Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 1333: How Often You Should Work Your Abs & Core, the Risks of Going to Failure on Isolation Exercises, the 3 Most Essential Supplements & More

Episode Date: July 10, 2020

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about going to failure on isolation exercises, how often you should work abs & core, the 3 most essential supplements a person should take, and how to fix a hip shift. Sal’s weird realization. (3:50) Conspiracy theories with Mind Pump. (6:17) Kanye West’s platform revealed. (15:33) Will TikTok get banned in the US? (20:44) How Mind Pump stores and uses their spare change. (23:51) Sal gets a new car! (29:53) Organifi’s Sunday Brunch Crepes recipe. (32:25) The beauty of ancient architecture. (36:14) Mind Pump Recommends, James Lindsay on the Joe Rogan Experience. (41:00) Reading between the lines of the new social media app, Parler. (45:38) #Quah question #1 – Should I go to failure on isolation exercises? (49:45) #Quah question #2 - How often do you really need to work abs & core? (54:36) #Quah question #3 – What do you all consider the 3 most essential supplements a person should take if they can only take 3? (59:44) #Quah question #4 - How do you fix a hip shift when one hip is higher than the other at the bottom of a squat or a deadlift? (1:03:28) Related Links/Products Mentioned July Promotion: MAPS Strong ½ off!! **Promo code “STRONG50” at checkout** Out of Shadows Thinking, Fast and Slow – Book by Daniel Kahneman Kanye West breaks from Trump, blasts Dems in interview on 2020 run The US government is considering a TikTok ban, says secretary of state Why is there a national coin shortage? Your currency questions answered Organifi Strawberry Chocolate Crepes Recipe Visit Organifi for the exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Code “mindpump” at checkout** Fingerprints of the Gods – Book by Graham Hancock Joe Rogan Experience #1284 - Graham Hancock Joe Rogan Experience #1501 - James Lindsay A look inside Parler: The right wing social media app is unbearably monotonous, even to its own users 3 Tips for Better Muscle Growth – Mind Pump Blog Stop Working Out And Start Practicing – Mind Pump Blog Mind Pump #1227: The 5 Most Important Supplements To Take Mind Pump Podcast - YouTube Mind Pump Free Resources People Mentioned James Lindsay (@ConceptualJames)  Twitter Justin Brink DC (@dr.justinbrink)  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. Saldas Defano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. In this episode of Mind Pump, the World's Top, Fitness and Health, and Entertainment Podcasts, we answer fitness and health questions that are asked by some of our listeners. We also open the episode with an introductory portion. This is where we talk about current events. We have a lot of fun.

Sometimes we mention our sponsors or we talk about studies. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna give you a breakdown of this entire episode. So the first 43 minutes is the intro portion. We start out by talking about conspiracy theories. Ooh, our favorite. Oh, Justin and I have a lot of fun with these.

We go wild. Some of them are crazy. Some of Justin and I have a lot of fun with these. We go wild. Some of them are crazy. Some of them, not so crazy. All of them are fun. Then we do it. Then we talk about Kanye West running for president. We got some more information on that. The world is going crazy.

What's happening? Then we talk about TikTok, the social media platform that all the kids are using, and the US government may actually ban it. Uh-oh. I called this. There's also a coin shortage. and all the kids are using, and the US government may actually ban it. Uh oh. I called this. There's also a coin shortage. I didn't even know this could happen,

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Yeah, we're on there now. Then we get into the fitness questions. The first one that we answer is, should I go to failure on isolation exercises? The next question, how often do you really need to work your abs and core? The third question, what do we all consider to be the three most essential supplements

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That they were English words, that my grandmother or my father just said with a really strong accent, but I didn't know they were English words. I thought they were time. I'm not. It's only once. So the when I really I the first time I realized this,

I was 12 and I mean, Italy and we go get some ice cream. And the guys like, you know, in a time, he's like, which flavor would you like? And I'm looking at the flavors. And I see Vindela and chocolate and strawberry. And I'm like, um, a I see Vindela and chocolate and strawberry and I'm like Strawberry The guy looks at me like it's strawberry, huh? It's a strawberry and I point to it and it goes Fagula. I'm like what?

Fragula you would fight so my yeah, my cousin's like what are you saying? I'm like strawberries? He's never heard that word. I'm you know We're talking back and forth. I go home and I tell tell my mom, and she starts cracking up, she goes, that's just your grandma saying strawberry, with a really strong accent. So I went down the list of, do you know how many words that I thought were real words that weren't?

No, I'm assuming because she speaks half Italian and then she would sometimes use English words. That's why I'm asking. They just say, Spanish. Like, could you call that if it's a mix of those? It's like that, right? So like, like, garbage. I thought the word, the Italian word for garbage

was guy bushy. Or like, or like the hose, you know, the water hose or whatever. Cause my dad always said, ooza, can you go get the ooza? Oh, okay. I thought that was the hose. I thought, and the best is this. So I used to go work with my dad all the time

and, you know, he's a tile setter, so it's tile marble, whatever. And the stuff that you mix, and then you put on the cement or whatever, as glue to stick the tile on, it's called thin set. Oh, thin set. It says that on the back, thin set. For, I didn't know that. I had no idea.

All I knew was my dad would say in a tie and go get me the thin setter. And I knew was my dad would say in a tie and go get me the tinsetta. And I thought it was called tinsetta until I was like 16, I grabbed the bag and I see thinsetta, thinsetta, thinsetta. Oh, that's what it means. I was like, that's not the word. That's not the word, dude. There were a lot of words like that.

The trunk of the car, trunca. It's just the word, trunca. It's just the work that they said wrong. Oh, I was, I was, it was weird. That's confusing. It's hilarious. It was a weird realization, like blew my mind, you know, when I did all that. Oh, dude, what is that conspiracy thing

you just maybe watched just in one? I think I want to talk about it. Oh, yeah, we can't talk about that. We'll talk about it another time. Where did you come that crazy? I think people have been sending that document, whatever you call it, documentary to me. I've had it to send to me at least a dozen times.

I know Justin has. Yeah, I mean, it really just kind of exposes all the media, Hollywood, everything, see I, everything all combined in one. It's just, it's all a bunch of weird shit. Yeah. It's what's it called out of the shadows? Uh huh.

Yeah, if you want to just go down the rabbit hole and make yourself feel weird. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cool. I've been there a few times. Was that on any major platform or was that just being a tube shared to YouTube? Yeah, and from my understanding it keeps getting taken down, which only adds to the, you know, the mysterious lure of the whole thing.

You know it's weird that they talk about on there? The Podesta emails, all those emails that they found that I'll have all these code words. Strange. The WikiLeaks ones. Yeah, dude, and they're all, you know, the conspiracy theory of course is that they're talking about, you know, child sex, trafficking, stuff like that. If you look these emails up and read them,

they make no sense. They say they talk about pizza and hanker chips and we, but weird and weird ways that don't make any sense at all and They're like big people like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and it's like come on like what would you do if you're writing Emails that you know eventually somebody could look over in a court of law You would hide it with like specific words to kind of encode it. Yeah, the weirdest the world Of course is weird right now Like you know when Hillary lost, they lost all her emails right mysteriously,

lost all her emails. And they went and found the servers and the computers. And they were smashed by hammer. Like someone went and destroyed them all with a hammer. That's almost as weird as the Epstein killing himself thing. You know what I mean? You hear about these things and then they just lose, lose momentum immediately.

Yeah dude. Is anybody following the girl that got, we brought this up the other day, like, and she was the rumor while she was going in the same cell. I don't know if that was a joke. Oh, that was a joke. You tell them about Gil-Sane or whatever?

The girl. The girl that's going to, yeah. Okay, are we paying attention to like where she's at and it, alive, still, and everything? Yeah, apparently she had made copies of all these videos and things that Epstein had. So she's ready to talk.

She's ready to kind of reveal it, which is exciting, but also I'm worried. You know, I'm worried that somehow it's gonna get meddled with. What's gonna, okay, so what is gonna happen? Because when Epstein mysteriously died and the surveillance cameras turned off and the security guards fell asleep

and all this obviously, you know, bullshit or whatever, what's gonna happen if and when she dies mysteriously? Are people gonna lose their minds or are they just gonna not do anything about it? Is it just gonna keep going on? Like, oh, well, it happened again. Yeah, me. I don't know, man.

Or are we actually gonna get upset and do something about it? Yeah, dude, because it's all weird, dude. Part of me is almost like, if it is this big, if this conspiracy thing is true, and it is all these big, powerful people, what's gonna happen if they do get taken down? Like if it does get revealed, imagine this, right?

So, I'm not gonna do this structure of society. I did this thought experiment the other day, because I'm reading all this stuff, and conspiracy theories to me are fun. That's all, I get entertained by that, but. Right. Part of me's like, okay, let's say this is true and it all comes out, right? Let's say what they say, right?

Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew and Beyonce and Oprah, all these powerful people all get taken down at the same time. That's a huge, like are people even gonna believe it? Yeah. It's so much, it's such a major shift. I don't know that people would mentally handle it. Such a, exactly.

Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Totally. That's why it's like, you talk about it, but it's like, I kind of keep it to myself. You know, because it's just, it's, it's, it's, it goes so deep that, that it's at a point where I don't, I don't think people will wanna even recognize it, you know, as being a possibility.

Yeah, I remember how hard it was for me to even believe like, what's his name, Bill Cosby? Just because he was so, I was so sold on the fact that he was such a nice guy. Oh, you remember when that first came out? I got fucking fired. I got fired for just saying like, you know, before everyone jumps on it,

that he for sure is a pedophile like, wait, you know, no, he wasn't a pedophile. He was just a rapist. I mean, a rapist like, you know, just don't you remember, though, I got, we got shit on the, I got shit on the podcast for when it first hit the news, even I wasn't like, okay, I'm not gonna just automatically believe everything until more stuff. I got boy, people are pissed. Well, no, that's, that's a good position. I think you should always do that when you hear something is to wait until there's evidence. I'm always that way. But the fact that I expressed that and said that,

of course, I got it out. But it was a weird feeling because you don't realize how influenced you are by a person's fake persona. For years, yeah, that you, it's hard to believe. Someone like that because he's such an upstanding, you know, like example of somebody in society that you strive to be like, you know, and it was like such a beacon of good values.

Well, that's what you think, right? Well, the thing that I have a hard time with and you know, I never watch this stuff. You guys get, you guys, you two are definitely more. Oh, we have a good time. Yeah, no, and you guys made me watch this one. The thing that I have a hard time wrapping my brain around when watching stuff like this is that,

I mean, you say this in the podcast all the time, and so I believe that you believe this, which is that there's more good people out there than there are bad. Do we agree on that? I do. So we agree on that percentage wise, okay? That means more than 50 there are bad. Do we agree on that? I do. So we agree on that percentage wise. Okay, that means more than 50% are good.

Now let's say Hollywood is fucking corrupt and a bulk of them are bad. That still would leave a good percentage of good people within it. I couldn't imagine how something like that could go on for so long and not enough people. There's just so much subtleties involved. There's nothing subtle about fucking pedophilia though.

Well, hold on a second. Who's that dude? Who's that dude that got in big trouble? What's his name? The overweight gross producer guy who was like super power. Weinstein? Yes. For decades.

He was like this for decades. It was well known. Nobody said anything. He got away with it for a, I mean, he was best friends with Oprah and all these famous, powerful people. He got away with it for a long time. Yeah, I feel like this is much bigger than that.

Well, now you're talking about one man and everybody that he's impacted and there's lots of people that know or speculate on it. And really the only people that really know are the people that have been impacted or saw it, right? Because everything else is hearsay. And so, you know, it's the old saying that goes, believe half of what you see

and nothing that you hear. So, you know, there's speculation still with a lot of that. But when you're watching something like this, it's talking about a massive ring that has tons of powerful people. And I just think that God, that's so many. For that has tons of powerful people. I just think that God, that's so many for that. So many moving parts.

Yes, like how is there not at least two good people connected to those three people and at least two people that are good connected to those three people? I agree, I agree. That's logic, right? Logic will say says all that, but then there's another side of me

that has fun with it. The Hive too, you know. Well, that says, look, there were people that would try to, you know, what they call them whistleblowers, that mysteriously. Yeah, there's disappeared there. Yeah, kill, you know, committed suicide

and under strange circumstances or whatever. You have Epstein who, his private flight logs are, I mean, the most famous people and powerful people who think of on his plane multiple times, I've told, you know, I said this before, Bill Clinton was on there, I don't know, I think of, on as plain multiple times, I've told, I said this before, Bill Clinton was on there, I don't know, I'm having times, 20, something times, many of those times told the secret service to stay home.

So in situations like that, especially if you have incriminating evidence on the person, you know, I'm saying, look, let's say you do some dirt with somebody, something really, really bad, but they have the evidence of it, they have the pictures, they have the video or whatever. Now they have blackmail on you and they could say, hey, look. Well, this also, you're not going to say anything.

This also goes back to that book that I'm reading right now that I tell you guys about what the thinking fast and thinking slow. And, you know, you up until two years ago, I didn't even know who Jeffrey Epstein was. So the only information that I've been presented of him as an individual has been all put in a negative disgusting, bad light. So my brain has already formulated an opinion on him. And so anything that could potentially confirm

or confirm that by says very easy for you to go down that rabbit hole and leaving all that stuff, right? So it's just, because you could, here's another thing that I look at when I see, like I watched his documentary and everything, there is no doubt, he is for sure one of the most powerful people,

just because of his relationships that he's kept in. So to me, I go, okay, all these people that are going to his place, you know, is it always because of this pedophilia stuff or because of this guy'sophilia stuff or because of this guy is very powerful and I want to be right. I want to be connected to this guy and have relationship with this guy because he's can pull a lot of strings like. So there's that's my brain just works out and by no means because so I don't want to

get fucking DMs and emails from people like this. I'm not defending this guy. I'm just I'm just trying to help think logically through a process like this. Yeah, I agree. And it's just not as fun as just thinking about it. Yeah, it's more entertaining to jump on the bandwagon. Speaking of entertaining, Kanye, huh? So he's running for real. Did you see his, like, what he said,

his platform is and all that stuff? No, you guys didn't see that. I just know he was trying to like separate himself a bit from Trump. He says he did that. I just know he was trying to like separate himself a bit from Trump. He says he did that. He they asked him if, because here's what would inevitably probably happen. Let's say he ran as an independent,

which is what he would have to do. He would definitely, in my opinion, many people's opinions pull votes from Biden over votes from Trump, right? So he would hurt Biden far more. They asked him about that. He says, I don't care. Part of me thinks that's the plan. Part of me thinks he's doing this to do that because remember how he was so supportive. You know of Trump. He said that he said vaccines are a mark of the beast, whatever that means, and that his

running mate would be a pastor from I forgot where. He's never voted in his entire life. So never voted, but running for president. Wow. Gas is going to be interesting. This is going to be interesting, dude. I mean, if you take a step back and you just look at it as entertainment, this is a great reality show. And he's really going through with this.

That's what he says. I don't know, man. Well, I mean, publicity stunt, you called this early on that we this may be the most entertaining election we've ever seen in our life. Oh, if Kanye is now throwing his name in the hat, it's for sure definitely going that way. You know, it makes me wonder that there because this could potentially be a viable strategy. So if I was an evil political strategist, let's say I worked for the Republican national convention or the Democrats, right? Is this you putting your name in the hat? No, no. Let's just say I did and I would never, by the way, but that's not what I'm just saying. Let's say

I worked for them as a political strategist. This could be a very effective strategy to win an election where let's say you're running its close you want to win you find somebody to run as an independent who you know will pull votes from your opponent have them run just law just enough to screw them over so that you could win you know Ross pro essentially yes absolutely yeah i thought that too but i wonder if that's exactly what's gonna play out or

you know if people just look at it as a joke and won't even vote for him. I don't know. Well, I mean, he's popular enough to wear. Because think about the votes he would potentially get. The young vote, I think, is what he would do. You don't think he's already a lot like I feel like, you know, when he came out in hardcore supported Trump, I feel like he lost a lot of his like hard left people following him because of that. Right. I think that they're thinking he already kind of a lot. And then the ones that are sticking around are your conservatives. I think he would pull enough people from that side that are young because he's Kanye,

maybe pull some of the black vote, especially the black vote that may be strong Christians, for example, because they might identify with him or whatever. That's already conservative. Well, they're already leaning Trump. But maybe not because, remember, what's been painted so much about him is that he's racist or whatever. I don't know. I mean, I'm just saying, if you were to pull from either any side, it would be Biden.

I just can't see anybody who considers himself the only thing I like that you say, or that I agree with that you say, is that he may get a black vote that is not, wasn't really voting in his young, that it starts to come out and do that. Otherwise, if you're already considered a regular voter, I don't see anybody really voting for him. Well, when you look at the political landscape,

the both parties, people who are solid right and left are a minority. The majority of voters are in the middle somewhere undecided. That's where the fight is. You're not going to win over the hardcore Republicans if you're a Democrat and vice versa. It's not going to happen. It's almost impossible. You're wasting your time essentially. But what you are trying to do is get those people who are kind of like in-between and Kanye may prevent some of like in between and Kanye may prevent some of those in-betweeners from going to Biden who maybe weren't going to go to Trump to begin with. You see what I'm saying?

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God, dude, you know what's even worse than that? So if, let's just pretend, right? If he was president, that means that Kim would be the first lady. Yeah, dude. Oh, man. First lady guy. He got back. Dude.

That means the Kardashians would be in the White House. Oh, no. That means the Kardashians would be in the White House. Oh, no. That's another reality show I don't want to watch. Oh my God, what is that? You would though. I would. I would. But that's what I'm saying.

If they had no power. If the president, like they're supposed to, you had little power, which is originally how it's supposed to be. This would be entertaining. But because they have so much power, it's terrifying. It is terrifying. It is terrifying. You have that much influence. I mean look at what was the other Kardashian the one that is the the one that had the app that like the crashed Snapchat that was

Yeah, because she said it was dead. Yeah, yeah, they lost That was I was like I could not believe the power through that one individual Dude speaking of apps you guys here what's going on with TikTok? Oh, so something about, they're talking about potentially pulling it from US. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So it's a Chinese. We called this. We did, dude.

Yeah. It's a Chinese owned app. And I do not trust any company that is going to be a part of a, of a, of a, of a communist party because they don't have the same protections. And that's not saying American government doesn't do it either. There's a massive state influence. But yeah, the risk is that they're going to capture all kinds of crazy data that people are going to give up willingly

on Americans and apparently there's some evidence that they may be happening. So Australia and India already talking about banning TikTok and now the US government is talking about the same thing. But what data they're really getting. I mean, let's go through this. Like there's people just move in your face. about banning TikTok. And now the US government is talking about the same thing. But what data are they really getting? I mean, let's go through this. Like there's people just,

you're dance moves in your face. You know, like it's the stupidest thing. Well, what it's out, yeah, with Sal Sunset, a witty comment about that because he was teasing, he was teasing Breen on TikTok. What do you say? He said, he said, oh, he's telling her,

oh, you use TikTok and she's like, yeah, I love TikTok about that. He's like, you're not worried about your face being used on an ID in China for committing crimes in like two years. That's a good valid point. No, no. Sometimes he makes me really proud. Yeah, I know you do.

So that was actually pretty witty and clever. Well, look, it's totally, well, think about it. Let's say they get, like, aren't you in Dubai? Yeah. Like a gym somewhere. Oh yeah, no, I've already had like profiles for like the e-harmony and like- With your picture?

Yeah, with all my stuff. I mean, shit, you put it out there on Instagram, Facebook, and I'm just gonna use it. It's really easy to rip and then make those. Well, what do the people think about this way? TikTok is on your iPhone. Technically, if they're smart enough or whatever, they could go into the other data that's on your iPhone, technically if they're smart enough or whatever, they could go into the other data

that's on your phone. They could know things like location, age, they could get your face, everything. Your thumbprint, they could get anything they want, and then what would they use that? That could be used for all kinds of things. Espionage, you could be used to manipulate kids, you could kind of see.

Well, yeah, that's what made me concerned about it. When I read about the US government, or the military was already banning everybody in the military from using it since day one, and what, the rest of the public shouldn't be worried, dude. So who's the brilliant millionaire that starts up the US version of TikTok, to be ready for as soon as that drops off, to give kids an all-time work? Where is that? Right, because to me, that would be the US version of TikTok to be ready for as soon as that drops off

to give kids an all-time tour. Where is that? Right, because to me, that would be the most brilliant thing to be watching for right now is if it's gonna get banned in all these countries and it's because it's tied to China, what happens when...

Does Instagram just add that as a new feature? Just like they did with Snapchat. Well, think of, how about this? What if China just sends over a spy who then invents the other app, and now he's based in the US, but he's still connected over that. What's the stoppin' from doing that, Shady?

Watch it, dude, you can experience it. Dude, you're like, hey, we're on a roll. Hey, top gate. Hey, that's what happened during the Cold War, dude. That shit used to happen. You don't stop the time. You know, that's how they got the nuclear technology. They stole it from the US.

Do you want to take talk? No. No, that was in the Cold War. That was the old school way. That was the hard got the nuclear technology. They stole it from the US. Through TikTok? No. No, that was the old school way. That was the hard way of doing it. Hey, you know what, another crazy. You sent me an article that I had read earlier about the coin shortage. So I read the article, right?

What is going on in the world today? Yeah, so does that mean my pennies are gonna be worth more soon? No, it means that they're, it just means that they're, there's a shortage because of COVID, they weren't producing as many. Yeah, not circulating. Yeah, something like that.

So now we're not having any coins. Now here, you want to talk about conspiracy theories. I'm like, are they trying to get us to, you know, off paper, take a track, everything? Anyway, I'm going to start with the car. Well, okay, so I don't understand. I read the article and I, you know, I sent the screenshot of my big, you know, five gallon Alhambra full of coins.

Yeah, I do like everyone waiting for this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah're buying with credit online. And the mint isn't producing as many because production is down because their offices are shut down. So what's the big deal? I mean, is it like one of those articles that just meant to like get everybody riled up over it and it doesn't really mean anything? I don't know.

What could it technically mean? Well, it could technically mean that if you bought something with cash you couldn't get exact change back. It could mean something like that. But I mean, that's not that big of a deal, I guess. Get that stupid. What do you guys do with your chain? I mean, you obviously store it with the gallon. I keep it in my five gallon bucket. Yeah, there's just a bunch of random

chains all over my truck. You know, it's just I try to get rid of it whenever I have it. I've been, I've been supportive of getting rid of pennies. At least pennies. What do you do with the penny? Have you ever used a penny to buy something? It's like dirty. It doesn't make any sense anyway. Does it cost more money to make it than it's worth? No, I have family member and friends that are like this, that like they keep like the change in there

and they always try and give exact change when they buy something. Which is like the opposite theory, how I always do things, right? So there are theories like always keeping that change nearby, so it's like when something is $1.72, they can give them exactly a dollar 72 and nothing more. Right. Where I'm like, oh, I always want to pay over so I can collect all this change and then I save it because I don't ever want to pay with it. So it's just like, oh, it's

building up. How much change have you saved? Yeah. So I save, I do one dollar bills too. So I do one dollar bills and then I do, you know, quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies, right? So you don't save one dollar bills? Yeah, I don't. You just throw them in the, in the bathroom. Yeah, if a one dollar bill is in my pocket from the day or whatever, all stuff it in there. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, just, you don't know how much money's in there, huh? Well, I used to do, so this all started with change first, but then I realized that like, I kinda, I looked up like one of those changed ours like totally filled up like how much money would it really be? And it was nowhere near what I would want it to be for saving it for years. Do you ever roll it up and take it to the bank

or you do that coin machine in Safeway? No, they take like fucking 30%. I know, I did that and I was so pissed. Yeah, they take me too much. Way too much. No, I'll pay like a one. I'll pay like a family member or a kid something to roll those one day or whatever.

But my theory back then was like, you know, that was a decent amount of money for me to be saving. Like, oh, if I saved this up for a couple of years, be a few thousand dollars, be a vacation or whatever. Like, now I look at it and it's like as long as it's taking a build up, I'm like, this is in deflation, right? Or whatever inflation is going to cost it to be worth less than what it fucking is sitting there, there right so then I started shoving dollar and sometimes five dollar bills inside of it to like okay Well, maybe now it'll build up when it's you know filled up all the way when I was a kid I was because this is back in the day when you would actually go to the Convenience store and play video games there because they would have an arcade or whatever in there I would scrounge for a quarter a single quarter and I'd walk a whole mile just to go play

Street Fighter. Yeah. You know, just go play Street Fighter at the first market. There it is. It's like five gallons is about $1,100. That's not bad. Okay. Bro, you know how long it takes to fill one of those up?

I've been working on that for like seven years. Really? More than that. And I'm about halfway up. Now, do you do something, like is it like, okay, once it's up to a certain point, this money is for something special, like fun. Oh, so Katrina and I, so before I even,

so that's actually longer than that, over 10 years, because I had it before Katrina, so before Katrina was just, I was saving it. And then she came in and like, and she, like puts a little bit of change in everyone's while, and I said, well, now I have to include you in this thing right so because you're adding to this So I said let's do this when it fills all the way up

We'll take everything in it and we'll do a vacation So that was okay, so that's the plan with it and then why you put the dollar Yeah, so I looked it up. I'm like a vacation for $1,100 like gonna do shit Yeah, I feel like you get better returned from one of those like credit cards for airline miles. Yeah, you know Justin's correct. Yeah, you know, and Justin's correct. Yeah, thanks for pointing out how ridiculous it is. That's a thank you. Thank you.

Sorry. It's like the time or text. The role that all up, you know what I mean? Might not even be worth it. Yeah, I really thought it would be a lot more money than $1,100 and then I saw that. But I also do this too though. So like I really try and put mostly quarters.

And so my goal is that it's more than what these averages come out. You're not like Justin and you say 50 cent pieces or whatever. Remember when he told us that? Oh man. Oh yeah. Dude, I still have that in my bank account somewhere. So yeah. What do you mean in your bank account?

Well, like a safe deposit. Saving is safe. Safe deposit. So funny. Like that TV like that. In the 1950s. Someday, they'll be worth, you know, it's weight. I remember my mom once gave me $2 bills,

because remember how they made those for a short part of time? Yeah, so it was so weird to have a $2 bill. What is the story on the $2 bill? There's a story behind that, right? How it got started? There's a reason for that. I don't remember what I read. Yeah, so it was in circulation when they pulled it out,

because obviously it was stupid. Doug's old enough. What's the $2 bill history? Do you know it? I don't recall I'm gonna look it up here. Yeah, yeah, yeah Doug remembers when two dollars was worth two thousand dollar remember that dog who's on those are good days You could buy a whole tarot down who's on the $2 bill? Who's on the $2 bill? Yeah, do you know who's on the two? No, you get yeah, you should look at a Who's on the $2 bill? Yeah, do you know who's on the two?

I don't know. Yeah, he should look that poor, whatever that president is. He's like, damn it. I don't know who's even on it. They took my face off. Yeah, let's find that out. Hey, I got, I finally picked the car that we want. Remember how is debating between the suburban and the minivan?

So do you have it? I know you picked it out. We got it. Oh, you have. Now, how does it feel? So we got the suburban. All right. It's a big car, dude. Yeah. That is a really big car masculine. Do you feel?

I don't really feel master I don't need a big car to do that Yeah, you don't think that I don't need a big lifted truck to display my hey Maybe that doesn't help anything, but I can't imagine that a van would make you lose it balances it out I feel like a van would make you lose a little bit It's dude first off. It's a dude, first off, it's a massive car, but it's a vehicle, but it drives like a smaller car. That's what's different about today. It doesn't drive like a big truck.

If you bought an old, if you bought the old, you know, in the 90s, they were like tanks that you could barely have no turning radius. Yeah, 82 hands that turn. You turn in that thing, I'm like, wow, this thing's got incredible turning radius. Yeah, so I. Bro, I did it. You turn in that thing. I'm like, wow, this thing's got incredible turning radius. Yeah, so I don't have my Denali anymore, right? But my Denali had a better turning radius

than the little C class Mercedes we had. Wow. So when we, like right here, where we flip a Ui, so whenever I would have the Denali, I can flip it, come right back over here this way. If I have the Mercedes, I go down the block and come back around. Really?

Yeah, the turning radius is worse on the little C class. Wow. No, it's easy to drive and it's comfortable. of course the reason why we got it's got tons of space Cuz I got a third kid right on the way yeah cuz I have you know my my son and daughter now I got a third one and If we bring anybody else or we're going somewhere for distance they were driving up to Tahoe I'm gonna have the third row up or whatever and Every other vehicle with a third row if gonna have the third row up or whatever. And every other vehicle with a third row, if you have the third row up, there's no space in the back.

There's nothing. Now the minivan I was thinking would be good, but minivans, their trunk space is, now it's deep, but it's like this wide. What are you gonna put in there? You don't really put much, so we needed something that had a lot of trunk space. You can't stack everything vertically.

No, no, no, no. So we're, you know, but Jessica drives it. So now that you got it, let's do what we did at the Justin's. We think of, no, I'm not going to lift it up. It's lifted. So what am I going to do with the lifted? What am I going to do?

You have a Tahoe location now. You get, there's snow there all the time. You don't need to lift it to go in the snow. Unless you go on off road and go first. Well, you might need to. Now that Justin's lifted, we might be doing a lot of off roading this year. We're going to go on now.

Excursions, yeah. Yeah. I have a big be doing a lot of off-roading this year. We're gonna go on excursions. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I have a big penis. I have a big penis, I don't know. Oh, I don't need to lift my, wow. But the person who has to say that is a question. That's all I'm saying. That's the stereotype, right?

Wonder if it's a trip. Anyway. I have one. Yeah, come on. Anyway, dude, what about those protein crepes from, am I saying it right, Crepe? Crepes. Crepes. Crepes. Looks like it says Crepe.

I just, I actually just sent it over to Katrina because I want to make it. So, Organifi posted just yesterday, these crepes. Did you see these yet, Justin? No, so that's really good. Greek, remind me what a crepe technically is. You know, you've never ate at the crepe place right here in will it work by our old studio? No bro No, I'm like opa is the most Greek. I've been

I paint cakes since the American now it'll either a big deal right? They have a level they have a level and then crapes are French they are French, but they have a tell wrong They have more in Italy don't they? Yeah, yeah, you with Nutella You can even with with cheese and ham. They're really good. Oh, I'm in get a savory ones And then they have the what you're talking about whatever we call that with if it's not savory would be like a you know Cheese like cream cheese, right? No, no, no, they'll put like yeah, no, they'll put you could put like mozzarella in there You could put I mean any kind of cheese you want essentially dirty to me and there you could put, I mean any kind of cheese you want, essentially.

I'm totally dirty to me. And there is. It's a done deal. I can't believe you haven't had the crate place that's right over here. I haven't. Dude, you guys never invited me. We should go over there and eat some time.

So what I like about the, about the, the, the organifies it's dairy free because crepes, usually crepe, crepe, I don't know, whatever. Crapes. Usually, why is it so hard for you to say? Because it looks like it's, it's gotta eat. It doesn't have an A. If I had an A, it'd be craps, Ips. I guess crap is I don't want to eat that.

But it's got it's you know every usually they're made with some kind of dairy, which you know, Jack messes up my stomach. This one's got no dairy. Look at you blend together. Three quarter cup of unsweetened vanilla nut milk. Third cup of tapioca flour, third cup of coconut flour,

three organic free range eggs, one scoop of organifi protein and a dash of salt, then you pour the batter on a pan, and you flip it or whatever, and there's your crepe. Yeah, 30 seconds, they cook eggs delicious. Yeah, and then you can put some Nutella on it or something. Oh, dude.

That's what they do, so in Paris, that's what they do. They have them on every corner. Everywhere. Yeah, and they make them with those, like the little stick or whatever, you know what I'm talking about? The stick, have you So in Paris, that's what they, they have them like on every corner. Everywhere. Yeah. And they make them with those, like the little stick or whatever, you know, time out, the stick with, have you been in Paris? Yeah. When did you go to Paris?

Let's see here, 2000 and go back 12 years. What is that? 2008. Carry the one. Yeah. What do you think? Oh, I loved it. Yeah.

Yeah. No, it was probably one of my, one of my favorite trips. I saw a lot too. I was dating another girl at the time and we went out there with her parents. And we were only there for like, I wanna say five or six days. So it was a shorter trip to go all the way out there for a husband of a plane ride.

This is also when I had tore my ACL, MCL. I ever told you guys this story. No. So right after I tore my ACL and MCL, we had already had this trip booked and that happened like a week before. So before surgery or anything. So you're in crutches, then?

Oh, I was on crutches and I had that. So before surgery, they put you in that foam brace thing. Oh, your Cambentany? Yeah, who locks you all the way out. And so, and if you've ever been to Paris, there's cobblestone everywhere. And it's so beautiful. And you walk everywhere.

Yeah, you walk everywhere. And so, you know, I'm like crushing around. Luckily, I'm in shape fitness guys, so that part is whatever. But I'm like, just in a beautiful everywhere, staring up a building. Oh, it's gorgeous. And I'm moving around.

And I did one of these kind of just looking to the right, in my leg, because it's locked out. It drags, and it hits a cobblestone and hooks on it as I'm rotating with my hips. And you can hear the tear more. Oh, fell down to the ground, dude, like crying, like, oh, it wasn't so much pain. Everybody like, stop, you okay, sir, you okay?

Oh, but he's so bad. I love Paris. So we went to Paris and then we went to Nice, which is in the South of France. Gorgeous. It's just a beautiful country. I love going to places and seeing old art. So I'm, yeah, I love it.

Because especially like Rome, for example. Rome is amazing. Well, first of all, it's busy. It's packed. It's a big tourist destination. But once you get kind of get past that, you're looking at something and you sit there and you realize you're looking at something

that's 2000. 2000, yeah. 2000 years old. Like all the people that have seen this. I didn't really appreciate and care for that stuff as a kid growing up. It wasn't until I got older and realized that we have so little history here.

Yeah. And so a lot of history is just not as old. Well, that's what I mean. That's what I mean. We have very little as far as how long it is. And then when you go back there, that's what's so amazing to me. I mean. We have very little as far as how long it is. And then when you go back there, that's what's so amazing to me. It's like, think about everywhere we go here, it's like, everything's like two or three

hundred years old. It's a big deal. Right, it's a big deal. My grandma's house in Italy was a 200 years old. I'm not exaggerating. Wow. Right, the house my dad grew up and was a couple here a hundred years old. Yeah, that's crazy.

Which is not that big of a deal. Right. Over there, it's like thousands of years old is considered. And the architecture is just like amazing. Yeah, when my dad was a kid, he was working construction as a young boy, and they were digging and they hit some Greek artifacts. It's Sicily, at one point, the Greeks were there. This is before they became Italy or whatever.

So even before I believe, before the Romans, and they had to stop and they shut the whole place down and then they roped it off and they dug things up. That's how old, that's how that's weird. Well, you know what, Trippi, here's what cool and to look up Doug, in fact, checking because I don't remember the stats on it, but look up how long it took to build the Louvre.

And generations. Yes, I know. Now think about that for a second. And it was a, you won't even see it being built. Right, so I tripped out on that when I read this. So imagine, and by the way, it was someone's home first, that was they were building it as a big-ass mansion, home for somebody, but I believe it took

well over a 100 years. It was multiple generations were working on that to build that. Imagine that. Imagine being your age right now, and you're like, busting ass building something for what your kids' kids. Like that would be weird, dude.

Yeah, we are tripping out on that. Like even just like the old, like even with the pyramids, all these like ancient, you know, megalithic structures that were built back in the day. Like, you have a concentrated effort in one direction from, you know, masses of people. Like, we just don't have that kind of unified

energy and attention towards building, like, a mega structure anymore. And it's like, I think that gets downplayed a lot. Yeah, like, like, 300 lot. Yeah, like 300 years. Yeah, I know. 340 years it took. Bro, the cathedral, the Dwamo and Milan, it took six centuries. Yeah.

For six, now if you go to these places and you look at that, of course they didn't have modern technology, which really trips me as the engineering. Oh yeah, that's why the math that went into that. That's a craftsman ship. Insane, but you look at it and you walk up close and you see like every little square inch has incredible detail and you realize like, you know,

you're, if your dad worked on it, right, he finished this much of it, you know what I mean? Like that's what he did. He had just a tiny section working on. What really trips me out is the engineering that some of these ancient structures, like what was it called, the aqueducts, the Roman Empire. They didn't have modern plumbing, but yet they built aqueducts

that would take water, fresh water from the alps and bring it all the way down to southern Italy or whatever, naturally, all through proper engineering. Some of those still work today. They had that in the Incas too, I think. Yeah, it's really wild. Yeah, there's some theories that there were civilizations that way predate all that that existed on Earth that just because they were so old that they just, we don't have no reminence of them. We have a little bit of evidence,

but not much. What's that guy's name, Graham Hancock? Yeah, Graham Hancock. Yeah, didn't he say something about that? Is someone reading his book right now? Yeah, Courtney is. Courtney is? Yeah, was it fingerprints of the gods? Fingerprints of the gods. Didn't he say something about someone reading his book right now? Yeah, Courtney is. Courtney is? Yeah, was it fingerprints of the gods?

Fingerprints of the gods. Didn't he say something like the finks in Egypt got like erosion lines on it? Yeah. And water wasn't in Egypt until way before the Egyptians. So like they didn't build it. It was already there, type of deal. Right.

Yeah, it predates the pyramids. Yeah. Yeah, so that's one of those things. It's like the history that we know, like nobody's really poking holes in it, like he is and like some of these other, you know, and he came from like a journalistic background. Yeah, I did. Yeah, so it was like, so that community and the archaeology community hates, you know, the work that, you know, he's investigating all this stuff. And, you know, because it's such an idea, like they have,

like this whole idea of how everything came to be. And like this is the story and the narrative. They all came up with. We're trying to counter it. They're gonna push back like hard. His episodes on Rogan are pretty awesome. Amazing. He's got speaking of Rogan.

Did you guys listen, what's his name? Is it James Lindsay? Oh, you sent that for us to listen to. I didn't listen to it. didn't get to the episode. Maybe Doug can listen to that this morning. Yeah, you guys both heard it. Yeah, so I have no idea. So this guy, the thing about his episode

that was really interesting to me is, and I believe this was in 2018, he, him and his friend, and they're both, now is he a journalist or a researcher? I think he's a journalist. Yeah, researcher? I think he's a journalist. Yeah, yeah, I think he's a journalist. I mean, he obviously is working in academia.

Yeah, yeah. And trying to, yeah. So in 2018, they created a bunch of fake research papers, super, super fake, just a point to poke fun at, you know, some of these publications. And one of them actually won an award. So it was just hilarious. He wrote this paper and so he positioned himself

as a, like a feminist. Yeah, like a black lesbian feminist. This is how he was a researcher. And she is, you know, is according to his paper, studied dog parks for an entire year, six hours a day, and what James Lindsay's his name. And according to this research, she studied fake research, studied the dog rape essentially. Okay, so this is him pretending to be somebody else.

No, no, this is actually him. The research is him pretending to be someone else. That's what I'm saying. Oh, sorry. So, yeah, yeah. Okay. So he so in the research essentially says that they were studying when dogs would hump when male dogs would hump male dogs or when male dogs would hump female dogs. How would the white cisgender male owners react would they react different and this whole thing. Yeah. And so they came up with this whole theory, according to the fake research that, the rape culture in dog parks,

is like the rape culture. Just parallel to the rape culture in clubs. The accepted rape culture in clubs and bars, which is, there's no accepted rape culture. And it's the thing about him that's really brilliant is he just, he did the work at really understanding the terminology and the words that they, you know, this woke culture is using.

And so he tries to help everybody understand and define, you know, where this comes from, like what it actually means because there's just so much of it is to make things more confusing on purpose. Yeah, so he, so in this research, he says that the way that dogs are handled is the way that men should be handled in order to fix this problem. Anyway, and if you look at the research, it's hilarious when you're reading, like, oh my gosh.

Because you know it's fake. Yeah, well, I mean, even if you didn't, you read it and you would either think it's crazy or whatever. Anyway, that got an award. Well, the point is that it's just enough parity to make, you know, your average person's like, oh, man, I can't believe like this would pass through, but they're looking for narratives like this so hard that it was like, yes, this is what we wanna put out there

and then he wanna ward for it. He got an award and then he told them, hey listen, this is fake, which of course, got everybody else off. Did you guys see that? Did you guys, did you guys, did you guys, did you guys actually have video of him announcing that it was fake?

No, obviously he had to keep it under the wraps. He documented it in like videoed when he received the email and everything that they actually chose his paper as the warden. So I don't know where this documentary is, but I think that they're going to come out with it. But they had several papers published by scientific journals that were fake, so the journals actually published them.

And he's doing it on purpose to prove a point, right? Of course. There's articles that he wrote under fake names to see if they would get published by news organizations, articles that say things like... This is what I'm talking about, dude. This is why it's going to be so important in the next 10 years plus that you just double, triple, fact check, and be careful of the things that confirm your bias. To me, that is like one of the most dangerous things for our kids growing up is going to

be shit like this. It's just common sense. Use common sense. Yeah, but we're losing that. Well, I mean, I talked about this before. There are articles coming out that saying that the 22 million people that protested, in many cases, tight quarters, tens of thousands of people did not cause any increase in transmission of COVID.

To me, that's like so counter, at least the narrative. It's counter to what they've been telling us this whole time, which is don't go be around more than 10 people. Why would they release articles like that? So counter common knowledge or at the very least, like I said, it's against what they've or at the very least, like I said, it's against what they've been saying the whole time. In which case, I mean, I think people

are going to be left in a situation where they just don't believe anything anymore. Is that what, you know, is that what we're heading? I know. That's a scary thought, but it's looking like that. Yeah, I don't know. Anyway, speaking to social media, I guess there's a social media company that's coming out that's trying to counter like Facebook and Twitter, have you heard of it, Parlor? Oh yeah, yeah. I haven't. I have not been on there.

I did. I looked it up and asked you. Yeah, I wanted it. Well, I think it's, I think it's, would be smart to invest in and I wanted to see if they were publicly traded. They're not public. It's all private, private money.

Now, what's the premise? It's basically uncensored social media. Why? They don't edit or censor it. I guess, right? What I get from it is, like, imagine, you know, news 30 years ago or whatever, when it Fox come on the scene.

Yeah, I think it's it. Right, like after that, right? So, like that. So, I imagine that that's what we're seeing with social media is that a lot of people believe that much of it is, you know is slanted left. And so there is an opportunity for a more right or conservative social media platforms to emerge.

And I think what we saw, so if you're somebody who's like, so is it conservative or is it just uncensored? Well, it did Fox come out and say they're conservative when they first came out. That's a great point. So I don't think Fox came out and said, we're going to be the conservative news.

I think they just recognize that they're in balance. Right. Exactly. Exactly. So if I'm reading between the lines correctly, what I see is that this is going to be, you know, they recognize there as a need for a other side that would want, you know,

it's so funny because that's what I see, exactly what I think it is. They're positioning it, of course, like where you're alluding, which is like a more non-biased type of thing. Like really though, like, or is it just gonna be like, Bob's gonna be the alternative.

Right. And then you're just gonna keep having wars. Yeah, dude, it's so funny, because I was, I was with my dog and met up with my friend and we do this every now and then and talk shit and he was just telling me how he just got kicked off a Facebook and he's got a business and everything and like so there's, you know,

there's a reason for him to be on there and this is affecting him financially but because he was directly messaging Gavin Newsom and it was long. Yeah, he was just, and he wasn't doing it in a way where he's threatening or anything like that, but he was using language like,

I don't agree with this, I don't agree with that. I look forward to seeing you out of office and it was just like really aggressively, like trying to get his point across. And they just, literally that could be the only reason he got kicked off. Yeah, well, it makes sense. I mean, these are market-based companies, and if there's a need in the market, then someone's

going to fill it, there's a lot of money to be made. Well, and that's where I live. What peaks my interest is that, like, I care less about the political bullshit. I'm like, wow, that's a smart investment. So if you can get in on that, and I believe that you can, but like with private or VC-type money, get involved in that. I was calling, I called this, I don't know how many episodes ago. You think we're gonna see a mass exodus of social media

and that of course will open up a market. Well, and so to me, I don't even think we're gonna see a mass exodus. I think what will, I know what you meant. And I think you were right on the, with your point. And I think we're both right, right? Cause I didn't think there'd be a mass exodus. What we're going to see is a division.

We're going to see that will emerge. And instead of everybody completely leaving their addiction of social media, they'll just move to their more biased platform. How funny is that? You're gonna be able to look at someone's phone and then tell where they stand on thing. Just like you can with news, like,

Hey, where do you watch your news? You know, CNN, oh, I know where you think. Oh, it's gonna be like that with their phone. You're gonna open their phone and be like oh, you're on Facebook I know you know, oh, you're on this other one. I know what you think right how funny Today's calls brought to you by Max and a ballake if you're looking to maximize your overall muscle and strength The first question is from Terry Newyup 19. Should I go to failure on isolation exercises? Sal hates to do this. This is actually a good question because,

so first off, isolation exercises are movements that typically utilize one joint, right? So like a curl or a tricip extension or a lateral for the shoulders. Those are all considered isolation exercises. Now I'm not a huge fan of going to failure a lot on lifts. However, if you're going to go to failure, it's typically more appropriate to be done in isolation movements because they just don't, they don't cause as much damage to the body. Like one set to failure of barbell squats is going to fry everything. Not just fry your muscles, but also fry your central nervous system. body, like one set to failure of barbell squats is gonna

fry everything, not just fry your muscles, but also fry your central nervous system. It's gonna take a lot more recovery to come this. It's not just that, it's the risk too, right? So if I'm doing a cable bicep curl to failure, it's, you're probably not gonna hurt yourself. Yeah, I'm not gonna hurt myself when I can't get that last wrap up. You do a barbell squat with 200 pounds on your back

and you can't get that last rep up. I mean, there's a good chance. And even if you don't get hurt like bad, like do something to your knee or tear something, the stress that even puts on all the wrong muscles, the ones that aren't supposed to be assisting in the lift, but that are helping you to bail out and get out, then you got that going on too. Well, not to mention the loads, The ones that aren't supposed to be assisting in the lift are helping you to bail out and get out.

You got that going on too. Well, not to mention the loads. It's going to be a lot less, you know, in terms of comparing that to a backloaded squat deadlift or bench press or something like that where, you know, like you can control the weight a little bit more to failure in house. Right. Yeah. So there is a lower risk factor to that.

I remember doing, was it 21s all the time for like bicep curls? And so this was something that we did experiment a lot with isolation exercises. I can't say that. That's a lot of it. No, I like it for that reason. In fact, I'm not a fan. We talk about not going to failure most of the time.

I mean, 80 plus percent of training in the gym is not to failure for me for sure on any exercises, even isolation exercises. But if I am going to utilize it, I'm going to utilize it more there. And just think about it. When you, if you're goal, especially if you're trying to sculpt,

it's different if you're just trying to build overall strength or work on CNS, like you just outpower output, right? But if you were trying to build a body and you're doing a bench press, your desired outcome of building a, is to build your chest. And if you take that exercise to failure,

unless you're a really advanced lifter and really, really good of knowing when the chest fails to not allow the rest of the body to cheat or compensate to move the weight anymore, you end up working other stuff. You're not getting the rest of the body to cheat or compensate to move the weight anymore, you end up working other stuff. You're not getting the real benefits from what you're trying to do by taking the chest to failure on a bench press

because it ends up shoulders gonna involve the arching of the back, it's involved. I just not ideal if your goal was to build a chest. That's also somewhat true for isolation though, right? Because if you're doing an isolation movement, your form needs to be perfect. Like, talking about a lateral, for example, a sad lateral. Your form needs to be perfect to really hit the side of the shoulders.

And when you go to failure on an isolation exercise, it typically becomes something different. The form starts to break down. And so this is true for isolation. If you're going to go to failure on isolation movements, do it with perfect form. I mean, this is true for all exercises, but it's really easy to change it up in terms of the way of the form. It gets away from you fast because you're trying your hardest to get through, you know, the grueling part of that. And then inevitably, you're going to compensate because your bodies, you're telling your body, we need to be able to get to that end rep. So you're

going to get it by all means necessary. This is a great point because there's a difference. And I believe one of the programs we actually have, we actually talk about this, right? We talk about the difference between what everybody else deems failure and then what we consider failure, right? So failure to me isn't that I can't move the weight anymore or lift it or pre even perform the exercise anymore like

Failure to me is the minute that my form breaks down. Yeah, I cannot maintain perfect form. Yeah, I cannot keep perfect form anymore Therefore I've failed. I've if now I don't do but I know when when that happens I could cheat up one or two more reps no matter what exercise that I'm doing yeah, so You have to take that into consideration whether you're doing an isolation or compound in this conversation is that failure is a tool and can be a great tool when used appropriately. But one of the ways that you really quickly lose a lot of the benefits of training to failure is when you do one, two reps beyond what form failure looks like, and then you just overcompensate on other areas. Now you're creating bad patterns, bad habits, and you're increasing risk.

It just becomes a different exercise. Right. All right. Next question is from Adam Kotsmeyer. How often do you really need to work abs and core? Like you would work any other body part. Now, most people do best working body parts anywhere between two to four days a week, I would say. Most people somewhere in the middle at about three.

Now, studies show why this tends to be the case. When you work out, you get this spike in what's known as muscle protein synthesis, which essentially is a signal showing that your body is building new, using proteins to build new tissue. Okay, so that rises after working out. It drops very quickly after about 48 to 72 hours, even if you're still recovering. So let's say you work out your biceps really, really hard on Monday.

By Wednesday, that signal drops, even if your biceps are still recovering and still sore, and that's because recovery and adaptation are kind of two separate different things. So for most people, you want to keep that signal elevated, which means every other day or every third day, you want to hit that body part again. This is also true for the abs and the core. It took me a long time to really figure this out. And it's funny because I applied it to clients way before I did for myself,

but when I did apply this to myself, it was a total game changer. And now I'm not saying double the volume of your workouts by working them out, you know, training your body parts, you know, two or three days a week. I'm saying take your total volume and just divide it up over two or three workouts so that you get more of that frequency.

Same things, it's still true for the abs and core as well. About two to three days a week, maybe four days a week if your advance is probably perfect. Yeah, I kind of picked this question because this was one of those areas where I find myself, like I'm guilty of neglecting every now and then, just because it's one of those considerations of training where like you really

have to keep that attention in that specific part of your body and it is a big difference in performance. It's a big difference in the way that I have this stability and this rigidity throughout my body that helps me to perform movements better. I feel strong supported and. I tend to forget about it because I'll end up doing compound lifts where I'm bracing hard. I'm feeling the way my abs are very much involved in terms of stabilizing my spine, but I'm not actively strength training my abs. And when I don't, I feel the difference.

Well, I'm going to defend you a little bit though, Justin, because I do think the statement that South said is generally true, and I agree that it's just like any other muscle if you wanna develop it, or if you wanna get the most out of it, you should be training it two to four times a week, and that stands true. But I think that what I would add to that is,

I do think that there is a much higher need for it depending on the way the person trains already. Meaning this. So something that we all know about Justin was we talked to Nazim on the show is he's the unconventional guy. He swings the May spells. He pushes the sled a lot. He does plyometric explosive stuff a lot.

He does anti-rotational stuff. All of those incorporate the core and abs more than the traditional body building type of routine. So I think that what Sal says is true, but I think that it's really important for somebody to really understand the way they train and how important it is that they need to be including ab and core training.

If you're an athlete and you are training a lot of, you know, multi-planar movements and explosive and anti-rotational and swinging clubs, there's a lot of good core stabilization, stabilization that's happening and strengthening and then heavy loaded squats, all great. It's probably less important that that person is making sure they're hitting their abs two or three times. We, then it is for somebody who is doing buys on one day and tries and then chest another day and doing very, and a lot of machine exercises and don't incorporate a lot of unconventional training.

Right, right. For example, the program that we have on 50% off, say, this month is map strong. Following a program like map strong, you don't need to do a lot of targeted core work just because you're following a program that includes things like farmer walks and snatch scripted lifts and high pullers and kiss press.

Lots of movements that involve core stabilization. There are core movements in the program, but there's not a lot of specific core movements because so many of the movements involve the core. So that's a very, very good point. Now one of the other reasons why I like working out body parts more frequently is skill is better developed when you practice more frequently.

It just is, if any skill, frequency is king with this and resistance training is also a skill. So besides the muscle protein synthesis signal and all that, even if once a week with the same amount of volume as two or three days a week built the same amount of muscle, the three day a week one is going to develop better skills with the lifts. So for me, the two to four days a week, if you want to work your core in a targeted way is ideal. Next question is from ex-suppo.

What do you all consider the most three most essential supplements a person should take if they could only take three? Well, that would be, yeah. Like my three would be different than probably your three because of vitamin D is one for me. Yeah. You know, because of my skin issues and stuff like that

and my lack of sunlight, that's a staple for me. If you're somebody who has a, don't have a deficiency there, then it shouldn't be a essential one for you. So this question is very, very dependent on the person. And this is what we've said since day one on supplements, like the best way to supplement is to figure out what you potentially are lacking in, and that becomes essential for you. It is. Now, I can speak generally, so I'm going to speak, and Adam's 100% correct.

It depends on the person, but generally speaking, most people will benefit from taking Craya team. That's a supplement that most people are going to notice some benefits, and the benefits include strength gain. They're going to notice potentially improved cognition. It does show that in a lot of studies. It's got pro-health properties with it. In fact, creatine is now being included in a lot of wellness supplements.

We're not even talking about sports or bodybuilding supplements. Muscle sparing. Yeah, wellness supplements now are starting to include creatine. It's good for the mitochondria of the cells. So creatine would be one that I would say that, you know, generally speaking most people would benefit from taking. The other one would be protein powder. Now it's not because you need protein powder, but it's rather because a lot of times people

find it difficult if their goals are to build muscle or preserve muscle if they're burning body fat, they may find it difficult to eat the optimum amount of protein for that. And studies show that that's a high amount That's a high amount of protein for most people. It's a lot, you know, you're looking at if you're a 150 pound female you're looking at about 110 to 150 grams of protein a day Which you know, that's that's a decent amount of protein and most people have a tough time Getting that in and protein powders can be extremely valuable

in a situation like that. Yeah, I think that used to be my focus when I was more trying to really muscle gain and it was all about performance. These days it's all about gut health for me and digestion. And so I tend to, my top ones revolve around that. Right, so it's enzymes and shill. Yeah, digestive enzymes, HCL pills, probiotics, things like that that are going to help my gut

flora and just help me to not have the symptoms that heartburn and things like that that I suffer from. So, I mean, that really is something that if those are obviously considered supplements that are, you know, very valuable for me in terms of my own health and well-being these days. Yeah, and I think the most valuable supplement you'll ever take is the one that is specific to you. That's by far.

Like, if you have a nutrient deficiency and you supplement with a nutrient that your body needs, that's a total game changer. It's literally what changes. I mean, that's like, I'm indeed a big one. That's huge for me. Then I would make the case also for like green juice. I'm notorious for not getting vegetables.

I could easily have three days in a row where I was just eating meals that didn't include that. When I'm good and I'm prepping and I'm doing all that, then it's not an issue, but there's lots of times when I'm on the go, or I'm blazy, or I'm being quick, and I don't get enough vegetables in my diet, and I can see and feel a significant difference when I do. And of course, always I'm going to advocate for people getting that through whole foods.

That is the most ideal way always to do it. But if not, and I have that, that becomes a very essential supplement for me to have on my side too. Next question is from Friens Dean Mamos. How do you fix a hip shift when one hip is higher than the other at the bottom of a squat or a deadlift? Okay, so this is a asymmetric shift. Yeah, there's a few reasons why this could be happening. In my experience, training clients oftentimes, you're looking at an imbalance

in the spine. Your QL muscle could be shortened on one side, causing the hip to rise up a little bit. Nonetheless, I don't know what you look like. I can't watch your squat so I can't diagnose necessarily over the podcast, but I will say this, the way to fix it, maybe to go much lighter, slow down and to forcibly put that hip in a level position. However, light you need to go to make that happen and then to practice that enough times to where you can add a little bit of weight and then that form doesn't change and slowly move up in that way.

And be very patient because typically with any kind of a movement issue, the second you really challenge yourself, you go right back to the poor movement pattern. So you've got to take your time with this. It can take a long time sometimes. So I'm gonna, you know, like Sal, I can't diagnose you without seeing you move, right? So it could be a host of different things.

Now, I will share with you because this is more recent for me that my mind was blown when I met, you know, Dr. Brink five years ago and Brink really opened my eyes to how much is related to the foot. And I was guilty this. So I had a slight asymmetrical shift at the bottom of my squat and I constantly was looking at, you know, knees and hips and everything above and wasn't really paying attention to my feet and it was 100% related to I was pronating excessively on one side more than the other which caused the shift. And that is where it stemmed from was that. And now, and since I was educated on that,

now when I've looked at other people's squats and helped them with dead list with similar situations as the one that we're talking about right now, 90% of the time, it actually was, the foot was the area I had to address first, and then work my way up to kinetic chain. So you may feel it in like back areas and notice knee and stuff like that.

But a lot of times it's stemming from your feet. So I love to take someone like this now and barefoot squadron or barefoot deadlift them and either video it for them so they can watch it and see it and really analyze the defeat on both. And you'd be surprised. Normally when you have something like this, you're going to see a major discrepancy on one side more than the other. I found a lot of what you're talking about is something I started to gear my focus and attention on too, and have people do walking patterns barefoot, and you can really see where these compensations occur.

And to just be very simple, in terms of like something that I would focus on, and shift my attention towards would be more of lateral training, and also single-like balance, and things like that. What's really something that was eye-opening for me was the instability. And so what we need to address here

is how the body's overcompensating based off of an instability that is highlighted. Where does that instability occur? That's where we need to do the work to find that out. over compensating based off of an instability that is highlighted. Where's that instability occur? That's where we need to do the work to find that out. Those types of exercises to really work on core and control and sending the right type of recruitment pattern will be everything. Yeah, it's funny about these types of things that oftentimes you have them, you don't

even know. You're lifting and you can even be watching yourself in the mirror and you won't necessarily pick up on. Oh, I didn't. What's happened? I'm a fucking trainer. Yeah. You know, I'm saying that's why I like to share what I just,

what I went through because it blew my mind. I mean, over a decade, I would have already considered myself a damn good trainer by this time. And it just, it was completely oblivious to me that the issues were stemming from my foot. Yeah, what you can do is if you wanna see how you, you know, if you have any of these issues, is you can film just your feet and ankles

and then film just your knees and then just your hips, just your upper back, hands and shoulders, and then film the whole thing and scrutinize throughout the entire movement. And very few people are totally balanced. Most people have some kind of a breakdown somewhere. And this is cool because then when you find it, you know there's something you can work on

and when you fix it, it's like, no, it's life changing. All of a sudden you feel totally relaxed. All new potential. Oh, it does that. And what happens with a lot of times with someone like this, who is exercising on a regular basis, is they typically have stiffness or achiness

or tightness on one side more than the other and it's just part of their life. I mean, I've had to dealt with so many clients like that where my right side of my low back yeah, tightens up sometimes or my left knee bothers me or what's cool is that you had no idea that it was really stimming from this breakdown and when you address that, all of a sudden you alleviate these things. I mean, it was really stimming from this breakdown. And when you address that,

all of a sudden you alleviate these things. I mean, that was like me for my low back. Like I just assumed that squatting means my low back is gonna be on fire for the next two or three days. And that was part of it. It wasn't until I really started unpacking break this all that and put the work in, you know, and started dressing this.

Did I start to see a lot of that stuff go away? Excellent. Look, this month, maps Strong is 50% off. Just go to mapsstrong.com and use the code Strong50. That's STRONG50. If you want to find 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.

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