Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 1661: How to Learn to Pistol Squat, the Muscle & Performance Benefits of Spiking Insulin, Meat Based Protein Powder Review & More

Episode Date: October 13, 2021

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about the best way to progress to a full unassisted pistol squat, developing quads when you are glute dominant or glutes when you are quad dominant, spiking insulin before the gym or after the workout, and the quality of carnivore/meat based protein powders. Ben Greenfield, Captain Springboard and Pseudoscience. (5:17) What is semen retention, and are there any benefits? (15:34) What message are we trying to send our children? (18:55) Attack of the fruit flies! (22:25) X-men, no more? (24:16) Woman's depression was cured by targeted electrical brain stimulation, a first, pioneered by UCSF researchers. (25:57) Alarming news with Sal: US homicides increased 30% in 2020. (31:23) Rad is coming back to theaters! (33:53) Irresponsible purchases with Mind Pump. (36:10) Your worst fans are usually the people closest to you. (44:26) #Quah question #1 – What is the best way to progress to a full unassisted pistol squat? (49:24) #Quah question #2 – What is harder to develop, quads when you are glute dominant or glutes when you are quad dominant? (54:46) #Quah question #3 – What is more important, spiking insulin before the gym or after the workout? (58:46) #Quah question #4 – What do you think about carnivore or meat-based protein powders? (1:03:39) Related Links/Products Mentioned October Promotion: MAPS Anabolic and NO BS 6-Pack Formula – Get Both for $59.99!    How A Simple Stick Developed Into One Of The Most Advanced Muscle Self-Quantification & Isometric Training Tools That Exists. - Ben Greenfield Podcast w/Justin Andrews NCI Certifications x Mind Pump Semen Retention: Origin, How to, Purported Benefits, Risks Mind Pump #1660: Wokeism, Equity & Social Justice With Gad Saad The maker of popular selfie app Facetune just landed $135 million at a unicorn valuation Portion of South San Jose under state quarantine for oriental fruit flies Marvel May Change X-Men Name To Make It More Inclusive A custom brain implant lifted a woman’s severe depression Homicides up 30 percent in largest increase on record, FBI says RAD Heads Back to Theaters for One Night to Celebrate 35th Anniversary Visit NED for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! Visit LivON Labs for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! Visit Paleo Valley for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Promo code “Mindpump15” at checkout for 15% discount** Step-By-Step Instruction on How to Pistol Squat – Mind Pump TV Two Ankle Mobility Exercises To Increase Your Squat Depth! - Mind Pump TV The Myth of Optimal Protein Intake – Mind Pump Blog Do I Need a Protein Shake Every Time I Workout? - Mind Pump Blog Mind Pump Podcast – YouTube Mind Pump Free Resources People Mentioned Ben Greenfield Fitness (@bengreenfieldfitness)  Instagram Dr. Gad Saad (@doctorgadsaad)  Instagram Bodybuilding.com (@bodybuildingcom)  Instagram Jon Call (@jujimufu)  Instagram

If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, with your hosts. Salta Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. You just found the world's number one fitness health and entertainment podcast. That's right, this is Mind Pump. Congratulations! So in today's episode, we answered some fitness and health questions, but we opened the episode by talking about current events and scientific studies and we talk about our sponsors.

That's the intro portion, so it's 46 minutes long after that we get to the fitness stuff. So here's what went down in today's episode. We opened up by talking about Ben Greenfield, our good friend in the fitness space, who interviewed me recently, so we had a great conversation around that, and it led us to talking about good coaches and good trainers, which then led us to talk about NCI certifications. This is a coaching platform certification course that is phenomenal for coaches and trainers who like to work online. They literally work on developing

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some free training nutrition courses for our listeners. So you get some free stuff, you don't have to pay for anything, go over there and sign up. Then we talk about studies revolving around seeming retention. Yeah, I know, it's crazy stuff. We love stuff like this.

Then we talked about fruit flies. I guess there's fruit flies here in San Jose and quarantine. The tag of the fruit flies. And then we talk about how X-Men is changing their name because it's not inclusive. So who knows what they're gonna call them soon. Yeah, who knows. Then I talk about the woman who had a brain implant

which solved and cured her depression. Very interesting. Then we talked about how there was a 30% hubbicide increase across the nation last year. I don't know, you think they should continue to try to defund the police? Maybe that'll make it work for them. Right now, that'll be a good idea.

We'll see what happens. Then we talk about the crappy movie that Adam and Justin seemed to love, right, I guess it's coming to theaters. I don't know. Oh, dear, you said. We'll see what happens. Then we talk about irresponsible purchases.

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This person wanted to know how to get to be able to do a full, unassisted pistol squat. The next question, this person wants to know, what is a harder situation to be in? Quads that don't fire when you do lower body exercises or glutes that don't fire well when you do lower body exercise. So in other words, quad dominance versus glute dominance, which one is harder to solve? Astortize.

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I don't know if it has an air yet, but it was on Ben's, it was always a good conversation with him. But you know, he's asking me a lot of questions, because you know, you guys know Ben, right? He's super into optimizing and the most effective and what's the best. Did he do it, I think he did, because this is what he's notorious for.

And he did this the very first time we ever met and he always does this. He always likes to ask a question that he knows the answer to, and he's really just testing us to see how smart we are. He's likes to ask a question that he knows the answer to, and he's really just testing us to see how smart we are. He's like a springboard. Yeah, no, you know what? He's like springboards is question all the time. Actually, no to be honest,

he actually sent me like three days before the interview, a list of things he wanted to talk about. Really? Yeah, which, which, I'll tell you what, I've been on a million podcasts. You don't need to do that. I don't care, bring up whatever you want. That's all I'm exaggerationable. Yeah, say what?'ll tell you what I've been on a million podcasts. You don't need to do that I don't care bring up whatever you want. I'm exaggeration. Yeah, say what? Yeah

I mean at this point probably feels like yeah, I'm gonna get better about that I'm really I'm bad for doing that probably closer to Like a million of this it's probably be closer to 50 to 100 something like that. Oh, no, you're over that But I'm at 50 to 100 yeah, so yeah So I don't you don't need to give me no. It's just ask me questions Yeah, I'm sure I'm if I don't know the answer I'll say it on I don't care so I don't, you don't need to give me no. It's just ask me questions and answer them. And if I don't know the answer, I'll say it on I don't care. If I don't know the answer, but he sent me a list.

So no, he didn't do that, but he did do that the first time. We met him. He actually did it to you because you were the jack guy, right? Yeah, yeah. He's like, so Adam, what do you think of Adam? Break down, so arms for me. Yeah. What do you think of, you know, selective,

you know, androgen receptor modulator? Yeah. Likely bro, Sal? Likely bro, Sal. Yeah. So what do you, what do I think about that? Can you interpret this for me, Sal? Yeah. Likely bro, you? Likely bro, Sal. So what do I think about that? Can you interpret this for me, Sal? Yeah.

Likely bro, you brought your nerd with you, you know what I mean? Hold on a second. Do you know, I would do the solo pod, you know how terrified I was to do solo podcasts with that guy? I worked the habit way back in the day. I forgot about that. Yeah, it was like, and it was,

cause you know, I'm trying to promote the thing and whatever, and he graciously brought me on the show, but like at the same time, terrified. Because I know how he is, like a same thing. Like, he was gonna throw an acronym out there or like some kind of like super random like related to your product too. And Justin's like, I don't know what that is.

What's the best supplement for like isometric training? Like, I have no idea. You probably know. Did they take you on like crazy like swim adventures and cold dips? Oh yeah, it was it was a wild time, dude. We yeah, we mushroom forging, mushroom forging, frisbee golfing, jumping of freezing cold water, watching Kyle almost drown. Yeah, he's a unique, he's a good guy. He's just he's a unique individual. I love talking to the guy, but, you know, he likes to ask questions like, what's the most effective form of, you know, X?

Or what do you think of some, you know, kind of out there biohacking device or whatever? Yeah. Now, you know, my answers come from my experience, which is like, you guys, right? We train and coach people. Well, your answers come from your experience plus your knowledge of reading and stuff too. It's not like you're just people. Well, your answers come from your experience, plus your knowledge of reading and stuff,

too. It's not like you're just experienced. Well, what I mean by that is, if it's just off my knowledge, here's a good one. So, you know, NCI's really good at this. NCI, which is a certification course that trains and coaches, trainers, which now we kind of work with and are a part of, they do this really well where they teach their coaches how to be effective, not just how to give the right They're about application. Yeah, so then they are about science. They take the science

They disseminate that for the average coach or trainer and then teach you how to apply that in a real world If it's applicable at all right, right, right or just say forget it. We don't even need to deal with right So he asked me a question for example about Stim machines what I think about STEM machines and do they help build muscle and that kind of stuff? Now, as somebody who's trained everyday regular people forever, waste of money. Total waste of time to look at STEM machines

because the average person needs to focus on. That being said, I own one, and you probably own one too. Right, now if you're like dialed, like if you're banned, right? And you do everything, and I'm like trying to squeeze out 0.5% performance. I'm gonna look at all this other kind of weird stuff and maybe I'll apply something like that. But, Tim, I'd never really promote because the average person could fix their workout programming,

could do some stuff with their diet, can sleep a little better, maybe do the better exercises versus the ones that are not effective. Which makes it a bit of a... Which makes it a bit of a journal stimulation, which is not as effective as you basically promoting that.

Yeah, it's not, and also. I think it has everything to do with your budget. Like if you got throw away money, just like with supplements, I mean, I feel the same way even about that. I mean, and you're a perfect example of that. Look at all the supplements you take. Yeah.

Yeah, we talk all the time about going through food, doing everything all naturally. But that's because again, I think you're, we're trying the time about going through food, doing everything all naturally, but that's because again, I think you're, we're trying to speak to the average person who's going, hey, I've got $300 budget that I can put towards my health and fitness this month, should I get this supplement, should I get that someone? That person, I'm saying no way.

No higher coach. Yeah, if you're paying attention to, if you have a budget like that towards, like don't waste your money and time on something like that, but hey, if you've got disposable income and you want the competitive edge and you're checking all the other boxes, then why not? Yeah, and to give you an example, and then I want to go to STEM, because I do think it's an interesting conversation, because it's something that a lot of people are now promoting

is this way to build muscle. And it's applied differently than the way I think we saw it when we were trainers and coaches. But to give you an example, if somebody came to me and said, hey, what's the, which form of cardio is the most effective for, you know, for me? If I'm just going to give you the right answer, I'm going to say, what I mean by right answer is what the studies will say.

I'm going to give you the one that burns the most calories. I'm going to say running. Oh, go running. Now an experienced coach would say, which one do you like the most, or what have you been doing? Right, because I know the one you like the most is the one you're probably gonna do. And what you've done in the past,

makes a difference in terms of what you should do now. That's just an NCI does that really well. Now Ben comes from the side where he wants the, what does his science say? Right. So he brought up STEM. Okay, so we should talk about this. So STEM, as we knew it, was rehab equipment, right?

You put it on a muscle, it makes the muscle tense. So I still think is the best use. Yes, me too, it helps kind of reduce atrophy, it doesn't prevent atrophy, but it reduces it. If you can't, if you're like immobilized, you can't move your leg, cause your legs in a cast or whatever, get the quad flexing, all that stuff.

Well, the way they're applying it now, I don't know if you guys have seen this machine, and machine will take recovery. And we'll know. Have you seen these machines where they put super powerful stem machines on a muscle and then they make you do an exercise? I saw him, okay, so he must have asked you

because he, and of course, he's tied to something. Yes, promoting it. I saw him doing the exactly what you said. He was hooked up to some crazy machine, all on it wires all hanging on his bike. And he's doing the salt bike. Yes, the salt bike, like his intensity could. I'm probably just found the salt bike, too.

Yeah. I was like, do you know that's been around for like a million years. Well, I see, so I see other people in the, I like to use a million years. I know, a million years. They found in the cave. Yeah. Until we get to Ne it in the cave. Yeah.

Until we get to Neanderthals later. Yeah, that's why they were so good. They, the way some people are using it for muscle building is they'll like, let's say I'm doing squats. They'll hook me up, they'll hook my quads up to this machine. While I'm squatting, it fires an electrical signal at my quads and makes the exercise hyper-hyper-intense. I saw a girl doing dead lifts with her coach had had her all-hood to that and I thought it was

the stupidest thing ever. Yes, so now here's what it does. It'll make you really sore. It dramatically increases the intensity. It's a six-mustle damage. It's so will if I take a baseball bat and hit you with the side, like you fucking do deadlifts. It does kind of sound like that.

I'm gonna throw a mess in bought you while you're doing a squad. Let's make this harder. Well, when I told him, as I said, yeah, intensity is great. It's something you should manipulate, but it's not the only thing. And if you go balls in on intensity and avoid practice and frequency and volume and technique, like it's not gonna do very,

so there's a million ways to make an exercise way more intense. Does that mean it's gonna be more effective? No, not at all. So that's that was my... Now by the way, he gets, and I wanna defend him right now on this thing, he gets like discredited by some people, right? Obviously Ben has his camp of people that love him

and everything he says. Then there's other people that like put him in that woo category, or yeah, or he's a pseudo science guy or whatever, but here's a pseudo science guy or whatever. But here's the thing, I personally don't know a person on this earth that I would rather have testing all that stuff and giving me feedback. Of course.

Like I think he has, I think he's got everything he controls. He has incredible integrity. He's the best one for the job. I think he has incredible integrity. He's honest about it. He has all the other boxes checked. I mean, that guy lives a very controlled, healthy, consistent lifestyle.

So if there was somebody who's gonna add something and go, let me try this new thing, I wanna hear his feedback. He is, and I do, I call it when I hear about stuff that I'm curious about. He's normally the guy I text because I wanna know when he tried it, he'll give me his honest feedback of, yeah, it's kind of like this or it's compared to that or honestly I did it for like six months didn't really feel or notice anything like and I know that dude's controlling all the Right because let's say something adds

Consistent 1% improvement in performance so that you can measure it right How would you know if you get an increase in 1% and it wasn't just that you got a little bit better sleep, or your diet was a little bit better? Ben would know because everything's controlled. Everything's so controlled that that 1%, he could say it was that weird thing. He's the best for that. He really is, and he does get some flock

for being that guy, and I get it, right, because it is. Every week I turn something on his pitch and he's got something up his ass in his nose or in his ears or blowing. Yeah, or injecting. I mean, but I mean, that's the dude that I want to see do all that because I don't want to see some bullshit influencer peddling that stuff who's, you know, fucking hopped up on steroids, doing all kinds of other crazy shit and consistent drinking, not sleeping well, and then telling me, hey, try this Easton out. It gave me so much more performance. Get the fuck out of here.

Yeah, I know. What is it with everything in the butt nowadays with health and fitness? Is that like the new, it's like whatever, we've explored everywhere else. So it's just a natural progression. Somebody should,

you know what I should, I should have done. I mean, there's the butthole-sunning thing that kind of came out. Well, it's like, you have things that work, and they're like, how can we make this different? Like, oh, everybody loves coffee. Have you had it up your butt?

Yeah, up the butt. Yeah, that's way different. I mean, it's powerful. Have you guys heard about these kids that would get drunk through their butthole? Have you heard of this? Yeah, that was on a jackass long time ago. They did that?

Yeah, on the first or second one, where they turned them upside down and they did the The beer bomb straightness ass. You don't remember that no Dangerous because it gets your bloodstreams. Hello fast. So okay someone I'm doing my questions today and somebody asked me If it's I had no I have not heard about any thoughts on those semen retention videos. I've seen on YouTube Where we going no it's related to help look it up dub Thank you. I have those serious ones.

Seaman retention. Oh my god. Don't click on images. It's so... Straight to articles. So, it's... Okay, I think... I'm gonna guess. I'm gonna guess. I have to do with not ejaculating.

That's what I'm gonna guess with. Yeah, I'm assuming that's true. So, basically... And I think they're trying to claim it has all kinds of health benefits and it's like a movement going on right now. Doesn't feel... Doesn't seem like it feels. You were watching blue balls. Yeah.

I can ask some questions sometimes. I'm like, what? I have no idea what the fuck that is. Hold on. Okay. Improves fertility sexual pleasure or physical health. The sperm retention helps direct sexual energies to other areas of life.

Or that it improves emotional health and spiritual. Okay, so I need to know what it is. Okay, so isn't this just a rebranded, like, comma sutra thing? Like, you know how they have that, like, where you just hold on, like you're just about to go and then you just stop. You know, it's called edging.

But there's some of the edging that's considered. I think what it is. Or how, it doesn't consider that edging. I think edging, oh, that's the way I play so I know it. That's a different genre. No, I think that's a whole category. I think what I is, it doesn't consider that edging. I think edging, oh, that's the way I play so I know of it. That's a different genre. I think that's a whole category. I think what I'm saying is I think what it is

is you have sex or whatever, never allow yourself to orgasm. And so you constantly do that. And that's, if I'm not wrong, is this called tantric sex? That's not what I was looking for. It's been around forever. Yeah, that's been around forever.

So what is it explain? Yeah, if you don't ejaculate, That's all it is. That's it. It's just a rebrand of that and they're trying to justify some of the help flying the angle. Doesn't that fly in the face or direct conflict of doesn't fly in the face or not the fly's out. There's no pun intended right there, no pun intended. A lot of it.

No, we just had a great interview with God's sod, right? And we, and evolutionary behavioral psychologists, right? And doesn't that, isn't that like indirect conflict of what the theory, when we talked about open relationships with them, like resisting and not ejaculating for all these people, wouldn't that cause more conflict as a society, so isn't it not a great idea? Well, I know this, I know that.

I know medical studies show that frequent ejaculation reduces prostate cancer risk, that's a fact. So that'll, they'll actually show that. But this used to be an old myth and sports. I bet you heard this back when we were in high school. And so if I had like guys that wouldn't like jerk off, like the, what's football season started? Like, coaches are like from boxing.

I mean, you hear a lot more in fighting, I think. Because I want you like to. Yeah, makes you eggs. Yeah. What I haven't had sex or have a jerk double, like, I'm the angry. Yeah. And then Mike Tyson just, you know,

basically threw that out. I was like, no, this, you know, I'm not gonna do that. Yeah, I think that's what it is. And that's what it says, like it helps you with your sexual energy and your whatever. Yeah, probably because you're super frustrated. So you either, you have to figure it out. Anytime you're really frustrated,

you gotta figure it out, right? Emotionally, mentally. Yeah. So maybe that's the thing, but that's weird, dude. That's really weird, dude. And what happens when you finally let it go? Oh, shit. I mean, yeah. Better get it to the end.

So I got something else that I don't know if this is weird or what you're going to call this, but I'm curious if you guys have seen this yet. So Katrina's best friend, a text for last night, oh my God, look what my son's school is doing now. So now when you go get your kids school photos, you can upgrade and pay to doctor them. So you want to fix your kids crooked ass teeth? $10. You want to get rid of that, the birthmark on their forehead? $7. Like, they have, they now offer that as a, like an olive farm mills face to grow. I cannot believe they're doing this.

That's children. And you're talking about this kid's gotta be, he's, let's see here, he's probably eight or nine. You know? Well, think about the message that said. Yes, that's what's complex, you're kids. Well, remember when I brought up that app that I told, I was so blown away that my nieces

and stuff were all into it when I brought it up before and they're like, yeah, we use it too. And I found out like, I think like 200 million or something crazy people have downloaded that, which is like FaceToon or I don't know the name of it, but something like that where you can modify your face and whiteen, and they, I mean, my nieces tried to justify it as like, well, we just use it

to whiteen our teeth. That's all, you know, we wouldn't change. Oh my God. How fat we are. I can only imagine what they would have done to my fourth grade picture where I got stung by a yellow jacket right under my eye. And then the next day my eye was just like puffed out.

I had a slit. Like this. You have that photo still? Oh yeah. Oh yeah, I'll give it to Andrews. Oh please. Oh please. Oh please. Yeah, it was the saddest picture.

I'm just so there's a, well think about the message that sends your kid. Imagine you have a kid, because when you're a kid, you're insecure about something. So your kid's like, oh, I hate my big nose. I hate my big nose.

And then they get their school photo and they're like, why did they change my nose? Does it look like me? That will only reinforce this terrible experience. Oh, even worse. I mean, kids are so savvy now. They're probably familiar with those abs and they're probably all pro and for it because you are in security start really early.

Yeah, but it's different to change it yourself. Imagine if your parents do. I mean, what if it's really not that? What if it's the kids that are asking the parents to do it? And the parents just concede and they do it. I mean, still bad. No matter what the behavior that you're teaching the kid at that young of an age, that it's just conceding they do it. I mean, still bad. No matter what the behavior that you're teaching the kid at that young of an age, that it's okay that you fix this and audit the way you look on. So if you guys think that, if that's fucking insane to you,

if you guys think in the future that we're gonna wear contacts or glasses that are gonna augment reality, I wonder if you're gonna be able to do it. To what beer goggles. You're gonna be able to do it to where when other people look at you, it's gonna modify because you can have something where.

I mean, you know what I'm saying? This is why I subscribe to the whole idea that we're gonna be divided as a world where we'll be like plugged in or unplugged. And I think there's gonna be a big portion of people. I think there'll be more people plugged in than unplugged. Oh yeah, it'll be like 90 in 10. And I think that you're all of your inner inner I think player one hit it on the head. I think Sarah gets to

a good job with those movies that it's going to be this you plug in and people do not leave their house. Yeah. And and your their avatar and character is whatever they want it to be. We're already moving that direction. Well, already trying to make the world seem like it's the biggest scariest thing on the, you know, to stay out, to be outside is so scary. Oh, you know, I can, I can, I can, I can be out for a bit. Exactly. Think about all the things that are just pointing in that direction that, oh man, wouldn't it just be better if we just stayed safer? We'd be away from this virus. We wouldn't, there'd be no bullying. You could be whoever you wanted to be. You can be be, you saw an article we just saw, the Jerry sent about fruit fly,

like a, that was that real? So, I don't know if it was real, but it was KTVU or whatever, which is like a legit news. The sound was nice, the sound was nice. Yeah, new source. So it's like,

what the fuck is a fruit fly I get to do? Like, why are we even worried about this? Well, I know that it, that could definitely destroy that and stuff like that. Yeah, but like why throw it out there? Like it's some kind of, it made it sound like it was like this murder hornet thing.

Well, logically speaking, there should be more fear around mosquitoes and there should be sharks, right? There's more, there's been more deaths. I'm more afraid of the genetically modified mosquitoes. It's okay, so it says, it says portion of South San Jose under state quarantine for oriental fruit flies. Wait a minute, isn't that a politically incorrect?

Yeah, that would call the English. I thought you said, too. Hello. I grabbed my yeast. So, residents in the area are urged to consume, okay, it says here, residents in the area are urged to consume or process homegrown fruit and vegetables on site or take extra care and disposing them.

So I think what happens is if these fruit flies get all over the place, then they'll start to really damage fruits and vegetables. So I think that that quarantine literally just means. Okay, well that's for the farmers. Yeah, you know why? Like why the fuck are we concerned about that? It's like I'm not quarantine for some bulls who are my own.

Yeah, I don't know why Why do you keep throwing that around? I have a fly swatter. Yeah. Hey, I don't know. You never been to keep quarantining for whatever the hell is coming around. You never been to my Sicilian dad's backyard. He's like a total, he's got a normal middle class backyard.

So it's not like this, you just don't have a half an acre and anything like that. And he's like every square foot of this backyard is growing something. Yeah, so he's got, you know, well, and it's his baby, so I'm sure he's like every square foot of this backyard is growing something. Yeah, so he's got Baby, so I'm sure he's concerned about oh, yeah, oh, he's hilarious about it He goes out there and just checks every time I go there. Hey, look at this, you know green bean or whatever Well more crazy news along those lines I think you brought this up Justin a while back and I think it's just now being confirmed that

Men are changing their name. Oh man. Do we need to be more inclusive? Yeah, men. Oh, oh, X-Key-Pool. Yeah, I can't say men. Okay, so I reject you. Very nice.

I'll bury you. I'm gonna go and put it all down there. Man's warehouse is next. I'm sure. Yeah. Like anything man-related. Yes. No.

Well, so unfortunate to me is like seeing the X-People. And this is again, like birthing people and like this me is that like seeing like X people and this is again like birthing people and like this whole thing like with mother baby unit. They're trying to change that to like care, take her you know some Bullshit like that so anyway at a certain point like this whole movement to change words and try to include like a fractional percentage of the population Like the where do we draw the line? Yeah, well, for me, I say, no, I reject it. Yeah, what are they gonna, okay, but what are they calling?

Well, the truth is, what do they call men now though? Men are what, people who ejaculate, there's people who are straight. Oh, right, what is it called men? Do you guys know? I don't know. I don't even know where a lot of say men anymore. Seam and spreaders.

Yes, yes. I try not to say very often. So what are they gonna change in these? Engorged, clitoris. Ex people? I don't know, dude. I don't fucking know. I don't know, man.

They just make stuff up, dude. And I don't know where to get. Well, well, they may rename the X-Men to be a team that they're solving problems, Justin. I think if they do this, they'll solve everything. Well, yeah, they're definitely solving a tiny little problem that creates a huge problem. I'm really excited for the God-Sod interview to drop because we talk about a lot of

this stuff. It does such a good job of communicating all that stuff. Yeah. That was an amazing conversation. Yeah. So I read a really cool, fascinating science article of the other day about this woman who she suffered from severe depression. They tested a brain implant on her and cured her.

Not only to cure her, she felt overwhelming happiness and joy from having a particular part of her brain get stimulated by a brain implant. I feel like this is just, what do you mean by, there is no punch line. What do you mean by stimulated? Like does it actually like shock or like like like, you feel like an electrical like, like, char? I think it's, I think it sends in some, a pulse, but so it says,

this is her quote, she felt the most intensely joyous sensation. So it's a neural electrode, and it returned her to a life worth living. So it's an experimental neural implant which delivers 300 zaps per day, and it represents a bold new frontier in the treatment of extreme psychiatric conditions.

Wow. So think about this for a second. The repercussions on the brain is, I mean, it's, it comprises all those like electrical impulses like all the time. So they're just, I guess, hacking their way through that now. Well, I mean, if you can, if you can just put, like,

because okay, you have extreme psychiatric conditions, I get that, but the average person feels sad, right? The average person feels depressed. We don't like those feelings unmotivated. At one point, you guys think it'll be, people just using it be like, you know, I just want to be motivated all the time.

I just constantly make you feel a particular way. Like, that's, there's a lot of lessons to learn from bad feelings. You don't think that would be for sure. Something we get down-regulated and then it would, you'd have to do more anyway. I don't know, because this is directly to the brain. So it's not through a receptor like...

Yeah, but you've got to think that the way the body adapts everywhere else, you would think that... Maybe that part of the brain shrinks. I don't know. Or something like that. Yeah, or just adapt to it or not. I don't know, dude. It just seems like another way to escape

or like not confront something that's, you know, it needs to be addressed. And I think that's where like I see the promise in like psilocybin or something that actually kind of takes you. Processing these traumas, you know, it helps you to really process it in a better way. Yeah. Well, that's a big difference, right? Why do they not use opiates for depression, you know?

Well, it pairs with the opiate receptors, right? So you would think, and those are the feel good, feel good. High abuse potential. Well, no, of course. Definitely. So our, you know, SRIs are what we call too, right? No, not highly addicted.

No, people don't take SSRIs like they would opiate. It's like you could take more and more and get this like automatic good feeling. Oh, really? Yeah, so it works very differently. Whereas in opiate, you take it you could take more and more and get this automatic good feeling. Oh, really? Yeah, so it works differently. Whereas in opiate, you take it once, oh my God, I feel good. Let me take more.

Oh my God, I feel good. And then you keep pushing it. Yeah. And it's got very high addictive potential. Should you think that's the reason why they don't reach out? Oh, yeah. Absolutely.

Same reason why they wouldn't use alcohol or any other substance in that way. Because alcohol could do something similar, right? It makes you feel good when you're depressed or whatever, short term, but it's the abuse potential. This is like the delicate dance they do with medications is abuse potential help, how much is it actually help, what's it actually solving?

Let's take it from there. So I don't know, very strange. A lot of good feedback from that episode that we did. I know we did for Bodybuilding.com. Yeah, don't know. A lot of good feedback from that episode that we did. I know we did for BodyBly.com. Yeah. Yeah. That was that was we cool. Really, you know, surprised by the the lack of any sort of response that we felt from there in on with BodyBly.com. Yeah. It's pretty it's pretty wild like and maybe you could find this dug. I remember we pulled it up. They were one of the most visited sites on the internet. Yeah, and the very popular name.

They fell off the cliff like about, I don't know, which is seven years ago, six, seven years ago. What about it from Amazon selling supplements? And just fresh stuff. Of course, right? I would think that, but, you know, they look like they have this massive presence because you, I mean, this is so interesting

about social media. Like, you see a company like that, they've got a pretty well name, right? Most people are familiar with bodybuilding on our space Two over two million followers like two point seven on Instagram. Yeah, they did a post of ours I think I added two people it's under a thousand lives. Yeah, much robots. Yeah, that's cool Well, I think that's maybe kind of what it is or maybe people follow them because of a promotion Yeah, but even then don't you think that it would still get, I mean, two million, you

know, even if like 95% of them followed for a promotion like you're saying or just, or even say they're all bought 95 of the bots, it's still a lot of people should have seen those clips and you would think that you would see. It's not just that. It's interesting to think about the, because even a massive, massive show, like a Joe Rogan show, like some guests that go on there, like they get very little impact from it, which they're always like confused by,

but some get huge impact. Well, Justin, if you go through the Instagram, every post is, it doesn't match the amount of follow. Oh, yeah, I see your saying that. Yeah, because I thought that too, maybe it was just us, but I looked and it was every just sucked. If you don't, you just thought we were not. Okay, yeah, I see your saying that. Yeah, because I thought that too, maybe it was just us, but I looked and it was me. We just sucked. If you don't, you just thought we were not.

Okay, that web, remember that document where we saw on social media where, like they said a large percentage of followers are fake and Instagram, it's in their best interest to not police that because it looks good for them to have people to have more followers. You want big numbers for your shareholders. Right, and they were saying something like most influencers like 50% or more for them to have people to have a follow up. You want big numbers for your shareholders. Right.

And they were saying something like, most influencers like 50% or more of their following is not real. And it's just not, it's just totally fake. Yeah. I'm pretty sure that's why you have more than me as most years are fake. Yeah, the bots like me the most.

Yeah. That's it. It's like all. Hey, do you want to hear some bad news? No. Come on. You take a stab. Hey, like, oh, hey, do you want to hear some bad news? No, come on. Take a stand. Hey, so, so, so, I think it was last year, maybe 2020, I got to look this up. There was a 30% increase in homicides.

30%? Yeah, in the, in the country. Oh, overall, in the, in the US, it says US homicides rose 30% in 2020. The largest single year increase ever recorded now that it's super alarming considering that we were in quarantine for a good amount of that time too Well, okay, this is my not my guess, but I think it's a hundred percent right you guys remember 2020 Police were taking a beating by media. A beating. Yep.

If they were terrible, they're all... Guarantee people take advantage of that. All systemically racist. A defund the police actually became a political slogan for a little while. That was not so much anymore because they realized it was a bad thing. And...

You think? Yeah. And it's so funny to be a people trying to justify that as a good idea. You want to hear what sad sad about this 30% increase? Here's what's sad because bring chaos up. A lot of the message was systemic racism deformed the police. It's better for minorities.

How many of this 30% increase in homicides do you think was disproportionately 90% with minorities? 90%? A huge percentage. I don't know what the percentage is. Disproportionate. Yeah, I'm sure. That's so that's very sad.

I'm sure they stop going in high crime areas, you know, because they were being told they're defund them in those areas, so they stopped going in there, and then what do you think is gonna happen? Yeah, it's really sad. That's huge. You know, gang bangers and drug dealers and people that are in that type of business go awesome.

You know, cops are gonna be coming around now. You know, it's funny when they do polls, when they would do polls, and they would go to these neighborhoods and poll minorities, minorities were like, what do you mean defund the police? Terrible idea. They were not in support of that whole slogan.

So it just goes to show you how you run a band. You know, and just, yeah, you want protection running your business just to get by. You need that. If you look at statistics, the single, if there's one factor that you could change, statistic that you could change that would have the greatest impact in crime in a positive way, it's increasing police. That's the one that... There's no single thing that competes or compares to

that. Now, there's lots of things you can do in combination, but simply increasing police presence has the largest impact on reduction of crime than any other single factor And I don't know why people you know completely ignore that. Yeah, which is yeah, well I'm going to counter your shitty news and bring up some good things. Great. Let's get out of the day October 14th Rad is coming back to theaters 30 this year is their 35th anniversary. So 35th anniversary, they are coming back to the big screen.

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You're the girl from Full House. No, I've been getting people. I've been getting the DMs. You were so excited. I knew it. I knew it looking forward to people. Have you watched, well, here's what, here's where I'm gonna counter it because of 2020, everything else, right?

Bike sales went through the roof. And so there became this big, huge movement to get back to like, be a maxing and like these dirt tracks and stuff like, I see just mobs, especially in Santa Cruz too. There's like meetings of all these people, they're doing wheelies and they're doing all the tricks and things like you used to see freestyle, BMXing,

like it became a whole thing all over again. I think BMX bikes, especially for grown men, is the biggest waste of money, cause here's what I think. SC bikes, reach out to the guy I want to buy. No, you get excited. Yeah, you're 40. You're 40 coming after you, right?

I don't care. You get excited cause you're 40 or Yeah, you're you're for coming after you right. I don't care You get excited because you're 40 or whatever and you remember that I'm gonna buy one and then use it four times And you never use again you about one how often right? I don't well I bought the wrong one didn't This isn't fit it doesn't work for me. So it's just sits there I need I need one that actually fits me our buddy Lawrence is riding his all-time I keep asking me about it too. I'm a bro. I didn't get it I need a new bike He went out good when I'm got one and got one to be matches 49er call colors and stuff because he's a big fan And I see him riding all the time. He's just

Don't talk to the next bike But dude, they're like so exclusive like right when what you come up like it's gone. It's not that. Everything is like, that was before you guys came to the studio, a drug and I were talking about, he's been looking, I got Doug going down the rabbit hole last night when I, did you see the car I sent? That's just the car. Oh my God.

What is that? Dude, that thing is my- So the audience knows, I have set personal goals for everybody, and when we hit this crazy milestone that I want everybody to go out and just do something irresponsible and ridiculous and buy like it. Just a car that I'm out of it.

But also, you know, yeah, we gotta keep him. What do you, this is what Adam does. He wants to do it so bad. Yeah. But he's like, I'll feel better if they do it. I need them to do it. It's true. It's true.

I'm not gonna deny that. I'm not gonna deny that at all. But I sent Justin's over. It's called the apocalypse. It's so sick, dude. Yeah, it's, that bulletproof and it's all like, the extended it, so it was like. Yeah, it's a modified Jeep.

Oh, they call that the Jeep. Yeah, they call those. I don't know what it was. So I went down to a popular one that I know of like, I went down the rabbit hole with that. So you sent that and then I go on YouTube and there's videos of people who have souped up like huge trucks that are like

15,600 horsepower diesel trucks that are Blow and pass Lamborghini's on the freeway. Have you seen these videos? Pass Lamborghini's there's one guy who literally races a Viper GT whatever one of the fat like a super like ridiculously fast car Yeah, and does sim and puts of course it's black smoke because it's diesel, just covers the car black. Better hope there's a lot of straightaway. Yeah, that's what it was. Yeah, it was on the freeway and he's totally screwed. All right, what's the most likely way

that each one of us would be completely irresponsible and ridiculous with money? Okay. Like if you were all this to do, spend a bunch of money and just be stupid about it, what do I think? A car for me. For you a car.

Yeah, for me it would be so. Or it would be expensive jewelry or something like that. No, no, well I mean if you can't go on the Rolex thing, like that's, I have one more and that's it and then I'm done, right? So I'm in the long time ago I made a goal for myself and so I hope I have that but I don't think I would do that other than that because I'm not like a gold chain diamond guy and all that stuff like that.

Like the roll it for the people that have missed the show long enough they know, because I think I've talked about on the show before a long time ago, but those are very important to me, right? So they have lots of meaning. The very first one has a lot to do with 24 fitness days. I've shared that with you guys before that was supposed to be,

it was given out to the number one guys in the company and I was on pace to crush that six months in. They're taking away. And it was right after the dot com bubble burst and like every other companies were taking a shit and they all sudden just eliminate that competition. After I committed my, and by the way, like to win that was just,

I mean, you're just, yeah, handful people win that, right? And so I'm competing against, you know, thousands of people and there's always a couple of people that are like killing it. And it took literally me not taking days off. I mean, I for six months, I almost maybe took off five days, I would say, maybe less, and just was grinding to get there and was on pace to win. And they all sudden send this email out that says like, sorry, can't win the Rolex washes here.

I was devastated over that. And then after that, I made a commitment that I'm gonna get one, but I wasn't gonna just go get one. I wasn't gonna go, I needed to, just like I was had a competition. You did earn it somehow. Yeah, so I had, I said a financial goal for myself that, you know, once I had X amount of dollars saved up in my account, it was a big goal for me,

something that was way far from where I had, was currently out. And that was, so I got that. So that was a really from where I had was currently at. And that was so I got that. So that was a really big moment for me. And then the three after that were all other milestones. And then there's one last one that I set that goal a long time ago, and then I'm pretty much done. So it's so much time I know that, right?

Yes, they had this so- And they whole value, bro. Yeah, that's true. I mean, I've been trying to convince Doug for a long time, I know Doug's in the market to get in one right now. And I'm like, dude, the watch that Doug is about to get, 15 years ago when I first was shopping for them,

that thing was 30% less. He could, I could have bought that thing back then. And what crazy, let me think, what investments would have grown more than 30% over the last 15 years? A lot. So I don't know if you should sell it like an investment. I don't know about that.

But they do look, they are not, and that's valid. And you can wear it, you investment. I don't know about that. But they do look, you know, they are not. And that's the value of it. And you can wear it, you know. It's always the shitty shit talker. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry. I don't mean to say that on your green. There's not a lot of cool things that you can buy and use.

A house is one of those, right? So a house you could buy and use. And then it still go up and value after a decade or so with that. Classic cars are that way. I feel like Justin would get a classic car. I think that would be the biggest thing. Yeah, something he would want, he would have to work on.

Definitely, it's an old classic that was like, totally done like, stem to stern, like crazy. Now to me, that's not, you can see chip-fuse, you know, promoting it or something. To me, that's not irresponsible because a really, really nice, rare classic car like that, on average, and maybe this has changed that I looked at this up years ago, Doug.

The average classic car appreciates by 8% a year. So, because every time one fall, whenever it gets another crash, the value and those just keep going this time. I would imagine that they would go up even, I don't know how they're gonna change the laws, but I know that the way that a lot of states are moving is they're gonna start banning gas cars in the next 20 years completely.

So I wonder if that'll increase the value. I'm sure. So this is part of, because I think a car in general is one of the worst investments you could ever do. Generally speaking, generally speaking, you lose value immediately. So if I were to be doing versus a boat, when you said air response, yeah, you're right. You're right. That is the only thing that is worse actually a boat is worse. So if you said doing something irresponsible, I don't think of the the Rolex is that I don't

think of a classic car. I do think of a Mercedes S65 as that, you know, because as soon as I drive off a lot, it's not worthy. But I am intrigued by this and I've talked to you guys about, I should think I shared a video with you guys. The Cadillac CT5 V series is going to be the last gas powered manual ever built by GM. And it's manual. And it's the fastest sedan in the market and it's class. So you're talking about a 660 horsepower luxury sedan. I'm surprised it's manual. Nobody makes manuals.

No one does. And it's going to be the last ones. That gets me excited. The last one that GMMA. So imagine if 10 years or 15 years down the road wherever you think this future is coming when we're never kids, kids will never drive cars or whatever.

I imagine that is the last manual ever made with that much horsepower. So with that, it and so with that whole. It'll probably look so complicated to our grandkids. We're gonna be like, wait a minute. There's three pedals. There's this thing you gotta put in all the machines. The number one deterrent from Carthept,

better than an alarm, better than a low bar. Do you know what I think or whatever? I totally have one for sale though, I was like thinking about this. Yeah, what the hell would I do? Well, because like, so it's like, some super expensive and ridiculous that I think he would just love would be like like an Elon Musk

Flame-thrower like I was like I had money. I would buy that for so he would pay big money for like a ridiculous experience Yeah, like I could see Sal doing like and this is cool This is on my most debate somewhere across the world between Jordan Peterson and Sam here Well, this is what you would do. Or like an exotic supplement that doesn't agree. Yeah, you buy a supplement company. Let's be honest.

This is black, rhino, rhinoceros penis. You would go to some like tea, Italian, somewhere in Italy, a five star Michelin restaurant and some famous chef that's there. And have him serve you in the private dinners that you get, that people can be in their super high ticket to do, I could see you do something like that. I mean, that's a cool experience.

Honestly, if I think about it, I think the biggest waste of whatever, however you wanna label this would be, I'd probably buy a jam, honestly. Just for fun. I'd buy a big ass jam. Buy work. And just for fun and just do it and just lose money on it

and not care. I mean honestly that's something that it's kind of like a dream of mine, to buy a jam and not worry about profiting. Well I think, if you guys haven't seen Juji Mufu's whole thing, that is safe. He really did. I mean I think he's got like a half a million to do it.

I think he said the price when, excuse me, when he was first doing it. And I think it was like, yeah, it was like every piece and there was custom. Oh, it was beautiful. It was equipment-wise, like he put so much thought in it. And it's on his property. Yeah, so, yeah, I could totally see it.

I mean, I can get down with that. Yeah, totally so. I could get down with that as far as like a way to just kind of blow money. Dude, I got, I'm finally calming down from earlier. Yeah, totally so I can get down with that as far as like a way to just kind of blow money. Dude, I got to, I'm finally calming down from earlier. You know what I took? First off, I was a little upset earlier, so I want to apologize to you guys, because there's a little drama going on in the, you know, when you have, you talk about something on the

podcast and then you have family members. What did you do? What did you say? I don't want to get into too much detail. Come on, you can't do that. You can't like, you know what it is? Halfway tell us. You know what it is? Halfway tell us. You know what it is?

I'm sure you guys have experienced this. Of course. The worst fans are always. People related to you. That you know. Toast to you. Yes, totally. And because what they'll do is,

we tell stories all the time. Yeah. And when I talk about my family, 99% of time it's positive, 1% of time it's a funny story. I don't talk shit about the people that I really care about. But there's always that person that listens, that's like,

ooh, I can stir shit up by showing this person what they said and do it. So anyway, that started, got me super irritable, super mad. So I took the samples of Ned. Was it called as a calm dog? What is it that that that? Hello? No, no, no, no, no.

The new little ones that gave us in the bottle first. Is that, by the way, before you talk about it, is that even released it that that that? Hello? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. The new little ones that gave us in the bottle first. Is that, by the way, before you talk about it, is that even released yet? Is that released yet? Yeah, we're supposed to talk about it actually. Okay, these trash trash trash trash. Well done, sir. Well bro, that works.

So it's one-to-one ratio. It has a cinnamon taste, I did it the other day. Yes, so it's got CBD and CBD. So it's a one-to-one ratio. With CBG, the one that you were talking about a while back is your prediction of that being one of the other. I believe so.

It's anabinoids or whatever that's being. They consider it that's called the parent cannabinoid because without it, you wouldn't have THC, CBD, and any of the other. Or was it CBN? CBN is another one. That makes you sleepy. But CBG is anti-anxiety, anti-depression, really,

really interesting studies around it. They also put ashwagand in this, and man, I can feel it. Really work. Do you predict that we're going to start to extract those out and then concentrate them even more, and they're going to become, eventually, big pharma is going to get their hand on this, right? That's the inevitable. They're not gonna use cannabinoids, though.

They'll use cannabinoids that are changed a little bit so I think it can be sold as pharmaceuticals. That's what I think. Because otherwise, the artificial version of them. Yeah, like they're gonna take CBD and tweak it and call it something else so that it's patented. But otherwise, combine it with something. Yeah, because if you take, if you take cannabinoids

by themselves, they do something, but they work much better in the presence of other cannabinoids. That's why that's why Ned's product, yeah. It's got lots of other cannabinoids in there. They work together. So it's not like one plus one equals two. It's like one thought it was down in nature

is best for a body, isn't that weird? I know, I know. Especially for chronic, kind of case, feeling kind of stuff, right? It's always like that though. It's like naturally balanced, you know, already. It definitely is. I mean, think about like taking protein powder

versus eating the food, and what you miss from eating the food, right? Or a vitamin minus, like vitamin C, oftentimes it's present with bioflavinoids and other cofactors and fruit versus just taking it by itself. So definitely, but I think there's also value in concentrating things if you want like acute effects.

Have you know what you guys just made me think of something? You know a lot of people have been our other sponsor, which is the what's the gel packet ones that tastes like farts. What's it? Live on labs. Who would have thought I am? Yeah, the live on I know this is not a commercial for them. Sorry. But I do you just think it's like,

it's like, it's like, it's up to you. Well, they, uh, so I guess they actually, they promote, you do it like in, like a little shot glass or with water or something. Yeah. So you're not supposed to actually, the way we do it, straight, we're not, not supposed to, but it's, they, uh, promote it being mixed with a drink and then you take it down. I just do straight. Well, I haven't done that yet.

And I feel like I should. Intensity of it a little bit, but yeah. I wonder, have you tried it that way? I've been trying it that way. No. Okay, so the next commercial that we do for them officially, I'll report back and try one. I don't want to.

If I know it works, it's just like, it's in the golet. Yeah, that's tough for me. That's a little, yeah, you know what I'm saying? Hey, look, I want to make chocolate chip favorites. Hey, hey, hey, it works though. Well, it works. Glutathione does not get absorbed well unless it's, you know, putting away that it makes it absorbable. And they did that. So yeah, don't waste

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and you could do barbell squats, the next, in my opinion, best way to do this two exercise I really like. One is a one-legged get up off of a bench. So you sit on a bench, you have your legs bent, maybe one leg is straight, and you use one leg to predominantly lift yourself up to kind of practice that single leg lift up.

And then the second one is just stand on a box, and with one leg off the box, and squat down slowly and come back out and progress yourself to be getting lower and lower. There's two things that I love to use. It depends on if you have a steep enough incline of stairs, but it actually acts as a natural kind of progression to be able to get up off the stairs.

So if you sit a bit higher and you lift your leg up and you can start a bit higher, you start there. Now gradually go to the next step, sit on that step, come back up and kind of work your way down the stairs, or, you know, the more obvious one, if you have suspension trainer straps is to kind of hold on and to gradually, so basically like training wheels, so you're lifting your leg up, you're squatting down to the depth that you can control comfortably and drive back up and sort of gradually get rid of the suspension trainer to help to pull you back up. I love the suspension trainer or what you said. The only thing that I would say that when you're doing this is when people are trying to learn how to do a pistol squat, they get so hung up on being on the say, I did a pistol squat

versus like really paying attention to the form, the mechanics. Right. It becomes a one-legged anyhow squat. Yeah. And they kind of, you know, kind of roll forward into it. Yeah, that kind of defeats the purpose. I would rather see this. So if we were going to do the one-legged get up, like you said, I would take clients and

I would put, like, remember those blue foam pads? Yeah, and you make the bench higher? Yeah. So I'd start, I'd have a bench and then I'd stack one or two or however many I think, because I could do, I did this with clients that were 80 years old, so I would do it with anybody, even in advanced age, this is a great exercise. And you just, by regressing it, you add pads to regress the exercise. So I'd start really high and I would emphasize the form, right?

And sometimes I would let clients like even hold on to my fingers, right? And say, you know, you can hold on here. I want you to keep the chest up, slowly come down. I don't want you leaning forward to get up. And I want to see like this perfect one leg, it's squat, even if it's a very short range of motion. And then I get rid of one pad. And then we work on that till we get perfect form, and then

we get rid of that pad, and then you're down, and you work your way down that way until you get to like a pistol squat. If you have a suspension trainer, you can start all the way at the bottom, and then you actually have some arms. The only thing that I say, caution you, is that, you know, don't try and do a pistol squat and completely throw out the mechanics of it just so you can get a pistol squat out. Because then you lose a lot of the really good benefits

of doing a single-legged squat. And I also wanted to highlight one thing too, that in terms of ankle stability and mobility, to address making sure, and so this is the whole knees overtough kind of a mentality where you are going to be in a position where your knees going to travel quite significantly further in order to counter balance. Great point.

You into that position, a lot of people can't handle that kind of stress around the knee initially. So to be able to work on that and focus on like a combat stretch and really kind of gradually increase that range, so your knee travels a bit forward and be able to have that comfortable feel to be able to keep your heel down and and tracking to keep you stable is going to be a vital part. That's the number one reason why people have trouble with a pistol squat. I'd say beside strength It's it's ankle mobility 100% it's mobility, 100%. Because there's a lot more ankle flexion with a pistol squat than a traditional squat. Your knee is gonna travel much further forward.

And that's why a pistol squat for me is almost impossible. I have such bad, such tight ankles in that particular position that, and I'm strong enough, I could definitely lift my body weight with one leg. It's my ankle that gets in the way, and that's most people. Yeah, with most people, they can't do it. I couldn't do it until just recently.

Till I actually addressed, which that wasn't the goal, the goal was related to a bilateral squat, right? I wanted to get into a deep squat and work on my squat and squirrel position, right? So, but I couldn't do a pistol into that. Once I had the ankle mobility, the pistol squat was actually really easy. Because like you, I had the leg strength.

I had the leg strength to be able to do one leg at squats, but I didn't have the ankle mobility to be able to do it. That's probably, depending on who's asking this question, but- I'd say most of the big limiting factor. Yes. Most people, that's the issue. Yes. And by the way, again, back to my point of like

the mechanics matter, if you do a pistol squat and your heel comes up off the ground, like you're doing it wrong. Like you do not want to, you do not want the heel to rise. And if it is rising, then that's your issue is ankle mobility, address that first, really good at that, and then start with the regressions that we're talking about and work your way to it.

Next question is from CMOS 23. What is harder to develop quads when you're glute dominant or glutes when you're quaddominant? That's funny. You know it's funny about this. My immediate reaction is to say glutes only because nine at a time, that's the issue. It's almost never that someone's glued dominant and their quads don't want to react. But I will say this, they're probably equally as hard.

I don't care who you talk to. When you're doing a compound lift, and there's a particular muscle group that just isn't doing a lot of the work, and other muscle groups are doing most of the work, it's really hard to come out of. It just is, it's a very challenging thing. So it could be, I think both are really hard.

Now the way that you solve both issues is by hitting that particular muscle first or priming it properly, which will help you change the technique and form to activate those muscles more. I know it's funny. Doug is a, isn't Doug a glute dominant guy? He's one of the only people I've ever known

that is like that with a big glutey guy, right? You have more powerful glutes over here. So I actually think that's easier. Only for the reason I think it's easier, I correct me if I'm wrong, but my head right now I'm going, okay, I can think of a lot more good strength building exercises for the quads than for the glutes. The glutes are really tough to have,

like really, there's hip thrust, and a lot of the exercises that you would do primarily for the glutes, you're going to fill it in your quads if you're quad dominant. So it's, you can all, like, glute, like, excuse me, quad isolation exercises, I guess, are pretty easy. Yeah, so I mean, it's really, leg sentient, leg presses.

Well, let's talk about Doug for a second. So Doug's glute dominant, and so what's he doing? He's doing heel elevated versions of squats. So, goblets squats, front squats, things that keep him real upright, get him no more knee extension, sissy squats. I showed him a version of a sissy squat the other day with a cable. At some point, we're going to air as a Friday fit tip, which is really good. But honestly, if there's a muscle group that you have that you're having trouble connecting to,

hit that first with some isolation exercises, then go to the compound lift. Now that doesn't automatically increase the activation because I know there's some keyboard warriors and scientists that are watching this going, with Stady's show that pre-exhausting doesn't, blah, blah, blah, okay. It's not because by itself it's increasing activity,

what it's doing is it's allowing you to feel that muscle more so you can change your form with the compound lift. If I pre-exhaust my chest and then I go bench press, now it's easy, and that's an area that's hard for me to connect to. Now I can move my elbows and position the bar in a way to where, oh, there's the chest, I can really feel it now in the lift. So it helps you with the compound lift. That's really the main benefit, but there's the chest, I can really feel it now in the lift. So it helps you with the compound lift. That's really the main benefit,

but there's nothing inherent about it that increases activation. Can we make a commitment, the three of us, that when people, when the academics get on our page and love to do that stuff, that instead of us going back and forth and you waste our time, we just put like, I know things.

Yeah, 100% is perfect for that. All right, let's call it like for our fans. Well, no, our fans will know that, right? So they'll understand it. They'll just get frustrated, like what's that supposed to mean, right? Because it's always, never so many quotations though. Yeah, oh yeah, no, of course.

You quote it and say, I know things, and then we'll just leave it at that because I'm not gonna waste my time going back and forth explaining this because it is. It's always somebody who'd like, while the science says this, I don't give a shit, that's what it says. I'm telling you from training tons of people.

I'm very controlled setting with, you know, very limited population. It's gonna prove this. That's fine. I was just, you know what made me think of that was, one, we just brought up that story of you talking about, I know things, and I was recently, I let myself get sucked in

with somebody on YouTube of going back and trying to explain. Why am I doing this? This person is some troll who probably has never even listened to our show. They heard this one website. Yeah, they heard this one clip and they want to try and debate back and forth with me. And it's like, you're not even the person I'm trying to help. I'm trying to help everybody else that is actually looking to learn and take some advice. Not someone wants to argue with me on the science.

Our next question is from Logan Thomas. What is more important? Spiking insulin before the gym or after the workout? I've heard both have value, one for energy and one for recovery. I don't know enough about it and want to know if it's healthy. Okay, so here's what's more important. Focus on your workout program, and having focus on general nutrition and sleep. And this right here is a great example of where, especially the supplement industry, we'll put out like zero, zero, one percent effective. These small things, or we're talking about the super advanced,

what like earlier in the episode, we were talking about Ben Greenfield, where that extra one percent might make a difference. This is one of those things, like spiking your natural insulin before or after, what kind of a difference is going to make? It's not going to make, it's going to make a difference that you won't notice ever. So it really doesn't matter.

Here's what I like this, this is what's more important. Which one do you feel better doing? So I'll use myself as an example. Spiking insulin before would require that I eat something that cause an insulin response, either fast-digesting proteins or usually carbohydrates, right? I never eat before my workout.

Why is it because I don't want my insulin to spike? No, because I feel better fasted when I work out. Now, there's other people, I have most actually, most of my clients are not like this. Most of the clients that I ever trained did not feel better fasted. Most of them needed to eat something an hour or two before because they felt better energy. In that case, eat something before.

Now what about eating afterwards? Okay, well, there may be some cases where because you have gut issues, the workouts inflammatory, probably better off waiting a couple hours after you work out. In other cases, you may, this may be one of the ways you get your body to relax after it's already amped up from a workout because eating does put yourself in a parasympathetic response. Yes, but boy, are we, we start to really focus on these small things and it's such a

way to do it. You hit it on the head. It's exactly, this is it. But Kirby, for example, we're just talking about with taking science, right? There's science out there to support the benefits of spiking the insulin before you go in it. You know who uses that science all the time? People that sell pre workouts. Yep. You know who uses that science all the time? People that sell pre workouts.

You know who's to use as a science about post-workup? People that sell shakes, protein bars, and post-workout stuff. They use that science to support the argument of why they're selling this product to you. At the end of the day, I have never had a client where using one of those products was a game changer in their results. I'll give you guys, here's a great example, actually.

We, a year ago, we talked to a top trainer for professional athletes. And there were a couple of things that they said that were so illuminating. Okay, so let's use basketball players, for example. Basketball players, professional basketball players are usually huge, right? They're like six foot seven or taller, big dudes. Oftentimes they have fucked up looking feet because either the shoes don't, you know, it's hard to find size 15 shoes and especially when you're 17 years old or whatever.

So they cram their feet into other shoes and they've got messed up toes and they've got weird biomechanics. And I remember talking to this trainer, I was like, oh, do you work a lot on like foot, connection and mobility and correcting, you know, you know, imbalances in their feet. And he goes, no, they became professional athletes because they learned how to compensate so well. If I back them out of their compensations, they're not gonna perform well anymore.

And we're gonna go backwards. And it's gonna, it's gonna shoot myself, you know, no pun intended in the foot. Here's another example, talking to him about nutrition. I'm like, have you ever thought about telling your athletes who have this ritual of eating, you know, this particular bad meal like cheeseburgers and chicken nuggets before every game?

Have you ever thought about giving them better nutrition? And he goes, no, I might give them better nutrition which will help them physically, but psychologically, they're so attached to their ritual of eating their cheeseburger and nuggets that that'll mess them up even more. So this is the stuff that you need to always consider. So the answer to this particular question is, do you feel better eating before or after?

That's the right answer. Forget what the science says about insulin or whatever. It doesn't matter nearly as much as which one makes you feel better. Well, and the truth is what you just highlighted is supplement companies know this. And so once they get you on that ritual, then that's enough excuse just to keep it going.

Totally. Oh, I always do my pre-workout shake, and I feel the best when I do that. And when I go get that thing right out towards, I always feel the best. So, Sal, I'm gonna keep doing it. I'm like, yeah, they got you, bro. They already got you.

Yeah, it's funny, because I noticed the same thing. If I don't eat, like, I'm more focused and I'm more into the workout. And so for some people, they haven't really trained their mind to kind of get into that zone and space. And so they need that like energy. And so they focus on getting through the workout instead of really like hyper focusing on the intent of the exercise.

So there's like, there's a lot more to it, but it's definitely individual variance of all across the board. Just in the science is clear, eating a couple hours before will improve your performance. Guess what? I feel better fasted. So what am I going to follow? I'm going to eat, I'm going to go fasted into the workout. That's the right answer. And I think that's what people need to understand. Listen to your own body. Listen to your body. Absolutely.

Next question is from Ernie Meyer. What do you think about carnivore or meat-based protein powders? I love them. I think they're great. Other protein powders. They're all over the five out of them. They're not bad. You know what the beef-based protein is. Yeah, you know it's good about them. Now there's always, of course, supplement companies like to do this, like to compare proteins,

which ones better, which one has a better amino acid profile. Okay, here's what the, there's a couple of things we need to consider. If your protein intake is high, it kind of doesn't matter. So like, for example, plant protein versus animal protein, animal protein far more effective at stimulating muscle growth and recovery. However, if the protein is high enough, it stops it stops mattering. It really doesn't matter anymore. This is true for all proteins. Now, what's the benefit of meat-based protein powder? There's a lot of people that have digestive issues from in particular way protein, or dairy protein. I feel like that's how you would want to kind of assess whether or not, like it's a good fit for you is like how well you receive and digest it. And you know, in terms of

like getting protein from natural sources and from, sources and from your diet specifically is always gonna far surpass getting it from protein powers. But yeah, to be able to assimilate it and be able to digest it properly would be a priority. Also, if you like it, I mean, that's one of the reasons why I continually still use ways. It tastes good. It tastes good.

It's like, if I have like, it's the end of the night, right? You're a big taste guy. Yeah, I am a big taste guy. It's like, it's the end of the night. And I am a little under on my protein intake and my stomach's growling and watching movies. And I want to go down and I'm like, oh, I really want to go get some popcorn right now.

And I'm like, dammit, I know what I should do, is I need more protein. I'm not gonna make myself a meal. Okay, I should probably go have a shake. The less I like taking that shake, the less likely I am going to do it in that situation. And the more likely, I'm not gonna go have my protein powder that is chalky and flavorless. And even though it's healthier and better for me and the science supports that it's, this is that much better than this protein by 2%.

If I don't like it, and I'm not likely to make that decision in that moment, and I know that that decision is more important to me than the splitting hair difference between all the different protein potters. If I don't enjoy it and I don't like it at all, and I have a moment like that, which these moments happen quite often in a lifetime, I want something that I'm like have a moment like that, which these moments happen quite often in a lifetime. I want something that I'm like, oh yeah, you know what, I'll go make my peanut butter banana way protein shake

that I like, I can do that instead of mine. That's happened to me a lot of times that exact scenario I just paid for. That's a great way to use it. I think most people should use protein powders. Rather than relying on them throughout the day and today, how much more do I need, and then you take it?

I remember once as a kid buying, and today, how much more do I need, and then you take it? I remember once as a kid buying, and I never did this again, strawberry flavor protein powder. And they don't really make them that often, right? They don't eat more than that. It's always chocolate, because it's gross. It's never chocolate. I like the myelplex one back in the day.

I like. I like strawberry milk, though. I love strawberry, actually. So that's why I like it. Oh my god, I forgot about that. Yeah. Oh, I love it. I think it's a meat like that, why I like it. Oh my God, I forgot about that. Yeah. Nestle, so I think it's a meat like that then I would have been in, but it never tasted like that.

No, but yeah, I remember I had it and it was totally disgusting. Here's, okay, here's where protein quality matters. If you're protein intake is low. So if you're somebody that doesn't eat your 0.6 grams of protein per pound of body weight or more, now you want to start to pay attention to protein quality. So, and where is this? Well, you say that a lot.

Does that mean, like, okay, let's say, let's just say my number's 200, I need a hip, and I'm at 170, and I'm debating between vegan or meat sores or way, then they're all three going to take me up to 200. Is it all equal at that point? Are you talking about, if I, now, if you take it and you're all three gonna take me up to 200. Is it all equal at that point? Are you talking about, if I, now? If you take it and you're still low. Okay, so that's where it matters.

If the total is under, and again, the studies point to, generally about 0.6 grams per pound of body, so another word, same scenario, but I'm at 75 grams a day. It'll take you to 100. And this will only take me to 100. If I'm gonna definitely be under on my protein, it does make a difference on which one is more valuable in that case.

Yes. So this is for example, we talked to somebody a while ago who, her kidney, she only had one kidney and her nephrologist said, you can't eat more than I think 60 grams of protein. In that case, it makes sense. Or let's say you're a vegan, or maybe not even a vegan, or somebody who just needs a low protein diet, because vegans will always have plant proteins, then it makes a lot of sense. But if your protein index high, it honestly doesn't matter. And if your protein index high, the number one thing you should focus on is digest the ability. How well does this digest? Does it make me feel okay? In that case, it makes

the, you know, that's the thing that makes the biggest difference. But if you're hitting your eye protein, it doesn't make it... Supplement companies have done such a good job at promoting bars and shakes. I know people that will, this was really popular in the, you know, bodybuilding community where they'll be at their protein

intake and over and they'll still eat bars and shakes on top of that. I'm like, what a waste of money. Why would you do that? No. Yeah, I will. I mean, think, okay, when way protein became a thing in the supplement space,

designer protein was one of the first ones to come out. And it was this big thing. And oh my God, way protein, it's so high included me. It's so high in branching. I mean, last, and it's true. It's one of the highest quality proteins on a gram-program basis versus anything else. Other companies had to figure out how to differentiate themselves.

So what they do, oh, well, we have way protein isolate. We have pre-digested way protein. We have way protein hydrolycate or whatever. Oh, no, it's fast absorbing. You need protein before bed that's slow absorbing. Yeah. K-scene is the way to do. This is just how they differentiate themselves, but if your protein intakes high, it doesn't matter.

It really doesn't make a difference at all. Take the one that works with best, excuse me, with your digestion. Look, if you like our information, head over to MindPumpFree.com and check out all of our guides. We have guides that can help you build muscle or burn body fat or improve your health and longevity. Again, it's MindPumpFree.com.

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