Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 228: Central Nervous System FIRE!

Episode Date: January 29, 2016

The Central Nervous System or CNS is critical not only to your strength and performance, but to your ability to maximize muscle growth. How do you fire up your CNS? Sal, Adam & Justin tell you what to do. Please subscribe, rate and review this show! Learn more about Mind Pump at www.mindpumpradio.com

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Salda Stefano Adam Sch Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. Justin, you said something very inaccurate. What's that? You said hang to the left. Why is that inaccurate? It's to the right, bro. Yours is? Yeah.

Everybody's different. What? I thought everybody was to the right, bro. I'm straight on. Yours isn't going in one direction to the other? No, I don't have a hook dick. No, I didn't say, I'm not saying it, it hooks. I have a slight, because I got the slight upper curve,

the curve up, which is what you want. That's all how you tug it. Exactly what you want. According to science, bro. Because that's where the, that's where the, the Gravenger spot is or the G spot. I think that's the real name for it. The Gravenger is that.

Is that the real name Gravenger? Gravenger, Gravenger? In this case, I like can't confirm or deny that. You know what, he always give him. This may be the first time I'm wrong, and Adam didn't even call me on it. But no, no. I don't know what the G-spot stands for.

G-spot. It was named after a doctor who discovered it. And don't ask me how he ended up going. What's popular doctor? Yeah, yeah. And they just hey Did you know when they call dr. G spot did you know that I'm gonna put it real deep inside? Yeah, what is it called? Uh, I can't remember they're not saying it was but it was named after a doctor. You can't look

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh god damn it bro. You're I was so close Gavin. G. Raffinburg Graffin, Graffin, Graffin. Grafenberg. Now I see where they said G. Because that's kind of. It was named after the German gynecologist Ernst Grafenberg. Did you guys know? How, what year? My ADD is bad today, so I'm gonna tell you another story. Did you know that we're just switching from the,

No, no. Come on, we were still on this. We're all the same story. Yeah. Okay. Similar. Oh. Did you know why vibrators were invented? Why they were invented?

Yes. Yes. I'm talking why vibrators were invented? Why they were invented? Yes. Yes. I'm talking about vibrators. Like why? They were a tool for something else first. Doctors swear on everything. Doctors invented vibrators to use on women to cure them of hysteria.

So there was a disease. Brilliant. Quote and quote, that women used to get, they would say called hysteria, which is basically just lose your shit and get stressed out, probably because your husband beats you. Anyway, this is back in the day. And so these women would go to the doctor, or course it, right?

So these women would go to the doctor and then they made these vibrators and they'd use them on these women and then the women would leave and they feel so relieved. Oh my God, I know. Oh, wow, thanks. That's why they were invented, dude.

Really? Yes, the biggest con of, dude. Really? Yes. The biggest con of all time. Really high intense. Yeah. I don't know if it's a con. I was brilliant. It was a brilliant way to introduce it.

The vibrator? Yes. Great way. Honey. Graston burger. It's got my wheel stuck in there. Graston burger. Honey, honey, you are extremely stressed out right now

and hysterical. Come over here. Let me put this vibrator on. We need to take care of this when you put this vibrator on your I know it works for me. It works for you. Yeah, not the vibrator, but if I'm hysterical Then you know that kind of stimulation makes me feel relaxed. Yeah, I'm looking at you Adam I know please don't do that Deep into your eyes. I don't think you're still talking about the vibrates

So the g-spots different though the g The G-spots inside and up, and it's a whole different thing. I find that kind of crazy that, well, I guess, I mean, if it was a vibrating tool, and it was the first time they had ever felt that, but I find, just like you just said right now, I don't know if I can masturbate when I'm all stressed out or I'm angry or I'm mad. Like, I don't think, you don't like to have sex

when you're angry and sad or stressed out Well, there's different angry makeup sex is working too hard or like stressed Stress out or I make if my if I'm like mentally fucked I have a hard time fucking period. Oh, yeah, absolutely I can't just all of a sudden like whip my dick out cuz I'm stressed I'm like oh man, I feel so much and that would be nice that works for you There's what you know what you know, so it would be awesome awesome You know would be a time to update it. Let me talk off Look I'm getting from my job gonna jerk off again. This is great. Dude. There's nothing like it

The thing that the thing that would make me not want to would be if like I had like my dick cut off by a machine or something But basically besides that it's all it's all it's all good. It's all good, Justin. It's all good. Apparently. It's all good. I'm learning things. So something happened to me today, not today, the other day, training a client. I guarantee it's happened to you guys,

but it just fucking cracks me up. And this time it happened like off the rails. So I have an older client, and I'm pretty sure she isn't listening to something. She's ever been on the internet. You know, I hope she's not listening to that first part. Please God. Yeah, she would have turned it off by now anyway.

So I'm training her and she farts a lot when I train her. And she's like 87 years old. Oh, it always makes me laugh. Dude, anytime. She's 87. Anytime we do any kind of a core, like any kind of a movement that involves any kind of course ability.

So basically anything, like she's sitting on the bench, but like, okay, go and stand up for me. And basically anything, like she's sitting on the bench, I'll be like, okay, go and stand up for me. And she'll, yeah, she'll stand up. And it'll be, yeah, a small one like, whoops. Yeah, and then, she's like say whoops or anything or yours. No, no, I don't think she hears it.

You guys don't talk about it. I don't think she hears it. This is so awkward. I don't think she hears it. How have we been drinking for a long time? And I love her. She's one of my favorite people in the whole world. Oh, there's no way I can't, I have to bring it up.

You say something to them? Oh, absolutely. What do you say to them. Oh, there's no way I can't. I have to bring it up. You say something to them? Absolutely. What do you say to them? Well, I say like nice one. Yeah. But what if, hey, let her rip. That's what I say. No, no, no, dude.

I'm like, oh, yeah, I give him a fist bump. I would, see, I would do that too if it was a stand back. I would do that too if it was one. Your volatile too. But let's say we're doing 10 reps of sitting down and standing up on the bench, right? It's 10 parts. So you say good one, but then you're like,

what do I do now? There's nine more coming out. Well, let's fias, you never have to on the bench, right? It's 10 Farts. So you say good one, but then you're like, what do I do now? There's nine more coming out. Well, let's fias, you never have to rep count again, right? You just listen to the noise. Yeah. Yeah. That's like six. Yeah.

One of these days, man, I'm telling you, well, something's slipping out. Oh yeah. I feel like you have to tell her. Tell her what, you fart every time you fucking get up off the bench. Well, you could, you could, you could deliver better than that.

How? I don't know. Not like that though. Toot. No, no, no, it's not what the verbage you use. I mean, just how you say it to her, you know, you have to, you have to make light of it. I'll be like, um, let's like, oh, man, you know, you, it's really windy in here. You know, or

what? I don't know. So how you can relate that? That's just, I would say something more like, I would say like, oh man, I always fart when I get up and down from this bench. You do, huh? But what if she doesn't hear it? Because she's got a bad hearing.

Well, she's going to hear what I just said to her. She's got bad hearing. So she's thinking I don't hear it. No, she's going to hear what I just said to her. I don't know. Every time. It's every time, dude. It's every time.

She's got to feel it, bro. Maybe this is what I'll do I'll take her aside and be like hey, you know I know we got 10 minutes left before the end you work up But I'm gonna take this opportunity to discuss your first nutrition because I feel like have you been eating a lot of beans I feel like your gut flora's off and it's and here's the symptoms of bad gut flora You produce a lot of flat chance flat chance are you familiar with that? Does that make sense to you? Does that hit home?

Yeah. Does that something that you think you might have a little bit? She's like, no, I never do. I never, actually, I'll disagree with you. I heard you like five times. Yeah. So. That was probably something else.

If you were a person, I was like a frog or something. I couldn't, that's not her voice, dude. No. That's your old lady voice. That's why, but I couldn't, that's not a voice. That's your old lady voice. That's why, yeah. We talk. Bro, you sound like a creepy pedophile. Yeah.

Thank you. That's very cute. Come on in my fans. No. No. I thought it was a candy. No. No, but candy.

All right, I'll have some candy. Ah, subway sound. Okay, I'll have some candy. You want a subway sound? No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I'll probably go longer from now on. You know, I could imagine if you were training someone like that and you, like, central nervous training, central nervous system training, where she's gotta sit there, to insert core up the entire time. No way!

Why would I do that? That's what I'm saying. She'll shit every time. You know how important it would be for her though. I mean, that's a hard one. I know that's why you don't do it, but man. Is there anything you can do where it doesn't happen or you don't fart presses?

Oh, for her? Yeah. I kind of enjoy it to be honest with you. Not in a weird way, by the way. That sounds very weird. Is there anything you can do or it doesn't happen? Or you don't fart presses? Of her? By someone else. I kind of enjoy it to be honest with you. Not in a weird way, by the way. That sounds very weird. Yeah, yeah, it's a... It doesn't sound like a face. No, it's not the smell.

It's a normal person. Because it doesn't smell. It doesn't make a scent. The part that I... When you get 85, you don't make a smell anymore when you fart. No, it's just like dust. You know what it is?

It's... It's a dust. It's just... It's just bi's just bio dust coming I just got hit with a plume oh my god I can't see a fossil God is that your ghost? Is that a turd that will win your skeletal ghost is coming at me Is that a turd, Dr. Wind? Your skeleton ghost is coming at me.

We, we gathered some scientists, we analyzed the air that came at your fart and it looks like it's from a 3000 BC Egypt. No, no, no, I enjoy it because it's charming. It's part of her character, you know what I mean? It's something I look forward to. Like if she didn't fart, I'd be like, this is weird.

That's true. It's not the person I knew, I thought, you know, you know what you're in for. We should probably talk about fitness now. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for sticking through that. Early part of my mom. We are a fitness show. We are a fitness show.

I think. And we're gonna talk about fitness now. I had a topic I wanted to cover. This is an important topic. Talk to me. We bring up the central nervous system a lot on our episodes. We definitely have lately. But I want to do a full episode on the central nervous system because lot on our episodes. You definitely have lately. But I wanna do a full episode on the central nervous system

because it's more important. I will say it's more important than your muscles when it comes to athletic performance and strength and all physical pursuits. I'm glad you said that because I was afraid that we were gonna about to lose half our audience right there when you just said that.

We're gonna talk about central nervous system for the rest of you. All right, that everyone's like, fuck, I'll tune out of this one. When you make a, when you talk said yeah we're gonna talk about central nervous system for the rest of you all right that everyone's like fuck I'll tune out of this when you when you make that when you talk do my voice let me try to do my voice it doesn't sound good do I sound like that it did well I don't know I sound like that I just know no that's better why is it gonna wear it now central nervous system if this was a school we, we all know who the bullies would be. I'd come to school. I'd go to school.

I'd go to school. Like, still on right there, dude. Well, I'm trying. Yeah, that's his idol, man. I see a lot. Yeah. No, it's not my idol. It's a lot.

It's a lot. It's a lot of life. I don't call him slide. I call him slide. I see you. Because you guys are tight. So listen, central nervous system, very important. It is, we've said this before, we've made this analogy a million times, I'll do it again.

It is the amplifier to the speakers, which are your muscles. So muscles are like speakers, central nervous system is amplifier. You could have great, big, powerful speakers, but if you have no juice going to them, you have no power to the amplifier, those speakers, but if you have no juice going to them, you have no power through the amplifier, those speakers are absolutely worthless. And this is the case

with the muscles. And there's extreme examples of athletes that have been able to master their central nervous system. One that comes to mind for me immediately is, no, well, no, one that everybody can look at right now are Olympic weightlifters. You've got guys that are 170 pounds who can lift more than 280 pound bodybuilders, and their muscles are not nearly as big. Of course, these people look muscular and they're hard as hell, but it's their central nervous system. It's able to fire this incredible energy to their muscles and generate this incredible force.

I think like a Lane Norton, someone like that. Another one, right? So central nervous system is that type of thing. And if you neglect or don't learn how to train or maximize your central nervous system, you're missing more than half of what you can really do in the gym and the progress you can make.

And for those of you that don't give a shit and just want to look a certain way, maximizing your central nervous system output and training it properly will also build more muscle anyway because you can call upon more muscle fiber. Exactly. You know, get connected and you're in tune with the firing process. Absolutely.

So, amazing you're doing. Well, this is what made me so excited about stick mobility when we took that. I mean, that was what was so badass was I never experienced anything that I thought was so focused on that. You know, we know, of course, what movements, you know, with traditional lifting and stuff that does it, but it wasn't until, you know, until I was introduced to that, I ever found a tool like that that I was like, wow, you can just totally feel that being engaged and working.

Like, that's fucking awesome, you know. Yeah, here's another example of how the central nervous system works. If you were to squeeze like a gripper with your right hand, but maintain, you know, be relaxed with throughout the rest of your body and just squeeze it as hard you can. So all your activating is your hand. You'll squeeze with a certain amount of strength. If you were to repeat that motion, but then tense up the entire body along with your hand, you would get, you would be stronger. You'll actually squeeze harder. And as a matter of fact, this happens naturally. Anytime we exert our maximum force, even if it's over a small part of our body, we naturally

find ourselves trying to fire the entire central nervous system. Well, an example of that. Like, if you remember Bruce Lee in his, what was that? Like, how many inch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch punch I mean, if you think about that, able to generate just boom, and just think of that, like think about how much, how connected he is in his entire body to generate that kind of force into one location.

It is, and today I was actually training another client and we were dead lifting. I've been training this gentleman for a long time. Great guy. And before I have him lift, lately I've been really, because he's now to the point we've been training for years and his form is looking pretty good. So now I'm starting to get those,

you know how you start to turn the little screws here and there and your client to get, really maximize their progress after you've been with them for a long time. And so I'm telling him, as he's getting down and getting ready to pull the bar, I said okay for two seconds, before you lift that bar, I want you to activate your lats,

tense the shit out of your core, squeeze the hell out of the bar, and make your body solid like a statue, just solid and hard, do that for about one and a half to two seconds, and then lift. And he was blown away by how much stronger he felt when he was able to do that. This is a common technique I used before I PR.

So, yeah, when I go into those specific lifts, and I also do this with a stick and I also do this with tools, if not the bar. So I basically will emulate certain parts of the lift. So let's say, yeah, so if I'm in the deadlift position, I'm down at the bottom and I'm in a pull and I'm gonna get that connected, super like maximize that amplification right there, that signal boom rest. And I'm gonna go up to the top and go for the lockout boom rest.

And I'm gonna emulate that and then I'm gonna come back and I'm gonna approach it, I'm focused and I'm connected in each part of that lift. Yeah, those kinds of things, they really do make a big difference in your lifts. And here's the thing, they've done lots of studies on this and they found that the average person will really only be able to activate or, what's the word, grab onto a low percentage of their actual potential. I don't remember what the numbers are, but it was pretty low. It's like 60 or 60%.

It's like, if you look at your maximum potential for strength, that would be 100%. Most people can only ever generate about 60 or 70%. They can't get any higher than that, unless they train themselves to. When they look at high level strength athletes, they're upwards of 90%. So they're able to call upon that strength.

And one of the reasons why your body doesn't do that naturally is because it's a safety mechanism. It's not going to, it's like a speed limiter or a rev limiter on your car. Yeah, governor. It's a governor. It's not gonna let you go beyond a certain point because it's trying to protect your body.

This is also why people in emergency all say, freaky strengths, they lift a car up for their baby to come out or a burning building and also they're spreading like ridiculous speed like. Well, in part, that's a adrenaline, right? And like a hormonal response with definitely. There's lots of things that go into it, but anger will do it. You know, how many times have you been super mad and you've done something, you're like, whoa, that was, you know, I was a little or scared. Have you ever been into it, but anger will do it. How many times have you been super mad and you've done something you're like, whoa, that was, you know, or scared? Have you ever been really scared and fucking, well, we talked about that.

Jumped real high or do something crazy. I've talked about that with music. How that affects, you know, my mood, especially if I get like a tense enough beat and an intense enough song, it just takes me to that place. And now I'm, you know, I'm driving that extra bit. I'll never forget once, once my son must have been three. And he was at the top of the stairs.

And I was at the bottom of the stairs. And he's walking, my wife was upstairs and he's walking by the stairs and he sees me. And he wanted to come downstairs. And I saw him try to come down and I can see that he was about to miss like, like, trip. And he's three, he's at the top. Bro, within, I mean, like a to miss, like, like, trip. And he's three days at the top. Yeah. Bro, within, I mean, like a split second,

I grabbed the handrail and I fucking left. Lost yourself up. Bro, I launched myself so hard, I ripped the handrail. A rangantang. I ripped the handrail off the wall and I caught him with the other hand and I basically pulled my entire left side of my body. But I couldn't believe that I did that.

And I did only set in after I realized, okay, everything was okay. I had the same thing happen, but my son was like falling down this hill like in my backyard. And I could see like just the beginnings of it. Like he missed a step and then his body started to teeter. And he was just falling and like gonna go straight down.

I jumped like on top of this retaining wall. And I just like basically tackled him up the hill. And we kind of rolled together, but it was just like, whoa, I did that under a second. It's pretty amazing the potential that is within your body and most of it comes from your central nervous system. Muscles only tell part of the story. It's one of the reasons why there's certain people that are not as big as other people. And there's other factors, of course, leverage and muscle attachment and a lot of stuff. But the central nervous system plays a much bigger role.

This is why some people are just, you look at him and you're like, okay, he's not as big as that guy, but he's way stronger. Or he could throw way harder. Or you hit that guy and he feels like a rock or, you know, it feels like you're running he feels like a rock or, you know, it feels like you're running into it. And this should be a part of your routine. And there's a technique, actually, I wanna go over, that's actually extremely effective in activating the central nervous system.

And the technique, I couldn't remember the name of it, I had to look it up, I wrote it down here, it's called post activation potentiation. And they found that utilizing this technique gets more muscle fibers to recruit and gets a better, you know, gets, gets more of a firing signal or stronger firing signal, excuse me, from the central nervous system. But it's a little technical. So I'm going to kind of break it down a little bit and I'll make it sound simple. But let's say I'm going to go into a barbell squat. I'll make it sound simple, but let's say I'm going to go into a barbell squat.

Um, the way you would do this is you would do a few pli-o jumps, and then go into your squat. I just did that yesterday. Did you really? Yep. And I know it's a fucking difference right away. What did you notice? Did it? So I haven't done this in a long time. I just did it yesterday. Literally, because we just, we mentioned it, we were talking about this other day when we were talking about the, the mods with the performance program and I said that and I don't remember which one of you said it for I meant you must have been you then if you were talking about it already and I did my normal dynamic flexibility after I did my dynamic flexibility I brought the jump box over and I just did like five explosive explosive jumps and I brought it down real slow Got in my position my my perfect swaps didn't explode up as hard as I could came down real, got in my position, my perfect swap was in and exploded up as hard as I could, came down real slow, got in my position,

exploded up really good. When I got out of the bar normally, it takes me two or three sets at least before I feel like I'm sitting in the hole and everything's firing together and I'm kind of finding that spot, instantly I was there. Wow. Yeah, instantly. But very first one I was already, I was like,

damn, that's awesome. So yeah, I did that with squeezing the stick. So I squeezed the stick with max exertion. So the same thing, which is boom, hit it really hard and squeeze hard as a kid and relax. And then I went into the bench press. And you felt it and it felt it. Yeah.

Yeah, so see, this is awesome. Definitely helped. This is awesome. So I'm glad you said that Justin, because there's more than one way to do this. Because the way that I brought up and the way that Adam's talking about is More advanced because for those of you that don't that have never done it before or you haven't trained for a while

You know doing a maximal jump. Yeah, believe it or not is high risk. It sounds like it's not But it's high risk for a lot of people and it defeats the purpose if you're if you're not advanced in the situation This is one of the things I do love that we you know This is something one we could talk all about this and be like, oh, this is the next biggest thing because it will make a difference in someone's game. But then, you know, if you're not somebody who's gone through maps and a ball or the foundation of training and really have got good type form to go over and do an explosive movement like that just to try and

benefit your squat is you're not going to see the same carry over as somebody who understands how to how to do that. Well, here's how I do it with my clients. I just had a client do today. His name is Jeremy. He's probably listening. So we haven't done these in the past. So what I'll typically do is I'll tell him I said, you know, this is what I told him today. Actually, I said, we're gonna do five and I didn't even have him jump on a box. And you actually, you don't even need a box. You could just jump in the air and land. I said, we're gonna do five jumps off the ground. So you can get down into a low squat.

I want you to get everything tight, explode out of the bottom real hard, land, gather yourself and repeat that. We'll do that five times. They'll go into a squat. But what we did, the first set was I said, I want you to jump, but the first couple jumps, I want you to do them at 50% and then 70%. And then if everything feels good,

then we'll go to your hard squat, your hard jump. Because I want them to get used to the feel of exploding at the bottom. Because a lot of people don't know how to. Yeah, I know, you're right. A lot of people don't know how to explode properly. And when they try, they hurt themselves. Absolutely.

So if you're doing this and this is your first time and you're like, I wanna try this, this is what you should do, you again, you could test it with squats or even bench press. We'll talk about bench press. Get into a push up position, do a kind of a relatively quick push up, then go do a faster one and then practice jumping off the floor

with your hands. Do that a couple times and then bench press. You know where the stick is for? For the stick. Yeah, beautiful fit. When I was just thinking of, well, we're explaining that was like, have you ever heard of like physical therapists have mentioned trying to do plyometrics, like right after like surgery, after you're going through your rehab, I've heard of like some aggressive approaches where they actually

have people doing these explosive movements. Pliles right after surgery. Yeah. Really? Yes. Wow. Here's the, here's the thing about I'm thinking that they're probably leaning on this sort of a methodology behind it.

Yeah, and here the thing is, is that there's a risk versus reward with any type of activity. And plios have a higher risk. There's a lot of reward, but there's a higher risk. And also, most people do it wrong. So again, if you're gonna use this, it's all about getting things to fire.

It's not about fatigue. You're not doing a super set. I'm not doing a box jump to be fatigued to go into my squat to make it harder. I'm doing it to get my central nervous system to fire hard and then go to my squat. So I'm three to five. That's all I do. Yeah, you're just firing and then you're kind of chill, get in your position, get real tight and then do it again and then you're not trying to get tired because if you get fatigued,

guess the first thing to fat to fatigue your central nervous system and you've lost, you've shot yourself on the foot. You have no signal, you're fucked. Right. Now the other way that Justin's talking about with the stick would be just to get into or move through a squat but just stay tight as shit. Like another example of this would be if I were to get under just the bar and not even use a stick, but get under the bar with no weight, get into the squat position, tense

my entire body and go down into a squat. Super tense. Super tense. Come up. Super hard. Super tense. Do like a couple of rex. Shriving hard, but slow.

But slow. Super hard. Exactly. You want to think of yourself as being this like a robot like this machine that's just firing every part of your body or the isometric way, which Justin does it, where he would grab a stick, squeeze the hell out of it, and you can apply that in different directions, for example, like, I could put it up against the wall and just grab it and just rotate into the wall, or I could put it up into the door jam, which are some methods we actually added in the mass

performance. It's in mass performance. Yes, in there. And some of these exercises are in there just as a, really, to introduce these concepts. But also, we are planning on expanding on these concepts. And so, you can look forward to these types of mods coming in the future. I'm glad you, you brought that up with Sam. I'm glad he brought, we need to talk about

what the whole idea and concept of people understand what we're doing. Well, here's a deal. You know, when you enroll in one of our programs, it's very comprehensive. There's lots of videos on their master's performance, like 110 videos on their demonstrations and so basically, I have a personal trainer. You understand the concepts, we break it down, we give you workouts that you can do, but you also get the concepts you could also modify.

But we're going to continue to provide what we call mods. So in the future, you love the program, you're still doing it, you want more examples of how to utilize and take advantage of the different phases. We're going to put out what are called mods, different exercises, different ways to maximize these different types of things. And central nervous system is one of those things that we have heavily in the program. Right. I was explaining something the other day when they are asking me, like, you know, what exactly is maps. And, you know, I explained to somebody is,

when you look at most programs that, you know, anybody does, is they have a program. And that's the stand by it as like the best thing right now or they use whatever science they need to back up their argument. And they pushed the shit out of this one program. When we all came together, that was one of the things that we were super anti when we started this show.

And I was like, okay, if we were gonna create a program, we're gonna create a program that has the ability to evolve. And really what we're doing is We're indirectly teaching people how to program design themselves. Oh, you kidding me 100% So and have you seen the people who who I mean look at the people who have now been with us and been doing our original program for a year They're they're programming their own mods and coming up with yeah, they've already been sort of on that mindset. Right. And that to me is what is so special about what we do and so unique and different than any other program you'll find is it's not just a program.

It's a way that we have found to educate people on how they design something specific to them. Because since day one, we all came together and we were just like, okay, how do we deliver this top dollar service that we provide for clients and we were just like, okay, how do we deliver this top dollar service that we provide for clients and person in this virtual sense? That's a hard task to do. And it's taken a lot of creative thinking on all of our parts. And this is kind of the direction that we've gone is this map.

And we lay it out for you. And it's not the end all, but it has the ability to modify and change and evolve. But the same time, to different paths, right? Many, many, we're gravitating to the ones that lead to success, right? So that's what we're extracting and we're placing it into our maps program. Well, think about this way.

If you look at the human body as the beautiful machine that it is, whether you believe in science and you understand that it's the result of millions of years of evolution or you believe in creation, it was created by a higher power. If you just look at it objectively, it's a very incredibly complex, beautiful machine.

And when you're talking about exercise, you're talking about trying to achieve a particular goal or set of goals whether it be health or strength or speed or the way you look and What you what you want to do ideally if your if fitness is something you want to make a party life and you should You want to learn how to navigate that because the the the road that you take now is not going gonna be the same road that you can take next year. It's not gonna take you to the same place. And once you have, you know, basically what you want is you want like a navigation system.

You don't want a map with one road on it. Like this is the way you get to your goal. Because gets what's gonna happen. Your goal is gonna move, or all of a sudden you're on that road and oh shit, a tree fell over, I can't drive on that road anymore. What can I do? You want a way to navigate through this system and hopefully we've been able to provide

that with both the show and some of our programs. But a lot of you never really deviates from the original path that was going to get you to that place. It's just that we're sort of swerving around. We apply structure. We give structure, you know what I'm saying? So we give direction and structure for sure. But what we don't do is put you in a box.

You know, we don't say this is the best for anything like this, like you know, you have to find what's best for you. And it's how I believe we should train. You know, I know I was training for, you know, the whole competing thing and stuff, but that's kind of how most people on this radio show know me, but that's not even me. That was me trying to show everybody who I could be somebody

who's not that guy and do that, switch my gears over to that type of a program, design my work as a dad, and now I'm not even training like that. Well, think about it this way. When, you know, when we first met Adam, and we started talking about this, you were very much in that mindset, right? And then shortly after you started really applying

some of these central nervous system training techniques and the way you started it was you started going heavy on your deadlift, you started really focusing on maximizing that output. And what was the side effect of that? Yeah, huge growth in games. You built more muscle and you look more impressive on stage. So, it's all connected.

But, I mean, look, if you're working out and you like it and you want to like it and you want to like it forever, I hate to tell you this, but you focus on the same goal all the time. It's not going to work, man. Health and wellness and fitness is this huge broad spectrum of things. And if you can move through them, it's always going to be fucking excited. It's like, you know what it's like? It's like that frickin' variety pack of cereal that when you were a kid

and it's got all your favorite cereals. And you can have fucking cocoa puffs this day. I can have, you know, pops and chips. And it's like, you don't get sick of it. Yeah, it's like, it's lucky terms. It's like so many different things that you can focus on and do. It's always cereal.

It's always gonna nourish you. Maybe not those cereals, but, but that's kind of the point, you know, gonna how it works. Yeah, and you don't wanna put it all together at once. Like you don't wanna put it into one bowl. Yeah. That's gonna fuck you up.

That's, that's, that's cross it. That's cross it. That's cross it that's cross it. That's it is every single cereal That's super cereal. Yeah, your body's like oh this tastes horrible My teeth doing to me fruity pebbles as a go with cereals got diarrhea Forever. Yeah, but you know back to day back to um back to central nervous system training or had, or even just understanding it. Um, in the past, we've talked about the mind and muscle connection, right? Now that's big and body building. It's big and body building for you to, for them to talk about concentrating and focusing on the muscle

and squeezing it. Well, guess what you're fucking doing? I had to be honest. What is posing? Posing? Yeah. What is posing? Posing. Yeah. What is posing? It's isometric. It's super tense positions that you're trying to, you know, get the most response out of your muscles. It is, and I love it because bodybuilders will come up and be like, no, I don't want to do any of that stuff.

I'm just a bodybuilder. It's just a functional, bro. And then they'll write a post on how when they work their bicep, they focus on their squeeze of the bicep. And they focus on the isolation and moving bicep and they focus on the isolation and moving in through the full range of modern terminology. It's the same thing. You're training your central nervous system, my friend.

It's the same fucking thing. And they get results at a doing that. By the way, well, the beauty though point this out there, there's better ways to train the central nervous system than that. Yes, they're doing that. That's one way to do it, but there's other ways.

That is a way to do it. But what a lot of the body nervous system than that. Yes, they're doing that. That's one way to do it, but there's other ways. That is a way to do it. But what a lot of the bodybuilders and that whole genre of people don't understand is that that is not the ideal way for you to do it. Not if you want to see the most progress with your central nervous system. Sure, it's a way to incorporate it into a training program.

Well, it's also like what Sal was mentioning with the squat. So there's a difference between somebody that just puts a bar of weight on their back and then they sit down in the hole and they're sitting there letting gravitational forces in load cause this isometric contraction as you're trying to sustain this weight versus going down and internally creating this force because of the amplification of the central. You basically think of rigidity. It's like you're making your body tense and rigid through the full range of motion. That's how you would utilize that particular technique. It's like if I'm flexing my arm and just tensing the hell out of it and I'm moving it up while

I'm flexing and tensing. It's very tight. It's very hard. If someone were to try and stop my arm and hold it into place, they'd have a tough time doing it because I'm really activating those muscles in that central nervous system to fire. And by the way, something that I've noticed, and again, there's no science to support what I'm about to say, but this is all based on experience. And those of you who've been training for a long time, and those of you trainers who are listening can attest, when you train in this way, when you start to understand this and master it, one of the other side effects is you feel, this fitness industry likes to use the word tone. I hate that fucking word because it doesn't exist,

but for sake of, you know, kind of painting a picture, that's what ends up happening. Your body feels harder. Like you walk around and you just feel like people poke at you and you're like, man, your core feels tight. And everything feels tight. Everything feels harder. Like you walk around and you just feel like people poke at you and you're like, man, your core feels tight. Everything feels tight. Everything feels hard. And then when I move through my everyday life

and I'm moving a chair or, you know, I'm grabbing my bag and I'm just normal. Just picking it up. Everything's so well connected. Dude, I feel like if I wanted to, if I move a chair with one hand, I feel like I could take that thing and throw it through the fucking ceiling.

Even though I'm not, I'm just trying to lift it, I just feel like it all of a sudden got lighter. That chimped strength. Doug knows about that. Chimped strength. Chimpy. But I automatically start to feel like, I'm just there, I'm just stronger.

And that's a nice feeling to have walking around all along. Think about your posture. Think about the confidence that that start to exude. You ever look at someone and they walk and they look kind of loose and like, almost lazy. Just to just brothers to the gooey. Just to brothers to the other day. Yeah, I mean, I'm not talking about the winds blowing

them and they're all gooey. Yeah, I'm not talking about relaxed, because that's fine. There's nothing wrong with being relaxed. Because you don't want to walk around look tense like you're like you're trying to not take a shit. I'm talking about about relaxed because that's fine. There's nothing wrong with being relaxed because you don't want to walk around look tense Like you're like your train. Oh, not take a shit. I'm talking about they were lying like momentum Yeah versus someone who's confident walking moving, but they look like like you look at them and they just they they exude Confidence and assertiveness. It's hard to put into words

But those you listening know exactly what I'm talking about That's the the vision that you that's how you start to feel when you start to become aware of the role the central nervous system plays in training and how to train it properly. So a charged battery versus not. Totally. You know, that is a great example. Yeah, because you're you're you're just full of power and ability, you know, and you're res what do they call that? Reserve. Yeah, you have a reserve is very high. And another, here's another example that just came to me. Study after study will show that if you give someone

a stimulant before they do a lift, they're stronger. So like caffeine, you give someone caffeine they're, I don't know, 5% stronger or whatever. That's your, that's again central nervous system. That's what the caffeine did. Caffeine just did artificially, but it got the central nervous system to fire a little harder. Boom, central nervous system. That's what the caffeine did. The caffeine just did artificially, but it got the central nervous system to fire a little harder.

Boom, you're stronger. And I also would venture to say, and this is just a theory, that training in this way will also increase alertness, because the central nervous system does more than just control your muscle and how strong they fire. It also controls alertness and attention. And so I know when I train this way, I feel more alert. I feel sharper.

So there's so much carryover into the rest of your life when you incorporate this kind of training. And so I highly recommend that you incorporate some of this stuff. And if you don't, if it's too complicated, this doesn't make sense to you. And you just want to kind of do basic, but still kind of take advantage of it.

A real easy way is to focus on the super low rep range, get some heavy weight, do some sets of one to three reps, don't go to failure. That is a great, easy way to train the central nervous system to fire, to get that grinding strength. So, but aside from that, I guess leave us a review, five stars. Yeah, yeah.

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