Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 1468: How to Deadlift with Dumbbells, 75 Hard Challenge Review, Ways to Improve Explosiveness & Agility & More

Episode Date: January 15, 2021

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about tips for deadlifting with dumbbells instead of barbells, thoughts on the 75 Hard Challenge, good starter exercises to become more explosive and agile, and how to tell the difference between hip and foot instability. Butcher Box’s Keto Bundle is CRAZY! (4:20) The latest updates on the guy’s diets, strategies, and the mental challenges they are facing. (6:03) The differences between men and women and how they respond to resistance training. (19:19) NASA’s bold plan to protect Earth from asteroids. (23:05) Young kid busted for throwing a rave in his school bathroom. (28:15) How the guys are enjoying the current phase their sons are in. (30:37) Organifi’s newest product is shown to boost libido in women. (37:52) Sal’s mall walk miscalculation. (40:23) #Quah question #1 – What tips or advice do you have for deadlifting with dumbbells instead of barbells? (44:12) #Quah question #2 – What are your thoughts on the 75 Hard Challenge? Are “all or nothing” fitness challenges healthy or are they problematic? (47:58) #Quah question #3 – What are some good starter exercises to become more explosive and agile? Is going lighter on the compound and focusing on speed a good place to start? (53:27) #Quah question #4 - How can you tell the difference between hip and foot instability? (56:31) Related Links/Products Mentioned January Promotion: MAPS Fitness Starter Bundle 50% off! Visit Butcher Box for this month’s exclusive Mind Pump offer! Sanctuary Beach Resort | Monterey Bay, CA Hotel on The Beach Mind Pump #955: John Brenkus- 6x Emmy-Award Winning Creator, Host, & Producer Of Sport Science Dissimilar perceptual response between trained women and men in resistance training to concentric failure: A quasi-experimental study Comparing the effects of 12 months aerobic exercise and resistance training on glucose metabolism among prediabetes phenotype: A explorative randomized controlled trial NASA reveals asteroid is heading for 'near Earth' approach tomorrow YouTuber creates real-life ‘Star Wars’ lightsaber that slices steel 12 Year Old Legend Busted For "Throwing A Rave In His School Bathroom" Bear Wants More (The Bear Books) Visit Organifi for the exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Code “mindpump” at checkout** @mindpumpadam Single-Leg Deadlift with dumbbells  GROW Your GLUTES with a SINGLE LEG DEADLIFT! The 75 Hard Challenge - 75 Hard Challenge MAPS Fitness Prime Pro | Muscle Adaptation Programming System MAPS Prime Pro Webinar Mind Pump Podcast – YouTube Mind Pump Free Resources People Mentioned Andy Frisella MFCEO (@andyfrisella)  Instagram Alex Whitehair (@realgame.athletics)  Instagram Justin Brink DC (@dr.justinbrink)  Instagram

If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, with your hosts. 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 today's episode, we answer fitness and health questions. We actually answer four of them that are asked by our audience. But the way we open the episode is by talking about our sponsors

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In a hole before you guys went hiking. It's right Not that why remember when you guys are limping back on the house. Oh, man. Did you hear it? That was some of the bushes. What was that for? The one where the chick cuts the dude's face off. Whoa, my God. Hunter, hunter. Yes, hunter, hunter. Did you see that, you heard?

What? I don't know why she cut this part. Hey guys, great review. It was like a 95% on Rotten Tomatoes or something. Yeah, some high. Why'd she cut the guy's face off? Well, we're just kind of a spoiler. Yeah, I'm not going to ruin that room by, yeah.

We're kind of already dead. It's like we're all builds up to. Dude's face gets face off. Well, we're just kind of a spoiler. Yeah, I'm not going to ruin that root boy. We're kind of already did. It's like we're all builds up to dudes face kids cut off. Yeah, it was just why was not expecting that. He promised her head. He never delivered. So she's like, Oh, I'll get it. Oh, God. One way or another. Wow. Yeah. I'm on fire today. Yes, we are. Hey, well, speaking to me, you know, I got an email from our one of our our sponsors, right? So Butcherbox is by far one of our favorite companies that we work with. And what I love is they're always rotating promotions. And so the most current thing for us to talk about

for them is this keto bundle that they give us. Wait, wait, wait, with keto bundle? Yeah. As opposed to the high carb. That's exactly where I'm going with this. Yeah, there's a car. At first I was like, oh, that's cool. That's a really clever idea. They should do that, right?

And then I'm like, wait a second. Everything they have is meat. Yeah, what is not keto? But they got people's attention. Hold on, Doug's pulling it up. Yeah, what's it up? Wow, that is crazy. So here's what you get in the keto bundle.

You get up to 10 pounds of high quality meat. So pork butt, bone and chicken thighs, and ground beef, free in your first box. Oh wow. Holy shit. Well, I was just gonna say, if Justin was a meat, which one would he be? I mean, that's free accurate.

He's the pork butt. He eats a lot of butt. So I don't love you now. I haven't tried the pork butt actually, is it good? Doug, don't wipe your face. There's too much. Too much for Doug. This intro's already gotten off to Greast.

No seriously, have you guys tried the pork butt? Cause I haven't yet. No. I think Doug cooks it a lot, right? I have. And actually Courtney is always making that up in Trekkie. Oh, I have pork. Oh, that's what it's from.

Yeah. And you do that in the pressure cooker. Yes. Oh, I gotta do that. Did she make that the last time we were up there? Yeah. Mm-hmm. Was that what I was gonna lie there, right?

Did I miss? Oh, that was the day I missed when I went over to see Tom and my sister. Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay. Sometimes she doesn't have that. Sometimes she doesn't have that. Like with smoke or she'll do it like with barbecue sauce.

Oh, that's the way it's good. Amazing. Now, okay, so both you two right now, what's diet looking like at home? So now we're rolling right now, we're beyond a month, right? Or at least I'm coming at you guys are both ahead of me. I'm at the one month mark, right? You always want to be the underdog by the way.

I do, I do, I do better that way, for sure. So everybody knows. Okay, just so everybody knows what time it is. I'm a couple of weeks behind these guys right now. So yeah, so what's wife cooking right now? Does she change the menu for you right now? Or do you just go from like a block of cheese, a data hack, a half a block of cheese a day?

It's all you love. You guys paint that picture of mine. That's diet. It's good. It's almost accurate. I was gonna say, I don't dare. It's not very far off. No, I do eat a lot of meat, obviously.

That's one of those things though that, you know, we've been just making that more of the centerpiece. And I really haven't straight too far. It's pretty boring. I'll just do meat and then any carb that we put in there is gonna be rice or potatoes. It's like our two options. So whatever we assemble that together to make,

so is nothing really changed in for you or is this different? Is anything different, right? No, just the amount of calories I'm consuming is greater. So, oh, so you bump in calories. I mean, bump in calories, yeah. Mainly like I said in the morning, and then also I've added way protein shake

before I start driving over here to work too. How's going on? It's like opposite land. You look leaner because you've added calories. Well, I don't know. I guess I'm just more, I'm more, honestly, I'm like way more active right now. Oh, okay. Yeah, and like this whole weekend was like, a testament to that, like I seriously don't even sit

now anymore, I'm just like running around doing a million things and being productive. Oh, you went to Saint-Sewary this weekend too, right? Yeah, how did you like that? Oh, that place is amazing, dude. Yeah, I had no idea. It's kind of funny because, funny, because there's part of me that doesn't really like to get pampered.

I have a hard time with it. I was like, they drive you to your place and everything and all this. And so I don't know, Bellman and all that. I'm uncomfortable with all that kind of stuff. So these unloading all these things into it. What do I do? Do I help them? Do I have five of them in the kitchen? Or do I give them a $5 things into what do I do? Do I?

Yeah, do I do? Do I have five of them in the kitchen? Or do I give them a $5 tip? What do I do right here? Exactly. All these things were run through my head. And so he's like unloading all of our stuff. And we brought the dogs with us.

So we had a bunch of stuff. But then there was like this one thing that Courtney was bringing back for a exchange for a present for Ethan that just didn't go well. It was like this big Lego thing that we got for him. And so it was a box of that. And so he goes and he grabs it and he's like putting it in. And we're like, oh, no, no, no, no, that's, you know, that's not for for this.

And he's like, I don't know what you guys are into or anything. But I was like, oh yeah, that's our thing. We just like build Legos together. We get moments time, you know, alone. Like we just, you know, we, I just, you know, romantic, you wait to buy one sex toy, or you get a box of Legos, and it's a lot of different.

Build their own sex toys. You just invented it. I just envision Justin, like the bellman, at waiting there for a tip, and just slap someone they ask for like a good game. Yeah. Way to go. Good job.

Supernate your curls at the top, you're gonna get a better peak. Yeah, no, it was a me. I was a fitness tip. Yeah. I said, I was, dude, waking up to waves crashing like that and everything. It's like, you can't beat that, dude.

No. It was funny, though, because this girl was out there kind of setting up and was out there first thing in the morning and she was very possessive of the area. It was like, well, the chairs were and everything. She was kind of looking around all the time. So me and Courtney were sitting there watching the wave, drinking coffee, and we're trying to like speculate,

like, who is this lady, like this crazy lady that is like occupying all this, and like, kind of set up for like some party she's gonna have there. So she's like, and then she takes out these blocks that are all color, and she's like throwing them in certain spots. Outdoor yoga.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. But we didn't get to that conclusion until it started happening, sort of making all these scenarios for it. And she was just setting up her yoga class. But I thought she was just some psychotic, you know, crazy Karen lady. She's doing some beach prayer. Yeah, this is my spot.

Man, like, he claim all this. Purple block is mine. This is mine. You're over here. Did anybody show up for it? Yeah, actually, there was like four, four ladies that showed mine. Yes, this is mine. You're over here. Did anybody show up for it? Yeah, actually, there was like four ladies that showed up. Yeah, dude, I love stretching on the beach. I love it.

It's a perfect spot for it, man. You get a great view there. It's the only time I like stretching. Yeah, who's that? Yeah. No, diet for me, also working in the opposite. I have reduced or I think reduced my calories and gaining weight.

I don't know how this is happening to me. It's very strange. We ate myself yesterday and I was like, oh, it went up. What the fuck? I think we're not supposed to. Well, I think we're just not. We're not moving very much.

Dude, I'm really, exactly, I've overestimated how many calories I think I'm burning because aside from the one hour workout I do in the morning, the rest of the day is no activity. I'm not moving, you know? I mean, I'm going a walk here and there, but it's just not much. I need to either bump it up or cut my food down even more. Yeah. Now, what is each of your strategies right now? Like, you guys have a focus, like what

you're doing, like as far as building right now, like right now, Justin, like, resist that without all costs, right? He's not trying to do anything aesthetically, but what's the game plan right now? Or do you even have one? You just kind of get more things. I actually do it aesthetically, but what's the game plan right now, or do you even have one? You just kind of go over it. I usually do it in phases, so I'll first reduce and then eliminate processed foods, not eating out as much, so right now I'm not eating out as much as all at all. Then I'll start to cut down on breakfast, then the next meal will be lunch, then eventually dinner, and then the final thing I tend to reduce is the weekends. That's usually the way I scale things.

I don't like to go all in all at once. It just, it doesn't feel right when I do it that way. Yeah, I've been trying to really be reasonable about, you know, not just going all in on the intensity, but even though I want to, I'm certain it feel really good and feel energetic and, you know, have a propensity then to like really get crazy in the workouts.

And so I've been like, I've been trying to be a little more reserved with that because I do feel like certain aches, pains, and joints will come up and then I'm like, the next workout I'm trying to be mindful of that. But honestly, I'm just trying to be consistent and keep enjoying what I'm doing and slowly reduce the kind of garbage food that makes its way in and reduce the

amount of alcohol I've been drinking. It's really much of a slow scale for me of trying to get my way to the now, I'll put more intensity maybe in a month or two towards really dieting down. Yeah, you Adam, did you start by cutting out candy? No, I haven't had had candy a long time. Yeah, I've definitely changed a lot right now. So like you, Sal, I eat out quite a bit. So we're prepping again, right? So we're not actually at a point where we're doing

like a big prep on Sundays, like when I get really dialed in, I'll start meal prepping on one weekend day for the entire week. But we are meal prepping in the sense that we are eating more meals from home than we are eating out. So we're using the Insta Pot and kind of cooking in bulk. So I have meals that are ready for me. That's probably the big thing.

And then adding, right? So for me, what I'm notorious for is when I get to this place where I'm not really paying attention in tracking food, I'm not really trying to change my physique and I just kind of eat when I'm hungry, I actually, you know, real quickly, I'm, we'll only eat once to twice a day and grossly under eat protein and, you know, muscle falls off my body and I tend to put on body fat, that's kind of like my MO. And so the first major switch for me is just making sure that I'm getting that protein in,

and it starts by getting up and having a breakfast early, which is what I normally wouldn't be doing. I normally would wait till one, two clock in the afternoon to have my first meal. So by now, I'm probably gonna have two meals to three meals by that time. So I'm ahead of my protein targets and then just really cutting out the fast food stuff, right?

So I'm not doing anything like that that would eat fast food, but just having delivery food like door dash to my household time, right? Just like a control. I can control what's coming in up, but I'm not even tracking it. So I'm one month in, there's no tracking it.

Like I normally would do with steps, there's no tracking it. Like I normally would do with steps, there's no tracking of calories burn, there's no tracking of intake. I'm just making better choices, making sure I hit my protein intake. So food is, you know, food is kicking up, at least food that I make is kicking up. And then consistent training,

I haven't been this consistent with lifting as far as how many days per week now for a long time since for sure after competing. After competing in the Tornacheelies, I would say a good week, I would hit three, four times a week of training where I'm training six days a week consistently right now. You say that like that, right? And I do, I have this, I definitely flipped a switch. Once I've decided, like, okay, I'm all in,

I'm gonna transform my body right now. But the difference now at almost 40 compared to 22 is a switch gets flipped, but I don't allow that to drive my intensity and obsession with like, much smarter, slower approach. Like, you know, just this last week, I definitely, you guys are a little ahead of me, so I see you guys moving more weight than I'm moving right now. And so there's the ego inside of me wants to like, oh, stack on some more weight. And,

you know, I was, I bailed on 315 on squats this weekend was really frustrated, frustrated because I feel weak. I don't feel that strong yet. And as I should, I mean, I've barely been consistently training right now. And now my hips are talking to me, you know, and I know better. And they don't lie. Yeah. So, you know, you know, and so I'm still guilty of overreaching and doing stupid shit like that, but I'm much quicker to reel it in. Like, you know, already this week I've adjusted

and said, okay, like, you know, more mobility will be involved this week. I won't go super heavy, bump the reps up one thing. It's so mental, isn't it? Yeah. You know what the challenge for me is that when I go from being heavier to trying to get leaner is I like being strong. So I hate seeing, like I can get addicted to the strength.

And what happens when you get leaner, especially if you've been working out for a long time, is you tend to lose some strength on the bar. And that makes it a mental game. It's such a mental game. Like this weekend, I was at home squatting on Saturday and I squatted four plates. I haven't squatted that in a long time.

I granted, I don't have the mobility to go astagrass, but it was okay squat was decent. Still, I haven't loaded the bar with four plates in a long time. And so it's hard for me to like start to reduce my weight and then watch that come down at the same time. So I know it has to happen. I don't think I'll be able to maintain that kind of strength by cutting, but it's such

a mental game. It's like I have to mentally, I have to completely forget about the weight that I'm lifting, and it's all about aesthetics. Otherwise, I end up staying the same, because like, oh, I get a little weaker bump up calories. Oh, I'm not losing weight. Cut the calories. This back and forth, I end up staying the same place. There's also this side that, you know, I didn't really fully understand this until competing.

When you're in a deficit and you're trying to lose, you're trying to cut, your glycogen levels are depleted. You're just not gonna be strong. You're not only gonna be not strong because you're depleted there, but you're also gonna look flat and smaller. Before you actually get lean,

you just look smaller. Oh yeah. It's like that in-between phase of a haircut. You know what I'm saying? It's like it just sucks. It's too early to get a haircut type of deal. It's the same concept as you're coming down. You know you're doing the right things

by being a core deficit, but what sucks is also and you see strength grow. And then when you don't have all that glycogen in those muscle bellies, they look smaller. So you'll look like all of a sudden out of nowhere, you've lost kind of muscle and the way your physique looks in that transition, sometimes, and I remember before competing, right, when it mattered and I had to get on stage and

present a lean physique, what would happen to me as a kid or a young adult training like this, is I would see my strength go down, I would see my muscle belly's all flat, and then that would freak me out, and then I would reverse it. And I can never stick through to see the cut all the way through because I would be playing these mental games going like, oh my god, like this sucks. I'm supposed to be getting leaner and looking better, but I'm looking worse and a weaker. Forget that.

I'd rather put the calories back in. I looked better last week than I did right now. And so I think a lot of people go through that and maybe don't even realize that they're on the right track, they're doing the right things, but you're in this in-between phase and you got to stay the course and trust the process. Yeah, that's why you can't fall in love with one or the other. You go too extreme.

You know, if you fall in love with getting strong, you're going to push injuries. This is what's going to end up happening. You just keep pushing the weight. And if it's all about aesthetics and you tend to over-diet or over-trained, so you got to figure out how to go from one to the other, it's the transitioning for me that's always tough. Well, once I transition, then I'm fine. And right now I'm like, loving the strength, so I'm like,

damn, I don't want to lose that strength. Yeah, I feel you on that. I can get addicted to strength. You know, when I'm there and I'm feeling like I'm going to be PR-ing and it's really hard to transition and be smart about that But you know age does help I think it's like now kind of like getting back into the rhythm of things It's like okay, that's my that's the first thing I'm thinking of and then I'm trying to be you know Conscious of that the whole way through speaking of resistance training

I've been reading a lot of these kind of Studies on the differences between men and women and how they respond to resistance training. And there's a few studies that point to the fact that there may be some general difference. And again, as a trainer, so this is, as a personal trainer, these are interesting studies, but when I train someone, I always look at the individual. It really doesn't matter to me because what matters to me is how the individual is responding, whether they're male, female, beginner, intermediate, advanced doesn't matter.

But they are still fascinating. So what some of these studies are showing is that men respond better to intensity and women may respond better to volume when it comes to training. Too much intensity with women can cause negative effects and too much volume with men can cause the negative effect. Now, is there any sort of a bias there because that's kind of what naturally happens anyways as far as like if you look at what people gravitate towards? No, they're looking.

Did you read all the controls? Yeah, they're looking at just in terms, so they were examining absolute muscle and strength gains but they were also examining absolute muscle and strength gains, but they're also examining relative strength and muscle gains. Relatives important because, if you're dealing with, let's say, 140 pound woman, absolute strength and muscle gains are going to be much smaller than a man. But if you compare it, if you look at it from a relative standpoint, because she's so much

smaller to begin with, then they can start to kind of figure things out a little bit. And so when you look at it from that standpoint, the studies show that women tend to, again, do better by reducing intensity, increasing volume, and men can respond better to intensity. Just reminds me of that conversation we had with that sports science guy, who was talking about like the advantages of like,

maybe endurance sports versus explosive sports, you know, that women might actually have an advantage in some aspects of endurance. Well, what about the bias of that, like, okay, at least in my experience as a trainer, many, if not most, all of the female clients that I trained, most of them were grossly under-consuming. So if you're also grossly under-consuming,

you're not hitting your nutrient targets on a daily level. And then you also add an intensity training in there. I would think that would throw off your hormone levels more so than it would a man, especially since they're less susceptible to that. Well, yeah, and I don't know if they control for that. It's a very good point. Here's the other thing too,

like fastings, skipping nails and stuff like that. Men tend to be more resilient to the potential negatives of that, whereas women, we're also tend to not have some negative effects. When they push it too hard, so it is interesting, something to pay attention to, but again, at the end of the day, when you're listening to this information, don't just blindly apply it to yourself.

Like if you're a man and you're listening to this, you're like, whoa, the study said that, man, respond well to intensity, so I'm just gonna hammer myself or vice versa. It's really what's important is on an individual basis how you're responding. It really doesn't matter what the studies say when you're training yourself or if I'm training a client. I look at the person, how are they responding, what seems, because I've definitely trained

women that do great with lower volume higher intensity and vice versa. There's always that range there. But it is fascinating, right? It is kind of interesting. And along those lines, it did stumble upon studies that were just continued, continue to show the benefits of resistance training. Some studies are now showing that actually may be more in comparison to cardio on their own resistance training seems to be better for heart health than just cardiovascular training. You know, it's the best though, of course. Both.

Yeah, study show a little bit about both is probably the best overall. But yeah, resistance training used to be cardio was the one for the heart, but they're showing that the lifting weights has more of a heart protective, you know, health effects than just cardio. So interesting. Yeah, kind of interesting.

Very cool. You guys wanna take a left. So interesting. Yeah, kind of interesting. You guys wanna take a left here real quick? Yeah, really? So, yeah, no, I was, did you know that NASA has a plan for asteroids? If there's one coming, have you heard of this plan, Justin? I probably have a long time ago, but refreshing. Yeah, let me find it real quick.

So apparently they have a, like a whole step by step plan. Okay. To if they identify an asteroid is coming close to earth. This is like the Air Force involved like actually space force now. No, it's kind of interesting. Okay. So number one, here's the first things that happen. They send out a message to 12 scientists. I don't know who these 12 scientists are. The 12th. Yeah, but there's 12 scientists that NASA has deemed the emergency, like the people to hear, the first people to hear that there's an asteroid that may be colliding with the Earth at some point, right? So that's the number.

Number two, they get that. Then what they do is they track its path. Then they calculate the size and time of impact. Then they confirm with FEMA that it's inevitable. So they tell FEMA, hey, look, this is for sure going to happen. We've got our guys looking at our girls and we're gonna throw nukes at it. Then they, no. Then they issue the public statement and then the public statement goes out.

And then here are the things that they look at to potentially deflect an asteroid. So here are the ways. One are lasers. Yes. Laser. Yes. Now, you know what the lasers are doing? No. They're not blowing it up with a laser. Oh, It's just like guiding it or like tilting it off its axis

So they're heating up one side so so moves it just yeah, it changes its trajectory I think you get it like far enough away then they'll change the trajectory enough to where do we have an intense enough laser Do that I have no idea. That's a good question And where are you in space? You're meeting with the laser? A million people with pen lasers. Are you up on the moon? And like they have like some huge laser beam. How can you question that? We have lightsabers now, bro. I know. Did you see that? I should know that. You didn't know that. Oh, it's the guy that built it. He built it. Oh, pull it up. I'm clearly engineered. My son showed me this. Oh, he saw it. Yes. But it cuts like steel. Like plasma or something. Yes.

Yeah, it goes right through a melt, melts. It's so big and heavy though, the thing is getting burned. No, no, no me. They're gone. Yeah. I was trying to shoot him. I'm outta here. Here's the second thing that, another way they could deflect it, hitting it with a spacecraft, detonating a bomb next to it, and then here's another one, spacecraft orbiting around it. So anything that changes the, if they shouldn't change it just enough to where it misses the earth, yeah.

That, so much better. How did you like to be on that crew? Yeah, it's been around the. Ultimate. Yeah, it's been around the ultimate. Yeah, it's been around the thing Yeah, so what what happens if something like that hits us? So do we like completely implode or does it just take out what the I mean it obviously decides depends on the size right? Oh, dude. Yeah, it's you can't a strapping yeah Yeah, I did see my my son showed me this so my my son apparently he watches this channel with this guy that builds all these different things. Look at that. And that's fascinating. And how does it, okay, so it has like some kind of rod that goes all the way up to determine

how long it is. Yeah, I have no idea. Yeah, and then like the plasma heats. What if he drops it on himself? Some kind of coil. Yeah, I didn't see the inner workings of it, but I just saw it, dude. It literally is a lightsaber. I'm still baffled by it. Yeah, it's pretty fascinating. Well, if he's got that, I wonder what the military has, huh? Oh, yeah. Right.

Very, very interesting. Yeah, no, Adam, if it hits, if an asteroid that's like a mile wide, I think hits the earth, then I think people within a certain vicinity are just vaporized, and then the rest of the earth just goes, the temperature changes enough because of the... We turn into Mars. The debris that flies up and deflects the sun. Like instantly, or is it like,

would it be like a gradual thing? I think instantly you have X amount of millions, hundreds of millions of people that die who are like, you know, like if you're up, right? All you're up, Eastern you're up, Middle East gone. And then countries on the other side of the earth will feel the impact, but still be alive. But then it'll get dark, and then the plants will die, and then the animals eat the plants will die, and then there you have to live underground or something.

Yeah, and then we become more people. So even even the few thousand people that are flying in planes momentarily or just they're going. Where do they land? I know, it's what I was thinking. I was like, imagine you're flying a plane and that happened. And you think you're fine, but then you have nowhere to land. You look down and you're like, oh shit. Everybody, if you look out to the right window, you can see the impact from the asteroid. That completely annihilated. Yeah, I don't know what you do.

I just watched a movie on that, in fact. I can't remember the name of it. There was a movie I just rented, where there was something like that. Deep impact. No, it was a... No, I'm just coming. Remember when we went on a kick for a minute there, there was like everything was. Deep impact. No, it was a mouth. I'm just coming back. Remember when we went on a kick for a minute there,

there was like everything was like the end of the earth or into the world attack. It was all asteroid movies. Yeah, yeah. What was the one with the- Armageddon there you go. There you go. Deep impact.

They never get it right, dude. On that one then they land like a spaceship on it and then they drilled a nuke into it. Yeah. You know what a bad idea that would be? Oh yeah. Like, instead of one asteroid, we're just gonna make many. We turn it into a million bullets.

They're gonna blast us. It's like a machine gun. It's a machine gun. Oh, that's a good idea recently. Hey, do you guys hear about, there's this kid in the UK that got, I guess you guys suspended or expelled from school because he held a rave in the bathroom. Did you guys hear about this kid? How do you hold a rave in the bathroom. Did you guys hear about this kid?

How do you hold a rave in the bathroom? Someone said he just started going. He brought like his DJ equipment and like all the kids gathered in there. He had a rave. He got kicked. If that was my kid, I'd be a little proud of the kid. He did, I guess, suspended.

Why? I created a rave. Did you charge at the door? Yeah, I did. Yeah, nothing made more than that. We're not grounded. Yeah. There's no grounding going on here.

You're totally fine. Dude, that's hilarious. Yeah, I did. Yeah, nothing made me understand it. We're not grounded. Yeah. There's no grounding going on here. You're totally fine. Dude, that's hilarious. Yeah, I know. I love reading that weird news kind of stuff. Yeah, people always ask where you get your stuff. Like, what do you have like a systematic approach to what you read in the morning?

Is it the same places that you're going or what? You know what, if you go to, okay, so sciencedaily.com has just, they just blast reports of studies left and right. And you can actually go on there and they have sections so I can look up men's health, women's health, I can look up economics, space, fitness, whatever, fat loss, and then they'll show you all the latest studies.

It's funny, I usually get mine from all these UK sources. What do you mean? Like, mirror or like, just like, you know, different articles that come up, they're usually like in Australia or like in England or something like that. And I always like find some funny stories from there. Like that one, the body builder guy, remember that guy?

We talked about who like married his sex doll. Oh yeah. Yeah, so. So they, hold on, they were, apparently they got married. They were dating first. They're dating first and then things. That's accelerating.

Then they got married. Yeah, obviously.. They're dating first and then things. That's accelerated. Then they got married. Yeah, obviously. And then basically, what's having a baby? No, she broke. Like she broke and had to go get fixed. He was all depressed and all this stuff. Like because, yeah, one of her parts like broke up for something.

Yeah. And so now he's just apparently, you know, he's waiting. He has no backup. No backup, backup, no backup, no backup parts. There's no investigation into domestic abuse. Yeah, exactly. How rough was he getting? How exactly did she break? I don't know. That's a good question.

It's kind of weird. Yeah, no. Wow, it broke. And so he's the press. You know what's weird about that story to me? Is that he dated her and then got married. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, and Galovant had her around town with his friends. Like, why are you gonna pull your friends into this?

Weirdness. Yeah, it just goes to show you how weird. And twisted it. It was like normal to him. Justin, I'm about to ask you, did you, I know you could, for Christmas, wife got you a trigger. Have you fired yours up yet?

I finally got it to operable. So yeah, it was, was it hard to build or what? No, no, no, I just didn't have time. I say Taylor and I did it. I feel like you a trigger. Have you fired yours up yet? I finally got it to operable. So yeah, it was a hard to build or what? No, no, no, I just didn't have time. I say Taylor and I did it. I feel like she should be. Yeah, that's two seconds. But yeah, it was like over the weekend, I was like just, there was so many boxes of things.

I had to actually assemble this crazy, huge, like way too big of a trampoline in my backyard. So what happened was it was supposed to be like the same size as the other one that we had. It's just the boys use a trampoline like every day, dude. The thing is like a godsend, you know, to get them outside and like active and stuff. And it just got holes in it.

It was all, you know, tore up and everything. And so I had to like move this thing all the way across to my side of the property. And then I was assembling this new one. And it was so massive, I'm like, oh my God, I have to like basically cut into the side of the hill just to make room for this stupid thing.

So. Did you? Yeah. Yeah. So I had to cut shoveling it. Shouveled. Oh, we could. Yeah.

Yeah, shoveled like that. That's why you're getting lean. Yeah, that's why I'm saying I was active. I was doing a lot of hard work. I'm not shoveling anything. Yeah. So, yeah, assembling stuff, you know, basically just like all the ramifications of Christmas. I'm always assembling shit.

Does it have the sides on it? So the kids can't like bounce off and fly off. Oh yeah, it's got, yeah, this one's cool too. It's got a basketball hoop and everything all in there. And so they got, we're gonna have dunk competitions. You guys can bring your kids, dude. Let's do this. Oh, Adam's like my boys coming.

Oh yeah, the last like two weeks, so the other day. Is he getting all sported, is he like into the sport now? It's now happening, right? So this whole time, it been waiting, right? A patient waiting, yeah, patiently waiting, like trying to be like, you know, good dad, who doesn't like force it down his throat, and he's now like, he's drawn to the ball.

Sal and Jessica got him like a like a one of those Fisher price like T ball thing. So yeah, yeah. So between the the T ball and the basketball in the living room like we're we're starting to figure all that out like you know, basketball is being played. Is he not does he going up and actually swinging the bat? So he yeah, he's not like proper. He's not like, of course. Yeah, he's not like he'll he'll go up and like hit the ball so he gets that, you know, but he gets the idea to hit the ball.

Oh, yeah, yeah. And when he comes up, I get his hands right and we practice right and left-handed, right? So we're going to be able to go switch here. Which is so. So we do that stuff right now. So we're working on it. Yeah, no, I am pretty excited because up into this point, we were completely drawn to excited because up into this point, we were completely drawn to music and the guitar and that's like, his complete interest was around that and it was not around any sort of balls or anything like that. But he was so young. Like I'd say it's only been three months maybe

that he plays on his own and actually plays, not just sitting in front of something, right? Like he's pretending to drive the truck. He's at that age right now where that stuff is starting to make sense. It's a really cool thing. I'm going to share this with you guys and you'll get to do this soon again. I don't know if there's any, I love this one, I love it on our audience. I'll say something and then hopefully somebody will school me on this, right? So we have this massive rotation of books that he goes through and we typically

read about five before he goes to bed. And I'll stick with those five for, I don't know, about a month or so and then I rotate the next one. We've done this since the day he was born, right? We'll always read to him. And there's this rotation of, you know, five new books, every single, you new books every single week or month or whatever. So what I've started to do though is to bring back ones that he hasn't seen for like three months. And you can see he makes the connection. It's super wild. So we'll be reading a book. So I just brought back Bear onceants more. So Bear Wants more was about three months ago. We were reading consistently. It came off the list and we were reading other stuff.

And what I noticed is anytime I reintroduce something that I read to him consistently before, you see the connection made and he lights up and he sits up and then he's totally more attentive to that book than the other one. So, and I don't know if that's like a good thing for me to constantly challenge that or not, but I have definitely made this connection that, whenever I do something consistently, I take it away for a little bit, then I reintroduce it, you can see his brain

piecing it together, like he recognizes it. And he's into it, yeah, really interesting to me. That's awesome. We got this, it's like this thing that we lay a railio saw on a stomach. We have the same one I saw just before. So it's like, it's filled with water and there's like little like fake fish in there.

He loved that thing. And what you do is you put them on top of it and then they, you know, they practice their, really called tummy time to strengthen their neck and stuff. And so he's all like super fascinated with the little water and the fish or whatever. He's just hanging out there for 10 minutes and have a good time.

So what I'm doing is I'm strengthening different ranges of motion with him. So I'll like move to one side. So he turns his head that way and then I'll move you aside. But like your dad's a trainer. He knows what he's doing. I'm gonna teach you that. I'm over here.

I'm over here. That's how I was with crawling and kind of pushing that. That was like one of those areas of contention for Katrina and I remember telling you guys that I was constantly lying to push it. Like the trainer of me was like, no, no, no, let's make him work. Like he's okay if it cries a little. Ty went arm behind his back.

Yeah. You know how Jessica will be with that? Do you know? I mean, obviously, you're not there yet. Oh, she's really good. Yeah. Yeah, she's really good about that kind of thing. She'll be like, all right, let him cry.

Let him do his thing. No. Not the crime. Oh, I can say that's the hard part. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, we'll go on walks and, you let him cry, let him do his thing. No, not the cry. Oh, you say, that's a hard part. No, no, no, no, we'll go on walks and, you know, what babies do sometimes is right before they fall asleep, it's like it's tough for them to transition from, like to sleep.

You can tell them, they fight it a little bit. Of course. So I'll go for a walk with him and he'll start to cry. It's not like a full-on cry. He's like, he'll cry and then he'll stop and then he'll cry. Yeah, and you can tell, it's like he's start to cry. It's not like a full-on cry. He's like, he'll cry, and then he'll stop, and then he'll cry. And then he'll cry. Yeah, and you can tell he's like, he's transitioning to sleep. She can't.

She hears him cry a little bit. I want to get him. Can I get him? Let me get him. Like, hold on, hold on. He's not crying, you know, 100% yet. And you can tell she gets antsy. So I don't know.

I don't think she'll do. She'll be okay with him crying like that. Now, I see, he's, I would imagine he's still in the bed and like the dockatot thing with you guys, right? You guys aren't putting him in the crib yet, are you? No, we're doing both. So she's doing this nighttime routine with him, trying to get him in like that. Now, I see, I would imagine he's still in the bed and like the dock atot thing with you guys, you guys aren't putting him in the crib yet, are you? No, we're doing both. So she's doing this nighttime routine with him, trying to get him used to sleeping on his own. Oh, okay.

But then he often ends up in the bed. Of course. With both of us. Of course. Because she's got a feed him every couple hours. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I think for the first, I want to say, at least six to eight months, I mean,

he pretty much would come to bed. Dude, and by the way, every time I talk about this stuff, Katrina, when I get home, like, corrects me. That is not how many months we did it for. It was three or four, six. I'm always wrong. I'm never right, so for anyone I don't chime in. Right, anyone who's listening right now,

everything that I say, it's like, it's around that or so, it's, because I get checked every time I come home. That's a nighttime routine, right? All right, what am I wrong about? I'm sure we're wrong. What was I wrong about? I'm sure we're all wrong. What was I wrong about today? No, it's funny too.

He does this thing, it cracks me up. He'll push Jessica to her limits with sleep and she'll be so frustrated and she's changing his diaper for whatever time and it's like four o'clock in the morning and then he'll cry, cry, cry, and then he'll look at her and he'll smile. As if to be like, yeah, you got a little more and then you'll laugh a little bit. I'm like,

man, he is playing you so good. Already start to happen. Speaking of women, have you guys, you guys didn't get your hand on the the organify? What's it called? Doug, the new women's supplement. I believe it's balanced. Balance or harmony. Harmony. Thank you. They have both, right? Both of them are. Yeah, but harmony is the one I'm talking about. So the, the ingredients and harmony, you they have both right both of them are yeah that harmonies the one i'm talking about so that brought the ingredients in harmony you know that they're proven to increase improve libido and women for women yeah what is it so there's maca is for pms it well it does it's supposed to balance out chastberry and maca is in there in a few of the things but the maca in women uh... wheel in women has been shown to boost libido and I don't know a better way to say this,

but lubrication. I guess the right way to say it. Is that what they say? That's the main ingredient. So that's the first ingredient in their blend is Maka. And it's supposed to balance out hormones, reduce symptoms of PMS and hormone imbalances. So chasberries in there, shot of ares in there, of course ginger, turmeric, which are both phenomenal. But Maka's libido booster. Now is that only for women and not men? Interesting.

A guy could take that, but I don't know. I know Maka and men also does that, also boost libido, but the chasberry, usually that's usually for women. I feel like Justin's been sprinkling this in Courtney's coffee for months now. and also does that, also boosts libido, but the chaspery, usually that's for women. I feel like Justin's been sprinkling this in Courtney's coffee for months now. Of James. He's actually surprised.

That's weird. I don't know those traits. Yeah, interesting. It's a long time. Was it just the two of you up in Sanctuary? Yeah, well, yeah, in the dogs. We brought the dogs with us. It was kind of a last minute idea,

but yeah, I was awesome, dude. It was like much needed time, you know, for us by ourselves. That's why you were glowing when you came in this morning. I am glowing. It's radiant. That is a very energetic. You need to go more days than just one though next day. I know, dude.

I actually was slapping myself because I just wanted to stay there, but yeah, we had to pick the kids up the next day. Well, that's the thing, know you got to like you got to you know make some equity there so the parents will take the kids and you know all that so I'm gonna build up for a good three day week you know it's my goal yes yes you need to because here's what happens when you go hang out with your wife and without the kids for one day you inevitably stay up super late you have a good time yeah it's like you can sleep in the day after when you got to be with the kids for one day, you inevitably stay up super late. You have a good time. Yeah. It's like you can sleep in the day

after when you gotta be with the kids. No. So you gotta have three days so that the last day, you at least you can get your bearings back. Otherwise, I've done that mistake. You have done that mistake where you go out, you stay up late all night and the next day you gotta wake up early with the kids,

you're just like, this is not, that was not a vacation. I saw, are you getting any more? I'm not. Because you're on two months right now, right? Right, two months, okay, it's still lower, I guess. I vacation. I saw, are you getting any money? No, because you're on two months right now. Right, two months? Okay, it's still lower, I guess. I'm curious to the feeling that you get, because I think it was around like three or four months

when I really started to get like cabin fever. Now, are you pretty much locked down and staying home with the baby and Jessica on the weekends and everything? Yeah, but remember, we're doing this in the middle of everything being closed anyway because out here, it's like, where am I gonna go? Right, right, right.

So I was already cabin fever. Okay. You know, going into it, so what else? Yeah, I just felt like I got so tired of the television and like that's all I felt like I could do. I was like laying around the house all day long with them and like sleeping on my chest watching. You know, we did this weekend.

We totally miscalculation. We decided to go on a walk to the mall with my older kids and the baby and You know Jessica's like well, I'm like it's kind of long We're gonna go on the walk and then when we're there what if you know you're gonna need to feed the baby and she's like Oh, they have the family area at the mall that I can go in and then feed the baby if I need to whatever well the family area is closed Yeah, everything's closed. So we get there. We do our shopping baby baby starts crying, oh time to feed him, she walks over there and it's closed, so we got nowhere to go. I'm like, oh shit, we gotta go home, we gotta walk home before whatever. So the only way I could calm him down was to kind of carry him and hold

him and the whole way home, dude. Now where's Jessica with the boob and public thing? Because Katrina was way more comfortable with that than I thought she would be. Oh yeah, Jessica, care dude. Yeah, okay. She, she, I mean, she's not like whipping it out, but she'll feed him wherever. Yeah, and restaurant, whatever, doesn't. Kind of cover up a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know, in Europe, well at least when I was a kid, women, what didn't they didn't care? They would do it right in front of anybody. Yeah, and I think it should be that one. I don't know, I don't know. I feel like it's, yeah. Yeah, no, it doesn't, obviously, it doesn't bother me or whatsoever.

And I feel like some women are more apt to do it. Others are not. Some curious if Jessica's like that. I know, I was surprised. Katrina, we never had a conversation about it until it actually came to a day where like, you can kinda hide it pretty easily, right? Oh, yeah, totally.

She always have that blanket that he'd be wrapped in and then that would go over her shoulder. She actually bought these shirts that have like, you can open them. They look like normal shirts, but there's a way you can open them, and then you could pull out your... That's what I meant to ask you. Last time, and I've got so many DMs about this,

and I keep forgetting to ask Katrina, do you remember the names of the apps that we used to? Oh, no. Of course, yes, the wrong guy. I know you and I are worthless. I got, we brought it up on the show, and I must have got 100 DMs about like, hey, how'd you talk about this?

Would love to know what happened? That show is like the next leap or whatever. Yeah. Stage development. Yeah, there was a couple of them that we used to use and Katrina loves them. I love them. I thought they were really interesting.

We still use it. We still follow it right now because you can always tell when he's going through something and then it makes you, it makes you feel good about like what might be happening. Like all of a sudden you notice your, your baby is notice your baby is crying a lot more than what they were just the two weeks ago. It's like it's a little painful or something for him. For sure, he'll get crankier, he won't sleep as well, eating way more, and then boom,

he's way more alert, or he'll notice movement differently or whatever. Right now, he's starting to figure out that his hands, he can do things with his hands. So he'll reach out, like, grab. When he's breastfeeding his hilarious while he's breastfeeding, he like reaches up and he like slaps Jessica's face. I see it. I'm cracking up. This is fun. Yeah, it's a shit. You know what he's doing it?

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It's the motherfucking for English landed. Quique. Quique. Quique. First question is from NADS7719. Just to tell. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I did. I were 12. I did. Yes. I did. What tips or advice do you have for deadlifting with dumbbells instead of barbells? All right.

So there's two ways you could do this with dumbbells. One is you could hold them to you at your sides. So it's more of a, it's kind of like a trap bar deadlift and you go all the way from the ground up. So very deep deadlift. Now, this is going to be a much longer range of motion than a traditional deadlift. The second way you could do this is by placing the dumbbells on something

that is gonna simulate the height of a trap bar or of a barbell and then do them from there. That's gonna be a little closer to a barbell deadlift than the one where you go all the way to the ground. But I will say this, there's value to going with a much full-arrange emotion. Definitely can't go as heavy, but because of the deeper range of motion,

I have found this to work on sticking points for me for my barbell deadlift. So I don't necessarily think you should mimic the barbell or try to mimic it as much as possible. Yeah, no, it's different. I love this and I love to do it as much as possible. No, no, it's different. No, it's different. I love this and I love to do it single leg. So if you go back, far enough on my Instagram, there was, I think it was last year, the year

before, I was on, when I was in my mobility kick and I was trying to progress my single leg deadlift. And man, the carryover that I saw from that into my regular deadlift, the hip mobility and stability and strength from it was great. I just think it's one of those exercises that is overlooked and not a lot of people program it.

So tremendous value. I think getting good at a single deadlift, single leg deadlift off the floor with dumbbells and slowly trying, and you'll have to start light. I mean, a lot of people may even have to do no weight at first, just touching the ground. It will be challenging for a lot of people, just the stability, and then slowly progress and weight.

I love both of those. I do like to do deficit deadlifts with just because it allows for that opportunity to go pretty low with the weight. One other way that I like to use them, especially with kettlebells, but dumbbells you can do this as well, is just having it more midline.

So it's more with a sumo stance, but pulling from organizing it, so all the weight there is in the midline of your body, has a really good feel to it with dumbbells or with heavy kettlebells as well. Yeah, you could also do a version where it's like a suitcase type deadlift where you hold in one side. So I'm going down, and rather than grabbing two dumbbells,

I'm deadlifting one dumbbell and that one dumbbells on my side. And that really does work the lateral strength that stabilizes the opposite side with your core, your obliques, your QL. If you find that when you do heavy deadlifts, you tend to get a little tweak in your low back on one side, then doing lifts like this might actually help, might actually balance you out, because what might be happening is one side QL muscle, quadricellum, borim muscle, might not be as strong

as the other, or there's some kind of asymmetric shift, or something's going on there. Sometimes doing these like one side of dead lifts and kind of getting good at them helps balance you. Very functional, I mean, think about that when you pick up weight a lot of times you are gonna load it on one side You know unless you're carrying it in on your chest In front but a lot of times you'll be carrying something heavy on your side

So it's a great exercise to emulate next question is from Jules teelman What are your thoughts on the 75 hard challenge? Are all or nothing fitness challenges healthy or are they problematic? Okay, are you guys familiar with this? Yes, yes, I'm not. So I wasn't when I looked it up. So maybe Adam, you could, you could, so I looked it up and this is what I remember.

It's Andy Vercellis thing, man. It's the first form CEOs thing. And he's, I talk about it every year. This is like the, I think it's just 30 year in a row doing it and I've been talking shit about it since the first form CEOs thing. And I talk about it every year. This is like the, I think it's this third year in a row doing it and I've been talking shit about it since the first year. And it's just not a fan of any of them. I just think that it, it's the opposite message

that I think we try and communicate on the show. And does it, is it great for some people? Maybe, I mean, yeah, if it works to get you fired up and motivated and get you to get back into your fitness routine, then, okay, maybe it worked for you. But in my experience, most people, it just promotes the on and off the wagon thing. I mean, because it's exactly the opposite of how we tell people, I can come from the camp of do as little as possible to elicit the most amount of change,

set small goals and start to get wins and build upon that and build that momentum versus 75 days hard. All are nothing type of deal where you're committed every single day to this intense type of a routine. Not a fan of that. I'm just not a fan of that message.

Now, again, I'm sure plenty of people out there that loved it and it worked for them. And so be it, I'm just coming from the perspective of a personal trainer who's trained lots of normal ass people. In long term sustainability. Yeah, and that's, Yeah, how do you define it work for them, right?

Like, do you find it, define it by they lost the 20 pounds, and then they gained it back? Did this change all your life style? Yeah, because statistically speaking, people lose weight on diets and on things like this, but also statistically speaking, they gain it all back and go back to where they were

before afterwards, some like 90% of people. So I had to look it up, because I hadn't heard of it, but I mean, one of the things about it is you work out twice a day for at least 45 minutes and one of those workout sessions must be outdoors. You have to drink four loud liters of water every single day. You have to take a five minute cold shower. You have to take progress pictures every day. You have to perform. This is a weird part of it. Other unrelated tasks and random acts of kindness. I think you just threw that in there to sound, you're being a better person type of deal. Here's the problem with it, okay? Are there people that this would be inappropriate for? Well, yeah, I'm not working out. Oh, I'm gonna do this thing now.

I'll work out twice a day. Yeah, terrible. Every single day. Or, you know, drink, I can see where he's coming from. A lot of these things would be good practices if they're appropriate. But you're gonna take, if you take the average person not doing any of this and they jump into it, the odds that it's going to give them long-term success are almost zero.

Well, it's just another one of those things where somebody else is kind of dictating your, you know, like basically like giving you an entire prescription of everything. This is how you have to do everything from now on. You never internalize that. You never really own that. You're just writing whatever momentum you can to feel like you're achieving what's set out in front of you. But that's placed in front of you. You're not actually the one that's determining

what you're doing with your life. Look, when I first became a trainer, and this is very common among new trainers, when I first became a trainer, I thought to myself, if people just did what I said, then I would win and they would succeed and it'd be great. And so when people came to see me,

what I would do is I would just give them what would needs to happen. All right, you're gonna hire me, you're gonna work on me three days a week. You're gonna go walking on these days or do cardio on these days. Here's your meal plan, go shopping, buy these foods, eat this meal plan,

eat these calories, proteins, and fats, and you will get your goals. But after about a few years of doing that, and really wanting people to have long-term success, I was honest and I looked back and said, I failed, this totally doesn't work. Here's the, I'll take, I'll make it even more close to home, okay? We sell workout programs.

By the way, it's easy to design a workout program and tell people to do this. I would not be selling workout programs if I didn't have a podcast. And that don't mean because the podcast sells the programs, but rather, if I didn't have a way to communicate how this works and how to stay with it long term and the practices associated with long term success, selling programs on their own, I would feel like I would be doing people a disservice because it just doesn't work that way to just take something Follow it if you don't figure out how to change behaviors and the process is a slow process. It just is If you don't figure that out and it's not gonna work for you

So 75 day hard challenge if you follow it will you see some results? Yeah, you will Will you be able to maintain long-term success? No, I bet money on it, you know some results? Yeah, you will. Will you be able to maintain long term success? No, I bet money on it, you know, nine at a 10 times. People would follow something like that and eventually will fail. Yeah, who's working out twice a day, dude? Yeah, I mean, come on. There's a very small percentage of the population

that will ever maintain that. And then if you did it for 75 days and then you stopped doing it after that, what's gonna happen? So yeah, not a fan of it. Love a lot of the content that Andy puts out. I think he puts out some pretty cool stuff and I'm into cool cars too. He's got bold dogs, so I like the dude.

But you know, stay in your lane. I just don't think that when it comes to like fitness stuff, this is, that's not the message that should be promoted yet. It's perpetuated in our space because it is popular and it is trendy. And we've avoided for a reason. Next question is from Brian Patta. What are some good starter exercises to become more explosive and agile?

Is going lighter on compounds focusing on speed a good place to start? Going lighter on compound and lifting faster is a great way to build explosive power, but not a great, is a good way to build explosive power, but not a great place to start. I mean, start with something even more because explosive movements are the skill level to perform them with lower risk of injury. It's very high. Explosive movements are the most neat, require the most skill of all exercise, all exercise, It just require a lot of skill. So start real basic, jump in place. Let me say your body weight is a great place to start. Yeah, it's basically everything you've been doing,

but now we gotta add acceleration. We're gonna add speed, you know, elements there too. But so everything you've done in terms of stability and mobility, things to really prepare your joints for this is crucial, but yeah, now body weight is the perfect place to start with lunge jumps, you know, squat jumps, you know, explosive type pushups, things like that are real basic, but like really trying to like move your body quickly and under control and be able to, you know, slow yourself down as well as another vital component to move in fast. Yeah, one way I would apply this to people initially would be I'd have people hold on to something stable and I'd have them stand on a pad. So something with some give on it.

I'd have them take their shoes off and then I'd tell them to jump in place, not like bounce over and over again, but rather just jump once, get your stability, hold on to something for balance, and then do it again. And then from there, it's easy to progress, right? Then we go from that to doing it without holding onto something,

to doing it on a hard surface, then to doing it to jumping on something. But that's a great place to start, my friends. And then like, in terms of starting to add load and things like that, I really do like medicine balls for this, and I like slam balls, things like that, where you can actually just push and press and accelerate something

that seems like it's pretty natural for you to throw something into the wall or throw something into the ground and get speed. It's about organizing your entire body to move with it and move quickly. So before we really start getting into then complicated Olympic lifts, where you gotta use the barbell to move the barbell in a certain

linear path. It's really hard to do to organize your body. Check out this kid Alex. His Instagram page is real game period athletics. He's awesome. I've been actually trying to track him down to get him on the YouTube channel to actually create some content around this exact question because I think most of his page is like literally dedicated to this.

And I think it's a great place to start. Most all of it is all body weight movements, but I love the way teachers guys get incredible mechanics. Super smooth. Yeah. It means it looks effortless. And that's really the goal of this is to, you know, be able to stop in a really smooth and organized way and have like a lot of control with this as well.

Next question is from Frinds to Mamos. How can you tell the difference between hip and foot instability? That's a good question. You know what's funny about foot and hip instability? They usually go along together. I was going to say. That's pretty rare. You'll find one and not an issue with the say. It's pretty rare you'll find one

and not an issue with the other. I mean, if you're, if whatever one has the problem, the other one starts to compensate. So in my experience, I'd say probably nine at a 10 times, if you see instability in the foot, there's gonna be some issues with the hip

and vice versa. Although it's usually the foot that leads to the hip and not the other way around. I didn't believe this before. This isn't something that I used to think before until years ago we put together maps prime pro with our friend Dr. Justin Brink. And when he highlighted just the instability

of my own ankle and foot and I said, oh my gosh, this is totally true. And the fact that we wear shoes as soon as we can walk and our shoes, excuse me, stabilize everything for us and how weak our feet and ankles tend to become. I really realized that that's probably the root of a lot of people's hip instability. Well, and this is, again, a shameless plug on the Prime Pro program, but this is why we created this.

It's got seven of the major joints, and there's a test that comes with it and so the idea is that you go through each one of those tests and test your range of motion and stability in that joint and if you fail that's an area that you should be working on and I would well I'm willing to bet that if you fail the ankle foot one, you're probably going to fail the hip one or there's going to be work to be done on on both. So, but that was the motivation behind that was this is very, very common and there is ways to test it and see and you know, test them both out and see what you find out. But like Sal is alluding to it's I think almost every time I've seen an issue in somebody's

foot, there's also work to be done in the hips, but go through Prime Pro. And if you don't have Prime Pro and you're wanting to know what I'm talking about, I mean Justin did a great, or excuse me, I did the Prime Pro webinar, just did the Prime one, did one on PrimeProWebinar.com, it's totally free. And I go through most of the joints,

and I'll go through all of them, but I go through most of them giving an idea of what you're working on and what it would look like, especially for the hips that's in there, check that out. Now, side note, if you find that you have instability issues and you wanna work on them, take your time. It's a slow process. Don't do anything super intense, because the harder you go, the more likely you are to revert back to your

bad movement pattern. So start slow and practice very often and frequently. You don't necessarily need to do long stability workouts. 15, 20 minutes every single day will get your body to start to progress. But once you start to progress, pace yourself because it, you know, I've done this to myself where I start to notice more stability, and then I immediately wanna go up and wait with my lifts because now I can lift more,

and then I hurt myself, you know, type of deal. So take your time, but once you get to the point where they start to feel stable, it's pretty awesome. You start to notice just how much stronger you are when you have stability in those areas. Look, mine pump is recorded on videos, as well as audio, come find us on YouTube,

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