Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 1458: Favorite Workout Splits, How to Know If You Are Too Sick to Work Out, What to Do on Rest Days & More

Episode Date: January 1, 2021

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about their favorite workout splits, what to do on a rest day when you want to go to the gym, how to know if you are too sick to work out, and what 2020 taught them. New Product Alert from Organifi! (4:08) Scented candles, the new COVID detector. (6:08) Justin’s coffee ground rub recipe using Butcher Box’s steak tips. (7:51) Some interesting Stimulus Bill statistics. (15:55) Did Coca-Cola invent our modern view of Santa Claus? (17:40) Mind Pump are BIG John Favreau fans. (23:18) Are social media influencers creating the latest boxing trend? (27:04) Why economists predict ‘asset inflation’ in 2021. (35:03) Will the Apple autonomous car see the light of day? (40:21) #Quah question #1 – What are your guy’s favorite workout splits? (45:17) #Quah question #2 - What do you do on a rest day when you want to go to the gym? (51:24) #Quah question #3 – How do you know if you are too sick to work out? What symptoms and how severe must they be to know you shouldn’t work out? (54:31) #Quah question #4 – What did 2020 teach you? (57:53) Related Links/Products Mentioned Mind Pump Store December Special: 3 MAPS Bundles for your level of fitness! Visit Organifi for the exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Code “mindpump” at checkout** People Are Leaving 1-Star Reviews Of Scented Candles, Seemingly Unaware They Just Have Covid Visit Butcher Box for this month’s exclusive Mind Pump offer! Sous vide cooking method makes beef protein more digestible Breaking down the $900B stimulus package and $1.4T omnibus bill Did Coca-Cola create Santa Claus? The Holiday Movies That Made Us | Netflix Official Site Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen – Book by Donald Miller Boxing & Fitness Gym in Santa Monica ... - Box 'N Burn Apple Car speculation is back. Here's what we know so far MAPS Split - Mind Pump Media Body Part Split vs. Whole Body Workout: Which Is Best? - Mind Pump Blog Mind Pump Podcast – YouTube Mind Pump Free Resources People Mentioned Layne Norton, PhD (@biolayne)  Instagram Box 'N Burn Boxing Fitness Gym (@boxnburn)  Instagram Peter Schiff (@peterschiff)  Twitter

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're listening to the number one fitness health and entertainment podcast. This is Mind Pump. Now in today's episode, we answered the fitness and health questions that are asked by our audience. We actually answered four questions. But the way we opened the episode

is with an introductory portion. This is where we talk about our sponsors. We tell stories, we bring up studies, we have a lot of fun. Today's intro portion was 41 minutes after that, we answered the fitness questions. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go through this episode and kind of break down all the stuff

that we talked about. Give us the break down. So we opened up by talking about a new product from Organifi called Harmony. This is for women to help them with PMS symptoms, hormone balance, and improved libido. It's an interesting product. You can go try it out and use the Mind Pump discount code to get 20% off. Go to Organifi.com forward slash Mind Pump and then use the code mind pump for that 20% off. Let's harmonize.

Then we talk about sentent candles getting one star reviews from people who can't smell them because they have COVID. That sucks. Justin talked about a new rub he made for his grass fed meat with coffee, believe it or not, you can use coffee grounds to make your meat taste delicious. And the meat that he used was from butcher box. Butcher box delivers grass fed meat to your door meat taste delicious. And the meat that he used was from butcher box. Butcher box delivers grass-fed meat to your door

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that are going to other countries, that's great. We talk about how Santa Claus, as we imagine him, how that was invented by Coca-Cola back in 1931. Looks like he drank all the Coca-Cola. Yeah, he gave a Santa fat. Then we talked about John Favreau, one of our favorite directors right now. We brought up the new boxing trend

with social media influencers putting on gloves. We had face palm. We talked about asset inflation that we predict to be happening with all this printed money. And then we talked about Apple making a car. That's going to be kind of interesting. Then we got into the questions. Here's the first one. This person wants to know what are some of the best workout splits that you can do for your body.

The next one, this person wants to know what you can do on a rest day when you still want to go to the gym. The third question, this person wants to know, what do you do if you're too sick to work out or how do you know if you're too sick to work out? Stay on. And then the final question, what did 2020 teach you?

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Organifies hitting it out of the park again. Just see what they just did. What? They did a new product for women called Harmony to balance out hormones and boost libido. They didn't say boost libido, but I saw the ingredients and that's what's gonna happen. Really?

Yeah, it's got Maka in there, Chastberry. Oh God bless you, Organifi. Other ingredients that. All the men buying it. Yeah. Merry Christmas, stuff for you. Merry Christmas, honey. Yeah, this is for you.

What's a bottle? What's a bottle? Is a bottle colored feminine or masculine? What's it look like? I'm gonna use a harming. I can't remember. I would think it might be a little feminine. Yeah, that'd be my guess.

But Maka, boosts libido and women and balances out hormones. So does chaspery, balances out hormones. And there's some other ingredients in there. Chaspery. But you're really marketing to the men, let's be honest. That's why I want to know it a little. I feel like you're going to lose if you buy that for your,

you know what I mean? You think so? She's like, thanks. And then she reads it and it's like, you know, balance out hormones. Boosts libido. What are you trying to tell me? Imagine if your girl brought you something.

Here on the other hand, you're breaking this supplement and it's like, you know, irracto-loyeter, whatever. You're irracto-loyeter. It's some sh- Increased penis size, but it's for your problem. Yeah. Oh man. This will make you hornyer, excuse me.

Yeah. What's going on here? Anyway, they're not going out of the park. Yeah. That's their balance part of the house. No, that's balance, that's that harmony. Yeah, yeah. I know they sound similar.

Balance, harmony. Yeah. Yeah. Alignment. I No, that's balanced. That's that harmony. Yeah, yeah. I know they sound similar. Balance. Harmony. Yeah. Alignment. I love, yeah, exactly. I love messing with Doug when he's on the scrambling over there. Scrambling. I'm excited he's on e-harmony now.

There it is. There's his profile. Yeah, feminine. I think they should have made it masculine. Oh, yeah. Why? Or neutral? So here's what it says.

It says, a nourishing chocolate blend that supports balancing my hormones and reducing my cramps, bloating, and PMS. And that is what those ingredients do, for sure. Now, knowing that, you buy that for your girl, you might get in trouble. You might get in trouble, yeah. I don't know, with a name like Harmony, I feel like I could give that to Katrina.

And she'd be like, oh, that's sweet of you, honey. She doesn't read the back of the chest. She put a candle right next to her. Like, here. She's gonna read the back of the chest. She's my offering. You're like, babe, we need to do a little bit more harmonious. It's speaking of candle.

Oh my God, dude. So there's this scented candle company. I can't remember the name of it, but they're getting these one-star reviews. Was that the same one that did, what's your face's vaginas smell? No. Oh, that guy.

Oh, yeah, that's who it was. Who the goop, the winner. What the fuck was that? That was hilarious. Dude, it was a who it is. Who the goop, the world. The fuck was that? That was hilarious. Dude, it was a trick-and-chip and move that I'm sure she... Dude, you got a bunch of money from it. Yeah, didn't she make millions off of that? I think so.

Yeah. Now you want to talk about sexism, okay. It smells like my vagina. Could you make millions like a candle? It smells like dick. No, nobody's in the... I don't think it's sexist. I just think that you know, in the business for that.

Yeah, I just don't think... Nobody wants to smell dick. Yeah, nobody does.'t think nobody wants to smell dick Yeah, nobody does. No, yeah, if it was the rock, you know, I mean the rocks cock Sorry, don't know anyway, the scented candles come to me like I have to I take the I take the cock you some Rock candle at the vagina candle and I put them together. Anyway, that's how the rock knew he had COVID, by the way. Nobody could smell what he was cooking. Wow.

Oh, that a dung. I feel like, God, me here in a roll. Terrible. Along those lines, there's a scented candle company. It's getting a bunch of one star reviews because people are,

they can't smell it because they have COVID. That's not why. Yes, you lie. I swear they're getting one star reviews and then the people are coming back and saying, oh, I'm sorry. Oh, sorry, actually does. I had COVID. That's why I could have smelled it. Really? Yes, dude. Now, did it, was it, we talked about this on the show, the coffee test, right? Yeah, that was the one. Was it 70 or 80 percent? I think like 80 percent of people with COVID will lose their sense of smell and taste. That's interesting. By the way, speaking of coffee, I was going to, yeah, I was going to bring something.

If you guys tried a coffee rub on a steak before? Yeah. Okay. So is it good? Trigger has one. Oh, it's so good. So it sounds weird to me. Coffee with...

Yeah, it's like chili powder and there's like garlic. I mean, yeah, you add a bunch of other kind of spices, but the actual coffee grounds, it just helps like, I don't know, like the, like ingrains a lot of those flavors and into the state. Did you make the rub yourself or buy it? No, yourself. Oh, you made it.

Yeah. So what did you do? Well, I mean, I'm not the best on ingredients and whatnot, so I don't have to look this up, but. Well, I don't know with the, I don't know. I'm corny made it. Well, she made, yeah, dude, she did, but I mean, I cooked it and I'm not, I'm not trying to take credit.

Credits, where credits do, she put it together. I don't know, I'm just delicious. I'm clearly here, heard you say to you made it. So, did I say that? Oh, that's just something I do. Yeah, anyways. I mean, we're one, right? It's not always so Katrina when I take credit for her shit. Yeah, anyways. I mean, we're one, right? It's not always so much for Trino when I take credit

for her shit. I'm just like, well, we're one with the same, you know. But with some bad habits, you gotta take the responsibility. So you got Ancho chili powder. You got finely ground coffee beans, which we had from Peats. And then the teaspoons of brown sugar. And then you got hot smoked Spanish paprika. and a much other stuff in there. But yeah, it's this.

So I, so you take that and you rub that on the meat? Yeah, you rub it on the meat. Do you leave it or do you just go right to the grill after that? 30 minutes, 30 minutes. At least, yeah. 30 minutes is like dry rub is about 30 minutes. Wow, I know, you're weird.

I mean, we've had a few hours before. Adam, you're so precise with me now. I know, it's so weird. So precise about me. You are, dude. You're few hours before. Adam, you're so precise with me stuff. It's so weird. So precise about me. You are, dude. You're like the tempestur. Yeah. We're at this altitude.

I am not. Doug is the, Doug's the meat guy, man. I take all, I take, he, you know, what's the difference? The cook and the chef, right? So like the cook is the one that's like very precise every single time. No, the chef.

Oh, the chef, right. So I'm more the cook. I'm the one that's like out there, like missing with it, you know, and like, that was was that was Doug stage name, by the way, the meat guy I For a me Guy we've got the big gym guys I'm

It's a big meat guy Big We'll rule that out. What did you put that rub on Justin? Yeah, so I put it on the steak tips I want steak tips and the... This is the grass tip. Try a tip. Really? And is it better than when you would do a normal,

like salt pepper or garlic? Oh, yeah, way better. Did you get stick tips from butcher box or did you make those? Yeah, no, we got that from butcher box. So they are, I didn't know they had that too. They have stick tips already like that? Yeah, damn, I didn't get it.

You got a check, you're really good. You know what? They had stuff all the time. I know, I'm really bad about it. I set our box, basically the way we did it was off of what we use every month. So that's why I was looking at them. So what do you get?

Ground beef, I'm assuming. Yep, ground beef, we get chicken thighs. I normally get the, I always forget the name of the, is it the shoulder dog? Is it the one I was talking about? The Cerneling Cap. Yes, the Cap, thank you. I was free that one too.

Yeah, so the Cap and then there's some, oh, and the rib eyes. So those are kind of like the staple. I go, I go ground beef, rib eye, tritip, and then I'll get the pork. You guys still haven't, you guys still haven't done the pork? No, I'm not a bacon. The bacon is about the only, other than I go bacon.

Bro, I'm telling you right now, I do not, I'm not a pork guy. I don't like pork meat, unless it's bacon, I don't like ham, I don't like pork chops. Their pork is incredible. It's really good. I've been selling it for the since the day one, I don't like ham, I don't like pork chops, their pork is incredible. It's really good. I do. I've been selling it for the since the day one,

I gotta get on that. I promise you. It's really good. You do a lot of pork? I do some. I do ribs mainly. Yeah. Okay, so I get the ribs too.

That's the only thing I love from there. Oh yeah. I'm just saying. You're just doing that next. What were you messing around with you told me yesterday? What were you doing? The sirloin cap. Okay, so you were messing with that. Yeah, and the smokers, so tasty.

Has a big layer of fat on it. Yeah. Oh, speaking of which, you guys with the sous-v, you know what I just read? Somebody sent me a study. Did you get one, finally? No, I haven't got one yet. Yeah, I'm waiting for Christmas.

I thought one of you guys would buy me one. That already passed, so you're from it. Next year, apparently. That'll be getting good. Christmas 2021. So the, I read this study that said that cooking your meat in the sous-vie makes the protein more digestible

and more, essentially you'll assimilate more of it in the body. That's interesting. Isn't it? So theoretically, now, I don't have the study in front of me. Okay, it was actually a study. I don't have it study in front of me. Okay, it was actually a study. I don't have it in front of me, so I can't quote off of it. But from what I read, what I remembered,

essentially if you eat a lot of protein, one of the challenges sometimes is digestion, because a lot of protein can sometimes slow down motility. Well, it would theoretically then cooking your meat with a sous-vie would make it so that you could eat more protein or less protein and utilize more effectively. So, now, to me, that brings up the old argument that we talk about, and we've brought it up on the show

before of, there's no such thing as, like, eating too much protein in one sitting. So, like, I mean, there is at some point, right? Well, and I think that's what's missing in that conversation. Like, I know, I think Lane addressed it and I saw one of his videos like a month or two ago. And, you know, part of the science community mocks that, right?

And we've mocked that. Like, oh, you know, it's like, it's not like it disappears and just goes nowhere. You get those calories and so you go. But if your digestion gets thrown off, that's the limit. Right. And if you guys ever ate 80 or 90 grams of protein in one sitting,

I mean, I'm on the toilet right afterwards. You can't break. I can't imagine that if I take 80 grams in one sitting, and I'm on the toilet within five minutes of eating it, is the same as if I take that same 80 grams and I divide it in three meals. No, of course not. Of course not, because you got a bunch of inflammation

going on, your body's responding in a way that's not favorable. It's not going to be conducive to not just health, but your goals, your body's responding in a way that's not favorable, it's not going to be conducive to not just health, but your goals, your fitness goals, right? You know, it's funny though about protein. I have you know, my digestion is always whatever you want to call it weak, but when it comes to meat and protein, I can consume a tremendous amount at a single sitting. So I can have a pound, I've had a pound and a half of meat at one sitting and I'm fine. So when I throw in the other stuff, that's when I gotta be careful.

Yeah, so I max out about 70, 75 with that. And same thing, Sal, if I do it just, if I'm doing it's like a vegetable and meat, I'm fine. If I add it with a carb, then you're fucked, huh? Yeah, then 70 grams is even pushing it. I like, it's like 40 to 50 feels the best on my digestion. I feel like I would can assimilate that fine. I don't have any issues.

I'm not running the toilet. If I do something where I'm pushing 75 plus, and especially if I have some sort of a carb in there, besides like a vegetable, like I definitely feel. Then it's no good. Yeah. Hey, I want to congratulate you guys by the way. Today's the third day in a row. We've worked out at the same time. Yeah. Hey, I want to congratulate you guys by the way. Today's the third day in a row.

We've worked out at the same time. Yeah. No, we're higher than three. I mean, day four or five. You knew what you knew here, guy. Hold on a second. Hold on a second. It's day, boy, day six.

I don't know. It's day three in a row. Well, it's, well, we don't get to count last week. I guess you don't. We gotta break. What is it? No, we can. Did you break? No, I didn't break either so come on guy the most days We've done in a row is three well then the most will ever be able to do is five exactly Anyway, anyway, whatever we're gonna roll we are and I'm I'm proud that was it. Yeah, I was gonna say that was a terrible

Congratious. I'm sorry, but the bottom line is I'm very proud. This is great. I'm having a That was it, that was it, that was a terrible congratulations. I'm sorry. But the bottom line is, I'm very proud. This is great. I'm having a lot of fun with you guys, man. I like to celebrate things that we do. Yeah. Yeah. That's all pat each other. Yeah.

No, but it was, it's fun. But having a good time with you guys. Yeah, it has been fun. Yeah, the workouts have been great. And it's so, how ironic is it that you've got three, you know, personal trainers, been training as long as we have, buddies. We see each other every single day yet,

and six years, now you can count on two hands, how many times we've got. You know what's also I'm noticing about it, that's good, is it, we can almost do meetings at the same time. We have conversations that normally we would do one more working, but we can do while we're working out. It's funny, it almost felt like nostalgic at first.

It's like, ooh, yeah, I remember when we used to do this, and work out together more, and then it's like, oh, we're still doing this. Yeah, cool. Yeah. It's a good time. It's a good time. Dude, you guys want to hear something hilarious?

I know I brought up that stimulus bill a couple times. Oh, yeah. Yeah, the one that, okay, so, do you want to know, so someone did the math, this economist did the math. Here's some interesting statistics with it. So it was a $900 billion stimulus package, right? For $900 billion, if they gave it all to individuals, so if they didn't give it to overseas countries

and all that stuff, they just gave it to people. They could have given every US household a check for $7,000. Okay. If they only cut checks to households that experienced unemployment, then that number would have been $30,000. Wow. Yeah.

But instead, there was six. So the 7,000, does that include everybody? That's every household like us too? I think it's every, I don't know. This is an economist's fault. So that's exactly what I would want to happen. Yeah. For people unemployed, those are the ones that need it.

Yeah, but you know, Pakistan needed $10 million for it. Yeah. I don't know what it was. Gender or something. That's what what I would want to happen. Yeah, for people unemployed, those are the ones that need it. Yeah, but you know, Pakistan needed $10 million for it. Yeah, I don't know what it was. Gender something. That's what I'm saying. That's so weird to me that we were sending millions of dollars overseas. It's a special interest.

It's all special interest stuff. So when something like this happens and they're able to pass a big thing, they'll make a huge bill, they'll give you six hours to pass it, and Doug buried inside of it is money for their friends and other places. Because it might say, 15 million for, to help whatever country with poverty, but reality we're just giving each other government.

And then they can decide to do what they want with it. Usually what they do is they buy military stuff, either back from us, so they'll get the 10 million to buy them. do what they want with it. Usually what they do is they buy military stuff either back from us, so they'll get the 10 million to buy them. Thanks for the problem with 2020. Just having to being forced to watch all of the normal transactions that these politicians are responsible for.

Oh, that's a good time. I'm ready for it to be over. I'm so ready over. Hey, you know, Christmas is over, but I was reading this thing on Santa Claus. I thought was really interesting. I wanna show you. Did you know that Coca is over, but I was reading this thing on Santa Claus. I thought was really interesting. I wanna show you. Did you know that like Coca-Cola is responsible

for like the image of what Santa Claus is like to us? I read that one. Isn't that interesting? So what we think of Santa, I didn't really know one. Yeah, the Rosie cheeks, the big white beard, the big belly, like. What did they think of him before? I don't remember what I read it.

I don't know if they said so, so it was in 1930 1931 I think is what if you had father Christmas right was that the one that was before that and so they they pulled they actually pulled from I want to say a Charles Dickens like Like his description from like a book and then created an illustrious Carol. Yeah, yeah, it was something like that I can't remember what it was. And then that's how they came up with the illustration, but the whole big belly, jolly, rosy cheeks and all that, that came from Coca-Cola.

So I just pulled up. I just went online and I did. I did. I did get a ton of coke. I typed in, Doug, you might want to do this. Santa Claus 1900 and then look at the pictures. I'm so glad Coca-Cola made this look better. Who is he like? Creepy.

It looks more like a homeless dude. Yeah, homeless guy in the trees. Yeah, Doug, pull it up and pull up images. Let me see, let's see. You could see what Santa used to look like. It's kind of terrifying in some of these pictures. They look like an old wizard. Yeah, they do that, yeah. Yeah, look at that first picture. He wasn't even fat though. Look like an old wizard. Yeah, they do that. Yeah.

Yeah, look at that first pick. He wasn't even fat though. Look at that. He wasn't jolly or anything. Yeah. Then he drank Coke and look what happened. Yeah, yeah. Now we have diabetes and a carny.

Yeah, it looks a little bit like a travel. There it is at the side shows. We like Santa to be obese. That's the way we live. How interesting. I thought that was so interesting though. It's something that a house, a brand, a soda brand came up with something that we all celebrate

and we just take as the norm today. Yeah, it's really interesting. I still was like, my mind was bogged with the whole elf on the shelf thing. And I'm like, and this like was readily accepted by like everybody. All of a sudden. Yeah, I'm like, what?

This is totally how these things just happen. I know. I'm like, oh, this is, this is the thing now. That, I'm like, what? This is totally how these things just happen. You know, everybody's just like, oh, this is the thing now. That's a good point, right? Like 30, 40 years from now to be like, everybody has to do all from the shelf. It's like a mandatory. I refuse. Yeah, dude.

Oh, you don't do it. No, I don't do it. Yeah, but I've been like, it's just because my youngest, he's still kind of like. So I need schooling from both of you then, because I think you've started, you got to do it. Well, that's what everybody says, man. Once you start it, you can't, you got to commit to it. It looks funny and fun. It's kind of fun, because I think you started, you gotta do it. Well, that's what everybody says, man. Once you started, you can, you gotta commit to it.

It looks funny and fun. It's kind of fun because it's, you know, you see them talking to him and like, I don't know, it's, he's not like, I mean, he still really believes in Santa and all that and it's great and his brother's trying to keep it, you know, keep it alive for us and stuff, which I appreciate, but, yeah, the F on the shelf thing,

I've never been that into it other than, sometimes I'll put them like in a tie fighter or something and like have them exploding and, you know, or like just like situations where, you know, you can make creative like fun with it. And we gotta commit to changing. You know, every time it's exhausted. Yeah, so my daughter, now that we have a baby,

now she's okay with admitting that she knows Santa's not real. Because I think now she realized she's gonna get Santa gift no matter what, you know? Oh really? So all of a sudden she's like, yeah, I know. So I plan to cut him off as soon as my son stops believing. That's like how I want to teach him. So I'm gonna say, so every year I'll do, we'll do like a gift from Santa Claus, right? And then when it gets to that age, when he's a little bit older and he starts questioning it,

Dad is Santa for real. My answer to that will be, only if you believe. If you don't believe he's not real, son. So if you don't believe, he's your kid, dude. He's smart. He'll be like, I believe, till he's 20 years old. So I'm enough, yeah, exactly. So then he gets a gift, you know what I'm saying?

My oldest, so he obviously kind of figured all the stuff out. And so our thing was to bring him in. And so he is the Santa now. And he does it for his brother. So he does all the things for his brother. That's a great idea. So yeah, so that actually worked out. That was Courtney's idea.

Again, I'll give for Chris. Well, see, now that's what we're gonna do with the Relius now because his older siblings are a lot older. My daughter's 11, my son's 15. Yeah. So it's gonna be fun now, cause I'm gonna tell the kids, all right, we need to make this as believable as possible.

So, you know, do the hoof prints and the cookies and that. It's just fun, man. Maybe, what I'm thinking about doing like the camera, you know, we'll set up a camera. Did you guys all dress up so that he's used to it? Did you ever see the alpha on the shelf thing, that video? Oh, that was a good viral. That was hilarious. Yeah.

That was so, I don't know how the parents did that, but they, Oh yeah. It was almost like Blair Witch, right? Yes, they made them, like, they made them, yeah, they made them, I don't know, they probably used like some fishing line that was like like Blair Witch. Yes, they made him, like, yeah, they made him, yeah, they made him, I don't know, they probably used like some fishing line that was like clear or whatever. And so, and it's like black and white camera, the kind of those cameras aren't that good of quality.

So, it just looks like he moves across the living room. And then it looks like all of a sudden, you see him disappear because he's underneath the camera. And then all of a sudden, he has a sheet and he throws it over the, wow. Throws it over the camera again. Yeah, that was next level, dude. I got him good one time,

because it's like I had a sono, so it was like, like every time he'd ask the elf something, like, you know, and play Christmas music, you know, and then turn it off after, you know, like, so it was like, going back and forth with it and he was like, tripping out. Oh, dude, I used to play games like, out of my kids where I'd be at the stoplight and then it'd be red. But, you know, you could tell when it's going to turn green by looking at the other lights. Yeah.

So I'd, I'd tell him, he like, watch this, I got magic, and then I snapped my finger, it would turn green, and my kids for the longest time were just... They were tripping out, they were like... That's so funny, I did this. But I did, but I do the whole, like, Jedi, you know, you didn't watch Daddy use his force. Yeah, I do that a few times, I didn't last long. And then he'd believe me after.

It'd be funny, because we'd be stopped at a red light and my son would be like, come on, do it, do it. And I'm like, I don't feel like it. And I'd be watching the light. I'd be watching the light. I don't feel, all right, fine. And then it turned green and I'd be like, oh my gosh. How did you do that?

Hey, speaking of elf stuff, so you know, John Favreau, right? He directed elf, which became an instant classic. I saw this whole thing about appreciation form. Iron Man, which he basically created that whole franchise because he's such a good job with Iron Man. And then Star Wars. Yep. And he did such a good job with Star Wars

that people are realizing how shitty all the other ones are. Exactly. 100%. No, you're totally accurate with that. Seriously, you guys gotta watch, Goddamn, there's this, let's see, the movement, the Christmas movies that made us on Netflix. Oh yeah. And there's an episode on Elf.

And it goes into John Favreau. And this is when he was a nobody. And there's, okay, so you remember those stop-motion Christmas shows that were on when we were kids Yeah, there's like frosty the snowman and there was that one Rudolph one where it was all yeah Yes super old school. So the guys who made those there's a there's like two names I can't remember a room but they're famous for them and when he when the writers for Elf We're looking for a director. They went they asked him or he approached them and he says, I want it to be in that same

style of those. And then that was sold them. That's what sold them to go with this unknown director. And of course, Elf became a total classic. No kidding. Yeah. So I didn't know that. Yeah.

So he's becoming like big time now, especially after Star Wars. He did a phenomenal job. Yeah. I don't know anybody better these days that are putting out, because it's about story. And I think that, you know, a lot of these directors got away from that. And it's, you know, it was all about the,

you know, the action and the pizzazz and all the like CGI and all this. It's like, no, give us a really good story. Okay, and this is exactly what Karate, the what's it called, Cobra Kai? Cobra Kai. Cobra Kai, okay, if you watch it,

it's like the best show, obviously it's whatever, but it doesn't have the best karate, but they did such a good job with the story and such a good job, like, you know, hitting out to the original fans, that it's a classic, now it's a cool classic, and they're coming out with another one, aren't they? Pixar's, I could say, has been consistently,

that's like their main core is about the story. Well, that's what, you know, that's what, how I can't just slip his name, Steve Jobs. Yes, thank you, thank you for that. That's what Steve Jobs credits the success of Apple too, was when he created Pixar, what he learned as far as telling a story, that's in that book story brand.

He talks about that much of the success that Apple had was after he went, he left, and he went and did that. He took a lot of that formula to his advertising and marketing into Apple, and that's what he thinks is responsible for the rise of Apple. Well, marketing is so psychological. In fact, I was watching TV the other day, and for some reason we were watching

the commercials that go along with it. And there was a computer commercial. And there was in a single mention of the performance, the storage, the tech. It was all about how cool it looks in the story behind it. And Jessica and I were laughing, and we're like, this is so funny because what's really important is what it does But the commercial to the specs doesn't say a single thing that was a big switch with Apple so Apple went from talking all about

What the product was capable of doing and all the specs and they went from that and trying to create an avatar of people people That wanted to be different people that didn't want to fit in people that wanted to be different, people that didn't wanna fit in, people that wanted to do walk a different walk. They were just really creative. Wanted to be a different club, and that is what made that thing explode. And if you look at all their billboards and ads, it's always like that.

It's never like does all these features, they don't talk anybody. No, because it would lose, actually. Yeah, yeah. Cause in fact, it wouldn't be like, it would not succeed. Speaking of different, Adam, this boxing trend that's happening right now. Oh my God. Are you guys seeing what's happening? And okay, a lot of our influencer friends and

stuff that we know are guilty of it too. And it's like ever since the, you know, the, the, the brothers, Jake and Logan, Logan, Paul have did the whole boxing call out. Yeah. Like, I think everybody who has somewhat of a falling I now see videos in them like training boxing. Stop it. Yes. Yes. So just watch, dude.

Oh, that's gross. That's gross. Just watch what we see. I mean, tons. Influencer boxing league. So stupid. Yeah. And I don't want to start yet because I don't want the next fans only.

It unfortunate part is like we have friends that are It's like it's got that it's got that crazy that tons of people that we know that we're connected to Um are doing it to now Maybe they just liked it because I hear I like boxing for like a another form of you know unconventional Cardio I like I enjoy I really enjoy the core work that I got from it. Yeah, it was fun. So I'm not like anti that or shooting on anybody that loves to do it for those reasons. I just think it's interesting that you didn't see any of these influencers doing this before and then now that, you know, they've made it popular to call out people. So my prediction,

okay, to hang in there, this is what we're going see next, is you're gonna see more and more of these. Influencers, yeah. Micro influencers, even. You got a hundred thousand followers about that calling out some dude that has 200,000, setting up a fight. Even if they're not gonna sell it on pay-review and be as big as Logan Paul and Jake Paul are,

they at least will do it to get attention to build their following and watch that become like a popular thing. Oh man. Coming year, so. Well, whatever, whatever. I mean. Oh man. Coming year. So whatever. Whatever. I mean, hey, the consumer supported than whatever.

You know, the whole thing about boxing for training, what used to work out, what used to annoy me about that? Because I'm a huge fight fan big. Like I love boxing. I love boxing history. I love wrestling, wrestling history. I mean, real like Greco Roman Olympic style wrestling. Of course, the martial

arts. I've always been a huge martial art fan. And I've always hated the people that when they do martial arts or fight sports for workouts. And so, because what you end up seeing is terrible technique. There's no focus on the skill or technique. It's like hit the bag and sweat. It's just an ice or. Yeah, and it's like, I've done, I haven't done boxing for very long, but I mess with it for a little while. And I don't, the workout part's great, but that's the side effect. I like, I wanted to learn the skill of it.

Well, this is so much skill in boxing. This is why I think our buddies over at Boxingburn had did such a brilliant. Exactly. That was such a brilliant idea because I saw the same thing too. It was like, you were, it became a trend in the fitness space to teach boxing.

And it's like you got people who don't know anything about boxing. Just rabbit punching in the air. I'm just guilty of this, right? So I had clients in mind that they saw it in the gym and that's what the whole, were you whole pads? I said, yeah, I can hold pads. You're gonna have clients that ask for it all the time. Right, so I can hold pads.

And by no means do I have any real good technique in it whatsoever. And so we would do it as a form of cardio. And I just think that there was an opportunity for somebody to create a certification for personal trainers around that and Boxing Burn did exactly that. It's just, I know, I know. There's just so much skill and technique involved in boxing. You don't need, let me put it this way, if you wanna work out and just sweat,

you don't need to box, you can do other stuff. Boxing itself has a skill for someone like me, it's so hard to watch when coaches are teaching it just as a workout and they're not, and I, whatever, of course, to each throw, so it probably sounds like an asshole. But to me, it's like, I value the skill so much, because when you really learn boxing

and when you really study it, I know to the average person, they watch people punch each other. You have no idea how technical it is, like the skill and the technique involved. Well, you do when you watch two people who don't know how to box fight each other. All of a sudden, right?

Oh, I mean, you ever watch a street fight. It's the fucking ugliest thing ever. Oh, man. Yeah, you could see, and it's the slow. It's always, I think it's always comical when you get these two tough guys that talk in big shit. They look all intimidating. Let's go. Let's go And then they start going to the new chess pound and then you watch like it's just luck I will yeah the next look yeah, dude catching like wrist across their forehead

The biggest wine WFC a hammer punches. Oh, I wonder where this is coming from I watched this one video of this, it looked like a 60 year old man who was getting just messed with by some kids, some 20 something year old, and the people watching were warning the kid, they're like, you don't want to mess with him, you don't want to mess with him,

and he kept messing with them, and he takes a swing in the 60 year old, and apparently, once you see what happens, the 60 year old guy used to be a boxer, so he just, he backs up and beep beep. Well I showed you guys that, I don't know, did I talk about on the podcast? I know I talked to you guys about my neighbor,

who is the ex-ranger. I showed you guys that, right? He has a son who's like, he's kind of out there, right? And he came back and he's battling PTSD so they get into it and stuff. And he's got a, he caught video of it on his outside camera. And you know, my dude's like in his 60s.

So he's an older guy and he's not in like great condition or anything like that. But I mean, he's an ex-ranger and one of the things he trained is throwing hands. And so, you know, his voice talking shit. And you see the whole video him being like, trying to make no calm him down. No, no, no. And homeboy shoves him and then throws a punch down.

Dad just steps back, misses a swing, and just one clunk right in the chin, he just flattens him. It's a whole different game. It is. And if you have that skill, and you've talked about it before, that, you know, power is like the last thing you lose.

Maybe you don't have the stamina and to hang in a real fight. But if you learn how about it before that, power is like the last thing you lose. Maybe you don't have the stamina and to hang in a real fight, but if you learn how to throw a punch, the technique, right? You know, communicating it like this, my, you know, connect to people in such a position. It's like throwing a baseball. Like, you know, you can wind up and throw as hard as you want,

but someone who knows how to throw a baseball, they're just gonna be able to throw farther than you with far more accuracy. They don't have to use as much effort either. Yes, you know, because they knows how to throw a baseball, they're just going to be able to throw farther than you with far more accuracy. They don't have to use as much effort either. Yes. You know, because they've mastered the technique of it in the precision of, you know, how to utilize and show your force. Well, here's where it translates into what we do.

I mean, that's the same thing I feel like with big, complex movements. Totally. Yeah. You take a squad or a deadlift, like, you know, as I'm getting older, those movements are getting easier, not because I'm getting that much stronger. It know, as I'm getting older, those movements are getting easier, not because I'm getting that much stronger, it's just that I'm getting better at the technique. I've done it.

Yes. So many hundreds, probably thousands of times now, that I've figured it out, like, how to really move the body, and it just takes a long time to do that. Just like a well-executed, good technique punch is gonna be far more effective than another punch that's just whatever. A well executed, excellent technique squat is going to produce far better results for you

than just go into the bar and squat and do a dig. It's almost like a different exercise. This is why when people tell me squats don't work well for me, deadlifts, I don't like them, they don't really do anything for me. I'm always like, okay, let me see how they look. And what you're doing, because when you do them right and you've got good technique and good practice, they produce a tremendous result, you know, for you.

So, 2021's gonna be the time for sloppy fights. Yeah, that's what it was. I'm sorry. What was that show that was popular for a little while? It was yellow black. The tough guy. Yes, yeah. Was that what it was called?

That's what butterbeam. That's the one where I saw this guy know, just get lit up. And we were all just like, yay. That's what butterbeam came from? Remember butterbeam? Oh yeah, I love butterbeam. He actually became pro.

Yeah, he actually won't do that. Well, what you would see would happen is you'd see a bunch of these like, you know, we can worry your guys that it think they're tough going in there And then everyone's want you see one dude who actually has some skill Go in there and he would just like fighting sucks man like you get in a real he starts throwing real Yeah, it always sounds like a good idea, you know, it's just like Have you been there's way better ways to boost your social media?

Yeah, they can fight so I wanted to up, so you brought up the stimulus checks. We talked to the other day about people leaving California. It's the new year right now, so 2021. I want to make some predictions on the economic side. So what do you see this year happening to like as far as business, stocks, housing, what do you think, what do you think we are in store for for 2020? It all depends, you know, because of all the money

they injected into the economy, all the money they printed, I think you'll see asset inflation. I don't think interest rates are gonna go up anytime soon. Yeah, you have to explain what assets being like houses. No, no, but I explain why economists predict that to happen to the app in layman's terms. Like that's great.

We can say that all day long, but it's like, okay, what does that mean? Yeah, what does that mean? Yeah, what does that mean? So because there's just more money available, even though it's not connected to more productivity or more products, it's just money, right? They just printed money. Because there's more money and it's looser and easier to access with lower interest rates, that means more people are going gonna be able to buy,

especially people who didn't get hit so hard by COVID, they'll be invest and buy more things. So you have more money going in and competing for the same number of houses or stocks. And so you get what's called inflation, meaning the price of houses, the price of stocks will keep going up until they come crashing down because of what they're doing. So I think that we're going to continue to probably see that.

Here's the big if. If the vaccine does its job and you start to see people feel confident, businesses feel confident, things open back up, then I think you're gonna see this huge boom in productivity. People are going back to work and things are fine, but that's a big if. I saw, I just read an article that said that there's some of these guys are predicting

that we are gonna see like the roaring 20s. After everything, right? So after this, all the shutdown, the regulations, regulations everything's lifted and and with the old timing music again Yeah, I don't think it's that part of it But I think it's the the spending the parting the like free for all like I think we're gonna see that How it came after the wrong time. Let's have great depression. Yeah, I'm serious Yeah, well, I mean think about it. It's and it's winding up to be that too because if you okay We history repeats it. We all agree on the be that too, because if you, okay, we have three pieces.

We all agree on the acid inflation, right? I think stocks and housing, I think it's crazy as it may sound, but these, the condo I live in right now is a million dollar condo. It's nothing, dude. It's literally 1,700 square feet, three bedroom, two and a half bath, nothing fancy. I'm attached to somebody else.

And it keeps going up even though supposedly people are unemployed. Right, so I don't think it's too far of a fetch to think that that thing will be 1.5 to $2 million in the next five to 10 years. And that's just crazy to think that. Yeah, it's crazy. And I mean, look, here's a deal. When the stock market is at record highs and yet we supposedly have unemployment and businesses, small businesses going out of business, that doesn't match.

So there's some funny stuff going on. And it's really like, oh, it's not that. I think you hit it. We could expand on it a little bit more is that when you take that much money. So before this stimulus package, the 2 trillion that we did before, and I shared this on the podcast that all the money and the circulation in the United States, like a large percentage of it. 22% of it was created this year. That was before this next 900 billion. So you got to think that 25% of the money that's in circulation right now was created at a thin air, meaning

that it's not attached to any sort of goods or labor. So it's just going into the pockets of the print. And what happens? 80% of those people that get these 600 or 2000, whatever we end up landing on checks, believe it or not, some people will use that check, of course, to feed their families, get their PG&E bills back up. But then there's a big portion of people

that will go by Xboxes, that will buy more things on Amazon, that will just pump it right back into the economy. That's ran by all the rich capitalists people that have already been here. So you're just going to make the rich richer who can go buy a condo for $1.5, $2 million and don't really give a shit. Well, all the investors see this and they're betting on that. So what they're doing is they're investing, investing, investing, knowing that they're going

to continue to, because here's a deal, when things inflate, the way you protect yourself is by buying things or investing in things that will inflate. That will increase. If savings actually is in a situation where there's lots of inflation, saving your money is not necessarily a smart strategy. I hate to say that, but if I have $100 saved

and the value of that money continues to go down because inflation goes up. The reality is I'm losing money. Even though I'm saving money, I'm losing money. And so it's encouraging spending, encouraging buying these things. Intangible assets. Yeah, so it's a weird situation. And O'Peter Schiff is just spinning right now.

Oh, I told you guys, just wait. I'm telling you guys. It's a big crash. For decades. I'll see what I- Are you still watching Bitcoin, too? Did I see it start to come back down again? Yeah, I think people, let me see.

I'll go check it. Yeah, because it was up for a second. I think I got up to 23. Yeah, I was in a coin. Yeah, it was, it was rolling for a minute there, but I think it's coming back down to earth again, isn't it? No, it's, well, it's, it's, it's still high though. Dude.

It's still high. Did you guys know that Apple's still trying to make a car? What do you mean a car? There's still, like a long time ago, they showed like, I think it was on, one of those magazines like, you know, the tech magazines that they were coming out with the Apple car and it was like gonna be electric

and all the stuff and like, so autonomous or whatever you call it where it drives itself. So I guess they're still pursuing that. They're still pursuing a self-driving car. And I guess back in, I don't remember how many years ago it was, but like Elon had actually proposed to Tim Cook to buy Tesla. And this was at like one tenth of their valuation now. Wow.

It missed out on that one. So here's what I'd say, the first company to create a fleet of autonomous cars that you can just access through an app, that company's gonna explode and change the world. So what's your thoughts? I look at Apple, Uber, and Tesla as the leading three. Like, who do you think has the best name? Amazon, I would put up there also.

I would also put up. They haven't said anything that they're gonna do. They're always asleep, aren't they? The reason why I think those other three, because the other three have already been building tech and things in that direction, right? Uber has got the force, right? They've got the connection of the people that would utilize it, the app connection.

That's part of that side of it. I got a, they have the UI down. Yeah. I got a dark horse for you. So what company has mapped out more of the earth in detail? Google. Google already, so if you have this autonomous car, think about the value of everything

that they've already been doing. It's seeing where everything is and having all this issue. I mean, Apple tried, I mean, their maps aren't quite as good as Google's, but they've definitely have it. Yeah, that's gonna be life changing, by the way. But then you have Tesla with the tech and the car

and the ability to communicate to start the software, right? So it's gonna be life changing. No one's going to own cars. I swear to God because Tesla's cars the best, but you know the software and all that, the back end, you know, I would say Apple. Nobody's going to own cars. It'll be cheaper to just call your car, pick you up, drive off, you don't have insurance, you have to pay for gas. I read an article where they were figuring it out. It'll cost something like a thousand dollars a year to be able to travel just by calling your car. That's way cheaper than owning a car, paying for its service and all that stuff.

It's going to change everything when you can do that. Think about the design of cities, the garages that we have, that space is going to be turned into something. Yeah, and work, our entire work environment has changed already. Now imagine we have self-driving cars. When you look at car payments, insurance, washing your cars, gassing your cars, all those things for tight, you can't get away with anything under $5,000 a year. So like if they can figure that out for a thousand,

it's game over. It's a matter of time. It's game and think about the inside of the car, designed right now for the driver. When it's not that and it's just picking you up, it'll be a little lounge. It'll be whatever office. Whatever you want. So this is why I've been on Uber

because I feel like the natural progression to there, to the autonomous driving car, what are we thought? Is the first everybody using Uber, with a driver, with an actual driver. They've got the app, they've got everything. Right, they've already got this break away from you. What I see happening is Uber coming out with a membership that you pay a thousand dollars a year

like you're saying, or whatever fixed number it is, and everybody does the math and goes, holy shit, I can guarantee an Uber card to pick me up everywhere for this, I don't have, that's crazy. Actually, now that I think about it, because what'll probably, because here's the big bottleneck is the regulations, right? Right, so that will be first.

What'll probably happen is they'll say, autonomous cars are fine, however, in the time for the time being, there has to be a driver present. Well, they're doing that. Right. So Uber could do that. Uber could literally say, do you want to be an Uber, you know, whatever, you know, supervisor. Right. So now you're not a driver, but you just got to sit in there. Just in case exactly just in case something happened. That's why I think Uber leads this. Yeah. So yeah, they're already doing this with just in case something happens. That's why I think Uber leads this.

Yeah, so yeah, they're already doing this with semi trucks. And you know, they're starting to basically so they have somebody piloting the truck, but they're letting the steering wheel kind of take over and testing their systems to see how well they perform. That's gonna, you know, autonomous trucks are going to lower the cost of goods. Shipping, you know, like crazy.

And shipping like crazy. It's gonna be in drones from there. Which is all that is just to deliver more shit we can buy. We need more stuff. That's what's gonna happen, dude. They gotta get creative with like pitching stuff at us. They're better be some cool stuff to buy. Oh. Shhh. Quick call.

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It's the motherfucking car. An English landed. Quiqueau. First question is from Anton Alessna. What are your guys favorite workout splits? Don't say full body, well well that wouldn't be a split. Yeah, so. Well, okay, so we're running one right now,

so we should share what we're running right now. Yeah, so, okay, so first and foremost, I'll stand by this, for most people, a full body, three day workout is superior, just works best for most people. That being said, there's some benefits to splits, especially for people who are advanced and who are doing high volume workouts because a full body high volume workout can take two

hours plus. So splitting the body up in that case makes sense. One of my favorite splits is the one that we're doing right now, which you find in maps split. And that is a, it's, it would be called a push pull leg split. So essentially it's a six day a week routine and what you do is day one you work the push muscles which would be chest, shoulders and triceps. The next day would be back biceps and then the next day would be legs and you would probably throw core in there with your legs and then you would repeat that cycle for the next three

days so everybody part is getting it. With a one day break in between or at the end, one of the end or in between. Yeah. I like to do it at the end. So I go six days in and off and then do it again. Right. That's the same thing.

So I love, I love splits like this. And the biggest knock that I have on splits versus full body is just the, the consistency of being able to train five or six days a week. Yeah. And that's, that's why exactly that's that's and that exactly you you miss a day. And now that throws off next week and you got to start you're starting it on a different on a different day. And so something gets less attention than something else.

So one of your your body parts suffer the body part that tends to suffer on most people is the one they like to train the least. It's just natural. This is human behavior. And that's why we always push the full body. Because here's what's great. If you do a two or three day a week full body routine and you miss one day, you're okay.

You just said, don't you still hit the whole body? You still hit the whole body and you still are starting the same place next week without skipping a beat where when you run a split, it just takes a little bit more. Now, that being said, if you or somebody who is religious about going to the gym, five, six, seven days a week and you never miss, then splits are great. There's nothing wrong with that.

Oh yeah, it's fun. Oh yeah, it's fun if you just love like hanging out in the gym all the time. And I get that too. Like it's totally a hangout and it's something people look forward to a lot. So it kind of fits within that culture of it. But yeah, it's funny doing this is such a shell shock on my body because it's just something I don't typically do and it's definitely like for me, it's good to venture outside of my comfort zones and do something like this when my body will respond, you know, great

as a result of it. Yeah, now here's what studies will show and this kind of supports even my experience training people that the total volume for the week that you want to do per body part for most people is anywhere between 10 to 20 total sets. So 10 to 20 total sets seems to be where most people respond the best. Obviously 20 being more for people who are really advanced. Nutrition is good, sleep is good, good recovery ability, 10 more for, you know, beginners and all that stuff. As far as frequency of training the body parts, here's what's interesting. Studies show that the ideal frequency that you should train a body part,

regardless of the total volume. So in other words, even if you control total volume, the body parts respond best to two to three times a week. One time a week, you're gonna gain less strength, less muscle, less results, than if you're training a body part twice a week. So what that means is, if you're gonna gain less strength, less muscle, less results than if you train a body part twice a week So what that means is if you're training Your chest on Monday for 20 sets your better off training chest twice a week 10 sets each time

That two to three times a week seems to produce them and in my my experience This is totally true if if when clients were hitting the whole body However, we broke up the split two to three days a week, we got way better results, even if the volume was totally same. Same thing for me. Well, what I do like also about splits is it's a little bit easier to manage the soreness

and overreaching part because like, so we trained today was our leg day. And it's been four days since I trained legs. And so I've got good enough rest where when we do a like a MAPS and a ball of routine routine, if you overeat on Monday, you're right back there on Wednesday again, so you don't get as much recovery time. So I felt great today lifting where had I had to lift legs again two days ago, well then I would have had to modify my intensity more and lower it because we're I'm hitting it at

more frequently. So I do like that with a split as it gives me a little bit more recovery time before I go up to the most, which also allows me to kind of get after a little bit more. So if you like that, if you like kind of getting after it, you tend to lean that way more where you do more in your workout than you probably should have, splits tend to work out really well for that. That doesn't it doesn't bode well for a full body routine two or three times a week. Yeah, you need to consider the context of everything and be honest with yourself. And again, for most people, just long term, full body just works and persists to the best

results, the best consistency, the best strength, fat loss. Most maps programs have some variation of a full body type approach, but we do have, you know, programs where it's more of that bodybuilder's split, like map split. But again, you're working out six days a week. There's almost one day off, that's it. And I really think almost everybody, I don't care who you are, even if you like splits, if you're getting back into the swing of things, like you've taken a break because of the

holidays, even if it's only been two weeks, like if you've done two weeks or more of a break, that everybody is better off starting with that kind of full body first. Sure. And the reason why it's okay for us to move into the split where we are now is that's how I was training by myself before you guys and we got together. I was training one to two days a week full body and that's what was maintaining me kind of where I was at. Now when we all got together and started working out, I can transition into that and be okay. If I would have jumped, like I had, let's say I hadn't worked out in a month or two,

jumping into this split routine, you guys would be, you guys would have, and you still got me, like I'm probably the source that are the three of us because I've been training at the probably the least amount of volume and just these workouts alone where we've had two or three exercises for a muscle group. I mean, that's so much more that I've done in a workout in a long time that I'm really sore.

Next question is from Carlos V. U.S. What do you do on a rest day when you want to go to the gym? Yeah, yeah, you know, rest, I used to think, I used to think rest meant nothing, I do nothing, like, I go to sit on the couch

and let my muscles build or whatever. The reality is that's actually slowing down recovery and slowing down progress. No joke, you're better off moving to recover than you are doing nothing. The only time it's a good idea to do nothing is when you're really messed up. Like you're so sore that you're inflamed,

borderline, rabdo, you know, issues, then do nothing. Otherwise, a rest day, the best thing you can do on a rest day is to move. So if I went to the gym, if I really want to work out, if I want to lift weights on my rest day, here's what I would do. I'd go to the gym and get a real light pump on things. That's all.

Just go to the gym, but take some rubber bands. I love those for that reason, and just go through mobility flows. That's a lot you can do. And again, activity, it helps to foster a faster recovery anyways. And so you get benefit from that. It's good to train yourself too, that you can go to the gym and you don't have to smash it every single time. There's a lot you can do.

And there's a lot of body parts that you can cover even on those off days. I like talking about this topic because I was so off when I was younger. When I was younger, I had this idea that if I was still sore, that it would be a waste of time going in and lifting that muscle group. Because my thought was, okay, I tore and broke down muscle. My body's sore, so then I know it's still recovering and hasn't fully recovered.

If I go back in the gym and I just train it again, then I'm just gonna do more damage and I'm not gonna get the full benefits of the recovery. And so my thought was always like, oh, I won't train that muscle group again until I feel it's been fully recovered. And the truth is, that's not ideal. In fact, going and lifting that same exact muscle

that soar, but just a much lower intensity will not only speed up recovery, but I'll build more muscle that way. And so now I have just a total different philosophy around that. So if I come into a training session and I'm really sore in an area that I was planning on working, I'm still working, I just modify intensity. So I just, I mean, if you can squat 200, 300, 400 pounds, there's nothing wrong with squatting 135 for the day. There's nothing wrong with slowing down the tempo, going really deep and just getting a nice pump.

I mean, honestly, our our leg workouteg workout salinized today looked more like that because I still was recovering from the last one. I wasn't fully, so I was like, I don't need to go hammer it really hard, but I do want to get a nice pump and get a workout. So, you know, I'm doing goblets, squats, holding a 70 pound, that's nothing. If I can squat 300 plus pounds,

you know, doing goblets, squats with 70 pounds, holding that, or walking lunges, what do we do with locking lunges? It's like 67 pounds? Nothing, it wasn't really, really stringy, but I know it'll be good. I feel already the pump from it. I know that all my body will respond to it. I know that I'll recover even faster because of it,

but I didn't have to go in there and hammer it. In fact, sometimes I purposely do that when a muscle group is too sore. Sometimes when it's really, really sore, I'll grab some bands and do some light movement, and it just recovers faster. It facilitates recovery. And I feel much better. The next question is from the Murphy motive, how do you know if you're too sick to work out? What symptoms and how severe must they be to know that you shouldn't work out?

Good rule of thumb is obviously if you have a fever, don't work out. Anytime you run a temperature, don't do any exercise, exercise temporarily, depresses or suppresses the immune system. And you can actually kick an illness into high a gear. I've done this many times myself, where I'm definitely sick. And then I go in the gym, stubbornly, take some caffeine, push through a workout,

and I got way sicker the day after. Here's the other rule of thumb that I say, if you're feeling kind of not good, you don't have a temperature, do things in the gym or at home that are making you feel better. So that might look like a walk outside. Stretching. Stretch, sauna.

Yeah, yeah. So I don't do that anymore. Like if I at all feel even under the weather, I'm not trained. You just learned to lessen so much. Yeah, exactly. Because there's been many times where I'm like, am I getting sick?

I don't feel great, but I think I'm fine. I'm gonna go training, because I'm in a rhythm, right? I'm in a rhythm with my training. I don't wanna miss it. You know, and so I go. And I would say more often than not, I go in, I train, and then I get really sick afterwards. It's worse symptoms as a result of training. And the way I look at it is, you know,

if I don't get sick that often, so it's very rare. And if that happens in the middle of me being consistent and I'm feeling under the weather, honestly, what I do now is how you're the one that got me using the elderberry, I know I was messing with. Yeah, the elderberry, I know I always mess with it. Yeah, the elderberry, the zinc and the vitamin C, like I start to, and hit in the green juice with the organifile, I start pounding that, drinking tons of water, I stay home for

a couple of days, and what I have found trying to do things like that, I end up either getting a very mild cold if one at all, or end up beating it two or three days on back to training harder. It almost seems these days even now, how conscious you have to be about any kind of symptoms or anything just stay home, you know? Let's keep these gyms open if we can, but yeah, you gotta go through it to really realize it.

You're not getting a whole lot of benefit by just pushing through. It just doesn't take you through whatever plateau you think you're gonna have. Well, you just have to look at the risk for a specific reward. One to two workouts being missed is not gonna lose a bunch of gains. You're no more, are you gonna make a bunch of gains from one or two workouts? But what can really set you back is getting so sick, you feel miserable, you don't want to walk in the gym for a week,

and your diet's off and everything. That could set you back pretty good. I can't tell you how many times I've done that. We're at me too. We're all like, I get no rest because maybe I'm on a trip or something, and I get home and I'm exhausted, but I'm supposed to work out. I'm like, I feel like I'm kind of getting sick, and I haven't gotten good sleep. You know what I'm gonna do?

I'm gonna take a pre-workout and go eat a menu. And then the next day, I'm like, done, I'm fucked. And then I'm sick for a week. I just wanted people to tell me all the time they would go in the steam room or sauna to try and sweat it out. Well, sauna's got some benefit potentially. Now, the problem is if you have a bad fever

and you go in the sauna, that's definitely. But the sauna itself, steamy kind of, it's almost like giving your body a fake artificial fever. Yeah, and it can actually boost your immune system, but you have to use it pretty intelligently. If you're super sick, don't go in there. It makes your best out. Next question is from iron Mikey 19. What did 2020 teach you? Oh, God, a lot of stuff. I'll tell you the biggest thing I learned was that for sure, lizard people are running the world.

Oh, every conspiracy I've ever heard, where there were in a The biggest thing I learned was that for sure, lizard people are running the world. Do every conspiracy I've ever heard that there were in a video game? Yeah, like, like, just, yeah, I kind of thought it, but now I know for sure, like this is, there's a bunch of weird shit going on. Yeah, 2020 made me despise politics even more than I already did.

I thought you couldn't hate it more. I thought I hated it. Yeah, I thought I already hated it on enough, but yeah, after 2020, I hate it even more. I couldn't believe people could get so tribal again. Like it was just so fascinating to watch, how easily people just are manipulated. Yeah, it's crazy.

For me, I mean, okay, all joking aside, and this is a lesson that anytime something's challenging, I think is there for you. Doesn't mean you're going to learn it. And that's acceptance. Acceptance is just constant, right? You accept every single moment. And 2020, I had to, you know, I'm a bit of a hyper-conductor, right?

And so what were we dealing with, a pandemic? And so initially, I was very anxious about it. And so I had to accept that. And so I had to accept that. And then I had to accept that I'm not going to be able to travel and do certain things. And I had to accept that I couldn't see family members as much as I wanted to. And just over and over again, I had to accept kind of things as they were. But it is a valuable lesson because life, you know, and this is me being like, you know, super wise about it, but the reality is I struggle with it. But the wise part of me is like, look, you know, life is about accepting what you can't control.

Anything can happen. And I think that was very, very much displayed, you know, 2020 was just nobody's not coming, you know, but guess what? That's life, you know, you got to just always know there's uncontrollables that could happen at any moment. And we were definitely living and you go back and appreciate where you were leading into that year. Yeah, I really took away was I value human connection on another level than I probably ever did. I miss our staff being here on a daily basis. I didn't, we have this virtual business now

and it made me realize how much I don't want that. I don't want a business that's ran where all the people that work for it can zoom in and Skype and stuff like that. I don't want to see. It's not the same. Half of what makes this business fun and enjoyable is actually creating jobs for all these people,

seeing them work every single day in a fitness business that's fun and I like to think that we're fun bosses to work with and for. And so yeah, I really missed it. And plus it's really hard to build a culture and motivate people. This is business has slowed down the last three to four months and it's normally when you get your people in here, you can kind of rally the troops and get them fired up

and motivated to like really take it up to then take it up a notch. It's really hard to do over a Zoom call to to make that type of same connection that you make that I would make when I would walk with a staff member outside for 10 minutes and talk about their family and what's going on with them. Like it's just not the same doing that over a telephone or a Zoom call. So I really value that. And that's on the work side. And then also I value that more now than ever with the family side. Like so it definitely kicked up my communication with all my siblings and family.

So I'm talking more to them than I ever have because I miss them. I miss being able to get together and it be okay that all of us congregate in the same house and hang out and be together. So I find myself valuing that more. And so when we kind of get out of this, I think that I'll make an effort as like one of the leaders in the family to try and get us together more often

because you never know when it could disappear and we can't. So it taught me that. It also taught me too. Like luckily, I've kind of gone and I've shared this in the podcast like my, you know, my story with finances like my insecurities of it early in my life and then working so hard to get to a certain point and then trying to, you know, or spending all my money to look the part of being very successful to kind of coming full circle where, you know, now I'm almost like a miser, right?

So I feel like this, you never know when something like this is going to happen and part of why this time didn't really stress me out as much as I've had some friends and people connected to me was because I was prepared for it. You know, financially I was. Financially I have been better with my money in the last five to eight years than I ever have. And honestly where we were, like looking at the worst case scenario we could have, and oh my god, nobody buys any mind pump programs anymore.

Listener stop listening, will I be okay? And the reality was like, yeah, it would be totally fine. It would be all right, it would suck. But I wouldn't be wondering how we're gonna pay our bills or keep things going. So, you know, just taught me the value of that of making sure that, you know, you're not living this paycheck to paycheck

and you're thinking that, you know, even if it's a great ride right now and money's coming in and you're doing well, that can all end in a single snap of the fingers. And so to be thinking that with forward thinking always and that thinking that this could end, I think that a lot of people were woken up with that that are especially your entrepreneurs out there that were operating businesses that did not have enough income to go. And that, you know, it's a hard thing to say to somebody who is really struggling

to keep their lights on right now. But that is one of the things that, you know, a lot of the economists were saying was just like, man, you know, as a country, we've been taught to that, you know, debt is totally okay and living paycheck to paycheck and on credit cards. And, you know, it's fine. We're just a different, it's different today

than it was in our parents' time. You know, like, I remember hearing that Dave Ramsey conversation about his lesson from his dad who would, you know, he would be, they would be hammering, or pulling apart nails from a deck. And his dad would be saving the nails, you know. Cause he doesn't know if he'll, cause he came from the Great Depression time

of when he couldn't even afford to buy a nail. And so just having that mentality where you would just throw that away today, right? So, you know, trying to, trying to reframe things like that just because things are good financially free of time is to not get out of control with your spending and thinking that it'll never end. In fact, having a mindset that this could in tomorrow. And if it were to what should I be doing with my finances? Very good.

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