Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 1174: When to Use Drop Sets, the Benefits of Yoga, When to Finish a Set & MORE

Episode Date: November 30, 2019

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about how long is acceptable to rest mid-set to try and pump out a few more reps, whether drop sets are useful for the beginning or intermediate lifter, what makes an overall healthy individual, and their opinion on yoga and how to implement it into training. Mind Pump Debates: Will the cybertruck disrupt the truck industry? Are self-driving cars the future? (5:42) 82-year-old female bodybuilder beats down a home intruder. (21:00) Mind Pump RAVES over their newest sponsor, Magic Spoon. (23:14) Mind Pump Recommends: ‘Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator on Netflix’. (27:23) What is ‘Perineum Sunning’? Will it become the latest health trend? (34:10) Russian cows get VR headsets 'to reduce anxiety'. (37:16) Will continual exposure to blue light accelerate blindness?! (39:48) How are we the only human species that survived? (43:20) #Quah question #1 – How many seconds is too long to rest between reps to try and get a few more out? When should you just move on to your break before your next set? (47:33) #Quah question #2 – Are drop sets useful for the beginning or immediate lifter? If so, what is the best way to use them? (53:07) #Quah question #3 – What do you consider a healthy overall induvial? What makes for good balance? (57:21) #Quah question #4 – What is your opinion on yoga and how do you suggest you implement it into your training? (1:04:07) People Mentioned Elon Musk (@elonmusk)  Twitter Max Lugavere (@maxlugavere)  Instagram   Related Links/Products Mentioned Black Friday Specials (End 11:59 pm PST Friday 11/29): MAPS Bundles 25% off (Code “BFBUNDLES” at checkout) – MAPS Programs/Guides/MODS 50% off [except MAPS Powerlift] (Code “BLACKFRIDAY50” at checkout) Elon Musk says there are 250,000 pre-orders for Tesla's Cybertruck Ford Wants Rematch in Tesla Cybertruck vs. F-150 Tug of War An 82-year-old US female bodybuilder sent an unlucky home invader to hospital Visit Magic Spoon for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator | Netflix Official Site ‘Perineum sunning’ is latest insanity wellness influencers swear by Russian cows get VR headsets 'to reduce anxiety' UT chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness Visit Felix Gray for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! Nine Species of Human Once Walked Earth. Now There's Just One. Did We Kill The Rest? Mind Pump 1172: Four Ways to Change Your Workout for Maximum Results 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. Saldas Defenow, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. In this episode of Mind Pump, we answer questions from our audience, just like you. Now, if you want to ask us a question that we can answer in an episode, go to our Instagram page, Mind Pump Media, post your question underneath the qu quaw meme, and if we like it, we'll pick it and we'll answer it for you. This episode was just for you, but...

And then in the beginning of the episode, we start out by having fun conversation. We talk about things that are in the news. I tend to bring up studies, so we could talk about, you know, scientific studies. We talk about our sponsors. Here's what we talked about in this episode. We started by talking about the cyber truck from Tesla. I think it's gonna be a huge success, but Adam and Justin think it's ugly.

It's a bunch of Doritos. And this is, we'll see how well this episode ages and who turns out to be right. Then we talked about the 82 year old grandma, bodybuilder, who beat the crap out of an intruder. Go granny. She actually smashed the table on him. That's pretty awesome.

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That dude's a little crazy. We talked about a new fitness trend that is crazy called perinium, sunning, where you land your back, naked spread your butt cheeks and expose your butthole to the sun. Are there benefits to it? And who's really doing this?

Or do these people just want to lay naked spreading their butt cheeks and making up excuses to do it? Then we talked about cow VR. That's right, they're giving cows experiences with virtual reality and making up excuses to do it. Then we talked about cow VR. That's right, they're giving cows experiences with virtual reality to increase their milk production. Adam is actually a cow expert,

so we got to give us his input. They're probably playing Mario Kart. Then we talked about macular degeneration and how scientists think that the rate of macular degeneration in the younger population as they get older is going to start to explode because of our exposure to blue light that comes off of electronics. And we speculated that it's probably going to become mandatory at 10 companies to wear blue light blocking glasses.

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The first question, this person wants to know how many seconds is too long to rest between reps to get a few more. So, most people will do the reps one after another, but some people are talking about how you do a rep and then when you get fatigued, you rest a little longer, like five or ten seconds and do some more. So, we talk about the benefits and detriment of doing that. The next question, this person wants to know if drop sets or strip sets are useful for the beginner or intermediate

lifter. So this is where you lift a weight for as much as you can. Drop it, you immediately go to a lighter weight and do more reps. Strip it down. The next question, this person wants to know what we would consider to be an overall healthy and balanced individual. And the final question, this person wants to know what our opinion is on yoga.

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and that's also found at mapsfitinistproducts.com. What you're talking about, what are you saying? Aren't you saying that again? We're talking about your side truck i was just thinking about it i was just like you know what i've always wanted is a fucking triangle truck so i would say i would say said nobody at all but apparently what to look like a bunch of wheat thins you you know, apparently almost 200,000 people disagree with us. Is that where we're at? They have pre-sold over $10 billion worth of trucks.

Now, I know you're gonna say, oh, those are $100 deposits and they're projecting or whatever, but they did the same thing. So that's 100, it was 250,000 pre-orders, is what I saw. Yes, which, which, which, when they come through, because they all reserve, when they come through, it's over $10 billion. I'm not that impressed though, still with that, no.

I know you're so impressed with that number, but Chevy and Ford do 100,000 trucks every single month. That's not fair, you can't compare Tesla to Chevy Ford. I mean, no, you can't do that, you gotta compare them to what they did before. It's brand new. And as far as the pre-orders are concerned, when they did the Tesla Model 3,

the first few days, they had $13 billion in pre-order sales, and almost all of them came through. It's also a launch. Come on, guy. You know that, you're in the business. You're in the business of launching. No marketing. Okay, now everybody knows Tesla though.

No marketing, come on. He was, okay, no traditional marketing, but it everybody knows Tesla though. No marketing. Come on. He was okay. No traditional marketing. Yeah. But it got marketed brother. We're talking about it. That's the marketing. It was all over. How much money do you think it does it? Company spend on marketing when they launch a new car. Probably a ton. Hundreds of millions of dollars. He did none of that. He did a launch on video. Nobody saw the argument. The argument isn't that it's not profitable Okay, the argument is not that it's it's a lame truck, bro And the 200,000 people that bought it are more than half of them are probably from the Silicon Valley or not from the Midwest

I mean do the math. It's probably it's probably all the husbands of the guys that drive Prius the husband's of the guys that drive Prius. That's who, that's who, that's who order that truck. Oh my God. That's who, I mean, that's, we'll see, talk to me after some of our demographic. Talk to me six months from now or after everybody. Here's my, drives prediction. Here's my prediction.

It's going to change the truck industry in some fundamental but subtle ways. First off, this thing, this thing, it's, yes. This is, it goes zero to 16, 2.9 seconds. Okay, it can tow 14,000 pounds. It has a payload capacity of 3,500 pounds, over a 500 mile distance on one charge. It's got a hundred cubic feet of enclosed bed area, which is insane. And it's enclosed. It can cover itself up. It seats six. It's got the

adaptive air suspension. And you can get the beginning model for under 40 grand. Yeah, but did Bob Seeger write a song, you know, for it? Wow, like a rock. Oh, I think so. Hey, don't think so. Bro, that's a, it's, it's extremely successful. Watch what happens, dude. It's a lovely truck. It's, well, maybe you guys don't want it. Yeah, I mean, here, I, some people are extremely, the people are extremely loyal to like brands. And to an extent, I kind of am, but then, I'm also the same guy too.

I mean, the last two trucks I had before were Chevy and I switched to GMC, this last purchase that I made because I don't like the way this is. You're the one that I like the new Chevy. You used to say in high school, he used to wear freaking orange jackets and weird shit to be different. This is a different truck.

You know what I'm saying? Be different. You don't want to be like everybody else. You get a fuck. That's the messes. Be different. You know what I'm saying? No, truck people.

It's got some crazy, at things that you can add on, like the quad that comes with, that you can get also, after you buy the truck, and then it's got this like, this tent that you can take you back. Super useful for all the people

in San Francisco, right? Yeah, bro. Was that okay? A tortilla chip? Actually, hold on a sec. All the quads you see drag around to get the Francisco in San Francisco. Hold on a sec, I'm about to drop some.

It'll sit in a living room like mine. I'm about to drop some clowned on you guys. What percentage of truck owners do you think actually use their trucks in America for hard work on farms and shit like that? Oh that's a good question. Right. Most people owned like you clowns, you got your six inches like what the fuck do you go with your truck? I go the dump. Let's see here. Pismo out of the dunes up to Tahoe to go snowboarding. Yeah, I use the fuck out of my truck. I can drive my all wheel driving. I can't even feel the same place.

And we can. You guys drive your truck, you're all drunk. Hey, we'll see about that when we go to Tahoe. We'll see if you're in close more selfies. See if you're fucking all wheel drive car. I'm doing man the thing. Look at me. I just forget the thing.

No, but honestly, most people buy trucks in America, the top selling vehicle in America has a truck, more than any of the car. Most of these people don't use the trucks for truck activities, right? They use them just as a car. Maybe, I mean, you just made that common to me and that which was stupid

because I used the shit out of my truck. Barely. Not barely. No, not barely. I've had it for what, four years in the last 10 years, I've had season passes up to the fucking snow. So do the math, I'm doing probably 20 to 30 visits every single winner up to there.

I've got an ATV that I pull and have sand paddles, so I go out on the beach. You ever try and drive your, see how your car does on the fucking sand. Hold on a second, you never, when's the last time you used your ATV in the sand? I've got it, yeah, my ATV's been sitting in my living room and you know that.

And, but you also, what I'm telling you. This is your subject cell. I use the shit out of my truck. No, but this is true though. Most people buy trucks because they like them. They like the way they look. That's why trucks now are, the interiors are so nice. They have like a lot.

You're super spacious. Yeah, you don't need the SUV anymore. You just get the truck and the truck bed because you got enough space. That's it. And the truck market is not like what we used to think it was. It's very different. Now people just like,

I think that's a naive statement coming from somebody who lives in a fucking bubble. We live in California in the Silicon Valley. You are so disconnected from the rest of the United States. Yeah. We want to see, yeah, middle America driving these things around. Well, I don't think you'll see a lot of Teslas at all in middle America anyway.

I mean, have you been to other states like I know you don't see any. No, you drive around San Jose or I would love to see how many people that bought this truck that were not from LA, from LA to San Francisco area. I wanted to bet that at least 80% of those purchases came from all up in down California. No, you're right because the charging stations are, you know, a lot of them are concentrated in these big urban areas. And I've been to other states. And I remember when I drove through, you know, through Yellowstone and through all the states around there, I didn't see a single Tesla, which when I'm in, this is no joke, if you don't live in California or especially the Bay Area, I will not, I cannot go through a day

and not see at least five, at least five Teslas. Yeah, they're everywhere. So that's true, you're right. And I don't think they're gonna have the same penetration as Ford and Chevy, but this is gonna be a success. It's funny cause it's funny to talk about cause I really am pulling for Tesla as a company, but I just, I can't get behind this, the design, dude.

Really, yeah, Star Wars. Looks like it belongs to Star Wars yeah Star Wars looks like it belongs like you know like that's fantasy I bet if they did it's not reality shut up dude if they did a launch with Star Wars You would have totally like driving a millennium Falcon fucking car That's hilarious. No, I'm not doing that I'm with my dog like in Chewbacca I'm with you just on that like I'm I fan of, I mean, I've been sharing his tweets just in the last couple of weeks. I'm a fan of Elon Musk, I'm a fan of Tesla.

I think it's pretty cool that they've created something that competes as far as torque and horsepower and towing capability as the Ford's and Chevy's and Dodge's that are out there. Yeah, that's what I had asked. But I'm also, I like design. I like the way some design. And I think it looks like a fourth grader designed it. Did you see the

challenge between Ford and Tesla? Okay, so they're around two now, right? Yeah, so Tesla initially, which is brilliant, so just a little history. Whenever you do challenge competitions with another brand, you tend to increase the sales of both brands, because you make people feel like they have the pick. I have the pick. Exactly. So what Tesla did, what he did, which is brilliant, is he did a video where it was a towing battle

with a Ford F-150 and the Cybertruck, and the Cybertruck pulled the F-150 uphill while the F-150 was even trying to go. It couldn't compete. Now Ford came back and said, that's not fair. You guys have a heavier truck. We got to have better tires and that. So Ford came back and said, let's do this again.

We'll pick our truck. And- Would they get like a duly like like 1500 trucks? Well, Elon agreed. Now this is the best free publicity you could ever ask for. Yeah, see, and we're crazy. Tactics like that are, again, you said there's no marketing. There's great marketing right there.

They've spent money on it. The great marketing. And when you understand physics, if you have a truck that outweighs by 500 to 1,000 pounds, that has way more advantage just in that alone. You know what I'm saying? It's like a 200 pound man playing with a 100 pound kid and who's going to win in tug of war? Well, also there's also the science of electric engines. Low end torque, electric engines are superior,

just in pure efficiency. You hit the pedal to go and it's instant power. Yeah, it gets immediate. A gas engine needs to generate some energy through the combustion process or whatever. So when it comes to towing, or just low end torque electric engines are superior, they're always the downfall of electric engines.

It's always been the capacity to, like they say it's 500 miles in terms of how much distance they can do with one charge on their top model. What does that turn into when you're actually towing? Have you wait and you've got a heavy payload? Probably not 500, right? Who knows?

And you don't wanna, I'm sure you don't wanna get stuck with a car and not be able to charge it within, five seconds, like, right. Yeah, well, the juicer you run in. The real test will be when we, people get out and you use them and everybody uses them for their daily use. That's when we're gonna win.

Someone tries to load it up and they realize the bed is, six inches shorter, smaller, and the average things you're used to throwing in the back of your truck to the fit. A number in there, very well. This is fun. When you actually do drive it off road, and you're hurting cattle with it,

if actually somebody who actually has cattle would even think about buying like this truck, but when we start seeing that, that's when we'll know. Like all the tests and all the fucking market, I mean, everybody when they launch a vehicle is going to present it in the best light. Bro, the thing about Tesla, and I said this before, that's interesting,

is it people treat it like a tech company. They don't treat it like a car company. So it's like, think about a tech company. When a new device comes out and tech, it's about how cool the features are. Cars typically aren't like that. People are like, oh, is it a cool looking car, whatever. Tesla can get away with a lot of,

they can get away with a weird looking truck. Like if Ford released an electric truck that looked like that, they would have died. They got lambastro. But because it's Tesla and everybody treats it like this tech company, it's fucking cool. So it's really interesting to see them kind of break all the rules and still succeed.

And you know what? Tesla sales, as people have used their cars, have gotten better, but the stock even gets traded like a tech company. So you see it bounce up and down and... Well, it's interesting. In his defense, if you believe that we're in the next, there's people, and I believe Elon Musk please, this, then the next decade, the landscape of transportation is going to completely be changed.

And if you've built a car that you can do upgrades virtually like theirs, and I'm sure the platform would be able to connect to whatever self-automating software that comes out in the future. So if you believe in that, the direction he's going is smart and is the future. So if you believe in that, the direction he's going is smart and is the future and he will win the long game potentially. I just think that he missed the mark

on the design of this one. Yeah, a lot of people are saying that, but again, it's and I have a client who used to work, he was a very high up for Tesla. You guys know that these cars upgrade, like you upgrade your cell phone or computer. I told you that. That's what I mean by, they literally, like a recall or something comes out, they do an update on your... Automatic through Wi-Fi. No, my buddies literally like,

oh, we just sent out an update today that lowers everybody's zero to 60 time by 0.3 seconds. Right. Or we just send it up. You know what I mean? We just did an update up and now you're better, your car's more efficient. You just saved X amount of, you know, my-

It's crazy. And if you think that self-driving cars are the future, which I think they 100% are, I'd make that bet all day long, their gas stations are going to be fucking obsolete. Because right now gas stations are designed for the us, for the consumer to park, or when it's a bunch of self-driving cars, they're all going to be electric,

they're all going to drive, at the end of the day, they're gonna drive for their own charging station. So it's, bro, it's gonna be electric. It's just far more convenient than it's said. It's interesting to me, because when you watch the futuristic movies like Tron and shit like that, and you see vehicles like this in it, it never appealed to me.

Like I never watched those futuristic movies go like, oh, that's a cool look before. Yeah. It looks spacey. You know, I say I have like these, like these coats with like really big shoulders, you know, like, way too far out. I'm like, no, it's gonna wear that. I feel like it, yeah.

I feel like we should get a salad jacket like that. I feel like we should get a salad jacket like that. I feel like we should get a salad jacket like that. Two out of 50,000 people that will. Everybody's like, you assholes. Yeah. Now you're like creating a new standard of people to wear. Everybody's wearing shiny clothes.

Right, remember Bill and Ted's where they're all up there, like be excellent. And they have like this like ridiculous regalia. Yeah. Yeah, no, that's that's that's totally true. I don't know. I feel like Elon kind of he lives in fantasy land like that a little bit. It's like a Jetson. That's where the where the motivation designs came from. Well, and there obviously is, I mean, there's at least 200 other thousand people. He said Blade Runner was the inspiration. If you guys have seen the original Blade Runner, it does look like that. Here's another interesting question. Do you think that they would do as well as they do if Elon wasn't the CEO or if something happened to him? Definitely not, no.

I think there's a lot of that. Like, he's such a... There's so many people that believe in him. That's what it is, really. 100% it's that. Yeah... There's some of you that believe in him. That's what it is, really. 100% it's that. There's so many people that believe in him and are fans of him that it's like half of those, I would, you know, half of those people

are probably purchasing just that a support of what he's doing. He's just a great American hero, you know, entrepreneur, innovator. He's like the real life kind of Tony Stark, kind of weird, super smart, does a bunch of crazy shit. I think a big part of their success is because of him, dude.

Anything he does, you know what I mean? Anyway, very interesting. Which gives you the false perception of the actual how cool the truck is, right? I mean, you're actually just proving our point. Nobody ran out and bought a Ford because who the CEO of Ford is, right? You don't even know who the Ford CEO is. Yeah, I don't know. Like, it's like Ford Raptor comes out and you don't go like,

oh, it's like, who is the CEO of Ford? It's like I hate KISS, but you know, like for real true KISS fans, they did a disco album. I mean, this is disco album, maybe. Let's see what happens. James Hackett. Yeah, nobody goes, hey, I bought a Ford Raptor because I believe in what James Hackett is doing. Nobody cares about that.

No, it's because the truck is fucking bad ass. You know, so it's my guy. There's definitely a lot of people that bought this truck because they're big Elon fans. Well, I don't be surprised if in a couple of years I end up rolling up with a space truck. Oh, it's a big one. Speaking of bad ass, did you guys see in the news

there's this lady in New York, she's 82 years old, and she's like a body builder, I guess she's done a couple of powerlifting meets or whatever, but some intruder, home intruder was knocking on the door and then kicks the door open and breaks it open, she hears all the commotion runs down there and just makes a decision that,

oh, I'm gonna grab this table and just bash him to smithereens with it. What? Yeah. Yeah. She just like literally takes this table, smashes it over this guy, and I guess, through all the commotion, the guy falls down,

and then she like jumps on top of him to pummel him until the cops get, Wait a minute, she picked up a table. A table blasted in with the table. And literally smashed the table like, Why what was the reason why he broke it into Her home was trying robber. Oh, she 82 years old caught on film. Uh, no, this was like recounted in the cops got there within like 5 10 minutes. So like she was She was like still like kicking him and doing all kinds of how and Dude, how, oh, there it is. Look at her, she's a badass.

Yeah, she's, look at her guns. Dude, like, he had to be taken, he had somebody's grandma beating the shit out of her. He had to be taken to the hospital. Yeah. Wow. Dude, imagine the embarrassment, this fucking guy is gonna have it in jail.

Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? He's gonna get roasted in jail. He's gonna go to jail and he's got his ass kicked by an 82 year old lady. What a testament though too, to like lifting weights deep into your, right, you know what I'm saying?

I mean, that's all the sales we need. Like, come on, let's get people lifted away. Let's look at it. You know, that's the thing. People always ask about like, oh, when I get older, you know, my strength, the clients or whatever, let me tell you something.

You take an 82 year old that has lifted weights for decades and you put them up against or compare them to anybody in that age category. And it's such a big difference. You might as well be talking about two different species almost, you know what I'm saying? Like the average eight, think about this way. The average 82 year old could not only not lift up a table,

but probably the average 82 year old might have difficulty walking for a mile without assistance. Here you have an 82 year old lady. Who should have had somebody have? Beat the crap out of a man. No, you're not gonna come in here and steal my shit. Wow, that's so awesome. Sorry.

Smash. Dude, I'll tell you what's super annoying though right now to me. Is my dairy intolerance. You know why it's annoying the shadow of me? Because you're watching me eat all the cereal. We just started our... Oh, you're gonna talk about them right now. Yeah, dude. We just started our first you're gonna talk about them, right? Yeah, dude, we just started our first sponsorship commercial

or whatever with magic spoon. And the macros on this thing are, I don't know how they do it. Bro, it's, I mean, it's got dairy protein, so I can't eat it, my kids love it. I love it, dude. We got connected with them first with Max Lugavir. So heard about it with Max. Max is a really good friend of ours

and called us right away after because we sent him a message, like, hey, what's this magic spoon we were looking at the macros? Called us right away and was like, holy shit, I'll have some scent over to you guys. I'll introduce you to the company, it's unbelievable. They've only been in business for about four,

this time was four months and they're exploding. And it seemed like one of those two good to be true, because I've tasted like cereals before that, our quote-unquote protein cereals. And they're all gross. Yeah, they're gross, and then the macros are really whacked. They just adjust it by the serving size to make you think that you're getting.

Yeah, they say high protein, but it's like six grams of protein. Like a typical average bowl of cereal, like not a massive bowl, like an average bowl of cereals, know average bowl of cereal like a not a massive bowl like an average bowl of cereals about two cups of cereal. So when you actually have two cups of cereal of this stuff you're getting 36 grams of protein and only 300 something calories. Yeah. So with milk it's so it's like a high protein meal and it tastes. Yeah. Fucking balls which I was born away. My wife and I celebrate with my youngest who is just like so carb driven. I haven't had cereal for like a decade, dude.

And I was so pumped to have this. Well, dude, look at the macros. Watch some sari morning cartoons, dude. So three quarters of a cup. So this is just, so you talked about two cups. Yeah, there's nobody eats three quarters of a cup. But let's look at just three quarters of a cup, which is a tiny serving.

It's look how balanced it is. 12 grams of protein, eight grams of carbs. There's only, there's zero grams of sugar, six grams of fat. Look at the ingredients, that the protein blend is milk protein isolate, way protein isolate. Then it's coconut oil, tapioca flour. They have a sweetener blend, which is stevia, monk fruit, alulose.

There's chiquiri root fiber. and then this one's a chocolate one, so it's got cocoa powder and then salt. Like, and the macros are amazing. Like, they, they, and they, like you said, it tastes like kid cereal. It's so good. I literally sent out boxes for the holidays to all my family.

For the first time, I feel like we have a product that we're working with, that even like my non-fitness. Non-fitness people are like cool with it. Yes, so, and all of them, everybody loves it. Everybody loves it. You know where I see this exploding? Exploding?

Bodybuilding. Yes. Oh, just wait. The bodybuilding company has it got a whole list. It's only, this company's only been around. It's exploding. It's only been around for like five, five, six months now. We tried to buy, we tried to buy shares.

We missed. Which we missed. There was an investment opportunity. Thanks, Max, six months now. We tried to buy, we tried to buy shares, which we missed. There was an investment opportunity. Thanks Max for telling us like in the game. But once we tried it, we're like, I wanna buy. Well, this is a nice to have an option. I told you guys about like vacation cereal with my kids are always like asking, we didn't gain to be a vacation cereal because it's like the little,

the only time and allow you know Cocoa pasta whatever you know bullshit that they want But this this makes it so much better. It's like I don't have like I don't have to like you just so give them They probably they have four flavors right now. You guys have a favorite flavor right now. Yeah, the fruity one The one that's like for you cinnamon for me. Oh you like it. So I like this I mean, I like them all and it's nice to kind of get like the variety box where you get one of each that they send because they ship it. It ships directly to your house, which is rad too. I love that. That's, you know, so convenient. And I do like all of them. I would say the cocoa is my least favorite. Then the,

the plate. What's the plain vanilla one? Yeah, there's vanilla. There's the fruit blueberry now. And there's all there's blueberry. Yeah, there's blueberry. And then there's also the pumpkin spice one. There's just a holiday one. So they have six flavors then. Because there was only four of the last. Those are the latest ones. Oh shit. But yeah, I like the cinnamon one because it reminds me,

I was like a cinnamon toast crunch guy. Yeah, except you don't get diabetes by eating this one. Exactly. Exactly, thank you. Hey, I saw, I've turned on last night. I only got about halfway through because Katrina and I were working on some things, but I did watch quite a bit.

The documentary you brought up to the other day, Beacroom. Oh, yeah, I watched that with Courtney last night too. Oh, what did you guys think? Oh, man, you know what? Like, I honestly, this is why we do what we do, is what I feel. Like, I just, this is why we do what we do, is what I feel. Like, I just feel like there's so many people out there that need help and are willing to just listen

to somebody that's gonna make them feel better. And the thing about these practices is they do hold weight, like they're legit practices that will help people out there, but then they're being led by this total douchebag. It's, when I watch stuff like that, I'm in awe of the, how, like the spell that people like him, cult leaders do this, world leaders do this,

you know, nation leaders, Adolf Hitler did this, like they have this ability to compel people to do what they want, even when it's against their own normal, logical reasoning. When you talk about, I actually just did an interview where I was talking about a similar topic to this. And that's, you know, when you change somebody, physically, mentally, spiritually,

and then you add in the fact that you have a lot of charisma, too. I mean, that's such a powerful combination. And to a fault, right? Like, people do this all the time. This was what I was talking about in the interview is that they were asking my thoughts on training modalities and diet, what I think about diets. And then I said, it's all bullshit.

You know, and it's people what ends up happening is somebody gravitates towards some sort of a modality like yoga and fucking they needed it. They have hip pain, they have back pain, they got all this issue. You're broken, come in. Yeah, they're broken. And you enter in this class

and this guy makes it funny and enjoyable and engaging. And on top of it, he's fucking good at his craft. And a lot of what they say is right. Right, and what he says, and what he's teaching you as far as the philosophy behind the yoga is incredible, and it changes your life. And that just makes people fucking, that everything else doesn't matter anymore.

I believe whatever this person turns up. And a blind eye to all these red flags everywhere. And we see this across all modalities and fitness. How many times have you had a client who tells you what they need for their body because at one point in their life, they trained a certain way, they ate a certain way, and it gave them this amazing results

and they identified so much. Well, there's this psychological phenomenon that happens with us. And it was probably a product of evolution where we kind of create these shortcuts where if somebody does something exceptionally well, we tend to assume that they do everything exceptionally well and that they're good people.

So like you have an athlete who's an amazing athlete and you hear something bad about them and you almost, you don't wanna believe it. You think, I can't be true. Michael Jordan's such a great guy or so and so such a great person or you see an actor that cost me a lot of money. Bill Cosby's like or Michael Jackson. There's still people like Michael Jackson has fans still even though he did what he did

and they probably. Oh, there's still people in denial. Yeah, of course. For sure. It's crazy to me and so it's interesting. It's like if you're born with that level of charisma and you're able to communicate great information, you have a powerful tool and is your responsibility

to use it for good. Now, the problem is, is that people who have the ability to communicate that way and have that charisma, oftentimes it comes with a healthy dose of narcissism. And here's the thing about narcissists. We learned this when we interviewed that psychologist years ago that people who are entrepreneurs or people who put themselves on camera

and do that kind of stuff, they tend to be rank higher in narcissism than other people. Not a bad thing, it's actually essential. You in order to put yourself out there and take risks, you kind of have to believe in yourself. Yeah, you got to believe in yourself. And that's, there's a healthy amount of that.

But when that goes awry, and you combine that with your charisma, then shit goes, goes, hey, why aren't you, that's crazy. I think a lot of times these people, and part of why they have so much success and actually gain this much power is, I like to think, we give it to them by the way. Well, I think, I think their intentions are pure

from the start. I think it's, I think it's just the power of the ego and keep getting fed. Yeah, we were talking about this with the whole Chuck Berry thing is like, you know, that it's like, how does someone get to that level where you start doing shit where you piss on somebody in front of their face and you do weird, do weird shit? And it's like, I don't think that Chuck may or I don't think he did that to the first, first girl that he had sex with. I think that he's had hundreds, maybe thousands. And you just, your ego inflates so much that you start pushing boundaries and doing things.

I would think a guy like this, because when you watch the documentary, I feel like his intentions and his teachings and how it changed his life and that, hey, he wanted to go around the world and share this with everybody else. I believe it's pure, but then that's the power of the ego is that it gets fed so much you start smelling your own parts. It's becoming nice or making other people do that. I like that loop there. Yeah, that's it.

It becomes poisonous. It starts to poison. This is why when you look at like politics and leaders of the world, you know, you want a leader that's extremely competent, that believes in themselves, that has good intentions. But then there's this alternate side that kind of self-selects a bunch of crazy dishonest shit fox, right? Which is the very people who desire to lead, who desire to be in charge, are probably the very people you don't want to put in charge. It's like usually the case. Now, why do you want to be the one in so badly?

Why do you identify so strongly with that? And that means you probably have a very vulnerable to your own ego and narcissism. It's almost like George Washington, we gave them the king when he won the revolution. They told him that. They tried to make him king because he led the military to win the Revolutionary War.

He turned it down. That's a great leader. But most people, do you think they would, do you think most presidents? Right, they said he could have all the power. Forget Congress, forget everybody else in making this a democracy. You could have all the power.

Imagine that. Imagine that. 100% Trump would take it. Oh yeah, imagine if Trump and me, imagine if he was so popular that everybody voted and we say, we want you to be king forever. You think he'd be like, no, I'm not gonna do that. That's against the con.

He'd be like, absolutely, I'll do that. No problem. Everybody says I should, therefore I should. I'm chosen by God. You're executed. It's crazy. So when I watch stuff like that, because then you hear the girls talking

in that documentary, he actually abused, but they still talk about him like he's like a God. I know. It's like, what is going on? Still waiting for his comeback. It about him like he's like a god. I know. Like, what is going on? Still waiting for his comeback. Drink way too much. It's like a shit. Yeah.

Anyway, talking about crazy stuff, have you guys seen, have you guys heard of a premium or also known as butthole, Sunning? Have you guys heard of that? Oh, that was the thing you shared in the fore. There's people. I saw you share that in the form.

I thought that was a joke. It was a meme at first. Like as I saw it, somebody even like this baby pose thing with their grabbing their toes and then like their butt was pointing the sun. No, let me read to you what some of these influencers, these are fitness and health influencers, by the way. And I hate the fact that people call them

fit the same like, breathitarian kind of people. I hear so I'll tell you what I think is. But I think there's some of the quotes. And in mere 30 seconds of sunlight on your butthole, you will receive more energy from the electric node than you wouldn't an entire day being outside with your clothes on.

Says an influencer who goes by the name raw of earth. By the way, if someone ever comes up to you and you say, what's your name? You say raw of earth. By the way, if someone ever comes up to you and you say, what's your name? What do you mean? He's like raw of earth. Probably not. But God, totally someone I wanna hang out with. Yeah, you should be friends. Yeah, dude.

You don't like a motivated guy. You know what this sounds like? So there are some ancient practices that talk about something like this. But you know what I think here? Yeah, maybe. But you know what I think? Well, I feel like there's a little bit of logic here.

You have an area that is that's not right. It's never gets a sun, so it's extremely sensitive to it. So it probably uptakes and absorbs at a faster rate than other places on your skin. So the initial probably surge of whatever benefits that you would get from the sun from exposure on the rest of your body, maybe it's compounded for the first few times. I think you would give you negligible effects of what you're saying, but here's what I think. But I think that's where you're, that's where the,

I mean, this is science for you. This is what we do in our space all the time. We find something that gives a little bit. We need a little stretch. Yeah, we stretch the shit out of it. We find something, I mean, we see this in the supplement industry all the time. It's like, oh, take this and this,

and this is going to improve recovery. Well, how much is that? Yeah, is it going to improve? No, not zero, 1%. Not even. Yeah, so. So, won't you come? That's what it was.

So here's my scientific, I'll go with science also. Okay. Did humans evolve to have lots of sun exposure on their butthole? No, the butthole is deep in your butt cheeks. That's ridiculous. No, if you were a caveman and you're laying back and spreading your butt to get sunlight, very quickly you would be mounted by another cave person.

There's plus all the bugs. Yeah, I mean, you know what I think it is. I think it's, I'm like, exposed my butt to the butt. I think it's fitness influence, so I'm doing the quote here because they're not really fitness influences, but I think it's fitness influencers who really want to come up with an excuse to lay naked in nature.

And to lay. They've already seen this. I mean, they're doing this all the place anyway. That's like the new thing right now, period, is just that the nudity on, on Instagram. You want to be naked. You want to spread your butt cheeks in nature. Just fucking do it.

Don't make up some bullshit. Yeah. Like this is good for my health. That's why I'm doing it. No, you want everybody to see your butthole. Don't be so stupid. It's not sugarcooked. Anyway, here's some more interesting stuff.

So I just saw this article. I thought it was really interesting. So in Russia, in a bid to get more and better milk out of the cows, Russian farmers have strapped VR headsets onto the cow. What? You're lying to me right now. Like putting them in a beach.

Sort of. And so in the like, relax them and oh, wow. Now this, okay, this makes a lot of sense terms for guy who's been milking cows for a portion of his life. Like, you know, when that's right, you're the cow expert on. So when we go, when it's Like, you know, when, uh, that's right, you're the cow expert on that. So when, when, when, it's just like anything else though, like, uh, when you get the, the, the maximum results from the cow as far as the amount of milk,

and then let me tell you it varies. Like, so you have the exact type of breed of cow, similar in size, and I can milk one, and he could produce me three and a half. She gets, yeah, hopefully she, does I say he. A little friend. A little friend, yeah. Yeah, I can feel, like, I can feel MD.

I can do that. You sound like an expert right now. I can, I can, I can say you have to have really said it. You do. I can milk her and get three and a half gallons real relaxed. I'll milk and then the next one comes in and she could produce two. So gallon and a half a milk one cow You multiply that by hundreds thousands of cow that's a big difference and so there's things that there's techniques

You do to relax the cow they come in and I would talk to them and pet them you you dip iodine on their others And that would relaxes them and it releases a hormone and then they the milk drops down So the more comfortable we had I played played certain music inside the barn that was more therapeutic and relaxing than something that's like hard rock and roll. So you do things like that and because I would be tracking milk, the amount that we produce. And you love numbers so much. I like. I'm just picture of the group. So how you how you fed them how much you know all those things sort of met. So I'm not surprised that somebody thought of this that hey, what is the most ultimate way we can probably put these cows in a

relaxed state and let's put some VR because they do you know like they put horse blinders and horses to not scare them and stress them out right. Makes sense. No, it makes total sense. It's so funny to me because these cows are like an alternate universe like this wonderful. Oh, you know, what I want to know is what they're watching. Yeah, exactly. It's like cow porn. What do they get? That'll only work if you milk the milk cow like you were talking about. They get like they see another cow going to be like massage or something like crazy. Like that's same. That's fascinating. That's so crazy. That is so fast.

I wonder if it's like damaging to the eyes or anything like that. I don't know. Oh, you know That's a good that's I'm glad you brought that up. I was reading more about blue light And it's effect on the eyes Do you know that they're projecting that age-related macular generation is going to increase dramatically because of you know Because of technology because of our exposure to blue light. So I was reading this thing, this is researched by the University of Toledo. They've, again, this is another university that has a study on this, has revealed that prolonged exposure to blue light triggers poisonous molecules to be generated in the eyes light-sensitive cells that can cause macular degeneration.

So they're saying we're being continuously exposed to blue light in our new environments and they expect this type of age-related blindness to accelerate big time. So as the generations now that are on computers and because really, we're talking about two decades, relatively recent. Two decades at most.

I mean, just two decades ago, kids did not have iPhones. They didn't have little computer screens. They were, and we're not talking about little, like computers that we looked at when we were kids, they were green, you know what I'm saying? And that was all the color you had or black and white. Good point. You have these vibrant LED, bright, super light,

high definition lights that these kids are staring at, you know, and some of them, and that, mind you, this is not, I don't want to sound like fear mongling, right? I don't think that, you know, you watch your favorite TV show every night. I don't think that you're going to go blind because of that, but there's work on a computer all day. But yeah, there's definitely people that I would be concerned about if you're somebody who already is letting your kids do it for hours on hours regularly

During the day they end up going to school using computers all day long Then they go into a job where they're gonna sit for eight hours to ten hours to test for decades Yeah, and you do it for a long time to think that that wouldn't affect us And to think it wouldn't affect us negatively to me is silly Especially now that we have all the research that literally supports it. I think this is what, so my kids know now. They know now when they're going to go on their computers that they got to put on their Felix Ray glasses.

That's like, and it sits on, like my son, it sits on his desk, there's this computer. I don't have to tell him anymore now it's part of his practice. I think we're very close to companies, just like wearing a hard hat or wearing any other safety, you know, seat belt in your car. Yeah, it's gonna be a part of your job. You're gonna show up a way. You know what, that's such a good analogy too,

because it's not like every day someone goes to a construction job and a two by four drops in their head and they die, right? It's, but it's just good practices. Yeah. It's like, why not? Why would you not do that if you are potentially putting yourself in harm's way on a regular basis like that? I think blue light blocking glasses, especially the kind that don't change the color of what you're looking at. Like the ones that Felix Ray makes, I think that they're going to explode. Because of the awareness that's happening.

They already are. I mean, I know they're... Oh, I think they're going to be partnered up with Google and Apple. Really? Yeah, these companies, they know. That's why they have the insurance thing where you, if you have the, or what's it called, the, what's it called, the FCF, what's the, towards the... Health savings account.

Yeah, the health savings account that most people have that you can use that towards things like that and companies like that. They know who, yeah, they know. That's crazy. So I think it's gonna become standard for anybody that works on a computer all day long. Yeah, if you're on a computer all day long, I think it'll just become that, it'll be the norm. Oh, dude, another cool article that I read recently,

I didn't know this. Did you know that there were nine different species of humans that existed on Earth right around the same time? Really? Thousands of years ago. Nine different species. I wonder how many different genders there would be then.

Just home. Yeah, well, it's not go there. Thanks Adam. Yeah, we're trying to do, man. Well, how are we at right now? Yeah, I don't know. What's the latest? I think they say infinite. I stopped counting. Oh, it's we at right now? Yeah, I don't know. What's the latest? I think they say infinite.

I stopped counting. Oh, it's infinite now? Two sexes, but an infinite amount of genders is what some people would say. Yeah, but anyway, so back to the article. So you know about Neanderthals. So that's one different species. There were also Denisovans and other species

that we've identified. And they all existed around the same time. We know that there's lots of Neanderthal DNA and lots of European people. East Asians, Polynesians, and Australians have DNA from Denisovans. There's DNA from another species that occurs in many Asian people.

And then there's African genomes show traces of DNA from another archaic human species. Now what's crazy about this, and here's the theory, that occurs in many Asian people. And then there's African genomes show traces of DNA from another archaic human species. Now, what's crazy about this, and here's the theory, because it's like, where do they all go? What happened all these human species? And the evidence. And they innerbreed.

There was innerbreeding, but then there's evidence to show that they were also intelligent. Like Neanderthals were also intelligent, just like the, you know, us, the species that survived. But we out competed them and probably killed the fuck out of them all. All of them. And it was because of our ingenuity, our ability to work together, and our superior weaponry.

So Neanderthalus probably couldn't, for example, throw with his effective accuracy as we could. So we're the species of humans that has just had superior weapons. And humans are just survival the fittest. That's right. And we fucked them and then we killed them all. So you said nine different species. Nine is what they've identified.

It's interesting. I remember when it came out that there was like a hobbit type. That's one of them. Yeah, like species that they had found. And that was like a really interesting, because I always think, Lord, the rings try to depict all these types of different species of human beings,

and that was like their thing. How cool would it be to, I mean, it would be so awesome to be able to have one of these other species, because they were probably very intelligent, like we are, maybe different, but how interesting that would be to be able to talk with them and see what they really think. So I think it's the opposite of that.

I think they weren't because then that's why they didn't survive. Well, the evidence that we have currently shows that they were intelligent, like Neanderthals we have the most evidence versus all the other species shows that they had, they did have weapons that they did have complex societies that they did have art, there's evidence of religion. So for all intents and purposes, definitely more intelligent than other animals that we have now on Earth, like other chimpanzees and dolphins and stuff like that.

Like these were human species were probably far more intelligent. We just probably were better at conducting war or whatever, or out competing them and so we can kill them all off. How crazy is that? I don't know that we had DNA from all these, probably were better at conducting war or whatever, or out competing them and so we can kill them all off. How crazy is that? I don't know that we had DNA from all these on New Neanderthal. Yeah, but why remember to the barring straight,

there was this whole population of, I guess, I don't know if it was an interbreeding of Neanderthal in Homo sapien, but there was something like that in that area, region that was unique, that in that area, region that was unique, that was its own species. And then they came across and they, they, they think that they were probably the very first like Americans in terms of like them coming down to South America and everything.

Wow. It's so cool. It would be really cool to be able to see what they look like and how they lived or whatever. It's too much too long ago though. This quaz 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

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to try to get a few more out? When should you just move on to your break before your next set? I like this question because, yeah, because this is a traditional answer, but then there's also other ways of spacing reps out. Yeah, and there's not like a wrong or always right answer to this. And the way I make this decision is kind of based off of what current adaptation I'm chasing, or what was the current goal that I want to achieve. Like, for example, if I'm in the middle of like a maps aesthetic and it's bodybuilding and I'm in

phase three, which is hypertrophy type focus, meaning I'm chasing the pump and I'm doing high reps. I'm going to always lean towards shorter or shorter rest periods and it's not a big deal if I can't squeeze out as many reps. It's not as big of big deal if I can't squeeze out as many reps. It's not as big of a deal if I can't lift a little bit more weight because that's not the main focus of that phase. And this is, we talked about this in an earlier episode of learning how to change your goals, right? Like, and part of changing your goal isn't just,

okay, my goal is to build some muscle right now. It's also like, how would you build the program around that and how would you focus your training? And so when you're focused on high-perture fee building muscle and chasing the pump, which is high reps, well, rest periods, I'm not really worried about giving myself longer rest to squeeze out a couple more reps or potentially lift more weight because that's not the main goal. But if I am doing something like what I'm in right now, which is running maps, power

lift, and the goal is, you know, I want to see my strength go up and increase every single time. So I'm going to lean on giving myself a little extra rest because I do care that every time I get under that bar, I'm hoping it's one of the best lifts I've had and I'm able to lift more weight or more weight more times because that's the main focus of that. Well now you're talking about sets. The question is asking about reps. No, no, yeah. Same thing. Same application. Same application. It doesn't matter if it's reps, it sets, it's the goal. And then because the goal is not centered around, like this person's, that's a, that's a

strength goal, right? To give yourself more, more rest so you can get out more reps, that's, you're trying to increase strength there. And there are what are called cluster, you know, cluster sets where you're doing as many reps as you can and then you wait 10 or 15 seconds and then do another, X amount of reps and then rate wait 10 or 15 seconds, and then do another, X amount of reps, and then rate another 10, 15 seconds, do another X amount of reps. Now the traditional thing between reps is that,

as soon as you complete one rep, maybe a second or two, and then you move into the next rep. But this can vary, and kind of on the back of what Adam was talking about. When I'm trying to get a pump, I don't do a rep, pause for a second, do a rep, pause for a second. do a rep, pause for a second.

I go rep, rep, rep, rep. There's very little pause, I'm trying to squeeze as much blood in the muscle and get that pump. Now when I'm lifting heavy and I'm doing four reps, like I said, I'm doing a squat, it's like one rep and then I sit at the top of the squat, catch a couple breaths and then go back down.

So it is a longer, and it follows a similar model to what sets, you know, your rest of the sets would be. Yeah, I just pay attention to composure, you know, and like how that's affecting the quality of each one of the reps. If I'm like very much focused, like you said, in a power lift or like a strength phase, like that is my ultimate, like a tension in terms of like,

what, if I'm at the top of the rep, I just completed a rep, I need to go into another rep, but I'm feeling fatigue set on. I could take a few extra breaths and take a second and then drop back in. I'll do that, because that's, I want to make sure quality is top of mind. But if I am getting into a super set know, my goals might be a little different because I'm dealing with a little less load. So therefore, you know, at that point, I'm like, I'm more fighting the burn.

Yeah, now the longest rest between reps that you're gonna experience is when your goal is power. Not strength, I'm talking about explosive power. So if I'm doing, in which it's funny, because when people, when I see most people in the gym doing explosive movements They do the exact opposite right so let's say I'm doing a jump box. Yeah, let's say I'm jumping on a box So I'm working on explosive power the way I'm supposed to do it is I explode up onto the box I step down and I wait even though I'm doing five reps. I wait

gain composure and then exert as much power again The funny thing is with power movements one of the main reasons why people do them wrong besides the fact that they do them Even though I'm doing five reps, I wait, gain composure, and then exert as much power again. The funny thing is with power movements, one of the main reasons why people do them wrong, besides the fact that they do them until they can't do them anymore, which is wrong, is they go jump, jump, jump, jump, and they treat it like jump rope or something like that.

And now it becomes an endurance-based, totally. When you know what your goal is, that's why you should start with the goal. That's why I'm not like that. That's where I was going with that point that I was trying to make. It's like, there's not a wrong or right answer. It doesn't mean that somebody can't give longer, shorter rest periods with this example.

It just means that understand what the main goal or adaptation is. If you're training for strength or and or power, that type of training gaining composure between each rep is completely fine because you're wanting to give your most in each one of those reps, where if you're doing 12, 15 reps and you're trying to chase a pump and you're super setting, then it doesn't really matter if you fatigue early

or you don't get as many reps out or the weights lighter because it's not a strength or power type of adaptation, you're just trying to chase a pump and get more reps in. Next question is from Curtis Blank, our drop sets useful for the beginning or intermediate lifter, and if so, what's the best way to use them? Okay, so a drop set for people who don't know what that is,

it's an advanced technique. What program do we include that in? We did that. Maps split, maps, PD, PD, and I think aesthetic, we might have put one or two in there also. I know in, in, in, in, possibly, maps strong, there's something that resembles a, a drop set. We have a handful.

We have a lot of, yeah, a lot of, it's good thing they're all 50% off. Anyway. Shameless blood. Boom. No, so, so here's a deal. So here's a drop set. A drop set is I do as many reps as I can with the weight. And then I immediately move to a lighter weight and do as many as I can with that weight and then I immediately move again to a lighter weight and then do as many as I can. So it's called a drop set

also known as a strip set. Now it's an advanced technique. There is some value to it to it, but very little value to the beginner or the intermediate lifter. Now, I'm not saying that they're not going to gain some value. There's always exceptions to the rule. But for the most part, if you're a beginner or intermediate, you should leave all these advanced techniques for when you're advanced, because you're going to gain so much more from perfecting your technique, from focusing on traditional strength training, and staying away from all these other advanced techniques, which really again, they offer a little bit of value, but you should save them

for when you're back. You gotta look at it more as a novelty. So this kind of goes back to how long have you been in the game. What is your body going to respond to, if you stop responding to normal phases and techniques that are the foundational type techniques, and you need a few more variables to mix it up. This is a great interruptor in your program to then shock your body to start responding again by doing a totally new stimulus. That's how we've programmed it intermittently into some of our programs. We show you how to intermittently introduce it, but honestly when I the way I use something like this is dictated by time because it's rare that I don't have a whole hour or hour and a half

that I've slotted for myself to work out, but it does occasionally happen where today is I've only got 30 minutes to work out. And hey, I haven't done drop sets in six months. What a great time to incorporate something because I can get a pump, I can get a good workout in a shorter period of time because I'm doing movements like this where I'm doing reps, not resting, doing more reps to it.

And then I can get out. And so to me, that's how I teach tools like this, like one, some of this, or things like hit. Like how often do I hit training? Very rarely do I hit training. Does that, is there not great value it? Is there not a bunch of science and studies that prove that it's valuable and beneficial?

Sure, but I find the most benefit is to use it when I need it the most, when it is, when I'm limited on time, that's when a 26-minute workout is got a lot of value to me. When I've got an hour, hour and a half to work out, traditional straight sets and foundational type movements and compound lives and your traditional type of programming is going to be extremely beneficial and ideal for most people, including your even advanced people. Now because drop sets and strip sets are fatigue-based,

there are certain exercises that are more appropriate for this kind of training. Typically, single joint isolation exercises tend to be awesome when it comes to drop sets or strip sets, compound movements or complex movements. You can do drop sets and strip sets with them, but they're not as appropriate because as you fatigue, form starts to break down and if you're doing a complex movement

like a squat, your odds of hurting yourself go up dramatically. But if it's like a barbell curl or a side lateral or a tricep press down or a leg extension, your form is off a little bit, you're fine. So I tend to only ever recommend drop or strip sets for isolation type movements unless specified for a particular type of goal. So if you wanna start to incorporate this, I would say start with and stick to isolation movements

and stay away from the complex movements when doing this. Next question is from Mr. Rota. What do you consider an overall healthy individual? What makes for good balance? Well, that's a hard question to answer. That's gonna be different from time to time. I'm from person to person. I think that there's, I think you say really well

when you say things like there's some general truth, but then there's gonna be a large variance in between individuals. Right. Right. Like some, some people probably need more in the relationship aspect of their life. And so therefore, they're healthier if they, if they pursue more of that because they need more of that. Some other people need something like yoga or something meditative because they need more of that. Some other people need something like yoga or something meditative because they have a super stressful job and so they need something like that

to help balance them out and make them more healthy and balanced. And so there isn't like a straight formula that I could give as a trainer that says, you know, somebody who trains four days a week in the weights, two days of yoga and you know spends five hours with their family a week is what I would consider a healthy person.

It's like that dose of exercise, family, meditation is gonna be dependent on the person, their levels of stress, their levels of need in all those areas. But I do think that the things that we talk about on this show with spiritual health, mental health, physical health, you know, all these things, nutritional health, like, all those things are important. Even monetary health. Right.

How you handle your money, your relationship with money. Right. Great point. Yeah, and I'll tell you what, I think a lot of times people think balance is being like a 33% here, 33% here. So now it's all balanced. Now, life doesn't work that way. And I'll tell you something, if you get too obsessed with balance,

you'll actually become imbalanced with your obsession with balance because there are real benefits to sometimes being obsessed and hyper focused. Now you gotta utilize it appropriately, but let's say you start a new business and you want that business to succeed. You're going to have to have a certain level of obsession and dedication to what you're

trying to do in order to accomplish particular goals. Now if that obsession stays with you for the rest of your life, it probably is going to be very imbalanced. Let's say you have a new baby. You've got a new baby in your life. A lot of your time is going to be dedicated to that baby. Does that mean you're imbalanced? Well, if it becomes the rest of your life, perhaps,

but in that moment, I think there's a lot of value to that. So this is a very difficult question to answer. Generally speaking, I think overall, do you have a life that's full of meaning and purpose? Are you overly obsessed? Do you feel fulfilled? You know, answers to those things, I'll probably tell you if you're balanced.

I think too, I think there's moments where you feel like, you know, you're hitting your stride. Like there's just, there's moments of clarity that like things are working out a specific way because you know like maybe that all these things combined, all these variables in your life that you wake up and you're trying to be your best all the time like all of a sudden you're you're hitting all those buttons but then it goes away. That's the beauty of life. You don't get that very often

and I don't think that you know people can maintain the quote unquote, balanced everything for very long. And so it's really up to just constantly striving to have that open growth-minded mentality towards all these components of your life, that relationships, spiritual health, nutrition, like all these things, let's try our best every day. Well, I think in order, relates to all these things, like, let's, let's try our best every day. Well, I think in order for you to find good balance, you first have to understand where

you're personally out of balance. So if you're somebody who already does, you, you're the, like Katrina is a good example that's opposite of me in this scenario where she has better balance than I have in this, right? So she talks to her mom almost every day. She sees her siblings on a weekly basis. There's a lot of love and communication and support amongst them. And she has a very solid foundation

in her relationships, especially with those that she loves. I come from a family that is really disconnected and that's an area that I'm out of balance. And so I have to put things in place to help create better habits because I know how important that is to my health. I know that some end my relationships with those that I love. It's not that I love my siblings less than she does.

It's just I haven't put those things in practice. And so that's something that I need to put in there to make my life healthier and more balanced. She doesn't need that so much. The same thing goes for somebody who's extremely sedentary. If you're somebody who sits in your car, drives to work, sits at a desk all day long, doesn't move at all, that person probably needs to create more things

in their life that is active, working, hiking, exercising. First is somebody who gets up at five o'clock in the morning works construction job and is very, you know, physical and laborious all day long. That person probably doesn't have to put as much focus on movement and movement. So it's you first have to be able to assess your own life, understand all the things from like, and I could go to each one of these things like monetary and, you know, are you somebody that blows all of your money

as soon as you get it before you get a paycheck or you somebody who saves and hoards everything and never enjoys any of your money. Like, so learning where am I out of balance on all of these things that contribute to my overall health and then how do I get balanced? Well, I put practices in place to help counter where I'm out of balance. And I think you think you all on top of that, you should also be okay with life throwing you out of balance. Like it'd be flexible. Yeah, you could be so obsessed with balance

that, you know, something happens in your life. Again, like you have a new baby, but I gotta get my hour workout. I gotta get all my perfect meals. I gotta get all my meditation. I gotta, but now that I was all those routines out the window. And now I'm so stressed out because I can't be balanced. So, you agree. Yeah, it's a very individual thing.

And I think it's constantly changing for you as your life changes. Yeah, I still like looking. I remember a doctor in the Galp, I was talking about optimizing and adapting and then finding homeostasis. I just think that's part of the game is just always kind of finding what homeostasis is for you.

So finding your flaws and like really trying to improve that and then you adapt towards that. And then you need to optimize. You need to go out and stretch yourself a little bit more on top of that. Next question is from Tanner Whitman. What is your opinion on yoga and how do you suggest implementing it into your training? I think I would say that you have all the group type, exercise or fitness health modalities.

Tell me one, I don't want to see Die. Yeah, it's the best one by far. I think yoga done properly. or fitness, health, most... It's the only one I don't want to see die. Yeah, it's the best one, by far. I think yoga done properly, so we're going to assume that I'm talking about proper yoga, because yoga can be done wrong or applied wrong, just like anything. But done properly, yoga has tremendous benefit. One of the benefits that yoga provides,

especially like a vinyasa flow type class, and there's other forms of yoga that are more appropriate for certain individuals. For someone like me who's really, really tight, a yin yoga is really, really good. But for most people, vinyasa flow type classes are phenomenal. And the reason why they're so good is when you do yoga properly, you are in positions that encourage you

to stretch certain muscles. You are in positions where you're feeling things stretch, but you're active in these poses. When I, before I did yoga, I thought yoga was stretching and I thought a lot of it was just passive. It's not true. When you get into a pose like warrior one and you're feeling stretches and stretching in your groin or you're doing,

you know, you know, up dog or other types of positions, you don't just passively get in a stretch. They teach you to, to, to tense your body, to be active, and lean, and I'll tell you something right now. The best instructors I've ever seen in my entire life for giving you cues. Like, if you're a personal trainer, one of the things that'll separate you from other trainers

is how well you cue your client so that they know what you're trying to communicate, because oftentimes it's difficult to tell someone to, hey, activate this, activate it on the fuck you're talking about. Go to a yoga class with a good yoga instructor. They have the best cues you've ever heard in your entire life. Like, you know, press through your heart. It's such a weird cue, but I know exactly what that means.

They have some of the best cues, that's the other value. And then lastly, the recruportive, meditative benefit from yoga in a group type environment. Like my dad, for example, he did yoga for a little while because I had a group studio that had yoga classes. My dad will never meditate. I couldn't get into a medit, I could pay him, he'll never do anything like that.

But he did it because it was part of a yoga class without realizing any gained value. So for those things, I would say, if you're gonna pick a group type class to add to your resistance training routine, make it yoga for sure. Now I'm gonna challenge that. And I do agree with you on the benefits.

And I do agree that of all the class settings that are out there, this is the one that I think is probably one of the most beneficial for most people. Now, that being said, you listen to Mind Pump. And we have a program called Maps Prime and Prime Pro, which shameless plug again, like sell it, everything is half off right now. A yoga class alone is normally 20 to $30 per class or $150 for a monthly membership to go unlimited classes every single month. You could spend half that money on prime and prime pro, assess yourself and find out the areas where you have dysfunction or you need to work on your joints

because that's what the programs are designed to do. And then learn specific movements that are going to address your problems, your imbalances. It's individualized. And now, instead of going to a yoga class for an hour every single day or every other day, you spend that time on these three to five movements that are benefiting the shit out of you specifically. And in that time, and you make that time for yourself, whether that's, you know, down in your, your, your basement or in your living room when it's quiet in your alone, and you can be by yourself and spend 30 minutes an hour or even better,

you take a couple of those movements and you only spend five or 10 minutes, three, four, five times a day and you're going to get way more value. You just reminded me, I've had at least three or four messages from yoga instructors who are using some of the movements that we put in Maps Prime Pro. Oh, cool. And Prime. Because when you think of a yoga class, the yoga instructor has a certain, typically a certain level of flexibility.

And I don't mean that in terms of physical flexibility, no pun intended. I mean, in terms of what they can do in the class. Some yoga instructors at the end of the class will read an excerpt from a book or some spiritual practice. Some yoga instructors are much more, coming around adjusting you, others are more instructing from the top. Some of them add a strength component or whatever.

Well, these yoga instructors messaged me and said, you know, at the beginning of the class, before we go into the flow, I have them do these three priming movements before they go into the class of the class. or I'll have them do it at the end, which I think is phenomenal. Those are incredible teachers. They are and here's the thing about yoga

that I like so much. And that in terms of instructors, they seem to be the most, in my experience, okay. They seem to be the most open to the benefits of other modalities. There's a certain level of tribalism that comes from any type of exercise where everybody thinks it's the only way and it's the best way or whatever. But the yoga instructors that I've met and worked with,

they're all very like, oh no, you need to have a strength training component and I like that. I think it's the yoga model or the general attitude of yoga, which is like when you go to a group class that's any other group class, they don't say this at the beginning of class. This is your practice. This is for your body. If a movement doesn't feel good, slow down, move out of it or go into this other pose

and rest and skip these yoga classes, do that. They have a very, they really do acknowledge better than other group classes, the individual variants. They seem to be more open-minded. In general, I'd say yoga is excellent, but I thought that was phenomenal. When I got those messages, I was like, what a great class.

And I think like someone like your dad, and my mom is someone like this. I mean, and so if this person who's asking this question is like my mom or like your dad, who guess what, I have prime and prime pro, my mom hasn't gone through it. She hasn't figured out the moves that are perfect for her. And so it'd be much easier for me to just say,

go to the goddamn yoga class, follow what the teacher says, and she doesn't have to think about anything. But if you're asking me what I think is the most beneficial, or how great, I mean, if you and you listen to Mind Pump, I would tell you, spend the money on Prime and Prime Pro, spend the time, which would be less than an hour going through it to learn where you're deficient and where you should be spending time in.

And then, you know, hone in on three to five exercises that are incredibly beneficial for you and treat it like a yoga class where you do it three to five times a week or more and you'll get way more benefit. I like it because it's probably the only popular modality out there that really kind of brings, slows it down and brings it back to the intent and to really focus in on how your body is receiving this information

and then outputting that information and commanding your body to do what you're asking of it. I think that going through and researching all about isometrics and really finding so much hidden value there that shouldn't be hidden. It's just not popular because it's difficult for people in general just to sit by themselves and silent and listen to their own thoughts. People hate that. And so it addresses so many of these things which is very restorative, which is very important in contrast with, you know, the aggressive, like, intense modern life.

Yeah, everything that you're battling constantly. So, you know, I totally applaud yoga for that. I do 100% agree, though, it could be even more refined and be more individual. And these are things that we wanted to attack because it's, this is what's important. And let's get rid of the sexy shit. Let's figure this out and then come back to all this other stuff that everybody hikes on Instagram.

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