Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 329: Kickstarting A Stalled Metabolism, Becoming A Financailly Successful Trainer, Anabolic Steroid Alter Egos & MORE

Episode Date: July 15, 2016

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there's only one place to go. Mind up, mind up with your hosts. Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. Two questions for you, Adam. Number one, where's your sailboat? And number two. Yeah. When are we docking?

Do you always decide to eat right before we record an episode? Just as with the reconsider our break. The three minutes that we have between we lighting up the next episode is my total time to get food. When you can on shovel it in. This is always I've been fast and I'm star I've been working since fucking 4 a.m. Dick. Oh, yes, wow.

Yeah, I know when you said sleepy, very bad. That's not bad. I'm going till 9 o'clock tonight. I'm doing 24 hour fast twice a week right now. Whoa. Yeah. Not 24. Okay.

What do you think 24 means? Just eating once. 24 hours. Yeah. So I'm not going to eat till tonight at 8 o'clock, 8 o'clock. You know what I'm saying? Let's go back to the first subject. The sailboat. Where did subject, the sailboat.

Where did you park the sailboat? Yeah. He's got the cutoff right here. Once he stopped doing polo. Are you referring to my toms? You've got the cutoff shorts. They're freight at the bottom, which remarkably look okay. And then you've got the little boat,

then you've got the boat shoes, the little booty boat shoes. Goes with the whole fit, dude. With no socks underneath, right? No socks. Because you're supposed to wear them without socks. Yeah, unless you got one of those, there's really low, low socks. They have socks that are called like no socks

that like barely fit over your foot. You can wear those in there. I'm picturing like croquet. Yeah, I'm saying, are you with me? Yeah. It's very croquet. It's a very croquet. You ever play croquet?

I have. You have play croquet? Like not professionally. Are you good at it? I don't know. I've never been in any of this. Wait, he can whack some balls. Let's just say.

Which one's the one on the horse? Polo. That's polo. Yeah, I know a croquet has grays without the horse. Oh, dear. But I was just going to say, if I sat on Adam's back, the one without the horse. We could play polo if Adam ran around.

I see. If he galloped around and I just, maybe we put Doug on your back. Have you run around and shit? He's a great jockey and then he could swing the He's got the perfect build. I love when you talk about sports. Why? I bet I know you never know what it's going What's that sport with the ball that people bounce it's like basketball? Oh, is that the one that has made a lot of money? Where do you make touchdowns?

Oh, no, that's for all. Except these are horse, is that what you want? Cause yeah. So what's up with those shoes? These are actually my first pair of toms I've ever bought. So what's a tom? You don't know what toms are? No, I have no fucking idea what a tom is.

You always say that shit to me like you just like you just say something. I know about that. You do? So toms, toms got really big because they give away a pair of shoes. Every time So Tom's got really big because they give away a pair of shoes. Every time you buy a pair of shoes, they give away a pair of shoes. Yep. To somebody.

One for one. Oh, to someone in need. Yeah, that's really cool. Yeah, it's pretty neat. So some poor kids get wearing the same shoes right now? I don't know if he gets the exact same pair. I'm sure he gets a different pair. He's going to be set for sale.

But anyways, anytime I see marketing like this, I find I think it's very ingenious. So I saw that, this happened, I don't know, Tom's came around, they've been around now for a while, I think good five, maybe more years now. But I was not a fan of them. They're kind of like slipper-looking,

very chick-like to me. Some do, I have buddies that wear them, and I'm just like, I can't do it, dude. I won't break that as much as I love the company. I can, apparently. Yeah, well, they came out with these them and I'm just like I can't do it. Dude, I won't I won't break that as much as I love that. I can't apparently. Yeah, well, you know, they came out with these and I'm like, okay, these are stylish. I can rock these. I got a, what'd you say, a crochet or croquet? What'd you say? I don't know. You don't remember? No. He likes to croquet. Yeah. I didn't say crochet. Yeah. That's some different. Yeah. It does match your toes

now though. You got a nice little toe combo going on with the... Yeah, so I could pull the... I feel like I can pull these shoes off. I just never had a fit they would go with the male slipper look. But these I could do. I could do these. Goes good with myself.

But without socks, your feet get all sweaty and weird in them. Well, I don't plan on doing any running this morning or anything too aggressive that I think my feet are gonna get really sweaty. But I think I will buy a pair of socks. You know, so these are the first time that I've worked. They make it stinky, right? Yeah, I'll probably buy those socks that are, but you, if I were I'm a socks right now, I'd look really stupid. You would? Yeah, I just wouldn't

work. What color socks would you wear? You just can't. You can't. Yeah, what, how's that? We don't want to see if you can't do. You can do, you can do a pair of really low navy blue socks. If you had low cut navy blue socks, which I don't have, you could do that with those. I always learned so much from these conversations. Can't do our guy all with that. That's why I'm glad we have, although everybody has,

well actually, did I post, I think I posted these shoes the other day. I just posted right there. Yeah, because I just bought them. I just bought them two, three. So now they're popular. I don't know if they are popular or not. Well, just that we got them. They have to be popular. Yeah. No, maybe. So now they're popular. I don't know if they are popular or not. Well, Justin and I have to be popular.

Yeah. No, maybe. Maybe they'll be popular. I know a lot of girls are wearing them. I don't know. They look like good deadlift issues though. Maybe I'll try to deadlift it. You know why?

Because they're so flat and thin on the bottom. They're like chucks. And you can bowl them. And you can bowl the fuck out of them. Or play polo. Have you ever been on a sailboat? I have not been on a sailboat actually. Justin, you have to have it.

I had to think about that. Is it cool or is it porous? Oh, it's great. It's always. All day, champagne and whales. Don't know what, for reals? Yeah, I've called the girls' whales. No, no, no, I have a word of sightseeing.

Oh, okay. You're checking the whales and come on, man. Did you have a captain or whatever that does the whole, that's the old story? He isn't wearing the stupid hat. That's what you're asking. No, he's like an eye patch. Yeah, it's hardcore.

Yeah, did he really? Yeah, you actually had an eye patch? I was on like the O'Neal one, it was awesome. I feel like yeah, I feel like eye patches are more likely to get you laid than they are less likely to be. Oh, there's always a cool story. And if there isn't, you got to make one up. I feel like having, like if you have a physical defect many times that will probably reduce

your ability to get laid. But if it's an eye patch, I don't know. I just feel like you're probably going to, you're probably going to get more. I feel like you think that because we shared about a study I think that you had read one time. Oh, scar on the face. Scar on the face that women are more tried to do it so you feel like, because he said it's eye gouged out,

maybe she's even horneer because it's even crazier than it's gone. Well, see, it's not anything on the face or you're thinking, I know that's where the shrieks go. Like missing teeth doesn't work. Like that's not a good way to, you know, or if your nose was all right. And I put a missing eyeball in it.

No, but I wouldn't arm. Just an eye patch, though, you're not gonna work anymore. I patch a lot of times you think like what's going on or anything? Yeah right away you think they don't have an eyeball, but they have a glass eye Right you see an eye patch. What do you think? I of course missing eyeball Oh, my god. You think of missing eyeballs is sexy as sexy as I don't think when you say it like that Maybe not but I think the eye patch itself maybe The allure of it? It doesn't work on girls though. If a girl had an iPad, she'd be kind of,

I think we should put this to the toe. I think you should have to wear an iPad. Girl, how about an iPad? Yeah, I don't know. No, no, I think South should wear an iPad for like a week. It's interesting. I'll be weird.

I feel like it would change my vision, wouldn't it? Yeah, just switch from my day. It would. Yeah, I won't get away with software, right? Then go left. Yeah, I'll bloodshot. You guys want. Yeah. Yeah. One day way. Yeah. Sock's right. Right. Then go left. Yeah. All blood shot. You guys want to hear something interesting, kind of long these same lines. Yeah. Seriously. You can wear glasses that flip everything upside down.

So you put the glasses on. That's a horrible idea. And that sounds like it sounds like a headache. Will you relax and let me finish my story? When you're so when you're looking through these glasses, everything's upside down. Within a short period of time, I don't know what the period of time is, I think it's adapt to it. I think it's a couple days,

your brain flips the image back. So then when you take them off, everything's upside down again, your brain has to flip it again. That's bullshit. They show that on brain games. It is not bullshit. They tested that.

Really? It is correct, my friend. That's right. That's really been tested. Well, did you know this? I see you didn't know this. I did say the same thing with shadows and all that. You just like build an image after a while Yeah, that's right. That's really been tested. Well, did you know that? I see you didn't know this. Did you know this? I did say the same thing with shadows and all that.

You just like build an image after a while after looking at it and then it's like, that's very fascinating. I find that very fascinating. You don't know that right now. The images you see are upside down. You didn't know that, did you? Your brain, no, no shit.

Your eyes right now are transmitting images to your brain upside down. Your brain interprets them right side up. Yeah, it flips it. Now I've heard that, but I wouldn't think like an external piece of glass could actually get your get your eyes. Absolutely. That's fascinating. Your brain your eyes. Well, you look at people who have, um, fascinating to me, how you reorient. Yeah. Well, you can see people who get laser eye surgery on just one eye. And but then they they're they're they're vision adjust so that they can see up close and far away.

They get what's called what they call stereo vision or something like that. Yeah. They can see. And so have you ever known anyone that's done this with the glass? Where did you see this? I don't know. To read this. Don't ask me that. I don't have a very curious.

I don't know. I'm brain games. Was it on brain games? I read it somewhere a while ago, I think, but it's fascinating to me at just how much reality, actually, all of reality is completely created by your brain. Like I had it. I watched this one talk by the scientist once and he made this interesting point. He says, do you think what you see

is outside your body? He goes, it's not. What you see right now, what you're experiencing right now is all inside your brain. You are not seeing anything that's outside of your seeing everything that's inside your head. That really trips me the fuck out. Yeah, that trips me.

You gotta interpret it. You're making me all squirm here. Is it weird? Yeah, everything that's inside your head. That really trips me the fuck out. You get to interpret it. You're making me all squirm your eyes. Is it weird? Yeah. Just listen to it. Yeah. Like you, like you would have no idea. Is it real time?

Like you'd have no idea if let's say you fell asleep right now and me and Justin drugged you. Abused. And then after re-painting you several times. See, remove it. Whoa, whoa, whoa. After that. You can't use the raport on my radio.

So if you fell asleep, if that was horrible, if you fall asleep and somehow we were able to get you tickle torture. We were able to be ready for like a sharpie on my head. And we're dark. And we're dark. Let's not sleep around it. We used to play jokes. Are you like put shaving cream in their heads? If they've been like, I've been through multiple of the games. Hey, duck is fell asleep. Let's rape her. Yeah. Yeah.

No, you'll never see that coming. Great, yeah. You'll never see that coming. I don't know, he's a great, it's hilarious. So we'll talk about it on the show. Like, we're like, whoa, I didn't sign up for this. Next morning, he's like, why am I sore? I didn't work out.

No, listen, if you fell asleep, somehow you were sedated and we removed your brain and placed it in a computer or a machine that was able to perfectly mimic all of the external stimuli that your brain currently received. So it was mimicking all the stimuli your brain gets through your hands, your feet, your skin, your nose, all your senses, and it created this reality. You would literally have no idea

that your brain was outside your body and inside of the machine you would literally have no idea that your brain was outside your body and inside of the machine. You'd have no idea it would be exactly the same. Trip off that shit. Stop it. Yeah. It's so you can't debate that though, it's so hard to debate that.

It's not. It's the reality bro. Or is it? What? Yeah. I can't wait to see. Is it only real if you perceive it? Of course.

Right. I can't wait to slip you guys acid. That's gonna be a good time. I'm gonna tell you guys. Does that mean you guys start to strip of balls? I'm glad you've actually came out and said some of this stuff because this is what we were talking about that episode the other day when we talk about how dark this fully is.

I know, right. I was just in so and so I said like, do this guy has the darkest sense of humor at everybody right now. Sometimes I want to ask, bro, did something happen to you a long time ago? It's my favorite side of style. I'll be honest to you guys.

It is. And it gets way worse than what I say. Nobody really knows. Oh, man, the darkness. Another darkness. Oh, oh, shit. What the? It's coming from...

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Bring the questions, Douglas. We've got questions from Corey and Ciara. How do you kickstart a stalled metabolism? That's a great question. Trade in for a new one. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, great. Adam Adam is somewhat of an expert on metabolic damage having dealt with

Where you probably see this the most right the competitive world. Yeah, you probably see that kind of shit happen Yeah, that's nice to you to call me an expert. I don't know if I'd call myself an expert on it I would say that I've definitely helped a lot of this is weird. Is that I'm being humble? A lot of people call me an expert. I just say I'm handsome. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, you know what? Yeah, I've dealt with a lot of people like this. And you're right. The in the bodybuilding community, it is more popular than you would think. I think the average person wouldn't think when they look at a bunch of professional athletes and bodybuilders and cover a magazine people as having a disorder like, you know, a metabolic

damage or binge eating or issues like that. But believe it or not, it's more than the average population. Yes. It's significantly. I mean, I think I can probably count on one hand how many clients I've actually that were just the average Jener Joe that had hired me that had real metabolic damage done to him. I can easily name, you know, three times that of people I personally know that I've talked to or helped that in within the fitness industry that have struggled with this. And that's

because of the extremes. And they have, they have just as unhealthy of relationship with food as the 350 pound obese person that struggles, you know, like they just, it's different, you know, it's a different issue that they're dealing with, but still very similar. And, you know, kickstarting someone's metabolism act, it's about getting healthy. It's about learning what your body needs and feeling it properly, properly, and also understanding that you can't race to your goal. It's not like this sprint, and sometimes, and most often than not, these people, I've got to pull back. They've already been hammering their body so hard and restricting so much that they literally

need to slow the fuck down by like 50 plus percent. They need to just focus on that. You're saying that. That's your thing that most impacts. So glad you're saying that because you cannot force a metabolism to speed up. You have to allow it to speed up. There's a big fucking difference there.

You're ain't gonna force that shit. I promise you this, if you have, if your metabolism has adapted downward, which is, what do they call that, adaptive thermogenesis. That's, that's, and when it gets really bad, that's what metabolic damage is, where your body becomes so efficient at storing calories and so efficient at burning few calories,

that now you're eating a thousand calories, you're working out like crazy, you still are 15 pounds overweight, or there's that last 10 pounds, and it's not coming off, you can't force that shit off by pushing and pushing and pushing because your metabolism will win, your body will win, there's no winning that battle,

eventually you'll gain the way back. And so what you have to do, like Adam is saying, is get healthy, and that means you have to allow your metabolism to speed up. Some of the best tools I've ever seen for the average person is to put more of an emphasis on getting stronger in the gym, building muscle. Yes, muscle strength is something that you want to build your body to build a better metabolism. And you know, and to build yourself up to where, you know, the majority of your mass now, you know, you can build towards lean muscle mass.

And that's something that you wanna work on improving, as well as, you know, eating better and fueling that process, you know, more effectively. You know, those are definitely the things to consider. Not just, you know, I'm not just trying to cut weight and get down, you know, in leanness, as far as that is concerned, I want to actually build myself back up.

Well, I'll tell you what, I'm going through, so several times in my life have I gotten down to the single-digit body fat percentage, or lower than seven or six percent body fat. I've done it maybe three times, where I've got down to like five or four, or maybe even lower. And this time that I'm doing it right now,

so I'm doing this right now, I'm probably, I don't know, I don't test my body fat, but if I were to guess, I'd say I'm probably around six, maybe, I'm definitely in the single digit range, but I've never been this strong at this body weight and I've never eaten this much food at this body weight and I've never done this little cardio at this body weight or this body fat percentage.

And one of the two of the main differences that I've done is number one, I utilize fasting properly and fasting is a great way to kind of kickstart things in the gear. You don't have to do it often, but even once a week, if you did a, you know, a 16 hour or 24 hour fast, it will blunt insulin and raise growth hormone. Although you probably wouldn't recommend that for someone with metabolic damage, though, to kickstart to metabolism, would you? No, this is for some reason.

Because that person's probably closer to that extreme. There is a proper way to use fasting. There's a proper way. And if you use it properly, it will enhance your metabolism. If you use it improperly, it'll cause more damage. The second thing, and this is where I think everybody or most people in this category can benefit, is the use of many cuts and many bulks. We've talked about this many times. In the past, when I've gotten down to single-digit body fat percentage, I would get on a, you know, I'd start dieting or, you know, cutting, and I would just be consistent.

I'd be very consistent at cutting, you know, every day, day in and day out, very, very consistent. And as a result, I'd end up with a slower metabolism, less strength in the gym, and so forth. Now what I'm doing is I'm only allowing myself to lose one pound a week. And the way I'm doing that is I end up losing two and a half pounds or three pounds during the week

and I make sure to gain two pounds before I enter the next week. So I'm constantly underlating my calories so that my body weight trends downwards but I'm boosting and I'm giving myself more calories when I see that my body's, my body fat or my body weight is dropping too quickly. Instead of getting excited and being like,

oh shit, I'm dropping weight so fast, let's keep it going, I make sure to reverse gears a little bit and add a little bit of a maintenance or surplus and as a result, my metabolism has not, it hasn't adapted downward, not nearly as much as it has in the past. That's your benefiting, you by doing that, you're benefiting yourself with the leptin, for sure. I mean, you, yes, by redoing that every single week like that, you respike it back up and

kick it up and that hormone's so important to our metabolism. And I think that's probably, yeah, I think that's really challenging mentally for most people, especially when you, because, and I know, and just listening to you explain that, that sounds like one of the better processes to go through as far as getting lean, but maintaining strength and lean mass. I forgot what I was gonna say for that. Come back to me.

You haven't done that in forever, that's awesome. Well, I think, there are some challenges with it. I will say this. It takes a lot of discipline. Thank you. And I always like to kind of get after you a little bit because you're probably one, I don't think I can think of another person

on the top of my head who I think takes so good a care of his body can control his weight up and down without tracking. I find that very fascinating that you can get yourself in the 5% to 6% body fat range without even tracking. I have to. To me, the accountability piece, the discipline side of it, that's why. Not because I don't think I can't diet or I don't know how to listen to my body. I can do all those things, but for me, I need to write it down so I'm holding myself accountable.

You have very good discipline to tell yourself what you'd like the rules. It's very intuitive. Yes. And I think, yeah, you explain it's the mental discipline aspect of it because if I'm going through and I'm in that process where I'm cutting down for me to then like come back and then add calories. That's a hard thing to do. Your body's going to kind of fight you through that and then also going right back and shifting gears again the next week. It is. I'll tell you what, tracking very important, especially when you first start off, because you need to learn. You need to learn what works. You need to learn how to count. You know, your macros, you need to, you know, learn what calories are within foods and how much you're actually eating, because people

who don't track or have never tracked have no idea. You ask them how many calories I think they're eating, they have no idea. So I'd say start with that, but the reason why I don't anymore is because I've evolved beyond it. I've gotten to the point now where I can listen to my body and what's the positive of that? The positive is way less stress, way less anxiety over what I'm meeting.

It's a healthier relationship. And I, and I feel like it does, I can go anywhere and do anything. And I'm gonna be okay with, you know, where I'm at. I'm not getting anxiety over what I'm gonna eat as much or, you know, oh no, I need to eat this much more grams of protein or this many more grams of fat or whatever.

I'm paying attention to the signals that my body's sending me, but make no mistake, that's a much more, it's a very evolved way of doing things, and there's a process to get there, it doesn't happen overnight. But here's one of the challenges when you bump your calories. It's psychologically, it's difficult

because once you bump your calories, it's almost like, well, fuck it, I've already eaten more. I'm just gonna keep eating more. Like, you get in this weird mentality, like, oh, I did it yesterday, I'll do it again today, and I'll do it again today, and then, because it's available. It's there.

You know what I mean? It's like back in the day, we always talk about. It's like, you know, that, you make your kill, or you gather whatever amounts of food that you can get, and it was really hard to do that. And now you have that, you consume it really quickly. It's all there. It's all there.

The next day is not there, but we have nothing but abundance now. So to shut that mechanism that's already in place and our body is really tough. Well, and there's a physical aspect that's difficult. The physical aspect is this. I definitely notice an increase in my appetite when I do that always.

Now I know that's a sign, and what I've done is I've taken that increase of appetite, and I've just changed the way I perceive it in my mind. So that way it doesn't drive me to eat more. Is I realize now, okay, I bumped my calories past few days because I'm losing too fast. I'm super hungry now today, although today I need to drop back down, drop my calories back down, but I've learned to associate that increase in hunger with awesome, I've sped up. My metabolism is've sped up.

My metabolism is now sped up. So versus, oh, fuck, I'm hungry. I can't handle this. So I've learned to kind of embrace that feeling a little bit and that's helped quite a bit. But those, those are some of the tips, I would say, just to real, just to kind of recap, focus on building strength in the gym and performance. That'll always boost your metabolism. And when it comes to eating, bump your calories up for a few days and then go

back to your diet, and that usually would do the trick. OCC Girl One tips and advice for building a financially successful training career. Another great question. Um, so here's a thing where to start. Well, yeah, well, he's start here. Well, here's a thing. So, uh, Well, yeah, where do you start here? Well, here's a thing. So I'll just give you a little personal story.

So I have a lot of family that works in the banking industry and investments. Okay. And a lot of them make a shit fuck ton of money doing this. And they work nine to five. And they're good, but they're not like cream of the crop. So one thing you need to realize, and the reason why I'm saying this is,

if you're looking at making money and make a shit ton of money, it's harder in the fitness industry than it is in other lucrative industries like investments or like high tech or like other industries where petroleum, where if you're just kind of middle of the road, you're probably still making a shit ton of money.

In fitness, if you really want to make a lot of money, you've got to be really fucking good because there's not the 1% of 1%. Yeah, because the middle of the road and down for fitness you're not making much money. It's the guys and girls near the top that are making a lot of money. And the 80-20 rule applies first. And I just want to be honest, I want to say that fitness, you're not making much money. It's the guys and girls near the top that are making a lot of money.

And the 80, 20 rule applies. And I just want to be honest, I want to say that because if you think about, I'm going to go in the fitness industry because I'm going to make sure it's lots of money and you're not super, super passionate about fitness, you're going to be disappointed. Now, if you're very, very passionate about the fitness industry, you won't be disappointed

because you'll love it. You'll love what you do. And luckily, most people I've met in fitness, who do it for a living, are extremely passionate. That being said, being financially successful in fitness means you need to understand very, very well how to sell and how to promote yourself. Because in my experience, those are the two biggest roadblocks

that I've seen to people being successful in fitness. I've seen way more, very, very good personal trainers make no money because they suck at sales. Then I've seen shitty trainers who are great at sales make a lot of money. I've seen a lot of shitty trainers do really well because they're really good at sales and promoting. And I've seen very, very few excellent trainers

who are bad at sales do well. To a very good point. So focus on your sales skills and how to promote yourself. I would say there's a couple of things too, as far as starting a training facility goes. There's like an mentality that's out there that's what's hot, what's trendy. What's current as far as right now, mentality that's out there that's, you know, what's hot, what's trendy, you know, what's

current as far as right now, like, you will see an immediate increase in revenue just because of the brand association or being part of a specific program that's like super popular, like a sole cycle or something like this. You know, there's like, there's like a lot of franchises out there that are killing it right now now too, where you can, if you have the money and investment to invest in one of these, and you see it as a short-term investment,

that's an approach. That's something that you can make a financial gain and do pretty well with, but just think of it short-term. But now you think long-term, you gotta think about things that are going to benefit somebody that's going to outlast a lot of the trends. And so to do that you really have to have a lot of knowledge and experience in the fitness industry already. And so if

you don't, you know, I honestly, in my opinion, I would probably lean more towards the franchise route. Oh, yeah. You know, what's what's neat too is keeping all three of us are very different. We all come, we have different specialties and backgrounds and strengths for sure and have proven that our way of doing business in the fitness world at works and it's successful. So there's everybody can find their own path.

That's what I love about the fitness industry. You get to be you, right? You get to be who you are. And I really think if you're authentic like that, you do a really good job of being yourself, which sounds funny saying that, but I think a lot of people are trying to be, they see, they try to emulate another trainer.

They see another trainer who's... No, you cannot copy someone's flavor. You have to have your own flavor. Yeah, and you need to own it. You need to own it and be that person and kind of stand behind that. And the other thing too, is I think it's really important to take very, very good care

of your people. And I mean above and beyond. So if you only got three people, I mean those three people, you give the world to when it comes to training and you do that till you can't do it anymore. Because I think most of our business, I know I can speak for me, for sure,

probably these boys will chime in if I'm wrong, but a majority of all your business is referral. I mean, always. You may get some leads here and there, Justin's probably the best when it comes to online marketing and getting like a brand new lead on somebody, but most all my business comes from word of mouth.

Somebody reaches out to me and says, you train so and so and I saw them and oh my god or I've seen what you've done for this so it's always referral. So when you take somebody on, they're going to end up being your advertisement later. So take pride in your craft. Yes, take pride in your craft. take pride in your craft. Pour yourself into that. Yes, take pride in your craft. Pour yourself into that person because they will be better marketing for you than any amount of money you can spend on average life.

So true. And if you've got 10 of those people doing it for you, you're going to do decent. If you've got 20 people doing that, you're going to do even better. If you've got 100,000 people out there talking about you because of how much you've changed your life, then you have a waiting list.

And then you can charge whatever you want and then you have... Right. So that's 100% how you're going to start and you're really going to put your foot in and build this thing. It's going to take and don't think of this as this is long-term thinking, but this is a growth-minded long-term thinking. That's the only way you're going to make a financially successful career out of this is to really approach it with steps and phases and ways that like, you know, step one, like I have to like, right now in my concentration, I can only affect, you know, my money from really pouring myself into this person, getting a referral from this person, you know, my resources are limited, so therefore,

I have to really concentrate on what is in front of me. And so each time you make a step, you already have to have the mentality that you're gonna utilize these resources, these new resources you have to pour back in to funnel into the stage after that. And so if you don't think steps ahead of what you're doing, you're gonna get stuck in a spot

where you become a technician and you might have a decent career and make decent money, but you're not gonna make a killing. Like you could, the opportunities there. You just have to really expand your vision of this. You know what Adam said about you know, about referrals, you talked about referrals.

So I owned a personal training wellness studio for about 12 years. I did, I think maybe did marketing or paid for marketing once the entire time. It was entirely by going out to the local community and then through word of mouth, through referral. And then the second thing we talked about, you know, you can't copy someone else's flavor,

I'm doing that, I'm going through that right now. So for those of you listeners that don't know, all of us are gonna be doing mind pump full time coming August. So that means we're all gonna stop personal training, stop doing other jobs, it's 100% mind pump. So I means we're all going to stop personal training, stop doing other jobs. It's 100% mind-pump. So I have all these clients that, and it's very difficult to do. I love these people, these people like family to me, but it's just a step that I have to take to move forward.

And so a lot of these clients, some of them have decided to just work out on their own, but a lot of them want to continue working out. And so I'm going to refer them to other trainers that I know that are good, that I think that will work well with them. And inevitably, I talk to the trainer, the trainer comes to me after, I was like, okay, how should I train them? What should I do? What kind of workouts do you? Because the trainer is so...

That's right, worried. They're trying to be you. They're trying to be me. And I tell the client, I tell these trainers, they look, you'll never be me. And it's not because I'm awesome. It's because it doesn't work. Like I could never be you.

If you gave me your client that you've had for 10 years, I could never replace you. Because you, your own person, you have your own unique flavor. What you need to do is be a good trainer, which you are, otherwise I would refer people to you. Be a good trainer, but use your flavor. Build your relationship. Be who you are.

So what does that mean? Well, one of the trainers that I'm referring people to, she has a very strong background in some of the best functional flexibility training I've ever seen. She's got yoga background. She's got incredible mobility background. Those are areas where I know stuff,

but I would not consider those to be my expertise or my strength. So I told her, said, incorporate those things into your training with them. Like, that's your flavor. Show them. And sure enough, she took some of my clients to workouts and did that.

And my clients came up to me and were like, you know what, I never thought I could work with anyone else or learn new things, but that was fucking awesome. You know, the other trainer, he's an athletic trainer. He's got athletic background. Again, I'd area, I'm pretty proficient in, is fucking awesome. The other trainer, he's an athletic trainer, he's got athletic background. Again, I'm pretty proficient in,

but not something that I consider my absolute expertise. So he's applying that flavor, and sure enough, my client, the clients that went over to him are kind of opening their eyes, and it's something different, it's exciting. And as a trainer, it is so important for you to be who you are, because that's gonna come through in your training.

So again, find your flavor, be your flavor, don't copy anyone else's flavor and that'll make you successful as a trainer. Ethan Hale 33, is there a simpler and easier way to increase mobility and reduce discomfort with your warm up and warm down? So what is this for the idea? So I'll tell you what, I'll tell you what. Here's, here's something I want to say. So he's asking about like, how can you warm up better

so that he doesn't hurt as much and has better mobility? I want to be clear on this. I'm not going off the topic, topic I promise you. The purpose of a quote unquote warm up, the purpose that we believe a warm up exists is to prevent injury, right? We think, oh, warm up so you don't hurt yourself during your workout.

That, I'm gonna be very clear here. That's the absolute bare minimum that your warm up should do. If you warm up properly to not hurt yourself and you don't hurt yourself, congratulations, you've done the bare minimum. The reality is your warm up is really supposed to prime your workout that you're't hurt yourself. Congratulations, you've done the bare minimum. The reality is your warm-up is really supposed to prime your workout that you're about to do.

What it's supposed to do is it's supposed to get your central nervous system to fire more efficiently and effectively, increase range of motion in a functional way so that now you have a great range of motion when you work out. It's also supposed to help recruitment patterns be more ideal. So now when I do the unit recruitment, that's it.

So when I'm doing my, what I'm doing my squat or my deadlift or whatever, I'm getting more out of my workout. So in reality, your warm up at the bare minimum is to prevent injury, but at the bare at the maximum or what it's really what you can really do with your warm up is make your workout. That's about to follow that much more effective. And I would, I would go as far as to-up is make your work out that's about to follow that much more effective and i would i would go as far as to say that most people that work out that don't understand proper mobility and proper you know dynamic warm-ups before the workouts are probably missing out on a big chunk

of the gains that they're getting and i want to be clear with that because i know there's a lot of guys listening right now especially young guys who work out in the gym who don't warm up because they're young, they don't hurt, and they don't think it contributes to their gains. When in reality, I'm telling you right now, you do a proper warm up to get the CNS to fire right, to get the right recruitment pattern, to get the right mobility and the right range of motion, you're going to get better gains. Forget about not hurting yourself, you're getting better gains. Well, not just gains, I mean, it's overall movement patterns will completely, you know

Go in your favor. So, you know, you're making all these gains in these you're looking more muscular and and lean and But but guess what? You're moving better with less pain, right? And that's a huge thing that people need to consider You know, I might not hurt now that people need to consider, you know, I might not hurt now, but if you haven't been addressing your workouts with a proper warmup, you're gonna experience pain, and it's gonna come quickly. What company was that had the tagline move better?

I used to love that because of that, just because of that. I don't remember. You never, you never, never, never, never, never, never. I think it's, yeah, perform better. No, no, move better. It was just move better. And I think that's's I think people don't really think about that, you know, uh, the other day I ruffled some feathers because I was talking

about the treadmill. And then somebody running on it. I said, you know, all these I see all these people is, you know, 20 people in front of me running on these treadmills. They're all focused on how fast they're going and how many calories they're burning this and that. And I'm walking down and I can't help but look at everyone's gate Like I'm looking at how they run and how they move and like all the kind of that vagina sweat You just scared all my members right So I'm looking I'm looking at their gate and I'm going, you know, probably at least at a 20 people,

15 of these people have no business running on this treadmill. And how do you tell somebody who's trying to lose weight and they're trying as hard as they can that you have no business on a treadmill right now? And so I kind of brought this up and you could tell they were kind of frustrated at first, like, what am I supposed to do?

Or that doesn't make sense. And I'm like, well, here's the deal, is that you have unfavorable neurological connections right now. Your body is always gonna move and take the easiest pathway and you've formed it and shaped it in a manner that is not ideal for you to be moving. And it's not ideal for you.

And there's just continuing to train it that way. You're cementing it in by running on a treadmill. Like all you're doing is concrete in those bad patterns because you're running so hard. When you're running hard, nobody, unless you're like a professional runner, which has got great posture and great running already, you know, is thinking about their gate

while they're sprinting at a speed 10 on the treadmill. They're just running. They're just cementing it all over your face. Yes. But what? Wow, again. I'm sorry. He said cementing, and I didn't help it.

So these people. So cementing. You're too amg. I'm people, some, some mentee. You're killing. Sorry, I did. Well, you know, it's, uh, here's the thing. Let me ask you guys this question. We have two, let's say we have two girls twins and one of them, uh, is doing squats and because of her mobility or whatever, she's able to go down to parallel with her squat. The other girl, the other twin, does a proper, we'll call it warm up.

I hate the word warm up because we only think it's to prevent injury, but whatever, proper CNS, you know, patterning, proper muscle recruitment patterning, proper mobility work before a squat. And she's able to squat just two inches lower, but with good stability and good form. And they continue to do this for the next six months.

Do you think you're going to see a visible difference in the way they build muscle, how much more muscle they build and fat loss and performance? Oh, 100% for sure. So that's what I'm trying to hammer. That's what I'm trying to hammer right now. Warming up is not just about not hurting yourself. Warming up is literally about making your workout better. More effective.

And if you think of it that way, because very little planning goes into it, it's all about just, oh, I'm gonna move and fly a stretch and do all these things. And this was, this was, ladies and gentlemen, this was huge for me, not that long ago. Like it wasn't that long ago that I learned this, I think it was like over the last year that I learned this, this, this, this,

how dramatic this effective. It was, actually it was Adam incorporating mobility into his workout and me seeing how his body was changing and seeing how his movement was changing, because Adam had horrible mobility in certain ranges of motion, certain movements, and he went from horrible mobility to excellent mobility, but besides that, forget about that, let's just forget about the pain and the mobility, I saw his body change. Like, he looked good before, he looked even better, all of a sudden, and all it was was, you know, doing the proper setup for his workout.

So that's how important these things are. And that's why it's much planning that goes in your workout should probably go into what you do before. And we didn't even touch about this, touch upon this, what you do after. You want to talk about cementing in recruitment patterns. You can use your cooldown, quote unquote, cooldown, to do the same thing. And this is where you can incorporate things like static stretches and, you know, different type of mobility movements to kind of just kind of hammer home.

That message uses scent with your hardware. So I've been sharing this with other trainers and some of my members at the gym and it's neat to start to see this new trend happening. And of people actually, you know, doing these dynamic warmups that are more specific, you know, they're not just doing these random stretches and warm up, they're doing these movements that people are kind of looking at them like,

what the fuck are they doing? And I know what they're doing because I taught them, you know, and I think that's really neat because when I would go in, I would see people watching what I'm doing and you feel kind of silly doing it first, because you're not lifting any weights, you're doing these just dynamic stretches and stuff.

It's not cool. It's not as cool as squatting 400 pounds. That's way cooler, you know? And it doesn't look like I'm working really hard, but I'm doing something that is very, very important to my workout, and I don't take it lightly. It's if I have my playlist, I play certain music when I'm doing it.

It's a part of my workout in my routine and it's something that I've implemented in the last year and it has. It's been a game changer for me for sure. Well, this is why I've always talked about it being like ritualizing it, like making that, like something that is, you know, you're not gonna stray away from it ever.

Like, it's something that's, if I'm working out, that's what I'm doing, that's part of my workout. And, you know, I came to a point where that was something that was like, a mentality that I just started to focus on, and it did nothing but benefit, you know, everything, everything. Every form and hypertrophyrophy whenever I was doing

Specifically to you know force my body to adapt it was totally like fueling that Well think of it this way you get you come in you take two people, you know That are going into train legs for the day and you've got person one who does the standard You know bro guy warm up he goes does leg extensions and he does leg curls, you know, real light, you just, you know, warm, warm them up gets the blood flowing in both of them and then goes into his squats or his deadlifts or all these other movements and his machines and everything he's going to end up using. He does five times of that person compared to the person who comes in and does a specific dynamic warm up for the needs, their body need to be addressed, right? Whatever their imbalances they have going on. According to their workout, right? Yes, according to their workout,

according to their body too, not just their workout, but what are they, where's their immobility? Where are they having a hard time moving? And are they addressing that in addition to priming themself for their workout they're about to have? That, that, that, that person who does that could get away with doing eight sets of squats and could have a better workout

that's more productive than the person who spent 20 different sets on all these different machines because it's not all just about volume, it's not all just about intensity. Those are important elements, but there's also effectiveness too. Right, no, a proper chemistry there. A proper dynamic setup to your workout

will take you about 15 minutes. I mean, you can go as long as 30, but about 15 minutes will give you about enough time. And then afterwards, maybe another 10, 15 minutes. So you're not adding any more time than you probably, or at least you should have to your workout, because there are a lot of people who do zero warm up. They just walk in and do this and go, although I do know a lot of people, you know, maybe that's not true, because I do know a lot of people that will do 10 or 15 minute walk on the treadmill before they work out that consists that's their warm up Okay, that they typically do replace that with more specific mobility movements. Oh way more beneficial way more You'll get way more you know benefit. You'll get way more results. You get all the same benefits

You get from walking on a treadmill plus a million million more. It's so much better. So Hayden Richardson. Here's a scenario. Each of you is an animal exteroid. What is your name? What are your benefits and what are your side effects? That's a good one. Adam Rawl.

Adam Rawl. Adam Rawl. Adam Rawl. Yeah, it'll be the, that'll be what my, my name is. I'm a salad roll. Adam Raw. Adam Raw. Yeah, it'll be that'll be what my my name is. I'm salad. Salad. Salad. Salad. Salad. Salad. Yeah, in just a dawn, increased libido muscle size. Small cab. Side effects. Side effects could be enlarged penis and shrinkage of the calves. You got to lose undergain.. I'm good for you, but there

are some side effects. Yeah, what would mind be, geez, you get really good at pulling shit and then your ability to push stuff wouldn't be that good. Let's see, a little bit of excess heriiness around the nipple area, Kind of a weird side of that, but you might get. And could cause you to become, yeah, it could cause you to become uncomfortably talkative. I see. I feel like you have way more side effects than you have been. Did you name what?

He's the tremble. Not to anybody. I'm definitely not taking it. What is it? Saladron. Saladron. Just a dawn. You know, it'll get you a big chest You know, it'll get you a big chest.

Yeah, it'll get you a big ass. Yeah, it gets you those kinds of things. God, I wish you were a girl. You look at awesomely, amazingly average cock, probably something like that, you know? And you know, big, big calves, you know, you throw those in there. Side effects, you forget a lot of shit.

Just constantly forget the side effects. And you're a lot of shit. Just cause for the side effects. And you're very mediocre at talking. At best. See, my steroid, you can't inject it or take it orally. It's a suppository. Oh, yeah. It's univating. Nobody is buying yours.

You have to put it in. That's the only way it works. You do mine in one of those missed things. Like you got, you got, you got to start, you got to start it. That's the one you just smell it. Yeah. Now mine's a little more exclusive. You got to, yeah, it's a bigger butt.

And it's a big, it's a big tablet. It's a big tablet. The big tablet, it goes up there. It's too injured. There's only, only a few. Yeah. So, not everybody's, you know, ready for it. It's not, not exciting.

Yeah. What if you stack them all together? Ooh. Damn. You're going stacked them all together? Ooh. Damn. You're gonna inject it right in your neck. You did it. I think I'll take 200 milligrams of just, what is it, Justin? What is it?

Just a dawn. Just a dawn. Salad draw. Yeah. I just went about 75 milligrams. But Salad draw cancels me out, right? No, no, no, no, no, no. He's like, just come back from the Justin down.

It's synergistic. Yeah. See, I don't see Doug wouldn't be a steroid Doug would be growth hormone. Oh, yeah, you would be a growth hormone. He'd be found of youths Because he's like, oh, yeah, take mean he's just good better skin better everything No side effects. No side effects. You are unhealthy leaner to carry my hormones is pocket anywhere you want to get us we give people acne and hair loss You grow fangs and you have to like drink people's blood. Whoa.

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