Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 1444: The Truth About Protein, the Best Way to Fix Muscle Imbalances, the Benefits & Dangers of Salt & More

Episode Date: December 12, 2020

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about whether there are legitimate benefits to utilizing various proteins,  the best way to fix muscle imbalances, whether salt is good or bad, and falling out of love with fitness. How you can get ‘baby-like’ skin like Adam + 12 Days of Christmas with Mind Pump. (4:14) Mind Pump Conspiracy Theory Corner. (9:21) Alarming News surrounding erectile dysfunction in young males. (14:06) Mind Pump Recommends, Unsolved Mysteries on Netflix. (20:00) Random Hour with Mind Pump. (25:38) Idiot Politicians with Mind Pump. (31:00) Want to build a corporate office in your backyard? (34:18) How Legion makes proper pre-workouts. (38:42) #Quah question #1 – Do any of you integrate different proteins, such as whey, casein, plant-based for different purposes throughout the day or week? Is casein before bed just bro-science or are there legitimate benefits to utilizing various proteins differently? (41:13) #Quah question #2 – What is the best way to fix muscle imbalances? (46:03) #Quah question #3 – Can you talk about salt? Is it good or bad? (48:20) #Quah question #4 – Have you guys ever fallen out of love with fitness? What made you love it again? (55:31) Related Links/Products Mentioned December Special: 3 MAPS Bundles heavily discounted to kickstart your health and fitness journey! Visit Caldera Labs for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Code “mindpump” at checkout for the discount** Former Israeli space security chief says extraterrestrials exist, and Trump knows about it Men in their 30s hit by impotence epidemic as half suffer from erectile dysfunction In Japan, more people died from suicide last month than from Covid in all of 2020. And women have been impacted most Your Own Personal 113 Square Foot Corporate Office Could Be Yours For Just Under $20K. And Amazon Will Ship It For You. | VTPost.com Unsolved Mysteries | Netflix Official Site Did Giants Once Live In North America? Two Brothers Search For The Tall Truth Anti-gay Hungarian politician resigns after Brussels police bust 25-man orgy for violating coronavirus rules Visit Legion Athletics for the exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Code “mindpump” at checkout** Mind Pump Unilateral Training Workout Mod MAPS Prime Webinar Your Meal Has Six Times More Salt Than You Think The Most Effective Single Step You Can Take to Lose Fat – Mind Pump Blog Mind Pump Podcast – YouTube Mind Pump Free Resources People Mentioned Mike Matthews (@muscleforlifefitness)  Instagram Layne Norton, PhD (@biolayne)  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. Salta Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. You are listening to the number one fitness, health, and entertainment podcast. This is Mind Pump. Now, in this episode, we answer fitness and health questions at the end of the episode. In the beginning of the episode, we have a lot of fun. We talk about current events and studies

and make fun of each other. It's a good time. Today's intro was 37 minutes long. After that, we answered some specific fitness and health questions that were asked by our audience. I'm gonna give you a rundown of the entire episode though. So we open up by talking about Adam's baby soft skin. It's gorgeous.

Shiny and beautiful. By the way, the reason why his skin looks so good and why he looks like a baby with a beard is because he uses Caldera Lab products. This is a company we work with, skin products you can put on your skin that will rejuvenate your skin, make you look more youthful and amazing.

Super handsome, you should check them out on YouTube. By the way, there's a huge discount because you listen to MindPump, go to calderalab.com, that's C-A-L-D-E-R-A-L-A-B, dot com forward slash MindPump. Use the code, MindPump, get 20% off. Then we talk about aliens. Apparently, a top official from Israel

said that aliens are among us, but they made a, I guess they made a pact with the US government not to tell anybody. Yes, this sounds super legit. This is where it's happening. Then we talk about a survey that just came out of the UK, alarming survey, almost half of men between the ages of 18 to 30 or 30 to 60 years, 30 to 60, sorry, suffering from erectile dysfunction. We need like a sound effect there.

Oh man, that's real bad. So we kind of speculate as to why that might be happening. Then we talk about unsolved mysteries on Netflix and the Japanese tsunami episode. That was really crazy. Then we talk about the Hungarian politician, the anti-gay Hungarian politician. He's hungry for something.

Who got caught in the 25 man orgy. This is a true story. It's really crazy. Then we talk about these corporate offices you can order on Amazon and build in your backyard. This is really cool. And then I talk about the pre-workout supplement that I took that almost fried my brain

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BY LG I all-in.com forward slash mine pump and then use the code mine pump to get hooked up Then we got into the questions here's the first. This person wants to know if we integrate different proteins into our diets, like way, casing, plant, et cetera. The next question, this person wants to know what the best way is to fix muscle imbalances. This is when one muscle is more developed the other, or when you're not moving optimally, because you have a weakness in a particular area.

The next question, this person wants us to talk about salt, is sodium the bad guy that we've been told that it is? And the final question, this person asks this, a personal one, have any of us ever fallen out of love with fitness, not with each other? We've always loved each other. Sad. Also, it's December, this is the time

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Go to mapsdicember.com, check out each bundle, find the one that works best for you sign up follow the programs and See what happens again. You can find all of these bundles at maps December.com I don't know Adam if it wasn't for your beard. I'd be like Why is there a baby sitting over there your skin just keeps getting younger? You know what you it's you bring it up the caldera because I look shiny and I look good right now. My skin, yeah, youthful. Yeah, yeah. It's like it's, you know, so it's supple and,

and I'm actually, okay, so let me tell you how private. I shoot health. It's, I was nervous when we took Caldera on because I, I'd seem to, I'd dug, I'll get back in my seat. I know you're trying to adjust me, sorry. I was, well hold on on let me first do this and then I'll get back to our Caldera commercial So I got something for you guys. Oh, what did you get us? So yeah commercial paused here. This is for you Wow. Yay. This is for you. Why are we all wearing these and you guys and you have to I was really in the spirit. I know this know that. I noticed that. He goes all in. Why am I wearing this? Because this is in lieu of our 12 days of Christmas.

That is, I believe starting tomorrow. Hold on a second, let me get it on. So I want you guys to wear hats every podcast. I can't hear anything. Until Christmas. Because every day we're giving cool shit away. So every day on our Instagram, there'll be giveaways.

We're doing 12 days of Christmas, leading you up. I believe it starts tomorrow. And so make sure your pain attention to the MindPunt Media IG given away cool stuff with all of our partners. Awesome. Wear these hats every day. Because you're giving away stuff. So it's Caldera, one of our first ones over there.

Oh, so they're not one of the first ones, but back to that commercial that I was starting to do there and did a terrible transition over to Santa hats. I know. Yeah, that's talking about your skin. No, so I, no. I was really nervous that we were not going to be able to perform for them because you guys don't use it

as much as I do if ever. And I loved it. So we had a small break. Well, I'm just oily. Yeah, I'm truly. Maybe that's what it was. Just the, I'm gator-y. Just the need to. Yeah, just the, just it actually needs it the most.

I get it from Adam Biosmos. Refuses to do anything like that. He's like, I have not dropping beauty related. Yeah. Yeah. Just refusing to do it. Yeah. He's too attractive. That's what, I have not dropping beauty related. Yeah. Yeah. Just refusing to do it. He's too attractive. That's what I want him to do it though. But it's for a few weeks just to see if he gets compliments.

I'm going to be kind of an interesting, you know, like transformation thing, you know, just see. You know, I'll be like when they have like a, ashi, I just want to have a picture of like the desert floor and it's like cracked, you know, and then like a rain falls on. It's like, oh, yeah, plants come out. Yeah, that's what's it'll happen. I might get more hairy, but they reached out and they want to sign for all of 2021 obviously,

which means they're getting their ROI. And you know, the same time that I was getting a message from them, I must have got two or three DMs. And, you know, people, really ever does people, you know, DM you to tell you how great something is or whatever. So I imagine there's a lot more people that are enjoying the product, but everybody that's purchased it seems to love it. And so our audience has been enjoying it.

It works. Well, I think the other part of it too is we now record the podcast on video too, right? So you go to YouTube and you can see our faces and it's obvious I'm more handsome. It's just it see our faces and it's obvious I'm more handsome. It's just, it progressively, you are now moved, you're just continuing to get even more youthful. I sell it as. Yeah, just more and more handsome. Yeah.

Well, I've always complained about the dry skin thing all the time, right, with the dry skin. Right, with the dry skin. And stuff like that. And so I already, in big like lotion guy all over myself. But this stuff has been incredible. So I'm a big fan. I was a big fan even when we weren't sponsored.

So there was a long time there that we weren't. And I was, I remember hitting Rachel up all time like you gotta get Caldera back because I use it every day. By the way, are these new hats or am I sharing with someone else? No, it's brand good. I don't want to hold with my head.

Sorry, order you guys all. Brand new hats. I don't want to get lights again. No, no, no, no. I mean, everything ever happened? Have I ever had lights Brandy, I don't want to get lice again. No, no, no, I mean, yes. Every time you ever had lice? Have I ever had lice? Yeah, dude.

When I was a kid. Yeah. Did you never had lice? No. Really? No, but you had fleshy, you had fleshy, you had bacteria. They were scared. Yeah, that's the move, I tell you.

Who's the kid on Charlie Brown that has like the dust cloud that falls around? Is that Linus? Oh, Pigpin. That's who it is? Linus St. That's right. When I was a kid, Ipin. That's who it is? Linus Starrys is blanket. That's right.

When I was a kid, I did. I got lice and all my brothers and sisters got lice. Oh, man. Did you shave your head or did you just comb it? No, dude, we're not. It's not for shave, man. It's not for industrial revolution. Yeah, it's not for shave, man.

What about that power? I don't, yeah, no, DDT. No, my mom had to do the whole thing where she coms the hair and pulls everything out and cleans it with the chemicals and you sit there, whatever. And I didn't, because I was so young, I didn't realize what a pain in the ass it was. And then my daughter got a while ago.

And cheese, you can listen to this one day, she was so mad. Anyway, she got a, she was a kid. She got it, you have to like, your head, everything. Yeah, everything. You throw stuff, animals in. She's telling me, burn it. everything. Yeah, everything. You throw stuff animals in. She's gonna burn it.

Plastic bags, leave them in there for a while, you got to clean that shit out of everything, everybody gets checked, and you know me, I'm like, I don't like, I get the heebie-gb's, whatever, that feeling. Like right now I'm getting it, cause I'm talking about it. Yeah, what a nightmare.

Just a little crawl. A, a, a nightmare. Speaking of heebie-gb's, so my buddy sent me over an article that Apparently, I think Israel said it the chief guy executive dude over there with their speech so bad You know I'm terrible. I don't come on. This is the New York Post, which is basically like the national inquirer of right now Donald Trump knows that there's aliens out there. This is what it said. Yes. Yeah, and they made a pact with The US government. Yes, so not say what it said. Yes. Yeah. And they made a pact with the US government. Yes.

So not say anything until we're ready. Yeah, because they want everybody to start getting along again. Now, are you guys ready for this? What? The alien invasion. What's your thoughts on this? Before Justin, you before, just so you know, we dug and I, I don't, was, it's, it's out wasn't here.

Was South speculating what those are just mean? I love that you are bringing this up. I know, that's it today. I'm giving you a softball picture right now. What do you think, Doug? Was it just mean you? Maybe, yeah. I don't remember Sal saying anything.

No, you in here, we were talking, here's the thing, I just want to, okay, let's pretend. Let's pretend this is a real thing. Yeah, there's aliens. How do you feel about this? I want to know more. I want to know what experiments they've been doing. I want to know why they haven't solved our problems for us

because they're so smart, like with the fuck. I love that you come with all these demands. Tell you this, this species that is, obviously as intelligent or more intelligent as that could, get to our planet, we couldn't get to theirs. Yeah. And you have from serious, salvage demands from.

Yeah, I want to know this. I want to know that. You know that. You'll be the first to get eaten. Are you responsible for everything that ancient aliens TV show was talking about? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I want to know that. I want to know that.

I want to know that. Kierimeds, like, come on. No, really though. What's your guys, would you guys be scared, excited, nervous? What's the feeling that you would get if this really came out that I wouldn't believe it? Yeah, first of all. No, no, it's real. Let's take a look at the possibility that it's not real and let's just say it's real.

There's aliens that have been here. How do you feel? I would just you. Oh, you first. I don't want to hear your bossy attitude with your attitude. I don't want to hear your bossy attitude with your attitude. I don't want to hear your bossy attitude with your attitude. I don't want to hear your bossy attitude with your attitude.

I don't want to hear your bossy attitude with your attitude. I don't want to hear your bossy attitude with your attitude. I don't want to hear your bossy attitude with your attitude. I don't want to hear your bossy attitude with your attitude. I don't want to hear your bossy attitude with your attitude. I don't want interview. I was doing the interview. I was doing the interview. I was doing the interview. I was doing the interview. I was doing the interview. I was doing the interview. I was doing the interview. I was doing the interview. I was doing the interview. I was doing the interview.

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going back in history and redo history. Yeah, I like that. I like that. Now, what if the aliens came and then they were just like, hey, a whole swath of people. Yeah, that thing you believe in, that religion totally wrong. Here's what's going on.

Oh, government over here, you guys are wrong. These's what's going on. Oh, you know government over here You guys are wrong. These guys are how mad with people be think about that if they came out on the like you know global warming And or if they said yes or if Jesus also went to Mars. What yeah? How long do you think it would take before people tried to have sex with them? Wow. Of course, that's where you go. Yeah, I know. Today's age, not very long.

I mean, you know? I'm sure. I mean, the little gray guys. I'm pretty sure we'd want a law pass. Oh, do you know what sailors used to have sex with when they would go in the ocean forever? What? Do you know about this?

Orpuses. There's like a, I think it's like a type of, I don't know, it's like a c-manity of some time. What? What? The c- cow? Something like that, because this is true. Oh, look at this, I've dug.

I want to see this. I mean, it's going to be another time when I patrol you. I mean, because the genitals of this particular and our c-manity looks like the female genitalia. So they would literally capture this thing. Oh my gosh. And then they sleep with it. Okay, explain to me what you're reading when this comes up in your feed. Huh?

What are you exactly? What exactly? What exactly are you googling? Am I normal to get an article like that? Because you've heard of like goats and you know like these lonely shepherds and whatnot You've heard stories, right? But see man it is. Well, this is oh no, no, I know I read this because they think that this may be worthy Mermaid myth came from oh You've been banging on them Manidies creating mermaids. I mean dude Doug Doug looks either confused right now or he's not finding or The firewall blocks it. No, it's it's there. I don't want to stop and look I'll find it later But I'm serious it'll be in the show notes that because

Yeah, we'll send you a link. Yeah, there you go for all the animals. Anyway, that's crazy to me Wow speaking of sex by the way Yeah, we'll send you a link for all the animals. Anyway, that's crazy to me. Wow. Speaking of sex, by the way, did you guys hear about this huge survey that they did? I think it was in the UK. Did you hear about this? No.

This is kind of sad. I'm going to find it right now, because it's kind of sad. So they did a huge survey in the UK. And apparently, almost half of men in their 30s suffer from erectile dysfunction. Half? Yes. In their 30s?

Yeah, that's what it says. Half of men in their 30s, this is in the UK. Wow. Yeah, struggle to get an erection. Studies have shown. Surprise polling reveals that this age group is most likely, most likely to struggle with keeping it up. So what, how do you, uh,

Almost a third have broken up with their partner as a result this is crazy what's happening wow wow nearly half of men age eighteen to sixty across the UK are suffering impotence with four in ten main men blaming stress followed by tiredness anxiety and boozing to heavily all right so what guys think the problem is, why do you guys think these young men are having issues with... Yeah, getting above their testosterone levels. Yeah, what's happening over there? You know, I have a theory. Yeah, I do have a theory.

I do think that it's the overuse of pornography. I do. This issue didn't exist before. You know what I mean? Young men never had issues like this. I think they're just desensitized like crazy because all the stuff that they... Yeah, I don't disagree with that.

I mean, we've talked before about that. I mean, again, before they had a contributing factor. Yeah, like, do you think that sailors would have had sex with the seamanity things if they had, you know what I'm saying? It's like they had that for and hub. Yeah. What are you doing, guy?

They got it on up to you. You know you have this on your phone, right? You're something with this guy, I'm sorry. I get to care of this. It's kind of crazy though, that 40, almost 50%. Yeah, how do they measure that though? The ruler. No, no, like, yeah, it's a survey.

Yeah, so these are just people saying like, oh yeah, I have problems with that. Yeah, you know, it could be too being distracted. Just imagine, I mean, we now have this. Disad distracted. No, like declining health factors too. I'm playing judo games. Right?

You laugh, but yeah, I mean, that's an example of a younger boy, but even as a man having a cell phone now that is like another limb of yours. And don't tell me this. Don't tell me this is not happening to you guys before. I mean, this is definitely happening to me, or at least I'll admit it, that there's been nights where I know that Katrina was probably in the mood, we're having dinner. I'm reading an email, I'm all pissed off about, because I'm working, you know, and I'm just not in the mood.

I'm not in the mood because I'm irritated about someone like that, and that doesn't make me want to do that right away. And so I don't know if that's the same thing. I think what they're talking about. Well, that's why I asked how do they measure this? I think that would you if that was happen or Consistent reoccurring thing in your household. That's would you say that you have erectile? No, I think erectile dysfunction you're trying to get up you want to like I want to know how they measure this

Yeah, I think that's what it is like I want to but it's not it's not working not but again I don't want to how many times have you guys noticed this too, those, when that happens, okay, when a scenario, it's normally because you're somewhere else, right? Your mind is somewhere else because you're not in the presence. Well, they said stress was a major factor that they were all consistently saying that, right? Yeah, but I tell you, if you look at the numbers,

the rectile dysfunction is exploded among young men. This was a category of the population that never, now it could deflate it. I'm gonna say Pornhumb had distractibility, the two of them together. I would say it's pornography and probably poor health. I think a lot of these guys, yeah, they're just not, they're not exercising, not lifting weights,

they're probably, I mean obesity's so. Yeah, you know that even in the UK You're up is suffering now from obesity like almost like the US's so Probably what it is. Yeah, I imagine there's just a lot of lack of activity You know in general it just seems like there's been a massive decline worldwide of activity. Yeah, when was this done? Was this done recently recent this just came out? Oh, I mean, I wanted to you take an account cove it too, right? Everybody being at home right now. Well, stress is at all time, huh? When you think all that stat's gonna come out, right?

Like nobody, like you see little stuff coming out, right? With depression, suicide. I just read a study that mental health among adults in the US has reached a 20 year low based off of my body. You know what, my body just has a pregnancy rate right now. I don't know. Everybody being home, I wonder if it either, because normally that would like move numbers.

Well, yeah, right. You know, erectile dysfunction can't hold up. But then that, yeah, so exactly, sort of even though it's out. I don't know, but what I would predict is typically what you see is a boom in pregnancies after a terrible event. Oh, yeah, that's true.

So like World War Two, and then it's over. And baby boomers. Everybody's having, yeah. So I would imagine that once we feel like we're out of the, you know, out of the thick of it. Exactly, then you're gonna see a lot more, you know, babies being born. I wanted to share with you guys what my buddy said.

I'm trying to find where he, he's sitting in a thread talking about that somebody, or I forget what country just said that they had more suicides than COVID does. Oh, Japan. Oh, yes. Thank you. You did see that.

I did. Should have known you seeing that. Yep. That's crazy. I know. Total, right? They're not counting any of that stuff. They're not even considering any of that stuff.

Now, here's the thing that I want to be clear too is that, okay, let's say that they don't do government lockdowns. Does that mean that nobody's going to suffer? No, we're still going to have, still going to suffer, still going to be a lot of problems. I think it'll be less, potential less problems. And or at the very least, people aren't going to, you know, blame or wait for government to tell them everything they do, they tend to act.

Was it sweetened? That's, that they basically did that from the very beginning. There's no lockdowns. But they're doing lockdowns now? They're doing lockdowns. Yeah, they're starting to kind of reverse now a little bit. Really? Yeah, they are.

That's unfortunate. Yeah, I know. That's their goes at that. Example. Can't pull from them no more. Okay. No, you've propped Japan. Did you guys see unsolved mysteries where they?

Oh, wait, tsunami? Yeah, the tsunami. Oh, the spirits in ships. Yeah, where they... Oh, wait, the tsunami? Yeah, the tsunami? Oh, the spirits in ships. Yeah, where they're all seen ghosts. So that is weird. Here's tripping me out. That is super weird. Like, the cab drivers would be out, you know,

and like picking people up and they'd get in there and their toll. The thing is that they could measure this because, you know, they actually had a running toll. And they thought for sure, like somebody was in the back seat and they'd get out and there's nobody even there. That's weird. Yeah, it should be. That is very straight. It's the video of the tsunami that they're showing on that and then the stories that they were telling. Yeah. Oh, it's heartbreaking. Oh, I couldn't even, there's one man time I was kid. I couldn't do. Oh my god. Yeah, the whole thing is just, it really brings perspective to something like that.

Like you're just, you see on the news and you're like, whoa, that's crazy. Whatever, but do you get out of Dodge or do you hang back at your house and try and protect your house? Yeah, if my family stuff there, I dodge. Well, okay, you say that quick, right? Like, because we saw the aftermath, right?

But if you're somebody who lives in an area where there's storms and shit like that happening all the time until it actually fully hits, you probably don't realize it's gonna be to that extreme, right? And I would think there was, what was I just, I was watching some documentary of like somebody who stayed through one of those and filmed the whole thing because they've been through so many storms. They just, yeah, like they got like numb to it or whatever. It's happened. Right. So do you bail or do you stay and board up your house and try and save the house like what's what's the thoughts I don't know for me like I I just don't value things You know that much in terms of like

The lives and the lives around me like who cares like I'll start over again I guess you kind of had to some more thing with the fires exactly. What did you bring did you bring anything? I guess you kind of had to just some more thing with the fires exactly. What did you bring? Did you bring anything? Your dirty magazines and what else? I didn't really bring Courtney was like trying to get these. Yeah, I was like whatever like Pictures and photos of kids and wedding album. You can't replace. Yeah, that's it And like I left like the majority of my shit there. I'd be gone. Yeah, I'd be gone because I'm like you wouldn't grab anything. I'm not attached to it Um, I would really have anything so what would you say?

I live a little my car I just drive my house. I would just by the way the animal got to get the new balance shoes By the way the animal people the sailors were bang was called a do-gong Do-gong that sounds like someone got you. No, do-you-g-o-n-g, look it up, Doug. And then we can, and they look up sailors. I'll be watching the videos. No, this is what they used to. This is what they used to.

You still didn't answer my question, how you came to Bout. But I don't know how I know, half the shit that I know. You know that? It just doesn't work. Well, the other stuff makes sense, because it's around our field, right?

You're searching things, like, I know how you get. I looked up animals you can have, that's the best animals the baby. Yeah. You're like lonely at sea. You know, I'm gone. What are my options? What happens if I get trapped in the ocean?

What if I'm scared? What if I'm gonna have sex? What do I do? Yeah. What do I do? I got a chance. No, that's not a chance. That's not a chance.

That's too fast. Yeah. I need some slow, slow and fleshy. Like you catch it. Slowly. Slowly, slow and fleshy, that's what I do. Oh. Which was gonna feel like.

Oh. Anyway, back to the tsunami. I'm just taking people on an emotional rollercoaster right now. Sorry. Back to the tsunami thing, that's my biggest, like if I had to pick the worst, biggest fear, like way to die, like the worst way to die, drowning. Can you think of a worst way to die?

It is. Pretty horrible. Yeah, would you rather burn or die? I mean, excuse me, burn the death or drown out. I thought somebody told me, Doug, maybe you, I thought that's supposed to be euphoric. I thought, no, I'm serious. Like the feeling you get when you, like you take in all the water,

I think it's supposed to be euphoric. You get this chemical release. I've heard, freezing the death is the way to go. Wow. After the initial cold. Doug's been researching. Yeah, I've just been thinking about this. Look up drowning euphoria.

I think that actually, it sounds terrifying. I feel I agree with you that like drowning sounds terrifying to me. But I think when it actually happens, it's nice. Yeah, like would you rather be drowned or burned to death? Burn to death is worse. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Yeah. Like, oh, your whole body, dude. Yeah. I don't scream like that. No. I do. That's a weird, transparent smile. That's the, you do you. That's how I do it. Well, I mean, okay. Have you guys ever heard of death would be worse to me? Totally. Yeah. I mean, I would rather, I don't know. I think it's a little terrible. Drowning has like the, like, if you're claustrophobic, right? That there's a little bit of that,

right? If that, to me, sounds a little scarier than, like, fire. You can be on the open, right? That's not, that's not as scary. Just burning just sounds. Yeah, I don't know. Well, okay. So have you guys ever been choked out? Like, have you ever been put to sleep? Okay. If you've ever been choked out, you know that right before you go to sleep, you kind of like, it feels good. Yeah. That's what I think the drowning is supposed to be like. Yeah, but I don't know if that's the same. So that's a bloodshed. Are you checking me right now? Yeah, I'm seeing it. I think you're right. Thank be like. Yeah, but I don't know if that's the same, so that's a blood show. Are you checking me right now? Yeah, I'm seeing it. I think you're right.

Thank you. It says, deathologist, which happens to be guest-be-age. That's a thing. The fashion. Say, drowning is perhaps the best way to die. Boom! That a euphoric sensation supposedly blankets one's consciousness right before losing it.

Wow, there you go. Look at that, there's two facts that we brought. Man. Adam brought the death by drowning. I brought the sex. Look at that. There's two facts that we brought. Man. Adam brought the death by drowning. I brought the sex animal in the sea. It's your turn. Wow. What do you got for us, dude?

Come on. What do you got for us, Justin? I was thought I was going to bring the aliens and then he told me like jump. Jumped in the front. Oh, speaking of alien stuff, those monoliths keep popping up all over the place. Yeah, so did you see the four? There's a set of four now that looks just like the fifth element. Yeah, I'm like come on. It's a movie I guarantee you it's movie marketing and it's brilliant whoever came up with it's brilliant

I don't do some smart shit like that then like what for maps programs? Just put a random Bell I imagine if it was you're gonna drive everybody to mind-blowing media Just put a random dumbbell somewhere. Yeah Like a massive one like overly sized. We were like, what is this a giant dumbbell? It's a giant, a giant, a huge, we should make these giant, we should make these like 40 foot fucking dumbbells, dude, that we went out there, that way like tons.

This is leave them around, just leave them, leave them in the middle of the night. Yeah, in the middle of the desert. Yeah, oh my god. Oh my god, giant, giant. Oh my god, bro. No. Dude, I saw of the desert. Yeah. Oh my god. Giant. Giant. Oh my god. No. Dude, I saw a show about sales to the roof.

Yeah, like giants. Did you watch that at all? Well, a chance there was like, they were trying to prove that giants existed like this whole, this whole thing. Oh, were they finding the skeletons? Yeah, and they found some of the mounds here in the North America that they found like gigantic heads and gigantic bones, but then mysteriously they vanished, you know, and like people of collectors have taken them out of circulation. Well, it's not very unrealistic,

right? So what are some, I mean, there's, we have records of like really tall, like 12-foot-tall people, don't we? What's it, what's the tallest? I don't think 12. I just threw it out there. Yeah, maybe 10. Yeah. It's crazy, though. It's, it's the 12th? I just threw it out there. Maybe 10. Yeah. It's crazy though. It's not, it's, it's, it's definitely way over seven. Well, I know in the, it doesn't, the Bible have stories of giants. Yeah, they do.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I mean, from whatever those old stories are, I know, Nephilim. Is it a Nephilim? Yeah, it's something like that. Well, think about it this way. Well, and what, and okay, now, when you talk about stories,

tell me something, it could be a seven foot man looks like a giant to me. You're right. And especially that's true. That's right. Think about it this way. You never saw that. Yeah, we see the NBA, so we see giants all the time.

Imagine if you're somebody who went 40 years of your life, never seeing a seven foot five foot person. And you're malnourished. Which, by the way, that is, is very, would be very common. If you didn't have television, when was the last time you saw a seven foot five? person, okay, so never now imagine seeing that person for the first time your 40 years old you write about him Be like I saw a joint. Yeah, it would be weird. Yes, so apparently according to like myth and lore right?

I think like angels banged humans and created giants. Mm-hmm. This is part of like the mythology Well, that makes sense. Yeah, what's the Yeah. What are you looking up right now, Doug? You giving me the tall person? Yeah, so there's been nine feet right there. Yeah, nine feet, two inches is the tallest discovered. Okay, skeleton? Yeah, Catalina Island. Wow, Catalina, wine mixer.

Motherfucker, that's a fucking, definitely don't wine mixer. Yeah, that's a good time. Wow, so that's legit, was it a real skeleton? Or is it just hearsay? Yeah, it's a good time. Wow, so that's legit. Was it a real skeleton? Or is it just hearsay? Yeah, it could be real. I don't know. Let's see here.

It says, some people have accused him of exaggerating, but I don't know if that's a fact or not. Interesting. Yeah, I think there's a lot of people that want it really bad. There's been a lot of articles and some fuckery out there with archeologists trying to make, you know, peace bones together to make a giant, but I mean, it is likely,

like, of course, we've seen dinosaurs, right? It's like a bunch of lizards that we put together to make like these giant. We know really nothing about them. We just keep like drawing new things on them and oh, now they have feathers feathers, oh yeah, of course. No, now they say they don't. Now they don't have feathers, so that's not changed.

I'm not closing on that. You know what, dinosaurs? Yeah, yeah. Aliens put them here. Yeah, trick us. Trick us. See, more things I want to ask the aliens, right? Yeah, that would be weird to see aliens.

I think, do you guys think that would totally shake up society in a big way? I don't know. I, yeah, I think we're ready for it. Of course it would shake things up. I mean, because then now all of a sudden we want our alien friends to solve the answers. I mean, if they, if they were, listen, if they were just another species that got here, they, so they're, they're definitely as smarter smarter than we are. Oh, smarter.

Right. They got here smarter than we are. They don't want to harm us. they don't want to eat us, they don't have any desire to move, they think our planet sucks compared to theirs, but they're just traveling. Is it really gonna be that big of a deal? According to that article,

they wanted to work with us, because they, Well, there you go. Yeah, they're friendly. Well, okay, so here, you're trying to do their experiments and figure things out. Now, here's a legit problem. Let's say you're head of the CIA or the KGB or whatever, some leading government agency and these aliens came to Earth obviously with far superior technology, the ability to

travel through space at speeds that are beyond light speed because in order to travel far distances in space, light speed has even slow. And so you're thinking to yourself, tell me this shit before you tell my enemies. Because if I have this technology, we are the superpower of the world. You see what I'm saying? Like, I feel like that would be the... I feel like they would be evolved past that.

They wouldn't allow that to happen. They wouldn't be like... Yeah, exactly. If that's your thoughts, then I guess we're gonna leave you out. Yeah. What if they're like us? What if they're just a dance with their technology, but they're just as stupid with other stuff?

You know what I mean? I feel like if they were, they would have done something, right? Maybe they would have dropped the bomb. Well, they've obviously crashed. Right? If they've crashed, so they're not great pilots. Yeah, exactly.

Maybe they're not the best. Idiots. Yeah. Dom, Dom, Alian. Hey, speaking of idiots, did you guys hear about this politician? I gotta have looked this up, dude. It's the right, more idiot politicians.

Oh no, this is the best that I've ever read. So there's this Hungarian politician, okay. He's an anti-gay Hungarian politician. So he's like super anti-gay marriage. Wow. Like he likes policies that are, where's he at? Huh? Hungry?

Yeah, if he's Hungarian, well that doesn't, just because he's Hungarian doesn't mean he's necessarily in Hungary. He's not in the United States. He's in the Hungarian politician in China yeah. If he's Hungarian, well that doesn't, just because he's Hungarian doesn't mean he's necessarily in Hungary. He's not in the United States. Hungarian politician in China. No, he's in Hungary. It's a, so. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

So he's super anti, but we've seen in the past what these people are really doing with their super anti-something. You're right, but continue. You're right, and he's not, anybody, anytime someone's super anti, like something like that, you always gotta think,

I wonder what their extracurricular activity looks like. So his name is Joseph Sejir. I think I'm saying it right. So cops caught him. Yeah. Fling a 25 man orgy. Whoa. He went hard.

He went a little hard too. He went really hard. Yeah. It was a 25 man orgy, there he is. Wow. And he was fleeing, I guess the cops saw him running out through the window. So he wasn't just, you know, doing,

he didn't just do gays, though. Well, what's hard? He's smart. What's funny is that he probably wouldn't get all this shit if he wasn't so anti-gay, because he's anti gay and then they ends up Well, you see how you saw that was some of those like Televangelis like preachers like it's just with male prostitutes. Yeah, male pro in politicians Same thing. It's just like it's a big cover up of like I don't know that was happening with a TV envelope in Vengellicus

There was one I don the worst yeah there was one I don't know if it was in down gel but it was definitely for me that's even jellicist even jellicist damn yeah yeah yeah

evangelicals evangelicals no evangelicals I don't know evangelists evangelists wow

when you have heavily testicles they're evangelicals televangelists televangelists yeah no there's been a couple that I mean caught there was one guy that got caught Wow, would you have heavenly testicles? You've had Joe Telle evangelist. Check him out. Telle evangelist. Yeah, no, there's been a couple that I mean, there was one guy that got caught with a male prostitute because he was traveling and he said,

oh no, I hired him to hold my luggage for me. That was a story. But it was not no that. You're asked, dude. So there was one that, like, so one politician or, I don't remember if it was a church figure, whatever, like had this whole whole like pray the gay way thing Yeah, they had like a whole camp where they were like sending people and stuff and he was totally sleep

Oh my god. Come on, dude. Dude gay stuff. Yeah, I mean I would be a little suspicious like all right It's only guys we're all gonna go with the woods together We're gonna get really get you for the gate. Let's get it all out. Take a close off. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, just, yeah, yeah. Let's just drain the gate away. We're gonna get it out of your studio. It's just, yeah. Just gotta get it out.

Remember when you got caught with cigarettes when you were a kid by your dad, and you made you smoke like five packs. Yeah. That's the strategy for it to hire a person. We're gonna go in the woods. And we're just gonna keep going until we get this thing. We've ever seen, we don't wanna do it anymore.

Okay, keep going until we don't. You'll never want it again. It's totally gonna work. You know what, people have fall for that show. You're never sure. No, dude. Yes, save me. I know, it kind of cracks me up.

Hey, Adam, did you hear about these, I wanna ask you, because this is something that's up your alley. Did you hear, and this is the legit, man. I know, I don't believe it already. I'm not going to let you hear it. Let's hear it. You can order these office buildings on Amazon. Have you heard of these? Order and office buildings.

Yes, so they can be Amazon. Yes, so maybe Doug can look this up. So are they like, do it yourself, build a little office space? Yeah, you order them on Amazon. And they, and they, and they're exploding in sales right now because so many people are working from home. And so they're putting it in their backyards or on their land.

And apparently they're inexpensive and they look pretty damn good. So you know what this is, like a little... Well, I can imagine, so I'm always like... I mean, it's a smart. I look at properties all the time, right, for us. So I'm looking at these properties that have, and you're seeing this pop up right now,

more than I've ever seen, is they're converting their backyard sheds and stuff into office spaces. Yeah. And that makes a lot of sense. They're putting like a little portable AC in it and they trick it all out to, instead of it being a shed. So you don't have like kids and everybody else

like and people coming through the house. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah, that is kind of crazy. Let me see him. I want to see him. No, I'm trying to find them too right now. Oh, here we go.

All right, I'm going to look at that. I can imagine those shipping containers would be a good option. I like a rich roll. Yeah, Doug, I'm going to rich. That's right, he'd rich had three of them, right? Yeah, he lived in those things. I've seen those converted a lot.

No, there you go. Look at that. So Doug, I just sent you the link, because the link that I'm sending you has got pretty good stuff. Oh, Wayfar has them too, huh? Yeah. Backyard studio, $10,000. Let's hope it doesn't sound like children.

That has expected. You're wayfair. Show me, that's so bad. Show me that $6,000, $59,000 in one of them. I'll check what you're getting. No, no, no, no. So look at the one. So that's the one I just sent you.

Okay. That's ridiculously expensive though. Bro, it's 113 square feet, it's under 20 grand. Amazon ships it for you. 20K. It's really nice, but you look, if you don't have to build anything, it has a C in it the whole deal.

Oh, it does have that too? Yeah, dude. It's all decked out. It doesn't require you to build a foundation for it apparently. So look at that. That's actually pretty fucking smart. It is, right? And most people have a backyard space that you can's actually pretty fucking smart. It is, right? And most people have a backyard space that you could put that in.

Yeah. Totally. And I'm telling you. I'm interesting. Right now, there's so much stuff is starting to change because people are working for them. For example, wow, look at, let's look at the cut. Let's see if there's any publicly traded.

Well, you know, it's interesting. So this is popping off and then also the sprinter vans that they're converting into offices also, like recording studios and media, like people are all buying these vans and this whole van revolution. Well dude, it's changing so many things. So Jessica's family lives in Las Vegas, in Nevada, right? Rent and property values are exploding over there.

Why? Because people from California moving over there in droves. Rent is going up, like crazy. Yeah. My mother-in-law's like, my rent's gonna go up a lot if I, you know, the next time I have to renew her, whatever. She said, it's all these Californians. And they're all coming over and paying a year in advance

or, you know, buying a property cash or whatever. Yeah. So it's changing quite a bit. So I can imagine this would be a huge- I mean, this is... Boom. I mean, this is interesting. It is. It is. It is how we could use this. I mean, for 20 grand to have a... I mean, this studio cost a hell of a lot more net to try and build. Who's got a backyard? Yeah, right? Justin. Yeah. Yeah. You want to build a studio? Yeah. You want to build a studio? Yeah. You want to build a redwood? Yeah. You want to build a studio? Yeah. You want to build a redwood? Yeah. You want to build a studio? Yeah. You want to build a studio? Yeah. You want to build a redwood? Yeah. You want to build a studio? Yeah. You want to build a studio? Yeah. You want to build a

redwood? Yeah. You want to build a studio? Yeah. You want to build a studio? Yeah. You want to build a studio? Yeah. You want to build a redwood? Yeah. You want to build a studio? Yeah. You want to build a studio? Yeah. You want to build a studio? Yeah. You want to build a redwood? Yeah. You want to build a studio? Yeah. You want to build a studio? Yeah. You want to build a studio? Yeah. You want to build a studio? Yeah. You want to build a redwood? Yeah. You want to build a studio? Yeah. You want to build a studio? Yeah. You want to build a studio? Yeah. You want to build a studio? Yeah. You want to build a redwood? Yeah. You want to build a studio? Yeah. You want to build a studio? Yeah. You want to build a redwood? Yeah. You want to build a studio? Yeah. You want to build on my property. Well, we'll see all the weird stuff. I mean, for you said, it's kind of, this is AC built in this two, Doug, because that's why that sounds fishy to me. 20 grand, and you have an AC alone cost 8 to 10 grand. It's got, listen, it's got panoramic view, two glass walls. What else has it got in there? You can do classrooms. People are building classrooms with these.

Maybe I made up the AC part. Yeah, I think you did. I can't help it. Because that would be the part that I would think would be the most annoying for us and the most expensive, right? Because a box, yeah, with the one of the chinsy ones, I mean, it's not a huge space to cool down.

True. And it looks like, I mean, the picture that looks like a vent up there on the top. Yeah. I can't tell though. You put it on top of the ceiling. I do. Over the roof.

I do think, yeah, you're right, like a motorhome. Yeah. I can't speak today. I mean, I mean, I help me out. As I spoke going. It's a bit, yeah. It's goddamn coffee. We've got to wait for it to stop.

Coffee is not set in, man. We've got to wait. Speaking of coffee, so you guys know how, well we get stuff sent to us all time, samples of supplements or whatever. I mean, I don't, because I usually don't see it. I take them, yeah. I take them all.

Anyway, company sends us a pre-workout powder, and I'm not gonna say the name, I don't wanna call them out. Just company. Yeah, just a company, and it's your typical pre-workout powder that relies heavily on stimulants. So it's like, every stimulant you can imagine, that's in there. So it's like every stimulant you can imagine that's in there. So I'm like, all right, I'll give it a shot.

I think I know what I'm gonna feel, but let's do this. It just, shit, it just felt like shit. I was shaky, I didn't feel good. It really makes me appreciate when someone makes an actual pre-workout properly, like Legion, for example. They put theanine in their pre-workout because it balances out the caffeine.

But I can't believe some, I think people have fried their CNS so much with the amount of caffeine that they take, that they require something with an insane amount of stimulants, just a feel. No, I think that, because that even take the whole thing. It was way too much, it was not good. I saw that. That Raptor or Bear Attack.

I'm not gonna say the name. Yeah, but you try to throw somebody on the bus right there. Raptor Attack. Yeah. It was a name like that. Yeah. It was just extreme. I just saw something.

Like blow your brains out. Yeah. Oh, no. This is like math, you know? I saw an ad that Mike had that was running right now. Did you, is it true? Is he the number one sports performance supplement that's out there right now on Amazon?

I didn't know that. Oh, on Amazon? I think so. Wow, so it's not like when you go to a coffee shop and it says the best coffee world. The best coffee in the world. It could be, I'm not that spiced up. I'm like, bro, are you the best coffee in the world?

Is that what you're doing right now? Is that what's going on with these ads? Are you really the number one sports performance of your company? Well, I mean, everything he puts in this, that's nominee. Everything he puts in his products has a lot of literature behind it.

That's the one thing I like. He never puts stuff in there that's like, oh, this is the cool thing everybody's talking about. He's like, okay, do we have the studies? How many studies are the good studies? Yeah, the right dose. Right, put an efficacious amount in there. So that's why, I mean, obviously,

why I appreciate what he does or respect what he does. This clause brought to you by Organify. For those days you fall short on getting your organic veggies or whole food nutrition, Organify fills the gap with laboratory tested certified organic superfoods to help give your health a performance the added edge. Try Organify totally risk-free for 60 days by going to organify.com. That's O-R-G-A-N-I-F-I.com. And use a coupon code MindPump for 20% off at checkout. First question is from Todi Krudo. Do any of you integrate different proteins such as

whey, casing, plant-based for different purposes throughout the day or week, is casing before bed just bro science, or are their legitimate benefits to utilizing various proteins differently? Who picked this one? I did. We haven't crapped all over this in a while. Yeah, I know. So, this is a context matters question. If your protein intake is low, then the type of protein you eat does matter quite a bit.

So if you have low protein intake or below what would be considered ideal for performance and building muscle, which studies show is about 0.6 grams per pound of body weight all the way up to about a gram per pound of body weight. If it's below that, then you're going to want to have a protein source that is high in branch chaining amino acids. Way protein is really good. Animal sources are superior to plant sources. And studies will show that those sources build more muscle, contribute better to performance

and recovering and all that stuff. If your protein is high, if you're eating a high protein diet, 0.6 to 1 gram per pound of body weight, really doesn't make that big of a difference. In fact, it almost doesn't matter at all because when you're eating that much protein, you're getting a lot of amino acids, and it doesn't really make a difference. Now, you might be wondering why supplement companies will tell you to eat this protein at night, this one during the day, or whatever, because if you're a successful protein company and you're selling a lot of way protein, you want to sell another type of protein.

Yes, figure it out. How can you sell another protein without getting them to stop taking the one that they already take? Well, you tell them that the one that they buy and take is great. Yes, yes, yes. Exactly.

That one's good for post work out. This one's good for nighttime. This one's good for, you know, travel. This one's good for whatever. So you hear a lot of that, but this is really splitting hairs. And if your protein intake is high, really doesn't make a difference. Now that addresses the way and the casing,

but what I will, and I don't do this like, I'm not scheduled about it, right? But I'm just aware of it, right? So I do rotate, and I think we all do this, rotate our foods, and where the sources of protein. So like I'm not always gonna get it from chicken thighs. If I found that I had a week where I had a lot of chicken thighs and I didn't have any fish,

the next week I'm trying to make sure that I implement more fish into my diet. If I'm never getting it from beans, I'm trying to get it from beans every once in a while. I try to just rotate my foods all the time, so I'm also picking up all the other micronutrients that you're getting from different types of foods. So I do think there's a tremendous amount of value. I think any articles that try and sell you on why this type of a protein, whether it be from food or a protein shake, is better than the other, is splitting hairs so long as you're hitting your intake, right? So if you are hitting the number of grams that you should be hitting for your body to build muscle, the maximum amount, which is somewhere between 0.7 to 1 gram per pound of body weight. If you're hitting that, where it's coming from,

it's not really gonna make a difference on how you change the look of your body composition. But I think for health purposes, I think it's ideal to chase that protein number through whole foods and to rotate those whole foods as much as possible. Yeah, that makes sense. That's the best advice that I would say.

Look, they've done studies. They've done studies where they compare plant proteins to animal proteins. And when protein intakes are lower than what we just said, the optimal amount, animal proteins are superior. They just are. They kick the crap out of plant protein. But then when they take a lot of protein, it doesn't matter. It's equal in terms of the results.

Now, here's a deal. There's a huge individual variance between people in terms of which protein sources feel the best. And for me, I stick with the protein sources. I digest the best. A way is a great source of protein. I don't digest the way at all. So I never have it, right? But there's also beef protein, right?

So this is something else too that like I always forget about that and then egg protein. And so there's also beef protein, right? So this is something else too that like I always forget about that and then egg protein. And so there's other various sources, but yeah, that's one of the big considerations is really how that's affecting your digestive system. What, you know, you can process the best, what resonates the best with you. That's something that I would lean towards.

And sometimes that changes too. Like even if I'm inundated with dairy, I might even feel it a bit where I'll probably like try some plant protein and rotate it kind of like what Adam's saying too, but it's just important to kind of move things around so you don't get too inundated with one source. Yeah, beef for me is the easiest to digest.

If I eat a lot of beef, I just, my gut feels good, my body feels good as a result. That's my favorite source of protein. Second would be chicken, third would be fish. Lamb is up there too. Other sources of protein can bother me. Plant protein is okay, but if I push that too hard, that can start to bother me.

Dairy I can eat either. So think about that for yourself. Like what makes you feel the best? And then hit your protein targets based off of that. Next question is from official JPJ9. What is the best way to fix muscle imbalances? All right, so first let's define a muscle imbalance because there's a couple of different ways

we can look at this. One is from the aesthetic standpoint where you look at a physique or you look at yourself and you say, okay, I like the way that this part of my body's developed, but it doesn't seem to match this other part of my body, so I want to bring that, you know, weak body part up. And then there's the, like, the way personal trainers look at muscle imbalances, which is maybe your right side is not as strong and stable as your left side, or your straight, your pulling strength is not at the right ratio to your pushing strength, or

your quads or overpowering your hamstrings when we do certain exercises. So those are the ways that they tend to be defined. Now one of the easiest ways, in my opinion, aside from really doing an assessment and individual I mean if you really want to fix a muscle imbalance, you get a program like MAPS Prime, you take the compass test and then you do it for your individual body. But if a general, not nearly as effective, but still will give you some benefit, unilateral work tends to do a pretty damn good job, where you work one arm at a time, one leg at a time, use dumbbells, start with the weak side, and then copy that with the strong side and wait

for things to come up. I think that's the best broad stroke answer for that. I think finding your way back to optimal posture in general will cover a lot of that. You'll find areas of your body where you're out of balance and where you're not starting at the right point. To be able to find your way towards that is everything. It's crucial to do that. And then also assess, do I actually have range of motion? Do I have function in my joints?

Like I properly should. And that's usually where I like to start there with all like a joint check versus just like, you know, from a strength perspective where, oh well, I feel like, you know, this muscle is very much overactive. This one's weak and, oh well, I feel like this muscle is very much overactive. This one's weak and we could go from a muscle perspective after that. But I like to just get people to come back to proper posture and balance and function

and then really work in the strength after that. Next question is from James and Doug. Can you talk about salt? Is it good or bad? Sal loves them salt. Yeah, you know what? First guy ever met, they used to carry salt in his purse. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. First guy you had a purse. It was a nurse. You know, okay, so this is, when I would talk to clients about salt, I mean, you would be shocked at how much your sodium comes from processed foods. If you reduce your processed food consumption or largely eliminated, you can salt the hell out of your food.

Look this up, Doug, for me, sorry, Sally, I'm not sure. But I want to highlight what you're talking about, because there used to be this great article that I used to share. It was, look at like one fast food, how much salt is in one fast food meal comparison? Something like that, Doug. Because I used to share this with clients to give this perspective that you're talking about right now. Like, you eat out one time in a week and it's like more than your salt and take that you take three days.

Or the same thing. And then you flip that, it takes somebody who eats only whole foods, you could salt the shit out of every single meal and never catch up to like that. You wouldn't even come close. You couldn't put, you could salt the shit out of every single meal and never catch up to like that. You wouldn't even come close. You couldn't put, you would be gross. If I salted my whole natural foods the same way that process, it wouldn't taste good.

So it's process food is where you start to get an issue with too much sodium. And really this is only for people who have high blood pressure. Here's the interesting thing. We've demonized salt way too much. Studies actually show that people who eat too little salt have worse health outcomes than people who eat a little too much salt. If you're an athlete, this is a big deal.

It's a performance enhancement. Big time. Big time. In fact, I used to tell my endurance athletes to take a small pinch of sea salt and put it in the water while they were running or doing their endurance sport and they would notice performance benefits. If you're a low carb dieter,

salt is very important. In fact, sometimes when people feel foggy from going low carb or from fasting, it's not necessarily the lack of carbs or calories. It's the fact that their sodium is low, throw some salt on your food and then see how you feel. But that's really the big thing. If you eat whole natural foods,

you pretty much don't have to worry about it. That's how I tell clients to keep it simple, right? Instead of trying to measure and figure out exactly how many milligrams of sodium that you should have, it's like, if you're eating whole foods, enjoy your seasoning. That's what I said, you know, you season it how you want, salt it how you want, enjoy it if it's whole foods. And if it's processed foods, pay attention

to how much you're consuming it. The article Doug pulled up, it's not the one I was looking for, but it says, you know, one meal of like a processed food like that is got more salt than six times a regular meal. So you figure you eat, you eat, you know, six meals that are whole foods and it's gonna have less than one meal that's processed. So you gotta, that's where you just have to watch out for

is how much are you eating out. Right, now I would like you to hear what you say, because you probably managed your sodium more, definitely, I don't say probably, you definitely managed your sodium more than I ever did because you competed. What was that like? Well, so I did it different than a lot of competitors.

In fact, there's, and again, it's shout out to Nate Lane, this is another thing that how I found Lane, I was researching this for myself like when I was first getting into competing and trying to shout out to Lane. This is another thing that, how I found Lane, I was like researching this for myself, like when I was first getting into competing and trying to figure out, I remember hearing about this common practice that competitors would really start to reduce their calories, their carbon take,

and their sodium intake and water. And again, I was like, that just sounds like a recipe for death. That doesn't sound smart at all, which you could potentially be doing. And the deeper I read into it, the more that I found that it was a lot of broscience, this idea of pulling all this sodium out of your body

before you go into, in fact, it's probably counterproductive. And so I didn't do that. What I did was load during my prep and then went down to a normal amount when I got into peak week. So I got my body used to pushing X amount of, and I don't remember what the milligrams were off the top of my head. I first measured, found where my normal was, and then all I did was add like two deal pickles a day. So like I used deal pickles to shoot the sodium up.

Oh, that's smart. Because you're not really getting a calories right? And exactly. So and then I liked them because I was dieting, so it was like something I could snack on. So I would add pickles into the diet, and I would season my food all normal. And then as I got into my final weeks, I would remove the dill pickles and stuff and pull down.

And that was enough to reduce the sodium one, but I was still getting enough sodium that I think was healthy. But yeah, there's this myth around competitors needing to pull, because salt pairs with water. So the theory is this, is that if you have all this salt and sodium in your body and you're drinking all this water, that the water pairs with the salt, and it lies between your skin and muscle

and gives you this kind of like watery or flat or bloated look. But if you've touched your body to flush that out, it flushes it out within hours and for certainly in a day. So there's, you shouldn't be stressing about that. And so what I would do is teach my body to have more sodium, more water. Because it regulates it.

Exactly. So then it would adapt to that new level. And then when I pulled it, then I knew I would really pull it all out. And then I also was not in fear of like being like super low in water and super low in sodium. So we all don't need to convert to flavor god. Yeah, oh my god. No, that's, you know, so businesses popped up

because of that. Yeah, that's a great point. And that company's like that. And I think that's ridiculous. And competitors that I was coaching, they would ask about stuff like flavor god that became really popular when I was competing that brand, and it's one of those seasonings,

zero sodium, seasoning flavored things, and everybody loved it. You know what, I will say this, of all of the things that you need to be careful for from processed foods, the sodium is actually probably down the list to be quite honest, that's how not big of a deal sodium is for most people. The only people that should be careful with sodium are people who have high blood pressure

issues and the doctor literally has ordered you to reduce your sodium intake. In which case, you probably have a poor diet to begin with. And getting leaner will probably solve some. And to the point of that, many times that's because somebody's got a heavily processed food diet. If that same person did not not salt their food and just switched from eating McDonald's every other day to eating, a salty steak, they would be fine. The doctors, what the doctors sees is that they're through the roof right there, tell this person to cut their salt out. And so those people think, oh, I'm going to stop using table salt on my food. And it's like, that's not where you're just still eating the burgers. Yeah, you're getting like the article that Doug on my food. And it's like, that's not where you're just still eating the burgers.

Yeah, you're getting like the article to Doug pulled up, you're eating one meal out, that's equivalent to six meals of whole food meals as far as so. I mean, they add soda to me everything, like instant oatmeal. You know, you know, you, you, oatmeal is an salty, right? Look at instant oatmeal added so added sodium to anything

that so yet, and that's something a good point too, right? So like even Chipotle places that are considered like healthy fast food, you gotta be careful of that. Any restaurant that you go to is loads or full of food of sodium, so it preserves the food longer. So they do that, right? So you can, so they can keep it out, you know, for longer and for more days so they can serve it and make money off of it.

So just because you're going to a healthy restaurant or a healthy fast food place, doesn't mean that it's not loaded full of food. So it makes it food yourself, you're fine. Yep. Next question is from KDC. Have you guys ever fallen out of love with fitness? What made you love it again? Hmm, you know, this is a good question.

I've never not liked fitness. I've definitely, there's been definitely times in my life where I've enjoyed it more. I enjoy fitness the most when I'm feeling my best, when I'm training at a high performance level and I'm feeling strong and I'm feeling aggressive in my workouts. But I didn't dislike my workouts when that didn't happen. I think that's because for me at least, and this is something I should try to communicate to clients, exercise and workouts and fitness really is a tool to complement my life.

So through stressful times in my life, or times when I wasn't feeling so good, or whatever, it's definitely not as fun to go workout, but I still enjoy the workout because I'm going there to make myself feel better. But I've never really fallen out of love. I think that's the one most consistent thing I've done since I was 14.

I really, for me at least. I have a few times. Have you, Justin? I've gotten, like, I'm trying to think of the word, but it was really like, I got turned off. Yeah, I got turned off. I'm trying to think of the word, but it was really like I got turned off. Yeah, I got fat. I'm trying to think of the politically correct word. I got fat.

Yeah, that just happened. It was weird. Yeah, no, like I got tired of kind of beating myself up. And this is because I was training wrong for a period of time because I was always trying to compete to be the strongest in whatever team setting that I was in and I was training wrong for a period of time because I was always trying to compete to be the strongest in whatever team setting that I was in and I was in groups with people. Again, this is where the whole thing with groups

is sort of like near to me because it's about the individual. It's about the individual experience at the end of the day. Groups a lot of times is great because you kind of feed off momentum, but for me, it was, I got to a point where I just felt like I was just beating the hell out of myself and I just needed to take a break for a while. So it wasn't that I was falling out of love.

It was just like, okay, I'm more into music now and I was just drawn to another passion, but then realized right away I was like, oh, I don't feel good physically. You know, I feel like my energy levels dipping, like all these things started to happen again. And I hated that even more. So I was like, right back to fitness. I feel like it's similar to, you know, the house cleaner who doesn't ever want to clean their own house

or the construction worker who never builds his own home. Like, it's similar to that. I had moments, but it was for different reasons, right? So my first experience of falling out of love with it was training. I trained so many clients the first couple of years of being a personal trainer that I got burnt of training people. Like, I so I didn't lose my love for fitness as far as like me having a passion for the industry or liking to work out or like I also and I fell off and didn't work out again. It was something I was so excited about when I first

got into it and I got burnt. I got burnt of like training so many clients and trying to solve problems and failing a lot. I mean, let's be honest, the trainer client relationship is a majority of time a failure. I mean, you're lying to me if you tell me that more than 50% of your people got all the results they ever wanted. That's not a reality. We're more like baseball. We're batting like 300 if we're lucky

that we're getting our clients results. So the consistent failure of not getting people to their goals and trying to help them all the time. And like all I did was speak fitness all day. And then when I was off, I was in the gym lifting. So I did have a moment of being burnt out. That was also the same moment that led me to realize that, oh, I like teaching trainers more than I like teaching clients.

So that was that first pivot. Then I had another one where I was really upset that, this was like, I've talked about this in the podcast before where I was really upset that this was like I've talked about this in the podcast before where I was really upset with where I was at in my career. I wasn't moving up as fast as I wanted to move up. I left. I took a couple years off of fitness. This is where I pursued medical marijuana.

You know, that was also what made me realize how much I did love it. You know, I left it. I was pursuing, I was realized, oh, maybe this space is not going to provide the lifestyle that I've always wanted and the money I wanted to make. So I left it, pursued that, accomplished that, and then realized, oh, wow, it wasn't about that for me. I really do miss it and came back. And then I had a little taste of that again, not that long ago, after competing. And the funny part about competing, I'd loved to compete. I loved being jacked and strong and looking amazing. I actually didn't like how I felt about our audience,

how they thought of me. That bothered me. It started to bother me that I was kind of pigeon-holed into because we started the podcast when I was in the middle of it, that I was this bodybuilder guy, and I totally never identified with that guy. Like I was never that guy to me. I became that guy to help build what we did.

And so when our audience thought of me as that all the time, like I was like, ah, you know, so there was a part of me that kind of, after being done and like accomplishing what we did, I was like over it for a while, I can't, I don't want to, and that's why I was like all in a mobility and like hanging up the man key. Yeah, dude, so I'm sick of being handsome.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Damn it, oh my God, so hard. Too much. So women whistling at me was like, walk down the street. I remember that. I remember that. Dude, the screen real walking, what are we doing?

Oh, I did, yeah, we're down. The chicken whistled and Adam was like, what was that? I remember that. Dude, this is crazy. We're all walking away. Dude, you're luscious. Oh, I did. Yeah, we're down. It's a chiquit, whistle, then Adam. Oh, what was that? What was that? Hell's going on here. Doesn't happen to me.

This is weird. This is too much. Yeah. I could see how that could get totally totally in the middle of the trouble. I like to judge your faces. But I like this question because I, even though Sal's answer, I thought was a little bad,

it's true. It's not bad. No, it's the truth. No, no, it is the truth. And you are the most consistent. Yeah. little bad. We're not. It's true. It's not bad. No, it is a truth. And you are the most consistent. The most in love. Yeah, I've got like, Googley eyes. Well, what's the longest, I guess, you didn't work out. Right, right.

So I've gone a month before without what lifting or two months, even in a row. Okay, that's not bad. Sure. A couple of months. Yeah, yeah. But definitely, but that's why I like this question because, you know, we, we,

are all everybody's lives, can I come and go in seasons and there's definitely seasons of my life where I am all about fitness, all I do is talk about, I mean, obviously, I competed, right? So that's like a full time, every single day, all I think about is fitness and I did that for three, four years and had a blast doing it because I love, I love fitness. But then I have times where, three, four years, and had a blast doing it, because I love, I love fitness. But then I have times where, you know, lifting weights and training is only one part of the whole health sphere. And real easily, the other things can get out of whack. And I've realized that now in two decades of being a personal trainer, that just because

my body looks cool on Instagram, doesn't necessarily mean that I'm really addressing all of their aspects of health in my life. And so as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at that more holistically and go, you know, okay, sure I'm not in the best shape of my life, but what other other aspects of my really drilling home? And that's made me re-fall in love with what we do. I stopped, well, I didn't stop working out,

but I did, I was only lifting maybe once or twice a week, but that's because I was doing Jiu Jitsu at the time. So when I did Jiu Jitsu for about six years, you're doing something else. Exactly, so I never really stopped, and I do, I just love it, but I've changed it so many times. I mean, I went through a very, very tough period of my life years ago when someone close, I had a rough battle with cancer. And at those times, I would go

into the gym and it was my workouts were about alleviating stress. It was about making myself feel better, taking care of myself. It wasn't about building muscle or strength or having the blasts. And it was like taking a break is what it was. Let me get in here, take a break so I can go back and help out. And so, but I've always used it as a tool, and I do. I just enjoy it for that, but honestly, I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that it's just the discipline of doing it.

There's definitely times when I'm doing the workout, and I'm not thinking of myself, I love it. You have good balance, so, and I think that's the answer to this question is what can happen when you get so focused on a goal or a modality, maybe you're in a crossfit and a competitive side or whatever, it's that it floats your boat.

Oh, I've definitely been obsessed. I know what that feels like. Yeah, and that leads to burnout. Totally. And I think that's, and so, and I've done that to myself, right, I've become super focused on a goal or a pursuit of something, went hard at it, and then you accomplish it,

and then you're like, oh, I'm over it, right? And that was kind of like bodybuilding, right? For me, it was just like, it was such a, it was probably one of the biggest accomplishments as far as my fitness pursuits that I've ever done, because of how long it took. And then when I got there and kind of achieved what I was going for, was like, eh, anything,

anything you do for a long period of time, you're going to go through periods of really enjoying it and through periods of not enjoying it. But what gets you through that is the discipline. Look, I'm a dad. I love my kids more than anything. I don't always like them. There's definitely times I don't like my kids

as other times when I like them even more. And I'm going to be their dad for the rest of their lives. It's a long relationship. Same thing with fitness. There's gonna be times when you love working out and it's great. Don't fall in love with that feeling because it's gonna be very hard to stay consistent

when you, those normal times, when working out isn't as great, when it kinda sucks, when you're not as strong, when you're not feeling great, when it's not as fun. If you wanna stay consistent, it's that as fun. If you want to stay consistent, it's that discipline that's the important thing for us. I think the key is too, is to not look at,

it's, I love that they use the word fitness too, because that encompasses so much. It's just going and lifting weights. Sometimes that is spending time with my partner and my child, or sometimes that is strengthening the relationships with my friends. Sometimes that is health. You're talking about health.

Yeah, exactly. Sometimes that is, you know, reading more or, you know, practicing meditation or doing more sauna work and more inward type of work. Like, I think that's the key is to make sure you're always in pursuit of bettering yourself in the total sphere of health. It doesn't always have to be this.

I'm going to the gym and hammering the weights three days a week and I'm following them up, saying I'm all in program. Like sometimes it just looks different and being okay with that. So long as you are always moving in the right direction. Personal development. If you're always trying to improve yourself as a person,

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