Mark Bell's Power Project - EP. 557 - Influencers Who Influence Us

Episode Date: July 22, 2021

Talking about all the YouTube Influencers that have influenced us and why you should pay attention to them as well. Subscribe to the NEW Power Project Newsletter! ➢ https://bit.ly/2JvmXMb Subscribe to the Podcast on on Platforms! ➢ https://lnk.to/PowerProjectPodcast Special perks for our listeners below! ➢Marek Health: https://marekhealth.com/powerproject Use code POWERPROJECT for $101 off the Power Project Panel! ➢Eat Rite Foods: http://eatritefoods.com/ Use ode "POWERPROJECT25" for 25% off your first order, then code "POWERPROJECT" for 10% off every order after! ➢LMNT Electrolytes: http://drinklmnt.com/powerproject ➢Piedmontese Beef: https://www.piedmontese.com/ Use Code "POWERPROJECT" at checkout for 25% off your order plus FREE 2-Day Shipping on orders of $99 ➢Sling Shot: https://markbellslingshot.com/ Enter Discount code, "POWERPROJECT" at checkout and receive 15% off all Sling Shots Follow Mark Bell's Power Project Podcast ➢ Insta: https://www.instagram.com/markbellspowerproject ➢ https://www.facebook.com/markbellspowerproject ➢ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mbpowerproject ➢ LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/powerproject/ ➢ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/markbellspowerproject ➢TikTok: http://bit.ly/pptiktok FOLLOW Mark Bell ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marksmellybell ➢ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarkBellSuperTraining ➢ Twitter: https://twitter.com/marksmellybell ➢ Snapchat: marksmellybell ➢Mark Bell's Daily Workouts, Nutrition and More: https://www.markbell.com/ Follow Nsima Inyang ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nsimainyang/ Podcast Produced by Andrew Zaragoza ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamandrewz #PowerProject #Podcast #MarkBell

Oh, he didn't hit the button. Yeah, well, I went live, though, so everyone's currently watching. But they couldn't hear us. No, they couldn't hear us. Did they get canceled yet? Oh, shit. My backups weren't rolling. Well, you know what?

They probably didn't hop on when we first started, so they probably missed that. Nope, they've all been here. Wow. Oh, we got Jack Schweitzer in the house. What would we... Okay. Mr. Schweitzer! What's up, dude?

If we didn't talk about... If we didn't have racial jokes, and if we didn't talk about if we didn't have racial jokes and if we didn't have you know demeaning jokes about you know women and people's sexuality and things like that would there be yeah would there be anything for us to i mean would we have a show i don't know dude would we be anywhere i think well we'd be anybody we'd be doing some stuff that's not on camera is this is this the reason why nobody watches? It could be. It may be.

There might be. I want to reevaluate maybe some of the content creation that comes from Andrew. Andrew, he's got a sick fault for everything that goes wrong. He's got a sick mind. He's disgusting. Stephanie, get your husband.

I do a pretty good job of like keeping it all suppressed though. Suppressed. What are you, what are you, what are you talking about? Suppression good job of keeping it all suppressed, though. Suppressed? What are you talking about? Suppression. We are done with that. We don't do that anymore. You've got to open up the taint. Remember, Ed Cohen said that.

He did. Taints are getting smaller, though. What's that show about? I can't even remember. Influencers. You don't have to. Well, it's more influential when it's said that way. You know what?

You're absolutely right. It is. That's a really good point. It is. I mean, it's weird. I'm interested. Can you do it though, Mark? Maybe.

We'll see. We'll see as the show progresses. Y'all don't know what i'm asking mark to do i'm asking mark to like use a certain tonality what you're asking me to do i've um well there was the locker room just try it it might be a little bit fun it's so uncomfortable episode It was that one guy. Well, yeah. Anyway. Yeah. Not a fan. Oh, God.

I had shrimp and rice yesterday, by the way. Yeah? Yeah. You had some of that shrimp? Is it like garlic shrimp? It's the... This one was actually the garlic shrimp.

I haven't had the bayou shrimp in a minute. Yeah, it's been a hot minute. Yeah. But the garlic shrimp is good, too. I like it. I just pour it on top

of that Bibigo white rice, warm it up, and we are good to go. Shrimp goes down real easy, not like chicken. Oh, does it? I'm sorry. It does. Well, I went down on the shrimp. There you go. And then the shrimp went down real easy.

It does go down easy. But the shrimp, never mind. It's really good though. Yeah. I had it yesterday, and you guys have kind of messed me up because I've, I had the, um, the salmon this morning and I didn't have any carbs with it.

Like no rice, like I normally would. And now I'm looking at the chicken and you know, I'm like, okay, I used to really love that, but now I'm leaning more towards the steak. The,

uh, the, well, obviously the shrimp is incredible, but just in general, like now I'm kind of leaning more towards the steak. Obviously, the shrimp is incredible, but just in general, now I'm kind of leaning more towards the fattier stuff. You won't mess them up. You won't go surf and turf.

Oh, shit. Why haven't I done that yet? I've done it. It's amazing. It's good. Oh, my God. Yeah, it's like you're having a goddamn party in your living room. I've gotten the eat-right shrimp and the eat-right steak,

and I have mixed those two together and made like a super fancy dinner at home. Pour yourself a glass of wine even if you don't drink it just to feel fancy.

You know what I mean? That's actually a pretty good idea. Surf and turf. Take a picture. Yeah. I need more shrimp. I finished all my shrimp

so I'm going to wait for the next shipment and I'm going to surf and turf it up. There you go. Let's go. We could be influencers and post a picture of that on our insulin sails i love that right and the shrimp is pretty much all protein yeah you've been jacking

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Got UV. Hmm. Inf right now. Groovy. Influencers. Yeah. I guess we can kind of kick things off by talking about some people on YouTube. I listen to a lot of YouTube stuff. I don't listen to as much podcasting as I do YouTube. Same. I don't know why.

Anyway, I guess that's where I started. Anyway, I've been's where I started. Anyway, I've been listening lately to a bunch of Andrew Huberman. Yeah. You guys know about this Andrew Huberman guy? I know about this Andrew Huberman guy. Yeah, he's been on the show before. He's been on Joe Rogan a couple times. I think he might be one of the guests that we've had that was on our show before he was on Joe Rogan.

I think so, yeah. I think that is true. It was just like a couple days later, I think, that he ended up on Rogan. Yeah, it was. I think so, yeah. I think that is true. It was like, just like a couple days later, I think that he ended up on Rogan. Yeah, it was like a, like I think like a full week, and I think that's, we boosted those odds. So Andrew Huberman,

he didn't make it to Joe Rogan because he's a doctor and because he's at the University of Stanford. Nobody has his own lab. We propelled him into that position. It was our doing.

Yep, we made him. Anyway, he's got a lot of great information lately. He's talking about hormone optimization. And I think for the entire month, he's honing in and focusing in on hormones. I think a couple other episodes I haven't quite gotten around to yet, he's talking about appetite. And just, I mean, really all kinds of stuff. This is a guy that studies.

He talks about how you can improve your eyesight. He talked like supplements you can take, um, even goes into discussion about like, uh, different exercises you can do for your eyes and he's getting into all kinds of stuff. So I'm really excited to see kind of where he continues to go with it and he's crushing it. He's doing a lot of videos and he's a meathead. I think that's the great thing about it he loves to lift he stays healthy he's and uh he's not just uh a researcher who doesn't take care of themselves so he's putting forward all this information that's going to help individuals get healthier get fitter not just as far as their you know physicality is concerned but also sleep mental health all of that type of stuff and the

dude works out consistently you can tell he's built um and the cool thing is that all his information is also super applicable so he puts it forward in a way where like all the research is there but it's very easy to apply immediately it's not like a lot of fluff he's he puts it forward well where you actually want to listen to it and you want to apply it immediately um And I just love the practicality of it. That's the big, like whenever I pay attention to people, I like try to be like, what can I take from them right now? And what can I, what can I apply and do?

And he's great at putting forward information that way. What do you think has caused the, uh, the huge surge in people talking about like hormone optimization, TRT type stuff. Cause Andrew Huberman has kind of jumped on that. And obviously we got, uh, Derek from more plates,

more dates. And there's a bunch of people now there's a Leo longevity, and there's just a big long list of people, um, that we'll eventually have on the show that are kind of talking about this sort of stuff. I, I think that,

you know, from a from a longer game standpoint, like a lot of this came from my brother's movie, Bigger, Stronger, Faster. I think it really opened up that can of worms about HRT, about how you can go and get it from a doctor if you wanted to feel more like you're in your 20s and you're in your 50s and you could get stuff prescribed. But now we're seeing people that maybe don't necessarily need something prescribed but they just want a little edge and now we're saying hey that's okay and people are able to uh kind of get their hookup i guess so to speak yeah i i i

think you guys would know what surge the popularity more than me because the interesting thing is the first time i heard of TRT, like it was when I was first starting to train people and the trainer that was with me in that studio, he was like, he was on TRT and he was 40 something. So, I mean,

it kind of made sense. I was like, what's that? He's like, yeah, just, just hormone replacement therapy. And like,

it wasn't something that was that well known. Like, but I feel like I started seeing more stuff about trt within the past two years i think yeah no i agree and i wonder if it's like there's been a surge in the ability for yeah clinics to open maybe there's like legality things that have made it easier for clinics to open and do more so that's why more and more people are getting into the space um but you know it trt is interesting because i do think that it definitely is beneficial. It's definitely useful. It's definitely something that people can do. Um, but I just think like,

you're right. A lot of people are using it in ways that when they don't actually need it necessarily. Right. Um, where if they just change some of their lifestyle habits, they probably be like doing pretty well. Um um but it does offer a quicker fix for some without having to delve into what they're doing on a daily basis getting good sleep exercising consistently getting outside getting sun you know all these simple things that could actually have an effect on your hormones um but kind of makes things a little bit easier not to sidetrack the whole show too much yeah but to sidetrack the show uh andrew what do you think about like kind of the word need in this

particular situation like somebody you know may not need hormone replacement they're like quote unquote need it like clinically like they go to the doctor and they're they got their fingers crossed they're hoping that they're like way under under so they can get a lot of shit prescribed so they can kind of get a steroid hookup, I guess we'll just call it. And it turns out that their levels are okay, but they still want to use something. What are your thoughts on that? Oh, man. It's tough because I've been there as well where I'm like, no, I need something. I need SARMs.

where I'm like, no, I need something. I need SARMs. There's, I guess, now that I've been through something like that, I guess there's probably some other issues that aren't being addressed first. And it's not the fun answer that anybody really wants to hear. Yeah, you don't want to go somewhere hoping to get hormone replacement therapy to be turned be turned away to say like no how about you just take this dhea capsule um get more sleep up your fat you know it's the doctor and he's like my doctor would always be like you need to drink more water that would be what my doctor would yeah yeah that that sucks what kind of uh what kind of water was

this by the way his name was dr chang and every time i was sick i'd go and he's like go to sleep drink more water and that was legit like a theme of every single fucking thing i'm like mom he's gonna tell me to go to sleep and drink some water that's 75 bucks go to sleep drink some yeah yeah well i don't know if that kind of like yeah you know if that answers the question that you were you know no i mean you know it's no, it's your, it's your, yeah, your, your version of it. I think, I think just like need maybe is a little different for each person. Oh, gotcha. You know, some people, but I agree with what you said.

Like the real answer, the real answer is probably like maybe investigate a little bit. Like maybe you've been okay. Like maybe you're, maybe you can make yourself okay by trying a couple other things rather than a intervention of TRT. Yeah. Anyway, one more thing I'd say on that. It's like,

cause I don't want people to think like if, if you want to go get some TRT and it's like, let's say your test is fine or whatever, but you want to do it. So you have an extra boost. So maybe you can get bigger. Okay. More power to you.

The only thing, the only thing that's bothersome to me is like the younger the younger kids that are like really wanting to get hrt stuff and they haven't been lifting for long they haven't been training for long they haven't been doing anything for long enough to actually get anywhere and then they're like i'm gonna hop on some test that's the thing that bothers me everyone else that wants to get it you've been lifting for a while you're an adult do your thing that doesn't it's not bothersome at all just when i see a fucking 20 year old or 21 year old who's like i want to take some tests i'm just like you've been lifting for two years really i agree with you 100 but there's also the parents that give their kids adderall yeah as soon as they

got a little problem paying attention in school you know so it's like it brings up a lot of interesting things anyway we'll talk about that shit some other time let's kind of roll on with these uh influencers a little bit more obviously you know at the top of the food chain in terms of like in you know someone that's influential you got joe rogan oh yeah and everything kind of descends downward from him since he's uh at the peak i think for you know people that are our age, men that are our age in particular, anywhere between 25 and 50, I guess you'd say. Maybe there's even a wider gap than just that. But Joe Rogan, he's monumental with a lot of the things he's doing,

and he's talked about HRT, and he's had people on. So maybe there's been a little surgeons in that as well, kind of from him, but the different guests he's had on the show, you know, that a lot of times when he has guests on the show or he mentioned somebody, I remember he's mentioned Derek from more plates, more dates.

And I was watching Derek already and consuming some of his information. But, you know, when you hear Joe Rogan say it, you're like, Oh, like the little stamp of approval for that guy. I should listen to that guy. But, you know, when you hear Joe Rogan say it, you're like, Oh, like those stamp of approval for that guy. I should listen to that guy.

And then more plates, more dates actually did a really cool video where, uh, some other YouTubers have done this in the past too. And I think it's pretty neat talking about other YouTubers that are great resources. And then one of the people that he led me to was, uh,

Leo longevity. And it's just like, it's a really nerdy deep dive into like hormones and hormone replacement. And it just gets to be, but if you want to go down that rabbit hole,

that's a great, those are all great resources. And I think, you know, in terms of fitness and in terms of bodybuilding, you got more plates, more dates and Greg Doucette. And I'd even throw our boy,

Mike Isra israel in there i had him i'm on the list mark i would throw those well i would throw those three guys in there and and me and i hopefully i'm not well i guess jeff nippard too um there's probably a few more now i'm thinking about it but anyway that those four guys to me are kind of and nippard is pretty impressive because he's been doing it for a while. So those guys are really leading the charge and I commend them. It's, it's a, it's a massive amount of work. And when I watched some of Derek's content, sometime I'm watching it and I'm like a little critical of it.

Then I'm also forgetting that, oh, these are reaction videos. He's doing these kind of on the fly, you know? videos he's doing these kind of on the fly you know um but i think uh all these people are great resources into diving into anything that you're looking for sometimes it's like kind of controversial stuff about who's natty or not to me i'm not interested in those i don't i don't think i've ever clicked on a video uh that was like that except for the one they did on enzima and i was surprised i you know i'll just leave it at that at the end when they the reveal at the end was i was like whoa like i just couldn't really believe it but other than that they had your interview where they asked you if i was natural and then you told them the secrets of

what was going why was i so sweaty during that interview god dang it's the middle of winter i don't know i was sweating bullets ruining things yeah but other than that i haven't clicked on any of those do you watch any of those do you watch any of those natty or not things you know what um uh the natty or not stuff not really i think uh i've seen some of greg's stuff because greg is just funny so he is funny he's very entertaining man but he he's also like he puts forward good information and the one thing that i that i will say that i appreciate or one of the big things that I appreciate from Derek and from Greg Doucette and cats like that. I haven't dug into Leo longevity or I've seen some of vigorous Steve since we've had on. But I appreciate those individuals because the way that they're putting forward this information about drug use when it comes to bodybuilding and stuff.

They're putting it forward in a safe manner. And I think that there were a lot of people before them that were just saying things that were honestly just highly irresponsible and highly unsafe, especially to just younger cats like teenagers who want to get big fast. If you want to get big fast like this stuff is really it's really enticing. As a teenager, you can get big fast if you want to get big fast like this stuff is really uh it's really um enticing as a teenager you can get big fast too you can it's you have the cocktail in you you can get really fucking big really cocktail cocktail cockpit those are great words anyway doodle do there yeah what more can we come up with here can we just real quick do a cock segment like we've got cocktail i cockpit jessica help us game cocks the game cocks there you go i'm game call okay um cocks

uh there you go i'm game call okay um cox uh what is it a coxin it works coxin you have a coxus it fits you have a coxus yes it's the bone on your booty so audience i've heard that once before yeah i heard it really bad it made me laugh actually when i first knew what a coccyx was, I was like, you're like, hey, now, hey, now, hey, now, I was like, amen. You know that? Amen. It's like, amen. Can I get an amen?

Hey, where were we? We were talking about cocks. I know, but before we were knee deep in cocks again, teenagers and the cocktail of teenagers. Yeah. Oh, God damn it. Yeah. We were knee deep in cocks again. Teenagers and the cocktail of hormones. Teenagers and their dicks. Oh, God damn it. It was like. Yeah. There's no subject harder.

I don't know. No. All right. That was embarrassing. When you were a kid. Remember? Yeah. That shit was embarrassing.

Oh, my God. I read. My mom would come in my room and try to wake me up in the morning. She's like, honey, you got to wake up. And she'd come back. She's like, you haven't gotten up yet. I'm like, oh, there's just a lot going on over here. Oh God.

Y'all remember? She'd sit on my bed and rub my leg. Make matters even worse. And I got harder of course I had to yeah it could have been worse I told this story before but I'm going to tell it again real quick because we are on this subject

oh this is great oh shit so this plays out like a cartoon we have to get this one animated oh yo so i was like my mom was a single parent she did a great job um but i think when i was like nine yeah i was probably like nine um i didn't know what a i didn't know what a boner was um so one day it happened it was like morning time time is the weekend and it just wasn't going away. And I was like really worried cause I was like doing everything I could to just like, what's going on?

And I was like hitting it and shit. And then, um, I really was, I was like, I was like fucking just like hitting it and saying, go away. It wouldn't go away. So I was like, I ran up to my mom. I'm like, mom, look, it won't go away. I think I need to go to the hospital. And she was like, it's okay.

It's okay. She didn't tell me what it was. She's like, just, just go to your room. It'll go away. You're okay. And then when I realized what it was, I was like, oh God, what have I done? Your mom probably like nearly died that day. Probably.

She probably was like, oh my god yeah what's wrong with my son yeah yeah so that was that was embarrassing you ever figure out what to do with it oh yeah okay yeah i did i did two years later limewire if anybody knows what that is that was my introduction to that world so So many viruses. So many viruses. I messed up so many laptops and my mom didn't know why. So many computers just stopped working because of LimeWire. What's wrong with these computers? They keep getting defragmented.

What's going on? So weird. Must be the internet connection or something. Oh, God, man. Okay, so. Try to get back on track mike israel i think mike israel is a good segue you know because he goes so deep he he does he's the the king of the range of motion yeah he's the range of motion guy yeah i saw him squatting

405 for sets of like eight reps safety squat bar with his his butt cheeks on the ground. That man. I don't get it. It's crazy. Why even bother being that strong? Who knows? But it's crazy like how he, because I think he was doing strength training before he got into bodybuilding. I'm not sure. But ever since he's been into bodybuilding and been making content about that, it's just been so freaking useful.

Like the depth of content in terms of bodybuilding that he talks about. I love it. He's hilarious. And he's funny. He's really funny. He's so funny. Yeah.

So I love his content. I love sharing his stuff with people too. It's great. I mean, yeah, look at that depth. Shit. Yeah.

And he's a big fan of range of motion on all the exercises, you know, just trying. And I think that people kind of misconstrued some of what he says. We've had them on the show before you can go back and listen to that episode. And when he's on the show, he was just saying like most of the time,

most of the time you're looking for these ranges of motion. But when he said, when it's nuanced, you're trying to do something in particular for a particular reason or result. He said, yeah, you know, you can shorten the range of motion.

Of course, there's always there's always good reasons to do certain things in your training. I think what someone like Mike Izzertel pushes forward is just why are you doing it? Yeah. And your reason why you're doing it doesn't have to be anything super crazy or specific. But, you know, it's kind of reminds me of when somebody's like, man, I really want to lose weight, and their first place that they go to is on the treadmill. And you're like, it's not okay. It's movement.

That's not a bad move, but there's some better options out there. If we work on building muscle and we work on what we're doing in the kitchen, we think we have a better long-term plan. We've got better ideas. And same thing with your lifting, you know, you might, uh, you might be doing when you're bench pressing, you might not get full range of motion because your shoulder hurts. Well, maybe it would be better to look into why your shoulder hurts and try to fix that and then figure out what are some ways I can introduce some sort of pressing motion that resembles that particular movement to keep that area strong

and to be able to build the chest. What I've noticed over the years, I used to kind of think if I did stuff to like a full range of motion in terms of power lifting, and I did that from the time I was a kid and I worked on strength, but the entire time kept that ability to do those movements properly. I always thought that I would keep everything. I was wrong. And the reason why I was wrong is because I think that I think that there's there's a range of motion that works really well for strength. There's a range of motion that works really well to uh you know be able to complete a power lifting meet but then there's also there's a lot more to it than just that and

so with something like the squat i think if i would have been squatting uh kind of like a bodybuilder or olympic lifter with my butt super low i think it would have kept a lot more mobility and even now as whenever i go back and work on it, doing knees over toes stuff, or like a goblet squat, that range of motion does come back. So it's like kind of one of those use it or lose it type of things. Anybody that's young that's getting started or just getting started in lifting, keep those ranges of motion. And I would even challenge you further to do things that are in a further range of motion than just some of the main exercises. So do some lunges, do some Bulgarian split squats, do some stuff. That's almost like, like prehabilitation to make sure that your body stays mobile and flexible.

I'm a very big fan of seeing what your body can do through really massive like ranges. And the rough thing about increasing your ROM is that it forces you to lower your weight you know what I mean you like you're not going to squat as heavy it makes you sad it's like I was squatting 500 pounds and I can't go this down with I can't go this far with 315 right but you imagine if you can build strengthen those ranges it's going to just be much better for you in the long run like it's not like it's going to take away from your typical power lifter type squat where you're only going you know hip crease below knee but that different that extended range of motion could help you build extra muscle could help you build extra

strength in different ranges it's great to do um and that's also why i am a fan of our friend michael herr oh yeah i put like as far as like if I'm going to categorize Mike, I'm going to put him along with Charles Glass. Because when I see movements that those guys do, it's things that are fairly unorthodox. You don't see a lot of people doing this stuff. And oddly enough, when the movements that they do, people that are within exercise science would sometimes look down on those movements or say that's not safe to do or that's not good to do but the big thing you notice with like a lot of the stuff mike and charles do is that like if you'll see mike doing freaking lower raises just just like going into ranges that most people don't do but he also uses light loads with those or light for him um he does it slow he does it controlled and he he he can work his body

through those range ranges safely i think the things that people get twisted when it comes to that is like they try to do those similar things with heavy weights and then they get hurt and that's not good yeah some of those movements like that like you're talking about that lateral raise where you go all the way up um and and touch your hands together up over your head like you're talking about that lateral raise where you go all the way up and touch your hands together up over your head like you're doing like a jumping jack. Yeah, you're not supposed to be able to use a lot of weight. I mean, Mike can because he's been doing them for a long time. He could use maybe like 50 pounds on that exercise, which is kind of crazy. But if you ever seen that exercise, you might think that exercise looks really dumb.

It looks bad for your shoulders. It looks horrible for everything. Yeah. But if you actually have tried that exercise, then you're singing a different song because you're going to actually feel it quite a bit. And if you can resist on the way down and kind of get a slow descent off of it, you're going to notice that you're going to get a crazy shoulder pump. I think within reason, I think there's not a lot of things like you can't really think of too many things. I guess there's some stuff you could do like off of machines where if you were using the machine like improperly, you could maybe hurt yourself, but your, your body, you know, can move a lot of different directions. So sometimes I, I hear people getting upset about someone doing,

um, you know movements they don't feel are like functional but i'm like what would an example of a non-functional range of motion movement i think as long as we're putting forward um some resemblance of keeping form intact uh i think you know all the exercises that we've seen over the years are fairly safe. Some have a higher risk to reward ratio, certainly. But again, if you're keeping form and doing the reps the correct way over and over again, should be good to go. Yeah, I think the reason why I like a lot of that stuff, because it gives you a chance to explore your body.

I know that sounds a little bit, but it gives you a chance to explore your body. I know that sounds a little bit, but it gives you a chance to explore your body in the gym. If you're doing, let's say like, you know, a lot of the stuff from Ben Patrick or even the Mike O'Hearn, a lot of those things allow you, especially when you use light load to feel things that you haven't necessarily felt before in areas you haven't felt them before. Like the Charles glass row that you showed me the other day, right? I had to use light load. But the thing about that movement is, is again, when you're leaning forward with the mid cable row,

when you lean forward, you automatically start. If you were using heavy load, you'll have pressure in your lower back. So you need to lighten the load. But if you squeeze where you're supposed to squeeze, you feel the more tension in an area that you haven't felt in the felt before.

So, right. Um, so when I do that type of stuff, you just have to be careful not to do it too quickly, not to use too heavy load, or you will hurt yourself. And you'll say this exercise was dumb.

I think you've been a good influencer over the last couple weeks and months, especially on your tick tock. You cool down a little bit on your YouTube, right? Yeah. But your tick tock has been going pretty bonkers, on your youtube right yeah but your tiktok has been going pretty bonkers right yeah yeah tiktok's been fun um it's interesting the community there is very interactive and it's like it's like early youtube because it's like an early search engine so there's not a lot of people that are making a lot of content there it seems so it's been it's

just been a cool place to put a lot of stuff that I know. And it's been, it's been pretty cool. It seems like people are hungry to learn about some of the simple things, right? Yeah. Like some of the things that we take for granted, we're like, oh yeah, we know like, and then you kind of just forget that, uh, that was something that you had to implement into your training. When you start, like when you get deep into training or you've been training for a while, you forget how important a lot of the simpler things are. It's like you start trying to convey things that are just unnecessarily complex or you start trying to, I guess, put in details that most people don't care about initially.

And I think it's helped me understand that I still need to be conveying the simple information because it's easy to forget those things. Like simple cues when doing rows or simple cues when doing shoulder movements these are small little things that even even if you've been lifting for a while if you've never paid attention to it it could be something that you've totally glossed over um and i just think a big thing that i a big thing that i like to put forward and all all the things that i do as far as content is like weight wise like when you're getting stronger you want to lift the heaviest weight possible A big thing that I like to put forward in all the things that I do as far as content is weight-wise. When you're getting stronger, you want to lift the heaviest weight possible.

But people forget, and I used to forget, that you can do a lot with very light weight, especially when you're just working on your range of motion or working on keeping tension in that specific muscle group. I think that's helped us a lot. Again, examples, Mike O'Hearn, that mind muscle connection or being able to actually activate those muscle groups takes time to be able to do. And you can't be doing things in an uncontrolled fashion with weight that you can't handle.

I did some leg press this morning with Andrew and I think all I used was three plates. You know, there's, you don't always have to use, I think somebody would think someone my size with my experience would have to use like six or three plates. You know, there's, you don't always have to use, I think somebody would think someone my size with my experience would have to use like six or seven plates. And I've done that before and that feels good and gives me a good amount of resistance, but I was doing higher rep. I was using a lot less rest. And what you'll learn if you're, if you, you know, examine some of these influencers that we're talking, we're talking about and you listen to our podcast, we talk about these short rest intervals.

You can get a similar effect. It's not the same, not the same as lifting heavy, but you can get a similar effect when you go from one movement to another and you have kind of a pre fatigue going on. So, I mean, I think each time I think I did about 35 reps or so. So I did like a few hundred reps of leg press this morning and just got a good pump and it felt really good. And the other side of that is that by not lifting super heavy, when I get on the plane tomorrow

to head to New York, I'm not going to be like as stiff and as beat up from using the heavy, heavy weight. Yeah. That's why also I like the shake strap a lot. I don't know how much we've talked about that but the uh the shake strap allows you to get a lot out of using really light loads like you can't well you can load it heavy but when you load it lighter i wish i could

explain how like it's just the stretch and the end ranges you can just get a lot out of using light loads in every single movement. And it's a different stimulus. That's why I've been using that attachment so much. I don't know if we're supposed to talk about it yet. Yeah, no, it's good.

Yeah. No, it's the shake strap from a sling, you know, Mark Bell slingshot.com. I think it's, I think it's launching maybe tomorrow. I'm not sure what day it is.

27th. Oh, 27th. Um, so it'll be on our anniversary date for Slingshot, where you can see a bunch of cool things for sale on the website, along with the ShakeStrap. But the ShakeStrap is another creation and invention of ours here at Slingshot. It's made out of Slingshot material.

So when you go to do the movement, it's got some spring and some stretch and some elasticity to it. If you were to do like a row, I'm sure everyone's done this before. If you were to do like a seated row and you just go ham on the seated row and pull on it as hard as you can, you'll notice the cable will get slack in it and then the weight will kind of jerk you back. And it kind of doesn't feel so good. You're like, oh, that feels a little bit weird because you're dealing with a lot of the force of the cable kind of whipping back into position. With the shake strap, when you go to pull, even if you go to pull hard, there is a little bit of that play in the cable, but the cable will kind of bounce.

So as you go to pull towards you, it wants to pull back. And so you have to work very hard to keep a good, strong contraction in the first place. And then also to keep a good, strong isometric contraction. It's almost as if I'm pulling on the weight and then SEMA is pushing down on the weight, not like with all his strength or anything, but it's almost as if he's pushing down on the weight by maybe 10 pounds, 20 pounds, something like that. And you have to fight that inertia of that thing wanting to bounce back. And so it almost in some weird way works as like a one and a quarter rep type of movement and it really like for example if i'm talking like with a row about a row when you squeeze at that peak contraction almost like it pulls you back and you

need to resist that so you feel you could feel like you can get a deeper stronger contraction at the end range of each movement that you do, which is why it's so fucking exciting. It's a great attachment. It's like my favorite attachment at this point. I'm excited. People are going to love it. We made a bunch of different straps.

We got one for a tricep. A face pull one. Yep. We got one for face pulls. We got double handles. We got a single handle. We made a bunch of stuff. You guys are going to absolutely love it.'s get back to some of these uh influencers um let's talk about jeff

nippard jeff nippard jeff nippard's been killing it for a long time you got to appreciate the amount of research that guy does going into like one of these videos like uh he's presenting material as if he's like on the news or something it's pretty amazing he brings up all these stats and brings up all this information um to kind of support what it is he's talking about he's one of those people that um does a deep dive into the science and the research but then he's also talking about the practicality of it because he's a bodybuilder himself he coaches many. He's been doing it for a long time. He's pretty fucking strong as well. And he's well built. He looks fucking jack. And, you know, I just think he's a great resource because he, I mean, everyone's going to always

interject their own opinion and their own feelings towards what they think is going to be effective. But again, he's really just presenting information. And he's just like, this is what's been seen. This is what's been shown. And then he'll, after he does that, then he'll give you his own opinion on what he's seen by working with other folks and stuff. So I think he's got some great content out there. Yeah.

It was cool to see Jeff like really explode three or four years back because even before that, he was making a lot of content for years. Um, as far as like natural bodybuilding is concerned and powerlifting is concerned. Uh, and then it's just like, it just started to take off.

So it was really awesome to see. But a cool thing about Jeff is that, I mean, he, he, no matter what anybody thinks, he's a natural guy. Like he hasn't taken anything he's done.

He's actually a WNBF pro also. So he's done shows with that, with that organization. So it's cool to see someone from that realm, like get so big and put content forward that people are receiving and getting something from. Yeah. He's not doing it with just hormone manipulation,

which, which is fine. But a lot of times you're seeing somebody, you know, they're, they're presenting results to you, and they're also making massive changes by the kind of drugs they're taking. Yeah, he's fucking thick.

Thick as a brick. So is his mama. I mean, not okay. No, no, no, no, no, no. That sounded wrong. His mom is like jacked. His mom is jacked. Like if you find a picture of his mom there, she's like super in shape.

She's super jacked. Like she has great, great genetics. So when I met, so is his mama. I met his mom is like jacked like Jeff. Not that his mom is thick. Thick with two C's like she's jacked. Oh, Mark. That's not what I meant.

I don't know. She's got some muscle on her muscle i'm not finding this picture go up she's not thick she's what do you mean he posted a picture of her recently um damn it where is it oh well well when you find his mom she like she was a bodybuilder so like yeah like bodybuilding runs in the family which is dope like yeah i didn't know that but people that are looking for like figuring out like what to eat before they train what to eat after they train he talks a lot about stuff to have pre-workout stuff to have post-workout and again it's from research that he digs up yeah so for me personally i'm not that interested in a lot of that stuff like i just i

don't care as much i kind of found my own thing that works well for me but we get those questions all the time people ask those questions all the time and for you and i it's like oh we fast and people people are like i don't i don't get it people don't they don't want to fast you know they want to like try to find like an edge right and so if you want to find an edge and you want to try to do what you feel might be uh the best thing for you then check out some of uh jeff nippard's information okay oh there we go yeah mama nippard yeah shoulder tricep yeah man she's in she's in great shape she's hella jacked oh my god what about our boy uh jordan scy him on the list. Yeah, he puts forth a lot of great information. Also very simple, also very easy to apply.

He hates fasting. Jordan, he doesn't hate fasting, but the way he talks about it is just kind of funny to me. But his information is really solid, and he's not just a great person as far as nutrition is concerned, but he's strong. just like a a great person as far as nutrition is concerned but he's strong i'm guilty of this too of being sometimes uh immature towards things i haven't really given putting a real effort in on you know and so maybe he uh just hasn't explored it much himself but i just my own personal experience and experiences of some of the people around me. Fasting is really, really powerful. It's not a fad. I think the overall message of Americans need to spend a lot less time eating food

and a lot less time thinking about food, and even more importantly, the most important thing, they need to spend a lot more time being in control of what they eat rather than being controlled by their food. I think we don't, you know, one of the greatest names of a website, which I originally thought was kind of dumb until I read what the website meant. There's a website called ruled.me and ruled.me stands for the guy that started it. He lost like 150 pounds. And food used to rule him. And he's like, it's not going to rule me anymore.

I got this strategy. And his strategy was to basically go kind of low carb. But Rule.me is where you can make like fathead pizza and all these kind of keto friendly things. Kind of get you through and stay on a low carb lifestyle. So I think that's, that's some like great, great information. And Jordan,

Jordan site has a lot of fun with it too. I love, I love that part of it too. He does. I love the, the characters that he makes up. I love that too. Or like,

he'll share like a back and forth conversation with somebody about like, I don't know what to do. I'm going on vacation. He's like, enjoy yourself. He's like, yeah, but like, he's like, are you going to like, enjoy yourself. Like, yeah, but like,

he's like, are you going to like, did it take you, you know, the, the weekend to build your body? Like, no,

okay. It's not going to take the weekend to destroy your body. Just go have some fun. Or, uh, if your trainer tells you that fructose is making you fat, you need to fire them. And just like little simple,

funny things like that. That's like, damn. Yeah. His, his information is super cool. Yeah. Um, let, let's let's so so within this vein

of like jeff nipper uh jordan syatt there's a few names all of the three and three dmj cats eric helms alberto nunez jeff alberts uh brad brad brad brad brad sconefeld no not not shown felt the shown felt sconefeld sound like a food we don't know we don't know what sconefeld is just the 3dmj cats um i love jeff alberts jeff alberts is actually going to come be on the podcast soon he is like he so many cool bodybuilding techniques and he's and he's uh i mean he knows he's he's in his late 40s he's an older cat but he's still getting bigger and stronger over the years. And I think a lot of the information that they put forward, it's popular, but I feel like more people should be paying attention to it. So check that out.

And then along with that, Greg Nichols, Greg Nichols and the whole stronger by science thing. And Brad Loomis. Yeah. The, the mass research review uh that's a good thing to check out the if you guys are interested in more of that science stuff right and the research the mass research review is not expensive it's like 18 20 a month but what greg eric helms i believe um mike zorders do is they like take all the relevant fitness research and then they kind of they'll give you the articles and then they'll boil it down. So they won't just give you the research, but then they'll explain the practical applications of it on a monthly review of multiple papers. So it's a really cool thing if like you like that, but you don't want to have to interpret all the research for yourself, which I don't want to.

But you don't want to have to interpret all the research for yourself, which I don't want to. So I think those are great resources and they make great content on YouTube and other platforms. Something I think could be really motivational and useful is when we think about the stuff that we see on our phones. A lot of times these things are referred to as a feed. And so you have to think about the consumption. You've got to think about what your eyes are seeing every single day. And I think it's in your best interest to try to follow things that could lead you towards, you know, heading towards your goal faster, you know, things that align with your goal. And so if you have just a lot of desserts and a lot of yummy things on your Instagram that you're looking at and you're trying to be on a diet, it might be harder.

If you're having if you have a lot of people that are in really good shape on your Instagram, it might you might find it motivational to keep you heading in that direction. So and you're probably laughing because I said yummy. And then there's different versions of yummy. I was wondering where you're going to go with that one. I was like, is he going to? Well, either way, you know, pay attention to what's what you're feeding yourself each day and what you're consuming. Like I've found it motivational to follow certain people that are for me, you know, when it when it comes to people talking about nutrition and people talking about strength and these things, it's not enough for somebody to be a doctor.

Like, I'm that's fine. Like, that's great if someone has that background. But I really admire the people that are doing it or that at least have done it at some point. And so somebody like Stan Efferding, that's like, man, that guy's he's done a lot. He was a pro bodybuilder. He broke, uh, all time world records, uh, in powerlifting. Like that's somebody that motivates me. That's somebody that I really want to, I really want to listen to even somebody like Mark Sisson, uh, who's a little bit more of like a endurance athlete than he is a strength athlete.

He's like 68 years old and looks amazing.'s still shredded you know so i like to listen to the people that are not just researching it and looking into it which that can be great too but i like the people that look the part as well do you guys see that sean baker got like a suspension from twitter was his account deleted or just like suspended i think just suspended okay let's hope was he fat shaming or something? Maybe he claims it was a, whatever, like copyright. Oh yeah.

But who knows? Yeah. That's happening a lot with like, I think music and stuff, right? TikTok like doesn't care, but then the rest of them are getting all weird. Yeah.

I got one of my posts recently taken down for, but I mean the post was like a year or two ago. From what? Instagram. Yeah. And the Instagram just took it down like yesterday. I was like, okay. Instagram sometimes be a little.

Well, let's mention there's two cats I want to mention. Knees over toes guy, obviously. Don't forget about him. Ben Patrick, right? Ben Patrick, like he, when he, i've been paying attention to his stuff before he came on the podcast but man the amount of people that have messaged me that have been like yo i started doing that stuff my knees feel amazing i think andrew one of the homies that yeah jesse the guy that sends us that uh secret weapon hysteric acid he said that he couldn't run

or he couldn't like do anything for like 10 years and then all of a sudden he feels like he can get up and sprint after. Yeah. So it's like, what the fuck? Like, that's amazing. And the great thing, again, this is like what the, if we're talking about, like, we're going to boil down Ben stuff in a very layman's way. It's a lot of full range of motion type movements that take all of your joints and different tendons through very deep ranges that a lot of people would typically be, that's not safe or that's not good for you to do. But it's actually something that is helping people move better, feel better, strengthening

tendons, strengthening ligaments, strengthening joints. And it's great for all types of athletes and just people that are not working out. And I want to add on somebody else with him who's within that realm. The ATG mentor is his Instagram or Keegan Smith. Again, another individual. They work together, but has a lot of unorthodox type exercises that people usually wouldn't do or work on, does things with the feet, does just like weird ranges of motion. But again, these are things that can bring resilience to the body. These are both men who have done a lot of things with Charles Poliquin through the years, and they're kind of putting forward that information so it doesn't die off and adding new things to it. So I'm very, very appreciative of the stuff that they put forward because it's been helping me out drastically and it's helping a lot of people out too. lot of people out too let's not forget about the old standby bio lane yeah lane norton who's uh kind of like redone his youtube a little bit um he's always been a great resource he's been on

like bodybuilding.com like i don't know 12 15 years ago some shit like that uh putting out information and uh i don't always like uh the way that lane acts on instagram or or twitter and stuff like that but uh that's his you know his personality that's the way that he is but he gives out great information and you know i think i think it's a mistake that we all can make sometimes and not uh particularly liking something about an, and then we shut down our ability to learn from that person. It's a massive mistake. You'd be better off just being like, hey, I think they have great information. I mean, even if you thought somebody was your enemy,

why not steal good information from them and utilize it to help advance your own life either way, regardless of what your thoughts are on them. So Lane is doing a great job putting together great information. He's been on this podcast a bunch of times. I think he's scheduled to come on again soon, right? Yep. Yep. Very soon.

Early next month. But he just, he put out a video six days ago about artificial sweeteners. And I mean, a lot of the information and stuff that like I've already asked him and he said on this podcast, but like you can tell like he's definitely reached like a new level as far as like um putting out information uh making it entertaining yeah and actually being pretty funny yeah like before it was a little kind of cheesy but now he's like not really trying he's just like being more himself and it was just like one of the best videos i've seen that he's ever done and it was really good and i actually ended up sharing it with my wife because we were talking about artificial

sweeteners yeah and like here you go like let's let's all calm down now it was it was really good i i highly recommend people uh check that video out yeah no i've been loving lane's information for a very long time um got me like that that's some of the stuff that got me really into the whole evidence-based side of things when i was younger but someone i want to add on with lane is someone we just had on menno henselman i've been digging menno stuff for years and it's very good information um very there's like there's some things that some people might disagree with him in terms like full body workouts and stuff but menno has very good applicable information So it's stuff to pay attention to on his website, his Instagram.

I don't know how much of a, I don't think he does much YouTube, but I recently bought his book, um, on the science of self control. And I've been really digging that. It's really good. Um,

so Menno Hanselman is just, you should listen to our podcast that we had with him, but then you should also go check out more of his information. And someone to add on to Menno is Spencer Nadolsky. Hmm. Yeah. I've seen him before, yeah. He has a lot. If you guys want to follow somebody on Instagram, go follow Dr. Spencer Nadolski. A lot of just gems within his posts, things that you can learn quickly in a pie quickly,

and they're going to be pretty great. Lane, was he the one that kind of pushed flexible dieting to, and like, if it fits your macros, are they, first of all, those things very similar. And then secondly, was that kind of a movement from like, not just Lane, I know there's other people responsible, but he was kind of the main guy, right? He was the one of the spearheads of the whole flexible dieting thing. Him, and at the time, Ldonald was putting out forward a lot of information about that too lyle mcdonald is another person with some good information but he he doesn't uh do stuff on a like big youtube scale but he has a lot of good info but yeah he was one of the spearheads of flexible diet and back in today yeah lyle mcdonald does he talks a lot about

keto style dieting and stuff too right I don't know recently maybe he has I've been seeing anything about about keto from him but he he talks a lot about like different ways of boosting fat loss that are kind of an Orthodox and he's he's had some I think he's had quite a few books or ebooks on that stuff so it's uh just another good another good resource to learn from lyle mcdonald and he's he's funny he roasts the fuck out of people it's great i think uh oh good no as you say um for me it was definitely norton who like literally like like what is flexible dieting and learn from him but also like greg do you said you know

oh really you know he he doesn't call it flexible dieting he calls the anabolic diet but it essentially is you know flexible dieting it's just these different low calorie versions of really really good foods and then so when i started following that and then of course you know when we had remington on and then right after that is when he kind of switched over to the anabolic diet yeah so just because i was following him that's where i kind of picked up all that stuff too fantastic That's fantastic. Yeah. And so now like my YouTube feed is just like full of recipe videos. My boy Nick, Exercise for Cheap Meals has some really, really good meals too. All super high protein, low calorie stuff. So like, yeah, I've been learning a lot,

like how to cook on YouTube. I mean, I go to YouTube University every day, so it's pretty cool. You got other people for cooking? So those two are definitely the main ones. Like I said, Greg Doucette, and then let me try to think. There's a handful of other people, and I'm upset that I'm forgetting them. But you can really just YouTube Anabolic Diet, and you'll find a bunch of recipes. You mentioned Remington. He's got a lot of stuff yeah he has a shit ton of cooking stuff yeah he just released a like a chicken like ranch barbecue pizza like it looks incredible yeah but yeah he he has like he's cool because he's super entertaining too

and he has like a certain style that like we all kind of come to expect and yeah it's just really good information and then then with Greg, you said he's, he does a lot of the natty or not videos, which I don't pay attention to, uh, unless it is about like somebody I know, like,

like Michael Hearn. I always, I always tune into those ones, but, um, yeah, I'll, I'll look at my feed right now.

I'll see if I can come up with anybody else. I gotta say, we're doing a horrible job of representing females. We haven't really mentioned one yet, but maybe we can make something up before the end of the show. I mean, I know, you know, Gabrielle Lyons is great, but like she's not really

on YouTube a lot. She does a lot of podcasts and stuff. I listen to a lot of lo-fi hip-hop radio. That's lo-fi girl. That's about it, though. Oops. Anyway, we suck. Thomas DeLauer.

Thomas DeLauer is a sexy girl. Perfect. There's just someone I wanted to mention. You don't have to roast me for it. Thomas DeLauer is legit. A lot of great information. Talking about everything that you can possibly imagine on the side of uh low carb and fasting and uh things like that i just wanted to mention too about flexible dieting real quick is that the idea the premise of flexible dieting

of uh that like no food is necessarily off limits as long as we kind of account for it i think it was a healthy movement and is a it's a good thing for people to observe just hey look you know everybody fucking relax and chill out you can still eat some of these foods some of the time but let's spend more of the time focused in on uh foods that are more nutrient dense that maybe don't have the same uh macronutrient load but still carry a large micronutrient load. Yeah. This is the main one. Again, I'm fucking pissed,

but, uh, where'd it go? So, um, flexible dieting, flexible dieting lifestyle. This guy's been on YouTube forever.

I remember I bought his book a long time ago. The funny thing is he's got like a, like a mullet thing going on. So he looks a lot like silent Mike, which is interesting, but yeah, no, his shit's really good. He, he will come up with like, like a mullet thing going on so he looks a lot like silent mike which is interesting but yeah no his shit's really good he he will come up with like like this one 44 calorie protein cookies and they look amazing and it's like what the fuck like how do you even so he's a really good person to follow if you want to figure out some like yummy alternatives to some of these like really good foods ted n Naiman, of course,

protein leveraging. As soon as we get off air, we're going to beg. Fuck. How did I forget about? Yeah. Yeah. Honestly,

it's going to frustrate the hell out of us, but what you have, we're mainly talking about kind of YouTube content too. Like, um, there's obviously tons of people on Tik TOK and tons of people on, uh, Instagram that are influential.

And I find it really fascinating, too, that there's a lot of people that are influential that we maybe don't give enough credit towards because maybe they're not really giving us like Jeff Nippert information. But there's guys like Larry Wheels. There's people in the fitness industry that people just really look up to. And these people are in good shape. And Bradley Martin would be one of them. Like somebody just in really good shape, encourages people to work out. Like if you ever look at like some of the stuff from Bradley Martin and you look at some of the comments and stuff that are, you know, on his page, people are like, I started lifting because of you. Like all this stuff I think is really, you know, people, different strokes for different folks, right?

Different people like different people and different people are influenced by different people. We can't forget about our boy CT Fletcher, one of the OGs. the OGs. One of the first guys on YouTube probably to get to like a million subscribers that was a fitness influencer. So there's different ways to be inspired and motivated. I personally at the moment am usually moved by just learning more like that gets me motivated and hype. Like if I want to get motivated and hyped to train at the gym,

I'm not really listening to like crazy music or listening to some crazy speech of someone yelling at me i normally listening to just like today i was listening like jordan peterson i just like had him on the list yeah i'm just getting like information and it it i learned something and it kind of reminds me of it hits the same like senses that you get when, when you hear, I mean, maybe people are different with different types of music, but for me,

uh, when it's a rap and they hit some of these, some of these words have double or triple meaning and stuff like that. And it's just super clever and it hits and you're just like, holy fuck. It feels like your brain's on fire. Yeah. And when I'm listening to Jordan Peterson,

sometimes the same thing will happen. We mentioned something and I'm like, holy fuck, he's your brain's on fire yeah and when i'm listening to jordan peterson sometimes the same thing will happen we mention something and i'm like holy fuck he's got a great point that's awesome and then i just i feel inspired i feel fired up and excited yeah jordan peterson and i also like sam harris jordan peterson and sam harris sam harris um a cool little tool or app for you guys who are maybe into some meditation or you want to learn more deeply about meditation. Sam Harris has an app called waking up, waking up. It's a great, it's a great app.

Um, not only does he have like guided meditations in there, but he has a lot of interviews and lectures where you can learn about maybe the benefits, why you might want to take up the practice, different ways to do the practice. it's just honestly, it's a great resource. But I love Sam Harris and his content. His book, Waking Up, was a book that I read years ago. And it was a book that made me, it was one of the books that just started making me analyze

why I believed what I believed. Just put it that way. That's just started making me analyze why I believed what I believed. Just put it that way. Listen to one of his podcasts. Listen to Sam Harris and David Deutsch. If you want your mind to fucking explode, that's such a good podcast. He might have done two of them. Now that I'm even thinking about it, I got excited. I'm like, I need to listen to that again.

David Deutsch is not always the easiest to absorb, but once you get going on him, you can start to kind of understand some of the information he's given. I got one for you guys. Lex Friedman. I was going to say it. I knew it. I was hoping we wouldn't get out of the podcast without saying it because, man, I love that guy. Me too. Oh, God.

He has so many. his content is so good. The way he interviews is interesting. Like no one has Lex's style or if you could. It's just very it's very Russian, you know, but I like to stand there straight faced and just delivering whatever he needs to deliver, I guess. Yeah, he's so great. But he asks awesome questions and his podcast is just really dope. I love the guests he has on. I love the way he conducts interviews

and it's always good information. He seems like half asleep. He does. Even the way he talks, it's just the whole time. But there's still good energy somehow. Yes, I do get it. Yeah, it's like he's snoozing, but he's hyped up at the same time.

Yeah, yeah. The Lex Freeman podcast is just fucking, it's like he's snoozing, but he's hyped up at the same time. Yeah, yeah. The Lex Freeman podcast is just fucking great, man. It's so good. Some of his interviews with Elon Musk were really, really good. I mean, he's got a lot of great interviews on his. I mean, just go and check some of these people out, and your brain will be on fire. It's a great way to learn. And for me being in fitness, I like to listen

to a lot of this stuff. That's, that's not, you know, straight up just lifting, lifting, glifting all the time. It usually gets me more motivated, more inspired and helps me be more creative when I'm really not thinking about fitness. Yeah. Do you guys, uh, watch anything on YouTube that for pure entertainment and like something that you're not, you know, trying to, yeah. Okay. So there's this channel, these two, you know, trying to, yeah. Okay. So there's this channel, these two, they're,

they're commentary guys, ABBA and preach. Um, they, they do social commentary. And let me just say a lot of their stuff is for me, that's entertaining for me. Um,

it's extremely entertaining. They will, uh, yeah, just, just go check out ABBA and preach, watch one of their videos you guys will laugh but then you also learn something from it so check that out

yeah i'm always checking out something with video games so yeah the main channel that i watch um is spawn wave uh john something um yeah he kind of does like a daily news thing every single day like monday through friday he'll break down like all a daily news thing every single day, like, Monday through Friday. He'll break down, like, all the shit that happened the day before. And, like, sometimes it's, like, really late breaking. I'm like, how the fuck does this guy do it? But every day he has, like, some really, really good, like, video game information. So I'll do that.

And then, like, you know, Loki. Yeah. So, like, I'll watch, like, all the Easter eggs and stuff that were in that. Oh, yeah. Emergency Awesome. I watched those Easter eggs. It's so fun. Because I'm like, fuck. yeah so like i'll watch like all the easter eggs and stuff that were in oh yeah emergency awesome i watched those easter eggs it's so fun because i'm like fuck i didn't like how do you have the time to catch all this stuff don't realize yeah well it's their job so like the intro on the the last episode like dude notice dude this guy went and clipped every single part from

all the marvel movies about everything that was said in that intro. I'm like, Oh my God, that must've took like, I mean, the thing was released like the next day. I don't know how the fuck that was even possible, but yeah.

One, one, one person that I'll mention just cause I love movement. Like people who are able to just move their body in an Orthodox ways and try to teach it. I really appreciate it. And I like that portal. Edo or is his Instagram. Um appreciate it. And I like that portal. Edo or is his Instagram.

Um, but his name is Edo portal. Um, and he's just, his, his body control is immaculate. Um, and it's someone that like, I think would be,

if you guys are interested in like, you know, different ways to move your body and learning about your body. Like we kind of talked about earlier using the gym to learn what your body can do through different ranges of motion well portal.edo on instagram or edo portal he's a great resource for that and he has a lot of individuals who he's taught how to do that stuff it's great y'all will dig it i think the one of the ones i listen to a lot is like gravity transformation or gravity is that what it's called yeah yeah i don't know his actual name

but that's the name of his channel. The guy who always says water. Water. He always says and all the comments are always about him saying water. I don't think I've watched his stuff before. One of the cool one of the great videos that he made was 20 things

that have hardly any calories in them that you can eat a lot of. And then, you know, things like. Watercress. Yeah, right. There's a lot of things with water in it. And so he's like, watermelon. The shirataki noodles are basically all water.

Yeah, they're all. He just kept saying water, water. And I love that he doesn't. I mean, I wonder. We'll have to have him on the show sometime and address it because we got to figure out. But that channel has exploded. I mean, there's a lot of, it does. Oh, my God.

That video has 20 million views. What? Which video? I'm sorry. Not 20 million views. Five million views. I just saw the 20 and the 20. Oh, yeah.

My bad. Still, five million is a fuck ton. Yeah. There's a lot of videos that are like that. He talks about, again, post-workout nutrition, intra-workout nutrition, pre-workout. As I've learned these things over the years, I don't want to – it's hard for me just to flat out tell someone young that's all hyped up, hey, bro, it doesn't matter. Hey, shut up and stop asking the stupid questions. But if you do think it matters, you can go and you can listen to these people that we're

mentioning here today and you can kind of see for yourself. And over time, you'll recognize what we're talking about is that, yes, all these things factor in, but there's just some common things that are kind of overarching when it comes to your fitness, when it comes to losing weight, when it comes to staying in shape. And those things haven't changed, and I don't believe they ever will. So, but I do understand people are looking for like the nuanced answers. What do I do to get the peak of my bicep?

How do I get the peak, you know? And it's like, well, how long have you been training your arms for? Like if you've only been training them for two years, you just might need to train them for four years. And then a peak might pop out of there. What I like about the gravity transformation videos, I mean, I'm still a child, so he puts up pictures and shiny things, and I'm like, oh, what's that?

But the information sticks, and it's just done really really well and they will have like movie references in there as well just it keeps it fun yeah it's got to be fun no that that's something i'm jealous about for younger cats these days is that there's there's so much good information as far as lifting getting stronger getting bigger it's like there's so much um but then there also lies the difficulty of just focusing and doing it because you have so much to pay attention to like it's like oh what do i do or what what let's yeah so but you know if these days are the best days to be a teenager trying to grow some muscle. Let me put it that way. Yep.

Did you watch the new Space Jam movie? I did not, but I've just been seeing the internet's been roasting it. I don't know why. Also, congratulations to the Bucks. Yes. We're winning. That guy's amazing. He is.

for winning he's amazing he is I don't like coming at it this way but like I'm actually just happy because I didn't want

the Suns to win nothing against Booker and the Suns but Chris Paul's fucking douchebag never liked him

but yeah anyway it was funny when they were in the playoffs to Marcus Cousins who's also not like really a good player either but he's just yelling at him So that's why nobody fucks with you or whatever like damn

Like if if a shitty players telling you that you're a shitty player like you're probably shitty dude so much beef Yeah, like Piedmont Check out Piedmont they're great Anyway, also give a shout out to our boy Kelly Sturette who's been at it for a really long time Check out Piedmont T's beef. They're great. Anyway. Also give a shout out to our boy, Kelly Sturette, who's been at it for a really long time. He's had tremendous impact and influence on us here. We have a lot of friends and a lot of people that come on the show. So please, please show some forgiveness towards us if we're fucking forgetting you. We're not doing it intentionally.

But yeah, Kelly Sturette's been at it a really long time. Another kind of mobility guy. He helped you with your're not doing it intentionally. But yeah, Kelly Stratt's been out a really long time. Another kind of mobility guy. He helped you with your hip recently, right? Yeah, yeah. I posted about that. So not just my hip, my foot. Right after I did my tournament, I pulled a tendon in my foot. And Kelly gave me the exact protocols that I should do immediately so I can get swelling down and get healed up.

And then I pulled my adductor before that. Before that tournament, I pulled up my adductorctor and it was just taking the longest time to recover and i pulled it a little bit more in the tournament and pulled it doing stupid things here and there and then kelly gave me just a few things that i should do and it's been feeling ever so juicy so yeah and like on on his channels the ready state um he still puts forward such great information as far as mobility, um, flexibility, all that type of stuff.

That's just going to be so great for athletes. So absolutely y'all should be paying attention to Dr. Kelly. Sturette, Matt Vincent, uh, put out a video, I think yesterday called short film.

Yeah. Yeah. It's like a short film. It's called fragile. Um, I got to see a sneak peek of it it was really dope wow uh matt has you know he was a two-time uh highland games world champion and uh his career was cut short with some knee injuries he had just like general just

knee issues and just had one surgery and then had another surgery and another surgery and another surgery. And anyway, uh, he just went through it, man. He went through some really, really brutal, tough times. Uh, anyone that's an athlete that has, uh, their athleticism pulled away from them. It's like, uh, like where we are. I mean, it, you know, the name of the thing is called fragile and it's got like a line through the name of the documentary. We try to make ourselves tough, but man, we're very, very fragile when something gets taken away. And so Matt kind of takes you through this whole journey of going through all these surgeries and just what a freaking bummer it is. And then at the end, he starts to work his way towards doing some running. And there's some really cool stuff in there.

I don't want to ruin it for you guys. But, you know, he worked really hard and got himself to be able to. He wasn't a runner ever before. He was a big, big, big guy, over 300 pounds doing Highland Games stuff. And he had to make a transition. And it's just cool to see him happy it's cool to see him come out the other side and uh be doing so well it's so cool to be seeing him do the things that he's doing on his page because i forget when i watch his stuff that he has a fake knee

yeah knee replacement yeah like literally like he's paddleboarding he's doing all these movements and i'm watching his knee i'm like whoa dude like that thing doesn't it's just moving more like it's it's awesome to see and I think it's very motivating not just for me but for anyone who has to deal with something like that because a lot of people would would maybe if they get that they think they're done they're not gonna be able to you know really improve or change your body Kelly also did the same like yes I think me too I think so yeah yeah so just crazy both those guys it's it's you know really improve or change your body kelly also did the same like he has a fake knee too i think so yeah yeah so just crazy both those guys it's it's amazing i can't wait to watch that

documentary yeah it's up just under 40 minutes so it was a lot longer than i expected but that's cool um his boy brant um his camera guy his whole media guy he did a really good job um but somebody else that's like kind of in our circle but the other mind pump guys yeah i i watch their stuff for two different reasons one like yeah i'm probably gonna learn some cool shit about fitness nutrition or whatever but the other side is i'm trying to get better at what i do right here on the podcast so you know they they have a really uh successful like podcast and they have a cool format so So I watch it with, you know, with two things in mind and, you know,

try to just improve in two different, two different ways when I watch their stuff. So I'm really grateful that we can like just lob them a text whenever we want. And they've always been super cool. Mind time. We talk about it very minimally on this show because we don't have a lot of experience with it, but we do talk a little bit here and there about psychedelics.

And I know there's been a surgence of people becoming more and more interested in it. There's a YouTube channel called Psyched Substance. I will check this out. And it has like, I don't know, it's got like a crazy amount of subscribers to it. Maybe like 10 million subscribers or 5 million or something like that. I mean, there's a lot of people checking out. The guy puts forth some really great information. I just think, you know, it's like kind of a double-edged sword. You know, you don't want to mention something because you're like, I don't want to see people

try something randomly because they're hyped about it. But I would like for people to be informed about stuff. So when we talk about anabolic steroids or we talk about any substance that you're going to put in your body, it's the best thing is just to be more and more informed about it, whether it's, you know, diet drinks that have sucralose in it,

or it's, you know, you want to do some mushrooms on the weekend. It's great to just have the knowledge of what these things might do to you, what they can do for you and what to look out for. Because I think probably the probably the worst thing is that some of these things can be laced with other shit. And so that would be a big concern. I want to check this video.

Kratom led me to inject the Sazool. I smoked. I'm sorry for cutting you off there, Mark. It's just. No, it's great. Oh, God god this is cool I didn't watch that one okay I'm definitely gonna check this channel out

this seems very interesting 28 grams of mushrooms oh my gosh what he took that at once so reacting to somebody oh Jesus okay mushrooms

reaction videos are crushing on YouTube right now too yeah we gotta do that that's why I'm definitely gonna check this channel out reaction videos are crushing on YouTube right now too. Yeah. We got to do that. That's why I'm definitely going to check this channel out. All right, Andrew, let's take this on out of here. I think we got everybody,

uh, listed out. Yeah. Uh, well, I also have a Doug Bregnoli down here. His, his channel is growing.

Well, it's the, uh, smart training, three 65 channel, him and, his buddy, uh, Mo, they go back and forth on certain things. They'll break down some of the guests that we've had on,

like some of the stuff that we say on the podcast. And then they just recently basically did a podcast with John Gaglione. And it was really, really good. And it was cool because, you know, Brignoli's talking about whether a squat is the best whether a squat is, like, the best way to do things. I can't remember the context. I'm really upset. Oh, it was about a sissy squat, I think.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the fact that, like, if you just lean forward, like, it makes it easier or whatever it may be. And leaning back makes it harder and you get more bang for your buck that way. And then Gags was just like, well, I just want to, like, mention something. like mention something like as power lifters we're looking to shorten you know the movements we're looking to try to push as much weight as efficiently as possible so we're not actually looking to try to get the most bang for our buck we're trying to get the best value if anything but it was just really cool because it was an awesome back and forth conversation i don't think anybody uh i don't want anybody to overlook it if they're too hard on either brig 20 or too hard on power lifting they're like i don't want to

you know it was just a cool conversation and we're actually going to have uh we're going to have brig dougie fresh is going to be in the house yeah yeah we're going to have briggy smalls coming in soon hey so thank you everybody for checking out today's episode. If we mentioned some of your guys' favorite YouTubers, please hit that like button. If you miss somebody, let us know in the comments right now. So that way we can kind of start checking out who you guys are checking out

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And SeemaYinYang on TikTok and Twitter. Mark. There's so many people to mention. So many. Tom Bilyeu, Impact Theory. Oh, yes. What's his first name? Lewis.

Lewis Howes. Oh, yeah, Lewis Howes. Yeah, there's a lot of great resources. As I was looking through my own youtube uh academy of ideas came up too like that's a great thing i think uh i think i've listened to almost every single thing they ever put out like hundreds of videos i think and it's all just like i don't know deep dive shit where you're like huh like i don't even know you don't even know what to think of it when you first listen to some of it, but pretty cool stuff.

And then all the stoicism stuff, too. Yeah, absolutely. There's all these Tim Ferriss. Daily Stoic. Yeah, Daily Stoic. That's what it's called. Who's the doctor guy? He also does quite a bit of fasting. God, God, God. What's his name? I listen to his podcast quite a bit. I'll throw another guy everyone's way, Alan Watts.

He died many years ago. But I don't know. I find a lot of great information in a lot of the stuff that I'm seeking. And something like learning a quote, just like this quote in particular, I found to be really helpful for me and really helpful for me in helping other people lose weight is that you'll never have enough of what you don't need. And even in my pursuit to expand and grow and have the company continue to do better and make more money and things like that. That's a wonderful thing to kind of keep in mind is that you'll never have enough of what you don't need. There's things that you really don't necessarily need that you think that you need, and you're probably better off just pitching it over into the category of,

actually, you know, I don't really need that, but I would like to have that. And those kinds of things have been really helpful for me. Peter Atiyah. That's, sorry, that's what I was, that's the name I couldn't remember. The Drive podcast is really good. So Peter Atiyah's podcast, The Drive, check it out. I'm at Mark Smelly Bell. Strength is never a weakness. Weakness is never a strength. Catch you guys later. Bye.