Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 898: How Dietary Cholesterol can Help Build Muscle & Strength, Knee Pain Fixes, When Muscle go to "Sleep" & MORE

Episode Date: November 9, 2018

MAPS Quah! In this episode of Quah, sponsored by MAPS Fitness Products (www.mindpumpmedia.com), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about the cause of knee pain when squatting and how to fix it, how to make it easier for people to engage in healthier behaviors, if it is impossible for muscles to “sleep” and clothing that the opposite sex wears that’s an instant turn on. Fitness trends/gyms that have come out the gates strong and since then fallen off. (6:11) The MASSIVE impact cholesterol has on muscle growth and strength & performance. (13:23) How Adam used the Everly Well Vitamin D test to become more aware of his levels, their thoughts on their new tests & the importance of testing. (21:02) Four Sigmatic killing the game. Their revamped adaptogen coffee. (26:18) Election Night Recap: What the results mean for the future. (28:42) 10 surprising reasons why single people are happier and healthier. (36:30) When fathers exercise, their future offspring may benefit, mouse study suggests. (41:50) The day the guys realized they were stronger than their dad & when will their own kids surpass them. (43:26) #Quah question #1 – What can be the cause of knee pain when squatting and how to fix it? (51:00) #Quah question #2 – If you could change one thing in the environment, how can we make it easier for people to engage in healthier behaviors? (1:01:23) #Quah question #3 – What do you mean when you say it is impossible for muscles to “sleep”? (1:10:56) #Quah question #4 – What is an article of clothing that the opposite sex wears that’s an instant turn on? (1:18:08) People Mentioned: Brendon Ayanbadejo (@brendon310)  Instagram Justin Amash (@justinamash)  Twitter C Ed Massey (@cedmassey)  Twitter Paul Chek (@paul.chek)  Instagram Dr. Justin Brink (@premiere_spine_sport)  Instagram Kyle Kingsbury (@kingsbu)  Instagram Links/Products Mentioned: November Promotion: MAPS Anywhere ½ off!   **Code “WHITE50” at checkout** Everly Well **Code “mindpump” for 15% off any test** Four Sigmatic **Code “mindpump” for 15% off** Statins and dietary and serum cholesterol are associated with increased lean mass following resistance training. Consumption of whole eggs promotes greater stimulation of postexercise muscle protein synthesis than consumption of isonitrogenous amounts of egg whites in young men. Dietary Cholesterol Affects Skeletal Muscle Protein Synthesis Following Acute Resistance Exercise When fathers exercise, their future offspring may benefit, mouse study suggests IT Band Syndrome and Knee Pain (HOW TO FIX IT!) - YouTube EBFA - Barefoot Training Certifications Mind Pump Episode 895: The Transgender Athlete Advantage Debate with Chloie Jonsson & Bennett Kaspar Mind Pump Free Resources 10 Surprising reasons single people are happier and healthier   

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Mind comp. Ready to art for explosive dad jokes and shivering political views. If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. Mind, up, mind, up with your hosts. Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. And this episode, I wanted you to jump in with like a, like a, this one have had Justin's new commercial. Is that going to be attached to this one? Oh, so they've already heard it though. Yeah, it's already been through. That's the first time I've actually, I love when he does this.

He's so good. I love. Justin, you're so good. Yeah, you guys. You're so good. So for the first 43 minutes, we do our introductory conversation. We talk about CrossFit.

It's the first thing we talk about. Hey. Curves, we talk about them. We talk about natural progression. We talk about natural progression. And other gym businesses that explode and then fall. So those are all, all those are in the category of fitness trends that we see as exploded

and it's some part and fall. And some point they fall. Then we talk about the benefits of dietary cholesterol. Yes, it seems to be that dietary cholesterol may be a very anabolic nutrient. Something that helps you build muscle strength. We can eat cholesterol.

You should eat cholesterol if you want to get stronger and build more muscle according to the studies that I quote. Then we talk about Adam's vitamin D test. As much as he loves the D, his vitamin D level seem to be low. Yes, he got it when he wasn't listening. That's what happens. Yeah, that's great. According to his Everly Well test is D levels were a little low,

so he's gonna, so Justin's gonna give him more D. Yeah. But there are, I got your back. There are more tests that are coming out from Everly Well. They have a Vitamin B test coming out to follow Acetest. I'm a giver. They also have hormone tests on their food intolerance tests.

If you go to EverlyWell.com and use the code MindPump, you'll get 15% off any of these tests that you could do at home without a prescription. Then I talk about four, Sigmatic and their new adapted genic coffee with Ashruganda and with Siberian Jinsing also known as UlithroRoot. It's a good product. If you go to foursigmatic.com.com.com.com,

and use the code MindPump, you'll get a discount. By the way, foursigmatic is spelled FOUR-S-I-G-M-A-T-I-C. Then we do a little election wrap-up midterms just happened. Who won the Democrats, the Republicans? I'm not sure. The biggest losers, the voters, we all lose every time. Then Adam brings up a study, the biggest losers, the voters, we all lose. Yeah, every time. Then Adam brings up a study, the one of the rare times he brings up a study, and of course, it's a study that shows how single people, so much happier than married people.

That's nice. Yeah. Looking out for my single people out there. Yeah, I don't know. It's okay, don't let him pressure you. Then we talk about, it's blue. Another study about exercise and healthy offspring,

and then we reminisce on the day the first day that we beat Our dads at strength Oh such a sad sad day. It was a sad day. Yeah, then we get into the questions the first question was what could be the cause of knee pain With when you squat and how do you fix it if you have knee pain when you squat and you wanna be able to do the king of all exercises, we give you some tips on how you can correct that so that you can squat and get them gains. The next question was, if we can change one thing in the environment that would make it easier

for people to engage in healthier behaviors, what would they be? Of course, we come up with great answers because we have all the answers. Yeah. The next question. More bears. The next question. More bears.

Next question was, what do we mean by when we say active muscles? This person's professor says that it's impossible for muscles to sleep. He loves semantics, it proves his intelligence, it also shows that his ego is slightly fragile. We talk about what we really mean when we talk about active and under active muscles.

And what we mean when we say things like sleepy butt syndrome and the final question, we give away what we think is extremely sexy that the opposite sex will wear. What are our girls wear that just instantly turns us on? And then what do we wear? Get a little steamy in here. That turns them on just and talks about what turns on Adam. That was kind of awkward.

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And if you have any questions about our other maps programs, because we have a lot more than just maps anywhere, we have programs for athletes, programs for bodybuilders, and so on. Just go to maps fitness products.com. The worst part is I know some of my friends from high school that just like started across with June, like, what are you late now? So late, they just opened the curves. Everybody's new trend.

People have been asked me about that with like orange theory and stuff. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.

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I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm honest with you, when I see, I mean, they're just now making it onto like Monday night football advertising. So they got a lot of gross. Yeah, they're still, they're still fucking killing it right now. So I'm going to come out and say, they, they're still on the upswing.

They yeah, they're going to have, they're going to have a curves run, dude, which was probably a decade, right? Well, especially if they keep evolving. Curves, the franchise exploded and it, it's like a six or seven year period. And it started to dip. Yeah. I think you looked that up. I'd love to see that.

I bet you curves ran for at least 10, 15 years ago. Like the whole growth and then. Yeah, just like killing it still. I don't think they said it. It was short, bro. Don't you remember it was like within a matter of, if you had them everywhere, like it didn't really matter location.

Well, it was like three of them in the same shopping center I remember one time dude. It's like they're fucking everywhere. I'm a Google right now curves growth Yeah curves business. Oh, no, I've looked it's all don't let your child fall off the growth curve No, that's not what I'm looking anyway. I think you maybe you write but it was short right it was a short like fast growth. Oh, I mean it was and then it started to drop. It was it's fast just like orange there I mean it orange there you well, let's look at CrossFit right now CrossFit I think in the States is starting to decline or flatten out. How has the CrossFit growth Curve been okay? It's been 10 years. I know I wonder like we said I think it like our own area

I've definitely seen a lot of them already like going away. Oh, it's flattened out Yeah, and it's starting to go down in terms of locations in the US It's interesting to watch listen. It says international fitness franchise co-founder by Gary did it in 1992 October 2006 Curves was said so in 2000 so they went from 92 to 2006 bro was there peak so they did run bro They ran for eight eight plus six. So what's that 14? So there's a 14 year run curves was said to have over 10,000 locations worldwide

With 7,848 of those locations in the United States now as of November 30th, 2017. So last year Curves list 576 franchise 10,000 to 576. Yeah. Do you know it's funny? Do. I almost bought one. And you know why I did it. That would have been funny.

I just like, sour in one of those. I almost did. You know why I did it? Yeah. I did it because I saw the business model, saw their equipment, and I saw the people who were buying curves. The people who were buying and opening curves were not fitness people.

No. One opened up. This was happening at OTF right now. I know, one, exactly. It's people jumping on the bandwagon. So it's getting removed. One opened up, and I remember, they were up for sale. I went and looked at it and I talked to the lady

and she was obviously didn't work out. And I talked about her fitness history. She didn't have any fitness history. And I'm like, well, why did you buy a curves? She's like, well, I took some classes and I really liked it. And then I started reading the numbers and I thought it would be a good investment. So that's exactly what's happening at OTF. So as I was there, and that's not the nocturn. Those are smart business people.

I mean, they see the writing on the wall. They see the growth of it. They're very business savvy and they're like, fucking throw my name in this hat. Yeah. So that's what's going on. The smart people bought them, took advantage of the growth, sold them for more as people were excited about it and got the fuck out.

I like my boy, Brennan, dude. Yeah, and Jesus, I got that dude just. He killed it. Fucking hell, he killed it. Oh, O.T. up the soul on the upswing. So much respect for my boy, the way he did that, dude. And I see more value in Orange Theory than in Curves. Curves was, way more, you know.

Curves was, pneumatic equipment set up in a circle. And their whole draw was, you know, it's a comfortable, non-threatening place for women who don't have any fitness experience to work out. But I saw that, I saw very clearly the, the folly in that business model. First off, okay, let's say you do the 30 minute work on some of their pneumatic equipment and you're consistent. You're going to progress to a gym, so you're automatically losing your most consistent people.

So the only way you survive is off if you keep attracting beginners constantly in the door and I'm like, this is no way it's not going to succeed. Yeah. Well, they did some other smart things, similar to like a Ginny Craig and Weight Watchers where they had like the group meetings. Well, honestly. Accountability way is.

Why didn't they partner up with Weight Watchers? That would have been like, they also become both. No, they did. I absolutely, I think they did. Yeah, because like them already in a group setting, let's look exactly what they do in Weight Watchers. I think, I think they did partner up there.

You looked into buying one too, Adam? I did. Do you remember the cost of the equipment and all that? Dude, it was like 20 grams. Yeah, it wasn't much at all. It was, so I looked into that. I also, like 15 pieces or something like that. I also, I think I talked about this on the podcast right at the end of any time fitness,

so I looked into that model also. Yeah, that one I think is still, I mean that one, how well is that doing right now? Because it was pretty decent franchise. No, they one I think is still, I mean, that one, how well is that doing right now? Because it was pretty decent franchise. No, they're killing it actually, man. I actually think back, I'm like, fuck, I should have done that thing. Because back when, it was like 2000 in,

that's the one where you kind of like a punch card that you just come in and go as your place. Yeah, so, their pitch was like, I think it's three or four employees can run the whole facility. Yeah, so, you know, now the margins aren't great. You don't make a shit ton of money with them,

but the draw is you don't have to be there and work. Because people don't realize this when you own a gym if you wanna make money, you're there. You live there. You live upstairs. Yeah, you're there a lot. I don't know very many successful gyms where the owner isn't, you know,

where there isn't an operator there that's fucking making that shit happen. No, that was the mistake of all the knuckleheads that jumped on the opening up your own CrossFit box, thinking that it wasn't gonna be fucking hell of work to make good money. Yeah. And then they find out that you're,

you can't just teach the classes. I think on average, I think they say, it's like what, 30 to 50 grand is like the average crossfit cost, yeah, and then like profit. Yeah, and the ones that are killing it are making like 80. Yeah. And then the outliers are like 150, you know, like, that's crazy. No, to own a gym and to operate a gym and make 50 grand a year, with all that work. Oh boy. Like, it could be a personal trainer. Yeah, you could be a personal trainer, make 80 to 100

for a company. You could work for somebody. You could go work for 24 for a fitness or lifetime or one of those. Way less risk. You wait less. If people understood how to invest their money, it would be so much, people would make a lot better decisions, I think. Because the amount of money it costs to open a crossfit,

let's say it costs you 100 grand, which is probably more than that. But let's say it costs you 100 grand and then you're expecting to make, let's say 50 to 70 grand in profit a year after because it takes you about a year to build up if you're doing a good job, you could take 100 grand and turn 100 grand into more money than that and a very short and a much shorter period of time with no work just by understanding how to invest it in the market or property or whatever, you know,

just a lot easier. So, dude, so yesterday I was writing another article, it's not up yet, but it will be up soon. And Doug suggested that I write on cholesterol, and I know I've talked about this in the past on our podcast, but just because I was writing about it, I was just doing more reading and research on it. Bro, cholesterol has a massive impact on muscle growth in strength and performance. When you look at some of these studies, I'm going to go through some of them.

And a lot of them are recent. There was a 2007 study showing that the more cholesterol, this is with elderly individuals, the more cholesterol they consume, the more muscle and strength that they gained. So there was a dose-dependent result. So they had like three categories, low cholesterol, moderate cholesterol, high cholesterol, and dietary intake, and the more they ate, the stronger they got. 2011 had young healthy individuals,

one group consuming high cholesterol, and the other one consuming low cholesterol. The high cholesterol group had three times the muscle protein synthesis rate of the low cholesterol group, 22 hours post-training. So after you work out... You work out healthy group too, huh? Yeah, young and healthy, right? Wow. So after you work out, you know, the muscle building signal can be measured by something called muscle protein synthesis or myofibrular protein synthesis. And this is a way to measure are your muscles

building. And right after you work out at spikes, we talk about this all the time. Well, the people who weighed a lot of cholesterol, this signal was almost three times higher about a day after training. So that's fucking awesome. Then another one, which is recent, this one's in 2017, showed that consuming whole eggs resulted in much higher rates, almost double the rate of muscle protein synthesis than just eating the egg whites. So a lot of times, you know, what we notice post workout is if you eat protein post workout, you do get a little boost in protein synthesis. But everybody's talking about eating lean protein, like just way protein or just egg whites or...

Nah, man, throw the whole egg in there. Throw that cholesterol in there, because cholesterol is literally being used as part of the adaptation process. It helps with inflammation, it helps repair recovery. It's the building blocks to all your anabolic hormones. That's awesome, right? Yes, and cholesterol post workouts,

probably a good idea because another thing too, is when you work out out you get an immediate drop in blood cholesterol, which seems to signify that your body's sucking up the cholesterol out of its blood to utilize for recovery. I wonder if the study's showing that it's three times more in the healthy groups that actually had high versus the people that are low. I wonder if that is because most people tend to run a lower cholesterol diet because of the shit that we've been told for so long. Good indoctrinated, yeah. And so then you go and you boost it.

You notice a significant difference because they are so used to probably running a lower rate. We need more long term studies. And now, here's the thing. There are other long term studies that show that like elderly people with higher cholesterol who are otherwise healthy, it's correlated with more strength, the more muscle mass and better brain, better cognition and less instances of things like depression. So there's that kind of correlation as well, and that's not as clear as the other studies,

but I would like to see something like that, Adam of where we boost the dietary cholesterol of a group, but then we do it long term. Does that affect, does it lose its effect? Because maybe the liver, I know how the way the liver operates what it makes your cholesterol is, it'll make less when you consume more. It kind of balances that. So that's what I have noticed before,

is that if, you know, for example, I'm not really tracking, I'm not paying attention, I'm not getting a lot of meals, and then all of a sudden, I, okay, I'm going to back to my tracking, I'm back to eating well and balanced, and okay, I'm going to ramp up my cholesterol intake either through eggs or red meat, and so that's the way I boost it. I always feel like this great surge afterwards, but then what ends up happening after a while, it seems to kind of level out for me. That's a great point. I noticed the same thing, and it's not that I lose the gains,

I lose the momentum. Yes, so I'm wondering if it's just a higher baseline, because what I notice, because I've gone as high as, I've gone over 2,000 milligrams of cholesterol a day. I don't recommend going crazy like I do, but I'll eat chicken livers, which is super high in cholesterol and egg yolks, and I'll go up as high as 1800 to 2000. And I mean, for three, four weeks, I get just crazy strength.

It's like I'm taking, it's like the difference between not taking creatine and taking creatine. It's almost maybe even more of a difference. I know it's that big of an effect when I bump my cholesterol. I've tested it on clients too, and they always notice the same thing. Yeah, I remember when we were going through that challenge into adding more chicken livers and egg yolks, it made a substantial difference in the performance and strength,

but I was also wondering about that. Was I creating more inflammation after my workouts and then the recovery process after that was something that was that ramping up like my inflammation afterwards. It's a good question. cholesterol is used to, when it comes to the cell membranes,

it improves their viscosity, which may also make them more resilient to damage. So it may also allow you to work out harder. I don't know if it speeds up the recovery process necessarily, but what it shows is that it does increase the adaptation signal. So it does boost that as well. When I bump my cholesterol, I don't notice necessarily

a difference in my soreness and my recovery. I just notice I get strong. And it's almost like a central nervous system type of strength. It's hard to explain. It's like I'm in the gym and I just feel like I can generate more force in my lifts. And it's something that, look, Vince Garanda back in the day, he would tell people he had 32 whole eggs a day as a way to get an anabolic boost. I'm not recommending that. That's what he used to say. But back in those days, bodybuilders would often, they would go on these bulking diets.

And it was a lot of cream too. It was full fat, cream, it was lots of liver. Liver was a bodybuilding staple back in the day. And liver is very, very high in nutrients, but it's also very high in cholesterol. And this is what they would eat. A lot of liver, they did a lot of full fat, cream, beef, lots of egg yolks. This was how they bulked. They didn't bulk with carbs, they didn't bulk with, then I ate a lot of food, but that's what they would throw in their diet. They throw

all that stuff in and they would notice, oh, there he is. There's vents right there. All through competing, that was my staple breakfast, almost every single morning. I used to go down to my breakfast spot on him because remember that or not, where I go down and I'd have a 10 ounce steak and four whole eggs. And then I'd eat another meal before, and then I'd go lift, and it's the best I've ever felt. Look at the picture of him right there.

Vince growing, I never took anabolic steroids. He's a beast. And he was shredded. He was one of the first shredded bodybuilders. Because at this point, bodybuilders would get kind of lean, but nobody would have like a full on six pack and striations. And he was a weird guy.

There was some stuff that I didn't agree with. He didn't like back squats too much because he said it thickened the waist and a couple of other things. But his training methodologies, what he said about nutrition, I have a book that was written by him, and you read this fucking book, and it was written in like 1960 or something like that.

And I read some of the shit, and I'm like, holy cow, he's saying some of the stuff that we know now to be true, that he was speculating on back then. So it's kind of interesting, but I see you taking that vitamin D, Adam. Well, I'm trying to get better at it again. You know what?

Everly well? Everly well has a vitamin. No, I took their test. That's why it's so... Oh yeah, that's right. You were a little... No, I took their test. You were in the low normal range.

Yeah, and what surprised me about that was I was already supplementing vitamin D. So that kind of made me a little weary. So I've been originally I was doing 5,000, I use it a day and sometimes I'll bump to 10 and I just based that off of like how much Sun I'm getting and it's winter time right now so I think these are like even more important time So I'm taking 10,000 I use that's why I just took right now But I took that every well-test. I don't know it was a couple months ago and It came back in the lower range and I was really surprised because I was already

supplementing, which was like, oh, fuck man, if I'm supplementing it right now and I'm still in the lower range, I must be really bad. So yeah, I know I've been trying to be, I've been keeping it in the studio now so I can just take them right away. You know they have a... Vitamin, by the way, your body uses cholesterol

to synthesize vitamin D when you're in the sun. So it may be beneficial to increase your cholesterol vitamin D when you're in the sun. So it may be beneficial to increase your cholesterol and take while you are in the sun. But I will say this, I don't think it's because the vitamin D you're taking wasn't working. I think it's because you were fucking low before. I would guess that, because it takes a while to get it up. Yeah, I would guess that.

So that, and I've got to be consistent, right? I haven't been consistent. We're keeping it in the studio like this. It just helps because it's right in front of my face. And then I just, we also did the Omega 3 tests. I forgot where you guys were at on that. Remember we did the Omega 3 test?

Yeah, Omega 3, I was good. I was good on 3. You were good? Yeah, yeah. And you were low just that? Yeah, you want to be with vitamin D. You want to be the upper range. And then Omega 3, you want to be in the other. What omega-3s you want to be in the upper range.

What do you think about the two new ones they have coming? They have two new, they have a folic acid and then they have vitamin B. I think that's excellent. Vitamin B deficiencies and folic acid deficiencies are one of the main causes of nervous system disorders and people will get lots of anxiety and have issues with their nervous system.

Many times they'll go to a functional medicine doctor, they'll get their bees in full casted tested, and they're low somewhere. Or too high. Sometimes people will take tons of vitamin B, thinking that they need more, and too much of it can cause problems. Although their water is soluble, you have to take it. Have you noticed something in it within clients? Like what's their type of diets that they follow that you've been doing?

For sure, if you're a vegan or vegetarian, you need to test your bees for sure, and you're fall asleep acid. For sure, because you get a lot of those from... Full of acid isn't the one that you're supplementing when somebody's pregnant. Yes it is. It is, okay. So that was like the most important, yeah,

always like, there was, emphasize quite a bit. I, you know, here's the thing most important, yeah, always like there was emphasize quite a bit. You know, here's the thing with testing, you know, when I get a new client and they're asking me questions about their diet and how they should supplement or whatever, I can guess based on your symptoms and based on your diet, but there's nothing will replace taking some tests, like take a vitamin D test, take some hormone test, take take a vitamin D test, take some hormone test,

take an omega-3 test, test your B's and your folic acid. I said hormones are ready. And take those tests, get the results, and then you can supplement accordingly. And let me tell you something, if you're low in something and you supplement for that thing, and you get it up, you will feel phenomenal. It'll be like life and death.

It'll be the difference between good life and excellent life. Well done, this is where supplementing is so beneficial, and this is what we try and stress. Find out where those deficiencies lie, and that's where supplementing makes sense. Well, this is where it's, I mean, it's superior to any performance supplements that are out there, even when things that we talk about,

like creatine that are incredible, like if you that we talk about, like creating that are incredible. Like if you're not balanced everywhere, in case your body and harmony first. Right, I think that's a better place to be first, but this is also why we liked Everly Well so much as far as what a great resource to test all these things. So then you can then find out versus me telling you. Well, that's a problem because first off,

you have to go to your doctor, you have to get referral to doctor. You have to get, you know, referral to the labs and many times doctors. This is the, this is by the way the feedback I get from people that they'll go to their doctor and they'll say, hey, I would like a blood panel for My vitamins and the doctor has given pushback and they'll say, well, what are your symptoms? I don't think you need it this that and the other and it's a pain in the ass So people have a lot of difficulty getting these, I know, because I'll work with clients, and I'll tell them, can you get these tests,

and they'll come back, but like, well, my doctor doesn't think so, and the insurance doesn't cover, blah, blah, blah, blah. With something like Everly Well, which I think, it's just a market answer, it's a market response, comes to your home, it's inexpensive, the tests are not super expensive at all. Test it yourself, you don't need a doctor or anything,

you could read your, they'll tell you, if you're up in the better range or lower range, they will even call you if you're low or you can ask them questions if you're low to see what you can do. So like my testosterone levels, my last one that I took were really high. And they actually contacted me and said,

hey, if you have any questions about your high testosterone levels and whatever, I said, well, is it a problem? They're like, no, you're not so high that it's an issue, but anytime someone's at a range, we call them and discuss certain things. I think that's fucking awesome. And you don't need a prescription or a doctor for it, so. It's good. It's empowering.

It's really, really good shit. Speaking of supplementing whatever, forsegmentic, they've changed their adapted gin coffee. So they've added ashwaganda and ulytharo. You guys know what ulythro root is? No. Siberian jinsing. Yeah, first say. One of my favorites, so jinsing is one of the,

one of the hallmark cornerstone, most popular adaptogenic herbs in Chinese medicine. Okay, but there's different types of ginseng. Chinese ginseng is the red panicked ginseng, which is a very good adaptogen, but is also stimulatory. And in Chinese medicine, they'll say that it's ying, it's gonna strengthen ying. Now for someone like me.

You want that in your coffee. Well, here's the thing, someone like me, I don't feel good on red panics, Jinsing or Chinese Jinsing. It makes me feel too stimulated, I don't feel good. And when I've gone to Chinese medicine practitioners, they tell me that I need something that's a little more YIN that'll balance me out.

Siberian Jinsing, which is really isn't a in actual Jinsing, that's just what they call it. Siberian ginseng is more balancing. It's more like ashwaganda, which for those of us who work out hard and are go go go all the time, I think is more appropriate. So you take that, kind of balances you out, makes you feel good.

They know they're shit, man. And the amounts that they're putting in this thing are 200 milligrams of ashwaganda, 200 milligrams of Yulithro. That's a lot, right? It's a decent amount. And they're putting Tulsi in there, which is another adaptogenic. Like the dudes at Forsecmatic, they know their shit.

Every time they make a formulation, I'm always impressed with the doses and the- Oh, you've been in love with them since day one. Yeah, that was one of the first real sponsors that we ever went after. Yeah, they do a damn good job. I wish I'd like the taste better. You know what? I kind of like that. I like that they're not trying to make it taste like candy all the time. You know what I mean? No, I was a little bit of that. I got nothing but respect because of that.

Yeah. If you're searching for something like that, what ends up happening a lot of times when when people make it taste so great is they make it taste so great. They compromise everything out. Exactly, and then you get very little. Or let's say that there's a miracle, and they can make it taste really good without compromising it. They've still spent a lot of money on that, where I'd rather have the money being spent on research and development for better ingredients,

and more active ingredients, and that kind of stuff. I can agree with that. So dude, yesterday, big day, huh? Yeah, you fucking guys don't even know. Voting, yeah. Why is it super bowl for per... I Yeah, you fucking guys don't even know. Voting? Yeah, it's a super bowl for, for, I know. Well, not quite as excited about it.

So did, did, what happened? Did I see? So Senate was all, you know, went to the Republican side. Holy shit, that's a big deal. Well, no, well, so hold on. So let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's talk about what happened. Historically, typically, pretty much this is what always happens

and it's happened for the last, I don't know how many presidents. As far back as I can remember, which would be, so only the opposite would be president and saying, right? Yeah, a president will win. So like Bill Clinton wins, you know, Democrats control the president and then they control the, you know, Congress, then the midterm elections happened and the Congress went Republican. Happened with Bill Clinton, happened with Bush, happened with Obama.

Shit, Obama had a massive swing. He won, Democrats controlled everything. Midterms came around, the Tea Party caused a lot of waves. There was this huge Republican swing in Congress. And I like this because it keeps everything bad. I like it when it does that because it keeps everything balanced. You know, it teeters back. It gridlocks things a little bit. And let me tell you something, a government that's that fucking can just move and do whatever

they want, not always a good thing. Sometimes it's good to slow shit down, right? It balances things out. So it was fully expected that with this election, because this is what always happens, especially with a Trump, with a president like Trump, that Congress would swing to the Democrats. Well, instead what happened was the House. House of Representative went to the Democrats,

but the Senate did not. The Senate remained Republican. So the Democrats, I think, I think they still failed with their goal was. However, I'm still happy and here's why. The house, they basically are the ones that approve big spending, no, but here's why I'm not happy.

They approve big spending bills, the Democrats, even though the Republicans like to spend money to, the Democrats love bigger government. So that makes me kind of not too happy. But I do like the fact that it's gonna cause a little bit more gridlock. It's gonna slow things down a little bit. If Trump wants to pass more tariffs or whatever,

that hopefully the house can kind of slow them down a little bit, but it's also sent a message, I hope, to the Democrats, which is- How many non-party representatives were there? I saw a few. Most of them were running as Democrats were put- I saw a few. Um, most of them are running as, as Democrats were talking to the two, the two, the two people in Congress that I like the most, just in a mash, um, and Massey who are both very

liberty minded with their views, they both won. So I'm happy about that. Um, but, you know, here's, in terms of what's, I think moving ahead, we're going to see things slow down a little bit. But the message the Democrats get from this, I hope what they get is that they need to stop with their brand of identity politics. I think they're going to get that message because they should have won both. They should have, they should have swung and won both, but they didn't.

And I think that's a reflection of people saying, hey, we're sick and tired of the whole Everybody's racist everybody's sexist everybody's homophobic, you know white man are to blame for everything and blah blah blah And like like enough of that you're not gonna win too much if you like let's focus on the issues The issues that Democrats typically do well on our education and health care And they're they do well on the anti-war message typically. Think if they focus on that, they'll do better, but I hope they get that message that the identity politics are done. What do you think, you're very raised tired of it. Is he running for more?

Trump, I don't see anybody touching him. You know, the economy's killing it, and by some measures, at least the measures people like to look at, like unemployment and GDP. I mean, we had 4% GDP, which was funny, it's funny, everybody said that was impossible and we had it. He's deregulated the fuck out of a lot of markets, markets, which has caused a lot of that. His tariffs are stupid, but whatever, he's playing this game with China. If he wins that game with China, by the way, if China concedes and drops their tariffs and we drop ours,

it'll be one of the biggest wins that I can recall for a president. Like a big ass gamble. He's been making a big gamble, right? He's passing all these tariffs, which are taxes, costing us more money. I mean, he's in the risk with that. It could be like a really long, maybe a game, right?

Probably it'll happen, which they tend to be in favor of. What people need to realize too, is that if China suffers, we suffer. The world is an economy now. Like, let me put it this way. Do you know what would happen to our economy?

If China's economy plummeted 50% or something crazy happened. If we lose half our shit. We would just say, it would be destructive towards us. In 2008, the financial crisis really kicked off in the US, the whole world was affected. You know, they're a big economy. Trust me. It's not like a small, you know, country goes down like when Greece,

whatever that affected people when I hear the factories are China's a big is the second largest. Yeah, like we don't, but anyway, it would be one of the biggest wins ever. I don't see anybody on the left coming after him. The only person I could possibly see having a, maybe a threat, because if Hillary ran again, that would be the dumbest thing of all time. She'd still get mopped. Bernie Sanders, you really think she'd kill?

Yeah, maybe. Wow, yeah. She has such a bad, she has so much money behind her and there's such a big machine behind her and she has control of the, yeah, they got a bit of a DN C. Yeah. Bernie Sanders, no way. He would look like a bumbling fool against Trump. You know, who I think might, might have a chance would be Joe Biden. Joe Biden, yeah, I heard about him possibly. Joe Biden is brash. He can match Trump when it comes to the like saying,

and they can finally have that boxing match. They can just some shit. Like they'll talk shit the same way Trump kind of does. You know, the inappropriate way of talking shit. So he kind of will match him on that a little bit. So I could, because everybody else, I feel like we'll be intimidated or we'll look weak next to Trump.

You know, that I can think up from the left. But if the economy still keeps doing well, good luck. I don't think anybody's gonna, you know, I mean, he fucking shook hands with North Korean dude. Bro, isn't that kind of our MO as to how we've always voted is like at the end of the day, whether we like him or not like him as a president, at the end of the day, if our economy is on the way, it's just like Clinton.

I mean, Clinton got away with getting a blowjob in the end of the day, if our economy is on the way, it's just like Clinton. I mean, Clinton got away. We're getting a blow job in the White House and still, still, right? I mean, I think that if, if, if, if, And boy, the Republicans did not like Bill, you know, at all, he had a Congress, but he did, but he did good, right, as far as financially, right?

Well, he did really good financially. So we had the dot-com boom and then, you know, Congress fought him tooth and nail. You know, he's the guy that went at the, you know, state of the union address is the one that said the era of big government is over coming from a Democrat, you know, which is pretty funny. And he cut lots of regulations and stuff because of Congress. And so we had, we did have a pretty damn good economy under him, but we'll see, we'll

see what happens. I think, I think he's, he's the champ, right? It's like, how do you, how do you beat the champ in boxing? You have to knock him out. When it goes to the judges, usually the judges go in his favor. So here's some good news. The gas tax got repealed in California. Yes.

So that's a good one. That is awesome. Yeah, because our gas is stupid. What are we spending like $4 down? I don't even look. I don't. Is it at four? I know, I don't either. It's that painful to fill the denoli up4 down? I don't even look. I don't. Is it at four? I know, I don't either.

It's that painful to fill the Denali up, right? I don't even look. It's so insane. Yeah. But we got Gavin Newsom as our governor, so there you go. Right. I'm sure he's probably gonna raise something. You just bought your new car, so I said,

did you look the electric round at all? Did you go that, did you look shop around at all in that? Let's do it with an electric car. Yeah. No, because I plugging it in and doing all that, I know. And plus the extra cost doesn't offset the savings in gas. I did it. I had an article that I wanted to share with you guys that would make you laugh a little bit. I figured Justin's fucked in this case, but 10 surprising reasons why single people are happier and healthier, according to research. This is backed by science.

Oh, really? I'd love to hear this. Yeah, let's see. Single people are more social. Okay. So I think we can see how that helps in a texture. It's a percentage of empty inside. You have to be more social.

You have not, you have not many meaning. Absolutely, right? Right. So single people have more time to themselves. This is important, especially today, right? Uh, right. We need to study for that. Yeah.

Single people have more time for leisure. This is true. It's another done. Stinger is wet. Single people report experiencing more personal growth. No. Number five, single people have. I'll challenge that.

Single people have fewer legal liabilities. Number six, single people tend to have less credit card debt. Sure. I feel like it'd be getting more trouble. Okay. Seven single women tend to earn higher salaries. Of course. Okay.

A single men tend to work fewer hours than married men. You know what's funny about, hold on, stop right there. How funny is that? These are so obvious. Married women will make less, because they're work less, married men work more and make more. When men are single, we do more of the staying at home and relaxing time.

Yeah. And it goes right into the psyche of what happens to a man when he has kids. Urgency. Yeah, right away. I got to work more. Got to work more. Right, right.

Number nine, single people tend to exercise more. Sure. And then the last one, single people tend to exercise more. Sure. And then the last one, single people tend to sleep better. So you were... There's a lot of duh there. Well, I mean, fucking dinner. The sky's blue.

It's healthier and happier to be single. You know, I read some Duh for you. I've read some studies that say, for sure, if you were to measure happiness in terms of like, yay, fun, yes, for sure, if you're single. Meaning? Oh, I think they do this research. They just straight up ask people, how happy are you? Right, and from one to 10, a lot of Mary people

will be like, fucking two. Yeah. You tell, but you ask them about meaning and purpose? Kids. That's just because you, because you love you ask them about meaning and purpose kids That's just cuz you cuz you love your kids Yeah, if I had kids and I hate it on sure I think a lot of people make bad decisions and then they locked themselves with somebody that they made a bad decision with them Yeah, I just had to come with that cuz people I don't I've been getting the full-core press on on marrying Katrina lately and stuff I just like man. Why does everybody try it? Why you guys are a fuck up a good thing?

We've been together for eight years We love each other more than almost anybody else. I'm just like, man, why is everybody trying, why are you guys out of fuck up a good thing? We've been together for eight years. We love each other more than almost anybody else. I fucking know as a couple. No, no, no, no. Don't fuck my shit up. No, you do your thing, man. Who is it? Don't worry about anybody else.

You do your thing. You guys enjoy what you're doing or whatever. My personal opinion, I'm not saying you should or you shouldn't. I think you would make an incredible father. Right. That's all. So if you have kids, it'd be a blessing to the world. If you don't, it's okay, we still have Adam. It was a Goldie Han in Kirk,

what's that guy's name? Kressel. Yeah, like their relationship, right? Yeah, yeah, they got to give me that word forever. Right, right, no, no, totally. I wouldn't look at celebrities though. Yeah, no, I know. It's like an example of a kid.

I mean, I use our own relationships over an example. I'm like, it's so funny about how we are that way. It's like a society like people think that we need to do something to prove something. Like if it's, I'm like, I don't got anything to prove to anybody. I know what I guess. I don't give a shit like, these generalities

and like people's ideas and opinions, like I give two shit. A lot of people don't, especially today, a lot of people don't realize this, but this is true, 100%. The crux of society, of successful societies has been always the family. And so inherently, we want people to hitch up

and have children, probably because we identified a long time ago that when that happens, and a lot of people do that. That's how we evolve and survive. That's how it's gonna be. Because if everybody's single, and first of all, nobody's having kids,

or if they are having kids, no one's taking care of them, and who's gonna rile in the men? There you go. And who's, you know what I'm saying? Like, Mary, you could bring up all those studies of like having both together, you know, planted and rooted in that family, and then how much benefit like the kids have as a result of that.

Yeah, yeah. Exactly. I, you know, I could make this, I can make this point that you're probably more likely if you're single to be more selfish, which is okay. But if everybody was like that, it might not be so good, right? Right. Yeah. And I tend to think, here's what happened to me when I had kids.

I thought way more about the future than I did before I had kids. I barely ever thought about that shit. Now that I have kids, I'm like, ooh, what about? I know. What about the environment? The world all of a sudden matters. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, like I give a shit about politics.

Like I voted, you know, and all that. And I wouldn't even have given the shit, like before that. And I know I'm fucking selfish, so that's probably fucking hell. I mean, I don't want it. Right now, if I want an $800 pair of sneakers, I fucking will do it on a Tuesday just because. You know what I'm saying? Where if I got a fucking kid, I got to put milk in his mouth,

that's gonna be totally different. Amen. You know, I'm feeling like he's his own. I feel an asshole doing the double click. You know, I can't do it. I can't do it right now. That's what happens to me all the time. I'll be at the store and be like, God, I want that.

But my kids need clothes. Yeah. Damn it. That's what happens to me all the time. I'll be at the store and be like, God, I want that. My kids need clothes. Yeah. Damn it. What are we gonna do? Here's a study for you. When fathers exercise, their future offspring may benefit. They're doing some animal studies and they find that mice, that workout spawn healthier offspring.

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When did you get stronger than him? And I was like, oh my God, this is already happening. He's thinking in his thoughts, like when am I gonna be stronger than dad? And I was like, yeah, I got stronger. I was like, he's bigger, but that forced me to work out more and exercise and get stronger, so he wouldn't just keep out wrestling me.

And then, like this wheel started clicking. I can just see it, you know, in his head. And I was like, but you know what? I'm gonna keep working out. So you go, a lot of work to do. You try, I'ma squash you, you know. It's like looking at me. I'm 90 at least.

You can see in his head, he's like, I'm gonna kick your ass in there. Yeah, he is, like, he had the eye that like, I had the tiger like, I remember. Do you remember, is your youngest? Yeah, is my youngest. That's great. That's such a cute kid. What, do you remember the day that you realize you were stronger than your dad? Yeah, it was physically like He his go to movie six Evan you guys have met him

And he would just use his weight to basically squash me, right? So I would wrestle and then he would pin me down and it was when I was I think it was when I was 16 Yeah, it was when I was 16 I think it was when I was 16. Yeah, it was when I was 16 and I was like working out, like 6am workouts consistently for, and I just started football and I was pinned down where he always got me to where he was just like, lay basically all his weight on top

and I just would smother me. And I just like summing all of my inner strength and force and all at once just like used my whole body to Roll him over and then I got on top of him and then he looking his eyes were like He had the biggest like like eyes looking at me like oh my god that just happened and then after that He never wrestled me again. Yeah, you know what? That's that's exactly what happens Yeah, once you once the the young lion beats the old lion with me again. That, you know what? That's exactly what happens. Yeah. Once you, once the young lion beats the old lion, it's like, it's almost like, it's over.

How did you feel about it? Nature. I don't know. I felt like, did you feel it? It felt gross. Little, yeah. I was like, oh shit. I was like, first I was like, yeah, through my arms up.

And I was like, March around the house, like bragging and shit. And I have five in my brother. Then you felt bad. Yeah. And then I was like, ooh, yeah, like bragging and shit and high five in my brother. Then he felt bad. Yeah, and then I was like, ooh, yeah, I just took him out. I remember the first time that happened to me. So my dad's, like, he's just has this insane stupid strength. I mean, he came in here the other day, took one of our heavy ass, one of our big, heavy, heavy dumbbells,

and upside down bottoms up, pressed it. This is a guy with arthritis up and down, his fucking spine. He can't work and he ends up afterwards, of course he hurts. He's just got this crazy strength. This is the same guy of the first time I cleaned and pressed 135 in the backyard. I was so proud. I'm like,

Hey, come here. Look what I can do. And at 135 and I'm like, push pressing it and barely doing it. And he fucking cleans it with one arm. Oh my God. Same guy, right? So I was eight. I was like 18 or it and barely doing it. And he fucking cleans it with one arm. Oh my God. Same guy, right? So I was eight-bullittles, you know. I was like 18 or 19, and we were grappling,

and we were doing Jiu-Jitsu on the ground, and I caught him in a foot lock, and he didn't tap, and I popped his ankle, and then I let go real quick. Yeah. And at that moment, I was like, oh shit, I just got, but because he's my hero, I was sad. Yeah. You know, I was like, oh man, like, I think that because he's my hero, I was sad. Yeah. You know, I was like, oh man, like, that is, yeah, I was sad.

I could beat my dad now. It's one of those things. I was like, oh man, I don't know if I like that. It's like a passing of the torch, you know. It is, it is, it's a weird feeling. But I tell my kids all the time, they'll never beat me. So I just do. Yeah, I'm like, I'll be 100 and still work on it.

I was like, listen, you'll never in your life. I wonder what the age difference is for that transition to happen for a father who never really lifts weights like you're both your dads, right? And they're like trained versus two dads like yourself who continue to train. I know it's a grand experiment. Right. I'm gonna find out.

Well, for sure if your son's trained their asses off, they'll surpass me. By the time they're 18 or 19, they're gonna be hitting some fucking strength. And at that point Let's see how old is your youngest. Yeah, so he's five so he's five so when he's six when he's 20 that's 13 years from now or whatever Yeah, how old are you gonna be in 13 years 53? Yeah I don't know how big a decent man. Look at Paul check dude. Hey, man. Paul check doesn't make any sense

You know what however strong Paul check is which is insanely strong and doesn't make any sense. You know what, however strong Paul Chek is, which is insanely strong and doesn't make any sense, could you imagine how strong that fucker was when he was 30? Yeah. I mean, when he tells the stories about... That's true. Sometimes I wonder though, to me, he's an example, and this is like, you know, you talk about old man's strength, we talk about the CNS and all that, so like that.

You know, I would like to ask him that. He may be pretty close to the strength he's kind of always been up because he's maintained. Yeah, because he's just consistently. I've talked to him about it. He says he can't do what he used to. For sure. Yeah, I know there's some things.

He used to do, he's fucking 57 years old. He was always called. He was always called. He did a one arm press of a 250 pound strong man. So he held the guy up with one arm at one of his classes. It's a famous story and sometimes people don't believe him. But I believe the guy because last year at 57 years old, he had a picture of it. He's doing walk, he does have a picture of himself. Yeah, walking lunges with 275 is stupid. 57. Yeah, that's crazy. That's crazy

strong. One arm pull ups. Yeah. How many people do you know in your life that could do one arm pull ups? He's the only person I in your life that could do one arm pull ups? He's the only person I know personally. So maybe Mike Salami, I think that's my point. If we continue training consistently, there's not a lot of examples of people like Paul Chek who, you know, 20 years ago, or 30 years ago even started training

and I'm still consistently training like that. It's just now become really popular. Like how many people do you guys know that are almost 60 like Paul is and has been lifting for 40 years? Like there's just not, there's not a lot of natural guys. It's there's a lot of guys, but a lot of them are geared up. And even them, like even the guys that most of the body builder type guys that were body

builders, you know, 30 years ago aren't lifting like they used to, they didn't even consistently and they've got bellies and they fucking talk about the good old days. Like, there's very few people that live a healthy lifestyle and have been living one for 40 years. There might be some people doing 20 years, 30 years. And I'm sure we have people listening to this podcast that are. I had a good reunion. I had a client, Jim, who I trained for a long time, who's 72 right now.

And he, he's about as strong as he was when I first started, you know, when his strength really climbed up when I trained him and I trained him for about 10 years. So 62 to 72, he's about the same strength. That's pretty fucking good. But this guy, every day since he was, he said, you said, since he was 30 years old, every single day, he swims two and a half miles.

Every straight, straight, every single night. he swims two and a half miles straight, straight every single night. And I used to work out my abs with this guy, and we would work out abs together, and he would murder me. His endurance was, it didn't make, it used to make me so angry, he would just go forever, and I'd be like, I'd be like,

I'd be like, I'd make it harder for him, like Jim concentrate, squeeze here, perfect your form, because this motherfucker will be here for an hour and a half. But insane amount of stamina and endurance and he's been doing it forever. I mean, you know, you can maintain insane. I had another guy who was 80.

I just, I see you, right? And you're getting older and I see you deadlifting, still fucking 500 plus pounds. I can't imagine you losing that much poundage off of that. Like I don't see you going from you being on the pool, 550 pretty consistently to all sudden you pulling 350, like no. And think about how old the kid is gonna have to be

before he even starts pulling numbers like that. So it's, I mean, I would say till 25, probably, you guys would be dominating your sons until, until, as long as you maintain your, cause then at 25, he's like, here's coming peak time. And if he's, because then at 25, he's like, here's coming peak time. And if he's stayed consistent since he was young, and he's trained all the way till 25.

Well, he's already, he's already far surpassed me with math skills. I'll tell you that much. I cannot help him with his math homework at all. And I didn't like math and he's a wizard at it. So I'm always telling him like, I hope you know what he's got, Google, because you're fucked if you have any questions,

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So so common. We did it. One of the first videos I did that went viral on our YouTube channel was how to fix knee pain and it's a video of me. I think I'm sitting down in the 1990 position and I have a a med ball and I also did a post on my Instagram of a picture of it. So if you go back on my Instagram a little ways, this video is really good. I go into trouble shooting this. It could be caused by obviously a lot of different things, but probably the most common things that we see with knee pain. It's the wrinkles. Right.

Exactly. You go, you know, as meteor or more distal to the body and look for the potential And hip is probably most common. I see someone's got really tight IT or just tight hips in general and or Ankle issues that are going on that's causing it But in that video we we discuss all of all the joints in the human body when you look at Human as a primate and you compare it to other primates One of the joints that stands out the most, because we have all of our joints are different

from other primates, right? We walk on two legs. But one of the biggest differences is the size of our knee joint is massive in comparison to other primates, because we evolved, walking and jogging long, long, long, long, long distances. Our knees can actually take a lot of repetitive motion.

Your knees can handle a lot of pressure and strength and repetitive squatting and a lot of stuff. The problem is, is if you have imbalances and how you move, if you're moving in a way that is suboptimal, it's no different than driving a car when your suspension is all off or your shocks are off and you'll notice that over time that your tires have this weird wear on them. If you're not moving in an optimal way, then your knees will start to hurt and

it becomes a chronic problem. Now, by the way, I'm completely disregarding acute injuries. If you injured your knee and you tore something, you got to wait until you heal before you could do anything. But if you have this kind of chronic knee pain, it's not because you have bad knees, you have bad knees because there's a problem. There's a dysfunction in the patterns that your recruitment pattern. That's it. And a lot of people, you know, she said squatting, right? Squatting is the issue.

Squatting, wind down properly, it's one of the best things you could do for your knees. Okay, it's literally one of the best things you could do for your knees. Okay, it's literally one of the best exercises you could do for your lower body. And I'm not just talking about the muscle of your lower body. I'm talking about the joints of the lower body. The problem is people have terrible recruitment patterns. So then they go squat and more weight and pressure gets put on the knees than needs to be.

You're getting all this patellar stress. You're because your hips aren't stable, now the lateral ligaments of your knee are stabilizing when more than they should, because your knee, maybe your knees want a cave or they want to go out or they wobble. And so those ligaments now which aren't supposed to bend are flexing or holding you steady. And now you start to notice pain in those areas. IT band gets tight as a result of maybe weak abductor muscles and then it doesn't track properly

and you get stressed that it hits right in that point in the joint. And I really like your example of looking at the tires in terms of like wear and tear. Like if you take it down to the feet and you're gonna look at your toes or you're gonna look at calluses and you're gonna look at like the amount of pressure, whether it's internal or on the outside of your feet, that's really a good indication of where you're emphasizing

in terms of grounding yourself into the earth and where you're putting a lot of pressure and the forces is kind of being delivered through your feet and your ankles. You know, that was one of the craziest things that I saw change in my own feet after hanging out and spending time with Brink. Because I put so much focus on my ankle mobility and just my feet being active

and I was pronating really bad. And on the insides of both, and I was pronating really bad. And on the insides of both, and I see this is really common with Justin's talking about where your big toe, if you've got this callus, this really big callus on the outside of those big toes, it's because of the feet are pronating so they're rolling in and it could be so subtle that you don't feel it or even see it, but that's a great example. You look down and you see those call cows has completely gone away from it. I had them a whole life pretty much,

and now I don't have that at all. And so to see that from the work that I put in of working on that for so long now, and to not have that anymore, because even when I first, obviously, it doesn't go away right away because, this is one of those things, when you find an imbalance like this,

that means you've got this imbalance from years and years and years of poor patterning, right? So it's not going to be, you know, one or two times of stretching or working on something before you start to see the results that you want or think that the knee pattern that you've been doing for years. So it's gonna have to be active work, which is the mistake that I think I get when I teach this stuff to clients is, you show them your foam roll, their IT out, you do some 90, 90 work in their hips, you do some ankle mobility and short foot, you start doing all this cool stuff

and you give them this like temporary relief and they're like, oh wow, man. They're like, I'm done. Right, and they're like, oh my God, man. They're like, I'm done. Right. And they're like, oh my God, I feel so much better. I'm done. And then they stop doing it because they don't have the pain. Then they go back to just moving normal again,

which they're normal. They're default patterns. They're gonna get them right back in that place. Pain is one of the last signals you'll get from dysfunction. So once you're hurting, you can pretty much realize that you've had dysfunction for a long time. I used to love it.

One of my favorite things is when clients came to me and hired me and said they had knee pain and it wasn't acute. I used to love it because I was like, great, I'm gonna blow your mind. I'm gonna blow your mind and then you're gonna see the value in what I'm doing. And I, through 20 years of training people,

besides the structural acute issues where people actually had surgeries and stuff that were things that you can't control, I had 100% success. 100% of the time someone would come to me, chronic knee pain, I can't squat, I can't lunge, my knees always hurt, and 100% of the time I'd fix it. I had one client who was a surgeon,

general surgeon, brilliant, brilliant woman, and when I first did my goal assessment with her, she told me, she goes, I said, are there any limitations anything I didn't know about? And she said, I can't squat and I can't lunge. My knees are terrible. And I said, well, who told you, has this been told by a doctor?

Yes, my friend is an orthopedic surgeon. He looked at my knees, because they always hurt. We did MRIs. And I cannot lunge and I can't squat. Six months later, she was squatting and lunging and she became one of my biggest referral people of all time. This woman sent me, you know, 70% of the doctors and surgeons that I had trained afterwards

because I blew her mind because she thought for sure she couldn't squat or lunge. And I would tell her, I explained to her, I said, look, it's not that we made your knees better. You know, I didn't do anything really to your knees. I just made your body move in a way to where your knees weren't handling as much as they were before. So look, here's a distributing your force.

Yeah, if I put a lot of pressure on my elbow all day long, all day long, every day, all day long, because my other joints aren't working well, pretty soon my elbow's gonna fucking hurt. And it's not gonna stop hurting until I teach my body, had to move in a way to where things are more appropriate. There's an appropriate amount of stress on my elbow. And that's what happens with the knees.

Yeah. I think generally, if people just focus in this blue in my mind, just kind of like Adam mentioned too, it's just like focusing on your feet, your toes, like strengthening your actual feet in. And this is why you saw sort of a movement with the minima shoes and the toe shoes and all that kind of stuff, but I mean, there's levels and steps to get to that point, but just treating your feet with,

you know, these drills and really focusing on strengthening, your feet and supporting your feet, being able to get up on the pads of your forefoot and treating it just like any other muscle group, I think would do you, man, would be massive in terms of eliminating any pain in the rest of your kinetic chain. I wish I had the knowledge that I have now regarding the foot when I was a trainer. I think I would have been so much better of a trainer.

Yeah, because same here, because I just was really good at correcting hip distance. That's how I was. And so, which is important too, but. It is, but you're right. It's, I mean, now when I take the shoes off of somebody and tell them this squat, like, man, I can tell about just the way they squat.

Like if they don't even tell me they have pain, I'm like, oh, I bet you this bothers you, this bothers you, this bothers you. They're like, oh, my God, how do you figure that out? And it's like, you can see it all from your feet, if you're feet. It just makes so much sense. I mean, it's the first contact. Right. Right.

That's where all the force is going. You know, so what are we, we're just blanketing that with a bunch of padding and all these things to kind of manipulate and move your feet around like you're wearing these like flippers. It is. And it's funny too because it's like people will debate this and then I'll tell them where some squat shoes and go squat. Oh my god, I squatted 15 more now. Pain. It's like all you did is put a little heel underneath your foot and have the really, really rigid, stable, as fuck shoe and now you could squat more. What do you think would happen if you strengthen your feet to be able to do that on their own,

right? Same thing. Yeah, on that note, I always get questions about like certifications and things of people. And I never remember to tell people this. And so I'll say it on the podcast now is I would highly recommend like a the Barefoot Specialist certification and doing that I wish I would have obtained that knowledge earlier on in my training career I think that it sounds silly

and it but it's so applicable to the the the clients that you'll get so that's a great great certification I know we talk a lot about FRC, I know we talk a lot about CES, I know we talk a lot about Paul Czech's HLC1, which I think is great, and those all are really good, but I rarely ever mentioned the barefoot specialist one, and I think that that is got to be up there with the top five certifications that will probably benefit you as a trainer. Next question is from Moore, JoJo. If you could change one thing in the environment that would make it easier for people to engage

in healthier behaviors, what would it be? Oh, I have an easy one. Absolutely. I have a very, very easy one. You know, the development of the US, a huge part of our success was the invention of the automobile and our ability to have the freedom to an autonomy to travel where we wanted, but it also brought about the

invention of the suburbs where these communities popped up. Remember the US was this wide expansive place. It wasn't super developed like Europe was. So we built all these suburbs in the 50s, 50s, 60s, and 70s, especially out here in the West, where you live here and there's a bunch of houses, and then you work over here, and you connect them with highways. And so people would drive to work.

And that was, in many ways, it was a good thing economically, and it helped foster the big families, and the baby boom, and all that stuff. But one of the unintended consequences of that was that people stopped walking as much as they did before. Like if you go to Europe and you go to an old town or old city, stores, shops, homes, businesses, or all mixed.

So you get at it, like San Francisco, you live in San Francisco, you live somewhere, you typically will walk to the store, walk to your gym, walk to work. It's like that in Europe too. And when you go visit Europe for anybody's ever visited some of these countries in Europe, you're blown away about how much people walk. It doesn't make sense to drive. That's all I did in Scotland, Ireland. This is walking everywhere. It was great, man. So I think one of the best things we could do that is simple is when we are designing towns and cities to make them, because here's a deal, like I live in San

Jose. I can't walk anywhere. Everything's too far. The grocery store is even a little far from me to walk to because the way the town is designed, it's designed for houses to be here and businesses to be way the fuck over here. I think if they redesign the towns, make it so that it's super, it's easier to walk than it is to drive where it's conducive for people to get on their feet and not drive somewhere and go and walk to the places that they want to go to. I think that will make a huge impact on just because it's in your life, it'll be your lifestyle, right? It'll make sense for people to walk. It's interesting because I was watching,

on Netflix, they had this sort of mini series where they're bringing up some innovations in terms of like so bird and the whole motorized scooter kind of thing that just, they dropped them off and then was like this grand experiment just like Uber where they're like, let's see how this all plays out and what kind of a car we can build from this. And you get the push back and everything, but for the most part, most people are like, I was all the unintended consequences of that was people

found like businesses and they found places they never even knew existed because it just localized everybody. And like they would go places they normally wouldn't go because they're on the scooter. And I thought that was fascinating. And it makes a lot of sense. I think we should have like this built-in thing to our fingerprint.

So when we go to purchase food, you have to put your thumb print on it. And then it body scans you and tells you where your body fat percentages and it doesn't allow you to And it doesn't allow you to open the ice cream jar because you're fucking 35% body fat away fatty That just doesn't even open like you in order to access that or go through the drive-through you know you have to fucking thumbs Scan what are my food rations for today? Oh, fuck.

No food for today. Okay. I guess I'm on a diet. I mean, I think that I don't think I would ever want something crazy like that, but I think if we actually thought like that as humans, I think we'd be in a much better place. I think if we just thought, and I try and do this all the time, like allowing myself, because I'm a firm believer in balance, and you know, should you be able to have ice cream

every once in a while, have cake when you do this, or do things like that. Okay, but, you know, where we lack the discipline is the like acknowledging where you're currently at with the way you're taking care of your body. And so if we had some sort of immediate feedback to let you know, and I just threw out something totally stupid and random like that, but the point is that, you know, hey, if it was a day I trained, I'm in a deficit right now, then I have access to whatever

I have this variety of foods. Now, if I haven't trained, I haven't moved, I haven't done all stuff like that, then there's these types of foods I should only be eating. And so if we could train ourselves to think like this, I think we'd be in a far better place. We have to change, changing infrastructure to promote people walking and moving more and changing culture around exercise and nutrition. Because right now, the culture surrounding exercise

and nutrition is fucked. What does the culture say with exercise and nutrition? Eat right and exercise so that you could look sexy. Eat right and exercise so you could look hot and have a six pack. Eat less, walk more and sit. The culture around fitness is, there is no culture around it.

All the cultures around aesthetics and how you look. And I get that and I understand that, but that's driven the market so much that the fitness industry has continued to sell fitness as a way to lose weight or diet as a way to look good. No, no, no, if the culture understand that this was about well-being,

and that's what everybody expected and understood, like imagine if most people went to the gym and didn't expect to lose weight, oh, why are you here? I just wanna feel better and be healthy. Imagine if people have that expectation. How many less people would be disappointed? How many more people would treat exercise as a lifestyle rather than a, let me lose his 10 pounds

and get the fuck out type of attitude? How many people would look at food differently? There has to be a cultural shift. How cool would it be if you were walking around with like glasses, right? And they had like the Google glasses which never took off. And you could just, at all times, it's reading your body and letting you know like,

oh, you're low on vitamin B, or you're low on vitamin. And then the other the right side of your glasses is like pictures of all the foods that provide this for you, right? I mean, we're going to be there, dude. I'm telling you right now we're going to get to a place where we can have this real time feedback on how our body, and if we do that, we can help people connect to a different relationship with food. Instead of us always looking at it, it's good food, it's bad food, this helps me look sexy, this doesn't help me look sexy.

Instead of leaning like that, looking at it as, okay, what are optimal foods for my body and what my individual body needs based off of whatever it is that I may be lacking or what I haven't gotten into my diet. And if there was this constant feedback of what's your low on as far as nutrients, and then you knew you knew how to connect what you're low on with the types of foods, I think more people would be apt to make better decisions that, you know, oh, I know I really am craving

that whatever, I'm not going to do it because I X, Y, Z, and I'm deprived of that. I think more people will be, I think a better decision. I think, yeah, and I think like technology, what we've seen here in the Silicon Valley is these companies have grown in the demand for what they do is greatly increased. There's a super competitiveness about driving people

to work more on the weekends and keep them on campus to keep working and providing whatever they need there to kind of get the job done. I think just immediately, if there was more scheduled recreational activity involved with not just a lunch break, but it's like we can have scheduled opportunity to lift weights specifically.

I think that would do a massive good. I think that's gonna take time. I think the reason why that will eventually happen is because companies will start to realize that productivity. Yeah, it saves them money and the employees are more productive. So logistically, yeah, that just needs to be pushed more because I still see and it's more

popular to to be plugged in and you know, play these video games do this like like have things more conveniently there like food wise to then just just hustle it down real quick so I could get back to to programming. Well, look, you know, like I said, if we can start changing the culture a little bit, we will see more people do it. Look, if you go to Japan, after dinner, it's customary that you go for a walk. This is part of their culture. If you, in fact, Japanese companies for a long time, many of them still do this. At the beginning of the work day, everybody shows up at the same time.

They go out in the yard and they all do group exercises. This is like a big thing that they do over there. It's part of the culture. It's just accepted. Even starting the day with the Tai Chi and all that. That's it. China, in China, they do that. In Europe, walking after meals or walking in the evening

is very customary. It's part of the culture. Our culture just doesn't have these things in them. And that's the different. Our culture when it't have these things in and embedded in it. And that's the different. Our culture when it comes to health and fitness is all about aesthetics and how we look and fucking no wonder it's failing.

That's a failing formula. It's a failing formula. I tell you what, when I got my clients to start to exercise because they liked the health benefits, the way it made them feel and that's why they ate, they were clients forever and they'd worked out forever. When I got people who were stuck on the loose weight and fucking look hot, it was a matter of time before they'd fall off the wagon, just the way it works.

So we got to change that message and embed it in the culture. Next question is from Connor Desmond. What do you mean by active muscles? My resistance training professor says that it is impossible for muscles to sleep. I pick this question because it pisses me off every time I fucking eat. They're just being literal. I hate academia for this reason.

This is what happens when you go get your PhD and then you fucking want to be so smart all the time instead of like getting the point across to people. This is, I get this a lot too and we talk about, you know, we talk about this, we call sleepy butt syndrome. These are things that we've made up, so people can understand what's going on to help them better understand.

Instead of talking and fucking technical terms that are 10 levels above their reading level, or they give two shits about that physiology behind it. So, no, we know that you have, don't have, that's not paralyzed. Yeah, you'd be paralyzed. I get that. I get that it's not a sleep, but a sleep is a term that we use to let people know that

it's underactive because the proper term would be that it's overactive or underactive. And if it's underactive, we call it sleepy. It's you're not firing as many neurons to that area to activate those muscles as it should be, so it's working optimally. It's just a way to communicate, and this is what academia, we got interviewed yesterday by a PhD student who's writing for, he writes blogs and articles for other graduates and other publications,

and he said, you know, how can the academia do better when it comes to health and fitness? And I told him, I said, learn how to fucking communicate and stop being so goddamn boring. Because this is the problem. If I communicate and I say to you, muscle recruitment patterns are off, we need to get more activation.

But I'm gonna lose everybody. If I say to somebody, your butt's asleep, we need to wake it up. Okay, that makes sense. Obviously it's not asleep. What we mean is, it's just not doing as much as it should. Or you have a bad bad you have a recruitment pattern That's not ideal so I'm gonna use some arbitrary numbers

But let's say you do a squat and let's say your glutes are Supposed to contribute 55% of the strength and power to that squat But your glutes are only contributing 45% that means that your quads and your hamstrings are doing more than they should or what more than ideal I would say your glutes are asleep and we need to wake them up. They're obviously not asleep, they're still connected. Your nerves are connected to it and it's not paralyzed. But what I'm trying to communicate is

your butt needs to do more of the movement than it is for you to move optimally. That's all we mean. So you can go back to your training professor and be like, yes, you know, fucking Einstein, it's not literal. You got me. Yeah, it's just a poor recruitment pattern.

And what we're, when they say sleepy or asleep, what they literally say, you can't isolate one muscle. Right. There's a lot of contributing factors in stabilizing and, you know, isometrically, you know, there's a lot of factors involved with that whole process, but it's like to simplify it and deliver it in a way where, you know, your client is able to understand the concept and actually produce what you want them to produce is everything. Yeah, at the bottom line is this, I don't care how smart you are when it comes to fitness

and health, I don't care how smart you are if you can't communicate it. You've changed nobody's mind. You've helped no one. You've inspired no one. You've brought no value to anybody. All you are is a bunch of information and the only people that you'll bring value to are other people who are in your field who also love that kind of information. You're improving how smart you are. You're in an echo chamber. You have done nothing whatsoever. You know, one of the best things that ever happened to astrophysics was Carl Sagan. Carl Sagan wasn't the most brilliant astrophysicist of all time, but he brought astrophysics to the masses.

Made it relatable and fun. He brought up an entire generation of kids who were interested in science and you know how many current scientists and astrophysicists if you ask them what inspired you to do this. I watched, you know, into the universe with Carl Sagan or whatever. Like he, you know, Milton Friedman is another one. Milton Friedman, brilliant economist, but he was great at communicating and brought up a whole generation of people who started to understand economics through him.

So you need to be able to figure out how to communicate what you're trying to communicate. Otherwise, all that information is a complete waste. And this is where the experience of training people for 20 years, that's what it's given me. I have knowledge, but I know how to communicate it because believe me, I communicated wrong many, many times with clients. There's been a lot of troubleshooting. Yeah, and it's like, what am I doing wrong? I keep telling my clients the same thing over and over again. They're not doing it. Why aren't they doing it? And then I finally realized, oh, I need to communicate. I need to sell them on it. That's a big part of my job. It reminds me the YouTube channel. I mean, the hate or the shit that we get on there is always from somebody who is trying to sound smarter technically It's the real tip for you

The idea of the YouTube channels to help fucking people out is to change their lives or to give them a tip or give them a Tool to improve themselves and if I can help a hundred people with that and it I don't come off the way you or I don't use the Technical terms like you would like me to or you think is conflicting with the way you, or I don't use the technical terms like you would like me to, or you think is conflicting with the way you've been taught, and you come on there and then you talk shit. You're so stupid to me. It's like, what are you contributing? Like, if you think you can articulate that better and get more people to do it, then

by all means do it and show me. I would love someone to teach me how to communicate a topic that I'm talking about that you don't agree with the way I'm delivering. We'll show me a better way. We'll show you a better way. Show me a better way to get that across because the way I communicate certain things is because for years and years and years

of lots and lots of lots of people that I've tried to get them to understand, I've had to simplify that because when people hire trainers or they look up exercises on YouTube, they don't want to, they could go to the nearest library or go online and search, you know, anatomy or physiology if they want to know all the medical terms. They're going to do them any good. No, it's not.

They want to just help me. Yeah, it's interesting that you brought the use because I just looked in and remember when we speculated about how people are going to use that specifically to search for things to learn, like how to this. How to, like, that's pretty much, it's, I think it's like 43% of people that are actually on YouTube, that's their sole intention is to learn something new. And so like, yeah, like, it's so important to be able to communicate something from an elementary level.

And then it's so funny. There's this channel on YouTube, and I'm so angry that I can't remember the name of it, but my kids watch it all the time, and it's a science channel, and they'll talk about historical figures, like George Washington, Genghis Khan, all these random individuals,

but they'll do it with super entertaining, and they communicate it to kids, and my daughter, the other night, were sitting down at the dinner table and she's telling me all this fucking random, random facts. You know them invented peanut butter? Do you know why? Do you know that this and you know Genghis Khan and you know one percent of people from this area are probably related to Genghis. It might eight-year-old daughter and I'm like, where are you learning this? And I watch these videos and you know why she's

learning it because they're communicating it effectively you know that's so important it's fun. Next question is from Immortal Strength. What is something that the opposite sex wears that's an instant turn on? Also, what do you wear that immediately turns on your significant other? Oh I got a good one. I got something right now. I bet if I say it right now all you guys

You're like, oh, when a girl wears long socks. I With like shorts or like a bikini bottle. Is that my girl has these long You know long like wool socks that go right above the knees. Yeah, and that's just Jesus Lord That's too much. You know what I mean when you see that? No, I, no, we talked about this the other day. That's definitely a weakness for sure. I love the tall socks with booty short. This is the time for it too. This is like this fall weather.

It's a little cool. It's like it's too just warm enough down there. Because when it's hot, you don't want, I know the girls don't want to wear no tall ass socks when it's hot, but when it's cool outside like it is right now, they'm tall knee socks with the little booty shorts. Yeah, it's like you're like it is right now, they've tall knee socks with the little booty shorts. Yeah, it's like you're great.

Fall. I also have this, I love when my girl wears, you know, the fitted, you know, tight type of yoga pants, Lou lemon or Viori type of pants and wears them with a badass pair of clean sneakers. I'm a sneaker head. So sneakers that go with her whole ensemble, I think is like a huge turn on for me. So she's, she's got her, her cute, tight fitted pants with some fucking cool ass sneakers that go well with the fit. Yeah. Well, both of those. And then, you know, a skirt. I mean, I was going to argue, you know, that is the, the best

attire of all time. We don't see a lot of skirts anymore. It doesn't, it's not popular. That was the thing when we were kids. It was like, that was the, it was like the, the plaid skirt. The small window, right? And it was like, like timeless to me. That was like the style. I was like, wow.

So you'd be hard for me to concentrate today. Another one is a form fitted dress. You know, like a dress that hugs the body because like my girls, she has this hip to waist ratio that just drives me crazy. So she wear, if she wear a dress that hugs her body, it accentuates that female form. Oh my God, that's, that kills me.

It destroys me every single time. Now do you have a fit that you put on that she's just like, oh, yeah, oh, daddy. No, no, no, no, no. Girl, like wife, Peter. Yeah, every time. That's the reason why he keeps wearing a bucket of Jessica over there. I don't care what they say.

I love it. You look so handsome. When I wear a long t-shirt, no pants and socks, let me tell you that. That just gets her every single time. A suit. A suit. My girl really likes it. Yeah, I think I think all women like that, right? I think that my girl will dapper down. Yeah, because I don likes it. Yeah, I think I think I think all women like that right?

I think that my girl will dapper down. Yeah, because I don't I don't put a suit on that often and she normally comments on that. I don't know what else she really I have to ask her tonight what she yeah, women tend to like you know, right? Yeah, I've been you know, I picked up on this one time because I was working around the house and you know, I mentioned this story like when I work on stuff like she gets turned on by that. But so you're a tool belt, that's great. Yeah, I was a tool belt. But really what it was, I was wearing jeans and I just didn't have my shirt on,

because I was hot as fuck. And I was like, you know, working on the house on the ceiling and over in the corner, she came home and she just like dropped her bag off and was just staring at me. And I was like, what? And she was just like, yes, you get this, you know, and was like, tell me like, like, I don yes, you get this. You know, and it was like,

I don't know, I got a big response out of that one. Okay. You don't have to remember that. That's actually a good point. Jeans with no shirt on. That is definitely a thing. I've also experienced that, where I'm just have no shirt on just my jeans.

Especially if you're doing something productive. I'm gonna have to try that, because I don't know. I don't think I've pulled that look off in a long time. Bro, if I'm doing housework with no shirt on, it's pretty much, that's a done deal. And I often will do that. When you say that I can't help but picture the Instagram

flowery gloves. No, Instagram flowery, yes it is. He has the rubber gloves on and it's my favorite. That's not what it works. One of my most liked photos. I'm all set. I'm all set, you know. It works one of my most one of my most liked photos Of all time

Would have been a puppy in the other army you'd have been like break the in oh forget it What about half shirts half shirts are a big one? You know you when you have those Like when you do Remember the eighties when guys started wearing half shirts? Yeah, what? The mesh. I would talk shit, but I actually did, because I would do that for football, because I would get so hot, so I'd cut it right,

because I had to sweat from the pads. I would just cut it off top. So you worked over the pads with, yeah. Little crop top? Yeah, and I had a six back. Covered the two. And he was like, man, that worked actually. I'm trying to think the last time I hurt,

you know what, you know what I know she likes, which she tells me, because I do, when I go to the last time I heard, you know what, you know what I know she likes, which she tells me is, because I do, when I go to the gym and work out, I do put my outfit together. Like I'm not, I like that. Justin, I think mentioned on the podcast today about that, I've said this before, like something about my whole fit put together,

motivates me to live more. And there's something about me lifting like that. And I'm so in my zone and focused that I know turns her on. She sees that. She'll tell me all the time that this hot chicks will be trying to get my attention and walking by. And I pay no attention to it because I'm so focused on my training and I look good, I'm pumped up, I'm sure.

And so that's it. You know what a lot of, I've heard women say before too, is that they like men in sweats sometimes, because you can see their, oh, they're bold. Yeah, you can see. I've actually heard everything. I mean, my girls said that to me before,

but I've actually heard other women say that about other guys as well. That's a thing, like you wear sweats, and you can see the bulge, which is very circumcised. Yeah, which is a very, I mean, what? Yeah. Girls, what are you guys looking at? Girls are just as nasty, man.

I know they are. So we tried to help Bennett that they're doing. But they try to keep it secret. Come on, man. That's all the guys said in the elevator. You can't even get a fucking way nasty or chick say some shit. I loved it when Chloe was like a lot of self. Yeah, we're worse.

Well, you know, I didn't say anything to him after he said that really, but the first thing came to mind, like when I used to teach at Orn's theory, man, I didn't say anything to him after he said that really, but the first thing came to mind, like, when I used to teach at Orn's Theory, man, I had all the kuggers in there and you, I would hear them. To a cat call. Oh, I'd walk by. Oh, they're terrible.

I'd walk by the treadmill. They were with you and they're cat calling and camo on time. That's right, because they didn't know you, your friends, they'll be doing shit like that. And I'm like, dude, they're saying, way worse shit. Way worse shit, man. Oh, bro, I've been, when I used to run gyms, because in a gym, you have a lot of members and stuff.

I got her, I've been harassed at least a few times and it was always women in the 30, mid 30 to mid 40, age range. And when I say harassed, I don't mean like, you look sexy. No, no, like, handsy. I mean, like, grabby and saying really, really, really filthy shit. Like, cup check. No, no, like handsy. I mean like grabby and saying really, really, really filthy shit.

Like cup check. Yeah, like really bad shit where I get blush and shy. And I'm like, well, that's why I don't buy that shit with the guy thing. There's fucking girls that do it too. There's guys that do it absolutely. And if you had to fucking measure by numbers, maybe there's more guys that do,

who gives, if me and the day it's about the individual, right, the person who's like willing to say or do inappropriate shit like that, it's on both fucking sides. It's just more more threatening. Yeah, that's it the individual, right? The person who's like willing to say or do inappropriate shit like that. It's on both fucking sides. It's just more more threatening. Yeah, that's it. I've never felt like I do get that argument. Yeah, that is the fair argument.

I was actually talking to so we were talking about our good friend Kyle Kingsbury the other day. I love Kyle. And the very first time, do you remember this? The very first time that we met Kyle. He's a very comfortable man. Very, very comfortable. And we went Kyle. He's a very comfortable man. He's very, very comfortable. And we went, so he comes in the studio.

He's wearing short pink shorts, his fanny pack, he's barefoot, he comes walking in in his tank top. First time we've ever met, we podcast with him, we totally hit it off for good friends. We head over to Pete's coffee to go get coffee together. And I'll never forget this. And at this time, I know about him, I've known it, I mean, dude fucking deadlifts over 500 pounds.

X pro MMA fighter MMA black belt. Yeah. I mean, the dude is a badass. For sure could what my ass. There's no argument around that. And, you know, we're in line at Pete's and he walks behind me. And when he walks behind me, he drags his hands across my low. Never so gently. Oh, just and then he leaves it there and lets it linger for a few seconds. And then he walks around and I had this weird feeling that came across. You got the chills on him. I'm timed you.

I'm not homophobic whatsoever, but for the first time in my life, I actually felt if this guy wanted to rape me, he could. He could break you off. And you felt like a little threat. I did. I never in my life, I've been around lots of gay friends, and in fact, I'm the type that will fucking flirt with them and be playful like that because I'm not homophobic.

But for the first time that I have a man touch me in a felt physical and sexual way. And he's a bigger stronger man. And he could, and he could take it if he wanted it, you know? And so I was like, for the first time ever, I could, I felt that I could. Well, that's what I'm saying. Imagine if you walk into a room.

Yeah, yeah. Imagine if you walk into a, like you're, you're walking to work and you pass by a construction site. And there's a bunch of big Kyle Kingsbury types. Right, yeah. And they're all saying shit to you and hey, you know, yeah, you're not, you're not thinking about the fact that they're all saying shit to you and hate them. Yeah.

You're not thinking about the fact that they like you and they think you're hot. You're thinking about the fact that what if one of them is a bad guy? Right. Like they could, you know, because I've never felt threatened by these women who would grab my digital. Of course, because you know you can put in the trial you want. You can try all you want.

I could hold you away pretty easily. Right. That's no threat. That's why that was a that was a memorable moment for me because you know before that time I have to be honest that I just I couldn't really identify. And we couldn't help you if he wanted to know all just that I could do would be yeah. Stop. Stop. I'm calling somebody. Stop. You know we have to watch. We have to find another one of our MMA buddies. We'll be terrible. Yeah.

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