Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 158: Free weights v machines, women & chest exercises, junk food eating friends, explosiveness and MORE

Episode Date: October 1, 2015

In this weeks Q&A, Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about the difference between free weights and machines, periodizing occlusion training, if women should train the chest, tips on staying strong when the people around you eat like crap, the best exercises for explosiveness and headaches from working out in a fasted state. Please subscribe, rate and review this show! Learn more about Mind Pump at www.mindpumpradio.com

If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, with your hosts. Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. I'm gonna drag you into the... I'm gonna drag you into the... Fire it up, dude. I'm dragging you to motherfuckers. That's alright, I was just...

Fire it up, dude. Come on, fire it up, dude. Come on, fire it up, dude. Fire it up, dude. Fire it up, dude. Are we fired up? Adam's gonna talk up. Well, we're fired up, I can't. Fire it up, fire it up. Are we fired up? Adam's gonna talk about something appropriate, shit. Can we just, can we, can we segue him into this?

Like what's, we don't even know what he wants to talk about. Big butts in the can, oh, ah, no. You are the brother's touch my thigh. You know what, I can't, I can't, that's how it goes. I can't wait till we finally release these videos that we have. A lot of these listeners do not know this, but we've been recording these since day one.

Oh my God, you're right. And there's lots of material on there. We're like, Justin and Sal, when we're off the radio, we're talking about topics like anal sex. Whoa! What do you mean off air? Topic, topic, talk about subjects. We just, hello.

Hey guys, let's talk about butt sex. Sal, Sal, I was like, yeah, how does that much of an anal sex guy like you know I don't know why you so comfortable But the way you just said that, I don't know why you said that The way you said that, it sounds like like you like like you don't like it up to you said it I just repeated that's that what no No, you have said the comfortable with it. You have said it happening. You have said in the past that you don't like

Doing that kind of stuff. It's not that I don't like because you're approved. No, not at all I'm a filthy whore, but the here's the thing about it is Amel sex to me is kind of like a it's kind of you know, it's kind of a god It's really our we it's kind of a little dick guy thing What yeah, it's kind of a little dick guy thing. What? Yeah, it's kind of a little dick guy. No, what? Yeah, well, unless you're dating a porn star, most women's anuses are not big enough to fit a Pepsi sized Pepsi. Yeah, this really work. It's kind of like, did I go did that? He just he just alluded to that. That was that was trying to say that. Yeah, the size of a Pepsi. Oh my god. So I I guess small babies harm is that what you said before?

It's got asthma that's how much that's how You know we should talk about I love to make you guys blush. You know we should blush. Yeah, you're Here that's not like you guys are but you're like a fuck what is this but I'm gonna say that I'm gonna have to go back and tell my wife, honey. That was Adam Adam was doing that. It's finally happening. He talked about anal sex. It's about time. It's about time.

450 episodes. Finally. We should answer some questions out there in the table. We need to do a Q&A, but we need to start off with the anal sex ones. No, with a song. We need a song. Like a penetration song. We do. Something that the anal sex. No, what the song? Oh, we need a song like a penetration song. Oh, we do No, we just song just you got to come up with the song this time so that I can chime in I don't have a song Why do I always have that? I'm on some motley crew motley crew

Yeah, but girls I don't really like motley crew You're about to sing it. You worry about Tesla Tesla Sines and everywhere Rockin' up a seabed break in my mind Do this don't do that Get to re-sides That's a lame boom cell

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Yeah. Very annoying. All right, Doug, do you make a transition to get a sense? You know, you know, Q&A mode. You know, before we even do Q&A, what I realized, I was actually going back to some of our episodes and listening and one of the things that we used to do really well and I blame this on Sal he's the worst at this We don't introduce ourselves We have not done that we have not entered you know what a lot of people are listening right now

And they're hearing these names getting thrown around like who the fuck is who are these hyenas always laughing and farting Yeah, so this is mind pump radio. This is Adam Schaefer. I'm here with Sal de Stefano. That's me Justin Andrews. The guy of the room. Doug the spinner. That is I. So there you guys go, in case you were wondering. All right Doug, ask us some questions that we can answer.

I like our Nick. With our wisdom. We should do our A.K.A.s. You got the wizard, you got the scientist, you have the dude. You're the dude. I like that. If I self-proclaimed myself, I like the dude. That's perfect. Is Doug stuck with the spinner? I like Spinner. I like that. If I self proclaim myself, I like the dude.

It's Doug stuck with the spinner. I like Spitter for him. I can't. It's kind of like you know. Yeah, I think I love it guys. I love it. I actually after seeing him tonight, I think he should have a new nickname like maybe Pit Bull. Yeah, I like that one.

That was better. He likes it. It's a little tougher. Yeah. So we got the wizard the science wall dude and the Walla raging attitude. I Try Doug. I try to give you a tough one, dude

Take a run to the border Okay, Chihuahua. Could you go ahead and give us a Q&A here, right? and give us a Q&A here, right? Isn't that fit? It's good. Yeah. Just in paint. I'm really trying to give up to my name now. Justin Sallery just got cut in half.

So that is your fuck with the producer. Yeah, no, dammit. All right, we got one from underscore Am fitness underscore. They're asking about machines versus free weights. Apparently they haven't used free weights. My show. Okay, so here's the, I'll break it down real simple.

If you want, no, no, you're gonna break it down real nerdy. Actually, no, no, no, it's not nerdy. This is simple. I'm doing it. If you want less results, you should go with machines. Okay. I was I was actually gonna go a little nerdy for you. And explain machines machines were primarily designed for two things, right? For rehabilitation and high purchase. Those are the primary two reasons why they're there. So safety.

Yeah, and yeah, rehabilitation being number one. So, you know, if you got somebody with a major injury and like they're lower extremities and you're worried about compromising that, you might put them on a machine where they constrict some in a certain movement so you can work on something, right? But as far as... Bands are like 100% better anyway. Right, there's so many other things that you go through that theory. Through a freeway wise,

that would be more ideal for sure. Yeah, a freeway to far more superior and pretty much every aspect of fitness. If you're advanced, then you're doing lots of exercises, throw machines in to give yourself some variety and give yourself different types of, you know, resistance, you know, well, unless you move like animatronically, like, you know,

resistance, can you just, you know, right? Maybe somebody does that out there. It's the worst machine sound ever. It's like a broken rope. Broken rope. I never said that my sound effects were good.

Okay. I never dreamed that. Well, this has to be, this actually has to be. Whatever dude, you know what, you did that one with the, we're doing Falcon, you're talking about the predator and the little, like, oh, it's me. I remember that bro.

I took notes. Is laser, laser, laser, laser noise, laser noise. It's a laser noise. See? That is the weak. I picked up on it. You didn't think so. That's pretty good bro. That's the weakest laser I've ever heard didn't think so pretty good for us a weakest laser

I have not scared of your laser What if you had like a super powerful laser that I could blow a fucking house apart? What does that sound like but that's the sound it makes? Put the fuck it but it blows shit up. It reminds me of my young history You know he likes to shoot shoot like pretend guns and stuff. He goes like, B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B be sp- W- Get on that level. Way scarier. So, I would think that machines versus free weights with pits off Justin probably more than anybody else since he's the functional god in performance god over here.

Because I- And out of all three of us, I probably use machines the most. And the primary reason why I use machines- Because you wore a machine. It's primarily to fuck with all the other trainers that are in the gym because I love I love to do an exercise totally stupid on a machine and then watch all the trainers do it the next day So that's the number one reason I do it the second reason why I use machines pack Deck pack

It's because Lick extension Lick Extend Stuck The second reason why I would use machines is because I'm just bored. I'm bored of all the freeways because I'm in there seven days a week. Can I lift all the freeways? Yeah, once I've gone through the gym and I've lifted all the weights all these years for three hours.

I pick up all the freeways there. I pick up all the freeways, I put them back, then I go to the machine. Oh yeah, let's do that. Squirgy, squirgy, squirgy, squirgy. What the fuck are you doing? I got more, and you know the machine. Bro, I'm losing my mind. Get the fucking sound effect. I'm trying to bring it to a new level. Oh, there we go.

I'm like working out new material here on air. Are we giving any good information? I'll tell you the research right now. I'll tell you the machines I do use. I use the forum machine. Probably jerks. No, I use the forum machine because it's convenient and I like to fucking do the whole stack.

You like the whole string. I like to use machines where I can use the whole stack. That's about, seriously. That's what I got. If I can use the whole stack, I might use that machine. Okay, okay, honestly. And that's about it. It's just serious.

It's just awesome. On a serious note, there are times, okay, one, adjustment, front of the peck deck. I might go on there right before chest, and that's actually how I'll do like my warm up. Really light. Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, oh, stop it, bro, it's trying to be serious so we can get some good information. You dick. Okay.

So I might go in there and I might stretch my chest out, take it through full range of emotion, and I'm just being lazy, and I might stretch my chest out, take it through four range of motion, and I'm just being lazy, and I'm not even... To me, to me, to me, it's not even including that into my workout. This is me just kind of warming the body up. I'm utilizing the machine for something like that, and then I go over to where I'm supposed to be,

which is underneath the barbell or with some dumbbells, and lift free weights so I can get maximum results for my workout. The other time I might implement machines into my workout is maybe pre-exhausting something. So we've talked about this before with squatting and I'm trying to put emphasis in one place to the other. I've told women before that are trying to work on their glutes and they want to feel more of their butt from their squats and they seem to feel more in their quads because

they're quad dominant. I might have them pre-exhaust on like some glute kicks or like a a silly, you know, butt machine Before they go to silly but machine. Right. It's silly but machine watching the silly Right before they go do squats. So machines have their places. Don't get me wrong It's just that if you when you say machines versus free weights these guys start making fucking jokes and noises because It's to us. It's not even a close call. It's like you could never utilize a machine ever in your life and get the greatest body

from a free weight. For 12 years, 99% of the exercise you did were free weights because the gym I owned had cables and that's it. That's all I did was barbells, dumbbells, and then cables were all gone. That's the exception in my brain is the cable Yeah, because then you can do different you could do different angles that you can't do with weights because gravity more versatile Yeah, but

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That's all we're looking for so you Changing repetitions would actually almost defeat the purpose you want to stick to No, you just yeah, you just want to you don't want to do it all the time. Yeah, you know what I mean? No, periodize your workouts and at the end of your workouts do some occlusion. That's all. So your workout might change, but at the end you do, you throw in a couple sets of occlusion.

The you throw in there. And please, I have to say this every time because I know someone's gonna fuck themselves up. Occlusion must be done properly. If you do it wrong, there is a chance of injury and some danger. That's why we created a guide. So we have an occlusion guide available

at myimpumprado.com. If you really wanna learn how to do it properly. Well, I wanna say something about the occlusion guide available at myimpumprado.com. If you really want to learn how to do it properly. Well, I want to say something about the occlusion real quick before we move on to the next question. With the occlusion training, I will tell you something that maybe this is more along the lines of what he or she is asking with the pure dyes. I got into it when we first started.

I was so amazed by the results from it that, and I'm guilty, just like a lot of people are, you started to do something You see results all the time and then you start doing it all the time and I started to Stop doing some my traditional lifting and my regular phases of my strength power and and working like my cabs out And I was you do a whole workout occlusion. That's it. Well, not that I would do a whole work I would you know, I'd be doing it two three four times a week You know and mainly doing just occluding versus doing

all my strength training for that. And I actually started to see, I started to lose my dance. Yeah, no, it's an addition. It's like a turbo to an engine. You take the engine away, the turbo doesn't do a damn thing. Exactly. You need to have the engine. Great analogy because you need to do those other things.

So that if you find yourself taking blood occlusion and it's replacing what you were already doing, that's not a good idea. You want to keep it. It reminds me, occlusion reminds me of like trigger sessions. Like it's an addition to your tradition, your, your, your foundation workout. Yes. When you add it to a workout, you get great results. When you do it by itself, you get bit more results than doing nothing, but you're not gonna, it's not gonna replace your regular work. And that being said, it should only be a total of about five total minutes on addition to your workouts.

Max, actually, you don't wanna be included that longer than that. Yeah, no, it's, you can get necrosis. It's 30 reps, you know, 30 reps, 15 to 30 second rest, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, you do five sets and you're done. You know, you're done with it. You don't need to do any more than that. I love doing occlusion to the gym. People freak out, man. They look at me like, what the fuck? I know, I don't with it. You don't need to do any more than that. I love doing a clue to the gym. People freak out, man.

They look at me like, what the fuck? I know, I don't need to think of a weirdo. All right, Doug. Next. Beef it, Bree, should women train chest? Yes. Do it. Next question.

Yeah. Well, okay. So there was more to the question. There was more to the question. She didn't want to lose the boobs. And yeah, okay, you can't spot reduce. So working out an area won't make you burn body fat from that area Your body is probably just make your tits that up fire if anything it'll lift your boobs

If you get leaner you'll you'll lose some of your boobs. There's the way it is. Yeah, that's just getting me and avoid that But working out your chest will probably give you perky or breast And you know, I've noticed it, you know myself and in clients people have said that to me They they've trained with me and said to me, I feel like working out chest lifts my boobs. And it's true. Now, is there a scenario or a case where you might lay off a female's chest and maybe not work it out more and spend more time working on her posterior?

Is there a case? That's not it. We were not, and I said that. I'm talking about it. Adam never lays off the case there. Yeah, like let's talk about this more. Sometimes they should just comes out of my mouth. I don't even know what I'm saying.

What if they're fake? You know, you just got to know this. No, it's a case for. Yeah, well I think with with anybody, I'm kind of a soldier's dude. If they have really, really protracted shoulder girl, that's what I was searching for. That's what I was searching for.

Sometimes women will come in after having breath augmentation and then you have to be careful because you need to stretch the chest out and get the shoulders come back because they'll want to project naturally after augmentation. But yeah, if somebody has really, really bad forward shoulder where they're hunched over, you might want to lay off the chest a little bit and work on the muscles that pull the shoulders back to scapular retracting. That's exactly what I was searching for for me because there's been several clients, female clients, and I have a large chest and we have to help them out

and help them brace that because it's a nice guy. And I really helped them out. Justin will hold them up. I'm actually talking about building the muscles up in their back to help pull them. It's actually really common. I see it a lot, especially in the gym, when I see these ladies running in the treadmill and they have all the black guys

It just kills me because the woman I mean women in general I just believe whether you're believer in creation or not I believe that the women's physique is just it's just a beautiful thing the way it's built like I feel like It's like a moment of silence You know what you're not gonna get anybody to disagree with you in this room. There's no debate. No, there isn't.

And that's true. Look, if you picture, even picture like a good looking guy, right? And make it dude, it just doesn't look like we don't, we got shit hanging out, weird things looking and we're square. We got boxy. We got weird balls and all kinds of weird stuff. A beautiful one. It's actually crooked.

Yeah, things are kind of, things are tucked in, so it's kind of like, it's sleek. And shapely and hourglass look. Yeah. The female body is a beautiful thing. Now, the only time that I look at a female body and go, ugh. And it's not once someone's carrying a little excess weight.

It's when they have poor posture. When I look at a woman and she has this excessively rounded shoulders and it just takes away from the open seat. Here's what it does. It looks like they're not confident. I was just gonna say, it drops.

Very good, just a meaner. You know what's funny, Justin? So there's two reasons. There's a few reasons why someone might have a protractor shoulder girdle, tight chest, weak mid back, but sometimes it has to do with confidence. Sometimes people carry the way they feel and they'll kind of hunch everything forward

and hold everything forward. And I've actually had clients where I've trained them at pulling their shoulders back and they'll get emotional because they feel like they're the same thing. Yeah, you have you. Yeah, I have the same response where it sort of fosters this new side to this person that I haven't seen, you know, so they've done studies where if you so they did these studies where people went in and got an interview from a person a

Fake interview, but the person giving the interview doesn't know that some some of them are doing some one thing and others are doing another thing So what they do at the end is they judge the way the people interviewed So what they did is they took one group and they had them stand in what's called a power posture. So a power posture is you stand with your feet apart, your arms up in the air like you just won something. And you'll see this when athletes, anytime someone wins something,

bust a load. Right. Right. You just stop and push your arm down. Yeah, I do the same thing too. Yeah. Yeah. So when you stand with your arms up, I win. Yeah, I do the same thing too. Yeah. Yeah. So when you stand with your arms up,

the way, yeah, exactly. So what they did, they had these people stand for 30 seconds to a minute, I think like this, and then go into the interview. So the person doing the interview didn't know that they did this power posture. The people doing the power posture ranked as more confident and better in the interview.

No, shit. Consistently, and I've tested this. I have tested this. If you start to feel shitty Stand up put your legs out in arms out and hold them out open wide and hold that position for 30 seconds Even even doing it now. So you guys can't you guys can't picture what he's doing right now But he looks like the guy from YMCA and he's making the big Y so we stand it up and I'm wearing a police Yeah, he's standing up with his arms all the way up straight like in a Y like YMCA So that's what looks like. That's a power posture

And that will actually you'll get you'll get some effects of some confidence You'll release certain endorphins make you feel better same thing was smiling and all these different things So a lot of times correcting posture also change just changes the way you feel even because forget about the way you look Because you're open. You're my open. Mm-hmm. It's cool stuff. Everyone's what you say something I totally made that up. How's that sound? Oh, I'm just kidding Next question T underscore Remmily, I think it is tips on staying strong with your nutrition when people around you are eating shit I'm just gonna say get new friends You know what like you, you know, here's couple options. Go away grandma. I mean, just such a bitch. So, and I know these guys, these guys

are a little bit too far. A little different than I am on this. So you can take what I have to say, and either like it or not, can we'll get to them in a minute. This is where I carry my Tupperware right. I'm that guy. I'm a guy who carries around his Tupperware. He's the Tupperware guy. You know when I'm going to a party or I'm going to like a family event and I know I'm going somewhere where I'm going to be put in a situation where nobody is eating anything

that I can eat. I'm on a strict diet. I'm on my on my on my prep or whatever and I know what I can consume and what I can't. I know where I'm about to go. Nobody's gonna be eating that. So I'll bring my food and you better believe you better bet your ass when I first start doing that. I get made fun of people talk shit. People are constantly poking at me to oh I just have this. Oh you can't just have, and they're giving me shit. But you know what, the great part about it is like,

if you can withstand that and you can persevere through that, and then you can continue on with your goals, when you get to whatever it is you're trying to head to as far as your physique goals, whatever you're trying to do, it's amazing the respect that you'll get from those people because those same people that were giving me shit, you know, Years ago when I first started carrying my tap away around these parties are the same people now that anytime I come to a party There I were hanging around me wanting to know what I mean or better yet now

They call me and they want to know hey, what would you make or what what what what what do you need for us to to prep? Yeah, you're the trend center at that point. Here's the bottom line Think about it this way when you see someone you're walking trend center at that point. Yes. Here's the bottom line. Exactly. Think about it this way. When you see someone, you're walking around, you see someone that's really fit. I mean, really fit six pack, you know, nice delts, arms, legs, whatever. The reason why they stand out is because they're, it's not common. Yes, not common.

So think to yourself, you got to think that yourself. Are you a maverick? Right. Or are you just a guppy? Yeah, I'm not like everyone else. You know, that's what I say to myself. When I'm, when I'm eating with people and they're eating shitty food and I really want to and they're making fun of me,

I think to myself, I'm not like everybody. I'm like the minority that takes things very seriously when it comes to nutrition and exercise and this is my goal and that's the bottom line. So that's the mentality I have to go in. I am going to become someone that's gonna stick out because most people don't or can't do what I'm about to do. And that should empower you.

I know what does for me, so. Right. You have to own it though. It's just like the painted toast thing. You can't fucking be a dude and rock painted toes and not own that shit. You cannot let, you can't fold when everybody starts prod nature.

You can't get defensive and get all butt hurt about. I can get the ice cream. Exactly, it's gonna come. And you can't get defensive and, you know, get all butt hurt. I get the ice cream. Exactly. It's going to come, you know, and you like, like, like, southside, you have to, you have to be empowered by that. You got to take pride in that, you know, like, hey, I'm different. And you don't have to say anything about it. Like, I'm not somebody who, I'm not the guy who comes in with the six pack bags into the

party and like, look at me. It's like, I get it. And it's normally in the car in a cooler or what I like to add. And, you know, when it's time to eat or someone comes in and, hey, would you like me to make you play it or would you like this? I said oh no, it's okay I brought my food or whatever by the way one thing you can say because a lot of us will say this right your friend will say Hey have some pizza and say no, I can't That's an effective sentence. No, it's not. Don't say I can't because they're gonna argue with you in debate with you And they've actually found in studies that people who see I can't

10 to give in more than people who see I can't tend to give in more than people who say, I won't. Yes. So if someone says to you, hey, Sal, have some pizza. No, I won't eat any. And you know what's funny? More than half the time, they won't even go further. Right, it's great.

Because you've said, I won't. You know what I mean? Have some beer. No, I won't drink beer. And it's over instead of I can't drink beer. Well, why can't you? What's going on? If I say I won't.

Come on. If I say I won't, a lot of times we're beer, well why can't you? What's going on? If I say a word, if I say a won't, a lot of times we're like, well, okay. You won't. You won't. Much better word for sure. The other option, which I do utilize sometimes too, is that's when I actually incorporate my intermittent fasting. Yeah, so.

So I'm gonna bring that up. Yeah, that's what I need to. Yeah, if I do this a lot, when we're going, so Katrina and I, we go to the suite at HP all time, and when we're up there, it's catered and we get food and drink for free. You're fast. Yeah, I just fast. I just, you know, it's like being so comfortable in the fact that like if, you know, if nothing's to your pleasing, like, okay, I don't have not any right now. And guess what I'll eat later. Yeah. I'm not going to die. Right. You

know, like stop bitching about it and just control your own self. Exactly. And more likely, more likely, you talk about staying strong with friends that are more likely, you're not hanging out with your friends for 17 hours straight, you know, you're probably hanging out with them for a few hours, you're going to a movie, you're going to a concert, you're going to do something like that. Okay, well, I'm fine. I'm not hungry right now. I'm not going to eat right now. That's that simple, you know, I'm not going to do anything right now. We're just telling me have diarrhea.

I'm allergic to everything. That. That's that's simple, you know, I'm not gonna do anything right now. Just tell me I have diarrhea I'm allergic to A lot. Oh, they'll stop right there. Hey, you have some have some of these pizza. Oh, I got diarrhea It'll leave you alone right away. I will say though if this is something If this is the cauliflower if this is something that's very very I mean, I have to say that you know As I've gotten older I I mean, I have to say that, you know, as I've gotten older, I tend to hang around people and friends of mine that are either one on the same page as I am when it comes to health and nutrition or two or more accepting of it because I don't even want to deal with that. Like I don't even like, if I had a friend that all he did was eat fast food all the fucking

time, we're probably not hanging out that much. Just because as we're getting older, we obviously have different things in common because if he finds that a priority in his life to still be eating like that, I don't, you know. Well, there's somebody that cares and there's somebody that doesn't. Yeah, right. That's it.

It's like very simple. All right, spinny. Yeah. Spin, right. Next up is Kev Reynolds 26. The best exercises for explosiveness. That's just in houses here. Let's get explosive.

Blah. So Justin, before we get into explosiveness, what do you think of snatch? The snatch. I think it's ridiculous. So that's not a good exercise. No, okay, why? Hey, everybody stop doing it, by the way,

unless you are in a Olympic competing Olympic lifter. Okay, I'm just gonna throw that out there and I know I know I have a lot of colleagues and whatnot to do it, but most of my colleagues that do and they're very good at it are trained in Olympic lesson. They're very proficient in what they do and they've had Olympic coaches know, Olympic coaches, you know,

guide them through that lift. And it's not that like, and this is what pisses me off, because like my two, two of my best friends even are guilty of this, where I'm, I have to have conversations with my best friends about like, you know, no. Like what, like,

one of them like has CrossFit, you know, as part of them has CrossFit. You know, it's part of their workout routine. And then the other one, you know, he's just getting back into working out. And so, you know, my one friend works him out and he's having him do some CrossFit workout where they're doing overhead snatches. So that's not a good act.

If you had to pick exercises to build overall close. Probably the worst one ever to do as far as exposing, you know, and leaving your body in a compromised position where lots of things could go wrong. It's just a highly, highly, highly dangerous. Well, I was gonna say, let's talk about that because I think if I'm playing devil's advocated on the person who's promoting a snatch, which by the way, I'd never would. I would tell you like, oh, well, there's all these great benefits.

I mean, it's a full body. I mean, you're, you're stabilization in there. There's power that's in there. There's, I mean, all kinds of great stuff going on. Well, it's, it's, it's an exercise that's super technical. And the really the only reason why you should do it is if you're trying to get better at it. Exactly.

If you're trying to build explosiveness for a sport, it's not very sport specific unless you're, maybe a, I don't know, a professional wrestler where you pick some up above your head and you squat with them. But even then, here's, here's something I'd be more comfortable with. or maybe a professional wrestler where you pick some above your head and you squat with them. I can't even put them in the office. Here's something I'd be more comfortable with. It's WWE wrestling. Picking weight up off the ground

and then throwing it over your head. That'll give you, that's better. Way better. Yeah, way better. Why are you trying to stabilize that momentum and then get your shoulders to retract all the way back and then also stabilize all this momentum of weight and then squat down into it. You know that like a CrossFit guy did that competing and it fell and severed his spine.

He's horrible accident. Very, very horrible accident. And he's forever like paralyzed. That's horrible. And people just wash that, you know, brush that under the rug like, oh, hey, oh hey, you know, things happen. Guess what? It wouldn't happen if you didn't do that. Yeah, it's a...

And it's a super technical exercise. Just listening to me people, okay? Just stop doing it because you're not qualified to do it. Unless you want to show me that you're competing Olympic lifter or you've been trained by a competitive coach at a really high level coach. Well, what is a good explosive exercise then for people that you would recommend to someone who wants to build explosive?

I mean, I love power cleans and I'll do different variations of power cleans from the floor, from the hang snatch, from a hang clean. And I'll even do snatches with like a dumbbell or totally different, totally different. Totally different to do a snatch of dumbbell area. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So just to throw that out there to not like, naysay, like the whole,

all these explosive movement, all these explosive movements with barbells are technical. It's technical. Even a hang clean, which is the easier version, is still technical. But here's what I, I don't know, what do you think about this, Justin, because I've done this with some athletes.

Okay. Because it's so simple. Like I don't have to focus a lot of time on teaching them technique. It's I'll have them do a kettlebell swing and they'll throw the weight, like we'll go to the park. Yeah. Do a kettlebell swing and throw the weight

behind you as hard as you can. Okay. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, see. And I'll also do it out and front the weight behind you as hard as you can. Okay. Would that be good? Yeah, that's good. And also do it out and front and front. Yeah, exactly. And it's really what you're focusing on is, yes, is that first move anyway. Like we're not trying to, I mean, a kettlebell swing in itself is very technical, right?

Because it's ballistic. And you have a lot to account for as far as decelerating the weight, then driving through and exploding. A lot of people do kettlebell swings wrong. And I see this all the time. a lot to account for as far as decelerating the way than driving through and exploding. A lot of people do kettlebell swings wrong and I see this all the time and it's bad. There's ways that you can hurt yourself with that. So anytime you're trying to move weight faster

and do this, you know, at an accelerated pace, the odds start getting stacked against you as far as like things that could go wrong. And so just to throw an added caution to that, just because I feel like people don't really take it seriously. And I'll do anything from a power press where I'm doing a jerk press or I'm doing something where I'm throwing a barbell up and I'm trying to accelerate and Really get some speed from the from the instant of contraction

So there's there's different it just depends on on what you're trying to do if you're trying to press Pull if you're trying to jump. It's really about speed of contraction speed of contraction and it's it's it's provide It's it's like activating and stimulating that activation at like a very quick, you know, efficient pace. What do you think about things like box jumps and jump lunges and things like that? Like ice skater movement. Absolutely. Multiplaning or types.

But like I explained in the one episode, like it doesn't need to be for a long period of time. No, you don't do them for too long. No, yeah. Like, I mean, like 30 second bouts, you know, you know, a few reps here and there, very diligent reps. You know, it's about that initial contact on the ground and then exploding and driving out of it. I would say the two people that should do movements for explosiveness are athletes or

people who are very advanced. Other than that, I don't see explosive training benefiting really almost anybody. You know, I mean, would you have an intermediate or beginner do anything explosive? No, but a lot of people do though. A lot of people do because of the high calorie burn. Well, I think it just looks fun and it'll be challenging.

It creates a new recruitment, right, in your body. So they're gonna get that adaptation because of that. So they see change. So that's the problem is you start, if you've never trained that way, you start training that way, you see change your physique, you burn calories. It's sort of watered down though,

because you'll see like these Instagram, even like some of these girls that are doing like these squatted jumps. But they're not jumping apart. They're pathetic. They're not trying. They're not trying. They're just me.

How do you really feel? I'm just, I cringe because it's like, why are you doing that? Well, they're not doing this. They're just trying to be cute. They're not doing it to explode off the ground. They're just jumping. They're just jumping. Yeah, so if you just jump, you're not

going to get the effect is if you're jumping hard. You're jumping, exactly. There's a total difference in effort and what you're actually trying to recruit. Well, here's something a lot of people don't really be exposed. Here's something people don't realize is that if you just get stronger, you're actually trying to recruit. Well, here's something a lot of people don't really be exposed. Here's something people don't realize is that if you just get stronger, you'll be more explosive too.

Yeah. Like, it strength contributes to explosiveness quite a bit. Oh, well, I'll tell you right now, being a basketball player my whole life, I couldn't dunk a basketball until I started weight training and squatting. Yeah. I mean, I did all the exercises that you're supposed to do.

All the jumping, the jump shoes, the calf raises did all the exercises that I used to. All the jumping, you know, that's just. Yeah, the jumpshoes, the calf raises all the shit. We were supposed to be playing stronger legs to press into the ground. I never had the legs. And then when I started squatting and started heavy squatting, all of a sudden, and then I'm, and you're talking,

I was like 30 pounds heavier. It was, and that's what, I mean, I go back down, I think, oh my God, I wish I had that knowledge as a kid. Because if I could jump 30 pounds and dunk the basketball now heavier, I was a skinny little twig if I was just squatting back then when I was a kid, I would have been jamming the ball like when I was a kid in high school, but I didn't have that knowledge back then.

Yeah, and I mean, if you spend a lot of time just on the near muscular connection with that, like if you really focus on like, you know, specific drills to activate and get more recruitment. And there's ways that you can do that. And you can do like isometric work to really fire up, you know, that response. You know, if you don't have that pathway opened up, you're not going to be able to recruit. Well, what is necessary for that?

Wouldn't you say a lot of it's neurological, right? I mean, exactly. Well, that's, that's how you're gonna be able to contract at a high velocity. Because you could even take a connection. You could take even a regular squat and traditional and really concentrate on your eccentric face slowing down that when you get right to the bottom,

boom, exploding up out of it. Well, it's crazy about it too, is like, and I sort of alluded to it when I posted something and I was trying to do some hang snatches. I keep saying snatches, but I don't do snatches. It was a hanged clean, and it really was like, I wasn't focused. When I wasn't focused, my body didn't perform the way I wanted it to.

It was so evident to me. My mind connection was not there, and I didn't get the response that I wanted to. And it was so evident to me, like that, it was my mind connection was not there. And I didn't get the response that I wanted to. And then so I had to drop the weight and then just start over. And once I dropped the weight, start over, focused, you know, like actively thought about it and like what I needed from my recruitment, boom, fired harder and then pounded and drove it and was perfect. But that does, that plays a huge role. And it's something that, I mean, even on the highest level, you're going to get these like psychologists coming in, you know, sports psychologists to come in to try and like,

you know, reconnect that focus. And because there's so many things externally that block that connection that you have. And if people can get really good with that connection, it totally translates on the field. And you just perform at a really high level. It's that zone. Everybody seeks for that zone. And that zone is the connection. And if you don't have the connection, And that zone is the connection. And if you don't have the connection established and you haven't been working on getting stronger and firing those muscle fibers up

and really working on your muscular connection, then you're not gonna get that kind of response that you want. So that being said, there's less of a best exercise for it. And it's more learning that connection is more important than anything, because you could do- You could do explosive anything, right? Yeah. there's less of a best exercise for it, and it's more learning that connection is more important in it, because you could do- You could do explosive anything, right? Yeah.

Yeah. And you could be doing that. You could be doing an exercise like a jump box that could typically be considered explosive, but you could be doing it so poorly that you're not really getting a lot of benefit from it. You're not focused. Well, and I think that too, why that's at the pinnacle

of the, when you periodize, like a training protocol. So, because strength in somewhat, you don't have to be super focused because the load is there to provide that for you. That focus right. And so when you get into the power phase, it's so it's so mental because what you've already established is there. You know, all your strength is there. You know, your size, you know, your whatever it is that like your body consists of like it's there. You've built that. Now how do I use this? That makes sense because if I walk out of the cage with 300 pounds on my back to squat, I'm focused because there's heavy ass weight on my back. But if I'm holding, you know, 100 something pound, you know, barbell, and I need to clean that as hard and fast as I can.

If I don't put my focus into it, I'm only gonna move it as fast as I need to to get it up. Right, so that's great. Very good point. All right, Doug. All right, next up, be underscore Reynolds 23. Does working out in a fasted state increase likelihood of exertion headaches? Maybe, maybe it could.

Other exertion headaches. When you're working out hard and you start to get a pounding headache. I don't know if I ever got it now. Yeah, that can, okay, so theoretically that could probably happen because when you're fasted and you start working out, you might get more vasodilation. Your blood vessels might open up a little more, especially if you take a pre-workout. And that extreme vasodilation with the high blood pressure from the lifting weights might cause you to get a headache.

So if it happens more than once, then you probably shouldn't work out fast. It's not for everybody. You might do a little better having some pre-workout carbohydrates. When you train faster, do you train at a very high intensity? I always train at high intensity, I do too. I think it's a matter of getting adapted to that though. If this is still new, you know what I mean? It might be too, like the energy levels might not be there yet, right?

You might not be, I don't know. Well, here's an adapted to that. I'm just not adapted to you. And I'm not responding well. I use my fasting, you know, intermittently. So I throw it in there, you know, every once in a while into my routine. How long before you eat you, I mean, before you workout, do you eat or how soon? Well, okay, let's say typically if I do a fast, I'm doing like a nine to two type of fast.

Okay. So nine p.m. and then I normally get my workout probably around new. So I normally break the fast with my workouts. That's what I'm saying. that's what I'm talking about. Yeah, so at the end of my end of my you know fast is working out And then I eat after that right so I'm at the very end of the fast so you work out hard while fasted well I mean harden you know, I don't know how intense this person is talking about because if you're working out so hard I'm getting a headache like I don't train I mean I went when I train so hard that my body feels nauseous or dizzy or I could Puzzle I mean I'm mean, I'm not on me fed

It depends on the individual dude look I've had yeah, I've gotten a headache a couple times And there's certain exercises that I'll do it pull-ups if I do pull-ups like if I start ripping out pull-ups But that's again because my I'm so my veins are so dilated I'm gonna put it out there like I'm wondering if you was dehydrated Yeah, just hit it all for me. Yeah for for me, like I know that I've gotten headaches, but it was just because I was the hydrate. I know that as a fact. That's a great, I tell you what,

that's one of the biggest things when I got into competing and I had to start tracking my water. I never really realized how much I under drink. And now like it's most people, yeah. I mean, that's why they gotta be. I know if I'm somebody who's into fitness and I track and I do that stuff, I carry the stupid gallon around. Guys, that's like the biggest thing

that people like realize when they have to like stop everything and even just focus on, well, I have to drink water and like, oh my God, I like never, sal right now is drinking water. It's crazy how much we under, and you know what? Just like I guarantee, and I know, because all my clients are the same way too, is everyone's just like me, just like I said.

Oh, I drink lots of water. And then I started actually measuring it, and I watched it. It's totally different. I'm like, holy shit, that's what I thought was a lot of water. I'm though it, now I drink two to three times that amount of water, night and day different. I mean, energy levels too, like I-

Energy skin, appetite, mood, everything. I mean, you can do anything better for your body that's simple, it's like just drink more water. Now, can you, can you drink too much water? No. Yes, you can. Three gallons in an hour.

Yeah, well, if you're doing a challenge like that, I'm a radio host. I wanted to say that, you know why I said that? That's about it, because there have been cases where people have done like these water challenges. Like a handful of people. And they'll fucking drown. And they'll fucking drown themselves.

If your pee is almost like a clear yellow, you're drinking enough water, typically. If it's super clear, like it looks like water, you might be a little too much. But that's it. I mean, that's a other way. Dude, that's not even too much. You can drink that much water.

Do you have to? Well, hold on, hold on. I'm not, you know what, I'm not done. If you need a high protein diet, and you have, you know, sodium in your food, and this, but not, you can drink a'm not done. If you eat a high protein diet and you have sodium in your food and this whatnot, you can drink a lot more, especially if you eat a high protein diet. You should drink a lot more.

If you've got sodium in there, if you're stripped of sodium and you're all drinking water, that is basically if your pee is too salty, you know. You just taste it. You just taste it. Yeah, but I think that's a great point. What Justin said, because it's probably a good,

that's probably a hydration thing That would be the first thing that would go after it is seeing how hydrated you are going into your workout and how much you're drinking I put I put almost three quarters of a gallon down before I get into my workout and I put down a whole gallon of water while I work out So I mean, that's that's a lot water. I'm a big guy compared to the average person But if you're not putting down quite a bit of water Well one thing I like about hanging out with you guys is that we all pee a lot like something like I'll be around other people And I'm always I feel like I'm always going pee and they're like nobody's taking a piss I'm like fuck is I'm wrong me, but then when I hang out with you guys while we're recording

Well, we'll record for like three hours. We have to we all take like five pips every time I'm waiting for this one day and I know it's bad right now. You gotta go right now I'm gonna tickle you before you go this time. I'm waiting for this one to end. Can I get a post bad right now? You got to go right now? I'm going to tickle you before you go. This time I want to taste it. God! Thank you for listening to Mind Pump. For more information about this show and to get valuable free resources from Sal Adam and Justin, visit us at www.mindpumpradio.com. Until next time, this is Mind Pump.

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