Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 1361: How to Amplify Your Workout's Muscle Building Signal, Ways to Build Self Confidence, the Importance of Mirrors in the Gym & More

Episode Date: August 19, 2020

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about how to know if your workout is adequately creating a muscle building signal, the importance of getting mirrors for your home gym, whether teenagers should focus on aesthetics after being introduced to resistance training, and tips on cultivating confidence in life. It’s HOT out there in the Bay Area. (6:06) What is a ‘derecho’?! (9:57) In manly news out of Australia... (11:49) Mind Pump’s takeaways from their latest viral episode, Carnivore vs Vegan. (13:17) The new hustle, Miracle Spring Water. (19:32) Why politicians like to target the wealthy. (23:34) CBD dramatically increases blood flow to the brain, study. (28:45) How technology creates competition. (33:15) Doug is a really good cook. (41:30) More companies evolving amid the pandemic. (47:29) #Quah question #1 - You talk a lot about the muscle-building signal. Can you explain this more on how to know if your workout is adequately creating this without going to failure or going beast mode all the time? (49:46) #Quah question #2 – How important do you think it is to get mirrors for your home gym? (59:06) #Quah question #3 – Should teenagers focus on aesthetics after being introduced to resistance training? And should they monitor their caloric and protein intake to accommodate their fitness goals? (1:02:52) #Quah question #4 – You guys seem to have a lot of confidence. Do you have any tips on cultivating confidence in life? (1:10:11) Related Links/Products Mentioned  August Promotion: MAPS Performance ½ off!! **Promo code “GREEN50” at checkout**  New Program Launch (Ends at 11:59 pm 8/18/2020): MAPS Suspension $20 off! **Promo code “SUSPENSION20” at checkout** Deadly derecho leaves path of destruction across Midwest, 800,000 without power Man punches great white shark to save wife: 'You just react' Mind Pump #1360: Carnivore Vs. Vegan With Dr. Will Bulsiewicz & Dr. Paul Saladino Study Finds Common Knee Surgery No Better Than Placebo California wealth tax could become first of its kind in US under new proposal Why Inheritance Is Mostly Overrated As A Reason For Wealth Cannabidiol improves blood flow to brain's hippocampus Visit NED for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! Neighbor | The Cheaper, Closer & Safer Storage Marketplace Visit Butcher Box for this month’s exclusive Mind Pump offer! BLADE — Fly the Future Today Muscle Adaptation vs. Muscle Recovery – Mind Pump Blog Mind Pump Podcast - YouTube Mind Pump Free Resources

If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, with your hosts. Salta Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. In this episode of Mind Pumped the World's Top Fitness Health and Entertainment Podcast, we answer fitness and health questions asked by viewers and listeners just like you. But the way we open the episode is with an introductory portion. This is where we talk about current events. We talk about scientific studies,

our own workouts, we mentioned our sponsors. Today's intro portion was 43 minutes long. So if you wanna skip that and just listen to the fitness questions, go forward about 43 minutes. But if you wanna have fun with us and listen to the whole episode, which is the best way to listen to my pump, start in the very beginning,

I'm gonna give you a breakdown of this whole episode, okay? So we start out by talking about the heat wave here in the Bay Area. It is really hot. Desert people make it fun of us. Yeah, I'm waiting for the next plague or something to happen. Then we talked about the inland hurricane,

the derecho, is that how you say that? Derecho, derecho, something like that. Then we talked about how a man saved a woman from a great white shark by jumping on the shark and punching him. So. It's like a superhero. The most baddest ass man in the world.

Then we talked about the episode that we recently dropped its carnivore versus vegan in the some of our takeaways. We mentioned Miracle Spring Waters, a new product. Yeah, being sold to gullible people. We'll heal you. 100%. Then we talked about billionaires and millionaires.

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The next question, how important do we think it is for people to have mirrors in their home gym so like our mirrors are important besides looking at your hands and face at them? The next question, should teenagers focus on aesthetics after being introduced to resistance training and should they monitor calories and protein intake and the final question, this person has a question about developing confidence. What do we think you need to do to build confidence because we're the most confident. We're confident in that. Is that even a question? That's right.

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Send the name I just read to iTunes at minepumpmedia.com, include your shirt size and your shipping address, and we'll get that shirt right out to you. You know what I'm waiting for right now guys? What's up? The locus and the boils. Oh yeah. I was betting on leprosy. Dude. We had, okay, it got so, so I wasn't in the area,

but you know, I was talking to my parents. It got so hot and it's gonna be hot all week here in the Bay Area like it was like a hundred and in furno. Right, but then here's the weird thing. So I was talking to my father-in-law and he's like, dude, he goes, it was 102 degrees, super hot. It's like insanely hot. And then like at three or four a.m.

Yeah. He goes, like huge booms. And he goes, I don't know what the hell was going on. Yeah. He goes a crazy thunderstorm like he's never seen. Yeah, so I was up when when all that was forming So I was still like I was playing poker with my friends. We were at this house where you could see The skyline and and from the ocean going up over the mountains You could see it forming and coming and there was lightning bolts and all this crazy stuff coming at us

It was insane. Yeah, he said it was uncharacteristic lightning, like not the kind that we normally get here. Yeah, it's kind of deal to heat. It also created some of the weirdest weather we've ever had here. I don't think I've ever recall the Bay Area feeling like that felt outside yesterday. Well, was it just muggy?

Oh, it was so, and it reminds me too, something I wanted to say on the podcast, we got you brought the weather thing up, was I was thinking about the people right now that are out there that are working still, so we could still do things, like I was at the zoo, right? I took my son of the zoo with my best friend and his son. And zoo, or?

Yeah, that's cool. That's cool. And they do it by appointment, so they can limit the amount of people there, and you have to wear a face mask the entire time. But this was my first experience wearing a mask longer than maybe 10 minutes. The longest I've had to wear a mask so far is going grocery shopping or in a store where it's air conditioned and you're only in there for 10 minutes and you're in and out and

then you're taking it off right away. So I haven't experienced wearing a face mask for like an hour or two hours and then being in the heat. And then being out in that heat, they created this weird muggy like tropical type of weird weather out there. I wonder how many people passed out. So Katrina, we're pushing the stroller. We're about an hour and a half deep in and all of a sudden almost falls down.

No, she did. Yeah, I reached the grabber and I thought she tripped over something. Oh my God, did you trip? She's like, no, she just got dizzy and lightheaded. She took the mass off and sat down for a little bit, but I was like, oh shit, just from being covered up like that in that crazy hot humid weather for like two hours, and she got super lightheaded. I thought, oh my God, if that happened, I could train out of it. That's got to happen to people. It's not smart, man.

You got to, I'm sure you have to kind of get used to it, right? Because I know some cultures, the women cover their faces all the time and it's hot. And then surgeons, right? I used to train a lot of surgeons and they would do procedures. There was one procedure. I think it was called a wiggly procedure if I'm not mistaken, it takes like four or five hours and you're not going to the bathroom, you're operating the whole time and you're wearing a mask the whole time. So now that I've had to wear a mask for,

like you said, other- They probably have controlled air in there. Yeah, but it's just a new level of respect. Oh yeah, sure. I know, yeah, you're being pussy in like, oh that, I mean that's what I was thinking about was all the employees, right? They got to do this every day or there probably for five or eight hours out of the day. I know, like it was at crazy at the two hour mark. And I'm trying to be like,

you know, and enjoy this whole process with my son, right? He's at the zoo for the very first time. And the whole time, I'm like, I can turn him like, can we hurry up and just get through this whole thing so we can get out of here? Like, it was so hot and I was so miserable with that thing on my face, why it was muggy like that. Yeah. So yeah, it just made me think about everybody that is working right now, that is working in those types of conditions like, man, yeah, well speaking of the weather, too, I was brought

to my attention like through DMs like about what was happening in the Midwest. Did you guys see about the derecho, the sort of inland hurricane that they've been experiencing? What? Yeah, so they've had like over a hundred mile, an hour plus winds, and it just like swept through and decimated all these buildings and you know, all the crops and everything in Iowa and like the whole Midwest just took this massive like weather

storm that's hit. I've never even heard of it. Just in the middle of the how often does that happen Doug? I'd like to look this up. Yeah, I don't know about that. I didn't even know that was a thing. And you know, because obviously you think of hurricanes being coastal because of you know like it coming off of the ocean and you know forming. And so this is a different thing, but it has the same type of wind power that just blows through. I don't wanna be, because what happens is you start to strengthen your own bias.

2020 is so bad. So then you hear something. Oh my gosh, it's the end of the world. It's happening in little pockets all over the place. Yeah, so I wanna see if that's something that's super, super incredibly rare, or if it happens a few times a year. Or it happens every 20 years or 10 years, which is a bad thing. Well, that's pretty that's super, super, like incredibly rare or if it happens a few times a year.

Or it happens every 20 years or 10 years, which is, well, that's pretty damn rare still. I would think you never heard of one though, you know? So. Yeah, but I mean, every 10, 20 years, let me see, does it, do we say the occurrence of direct shows is divided into two seasons, the warm season. Okay, so 70% of them occur during these four months. Yeah, but how often, how often do they occur? That's what I'd like to know.

I mean, if they're 70% of them, that means that they happen fairly regularly, right? If they have a percentage of how many are going on and during a month, right? Like every year? It sounds frequent, but yeah. How severe it is must change dramatically. Yeah, cause I'm seriously, I mean,

I'm seriously like, again, waiting for the locust and boils. I don't wanna be in that state of mind. It's just a weird weekend news I think did you see I see the the guy in Australia that jumped on the white shark or the great white and saved his wife jumped on a white shark. Yes, what a badass Great. They're out. They're out surfing great white grabs the wife actually grabs Yes grabs the wife dude jumps off his surfboard on to the the great white and punches him in the nose And they and it releases this wife. It's a works and he saved your life. Bro. He's getting blow jobs every day forever now Is that crazy or what? What a bad ass. Yeah, you know how scary is that dude?

You see your wife like all of a sudden you know get swept up by a shark. I'm sure there's some husbands that are gonna be like, oh crap. Oh no. Oh no. Oh, go get help. Yeah. Yeah. No, nobody would say anything.

You know, it was a great way. I had to get help. Yeah. But what a hero. I know. What absolute hero to do that. That's like the most commendable thing of all time. It's because manly is a good guy. Dude, that's just it, man. That's like the most commendable thing of all time. Because manlies he gets right.

Dude, that's just it, man. That's true. I'll use your allions, yeah. They got some manlies. Yeah, if you say you look at. Wow, he repeatedly putt. Imagine like first of all, I'd be scary to punch a big dude. You know what I mean? Maybe it wasn't. Maybe it wasn't as wide. I thought it was as wide. Maybe it was just some lady. Wow, that's even crazier. Just some random. Yeah. Just some random woman.

Yeah, let's see what it's said some random. Yeah. Just a random woman. Yeah, let's see. It's I mean, even better, right? Yeah. I mean, a badass. Yeah. Good for him, dude. It was his, uh, what was his female companion. Okay. Wow. Good for him, man. That's awesome. Yeah. Hey, so, so, um, the episode we did with car, uh, with that was a carnivore versus vegan. That is a will and Paul. Yeah.

Will and Paul, the ultimate show now, getting, that I said will and Paul. Yeah, will and Paul. The ultimate show now. Getting a lot of great feedback, but it's, I love it when I leave a podcast, feeling like I learned something, and that one, there's a couple of things that I picked up that I'm actually, that are really interesting to me that I feel like I learned.

One is I never questioned certain vegetables as potentially causing intolerances for me. I never looked at broccoli, for example, and thought to myself, I wonder if this is causing any of my food. If I have any intolerances to it, or it'sparagus. Or something like that, right? So there's that, and you brought that up

out of my thought, the same thing. And then there was another thing that I really, that I took from it, which is, we don't place enough value on how we prepare our food because you can really negate a lot of the toxins and foods by how you prepare them. For example, wheat, you know, if you let it sprout and then if you grind it and soak it,

that helps eliminate a lot of the, you know, the talks. And same thing with beans, you ever hear people say, if you soak your beans and then you cook them afterwards, you don't get as much gas or as much gastric distress or of course, how you cook your meat and stuff like that. All very important. And I think it's something everybody should consider. So if you have foods that you are,

you might notice you have issues with, you might wanna just look at cooking them more to make them, you know, tolerable. Like I know for me, if I boil the heck out of my vegetables, easy to digest a big serving. Yeah, I think I thought both guys did a phenomenal job, but I do think that if I had to pick a winner in that conversation, it was Paul.

And only because of what you just said, and what I think I said after, after when we recapped is after listening to both of them and both made great arguments, great points, I would not do either one diet permanently. I would never run a carnivore diet permanently. I would never run a vegan diet permanently. But after listening to both of them talk, after listening to Paul, it did make me want to go try some things in my diet and change it. So that to me was a sign of like, okay,

he got through to me more than either one of them did, just from that point alone, because I was like, oh, you know what, I'd never thought if a lemon, I'm never eliminated asparagus and broccoli from my diet before. I would just never think that that could potentially be an offender. But now I'm gonna go try and do that

and see if it makes a difference, especially when he talked about he had eczema and I have psoriasis, which are similar related issues. And so if it cleared that up for him, I'm like, I wonder if I've never tried to just get rid of the vegetables like that. Now, that's the point too. I feel like I hope that people take from this

is not, you know, which diet is better or more so like listening to it and maybe people going like, oh, okay, I've never thought maybe if I eliminate these things or eat less of them or more of something else. Considering other things, new angles. Yeah, I definitely like had my thoughts running after listening to that episode. And it's because it's so counter to a lot of the nutrition studies that you, you know,

I went to, you know, college and like went in all these nutritional courses. They don't bring any of this information up. So this is all like stuff. I'm like, wait a minute. It makes a lot of logical sense that these plants have developed these defense mechanisms and like we are breaking them down in a sense to be able to, you know, get the nutrients out of them in the most effective way.

Yeah, if I could boil down the biggest issue with people and diet, it would be not listening to your body either because you don't know how to listen to your body, so you're not aware, so that's the average person, right? The average person just eats food that tastes good, doesn't even know what to pay attention to, and doesn't really know what healthy would be for them. The other side of that are fitness fanatics,

who also don't listen to their body, because they become so dogmatic about a diet religion, because they read a study or some muscular person or some lean person tells them to eat a certain way. And so they hard- headedly continue to follow an eating style because they're like, but this is supposed to be how it says. Completely ignoring, I've trained women whose hormones

were totally off because they were ignoring the fact that their low carb diet was messing with their thyroid, for example, I've trained people who have had repeated gastrointestinal issues because they thought that this particular grain is supposed to be healthy or I thought nuts were really healthy, so I'm just gonna keep eating them even though I have terrible bloat and gas every single night.

So I think it could all boil down to not listening to your body either because you don't know how to listen or because you ignore because you become a So dogmatic. I think the not knowing how to listen is probably the most common because I think of course Even somebody like myself who's I think more aware when it comes to that I mean that we all of our red in the nutrition. We've been in fitness for 20 years I've been manipulating and playing with my diet But it hasn't been until they'll probably the last five to 10 years that I really start to hone in to learning to pay attention to everything

that I ate on a regular basis. I think so often we just mindlessly eat, and then the below, the stomach issues, all the skin issues, all the poor sleep, low energy levels. By the time it hits you and you're aware that you're dealing with that stuff, you haven't made the connection of what it could have been in the last 24 hours. That's what I feel.

I feel like most people aren't connecting those dots. Well, think about this way, Adam, because you and I are very similar in this regard. We paid attention to diet for most of our career based off of aesthetics and strengths. Yeah, performance. Yeah, so I ignored all the other stuff, right? And so it was like, what can make me look the leanest, what can make me build the most muscle? But I was still dogmatic, I was still ignoring all the other stuff.

So imagine if we went in to diet, and we had no pre-existing ideas, nobody told us anything. All we did was go and listen, and figure out and listen, and pay attention to what made us feel best. I think we would have probably learned that faster. I know. Well, I have the cure for all this. What is it? Miracle spring water. Huh? What's this? Dude, I was watching this, so I was watching

regular TV and like, I forgot about commercials. Oh my God, there's this whole new hustle of this like televanjangelist that's like selling miracle spring water. It's like this holy water that cures you. What? Wow. I was like, wow, what the hell? What were you doing watching regular televinal?

I don't know, I was just thought I was on there and like, I don't know. Like I was at my friend's house and I was just like flipping through because we just watched the fights you know, over the weekend. And and that came on and I'm like, okay, so this is a totally new angle. Like they have a product, it's not just like

pay ass and we'll pray for you or whatever, it's like now we got substantial products gonna heal all your ailments. Heal all your dehydration ailments. Then they can legally do it, right? They can list all the stuff that happens to it. It's your product. When you dehydrate it, it can solve and cure.

It can cure, you know? It can dry skin. It can dry skin, headaches, nausea. Exactly. You know what, though, that's, that's, they're obviously exploiting something that's been a part of spiritual practices for a while. Like, I know, I know lords, I think it's called,

where if that's in France, I think the water there has been supposedly blessed, somebody saw Saint there, so people have been traveling there for a long time for experiences. And you know, there is, I just spot out a hustle, like, you know, especially in that arena. Oh man, that irritates me the most, because you know, all these people are already all in.

Their belief system is already there. And then now you're gonna exploit that with some bullshit like this and get at least old people to buy water. Now how do you guys feel about that? Like I know some people get really angry about that, but then part of me is like, you know, fuck. If you're a sucker like that.

And then there's the other side, like, what if it does help them? Yeah, we've talked about, like, dude, and the cycle, right, the psychological part of like if you really believe it, then it is helping. And so, I mean, that, remember the, what, what, they talk about that with, God, what are the drugs that are?

Plus, you both have that. Thank you. Yeah, the placebo effects with like your, what kind of drugs? I'm not paying killers, so the biggest ones. Right, like sugar pills, but what is it? Yeah, the placebo effects with like your, what kind of drugs, I'm not. Pain killers are the biggest ones. Like sugar pills, but what is it? Yeah, yeah, that they use and there's like a 50-50. I remember we debated that in psychology class,

whether it was, you know, okay, is it ethical to do it, even though there are studies aren't proving that it actually changes it, but that there is enough people that get positive results from it, even if there's, if it's the placebo effect. It's a real thing. There was a study, I brought this up on the show a long time ago,

but it's a legit study where they did a fake knee surgery. And my here's the thing, the more that they sell, that the realness of the fake thing, the more effective it is. What they did is they took people with knee pain and knee problems, and half of them, they actually operate and did problems and half of them, they actually operate and did a legitimate surgery on them,

like a legitimate scope or whatever, let's solve these problems in a real way. The other half, the surgeon cut the knee open, so to back up, so the people could see that they had stitches and so they fully believed they had the surgery. Here's the crazy part, at the end of the study, the same pain relief, the same results we're seeing on both sides. There was an difference.

You know what I'm saying? It was so powerful, the mind is. Very powerful. So you're right, if people buying this miracle spring water, it's great. I do feel better. Yeah. Well, now I feel bad.

You know? Maybe it's really up to these old people. Like, oh man, my joints don't hurt anymore. Like, praise the Lord. There's also a part of me that's like, you know, if you're gonna fall for stuff like that, then that's up to you. Like, you know what I'm saying?

Like, oh, you're gonna, it's only you're not a child. Like, if you're a kid, I get that, but if you're an adult. Yeah, I think, see, that's right. I feel like people are getting snuggies still. Yeah, marketing and advertising to children is unfair, I feel like, right? But if you're an adult and you buy into something like that,

then I'm like, fair game, that's how I feel. Yeah. Hey, speaking of buying stuff, so I'll cover this real quickly because I brought up some interesting statistics. So California is talking about passing this crazy wealth tax that's insane. There's no way this is gonna fly though, right?

I mean, is it really possible this could fly? So we're gonna pour gasoline on our state now. It's like, it's not enough that it's burning. No, no, I know exactly. This is it. So the proposed tax rate would be up to 0.4% of net worth. So it doesn't matter how much you would ever. Just your total net worth,

and then the tax will follow you if you move out. So you can, you continue, we'll get taxed at this for I don't know how many years. Okay, so let me make this clear then. So let's just say I've been a really good boy over the last 10, 15 years, and I've just been slowly socking money away and saving and saving and living a very modest life,

and I've put away a million dollars, that can be taxed, is that what you're saying? They'll tax your net worth. Yeah, so how much money you have? You're producing the new Prince John. Yeah, exactly. And then if you move, then it'll follow you. And I think it's like, I think it, I think it followed,

I don't remember how many years it fought five years, something like that, silly, where if you move out, it's a proposed tax. But this made me look up some statistics because I said, you know, it's, that we love to tar, or politicians, I should say, love to target, and I put in quotes, the wealthy because they're an easy target,

and most voters don't consider themselves wealthy. Right, that's looking to affect me. Yeah, so it's not me. And it's easy to look at someone like, I don't know, Jeff Bezos, right, and be like, oh, look at someone like Jeff Bezos and be like, oh, look at him, he's got all, but there's two points I wanna make with that. One, they're that wealthy because we gave them

that much money because they did something a lot of us liked. So I don't know, I feel weird about being upset about that, we gave them the money because they did something we all liked, it's weird to be, to wanna go after them for that. But then there's a part where a lot of people think that millionaires and billionaires didn't earn

their money or aren't self-made, like maybe they're just whatever. So I looked up the statistic. First of all, 88%, this is huge, 88% of millionaires are self-made. So the vast majority of millionaires earned it themselves. They actually created that money themselves. Billionaires believe they're not as less,

a lot less than that. 57% of billionaire wealth is self-made. So some, a lot of these billionaires are inherited. And inherit a lot of money. That makes it like oil money. Well, yeah, that makes sense though, right? If you, I mean, think if you built this,

even in like a big real estate empire, you own 50, 60 properties, you have a son, then your son comes right in, and gets to inherit that, and then take that from there and maybe turn it into a billion dollars. Right, but check this out. So the number of billionaires with inherited wealth

has dropped 29% since 2014. Oh, right. So the self-made billionaire number. Such a new billionaire. It's climbing is climbing climbing climbing It seems to be climbing over the last you know five or six years or whatever So this is an interesting thing we should all kind of pay attention to that a lot of these people got there because they They did something that so much of it so many of us liked that we voluntarily

gave them this money and I don't know if going after him that hard is smart You know especially for a state like California because I feel like that will just drive we voluntarily gave them this money. And I don't know if going out from that hard is smart, you know, especially for a state like California, because I feel like that'll just drive. Doug and I had this conversation on the way home this week and we were having the Jeff Bezos conversation. Did you know, he looked it up. I don't know if you know,

you know how many people they employ? You know how many employees he has? No. Almost a million, right? Is that right, Doug? I think it was like 870,000. Yeah, that's a lot of people. That's like how many other companies can say that?

Well, that's what I'm saying. Literally, an entire city, the size of our city, you know, Homuls, right? You could, like, he's employed by himself. Like, that's insane to me. And then for people to come after someone like that, I got Doug and I were like, just, but like, imagine if you're him and you're like,

just so fed up, you're like, yeah, I fucked this. I'm closing everything down. I'm done. You know what I'm saying? Just like, I'm shutting everything down. I'm done. You know what I'm saying? I'm just like, I'm shutting everything down. Like, it's your company, do whatever you want with it. Like, imagine if that you got so fed up of like, people coming after you

and putting you down over, she's like, that you decided to shut fucking shop one day, dude. Just come done. I'm closing shop. Yeah, well, you know what happened? The government would be like, we have to save all these jobs and then we would all end up paying as taxes

to save 800,000 jobs or whatever. Right, right. But now they're not doing any. Yeah, well, I mean, look, it's hard to see what people like this have produced, what their innovations have produced. But I mean, think about it for a second. Amazon is one company.

There's a lot of companies right now that I think are saving us during this pandemic. But Amazon is one of them. Like we're not having to go to the stores often. We're able to keep getting what we need for low prices. It's very next day. It's keeping things extremely competitive. It's allowing small businesses on the internet

to advertise their goods and compete with name brand things because of the ratings, the system that they've provided. So Amazon is one of those companies that's, you know, how next best thing is a USPS? Oh, geez. You imagine if they were like delivering over. Well, you know, for a long time, they could, they kept saying it was impossible to deliver things 24 hours. And then, you know, companies like FedEx. Yeah, they'd give up.

Start doing it and they figured out, you know, kind of a way, a way to do that. So anyway, hey, so I read another interest. There was a big study that came out on CBD over the weekend, you guys hear about this? No. So it was, it's a big one. It just came out. There's, study finds that CBD dramatically increases

blood flow to certain parts of the brain in particular, the hippocampus. So the hippocampus is important for short-term memory, long-term memory, and this backs up other studies that support that people who use cannabis along with CBD and other cannabinoids, so not just THC, but with CBD and other cannabinoids that they get less of that short-term memory law. Isn't this, I mean, you're the one that got me to do this. Like, so it's rare now that I like have like a, where I smoke a full joint or have quite a bit.

Like, this has to be a weekend or a time where I'm just like gonna cut loose, maybe watch like a funny movie, then I'm gonna have more than like my two little hits to help me go to sleep. When I do that, I always make the effort to go and take like a couple of drops of the, the hemp oil. And that's because you're the one who told me

that you want to try and keep the ratio one to one and it's for the memory lot. And that's what you told me before. And if there's ever a time any time I ever feel like that, it's if I smoke too much, I feel like I forget. Isn't this the cool part about plants where they have like one certain aspect, but then they balance it out like with another part of the plant. So like if you say if one is toxic,

they also has the antidote within the same plant, it feels like CBD counters a lot of that. So short-term memory loss is something you attribute to people that smoke weed. Well, cannabis, as soon as people started to value it for its hot, getting you high effects, that's what we started to breed cannabis for. So like early days cannabis was...

Right, we made it really strong. It used to not be like that. No, no, early days cannabis, I mean, you would find, you know, growing naturally or whatever, it would be probably 3%, 4% THC. Now when you go to a cannabis store, especially here in California, it's almost, it's hard to find anything lower than 16 or 15%. Usually people are using 20% or higher, super high THC, but when THC is high,

then other cannabinoids are lower. It's like it produces more THC, but it keeps producing more of the other things. So you get this kind of off balance, and it's well known that if you have a lot of THC, you get short-term memory loss, the dumb stoner. It's funny how this stereotype is true. It's funny how this rule applies, I feel like with us humans, once we get involved and we start doing things, like if found in nature, if it would weed were to just to grow and you were to smoke it, you'd probably be completely fine, but we have found a way to cross, weed it, concentrate it, to make it crazy strong,

and then justify why it's okay, when the reality is, if we would have just probably had it and left it in its normal form, natural state. Well, I mean, this is good news, too, for people who use hemp oil and don't really care about THC,

and they just want the, you know, the relaxing effects and the anti-inflammatory effects, that they, if they don't use THC, if they just use hemp oil, they may actually be improving their brain's ability to think sharper or to have better short-term memory because that's, again, the study showed... Well, at the bare minimum, to stay one to one.

I mean, you're the one that got me, so this is just another study that really confirms that, right? Because you knew that before. You're the one that made me crazy to that. Yeah, because the studies before didn't show the blood flow to hippocampus, the studies before just showed people who had CBD with their THC just had less memory loss. So it was like they would do these studies and find, because you can reliably produce short-term memory loss

effects in people if you give them high doses of THC for a little while. Then you'll see that their short-term memory starts to get a little messed up, but they had people who used CBD along with their THC, and they found that wasn't really the case, and those are older studies, that's when I brought you. But you're right, as soon as we get our hands on something,

look at fruit, look how we've bred fruit. You can look up old paintings. Just a bit of banana. Yeah, super, super old paintings of fruit, and they're like, that's a banana. Doesn't look like anything like. Tiny, tiny seeds. Big black seeds in there.

You know, or watermelons. I remember when I was a kid, and I ate a watermelon. Watermelon. It was hella seeds in that thing. You ever, you ever get a watermelon? No, they got rid of them. There's no seeds. I don't understand.

They grow seeds this one now. Dude, that's us. It's like, we just want the show. You have to say, just give us the sugar heat. Don't let it go. Don't let it go. Forget all the other stuff. We castrated watermelon.

I had some tech news out. There's an app out. And I think I brought up a similar one. This is becoming a competitive space. This one's called neighbor. And it basically, and I talked about one that did something similar before, where you can rent a competitive space. This one's called neighbor. And it basically, and I talked about one that did something similar before, where you can rent out your space.

This is becoming like a popular thing, which is interesting to me because I was just telling Katrina right now, we're in this kind of limbo phase of maybe we're gonna move, maybe we're not. And I went month to month on our place that we're at right now. And so one of the things I'm like, why don't we just like pack up,

get everything out of this house that we don't absolutely need on a day day. So if we decide to go get a place, then we can just up and move and I'll just put it in storage. And I'm actually exploring this as a possible option because it's becoming so popular. And I haven't actually used it here in the Bay Area,

but I know that these apps are exploding, which allows you to go rant out like somebody else's garage or whatever, instead of going to a storage unit. Like a storage unit is X amount of dollars, whatever. You can now these apps now allow you to go, if somebody who has a three car garage and you don't use one side of your garage, you could rent it to four or five different people

for a certain amount of money every month and collect cash for yourself. You think the storage unit business can take a big hit from this? Of course. Well, okay, should I say, okay, I don't know if they're gonna take a big hit because that's like, it's been growing,

that industry's been growing forever. I thought that it's, I thought that I'd be. Well, I wanted to get into that, but yeah, I don't know, like. Right, as Americans, we keep consuming. We're consuming faster than we can store. So the storage units keep popping up and there's plenty, but it's just become more competitive.

So what I think you would see, maybe you won't see a big hit as much as you'll see like more competitive rates. I don't think you would, okay, I'm just speculating, but I don't know if it would impact long-term storage, but short-term storage, I could totally see that. Like if you're moving and you're gonna, you just need storage for like a month. Right.

Why get a storage unit? Exactly. Now, if you're gonna keep something, in storage for a year or two, I don't think that's gonna, I don't think it's gonna impact that. Well, here's where I'm at. Like, if they become so competitive,

and this way I told Katrina, like, I'm as good for the consumer. This is the type of person that I am. Like, you know, 100 for $125, you know, a month or whatever, if it meant I can get rid of a bunch of shit that I have under my garage and I can, there's maybe somebody in my neighborhood that's doing this

and that so it's like literally less than a blocker to away from my house and I can go get it if I need it whenever I want to. I mean, I would do that. I was like, is this for your shoes Adam? There is a part of that, then. Hey, what if you did, what if you, you just hit the nail in the head?

What if you put all your shoes in someone's garage and then you go back and check on a monthly, and the dude's like was wearing them a bunch of times? He's walking around like making bacon, which just happens to be a size 12. Hey, it doesn't make Jordan. He's got your easy zone, he's gardening. All right, I forgot my shoes inside.

It's not a big help. It's not a big help. I'll dust them off. So, are they a neighbor? I mean, that does bring up a point that you think right away. And I looked into this because I thought, okay, wait a second, like, you know, some, you know, regular Joe Smow down the way,

he's gonna rent me this space and he's gonna have my shit. What if he steals it? What if someone else steals it? What if it's not a secure? Like, you're, you know, part of what you're paying for with these storage units is like the Bob wire fences, the cameras, like the high security, right?

But they're in order to be on this app, like the app company itself is, I wanna say it was a million dollars, like a million dollar insurance policy. Oh wow. So if you have, as long as you're storing stuff less than a million dollars, it was the same concerns when Uber came out, right?

It was the whole thing of like, you know, who knows who these people are? They're not vetted and you know, they might just drive you to Mexico or something. No. Oh, no. What do you think about that? Hey, how you doing? Can you take me to the airport? Absolutely.

It didn't happen. And by the way, do you have both kidneys? Why do you ask? No, no, no, no reason. No reason. No reason. You know, that's what they said about eBay. eBay was one of the first companies to do that, where, and everybody, all the retail companies said, no way this will work. There's no way this will work. People are going to get ripped off. The satisfaction rates are going to be terrible.

And the funny thing is, eBay's, like the trust factor with eBay, or how often that they people are good on there, is just as good as any retail. Yeah, so what I'm curious about now then, is like, okay. So, because some of these properties that I've been looking at too, they have like a little bit of land, so like an acre or two or whatever. Like what is the stop me from building like a shed on my property?

And just doing that, sure. And just doing that, Just hustling it in. And having, you know, 20, 30 sheds on there to collect monthly income to help pay for the mortgage of the place. Absolutely. Yeah. I wonder, I wonder if you're gonna start to see like similar like you brought up the Uber thing

is the taxi companies gonna freak out or all the storage unit companies gonna freak out and start to try and legislate against the ability to do that. Like right now, this might be one of these things that we see that grows so fast. I don't think a lot of people are aware of this. No, it'll get too big. If it's good, it'll get big too fast for legislators to mess with. And then by the time it's that big, then it'll be a battle.

Right. Like, keep your eyes open. You might see this. That's a massive, like the storage industry is a massive industry that just kind of flies on in the radar and not a lot of people talk about it. Here's these apps that are starting, and I've seen quite a few of them. I told you about the park one, the neighbor one now,

and I forgot what the other one was called, but you know, people are able to rent their parking space in front of their house. You know you could rent your couch. Yeah, did you guys know that? Yeah, couch, that one's weird. Spending night on their couch. Yeah, absolutely.

This makes me, they do this with, you know what else they do? It's like pools, like so that's popular right now night on their couch surfing. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, this makes me they do this with you know what else they do is like pools like so that's popular right now Where people that have parties? Yeah, well just having a pool at your house to the heat wave coming through right now And you can't and if you're not in town or not using your house or what about that you could rinse your Pull out for the day liability. I wouldn't want anything to do with that. No. Oh, sounds like you own a pool Do you know way? Absolutely. Yeah, no, I don't like that. I like it. Yeah, it's good Someone could drown or you could have some creep. Just, you know what I mean? Yeah. That one's a thing. Hey, I'm renting my pool for any college graduation parties. They're jumping off your roof. I'm gonna watch. I'll be on the

roof watching just in case anybody drowns or whatever. I mean, it's just like, you, I mean, you say that, but it's like, what's the difference between that and VRBO or Airbnb? They're right. You know what I'm saying? It's like, you're just your only limiting it to the pool versus the whole house. It just feels a little more like yikes. Yeah, but the thing you said about the store, you know, having people store stuff in your garage and then you said a million dollar policy.

The bad side of me is just thinking of the scams, people can run, where you'd be like, hey dude, come put your stuff in my garage. Somebody will steal it. Don't worry, insurance will give you a discount. Yeah, but okay, so what I think about it, and that's the beautiful thing about eBay Ubers, is like, I'm sure there's a rating system on this,

and if this guy's known for getting watch patterns. Yeah, I mean, if you look it up, and he's got a two-star rating, because this place has been jacked twice. Are you gonna drop your shit there? Like, no, I'm not gonna store it there, so it'll self-regulate, right? So maybe somebody gets away with a scam

like that once or twice, you know, but after a while, people won't drop their stuff there. Just got super cheap. Oh, it's only a two-star. Yeah, exactly. Dude, I forgot to tell you guys, my son said about you guys when we were up at the house. Whoa.

Or maybe I did text you, it was hilarious. We're sitting there and we're all having conversation where everybody goes, he goes, Doug's, he's a really good cook, he's also really funny. So that's cool. He goes, Justin, so he started kind of breaking everybody down. He goes, Justin's like, kind of sounds like a surfer dude.

Yeah. Like, yeah, he does. And he's like, Adam's a dad. I don't know, I don't know, that's my fault he got. That is not a compliment from my high school kid. It's definitely not a compliment from my school. I Adams the dad. Dude, I want to find some surfer, bro.

Yeah, it's like, I think that's... Man, it's so funny to hear different perspectives. Yeah. Actually, for a kid like that, because it's completely pure, right? Like, he's not biased, sir. Oh, no, my kids love you guys, though. That's what they kept saying. Dude, I've been trying to get rid of the surfer accent forever.

It's still there. Bro, you grew up It's still you grew up Even though you grew up in the mountains you grew up in Santa Cruz. Yeah, well, it's just right now I mean it's 10 minutes away. I would way rather be the buff surfer guy though I mean if that's what he's really been in the dad you know, I'm saying like and I'm proud to be a dad Don't get me wrong, but that's not the compliment you want from high school kid You said like what do you mean by dad? He's like yeah the way he dressed it now Right to the heart. Hey, speaking of Doug though, Doug is quite the chef.

Him and I have been going back and forth on battling on the rib recipes and I heard you nailed one out again, lately, Doug, yeah. I think that's what one Dominican over, right? Well, yeah, I made the Korean barbecue ribs when I was with the kids, but I've been working on my baby back ribs I mean, it's a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a nailing it. It wasn't working for me. So I was getting them over cooked and I wasn't getting that fall off the bone thing that I was going for. So I just tweaked a lot of different things like the smoke time and then I put them in a foil pan with apple and grape

juice and then I put foil on top really seal it well and then I kind of steaming it in there on the grill and I extended that out another 15 minutes and then I put foil on top, really seal it well, and then I kind of steaming it in there on the grill. And I extended that out another 15 minutes, and then I shortened the back end where you turn up the heat and you browned the ribs. So the last time I did it, they're super juicy, they fell off the bone, it was a nice thing. That's real similar to how I do it.

I do brown sugar, brown sugar, honey, and apple juice inside the foil, but almost identical to, you know what I haven't been able to do? Is, and I don't know if it's because I've been cooking so much of the butcher box meat is somebody else gave us some ribs. I don't remember. I think it was Katrina's mom gave us some ribs and I cooked it new or they were terrible.

So I've gotten used to cooking that size of rib, I think, and that anything else that I've tried to cook, I'm off now. The fatty acid profile is gonna be different to It's because it's grass fed probably yeah, so well, I don't know if the ribs are grass fed are they the pork? Oh the heritage pork is still gonna be a little different Yeah, it's gonna be different definitely give them good quality food. Oh, it's definitely different like I and I just said It took me a while to get them down now that I have them down only well It like if I've gone to cook other ribs definitely different. Like, and I just gotta say, it took me a while to get them down. Now that I have them down really well,

like if I've gone to cook other ribs, I have not been able to hit it out the parking lot. Well, you guys are scientists with the way you guys grill meat. I've never really paid attention that way. I grill it, and then I eat it. I don't do the timing and all that stuff, but there's definitely a difference when I eat meat

after you guys make it. It's an incredible experience. I mean, meat's good, right? I don't, as long as you're over cook it's gonna be fine, but you guys definitely bring a whole new level. Well, are you not a, are you not a big griller? Do you, do you grill a lot at home? I grill a lot, but I definitely don't do what you do

where, you know, you made us all steaks and he runs in and he goes, put the timer on for two minutes. Yes, it's the timer. Let me know in two minutes and I let him. He's searing at the pivotal moment. Yeah, I keep the juices in. Two minutes is up and then he does this thing and then he closes it and then he watches the temperature and then, let me know in the other two minutes and I alone can searing, and it's like pivotal moment to juices in. Two minutes is up and then he does his thing and then he closes it and then he watches the temperature

and then let me know what other two minutes is up and then you'll open the thing for, I don't know how many seconds to close it and like what's he doing? It's, you know, but the state comes out of Greta. We'll talk about like the difference between a cook and a chef, like anyway, that one of them is more formulaic, right?

And versus the other ones a little bit more create, like is kind of adding things and adjusting and all that. So, but I, like, I grill on, on, you know, Weber. And so it's like, I'm always there, like, having to manipulate and mess with it, the whole time to make it, like, taste good. I love, I love charcoal. Yeah, but it tastes good.

Well, it takes another, I mean, it takes another, I'm my brother-in-law who's like the total foodie, right? He's, his theory is that, like His theory is that he's a purist, so everything has to be on a charcoal. Like all these cool things, the trigger we're talking about, and it's like, you could cheat. I mean, you could, and that's just it, is like, so for me, it's about the end product.

I want to try and emulate the best steak that I've had. I mean, you're in replicated. Yes, right. Like the next time I'm seeing. That's my goal. You're not like, oh, this is the way cavemen did it. Yeah, it. Yes, right. Like the next time. That's my goal. You're not like, oh, this is the way cavemen did it. Yeah, it's too much.

I'm like, if I got the cool thing to measure the temperature of the meat, and I got the gauge to measure the heat in there, like, okay, and I could figure this out, I can replicate like the perfect steak almost every time now. Yeah. But with the Weber, you don't get that. You don't get a temperature gauge or anything. You're watching. Yeah, you're watching my feel.

Yeah, you're eyeballing it. And so, I mean I mean which if you're a purist like you you appreciate that But I'm like I just want to grab you my meal. Yeah, just the d'sy the floor you know that right Feels right more ways of the Jedi speaking of grilling almost the barbecue caught fire again I wish I could be there when that happens for you. I could just see you. You fired. I'm freaking out. No, Brian, it's okay. First I get to clean the barbecue.

And then I turn it on. I leave it there to heat up a little bit. I go back, I turn it, I open it up and the things on fire. I like that though. No, I don't like that kind of fire. Yeah, because it gets, so what? Well, here's a downfall of cooking

in a really clean gas barbecue time. You may as well use the fucking oven. Then it's like an oven. Because now the oven doesn't cook it like that. Very similar. If you don't have, if you don't got a good flame coming off there every once in a while.

But I'm talking about the pan underneath with a flame. Okay, Justin was there when a cop fire. Yeah, I saw it. Well, yeah, if you close the fucking thing and you walk away and you got greasy ass meat or fatty meat on there, like it will definitely like that.

That's good. and I overwhelming the volume of dripping grease when we did it. Yeah, it was like, ah! Yeah, all those burgers on there. So you guys are angry, Tantra? Oh yeah, especially a bunch of burgers for sure. We'll do that.

I didn't have anything on it, by the way. Well, I would just still do that. Yeah, well, I mean, we just cooked 12, three inch, flicking rib eyes on there back to back nights. So there's definitely some Residue leftover from that for sure. Oh, yeah, those were good by the way those Yeah, I can fact that when I got home I wanted more so I went into the store and got myself Did you really after back to back nights like I they're so good so get on the good? Well Doug man

I got it that's something I got to steal from Doug's dad conversation by the way man, I got it, that's something I got to steal from Doug. What a bad conversation, by the way. That's a very, very good. That's the perfect, Scott, new balance next. Well, Doug does the mushroom and onions, man, to put over the top of the rib eyes. That's the kick.

Oh my God. Yeah, those onions alone. So my daughter's never loved mushrooms. And the ones you may dug, she was like requesting them now. So thank you for doing that. Hey, welcome. Hey, you know you brought up California transition out of this barbecue man talk here, or the dad talk.

So I wanted to bring up something that I thought was interesting. Law moors? I know. Yeah. I won't regret. No, like a lot of people leaving like the cities and stuff. And so over in New York, you're seeing a lot of the people that own the Hamptons and they travel

there for some are now staying there. This has also allowed a company called Blade, which is an aviation helicopter company that is blowing up right now because so many of these execs that live in New York that have the house and the Hamptons are staying in the Hamptons and then they're commuting back and forth using this aviation. What a sick name for a company. Right. You got delayed.

Right. So they're taking helicopter to work? Yes. Well, I'm sure it's not every day thing, right? So you're taking it once a week, maybe you're going back, but you're working from home, like 80% of the time, right? Do you, Magnum PI pulled it P.I. pulled it off. Yeah, what a flex, you know what I mean?

I'll be at the meeting, don't worry. Yeah. What's that sound outside? Walk out with your briefcase? That's what you know, we've officially been walking into one of our emotions in a helicopter. It's Adam Ab, where he's not here, he's here. You gotta have a briefcase, you know,

you just have to carry something. Justin will arrive in it, and, like, protein bars in it. Justin will arrive in a personal, like, rocket pack. That's what I see him do. Adam shows up in the helicopter just in one of his hits. Oh, I've seen that too, just recently, that somebody was driving, flying one of those. Was it you who shared that article?

What do you guys shared an article, someone flying around with those? There was one where this guy was flying and he had like two independent engines that, I don't know what kind of engines they were, but they were like on his arms and he was flying around an aircraft carrier. Yes. That sounds like dude. Super safe.

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You talk a lot about the muscle building signal. Can you explain this more and how to know if your workout is adequately creating this without working to all out failure or going beast mode all the time? You gotta have good Wi-Fi. Yeah, yeah. You gotta have good Wi-Fi to get that signal.

Yeah, no, so dang, that's a good point. That was a dead joke, that was not bad. Good try. So, all right, so. You have some boosters. This was a big moment for me as a trainer. I remember when I finally made the connection that the workouts, all my workouts did

was send a signal to my body so that my body could adapt. That's really all it was. It wasn't about beating myself up, it wasn't about getting sore, it wasn't about lifting the most weight. Those were all components of the workout potentially, but really the workout was about sending the right signal. So once I understood that, and I really got that,

then my workouts got more to more effective because then when I would go in, I would think to myself, am I sending the right signal, am I living in a way that's gonna cause more adaptation? So your muscles, first of all, don't necessarily, they don't really maintain in the sense that they don't just stay the same. They're constantly building or reducing.

The way you build muscle is the building process is stronger or outweighs the breaking down process or the the atrophy process. And by the way, the atrophy process can be very powerful. If you put your arm in the cast for a week and then took it off, just a week, you would see significant weakness and atrophy of your arm in that short period of time. So itrophy of your arm and that's your period of time. So it's like this constant battle that's going on. But the way you approach your workouts should be, is this workout producing the desired result,

which is or which can be getting stronger, maybe building muscle, getting leaner, improving my mobility, is that what's happening? Or am I just going to the gym and satisfying my ego by lifting more weight than the guy next to me or by beating myself up? So now my ego's satisfied because I had this crazy hard workout. Now what determines whether or not it's the right signal for you is super individual.

This is the thing now, it's very individual. The right workout and the right dose for you is the best dose. and it may not be the right dose for the person next to you. There's a couple things you could watch. One of them is a soreness. In the past, I thought getting really sore was a great sign. Later on, I realized a little bit of soreness is okay, but a lot of soreness means I over did it, and I need to back off a little bit. That one's one signal I like to watch. Well, this really came full circle for me when I finally grasp the difference between adaptation

and recovery. For most, even my training career, I explain this wrong to many, many clients, so I feel bad about this, because I was still under the impression that when we go to the gym, we tear and we break down. That was like how I explained. We tear and we break down these muscle fibers.

The body then signals it to, oh my god, we've tear these down, we've got to recover them and we've got to make them stronger. So that was the adaptation process. Where I was missing the link here was that it's not just this recovery process of recovering from the damage, it's also this adaptation process. And I think, Sal, you explain it really well and you've done this on the podcast, there are times where you use the analogy of the sun tan, right?

And Bert, you could go out, if I haven't been in the sun in a long time, and I go out, and I lay out for like three hours, I will burn my skin. Now, I definitely will get a little tan or there's it, but also burn it. Like it'll hurt and I'll be peeling, and I'll get a little bit of color from that,

but- Then you lose it. Right, and then I lose it, and I don't wanna go out in the sun anymore because I'm burned already. And so I think of it like that, because if I go out in the sun for 10 minutes at a time though, every single day,

over the course of like two weeks, I'll also see that I got as tan, if not more tan, but I didn't have to lay out there for three hours and go through the whole burning process and the healing process, right? So I think of it the same way now with like training is I'm looking for that sweet spot. Like I wanna train hard enough to where the body adapts

and it starts to build muscle because it recognizes the signal that I'm sitting to it, but I don't wanna damage it so hard that my body's just trying to recover all the time from the sun or from the workout. So you're looking for that sweet spot of getting the benefits of both of the adaptation process and the recovery process. And you don't want that constant like hammering it so hard that all the body is thinking about is trying to recover.

You're not allowing it also to adapt. I think a major adjustment I had to make once started to understand this whole principle, you know, a bit more in depth, was to, you know, really evaluate where, like if I were to like approach my workout and try and find that like optimal dose, like it was a lot easier

for me to exceed it. In terms of intensity or overdoing, it was very easy for myself to go beyond that versus approach it from less and then build my way up to try and find and hone in what that particular dose was for me. I started to adjust the way I train people because I was always under the impression that I need to ramp up their intensity to get them to get more work out of it, which then would produce, you know, a better result to get them more muscle. But it was actually the opposite I found where when I started reducing the

intensity and then building it back up slowly and not like trying not to overdo it, they had better results. I think there's a real simple way to give people advice listening right now because I really think that there's two groups here. If I'm talking to a client who is a complete beginner, lifting weights really, really unaware, they need a little more intensity in their life.

They're less likely to hammer themselves a little more intensity in their life. They're less likely to hammer themselves every time they go in the gym. They're more intimidated, scared, they ease themselves in. And so getting that person to learn to kind of push and stretch themselves a little more, I find myself having that conversation. If you're the person who likes to go to the gym, you've been lifting weights for years, you're more of an advanced lifter, you're more likely to fall on the category like I think all three of us in this room, which is I'm more likely to overreach than I am to go into a gym and train and not do enough.

Because I've chased that sore feeling and I've learned to like that feeling. So I tend to go work out and go like, oh, I need to feel that crazy burn. I got to feel that sore the next day to feel like I got a great workout. And that's not true. And so I'm always, I mean, I just did this the other day with Doug, I worked out with Doug up in Tahoe and I was joking about how like roasted my back was because I hadn't deadlifted in a long time.

I hurt my foot this, and I've been out from like squatting and deadlifting for a while. It was my first time deadlifting back. I told Doug I just lift what he's lifting and I didn't realize he was gonna go heavy that day. And I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I was lifting with Doug and you know, my ego was like, okay, I'm not gonna go peel away

off I'm lifting with Doug, I'm supposed to be the trainer so it'll be stronger in him. So I lifted right with him and I was fried for the next three days. Like absolutely fried from it. And that's just I still even all these years even after giving advice on this podcast Still have a tendency to overreach and that's not the goal for maximum results You want to just stretch yourself. Although I do have to bring up the point so the the beginner

I think a lot of times like they don't understand what that line is and so even you know What may seem to be like a normal workout may be way too much for them. True. And so, you know, like they have to find that balance before they can even, they have to be able to ramp it up very slowly. I still go with the slow approach with them. Yeah. The muscle building signal, understanding that is what allowed me to initially create maps and a ball. Because I sat to, because I sat down and I said, okay, it's all about sending a signal,

and I know lifting weights sends that signal. What other things could potentially send a muscle building signal? One of them is a hormonal signal, right? You could give anabolic steroids to someone the hormonal signal builds muscle. Could I send other muscle building signals that are natural that don't include beating the crap out of myself? This is the trigger session concept.

And I'll say this for most people, you'll get better results with more frequent less loud signals than you will with less frequent super loud signals. In other words, you're better off doing easier workouts, five days a week than you are doing one super hard, massively intense workout a week.

This is true for most people, it's still true for myself. Even today, I'm incorporating some trigger sessions here and there, and the results I get every time, I do this consistently, blow me away, and it's a low intensity muscle building signal, that just compounds on top of the normal signals I send, which are with my normal workout. So this is why frequency is so important because frequent lower level intensity workouts, they don't send a loud signal, but they send a signal and they don't create a lot of damage. And so what they do is they just compound

on top of your normal workouts. So if you're not incorporating things like trigger sessions or focus sessions, give them a shot. Next question is from S. Costanzo for 30. How important do you think it is to get mirrors for your home gym? Well, any trainer will tell you that mirrors, if you're working out alone, are super important. Because as a trainer, one of your jobs was to watch your clients form. And I'll tell you what, people are so unaware that their form is off that one shoulder's a little high,

that their hip moves in one direction a little bit, that there's a little bit of an imbalance. This happens to me, and I'm advanced if I'm working out for a long time. So mirrors help you watch your form and pay attention to, when I do curls, for example, the simple exercise I curls, when I watch in the mirror, I'm very careful to not allow my left shoulder

to hike up a little bit, because that's the tendency. The tendency is when it gets heavy and hard, my left shoulder wants to shrug up a little bit. And if I didn't have a mirror, I wouldn't be able to notice that. I don't want to be able to. Just don't make love to yourself in the mirror. Why are you looking at me?

That's Adam. No, this is actually, it might seem like a silly question for some people, but I think it's a good question because I used to get clients that would say things like, oh my God, I don't ever want to be one of those people that are so narcissistic. They're standing in front of the mirror and they're watching themselves work out the entire. That's what I know as if they're looking at them. I know. And let's be honest, there is, there is that side too, right?

There is, there is, you know, guys that can't walk to the water faucet without checking them, they're tricep out and they're shoulder out at least three or four times in the mere on the way there. So there is that level of narcissism and I could see how they could turn off somebody who's not like an avid lift from the gym. But I think their mirrors are absolutely necessary and every exercise I do, I do in front of a mirror if I can. And it's literally because I care about the movement so much

that even to this day an exercise that I've done 100 or a thousand times, I still always think there's room for perfecting it and making it look even better. And so it's not about you and what I look like in the mirror. It's more about what my movement looks like. And without a mirror, I can't do that. Or without somebody standing on your feedback. Yeah, you know, you gotta see what your body's doing

to compensate because it inevitably, like, based off of patterns throughout your day, you could throw off your mechanics. And it's just that it happens to the best of us. So it's one of those that you just need to see how to make little micro alterations within your lifts to make sure everything's on point. It keeps you, it helps keep you, it's not perfect, right?

But it helps keep you objective to your form and your technique and how you're moving away. Just like, I mean, our podcast is a bit of an example. I mean, first, I don't know, 100 episodes that I listen to myself talk. First of all, you hear your voice and it sounds way different on recording than you hear in your head.

So first you get comfortable. Then you realize how you're sound and how you communicate things and you make adjustments. It's hard to be objective in the moment and when you can't necessarily watch or see or listen to what you're doing. That's what mirrors provide. That's why gyms have mirrors. And if you have a home gem, I think a mirror is one of the essential pieces of equipment, just as essential as a dumbbell, a barbell, or a bench or a resistance band.

Yeah, otherwise or unless you are sitting there and recording yourself and then going back and watching it every single time. Yeah, but then you mess up, it's a little more weird. Yeah, but it's better to fix it. Yeah, it's better to fix it while you're doing it. No, 100% agree. I was like, that would be my only, if I didn't have a mirror in my at home gym,

that would be the thing that I would have to do. Like, if I didn't have a mirror to look at it, then I would definitely record stuff. So, especially complex movements. Especially if I'm doing like a squad or a deadlift or a snatch or a movement that I wanna see, where am I breaking down if it's not perfect.

Next question is from ConnorNagle07. Should teenagers focus on aesthetics after being introduced to resistance training and should they monitor their relative caloric and protein intake to accommodate their fitness goal. Okay, so let's answer the first part, which is aesthetics. Now, being a teenager is probably good luck telling them not to. I know. Exactly. I would say that when you start to get to the peak of insecurities, I would say teenagers start to become aware of a lot of these different types of things.

I think one of the keys, I actually train a lot of teenagers. One of the most beneficial things I did for teenagers was to get their focus off of their aesthetics and move it more towards things like strength, mobility, and how they felt because they already focus so much on how they look. If you turn their workout into

how you look, if it's all about how you look, you are very likely to create a negative relationship with exercise and resistance training. This is where body image issues, because here's a thing with working out. Working out can either really help you with your body image issue, or it can be just as powerful in the opposite direction and create really, really bad relationships and habits to where you might have been a little insecure about your body, but now because it's all about your body, you blow up this insecurity.

You know, I've trained bikini competitors and I've trained a couple male competitors, and they told me that their body image issues got far worse when they were competing because they were worse. It was exaggerated. It was all about how they looked. The judges were constantly looking at and critiquing their bodies.

Yeah, in fact, when I train teenagers, I don't ask them. I never ask them. So I'll do this with adults. Like, okay, well, what areas you want to focus on? How much weight do you want to lose? What are areas of your body you'd like to shape and sculpt? I don't even ask those questions of teenagers. It's not even a question.

I don't say to a teenager how much weight do you want to lose and what part of your body? Teach them the fundamentals. Yeah, do you want to shape and sculpt? That's not my question. I'll say what are your goals? And if they say something like that, then I'll kind of maneuver around it,

but it's all about how you feel, performance, everything. But I find this a kind of a difficult one to answer, and maybe I'll be more qualified when my son is a disabled. Now I feel like, you're going through this right now, so I think you're more than qualified and maybe can share the conversations you have with your son. Because there's another side of me that, like, hey, if you're a kid,

like if my son, which is a good chance that he'll grow up to be very skinny and lean and tall like I was. And he starts to piece together that he can change that through lifting weights and he wants to. I feel like there will be a very fine dance I will have to try and do. Like I know that I want to give him those tools. Like I don't want to be like, son, I'm not going to teach you how to lift or eat to build muscle or to look a certain way when you want that, right? If that's what he's asking to do. So, but then I also wanna educate him on the dangers of that, of going down that

and allowing those insecurities to drive his motivation. Now, of course, as a father, I hope that he's so into basketball that all of our workout conversations around performance, but I have to be realistic and think that there's a good chance that might not happen. Yeah, I'm not saying be afraid. I think that will also do the same thing. If it's like, oh, hey, dad, how do I get my arms bigger?

And you're obviously avoiding that. Right, that's what I'm saying. That's why it's gotta be like a fine dance because you, I mean, because there's a positive side. How cool is that if you're a dad who's, or a mother who is a trainer and you have that knowledge and you have a daughter or son that, you know, they wanna start sculpting and building their physique

and they admire which maybe you've done your entire career or life for the way you maintain yourself as a 50 year old adult or whatever. So maybe now they're interested in that. There's the part of me that wants to give him that gift. I had to learn a lot of hard lessons through 20 years of lifting that I could hopefully fast track him to the ideal way to eat and train early. I had to learn a lot of hard lessons, you know, through 20 years of lifting that I could hopefully

fast track him to, you know, the ideal way to eat and train early. And I wanna be able to give that to him, but then also understanding that also can lead to some major insecurities. And so, yeah, I feel like there's gonna be kind of a little bit of a dance there. It's a different than when I have a parent

who hires me to train their kid for whatever reasons. That's one thing, but having this conversation with my son, I think we'll present different challenges. I've had this already, so my son, we were working out, I don't know, it was like a month ago and he's like, hey, how do I get my arms bigger? And so my response is, okay, if you get stronger

at pull-ups and at bench press, then the side effect of that is bigger arms. That's the conversation. That's how I bring it up. What I don't think is a good idea is to teach them how to break their body down. Okay, so you need more delts here, and maybe if your pecs got a little bit better.

So you don't know how to do that. And bigger. Exactly. But if they focus on things like, how can I get stronger, How can I move better? The side effect of that being, I'm gonna look a certain way. I think that's a healthier approach. Now as far as calories and proteins are concerned, I think it's important that you educate them on what those mean.

But I also think it's important that you don't create this crazy monitoring structure with their food or their counting things. But I'll have conversations like this with my kids where they'll say, hey, can we have pasta for dinner? I'm like, oh, we gotta have a little bit more balance. We've had more carbohydrates this morning,

so I think tonight we're gonna have more proteins and fats. Or I'll say things like, proteins and fats are essential. Your body needs those, so we're gonna hit those first. Carbohydrates are not bad, but they're not essential. So, you know, it's not as important that we, you know, seek those out, for example, or,

you know, this food provides this particular nutrient. This is a good idea that we eat this because, you know, maybe you're getting a cold or something like that. So, when it comes to that conversation, I'll do that, but the, the, like tracking, and like count those things and you got to hit these numbers. Ooh, I don't know if that's necessarily a good path to go down. Really. We're trying to bring it back to like healthier conversations about, uh, yeah, macronutrients and like how it benefits your body overall. Uh, I mean, same as I look at with like the pursuit of having bigger arms or like

having shredded abs, I know like, I mean, this is just stuff that kids even talk about at school already. And I think it's just a, because of Instagram, it's because of things where, you know, people notice things about bodies early on. And they're like, why does he look that way? And so, I mean, I'm already having these conversations with my kids. And so it's just one of those things. I try to like understand that these are, you know, pursuits that some kids have.

And they like the fact that like maybe they're shown off their muscles at the pool or whatever, but trying to bring it back to a healthier objective of that. If that's benefiting their overall health, then there's nothing wrong with that. I can already see though that my kids so much less insecure than I was. He doesn't really display the insecurities that I did

He kind of doesn't care. He'll try out for sports teams doesn't care about, you know, what happens He'll work out. It's not a big deal I at his age was this like when my I was it was hitting at a super high level and I was just in the backyard Working out two hours a day because of those insecurities So I think a lot of it has to do also with just how they are with their parents and how secure they feel with being themselves. Next question is from Taylor Dinkle.

You guys seem to be pretty confident. Do you have any tips on cultivating confidence in life? Oh gosh, you know it's funny. The minute you stop caring. We are the best. Yeah, right. We're the first confident. You know, the minute you stop caring. We are the best. Yeah, right. We're the food's coming. You know, the minute you stop caring about

what people think about you, now not all people. I think it's important to care about what important people care about you, like you're the good friends that you have and family members and your kids. But once you stop caring about what everybody else thinks about you, then you just be yourself. And here's the other side of it. Do you want people to like you for being yourself or do you want people to like you for being someone fake? Because that's an important thing to kind of understand. I think it's like developing a muscle.

You know, it's a confidence is something that, you know, it comes after you start to understand yourself more and you're secure in the way that you are. So like all your flaws in consideration and really like just owning it, if it's something you wanna change, it comes from within. Like if you're relying on other people to tell you, you know, this, that, the other are too much about

their feedback as opposed to your own, you know, pursuits, I think, you I think that's something to evaluate. But I think it's just something that it just grows and develops the more you bring back like your own, like what do I wanna do? What do I wanna go with this? What do I wanna learn? What do I wanna change about my own body

of things that are obvious to me? And just like try as much as you can to bring back to your own pursuits. Today you are you, that's true or then true. There's no one alive that's you or the new. Dr. Seuss, that's right. I love that. Yeah, that's Maximus' quote that's on his Instagram page.

And I think that, I was asked, I don't know, it was a couple of weeks ago when I did my questions. If I could hand my son one quality, and that was it, what would it be? And it was confidence. And I think that's really what it is. So I think you hit it on the head. Like the reality is the more you care less about it,

the more you confident you become. Yeah. And I remember this like in high school, because I didn't have money, I had crooked teeth, I was the skinny kid, like grew up on the other side of the tracks, like I didn't have, in the high school world, I didn't have a lot of things that were working

in my favor to become like a popular kid in school. And when you're a young kid like that, you care about that stuff. And what I started to realize was, as I was getting older and growing up in my teens, the more that I cared less about that, and I was truer to myself, and just was going to be me, the more people that I attracted, like people are drawn to people that are like that. And so the people that I feel that struggle with this, they desire it so much

that they get hung up on it. They're trying not to be them, they're trying to be somebody else to get the attention of other people. And this is what causes them to lack confidence is because they're not being real to themselves. They're trying to act a certain way, or dress a certain way,

or be into certain things, so other people will like them, and they're not being true to themselves. If you just learn to be who you are, which should be the easiest thing you possibly could do, and be confident in that, that this is who I am. And there's nobody alive that's like me. I'm unique. I'm every one of us are extremely unique, and be confident in being different.

You don't want to be normal. That would be the worst thing in the world is to be like other people. And so recognizing that you are so special, that you are so different, that you are so you, that nobody else can do you. And being true to that, you'll, you'll, people will gravitate to you and people will be drawn to you because of that. And so it's just learning to love yourself for who you are. And that includes all the corkiness and the nerdiness and the different the things that make you different from everybody else

Don't allow other people that and here's the other thing too, right? Because this is where this gets challenging especially for young kids that are growing up is when People tease you and put you down the moment that you make the connection that when people tease you and put you down or make fun of you or Point out the dip the things that when people tease you and put you down or make fun of you or point out the things that are different about you, that's a reflection of their insecurities. And so when you start to make that connection that has nothing to do with you being unique or different, has everything to do with that person

is projecting their insecurities on you that should build confidence in you. Like, oh wow, this person feels threatened by this thing that's different about me. Even though they're teasing or pointing at maybe an insecurity of your own, them doing so is a reflection of their own shit. Once you realize that and you stand firm

and who you are and you're like, fuck yeah, I am that person. I am confident about that. I am who I am and nobody can do me. And the more you solidify that, I think the more confident you will become and the more people that you will attract. And you know, it's different,

difficult about this particular conversation is I think it sometimes gets confused with, I like who I am, therefore I never have to grow change or improve myself. Like, you know, I'm lazy, I don't take care of myself, but, you know, I'm confident and I care about myself. And that's it, you're mixing two things up. One of the best ways to cultivate and build confidence

is to seek growth, real growth, not like pretend growth that's driven necessarily by insecurities, but rather challenging yourself in overcoming challenges that builds confidence. If you want a child to be confident, you allow them to encounter challenges. They're going to be tested. And to fail and to try again and then to succeed.

It's an amazing thing to watch when a kid, they've done studies on this, kids that are raised this way will work on a puzzle much longer than other kids. They'll keep going, keep going to try and figure that puzzle out. So confidence is also built that way. Is that, you know, I'm not perfect. That's okay. I'm comfortable in my skin. So I'll tell the truth and I'll have that integrity. But I'm also trying to be a better person. I'm also trying to grow.

Those things are simultaneous. They work together. It's not one or the other. Because I think sometimes people think, oh, you just got to love who you are. So therefore that means I'm not going to grow because that's who I am and I love me. That doesn't mean that that's not what that means. No, that's the difference between confidence and cockiness, right? Somebody who's... Or narcissism.

Yeah, that's cockiness, right? You think that you've arrived and that you're somebody who is confident, doesn't ever think that way. They think that that's right. That somebody who's really, truly confident knows that, you know, what's the, what's the stoic thing to say is that I know that I'm, I know that I am wise, because I know that I know nothing, right?

You are forever in pursuit of growth, and you are forever looking to grow and be better, and that's what makes you confident, is being okay with okay, I lack in this department, oh, I could be better here, I'm gonna continue to push that way. When you're the other person, when you think you've arrived and you're smarter than everybody else, you're better than everybody else, you're more popular than now. You can recognize other people out there better than you at things. Yeah. And you're fully like okay with that. That's right. Yeah. That's right. I mean, if you,

I'll give you an example from a fitness standpoint, from a trainer standpoint. The trainer that lacks confidence is the trainer that pretends to always have the answers when the client has a question or a problem. Even though they don't know the answer, they're not confident enough to say to their client, I don't know. Confident trainer say I don't know a lot to their clients. They'll say things like, I don't know,

but I'll find out for you. That's what real confidence looks like. Fake confidence looks like, I got't know, but I'll find out for you. That's what real confidence looks like. Fake confidence looks like, I got this all into control. I know everything. I'm the man or whatever. Look at me, check me out. That's a projection of insecurity. It reminds me of the, I was eating dinner with Jessica.

We were eating an outdoor patio. It's Santana Roe, right? You see a lot of nice cars in that area. And if you live in San Jose area, Santana Roe, right? And you see a lot of nice cars in that area. And if you eat it, if you live in Santa Ana, you know, Santana Roe, and you know that you're gonna see two or three Ferraris or a couple. A Maserati. A hundred thousand or two hundred thousand dollars cars.

And it was so funny that you'd see them drive by and, you know, they'd be just driving by because there's a road there or whatever. And then every once in a while, one would drive by and they would rev their engine super loud. Hey, look at me. Look at that. Like everybody's already looking at you.

That's not confidence, that's insecurity. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. With that, mine pump is recorded on video as well as audio. Come check us out on YouTube. You can also find us individually on Instagram. You can find Doug at mine pump Doug. By the way, he posts a lot of behind the scenes stuff, mostly about podcasting, the art

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