Massenomics Podcast - Ep. 488: Optimal Exercises for a Home Gym

Episode Date: August 11, 2025

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Social media, website, everything. Massonomics. Welcome, everyone, for episode 488 of the Masanomics podcast, the lifting podcast about New Finn. My name is Tanner. And my name is Tommy. You, when we hit the record, you also hit the CAS button for a second there. And it just made me think it was like premature ECASUlation. It was very premature encapsulation.

That was the thought I had going through. Too much, too much Casuloid was taken. Yeah. Yeah, we just wrapped up another epic pre-show for anyone that doesn't know the Massonomics pre-show is the show before the show. It's unfiltered, it's uncut, it's raw, it's unrecorded, and the only way to get on the pre-show is by becoming a supporting member and choosing to listen along live. But it is not recorded, so the grease that comes up. I mean, it is extra greasy. Yeah.

It can get really greasy. There's varying levels of grease to the pre-show. But it's always at least a little greasy. We're dripping by the time this show starts. Yeah. And the Natty Anthem's playing at full volume the whole time too. There is always an ady anthem and we love welcoming the first time. It's the pre-show.

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Wait, you mean they're still not doing that same joke 20 years later? Well, it's actually interesting. There could be a case study done on just how much the character arc changes of some of the characters. Oh, I'm sure. I just have not kept up at all lately. But I would imagine there's been a lot of evolution over the years. You know, like, actually, I'm confused. I'm actually thinking family guy

is one of the most interesting ones where Stew-on family guy, for example, he goes from this little baby that's hell-bent on murdering his mother to like semi-open homosexual that like such a change, you know?

Yeah, that's like, is this the same character? Yeah, that's a major character development. Right, right, and I'd be almost curious to see a time lapse of short clips of like, that slowly evolving from the two, like from the two most extremes and how it changed. Because it probably happened relatively moderately, slowly.

But if you just watch it at the opposite spectrums, it's way different. Yeah. Yes, yes it is. God, we got other sponsors to this show, don't we? Or is it just one this week? No. I hope not.

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No, it's actually funny if you're reading through this, because both of us each one word. What are these code talkers? Who's trained them? Okay, here, I'll tell. I'll tell you based on our list what we're talking about this week. Band, ape, pulley, rehearse, HGC, upcoming trip, cob, cash, disposable, optimal exercises, Nordic curl. We're going to hear a little bit of all that this week. I'm not even sure if it was mine or yours until I click on it and says Tanner added.

I'm like, oh, good. I don't have to remember what that means. Here, I'll kick off with a very quick one here. we had talked a number of weeks back about disposable cameras and perfect little sweetie big Bryce came to lift hardly be easy with with one and those pictures did not disappoint

that justified to me the necessity of disposable cameras. You forget, man, people younger than us, disposal cameras don't mean anything to them but at our age, like our age was probably about the prime of where disposable cameras people were taking those things to parties. They were taking them everywhere.

You went through that transition to the digital era where people were bringing digital point and shoot cameras everywhere. Slowly it turned into crappy cell phone flip phone photos. But man, from like high school to like even college a little bit, those disposable cameras were everywhere. And then the pictures would get posted online and you would see them. And it was like, man, that was so crazy. And now when you look at those things,

it does feel like going back in a time machine because they look so old. Yes, it really does look like a time machine. So I thought for the Lyft Hard Leave Easy Classic next year, what would be fun is I'd say I bust them out on Friday, maybe buy like five of them and just tape a note to each one that says, take a picture. Take five, take three pictures and pass on to the next worthy person. And just like, do that have those for the weekend.

But like that would be the rule is like you get like three. Yeah. And then you have to find someone to pass it on to. And they get three. That'd be really cool. Yeah. Yeah. So I think that, that could be fun.

So that's a fun way to do that. Yeah. Just get everyone's perspective on. Because, dude, there's a lot of Instagram filters and stuff that try to emulate old cameras. And you think, oh, yeah, they do a good job of it until you see these ones. They're like, no, old ones have a really shitty old feel to it. Yeah. It's cool to look at.

So Big Nicole said they're expensive. How much is a disposable camera? I don't know. Are they $10 or something? I have no idea. And I suppose develop. She said 30. What?

Oh my goodness. Maybe with their lack of. No, I see one right here. The one Bryce had this is saying $18. Oof. Oh, man. Now they're not cheap. They ain't cheap.

There's probably something with them getting used way less that makes them more expensive too. Yes. They're definitely not pumping out how many. Yeah, they're not pumping them out mass production like they used to. Yeah, these Fuji ones. Fujifilm ones at Walmart are 20 bucks. Yeah, I mean, Kurt and Big Curt and Big West are both alluding to it in the live chat,

but it really is that we used to be a proper freaking country moment here, right here. We used to be a proper freaking country where you didn't have to go spend $30 to get a disposable camera. God, damn. 30 bucks. Then you got to pay like 10 to develop the damn thing. Yeah, Brandon said, then you have to buy a dark room. Yeah. Get all those chemicals to develop.

but just one thing leads to another. Yes. So disposable cameras, they're so in this year. Mm-hmm. What are you drinking anything over there? Oh, you know it. You know it.

I got something special. I believe this is from Big Derek from... Oh, damn. Mass. That looks good. It's a Nixie, N-I-X-I-E, sparkling water. I don't know if this is a regional

delicacy to the northeast, because I've never heard of it before. Have you heard of this brand before? No. And this is a black cherry lime sparkling water, zero calories, zero sugar, zero sweeteners. Well, let's check in the boxes.

It looks good already. Oh, that's good. black cherry lime might be like my favorite flavor of these anyways like black cherry line it's pretty tough to be for me okay this is remind this is reminding me uh i told tanner this earlier this week i was asking chat gpt some questions about us and like eight times in a row chat gpt really really thinks tanner loves coke zero like just everything it would come up it's like oh tell me some general facts about the hosts and tell me some reaccom segments and every time I would ask you the question, it would just have to sneak in how much

Tanner loves Coke Zero and make up like lines that it's like, yeah, like things you won't catch Tanner doing, skipping the gym and missing his Coke Zero. It's like all these things that are so not true, but that just reminded me of that. I don't know if I've ever even had a Coke Zero. I'm not sure I have either. Get it together, chat, GPT, with your M dashes and Coke Zero. I don't think I've ever I've never

I've probably never drinking in a can of Diet Coke I mean I know I've had a sip of it before As a kid I know I had some because my mom would buy it And I would get mad And actually actually to get Diet Caffeine free Coke Which was really just felt like it was Getting teased to have that be the soda option in the house

But yeah Yeah gold can Big Nicole knows I guess I'm not not this is I've probably said this 20 times in the last 10 years but I don't drink pop what like I haven't had a pop in a decade I don't even know when I would have had a pop well for me it's it's occasionally if we get stuck with fast food and it's like they don't have power rate or something I might say okay give me a seven up or a sprite or whatever the hell

it is now and then I might drink that but that is about the extent of it for me and that's I I mean, that's a rarity. My only caveat ever, what used to be, like, sometimes I'd have something in a mixed drink. And I haven't had a mixed drink like that in many years right now. So I don't even know. The last time I had a sip of a pop might have been over five years ago. I don't even know. Like, I couldn't really even say.

Time to break the street. Go crazy. Who needs to when you got Nixie? This is a 4.5. What? This is really good. This is really good. Anthony asks, I'm willing to give it a chance.

I'm not. I'm not willing to give soda a chance. It is. Ain't nobody got time for that. Oh, I guess I should have mentioned this. What I did give a chance to, big news. You know, there's been something that people have really wanted me to do for a while. It's watched the wire.

I didn't do that. Well, we know that. I did start using Macrofactor. I've completed my third day, third consecutive day. Okay, I saw you posted a screenshot. So you finally, you finally came around. Yep. I'm very curious to hear your first impressions so far.

The first day entering my food took a while. And the first day you open the app, it's like, oh, there's a lot of shit got on here, isn't there? Yeah, because I'm like even figuring out what I'm doing, you know, as part of the tricky part. second day was way less time than the first. Did you see the copy paste how that works? No, see that's, I don't really know how that works. Here's the easiest thing right here. Just I'll just give you a quick, very, very quick tutorial.

I did create a, for my breakfast, I created a recipe. So that's really easy because then I just. Yeah, I mean, that's one way to do it. Yeah. Otherwise, the other option is, I literally think the exact same thing. So it's really easy. When you go to your food log, like if you have leftovers, this makes it really easy. So, okay, let's say you're looking at today.

Yep. You can either click the arrows at the top or swipe to the swipe back to go to yesterday. Right. And then what you do is like, let's say, you know, find five items. You just click on them and it highlights them. You see it puts the check marks next to them. Yep. Yep. And then on the bottom, there's a copy button.

And you hit copy and you can either copy to now, which will copy it to right now. It'll copy it to today, which will copy it to the same time that it was on that day to today. Right. Or, you know, you can copy it to any time. Or you can deselect them that way too. Okay. So that's, you know. That's good.

Yeah, that's good to know. That's one way that I save a lot of time right there. See, that's what I'm needing to pick up on these things. And it took me a little while to find that one. Like, that wasn't super obvious to me. Even the search works better after you views it once because then it comes up, even if you just search there, they're there. So I would say the recipe thing works good, though, too,

because I can literally just like copy, you know, I just select the recipe and that pops the whole thing in. And then also, for the most part, like 90% of the time, I eat the same 15 different foods. Yeah. So it should be really easy for you. Yeah. And, yeah, I'm just learning, I guess, as I go. I think after, I think tomorrow it gives me some feedback because I think you have to make three consecutive days before you get any kind of feedback whatsoever.

And it also, you know, it's keeping me weighing myself, which I normally would never, do that frequently. I didn't know if you did wait yourself every morning. I mean, no, I would weigh myself like once a week maybe. Or if I notice something, a trend, then I might do it every day for a while. But I'm never recording it. And, you know, but actually recording it is interesting. And then just looking at the macros that it gives me.

Your numbers are so crazy compared to mine. That's the, it is funny too. I mean, this makes sense because you talk about it in terms of maintenance. And that's, uh, that's like, it would make sense that it would, because I'm like, I'm not going to change the way I'm eating at first. I'm just going to literally like eat the way I'm eating and you got to understand what's going on. Yeah.

Right. But so it, like the first day it gives me a target of, uh, 41 or 4,200 calories. And how do I get the breakdown of that day? Okay. Yeah, here we go. It gave me a goal of 4186 for maintenance. And it's, and it's making this goal. based off what you told it for your, like, age, size, weight, activity level.

So it's making an educated guess for where it thinks you should be. And I tried to be really, you know, as accurate for that stuff as possible because I know that, you know, I understood that that's what it's going to do here. So I tried to be very accurate. But so that first day, you know, my goal is 4186. I ate 4251. Okay. So I was, you know, 70 calories over.

And you would say that that was a pretty normal day. of eating for you. Exactly. Okay. So it was like, so you do pretty much to eat 4,200-ish calories a day then. Yeah. Actually,

what I'm finding three days in is some days I might eat more like 3,600. And some days I might eat more like 4,400. And the average is probably, yeah, 4,100. You know, like, but that particular day, coincidentally, that first day was almost exactly on the nose. And then I'm finding. And even then was it where you're, so calories were on the nose where your macros.

Yeah, so what I noticed there is fat works out about exactly three days in a row now I get done with my day. And I'm like, fat, like, so I'm a goal of 139. Uh-huh. So the last three days, I was 134, 138, and 147. Today was a little high because I had roast beef for supper. Yep. Mainly like roast beef and macaroni and cheese and it was just fattier. So that one meal really, I mean, even then I was over by.

by eight grams of fat. Right. And the day to day doesn't matter. It's where you sitting down, like, what's your week and month trend look like? That's where we're right. But the, the goal, here's where I'm, here's where I go way over. The goal is giving me like $212 for protein. My protein is, and I, this is 12. Did you select the high or the low?

Because it gives you options. The high, I think, yeah. But not the ultra high. There's like high, ultra high. See, for me on the high, it has me at 211. 11 grams of protein, then that's not the ultra-high one either. Like, that's... Right.

Mine's the one below the ultra-high. Oh, interesting. But my actual intake is 264. And this was with no protein shakes or protein powder or... Just eating your food. Yeah, this is just purely food. 264, 278, and today is 252. So I'm like automatic...

I'm way over on protein. Right. So you just must be low on carbs then. Yes, that's the one where at the end of the night, I'm like, every night I'm like over my protein by like 50. I'm right on the money on fat and then I'm like 100 under on carbs because my goal on carbs every day is 520. Yeah, and that's, I was because my diet also was not as good,

but I was in a similar situation where I was over on fat, a little bit under on protein, and then way under on carbs. And it was the same, the same situation. But it's like, it's a certain part of like, God damn, how many carbs are I got to eat to keep up on this thing? Well, and it's weird, too, because at the end of the day, when say I've got three or 400 calories left and I'm like, well, I'm way over my protein goal.

I'm right on the money on fats. Yeah. And I'm just under on carbs. So like, bagels, baby. Bagels. I'm like, but I'm like, okay. And I know it's not only macros that matter. matter, but I'm like, oh, so I can just, like, go have sugar, you know, like, and, uh,

get some cookies. Yeah, like, and like you could hit it. I mean, that's not what I do, but I, since I like fruit, that's an easy thing for me to do to, you know, I'm like, oh, I'll have a banana. I have an extra an apple, you know, stuff like that that I don't feel like it's terrible. Because I'm like, I don't want to eat another bowl of just rice with nothing else right now. You know, when no, no, no protein or fat with it. Yeah, like Hogan is saying here, he says,

he's eating a bunch of sugar treats to hit carbs. Like there's been nights from like going to bed and it's like, oh, my carbs are our way low. It's like, I'll hit some Oreos here. Here we go. Right. You know, it's not the norm,

but that's like a mental hurdle for me because I've been eating at least relatively health conscious for like 20 years. So I can't get to the end of night when I just need carbs and be like, okay, I guess I'll eat shit. Don't this in. Because I'm like, no, I'm not sure. I get the point. But I'm like, I guess I could just not do that right now.

am I really harming myself? Just make it up with actual real calories, probably tomorrow when you go over. Cereal is a good example, though. I do like to, I eat just like the plain corn flakes with the rooster on the box. Oh, my God. And those, that's a good one where I can just

a little dab of milk on those. And like, and I have two servings. It's like 76 carbs and nothing else. It sounds like a freaking prison you're living in over here. Jesus. I really like that. I like the plainest of cereals. It's like, what's it in footloose?

They don't let them dance. Like in Tanner's house, they don't let them have flavor on their food. Oh, no, my kids have like, you know, Oreo cereal stuff,

but I'm like, ah, that just is not good. I feel like I'm, I'm keeping things pretty bland when it's like, oh, need carbs and,

uh, you go to, you go to the old Costco, uh, like French toast bagel with, there happens to be almost no sugar. sugar in it, but I'm like, oh, this is bland enough. I'm just eating this plain ass bagel, which is fine with me.

But I think that that's on the boring side, man. Those plain, plain frosted flakes. That's really on the boring side. Not frosted flakes. Sorry, plain flakes. Yeah. Ryan mentioned it. I do.

There's actually some truth to this. I think he said plain corn flakes were invented to curb masturbation. Like, that's funny, but it's also like, I think that that's accurate. I've heard that. I've heard that. I don't get how, but I've heard that. Yeah. Anecdotally, I haven't noticed that helping yet.

I guess I need to have more than that. But that's kind of what I've noticed, I guess. Actually, my initial thought after three days, I'm like, oh, I guess I already had this kind of dialed in. Yeah. I just kind of like, I do think after a month, he'll be like, yep, we've solved this problem. nothing to see here

right but I guess I the one thing that I am a little low on is carb but because I when I'm high on is protein what I'm about right is fat what I'm low on as carb the easy it would be easy to go over with

on an average day I'm right on the money on fat but I could see when I get to some of my weekend days or some just like where we're like oh we're having a freaking pizza but those are also the days where it's like why am I even lot of them to track this day because it's just a it's just a total anomaly in all of the data

and it doesn't matter it just gets washed away i could see those days there where my fat was like 250 though like i could definitely happen i you know i haven't experienced it yet but just it makes me look obviously i'm looking more at what i'm at the macros like there's nothing that's really shocked me but it just you do get a better understanding probably of what the macros are and just about every single thing you eat but it's it kind of reminds me of what I saw someone post this the other day and I can't remember who posted it I'd give them credit but a hundred percent of the people tracking their macros are people that don't need to track their macros and all the people not tracking their

macros are people that need to track their macros I mean it's kind of the same thing it's like oh those people that religiously keep their household budget yeah they're kind of to the point were like they're not really the ones that need to be worried about the budget as much as the ones that are not doing jack shit for their budget you know and like knowing uh how you eat and what you eat and then like my own experience and the other people i hear talking about i'm like yeah it's kind of all people that probably do pretty good on their diet even if they were you know it's like yeah it's it's just kind of that accountability buddy is yeah it it is and uh it's really affordable of course it was like 70 dollars for a year

as you already know and the app is really good and I feel like I'm now even my third day in I'm kind of figuring out what screens I like to even look at like I rearranged my dashboard but my first one as my daily nutrition

like I don't want to look at the weekly nutrition I don't even care about the number I want to see the daily nutrition number so I got that move front and center and I like that better yep that's exactly what I have I have that pulled up big so that's what you see yeah and then i do see how you can like take pictures you know progress you talked about progress pictures i didn't realize there was a place to like save your progress there is yeah and i don't i just don't do that stuff and i'm like i don't do that either but i'm like

well maybe i should like maybe i should in my i should have done it my first day of starting this and like one year later take one i'm like is there any difference and i'm like okay if there's not i'm like yeah also you you said this too your number was a little higher and then it came down a little bit right yeah like it started it just it really underestimates how sedentary of a lifestyle a desk worker can can live well and mine did seems seems maybe just like a couple hundred calories higher than what i thought too but i did uh read a little bit that some people believe it does like it's margin if it's going to air it's going to air giving you a little bit too many calories off the beginning while it makes it in because it doesn't want to like

start you know be air in the other direction accidentally too so and I don't know if it ever moves more than like I mean a hundred calories might be the most have ever seen it move in a week for the most part on me it's just moving up or down like 50 calories to 20 calories in a week like it's just tiny jumps all the time yep um yeah yeah so that's a macro factor. I'm pretty interested. I have more to say when I've done it for like six months or a year.

Even a month from now is going to be a pretty good data set for you. I'm going to be curious just a month if you feel like you're noticing any difference as far as like, I mean, your food's going to be pretty dialed it in about a week. But in like a month, if you feel like you're noticing any difference

with workouts or anything like that. Yeah, I do think, even though I'm kind of eating all the same stuff, it makes me think more about every single thing I'm eating. Yeah. Like even if I'm, just because I'm like, oh, I have to track it. Like, do I even want to grab that to eat right now? Because then I, oh, I've done that before too.

I'm like, oh, I need to put it in. So I'm like, ah, this is going to be a pain in the ass to enter this thing. I'm just not going to eat this. I've totally done that before. That, yes, that exact thing. Like, I've experienced that. I'm like, I don't even know. Like, do I need a handful of almonds?

Like, and then I'll be like, I don't know what to put, like, I'll just not eat them. And then that's simpler. I'm like, I'm probably already. about at my fat anyways. I probably don't need a handful almonds. I just won't eat that. Actually, I can say I've drastically reduced my almond cashew consumption in the past year.

I used to eat a shit ton of those things. Oh my God. To be like, oh, protein, here we go. It's like mostly fat first. Right. But they are delicious. Dude, I could just yeah, I could devour those things. Especially if you get like those almonds that are like the cocoa dusted. Oh, I know.

Those are like, I used to just put those things down. I'm like, the bag is to $15, I don't care. I need it. I can probably get 100 grams of fat just from a little snack of those. I think I was. I think I was really,

really hitting that fat level on that one. Okay. Macrofactor use code Massenomics. I also got a few free weeks by using code Masonomics, so it doesn't get much better than that, does it? That's the beauty of it. If you're someone like Tanner that eats pretty simply

or pretty repetitively, you can get the free trial. The Masonomics gives you two free weeks. You might be after two weeks. weeks be like yep got this figured out you can you can bounce too well the the real life uh example of that was a big rob at vintage weights and asked he uses my fitness pal the free version which the free version which i think does probably a decent job but it probably kind of having used my fitness pal 10 years ago and having used this this week my slightly educated opinion is that this is

probably way better than my fitness well i think someone said my fitness pal the Food Scanner is not on the free version, which I actually could not imagine having. Oh, that would suck. I actually, I mean, that would just be like I'd be out like right there. And then also I cannot stand apps that have ads in them. I have a lot of apps that I pay money because I don't want to see ads when I'm trying to get shit done. And so like that alone, just not having ads make something worth a tree.

The annual subscription is the way to go though. Oh, yes. Yeah. You're talking $6 a month. Like it's. But and just also the charge only coming out once. Oh, that too, yeah. You know, that's a perk of it also maybe.

So I guess we talked about MacroFactor last week, so I don't need to hammer it on a whole second week. Well, he did it. He did it, people. He did it. So, yes, even I can change. All right. I like it.

Okay, I think we got some announcements that the people need to hear. We got a couple big things. Do you need a little announcement music? Yeah, maybe, maybe. Bring us in a little announcement music. Uh, let's see here. No, Bobby, don't hit me. I'm going to hit me like that, Bobby.

Yeah. I'm going to hit you with an announcement here. Uh, first one, HGC. It's not a human growth compound. It's home gym con. And, uh, we, as of right now, have decided we're going to have a booth at home gym con next year. Yeah, we paid for a booth. We're on the booth list now.

We put our money where our mouth is. So come to home, Jim Conn and come hang out with us there in a year from now. Mark your calendar. You've got a year to prepare. We'll talk more about this over the coming 12 months prior to it, along with everything else we have going on. But the idea there is, though, just to let everyone know, we are going to try to make that work. It's only two weeks after the next year's Lift Hardly v. Z classic. It's going to be a logistical challenge.

Yes. It really will be. We think we have some ideas. but I think ultimately we said we don't know how we're going to do this we're going to sign up and we're going to let future Tommy and Tanner deal with us we talked through a lot of scenarios

and came up with a lot of issues for all the scenarios and we're like yep we'll just figure because the problem we're hitting here is I mean not only is it tough being like 10 days after our meet but our meat is like our biggest three selling days of the entire year, which means a lot of inventory just gets knocked out. And so to have invent, I mean, yeah, it'll be a challenge.

We'll figure out something, though. Yeah, we'll figure out something. It brings, Garrett mentions here, I've heard this mention many times that everyone thinks on the Hall of Fame card that Home JimCon might have to be added to the Hall of Fame card as a checkmark. I don't think we're going to add additional.

checkmarks what I could potentially see I'm not saying that this is a fact I'm just saying one thing I could see making sense if the one checkmark that's currently went to the Arnold if it's went to the Arnold or home JimCon if it's a slash okay but I don't think it would be retroactive it wouldn't be like that you ever went to home JimCon it would be if we ever made that amendment oh you know went to the Arnold or went to home gym con starting in 2026, you know, when there is a massonomics presence, yeah. As far as a booth goes, that would, I could see how maybe that would be allowed. Right.

It's not, it's not set in stone, but it's just a thought. See, a lot of people seem to be petitioning for that. But then again, that also makes me want to not do it. I know, you can't just be at the whims of everyone else. It'll just be like, next we'll start letting people win awards to get that checkmark on Hall of Fame card. Okay, and we do have another announcement, Tanner. Go on.

Oh, wait a second. Gonna hit you with another announcement here. We're taking a trip. Where are we going, Tanner? Home gym con. Oh, wait, we already did that one. We are going. Cali?

Cal, now we are going to do that one. So Cal, baby. Here we go. We're going back to Cali to do more home gym tours. We're going to Ohio. We are going to the north. Our next, this is a big announcement. Our next home gym tour tour will be to the northeast.

We're going to most specifically. Connecticut, Rhode Island, possibly a little bit of the, a bit of Massachusetts in there. We've got most of the itinerary already planned out and solidified. So a big home gym tour, tour coming on this one. We've got a insane schedule. We looked at it again today. I think it's doable. It is sheer insanity.

The number of places we're going in the amount of time we're. doing it. Yeah. Yeah, it's wild. Like to the point we're like, could we sneak in one more? We're like, I mean, we're already talking like a 16 hour day here. Yeah. It's really fun to just keep saying we'll do all of these, but we do remember we are people

at the end of it. And like at the end, we're like, yeah, I don't want to talk for a week now. And I guess I even said it today while we were just finalizing some of that. And I'm like, I do like to say we have no limits. And I do, I like to believe that we can do anything. But as we're actually mapping a couple of those out, I'm like, that is like three 20 hour days in a row. Like, how can we actually, like, we will just, we can't never sleep for three days.

Like, that's not, yeah, you know, we can't not sleep. When we never planned food breaks and like the first day starts at 4 a.m. And if everything goes perfect, it ends at like 11 p.m. And yeah, it's, it's wild the way we do this. but that's it's what's worked and man we got some we got some star power in this in this next one don't we do we do i guess we won't rule no we can't spill the beans but i mean obviously we got people that are deep in the masonomic circle here but we've even we've even branched out to we have some x-factor people in this one too that uh we do i think people will be pleasantly

surprised to see yeah and a lot of crew of course uh it's crew led for the the most part. Hogan says, where was that? Like, this is actually an interesting point. Says, I don't know what arrangement Tanner has with work, but I want this much PTO. The way we do these, that's the thing. We're not, like, we're got,

so what happens is I end up working like 20 days in a row because, uh, we go on weekends. Well, yeah, we, I mean, we leave Friday morning at 4 a.m. And we get back Sunday night.

So it's like, as far as the, As far as... No, I get back Sunday at 2A. Well, yeah, you get back Sunday at 2 a. Monday morning at 2 a.m. And go back to work on Monday, you know, in six hours after that. So what happens is I don't actually hardly take any PTO.

Mm-hmm. I just got, I just work for, you know, 14 days. Like, I just always kind of playing catch up. Right. Outside of the Arnold, all of the trips we've done, I don't know if we've ever missed more than like a regular, or, you know, like a Friday. Like a Friday is basically all we ever missed.

Sometimes it's maybe a Thursday and a Friday. I guess, have we done that before? Or not? Maybe Jujis when we did the Eagle Olympics. But outside of that, I think it's always we leave on a Friday, don't we? You might be right. I mean, the California trip we left on a Friday. The Columbus trip, I think we left on a Friday.

I mean, if we do this right, we'll leave on Friday morning at, you know, we'll probably get up from your house at like 4 a.m. or whatever the crazy time is. Yep. On Friday morning. And I'll get back to Aberdeen at 2 a.m. Monday. Uh-huh.

And back to, you know, like, so it is we just, we basically are not working Friday. And then that's it. Yeah. So that's kind of how we do make it work, actually. But if we do this right in that little bit of time taking like one day of PTO, we'll get nine gym tours and 12 YouTube videos. in general. Yeah, there'll be roughly three months of content.

Three months of YouTube content will come from a weekend. Yeah. And people posting the map and stuff is what's getting really cool about the certified training facility map is we're able to hone in on a pretty tight area now. So some people might be saying, oh, dang, you're going to the northeast. Are you going to get to get mine? And it's probably not on this trip, but there's so many pockets in there is that we have opportunity like we're not even we're not even sniffing like that uh new jersey

pennsylvania new york city like that's like yeah that even that just slightly southwest of we're at we're at and all three of those that we just said could all be their own trip completely right like that's at the point where we're pretty much breaking it is that like we're taking these little because otherwise it's just so much travel time that all of a sudden you spend half of the entire trip in the car so we're like taking these really tight pockets where we can hit a ton of people within a couple hour radius, and that's what makes them so efficient. Right. Yeah, because there's a lot of areas there where we'll have opportunities for trips, which is good.

It's a job security where it's like we already have an endless amount of trips we could make with this. This one's going to be fun, though. Yeah. I'm pretty excited. And actually, I would hate to make what I was saying earlier, we're way jam-packed with time. It's all really, really fun. Oh, God, it is. It actually, it absolutely is.

It's all a blast. Like, it never stops being fun the entire time. But that we still have to recognize our, like, physical limitations of even being able to live. You know, human limitations. Got to six different people's houses, eight hours in the car, don't really eat anything good,

super sleep deprived. But, yeah, it's still is, it still is. It is a ton of work, but it is fun. It is fun. So,

so very excited about it. What's honestly not fun is just like being back at work, the, you know, that's the worst of it. And I'm like, okay, God. And I do have this thing since I work in an office. You know, I know I've brought it up before,

but there is this thing where we go to Masonomics stuff. And it's like, oh, we're the cool Massonomics guys. Everyone's excited to see you. It's super nice. Yeah, like people want to get a picture with you and do all this fun stuff. And then you go to work and it's like, hey, dip shit, do your job. job. And do you get those reports ready yet?

Yeah. Yes. Yes. Anything else we want to reveal on that? Did we say when that is? Are we saying when that is? It's next month, really. It's in September.

Stay tuned for more. Yeah. Mix is waiting for the home gym tour. Telethon 24 to 36 hours nonstop. Yeah. We just don't stop. We just keep pumping them out constantly. Like we literally just home gym tour and we live streamed the whole thing.

Even the travel in between. Even the car rides. And it's just all completely live strained with Mini for like 424 straight hours. You could do that. You could find a spot in the map where it could, you could do that. Because he could be recording the live stream the whole time. And you actually recording the final video. deals headed for the final product.

God. It would be a lot. Yeah. It would be the thing of we're in the car like, oh, so tired. Okay, one more. Here we go. All right. We do have to do that sometimes because you can't be asleep when you're

recording. Yeah, you do. You got to do a thing we're like kind of jump in place. You're like, all right. I'm ready to go now. Yeah. Shake around a little bit. Once you get going, it's fine.

You just like sometimes it just takes a minute to. get the vibes right again. Well, actually, Garrett has a good point of your said, you don't even have all the Ohio gym tours posted yet. Do you? Today, Big Hogan's was the last of the Ohio gym tours. And when was that trip in May? I can't remember at all now.

Here, I was got to go back to my camera roll and look because I have all the photos in it. Yeah, it was the first day was May 3rd, June, July. It took three months and we finally got everything from the Ohio trip posted. It's been 86 years. Should we do supporting our supporting members? Yeah. Maybe while I do that, you should find a certified training facility for us.

I'm going to pull that up to. That's masanomics.com slash certified. Okay. So supporting our supporting members is a relatively new segment of the Masanomics podcast where we give those that support us. we try to give them a little recognition back in return. Our list of supporting members grows, continues to grow. It's gotten to be pretty significant.

So some weeks there's quite a few people to give shoutouts to. And this week is one of those weeks. We've got several on here. You want to become a supporting member. Head over to masslamics.com slash join. That's where you can get signed up. You see all of our different supporting member options. And you get to listen to the pre-show.

You get to listen to the podcast live if you want to. You get early access to drops whenever we put anything out. You get a special discount code. It's how you get signed up for the Lift Hardly, Veezy Classic Powerlifting or Strongman event each summer. A whole bunch of stuff, but probably the best thing. We actually made big progress on that this week. The 2026, this mid-2020s mailer that we're sending out to all supporting members is really coming together now. Now, when do you think we'll have, like, the line in the sand has not been placed yet, but we're not, we're good.

Yeah, the, the creative part is just about done, which means we're about to hit the button to send to production here. Yep. We'll make sure to get a few extra. So, yeah, there's not a firm line in the sand yet, but by the time you're listening to this, time is ticking. Yeah, and you're not going to want to miss it. I, you know, I personally got to get my eyes on what this is going to look like for the first time this week. Tanner did see it with his eyes, so it's going to turn out pretty, pretty freaking cool. I would absolutely, I would be so mad.

I'd be so disappointed. I'm not, not even mad. I would be straight up disappointed in us. If you're sitting out there considering or even remotely have ever considered joining up and you're just like, oh, I don't know. do it someday and you're not doing it now before that it's nobody's fault but our own at that we have failed you i'm ashamed in us we could have you're a better influence right right right i blame like because we're the only two that really know what this is everyone else is just out there maybe speculating and guessing and uh just just listening what we have to say about it so it's our job

to make sure people understand and i just i don't know if we're not doing a good enough job I apologize in advance because I really want people to get signed up for this. It would be an absolute embarrassment if you didn't. I just, I can't think of anything worse. It would be the worst thing that's ever happened to you in your life. If you're listening to this show, you're not a supporting member and you don't get signed up prior to this next mail, which is going to be very soon.

That is a very bad thing. So this week's supporting or supporting members. Big Matt Sesney, that's right. Let's hear it for this. You know, when you hear that sound, there's another MSS-N-M-X plate. Oh, off the board. New York State is off the board.

Damn, that's a big state, too. Big Matt got it for his Toyota Tundra, I believe. Is that the full-size pickup? That is the full-size. I think that that's what that was. So MSS and MX is off the board. I'm curious to see the full updated list from big scants. How many we've got now exactly?

Because it's growing because Ryan Erickson popped off the board, Iowa earlier this year. So we got a couple more. It's got to be like 12. Okay, big Nile lost 205 pounds now officially. He went from 385 down to 180. Damn. He says now it is officially time to get strong. That's a person.

He lost a whole adult. Yes, yes. Big Dr. Jake from State Farm. A big family PR, he welcomed, they welcomed Big Emory to the family. So congratulations. Big Dr. Jake on the family PR. Is he listening to Live? He was here earlier, I think.

But if he's talked to Big Dr. Jake, tell him congrats. Big kidney competed in the British transplant games. Got gold in the discus and silver in the javelin event. Oh, wow. So that's pretty sweet. The big Baugh family competed in their first power lifting meat. It was the USAPL Arizona Summer Sizzle. Sweet, neat name for sure, the Summer Sizzle.

Yeah. It was their family of four that all competed together. And they got four first places in each of their respective age and weight. division classes. A clean sweep. Yeah, for the Baugh family. Ba'a-B-B-D-G-A-D-G-I-D-E. I think they say that.

Or do you say Bo? B-A-U-G-H. Maybe it's Bo. Probably Bo. Yeah, you think it's Bo? I like Ba-W-W-the-B-B-A little more. Yeah, we're going Ba-Baw. It's probably Boe, isn't it?

Probably. Okay, Big Hunter, competed in Maryland State Championship Strongman event. He did well, pulled a PR on the frame with 605 pounds, deadlift. Big Dan competed at the LLB9 Memorial Strongman Show. Big Chris was there judging, and Big Heath was also there helping out. Big Sam competed at Dublin, Ohio, Irish Festival's Stone of Strength contest. And we can only assume that he did not warm up for that. Yeah, I mean.

I think that's a safe assumption. Oh, we got a big, I believe this is the Baugh family. He's weighing in. It is, in fact, Baugh, like Ba'a with Da Baugh. Okay, well, here we go. I like it. That's much better than, even if he's lying. I appreciate him letting us know that.

Where are you seen this at? That was in the Zoom chat. Oh, okay. So we got to direct him over to the Discord chat. Yeah, Ba' with the bar right there. Okay, very good. Big Nick G competed in his first meet on July 19th, same day as the Lift Hard, Live Easy Classic,

but it was in fact not the Lift Hard Live Easy Classic. He competed in the Iowa games. So well done on your first meet, Big Nick. But hey, if you're that close, you're Iowa competing on July 19th, we've got to get you up to the Lift Hard Live Easy Classic next time. Big Nick. And that is it for this week's edition of Support. our supporting members, please, if you remember nothing else,

remember to go get signed up for a supporting membership soon. Tommy, did you find us a certified training facility? Well, just one observation I want to make here. You're kind of sneaky with this. You've added the jackets to the map, which I love seeing those on there. That is great. Oh, those old things. It's amazing seeing those.

But one little observation I have here from a geographic standpoint is that there is not a single job. jacket west of the Mississippi on this map. The farthest west jacket is perfect little sweetie in. Oh shit. Okay. Sorry. Sorry. That's buried. Yep. So there's one one west of the Mississippi then, huh? Yeah. Yeah. That is it's buried because crew falls has so many freaking, uh, certified training facilities. You do. It's a hotbed. It's a hotbed. Yeah. There's a few hotbeds around and crew falls is one of them. Damn. Yes, it is. And a lot of them. Yes, the jacket.

it's fun to see. Also, two jacket members, Dodzilla and Brad the Pad are very close to each other. There must be something in the water in Lake Michigan. I like seeing in Sioux Falls how many how many the certified training facilities have

videos to go with their that's true and hopefully only going to get to be more in the coming months. Sweet. Yeah, the certified training facility map ever changing, ever developing always new additions well over 320

certified training facilities now on that map and you can just get lost in that thing rogue fitness be damned yours will not be as good as ours no we have the numbers we will not be silenced uh what part of the country should we go to i'm getting uh i i don't know where do you think we should go to here oh dealer's choice yeah whatever you think I'm down. I can't. Okay, didn't we just do

like the Northeast last week or my imagination things? Yeah, we did. So maybe should we head down the coast? That works for me.

I'll take a little trip down the coast. Let's see. A lot of these don't know. Yeah, we were just at Angban Jim last week, which is a Lord of the Ring reference.

Yeah, I didn't catch on that. I haven't been paying a ton of attention to Lord of the Rings. All the Lord of the Ring. I'm a little out of the game. Yeah.

What about, how about in just north of Raleigh in the Carolinas, I see one called Pain and Snuggles. I was just on that one here. How about Pain and Snuggles? Pain and Snuggles. Here we are. Okay. In North Carolina. Yeah.

Yeah, I like it. All right. Let me pull this up. okay we ready to do this yeah what do we what do we see there in pain okay first photo we have a garage gym here above ground garage gym and in the corner we got some horse stall mats down we got a what would you call that what is that a half rack with the like storage on the back what i feel like there's a better name for that you know what i'm saying um Yeah, I guess it's like the collegiate half rack style sort of thing, I guess, right?

Yeah, that's kind of what it is. It's like the old Larry, it's like the old Larry rack. It is, it's 100% it is the Larry rack. We got a bench. It might be, it almost is that rack, isn't it? It's got the flat foot too, to it. I mean, it's very, very similar, very similar. Right, right.

Got the bench banner in the corner. We got, oh, we got some ghost banners. So they've been around a little while. If you got a ghost banner. That's true. Um, we have a rogue bench out front. I think that's a Thompson fat pad. It's hard to tell, though, from this game.

Yeah, presumably it is. Yeah. Uh, I can also see a garage fridge, which got to have one of those. Yep. When you're getting a good workout in. If we look at an Eagles fan though. Yeah, Eagles fan. North Carolina.

I don't know about that. But if we look at the next photo, we've got some kids watching a lifting video on screen, which I like to see. But is that, is that, Is that in Jujimufu's house or not? Like, is that a Masanomics video? No, it's an elite FTS video. You can see there's the Elite FTS logo in the corner.

Oh, okay. That's what that is. Okay, gotcha. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He has the west side, is it the scout? Is that the folding reverse hyper? That's the scout foldable mobile reverse hyper. Yeah.

Got some storage on the wall, different, you know, band pay are bands i don't know some attachments wrist wraps things like that but uh he's got a heater yeah a collection of fans so you know i got some temperature control going on there too yeah north carolina probably gets a little muggy in there uh-huh on that that's about it at pain and snuggles right yeah i i mean nothing crazy but very very just all the essentials everything you need to get strong. Oh yeah. So you do think he could get strong there. Oh yeah. Oh, you know another little Easter egg here behind the rack Tanner. I don't know if you see he's got that elite FTS poster that we have in the gym too. You see that behind the rack of the little

boy, it's Dave's boy inside the. Oh, that's Larry Legend as a young child. Larry was a child. I love that poster. I think I told Dave when we were there last that we have that poster up at the gym. We talked about that, didn't we? Yeah, because he's like, yeah, that was my boy. He was, like, three. Yeah. He gave him like a cookie and told him to sit there. And I said, that's not right.

That's Larry. And he was little. What the hell? I've been lied to. Did you say, too, how he has the Cadillac bar? You might have said that. Actually, you know, we probably didn't touch on the bars enough. There is the Cadillac bar.

There is an SSB back there, too. Yeah, and I think he's got chains on the wall there, too, doesn't he? Uh-huh. It looks like it. So you did confirm that he could get strong here. Oh, hell yeah. A lot of pain. and snuggles inside that gym.

All right. If you have not, if you have a home gym or any kind of gym whatsoever and you have not signed up to become a certified training facility, if you have not tried to become a certified training facility, I just have one question left for you. Yep. Stop waiting. Time is now.

His gym is located in Wake Forest. Would you say Chris Paul is your favorite Wake Forest basketball alum, or would you say Tim Duncan? Oh, Tim Duncan. Or would you say Mugsy Bokes? I didn't know that that's where Mugsy Bokes went even. Did you just know that? I didn't know Mugsy Bokes. I knew Chris Paul and Tim Duncan, but I didn't know.

I was going to look that one up. I'm like, that's impressive that you knew. I know those other two, but. Big Mugsy Bokes fan over here. I don't really like Chris Paul very well. So I'm going to have to go. go Tim Duncan. He's obviously the better player. He's the best player to ever come out of there.

But, yeah. It's a big fundamental. I guess I'll go Tim Duncan. How about Jeff Tee? Boggs. I guess I know who that is. Who's fifth on the list? Let me go until I don't even have never heard of them before. Who's fifth?

Let me see if I've never heard of the fifth. No, they're not ranked. Can you find out come up with another one? Dickie Hemrick. He played in 1951. So I know four, Wake Four, his basketball, players of all time three well fourth like familiar with jeff teague we just named every high point of wake forest basketball for the last 60 years what about football do they have a football team um i mean i would imagine they would have a football team let's see wake first player ever to have played

football at wake forest um yeah Aaron curry a standout linebacker in 2008 i don't know him yeah nope Yeah, I know. Yeah, no. Speaking of Elite FTS, this week's episode is brought to you by EliteFTS. Check them out at EliteFTS.com. Their semi-annual equipment sale is live as we speak. It should still be live for a little bit while this comes out. There's sales on several things, including bands at 25% off.

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If you're going to reference that bar, what words do you say? Because Dave says something. It's the SS Yoke Bar. And that's not always what I, so I try to say that now because Dave specifically says the S S Yon bar. I didn't start saying that until somewhat recently

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It's been like a thorn on my freaking side of the night. Finally, we can start the show. Yeah, we're going to get to our title topic right here, finally. Almost, once they're out of here. All right, we're going to get right into our title topic this episode now. Can we finally just jump right in? Yeah, we're getting. right into it this week, right after the one hour and three minute mark.

Right after we got our, we ran our 30 minute ad marks at the hour mark. We're hopping, this episode, we're hopping right into the title topic. Moving right along. One hour in, because this is going to be the title topic. I'm going to hit you with, let's see. Tommy, what's the title of this topic? Oh, that's what that sound to me? I was just waiting for it to go again and again.

This week's title topic is optimal exercises for a home gym. All right. And you ask, where does that come from? What the hell does that mean? What's optimal? This came from a little conversation I had with Tanner recently. I was saying, you know, we got done with the meat, loading up a new program and juggernaut.

I'm on a bridge block, which means we're looking at, we're looking at volume, we're looking at doing different stuff. We're getting away from the competition list. We're giving the old norm a break for a little bit. We're changing it up. And this time, I thought, you know what?

I really want to change it up because I've been doing a lot of the same shit. It's like, it's the time to do something different, experiment, have fun, try different things and see what's out there. And the realization I had had is I've done a lot of the same exercises my entire life. I actually don't mind. I don't mind.

You know, a lot of people get bored of doing the same thing. I don't mind doing the same thing. It does not bother me at all. But maybe there's something out there. Maybe there's something better that I'm missing this whole time. And you go into juggernaut. You go into, let's say juggernaut says pick a bicep exercise and you click the button. And there's, I don't know, do you think there's 30 to pick from Tanner?

there might be there's a lot depending on the exercise same thing you go to a tricep exercise there might be 25 to pick from and i've done like half of them in the list a few of them i'd never heard of a few of them i probably would never do but where i started thinking at this and this is especially in this phase of training it has a fair number of accessories and a lot of volume to go with them yeah and it's like ah you know i did in the last meat prep change up my accessories more than I had previously. And I felt like that actually did work pretty damn well for me. I feel like I got some really good carryover doing some different things.

And especially on the bench, I think it helped my bench a lot, doing some different face pulls and just doing some different trisobes, like things I hadn't done. And I think I was rewarded for that. And I thought, well, can we do this with all, with all muscle groups? Can we optimize every muscle group? But the problem with 30 some options to pick from is you don't really know if something's working until you've done it for a few months. You know, it's hard to say.

Like, you might get sore from something. You can't do something one time. No, no, like, even doing something one time, it might be a great exercise and you might do it once to be like, I don't know, that just felt off. I'm not doing that one. But if someone was like, no, trust me, this is a good one, you'll stick it through. And just looking at the timeline, if you say 30 exercises and I don't know, you've got to try it for a couple months.

I mean, it's years. It would be years to go through all these. And I ain't got years right now. I'm 36. My time is ticking, man. I got someone. They've got to give me the shortcut. I need answers.

And what I have, well, how do you find these answers? It's a great question. What I did is I went to YouTube and I type in best exercises for whatever I'm looking for. And there's a little fella named Jeff Nipper that has a whole series. Never heard of her. He's one of them science-based guys. Have you heard about this? Have you seen this?

Have you seen this? Have you seen this? to his credit he actually I don't I don't really follow his stuff uh in my process of doing this was the most I'd ever watched his videos ever that those videos are pretty good actually like I can see why he has a large following online but he has a good his videos I've seen is when Dr. Mike has a clip of his videos I know that that was pretty much my extent with them too but he does have a playlist of best exercises for whatever and so he has like a best bicep exercise best tricep, best back, best, uh,

with maybe glute, best quad. There's like seven of them, which hit for the most part, all the major muscles. And he's not, he's not, he's not, he's coming at this from a, I think he says, purely hypertrophy standpoint. Like, you know, he's not like saying, oh, the squat's the best exercise. Everything else is your bench. Yeah. Yeah, he's not saying, oh, the best back exercise is a deadlift and everything else just sucks.

Like that's not where right. He's coming from on this. but, so I start looking at this thing, this list, and I thought, I'm going to take one for first here, triceps. This is one that I am very excited to do hit because, admittedly, I haven't done a try, my extent of my tricep exercises are dips,

which some people say is the squat of the upper body. I'm not sure if you've heard this, Tanner. Have you heard about this? Have you heard about squatting for the upper body as dips? But my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, are dips, some tricep pushdowns, and, I don't know, skull crushers. That'd probably be... Tricep pushdowns, the leg extension of the upper body.

Yes, yes. Yes. What do you like to do for triceps? Not getting into the next one here, but like, what have you traditionally done? I like to do skull crushers, lying, easy bar, straight bar, or dumbbell skull crushers. I can do any three variations of that. With dumbbells, you can do like a rolling thing all. most where you're rolling.

I also like to use rotate this and out where I use this SS Yoke bar and do the JM Press. J.M. Press, which is still like very skull crusher adjacent. So I like all of those. Okay. Yep. I do rotate out pushdowns. I actually like the straight

bar tricep pushdowns is my favorite. I like that a lot better than the rope. So I like a straight long bar. Rotate that also that's the easiest thing I can because some days it depends some days I'm after an easy well and just literally easier oh yeah so it's like just rock you it's like uh someone that was talking to me about it might have been your brother or someone else at the gym the other day or maybe it was even Larry or or or it's like well yeah you can kind of make juggernaut as easy or as hard as you want to across the board because when it comes time to do a quad exercise oh dude you can do the

leg extension, or you can do single leg, uh, elevated, uh, or go do whatever squats. Go do 20 walking lunges, three sets of those. And you're like, uh, is this conditioning? Like, what the hell am I doing here? It's so hard. Yeah. So there's all, all these variations. So on some days when I'm just fried and I, I'm still like, oh, I can do something. Then I'll do a tricep pushdown because I'm like, it is, I don't know if there's a lift other than like a standing bicep curl that's quote unquote less demanding on your body to do than the tricep push down not saying that you can't get a i actually like the tricep push down but it's but i'm just saying like get down with those and be like oh baby like i got to take a seat for a minute i need to

sit down yeah like you hit the tricep push down so hard you had to take a seat afterwards right right right bending over gas like i'm not saying you can't get a sick burn in your tricep but uh and i guess i'm cheating because we actually already talked about this but the one i've been doing and i think this is one you talked about though as i do a seated cable facing away from the cable machine uh overhead yeah so and not like it's overhead and back it's pulling me back pulling you from behind a little bit but mostly pulling me backwards because it does and i know people like make fun of the stretch thing but like dude it does get like it does pull your triceps back as far as you anything possibly could and this is where so on his list for

trisive extensions so his you know he has s through f tier his s tier is the like you just said the facing away from the machine try overhead tricep extension and then he also has i get it yeah once you do it you're like oh ouch well yeah and then he also has the line down skull crushers and his point is to make sure you're not bringing it to your skull but it's like it's really arching back behind you. And I anecdotally, I agree with that just from what I picked up myself. Because you can just move farther than that way. You're not stopping there.

You're able to like really. Yep. And that's what, and I'm going to get into some details on how I'm accomplishing some of these, but I was able to do that facing away from the machine that overhead trisive extension for the first time today. I'm like, dude, I think this is the one right here, man. Like this is, I'm very excited about that. So and that's, but that's, my point of this whole conversation is, I would have

never in a million years have came to that. I mean, that exercise doesn't exist in juggernaut. And not that that's the end-all be-all, but it doesn't even exist in juggernaut. So I would have never got to that exercise. It wasn't for me watching this video. And so that alone got me pretty excited for some of this. And, you know, that's the S-tier.

If you look into the A-tier, I try some... Does he say seated or standing with that? He does stay standing. And I like the seated way better just because I started with standing on those. But my trouble was, I'm like, my balance could, like, I literally, like, could lose my balance. And then even though I don't want to, I'm using like too much body momentum for the lift sometimes.

So then I, when I did it seated, I'm like, ah, now I have no way to do body momentum. And that was just something that I like, like just for, and it probably depends on your execs equipment set up even. So that's not, yes. And the equipment part is a big part of this. And we'll touch on that in a minute. But so that was the tricep one I liked. Let's see for bicep curls.

That was another one where leading to this prep. I had never done incline bicep curls where you just lean back. And to me, that is a game change. changer once you do those compared to you know just standing bicep curls because with the standing bicep curl you can you can rest at the bottom and when you're on the incline there it's it's ungodly uncomfortable to be at the bottom the biggest rest when you do incline is at the top of the movement it is it is like that's the point in time where it feels the least painful is when you're actually elbow it's like you almost dread the the the yeah they're bringing it down more than you do the actual

weight itself because the only place you can rest is when you have it at the Like, that's the only rest to that. And I thought that was interesting because on his list, he has that as an A tier for bicep curls. He likes the, he really likes the preacher curl. And I've never been a big preacher curl guy. I don't,

I just, I don't like those a whole lot. But his S, his S tier, his S plus tier is the, I'd never heard of this term before. Is it the, is it the Bayesian curl?

And that's the cable where you're facing away from the machine again. And you're just doing, you know, basically using your D handles and you're doing cable curl. Okay. you know, de-handle curls away from the machine. And, you know, he, you know, in an ideal world, you would get the cable up so it's more about waist level

so that it's always kind of pulling straight back on you. Okay. And that's his, that's his very top tier one, which I thought was an interesting pick. So that's something I'm also going to try and do in my gym as well. And then what else is on the list here? Oh, back. I thought the list for the back exercise.

What's his top back? Yeah, I thought this was interesting because on his S tier, he has one, two, three, four, five, six, seven exercises in his S tier. His A tier has 10. His B tier has like six. C tier has three. D has zero and F has like six exercises in it. So, I mean, he's covering a lot of exercises. Right.

As you can imagine, his F tier would be like planks where you're also doing dumbbell rows at the same time. It's like, well, yeah, you're doing two shitty exercises like that would make sense. um s tier he has lap pull downs he has the v grip lap pull downs do you ever do those um i guess i only do

because i don't use so you're talking about the actual like the little v attachment where your your arms are six inches apart i do because we have the meg grip one so i do that one sometimes i but uh the narrow you go the more weight you can do but what i always like the grip you know because say we have the

three different grip. Yep. And the wider you go. Yeah, the widest one, you can do the least weight, but I always figure out in an RPE sense, like it makes sense to do all of them because I'm like, oh, when I do the narrowest one,

you can put the most weight on, but you get to the same, you know, relative reps and reserve or RPE just by manipulating the weight. Yeah. But I do do that. I do use a little bit of all of them. Yeah.

And then he has, because this is more hypertrophy, like it is a lot of cable stuff he has in here. He has the one where you like, kneeling and doing like the single arm pole. I wouldn't find that impossible to see that's I get that anything out of that. Like I just don't feel like I have it in me to make that work. Yeah.

I think, yeah. And then is it the metals row where you're kind of doing like the landmine thing where you're like pulling up on one side of it at a time? Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah. You know what the end of the barbell? Where does he put, uh, you know what exercise I could never? Um, what's that back where you like, you say you keep straight arms out and you like, you like the lap pulled down like the prayer or whatever they yeah what's that uh uh like it's

really hard to take the triceps out of that see and that's what he even says that in the video on that one he says it can be hard to get the trice i can't do it i can't take my triceps out of that one no that's what is that what the hell is the name of that uh oh like a pull over like yeah like a lap pullover kind of yeah that sort of a lap push down maybe is that what it right whatever yeah i'm just missing the whatever it is but like i've never i've tried those before and i do I do not like that because it turns into a tricep exercise no matter how much do I try to avoid that. Yeah. So I don't like that one.

His other S-tier ones would be like a chest-supported row, kind of similar like the hammer-strength one. Yeah. And then also he has seated rows on there as all his S-tier items. And then he puts pull-ups in an A-tier. Then I saw another video. He said like, oh, I famously put these in an A-tier. But in the past year, I've done all these pull-ups and now pull-ups are an S-tier item for me. I think just the thing with pull-ups is they're hard to...

The scaling and stuff is different. Like, you're pretty good if you can do 10 pull-ups. You know, like you're pretty damn good. And that was also, for me, I think why my bench went up this year is that I got a lap pull-down machine so I wasn't stuck just trying to crank out pull-ups all the time. It's easier to just get more volume in when you're doing when you're doing lap pull-downs. So that was his back one. Nothing too crazy to me on that one. um let's see what else is next on the list that we haven't covered here oh shoulder one

this was interesting this was another big one for me this last year when i i think this was huge it stuck out to me when we're at jugey's the one time or did i say i meant to say shoulders i don't know if i said shoulders or not yeah yeah that's what you said when we're at jujis i remember he had his little pulley system rigged up where we're pulling on it and you were kind of scarecrow's i think is what he's calling them and i remember it just felt like my rear delts were lighting up Like I had not felt that before. And my takeaway from that was, okay, I think there's a deficiency here. And that's when I got this idea from looking at this was I can do the seated, like I can put my feet on my low rope plate.

I can do the seated face poles with the spud ink long abstrap from the top, you know, attachment point. And I hammered those things. And I think that that was like huge for me building up my, you know, delts, upper back that area. and I don't know, did it help my bench? I think it did. Definitely didn't hurt it, that's for sure. Right. And I partly got that idea from here,

but his favorite, his S plus Delta exercise is the de-handle. It's where you stand parallel with the cable machine and you let it kind of pull you across. And then you do basically just like kind of, you know, the lateral arrays with the cable. Yeah. And so he really likes that one. This one actually is just a ton of like cable.

It's the it's the crossovers. It's, you know, peck deck. It's things like that. for his shoulder exercises. So again, nothing too crazy there. S plus, okay, when we're looking at glute exercises, I think we talked about this one a while ago, but his number one was lunges.

And this is where I started doing the walking lunges. And dude, I'm telling you, man, when I first started doing those, even now when I'm getting back into them after not really doing them with the meat, the amount of soreness between my quads, my glutes, my hips. I'm like, this is just so intense.

And then also I get, You do a set of 16 of those, and you just feel so smoked afterwards. Like you're doing some major conditioning. Probably also speaks to how poor my conditioning is, but I think that's a great exercise. And then he has the abductor, adductor thing. He has on his S list also the 45-degree back raise, and I know you're a big fan of that.

And then he has lunges or split squats in the Smith machine up there high, too, on that list. Almost done here. Quad exercises, his number one S-plus. I believe, it looks like it's the hack squat here. I'm just looking at what he has on the, he has a hack squat. You must not have an ATX pendulum squat?

That's in the S category, not S cross. So yeah, he does say, he does speak very highly of the pendulum squat. High bar squats, split squats again, and yeah, like a high bar, close stance Smith machine squat too.

So those are all the quad exercises. And I think this is the last one here. what do we got? Oh, chest exercises. He really likes like a chest, like a flat chest press machine, kind of like that ATX one. And then, yeah, I mean, he has some, you know, there's benching and different press things like that and there. But, um, so anyways, I'm looking through all this and I'm getting all these ideas. And it's, you know, there's a ton of exercises there, some good suggestions. We talked about some of the things we like. But the very first roadblock I hit with all this is like the tricep one, for example, we're saying, okay, you get this

cable. You pull it over your head. you go and extend it. Well, I'm 6-1. By the time I pull the low row out to a point where I can get it to my head and I'm not on top of the machine. Even like get a starting position of that. Just to get to a starting position, you know, that requires like, I don't know when it's coming from the floor.

I mean, it's probably using six feet damn near of the cable. Actually, I'm not using six feet because I don't have that much. My machine can extend like 54 inches total. So I'm probably four feet away from the machine. And I do like six inches of movement and it's like, boom, the thing bottoms out and slams. I'm like, oh, I can't do this thing. And then the next one I'm trying to do is,

is the kind of the cable lateral rays. Well, it's the same thing. It's like my whole wingspan. So it starts here. And I get like here and it's bang, the thing bottoms out again. And I'm just like hitting the limits of this. I'm like,

I can't do any of these exercises. I'm trying to do that like the the cable curls. Yeah, none of this shit's working. So in my mind I'm thinking, well, I need like a cable. I just need a cable extension. I just need a longer cable. I'll get a bigger cable.

that I can attach and that'll solve all my problems. And I'm like, oh, well, I'm at it. I'll get some, I'll get some just like basic D handles, things like that because I didn't have any of these things. And so I have my card on Amazon. I'm going to buy a, you know, a coded exercise cable. It's like a 40 inch extension is like $10. And I'm about to hit by,

but for some reason, before I do that, I don't know, I start going down the rabbit hole watching YouTube videos of cable accessories and all that. And I got to give Joe Gray credit on this one because this, and I think we're going to have a video on this. This, I think, actually is a bit of a home gym game changer. Is it a hack? It is, this is an actual home gym hack.

I don't have a lot of these, but this to me is a real home gym hack. And Tanner, it's a keyword you've said in the video before. And that's daisy chains, baby. I love a good daisy chain in the home gym. If you go to Amazon, they have, you type in daisy chain. I think it's for rock climbing is what it is, but it's basically a little, like, ribbon cable thing. I don't know.

The cables maybe the rib or the strap is maybe an inch and a half across. And it's like 42, 48 inches long. And there's loops on each end. And then there's a loop sewn into it like every six inches or a foot. So this four foot strip has like six different loops where you can attach a carabiner. So all of a sudden, oh, now I have this super versatile extension that I can use. And so instantly. The daisy chain if you want to.

Daisy chain. I can daisy chain for days. And so like that tricep extension, I can get it to the exact distance I want. I put it on the very end. Yeah, yeah. I can now, I put it on the far ends.

I can comfortably get the bar to my shoulders with no tension. I walk ahead one foot and, oh, now it's pulling on my triceps. And I do the extension and it's only using probably two feet of actual cable. And when I'm ready to release the tension, I take one step back and oop, all the tension's off now. And it's perfect. And you could not do that.

movement without this $12 device. It was like, that's one example. Another one, and I just got these today, so I haven't got to do like a full workout with it, but those, if you want to say like the I don't know, the Bayesian curl, whatever it is, same thing there. I can attach both of the daisy chains to the single

low row point. I can walk away from the machine with the d handles and I can start doing curls. You know, it's at one point, but I can still do two curls because that four feet of cable length. It attaches at one point but you can do a bilateral. Yeah, and it works just fine.

And, I mean, you could even just do one at a time if you wanted to. I don't like doing one side exercises because you're taking twice as long. You're taking twice as long. I'm already time restricted. But like that movement worked totally fine. I even started playing around with doing a chest supported row where I put my incline bench facing it. And then you can take the same thing. You can take the D handles and you're kind of emulating that feel that the hammer strength machine has to.

I mean, obviously it's not as good as the actual machine. But it's the same. I mean, it's the similar movement. It's a very similar movement. I'm like, damn, this is unlocking a lot of options for me. And another thing I can do with it is I did buy some just cheap ankle cuffs. So like when I do my, you know, in the past to do hamstring curls, I'd use the sput ink long abstrap, which works. I mean, that's the most budget way to do it. But, you know, you spend like $20, you get the ankle straps. Okay, you can do that. And now you can connect those again with the Daisy. chains and you have padded ankle cup it's like dude this is i'm so excited to actually do some uh give give some full reports on all this but it does seem like a game changer right now for the home gym are you going to run out of uh wall control space well stuff that's the thing of the daisy chains man they just hang from one hook they're just there's just little pieces of there's little pieces of strap you know there's there's a room for dais here so that's why they call them daisy chains It's just too easy.

And I did, for the D handles, all I bought was I just bought like some cheap like writ fit, uh, ones off of Amazon. They're like $20. And, uh, I know there's way nicer ones out there. I just wanted to make sure before I spent a ton of money on anything. I'm like, uh,

does this even work? And actually my thoughts were, I'm like, oh, for $20. These are pretty nice, actually. Like that was,

that was my takeaway. They're, they're pretty decent. Uh, so yeah, your boys getting optimal with it over here and, uh, getting optimized.

Pretty hard. Dude, I'm optimizing so hard and I can just, I can just sense the gains. They're just waiting for me. Something when you, when we talked about it earlier, when you brought up the, you know, you do have to come up with ways in a home gym and you take it for granted when you're not in a home gym because it was like, you asked about the cable crossover in an Asinomics gym because you're like, yeah, on those, like, is it just up high or down low or can you adjust it anywhere? And it has like six inch increments all the way from the floor.

Like every cable crossover machine does in every gym. Right. But then in the home gym, a lot of you are usually don't have, a lot of people don't have that some piece of equipment that offers that amount of flexibility with the way you do stuff. Well, because a lot of home, I mean,

and that's what I said is, you forget that that is the holy grail of, oh yeah, you have a cable crossover machine that has double stacks and also it's adjustable in one foot increments or six inch increments all the way from floor to ceiling. And in a home gym scenario, unless you have one of these,

new crazy all-in-one systems, you know, from, you know, whether it's an all-in-one rack or something from like Reper Road. Unless you have that, you know, a lot of people are, they have a lap pull-down. And then if they're lucky, their lap pull-down also has a low row. And, you know, that's what I have. I have a lap pull-down that does happen to have a low-row attachment as well. So I, you know, my attachment point is at, what, it's eight feet up, are 90 inches up and also about six inches off the ground. And so I have those two, something in the middle would be sweet, but again, the daisy chains kind of get me there. A little daisy chain.

Two words. Daisy chains. They get you there, man. You can fake it with them. It's also the secret to lighting in a home gym. They're great for lighting and strapping, Daisy chains. So be on the lookout. We're going to have content coming about this, and I'm excited, man.

be some video video representation of some of the stuff we were talking about and a little more details on those to come. All right. Anything else on optimal exercise

selection within a home gym? That's probably about it. I mean, this kind of goes without saying it's a given as this is like I don't know if any of the exercises we mentioned are like

the first exercise that you're doing of the day. No, no, they're never the first exercise I'm doing. They're usually actually, actually in the bridge block, they're usually like the fourth, fifth, and six exercises I'm doing.

Because they've usually done some type of, like some sort of squatting. Yeah, some type of barbell squat variation. Usually a bench variation and sometimes, some type of like deadliftish variation. And then I'm getting, so like I'm getting to these things. And the weight being moved is pretty minimal

because, uh, you know, you're pretty smoked by that point because you've been doing these exercises with, uh, on a timed rest, which is usually like the 60,

seconds or 90 seconds of time rest and by the time you get to accessories like who all right time to time to bring this one on home johnny bring her on home well okay one more thing this did actually make me realize though my uh my lap pull down my my selectorized machine goes in 15 pound increments which is kind of big jumps i feel like yeah and especially when you're talking uh one arm stuff you know a 15 pound jump is a lot so then it starts to bring up the thing of like, well, do I need the damn gym pin now to microload these things, you know? Or like the plate mate thing that you just set on the, you just basically set a five pound weight on top of your top plate if you want to. And then you can adjust in five or ten.

That's what plate made is? I think so. I don't know. I've seen a bunch, like Kyle had them and some other people. Or is it micro, does micro gains have something? there's probably a few different companies and people will listen and know the answer to this but basically just like a small five-pound plate

that you put on the top of your plate stack if you want to to... Yeah, let's see. For some reason, their website does not work so I can't actually see their product. The plate meat. Yeah, can't get the site to work.

But that's the theory that you're just setting an additional smaller plate on top and then you don't really have to worry It just adds another level of incremental loading in between. That's what I need to do. It'd be nice to do when you're talking to smaller stuff like a five-pound jump instead of a 15-pound jump. Right, right. All right.

Well, another thing to put on the list then. Yeah. Did you see that the NFL banned ammonia inhalant smelling salts? Oh, did they really? I think so. Oh. Have you heard about this? I've not heard about this or seen this.

Yeah, I think it's just news like two days ago. NFL bans use of smelling salts. Wow, I'm trying to pull this up here. Yeah. Saying product can mask concussion symptoms. I mean, I can kind of see that part of it. Yeah, that is the, yeah. Concussions.

I mean, isn't that almost like the classical? use of it as like someone gets knocked out to come back to you after you've been smelling salt. I mean like when you watch movies back in the day isn't that what they were doing? Yeah. Yeah. They're also good for getting you hyped up too though. Right. Right.

I'm wondering were they commonly I'm not sure what they might be saying might not be false but is I mean were they actually getting used for that? Were people doing that or not? I don't know. People just using them to get hyped. Well that's the thing is like

does someone like get their bell rung and like they have to come off the sidelines and they're like oh just give me some ammonia it's like oh that kind of just makes them feel tricks them into thinking they're okay and then they go back out the next play i don't know is that is happening or not it's hard to say yeah but it is it is banned contraband that some people will sneak some on at the field that oh but this this quote right here from august 6th says ESPN has obtained a message from the NFL, the NFLPA. Is that the Players Association? Yep.

The NFL, a message the NFLPA sent to players Wednesday night, clarifying that the league's ban on smelling salts only applies to clubs providing it to players, meaning bring your own smelling salts. Oh, okay. I don't know. Can they afford it? Yeah. Yeah, no kidding, right?

So you get an obsidian deal. Keep this going. Along those lines, Tanner, did you know there's a new season of Hard Knocks out? Have you seen this? You've heard about this. Yeah, I haven't watched it at all yet, though. Who is it even? Who are they following?

The Buffalo Bills. Okay. That'd be interesting. Is there a couple seasons or a couple episodes out? Just the first episode came out two days ago. I opened up HBO and it said, new season of Hard Knocks, Buffalo. And I thought, ah, I even like it when it's someone not in the same conference. So you don't even got to like, you know, you can, okay,

whatever sure you guys could i can kind of root for you in in the hard knock sense not like the bears last year where i'm like okay that's the bears though like let's be real here um it was it's interesting buffalo they're one of the few teams that obviously they're the buffalo bills so they play in buffalo but they do their their training camp in rochester new york at a college so they all stay in the dorms home of the no wine cellar exactly yep buffalo and rochester two hot spots over there. Yeah. I like watching Hard Knocks more than I like watching most NFL games.

Oh, they make it pretty, yeah. I mean, they make it pretty interesting for sure. So, yeah, I mean, it's always cool just to, I like it. It's just that kind of document. It's not the, it's not the overly process, like way too much reality TV show look that people do on a lot of stuff. It's, yes, there's sit down interviews and, you know, they're doing some fluff pieces where they're making people do things.

But for the most part, it's like they, they, shot this like four days ago so they got to have a super that they're on a tight timeline they're on a tight timeline and it's like actually impressive to see what they can do in like four days and that actually is kind of part of the reason why i like it is it's just like yep this is what happened we're not creating like we're not spending weeks trying to create some artificial storyline of something that wasn't a thing it's just it's kind of what you see is what you get to a certain extent the timeliness of it is part of what makes it so cool yeah like like they'll do you know like a little bit farther on here when they do their um preseason games you know the

preseason game happens on like a Saturday and then you're seeing like the recap of it three four days later on a Tuesday so it's cool to get almost this live feedback of what's taken place right yeah I'm gonna watch when I get to chance I'm gonna watch that I actually thought about that the other day and I do like to watch hard knock so I do want to watch that first episode um oh this I got to say one thing before we get off of HBO the reason the reason I had HBO open Tanner is because I finally finished season two of the rehearsal with with Nathan Fielder. I don't know if you remember this show.

I watched any of that yet, yeah. You saw season one all of it, I believe, right? Yeah, season one I've seen. Season two is a freaking trip, man. It is insane. It is so crazy. It is so crazy. I mean, there are so many times you're like,

what am I watching right now? Like the extent to what things can be pushed is unbelievable. There's multiple times where I don't even know if this is a comedy show anymore or if he's trying to just make a point. I mean, there's other points where like, okay, yeah, I can't believe they spent that much money on this because that is insane too.

But man, it's crazy TV. It is crazy. Like it breaks the line of, is this actually real? Is this a thing? Is this whole thing fake? Like you're just constantly asking yourself, is this fake?

Is this real? I don't know. And, man, it's awesome. You got to watch it. That's definitely on my list too. I also kind of forgot about that. But I do want to watch. other bonus here is it's six episodes they're like 30 minute episodes so that makes it

the last one's an hour but dude it's oh it's so crazy it's yeah i want to see that you got it's all about for people that don't know it's all about flights and airline safety and just it starts to go down like these autism rabbit holes yeah it's so it's so funny man it's so good yeah i need to see it. Okay. I'm going to watch that soon also, too, at some point. I wanted to bring it up. You probably said this word at some point in time in the title topic, but do you see that second topic there? Can you say that word? I say pulley. You say it correctly. You do say pulley. I'm telling you the number of, because I listened to all these home gym podcasts and stuff like that, do you know exactly what you're talking about. I know exactly what you're talking about.

What is wrong with everyone Do they say Pooley? Pooley. Yeah, like, oh, the Pooley system. Yeah. The Pooleys. The Pooleys.

I was starting to think I was the wrong one here. Frick is a Pooley. Yeah. A Pooley? Yeah, there's no O's in this. Like they say it like if it was P O-O-O-L. Yeah. Pooley.

Yeah, it's my pool. The Poolees. You know what that animal that chases you when it's angry? A bull. Not a bool. It's a bull. And if you. Take that B and flip it upside down.

It's a pull. That's what it is, man. The pool, pulleys. It's like one of those new cable poolie systems. No, it's not how it works. But have you not heard a bunch of people that say that?

Oh, I have because I've been listening to Waymore Home Gym podcast and content. And I hear Pooley brought up all the time. Pooley. Well, but I think most people say that. So I guess we're the ones that are wrong there. I don't know. Because I was thinking about this.

I'm like, I'm sure I've heard Tommy say. this and he does not say poolie that has to be a regional thing that we say pulley that people are going to be like oh you idiots say pulley it's we all think it's poohy yeah pulley and the mean guy at school is the bully you know bully bully pulley that's a lot of the things we say the way we pronounce all give it to people are we're probably maybe not totally correct i mean we make a funny joke about it, but this is one of those that I'm like, I don't see how that's correct what people are, that were, I'm like, I think, I think we're the right one.

I, I, I think we're the right. Yeah, we say that weird. Yeah, I feel, I feel pretty confident taking the stand on this one that I think we are saying it correctly. So we're on record that it's not poolie. It's not a pool. I'm like, it's so weird for me to even force my self to say poolie. Because it sounds so obviously wrong.

Pooley, Pooley, Pooley. It's like the weirdest accent of, but it'll be just that specific word, uh-huh, that I'm like, you said everything else normal, and then you said, Pooley. It's going on. Yeah, it's Pooley all day. It's not a Pooley. Like, am I saying that how people say it? I can't even really, I can't even really,

because it's just so wrong to me that I, every time I hear it, my brain thinks like, That's incorrect. I think there's a giant joke going on about it and we're not it. Like everyone's playing a joke on us by doing that. I think that's like a really long con that everyone's like against Midwesterners. We're going to all call it poolies from now on and really screw with them until they're like. Yeah, eventually they're going to bring this up on the podcast and jokes on that. I think that's what's going on.

Like they're all in on it. You know what? I think you're right. Actually, yes. It's big, big pulley is after us here. I want to believe that. that more than that's than the fact that people are honestly

saying it that way on purpose. At least they'd have an excuse then. That's right. Or this god-awful pronunciation. Yeah, so don't say Pooley. We used to be a proper country where we called them pulleys. All right. What else do we want to cover this week?

Do you, uh, we've probably talked about this before. You've been eating any corn on the cob this season, Tanner? Not really. We did have corn tonight, but it was not on the cob. It was not cobbed. Yeah, it wasn't cobbed. I've had it only once so far all summer, actually, kind of a deficiency lacking on my part.

We just had our first neighbor gave us some just this past weekend. So we had our first batch of it. Yeah, I guess it's just getting to be that time. So I guess I'm on track with them. And my thought was, God, I already think just the tiny amount of facial hair I have, how the butter and all that just bakes in there. I'm like, I cannot imagine what it would be like

when Tanner's full beard to go to go corn on the cob. It's just got to be a disaster. Right now it'd be just fine. Yeah. I have no concern like it. But a month ago. This feels like absolutely nothing. Like when I get stuff in my beard now, I'm like, oh, it's not even a thing.

But like that, I'm like, basically I wouldn't even do it if I'm around anyone other than my immediate family because I'm like, this is going to be a comical, disgusting mess. Like I'm like, this is going to be vile. Like, no one should have to sit at the table. Like, I'm actually, when it gets one of my beard and particularly mustache, when I don't trim my mustache for like eight months, I don't even feel completely comfortable eating a cheeseburger around not well-known company because I'm like, this is going to not work well.

Like, I have to eat a cheeseburger with like a fork or something. Right, right now, nothing. I would eat a corn on the cob in front of people right now. But when it's bad, I'm like, this is going to be absolutely disson. And that butter smell is just stuck in, in like the hair forever. Like that is, to me, that's actually the worst part is the way that the butter smell is just baked into your face. And then it's like, oh, then the, you go drink, like hours later, you go drink water. And it's like the water is reactivated the smell of the butter again.

It's really the root of most of the problem, though, is the mustache in my experience. Below the mouth doesn't, like, you might look, you know, things might get caught in there. but it's really the, a long mustache really makes eating challenging for foods like that. And that's corn on the cob might be like the king food of that being a problem. I actually can't think of what would be worse. Yeah, that's got to be up there for sure. I like seeing people do their alternative methods of eating corn on the cob, like someone shoving the whole thing into their mouth like in the inappropriate sexual way

and like scraping the, uh, yeah, uh, corn. off there or there is the two camps of whether are you a spinner and move down the line or like a like a typewriter ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding what would you i'm not i wouldn't do this i'm not a typewriter i don't go like this i go across i would go i would go a section around like say a third of the cob i would go around in a third of it middle third and third oh no no no i'm just like push it down do to do across yeah so typewriter method pretty much yeah yeah that's my style maybe that's the most common i don't know maybe uh i'm curious either i think either of those

are they are yeah those are the two yeah those are the two those are the preferred techniques yeah one of my kids does keep on a full banana they'll take it and just bite a center out of the banana which is a psychotic little bit kind of unhinged yeah yeah like do not eat it like like that. Yeah, that's the wrong way to do that one. Yeah, that is the wrong way to do it. Okay, so that was Cobb. I didn't know if it was going to be Randall Cobb.

Nope, nope, corn, Kern, under Kibb. Yeah, yeah. Dude, I've, uh, every once in a while, I have a little cash on me. And, uh, lately I've had a little more, a little more cash on me that I bring around. And cash is king. Okay, there's two things. In this day and age. I feel like when I show up to a place with cash,

I feel like it's a real baller move to have cash on you. Like when someone goes to pay, because at least around here, it's actually comical hoff and this happens. They'll be like, okay, that's 2295. And I whip out the cash. And the teller always goes, oh, cash. They always say it because I think a lot of times places offer like a 1% discount

if you're paying any cash. Okay, yeah, right. There's a lot of places I've noticed that. And they're like, oh, oh, Well, it's actually, you're actually saving 50 cents here. But, and so then they'll change. Which makes sense. Processing fees.

Yeah. But that always, oh, cash. Like, they always say cash out loud. Everyone always says, oh, cash. Like, they're like, oh, yeah. Like, that's happened so many times now. Right. But the thing, so it does, it, it, it, it, it, you do feel like a high roller when you're

busting out cash because no one has cash anymore. Like, everyone's just tap in the card or the phone, whatever. Right. I mean, that's what I do 95% of the time, too. So it does feel like that. And I also feel like that. And I also feel like with the younger people, sometimes you hand it to them. And they're like, what the hell am I supposed to do with this?

Like, dude, you prick. Yeah, I got to tell you change now. Like, oh, you're spending a life's so annoying. But the one, and this really makes me think we used to be a proper freaking country, is there are places that will not take your cash. And I'm like, come on, this is legal tender. Take the damn cash. That is, I mean, it is crazy. It's so annoying.

And all I can think of is that. it's just businesses saying, hey, we don't got to worry about an employee stealing from us. There's no paper trail. Yeah. And also, it's just, I don't know, we don't got to worry about, like, counting money at the end of the day. I mean, it's funny because it's the most cost-effective payment method for them to take because there's no transaction fee. And it is, it is cash there. Like, there's no a check. You have the worry of, you know, it still has to be converted to cash.

Someone can write a bad check. It can bounce. Well, no places to take checks anymore, so that's not an option. Do places take checks? Or can you go to Walmart and pay with the check? I don't think any place. Like you can't pay with the check at Walmart? I don't think you can anywhere.

You should be able to like, they should be able to do an ACH transaction basically with the track because it has your routing number and your bank number on it. So they should be able to like, yeah. Can you pay like that though where it's just, uh, I don't think there's any like national businesses that'll take a check. They don't, okay. I don't think there is. I mean, I haven't tried to pay with it.

I don't think there is. There would be a lot of kids that if, like, working jobs that if you had them a check, they'd be like, I actually don't even know what I'm looking at right now. Like, it's a personal one? Like, there's personal checks. I still write a lot of checks for Massonomic stuff. For business, you kind of have to because there's a lot of businesses that do not want to do credit card payments. Well, that's right.

Well, because people don't want to lose 5% of their freaking. Yeah. Like when you have like when you have invoices and things that are in the many thousands of dollars. Right. Like losing. It's actually just in my, in my web design business. at the end of the year, it's almost insulting to see

how much I losing credit card processing fees. Right. God, really. Right. And this is just like my little one-man shop here. Like it's, and I mean,

Massonomics like has way more expenses than, but yeah, it's, it's, yeah, the cash thing though. It's just the fact that people that there's business

that could actually just say, sorry, we don't accept cash. It's like, damn. That's a, that's a bold move. Or like when you go to the target center

and it's like, Oh, yeah, we're completely 100% cashless. So they're, because their employees don't have to move cash around. Yeah, they're almost kind of get it because I feel like, well, if everyone is just, like, if you have the system in place, like you can, in theory, make cards go faster if it's just like everyone's just going to tap and it's going to go. Right, right. There, it's still like, oh, like I'm a little bit, like some of these, I'm like, this is just a stray of local business. I'm trying to buy a cheeseburger and like, yeah, we don't take cash.

I'm like, why? Like, why is this the thing? Also, if you're the business owner, why do you want to make it, why do you want to make a limitation of how someone can pay? I'm just thinking of it in our own terms. Like, if someone's agreeing to give us money somehow, I'm like, yeah, we'll figure out a way to take it. That's the goal. We want your money. Yeah.

Well, yeah. You know, like we want. Okay. So this was both times this happened to me were at places where it's actually ran by the city when it's like maybe it's a city policy. But I still like, I feel like that's an even dumber one. It's like, it's the city. usually the government agencies are to like you want to give us money we will take money however however we can receive it um yeah it's it's weird man i mean we did used to be a proper country we did where we used paper money

once upon the time we were when you have cash you took out a piece of paper and wrote some numbers on it wrote words on it like cash and everyone agreed that it was cash people would write checks for five dollars and we were all okay with it. Yes, people would do that. Can I write it for 20 over? You know that? Like if someone that's 20 probably doesn't even, they'd be like, what do you, what?

Yeah, when I was in high school, I worked at this grocery store in my senior year. And that was all the time. You know, the guys, somebody would come in after work on a Tuesday. You know, stars closing at 10 o'clock and they're coming in at 9.45 and they're getting their whatever, hot dogs, three other things, a pack of smokes.

And go, oh, so can I make this for 20 over? It's like, oh, hell yeah, do whatever you want. Yeah. It's like an ATM. Like at points in time, I used to get paid with a check. You know, like some of my earliest jobs, it was prior to everything being automatic deposit. Yeah, especially when you were like at that age, like more part time or whatever. Right.

You would go in, you would go into the grocery store, look for your little name tray and the thing and take your paper check out for $100 or whatever you made. Right. I think when I first started at Menards, I even got a paper. per check for a while. Really, Menard's even. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it would have been in like 2005. Yeah.

Yeah, the internet didn't exist yet then. As far as Menards is concerned, it didn't. Right, right, right. It of course did, obviously. But it is just funny, like, but it wasn't like a gimmy that something would be an automatic direct deposit. No, it wasn't like the de facto, like if you needed something done, like the internet was the clear obvious answer.

It was kind of like, I don't know, I could probably get somewhere and get on a computer like it seems like a pain in the ass but that was the case yeah uh let's see cash we talked about cash i think i'll save eight for next week's episode um we're at just about two hours also here well i do want to make sure to tell everyone this texas powerbars dot com oh dang it where was this thing i wanted to find there's something on here i wanted to find last thing that i just thought about it right now so i'm well i'm thinking here

texas powerbars dot com um i'm not seeing what i want but i'll just tell you off the cuff then check out texasperbars.com there are favorite barbells that we use at massanomics gym uh what's your what's your go-to barbell in your training these days 29 millimeter texas power bar black zinc shaft chrome sleeves

the all-time classic. That's the bar right there. The nerdling on that bar is tough to beat, be beaten or be replicated by anyone else. It's tough to beat the original, the Texas Power Bar. Also, so if you're deadlifting right now,

do you use the Deadlift bar? Do you use the Power Bar? Well, I haven't deadlifted now in like a week or two, but a week ago I did use the deadlift bar because I was trying to get work done extra fast, so I had to use a second bar. You were split bars. Yeah, split bars.

So if you're going to use a deadlift bar and you're training, the best go-to bar, Bell, is the Texas deadlift bar. There is not a better deadlift bar out there. You can take that to the bank just as solidly as you can take not saying poolie to the bank. The Texas deadlift bar is the best. As you can take any cash to any bank and any business anywhere. Yeah, the bank's like, yes, we don't actually take cash.

We're a bit going on here. We're a bit coin-only bank. I'm confused. It seems like the whole structure of society is going to collapse here. I don't know what's going on. The bank doesn't take cash. There's currently a flash sale at Texas Power Bars. You can get up to $75 off on select bars.

Thank you, Texas Power Bars. We prefer to convert our cash into Bitcoin and then later convert it back to cash again. Like, what's happening? It's the old double conversion. Speaking of cash, I had to reload the stick. machine again at the Massanimex gym. There's another $10.50 in there.

So kind of a windfall from the Get Rich quick scheme over there. Got a lot of quarters laying around now all of a sudden. So people start. Reminds me about bartending days when I'd come home with a whole pocket full of quarters. People start seeing sticker machines popping up all of our town.

They're going to know you're behind it. Yep. Got a little sign hustle going. Who put the sticker machine with all these bathroom stickers in it? Oh, also I played, we played pool, pool, pool, correct pronunciation, pool at Schwann's recreation. We were, the other day, we're like, should we do like the recreation at Schwann's

recreation? And we played part of it all. Pool and I'm pretty sure it was, no, it's 150. So you had to put in six quarters into the machine. And I'm like, when we used to be a proper country, this was 50 cents. Oh, God, yeah. Now it's $1.50, which I didn't give a crap, but I'm just like, it's almost comical how many quarters you had to put in there to play the game. Does it take four at a time or does it actually take six at a time?

No, it takes six at a time. It's a six wide unit. Yeah. The sticker machine at the gym only goes up to four wide. Did you check if the pool table had a slot to take Bitcoin on it? Was that a. It did have a thing where you could like use cards, I think. But they go, yeah, it's not plugged in.

I just don't assume that that wouldn't work there. Exactly. They're like, you have used coins. Well, because you know, they're like, well, $1.50. Okay, they're going to take 30 cents of every swine. It's like, yeah, okay, so we're right back down to a dollar again now. Right. Right.

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So don't miss that. The video that comes out a few days after this podcast episode, kind of. comes out is a video that we shot so long ago. I can't even remember what it's in it, but we talk about barbells. It's a 29 millimeter. I'm actually excited to watch this again. It's a 29mm Texas Power Bar Review.

And at this point, I think the video is like 14, maybe 16 months old. I actually look different in it. I actually just look different, slightly different in the video. I'm probably 15 pounds later. So are you in the video? Yes, it's you filming me. Okay. I didn't even remember that.

And I'm talking about why the 29mm Texas Power Bar is my favorite bar for a home gym. That's what it is. So let's find out what past Tommy thought about the Texas. I just got to look at this footage really quick. Oh, it was filmed September 11th, 2024. I guess that means. So by the time it comes out, it'll be shot in 11 months ago.

That was date modified. It actually might be older than that. Okay. Well, no, I do have all my banners. It might have been last. Well, I think it was when we did Paul's video, right? It was that same day. That was last fall, wasn't it?

But was it, or was that right before we went to home gym con? No, because before we went to home gym kind of didn't have banners up yet in my gym. Okay. And now in this one I do, but I mean, if you ask me a year ago, I'm, I mean, I'm about 10 pounds lighter. And I think it's all in the shoulders and chest. I think I've just had 10 pounds of pure muscle to my upper body. Yeah. So give that a watch and drop forward to.

Drop a comment on what do you think about time? Tommy's physique changes over the last year. The Malibu is still in the background even? Oh, yeah. That's retro at this point. I really miss the Malibu. Is there any way to get it back, like, just to keep it as a secondary car? Man, you don't know what you got until it's gone.

I'm missing out on that one right now. I wish there was a way to know when you're in the good old days while you're in the good old days. I know. I'll call up the buyer and make them an offer. They can't refuse. I'll get that thing back. I did have to do a little work on the freestyle. Me and Jack were doing a little wrench on the freestyle tonight before we.

Okay. very minor work actually we need a new battery okay battery died so did a little troubleshooting you on that one yeah that's not a big deal at all but I did I was like I tried to I was trying to cheap out first and be like can I give this a good charge and get a little and it was like nope nope this battery is is five years old and yeah and past its useful life so did that but then had the battery out actually for quite a while and I think it did something it did something to the

stereo or auto start the auto start the key fob you know it has aftermarket auto start and key fob and it lost its connection thing to it and then but it wasn't just like you couldn't just reprogram it it actually

you had to restart the brain of the receiver in the car and then I'm like a lot of times like that gets put like under the dash like up kind of up like uh by the steering column or above your brake pedal in there. I'm looking around. I'm like, where is this? Because I could see the antenna on the wind windshield. You know, it's like kind of a discreet place by the rearview mirror. Uh-huh. The antenna for the for the for the auto start receiver. So I'm like this exists. But then it was like behind a panel. I had to take a panel out of underneath the dash in order to find this receiver. And then we had to

unplug the receiver and start it. You just had, it's like, did you try shutting it off and turning back on? Yeah, you just had to unplug it for 15 seconds and plug it back in. But once we got to it, it wasn't a big deal, but it was a matter of figuring out where the heck they hid the thing at. You know, and then what it even was, because I'm like, I don't know exactly what I'm looking for. I feel like I'll know it. Yeah, because you're not looking for like a factory thing here, actually. Right, right. So then I'm just looking for something that's not factory, but I got to tell you, this thing, looks pretty relatively factory the way they put it and you know they

oh it did blend in pretty good right right it was probably professionally done I guess and it was professionally done well that I'm like oh I would not have guessed that that was so that was our Ford freestyle that was the wrenching and now it's and something

actually you talked about the radio something reset with the radio and it has car play and like whatever it recame to the car play like display it changed and it's like way nicer now and I don't know why it must have been like some setting. Yeah it's like

we were playing and like oh this car play works really really well I don't know what the setting was that we had monkeyed with or what it was but the setting of it now the carplay was like really really intuitive and it was like it actually changed the look of the buttons and everything. Yeah yeah it did it was

I don't know I'm not really sure what we had done actually I couldn't really say but now I'm like like it wasn't really bringing we're in a thing that it wasn't really bringing up like the album art and stuff when you're on stuff and I'm like oh no now it's really doing the apple car play thing where it's exactly the same of any ones that uh uh it's in so that was just dumb luck well there you go just need a little reset once in a while well it is the did you try shutting it off and turning it back on you can never go wrong with that uh so check out the youtube is what i was saying there and then buy something from massonomics.com. You can support us that way. Drink spotters, we still have, I'm counting right now, we have about 12 horse stall mat coaster sets left.

Once these are gone, they might just be gone. I don't know. They could just be gone. You know how hard it is to source the materials for this? This could be your last chance at a piece of,

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I mean, there's always more. but we got to shut it down. There's always next week. We've got to save something for $489. Huge episode 500 coming later this year. Big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big thing is coming for $500. We're not just saying that. No, it's going to be big if it's going to be big this year.

Episode 500, taking it straight to the top. Tommy, where do they find you out? You can find me at Tomahawk underscore D. You can follow me at Tanner underscore Bair. Just make sure to follow Massonomics at Massonomics. See you. Thank you.