Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 1108: Using Yoga to Improve Mobility, What to do When Clients Don't Comply with Your Recommendations, Training Clients Who Don't Work Out on Their Own & MORE

Episode Date: August 30, 2019

In this episode of Quah, sponsored by MAPS Fitness Products (www.mapsfitnessproducts.com), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about whether simple yoga at home a few times a week is a good mobility plan, how to adjust a client’s macros when they are consistently non-compliant, how to train clients who do not work out on their own, and professions they value but could never do. Why Dave Chappelle may be the greatest comedian of our generation. (4:50) Mind Pump addressing the controversy over Sal’s ‘vegan’ post. (6:34) The rise of smartphone technology and its connection to anxiety & depression. (15:45) How the ‘influencer’ bubble may have already burst. (18:11) Silicon Valley's Chinese-style social credit system. (20:34) The ‘Wikipedia’ platform for businesses: How ‘Owler’ is making waves and gaining Adam’s attention. (23:30) The science behind why ‘white noise’ helps us sleep better. (25:52) Is a nuclear-powered car in our future? (29:13) Mind Pump’s take on remakes: Should we update the classics for this new generation or leave them alone? (34:08) Disney taking on the ‘binging’ model and will release episodes weekly. (40:35) The impact of having strong relationships on your health. (42:14) #Quah question #1 – Is simple yoga at home a few times a week a good mobility plan? (45:58) #Quah question #2 – How do you adjust your client's macros when they are consistently non-compliant? (55:43) #Quah question #3 – How do you train clients who do not want to workout on their own? (1:03:03) #Quah question #4 – What's a profession that you value highly but could never do? (1:09:32) People Mentioned Layne Norton, PhD (@biolayne)  Instagram   Related Links/Products Mentioned August Promotion: MAPS Prime & Prime Pro ½ off!! **Code “PRIME50” at checkout** Dave Chappelle: Sticks & Stones | Netflix Official Site You Can Definitely Skip Dave Chappelle's New Netflix Special 'Sticks & Stones' Mind Pump 1107: How Going Vegan Can Make You Fat & Sick Visit Butcher Box for this month’s exclusive Mind Pump offer! Visit Organifi for the exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Code “mindpump” at checkout** Layne Norton Reviews What the Health Uh-oh: Silicon Valley is building a Chinese-style social credit system Owler: Competitive Intelligence to Outsmart Your Competition Why Does White Noise Help People Sleep? Visit ChiliPad for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Code “MPOOLER” at checkout** Is a nuclear-powered car in our future? Aladdin 2019 | Disney Movies The fraught cultural politics of Disney’s new Aladdin remake Aladdin Controversy Explained: Why The Disney Remake Has Divided Fans Disney+ Ditches "Binge-Watch" Model, Will Release Episodes Weekly The health benefits of strong relationships Mind Pump Free Resources

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Apparently they think it's more responsible to do so, which I think is kind of cool. And then I mentioned a study that showed how close relationships have major impacts on your health. Then we got the fitness portion of this episode. The first question is yoga at home a few times a week. Good for mobility. Is that a good mobility plan?

Next question, this person wants to know, how do you adjust your clients' macros when they're consistently non-compliant? So how do you deal with people who don't do what you want them to do? Comply! Next question, how would you train clients who don't work out on their own nice extension from the first question, the question before? And the final question, this person wants to know, what's a profession that we value very highly?

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That's PRIME50 for the for the discount no space do it now Dude that Dave Chappelle comedy show That was masterful. He is the most maybe my favorite dude He was pissing off right maybe my favorite. He's everybody. Have you have you read anything? Yes. Oh, you have yes So vice already wrote an article and basically told everybody skip it because he's so... No, we'll skip Vice. Yeah, fuck you guys. He's at here.

He is offensive. He's a comedian. Duh. And because of the current climate, it's funnier to be offensive in my opinion. Duh. But he went hard. Yeah, he did. He took every third rail and had sex with it on stage. He's dead.

You know what I'm saying? Yeah, no, for sure. He just paved the way. I think that was my- He might have come through. My favorite Dave Shippah has seen ever. I would say it's up there with some of his best stuff. I consider him, in my opinion, the best ever.

The best stand-up comedian- I think it was his last one I wasn't a big fan of. I think his last one I was one of my least favorite ones he did, but this one was five. Yeah, he's for me the most brilliant standard comedian. He's the funniest. He kills me every single time. Chris, uh, Chris D'Lia is also hilarious. Yeah. Um, who's the other guy? I love David Tell. He's one of my favorites. No, Bill Burr's, Bill Burr's my favorite. Bill Burr's also hilarious. Also kills, but she's my favorite But Chappelle is just so smart and brilliant the way he delivers.

He nailed it for the time. He takes you on a ride with his jokes. You think he's going one way and you hear the audience agree with him. But then at the end, he hits you with the reverse. And he pisses everybody off and then it makes you laugh. Well, his pro-choice joke had me go. Oh, my God.

I just thought that was so. I've never heard someone put that spin on God. I just thought that was so, I've never heard someone put that spin on it. I just fucking died. I didn't know where he was. It was Michael Jackson talk, got me crying. It was dying. Well, speaking of controversy,

how about Sal's controversy yesterday on the freaking Instagram post, dude? Wow. I didn't think it would cause that much controversy. I don't even think I said strong still. You know, like the vegan response. I was waiting for it forever. All I said on it was that I think this huge trend

to push everybody to not eat meat because it's bad, is gonna result in worse health because the average person just doesn't educate themselves under nutrition to begin with. So all they're gonna do is cut meat out and replace it with probably processed foods. If you look at the average person diet, the only whole natural food that they tend to eat

or that's on process tends to be the meats, eggs or chicken or milk, they're gonna cut it out and replace it with garbage. And that's all I said. And I didn't think I was that controversial, but oh my God, it was. I think it just... Flying.

I think it just highlights what we've talked about on the show before that You know people are so dogmatic and religious about Nutrition irrational with it is so funny to me how we get so Yeah, what's the Bible? Yes, tribal with these these diets this made up thing You know, I'm saying like, this made up thing. You know what I'm saying? I brought it up on the episode we did that. You know, nobody did diets before.

You know, it was just food. Yeah, it was like, you just ate to survive, right? And now we've decided that, you know, there's these camps of... We're so wealthy. We could... Right, like, you know what? I'm not going to eat all that food. Yeah. Because it's against my right

I know and the people that I you know so many of them too You can tell you know you did such a great job with creating the the post with just the you know Go vegan horrible advice or whatever you said Didn't read the shock and I did didn't read the post cuz in there and the same thing too I there was I was going in there and I was like you know I was just kind of poking at people laughing out loud or like the face palm thing because I didn't want to get into it with everybody on there.

And just like, I can't believe that you guys are saying, and it's like, did you read the post? And have you listened to us talk about? I mean, it's, how about my favorite was the guy who threw the jab about a butcher box, about it. Yeah, he goes, oh, off course, you're gonna be say this about veganism, which by the way, I'm not against veganism.

In fact, we say all the time how you can be healthy in either vegan diet, you just have to plan it well. But anyway, he goes, yeah, of course, you're gonna say that you're sponsored by a meat company. And so Adam gets on there and he goes, organify is our biggest sponsor by far. They're a vegan supplement company. Like vegan protein powder.

And that's yeah, in silly shut up. Yeah. But it pays us like five times as much. Oh, yeah. No, which, but here's, and then here's the thing though, that nobody is, uh, you know, we don't have a dog in this fight. Nobody is paying us enough money to get us to change our message on how we talk about anything. And even though, even though we are, even though we talk about butcher box and organify and products like that, we always

say, well, butcher boxes, whole foods, but we're always pitching people to go for whole foods all natural. We'll always stick to that message. That's the most ideal thing. Yeah. And we like it. Look, organify is a vegan company. If you look at all their products, they

are plant based. It's part of their brand. They have a protein powder that's vegan. I can't have dairy personally. Now, Adam and Justin can have dairy. Justin in particular has no issues with it. And all day long, or at least he thinks he doesn't have a cheese. I'm saying my milk and cheese and milk and cheese all day long. Toilet my disagree. Yeah, yeah. No, but all joking aside, I can't have way protein. And so when we initially worked with, or we're talking about working with a company for supplements, that was one of the big things.

It's like, I can't promote something I can't use. I won't do that. And organified came to us. And I mean, you know, vegan protein powder, it tastes really good, it's got great ingredients. Oh, it's the best, in my opinion, it's the best vegan protein powder that's out there. It is, it's very, very well made.

But it's funny that people think that we're biased because we work with a meat company when our biggest sponsor is. Yeah, and it's just not true. And you can't, look, here's the thing, in sponsors, they've learned a lesson with us. Sponsors now leave us alone, they let us do our thing. But in the early days, sponsors would try to get us to change what we said or what we're like, we

will do the opposite of what you say if you try to tell us what to do. Well, we, you know, we have to, we're just going to be honest. There's this, there's this, you know, obviously podcasting is is gaining traction and popularity. And, you popularity and the normal formula for most people that are podcasters, they build a network up and advertising is their main source of revenue and something that when we built this originally, we built it with the intention of not really advertising at all and that was never going to be the thing. I was never part of the business plan. Oh, and still today it's less than 20% of the revenue that Mind Pump makes. So it's not, it'll never be a thing that drives us and makes us talk a certain way. And we all

agreed on that. And I'm glad we built it that way. We could give it all advertising sponsors. And we'd still be fine. The business would continue on. And we'd be. One of the things I value most about the new media space, which includes podcasting, but also includes things like YouTube and writing your own content through the internet, is that you don't have major barriers, corporate barriers like you used to, like in the past. If I wanted to do a radio show with you guys, if we wanted to start a radio show,

we would have to go through, we'd have to be on a channel that would have their own corporate sponsors, and we would have to talk a certain way and promote certain things, otherwise they would never, our show would not exist. We came out hard against most of what people preach.

There's no way in hell anybody would have had us on. So we value that freedom more than anything. So if we work with a sponsor, you better believe it's because we actually like their product and what they're all about. And if the day we don't, I don't care how much money they're paying us, we're, we can tell them to kick rocks, right?

So it wouldn't work. There's no way it happened. But yeah, I couldn't believe the controversy and there was pretty funny. But there were a few dieticians, and you know, registered dieticians that were on there that were like, no, the points you make are totally accurate. Some of the points I made had to do with potential

nutrient deficiencies. You just have to pay attention to, you know, when you eat vegan, you just have to pay attention to these nutrient deficiencies that can pop up and often do for a lot of people. And that's why you need to do a lot of really careful planning and sometimes supplementation. I know most or many of my friends who are vegan athletes and vegan fitness experts all recommend that they their clients and themselves take at least vitamin B12.

That's one of the main ones. I feel like you should follow. I feel like you should follow the post up with a Almost identical one, but for carnivore diet just to fuck with all of them just like make their hands Would just explode. Oh my god No, it doesn't make sense Just see then you go back to the Dave should pull like that be like the perfect setup for that like you get such a Polarizing contrast, you know with the setup setup and then the point. You should, you should write a poster. Yeah, because I think that again,

we would say the same thing. I think that's horrible advice for most people. I don't think most people should be on 100% carnivore diet. What's wrong? It just highlights how emotional and irrational, you know, people are these days. That's why I loved it so much because it just, it was playing with the most taboo topics

and just throwing it at you. I know this is gonna upset you, but like look how ridiculous that is. Yeah, totally. It's getting so out of control though. I'm a little nervous about like how crazy it's. I mean, the documentary, what the health I felt was like the beginning of it, like getting crazy.

And I thought it would slow down after a lot of people spoke out about that. And I know like our buddies like Lane Norton came out, did a whole YouTube on how terrible what the health was. But you know what, it's still missed a lot of people. And I see it in my own family. Well, what's happening now for the first time ever, and I've never seen this before, is I've never,

diets have always been kind of religious. People have always treated nutrition in that way. It's always been, especially if you're in a health and physically motivated like they are now. No, it's the first time I've ever seen a diet be politicized. I've never seen a diet be politicized. It's never been, and the reason why it's being politicized is they're connecting it to it being better for the environment,

which the science will show you it's far more complicated than that, and you can actually vegan and have practices that are worse for the environment than someone who's an omnivore and vice versa. But the fact that it's getting politicized means it's just you're going to get more divisiveness and more you're the enemy. I'm not the enemy because I eat a particular way and you eat a particular way. And it's just crazy to me. It's insane to me that that's happened.

But you know, these days everything, everything's becoming politicized. You're freaking, you your razors are politicized. You're shaving creatures. Yeah. The car you buy, like, it's insane. I can't watch football without it having politics in. It's like, what the fuck? Yeah, it's it out of here. Yeah, that's just, you know, there's a lot of, there's a lot of media out there. And social media is just making it become more a bigger part of our life. I was talking to this woman who works with children. She's an expert on child psychology. And I asked her which she thought about the exploding rise

of depression and anxiety among children. It was just kind of weird. If you look at statistics on anxiety and depression and those types of feelings, the age group that is experiencing the fastest upswing is the age group that historically has never had problems with those things, which are children. Children typically have the lowest rates

of anxiety and depression, and yet they're the ones that are experiencing the highest acceleration of those things. And it's connected, or at least that matches up and correlates with the rise of the use of smart technology like smartphones and stuff. So I thought, you know, well, they must be because they're distracted all the time. They're not, you know, so I told her that and I said, do you think it has to do with all the technology and smartphone? She says, yes, but not what people think. it has to do with all the technology and smart phones. She says, yes, but not what people think. She says, when we were kids, we had no idea about the world's troubles. Like, when you were a kid, did you watch the news? No. Kids did not watch the news. The news is boring as fuck. No kids. But now,

they're constantly being informed either through social media. And it might not be a news that they're following, but it might be their favorite celebrity that says something like... Right, that's a good point. Climate change is going to kill us all, or oh my God, there's another guy shooting on the other side of the country, or look what's happening. And so they're just getting inundated with so much of this information around the world, and the part that makes us anxious is there's nothing you can do about it, but worry. You know what I'm saying? Like if you're especially a kid, you feel helpless.

So I think that's... And kids dominate social platforms. Totally. you can do about it, but worry. You know what I'm saying? If you're especially if you're a kid, you feel helpless. So I think that's- Kids dominate social platforms. Totally. So a majority of the conversations are probably stupid conversations that are being had on social media platforms. Totally.

So I think that's why everything's feeling like it's getting politicized is because we're on all these social platforms where how many people follow politics before, not very many, but now everybody does because they're just talking about it. I wonder if it's gonna get so ridiculous that people just stop, like it gets played out.

Yeah, like are we, it could happen. Right, wouldn't that be crazy if we're just in this social media bubble right now because it's so cool, it's so great to be connected. And then in like 10 years from now, people will like shame you if you are like, oh, you're on Instagram and Facebook, like really, you spend your time doing that.

You think it could go that way? Look at the influencer bubble. We just talked about this. Influencers are losing their power. You know, I was just reading something like a statistic that was talking about companies that invest in influencers and how the fake followers have actually cost something like $1.3 billion

because they put all this money into oh this person has a lot of influence because of the numbers that they look at and You know this fake engagement and all this stuff that they're promoting but it's it's not real They're not getting any conversions and they're losing a lot of money by investing in these Yeah, I don't know if that's a sign though of Potentially social media bubble popping and more so just I think more people are aware. I think more people are savvy to, oh this is the new hustle now. Everybody wants to be a YouTube star and Instagrammer and get big enough and then part of the companies and sell product.

I think it just shows its impact is not what it once was. And that's what I mean by the bubble is kind of popping. Like you look at like the values dropped. Look at the big, big pages from a few years ago and look at their engagement now. It's terrible. I was just telling you guys, I mean, I just Brad Castleberry popped up in my spore page

and I hadn't looked at that kid and forever. And, you know, he's got like, he's approaching close to a million followers. And I mean, his likes, he's got like, he's approaching close to a million followers. And I mean, his likes, he gets a few thousand likes, he gets less than a hundred comments and I'm like, oh my God, that just, that's crazy. He doesn't add up the ratio to that. Yeah, I just think that a ton of people,

you know what happens with things like that? And I, and I, at least this is what I think, because this is what happens how I do it. Like a buddy sends me somebody's page and it's like hilarious. Like it's a hilarious meme or it's something. And maybe you look at a second one they have on their page and they're like, oh this is funny. Or you see someone like him as an example, doing some crazy feet.

He's super fast or he's super strong. And then you follow just as out of a reaction. Oh, that's interesting. I wonder if you'll post something else like that again. And then you never pay attention again, but you're still following him. So I think that haven't unfollowed. Yeah, that happens to a lot of people that are following these type of people that use like headlines or gimmicks to get quick attention.

You get the quick attention, you get the follow from somebody but nobody really gives a shit. Until you do something goofy enough or silly enough for me to share with my friend, I ain't really, and then that, I'm just paying attention. I'm really not listening to anything you have to say. You're not giving me value. You're not really influencing me in any real way. I'm not talking about that.

Yeah, staying on this topic though, I was a fast company had an article like, because we talked a long time ago about like China's social scoring system that they had implemented and like we were all, a little worried about that in terms of like the state sort of controlling and manipulating the population by,

you know, rewarding them for things and then also like taking things away. And so they're saying that like there's also elements of that in Silicon Valley, which is kind of obvious after I read through it quite a bit, but a couple of them stuck out. One of them was like insurance companies can actually go through like your social media

and like Instagram and everything and see pictures of like things that like present high risk situation. And we're literally just feeding it to them. And so it's like lowering, you know, the chances you're gonna get a good rate and also like on the other end of it, kind of rewarding people who are doing good things.

So isn't there an insurance company that's doing this now? I thought I saw a commercial for this where you can opt into this thing that basically allows them to monitor everything. They can track like your speed that you're driving because your phone's on you. Oh yeah.

And then it could track like the speed, the car's moving all the information. Yeah, you can plug it into the car. So I don't know how it works, but I thought I saw a company saying that the whole pitch was like, you shouldn't pay for insurance that you don't need. And you know, so if you're not a high-risk driver and you only drive this speed limit,

you don't break the laws. And like, but you have to submit like the approval for them to gain access to all that. That's interesting. But social wise, I mean, they're going, I mean, to go further with this too, like they have bars and restaurants and stuff where they actually have a service where if you come in and they give you a score at the end of the night

based on if you were like an asshole, they didn't want you to come back and so they would like flag you. And so all this gets thrown into the software. And so they can actually use this information now and like cross reference, other restaurants and things if you're like a patron, that's a problem, you know. And so this is all happening within the private sector.

And so the difference being, so the massive difference being, one is state run has those initiatives versus like private. Like I get to use these amenities and these things, you know, that private company stuff. I don't mind, I don't mind if it's private. As long as you don't have the power to jail me or legislate or whatever, I'm all good.

I think it's brilliant. I think it's a very, very cool way of getting great service if you're a good patron and if you're a shit, but then you stay at home. You know what I mean? People will know about it. And it used to be that way. Here's the thing, when societies were tight and small, that's how it was.

You, if you fucked up at the tavern, everybody knew because it was one tavern in the whole town. So I don't mind this at all. It's a Priya. Exactly. Exactly. You know, it's been a company, it's interesting.

You guys just used to remind me of something. I'm curious if you guys know, and I want to Doug wanted to know, knows this company too. I just came up, you guys familiar with a company called Alweer, like Al. No. O-W-L-E-R. Yeah, me either, until just recently, and they've been popping up the CEOs based here at a San Mateo But I find it interesting what what they're doing and I'm curious to see how well it's going and if it takes off But it seems like it's a

Almost like a Wikipedia type of Platform for businesses meaning I mean you could get on there and you can put us in there even. You can put any random company and it's crowdsourced, right? So to prove it, like how Wikipedia is, right? Wikipedia is just a collection of everybody putting it and getting more accurate, more accurate, more accurate to where now it, they're crowdsourced. Right, it's now it's considered a reliable source, right? But when it first started, it was just like, probably a few people on there putting their two cents on whatever you're wiki in.

Well, this hour one is for businesses. So you can look up, you wanna know revenue that a company's making, you wanna know how many employees they are, how they treat their employees, they have a rating for the CEO. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, I know, it's kinda cool. So, and it shows you how many people

are following and contributing. So, like, for example, there's not a lot of people, I don't think we have hardly anybody if anybody that's following mine pump That's kind of cool. It shows you how many people are following and contributing. For example, there's not a lot of people. I don't think we have hardly anybody if anybody that's following mine pump and actually contributing to this because we're a small company and there's probably not a lot of people to give a shit. You go get on there with Amazon and it gives you thousands of people are contributing to this.

I was messing around and looking at companies that I was actually intrigued by and I didn't know. I was curious. I wonder how big they are. Like, I think they're this big and I hear this about them, but, you know, I sort of putting those companies in there and gives you like an estimation of their annual revenue, gives you an estimation of their employees, gives you a CEO rating, what people are rating the CEO, like, that's awesome. I know, isn't that interesting?

I think that is super cool. Yeah, that's a lot more transparency, but bringing it from the outside. Well, it's awesome too because it's great for it's great for the market. It's great for people looking for for work. Right. Yeah, you see that's what I thought was cool. Like you see a company that I was really interested in working for these Mind-put-media guys, but then you see like oh shit. It's the perception. The CEO gets a 40 rating. You know Maybe I don't want to go work for these guys, but that's cool though. And he's really moody. Yeah. What's up talking about?

I don't know what that. Anyway, so check this out. So I was reading this article the other day that I thought was fascinating that I wanted to bring to your attention. So I was noticing that with the ulla or the chili pad, the sound that it makes is kind of that white noise. And I was noticing that the noise also helps me sleep. Oh, bro, you hear something funny.

So you check this out, okay? So I think I told you guys this, I've been sleeping on the couch for the last month, right? So that's kind of like my, my new home. Yeah, it's my new home. And I go down about midnight or so, I head downstairs and I say sleep down there where it's about 10 degrees cooler than it is upstairs.

And what Katrina does is, and I didn't know this till the day because I asked her, I'm like, why is the oolaur on? Because on my side of the bed, right? So she doesn't use the oolaur on her side. I use it on my side because I needed to be a lot cooler. And the last couple mornings I've come up and she's like, no, like everybody sleeps better. She's like the baby sleeps better

with the humming of the ulla, and so does Mazi. So Mazi lays his head down, sleeps right next to the thing, and so does, and the baby, and the baby loves the sound. She goes, she goes, I've noticed, like I turned it off one of the nights back when you weren't in the room and

It was one of the worst nights that he slept he was fussy all night long And she's like and then she goes I don't know if it's just correlation or what no no There's science to support this so there's two ways obviously that the chili pad or the uller helps with sleep Obviously that the main one is it keeps your bed at the temperature that you like to sleep best in so for most people It's cool. I like, I'm about 64 degrees. Jessica's about 67 degrees on the bed. I think what do you put yours at like 50 now? I'm just low. I'm all the way down.

You're all the way down. So it just keeps it cool and it keeps your body temperature down. You sleep. But then there's the white noise that it makes as the, as the machine is circulating the water through the pad. And I'm like, you know, I know there's white noise machines

that people buy specifically to sleep. Yeah. And people do this for kids all the time. My kids sleep. They have to sleep with it. Yeah, that's what made me remember because the couple times we've gone on vacation together with our kids, you'll go in the kids room and you'll turn on a white noise machine to help them sleep. So I'm like, I wonder what the science is to support this because so many people talk about

it. So I looked it up and apparently while you're sleeping, your brain is still processing sound. Because obviously, you gotta be on the lookout for predators, that's how we evolved. So your brain is still processing sound, but what it will alert you to isn't necessarily sound as much as it changes in sound.

You see what I'm saying? It's the big changes. Yeah, it's in consistency and sound. And what white noise does is it masks all the sounds of the house and it makes them all sound, your brain perceives it as everything being the same. Still in silent bass. So you're gonna sleep very, very good.

Rather than it's silent in the house, then the house creaks a little bit, not that loud, but because it's a chain, you ever happen, you were sleeping and the house moves a little bit and you wake up, you know, or something drips and you wake up or whatever. White noise masks all that, and it so keeps your brain processing in the sense that, it thinks that the sounds are all level in the same.

And so, so it helps you sleep both ways, those two different ways. I think we're definitely getting our money's worth then so, because even when I'm not allang on the pad, it's actually being ran inside my room right now to help the baby, the ducks. Dude, I sleep so hard. It's I use.

I sleep so hard with that thing. It's crazy, right? Anyway, so I know, you know, we've been, I brought up nuclear power a couple times on the podcast when we're talking about clean energy and how. Yeah, yeah, right. That's actually a very clean form of energy. So this company created a car,

I'm gonna bring it up right now, so I don't mess this up. This company created a car that's nuclear, nuclear powered that'll run for 100 years without ever having to get refueled. How the hell? I mean, I used to be like huge. No, I've been saying this forever, though, that the whole automobile industry is a big fucking scam. I mean, the fact that we can build a spaceship, dude, to go to the fucking moon and back and be able to handle that makes me go like, how can we not be car only last five years? Yeah, we can't build an engine to go a hundred thousand miles. Come on, get the fuck out of here with that. Well, so this company's called laser power systems and they created a concept for a car that's powered by Thorium. So Thorium, it's a radioactive element, and here's the thing about Thorium, that's really cool.

I don't think, or I'm almost positive, you can't turn it into weapon grade nuclear material. So in other words, where you can't put that out there. You know, and this is good because, this is good because, where do you go, ask God to get that, where's that place? Ask God? That's good.

No, you know why this is Art? That's Caurio. No, you know why this is good? Because of Mordor. Because a lot of times the US and other countries will oppose other countries' attempts at creating nuclear power for themselves. And one of the reasons why we oppose it is because they can take that material or the same technology and then create a nuclear weapon. Well, forium, I believe you can't do that.

It's just used for energy. But anyway, check this out. This is kind of crazy. So it's so dense that just a small sample of it packs 20 million times more energy than a similarly sized sample of coal. That's how much energy is in. 20 million.

20 million times. Wow. In fact, if you, I'm, said here, if you created a turbine made from this material, that was a size of an air conditioning unit, okay? That alone would power a whole restaurant hotel or maybe even a small town to show you just how much power is in this thing. So just to show you the power of nuclear power, if we were really to go after it without

fear or whatever with our technology. Now ugly is this car. Oh, well, the car looks all weird. Yeah, that's always a problem. And what is your thoughts on us eventually going this direction? Do you think we might have to? Do you think so?

I think we do. I think it's political suicide right now. Whoa, that's the car. Whoa, there he is. That brought it up. Whoa. Yeah, that's very futuristic. Yeah, I know.

I think it's political suicide right now because people are afraid of nuclear. They think it's dirtier than other forms of energy when it's not, it's actually far cleaner. People, you know, we have memories of things like Chernobyl or Fukushima power plant, what happened to the earthquake. Yeah.

And, you know, that type of danger. And then of course, nuclear, we know nuclear bombs in nuclear war. But this thorium might be the answer. And if we're able to educate the population, I mean, I feel like any company that could afford to do this, right? They already have the access to the nuclear power

and could technically build a bomb anyways, right? Do you really think that we are keeping anybody who actually is a threat and a force from having nuclear power? It's definitely a lot of countries don't have nuclear power or nuclear weapon. A lot of countries don't. That we know of. Yeah, like Iran.

Iran is going after it and they have for a long time and they haven't detonated anything. It's a big problem, but it's kind of fascinating, right? You imagine that having a car that you never would, that's it. You buy it and it's going to always run. It's, yeah, that's it, you're done. Or you, or you get these power plants that are, you know, like I said, the size of an air conditioning unit and it powers, you know, your neighborhood off of that, you just hook up to that one thing and your whole neighborhood's power. What do you think? Do you think that we would see if we could have heard? That's interesting because cars have like, they've, they've almost changed into,

they're not just a necessity, they're like a luxury item for us. So like trends and even like, even the automobile industry's been so smart too, you know, what is it about? Every five years or so, then the next model comes out. You know, and so even if you had a car you could buy today

that would last you the next 30 to 40 years. Yeah. You know, would you? And would it style? Right. No, really though. I mean, think about that. That's true. Like would it work?

That's true. What I think would be maybe cars that are electric that you charge by, when the charging stations are powered, you just buy new bodies for it. Yeah. Oh, maybe. Yeah. You put it over the shell. Yeah, like the old school cars that used to play with you in your control car. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was like a for it. Oh, maybe. Yeah, you put it over the shell. Yeah, like the old school cars that used to play with you when you're. Yeah, remote control cars. Yeah, funny car like.

Yeah, well, here's what I grace your cars. Here's what else that article said. It said that thorium and the technology of using thorium is so good in terms of the radio activity that it produces that you could shield the radio activity with a thin piece of aluminum. So that's it. It's all you need. Yeah, so it's like super safe. Did you guys happen to read the articles that I sent late last night? Did you guys get that? Doug's normally up with me. I don't think I got any articles.

Okay, so last night I watched Disney's Aladdin with Will Smith. Oh, I saw that. Did you read the article? I saw the title. I didn't read it though. So I thought this was interesting. So I'm watching it. Now Aladdin was something that I watched a thousand times during it because I have a little

sister and brother and that was like popular during, and you know, you guys obviously know you have kids. So, you know, kids at a certain age, I don't remember what age this is somewhere between probably two and five, they watch the same thing over like a thousand times, right? Like a billion times, yeah. Yeah, I get it. It's like on repeat. Right.

So, ladden was one of those things as a kid growing up that I remember, I vividly remember all about it like as far as the little details. And I'm watching this one with Katrina and we're laying there and I'm like, you know, it's musical, right, it's Disney, so it's got all the music. It was well made, wasn't it? Yeah, it was done well. It was done very well.

But it got a lot of heat though. It only got, not like, so there was controversy around it, right, and I didn't know any of this yet. So I'm just watching it, right? I'm watching it because it's Will Smith and I like Disney and I'm watching. And I was curious when I clicked on it that it was only, it only got like a 56% on like Rotten Tomatoes, which is pretty low for, especially for a Disney movie. So anyways, I'm watching it. And about halfway through, she starts singing a song that is not one of the songs. Right, so every other song they added a song and I'm listening to the lyrics and I'm

like it's a total like I am woman hear me roar. Yeah, like an empowering yeah. And so of course that sent me down the rabbit hole. I started googling right away like you know you know, Aladdin controversy, Aladdin song added, and then that's the articles that I sent over to you guys. And they did. So they inserted this song and it was to counter the original laden. So the original laden had a part in there where she's singing songs and, you know, the men are dancing around her and her voice is being grounded out by their voices, their voices are much more powerful and that you can't hear

hers and she's being drowned by sand in this little time thing. And so they wanted to counter that or have a message that was interesting. I thought that was really fast and interesting. And what I wanted to talk to you guys about, and it started this 11 o'clock at night dialogue between Katrina and I on, if I'm pro-it or not. And I find it interesting. Well, the classic, I guess, the person inside of me

that appreciates classics, often times I get a little annoyed when they change a classic, I guess, the person inside of me that appreciates classics, oftentimes I get a little annoyed when they change a classic, because that's the one that I identified with, because when I was a kid, it was a lad in the cartoon. So it's like, you change it, like, what are you doing? You're changing my favorite, you know, my favorite cartoon. But then there's the other side of me that's like, you know, that's just, that's pop culture,

that's what we've always done. We've always taken old things and made them a little bit different to make them maybe more marketable. So here are my thoughts. We're gonna refresh. So here are my thoughts on it. I love Disney as a company altogether. I think that this is,

I like if you're going to make a message, right? If you're gonna send a message, I think that's a very tasteful way to do it, right? To incorporate this song that's, you know, it's not hardcore political. It probably went over 90%. It doesn't change the story. It doesn't change the story completely,

but it, you know, it does. It empowers her more. It shares, it's basically highlights that she can be strong and independent. And it's like, okay, so there's this side. I mean, that's like, that's cool. Like, I think that's a good message for young girls growing up right now.

And I think that's that's tasteful and a neat way to do it. Then I have the other side of me that's like you, Sal, that's like, well, fuck, man, it's a different, you're changing, you're changing it. Like you're changing a classic that was like a super famous cartoon that was huge and a great story.

And so that side of me is just like, well then how long do we keep doing that? And like, you know, a hundred years from now, you won't even know the original story because we're gonna bastardize the shit out of it because of everyone's offended over all these little things. So, and my thought was, I'm pro the message that she's giving,

but then my thought is like, then create a whole new cartoon, create a different show that gives that message, and that's a great way that Disney can highlight what they're trying to say or communicate to the younger generation and stay on pop culture. From a business saying, that's a massive hit for them. They're just like refurbishing one little thing

to bring to the public again. So in terms of money, I would think, that's a lot easier for them than creating an entire new storyline. And stories have always done that. This is not a new phenomenon. Stories always have changed through the generations to reflect the current generation, or erase something that might not be as palatable.

Like for example, remember ring around the rosy, or that song with your friends ring around the rosy, powerful, that song is about the plague. That the rosy, park-a-full. That song is about the plague. That's a plague, right? Yeah, everybody dying. That whole song is about the plague. It's about the symptoms of getting the plague.

It's about carrying flowers in your pants to hide the smell of the dead. And we all fall down, ashes ashes, we all fall down, we all die. But when we were kids, I had no idea. Yeah, was that fun? I had no idea that's what it was about. Right. Stories have been changing for, it's never going to stop.

It's just a reflection. And they're just making it more, maybe they're trying to make it more palatable. Yeah, I know. I've read something to, like, I don't know if it was, I mean, something that was overseeing, like, the Star Wars franchise and Marvel, and then, you know then also the princess, the whole thing with Disney, it was just kind of looking back into those things and especially with the princess thing,

how can we portray, so it's not so they're meek and need help saving all the time. I think that was a big initiative that they're trying to address. The thing that I mean, here's, and I like that, I appreciate that because, I think Disney is, I love Disney because I think Disney was like a big initiative that they're trying to address. The thing that I mean, here's, and I like that, I appreciate that because, I think Disney is, I love Disney, because I think Disney does it, they do it just right.

I feel like that's what it was the great conversation. And I was like, you know, most of the times I think I would be not a fan of this of like changing a message just to fit the climate currently today and stuff, but I think Disney did it in a very tasteful way that most people probably didn't even see it and went over it. And I said, and I think that's pretty cool. I even love right now too what Disney is doing to address

addiction to the binge-watching. Why everybody else that's in the business of watching Netflix series and who've been doing things like that. It's, I mean, it would be advantageous for the company to get right in line with everybody else, giving the whole season at once. Yes, and promote the binging, but they recognize the behaviors behind that. Is that why they're not doing that?

Yeah, no, I read a call. That's what they said. You got to wait a week, just like the old model. So I thought that they would do that because maybe it's a better model in terms of getting people to watch your show and dissipate it, talk about it. But you're saying it's because they don't like binging.

Yes, that's great. Wow. Yeah, so I think that's really neat. That, you know, it's probably, it probably would be better for them business-wise to promote binging and the addiction to watching the shows nonstop like that. But, you know, part of their model is they're going to release

it the same way like HBO and showtime does. Where it's going to be. Part of me is a little bit like, oh, because the Mandalorian, I just watched a trailer for that. We got like super pumped. And so I'm gonna have to wait week by week for the episodes. Well, if you think about it, you know,

imagine your kids watching the Disney Network and just binge watching 15 episodes of a show that's out and crying because you want to turn it off. Probably right, you're probably right, it's not a good look. Yeah, I mean. So now it's like, oh honey, the next episode's not out to next week or whatever. No, I just think that's, I mean, again, highlighting unhealthy behavior. Well, I like the company, I think, the think, they take a lot of things into consideration. They have real tasteful ways to go about it.

I mean, again, why I love Disney, I'm pro Disney. So smart. I was reading on longevity and health the other day as well. And I was shocked to find how important close relationships in the people around you are to your longevity, it's actually a major factor in your health and longevity. A major factor, it's one of the most consistent thing

they find with centenarians. And the article that I found showed that there was something like, I'm gonna pull it up here, because it was insane. That the research is showing something like a 50%, oh, here it is, one study found that a lack of strong relationships increased the risk of premature death from all causes by 50% 50% the effect on mortality 15 or 50 50 50 so not having a lot of 50 is crazy. So not having good relationships in your life

is roughly comparable to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Whoa. And worse for you than obesity and being inactive. So being, it's actually worse for you than being obese. And that's crazy to me. Yes. Wow. And I mean, it just goes a show like why things like,

you know, like why we're so tribal, why we, why religion exists, why we have groups, why we, we're such social creatures. Why community so? Why the Geneva Convention says that, you know, isolating a prisoner is a cruel and a neutral punishment. You know, it's crazy how big of an impact that has in our health.

And here's the reason why I'm a communicator, the reason why I think things is, this's crazy how big of an impact it has in our health. And here's the reason why I'm a communicator, what the reason why I think things is, this is crazy and why I brought this up right now on this episode is because oftentimes, people who are fanatical about their fitness and are obsessed with their body do so at the expense of the relationships with their friends and family.

They're so obsessed with their diet, they're so obsessed with their workouts that they're so obsessed with their workouts that they don't have lots of friends that they lose relationships with significant others. And they all think that they're making themselves healthy. When in reality, they're actually doing themselves far worse. They probably would be better off not working out that much and having good relationships are great today. What a great fucking point.

But this is why we talk about though when making decisions about You know food like eating a piece of cake like sometimes it's actually healthy and that may sound crazy because of the connection Right because when it is when it is in that situation like because I tell you what one way to lose friends really quick Is good a bunch of social events and be the asshole eating out of his plastic container all the time? Yes, or you never can go out because you can't go people stop inviting you. Yeah, you're gonna invite the guy to dinner all the time. Is that relationship? I'm always carrying the plastic container around and you're no fun to be around and eat and drink and have a good time. How many people in the body building fitness world lose a boyfriend or girlfriend or get divorced?

Because they're literally so obsessed with working out and nutrition that they don't nurture their relationship. And then their argument is, well, this is good for me, it's healthy, it justifies it. They justify their obsession. It's actually not. It's actually not good for you. Relationships actually rank higher

than a lot of the other health practice. You guys are the closest bodybuilder friends I've ever had. Just say no. Yeah, they don't do all of that. Oh, that's good. Quick call. I'm going for everything.

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Eagle is landed! Quique-cloix. Alright, our first question is from Apple Saucy 714. It's simple yoga at home a few times a week a good mobility plan. You know what? It's been a while since I think we addressed this and I'm glad whoever picked this question. I think it's a good question to talk about because That's probably one of the number one things that clients that I used to talk to About mobility would get confused they'd be like oh, I'd say, oh yeah, no, we need to work on your move.

I'd be like, oh yeah, no, I do my yoga every Saturday. Yeah. And we're all very pro yoga, right? I want to make that clear before I explain this that I think yoga is an incredible practice. I think that if you have the time to fit it into your schedule, I think it's awesome. But I also think that a big part of why I think it's awesome is more for the meditative side

of it, more so than like the corrective or joint health side of it, which let me explain. When you go through a yoga class, it's very generic. The whole entire class is... The drawback of all classes. Right. Exactly. It's the same drawback that you would do with any classes. It's not addressing your specific needs.

And when I'm training a client, I got 10 different clients. I have 10 different clients sitting in front of me. And all 10 of them are very, very different. And all 10 of them have, now there's some general exercises or mobility movements that I teach all of them because they all could use it. For example, you know, a lizard with rotation or a 90 90 tends to be a go-to for all of them. They all tend to lack good hip mobility. It's just very common as we age. We just don't move in the transverse plane anymore. And so, you know, doing 90 90 lizard with rotation,

which also addresses a little thoracic mobility, those two tend to, like, kind of cover everybody. But then there's a lot of other little nuances in their specific movements where they lack, and that I would look at and go, okay, you know, she needs to be doing more of this. And I would prescribe to her. I say, listen, I want you to do, let's say,

the combat stretch, you need to be doing that one every day, three times a day because more joint specific. Yeah, because her, let's say, her ankle mobility is horrible, but then her husband is just, he's an engineer and he's on the computer all day long. And his is like, thoracic mobility, he has the rounded shoulder, like handcuffed a rotation.

I'm like, he's got to do that one like crazy. Now, that's the problem with yoga is it's like, you kind of get this broad stroke of all these different movements that are not specific to the person. Not only that, but they are stationary static stretching for the most part, depending on what type of... And the goal is to end up getting into the pose, which is the end goal.

So I have to counter a little bit of that, because yoga, done properly, yoga is an active, there's a lot of active stretching that's going on. If you talk to most yoga instructors, and it depends on the yoga, if you do the Yin, you're doing the Yin yoga, there's some status stretches, but you know, which is the most popular one? No, no, Vinyasa.

Vinyasa, Vinyasa flow classes are the most popular ones. Are they? Yeah, absolutely. And when you do a Vignasa-type class, and you're doing it with a good instructor, they are, when it comes to cues, I'll say this right, and this is, and I'll stand by this all day long.

Yoga. When it comes to queuing people, yoga instructors are the best in the business. The best group instructors in the world are queuing people to move their position, you know, scoop your hips, tuck your tailbone, you know, look up tall, the way they are able to queue is so good.

That taking, if you're a trainer, take a yoga class to learn just the queues alone, because I think they're phenomenal. Well, because the class is so slow-paced where like every little incremental movement, they can kind of capture and describe in better detail. That's why I love it. So here's a thing, of all the group exercise type classes

you can do, yoga focuses the most on form. That's the only one that I don't think should die. No, I talk about group class training should die the most part, but yoga is something that generally speaking anybody and everybody that takes yoga is going to be good for you. It is, and you are active in the poses, so you are getting a functional flexibility,

you are getting mobility. In terms of group exercise classes, it's the best mobility type group exercise class, I think they're phenomenal. But the drawback is, like what Adam's saying, the drawback with the yoga class is the same drawback you would get with any group class. It's general and not individualized.

Individualized mobility training is superior because it's for you. It's just for your individual body. You're doing mobility movements to correct your particular issues and problems. This was, look, this is one of the major challenges we had when we created both Maps Prime and Prime Pro. The big, big challenge, I remember when we created both maps prime and prime pro. The big, big challenge, I remember when we created maps prime, we all went off to, I think it was Reno, we got ourselves a place out in the, out in the nowhere

and we all sat there and we were stuck for almost two days on how we could create an element that would allow people to individualize their mobility and priming work. Like how can you do that? We're selling a program that everybody could buy. We could put general mobility stuff in there, but then that's not what we're all about. How can we individualize this?

This is so crazy because when I assess a client, there's all kinds of things I look at and how am I going to teach the average person to do that? So we had to come up with something that was totally breakthrough and revolutionary that does not exist in the industry except for in Maps Prime, which is a compass test that allows the person to test their body and then identify how their individual body needs to be primed and the individual mobility movements they need to do on their own body. Maps Prime Pro

does the same thing, but it's individual tests for each of the major joints. And that's the value of mobility work. The value mobility work is how it's individualized, because that's where you're gonna get the most benefit. So my clients that like love the yoga classes and then have asked me like, okay, well, I don't want them, what do I do for my mobility timer? What should I do instead of my yoga class? And that's exactly, I direct them to Prime Pro.

And I say, and I normally start with them to keep it simple. Pick three to five tops of the movements out of there that you fail at the worst, that you struggle with the most, okay? Pick three, five tops, and literally spin an entire hour working on those movements, just like you would in a yoga class. Breathe, take your time.

Connect, yes, connect, use and do the movements within 10, you're not trying to just move through it fast. So make it meditative like a yoga class. You don't enjoy it, relax while you're doing it between movements, but spend the entire hour on those three to five movements. Man, you do that. And the value is incredible.

You're getting every bit of the value you would get from the Yo class and a ton more because it's specific to you. Well, think about it this way, okay? All your exercises, your whole workout has the value that it's providing you, but there's also a potential of value that it could provide you, okay?

And oftentimes, the potential of value you can get from your workout is much more than what you're actually getting out of your workout. In other words, if we put this in terms of points, let's say your total workout, your exercises could provide you with 100 points of value. But because your range of motion isn't great, because you lacked mobility to do full ranges of motion, because you're not connecting to your body in optimal ways, maybe you're only getting 70% or 70 points out of that workout. That's the value of mobility work.

It literally makes your current workouts far more effective. I noticed this with clients through yoga, okay? And by the way, you can do this with yoga. If you take a yoga class, the poses that are the hardest for you to do, practice those at home. Right. That means you're probably addressing individual issues for yourself. So if you like to take yoga classes and you're like, okay, how can I individualize this a little bit?

Besides having to hire a yoga instructor just to teach me. Think of the hardest poses that you get into. Like, whatever, it can be any pose. It can be warrior one. And I go, okay, when I do warrior one, my neck gets tight, that you get into, like whatever, it can be any pose. It can be warrior one. And I go, okay, when I do warrior one, my neck gets tight, my shoulders get tight, I'm not able to hold that position.

Practice that one at home all the time. And you'll get some of that individualized success that you can get from individualized mobility training. Yeah, I like to think of mobility as purely, it's strength training at the end of the day. Like I, in terms of flexibility training, there's specific times where I'm like highlighting that with my clients,

but for the most part, if you're talking about a good mobility plan, it is. You wanna make it so you're really connecting by, you know, tensing up the muscle and making it into an actual active strength type of an exercise. So if you come in with that mentality and you're bringing in those tough poses

that for a reason are giving you a hard time because you're not as strong and connected in that area of your body, you're gonna do yourself a lot more justice. Well, I remember the first couple of times I took yoga, I had so many misconceptions about it. So I took the class and I thought, okay, we're gonna get in these poses

and we're gonna kind of stretch and stay in these poses. No, man, the instructor walked around, it's like, I'm standing in this pose that looks passive, but it's not. Push your feet apart or bring your feet in. Drive the energy out through your fingertips. Drive energy through your head. Really what they were teaching me to do through yoga is a lot of how we teach people to use

to do priming movements. You don't just sit in 90. It's all about the intent. Yes, you're not just sitting in 90, 90. You're sitting in 90, 90, but you're creating energy up through your spine, down through your knees, to be a relatively productive or worthless,

totaling on your mentality. 100%. Next question is from Michitech. How do you adjust your client's macros when they are consistently non-compliant? More good questions. Yeah. This is a good one, even for just for yourself. So as a trainer, this is something that took me a little while to learn, but I had to

realize that what I thought the client was getting in terms of value. Sometimes was inaccurate. In other words, if I had somebody show up and train with me twice a week and they were still eating like crap, they weren't working out on their own, they weren't following my advice when they went around, I would get very frustrated early on. And sometimes I think to myself,

I'm not gonna train this client anymore, fuck it. But then I realized something, they're coming two days a week. That two days a week with me is way more than what they would be doing without me. So there is some value that they're getting. And so when you have clients that are non-compliant, back off, it's not time to talk about nutrition. You know? Well, sometimes two, part of the non-compliance is, and this is what I have found,

that sometimes we throw too much at the client too soon. So awful. And you get somebody who has no idea about nutrition and doesn't care about macros, and that's why they hired you as they want you to do most of the work for them. And I really like this question because this is actually more common than you would think you know you You we all we all talk about you know breaking down macros and what's the best diet all day long

But this type of question is what I really like because this is real life right here This is what really normally happens is you get a client who's just you know They the reason why they're way out of shape is because they don't give a shit about this stuff And they don't want to take the discipline and time to do that. And so as a trainer, you had to learn ways to get creative. Like, how do I get this person to become compliant that just fails every time I give them a diet, they won't follow it. So you need to learn to give them much smaller, simpler goals and build upon that.

And this is where this is how the evolution of adding to the diets that a subtracting started for me was, and I had such a hard time of taking someone completely, change their diet. And it sounds so counterright, like you're adding things. Right, yeah, and we're talking about a weight loss person, somebody needs to lose 100 pounds, and here your trainer isn't saying,

no, don't have McDonald's, no, don't do that. I'm not telling them any of that shit. I'm saying, I want you to have this every day. Can we commit to that? And so, and let's, example, we use vegetables to start with, but there's, I would build upon that. So, a lot of times, somebody who eats a lot of bad food is eating a lot of processed stuff,

doing a lot of fast food, they're not getting a lot of their vegetables and fruits. So, that always would be the first easy one. And be like, can you commit to me to having like just, I don't want you to worry about anything else, just can you add a cup of berries a day or can you add one giant salad every single day? And they're like, okay, I could do that. And that's always speak to, you know, until they're consistent with that and they're constantly

doing that. And what ends up happening is when they do that, it ends up replacing something else in the diet that was probably not as good for them as that cup of berries or that big ass sell. And they make that decision themselves. You have to take any, yeah. Exactly, you're not taking anything from them.

And then once I get them doing that consistently, then I go like, okay, I have a new challenge for us. This is what I want us to do. Again, I'm not gonna tell you, you can't have any of these things but can we commit to eating 12 ounces total a day of a lean meat? You can choose chicken, you can do fish, you can do turkey these I just want to commit to 12 out basically two times in the day

You're going to eat a meat that's a lean meat and okay, yeah, I could do that And so you get them to do that. And then next thing you know, that's now replacing something else that would not be ideal for. And you start to build in these better habits and you're kind of tricking the client into getting them into eating and having better eating behaviors and a better relationship with food.

And it's a very clever way to do it without them feeling like they're having to follow this diet. People need to realize just how brilliant what you're saying is. And this is why when I go and I talk to trainers and try to communicate to them how to become better trainers, the thing I focus on is communication. Because what Adam is saying might be counter, you might be thinking they need to take all the garbage out of their diet, they need to reduce their calories, but it doesn't work.

And I don't mean it doesn't work in the sense that, if they did that, it wouldn't work. Of course, if they did that, it would work. But that doesn't work because people don't do that. It's a very ineffective way of communicating how to change your nutrition. What Adam's saying is a much more effective way of communicating to get people to change the nutrition.

And so that's a great point that you bring up. Maybe your clients are non-compliant because the way you're selling it is wrong. And that's exactly what you're doing. You're selling better nutrition to your client. And when someone buys it, they have to buy it. I wish there was sort of a belt system like they have in martial arts and for trainers, because I could identify them right away based off their mentality with their client

of what they're trying to achieve with their client versus like being a behavioral manager. And why we always stress the point of all these things like process food, what worries us about that and artificial sugars and all these types of things that yes on paper and in lab settings, you can make arguments for, it doesn't do much harm,

versus what we actually see in our clients' behaviors and how altars that. And how can we compare into that client even further and see what the domino sequence is going to be after that? So if you present them with that really impactful domino, ahead of time, maybe it's you have to like really put the work upon yourself to reduce, you know, the amount of information that

you've received over, you know, decades going through fitness and health and nutrition knowledge and what you can present then that's going to have the most impact without any of the confusion alongside. No, no, very, very well said, extremely well said. And that's, I think, the most absolute, most important thing is how can... And do this for yourself. Here's a big one. This is a very, very big one now. Patients. I had to learn patience as a personal trainer. I had a guy who I trained who wanted to lose 50 pounds. And it took him three years to lose 35 pounds, three years.

Now you know what happened after we lost that 35 pounds and three years, took him into the six months to lose the rest of the weight and then he never gained it back. Now the old version of me, the new, when I was the new trainer, that would have been way too slow. You need to make this happen, got to do this, got it. But then I started to understand,

look we're dealing with behaviors that take a long time. This person's had these behaviors for decades. I'm trying to change that in a month. You know, I'm gonna be a little bit more patient. I'm gonna take my time. And sometimes they're not ready to talk about macros and nutrition. That's okay, because you're here working out.

I mean, it's better than doing nothing at all. And treat yourself this way. So if you're not a trainer, this applies to you as well. If you're trying to change your eating habits, if you're trying to become more consistent with your workouts, be patient and take your time with it and start slow. And that's really the only way to find long-term success,

at least for the majority of people I've ever worked with. Next question is from Solomon Roskin. How would you train clients who do not work out on their own? This is a great follow-up question to that question because right now it's going through my head as a remembering of trainers who had struggled with resigns and coming to me and telling me like, you know, I can't get them to follow the meal plan.

Oh, they're not, they're not gonna resign with me. They can't, they can't handle the training, all the stuff. And it's a very similar thing here, right? Like, like what we were just talking about with the macros and then the nutrition, that also falls into like the exercise thing. And this is something that took me years before I started to really piece this together too.

Again, as a trainer, I see this client, I put them on a meal plan, I have this elaborate, you know, program that I designed for them for the next six months that I want them to follow. And the reality of it is a majority people can't stick to any of it, can't stick to none of it. And my attitude kind of was with that is like,

oh, they're just not serious enough. I'll just keep going until I find another client who is serious enough. But what I wasn't doing was improving my job as a trainer and finding out, okay, figuring out how can I start to change these behaviors and these people and what I'm currently doing right now, obviously, isn't working because more than half of them aren't sticking with me or aren't staying with fitness long term.

And a lot of that is how much that I was prescribing to them. So if there's somebody who doesn't, that only works out when they work out with me, well, that's probably because I'm expecting them to do these training sessions that look like my training sessions that are overly complicated, that they're, I'm pushing the shit out of them and it's hard. And they're like, fuck that. The only reason why I do this is because you're yelling at me and you're pushing me through this.

And that was a big mistake. And on it, and this is where I began to start to prescribe walking and prescribe yoga classes and prescribe two exercises. Prescribe a mobility drill. We've just talked earlier about mobility and stuff. This is another example of that. So I've got a client who I trained three days a week and I'm trying to get them to do some things

on their own outside of it. And instead of asking them to do that leg session that I just did with them and they walked out crippled and they were sweating and in agony, I'm not gonna ask them to try and do that on Sunday because they're not going to, the only reason they're doing it now is because they paid for me to do it to them.

But I would do things like, hey, you know, the handcuffed rotation mobility drill, we need to be doing that as much as possible. So let's set a goal this week that the two days that you don't see me, you know, I need you to spend, you know, two times in the day, spend 10 minutes doing that.

Can we commit to that? And get them to commit to these things that I know if they do that, they will feel a difference. I'll even see it in their movement. And then when I see them on their day, I can follow up. Because they do it. Do you remember the workouts that you gave clients

to do on their own when you first became a trainer? Yeah, I do. I would be the most elaborate. It was like a full on maps. Take it around. Two hours. Yeah. Oh, I know you hired me because you don't know how to work out

and you've ever done this before and you need help. Oh, by the way, here's your workouts you can do on your own. They should take you about 90 minutes to do and if you have any questions go online, look, it's insane. It's absolutely insane. You're 100% right Adam. It's like give them things that you know that they'll do

on their own and sometime I actually had a client. This is no joke now. I had a client that was so resistant when one of my favorite success stories. She was the most unhealthy person I've ever met in my entire life. I've talked about her before. I got a coke drinker.

Yeah, I hope she doesn't listen to this podcast. She didn't drink water. I mean, that's how unhealthy she drinks soda. That's how she got her fluids. And my goal was to get her to eat to change her nutrition. And you know where I had to start? This is what I did. I started by saying, can you add, you know, a serving of vegetables to your day. No, and I told her I said, it has to be something that you're going to do. This has to be realistic. So be honest with me. Luckily, she was honest. So she said, be honest with me. to be something that you're gonna do. This has to be realistic. So be honest with me. Luckily she was honest So say be honest with me if you think you're not gonna do this or that it's unlikely

So Mike, can you add one serving of vegetables every single day? No, can you add one serving of vegetables three days a week? No one day a week. No one piece of broccoli. No, can you read a nutrition book? No, can you read one page from one nutrition book? To start with once a week. Yes, that's where we started. Literally we started, I'd give her a page to read. She would read it at trainer and we'd talk about it. Now slowly, you know what that turned into? Over the years, slowly. It turned in completely changed behaviors.

Completely changed nutrition, but it was a really, really slow process. Because you give someone a bunch of stuff that they're not gonna do. It's as good as nothing. You're a new trainer, that's like such a lost cause in your mind, you're like, no! Totally, have I shared the colored sticker thing

that I used to do? I used to. I love this one. Yeah, so I used to go to like your staple, center or staple, you know, whatever, local staples or whatever you guys got over in your area with office supply stuff and they have these like little office max. Yeah, right. These little circle colored circles that are stickers. And I would, you know, pick again a couple I either

exercise and it could be as simple as this like 10 squats. Okay. That's it. Or, you know, three handcuffed with rotations. Like the most basic simple things or someone like to Sal's lady, he's talking about drink the glass of water when you, and I would tell them, okay, I want one on the refrigerator, one on your bathroom, a mirror, one next to the TV, and I'd give them these like strategic spots in their house that I know that they're gonna go buy at least once or twice or three times a day, and I'd say, when you see this sticker, do your 10 squats,

when you see that squit sticker do this, and it makes it kind of fun and challenging, and let's be honest, probably they didn't do it every single time, but at least it was there as a reminder, and I know they were doing more than what they were doing before because I had said all these little reminders. And you start setting simple little tasks and goals

like that, and then you can build on that. And I think that was probably the number one mistake that I made, and most my trainers that work for me for many years make is, you know, sometimes we forget like these people that are hiring us, where their starting point is, and what is like overwhelming to them. And they're never gonna admit it to you, by the way,

either, they're never gonna be like, oh, yo, Adam, that's just, that's way too much work for me. I can't do that. Nobody will be like, oh, yeah, I could do all that. Yeah, exactly. They're gonna say that. way too much work for me. I can't do that. Nobody's all gonna be like oh, yeah I could do all the yeah exactly They're gonna say that but then if you're having a hard time with compliance or you're they're not working out Oh, they're not doing these things start with very very basic behaviors, you know, and that could be going for walks It could be squatting your body weight ten times could be holding a plank for one minute

It could be doing the combat stretch for 30 seconds. I mean start small minute, it could be doing the combat stretch for 30 seconds. I mean, start small, create the behaviors, build upon that. And that applies both for macro nutrients and for exercise. Next question is from Ladybug Laura. What's the profession that you value highly, but could never do? You got you guys like this question. Well, one came to mine right away from me because when I was a kid, I thought I was gonna be a lawyer. I was dead set on being a lawyer. Everybody in my family, being, of course, it was when you're a kid, the reason why

if your family members tell you that because you are. You're good at arguing. Yeah, I argued. That's what I got to say. I was outgoing and I made good arguments and I argued with everybody and whatever and I had an opinion for everything. So everyone's like, you're gonna be a lawyer,

but they say it enough times as your kid, then as you can be on a young adult, you're like, yeah, I'm gonna be a lawyer. So, then you realize, you have to just read all the time. So I date this girl in high school, who her father is a lawyer, and I'll never forget, this is the day I changed my mind,

as I went to his office, and I walk in his office, and it's about the size of our studio right here, and just covered with books. All four walls are books, and I walk in his office and, you know, it's about the size of our studio right here. And I just covered with books. All four walls are books. And I asked him, I said, did you read all these? And he was like, of course. And I started picking them up and opening them.

And they're like, all laws and cases and I'm like, like, I mean, I looked at one and thought, I don't know if I could get through one of these if I had to, you know, maybe a couple of them, if it was like, if I had to, to pass the test or become, and it was that moment that I went, I could never do this profession. For that simple reason that I could not see myself

in my entire lifetime having the discipline to sit down and not only, you have to know that stuff. It's not just like breeze through it. It's like you need to understand it forward and back. And that, but it also gave me this incredible respect for that profession. I mean, the amount of discipline it would take to read that type of material.

So my cousin's a lawyer and in 95% of what you do as a lawyer is that. You're at your desk and you're researching and reading and writing shit out, that kind of stuff. It's the other 5%, maybe even less than that, 2% is what you see in movies. Yeah, the arguing. Yeah, the part that you probably

your parents told you should be a lawyer for, the talking part. My family said the same thing. And then when I kind of dived into it, I was like, hey, although, I like the talking part, the rest of it sucks. So I started, I saw my podcast right now. That's what I do. I talk. For me, a profession that I value a lot that I could never do. I didn't think about this for a second, but police officer. I think that's a big one. I think what a tough

one right now. Today's climate. I, you know, they don't get the respect and admiration that I think they deserve. I mean, they literally do the shit. They're the ones that keep order. If you're in trouble, that's who you call. Now, I know there's bad ones out there, but there's bad everything out there. But for the most part, these people put their lives

on the line when shits go going down and everybody's running, they're the ones that have to go there and stop it and make it happen. And so for me, that's, I've had a lot of friends that will please officer, especially when I did you do two, and I'd hear stories and I'm just like, I don't know if I could do that, you know? I don't know if I could handle that level of stress.

Well, that level is scrutiny right now. I mean, I feel so bad because, it's like any profession to your point, there's a couple bad apples. And they're now under a microscope and everything that they do and judged how they did it, how they looked when they did it, how they said what they said,

did they follow exactly the protocol? I mean, the stress of meanwhile, yeah, the meanwhile, while they're having to worry about all these ways doing it, they're also worried about their life. Totally. At the beginning, at the end of the day, it's just like, you gotta make sure

that you protect yourself and you're safe, but above that, they're having to put all these other things first, which, man, that would be very hard for me. I feel like I would first think about myself and my own safety, like I give a shit if I'm being politically correct, I give a shit about the protocol.

First of all, I'm not gonna die. And then I'll figure out all the other things. Then I'll be politically correct. And then I'll try and be the procedure itself. And in the strength, like I, you know, I've had a few conflicts in my life. And I don't like them. They're stressful as fuck.

I don't like the way I feel. You carry it home with you. You carry, you know, and you're a cop. That's what you do. You know what I mean? Oh, we need, we, you get a phone, you know, and you're a cop. That's what you do. You know what I mean? Oh, we need, we, you get a phone call because some dude won't leave a restaurant. Conflict, that's your job.

Go in there and, and, and fight the dude or get him out or whatever. Like, you gotta deal with that shit all the time. And then the stuff you see on the highway and then the fear, like, you know, I have a, a, a buddy who's a police officer and he talks about how pulling people over, you know, someone got, what a police officer got shot

for just a routine pulling someone over because the guy, I guess, had some warrants. And so you got that on your mind the whole time. That is an incredibly, incredibly difficult, stressful job. And I don't think they get the respect that they deserve. And I value the shit out of it. Don't think I could do anything.

What do you think, Justin? Yeah, I had aologist. Yeah, kind of. Just actually, like along the lines of health practitioners, okay? Like ER surgeons, ER doctors that like for me, it was immediately very similar in terms of the stress level and the on call, like just having to wake up. Like any job where it's like, you're on call at ungodly hours, like even just people

are ambulance and paramedics, and you know, people that are out there, like literally saving lives. And, you know, somebody will live or die based off of either your hands or your decisions. And, you know, I was either gonna say that or like the president, but I didn't want to get all the crazy and pissing everybody off with that one. Cause that's why we have checks and balances

and they don't have too much power, right? But, yeah, I think that I definitely revere and to like nowadays, they do not even make as much money as they should, like I think they should make LeBron James money, you know, for the kind of shit they do saving people out there. So I don't know, I just, I have a big admiration and respect for, and armed forces and people are out there protecting and saving us, you know, from being assholes that we do every

day. Yeah, no. You brought it up another one earlier too, which is not a profession, but it is something that is high, I value highly. Definitely. And this would be just a stay-at-home parent. Right. I mean, oh boy, you guys are really reaching for

how many points there are. Well, no, think about it, dude. I didn't want to be too virtuous. Can you hold that answer? No, when you brought it up earlier, I made fun of you, but if you think about it, is there anything that you think could be more valuable than raising good humans?

Are you kidding me? That's the impact. That's the first point of contact with you're creating a human being that's gonna be there, could or bad in society. Oh, this is a conversation with Katrina and I right now. I mean, because she's got an incredible job and makes really good money.

And of course, that helps the family out. But I told her the other day, like, I mean, I don't know if there is a amount of money that you could make that I think could help the family out more than you being with our child more and being a very intricate role in who he develops to be as a young adult.

Like, man, that's everything. And I guess maybe now being a dad, like I think about that more than I ever did before. I think I always wanted a partner who, you know, I always wanted to have a power, be the power couple and have a bad ass wife who's like killing it and I have that. And now that I have a kid,

I feel like that's changed. Like what I think, what I want more and what I think is even more important is like, man, having somebody who I trust that is putting their heart and soul into making sure that this human turns out to be, to me, the job of a parent is to make sure your kid is better than you.

Like, that's like how I feel. I told you. I was like, you win at that point. Right, my number, like, I can't expect him to be a rocket scientist. I don't know if he's gonna play in the NBA, like I would like all these things. But at the end of the day, what I will gauge

if I pastor failed at this dad thing is can I make him a better human being than myself? Can I give him all of everything that I have and then he can have something to build upon that? And nobody lays that foundation more than a mom, dude. A mom who has the first line of defense in that. So, no, I could get a little bit more. Or a dad, you know, or a stay-at-home dad.

I mean, any parent, I mean, I was having this conversation with my daughter, it's funny, we were talking about work and jobs and she's like, well, how much does this job make and how much does that job make? And it's so why you asking me about how much money these people make? She's like, well, because, you know, making a lot of money, you know, that would be really cool.

And I said, well, it's okay. I said, but what do you think is the most important thing? And she said, and this made my heart just like warm and everything. She's like, I think family, family is the most important thing. And I was like, oh, that's a girl, man. So you get it. Yeah. Yeah, you raising good human beings.

And unfortunately, a lot of people don't do a good job of it. But the people that do do a good job of it, man, those are the most valuable people because then they turn into the ER surgeon or the police officer that's awesome. Or I forgot what you said. Lawyer. Lawyer.

Who does a good job. So there you go. And with that, go to minepumpfree.com and download our guides. They're all absolutely free. You can also find us on Instagram. You can find Justin at MindPump Justin, me at MindPump Sal and Adam at MindPump Adam. Thank you for listening to MindPump.

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