Dynamic Dialogue with Danny Matranga - 79 - How to EASILY Bust Fitness Myths + Non-Fitness Q&A

Episode Date: December 4, 2020

In this episode, we talk about much more than the realm of fitness. We touch base on fitness myths as well as how to properly and courteously rebuttal! Then we dive into a Q&A, this time around, NOT about fitness!Make sure to submit your questions HERE to get them answered in the next Q&A!---Thanks For Listening!---RESOURCES/COACHING:Check out my programs and E-Books! Click HERE!I am all about education and that is not limited to this podcast! Feel free to grab a FREE guide (Nutrition, Training, Macros, Etc!) HERE!Interested in Working With Coach Danny and His One-On-One Coaching Team? Click HERE!Want To Have YOUR Question Answered On an Upcoming Episode of DYNAMIC DIALOGUE? You Can Submit It HERE!Want to Support The Podcast AND Get in Better Shape? Grab a Program HERE!----SOCIAL LINKS:Follow Coach Danny on INSTAGRAMFollow Coach Danny on TwitterFollow Coach Danny on FacebookGet More In-Depth Articles Written By Yours’ Truly HERE!-----TIMESTAMPS:The IMPORTANCE of HOW You Deliver Information! Communication, Fitness and NON-Fitness Related! 3:07Common Fitness MYTHS and HOW TO REBUTTAL! 9:17Topics: Lifting weights will make women bulky, late night food will become FAT, Cardio is the KING of body fat burning, Detox cleansing! 9:18“What is Danny’s family background/heritage?” 22:19“Do you want to stay in California, long term?” 24:46“If you could meet anyone, alive or dead, who would it be and why?” 26:40Support the Show.

Welcome in everybody to another episode of the dynamic dialogue podcast. As always, I am your host Danny Matrenga. And my goal with this podcast for those of you who are newer, is to try to bring you an evidence based look at the fitness space to deb debunk myths, and to try to convey information in a way that somebody who's trained clients for almost 10 years and understands how to communicate broad topics and distill them into understandable little golden nuggets. That's what this podcast is all about. I'm really happy to have you here today. Anybody who is subscribed, if you're not currently subscribed, you do me a huge favor by hitting the subscribe button. And for those of you who are already subscribed, if you

could leave me a five star rating and review on iTunes. And for those of you who have been kind enough to share your Spotify kind of end of the year statistics, it's been so encouraging to see just how many of you either binge the podcast it was in your top five for many of you it was your number one podcast to me it is an absolute honor to be on anybody's list it still amazes me and blows my mind that anybody wants to hear me talk about anything and i owe every single one of you a truly sincere thank you. I am so appreciative that you are here with me today listening I also am going to cover the importance of communication, specifically the importance of communication with regards to delivering messages to and around people you disagree with, not for the sake of being right, but for the sake of finding the truth.

We're living in an age right now where the people with the loudest voices often come across as correct, not necessarily the people who are correct. And even saying things that are patently untrue or spreading disinformation frequently, loudly enough, and using the right channels can be interpreted as the truth by a lot of people who don't necessarily have a super discerning taste for the information that they take in. super discerning taste for the information that they take in. And that's super clear in the political space. But it's also become really, really clear in the fitness space that if you have a really nice body, or you have a really big following, you can kind of say whatever you want, and a lot of people will believe it. And that's not necessarily the best thing. There's also just the stream of misinformation that refuses to die fitness myths that never go away, like carbs at night make you fat or keto is far and away the best way to lose fat fitness myths that never go away, like carbs at night make you fat,

or keto is far and away the best way to lose fat. And how we go about communicating with other people is really important. And one of the ways I have totally dropped the ball on this in my career, earlier in my career, I do this much less now that I've matured and I kind of understand the errors of my ways in my previous methods of communicating to people with whom I disagreed. It's really important how we deliver information. We'll succinctly just wrap it into that.

And I came across an account that I follow on Instagram, Miguel Blackett, I believe his first name is Miguel. I don't want to get it wrong. And I believe the last name is pronounced Blackett. But Miguel is somebody who's really intelligent, incredibly well-educated in the fitness space. And he shared something on his Instagram story that resonated with me on a really deep level. And I actually screenshotted it so I could read it to you here today on the podcast. And it's a kind of succinct way of looking at how we can communicate with people who we disagree with. And so it reads like this. And again, this is from Miguel, not from me. He says, if you want to drastically improve the way in which you speak and form arguments, I highly encourage you to stay away from the words stupid, dumb, idiotic, and other negative adjectives aimed at insulting the intellectual validity of an argument or an opposing party right so just not poking fun ripping on or bagging on

the people with whom you disagree whether you know they are empirically wrong or you just disagree with them and you think you're right you know leveraging uh these words the negative words against somebody calling them stupid will very rarely if ever get them to change their mind and this is something that i used to do when i was younger and it really didn't help me out much at all made me more enemies than friends and it didn't convert anybody over the way i think fitness should be looked at. Miguel goes on to write, the reason I suggest you avoid these words in your argumentative vocabulary, you can call that debate vocabulary, whatever you want to call it, is that these words allow you to paint a position

with a powerful negative brush that often makes you sound confident in your position against the opposing party without actually laying down premises of value and substance. Meaning, somebody says, I lost a lot of weight doing keto. And I say, well, keto's stupid. I am not adding anything of value beyond effectively taking a steaming hot pile of shit on something that worked for this person, right? They have evidence that ketogenic dieting is effective for their fat loss. I have nothing to bring to the argument other than to call it stupid. That's not going to elevate the discussion, and it's certainly not going to convert anybody away from ketogenic dieting. He closes with saying, if you avoid these words in your vocabulary,

again, things like stupid, dumb, idiotic, and negative adjectives. In addition to removing ad hominem attacks, and for those of you who aren't super familiar with the logistics of debate, or just what we would call logical fallacies, ad hominem is saying you're wrong because you're a bad person, not because what you're saying is wrong. And again, if you avoid these words in your vocabulary, in addition to removing ad hominem attacks, you force yourself to use propositional and deductive reasoning to counter the opposing argument. This requires a certain level of mastery over the topics you're speaking about.

If you want to show a certain perspective does not have value, then set up premises and arguments from the ground up to show that this is the most thorough and thoughtful way possible. So I really like that because what it effectively says is, hey, if you want to change somebody's mind, start by first probably listening to what they have to say and then forming a logical rebuttal. You can be wrong and still form a very classy, educated, opinionated rebuttal without name dropping, I'm sorry, name calling and demonizing the other person's stance and using ad hominem attacks. That's not going to get people to listen. And a good example of this is on Twitter the other day. I actually shared a tweet related to taxes and somebody tweeted back and they said, so basically, Coach Danny, you are an unemployed and uninsured loser looking for hashtag Daddy

Biden to give you tax dollars. Go get a real job. So this stuff kind of happens on Twitter. That's an example of an ad hominem attack. I had said, hey, here's something interesting related to taxes and the Trump administration that you might not like if, you know, you like things being somewhat equitable. And instead of actually looking at what I had posted, this person immediately made an ad hominem attack. Now, I just ignored it because I'm not going to exchange blows with this person,

but that's not going to in any way, shape, or form change my opinion of the argument at hand. Calling me an unemployed, uninsured loser looking for a handout is factually incorrect. I pay about as much in taxes as you can, given that I live out here in California and I am a self-employed individual. So it's factually untrue, but also that's no way to communicate with your fellow human beings. And that shit happens a lot in the fitness space, like a lot more than it should in the fitness space.

And it is a little bit worrisome. So I actually want to work through 10 common fitness myths today with you guys, and I'm going to try to deliver a rebuttal to said myths following the guidelines that Miguel kind of outlined in the post that I shared earlier in a way to, one, effectively look at these myths together and maybe debunk some of them, but also to give you guys insights as to how I look to communicate with clients, with fellow coaches, with people who might agree or disagree, all coming from the space of let's get rid of the clutter, let's get rid of the misinformation, let's get to the root of the argument without getting personal and without getting nasty. And we'll try to do this

in kind of a rapid fire format. And so I'll say the myth, and then I'll say a rebuttal that acknowledges the commonplace argument, and we'll work through it together. And so I'll say the myth and then I'll say a rebuttal that acknowledges the commonplace argument and we'll work through it together. And at the end, I'm going to actually answer some of your personal questions that I fielded from Instagram related to things that aren't necessarily fitness related. So myth number one, lifting weights makes women bulky. So if somebody comes to me and says, Danny, I don't want to lift weights. I don't want to get too bulky. I might say instead of that's stupid, that's dumb, that doesn't happen, which again, you said all the time. I totally understand why you might think lifting weights would make

a woman gain muscle mass and maybe even make her appear bulky. Lifting weights is by far the best exercise modality for building muscle. And when men lift weights for a really long time, they can develop a pretty masculine, bulky-looking physique. This is through years of progressive overload and the presence of anabolic hormones like testosterone and growth hormone that, while present in women, are exponentially higher in men. So, a man and a woman doing the same program for the same number of years might have the same performance increases, but it's pretty reliable to assume that a woman

won't gain as much muscle. And if she does, it's probably not going to be in the same areas that make a man look bulky like the shoulders and, where there are a lot of androgen receptors that particularly enhance muscle growth of those tissues, especially if that female chooses to prioritize volume and progression in her program around movements that target, say, the glutes and the hamstrings and the upper back, maybe the arms, right? You choose the muscles you develop with your programming,

and given the hormonal variations between men and women, it's an illogical conclusion to draw that a short amount of time lifting will lead to gaining a substantial amount of muscle, right? Versus no, you're never going to get big and bulky. That's stupid. Another thing I like to add to that is that you are totally able to pump the brakes on any amount of muscle you're trying to build. So if in fact you are a female who has a very easy time building muscle, that might be all well and good. And you can always pump the brakes when you feel like you've attained a physique that's borderline quote-unquote bulky. Myth number two is eating late at night makes you fat.

And somebody says anything I eat over 7 p.m. is going to turn straight into fat. And I might say, that's bullshit. But if somebody has experienced that removing food later in the day has helped them with weight loss, the best way to maybe address this argument is to say, instead of calling them stupid or dumb, say, hey, I totally understand why you might think that eating later in the day can contribute to body fat gain. Because when you've removed calories and food after a certain amount of time, maybe after 6 p.m., you've had good results.

It's very plausible that the reason for this is across your day, when you wake up, say, at 8 a.m. and you go to bed at 8 p.m., that you are able to get all of your maintenance calories in between when you wake up at 8 and about 6 p.m. But every calorie you eat after 6 p.m. based on your eating habits is more likely than not going to put you beyond maintenance and into a calorie surplus, which will reliably contribute to body fat gain. So shortening that eating window will reduce the amount of calories you eat overall. But it's not a magical cutoff time that if you

eat past a certain amount, those calories all turn straight to fat. If you wanted to eat later, you might, instead of starting eating earlier, eat your first meal at maybe noon instead of eight. And that might give you an eating window that would allow you to eat all the way up until you went to bed. So that's a way to break down a really common myth about eating and time related eating that is, you know, in many ways, still quite pervasive, despite the fact that we know kind of well that calories are the number one driver for fat loss. But telling somebody who has had experience with something working for them, that they're stupid and they shouldn't do it that way, very rarely is going to elicit the desired outcome with regards to helping these people see success and getting our point across. Another myth, cardio is the best way to burn body

fat. And somebody might say, hey, whenever I start doing cardio, I get really shredded and that really helps me a lot. And I might, instead of saying, no, cardio is start doing cardio, I get really shredded and that really helps me a lot. And I might, instead of saying, no, cardio is stupid, you should do lifting and watch your calories. I might say, well, that makes a lot of sense. Aerobic exercise, particularly cardiovascular exercise, is very effective at burning a high amount of calories per unit of exercise. A minute of cardio will almost always burn more calories than a minute of lifting. And doing a lot of cardio is helping you control what we call your energy balance, the amount of calories coming in versus the amount of calories going out. When you do more cardio, you expend more calories. And when you expend more calories, you probably work from your

typical caloric intake a little closer to a true deficit. So if you want to achieve the same amount of fat loss without doing as much cardio, considering that there's a high likelihood you might not love doing a lot of cardio, you can count your calories a little bit more meticulously, focus more on high-volume, lower-calorie foods like fruits, vegetables, and lean proteins, and focus on lifting weights instead of doing cardio. And one of the things that you'll see there is you'll get all of the benefits fruits, vegetables, and lean proteins, and focus on lifting weights instead of doing cardio. And one of the things that you'll see there is you'll get all of the benefits of having metabolically rich muscle tissue being built all the time that will help keep your base metabolic rate and total daily energy expenditure fine-tuned for fat loss. You'll probably enjoy lifting

weights more. Most people tend to, at least the people I work with, enjoy lifting weights a little bit more than doing cardio. And it's a lot easier to, you know, find different avenues for progression because we're doing a lot of different lifts and there's a lot of different varieties. So cardio might be an effective tool for you with regards to losing fat. But if you are limited on time and you enjoy lifting weights more, maybe you focus on that and just watch your diet a little more meticulously because what you're really manipulating here is calories and you don't want to get to a place where you do a ton of cardio. So that's just a way to deliver one side of it. But maybe that person comes back at you and says, no, like cardio really does help me.

Like, you know, I count my calories and when I'm doing cardio, I really do burn a lot more fat. You can simply say, that's fine. I think that's a really effective way to do it. Maybe you condense the amount of cardio you do or you set a specific day aside for it, but don't forget to at least try to incorporate some form of lifting. You don't have to convert everybody,

but at the same time, you don't wanna shut people off or come across as somebody who's just a complete know-it-all asshole. Again, take it from me. I have been there. It's made me more enemies than friends. It's hurt more people than it's helped. It really just creates a self-selection bias where the people who like when I'm extremely blunt and to the point give me some likes and some shares, but the people I'm trying to help might be turned off by it. So again, how you communicate is really,

really important. Okay. Here's a good one that happens a lot. Detoxes are really important for burning fat. Somebody says, oh my gosh, I did a juice cleanse and I'm like so much more toned. I feel so much better this, that, and the other. And to that person, many people would say, detoxing is stupid. That's why you have a liver and that's why you have a kidneys. And that's what they do. And you're dumb for drinking that juice, which in truth might be true because they might've spent a ton of money to simply be in a juice driven caloric deficit. But what if instead of saying that you communicated and said, Hey, I totally understand that, you know, focusing three or four or five days of your nutritional strategy around low calorie juices made from plants and fruits was a really effective way for you to feel full because you're, you know, drinking and and vegetables, and they're really low calorie. So you probably lost a lot of body fat, right? Maybe you lost a pound over those couple days because you were in

a really intense deficit. And, you know, the other thing we have to consider is when you drink a lot of juice, particularly from vegetables, there's not a lot of carbohydrates. So you probably lost some water weight as well. And if this juice cleanse didn't have a lot of carbohydrates. So you probably lost some water weight as well. And if this juice cleanse didn't have a lot of protein, you know, if you got really low protein intake across three, four, five, six, seven day juice cleanse, you might have lost some muscle. And I totally understand why you might have done that and said, Hey, look at all the weight that I lost. That was really effective. And I felt really good because I was eating basically just fruits and vegetables that are really high in nutrients and not a lot of the processed foods that people tend to eat and all of the myriad of frustrations that can go along with that. But I don't think that a juice cleanse is the best approach to short-term or even long-term weight loss. You can communicate that very effectively

without calling the person stupid. And so again, this is just to wrap it up to say that it's not so much what you believe. It's a lot more about how you communicate what you believe and who you're trying to communicate to. If you're somebody who really just wants to get, you know, the people who already agree with you riled up, you can be really abrasive and aggressive and take hot shots. And I've done that. And it makes you feel good when you get likes and whatever and

shares. But if you want to change the way people look at things and you want to create and formulate arguments with your clients, right, With the people who you may work with, with, oh my God, friends, family, and loved ones. This is the most important demographic to employ this level or type of communication with, right? You want to use this type of communication with the people who you care about and want to help change their lives. Nobody wants to listen to somebody who makes them feel bad, right? And again, I only know this and I'm only preaching it because I've made these mistakes. I'm not going to sit here and tell you that I've never done this because I have, and it hasn't been as effective as taking the approach that I just outlined over the last 15 or so minutes. So

hopefully that resonates with you guys a little bit. I think it's really, really important to work on developing your communication strategy, whether that's in a relationship and how you communicate with your partner, your friends, your coworkers, your bosses, when you're either frustrated, passionate about something, or want to get your point across. I always go back to this quote that you should listen with the intention of hearing rather than listening with the intention of responding. So if somebody's saying something you disagree with, that you don't like, or you really want to get your piece in, it's still really important to hear what it is that that person's saying

because that will help you form a better response and it will most importantly help you understand where that person is coming from whether you agree with them or not if you're just actively not talking but you're not really listening you're just waiting for your turn to effectively dunk on the person i can promise you you are not going to change their mind about almost anything. And it's amazing how quickly this stuff can turn around your ability to form persuasive arguments, to create content, to do things like podcasts, to have tough conversations. It's really, really important, and I really think it matters. Hey guys, just wanted to take a quick second to say thanks so much for listening to the podcast. And if you're finding value, it would mean the world to me if you would share it on your

social media. Simply screenshot whatever platform you're listening to and share the episode to your Instagram story or share it to Facebook. But be sure to tag me so I can say thanks and we can chat it up about what you liked and how I can continue to improve. Thanks so much for supporting the podcast and enjoy the rest of the episode. That's kind of going to wrap it for our fitness communication section. So here are some questions from you guys. So most of these are fielded from Instagram and I think they're kind of fun. None of them are fitness related.

I specifically ask for questions that aren't fitness related because I kind of want to connect with you guys on this platform on things non-fitness related on occasion. I am a human being who, while fitness is my primary passion and reaching people and making an effort to improve their health, performance, longevity, confidence, all of that stuff through fitness, through podcasting, through Instagram. That's my main thing. But that's not the only person that exists inside this body. There is a Danny who loves fitness. There is a Danny who loves politics. There's a Danny who loves sports. There's a Danny who loves his dog. There's a Danny who loves his family.

And for the people who listen to the podcast, a lot of you are interested in that Danny too, not just fitness Danny. So if you only care about fitness, Danny, go ahead and head on out. I appreciate you listening, but we're going to go into a non-fitness related Q and a here from Instagram. So first question is from at Gina eats and she says, what is your family background? And then in parentheses, she puts heritage. So if you type my last name, Matranga, which is the Americanization of the Italian name Matranga, you will find the Matranga crime family. So I am a member of the Matranga family, which is an Italian-Sicilian immigrant family that came to America and has a little bit of a history in, you know, organized crime. Not super uncommon to find

a Sicilian immigrant family getting themselves into mafia-related activities here in America. We've all seen the movies. It's a typical trope. And that's a big piece of my heritage is Sicilian. Now, I'm not in the mafia and nobody in my direct family that I know of is. But again, I've kind of come to learn a lot of what I know from my family, from my dad's research and genealogy projects that he did for almost 10 years. And my family originates in Albania, which is slightly east of Sicily, and then immigrated to Sicily, where they then came to America, when a lot of Americans or immigrants came to America in the late 1800s, early 1900s. That's my dad's side, which is mostly Sicilian, with a little bit of Spanish and a little

bit of Portuguese. My mother's side is Italian and Greek. So if you just take all of that and lump it together, you've got a bunch of Sicilian, a bunch of Italian, with a pinch of Portuguese, Spanish, and Greek. So we're talking about mostly Western European. So a boppity-boopity-beepity-boopity Italian, stereotypes,

the hand talking, all of that stuff is legit. I will tell you what, I have a physical, literal tick that I cannot stop talking with my hands. I'm recording a podcast in my living room and my hands are going crazy. I don't know if that's genetic, if it's learned behavior, if it truly is something that Italians do, but I can tell you, I cannot not talk with my hands. So that is my heritage. My dad was born and raised here in California, as was my grandfather, who is the child of immigrants from Western Europe. So that's my lineage. That's my heritage. Next question is from Darth Jordan, and she asks, do you want to stay in California long term? And my immediate answer is yes. I've traveled all over the country. I've visited a lot of different cities. I've visited different countries. And there's nowhere on earth I'd rather live than right here in Sonoma County, California.

We have extremely beautiful weather. My friends and family are here. And that truly to me is what represents home. Home is where the heart is. That sounds cliche, but it's very true. You could give me a high rise, you know, penthouse apartment in Manhattan for free. And I would feel out of place there because big cities give me anxiety and none of my friends and family are there. Would I adjust? Sure. But this part of California feels like home. Like I said, the weather is amazing. My friends and family are here. Nature is as close to perfect as it gets. The golf is awesome. There's always amazing new golf courses to try and play and all of my friends play. My clients that I've worked with for years in person are here,

my reputation, my business is here. And there certainly are some cons to living in California. We're a super progressive, very liberal state. And while I do politically lean a little bit to the left, sometimes it seems a little bit too much, a little too extreme. We've got tons of lockdowns, really, really high tax rate. And for a lot of people, that's a deal breaker. And that's why a lot of people are moving out of California. But I'll tell you what, I, for one, would way rather pay a little bit more on taxes

and live here than pay a little bit less and live in somewhere like Texas? And that's not a knock on Texas. It's just, again, me illustrating some of the reasons why I love it here in California. And so I do plan on staying here long term because I really like it. Next question is from Kayla New, and she asks, if you could meet anybody alive or dead, who would it be and why? The answer to this question changes all the time. It's often phrased to, I've heard the question, if you could have dinner with any three people from history, who would it be? Who would be at the table? But a couple of honorable mentions here. One person who I've always found extremely fascinating and somebody who I've wanted to pick the brain of forever, even though they've been dead for 700 years, is Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci was completely against the law at the time. He was an inventor, a truly brilliant person, and kind of the archetype and reason that we use the phrase Renaissance Man to describe somebody who's multifaceted in their interests and brilliance and who can really do a lot of different things. So, of course, he's on the list. Another person

who, quite frankly, I would love to talk with or speak with is President Donald Trump. Not because we have any political commonality. In fact, I'm very much not a fan of Donald Trump's governance million reasons in the world that I can think of why you wouldn't have wanted to vote for a Democrat. I get it. It's nothing to do with you as a listener. I appreciate your listenership no matter who you voted for. the current president of the United States, albeit for not much longer, that have just blown my mind and I would love to get to the bottom of. You could chalk a lot of it up to just, you know, confidence. Some people would call it clinical narcissism. Some people would say it's what happens when you're the most powerful human being on earth. But there are some things that I would love to know about why it is he acts and behaves the way he acts for my own self-interest. But I'd say the person who I would most want to sit down with at this point in time, given the fact that I just finished reading their book, is the guy who sat in the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office before President Trump. And that's President Obama. And again, it has a lot less to do with politics.

There are some policies and things that Obama did that I'm really not a huge fan of. But listening to this man's memoir about what it was like to run the country as the first black president, as a father, as a former senator, the things that he ran into, some of the issues that he had in his presidency, some of the things he was able his presidency, some of the things he was able to overcome, some of the things he was not able to overcome. On the world stage with the spotlight on, I find that type of stuff really interesting. And I would love to talk with him kind of about what that was like and how one goes about. Oh, if you hear that little ding in the background, it's my puppy. I have installed a small button.

Now he's barking. On the floor, he, oh my gosh, you hear this? He continues to press it. It's a doorbell that he presses to let me know he needs to get out. So I'm going to pause the recording and go let him out. I'll be right back. Cooper likes to sunbathe. So again, I don't want to make this political because some of the things I would want to

know from both of these guys have very little to do with politics. because some of the things I would want to know from both of these guys have very little to do with politics. But one of the things I admired after finishing the book was I felt as though the former president was able to handle a lot of contentious moments, a lot of stressful moments. He was not able to do a lot of what he set out to do, but he was able to maintain a degree of stoicism, minimized controversy in general as a president, much more so than Donald Trump has. I would love to know how it is that with all of these spotlights on you and effectively being the most important person in the country from a policy standpoint. How'd you keep your head straight? That would be my first question. I'm somebody who gets anxious, you know, when I've got a tee off and I have a big dog leg left. How the hell do you not get anxious when you're going into a meeting with

Vladimir Putin? You know, there are some things that I think I could learn from sitting down with somebody like this. And again, there are so many figures from history who pop up. This is just an immediate bias because I just finished the guy's book. But I feel like if I were to sit down with him, I could really pick his brain and emerge a better human being, or at least with some answers to how to handle some stuff that you can only really learn when the pressure is truly on. So hopefully you guys enjoyed this episode. Again, I'm not trying to get too political. If you hate Obama and you love Trump, that's fine. If you love Obama and you hate Trump, that's fine too. That being said, you're welcome here no matter what. And we'll get back to fitness with our next episode. Thank you so much for tuning in. If you're listening on Spotify,

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