Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 1211: The Truth About the Ketogenic Diet & Muscle Gain, Ways to Kickstart Growth in a Lagging Body Part, the Value of Taking Body Measurements & More.

Episode Date: January 22, 2020

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about traveling with supplements, the ketogenic diet and building muscle, what to do if you are plateauing in a specific body part, and whether taking body measurements is a waste of time. A great concept to get your kids into playing music. (6:12) Can listening to music help build the brains of premature babies? (7:41) Math and technology. (12:06) What is the Down Under Donation Dildo? (17:43) Cannabinoid 2-ag and its connection to relieving stress. (21:05) Tongue fat and its relationship to obstructive sleep apnea. (28:04) Does watching a movie qualify as light exercise? (31:13) Tesla’s will be farting soon. (33:13) The future of streetwear is here. (34:25) Solvable vs perpetual problems. (35:30) #Quah question #1 – Do you travel with supplements or do you just take the time off? (41:46) #Quah question #2 – What are your thoughts on the ketogenic diet in regards to building muscle? (48:21) #Quah question #3 - What should you do if you are plateauing in a specific body part? (53:00) #Quah question #4 – Do you recommend taking body measurements or is this a waste of time? (1:01:17) Related Links/Products Mentioned January Promotion: MAPS HIIT ½ off! **Code “HIIT50” at checkout** Loog Guitars Review: The Loog Guitar Is a Great DIY Way to Teach Kids Guitar Music helps to build the brains of very premature babies Sex toy company's 'Down-Under Donation Dildo' raises more than $15,000 for Australia bushfire relief Visit NED for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! The endocannabinoid system in guarding against fear, anxiety and stress Study Finds Tongue Fat Can Lead to Sleep Apnea Going to movie theater ‘counts as a light workout’ Here's all the ways you can make your Tesla fart Introducing the Nike Adapt BB - Nike News The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert - Book by John M. Gottman and Nan Silver Making Marriage Work | Dr. John Gottman Visit Organifi for the exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Code “mindpump” at checkout** MAPS Aesthetic – Mind Pump Abdominal Obesity Indicators: Waist Circumference or Waist-to-hip Ratio in Malaysian Adults Population 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 Defano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. In this episode of Mind Pump, we answer fitness questions and in the intro, we have fun. We talk about current events, our lives, we mentioned one of our sponsors. Here's what we talked about in this episode of Mind Pump. We started by talking about the three string guitar. I can't remember the name of it.

It's the Louge. There it is, Justin got one for his boy so his son can rock out. Yeah. Then we talked about, I talked about a study on pre-term babies and music. This study shows that having your baby listen to music matures their brain a little bit faster,

which is kind of interesting. Adam brought up the Down Under donation dildo, I guess somebody's put together a fake penis. However, help is provided. To raise money for the fires over there, I talked about the connection between the cannabinoid to AG, that's a natural cannabinoid, and stress, and that got us talking all about cannabinoid to AG that's a natural cannabinoid and stress. And that got us talking all about cannabinoids, like CBD and others.

I talked about how a follower solved her sleep paralysis issues by using full spectrum hemp oil from Ned. And then Adam talked about how it relieves anxiety for his dogs. He puts a little bit of the Ned full spectrum hemp oil in their dog food, and the dogs seem to settle down a little bit. Now Ned is a company that we work with. They make a hemp oil that's high in CBD, but also contains all the other functional cannabinoids,

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Then I talked about fat tongue. Apparently that's the reason why obese people have or more likely to have fat tongue. Sleep apnea. I talked about an article that said that watching a movie is as good as light exercise. If you think that's baloney, because it is. Adam brought up an article talking about how Tesla,

there's a program on there. I guess it can make it the car fart, which is kind of interesting. I think they're bored. We talk about the new Nike digital shoes. You can change it way they look with an app, which is kind of interesting. And then I brought up a segment on one of these books that I'm reading right now that talks

about solvable, solvable, excuse me, versus perpetual problems. Interesting part of the episode. Then we got into answering questions. The first question, this person wants to know, do you travel with supplements or do you just take that time off? So we talk all about supplements, their value, what they're good for, what they're not good for. And we talked about one supplement that we travel with almost all the time, which is

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Are you going to go stop and see a shawbiet orno? No, no. Oh, I wish. Yeah, no, no, no. No, no, my youngest birthday this weekend. Oh, it is. Oh, right. Yeah, we're taking him.

There's this new place that opened up kind of near a Costco or a rat. It's got climbing walls. It's got like a parkour thing, but it's all under black lights. So it's kind of an interesting concept. I don't know, like I've never seen anything like that. Sounds safe.

Yeah. Totally. It's risky. Just make sure you bring a clean shirt. I'm gonna grab the wrong one. Imagine showing up. You just got splotches. Oh, God. Oh, on your back, especially like your lower back. Guys, what splotches? Guys walking over this life and she's got a few of them on her. Oh, my God. Hey, Karen, you had a big weekend. Did you tell mom? Did you put lipstick on with a highlighter?

What is that? Yeah, so that's fun. Did you get him the guitar setup? Yes, you remember that. Yeah, I do remember that. What is this? So I got my oldest one of those luge guitars, which is like a three string guitar. It's like kind of set you up to learn the basics of chord structure and whatnot.

Has that been around forever? Or has that a new thing? I never knew that. This is like a, yeah, a new, Creasy startup company. And I actually read about them. I think it was like one of those like fast company or one of those kind of like entrepreneur magazine type,

you know, things. And so I found it and I was like, oh wow, cool because it's simple because the thing is, like before that I had them kind of mess around with ukulele because it's like four strings and so this was three but it also you tune it just like a guitar and then it has an app that coincides with it. So it makes it fun, engaging more like kid friendly.

And so this is a guitar that was invented to get, to kind of help people learn the guitar. So it's like, yes, training wheel. Literally. Yeah. Wow. It's a lot like when we saw the Strider bikes, you know, that don't have any pedals. It's kind of the same concept with a guitar.

What's it called? Luke L-O-O-G. Oh, dude. I didn't know that. Yeah, I actually wanted to reach out to them because I, it's a great concept. I think that anybody, any parent that has a kid that they want to give him into music I think this is a cool like a fun engaging because I mean kids do they they want something that's almost like a game Or they want something that's on your foot like so it kind of incorporates all that stuff

No, that's you know speaking of music I had this article that I wanted to share with you. It's the one I was asking you about Adam, when I was asking you how many weeks when Max was born? Yes, so they did this, there was a study that showed that he was really, he was a whole month on the dot. Really, yeah.

Okay, so they were showing that preterm babies, because now here's the thing with these statistics, there's stuff that needs to be teased out, but what they find with preterm babies, because when they do it, now here's a thing with these statistics. There's stuff that needs to be teased out, but what they find with preterm babies is that they're higher risk later on for attention deficit disorder and certain other things, right? So saying, okay, it doesn't have to do with brain development early on. And through this study, they found that having preterm babies listen to music, both to go to sleep, to relax, to wake up, they used music that was made from like fluids and acoustic instruments.

They found that that helps increase maturation of brain regions in the brain that preterm babies tend to not have as developed. So by having them listen to music when they're right afterwards, it accelerates their brain development. Oh, good. How awesome is that?

That is awesome. And you guys play music for all the time. That's so great. All the time. Yeah, it's kind of like when he comes. So first thing in the morning, this Katrina does this, like she'll, I get woken up and like,

here's your kid. You know, that's how she wakes me up in the morning time. Yeah. Because we're in the separate rooms, right? And she'll come You know, that's how she wakes me up in the morning time. Yeah. Cause we're in the separate rooms, right? And she'll come walking into, that's for her to go to get showers. She normally works me up about a half hour before I would normally get up and set some on, set some on.

But in the morning time, he's great. Like he's like super playful and fun. So I could be like half awake and like laying next to him and stuff. But like I love to grab in your cheeks. Yes. And like my beard, like he like now he's get the point where he's like, oh yeah, where's the, the, the, the wrap in your cheeks. Yes, in my beard, like now he's get the point where he goes.

Oh yeah, I'm gonna figure that out. Yeah, he's looking more and more like you by the way. You know, either at a pictures you're posting, it's starting to look like. Finally, I'm finally have, personally, have of course family and friends, it's, you know, it's hilarious. Like every time we see somebody, everybody from my side,

I feel like, oh my god, it looks just like you, everybody from Katrina side of the family. Oh my God, it looks just like you, everybody from Katrina side of the family. Oh my God, it looks just like Katrina. It looks nothing like Adam. Like so they're, you hear that all the time. And I've been like,

I'm like, I'm like, I don't know, I don't really see any of it yet. I feel like he's, because he's, he's changing a lot right now, especially in the last month or so.

And recently have I had moments where I feel like, oh wow, he looks like me now. I personally haven't really felt like that until right about now. Right about now, I see like, his cheeks and eyes all coming in. And there's photos of me and there's photo, and he looks a lot like my dad, my real dad,

when he was a baby. And so I've seen a couple photos of him and there's, I've got shots of him like looking up at me and I'm like, oh shit, he looks just like my dad. Oh yeah, he's such a cutie. Yeah, I started. But in regards to the study, the things about these types of studies you have to be careful with is they'll show like, you know, kids, you know, preterm are higher risk for, you know,

ADD or whatever. But it's hard to tease out, because I think a greater percentage of preterm kids are born in kind of stressful situations, whereas you guys had a very healthy, everything was very healthy or whatever. But I thought the music thing was pretty interesting because we've been speculating for a long time that playing music for babies helps the parts of the brain that process music,

which is a lot of the brain develop faster. That's always been a tale, you know, everybody said, but like, you kinda like, yeah, yeah, whatever. But playing classical music during those developmental, you know, years or, you know, the beginning stages of development, it seems to really pay off. Well, there are other studies that show that when kids learn music, they get better at math.

Yeah, they get better at doing math. Well, I've thought about this a lot actually because like the time signatures and the way that like the beats hit you And it's it's something that that is easier to enter your subconscious So it's like it almost like there's a rhythm and there's something to math. You're subconsciously counting Yeah, exactly. Yeah, you're subconsciously counting when you, if you can dance to a beat like you are, whether you think you are or not. It's like when you're talking about somebody throwing a baseball, you know,

it's like all these like calculations, the way that you have to kind of predict where to put your hands and all that stuff to react. Like I think it's, there's a lot there that can be received, you know, like, and you don't have to really consciously like focus on it. Was it one of you guys that talked about that? It was like a couple of years ago.

We brought that up when they someone read an article that said how much math the brain is doing just to catch a baseball. Oh, crazy. Yeah. Or to throw something in the accurate. Yeah. It's insane. Oh, it's crazy because, you know, especially to hit a moving target, humans, one of the

skills that we possess naturally better than any other animal is to throw with accuracy were the best at it. I mean, you could take a baby, you could take a child, have them throw at a target and they'll be more accurate than 99% of the animals that are out there. Then they hit a moving target and we became good at it, right? We have this overhand throwing position,

throwing spears at running animals. But if you do the math, the calculations that are required to know when to throw, how to time it, do you think that happened naturally? Do you think that's why quarterbacks tend to be one of the smartest guys in the team? There's something there, right? I'm just thinking about that.

Yeah. I mean, you can kind of react, and I don't know, because I have met some pretty dumb quarterbacks to I'm not gonna lie to you. I mean, there's exceptions maybe it's like the lower level, right? Like in order to get to the highest level, there's probably not really that many Corbett. They're usually the smartest guy on the on the team. Yeah, that usually don't they also run the plays and stuff They have to memorize all of that. They have to read defenses. And like to your point. So here's the thing that that's why I think they're so smart is,

you know, you've got to, you've got to know the place. You have memorized that. You have to know everybody else's responsibilities if you're the quarterback. So you don't just know what you're you need to do. I need to know. Here's my four wide receivers, my full back. I need to know where they're all going to be. And then, then to your point, I've also got to throw this ball on a moving target. And I'm also thinking about the defense and where they're positioned like so many variables. A lot of math going on. And I think to that point, they have the most homework. So it's like, they're the ones like constantly, they work the most.

You know, like, they're the ones that have to stay later, break down film, you know, analyze it, like relay that on to the receivers, to the linemen, to make sure everybody, yeah. But it's, I mean, I had a little bit of that on the defensive side, but it's not even near as complex as, you know, the quarterbacks response. So my daughter was on a field trip a couple days ago, and they went to NASA, and they had this,

and they had a great field trip, by the way, NASA's a great place to take, to do a field trip a couple of days ago and they went to NASA. And they had a great field trip, by the way. NASA's a great place to do a field trip because actually cater to the kids. And they have this like, this teeter-taughter-looking thing where one person sits on one end and another person sits on the other end. Then they spin it, not super fast. And then they have the kids trying to hit each other

with bean bags. So as it's spinning, they're trying to throw it at you. And what they're trying to illustrate is how difficult it is to launch a rocket that's on a spinning planet, to land on another spinning planet that's moving in an orbit or whatever. They were trying to explain,

and the math is insane. It's absolutely insane. And it's crazy when you think about how we were able to do this before modern computers. You know, we were able to do this before modern computers. We were able to do this back, and when we launched it, we put a man on the moon, the man of math required to calculate exactly how to, how to hit the moon in the right way,

or whatever land on it must just insane. What movie is that? That's a good movie. You just reminded me of the movie. It's, God, what's that called? Doug, do you know what movie I'm talking about? And it's, I watched a not movie. Yeah, yeah, and it's the one about the female

and she was like, and she was a mathematician. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Not signs, uh, uh, uh, you know what I'm talking about? No, the Jodie Foster was, no. Contact. Yeah, contact me. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. She's in the gyroscope.

It's way more recent than that. I can't think of it. No, you're talking about the women that were responsible for a lot of the calculations. Contact yeah contact no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no and they fought to get involved in it and they did and they made some of the greatest impacts on it. I can't think of the name of it. Yeah, now I never saw that. Yeah, now triple this. The hidden figures. That's it. Is that the name of it? Yeah, pull up the picture of it. I think that's what it was.

Hidden figures. Yes. I still like contact, though, so whatever. Contacts are good. Have you seen this one, Justin? No, have you seen it? If you haven't seen this movie, it's incredible. I mean, that's not the cover of it, is it?

That's no, but that's that it is that movie. That's a scene where she's talking. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, it's incredible. That's not the cover of it, is it? That's no, but it is that movie. That's a scene where she's talking. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, that's it. Good, yeah, I definitely want to check that. Really good movie. Well, and in Trip Off This, the computing power that you have in your phone is more than the computing power

that it took to put a man on the moon. Well, I think that's all of that combined. Isn't that what really spawned the conspiracy thing that we even landed on the moon well i think that all of that combined now what really spawn the conspiracy thing that we've been landed on the moon because it's like the math the the type of technology required for you to get there just doesn't seem plausible you know because like they had like barely like an apple to e that they're looking on the screen and like trying to make these mathematical calculations you know to get there it's a smart people you know, to get there. It sounds crazy. A lot of smart people. You know, when we were so motivated, the Cold War was a very interesting time

in American history. We had nukes pointed at us and pointed at them that would have destroyed the whole world. So we put a lot of money and effort into the stuff that we thought would make us, you know, beat them or look superior, whatever. So this whole, you know, NASA and getting out into space, getting out the satellites, getting out into the moon,

a lot of that was also to show the Soviet Union that. If we can do this, we can launch a rocket. It was literally capitalism versus communism. Okay. That was like the root of it all. Yeah, who won? Speaking of space. Boom!

Yeah, speaking of smart, did you see the down under Dildo? No. What? What? I just think, I mean, I think that's clever. I appreciate that transition. Yeah, no, right? Yeah, it was more and more people, you brought up Sal, I think it was Sal that brought up

a couple of days ago, the girl that was sending the nudes for donations. Donations for donations. She means like $100,000. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And these, I don't think they're that high. I think they're closer to like $30,000 to $50,000, but still $30, reads like $100,000. Yeah, yeah. And these guys, I don't think they're that high. I think they're closer to like $30,000 to $50,000, but still $30,000 to $50,000 in Dilldo. That's a lot of Dilldo.

Down under Dilldo. Yeah, yeah. What do you say? It's called a Down Under donation Dilldo, and it's 100% the proceeds are all going towards the fires, but I thought that was pretty clever. It's so giant kangaroo. That's ready to.

So it goes down under, help you. Now that I see some of this stuff popping up and I'm wondering if we're gonna continue to see you more and more, I'm really curious, and it doesn't matter because it's going to help, so who cares? But how many people are doing it because it's a smart business move? And how many people are doing it because they're true? We try to hold this thing, right?

They're opportunists. Okay, hold on a second. I gotta explain this. There's a koala move and how many people are doing because they're truly trying to hold this thing, right? Like, they're opportunists. Okay, hold on a second. I gotta explain this. There's a cool, there's a koala bear at the base of the dildo, the bottom of it, the bottom of it. Is she a... Yeah, it's the continent right there. Is shape like Australia?

That, I mean, you know, there you go. Isn't that great? It says, helping has never felt so good. So good. That means never felt so good. What good. It's never felt so good. What a great tagline. Great marketing. It's got the bushfire appeal.

Yeah, that's just so much there. Well, you're right Adam, because let's say 100% of the pros. Oh, 69,000, right? 69 dollars. Oh, no, no, no, no. Oh, how much it cost. Yeah, I read an article that said how much they had already donated. And it was, it's up there already.

How big is it as a talk? Any more in-you-indos, can you smash into this? I'm asking for a friend. It's, you know what, you're right, Adam, because let's say you make a product like this, right? And you don't, and it's to donate, and all the money, all the profits, go to donate. But now you have a bunch of customers,

emails and contacts and whatever, and the next product you come out with is something that you make money off. Right. It could be a very smart strategy. Oh, I think it is. Just wait for an after disaster. Well, I'm impressed with all the,

remember the whole prepper thing in the Aztec calendar and all that, like people are still making tons of money off of just like, you know, buying like excess like canned foods and like, you know, buying like excess like canned foods and like, you know, first aid kits and all this kind of stuff. Like, that's still a big thing. Yeah, it is. Do you guys have a earthquake kit?

Do you guys have all like stuff safe? Yeah, I have one. It's basically just a little mini survival kit thing. It's not that robust. Dude, I had bought a while ago. I had spent, I don't know, like 300 bucks on this buckets. There's like two buckets and they contain like these super high calorie, high density meals

that you could, you didn't need fire, anything to prepare. And when I got the buckets, I was like, oh cool, we got these at save them. And I looked at the ingredients, they're all dairy. I was like, dammit, if something happens, some happens, I'm gonna look at your brain. You're all dairy. I was like, damn it, if something happens, some happens, I'm like, you're alive, but diary. Oh yeah, I might survive, but I'm not gonna be very happy. Oh, my family won't be in the world

with no more toilet paper. Yeah, no! Yeah, how did you guys survive? I don't know how we survive with this guy's farts. Over here, anyway. I got a message from one of our listeners who used the Ned Hemp oil to cure. So this is an anecdote.

So I'm gonna preface this by saying, I'm not saying that this is a study that shows us works, whatever this is, somebody's actual anecdote. But this woman suffered from sleep paralysis. Do you guys know what that is? I mean, does it, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean. I feel like I'm kind of awake, but I'm not, but then like it feels like somebody's on my chest. Yes. So I've had that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And it's not just at that party, remember? Yeah. And it was that, one little. No, this is where you, you, you, that's the unmanchables. You wake up and you're half awake, you can hear what's going on around you, but you can't move. And then you get this feeling of immense impending anxiety and doom.

It's a very frightening feeling. I used to get it when I was a kid. It's also one of the reasons why I can lucid dream. So I could do lucid dreaming where I knew I'm controlling the, but, but part of the reason is because of that. When I was a kid, I'd get that a lot like halfway. It's awful, dude. And I felt like I couldn't move and it would scare the shadow me and I cry or whatever.

My mom will come, you know, tell me what happened or whatever anyway this woman has it And it's a shitty thing to suffer from as an adult she said taking the the hemp oil got rid of it Completely totally she just goes to sleep. She doesn't get in that halfway kind of limbo What is that a neurological thing like what's happening there? Well, so I was reading another study on a natural cannabinoid called 2AG. It's one of the cannabinoids that we produce naturally. They've connected it pretty well now to anti-anxiety effects, to lowering anxiety. In fact, they've done animal studies where they've eliminated the animal's ability to produce

this particular cannabinoid. Or some of my dogs. And really? Yeah, no, it's one of the main uses that I, how I use that aside from myself, when I occasionally use it, anytime that we travel, or if I know I'm having a bunch of people

or at the house and stuff, the bulldogs, I think it's a breed thing. I think they're already considered like dogs that have a lot of anxiety. They get super anxious, Bentley starts panning like crazy and like, I've noticed your dog's breathing real hard. Yeah, they just, they get like overly excited

and you know, one of the best things that I've found for him is doing that. What are you just putting in a dog food? Yeah, I just do like one full dropper of the, the hemp oil and I'll put it in their dog food or on a treat or something like that, soak it up and then. Now what do you notice? They just calm down?

Yeah, they're just calmer. They don't get as high strong. So, I mean, it doesn't sedate them or anything like that. It just... Yeah, it just seemed to be calmer. And again, it's anecdotal, like you said. Like, it's hard for me to measure that, like, how much is it affecting?

But, I mean, I know my boys, for a long time, I didn't have this at my disposal. Well, that's the number one reason why somebody would use a full spectrum hemp oil with CBD in it is for anxiety. By far, that's the top-selling reason why people get that. Do you think your dogs are like that because they're so empathetic? I notice your dogs are very good at feeling what's happening.

You know what I mean? They'll come up to you, they wanna be touched, they'll notice it for sad, they'll notice if you're whatever. That's what makes them anxious. Sure, I'm sure. Yeah, I mean, they're one of those, like I've had a lot of different breeds growing up

and of all the breeds that we've I've had, they for sure are the most connected to humans. Like I just feel like they have human personalities. It's really funny and compares. Like little kids. And I've had really smart dogs. Like we've had German shepherds before. We've had labs, retrievers, like,

and those are all like smart dogs and loving and compassionate whatever. But the bulldogs have like this, they have this real human-like personality that's really interesting to me. And they do, and they get things that will, they get irritated and piss them off. Like, they'll do that.

Like, they act out because of it. When we go, they remind me of like, little George Costanzas. And they're cute, but they're like, hey, and then the same token too, the baby comes in, I was concerned and worried, but man They just they've kind of fall right into suit and they they recognize right away that he's he's small and he's The video you posted of

Somebody was feeding Maximus something and he had some food on his like face or whatever and the dog is like so gentle He just goes up and kind of licks it off his face a little super, super gentle. Like he knows. Yeah, they know. He knows we're dealing with the basic. And the crazy part about that is that they're not gentle dogs. In fact, they're big and clumsy. And they accidentally can hurt you

because of how physical they can be, but they do. They're real docile around him. And it's like they know, you know? So it's cool. How do they respond when he cries? So it's a trip when he you know, so it's cool. How do they respond when he cries? So it's a trip, when he cries, especially if we do this, when he cries at night, when we're putting him down, we do the 10 minute cry method,

so we let him cry for 10 minutes, and the boys will go upstairs. If Katrina and I all be downstairs, we're watching him on the monitor and kind of watching the time, like okay, we'll go up here in a few more minutes, but the dogs will go up and sit at the door. Oh wow.

Yeah, yeah, they'll go up there and sit at the door. Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah. They'll go up there and sit at the door like to let us know like, hey, something's wrong or something's up and they'll just sit there and wait. And then they'll come in the room while you're trying to calm them down and they'll just be sitting by his crib watching. That's so great. I don't know how people can argue there's not a hierarchy of animals. There really is.

I mean, dogs are on a whole different level. I told you, Courtney's already pulling my leg to try and get another one, to try and help calm my dog down because he's just like a Tasmanian devil of energy. Would you get another same breed? No, no, but we're, I mean, that would be a lot to him. Yeah, but I mean, if they, you do kind of need one that will, you know, stay with him in terms of like the energy. Like, if we're gonna let him loose and like, I want them to play and like, wear each

other out. Like that's the ideal goal for it. If that was going to be a thing and it's like, I can, if she can kind of work her, you know, sail skills on me and like, you know, it's going to take a while. My sister, my sister had one, the whimeriner with weener dogs, dude. And they were great. I saw that. They were a great match, which actually is what gave Courtney the idea.

So thanks Cassie. Yeah. Yeah. I love those. Yeah, but you're better off with a little tiny. Oh, you're right. Yeah. It's like that's for sure.

No, I'm to have one that sort of, that's the thing. I'm like, maybe having one that's sort of chill will kind of like feed off of that. And then one crazy one chill one crazy. You know, who knows. Yeah, Jessica and I are so opposite when it comes to, I like small dogs and she likes massive huge dogs. Oh, really? She loves a key does.

Yeah, like big. She likes massive, massive. Oh, wow, she likes the big, big dogs. Yeah, she likes the big horse dogs and I'm like, that's it. Yeah, we'll see about that. It's a great, great day and see those are awesome. Anyway, I was reading an article on obesity

and its connection to, what is that sleep disorder when people wake themselves up because they can't breathe? Yeah, sleep apnea. So you guys know how obesity is connected to sleep apnea. And oftentimes you go to the doctor and you say, when they do the sleep test on, you say, okay, you have sleep apnea. Pretty much assume you have it in your obese.

They'll tell you to lose weight. And for a while, it's been speculated like, why is it that being overweight causes sleep apnea? Is it the extra weight on the chest? Just the body fat in general around the neck, like what is it? They've identified exactly what it is. You guys want it exactly in enlarge uvula? No.

Fat tongue. Fat tongue. Yes. Oh, see, I. No. Fat tongue. Fat tongue. Yes. Oh, see, I was close. You actually gained body fat. I didn't know this. No way. You block the airway.

You gain fat on your tongue. And so they've identified that that's the problem. Really? Yes. I wanna see fat people's tongues now. Yeah, no, I know. I'm curious. And it makes me, you know how you have like your disposition to gain body fat

in particular is like some people might be. I would not consider that. Yes, that's weird. 100%. I would have not considered that either. That's interesting. I didn't realize, you know what? And of course it makes sense when you say that.

So look what it says in this article, reducing tongue fat via weight loss, maybe an effective sleep effect. So maybe get liposuction on your tongue. Or start doing those like, you know, those folding tongue things. Can you do that? Can you do that. So maybe get liposuction on your tongue, or start doing those folding tongue things. Can you do that, can you do that? Can you get liposuction on your tongue? I don't think so.

Why not? I mean, maybe I need an exercise program with it. If it gets fat like anything else, why couldn't you suck some of the fat out? You might be able to, but I mean, you imagine doing liposuction on a tongue, especially in the back,

because you know how long your tongue is long, you think it is. Like that could, that would be a tough recovery. Lipos violent, bro. You ever watch a video on lipos? Yeah, I know it's discussing it with a dude. It's a fucking, they're not gentle. They don't give a shit.

No, yeah. It is a shit. It is a violent, just creates a lot of damage in the body. I watched this video while I make the open. And now this is a recent discovery, because I've never heard this. Yes, do you think this is pretty recent? Yes, yes.

Wow. Isn't that funny? You know what? I'm really curious to see the things that come out now to help it, right? Like you're probably going to see these mouth guards that like pin your tongue down or hold it in a certain position or there's got to be some stuff like that.

Now they're going to come out with spot reducing tongue exercises. You know what I'm saying? Try this exercise, you know, strengthen your tongue. I remember I remember the tongue, I wonder what percentage, you know, of your tongue fat goes up when the rest of your body fat goes up. Like is it a direct, you know, connection to, of you increased 10% body fat at least,

1% higher in your tongue? You know what I just thought about right now? Have you guys ever heard people, okay, have you ever heard someone talk? You don't even need to look at them and you could tell the robies. Because they have a, they sound like they have a fat tongue. Biggie was like that. Listen to Biggie, listen to his songs, and you don, and you know, you can hear he has a fat tongue. Yeah.

You know what I'm talking about? I was just thinking, because it was the huskiness. You know, like the big barrel chest. All right, another article for you guys. This one, let's see if this annoyed you as much as it annoyed the shit at a main. So here's the title,

here's the article headline itself. It says that watching a movie at the theater qualifies as light exercise. Qualifies as lighting because you had to get there from the parking lot. No, dude. This is this is the kind of stuff because of the stress that could go up and down because it like makes it like here's here's what it here's what the the the so this is researchers pretending to be the people on the screen. Yeah, reason those people watching the movie so researchers at the university college London came to that conclusion because they

studied 50 people they put biometric sensors on them to track their heart rate all while watching the movie Aladdin 2019 remake of Aladdin. Wow. For 45 minutes of the movie, the viewers heart rates rose 40 to 80% higher Then their maximum normal resting heart rate and they said that hey, that's that's like do you know equivalent to doing exercise Yeah, it's not it's not equivalent to doing exercise. We are our heart rate went up We're on our way to Wally. It's happening If I say for justifying that already everybody's like well, wow, if I just watch eight hours of movies a day

That's like two hours of exercise Yeah, or you're you put your piss off your wife chase scenes, you know like I got my card You didn't argument with your wife afterwards like look babe. It's at least we worked out what we're just pissed off Who who puts together something like that? Well, that was a University of college. It was a University of London or Hollande University of college University college. at University of London or in Holland, or in the New York University. University College, London. Are we really there now? We're at a thing to study that much that we're doing things like that.

It's so sweet. It does it. So you can't. It put money into this. You can't equate the effects of exercise to your heart rate. I mean, that's part of it. But just because your heart rate went up, I could give someone caffeine, the heart rate goes up,

or whatever, are they burning more calories tiny bit because of the beating heart, but it's not gonna make a difference. Here, do you, you know, weird. Tesla will be farting soon. Huh? Yeah. Wait, what?

Yeah, Google that, Douglas. Tesla Farts. What? Yeah, the like the new Tesla car is gonna be able to fart. From the down under, deal, to the Tesla Farts. Yeah, I'm enjoying this. I enjoy this. Why would they program it? Tesla to do Tesla Farts, I don't know. I'm enjoying this. I'm enjoying this.

Why would they program it? A Tesla to do this. I have no idea, dude. I have no idea. And I saw too an article on Alexa, Alexa in the new Lamborghini, but the Tesla farting thing I thought was interesting. So like the car is gonna make a farting noise.

Is that what you're talking about? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, it's the softwares in a joke. Yeah. Because, dude, remember they had the thing where it had like a whole choreography where like the doors would go up, I'd spend a dance, play the music, and they're all excited about that.

And you're like, what do you guys do? A lot. Emissions mode changes, the Tesla's turn signal tone to a fart. They just got time on their hands. I love this. It's like an Easter egg. Every time you go to turn, dude. I mean, you know, they're just having fun.

The different speed settings when they first came out with them, you know what the fastest one one's right? Louder Chris Speed. Yeah. You know that right? Yeah, I remember that. That's funny. Like an ode to space balls.

No, no, it's clever for sure. So that, so on the lines of tech things like this, did you guys hear about the new Nike shoes that will be able to, they'll be digital? I forget, I wish I knew the name of them. I don't remember the article where I read it, but I know these are coming if they're not out already where you are gonna have an app connected to your sneakers

and you'll be able to change the design of them. It'll be like an LED screen and you'll be able to change the design of them. It'll be like an LED screen and you'll be able to. So it's got LED sort of woven in to the shoe? What? That's cool. Yeah, yeah. Wow, that's really cool. Maybe look at Digital Shoes Doug or some of that.

What movie was it where people were doing that? It was a sci-fi movie where someone could just back the future. They changed the shirt color. Every time they touch it, it was back to future. It it was those walls wally too but I think so yeah what's it called night night key adapt yeah and I think that you can just like I think right now they have it to where you'll be able to change like patterns but I mean just this opens the door for the future of what turn them into a

detest if you want that would be a funny hack though right if you're a hacker yeah jokes on you that looks really cool that looks really cool anyway I'm already hacked though, right? If you're a hacker. I'm joking. I'm joking. I'm joking. That looks really cool. That looks really cool. Anyway, you guys know I've been listening to that book, the one by Dr. John Gottman, the rules to successful marriage, something like that, seven rules to successful marriage. There was a really good topic he brought up in that book that I thought would be good to talk to you guys about.

He talked about one of the biggest problems and relationships is determining whether or not you have a problem that's solvable or you have a perpetual problem. So like, you and your spouse are arguing over something, is this something that's a solvable problem? Or is it rooted in something much deeper? Like if you have have difference in values. Yeah, like, or like, hey, you don't help me,

you don't help me clean around the house enough, can you help me out a little bit? Is that rooted in me feeling like you don't respect me, you don't value me, or is it just, hey, let's clean up the house and then you help out a little bit? And so in the book, what he says is, with perpetual problems, the key to success is to, is acceptance. It's to just, you gotta find a way to be okay

with these perpetual problems because they're never gonna go away. And one of the hallmarks of a perpetual problem is this an argument that you have, is it an ongoing, all couples have them, right? The same argument that we argue about all the time. And it's like, at some point, you gotta just kind of accept it. Are you gonna always let it bar the you?

Yes, yes, yes. You guys ever hang around old couples that have been together for a long time? Totally. And notice how they do that? They have perpetual problems. They're like, hey, whatever. I mean, I don't, I mean, I don't think I'm an old couple,

but I mean, Katrina and I have been together long enough now 10 years where there's just certain attributes about the other person that you just accepted. It's like, it's not your favorite trait, but it's like whatever. You know what I'm saying? It's like, for everything else, you're going to get scolded for that. Yeah, you make it for doing it anyway. It was Katrina because she's, you know, she has a lot of tomboy attributes, which I love. Like, I love that I can watch football with her. I love that she can talk shit.

I love all these things. Well, she's kind of like messy like a boy sometimes, dude. You know, and that's like, try, and I'm super neat, and I like everything, but it's like, okay, you know, because I have to come behind her sometimes and put her curling iron away. Is that, is that a deal breaker for me? Yeah, you just accept that that's part or a fucking higher made, you know, I'm saying, it's just like, okay, well, I'll just budget out for that. That I'm gonna. Yeah, you just accepted that's part or I fucking hire a maid. You know what I'm saying? Just like, okay, well, I'll just budge it out for that that I'm going to have somebody come behind us all the time and clean because she's not that way.

Because I've been on the other side of the fence within a relationship where, you know, I have a girlfriend that has that's super clean and needy. And she's on me about even being needy and it's like, it's not that big of a deal. You know what I'm saying? If she's fallen short on the other areas.

So yeah, there's certain things like that. I think that's what makes a healthy relationship. I think that's also why two people should date for an extended period of time before you decide you're gonna marry someone because some of these types of things don't really start to surface until you get a far-away.

Well, so that's a long- There's a long stage in a relationship where you're pushing and fighting each other over these perpetual issues, where it's like a power struggle. And the other end of it, which is, if you succeed is you're okay with them. You just accept them. I'm forgetful. I'm forgetful as hell.

I'm very disorganized. And it's just, I work on it, work on it, work on it, and I've had this conversation many times with Jessica and I'm like, I'm always gonna work on it, but who you know now is me already worked on it for the last 20 years. I'm not much better it's gonna get. So she's accepted a lot of it,

but it can be annoying. Well, I think what makes a really good partnership too is when you see those traits and and you accept not only do accept it But you recognize that maybe that's a strength that you have and then that other partner can also relieve themselves that like to your point on the same way So like but they're organized right and she's really organized and instead and I know that could probably annoy other people But instead like she kind of steps up to the plate and kind of keeps the household organized and me on top of things and schedules and stuff like that. And I totally let go of it and be like, you know, you own that. And I'm okay with being told, like, hey, you got to be here tomorrow. No, next Friday, you can't do that. We've got this going on

because I know that, listen, I'm not going to fight you on those things because I let you own that area. So a really good partnership. I feel like, you know, you, you, you on those things because I let you own that area. So a really good partnership, I feel like, you recognize those faults and maybe it's because you have a strength there and then the partner kind of. It's crazy, right? Because it's like, we try so hard to change the other person when in reality the answer sometimes, not always, but sometimes is to change yourself.

Not change them, but change how you perceive it and how you can accept it. Anyway, great book, I'm still and how you can accept it. Anyway, great book. I'm still a book. What book is it? It's the one by Dr. John Garne. No, I'm on the show. Yeah, I know. I know you. That's weird. Oh God. If we could, I've been working on trying to, but I don't think he does any of it. It's called the seven principles for making marriage work. And it's based off of, you know, decades of research that has been duplicated. So behavioral studies, it's very hard to duplicate studies.

They have a low rate of being able to do that. But his studies have been duplicated several times. And through his research, they're able to predict whether or not a couple will be together or not with something like 90% accuracy by just listening to a five minute conversation. Now, are you reading this or is Jessica reading this? You read it together or are she telling you about it? She should know, she read it okay I'm in the middle of still going through it yeah and it was that video

remember that video I sent you guys yeah I don't know if you watched it I know you Courtney and I watched it together it was great and it was just brilliant because some of the stuff that they say in there is counter to what you think you know what you've heard in the past like no you're supposed to compromise everybody's supposed to do, and he's saying, look, for some issues, that's not gonna happen. For some issues, you just accept it. Or, yeah, that, or you weren't meant to be.

Or that, right? If you can't accept it, then you're not meant to be. Right, right, exactly. So. 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 organic superfoods

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when I travel than when I don't. You do, you just get a great travel pack. He breaks out one of those 10 gallon or five gallon Ziploc packs and he's got a travel pack. He breaks out one of those 10 gallon or five gallon ziplock packs. He's got like all these. I'm waiting for the time that we get stop talking pharmacy, stuff the air for. No, I do too, because actually we can count on you

probably to have everything. Personally, I would say the one that I most, because things like creatine and performance stuff are known to take you to, no, I don't even worry about bullshit like that. But I'd say there's two probably. My vitamin D and then probably are or organified green juice.

Yeah. Mainly because I know I need to be pretty consistent with my vitamin D. That's already tough for me as it is. So that's a consistent one that I bring. And then the green juice because it's very, very rare that one I'm traveling. I have a hard time at home,

getting enough of my greens in on a regular basis. When I'm traveling, it's almost guaranteed I'm not going to. Yeah, exactly. I'll do greens, also do like elderberry or something to help boost the immune system. Like that's something I'm always conscious of, like just traveling and being in the same fart boxes everybody else and like breathing all that same air and everybody's like bacteria. They're just slinging out there in the so I've got one for you then if that's what you do I a little hacks since you know we fly so much

I now take the green juice and and then the immunity from them and I mix them and I've freaking before I get on the plane. How's that taste? It's not bad at all. Yeah, I mean the green's great. The meat is a little, anyways. No, not at all worse. Yeah, it's fine. I mean, it's not like fucking, you know,

your favorite pink lemonade or some shit, but we've done a lot worse. No, because when I travel, the two things that I consider are sleep, because sleep is always off when you travel. It's harder to go to bed, we tend to go to bed later. Usually if we're traveling there's a lot of excitement going on, especially if it's for work. So I know by the time I lay down it's going to be hard to get my mind to kind of wind down. And then the other one is vegetables, like you said, Adam, really, really hard to get good quality vegetables when you eat out.

And if you do get vegetables either fried or covered in not even real butter, it's usually some kind of whatever oil. So you get a small amount, too. And you get a small amount. And for me, I need to have a certain amount of greens for digestion and just to feel good at whatever. So I do the green juice very regularly when we travel.

And then I do the gold juice tonight for the sleep, to help with the sleep. Or I'll also take melatonin. Melatonin, I don't like to use on a regular basis, but occasionally I'll use it when I'm traveling. And then I'll use it when I get back. Melatonin's a great way to get your circadian rhythm back and check.

So you take it like a decent, like a 1 gram, a milligram, I should say, dose right before you go to bed, or an hour before you go to bed. I'll do the CBD pen. That's what I like. Yeah, that's what I like. It helps me sleep actually.

But yeah, if you're traveling for less than a week, or a week, I mean, you know, you don't really need to take more. Well, here's the thing, we've talked about this before at Nazia. It's supplements are such a small piece of the pie in the first place. It doesn't fucking make that big of a difference. So to travel with, to me, performance supplements

is kind of silly to me to travel. It's just like whatever. But I think I see some value to somebody who knows they have a deficiency somewhere. Like, for example, my vitamin D, it's like something I need on a daily basis. So I don't know, I feel like that makes sense to take something like that. And I think that if you know how better your digestion is and how you feel when you're regular with your vegetables and greens,

and if you know you're probably not, I see value in that. But you know, creatine, branch chain amino acid, fucking protein shake stuff, it's like, you're traveling, you're trying to maintain more than anything else. You're trying to like progress forward. You should have seen how I used to travel. Oh my God. No, I was, I was about six pack bag. No, I would have, I would have all my protein powder

servings. I'd have pre-workout servings. I've had amino acid. So and because the containers of those things are so big, I couldn't bring them in the containers. So it was basically just bags of powder. And many of them are white. You know?

I just picture you put all the powder in your mouth and then trying to put water in after. Oh, yeah. And I'd write on the bag like BCAA, you know what I mean? Well, I mean, I guess it really depends where you are too. Like for, I think for all of us, we're at in our life and fitness goals and stuff like that. It's not that big of a deal, right? Even if I, I mean, we just, we went on vacation

and I didn't train once, like, and it's not because I couldn't. I mean, I totally could have made the time and effort to just, I didn't give a shit. I was with family and friends, that never happens. I can't think of any other time in my life where we've had 22 people that were all very close friends or family of mine, all in one house together for a week. And, you know, like I sucked up every bit of that time

and enjoyed every bit of it. And honestly, like going to the gym for an hour, totally doable and could have been done. But, you know what? I valued more of that one hour that could have taken to go to the gym of more time with those family members to me. And, you know what I'm saying?

And, absolutely today, what I look like, I'm falling way off in my eyes of what, you know, what I look like and feel like when I'm really a shape, but I'm not healthy anymore. I'm like, I'm a little softer than what I was two weeks ago or three weeks ago, but it ain't nothing that I can't get right back to within about a week or two of like dialed in.

No, that's a good point. And I think it's important that you look at what the real value is of a vacation. Is the value of a vacation to, you know, go after my fitness goals? Maybe, you know, it's competing. Yeah, maybe something different. I know some people who love to exercise when they travel

because it's when they have the time to exercise as much as they want. But for me, when I go on vacation, the value is the people around me enjoying the environment, what I'm doing. Now, if I travel with Jessica, we both work now, oftentimes what we'll do in travel is a couple days, we'll wake up early to go work out,

but that's part of the vacation fun for us. But yeah, I agree with you. I think if you're on a trip, you know, because I've always had clients, I'm like, what do I eat? What do I do? And I go, just don't go crazy, but don't be an asshole. Yeah, just go enjoy yourself.

And that's what it's all about. 100%. Next question is from Shane O'Mack, 716. What are your thoughts on the ketogenic diet in regards to building muscle? I so ketogenic diet has certain benefits for for some people one of them is not Packing on muscle. It's actually a difficult can you build muscle on a ketogenic diet? You can I've done it way harder toohydrates make building muscle a lot easier.

You get your stronger, you get better pumps, and I just don't build as much muscle in ketogenic. It's hard to eat enough calories to gain muscle. That's the thing. I think this answer to this really depends on the person, right? Like Katrina puts on muscle pretty well, harder for her to lose body fat. She does phenomenal on the ketogenic diet. She does great.

She packs muscle on, she leans out at the same time, she loves it. For me, it's the opposite, but I'm also the, I fall in the camp of people that struggled to build muscle most of my life. That's struggled to get enough calories and eating a diet that's high in fat and moderate protein, which are both very satiating. It was really tough. And I tried this. When we, a couple of years back,

depending on how far back you've listened to the show, we talked all about the ketogenic diet right when it was first starting to get popular and we all decided to do it. And I thought it was a really good experiment, especially for someone like me who was at the time eating like, you know, 400 to 600 grams of carbs every day, because it would be such a shift for me. And I saw lots of great benefits that I noticed. But one of the things that I struggled with was to try and put size on, to put mass on. And it was mainly because I just, I didn't have the, I just had a really hard time eating at that,

and at that time my, my, my calorie maintenance was around, you know, 4500 calories. That's a lot of calories to get through, you know, eating healthy fats all day long. A lot of fat. Yeah. You you know, eating healthy fats all day. A lot of fat. You were eating like 300 grams or something like that. And that's what I found myself doing.

I was like, this can't be ideal. It can't be ideal for me to be eating all of this butter and macadamia nuts and, you know, just to try and hit this calorie intake. Yeah, it was silly. Honestly, like, I'd, you know, start out trying to go through ketogenic and it's, I mean, to be completely transparent honest, I found the carnivore diet even easier than that.

Because it's, I mean, it's very straightforward. It's like meat that, you know, because then I'm not like so concerned about like, well, I'm going over my protein amount. I'm going under, you know, over my protein amount, I'm going over my carbohydrate amount, there's like this, like seeking out fat is very challenging in terms of like the selection that's out there and is provided. But I mean, if you pull it off, it's great. There's obviously other benefits to it that I think people probably want to focus on a little bit more

in terms of like the neuroprotective part of it, the lower information, like things like that. Yeah, that's why I'll do keto sometimes. If I go ketogenic, it's not to improve my performance or build muscle, it's to reduce inflammation and feel mentally sharper. That's what ends up happening. So ketogenic diets characterized

by very, very, very low carbohydrates, high fat intake, moderate protein intake. And because you don't have carbohydrates in your diet, your body produces what are called ketones from fat, either the fat that you consume or from your body depending on if you're a deficit or not in terms of calories. And those ketones are used for energy. And when the body uses ketones, you feel some people or most people tend to feel sharper

and they tend to have more level amounts of energy. And there's also an anti-inflammatory effect. Now, as far as muscle building is concerned, it's very tough. I've done this, I've had clients do this, and it's just hard. I just, you just build more muscle with carbohydrates. You're stronger with carbohydrates.

This is actually a fact. Now, unless carbohydrates bother you and don't react to you, there's always individual, you know, individuals that don't react to you, there's always individual, you know, individuals that don't fall within this, but generally speaking, carbs also make you stronger. So for bulking or building muscle, unless the ketogenic diet, here's how the ketogenic diet could help you build muscle, if it's the healthiest diet for you. So if you have, if carbohydrates don't work well with your body for whatever reason,

if you get really inflamed, your digestion's off and just doesn't work, then you'll probably build more muscle on a ketogenic diet. But if you're okay either way, keto is not the best for muscle building. Next question is from Tre Bell official. What should you do if you are plateauing in a specific body part? So without being able to look at your workout

and specifically see what you're doing, I'll give a general kind of answer. Generally speaking, the thing that you would do if a body part is not responding is to train that body part a little bit more with a little bit more volume, a little bit more frequency and prioritize it in your workouts. Okay, so let's talk about those three first.

More volume. You're going to do more sets of exercises for that body part than you will for your other body parts. And by the way, you can't don't bump the whole body up with extra volume. It might be too much for your body to handle. And again, we're trying to get a lagging body part to catch up. The second one is frequency.

If you're training that body part twice a week, try training it three days a week. That's an easy way to add the volume too. So you got an extra day now of exercises and stuff like that. And then prioritizing it, train it first in the workout. That's a big one, you know, if it's your biceps, I almost never recommend people hit their biceps

before they hit their back, but if you've got great back development in your biceps a week, hit the biceps. Don't you think, too, there could be a neurotic component to this? Like somebody that's like, oh my God, I gotta grow my biceps. And then they're always doing like the same machines

and they're always doing the same, you know, isolating type exercises and not ever considering that just doing pull-ups, you know, would have a better effect to them as well. Well, we, Shane was plugged, but this is why we created Maps Black. Maps aesthetic is designed this way. It's designed for somebody to follow the program to choose one or two lagging body parts, or stubborn, whatever you want to look at it, or plateaued in,

and it's programmed for you on how we would attack it. Now, with my experience in what happens to most people, including myself with things like this, is you have a stubborn body part. Let's talk about my calves for being one of those areas. And it really just, and to Salis point, it wasn't a priority. It's like very few people train their three to four days a week, every single week consistently, never miss a day, go for a month straight in a row. And what ends up

happening is life happens, you get sick, you just skip a few days and go back to gym. What I would do in my early 20s is when I come back, I always started with my favorite muscle group. Where as I got older and I cared more about trying to balance my physique out in symmetry, I would always start back. So let's say you do like a body parts split where it's legs one day chest and back,

then arms and shoulders or whatever. And you hit, you know, day one, day two, day three. And let's say day one is legs. And let's say that's your lagging body part. You hit legs on Monday, then you go to Tuesday, you hit Wednesday, you hit, and then you have a two day break. You just fall off, you got a consistent, you could make the gym. And then you, most people pick up where they left off in their routine. I would never do that again. I would reset back to legs again. If I ever took a little, even a short break,

I'd always start back over at the muscle group that I'm repyroortizing. So that way, I'm the total volume in a month. I'm always getting it what I at least bear minimum need or scaling up for the body part that I'm trying to prioritize. I think that really helps. Yeah, and you know what? If people are really honest with themselves, often times that lagging, weak, or body part is one that

historically you just didn't train as much as the rest of your body, you know? Maybe now you're worried about the fact that your, you know, your back doesn't match your chest, but for the first, you know, three, four years of your training, you bench press all the time, you almost never didn't back exercises. So you have to be very honest with yourself. Oftentimes, in my experience, a week or body part is just due to that. It's due to the fact that, well, you actually never really trained this body part like you did some of your favorite body parts. I wanted to ask you Adam because I know that when you were competing, you went through a series of body parts for you, right?

Well, were they? Very first one was my shoulders when I was doing a show. The second one was my back, then my third one was calves. So that was kind of the order during just during that window of competing where I like, okay, after each show, I would assess my physique and I'd look at the body part that either one that judges said something to me or two that I thought needed to come up more and then I would program it that way, which is what inspired the

program that we wrote. I mean, it's literally how I did it. But yeah, I mean, starting your whole workout with your weak body part, I bet you most people with a weak body part don't do that. Oh, yeah, no. I mean, how many people, like, when we get to the respond, when, when calves became that for me, right? And it was a total shift for me. Never. Did I ever go to the gym and it was, and calves was the first thing that I did. I go over and do the two, three exercises for that and then go to the rest of my, and I just was consistent about it. And, you know, it's hard to be consistent with that when life happens when you have not enough time that day,

or you miss a day, but when it's a lagging body part and you're really trying to bring it up. So I still do this now today with like my legs, because my legs are behind on the rest of my body part. And so if like just we just had a break where, you know, we were, I was off for over two weeks. I don't even remember what I left off on,

but it doesn't matter, I'm starting with legs. It's late and bare minimum, even if I don't do anything else. And what might happen like this week, you know, I got into the gym, I lifted one day so far, I planned a lift today, all due legs again today. So like if I, I'll definitely make sure I'm not missing the area that needs the most development

when I'm coming to the gym even inconsistently. And that's just, you just gotta focus that one. Yeah, I think too, I definitely agree with you guys both. In terms of lagging, body parts, but in terms of reading this, like it's just a plateau that they're reaching within a specific body part, they've been trying to address, I think, just a change of stimulus,

you know, a lot of times which we harp on all the time. I mean, that's like, we're just like, trying to make sure we stay ahead of that by, you know, creating that in the programming of it. So the programming in itself is very crucial to then, you know, being able to bust through a lot of these pitfalls that you didn't get in there. You're totally right.

I know the angle, so the angle you're going is maybe you plateaued in this body part because you've been doing the same reps, same set or the same exercise. You just focus on volume or whatever, but it's the same stimulus. No, that's an excellent point. And sometimes I think we just assume that everybody who's listening is also following all the maps programs, which isn't

true. Yeah. A lot of people are doing their own thing and they're just taking our advice. Again, the route, if that's what makes the programming so special is you've got the three of us that with all the years experience, think ahead for you that have sat down and programmed it. So these type of issues don't happen to you. And in a perfect world, you are. You're moving from one maps program to another maps program. You're kind of transitioning in and out all the time. And if we've done a good job of creating those programs,

you really shouldn't hit hard plate toes in certain muscle groups. The other thing that we didn't say or address that could also be a possibility. And the most common one that comes to mind when I think of this is like your butt is just a poor neurological connection to it. So sometimes you could be doing like, and I would see this a lot like with female clients of mine that are trying to develop their butt and they're doing lots of volume and lots

of butt exercises. But because they don't have a good connection there, what ends up happening is the legs just keep developing, and they're not getting a lot of development in their butt, which is their goal. So this also could be an area, because I don't know what body part we're talking about right now. It's less likely if it's biceps, right, that you have a poor connection to your biceps, most people. But if it's like lats or chest or blood.

Yeah, if it's lats, if it's calves, if it's butt, these are areas that it is kind of common that some people have a poor connection there. And that could also be an area that needs to be addressed. And that's, you know, heading in the maps prime type of area where you're focusing on that type of stuff. Next question is from caffeine and counseling. Do you recommend taking body measurements or is this a waste of time? I actually like body measurements more than the scale.

And the reason why I like body measurements more than the scales, because oftentimes you get a client that you'd be training for a little while and the scale wouldn't move that much, maybe a couple pounds and they're like, wow, you know what, everybody keeps telling me, I lost a lot of weight, like how is this possible? The scale only says two pounds. I feel like I'm a lot lean weight, like how is this possible? The scale only has two pounds.

I feel like I'm a lot leaner, like what's happening? Is that a measure? I'm gonna show them. You lost two inches here. You lost three inches there. Muscle is dense and fat is less dense. And so a pound of muscle takes up less space than a pound of body fat.

Measurements will show you what's going on when the scale may show you nothing's going on. Yeah, it's both sides of that, right? I have a muscle gain goal. Like it's going to show like the muscles if they're actually growing. Like that's a tangible thing that you can kind of lean on or whether or not like you're addressing your body fat issues like in certain areas of your body. It's just another piece of feedback.

Right. It's a metric. It's another, aren't personally, maybe when I was really early years I started to, the I don't want to be a part of it. I don't want to be a part of it. I don't want to be a part of it. I don't want to be a part of it. I don't want to be a part of it. I don't want to be a part of it. I don't want to be a part of it. I don't want to be a part of it.

I don't want to be a part of it. I don't want to be a part of it. I don't want to be a part of it. I don't want to be a part of it. I don't want to be a part of it. I don't want to be a part of it. Shrinking in. Yeah, they all shrank an inch and everybody thought I was more jacked and I was just like, well, what the fuck? You know, so why am I taking all why do I care if my biceps go up one more inch if I create the illusion? I so I don't know I But I I'm the big tracker guy like I'm all about tracking everything and I think the more metrics you have The the better insight you have on your body and I see lots of value to all metrics

Especially early on. It's just high. I mean, I honestly, every client that I had like going forward at one point, I'm like, I just wanna aggregate as much information as possible, so it's reference, you know, points of reference. And it doesn't need to be brought up constantly.

Does it need to be a neurotic thing that I'm always like trying to hammer and address? It's just something that like, well, let's go back and let's refer. But let's see where we've come. If this is a question or something that's popping up, I do have sufficient data to then pull from. Well, as far as singular pieces of information that can predict your health or predict health

problems, by the way, no single piece of information is perfect. that can predict your health or predict health problems. By the way, no single piece of information is perfect. You wanna look at a lot of different piece of information to get a good picture. But if you had to pick one, one of the better ones is actually waste measurement, just measuring your waste. They find that your health is at risk in men

if your waste measures over 37 inches and for women about 31 and a half inches or more. Oh, interesting. Yeah, and they've found that's pretty strong correlation. I know Doug, you know, when I train Doug, and Doug, do you still do that every morning? Were you way up? I do.

I don't like what I see right now. I care. I care. I care and see it significantly lower than 37, though. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. But that's what I did. I measured it every day for a year and a half. Did you really?

Yeah. That's a very simple way to measure, because here's the thing, like, let's say you're a man, you're lifting weights, you're gaining weight on the scale, but you're getting leaner, your waist measurement goes down, even though you're building more muscle. I mean, obviously, in body building, one of the key things that they look for is a small waist, you know, with everything else. So measurements are actually

a decent way to measure your progress. But by themselves, they're not going to tell you everything, obviously. I just think that I think all these things are great. There's a lot of people that crack on the tracking. I know right now you got a question the other day on my Q&A about, you know, what I think about is counting calories that bad. That's what Instagram is saying right now. Everybody is now jumping on the bandwagon of tracking food is bad or whatever.

And it's like, everything can become addictive. Everything can become something that you become obsessed with and it could have negative impacts on you for sure. But I think if your approach to it is you're using all this information just to help you gain more insight on your own body and how it responds to things and I think it's all good and I think it's good for people to do it at the beginning of really learning, but there comes a time where hopefully you figure this stuff out.

You understand what a protein is, a carb is fat, how much your body needs, what happens when you do good on it, when you don't do good on it, you have tracked your body fat percentage enough times to realize that, oh my God, my weight can be up, it could be at the same weight, which this is why I love this. I've been 220 pounds and had like five different dramatically different looks and levels of health. So weight doesn't matter that much. And that's why I think it's important to track those things because I wouldn't have

known that I had to not track. And it really kind of gives you more insight on, oh wow, it doesn't just matter my body, if I'm saying it, or it doesn't matter just my weight, or it doesn't just matter my waist or what it measures. You start to put all that stuff together to have a better understand. And eventually you become in tune and you feel. You could totally feel it. So this is cool. Check this out.

So according to the World Health Organization, your risk of metabolic complications such as type two diabetes increases when a man has a waist-to-hip ratio result of more than 0.9 and a woman has a result of more than 0.85. Explain that. Waste-to-hip ratio. Yeah, I get that, but what's the, what are they? They divide the two.

Okay. So for a man, if it's more than 0.9, your risk of metabolic complications start to rise. Obviously the higher over that ratio, the worse. And for women at 0.85. And then a 2011 review of studies showed that wasser conference and wasser hip ratio was had a more direct link to health conditions than BMI.

So that's why I like, you know, if you had to compare the two measurements, body measurements are better than the scale. So getting things better than BMI. It's almost stupid, right? I'm surprised that we even still have those in offices and we work. They actually obese people, it makes sense.

They just needed something simple. You know what I mean? Like boom, here's your BMI, it's an easy measurement. You're just heavy. And when it was created, I would assume that the population that was truly lifting weights and exercising was probably really, really small. It still is.

It still is. Right, right, it is. To be lean and have a high BMI is still pretty rare to the point where if you get life insurance, you have to tell them. You have to tell them you call them when they say see your heightened weight, oh, but I'm athletic. But I have muscle. Well, I remember that's why one of the reasons we liked, remember when we used to work with Health IQ, that was one of the great things,

but they were like one of the few insurance companies that like take that into consideration, that nobody's really looking after these people that actually work out. Totally. And with that, go to mindpumpfree.com and download all of our guides and resources. They're all absolutely free. You can also find go to minepumpfree.com and download all of our guides and resources. They're all absolutely free. You can also find the three of us on Instagram. You can find Justin at Mind Pump Justin. You can find me at Mind Pump Sal and Adam at Mind Pump Atom. Thank you for listening to Mind Pump. If your goal is to build and shape your body, dramatically improve your health and energy and maximize your overall performance, check out our discounted RGB Superbundle at MindPumpMedia.com.

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