Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 1196: Stair Climbing to Build The Butt, Eating Healthy On a Budget, Identifying Upper Cross Syndrome & MORE

Episode Date: January 1, 2020

1196: Stair Climbing to Build the Butt, Eating Healthy on a Budget, Identifying Upper Cross Syndrome & MORE Adam opens up about his non-existent workouts. (5:58) Mind Pump HQ is under construction. (9:10) Mind Pump gets nostalgic about old movies of the past. (13:09) The importance of challenging your ideas and having a sense of humor. (21:02) The myth of ‘easier’. (29:02) What are terpenes? How they play a BIG role when it comes to the ‘entourage effect’. (36:15) Tips and strategies to boost your immune system during the cold season. (40:29) #Quah question #1 – How can stairs be used to lift the glutes for someone who lives in a multi-level setting? (46:13) #Quah question #2 – If someone is already healthy and feels good, how can you tell if the addition of a green supplement is working? (52:22) #Quah question #3 – As a 19-year-old college student who is trying to save money, I am struggling whether it’s worth it to buy organic grass-fed groceries? (57:10) #Quah question #4 – How do you know if you are suffering from upper cross syndrome? (1:02:30) People Mentioned  Arthur Brooks (@arthurbrooks)  Twitter Justin Brink DC (@dr.justinbrink)  Instagram Bill Burr (@wilfredburr)  Instagram Max Lugavere (@maxlugavere)  Instagram   Related Links/Products Mentioned December Promotion: MAPS Aesthetic ½ off! **Code “BLACK50” at checkout** The Eighties | Netflix Visit NED for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! Terpenes and the "Entourage Effect" - Project CBD Visit Organifi for the exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Code “mindpump” at checkout** Visit Butcher Box for this month’s exclusive Mind Pump offer! MAPS Fitness Prime – Mind Pump Do You Have Back Or Shoulder Pain? YOU NEED TO TRY THIS! | Mind Pump Mind Pump Free Resources

If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. Mite, obite, ob with your hosts. Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. In this episode of Mind Pump, we answer questions asked by people like you. So in this episode, we answered four questions, but the way we opened the episode was with current event talk. We talked about studies that we've read on Facebook or other media outlets, and we talk about our lives and stuff that's going on. So here's what we talked about in this episode.

We start out by talking about Adam's holiday workouts or lack thereof. I was, we were wondering why he was looking at exists. Why he don't look like a fitness guy anymore, because he's not working out. Then we talked about the bathroom remodeling that's happening here at the Mind Pump headquarters and why, and it's putting dust everywhere, we're covered in dust and I'm hoping that none of us get any terrible effects from it.

I talked about a movie, a classic movie, that I finally watched for the first time, dirty dancing, what a great movie. It was pretty good. Wherever you been. Yeah, we talked about the holidays and all of the charge to political conversations that happened for us. I'm sure you can settle it. Oh, much fun. I brought up the myth of easier. So why we think some things are easier, but in fact they're much harder. That's why we call it a myth. I talked about terpenes. Terpenes are found in many, many plants.

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Dude, I've been terrible at my workouts this last week and a half. Oh, my goodness. Your workouts have been terrible? Well, I mean, they've been non-existent right now, I was on such a war. Oh, that makes sense. I was on, this pissed off. I was like, it looks terrible. Oh, God. Don't do that. Don't do that. I'm convinced that thing that we said about people only gaining like a pound or two over the holidays a bunch of bullshit. I don't know. That's the average. That's a bullshit. I mean, you know what they're averaging? Some people lose their, they're averaging the people that are starving

in third world countries. Oh that's terrible. So they're averaging those people out with all the people that gain all the way to the end. Oh you only gain like one or two pounds because I'm like, I don't know dude, I don't work at, so I miss like, I don't know, I think I'm on, realistically I think I'm going to miss

about six or seven days straight, which for me that's a lot. Like if I miss a whole week with not a single workout, that's a big deal. So I think I'm coming up on a week right now. So you think that that that's like worldwide, the average person gains one or two pounds over the holidays, but America's keeping that average up. Yeah. America's pushing eight to 12 pounds, but because we got third-wheel countries that are losing weight over the holidays.

That's terrible. It's averaged out. That's terrible. I'm convinced that's what it is. Dude, going a week without working out for me just feels, forget the lack of fitness. I just don't, it's like my meditation. I need it.

I need that, that, that, I can find other things to replace that during the, because here's the thing, pardon me too. I'm just not physical if I don't work out. There's nothing I do, other than working out that's physical. Part of me, I'm very aware too that we are borderline the other side, right?

Like, we can be neurotic about exercise. That's part of, we talk about that, our insecurities drove it. So I'm very careful to what I say to myself that why I have to work out. Like, I'm healthy, right? You know what I'm saying? I know I'm very, right? You know what I'm saying? I know I'm there.

So missing seven days of working out during the holidays to enjoy Christmas cookies and have drinks with my family and oh, baby, soften up a bit. Is that really, like, do I need it for meditation or am I pretty fucking relaxed and calm during these times? Well, no, what I mean by that is, like, if I don't, other than exercise, I'd not active. I don't have anything in my day that makes me active. No, well, what I mean by that is like, if I don't other than exercise, I'd not active. I don't have anything in my day that makes me active.

No, well, I find that's funny because if I'm not working out, like I'll find ways for me to go outside and like do things. Me too. Like I will go out and like actually that's when I do the most the physical labor, you know, like chop and shit up and like building something. Like I don't know, my body just feels like, ah, I have to do something. So I'm good about that too, right? it up and like building something, I don't know, my body just feels like, ah, I have to do something. So I'm good about that too, right? So if I, like in this week, I haven't done that, but I've gone for hour plus walks where

I put like a book in and I listen to it or take Max or, you know, we played like three hours of ping pong yesterday, like, so I'm, I'll still be moving, right? Like I can't, I don't move. Because I get what you're saying. If I, if I actually just sat on a couch and just laid around, I'm drinking eight for two or three days straight, like, no, I can't, because I don't move, I'm like, cause I get what you're saying. If I actually just sat on a couch and just laid around and tried to eat for two or three days straight, like, no, I can't do that, man. That's impossible.

I can't just sit for that long. It just drives me crazy. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. If I don't work out, I literally will not do any physical activity. Yeah. And it just feels terrible. Look at Doug's trying to time the cleaning,

so he's not on the video camera. I'm like, wait, what's out of the office? Wait, what's talking right now? happening? I was talking right now. We have fuck with him right now. That's sneaky, Doug. Just fucking Doug. You're making him camera, it's all right. The dust that came into this, everything from the bathrooms.

We have the doors closed. But there's a fine, you know. Can we say we're remodeling the bathrooms right now? Yeah, why would we go through? I don't know. Well, I mean, can we take credit for it? I feel like we can take credit for it. I feel like we're gonna pay for it, whether we like it or not. Yeah, sure. I know? Well, I mean, can we take credit for it? I feel like we can take credit for it. I feel like we're gonna pay for it,

whether we like it or not. Yeah, sure. It's our idea. But there's a thin layer of fine dust on everything from it. And it makes it wanna- Sheat rock dust, it gets in everything. So, you know, it's funny. When I walk in, the smell reminds me of when I go to work

with my dad, the common construction kind of smell. Yeah. Now, do you guys ever wonder if, I would love to see the statistics on construction workers and things like lung cancer. Do you guys think that they suffer more from those types of things? Respiratory disease? I think there are studies on that.

Yeah, they have to be right up. You can have ramifications. Yeah, look it up. I think I've seen that before. Yeah, because you're breathing in this fine dust. You know what's supposed to be really bad is the insulation and stuff like that, right? That's supposed to be really bad. Is bestos?

Well, yeah, probably not bad for one of the old methods. Yeah, you get it. No, that's the stuff. That's the popcorn ceiling step, but even just like regular insulation because how thin and fine it is, I think that's really bad. I got a question about as bestos. So you're saying the popcorn ceiling.

So when we were kids, a lot of it, because you don't see anymore, right? The ceilings were that popcorn stuff. Yeah. That itself was as bestos. Yeah. So when I were kids, a lot of it, because you don't see it anymore, right? The ceilings were that popcorn stuff. That itself was the best of it. So when I was a kid, me and my cousin would go on and we'd scrape it off. And we'd fucking, we'd make it snow in the room. So bad.

Was that what we were doing? So bad. We were giving ourselves best of those in our lungs. Yes. No way. That's like the worst you could do. Absolutely. That's why you gotta be very careful.

It's long-term exposure, though. So it's not like, you know, you have a whole time. It would be a breathing, it's bad. It be very careful like long term exposure though So it's not like you know It's bad long term exposure is long term exposure from it's pasted on your fucking wall if you're Living in it snow and making snow angels on your carpet floor I can't be fuck that's what we did Dude we we yeah, we had bunk bed and we get on the top bunk and we'd stand on it We go with our hands and laugh. Yeah. And just make it snow everywhere.

And you know what, mom's be like, oh, you make a mess. Oh, breathing like you smoke the cigar or something. Yeah, I'm saying. Oh, man. Yeah, because I heard two, even like people that live near airports, like they're, they're breathed, like whatever's in the air is like so toxic,

like they're finding that from the jet fuel. Yeah, there's a certain proximity of like a mileage from, yeah, it's the dust also from the freeways, but also yeah, the jet fuel actually is like super toxic. Well now when you work around dust and stuff, don't think you have like laws that require you to wear certain types of masks or whatever. I think so, yeah. So they're getting better at that.

So my dad grew up obviously doing this kind of work in Sicily. Nobody wore a mask. He's like a mask. What's that for? He cares. And then when you got a little older, you know, he would just put on like a gardening. You know, like that's supposed to help band-a-dating. I told you guys, like I seriously would go on these long vacations of my family and we

had this truck that like we would sit in the back with the cover over it And it was right next to the gasoline tank and we would breathe gasoline fumes Hours and I would like headaches and shit Oh, man, it's just like I got a really bad headache My dad's I feel so bad for that, you know. Is this one because you'd ride in the back of the truck? Yeah, you ride in the back, you're just, just huffing fun.

That's back when nobody gave a shit about whether or not kids. I was probably like, high as hell too, just like, walking out. Yeah, I'm having fun. Yeah, it's back when nobody cared if you were a C-Pel. Oh, they didn't know any, they didn't know. No, like nobody knew.

No, I sat on my mom's lap in the front seat. Oh really? Yeah, so my dad would go somewhere when I was little and she just hold me in the front seat, which is the most dangerous place for a baby. Yeah, she's gonna stop you. Yeah, I would break her, you know, I would break her fall. What are you?

You're the buffers. Bro, how miserable that, but you lose your kid and you survive. Oh my God, dude. The baby airbag. Yeah. It's a new thing. it's a new thing. Sal didn't make it, but his mom did.

Terrible. Dude, I watched an old movie for the very first time, a couple days ago. What's that? So Jessica has always, always talks about dirty dancing. You guys know the movie, dirty dancing. Patrick's Ways. Have you never seen it? No, I've never seen it. You've never seen dirty dancing. No, so he so here's a story

I thought I had seen dirty dancing. I thought I knew the movie you watch the Kevin Bacon one foot loose. No, no, no, no I love that. That's my I actually love foot loose No favorites. Yeah, no, so she's like oh dirty dancing one of my favorite movies when I was growing up It's such a great movie this and that and I'm like she's like do please, dirty dancing. One of my favorite movies when I was growing up, it's such a great movie. This and that. And I'm like, please watch it. I mean, like, no, it's stupid. I don't want to watch it. I don't care whatever.

Anyway, there's this show on Netflix called, it's about the movies that made us. I made it. Made it. Yeah, yeah. Something like that. So it's about old movies, like classics, but it talks about all about how they were made

and whatever. So one night we were hanging out and, you know, poor Jessica, every time we watched TV, I control what's on the TV. So I'm like, all right, I'm gonna put on something that I think she'll want to watch. So I said, let's watch this about the making of dirty dancing, kind of interesting for me about whatever favorite movies. So as we're watching it, very interesting, I'm realizing I've never seen dirty dancing. Yeah, I've seen enough clips of it to think you did. Yes. I know our memory is so like flawed. I've never seen it. I've seen I've seen enough clips of it to think you did. Yes, to think of memory is so like flawed.

I've never seen it. I've done that before. I've seen pieces of it, you know? Like, and so I thought I watched it, but then as I'm watching the making of it, I'm like, oh, what that happened? That's the story. She's like, yeah, it's not just about dancing.

There's this and that and the other. I was raised by a woman and had two sisters. So I watched it probably for 30 times Yeah, it's a pretty good movie You guys practice the move afterwards I can't move like that that's a suesies take you dead dude man He actually really could right he's he actually has Dan he was he danced for years and did it at a very high level before he became right so he doesn't that's not an extra he's the one who's dancing no so the story goes that they when they were

looking for actors to play the role they loved his look but on his I don't know what's called resume or whatever for actors it said will not dance so they didn't say that on the didn't pick him at first but they love the way looks so much. So then they dug deeper because they couldn't find anybody and they found that they found out that he had a very extensive dance background. But the reason why he didn't dance, he didn't want to dance as an actor, because he played football in high school and busted his knee and it just hurt his knee too much. So as an actor, he said, I don't want to dance. And up until this point, he was in the outsiders, great movie. Oh, I want my favorite movies. Red Dawn, another great movie, by with him. Yeah, yeah. Which by the way, it was Road House by the way.

Road House? I don't know if he did that before or after Dirty Dance. Yeah, he ran around the same time. Yeah, yeah. But apparently Patrick Swayze was a badass. He was like, Texas boy, super intense. All five, five of them. Five, ten. No. Yeah, he apparently Patrick Swayze was a badass. He was like in Texas boy super intense. All five five of them. Five 10.

No, yeah, he's five 10. Is he really five 10? Yeah, he was short. I thought he was, no, I thought he was five five is what I said. I thought he's really short. Really? Yeah, are you sure about that? 100%

Yeah, they said it in there. No, you know why? Because I was having this argument with him. Oh yeah, because she's like, no, he's not. He's taller. No, because he was taller. He's a pretty fit dude. They're talking about him being taller than he takes five four. And I'm like, he's not, he's taller. You said he was taller. No, he's a pretty fit dude. They're talking about him being like,

yeah, he's five four. And I'm like, he's only five five. Yeah, he's like, no, he's not. That's what I was like, yeah. And then I'm like, wait a minute, he played high school football. I'm like, but then again, this is probably back in the 70s. So, the standard was higher.

And most actors we found out are pretty short. So, yeah. It's true. No, I didn't know he was, I actually thought he was, in fact, I thought he was one of those guys like, who's the other one that's super short and they shoot all his camera angles from down to the crew Yeah, there's a you know they do that for a lot of these guys right they shoot it from down up on them Or they actually literally have them stand on stuff. Yes, stand on stuff when they're like talking to another like a female character

That's got four inches on well Tom cruise when he was married to Nicole Kidman, right? She's like, wait, talk about him. She's like, he's re-enthused tall or whatever. They were in that movie. What's that movie? Far and away. Yeah, I knew you'd know that. He's with there in Days of Thunder, too. By the way, in Far and Away, the one fighter that beat him was the Italian fighter, right?

Oh, yeah. But, Italian fighter stuff. Yeah. Never. Ah, give us another try. What? Put me in the rain Karma Gregor that's how I say

You know every time he talks about it reminds me of the Eddie Murphy stand-up where he does the most the Italian watches Rocky Bad ass into the actor bad ass into the actor. He gets like the glue. He keeps those juju bits right there, moody. Yeah. Terrible. So it's bouncing the ball.

No, that was a great movie. Far and away was a phenomenal movie. Oh, yeah, fantastic. Yeah. And then the outsiders, I just mentioned that. When's the last time you guys watched that? If, I mean, we watched that in school because you read the book and everything

and watched the movie. But I think I watched it later on too. It's just a good movie. The outsiders had more. There was a lot of famous actors in there. Huge a-list actors. Did a lot of them get their start that on? Yes.

But before they were all mastered, right, that's where they got their start. Yes. That one, and breakfast club, there's a couple of like movies like that where there was a ton of big actors. I don't look up the actors, and I know. The outsiders, right now,

like who is in there that is memorable besides Patrick's Wazey? No, there was, I'll read them off to you, like, who is in there that is memorable besides Patrick's Waze. No, there was, I'll read them off to you. The actors in there were in, it was Matt Dillon. Was in there. That's who. Ralph Machia was in there. Rob Blow was in there. There was Patrick's Waze, Tom Cruise,

all in the same movie, all before they became- Tom Cruise? Yeah, that's right. Yeah, Tom Cruise was, oh, oh Emilio Esteves. He was like a background character. He was, and then I think Emilio Esteves was named Soto Pop. Soto Pop was in there. Anyway, young guns was one of my favorite movies,

Emilio Esteves. I love that movie. That's a good movie, isn't it? That's a great movie. That's a great movie. Billy the Kid in that. Now, I thought that was historical when I was a kid. I thought that's actually what happened.

Yeah, yeah. Now, it took some liberties with that one. Just to combine all the old blessed dudes, all hanging out together. You know, anyway, Billy, the kid's an interesting story. You guys know much about him? Not a lot, like just from, I don't know the Hollywood version, but yeah, I don't really know the true background.

Yeah, the do-I also open when you guys, okay. I was just saying, you got some knowledge to throw, because they have a new documentary on them, but it got terrible review so I didn't watch it. I actually was just clicking. I was going through this. You started me on adjusting, because you brought up Willow.

And I tried to convince Katrina. And so I went to that section of like, I forget what they call it, and it's like in the stout. Yeah, some are out of the vault. Yeah, it was something like that where Willow was at, and I was going through other ones in young guns, and then I clicked on young guns, I wanted to watch this this couldn't get Katrina convinced to watch Willow or young guns And that led me to the new documentary that was on Billy the kid put the

The reviews are terrible Katrina Now you guys like this because Katrina gets mad at it She gives me a hard time for this like if something and is rated and it gets less than 50% I will not watch it. Like it, and she's like, that is so weird that you do that. Why don't you make up your own mind and watch it? I'm like, because 10,000 people looked at this and more than half of them said it was terrible.

So it's almost always right. Yes. I've never, it's very, it's very, there's only time where it's wrong. Here's where it's wrong. Because fucking Hollywood is so liberal, It's very, there's a very, there's a very, there's a very, there's a very, there's a very, there's a very, there's a very, there's a very, there's a very, there's a very, there's a very, there's a very, there's a very, there's a very,

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but it's probably a good movie, and it got 60%. Like it's probably a lot better. I mean, let's watch America is great. Oh no, it's got 47%. Like look at the title. You're great. Yeah, but look at that. I'm pretty sure that's why they said it wasn't good.

Oh, that's good. Did you guys have any over the holidays? Did you guys have any like Arthur Brooks talked about, any like awkward political conversations or did it ever get? With everything that the climate going right now, I would think that you guys had something with one of your kind of hilarious conversation with my brother

and like it was super, super political, but it was all about Star Wars. What? What? What? How's the political about Star Wars? Yeah, it was like, I mean, it wasn't political, but it was all about Star Wars. What? What? How's the political about Star Wars? Yeah, it was like, I mean, it wasn't political, but it was like pro was a pro empire, and a pro revolver. Yeah, pretty much.

I mean, it was like, we're talking about what was canon, what was not canon, like, you know, the new movies, series, like what, what I liked about it, what I got entertained by it, and he's like trying to shit all over, like all of it, and it I'm just like what am I doing here? Why am I even talking about it? He just was cornering me You know, I was like barding the hell out of your brother You're like that. But you know what's funny about it is like I and again this kind of like took me back to why it was so like I'm all about Star Wars was because we were kids like we went to the Grand Canyon We saw it for the first time when we were really little and had a huge impact on us. And I forgot that it had such a huge impact on

my brother too. And he went like, like, like, if you talk, if you think I'm a nerd, my brother is like 20 million times, like, the nerd Star Wars that I am. Like, he, he went all in on it. And, and, and so it's like, he's read all the accessory books like all the different directions They've taken it like all the stuff and I forgot all that and so I'm talking to him He's like, you know like reciting all these different authors that have taken it this way that way I'm like oh shit. I'm getting like killed But at the same time like you know like it's it's pessimist versus optimist. That was the stalemate that we had.

Now, do you guys share similar, because you guys grew in the same household, and I know you grew up kind of conservative. You guys share similar political views, or you guys posing? Yeah, so that's funny. He's a teacher, isn't he? Yeah, he's a teacher. So he's a guest, what he is.

Yeah, so he's different than me, you know, politically. And so it's like, that's, that's the underlying thing. So is he for, is he for the empire or is it? Is that what he is? He's for free stuff. That's hilarious. Everybody gets a lightsaber. Yeah.

Like, no, let's, let's not do that. Let's keep it in the Skywalker family. Let's be rational about this. Yeah, see. So I'm the asshole who will argue against anyone. So my family, how could what position you have? I'm always going to find. Yeah, I avoid you.

Yeah, they're posing, but actually, I'm going to go do some outside. As soon as I say the word actually everybody's like, oh, the eyes will. Here it goes.. I was gonna tell you why you're wrong. I shared I shared that oh my god The the post or the message that Justin Brink sent to us Dr. Brink with the that he sent to us Oh, that made me die laughing And so I copied and paste it and I put it on my family thread and And I rubbed like two of my family members

the wrong way. What was bad about that? Just making fun of the don't offend anybody. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, I thought it was completely fair play and funny. And here's the thing, why I brought this up, because it's interesting that we're here at this time. And one of my cousins brought up like,

oh, you know, can we not talk about politics on Christmas and everything? I'm like, there was a joke, first of all, it wasn't like we were talking politics. But it's not even a political, I know. There's no point in it. It starts off with two my Democrat neighbors, two my Republican neighbors.

Well, you know what I mean? But that's covering everybody now. It, yeah, I know. but it's a little bit. It's here at the end of the day, it's funny, right? And what it reminds me of, and I thought about this today because I have a buddy of mine. Did you guys see the post that I did about Dac Presscott, the Cologne,

when you, the meme that I did? Oh, so it was making fun of Dac Presscott, which is the quarterback to the team that I'm a fan of. And I got roasted from one of my other best friends who's a die hard Cowboys fan. He's like, what the fuck do you post stuff that's talking shit about the Cowboys? Because I go, because it's fun.

You team dude. Right, right. It's like you're the worst fan ever. You're not loyal. I'm like, dude, why can't I still have fun and make fun of them too? Because I think it's hilarious. It's a hilarious meme and it's at my expense considering I'm a fan. So I get it, right? But I'm okay with that. I feel the same way. The way people are like that with sports,

they get the same way with politics. Like, and what I was giving my cousin a hard time about is the answer is not shut it all down and don't have a conversation about it. It's be okay with it. It's okay. It's okay to tease and have fun. Where it goes bad is when people get angry about it. When you get defensive and then you feel like you identify with one side or the other so much that you can't look at a meme or you can't look at a joke

and laugh at it, you feel you need to defend it. And that's a problem to me. Yeah, see, for me because I try to stay as objective as possible, and I can typically find something wrong with either side, depending on the subject, that people typically have a cuff time guessing. And I've had this happen, guessing with what my position is. So there'll be a discussion going on,

and we'll talk about whatever, and I'll have my opinion, and then they'll be like, yes, how else do you vote for Soatsoal, right? And the other person I'll have my opinion and then the way that gas out so you voted for so-and-so, right? No, no, no, no, he definitely voted for so-and-so, but actually, you're both wrong. Yeah. Because they can't guess. But I have, there's, I have family members that you don't want to bring up politics at all because they go, it's too much.

It's too intense. Yeah. Automatically they turn into. That's, that's really unfortunate. And you were the. Automatically they turn into... That's really unfortunate. And you were the first person to tell me, I didn't know this, like when you talked about how the role of the gesture, right, for the kings and the importance of that.

And I think about that today, like, and then that probably evolved into political cartoons, which then probably evolved into like stand up comedians. And, you know, then we talked about what Bill Burr was talking about. And you can almost feel that the, the climate's going to shift and change by what the comedians are talking about. Because it's gotten so ridiculous that there's irony and comedy in it that you're hearing

it now. And I think there's, I think that plays a huge role in keeping the balance, the balancing the scales out. It releases the pressure. Yeah, it takes a little bit out of it. And it's so needed, because yeah, if you can't like challenge your own ideas and kind of make fun of it and see it from other angles, then you know, it's really not that valid.

Like you're just too emotionally driven and you're too attached to that. And you need to be challenged. I think laughter exists for that exact reason. Evolutionarily speaking, I think it specifically exists to break tension. Yeah, I was really disappointed in my family, the thread has like 10 or 11 of us, 10 of us on it and two of them were sour about it. Oh, it's like, come on, first of all, it's not a big political discussion.

It was a funny post that I shared with you guys. Everybody else thought it was hilarious. You felt the need to get all sensitive about it. And I just think that's really funny. And I don't think that's the answer. The answer is not, don't say anything. Let's be, so she was making a point of, you know, maybe we should just be open to more people's opinions

and views on things and be more tolerant. I'm like, okay, that's fine. I'm not saying you can't be tolerant to it, but you can't also, you can also laugh at it. You can laugh at yourself. You can laugh at either side. And I just think it's an unhealthy relationship with politics to ignore them so hard that you have to try and shut them down. It's like, you know, you can either choose not to contribute to it

and to get offended by it like to identify it. Also, get this. You're not gonna like everything about everyone. Even the people that you like a lot, you're not gonna like everything about them. It's okay to not like certain things. But then also realize that that doesn't mean you hate the person.

You know what I'm saying? There's nothing wrong with that. Yeah, we had a big discussion over the holidays over what I would call the myth of easier. So we were talking about, I was talking to a family member and they were talking about how much easier it is to not worry about the nutrition that you have. You know, not worry about the food that you put in your mouth.

How much easier it is to not go to the gym or schedule time for exercise. How it's just easier to just kind of coast, and not worry about those things. And the argument that I made was that's a myth. It's actually a myth that those things are easier because it's actually much harder to be unhealthy. I was gonna say, I wouldn't think it's easier.

Well, that's the thing. I think people, because it requires structure and discipline, they equate that to it's harder, but the reality is good health and the discipline that goes into it is easier than the consequences of bad health. Being in poor health, obese, diabetes. I think what I would have contributed to that conversation

is that I think what contributes to that is how distracted we are today. Therefore, it feels like it's easy to just not do it, because you're distracted with other things, where 50, 60 years ago, you would just be sitting there and being doing nothing, where we can easily pick up a phone, or watch a stream of movie, or do something to distract us, and not make us think about things. right? Think about my current health state.

Think about what I'm not doing because I'm always doing something now because we got so much. Well, think about things always seems easier and then it keeps stacking up on you. And when you realize you just had to address it and you could have like tackled that thing before it got bigger and bigger and bigger, you know, would have been way easier for you to do that. Well, think about this way, right? In order to become financially secure

and let's say successful, that requires study, discipline, hard work, showing up every day, performing well, and yes, that's all hard work, that's all requires lots of discipline, but how much harder is it to have zero financial stability or to be in poverty? You know, for lack of doing those types of things. See what I'm saying? That's why I call it the myth of easier.

The reality is the road that you think, the road towards better health and all that stuff may look like it's more difficult because it requires discipline and structure, but the reality is that's the easy road, the hard road. I mean, poor health is hard, super hard, it's tough, it's way more expensive. It's like when people tell me, oh, it's expensive to eat healthy. It's actually cheap to eat healthy when you compare the savings in terms of productivity

and your health and type of stuff. So. Well, I think there's lots of examples of that within fitness too. Like I think about the, ignoring all of the mobility work and corrective work and stretching I should have been doing for years, it was really easy to ignore it and not think about it, but look how much work I had to put in to correct a lot of that bullshit. It then took all this hardcore dedication to get back to a place where I could squat really deep.

I didn't have burstitis in my hips. My low back pain was gone, but it was great now and what I've made sure of is that maintaining that is actually really easy. As long as I make sure I do a few things every single week that keep me mobile and incapable to do that position, I should never lose it where, you, where I ignored it for so long that when I finally did address it,

it became this huge daunting task. Well, part of the challenge is when people, and they've just studies on this, when they give people the option of like, how far do you think you'll be in five years or 10 years? We tend to be overly optimistic, the further the dates go out. So like, do you think you'll be at this position or 10 years? We tend to be overly optimistic, the further the dates go out. So like, you know, do you think you'll be

at this position in 10 years and people are definitely yes, do you say something like next week, people are much more pessimistic. So when we're doing that in our minds in terms of like, okay, I gotta make it to the gym three days a week, I gotta eat healthy or whatever, that's all immediate. So we think, I'll be fine in five years, I'll take care of it much later on.

But the reality is it's much more difficult. It's much, the truth is the easier path is the one that means that you have discipline and you're doing the things that are contributing to positive health and to positive changes in your life. It's far more difficult to not do those things. Even though it feels immediately, it's like it's easier. Like, oh, I get to relax and not work out,

or I don't need to worry about my nutrition and just see whatever I want. The reality is that's the more difficult in challenging path. And so that's why I think if you look at what you want, what do I want? I want good health, I want stable family, I want good financial security,

think of all the things you need to do to get there, and then think to yourself, oh, that's real hard, but wait a minute, let me weigh it against the opposing side, poor health, poor financial stability, what does that look like? Okay, now I can see which one the easier choice is. You see what I'm saying?

Was this a conversation with your family or Jessica's family? No, it was one of my cousins, we were just talking about this. Yeah, and they agreed once I was able to explain myself, they agreed because they were trying to say how much hard work it takes to maintain health and fitness. And I said, no, it discipline yes and consistency yes,

I said, but it's actually easy in comparison to the alternative. And then I made my argument. I think maintaining like a healthy weight and eating healthy and being healthy, that is like relatively easy. I think trying to do things like shaping the body or, you know, performance gains, things like that

is what that takes so long. Well, you could take it even further, sure. Right, like that take, but to just have good balance, I think that we've over complicated it. I think we, I think people think, I remember my buddies when I first was really getting into fitness and they'd always ask me like, what are you gonna do when you get older?

Is this gonna be like a lifelong, like you can't do this when you're in 40s and you're 50 years old, like spend two hours in the gym every day? Who's gonna do that? I'm like two hours in the gym every day, you fucking nuts, I don't do that now. Like why would I do that?

I think people think that in order to have this physique that you have to be in the gym for hours and hours and hours and make crazy amounts of sacrifice, I think it's just having a better balance. And more importantly, I think it's more so just being very self-aware when you wanna go down this rabbit hole of bad eating and being lazy and not moving. Like, that can compound really fast.

And I think that's what happens to a lot of people is and they stay distracted. They don't pay attention to the slippery slope of not moving all day long drinking eating bad that one day, two day before you know it, three, four weeks in a row of over consuming 500 to a thousand calories and not exercising. Well, yeah, fuck, that's of over-consuming 500 to 1000 calories and not exercising, well, yeah, fuck, that's, you are gonna do some damage, but if you make a conscious effort that to try and get in the gym two to three times a week, when you're not in the gym, be aware

that you're not moving as much, you're not training, so probably reduce your caloric intake a little bit. When you do eat, try and target the things that are most nutritious for your body. There's some really basic rules that if most people were to follow them, would stay relatively healthy with very little effort. They would, they would.

That's what we're trying to do, right? We're trying to teach people kind of how to do that. I was also reading about the, you guys have heard me talk about the entourage effect. You know, in regards to cannabinoids and how they work better together. I haven't explained the full, really, the gist of the entire thing,

because I've only referred to cannabinoids, but the entourage effect in studies also refers to the other things that come along with cannabinoids from the cannabis or hemp plant. Specifically, they're talking about cannabinoids and terpenes and terpenoids. So do you know what terpenes are? I've never heard of terpenoids, but I've heard terpenes.

So terpenes are what give flavor and smell. The flavor and smell and the flavor. And they don't just exist in cannabis and hemp plants. They also exist another plant. Regular flowers. Yeah, flowers or like there's, I think linen all along. This is what or, you know, like, like, you know, there's, like, I think, linole, linole all linole. This is what they use for, like, all your, like, your oils and your smell good stuff that

you plug into the wall. Yeah, like, okay, so like, so like, pining, pining is a, it gives you a pine aroma. That's a turpene. There's, um, mercine is another one. There's tons of them that they've had, limonine. That's the one that gives it, like, it's interesting. What's interesting to me about where you're going right now is that so i've known about that for a long time but worst we're starting to find out more more information about how those play like roll to they do other than just the smell and the play they play a big role right there finding that that the terpenes are

one of the main reasons why some strains of cannabis will make you feel, even though the THC and the CBD and other cannabinoids are similar, why one may make you feel one way and the other one may make you feel a different way. Even though the cannabinoids are almost the same, it's the turpine differences. It's why some- So the different combos you can actually put in a formula that has a different effect? It's, yes, and it's not just the whole package.

So if you have a strain of cannabis that smells like a skunk or whatever, it's the combination of the terpenes that give it that smell, plus the cannabinoids that are in there and other things, that's what they call the entourage effect. So you know, like we work with Ned, right? You ever open the bottle and smell the Ned? It smells like it's from a plant. You could smell that because they keep the whole The whole plant extract is in there. They don't take anything out. So it's not like some

Companies will produce like CBD oils or other cannabinoid type supplements But either a it's just CBD or B. It's just cannabinoids that are put in the oil. And then it's devoid of a lot of that smell. Yeah, it's devoid of all of the other things that make up the entourage effect. So I was just reading our article on turpines themselves and new studies are coming out showing just how important they are, and they've identified that the turpines

contribute to anti-inflammatory properties. Oh, interesting. Pain relief, antibacterial properties, anti-fungal properties, some of them assist with muscle spasms, others may help with depression, anxiety, insomnia, and even stress. So I think it's far more complex. Do you think because it works kind of like a regulator

for so many things, right? Do you think that this will become something that gets, we figure out like what an ideal RDA is per person, and that it becomes like put in multivitamins is just like, oh, you should take your, you know, 220, 240 milligrams of CBD every single day, and that's kind of- I don't think it'll go that far.

I don't think there's an, I don't think there should be a rec, you know, like a recommended daily allowance. I think it'll still be used on a, you know, like, as needed type of basis. Yeah. As a way to, I don't know if I necessarily believe, maybe some people should take it every day.

But I think it's gonna be more probably advertised and use more as a, as needed basis, like, oh, I'm, I'm anxious or, you know, I'm not feeling too good or I'm sore or whatever, or inflamed, then I'll take this, you know, this, this product or whatever. Well, such a... But the entourage effect, the studies are clear that if you look this up yourself, look up the entourage effect with cannabinoids and terpenes, and you'll see what the studies show, far, far more efficacious than isolated cannabinoids and terpenes and you'll see what the studies show far, far more efficacious than isolated cannabinoids.

Well, since we're breaking down science and we're doing commercials right now for organifies commercial today, I actually had a question for you in regards to their immunity boost. So I know that you've told me before like the ideal thing for me to do like when I feel like a cold coming. So I felt like my throat was kinda sore, I was like kicking up. And the first thing I did was go do the immune boost.

And then the other thing that you always tell me to do is the elderberry, right? They say that right this time. I don't know, fuck it up all the time. You always say, et al berry. I know. So the elderberry and that, and I couldn't find that. But then when I was reading the back of the immune boost

from organify and it actually has zinc in there already and isn't that what i'm searching for when i take the elderberry is no no they combo that in the throat laws and just right that's right that but yeah you know that's not the main that's not the main thing that i know so elderberry itself uh... has uh... so it's not the zinc i thought it was the zinc that was in the elderberry that was so that is in the other Now, zinc does not come in elderberry. Elderberry is a fruit that doesn't,

it doesn't contain any zinc. Wait, the, the sand bokeh ones that have, those are, those are lozenges and they put zinc and elderberry together. So, okay, so I was confused. I was under the impression that the, because when I look at the back of the, the sand bokeh or whatever it is,

elderberry, the majority of it, of it is the zinc. And so I thought the the back of the the sand booker, whatever it is, Elderberry, the majority of it is the zinc. And so I thought the zinc was what the main benefit I was getting. Both. So Elderberry itself is antiviral. So it's actually one of the few natural things that actually has clinical study to show that it reduces the severity and duration of influenza, which is obviously you guys know, the flu is a terrible nasty virus. So elderberries quite effective against it in comparison to other natural remedies. Zinc in studies has been shown to prevent viral loads from increasing in particular the rhino virus, the cold. So zinc is good for when you have a cold. High levels of vitamin C is mixed.

There's some studies that show that it helps. Other studies that show that it doesn't do anything. And it's totally speaking, I seem to do well when I'm getting a cold to take high doses of vitamin C. Low levels of vitamin D probably definitely will reduce your immune system's ability to fight off infection, so they'll have some vitamin D in there as well. I was gonna say their immune boost has got all those things in it.

He's got all that stuff in it. Yeah, I don't think it doesn't have the elderberry though. Doesn't have elderberry. So I should take the elderberry with that immune boost and that's like the, anything else I should add to it. I mean, it's cold season right now, so I figured people would get a lot of value from this. This was something that hit me just recently and I was like scrambling in my house

to make sure I put together. And I'm fine. I totally didn't get anything, even though I felt like something was coming on. And it's because I do that because I doubled up on the immune boost. I took two of them in the one day and then I ended up tracking down the Z-Z-Z closures.

But then I looked at the back of the label and I was like, oh, that's already in here. So I don't need to take the Z-Z closures. but then I looked at the back of the label and I was like, oh, that's already in here. So I don't need to take the Z-Losgers, all I need to take is the Immune and then Elderberry has its own value. Yeah, you could buy Elderberry by itself. You could buy either in syrup form or like gummies or whatever and it's just all by itself with no zinc. Okay, I have bought the gummies before.

Yeah, good strategy. This is just my own. So this is me combining what I've seen in certain studies and putting them together. So this is, I didn't read any studies on this particular protocol, but this is what I've done is where I'll do, I'll do the immune boost just because that has the immunity

from organophycus, it just has everything in there, elderberry and sauna. And then make sure I get a good night's sleep. And lots of water. It lots of water, but yeah, sauna is good too, because the sauna raises your internal core temperature, kind of simulates a fever. It's like an artificial fever.

And that stimulates your immune system to put out more, basically boost the levels of compounds in your own natural body, that fight infections. I'm not interested in how to do that. And I don't recommend doing it when you're already sick. I don't think it's a good idea to go in there when you have a fever. Right, right.

I appreciate that. No, it's a very long-term idea. It's trying to catch your right, I tell you, when I'm good about it, like you have that, because everybody, not everybody, but most time you feel this like little scratch in the back of your throat

or notice a sneeze or a sniffle early and if you're really good about it and I've noticed this, if I get on it and I do those things, sometimes one, I won't even get it, or what I've noticed is if I do still get sick, it's way quicker. Like I'm over it a lot faster. Here's another thing too that you might wanna consider,

is a lot of times people will get a sinus infection or a secondary infection after having a cold, so they'll get a cold, And then because a cold causes you to get congestion and build up of mucus that then the cold goes away. But because the cold caused that build up, then they'll get a secondary sinus infection. So it's like, I had a cold cold kind of win away. Boom, now I have a sinus infection. Yeah, remnants. Yeah, so uh, pseudophadium musinx, those are those are so, uh, pseudophademusinex, those are, those are pharmaceuticals, but pseudophademusinex might help prevent that

because they clear out all the mucus and prevent you from producing a lot of it so that you don't get those secondary, you know, type infections. So that's another thing that I've, that I've done. That's my own, by the way, my own protocol. Don't, don't, there's no scientific. Yeah, I said I'm doing it.

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I thought this was a funny question. To lift the glutes? Yeah. So obviously trying to work or butt. And I think the reason why I thought this was a funny question. To lift the glue. Yeah. So obviously trying to work or butt. And I think the reason why I picked this question is because how often do you guys see people on the stairmaster? And then they do that like, like, do your kick behind them.

Yes, the glue kick behind them. And a lot of them do it because it works the glutes, right? And when you take big steps like that, the butts being stretched out, you are stepping up your body weight. So there is some glute work that's happening, but I know a lot of people that that's their glute work is doing the stairmasters.

That's their theory is, oh, I wanna work my butt, so I do the stairmaster every day for my cardio. And I just wanted to have answer this question because I think this is this is a type of question that is from people that believe this. And I think that's something that we haven't talked about in a long time and should dispel that. It'll build your doing high reps cardio, stair master, walking upstairs. It'll build your glutes more than nothing will. Okay, so in comparison to being sedentary,

you'll build a little bit of glutes, in comparison to resistance strain though, it's, there's no comparison. It's no. And you also gotta think if you're doing cardio or you're burning extra calories and if you're trying to diet at the same time, the likelihood that you're gonna get much or any growth at all in the butt is very unlikely.

Because you gotta also remember, too, and I think this is a mistake that people make when talking about the butt. It's very common that I get a client, especially my female clients, that want to lose body fat, but they also want to build their butt. And- Build muscle essentially. Exactly, and that's the point I'm making is that, you know, those are conflicting goals and it's better to focus on one or the other at a time. You're going to get a lot more results that way. Then thinking that, oh, I'm going to build my butt while I also lose this body fat.

You're in a chloric deficit. Your body is catabolic, meaning that we're breaking down. And so to be breaking down by being in a low calorie and doing exercise and expecting your butt to grow, especially doing things that are definitely on the very probably bottom of the list of things that help the butt grow, just highly unlikely. Yeah, it's too many wraps too.

It's just too many wraps. You're gonna build stamina. You're gonna build endurance in the glutes, but you're not gonna build much muscle. So you may be wondering, well, why would building stamina and endurance in a muscle not contribute to a lot of muscle gain or shape or size? Now, first off, when we're comparing it to doing nothing, you will get a little bit of muscle and shape and size in comparison to being totally sedentary, a little bit.

But when you're comparing it to resistance training where you're training for eight reps or 12 reps and using heavy weight, that doesn't even come close. And here's why. High repetitions, stamina, endurance means that your muscles need to be as efficient as possible. They need to be able to move over and over and over again for high repetitions without burning a lot of energy. That means the muscles can't be too big.

They can't be too big. They need to be smaller. And because the high repetition type activity doesn't require a lot of force generation, you're not, when you're climbing stairs, it's not like every stairs. It's not like you have like, you're carrying someone you don't have.

A lot of recruitment there. Yeah, so it's just low level muscle contractions that are done frequently in a law and you just need I want to fish in smuts like getting a small engine for your car. You need something that's efficient. I want to put it in a perspective for someone to that does this because I know this happens. Okay. You could do the stair master five days a week for an hour at a time in pursuit of hoping it's going to build

your butt and you could put that up head to head against somebody who squats twice a week for four sets of 10 reps of a weight. That's, which is like 30 minutes, 20 minutes, right? Yeah, four sets of 10 reps. You could get that done in 15 minutes, right? Doing that just twice a week, you'll build way more ass doing that than you ever will on a stairmaster for hours. Plus, you're taking it through the full range of motion,

you know that way, which you're just never gonna get that type of range of motion doing the stairs. Yeah, no, okay, here's how you can use your stairs to build your butt if you wanna maximize that. I would say take, first of all skip steps, so go up every other steps, you have a deeper range of motion,

hold some weight, maybe put on a heavy backpack or just do real controlled slow reps and do maybe 10 steps for each leg. So 20 total steps. Just read about there and keep the intensity high. Meaning if you did that and it's easy, maybe hold on to some weight, put on a backpack, something that gives you some resistance. So you could skip each step and get that full range of motion come up, take the next step, come up. After you've done your 20 total steps, rests for about 45 seconds to a minute and a half,

then go back down the stairs and then do it again, and do like five, maybe six sets of that. Treat it as resistance training. Treat it as lifting weights. Not cardio. Not cardio, not the, you're not doing a hundred steps up and down every single, which there's nothing wrong with that, you're gonna get some fitness from it,

you'll get some endurance to some stamina, but when it comes to building muscles, it's not gonna do much. Yeah, I would just hold weights and step up on a box, you know, like much more effective. Yeah, but it's funny how you, I'll quickly your body adapts to this, you know, I have family that lives in, in Sicily,

and a lot of the way the houses work over there, as you live on a you live on a floor. So they'll have a building and each floor is a different, you know, is like one or two different apartments or whatever. So I'd have ants who are in their 70s who live like four or five stories up and they're every day they climb up the stairs every single day they go grocery shopping, every day they go grocery shopping, every day they go out and do something else, and they'll climb up these stairs and they're not at a breath or whatever, and they're not buffed and muscular and all that stuff, obviously fit and healthy.

So it's not bad for you, it's just it ain't going to be a great muscle builder of the glutes unless you add resistance and treat it like you're doing, like you're lifting weights. Next question is from Kai M. McClure. If someone is already healthy and feels good, how can you tell that the addition of a green supplement is working? Well, it depends on what you mean by feels good, right? And like there's a lot of different things

that might make somebody feel good. Like a feeling good is what you have good energy because that's definitely an indicator, right? So energy level, sleep, stamina, scan, hair, stool, you know, all these things, you know, are, you get benefits from getting enough, you know, vitamins and nutrients on a regular basis. And so if you are hitting it out the park on all those things and you know that you're getting several servings of greens every day.

It's not something you're probably going to benefit that much from, but that's really rare that I have somebody who's kind of hitting it out the park on all those line items. There's normally somewhere that someone's missing and for me with clients, the biggest indicator of not getting enough greens and fiber is normally from clients that notice it from their stool. So stool is normally the first place that I notice that is off. They're either not shitting regular

or when they do shit, it's constipation or it's not consistent and those people are... You shouldn't struggle. That's the big one. You should not struggle when you go to the bathroom. It's funny when I say that to, when I've said that in the past, the clients, I've gotten the weirdest looks because people think that you're supposed to.

You got to find it out. Yeah. No, people literally, what do you mean, an at-spotor struggle? That's how you poop, right? You sit on the toilet and you're like, you got to kind of push it out. It's like, no, no, no, no, that's not, it should be okay. Like you should. You should just plop.

You feel really nice. You shouldn't feel like you're going to war or whatever every time you go to the bathroom. But no, here's a thing with certain supplements. Okay, some supplements, you gauge them by their acute effects. So like caffeine is an example. You take caffeine 30 to 60 minutes, you feel it. If you feel nothing, maybe what you're taking doesn't have any caffeine in it and you're bought something. That's, you know, that's bonko, whatever. Other supplements, they are not, you feel it. If you feel nothing, maybe what you're taking doesn't have any caffeine in it and you're bought something, that's, you know, that's bunker, whatever.

Other supplements, they're not, you're not gonna necessarily notice an acute effect, it's more cumulative over time. Now, that may be difficult for you to identify, you know? Okay, I've been taking this green supplement for, you know, two months and I think I feel good, but I don't know if it's the green, here's how you know, stop taking it. Yeah. So take it for don't know if it's the green, here's how you know, stop taking it. Yeah.

So take it for 30 to 60 days, you could do like, organize their green juices a good example. Take that for 30 to 60 days, take it every day, one serving or whatever, every other day. Everything feels good, everything seems okay. Then stop cold turkey and see if you notice any differences. And I've done that with certain supplements.

We're like, is this really making me feeling better? And then I'll stop totally and be like, oh yeah, I was getting some benefits from this. And to the point that it accumulates, the same thing will happen when you cut cold turkey. So if you cut cold turkey the next day, you're not gonna all say, oh wow, my stool's way off. Oh wow, I don't have energy,

pay attention over the course of the next week or two of not having it because it's gonna take some time for you to not be getting those nutrients before you probably start to see it being Expressed through the body whether it be through energy or stool Which are the two energy and stool or the probably the top two all the skin skin is a big one I just say skin skin and hair also, but I think the easiest for people to measure unless you have skin issues Like I do like when I'm when I'm'm at a balance, so that's your main signal. Yeah, like for me because I have psoriasis, like man,

when I fall off my vitamin D like supplement, it is very obvious to me. It's not even a question. And it does, it takes about a week or so of falling off of it and not taking it consistently, then all sudden my psoriasis is nasty. If you have pretty good skin already, skin might not be the best indicator.

So it really just depends on the person on how it will express itself, but like Sal said, I mean, you'd be consistent with it for a while, and this is like with, this is how I teach people to do anything, right? Anything that you're doing, even things like cardio and exercise, like, you know, do something consistently, pay attention, and then stop doing it, and be consistent when not doing it for a while, and pay attention to the difference. That's how you measure and decide if something is doing. So here's how I use supplements like a green supplement.

The way I use green supplements is I'll take them, and if I feel really good taking them, then it means I'm not eating enough vegetables. That's how I use it. So if I take them and I notice nothing, then that means am I vegetable vegetable intake is pretty good. Well, if I go traveling is a big revealer of that for me, a lot of times, because that's when the vegetables

you really have to seek vegetables, when you're eating out all the time, and then you totally notice that. If you do pay attention to your stools, and it's not coming out like one of those play-doh sausage-making machines, you know, you're in trouble. They're excessive, yeah. Next question is from Chandler Desenberger.

As a 19 year old college student who is trying to save money, I'm struggling with whether it's worth it to buy organic grass-fed groceries. There's a hierarchy of things you should prioritize when you're buying food. Number one, you want to look at your total calories in your macros. So this is the top, most important thing. So try to hit your caloric intake and try to hit your macronutrient intake goals, proteins, fats, carbohydrates. The second thing I would say is to avoid heavily processed foods. Now, it's not because heavily processed foods are inherently bad, although for the most

case, heavily processed foods tend to be less healthy for you than whole natural foods. But the reason why I'm telling you to avoid them is because they make you overeat. This is this unequivocal, this is 100% proven. If you eat heavily processed foods, you're just gonna eat, you're gonna wanna eat more food or you will eat more food. And that right there, you know, combats the most important thing I just said, which was calories and macros.

So if you handle those three things right there, calories, macros, avoid heavily processed foods, you are doing pretty damn good. Then I would go next, I would go to organic and food quality and that kind of stuff. But you got to tackle those first things first because what you don't want to do is what I've had clients do where they're like, you know, they want to lose 40 pounds and they tell me, but Sal, I eat organic, everything. And everything, I'll eat a piece of grass fat and I look at their diet and I'm like, well, okay, you're eating, you're eating organic cheese puffs and you're eating, yeah, you know, you're having

grass fed cheeseburgers twice a day, your calories are too high, you're going to suffer from negative health effects from that regardless of how organic or grass fed it is. Somebody posted a not only a hierarchy of what you just listed, but also a hierarchy of organic foods. For example, if it's like an avocado, which has got a thick skin that you don't eat. Or a banana. Right, or a banana. It's less important because you're not getting

a bunch of shit sprayed on. We're like a strawberry, or blueberries, or rats, but berry where you're gonna eat the skin and everything. It's open and exposed. Yeah, and I got to find who had, I thought it was maybe Max or somebody who posted this post, but I've seen it, I thought that was really valuable to somebody asking this question,

because if you are trying to decide, and you're trying to save every buck you can, because you're a college student, I have a CSAs are cheap. I mean, you can get it in bulk, you can get all your produce, you know, it's gonna last you like a couple weeks That's like super cheap. It's all in just the planning of it. You're CSA. What a CSA is like a local farm that you

Deliver it to you. It's really not expensive at all And then if you get the recipe do something like a butcher box or something where it's like, you know You can sort of plan it out. It just takes more planning, but you can really keep the cost weight low. You know, you know what though? Let's think about this for a second. You got a college student saying, I need to save money. I want to know if it's whatever. Here's a deal.

Okay. You're probably buying alcohol or you're probably eating out. It's not expensive at all to buy rice, which is cheap. You can get bulked, dude. You could buy organic chicken breasts and chicken thighs, which are cheap. You could buy vegetables. You could buy vegetables pretty damn cheap if you get frozen organic vegetables. And by the way, frozen is not bad.

Frozen is fine. It's actually good. In fact, I prefer frozen because I throw away less of them than when I buy fresh because then they not bad. Frozen's fine, it's actually good. In fact, I prefer frozen because I throw away less of them than when I buy fresh because then they go bad. So you go buy a bag of frozen broccoli or frozen asparagus or frozen spinach, which is cheap as shit. Chicken, organic, and bulk, rice.

There's your starches in your cart, potatoes. Potatoes are the cheapest food on earth. There's your starches and your carbs potatoes. Potatoes are the cheapest food on earth. There's your starch right there. So when people say I'm trying to save money, it's like okay, if I look at what you're spending, you're probably eating out, you're probably buying a burrito or a sandwich or whatever. The reality is you'll save more money.

If you go to the store, buy those things in bulk and prepare. The only investments really, like the freezer. You gotta make sure you gotta really get freezer, you could stock up with it, and then anything to grill it with, like the George Farman grill or something. If you have that, you're pretty,

pretty so actually lived on that when I was in college. I mean, the George Farman saved me. Yeah, even steak, you can get sometimes bulk prices on steak. Well, like Justin said, butcher boxes is super reasonable. Yeah, when you look at what you're paying for grass fed, if you were to buy that in the grocery store, it would cost you more money. Yeah. So buying, you know, buying, and that's where I get my chicken too from them.

So I get my chicken thighs and my beef all come from them. Mm-hmm. And I go through that. And so that's, it's not that much more money at all. And it's getting fucking shipped to your house. But, be honest, when you look at people who are like, oh, it's too expensive and you look at the money they spend on food.

Yeah, you have Starbucks every day, though. That costs you fucking $350, right? Yeah, you make a list and, yeah, it's comparing contracts, because you're gonna be real surprised. Literally, when I'm saying right now, literally, rice potatoes, frozen vegetables, chicken breast, chicken thighs, tuna fish, and a can.

How much money could you save if you did that? I mean, incredible. Next question is from one fit, GMA. How do you know if you're suffering from upper cross syndrome? Okay, so you are. So this is a good, no, I like the way this is falling to the ground. I like the way this is written because suffering is the operative word here. Now, upper cross syndrome looks like rolled forward shoulders,

you know, head that kind of juts forward visible posture. Yeah, that's what upper cross syndrome looks like. Suffering from upper cross syndrome, though, is a little bit different because there's posture deviations and differences in individuals individuals like what is good posture for one person? Right might be not good for another person, you know All that depends on is can you move? Are you mobile? Do you have pain? Like can you reach straight up above your head? Can you squeeze your shoulder blades back?

Can you when you do movements and exercises? Do is your neck hurt? Are you tight? Yeah, you're always straining. Yeah, if you do movements and exercises, does your neck hurt? Are you tight? Are you straining your neck? Yeah, if you don't have any pain, you feel good, you're super mobile and you could do lots of different things and you're not weak or whatever. Well, that's the key term that you just said right there is your mobile and you may not be suffering to your point where you have neck pain, back pain,

or issues like that. But, and this is why we created Maps Prime. In Maps Prime, the zone one test that you take at home will point this out for you. And to address the point that you're making right now, Sal, which is you kind of just went right over it. But I think as important is do you have the proper mobility and range of motion that you should have in your shoulders, which is normally where if you have upper cross syndrome and you don't have pain going on and it's not you're not quote unquote suffering from it, you may be fine from that aspect but have horrific shoulder mobility.

And that's probably the most common common area. But in other words, you'll eventually suffer. Right. Yeah, that's right. So it's starting to suffer. It may not be causing issues now, but it inevitably will eventually cause issues. And the reason why I said right away that you have it, everybody has almost everybody has upper cross-num,

to an extent. And that's just because we do everything in front of us. You don't do anything behind you. We drive, we ride, we do things we eat, we do everything in this forward position. And I've still yet to meet somebody who sits at a dinner table or sits in their car and goes, oh, chest up, shoulders back. Everybody has to do something to plan to address it,

to counter the effects of upper cross syndrome, because it is so part of our everyday experience and reaching for things like you said, doing all these everyday activities, you have to create a plan for exercising in order to be able to support your body in better posture and everybody should think in that direction. Yeah, well a lot of people too, they have chronic pain, minor chronic pain

that they've had for so long. They don't even know. Yeah, so it's like, do you, do you suffer from, you know, upper cross syndrome? No, I feel fine. Like, okay, how did your neck ever get tight? Oh, yeah, yeah, by the end of the day, my neck gets tight. Yeah, headaches.

You get headaches, like tension headaches, I'm like, yeah, those kind of bothers me. Yeah, it's take a, yeah, an exaggeration. I'm fine. How do you feel when you throw a frisbee around or a baseball, oh, my shoulder starts to hurt, and it gets kind of sore, but. I get sick of it.

Yeah, so you gotta ask, and this, by the way, this is so common. Like as a trainer, when I would do a, you know, assessment, and I get it, I would always ask, like do you have any areas of pain or immobility? And almost always, they would say no, no, I have no pain. I feel good. They could take them through all the way.

Then I would take them through. I would say, get halfway. Then I would go piece by piece. I'd be like, okay, no pain, like, so shoulders. Do your shoulders ever bother you? Do you ever have any pain? Oh, yeah, sometimes what about your neck? Well, sometimes how about your knees? Well, my knee, my left knee, you know, that one gets We're the second. I think we're reans. This one really, you know, yeah, I didn't want to bring it up. Yeah, so so I mean if you have really bad Upper Cross syndrome. You probably have tight tight neck. Your neck probably gets real tight a lot of tension in your upper

Your upper trap, you know, kind lot of tension in your upper, your upper trap, you know, kind of neck area, you might get tension headaches. And you may notice shoulder problems when you try to play like conventional sports, like, you know, throwing a baseball or throwing a frisbee or, you know, maybe you reached up, you know, to grab something and then your shoulder kind of felt a little tweak. Those are common, uh, problem or just tightness in the upper back. Those are common problems or just tightness in the upper back. Those are common problems. Here's real easy without you having to go get maps

primed to like put your back against the wall and see if you can put your hands all the way up above your head touching the wall. Very few people do. But you're keeping your butt against the wall too. Yeah, keep your butt and back pressed against the wall. Lift your arms above your head. Straight back your head.

Yeah, can you put the whole back of your arm and back your hand just so you know before you do it and fail at it, most people should be able to do that. It's just, I mean, we're all so rounded forward that we've lost that ability to do that. How good that feels when you can achieve it. Oh, man, it's like, that's what everybody always expresses

once they go through that is just like this, this new feeling, your body almost rewards you and it's stacked properly and you're in good posture. Totally. And with that, go to mindpumpfree.com and download all of our resources and guides. They're all totally free. We have all kinds of stuff there from burning body fat,

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