Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 634: Fish Oil Supplements, Meditation Tools, Post Pregnancy Training & MORE

Episode Date: November 8, 2017

Organifi Quah! iTunes Review Winners! In this episode of Quah, sponsored by Organifi (organifi.com, code "mindpump" for 20% off), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about the recommended MAPS program for a woman to follow after recovering from a C-section, the value of fish oil as a supplement for general health and well being, what their lives would look like in a perfect world and how they practice mediation and what tools they use. “Big Mouth” = Classic (6:39) YouTube Stars and being natural entertainers (9:00) “Live” Thrive Market shopping (11:51) Pancake Mix Jerky Macadamia nuts Becoming more aware (15:30) Old strongmen manuals and their programming (20:18) Abandon the body part split Quah question #1 – What MAPS program would you recommend women use to recover after a C-section procedure? (33:45) Quah question #2 – What is your opinion on fish oil as a general supplement and wellbeing? (47:06) Quah question #3 – In a perfect world, what would your life look like? (56:53) Quah question #4 – Can you talk about how you practice meditation and what tools do you use? (1:06:15) Related Links/Products Mentioned: Big Mouth | Netflix Official Site Organifi (Official Mind Pump sponsor) Coupon Code "mindpump" for 20% off Thrive Market (Official Mind Pump sponsor) One FREE month’s membership $20 off your first three purchases of $49 or more (That’s $60 off total!) Free shipping on orders of $49 or more Save The Bros campaign (YouTube) Paul Anderson tribute (YouTube) Shrink Your Waist with Stomach Vacuums – (YouTube) MAPS Prime/Prime Pro/Anabolic (Red) Mind Pump TV (YouTube) - How to Build 6-Pack Abs (series) Rising Cost of OB/GYN Medical Malpractice Insurance (article) 10 Wonderful Benefits of Sardines Cod liver oil – Wikipedia The Weston A. Price Foundation: Home The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho Brain.fm 10 free sessions! Music for the brain for incredible focus, sleep and naps! Also includes 20% if you purchase! Wim Hof on Spotify Box Breathing: Techniques, Benefits, and More  People Mentioned: Paul Anderson (weightlifter) Dr. David Minkoff, MD Dr. Joseph Mercola (@mercola)  Twitter Chris Kresser (@chriskresser)  Twitter Robb Wolf (@robbwolf)  Twitter Arnold (@Schwarzenegger)  Twitter Larry Scott (bodybuilder) Ben Pakulski (@ifbbbenpak)  Instagram Grace Barga (@gracebarga)  Instagram Wim Hof (@Iceman_Hof)  Twitter Also check out Thrive Market! Thrive Market makes purchasing organic, non-GMO affordable. With prices up to 50% off retail, Thrive Market blows away most conventional, non-organic foods. PLUS, they offer a NO RISK way to get started which includes: 1. One FREE month’s membership 2. $20 Off your first three purchases of $49 or more (That’s $60 off total!) 3. Free shipping on orders of $49 or more How can you go wrong with this offer? To take advantage of this offer go to www.thrivemarket.com/mindpump Would you like to be coached by Sal, Adam & Justin? You can get 30 days of virtual coaching from them for FREE at www.mindpumpmedia.com. Get our newest program, MAPS Prime Pro, which shows you how to self assess and correct muscle recruitment patterns that cause pain and impede performance and gains. Get it at www.mindpumpmedia.com! Get MAPS Prime, MAPS Anywhere, MAPS Anabolic, MAPS Performance, MAPS Aesthetic, the Butt Builder Blueprint, the Sexy Athlete Mod AND KB4A (The MAPS Super Bundle) packaged together at a substantial DISCOUNT at www.mindpumpmedia.com. Make EVERY workout better with MAPS Prime, the only pre-workout you need… it is now available at mindpumpmedia.com Have Sal, Adam & Justin personally train you via video instruction on our YouTube channel, Mind Pump TV. Be sure to Subscribe for updates. Get your Kimera Koffee at www.kimerakoffee.com, code "mindpump" for 10% off! Get Organifi, certified organic greens, protein, probiotics, etc at www.organifi.com Use the code “mindpump” for 20% off. Go to foursigmatic.com/mindpump and use the discount code “mindpump” for 15% off of your first order of health & energy boosting mushroom products. Add to the incredible brain enhancing effect of Kimera Koffee with www.brain.fm/mindpump 10 Free sessions! Music for the brain for incredible focus, sleep and naps! Also includes 20% if you purchase! 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 (@mindpumpmedia) look for the QUAH post and input your question there. (Sal, Adam & Justin will answer as many questions as they can)

If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, with your hosts. Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. In this episode of Mind Pump, for the first 27 minutes, Adam Justin and myself have some fun conversation. We talk about one of our favorite new shows on Netflix, Big Mouth. It's all about hormones.

Oh boy. Hornsiness. Super inappropriate. Period. All kinds of stuff. Better caution that yeah, exactly. Super inappropriate. Yeah, if you don't like, it's very South Park,

meets Simpsons, meets. Times 10. Yeah, family guy, times 10. We also talk about some of the YouTube fitness stars that we met over the weekend. Quite interesting, you know, these people really understand how to use YouTube to communicate whatever information they're communicating. So some interesting stuff there. We talk about Thrive Market, our sponsor, and we actually order some stuff on air because

we figured, hey, we get stuff from Thrive Market. Why not make Mind Pump Media the company pay for it? Yeah, let's get it here. So smart. In the studio. Now I get free stuff. By the way, if you go to thrivemarket.com-flour-slash-mind-pump, here's what you'll get.

Free shipping on $49 or more. And $20 off the first three orders of $49 or more, plus one month free membership. Thrive market likes mind pump so much. They basically said, we're going to hook up all your listeners like crazy. So that's what you get. The generous. That's right.

We also talk about our screwed up food supply. That'll freak out a little bit. We talk about old time muscle building programming. It's an interesting conversation. I, over the weekend, I was going over some old time strong men, Paul Anderson is one of them. And it's pretty fascinating how they trained very different from the way bodybuilders and stuff like to train today.

Also, we mentioned Organify, which is our other sponsor, Organify makes organic supplements, protein powders, green juice, so it's just actually one of our favorite ones, believe it or not, that was the one we were most apprehensive of, and yet that's the one we're drinking the most of every single day. If you go to organifyshop.com, enter the code Mind Pump,

you'll get 20% off pretty much anything. And then we get into the questions. The first question was, somebody's asking us what maps program would be best for a woman who just had a C section. So she's trying to get herself moving, starting to get back into shape, which maps program will be best for somebody

who just had a baby. Lots of unqualified pregnancy advice right there. From us. Because we've been pregnant a bunch of times. We're men. You can't get pregnant that way. How many, how many pregnant, I've trained a lot. Oh, I know, I have a lot. I've just pregnant a bunch of days. Well, man, you take your pregnant man. You take your pregnant man. How many, how many pregnant, I've trained a lot.

Oh, I know, I have a lot of time. I just, a lot of time. And you've tried to get people pregnant right around you. Right, many, many times. The next question was, what was our opinion on fish oil as a supplement for general health and well-being not as a beard oil as Adam likes to use? Find out if you should take it right away.

That's what we've been doing. The next question was, in a beard oil, as Adam likes to use. Find out if you should take it right away. That's why we spent it. The next question was, in a perfect world, what would our lives look like? Sal's already perfect. Yep, pretty much symmetrical face and everything. More unicorns. The last question was, we talk about meditation quite a bit on the show. How do we meditate?

Like, how do we do it? Do we use apps? Do we use music? I get away from you guys. It's just in failing at this. Does he burn incense? Find out in this episode also. Like, oh, my la la la.

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You know what I think I think a lot of these lovely ladies you've been talking to, Sam. Sam, it's over. Sam and his silver tongue. I've been reaching out to a lot of these podcasts that have large female audiences because I think when they look at Mind Pump, you know, they see three dudes. Like a bunch of gibbonies.

Yeah, and they think, oh, what are they gonna talk about? So we send Sal and because he's the most feminine at all three of us. He's got that talk to the ladies. That's ladies, set it up, get him over here. Yeah, if you mean intelligent. Yeah. That's exactly what we mean.

So we're going to give out seven shirts this week. Oh, shit, hook it him up. Yeah. So first up is Jonathan Faye M.D. That's not a girl. I like that guy. Yeah, yeah. Sam Well 25.'s not a girl. I like that guy. Yeah, yeah. Sam well 25 could be a girl.

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Oh, so good. You guys got back, came back and introduced your girls to it yet? Yeah, I mean my girl watching every episode. Yeah, hilarious. Dude, it's so inappropriate. It's great. It's so bad. It's good.

It's too much to win the girls. Hormone Monster shows up because she starts, she's too much. It's so inappropriate. It's great. It's so bad. It's too much to when the girls hormone monster shows up because she starts, she's going through puberty. And the, her like, she gets all emotional and shit. And she's talking about like the things that turn around and they include like sometimes I'm turned on by the clouds and sometimes I'm turned on by a book and my girl is cracking up.

Yeah. She's like, that's so true, dude, when you start going through that. And then she's like, crying and freaking out and hates her mom all of a sudden. Fuck. Yeah. It's pretty damn good. I don't want that to happen. Yeah.

I was wondering if they nailed that side of it, too. That's why I was Courtney watching it, you know, to see if like, the male side, it's like, it's so obvious. They nailed the pillow, like, you know, like, banging the pillow and like it's so I'm so happy to have the pillow like you know I've been in the pillow and getting it pregnant. Oh God. It's a terrible classic Everybody's done it. Just it's like I've got at least three pillows pregnant Justin He's like I've had three pillows pregnant my life. Justin. Yeah, it's not it's not classic

It's not classic. I get rid of him. It's actually not that classic. No, it's a classic move. It's been written. Yeah, and then it's his brother. Yeah, brother, brother did it with the pillow. Oh, yeah. That's terrible. You know, the first time I watched it, it's like one of those times, where you almost feel guilty watching it, because it's so but raunchy and bad.

I'm like, oh my God, this is fucking so inappropriate. And then after about the second one, I'm eased in. I'm like, oh my God, this is fucking so inappropriate. And then after about the second one, I'm eased in. I'm like, this is great. It makes me feel better about what we talk about. And I think so far. That's comedy dude. Comedy needs to be this way.

Yeah, stretch it out. No, I like when comedians and shows like that push boundaries. I think we were now in this society where everybody is so overly fucking sensitive, dude. Oh, you're always looking over your shoulder. Before you even talk. It drives me crazy, man.

It's like, fuck everybody, so, so sensitive, man. Relax. Yeah, calm the fuck down, dude. Wimps. Yeah. Wimps. We're breeding all these pussy. A bunch of wimps.

Like, insane, appropriate. Man, this shit, we used to go through when we were kids. Yeah. Oh, it's terrible. Could you imagine being, we had this weekend where we had Conner and those guys in here. Could you imagine being that his age, that fit and good looking and that much attention from girls and making that kind

of money, that kid has got to be, yeah. That's the hell of a time, I'm sure. Well, it's like you see maybe a curse. Maybe a person, those guys, like how they deal with it. Like at a time. I'm sure. Well, you see maybe it can be burned. Those guys like how they deal with it. Like it's at a certain point when it gets to like ridiculous money and all that kind of stuff. Like it's just it just becomes like this weird surreal reality. I would love to talk to a girl or two really that has dated that has dated him. Because what I think everybody who's obviously a huge fan, they all see this kind of facade, right?

This guy that's like ultra confident, and he's the complete opposite of that, right? Yeah, in person, he's all quiet and so. Super-reserved, yeah. More of an intro. So I wonder how many girls like think they're getting that guy, right? And they meet him and they're like,

what the fuck? But I can kind of identify with that a little bit as he was talking because, you know, there's something about that when you are in front of a camera or just like in front of a group of friends and you're trying to like entertain, it's a different operating system. Oh, it definitely plays into your personality.

I think you have the most in common, ironically. I know, right? It's like totally not, but yeah, but as far as that aspect is concerned, I'm not introverted, but at the same time, I do have those types of, you know, I am reserved and listen a lot to the group, but then if it's an entertainment, like I'm all in.

Right, so yeah, it's interesting. I have a tough time when I think I'm just entertaining. If I'm informing, I feel like I'm in my element, but when it's like, hey, go entertain, Sal. Yeah. I don't know what to do. Let's talk about science. Even informing to me is weird on the YouTube

and the InstaStory. It's just not, I'm so used to talking to humans. I can put me on a stage in front of hundreds of people. No big deal. No big deal. Room, tons of people I don't know, no big deal. Put me in front of a of people, no big deal. No big deal. Room, tons of people, I don't know, no big deal. Put me in front of a camera by myself, talking to just a camera, and also,

it's like weird for me. I have a really hard time. Well, that's the first thing I noticed too, these kinds of characters that were me, like they just, it becomes this extra thing that they're talking to. It's like easy, and they navigate in it. It becomes part of how they they converse every day. It's like these people that they're talking to

you know over the social media. It's like that's part of their every day thing. And then you see how like easy and like fluid it is for them because it's been I'm sure it's been a lot of practice. fluid it is for them, because I'm sure it's been a lot of practice. It comes to people naturally sometimes. Sometimes, yeah. If I'm talking and informing in front of a camera, it's not a problem at all. It's the whole entertaining thing that kind of throws me off. That's when we throw in Justin.

Throw in the cock. Yeah, do some summer sauce. Are we going to do some thrive market shopping right now? Let's go. Didn't we agree that this is how we're going to do this is like Doug. He is in a shop for us like every week This is how we so that what we did was is all of us were like hey Thrive market great prices on organic products however

how can we also Not save even more money and the way we decided to do this make the company pay for it so Brilliant welcome to thrive market segment on this not save even more money. And the way we decided to do this make the company pay for it. So, brilliant. Welcome to Thrive Market segment on this Q&A episode. We are now online at Thrive Market. So the first product I would like to order are the Paleo Pancake mix from Birch Benders. Look, that shit up.

Great choice. They, that shit up. Great choice. They are delicious pancakes mix, and then they have another one that's gluten free. What's we'll take a look at. So you can see there, there's the protein pancake. Oh, they have a protein one. Look at that, Adam. That one's got way in it though.

But look at that. 499 for 16 ounce. I can have the way. I'll take Doug. Okay, so if you're gonna do that one, I'd like to try the way one. Okay, so you get one of those, and then let's look at, hold on a second,

scroll down more. That's only 499. Oh, you know what? It's cheap. For me, Doug, get me the gluten-free pancake one. So it's one down, right there, 479. It's cheaper than yours, Adam. Bro, you know how much that cost at the store for this pancake?

It's 10, 12 bucks. Yeah, at least. The cheapest I've seen is like seven bucks. So we got that, so what are you gonna get Justin? You wanna get some jerky? Of course. Yeah. Honestly, if I'm gonna snack, it's either nuts or jerky, so it's one or the other.

So let's look at the options for... It's why your poop sticks to the toilet. Why did they don't have the same protein? How come they don't have images for some? I think it's because the Doug's computer is slow motion. I want the new primal spicy grass-fed jerky. No it's down Doug. Right there's five, five, seven, nine for a two ounce bag. That sounds good. Normally, 759, 24% savings. Look at the epic mountain. If you go back, Doug. That's a popular brand.

If you go back, you guys ever eat the epic mountain brand? Yeah. Okay, so look how much it costs right here, watch. Ooh, look at epic buys and bacon with crambars. Hey, bro, you already got your shit. I'm just saying now Let me listen a lot of options here. I thought I was just I got mine. You got yours. Justin just picked this You know we need for the studio. Yeah, it's Well, bro slow down here

Slow down here, Adam went already went sourd when he's still going though Let Doug get his and we're good to go. Yeah, what do you gonna get this doesn't mean to be a 30-minute thrive market commercial Already take care of our sponsors. I just want to get our shit. Let's rock and roll man All right, let's look. I want to see oh macadamia milk Fort on each four dollars and nineteen said what do you do with the macadamia milk by the way you use you put in cereal? I don't really eat cereal as a general rule, but I'll use it and say a smoothie, for example, or just drink it. It's tasty.

I like Macademi nuts are my favorite nuts. How about you guys? I like my own nuts. Yeah, personally. That's gross. Well, I think I see my favorite. Doesn't, doesn't, does it? I mean, I like almonds.

Salty. No, I'm a little, yeah. Pistachio. I'm a pistachio guy. I think I need the most like, uh, sprayed. What, almonds? Yeah. You gotta go organic, dude.

Yeah, I know. We'll die. You wanna know what's annoying? Well, here's what's annoying. I'm gonna tell you guys straight up what's annoying. It's, there's a, there's a difficult part to this job. You ruined already, because you talked to fucking that. Well, I talked to, I know, and Minkoff already.

I talked to life, I say. I'm scared, even organic. Even organic, you know. Bro, I gotta die. Bro, I talked to Dr. Mink. I don't know if the life is safe. I'm scared even organic. Bro, I gotta die. Bro, I talked to Dr. Meekhoff. I talked to Dr. Mercola. I talked to, who's he like, I talked to? Oh, bush.

Dr. Bush. I am bush, or? And these are, by the way, these are legit doctors. They're not like just wellness experts. These are like board certified physicians. Dr. Bush in particular is a triple board certified doctor than lots of research on cancer. Extremely rare dude, who the hell does that?

Yeah, crazy, right? He's crazy, you're crazy Dr. Bush. But anyway, these are smart dudes and they're doing legit studies. So it's not just hearsay, they're doing actual trials and stuff like that. And they scare me. Because I hear all this stuff and I'm like,

we're fucked dude, everything. It is true, we are kind of fucked. But then they're and like, if you're a consumer, right, and you're a listener, like, how do you handle this? And I we I feel like what we were talking, we were talking about this in the car when we're listening to Dr. Minkoff before you had your interview with him. And you know, I think what you have to do the way you have to look at it, because I feel like there's two camps. There's either one, people that become very dogmatic about it and they're like, oh my God, you had a diet Pepsi or oh my God,

you had something that was unargued. And then you have the other side that's a fuck at all. Like, oh, it doesn't even really matter. I'm gonna pay attention to anything. I'm gonna die when I die. I'm gonna enjoy my life. Well, it's like, well, how about we kind of live somewhere in the middle where we're aware of everything.

Right, at the same time, we just, we try constantly to make better choices, but we know that we're not like totally, totally optimal in everything. See, the problem, what's happened is because people were unaware of these things, for the most part, because we didn't have studies supporting them. And then there's another small part in which the makers of these products and chemicals and stuff don't want you know bad information to come out obviously trying to protect their product. They're trying to protect their market share. So because of that there's never been any market pressures

to push manufacturers to not use these chemicals or to not use you know these types of herbicides and pesticides and stuff like that. But now that consumers are becoming more aware, and hopefully we, through our show, help people become aware, but there's a lot more of shows that are happening right now talking about this, that it becomes now a factor when people go out and shop, and because it becomes a factor, it places more market pressures for manufacturers to eliminate some of these things and create products that we want,

which now that we're learning some of this stuff, we don't want some of this stuff. It's the only reason why a company like Thrive Market would exist today, besides the fact that the internet makes it happen. Organic look, organify, right? Organify is a supplement company, or other sponsor. It's a supplement company that produces all organic supplements and some of their supplements

fall in the muscle building category, which didn't exist six years ago. Six years ago, do you know, hard it was a fine organic, anything that had to do with muscle building? Yeah. You just didn't find it. Super rare. Super rare. Organic protein was super hard to find. You had to go with muscle building. Yeah, you just didn't find it super rare super rare

Organic protein was super hard to find you had to go to like special health food stores if I went to GNC it was all Non-organic I didn't really see it so I saw that one campaign It was like save the bros or whatever and in that sort of brought light to like bringing organic It was a supplement Brilliant campaign. One of the best campaigns ever. Don't know much about the company But I know that was organic Valley right it was organic Valley who did that what a brilliant campaign, one of the best campaigns ever. Don't know much about the company, but I know that was organic. Organic Valley, right? It was organic Valley who did that, what a brilliant campaign.

Doug, my phone is all slow right now, but you guys just reminded me of something. I think we have a call with Thrive Morgan today, so make sure it's not around the time that we're doing this. Sure, no problem. They're listening right now. Right, right, right. No, I think we do have a call with them

about future sponsorship and continuing on. So, okay. So, we make sure that before we go on a tangent on what's coming up here. I didn't see anything for today. It says nothing on the schedule for today. Okay, so we're good. Yeah, we're good. We're okay.

It must be that on base camp at least. It must be tomorrow then, because I know we have it. Didn't see it for tomorrow too. So, let me ask Katrina. The boss. Yeah. And we will find out. But anyhow Yeah, I think if we as people become more informed it's gonna place more market pressures and then we'll see more and more

Because what's happened now is the problem is you're just it's you have to make a conscious effort to seek these things out because otherwise By default you're just exposing yourself to all the stuff because that's what everything's made at. All the products, everything, you know what I mean? It's just crazy. The other thing too, one of the other things that Dr. Minkoff talked to me about was, like, aluminum foil.

Like, don't use it. Don't cook with it. You literally would if you're trying to hide from the government. You put it on your head. Yeah. That's the use for it. You can't tap on your...

Is that why you wear the aluminum foil hat all the time? You wear the aluminum helmet. Underwear. And that too. Yeah, so. But it reflects on the negativity. Here's the other thing I did this weekend. So I love going...

God, I love the internet for so many different reasons. But one of the things I love to do is it was very hard when I was a kid to find old school, like muscle building information or manuals and stuff that like old school bodybuilders and strongman used to write because believe it or not they actually wrote manuals and stuff back in those days like I'm talking about early 20th century stuff from some of these strongman they actually had manuals of stuff. It's just that you couldn't find them before because where would you find them? Now I can go online, dude. And I can find them.

We brought that up and I've been- Did you start looking at it? Yeah, I've been going on that scene. How fucking rad is it? It's so great. Yeah, to look at what their thought process was, like, you know, leading into like their feats of strength. Like, how do I improve this and some of their methods?

And I saw a lot of them use isometrics too, which was great. Dude, here's the thing that I love about looking back then. Back in those days, they didn't have, first off, there were no magazine cover sponsorships. There were no supplement sponsorships. There was no prize money to be won, some of them became like circus strongman or whatever, and otherwise they just did it because they loved it, so it was truly a sport

or an activity of passion. In fact, back then it was weird to lift weights and want muscles, and where would you go anyway to lift them? So a lot of these guys made in fashion their own weights and all that, and where would you go anyway to lift them? So a lot of these guys made and fashioned their own weights and all of that. But besides that, obviously no antibiotics and no supplements. Supplements didn't exist back then. So their routines and their diet was completely designed around what worked. It was all about what works with my body. They were like technical wizards.

They knew more about exercise. Mechanics wise. They knew more about exercise. Mechanics wise. And all that stuff. They knew more about exercise than the bodybuilders and shit do today, because I thought to myself, like, I do not wonder if they were just not informed, but that's not true. These guys knew anatomy and they knew the body better. I don't know if it's necessarily that.

And I think that there's more people that don't know now because of all the misinformation. Right, I think it's that there's more people that don't know now because of all the misinformation. Right, I think there's still categories and groups of people that do their homework, do their research, are diving deeper into the just being marketed and advertised to. But then now, because it becomes so popular, right? Because back in those days, it was such a small group. It's like, what we see with Kettlebell sport, such a small, tight community. That's what bodybuilding was like 20, 30 years plus years ago. And so those guys all spoke to each other. It's like kettlebell sport.

I guarantee most all of the big names know of the other big names and they're all using similar type of tools. Right. And they're using all the same tools to perform better because they're all communicating within these communities. Where now, Finis is exploded. It's so big. It's become commercialized that you have all these now camps of bullshit all over the place. And it's actually, and you know, this last weekend

was a really good example of this, is that if you're entertaining, you're good looking, you're funny, you're charismatic, you're more like... You become a Finis expert. Right, you're funny, you're charismatic, you're more like a... You become a fitness expert. Right, you become a fitness expert, and you're more likely to be heard than a guy like Chris Cresser or like a Rob Wolf, or some of the most brilliant minds I've ever spoke to,

but I would never have found these guys had an up in for the podcast world, right? So, you know, a lot of the, there is a lot of great information, even better information than what was back then, but it's just, it's harder to find. And I actually think this is going to be the struggle for the generations coming up.

And we've talked about this before with the confirmation bias. Like if you all of a sudden get yourself, you know, in this lane of I like these entertaining people and this is, and then you're just gonna get fed more of it. And it's gonna be that much harder for you to find the really good information. Well, dude, it's like, because I was reading some of these guys. I was reading some of these guys' routine,

and you guys know as well as I do that. Nobody did body parts splits, or at least body parts splits, or the bros splits were not common or popularized until much later, right? Really body parts splits didn't become popular until, I think the mid-delay 60s, early 70s, you know, Arnold's era,

is when they started doing body parts splits. Before that, nobody did a split. Now I thought to myself, I wonder if a split was just invented later. Like they came up with it later and then some, no, they tried splits back then too. They actually tried doing them and saying, I'm just gonna work out my legs today, I'm just gonna work out my legs today,

I'm just gonna work out my arms today or whatever. And they all abandoned splits because they noticed they lost muscle and strength. And keep in mind, they were all natural. There was no steroids back then. Even when they did start using steroids in the like, you know, 50s and 60s. Well, 50s and 60s is when

anabolic steroids started getting introduced. Did they really that early? Yeah. Oh wow. Yeah, so the 60s is when Annabelle Xeroids started getting introduced. Did they really that early? Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah, so the 60s is when Diana Ball started getting introduced. The 70s is when... Which you could get it prescribed

from your doctor back then. You could, you're actually right. I remember talking to a guy who was like, yeah, we could just walk down to some deep balls. Deep balls. What was it like, like, Babe Ruth era? Like, they're fucking around with some like... Infenemines.

Okay. Infenemines have been around for a long time, but steroids really the use of the steroids in part of cycles and stuff like that didn't happen until the late 60s, early 70s and Arnold in that era really pioneered it. And then of course it's progressed and so on. But even when they started taking steroids, do you know what they used to take? Do you know how much Larry Scott, the first Mr. Olympia, used to take? Probably hardly anything.

Yeah. Five milligrams to 10 milligrams of D-ball a day for maybe four weeks, four to take. Probably hardly anything. Five milligrams to 10 milligrams of deball, a day for maybe four weeks, four to six weeks. Which now they take like 50, 50 to 100. On top of other stuff. Oh yeah, yeah. Because you figure, even if you do 10 milligrams, that's 70 total milligrams a steroids a week.

Bodybuilders today would do more than that in a day. Right, right. Way more than that in a single day. It's insane. That's crazy. So my point with that is the way that they trained, really the knowledge you'll get from those old school lifters is more applicable to the average person today. Way more than the knowledge you're going to get from these guys that are taking all this gear and stuff who have nothing in common with you.

Well, I think they reached their pinnacle, right? They stretched as far as they could go, as far as their programming, and they tried with their nutrition and everything, and then having that little bit of excess of testosterone made a humongous difference, because now it's like it's feeding into that already structured optimal training situation.

Well, when you're taking that much gear, you now you've fallen a different category that much gear, you're not, you know, you've fallen a different category. Your body, your body doesn't, without working like a normal person. Right, right. So you're not, you can't, you can't, there's nothing about what they're doing

that you can compare if you're a natural person. And even somebody who's maybe not even 100% natural, like it's just the amount of gear when you're taking grams of stuff, I mean, you can get away with so much shit. You're super anabolic, 24, 7 all the time. Do you guys, so you gotta, like if you're listening right now

and you're a fan of muscle building and stuff, you gotta go back and look at some of the legends of yesterday because they were, like the lifts that they did were shocking. You guys know Paul Anderson was Paul Anderson were the greatest American Olympic weightlifters of all time this is a guy that competed in the 1950s, okay? And maybe he took something maybe he didn't he probably didn't take anything so consider here's probably natural

The dude was 5 9 1 1 2 half weighed 360 pounds, so he was a fucking horse. He goes up five, nine and 360 pounds. He was scary. His training regime consisted of, he used to lift in his barn. I couldn't even process that. He would go out to him.

Yeah, think about it. Okay, that means Bint Pekolsky looked a little. Bro, think about that. A thick leg horse. His legs were silly. This guy was, and he used to lift, he would go compete in Olympic lifts and dress shoes, by the way, there's pictures of this guy.

I want to see a picture of this guy. Paul Anderson, look at Paul Anderson. So Paul Anderson, in 1955, it's a famous story. This is the height of the Cold War. The Soviets are, you know, they're kicking our ass. Paul Anderson walks up to the bar to do an overhead, know what is it what is it doing overhead clean and press four hundred and two pounds at that time who shattered world records nobody ever seen who's gonna lift four hundred pounds above their head and he destroyed it he crushed

it he is a he was a crazy crazy crazy beach beach peace, excuse me. So he did 402 pound overhead press. Look at the weights on the squat. What? How much do you think one of those plates weighs? I don't know, dude. I'm gonna look up some of his best personal records. Wow.

Clean and press 408 pounds. He did that in 1955. He snatched 3... three thirty five clean and jerk for forty uh... this guy is just that he did a back lift which was a lift nobody does anymore uh... six thousand two hundred seventy pounds you can look that up what what is a back lift he uh... so a back lift look up the paul Anderson back

lift dogs of the city looks like he did a bench press raw of of course, and probably natural, 628 pounds, deadlifted 820 pounds, squatted raw at an exhibition, 1200 pounds. So is he just racked? He's just like that with a weight. I can't remember what a back lift was. I think he was like on a hands and knees or something. I'm not quite sure. But you can see, you see there he goes, pulling up all these pictures of his, of his lifts. Look at these weights, look how weird they look. Yeah.

Yeah. Is that cool? You know who reminds me of the guy that you fall, sort of following, you tagged me in. Oh, that dude bud, something on that. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So what's cool about this is if you read about his training methods, Paul Anderson would go in his,

he had a barn and I think he lived on a farm. And in between work or whatever, he'd go in the barn and he'd go in there with something like two gallons of whole milk and he'd drink milk and squat all day. He'd just go in there and squat all day. And it was insane. That's I think a back lift right there. What in the hell?

Yeah, that's like with your hands and knees or your on your hands and feet. What the I think a back lift right there. What? Yeah, it's like with your hands and knees or your hands and feet. What the fuck would you do that? Anyway, the way that these guys trained all these old timers was lots of frequency. And none of them trained a failure. Paul Anderson talked about this. He never went to exhaustion. It was always this frequent training. They built tremendous amounts of muscle, size, strength, performance,

and none of them followed these splits. And you know what's funny? I just read an article today, bodybuilding.com. I don't know if it was today that came out, but it came out recently, Jim Stepanee of all people, this whole article on why you should abandon the Body Parts split.

Why is it Jim Stepanee? Oh boy. Dude, you know, when we first started, when we first started mind pump almost three years ago, and we won air, and we talked about how body parts splits are inferior to, you know, where you train the body more frequently, you can do full body or you can do other splits, but when you hit the body more frequently, we got laughed at.

Everybody laughed. Everybody talked shit. And now you're starting to see this huge wave of people starting to figure it out. Yeah, it's pretty cool. And what's cool about it, like, you switch your pointing out right now, we're not claiming that we created it.

No, I'm dude. It's not, and I didn't find it. So for me, that's not how I put it together. Like, I didn't go back. Like, you have, you guys have this passion for the old strong man lifts. Like, I didn't even back like you have that you guys have this passion for the old strong man lifts Like I didn't even follow any of this old shit at all what I started to know is was just my clients I mean because I've just I've trained thousands of people and when you start

You know when I would put somebody on a full body routine and just hit them two three times a week versus this Spitting their body parts. They would just change rapidly, like rapidly. And I wouldn't have to crush them in the gym. Like I didn't have to like hammer a body part and then go to the next day, hammer another one. You would just, you know, do a few sets, move to the next exercise, few more sets, and you do that every time I do it.

Is that right? Oh, and they would just respond. Yeah, because the other, it's like, man, hammer that body part so much. Like it's, your dancing, your dancing around that, the entire workout, the next time you meet with them, it's like man, hammer that body part so much like it's your your dancing your dancing around that the entire workout the next time you meet with them It's like useless the only way that I see the body parts split and where I kind of ran one is when I first competed And at that time dude, I'm training seven days a week and I'm and I've got and I'm still hitting each muscle group like three times a week. That's the key. That's the key. It's the frequency.

It's not even necessarily that a split is inferior. It's that it makes it almost impossible to do three times a week. Yeah, you got to hit the frequency. Yeah, you got to hit that frequency. That's the key really is hitting, you know, because that muscle building signal, it only peaks at about 72 hours post workout.

And it's better for fat loss, it's better for strength, it's better for muscle building, if you understand that and you maintain the anabolic signal and forget about beating the crap out of yourself and just getting, you know, just thinking about recovering. So anyway, just wanna throw that. Bring on the bird!

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complications and is not doing anything besides walking. C sections far more common today than they used to be. Far far far more common. This may be one of the reasons why birth weights seem to be climbing because more babies are born through C section because they're bigger whereas before they were they might not have been able to make it or whatever because babies too big could also be the mother's health and what she's eating. The other thing too is this, and it started to change, by the way, it wasn't that long ago that when you had a baby, you were on your back laying in a bed with your legs up and you were just immobile.

We know now that that is far, it's inferior to being able to kind of squat down and let gravity number one help out and also the position of your pelvis when a baby is traveling through the birth canal that posture your pelvic tilt is important to open that. It's like a squatty body. Yeah. Well, they designed the beds now like that where they're at like a 45 degree angle and they have the feet up in the holsters like that.

It's better. They've changed it but it's recently. Whoa. It's interesting because we, I remember going but it's recently. Well, it's interesting, because I remember going through this part of it, because we were looking at alternative ways, to approach it, and that was one of those things, all the different positions that you could get into,

like a quadruped position, squat position, all these different things to help move the process along, more effectively, it was interesting, because quadruped to do have a baby. Yeah, oh, that would be unique. Yeah. That would be really unique. Yeah, I mean, people do that.

We had a doula, like so this lady that was really helpful with all these types of things and like, putting, using gravity to kind of help kind of move it along and then also like avoid, you know, when the head turns and everything and getting caught and you know, in certain sticky situations like that. That is a certain sticky. Yeah.

Not very PC-wish. The other thing too is, is to watch the whole thing. Yeah, oh my god. The other thing too is the strength of the mother, the more fit you are going into, because this, be honest, having a baby, especially if you do it naturally, is one of the most difficult things you'll ever do in your entire life. It's akin to the hardest, you know,

obstacle course race marathon you've ever done in terms of pure physical exhaustion. It's more difficult because it's way more risk, but I'm talking about just the physical exhaustion that goes with it. If you've ever, like, you know, you just, and you have two kids, I saw my ex-wife give birth to two. It's more difficult because it's way more risk. But I'm talking about just the physical exhaustion that goes with it. If you've ever, you know, you're just, and you have two kids, I saw my ex-wife give birth to two.

That's a long process. So it's a, what is it, what do they call it? Game of attrition or whatever. You just gotta stick with it and it just takes a long time. So if you're planning on having a baby or you're pregnant or whatever maintaining fitness makes a big difference in terms of leading into it especially. But yeah, I mean, yeah, it's tough.

It's a tough to recover from a C-section. I mean, you're cutting right through the abdominal. Yeah, C-section, you're literally not only is the core weak and atrophied from most of the core, not all of it. The oblique's actually maintained pretty good strength and stability, but the abdominal, but more so, even more than that, the TVA, the transverse abdominis. TVA. It's a muscle that goes around your core and think of it like a corset. If you suck your stomach in right now, what you're activating is your TVA muscle.

So that muscle, for obvious reasons, needs to stretch and atrophy or weaken in order to allow the baby to grow. It needs to make room. So it stretches out and it weakens. So that already is a problem, but on top of it, you had a baby and they had to give you a C-section. So now they've cut through all these muscles.

So now they really have to be weak in atrophied, because now you can't even, just sneezing or coughing can be extremely painful right after C-section. So when you are clear to exercise, when the doctor says you're fine, everything's healed, the key to start with is to strengthen that core stability.

Before you do anything else, because otherwise you're going to rely heavily on Well, how aggressive would you go would you recommend like starting with prime and like pre-phase of red or would you Would you be aggressive and go to like a no BS six pack abs and like a program to both so it depends on the person No BS six pack abs would be actually you would be aggressor. Because that program is designed to like build the abs and build the course you can see it. You need to build connection. She needs to build connection first. So I would say prime or prime pro.

And then I would do, but I would even before that, I would just practice the vacuum. Vacuum. Vacuum poses. Which we have free on YouTube, right? So there's a video that Sal did on the YouTube that's uh you know so if you do mind pump vacuum pose it should pop right up for for sale or even like on our wall test where you know you're you're manipulating your your pelvic tilt that's why I think that's why I think the prime bundle would be the the first thing that I put her

on and then when she starts feeling good because I mean that's all about in intrinsically getting connected right so once she starts to progress with that, and I'd probably run that for three to eight weeks depending on you, you know, depending on how well you're getting, you're moving how strong you're starting to feel. And then from there I'd progress to probably maps red. So it would start off in Primand Pro, live in there, go to the YouTube, look at all the core exercises that we have, and then the vacuum, my style is talking about, and then progress to maybe one of the programs.

Yeah, and Maps Red is Maps Enabolic, and that one probably is better than the other programs at getting your metabolism to speed up and amplify. It also has a lower amount of volume, which post pregnancy, you're not gonna wanna jump into lots of volume with your training, so that's probably wise. But definitely step one is when you can, when you're clear, start connecting to your core, you don't need to do crazy exercises, but like practice sucking your stomach in

as much as you possibly can, practice just tensing your core, practice just doing pelvic tilts, just get connected to those muscles muscles so that when you do start exercising and you exercise improperly, and then you can go do your normal exercises, your squats, your deadlifts, whatever. A lot of people don't know this that follow us and listen, that the way we design the Mind Pump TV on YouTube, there's playlists. So when you go to the homepage, you look over on there's a tab that says playlist. If you click on the playlist and scroll down, there's playlists. So when you go to the home page, you look over on there's a tab that says playlist. If you click on the playlist and scroll down, there's categories. In fact, there's a category that's core, you know, an app. So I would kind of hang out in the core, especially the core movements,

because those are less rotational movements. They're going to be really good. Right, right, right. Which is all being the core stuff, right? That's all going to be in there. The anti-rotational stuff that Justin and I did just recently would be excellent. I would utilize all the free information we have, then I would eventually probably get the prime, prime pro bundle, and then I would move to that thread. And not to go off on a tangent,

but not to scare anybody who's listening, but the human body or the female body, we've observed, and there's some speculations for some other stuff, but for the most part, you don't add number of fat cells to your body, ever, except for a few times in your life. So in other words, if you gain weight or you lose weight, you're not gaining new fat cells, you're just making them bigger or shrinking them. But there are times when you actually add the number of fat cells.

One of them is puberty. So when you go through puberty, all of a sudden, you get curves or whatever, this has to do with adding actual fat cells. One of the other times is a third trimester of pregnancy. So this is why many women will find after having multiple children that their body changes or they have a tougher time

losing weight. Now this isn't like a guaranteed like your screwed. This just is another reason why it's so important to stay active and do proper resistance training before, during, and after pregnancy, because you will find a tremendous difference. I shout out to our girl Grace Braga right here on this one. Oh, Bart, Barbara. Barbara, I think your name is. Yeah. Oh, yeah, you can go on her Instagram page. You can see what she looked like. What three weeks after two weeks, dude

She had abs. Yeah, two weeks after having a kid and it's not I'm gonna tell you something She was straight squat and deadlift and then move and all kept kept doing it to the day of and this is not to make anybody Feel bad because I can I can only imagine how difficult it must be to To stay active during pregnancy. I watched my x-wife, you know with the with the morning sickness fatigue Like feeling just shit. Yeah, it varies how people like what's handed to you through that process? Yeah, I can only imagine however. I've trained enough people to where I have personally trained countless women before during and after pregnancy. And I have seen women who I've trained.

So I've had several clients in the recent past. God, just as little as five years ago, I've had a couple clients who came to me who said to me, I want to get pregnant, so I want to be extra, I want to be trained properly. Before the pregnancy, I want you to keep training me during the pregnancy and after the pregnancy. And these aren't like hardcore athletes, these weren't like super competitors, or any regular people, and they bounce back so fast.

And so effectively, one of them, it was her second child that she hired me for. So her first child, she did it on her own. With me, the second one, she was like, it's night and day, she said, I can't believe how easy it was for me to get lean, how good I felt during the pregnancy, my delivery was amazing. Like, everything just felt easy, so much easier than it was. You know what you say that, but I have a bone to pick with the doctor, dude. I mean, I've got my best friend's wife right now who I've known forever, right?

She even listens to my pump. And she's not right now, I know that though. And her doctor tells her that, you know, not to lift anything over 20 pounds. And she's a company. What are you gonna do in your baby's over 20 pounds? She's an active, active nurse. She's healthy, fit. And, you know, and now part of that too, I'm sure that she probably

led the doctor in that direction because I feel like people don't want to do anything. It's like, man, I've got a kid now. I'm eating for two. I've got a lot on my plate. They're thinking about other things, nursery, all this other shit that's going on, and exercise is just one more thing they're going to have to do. But it's tough for me because I've seen it so many times. This happened and then seeing a best friend's wife

going through right now and I keep thinking to myself, like, man, if she only knew how much better. And it's like one of those things that even a guy like me, I can't go in and just tell her what to do. It's like, yeah, you've got to want to do it. And then there's also that thing where they think extreme, right? If it's anything like exercise based, like they should be doing things like really like intensively and you know, it's a different like load of moderate intensity, you know, like

in frequency, you know, volume with this is definitely something to highlight because I mean, I have, and the thing is, too, there's sometimes just complications. So you have to like factor that in where it doesn't really make sense to have rigorous movement, like, but at the same time, like, like exercise, it will so, like the more you can incorporate it, the better you're going to bounce back, the better your pregnancy is going to, it's just like, it's better for the baby. It's just better for everything.

It's better for everyone. It's better for everyone. It's something that it's very, very smart now. Of course, you don't want to get pregnant and then all of a sudden be like, oh, now I'm gonna get in shape. It doesn't work that way. You want to start before. And then during the pregnancy,

you're not training to hit PRs. You're not training to achieve any crazy fitness goals. You're just, you're just training to maintain health, mobility, strength, and fitness. And it will blow you away. It's so different. I'm telling you right now It is like a completely different experience when you go into a pregnancy feeling fit and healthy and you continue that all the way through till after pregnancy Totally totally different experience and there's some cultures right that don't even allow

Don't even allow movement. This is the whole process, like hand-fed, yeah, same thing. I think the doctors say what they say because they play the whole is a safety card. Yep. Of course. It's all about like, you can't caution. I don't want to get sued. You can't be a doctor who says,

you should exercise and work out, and they go hurt themselves, and they try and see the doctor. You know who has the most expensive insurance? What is it called, malpractice? OBS. OBS have the most. I think the average OBS spend something like, it's like six figures a year,

to pay for their malpractice, because in some states, I believe California's one of them, the mother and the child can sue the OBS up until they're 18 years old for something that may have happened during delivery or whatever. So it's like, yeah, so let's say you're kidd. So no wonder they weigh on that so much.

Of course, you know, saying because it's a dangerous process. Right, right, that's crazy. I imagine your kid develops like some, you know, some kind of mental issue or something and you're like, oh, it's because you said I could lift weights during my pregnancy. Or some heart issue and he was, she's doing cardio, heart core because you know, saying,

so they're always in a way on the safety side. We gotta protect them so. Such bullshit. Next question is from Aristotle Daphnis. What's your opinion on fish oil as a supplement for general health and well-being? Get old fish oil. Fish oil.

You know where a lot of the, you're popular for a minute, like real popular. I still use fish oil. Yeah. I still, I, I, You rub it in your beard. No, no, no, no. It looks nice.

I take it for the burps. This is smell good. Yeah, yeah, yeah No, that's the worst part about fish oil is the burps after You know, I something to be said about that by the way if you're burping up fish oil You're probably not assimilating and digesting it well Yeah, or you're washing it down with a diet coke and that's what's causing you to open and you taste the fish oil So it could be more than just the fish oil self. That's not being assimilated. It's not. It doesn't. I know you were taking it with a fucking coke.

Well just be careful. You say that. Someone's gonna burp after they have a fish oil pill and think that their body's not assimilated. More than likely. I take fish oil and I smoke it. More than likely your body assimilates freaking fish oil just fine. And easy. but here's the thing about fish oil. And I can't remember, and this was a big thing that I read, like maybe a year or two ago, that kind of blew my mind, that I didn't know about, because it seems like every chiropractor doctor person says, oh, Omega-3s, take your fish oil,

take your fish oil. But what happens is the threes are competitive with the six and nine's, which is our like your steaks and so your pro-inflammatory type foods. So, and if you're eating a lot of processed, fast food, if you're not eating a very clean, healthy diet, and then you're taking fish oil, you may as well be flushing it down the toilet. It's the worst band-aid of all time. Right. It negates all the positives, right? Because you haven't even eliminated that from your diet yet. Right. So what happens, and the sixes and nines are stronger.

Think of it like that. So they're both trying to get into the cell. The cell is only so big. The sixes and nines are stronger. They get in and they fill the cell up. And then you get all the inflammatory markers that start going off, right? So by taking three, you don't necessarily cancel that. You actually have to have a cleaner, better diet. and the way I use it is I'm just very aware of my fish and take throughout the week, right?

I tend to get a lot of sushi and fish, so I don't need to take this a lot. But there are definitely weeks where I don't at all, because it's just busy, I didn't really get to eat it. I don't know if I can get it, but I'm not going to be able to eat it. I'm not going to be able to eat it. fish, so I don't need to take this a lot. But there are definitely weeks where I don't at all, because it's just busy. I didn't make it to my favorite sushi spot,

Katrina didn't make fish that week. And so I'm aware of that. So when I tend to string two or three days in a row, especially if I'm not eating a lot of white meat, I'm eating more red meat, then I'll follow the day up with a fish oil because of that. So pay attention to just kind of how your diet is. Now, if you get fish on a pretty regular basis, you probably don't really need it that much.

In fact, if the health benefits that you're getting, which would be the anti-inflammatory benefits that we're getting from the Omega-3s, honestly, just by you reducing these pro-inflammatory foods, like maybe you eat a lot of red meat, maybe you eat a lot of processed foods, taking those out of the diet and switching over to a diet that's lower in sixes and nines, is gonna make a big difference, more so than even just taking the fish oil.

Here's the thing you wanna consider with fish oil. The studies that are done on fish oil that show benefits are done on fish. So they show people who consume this many omega-3s in their diet have these benefits, and then they go, therefore, taking fish oil will give you those benefits. Not the same. Right. The studies done on actual fish oil supplements. Because it's what the people that are eating fish, they're not eating a bunch of red meat, because they're eating a bunch of fish.

That's it. If the studies done on fish oil supplements themselves are mixed at best. So the reality is if you want the benefits of having omega-3 fatty acids in your diet, then you need to eat fatty fish. Salmon is obviously the obvious example, but like sardines. I've talked about this in the past. Sardines are not anchovies. A lot of people are like, oh, gross. Sardines don't taste like anchovies. They're not super fishy. They're very high in omega-3s. They actually taste pretty good.

If you wait like three servings a week of them, you get a decent amount of omega-3s and you're getting them in fish. You're not getting them in just the oil. And you're probably replacing, like Adam said, other types of food. Here's the thing. If you're gonna supplement with fish oil,

the fish oil that I would recommend to supplement with would be cod liver oil. The reason why I recommend cod liver oil is because cod liver oil is also very high in the fat soluble vitamins, vitamin A and vitamin D, both of which tend to be low, especially vitamin D in the average person's diet. Some studies show as much as 40%. How many I use a vitamin D?

A lot of year in there. I think for every gram, I wanna say, I wanna say something like 600, I gotta look it up. But it's not like as much as taking a vitamin D supplement. Right, right, because I take 5,000 to 10,000 to use a day, right? But you're taking it. I have a deficiency. You might 10,000 a day. Well, you have a deficiency.

You might have, yeah. But it's a great source of vitamin D cultures that don't get lots of sunlight. Look at some of the Nordic countries where there's the winter is very cold and dark. People consume high amounts of vitamin D from things like cod liver and other types of sea creatures or whatever, that are high in vitamin D.

When you look at like the Eskimo type diets, they consume seal, blubber and stuff like that. That is also very high in omega three. So if you want the benefits of omega threes, the ideal way to get it is through food. Yeah, real food. That has them. Fish oil is a bandaid at best.

And if you're going to go that route, I do really recommend cod liver oil because most of you will benefit from the fat soluble vitamins. I know, um, Western A price, uh, great website. If you're into primal dieting and stuff like that, he's one of the first guys to talk about the stuff. He's like a huge advocate of cod liver oil. Now that all being said, not all fish oil and cod liver oil is the same.

If it goes rancid, which many of them do, many of them are rancid, you're not gonna get a lot of the benefits. So make sure you source your fish oil and your cod liver oil very well. Make sure it comes from a good source because just buying it and you're gonna do it. Second, one other point,

flax seed oil, which is also high in some of these fatty acids, not nearly the same. If you supplement with non-animal sources of omega-3s, plant sources, it has to go through a conversion process in the body so you're limited, you're severely go through a conversion process in the body. So you're limited, you're severely limited by that conversion process.

So vegans, I was gonna say, vegans need to pay extra special attention to that. Yeah, and vegans, you know, this against, you know, your beliefs, but you may benefit more from fish oil. Of course, if you don't want any animal products, you can't do that. But if you're open to sometimes supplementing whatever,

plus it's fish, and I know vegans place fish a little lower typically on the totem pole, right? Yeah, they're ugly. Yeah, we can f**king get along. They're not cute. I mean, at the end of the day, when it comes to these types of this supplement, like tumeric, the probiotic, all of these types of supplements, like,

and I think when we first came out with my and public, we were like so anti-subtle. But the reason why we were so anti-subtle. Most of them are bad. Well, yeah, because the most popular ones are bad, right? So the number one like supplement sold right now is pre-workout, which is just a bunch of crap full stimulants. It's just fruity crack.

Really crack. Really, it doesn't, all of us, in fact, I just did a post in the forums. It's funny we did this question and I just had a post in the forums sharing with everybody all the different supplements that I use And how how regularly I use them like none of them except for vitamin D Do I use every single day the rest of them I kind of use based off of what I'm lacking in my diet If I go like I said if I got on stretches where I haven't had fish like this is a good time to probably have some

Fish oil on my diet or an even better option if I'm not being where I haven't had fish, like this is a good time to probably have some fish oil on my diet or an even better option if I'm not being lazy. Cause to me, the fish oil is my lazy way out. The better thing to do would be go have some fish and or and or lay off the red meat. Cause I can easily have a steak for dinner. I could easily have a burger or meat for lunch time and then another red meat for dinner.

Easily in a day or two back to back, I could find myself doing that. So if I do that, then this is where I should change my diet over and get some fishes and white meats in the diet or add some fish oil the next day. How often do you guys eat fish? I eat it every week. I'm probably the worst. Yeah, I have to like really focus like, oh my god, I need this in my rotation and then we'll have it like once a week or something like that, you know, but I'd yeah, I would much prefer land animals all the time if I could. Yeah, I'm fish at least once, if not two, sometimes three times a week. But I could easily also, there's times where I have a week where I don't at all, just because of what I happen to prepare or what Katrina's got

going on. So I think that's the real answer is learning what- Sorting is just then. Learning what- Yeah, I have yet to tell me on that. It's not hard, dude. They don't taste their good. No, I understand you.

You make sense. It's just not like resonating with me. Yeah, that one has a- I definitely though I love going down to my favorite sushi place and having some raw sashimi and stuff like that. I think it's sashimi. Shashimi. Sashimi. Or sashimi.

No, I think it's sashimi. Shashimi. Sashimi. Fuck off. I started, I'll say. It wouldn't be an episode if you didn't say so. It doesn't matter. So, is anybody collecting all of them in creating?

I should have close to a book by now. Adam's library. Yeah. I mean, Urban D urban dictionary took off. It's one of the best things. We can't we have like an Adam dictionary. Oh, so, so, so, so, next question is from Alejandro Sanchez takes photos. In a perfect world, what would your lives look like? This is a cool question. But it looks like now. Exactly. And you know, but let's be honest though, would you have thought that way 10 years ago? And here's what I think

of like we're in the middle of like we all have goals, right? So we're driving towards these goals. And someone would think, Oh, when you when you reach those, that would be what the perfect light looks like. So like, for example, let's use the business right now. You know, I would love. So, uh, you know, when I feel like we have really, really made it, is when we have 50 to 100 employees that we have provided a very realistic, serious, good income in living for. To me, that is going to be a huge day for me when we have reached that point where we're providing that many jobs for people and doing something that they love to do and making good money doing it so but I also recognize that part of loving loving life is loving that process of getting there. And if you don't learn to love where you're at right now and love your life now, real soon you'll find out that no matter how many goals and records

and things that you accomplish and crush, you'll still feel empty afterwards. Because it's all about perspective and it's all about you learning to enjoy the process and the journey. I mean, this is the alchemist, right? So understand that you, you know, what's his name?

Miguel? Paul Cahello. Oh, Cahello. That's the author of that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,? Miguel. Paul Cohello. Oh, Cohello. That's the author of that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It looks like. Yeah. But yeah, that's a great read in regards to this.

I felt like when I actually finally read that book, I had kind of put this together because something happened to me in my early 20s to mid 20s where I was a kid who came up from like nothing and I felt like It was it was a financial status that I needed to get to that what then I would love my life Like I have my toys I have my house I can travel I can do things and to me that was like the ultimate life Like when I could and I was working I put my head down since I was a teenager until I got there and then I arrived And sure there's lots of,

don't give me wrong, there's lots of things that I was like, man, this is nice, I can do this, I can do that. But I didn't love myself or love my life anymore than I did during the grind and the struggle to get there. It wasn't anymore fulfilling. It wasn't anymore fulfilling. And so I think where we're all out in our lives now is understanding that fucking life is good, man. I'll tell you what, something that I learned relatively recently and really it's something

that I knew but I didn't really know until relatively recently was that when I feel like my life is perfect and everything's great it's because I have purpose. It's not so much even what I'm doing It's not how much I'm working or how much I'm on vacation or all that stuff It's when I feel like I have purpose. I feel like my life is fulfilling And there's lots of examples of this. I use this all the time You know we look at you know we talk about people who work really hard and you know It's like there's too much work and it's too much of a grind

You know, I'll tell you what some of the hardest working people you'll ever find your entire life are people who volunteer. People who volunteer for causes that they truly believe in. People who volunteer for like peace cords or people who truly have a purpose and want to feed the homeless or want to build shelters or whatever. And they work long hours, they grind it out, they don't get paid very much, but you'll talk to them and many of them are Truly happy with what they're doing because it's it's backed up motivated push by whatever you want to call it by their purpose

And that's true for me as well when I'm Doing what I'm doing and I feel like there's a greater purpose when I'm doing it for something bigger than just You know, I'm on, I want to make some money or this is my job or, you know, yeah, I'm supposed to hang out with my kids or whatever. When it's this grander purpose, everything changes. All of a sudden, everything I do becomes much more fulfilling because I feel like I'm choosing it.

Number one, like I'm choosing to do this because it's fulfilling my purpose. I also feel like it's bigger than me. That's a great feeling, by the way. When you're doing something and you feel like it's bigger than you are, you'll find more motivation, you'll find more drive, you'll find more creativity, better performance, then you've ever found in your life. It's an incredible feeling.

My dad is a great example of this. My father worked, he's poor. He grew up very, very poor in Sicily. You know, was it, lots of siblings, parents couldn't afford much. You know, he slept in a bed with his, you know, three brothers and his sister slept in another bed. And I think he was like that until he moved out when he was 18.

Working since he was nine, and what I mean working, I mean literally went to work. Busting is asked to make money that give to his mom so that she could feed everybody. Has always been this way, came to this country, did the same thing, worked seven days a week for as long as I knew my dad, but always made a home for dinner, always spent time with the kids, so it was great dad.

But his purpose was, I, my purpose is I want to support my family. I want to see my kids do well. And, you know, as hard as it was, and sometimes you talk about how hard he worked, everything was good. Then, because of this hard labor, he, you know, he was unable to do it for super long.

He had arthritis up and down his back, and his knees were bad, and he had to retire. And as he retired, you know, now he's at home. He's got pension. He's got, he built this middle-class life. He's comfortable. He's not, by any means, wealthy, but he's comfortable. And he went through a long period of depression going through this because even though he didn't grind it out, he wasn't doing the most crazy stuff. He had all the time in the world to ride his motorcycle and do whatever, he found himself without purpose

and it was a very difficult position for him to be in. And we had a lot of conversations where he's like, man, he goes, I never thought that not working would suck. He's like, it's very strange. And he loved his job, he loved what he did. Dude, I put this together with all the clients that I trained in and people ask all the time, like, have you ever thought about your retirement? I'm Dude, I put this together with all the clients that I train and people ask all the time, like,

have you ever thought about your retirement? I'm like, dude, I don't know plans or retire. No plans. I hope that I really- It's the slow death. And that might sound crazy, but I hope that I've literally fall over dead working. Like, I don't want to stop working.

As long as you, I mean, as long as again, that's, I mean, even if I ever stop, quote unquote, working for money, I guarantee you there's going to be some other purpose, whether it be lowering or touching or whatever. And that's what I try and explain to people. It doesn't necessarily, I don't mean I want to work

to like get by and like I don't want to work till I'm 90 to just make sure I pay the bills. But I always want to have something I'm working towards because and we see this, man, and recently this has happened in my life where I've had people pass and to watch the partner. It's crazy when you see it like firsthand right in front of you where you watch someone who's 60, 70 years old or whatever and they lose their husband or spouse right and they

look like they age 20 years with a year. Like a year, one year, one and this is like firsthand me seeing the posture than health everything and you connect from all the community and you and I'm not saying that to like, you know, people that go through that, I mean, it's got to be one of the hardest things in the in the world to have a partner that you've had for 30, 40, 50 years of your life and then lose them. That's got to be one of the toughest things to push through. But so many people, once they do that, they completely lose that drive for themselves to stay alive and you can see

and such a psychological thing that turns into a physical thing like overnight. Like overnight, all of a sudden you see this person who looks full of life and vibrant, sucked out within a year. You have to change. Your purpose has to change too with your life. Like, you know, I know people in my family who, women who identified very strongly with being mothers and their purpose was all about their kids, then the kids move out of the house,

go off to school or whatever. And it's like three years of why you have to maintain your own identity through the whole process. And I think that like thinking about that way ahead of time is going to be very beneficial. And that's something that I'm always making sure like I'm finding purpose in everything I'm doing. And I think that like this question, it's like, well, you could put a different vision in my head of like what might be more ideal or more perfect, but like Adam said, it's understanding like how to enjoy the process, the day-to-day

things that I can win every day. I can get better at. I can improve. I find a lot of a pleasure out of like visibly and seeing results personally in things that I take on and then also how I'm able to become something different. That's something that always drives me personally, but for me, it's always been about affecting other people. And if I can work and do anything in life to impact somebody else, like that's

where I'm at. I want to always be in that space. So that's very important to me. That's what's like in a perfect world for me. Next up is literally Anika. I heard you guys talk about meditation a few times. Can you talk about how you individually practice it? Do you use apps? Do you use music? Do you use specific exercises or breathing patterns? Literally, Anika has got a great Instagram page, by the way. She's actually one of our listeners. And she does, obviously she's a listener. Talk about living your life.

Living your perfect life. You know what she does for a living? Travels. She works for these cruise ships and she posts about them and she's traveling. If you look at her page, it's all she does. That's cool. I'm like, that's awesome. So meditation, for me, meditation of all the things that I do for my health and wellness and mindset,

that's the thing that I tend for my health and wellness and mindset, that's the thing that I tend to neglect the most. It's still so difficult for me to take five minutes to sit down and meditate. It's just a very difficult thing. It's not instinctual with me yet. It's still something at the consciously kind of, you know, be aware of and say, okay, I got to do this. Whereas my workout just happens, nutrition just happens for me. You know said, when I do do it, if I only have five or ten minutes,

brainfm, brain.fm. We met the guys. There's a direct tool. Doug put the direct link up on the Mind Pump Media page again, right? Doug? Yeah. Would they get a discount? Doug still? Yeah. Yeah. There's a discount. And if you just go to brain.fm-forge-mine-pump, you can get that discount. Okay. Cool. So brain. brainfm has these sounds and stuff that you listen to that have been proven to promote the brain wave patterns that they've observed in people who meditate. So when a mind is in meditation, or a mind is in sleep, or a mind is in focus, or a mind is in rest, or whatever,

there are signature brain wave patterns that we can observe. In fact, they can actually observe your brain, and they can pretty accurately predict whether or not you're meditating or awake and focused on something or whatever. So brain.fm, you put these headphones on, you listen to these sounds and it helps promote the state. Now you can get into the state of meditation without brain FM. But here's what I found. It takes me a lot longer. If I sit there and I try to meditate for 10 minutes and I only have 10 minutes to meditate,

which is typically how long I'll give myself, it's like eight minutes in, and then I start to get into it, and then I gotta get out of it, whereas with Brain of Fame, it's more like two or three minutes, and I'm in it. Also, that being said, I know my girlfriend listening right now would correct me if she was in the room.

Meditation is about one truly aware moment. It is not about time, it's about sequence of moments because time is, you know, it doesn't work that way because it's all present. So it's just like one moment of actual presence. Now you've meditated and you can have several of those moments. Which can take one minute or 40 minutes, right?

Depending on the person and how good you are at getting into the state. And I'm gonna definitely piggyback off of what Sal said. Brain FM and by the way, we're not sponsored by Brain FM. It's a, we provide the discount code. We had them on the show. We love the guys. This is something.

Still use it. Yeah, no, it's, if there is anything out of all people that we've connected with that have handed us tools, and I messed around with the Joe's light for a while, and I kind of intermittently, you still use that every now and then to play around with it. We've had all kinds of shit sent our way. Nothing have I used more consistently than brain.fm.

Now, the reason why that is is because it was such a game changer for me. It may not be for somebody else. Maybe you're somebody who has that it's easy for you to meditate. Maybe you can just get into that state. No problem. You already practice. Then it's probably not for you. Someone like me who a struggled with falling asleep at night and then be had a really hard time trying to settle his mind down to meditate. It's been a game changer. Now that being said, I also try to not use it, right? So I don't want to, it to become a crutch where I can only get to sleep or I can only meditate

if I have this tool in my ear, but I do, I do use it to help me get in that state when I know that I'm in like this elevated state already. Travelling or you're different from airmen or something. Yeah, you have all kinds of other variables. That's typically how I'll use it as well. And I like that you can sort of control that it's only so long. Like if it's a short bout that I need to just kind of focus on, I will use Brain of Femm.

What I've found for me like ever since doing the Wim Hof, I will try and plan out at least two times a week. And I've fallen short a couple of weeks, but I've been pretty consistent with least once a week. We're all do a good 20, 30 minute session where I'm doing a Wim Hof, where there's a nice playlist on Spotify. If you just search Wim Hof and it has a bunch of different

soundtracks that you can kind of go and do these breathing patterns to kind of go through that tempo. So that's been really helpful for me, man. You know, also to piggyback off of you, the box breathing is something. So when I am getting into that state where I want to meditate for a while or bring, settle down, right, become more present. Like, so I mean, I don't even like, I don't even really call it meditation. Like, I just call it me becoming more present because, and I know that it's hardest for me

when we have gassed and we've been going, like, just the same, we're flying all over the place. I'm like, my last seven days has been. Oh, yeah. My brain is just on fire and I can't sleep at night and it's just all this stuff is being processed and I'm not being present. I'm thinking about all the things I need to do, what we just did, all this stuff, all this information I just consumed and I'm not even being present right now.

And I know when it's happening, and obviously when I go to go to sleep, it's very obvious then. But I mean, Katrina can always read the energy on me. As soon as I walk in the door, she can just tell that I'm like, not there. And she'll call me out on it. Just, I can tell you're not here yet. And I'm like, yeah, no, I just, a lot going on right now, this and that.

And she'll kind of, go brain FM or go meditate or go read for a little bit. Become more present is what it is. And I don't even have to get to 10 box breaths. If I do sit down and box breathe, which is, 555, which I've just five, I'm taking in through my stomach, real deep in, inhale, hold for five seconds, release for five seconds, slow, I can't even get to 10 and I could totally fill my heart rate drop

literally. Like, oh, my affiliate cuts in half. Like I'll say, whoo. Yeah, it's very physical. Oh, very, very much focused like that. And sometimes I don't even get to 10, like by five, I'm already like that. Here's the other thing too, as meditation is, like exercise or like any of the practice, there are some acute benefits you get from it. In other words, if you've never meditated and you meditate once, you'll notice that you're

more relaxed and you feel better. But the real benefits, just like with exercise, don't happen until you're consistent with it over a period of time. So, and it's important to know this because I was one of these people where I would do it once or twice and be like, I got something out of it, it's not that big of a deal. And so I kind of wrote it off. If you stick with it and you're consistent, just start with this. Literally, start with three to five minutes a day.

That's it. Very, very short. Three to five minutes every single day, whether it's in the morning at night before you go to bed, however, do that consistently and watch what happens after about two or three weeks. After about two or three weeks have just been consistent with your three minutes of meditation. Just like with exercise, you're going to start to notice

some interesting things happening with your body and your mind. One of the first things you'll notice is you just remember stuff. You're just making space and you just have a better memory. I was just gonna say something right now that I wish I had this tool and resource when I was going through school. I wish I understood this. And I would love somebody to reach out that's like a college student or somebody that is

cramming and that has take this. This is what I would do. Like if I knew like I have a final coming up or a big paper I have to write, I would totally do a 15 minute like brain FM meditation session and then get into my study and afterwards and I bet you will see a huge difference in the amount of information that you retain and you hold because you just clear your mind. That's really what you said. You become so present, you stop all the other shit. If you are sitting still trying to meditate and all the shit, stress and everything is flying

through your head, you're not there yet. You got to, and you need to practice it until you can get there because it will. It's a skill. Yeah. It's a skill like anything. And here's a deal. Those of you that try it, struggle with it are the ones that need it the most.

Those of you that do it fall right into it. Not as much of a big deal because you have the ability to do it. So that should be a flag for you if you've tried it and you failed. That's not your reason to give up on it. That's your body and you're telling you, you need this.

You're not good at it. You have a hard time becoming present and don't just disregard it because you can't do it or you have a hard time, that should be your sign that, listen, this isn't an issue for me. I have a hard time becoming present, you're the person that needs it more than anybody else.

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