Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 1291: The Ideal Way to Reach Your Daily Step Count, the Truth About BCAAs and EAAs, Lessons from Mom & More

Episode Date: May 13, 2020

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about whether getting 10,000 steps in one shot is better or worse than getting those 10,000 steps throughout the day, the value of EAAs vs BCAAs for the average gym-goer, what their wives’ training programs look like right now, and one thing that their mother instilled in them when they were young that they’re grateful for today. A very special Mind Pump Mother’s Day. (6:11) Low vitamin D levels strongly correlated to severe symptoms of COVID-19. (17:40) Elon Musk is an odd fellow. (21:01) Mind Pump Recommends, The Age of A.I. on YouTube. (23:45) Elon Musk selling his physical possessions, Tesla potentially leaving California & MORE. (31:06) Unhealthy relationships with food from the perspective of pro athletes. (33:45) The ‘humping’ hound. (40:38) How low/high reps require different allocations in your workouts, the value of priming & MORE. (42:35) #Quah question #1 – Is getting 10,000 steps in one shot any better or worse than getting those 10,000 steps throughout the day? (46:10) #Quah question #2 - EAAs vs BCAAs, are they both useless for the average gym-goer? (50:24) #Quah question #3 – What do your wives’ training programs look like right now? I’m sure they are swamped with kids at home and I’d love to hear how each of them train now vs as they normally do? (56:18) #Quah question #4 – In honor of Mother’s Day, what’s one thing that your mother instilled in you when you were young that you’re grateful for today. (1:02:15) Related Links/Products Mentioned May Promotion: MAPS Starter ½ off! **Promo code “STARTER50” at checkout** Special Promotion: MAPS Anywhere ½ off!! **Code “WHITE50” at checkout** Visit Organifi for the exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Code “mindpump” at checkout** Visit Everly Well for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Code “mindpump” at checkout** Association between vitamin D levels and mortality from COVID-19 Mind Pump #1290: The Homeless Crisis With Dr. Drew Joe Rogan Experience #1470 - Elon Musk The Age of A.I. - YouTube Amazon.com: Watch Upload | Prime Video Elon Musk just declared that he's selling almost all his physical belongings and 'will own no house' and that he thinks Tesla's stock price is 'too high' Elon Musk says Tesla HQ will leave California, sues county over production restart “It’s Totally an Unhealthy Relationship With Food” Mind Pump #1235: The 5 Most Overrated Supplements Bodybuilding Supplements vs Creatine & Protein?? DON'T TAKE THESE (QUAH #4)| MIND PUMP Mind Pump Free Resources People Mentioned Dr. Drew Pinsky (@drdrewpinsky) Instagram Elon Musk (@elonmusk)  Twitter Michael Phelps (@m_phelps00)  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, MIND, with your hosts. Saldas Defenow, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. Welcome to Mind Pump. This is the world's top fitness, health, and entertainment podcast. This is a Q&A episode. This is where we answer questions asked by listeners like you. But the way we open the episode is with a 40 minute introductory portion. So where we talk about current events, we talk about what happens in our lives. Sometimes we mention our sponsors. So here's the breakdown of this podcast. We start out by talking about Mother's Day. We're recording this episode the day after Mother's Day. So we kind of talk about what happened on that day. Then we talk about how Adam made protein pancakes up in Truckee for his family for mother's

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We also talked about vitamin D and how some studies are showing that vitamin D deficiencies are low levels of vitamin D and how some studies are showing that vitamin D deficiencies are low levels of vitamin D are now being strongly correlated to terrible symptoms from COVID. We already know that low vitamin D levels increases your odds of getting the flu or other respiratory diseases. Now, one thing about vitamin D, it's a fat, soluble vitamin. So that means it gets stored in your body. So if your vitamin D levels are good,

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Ugh! I talked about the bad food relationships that offensive linemen in the sports ball game of football tend to get. Justin talked about the humping hound. Yeah, it's kind of weird. It's happening. And I talked about how low reps and high reps

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and we'll get that shirt right out to you. You guys have a good mother's day, right? Happy mother's day! Yeah! We love the moms. What'd you guys all do? What happened? What'd you do to dress them?

How did you make your mom and wife feel special? Ah! My mother's day. Well, okay, so Courtney actually has been really getting into learning new recipes and she's getting really excited about exploring options with food and stuff and how to make things healthier. And so I got a really cool cookbook for her

that has a ton of these recipes and everything. So that was a hit. It was more of like I'm paying attention to her was a hit. It was more of like, I'm paying attention to like her interest right now, and I was like trying to, it wasn't like, who are cook me food? I was gonna say, isn't it like in your wife, like a vacuum? I mean, it felt like that a little bit,

but like it was, you know, it was an expensive cookbook. So, it's an expensive vacuum, you know? Yeah. You're making food, yeah. I know, I felt kind of like that, but she was really excited about that. And I got her like, uh, is funny because like, I got her something that was like totally not like what I would have normally in terms of like, I want to get some sexy, you know, like, like, wear something around the house.

I got her like, this total, this jumper thing that was all like, really comfortable. And like, something she could wear because it because it not feel like a total scrub being around the house all the time in sweats. So it's kind of like wearing sweats but like the nicer version of it. So anyway. Sounds like you give her a couple of gifts for you. You're brave.

That's what I do. Makes some food a little sexy. Yeah. I mean, it's really like it's that. And then me taking over just the the entire day like let her sleep You know as long as she wants like I don't know dude what the fuck else am I Oh So romantical I'm sure she like it reminds me my dad my dad did something like that years ago

I never forget my dad it was Mother's Day and He's not the kind to think about like what to get, or he's old school, you know what I mean? So he's like, I'm gonna go get her a present by myself, you know what I mean? So he goes out and he comes back. He's a little risk.

And he comes back with the vacuum. No, he really did. He did, and he, but he was like, he was trying to be thoughtful and he goes, you know, I heard you, I hear you talk about how bad the vacuum is and how well it, how much it doesn't work. Yeah. So I got you like one of the best ones or whatever,

like, and I remember even as a 12 year old boy, I remember seeing that. Go ahead, like, oh yeah. Yeah, that was that. Yeah, that a good new. Yeah. That was the move, dad. Yeah, we went up to that place that you've been talking about.

Oh yes, I totally forgot to ask you about that. How did you like it? Gorgeous. It is. Gorgeous, we got forgot to ask you about that. How did you like it? Gorgeous. Gorgeous, we got this room. It's like a cottage almost like a suite and it's literally on the beach, literally. Like you go out onto your little patio area, whatever. And you hear the ocean and I did some riding,

we totally relaxed. So that was part of the mother's day gift or whatever. And then I also got her, have you guys seen those baby books when you have a child that it tells you, you know, you put a picture of your baby when they were born and this was the first favorite food. They're a wristband you couldn't put in there. Yeah, the whole like this was, you know,

you and your mom, you know, me and your mom when we were baby. Yeah, and so it was really nice. So I got on one of those too. That's cool. So we had, yeah, we had a really good time. And then, you was a really nice. I got on one of those two. That's cool. So we had yeah We had a really good time and then you know my mom I got her I went on What's that Etsy you guys have been on this site? Oh, yes. Yeah Buying a bunch of trinkets you don't eat in your house just like a cesspool for buying a bunch of trinkets that you don't need in your house.

I mean, I'm still like, I'm still like an old grumpy bastard. I know, we're on a hike. I mean, there's a lot more to the story, but, you know, bro, it's all good. You get rid of yourself. It's fine, keep going, keep going. Yeah.

Anyway, I went on there for my mom, and I found this necklace that you can put birthstones on it. So I put birthstones of all of my mom's grandkids in order of oldest youngest. And then the last one was the baby that's coming. So I put that little birthstone. What a good husband and son you are. It's like I should take notes from you guys.

No. Careful, bro. Don't say you guys yet. I haven't gone yet. All right. So I'm gonna see how Adam's doing. Hey, you're still married. I had to force the first time.

Yeah, yeah. It's just damn it. Yeah, it's pretty. Take a step back. All right. You don't want to listen to me all the time. Pump your brakes. I'm not gonna do it well right now.

Yeah. What about you Adam? Well, we were all up at the trucky house, right? So we went up there with Katrina's family. That was a lot of people. Yeah, well, her family, right? Her family's big, right? Sure.

So we filled the house up for sure. And whatever we do, stuff like that, one of the things I love that her family does, they started this tradition with me, I don't know, probably five, six years ago, every year, we all go. And normally it's around Thanksgiving and Christmas, we go to somewhere and we're into house for normally a week

or whatever and what they do is they assign, because there's so many of us, you have a meal that you are responsible for bringing everything for it, you're responsible for preparing it, you're responsible for cleaning the kitchen. But that's what we did when we went. Yeah, when you guys were with us, right? So that's something we always do. And I just love that.

It makes, because then I know that, okay, this morning I have breakfast and I've got a cook and clean. And then other than that, I'm going to do shit around keeping the house up and you don't feel guilty about not helping somebody clean. It's like, that's your day. You know what I'm saying? It's your day, it's your meal, you handle it.

So I had Mother's Day breakfast with Jaylin and Jasmine, so the three of us prepared protein pancakes. That's funny, today was an organic I commercial, I totally could have just slid that commercial in there. They, we had, I don't do it now. Well, yeah, I forgot, I forgot. I forgot today was a commercial for them and we actually, and my Mother's day breakfast was the protein pancakes.

So we, we used that powder in there for protein pancakes and then we had potatoes and bacon. How many, how many scoops per, like how much, so I do it, I do a two to one ratio. So whatever, and I forget what, you know, what you call pancake mix that Katrina, you what brand it was. So, you know, sue me call pancake mix that Katrina, you, what brand it was, so you know, sue me, you can use any brand. And then whatever ratio of the flour batter mix, I use, so I go two to one. So one protein scoop for that.

And any more than that, like so when Katrina and I are home, we may push it to like one and a half to two to two or whatever, so one to one ratio. But then it has a little bit stronger protein taste and a little chalkier and we know we're serving a bunch of people that are. You put your fork in the powder? Yeah, I don't mind.

It's still good to me. And so when Katrina makes them for me at home, and what we do is so we, and I did this too, so I sliced up strawberries, blueberries, bananas, and I put them in the pancakes. So you had either banana or strawberry or blueberry protein pancakes. And we did half the amount of protein mix

and we would do at our house. So do vanilla or chocolate? Vanilla. Vanilla. Vanilla blends the best. It does. I think vanilla just does better with mixing things like pancakes and stuff like that

because they kind of have that flavor to it, I think. So yeah, we made them all the mom's breakfast. And of course, they didn't have to do anything. Katrina and I went on a really nice bike ride. For her mom and her, I had a really nice framed picture. So you know that picture that I took, I think I shared it on Max's page of Katrina and Max on the beach. Just a really good, it's a really beautiful day on the beach.

And it's a recent photo of Max and hers. So I did one for a couple different shots I got. I got one that I gave to her and one that I gave to her mom that I framed really nice and then presented that to them. And then like I said, the rest of the day, Katrina and I kind of kept her from having to do anything and made sure that everyone was helping out with Max and then her and I went for a bike ride And so that was kind of her mother's day. So that's what it was nice. How was it up there? I'm tricky. Oh dude. It was absolutely gorgeous. Oh bro, you gotta tell me about the bear. Oh yeah Is that real? Yes. Yes massive dude. I mean we were talking about this the you know

We've been up there a bunch of times now. I'm not cool with this. I do. It's just scary to catch it. They're afraid. Yeah, I can do this and make a lot of loud noise. Yeah, they're, I mean, they're afraid of humans. I got chased by a bear. They're not, they're not, remember? They're not messing with you.

The only time I would be afraid is if they, if, you know, mother bear and it had like two cubs and I was near. Like, that would kind of worry me because I know they can get very protective of their cubs. But otherwise black bears are normally really scared of you So if you make a bunch of noise they go and now were you outside and then it just so Katrina and their family were sitting around the fire And it was it like like I'd say dusk so still light outside very light outside and They were sitting around the fire. I was in the living room

I just happened to be walking to the living room You know where our big picture windows are so you can see the golf courts and everything. And also, and I see this bear just fucking flying, massive, too, big old one, just hoofing right through the golf course. And I was like, oh, my eyes lit up, and then I looked at them out by the fire, they had all seen it, and they were like pointing.

And they're like, did you see that? I said, yeah, no, I saw them. I said, I guess we do have some wild life out here. We're looking at some trash. The only thing that I, the only knock that I have of our place up there is, what's not the place, it's just the being up there. My skin gets so dry, dude. So my psoriasis is just like on a whole nother level up there.

It's super dry. Yeah, I mean, you guys feel it, right? You feel your lips get dry and your ear throat. I'm not usually a lotion guy. I'm like super lotion up there. I'm so fluttering constantly. For me with my psoriasis, it just gets, it's 10 times worse up there.

It's the only downfall. Now, are you still doing the vitamin D supplements? And here's, you know what, you're funny bringing that up because I'm good about it when I'm home. I have to be better about traveling with my vitamin D, especially when I know that I'm going up there because I know it's gonna make it worse anyway.

So I didn't, while I was up there. So yeah, because it's connected, strongly connected to psoriasis. Yeah, no, you're the one that turned me on to that in the first minute. Now, the last time you tested your vitamin D, where were you in the range? So I forget how everythingverlywell does their scoring

because their scoring is different than like a... But they'll give you a range. Yeah, yeah, so I was on, well, when I tested, so check this out, I was actually taking 5,000 I think is a pill. Yeah, 5,000 I used. I was taking 5,000 I used and I tested with the Everlywell, and I still was low.

Like, I wasn't even in the normal range. So I was below the normal range with taking 5,000 years. So now I take 10,000 years. And I know to caution someone listening, one, I'm not a doctor, I'm not telling people to go out if you have psoriasis that you should take 10,000 years of vitamin D. I recommend that you get tested and figure it out because I know that I was really low, so I take that much.

That's why it's so important to test because vitamin D is fat soluble. If your D levels are high and you supplement, that's not good for you either. If they're low and you're supplementing with, say, 5,000 I use and it's not enough to get it up, then you would probably need to take more. So that's why testing is so important. It's not like a water soluble vitamin that you could just, you know, like vitamin C, I could take 5,000 milligrams and aside from maybe possible stomach upset, my body gets rid

of what it doesn't need with something like vitamin, you know what else they found with vitamin D? In fact, a very strong correlation to low vitamin D and severe symptoms from the COVID-19 virus. Do you think that's what's connected to the whole homeless thing that we are talking with Dr. Drew? Yeah, so that's interesting. I thought about that because so, if you haven't listened to that episode,

we interviewed Dr. Drew about the homeless crisis in California. And at the end of the, towards the end of the episode, Dr. Drew about the homeless crisis in California. And at the end of the, towards the end of the episode, I asked him, you know, because the homeless population you would think is the perfect storm for a virus to go through and just ravage, right? They're unhealthy, many of them drugs. They're on the street dirty. I think it's low immunity, you'd think.

You think, right? And he's like, yeah, he goes, they're not getting, there's a lower instance of COVID among the homeless population than there are amongst the people. And he said the ones that are like asymptomatic, right? So not only are they already lower, but then even the small percentage that have are asymptomatic. Yeah, but then again, they are outside all the time. And so, and they again, with respiratory illness, like the flu, if your vitamin D levels are low, your odds of getting, you know, severe symptoms are higher, one of the theories, there's a lot of factors, but one of the theories that I've read about is the why there's even a flu season to begin with, has to do with vitamin D levels, where in the winter, you're just not getting as much sun. If you're kind of low, it's enough to get you at below a certain level, and then you get effect.

I just sent in my vitamin D, Everly Welter. Oh, is that what you took? So you did the vitamin D, I got the allergy one, which by the way, I haven't taken mine yet, but I need to. Yeah. And then just, yeah, I just did mine for pregnancy one. You got the pregnancy one, which weren't you? Yeah, no, heavy metals.

I wanted it to see, like, if there was any toxic metal, you know, like levels. No, cause I drink tap water and everything, and I don't know, like I was just curious. A good question. Yeah, I was just curious about it. So I figured they have a whole host of different tests, and obviously too, I thought it'd be kind of funny

because I want to see how metal I really am. You know, that is the real reason. is the real reason I was searching for that because I was like, what the fuck do you think a heavy metal test? I mean, I got the hard alley. I'm so much more metal than you get you know, I just want to say that the test is gonna come back It's heavy. It's super heavy metal. Super heavy. Yes, but that means I'm dying Well, if you have high heavy metals in your system, then you have to get them out. If you talk, they give you kind of vague symptoms, I think, sometimes. Like general, shitty symptoms. I don't even kind of, yeah, symptoms.

No, because I supplement with vitamin D every day, I do 5,000 to 10,000 every day, and I have for a long time, I test regularly because I don't want it to go too high. If I see a guest, do I, then I'll lower my dose. You know what I'm saying? But otherwise, I'll keep it. And it's just, we don't get enough sun, dude. Yeah. That's just the bottom line.

We feel it all the time being cooped up in this studio even. Nobody gets enough sun. Think about it this way. Humans evolved getting a lot of sun. Like, no way we were in caves as much as we are indoors nowadays. There's no way. I agree. We're just outside all the time.

And so the vitamin D levels have to be, by the way, cholesterol, dietary cholesterol helps your body synthesize vitamin D. Do you know what I did? No, I didn't know that. Yeah, yeah. So, which we've been told to avoid forever. Yeah, no.

For these factors against this. Hey, I listened to a little bit of the Elon Musk episode with Rogan. Yeah. How far did you get? Another one? Halfway through. Second one.

Oh, I didn't know he did a second one. Yeah. He's weird. It's even more awkward. Yeah, he's been awkward. I remember we just last time we were talking, we had this debate. I was like, come on, dude, it's awkward.

Well, because he's asking him about Neural Link, because they're getting pretty close to testing it with humans and whatnot. He speculates what, another year from now or something, but they're gonna start, which is interesting. I didn't know that this was the approach first, was that they were gonna try to help to heal brain injuries first. So that's their first iteration is to start with,

basically, they bore out a part of the skull, and then they replace it with this microchip, and that way, like the little wires are like neurons, like they're, and so they can connect and basically restore some functions, like say, like hearing loss, like eyesight, like paralysis, like things like that, they can target by reconnecting,

you know, this neural link there. Wow. Really interesting. Yeah, I hope that doesn't go bad. Well, yeah, I mean, it's going to be a while, I think, before people like, but that's the thing. Is there, he's going to start with more of, you know, real serious brain injury type of people to experiment with first.

They're going to give you two options. This, the first one is more expensive. The people to experiment with first. They're gonna give you two options. This, the first one is more expensive. The second one comes with ads. So you're gonna hear again, but every 15 minutes you get an ad. You're gonna hear it from Marshall. Yeah, so I was, yeah, exactly. I was interested in that because it's like, he was pitching it forever as like this,

this way to interface with the internet and like become like this super human almost, you know, because of you'd be able to have access to information. Right, he alluded to that in the first one. We're gonna talk about how close we are. We have no idea what that will do to the human psyche. We have no idea at all.

Dude, overload, it might just crash the whole system. Or really? Or imagine? I certainly won't be one of the first. I don't know. No, even he won. I mean, he certainly won't be one of the first I know no even he won I mean he even admitted it like Joe like kind of is like oh so when are you gonna like plant this in your head and he's like well we'll see how this goes the you know the brain injury people first probably his kid yeah yeah yeah have you seen the memes surrounding his kid being

born we're like to have like like like like, you know, father, what is this emotion thing? Don't worry, I know, cause he named him a weird name into the other stuff. A-E-U-Dash 12-A. He's a very, I still think I'd be best friends with him if I met him. Weird is hell, whatever, but he's a super, I love to do.

Well, it definitely sparked for me like more interest. I mean, I'm very much into the whole sci-fi and like where we're going with everything. And I stumbled across this show, it's like a YouTube original, what's it called, the story of AI or like a... Age of AI. Age of AI.

So what's in the Robert Downey Jr. is the one, the host for it. So he does the whole Iron Man kind of a presentation thing where you have all the graphics and everything but they explain where AI currently is right now and it's like it's they're learning to emulate what we already know and do and so there's all these different segments where one of them was with Will I am you know the guy from the Black Peas yeah he's trying to create this digital version of himself so basically all his you basically all his social media accounts

and everything, he can have this avatar answering everybody, just like he would, and he looks just like it. So the guy that came up with this technology was working with Avatar and all these super CGI movies and then kind of created his own business to then incorporate AI into this, like real realistic digital version of yourself that like answers what? It's crazy.

Where is this show? The sounds I wanna watch the show. Dude, it's so fast. But where do you watch it? Where is it? It's YouTube. It's YouTube TV. Oh, I don't have that.

Yeah, but you can still go on YouTube and you can get the first couple episodes just to try it out. So I highly suggest it's really fascinating. Dude, I want to check this out so bad. Doug just pulled up the trailer right here. Yeah, did you guys watch that? What was that movie? I kept telling you guys was really awesome and it was about this dude who had a computer trip in his brain. It was on Amazon and then he's like all all of a sudden a bad ass. What was that movie called? Anyway, it was really, really well made and it was interesting because people had upgrades like that.

And so like, I can only see so far, but imagine if you have an upgrade, or just effortlessly, I could zoom 100. You know, I could see how far, I could hear. It's like a black mirror episode. How far or whatever, or I remember everything like well The contact lens to do that is already out right? I think I shared that like a last year sometime or at least six plus months ago

So it's a contact lens you put contact lens and it then has the ability to zoom like freaking like a mile away or whatever Right or you got a drone flying and you could see through the drone and one eye and then see you know where you're at Right now. Yeah, they have that too. Yeah, and this one I'm saying, we have no idea. It's just getting weird. Remember humans evolved with a particular, like our brain and how it works. You're gonna change that radically.

It's gonna get weird. Yeah, but when you say things like that, don't you, isn't there a part of you that also sounds just like your great grandpa who said that when like television came out and we're a male. That's different than going into the brain. Well, okay, kind of, I guess, you know what I'm saying? Like, they probably thought the TV was gonna melt. They used to say you should melt your brain.

That's what they thought. So, for them, it wasn't that much more, it's not that much more radical than what we were already used to. So, I always try and catch myself when I start saying that because then I'm like, fuck, am I that old guy now? Who's just gonna resist what's gonna come about? Okay, let me give you an example. Let's, okay, this is speculated, this will be fun, right?

Okay, one thing that we've always, always, always had to deal with as self-aware creatures is our own mortality. We've always had to deal with this. We know that we will die. This is actually what makes us human. Okay, so imagine now you know that you'll never die. You know that you can live forever.

Think about how radically this gonna change. Well, I don't know if I don't think it's gonna change that, but I mean, talking about the show upload, I think is really cool, the idea. That's a great show, man. The idea that you could upload your consciousness and you could get, like, and they can use AI to basically predict what this digital version of you,

that's kind of cool, you know? I think that's kind of neat. And I always refer back to talking about my dad, right? Because as somebody who lost their father at an early age, we don't have a lot of photos. I don't have a lot of footage. If there was this AI version of him because there were all this stuff that we were there, right? I'd at least have some sort of way to communicate with him.

I don't know, just interesting to me. I guess I hadn't really thought about this and put it all together, but on the show, the will I am was talking about like how he was trying to be more of an owner of his data and how all these companies exist to basically figure out who you are, your tendencies, your likes, where you go, how you interact to people even through your emails, like what you say. So they're compiling all of that

to then create their, you know, like sell that to eventually to an AI company that's gonna use that in some degree. Well, let's say you do make, like you said earlier, you are able to make a copy of yourself who now becomes your assistant or works for you. How much of a copy is it gonna be? Because if I literally made an identical copy to myself,

I would tell myself to fuck off. Yeah. What? You know what I'm saying? Let me put this in. Let me mean. Imagine if you made a perfect copy of yourself. You made a perfect copy of yourself.

You're like, hey, I just made you, you're gonna go do all this work for me. Thank you. You would tell you, you could, Oh, you mean, I could fuck off. You mean, AI version with you. Yeah, if you made a perfect copy of you. You would tell you you could oh you mean I can fuck off. I mean AI I mean AI version with you. Yeah, if you need a

Prostrate with you. Yeah, you wait a minute. Why am I doing everything? Why do you get all the fun stuff? Why do I have to do all the bullshit? That's not safe. Doesn't matter your AI dude you computer. That's what hey, I am the real deal. Oh no, it's part of it reminds me of that black mirror episode where they made like their personal assistant Yeah, and it was it was them and then they controlled them in their phone or whatever and they're like, oh, you don't want to do what I say? No problem. And then they pause it for like 10 minutes, but for the person for the AI experience was like six months of total isolation. They'll do anything you say. That's fucked up. I mean, I've seen a lot of versions of this too,

or like, yeah, you do that. Like you put your consciousness in another robot or whatever. And then that one's like, no, I wanna be the real one and then kills you. Yeah, yeah. I just think that this is gonna go to the theory. I would kill me. You want me to do well, you're not working? I figured out how to kill myself.

Stop it. He's not warning about this. There is gonna be, I think there's gonna be a very even split. There's gonna be the unplugged and plugged in. There's gonna be people that... The unplugged, like, live underground. I don't think it's not going back to the kitchen.

Not at all. I think unplugged will, no. We're not perfect. No, dude. Unplugged will look a lot like in my weekend, this weekend. You know, up there, it doesn't even look like COVID's going on. It's just every, every you see people walking by.

You don't see people wearing masks. It's just, you're out in nature. You don't see people staring at phones all the time. I just think it'll be like that. I think it'll be like people that are in nature and are not connected to their phones, in televisions and paths. Oh, I hear you say,

I thought you meant that you'll have some people who are completely rejected that stuff, completely rejected, and in the other side that becomes a part of it. I can only imagine the unplugged. You know, we still have genetic problems. We're still, you know, we're not perfect or whatever. Seeing then what happens when you get a digital virus

that kills off like all these neural link people, you know? And then the rest of the ones that didn't do it, you know, have to take over and rebuild. Quick unplug. Yeah, you know, I don't know. Anyway, but Elon, on that podcast, back to take over and rebuild. Quick unplug. Yeah. I don't know. But Elon, on that podcast, back to that, he said he was going to, he's selling everything. Apparently, he wants to sell most of his possession.

Everything or is he just trying to get out of California? The article I read, he was trying to leave California. He's separate things. His state too, like his, his, what? Yeah, he's gonna rent. He's gonna rent. He wants to get rid of everything because he says that his possessions are a vector for attack.

In other words, people come after him and say, well, you own all the stuff or what he also says it weighs him down. So he wants to not own much stuff, which I think is, it's pretty cool coming from somebody who has the money to own most. A billionaire. That's interesting.

It's weird. Yeah, see now what would scare me? I would definitely have at least a compound somewhere because I don't know. Just we keep, there's more and more of us in less and less space. I think property is going to be hard to come by, especially in areas that are desirable, right? If you want to be somewhere near the water or something like that or nice areas or near work, to find a place to live could be really difficult. Think about this way.

Well, think about this way. When you're a billionaire, one of your problems might be that you have a lot of stuff. That might actually be a challenge. It's distracting. Not only just distracting, but he's right, it weighs you down, you get defined by it.

You know, it feels complicated or whatever, you want to just kind of be free. You know what I mean? It's a solid all. So I can kind of understand what he's talking about. And then the other part was you know, it feels complicated or whatever you want to just kind of be free. You know what I mean? So sell it all so I can I can kind of understand what he's talking about. And then the other part was you said, uh, what you're talking about, I read that article too, how he's taking Tesla out of California. Well, that happens to me. Is that happening? Cause that was all because they told them they couldn't go back to work, right?

Yeah. That's because like F you, I mean, this was like the last month. Yeah, they were just like, no, you still can't do. Yeah. He said, well, hey, look, it's his right to do it. And I'm not going to lie. California is definitely not the easiest place to operate. How stupid are we as a state? Isn't that the only card? Yeah. Not the only one left. That's the only one that that's actually manufactured in here,

everywhere else. Yeah, way to go. Yeah. All those people are going to be unemployed or moved to another state. I'm sure he'll probably get I'm sure he'll probably get wooed by you know, Texas or another place like that. He's already in Texas He's already in Nevada. He'll just probably just double up right? Just open out there But it was because they told him that he can't he can't reopen Yeah, even without because he said he was gonna put you know special You know structures in place and practices to keep you safe. Now, did you get into like, because obviously Elon has been one of the, you know,

famous voices that have been talking against COVID this whole time, did he get into that with him? Yeah, I didn't see it a little bit in terms of like what he's put on Twitter and how people responded to it and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, so they talked about that a little bit. Yeah. Crazy.

Hey, I was reading some sports ball stuff. Wait, so you guys would like that. Okay. Well, what were you reading? Actually, so there was an article. I'm listening. You know, I should find where it is. So people can we'll put it in the show notes, right? It's about it's from the point of view from offensive linemen, right? And they're talking about how unhealthy of a relationship that they create with food because of the amount of weight that they need to gain. One of the guys was talking about how he would make a shake with grits, peanut butter, milk, chicken. It was like the most high calorie disgusting thing you think of. And he would drink it because chewing became so tiresome for him. And you'd have to consume 7,000 calories a day to get his weight up to where they wanted

what she needed to be over 300 pounds. You know, it's interesting about that this topic, your Brianna. I've always found it kind of interesting that after the first time I read this, that you know, you know, I know the average life expectancy of someone who played in the NFL, I think, for five years or more. It's definitely under 60, right? It's 55. That's crazy.

So that's an average of all of them. That throws the punter in there. That throws the guy who's set the bench. The punter lives the longest. Yeah. I mean, seriously, and you gotta know that the people that are bringing that average down the most are the linemen, because I think today's average linemen is like a hundred pounds heavier than just like two decades ago.

Yeah, those habits and then, you know, not having that kind of rigorous activity, like just cutting that off. And now what? It's like, you're going to maintain this high calorie diet, like even when you're trying to cut it down, it just does so much damage. So I messed up the shake. So here's what he made. Seven scrambled eggs, a tub of cottage cheese,

grits, peanut butter, a banana, and gatorade. And he blend it. Oh! He blend it and then drink it. And he says that he was constantly, who is this guy that was talking? I should tell you guys what his name is. Oh, super famous.

Ben Barch. Ben Barch. He's an offensive lineman. Yeah, so, but he says that he constantly felt like he was stuffed all the time, but it says the only way he could get his weight up to what they wanted. I mean, here's a thing. Sports are their giants.

Professional sports are anything but healthy. Okay, you're pushing your body to the extreme and football has to be one of the least healthy. It's one of the most dangerous I would assume. Well, and then you throw an eating like that too. It's crazy. And Justin's point that's the, I mean, all the pro athletes that I've trained post their career, that's one of the hardest things is that they were so,

for so many years, they were used to eating a certain way. And it's like, dude, you can't, you can't even come close. Not even close to that. I mean, I know what I have had to change just in the last few years from not lifting and training as hard. I mean, they're lifting training hard and playing at a whole another level. The amount of count and then trying to maintain a weight like that. Just, you can't even be close to that. He says that one point that one of the head coaches wanted away him. This is when he first started. So he quickly went downstairs, grabbed two 10 pound

weights, put him in the back of his pants. He had big sweats on to try to make the weight that they needed. And then he says how later on gaining weight wasn't a problem. Now it was now it was too hard for him to be at the right weight. He was starting to get too overweight. And they started to chart. They they NFL would find him for every extra pound. You want to know how much you got fine? I mean, if Phil would find him for every extra pound, you wanna know how much he got fine? Thousand bucks. For per pound? Per pound over the limit because they said that

his number was 338. So any pound over that was a thousand bucks. But yeah, it's cool to hear them talk about how unhealthy it is for them to follow this regime or whatever, but 7,000 calories a day, that's not easy. No. No, it's hard to, that's not easy. No. No, it's hard to do that. I don't know.

You remember when they came out with Juerrard Reed, what Michael Phelps was eating? Yeah. 10,000? Yeah. Yeah, he had like a 10,000 calorie breakfast or something like that. He had to go to McDonald's constantly,

just to keep it going. Oh, when you're eating that much food, so here's the thing that people need to understand. It's hard to eat. I know this, it's hard to eat over 3,000 calories of healthy food. Very difficult. You have to reach for the hyper palatable crap because, you know, if I'm eating healthy food, it automatically satiates you.

It's not hyper palatable. Now, I'm sure there's people wondering, like, why would they do that? There is something to be said though, like I think of Michael Phelps. It was probably advantageous for him to eat that much because then when he comes out, at least he didn't destroy his metabolism because if you were only eating 3,000 calories or 2,500 calories and burning as much as he could.

You wouldn't be able to perform. Right, you wouldn't be able to perform. You'd slow your metabolism down like crazy and then when you actually stop swimming, it'd be really easy to put on a ton of weight. At least in his case, if you got your body used to burning 10,000 calories and he just jumped and he stopped swimming like cold turkey,

then he could cut his calories in half and still have 5,000 calories. When you're training and eating to achieve a extreme level of performance, I don't care what we're talking about, it's no longer balanced, it's no longer longevity or health. It's about maximum, maximum performance. So Michael Phelps, the best competitive swimmer of all time.

I still think he has the record for the most gold medals. Oh yeah, no. If I'm not mistaken. He has a record for most gold medals, the record for the most Olympic medals. It was like, Doug can get this. I know. I just read this actually.

It was in a minute. They were talking about it in the book that I was reading. And I want to say it's 14. Yeah. 14 about it in the book that I was reading. And I wanna say it's 14, 14 Olympic medals, and I can't. So dominant. Oh, just beyond. He's got all kinds of records. You know what's funny about swimmers?

Is that I remember a long time ago, I watched this show on like the best athletes, and they were explaining how what makes somebody, genetically, what makes someone an excellent swimmer, basically makes them terrible at any other sport. Have you guys heard of this? So what makes somebody genetically speaking a really really good swimmer, like Michael Phelps is really short legs, really really long arms, like you know, comically long arms, a flat ribcage in torso, and so any other sport on land.

So you look like a boat? Yeah, exactly. Like a big canoe with these 28 medals. 28 medals, you want. 28. Yeah, how many gold does it? That's mind-boggling. Maybe it was 14 gold then. That's insane to me. Yeah, that's crazy.

But yeah, I mean, he was in the pool, what? But then he put him in hours and then. Like you said, he probably sucks at everything else. Yeah. I'll show you, he's that young. I see him, right? And you're an Olympic athlete. You get your ass kicked by all your buddies

and every other sport. Basketball, just kidding. Just kidding. You ever seen the picture of Michael Phelps What is that you're gonna see him run? You're an Olympic athlete, you're asking by all your buddies and every other sport. Fast ball is getting John. You ever seen the picture of Michael Phelps standing next to the fastest, I think it was marathon runner in the world. You ever seen that? So the fat, so Michael Phelps is like way taller than this other dude who's one of the fastest

distance runners, but their legs are the same length because Michael Phelps' legs are so short, and the marathon runners legs are so long. So they had the same like their waist was the same, but then Phelps is like torso. It's just, you know, through the roof. Dude, speaking of dominance, my little dog, you know, I just got

the little miniature docks in there. He punks the big one, huh? Yeah, so he's just like, like constantly just like jumping on, you know, Arlo. And it was funny because he just started, you know, getting a little bit randy these days, started like, humping everything. And like, like my youngest was playing with him

and was looking up at me and then I, like his hand was down there and all of a sudden, like Finn started just humping his arm. And he's like, oh, and I was like, don't let him do that. You know, that's a dominance. Like he's humping you. And then so that turned into a conversation I was really ready to have. He's like, okay, so what, like, what is humping dad?

Like what's, and then he's like, it's so I tried to like work my way out of it like real quick, you know, and I'm just like, oh, he just does that because he's like, so I tried to like work my way out of it like real quick, you know, and I'm just like, oh, he just does that because he's trying to be alpha dog, whatever. And, uh, and then I like what I'm wrestling with your mom, making you walk here and do it. Like, this just opened up a can of worms, right? And so he's in my room. I hear him. He's like, well, I'm going to help him back.

And I'm like, no, don't do that. It's like, that's not, no, we don't do that, buddy. So, yeah, the humping thing, the term now is coming up a lot more now ever since that. That's the wrong word. I remember when I was a kid, I remember my sister was like, eight maybe, and she comes inside, all excited, you know, to my dad, right?

Bop, bop, bop, bop, come outside. Look, look, the dog knows how to dance. So my dad's like, what? So she goes outside, and the dog grabs her leg and starts humping her. And she's like dancing now. And I remember my dad having this look and he grabs the hose.

It's a spray wipe. He's like, why didn't you spray him? It's a bad dance. Yeah, he's trying to dance. He's not trying to dance. Yeah, it's funny because he asked for it. He's like, is this pumping mommy started doing it in the air. Oh, no.

And she's like, no, I think he's your hips more. That's terrible. Anyway, dude, I had this morning. I had a great work on feeling like, you know, I avoided squats for a long time. Yeah. Coming back. Coming back.

Yeah, I'm feeling good again. And, you know, I was thinking about how we tend to apply low reps and high reps to our workouts and sets. I thought this would be an interesting point to bring up on the show. Typically, if you're working for strength and you're doing low repetitions, you're better off doing more sets of less exercises. When you're doing high reps, you're better off doing less sets, but more exercises. Does that make sense? So if I'm doing high reps for chest, I'm better off doing five exercises,

two sets each, for example, if I'm doing strength and low reps, I'm better off doing two exercises, but maybe five sets each instead to practice the skill of strength. Then it just occurred to me, I was like, it should be communicated. Well, I tell you what I'm really excited for is I saw the final work that Justin's been putting into the webinar and I saw some of the work with he was doing with Doug and I'm pumped for that. Oh, that's so good. I mean, we had such a great response from the Prime Pro webinar and I know that it's been needed for a long time for us to do prime because so many people confuse the two of those. Yeah

and it was cool to watch you guys go through that and what a difference just you teaching a single priming movement to Doug did. So if you work out and you know that it takes you two, three sets, 15, 20 minutes to get into the workout, get in the groove, really feel the maximum effects of a workout. A simple 10 minute priming session that's individualized because you have to prime your body differently than someone else who may have different issues. That's gonna do it for you and you jump right into your workout with much better connection and form. People don't get that.

So I'm hoping that this webinar, people follow along, test themselves before do the stuff that you're showing them, and then test themselves afterwards. It's such a feel thing. And I think that's why everybody was so stoked the first time, you know, when you're doing the Prime Pro webinar, you just, you really have to go through it to experience it. We could talk about it all day long about the benefits, which we try to do. We try to demystify that process, but to be able to kind of set aside time and

really feel your way through it and see where your body is deficient. But now you can, you know, you can really like improve these things almost immediately by doing a few simple exercises. It's really powerful. Oh, it's huge. Is it the same place, Doug, are they still going to Maps? Let's go to MapsPrimeWebinar.com. So MapsPrimeWebinar, and then you can sign up for it

and it's basically a class. So Justin is going to take you through a priming, how to prime your body class. So before you work out, you'll be tested. And you should let people know too, because a lot of people ask me this question after ours, that I, or the one that I did, is if you can't make one of the times to the

live event of it, then what you can do is register and you'll actually automatically get emailed of replays. Is that right, Doug? That's correct. So, so make sure even if like the times that we're doing it, you can't make it still register because then you'll still get it. This quads 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 to help give your health a performance-the-edit edge. Try Organify totally risk-free for 60 days by going to Organify.com. That's O-R-G-A-N-I-F-I dot com and use a coupon code mind pump for 20% off at checkout First question is from Tom Leblanc official is getting 10,000 steps in one shot any better or worse Than getting those 10,000 steps throughout the day. Oh, that's a great question It's actually probably better to spread them out. Now, if your goal is to improve your stamina and endurance, let's say you want to compete in something that requires you to like, you know, wear yourself out and push yourself,

then you want to mimic that kind of competition with your training somewhat, right? So some of the benefits of doing all 10,000 steps in one shot would be, you're going to push stamina and endurance a little more. But in terms of longevity, fat burn, muscle sparing, you're better off spreading out throughout throughout the whole day. And there are studies that support this. There are studies that have compared to 30 minute sessions of cardio to one 60 minute session of cardio. And they do allude to the fact that the two 30-minute sessions tend to burn more body fat and tend to preserve more muscles.

So spreading it out is probably your best bet. I would also make the case for energy and mood too. I mean, doing one hard bout of 10,000, basically that's like running for an hour, right? Or about an hour, a little over an hour or so. If doing it, then you're done, and then if you've rested your day, you were sedentary. Like I'll say you did that at five o'clock in the morning, right?

And then all day long, you're pretty much sedentary the rest of the day. Your energy levels, your overall mood, I think, would be greatly improved. If you took that same amount and you broke it up over, you know, instead of two, even 30 minute sessions, forget that, just walking 15 minutes on the hour, every hour for the whole day.

Just getting more productive. Yeah, just getting up and getting blood flow. And I think that what that would do for your mood and energy, I would make the case, it's also better too. Yeah, I've just seen two where companies have found when they give more of these short breaks for activity and for them to go out and go for a walk and do things physically, like coming back to get back on task.

They've found workers have been a lot more productive. It just restimulates cognitive function. You get all these benefits to it. So it's something that I think just spreading it out throughout the day is just a lot better strategy, but I can understand if you are trying to really press yourself endurance wise, like you have to have a specific goal for that.

Yeah, behaviorally speaking, because remember a lot of this advice, I talked about the studies, we talked about which one probably works a little better, but a lot of my opinions also based off of just my experience training people, everyday people, and behaviorally speaking, if you can attach some walking to other daily rituals, you're far more likely to do it long term.

So what does that look like? Well, an example would be after breakfast, lunch, and dinner, I walk for 30 minutes. Now, because I attached it to three things that I already do every single day, I always have breakfast, I always have lunch, I always have dinner. Now, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna ritualize something else to something that I already do,

which is the eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner. So now I'm gonna walk 30 minutes after each one, the odds that I'm gonna maintain that and keep it consistent long-term or much higher, spreading out your activity works that way. It just does. If I tell a client to, and it sounds like it wouldn't be that way, right? If I told a client, hey, devote one hour to working out versus, hey, do 20 minutes of exercise after each meal or after things do, you would think, oh, the one hour carved out, somebody could stick to that more long term.

Actually, it doesn't work that way. In practice, people are far more likely to be consistent when it's kind of spread out throughout the day, especially when it's attached to things that they do on a regular basis. So, generally speaking, you're better off getting the 10,000 steps throughout the day, integrating it into your life

than you are doing it all in one shot. But if you were to compare them and they were consistent and they were perfect in terms of results, you probably would still see better results from a fat loss, a muscle pervert preserving standpoint with the spread out. But it's not a huge difference, but you'd probably still see a difference. Next question is from DJ's 20, EAA's versus BCAA's. Are they both useless for the average gym goer? I'm glad you grabbed this because I've had a bunch of people DM me about this. Yeah, this is still a thing, which is what, okay, so essential EAA stands for essential amino acids.

The reason why they're called this, so there's two essential macronutrients. We have three macronutrients, right? Proteins, fats, and carbs. Only two of them are essential, meaning you have to consume them for your body to just function. And in fact, if you avoid them for long enough, you can actually starve. And those are fats and proteins.

Fats and proteins are essential. In fats, you have essential fatty acids. They're essential because your body has to, you have to eat them in order to get them, your body can't create them. With proteins, proteins are made up of amino acids. There are non-essential amino acids that your body can actually make,

and then there are essential amino acids that your body can't make. You have to consume them, they're essential. Okay, so that's what EAA is. Branch chaining amino acids are three of those essential amino acids that your body can't make, you have to consume them. They're essential. Okay, so that's what EAA is. Branch chaining amino acids are three of those essential amino acids. So there's 10 essential amino acids. The branch chaining amino acids are three of those, and those three have been shown to do special things in the body.

So what do supplement and vent manufacturers and what does the industry do? They say, oh, these are essential amino acids. You have to eat them. Oh, branching amino acids have special properties, especially when it comes to recovery and muscle building. So if you just supplement with them, then you're gonna get better muscle building results and better recovery.

This is true if your protein intake is low. If your protein intake is low, supplementing with either one of these, you'll notice benefits. If your protein intake is low. If you're protein intake is low, supplementing with either one of these, you'll notice benefits. If you're protein intake is high, if you're eating, you know, 0.6 to one gram of protein per pound of body weight, if you have a normal body weight, if you're obese, then you want to use your, what would be considered normal body weight for your height? If you're eating that much protein, any additional amino acids do nothing. You're getting the max benefit

that you're gonna get from amino acids and supplementing what them doesn't do anything extra for you. And the studies are consistent. When you give branch amino acids to vegans who typically consume low protein or essential amino acids, they do better. They recover faster. They tend to build more muscle. When you give these amino acids to they do better, they recover faster, they tend to build more muscle.

When you give these amino acids to people who eat a high protein diet, it's like, you guys ever seen that meme where there's the... You're dumping the water on his head. Yeah, he's in the pool and he's throwing water on his head. It's not gonna do anything extra for you for supplementing with them.

So, it's kind of a waste. And it's, by the way, amino acids were some of the first bodybuilding supplements ever to hit the market. There were some of the first, you know, first they sold protein and the very next thing that they started selling was they started saying, amino acids.

And for whatever reason, every five years or so, it falls out of favor. And then it comes back in favor with some new person who's saying, this is the greatest thing. If they're not new, they've been around forever, we've studied them for very long. If you have high protein, it diet, it's a waste of money. So what do you say to somebody?

Because the argument that somebody would make is that, well, you know, I keep them on hand then in case I don't hit my protein intake for the day and then I make sure I take them at the end of the night in case I don't hit my protein. Just take protein. And that's how I respond to somebody. Yeah, one scoop of way protein, or one scoop of, let's say you're vegan, or you don't like dairy because it bothers you so you go with the organifi, complete protein. One scoop of that, right?

Let's say it's 15 grams of protein. 15 grams of protein is 1,500 milligrams of amino acid. And a large part of that are essential amino acids and branching amino acids. You know, three branching amino acid tablets or one scoop of branching amino acids or essential amino acids, isn't going to come close to a scoop of your protein powder. Which one is cheaper, protein powder,

or essential amino acid supplements? If you compare them on a dosage basis, protein powder is cheaper, because in order to get essential amino acids, here's what the companies are doing. They're going to protein sources, and then they're separating them, as it says, more steps to create an inferior product.

So, you know, again, if you have a low protein intake and you struggle with that, and for whatever reason, you don't want to supplement with a protein powder and you like the taste of your lemonade flavored watermelon, whatever, you know, BCA, then- Watermelon, dude. Then, yeah, then, then, then, I guess that's fine, but it's not gonna benefit you.

It's not gonna do anything for you if your protein is high. So, they market it a lot because we know what amino acids do. They have important roles in the body, essential amino acids, extremely important. Great margins for the supplement company. Yeah, they are. But again, if they're important, but if you're getting, there's a point where you get enough and more does nothing. It's like vitamins. You know, it's like, like vitamins. Vitamin C is great for immune system. Okay, does that mean taking a million times the normal dose? It's going to piss it out.

Yeah, it's not going to benefit you anymore. Same thing with carbs. I remember in the, I'd say probably 15 years ago, carbs supplements were actually popular. Remember this when you would buy a carbolode or these drinks? And it's because athletes knew that carbs gave you energy for sports and so this is before before before people thought carbs made you fat right so athletes bodybuilders actually buy Carbo load or Carbo whatever drinks because oh carbs give me energy and then therefore more is gonna give me you know more and

Yeah, it doesn't it doesn't work that way. So, amino acids, supplementation, essential and branching, waste of money if you're protein intake is high. If you're protein intake is low and you don't want to take protein powder, then yes, you'll benefit from them. Next question is from J Muscle. What do your wives training programs look like right now? I'm sure they're swamped with kids at home and I would love to hear how each of them trains now

Versus as they normally do oh boy. Well mine's doing Esthetic right now actually like a trina's doing. Yeah, so she's she's really enjoying that and we do have the setup Thankfully through our pure x fold out squat rack and dumbbells. And so, I mean, it's a minimal, we don't have machines, obviously. But so there's some components to that that, you know, we've used machines before for aesthetic. But in terms of those focus sessions, you can replace a lot of that with the barbells and the dumbbells and, you know, get just as good a workout out of it.

So she's been having a really good time with that, and reaping a lot of the gains with that. So next thing is really just a nutrition piece to nail down for her, but that's been the big focus right now. Obviously going into summer, I think, that's something that a lot of people are kind of looking into as well. Yeah, so Jessica's pregnant, right?

So I'm training her according to how she feels and she trains herself a lot of the times. Usually what it looks like is full, like compound movements, maybe three to four every other day, so she'll pick maybe three or four compound movements every other day and then every other day, so the day's after, she'll pick three or four isolation movements. And so she's working out about five to six days a week, you know, one day compound movements

the next day, isolation movements. And we're paying close attention to how she feels, how she braces her core. Right now squatting feels really good to her. Actually more so than split stance exercises, because her belly kinda gets in the way with the split stance type of stuff. Inclined presses laying flat on her back. Doesn't feel super, super good.

Pull ups don't feel too great, because it feels she feels like she gets strain in her midsection, because it's already stretching out. So we're using the, I have a squat rack and it's got a cable on the top. So we'll do pull downs or we'll do cable rows. But really just focusing on maintaining strength and muscle so that her metabolism is, is, is amped for, you know, when the baby's born. So Katrina recently just transitioned to maps aesthetics. She finished maps at a ballic. But but you know, that's what a good week looks

like. And I think this person's searching for more of like, you know, I'm not going to tell you like the perfect week, right? The perfect week is she's going through MAPS aesthetic, like literally exactly what's in the program. But the reality is it looks a lot of times like this, like she may get two lifts in a week. And when she does that, she's been, you know, I've coached her on, you know, if you know you're not gonna get the full program instead of just following one of those days when it's designed

for four or five or more days, focus on the movements that we've constantly been working on and practicing. And those are the big lifts. So she, a lot of times may go in and you may see her just do some mobility work, especially since that's fresh in her mind because we just did the Prime Pro webinar

and she followed along with her family and stuff. So she might spend, you know, 15, 20 minutes doing Prime Pro type of work and then just squat or just deadlift or just overhead press. So I've got her now doing stuff like that that she probably didn't do that before in the past, you know, the wayway past when we first met, she kind of did her own thing. And then finally, I got her into like legit programming and then she would follow whatever I had going for her. Then maps came along and then she would follow every

program to a tee, then getting pregnant happen. And there was a lot of inconsistency with her training. And so that's when I started talking to her about, listen, the biggest bang for your buck is when you do these big compound lifts. So spend the time doing that. And then the other time of forex size would be walking her and I walk a lot right now. I mean, every day, we're putting in at least an hour to two hours of walking together. Sometimes all of that in one shot. Sometimes that broken up in 30, 45 minute bouts. But you know, we've been really good about, and I've been back to wearing my Fitbit, and so I've been

over 10,000 steps every day. So as she, and that's been kind of what we've been hitting as our markers, like, okay, let's make sure we get enough steps in every day that we're walking enough to hit over 10,000. If we get to the gym and we can lift, we were making sure that we're getting our big compound lifts. And then our eating is adjusted, you know, because we both know that we're not training like we were three, four years ago, you know, diet is, it's definitely pulled back on calories. So her and I are only eating, you know, two times, maybe three times in the day. And that's what it looks like. So on a inconsistent week, which I would say happens more often. She's not falling aesthetic to a T

She's doing things like that if it's a great week for her then she's following the program to a T Yeah, actually I mean you kind of reminded me about a couple things priming wise like we've had to do a lot of work on Bracing and getting proper core connectivity because of past back problems and back injuries and so because of past back problems and back injuries. And so, you know, there's a lot of that that I had to kind of go through and help to kind of coach and teach and ritualize because she hated doing any kind of mobility drills.

I just want to get into the workout. I know a lot of people can relate to that. But in terms of like being able to then prime ahead of time and being able to get into the actual workouts and go do the workouts to the T required a lot of prime work ahead of time with certain techniques, the wall tests for one and then also with the windmill just really learning to be able to maintain that tension throughout and embrace and support while also rotating the spine and and getting through movement like that. So that's been like really, you know, a key factor with her improving being able to build off of that as well.

Next question is from CD champ 17. In honor of Mother's Day, what's one thing that your mother instilled in you when you are young that you're grateful for today? Oh, yeah, that's a good one. Talk about the moms. Yeah, you know, one thing my mom did when I was a kid, is she always allowed us to have an opinion. She would allow us to discuss and argue our points, which, you know, I could see some parents saying, oh, that's not a good thing because, you know, you just got to, you say what, you know, what the rules are and that's the way it is or whatever.

And I, it wasn't like I was, I won. Sometimes I did, but usually I didn't. But she allowed the need to feel like I had a say and to discuss and debate with my mom and it's you know this was very valuable looking back because I still respected her but it made me feel like I had a say and it helped me sharpen my voice help me sharpen kind of how I can discuss and learn things. And looking back, I'm really, really grateful on that kind of stuff. I mean, I remember, you guys know I played the trumpet for a few years as a kid, right?

In elementary school. I forgot all of that. I did a big horn blow. And you had to play the saxophone. I did it. I convinced her I wanted to do it. My parents bought me the, you know, Bach, you know, Trump. They're expensive, expensive, you know, because it's a class like 500 bucks.

And I did it and I didn't like it after the first year. And I talked to her about it. I'm like, I don't want to do this anymore. She's like, well, we invested the money. You made the commitment. So we got it, whatever. So it was like this discussion that we would have. Now I didn't, of course, she didn't let me like, I don't want to do this anymore. So I was like, well, we invested the money. You made the commitment. So we got it whatever. So it was like this discussion that we would have. And I didn't, of course, she didn't let me like

whine and complain about it, but she would let me talk about it. And we'd have these debates and discussions. By the time I got to seventh grade, I had this music teacher that I just could not stand. I couldn't, this lady, nobody liked this lady, it wasn't great. And so I actually sat her down and I said, you know, I said,

mom, you really want me to do well in all of my classes. You want me to perform well in school. And she says, yeah, I do. And I said, well, the stress of taking this class is affecting the, and so I could put up this great argument, you know, this great point that I had. And my mom smiled and she says, that's a really good point. So she still have to finish the year, but I like that you presented yourself that way. So we'll talk about it at the end of the year. And I was able to quit afterwards,

but she allowed me to have that say, which I think is part of, now has become kind of part of who I am and I appreciate that. Yeah, well, I'm trying to think, like we've definitely had our battles back and forth my mom and I, but I know like now looking back,

like some things that were really great that she instilled in me were very much like the creative outlets, like she would, again, expose me to music, expose me to, you know, crafts and we'd spend a lot of time really building and exploring things and drawing. And like, my mom is very, very artistic. And she still kind of expresses that a lot

through costuming and lots of stuff like that in different projects and just getting herself involved in things. And that's definitely where that comes from for me in terms of just exploring ideas and then creating them and figuring out that whole process and how to improve and just come up with ideas. And so she was real instrumental with that.

The other part of it was just very fiery. She's a redhead, is very, like is very like, if somebody was messing with me, like it'd say it was a teacher that like she felt like was, you know, like giving me a bad grade for something that I didn't deserve, which did happen a few times. Like one of them was, I was actually being a, I was a TA for a teacher at, that's a goof. This is kind of an off track story, but I used to like mess with this teacher all the time in class. I was like the class clown with this with my other friend and she'd kick us out all

the time, like out of class. And there's just something that we were just like, you know, I could understand why she didn't like me. And so I thought it'd be funny to be her TA and do everything like perfect, but I knew she hated the fact that I was there with her, right? And so I was just there to be annoying. And so this whole semester, like I'm doing everything she possibly could have wanted,

you know, me to do or whatever, and then she gave me like a C or like a C minus or whatever she couldn't do. As a teacher's aid? Yeah. Yeah, just to be able to. I've whatever. She couldn't do it. As a teacher's aid? Yeah. Yeah, just to be- I've never even heard of you getting a C for a teacher aid.

Right. You just being a bitch. It's supposed to be an easy aid, dude. Exactly. That's why I was banking on that easy aid, right? And so I'm like, ah, whatever, you know, like that's- I passed. Obviously she hated me, you know, that's fine.

My mom like got this wild hair and just like went down there and just like let her have it and then and then got her to change the grain. So I had to be really careful about what I told my mom is the point. She was just very, would go out to battle anybody on behalf of her family. She's very loyal, protective. And so that's something like I do share that,

but I had to be real careful, because what I would tell her in terms of like, any of these other teachers are things that would come up and arise, because I'd be like, I don't want you to go down there, do nothing about it, you know, mom, I got this. But yeah, that's for the most part, you know. You reminded me of a story.

My mom never cursed, never. In fact, as adults, now, if she says shit, which is rare, my siblings and I are all like, Oh my God, mom said a bad word. But when I was a kid, never except for one time. I remember I was sitting, I was young. I must have been like seven, sitting in the sitting in the front seat before anybody gave a shit So your kid sitting, you can sit in your lap all your drive, nobody care

But I'm sitting in the driver's side on the passenger side and my mom goes to take off at the stop sign and a truck Almost hits us, slams the brakes and you know protective mode my mom right protective mode She rolls the window down and the guys looking at her and it's like in the heat of the moment and my mom goes, fuck you motherfucker. And I, whoa. Like zero cuss words to that. Wow.

Dude, I heard that and my mom's mouth and I was like, Wow. Powerful. Zero to MF. I was like, and then the dude drove my, yeah, she's driving.

I'm like, mom, you said a lot of bad work. She's like, he really made me angry She didn't say anything else. I remember I'll never forget that because that's such a weird thing for so much more Powerfully never here. Oh my gosh. It's hilarious. My mom definitely is responsible for my moral foundation and my faith for sure so that is came from her she instilled in that in me at a very young age. And no doubt as challenging of a childhood as I may have had, she probably had as challenging, if not more challenging. So I also got a lot of my grit from my mom.

So the ability to overcome adversity, as all the things that we had gone through, I never felt like my mom sat on our hands and was like, oh poor me, poor us, it was always like, we're gonna get through this, we're gonna be okay, we're fine, and she always had this resiliency and this faith that was unbelievable because we did, we always made it,

we survived, we were fine, and no matter what, whether we were bouncing from house to house or dealing with my dad dying and then Being in an abusive relationship all these things that she went through She always got back up again and my mom was somebody who ended up getting her degree like in her 40s So she later in life finished her degree and finally finished what her all her lifelong dream was as long as I can remember My mom wanted to be this teacher Then she was always going chipping away at school while she was also trying to raise five kids and work through a husband dying and then being in an abusive relationship and bouncing around from town to town

And the fact that she still you still persevered through all that made it and has got a great life for herself now, loves what she does for a living. If it wasn't for her, there's no way that I probably would have the ambition and probably the grit that I have. I definitely have that running through me and I'm for sure that came from my mom. If you really think about it, moms really have such a huge role in shaping society because, and I don't think sometimes they don't get credit because they're not the Elon musk to the world or the Bill Gates or the whatever, but when you really think about it, you know, and statistically they'll show this, moms statistically spend far more time with

their children than fathers do. That's been historic. Throughout most, I guess, all of recorded human history. This has been pretty much true in almost every civilization. Even today, with our society where, you know, the roles are not nearly as clear to find as they were before. They still spend far more time.

It's still far less likely for a mom to not be present with their kids and a dad or whatever So they play very important roles in shaping our societies And so I think they don't get they can get all the credit in the world and still don't get enough credit Yeah, and with that go to mind pump free.com and download all of our guides and resources. They're all free You can also find your favorite podcast hosts ever on Instagram You can find Justin your favorite podcast hosts ever on Instagram. You can find Justin at Mind Pump Justin.

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