Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 469: Reducing Cellulite, Knocking Out Sugar Cravings, Overcoming Sticking Points in the Big Lifts & MORE

Episode Date: March 8, 2017

Kimera-Quah! iTunes Review Winners! In this episode of Quah, sponsored by Kimera Koffee (kimerakoffee.com, code "mindpump" for 10% off), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about addressing sticking points in the big lifts, focusing on gut health and reduced sugar cravings, the best way to make friends when you are shy and why there is cellulite even though training consistently and how to get rid of it. 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 our newest program, 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. Please subscribe, rate and review this show! Each week our favorite reviewers are announced on the show and sent Mind Pump T-shirts! Have questions for Mind Pump? Each Monday on Instagram (@mindpumpradio) look for the QUAH post and input your question there. (Sal, Adam & Justin will answer as many questions as they can)

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All right, we haven't told people in a while how to leave a review. I swear to God, iTunes needs a fucking, can you, I have heard of that. You know what? We haven't told people in a while how to leave a review. I swear to God, iTunes needs a fucking... Can you... I have heard that. You know what? Do we get there shit together? I feel like we have more reviews than most of the top podcast out there.

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I think when you call upon it, it's less beautiful. It's worst. When I call upon it, I summon. You do, you try and summon it sometimes. I can see Justin over there, fuck, fuck, he's just racking his brain. And then he comes out. You know what it is?

It's the creative process, it's the creative mind. This is the problem with with working with creative people is you can't Push us you just I say us because I am also You're one of us. I'm yeah, I'm a wow. I don't know some people said creative genius. Whatever you want to call me Throw now. Whatever you want to say you people whatever name you want it I don't want to but I don't like to be stuck in a box No, I don't want to be defined. Yeah, I've heard mentions. Yeah, but I you know, but no, it's true Like you can't force creativity like no, he just isn't singing. He's like fuck. I can't

Hey, have you guys you know you just reminded me something so why I've been sick and bad for the last three days I like of watch probably a fucking million shows. I you know, I'm going through like a more STD stuff Yeah, totally probably Have you guys are you it more STD stuff? Yeah, totally. Probably. Uh, have you, are you guys familiar with Banksy? Yeah. Are you? He's, yeah, he's the graffiti artist. The famous one.

Yeah, you're not, you're not at all. Uh-huh. Oh, you get to research it, Justin. You'll, it's actually pretty fascinating. Yeah, you just step out on this conversation. Oh, excuse me. I've, well, I've already watched a couple documentaries on him. He has a new one that's called, well, it's not his,

because nobody even knows who he is. Which I find that super fascinating couple documentaries on him. He has a new one that's called, well, it's not his, because nobody even knows who he is. Which I find. I find that super fascinating. Brilliant. Yeah. It's part of his mystique. Yeah. He's just spray paint shit.

Oh, but it's politically, it's like very intelligent. And it's politically charged. And it's like, I mean, it's just, when you look at it, if you look him up, you'll see some of his pictures.

Yeah, go to Instagram. Instagram and go banksy you'll find a B a n s k y. Yes, okay, so they have there's a new one out called saving Banksy and So now okay, so he's I've followed this stuff for quite some time I've always been intrigued by his art and like Sal said I think it's really cool as far as some of the stuff that he puts out there I know how he makes money, you know, it's crazy. So check this out. So I've seen this. So he doesn't make any money from selling any of his stuff.

Like so his graffiti art now is become so well known that people will go like, so he made a tour in San Francisco, I think a year or two ago. Well, that's been a couple of years now, I'm sorry. A while back, he made a tour in San Francisco for a while there, every day, a new piece popped up that was Banksy. Now what sucks is that people go over and destroy it and paint over it. So the documentary is about this guy who goes and and he makes a deal for the last piece that was not painted over or destroyed was on this building and

It was on this wood siding on a second story building and it's his infamous rat that has the Social the social this socialist star or whatever on his hat and he's spray painting this line that says, I draw the line across the building. Well, he goes and he long story short took like a years worth of negotiating to get the building people to allow him to cut it off. Inza, costing this guy $32,000 to pay for everything,

to get it done. The cool part about what this guy was doing was he wasn't looking to make money off of it. He wanted to capture, he's just a huge fan of Banksy and he wanted to capture his art and he wanted to put it in a museum. Now the irony is this, so he gets this all done, he tries to take it to a museum. All the museums refuse it. Nobody will put his art up. Because it's, you know, and if you know about Banksy and the sum of the stuff that he stands for too, he's really anti-establishment.

So he's anti-establishment and he thinks that the art world is very political too, that it's a bunch of millionaires that, you know, they're millionaire-painter buddies, put their art up and everyone's, it's just that, you know, they're millionaire painter buddies, put their art up and everyone's, it's just this, you know, fucking fake art. How some years? Totally, right? So that's kind of like his thing.

Well, so they won't put it up in a museum and he starts getting offers from private collectors that want to give him $200,000 and $300,000. It eventually goes up to where people are offering him $700,000 for this piece of art that he can't give away. And the show actually ends, the whole thing is about his journey to give this piece of art to a museum, and no museum will take this art.

And so he's stuck with a piece of art that he's waiting for it to finally get recognized, to get put into a museum, that people are offering him $700,000 for it. He's not taking. Super fascinating. Yeah, yeah, super fascinating. And his artwork is fucking badass.

So we don't know how he makes money. No, nobody even knows who he is. Like he keeps his, they, I mean, he, somebody knows who he is. Yeah, no, they actually interviewed other artists. That man. And these other artists talk about knowing and have met him before and stuff,

but they're all very private about it. We know for sure it's a guy. Well, they refer to him as a him, but they talk early on in the documentary, like you don't know if it's a he or she or whatever. Oh, wow. Yeah, it could be a she. They don't know.

That's really cool. Yeah, his could be a she. That's really cool. Yeah, it's really cool. His work is neat. I just think it's fascinating that you would do something like that. He knows by now that his stuff is, so they at the end of the show too, they started doing like all these pieces that are getting sold to private, private auctions and millions of dollars. Like it, does the show just start going like, you know, a piece after piece after piece to piece, 1.5 million, 700,000, 500,000, 2 million.

Like all these pieces of art that he did, that he makes zero dollars from, that are getting sold. That's in some ways brilliant, and in some ways, what the fuck dude? Yeah. Well, it's not about money to him, I'm not saying. No, totally not.

I mean, he's obviously making a point. Well, we, this is his life's obviously like making a point. Well, we see his life's legacy. We're huge fans of yours if you're listening, banks say, and we're big, you know, fans and we understand what you're doing. And if you want to come into Mind Pump Media and paint on our wall, we totally won't sell it. Yeah, man. You're such a liar. We won't expose you. Yeah, we want to sell it for a million dollars. When's the last time you guys have been to Disneyland? I went for my sister's 30th birthday.

Two years ago. And I was super impressed. When did you go to Disneyland? When was that? Four years ago. Okay, so recently. Yeah. Yeah, because I was there.

Before that it was high school was before that. So it'd been forever. Yeah, because I went, I just came back recently. You guys know why I went to Disneyland, right? I don't know. Yeah, you had to tell the audience what happened. You did, you forever. Yeah, because I went I just came back recently because you guys know why I went to Disneyland I don't know tell the audience what happened. You did you mentioned. Yeah, that was the deal you made with your dog Yeah, so my daughter basically I fucked up and booked a vacation right around the time we're supposed to do some like this annual father-daughter dance at her school So I missed it and so I'm like, oh shit. I'm gonna scar her for life

So she's very smart. So best way to make up the fact that she's seven years old. Take her to Disneyland. She's seven years old. She's very intelligent and she capitalized on it and she's like, fine, take me to Disneyland. So we did. We went to Disneyland for a day and it was great.

But fuck man, Disneyland, an hour and a half wait for everything. Everything food you wait for a fucking hour of every ride is an hour and a half wait for everything. Everything, food you wait for a fucking hour. Every ride is an hour and a half. It's like, you go there for the whole day and you go out three rides. Crazy. It drives me crazy. It's insane.

She had the time of her life, but what I wanted to tell you guys, I had this little situation that happened when we were there. And you know, when you have kids, you, especially if you take time aside to really be with them for an entire day, which believe or not, doesn't happen that often. It was one thing that kind of,

it kind of came to me like, man, I don't really do this enough, where I just spend a whole day with just one of my kids, because you see a whole, you see them, like other sides of them, you know what I mean? Like you really think. Well, they're individual personality, right? Because with your siblings and the family,

you're one kid and then when you pull, I think you know who talked about this was Ben Greenfield. Yeah. About how he has to separate the twins so they have their own individual personality. Dude, you don't realize how smart they are, like how observant they are.

And then you get to observe them as well. And one thing that I observed, so when we go there, I made rules, right? I told my daughter, I said, look, you're gonna get one stuffed animal, one piece of clothing, and you get to eat one treat, okay? So these are the three things that I agree upon before we get there,

because you know what happens when you take your kids at Disneyland. I want that. Everything, right? So the one that I stuck hard before we get there because you know what happens when you take your kids at Disneyland. I want that. Everything, right? Yeah. So the one that I stuck hard on was the treat. We ended up with fucking 10 stuff animals and a bunch of clothes and shit and just like fucking

we did to us. Oh my God, broke the bank. Oh dude. I was gonna say I could've just what I saw a picture and she was holding more than one step down. Oh dude. And she knows, oh look at the unicorn. Oh my God, it's so cute.

And I'm like, all right, get it. Anyhow, so we got cotton candy, That was a treat. And I filmed it. So she's eating the cotton candy. And, you know, the rate and speed of which she's eating is accelerating as the sugar starts to hit her system. And so I'm like, I'm going to film what happens with this. I have the video on my phone. I'll show you guys. I'm like, I'm going to film what happens with this, because you hear people saying experts, quote unquote experts, you say, no, sugar doesn't have these effects on people, these drug-like effects,

and any parent will disagree with that. Like, any parent immediately. Yeah, anybody who has kids will tell you bullshit, sugar clearly affects my children's behavior, like a drug. So she's eating the cotton candy, we get in line for a ride. She, I made her throw half of it away

because the cotton candy's like the size of her. So I'm like, there's no way you're any 100 grams of fucking sugar at once. So she half of it, we're through the rest of the way. We're in line and she's like out of her mind. She's literally out of her mind. Touring and dancing. Now how to back up a little bit.

How did that go for you? Because I imagine that would be a struggle for most parents that once you gave it to them that taking it away halfway through, or did you close that before? No, she knows that before. Yeah, no, no, no, no, no. I don't wanna set this, I don't wanna give her a negative relationship.

That's why I'm curious, share it. I don't wanna take it away, be like, you're eating too much. I told her when we ordered, I said, look, that's a big cotton candy. I think half is probably planning for you. What do you think? And she's like, okay. And she's a course, that's a big cotton candy. I think half is probably planning for you. What do you think? And she's like, okay. And she's of course agreeing

because she wants the cotton candy. So we've already established that. So when she gets to like almost half, I'll say, well, it looks like you're almost halfway done. Let me know when you're halfway done so we can throw the rest away. So then she comes to me and says, and I wait for her like, okay, bye bye.

I already have half, we can throw the rest away. So it's not that big of a deal. Nonetheless, I'm watching her. We're in line. All of a sudden, it's not that big of a deal. Nonetheless, I'm watching her. We're in line all of a sudden She's fucking twirling and dancing. She's hugging like like there's like podiums That are next to the line and she's like, you know what? We're in line But I don't even care. I don't care that we're online. This is great and she's dancing and she's delirious and acting silly And I'm videotaping her and I'm laughing. And I'm like, you look like you have a lot of energy.

She's like, I just feel really good and she's twirling and I'm videotaping her. And so then I stopped the videotape, so I'll show you guys after we're done with the podcast. And then I wait for the crowd. That's just gonna say. Because we're in line for a full hour, right? So her little acting hilarious and crazy, like she took drugs is lasting for about, it lasted for about 25, 30 minutes. So for about 25, 30 minutes, it's hilarious. I'm laughing. She's all over the place. About the 30 minute mark, you

could tell, so did switches. And she's kind of just like, and you know, all of a sudden she's like, pop, blah, pick me up. I don't want, can you hold me? And I don't want to be a lion anymore. And then she's sitting down on the floor holding one of the stuffed animals I bought her. And she's just kind of, and I took a picture of her holding the stuffed animal.

And it's like, I couldn't have staged it better, like the before and the after. And I'm trying to connect the dots. I'm like, it looks like the sugar crash has hit you. And she's like, yeah, I don't feel good anymore. How much longer is the line? I'm just like, this is hilarious, man. This is, now when that happens, do you, do you help her connect that with the sugar? So what do you say to her? What do you say? Honey, do you know that this is the way you feel right now? Okay. Yeah, no, I tell her I said, you know, what just happened is the sugar,

hit your system, your insulin, which is a hormone, went up and it takes all the sugar and it puts it to use and you get all these feel good, you know, chemicals in your brain and you feel really good, but then when it runs out, you start to feel bad because now you don't have these things that make you feel good and then her response is, well, why don't I keep eating it to keep feeling good?

And she said, because over time, you'll feel less and less and less good and you'll start to just feel bad. And so we don't want to necessarily do that. And she's like, okay, so that was that. But man, it's hilarious. I got to show you guys the video and the picture. It's like, I couldn't have staged it any better. The other thing I noticed about it. And then there's so like, not candid about it, you know, like the way that like everything's effects, like kids, like they're just like so like. It's so transparent, you can see it all kind of unfold

like that right in front of you. It's hilarious to me. And then the multiple times. I think it's so important though to, I mean, I'm glad you brought this up because I think I don't think enough parents do this. I feel like I've been around tons of parents that tell their kids, oh no, no candy,

because they know it affects them, but it's just like no, you know, that's all it is. And then I feel like when you do that, then eventually they rebel and that's all they want because you can't have it. Versus explaining to them, like, this is why, because when you have this, you feel this way, and then no one talks about how you feel afterwards,

and that's caused by all this sugar-resistant. No, help your kids connect the dots, because when they start to connect the dots, they start to make the decisions themselves. Yeah, they make healthier choices on their own. It's a fact that authoritarian type parenting is only effective for so long, and then when they're out of your sight,

they're gonna do all that shit that you told them not to do. There's a reason why kids go off to college and do a bunch of crazy shit and binge drink and you know. Oh, even before that you go to the grocery store and you buy one of those whole things of cookie dough and you eat the whole fucking thing. I mean, is that just me? I'm like, we were talking about just... Dude, you know, like that was like, as a kid, like it was like the, the holy grail. Yeah, I was to go grab one of those things and eat it on my way home from school. But I'll tell you what, man, here's it's so funny to how different my two kids are, like

my son in this particular regard is just like me, he's 11, right? We'll refuse to go on any type of a roller coaster. Refuse, like. Oh, really? Well, I'm fucking going it now. That's like my brother. Now, I didn't go on a roller coaster till I was like 14.

Oh shit. Yeah, and because I didn't want him, I was scared. And I only went on because of massive peer pressure. Like, I ended up going to Great America with a bunch of friends in my cousins. And I went and I was already knowing, like, oh fuck, I gonna have to go on these rides. He do want to be the big pussy. Yeah, and so I did, and then of course I got over my fear. My son is just like me. Doesn't like them, so I'd be cool with it because I was the same way.

So I'm like, no dude, I totally get it. My daughter is like my brother. My brother, when he was a little kid would cry because he couldn't go on because he wasn't tall enough. I mean, the scarier the ride, the more he wanted to be on it. My daughter is exactly, she's just like that. So we're going on whatever, and I know the ones that are challenging to her aren't the roller coasters, they're the scarier stuff, like the haunted house kind of stuff. So we get to Disneyland and I'm like, hey, I'm like, do you think you're ready to go to the haunted house?

And she looks at me, she goes, I think I'm ready. So we get in line and we're in line to go on it and I can tell she's like anxious, right? So she's like holding my hand and she's kind of acting like she's a little anxious and then we start to get in there. And I don't know, do you guys have you guys been on the haunted house?

Are the one that drops the floors? No, no, no, that's the California adventure. Oh, okay. Yeah, no, this is the one where you're like sitting in the thing that's driving around and there's ghosts and scary things about that. Yeah, it is the one that drops the floors. The very first moment you step in,

then all of a sudden, you just come up and down. Yeah, you're right, yeah, yeah, you're right. Okay. Yeah, no, so we go in, I thought you were talking about the twat, I don't know what's called the, oh yeah, not like you're dropping dramatically. Yeah, I didn't know. It's like an elevator. Yeah, so we go in there and then you were talking about the twit, I don't know what's called, and not like you're dropping dramatically. Yeah, I didn't know. It's like an elevator.

Yeah, so we go in there and then the scary voice comes on and the lights turn dark and she immediately wants me to hold her and so I pick her up and she tries to bury her head and so I'm like, okay, Lessia, I'm like, keep your eyes open. You don't want to miss it. I said, remember you said you were going to be brave. I said, it's okay to be scared,

but try not to close your eyes so you don't miss what's going on. So poor little kid man, so she's keeping your eyes open, then we go through the whole ride, and she's holding my hand, and her hands are sweating and they're cold, so she's totally getting anxious, right?

And she's, you know, she wants to close her eyes, but she's keeping it open, and the whole time she's explaining to me how everything's fake, because she's trying to tell herself. Oh, of course, she's trying to convince herself. Yes, sure. So she's like, oh gosh, that's so fake,

that's not a real ghost, that's all projections and that's just a hologram and that's not real. Look at that, I can see that it's plastic and I'm like, you're right, it is fake and I'm talking to through it and the fucking worst thing of all time could possibly happen. Worst fucking thing ever.

We're going? Yes, right through the part where it's dark and there's fucking things popping out. Like ugly things popping out and shit. Fucking ride stops. You know, hey, where, you know, ghouls have messed up the ride and now it's gonna be frozen,

but we'll get, you know, our technicians are looking at it and I'm like, oh god, you gotta be fucking kidding me. So we're stuck and like this total scary part of the ride. And my daughter sit there holding my hands, she's like, how long is it gonna be stuck for? I'm like, I don't know, honey, it's fine. It's not a big deal. So she's talking her way through it.

But at the end of it, she was super like proud of herself, actually. That's awesome. That she made it totally, and this is not related to all the kids, but when I was in Chicago, I don't know where it was, but it was like this, it was like a great America. It was like close by.

I think it might have been in Wisconsin, but I decided to go there with one of my coworkers that I worked with at this bar. And so ahead of time, we pre-gamed it. We had some vodka and we brought the vodka with us. And they had these frozen lemonade. And so we put it in the frozen lemonade. Oh, it's a great idea.

Let's keep this party going, right? That's a good lemonade. Oh, it's a great idea. Let's let's keep this party going Right, so I like a good idea. Yeah, it was awesome at first and then So we got in line and we got into this this roller coaster that was fucking gnarly, right? And it's it's like a bunch of loopty loops and all that where you go upside down all this kind of stuff and So I'm sitting there with this girl and We're going through and having a good time and all that, I'm just getting kind of woozy. And we end up where the ride literally stops

and we're fucking upside down. Oh, no! And I was just like, I was just feeling pressure and my face, I swear to God, my face was like turning bright red then it turned purple. And then I'm just like, it was like five minutes, dude, which is a fucking eternity upside down, right? And I just lost, I look at, I'm sorry,

I get off the turn your head, I was like, ah, the breath, no way, you puke when you're upside. All over, and then splatted all over the ground, like I heard all these people, but they're like, ah, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, I've seen that happen, it was your actually that guy, that's fucking great dude. I was drunk You know, I was like drunk and like upside down for five minutes like you do the math

Is that the most embarrassing thing you've done a public it was bad? Yeah, I actually wasn't even embarrassed I was like fuck that sucked Probably threw up on hell of people and probably splatter on the only thing worse than that would be shitting yourself Well, I'd rather throw up obviously. Yeah, obviously you don't want to be on a hell of people in this. I'm probably splatter on a skinny horse. The only thing worse than that would be shitting yourself. Well, I'd rather throw up, obviously, but. Yeah, obviously. You don't want to be on the ride, stuck him in. Crafty's off.

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The eagle is landed! Quakequag... First up, Ethan Hale, 33. How do you address sticking points in the big lifts? So I'm assuming, because I think this question could be go one or two ways, either A, like a sticking, literally a sticking point in the lift, like there's a, like within the rep, like maybe at the bottom of a bench press or midway up with a dead rat. Or at a certain weight, or sticking at a certain weight, which I guess is kind of the same

thing, right? Yes, and no. I'm guessing it's the first thing you mentioned. Oh, you think so? Yeah, there's a sticking point within the lift where they can't overcome it. Because I think a sticking point within the lift is going to be uniquely different per compound lift, you know what I'm saying? Well, wouldn't you think that, you see, and here's the thing, like if you have a sticking point in a lift, like, like I'm stuck out, let's say, 225 pounds in the bench press, you're

going to have to address, or you should address, the actual sticking point within the rep, right? Yeah. Because if you're stuck at 225, there's probably a part of the rep. Yeah, it's part of the wrap where you can't overcome easy. Yeah, where you're fucked. And then there's other parts of the wrap where you could lift the weight. You know what I'm saying? Here's some of the things that I do when it comes to. And this is purely a performance based.

I was just going to say, I think I'm glad you said that because here's the, I think I cared about this stuff way back when. Yeah. You know, like I remember like caring about seeing an increase in my bench press and squat, which not to say that I don't like to see increases in PRs, but I never really got for that long into like, okay, I gotta start gearing my programming around, you know, breaking through these sticking points in my lips. And the only way I see it really that valuable is if this is kind of your sport or like this is what your, your goal is, right?

I mean, if this is this person's personal goal, like, hey, I'm stuck at 225 on my squad and I can't seem to break that or my bench or what are like that. Although to get. Or if it's a range of motion thing. Yeah, I was just going to get in depth or or if, you know, if they're in a position where if they're bench pressing and like they know, obviously it's in the lowest part of the lift where then like, you know, recruiting, they don't have that recruitment, the amplitude that they could pull from. Like that's a problem like they need to address, you know, if they're taking that kind of

into all kinds of other different ways. And the other thing too to keep in mind is kind of big picture. If you do have a sticking point in your lift and your dress that you may be, and if you do it smart, you're going to be addressing many times mobility issues, maybe connectivity issues, maybe some muscle imbalances, right? If you look at it the right way, you know what I'm saying? saying this actually makes me want to you know a dog you should write this down This should this would be a good little YouTube series right here. Oh, yeah, that'd be a great YouTube Yeah, cuz I feel like there's so many parts to this and we're trying to roll

We're a lot of different scenarios. Yeah, we're all talking this happens than this Yeah, right right a lot of different well here's scenarios so a couple things Not to go too off topic, but I'll tell you why I like sticking points. I like sticking points because if you address them properly, the potential for improvement within a sticking point can be huge. And I'll give you an example. I've more recently been working on my depth and mobility and connectivity with my squats. For a long time there, I squatted to parallel and I got to a pretty heavy squat, some of my PRs are in the 400 pound range,

but I wouldn't break parallel with it. As a result, below parallel, I had very little strength, I had very little control. In fact, going below parallel was difficult without pain. So more recently, and I wanna say recently, I say over the last maybe four months, I've been working on mobility. And because I've been working on mobility, I've had to regress on my weight tremendously, but I've noticed more muscle gains during this period of time than I did before, and I think this

is why. Let's say my weight is stuck at, I don't know, 300 pounds in my squat. And it's been stuck at 300 pounds for a long time,, I don't know, 300 pounds in my squat. And it's been stuck at 300 pounds for a long time, and I'm pushing it, and I'm really trying to get stronger. If I add 15 pounds to my squat over the course of a year, that's very successful. Like I've done a huge, you know, it's a huge accomplishment. Wow, I've been stuck at 300 pounds, now I can squat 315. It's taken me a year, but a 15 pound increase is amazing.

But if I'm working on my mobility, I have to drop my weight down to 135 pounds, for example. I'm just using arbitrary weight, but 135 pounds and I'm working on getting connected and whatever. And that's all I can squat with good form, with that depth, with that mobility, with that connectivity. Now, over the course of a year, it's totally within realm to be able to go from 135 to 235 or 275. I've now added a hundred pounds to a new range of motion.

That's going to be a bigger difference to you, Sam. That's 15 pounds over a hundred pounds. Sure, I'm not squatting as much weight, but I've added a lot more weight within a new range of motion. And I've noticed that recently, I just recently squatted 300 pounds all the way down, which I've never done before. And I've squatted over pounds all the way down, which I've never done before. And I've squatted over 300 pounds before at parallel, but I'm looking at my legs and my legs are looking amazing because that potential, that growth potential

was fucking huge because three months ago, I wasn't going over 135. Now I'm 300 pounds, holy shit, that's a, you know, that's over 100 pounds I've added to my squat in a very short period of time. So that's what I like about sticking points. Now, here's what you wanna look at first when you're looking at a sticking point within your rep.

The first thing you wanna look at is how connected are you to that particular part of it? Let's explain what that means. So our listeners understand. So a sticking point within the rep would mean like, and we'll use, you just use squatting. Let's use bench that means. So our listeners understand. So a sticking point within the wrap would mean, and we'll use, you just use squatting. Let's use bench press as an example. So like a sticking point would be,

somebody can get the bench pressing and they don't have a problem getting the 225 off their chest, but the lockout before extending their elbows. They can't extend their elbows. So the top part of the wrap? Yes, to re-wrap it. And they do these short reps. Which I actually is pretty common

because you see a lot of, especially in the bodybuilding community, a lot of bodybuilders do these short little pumping reps that they do, but then they can't take that rep through full range of motion. So that would be a sticking point. You know, it's funny, it's more, that is not a natural sticking point, by the way.

That's more of a trained sticking point. Yeah, yeah. Because for naturally, we're stronger extension, a full extension than we are when we're weighed down by our chest. I think that you're right, Adam, 100%. That's totally result of the way people train. And so now you have people with lockout issues.

But an easy thing you can do with your lockout is to use band assisted and chain assisted type lifting, where the weight is maybe heavier at the bottom, a little lighter at the top so you can overload the areas that you're strongest in, but also challenge those top reps. Or just train that particular range of motion. So, if I have issues with lockout, I may do my normal bench press workout, but then at the end, I'll add, or maybe a separate day, add kind of partial reps,

or four presses, or something, where I'm only going down that far, and focusing on getting strong, in that particular range of motion. Actually, before that, you know what I would do before that, is I would just put myself in that particular range of motion, hold it there and do isometric.

Yeah, squeeze isisometric. Yeah, this is something that, you know, I've been definitely dabbling in with quite a bit because of the, I mean, going through like even just inventing, you know, this product and the axon stick and all this kind of stuff, like trying to like understand the recruitment process and how to amplify that process. And isometrics are very, very handy when it comes to sticking points because now what

we're doing is we're bringing attention to this part of the lift at a higher level. And so, you know, if you think of it more as like, okay, I need to, I need to, you know, make this signal louder. I need to bring in the army here to come in and get more activity and more involvement with this portion of the movement that I'm actually trying to control. Any form of movement, you have to generate the force to produce. That whole process is trainable. Once you start to think in those terms, it kind of changes the landscape for you.

So, I had lockout issues with my overhead press because I had always pressed and stopped short of lockout. Cattlebell overhead carries, man. And now I notice a big difference, but I sure, yeah, absolutely. And that's all isometric. So if you have a sticking point at the top of your rep, just get a heavy ass weight and hold it there. Or if you have a sticking point at the top of your rep Just get a heavy ass weight and hold it there or if you have a sticking point at the bottom of the rep

Get a weight bring it down to that bottom part and do pause reps You were holding it at that bottom part I think we would all agree that I think isometric would be first I do really like though that you brought up chains and bands though because this is like being a guy who trains alone a lot Almost always this is how you know first would do, like you just said, the isometric. So I would do isometric holds in the position where I'm weak at, where my sticking point is.

And then the next thing that I would do is incorporate chains and bands. And the way I would decide whether you use a chain or a band would be based off of where it's at. So chains are gonna be much lighter at the bottom and more instrumental. And more incremental load that comes up. So it gets more challenging, you know, the stronger portions of the. And they do have a different feel. Like I

I noticed when I use chain because you can use chains and bands similarly, like I can attach a band to the bottom of something so that it's hardest at the top, just like with, you know, with chains. But the differences in the feel like bands, I feel like don't damage me as much. Like I can bands can see. It's consistent. They're they're close enough that I don't that's not know me how I manipulate the chain and band I would use bands on the top from the top down because that's where they're really different right because you can't do that with a change So it's so it's lightest at the bottom well. Yeah, it's just a different feel right? Yeah, you can't do that with a chance You know the chains are gonna be the opposite right chains are gonna. So it helps you more and it sort of trains the process as opposed to

like you're resisting through it. Yeah, this is what really helped me like when I was breaking through that 400 pound mark for squatting and I was, you know, a lot of that is just, you know, and part of that's the isometric, right? Just I've never put, you know, before I had ever put, you know, 400 pounds on my back. I mean, just holding that way and just re-wraping it or recognizing it. Yeah, right? Just so, I love, you know, grabbing, you know, 50 pound assisted bands on each side, you know, suspended from the top,

holding that 400 pounds on my back, which, you know, back then I couldn't do by myself, you know, feeling that weight and isometric position for a second. And then boom, go down in it and I know I'm being assisted at the bottom, so I know I'm gonna be able to get out of it, get out of that squat, so it's really like I'm squatting,

probably 300 and something. God, you know what I'm gonna start doing? I'm gonna try this, and I'll report back. This is very interesting. I have never truly programmed it into my workouts, in this particular way. When I think I'm gonna start doing it some of my lifts, is that for I'm done with an exercise, like squats,

or whatever, so let's say I'm squatting 300 pounds and I'm done with my sets. I'm gonna put like 400 pounds on, un-racked the weight and just stand with it, real tense for like 20 seconds and then rack it and just do one set like that. I wonder what that will do. I've done this. So you've literally done it that way. Yeah, so I mean like I said, I've had to get creative, being a guy who trains by himself all the time and not a fan of having to rely on a spot or a lot of other stuff.

So did you do it at the end of your set, like at the end of your workout? No, so what I would actually do is I would actually, it would be like a, like so, let's say I'm blasted from, I just did legs, you know, the day before, whatever. And so I'm, you know, I'm laying off of my squats today, but I still might go do an isometric whole with them. Oh, okay. So, you know, on a different day. Yeah. So I, but I still might go do an isometric whole with them. Oh, okay. So, you know, on a different day. Yeah, and I don't think there's a right or a wrong reason,

and I'd love to hear you report back by incorporating and programming in. I think there's a lot of unique ways you can do it, and I'm not saying one way or better the other, but I definitely, you know, and that was like from an, and you know, the guy who first had me doing that when I was like 20 years old, like old school bodybuilder and obviously no science behind it when he was telling me to do it, but there, you know, that was an old method, old method that they've

used for a very long time is like, you know, and he used to tell me like, you just, you need to feel the weight. You need to know the acclimate to it. Yes, you need to know what your body, you know, because if you, if you've never felt 400 pounds on your back and the, the, your max is like 350, then I'll send your fill. Yeah, then I'll send your fill. Yeah, then I'll send you put that. I'll tell you what, the first time you put a real heavy fucking weight or a go to

deadlift, a really heavy weight that you've never pulled before. There's that holy shit factor of my body has never felt this. Freaks out. Yeah, so one of the best things to do is just to get that kind of weight in an ice and ice. I used to do the same thing with a bench press. I couldn't, I couldn't bench press four plates, but I've lifted four plates off of off the bench press and held it in that isometric hold.

And let me tell you, like you do that a couple times. I've actually done it like this too, where I'll all start with that before I go into a heavy set and then three, 15 fills. That's priming. Feels better. Yeah. That's actually, I It fills better. Yes. That's actually, I mean, that's a, that's a, that's a,

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Like, don't do not forget frequency here. So sometimes what you need to do is reduce your intensity. So maybe cut the weight down a little bit in your lifts, don't go to failure or don't go as intense and just do it more often. Many times you'll find you'll strengthen, explode just from doing that. Well, that and phasing out of it too. So we're not like, these are all great techniques, but it has a shelf life to them, just like anything else.

I mean, you could go, I mean, I could go on a spin of like just doing pause squats or paused reps with doing bench press and get a lot of benefit from that. You know, lowering the load a bit, but really squeezing the bar and like really bending it and getting more activity, and recruitment, but that's just a technique that I'm gonna phase in and out of. That's such a great point, because that's my, I think that was where I was trying to go

with the very beginning of this, when I said, yeah, that's not something I really worry about, because most people are tuning in, because they want to be in better shape. They want to lose body fat, they want to build some muscle, and stick them more advanced things. They are. They're more advanced, they're more performance-based. It's not, you can develop your legs,

you can develop your back, and continue to progress it, and be stuck at a sticking point somewhere. That's not a factor. And in fact, what I catch a lot of times is young kids inside the gym that are doing these Techniques that they saw somebody do and they're doing these techniques so much that it's hindering their workouts because now it's taking away from these Great full range emotion compound list, you know, it's like don't let it take away from it should be you know in addition to Your good core work or foundational days

in addition to your good core work or foundational days. Veronica Ray Jones is asking, is it natural to have a reduction in sugar cravings by focusing on eating for gut health? That's a unique way to put that down. I'll tell you what, 100%. 100% there is lots of preliminary science right now that's coming out that demonstrates that cravings are driven largely by your gut flora.

So there's certain gut flora that will promote the cravings of carbohydrates and sugars and other gut flora that will promote the cravings of fats or proteins. There's gut flora that will modify behavior. I just learned this the other day. I don't know if you knew this or not, but lactobacillus, which is a common probiotic that you'll buy at the store or whatever, they're now showing studies where people with anxiety

will supplement with it and it reduces anxiety. I mean, it makes perfect sense too. Think about it this way. Your body is more bacteria than it is human cells. That's literally how many bacterial cells that you have in your body. And they want to keep themselves alive. Just like any living thing, one of the driving factors in being alive is trying to keep yourself alive.

Survival. Survival. And so if there's bacteria that eats and feeds on sugar in your body, it is going to dominate. It is, well, it's likely, very, very likely. And like I said, they're science supporting this. And I believe more science can come out to show that this is conclusive. But it's very likely that this bacteria has evolved to influence your you and what you eat. It drives you to go and seek out the macronutrients and types of foods that the bacteria itself wants to eat.

And we know this when we take fecal samples from people who eat diets that are high in fat or whatever, we find a general kind of fingerprint. It's always very individual, right? We don't know enough about it yet, but we do see... More like a smudge. We do.

That's gross. Yeah. We do see a kind of general, you know, fingerprint or some general trends with people we, particular diets and other versus other people we, other types of diets. We also know when we, with animal studies, when we do fecal transplants, and what they'll do is they'll take a mouse and they'll raise it in a germ-free environment

and it'll be sterile, so I won't have any gut floor and then they'll give it a fecal transplant, that it will start to have, or want to eat similar to the host of the poop that it got transplanted into it. So if the eating preferences of the mouse, who we got the poop from, preferred eating a certain way when we transplant that to the sterile mice, they then start to mimic those similar types of cravings. So it's really fascinating, fascinating stuff.

And of course, the studies now that are demonstrating that when you take obese mice and you transplant there, you do a fecal transplant from an obese mouse to a germ-free mouse, so now it populates that mouse. That that mouse then starts to gain weight as well, eating the same amount of it. It seems like this real interesting relationship where both parties benefit or say you start introducing something else that changes the environment

They benefit less so you kind of cycle them out like But meanwhile they're probably fighting to stay alive putting out signals and cravings It's this real sort of interesting ecosystem that lives within us. I find this really tough to answer just because I feel like there's It's tough for us to measure what a healthy gut looks like. We that's very true. I find this really tough to answer just because I feel like it's tough for us to measure what a healthy gut looks like. We know it's very true. We know what a healthy one looks like.

Well, we know it, like the symptoms of having a healthy gut, but it's hard for us to, to measure it. Not just to measure it. To quantify it. Yeah, like if you have an unhealthy gut, we have yet to be like, here's your probiotic cocktail that you need. Yeah, that will make you healthy.

Yeah, 30% more healthier. Yeah, or whatever. We don't have this yet, so it's really, we're skating on thin ice when we're advising with something like this. I think what we do know is that it serves us to always be trying to eat healthier and be mindful of what we're putting in our body. And we do know that diversify your nutrients.

Yes. And we do know that the gut has touched the brain and it's an inverse relationship. And I think that part of it is important. I think that all the studies that are coming out with sugar, I think that part of it is important. I think that all the studies that are coming out with sugar, I think we, and I'm really adamant about this because we didn't put a question up here, but somebody asked a question about us demonizing high carb meals and we're anti-carbohydrates or sugar. I think it's less of that and it's more of just helping people be aware of what it can cause or where it can lead us and just understanding that, you know, so. Well, I tell you what, man, I'm gonna let everybody know

right now. The next 20, 30 years, what we're gonna learn about the microbiome and how it influences our behavior, is gonna be so fucking earth shattering that I think a lot of people are just gonna flat out, not wanna even accept it. Like, we know, like, I'll give you an example, toxoplasma, which is a common microbiome of, or excuse me, bacteria found in cat poop or whatever.

When rats are exposed to it, trip off this. When rats are exposed to it, it suppresses rats' normal fear of cat smells. So when how the fuck do they measure that? Because they infect the mouse. They first they see how rats are... Yeah, react to cats. How they react to cat smells. Okay. Then they'll infect them with this and they're way less scared of cat smells. There's, what is it, T. Gandhi? Well, remember, have you ever heard of people doing it? And I've heard of old people,

like, you know, if you grow up somewhere where there's like poison ivy or poison oak or something like that, of like ingesting it and actually eating it and then you're like immune to it all sudden. Like, I don't, you know, I don't know about that, but what were you ever heard people do in that before? No, I have it, but I want to make sure we're clear.

I don't know. I don't know. No, I'm not saying that either. That was me reaching right there. But like T Gandhi, here's another one. I have this thing in front of me that I'm reading. That was reading earlier. It's really fascinating.

T Gandhi infected rats are reported to become sexually aroused by cat urine. Rats, excuse me rats are reported to become sexually aroused by cat urine. Rats, excuse me. So rats will get sexually aroused by cat urine when they're infected. I mean, it's really interesting stuff. We know for a fact that microbiode manipulation will manipulate reward pathways,

production of toxins that alter mood. There's changes in receptors, including taste receptors. So if we change the microbiome of animals, we know that it changes their preferences through their taste receptors. We can measure this. This probably happens in humans. It'll hijack certain neurotransmitters via the vagus nerve,

which is the main neural access between the gut and the brain. Like, there's so much that goes into this, and it's so fucking important that, I mean, this is one of my, the main reasons why I'm against things like artificial sweeteners and synthetic additives into foods because none of them have been studied on their effect on the microbiome, because we didn't know to study it.

And some of the stuff that's come like sucralose, for example, we know for a fact that it really alters gut flora. We don't know what it means, but being that it alters it dramatically, probably not necessarily a good thing. That's where I would place my money. So definitely, and here's the thing, changing how you eat will then start to change your gut flora,

which will then start to change your cravings. Which that, I mean, then this is anecdotal, because I mean, think of the times where you've changed eating patterns and how your cravings now, and, I mean, this is anecdotal, because I mean, think of the times where you've changed eating patterns and how your cravings now and like the foods that you desire are different. I mean, I'm ever going through the ketogenic diet and then now wanting these healthy fats

and I remember when I was like never ate vegetables and then starting to incorporate vegetables in my diet, then my body actually craves vegetables. I've never in my life until I got into my 30s like craved to salad. Like that didn't happen until I had to change that the chemistry in my body and that was partially by me first incorporating these foods and then staying consistent with it and then you feel it change. You definitely can tell. I'm telling you right now, if you're interested in being leaner and performing better and

sleeping better, having better sex, like all the great things that we all want, pay attention to gut health. If you get your gut healthier, and you can tell through your stool, you can tell through your giant, there's obvious red flags, like, oh, I have acid reflex all the time, or, oh, I tend to get constipated,

or I get bloated after eight So these are red flags like if you start to address that and fix that You'll notice it. You'll notice you'll be easier for you to get leaner You'll notice better performance in the gym. You'll notice better energy better mood They've actually done studies to show when they give certain bacteria to to to women that PMS symptoms reduce that bacteria to women that PMS symptoms reduce, that anxiety's reduced, that depression goes down. We think it's connected strongly to regular behaviors like, oh my god, I walk around all day long and I'm irritated. We know that it can even be connected to that. So, gut health is very

important focusing on that. I mean, we could very well be talking about the panacea of the root of all of our issues. Well, the crazy part is there's no doubt that it's a part and it's affected. What we're trying to say, and what I think what we're leaning is that it could be way more important than what we've thought for a long time. Because it's just, and I think of the analogy

of like a car, right? Like, you've got wheels, you've got the chassis, you've got the engine, you've got the computer, the computer system inside the electrical system. Like all these systems are important for this vehicle to run efficiently. And you know, for the longest time, we've completely just ignored the gut. And now we're starting to realize like, oh, here's an important system. Imagine your car without one of those systems and will it run optimally? And it may well be the fucking engine. We don't even know, it may be much bigger than we think. Right now we treat it like it's the fucking, you know, a difference

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to kind of try and figure myself out. You know, I haven't really figured myself out with that why that is or anything yet, but I definitely am not like, I'm not quiet. I went through phases where people really thought that, you know, and like my family thought that because I just didn't talk like around the house because I was just like, I didn't have any,

anything stimulating that they were talking about that I wanted to fucking talk about. Why is so quiet just that way? Yeah, like, you're boring. You know what I mean? Like, I don't know, like Like, if you, seriously though, like if you, if I understand you and like, where you're coming from and like,

you're totally not interesting to me at all, I won't talk to you. Like, I could give a fuck about what you have to say. So, like, that's kind of how I discern and I navigate my way through. Well, you're much more calculated. I mean, you know, I'm the opposite of me. Like, I just, I just say, what the fuck is on my mind? A lot of times it gets me in trouble.

Sometimes I say something comes out brilliant. Other times not so much. And I've just kind of, you know, made my way through life that way where I feel like you assess a lot more. You're very careful about what you say before you say something. It's why two people always compliment a lot of things that you say on the show, although Justin doesn't say a lot on the show, but when he does, it's normally a powerful statement or he has something really valuable to add to the statement. So, you know, where a lot of times you have to feed through all the bullshit that I say,

and then you know, look, there's finally something. You have the machine gun approach. Yeah, I'm gonna shoot out of making it out to you. One of them is getting in again. Very much so, very much so. You know, people, you do what works for you,, people. You know, there's a big myth out there that you're either an introvert or you're an extrovert. The reality is, it's kind of like a spectrum.

Introvert on one side, extrovert on the other side, and most people are somewhere in the middle, you know, leaning more towards one or towards the other. Very rarely do you see classic introverts or extroverts. I am 100% in combination of the other. Very rarely do you see classic introverts or extroverts. I am 100% a combination of the two. A lot of people who know me, especially if you listen to podcasts or if you've worked with me, would say, oh, Sal, classic, extreme extrovert. This is false. There's total situations where I'm an introvert or I'm very, very shy, or I feel out of my element.

And so I've developed ways of being able to navigate those types of situations. So one of the things, when I first started managing gyms, one of your jobs, when you manage gyms, or one of the things you're supposed to do is you're supposed to work on corporate accounts. And this is where you go to big companies and you talk to them about, you know,

buying memberships for their employees. And this is a big source of revenue for gyms. Now I loved all the other stuff that went into running a gym. I loved leading my team. I loved running meetings. I loved selling, you know, memberships. I loved doing announcements on the intercom

and talking to my members. And when I'm in the gym, I'm as extroverted as you could get, as could as you could possibly imagine like I am not shy for shit I could stand on the front desk and just I could put on a peril and just have fun and have no problems The second you took me out of the gym and you put me in front of a big wig at a company who's wearing a suit And now I'm sitting behind there, you know in front of their desk and I'm talking to them about getting a corporate membership. I become the opposite. I'm a total introvert.

And as a result, I did no corporate memberships. What's so ever? I was notorious for doing zero corporate memberships and I performed very well because I was good at what I did but I could have done so much better. Had I kind of learned how to navigate that. And I learned later on how to navigate that. And I learned later on how to navigate that because when I opened up my wellness facility,

a lot of my clients were these kinds of people that used to sit behind these desks because my price point was high. So all my clients were kind of these affluent, high achieving type people. And they're in my facility, so I felt very comfortable. But then I became friends with them

and then they'd invite me to go places with them. And now I'm somewhere with my facility, so I felt very comfortable, but then I became friends with them and then they'd invite me to go places with them. And now I'm somewhere with my doctor, surgeon client and his surgeon friends or my CEO client with his, you know, whatever. And now all of a sudden, I'm back in that fucking situation where I felt like an introvert. And the way I tackled it was, and this is, by the way, this is very, this is probably the best advice I could ever give anyone. It was fucking genius when I forgot who told me, and when I started doing this, it was like,

wow, this is easy. Always remember that people love to talk about themselves. Yeah, such great advice. And I don't give a fuck who it is. Such great advice. People love to talk about themselves. So if you're sitting in a room or you're somewhere and you want to make conversation

because you want to make friends, easiest thing in the world you could do is ask people about themselves. Just ask them about, hey, where did you get your shoes? Oh, what do you do for a living? Wow, what's that like? What got you into that?

Have you always liked doing that? What do you think about? And you just ask them their opinion on shit and ask them about themselves and people will fucking talk forever and you'll never have, it'll be so easy to go through my problem. That's my problem,

because I open that box and that's like like a lot of that is where people think I'm quiet like I open that box and all they want to do is tell me about themselves Yeah, and then you're like they never asked me a question about me. Yeah, you know what I mean? So like I guess that a lot of this trial You know in process with the podcast too. It's interesting because know, like, I'm very fine with talking about myself, but like, I'm also like, my go-to is to ask you about you. That's my go-to forever, because that's how I- It works. I keep the conversation going that way, you know, and it's like, you're right, people definitely respond. Dude, it's how you talk to girls. It's how you talk to girls.

Oh, absolutely. It's how you talk to girls. It's how you talk to, if you want to make friends at a bar. Yeah. If you're, you know, no, it's, you're right. That's probably you talk to girls. It's how you talk to, if you want to make friends at a bar. Yeah. If you're, you know, No, it's, you're right. That's probably some of the most brilliant advice you could give because it's along the lines of the direction that I was going to go is, you know, when I was younger, I wasn't like this super extrovert kid. Like I did not like run around, run in my mouth,

all the way to the place. I was kind of shy. We moved around nine different homes growing up. I was, I was a new kid on the block a lot of the times and had no friends and then had friends and then no friends and had some friends. And so I went through this process of having to make friends in a new area a lot.

And I'll tell you right now, it was uncomfortable as fuck at first. Like, I didn't like that. Like, what kid would love to like, hey, here you go, new school, meet, find your friends. Oh, just kidding, we're going over here. New school finds them for, like nobody, nobody wants to fucking go through that.

And no one wants to go through that as an adult either. So, but what it did do to me was it forced me in an uncomfortable situation where I knew I didn't want to be isolated and alone. And so then I had to kind of put myself out there. And sometimes I was rejected, sometimes I was made fun of. And then sometimes I made great people. And I think the more I did it, the more great people I started to get connected to it. And I started to realize, wow, and we're just making fun of me with the shotgun or the machine

gun approach. But it's right on. I mean, that really was kind of the way I went about it. Was, you know what? Fuck the more people I talk to, yes, some people make fun of me, yes, so these people judge me, yeah. But you know what, if I wouldn't have went to that person, that person, that person, I wouldn't have met him. If I wanted that person, that person,

I wouldn't have met her. And you know what, those people now become important roles in my growth and in my life. And some of them become longtime friends. And so it was a very important lesson that I learned at a young age, and I've now applied that in adulthood. I don't know how many times, like Sal said, I've been in situations where I'm very insecure.

I'm sitting around a bunch of PhDs, and you know, these guys are just brilliant, and I'm like, fuck, this is, you know, I'm out of my league right now within this group of men that I'm talking to. And the first thing I want to do is be quiet and just clam up and not say anything, but I also have learned that lesson early on that that's not going to get me anywhere because they're not going to remember who I am. We're not going to go beyond this because if I don't say anything and if we don't talk, like I won't make any sort of an impact on their life and nothing will ever mature from this relationship.

So I got beyond that fear. And then probably, like I said, Sal's best advice is, how do you go from being scared of death to having this conversation? Because it's not that easy as, okay, not having conversations and also you're gonna have all these conversations.

That right there is the exact strategy that I took was like, you know what, like I'm not gonna get into this conversation where it's me talking and sharing a lot with these people that I'm not sure even want to hear about me, but you know what? Common and not especially with really intelligent people, they love to hear them self talk. Yeah. Like, and so I would feed into that, you know, and ask questions and ask more questions. Oh, that's cool. Tell me more about this. Tell me more about that. And it'd be hilarious because you leave those conversations

and people are like, man, I really like that. They hit it off with you and it's like, you really didn't have to say much. You just asked a lot of questions, but they enjoyed the conversation so much because they got to talk about themselves for an hour and you just built a new relationship with somebody. And then as you get to know that person,

it becomes easier to turn that into another relationship or a friendship, but you know what, I think, I love it too because I love people. And it was funny once I started doing this and they started talking about themselves. I was like, whoa, this is really cool because I like to know about people and find it fascinating anyway.

Oh, my favorite thing that has about this job about what we do now, 100% has to be fuck, we just got done interviewing somebody who has now become my favorite interview that we've done yet. And it's just, you know, we continue to meet fucking incredible people. And you know, obviously if we didn't get beyond facing our fears of getting, I mean, guy, could you imagine us, I mean, when we first started this podcast, we all had to get fucked up just to do it because it was not like any of us were in TV or radio. I should get my pants every time I open my mouth.

Yeah, it was something. It's a, it was, Hey guys, it's something that I think the first, the first good piece of advice is, don't be afraid, don't be afraid. I mean, face your fears. Face your fears. Don't be afraid to talk to others. I think it's how I said it best with, you know,

ask about them, you know, get them talking first, but those uncomfortable situations, those will be some of the biggest, some of the most growth that you'll have in your life. Dude, I'm telling you, you can go into a room of strangers. I promise you, go into a room of complete strangers and just start asking people questions about themselves and you'll be the fucking life of the party. Oh for sure. It's the easiest thing in the world.

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Mindpumpmedia.com. All right, who is Lisa P is asking about cellulite? Why do I have it after training consistently for two years and how do I get rid of it? Here's the thing about cellulite. There's a lot of controversy. There's a lot of controversy. There's so much controversy around cellulite

and there's some information that points to certain things but there's nothing real conclusive yet. Now we know what causes cellulite. It's really the connective tissue between fat that causes that kind of dimpled appearance. It's a total, it's totally a normal thing. So if you have cellulite, you're not dying. It's nothing bad.

Women get it at a much higher rate than men. It's something like 90% of women are gonna have it at some point. And some are marginically disposed to it than others. They are and men usually don't get it. We do know that if you prevent yourself from getting it in the first place that you can do that, or should I say, if you address it early on, it's better than trying to address it in the first place that you can do that, or should I say,

if you address it early on, it's better than trying to address it after the fact. So if you kind of keep yourself lean and keep your hormones balanced, keep circulation good, then you're less likely to have an issue with it later on. And it's much harder to deal with once you finally, do you get it?

But there are some hormonal connections because women after going through menopause, their odds of getting cellulite even if they're lean go through the roof. Oh really? Yeah, like it's very like it's you can even see like a kind of overweight, you know, younger girl. She's much less likely to have cellulite than a kind of overweight older woman. Or even women who are relatively lean, you'll see women who are lean, but then once they hit menopause,

they'll start to develop cellulite. And they think it's hormonal. So one of the best pieces of advice that I've given people is to stay healthy and keep your hormones balanced, which has to do with getting adequate fat and take, adequate water and take, and getting good sleep and managing stress.

Like those things alone will affect your hormones the most. And if those are off, even if you're fit and lean, like if you're fit and lean and you're not getting good sleep and your health is kind of, you're more likely, you're probably more likely to get this kind of a cellulite. So don't just rub a bunch of cream all over yourself. You don't buy it all the bullshit that does. There's no science supporting it and that stuff.

There's lots of anecdote. You know, there's like these creams that have like caffeine in them and some that have like, I think grapefruit, seed extract or grape seed oil. And there's anecdote that says, oh, maybe it works. There's massage techniques that some people say works and the idea of the massage is they go in

and they break up. The fat deposits. in and they break up the fat deposits. Well, they break up the connective tissue in the between the fat cells that cause it to dimple up. Which I think what we know now about South Maya Fashion release, I don't think the possibility of that's very likely. I've seen women, I've had women who came to my wellness facility that weren't my clients who would come in and they would just bruised up on their arms and legs and like,

oh, what are you, like what's going on? Like, oh, I'm getting cellulite treatment, it reduces cellulite and I asked them, well, does it work? And they said, well, yeah, it looks like it's less dimply and I'm like, well, I wonder if it's the swelling. Yeah, it's the swelling. You know what I'm saying?

I wonder if it's still in all the dimples. Oh my God, it's weird. And it's like somebody going in with like pain, somewhere like, oh, that hurts here, come here. I'll fix that punch you in the face. Yeah, it's just stupid. How does your knee feel now? It's stupid because the way they sell it

is they're saying, oh, we're destroying the fat cells. But I mean, yeah, you're causing damage, but I don't think that's gonna get rid of fat. Is that easy? You could just show up and I could just punch you a bunch of times. That's what I mean. I don't think that's right.

And you get lots of bruising and damage and pain. And I don't think that that. Yeah, and you get lots of bruising and damage and pain. And I don't think that that's really a good idea. Your best approach really is to maintain good circulation because there is some, and I hate to say evidence because it's kind of small, but there is some evidence that lack of circulation can contribute to having cellulite. So maintaining good circulation would be moving, having good health, not sitting or standing in one spot for too long where it prevents circulation, improving your diet because

obviously if you have blood pressure issues and circulation issues do to diet, that may contribute to cellulite formation. But really, we gotta look at the big raw products and like skin low, things with chemicals and all that kind of stuff. So here's the thing with that, you gotta think about it this way. This is the way I look at it.

When you put a cream on your skin, how far below the dermis does it actually penetrate? So cellulite is not on your skin, it's below your skin, it's in your fat, right? Does that cream go down that deep locally to reduce cellulite? I don't think so. No, I don't mean the, like I mean like what they've been using is products like beauty products and things that can be

tributy-trued into their hormone balance. Oh, maybe, very good point. I didn't even think of that Justin. There's definitely like Stephanie kind of brought that up in that episode and I got me thinking too, like with a lot of the products, like women are like always putting like all kinds of stuff like on their body that I don't know if like,

you add all that up, like what kind of creams and shampoos and conditioner. It creates yeah, tofu spray and shit, all kinds of stuff. That's a great point, Justin, because I've had people contact me and be like, you know, because I'll make a post about, I don't know, artificial sweetener

or chemical and plastics or whatever. They'll be, God, everything is bad for you. You know, studies show that a little bit of exposure is not gonna hurt you. And it's like, that's not the problem. The problem isn't that you're exposed to a little bit of one chemical. The problem is that you're exposed to a little bit of one chemical. The problem is that you're exposed to a little bit

of a shit ton of these chemicals, and there's a potential cumulative effect, especially after long durations of exposure. So, sure, I'm getting a little bit of exposure to this Xeno estrogen, and that Xeno estrogen, and this artificial dye, and this chemical that could affect this. But if you add them all up,

I'm glad you do more of the course of 10 years. I'm glad you said that too because I think this is even our stance with like an artificial sweetener. The biggest problem is everybody is starting to pump this in all the fucking foods out of me. If you were somebody who every once in a while when you had a cup of coffee,

you put one artificial sweetener in there every once in a while like I don't think that's gonna kill you. But I tell you what, it's not don't think that's going to kill you. But I tell you what, it's not the problem. You start to see, if you look at the back of all these foods, like what do they say? 80% of our food in grocery stores now has got some sort of a sugar that's embedded into it. And it doesn't say sugar, you know, it's got some crazy, yeah, it's got a different name

that most people don't realize. So that's where we're like, you know, I think that's where I was just oversaturated with it. Yes, I mean, cut it out and eliminate it in any area of your life. You're far better off. Yeah, that's a good point. I think if you look at your, and I did this a while ago actually,

and this is, it's kind of off topic, taught, excuse me off topic, but it's interesting. I did this a little while ago where I looked at my overall chemical load, you know, like how many chemicals I'm exposed to. And so I looked at everything. I looked at what I put in my hair, what I put on my skin, what I put under my arms, the clothing that I wore, the containers that I used to, you know, hold my food, the air fresheners,

perfumes, clones, like everything, you know, candles, like I, like everything, candles, I looked at everything, and then I said to myself, okay, what are the things that I can eliminate that aren't that big of a deal? You know what I'm saying? So, first thing I did was I eliminated scented candles, and I got myself some essential oil type candles. That was a big one.

By the way, burning scented candles, you are breathing in a shit ton of these chemicals, which I have like, look at a candle. There's no ingredient list on it. So, there's really very little regulation in terms of what you're breathing in. So, he wouldn't think of that. Yeah. I wouldn't even have thought that. Oh, you're breathing in. You're calling me. I love fucking the yellow smelling candles. Apple spice. They are chalk. It was just dumping this wax all over Katrina just the other night. Jesus. I'm playing Chuchu. I'm fucking. Jesus.

You two two. Player person wax. You know what? You are literally breathing in a shit ton of Xeno. What a ruin my day. It is. Dude synthetic candles are the worst. You are breathing in a ton of Xeno S.R.G.N.s with with your candles, just wanna let you know that. Then look at your shampoos, look at your conditioners,

look at your, look at the lotion. I used to put lotion on my skin every single day, and then I'm like, wait a minute, I looked at the lotion, I'm like, holy shit, I'm rubbing this on my skin every single day for the last 10 years. I can eliminate this, I don't need this. Deodorant, I went to a more natural type of deodorant, sometimes I don't write, where deodorant?

Antibacterial soap. Soaps, like, you can do quite a bit to reduce your chemical load and make a big impact, and it's not one thing, it's like all these things. And sure, you don't have to go live, I understand, we live in the modern world, you don't gotta go live in a freaking cave. Yes, you're all good.

And eliminate everything. Well, I think that's, look at everything, there's a lot of things you can everything. Well, I think that's, look at everything. There's a lot of things you can check. No, I think this has always been our core message. And I know there's always somebody who like takes it to the extreme, like we're saying like, oh, demonizing these things.

It's like, no, we're just trying to make people aware of all this stuff. And if, yeah, like, that was, it's a great point you just said right there. And I just recently switched over to like this all natural coconut soap. And it's like, it's not ruining point you just said right there. And I just recently switched over to like this all natural, like coconut soap. And it's like, it's not ruining my showers. It wasn't a hard change.

I still smell fucking good. Like that wasn't a hard switch for me to make that. And you know, you bring up candles. It's like, well, that might be a little bit harder, but I could do that. You know, these are, you know, or someone who does, like, I used to be that guy who, you know, drink a sped sack. I had a protein bar. I had a protein fucking shake. And I had, you know, four things of fucking equal in my tea and then I had two things

as sweet and low in my coffee. That could be a fucking day. That's crazy. That's a lot. You know, not including everything else that's going on. And so just getting people to understand that like, you know, there's, there's ways for you to cut back on a lot of that stuff that we are uncertain on where that could take your body in the next five, 10, 15, 20 plus years, and try and eliminate that

and cut back. So when I demonize. Here's the thing, this is what studies will show. And by the way, a lot of these studies are funded by the very industry that sells some of these things. This is why some of these studies are, I shake my head a little bit, but even the good ones, right? The good ones will say, okay, chemical X has got some potential, you know, hormone disrupting

properties or some carcinogenic properties, but it has to be at this amount and this concentration, which you're very unlikely to reach or you're not going to reach. Therefore, we deem this chemical safe. So in other words, it has problems, but there has to be a high amount or a lot of exposure that for it to happen. And so people say, oh, no problem. But nobody's done a study that's added up a little bit of all these things.

For all these things. Yeah, what if we took all these chemicals, like this? Well, just like the ones I just named, how many people right now being truthful and honest with themselves have had days where they've had a protein bar, a protein shake.

A pre workout. A pre workout. Put some sweetener in their coffee. Tell me how many fucking people have done that. And then ask yourself how many people have done that consistently for days, months, years. Look, there's a reason why we've done a very good job in modern societies to eliminate things like hunger, to come up with medications for, you know, acute injury and acute illness,

but we've got all these chronic fucking illnesses and problems that we can't figure out. I'm sorry, I'm gonna point to our modern lifestyle. Like, we've solved a lot of these other problems, we've got all these other shit that's coming up. Think about your day, think about this way, you wake up in the morning, before you wake up, you're sleeping, let's look at your sheets in your bed.

I'm not gonna, I don't wanna freak everybody out, I'm just giving you an example of, just let's add up all the shit that can be cumulative, right? Look at your bed, there's things that your chemicals and things that your bed will give off. There's things that they spray on your furniture to make it fire retardant. In California, for example, it's law, that has to will give off. There's things that they spray on your furniture to make it fire retardant.

In California, for example, it's law, that has to have certain things. And we know they give off fumes that we can't really sense or smell, but you're definitely, it's definitely going into your body. So your bed, your sheets, your pajamas, we'll start with that. Now you wake up, you get up, oh, I'm awake,

I'm gonna go in the bathroom, and the first thing I do is I'm gonna take a shit. Now I'm gonna wipe my butt, look at your toilet paper, there could be some stuff in your toilet paper. Now I'm gonna go in the bathroom and the first thing I do is I'm gonna take a shit, now I'm gonna wipe my butt. Look at your toilet paper, there could be some stuff in your toilet paper. Now I'm gonna wash my hands. Look at your soap, is there something in it that makes it a color?

I guarantee fucking, there is. There's nothing natural that that pink foamy color that your soap is, what about the sense in your soap, the things that make it smell good? The dyes in your toothpaste. Now I'm gonna brush my teeth with my toothpaste. Now I'm gonna take a shower, now I got to soap in the shower, and I got the shampoo in the conditioner. Now I'm gonna get my teeth with my toothpaste. Now I'm gonna take a shower. Now I got to soap in the shower. Now I got the shampoo in the conditioner.

Now I'm gonna get out. Now I'm gonna put lotion on my skin. Now I'm gonna put stuff under my arms. Now I'm gonna wear these clothes that are synthetic and maybe they're doing something else. Now I'm gonna wash it in some detergent that has got smells like lavender. Like we could go down this rabbit hole

and my point isn't to freak everybody out, but my point is when you look at the whole start minimizing your exposure. Yeah, you you look at the whole start minimizing your exposure. Yeah, you start looking at the whole spectrum, analyze it, start making some changes. You're not going to go, I don't think anybody's going to go, you know, balls deep in it, and like I said, leaving a cave, but you can reduce the chemical load quite a bit by changing certain things that you use every single day. Will it have a positive impact on your health? I definitely think so.

I think it's something we should all look at. Now that you're fully afraid, there we go with the products. Yes, I like it. If you like Mind Pump, believe it's a five star rating a review on iTunes. If you like your review and we pick it, you'll get a free Mind Pump t-shirt. Also, check this out. Stop this podcast. Go to YouTube, subscribe.

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