Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 1261: Must-Dos to Maintain Your Physique During Quarantine, Ways to Stay Mentally Fit, Small Daily Activities to Improve Your Life & More

Episode Date: April 1, 2020

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about the absolute MUST-DOs to maintain your physique during a quarantine, what to do on a daily basis for general body maintenance, ways stay mentally fit during the lock down, and their thoughts on 24 Hour Fitness not freezing memberships. Sal is back! (5:17) Justin’s death-defying story. (6:29) The effects of stress on your body. (19:05) Stress eating while being sheltered in place. (21:05) Mind Pump’s stress dreams. (26:28) Adam recommends Neighbor.com.  (28:14) How Sal has started drive-by family visits to combat the lack of human connection. (32:01) In infuriating news of the week, Chinese wet markets are back open. (34:59) Coronavirus updates with Mind Pump. (37:10) Fun Facts with Justin. (43:29) High school wrestler thwarts attempted kidnapping. (44:34) #Quah question #1 – Can you guys please list the absolute MUST-DOs to maintain your physique during a quarantine? (45:36) #Quah question #2 - What is one thing that each of you does daily as far as general maintenance for your body? Or something to improve on the daily? (52:45) #Quah question #3 – What have you guys been doing to stay mentally fit during the lockdown? I’ve been able to stay physically active for the most part, but with the lack of social activity and outside stimulus I’m finding it hard to stay mentally engaged daily. (58:42) #Quah question #4 – What do you guys think about 24 Hour Fitness not freezing memberships? (1:06:02) Related Links/Products Mentioned March Promotion: MAPS Powerlift ½ off! **Code “POWER50” at checkout** Special Promotion (Ends at 11:59 pm 3/31/2020): MAPS Anywhere ½ off!! **Code “WHITE50” at checkout** Visit Paleo Valley for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Code “Mindpump15” at checkout for 15% discount** Amazon.com: Watch They Shall Not Grow Old | Prime Video The effectiveness of vitamin C in preventing and relieving the symptoms of virus-induced respiratory infections. Three Little Known, Unconventional Antiviral Approaches For Boosting Your Immune System. Neighbor Chinese 'wet markets' reportedly open back up, selling bats and dogs for human consumption China Coronavirus Death Toll Higher Than What Government Claims, Wuhan Residents Reveal Maker Mask launches in Seattle using 3D-printing technology to produce protective gear The Science Behind Honey’s Eternal Shelf Life New Mexico high school wrestler thwarts alleged attempted kidnapping, assault at gas station MAPS Fitness Prime Pro 24 Hour Fitness faces public backlash for blocking membership cancellations during coronavirus pandemic Mind Pump 842: The Steve Jobs of Fitness- Mark Mastrov Mind Pump 985: Mark Mastrov- Fitness Industry Empire Builder, NBA Owner & Original Mind Pump Mentor Mind Pump Free Resources People Mentioned Ben Greenfield Fitness (@bengreenfieldfitness)  Instagram Dr. Jordan Shallow D.C (@the_muscle_doc)  Instagram Mark Bell (@marksmellybell)  Instagram

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. Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. Welcome to Mind Pump. I'm back. Hey, you sound great. Back in the studio, Mind Pump is the top fitness and health podcast in the world. And this is a Q&A episode. We call it Quas, where we answer fitness and health podcast in the world. And this is a Q&A episode, we call it Quas,

where we answer fitness and health questions asked by listeners like you. Now the way we open the episode is by talking about current events. Oftentimes we mention our sponsors. We have a lot of fun generally. We're not gonna talk about Krone at all. So let me give you the breakdown of this episode.

So the intro was about 38 minutes long. And we start out by talking about Justin's life-changing, freeway, fright event that he forgot to tell everybody about. Deadly. Deadly. It's like a crazy, crazy story that he just, no, no, didn't want to tell anybody for some reason.

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I think more people are gonna start doing this. I talked about the Chinese wet markets, how they're reopened, what the hell wrong with you guys. We gave some coronavirus updates. We just think told us some facts about honey. Facts for your snacks. Kinda cool. And then I talked about the high school wrestler

who slammed the kidnapper, took him down. I loved it. Get him. Then we got into answering the fitness questions. Here's the first one. This person wants to know, what do the must-do's to maintain your physique during a quarantine? So we tell about the things you should be doing

to help manage your body right now while you're stuck at home. The next question, this person wants to know what's the one thing that each of us does on a daily basis as far as general maintenance is concerned or something that we do every day to improve our self. So we talk about our own strategies. Next question, this person says, look, what have you been doing to stay mentally fit during the lockdown? That's a great question.

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Dude, you know what I mean? Oh, that's horrible. The best part of this is the narcissism, right? We got you out of the house, dude. You got to, you know, that's something big. Yeah, no, it's time. It was time. I was self-quarantine for a little longer than two weeks,

so I'm good. When are we gonna find out you had COVID? I gotta do an antibody test if they ever have them. Yeah, you know? They're working on that, aren't they? They are, and you help. Okay. Need samples? I will be so mad if if they ever have them. Yeah, they're working on that, aren't they? They are, and you help. Okay. Need samples?

How's that work? So mad if I didn't have COVID. You're mad. What a waste. Yeah. You know what I mean, if I was sick for no reason? I'm convinced you are. You don't get sick that often and you don't get sick that bad.

Yeah. You were, I mean, you were bad. You're trash. What if it was all psychological? What if I just had a cold because I freak out someone? This too would not surprise me No, if I if I didn't have it I will be so so so angry now if I do have the antibodies I'm gonna feel

Invisible like a superhero. I'm gonna walk around just fucking leap. People are gonna want your blood. Yeah, lick things and I'll get the flu. You know what I, oh shit, I forgot, no. You know what I totally forgot about. Justin and even, this just needs to be slapped sometimes. Wow, really? Yeah, not only are you, Oh, I've said the same thing. Not only are you a bad storyteller,

you're bad when you have incredible stories to tell and you forget. Oh. You fucking got it in an, okay, so on the way home. I don't know, I don't know anything yet. Yeah, so I don't know anything about the story. I just, no. That's just for kids.

I know, I just know that. It's too a shit. I got a phone call. We're driving on, we're at Sacramento area. I forget what freeway that is, right? 50 or 80? 80, 80. We're on 80.

And there's an option where you can go, like towards San Francisco, or we can go kind of towards the valley, which is five. And we normally always go towards San Francisco. It's like five minutes difference. There's an actual like fork where you can make this decision. And all of a sudden we see like traffic coming to a halt and mind you, this is doing. There's a lot of cars.

There's no cars. Yeah. So how is there traffic? And so I tell you, oh, shit, there's probably an accident. And like we get stopped right before the, the, the, the where it wise and she gets a phone call from Courtney. That and Courtney's like, oh my God, you guys, there's a huge accident.

Justin saved lives like all this crazy. What? Yes, bro. What? I didn't save no lives, but I was there. I was part of it. He's crazy. He's still humble. He's still humble. Because you know if it was Adam or I would. So she sits in a, a, a car rolled in front, right in front of you.

Yeah. So we were driving in all of a sudden. I saw people kind of move into the laughter to the right, like trying to avoid like what was happening in front. And then I caught the tail end of this car that was up in the air, flipping in the air. Like it was out of like a Hollywood movie, dude. It was like, so basically what happened,

this is kind of crazy because like, there was characters involved. So there was this guy that was, he was driving a big rig, and he was the most animated and the most pissed about the whole thing, cause he saw everything. He saw what happened, what transpired.

There was like a Kia car that was apparently stopping in the freeway and everybody was going 80 at least. This is like, you know, a stretch of straight highway that everybody just jams, you know? And hardly any cars on the road, I would imagine everyone's flying. Everybody's flying. And so I guess he had stopped five times

and like this big rig had seen this card doing that and was like making his way around him. And I guess, so this lady that was in a Tahoe with a little girl, which was, you know, this was where it got all real for us. It was in the backseat like a three-year-old daughter. And I guess she had apparently, and this is, I don't know if I can confirm this or not,

but like somebody else that had saw everything go down that went past, that she was probably looking down on her phone, drove and didn't see and then just slammed into the back. And he was almost at a dead stop. So from 80 miles an hour to a dead stop, this car was like compacted in half, like half of the car was gone. And then this Tahoe basically hit at impact

and then just jolten and flipped it up in the air and tumbled and tumbled and tumbled. And then finally came to a stop. And please tell me the little girls are right. She's okay. Yeah. Everybody actually survived as far as I know. I don't know about the guy that was in the Kia

and plus we think he might have been on drugs, something or had like a suicidal issue. Like he was trying to do this to end himself something, like something crazy, because who does that, right? And so we stopped, there's just like, there's just a brain shit like all over the freeway. Like this car like World so many times like everything out of the car just like blew out of the car

And we so we stopped in and and Courtney kind of went over to assess and I was like looking at the guy to see if He was okay. He was like done like he was just just passed out like in the front seat And was just like not even moving. And so a guy beat me to him and got in there and had to end up cutting him out from his seat belt. And right as he did that, he kind of woke up. Okay, good. And but he was on the other side of the freeway

with the car, so he's basically all the way to the right. And then the guy was trying to revive him. He wakes up, he slams his foot on the gas and like drives directly across all four lanes. Because he was probably just out of it. He's so out of it dude. And his car started like catch on fire. And so then he slams on the other side.

The car catches on fire. I'm like, oh my god, like I'm on the other side. Like now we're, I'm with Courtney. We're looking to see like how the mom and the little daughter are doing. Thankfully, she had blood all over her arm, but she was fine. She just had really bad cuts from the accident. The little girl didn't really have any signs of any kind of cuts or anything, just a little bruise and stuff on the face.

So she was okay, she was awake, super scared, and so we were trying to like hold the girl to calm her down for the mom. And so basically on the other side, the guy has to pull him out, get some on the ground. The guys laying there, the car just burst into flames, and then like after that, you know, we heard a couple like pops, but it's like the tires, I guess, are the ones that like pop up from, when it gets too hot from the fire. And so they just let the car just burn. And then we were just like waiting for all the paramedics

and everybody else to get there. Holy, yeah, try to like, you know, like help mend the mom's arm and get her connected to her husband. So, so how long have you been sitting on the story Justin? I would, dude I texted you guys, I was like, remind me about this, like that's all I got.

How do I have to remind you of something? That's what blew my mind. I look up at the notes for today's conversation and I go, wait a second, doesn't Justin have like a fucking death-defying story to fucking tell right now? That's crazy dude. Bro!

It was so crazy, like, so I told it to my parents because like, and so meanwhile, like my kids are in the truck and like, I'm like, stay in here because I didn't want to get out of my truck. I was like, I was holding Courtney back. She was like a little pit bull. Like ready to just jump out and ongoing traffic to like save these people.

And I'm just like, whoa, whoa, whoa, let's like assess the environment. Exactly. She was just like, I'm a nurse. I'm fucking superhero. I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, let's like assess the environment. He's in the environment. Exactly. She was just like, I'm a nurse, I'm fucking superhero. But I'm like, I love that about you, but let's calm down. And so then, I finally pull over whatever.

And so I'm like locking the trucks of the kids in there, but I felt like I'm comfortable leaving there. They're in there with the iPad, they're filming. So they actually filmed when the car caught on fire. And they got like, yeah, they got some footage of it and everything. It was crazy. Oh wow, really?

I'll have to show you guys later. So your wife just leaps to action. Are you like at that point? Are you like turned on? You're like, damn, look at my car. I was a little bit, I'll be honest. Yeah. She's like very, she's very much of a humanitarian,

like very like passionate about helping people. And I was like, oh my God, I didn't know it was at that level, but she's very aggressively helpful. And most people are like, dammit. Yeah, traffic. Yeah. God, that, and we're just like, take off. Now, driving slow.

Well, I mean, thank goodness everybody, I'm glad that the story involved, everybody being okay. Yeah, because that everybody, I'm glad that the story involved, everybody being okay. Yeah, because that what I would have hated that. I know, I know, I wouldn't have told the story if it would have gone dead. Dude, car technology is remarkable these days. Yeah, for that to happen and for people to survive.

I can't believe that little growth was okay, like that. It sounds like though that if the guy in the Kia had somebody in the back seat, they would have been dead. Oh, they'd have been totally gone. he look it sounds like he lucked out just because he was by himself in the front seat, right? If you had somebody that it sounds like it Smiley you like in a court in it. I just say a Tahoe hits a Kia full on 80 miles an hour I mean that thing just like a can bro You know what you know what it would have been if it was like cars from like the 70s. Oh

It would have been if it was like cars from like the 70s. Oh my, it would have been terrible. You know what I mean? The technology these days, it's been like demolition derby where everybody's, oh well hey, I mean glad everybody's okay. Thank you for telling this story finally. Yeah, yeah. The craziest thing that's happened to you all, you know.

I mean it's happened. I could hear Katrina on the phone with Courtney and she's like, oh my God, she's like, what, what? Are you serious? And we got, so we got over. That was crazy. Courtney and she's like, oh my God, she's like, what? What? Are you serious? And we got over. That was crazy. I mean, we saved probably an hour and a half, two hours

because it was a parking lot. We literally, I'm not kidding. Also, you got lucky to go. We had less than 50 yards. Like we're in dead stop traffic and there's been, there's 50 yards up if it was literally less than 30 seconds or a minute later that that call doesn't come through. I don't merge over and get off and then take off in the other direction and then I would have been sat there for hours. It is really weird to see

stuff like that happen right before your eyes. I've seen I've seen something like that one time where I was driving down to LA with my buddy and when when you start, we took 101, we're going 101 South, we're going to take the scenic route or whatever. And at one point, the side of 101 that's going in the opposite direction is higher than the side that I'm on. So there's like an embankment that kind of slopes down.

And we're just chilling, it was normal day, we're driving all of a sudden I see, like, what is that? Oh, there's a car rolling down the hill. Just flipping down the hill, right in front of me. And when you see something like that for a split second you're like that's not real. Oh I saw so this happened at one time where I was driving behind the Mercedes SUV and this lady does a 360 and then flip and I'm the car right behind it and it

happens in front of me and it was the weirdest thing ever because everything slowed down. Like when she was spinning around, I could see her, like we made eye contact. It was the fucking weirdest thing ever. No, seriously, and I mean, I swirved. This is my reaction, I swirved, got away and moved. But when it was happening, it felt like everything froze.

It was the weirdest shit ever. For something like that, for her to go 360 and then flip right in front of me, me get out, I mean, it had to everything froze. It was the weirdest shit ever. For something like that, for her to go 360 and then flip right in front of me, me get out, I mean, it had to be in a split second, but it felt like a minute when it all happened. Now, now that's a very common, we've all heard of that, right?

Like, time slowed down. That's how it made me before, yeah. It's because your brain literally turns up its ability to perceive everything around you. Like the processing power just kicks in, like, and all of a sudden everything's like, do, do, do, do, do, do, you know, detail, slow motion. I can see everything, whereas normally,

you don't even know what the hell's going on. Wow, that memory is so vivid in my brain because of that too. So I forget about what I did yesterday, but I still have a very vivid memory of that moment. What are some of the most like, where you came this close to death moments? Do you guys have anything like,

I have one in particular that I can, well that, even though I wasn't the one who was probably, I mean, I was right behind you. Right, right, so I felt like that. I had a moment where me and my friends, we were young, we were maybe 17, and we're in the car, and there's four of us, and we're all not paying attention, we're at a stoplight, laughing, joking. Light turns green in the car and there's four of us and we're all, you know, not paying attention.

We're at a stoplight laugh and joking. Light turns green in the front. We didn't even notice that it turned green. Car behind us, honks. My buddy's like, oh, okay, goes to hit the gas. Right before he's the gas, a fucking semi comes through the red light on its brakes sliding through. Had we gone through when the light was green,

we would have been gone. We'd been a fruckin' disaster. We would, I don't have it. I made up a word right there. I like that. Fuck. Fuck, take a little kid, you know. I don't wanna say a bad word, but I'll say something that sounds bad.

Yeah, that happened. Well, so I hit black ice when we were coming back from band practice. Did you get the plug in the correct term for it? Yeah, it's fine. There my, it's fine. That's not the, It's not that. So, and same thing, like we hit it on one side. So this is like a five lane freeway.

And then I, I was like, oh my God, I completely lost control of the car. Like, and I'm pretty good with like hydroplaning and all that kind of stuff. And this was like, I've never experienced like ice where you just don't have any, there's no way to like turn out of it. And so you just go with it, right? So I'm like, oh, I swear, you just don't have any, there's no way to like, turn out of it. And so you just go with it, right? So I'm like, oh, it was going really slow, which was even worse.

You know, I'm just like, just skating, you know, just skating across like five lanes and, oh, in my rear view mirror, there's like two huge semis coming and I, and then it like, turned me so I ended up facing them. So now I'm looking at them straight on, like, oh my God, I'm gonna die. And I just, I punched the accelerator and punched myself into the shoulder, you know, the freeway and then got myself out of there with the guys. And we were all just like, we stayed there

for probably an hour, just like, oh my God. This story, okay. These stories are, for whatever reason, stress we're leaving right now. I don't know if you guys are, are you guys feeling like, life ain't so bad. Yeah, I did. You guys want to have viruses. You guys want to talk about, so this is what I've been, I figured this out, right?

Because I'm a little, you know, I think we're all under a little bit more stress than normal, right? Unknown, you're at home, you're reading, you know, you start reading articles about, you know, world health organization says this and says this, and they're extending the, why everybody's just stay at home and all this stuff. And you start, so I figured this out, it's a bit of a hack. So I started watching documentaries

on like real life shit that happened in the past, that was terrible, just to make me kinda, I don't know what this is, I'm not sure it's a good strategy or no. It is, it is, I, Yeah, because I'm watching it. I'm like, wait a minute. What am I tripping over? I watched a documentary, Peter Jackson produced it.

I've never seen this. It's so good. It is epic films. Oh, bro. So good, called They Shall Not Grow Old. Have you guys seen this? No. It's about World War One.

And in it, they interview actual, you know, and these, you know, I'm sure these people are dead now but he interviewed people who served in World War One for in England and while it's while they're talking about what it was like they have film real film from World War One and they colorized it and digitized it so it looks like like colors. That's like what Doug was recommending. What was that show that you recommended? The greatest moments of World War II. Well so this was different than a normal documentary where they're explaining what's

happening, the strategy. This is, they're talking about the actual everyday life of these soldiers and when you're listening to these guys, you're just like, they're talking about how, you know, what it's like living in the trenches. And he's like, Oh, dude, they were showing pictures of it and people getting their feet chopped off and how he goes, yeah, he goes, you know, he goes,

Lice was a terrible problem. He goes, what you would do is you would... Mustard gases. You would, you know, pending. And these guys are talking about it like, yeah, it was a great time because we all stuck together and this was that and, you know, and he's like, this is just how you survive.

And I'm watching it. I'm like, well, I'm kind of stuck at home with Netflix. We're bunch of pussy. And, you know, I'm begging you, my biggest stress right now is that streaming is slowing down because so many people are streaming. Are you guys, how's your guys's diet? It's so soft.

I'm like, I am finding myself distracting myself with not the greatest food right now. Well, it's been worse since I've been home. Like since we've been home, it's been a little more challenging than up at Tahoe. Tahoe having the garage gym and going out there and hiking and playing in the snow. Like I felt like I've already,

it's been rougher since I've been home. Yeah, it's been okay. Yeah, I would say like I was actually not too bad. Sephora, we wanted to go out to support some of the restaurants in the area because it's like there's one of them is like our favorite and they're doing like take out. Yeah. So we're like, oh, we got to, we got to keep them in business.

You know, that's like the whole initiative with us going there really, but it was kind of funny because I'm not going to name their name because we know the bartender and he's like, oh, and here's some like premium margaritas to go and to go cups. Oh, is this legal? Oh, thank you, bro. Yeah, so that was great. I gave a, there's a restaurant that we go to, sometimes in San Jose, a Peruvian restaurant,

and we called in an order. I went to go pick it up and I saw the owner, and I'm like, how's business known? He's like, oh, it's terrible, this and that. So I gave him a hundred dollar bill, said, keep the change or whatever, because I felt like, I want to kind of... Well, speaking of that, I was business, you know, and he's like, oh, it's terrible. This and that. So I gave him a hundred dollar bill. Said, keep the change or whatever. Cause I felt like, you know, I wanted to kind of speak. Speaking of that, I was reading a statistic that JP Morgan had just put up.

They had found in 2016 that the median independent restaurant has enough cash to last 16 days and independent retailers 19 days. Yeah. So that's how that's how people realize how't realize how devastating already this is this is for most traffic. Well, they run industries. Yeah, because they run on very lean margins. Yeah, people don't they think that they're all, you know, rolling in dough, but they it's such a competitive industry that your margins are always very, very slim. And you know, 16 days of days of cash isn't bad for a lot of businesses, but it's right catastrophic right now. But I'm, I mean, just, so I finally gave in. I've just, you

know, I'm eating more. I'm just eating a lot because I'm at home and, you know, I think it's comforting. So I'm like, you know what? I give up. It was bulk. No, I said that. No, I said. Brought me beyond bulk right now. Yeah. I said to Jessica, I said, let's just, we'll buy snacks, but let's just have healthier snack. You have better stuff. Yeah, like I'm not, I can't not eat right now because. Yeah, that's the move. Yeah, so, you know, what, think, what a great time to be working with a new sponsor.

What is it, Paleo Valley that meets Dix? Oh, yeah. Because, yeah, it's a, it's a meat, it's a delicious. Yeah, it's a grass-fed, high protein meat sticks. Bro, those are the best beef jerky sticks that I've ever had. By far. Yes. By far. They're crushing right now, too.

Of course. Oh, yeah. Everybody is ordering like crazy on their beef. They're also, you know, the other one, they, so they do other stuff, too. Like, we, we talked big on their, their beef sticks because it's obviously what we consume the most of. But I was actually just talking to them last week and they're completely like sold out of like their vitamin C.

Because that didn't an article just come out. I saw Ben Greenville talk about that. You talked about that, Sal. I did. Yeah. In New York, they're finding intravenous vitamin C. Yeah, and they found it. This was true in China.

And I believe France that when they were giving people high doses a vitamin C. Yeah, and they found it. This was true in China, and I believe France, that when they were giving people high doses of vitamin C intravenously, that it was helping. I don't know if that translates though to oral vitamin C. Oh, really? I don't know. I mean, there's a big difference between intravenous and oral.

Yeah, but it still gets into your bloodstream, right? It does, but I don't know if you could tolerate the dose. It may not be as potent. Well, because the intravenous doses they were given them was like thousands and thousands of milligrams, you know, spread out every two or three hours. Oh, that's a lot.

Yeah, if you did like two, three thousand, I mean, it's vitamin C so that the odds, the side effects of taking too much aren't bad. I think it's like increased risk of kidney stones or something like that. But if you take like thousands of milligrams of vitamin C, you know, a few times a day, you're probably gonna get diarrhea.

You're probably gonna get gut issues, which my nose is great. It's no toilet paper. I would think if you couldn't do it, you couldn't take it IV, I would still think that taking it would still be better than not. I would agree, right? I would agree.

Even if it's not as much as that, I would still think that it's not a bad idea. I mean, I have. I've been taking that. I mean, that's what I've been doing. So, I mean, I don't know if it's working as well, but it's better than not, I feel like. Yeah. It's interesting, right? Because vitamin C for so long has been, you know, they've been talking about how it's

an immune booster, but then for so long, we've heard that that's, oh, no, it's not. Right. But now they're showing in these studies that speaking of which, they approved the use of hydroxychloroquine, is that how you say it? The malaria drug. It's now approved in combination with, because we were talking about how the studies were showing that it might help. Another study came out that showed that it's that it helped.

So that that in combination with the zytheromycin is what they're what they're doing. But you know that the did you guys know that fish tank cleaners contain like a version of that. And some people have been taking that thinking it'll help them and they die. I think that's where all the memes are coming from. Right. The jokes of people drinking the the the chlorox bleach and all that weird shit. Yeah.

What is wrong with people? It is. It's wrong with people. Dude, but I have to, like, so I got a bunch of messages about that medication about the one from malaria because I brought up, like, it gives people nightmares and like, I had so many people confirming that, you know, in my DMs and stuff.

I was like, oh, I knew it. I knew I had heard that because even on one of them, I don't know if it's true or not, but they said I was like, oh, I knew it. I knew I had heard that because even on one of them, I don't know if it's true or not, but they said that like, may cause like, you know, demonic, you know, sightings and like, and visions of, you know, terrible like, night terror, like type of, you know, nightmare. So, some people have, you know,

have indefinite nightmares after it, like they've even reported. You mean when they've gone off? Yeah, I've known that's where I want to go off. Katrina gets it from hydrocoding. So if she takes, yeah, she takes like a vicar in or a percussette or something like that, she'll get nightmares.

I've been having, that's weird to me. I've been having weird drugs. I've been having these weird stress dreams where like I, I usually don't have these kind of dreams, but for like two or three nights in a row, I had one dream that all of a sudden I was a general manager of a gym again. And I was like, all sad about it.

I'm like, fuck, man, I gotta do this again. And I walked in, I've already been here. How did I get back here? Yeah, and I walked in. You know, let's just check this out. So I walk in and I'm like, whatever, I'm gonna make the best of it. And there was like one of my sales managers or whatever was giving someone a free pass. So I sit down to introduce myself

and I start trying to talk to them about getting personal training, you know, because that's what you do right now. And the say, and the person who worked for me would say to me, out loud while I'm doing this like, stop, stop, just give them the free pass. No, don't try and, and I was like, I'm gonna, we don't do it like that now.

I'm gonna kick you in your face, you know? What do you mean? What are you talking about? And I woke up, I was like, it's not protocol. I woke up and I was like, oh'm gonna, yeah, we don't do it like that now. I'm gonna kick you in your face, you know? What do you mean? What are you talking about? And I woke up like, it's not protocol. I woke up and I was like, oh, that was terrible. That's probably how it is now. The aggressive sales sector. What a terrible dream.

Hey, you guys remember when I brought up on the show, probably about, I'd say two months ago, the app called Part with the parking spaces. Oh, wait a minute, where people can rent their own parking. Yes, yes, yes. It's like in further drive way over there. So another company, okay, called neighbor.com.

It's like that on steroids. So all the same possibilities, you can rent a parking space. But this neighbor.com allows you to rent any space. So let's say like, like my quad, I want to store it and somebody has a room in their garage. They can rent a eight by eight space in their garage and they dictate the amount. I agree on it and I do it. Oh wow. First is like paying some huge storage unit or you know being subject to their rates. These neighbors can now use each other to store each other stuff. So you got a bunch of boxes

and you've completely filled up your attic or whatever and you want to store it, but then you don't wanna pay 180 or like here in San Jose. I think it's like 200 bucks plus. Finally a place for my meth lab. No, isn't this whoa bro? Wow. I gotta make use of it. You even want to do it as Tiger King.

Yeah, yeah. You're like a breaking bad over here, right? Yeah. No, so how cool is that though? Brilliant. That's so brilliant because what it's doing, what people don't realize about stuff like that, is it dramatically increases the efficiency of space

of people working together. And for the economy, it's so great because if you think about it, if you have unused space, which most of us do, unused space in the garage or in the yard, or just watch that minimalist document. Yeah, exactly most of us do, right? Unused space in the garage or in the yard. Just watch that minimalist document. Yeah, exactly. They do that, right?

They show heat maps on people's homes. People spend 99% of the time in like 30% of the house. So you have all this wasted space that could be used to generate revenue. And then there's all these people that need that space to store things. What a brilliant. And neighbor.com ensures up to $2 million. Oh, brilliant. So I mean, as long as you're not storing two million dollars with a stuff that somebody's house, like that's because that would be my first fear, right? Like some random

Joe's like, yeah, they're like, yeah, you can leave your quad here. I'm saying I leave my $10,000 quad there and it's gone, right? Look at two months later, some sure they move with it, right? But it's insured, you're insured up to $2 million with that, so it kind of gets rid of that fear. But what you're gonna see, I imagine, is people that have an acre lot or whatever, you could start throwing up little sheds with your own security cameras and start having your own little storage units

on your property and make decent money. What a disrupting technology for a storage unit. That's exactly what I was thinking. I've already been interested in the storage unit business as it is, but this is going to shake it up. I know, yeah, think about that. I mean, I need like that, all that structure anymore. It's just like, give me a property.

Throw it on your own property. I mean, how many people have like a lot that's big enough to throw a big enough shed on there? And because store, at least here in the Bay Area, it depends on where you are in the country. There's probably some reasonable rates. But I remember when we moved this last time, and we rented a storage unit just to hold the furniture

for a while, I'm like, Jesus, after two or three months, I could have just bought all new furniture. It's a few hundred dollars a month for not even a big storage unit here in the Bay Area. So it's like, man, that's ridiculous. And that's gonna make it much cheaper. Right.

Because people have their own property paid off and people can put it whatever price they want. So if I want to just help somebody out and I also, hey, make 50 extra bucks a month or what do I do? And I've got two or three people doing that. Brilliant. I love that.

I think that's brilliant. I love seeing to how circumstances changed, how people kind of move around and figure things out. That's a technology that was created because there was a need for it. A lot of people have extra space. People need to rent space out. Let's figure out a way to connect these people.

Another thing that's starting to happen right now, and I think this is great. So I started this a few happen right now is and I think this is great. So I started this a few days ago where Jessica and I were you know, we were missing people and says, you know what? What if we drive to our family family members homes, stay in the car in the street. They stay in the they stay at and they're on their port. Make a sign. No, no, no, grandma. No, they stay at their door. We stay in the car. I just turn the car off or whatever. And we talk and we're 15 feet away and we hang out a little bit and talk and see each other.

And it was so awesome. So then my mom, I did. Oh, my mom. So then my mom did this. My mom. It's like one of those drive-through safaris. Yeah, dude. So my mom did this.

She drove to her sister's house. All of her kids' houses, just parked in front. Jessica and I got chairs sat in the garage, my parents sat in the car, and again, we're far enough distance apart, and they just stayed in the car, and we just hung out for 30 minutes. And so then my cousin, his little girl just turned seven,

and she was really sad about her birthday, because she can't have her friends over, Also, and I saw this maybe so emotional. So what they did is they planned a parade. So all of her friends and all of her friends, their parents got in their cars and she sat outside, his daughter sat outside, they had balloons. You know, my cousin is wife sat there on their lawn and all of her friends drove by with balloons and signs and said happy birthday as they drove.

That's cool. As they drove by. Oh, I thought I saw you do a video of that. Did you do a video of that? Who did a video of that? I saw that. It was my cousin. I thought I saw someone,

yeah, it must have been somebody attached to you then. That's a great idea. How nice is that? I actually thought of you because I saw somebody in public the other day with this huge hooloop, right? What? It was attached because it was attached to them. So it was like out, you know, a safe distance.

And they were like bumping into people because it was like in their proximity. You know, it was like too close. That's their six foot. Yeah, that's their six foot reach. Like it was like surrounding them like a force field. I thought you were going to bring up Salby, you Salby, who champion when he was in high school. Well, that too. You know that, yeah.

He can really move those hips. Pips can circle. Yeah, they don't lie. They can circle. He's sick. Really good. Dude, I said hi to the crazy cat lady in my neighborhood that I always ignore.

First time. I always ignore she's weird. Probably a day. She's so weird, dude. Every morning, you know, if I work out. She look at you and just like hiss. No, no, no, no. So I have my I work out... She look at you and just hiss. No, no, no. So I have my, I'll open my garage, I'll be lifting,

and every day, I don't know where she comes from, she drives up, and she feeds stray cats. Like, there's like 15 stray cats, and she feeds them. I had a neighbor like that. Every single day. And so it's like, you know, the crazy cat lady here. Well, this morning I'm working out,

and I'm just, you know, I'm like aching for human contact this morning I'm working out and I'm just you know I'm like aching for human contact so I should walk by I'm like hey, you know she looks at me Hey, how you holding up? She's like I'm doing okay. I'm like all right cool Yeah, perfect for me. I don't like people. Yeah, it was the first time dude. You want to hear something? I'm furiating Yeah, so you know what the what the wet markets are in China and other parts of Asia. Oh, no These you know, yes, I know yeah, okay, so no no spline. What's what do you markets are in China and other parts of Asia. Oh, no, you know, yes, I know. Yeah, okay No, no splints. What do you mean wet markets? So wet markets are where they sell exotic animal weird shit for people? Did you see the video that Jordan shallow just did there? No, oh, yeah, I did Yes, and he was walking through there and he was like, oh my god. This would get shut down in a heartbeat in the US

so We you know, it's widely believed that this virus came from, a wet market where they were eating either bats or a weird animal, it's called a pangalonian or something like that. It looks like an art vark on the nose. Yeah, it's like an art vark. Just weird animals.

And after all the quarantine, all that stuff, and China's like, we're gonna, you know, we're gonna, we're gonna ban these. Not the back open, serve in weird, strange animals. Yeah, I just read that they were banning it. Like, so they already reopened it. So, Yerai, they said they were gonna ban it and then, no, I read an article that they're...

Well, it's like a two, it's a two point something billion dollar industry. Like, I mean, article that they're... Well, it's like a two, it's a two point something billion dollar industry. Like, I mean, it's the biggest in China because like they're all consuming these exotic animals. Like, it doesn't matter what it is. No. Because as medicinal value of something, and it's like, it's always their penis.

Why? Why is it their penis? Yeah, they always take the penis or the horn, you know, and it's like, disregard the rest of the animal. It's like, yeah, we need that penis. There's magic in there. Yeah, there always take the penis or the horn, you know, and it's like disregard the rest of the animal. It's like, we need that penis. There's magic in there. Yeah, there's magical penis. Magic Wayne, saying that about mine for years.

Well, if you were a good thing, you're not allowed to over there. Adam on the table. You what you get for it. Eat this magic penis, you can feed a family of four. Hey, Justin, did you feel it? I appreciate that. We got that family of fours. that's a lot of meat, bro. We got leftovers.

It's a hearty meal, yeah. It's a whole this over for a buck. Yeah, nice. Could be worse, could starve an infant, you know what I'm saying? You know what I'm doing? It doesn't matter. You're married anyway. When we watched that one comedian who was Dayton, Ariana Grande.

Oh yeah. And he said that she screwed him because she told everybody he had big dicks and now he's like, I wanna pull it out of her business. Oh, that was the most brilliant thing ever. I thought that was hilarious. But anyway, so back to China, there's reports coming out now that they are totally lying

about the amount of people that died in Wuhan and all that stuff. Why is it not surprising? So there was a huge shipment of earns full of people's cremated remains or whatever. And so people are videotaping and be like, yeah, that's 10,000 or whatever earns. This is not, they said the deaths were X amount of 1000. There's no way because look at all these, whatever. And then there was riots.

Did you guys hear about this? There were riots in the Wuhan area because when they finally let the people out, people were so mad at the draconian way that they were kept in their houses. By some people starved, some people got beat within inches of their life just for walking out of their house. So now that they're letting them out,

there was riots and stuff. I'm like, fuck you guys. You know, you were bringing something up, I think it's important to know too that, that because I know there's a lot of people that are still like freaking out right now. But what we're seeing right now in the US is pretty positive. I mean, I feel like just what a week and a half ago,

people were panicking and saying, we were gonna be Italy in a week. And here we're a week later and we're definitely not like Italy whatsoever. And considering how big of a country we are, I would say that we are keeping the death toll down reasonably low other than the few areas like New York or where it hit the retirement home or whatever in Seattle.

I mean, for the most part, the death toll is relatively low. And it's crazy because to end up. So far, right? Yeah. And even if it were to increase or stay on this pace for the next two months straight, it still wouldn't catch what the flu has done. You know, I saw what the CDC had put out for the last six months of the flu over the last six months.

It was October to February. Yeah, it was six months. And it was a total of what, 30 to 50,000 days. 30 to 60 is what they asked them at. Yeah, and just that period of time. Well, I mean, And they asked to make that's probably what we're gonna see from COVID.

Well, so here's the thing though, when they keep saying, I don't know if you guys are doing this, but I keep going, I flip it back and forth. Like, one day I'm like, I do too. Yeah, one day I'm like, ah, this is overreaction. The other day I'm like, lock it down. Yeah. Um, what they say is that they're, that they're trying to prevent hospitals from getting overrun. So although the flu does cause lots of deaths and stuff, it's not like all at once. Right. Whereas this has the potential, according to what they're saying. So this is, I agree with what we're doing.

I do. I think it's, I think it's smart. I think it's especially with what you talk about what's going on in the hospitals. Where I'm on the fence is, you know, could we have done this like getting rid of like a lot of the crazy high traffic areas, but still allow businesses to operate somehow, because what I'm now concerned about is what I've been saying since day one, is economically what's going to happen to us, could that potentially be worse long-term

to a lot of people than what we're potentially going through right now? So there's- Yeah, can't they open up some of these businesses and let people in one at a time and just manage it more specifically like that, so the traffic of it and people can keep their space. And at some point, we have to get a little bit more creative

with that in terms of being able to help, these businesses come back to life. Yeah, you don't want to be in a situation where the medicine is worse than the disease. And wide-ranging economic destruction causes lots and lots of deaths downstream. So a lot of people don't, you know, they don't. I mean, what would happen if you just mandated that everybody who comes into a business has to have

a mask and gloves on? I would think that would minimize it dramatically. If you had enough, it's the problem with that. It's that we don't write now, but we will. We don't write now, but we will. We don't write now, but we will. I mean, you're talking about companies, I think I brought that up on the last episodes we did that are now pivoting over to MakeMask

and they're talking about putting out millions per week. So, you know, maybe at this moment, and then I saw the 3D printer, somebody came up with the ability to 3D print these. So, you know, before long, we should be in a place where you can get these masks. And I would think that, okay, let's allow business to come up. The stipulation is for people to come into the business.

You had rubber gloves and a mask on. And I know that that's not still the most ideal situation, but to still allow us to get the economy going back again, I would think that would be- Well, so here's what I think the strategy's gonna be after all of a sudden done, because as of the time of recording this, Trump said he extended the,

you know, what do they call it? Shelter and play. Shelter and play still the end of April. I had the way that I think that they're gonna start to move things forward eventually will be people with pre-existing illnesses and people over a certain age. Right. You guys remain at home. Everybody else, you know, let's keep, let's prevent people from

having more than 10 people at a time, you know, so keep groups small. And I think the eventual strategy is going to be testing people for antibodies. And if they find that you have antibodies, okay, cool, you can go do whatever. But if you don you have antibodies, okay cool, you can go do whatever, but if you don't have antibodies, be very careful and then vaccine. And I know that the vaccine, they're moving fast with that. I think that the next trials

are gonna be almost ready by September. Which I'm hoping that that moves forward. But you know what it is, I heard this analogy and I thought what a great analogy. It's like you go to the doctor and you have an infected finger and the doctor said, let's cut your hand off. You know what I mean? Because we don't want it to spread for the whole body.

When the treatment might be just some antibiotic ointment or a dose of antibiotics. But you don't have that yet. Yeah, we want to be careful. We want to be careful that we don't go so hard and so far that we cause more problems. There's so many unknowns. And when you look at like the way it is in the country, you're right. New York is not doing great. California, which is a huge state, lots of huge population, we seem to be doing okay. Well, yeah, we came out the gates, especially our hear Santa Clara can't be. We're the first place to go shelter in place

Yeah, so I think that helped, you know, I Speaking of expiring. This is a bad transition You know what doesn't expire ever like indefinitely what honey? Oh, I did you know that I did know that they found they found it like three thousand year old In an Egyptian tomb. They found honey. I read this and it's still edible to this day It's crystallized and everything makes the way what in the fuck dude honey is so antibacterial and antibiral that you could just keep it Yeah, isn't that crazy? That is crazy. That is great. Did you see that did a more kuchi? He normally sends the same thing to all of us to our buddy Jay Yeah, did he send you the ants that made the bridge?

Yeah, the bridge. Did you see that? Yeah, that was wild, dude. I mean, they were, I don't know, I'd say a good 10-foot drop from like a rooftop and they actually created a bridge and then we're transporting all the honey from the hive. I thought that was brilliant. They're creating, I was rubbing honey all over myself. Yeah.

I'm telling you, there's some kind of, some kind of fountain of youth there. Just walking it all. Yeah. Listen to me. Hey, did you guys see the video of the high school wrestler? He's like 16 year old, 17 year old kid who saw a grown man try to kidnap someone and he just fucking double leg

take down. No, I love those videos. Smash his ass. No. Yeah. Are you serious? Yeah, dude. It was really cool to watch Never mind. Remember when the MMA chick that beat the dudes ass that was trying to like robber take a purse or something I thought I love that. I just thought that was such a great. I love it when bad people get their asses That's maybe a bad thing to say but if you're a bad guy and you get your best. You're a bad shit, you get your ass kicked. I'm cheering. Yeah. This quaz brought to you by Organify.

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Okay. I'll start with the easy ones and we can kind of go into a little more detail. But number one, daily activity, I think is important because your total daily steps, however low they were before, is way lower now. I know for me, if I'm not exercising or actively going for a walk, I'm not moving. Well, I can't stress that one enough because when you work out for an hour, in people's head they register is like,

I was really active today. But if you worked out for a one hour block, where let's just say a good hard workout is 400 to 600 calories, tops, you're burning. And then the rest of the day, you're dramatically sedentary, even though you worked out, you weren't very active,

and your total calorie burn for the day is extremely low. Somebody who makes a point to walk all day long, let's say you go for three one hour walks for the day, but you don't lift weights and exercise, that person who went for the three one hour walks for the day. But you don't lift weights and exercise. That person who went for the three one hour walks is gonna burn way more total calories in the day than that person who just worked out vigorously for one hour.

You gotta put that into perspective. And I think that somebody who's never tracked and really paid attention to their average daily movement when we were working and we were moving on a regular basis is what's getting thrown off so bad. I remember getting my mind blown as a trainer when the first like body bug. Yeah, trackers kind of came out where you could put it on, it would track your calories burned, it would track your steps, all that stuff.

And I remember, I look at the reports of my clients and I'd see that my client burned more calories on Saturday and Sunday than they did on the days during the week when they were down. Shopping and cleaning house. Yeah, and I'd be like, what did you do Saturday? You burned way more calories. I don't, I don't work out.

And I'd be like, yeah, exactly. Oh, I cleaned the whole house or I went to them all now shopping all day or I was washing the cars. And that's when it really hit me like, oh, I cleaned the whole house, or I went to the mall, now shopping all day, or I was washing the cars, and that's when it really hit me like, oh crap, okay, you know, just because you work out once, doesn't mean you're super-acquired. And here's the other side of this, that's a big plus. If you're stuck at home and you're fighting off,

you know, the anxiety and the fear and the boredom. Stressy. Yeah, yeah, no, besides the eating, working out throughout the day, like you said, Adam, walking the morning, walking the afternoon, walking the, makes a huge difference. And then on top of that, when they do studies comparing somebody working out for two hours

versus somebody breaking up a two hour workout throughout the day, they actually find that breaking it up throughout the day burns more body fat and preserves more muscle. Now, the second part, you just said Adam, was the stress eating. That's a big one, man. And you gotta figure out strategies to avoid that.

And I've had to work through this myself. And one of the strategies I've come up with is, at first I tried to just not eat the bad food or whatever, didn't work. It's too accessible. I got too much stuff going on where I'm a little bit stressed and it's just not working. So I've moved to phase two, which is I'm only having healthy snacks in the house and if I want to eat

it, I do. And that's already made a tremendous difference. So this takes a lot of discipline to do this, but this I too have been battling. I mean, we're just like everybody else. So there's moments where I find myself binging a Netflix series and I've been sitting on the couch for hours at a time and then I'm wanting to snack on things. So when I catch myself in those moments, I try and get up and go find something physical for me to do. Like one of the things that, when this happened to me just a day before yesterday, I needed to wash my truck.

We just got back from Tahoe and it was a disaster. Like I knew it was gonna be like a multiple hour project to do, but I just needed to move and do something like that. It doesn't always have to be like this vigorous exercise that you need to do. The must-do is being mindful of your movement and then making sure that you do it. In a perfect world, you're exercising and doing a training routine, right? You're following your maps anywhere or if you have an at-home gym and following one of the other programs,

you're sticking to your routine. And then in addition to that, you're also trying to move. But at the bare minimum, when I think of must-doos, you've got to get out and get some activity. You got to get out and move. Home Depot's still open. So I've been making multiple trips

and making little projects that I've been meaning to get to, like painting this or that, you know, chopping down the chicken coop, like renovating outside. I'm just like a busy body intentionally, just because I gotta get out of the house. I gotta get out of like this room, that room, sitting here, you know, like I'm driving me crazy. Justin's gonna have like a six story house on this.

No, so it's funny you bring that up, because yesterday, you know, Katrina and I, this is what we do, like we go on multiple walks a day at least And then we've of course trying to get our workout in and yesterday We are on our second or third walk of the day and we're going through our neighborhood And we're kind of like weaving in and out of all the all the houses and I think we saw three different garages That were open and dads were out there saw And staining wood and painting.

I've seen the same kids, I'm like, oh, this is so great. The honey do lists are getting done right now. So, yeah, I mean, they're so happy right now. I think that's, to me, those are the must-use. And then, also being mindful if you're not, because let's be real, being completely transparent and honest,

there's absolutely been days where like the day before I was really active and I worked out good and I ate good and I took a train and you know, we're gonna chill today, you know? I'm gonna do anything, we're gonna enjoy having the day off and just play with Max in the house all day. So, but when I do that, I have to be extremely mindful of the difference in calorie burn

that I'm probably going through. And so my eating has to adjust to that. So you've got to either one, make a conscious effort every day to be very active, moving, walking, doing some, doing physical activities. In addition, hopefully, you're working out too. If you don't, you need to definitely modify your diet and whether that's you do well with skipping a meal and not eating or intermittent fasting during that time, or just smaller portions, or like, Sal, I think, recommended the other day, which I think is great is minimizing your carbohydrate intake.

You need to be mindful of this stuff. So to me, when I think of must-dos, I think, one, you need to incorporate multiple walks throughout the day on top of hopefully your workouts and then win. And if you don't, be mindful of that and reducing your floor. And you can make, you know, you can make some of this activity, a family fun thing, you know, like I was mopping the floors, put music on and we're just all having a good time doing it together. And now the reason why I'm saying that is because the mental state that you go into

this stuff is going to make a big difference. If your mental state is poor and you feel like you're forcing yourself to be very difficult to stay consistent, if your mental state is, I'm going to make the, I'm accepting the fact that I got to do this stuff and I'm going to make the best of it, you're more likely to stay consistent. So. Next question is from an orthodox fitness me. What is one thing that each of you does on a daily basis as far as general maintenance for your body or something to improve on the daily? I mean, the easy one is exercise and working out. You know, I on a very consistent basis,

you know, luckily I have a gym in the garage, and I go out there and I do something. So some, I typically alternate between heavy workouts and then the days in between is when I go out there and I just touch body parts with lighter exercises or I'm working on full range of motion or I'm doing things that work on my mobility. But I would say that's probably the most consistent thing that I do. Now the other thing I started adding is I'm trying to make more of an effort to have some kind of a daily spiritual practice.

I think the necessity of that is just higher now. I think the, you know, kind of what everybody's going through. I find way more value in having a daily, you know, spiritual practice. So I'm a watch preachers or pastors or spiritual leaders talk. And, you know, I just, it makes me feel better because a lot of the messages that I'm, that tend to come across and you find this common among all most, you know, popular spiritual practices is this message of acceptance, but they, they, they present it in different ways. And I find that the message of acceptance is helping me the most right now. So as, as of right now, that's something that I'm, you know, making effort. I would say mobility and reading for me.

Right now, that's something that I'm making effort. I would say mobility and reading for me. There's a lot of days that go by that I don't get a lift in. I'd like to say that every day I'm training and lifting weights, but the reality is I'm not. But what I'm really good about is there's a handful of movements from our Maps Prime Pro that have just been life changing for me. In fact, I got tagged on a post the other day.

Somebody tagged me because Mark Bell was showing that he couldn't get down in a full squat and somebody tagged me and said, you should talk to Adam and his response was, he's been friends with Kelly Starrett for decades and still can't, doesn't believe that he can do it. And I was in the same camp. I thought the same thing about myself. I didn't think that I would ever be able to get down in a bottom squat and sit there comfortably.

It just did a little bit of effort I had put towards it. Just never felt like it. I was in pain and didn't feel like it was possible. But it took a few years of being very, very consistent. And I'm very mindful of the work that it took to get to where I'm at now that I appreciate it so much that I make sure to do a few of these mobility drills every single day just to kind of say it and I know that even if I just put a few minutes of effort towards them that I'll keep that range of motion up which has just been life-changing for me

I mean I had presided to my hips. I had chronic low back pain all the time, even though I was buffed and looked good. I felt kind of miserable and that's been gone for two years now. And so I've made it a daily practice to always, hit my 1990, hit some combat, hit some thread the needles, like there's a handful of movements that we have in Prime Pro that I made like a ritual to always make sure that I do. And then the other thing would be reading, whether that be like articles, newsletters, or diving into the

books that I'm reading or listening to, try and make a practice of that, even if it's for just a short period of time, being consistent with that, that's one of the single most important things that I have found with continued growth for myself. So those two practices I'd say I've been really good about always making sure that's a daily practice and then I'm striving to make sure that I have my workouts but the reality is those don't always happen but the reading and the mobility does. I've definitely ritualized certain mobility moves on a daily basis, mainly because of recognizing how my habits had changed based off of, you know, what do you do? What I do for living now, I'm not up re-racking people's weights, I'm not walking around constantly,

and so I'm sitting in the chair or I'm sitting in my truck or you know lots of sitting so like half the day I'm I'm trying to be very mindful of sitting in a squat. I'm I'm either in Saison or I'm in 90 90 or I'm you know down in pigeon before the boys or the dogs attack me You know and I'm basically down there and then just doing my thing whether the TV's on whether I'm basically down there and then just doing my thing, whether the TV's on, whether I'm at home or I'm here, if there's an opportunity for me to kind of sit in sort of a mobility pose or yoga pose or something I can do to restore my hips and my shoulder is getting rotation out of my shoulders

constantly because that's something that, if I don't do that, I can just feel the stiffness and the pain as a result of when I go back to lifting weights, all that stuff, you start to feel that to intensify. I'm just very mindful of constantly moving my body and trying to keep that well-oiled machine And in terms of that, I intentionally tried to take everyone in the family out on a walk, and this is something that Courtney sort of helped me with every time I'm home is we get out and we go walk.

And it doesn't matter where we go, we have trails near my house. There's a field that we go a lot of times to take the dogs, but I use that time to rough house with the kids, but then also we just connect and we're able to talk, you know, and communicate a lot better when we're active and moving together

as opposed to sitting and trying to recap people's days. So that's definitely something I always do. Next question is from Jay M. Key. What have you guys been doing to stay mentally fit during the lockdown? I've been able to stay physically active for the most part, but with the lack of social activity and outside stimulus,

I'm finding it hard to stay mentally engaged on a daily basis. I like this question because, it seems like everybody is talking about the fitness thing. How do I keep my gains? How do I not lose muscle? Like what program can I do at home? And not a lot of, and I think probably one of the most challenging things for us,

if not now, will be in the next 30 to 60 days is the mental side and insanity and being okay with that. And so I love this question for that. And I think it's really important. And I think it starts with reframing your situation. You know, Sal, you kind of alluded to this in the intro today about, you know, God, here we're all freaking out.

And so feeling sorry for ourselves and fighting over, you know, you know, conservatives versus progressives and we're going back and forth and all this shit and, you know, oh, so pissed off that we're confined in our home. It's like, she could be way worse. Yeah. It could be a lot worse. We as humans have been through way worse than what we're going through right now. So I think it starts with reframing that. Like the fact that we have the technology that we have today,

that we could all literally be home, have our food delivered to us, stream our favorite movies and shows and and a lot of people, not everybody, but a lot of people still have the capability to work from home and keep a job during this, this time of crisis. So I think that this, the beginning of this is reframing your situation and not looking at it like this massive dark cloud because if you think like that, it's only going to get progressively worse as the weeks go on. So I think it starts with that.

And then trying to do things like, I mentioned before the reading and mobility. I like to find one or two things that I can improve. And this can be personal growth, whether it be educating yourself on something, learning a new skill, maybe attacking, like Justin's doing at his house, projects that he's been meaning to get around to. So if you kind of focus your energy and your mind

on things that are going to improve your life and other aspects that you can still can control right now, I think those people that figure that out are going to thrive during this time versus those that are like the, you know, counting down the days, like with the days are going to end. Yeah, you know, you wanna look at what it is about the current situation that is causing

most of your mental or psychological anguish, right? So there's the unknown factor in the fear, the strongest, the most, based off of what I've read and researched, both from the science of psychology and from the spiritual practices, the popular spiritual practices. To tackle that, that's acceptance. If you odds with it, if you're fighting reality,

then you're gonna cause yourself a lot of problem. You accept the fact that you don't know what's gonna happen, you accept the fact that, okay, this is what's happening, makes a huge difference. Okay the fact that, okay, this is what's happening, makes a huge difference. Okay, besides that, though, the other part of the, and we're all starting to feel this now, and I think we all took this for granted. It's the lack of human contact. That's a big one, okay.

It's considered a cruel and unusual punishment during a war to isolate a soldier. If you had a prisoner of war and you isolated him with no human contact, that's considered, according to the Geneva Convention. It's torture. Torture, okay. That's how much we need human connection. So here's what you can do. This is what I've been doing.

I normally almost never FaceTime anybody on my phone. Well, since I've been on lockdown, I face time at least three people a day if not four five or six people a day I make it a point now why is FaceTime Better than a phone call because you can see their face and that makes a huge difference in How you feel you can connect differently so FaceTime people throughout the day. Here's the feel, you can connect differently. So face time people throughout the day. Here's the second thing you can do. Go for walks outside and actively try to engage in the people that you see walking outside.

And I don't mean walk up to them, shake their hand to the whole thing. Obviously you want to stay, keep your distance. But every time you see somebody, this is what I've been doing. As I'm approaching them, I'm looking at them, waiting for eye contact, as students, they look at me, I say, hey, how you hanging in there?

And we say a few words, and then that's it, and we pass each other, or somebody's in their driveway. Hey, how you doing? It's kind of crazy, right? Crazy times. Yes, it is. We'll have a two minute conversation. I stay on the sidewalk, they're all the way

in the driveway, and then I walk away. I come home feeling so much better doing that. And it's an active practice because you're not getting your normal engagement with other people, you gotta seek it out and make it a practice. And I promise you, that sound silly, makes it, do it one day, one day. FaceTime five people have conversations with five people,

go for a walk and try and engage the people you pass. Try that one day and watch how you feel. Oh, I do that. Yeah, I'm always trying to get on FaceTime now. It's crazy how much more so I'm on FaceTime these days and the kids as well doing messenger and everything, talking to their friends. So important for them to maintain their relationships with their friends and everything too by, you know, we actually have tackled this.

This is something that, and I'm glad this question was asked because this kind of follows up too with the whole homeschool thing and like being away from their friends and then the stress that brings us to try and, you know, kind of create opportunities for them to be, you know, active and productive throughout the day without, you know,

causing animosity and stress that trickles up to us. So what we've done to really try and solve some of this is create a little bit more order. I'm not the most organized person in the world, but this is an opportunity for us to tighten things up a bit and create and restore some sort of normal scene. So what we've done is highlight that this time in the morning is when we're all gonna wake up. And so we've done is highlight that this time in the morning is when we're all going to wake up.

And so we've all kind of agreed to that. And then everybody has something they can do to contribute to the family. They'll take the dogs out, they'll feed them. We get up, make breakfast. We all get dressed even though we don't have school. We don't have to drive to work at necessarily that time. Everybody just wants to maintain sort of this time period and this schedule that we used to have. And then the rest of the day, like we've highlighted certain things that we're all going to do as a family and then

times where they're going to separate and they're going to do whatever the hell they want. And you know, there's times for school work in there. There's times for scheduling, you know, FaceTime with the friends. There's, you know, maybe we can walk by the grandparents house, say hi, and things like that. So we've done that. And it has brought a little more, you know, happiness and normalcy to the family

and Lord are anxiety, I think, between us. Next question is from Justin 90. What do you guys think about 24-hour fitness not freezing memberships? I didn't know these sons of bitches were doing this. Yeah, so I looked it up. I looked into the details. Right. Is that true?

Well, so people were complaining that 24-hour fitness was making it impossible to cancel. So you have to call into cancer membership, nobody's answering the phone, and then they shut the call line down. And the only way you could get in contact with anybody was apparently through their website So you have to call into Cancer Membership, nobody's answering the phone, and then they shut the call line down. And the only way you could get in contact with anybody was apparently through their website.

And yet nobody was getting in contact. So everybody's getting pissed off. And what 24-Fitness put out a statement and said that, and this is based off this article that I, you know, that I, that I, that I, I hope for their sake, I hope this is intrub because this is the type of person I am. I'm such, so they're, they're getting my membership dues

just like the other three memberships that I'm paying right now I just haven't had the time to get around to freeze them I didn't know they are doing it But just because of that and I know that that's probably fucking a lot of people on the type of person that as soon as this is all Clear and gone I will walk in cancel that and I'll never get a membership Oh because of the way they handle it. Yeah, just because of what you handle Well, so hope for their sake the same true. So here's what the CEO said in an email to Members it says please be assured that your membership will be extended for the same period same period that our clubs will be temporarily closed

So rather than freezing their their do's like every other gym does, you know LA fitness did that goal gym to that rather than they're still they're still billing people Yeah, and then if if the gyms were closed for Rather than, they're still, they're still billing people. Yeah. And then if the gyms were closed for a month, when they come back, they'll extend them a month, I think that's a terrible. It's not the way to do that. Well, it doesn't, you can't do that to people

that are month to month. Yeah. If you're a month to month, members, you should be able to cancel the fuck you want. Right. You're still creating a financial hardship for people that don't have a job right now. Yeah, dude.

This is bad. I mean, if you were a gym, how would you handle this? Cause also, you want to imagine, here. Yeah, dude. This is bad. I mean, if you were a gym, how would you handle this? Because also, you wanna imagine, here you are, you're a gym company. Maybe they're not financially very liquid. And so they're like, oh shit, we can't freeze. We need this cash to come in. Well, they fall in the category of the retailers.

Like I said, they probably only have 19 days worth of cash backed up. But I mean, they also will fall in the category of being able to get loans that will probably be Forgived in the future for to keep your paying your employees and doing things like that So I would hope that that would happen like I don't know that that really that pisses me off to even hear something like that because The scarcity mindset is rough. I'm such a principal guy and I'll as much as I like having the luxury of having a 24-hour fitness membership because I know that they're everywhere and if there's that few times a year where I need one,

I use it. I'm also the type person out of principle because they did something like that that I'll cut them off. Yeah, I appreciate the businesses that take a lump and they come back stronger. You know, like I feel like, you know, like opportunity for this is like,

you can shine in this or you can not. And you can like try and like hold whatever money you have, like still coming in even though you're like, everybody else is like hurting right now. It's like, you know, like, I have no empathy for them. Because part of why I left the company was, and how we all got together was they weren't evolving. I felt like fitness had been, for the most part,

they were part of the stagnant part of the industry, the old model. And they really weren't reinventing themselves and thinking of the future. We knew that digital media and streaming was the future of how fitness was done. And 24th Fitness was late to the party. And considering they're a billion dollar company, they should have been one of the first and back in Mark Mastroff

days, they were always the first. They were the innovator. Exactly. They were setting the bar. They were constantly creating and doing what was new and cutting edge. And man, once they sold and he was out of that company, it was never the same. And so I have no empathy for what they're going through right now whatsoever. I have empathy for the people that

work there and the trainers that are probably handcuffed right now because they have policies like they have policies that say you can't moonlight you can't be a trainer for them and fire you right so I don't know of no idea what they're do they did they lift that ban right now are they's telling trainers go ahead and virtually train clients because we can't pay you anymore like what are they I have no idea what they're doing right now but the people that I feel the most sorry for are the people that are employed there that are probably not getting paychecks anymore because most of them are our hourly employees I think right now one of the most important things that a company can do is

pay attention to how they're going to be viewed by the public when this is all said and done. So rather than just looking at the numbers and saying, okay, we can't afford to freeze memberships, we're just going to extend it after when they come back. Because we're an era of social media and fast communication, Now the word gets out, right? The word gets out that you guys are doing this and you guys look like assholes. When it's all said and done, that's gonna look terrible on you

and it will probably hurt you more than had you done the, you know, the principal thing and sent out an email and said, hey guys look, this is probably gonna hurt us really bad but obviously we're close. We're automatically freezing all memberships. You probably would end up in the long term better off, rather than this strategy,

and shutting everything down and not responding to anybody, because that was a big complaint, is that people couldn't even talk to anybody to cancel their membership, which is, you know, that's not the best strategy. And I recommend this for any business. If you're suffering right now, I think if you're honest to your customers, tell them what's going on,

I'm not saying it'll save you, but you're gonna be remembered for how you handled the situation more, you know, a lot. That's how you gonna be remembered. You can be remembered how you handled the situation. So think of it that way, like, how am to be remembered? How is my company going to be? How are these people going to remember us when all was said and done? Are we going to be remembered as greedy or as unfair? Are we going to be remembered as that one company that

did the right thing for its customers? Because that I think is going to go a long way when all of this is, you know, said and done. I agree. And with that, go to mindpumpfree.com, download all of our guides, resources, and books. They're all totally 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 Adam. 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 Mind Pump Media dot com.

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