Digital Social Hour - Longevity Over Size: Train Smart, Stay Strong | Nate Belmar DSH #1371

Episode Date: May 13, 2025

Are you bulking wrong? 🤔 Discover the secrets to lean gains without sacrificing your health or mobility in this must-watch episode of the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 💪 Special guest Mr. Belmar breaks down how to train smarter, avoid injuries, and achieve that ripped, toned physique you’ve always wanted—all while saving time and focusing on longevity. 🕒🔥From the dangers of overtraining and dirty bulking to the game-changing benefits of fasting, flexibility, and mobility, this episode is packed with valuable insights to transform your fitness journey. 🏋️‍♂️💡 Learn how to optimize your workouts, avoid burnout, and maintain strength while living a balanced lifestyle. 🌟Tune in now to uncover fresh perspectives on health, fitness, and life hacks you won’t hear anywhere else! Don’t miss out—watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. 📺 Hit that subscribe button and join the conversation today! 🚀CHAPTERS:00:00 - Intro00:30 - What's Changed Since Last Time05:00 - Thera 03 Ozone Module05:40 - Thera H2Go06:30 - Can You Get Taller as an Adult09:58 - Get Real Rest11:02 - Train for Your Aesthetics15:01 - Start Your Business16:03 - Running is Propaganda19:50 - Fasting Benefits21:53 - Becoming Weaker for Recomp25:44 - Health vs Fitness Debate26:13 - Lotion Myths27:58 - Importance of Healthy Food31:27 - Healthy Eating While Traveling32:56 - Current Carb Consumption36:17 - Semen Retention Explained38:48 - Benefits of Naps41:17 - Sleeping on the Floor42:23 - What's Next for Mr. Belmar44:25 - Where to Find Mr. Belmar APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [e-mail] GUEST: Nate Belmar https://www.instagram.com/mrbelmar SPONSORS: THERASAGE: https://therasage.com/ SAMRBOSA: https://sambrosa.com/ NORTHWEST REGISTERED AGENT: https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/socialhour LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ The views and opinions expressed by guests on Digital Social Hour are solely those of the individuals appearing on the podcast and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of the host, Sean Kelly, or the Digital Social Hour team. While we encourage open and honest conversations, Sean Kelly is not legally responsible for any statements, claims, or opinions made by guests during the show. Listeners are encouraged to form their own opinions and consult professionals for advice where appropriate. Content on this podcast is for entertainment and informational purposes only and should not be considered legal, medical, financial, or professional advice.#leanbulk #bulking #howtoleanbulk #leanbulking #bulkingdiet

Don't get injured. Shoulder injury ruined. Chest injury, tear pack or bicep tear. It happens all the time. The thing that discombobulates my mind is these videos of people that clear they're lifting more weight than they should. They get injured. Then it's a whole real montage of Rocky of them going back

and making a comeback just to lift the same weight. All right, guys, got Mr. Belmar, Nate back on the show. Good to be back. Been about eight months. It has. What's changed since the last episode for you? A lot's changed. I've actually been training less in terms of hypertrophy

and fasting more, walking more, basically, yeah, kind of split testing different methodologies, tactics and sequences to get lean, specifically lean, not putting on so much size without training. Because I feel like there's a lot of diminishing returns. Like how many times do you have to go to the gym to get the results that you want. Right. If you really think about it, most guys, at least just. Based on sheer observation, when I go to the gym, they go and they have facet, bro. They don't train till failure. Then they go chit chat.

And then the next day they can go again and train. Why? Because they haven't really pushed themselves to failure. The idea is trained so hard in a manner that you don't get injured, but you still hit that limit as to where you can rest the next few days. Focus on your business. Focus on relationships. Go pick up a book study.

It's not always I can't go travel. I can't go on a vacation because there is no gym. So one thing is to say it. Another thing is to try to apply it and see if there's results. So right now I'm on the skinnier side frame, but definitely looking lean and feeling good, bro. Yeah, you look way leaner than last time. Yeah.

You probably lost like 15 pounds. Yeah, well, the last time I saw you, that's when I did the fat experiment. I was like going from the fat to shreds the second time without that much training. So that's why I wasn't like super. You were bulked. Yeah.

You were like 200 pounds back then, right? Two plus, bro, like 220. 220? No, but when I got, when I back then, right? Two plus, bro. Like 220. 220? No, but when I got, when I saw you, no, I was like 195. Okay. What are you right now? I'm at 180, but I think ideal weight, 190.

But even then, bro, it's always a give and a take. I realized when I start training more, hypertrophy, eating more, more money, more time in the gym, and then you also start losing mobility. So it's a given a take. So it's kind of like, if I'm going to train more, build more muscle, I'm going to also have to stretch more to kind of like mitigate. Because I'm not going to do the whole gym, bro. I less can't go through a door.

You know what I'm saying? Yes. You believe as a man, flexibility is important. I believe it. And so do women believe it. And yeah, seriously, I'm being that serious. I love it. Yeah. Yeah, because some guys see it as gay or whatever. Yeah, seriously. I'm being dead serious. I love it. Yeah.

Yeah, because some guys see it as gay or whatever, but I mean, I'm an athlete. Yeah. Like I want to be the best basketball player I can and flexibility is important for not getting injured. Not getting injured and just like not being a bot, not being an NPC that's obsessed with bigorexia. It's never enough.

I got to get bigger and bigger and bigger. Max out on one stat and then not focus on the rest of things because it's not so flashy. It's not so cool. But let me tell you, I prefer being ripped, shredded 70 80 doing the splits, being able to pick up my grandchildren, having a holistic approach to life, not obsessed with the location and the blueprints there, dude, the blueprints there, big physique, a lot of hypertrophy, not only to steal mitochondrial density,

but it also the blueprints there. You see bodybuilders 5060. Is that a physique you want? I can tell you, bro, the rebound effect is there and you can see it. You can see it. People are dropping dead at that age if they're a bodybuilder. If they're lucky. And if they don't drop dead, then they have a terrible physique. Yeah.

Because all the muscles deflate, start sagging, but if you had more of a toned body, it'd be easier to keep. Yeah, it's sad, dude. Those guys can't even scratch their own back. Can't pop a pimple, can't do anything, bro. It's crazy. It's like going 99 strength and runescape, but no attack, nothing else. You're just going to start missing. Bro, it's like Bruce Lee says, focusing on the finger and not all the heavenly glory, bro. Heavenly glory is the full stats, the full capability of the human spectrum.

But if you're only focused and obsessed with hypertrophy, building big muscles, that's not health, bro. That's why they're in there five, six days a week too. And one thing is if you're a bodybuilder, professional bodybuilding, you're trying to make a career out of it. But if we're being realistic. Time is the most valuable asset, bro. So if you can learn how to start stacking things combined like, dude, when I train SunCycle, I'll be outside grounding, getting sun, listen to bands while I'm listening to podcasts,

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Average training, average results, on average training, on average results, bro. Absolutely. You had one video I saw about getting taller. Is that possible when you're an adult? It is possible. Luke's actually taller than me. Last time I linked up with him, because I didn about getting taller. Is that possible when you're an adult? It is possible. Luke's actually taller than me. Last time I linked up with him because I didn't

link up. We took a few months off. He was side questing when we played, when we went to go watch the Argentina game against Colombia, I was taller than him, bro, for like half an inch an inch. When we linked up, he was taller than me. Dan, he'd been doing a few stretches,

everything like dang it. He's like, yeah, and I didn't want to admit it, but he can we put We were side to side and we asked some ladies and he was an inch taller and he's been doing some stretches It's not it's people think it's like oh, it's crazy. I'm like is it crazy or is it the other side of the spectrum? Because one side of the spectrum is Compression you look at your parents are they the same height they were when they were kids or in their teens or 20s? No, the blueprints there, people are starting to hunch over

the spine, starting to compress. If you're not doing anything to mitigate that. You just succumb to the subjective laws of entropy, right? Being a man and. Degrading, degrading, degrading, and then you're only amplifying with a bad lifestyle, sedentary lifestyle. So yeah, you can get taller by decompressing the spine,

by doing certain exercises. But it's very hard to do that if you're always doing machine, always hypertrophy. No, you look like a golden graham. Hanging off a pull-up bar. Yeah. Is that a good one? I think that's great. So it's a progressive overload for that.

Cause I have a lot of guys snobs. They think they know it all. It's kind of like. Bro, we're going to hang from a bar with your hands instead. Can I tell people hang with hooks? Right. You grab a wrist metal hook, because the idea here is full

decompression of the spine. The idea here is not to work on your grip strength. Because even if hypothetically speaking, you had fantastic grip strength and you could isolate the strength only in the hands and like. Some magical way being able to like let your spine loose while you're holding the bar with strength, it's very hard. I've tried it.

I think it's more for grip strength. I think the smart idea here is full decompression of the spine means completely letting go. So what I like doing is wrapping hooks around the bar, focusing on my... And just... As I let the air go... Get into a stretch. The problem is some people, if they don't have a strong spine or an agile spine, just the decompression itself hurts. So you kind of have to...

It's like a progressive overload. I would probably start hanging first with my hands, then the hooks, and then the last variation is adding ankle weights. So I'll hang with the hooks, 5-10 minutes, ankle weights. 5-10 pounds on each decompression. Focus on breathing, mobility, and that really helps, bro. If you're building something, doesn't matter if it's a business, a brand,

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If I train abdominals a certain way, if I only do compression exercise a certain way, I'll have a I'll have a boxy torso based on the epigenetic program that I subjected my body to over months and months and months. Done like it's it's it's it's there

So it's like what are you gonna do now that you have the information? to head yourself You can start stretching. Mm-hmm. You can start decompressing from the spine because one thing is to talk about it Oh, it's great or debate whether it works or not and everything is for you to try it a couple months see the results but Decompression as it comes it goes bro yeah like I said Luke is taller than me right now crazy and I'm kind of pissed off so I'm gonna I'm gonna do a little more stretching yeah do you think your physique's attainable at home

workouts you don't have a gym membership do you think that's attainable 100% 100% because the first time I got shredded, I was in Puerto Rico. I was in the garage by myself with the mosquitoes. You know why? Why? Because I studied, bro. I did. I realized that my body, my mind couldn't be subjected to a

location for my fitness. Right. I had the resources to go to the gym. I'm like, no, I want to do it here. I want to because it's a mental thing, bro. Like being in the garage, putting in the reps, putting when it's hot outside, middle of Puerto Rico. Good luck.

Do that, bro. I want to see you middle of June, July working out. It's hard, but it's super achievable, bro, because it's not a big physique. It's a toned, lean physique, heavilyavily focused on mobility, heavily focused on longevity, and heavily focused on just practicality, bro. And you can definitely achieve it. My suggestion would be maybe get two weights, 15 pounds, 20 pounds, and then maybe some bands, and then you've got yourself a pretty good setup.

I think there's nothing new under the sun. I think there's cycles and they repeat themselves. So if there's gonna be another lockdown or shutdown, the first time that happened, a lot of people's fitness tanked. The second time it happens, will you be ready or will it happen again to you? At that point, it's on you if it happens again.

100%? Yeah, I agree. It was a mental thing bro. I legit wanted to work out in the garage with nothing because I'm like, I need to do this bro. It's a lot easier to take, okay I'm going to go to the gym. You force yourself, you get there and you put in the work. People are looking at you. But when nobody's looking at you, when you're training in the shadows, bro, that's where real grit's made, bro, like 100%.

Yep. It's just you. It's just you, bro. It's just you. Like, who's going to push you to do that next rep and the next rep and chips in the sweat equity bank? Mm. Were you doing cardio too or no? Zero cardio, bro. Wow. Only walking. Zone one, zone two training. I don't do cardio.

I'll push, I'll like force myself. To do training in terms of like sprints here and there, but that's about it, bro. And the main reason was I realized, hey, if I can tap into zone two, zone one training. Zone one throughout the whole day and zone two as the main focus of my cardio while I'm in a fasted state. Game changer, bro. And then when I did training, like body weight training, band training, creatine and HMB. The hero stack I sent you, bro, build creatine, HMB. HMB is a metabolite of leucine. Leucine helps with muscle protein synthesis.

So combining creatine and HMB, right, because it also tailors to a specific training style that you do. If you're not metabolically flexible, which means you could tap into the substrate of fat in carbohydrates just as well, right? And you're basically a carb burner. And then you start trying to this new routine. I'm going to start fasting and training. You most likely will self cannibalize. Shout out to Northwest registered agent today sponsor. Starting your own business should be exciting, not overwhelming.

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Which means your body's going to use the the glucose in the muscles as the main energy. So it's kind of like there has to be an adaptation phase in the in the in you're almost tailoring or prompting the body to tap into the fat as the main substrate of energy based on the training. Because if I woke up in the morning and I've tried it, I tried many things like waking up five, six and doing crazy cardio. Doing sprint. And I'm like, dude, I'm hungry.

I just want to go eat. And then it's kind of like, how much can I get away with it instead of getting caught in the hamster wheel? I see people, micro meals throughout the day, tons of cardio, tons of running in their physiques are like mid bro. Yeah. Marathon runners look super unhealthy. They are unhealthy, bro. The statistics on the percentage of people that claim to be runners, I think it's 50 percent right now in terms of people being injured.

So we're talking about a higher percentage than the NFL, a higher percentage of the NBA, which what does it tell you? Means propaganda has taken a pretty, pretty sharp turn and has affected the whole populace because Who came up with running being like a good idea? Hmm Who? Just do it That's crazy. I did not even connect those dots. That's where it all stems from bro It stems from and then it's kind of like making. It's not only the running, bro, it's the running with the closed encapsulated

shoes that you don't get the full splay of the toes. Right. There's no in terms of the kinetic chain. Like if you have soft shoes and you're stepping on it 24 7. I can't tell you the amount of people that are going to suffer from chronic, not only illnesses, but chronic foot health in the next 20, 15, 20 years, 15, 20 years, not even 15, 20 years like now, dude, like now people are 50, 60 years old. Having foot problems. So think about it. You have foot problems and then you're trying to do cardio to lose weight. Somewhere along the line, you're going to get injured. to lose weight.

Somewhere along the line, you're gonna get injured. Yep. When I was a distance runner, I was injured all the time. Literally at least once a month. But think about back in the day, like I'm gonna tell you, bro, we're gonna go run X, Y, Z amount of miles, four miles. What would be first reaction? Okay, where are we gonna go hunt? What are we gonna go catch?

What are we eating? Oh, no, no, no, we're going to do it for fun. You're like, fuck that. Now, I need to conserve my energy, bro. Like if you want to go traverse 20 miles, it's better to do it walking at a faster pace, easier in your joints, easier in health and easier to burn fat, bro. I think the problem is the mental thing.

People think that, oh, if I'm walking and I'm not exerting or feeling any sort of pain, I'm not putting in the work. Hence, I'm not going to get the results. And then I'm here just walking shredded, bro. Programming. Dialed. No, they really push running as one of the healthiest things you could do. And you have all the fat ladies with their spandex, just like tight polyester running. And it's just a matter of time before they get injured. The stats are there. It's 50 percent.

Damn, that's not. Yeah, it's hard to be walking, man. It really is. You walking is the best, bro. You walk eight to 12 K steps a day. You feel good that day. You know what I've been doing also? A lot of training while I'm walking.

So like shoulder mobility drills, I'll grab my shirt, I'll grab bands and I'll do stretches. And it's kind of like. Ideally, 10 K steps, bro. And what people don't realize is you can get a lot done while you're walking. Like you can listen, you can have conversations, you can be on a business call. You get more done and it also clears your mind. Like you walking in nature is completely different than you walk in an EMF treadmill looking at the news while wearing a mask.

I don't use treadmills. Treadmills are bodied. Yeah. It's just not a pleasant experience at all. No. It's like not getting anywhere. Your brother though, he recommended, what's her name? Julio. Julio. Well Julio, any form of exercise would help Julio. But I feel like Julio needs to stop talking less,

stop eating less, and start fasting more. Yeah. And start fasting more. Yeah. And start studying more. Yeah. I'm a big on. I just did my first three day fast. Congrats. Felt amazing.

Do you feel like it kind of fluctuated? Like it felt good then bad then good? Yeah. First day was tough because your body just naturally wants to eat or whatever. Second day easy. Third day somewhere in the middle I'd say. Yeah. Yeah. It's a yeah. Yeah, it's honestly amazing, bro.

Like fasting is probably one of the. The biggest hacks people can tap into and it's free. But it's like working your way toward the fast. People want to go from one side of the spectrum to the other side of spectrum, being completely unhealthy, hyper paddlepaddle foods, disgusting behavior. I want to be healthy, completely. I'm going to fast. I'm going to do a dry fast for two days. Are you stupid?

Your body's going to have an adverse reaction. I'm not going to throw anybody under the bus, but there's a lot of fitness influencers that I know were trying to do a fast, ended up in the hospital. Damn. You have to, it's because it's hormetic stress, bro. So if you have a stressful lifestyle, you're already dialed in with debt. You don't have a job. It stresses piling up. You're unhealthy. And then you're trying to go from once you're adding more

hormetic stress, bro, you think you're just because your will is there or the the inspiration to change doesn't mean that your body's not going to have some sort of adverse reaction just as someone who's addicted to cocaine is going to have an adverse reaction if he cuts cold turkey. Yeah, I could say that. Yeah, I started with a 24 hour. I made sure that was good. Then I went to 72.

Right. Yeah. What's the longest you've done? Four and a half days. Damn. That's like over 100 hours. Yeah. I was like training. I was doing pushups and I'm like, no, I need to go days. Damn. That's like over 100 hours. Yeah. And I was like training. I was doing pushups and I'm like, no, I need to go eat. Yeah. I will say. Yeah. I tried playing

basketball on it and I felt a lot weaker. You'll feel weaker, which is actually a strategy I've been doing. Becoming weaker for recomp. How does that work? It was just kind of like a concept I had. I was like, if you don't train for certain periods, like a certain amount of time, you'll lose strength naturally. But then I also realized like people get injured because in their mind, the only threshold to keep upping or to keep elevating is more and more weight. But we're not ants, bro. Right?

Like you're human beings. So there's going to be a certain extent to where age catches up and the level your max lifting catches up and that's your max lifting catches up. And that's it. If you keep pushing it, you're going to get injured. But what if you stop training a little bit, started losing strength, reducing carbohydrates and then start lifting? And when you come back, you can't lift the same amount.

It becomes hard. Right. So if you're let's say the max you could bench was 50 pounds on each side, your car up for packing like, OK, I'm going to dial it in. I'm going to start walking more, switch up my training style. Not as much lose a little bit strength. Pick it up. You'll do 40 pounds, 30 pounds. It's hard. Boom. Perfect. Start becoming a lot of flexible.

Start reintroducing carbohydrates. You'll hit 50 again, bro. And it's like you're working your way up. So instead of like being capped and keep pushing, pushing potentially get injured is get capped switch training style Become weaker and then work your way up again. That's something I've been doing bro. Smart. Yeah, I mean, it's just switching it up, bro Yeah, that probably also helps you avoid burnout to burnout and getting injured. Hmm. Yeah a lot of people are That's the name of the game br bros. Don't get injured. Shoulder injury ruined. Chest injury, tear pack or bicep tear.

Bro, it happens all the time. The thing that discombobulates my mind is these videos of people that clear their lifting more weight than they should. They get injured, then it's a whole real montage of Rocky of them going back and making a comeback just to lift the same weight. Yeah. Like, bro, that got you in the place where you're at. Why are you going to go do the same thing? That's not inspirational.

That's stupid. Yeah. I think people need at least to me. No, it is. People need to stop obsessing over their PRS and start taking this stuff serious, I think. Well, I'm telling you, bro, I go to the gym. I see a man. He's 50, 60, bro, walking on a cane

because he's clearly in pain with a belt, the strap belt, lifting more weight than me, bro. And I'm looking at him like, bro, you should not be lifting that. You should be stretching. You should be doing mobility drills, doing a lot of stuff. It's kind of like, some people are just

spickin' the head, bro. Damn, sucks to see that, man. Well It's kind of like some people are just picking the head, bro. Damn. Sucks to see that, man. Well, it sucks to see that because you're 50, 60, bro. And you know that if they keep doing that in five years, it's going to catch up. And it's not like we're talking about just being conscientious of the potential risk. And then if all your habits are bad, right? If you're not, if you're bulking, it's dirty

bulk and you're eating unhealthy food and then you're trying to max weight, weight, weight. In your 20s, you're fine. You can pull it off, but in your 30s, your 40s, you're going to get an injury, bro. Yeah. I'm not a fan of bulking, man. I used to drink those muscle mass or whatever. Those weight gainers. You remember those? Muscle mass. Yeah. The powder? What do you call it? The max gainers. Yeah. those? Muscle mass, yeah. Yeah, what do you call the max gainers?

Yeah, something like that. Yeah, no. It's super bad. And just, you know, we know that the the things that took. Like a crazy toll on my stomach and made me tired, I couldn't believe it because the glycemic index, which bodybuilders recommend, maltodextrose. Have you heard of that? So they suggest it's put on weight, but it's super carb heavy, bro. Like I was doing that to put to do the bulk to test it out.

I think I did it for two weeks and I bought supply for like a year, year and a half. I ended up throwing it all because I'm like, this is terrible for for me. It's just kind of like. It's a given to take, but for me, pursuing health, pursuing fitness from a different paradigm is honestly been a huge blessing, bro, because it's like being able to touch my toes, bro, being able to do splits, being able to express my body and not feel tightness pain, it far exceeds the volume of mass of muscle mass. Yeah.

Like, I can tell you, those guys aren't unhealthy, bro. There are you can see in the texture of the skin, you can see in the pigmentation of the skin, you can see that in their stomach. It looks like it's about to blow up. I could see that, man. Speaking of skin, you believe lotion is a scam. Lotion is a huge scam. I mean, it's everything. It's like one percent lotion, two percent lotion, then just of ingredients, chemicals, and stuff that I think is intentionally designed for that.

It's like one business gives access to another business, which gives access to another business. It's kind of like everybody grabs your money. So it's kind of like the dentist, the makeup industry. Like, there's a correlation between the makeup industry. Like there's a correlation between the makeup industry and the sunglass industry and the sun. And propaganda. And it being bad for you. Be careful. Be careful if you have makeup on being in the sun with the toxic chemicals.

Or if you, like bro, lotions are bought, perfumes, colognes are bought. Bro, fragrances are bought it. Perfumes, colognes are bought it. Bro, fragrances are bought it. Like. Sunscreen. Sunscreen is bought it. And I see people, bro, and sometimes I don't know if I should stop and tell people like,

bro, you shouldn't be wearing sunscreen. Like that sunscreen is bad for you. Or just to let them be. Like seriously, bro. I struggle with that too, actually. Yeah. Or lotion. Yeah.

Deodorant. Deodorant. Deodorant, like you can get natural good deodorant, but it's For example, but deodorant I use I don't even remember the brand but I came across it because I went to some biohacking center And one of the clients that goes to the center makes soap Mm-hmm, and that's kind of what I do brush just invest in small little businesses that I know that their livelihood depends on a good quality. Mm-hmm Yeah, McDonald's doesn't give a crap. Hell no fast food. None of them, bro businesses that I note that their livelihood depends on a good quality. Yeah, McDonald's doesn't give a crap.

Hell no. Fast food. None of them. Bro, the stock went up. They already cashed out their chips. They're good to go. Right. So I think it's that beauty of like networking connections. That's why when I travel, bro, I don't like traveling too, too much in different locations for small periods of time, because, for example, if I'm going to be in an area, I want to know the farmers. Like if there's local farmers, if I can get raw milk.

Like all that for me exceeds in terms of health, just traveling and traveling and traveling and traveling. Because the more you travel, the more you realize there's food deserts everywhere, bro. Like it doesn't matter the resources you have. You have Bitcoin, you can have cash, you can have mink, you can have whatever you want. You can't get you can't get healthy water. You can't get healthy food because it's not there, dude, even in Vegas, which

is like a major city. It's hard to get raw milk and stuff. Yeah. You know, and I'm in the desert. So the fruits not the best there. And yeah, city of two million people. What are you mainly eating when you're in Vegas? What do you usually do? Grass fed steak that I get from the Amish or something like that.

Cool. You know, if I eat out, I use seed oil scout, make sure there's no seed oils. But it's tough, dude. There's not many restaurants out in Vegas, which is huge, that don't use seed oils. I mean, I'm telling you, bro, if they serve seed oils, you gotta bounce.

And most restaurants do. And most restaurants do. And it's tough, dude. And a lot of times I bounce, bro. You'll actually leave? I'll leave, 100%. 100%. When I'm in Malaysia, Hong Kong, and all those places,

this seed oil got a lot, bro. They use it over there? Everywhere, bro. I can't believe it, dude. That's surprising, I thought it was a US thing. No, it's everywhere, bro. I mean, India as well, bro. That's why you have tons of diabetes

and unhealthy people in India because of like the combination of seed oils plus a carb centric diet is just. Bro, when I eat Indian curry, I feel like shit for like the rest of the day. Yeah. Like literally I can't move. And here's the thing, like people are like,

are seed oils bad for you? They're not bad for you. I'm like, dude, just go off of them. Just go off of them for five, six, seven, eight months. Then bring them back into the picture and let me know how your body feels. I do it, bro. I legit split test.

I can't believe that's a debate. Like that one's so obvious to me. And the best part is when people tell me like, oh bro, Cedar oil is good for you. I look at their profile, they look like they're the super unhealthy, bro. I'm like, why would I even listen to you, bro? You look like you're falling apart.

Heart healthy, heart healthy my ass, bro. It's called propaganda. They said Cheerios was heart healthy. Yeah, I mean, and they also said that smoking cigarettes was healthy as well, bro. Yeah, they say a lot. I mean, Edward Brene bro, like there's correlations between that propaganda, catalogs, American breakfast,

like supply demand, bro, create the demand. Well, the cigarette companies have moved over to food. Yeah. Because they know that ship is sinking finally, you know? Yeah. And now food is getting challenged. They just banned food dyes, thankfully, but they're not going to the government won't be able to move fast enough on those bans. I mean, it's hard, bro, because you're banning whole ecosystems, whole products, whole companies, everything. But the fact that they're doing it, bro, kind of brings hope. It's a good step. It's a good hope, but you still have to be your own

Decider what I've realized as well bro is it boils down to us the consumers if you don't go and spend money to buy a Big Mac and Everybody does that they're out of business. Yeah, that's true. We got a vote with our dollars boat with your dollars, bro I used to eat Chipotle all the time, but they use rice bran oil, you know, yeah, come on, man Got about why is that needed? I think it's also profitable bro. Like seed oils they can recook it recook it recook it It's cheaper Yeah, it's a business for most people bro. It's also it's a lack of Awareness for a lot of people as well because a lot of people don't know

So how do you eat healthy when you're traveling because you travel all it's hard. You're a nomad, right? It's yes So when it comes to traveling my suggestion is like a month to four months in a location Because the whole like five days here 15 days here unless you're gonna be shooting content or have like it's hard Mm-hmm. Yeah, you spent like a month in Miami, right? Yeah. Because then you have time to develop your connections. Well, develop connections and get work done.

Because if you're always like going back and forth, people don't realize that also traveling takes a huge toll on you. Yeah, the EMF. EMF exposure, just the traveling itself, like it takes a toll on the body. You're going from one side of the planet to another. So it's kind of like grass always looks green on the other side. You see people traveling all the time. Like, oh, bro, I want to be like that.

But when you're actually traveling, you know, it's like, I need to kind of stay in a place and lock in. I got a system, man. When I travel, I ordered classic glass water to the hotel. Nice. It's there when I land. I find sea-to-oil free restaurants, but it does take time, man. I'm not going to lie. Yeah. Plan everything out. Yeah.

It's not easy. I think just carrying snacks for a couple of days is always a good plan. So like cacao bars, you can do organic grass fed beef, jerky, pistachios, Brazil nuts. I feel like having a little bit with you is always good because yeah, the first two days, if it's a new location, you don't know it. There's a high likelihood that you most likely won't find anything but that's one of the benefits of being in the States bro it's there there's more options it's more expensive in terms of fiat yeah but there's a lot of more options in terms of healthier food absolutely are you eating any carbs these days or you are?

I am I am I'm going pretty hard on the carbs to be honest yeah because I've been walking a lot and it's kind of like an OMAD approach with the carbohydrates or maybe like two meals in a shorter time frame. But I definitely noticed a difference in terms of satiation. Bring back the carbs, I start getting hungry or hungry, which is a good idea if you want to clean bulk, but it's not a good idea if you're trying to lose weight or become an automatically flexible. But I've been doing a lot of gnocchis, the potatoes, just white potatoes, sometimes sweet, a little rice. But overall, in my opinion,

people could live without carbohydrates. I could see that. For sure. I love gnocchi. Gnocchis are amazing. How do you ensure the quality on those? You don't. You kind of have to ask, to be honest. But if it's casero like or it's like homemade There's a spot here Miami. I'll set it to you later. Please. Yeah, it's a good spot. They got new x2 gnocchi with me

It's good. Yeah, it's good. It's good. But no, I'm definitely carb cycling but for carbohydrates, bro, if you live in a carb centric paradigm in terms of your body in terms of the the utensil, not utensil, the vessel that we're given, you only give it carbohydrates, bro. There's no way you can develop an elite physique just based off of lifestyle. You're going to have to do a lot of training, a lot of compensating, because whenever you cut the food, your body is still expecting carbohydrates as the main source of energy. You kind of never prompted fat as a potential option.

And sometimes it's not our fault. Like you're born into planet Earth and you have unresponsible parents giving you cookies, giving you ice cream. Oh, look how cute he looks. Look at the face. Give him another ice cream. You think the kid's going to grab another green bean? Another piece of white chicken?

If you give him the sugar? No. You've literally programmed them. And you don't know it. Yep. There's a new study that came out. If you don't give your kids sugar the first thousand days of life, they end up living way longer.

That's amazing. Yeah. That's very cool. Just parents giving their four year old like sugar. That and the iPad. iPad, yeah. That could be equally as bad honestly. Yeah. Yeah, that's very cool. This parents giving their four-year-old like sugar that in the iPad iPad Yeah, that that could be equally as bad honestly and yeah fries their attention span fries your attention span You have the blue light that permeates through the eyeballs because what people don't realize is different light spectrums permeates the body

in different lengths, so What's what's behind the eyes? The brain the brain in the blue light affects the brain. That's behind the eyes? The brain. The brain. And the blue light affects the brain. That's crazy. Right, and then you have the 5G that you're holding. You're an electric being.

You're made up of water. Water potentiates with 5G, bro. People that live close to 5G towers, if they have a pool or something, there's... Usually those are the people that tend to call before, because those are the ones that are noticing effects from the towers. Damn. So water amplifies it?

I think water amplifies everything. Wow. It is a conductor, so that makes sense. Holy crap. No, there's some concerning stuff with the 5G towers. People that live close to those. Yeah. A lot of health issues. I'm telling you, bro. Like living out in nature, you feel the just the healing properties of being out in nature, bro.

Grounding, stuff like that. And it's kind of like, yeah, if you live in a modern city, you kind of have to find ways to hedge yourself. So instead of like partying, getting drunk and late in the weekend, go out in nature, go for a hike. And that's your hedge for the chaotic week that you got in the zoo, the Samhain Zoo. You still practicing semen retention?

Yeah, as much as I can. Really? Yeah, I think it's crucial. And it's crucial not only for life force, bro. It's crucial for discipline, bro. It's crucial for realizing that don't just pursue pleasure. Because a lot of people just pursue for pleasure, bro. Or coping mechanism or trying to escape.

Or, oh, I can't potentially find a person. That's why you have the whole incel culture. It's all potentiated, bro. It's all potentially through the Internet. It's all potentially through propaganda. It's all potentiated through. Yeah, just the devices and the phones and everything, really think about it like back in the day, you went to go watch.

What would you do? Magazine back in the day, you had magazines before you even had magazines, bro. It would be almost impossible. Oh, yeah. But before that was magazines or the television and very hard. Now, bro, you have four year old kids, five year old kids with a phone. Whip it out. Bro, it's insane.

So easy to access. It's so easy to access and so bad for the brain. And if you give that at a young age to kids, bro, you're completely desensitizing them, doling them to, yeah, to sex, bro. It's everywhere, dude. It's on every social media app. I see half naked girls every day. Bro, I'm telling you, I open IG, bro, and I'll see a half naked lady with her legs spread wide open. And I look and I'm like, am I following this girl? Did I follow her by accident?

No. It just pops up. Does it just pop up or is it intentional? Does it just pop up? Because the algos wasn't like that before, bro. Yeah. You know what the problem is? I'm 32, bro.

So maybe I can handle a little distraction. Be like, OK, I probably shouldn't indulge in this girl's clickbait for only fans. But if you're 15, 12, you know any better, that image just took you on loop de loop. Oh, yeah. You just want to get up. Be careful, bro. Yep. Yeah, that-de-loop. Oh yeah. You just want to adapt. You gotta be careful, bro. Yup. Yeah, that's concerning, man. Super concerning.

When I was a kid, Instagram didn't even exist. And even Instagram, bro, like the algos, how it changed, like it's soft, bro, like easily. Twitter's full on. Full on, bro. It's disgusting, dude. Yeah, it's nuts. Like I literally did hashtag fitness

and it's just guys going at each other railing each other. Oh my god. I'm not even kidding bro. It's disgusting. That's crazy dude. You still taking naps? I saw you made a video on that. Siestas bro.

You know like when I'm more on a ketogenic less carbohydrate diet I realize I don't sleep as much bro. Two three hours, four hours, five hours and I'm good and I don't need siestas. More carb centric diet, train more. I need more sleep for sure. And I don't need siestas. More carb-centric diet. Train more. I need more sleep. For sure. And I'll take a siesta.

Usually sweet spot, 16 to 18 minutes. That's it? Yeah. If I overdo it, bro, like 19, 25, I'm like, I need to do an hour. Because I'm already getting into deeper sleep. Damn. That's why in Japan, bro, it's optimization, bro. Like the companies have the power nap stations,

give an object in the hand of the person. When the object falls off, usually in that time span, 12 to 20 minutes, falling into deep sleep, wake them up. Feel recharged. That's cool. Yeah. Sometimes what I'll do is I invested in a espresso machine. So I'll do like a quick espresso nap. I'll do like an aloe mask or something to hydrate my face, wake up, rejuvenate. It feels like I'm in another day.

Wait, you can nap off of a shot? Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. That would be hard. Definitely not Johnny Walker shot. Coffee shot. Oh, got it. So, uh, express. I'll do like an express. I'll do, um, an Americano. I'll drink it and then I'll go take the nap. So by 15 minutes, 16 minutes, not only am I waking up from deep sleep, but I already had the caffeine also. It's just kind of like, boom, I'm ready to go. Cold water ice and it's brand new.

Still sleeping on the futon. Yeah, on the floor, 100 percent. And I've been sleeping here in the hotels, on the beds and stuff, and I already start noticing a little tightness on the back. Damn. I mean, the soft bed just kind of like, think about modern man, bro.

We're always hunched, hunched over, bro. Hunched over, hunched over. And then most guys want big chests and they don't train backs, just kind of push, push, push. Always pushing, exercise, hunched over. And then when you go to sleep, soft bed, it's almost like a cast. Yeah. That goes compounding, bro'm telling you I had a pretty bad

knot on my on my back and I'm like it's this I need to start doing more mobility drills I used to doing more yeah spine drills more mobility and then sleeping on hard surfaces in working on the knot so going against the angle of a wall and just really working on the knot. And then two, three months later, completely gone. I need to start doing some stuff like that because I got a Pranovo scan full body MRI had arthritis already in my back. I'm 28 crazy, man. Dang. Yeah.

I got to start sleeping on the floor or something. So I think Japanese futon is a lot easier than the floor because it's a little cushioning, but I'm telling you, start doing that. And the next thing that's super hacked, it's hot and cold showers, fluctuation, and then like foam roller. If you asked me, like, if I could only have three things to train with, it would be foam roller, it would be bands, and it would be hooks. Damn. Foam roller is that important?

Super important. It's spine health, spine mobility. You can do a lot of stuff cracking your back. It's I've noticed a massive difference just in my own back health, like the knots. But it's not just going back and forth in a monotonous motion, like doing

drills, like actually getting in there. And it hurts, dude. But past the pain. Is a good outcome. I love that. It's a really good outcome. And yeah, and it's everybody, bro. I'm telling you, I started doing soft bed

long periods of time, start eating gluten, start eating seed oils, stop moving less, start doing a lot of push, it comes right back. Where are you going next, man? What's after Miami for you? I think I'm going to maybe go to Japan, but I think there might be a natural disaster June July. So maybe after that.

Oh, there's a hurricane going on there? Yeah. Damn. Which is kind of fascinating. Not only the pyramids that are close to Japan in terms of below the water. But how big is Japan? Such a small country. Such a small country.

What are the statistics of natural disasters? The percentage are high for Japan. I think it's like four to 6%. They get tsunamis there, right? Well, it's just, it boggles my mind that such a small part of the map gets hit with such a high percentage of natural disasters of the whole world. Mm hmm. We're talking about the whole world. A lot of stuff occurs there. Why is that? That is interesting.

It's super interesting. And they know a lot over there. Then there's a lot. Just right. There's a lot of history in Japan, bro. Yeah. A lot of history. It's crazy, bro. Japan is a very, like, there's countries,

but when you travel, like, you can feel the energy. You can feel the atmosphere. For example, Bali, bro, super dark. If you ask me, you can feel the witchcraft. Really? A lot of witchcraft there? Yeah, dude. People don't even talk about it. It's like paradise. Everything is like nah, bro. You go in there you feel it real quick, dude

And that's why countries like what do you call this country? Not Dubai small country They always get wrecked with natural disasters Haiti Haiti Disasters, uh, uh, Haiti, Haiti, black magic, bro. A lot of stuff there as well. Like, like it's palpable in the air, bro. I've heard that with Haiti.

A lot of dark magic there. Black magic. Yeah. Damn. That's good to know about Bali though, because I was thinking about going there. Bro, it's like shrines every couple houses, shrine, couple houses, shrine. Perfect shrines to whom? What a deity.

Crazy. Uh, well, where can people. Perfect shrines to whom? What a deity. Crazy. Well, where can people learn from you? Do you still have the community going up? I still have the community guys. Mr. Belmar on all social medias and then the community anime shreds. And then for those who want to take their physique

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