Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 1474: Listener Live Coaching (Q&A)

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Starting point is 00:00:27 We talk to people from British Columbia, from Washington, DC, from Canada, all over the world. We answered four questions. You're going to love that part of the international. But before we get into that part, we do the intro portion. Today's intro portion was about 36 minutes long. And this is what we talk about current events. We talk about things not related to fitness often.

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Starting point is 00:04:56 Dude, you guys proud of our soldiers? You guys, you know what happened? What? I don't think this is an old story though. I think it's like a couple of years old. So, I mean, it's just, it's just happened. Great time to share this in current events. Hey, whatever.

Starting point is 00:05:08 It's cool. So, this was a big, I don't know, I didn't, I'd never heard of this, but somebody shared it, so I looked it up and I thought it was pretty cool. So, the US soldiers were stationed in Iceland and over a weekend, they drink. Somebody shared this with me too.

Starting point is 00:05:26 Did they share it with you? Yeah, they drink all their alcohol, right? They drank the entire beer supply. Of all of Iceland or what, or this the town? Or what, I mean, this was I guess part of the, the amount of beer that they had stored for solvents, I don't know, but they drank it all, oh no, no, it says the bars.

Starting point is 00:05:44 What? Bar owners repeatedly said they have never experienced a situation similar to this before. I mean, I imagine it's because the town is so small, right? And then you just have all of a sudden, probably thousands and thousands of years. Yeah, what's the population? I mean, it's pretty sparse.

Starting point is 00:06:00 Or they're just bad at. You've been there, right Justin? Iceland now. Oh, you haven't. Oh, my other buddy has been there. I've always wanted been there, right Justin? Iceland, yeah. Oh, you haven't. Oh, my other buddy has been there. I've always wanted to go. So it's beautiful, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:06:10 It's beautiful. It's the people are really cool. They do a thing there with the bars. If I'm correct, I don't know, correct me if I'm wrong. I know somebody on our show will or on our audience will. They at two o'clock, they don't close the bars, but they lock you in. So if you want, if you want to stay and just drink all night,

Starting point is 00:06:26 you can, they just, you can't leave after that. What a great, that's actually a good idea. Exuse, that you could give your wife. Why didn't you, honey, they locked the doors. I'm sorry, I'm on lockdown. There's nothing I could do, they locked the doors. Yeah, I think they don't allow, after two, they don't allow any in and out,

Starting point is 00:06:41 but if you're still there, partying and drinking, you can go kind of all night. I think that's how it works. Yeah, I think that's how it works. It's madness. You know, for the bartender, although it's... You have to go harder. You just deal with these sloppy idiots.

Starting point is 00:06:54 Yeah, that reminds me. That's how the money, though. That's true. I mean, you keep as long as you're paying. Yeah, it reminds me of the movie Bronx Tale. Do you guys ever watch that? Yeah. Oh, what a great movie.

Starting point is 00:07:03 Have you seen that Justin? I don't know if I've seen that. Oh, that's terrible. Anyway, it's a great movie. Yeah. guys ever watch that? Yeah. Oh, what a great movie. Have you seen that just? I don't know if I've seen that. Oh, that's terrible. Anyway, it's a great movie. And there's a scenario, Johnny Depp, who's in it? No, not Johnny Depp, but Dineiro's in there. Dineiro and who else? He plays the dad of this kid that grows up in this neighborhood

Starting point is 00:07:16 and in Bronx. Yeah, who plays a son? Not really a well-known actor. Oh, it's so. I just remember his name in the movie, it was Gologital, was his name. That's a weird name. But anyway, in there, there's a scene

Starting point is 00:07:27 where these bikers drive through the town and then they go into one of the bars, and this is like a small Italian neighborhood with the little mobsters or whatever. So they go into this bar and they start roughing up the bar, spraying beer or whatever. So the mobster guy walks up to them and he's like, I don't have to ask you guys to calm down or whatever.

Starting point is 00:07:46 Like, no problem, we'll be cool, but then they keep fucking around. So then he just walks over and he locks the door. And then they look at him and he goes, well, now you can't leave. And then they just be the shadow. What a great scene. What a great scene.

Starting point is 00:07:58 What it reminds me of, you know, what you said. What are the best scenes of any movie? You guys have a movie like that when you're a kid that you just watched over it, besides Star Wars, that you watched over and over again. They're just it, yeah. Yeah, I mean, I don't know.

Starting point is 00:08:10 I watched Boondock's Saints quite a bit. I went through this phase where I just was kind of like, you're proud of being Italian. I was like, oh, I wish. And these guys were like, vigilantes and they're going around, and they have this cool prayer that they do. That was about asking somebody.

Starting point is 00:08:28 That was a hill, a good man. Yeah, so I was like always reciting like all the scenes and, you know, in the bartender that had Tourette's and everything, it was just so great. Was that high school for us when they dropped? One of that dropped. It must have been high school. I think it was.

Starting point is 00:08:41 Yeah, it sounds like that's about right. It's been around for a lot. You know, I watched a few good men a bunch of times. I was into that. I don't know what. That was your Tom Cruise was. Yeah, it sounds like it's about right. It's been around for a while. You know, I watched a few good men a bunch of times. I was into that. I don't know what. That was your Tom Cruise face. Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:08:50 He just looks so good in white. Yeah. Yeah. He really does. Why are you watching this, Adam? Adam gets so giggly. Yeah. You can't handle the truth.

Starting point is 00:09:01 That's why. You can't handle the truth. I can't watch it. I laugh because what's true is I actually was what I watched the firm a lot back then Top He's a good actor. I mean, I'll give it to you underrated. He was underrated actor. I think yeah, yeah Just underrated. I don't know well. No because okay, I don't think anybody thinks he's underrated I do because have you seen Born on the Fourth of July?

Starting point is 00:09:27 No, no. That was an academy, I mean, that was a performance, but most people in place Tom Cruise in that category of, you know, actors. Really? Yeah, they think he's like a well-known actor, but they wouldn't put him in the same category as like, I don't know, some of the other greats that are out there.

Starting point is 00:09:42 I would disagree, I think, to he's up there. Maybe because I'm married, my wife hates, she thinks she's terrible. Oh, short, I don't know, some of the other greats that are out there. I would disagree, I think to he's up there. Maybe because I'm married, my wife hates, she thinks she's terrible. Oh, short, I don't know. And some women hate on them because you're shirking. All right, that's a little bad. A lot of those guys are, you know, you don't realize how many actors are like really like little dudes.

Starting point is 00:09:57 Yeah, but when you think back to high school, the guys that were in drama, you know, at least when I was a kid growing up, if you were in drama, you were like a Bucco V and like, I thought like, Marke Mark was a taller. I thought he was like over six at least. He's the hell of a smart.

Starting point is 00:10:10 Is he really? No, he's like 5'10, 5'8, 5'8, 5'10. What's Mark Worldborn? Mark what? Worldborn. Worldborn. Sorry, I was between Swallows. Whoa.

Starting point is 00:10:21 Whoa. Wow. I think you're like 5'9. Yeah. Boy You want to talk about somebody who reinvented their image? Like eight so a lot of young kids there's oh, yeah Mark was cool didn't really though You have no idea he was marking mark when I was a kid and then he was popping Yeah, five eight man I'm not breaking yeah, he was he was he was he was this is what he did okay He literally this is what he was known for for a second. He would pull his pants down, remember that?

Starting point is 00:10:45 I know, but I still feel like he's kind of the same like cool guy, sex appeal dude. You know what I'm saying? Take your shirt off. He's still, name a movie where he doesn't do a shirt off immediately. Can you know seriously? Name a movie? He doesn't take a shirt off. I can't. That's true. Was Daddy's home? I don't know. But you guys remember, I think there's a scene that's probably one in there.

Starting point is 00:11:04 Yeah, he shows the ass. Adam knows all of them. Yeah, it's, uh, yeah. Well, wasn't there a basketball game? He went to, he went to, this was the market market phase and he was at a game and he took a shirt off and all the girls, and then he pulls pants down. What?

Starting point is 00:11:17 Yes. This is what he did. Yeah. Because it was a thing or something. It was weird. Pretty sure it worked for him. Speaking of basketball, my warriors last night took it to the Lakers.

Starting point is 00:11:27 What a, yeah. They went swimming. That's impressive. No, that's another team. It's so terrible, man. So I tell you, I don't give it you obviously. It's so lame talking to you guys. Sometimes about this stuff, but it's very exciting for me

Starting point is 00:11:38 to see the warriors right now because we have a ton of young guys. We don't have clays out. Obviously, Durant's gone, Iggy's gone. These are all cornerstone pieces to this championship team. So everybody counted out the Warriors for being good. And the first, I'd say, 12 games or so, we're pretty rough, but Steve Kerr was just playing all these young guys.

Starting point is 00:12:00 And now it's all starting to gel. And it's been really fun. Which, for betting for me, is awesome because when they win. Yeah, one last night. I've won, I lost, they won. It's been big underdogs in that game. They were, they were. It was a minus eight and a half.

Starting point is 00:12:16 I should start it, it opened at minus, or plus nine, excuse me, which means they get nine points. Nice. So I mean, and they've been fighting like every game, they've been fighting. Now when you bet on a game like that, is it, uh, you bet, you know, bet 100, you make 100 if they win or do they, you make more because they're the underdog. So there's just the case. Yeah, that's a point. So there's other

Starting point is 00:12:34 things that you can bet on you. There's what's called the money line. So if I would have taken the warrior straight up and they were already a huge underdog, I could have bet say, uh, and I believe it was like plus 350, so I could have bet $100 to win 350. Just for winning, just for winning. But if you play the spread, then it's for the right. Then it's for the right. So the Lakers could have beat them by five points and I still would have won. So that's why I like this.

Starting point is 00:12:57 And that's why I like betting that with a game against the Warriors when I watch every game, I see how they're playing and there's an energy around them right now. And so even though they're not ranked really high right now, they're barely 500 I believe after last night that they won't get favored to win a lot of games. But sometimes, and then they're playing the Lakers, defending champions, they have the best defense in the league. So also, they give the Lakers a huge favor.

Starting point is 00:13:25 And it's like, man, I think we can maybe even win. I definitely think we're gonna keep it closer than nine. I like that back. Now, let me ask you a question, because, okay, so you could do this online, right? Gambleen, you can do this online. I don't know. I have...

Starting point is 00:13:38 I have Kings, don't they? I don't know how much trouble I get myself in for saying to that. Well, you know people. Yeah, let's just leave it to Gamble. Yeah, yeah. You know people. And, let's just leave it there. So you know, let's just leave it there. I got to get it. You know people. And then this is how they gamble. Right.

Starting point is 00:13:48 And then when you do it online, do you have to put the money in in order to gamble? In other words, that way they know they have it if you lose. So I don't know how that works. Okay. Because I have always gone through somebody. So long before, and so I have, I have an account with them.

Starting point is 00:14:05 God, I know how much I can talk about this or not. You know a guy that has an account. Yeah, yeah, that's good. I'm hoping you're an agent. Thank you, that's so welcome. I know somebody who has a bag. Yeah, good break your soul. He's a little stand up guy.

Starting point is 00:14:14 It's like if you have good credit, it's like anything else. If you have good credit, and you're, And then where you live? Yeah, right. And you pay your bill, you pay your debt, and so like that, you get a bigger availability. So like maybe when someone first starts gambling like that, I won't let you bet more than $1,000.

Starting point is 00:14:29 That's your limit. But I have like a $10,000 limit for total betting in a week, and then I also have a 5,000 limit per bet. So, and that's normally how they do it. You have a per bet limit, and then you have a max for the week you can. So that way, because what happens with a lot of gambling addicts is you lose and you double up, you double up, you double up, before you know what you're... You're down a hundred grams.

Starting point is 00:14:49 Yeah, and then you can't pay your bill in the week and then these, so they'll... And they mail you your kid's ear in the mail. And tell you the mail over there. Do you do all joking aside, what's the most money that your friend ever won? Like in all of gambling? Not like in, yeah, in all of gambling. No, like in, yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:15:05 Yeah. 17,000. Wow. Yeah. That's crazy. You know, it was, those are fun, you know, but I, and I, and I, that is it feel, I, I imagine, if I won, so I won one time on a slum of sheet, I hate gambling, right? So I don't gamble. But when I turned 21, I went to Vegas for my birthday and I thought, oh, this is what you're supposed to do when you turn 21. And literally, I put one quarter and I won 600 bucks. No way!

Starting point is 00:15:30 And I didn't play for the rest of the, because that's me, right? Yeah. I'm ahead, I'm not gonna play anymore. But for me, when I won the 600, it felt like it was monopoly money. I might as well just spend it while I'm here. Is it feel like that?

Starting point is 00:15:40 No, I'm actually, so, and I'm, you know, I didn't know we were gonna get into this conversation, but this year, so, this is funny, right? This is part of my New Year's resolution. So, I've never, like, tracked for the entire year. So, I'm tracking right now. Is that because you purposely don't wanna know? Well, I think in the past, I've always treated it like this.

Starting point is 00:16:00 Like, I have a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, You're like a buffer. I have a budget, I have a budget that I say, I will allow myself to spend this much. If I lose it all, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, to potentially lose. That could be lost in the first week. You're done for the whole year. You're done for the month. Yeah, you're done for the month and then that reset. That's how I treat it. I've never actually from beginning of the year to the end of the year, tracked all of my gambling to see where I end up. My guess, because I kind of tracked in the past, but not as diligent as I am this time,

Starting point is 00:16:44 is I wash you know It's about this. Yeah, do you have fun? Yeah, and that's it makes the game more fun and I treat it that way So you would make the game just more stressful for me. I don't think it make it more fun Well, that's that same feeling you get is the same you know, we talk about it I don't care about the you know what this is. This is like scary movies to me for you Yeah, you know the same. I don't lose five grand But I mean the anxiety type of feeling or whatever like that.

Starting point is 00:17:08 It excites you. Yeah, it excites me. It's a different feeling. Yeah, so when I was a kid, I had a friend who, I remember I went to his house and they had like a nice car and a boat and all this stuff and I was like, wow, man, what does your dad do for a living? And he goes, he's a professional poker player.

Starting point is 00:17:26 And I didn't know that was a job. I thought that was, I think he made it up. I'm like, get out of here. He goes, no, that's what my dad does for a living. And then I met his dad, and I was in seventh grade, and I was super curious. And I said, what makes somebody good at gambling? How can you do that professionally?

Starting point is 00:17:44 They're disciplined. He goes, it's professionally? They're disciplined. That's it. He goes, it's 100% your temperament. That's the word he used. It's your temperament. He goes, somebody who's good can handle losing a lot of money, and it's not that big of a deal. They can also handle winning a lot of money, and it's not that big of a deal.

Starting point is 00:17:57 And they stick to their rules. Yes. Now, see, for me, my temperament would be terrible, because I lose 10 bucks, and I'm like, that's lunch. Now I'm angry, I don't want to do this anymore. But, so I don't have the temperament would be terrible because I lose 10 bucks and I'm like that's lunch. No, I'm angry I don't want to do this anymore, but so I don't have the temperament for it So I went through a phase where I I was I thought maybe I might like be this guy. No, you did yes I did right I did read the book I had a spinning time like down at the the the casinos a cool job

Starting point is 00:18:20 Well, I met a lot of guys right? So I really, so what, the way my entry to gambling at all was actually Texas Holdham. So back when I didn't have the money to lose, I got good at playing cards and it started with playing, you know, locally with friends and doing like a, you know, kind of a tournament style like Pots and got good sort of reading books on like how to do the math and figure it out like you're,

Starting point is 00:18:43 and that's really what it is. It's the guys that are pro, they have the discipline to stick to the math no matter how tempting it is to go outside of that. And that if you sit at a table in a casino, eventually four or five whales will come through. Four or five drunk, I don't know how to play the game, but I'm just having fun throwing a few hundred.

Starting point is 00:19:04 And that's when they got the piran got. And you gobble up those guys. You just wait for that. And you and you and you may sit table or six hours. That's me drunk trying to play card. Yeah, just just folding folding folding folding. And then here comes the well. Here comes the sucker who who just keeps betting and betting. And then you wait for that opportunity and then you crack them. And then you didn place Investing in in the market is also a lot of temperament. It's not gambling because obviously it's not considered gambling Although I guess you could say I consider it that way, but it's this it's very similar in the sense that you know when the market is Going up and things are getting high The wrong temperament people want to buy. Oh everything's great. The market's been going up for the last three years.

Starting point is 00:19:45 Now's a great time to buy. It's a bad time to buy. You want to buy when shit's going down and you know what I say when there's blood in the streets. And you have to be patient. That's why one of the best piece of advice I ever got for investing was to invest in companies that I actually believe in and know about

Starting point is 00:20:00 because then I can ride and weather the storm. So if I buy, for example, I don't know, a Peloton stock, and I really believe in what they're doing and I see what they're doing, and then they go down, I'm okay because, no, I know what's happening. I know what's gonna happen. I know that they're doing well. I know fitness, I know the space.

Starting point is 00:20:16 Yeah. So it's a similar thing, you gotta have the right temperament. No, it's very similar. And you also have to have like rules that you said ahead of time where it's like, okay, if I win X amount, doesn't matter how hot I am or whatever I am out, you know, and so, and that's hard to do. When you're, when you're, whether you're playing dice or cards or you're sports gambling and you are hot in your winning, you just want one more, one more time. And that's where, that's where it gets

Starting point is 00:20:41 you because the odds are always in the favor of the house. So if you think you're gonna keep winning, winning, and you're not, eventually you get cracked. And so the discipline of saying, like, okay, I've won enough, walk away, and I've been able to do that when I'm like by myself, which is why I like sports betting because it's not with my buddies in Vegas, because that's where I get bad, is if I'm with, exactly, I'm with somebody else and their energy and what they're doing.

Starting point is 00:21:07 If I'm just kinda doing my own thing or I'm at home and I'm watching a game, it's like I play really well to my rules of like, okay, once I hit that, if I win, then I'm done. I'm not gonna gamble the whole week or whatever, or if I lose and I'm done, I'm not gonna keep trying to dig myself out of the hole. Dude, I know somebody who mortgaged his mom's house.

Starting point is 00:21:24 Yeah, I know some crazy stories. Because of that, literally, he was the, he controlled his mom's finances because she was an immigrant, so she did really English and all that. So it's a sickness. And he just mortgaged her house dude so that he could pay off some of his debts.

Starting point is 00:21:39 I was like, what a, yes. I know, I think maybe that's why too, I'm lucky, I have no several friends that are really bad like that. I've got to see it kind of firsthand, like where it can get. And then I've kind of felt it myself. I think I shared on this podcast a long time ago and I definitely know off air,

Starting point is 00:21:56 I've shared with you guys, when I kind of had the realization of that, I was hanging out with one of my buddies years back. Maybe this is five, seven years somewhere around there. And he was, he's such a hardcore gamble. Like he's on a whole other level than I am. And when we're together, his, his habits bleed in, and I was catching myself gambling on a Tuesday night or what? You can't hang out with him. Yeah. So I just, I can't do that. I just, I didn't, then

Starting point is 00:22:19 it's a problem. You know what I'm saying? Like I'm all for these things, and dabbling, and having fun and enjoying it. But when you start getting to a place where it's like, you know, on a Tuesday night, you find yourself in some local bar betting on a table. It's just to me, it's so weird. I went, I remember once I went to Vegas with a friend of mine and my friend had a friend that was like this tech mogul at the time. This was a while ago. I remember what company it was. But this guy, I watched him and it was just so

Starting point is 00:22:44 shocking to me. I literally watched him lose $20,000 in five minutes at the roulette table. That's the same thing. I think the roulette table is where you lose it the fastest because I've seen the same thing. This guy comes in like all big shot, like has like a whole entourage behind him,

Starting point is 00:23:01 and he drops like, it was at least, I felt like it was 50,000. It was just all I felt like it was 50,000 it was just all Centered on like one number and then gone gone and I looked around and he was already gone Like he had just left and that just hurt it hurt every like Sell my body. It's so great speaking of tech Did you did you hear about Amazon Prime? How many members they have? 142 million I read the article.

Starting point is 00:23:25 142 million Amazon Prime members. What's the Amazon Prime fee? Is it nine, Doug? I think 100 bucks a year? 100 bucks a year, yeah. 100 bucks a year. So that's a billion dollars that they make off of. Just from the membership.

Starting point is 00:23:40 Automatic, membership. That's not even to count how many people are more likely, because I'll tell you what, it's the most brilliant thing Amazon ever did. I only shop on Amazon because of the free shipping. Even though I'm sure if I went on other sites, I could still find better deals, but that $119 a year, that is insane amount of income that they're getting. Automatically. That's one stream. I feel like they just have so many different silos now. It's crazy. Oh, it's insane Yeah, and then again in tech news Adam you brought up to me that Microsoft was working with GM GM they just they just they're stock soren right now because they just partnered up with a driverless car

Starting point is 00:24:20 So we're there and they're in the hunt that'll be be interesting. Microsoft Watson technology. I think that's a jeopardy. Then they use Watson for jeopardy. Yeah, that's right. I remember that. No, no, no, it's plain way that. So there was a game of jeopardy where they had a computer competing against the best. There's this one guy who wins, who won like the most jeopardy games ever. I forgot his name He was super super smart What says it was Watson and they gets I forgot he was he was going against this one dude or whatever that couldn't be beat and IBM Watson. Yeah, and so they had Watson go against him Ken Jennings So he went against Ken Jennings and now here's and he won. Here's a thing. It feels kind of not fair computer and now here's a, and he won. And here's the thing, it feels kind of not fair. It's a computer.

Starting point is 00:25:05 It can push the button faster than he can, right? Yeah, right. But anyway, that was Watson. Yeah. That was from IBM. But this is Microsoft, right? Working with it. Yeah, yeah, this is Microsoft.

Starting point is 00:25:14 Wow. So yeah, so now they have a dog in the race, huh? Yeah. Dude, that's gonna be, that's gonna be such a crazy race. You know what else is soaring right now, too? Harley Davidson just spiked right now too because they just released all their bikes in 2021. But what I think it has a lot to do with is, I was just talking to my aunt who has been waiting for like this Vespa model to drop because of like

Starting point is 00:25:38 COVID and not being able to get out. People are like really, there's a lot of people buying anything that's like an outdoor, spore, or a tour. You can't buy bikes. Yeah, bikes, kayaks, vespas, motorcycles, activities that doesn't require. Right, activities that don't require groups of people that you can go do on your own. I mean, if you're in anything in that space, it's motor homes.

Starting point is 00:26:03 Yeah, I know, that's blown up. That's a whole thing, like a whole scene. Everybody's like, you know, driving cross country. They're just making, you know, remote, like is, they're just camping in random places too. It's just like off the side of the road. Well, I mean, if they, because you guys saw that they're working

Starting point is 00:26:18 on a digital passport for COVID vaccine, I forgot, there's a bunch of tech companies working on it. So you basically get a Oracle and I look to them up because there's three of them. Yeah, so it'll be on your phone, right? So if this works or whatever, then you're gonna have this thing that says you have vaccinated and then, I don't know, theoretically companies can say,

Starting point is 00:26:36 hey, you can't fly on our plane unless you have this passport or whatever. If that starts to happen, I would buy stock and companies that make motor homes. Because I bet, yo, there's gonna be enough people to where that'll make a dent. Whether they're gonna be like, I'm not flying then, I'm just gonna drive in my motor home. I feel like that will open an opportunity

Starting point is 00:26:56 for a company to do the opposite. You don't need a vaccine? Yeah, we're the dangerous spirit airlines, you know? We don't give a fuck. Yeah, that's it, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're the, we're this is a little bit of a follow-up just like the guy that married the the bodybuilding bottom married his uh... sex doll this is uh... just as good uh... so gwyneth palcho we're gonna come back to gwyneth palcho and her her vagina candle apparently this vagina candle uh... exploded in this lady's house and cut on fire and uh... so basically her vagina exploded.

Starting point is 00:27:46 Oh, that's what that means. You imagine walking into that house? What happened here? Oh, smells like some of the vagina. I blame Grand The Paltrow's vagina. Now is she trying to sue? Is that why it made news? Yeah, I don't know.

Starting point is 00:28:01 I think it was, it really was the headline more than anything. There's not a whole lot of stuff. I feel like candle exploded. Well, I mean, know. I think it was it really was the headline more anything. There's not a whole Cuz I feel candle explode Well, I mean, and I think this is I mean how smart would that be on hurt on her side to to drop a story like that of course Right, so if she's not getting sued over it like I would question like oh, I wonder if this was like it I mean, I feel like that's like the new move for like marketing and our is to is to make some Controversial like news story. When I, totally. When Doug and I went down to San Diego

Starting point is 00:28:28 to these internet marketing seminars, and these were like the gurus of the time of internet marketing, they literally said to do that. They literally said, like let's say, okay, so we have fitness programs, right? Maps programs that we do. So a strategy would be to write articles that say, maps, programs, don't build muscle,

Starting point is 00:28:49 and that's the title of it, or don't get maps at programs. And then you click on it, and then really what I'm doing is in the article I'm telling you why. You should it, and I'm saying things like, oh, I got it, and I just don't. Wait too much muscle. I got too strong. Way attractive.

Starting point is 00:29:01 It caused a divorce in my family. Yeah, that's something. That's something. That's something. They actually messed up my life. They actually said to do stuff like that. Which I find absolutely clever. You know, speaking of brands and stuff like that, did you guys see it?

Starting point is 00:29:14 So Chokey did the this or that. I thought that was really clever. Oh yeah. And I mean, tons of our audience. So the thing that I thought was really cool was and I told her, man, I wish we would have tagged Viori for this because, man, so she did this or that with Viori. It was like Barbell dumbbell.

Starting point is 00:29:30 Right. And then it went. And it was Viori or Lulu lemon. I think I could count on one hand, for sure, maybe two to four people that actually clicked on Lulu over Viori, almost everybody that tagged that that tagged us was Viori, man. I think most of our audience is rocking it. I think we've converted them.

Starting point is 00:29:51 Dude, I went to Jessica and I went, we wanted to get out of the house, so we were at the mall or whatever, and we went into a Lulu store, just walk around or whatever, wearing your Viori. Yeah, and I was wearing my Viori. And I was looking at her, he looks.

Starting point is 00:30:04 Yeah, no, no. Hey, do you want to try anything on? No, wear in your view or even. Yeah, and I was wearing my view. And I was looking. There he looks. Yeah, no, no. Hey, do you want to try anything on? No, I like him good. Yeah, I like this. I like that here. You know, better looking. Right.

Starting point is 00:30:11 I looked at their, they're, they have a, a bigger line of male clothes now. And Lulu. Lulu. But just, it's not, I don't like it. I just don't like it. It's not, it's not to say, it doesn't look, I don't know, It's kind of feminine.

Starting point is 00:30:25 I hate to say this, but it doesn't feel... Not for muscular dudes. It's a nice fact. No, because I've tried it on. Yeah, it's true. Like, I have to wear double XL on all their stuff. I need like a yoga butt to pull it off. A yoga butt, yes.

Starting point is 00:30:38 What kind of butt do you have? It's different. Not a yoga butt. It's not a truck. It's very pronounced. It's a sled pushing. Yeah, it's like a wrestling. Did you see the Forbes article that they did on,

Starting point is 00:30:49 it was a, they actually talked about Lulu. Did you see this? I forwarded it to you. I don't know. No, normally the stuff you send, I don't read. It's retail. I know. Every time.

Starting point is 00:30:59 Yeah, at least he's honest. No, we'll talk about it. I really do want to read it, but it's like payback. I'm like, fuck this guy. I send him stuff all the time. He never reads. Did you watch this video? Yeah, he's actually. He never reads anything I tell want to read it, but it's like pay back. I'm like, fuck this guy. I send him stuff all the time. He never reads anything I tell him to read. So I want to read it. I wanted to read it, but I fight it.

Starting point is 00:31:12 If I comment, you know, I read it. Otherwise, it didn't. So this is a Forbes magazine. It says retail trends to watch out for in 2021. And one of the things it talks about, and at least the different trends, and one of them was community building social media experiences, and they're saying that this is a thing

Starting point is 00:31:28 that is making a big dent in a company's ability to sell their products and build value, and the example that they used of a company that was doing that well was Viori. Oh wow. Yeah, they said because they create interactive experiences for its audience members, including its 100,000 Instagram followers. They have a Viori active club, which is a series of daily workouts.

Starting point is 00:31:52 They have different fitness instructors, yoga teachers, mindfulness coaches, lead 30-60 minute sessions. So they actually talked about Viori being an example of that. Speaking of clubs, did I bring up on the show the app clubhouse? Did I tell you guys about that? Oh, somebody else told me that too. You told me about it, but yeah, remind me. I just downloaded it the other day. GaryVee was touting it the other day about it being

Starting point is 00:32:14 the next big social media platform. And if I understand it, so I downloaded it, I logged in, but I really haven't surfed around yet to see you, but if I understand this correctly, the idea of the theory is like, let's remember when we went up to Tahoe and we had Ben Pekolsky and Mike Matthew. That fireside chat.

Starting point is 00:32:34 Yeah, that fireside chat. It's like a digital version of that that other people can peer in and listen to. And so we. So you have hosts, but other people can watch live. Yes, other people can watch and listen live. They can't, and I think we have the ability to say we can take their question in or not, or we can also they can comment still. But yeah, but I think they, I think they can't interrupt the conversation unless we allow

Starting point is 00:32:56 the engagement. So it's like they Instagram live a little bit, but like with more people. Yeah, with a group. So it's, so it allows us to have this kind of fire side chat, say with whatever number we want, whether it be three of us, five of us, 10 of us. Call Clubhouse. Yeah, Clubhouse. That's smart. No, it's, I feel like the podcast, social media space is gonna crush that.

Starting point is 00:33:14 Well, it's getting a ton of traction. And when I, I think I heard it first on GaryVee and so then I started kind of digging around with it and I thought, that's interesting. This would be kind of cool. You have to be invited to it. Did you hear this? I just pulled it up right now and apparent, so somebody invited me to it and I didn, that's interesting, this would be kind of cool. You have to be invited to it. Did you hear this? I just pulled it up right now.

Starting point is 00:33:26 So somebody invited me to it and I didn't take the, I should have done it. So I guess you can only be on if you are invited to be on Clubhouse. Well, that's a smart marketing play. It says it's big with celebrities right now. Oprah, Kevin Hart, Drake, Chris Rock, actually.

Starting point is 00:33:42 You guys are invited, huh? Yeah. Well, did you get our Beyonce over there? Oh, you guys didn't get on it. Yeah, they gave us. He is our Beyonce. That's weird. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:33:51 I'm not nearly as attractive. No, that's very interesting. Now, who makes it? So what I want to know, is it China or Russia? Because if it's those three. I mean, it does matter. Then we have some problems. Here's all the rest of my data.

Starting point is 00:34:02 I mean, it's interesting. And I could see there's ways that we can use. It's just, wow, we're getting to a place where privacy is just does not exist. No, dude. No, I know. And it's an interesting kind of pickle that you're in if you're in a business where you're monetizing

Starting point is 00:34:22 your fame or whatever, that this is like, you they expect it. So if you're going to be famous, where you're monetizing your fame or whatever, that this is like, you think it's expected. So if you're going to be famous and you're going to make a lot of money from being famous, these are all the things we want access to all of this. It's based that of Silicon Valley. Okay. Yeah, so you know, so you know, all those those privacy protecting companies like Facebook and so you got nothing to worry about.

Starting point is 00:34:42 Yeah, little sensor. Yeah. It's beautiful. Yeah. Hey, speaking of crazy stuff, Japan just approved, which I couldn't believe it. The first human animal embryo. Yes, finally.

Starting point is 00:34:57 Let's get some chimeris in the mix. What? What are they doing? So Japanese stem cell scientists is the first to receive government support to create animal embryos that contain human cells and transplant them into surrogate animals to, I guess, to see what happens.

Starting point is 00:35:14 What I hear news breed. Hey, man, when I hear news like this, it just makes me think how accurate Star Wars is. With all the creatures, like, this is how it gets to this point, right? This is how we get to all these human-like creatures and all these weird aliens. Yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:35:32 This is the beginning of the day. Well, so it makes me think that Alex Jones, like, he was right every time, like, he's just way ahead of his time. Dude, so, you know, because, okay, so I'm reading more human-sistant scientific American, human animal hybrid embryos have been made in countries like the United States, but they've never been brought to term. So what they're going to do in Japan is they're going to bring this embryo to term.

Starting point is 00:35:54 What did I think about this for a second? We have no more morals. Come on. How's it going? There's like councils about like ethics, right? With medicine and practices and science. What happened to the ethics people? They don't, it's not. It's disappeared.

Starting point is 00:36:11 It's gonna be weird, dude. Like, what if they did this with like a goat and then it was born, but it had like kind of human face a little bit, you know what I mean? Yeah. Hey guys. Oh, weird. I don't know.

Starting point is 00:36:23 You know, the problem is. It's attractive to you. Well, this is the, okay, so this is the argument that people make for religion. Because they say that religion is necessary to maintain an objective standard of morals, especially in a time when science allows us to do so many things.

Starting point is 00:36:41 So like science is not moral, it's not immoral, and it's not, it's immoral. It's can we do it? Or can we not do it? It's not immoral and it's not... It's not moral. Or can we not do it? It's immoral, right? There's no morality in science because they're testing things. And that's the way it's supposed to be.

Starting point is 00:36:51 Science works best when it's just like that. But you need to have some kind of a framework because otherwise, I mean, look, and people who argue with me, so look at the experiments they did in the Soviet Union. Look at the experiments they did here in America that we found out later on, like the Tesskegee experiments. Look the experiments they did in the Soviet Union. Look at the experiments they did here in America that we found out later on, like the Tessike experiments.

Starting point is 00:37:07 Yeah. Look at what they did in Nazi Germany with humans. So human animal embryo, how are they going to get some, it's like the plan of the apes. And that how I started scary, right? Definitely, scary. Yeah, speaking of animals, I want to hear about this aggressive, sorry, exact thing.

Starting point is 00:37:21 I put that on there mainly to say, like, okay, so I ran across one of those nature pages and they were showing sharks and they were like swarming each other and apparently they got them when they're breeding. And so sharks are fish, right? So they're not mammals, but for some reason, like they have really aggressive sex. Like it's like, like you would think they're not mammals, but for some reason, they have really aggressive sex. It's like, you would think they're a shark,

Starting point is 00:37:48 so one of them bites the other's head while the other one comes in and goes forward. It's like, whoa, it was disturbing on so many levels. I think you guys should watch it. That doesn't shock me as much as if it was gentle, sex, like if you, like shark, if sharks made love, I'd be a little bit like, I'd be shocked, like you're sharp.

Starting point is 00:38:10 Just like, correct. Like a nuzzle. Yeah, you know, with the biggest teeth, just, you know what I want to know. I want to know, Sal, since so, because I know how paranoid you are. You put that out there. Yeah, we see, so we kind of like,

Starting point is 00:38:23 we just barely went over at the other day about the whole COVID scare you have. But I know how your brain works. Like, how has behaviors around your house and everything changed ever since you got that scare? So are you doing, are you like, are you guys wearing masks when you have sex now? No, are you guys doing weird stuff?

Starting point is 00:38:40 Not unless we plan on having weird sex. I just, in which case, we, because I know shit's different over there now because you had a scare. It does like bird flu, visor. Yeah, it's really go through. Yeah, pandemic sex. Yeah, hey. No, okay, what's changed? Honestly, not a ton.

Starting point is 00:38:59 We're going to be more careful with my son because there wasn't much data on infants. And there's a little bit of data that shows that infants may be at higher risk for severe COVID. So we're not gonna let people hold them, you know, really any more unless they wear a mask and do the whole thing. And then the other thing I did is I just, I have just, now I'm incorporating a supplement regime

Starting point is 00:39:23 based off of the things that so far study show has benefits. So D zinc, quercetin, quercetin is good to improve how the zinc is utilized by the cells. Melatonin, I'll use that every other night. That's kind of interesting if you look up the data. And then as far as vitamin C is concerned, I'm basically, I'm sipping on the organifies immunity quite a bit, which is high in vitamin C,

Starting point is 00:39:51 also has anti-fungal and anti-bacterial compounds. So there's that what you're drinking on right now. Yeah, it's, it's all right, and it tastes good anyway. So it's like putting your water and it's a tasty, it's a tasty drink. Olive leaf is in there, that's, that's good for killing microbe. So I'm just gonna sip on stuff like that

Starting point is 00:40:07 throughout the day and do everything else and then just not let people, but you're right, do the paranoia is just, boy, it reached a feverish level. Decalon 5. Oh yeah, that was just, I have a button, you know? It was just got poked. You're so good about being consistent that though.

Starting point is 00:40:22 Once you decide you have this protocol of stuff that you wanna follow, like you are the most consistent when it comes to that. It's a formula guy. It's the same way OCD works. If you ever are talking. You ever learn about OCD? It's like they do things to keep them calm. You gotta go back and like check the lock in the door like a thousand times. Yeah, I gotta tap my foot four times for you to get up. Otherwise, something bad is gonna happen. Spin and then go. I've now made a routine. So this is now what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do this. Have you guys tried the immunity by the way?

Starting point is 00:40:49 Oh yeah, no, I have. I have. It's really good. Yeah, I know. I know I'm going on an airplane or something like that. Like that's just something I'll do. Yeah, I start to, I start to use it when I know I'm around other people that are sick.

Starting point is 00:41:00 So if I, if I know there's people that's getting sick, that were, whether it be at work or home or family, that's when you see me kick that up the most. Oh, you know what I was gonna bring up? Because who was I asking yesterday, that I was asking somebody to recommend like documentaries or things to watch on Netflix? Was that you at?

Starting point is 00:41:16 You were asking me that, bro. I found something really good. You guys should watch. What is it? Athlete A. So this is all about the controversy. Do you guys hear about the controversy with USA Gymnastics that happened not that long ago?

Starting point is 00:41:29 Where all these gymnasts were coming forward saying that they were sexually abused by a certain coach. Well, by the doctor in particular. It was the team doctor that would abuse these girls. Oh man, I didn't hear about that. Oh, what a great, you guys gotta watch it. It was the team doctor that would abuse these girls. Oh man, I didn't hear about that. Well, what a great, you guys gotta watch it. It's really crazy. First of all, you get to peer in to the incredibly competitive

Starting point is 00:41:53 and insane world of gymnastics. But man, you hear the story and they covered it up. USA Gymnastics, people complained, so there's a doctor that they had who, and it's really crazy. The doctor was with them for like 20, 30 years, right? It's crazy how these girls were psychologically just screwed with because if you compete at that level in gymnastics,

Starting point is 00:42:16 you've probably trained for years every day. Six hours a day. Before you get to that level, you're training six hours a day. Like a lot of these girls would be homeschooled, so they could spend more time in the gym. And they loved it, obviously. They loved doing it, but they're so competitive. And so they were sheltered in this bubble.

Starting point is 00:42:35 The coaches, gymnastics coaches are intense, especially like the, what is it? The Corollis, who came from Eastern Block countries. You know, Bella Corolli, you guys know who that was? So he coached Nadia Komenic from Romania. She was the one of the first gymnasts to get a perfect score. And then he came to America and he coached like all the gold medal champions.

Starting point is 00:42:57 But they're intense. They're very intense with how they coach. So they're in this world as bubble. They do everything that they're told. They're 15 years old, they're kids. They don't hang out with anybody, but each other. And then they go see this doctor and he's the only guy that's kind of nice to them,

Starting point is 00:43:10 sneaks in candy and treats and as cool. And then it's when he does the examinations. Yeah, yeah. And they don't know like is that, but they're supposed to do when they examine me, is it whatever. And so it all came out. Treat me faster.

Starting point is 00:43:22 Oh, and they were coming it up. It's a great, you got to watch it, though. It's really, really good. Doug, you were there balancing your checkbook? This conversation boring you that much? No. I'm handling stuff for the bookkeeper. Oh, okay.

Starting point is 00:43:33 So not my checkbook, our checkbook. Okay. Oh, you're spending our money over there, where it's like, I'll stock you up. Saving our money over there. Yeah. Good stuff. Thanks, Doug.

Starting point is 00:43:43 This quad brought to you by Organify. For those days, you fall short on getting your organic veggies, Yeah, good stuff, thanks, folks. 60 days by going to organify.com. That's o-r-g-a-n-i-f-i.com. And use a coupon code MindPump for 20% off at checkout. All right, our first question is from Zoe from DC. Hey, Zoe, how can we help you? Hey, guys. So my question is, I'm on phase two of Maps aesthetic. I just started it. And would you implement any cardio into it? I feel like I'm not doing enough sometimes. That was my question.

Starting point is 00:44:35 That's a really, really good question. I need to ask you a few more things before. What were you doing before Maps? Yeah. The first question I'm going to ask you is, is this your first maps program or did you start with maps in a ball? What's your fitness history before? This is my first map. Okay, and then- This is my first map's color.

Starting point is 00:44:51 Now, were you working out a lot before? Maps aesthetic? Yeah, I worked out for a while now. I grew up with gymnastics and then I got into lifting heavy, kind of power lifting-ish and then just bodybuilding-ish type workouts. Cool. Now, what have you seen so far, performance and I guess just visual changes since you've started Maps aesthetic?

Starting point is 00:45:20 So actually my lifts have gotten, have went up a lot. So a few years ago I was in a really bad accident and I broke my pelvis and I basically broke my back also. So I had to start all over again. So I haven't lifted this heavy in a while and last week I got up to 225 on Deadlift. Yeah, almost 200 on squat. So when I haven't done those numbers in years, so it's done great for me.

Starting point is 00:45:51 That's awesome. That's excellent. Okay, so your stronger has your body weight changed at all? I'm not sure. I don't really weigh myself. I don't even have a scale actually, but I feel like I'm getting tighter. Yeah. Okay, do you feel like I'm getting tighter. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:46:05 Okay. Do you feel like you're getting bigger or do you think you're staying the same or getting smaller? The reason why I'm asking, I'm trying to see if you're if you're burning any body fat while getting stronger. I don't know if I'm just feeling tighter because I'm lifting heavier or you know, kind of staying the same. I don't see anything drastic right now.

Starting point is 00:46:22 Okay. And then do you know how many steps you're taking a day? Do you have any idea of tracking? Well, that's the thing. My job. I'm kind of sedentary depending on the day. So I work with computers. So that's the one thing. Like the time I do go outside is with my dogs, but you know, that's not going to add up to like 10,000 steps. Okay. Yeah. So I would start with that. I would start with trying to like 10,000 steps. Okay, yeah, so I would start with that. I would start with trying to get your steps to increase, at first track them, see where you're at,

Starting point is 00:46:52 and then bump them by 25 to maybe 50% depending on how low they are. So if your steps are like 6,000, that's okay, it's okay to bump them up to about 10,000 steps a day. Now, the second part I wanna address is how you said that you feel like you can do more.

Starting point is 00:47:07 If you're getting stronger, if your performance is improving, that's the metric you need to measure. Now, considering your background and gymnastics, for my experience, I've trained gymnasts in the past. And it's one of those sports where they train, you train a lot. And you really push your body's recovery ability, you push your capability and so that might have skewed your your perception of what is enough Training does that does that resonate with you?

Starting point is 00:47:37 Yeah, I always feel like you know, especially on the focus days like I'm just like oh, that's it like you know, I feel like there's more in the tank. I need to like push myself. I know that's not always good, you know, and the past that's hindered my progress if I, you know, go too far. It's just that feeling that I have. So that's also a great place

Starting point is 00:48:00 where to start to build the steps in, right? Because the focus sessions are a lot shorter than your foundational days, right? So one of the things that I like to do with clients that are following Maps Estetic is to build like a walk into that workout. So you go do your focus session for 20 to 30 minutes and then you walk post workout for 30 minutes

Starting point is 00:48:19 to boost your steps. My goal is always with my clients to increase steps over time, whether it be walking the dog or, you know, 10 minutes after your meal or 15 to 20 minutes post workout, and keep trying to increase just your daily movement through steps before we start to push push on a piece of cardio equipment. And then once we move into a place where you look at me as a client, you go, okay, Adam, I'm walking the dog in the morning, I'm walking after my meals, I'm doing on focus days, you know, I'm doing 15, 20 minutes of of car or walking after after I work out, and I'm kind of peeking out at,

Starting point is 00:48:55 you know, 10 or 12,000 steps a day. Now maybe what we'll do is post workout on either foundational days or focus days, we might do like a 15 to 20 minute like hit session of cardio post workout, but I would I would progress you that way week over week for the next four to six weeks before we even consider starting to really have you been tracking your calories, Zoe? Um, I haven't. I eat pretty intuitively. I mean, I pretty pretty healthy.

Starting point is 00:49:22 Um, I feel like sometimes I don't eat enough. It's not like I I'm not eating anything too bad, but I know I Have trouble eating enough sometimes which for me it Messes up, you know, like I'll actually gain weight if I don't eat enough food You know, I here's another question. You mentioned you had an accident and you recovered from that Do you have do you have any issues with mobility, rotation, any issues with mobility in the hips? I know you said you're pelvis and you're back or affected.

Starting point is 00:49:56 Yeah, that was probably my first big feat, trying to get back to that, especially, it was almost like when Adam he's talking about as a kill these for a while. I couldn't walk for three months so it was just so hard going from being able to do so much to nothing so I started from you know scratch basically and started like I was five years old again. So mobility, it's actually bad for me in my upper body than my lower body now. I get really stiff.

Starting point is 00:50:28 My upper back, my shoulders can stiff up really easily. You said something else that I think that we have to be careful of, which is really common with clients. You address that you might be under eating sometimes. And that's where we can get in a lot of trouble if we start adding cardio into your routine. It was a great question by Justin asked where your nutrition was because the last thing we want to do is to be under-consuming on nutrition and then also pushing and doing cardio. Because all that's going to do is tell your body to conserve energy and you're going to end up

Starting point is 00:50:59 going the opposite direction you really want to go. So much better off trying to add steps and walking and get to a place where you feel good as far as what your calorie intake is. Last thing you want to do is have low calories and then also push the body of cardiovascular. Yeah, definitely. I have one quick question. Okay. What do you guys suggest after aesthetic? Okay, so that's actually great, because I was going to comment and say that, mobility work burns calories like walking. And you can kind of, you, in my opinion,

Starting point is 00:51:34 based off of what you've said with your history, it might be more beneficial to add mobility instead of adding steps. Because now you're improving mobility, plus you're moving, so you're bringing those extra calories. And then the next program I would recommend is Maps Performance, hands down, which does both. You're gonna get those aesthetic benefits

Starting point is 00:51:54 that sounds like you're looking for, but you get that added benefit of performance and mobility into your routine. So I would say that Maps Performance would be a wonderful transition for Maps aesthetic for you. Yeah I would say that maps performance would be a wonderful transition for maps aesthetic for you Yeah, okay, that sounds great. Awesome. Thank you Zoe Yeah, you know, it's I remember this as a trainer and it was all it was when it first happened to me it was so strange

Starting point is 00:52:22 Because I thought that ex athletes would be the easiest clients to train. Oh, no. It's the opposite. They're the hardest because they have this perception of intensity and how they should feel during a workout. That comes from their years of competition. And it's so hard to train them appropriately, especially when their beginner intermediate

Starting point is 00:52:43 or just not as conditioned as they were back when they were. Yeah, and they can work through the pain. So, a lot of times, you have to really spend some time repatterning a lot of these movements and things to make them beneficial again. So, that way you're still progressing forward. I'm so glad Justin asked the calorie question too, because that changes the response to this question also.

Starting point is 00:53:02 Because if you got somebody, so the listeners understand, if you got somebody who's, say, eating 1,300 to 1,500 calories and they're all they're doing is weight training, they don't move very much, and they're building strength, things are going good and then they wanna add cardio like this and then all of a sudden she starts doing 30 minutes

Starting point is 00:53:18 to an hour of semi-intense or intense cardio every other day or every day, what ends up happening, that person who's only eating 13 to 1500 calories, their body. Start losing muscle. Yeah, exactly. And so, great question by Justin because I definitely wouldn't want her doing cardio yet, not until we get

Starting point is 00:53:36 her calorie intake up into a place where I feel good about her starting to push her body intensely like that. The best way to go right now is purely just walking. And this is why it's so important. If there's any trainers listening to keep asking questions because from what I've experienced with athletes and especially gymnasts, gymnasts, you know, we just then commented that athletes work through pain. Gymnasts are the kings and queens of that.

Starting point is 00:54:01 I mean, this is, you will hardly find a competitive gymnast that doesn't have some kind of chronic injury That they continue to train through. I you know, I bring back memories of the 1996 Olympics with what's her you know, I think it was struck was her last name and she did that Pull and she just landed with a both-butt that ankle to win they train This way so and and here's the other part You should feel like you have more in the tank like when you're done with your workout You should feel like you can do more. part, you should feel like you have more in the tank. Like when you're done with your workout, you should feel like you can do more. You should not.

Starting point is 00:54:27 Yeah. Yeah. You should not feel like you're done and you can't do a single thing extra. That's at the point. Well, I do think it's really common with our maps aesthetic because those focus sessions are a little short, right? And so you kind of either one, you end up wanting to lift more, which I know a lot of people do that.

Starting point is 00:54:40 And then I don't follow protocol. But in a perfect world, that's what I would just have somebody just go get on the treadmill and walk for the rest of the 30, 40 minutes. Just get some, especially if, you know, like she said, I have a very sedentary job. If you've got a very sedentary job and you're not getting a lot of movement, then you hit those three days a week

Starting point is 00:54:54 when you're hitting focus sessions for 25 minutes, then you spend the other time walking on the treadmill. You gotta figure out how you're gonna add in more activity throughout your day. Yeah, but how about those straight gains, huh? It's a, I love hearing that. It's so calm and especially after phase one of Maps aesthetic features. Well, but how about those straight gains, huh? I love hearing that. It's so calm, and especially after phase one of Maps aesthetic,

Starting point is 00:55:06 that's another great point too. It's like, man, if I have a client who's telling me that, we're probably not making much adjustments. No. If anything, it's trying to increase calories. And so what I would love to do or have someone like her do is like, okay, let's just say it,

Starting point is 00:55:21 because she didn't know her exact steps, but let's pretend she's stepping 6, thousand steps a day and she's asking this question My goal would be okay, let's increase your calories by about 250 a day And now I want you to get to you know nine to ten thousand steps every single day hoping that that extra movement kind of Cancels out those extra calories. We build our metabolism up. That's where I'd ideally be with someone like that Our next color is Blake from BC. Hey Blake, how can we help you? Hey guys, yeah, thanks for taking my call.

Starting point is 00:55:53 I just had a question about priming and more specifically I guess priming during a heavy phase. I'm in a heavy phase right now and the rest are a little bit longer, two to three minutes. And I was just wondering about you know priming in between sets. I love this. Yeah, the first off priming before your workouts, we're going to get the most benefit, but there's definitely benefit for priming in between sets, especially if it's something that you are challenged with. So let's say it squats, you do your normal priming before your squats, then you do your first light set, and then in between that set and the next set,

Starting point is 00:56:32 you do some more priming and then do another set. When I do this, my mobility just gets better faster in the workout, especially with those challenging exercises. Yeah, I think if you use it as a corrective method, I think that if there's something that isnive method, I think that, you know, if there's something that isn't responding the way you want in your workouts, I think it's a great way to utilize priming in between sets if you have a long rest period,

Starting point is 00:56:55 you know, to get that muscle to sort of be more active and involved in these gross motor movements. But yeah, like I'll say, honestly, like priming before the workout is gonna give you the most bang for your buck. I like doing this. I mean, unless it's a day where I'm going after a PR or I'm challenging my strength where I'm like,

Starting point is 00:57:15 okay, I'm gonna see, I'm gonna move more weight than I've moved in a long time today and I'm gonna get after it, then I wanna be, once I get primed, I wanna be focused on my squatting or deadlifting or whatever it is that we're talking about. And I get primed, I want to be focused on my squatting or deadlifting or whatever it is that we're talking about. And I don't really want to mess too much in between sets, just because I want to conserve that energy

Starting point is 00:57:30 for everything I can give to the lift. Now, if it's just, you know, I'm in a strength phase of lifting and I'm also trying to improve my squat or deadlift, whatever movement we're talking about, I love to do a set, then go over and do a little bit of ankle mobility, then do the next set and then assess how much that improved it, then go over and do a little bit of ankle mobility, then do the next set, and then assess how much that improved it, and then go over and do some hip stuff after the third set, and I love to do that so I can kind of measure like what's

Starting point is 00:57:55 helping my movement patterns the most. I think there's nothing wrong with doing that. Now of course, again, if you are in a workout where today I'm going to be testing my Mac strength, then conserving energy in between sets is ideal. But for the everyday lift, and even if you're in a strength phase, I actually really enjoy priming in between sets like this. Blake, are you using Maps Prime to identify where you need to prime? I've taken a peek at it. My brother actually does on the program, so I've taken a peek at it.

Starting point is 00:58:29 But a lot of it's just from watching. Your guys' content on Instagram and YouTube and that sort of thing and just kind of picking up tips here and there. Okay, so what areas for you are you noticing that you need to work on or prime? Are you doing to prime and then have you noticed any benefit from doing those things? Yeah, for sure. So I mean, the two main exercises that I've been focusing on kind of messing around with priming in between sets is the squat and the deadlift obviously.

Starting point is 00:58:57 I found that the low back and the hip hinge is where, you know, I kind of feel a bit of a flare-up if I'm not careful. So just taking the tips from you guys, throwing some 90s and 90s in there in between, a little bit of combat stretch, just kind of the stuff that you guys talk about quite a bit. I've been trying to throw that in between. Not every set, but here and there. And some days it seems to really help some days, I think the difference is negligible, but that's kind of why I wanted your perspective on it. Okay, so here's something to important to understand about priming is it can be very individual.

Starting point is 00:59:34 Okay, so in Maps Prime, there's a compass test that you take and it can help you identify you know areas of your body. And then there's a lot of movements. And we have free webinars, mapsprimepro.com is one. That's for prime pro. And then we have the maps prime webinar for prime. But they don't cover not even one tenth of the movements that we have. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna send you maps prime for free.

Starting point is 01:00:00 And what I want you to do is take the compass test because you may find movements that are better for your body because you should see and feel improvements when you do the right movements for your body each time you do that. You shouldn't feel negligible. It should feel like it's doing something. Yeah, not only that, Blake, but have you actually done a session where you dedicate a solid like 15, 20 minutes of priming before your're lift, or have you just kind of messed around with a few movements here and there, have you actually like dedicated a solid 15, 20 minutes before you're

Starting point is 01:00:30 lift to priming? I have but not consistent. It's really when I feel, you know, when I'm feeling tight those days, then I then I might take 10 or 15 before a workout and go to town, but not as consistently as I probably should be. Okay, well, try that next time. So your Doug's gonna hook you up with access to Maps Prime, do the Compass test,

Starting point is 01:00:52 do it, it prescribes and recommends, and you'll very, very likely notice a big difference. Man, that's fantastic, thanks so much guys. No problem. I'm glad people are at least talking about priming, but it's something that you have to focus on, like it's, you know, it's something that you have to focus on like your workout, you know, just do it a little here and there.

Starting point is 01:01:09 You'll get a little bit of benefit, but it's not the same cool. It's cool to see it being a lexicon, just like mobility and things like that, like people are using it now, yeah, because it's so beneficial. I just wish more people would actually apply it in their workouts.

Starting point is 01:01:19 Well, I love this question because, again, unless I'm chasing a PR or pushing my limits, I actually enjoy priming this way. I have my little routine that I do before I always lift, but then I love to go between sets because I feel like when you do that, you have something you can kind of measure right then and there versus, okay, it's great, it is great,

Starting point is 01:01:40 it is ideal to spend 15, 20 minutes before the workout, but sometimes you can't make that connection of like, oh, that's what made that squat feel so much better, was doing that versus I just did a set, I felt a little wonky, or I didn't feel, I felt it in my ankles, or I felt something in my hands like this. Right, exactly.

Starting point is 01:01:56 I can then I can go back and then do it, I feel like people make a better connection to how it's helping you, so I love to integrate it into the workout. Yeah, and truth be told, one of the big differences between a warm-up and priming is the individual component. I mean, that's why Maps Prime is not a program that just has a bunch of priming movements that you pick from.

Starting point is 01:02:15 There's a compass test that tells you which one to do for your body because general warm-ups are okay, individualized priming sessions, totally, totally different ball game. No, I'm glad you brought that up because, you know, to his point of what he talked about, like he's just kind of integrated. We talk a lot about what's helped us. Right, right.

Starting point is 01:02:34 So I talk at Nazium, the 90, 90, and combat stretch, because that was a game changer for me. So you never know, you go through that. I mean, things got over 50 something different, you know, priming exercises in it. You may find that wall circles ends up changing your life or something else. So it's like, I love that you brought that up because we tend to talk about a handful of priming movements that have worked so well for us. It doesn't necessarily mean that's going to translate exactly the same.

Starting point is 01:03:00 Our next color is Kristen from Connecticut. Hi, Kristen. How can we help you? Hi guys, so my question is, is it beneficial to lift and build strength if mobility is poor? So for myself, I've put mobility in my hips. I'm wondering if I should solely focus on mobility, or if it's okay to incorporate strength along with that. I love this question. Yeah, no, it's a good question. And people do this often because strength is fun, mobility isn't jump right past. Nearly, it's just nearly not as sexy.

Starting point is 01:03:31 But, you know, let me, let me change the, let me give you an analogy, right? So let's say somebody runs with a strong limp or a hop. And this is just how they run. They've always learned how to run. And they want to learn how to run faster faster and they want to get better at it. Imagine if a coach just said, just run faster. We're not going to change that weird hop or limp that you have. You're just going to run as fast as you possibly can. What do you think would end up happening? Now, if you're thinking that they're going to probably injure themselves or just get solidify that really bad running pattern, you're absolutely correct.

Starting point is 01:04:05 So this is the challenge with getting stronger with poor mobility. Whatever is giving you poor mobility will just become stronger. So you're applying pressure to the hinges, if you will, on your body. More and more with more strength and poor mobility, you are asking for an injury or trouble and you're also limiting your potential.

Starting point is 01:04:26 There's only so strong and as so good you can get when your mobility is poor, there's a much higher potential with good mobility. So if you don't address it now, you're going to limit your potential and increase your risk of injury. There's also a bit of a misconception that we can't get stronger while we focus on mobility. So I think that's important. It's not like an either or. It's not, oh, you can focus on getting strong or you can work just getting on mobile.

Starting point is 01:04:53 I mean, you can actually be focused on mobility and build strength. So it's not like it's an either or type of situation. It just used shift your priority versus neglecting mobility and just training to get stronger to Sal's point. Yeah, that's not the ideal situation, but there's nothing wrong with you addressing mobility while you're also getting stronger. I mean, that's why Maps performance. Are you following any of the Maps programs? Oh, that's great. I'm so glad you just said that because I'm running Maps performance right now. Oh, there you go. I mean, that's ideal. You will get stronger in that program, but the program really is centered around mobility with the mobility focus in it.

Starting point is 01:05:31 Okay, great. Yeah. And, you know, one more question around this. For you personally, what's the challenge is strength, something that you're really, really after? Does it feel like there's a trade-off to you? Is that why you're asking this question? I just can't get as low in the squat as I would like to.

Starting point is 01:05:49 If I definitely stand in a sumo position, I can get low. But if I'm hip width apart or shoulder with a part and my feet facing forward, I can't get below parallel. So just to get those strength gains by getting lower into a squat is really what I'm looking for. Now, have you tried squatting on a block with your heels on a block before or using those squat shoes? Yeah, I've tried on a block on a weight kind of,

Starting point is 01:06:22 but not with squat shoes ever known. Yeah, I'm just wondering if you can get lower by doing that and that would be a definite indicator that ankle mobility might be something that you want to look into and address because it will provide you a lot more stability and ankle support when you get dropped down until you're squat.

Starting point is 01:06:41 Do you have access to maps prime? Yeah, I have Maps Prime. Okay, use that. Use that, do the Compass Test, do the Priming before your workout, be consistent with that. It'll make a big difference. And then, you know, back to what Adam was saying

Starting point is 01:06:57 about increasing strength and mobility, I'm gonna add something to that. It looks different than what you might anticipate. So what I mean by that is, let's say, you normally squat 150 pounds down to parallel, okay? But you work on mobility and your squat doesn't go up and wait, but now you're squatting

Starting point is 01:07:16 an inch lower in your squat. You've just gotten stronger. So strength gains look a little different than they do when you're just adding weight to the bar. Adding a little bit more of a range of motion that you can control means you got stronger. So make sure you pay attention to that. Don't worry as much about the weight on the bar. If you're improving mobility and stability, that means you're strength is going to be.

Starting point is 01:07:37 You're basically unlocking a new exercise that way. Great. And then I want to go back to what Justin asked you because you didn't get a chance to answer. When you lifted your heels and were to what Justin asked you because you didn't get a chance to answer. When you lifted your heels and were squatting, did you notice you could get deeper that way? Yes, I could, yeah. Okay. And that was just body, but yeah.

Starting point is 01:07:54 Okay, so that, I mean, that's a clear indication that I would be working on your combat stretch. So, it make that just a routine every day, regardless of your squatting, every day before you lived. And then if you can, multiple times throughout the day, regardless of your squatting, every day before you lift, and then if you can multiple times throughout the day, starting to do the combat stretch, and start to improve your ankle mobility, and that alone should already start to help

Starting point is 01:08:14 the depth in your squat. Okay, great. Thank you. Awesome. Thank you, guys. Yeah, that's a good conversation, because I can understand, like the, you feel like a trade off, right?

Starting point is 01:08:27 Oh, I'm not, I'm not, I, I want to add more weight. That's more important than me improving my mobility. It's more fun or whatever. Oh, yeah. I mean, that's one of those conversations I'm constantly having to have, especially with athletes too, but what they don't realize is if they put the work into that, like you actually can produce more force, which means you get stronger,

Starting point is 01:08:47 and you're able to apply more of the strength in more directions. Well, I've shared on the podcast. It's been a while since we talked about this, but there was a time not that long ago where I could barely break 90 degrees on a squat, and I could easily do 405 back then at 90 degrees. And it took me a really long time to get to the place

Starting point is 01:09:10 where I was squatting the same amount of weight all the way, asked to grasp. But one of the things that I noticed was the development in my legs with lighter weight. So even though I wasn't lifting as much weight as I was, say, five, six years ago, because I had a much deeper range of motion, the development in my quads was superior to what it was before when I was lifting more weight.

Starting point is 01:09:30 So a lot of times we just think that, oh, if I don't see more weight going on the bar, I'm not making strength improvements. But if you increase your range of motion, like Sal was saying a couple inches, you are getting stronger. Our next caller is Nick from Ontario. Hey, Nick, how can we help you? Hi, um, first off I've been listening for a year you guys are hilarious and I love your show. Just what I'd say that now.

Starting point is 01:09:55 I'll get out of the way. Um, I have been having issues with my hamstring ever since they hamstring ever since they did ACL surgery on my right knee. So they had to take some hamstring tendon to redo the ACL. That would have been five fish years ago. And then any time I was doing any sort of hip hinge in drills, I would have more of a stretch on the left side. Sorry, I have more of a stretch on the left side because the right one was weak. I've pulled it a couple times when I first had the surgery and one of the physios said that they thought I had a recoil in it, which whoever knows what that means.

Starting point is 01:10:40 And then it's kind of like manifest into needing hip surgery two years ago, because it threw off my hips. And then my left hip had an impingement. So then that ended up tearing some of the labor room. So yeah, I've had all these little issues. And I'm always trying to work on it kind of a little bit of a perfectionist. And I just can't get my right hamstring specifically the inside part of my hamstring strong. So yeah, I thought I'd reach out to you guys. Okay, so little context for the listener. So this is a type of ACL repair. And there's some pluses and minuses. The pluses are, it makes the ACL much more stable. It's actually one of the better ways to cause creed stability there, but the cons are,

Starting point is 01:11:33 the hamstring now is a little different. And so you may find differences in how you hip hinge from one side to the other. Now, here's, I want to ask you a couple questions because you said you hurt your hit hip afterwards. Are you are you pushing yourself? Are you trying to consistently add strength? Is this is there is there something that you think you're doing that may be contributing to this? So at the time I was actually a university level roer. So there was a lot of a university level rower. So there's a lot of motion and then a lot of rotation to the right side as well. But again, with that rowing motion, there's a lot of hip hinge in every single stroke. Okay. All right. So I'm glad you said that because that kind of changes things a little bit. Because after a procedure like that, it could take a long time to make it kind of feel normal. And if you're at a high level of competition,

Starting point is 01:12:27 you kind of don't have time. You need to compete. And if you're a row, or it's a very competitive sport, and yeah, there is a lot of posterior chain, right? A lot of hamstring back, biceps, involves in rowing. So that definitely played a role. Now, my advice for you would be to focus entirely on unilateral exercises.

Starting point is 01:12:48 So everything you do for your hamstrings and your quads, everything you do for your lower body, I would do one leg at a time for a while. So split stance exercises, Bulgarian split stance squats, lunges, step-up, single leg deadlifts, that's where I would focus. And then I would also focus on exercising your lateral stability, both moving out and in.

Starting point is 01:13:15 So, exercises that strengthen the muscles that pull the knees together and that pull them apart. It's going to be real important for you. I have an exercise that I love. I think we have it on our YouTube, but a single egg deadlift where we use a slider. And you're just going to notice if your heel rotates in or out or if you can keep it nice and stable and locked

Starting point is 01:13:38 as you hip hinge back. And just to kind of go through something really slow and methodical and work on it as a corrective type of an exercise would be a great addition. Nick, do you have this option? Are you training for a sport right now or are you running in addition? Are you doing anything else or can you pretty much program however you want? I mean, we're kind of in lockdown here. So I have home gym, I have kettlebells, a couple dumbbells, TREX, stability ball,

Starting point is 01:14:09 limited on the weight, but obviously if it's single leg it should be fine. But yeah, so I'm pretty much in my basement, so I can't really do too much. I love the single leg deadlift, single leg, even like pistol squats using your suspension trainer. And I was doing that today. So, you know, today we're training legs and I heard a pop in my leg and when I were doing heavy lunges with cell and I instantly went to just all stability, focus training. And so the TRX or suspension trainer is phenomenal for this because you can

Starting point is 01:14:40 just use it to help stabilize you while you really focused on the movement and depth and range of motion for that. So I love the single leg pistol squat with using the suspension trainer for support so you can really pay attention to your movement. And then I love the single leg deadlift for your situation that you're in. Okay, and then how would you know when to,

Starting point is 01:15:00 I guess, phase into traditional lifts again? I would want to see myself progress pretty well to, I guess, phase into traditional lifts again. I would want to see myself progress pretty well in strength before I go back to go test it with bilateral. So I would, whatever your, you know, your strength, and by the way, movement is far more important. So the, the, how, how well you move is much more important than how much you grab. So in other words, you could maybe right now, you're a strong enough guy,

Starting point is 01:15:27 you could go grab 80 pound dumbbells and single leg deadlift maybe. And maybe just because you can do that, your movement isn't as pretty when you move 40 pound dumbbells. So start with a weight that you move really, really well and control on both sides. And then start to wait until you start to see yourself progress there before you go back and retest bilateral.

Starting point is 01:15:49 Yeah, and I'll add this, use a mirror. And when both sides feel equal, okay, when both sides feel pretty equal in strength, movement, mobility, then it might be a good idea to progress to double leg exercises. But only when both sides don't, when there doesn't feel like there's a huge disparity. Do you have maps prime, are you priming before your workouts, by the way? I got primed pro, and then, yeah, I normally do a lot of 90, 90 stuff

Starting point is 01:16:25 before my workouts. And then I have a little bit of a protocol, physio has kind of given me, but I'm finding that that one's not working anymore. So. Okay, MapSprime Pro is perfect. So continue working with them there. Take the tests within the program.

Starting point is 01:16:42 I would look at, I'd start at the feet, because once you have an imbalance on one side, then moving up and down from that, right? So if it's in the hamstring, then you're gonna start to notice issues in the ankle and the hip, and then if it doesn't get fixed, then you continue to work out and push yourself. It moves up and down the kinetic chain,

Starting point is 01:17:00 so it'll move all the way up to the shoulder, even oftentimes. So I would go ankle foot, then I would look, you're already doing hip, I think that's an obvious one, which is probably why you chose 90, 90. I would also look at the upper back and see if there's any differences there. If you've been squatting this whole time with both legs,

Starting point is 01:17:18 don't be surprised if you've been compensating as high as your upper back. Or maybe an asymmetrical shift. Yeah, it's funny that you guys say that because I do feel that like one shoulder is probably a little higher than the other. And there's definitely extra thoracic rotation on one side.

Starting point is 01:17:32 And definitely my ankle is not the same on one side versus the other side. You know, so what happens is as you work up the kinetic chain, it zigzags back and forth. So like the reason why you're left hip head issues is because it's the hamstring on the right side. And so then it'll bounce to the opposite side, low back and then upper back. You just kind of how you can you can follow it like that all the way. And you also said you rode a lot and rotated to the right. So I'm assuming you're on a team and you're on one

Starting point is 01:17:59 side. And so you are always pulling in one direction. Yeah, for four years. Yeah, okay, so definitely, definitely work on mobility. I would make that a focus. Some of my hardest clients to work with were clients that played a sport that favored one side. I'll never forget, I had a baseball player who pitched for years and years and years and years with his right arm. And boy, was there a difference in rotation in him because he always trained one side. So focus on that.

Starting point is 01:18:32 That is going to play a role. That's probably going to play a bigger role than your surgery, believe it or not. I mean, you trained your body in one direction very intensely for four years, right? So which is probably longer than it took you to, you know, recover from your ACL surgery. So, I would focus on mobility, do unilateral exercises, and I'm gonna add one more thing,

Starting point is 01:18:55 do unilateral for everything, okay? Now that we're, you know, it makes more sense now, especially when you consider, you know, you're rowing for four years, I would do everything one side at a time, for a long time until things balance out. Okay, okay, I'll stick to the unilateral, I've sprinkled it in here and there,

Starting point is 01:19:13 but I've never stuck with it super long, because I guess my ego's tried to take over to lift those heavy weight. Nick, you will be blown away at your progress, give it at least six months. You will be blown away at the first couple months are gonna feel slow and what the heck's going on. After about two months, strength is really gonna start

Starting point is 01:19:31 to kick in and then you'll start to see some newbie gains, those gains that you got when you first started working out because it's so different and new for your body. So do that for at least six months. All right, well I got all the time on the world. Awesome, thanks for calling, man. all the time on the world, so. Awesome, thanks for calling, man. Yeah, thank you guys.

Starting point is 01:19:48 No problem. You know, it's funny, I remember reading this article where I think it was in England, they were doing some kind of construction job and they had uncovered some remains, from old remains, from medieval times, and they were trying to determine who they were. And when they looked at the skeletons,

Starting point is 01:20:08 they saw, was the long bone. Yeah, they saw like one arm was, the bone was so much thicker, the spine was slightly twisted. And there was this huge discrepancy, and then they determined these were long bone. Which, you know, back in those days,

Starting point is 01:20:23 you're pulling that thing required hundreds of pounds of pressure and strength and that was I mean they were they were the worlds number one army because of it and these guys you could see in their skeletons oh yeah so you train for four years rolling a one direction more of your whole biology absolutely so you got to balance it out otherwise you're going to run into problems. Look, you can find Mind Pump on video as well as audio. Come check us out on YouTube, Mind Pump Podcast. Now if you want to find your favorite fitness podcast hosts individually, the best place to do it is Instagram. You can find Justin at Mind Pump Justin.

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