Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 1853: The Best Way to Improve Your Bench Press, the Value of Wall Sits for Building Quads, Ways to Improve Grip Strength & More

Episode Date: July 8, 2022

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer four Pump Head questions drawn from last Sunday’s Quah post on the @mindpumpmedia Instagram page. Mind Pump Fit Tip: Shin splints, they suck! But, did you know they are easy to fix?! (2:52) Sal can FINALLY get in on the Top Gun conversation. (13:44) Sal’s a BIG sausage guy. (31:13) Mind Pump’s reverse psychology on the recent ‘Why you Should NOT Become a Personal Trainer’ episode. (32:56) The Di Stefano’s are ALL the same. (34:05) Can being hungry change your sexual preferences? (37:21) Are we close to a cure for HIV?! (48:41) #Quah question #1 - Other than doing a dumbbell bench press, what are the best moves to improve and increase your barbell bench press? (50:20) #Quah question #2 - What are your thoughts on doing wall sits to help build the quads? (56:37) #Quah question #3 - If someone is starting in their fitness journey with little to no experience, how would you introduce them to lifting weights? (1:00:49) #Quah question #4 - How can I improve grip strength so I can hold heavy dumbbells when doing Romanian Deadlifts without having to use straps? (1:06:09) Related Links/Products Mentioned Visit Butcher Box for this month’s exclusive Mind Pump offer! Visit Felix Gray for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! July Promotion: RGB Bundle or MAPS Suspension 50% off! **Promo code JULY50 at checkout** Wall Tibialis Raise Visit Drink LMNT for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! Adam Schafer's DEEP Squat Mobility Secrets | Behind The Scenes at Mind Pump Iron Eagle (1986) - IMDb All-In Podcast #AIS: Palmer Luckey on Anduril Prime Video: Val Mind Pump #1842: Why You Should NOT Become A Personal Trainer Logan Paul Roasts Mayweather & Toasts KSI Hunger can alter aesthetic preferences for human bodies and other objects, study finds Men more attracted to heavier women when stressed, study shows Hitmakers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction – Book by Derek Thompson Mind Pump #872: Dr. Warren Farrell- The Boy Crisis Stem-cell treatment may have cured woman of HIV - Medical News Visit Oli Pop for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Promo code MINDPUMP at checkout for 15% off your first order** How To Incline Dumbbell Press - The Right Way! (GROW YOUR CHEST) - Mind Pump TV How To Do Chest Dips For A BIG Chest! - Mind Pump TV Best Exercises for Strong Shoulders (UNCONVENTIONAL STRENGTH) | MIND PUMP MAPS Powerlift Front Squats- How to Place & Hold the Bar – Mind Pump TV Mind Pump #1447: How To Start Your Fitness Journey MAPS Starter Captains of Crush Grippers - Grip Strength Training How to Build a Strong Core with Kettlebell Farmers Walk – Mind Pump TV The ONLY Forearm Workout That Matters (TRY THIS!!) | MIND PUMP 5 Exercises For HUGE Forearms & A STRONGER Grip (FREE Big Arms Guide) Mind Pump Podcast – YouTube Mind Pump Free Resources People Mentioned Andrew Schulz (@andrewschulz)  Instagram Logan Paul (@loganpaul)  Instagram

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Shinsplints, they suck, but did you know they're easy to fix? They are. You just gotta strengthen your tibialis muscle. That's it. Do some toe raises, and for many of you, those shinsplints will disappear. Do you guys remember when you figured this out? Yeah. I do, but you should please explain that muscle and wear that tattoo so people understand.

People are going like, what is that? We're going to be so tuned later right now. It's not a common muscle. No, in fact, there's very, I mean, one of my favorite things about the golds over here and they actually have the little machine for it and you rarely find that machine. Yeah, no, you don't necessarily need a machine either. No, you don't. You can't even need a wall.

So obviously you have your calf on the back of the leg, but here on the front is your tibialis muscle and it's the muscle that's responsible for pulling your toes back towards your shin. So toe raises would be standing on my heels and lifting my toes up as hard as I can or standing on a block, trying not to slide down, let my toes dip and then lift them up.

And you'll feel the front of your shin burn and you'll feel the muscle working. Shinsplins typically occur from a strengthen balance, right? The calves really strong, but the shin muscle, the tibialis is not strong enough to prevent the reverberations from causing inflammation, that shin, and then you get pain, and people do they tape their shins up,

and do a bunch of crazy stuff But we're trying to roll or roll. I remember when I figured this out I it was like when I when I had clients come to move shin splints early on my advice was always well It's back off on the running that's rast and they get better and they go run again They get shin splints again, and then I remember being like what if we strengthen that area and I had someone do it was like It fixed it right away so away. It's so crazy. It's so crazy because there used to be this thought that it was like these micro fractures, you know.

I remember them telling me that even like, I thought trainers told me that. And I'm like, well, there's really nothing you can do with that, but then I sit, wait for it to heal, recover. And then I'm like, this isn't going to work. And, you know, I finally had a smart trainer come up and be like, okay, try this out and like do some tubialis raisin up and be like, okay, try this out and do some TBLS for his.

And it was like, oh wow, you started to gain connection again and support, and so when you get back out in the field, it doesn't get so inflamed right away. Yeah, I was an idiot. I was trying to foam roll it back in the days. That's what I thought to do. Yeah, I thought that was the only answer to it. It was foam roll before you go out and pull.

And it would help a little bit. Yeah, I know we're stretched. I got stretched a little bit, and that also would help a little bit, but it wouldn't get rid put it. It would help a little bit. Yeah. Or stretch. I got stretched a little bit and that also would help a little bit but it wouldn't get rid of it. It wasn't until I started to realize that like almost every like injury that's not a cute that happens in the body or chronic pain is always due to an imbalance. One muscle on one side is strong.

The other side is weak and that weakness is what's causing the imbalance and that's normally and the consistent repetitive movements whether it be a sport you're doing or sometimes just walking or sitting ends up wearing on the body and then you get these issues like this. And it was like once I understood that, then I started to look at almost every complaint from a client differently.

It was just like, okay, let's see if there is a weakness going on here and let's address that and let's see if that helps. And even in the majority of athletes too that have these cramping issues or have just tightness or muscles that tend to respond negatively as we're out there in the field, it's like they do not have a great electrolyte balance either. So they're just drinking,

maybe they're drinking water and trying to stay hydrated, which is great, but like, you know, not retaining that intramuscular fluid within all this like crazy demanding movement, it's just, it exposes a lot of those things. Yeah, my strategy went from, oh, that hurts, let's avoid it to, oh, that hurts, let's strengthen it.

Very different strategy, one of them solves's strengthen it. Very different strategy. One of them solves the root cause. The other one just temporarily alleviates pain because you avoid it. But then it comes back. And to be all right, it's a strength and literally directly strengthen the muscle that you need to have to be strong

to prevent those shin splints. Well, along those lines of time about weaknesses and stuff and then bringing up sports, Justin. And maybe Doug can look to us up for me because I don't know what the exact position, but I believe it is the highest injury is in hamstrings and baseball players and football players. And that is strictly a weakness thing. It's because their quads are so strong and dominant. And then they have in comparison to their hamstrings and the hamstrings can't keep up. Their quads are pedaling their legs.

These are places of stops. And it's like to decelerate, like now they haven't really got the kind of fast switch response under their hamstrings like that before. It puts so much demanding stress on it that they don't have the strength to be able to pull that off to slow down.

It's boom, it's injury. What about shoulder pain? Shoulder pain from throwing. It's not the generating force part, it's the fact that you don't have the muscles that are strong enough to decelerate and stabilize when you throw a speed. So it's almost always, not always,

but it's almost always a weakness that's the problem. You look at female athletes, their ACL tear rate is, I think it's something like, it's like twice as high or something like that for female athletes than the males. And that's because their hips, or their hip to knee angle is greater, right? Girls tend to have a wider hips than boys do.

And because of that, they get ACL tears. But you can fix that by strengthening the appropriate muscles and the appropriate movement to the point where those ACL tears disappear. But if you don't, you have this imbalance that happens and you cause yourself to run. Baseball was actually rotator cuff. I thought it was hamstring.

Oh, throwing. Yeah, football was hamstring and then baseball was rotator cuff. Yeah. Also a weakness issue, right? Yeah, I mean, you ever, uh, what's that gain that you play sometimes boxing or whatever on your ocular? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, how do you, if you don't practice the decelerating, how do your shoulders feel

afterwards? Yes, definitely. Slow and bear-seeing, it is. I'm at the half move forward. I'm so good. I'm air punching in that case. Well, especially, you know that punching and not hitting something is worth.

It is, because at least when you hit something, it slows down for you. But when you have to slow it down yourself, especially if you have a lot of acceleration and strength. Well, in terms of like, shin spl uh, uh, shinsplints, like, the one I noticed the most was when you changed surfaces. Yeah. Uh, and so I had a harder surface, like definitely the transition from football, being on the

field to then basketball with brutal. I remember just getting shinsplints like crazy and nobody had good answers for me back then. So it was definitely a helpful tip if people have any athletes or student athletes that need help with that. I literally, I can remember as I had a client and the shin splints would come up every once well with clients and again, like I said, I'd tell them to

oh, rest, and ice, and tape, and this client kept getting them. He would rest and then they'd come back and they'd rest and come back and I'm like, what the hell is the problem? And I'm like, I wonder if we strengthened, in other words, my thought process was like, let's just strengthen his tibialis muscles. And it fixed it fast.

I remember too, it was like, within a couple of weeks, it's gone. And I felt like, I mean, I felt like a wizard. Like, oh my God, I could figure it in, it was like, oh yeah, obviously. So, let's talk about like a precise protocol, I'll tell you what I would probably do with a client like this. I would warm them up first with a combat stretch,

and I would do three sets on each side. Yeah, you're going to get emphasized in the top. Yeah, and if you've ever seen, if you haven't watched me do the combat stretch on our YouTube channel, I walk you through how to intensify it at the end. I think that's one of the most important parts to how you do this, especially for some ocean splints.

And then after that, I would probably do a full range of motion calf raise with like a superset of the tibialis toe raises. Yeah. And you can just do body weight or if you have a thing that you can have some resistance, but even just lifting them up and getting that burn and maybe even holding and doing like an isometric hold and intensifying it

and three sets of that and that person doing that on a regular basis would be. Yeah, and in someone who is not super versed in mobility, I mean, you can even just do a static stretch of the calves and then strengthen the tibialis because what tends to happen with shin splints is the soleus and the calf gets tight simultaneously with the problem. So stretching to, you know,

and that's purely out of trying to protect it, right? Correct, yeah. So it senses there's an injury there, so it tightens up because it doesn't want to place. That's usually, yeah, that's a good point. I mean, muscles tend to get tight or you are tight in certain areas because your body is trying to limit your range of motion

because it knows there's instability. So it's going to keep everything limited to kind of prevent. You know, all these things that you feel from your body is your body actually trying to help you. As annoying as it is, like, why am I so tight? Well, it's better than the alternative. That's such a great point to say that. And like it took me a long time to actually view that,

even with my own body, right? Like, where's my body trying to protect? We're so, I feel like we're so conditioned to feel a little pain or feel a little discomfort in me, like, oh, work through it, be tough, tough it out. Of course like we're so conditioned to feel a little pain or feel a little discomfort in me like, oh, work through it. Be tough, tough it out. Of course, stupid body. Right, right.

Or nor completely, right? And I think that instead of that, like as soon as you notice even the subtle thing off, like your body's trying to talk to you and trying to dig into that and figure out what is it. Why is this so tight here? Why is this part? I love the way you said that. Learn your body's

language. It doesn't speak with words, but it does speak with pain and mobility and strength and energy. So in don't ignore them. Like that is the language of your body. And if your body's telling you something like, man, why is my knee feeling stiff, all of a sudden, or my energy levels are not what they normally are? Don't just, okay, that's just what it is. It would be like ignoring me in your ear, telling you something.

Like, don't ignore the language of your body, saying something and then what happens is, what happens if I'm talking to Justin and I'm trying to tell Justin, hey, watch out, if you step over there, you're gonna fall and he doesn't listen to me. I'm gonna say it again, hey, watch out, if you step over there, you're gonna fall, and he doesn't listen to me. I'm gonna say it again, but how am I gonna say it? Louder.

And eventually I'm gonna yell at Justin because I don't want him to hurt himself. It's what your body does. So the pain signals or whatever the language is of your body, it gets louder and louder and louder to the point where you can't ignore it anymore. And what does that look like? I can't move.

I'm sick. What the hell's wrong with me? It's like, if you think back, there were a lot of signs out there. Totally. I mean, how many times have you guys heard that from a client who tells you like, oh, this bothers me or this hurts,

but I can still do this. You know, I can still do it. It's just, I want you to know that this, I can feel this or I bothers me. It's like, do that. There's, okay, we need to figure that out and get to the bottom of it. No, my favorite would be, well, not my favorite,

but this was common. A client would be like, man, all of a sudden, all of a sudden, we need to figure that out and get to the bottom of it. No, my favorite would be, well, not my favorite, but this was common. A client would be like, man, all of a sudden, all of a sudden, this happened to me. And I'll say, well, let's go back a second. You know, so all of a sudden you had crushing fatigue, right? Okay, let's look back. Like, how was your caffeine intake? Well, I'd been ramping it up. Why would you been ramping it up?

I thought I needed more. Okay. And I'd go down the list and be like, you know, this, this, all these signs pointed to what just happened. Just you weren't listening. I just, I just picture like, you know the list and be like, you know, this, this, all these signs pointed to what just happened. Just you weren't listening. I just, I just picture like, you know, your body's like, you know, just starts by massaging and giving you a little whisper like, Hey, you know, maybe you want to like back off. And then it like accelerates, you know, gets more, you never listen to me. You know, you know, you know, that's it. That's exactly how I feel like it happens. Anyway, I got

it. So I watched top gun finally. Yay. Everybody's seen it I feel like it happens. Anyway, I got it. So I watched top gun finally. Yay. Everybody's seen it. I took a video and we can talk about it again. One, hey, great movie phenomenal movie. I'm gonna tell you guys the fakes thing about the movie though. The fakes? The one thing, the fakes thing about the whole movie. It's okay not including the jet maneuvers that aren't possible.

No, the fakes thing about the whole movie is he's riding his fucking motorcycle. I don't know how long I've had. I totally told that one. I like come on. No, there's a risk. No, there's no state. Oh, yeah, you don't have to into that. Well, he's in San Diego. Yeah, I know. That's why I know I can't. That's why I was bullshit. No, so what made me so what in the 80s was that not a long California? I don't know. It must not have been because they shot the original was shot in the 80s.

Bro, in the 80s, you could put your kids in the pickup truck in the back of that seat. Sometimes, you know, or if you're seatbelt. That was only if a parent was trying to be nice. Yeah, I was. You know, I used to drive literally. My dad would take me in his pickup truck on the freeway. We'd be sitting in the back with the dog, driving.

We don't have the window-pitch-case. They would teach you literally, like, put your arm out to stop somebody from hitting the windshield. Yeah, no. Yeah. I'll save you. We're gonna do a seatbelt. I'm gonna do that too.

The movie was so fun. The dog fights were just, my daughter, who's never seen the first one, she loved it. Okay, so be honest, I mean, cause it got like a 98 and like a 97. And so many people told me it was so amazing when I washed it And it was but was it really that amazing or did it just do such a good job of playing into nostalgia for you both You think you hit nostalgia really well, and it was such a good way to do it. Well look my daughter has Yes, the testimony of the new people my daughter has no no interest in fighter jets

Yes, no interest in military stuff, no interest in the movie, never saw the first one. And I took her, it's a movie with dad, I mean, we're gonna eat food, so it'd be fun. And afterwards, she was like, that was good. That was really good, that was fun. So it was well made, it was exciting. It's cool to see, you know, Maverick come back

and, you know, I don't know, maybe some spoiler alerts, but I like the story line, maybe some older now, of the old guy coming back, teaching the young kids, you know what time it is, but he did it many times. Some kind of rooting for him, like, show these kids. That was the best scene for me. Yeah, when they got into training, and he was training all the time.

Yeah, just showed me the young cop you guys. That's totally like the old guy in your eyes. So you know what it did for me? Still the best. You know what it did for me? I know that I know so many people did when I was done, because they talk about fifth generation fighters and they talk about the F14 Tomcat, which is now a relic that retired it in 2006 and all the stuff.

I looked it up. So I'm like, oh, shit, I'm interested. So I looked at all these articles. Apparently lots of people looking this up. I looked up can a fifth generation, can a F14 Tomcat, which is at the end of the movie, he gets one and then he flies and he has to, then he ends up fighting to fifth generation. And the Russian, I can't remember the name of them, that the Russian fifth generation. No, no, mix are the older ones. Those are the old ones. The Tomcat

was designed to kill, to destroy mix and it did a very good job of the way. By the way, did you guys know that there's a country that still flies F14 Tom Katz? You wanna guess? What country it is? Yeah. We retired in 2006. And we gave it to them?

No, Iran. Yes, we did give it to them. That's what I was saying. We gave them. In the 80s, Iran was our friend, Iron Eagle. Iron Eagle. Iron Eagle.

No. No, I don't know. That was like, you never saw Iron Eagle. That was like the step-by-step of Tom. You've never seen Iron Eagle? No. our friend iron eagle ironie no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no I actually liked Iron Eagle as a kid more than I even like top gun. Dare I say that, right? Because it was a kid, right? You probably like, I don't know. Totally. It's a kid like, yeah, the savior dad. It's a kid who actually, it goes up in an Air Force family and dad gets captured.

Some military base. Oh, some of those realistic stories? Yeah, you can't believe it. It's a kid flying a jet, goes and he gets his dad, right? So, any places a walkman, you just hold time. And then the soundtrack, you can just- I remember the picture, but. 1986. Wow. He's a full time man. And then the soundtrack. You can see the soundtrack. I mean, I remember the picture. 1986.

Wow. But anyway, the other ones are whack. The follow ups are just a play on because it had a cult following. But anyway, we gave him direct, I'm excuse me, I ran, not when he fired a rack, but I forgot what's up with the war, but we gave it.

So they actually fly someone. But anyways, I looked up, Ken and F14 Tomcat actually beat a fifth generation fighter. Because in the movie, they're talking about, it's the pilot, not the plane, right? And he's a badass pilot and whatever. So I looked it up and there were all these military experts

commenting on it and they're like, hell no, not even never. And so one guy, no, not even a great pilot. No, not even a matter like that. No, and you know why? Why? Because the fifth generation, this is what one guy wrote. He's like a, and this guy's a fighter pilot. He goes, I will, I will be in the air

and I'll fire at you before you even know him there. Yeah. Because I can get you from, I can get you from far away. You won't pick me up. You won't even know him there. That's why it's silly. He goes, you'll know I'm there when you're dead, that when you're in heaven.

They were like, oh shit, I got shot dead. And how many of those like missiles did he do that like that rooster flare thing? Oh the flares like that might work once. Yeah. It may be if you're lucky, right? I know how effective are those? I don't think there's no way, dude. Yeah. I didn't know that. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You wouldn't even know. So like, no, it's a radar thing that you can't pick. Radar the distance, the locking, the technology that by the, you would never know I was even there.

So if we're in a dogfight, it'd be like me and you fighting. So I have another or is that? Like the Tomcats were built to be in a dogfight and the new fifth generation is like, you're not even, you're not getting a dogfight. You're supposed to be able to kill them from far away. From far away, they made, remember, they made each generation of fighter,

they made to completely, you know, and that's all I was reading articles on this, the technology that they create makes the previous like, undefensive technology completely obsolete. Like within a decade. Well, they don't even need fire pilots, though. No, that's the, that's the,

I mean, they kind of alluded to that. Do you do everything you want? Which was, you know, that's where it's going. To go drones. Yeah. That's all I was, I was, I kind of alluded to that. Dude, everything's weird. Which was, you know, that's where it's going. I'll go with drones. Yeah. That's what I was like from the ground. I was listening to that interview with the Palmer Lucky, I think is his name, the guy who did Oculus,

and now I forget the name of this company for his defense company, and that's... That's on me. So I guess China's like way ahead of us with AI, and everything like that, like we've been, we're way behind on defense when it comes to like, artificial intelligence and drones and stuff like that. And that's way behind on defense when it comes to artificial intelligence and drones and stuff like that.

And that's a lot of their focus is anti-drones. Now they have, they're ahead of us on the technology as far as what the drones can do, but nobody right now is building a very good defense against other drones. And so I mean, I do. The jets, the carriers, those things are gonna be obsolete if you talk like that.

Why would you even sacrifice a potential life when you could go fly something that, in the movie, they hit nine Gs. Did you hit nine Gs? Yeah, nine point three. That's insane. So as we're watching this insane, right? I don't know how to articulate that.

In the movie, they hit nine Gs and you can, in one of them passes out or whatever, all the guys. And so I'm explaining to my daughter because she's like, oh my God, what is that like? What is her? I said, do you know Justin? So I did remember properly.

So I'm like, Justin hit nine Gs. I said, we had some fans that flew in those exhibitions with Jets and he got to write up and won and he hit nine Gs and she goes, what did he say it was like? I said, he said it was like every Adam and molecule in his body. He seemed to be impressed.

And he said, and she goes obliterated. She goes, why didn't you do it? I'm like, I don't want to go through that. And she goes, this is not a big deal. You feel sick and you feel better. He said, he didn't feel right for like three, four days.

I told her. Remember, you told me? It's true. And the thing is the time lengthened between a forgetting, right? Like, you're like, ah, you know, I feel like, I, the worst part is I was all gung ho after watching Top Gun again. lengthen between a forgetting, right? Like, you're like, ah, you know, I feel like, the worst part is I was all gung ho after watching Top Gun again.

Like, oh yeah, I would love to do that again and try and beat that last score I got or whatever, like go for more G's because, well, so they showed that, they were trying to allude that Tom Cruise got like 10 G's while like pushing it with that next generation and Jeff, right? And I'm like, no fucking way, dude.

And now, do you know that the plane that he's working on in the movie? What is it, Mustang? Is that a piece of Mustang? Yeah, that's his actual plane. It is? Yeah, he owns that. Yeah, I knew he has a license and he has his own plane.

Yeah, so certain planes, even though they're obviously obsolete or whatever, they're considered some of the best of all time. The must thing is one of them because it was so much better than all the other planes at the time. And so was the F14. I was just saying, I thought the F14 or 16 was like that. The F14 was like that. The F14 was like that.

The F14 was Navier 16 was Air Force, right? I think I'm not sure I'm pretty sure But I know that the f 14 got in dog fights and was just supposedly it would it was really it was really good compared to It's competitors. That's right there, Doug. That's the he owned that was his actual wine in the movie Yeah, the one that he's working on oh the p 51 must know I think you fly that would they allow him to fly the jets Did he ever get to fly any the jets? I have no idea. I know just yeah, I don't know like I think I can fly that. Did they allow him to fly the jets? Did he ever get to fly any of the jets? Oh, I have no idea. He's a very different plane. Yeah, I don't know.

Like I think, I feel like they might have, you know, shot some footage of it, but like nothing crazy. I can imagine. What did the P-51 fight? What was the Japanese plane? Were they called zeros? Zero type of like- No, they called, yeah.

So in the world- I do find it a bit ironic that Tom Cruise was yelling at people on the set about not wearing a mask, but was it wearing helmet in the motorcycle? That's what I'm saying. What's the risk factor there, like way higher? Yeah, way visible. Yeah, way higher.

He had Jennifer Donnelly on there with him. What are you doing, bro? Connelly. Donnelly, this or not. And you're risking your other life. Connelly, is it Connelly or Donnelly? No, Connelly. Is Connelly?

Connelly, I believe. You know what I'm talking about? Did you pick up on how they incorporated that character, the female that he's, you know, kind of like, got a romance with? So in the first one, she's referenced in the first one. Oh, yeah. Yeah, so there's a scene in the bar,

you know when they're playing Great Balls of Fire and they're having a good time with Admiral's daughter? No, no, no, no. And they're playing Great Balls of Fire and Meg Ryan is like with them and stuff. She's razzin' him about how he's such? No, no, no. And they're playing great balls of fire. Meg Ryan is like, with them and stuff, she's rousing him about how he's such a, you know, ladies man and all the girls. Oh, and they mentioned that.

And she mentions her name. Oh. Yeah, because I think it's like a friend of hers. And it might be an Admiral's daughter. I don't remember that or not. But I know like she referenced, because I went back and watched the first one again, because I was like, where did this girl come from?

Now, that's something just like, like, extracted her from rocketeer. Really? No, no, no. She was referenced in the first one again. So like, where did this girl come from? Now, Val, they just like extracted her from rocketeer. Really? No, no, no, she was referenced in the first one. So they did a good job of even tying it back to that. Like, she was like a girl that he went back and hooked up with multiple times. They did their homework.

Oh, they did, they did a good job. Val Kilmer, now Val Kilmer who plays Iceman the first one, right? He actually can't talk, right? No, he starts. No, he starts. Oh, so that is one of those, has one of those, what would he call it?

The trick, yeah. So the interesting, I actually read, I think it was like a tech magazine, like, did a thing on it. They had to, so that was his voice on some level, but they had to patch it all together digitally, I guess, through artificial intelligence. So that way it was like, it's stronger altogether.

So it wasn't really, like, he was performing it, but I believe that, you know, so that way it was like, it's strong at all together. So it wasn't really, like he was performing it, but I believe that, you know, they dubbed over it with, he never talked. Yeah, he did talk a little bit. He kind of real low. Oh, I'm real. He was like real raspy. But he did not, like I think they had to enhance it.

Oh, really? He's a gay eye, yeah. Oh, interesting. I think it was Doug who saw his documentary. Did you watch his documentary? I did, it was very interesting. You're very sad. So Doug Doug look at fifth generation Russian fighter. So in the movie They don't tell you where they're going or what kind of fighters they are on purpose. They don't say like it's here

It's there. I didn't pick up on the how they didn't say that but it's obviously Iran and It's obvious and those are Russian fighters. So Russian fighters who were given to Iran to support. So it's actually like I noticed that I was like how did they make this such a neutral like adversary? Yeah, they're pointing to like potential scenario, right? So that's definitely Iran and that's that's the that's the right now is the fighter. What's it called? Su 57. Yes, Su 57 57 is their fifth generation fighter gen. Which by the way is the worst fifth gen. I looked them up, so I, I know you guys know me,

I'm a door price, by the way, crazy. Apparently that's the worst fifth generation up. So I don't know what we have in comparison to it, but when I was at the air show, they had like their, yeah, Raptor, yes. So they actually had one of those, so it lifts vertically, so you can actually see the jet engine point down and lift it up. I think that's a hovers.

Maybe that's a hornet. Is that a hornet? A carrier? No, I think it was a Raptor. Is it? Yeah, I'm pretty sure. Wow. You know what's funny?

Who said though? You saw one? Yeah, I saw one. And so it would go super slow with the front end up and just kind of hovered over everybody and then went like, so it needs no run-waste space. No, it just lifts up. Why aren't they all like that?

No, okay, so hold on a second. No, it's not the, it's not the, it's not, you're talking about a different one. And I think it's called a Hornet or put American fighter jet vertical takeoff. Yeah, it's not that one. It's a different, I know which one you're talkingoff. Yeah, it's not that one. It's a different, I know what you're talking about. Yeah, that, that, that, that, that,

it trip me out though. It's like, well, I've seen like it. Yeah, cause you only think of helicopter, I've never seen one of those. They're loud as hell dude, too. So the, the, the, the engines, it's F 35B. Okay, is that what it is? Yeah, yeah, you see how it's pointed down like that?

Lightning too. So, and then it, uh, adjust see how it's pointed down like that lightning to you. So And then it Adjusts and then they just go super silent. So apparently the jets now are not designed. They're all designed for air to ground They're not really designed for dog fights because it's kind of like It's just though. Yeah, you know, because the technology is so advanced. Yeah, they're gonna hit each other They're more concerned with long-range missiles and everything. Now, if you have, you guys ever read about the dog fights

that happened in World War II, those are crazy. Like literally they're close and they're circling around each other and outmaneuvering each other and shooting machine guns and it have missiles. And it was like crazy skill against crazy skill. Is it World War I or World War II with the Red Baron? That's one. Yeah.

Yeah, with the bike, the two. The bike, yeah, the bike lane. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So those were, yeah, those were the days. Yeah. Yeah. Those were the days. You were the day, right?

You were by yourself? No, I'm my daughter. Oh, you were your daughter. Yeah, yeah. Just you and her, huh? Just there. Don, did you go? No, he's already watched it.

Oh, he already saw it. Yeah, so I would have watched it again. It was good enough to watch it. I mean, especially in theater. It was definitely a theater movie. Yeah. The guy I watched it in the theater. Yeah, yeah, you know what I hate though? Oh God, I hate it when this happens because I'm torn on what I need to do. We sit down in the theater and I'm sitting next to this happens to me sometimes mostly obnoxious people of all time. There's this couple over there Just they're talking like normal volume and the guy has to comment every damn thing that happens on the movie

And I'm with my daughter. So I'm like, you throw popcorn out. So, do I want to say, because I've done this before, right, turn my head and I go, keep it down, right? And then, but I'm like, what if he, what if he says something, I got my daughter here and whatever, smash his face. Yeah, yeah, like, yeah.

I remember, yeah, years ago, do you want to know something funny? Years ago, I went to the movies. I went to the movies. I went to the movies and somebody did that and they were loud. And I said, hey, keep it down. And he stood up and then I pushed him into the curtains

and then he sat back down. That was, hey, here's the best part. People in the theater applauded. They're like, like 20 people clap, but I tried to did that. They're like, all right, well, I hope that's the end of it. Cause you have the curtains on the side of it. So that's gonna bounce it.

I guess you can push him into the curtains. the side of it. So that's gonna be a bouncer, I guess. I guess I'm gonna put them in the curtains. Yeah, that's a huge guy. You know, I was so surprised by the price to rent out the whole theater. Oh yeah. I anticipated that to be way more expensive. Like I would have thought, what is it like, 350 bucks?

Yeah. Small theater. Yeah, and have you and your family, I mean, damn, the way tickets are like 20 bucks ahead, you go with five people, you're already halfway there. Yeah, damn, there, you know what I'm saying? The whole family and he split it in half. Yeah, you go, bucks ahead. You go with five people, you're already halfway there. There you go. You know what I'm saying? Family and he split it.

Yeah, you go, if I were to go with you three, and then we all have our family. You know what we should do? You know what we should do? Right it out. No, the net, yeah, but the next, you know, there's like every once in a while when the movie comes out that we're all excited about.

We should anticipate that and book it. I want to go, I want to take the kids go see minions. It comes out July 1st. Oh, let's do that. Yeah, minions is always good. Yeah, and that'll be a fun one, and it's like we could take the kids off there. Is there any good movies that we like though

that's coming out soon? Well, I mean, this Avatar, but I'm not, I mean, like, oh, yeah. I mean, I definitely want to see that in theater and 3D because it's like just a visual. Why are you nit about it? Did they go like shoot even more world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world-world No, I like I like to have a tar. I'm just as great. I don't know. Yeah. It was a movie based off the visual. You know what I mean? Like the story was okay, but it was predictable story.

It was the visual that it was all about. And I like to have a good story. So it wasn't a bad one. Well, you got to think with it's James Cameron doing it again, right? Yeah. I mean, you would think that he's got to push the boundaries again, right? I mean, that was what made it so great was your right. It was like visually it was.

And I was created. I believe this shot like three in a row, like over time. That's right. You're right. I remember that. They did already, so they've already had this. So we have banks.

Oh, so that kind of sucks about that is that it's not going to have probably the cutting edge stuff. Well, what's I mean? It's like leading into the next, which, you know, it just doesn't sit with me well. The dude sold out the human race for some alien tang. What do you know? What do you know? It makes up for it in this one. I don't know. It's yet to be seen But we'll see how good tang will make you do crazy things alien

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Anyway That's This is gonna be a good Say hey Lou There's a good transition to talk about sausage So butcher box Ha ha ha butcher box sausage

You know, I'm gonna appreciate that for a little bit Hey, have you guys get the sausage from butcher box? It's so delicious It's really good That's what it up It is really actually I actually haven't got it from It's good listen, okay. I like Okay, everybody make fun of me. I'm a big sausage You don't find nobody surprised you don't find good sausage at the grocery store. You just don't always walk in

You just eat them. It's just bad. But your box sausage is really good. It's the port thing, right? It's the best sausage that I found. I think they have the best ribs, hands down, for sure. It's got to be the heritage port. But you got to do it yourself. You got to season yourself. Because I did the preseason stuff.

I'm not as happy as I am doing it myself. There you go. I have for breakfast. I don't think I can get some grocery. So my sponsors get better at it. I would just say it. I was really excited about it. And I was let down a little bit. So my sponsors get better at it. I just say it. I was really excited about it, and I was let down a little bit.

So I was gonna keep it real with my audience. I did. Well, it's not gonna be as good when it's pre-med, and when it's already made, you gotta make yourself. Yeah, but I was hoping it would be close. It's not even close. Like the ones I make that you guys have had

is like not even. That's more convenient, I think. Oh, I did. I mean, what's nice, it's already pre-cooked. So if you were in a hurry and you really wanted ribs, you could get it up, and it is good for that. I mean, it's definitely better, I think. Oh, I did. I mean, that, what's nice, it's already pre-cooked, so if you were in a hurry and you really wanted ribs, you could get it up, and it is good for that. It's, I mean, it's definitely better than the one. Going down to some rib place.

We literally had a sponsor once. And I can see who the argon, if we had a sponsor once. And they actually wrote us a letter, or not a letter, email, because, Adam's like, great product tastes like shit. I can't stand the way it tastes. But like, please don't say that.

I don't know. I think it's working, but it's so hard. Yeah, bro, when I sit up all these partnerships, that's in the clause, dude. We, you can't tell us how to say or talk about the promise to deal you. We, we, you pay us to mention it, we will mention it, but we'll keep it real if I tell

I tell you. Hey, you want to know what's funny? So you know how we did that episode about reasons why you should not become a personal trainer. Oh, yeah. You knew, you called that. I, you called it, you called it. You called it. Because I know fitness people.

Massive Taylor. We last, so Sal came up with the idea, okay, give you your credit where you'd do. You came up with the idea to do that episode and we all kind of laughed like, oh, that's gonna be great. We're gonna tell people not to become a personal trainer when that might be the future of our business.

And Sal's like, I already know what'll happen. We're gonna tell people not to. It's gonna motivate them to do it. Yes. Every trainer and coach is sharing it right now. I'm a little concerned. It reminds me of those motivational speeches when you go somewhere and the guys,

like at the top, there's like 300 people on it. Only 10 of you are gonna make it out. If you're the rest, you're gonna fucking fail. It was everybody cheers. Yeah. Yeah. He's not talking about me. Yeah.

No, he's talking about you. No, you know why? Because real trainers and real coaches, people who've been doing it for a long time, have a deep passion that resonated with everything we said. Sure, sure. Because they said, that's true, that's true, that's true. And that's why this is a hard job,

and most people can't do it. And then you feel proud that you're the one that does it, and you love it. But yeah, people are sharing it like crazy. No, it was accurate. Hey, I meant to ask you, how's, because your dad here, right? So, and we, you have now, it's been what,

Dom's been here for a couple months now? Oh yeah, my boy. Yeah, there's been, does it two months now, he's been here? Yeah, I think so. So what, what are you feeling? Oh, are we gonna keep him? Are we gonna fire him? Yeah.

He's gonna be made for this. That's a good time to tell him right now. He's gonna be editing this, like, we're letting you realize. She loves it. He pins and needles. He loves it. So, we had that meeting with everybody. And we said, hey, show us when you guys do edits

that are cool, whatever. So he pulls me in there and shows me edits and stuff that he thinks are fun or whatever. And he's making fun of us, which is perfect. It's, I think it's a great addition. For everybody who watches this on YouTube, it's so much fun. So we are doing this whole sappy,

you know, tell everybody in the group, like how much you mean to us and all stuff. And then they thank God, they brought some levity and they turned you into like the terminator. Yeah, I was like, yeah, I was like, I was dying dude. Yeah, that's good. Thank you, that's perfect. Speaking of which, that kid, I swear to God man.

So I gave him blue light, I gave him some Felix Gray glasses because he's on his computer late at night and it does mess with the sleep He definitely can get insomnia, so I'm like where are these okay? So yesterday I go to pick up my daughter because they're at their moms right now and He needs taking a nap, right? It's like this is like four o'clock at night. I'm like what's going on? He comes out because he hears me say hi, and I'm like what's going on dude? You're just sleep? No, not sleeping good. Oh, where's your blue light blocking glasses? I can't find them. Come on, dude. Come on, bro. You got to wear your blue light blocking glasses. Can you be more of your son? We need more. Yeah. Can you be more of your son? I need to

get more. Hey, don't give him. Let me tell you his idea. You have to deliver him. The same thing that we have to do with you. You have to trick him into thinking it's his idea. Oh, so that's what you got to do. You can't tell him. We actually discussed this all the time. How can we make this sounds like? Yeah. You know, like, should we write it on the wall? Should we, like, get a little, like, mess of clues?

Yeah, like, subtle messages on the table. But we're just, we're just texting. Write it in the last, last night. We were all just, last night, it was about Andrew Schultz, right? First of all, Andrew Schultz just and found like when he was just coming up right love him did I was like reaching out before Joe Rogan before he got all famous and some of that the Justin was on him a couple years ago and was like I'll check this guy out I really like him I started following him after that recently I listened to an interview that Andrew Schultz did with Logan Paul I

think I even brought it up on the show you You did, I did, did I? Yeah, I talked about it and that. And then yesterday, you know, in the thread, it sounds like, check this out. You know, it's Andrew Schultz doing an interview of your blog. Well, I'm like, where were you when we were all talking about this? I know you guys had talked about it. You used to be right here in the room.

Yeah. I know you guys had talked about it. I just hadn't seen him yet. And I agree. He said, he's really hot, because it's just like entered in there. You know, it just helps. There's like, there's like, there's magnet letters on the fridge.

What is this thing? What is this? Oh, wait, that's a good idea. You think we're joking. Anyway, I gotta get him another pair of Phelix grays. So that's a, Yeah, you guys, I have a few pair actually. I think I have him up to like four or five pairs.

Yeah, if you have another one to spare, yeah, give it to our newest editor. No, I do, I really, I don't, what, do you know what, do you know what he wears? Oh gosh, I forgot. I can't remember. He'd probably be Nash, I would think you, I think maybe, I would think you'd be Nash

because he's got a small head, I don't think he got a big head. Yeah, I'm just, I'm not like she's something, he's something a male head. Hey, you guys, Cranium, you guys want to hear a funny study that I read today?

A funny one? Well, weird, right. So the scientists wanted to study if, I don't know how they come up with these ideas sometimes. Do people's sexual preferences, like in other words, would they consider attractive? Do they change if a person's hungry versus if they're fed? That's interesting.

So that is fun. So they took people, I know my grocery shopping changes. Well, well, okay, so here's where they came up with the idea, because at first you're like, why would they come up with that? Lots of behaviors apparently change if you're hungry or if you're fed, not just grocery shopping, but lots of different behaviors tend to change

because getting food is so wired into us because for mostly human history, that was a big problem. That if you didn't have food, your body and your brain would change your behaviors in a way to get you. So are you types of fish? I'm gonna, I'm gonna, like, can we speculate on that? Yes, yeah.

So I'm gonna, I'm gonna speculate that the hunger you are the more promiscuous you are. Well, no, because the way I think of evolutionary, you're like, oh shit, I might not eat ever again. I might die. So I need to, maybe it happens. Yeah, I need to have a baby. Okay, so that's not what they tested,

what they tested was preference. Like more thickness. Yeah, because you're hungry. Just to hit it on the, you're like more thickness. Yeah, so you would go for someone who looks like they have extra calories. He's a little heavier.

Oh, wow, they're high. When you're hungry, when you're hungry. When you're hungry, so when you're hungry, your tendency is to pick partners that appear to be a little bit rounder, a little bit heavier than if you're hungry. So when you're hungry, your tendency is to pick partners that appear to be a little bit rounder, a little bit heavier than if you're full of fat. Oh, wow. Yes.

Now, this makes evolutionary sense because if you have trouble finding food, you want to mate with someone that is going to be able to, at least it looks like that. And take care of the baby a little bit, right? Yeah. It's like, I ain't got food. Oh, you got some food on you. Looks like so you'll be able to take care of the meat. Now, there's another study.

Milk shake brings a boisyard. Yeah, there's another study that's kind of related that shows that the more stressed you are, so if you have high levels of stress, you're more likely to seek out women who are thicker and heavier than if you're not very stressed, then you're okay with thinner skinnier people. And I think it's similar because stress was so closely related to food,

so they think they might be kind of connected. I know, right? That is kind of fascinating. Now, is this like control say where they're showing them images? Yes. Okay. Yeah, so they would take the people feed on. They'd drive them of food.

Yeah, feed on, more than fast on, and then they'd show them different images, and they would digitally change the face to make it a little heavier a little skinnier and they found trip Isn't that funny? Isn't that hilarious? Yeah, that is. I know. So, how can people use this right to create leverage? Yeah, I know. Like, you know, a girl and a guy, they link up on what is that, that app or whatever they're doing up. Yeah.

And she's like, oh man, I wanted to find me attractive. She's like, hey, you should fast all day because I'm gonna take you to a nice restaurant later on. Okay, what do you know they look? Well, I've always thought it's fast to me how we all have, like, everyone has a unique type that they're attracted to. And it's how much of that is like, things like that,

how much of that is like, you know, born into you already before you even got to a place where you were attracted to other people. like, how did that all develop? Is some of it experienced too? Like, is it nature and nurture? So it's a combination, and there are some commonalities worldwide, but they're not, but like size very dramatically.

So, and they did this with women. So in some countries, you know, it's preferable that women are smaller and other countries much bigger. And so scientists were like, well, what's the evolution? You're like, what do we have in common? It's the hip to waist ratio.

So whether you weigh 180 pounds or you weigh 100 pounds, the hip to waist ratio was the same in all these countries. And so, and why they connect that to successful childbirth. But culture does influence size. Some cultures like them. Have you or some cultures like them? What about things like even hair color and eye color

and skin tone, what makes us more attracted to that? Healthy skin, so skin teeth, it was skin teeth, and I forgot there was another one. So if you have healthy teeth, so like a healthy smile and healthy skin. But why? Because those will signal to you disease. Like for most of human history,

if you met someone with missing teeth, they're probably not healthy. They're probably not healthy. Sure, too. There's some Freudian stuff in there in terms of like relating to how you grew up and like your mother right level yeah well I mean she's the gross thing to talk about. I know. It's true right. I mean they see that a lot of times that you end up you know dating or marrying your mother

and the same thing for women marrying and dating their father right like a like someone that has some attributes right. I don't know I mean I think I think so. I know for me, it's like, so right now, um, and I think I think that has less to do with like, your mom or your dad and more so that that's what you connect to what is normal and healthy. Partly, if you're, if you're raised, and let's, let's take the bad example of that, right? And you have your, your, your father was abusive to your mother

and you have that. A lot of times people fall right in that. They end up marrying people. Because they tolerate it. Because exactly. They, they marrying people. Because they tolerate it. Because exactly. They recognize that as normal behavior, whereas if the opposite was true, they didn't have that. They don't see that as more way.

Maybe they're less tolerable to somebody who is willing to do that. So I think it's less to do with like, oh, I'm attracted to a woman that looks like my mom. And it's more like, here's actually, there's characteristics and attributes about her that I recognize, which that goes back to the book, Hitmakers, and I tell you guys that there is in human psychology, there is this part of us that we want familiarity.

Like as much as we love novelty, which is true, we also want familiarity with things, and so, okay, I want this, a different, I obviously don't want my mom, I want something different, but then there's things that I want to be familiar like, although I love the way that she's to cook or the way that she used to hold me or hug me. I want someone that's affectionate.

So you start to gravitate towards it. Maybe, I mean, for me, I find motherly actions and stuff like that so attractive. But my mom, I'm sure there's a mother of four kids. I'm the oldest, so I saw her take care of three babies. My mother's very motherly. So like right now Jessica's pregnant. She's got Aralius with her and right now she's on vacation. She's sending pictures and she's so to me, so beautiful. And I don't know if it's the motherly thing or what the deal is or the energy, but I find her so attractive. You know what's interesting about those studies, a study's on that atom is girls that don't have

a secure male role model. So that don't have like a secure dad that's there, or don't have a secure relationship with the male, they are typically far more promiscuous as they get older. And the theory is is that they, throughout human history, a female required a male for protection, especially if she got pregnant, and if she didn't have one nearby,

her having sex or sex was a way to attract. So they become more promiscuous to try to get that connection and that security from other men. Really, all the jokes about daddy issues, stuff is a little bit of truth. Sure. Come to that, of course. Yeah, it makes me sad when I talk about that kind of stuff.

Oh, really? I mean, it should just motivate you to be a good dad. Right? I think it's of course. Right. I think that's what you just makes me sad for the people. Yeah. Oh, yeah, for the people that unfortunately didn't have, I mean, you can have the pot. There's, there's also the positive side to that. I mean, I like to think that I'm an example of that, right? Statistically speaking with my father having suicide and the childhood that I grew up in, I was supposed to go down a bunch of other paths. But if you become aware, I think, like I became aware at a pretty early age. Yeah, you're in a normal way for sure. And I actually think it worked to my advantage because I was so adamant about going the opposite direction. I didn't want to go down that path. I was consistently

reflecting and paying attention to my behaviors and the things that I tended to be drawn to knowing that, okay, I grew up in this environment and these are the things that I think are normal, but they're not healthy. Therefore, I need to be very active, proactive about where I let my life be influenced in the future. So there's some positive things that can happen. Yeah, I was in the same article that I was told you about with girls and promiscuity, they talked about boys and not having a strong male role model

and a good connection with a man or a father that boys, what they learn from a strong male role model is temperance. They learn a lot of temperance, meaning boys or men can be at a control aggressive, hypersexual. Yeah, and having a strong male role model

shows you to be controlled, temperant, to have responsible. That was the other one thing, responsibility. Because we don't have a biological clock that says, yeah, by the way, if you ever watch the little boys and little girls play I know I'm being stereotypical, but generally speaking boys and girls play differently girls play like they're already taking on Responsibility boys play like they're breaking shit and going crazy or whatever

Yeah, and so they would they learn from their dads or for male role model is Responsibility Temperance boundaries to and if the yeah boundaries and if they don't have that, what they do is they look at media. Yeah. For example, of masculinity, what does media tell you? Oh, you know, be aggressive, bang lots of chicks, you know, no responsibility, just make money, like whatever.

And so they end up having this kind of like what they call toxic masculinity is hypermachismo. That's not even good. I mean, that's why rough and tumble is so important with your kids, right? We know I knew that going into beat of father because I'm older and I understand that, but it's not like I actively think about that when I do it. I find it very interesting how it's almost animalistic in us and how I naturally just do that.

I guess not when I go and wrestle with my son, I don't go like, oh, I should do this. Now, there might be some fathers that need to do that because maybe they weren't trained or taught to do that, or it's not normal and natural. But I find it very natural. It's so funny that it's like, it's just, if my son comes over, it's natural for us to ride away from the wrestling. It's a trip because you see, and I've noticed this myself because I've done a lot of wrestling and whatever and trying to get rough

to the point where it's borderline, but they know I'm never going to hurt them. Right. So that's the whole thing. It's the trust. Figuring out where that lies in terms of where it's really going to hurt or you're going to put damage on somebody. Therefore, when they get into these kind of scuffles with their friends and they can just play fighting all that, they know where that lies, that boundary lies,

but I've noticed some of their friends don't have that kind of interaction, didn't grow up with a lot of, they freak out and then they'll go too hard and then they actually will throw a punch or like, you know, they'll do violent things that go beyond the boundaries. They don't know how to, what the boundaries are how to, how to, what the boundaries are, what the limits are with play,

because what happens with your boys, when you wrestle with them, inevitably when they're little, what do they do? They'll hate you in the eye or something, and then you'll stop, say no, no, no, don't do it, or they'll bite you.

No, no, no, no, we're not gonna play like that. You gotta be a little more gentle, and then they learn those boundaries. And then with girls, when you rough and tumble with your daughters, they learn that they can be physical with a man and it be safe and it not be whatever. So they're comfortable with a man that is showing them that they can trust them or whatever.

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So that's always number one, right? If you wanna get better at the bench press, you need to practice the bench press more often, practice doing maybe pause, benches, different types of techniques, rep ranges and tens of seconds. But this person is obviously pointing to other exercises or movements that may contribute to the barbell bench press.

They mentioned the dumbbell bench press. I think that's a good one. I think the incline press for a lot of people makes a big difference. I think what is most novel for you for the chest is going to, if you've been a lifter for a while, right? This is, we're gonna assume this person's been lifting for a while and they've probably hit a plateau on their bench

and they wanna increase their barbell bench press. They already do it consistently in the routine. What else can I do? I think some of the most novel exercises related to your chest that you don't do, right? So that's what, I mean by novel, right? So if you don't, let's say, and I know Justin's a huge advocate of this exercise,

and it's not something I commonly use, is like really deep dips. Oh, I was gonna say that. I knew you were. So, and it's not something that I would do. It was my content. Right. Yeah, keep going.

But my point is, I mean, it aligns because I don't think a lot of people think to do deep dips for increasing your bench strength. And so it's a novel exercise. And really, that's more so than it being magical because it's deep dips. It's because not a lot of people do it. The reason why incline bench press took my regular bench press through the roof, because I avoided it, because I sucked at it. When I was in my teenage years, early 20s, I hated incline bench because it took me forever to get the big wheels on the flat bench.

And I was no way. I was not gonna drop down to the quarters. So I waited until I was benching over 2.25 on the flat bench to even go to incline bench where I can at least do the wheel on there. It took me, but I've told the story on the podcast before, the most chest development and the biggest and strongest my chest ever was, with barbell bench pressing,

was when I went on a kick for about a year of, my goal was, can I catch my incline bench up with my flat bench? And so I incline dumbbell press, incline bench press all the time. And the thought process as a trainer at that point was I knew that I neglected that. I knew that I didn't do those movements that often. In fact, that was back in the days when I was even doing decline bench presses. It was easier and I could do more weight.

So I did a decline and I did flat and I occasionally did some incline work, but I didn't like too because it was hard. So it was so beneficial because it was so novel. I think that's the key here. Well, speaking of novelty, and I'll give you kind of a different angle to this whole thing, which I, is another one of my kind of go-to's in terms of like if we're talking about stability of the shoulder in general and like what we tend to neglect, neglect. That's a new word for your library.

Neglect. It's a neglect the most rotation. And so that's just mainly from the perspective of trying to keep your shoulder in track and support it, right? So if I have any kind of lateral stability issue, if I'm in my bar path or just any kind of taking me out of that, out of that good bar path line, you know, to have my muscles respond accordingly, massively beneficial for performance. So to work on rotational movements, for me, I bring up Indian clubs, doesn't have

to be that exotic. Like you could just take, you know, a dumbbell and do some kettlebell, kettlebell or dumbbell halos around your head and just get like more external rotation of the shoulder to be able to respond and to, you know, keep your shoulders in a good optimal position so that way you perform better. That's because that typically tends to be the weak link with people, average person. That's right. I love that tip because I actually was late in my career. It wasn't until we started hanging out, you got me to do Indian clubs, Mace, way more. And I wasn't at the time thinking anything

to do with my bench press, but that's actually what I noticed. I noticed the strength because I had now had so much better stability, shoulder stability, that my benching got better. And it wasn't what I was thinking. I was doing it for good shoulder health and shoulder mobility and I was trying to incorporate that. But as a side effect, I noticed that my bench became more stable and I got stronger there. The best in my experience, the best non-benchpress exercises that have the best carry over to the benchpress include close grip bench presses, incline presses, overhead presses, overhead presses tend to have a really good

decent carryover. You wouldn't think it because it's such a different movement, but especially when, I mean, I'll full range emotion. And if you add the stability component of balancing, you know, okay, because then you get that kind of shoulder strength stability that we're talking about, what Justin's talking about, and then you still get that kind of upper chest to dig yourself out of the strength stability that we're talking about, what Justin's talking about. And then you still get that kind of upper chest

to dig yourself out of the hole from what you're talking about. You could do reverse grip presses and floor presses. Those are all really good power lifting. Those are power lifters or auxiliary movements for the bench press. That power lifters have identified to really have a decent carryover.

But again, I do wanna stress this. No matter what exercise you're doing, usually to get better at that exercise, you practice that specific exercise. And you change the tempo and you change the rep ranges. And but you do that exercise itself. Well, hopefully too, this person is going to or already owns maps power lift because this is part of why we wrote it too. If you're somebody who specifically wants to see an increase in your squat,

deadlift or your bench press, that's the program for you. Because that's something we none of us said, but it could also just be your programming. So I don't know how you're creating your programming or what like that, but just having random times that you're doing your chest and there's no rhyme or reason of how you phase in and out, or if you're not doing anything like that with your programming, it could be a programming issue that could totally get you out of it. So, Maps Power Lift is specifically designed to bring up those three main lifts.

So, if that's one of your goals, that should be something you're trying out. Next question is from James Ares 95. What are your thoughts on doing wall sits to help build this quad? You know, wall sits, when someone says that to me, so I don't think, this fell out of favor, but when I first became a trainer,

I hated them because. And they seem so pointless. Well, trainers would just throw them in all the time as a way for them to not train their clients. You have to kill time with the end of a session or so. Yeah, oh, here you go, do a wall sit. It was hard. Yeah, and they just have them sit there and burn.

So now that being said, if the program properly, a wall sit really is an isometric. And isometric exercises are excellent for building strength and muscle in combination with traditional strength training. Now, I personally, the way that trainers tend to program wall sit at the end of a workout to fatigue someone, I like doing it at the beginning.

I like isometrics before going into full range of motion strength at training exercises, because it helps connect better to the muscles in my experience. Right, do that and then go over do some front squats. Yeah, and now you've lit up your quads and get a more responsive. I like that as a tip.

It's funny, because I feel like this exercise became what the plank became in terms of like a flex. Like, so people start doing it for an exaggerated amount of time. Stack it weights up. Stack it weights on it. You see like, spinning on each other. You're on top of each other. And I'm just like, are we supposed to be impressed?

I know, we're not impressed. Okay. Just go do something to actually move the needle and work on that. But it's not like an invaluable exercise for, I do see it as a good primer, at least for your quads to kind of get things going. Well, I think that's,

I don't think any of us would program it as a standalone exercise to build the quads. I think we would use it to complement something else. Right, so a lot of like a squat isn't just a quad exercise. You've got a lot of glute, you have hamstrings involved, right? You have cat, you have a lot of stuff that's going on in a, like a barbell back squat or even a front squat.

But how could you put more emphasis on it being on the quads? Go do an isometric, you know, wall sit, first, then go into that. And then you're really gonna put a lot of emphasis on the quads in that exercise. So that's a great way to, to, I think, include it in there, but it by itself is not gonna compare to a squat, it's not gonna compare to a front squat,

it's not gonna compare to a lunge, it's not gonna compare to a step up, it's not gonna compare to a leg press. All those movements are going to, I think, build more muscle. And the other thing too with wall sits is they tend to create, it tends to turn into an isometric endurance movement.

I said, which is fine if you're looking for isometric endurance. So like grapplers like isometric endurance when you're holding someone, right? So that's okay. But if you're looking to build strength and build muscle, you want to use isometrics the same way you strength training with a high amount of exertion for a relatively short period of time, 10, 15 seconds. So if I did a wall sit and I wanted to build strength, I'd get in that position and I'd really squeeze and try to push my feet away from me for 10 seconds

or even better, get underneath a bar that I can't move and try to move it and drive without moving, so it's an isometric drive for 10 seconds and then rest. That's more of a strength building, muscle building isometric. So just because it's isometrics, doesn't mean it can't, it doesn't follow the same endurance strength, you know,

type of path. I'm so glad you brought that up because we most see it commonly used as an endurance thing. How long can you sit there, you know, for a minute, two minutes on the wall, and how much weight can you stack on while holding for a minute, two minutes on the wall? I think this became popular. It's sports, right?

So, we did this in basketball. Now, in basketball, it makes sense to do that because the defensive position that you're trained to get into is you sit in an isometric position, and you're sliding left to right, and that's a good thing. Guys were always tired and fatigued. And coach would always be yelling at us, get your ass down, get your ass down because you were tired, your legs were tired from that isometric position of being bent at 90 degrees the whole time and getting down to play defense. So that exercise has tremendous application for an athlete for in

that example, but for a client who's trying to build their quads, doing a wall sit for three minutes is not a good strategy. Next question is from just Josh. If someone is starting off in their fitness journey with little to no experience, how would you introduce them to lifting weights? Well, you know, of course, this depends on who I'm working with. But remember, strength training really is, can be boiled down to this. It's using resistance, and it doesn't have to be external resistance.

Oftentimes it's not. Oftentimes when you work with the beginners, their body, it's using resistance in a way to build muscle and build strength. So that typically looks like reps that are around 10, maybe 10 repetitions. You can be as high as 20 or so, but usually it's around 10.

With a sufficient intensity, of course, this is depends on the person's fitness level, but at the beginning, you don't need much intensity to stimulate muscle and strength. So what does it typically look like with a total beginner? I'm doing a body weight squat, with control. I'm doing a elevated push-up usually, not even off the floor, but rather on an elevated surface. I'm doing an elevated body row, either with suspension trainers or holding onto a bar that's higher than having them be perpendicular to the floor. I'm doing a very light shoulder press or some kind of a split stance holding

onto something for balance. It's really basic to, and it's appropriate for them, and that will build strength and muscle. Could I take that person and put them on a leg press and Put them on a bench rest in hammer I could but not only is it gonna not be appropriate actually will they'll progress slower. It's too much So always consider that it's how do I get this person to get stronger? We do more than they're used to if they're doing nothing now. That's not doesn't take much well There's there's certain body positions that you have to be able to have control over first And so I think that you know that's why body positions that you have to be able to have control over first. So I think that that's why body weight is ideal.

And isometrics do help with this in terms of at least working their way through that communication and that recruitment process. So having somebody in a split stance, just maintaining that balance control, having somebody in a split stance, you know, just maintaining that balance control, having somebody in a squat position, holding it down at the bottom, you know, like working on these, you know, just basic things, elevated push-ups, and finding out where their depth capability is there. An overhead position, do they even have the ability to raise their arm over their head completely, not just in front, but completely over their head and do that with full support. So, they're just like sort of checkpoints, joint by joint, you can do in terms of like their

ability level. And then we start to load those same positions as we move along. But, you know, in terms of like keeping it narrowing it down to like five, I try to really like not overwhelm people in the very beginning. So just like limiting it to three to five, like, of the most basic movements you can. I think we talked about this in terms of like a dip, a lunge, and pull up. Yeah. up. Something like that where it's like, you're kind of covering the push pull and the legs within just those three exercises

can move the needle the most. The hardest thing to answer a question like this is that it's like, we kind of categorize people as like beginner, intermediate, or advanced. And it's like within each one of those categories is like 50 levels, right? So and what I mean by that is like I've had somebody who's Fresh off the street haven't weight train done anything extra really excise in years or like that and

Been able to start them on a Mavs anabolic type of protocol, you know, especially if you count pre-phase, right and and and move them in that direction because maybe they have an right? And and and and move them in that direction because maybe they have an athletic background or they have they have good proprioception. What's a young, good, a young, good body awareness or whatever. And so, so I would still categorize them as a beginner. They haven't wait trained till they got to me, but they have enough body awareness and conditioning that I can get them there. Then I can have another beginner, okay. That starter is too much. Map starter, which is really, this person to me,

I think, is Map Starter the way we program that. But they're even too de-contition of that, where our workout was getting up and out of a chair for half hour, and lots of breaks in between, and standing and balancing on one leg. And this is where I see like, and we've came out and made fun of the whole stability thing and how that was a kick. It's like anything in fitness. There's some really good value or truth or something and then we bastardize it and then it falls out of favor. And I think that's what happened with stability too.

I think there is some tremendous value in a lot of these goofy stability exercises that people mock and make fun of because I think the wrong person is kind of doing it. But for someone that is really deconditioned and they can't even balance on one leg, like that becomes an exercise. And I might include things like physio ball and dynodisc and things like that to challenge this person's stability

because that is already meeting them where they're at. So I'll talk to about like, where's this person at and meeting there? Well, this person can't even stand on one leg. That's probably something we should be able to do before I care if this person can back squat 135 or overhead price a certain amount away. Matt Mapp starter would be ideal for, I'd say,

most good chunk of beginner. So if you're a beginner and you're watching this or you loved one that wants to get started, that would be the program to start with. Next question is from Anacija Steph. How can I improve grip strength so I can hold heavy dumbbells when doing Romanian deadlifts without having to use straps? You know, the thing with grip strength and the reason why so many people, we get questions like this all the time. The reason why grip strength is an issue for so many people is the only time they ever test or strengthen

their grip is with exercises that where they need to have a stronger grip, like a deadlift or a Romanian lift. And usually they don't do enough of it to really to get the grip to catch up to the rest of the body. And I do want to be very clear, like our hands are meant to be extremely strong. I mean, we're primates after all. I mean, maybe not like chimps, but we have hands that can really get strong if you train them appropriately. So if you want to get a stronger grip,

it's as simple as, and that we'll get into exercises too, but it's as simple as programming a few sets of grip exercises at the end of, let's say, an arm workout, really. And most people don't do that. Most people have zero hand or grip direct forearm work anywhere in the workout. And their hands are just as strong as they need to be to be able to support their exercise. I was just going to throw a little fun fact in there that you know that the pinky, and I think it's the ring finger, we're responsible for like 80% of your grip strength.

Oh, really? Interesting. Yeah, so your thumb and pointer finger, middle finger, are more just for the dexterity of it and holding it in place. Oh, wow. Interesting fact there. I had no idea that up in the intro, but, you know, it seemed appropriate here. But yeah, I mean, really, it's just, it's repetitions and, you know, I mean, really it's just its repetitions and training your hands to be able to withstand

that amount of force. And so I like to do like farmer walks for this all the time just to maintain like a longer endurance of that same amount of force that I could hold. Because a lot of times what fails first is the fatigue. And maybe initially you can lift and then you can hold it, but the longevity of that or the duration of that is the issue. So here's something along those lines though.

I do wanna say this is that oftentimes what'll give you a great contribution with stamina is just to get stronger. Yeah, okay, that's their direction. I'm gonna go with this because, so I'm at some of the weakest I've ever been on my grip strength in a long time. Like my grip, that is the,

if I were to go deadlift right now, what would limit me from going beyond 350 would be my grip, not my, my, my, my glute hamstring and back strength. And a lot of that is because I just am not consistently deadlifting and or doing farmer carries like I was. And the only thing that I did when I got to a place when I could bare hand grip 550 pounds in deadlifted

was I was deadlifting three times a week. I was deadlifting three times a week and occasionally doing farmer walks in there and that's all I had to do. And I just, what I did was I didn't progress the weight until my grip was strong enough to hold it. And so I just kept working that, working that weight and gripping it and then adding reps and adding reps.

And it was just, I was so focused on deadlifting that my grip strength just came up with it. And now my grip strength is tremendously, I mean, I'm like a couple hundred pounds weaker in my grip strength right now than what I was just a couple years ago. And I know it's just because I'm rarely deadlifting right now. It's like I intermittently interrupt my training with a deadlift session where I was deadlifting three times a week. So sometimes if you wanna see your deadlift grip

and strength go up, like just deadlift more. Yeah, but people don't test their grip like they test everything else in terms of their training. So I mean, here's something that's really easy that you could do. You could buy yourself some quality grippers. There are, and there's really good ones. I think one's called Captain of Crush, if I think, is a brand that's in crush.

Yeah, where they have different levels. You could buy a pair of these, and at the end of your arm workout, this is a good time to do it, right? And typically you don't want to work a grip before anything because when your grip gets fatigue, it's hard to work out, unless it's like really a focus of yours, in which case, I'd say fine, but you could get these grippers

and then use them like you do strength training. You do some reps at the end of your workout. Don't go to failure, but train them like you were training. I'll just do three sets of some gripping, some strength. Then you have isometric strength that you want to build, right? Well, that, you could do a farmer carries. You could also change the grip that you use.

So you could do what's called a pinch grip on some plates. So you could hold some like 25 or 35 pound plates or 45 pound plates if you're real strong with this pinch grip here. That'll strengthen it differently. You can also put a towel around a bar to make the grip much thicker. So now you're training a different range of isometric.

You can also hang from a pull-up bar or... By your fingers. By your fingers, or do rows, or you wrap up towel around a bar so you have to grab the towel and do some rows. But honestly, it's as simple as add, like, you know, three to six sets a week of direct grip work, regardless if you deadlift or not.

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