Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 1578: How to Break Through a Lifting Plateau, the Best Hamstring Exercises Using Dumbbells, How to Prepare Your Body for Squats & More

Episode Date: June 18, 2021

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about pushing past a plateau, the best hamstring exercises when all you have are dumbbells, ways to loosen up stiff hips for squats, and health concerns for the next generation. Which Mind Pump host is most into magic? (3:17) How the guys like to style their Vuori clothing. (8:37) Recapping Aurelius’s baptism. (14:50) That one-time Sal worked out with a Priest. (15:44) Mind Pump Reviews: Is Tonal worth the money? (20:22) Gymnastics and their value for kids. (29:15) The various ways to utilize Organifi products. (35:44) Can sperm survive on Mars?! (39:53) Is the US Navy controlling inventions that could change the fabric of reality? (42:35) Mind Pump Recommends, Lupin on Netflix. (45:30) Listener Feedback Request: Would you like to see Mind Pump partner with a flower delivery service? (48:58) #Quah question #1 – How do I push past a bench press plateau or any for that matter? (52:36) #Quah question #2 – What are the best hamstring exercises when all you have are dumbbells? (57:22) #Quah question #3 – What are some ways to loosen up stiff hips for squats? (1:01:23) #Quah question #4 – What's your main health concern for the next generation? (1:04:51) Related Links/Products Mentioned June Promotion: MAPS Prime, Prime Pro, and the Prime Bundle 50% off!  **Promo code “JUNEPRIME” at checkout** David Blaine Jumps From Balloons 20,000 Feet in the Air Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) - IMDb Visit Vuori Clothing for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! Word on Fire Mind Pump #1572: Is Tonal Worth The Money? With Aly Orady Visit PRx Performance for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Code “mindpump” at checkout** Visit Organifi for the exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Code “mindpump” at checkout* Ben Greenfield Organifi Red Juice meat rub Humans will be able to reproduce on Mars because sperm can survive there for up to 200 years, a new study suggests U.S. Navy controls inventions that claim to change "fabric of reality" Lupin | Netflix Official Site Sweet Tooth | Netflix Official Site Visit NED for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! How To Incline Dumbbell Press - The Right Way! (GROW YOUR CHEST) - Mind Pump TV How To Do Chest Dips For A BIG Chest! - Mind Pump TV Improve Your Deadlift with a Single Leg Romanian Deadlift Focus Session – Mind Pump TV Improve Your 90/90 Hip Mobility – Mind Pump TV How to Perform a 90/90 Hip Stretch (HIP FLEXOR STRETCH) Squat University - YouTube Mind Pump #1527: The 3 Step Solution To The Obesity Epidemic Mind Pump Podcast – YouTube Mind Pump Free Resources People Mentioned David Blaine (@davidblaine)  Instagram Father Steve Grunow (@fatherstevegrunow)  Instagram Bishop Robert Barron (@bishopbarron)  Instagram Ben Greenfield Fitness (@bengreenfieldfitness)  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, MIND, with your hosts. Salta Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. You just found the world's number one fitness health and entertainment podcast. This is Mind Pump right in today's episode. We answered fitness and health questions that were asked by listeners and viewers just like you. But the way we opened the episode was with an intro portions where we talk about current events. We talk about

scientific studies and we mention sponsors. So let's do a rundown of today's episode. By the way, the intro portion was 46 minutes long. So we opened up by talking about magic. Oh, yeah, magical stuff. I like his am. Then we talked about one of our sponsors, Viori. They make some of the best athletes you're aware that you'll find anywhere. Really nice looking stuff that you can wear anywhere. Super comfortable, of course, great to work out in. This is one of the number one growing companies

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That was a lot of fun. Then I talked about working out with a priest, the guy that baptized my kid, Father Steve, is also a bodybuilder. How cool is that? Who's a holy workout? Holy biceps, Father Steve. Then we talked about tonal.

We actually have one here in the studio. They sent us one to do a review. And we've only had a couple workouts. So we did give a short review on the tonal at home gym equipment. Then we talked about gymnastics and their value for kids. Then I talked about using Organifies Green Juice for appetite suppression. It's actually helping me a lot, helping me try to get ripped.

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Cool. All right. Then we talk about new Navy inventions. They should have patents on stuff that seem a lot like UFOs, Justin. Yeah. I don't know. That's kind of weird theory. It might be correct. Then we talk about some shows on Netflix, including one called loopin. And then Adam is asking people's opinion on working with a potential flower sponsor. So we'd love your feedback. Just head over to Mind Pump, Adam, at on Instagram. Let them know what you

think about us working with a flower delivery company. Then we got to the questions. The first question. This person want to know how to get past a bench press plateau. The second question, this person want to know some of the best hamstring exercises when all you have are dumbbells. The third question, this person wants to know how to loosen up stiff hips for squats. And then the final question, this person wants to know what our main health concern is for the next generation. Also, all month long, maps prime, Maps Prime Pro, and the Prime Bundle are all 50% off. Go check them out and go sign up at mapsfitnisproducts.com. Just make sure you use the code June Prime with no space for the discount.

You know you were watching movies and there's like a kid that does magic and he's always the nerd. I do magic trimmer, but it's like making fun of him. Let's be honest. Let's be honest now. You're in your 20s. Who's most likely to do magic at a three of them. Yeah, let's be honest. Let's be honest now. You're in your 20s. Okay. Who's most likely to do magic at a three of us?

No, that's not the question. To Justin. I'm sure. You look like you'd be the one to do magic. What? Because you look like you have eyeliner on and you look like you have that face. Yeah, I think you can come to later.

Anyway, think about this. You're in your mid 20s. You go out with your buddies to the bar or write a party. Sorry, David Blaine. The guy that does magic tricks Tell me that's not like one of the easiest ways to get people's attention. Yeah, you just got like a hanker chiff randomly I mean seriously, honestly

It's that like playing like a piano or something like oh, there's a piano in the house. Let me see that real quick Yeah, I mean it's it's for the parlor trick stuff We you know what I actually was interested in it because they know a lot of illusions and it would be interesting to manipulate people. Whoa. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like. Now I know why you watch those cult movies.

Yeah. I feel like they use all the same techniques and slide a hand and all that kind of stuff. I feel like some people are on that level and you don't realize that. I wonder what they're messing with you. What do you think the percentage of cult leaders also practice magic or magic when they were kids?

What would you call it? Magicry? Yeah, I don't know. I think it's all wrapped into the whole cult thing. Maybe, that's what I think. I could see that though. I could see like someone as talented as David Blaine because I've seen like subliminal messaging

and like all this kind of stuff. Dude, it's all like, they should do a where are they now for that. Yeah. Yeah. Where like cult leaders, where are they now? Well, they know. Well, they're dead. Well, like, okay, most of them. You guys have seen David Blase, David Blane specials, right? Yeah. Some of the stuff he does doesn't make any sense. Okay, here, cut that orange.

Thank you for bringing him up because I did watch his latest thing on YouTube and it was about him. He's got a new one? Yeah, well, it was him basically, he did this for his daughter, which I, you know, it's cute or whatever. Like he was basically like up with balloons. So he tied himself to like all these huge balloons and flew up into the atmosphere and basically like released himself

from like way beyond where planes fly and fell down and basically found his way back through his like parachute back to safety, but it was so boring. Because his float is... It's just like the whole thing was a setup for him to float with balloons. I'm like, where's the cool shit?

That does sound like that. So lame, he held enough balloons to take him off. Which is, I mean, again. That's a lot of balloons. It was crazy. For Justin. Yes, it was a whole lot of balloons. How big huge balloons.

Yeah, how many balloons do you think that would take? Depends who it is, that's what I'm saying. Doug, we give him like 400. A 100, but they would fill up this whole room, you know. Like a few of them. Doug can't even bring his daughter, birthday balloons. Ah, I'm flying away. Just three, just three. That's all I can do. How many balloons would you like for his daughter, birthday balloons. I'm flying away. Just three, yeah, just three. That's all I can do.

How many balloons would you like for your daughter's birthday? Yeah, hold it. How strong are those balloons again? Nine, ooh yeah. So that one was a flop, because he usually does like the really cool stuff where he'll throw a card and all of a sudden it'll land like on the inside of a bus bus.

Yes, yes. You're like, what the fuck? So the part that is the coolest of that magic stuff is the street magic. That's always my favorite, the weird shit. And then the people's reactions is always, there's always the guy that gets so freaked out, he runs away.

I love that. Oh my God. I love that. Well, he does that one where he tells you to, you know, think about somebody who's like really special to you. And then he burns up. Yeah, spray paints it.

That's what I'm saying. So imagine if you had that ability to do magic like that somebody who's like really special to you. Yeah, they burn some, they burn some, spray paints it, burns on their forearms. That's what I'm saying. So imagine if you had that ability to do magic like that and you wanted to start a cult, Haley easy, you're totally right. Dude, if I could levitate, I'm getting some followers. For sure, you know what I mean?

Yeah, because the next level is like, what made you think about magicians? Where were that come out? Earlier, we were talking about magic. I don't remember what you said. You were singing magic or something like that. Yeah, that was ingested. Yeah, but most of these magicians doing the tricks at the bar for the girls it's super lame. Yeah, yeah, they're not doing anything cool. No, but I think if you're

at a party a trick like that would be I don't know, I don't think it'd be cool. No, no, no, no, no shit at you. Wow, wow, yeah, wow, dude, you're just your David Blaine. You're such Blaine. You said you'd dig. I'm just like, get that out of here. It's the same guy that's playing the music on his acoustic guitar and he's like, you know, thinks he's John Mayer. Yeah, you're probably right.

Stop it. I think you're right, man. Yeah, I will smash that. What's speaking of stuff on, you know, new things that we're watching or what? I watched a movie that you recommended a while ago and I can't remember the name of it. It was something about the Wildermen. Oh, yeah, the one that had the Gricky something about the wildermen oh yeah the one that with that head like the

oh dude I can't recommend this movie enough that's the same guy the same guy who wrote JoJo rabbit right yeah yeah it was so good it was hilarious so good it was amazing I watched with the whole family I totally stumbled trying to explain that one to you guys and totally pitch it wrong but it's yeah it's's amazing. Yeah, so Doug, yeah, who have you seen this yet? I Have it. Yeah, it's something the wilder man. Maybe what are you doing over there? Why are you so behind what's going on over there?

You're making sure everything's recording over you. That's probably good idea It's a little frazzled over there. Oh, yeah, oh Frazzled dazzle don't mess with Doug. I got some power You're a mustard colored shorts over there. I like those. Are you actually cool? Are you trying to get your legs darker? Doug is that why you wearing shorts?

Yes. Very bright in here. Yeah. I would light up this whole room. Do you know what one of those are? Those are those the, what Viori shorts are? These are core. Those are the ones you like.

Those are the same ones as you, right Justin? Yeah, I like the core. All you do Those are ones you like. Those are the same ones as you, right, Justin? Yeah, I like the core. Yeah. All you do. So you know, we recently hung out this weekend with, talk about V-O-R-E, Jesse, right? Yeah, Jesse. Jesse came out to the truck he spot with.

Great guy. I love that guy by the way. No, yeah, no, we hit it off. He rolls up and he's rocking the V-O-R-E. The rip stop. Yeah. V-O-R-E pants, which I have three pairs of, you never see me wear them though because I actually prefer like a tapered bottom.

So there's pictures of me in my Instagram where we did the mere talk and you can see me like, I like Pagdom. Yeah, I used to Pagdom because I like, I prefer them all, you know tight. Boy does that mean something different these days I tell you. I mean, yeah. What's Adam doing? What does that mean something different these days? I tell you I mean yeah He's pegging Spitting his pants Where's your mind my mind?

My bad so homeboy has got his with a you know like elastic in the bottom and I'm like what Vory pants are those and then he Tells me that he went so I actually have Jerry tracked me down a tailor or someone to do the same thing Yeah, and I'm I have all get I've already liked that you like the pants to be tight at the ankle. Yeah, I love that was like one of my fame So you know that obviously it's a style that was around back when we were kids. Yeah, um, and there's been many I mean most people that are Doug's age and beyond would tell you that Styles come in and out right like every probably decade or two decades I remember one that Wolley mammoth was a style

every probably decade or two decades. I remember when Wolly Mammoth was a style. We just wore peltz. I mean, no, seriously though, crank me if I'm wrong. Don't you feel that way? You've been around a little bit. It's all recycled. It is, right? It's true.

Like I see 90, as he kids now wearing stuff from the 90s. Yeah, mine was like the big cuffs, like the ones with the dark jeans. Oh, it was a 50 style kind of, but yeah. The thing was the whole thing. They all, I mean, most everything kind of is, most everything's reset. Now, some things I don't think should be recycled.

That comes back around and like, oh, that should have stayed back. Yeah, I said the Fanny Pack, and then here we are in the Fanny Pack, I see it all over the place. No, you really? Well, in its defense, it has some utility. That's true. Because they care their drugs in there. What?

That's what people do. Everybody with the Fanny Pack is pretty sure. They got either chalk or drugs. Yeah, That's what people do. Everybody with a family pack is good. I'm pretty sure they got either chalk or drugs. I mean, it has some utility. But anyways, the tight-roll jeans thing, like, so I have an email out to Joe. And we talked maybe a year and a half or so ago about doing some sort of a collaboration with Viori. And so I think this is perfect. The fact that I never even thought of that

I'm gonna get him done myself, but I'll see if I can convince him to now What is it about the tight around the ankle feeling that you like? I don't know if what it is for other people, but I know why I like it. Yeah, it was a show off his ankles Yeah, well, no, it's your sneakers Right, so like one of my least that makes so much sense my least favorite style I'll use the word least million pairs of things? That's right, like yeah. And then when the style, like the big like Jinko jeans,

like that's a waist, can't be a sneaker head and wear Jinkos, that's just like, that's an oxymoron. I wear wheelies with those, right? So yeah, I want, like so if you're in a sneakers, I like the tightrope because it can totally make the sneakers pop. I'd even think of that. The only thing I don't like about,

I don't like about when it's tight around the angles is if it comes up, then you gotta always pull them down and fix them. You know what I mean? It'll get a little hot, a little higher. Who's gonna fix the problem of wearing shirts and the back part of the shirt that rides up every time? Like I just, I'm walking around. That's just when you got back, bro.

Bro, it's me. Maybe got back there. It just pulls up and I'm like, that's just you always get a tattoo. You know, they should highlight it. You know, they should make for Justin. They should make t-shirts that like like he's snap under like like a little baby. You know how babies have those clothes like my son. He wears a little bit. So it snaps underneath. Just one that's like snap. It'll never come on tuck. That's a good idea. The only problem is when you're ready to do it with the girl in all the

wife. You pull them down. That's it. Might be like one extra step. By the way, that movie was called Hunt for the Wilder People. I want everybody to know that. I know, it's a hard one to remember. Such a good movie. So, so good. It was awesome.

Is it relatively new? I don't think it is. It's on, like a year old maybe? Yeah. You're too old. I don't even recognize it at all. 2016. Oh wow, it's that old.

Oh wow. So I would have never watched it. I would have never watched Oh wow, it's that old. Oh wow. So I would have never watched it. I would have never watched it, except for Justin brought it up. And so I said, let's give it a shot. So while they're people or will they're people like wilderness? Maybe will they're people.

Yeah, but it was really, really, really good. Anyways, back to go ahead. Oh, sorry, no, sorry. I was a back to style. I can't wait till they bring down low rise jeans. I'm the high rise jeans that there's, I don't like them. Do you guys like them? On chicks? Yeah, I don't like them, do you guys like them?

On chicks? Yeah, I don't like them. Like they're way up here, like what are you doing? Low-rise stuff that looked, I thought a lot better. Yeah. Yes and no, I mean, I guess it just depends on, I think different styles look better on different body types, right?

So if you have, like certain looks, I think. So if you have someone's good for the high then. Like if you have a longer butt. No, you got a long butt. No, I'm serious, if you have a longer butt. You're having that long butt. If you have a longer butt, I think it if you have someone's good for the high then like if you have a longer but mm-hmm You got long but no I'm serious if you got a long if you have a longer but you have a longer but I think it'll be I think it looks I think it looks better to have the high rise jeans if you have like a small bubbly but I think the low rise jeans look better. It's just my opinion. I'm not I don't know that I mean that's I mean that don't you guys don't think I think like certain styles look I mean, for the form fan, I don't know that. I mean, that's what I mean, don't you guys don't think, I think certain styles look, I mean, a good, if you've never had somebody like help you,

like dress you, they, what they'd do is to do like a mom to me. Totally, like mom jeans. Yeah, I don't like it. Yeah, but then they cut the bottom so low, well then that's different. Yeah, that's not like that. That's not jeans though.

That's shorts too. Yeah, I'm not talking about shorts. I'm not talking about shorts. Yeah, and I'm talking about the jeans and they're so high, I've actually seen them like they're up to here. It looks weird. And you see this with like workout clothes,

like they're like way up here and they'll work like a half shirt but it's like the pants are way up here. It's weird. It looks very indecisive. Yeah, it does. It's pants or is it shirt? What is it?

I don't know. I think it's all, you know, maybe Vic can jump in in over here like I think it's all about figure out your body ties and like what are they like completely lost right now they lost you Vicki low rise or high rise what's what's your deal low rise boom and you know what she's she's saying if you got the if you got the tummy then you talk about trying to talk to everything yeah tight, and it's like spanks on your pants, essentially, with the deal. Anyway, hey, I wanted to thank you guys before I forgot, for coming to the baptism this weekend.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Good reason to actually put some nice clothes on it. Yeah, really special time, it's a really special time having people. And you know, we just now started having family functions again with family and stuff. And we speculated this during the whole pandemic. We speculated that when we came out of it, we would value time together a little bit differently because we weren't together for a while. And it does. This is like only the second time that my family kind of got together.

And it's just, I found myself several times just stopping and looking at everybody and just feeling so much gratitude. Your family's very easy to get along with too. Yeah, they're all pretty easy to talk to and pretty cool. Oh, thank you. Yeah, they're really, really good people. We're super blessed.

But it was a nice ceremony. It's definitely a special time. I saw, did you get a workout with Father Steve at your age? Okay, so I got to tell the story get to work out with Father Steve at your service? Dude, okay. So I got to tell the story because I blown away with gratitude, right? So we were planning the baptism and Jessica goes, Hey, do you think Father, so Father Steve is the producer for the word on fire company essentially. Yeah.

Word on fire, Bishop Baron heads that like a big production company. They're huge. They're very busy and they're based at a Santa Barbara. So it's like they're near us. They have to fly up here. She says, do you think Father Steve would come up? And I'm like, oh man, I'm almost embarrassed to ask him because, okay, I'll give a shot. So I asked him. And he's like, absolutely, I'll be up there. So he actually flew up. This is just for people to know, flew up just for the ceremony and for the reception. So I'm super, super grateful for that. But anyway, father Steve is jacked.

This dude's bodybuilder. He's the buffus priest I've ever seen. He's competed before. He's been working out since he was like 14 years old. He's done like three shows. Yeah, and when back when we interviewed Bishop Baron the first time, I remember we went down, we noticed right away, we're like,

what the exit went on here? He's got a G. So he comes up, he does the whole thing, super cool guy, very, very intelligent by the way. At one point, my uncle, this part made me a little bit, like I rolled my eyes, but I'm like, whatever. So my uncle is super counter-contrary, whatever the hell you are, type of person.

So immediately he goes to Father Steve, and I knew what he was doing. He was gonna have all this religious debate. Sure enough. He devils out. Oh, dude, the whole time. Oh, yeah, so afterwards, I'm like, Father Steve, I knew what he was doing. He was gonna have all this religious debate. Sure enough. Play devil's advocate. Oh, dude, the whole time. Oh, yeah, so afterwards I'm like, Father Steve, I'm sorry about that.

He's like, no, it's okay, I get it all the time. So we had a good discussion. So I'm like, that's cool. But anyway, I asked him if he'd wanna work out afterwards. And he's like, absolutely. So I thought it was super cool. So we came over here, opened up the studio, lifted some weights, he got a crazy pump.

He's all checked out. I mean, the first thing he did was dead less, I'm gonna guess. No, no, no, no. It was honestly, okay, so here's a deal. You guys know as well as I do, when you work out with other very serious, very experienced people, you go to the gym, what do you end up doing? You end up, you're, yeah, you respect each other, right?

You do your thing and then maybe in between sets, you'll see a few words, and then you go, do your thing. It was totally like, okay, tell me how you chose the music selection. Oh yeah. So I first, that must have been like an awkward moment, right? You can't do like full satanic, yeah, you know, you can't do it,

you can't, you can't, I put simple Toronto, I know, or is that a little weird? One hundred percent. I looked at my phone and I'm like, what do I put on? So I put, first I put 90s alternative. Okay, all right. And that was, I see where you're going. I put first, I put 90s alternative. Okay. All right.

And that was, I see where you're going. Not even close. Not even close. Not even close. And then we're listening to it. And it's like, it's all right. And then I'm like, oh man, I gotta switch it. You did best every, are you gonna listen to this

team you bumper shit all day or what? You start listening ACD, see everything's cool to Hell's Bells, come on. No. So then I put Rage against the machine on and that worked pretty well. Did you really? It did.

And he's funny by the way. He'll tell you straight up and he doesn't care or whatever so that worked. Did you really? It did. And he's funny, by the way. He'll tell you straight up and he doesn't care or whatever so super cool. So we had a great workout. Then I showed him the Viking press because he never used it before. So I was like, what's this? Game changer.

Yes. And he's like, this is one of the smoothest machine. And then we started talking about body building history and resistance training history. And he brought up some interesting observations. I thought this was so cool. He goes, and he understands because some interesting observations. I thought this was so cool. He goes, and you know, he understands because he's lived in gyms for his whole life. He's been working out forever.

And he says, you know, he goes, Sal, let me ask you this. He goes, name one of the most diverse, integrated, friendly places that you can think about. And I don't know where he was going. So I'm like, oh, gym. And he goes, the weight room. Yeah. And I'm like, dude, you're absolutely right. 100%. If you go to a hardcore gym in the weight room, you'll

find people from all walks of life, you'll find people different nationalities races. Doesn't matter. The leaves everything. And everybody's there working out. And we've talked about this before, there's this, this wide spread stereotype belief that the weight room is intimidating because everybody's a dick in there, but it's actually the opposite. And he said the same thing, he goes,

you, he goes, when I would first go work out and I'm some skinny kid, I don't know what I'm doing or what, he goes, the friendliest, most helpful people were in there and I fell in love with the environment. Totally true. Yeah, all the serious people are trying to get better and they know the value of it.

And so they want to, you know, almost evangelize that to anybody else coming in. Yes, yeah. And then we also talked about how, in particular, strength training is this personal growth tool that is unassuming. Like, nobody realizes that they're actually going to embark on personal growth when they do it. But if you do it long enough, it's like you, you have to be growth mindless. Lessons of the iron. Yes, totally. So it was really, really cool. We're talking about the meditative aspects of it and stuff and

just totally nerd it out together. There's a lot of parallels there. Yeah, it was super pumped. So I'm excited. I can't wait to work out with Joey, you know, Joey's part of the team and he's really strong. Really big guy. Yeah, he's when I see deadlift and all the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we had a lot of fun. So you guys weren't working out on the tonal, huh? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, yeah, so we had a lot of fun. So you guys weren't working out on the tonal, huh? No. Now we've got a full workout in. Oh, no. What'd you think? Yeah, I tried it too.

What'd you think? So I don't know if I should come out completely with, I feel like I should. Talk with about the positives first, and then we're going to. Yeah, yeah. So well, first of all, I only have done one. So I did the test, like kind of figure out, because there's a lot of cool things about this, by the way. Like, I love the idea that they have this,

the first mode that you get in is basically, they do like four or five basic movements, and it's really just to gauge your strength. So the machine automatically calibrates. I thought that was so valuable. Yeah, this is really cool. Okay, another thing that's really cool is. Because that's a hard thing for people

when they first start, and you know this is a trainer, it's like how much do I lift? I don't know what the right amount is. That's right. And so whatever, and I actually chose a routine from like a strength phase, I actually followed our buddy Paul and did one of his strength routines.

And they have like the variable resistance set up as if it was chains. So the idea was that when I was benching, it felt like I had chains on. It got heavier as it extended. Yeah, wow. And then on top of that, another thing I really like is that if, like let's say that I was doing a set of eight,

you get your eight because the machine will just to make sure you finish all your reps. So you never guessed the wrong way. So it's not like you go, you know, you put, sometimes you put on the bar like, oh, I have eight reps. This is what I think I can do. And then you get in and you're like, oh, shit, six is all I got. You'll complete your eight because the machine will keep lightening up for you to it feels your tempo. The resistance adjusts on the fly. Yeah. And then it has this also really liked how it has the release and set.

So they have these little buttons on the thumb so I can get in a position right where I want to start with no weight and then I hit the button and then it loads it. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah. Okay, so if you're like trying to pick it up to get in position, sometimes it's hard to get out of it. Or like if you're thinking about getting down, like doing flies even I was like, you're

touching back for it. Right. That would have been a problem. Oh, I didn't notice that. Yeah, and then when you're done, you hit it and it releases the weight, so that's really cool. Now before I criticize it, I think it's only fair that I say that I've only done one routine and I promise I'll do more, but I will say very disappointed in the legs.

In fact, I did a full body strength routine and I had dead lives and goblet, they called them goblet squats on it, but it was like a goblet lunge on there. And here's the problem with this machine is that you have to hold, you're holding these cables. First of all, it only goes up to about 200 pounds, but the 200 pounds doesn't feel like 200 pounds. It feels a lot heavier for sure,

but you end up getting an arm and shoulder pump to hold. Because you're isometrically. Yeah, you've got to strain it. You've got to hold a cable that I put up to like a hundred pounds. Yeah. And so- And so it becomes the weak link. Yeah.

Is there a barbell attachment for it? So there is a bar, well, there is a bar. I don't know if they use that to squat because I didn't, that wasn't in my routine. So the two leg exercises that I was supposed to do in my routine was this, what they call the goblet squat, but it was like a goblet reverse lunge,

and then a deadlift. And the deadlift was way too easy. It wasn't a full enough range of motion because where the cables come up, it's already a good like, I don't know, foot plus off the ground. And then also I couldn't load it very much. So I literally, I, and then the other thing, another critique, it was, I wanted to run a strength program or strength phase since that's kind of what I'm running

right now. And it still felt like it reminded me of Orange Theory with the tempo, just, you know, it starts off with this get your heart rate going, like basic general stretches and get you going, and then it goes into the routine, and the rest periods are very short. I mean, you're literally moving to set the machine up every, there's never a time where I'm like, I was sitting and resting for a full minute. It's like, you were constantly moving,

and so... It's like cardio pace. Yeah, I was, by 15, 10, 15 minutes in, I was drenched in sweat, and it's supposed cardio pace. Yeah, I was out by 15, 10, 15 minutes in. I was drenched in sweat. And it's supposed to be a strength routine. So I didn't feel like I didn't get at sore at all in my legs. It was, didn't even feel like I worked my legs out. My upper body felt good.

It was a great upper body pump. So, you know, my, and my initial like, you know, criticism of it is still early until I do some more to, I think, circle back, but for $3,500 and $50 a month, it's a real interesting. I wonder if they, you've done those like belt strapped squats. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm wondering if they could evolve that a little bit more and get maybe a lower angle so you could attach a belt around it. It would be so much better. I don't think I'm gonna platform. Yeah, like a platform. Yeah, with that because I feel like that would the angle would just be better in terms of how it pulls you if you were not I know I mean I was last or as teasing off-air with Justin. I said yeah, you know if you're rich and weak, it's a pretty cool machine that's what I said offending everybody who has one by the way. It It's got great UI, the user experience is cool. Yeah, so for me, because I did use it a little bit, it was extremely smooth.

The way that the resistance adjusts is, in my opinion, breakthrough, I've never used anything that adjusts that well. I've used machines where the negative is heavier than the positive, but it's always jerky, it's always not smooth. Yeah, they figured that out. They figured that out. The UI, I mean, very integrated. The thing is that at that price point,

you can get a full badass PRX set up. That's okay, so yes, it will not, this is again, we're speaking from position of trainers. It's not gonna replace dumbbells, adjustable bench barbell. No. That's still, in my opinion, the best set up. But that's the idea though, the idea is that it does replace that. That's still, in my opinion, the best setup. But that's the idea, though. The idea is that it does replace that.

That's really what they're trying to do. Well, think about the average person. Maybe that's only so much range to it. Yes, and think about the average person does nothing about resistance training. I could see it having some value in that sense. Oh, definitely. No.

If you don't really train legs much and you don't have a strong lower half and you are new to exercise and you have limited space and you have lots of money. I see like cool, you know, why not? Now I could see this. I could see, let's say you have a setup, you have your squat rack, you have your bench, your dumbbells, barbell, and you want to add a cable apparatus and you don't have a lot of space and you don't mind the price tag. I could see it being a nice addition

because you could do all your cable exercises on that. No, totally. I mean, you probably the second most used piece of equipment in our gym is our free motion machine. But it takes up more space. It's massive. So I mean, for that, and I don't, how much is a free motion brand new?

Brand new, they're close to 10 grand, right, Doug? Oh, I forgot. Boy, I don't know that off the top of my head but I'll find out we got well what are you doing with our guy yeah I think five grand. Yeah no they're expensive I we bought ours used from somebody so we got like a really good deal on ours but yeah so for a cable setup in your house for that price and you want cables I think it's valuable if you have the other equipment. If you're advanced, I can see that. I mean, I definitely think that, I mean, we're all gym idiots, right? So we fucking love all this stuff. So yeah, you would, I could

see me owning that too, you know, because I have got the PRX set up already. And like you said, go ahead Doug. I can get a refurbished one for $3,500. Refered. See, even that's refurbished. Right. I knew it's a lot more than that. Right, right. And I take up a lot of space.

They're super heavy. I believe if I understand this correctly, after you've done the year membership, you still can use the machine. You just don't get the coaching that comes involved. Oh, so you still have the access to the resistance and all that stuff. Yeah, that's not bad. But I mean, you're talking about a minimum $4,000 investment,

right? $3,500. And then the membership for one year. Now do they put the upfront on monthly fee as well? Can you do it that way also? I don't know. I didn't pay for it. Yeah, I know.

I mean, I, I mean, it just, if you've got the money to spend, you've got limited space, I can see doing some of this. But I'm extremely disappointed so far in the lower body stuff. And again, also, the problem that I had when I was working at Orange Theory was that the type of training that appeals to is the people that love to do this circuit type of training. And I feel like this is playing right into that also. It's these. That's not resistance training. No I feel like this is playing right into that also. It's these.

That's not resistance training. No, it's this will, it's, but the thing that is better than orange theory of these other modalities, right, is that it's the machine at least controls it. You have to do a strength test. And so it'll adjust it and give you some good resistance. So I do like that.

I like that it's going to push probably people that wouldn't push themselves as much in the strength, but they're still the rest periods are so short. The rest periods are so short, it's still doing this whole keep it moving, and then the lower half just kind of wise. Well, I had a pretty crazy piphany. Well, it was definitely something

that I've been sort of constructing, but kind of loosely. So my kids have been in gymnastics. And I was based off of every interview we've done with strength conditioning coaches. I was like, I picked up a lot that gymnastics or some kind of martial art or something where it was like a mix of a lot of different movements and really appropriately based. So, you know, understanding how to control themselves in their body and space. So it's an ideal way to start to start. Yeah. And so I've been very team sports guy, like team sports.

And so I was getting a little depressed because through this whole COVID and everything else, they've been completely turned off to team sports. And this is what kind of drew me back to try and help the high school to kind of spark some some motivation there again. But we were out at this park and we do this every Sunday now. We bring everybody out this park and we kind of play and throw the ball around what not. And I was playing catch in both boys like literally could throw the ball like like ten more yards and they did before. They were running with

like crazy speed that I hadn't seen before. Like their whole body had changed and their athleticism is way better than it used to. So just like that, dude, I'm serious. What do you attribute to gymnastics? Because they're working with handstands, they're having on the rings, they're doing front flips, back flips. So, but you understand how hard, like I had to coach every little nuance when I was coaching little league of how to position their body, to be in split stance,

to throw back with their shoulder all the way back and all this type of stuff. And all of a sudden now it's like intuitive. Like they get it. And it was like, whoa. It's crazy. It's not that different than those tricks that I think I remember,

or I figured out with even with adults, right? So if I got a client that was in their late 40s and they never played sports and they never strained trained before, this is where I love stability type exercises because what ends up happening when you focus them on stabilizing their body, they have to be more aware of their body in space.

It just kind of, it gets them focused on every part of their body because they have to or they fall over, they tip over because they're trying to stabilize. It teaches the whole body to communicate. And then you see the progression. And so I know that we've seen a lot of coaches and trainers harp on that style of training, like the whole, because I do believe that the pendulum swung that way and went crazy.

But there is a place where I see a tremendous value, especially with somebody who's just learning mechanics and trying to move because it's a similar progression. Yeah, I mean, they were like gummi before that. somebody who's just learning mechanics and trying to move because it's a similar progression. Yeah, I mean, there were like gummi before that. You'd see a lot of loose limbs and the way that they were running was just very all over the place. And their body would swing one direction

and they'd try and over-correct. And now it's just like boom, everything's tight and controlled and intentional. And I was just like, this is crazy. Like I was like sitting there watching as just a And I was just like, this is crazy. Like I was like, sit there watching as just a parent and a trainer like, this like, wow, this is like a transformation. Yeah, we used to say you're in your body

or you're not in your body. It's like that body awareness. And it's funny because if you don't practice movement with your body, it's almost like you don't, you don't have that familiarity. You don't know how to. So people like, I know my body, my body. And then you watch a move.

And it's not doing what they think it's doing, or they don't even know what they're supposed to do. Gymnastics is all, I mean, in martial arts, they talk about this. So like you see like a Jiu-Jitsu instructor, they'll say, oh, put your kids in gymnastics. You'll see this with Taekwondo instructors. Now, you know, all athletic trainers,

it's just really good for teaching. And then because when they're young, there's like a window of opportunity to learn this. And once you surpass a certain age, I mean, you can always improve your body awareness, but you'll never be able to accomplish what you did as a kid. It's like those, it's like learning a language. Oh, yeah, as a child. Yeah. It's really, I'm just starting to see the fruits of it. So it was just it was exciting I was hammering these things so many times and it just now clicked now are the boys are they gonna continue? What's the plan? Yeah, so they're now in in a stage where they can compete with this I guess so they do trampoline skills and things that they've learned all these different types of flips and

and things that they've learned all these different types of flips and bronies and whatever the hell you call them. I'm like learning all this stuff and I'm like, what is this? As long as you don't have ribbons, you know, like I'll show up. It's fine. You know, they'll do rings and they don't want to ribbons, huh? I'm just saying, you know, that sounds a big ribbons. That's a different level. You got to music, you got to be coordinated with the anyway. Yeah, I'm not into the ribbon thing. Throwing the air, yeah. So what would you say? Because I know Everett is more the youngest, your youngest son is more

like you, right? Yeah. Now what are you, what are you seeing right now when gymnastics is he picking it up as fast or faster than Ethan? Are they kind of equal? Like what do you say? Yeah, he's, he is really strong. Like he's just really strong and he gets it, but he's really stubborn and harder on himself, so he's a lot harder to coach for the coaches, because he just, like, let me figure this out, which I see in myself a lot too, which is I was very uncotable sometimes. But Ethan, actually, I've seen a massive transformation with Ethan the most, because I think it was just

a lack of strength, especially in the upper body. When you go to shoot a basketball, when you go to throw a football, it was just this kind of looseness there that would completely ruin the amount of power, output that he was potentially capable of. Now, was this at the baptism, when you guys were on the grass,

throwing the football and stuff, is that when you were seeing all this? Or was that that was after that? But yeah, I mean, they haven't wanted to play catch up me now. This is a new thing. So that's why I'm like, oh, that's so speaking of which, by the way, I didn't even tell you guys.

So my family hasn't seen you guys in person in a while, right? How long has it been since the last time? A year. Was it Vegas? No. Or Vegas even longer. Like two or three years. So at some point, almost every one of my cousins came over to me and was like, man, everybody looks really good.

So everyone's saying, I'll fit. Oh, man. You guys all look. Yeah, thanks YouTube. Yeah, you motivated us. Yeah, which is really, you know, it was really nice to hear from those. Yeah, there you go. We are a fitness podcast.

Speaking of a fit and diet, how's the nutrition going? Are you guys doing anything different or is it staying on the same kind the some yeah, there you go. We are a fitness blogger speaking of a fit and diet. So how's the nutrition going? Are you guys doing anything different? Or is it staying on the same kind of? Yeah, I'm just gradually kind of trying to stay as consistent as possible. I mean, there's the occasional little hiccup, but I have a lot less these days.

So it's just really sticking with sort of more heavy on the protein and the meats and cutting out a bit of courage. Now, have you gotten to the point yet? Because I bit of carbs. Now, have you gotten to the point yet, because I'm getting there now, but have you gotten to the point yet where you're having to figure out ways to stave off cravings and hunger? Has it gotten there yet?

Where you're feeling like, oh. He ate that serious, bro. That's good. That's good. It's guys like, you know, we're resisting really hard and you're struggling at night. We're like, what do I do? What do I do?

I'm like an all-in or all-out guy, dude. I don't really fuck around with the whole like, I just need it. I need that, that better pop. Shut up. Yeah, sit there, just, ooh. So you don't do anything like, I can't know what I'm doing.

I just are like, shut up. But you know, I just tell myself to shut up. Okay, well that one, that's a nice tip to give the audience. Tell your faces shut up, you'll be fine. Face hole. Sal's trying to give you a sense of the idea. I know, man, I'm trying to come up with some tips. It's a little fucking dope.

So, okay, I'll give you one, because it's okay. You can either try Justin's method, which is tell your faces shut up. Or, no, here's what I did. So, what I've done in the past is I'll get like, salt, salt, sour water, and I'll add a little lime and it usually does a good job. You know what I have been doing that to cut down my alcohol so that's nice.

Okay. Thank you. Yeah, for alcohol, it's got to do something for that. So here's something else I've done. So the green juice from Organifi, the packet, it's only 30 calories. If you add that to like a gallon of water and ice, and you sip on that, it really does a good job with the appetite, because it tastes good. Have you tasted the popsicles yet?

I haven't done the popsicles yet. I did that one time for the kids, and it actually, it was indistinguishable. They were like, ooh, this is good. And then they found out what it was, and they're like, meh. I hate that. Did you guys, you know what, Gennifer,

did you guys see Ben Greenfield's post with the Red Juice yet? No, what'd he do? Oh, you haven't seen that, duct water. Did you put his butt? No. He always puts things in his butt. No, I've been horrified. Did you guys see Ben Greenfield's post with the Red Juice yet? No, what'd he do? Oh, you haven't seen that duck blog? Do you put his butt? No. He always puts things in his butt. Everything's up his butt.

No, this is so true. I swear to God, everything. He's always ends up there. Oh, you drink coffee? I put it on my butt. Oh, you take supplement? I put it on my butt. Listen to this.

Although the very next story I do believe it was his coffee and then live on a secret ring and bringing that up. No, he was using the red powder as a meat marinade. Like a seasoning the meat. Yeah, go to his Instagram, and look back, maybe, I don't know, four, five, it was just recently, you know. I'm trying to think of how that was paced.

See if you can be confused. Can you find the one I'm talking about right now? Or do you see? So you get likes. Oh my God. What else did he put in that rib? Ben's Instagram was great. Okay.

Yeah, there it is right there. Look at this. So he just puts it on as a rub? Look how much he, yeah, like, well, not really as a rub because it was already in the skillet, I believe, when he did this. But he dumps a ton on there. Interesting.

I wonder what that tastes like. He says it tastes really good. Look at what he does here. Because it tastes like, what, how would watch. He does her because it tastes like What would you explain the red juice? It's like a berry like a beat taste like beats. No, but it's sweet though real sweet Yeah, it's like that sweet. Beats are sweet. You don't need beats are sweet. Oh, he's like wow look at all that right now Do you think he's legit tastes good? Or do you think he's just trying to come up with a way? Well, I mean I'm sure I'm sure everyone's gonna try it if it was terrible He'd call him out on it. I want to try it

But if it doesn't taste good, I would be real mad at wasted. I mean, he's good I don't think he would lie like that. I mean, he's gonna he's gonna do it. Well, so he says it tastes fantastic Here's the thing about Ben. Oh, he likes he tastes a lot of things and says he tastes good that I don't necessarily agree with But I'm gonna try this I'm gonna give this a little advanced with his palette. Let's just put that yeah I'll try I still haven't tried your coffee rub. I'm gonna try this. I'm gonna give this a little advanced with his palette. Let's just put that out I have still haven't tried your coffee rub. I'm gonna try that first That one's a bit that one I can confirm and that's interesting that looked because he looked like he was making like a not almost like a stir fry Yeah, he writes on right there Doug Maybe Doug can screenshot and keep it for us. Well, we'll test that

I just you brought up organifi and that just from this was just like two days ago when he did that I thought oh I forgot to tell the guys about that I thought that was really weird yet more uses of it. I would never know. No, no. I mean, I'm interested I'm interested to try it at least weird while speaking of weird they just did a study and they've concluded I'm waiting for Adam like bullshit. They just did a study and concluded that sperm will survive on Mars. So that's good news. Wait. Yeah. What? Yeah.

I'll read the, I'll read the, I'll read the, I'll read the, what they, how to prove it. There you go. That's what I was waiting for. Where are they entering? I was, I was just waiting for that. No, it says here that, let me find it real quick. It says here that a new study published in the journal Science Advances suggests that sperm can survive on Mars for up to 200 years.

This means humans could one day reproduce on the planet. Literally pan spermia. And they said that experts previously believe that space radiation would kill sperm. A six year experiment on the International Space Station, oh, this is how they did it, showed that mouse sperm survived when exposed to radiation in space and x-rays on Earth.

Wow, what do they get, I think they're trying to eat mouse. I didn't literally thinking about building like a human civilization on Mars. Yeah, sure. Okay, so, I mean they're gonna try and terraform it too. So, okay, so let's talk about human behavior for a second. What has happened every single time, this is by the way every single time,

an empire grows across the planet, eventually what ends up happening, revolution. Every time, right? England comes to the new world, they create their colonies, we tell England to go fuck yourself, boom America. Every single country has done this. Could you see Mars doing the same thing?

At what point do you think people on Mars would be like, Earth, fuck you, I'm gonna do what I want? Well, they're gonna be a different type of person, for sure. Well, didn't you bring up that, that's like the number one fear is that, is like you get these people over here, and then there's nobody who's creating laws or rules and they're like, you're gonna have a,

it's like, wow, I think. Yeah, I think thinking about that, in terms of their colonizing, like, yeah, what kind of government system we're gonna have there and all that kind of stuff? That's what I'm saying. Like at some point, they'll revolt 100%. They'll be like, no, we're not listening to you.

We're going to do what we want now. And then what is it we're going to do? Like a war? Yeah. And somebody there wants to be like, hit hauncho. You know, and is like, and I try to try to get everybody on. And that'll never work. You know what I'm saying?

Who's going to, what are you going gonna elect some asshole that's gonna be like, I'm the fucking sheriff here? Yeah, I don't think that's what ends up happening when people are around at some point. Somebody says, I'm in charge, you know? And then that's what happens, that's gonna be weird. Well, just so weird, because it's, I mean, everything is gonna be basically

in a bubble there because you can't, it's inhospitable. Like, you can't go outside and breathe. Everything's just like basically, oh, I just moved from Earth into basically, now I'm in a bunch of warehouses. Somewhere else that if I step outside, I'm gonna die. Well, all right, speaking of weird, Justin, you're gonna love this.

Okay. So I just read this article on the big thing. You guys ever been on bigthink.com? Really cool website, really cool article. So here's the title of the article, US Navy controls inventions that claim to change the fabric of reality, this is the US Navy says this. So inventions with revolutionary potential made

by a mysterious aerospace engineer for the US Navy come to light. So the US Navy holds patents for enigmatic inventions by aerospace engineer Dr. Selvathota PS, so it was a cool name. He came up with technology that can engineer reality, devising an ultra fast craft, a fusion reactor, and more. Television. And they're saying, well,

we already have those. You already have those. And there goes Adam. Not that impressed. While mostly theoretical at this point, the inventions could transform energy space and military Sectors so now here you go. Let's have some fun with this Justin What does all that mean well? Here's where it says the the this is what they'll they claim that they can engineer reality

That the sci-fi designs for use by the US government range from gravitational wave generators and compact fusion reactors to next generation hybrid aerospace underwater crafts with revolutionary propulsion systems and beyond. Remember my theory about the UFOs? Yeah, so they're saying basically, we have all of this technology. Yes, we're behind this whole thing. Yes, remember what I said?

They're claiming this now, right? Exactly. Remember I said all these stuff, those are way of flexing. Yeah. Like we're trying to show everybody like, we got this weird stuff. So we've already been able to create that.

You think we've already gone through time and back? I don't know about that, but I think that it's highly plausible that the UFOs, that they're releasing, the videos of these things flying at ridiculous speeds, going underwater, changing directions, doing whatever, are actually our technology. And this is one more way that we're telling the world, you know, kind of tongue in cheek, like everybody else,

we're like, oh, we don't know what this is. By the way, we got this weird patent and so on stuff that theoretically could be. We got fucking alien gas, dude. This sounds just like an 8K television, this would all be. That's what it is. I mean, when you were just,

when you were just reading the definition of it, I couldn't get out of thinking of a television Like it's just VR. Yeah, yeah, we just created another world and it's in VR It's not at all. I mean go back and read your definition. It sounds like you're describing like a really really good TV It's not but it's like you're not you know manipulating gravity and going, you say gravity, I just heard reality. No, well, yes. Just say, but reality reality, not like a TV. The fabric of reality. Yeah, I mean, imagine being the, okay,

imagine if you were somebody, you know, thousands of years before and you got dropped into today and you looked at a television, would you not think that's exactly what that is? Yeah, but what the hell would the military care about that? They're trying to create weapons. You're gonna create a TV. You don't think they want good TV out there? No, they're still stupid. They've put good

TV. Hey, speaking of good TV, I got a show for you guys. I shot out to whoever it was to. I feel so bad when someone just shut out to random person. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a person. By the way, that's how shout outs worse. Yeah. Hey, real quick, I'm gonna think just throw it in there. Random person. Random bird. You know who you are., you know you are they're watching my guys talk about me. Thank you Adam. I know Comment in the comments if you would have been I get a lot of them and then a lot of them are not good That's what happened every once in a while there's a weed there's a weed good one No, I've ever ever been smoking weed so anyways, I go and check out this show. It's called a loop in L.U.P.I. In it's on Netflix. It's another one of those it was done somewhere else and then it's called Lupin, LU, P-I-N, it's on Netflix.

It's another one of those, it was done somewhere else and then it was popular there and then now it's brought over to US Goodson. I thought Lupin was a cartoon from back in the day, anyway, sorry. I don't know, but what it gives me the feel, if I were to describe it to someone, imagine if someone took the storyline

from usual suspects and built like a series. Okay, that sounds good, right? Like the main character and usual suspects. That sounds good. Yeah, right? I thought so too, so. And on Netflix? Now you also said, I heard this, you said you were watching,

I saw the preview for this and it just looked weird, but it's really highly ranked on Netflix. It's the one, what's the name of it, sweet tooth? Or the one with the hybrid, you know? Oh, no, I was asking, but I didn't watch that. Oh, you haven't seen it? No, I didn't even see it. I didn't even see it.

That looked really weird. It does. It's highly ranked though, but sometimes Netflix rankings are like, come on, bro. I don't know, I don't know, but I guess you put a lot of money into it. Really? You think they lie on that?

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know how that algorithm works. It's sometimes it feels, I remember when, remember I brought it up on the show, when I swear it was like just cause of spring break for like high school kids got out like the eight of the 10 were like these teeny-bopper fucking, you know, it's cheesy ass like.

Yeah, it is, it's called Sweet Tooth. It's highly ranked, everybody says it's, well, not everybody, Netflix says it's really good. I watched the, I watched the preview and, Like the CrossFit Journal, they're justifying everything. Yeah, I don't like it. Yeah, you guys wrote it.

Yeah, yeah. And so you get real scientists and- It's like Bill Phillips, a supplement review. Remember that book that you came out with? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're review all, yeah, yeah, yeah,

supplements just happen to be our second third. I have that book still somewhere. Brilliant marketing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tell me that's a smartest, more. Oh, but dude, remember, we got to see a scary movie while we're in Tracking without Adam. We we tried real hard to pull out of

Why it wasn't gonna happen. Oh, yeah, what'd you guys think of that? It was okay. It was okay. I liked the premise, but I just felt like it could have gone in. Okay, because there was people that were recommending that when I when I made the claim of Cruella, and you guys don't say no way. So here's my criteria for scary movies, because I think sometimes, and that's sometimes, a lot of times, it's either rating on that. See, that's what I'm saying, high rating, it's crazy.

It's crazy, I might have to watch it just for that. I'm gonna try it, but anyway. Here's the thing with scary movies. A lot of times, whoever makes them, relies heavily on the imagery to frighten you. Like, it's scary scenes and scary images. And I get that and that's cool, but if that's what the whole movie's about,

now less is more, we're scary movies. I need to have a good story. You want them around the corner, but you can't really distinguish what it is yet, and then all of a sudden it's right in your face. Yeah, and I want the movie at the end for me to be left like terrified like what? Like in this one didn't really like psychologically like damage me.

That's what I'm looking for. Totally. I redditary did that to me. Dude, you gotta watch that. That is fucked up. I have to get my big boy pants for that. Absolutely. I'm going to take a left turn on you guys right here.

Because I want to bring this up on the podcast and I need your support along hopefully with our audience to support so Three finally coming out. Yeah, that's what it was Not that long ago. It was like I don't know maybe two months ago When Katrina had her surgery. It was a little more than that now two three months ago when she had her surgery And I went to order her flowers. We're in a new place a new town So I don't really know a lot of the places and I found this online For a place now I thought it was

Originally in their town, but it's actually like a broker who has all these floral places at work farm And then you they build the bouquet and they deliver it to wherever you want it to go and it's actually Really really cool now and it's super affordable It's like normally when you deliver flowers like that, you're over a hundred bucks for like a dozen roses. It's not that at all. It was like half the price of what I'm used to paying and it was incredible service.

Now, I personally reached out, I don't do this anymore. Normally I send somebody on our team to go reach, but I said, get me a phone call with the CEO of this company because I want it for us. And I think it's kind of a different type of a sponsorship that we would do. And by the way, for those that are listening, like it, we haven't worked anything out yet, but I want to do something.

Now what I need from you guys is to one, try it out with your guys as wives and make sure that you guys hold. I'm in the dog house. You like it. That's nice. I'm not surprising herhouse. You like it. That's nice. I'm not surprising her now that you said, I'm like, yes. Well, and for the people that are listening,

I was literally going to surprise her, but now, Jessica, you're getting flowers. Well, hopefully you can get it to or before this episode actually airs, so we could still talk about it. But, and then our audience, if this is something that they would actually want to do, so that's what I'm looking for to see if there's any. But personally, myself, I like a service like this because I cannot send enough flowers.

It's like one of those things that I want to be better about all the time. I bet you like getting flowers too. I'm not against it. The pants of his tulips are. I mean, I like, I so I so I like the, I like the lines. I don't know, I like the smell of flowers in the house. Like I just, I'm more smell guy, so I like my house smelling fresh like that.

So I actually try and keep flowers in the fresh flowers. And that plus Katrina loves it. And it's an excuse to be her son. I like plants in general. So I like plants. But it's totally different from what we would ever mess with. But I thought maybe you guys are good husbands. That you guys would probably want to do something like that for your wives.

I figured we have a lot of listeners that are probably good. This was totally my idea. I was gonna give you a surprise, my wife, because she deserves it. Make sure she doesn't listen to our work. She thinks it's your idea. Alright, I hope so. So we'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see.

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Oh, the dreaded strength plateaus. What a pain in the ass there. Now at some point, you're gonna hit a plateau and everything because you can't get infinitely stronger if that were the case, which is unfortunate. Unfortunate, right? But it is a pain in the ass, right? So you have a particular goal you're progressing

and strength doesn't just come on your body on a consistent week by week basis. Just as it worked this way, maybe in the beginning, but eventually you start to hit plateaus and you kind of have to figure out what to do. So I'll tell you one of the easiest ways that I broke past bench press plateau way back in the day, and it's very silly, but it worked really well for me,

is I actually moved away from the barbell bench press and I did dumbbell chest press. And I did that for, I think I did it for like five weeks and it got really strong with dumbbells, went back to the barbell because there's similar enough movements, right? But the dumbbells require more stability. It's a little bit of different activation

and for whatever reason for me, it got me past the plateau that I was in and I was able to add, I think, like 10 or 15 pounds to my bench. I'll piggyback on that and say, like, to using a stability ball, is another way to get that leg drive. A lot of times too, like, that was something that took me, took me later on benching to realize

how much more stable and how much more forced output I could produce by really focusing on that leg drive, but also the stability and security of the shoulder joint itself. And so I feel like I've broken record all the time about talking about rotational movements and different things to enhance the overall stability of the shoulder, but that's something that I had to work through because I would always hit a wall eventually, you know, in my front-delta, and that was just something that would limit me in my progress.

So to answer this best, it would be most ideal to know what this person's routine looks like. Because there could be like a low hanging fruit here. Like so, let's say this person is trying to get better at their flat bench, but then they like never do barbell incline bench. And one of the best things that ever brought my overall

bench up was getting better at the incline bench. So I would drive in that position. Let's pretend they're doing that all the time, but they never do dumbbells to the sales point that I would put them towards the dumbbell. So knowing what you're currently doing for the bench press and what you do consistently, and then what you tend to miss or not do very consistently is the direction that I would push you.

Now there are some exercises that I also found later on that I wouldn't have thought that would translate to a better bench. Heavy weighted dips. Getting into dips and going really deep and heavy, because a lot of the most sticking point for most people is being able to get it off their chest, right? I mean, most everybody can lower it down to their chest, but it's getting out of that hole and completely being able to lift the way out of the hole, doing weighted dips really helped me out with that. I would agree, overhead presses, getting really good at a full range of motion overhead presses, really good to.

And then this is a more advanced technique, and I've told the story a hundred thousand times, but I learned this from one of my trainers. And that was to practice the bench press every day at sub, you know, sub like at low intensities. So in other words, it would be like, let's say 50% intensity. So let's say you can bench press 100 pounds

and 10 reps is your max. What he did is he would go out and he would do five reps with it and do a few sets every day. He just had a lot of practice, but real kind of low to moderate intensity. And I practiced this myself, and this is the first time I broke through three plates was doing that.

A literally bench press I think was like five or six days a week at low intensity and just got really good at it. A little nuanced things you can concentrate on too. This is what I'm realizing going through and teaching kids now how to do it in actual bench presses, you know, just making a nice tight fist and like gripping the bar properly and finding that position that's ideal for you individually and then also, you know, pretending that basically you're bending the bar and so now we're getting, you know, even more stability and control and more muscular tension involved.

And so there's just like a lot of little things you can do. And that's why it's beneficial to lighten the load, do it with less intensity and really hone in on the technique. Well, to that point, Sal, the priming is another great tip too. So somebody who is not priming before they go do their bench and you're spending the first couple sets getting in the groove, you're wasting a lot of energy on your chest and shoulders, trying to find the groove and get into position where if you do a really good job

of priming your upper body before you go into bench press, a lot of times you can get right after the heavy weight and you're not, you're not spending a bunch of energy. Next question is from Jessica, does what? What are the best hamstring exercises when all you have are dumbbells? Some of the best exercises for hamstrings are when you only have dumbbells. Your Romanian deadlift has to be one of the best hamstring exercises that exists. It's phenomenal for size development, shape of the hamstrings, and it's one that

I place near the top, regardless of the equipment that's available to me. I think a lot of people look at the hamstring curl machine and think that that's like a top tier hamstring exercise. Now, I'm not saying it's a bad hamstring exercise, I think it's got some value for sure, but I would not place it in the same category as a Romanian deadlift with

a barbell or dumbbells. It just really works the hamstring through the full range of motion. Now, it doesn't work the leg bicep through a full range of motion, but that's easily substituted. And so what I've done in the past with clients, because I never had a hamstring curl machine in my studio. And I trained a lot of clients, I trained myself. I have really, at one point, I really well developed hamstrings. And I would do lots of Romanian deadlifts with dumbbells, barbells, I would do good mornings with barbells. And then I would do, if I did

any kind of a leg curl, I would do them on a fizzial ball. Yeah, fizzial ball. I would do at the end of the workout, exactly. And I would focus hard on the squeeze. Yeah, have you seen now that they have those little boots that you can basically put? Well, you can put a hard on the squeeze. Yeah, have you seen now that they have those little boots that you can basically put? Well, you can put a dumbbell on the back here, feel. And so this has been like a new phenomenon, like that. I've seen a lot of people using on Instagram, but which is interesting because then you could still at least do like a standing leg curl with that.

But yeah, like, south, it's honestly like you're not going to get past the Romanian dead left. You're going to get the biggest bang for your buck with that. Single-lay dead left. Maybe one of the best exercises I've ever taught a client to. And I think that it's a fundamental movement that we should all try and keep in our routine as we age. I mean, when you talk about the benefits of hip stability and hip strength that- Oh, ankle stability, too. Yeah, I mean, yeah, you know, you get everything all the way up hips stability and hip strength that- ankle stability too.

Yeah, I mean, yeah, you know, you get everything all the way up to connect chain from the ankle up, but it's in particular like hips, right? I just feel like as we get older, we sit down all day long and we lose the good hip mobility and strength, so a lot of times when we lose the mobility, it's because we're also weak there, and just you having to stabilize your hips,

and then also load and do a deadlift, I just think it's one of the most important movements that everybody should do, and you get huge benefits from it. It doesn't take very much weight to blast your hamstring. So for me, that would be one for sure in there. The other one that doesn't require dumbbells or barbells, I forget, what is the name of the,

where you hook your ankles around like a barbell, it's on the ground and then you let your chest fall forward. Oh, what's that call? Oh, man, there's a name for that. I can't think of the name for that. So that's a really good. It's like a reverse hyper kind of, but it's got like a it's got a weird name. It's like a Viking or Roman or something. Yeah, I can't think of the name. That's hard. Yeah, no, there's a really good and you know, I saw one of our friends doing it. So you gotta put pads under your knees, you put your ankle, and then you, in most people will not be able to do it without.

Most people do the partner that, like, kind of holds their hands. Or a couple of ways. You could also do like a stick. You could do like a, like a PVC pipe or a stick to walk yourself down a back. It's just an early exercise. Another thing you could do is actually,

I saw one of our friends wrapping bands underneath their armpit, so it was kind of pulling them back up. Or you can use your arms and do a push up. Yeah, so there's different ways to regress the exercise because it is a little more advanced, but you want to talk about a blaster on the hamstrings. Yeah, that'll get you. Yeah, because you're going to get the stabilization with that too on the way down. Yeah. It's a heavy negative.

Yeah. One of my favorite hamstring workouts is Romanian deadlifts with dumbbells and I do a super set right to fizzial ball leg curls. What a great, and you get a great hamstring pump. Screams from doing that. Oh, it's one of my favorites. It's Nordic hamstring. Oh, there you go. I knew it was something like that.

Nordic hamstring curl. Yes, you got the band around us just there you go. Next question is from Ben Jammon Love. What are some ways to loosen up stiff hips for squats? Stiff hips. This is a stability and mobility issue, right? One of the best exercises generally speaking for the hips for squats is a 90, 90.

You get into position, you stay tight, try and sit up nice and tall, and then once you can stabilize that, because that alone for a lot of people is going to do a lot of work. Once you get good at that, then you can focus on doing what's called internal rotation with the back leg where you're picking up the foot while driving the back knee into the floor. That generally speaking is a good movement for most people.

Now, if you want something easy and you want to loosen up the hips for yourself and you're not looking for like lots of really good mobility, in other words, this is inferior. In other words, this is inferior. You're looking for less results. Well, some people look, some people getting on the floor doing 90, 90s are like, let me just, two blocks, with a hip circle, that can help a little bit.

Two blocks, legs swings. Yeah, I can't help but this question, I just can't get the image of Justin when he did a Friday fitness tip about a month or two ago for this. You remember the twerk? Yes. He walked back up. That listens to that one. I mean, it kind of does though.

I mean, it kind of will work a little bit. Yeah, there's something there. But yeah, 90 90 is just, I mean, there's regressions to the 90 90, which I believe we have on our YouTube channel too. So if you can't get all the way down in a 90 90 position, you can do it with a bench and elevate your legs that way. And it's a little bit easier.

But yeah, to me, 90 90 has been one of the best ways to prime my hips before I go into lifting. Two blocks and leg swings are also. Yeah, and it depends on where your lack of stability lies, too, to focus in a little bit more specifically. What the prime? So if I'm doing any more lateral stability, I could do a classic squat type of warm-up. If I need to address my hip flexor, that's keeping my range of motion limited, then I do a kneeling hip flexor stretch, things, that's like, you know, keeping my range of motion limited, then I do, you know, a kneeling hip flexor stretch, you know, things like that that are a little more specifically needed, but obviously 90, 90 kind of covers the bases, so that's always

a good one. I'll give you one, that's really good, and it addresses like, if you have an issue getting down on the floor, 90, 90, and you want something as good as a 90, 1990, I recently was introduced to the assisted Miguel Plains, which I got from Squat University guys. I don't know if you guys have ever done that for, oh my god, that's incredible. So it's just, it's the assisted Miguel Plains, so you just use like a barbell in front of you so you have, you can balance, extend one leg all the way back behind you, and then you, you're, Yeah, then you open the hips up Yeah, so you're keeping your your foot point is great

And then you and you have the assistance to help to take you through that in range of in range of motion You can actually hard then come back over. Oh, I like that. Yeah, you do like five reps on each side and boy I've done an unassisted and that's like really difficult to maintain balance That's right. So I that and that's why I didn't teach those that often because Miguel Plains is stabilizing as hard for the average person, much less trying to get them to open their hips. They're assisted Miguel Plains, and I saw Squat University giving it as a tip for somebody who's actually was trying to work on a discrepancy in their right to left in their hips. I went and started using it, and I was like, this is pretty sick. So if you don't have the time, or it's a little bit faster than getting down the 1990,

but something as valuable I'd say is that. I'm gonna try those tomorrow. I really like them. Cool. Next question is from Brandon LeeX. What's your main health concern for the next generation? Boy, you know, besides the one that is just on everybody's minds that we talk about all the time,

the obesity epidemic and all the issues that that causes. You know, the fertility issues are starting to become really alarming. I remember what the statistic was, but young men today have the same fertility as old men did decades ago, like a few decades ago, women today are losing the fertility at record rates, even young women. This is a bit alarming because it's like the canary

and the coal mine. As when you're not healthy, one of the first things that starts to go away is your ability to reproduce. So for men, sperm motility or sperm number starts to go down. Of course, hormones associate with those things, start to reflect that. With women, they start to have much more trouble conceiving and then trouble holding onto a healthy birth.

This is scary because this has profound potential effects in the future. Now in my opinion and my strong opinion, this is connected to the health epidemics that we've already been watching. You know, the fact that people are becoming more and more beasts, the fact that people are becoming weaker and weaker, this is by the way one that we haven't talked about a lot, which is we all know about the obesity epidemic, but we're just starting to realize that what's going along with that hand in hand is this weakness epidemic.

So like for example, there was a study that was done where they tested young men, a college men's grip strength. And these young men's grip strength was like, what you see a 60 year old man in the 1980s, which is, that's really, that's not very good, right? And with women, we also saw a weakening of their strength as well. This is not a good thing.

All of this is not a good thing. So I think what's happening is we're just, this is a reflection of how much we've changed our environment. We've made life very easy. Food is very easily accessible. It's not very healthy, but it tastes really damn good. And our microbiomes are being affected by antibiotics and by chemicals that we're constantly exposed to.

And so you've got all these different things coming together and now the scary thing is happening, which is holy shit, if we stay down this path, I think the last time I read about this, they said something like by 2040 or something, not that far from now, like a couple decades, we would lose our ability to procreate, which is that's not cool.

Yeah, I think just along those lines, the weakness part of it is something that I've really started to see more than I'm venturing outside of our bubble. We talk a lot to people that are in the gym and that are pretty focused on improvement and weight-rifting. Weight-rifting. Yeah. And that's something that they're into. Yeah, whoo!

And I'm just getting back into it and realizing that the general public, that's something that they're into. Yeah, woo, woo. And I'm just getting back into it and realizing that the general public, they're fascinated by working, like they have never been taught a lot of the skill of working out and being in the gym and lifting weights. And so there's just, to me, it's pretty alarming. I felt like growing up, that was a big part of how you played sports.

You had to get better in the gym in order to play better in sports. And I just don't see the same drive and the same appeal that sports used to have, which was a massive outlet for this country. And I know elsewhere to display your physical abilities. And I just feel like we've kind of shifted a lot more to video games and like professional video games even they're making more than professional athletes now. And so it's just interesting to see

the culture shift with all these types of things that have impacted just your average person. I'm gonna be a little less of an alarmist. I don't think we're gonna see anything. I don't think we're gonna of an alarmist. I don't think we're gonna see anything, I don't think we're gonna be able to reproduce. I don't think that's gonna happen. That or science will find a way to fucking fix that. And I also think that we tend to go one way

and get real extreme and then we all kinda wake up and come the other direction and over-correct. But the thing that I notice even about myself, the bad habits or behaviors or the things that I've seen myself start to pick up and do is that we have evolved to a place where very little movement is required to do anything and it's taking more and more effort to get out and just move. Period. I mean, I'd like to plan it. Yeah, I would like to say exercise and strength. That's been a problem forever. I mean, most people didn't strength train and exercise forever.

But what to me is more dangerous or scarier about the future is this how immobile. I mean, the way the body works is if you don't use it, you lose it. And so I'm worried about the generation coming up. Just we keep making everything so convenient and to your point about video games and your point about things being delivered to you and stuff like that. I mean, we're heading in this direction

where you're just not gonna move. I mean, not just no real incentive to do it. Right, exactly. There's no incentive to really do it other than hopefully that you would still be able to do it. Which I don't know if that's enough motivation for the generation coming up. And I also, again, back to my point when I see myself, like, we're fitness enthusiasts. And I still see how much my behaviors have changed.

I mean, I love door dash. I use things like that all the time. I have streaming everything now too. And so I don't go out and kill my food or pluck or pick my food. Like everything is brought to you. And I mean, I don't even go to the grocery store anymore. Since COVID and got used to using delivery service. So I've just, and you just start doing these things

and you go, oh, this is so cool and this is so great. But nobody sits down and goes like, oh, you know, in a year's time on average, I would go to the grocery store, say, you know, 50 times. And in those 50 times, I take X amount of steps, which is X amount of calories. And like, nobody is factoring that in. Like you've just pruned that off of your life, you know,

and that going forward. And we just keep doing that. So I'm most concerned just about that. The generation coming up, just flat out moving. Yeah, along those lines, you know, that there's a huge increase in kids with back pain and neck pain going to the doctor and they were blaming it at first on backpacks. In fact, some schools were telling kids, oh, it's where the front stuff went. You know, we're in the front or to have those rolling bags because they think that the problem was it's not

the backpacks. It's that kids are not strong. And they're not moving. They're not actually, and you're seeing forward head, you're seeing forward shoulder, you're seeing really bad posture, back pain. You know, I remember when I first got certified as a trainer, type two diabetes wasn't called type two diabetes. It was called adult onset diabetes.

And that's because only adults got it. So it's something that you developed as an adult through your eating habits and your lifestyle. Well sometime in the 90s, early 90s I believe, they changed the name to type 2 diabetes because kids started getting it. Well back pain was, that's non-existent for kids for a long time. Like when does a kid, unless a kid hurts themselves, like falls off something, but a kid never went to the doctor for chronic back pain,

you're now seeing this, chronic back pain and chronic neck pain. Well, you see schools eliminating a lot of their physical education because of the funding or whatever the case is, but there's been a lot less emphasis on physical education and outlets after school programs and things that they could be a part of.

And I really feel passionate about that. That needs to be a massive priority that we shift. They've done such a stupid job with it because A, they didn't value it. And they said, this is not as important as science and math. They did the same thing in music, by the way. And now we're finding.

Everything has to be cognitive. Yes. And what we're finding now is music and activity makes you better at everything else. And they're all very, very important. It's a long-term. And number two, they've systematically taken out some of the most valuable activities and games out of the recess and out of PE

because they're too competitive or because somebody feels left out. Yes, so stupid. Like the stuff that you learn, like what you learn playing games like that is are there important lessons? Is there chance of formative years where you're gonna have to learn these challenges. It's better to learn them early than to learn them way later in the work for us and you don't know how to deal with it. Mark my words, the next thing for them to start to remove from schools are test scores.

Mark my words. Why? Because some kids get bad scores and they feel bad and you can't have kids feeling bad because everybody needs to feel the same. Mark my words, gonna follow the same path that we saw with activity, which is totally ridiculous. And I think that'll be the death of public education

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