Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 525: How to Lose Weight Fast, Music’s Impact on Your Workout, Merits of Herbal Detoxing & MORE
Episode Date: June 9, 2017In this episode of Quah, sponsored by Big Top Beard Company (bigtopbeardcompany.com, code "mindpump" for 33% off), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about their opinion on herbal detoxing,... their greatest fear when they started as trainers, the possible conflict between music and listening to body and how to lose weight fast. 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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Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.
In this upcoming episode of Mind Pump, we talk about robots.
Just in what they have sex with.
I do.
We also talk about national geographic.
Some of that, what the photographers have to go through to take some amazing.
Adam was tripping out on it.
Yes, I was.
Adam talks about spiders in high definition, both on television and also in his mind.
What did he do?
Also we talk about the evolution of YouTube, the death of network TV and news, and also
why it's important to entertain opposing
points of view.
In other words, you listen to mind-pump,
you should also listen to those other fitness channels
that are wrong, just so you know how right we are.
Exactly.
Then we get into the questions.
We find, we talk about our opinion on herbal detoxes.
Do they work, or are they stupid?
We talk about what we feared most about being a personal
trainer when we first started.
We also talk about music and how it can actually disconnect your body in the gym.
Believe it or not, this may actually happen.
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That knows it.
Snow White?
No, dude.
You guys ever watched this?
It's a great TV show.
Well, give us like every Disney.
Give us some time here, bro.
Let's just move you.
God damn it, I hate you guys.
Here, I'll give you one more hint.
Warning, warning. Oh, that's
No, no space one that yeah, yeah, yeah, lost in space. Yes. Yeah, god. That was great. Do you guys ever watch that? I did yeah
I loved that I did I remember
Well Robinson. Yeah other than that robot that was stupid. Yeah, it looked like it was a washing machine
Why would you just is it a funny when you watch sci-fi movies
and their interpretation of a robot,
what a robot would want to fly?
Based on the era that that movie was made.
Yeah.
It's like when robots,
like when they first made it,
everything looked like an appliance.
Yeah, exactly.
Like a refrigerator.
Now we make robot,
like we make sci-fi movies with robots.
We make robot, we want to fuck. What? That's what we do, that's now make sci-fi movies with robots. We make robot, we wanna fuck.
What?
That's what we're doing, that's what we're doing.
So that's the goal.
Everybody wants to make a robot we can bang.
That's, that's kinda true, isn't it?
It's telling me I'm wrong.
But we, like I watched Alien, the new Alien,
and there's the Android, whatever guy.
Yeah.
But they always make them a little bit non-human, you know what I'm saying?
Yeah, you have to.
Yeah.
We're a little creeped out if it's too human. You notice that?
Like if it's like, it has the expressions and I don't know,
but it's like still a little bit off.
That's true.
It's creepy.
Well, I think for the movie sake, you need to know.
Do you think we're ever gonna get to a point
where they're like that though
where you can't even tell a difference?
Of course.
Yeah, for sure.
100%.
That's the goal.
That's exactly what they're gonna do with it.
That's too much money.
That's too much money.
What's gonna really be trippy is, I was watching this,
there's a series on that national geographic called Year Million.
So it's like, have you seen it?
Oh, it's so awesome.
So Katrina and I just watched a Nat Geo.
Guy, what did it, this was last night before last.
I was just in a mood for this.
It's been a while since I've watched
just like a Netflix series,
that Netflix series that was just like nature.
It's been probably a good couple of years
since I've done that.
And totally smoked one and then watched one of these.
And let me tell you, I went down the rabbit hole
for like four hours. No, let me tell you what was. Four hours? Yeah, let me tell you, nature. I went down the rabbit hole for like four hours.
No, let me tell you what was.
Four hours?
Yeah, let me tell you what was so fascinating,
but how I why I got sucked into it was I hadn't watched
in a few years and I hadn't seen the evolution
of the fucking cameras.
Oh, the clarity.
Oh yeah.
They were in same.
They, I mean, to watch, they had.
They had planet Earth.
Yeah, yes, they had watch they had planet earth. Yeah, yes, it's they had they had praying menace like you could see his teeth and you
could see the way he grabbed and they did this whole on a spider that which you could see
the him shooting the spider shooting the web at right.
Oh, but across 50 yards of river and creating a web, it was, I was so fascinated by it at
the detail of the camera and the, the cameras that we have that we could see the tiny hairs
on a spider, the size of a quarter and watching him shoot out the web for stoners.
That's like magic.
Oh, it was.
I mean, I didn't, I won.
I didn't know how that worked.
And you know that this is like, it boggles scientists.
They can't figure this out.
That this side, the spider, the size of a quarter,
spits out a web that shoots 50 yards across the river,
creates a ginormous like 20 foot web and trap
all in the size of this and can reproduce that 20 minutes later.
Like that just doesn't, it doesn't make sense.
It doesn't make sense how that's something that small
can get that much silk spit out.
And I didn't realize like, so they show the,
I mean, you're not really constipated.
Yeah.
They show this clip, right?
So this is how the spider hunts, right?
He shoots this web across this river.
And he, and he, and he goes over and he builds this huge web and trap. And so it shows its first attempt. It shoots it across
and then it starts cruising over and another spider hijacks his fucking web. And so he goes
bolting after bolting after the other spider and right before the spider cuts the line
and then the two spiders go swinging back, opposite directions. He reels in all of his silk back in and shoots it out again
and does to watch that in like high death.
And it was just insane.
You know, I'm in, dude.
I mean, it blows me any even more than that.
Is the guy recording this all.
Yeah.
Like the patience, like, I'm gonna go find a funny spider.
How did they catch capture like some of these moments?
It must have took so that they have to like have the mount right and then it they monitor it like remotely
Well, there's I was reading about this one National Geographic
Photographer who was trying to capture like this bird like being born or whatever and it took him like
Three months. Yeah catch this one. Oh, it took like five minute shot.
Yeah, almost a year from the catch the mating habits
of this one, Rare Bird, you know, in the jungle.
And he was like talking about the frustration behind it
because like he almost had it like so many times.
And then like, you know, something would come
and interrupt a shot.
But man, yeah, that would be just.
I just feel like it's not worth it.
Yeah, that's what I mean.
Yeah, you don't know, like you just watch it all happen
within like, you know, 10 seconds of the show
and you don't appreciate the fact that it's...
And that's what I was tripping out on.
Like Katrina kept making fun of me.
She's like, you're watching this nature show with me
and you keep talking about the camera
and how like that shot.
And I'm like, well, a guy who's in like media social,
and we use a lot of...
Well, I nerd out on movies because of the same fact of how they set up all the scenes and they set up all these shots
like the amount of detail like some of these mega blockbuster movies like they get
and the amount of detail on that level it's so insane like we just we under appreciate it
because it's just we consume it. Oh right because it was a 15 second clip, right?
So for you, you consumed it in 15 seconds,
you're already on to the next part of the scene,
but it was like, wait a second,
do, if you dissect how long it probably took,
just to get that 15 second clip,
and then to get it that close, that detail,
I was like, oh my God, this is crazy.
I didn't even know that we came that far.
If you ever want to really, we'd make you appreciate that.
Exactly.
A little thing.
It does help.
If you ever really want to appreciate like today's cinematic,
cinematic magic.
Cinematic adventure.
Just watch, I mean, magic.
Just watch a movie that you thought was awesome
when you were a kid.
Watch it as an adult.
Oh, no.
Yeah, like I was showing my kid.
What movie were watching like,
God, what was that?
Never ending story.
Oh, man. Bastion. And my son's like, were watching like? God, what was that? Never ending story.
Astien! And my son's is like, my kids are both like,
oh, those are horrible special effects.
Yeah, that doesn't look real.
Like shut up and watch it.
Come on man.
But it's true.
It is.
Like I watch for me.
I watched Jurassic Park.
Remember when it first came out, the CGI was like,
whoa, that looks so real.
Now I watch them like,
all the ripples in the puddles.
Yeah, yeah. So what do you guys So what do you guys think about this?
Because I think that it's 4K and 1080 has gotten so crazy
and the new TVs,
and that it almost actually takes away from the movie.
And what I mean by that is,
it's so clear, like, and I remember the first time I saw this.
More clearer than real life.
Well, what it is is the Pirates of the Caribbean movie
was the first movie that I'd seen this on
one of the new LCD screens, and it was 4K 1080,
and we were watching on Blu-ray.
And I remember seeing the props,
I could tell they were plastic and fake,
and I could see the makeup lines on the men
because it was so clear. It was so clear
Yeah, so it kind of to change all of our actors
They've had to like add all these different techniques with the I bet right really I've even think of that
Oh, I had to because I was like whoa. This is too clear. It's so clear that I don't I feel like it's fake
But when it's you know a little blurry you feel like you get kind of brought, you get... It's like beer goggles for movies.
Oh, wow, look at those blackheads, you know.
Yeah, it's like beer, that's what I felt like
the first time I had glasses, I'll never forget,
because I used to have kind of bad vision.
And I remember when I was a kid,
and I first got glasses and I put them on,
and I looked at people and I'm like,
wow, you guys all have bad skin.
Yeah.
I didn't realize that, you know what I mean?
That everybody's skin looks so smooth.
Look at all those ingrown hairs.
And all of a sudden, like, oh, you guys have pimples.
Damn, stuff, this is weird.
Yeah, so I wonder what's gonna happen with that
as the TV keeps evolving and getting more clear, more clear.
The only thing I really enjoy, I enjoy it for sports
because sports you wanna feel like,
you wanted as real as possible.
But there's a side of us that when we watch a movie
that's not real, you want the magic to still play out.
You want a little bit of the, you want a little fake when you think about it.
Like you don't want it to look so real that I can tell that they're on a stage.
You learn a mask.
Right, yeah, you don't want that because the camera's shooting is so clear.
So it would be interesting to talk to somebody who is in that world
and some of the challenges that they had with this super
clear thing.
Well, yeah, and you see that in directors, how they deal with that because some will include
like actual props and costumes and whereas others will just abandon that completely now
and just use all green screen effects and like build up from that.
Now here, now triple off this now, because the consumption from the average consumer
is growing so rapidly on platforms like YouTube,
trip out over how fast YouTube is evolving
with the quality of video there,
because they used to be super amateurs,
and most of them still are,
but little by little you're getting them,
people are getting better and spending more money on YouTube. I bet you in 10 years YouTube's gonna be like fucking Hollywood man
You know I've YouTube channels gonna be like blow you away. Oh, I think we're definitely going that way when I I was just told you guys
Just recently I shared when I was hanging out with my little nephew who's 10 and
That and then I asked you actually drew the other day too who does a lot of our video on my single friends too
Really yeah over like not over the weekend but like right before going into the week
I think it's like Friday night or something had my friends kind of come over and
They were like pissed because like my TV it had everything but like YouTube and
Like we didn't even they didn't't wanna watch Netflix or nothing like that.
They're like, dude, I wanna show this clip from this,
oh, you don't even fucking, like YouTube,
like all they do is watch YouTube.
Yeah.
They don't watch like anything on cable anymore.
No, no one watches TV is like, wow,
I'm under a generation like nobody watches TV anymore.
It's like there's more, and I think what's neat about it
that this all goes back to our whole, you know,
libertarian free market mentality, which is, you know, YouTube allows anybody to create their own channel.
And if it's good and it appeals to enough people, it'll progress very quickly.
Yeah, very, wherever I want, I just search it and boom, yeah, I find it, I find a guy
who is just like me and giving the information that I specifically want to learn.
And I learn and he
all tune into him and that's all I need to list or her or whatever the case may be.
So it's pretty fascinating to watch the evolution of that.
And then it's really neat to see people be able to monetize and actually they don't need
these big production companies.
You don't need all the all this stuff, which I feel like there was a lot of politics in
right. There was but part of the reason why you don't need is the stuff, which I feel like there was a lot of politics in right there was but part of the reason
Why you don't need is the equipment is just cheaper now like the equipment that we use to film some of our YouTube videos
10 years ago a camera that we buy for a thousand dollars 50
Brand 10 years ago. That's I mean you know big of a difference that is
I need 10 it's even less than that. It's been cameras like that were just five years ago or less.
Student afford it would be impossible to do it.
No, it's super fascinating to watch the evolution.
And it makes you want, I mean, I believe that basic TV and cable is going to be really
dead in this.
It's dinosaur already.
Oh, it is.
It's like, I mean, news you can get faster on Twitter and Facebook.
You know what I'm saying?
You know what's dying right now too, is news.
Mainstream news.
Yeah, dying.
Well, do you notice what they do?
Quickly.
I was so forced on you with like Apple.
I was so blown away when I, I don't ever watch the news.
I cut the news not that long ago and I hadn't seen it in years.
And I know that like their stories, their top stories are what's
trending on Twitter or Facebook.
The reporting on the internet. Yes, the reporting
They're reporting on internet. He's lazy. It's like whoa like that's so nuts like that you're just in it's crazy
Because I don't know I mean, I don't know that I'm sure they're being told to do that right
I'm sure they have a boss who a producer that's going listen
We got to talk about this because it's got a million views today. It's trending. Everybody's there.
Yeah, so this is the topic, so we got to talk about it, but they're what they're doing
is they're slowly repeating.
You have to like review or talk about reporting on your competitor.
Exactly.
Like who's killing you?
Yeah, the one who's killing your business and who's going to put you out of business,
you're having to talk about that's got to be painful in that industry.
So it's crazy about that.
There is. There is. you're having to talk about, that's gotta be painful in that industry. So it's crazy about that. And there's that mainstream news is slowly dying.
We're getting our news from social media
and platforms like that.
And what's happening, it's a good and bad.
It's good because we can share information very quickly.
Everybody's a journalist as long as they have a phone,
so things get reported much faster.
The bad news is because of the way algorithms work
on social media, they're designed to show you
what you wanna see.
So little by little, you are getting put
in a smaller and smaller box and only presented information
that confirms your bias.
So if I'm into kind of conservative type stuff,
whereas before if I watched mainstream news,
it was kind of, I'd get a lot of everything, right?
And I'd have to see different points of view.
And then it turned into Fox News and MSNBC
and whatever, where one became liberal,
one became conservative,
and so people started kind of getting into more boxes.
Now with social media, it's even happening even more.
To where the algorithm will understand it,
and will only show you articles and stuff
that are gonna confirm your bias.
So you never get presented information that counters your opinion or your beliefs.
That's what they just lock you in.
It's very dangerous.
It's very dangerous because it's already seeing it where people are so like, you know, a
hardcore with their beliefs and the other side is so evil.
They don't even want to listen to the other side.
And so that's why I always tell everybody,
go seek it out and learn, worst case scenario,
you learn how to strengthen your own argument, even better.
Otherwise, if you rely on social media,
I notice that, I'll flip through,
and it's all shit that I wanna read,
that I like to hear.
You know what I mean?
I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
I gotta find shit, I don't like to hear
and see what they're saying,
so I can at least strengthen my work.
It takes a lot to do that.
It takes a lot of courage to do that,
is to say, hey, I like to debate this side of this,
or this is my point of view,
and so I'll just continue to confirm that by diving
in a morning for eight verses.
Okay, I know I believe this already,
but let's dive into stuff that people totally disagree
with this and see what they have.
You have to do it yourself.
Like, you know, when I was really learning about fasting and the health benefits,
all I was reading about was fasting and the health benefits.
And I remember thinking like, wait a minute, like, it can't be all good.
There's got to be times when it's not good, right?
Right.
Obviously.
So I actually Googled why fasting is unhealthy.
And I would type in titles that I knew would bring up
articles with differing points of view.
And then I was able to learn just much more broad
on the topic.
Most written by supplement companies.
Anything, anything like why, like,
barbell squats, best exercise for your lower body.
Why don't you Google why barbell squats are bad for your knees
or why they're bad for your back.
You may can disagree, because I did,
I still disagree with them,, but it strengthened my argument
because some of these people actually make
really compelling arguments for their points of view.
And I have to go and research
and figure out for myself that they're either full of shit
or sometimes that's right.
That's a great example you just gave right there is,
you know, barbell squats are bad for your knees.
Like Google that.
Like I could, so I could argue that on either way.
I could argue that.
You should be able to, that's the point.
Yeah, if you're reinforcing bad recruitment pattern, sure.
Right, yeah.
But that's my point.
I should be able to do that.
Like, look up the other side because you ain't gonna,
I ain't gonna come to you naturally.
I promise you, all you're gonna get end up seeing
is shit you wanna hear and you end up
getting living in your protected bubble all the time
and all of a sudden you're, you know, everybody else is stupid
because you're so right because I've read all this information
that backs up my opinion.
Yeah.
Well yeah, that's just the way that shit works.
So that's the one bad thing that I can see from it.
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Our first question is from Scott Finding Fitness.
What is everyone's opinion on herbal detoxing?
So this question was kind of directed towards me because I talked about
parasite
Processes the parasite cleanse that I did now to be clear this doesn't mean I had a parasite
I did it because the herbs and ingredients that are in
parasite cleanses which are
have been historically shown to kill parasites, are also what are called
classic antimicrobials.
And after we had Dr. Rusio on the show, he kind of blew me away a little bit when it came
to gut health.
And we were having a conversation off air.
And I told him that sometimes the best that my gut ever is is if I'm sick and I take an
antibiotic, and what I do and I take an antibiotic,
and what I do when I take an antibiotic
is I also take a probiotic.
So if I have to take a moxicillin, let's say 8am,
at 10am, I'll take my probiotic
because I'm trying to keep myself from getting to,
killing everything off too much.
And what happens after two or three days of this
is I have like amazing gut health.
And then that lasts for like two or three weeks
after I'm done with the antibiotics
and then I start to slowly go back to where I was before.
And it didn't make sense to me,
you know, because I know antibiotics aren't good for you, right?
They're not good for your gut, they kill everything.
So I asked them about that and he said,
well, some people, what he's finding is they need to,
what he called trim the bushes.
Yeah, trim the hedges, yeah.
Yeah, trim the hedges are trim the bushes
where you just have a tendency to just have
overgrowth of bacteria and maybe a little bit in the small intestine and all these other
things happening.
And sometimes for these people, and I may be one of them, it's a good idea to kind of bring
everything down a little bit and it feels better.
Even if it's beneficial bacteria, you may have overgrowth.
It just bring everything kind of down a little bit.
So that's the other, that's the main reason why I did the quote unquote
parasite cleanse.
I didn't think I had parasites, but nonetheless since I've been doing it, I've been feeling
absolutely blown away by how amazing I feel.
I don't mean necessarily just performance because that is happening.
I'm feeling better with performance, like strong or more energy.
But I'm also noticing less anxiety, better sleep.
My mood is better, my mind is clear.
Better of course, better gut health,
like all these different things.
And it's kind of tripping me out,
so I do a little bit more research.
Now, you wouldn't consider this an herbal detox though, right?
I mean, you... I was just gonna say... Parasite cleanse is different than a herbal detox though, right? I mean, you,
I was just gonna say,
parasite cleanse is different than a herbal detox.
Well, so I was just gonna say the word specific thing in mind.
Well, the word detox is,
I'm not a fan of that.
It's pretty misleading because it alludes to the fact
that you have toxic and there's toxins in you
and you need to eliminate it.
It reminds me of when,
I forget what it is,
but they test like the bottom of your feet,
and then they say that you have toxic, heavy metals,
materials in the bottom of your feet,
and then they've just cleansed you of that.
You guys know I'm talking about?
Yeah, there's something you soak your feet in.
So fucking stupid.
Yeah, and it draws out the toxins through your feet.
It's all bad science.
So you can have toxins, and when you do, you'll know,
when you go to the doctor, and there's specific ways
to remove those toxins, people have referred
to fasting as detoxing.
So the way they're using it doesn't necessarily mean
detoxing.
I think the way they're using it is like reset.
I don't know.
I mean, I like to use the word reset a little bit better,
but even that is kind of, it's like you're starting over.
So I don't know what the right word we would be to use.
Well, I want, this is where I'm,
why I'm not a fan.
Re-calibrate is when you look at the studies,
when you compare in herbal detox,
whether it be a single day, a seven day, a 14 day,
or whatever that, and you put it up against
like a three day fast,
the markers and the things that change in your body
are almost identical. You get almost
exactly the same benefits just from restraining from food, from a long period of time, that
you do from following some crazy herbal drink protocol.
That's the thing is most of these have the condition that you have to have X, Y, Z to go along with this fast, which is basically,
you're just doing a fast.
Yes.
And so like, I just, as me being the skeptic,
you know, immediately, I mean, well, why do you need
this specific T and all this, you know,
within the process and you're trying to tell me
that you're detoxifying the environment.
I don't know if I believe it.
No doubt, fasting is by itself,
by far the most effective thing you can do.
And it's free.
If you're trying to...
That's why you're...
...hella cheap.
If you're trying to reset, you know,
lower inflammation, reset gut health, you know, balance,
you know, just, it's just by itself
it's one of the best things to do.
Now that being said...
You need purified blood.
That being said, herbs are like medicines. That's why they call it herbal medicine.
Now they're not acutely as powerful as Western medicine. Some of them are, but most of them
aren't. They have kind of balancing, I hate to use these terms again, but they have these
balancing effects. So there's specific herbs that you use for specific things, and a lot
of them are proven to work. And I would recommend going to a functional medicine doctor,
a naturopath, or an herbalist to figure out what those things are for you.
But that all being said, this process that I'm going through really sparked my interest
and so I've done more research and I love looking at old cultures and especially healthy
old cultures and what they've done for rituals for long
periods of time.
Many of these rituals are put in these cultures because they have long term health benefits.
For example, praying before you eat or just respecting your food, you're obviously more
likely to not overeat and you're more likely to eat more consciously when you do that.
So I can see how that's a staple in many cultures or walking, going for a walk after you
eat.
We'll study show that that helps with digestion.
And it's good for you, but lots of cultures do it.
Something else, lots of cultures do is they do fasting and a lot of them do these their
own herbal type of protocols.
There's certain cultures, for example, that will go through periods of time where they eat these pastes made out of pumpkin seeds. I was just reading about the sea of the day.
And the reason why they do this is they do it to treat gut issues. And for many times,
it's to treat parasites. Now, pumpkin seeds, this is a fact, you can look this up. There's an
ingredient or there's a compound in pumpkin seeds that actually paralyzes certain
parasites, like tapeworms.
And so when tapeworms latch on to your gut lining or to your intestines and you pass
your poop or whatever, they latch on and they stick around.
They don't leave.
Well, when you paralyze them with pumpkin seeds, they get paralyzed.
They let go, and
then you poop them out. And so this is why some cultures will do this. Warmwood is another
one. And so it's really fascinating to see how all these cultures have implemented some
of these, you know, quote, unquote, herbal detoxes or methods of eating throughout the season
to rid their body of what they would call toxins,
but it's probably from parasites
or bacterial overgross and all those things.
So you gotta imagine, humans were probably
absolutely riddled with parasites.
Yeah.
Threat.
You just wanna water alone.
I mean, you just are, right?
And they're kind of symbiotic.
They live with our bodies and just like bacteria.
And but humans did certain things to kind of like dogs
will do, you ever notice like dog
when they're feeling cyclical, we eat grass
and do certain things?
And they're enforcing the puke.
Yeah, and so humans have done this for a long time as well.
So my opinion on herbal detoxing is if it's for a specific
reason and you've gone and
seen a professional, they can be pretty effective in herbs, can be a very effective treatments
for chronic disease alongside, in a very, very, by the way, a very good herbalist or
naturopath is unlikely to just give you herbs.
It's never just a like a Western medicine protocol where they're like, okay, take this three times a day
and then you're fine.
What they'll typically do is they'll say,
don't eat this, don't eat that, eat this, move this way.
Oh, and take these herbs.
So that's kind of that holistic approach.
Well, that's why I used to tell people that.
Like when most of these herbal detoxing things,
they come with like a whole, like,
certain, yeah, protocol.
And it's like when you really dive in the protocol
and you look at the fasting and the root,
the workout routine and the amount of water they're having,
like that's where the real benefit's coming from,
is the restriction of all the fucking extra calories,
the movement they're asking you to do,
and the extra fluid that you probably weren't consuming
before, like that right there is the big bang for your buck.
Now, even though I'm knocking it,
this is something that I don't think is gonna hurt a lot of people,
and if you have the money to throw away, and it's not a big deal,
like, and you're like, okay, I just would rather follow something,
or I feel like, you know, if I'm opening a box,
and making a T every, you know, three hours,
that this makes me feel like I'll be consistent with it,
then I guess by all means, right?
I think we can all agree like an herbal detox.
An herbal detox.
I think it's definitely a hurt you.
And I keep saying like go see someone who knows what they're doing with this stuff.
Because if you go and search it online, you're going to find a bunch of Poloni.
But I mean, I'll give you an example.
If you have elevated liver enzymes, for example, by the way, before, if you don't
take my advice because I'm not an herbalist, I'm just talking about, I'm reporting on what
I've actually read and seen in some countries, in some Western developed Western nations
like Germany, for example, Germany has a division of their healthcare.
And I don't even know if they still have it, but they did where they would study herbs
and plants. And that was the first line of recommendation.
So if a patient came in with certain problems, if it wasn't too bad, then the doctor would
recommend diet and herbal protocol.
But like if you example, if you had like elevated liver enzymes, they would recommend certain
dietary changes.
And if that didn't help enough, then they would recommend something like milk fissile,
which milk fissiles got liver detoxifying properties and this is confirmed by lots of
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inflammation of the prostate. And in doing so with that with minimal or no side effects. I mean,
that's what I really like about plants is when you take a plant, you tend to, you have an active
ingredient, but you have all these other things in the plant
that tend to keep it balanced.
So you don't get this extreme effect,
you know, many times, not always, but many times.
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What did you fear most about being a trainer when you started?
That's a tough question.
You fear?
I was, I think I was most scared about training
a like doctor or physician or a PT.
I was, I was nervous about training someone who I felt understood
and knew the body better than me.
That was always, but I also think that same fear
is also what made me a better trainer
because I would go into those, I was super nervous
about those training sessions.
So I would go into that session very prepared.
Like, okay, I'm gonna make sure I put together
a really good program. I'm gonna make sure I put together a really good program.
I'm gonna make sure that I can explain myself very well,
like why I have them doing this
and why I have them eating this way.
So as much as it was a fear,
I also embraced that and I know that that was a big factor
in me evolving as a trainer,
but I would think that has to be one of the most nerve-wracking
things that I remember experiencing as an early trainer when I first started was, oh,
shit, I've got, you know, I'm 22 years old, I just really started learning all this stuff.
I'm barely getting confident in building my programming myself and nutrition.
And here I've got this, you know, 45, 50, something year old, PhD that I have to train tomorrow.
And I'm like, oh, fuck, this is very scary.
Does your ever have one that I, intimidating?
Question, do you encounter, do you while you were training them?
Oh, yeah, no, definitely.
I mean, I had many of times when early, early years
that I got straightened out, saying some bullshit
that wasn't right.
No, I wish I could give you an exact story.
I don't, but I know that.
I know for sure there was time.
But once again, I think that's what,
where you make up a word on accident.
Oh, well, you know me.
I've been,
the anterior rotation of the, you know,
interior, whatever, and the like,
what are you talking about?
Well, I think it only happened maybe once or twice.
And I learned my lesson to lesson to not do that anymore.
And I was better off, and this is what,
and I think I talked about this on an episode
a long time ago that when I started
to get these really brilliant minds,
instead of me going into it and like trying really hard
and trying to sound smarter and do all this shit,
I was like, you know what,
why am I gonna try and pretend?
Like I know more than this motherfucker,
I'm about to help right now.
He hired me, he needs my help somewhere. I'm gonna spend more time asking him questions like what can I do for you?
What what would you what were you what are you looking for from me and then asking him stuff about about the body myself to instead of trying to sound
smarter than what I really was I spent more time
Asking this brilliant mind in front of me questions that I wanted to know that he probably knew and then I would just directly ask him, hey, what is it I could do for you or what
do you want from me to help you?
And so I think once I switched those gears instead of trying to sound a certain way, I did
a lot better with it.
I can identify with that a little bit too.
Just not what you don't know.
So if somebody brings something up and you don't really have that much of a clue,
I know one specific example for me was,
I mean, I didn't do a lot of machine-based training
going through my sports career and training with the team.
I was very versed with barbell training and plyometrics
and all that kind of stuff.
And then I got into more of the gym environment,
the commercial gym environment,
and then machines were the thing.
And so people kind of expected
like these certain machines.
And I remember one time,
I took this poor lady over to this machine
because she really wanted to try it out.
And I was like, all right, yeah, let's do it.
I had her face in the wrong way.
And then some guy came up and he was like, bro, and he was a total bro. And he was like all right, yeah, let's do it. I had her like face in the wrong way I'm like some guy came up and he's like bro and like he was a total bro
And he was like like teaching her like right in front of me like punking me. Oh, no. Oh my god
I got so insecure after that like that do you remember stuck with me? Do you remember the machine what it was?
I don't I don't really remember well. It was like a preacher
In my
Preacher girl. It, no, in my preacher curl.
No, no, no, it was good of all backwards on the moon.
No, God, what was it?
It was like a hack squat kind of machine.
And I had her face in like the other way.
She was just, oh shit, it'd be like,
yeah, you know, you're right.
That's the way to do it.
But I like to do it this way because I know I,
like, now I would do that.
I'm saying back then, I was so insecure already, you know,
like trying to like provide the best service.
And like I knew everything, like I stuck in my wheelhouse. Yeah, and I mean and and so once I started to kind of like
broaden, you know, my workouts and now, you know, it's funny that that didn't fly back then, but
nowadays people do shit all the time stupid shit that I see in the gym now I'm like, oh they're
being creative. Oh totally. Yeah, totally. Now it's like, I got, I got schooled.
Oh, look, they're using the hip,
the leg extension for hip threads.
Well, I, you know, this, you know what,
I'm glad this came up because we should address this.
I saw this on the forum.
Did you see this thread on the forum?
This is actually a really popular thread.
Somebody, somebody posted, somebody doing the leg push downs
on the, oh, the dip machine, the way this,
and the grab truck. And well, I have a couple of things I want to say one.
I don't like when we're you know, punking somebody that's that's doing
some of that like I don't I don't want to make fun of a particular
per exactly a particular person where I where I would take a photo of
them and single them out for doing a stupid exercise like that.
But I do like to address how stupid an exercise
like that is.
So you get educated.
Exactly.
So what I was not a fan of was the thread,
a picture of somebody doing it,
and then it turned into this like half the people
are defending the person.
It's like, oh, don't make fun of them for doing that.
The other half the people are like, no, that's really stupid.
So I want to just put that out there that one.
I'm not a fan of us ever pointing something out
like that at a single person or making fun of them
because for all you know, they got it from somebody
who they think is really smart
or is really reputable in the fitness industry
and told them to do that.
And they don't know any better, right?
So I'm more, I'm more going after the people that have.
Yes, if you're an influencer and you're teaching a move like that, it's ridiculous.
And the irony of it is most girls are doing it to build a butt.
And if you look, if you understand biomechanics,
the exercise is way more hip flexor and quad dominant
than it is even glute dominant.
So to do it to isolate the glutes is already a silly move.
It's more about a million exercises that are more effective.
Yes.
Then using a machine that that's not even what it's designed for.
Yeah, exactly.
You're preoccupying somebody else's use by doing.
Why don't you just step up on something?
Why push a platform down that's designed to support your weight when you do pull ups and dips?
Why don't you just step up on something?
And it would be far more beneficial to do that.
Way more beneficial.
A step up will have way more carryover for the glutes, way more functional carryover, burn more calories, build more muscle.
So if you're out there and you're doing that silly move, stop doing it.
It is not that you're wasting your time.
If you're doing that for 10, 15 minutes, you could be spending 10 to 15 minutes
doing a ton of other movements that would be far more beneficial than the booty.
Way more effective.
The original question about fear, so you know, it's funny, maybe because I was so young,
because I was 18 when I first became a personal trainer,
and I was so passionate about working out,
especially in gyms, I was in gyms since I was maybe 15,
that I, you know, I had zero fear of the entire process
to the point where even before I got certified,
I got clients to wait for me to get certified.
So I'd sign them up and I told them,
I'll be certified in two weeks and then they waited for me.
So that whole process, I had no fear,
but I do remember one particular moment
that was probably the first time I fucked up
with a client.
And it's because I got cocky. Like I was, like I said, I went in,
I was super confident, loved it.
So I had zero, absolutely zero anxiety and fear over it.
And I trained people, I got real successful real quick.
Probably my second month as a trainer
that was one lady, I'll never forget,
her name was Wendy.
If you're listening, Wendy.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Yeah, you have a great burger.
So I trained her and she was a school teacher.
That's what came to mind when Wendy came out.
Yeah.
There's a lot of Wendy's.
I'm hungry right now.
So you know what that just reminds me of?
First, these is when you get directions from somebody
and they give you like fast food markers, like,
okay, go down and you'll see
me turn left of the curls yeah McDonald's is gonna be on your ride and you go a little bit further
from there and then you'll see KFC on the left and then you're gonna circle back around flip a you turn
right over by Taco Bell and say yeah yeah under the overpass well so she so this wasn't the windy
but she was a client of mine Wendy and I got cocky and so I'd have her come in and warm up
but she was a client of mine Wendy and I got cocky and so I'd have her come in and warm up for like five to ten minutes on cardio and then I'd go grab her and then we'd go work out.
Well, I was cocky, right? I'm like the top trainer in the gym already,
fucking doing all whatever. And I lost track of time.
I lost track of time so she was on there for like 15 minutes warming up.
So she walks, she gets off the cardio and I'm bullshitting with another trainer.
She walks over to me and she gives me this dirty look and I'm like, I walk over to her and she goes,
I'm not paying you to hang around so I could do cardio and she walks into the weight area.
So I walk after her to trainer and it was like, holy fuck, like I totally fucked up.
And I remember from that moment on, I was very, very, like I paid very close attention
to my client's time and I really respected them.
But because I was new and I was a kid
and I got cocky and then she checked me so hard.
Like I felt like the biggest idiot.
Like I felt like an asshole.
Like what am I doing?
Why did I leave her out there?
That was a huge learning experience.
That was a major pep.
That's good, she checked you.
Yeah, right now it was good. That was good. That was a major pet. That's good. She checked you.
Yeah, right now, that was good.
That was a bit off.
They didn't say anything.
They don't say anything.
They just don't reassign with you.
I know some show that.
That was a major pet peeve of mine with trainers.
Like I was like, absolutely not.
Absolutely not.
Are you allowed to stand next to your client
where they fucking do 10 to 15 minutes of warming up?
That's like, you don't need a, they do not need to be paying you for 15 minutes of warming up, that's like, you don't need a daydream. They do not need to be paying you
for 15 minutes of elliptical.
And some of them would push that,
20, 30 minutes of the film to say,
and then have him run laps in the gym.
Yeah, in between sets.
Well, I think I shared that story with you guys
when I was running boot camps.
I had a boot camps on that.
Trainers working for me.
And I remember, I dropped in one thing,
I cruised in every once in a while,
dropped in on my camps, obviously to see how my trainers
are running camps.
And one of the trainers that was running one of these camps that I had built up, I showed
up and he's like standing out there on the basketball court by himself and I'm like,
where the fuck are all our clients?
He's like, oh, they're on a run.
I'm like, what do you mean they're on a run?
I'm checking my face.
He's like, oh, I sent him to, and he tells me with a marker and I'm like, that's like
fucking three miles
Dude out there like are you kidding me? Like you sent him on a six mile run before like they're not gonna be back for 40 minutes
Journey and you just chill back will do like you I don't know five pushups you chill over here
But they go run for 45 minutes and you go at 15 minutes of stretching at the end
And they're done with their are you fucking kidding me like never again, are you allowed to do that? Today's workout, go run.
Yeah, go here and then come back.
Like, that was so bad.
I'll get lost.
Some trainers, man, I tell you what,
it's just like anything else though, right?
You get comfortable in a job,
you start cutting corners and stuff, so.
I guess.
Journey to jacked.
Is it possible to listen to music
and listen to your body in the gym?
I heard people say it destroys the
connection with your body and I have never heard you guys discuss this. This is funny.
This is actually a very good question. No, it's a good question and it's funny to think
that somebody would think that it would destroy a connection. Well, think about it this way.
Are there different types of music that you listen to, that you guys listen to,
depending on the type of exercise and activity.
Well, yeah, I'll change it around,
based off of course, if I need to really get
that CNS like charged up.
Exactly, like if you're gonna lift super heavy
and go nuts, you're probably gonna listen to like more
heavy metal and something like, right?
If you're gonna go do stretching or warming up
or hiking or-
You might listen to more chill stuff.
So this is actually a very, very good question.
And I can see how,
because I've done this before.
That's a no-brainer though.
Let me tell you guys a story.
So when I had my gym that I own,
I would work out, and it was great,
because I would work out there on my own.
In the middle of the day, sometimes there would be no clients,
so I'd turn the lights off,
and I'd do these crazy workouts.
Well, at this particular point, I think I might have been training for a jujitsu tournament.
So I was doing these interval-type training.
So I'd lift heavy and then I'd do these intervals, and I kind of designed this program to get
me ready for this tournament.
Well, I was playing the soundtrack to Rocky IV, which I mean, we literally could have said that.
Yeah, you should have asked it.
Exactly.
Which one do you think?
And so, so this is why this is funny.
So I put Rocky IV on and whenever I had the Rocky IV soundtrack, especially the montage
music, I like, I just, I can picture myself like I'm fighting the Russian, right?
So I'm like, go on crazy.
And I hurt myself.
And the reason why this is funny is because that is the third time I hurt myself
listening to the Rocky soundtrack.
Because...
Amps you up way too much.
Because it literally...
Pits you in that moment.
And I didn't, the way I explained it before was the music got me so pumped that I pushed
myself too hard.
But now that I'm reading the question, it really did was it made me ignore my body
I didn't I disconnected from my body because I'm so fucking driven by this music that I'm so connected to
Okay, that I pushed past where I should have and I hurt myself
I know you mentioned that like there's times I have done that where I'm like
Getting really into like like a song that's just driving me
to fucking press more weight.
And yeah, I've hurt my shoulder before too.
Well, for me, man, being in the gym, music playing in my ear,
like, this is why too.
I remember when I first started using the big headphones
and people were making fun of me.
Over here, yeah. People were making such a big difference. Yeah, I remember doing I first started using the big headphones and people were making fun. Over here?
Yeah.
People were making such a big difference.
Yeah, I remember doing that early on.
But you DJ's in the gym now.
And everybody was making fun of me to do it for doing that.
And I was like, and Katrina still trips out to this day because she's like, you didn't
see that hot girl or you didn't see that.
I'm like, when I'm in the gym, that's like church for me, man.
And I am in such a flow state and music is a very big part
of that for me. I can just the big headphones drowns out any noise around me so I don't hear the
clang away. I don't hear people laughing and joking about their weekend and stuff. I literally see
what's in front of me and what I'm focusing on currently and I hear this tune in my in my head and
it's just it helps me dive so deep into being connected with my
body. It is the furthest thing from being distracted. And if anything like I've been
heard or had issues from not having music and hearing other people talking or looking at
something and being distracted from all the other things that are going on in the gym and actually
tuning out everything but the music,
the melody in my ears is so much easier for me to actually stay connected and stay focused.
But you're pretty careful with what music you pick depending on what you're going to
do or what kind of tempo or pace, right?
Yes and no.
I think there's pretty much to.
Well, let me ask you this.
You know, I do cool.
Like in my, one of my clients actually suggested this.
People have asked this before what our playlists are and all that.
We could easily put together a Spotify collective list for your heavier, more intensified days,
and then your story of days and mobility.
Your priming part, I bet you could come up with some cool sound tracks.
So what I like to do when I, if when I'm priming
or warming up stretching, whatever,
is I like to listen to Brain FM Focus.
No brainer.
Brain FM Focus for that part of my workout is amazing.
And it does make me connect more.
I don't like listening to it as much as I like listening
to heavy shit when I'm lifting heavy. and it's funny because I'll even wait for the right moment of a song to start a set
Like I'll get under the bar and I'm waiting for frickin rage against the machine
I'm waiting for that shit to hit the right moment and then I unwrap and I go yeah and lift that weight or
There's certain types of hip hop that I'll listen to
Like two-pock when I want wanna do more of a slow paste resistance
training type workout where I'm doing my sets
and I'm pacing myself and I'm trying to get
like a good pump or whatever, then I'll listen to that.
So it's funny when you first read this question Justin,
I was like, that's the silly question.
Yeah, I thought about it.
I'm like, no, wait, that's a really question.
No, no, I know.
It seems silly at first.
I think Brain FM to me is for the,
the prime, Brain FM for priming or yoga and meditate
because it has a great meditation section too.
So those two, I think are for that or if I'm lifting heavy,
like you said, I can listen to almost anything
that will amp me up.
So heavy metal, even like,
if I'm in like cruising through my workout,
I can listen to hip hop.
What's music running? I have a totally different playlist. Oh, true.
Yeah, definitely. What music or song are you most likely to hurt yourself over?
Like what what song like is the like you'll listen to and be like okay I'm gonna go break some
shit now. Like I know you guys yesterday don't mean shit by a pantera. Yeah. That one's fucking
great. That one's fucking gets me going.
Probably killing in the name of for Rage Against Me.
I'll show you one too.
Oh yeah, that's a great one.
What's the song, God, I can't believe I can't remember
the name of it.
It's the Rage Against The Machine song that was at the end
of the Matrix, when Neo flies off and it's done,
no, no, no, no.
Pull it in your head, pull it.
No, no, it's not pull it your head.
It's the Godzilla one then, right?
Is it freedom?
No, no, those are all freedom.
That's like a favorite all time.
Those are all so good, but I can't remember it.
I'll have to come back to it.
Next question there.
Bull's on parade.
Those are all good, but there's that one song.
There's that one song that makes me lose my shit.
But the answer to the question is that, you know,
it can destroy your connection.
It really is to each their own, right?
I really feel like everybody is uniquely different.
I know some people that...
Yeah, people get charged up by different.
Yeah, and I think if you feel like...
Wake up, wake up, wake up.
Wake up, wake up.
That one right there, I reserve for special occasions.
Yeah, I feel like if it works for you, then absolutely do it.
If you feel like the music is distracting you, then either one probably change the music
you're listening to or two, like get rid of the music.
So I think everyone's different.
That's B-Fram.
If you did have to lose weight fast, how would you do it?
Oh, nice little trick question.
I would put a disclaimer.
Yes, so here's a little disclaimer.
I'm gonna explain what I would do
if I had to lose weight fast,
don't do this, because it's not an effective long-term strategy,
and I wouldn't, I wouldn't recommend anybody do this,
but the question is, if I had to lose weight very fast,
how would I do it?
Well, step one, because I'm trying to lose weight on the scale,
I go low calorie and I go very, very, very, very,
low carbohydrate.
Like no carbohydrate, my protein intake would be pretty high
and my fat intake would be moderate.
So it wouldn't even be keto,
because my fat wouldn't be super high.
I wouldn't feel very good,
but I'd lose lots of weight, lots of water weight,
as well, very, very quickly.
So in a week's period of time,
I would see the scale go down quickly.
The second thing I would do is I would do cardio several times a day.
So I'd do cardio in the morning.
I'm already in cardio diet because somebody's like writing this down right now.
I know.
And that's what I would do.
And it would work very, very quickly within a two week period.
I would also rebound very quickly after stopping that.
And I'd probably damage my metabolic system a little bit as well.
Justin, what would you do?
Well, I mean, I would start by like, abusing the whole fasting part of it.
Right.
Yeah, fast for like a couple of days.
And then like right out of that, I would start charging obviously low carbohydrate and
just like cells kind of describing.
But you know, like for for me it's high intensity
cardio that really like triggers that response to start shedding the weight. So you know for
me that was my go-to if I was like I gotta get I gotta lose weight like you know really fat.
I got you know that was kind of like a go-to and then we got a lot smarter.
kind of like I go to and then we got a lot smarter.
I, uh, for me, this is actually a really easy question because getting ready for a show requires
that I have this ability to turn, turn up a notch or be able to like get my body ready at a specific time, you know, so I would be very mathematical about this and we'll use
current numbers and where I'm at right now
and how I would do it differently from what I'm doing right now.
So right now if you're watching my Instagram and my InstaStory, you can watch the slow
correct process to doing this.
But if I knew like, okay, I have to do it as fast as I can, as fast as I can would change
based off of what you told me.
So if you set Adam as fast as you can for two weeks, as fast as you can would change based off of what you told me. So if you set Adam as fast as you can for two weeks,
as fast as you can for four weeks,
as fast as you can for six weeks,
the answer would be different for each of those.
And this is why.
If you were to take an approach that was six weeks long
and you said as fast as you possibly could
and I was right out the gates, restricted to 1500 calories
and did cardio twice a day.
That would be great for the first week or two,
and I'd see some great change,
but then the last four weeks, my body would slow up
like crazy, and I'd see very, very small change.
So I would break down off of how many weeks
that I have to be ready by and off of that.
So an example of where I'm at right now, 3,500 calories to 3,800 is about my maintenance right now.
So what I would do if this was like two to four weeks,
each day I would slightly restrict.
So I'd probably take away about 200 calories.
I would slightly increase my volume in the training room.
So I would probably add a couple sets to all my,
a set to every exercise or a couple sets in the total amount
of exercises in that workout.
And I would slowly increase either steps or cardio
every single day.
So just a little bit.
So let's say day one is whatever it is,
what it is, then day two, I come in,
I do
10 more minutes of cardio I do
100 less calories that day I do two more sets of exercises and each day I add on that just a little bit All the way up into whatever my day is that I'm trying to be ready for
That way and I make sure that I leave room for that. Like so if it's over the course of six weeks,
I need to know that, okay.
You're not gonna end up with five hours of cardio.
Exactly and I'm not gonna end up at zero calories, right?
So I can't, I don't wanna go from a guy who eats
four thousand.
A smarter than the way I was gonna do it.
Four thousand, well I, so like,
let's beat the shit out of myself, you know.
This is a very,
everything it takes.
Very realistic thing for me to have to be able to do
when you're getting ready for state.
This is what I loved about competing was this,
was being able to be strategic about, okay, Adam,
you have to get on stage in 10 weeks
and you're currently 15% body fat.
What does that look like?
And so, and this is kind of like what I think is wrong
with a lot of the competitors out there,
is they hire these coaches and these coaches just like restrict them on calories and blast
them on cardio and blast them on high volume training right out the gates all the way
till then and they do get in good shape.
But what ends up happening is they plateau way earlier than they should because they came
they threw everything in the kitchen sink at their body right out the gates and that's
not what you want to do.
What you want to do is just you want to do is just, you want to slowly add volume.
You want to slowly restrict calories.
You want to slowly add cardio time.
And that way each time your body is having to adapt
to a new amount of volume, a new amount of cardio.
And then you won't plateau.
You'll just see a little bit of change
every single day, all the way till then.
So.
Yeah, I mean, you know, that all being said,
we were, I mean, you know, that all being said, we were doing it slowly is effective, more
effective for your body on a physiological level, but it's also more effective mentally.
And you're less likely to stick to something that is a dramatic drastic change than you
are to something that is a small subtle change.
Well, I didn't see any of that in the question.
So you know, it was just like, how would you lose weight quickly? I mean, if I said something kind of rationale behind it,
it would be a totally different answer. Yeah, I just want to say what I'm saying because I want to make
sure, because what's going to happen? Here's what's going to happen. Doug's going to title this. It's
going to say lose weight fast. People are going to click on it to learn how to lose weight as fast as
possible. And so now we have to redirect. We want to give them the right information.
And doing anything, trying to do anything,
crash course is the worst long-term strategy of all time.
You will not do well long-term.
And in fact, you may actually cause yourself more harm
to where when you gain the weight back,
it becomes even harder to lose
at the second or third time or whatever.
Yeah, if you're watching the process
that I'm going through right now,
you will see me do this in a very healthy, balanced way.
And that is the goal is for me to reduce body fat
as fast as I possibly can,
but in a smart strategic way that's sustainable,
so that when I get there,
I can hold that weight or weight
that body fat percentage for as long as I want to versus,
can I get in faster shape in two weeks
than I did going the other way?
So I think that the big mistake that a lot of people make,
and like I said, I see this in competing all the time
is this all at once, that is not a smart strategy.
The body is just,
Adam. It just doesn't work very well.
It's very, very smart,
and it figures out what you're trying to do to it,
really get a really small window.
And it gets very efficient, really quick,
and this is where most people just say,
fuck it, because they go like,
man, I am pounding my way at myself.
You'll see great results.
You know, right out of the gates
with this high intensity mentality,
but yeah, you just, it'll burn burn out and your body will adapt to that.
Now you're in a whole new set of problems.
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