those rash guards and like it's so great that they have all that stuff

they can swim with now. Yeah. But they actually get like dark and you know, they didn't get all of those genetics for me, which is good. Yeah, but Courtney, she's also pretty fair. She's also white, but her sisters are really tan. Really?

She's weird, yeah. Yeah, she's the odd ball. When I go out in the summer, I have to put on, if I'm gonna be out there for longer than a couple hours, I have to put on something for the first one or two days. And after that, nothing. And I could literally just lay on a rock all day. I hate you guys.

And I'll come out, okay. Did I ever literally just lay on a rock all day. I hate you guys. And I'll come out. Okay. Did I ever show you the picture of when my son went to, he went to Italy with his mom, and he took a picture of his foot because he was out in the sun all the time. And he's literally like, we get so dark that you can't even tell that he's Italian. He looks like he's African.

I was like super, super dark skin. That's how dark I was. That's how I was a kid. You're skin gets that dark skin. As a kid, I was like that. And I used to never wear sunscreen, ever. And I could just be out in the sun. I mean, we live by a lake, right?

So when I lived out by a Lankton, Pedro, we were on the water every day. And it gets like 110 out there. You is scorch. And like, sometimes I want to say around high school time, I started getting like these like, uh, sun blotches, like almost like rashes. Oh, well, and I couldn't do it anymore. I then that's actually when I started wearing sunscreen up into that point, I never wore it,

never had a problem. And then all of a sudden, as I started to get a little bit older, I started to get like this reaction where I get like a rash fit. So now I have to, you know know what's funny is that they, when they made this huge push, right, for sunscreen for a long time to prevent skin cancers. And then some places were seeing, when people were doing that,

they saw a slight drop in skin cancers, but then they saw a rise in all other cancers because this... The chemicals. Well known, because of the lack of the vitamin D and the benefits of the sun. Yeah, and the reality is, obviously you don't want to burn burning's bad, but work your way slowly and then have your body build its natural. But it's of course, as an individual variance, right? If

you're, you know, like Irish or Scottish or whatever, just going to be less of a tolerance. Well, wouldn't that be the most ideal key? Would be like if you had like a, you know, a two week straight of like really nice weather and sun that, you know, Justin would start just the first day, 10 minutes out and then not be out. And then the next day, 15, 20 minutes out and not wear any sunscreen, but just slowly do that with that.

That would be, that would probably be the time. It's how I start smelling like bacon. No, I'm like, I got it. His skin starts to bubble a little bit. Yeah, delicious. That's gross. I thought you would be more tan coming back from Vegas. No, we didn't do anything a little bit. Yeah, delicious. That's gross. I thought you would be more tan coming back from Vegas. No, we didn't do anything in the sun.

Oh, really? No, we were gonna, actually, not that hot. It was like in the 70s and it was a little windy. Really? Yeah. Oh, because he had like, you were in the 90s. Yeah, 90s is. It was cooking.

No, we were spending time mainly with family and, oh man, I'd made a huge mistake. We stayed at a casino. And I don't know why I didn't think this. This is like, it totally just, neither Jessica nor I thought of this. We booked one room and we have the baby, which is stupid because the baby goes down at seven,

and so what do you do? In the dark, just chilling. I can't turn on the TV or anything, so we're just chilling on our phones like seven o'clock nights over Let's just I tried to convince Katrina to put them in the closet the last time we did that She would go for it. Well principal. We were in Vegas hotel We almost did and we did the same thing and I'm like look how big that Boxes yeah, look how big that closet is we're not putting my son in the closet. We almost did that right

I think it's logical. Well, you know, preventing me from doing that. It's like a mission dark. It's a mini room. You know what I'm saying? So we almost did that, but what prevented me from doing that was I'm like, I wonder what the ventilation is. I know, that's an air situation.

That's what she said. Maybe if we make a couple holes in the door. Also, some holes in the back. I think we'll leave it cracked. You know what I'm saying? No, we did, you know what we did is we put his, like, pack and play in the bathroom, but the problem was the bathroom had one of those like frosted glass doors.

Yeah. It literally light up all. Yeah, dude. So we still, I mean, it was a little better because at least it's in another, but it's funny because he's next to the toilet. So, seven. You guys had Red Rock? Was that where you guys were at?

Yeah, yeah, that's the same. Yeah, it's the same situation. Yeah, so seven PM, I'm like, okay, not only are we going to bed, but we're also can't use the bathroom. So I can't go to the bathroom. Well, we did was we built, so we had the exact same issue I read rock last time we're there, because then they had the bathroom windows

are all bright. You know, turn them on, lights the whole room up because it has the seethrough door. So we actually, we took a sheets and blankets over the pack and play. So once we put them down, we built it like a tent and just covered the sides and over the top. So you know, I didn't think about that.

Yeah, that was our solution to that. Because we were saying, we're like, what the fuck are you doing? We said seven o'clock or so. Well, so the first night, the first night, so I didn't know you guys know that sleeping has been an issue, right, with my kid. I mean, generally, everything else is good, but sleeping can be an issue. Especially when you're traveling, you're trying to do the naps and the whole thing throws off. Oh, yeah. And then it just, and then it's just a nightmare, right?

So anyway, we fight, we the first night we're there, right, we put them down and the person across the hall from us, they come home at like 2 a.m. loud as fuck. Some girl is just, blah, yeah, laughing, whatever. And I can just feel Jessica start to fume. And I know I'm like, I'm more like, I'll be a little bit more like, I'm not gonna say anything, let me just see,

and she's much more like, I'm gonna go punch someone in the face. Yeah, in real life. So I'm like, oh my God, we can't, whatever. Anyway, so the next day, she calls down the front desk and she's like, can you talk to room, whatever, and tell them please don't be noisy tonight, and they're like, no, we can't talk to them

unless they're actually doing it in the moment. So she's like, blasting the person, hangs up. It's like, I'm gonna go knock on the door. I'm like, no, we can't talk to them unless they're actually doing it in the moment, so she's like blasting the person, hangs up, it's like, I'm gonna go knock on the door. I'm like, oh my God, here we go. I'm like, all right, so we go over there. And we talk to the guy. No, you guys did it. Well, hey, no, because she ain't gonna not talk to him.

And I'm not, you're like, at least let me go. This is gonna be fun. Let me go mediate this a little bit. Well, you know, here's a thing. I don't rain her back a little bit. Here's a thing I think a lot of, especially women to understand. When men talk to other men,

and we're telling them like, you're being loud, whatever, we always intensity. There's always a threat of violence, right? I don't think women understand this. So as the husband, I'm like, okay, like, I hope he reacts, okay, because who knows what's gonna happen? Anyway, Guy answers the door, he's really cool.

And he's like, hey, listen, I'm really, really sorry. First he goes, he opens the door and he goes, oh, I'm sorry about really cool. And he's like, hey, listen, I'm really, really sorry. First he goes, he opens the door and he goes, oh, I'm sorry about the smoke. And it's like, smells like we, never like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm,'s kind of weird, but whatever. And I'm like, you do realize he's talking about a hooker, right? And she's like, what? And I'm like, that's what he means. She's not coming back today.

Yeah, he got a loud hooker last time. He's gonna have a different one coming to that. More quiet one. Oh my God, I got reservation. Oh my God, dude. Yeah. I gave her a bad star review of the Yelp. I don't do. Wow. I wanted to just be like, oh, give him a tip.

Listen, just pay her to shut up. Well, I got myself into a little bit of trouble. I went to Disneyland, so we... Oh, yeah, how was that? It was open back up, right? Yeah, so there was like a lot of positives to it, and a lot of negatives all kind of smashed together. So it was interesting.

It's totally different experience. And I kind of knew that. So it was, it was interesting. It was totally different experience. And I kind of knew that, you know, going into it because of everything they had to kind of adjust and make up for and figure out how to like, deal with all these restrictions and whatnot. And so like, first of all, Courtney had to be on the line for like 10 hours just to get a reservation.

Thanks for that. Yeah. And then almost gave up a few times because it was like it went to like the like basically like it was saying like you know you know you're gonna stand by whatever and then when off and she thought she lost the call and dropped it anyways it was a whole debacle but then we finally got like our way in and so we get there and it's like there's just stacks of cars once you get to the actual parking lot. It's just like one by one, they're kind of checking people in.

And so the security of it was really intense, which I kind of imagined it would be. And they do the whole like, you know, temperature check and so yeah, and checking all your bags and stuff. So basically what they had to do was push everybody outside. So a lot of the rides that are like indoors indoors, they don't have you waiting in there, which was a totally different experience.

It turns out. So, as you're waiting in line, there's noises or shit to look at, there's whatever, you're out of the sun. That's true because they designed them so that you're not just sitting there waiting, you're looking at stuff, that's what you're thinking. Yeah, you're looking at things, you kind of just pass in the time like kind of doing your thing. And so you're basically like, so for one of them was one of the Star Wars rides, we were out in like what seemed to be

like a loading dock area. Like they just opened it back further and we have to like follow these like taped lines and all this stuff. And then finally you make it there and you like rush to the very front. And so you're just like, boop, I'm on the ride. And so it's kind of like, that was weird. Now, were the weights longer or shorter?

Because I'm assuming they have limited people, right? Shorter, yeah. It was probably like 25% capacity or whatever. Oh, that's it. Yeah. I mean, so that was very much of a positive. We were like stuck. We got really tired because we were just doing a good Julian rides.

And they closed it earlier like at seven. So they don't want like any crowds forming or anything. So there was no fireworks. There was no like, you know, parades or nothing like that. But with the whole mask thing, I just couldn't do it, dude. Are you supposed to wear a mask outside while you're there? The whole time. Not even just the whole time.

Like you have to wear on the ride. Like, I was like, dude, I'm like, ugh, fine, I can't breathe. I can't tell you how many times, like, the minute it just slipped down my nose, like, I had somebody just hovering over me, just like, put your mask off already. Really?

Yeah, and so, like, I was kind of joking about it with, you know, like Courtney and the guys, we were just like waiting in line and I was like, oh, God, I'm gonna breathe for a second. You know, and we're waiting on Pirates of Caribbean. We get in there and there's these two guys behind me and I kind of felt, you know, we feel people that are just like, you know, just looking at you

and just like, they make that face. Yeah, you're not wearing that. They're talking, they're just like, you know, just looking at you and just like, oh, they make that face. Yeah, you're not wearing a mask. They're talking, they're just intensely like, like judging, like, hate energy in you. You know, I'm just like, ooh, like what's happening? I get to the very front, this lady, like, lets me through everything's cool. Oh great, I'm gonna get on the ride.

And then all of a sudden, she like, about faces, runs up to me and is like, hey, put your mask up over. I'm like, what? Are you looking at me? Because it was over my nose the whole time. It's over my, like if I have to tell you again, we have to warn you again, we're going to kick you out of the park. You're going to have to get off of this and leave and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,

like you're trying to set a big nose. Yeah, I tried to explain. I know you're seeing this thing. Look at this thing. Push it out. Yeah, I tried to explain I know you see this thing push you know Yeah, it's like it doesn't fit yeah And to be fair to you. I was wearing a kid's mask as I'm an asshole. I don't believe you know It's like a sandwich you will do like I didn't mean you a T-string mask. I don't do well with the big ass dogs You know like this whole oppressive bull shoe small mask one here and one here

Yeah, maybe in the beginning when we thought it was a Spanish flu You know, like this whole oppressive bullshed. Small, mad one here and one here. Yeah, maybe in the beginning when we thought it was a Spanish flu, but yeah, let's go back and do some more research and realize the effectiveness. But anyway, so yeah, so I was just like a Paul, because I've never had that experience at Disneyland. Like everybody was so like angry and like really obnoxious

like the staff too. And I don't know, a lot of them had to be because they're forced to like You know demand like all these things because they probably felt like they're gonna have to close it down again Well, you know what would happen if they don't I mean you got to believe that all the keyboard where you just come out and start just Yeah, right now. Right. Well, you got a I got a wonder I wonder if the Disney World experience in Florida is different than the Disneyland experience Of course because of course. They're they're kind of two different approaches, right? It might be I honestly I heard actually the opposite I heard it's like just as crazy really open. Yeah, they're just does not see about it because the Florida was all wide open

Is it? I know the state is but that's a that's a its own like Enterprise yeah,, I know the state is, but that's its own enterprise right? Yeah, because I know here it's obviously been much more strict with all that stuff, and I'm assuming that they're afraid, right? Like, we'll crap, they're going to close us down. Yeah. If somebody takes a picture of people with not wearing

masks or whatever, and we're going to lose our jobs. I sort of got to got on the list though, dude, because I was like walking around the whole rest of the time, and then I'd see somebody like at earpiece and looking at me. like glasses looking at me you know like I maybe I was just paranoid but I started to see it everywhere you know you should do like just walk around and like just pull your mask up and spit on the ground a couple times I did that I'll have a luge I can't spit my mask such an asshole I did that all I would use that opportunity to drink so I could just bring it down because You got it Matt so we got there at eight o'clock and we went all the way till basically seven o'clock and to wear a mask

It's hot outside and it was hot and the good pushing us outside I have a hard time in the grocery store for 20 minutes. Yeah, and this is the grocery store is like oh, that's enough It was insane. This is real talk by by the way, because we were at, you know, casino, and so you're wearing it the whole time you're in there. And then I even did one workout in their hotel gym where you wear a mask. And it is a little bit, and I don't know if it's psychological

or if I'm actually feeling the fact that maybe I'm breathing in a little bit more of my carbon dioxide when I get here. It felt like it was going down. It could psychological, it was like, someone's put their hand over your mouth while you're trying to war. It's a headache yet. It makes me, you know what, my kids.

I'm comfortable with it. My kids have to wear one all day at school and I kind of feel like bad. They do. I feel bad, yeah. For sure. Yeah, all day they have to wear it at school. So I'm like, oh man, this is kind of,

you know, if you're not used to it, it definitely feels, wow. You definitely feel like it's just like suffocated, you know? Yeah, on the positive side of all this mass wear in COVID bullshit, uh, you know, I've been, I've been reading like it's been really interesting to me to see what businesses have either evolved or changed or that are popped up during this time. I came across this one that I thought I think it was like tech crunch. I was reading, I don't remember what I was reading, but, uh, it's called, uh,

it's an app called Swimpley, uh, Swim and then PLY, Doug, check this thing out. So this guy starts this business, fucking brilliant dude. It's so brilliant that it makes me actually want to look at it as like an, like an, like an, It's a funny name, though huh? Swimpley? Yeah, I think I'm saying, I think I'm saying it right. So basically what you can do is rent people's pools.

Oh, I saw this. Yeah, isn't it? And there's people making six figures a year off of renting their pool right now. is rent people's pools. Oh, I saw this. Yeah, isn't it? I saw this. There's people making six figures a year off of renting their pool right now. And this like, has it changed. Wow, look at that. It's like $45 an hour, $100 an hour, $30 an hour.

Yes. I mean, it makes sense. It's brilliant. Yeah, it makes sense. Imagine too, if you have a second home, right? That's like a vacation place that you're not there 90% of the time. But you lock up the house, yes, I would totally do that. Oh my God. I don't want them in my house

destroying Chanel, but my pool outside. What do I give a shit? I wonder what the rent that out. So no, so this is so it comes with the app. So they have a a million dollar policy. So if someone were to get hurt, don't know this, they cover all that. That's brilliant. Yeah. No, it's it's, and it's really, obviously, COVID, like just made it take off. So he was starting. All the pools are closed. Right, he was, he was starting it beforehand.

And then that's just it, right? This is where you could come with your people that you've already been quarantined with and rent these pool spaces. And so as cheap as like 20 bucks an hour for like a real basic, where someone's got these like, where is that? Now, what people pay for this, are they also paying a deposit in case they you know one of their kids shits in the pool or do something

Where I don't know I didn't look it up. I would imagine there's some sort of a like a deposit like that I'm sure yeah because if that happens and you're and or I'm sure part of the I'm a shit in the pool. I'm sure there's a I'm sure there's also like happens some sort of a Cleaning service that probably comes through more regularly if you're if you're getting that many people coming through your place I'm sure there's also some sort of a cleaning service that probably comes through more regularly if you're getting that many people coming through your place, I would imagine.

I just thought that was so fast. That is a very interesting part. Well, you know, if you think about it with all these apps, the sharing kind of the sharing economy or whatever the, what do they call it? This a digital economy. Yeah. I mean, anything that you can rent

is gonna be- You can't get it out, get it out your economy thing. Well, it goes back to that or that conversation we had earlier. Like, do you believe that we're moving this direction where, you know, ownership is going to be a thing of the past? Like, you I think of some things you're going to. Some things. Yeah. I mean, it's to me, that's that's a little scary. I mean, like, who else is going to own it? Well, okay, there's so be investors, there'll be people that owns like, for example, like this.

Like anybody, I don't know if you guys ever looked into putting a pool in your backyard. It's fucking expensive. And you gotta maintain it. And then maintaining, so you're talking about like a minimum 30 to $100,000 project that for just a building, going in the maintenance. And if you, I guarantee anybody listening right now

who has a pool in their backyard and you actually tracked for one year, how many times do you and your family? You've been to math. And did the math? I bet you you never pay that full off for 30 to $50,000. Oh, I know.

But especially at the rate where you can go, and then you can go to this pool, that's probably 10 times better at somebody else's house right down the street for 60.000. Well, it just seems like business is more moving into situations like that, like single home family things where it's like, how do we maximize like all these spaces and like,

we can, you can come in and eat fresh cooked meal and just waste like maximize and monetize whatever you have. Why not rent just somebody's backyard? So even forget the poll, let's say you don't have a poll, but you have one of those really nice setups with the barbecue and where people come in. So I have barbecue.

I imagine that's how, so I mean, if you looked at the app when Dunk pulled it up, there was ones ranging from my 20 something bucks to a high is 100 something an hour. That's probably include all that. Exactly, yeah, so if you have like a cabana out there. Well, so let's speculate, one of the things that you guys think that at the moment,

if you use it, you own it, but in the future, it's probably going to be very different. And obviously cars. Cars, yeah. Cars is a big one. That's the most obvious one. I don't see anybody when, you know, AI cars or whatever self-driving cars become

widely accepted and regulations allow them to happen. I don't see people generally owning cars. It's just like I'm making a sense. I do, but I see them owning them like horses. That's what I mean. Yeah, you won't see people driving them to and from work. I think that type of deal will be. Well, think about how many people own horses today

versus how many people own horses on the right fair and now. Yeah, no, totally. So it'll be like that. So cars, is there anything else you guys have? I mean, I think just houses in general, like if you're like wanna throw a party or you wanna use it for, at the backyard,

whatever it is, the pool obviously, but you know, lots of different ways that people could use a house, you know, for weddings or whatever. That's true, right? Like all the stuff that we tend to rent anyway, right now, like halls, right? Think about all the halls,

the people rent or the restaurants that people rent, that can be replaced by some of these people's, you know, nice homes and stuff. But as far as owning is concerned, I'm trying to think though, I could, I mean, already you rent ticsito, so that's a thing. Suites, do you guys think suits will start to become

if they already have that? That exists, doesn't it? Yeah, I know businesses, but I mean more like a sharing app, what's your size or whatever, can I borrow your money? I bet there's something out there like that. There probably is. Yeah, I would imagine.

Yeah, I can't. But it went at home gyms. Did you guys see people renting at home? That's out there. Yeah, that's a thing already too. Yeah, that could totally be. That's people are doing that. People that have these home gyms are renting out,

they're started doing that. That's another business that popped up during COVID. I don't remember what the app was called, but people are renting out their gyms space. Especially, I mean, what a brilliant time to do that when there's, it's hard to get gym equipment at home. So, do you just rent your space out by the hour? So, that's interesting.

Yeah, I know you're seeing it all over the place. Yeah, I like it because it allows, it's a very efficient way of using space. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? I think it makes a lot of logical sense. I'm on the other end of that though. I don't want anybody near me. So, I'm just like, no. I don't want anybody near me. So, I just like, no.

None of these ideas like resonate with me. I want my shit to be my shit. You go over there and you don't want to shit. I don't want to share. No, that's a share. Sharing is for you. Well, there'll still be like you're saying that there's obviously still going to be somebody

who owns it, right? So some people will still be able to buy and invest in it. But you know, I think it won't make sense for the average person. I mean, especially when we talk about houses and stuff, even like housing, I mean, it's, it was so popular when we were younger and the generation before us, oh, it was talking about realtor over the weekend about this, who's like in his late 50s. And he's talking about how, you know, I'm just, you know, we're talking about the market and current where we're at and stuff. And he's just like, yeah, I just, I was like, man, must be great to be a realtor right now.

And he goes, yeah, it's kind of a double-edged sword, right? I mean, it's great for business, but I have kids in their 20s and early 30s. And he goes, I just, I can't see them ever affording a house anywhere out here. I mean, you got to have 20% down property in the Bay areas, you know. You're talking a quarter to a half a million. Yeah, and who saves, who's 20 years old and you're talking a quarter to a half a million. Yeah, like, and who saves, who's 20 years old and saves a quarter million to a half a million dollars a year? I mean, I mean, in a 10 years. So all of a sudden, yeah, Dodge Coin or one of those things.

Well, and when I was telling him, I said, you know, but part of that is, you know, we, we, we've always painted this picture for the kids and the generation coming up that like, you know, we always have painted this picture for the kids and the generation coming up that like, you know, part of the American dream is to buy your home. You know, I think that's like the part of the formula. Yeah, that's like one of the biggest parts, right? It's like one of the biggest accomplishments most people have in their lifetime, right?

And so I think we're moving away from that. I think we're moving away from that being as big of a deal. Even myself, it was watching that transition happen and struggling with that too, thinking like what, you know. There's a lot of interesting to think about that too because you look at the layout of homes and how that's changed over the years too.

So when you, we've been like kind of house shop and looking at different types of, like if one was in the 70s, if one was even like earlier than that, like there's just the way that people live with so different, like the importance of like where the master bedroom was, where the kitchen is, how the layout of it is if it's open, if it's, you know, what kind of situation was, and I feel like we're going through another phase of that where people are just like, maybe more open to living, you know, somewhat temporary in one spot, but

also having another location where they can split time between. You know, biggest difference I see between the newer houses and the older ones, the biggest difference by far is the backyard. By far, backyards now are tiny. Even in expensive, really expensive homes, they leave such a small space for the backyard. Whereas the older houses, the backyards

were all pretty big. Well, I think a lot of that's just because of the, I mean, we live in the Bay Area and there's no land. It was even like that. So, we were in Vegas. And by the way, everywhere prices of houses are going up. This is part of the inflation that's happening.

In fact, who was it? Who's the investor, the big investor? Did you get Warren Buffett? Did you guys watch that? I read about it. So, I read about what he said. Yeah, and he's like, inflation's already here. It's happening.

Yeah. And a big, you're seeing a lot of law in houses for a couple of different reasons. One, inventory's still low because all the houses that are supposed to foreclose aren't. And then number two, the building supplies are through the roof. Like a sheet of plywood is like three times as expensive.

So can you explain to me, one of my friends was trying to argue to me that they had disproven that inflation could happen right now. That's so silly to me. I know, I could just say, my brain hurts so much that I couldn't even come back with a good response. It's very simple. It's very straightforward.

It's very simple. There's more money that's not tied to actual production, services or whatever. So if there's just more money, everything becomes more expensive. And this is a real like philosophy and thought that's floating around. Yeah, so to make it simple, if we gave every single person in America $1 million right now, if all of a sudden the government just gave everybody a million dollar check,

all prices would go through the roof, everything, of all the things that people are competing in using their money to purchase. So it wouldn't help anybody. But I was even, you know, in Vegas, we're looking and the houses there are going up quite a bit. Doesn't even come close to here though. I was looking at houses over there that were like 1.2, 1.3. Holy cow. Oh yeah. Yeah, you're looking, I mean, these places,

compared to what you get over here for that, which is insane, insanely different. Yeah, no, it's crazy. For sure. I mean, you see my uncle's backyards coming together over there, have you seen pictures of it yet? Oh yeah, dude, it looks crazy. I mean, he literally is designing it like a Vegas home.

He's got a nightclub back there, huh? Yeah, it's, I mean, the damn backyard is going to be almost as expensive as the fucking house was. I mean, he's jumped that much, but he got a huge lot. You saw his backyard, I think, is like massive. And he's, there are about three quarters away through, I think it's supposed to be done by next month and it looks like it looks like a casino, you know, pool area. Hey, when you go to Vegas, do you still gamble at all or do you just go visit and then?

This last time I did not gamble. I went there and I visited my uncle and then we did business and stuff like that. So there was no gambling, but yeah, I mean, I still look. I like to gamble on Reno more than I like to gamble in Vegas. I feel like you win more in Reno. Well, I'm also like in Reno, I'm like a medium sized Reno more than I like to gamble in Vegas. I feel like you win more in Reno. Well, I'm also like in Reno, I'm like a medium-sized fish.

To a big fish. Yeah, in Vegas. I'm like, I've told that story. Did I tell that story? I got a hundred bucks. Didn't I tell that story at Vegas? Where's my room comp? So I was, this was like during a heavy gambling streak for me

where I was gambling a lot. And I had just gone on like a few runs of like Reno, going out to Reno and there, I go to Reno and I have like the top suite, I get the limo, take me to lunch and all this stuff like that. And like you know, in this eight, like I don't have to be ballin', like I'm gambling three to $5,000 a night,

like on the table, it's not crazy. And then I go to Vegas, right? And all the tables are already like double, right? You've your free bottle of water. Well, I lost, I lost like $7,000 and like a couple hours one night. And of course, fucking pissed off, right? So I'm all fucking mad, like beginning of my trip. But I'm like, my way of like justifying it when I lose money like that, when I be real, I'm like, Oh, you know, they're going to they'll take care of my dinner now, they'll take care of this room.

And I start, I'm like, yeah, it's kind of a wash, you know what I'm saying? So I can't say, what kind of dinner are you ordering? Yeah, yeah, so, well, I go over to Vegas and the guy like laughed at me. He's just, I was like, hey, can I want to, I got to, I can't remember what kind of room I had at that point. I said, hey, I just, I mean, I just got creamed

I lost all this money and stuff like that. I was like, as a cast, you know, is it possible you guys could upgrade me and, oh, yeah, let me pull you up and put them like, oh, yeah, I'm sorry, sir. Wow. Yeah, yeah. I can't even get a blip on my face. Yeah, I can't even get like a $300 upgrade to my room after dropping that much and the Vegas, they don't give it. You're nobody there. No.

So I like to, I like to get high rollers over there. Yeah, big for that reason. I did what I always do. I always do the same thing. I'll take 20 bucks. That's exactly what I do. I take 20 because I hate gambling. I'm not a gamble.

If I lose a dollar, I'm gonna take 25 cent slot machines. It's exactly what I did. I went up to it. I felt the one that was calling me. We all afford you. No, there was one that made the, so you know when you, if you're watching the podcast

or you listen to the podcast, when it starts, there's a like a hawk sound. Wow. So I'm walking to the casino and there's always a machine that makes that fucking sound. The exact same sound that's on our hawk. What is it? It's like a falcon.

It's a red tail hawk. Red tail hawk, okay. So I hear that sound, so I'm always like, that's a sign. It's a sign. It's a winning sound. Yeah, so I'm walking over and talking. I like this strategy. I'm trying to find the machine and I'm like, that's a sign. It's a sign. It's a winning sound. Yeah, so I'm walking over and trying to... I like this strategy. Yeah, I'm trying to find the machine and I'm like,

oh, it's this one, right? So I put my 20 bucks in there, 80 bucks. No way. Every time. Oh, guys. Every time I get through. I'm out of pausing. Casinos hate me.

Yeah, they hate you. Yeah, that's big money. Well, this doesn't matter. I never give them money because if the second I win, even if it's a dollar, I take my money. Yeah, no, Casinos hate someone like you because you're not the norm. The norm is that you just keep gambling. That's how they always win.

I mean, statistically, it should be a 50-50 shot both for the gambler and for the casino, but the truth is, it's so funny, though, to walk through a casino and then see people having to wear masks because of protecting their health. And you see the most obese people in the world sitting in front of his machines. Put it down to smoke. Chain smoking. Chain smoking the whole time. I'm walking through and I'm like,

irony is totally missed on it. Yeah, none of this stuff is adding up to it. Hey, I want to make sure that we take this time to shout out some of the fire stations. Did you guys been getting the DMs? Yeah, yeah. Doug, what are some of you? It's so cool.

Read off some of the people that are listening right now. Yeah, we got Christopher Rhodes, St. Joseph, Missouri Firehouse, station four, Hoover Fire Department in Alabama. What up? The Marine Corps, Mountain Warfare Training Center, Fire Department in Bridgeport, California. Sounds bad, ass.

And this one is the police officer, Carlisle, Barrick's in Pennsylvania. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for doing what you do. Yeah. Definitely appreciate all of you guys and girls. I forgot that we brought that up the other day

and like I started getting all these DMs of stations that we're all listening. So that's pretty cool. That's awesome. I ran into a couple of, what made me think of that too was I was, this weekend I was coming out of Target. Or first I pull up the target and I'm driving the Camaro

so I park like, you know, fucking a mile away from where it's at. And out in the middle of nowhere in this parking lot is this fire truck. Have you guys seen the new fire trucks that are out? No. So it's a German made truck and it looks like a transformer. Pull it up, this thing's sick. Yeah, so I go into Target, I go shopping.

There's a joke here somewhere. I go walking out, and at the same time, I almost ran into these German helmets. These three firefighters. No, okay. And they were talking, we were talking as we're walking up. I said, is that your fire truck out there? And they're like, well, I'm sure hope it is.

I was like, okay. That was a good one We're wearing yeah of course. Yeah, of course. It was like one of those here's your sign. Yeah Yeah They gave me a no I just I got the smart ass response for that right? So I mean how do you start that conversation up anyways? I don't say that's tough right right. It's like when you walk up to twins here, you guys twins? Yeah. Fire truck?

You pointed at me. It's like a new fire truck. German made fire truck. Yeah, I see a lot of different things here. What, it looks like a transformer. You can't miss it. Well, I don't know. Let's see.

Is this any of them here? Do you look at like this? No, no, no. Those look weird. Yeah. Well, hold on. Let the Google Master do it on it. I no. That was weird. Yeah. Well, hold on. Let the Google master get on. I know.

Let's sell, do this. I'd say new. I would put new in front of that, by the way. I wouldn't just say German. Just for all I know, they've been making them for a while. This is in San Jose. Your car's are typically a bit smaller, I would think. It wasn't small though.

This thing, and by the way, I even asked how much they cost, right? So, 700 grand for one of the things. Is it this one right here? It's crazy. Is it sending it to Doug if that's it? Yes. It's of course out. Come on, Doug, what are you doing?

Step your game up over there, guy. Google fingers. I know. Dude, yeah, let's get the Google thumb. Yeah. Isn't that thing bad, asshole? It is. Let me send it to Doug right now so he can pull it up on the screen.

You know what's funny? I didn't know that Googling was a skill until you guys told me that. Yeah, no idea. Of course it is. But apparently it's a skill. Oh yeah, no. Was it Jamie that, you know, with Joe Rogan show?

Like he'll like anticipate, it's like crazy. Like some of the stuff that like is already pulled out. You're like, what? How do you even find that? Like like all these like- You're pack checking. Your problem, Doug, is that in how you're searching there? If you typed in German made fire trucks,

transformers, you'll never find it that way. Just put new fire truck, Marina. Because that's what we got. I sent you the picture, so you just pull it up. Yeah, I got it. You sent it to me, but you didn't send me the link where you found it. Just post the picture. Well, yeah, I have to change everything. Oh, sorry. Yeah, yeah. I'm it. You sent it to me, but you didn't send me the link where you found it. Just this post the picture.

Well, yeah, I have to change everything. Oh, sorry. Yeah, yeah. I mean, my life complicated here guys. Hey, by the way, I don't even use Google. I use duck.go now. Yeah, I do. Oh, you do.

I do. Really? Yeah, because Google tries everything. Do you have to change that in your browser to go to that? Or do you? Yeah. Okay, so that's my automatic search now. And it's just as good.

Just as good. I mean, it's good. There it is Justin Look at how cool that thing is. Whoa It does look German doesn't it's very yeah Crazy lines on that. Yeah, right. What does it do different? It's just look cool. Yeah, I just I mean It's got more space in it and all the it has all the cool monitors and gadgets and beefy for yeah I mean, I'm not like a real thorough with fire trucks as it is. I would ask them What does it do differently in the normal?

He didn't say, I mean, fast-cannon. That's the PSI. Yeah, yeah, yeah, fast-cannon. Faster, more room, like, I mean, things like that responsive handles better, like, you know, all that stuff. Does it sound different? You know what? Like a V12.

Well, no, no, what I mean is have you guys ever heard of, like, heard ambulances and stuff in Europe? They don't sound like they could do it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're like police. They're like, you hearances and stuff in Europe? They don't sound like they're gonna get out of here. Oh, no. They're like police. They're like, you hear a police car here and a police car over there. And I hate to say it.

I know I'm an offend people, but the police car's over there just sound like, it don't sound scary. American cop cars, that's scary. Yeah. Oh, really? Probably because they'll shoot you over here. Oh, fuck around. You fuck around.

This is true. What is that? Try it and fuck around and see what happens. Yeah, yeah. That's over here. Yeah. No, they definitely. This is true. What is that, try it and fuck around, fuck around and see what happens. Yeah, yeah. That's something. Yeah. No, they definitely have different siren. They're like, meaner, meaner, meaner, meaner.

I'm gonna take that seriously. I'll just keep driving. Meaner, meaner, meaner. Come on. Yeah. Well, they have the ones over there. They have like the lambo's and the crazy shit over there.

I've seen that before. And that to me just screams bureaucracy. You know what I mean? Like the state has all this money and they tell us where your taxpayer money is going. You guys want a Lambo? Yeah. Yeah. Although there was a town here in the US where the SWAT team got like a tank.

Wow. Yeah, like a legit tank. I'm like, holy shit, what do you need that for? Like, you could like shoot things out of an area just like with Mo through building. I don't know if it was low like a fat tank. I'm like holy shit. What do you need that for like you could like shoot things out of and everything I don't like with Mo through building. I don't know if it was low like if it had a Loan yeah that work, but I think it was like that. Yeah, I think it could drive through shit No, I got another cool thing for you that I think Justin will really like this dog Here you go. Let's see if we can here's another layup for you dog

Look up raiders in zone, okay, the new rate the new raiders in Zone. I saw this. Is it nightclub? Oh, I drove by the Raiders in a sick. Yeah, well, it looks like a big Darth Vader. I know. I love it. And they've now designed nightclubs at the end of the in zone. Yeah.

So they have like bottle, bottle, table, service. Oh, okay. Yeah, see if they've dug. If you look at sections of it where you could have like private party straight right there, and there's a DJ right there of it where you could have like private party straight right there And there's a DJ right there and then those are all like big-ass boosts right there and bottle service that brilliant That's very strong as well. Yeah plastic stuff instead of like you know like actual bottles. Let's see Raiders Games yeah bad idea a Raiders game with two night clubs in the stadium. Look go wrong serving alcohol. Yeah

with two night clubs in the stadium. What could go wrong? Serving alcohol. Yeah. Huh. Yeah. You get those guys with the shoulder spikes and painted faces. Yeah, because this is beyond it.

I mean, I'm not a huge sports fan, but one thing I do know is that Raiders fans, those are the fuck crazy. Yeah. That was also when it was an Oakland. Maybe it's a little bit different in Vegas. They're hardcore, bro. They'll drive it.

They'll drive. Yeah, I think they'll get there. Wow. Tell me that is not sick. That is very, that's awesome. Right. I tell it's not dry. I think it's not dry. I think it's not dry. I think it's not dry. I think it's not dry. I think it's not dry. I think it's not dry.

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like when I was a kid and just saw people get beat up in the parking lot and just for not wearing the right, you know, like colors and it's just like, dude, what the, what are you doing? It's not even a game. No, that kind of stuff pissed me off. Yeah, it's only there that I've had that experience too. I mean, I've been to a lot of stadiums

and been watching, been the opposing team, but like the Raiders are the only place that's there. They've had beer thrown at us and stuff. Just kind of got to like, sluff it off. Yeah, so what do you think that is? Obviously, there's a cycle of tribal. It's super tribal. Yeah, it's like your primal life.

It's no different than what we see in politics and everything else today. It's like, it's the same monster. I mean, I really feel like that's what the model the politics are taking is like that same type of you know Tribal mentality my team's better than yours like that was not just my team's better than yours But because you're on another team. That's right. What do you see you and what do you see with politics? Yeah, right, you know like you're you're you're not part of my team. I hate your team It's got to that play or they have they they're the extreme example

Well speaking of drinks that you guys do any drinking or parting this week? Yeah. So, I mean, I did the story as like some people saw for when I went down to my place in Palm Desert. And it was synchal de mayo that day. It was just like, yeah, I was like, okay, it's synchal. I didn't realize it. And we tried hard to get it at this one like our favorite Mexican place. Did you remember the magic juice or what? Did you bring it with you? Yeah, so I had to go back to him and call for now. I'm not going to change it.

Well, change in Z-Biotics name. I forgot it and I had it in my suitcase and like we were thankful you could walk across the streets of this place. I don't have to drive. Nothing. I'm like, oh, dude, it's going to be on. I'm probably going to drink a lot. So I decided to just get up out of like sitting there waiting

for my order and just went and got like me and Courtney and her sister, a Zbiotics, ahead of time. Thank God, because dude, you know, hard. Yeah, we went hard. We didn't hard that night. Cause they gave us like, everybody was so celebratory that night and everything and like was, you know, they had like this whole Maryachee band,

they had one of the hostesses there was like singing with them and like they're going around tables, it was like a really fun vibe, but like yeah, there's somebody bought a shot, so it just, it got kind of wild. Makes a huge difference, got wild. You just don't feel this after you try it once. Well, I'll have the next day, I was okay.

I'll never drink without Zibodix, it just feels shit without doing it. But I don't like magic juice. That sounds dirty. Oh shit. Yeah, that's cool. This is sound good. I don't want to tell somebody,

hey, especially if it comes from a wizard. Yeah, I don't want to blame you. Hey, do you want to get your wizard magic juice? You want some magic juice before we go drink it? Well, would you like magic juice? You say it like that with your eyebrow and your lip. I mean, yeah, just for sure. It's like magic. Johnson, like what kind of magic? You do that or that's like Adam and your lip. I mean, yeah, just for sure. So I'm a magic johnson.

Like, what kind of magic? You do that. And that's like Adam stripper name when he comes out. And welcome to the stage, Magic G. Yeah, look out. Oh my God. Juice me. Well, you know, speaking of that, we just, so this is a good time

to have this come to Jesus talk here. Oh, man. Yeah. Serious. Yeah, no. Me, Doug and Justin have been talking. And I, you know, I don't know how to do this, the best way to sit down and talk to you.

So wait till we're all in line. We've been meeting. Yeah, I just, I just feel like it's important, we're all that kind of close. So I think I feel like that, we're built a relationship with our audience. I think that, Is that a sketch of me nervous?

Yeah, this is an okay place to do this. But we need to talk to you about this hip thrust thing It's it's really got out of control. Oh, when I do hip thrust. It's getting is it make you uncomfortable? I'm worried for your wife Yeah, you're you're complaining a bit about your back like I just you know that that kind of power I don't know if you can wield it properly. You do it a lot. Yeah, yeah lately. You know why I do it a lot Do you have you guys see my ass lately? You have, I know you've seen it, because I see you looking at me.

He's the one that's slapped. Just don't look the way because he's uncomfortable. No. My butt is looking really round and firm. No, here's the truth. I like the way it contributes to my squats and my deadlifts. And in my back, I did hurt it, not lifting weights, which, you know, I don't know if that's a,

if that's a, if that's a, if that's a, I think that's what Justin's concerned about. You're getting a lot more hip, hip thrust power. I don't know if that's a, if that's a, I think that's what, I mean, that Justin's concerned about that. You're getting a lot more hip, hip thrust power. I don't know if that's going to help this situation. What's still ever, no. I went, I went lighter to our, you guys saw responsibility. Yeah, you guys saw one. I went a little lighter today. Yeah, but I do feel like you're hip thrusts in a lot now. Too much. Yeah, too much for our friendship.

Just too much. Yeah, the blue side, you know what you're doing. I mean, I feel like you're looking over at. I feel like you're looking over at. Yeah, I feel like you would tell me if I was doing it that much. You know what I'm saying? I pull the sweats down a little bit. Just so you can see the real good. Just so you go, hey, he's starting to like those.

Way too much, man. Way too much. You can almost see the V thing. Yeah. No, dude. Justin, jump on, I need more resistance. Where should I sit right here? Have a seat. I'm gonna go faster. I'm gonna speed

Oh, no, I have my knees. No, I would care you're enough for this chip Thrusting power Actually, it felt like today because I still my QL still is not 100%. They actually, it seems to help a little bit. So we'll see what happens. But yeah, I still got that QL issue. I don't know. Still as you're going away. Yeah, it's a little better.

Get back into the windmills and get more into that. Where's your weight out right now? What do you weigh? I'm dropping now. Yeah, I haven't asked you. I'm cutting calories quite a bit. And I did a de-load week last week. And this week I'm now changing up.

I'm gonna increase the frequency of my training but reduce the volume. So I'm gonna work out each body part more often with less volume see what happens, but I've cut my calories. I'm like fully in now on getting just really lean. So that means that I'm gonna be, I'm accepting the fact that I'm not gonna be

as strong or whatever. You know when you make that switch? Yeah. When you're like, okay, with the fact that you're just not strong. I was, yeah, I made that with, we made a pact even after this vacation thing. And yeah, so I'm on, I'm on finally.

We made a pact. We is me in Courtney because she, who starts that conversation? But me, dude. Really? So you said, now what's your wife and like, hey babe? Yeah, I think both of us need to lose some weight. Both of us.

You lose. Because that just made it. Tell me how that goes over. I don't necessarily present like that, but I'm gonna start losing weight. Yeah, exactly. I just really think I want to get after it, you know, I want to tighten up. Yeah, so it just want to feel better. Like really it's more of a feeling better thing in the health aspect of it, but I'm also trying to shred down.

Yeah. Let's get off. Yeah, I love to also trying to shred down. Let's get after that. Yeah, I'd love to see a shredded juicer. Shredded. That's scary. Shredded juicer. Makes that sound very, very. The Q&A portion of this episode is brought to you by our sponsor, Blue Choo.

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First question is from GeorgieRX. What are the most effective abdominal exercises? All right, it depends what you mean by effective. So effective for stability, effective for performance, or effective for aesthetics. And by the way, when it comes to performance and stability, this is very individual,

because what one person may need to improve their performance or stability, another person may not benefit much from. For example, you could do exercises where you're stabilizing, and then there's other exercises actually work the abdominals through flexion and extension. But let's talk about aesthetics. I think that's an easier question to answer, because the other one is so individual, right? When it comes to aesthetics, what you want to do is you actually want to build the abs, because they're muscle like anything else, right? All of your muscles look better as you build them. Of course, to an extent, right? At some point, which

is never, almost never happens, your muscle gets too big. That almost never happens. So pretty much, when you're talking about aesthetics, what you want to do is develop the muscle. How do you develop a muscle most effectively through a full range of motion and with load, right? So one of my favorite exercises to do for abs is like a slow sit-up or a Roman chair sit-up with resistance or a leg raise done properly. All of those include a decent amount of resistance. You have to be able to do them properly, but they build the abs. They're makes them more visible. It gives you abs that you can see at higher body fat percentage. Well, I totally would echo that.

The first thing I want to point out though is to be able to make that connection and to be able to feel, your abs actually being involved more so than say hip flexors and really just going through the range of motion and going through these exercises without the proper intent and the proper mind muscle connection.

So to really take your time developing that, that strong recruitment process is massively essential for then loading that situation. Well, I couldn't agree more because the best ab exercises no longer the best ab exercise if you cannot perform it correctly. So that comes first and believe it or not, a lot of people actually- Most people are get wrong. Yeah, are not connected to the- Well look at leg raises. How many people do you see do leg raises properly?

That's super, super rare. We have to understand what the abs do, right? So the abs attach at the rib cage, so think of your rib cage, the bottom of the rib? So the abs attach at the rib cage, so think of your rib cage, the bottom of the rib cage and the pelvis. And when they contract, it brings the pelvis closer to the rib cage. So literally it's rounding the lower back.

What the abs don't do is bend you at the hips. So if I'm hanging and I just bend my legs, you know, like this, if I just do a leg raise or my legs bend, that's hip flexors. Now my abs are bracing and stabilizing, so I may also feel at my abs, but I'm not working my abs through a full range of motion.

In order to do a leg raise where you're working the abs, you don't just bring the legs up by bending at the hips. You actually rotate at the pelvis so that your low back starts to round, and then you bring the legs up, and so you're kind of doing this reverse crunch with the long lever, right, with your legs extended. It's not the abs don't bend you at the hips, and this is the problem. People think if they're bending forward or bringing their legs back, that's abs. Now true, that can be very much just hip flexors and no abs at all, or just to stabilize.

So I mean, going back to what Justin and you both said, I think that the prerec or the first thing is to get really good at it. So I love like a perfect setup and learning how to like, you know, articulate every vertebrae, right? Like really slow and controlled. Like get that down really well with just your body weight. Then when you get that connection, you understand, okay, this is how I'm supposed to be doing every ab exercise, right? Because that's what you understand is that when you do that perfect setup and you try and roll the spine up off the ground with that That's how every ab exercise should be performed no matter whether you're in a machine or hanging or whatever and then it doesn't take a lot of reps

No, you know, it doesn't even take a lot of added weight. No, it's really intense. Oh, it's your body weight is tough to do 10 reps like that I mean, that's really, really tough, but then you get good at that and then you load it. And I think that's probably one of the most underrated thing for abs. I think abs were taught, I mean, as a trainer I did this. I taught abs, you know, circuits. And, you know, 20 bike abs and the-

Bicycles, rotating, rotating. Yeah, like, because they can take a beating like that, but if you actually- And you'll feel them burn. Right, and you'll feel the burning sensation, so you think, oh, they're working, I'll get sore from it. But if you actually learn how to really articulate

the spine like that, and then load it with some weight for five reps, you'll watch your abs. Well, it's a muscle like any of the muscle. So imagine now we're talking about biceps. Forget abs for a second. So we're talking about biceps. What if you're like, hey, look, I want my biceps. Forget abs for a second. So we're talking about biceps. What if you were like, hey look, I want my biceps to look really good.

I would like nice shape and sculpt, and it's like really nice biceps. And your trainer goes, cool. Here's what we're gonna do. Five pound dumbbells, and you're gonna go like this real fast. And then you're gonna move your hands like this real fast. And then you're gonna bring them up here real fast. And your biceps will burn.

Marshall's like that. Your biceps will burn, but you're not gonna develop your biceps, because you're just essentially doing cardio with your biceps. That's what people do for their abs. And there's nothing wrong with it. If you want a lot of stamina and endurance in your abs, that's nothing. Okay, that's cool. But if you want to develop them and develop good aesthetics, which come from abs that are built,

then you want to train them like any of the muscle with some load and resistance. And this doesn't have to be weight, by the way. I'll tell you what. one of my favorite things to do was whenever I got a client, when I was a trainer, and I had a client with workout experience. So usually clients came to me, and they were everyday average people, not a ton of workout experience,

but every once in a while I get the guy or girl that would hire me, that's been working out for a while. And especially once I got more established, right? As I got more established, I had more experienced people seek me out because I developed the name for myself. So as people would hire me, they've been working out for a while, and I would do my assessment, and they would say things like,

oh yeah, I work out my apps three days a week, and I'm really strong in my core, whatever. And it's okay, cool. We're gonna do a physical ball, crunch. We're gonna just do a sit-up on a physical ball. Oh, I could do like a million of those. I'd be like, well, we're gonna do it. I'm gonna make sure you do them right.

And then I put them in position, have them anchor their hips, push your hips up, wrap your back around the ball, slowly crunch over the ball, and they do 10. They wouldn't be able to do more than 10 because they never really trained through that full range of motion and really train the abs the way that they need to be there. You were compensating the whole time.

They didn't even realize it. Yeah, so the thing with me too with abs is like, I've really cut almost, like, I mean, it can get crazy with how many different types of exercises are out there that people promote, but really I have like two, I have like three maybe, like go twos. And it's like, you mentioned with the perfect setup, it's a decline setup, and then it's like, you know, hanging raises. And that's about it. Yeah.

I like the the ab wheel, which is very hard to do properly, very hard to do. By the way, we carry those now at our store. Didn't you just do a Friday fitness tip on that? I did. So I think of what is it? Mindpumpstore.com? Is that okay? So we have them now, but my ab wheels will build your abs.

If you can do them properly, it takes a while to get to do them properly. But that's one of my favorites. I love active planks. Active planks are also very hard to do properly. We have a YouTube where I demonstrate those. So that's a good one. And then reverse crunch or reverse crunch on an incline, which is easier than a leg raise,

but still very challenging. Hanging leg raises are one of the hardest exercises to do properly. So it's like that without using your hip flexes. I don't are one of the hardest exercises to do properly. To do that properly without using your hip flexes the whole time. I don't know very many people that can do that properly. Yes, it'd be really intentional. Next question is from Howie's mom. What is the benefit of doing an exercise

sitting versus standing? Oh yeah, no, this is a great... Say hi to Howie. Yeah, this is a great conversation because you see bodybuilders often will talk about doing things seated because they say things like they could feel the muscle more, they can concentrate more on the connection.

They need to hear here like functional trainers and athletes talk about doing things standing because of the stability component because they're engaging more of their body. Okay, which one is better? This is gonna be one of the situations where I'm gonna say they're both good. They both have their value.

Training, standing, or training seated trains different recruitment patterns. Now, you can work the biceps both ways, but there's a recruitment pattern that is involved with the whole body. And here's what ends up happening. This is the funny thing. I remember when I used to think

doing an overhead press standing was harder, for example, than a seated overhead press. I thought, oh yeah, you're not gonna be able to lift as much standing as you can seated. And that's because I always did them seated. Then I did them always standing. In fact, I almost always do overhead press standing. Now I can press more standing than I can seat it.

And all the highlights is you get good at one versus the other one, but they both do the most of. Yeah, but they both have their value. I mean, I toggle just how I feel, right? So because I think they both have value, it's like some days I'm in like, like, Mr. Functional mode. And everything I'm doing is like standing or challenging stability. And like, that's the goal of the workout of the day, right?

It's like, oh, today, I want to just be really functional. And I love to do stuff like that when I know like certain muscle groups are like really, really sore and I don't need to hammer a muscle group. I just, I want to feel good. I want to take things through full range of motion. I want to incorporate my entire body. So then I'll make those choices.

Then I have other days where I'm like, oh, I just want like this massive shoulder pump and I'm not really trying to work. Yeah, anybody else, any other parts of my body right now and I'm not really trying to work anybody else. Any other parts of my body right now and I'm just gonna sit down and do all this stuff. And so I bounced back and forth. Oh, I used to be the trainer that was like a total snob about like sitting down. I'm like, nobody's sitting down.

Like we're working. Everything you're gonna do is standing in a split stance. Like we're using your body. You know, you're anchoring your body, figuring out how to adjust and compensate for that and be able to stabilize properly. So I was just always thinking in the functional realm and less in hypertrophy realm. And so there's definitely a switch that happened for me

once I started to kind of then, again, like you said, like I went into sitting and doing overhead press, even as an example, and I couldn't lift what I thought I could lift, and it was really just a different stimulus and different recruitment pattern that I wasn't applying. And so there's definite value in that. The truth is though, if you were to only do one and not the other.

If you had to pick. Yeah, if you had to pick. Well, yeah, standing. Standing, because more. I'm carrying over. Well, for the reason, like you said, okay, you're never. For my clients, I was always to pick, standing. Standing, because more for the reason, okay, you're never from my clients. As always, you're never gonna find yourself

sitting down in a chair having to lift 100, 200 pounds of your head. You just won't. If you will, I'll wait, tell me, where would you do that? Where would you sit down, and then so on hand, you'll hundred something pounds and you have to lift it over your head. But there may be lots of times in your life

where you have to pick something up while you're standing on the ground and lift it over your head. You even playing with lots of times in your life where you have to pick something up, while you're standing on the ground, and lift it over your head, even playing with my son, I do that all the time, right? So it's just way more functional to be, like you said, completely connected from your feet all of you. If you had to pick, yeah.

If you had to pick. But a perfect scenario, you incorporate both. Yeah, you're even and out. Yeah, both of them have value. I like doing both of them, like Adam said, depending on how I feel, If you had to pick one, go standing. But look, there's a reason why when you do a different exercise

that that look very similar, they feel different. There's just a reason for it. I mean, look, I'll tell you what, you could do a standing lateral, right? Standing lateral with dumbbells, or you could do standing one arm lateral. Same exercise, feels different. It totally does feel different, and they both have value.

So, and that has to do with the way the body communicates with itself, and how muscles work together. No muscle works in complete isolation. And so it's the combination of muscles. It's how you're holding yourself. It's the position of your body. Look at a Z-press, seated Z-press. I mean, that feels very different than a seated on a bench press.

Definitely very different than a standing overhead press. Do they all have value? They do. Yeah. Next question is from Joe D. Fury. Are front squats the incline bench for legs and should you be able to front squat the same weight as back squat? Yeah, I don't understand the first part of that.

Are front squats the incline bench for? Oh, I see what's going on. Basically getting a different angle. Yeah. I mean't understand the first part of that. Our front squats, the incline bench, oh, I see what's going on. Basically getting a different angle. Yeah, I mean, you kinda say that. Yeah, it is. I'm so level. Oh, they're two different exercises. I know they're both squats,

but they're both very different. And that's what I think, just like incline bench is very different from flat bench. I mean, I think that's a good analogy. It is, you could say that. It is front squats, you know, it's funny, is I would have clients front squat before I'd have them back squat these are these were my newer, you know, clients who kind of getting into squatting And I wouldn't have them squat by the way. They were front squatting a dowel

It wasn't like a way and by the way, that's like an old trainer hack Yeah, that helps get somebody in that good posture They're their chest is up high, which is sometimes a hard cue to get people to do when they do a back squat That's exactly why I would do it. Front squats, you're gonna be much more upright. You're gonna be, typically you'll feel it a little bit more in the quads. It's like upper mid back stabilization

on the back of your body. You can typically lift more. You're gonna be bending forward a little bit more so you tend to feel it more in the back of your body. And it's, again, you can just lift more. Yeah, back squat, you're getting more glute, right? So you're getting a stronger muscle to help. So the posterior chain's involved in the back,

back load is squat more than the front load is squat. And so that's where you get the ability to lift a lot more. You're asking, you're calling upon a bigger, stronger muscle to aid in that, but they both have tremendous value. And they're both different exercises. If I ever want to really hammer my legs and just get them to really develop, I'll go back squats, then I'll go front squats.

I mean, that combination will work out. In the same workout? Yeah, in the same workout. Yeah, and I'm not going like, if I'm doing a lot of volume, not going super heavy, but man, does that really work and develop my legs like nothing else? There's almost no combination

that I found to be as effective as those two. Yeah, there was one point. I mean, I was doing a lot more of like power cleans. And so that was very advantageous, obviously, to be able to get in the catch position really efficiently and then be able to dig my way out. And so that I was getting pretty strong at front squats. But you know, the the time in between of not doing them for a while, then coming back, man, it's a shell shock. If you don't incorporate it, you know, like I like to like throw it in every at least two to three months. I do like how they compared this to the incline bench

and I do think, and I went through a kick where I was trying to catch my front squad up to my back squad, knowing that it probably wouldn't happen. I still set a goal, like let's see if I can get it close, just like I did with my incline bench, and I saw tremendous value in doing that. So I do think that's a, if you've never done that before where you said, oh, you know what, I'm going to train for a while and really focus on the front

squat and try and catch it up. I think you'll see incredible development in your legs. Well, the best squatters in the world in my opinion are Olympic lifters. I know power lifters are known for the weight, the massive amounts of weight that they squat, but I think Olympic lifters are, I would have to say the best in terms of technique. Just power and strength and technique and form and all stuff. And Olympic lifters do a lot of front squats. A lot. Power lifters don't do a lot of front squats. They do some, but they don't do a lot. And so using that as an example, I'd say, I mean, the front squat is very, very valuable. And I think in my opinion, it should make its way into routine pretty regularly.

Maybe not as regularly as a back squat, but pretty regularly. I think it should be there. Next question is from Stewart 75002. We know priming is superior for getting ready for a training session. But do you see any benefits to static stretching? If so, how would you apply it? Okay, so static stretching is the old school way of stretching where you take a muscle, you put it in a stretch and you hold it there for a while. And then what you notice is, as you're holding it, it starts to loosen up and you get more range of motion.

Here's what's happening when you static stretch, and this will kind of explain my opinion or our opinion on this, right? When you're doing a static stretch, as you're holding the stretch, the central nervous system starts to receive the signal. And initially, the central nervous system is like, protect the muscle, keep it tight. And so you're tight. So you're stretching your hamstrings, you're holding it, it's really, really tight. And then the CNS says, wait a minute, I think we're okay.

Let's loosen up a little bit. And it starts to dampen its signal, and you start to get more of a range of motion. So the muscle isn't actually becoming more pliable, like a piece of rubber. It's just the central nervous system is relaxing its signal. Now the problem with this is when I'm going into a workout, what I don't want, usually,

there are cases where I might want this, but for the most part, I don't want my central nervous system to have a weaker signal, because what that does actually makes me less stable and can cause more injuries. Studies actually support this now. There's studies that show that static stretching before workouts increases risk of injury. In fact, I remember one of those studies

first came out and everybody's mind was totally blown. Now, to answer the question of, is there value in static stretching before you work out? In some cases, there is. If I want a muscle to get out of the way, I'll do it. So to give you an example, let's say I'm working with a client and they have such bad forward shoulder and their chest is just,

their chest and shoulders are so tight that I'm trying to get them to do a row and pull their shoulder blades back and squeeze their shoulder, but they're so tight in the front that it's getting in the way. In that case, I may static stretch the chest and the shoulders to weaken the signal to them so that I can get them to pinch and pull the shoulder blades back more, but it's a very specific way to apply. You don't want to just static stretch your body and go work out because you'll make yourself

more unstable. Yeah, because of that study and I had the same kind of response, like, whoa, it makes perfect sense. Like, I've basically kind of taken all my emphasis on static stretching towards the end of the workout. So anytime I'm more in a parasympathetic type of a state versus sympathetic, so where I need, because through the workout, you're going to need to be able to brace, be tight, you

know, on command. And for the end of the workout where I'm trying to really now recuperate, I'm trying to start that process of recovery. I think it's very beneficial for that, especially in areas where you've found sticking points and you've found restrictions in terms of gaining access to certain ranges of motion. Like I'm going to hone in on those areas and I'm going to take my time, nice, like slow, deep brisk at my heart rate down, you know, and hold those positions into a relaxed state. So that's really where I find the most value for them now.

Yeah, I have to agree with you and I would challenge what Sal saying a little bit, just because I used to do the same thing. Like for example, I could common one for me to static stretch before, like squatting would be like my hip flexors, because my hip flexors would get in the way, right? My hip flexors were tight, shortened, right? And I'd be pulling me forward when I get into a squat. I don't need them to be super active to fire when I'm squatting.

So I want to get them out of the way so I could squat better. And I do think that it actually works. But what I have found is you can do priming exercises or mobility drills to accomplish that same thing. That it better. Yeah, I agree. So, you know, not that static stretching, you can't be useful for certain things.

They're even where it is applicable, like what Sal said and when I just gave it an example, I still think that there are mobility drills or, you know, quote unquote priming drills that you can do that are superior to that anyway. So yeah, I'm with you, Justin. I think that for the most part, it belongs post workout or throughout your week, right? When I'm the next day after I have like a hard training session, and I'm static stretching my piriformis or my hip flexors or something like that. That's where I see the most value.

Static stretching is relaxing. It's very relaxing. You might not wanna do priming session right before you go to bed, right? Cause it might stimulate you and it's hard to sleep, right? Static stretching before bed, where you're breathing. By the way, if you wanna make your static stretching effective, remember what you're trying to tell

your central nervous system to do. So I, you know, for my wife, for a while, she traveled with Cirque du Soleil. This was her previous life, right? Before she met me and we, and you know, I made her boring or whatever, but she can't do any of this anymore, but she used to travel with the circus

and work for them, and she learned how to get really extreme ranges of motion from Some of these acrobats and athletes and so they did these were Russian athletes and they did some intense like static stretching Right on top of a lot of other stuff and she's and she so I would stretch with her sometimes at night And she's like you're holding your breath like your CNS is not gonna relax because you're telling your CNS to stay tight She's like when you do static stretching, you need to relax your body and breathe because it's also receiving that signal

that it needs to protect. So the whole process of static stretching, if you're doing that as part of your protocol, let's say you want to really increase, because it, okay, for increasing range of motion, it's the best. It's not gonna give you functional flexibility. But it's on the exhale for that.

Yeah, you gotta, yeah, if the totally relax your body and put your body in that parasympathetic state. So post workout is excellent before bed. It's great. Like if you are tight or anxious before bed or, you know, whatever, get into these static stretches, breathe your way through, even though it hurts, tell your body, it's okay to chill out, it's okay to relax, and it's great.

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