Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 448: Identifying & Eliminating the Sources of Pain

Episode Date: February 2, 2017

At multiple points throughout your life you have dealt with and/or will deal with physical pain... some which may persist for long periods of time. Much of this pain can be avoided or corrected but to minimize the instances or duration of pain, you must identify and correct the root cause of the pain. In this episode Sal, Adam & Justin discuss the physical and emotional sources of pain and how to correct them. Get our newest program, Kettlebells 4 Aesthetics (KB4A), which provides full expert workout programming to sculpt and shape your body using kettlebells. Only $7 at www.mindpumpmedia.com! Get MAPS Prime, MAPS Anywhere, MAPS Anabolic, MAPS Performance, MAPS Aesthetic, the Butt Builder Blueprint, the Sexy Athlete Mod AND KB4A (The MAPS Super Bundle) packaged together at a substantial DISCOUNT at www.mindpumpmedia.com. Make EVERY workout better with MAPS Prime, the only pre-workout you need… it is now available at mindpumpmedia.com Have Sal, Adam & Justin personally train you via video instruction on our YouTube channel, Mind Pump TV. Be sure to Subscribe for updates. Get your Kimera Koffee, Mind Pump's first official sponsor, at www.kimerakoffee.com, code "mindpump" for 10% off! Add to the incredible brain enhancing effect of Kimera Koffee with www.brain.fm/mindpump 10 Free sessions! Music for the brain for incredible focus, sleep and naps! Please subscribe, rate and review this show! Each week our favorite reviewers are announced on the show and sent Mind Pump T-shirts!

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is I could feel how effective prime is the first workout. And what prime basically is, for those of you that aren't familiar, is it is a program designed to teach you how to program or how to organize what you do before you work out and what you do after you work out. That's 10, that eight to 10 minutes before and that five, eight minutes after, make a tremendous difference.

Talk about maximizing your workout. It'll maximize the results that you get. It'll make whatever exercise you do in your workout. I mean, any activity, let's be honest about that. Oh yeah, if you properly prime before you do a competition, you're gonna compete better, you're gonna move better. If you properly prime before you go on a walk, that walk is gonna be more effective

at what it's supposed to do. You battle these acute pains throughout the day. This is one of those things that you do. You address your prime before you go. In maps prime, there's something called a compass test that helps you identify how your body moves and how your body moves poorly. And based on that test, it helps direct you

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so it sounds better. Well, we could. What I interpreted was a foam party. Has anybody ever been to a foam party? Shhh. Have you guys been to a foam party? In Mexico. I've never been to a foam party.

Oh, wow. Hold that thought, Jess, and we're talking about that next bit. Oh, okay. What's it like? Yeah. Are we on air? Are we on air? Is this thing on? It tends to turn into a big orgy fest. What? Yeah. Wait a minute. Yeah. Hold on. Just to the bubbles. Yes, because what happens is they fill the room up and the bubbles come. You can't see what's going on. Yes. So you could look like you're dancing and having a good time with somebody and most people are doing more than just dancing.

A little bit. So a little finger blast. Oh, god, that's all. That's so offensive. You can be finger blast. That's so offensive. You're the edit that one. No, I think you should leave it in.

Fingered blasting good. That's like one of the most, it's like a such a cringeworthy phrase. It sounds like, at least. So is that what really happens? Like the foam comes in and just people start doing shit? Yeah, at least 10% of our audience just left. Really?

Yeah, no, that's kind of how it goes. A bunch of handjumps. I mean, this is obviously anecdotal, right? This is my experience in these. What happens when you dive below the foam? Whoa. Yeah, you spillunk. Yeah, no, I'm gonna be great.

Yeah, it's a lot of sucky-sucking. Yeah, yeah, no, I'm pretty sure one of my seven STD's came from there I think it's just like a would you bring back from Mexico? I assess assess pool. Yeah, yeah, just yeah, just the foam is So bubbles and orange. It's not it should be made of bleach No, it's not just diving in like a dolphin So you're in the foam. You're all dancing. Yeah, nobody can see what's going on. Obviously alcohol is involved. Maybe other substances.

Of course, you're in Mexico. You're fucking partying. So I'm sure people are doing crazy shit. Yeah. And next thing you know, people are just touching each other. How does this work? Well, I've never done anything like this. To me, it's fascinating. I've never been in a situation like this.

I don't think it's like that. I think that you go to a place like this and they typically have, so when you go to certain night clubs, it's like, oh, it's Friday, Fomeliner, or at least it's how it was in Mexico. And you go there, and they have all these machines

that just start pumping the foam. And then it's everybody gets, as soon as their foam starts coming out, it's just like, man, I'm like, yeah! Everyone's going crazy, because they know, right? Right?

By this time, yeah. No now I can get freaky. Yeah, your MDM's kicking in by now, you're just musics pumping, you're feel like one with the music, you got a couple hot chicks that are around you, then the foam starts filling up, and then the next thing you know, it's like, it's up to your chest,

and it's full on grinding time, and you know, you're so be and kind of wet, and it's very interesting. You know what I never even thought about the natural progression is to take your pants off You know, so I see now you're in there and you're and so it's not a topless party. It's a bottomless party You gotta look for your wallet and start you know, it sucks about the course you get caught doing that They throw you out, but I think that's kind of what ends up just happening You know what sucks about that story. That's what I hear. I'll tell you what sucks about that story

First of all, I've never experienced that. I've never been to a foam party. You're explaining the way you're explaining it, it's making me like, fuck, I want to be in that because it sounds very interesting. Yeah, it's interesting. But number three, I'm 38 years old now or turning 38 soon. If I were to go to that now, everybody would be like, we're the creepy guy. Yeah, I'll be by myself in the corner there. It's just free break break and there'll be lots of space between me and everybody else Well, the best I go that's got way too many like that guy hairs I'm gonna touch everybody. Yeah, the best part. This is like I don't know what 15 years ago for me So I mean, maybe it's totally different now. So you go there and you see I got a mortgage What are you doing if you imagine me my buddy my buddy says you take your pants off with the phone?

I travel minivan It's happening to me you ingest the show up at a phone party It was everyone's gonna think we're drug dealers like hey those older guys I bet they got drugs Because why else would they be I thought I calm? We're we're in penny loafers when you came in who's dad's here We're here to party guys.. Hey, sweet dad hair. Where are you guys going? Yeah, so Justin, you're gonna talk about wet t-shirt content.

I was. Yeah, I saw that before, yeah. You do? Yeah, we took part in it. Like live? Yeah, I was in Chicago. They had some weird upstairs, so there's like three layers.

Some of these clubs in Chicago, I remember were awesome. They would stay open until 5 a.m. And one of them had three layers, and on the very top of it, it was like some cool DJ guy from wherever Vegas or something was up there. And all of a sudden they just went to your contest. Wee!

It was like these whistles and shit. And I'm like, what's going on? And all of a sudden, like, dude, without hesitation, like almost half the room of girls, like, they're, oh, let's do this. Ha ha ha, you know, it's fun. And then they went up there and started, you know, just dousing each other with these things.

And I'm like, where am I? Wait, okay, so I have a theory. This is very, this is interesting now. I've observed this several times now. It's the difference between a guy who's sober and a guy who's drunk. There's a big difference, right? Like guys who are drunk act a certain way Like guys who are drunk act a certain way

and guys who are sober act a certain way. But the difference between a sober girl and a drunk girl is seems to be much larger. Am I wrong, am I right? I don't know. I feel like normal, like a normal, you had a party, normal girl, and then all of a sudden,

and now they're dancing on cables, they're doing crazy shit, and you're like, this is so different, this is so different from what you well I'm sure some woman would would argue this that this guy. Oh, he's such a great no guy Then he drinks a fucking asshole and he starts fight Definitely I just don't pay attention to We're just so like whoa, this is happening right now. It's crazy. It's my bias. You just You know talking about

So college like oh my god God. So long. Yeah. You just reminded me of a great story. So I remember, uh, so what, there was the last wet t-shirt contest that I'd seen. So this, I'm about 25 years older. So I'm out with my buddy. It's a Tuesday night, by the way. It's a Tuesday. That's important.

Yeah. Well, the reason why he was, he's married. He's married. He's like two years in his marriage, a lot of stress going on. And he calls, calls me up. Perfect time for a t-shirt. My t-shirt got to that. We're not there yet. We're not there yet.

He healed with my t-shirt got to that. Bear with me, this is kind of a long story. So, bear with me here. I promise it's funny at the end though for those that can laugh at me. So, it's Tuesday night, my boy calls me up, says, Adam, let's go have a drink and I'm like, bro, it's Tuesday night, he's just like,

it's been over our fucking day, he's a good friend of. And I'm like, bro, it's Tuesday night. He's just been over our fucking day. He's a good friend of mine, so I rally. So we go out and we head to downtown. It used to be Missionale House. It doesn't exist anymore, right? Oh, yeah. Okay, so we're downtown Missionale House. And it's dead, of course.

It's Tuesday at 10, 11 o'clock at night. Like it's me and him and the bartender. She's hot, though. And we're sitting there, we're having drinks and then we were talking to her back and forth and then we finally decided we're gonna mose yawn out of there. So we walk out and as we're walking out, he's like, bro, why didn't you get her number?

This is, dude, it's Tuesday night. I got work tomorrow, it's Saturday. You know, and this is 25, right? This is what 25 row guys start talking shit to each other. Like, oh, you couldn't pull that. I'm like, dude, she was totally into me. I could have pulled that. And so, I go, you know what?

Fuck you, fuck you, bro. Wait right here. Watch this. So I stop him. So this is so out of your character. Yeah, she was totally into me. I could have pulled that. And so fun. I go, you know what? Fuck you, bro. Wait right here. Watch this. So I stop him. So this is so out of your character. Yeah, you'd never be like this. I would never guess you would.

Oh, no, I mean, this is 100% 25 year old me for sure. So I tell him, hold still. I go back in the bar and long story short, I get her number. And she tells me, she says, hey, why? I have to clean up afterwards, but I'll call you afterwards and hang on I could come back and out right he and he's staying at my not in my house that night because things are that bad right now and so We go back to my place and it's you know, it's like one in the morning now and she you know bar tender

It doesn't get done cleaning up till 2.33. So he's telling we bet a hundred bucks by the way So that was a deal. He's like I bet you a hundred bucks. You can't do it And I'm like yeah sure I will and so he's like well, it doesn't count unless by the way, so that was a deal. He's like, I bet you 100 bucks, you can't do it. And I'm like, yeah, sure, I will. And so he's like, well, it doesn't count unless she comes home, right? She comes to your place. So I'm like, whatever, bro. So we're sitting in my living room and I've already texted her. We've made contact and I've got the phone laying on my chest and I pass out.

And I wake up to him in the morning, grabbing my phone, like, I give me my 100 bucks, you lost. And sure, shit, there she is. She had blown my phone up a bunch of times. And phone, like, ah, give me my hundred bucks, you lost, and sure shit there she is, she had blown my phone up a bunch of times. And I'm like, oh, whatever. So that's all that happens with that part of the story. Fast forward, like a year later, okay? We're at Missionale House again.

Here's where the Wechiesher contest comes in. We're in the back. We're in the backside of Missionale House, and they've got girls dancing on the bars, what T-shirt contest, same guy, I'm with him, having a good time and stuff or watching this whole scenario. And somebody taps me on my shoulder

and I turn around and I look and somebody is tapping me on the shoulder to get my attention from some girl that's up behind me, up on this little platform area and she looks at me and she gives me the finger and she kind of mouths fuck you. You know, and I'm like, I look at him, I don't know who this brought it as,

I've never seen her in my life before, right? And I look at my buddy and I go, hey, look back at the girl with the white shirt on. Do you know who that is? And he goes back, he says, no, I don't know who that is. And I'm like, she just flipped me off. He's like, you sure she's telling you?

I'm like, oh, I think so. So I go backward again, tapped on my shoulder, somebody else flipped me off. He's like, you sure she's telling you? I'm like, oh, I think so. So I go backward, and then again, tapped on my shoulder, somebody else. Look at these girls, she's just getting more mad, right? I'm like, what? I'm like, bro, I don't know who she is. She's looking at you or me, and he's like, I don't know who this girl is here, right?

Go back to looking again. Then I get a fucking beer upside that my head. What? Here comes a fucking bottle. Oh, she was laughing at me. Back to my head, spills all down my shirt. Now I'm pissed, dude. I'm like, I don't know who the fuck to. So I go fucking stomping over, get right up in her grill. And I'm like,

hey, I don't know who the fuck you are. But what's your problem? What did I do to you? And she's like, and she takes her drink and then she throws it on my face. She sounds like a winner. Oh, dude, I'm like living right now. And then she, she tells me that I came in and got her number at the bar and was supposed to call her back and I never called her back and what a douche bag. Oh, she just like laid into me for like 10 minutes. She really wanted. Oh, bro, I never, I hadn't seen this girl in a year.

That's all that happened. Nothing else ever happened from that. And then she acted that way. And then 10 minutes later, she gets up on stage and she does the what Tisha contest and she's sitting on my lap. Yeah, definitely what the fuck dude. Wow, that's my last wet t-shirt contest story. Let me guess you dated her. No, I look at my z-sacks of your life. I looked at my buddy and real truth, right? So after she gets out there, she's wet t-shirt,

she's sitting on my lap, she's all over me and stuff. And I'm like looking at him, like every time she's looking away, like giving like crazy, the crazy look, like get us the fuck out of here. It's crazy, dude. Hitting me with a beer five minutes ago, then sitting on my lap 10 minutes later, right?

Like, so she says, I'm gonna go in the bathroom, go change and then, you know, we'll hang out, what I'm like, this is peace out. Oh bro, I bolted. I bolted. I bolted. I haven't been back to that bar since that. That's hilarious.

You just reminded me of a story. And what's cool now is I can tell some of these stories now because I know longer Mary. So I'm not going to get in trouble. So I have, God, so years ago I tried, I had a stint in investments working at a bank. So because I thought for a second, maybe I'll just do investments

because you make more money doing it. Only lasted about less than a year, of course, because I fucking hated it, but nonetheless, they sent us to train to learn how to do some of their processes. So we're in, I believe I'm in Arizona, to learn these new programs or these new sequences or whatever we're supposed to learn because it's part of my training process, right? So I'm there and

They sit us in groups and there's a dude in my group and he's a cool cat I mean him kind of connect and we're like, yeah, it'll hang out afterwards. Oh, sure. We're gonna have a good time and There was a lady there that was teaching some of the class and she was like one of the executive VP or whatever like this Like she's a high- level individual at the bank. I'm not gonna say what bank it was because I don't wanna get anybody in trouble. And she was probably, God, I must have been 20, I don't know how old I was, 22, maybe 23 years old.

So I was really young. She was probably 37, 35, 37, something like that. Oh, actually. A attractive woman, very powerful, obviously. She's the one running part of the class, and she's teaching the class. Well, at the end of it, someone came up to us and was like, hey, you guys were talking about going out.

You guys like to party and we're like, yeah, we totally do. It's like, all right, so we all, it's like loosely, like, where we're all gonna meet and hang out. So me and my buddy go to this bar in Arizona, which by the way, Arizona's got a lot of attractive people. Yes, it's ridiculous. It's weird, right?

It's okay, so I'm not the only one. So we're at this bar, we're having a great time we're drinking in walks this lady, who was just teaching the class. And I'm drinking, I'm not really dancing, I only give a shit about dancing, but I go out there, my buddy's like, it's like crowded, so we're like,

let's just go out there. She comes out and starts grinding on me, like backs up into me and starts grinding on me. Meanwhile, my buddy comes around, he sees his dancing, so he's in the front of her now, right? So I'm thinking, I'm 27 year old kid, I'm like, oh, this is bad, like she's gonna be intimidated, and I don't really feel comfortable in this situation.

Well, he starts making out with her. While he's making out, where she reaches back and grabs me and pulls me closer to her. Right? So it's getting fucking weird, man. I've never been in a situation like this before. Remember, I got married real young. I'm real uncomfortable.

I don't know what to do. But we're all getting drunk and this weird shit's happening, right? Fast forward, you know, and the nice on our way back. She gets attacked, a cab with us, and she's trying to tell us to come hang out with her in a room. And I'm like, I don't know how to get out of this. back, she gets attacked a cab with us and she's trying to tell us to come hang out with her in a room and I'm like, I don't know how to get out of this. Like, what am I gonna do?

I don't wanna be in the situation. Thankfully, she got sick and threw up everywhere. So we dropped her off. The next day was the training again, right? We're in the training and then she's sitting in the back at another table with her husband and kids. Oh, yes. And I'm looking back and I'm like, Oh, Cory, dude, I'm like,

Whoa, what the fuck just happened. Yeah, like very, very super, super awkward. Interesting feeling. Yeah, I was in it. Nonetheless, it was an interesting feeling. So many stories I can tell now. So many. You know, it's funny because we get on these mics sometimes.

And it just opens your memory. Well, yeah, one of you will start to tell a story to my god. I buried that so So long ago and it didn't come up until you said something like I mean what T-shirt contest the first thing I go like when was the last time I Know I've seen And then this just shows you how it feels weird talking about it We talk about that like how it happened. Sounds so douchey right? We connect.

We connect things right? It's like we said that and right away my back of my head hurt. Right? I was like, I mean do they still do those or is that like two against everybody's PC? You know what T-shirt content? Yeah, I'm sure they have like mechanisms. I'm sure they happen. Sure they do.

College kids still exist. Yeah. How old can we sound right now? I'm not fucking because we haven't been into a bar or a club in that long. Jesus. Back in my day. I feel like we should have done that. It was a way of course it contest.

They were in black and white. So we should probably talk about fitness here. Pirates. You know what I want to talk about a little bit? That I'm noticing a lot, most of the questions that we get directed at us on our forum, and even through Instagram, a lot. I don't know if it's most, but a nice chunk of the questions that we get are related to

how to address pain, how to address pain in my knee or my ankle or my shoulder or my back or whatever, where people just, they need help fixing a situation where they can't squat or they can't deadlift or they can't do what they want to do because they're being held back by this, by pain. I wanted to talk a little bit about pain and some of the steps people can take to addressing pain and correcting pain and helping themselves so they don't have pain anymore. One of the things I learned pretty early on as a trainer was I had so much more value

as a trainer when I could help people with pain than with almost anything else. You know what I mean? If I could help people lose weight, that's great. If I can get them stronger, that was great. But man, if I could help someone lose weight, that's great. If I can get them stronger, that was great. But man, if I can help them, it was the most rewarding, right? It was very rewarding and I feel like people just, they saw, like I became so invaluable to them

because maybe it was an issue that they had for a long time that nobody was able to help or to correct or to fix. So I think we should talk a little bit about that. And the obvious, of course, what we're gonna go, I, initially, is the obvious, the corrective route. There's a dysfunction, physical dysfunction, and the joint or a movement that's causing that pain, and how to correct that.

Well, let's be honest, too. I think that, man, this is probably a majority of our job. I think every trainer thinks that when he know, when he first gets going, that you're gonna get to train your dream clients, right? Which maybe that is your dream client, but for most trainers that I ever hired or I remember getting started, it was like, you know, you want the athlete

or like change somebody's life from fat to fit and like you think this way, but. That's all temporary. It is. And what we really probably deal with more than anything else, or a close second would probably be, you know, emotional, psychological stuff, is pain.

Which is all connected about it. Yeah, exactly, right? So it is pain. So pain and psychological stuff are probably, honestly, where I spend a majority of my conversation with clients and have for 15 plus years. Like, it's so important that, you important that you connect these dots and understand, because for so long we've had this misconception of, you're just going to get that when you get older.

Oh, yes, we've accepted that. We pain comes because we're old and we're getting older. It used to drive me crazy as a young trainer talking to clients that were older than me. And I felt like I could not communicate with them because every time I would try to explain them things, it would just be like, well, we'll see when you get older, you know, we'll see when you get older. Yeah, as if you're, you don't understand because you're not that age. Yeah. And I, and to, an extent, now being older,

being 35 years old and having pain and aches and been through all that, I kind of get where they're coming from. But to accept that is like the worst thing that we could do is to just think that, oh, it wants this onslaught of pain comes that I'm just gonna accept that this is part of life now. Well, let's look into that though.

Let's look into why our activity levels when we're younger are at an insanely higher rate than they are progressively as we age. So for one thing, our habits and our patterns have changed completely. And we've let that happen. So certain things that interrupt that process, whether it's family work, you know,

any sort of daily routine that, you know, you've decided to kind of fill in with something else that turns into a priority. But the thing is, is that we're just not, we're not utilizing our body the same way that we were when we felt it's best. Well, you know what just made me think of, it's very interesting, God. You know, so I had the unique opportunity of training a lot of doctors and surgeons

because my wellness facility I had was next to Goods to Learn Hospital. And once I trained one doctor, then, you know, I got lots of referrals that were doctors and surgeons and they would come in and I love asking them questions. And there were some interesting things that would be consistent, that would consistently pop up. And one of them was how adults handled pain versus how children handled pain. So these surgeons would laugh because they'd have somebody in a situation that didn't require, you know, like, oh, you don't need that much pain medicine, or it doesn't hurt that bad. And yet people would be like, oh my God, it's a 10.

And then, these same doctors who may also work on children, I trained one guy who specifically worked on children for the first part of his career, he would tell me things like, man, he goes, I would go in and do major surgeries on children. And a couple of days later, they'd be running around and crying. And he goes, and I asked him, I said,

why, why is that? Is it because their body's just, he'll fast be going to- He's association. He goes because they don't know they're supposed to. They don't know they're supposed to be in tons of pain that they're supposed to, you know, feel the sensation or acknowledge the sensation

in the same way. It's like that great TED Talk that we watch. Exactly because pain is a signal, just like anything else in the same way. Because that great TED Talk that we watch, yeah. Exactly, because pain is a signal, just like anything else in the body. How you interpret and perceive that signal changes how it feels dramatically. A great example is... Well, thinking of how many times

does somebody cut themselves or smash their finger and it doesn't hurt till you look at it. Right? Like there's this like whack and you feel it and it's like, it hasn't quite registered yet then you look down at it and you see it bleeding and then you're like, oh God it hurts, right? Well how about the extreme examples of people who are into like, you know, BDSM, who liked the pain

and it's arousing to them? Of course you go there. They're, well, you know, they're feeling pain, but they perceive it as something that's pleasurable. Now the TED talk that we watched, this scientist was describing how a snake had bitten him in his foot, but he perceived it to be like, he scratched his foot on a twig,

so it wasn't that big of a deal. Until he passed out and almost died, then he healed and he became better. Luckily, he survived. And about a year and a half later, he walked along the same area. And he actually did scrape a twig with his foot, but because he had been bitten by a snake before this time, and he said, like, I only had a small scratch, but he had perceived the pain so much more painful than before. Because he connected it to the snake bite.

Because his brain said snake when it wasn't a snake this time. Well, you see that with people that have had like an injury or surgery or something like that where yeah, it registers now like you associate. So if I, if my ankle slightly rolls all of a sudden, boom, I get excruciating pain. You know, if I've had an injury there doing the same exact movement before, even though it's fully supported, I've done all the work to, you know, make sure that I'm strong in that movement and everything.

It's still, you have this, this sort of database where I'm, like, I immediately pull from that, the worst case scenario. Well, have you guys ever trained, like a true, I'm sure you have a pain body, what they call a pain body, where you fix one issue, something else hurts, something else hurts. Now you can't really see any dysfunction, but things bother them. They go get, you know, imaging, they get an MRI,

they come back, everything looks fine, and yet they're feeling hurt here, hurt there. I've had several clients like that, I have one gentleman who, no matter what we did, it hurt. It was just painful. Where I would, even if I touched him, like if I would go palpate, you know, his trap, I had to be very, very gentle because it became, it was too much pain. The funny thing is, as we continued to train and as he became more relaxed around me,

and as he started to perceive the pain from exercise differently, it didn't happen to him anymore. Now, nothing really had changed than the fact that he had started perceiving it differently. You also have people who, I mean, it's a fact. Now we know this established that when you're depressed or in a depressed state, you perceive pain as much more painful. In fact, if you have back pain and they do

imaging and they can't find any problems and you go to physical therapists and they can't find any problems, one of the uses of an antigen present would be to treat that back pain. Someone could take an antigen present and find, wow, my back doesn't hurt anymore. Very, very interesting stuff to consider when you're constantly in pain. And I think it's something to be aware of when you're correcting the physical, correctional aspect of the pain because that emotional component could remain, it could stay there past the point of you correcting that issue where let's say you have poor posture and you correct it, but you're still feeling some of that remnants of that pain because you still haven't gotten through

that emotional component or that association with whatever is causing, whatever you think it to be causing that pain. I think so much of this happens on even less intense levels all the time that we don't realize. Right now we're talking about pain, so I think a lot of, you're thinking of like,

oh, I had my knee surgery, oh, the guy that got bit by the snake or cut. Like, but there's much, much smaller versions of this. I don't know, for lack of a better word. When somebody starts to lose this connectivity to an area, and this is what I feel like we deal with the most is, you know, it's funny how the brain just starts to stop sending a signal to an area or a much, not as loud of a signal to an area because you stop using it and then how that could end up causing these imbalances which in turn causes these aches

and pains and people. That's what I feel like we deal with the most and people have a hard time connecting and realizing that, hey, this is something that you can actually intrinsically fix if you put the work and time into this versus just going to the doctor, getting prescribed some sort of pain medication to give you this instant relief from it when, really there's like the connectivity issue

that's going on here, that if we could just get you firing on all cylinders, you'd be blown away by how much this pain is there? There's certain groups that are just working too hard, whereas everybody's contributing, but then when you get certain muscle groups that are just overly contributing, it's causing a bad recruitment, it's causing your body to give you a signal. Like, look, there's dysfunction here. There's something that needs to be addressed.

And so really, it's so interesting when you think of pain as just being a little message. Like, hey, hey man, you know, like, the guy was humanizing a lot of these signals. It was really kind of funny the way he was describing a lot of this stuff. But it makes a lot of sense. Like, it's just really trying to communicate to you to identify things and then address it. And so if we're not going to do that, then the body is just going to persist to make a louder signal. Hey, this is something we need to look into.

So there's that. And, you know, our natural inclination when we have pain is to move away from a grave. Yeah. And so if I have a painful knee or ankle or back, what I'm going to naturally want to do is ignore it or try to avoid it, stop using it, stop thinking about it. Let's let's numb it pretend like it's not there, which might actually be the opposite of what you might need to do. What you might need to do, what might actually be the opposite of what you might need to do. What you might need to do, what might actually be more effective is to focus on the pain, focus on what movements cause the pain, focus on how it feels, change how you perceive

that pain. One of the easiest things you could do is just start perceiving that pain as a signal that you need to do something, rather than this thing that's happening that I can't control. And then work towards correcting that pain or at least the root cause of that pain. What are you routing it? Right, which may be joint dysfunction, muscle tightness, it may even be just simple inflammation.

When they do studies on people, some of these microbiome studies are gut flora studies, a large, I think most of the inflammation created in the body is created in the gut. There's this kind of like this feedback loop, this emotional component to the gut where the gut influences how your brain thinks and how you feel and how you feel and think influences what happens in your gut. And that all produces inflammatory chemicals that we can measure, which then cause you to perceive pain to be much, much more.

Well, and this is, I'm glad you went that direction because this reminds me of the post that I just recently did on my Instagram with the whole, I FYM stuff that I have a problem with because there's so much more to food than it fitting into our macros or our weight loss or our weight gain goals that there's stuff that's happening inside of our body when we make these different food choices that are altering the flora that are altering how our body reacts responds and some of these responses are

and some of these responses are inflammation and changing the chemistry in your gut floor and there's lots of things we don't know about it. So, and I can't stand when people feel like, especially when I do a post like that, that it's like, oh, I'm saying it's all bad. No, it's something I'm saying it's all bad. It's one small step in the direction that we all need to get to which is understanding

that foods weren't all created equal, that we were all searching for the ideal foods for us for ourself, and that it's okay to say that a food is not good for you. Everyone thinks that means you're demonizing it, and you're making it into this bad thing. It's like, no, that should affect your body different. It causes inflammation, it changes your gut floor, it does different things inside of you.

You know, it spikes your blood sugar. There's things that are going on because you ate that food instead of that food. It's not a, that's bad. You know, punish yourself, demonize it. It's identifying optimal processes and things to introduce to your body. It's like optimal movement patterns, optimal ways to eat. There are literally things that you can focus on that will improve your overall health, will improve your overall strength, performance, all these kinds of things.

And why would we not address it from that perspective? Yeah, I mean, again, if you're looking at yourself, if you're thinking about yourself, if right now you have an area of your body that that hurts and you just can't seem to figure it out, you have to remember something that the mind, the body, the emotional state, those are all intricately connected and you can't separate them. So what I mean by that is if you really want to handle, you know, the issue that you have at hand, if you really want to handle the pain and correct what may be causing the pain, your absolute best bet would be to have a multi-pronged approach. It wouldn't be just, let me correct my movement, let me, you know, or let me, you know, find out why I'm so anxious and stressed out or let me fix my food to reduce inflammation.

Your best bet would be all of those things. You could do all of those things. And you would be so surprised at how, what an impact each one of those things have. I've had clients who I've worked with, and this is the direction that I always go. When someone comes to me with pain, the first thing I look at is function, because that's easy. That's an easy thing for me to see. It's an easy thing for me to correct. I know what exercises to give the person. It's, it's, they tend to follow my advice a little bit better with that because, hey, you're here, you're with me. So I'm going to tell you what to do. So that's the first step, which I think is the

right order, because I think that's probably majority.ity well you got to get that out of the way. Yeah, I mean, I would think as trainers We would agree that a majority is function and the nutrition is probably too Well, then I was just gonna say the second place I go. Let's say we do that Let's say we do the function. We work on the function and it gets better, but it's not gone And it's at this point where I'm like okay, I'm scratching my head a little bit I'm trying to figure out you know, what's going on here? The second step then as I go to food. And the things that I do is I start to have them reduce or eliminate foods that are

common, you know, things that cause inflammation in people on commonly. And it doesn't always, by the way, these foods are always cause inflammation in people. But it seems to be more common than not that they do. And those include things like sugar, you know, group highly processed foods, artificial sweeteners, artificial colors and dyes. Lots of carbohydrates, I've noticed we'll do this in people. Lack of vegetables, lack of water,

an imbalance in fatty acids, if somebody just eats, lots of red meat, doesn't include things like fish and those types of things. Lactose. Yeah, so then all your dairies and other ones. So then I'll tackle the nutrition part of it. And then the third prong that I go after is the emotional component. This is the most fucking difficult, very, very difficult because it sounds like hoax focus magic, you know, hippie-dippy type stuff, right?

Yeah. When I tell someone like, look, we've done this correctional exercise for, youcus, poucus, magic, you know, hippie, hippie type stuff, right? Yeah. When I tell someone like, look, we've done this correctional exercise for, you know, last six months, we've worked on your nutrition. Your pain is dramatically reduced and yet you still feel some of it. I want to, I want us to, to think for a second, I want us to, to, to imagine for a second that perhaps there's an emotional component here To this pain and a lot of times people don't take that very well Like oh, well you think I'm making this up

Which I find very fascinating when people say that because it doesn't matter It doesn't matter if you're making it up or you're not if it's working Well your brain is creating it regardless. That's the point you feel it It doesn't matter if it's due to a born manifest it however you want It doesn't it doesn't matter It is the ongoing argument of like any depressants right? It's like that doesn't matter if it's working right? That's the thing like it doesn't matter if you have joined dysfunction or not if we can't find anything wrong with you if you still hurt you still hurt and

This is the last area that we haven't you know touched upon so let's talk about This emotional component. And I've had clients come in, we're all, I'll lay them down and I'll have them do belly breathing in a dark room. And believe it or not, more often than not, people will start crying when they do that. Very fascinating, the first time it happened, I don't know what I was like, what was going on. But people will have this emotional release.

And after that emotional release, they will notice more pain than they did before. And then the pain starts to dissipate and go away over time. But it's almost like they have to become more aware of what's causing it that this emotional component exists. And if they become more aware of the pain, then they start to perceive it differently and then little by little, it starts to go away. But I think the key point here to understand here, especially when it comes to pain, because pain is such a, there's so much connected to it. I mean, it can really disrupt and disturb your life.

Well, it's, people in chronic pain really bad have a very high suitor. Well, not even just chronic pain. I like to talk to just our general population, and I can relate to this, like it's fucking frustrating. I mean, that's why I think part of why we were so passionate about introducing Dr. Brink to you guys

and then moving on to our next program with them is because he was a game changer for me because talk about a guy, I expect myself to know my home body pretty well, considering I help others with their body for most of my career, right? So when I come across a pain in my body that I can't get to the bottom of it, oh my God. That's super fresh.

Oh, it's like I just banged my head against the wall. What is the movement contributing to this? Like, I'm trying to identify it. Exactly. And sometimes it's just not, and I'll give you an example of something that took me a while to get to, which was, you know, when I was, and I'm just gonna call it golfers elbow because I don't even know taking me if that was it, but, you know, I had this pain inside and, you know, we figured it was part, you know,

pronator terrorist stuff and that kind of helped and, you know, shoulder movement, that kind of helped. A lot of this was all stimulating This was all stimulating from my inability for scapula retraction on the right side. And it was so minute of a difference that the average person, or even a person, someone like me, wouldn't be able to tell unless I really started to assess it and break it down. And even though it's stemming from my back and this inability to connect and retract the scapula, it's got me slightly protracted on the right side, causing my shoulder to be slightly run. Then this pain runs down the back of my arm and into my elbow. You think it's the elbow and maybe wrist and forearm because that's where it's all radiating

from, but really it's stimming from this dysfunction that's all the way on the other side. That, to me, is where, I mean, my heart goes out for people that battle pain and deal with this and also why, you know, prime was so big, man, why was so, I think we all agree that it's the most exciting program that we did because this was the issues that we were trying to address

and trying to help people get to the bottom of this. Well, see, I think we forget because we've been doing this for so long, just how connected we are to our bodies is because we've been trainers for so long and we've been in fitness for so long. And that's, that was our job, right? Our job was understanding the body, our job was understanding sensations and feelings and movement. And we're so connected to our bodies that,

you know, someone like Adam can start to identify and find some of these areas and say, okay, it's coming from here, maybe it's coming from here, and here's the connection, but if you're not connected to your body, if you have a poor connection to your body, and believe it or not, I'll give you an example,

like this is this happened many, many times. I'll take a new client through an exercise, like we'll do a tricep press down, and they'll be like, wow, I feel this in my legs, or wow, I feel this in my abs, or I feel this in my back. And it's not like that blows my mind. Is that ever happened to you? Yeah, and it will, this is like when I first started training where I thought it like,

for me, thinking training was just like, okay, I'm going to run somebody through a workout, right? And I'm going to do what I did in my sports training. We all did this as a team. We expected this out of these people. Like, you know, we all kind of had like an established coordination right from the bat, right? Now I get my first client and it's like,

they move like a toddler, you know? And I was just, it just blew my mind, the inability to control their body with the most basic things, like getting up off the ground, like walking or holding one foot off the ground from more than like one second. This would complete the problem. This also explains the explosion of functional training,

10, 12 years ago for us when it hit was, and that's why I think all of us at one point in our career kind of went through this a little bit where we kind of hopped on that bandwagon because it was such a game-changed because we all realized that like, holy shit, most of my clientele, it's like the general population. Yeah, are so disconnected from there, they have no proprioception, like, oh yeah, putting them on the ball and helping them stabilize and stuff like that, I'm so helping them and to a point point, you were, right? There's some things that were beneficial from that.

And there were definitely some great takeaways, I think, looking back now that you can get from that. But it's unbelievable how much we start to lose that. I mean, it's not like riding a bike. It's you stop using it, you will lose it. And how much of that actually is related to the pain. I don't think a lot of people connect that. I think they connect the pain to getting older,

their body is just getting wore down and it's just like, this is what happens when it's like, no, what's happened is you stopped using, you stopped moving a joint through its full range of motion and keeping it lubed up, keeping it connected. And then now all of a sudden the body is pushing back and you've got this dysfunction that is now causing pain.

And it could be somewhere all the way across the body that's not right next to it. And I think that's what's really hard for people. Where they're so disconnected from their body that they didn't even identify that there was an imbalance to begin with. They didn't identify that they were moving, you know, funny, or that they, you know, couldn't sit a certain way

or that the way they tied their shoes, they had to move a certain way until it became this loud pain signal. That's what I mean by disconnection. Like, I have, I'll have clients who need to work on losing weight and they'll tell me that they're not quite sure what it means to be hungry. Because I'll sit there and I'll break down

every, you know, their cravings and stuff. And they'll be like, well, I was hungry. And I'm like, well, that's not really hunger. You had a craving. Let's separate the two. Let's talk about this. And they're blown away. They don't understand, wow, I guess you're right.

Why did I eat that at that time? I guess I wasn't hungry, but I thought I was. This total disconnect between their body and themselves, the signal, the signals that they're receiving, they're not interpreting properly. And so, I can only imagine what it means with pain. You know, pain's got to say all kinds of different things. I mean, you guys have heard of referred pain before, right?

This is documented where you'll feel pain in one place because something else is hurting. There's parts on the body, there's pressure points that someone can push on and you'll feel as zing somewhere else. Classic symptoms of a heart attack have to do with things that have nothing to do with your heart, like pain in your left arm or pain in other parts of your body. So I think connecting to your body is very, very important so that you can start to read these signals more accurately

and then start to work on the root causes. One of the easiest things you can do, one of the best things you can do, is walk around barefoot. Yeah. I mean, your hands and your feet are some of the most concentrated parts of your body in terms of nerve endings.

nerve endings, right? Now imagine if you had gloves on all day long, because none of us wore gloves all day long, right? But imagine if you did for a second, you would notice right away, everything would feel weird. You wouldn't be able to hand the objects, well, that's what we do with our feet.

We're never barefoot, or at least most of the time, we're not barefoot. So we lose that sensation. So it's like we're having hands with atrophy, like cross-section. And thinking about that, our feet are, it's like they have latex gloves, because we were socks all the time,

on with big mittens on top of that. Those are our shoes. Could you imagine having latex gloves, then snow gloves on? Can you go on about your day all day long? So I was disconnected, you would be. Hello! Here we are.

So immediately, immediately as trainers, we think to ourselves muscle atrophy, right? If I'm not walking barefoot, if I'm not feeling things with the bottom on my feet all the time, then I'm probably gonna lose muscle on my feet and maybe some around my ankle, right? So muscle atrophy.

But what we don't realize is there's also probably some atrophy in the parts of the brain that receive and interpret those signals. Think about that for a second. Every time a muscle is disconnected, it's not the muscle that gets, it's not the muscle that's the problem. It's the connection that's coming from the brain,

the central nervous system. So if I, if the butt, you're basically telling it, you don't need it anymore. You don't need it in atrophies and it weakens and it goes away to the point where feet become so sensitive that they can't perceive touch to the point where like me, like now I'm walking more barefoot, I can handle someone massaging my feet.

For the longest time, if you tried to massage my feet, I kick in the face because it was too much. Too ticklish. It was intense, it was so ticklish. But I realized it was just my, I wasn't able to perceive that sensation very well because that part of my brain probably was undeveloped because I was always constantly,

to the point where I was a kid, I used to sleep in socks. I hated wearing being barefoot. So literally undeveloped in that part of my, of that part of my brain. So taking your socks and shoes off and walking around outside, walking around on different surfaces can do a lot with connecting you to your body.

That's so funny. I just, I know it's so obvious, right? That it's places that you're most ticklish that you like never get any sort of stimulus otherwise, right? That it's just like, oh my god, my armpits are like my ribs and you know, inner thighs, like I'm revealing my ticklish point. Well, you know what I'll be taking notes. Well, you know what's funny. I used to think that people who lived in societies where they were always barefoot, like, oh my god, their feet must be so numb. That's how they can walk

on those rocks and stuff. It's actually not true. The reality is they have greater, they can feel and perceive sensations better on their feet. They can tell. They do the little micro adjustments. They can tell, well, it's just that they don't perceive, it doesn't come across as pain because for us, if you, let me put it this way, if you've never heard a sound before

or if you ever rarely hear sound and then all of a sudden, you know, we introduce you to like the sounds of the real world. They're going to come across to you as overwhelming and loud and screechy and irritating and too much. I got you. It's like sensory overload. Because your brain doesn't understand how to process all this stuff. It's a poor connection to that sensation.

Well, that's what's happening with your feet. That's why if you try to walk, it's like, it's not hurting me, I'm walking on gravel, I'm not cutting my feet, but why the fuck's it so painful? Because I'm, it's sensory overload because I haven't developed that part of my brain that understands all those sensations. That's a disconnect with my body.

And most, a lot of people, especially people that don't work out very regularly or don't focus on this, have that disconnect with their entire body, maybe not to that extent, but to the point where they go to the gym and they'll do a squat or a bench press or a push-up or a row or a curl or whatever, and they're not even sure what they're supposed to feel. You know what I'm saying? You got softened squeezy. How many times have you heard this as a trainer, you used to blow me away when I was a trainer, I was like, what the fuck are you talking about? How many times have you heard this? Where am I supposed

to feel this? Yeah. How crazy is that heard this? Where am I supposed to feel this? Yeah. How crazy is that? Yeah. Where am I supposed to feel this? This person who I'm training is exercising to fatigue. They're, it's very hard for them to do this exercise. It's not like we're training with a low intensity.

And yet they're asking me where they're supposed to feel this exercise. This is why physical education is important. Well, and this also explains, I mean, I tell people this all the time, that, you know, there's such a skill to working out to build muscle. You know, it's not as simple as just going in the gym and doing a bunch of movements,

because the body is always gonna take the easiest path. Easiest path. And if you are somebody who's never really trained the body, you don't have good connection to your muscles. I mean, you're gonna do a tricep pushdown, which is a very easy exercise and almost hard to fuck up, but most somebody will actually do that

and get their abs, their chest, their shoulders, tries, buys, forearms, back, all involved in it, to get the weight down and trained a failure like you're saying. And that's why they asked that question because all these muscles are collectively working to just perform the movement when they're not learning how to do a biomechanically. See, I'll take it a step further because if you were to take a beginner and have him do a tricep press down, you would see the tricep fire.

You would see it's working, right? They're obviously extending the elbow, bringing it up. Obviously, they don't have as good a control as we do or as as people who are highly trained do So the muscles working they just have such a poor connection to their body that they can't even properly perceive disseminate where it's coming from they can't even properly perceive the sensation of what's going on So now take that to the next level and now let's look at pain You know now now look at how pain is working. I think sometimes, I swear to God, guys,

I'm telling you right now, there's many, many times people come to me with pain, and that session, I make their pain almost go away. That fucking session, I know I didn't fix it, God damn thing. I think all I did was, is I helped them connect to their body a little bit better, and now they're not perceiving it as pain as much as they're just perceiving.

Did you guys ever do this? I actually used to give clients. Sound of the Baptist. Because it was super common that... I know you have done it too, Justin. Yeah, I know. Clients would say that they can't feel it, or they don't, I don't feel the right place, or ask you that question.

So that was always an indicator to me, just like you said, that, oh, wow, these people are just so disconnected. And then I would explain to them that like you said that, oh wow these people are just so disconnected. And then I would explain to them that you know lifting weights is really just a flexion of the muscles with resistance. So we need to practice flexing. Like flex show you know how many people can't flex their back like just flex your back. Yeah. Just flex your chest. Just flex your tricep. And yeah it's like this. I mean I've had moments like that. And when you really think about it, like that's the first step before you actually put weight in there, right? Before you were watching Dr. Brink articulate his spine like that and be able to connect to each vertebrae.

Yeah, I was like, it's crazy what you can do when you're connected to your body. It's absolutely fascinating. And I would say one of the greatest benefits that resistance training will provide you to your body more so than almost any other form of exercise if done properly is that it connects you to your body in a very, very substantial way. If you do it right, because you can with resistance training, I can manipulate the exercises

in the movements according to my body and according to what I want to do and what I'm trying to target and for different adaptations and it's highly moldable That's the thing about resistance training that's so amazing is that it's it's extremely and I can individualize it to it to the 10th degree I can't do that with other forms of activity. I can only individualize running so far. I can only individualize yoga so far I can only individualize running so far. I can only individualize yoga so far. I can only individualize, you know, pilates so far because they have this kind of rigid structure of how they're supposed to be performed or whatever. This, otherwise it's no longer yoga. It's no longer pilates.

Resistance training, we can perform it a trillion different ways, but all of it really connects you to your body. And I think that's part of the reason why resistance training is showing now, is demonstrating now that when people work out with weights, it's a very activity in general is a potent antidepressant. In fact, they compare it with low doses of common antidepressants like Prozac. I would argue that resistance training is the most effective long term for mental state because it does produce those endorphins,

it does do all those wonderful things that activity does, but it also allows you to connect to your body on a much deeper level. I mean, we can use the example, look, here's a great example, let's talk about sex for a second. Being very connected to your body, it's a fact, being very connected to your body is very closely connected to your ability to orgasm,

or your ability to enjoy what you're doing. Disconnect to your body results in what people have issues with orgasm, there's even conditions where people can't orgasm at all, because yet they feel things, but they're so disconnected from their body, maybe due to trauma or something else, that they can't reach that level.

Like, can we start like a foundation? You know, these are these poor, poor bastards. Come over here and Adam will help you out. Stupid. He's an expert on it. But, you know, my point with all this is, there's definite things you should do to address your pain

for my identifying dysfunction, doing correctional exercise, then identifying diet, working on diet, but don't throw out the emotional component, and don't throw away the being aware and connected to your body component, which kind of covers all of those things from nutrition, emotion, and function.

And this is why, I mean, another plug here, but when people do Maps Prime, the very first time, we get, they'll tell us, I did it one time and I could tell right away that things were more effective. And all we're doing is we're using movement, we're using techniques and movement in an individualized way because you take a task, you pass your fail a task, it helps direct what you need to do

because of course disconnect can be very individual. I can be disconnected to one area but very connected to another or I can be disconnected to everything but find that one thing works better for me than another. So it helps you individualize what you do before you work out to become more connected so that when you do work out,

you get the results and benefit of that particular workout. This episode excites me to just introduce our audience, Dr. Spina, and when we get him on the show, that's going to be great because this is like getting into the Ken stretch, which I think is so great. And what I've taken a lot of stuff from him and bring in those tools. And I think it's a game changer for people for sure. And a lot of people are going to get parts of that and pieces that through maps prime. I mean that's a lot of what inspired it and what we have coming down the road but I wouldn't be surprised if a you know what I've got a massage

therapist have told me this for years that one of the main benefits of massage therapy for example is just a simple fact that you become aware of your body because someone's touching you. Oh yeah. Oh, trippy. It's not just simple. It's not just that they're sitting there needing your muscles and there's this like physiological... No, there's stimulation there. Physical component. Yeah, the fact that a human being is touching my body and I'm aware of... There's something from parts of my body. Well, like think about that too and like you're training somebody, right?

Sometimes you actually physically like kind physically poke on the bicep or you want them to get external feedback that it really does help them to focus and to be able to fire and engage with that muscle properly. I'll have to ask my girl, but I know there's a reason why they never let their hand come off of you either. You ever notice that when you get a massage?

There's always something on here. Even when they make a circle around the table, they'll drag their hand around. They'll drag their hand and they'll stay connected to you the entire massage. They never lose that connection. So once they've made their connection to you and they're massaging you, no matter where they're on the table

and even when they're transitioning through moves, they're staying connected to you. You know, it's funny. Some studies have been demonstrated now the benefits of sleeping naked. And they think that might be one of the reasons. I heard that from you. Yeah.

Because you're in, you know, you're in your bed, you're naked, you've got all the skin sensation. And they're saying that this benefits people sleep, they're well-being. Of course, being naked with another human being, not sexual, but just touch. And there were some old studies, some very, very bad studies that I hope they never reproduce. But they were done the Soviet Union on orphaned infants where some of the infants were fed

and taken care of with all their necessities, but they were never held, hugged or played with. And then the other half, they did all that plus they played with them, touched them, and you know, did a lot of stuff. And the ones that weren't touched, man, they did poorly. Very, very poor health, and many of them did not survive.

It's very, very important to be connected to your body. And when it comes to pain, do not discredit, you know, that piece of it. So yes, you definitely go to the gym, find your imbalances, correct them, work on them, but also just become more aware of it and in touch and connect it to your body and be aware of the emotional component,

the stress component, and how that can affect. And know that this could be a session sometimes. This is what we try and explain to people that, you know, as much as like we pride ourselves on being like these super programmed geniuses and that we put together these awesome programs, you get people awesome results. You know, sometimes like, sometimes going to the gym

with no real format is just going there and listening to your body and getting connected to it and paying attention to all these signals that it's trying to send you. And a lot of that starts with the mind first and just being able to relax it and, you know, something that I'm trying to incorporate more is my breathing techniques and helping myself get into that state, whether it be before my workout or before I go into work or before I read something like, you know, so much of what we do is so, everything's connected, man.

It's crazy to me because so many people think that's a waste of time. You know what I mean? I'm not one of the gym and I'm not sweating. I'm not getting sore, but nothing could be further from the truth. Take that time aside for yourself. So with that, if you like Mind Pump,

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