Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 1066: The Pros & Cons of Training with a Weight Vest, How to Prep for a Night of Drinking Alcohol (& How to Recover), What it Means to Have a Broken Metabolism & MORE

Episode Date: July 3, 2019

In this episode of Quah, sponsored by Organifi (organifi.com/mindpump, code "mindpump" for 20% off), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about the workouts or exercises that are appropriate for weight vests, how to prep for a night of drinking alcohol, the chance of having a broken metabolism, and if priming can limit muscle growth. Adam recommends City on the Hill on Prime video. Meme-worthy actors of the past and current generations, actors that are known as assholes & MORE. (5:57) MIIR makes cool stuff. (10:52) Justin shares his experience at Star Wars Galaxy Edge at Disneyland/Palm Desert. (13:08) Felix Gray does prescription glasses too! (21:02) Sal and Jessica back from Montana/Colorado: Their experience at the gun range, Yellowstone National Park, wedding in Vail & MORE. (22:50) Adam’s ‘Baby Wedding’ recap. What will he do to keep his kid from being spoiled? (30:00) Larry Wheels tears bicep due to strongman training. The thin line between top performance and injury. (37:40) The history of ‘bloodletting’ and are there any health benefits? (44:09) Mind Pump speculates on the fallout from the upcoming documentary “The Game Changers.” (48:42) Mind Pump recommends Alone on the History Channel. (52:12) #Quah question #1 – What are your thoughts on weight vests? What workouts or exercises are they appropriate for? (54:59) #Quah question #2 – How do you prep for a night of drinking alcohol? What’s the best way to recover and continue with progress? (1:03:45) #Quah question #3 – In reality, what is the chance of having a broken metabolism? (1:13:49) #Quah question #4 – You talk a lot about the body’s adaptability to food, exercise, etc. Does this same adaptability apply to priming? Does getting in the same priming routine, for certain exercises, limit the muscle signal? (1:22:36) People Mentioned Jessica Rothenberg (@thetraininghour)  Instagram Larry (@larrywheels)  Instagram The Game Changers (@gamechangersmovie)  Instagram Andy Galpin (@drandygalpin)  Instagram   Related Links/Products Mentioned July Promotion: MAPS Anywhere ½ off! **Code “ANYWHERE50” at checkout** MIIR Kickstarter Visit Felix Gray for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! Check out Mind Pump Live to get tickets for their next live event! Watch City on a Hill Season 1 | Prime Video - Amazon.com Gay Mart | Visit Palm Springs, CA Larry Wheels Tears Bicep Due To Strongman Training - Generation Iron The history of bloodletting | British Columbia Medical Journal Arnold Schwarzenegger 'Terminates' Myths About Protein In Upcoming Vegan Documentary Alone Full Episodes, Video & More | HISTORY How To Drink Alcohol The Healthy Way (MAX LUGAVERE) - MPTv Prime Bundle | MAPS Fitness Products - Mind Pump Mind Pump Free Resources

If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, with your hosts. Salta Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. In this awesome episode of The Mind Pump, we talk all about fitness health, workouts, fat loss, muscle building. But before that, we do our introductory conversation. Here's what we talked about in this episode of Mind Pump. We start out by talking about Kevin Bacon's new show

on Prime, City on a Hill or Degrees of Bacon. You're gonna love the way Adam explained that show in this part of this episode. Then we talked about Mir and their Kickstarter. They have something called the Porigami. It's this awesome thing that travels with you. It's flat, like fits in your pocket and helps you do pour over coffee.

Then they have it like origami. Then they have a container that sucks the oxygen out, so it preserves your coffee. It's all great for travel. You gotta make sure you go check that out. That's at mir.com. M-I-I-R.com forward slash kickstarter. Make sure you go check that out.

Then Justin talked about his vacation in Palm Desert in the summer with the hell. And Disneyland. Yeah, bold move. He saw the new Star Wars park and they tried to attack him. Galaxies edge. Crazy. It's amazing.

Then we talked about Justin's brand new Felix Gray blue blocking prescription glasses. Yes, he's an old man. He needs prescription glasses. He didn't say how handsome I look. He does look very handsome. But now they block blue light as well. So we can work on his computer without straining his eyes, getting those tension headaches.

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And Yellowstone. Adam talked all about the baby shower slash wedding. 150 people. He's got more, he's got so many gifts now. I think his kids are gonna be covered for the next few years. We talked about Larry Wheels tearing his bicep. We hope he gets well soon, but we kind of called it, man. You're pushing your body like crazy, maniac.

Then we talked about the health benefits of bloodletting. That's right, that's the old medieval practice stuff. Yeah, let's bring back Alchemy. I'm bleeding out, apparently there's some health benefits. We talked about the new movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's a documentary on a plant-based diet called Game Changer. It's not out yet, so we do some fun speculation.

And then we talked about the history channels show that's like vegans. Alone, Adam talked about that show apparently, they're dropping people off in the Arctic. I don't know how well they're gonna do there. Oh, also, before we get into the questions, I wanna remind everybody that we do have some tickets available for our live events.

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It's with Kevin Bacon. It's about Chicago. So far, of course, can make it. So far, totally explaining it terribly. No, almost have no idea. It's only a last third. May Doug Duck is such a big deal. So it's this thing.

Kevin Bacon, Amazon series. It's on a third episode. It barely just started. So it's only three weeks in. And it's good. It's like based in the I want to say Smith 70s early 80s. So it's the show with Kevin Bacon about the 70s. He's and he's a cop and he's he's he's in Chicago and it is CD on a hill. Thank you Doug. Okay. I have heard that. It's good. You guys like this. It's Kevin Bacon ever ever done a video game I feel like that's the only genre. He's he's not yet a video game. Yeah. No, why would you do a video game?

Because he's done everything because he's in every genre. Do you know who's big right now in the meme world in the internet world? Who's like become the top dude who canner reefs? Oh, yeah everywhere and like like memes are created about them people I don't know what happened It's like my kids generation my son's generation He's like the Chuck Norse at their time. Yes, yes, right for us it was Chuck Norse Yeah, that was the big the ever you made a joke about check so everything's about Keanu Reeves how cool I love Kenya. Yeah, everybody like I said Can you yeah, can you so everybody's like it's all over the internet every time you pull up memes or what I get memes sent to me all the time I love Kenya. Yeah, everybody like, is that how you say it? Kenya. Yeah, Kenya.

So everybody's, it's all over the internet. Every time you pull up memes or what, cause they get memes sent to me all the time. So I'm, I'm hip in that world. Yeah, what's his most recent project that he's done? John Wick. Yeah. I know he's working on something else

that looked pretty cool. It was like some animated series. You know, it's weird about him. He doesn't age. No, no, he looks the same. And he's a surfer in every movie. Dude, I've heard he's like the coolest dude. Yes, he does, really.

He's a surfer in every movie. Who told you he's the coolest guy? Like a bunch of people say that. Like he, who says that? Just all over the place. Okay, like anybody who asks, why you do that to him? Like, he's specific. You sound like my wife, dude. Fuckin' your nag, dude.

Oh, no. I'm gonna be honest. I'm gonna be honest. No, no. You're telling me to be specific? Wait, what time? I don't like shit like that. I don't believe you.

Yeah. Can I just say that? You just said you're ridiculed? He just said you're remind me of my wife, you nag. Oh shit. Good thing she doesn't listen to the show. I know, listen, listen, I'm fine. I'm totally fine.

Totally good at the, yeah. But anyway, everybody, you're right though, Justin. It's like a thing about Cana Reeves. I don't know what the deal is with him. Yeah, yeah, I don't know what it is, but like it, like he does a lot of charitable things and I guess he's like really, like he responds to people. I think that was the thing, where you can reach him

and he'll actually get back to you. So the other actor that was like, for some reason, all over memes and big internet stuff was Bill Murray. Remember, for a while, he was the guy that people would post. Well, it's because, again, that's a guy that shows up to parties just randomly and everybody's just mystified that he would do that. He's so cool like that.

Now my buddy did a celebrity golf tournament. He was the category for one of those up in Oregon. Oh really? Yeah. And he was Bill Murray was who he was. And he said he is the fucking rad. Yeah. Like he is super cool.

Like the coolest human being. Yeah. He says he's hilarious. He's down to earth. Like he said he treated him super awesome. He said that was a hell of a thing. He's the top like five people I want to meet. He's a Bill earth like he said he treated him super awesome. He said that was a hell of a top like five people I want to know he's a film. Yeah, I know he's been a favorite of mine. I hear Barclays like that too Oh, yeah, yeah, Charles Barclays supposed to be like really cool to me like that

There's a handful got he there's definitely Barclay was there. Yeah, she said Emmett Smith was really cool to Trying to remember all the names. This is quite a few years ago when he told me that he did this. What celebrities are known for being assholes? I heard that What can I think of his name? I heard Christian Bay. I heard Tom Cruises. I heard I heard he's a dick. Why can't I not think of his name lethal weapon guy? Why can't he was named? Oh no Gibson I heard his mouth. No way. Yeah, I had a friend that ran into him in Hawaii and he was with his family And he was like super rude when he came up to say hi to him and I heard it from somebody else.

I don't know who the second person is in case you could question me. No, it says who? Yeah, who's that person? And what time does that happen? Adam's like, you remind me of Justin's wife. Yeah. Oh, no, I'm sorry.

I'm here today. It was a joke. It was a joke. It's gonna come back to me. No, that's not sad. I'm just kidding. It was a joke. It's gonna come back to me, bro. That's not sad. I'm just kidding. No, my bad.

Yeah, no, I heard, I don't know the lead singer's name for social distortion. I heard he's a total dickhead, but anyway, I love that you think. Social distortion, is that like a metal band? You don't know social distortion. I don't shit. Do you know who they are?

I don't. Oh, you don't know either? Oh, I don't forget it. Are we really just, just, just, just. I forget it. Are we really just, that's correct. Just forget it. Yeah. Let's move on. Anyway.

So dude, what do you guys think of the mere cup kickstarter thing? Bro. So, a couple things. One, cup zeros are runnin'. So, those are, they got them in studio. I think we only have a couple black ones left those ones almost sold out We have the white ones they flew yeah Once you have it once you get a mere product mirror is the is the business like I absolutely love all of their products

And they have a kickstarter that's going on right now Which is super dope now Doug can we put the call the porugami and the Something else right they came with it right so it's this, it's like this flat, it's metal, but it fits in your pocket. Yeah, it fits in your pocket. And you fold it out and it lets you do pour over coffee when you travel. And this is a big deal. So like Jessica is a coffee fanatic and we were traveling recently and it was an easy finding coffee wherever we were.

And if you drink the hotel coffee, it's terrible. So you either have to pack your own French press or you drink the garbage that's at your hotel or whatever, but this thing lets you do your own pour over. And it's super convenient. It folds up and goes into a nice little funnel to put the filter in and it's super easy. And then they have the canister that's for travel too. That's part of the Kickstarter that you pumps out the air. So like you can fill it up with coffee and it sucks the freshness.

If you're listening right, you have to go to the video and watch the video because I think they explain it even better. When you see it, you're like, oh shit, that's dope. And it's like a no brainer. It's on just the mere.com forward slash Kickstarter, right? So just meremiir.com forward slash Kickstarter and you'll see the video, this thing is cool. So I'm excited for that.

Yeah, and have you guys ever made your coffee pour over? Have you done it that way? I think that's probably the best way to do it. Yeah, but you're normally gonna have this like big old glass vase thing. Yeah, isn't fills like that? Like they just do like the to do it. Yeah, but you normally gonna have this like big old glass vase thing. Yeah. Isn't it feels like that? Like they just do like the single cut pour. Yeah.

Yeah. And that's and usually produces the best in my opinion, the best taste. When you make it that way. So I don't know. Anyway. No, the fact that it fits in your pocket is dope. Yeah, it's like it looks like a credit card.

Yeah. And then you fold it out. It's one of those things. You ever look at something and you think, fuck. I'm really thought of that. I know. No, brilliant. It gets it simple, you know. Yeah. Anyway you think, fuck, I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I know, no, brilliant. It gets as simple, you know, anyway.

Yeah, they make cool stuff. Yeah, so I wanna hear all about your guys' time off and what you guys did. I saw you just and you went to, do you went to Palm Desert and then Disneyland? Palm Desert, Palm Springs, Disneyland. We did Disneyland like the middle of the week to kind of break it up, thankfully,

because it is fucking hot. Was it a desert? Yeah, oh yeah, yeah. Yeah because it is fucking hot. Was it desert? Oh yeah, you're from the desert. 180, 110. But I mean, it wasn't like two bags we were right next to a pool, like the whole time. So I did a lot of pool time, but yeah, Disneyland was epic. Like we had the best time there,

because dude, there was not that many people there. So I heard it was a great time to go, because I heard that the, how, like why? I heard, well the reason why I heard it was a great time to go, because I heard that the... How, like why? I heard, well the reason why I heard it was a good time to go was the timing of like coming into summer just still early. And then also that the Star Wars attraction, I heard it would attract so many people

at the rest of the park would be great to go ride it. Really? Yeah, well, so that was what was weird about it was, I thought that was gonna be like a zoo. Like, you couldn't get anywhere, but it was like pretty easy to get ever, there was like maybe an hour or wait if you were going to just wait for their one ride that they had there. So there's two rides. Oh, in the park. In the park, one of them's not open.

It's not going to be open for a while. So it's Star Wars ride. Two Star Wars. So they've created it. It's like a whole like tomorrow land. And so it's a whole other. It's a whole different space. It's so, it's really cool. Like, they did a good job, really good job. Like, it's just cool because it feels like you're just walking in some other planet, you know? And it has like a bar there, a cantina bar there. There's a huge line to get in.

So you could actually like wait to get like special drinks like at this cantina with all the music and everything. And then they had like a restaurant that was like all themed out and like cool in there. And then just so many different things to look at, different characters walking around like a stage. You know where Kylo Ren does this thing and like it was funny because they kept harassing me because I was wearing that Shry posted it. I was wearing the shirt about Han Solo. It's so like he like stopped me and he was like, are you a rebel?

So it's so like he like stopped me and he was like, are you a rebel? Are you in the rebel alliance and like getting after me and like his stormtroopers were falling everywhere I was going, I was like, dude, okay, I get it, it's a joke, you know what I mean? Like, all right, you guys, you know, leave me alone. They need to relax, they push you too far on me. Beat it, you know what I'm gonna do?

I'm gonna give my lightsaber out and destroy you. I mean, you have to just get all the character. Oh, fuck you. I know, I was just like at one point, it was funny. They were leaving, I'm like, Han forever. And then they started coming, like, walk turned around, so I'm walking after me, and I was like, okay, dude. So what's the right in there?

What are the, what are the, it's, so it's, I mean, basically, you, you're able to, there's like, I think there's six people, six people, they all go into basically a simulation of, of one of the, the Millennium Falcon spaceships. And so you all have your own kind of things that you have to do and push buttons and stuff to make it interactive. So is it like Star Tours was where you feel like you're going? It's like Star Tours, but then there's more interaction involved. So there's like ways that you push buttons and it does things.

So we were like the engineers in the back, and then you had the gunners in front of us, and then the driver, the pilots. And so like my kids were like, the gunners, and so they're shooting everything. So they're super stoked about that. And like, you know, me and Courtney are the engineers like, this is lame.

Yeah. That's the lane position in the ship. That's the thing about when you go on those things with your kids, you go in and you're like, I got to give the cool things of the kids. Yes. Yeah, I was like, I'll let you guys do it. Yeah, exactly.

So I guess you are, buddy. It's fine. I mean, it was a really cool right way better than StarTours. Like did a really good job with I like Star Tours too. Star Tours was interesting I remember the first time I did it still cool like it blew my mind because it's not moving that much But it makes you feel like you're oh, yeah going down a hill like really fast. Yeah, you're going light speed like shoot you forward and stuff Yeah, but that it was really really well done Really just so many things to look at in that whole like area I could have stayed there the whole time, but like everyone's pulling me everywhere else

But we we got on so many rides dude like it was crazy. We didn't need fast passes like we were just like jam That's weird. Why would that be? It's summertime. No idea. It's probably because you that just a whole new attraction Probably opened up the amount of people that were oh oh that's a good point to spread everybody out. Yes, yeah, yeah, I mean it sounds like it's much bigger than what I thought it was. I thought it was just like a ride was gonna be there, but it's a whole land. Yeah, it's a whole different section

and like I was like trying to peep around to see this other, I guess this other ride, it's gonna be like a, cause what I could see was there's tracks and everything, so it looked like there was a roller coaster there, but apparently this is supposed to be like, you know, their next kind of space mountain, like crazy, crazy ride, like really, like, you know, like pressing it for adults and stuff. Really?

I have yet to go on. I've never gone to space mountain. What? Yeah, never. No. Too late. I've done, I've done matterhorns, but still the best ride in Disneyland. Space mountain.

Still. Yeah, I've never done it. Scared? No, no, not anymore. That's not true. I was when I was a kid and then as an adult, I go and I just never went on it. That's interesting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is that because you haven't been that many times as an adult?

No, you know what's funny? I went with my daughter. Remember that year that I missed the father daughter dance with her? Well, that's right, you took her down in Disneyland. And I felt like I should just crushed her. I felt so bad. So then right, you took her down a Disneyland. And I felt like I just crushed her, you know, I felt so bad. So then she, I asked her how I could make it up to her

and she's like, take me to Disneyland, so I'm like done. Yeah. And but she was too young at that time to go on it. So there was no motivation or whatever, but next time I'll go check it out, but I was scared as a kid. Yeah. And like you don't see anything on my star.

So I changed it. So it's like Star Wars based now. So you're like chasing after these, like different like spaceships and everything. So it's pretty cool. Did you end up checking to see where my old gym was in Palm Desert? No, I went to a world gym there though,

because it was like right down the streets I walked to it and I went there a few times. That's one of the gyms that it used to fly or they're parking lot. Oh really? Yeah. I used to piss them off all the time. That's one of the gyms that used to fly or they're parking lot. Oh really? I used to piss them off all the time. That's great.

Yeah, that's cool. But some people knew of us there, which was interesting. Did they really? They did, but they weren't like looking around. It was funny. It was like, oh wow. Like, we haven't impacted everybody. There's a lot of interesting exercises going on here.

Oh, and the gyms? Yeah. Every time I work out in a big gym, I'm always like, I got to put my blinders on, man. Oh, man. Because it gets bad. And you're at a world, which is a higher quality. Yeah, you'd think, but like, there was only really like one squat rack and all the rest was like, it looked like a really low version of a 24, like, and it wasn't anything like

a world gym, like I would have thought. Interesting. Yeah. Probably because it's Palm Desert, you would assume a lot of retirees and- Yes, there was a lot of that. Yeah, and there was like a class going on, which was great of a lot of old people coming in, like sitting on chairs and like doing dumbbell stuff. So, it was not like a world gym, like, you know,

really, I was going in there to get my palm plums. That's awesome. Do you see a lot of swingers down there? Ah, I know that there's a lot of that. There's a big community down there. How do you know about this? I saw some documentary like years ago. Yeah, I think it's Palm Springs though.

He's in Palm Springs. How far away are they from each other? Close. Yeah, okay. Yeah, so same difference. Well, big gay community in Palm Springs. Oh, there's a street. There's like a gay street in Palm Springs. Yeah, we're in Palm Springs. We're in Palm Springs. I didn't know a street. There's like a gay street in Palm Springs.

Yeah, we're in our neighborhood. I didn't know. No, no, no, no. I don't know. I don't remember the name of it, but it's literally a street. And when you go down it, they have, okay, so you remember the store in Kmart when we were kids? They have a store there called Game Art on the street.

I'm not making this up. It's literally, I don't know if it's still there, but it's called Game Art. And it's got clothes and stuff like that. But yeah, you go down the street and it's all it's it's all for the LGBT Yeah, I didn't know because there was one store that had like the the front of it like had all the mannequins all like We're in the pride stuff like all in certain positions. I was like, oh, yeah, okay. That's what's going down That's impulse ring. Well, speaking of fits. I like your new shades, dude. Yeah, yeah, you knew glasses look good

Yeah, yeah, the new the new shades, dude. Yeah, your new glasses look good. Yeah, the new Felix Graze. So their prescription. Well, because now it's great, because I can actually be on my phone, and I don't feel like I get that tension headache after I'm on there too long. Not that it's excuse to use my phone more, but it's just because, dude,

I seriously am on this thing all the time, and I don't have my glasses available too, so there's two things I'm doing wrong, right? I'm trying to read this tiny text, but also like the blue light on top of it. So I'm stuck. Well, I got the sunglasses, because so now they also make sunglasses.

So you have your blue blocker day ones, the night ones which are the strongest ones, and then your sunglasses where the lenses are tinted, polarize the whole deal. So now I can wear those when I know. Justin years, is it, are they more expensive than the normal ones or is it the same price for those? Do you know the cost difference? I just know it was easy to just add, you just send out like your prescription like alongside it and then they just apply it to it. So it's pretty simple

how you can get that done. But yeah, there was a little bit, I think, of a price difference. Yeah, it makes sense for somebody who works on a computer a lot, has prescription glasses anyways, boom, switch it to the blue blocking ones so that you don't get that potential damage from the computer screen. Yeah. Double whammy right there. And you were saying that the prescription you think you mean to change, mean need to change, though? I had the same clarity that I have in my other glasses that I've used, you know, for a while, but I noticed that even I think now my eyes have still degraded a little bit over the years, because I was like, that was like a two year ago prescription. So, I think that you need to do it like every year or something. Yeah, you're just getting

old. I'm so, you gotta get the bifocals. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, get the one monocle. Now, you're just getting old. I'm so old. You're gonna get the bifocals. That's the best life. It's definitely an upgrade, but yeah, yeah, get the one monocle. Now, Sal, you went to racist Montana and then Colorado, right? Do you want to say that? I went to, we flew into live,

bro, you know, it's like that out there. Oh, bro, we flew into Bozeman and then we went into the North Entrance of Yellowstone. We stayed there for a few days, went down to the West Entrance of, we stayed there for a few days, went down to the West entrance of Yellowstone, stayed there a few days and then went down to Colorado for a wedding. Here's the thing that blows me away,

the diversity of this country in terms of just the difference of the way people are and the way things are, it's so wild, like I'm in the same country, but not. Like Montana is so sparsely populated. You know that you know how many people are in Montana the whole state? How much? As many people as there are in the city of San Jose. Really? And the whole state in the entire state. Super spread out. So everywhere you go and it's funny like I'll talk to the and the locals there are super friendly. Everybody just like you go buy something at the store and the guys

gonna have a 20 minute conversation with you. And I realize why, it's because there's no one else waiting behind me in line. It's just, you know, the guy's like, oh, it's a person. He was like, for interactions. Yeah, he's like, let's talk. Like, where are you from?

What's going on or whatever? So everybody's talking you. Very, very slow pace. It's very, very different. But it's funny because I'll tell them, you know, I'll say, oh, I'm gonna go look at this at Yellowstone. Like, I'm gonna go look at Old Faithful. And they'll be like, oh, well, be prepared for the crowds

and there's traffic and it's gonna be really busy. And I show up and I'm like, this is the crowd? Like 20 people. Yeah, there's a lot of people, but I'm used to, you know, I'm used to the Bay Area. Like traffic, there's five cars. I had to wait for five cars to get into the air. That's absurd.

Yeah, it was so nothing. It's like so little people. Then when we got the West entrance, there's this little town there, and we were walking around, and there was this big sign, and it had English writing, and then Chinese writing underneath it.

And it said, shoot guns, or whatever, I had a picture of an AK, and I'm like, oh yeah, the law is here a little different an AK, and I'm like, oh yeah, the law is here, a little different than California. So I walk in and the wall of this place was lined with every gun you can think of, and guns you didn't even know existed. Like, there were guns that I thought only existed in video games. Like, rifles that look, he's like, this isn't Israeli something,

and then he's like, you ever watched that movie? What's that movie? Where the girl kills like zombies, what's her name? She's really attractive. I can't remember. Anyway, she's holding this really interesting looking rifle and there's a post-rev it. He's like, we have that gun too.

So it's like, every gun you can imagine, and so I said, okay, what do I need to do to fire these or what's the deal, oh, it's just $30. Resident Evil? Yeah, Resident Evil. He's like $30. He's like $30 resident evil. Yeah, resident evil. Yeah, he's like 30 bucks He's like $30 you can fire anyone you want Which day would you fire do you guys fire a bunch stuff? Yeah, I fired a I think it's called a vector we fired a

Couple handguns and 9 millimeter 45s But it's funny because we go in there and Jessica's like, I've never shot like these, some of these before. And the guy's like, oh, I'll just show you. So like walks in, shows us real quick. And for like, okay, it's so different. You could fire fully automatic, but they didn't have their license yet. Cause they just bought the business.

So I asked the guy, so he apologized. He was like, look, I'm sorry. It's all semi-automatic right now. And I'm like, wait a minute, there's an option to do. He's like, yeah, but you gotta get the, we have to get our license or whatever. So that was cool. And then back to your comment, Adam,

we were at a bar just talking to this couple. And they're throwing around words, like it's 1975. There's a little bit of a different, he's like, oh, you're from California, and he's like, yeah, and so we're talking about, and he's like, well, here's what I don't like about California, and he's throwing out, I mean, he's saying some shit. I'm bombs.

Yeah, and I'm like, wow, what do I do? Like, what's this guy saying right now? So it was that, but it was Yellowstone is spectacular. It is fucking spectacular. So you guys flew into there, right? And then did you drive from on tentative Colorado? We did. So after we drove, we went from North Entrance, West Entrance, and then from there, we drove all the way down

to Vale, Colorado, which is an unbeautiful, beautiful town. Absolutely gorgeous. We went to a wedding. It was gorgeous there. It's funny because I forget when you're at altitude how much that impedes your performance if you're not used to it. So when we were in Vail, I did a circuit in their little hotel gym and Dying dude. I got light headed for like 30 minutes. I was like holy shit. And I forgot it was the altitude How long of a drive from Montana? How long did you guys get there?

It was 11 hours. 11 hours. Yeah, but it was fun. You know, because it's Jessica and I were on the car driving and having good conversation, listening to podcasts and doing our thing. And you know, every time you'd stop, you'd just see interesting people and talk about them. Did you do it all in one day or did you guys break it up? That drive we did in one day.

Oh wow. Yeah, but we stayed a few days in both areas of Yellowstone. We got to see that the Grand Prismatic, which is basically a spring that comes up and it's got all these vibrant, different colors because of the different bacteria that live there. And you can see, it's funny, you'll drive through Yellowstone and you'll just randomly see steam coming out of the ground somewhere or buffalo just chilling walking over here or bears or what?

Didn't see any bears. No bears. No, I wanted to see bears but I didn't. But yeah, we saw a lot of other animals, a lot of buffalo, which buffalo are massive. They're just, yeah, they're just huge beasts. And they're not scared of anybody, so like you drive up and they just chill You just recently did you Semidi and now you've done Yellowstone like how do you compare the two because I've never been a Yellowstone I've been in you so many a ton of time. You're Semidi is

Picked to rest right and one like one just big like beautiful Spot but it's small in comparison Yellowstone Yellowstone waystone, way more animals, you see way more wildlife, and it just spread out. So you have to drive to different areas. But I mean, they're both, they're both gorgeous. They're both absolutely beautiful. On the way down to, drive down to Colorado, we drove by like, you know, the Teton mountains or whatever,

which were just, I mean, it's crazy to see things like that in person. It doesn't look real. They're just so massive and crazy looking. But it was a good time. I drank way too much this vacation though. Oh, yeah, way too much. I know Justin was saying the same thing.

Yeah, dude. I mean, being around the pool, the heat, that was the thing though. It was like so draining. I would go to bed at like 8, 30 or 9 o'clock. I was just like, pass out and I'll call in the sun all day. Dude, it just zaps you, man. Well, because I was at altitude, there was one night where the first night we got to Vail, Jessica and I go to the bar downstairs from the hotel and we just start having great conversation with the employees there. I had two glasses

of wine smashed. I was like, I haven't been that drunk and a lump from two glasses of wine. It was silly. I did. Yeah, totally. Like we from the bar we walked to the restaurant, which is literally around the corner. And I'm like, babe, I don't know if I can make it to this this restaurant. She's like, wow, you're a pussy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever. Yeah, anyway. I was the opposite of you guys. And I was it was actually kind of nice. I didn't go I didn't go anywhere. First of all, the, the baby shower on Saturday, was it Saturday? Saturday, right? Yeah. Saturday. The baby wedding. Yeah, baby wedding. Yeah. It was, it was pretty epic, man. My, my, my brother and sister-in-law and my sister, they all got together and, and put together this thing. And, and Katrina and I didn't get to see it before.

So that was kind of the deal. There's going to be a- Well, the pictures you had were just, it looked amazing. It was over the top. Over the top. I mean, there was a live band. There was two live bands there. So we had a live early live band.

Then we have a later live band. And we had, I mean, the entrance to it was epic. And there was gifts for everybody that was there. There was, I mean, we received so many gifts that obviously I did not open it during the party because it ended up taking. So it loaded the truck and the rover completely all the way up. So like, both vehicles loaded full gifts and then took me the next day four hours to open it and then another four hours to clean up the mess from all the stuff. It's just my house is, how are you gonna keep your kid from being spoiled?

I know, right? So remember that, remember the talk was like, I'm not gonna buy him shoes, I'm gonna do this at, well, that's out the window because he's just got, I mean, I think he's got 30 pairs all the way. Really? But are they all like one size though?

Because he's gonna grow them. Right, right. Yeah, so they're different sizes. People bought different, people are pretty good. I think most people that have been to multiple baby showers They do a good job of buying you know different diapers sizes different close You can use them all yeah, so I mean obviously if everybody bought me infant stuff I'd be fucked after I cuz I mean I we we filled up three dressers full of clothes

So he's got the next probably you know three years of his life of of clothes He's got diapers till he's 15 the next probably three years of his life of clothes. He's got diapers till he's 15 if he needs them. It was over the top. It was absolutely beautiful. And real cool. Katrina was, because she knew I was like not like into the whole baby shower thing. I'm like, come on. I don't know.

This is your thing, whatever that. And I was trying to convince her just to do it with her girlfriends. And she's like, no, no, it's not gonna be a baby shower. We're gonna call it a baby celebration. There will be nothing that says baby showers. Not a baby shower, it's a baby celebration. So that was like the theme.

Were there any games? You guys playing any of this traditional games? None of them were traditional, but they played three games. I can't even remember the, I mean, I didn't have a moment. It reminds me of being at a wedding, where I'd never sat still. I never was not talking to somebody,

but I never felt like I got a chance to hang out with anybody. I mean, like my, couple of my childhood best friends were there. I see them the most, and so they were there the entire time. I felt like I never even talked to them. Because I had so many different friends and her family that were around that it just, I didn't wanted to make sure I made my rounds

and talked to everybody. And when you talk about 150 plus people, I could just do those things exhaust you. Cause I know how you are with a lot of people. Yeah. And I, there was a point where it started to slow down in the evening time. And Katrina and I, my feet were like on on fire like just swollen from walking around all day saying with hers obviously She's pretty old. Yeah my heels

We kicked our shoes off and we were soaking them in the pool sitting next to each other and I finally had a moment I leaned over to I said you have to take me home. I was like I can't I can't go any further I can't go more I can't do anymore So she's like, okay, you know, let me say a couple of good buys and then we'll get out of here. So we actually got out at a decent hour, but I was, I was exhausted. So what are you gonna do to keep your kid from getting spoiled?

Are you gonna try and inject like challenges and shit? Well, obviously all this stuff, he's not even gonna remember. But we did talk about like, my buddies did this for his, for their, their son's first birthday, and I like this where they actually, they haven't son's first birthday, and I like this, where they actually, they haven't, his first birthday was now, what, three, four months ago, and they haven't even opened all his gifts.

So they open one and let them play with it for a while, do his thing this and that, and then when he's over it, it goes out of the house, it's out, they either donate it, sell it, throw the trash, and then that way, they don't just accumulate all this stuff. So I kind of, I like that idea. I like this.

And plus I told Katrina, I would like to tell the family before we get to, like this stuff was needed though. I mean, obviously I have an, I got an access to a lot of things, but man, I didn't realize how much shit a kid needs, like until, until we got all this. Hold him, man. You just wait till you go on a trip with a kid. And you know we got all this. Hold you, man. You just wait till you go on a trip with a kid.

And you go to the beach. Yeah, it's silly. And I have to say, I actually have had, and it hasn't stopped. It's still happening every day. Every day I get something from Amazon, and I got a shout out to whoever's done this, because some people send stuff, and I don't even know who it's from. So people have gone on and found her registry on buy-by-baby and whatever, whether one's that she's on,

and people are just randomly sending us stuff. So, and sometimes they'll get a box, and it doesn't even say who it's from, it's just an Amazon box, and it's like, here's another thing. And it's because she registered like three, four months ago. And so people just keep buying stuff on the registry, and I think she's got just about damn near everything that was on the registry. And I didn't realize how many things that she, I mean, just stuff I wouldn't think about.

Well, so there's some stuff that's, like, they have the, like, you know, the wipes for your kid. They have a butt wipe warmer. Yeah, we got that. Yeah. Yeah. Now, when my kids, when my kids got that, I'd be the line. I was like, no, they're going to get a cold butt wipe because that's, yeah, we're be the line. I was like, no. They're gonna get a cold butt wipe.

Because that's, yeah, we're going too comfortable. Feel the pain. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? I mean, we got like three different types of carriers. We got two different types of strollers. We got three different car seat types. We've got all types of bottle warmers, bottle things, bottle dryers, bottle like,

fucking everything, storage things for it. Like, it's just, it just blew my mind how much stuff this kid's gonna need. I figured you guys would get a lot of stuff. That's why I, did you see what we sent you guys? Yeah, you did the Molly Mates, which I appreciate that. Yeah, I got you gift certificate for someone

to clean your house, he's gonna get so much stuff with that many people. Yeah, Justin and Courtney did the laying down blanket with the toy thing. Which is cool. Uh, Doug did the car seat and the new guys did the Molly mate. Uh, which was great. Uh, so many cool. I had some people get random stuff. One of my clients got me this really cool. I thought it was really clever. It was a, uh, his first piggy bank. It was a Tiffany's piggy bank, she knows I'm bougie. So she, it's a piggy bank and it was a cute letter that was like, you know, if Maximus is gonna grow up in the Bay Area, he needs to start saving now. And then it was his first penny, it was taped to it.

I thought that was pretty clever. So that was cool. Is it like an old school piggy bank that you have to break? Totally. Yeah, yeah, it's a nice, whatever glass or ceramic or whatever they're made out of. You know, I was just gonna give you guys, get Bitcoin. It was my idea, court was courting shut that down.

That's true. Bitcoin looks like it's doing this weird up and down. Oh, it's on its way up right now. Oh, it rebounded big time over the last couple of weeks. Well, I mean, I think I'm sure the news of Facebook starting their own coin had to make, and Facebook's backing theirs up with money. So it's for sure, it's obviously gonna be a lot more.

I think it's inevitable we're going this direction. I still stand by what I said since day one, regardless of what's happened to your Bitcoin, if you run out and bought it after I told you, I think the technology is going to stay and it's something that we will use in the future, whether it's legal or illegal how we use it, it's inevitable it's coming.

It's only a matter of time. It's not going it's coming. It's only a matter of time. It's not going away. No, it's only a matter of time before you see like Facebook and Amazon and Google start using it for themselves and even if they have to back it with money, they will. I think it's just the future of how we'll make exchanges virtually. Crazy. Hey, did you guys see what happened to Laira Wheels? Yes.

Yes, it's towards Bison. Yeah, was it, was happened to Laire wheels? Yes. Oh, yes, tours by. Yeah, was he doing the Atlas stones? Yes, I feel bad because we kind of called that, that it's this dude. Well, he's the maniac. The guy just kept getting stronger and stronger and stronger. You know, you're gonna hit a threshold. Well, I remember, you remember when I was on that kick

with the, I don't know what got, maybe it was when we were riding strong that got me on that kick. I don't remember what got me on the kick of like doing the sandstones, the sandbags or whatever. And I was doing that 200 pound bag and I was throwing it up until like a five foot ledge. And at that time too was that some of the peak

I was out of my dead lifting like around five, 50 other times. So I was pretty strong. I was being able to pull a lot off the ground. And I told you that my biceps were more sore that I've ever felt in my, to a point where they, they ached and hurt so bad. And it was only from doing like 10 of those 200 pounds. Because of the amount of the emitting factor. It's the amount of tension that you're

exerting at that point at the at the extent, almost that extended range. Yes. You never, that's what it told me total sense. You never do that with curls or whatever. And it's all isometric. Right. And this just goes to show you that muscles have different capacities with different types of contractions. And who trains their biceps with heavy isometric, almost fully extended, you know, arm is fully extended.

So I am not surprised that a guy that strong went and did something like that and the tour couldn't hang out. Totally. Because that's exactly what I felt after I did. And I only did like 10. And I did 200 pounds. I have no idea what size stone he was doing. I'm sure he was lifting something much harder.

Yeah. And it was the very last one when I said the heaviest. Yeah. And just you don't, if you don't train that way and you don't like to your point cell. And then the rest of your body is so strong, you think, oh, no big deal, I'm going to rip up this 300 pounds. It's because what happens is you have, you have those natural governors in your body, those those, those, it's almost like a,

a rev limiter. And if you constantly train for strength, part of the reasons why you get so strong, one of the reasons is that your body's rev limiter, or it starts to allow you to rev higher. So for example, an Olympic athlete will be able to exert 90 something percent of their absolute potential for strength. Whereas the average person maybe only, you know, can only get maybe 50%. And it's to protect your body.

Well, if you're a guy like Larry Wheels and you're constantly testing your body, his body's rev limiter is set quite high. So now he does a movement he's not used to without that natural governor and the risk of injury is much higher. Of course, being stronger, the fact that

he might be anabolic lean hands probably is, that tends to cause more of these injuries types of injuries to happen. Here's the thing with this too, and I hope this isn't the case with them, because I wish them all the luck on the world. But a lot of times you'll see people like this, and there's one injury, and then that's the beginning.

And it just starts this chain reaction of one injury after another because they don't give their body enough time to kind of. And it's a whole time to heal, yeah. And it goes that whole recovery process. I know, I hope he does put a lot of effort in that direction. Well, not to mention, it's almost inevitable when you have a serious injury like that

that the other side of the body starts to compensate for that injury. And then if you keep pressing limits when you're like a strength training or a power athlete like that, or any athlete for that matter, it's almost, it's like what we just saw happen for those that are in the sports

that saw what happened to DeMarcus cousins. I mean, DeMarcus cousins blows out as a keelie, spends an entire year rehabbing it is back only what, three months with us and then tears is quad. And it's just, you know, what ends up happening is the other part of your other parts of your body, no, the brain doesn't forget there was a major injury there. And it's very, very tough when you're in the middle of doing something explosive or athletic to make sure the body is being used balanced in the movement. The body is just going to prioritize the thing that's stronger and hasn't been injured and what ends up happening is that you overload

another part of the body and then it ends up going. Well, what people need to realize is that the line, there's a very thin line between top performance and injury. Okay, think about it this way. It's like when you're racing a car and you're taking your turns, let's say you're racing Formula One and you're taking those turns, you are pushing the car at its absolute limit. And anything more, your car will skid out. Anything more than you lose traction. That's how you win is you push the limit and everybody else is pushing their limits as well. So with these athletes at these

levels, they're pushing their bodies and they're balancing on a razor's edge of between maximum performance and then if they just tip over the other end, they hurt themselves. So they're always playing on that edge. And so once you start to hurt yourself, you're at a balance. Things start going at a balance and now that edge is different so once you start to hurt yourself, you're at a balance. Things start going at a balance. And now that edge is different. And the problem is people give themselves enough time to find where that edge is. They know where the old edge is. They go up and bump up against it. Nope. Now you can't do that anymore. Now you tore this or you tore that or, you know, something else or the same injury keeps happening over and over again,

which you see with a lot of our, you know, our peers in the space. So it's kind of crazy. This is why I'm okay with us letting Kevin Durant walk, which was great. So that all happened yesterday was all the big news with the NBA. There's all kinds of stuff going on with the warriors shaking it up and Kevin Durant had the opportunity to get a max contract with us, which I was not excited about because if you go back in history and you look at every single athlete, every basketball player that has ever

had an Achilles tear when they rehabbed and came back, not a single one, not one has ever came back and returned to their level, what they were doing, rebound scores, assists. No one has ever came back. I don't know that. Yeah, whatever level they have. Some of them came back and done all right and been okay for a couple of years or whatnot like that, but no athlete is it?

So it's a bad gamble you think. Oh, totally. But he's still considered one of the best ever, even injured. And so, you know, the nets gave him a huge contract. And it was $116 million for four years. Holy cow. Knowing that next year he'll set the bench

the entire year. He'll still make that money. So that we could have been hit with that contract which would tie up all kinds of money and we wouldn't be able to go off and do other trades. So personally, I'm... So you think that was good? Yeah, it's great for us to see that.

It's unfortunate for him and I wish him the best of luck to come back, but statistically speaking, yeah, when you get a major injury injury like that you're never the same never dude So I read something crazy while I was on my trip when I have opportunities to To read more oftentimes I'll get into weird subjects or whatever and I was thinking one night about how How there are things that we have done for thousands of years, and you'll find in multiple cultures, that we then later on with modern medicine laugh at, but then later on with more studies we find, oh wait a minute, there was something to that.

Fasting is an example of that. Fasting has been practiced by every major religion. It's been practiced on every continent. For a long time, we laughed at fastings, said it was stupid, there's no health benefits, why are people doing this? Despite the fact that for thousands of years, people have practiced this, and now of course studies show that there's benefits. So I'm sitting there and I'm thinking to myself,

like what else? What other things did we do for a long time that are cross-cultural, that people did for a long time, that we laugh at? So I started thinking, and you know what popped into my head? Bloodletting. You guys know what bloodletting is? It's like blood donating. Oh my god. Yeah, that's like a long time ago.

Yes. So the Chinese practiced it. Of course, Europeans practiced it for a long time. And they used leeches at one point. Yeah, I want to say the Greeks and the Romans even practiced it at one point. Yeah, I want to say, I think the Greeks and the Romans even practiced it at one point. And so the belief was that if you were ill, that bleeding yourself out would get rid of the illness. And so people practiced this for a long time and sometimes with terrible results.

Sometimes people would bleed themselves to death. They used like pints and pints. Yeah, and they would use leeches or they would cut themselves. Barbers were the ones that actually did bloodletting in medieval Europe. This is why barbershops to the stay have the striped pole you see outside of barbershops. Because barbers used to hang their bandages,

their bloody bandages. No way. Yeah, that's why that's the way. Get out of here. Yeah, that's where that comes from. No shit. I had no's why that's the way. Get outta here. Yeah, that's where that comes from. No shit. I had no idea about that. Yeah, so I thought, I wonder if there's any benefits

to bloodletting, because why would people do this for as long, I'm sure people believe certain things, and they tend to be back then and they're wrong or whatever, but for people to continue doing these things, oftentimes there's some kind of a benefit, otherwise they would stop, right? Like why would people keep fasting for thousands of years if there's no benefits?

And maybe they're explaining the benefits wrong, but so I looked it up, and believe it or not, donating blood actually has some health benefits. So obviously, it's not recommended that you go bleed yourself at home or anything like that. Please, yes, sir. But they're finding that, they found that there's actual some benefits. So obviously, it's not recommended that you go bleed yourself at a home or anything like that. Please, yes. But they're finding that, they found that there's actual some benefits. So here's one of

the benefits. When you get rid of, when you lose blood, when you go donate blood, you lose iron. Obviously, there's lots of iron in the blood. This high iron levels in the blood speed up the proliferation of bacteria. So if you have a bacteria, so they did these studies where they took animals, for example, and they would have some, or they would reduce their blood by having them, you know, like bloodletting them or whatever, and by others having, you know, not doing it. And the blood-letting, the ones that reduced their blood because of the lower iron, the spread of the bacteria was slowed down.

So there actually is some, some health benefits in the sense of fighting off disease, which is interesting. There's also decreased risks of cancer from people who donate blood often. They found an 88% reduction in hardening of the arteries and heart attack risks from people who donate percent reduction. Wow. It may increase insulin sensitivity. A study by the University of California San Diego found that on average, you burn about 650 calories when you donate blood. So there's a calorie burning effect.

Kind of interesting, right? It's really fascinating. It's a fascinating. It's kind of fascinating. So many of the benefits are for men. Men seem to get a lot more of these benefits than women do, but this makes sense. Well, because we have more iron, right? Because we don't have a period. Women lose blood naturally every month.

And so they find that men tend to have better results from this practice. But anyway, it's fascinating, because I'll sit there thinking, I'm like, what did people do a long time ago for a long time that we think is stupid and I Googled health benefits of bloodliding? I found all these studies, I was like,

get the fuck out of here. That's crazy. There's no way. Yeah, so for real, is that weird? That is weird. Yeah, really, really very interesting. Yeah, yeah. So are you guys getting tagged all over Instagram

with this documentary or whatever? Oh, you're the Arnold one. Yeah, they're talking about, I mean, it was basically like going on some kind of a, like a more of a, it's not a vegan, but I smell vegan probably. It is vegan though. I got, I went down the rabbit hole. My smell bulge. So it's him and in, not Cameron Diaz.

What's his name? The director for Avatar. James Camer, James Cameron. So they did this film together. So it's like a vegetarian vegan. Now I watched the trailer and it's about plant, it says plant-based, not vegan. So, and now this is off the trailer.

I haven't watched it, hasn't come out yet. Well, so I went on Instagram and they're, they have an actual account for this movie. I forget what it's called again, the greatness or the change. Game changers. And most of the materials there were basically promoting vegan athletes and like why, you know,

they're so successful, once they changed over to this vegan diet. I think what they're gonna say, based off of the trailer, is that a diet that is plant-based, but still includes animal products, is healthy, and that people are over-consuming animal products. There is some evidence that shows that they may be right on some of that stuff,

but I really wanna watch it before I pass, judgment because trailers can be sensational, totally sensationalized, so I wanna watch the whole thing. Well, that was my initial thought when I went speculating right now. Yeah, yeah We're spec it. I that was my initial thought tune and based off of what like Arnold was talking about it on to he was like I still eat meat, you know, just not as frequently as I used to but you know going down the rabbit hole of like all of the rest of the stuff They're promoting it was very heavy vegan propaganda. Well, here's where my speculation is going ahead. I speculate that they're going to release vegan supplements

alongside this type of a documentary that Arnold, who's already invested in supplement companies in the past, is going to come out with a new vegan line of products. And this is the way that they're going to drive it. That would be my guess. That would be brilliant too. And that would be Arnold. Yeah.

Because he's a business guy. He's a very smart business guy. And you could definitely make the case. Which also make the sense would make sense why he's came out already and talked about not going full vegan, but limiting his meat, because he still has his probably, his meat-based, or his way protein, like a week off of meat or something.

Yeah, so now you can sell both sides as well. I wouldn't be, that's a good call sell. That's probably, I smell that. To me, I smell a rat in the whole thing. I don't know if it's, but again, we'll wait, we'll watch it and then we can pick it apart after that. The thing with diets is it's simple. It's not as complicated and specific as they make it seem.

Like it's not about carnivores, not about plant-based, not about vegan. It's about whole natural foods and not eating too much. Really, if you boil it down, that's kind of what it boils down to. And eating the appropriate amount of essential nutrients. And there's a lot of conflicting information out there in terms of like they bring up all these environmental

factors of how shitty it is to raise livestock and all that. If you look at the whole thing down the line. You gotta look at everything. Well, if we weren't 65% of us obese and eating five McDonald's Cheebers a day, that wouldn't be a fucking problem either. If everybody was just eating a freaking ribeye steak

and probably be okay. You're probably gonna cram that on me. Yeah, sorry. No, I'm not a fan. Have you guys seen the show alone? No. That's a really cool, it's on History Channel, it's not a documentary, it's a reality series where they drop 10, 10 contestants.

Oh, you talked about it. Yes. So the new season's out and they're in the, they're in the like up in the Arctic. And. What the hell? Yeah, it's pretty cool actually. I feel like someone's gonna die.

Yeah, it's cool. It's a good one. I'm on like, I think it's on episode fire. Like check it out, History Channel alone. I watched the first season and I think the second season fell off of it. My two best friends, they're the like the nature guys and all of it.

They love it. And the lot we were together last weekend and they were just like all the new seasons I watch naked and afraid all the time, but that's I mean that's kind of like not that crazy Well, why it sparked just talking about this I just think about like how we evolved this humans and it's just you know you would fucking die Yeah, if you were to if you only tried to you would not in nature you would never find a if you only tried to. You would not, in nature, you would never find a, you can't survive.

And you would never find plants that grew naturally that were nutrient-dense, right? It was sustaining. And you see examples, and I know this show is like a, a small example of what that was probably like. These people are, they get 10 tools, right? They get dropped in on this place, and it's like, you get 10 tools.

I'm on cell phone. Yeah, you get like a bow, a hatchet, like a 10 of 10 tools, right? They get dropped in on this place, and it's like, you get 10 tools. I'm on cell phone. Yeah, yeah. You get like a bow, a hatchet, like a 10 of these tools, and they have to like, figure it out. You got to make your own fishing pole if you're going to try and fish the water. You have a bow, so you could try and go hunt moose or get something. But they're mostly eating, you know, setting traps for mice. They're eating mice and squirrels. Root and sir.

Anything they can get their hands on. You wanna know how, you know how we all train for a goose. And you know how we always see like ads for like the new superfood, and it's always like a, some kind of a berry or a plant. No, no, it's insects.

Yeah, the reality is that the superfoods, if you wanna look at pure nutrient density, are animal, you know, you get an organ meat, find me any plant that's equivalent to like liver from an animal in terms of nutrient density. Well, you just can't. And you see that in these contestants, they're like, you know,

because forging berries is really easy. They find an area and then, but they're like, you know, they're like seven days in of like living off of berries and like, oh my God, I just, I just, you'll die. Yeah, and then they get a mouse and they're excited. You know, it's the squirrel and they're so excited.

Because it changes their entire mood. Totally. Their body is just craving it 100%. This quas brought to you by Organify. For those days you fall short on getting your organic veggies or whole food nutrition, Organify fills the gap with laboratory tested certified organic super foods

to help give your health and performance the added edge. Try Organify totally risk free for 60 days by going to Organify.com. That's lrga-ni-fi.com and use a coupon code MindPump for 20% off at checkout. Alright our first question is from Halley Cashman. What are your thoughts on weight vests? What workouts or exercises are they appropriate for? You look really serious. Ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I like weight vests for body weight type exercises

because they allow you to add resistance to, and I mean, this might be a good topic to kind of bring up is just the value of these closed chain type movements where you're moving your body, the muscle building effects that you get from them, especially when you're not, when you never do them, which a lot of people don't do them very well. I think it's an incredible tool for progression to that.

Yes, I don't think that you should throw it on right away and do that. No, no, no, it's gotta be appropriate. And I also don't think there, it's a great idea to put them on and go running with them. Which I see a lot of that also. Yeah, there's a very small percentage of people that I think would benefit from weighted vest running. And those are people who need to train to be able to run with weight.

So like if you're in the military and you're part of your training, when you're out in the field or whatever, you have this heavy pack on. Yeah, you have to make sure. Yeah, you have to carry carcasses. That's the old theory was that make your training hard. So when you go do this event, it's easier. And so that was where it got popular.

It got popular with, throw the 50 pound weight vest on you, run your three miles a day or whatever like that. Guess what? When you go to your competition and run your three miles, you don't have 50 pounds on you, you're going to feel light as a feather and you're going to blast through it. The problem is that running is already really rough on the joints and most people don't have good mechanics running

and then you throw 50 pounds on your back way good. And it changes your mechanics. It changes the process of it, you know, dealing for the excess load. So when you go to actually run, it's gonna, you're actually gonna like change the way that you run and you're gait a little bit. Right, but if I am gonna use it,

the way I would use it, example, like I've had this before, if someone's reached out, they love the Maps Anywhere program. They're somebody who is always on the go, traveling, they always work out in hotel rooms. And so Maps Anywhere has been like their Anywhere program. They're somebody who is always on the go, traveling, they always work out in hotel rooms. And so Maps Anywhere has been like their go to program and they keep recycling through it.

And they've gotten really good at it and they've asked me like, you know, what are one of the ways that I could progress this program? Now we've built in progressions within it for most people but someone who's been running it for maybe a year or two what's a way that they can progress that? A great way is to just simply add a weight vest.

Yeah, and I think that weight vests have come a long way because I was in on the first adopters of the weight vest where they had their big and floppy and like really like square, didn't like form fit your body. Now they have like products out there. I think it's like heath bleats, something like that. Where it actually form fits and they are able to like Really like place the weight in ideal places. So it feels like it's you know

It's somewhat more balanced when you go to do all these like body weight type exercises Yeah, you want a weight vest that's form fitting because for example, let's say you're doing a handstand push up Which? Very rare that you need push ups. which, very rare that you'll need. You just pushups. Yeah, very rare that you'll need to wear a weight vest or our need resistance to do a handstand pushup. It's, there's a lot of resistance anyway.

Yeah, good Lord, actually, 15 of those. But if you're super strong, and I've seen people do this with a really, really strong, though where are these really, really well formed weight vest and then do movements like that, pushups, excellent with the weight vest. Again, you gotta be able to do them well withoutformed weight vest and then do movements like that. Pushups, excellent with the weight vest. Again, you gotta be able to do them well without the weight vest and do a lot of them

without the weight vest before you add it on. Pull ups, another great exercise. Leg exercises, these are great. So if you're looking to build strength stamina and do things like walking lunges, side lunges, caustic squats, that kind of stuff, weight vest is a- Oh, it dips, pull ups. I mean, it's just a great option

because like if you were to add weight, like add chains, like it's a little more form fitting. I like it. I prefer it when I do weighted pull ups or weighted dips especially. Yeah, yeah. But I mean, this again, to go back to the body weight type exercises or close chain type movements,

close chain meaning, like a push up is, my hands are on the up is I'm, my hands are on the floor and I'm moving my body around. Open chain would be I'm holding a bar moving my hands around. And they both have their benefits. And a lot of the, you'll see a lot of the benefits if you only ever do one style and then you move to the other. One of my favorite things to have clients do is to take my clients who just typically lift weights and they'll follow some of our other programs. And then I'll tell them,

I want you to do four weeks of maps anywhere. Maps anywhere, it utilizes almost all body weight movements. There are some band exercises. And of course, I always get the, well, am I gonna lose progress? Because I'm not using weights. I'm like, no, no, no. You're so used to working out with weights,

try this and watch what happens. And every single time they come back and they're stronger, more fit. And here's what I like. It's the functionality of body weight type movements. Your ability to manipulate your body really improves the stability of your joints in a different way. Well, Justin, you did a whole year of body weight training, didn't you? I did.

And I did add weight to it. So I did add, I progressed my way up through it with, you know, adding, but my weight vest at the time was one of those kind of funky ones. So I'd avoid pushups and I would avoid certain exercises because my weight vest would flop quite a bit. But yeah, like added intensity through, you know, ring training and like, you know, suspension type training and things like that where I could

increase the gravitational forces and the angles would intensify it substantially. So yeah, it was kind of cool because you had to get more creative with those types of moves to really add that certain progression to it. Yeah, one of my favorite type of workouts with the weight vest, I'll put the weight vest on, and then I would cycle through pull ups, body rows, push ups, dips, bench dips, squats, lunges, and I would just keep the vest on the entire time.

And the pump you get from something like that is pretty intense. And it's cool because you don't need a lot of equipment. You just have your weight vest, maybe a pull up bar in your set. Considering that you did it for a year, Justin, what were some of the things that you noticed? Because you also, obviously, before that, you'd been weight training traditionally for a really long time and then also, you get on this kick review. Oh, my joints felt way better.

My joints felt like very... I felt more athletic in terms of like being supported in all different directions in my movement. And it just felt like I could get up and move way better, more fluid. But also too, I think that just the overall connectivity to my body, I had way better body awareness. And that was the biggest takeaway I think. I think doing it for that amount of time was a little bit excessive, but I was just trying to challenge myself to see how far I could go in terms of

like, you know, progressing my way through training and just intensifying the process of that without obviously getting into like gymnastics where that's like the ultimate version of it. Well, I know there's some like, Callis, then it can bodyweight camps that, I mean, they believe that they swear by it. Yeah, they believe you shouldn't even touch weights until you own all bodyweight movements, you know, before you even think about that.

I can see some of the... I think they pair well. I can see some of the rationale. Right, I think I could argue that. I could argue. I could argue either side. I think it's just that. I could argue. I could argue either side. I think it's just a valuable way to exercise that we people nowadays don't, if you're a

gym rat, you just don't do a lot of body weight. That's a real takeaway for me. The real takeaway is that there's probably a good portion of people that just don't ever do it that only that would get a lot of value from doing body weight. It's funny because the same people that do that with weights and then say, oh, body weight exercises don't build that much muscle, you ask them if they do pull-ups from their back and they all say, yeah, so yeah, best exercise ever is pull-ups. It's like, I mean, there's a lot of movements you can do with your body that are closed

chain, like dips, handstand pushups. Like you could be super strong with an overhead press. Go do some handstand pushups. Get good at those. Watch what happens to your shoulders. You know what I mean? It's crazy. So, but as far as the weight vests are concerned, it's funny. I saw this once in a gym.

There was a guy wearing a weight vest and he was doing curls and tricep press downs. That totally misses the whole point. Well, you know, some people do that with it. And they do that. And I've also seen the ankle weights that used to be popular right back in the like the like late 80s, early 90s. Yes.

Is wrist weights and ankle weights. They just wear them all day long. So your body is working burning more calories. And so then in turn, hopefully burning more body weight of cause and injury. Yeah. I got bad movement patterns. Just throw a weight on top of that and see what happens.

Yeah. All day. All day. Accelerated. Next question is from Brenna TM. How do you prep for a night of drinking alcohol? What's the best way to recover and continue with progress? Oh boy. Now I used to have what I thought was really good advice for not putting on body fat for this, but I remember learning later on that it's probably a dangerous piece of advice.

I know. Well, no, what I used to do personally, and this is, you know, for the listener, I'm not recommending it anymore because I think I learned later on that this is a dangerous thing that you can do is I would fast leading up to that day. So it hits you faster. Yeah, and I wouldn't want to drink less. Yeah, you drink way less. I would drink way less,

hit you 10 times harder with half the amount of drinks. And I loved it. It worked really, really well for me, but I can't remember who we were with. I want to say it was like, I don't know why I think it was Dr. Andy Galpin or somebody and he was breaking down. What happens when you drink alcohol in a fasted state.

I forgot what happens to the liver and what happens inside of your body that is not ideal. That's how people get sick, man. Yeah, and so the recommendation was that if you drink that you should always have it with food so that kind of debunked my. Have you guys ever experienced that? Where you just need all day then then you go have a drink, and it's like one drink. Oh yeah. That's why I was hammered, right? That's why I was like my go too.

That was my move was, I would fast the day before, so I would give a good 15 to 24 hour fast, leading up to the time that I knew I'd be at a bar but you drinking or doing something like that. And I would only need one to three drinks, and I would get that drunk feeling that I was probably chasing. And then if I would eat any additional calories,

it's okay because I've been faster for last 15, 18 hours, so I wouldn't put on much body fat from it either. So yeah, I was always trying to outlast the party. You know, like keep it going. So I'm like trying to like keep hydrated. So I'm like, yeah, I would drink like two or three drinks, and then I would drink water in between every time and like no hangover as a result of that.

Like most of it was derived, like most of my aches and you know the achiness and that stuff that you feel the next day was because I was so dehydrated. Yeah, you can, I mean, here's a couple of things that I've done personally that have worked, and then some stuff that is backed by, I guess, science that would say it works. So what I do is I like to use activated charcoal.

I like to have a couple capsules with maybe every drink or every other drink, and of course drink water in between, seems to really help avoid the hangover. And then the other thing too is you could take ibuprofen kind of prophylactically. So before you go to bed, before you have your hangover. And then the other thing too is you could take ibuprofen kind of prophylactically. So before you go to bed, before you have your hangover, take your ibuprofen before you go to bed, and then wake up the next day and not have. You got us on that. And I would say that was a major game changer for me. Like I used, that was, I didn't drink for what the first two years of mind

pump. I have like super anti-drink guy in the last year and a half, I've drank more with you guys and I probably have in the previous five to ten years and that was because of that hack because you started handing us charcoal. You'd be like, oh, you'll be fine. Just have a couple charcoal and that's the part that the reason why I really hated drinking was, you know, the five drinks that I would have while I'm having fun, not so big of a deal. Like, fine, that was, I was okay with that. Even though sometimes I feel a little bloated and stuff from it, it was the next day where it just killed my day.

All I wanted was some greasy food, I didn't want to work out. And then it seemed like if I decided to drink one day, it would set back my results or whatever I was chasing aesthetically for a week. You know, so it was like, man, it's not worth it to me. It's not worth it to fuck up a week of training and dieting all for one day of fun.

It needs to be a really major event for me to justify that. Well, now that you've introduced a charcoal to me, I'm capable of having three to five drinks, have some charcoal, and I feel like a champion. And I'm wondering if it's because it helps with the gut. You know what I mean? I'm wondering if, because I know what charcoal does,

it absorbs whatever it comes in contact with. I don't think it reduces the amount of alcohol that's in your system, anything like that. What I think it does is it just prevents the gut issues that tend to happen from alcohol, because alcohol isn't, when you drink one drink, probably not a big deal. But most people, if they have four or five drinks in a night,

kind of fucks up their stomach a little bit. And they might not have terrible, you know, gut issues, you know, diarrhea, whatever, but they might notice a little blow, a little indigestion, or whatever. I think that that's a big part of the reason why it feels so shitty the next day. And the charcoal prevents that.

Like I don't get the bloat, I don't get the, you know, the bad gut or whatever. And I wake up the next day and I tend to feel better with the activity of charcoal. So this is all anecdote, by the way. I don't know if there's any studies to support the charcoal. I would combine your advice with my old advice, which is I wouldn't push somebody to the extreme of fasting

like I was doing before, but I think there is some value to knowing if you're going to go drink five, six drinks that are 150 calories a piece or more potentially to probably have a lower calorie day heading into that. So you know, if my, my, your daily caloric intake is, let's say, 2500 calories, then maybe having a 1500 calorie day, the day before knowing that I'm probably gonna over consume by six or 700 calories. And then also taking that into consideration, the day of drinking, I'm probably eating on the lighter side,

maybe not fasting, but I'm not gonna be, oh, you gotta be careful of over-consuming on a day of drinking, which drinking tends to promote that already. So it does because alcohol is a very powerful inhibitor of just the way you, how you limit yourself for anything, what do they call that? That's like, I can't think of the word right now,

but it lowers inhibitions, all inhibitions. So you're more likely to sleep with someone that you would not have slept with, had you not had alcohol, you're more likely to say some shit that you would not have slept with had you not had alcohol. You're more likely to say some shit that you would not normally have said had you not drink alcohol. And if you normally prevent yourself from eating garbage because it's a your health conscious, that same part of the brain that is, you know, that that kind of prevents you from doing

things that you're not supposed to do is now drunk. It's not drunk. It lowers your inhibitions. So somebody who normally would not eat a pizza at 2am, it's not that it necessarily makes you hungrier. It's that it reduces inhibitions. So now it's 2am. We're like, fuck it.

Let's get a pizza. I always feel like shit if I have an eating though and drink, that's like a horrible combo. For a lot of people, I would say that. Like at least something. Yeah. Now the next day, caffeine is a great way to help you feel a little of people. I would eat like at least something. Yeah. Now the next day caffeine is a great way to help you feel a little bit better.

It's a vasoconstrictor. Lots of water. It can prevent the headache, lots of water. I would also sometimes have a electrolyte packet and I would drink some water with electrolytes before I went to bed. I'd be profan of course before going to bed to help prevent that inflammation.

Milk thistle, it's an herb helps deliver with detoxifying, so theoretically, that may help. But I don't think anything's gonna help you as much as just drinking kind of responsibly. I remember when I was younger, and you know, when you're younger and you just push it past, past the reasonable limit, that's when you feel like shit. And if you have a reasonable amount, you'll be back. That way of drinking is what kept me from ever getting in like crazy good shape.

I mean, it really did. Like I for the long for most of my 20s, you know, I was in, you know, quote unquote, good shape, but I had never reached that like sub six percent and magazine cover look that I wanted, and I couldn't figure it out and what it was is I just, I'd be in our weekends, I would party, you know, it was in my 20s, I would go out and I would go hard, but I'd be, because I was in the gym the next day, and my head I'm like, well, I'm still working out, I'm still doing everything I'm supposed to,

and I'm good the rest of the week, but it was enough to keep me from progressing. I heard, have you heard about thinning like people drinking like with alcohol? No, I don't know that, that's interesting. Yeah, apparently it mitigates a lot of the damage as well. Interesting, no, I like using thinning with caffeine, so I don't know that you could do that with alcohol too.

Well, you know, here's the thing, this is why I prefer cannabis. I mean, if I'm gonna, if I'm gonna go out and just have fun with friends, and I know they have different effects, and I'm not the same, alcohol is probably much more social than cannabis, but still, if you wanna feel a little altered, cannabis doesn't have any calories,

and you typically don't feel like garbage the next day after having cannabis. And it is not nearly as bad for the body. I mean, you could definitely have too much cannabis and feel kind of grog garbage the next day after having cannabis. It does not nearly as bad for the body. I mean, you could definitely have too much cannabis and feel kind of groggy the next day, but I've never had a hangover from cannabis that even comes close to like the kind of hangovers I've had with our world.

There's such different moods though. They are, that's the thing. Yeah, like, you know, I'm in the, if I'm smoking weed, I'm in a laugh, chill, funny type mood, drinking is like, ah, dance, have fun. Let's go. Have you guys noticed that your window, a superpower, that your window of fun time on alcohol,

as you get older is getting shorter. Yeah, dude. Have you done? I know. It's a sad thing. I was at the wedding with with Jessica and we started drinking early. So like the wedding, the wedding reception or whatever didn't start till 4 p.m.

but it was at like noon when they were actually getting married. PCC, you peaked it like one third. Yeah, so like I have like three or four hours. If I start drinking three or four hours, I'm a fucking blast. After that, I want to go to bed. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?

It was much longer when I was younger. Well, it's funny because me and Courtney bought alcohol for the week thinking we're going to totally just like, you know, rage through it all whatever. And we went like the first two days and we only drank like a fraction of it. And then her sister came later in the week and then stayed with us the last day or so and like so she's like pornist like real drinks. And I'm just like, I am not ready for that.

I got like so hammered. I went to bed at like seven o'clock or something because I was just like so out of it. Yeah, just not the same. Next question is from Ander Beth. In reality, what is the chance of having a broken metabolism? Oh gosh, I'm actually glad somebody asked this question because we talk so much about we should address first the word broken metabolism. I want to be very clear. And I know what they use that word. You just mean slow metabolism. Yeah, it's damaged or broken metabolism to refer to somebody who's metabolism is slower than they would like it to be.

Let's make something very clear. If you had a broken metabolism, you'd be dead. Yeah, nobody has a broken metabolism. Nobody has a broken metabolism. A slow metabolism is doing exactly what it's supposed to do. What you've trained it to. It's adapted to your lifestyle so that you burn less calories. So before we get into answering the question, there is no such thing as a broken metabolism.

If there was, if you actually had a broken metabolism, you'd be dead. There are slower and faster metabolism. So I guess the question to reward is, in reality, what is the chance of having a really slow metabolism? Yeah, I think having a medically, like bad, like where you have a HPA dysfunction, right? Like you always, what's the other term that people use for that? Adrenal fatigue, adrenal fatigue.

What's there's another one too that's popular? There's like three different terms it gets thrown around all the time. That is extremely uncommon. Like when I think back to all the clients that I've trained, there was very few people that were in a situation where they couldn't eat, you know, if they ate 500 calories, anything over 500 calories,

they would put on body fat. That person would fall in this category, I think of what this person is referring to as broken damaged or extremely slow. For the most part, most people have slower metabolism than what they had 10 years before or when they were younger and they can refer back to when they used to eat all this food and get away with it. To Salis Point, the main thing that's happened over that time is that they've moved a lot less,

they've probably lost a lot of lean body mass, and they've ate a lot less over time. And then the body has adapted to that new caloric maintenance. And so their metabolism is much slower than what it was before. Now the thing that's beautiful about the metabolism, it's kind of like a free flowing thing where it's not always exactly the same and you can manipulate that and change that

and you could do that quite a bit, especially if you build a lot of muscle because muscle requires more calories, more nutrients and that in turn speeds the metabolism up, which is why we talk about MAPS and Ebola being like, you know, for our people that want to speed their metabolism up because that program is really designed to kind of get you training as minimal as possible

with the most effective way that you can to build the most amount of muscle without burning the most amount of calories. So that's the theory, though. Yeah, and as far as slow metabolism is concerned, it's, is there like Adam was saying, yes, there are cases where someone's metasins so slow that, and you know, you feel weak,

you're tired, you know, brain fog, but usually what we're encountering is someone's metasins just slower than they'd like. That's all, it's not that they have a metasins so slow that it's bad for their health or there's a problem. It's just slower than they'd like. Now when we're looking at the context of modern life, when we're looking at today, most of us would probably benefit from having a metabolism that burns more calories.

And this is just because it allows us to eat more and it makes it easier to stay lean. Now if I were to compare a slower metabolism to a faster metabolism, but both people are eating appropriately, which one's healthier, believe it or not, the evidence suggests that the slower metabolism's healthier. You don't necessarily want your body

to churn through tons of calories, unless that's gonna help you in terms of eating the appropriate amount, which usually it does. That's why I always recommend people speed up their metabolism. But otherwise, longevity wise, you're better off having a metabolism that adapts a little slower. And the eating less, the problem is that's impossible for most people. Most people don't like, most men don't like to walk around and eat, you know, 1900 calories

a day. Most women don't like to walk around and eat less than 15 hours a day, especially when there's food everywhere. And we celebrate with food and all that stuff. Just maximize your efficiency. Like, all these patterns have led in this direction where, yeah, you don't have to be as physically active and you don't have to do like really rigorous, hard work anymore to where you need calories to then replace, you know, and to basically help you out and build muscles. So you have to actually seek that out and seek that uncomfortable state again and go in that direction. This is a little bit of what I'm dealing with this last year, almost two years, almost now.

Just two and a half, three years ago, I was full- competing at the professional level. I had, you know, 230 pounds of muscle on my body. I was eating 5,000 plus calories. Here I am two years later. And if I eat over 2,500, I put on weight quick, real quick, which I mean, that has been even for someone like me is very aware of all this. It's still, I'm like, fuck, I can't do that anymore. I can't, it was very normal for me to, if I were to, I could plan in, to double cheeseburgers into my diet on a pretty regular basis,

and I mean, not skip a beat, still be lean, 6% body fat and gray. I do that now, and I wake up the next morning and the scales up a pound and a half and I feel bloated in my gut and it's just like my metabolism is just not roaring like it was. It's not broken. It's doing exactly what happened. I stop taking out a box steroids. I'm not lifting nowhere near as much. I train maybe three days a week and paired a seven days a week. The volume is significantly less than that. I have probably 35 pounds or more of less muscle

on my body than I had then, so that's gonna slow my metabolism down. I'm not nowhere near moving as much. I'm probably taking 6,000 to 10,000 at a high end of steps where I was moving more like 14 to 20,000 steps during competing days. So my metabolism's not broken, but it's 50% less, it's gone from 5,000 to 2,500.

It's just, it's doing exactly what I've told it to do, which is slow the fuck down because I've slowed down, I've lost a bunch of muscle. And if I wanna change that, and I wanna get it back up to 3,000, 4,000, 5,000, I need to slowly increase calories while I slowly increase volume and more training and build muscle and it'll slowly creep up and in fact where I'm at today in comparison to about six months, I'm in a much better place I was at a place not that long ago where man not much over 2,000 calories and I felt like my body I was going through all the hormonal stuff. So the metabolism wasn't broken. It's

just it's adapted to whatever signal that I had been sending to it. And for the last two years I've been sending to it that I'm more of a sedentary person in comparison to this super physical you know men's physique competitive. Yeah, and I mean the message needs to get across to people that if you're going to exercise And most people don't can't dedicate more than a few days a week to exercise Your best bet is to focus on the type of workouts that get your metabolism to speed up Again, it allows you to eat more food. It makes it easier to stay lean So it's gonna make you healthier and that that's resistive training, focus on weight training

in order to do that. But having a slower versus faster metabolism, if you're eating appropriately, both ways, they both can be very healthy. And like I said, I think we, people need to understand the difference between the two, and the fact that it's not broken. I hate that when people use the word broken or damaged

because it's not. It's working exactly the way it's supposed to. I don't hate it, it's not their fault because it's a marketing player. Sure. You know, it's a scare tactic to get. Well, think about it. Do you have a broken metabolism?

Exactly. And everybody can identify with that, right? If you're over the age of 30, everybody can identify probably with that feeling of thinking that your metabolism is slowed way down or it's broken or anybody who's been on five different types of diets or different programs to lose weight and has struggled with that can identify with this this idea that oh shit maybe it's my metabolism is broken and so that's just marketing 101 it's a it's not

your fault yeah broken metabolism right so it's a way to it's a- It's not your fault. Yeah, broken metabolism. Right, so it's a way to mark. The reality is that your metabolism is doing exactly what it's supposed to do based off of the signal that you're sending to it off of your lifestyle. Next question is from Brand Berry. You talk a lot about the body's adaptability to food, exercise, etc. Does this same adaptability apply to priming? Does getting in the same priming routine

for certain exercises limit the muscle building signal? Oh, no, it's the opposite. This question is the opposite. Yeah, that's the point. Yeah, the more frequently you do it, the more you hone in on that, bros. Yeah, absolutely it does adapt, but it adapts in a positive way.

Now, that's the point. The point, okay that's the point. Okay, so the point of priming is not to build more muscle directly. So priming doesn't build more, I mean, it may a little bit by turning certain muscles on or whatever. The muscle building effect that comes from priming is because now you're moving better and then you do the muscle building exercises and now those exercises are more effective. For example, let's say my ankle mobility is a limiting factor when I do my squats.

So I do lots of priming to improve my ankle control and mobility. That priming isn't going to build more muscle, but now that I can squat better because of it, now I'm going to build more muscle. Now the point with priming is to adapt. I want my body to get really good at the priming movements and adapt so that it moves in the way that I wanted to. Now I can do the changing up the reps and sets and exercises with my actual foundational workout.

Yeah, we're talking about the nervous system. We're trying to channel the process. So if you think about getting better at throwing a baseball or doing something that's like a skill-based where there's a whole sequence of events that have to occur for you to be able to produce a type of a movement. We're trying to produce a type of a movement that is most effective. And that's what priming, we're trying to teach the body how to go through these specific types of movements. So as you go to perform them, you're at your optimal ability and now it provides the environment for your muscles to now respond

as a result. Well, this this also remind I got to do this. Since we were asked answering this question, I've been meaning to do this because people have asked me, you know, what my what my priming looks like today in comparison to a year or two years ago. And it has completely changed. And that's due to the body adapting to the priming that I was doing. You no longer needed the same priming. Yes. It's amazing. It's awesome.

And I'll show, I'll have, when we walk out of the studio right now, I'll have Enzo or one of the employees do a video of me, how I get ready to squat or deadlift now, which is kind of cool. I've actually now can get to a place where I can combine like three different priming movements, all in one little move that I do. And that's what's happened since I've spent so much time in the combat stretch, I spent so much time in the 90, 90,

I spent so much time at the zone one test. And now that I've gotten there, I can actually get down in this squatted position and kind of activate all three places in the same position. And then that really primes me to get me ready to do a squat. So that's a good point. You should you should constantly reassess to see what you're what priming is necessary because it doesn't make any sense to continue to prime your ankle mobility in the same way. Once it's worked, now you advance and move to a different right.

It's, I mean, I can drop down right now with no combat stretch whatsoever, barefoot, into a complete astagrass squat with no pronation in my feet, no heel rising, anything. So there's no need for me to sit down for 5, 10 minutes and do just combat stretching by itself. So now what I do is I get in that squad at position and I still do, I activated a little bit. So I'll push my knees forward, but I can do that while I'm also doing something else. It's kind of cool. So, um, yeah, dude, I mean, the priming will, you do, it will adapt, but it's not, it's not a, not hindering you from building any muscle if anything. It's only Promote no and that brings up a good point is that you should I'd say every maybe every month or every other month

re Test yourself To to see if you need to modify your priming because you will get better At whatever you practice a lot of and you may need to advance your priming. That doesn't mean that the priming you're doing before, if you keep doing that, doesn't work anymore. Again, remember, it's not really a muscle building signal. Priming of itself is not a big muscle builder. It just makes your workout much more effective at muscle building,

if that makes any sense. But the priming itself really is just to get you to move better, so you can activate muscles more effectively. And I would retest, you know, every couple months, like in Maps Prime and Prime Pro, we have tests in those, like Prime has the compass test. Every couple months, retake the tests. Now that you're passing these other ones really well, you can kind of modify your priming for your workouts.

Which I constantly have to do. I mean, even just like recently driving a lot more and like, you know, that's affected me and I've realized that and gone through the test again and see where my deficiencies lie. So it is very important for you to pay attention, you know, to what's happening like day to day and that's gonna affect how you now have to adjust.

By the way, priming should not just be used for exercise. You can use priming before, very effectively before athletic endeavors, any kind of sport. And before you do something that tends to bother you. So let's say you're going to be on a plane for five hours. And you're like, every time I sit for five hours, my back hurts or my needs starts to get stiff. Prime before you get on the plane or prime before you get in the car. Do you love driving? And afters what I do. Yeah, now I just made a huge difference.

Huge difference. It makes everything you do much better. And it prevents your body from molding and shaping itself to the shape of the chair, you know, or the seat that you're sitting on on the plane or in the car. That's what I did before my drive. So, and with that, go to mindpumpfree.com and download our guides.

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