Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 348: Sissy Squats, Hormonal Imbalance & Losing Weight, Sports & Energy Drinks & MORE

Episode Date: August 17, 2016

Kimera-Quah! In this episode of Quah, sponsored by Kimera Koffee (kimerakoffee.com, code "mindpump" for 10% off), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about sports and energy drinks, ways to ...incorporate resistance into a sissy squat, the 3 most important things people should take away from Mind Pump and the way to lose weight when you have hormonal imbalances that make it difficult to lose weight. ANNOUNCEMENT!: We have just "launched" our YouTube channel, Mind Pump TV. Search "Mind Pump TV" on YouTube & Subscribe. Sal, Adam, Justin & Doug will be posting valuable content there regularly. Get MAPS Anabolic, MAPS Performance, MAPS Aesthetic and the Butt Builder Blueprint (The RGB Super Bundle) packaged together at a substantial DISCOUNT at www.mindpumpmedia.com. Please subscribe, rate and review this show! Each week our favorite reviewers are announced on the show and sent Mind Pump T-shirts! Have questions for Mind Pump? Each Monday on Instagram (@mindpumpradio) look for the QUAH post and input your question there. (Sal, Adam & Justin will answer as many questions as they can)

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Starting point is 00:01:21 at mindpumpmedia.com. Did you see Craig's little baby girl? It's adorable. Oh yeah, adorable. It's moments like that, just for a moment. I'm like, oh, I kind of want to kid. Nah, I'm just kidding. You know what? Yeah, I listen to what Justin said.
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Starting point is 00:02:51 we'll get that right out to you. Thank you very much. That's right. If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. Mind, pop, mind, pop with your hosts. Salta Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. You know what's, here's what I find fascinating.
Starting point is 00:03:11 What do you find fascinating? That, let's see, how long have we been? You find a lot of stuff fascinating. I do, but this is really interesting. How long have we been in the studio? A student. Have we had a year? It's been since April, right?
Starting point is 00:03:21 Over. Since I think April, we've been in this studio. So over a year? Yeah, and since April, so since then, so that's one since April, right? Since I think April we've been in this year. So over a year? Yeah, and since April, so since then, so that's one to three, it's been a few months, right? It's been a few months. Adam is complaining about the same exact fucking thing every single time we record.
Starting point is 00:03:34 This is true. That you can't connect your wire, it sounds like shit. And every single time. We were like, try different holds. Try different holds. Every single time, either Doug has said it 10 times. I've said something like it's your fucking Bose wire and I was like puff It's not my five million dollar headphone wire and guess what it turned out to be your Bose wire. Oh, God Beats excuse me. I
Starting point is 00:03:59 Come on dude. You're gonna make fun of me do it right. Hey Failing and making fun of me do it right. Hey, hey, you're a fucking guy. Do it. Yeah, failing and making fun of it. I had a good one. I had a good one. But at least now you're fixed. What are you getting your teeth right now? Let me see. Okay, you got it. Ooh, I got it.
Starting point is 00:04:12 Do you want to get in there? Yeah. What's going on here? Yeah, I got you. I like when you do that. I got you. I like when you do that. I like your finger.
Starting point is 00:04:18 Get stuff off my face. Hey, how did you, uh, vagina heads like the studio this morning, huh? Those starting fleas. It's so, yeah, it's spacious now. ahead like the studio this morning? Oh, 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, deal for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the clock is a good idea. Yeah, I like to know that, because I like to see like how long you're talking for. I'm like, I can't fucking see. He's been talking for a while, too.
Starting point is 00:04:51 Yeah, but you don't, you don't over talk. You're fine. This is true. This is mainly for Saagga. I'm gonna say, I'm gonna go over this. He's been rambling for four minutes now. I'm gonna give him 30 more seconds until I interrupt him right now.
Starting point is 00:05:00 I would, you know what I would love. I go based on field. I would love a fan to listen like five episodes and record the time that each one of us talks to really see please who talks the most I do this come on we know that oh now you got a vector act of course I want to see evidence. I want to see science. That's the humor me teasing you by I know the worst stuff especially if I go in a rant if you give me all fired up about something then you know I tend to ramble on. Dude, so two cool things happen this weekend,
Starting point is 00:05:29 two interesting things. One was I did my very first 48 hour fast, which I think you're Justin, you're the only one that I've done that before. It's a whole new world, it's a whole new world. But it wasn't as hard as you thought. That's the thing that tripped me out is it wasn't hard at all.
Starting point is 00:05:49 It wasn't hard at all. Really? At all. Dude, the discipline was already there though. Well, because I do 24 hour fast, at least twice a week, but I thought, okay, I'm doubling it. Is this gonna be hard? And the truth is, no, my appetite was fucking gone. It was like, I went to be, is it gonna be hard? And the truth is, no, my appetite was fucking gone.
Starting point is 00:06:06 It was like, I went to bed, so I didn't eat at all Saturday. Went to bed Saturday night and I thought, oh my god, I'm gonna have trouble sleeping because I didn't eat. I slept hard, very well woke up. Tonza energy, felt fantastic, went and worked out. Now, I will say this, I purposely worked out
Starting point is 00:06:24 at a much lower intensity, so I treated it like focus, session, I did mobility work, so I didn't go into the gym and kill myself by any means. Didn't do any cardio aside from like, I did a 45 minute walk. No need to, you're in fucking full on fat burning mode, 24 or seven points. Yeah, and I figured, you know, one of the things you can get when you fast, prolonged fast, is you can get
Starting point is 00:06:44 hypotension, your blood pressure will drop naturally. And so some people will experience dizziness when they go from like a low position to a high position like if I'm on the ground and I stand up real quick. I didn't really notice that that much, maybe a little bit, but I still was kind of careful because I'd never done it before.
Starting point is 00:07:00 I was just shocked that my appetite was gone. Energy was great. Right, it was after, so normally when I do a 24 hour fast, right around the 16, 18 hour mark, I start to notice the sharpening effects where, I feel like I can, I feel like my vision sharpens. Like, you know, I hear things better. I just, I feel like I'm on a stimulant,
Starting point is 00:07:21 but not, not like a stimulant. It's hard to explain. I just feel very, very focused and sharp. Well, that happened again to a new level the next day, right around, I would say right around noon, all of a sudden I became, again, another level of sharpness, and just, I felt amazing. Inflammation became almost nonexistent,
Starting point is 00:07:43 because then when I would go to do mobility work, I felt the first time going into a deep squat or to a stretch, like I do after I'm doing it after about 15 or 20 minutes. So I had to hit that level without having done mobility stretching. I just jumped right into it. So it felt pretty awesome. And then when I ate, here's the thing. When I ate, I thought to myself, like, okay, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to want to feast. Yeah, I'm going to be so hungry. Once I start tasting food. And the truth is no. It was hard to eat it. Dude, I ate, I had, did you set yourself up with like a huge meal and then end up not eating all of the work?
Starting point is 00:08:22 Well, so, did you know going into it, you weren't gonna be that hungry. Well, so I had gone on the forum and asked people their experiences and a couple of people had said, like be careful, like don't overdo it when you eat because you're gonna get sick. And that makes sense, right? So my first meal was two egg yolks, an avocado and some broccoli, just very light.
Starting point is 00:08:43 Eight that. I was gonna get delicious dish there. It was very, very good. Really? I even said that. Yeah, just very light. It sounds like a delicious dish there. It was very, very good. Really? Oh yeah, be very sarcastic. Eight yolks fucking avocado and what? I didn't like mix them with you. Prockly.
Starting point is 00:08:53 And broccoli, what a fucking awful decision. But what would I get, what would I supposed to do? I don't know, have a fucking piece of steak or something, have a meal. See that feels heavy. It's not even a meal. But that feels like they'd be heavy to me. It's a sour meal though.
Starting point is 00:09:04 Yeah, he's sticking with his norm. This is what I can't say. He shares this information like this I'm like who the fuck it 48 hour fast and then I'm gonna have some egg yolks broccoli and listen your big pussy Okay, you're the one I can't fast for 24 hours. I know I know there's a group of fucking sal lovers that are listening now finish Help please Adam stop interrupting I do all egg yolks. So all the time I. You're speaking to me, all the time. I did that and I wanted to do something light with a little bit of proteins and some fats. And the crazy thing is I ate that
Starting point is 00:09:31 and I was like, I could have not eaten, I was like stuffed. I did make myself eat again a little later and then I had, you know, try tip and I had made, there was a stir fry that we had with Brussels sprouts and bacon, all that stuff. And then I ate too much and I just didn't feel good. So I think what I'm gonna do, if I do that again,
Starting point is 00:09:48 is have a small meal and then the following day go normal. When did you introduce carbs? Well, I wanna know what meal, the carbs that your system. I still haven't had any. So you've been all fat and protein since it's, so you went from a 48 hour fast to a keto genic type of diet. Yeah, and I measured my ketones on the P stick,
Starting point is 00:10:07 which I know isn't super accurate. Are you still using this? It works for me. For me, they do show up. And I know for some people, they don't, but for me to show up, they work, they just in an accurate, that's all. For some people, they don't. Some people, they don't show up.
Starting point is 00:10:18 You know, like, you know, I have a friend of mine who will pee on the stick and will be in total ketosis. We know it. And the stick will barely show anything up, and I think it has to do with the fact that you're, I forgot, we read that article. Yeah, there's nothing to do with your blood ketones, which is what really...
Starting point is 00:10:32 It's all with just what's in your urine. Yeah, so that's why, what is it, why do you even use it? So my urine, because my urine ketones always show up when I'm in ketosis, and I can see, I can see how much higher they go, or how much lower they go, and I got into the moderate level, which is the yeah So so they did show up, but I didn't have I still haven't had any carbohydrates, but nonetheless 48 hour fast I felt fucking great. I bet I could have had a hard workout
Starting point is 00:10:54 So next time I'm gonna try like going you know going for it and actually going for a workout And I think I may do or three or four day fast Probably in a few months and at that point that point now, I'm going past any type of performance benefit. It's all now health at that point. And I'm pretty sure I'll have a loss of performance is what I would anticipate from that. I think that's it.
Starting point is 00:11:16 I worked out this morning and I had a, dude, I worked out like an asshole this morning. I worked out hard. I felt great. And I did have my camera and all that stuff. I could put coffee this morning. But I felt amazing. I felt great. And they did have my Camara and all that stuff. I could, but coffee this morning. I think it felt amazing. I think it's important for us to know because I had somebody ask on the page. I think it was on the mind pump page. I don't remember what page is one of our pages and he's, he didn't understand.
Starting point is 00:11:36 He's like, I don't understand how this could be beneficial for building muscle. And here, if my goal is to build muscle and you guys talk about utilizing fasting within building muscle and I got a chance It kind of lightly respond to him, but I think it's it's important enough to address it on the podcast because I'm sure there's a lot of people out there That want to build muscle and that's their primary focus, but then they hear a couple guys like us that are talking about You know, we incorporate not eating for three days. Yeah, right? So um, well, we want to is, okay, it's fine. You want to build muscle. That doesn't mean that everything you do
Starting point is 00:12:09 is geared towards building muscle. There are things you can do that will indirectly help you build muscle. And one of those things is just improve your health through fast things. I know fasting for 48 hours is probably not going to build muscle. And if anything, I might adapt. Well, you're strengthening the process of it, though, by, yeah, like reinforcing the way that you
Starting point is 00:12:32 absorb and utilize all these nutrients that you're putting in your body. There's definitely evidence that your body becomes more efficient and what they would call, you know, sensitize. Yeah, it's insulting and insulin. Yeah, it's insulin sensitive. Now, well, here's the thing that you got to understand. So for the 48 hours or 24 hours, say you're fasting for, during that time, you're not building muscle right then and there. That's what he's, he's doesn't understand.
Starting point is 00:12:56 It's like a different mindset. Yeah, and if your main goal is just to put weight on, put weight on, then obviously living in a surplus and majority of the time and not fasting would be ideal for you. But if you're looking for overall benefit and if you're looking for health and incorporating that for sure, and you're people think it's going to be detrimental and it's not like it's you're not going to lose, you know, a pound of muscle off your body. No, I lost fasting 48 hours.
Starting point is 00:13:18 No, I lost a grand total of about three pounds over the 48 hours. And really most of that is all water. I guarantee, exactly. I guarantee you by tomorrow, I'll probably be back up to where I was. But I mean, how about this? Look, Adam, you're a IFBB professional physics competitor. You're building muscle is kind of your job,
Starting point is 00:13:36 especially when you were competing. You've talked about how you've utilized fasting once a week during bulk. I fast all the way. I'm during a bulk. I fast all the way. I've, during a bulk, I fast all the way until show time. I utilize fast and two. I'm a once a weeker though, and I'm a 17 hour wear fast
Starting point is 00:13:53 because I want to get to, here's my logic behind why I only go that long is because my main benefit is to build muscle. So I do want to be in a surplus a majority of the time. But then I also, I also want to get some of the benefits of fasting and restricting from the food. So. What do you notice bulking when you incorporate one fast? Oh, it's amazing because when I go back to feeding,
Starting point is 00:14:14 that's when I can feel the carbs instantly hit my system. So when I take them away like that and I fast for a good 70, because I know about 17 to 20 hours is typically what I do when I reintroduce it. So I feel the energy spike, I feel the inflammation like you say go down, and then when I reintroduce the food, it's like, you know, to eating the food feels like I took the super pre workout.
Starting point is 00:14:37 You know, I've become, you can see, I can feel how sensitive I am, and the leaner I get and closer to the stage to how I get the more obvious it is. Now would you say obviously? You know, this health benefits to it But would you say that incorporating that one fast that week during your bulk period or whatever during your surplus period? Indirectly is helping you build more muscle also. Oh, I mean this obviously this is anecdotal
Starting point is 00:14:59 But 100% in my opinion and what I've gone through Incorporating the fast is because this is what happens like because we don've gone through incorporating the fast is, because this is what happens, like, because we don't have the science, the science is there that we understand what's going on in the body, but we don't have the ability to track, right? Like what's going minute by minute in your body, okay? You know, if I'm in a week, right? And I'm living in a 500 to a thousand calorie surplus every day. I don't know how much of those extra calories are being allocated to building muscle or adding fat to my body.
Starting point is 00:15:30 We just don't know. And the idea in the bodybuilding community is just like surplus, surplus, because that way you wanna make sure that, if you're always in a surplus, you know, for sure that you're getting calories to go to build some muscle, but maybe some goes to fat, but who cares? Because you're building on this muscle.
Starting point is 00:15:47 But then you build, you know, over a course of a winter bulk like a lot of these guys do, you build, you know, you put on 30 pounds and, you know, 15 of it's muscle and 15 of it's fat and then they go to cutting and it's like, you know, I'm saying like how healthy is that really for the body when they could have incorporated some fasting and they would have maybe only put on 20 pounds and what what 14 and a half of it was muscle. You know what I'm saying? I'll even make this argument. You talk to anybody who is ever competed in bodybuilding or physique or someone who's had a diet very hard. The best muscle building period they will ever experience is post show.
Starting point is 00:16:21 Oh yeah. You know right after the show and the show. And it's an excellent point because that's exactly how you feel. So when you deplete on peak week, right? Yeah. You cut, you're cutting so hard, so hard, so hard. And then when everybody comes off a show, they refeed and everybody, anybody who's ever competed knows like, man, that workout week at post show is so awesome. And they're feeding their body tons of shit and garbage and all kinds of extra calories. So that feeling that you get, that's the feeling you get when you incorporate fasting.
Starting point is 00:16:49 When you incorporate the fasting intermittently throughout your routine or throughout your workout or your your your your your bulking program, then you get that little feeling of it's not obviously it's not quite as extreme because you if as somebody who's been cutting for 16 weeks for a show and then they go in a surplus, but that's typically, or that's, you know, basically what you're doing, is you're creating that little, that feeling that you get when you've been in a deficit and then you refeed again. So, you know, it's, I have mentality, like, it's so extreme that that's led to a lot of the, the problems with like the metabolic damage and the, the aftermath of like going to the full bulk and then the full cut. I've noticed some of the competitors that will come back to me and then try and get back
Starting point is 00:17:32 through a normal eating schedule. It's very tough because they've gone through this crazy extreme polar opposites. Well, I think if you use it properly, you can build muscle and maintain leanness. I mean, God, I hate to say it it properly, you can build muscle and maintain leanness. I mean, God, I hate to say it this way, but relatively easily. Like fasting is probably one of the most effective, easiest, and it's easy because it doesn't require
Starting point is 00:17:54 much like planning and calculate. It's super easy and effective tool. Now, that being said, I always want to make sure we say this, nothing will replace eating properly, getting the right amount of calories, your macronutrients are good and eating healthy. So, fast thing doesn't work if you eat shit. Okay, so let's just not... Which is why we combined it with our Nutrition Survival Guide for like a ridiculous discount
Starting point is 00:18:20 on our MindPump Media site. MindPump Media.com because we want to make sure that if you know nutrition, you're real experienced, you know, and you just want to learn about fasting, we also have the fasting guy by itself, but for those you're listening that aren't super versed on nutrition and you want to try fasting then definitely get them together because you're going to get, you'll learn how to do it with good nutrition. Well, 100%, we've talked about this before that it's, you know, I consider it, even though it's not super advanced, what's super advanced about not eating, I tell clients that it's not
Starting point is 00:18:51 eating. Yeah, right. I mean, I tell clients that it is an advanced technique because there's other priorities first. You need to understand, you know, what types of foods you should be feeding your body, the importance of eating with color, things like that. First, and then you do something like that to optimize your planning.
Starting point is 00:19:07 I'm saying so. Here's the second thing I do this weekend. Did you guys, you guys haven't watched Sausage Party? No, but I'm going to, because what you said. Okay. I want my wife to like. I'm not gonna say, Oh, she didn't like it?
Starting point is 00:19:19 Okay, I'm not gonna say much about it because I can't, I'm gonna wait for you guys to watch it because I want to talk about it. But it is, imagine every line you think, political correctness, every single line, racism, sexism, like horrible, like just, totally my time show. They fucking, they don't just super inappropriate.
Starting point is 00:19:37 Bro, they don't just cross, they don't just cross the line. They take a shit on it. Very South Park like. Bro, it's so bad and so good at the same time. At least 15 times during the movie, I thought to myself, like, did they really just fucking? Whoa. I'll give you an example.
Starting point is 00:19:52 It has to be R, right? It's really R. Yes. I'll give you one example. Like, you know, it's all these foods that are talking whatever, one example. There's the, the, the, the Middle Eastern food aisle and you have the bagels which are Jewish
Starting point is 00:20:04 and then you have like the whole all food or whatever which is you know Arab and let me tell you something. There's no political correctness. They go it's bad. It's bad. The whole theater was just dying of laughter and I heard people gasp. I've never heard people into theater go like is it okay to laugh? You're gonna laugh at this. It was fucking horrible. Why if you didn't like it, huh? Dude, she's not South Parky type. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:30 Or like family guy humor. What's her? I think it was the last five minutes or whatever that really, like, she just was like, I can't believe it. Oh, bro. It was too much for her. Oh, bro.
Starting point is 00:20:40 Bro, it's so bad at the end. Yeah. I was just like, I think that ruined the whole movie for, I guess. Wow, really, that far, did you watch her just, she wouldn't. Yeah, I was just like, I think that ruined the whole movie for, I guess. Wow, really, that far, did you watch her just, she would- No, I didn't, she went with her girlfriend. I could, I was pissed, I can't watch that. I can guarantee you too, I want to watch it again.
Starting point is 00:20:54 I can guarantee the two of you will, you'll do it. We'll do it. Line pump field training. We know we have fucking awful, you know. We have terrible senses in here. Yeah, it's dark. Yeah. Oh, shit. Oh, shit.. Yeah, it's dark. Yeah.
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Starting point is 00:21:43 and energy drinks? Rocket fuel. Yeah. They're dog shit. They're cock. Yeah. Max. Can I say? I was accepted. You live in Florida. Let's be honest. Yeah. Everything you can get. Well, that's a gatorade reference. Yeah. Oh, great joke. I didn't even get that. Thanks. Cause you know, when we had to get rid of you know, yeah. Jesus. Boy, that was we had over my head. I do that a lot, right? I got the sports reference.
Starting point is 00:22:06 Yeah. He had a knuckle bump right here. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes, sometimes. Uh, so sports drinks, sport drink, that category of foods or beverages is very, very clever, uh, excuse me, clever, clever, more clever. I like clever, clever.
Starting point is 00:22:24 Okay, Adam. Yeah. Damn it. You're in my level, clever. Sport drink is another word for soda or sugar drink or something you shouldn't drink because it's bad for you or type two diabetes. Those are the, those are the categories. That's what you call my favorite was vitamin water. Yeah, what's the fuck is that?
Starting point is 00:22:45 Sounds healthy. No, sport drinks is that they put, they sugar, that's in there. And then they throw in some electrolytes, which by the way is like salt, magnesium, pesticide, that's that. Which is the magic supplement, according to one of these supplement companies that talked to us.
Starting point is 00:22:58 It's got electrolytes. Wait, wait, hold on to your chair. Yeah, can we share that for a second? That was one of the first company. We had a company that sat at, that was trying to pitch us to, listen, have you guys heard of electrolytes? Yeah, because we fucking got those.
Starting point is 00:23:12 Yeah. Studies show that electrolytes replenish you when you're dehydrated, yeah, so does water. No, sport strengths, horrible waste of money, not good for you. There's no reason to drink one. Let's talk about all the things that they put in there so they can say that it isn't a waste of money.
Starting point is 00:23:30 I mean, you get some that have touring and you've got the B vitamins and you've got what else they put inside there so they can say it's really good. God, what else is there? B12 and all that. Yeah, all the B vitamins they pump in there. So B6, B12, they put some of them have the vitamin C, vitamin D infused. What else is it be 12 and all that yeah all the B vitamins they pump in there so be six beat 12
Starting point is 00:23:45 They put the you know some of them have the vitamin C vitamin D infused. They've got the Like I said a Torin some even have some of them have Glutamine and shit inside of them. I mean there's lots of these energy drinks to put milk fissile There's a lot of them that puts some some I think but Really what most people use it. Let's be honest, what most people use an energy drink for or a sports drink is for energy as they want, they want the stimulant from it, right? You want that spike.
Starting point is 00:24:11 All the other stuff that the companies put in there, they put it in there so they can try and claim it's got this health benefits to it. Because if you put a little bit of touring in it, you put a little bit of B vitamins in it, you can start to claim these healthy things about it. But in reality, really what the most benefits you're getting is the spike in energy.
Starting point is 00:24:27 And really where is that coming from? Yeah. Yeah. Because I'm thinking two different categories. I'm thinking sports drinks like Gatorade and Powerade. And then energy drinks like Red Bull and Monster. The sports drinks, the non-stimulant drinks like Gatorade, because Gatorade doesn't have any caffeine in it.
Starting point is 00:24:43 Yeah, that's all electrolytes. Here's the thing, when they do studies on sugar drinks that have electrolytes on them and they show that, oh, there may be some increases in performance, they're testing them on endurance athletes that are training for long periods of time. Well, it's a point you have to make, though, because it's a very extreme amount of stress
Starting point is 00:25:03 you're putting on the body cardiovascular plus like even the Florida references because of the mugginus, the humidity on top where you're sweating. And they're fucking double days training. Dying. Come on. If you're anything will help. Yeah, if you're going on a 15 mile run or a 30 mile bike ride and your body's running off of glucose and you need to replenish glucose halfway through.
Starting point is 00:25:25 Yeah, you could drink some Gatorade or you could try some honey. And if you need electrolytes, you could take some sea salt and put a pinch of it in your water. And the idea is that it's in a liquid source. So it's gonna get converted over to glucose faster than anything else.
Starting point is 00:25:38 The glycemic index on those things are fucking through the roof. They're like a hundred, right? So the moment you get it, it's getting converted into a shot over. That's the good right then. Yeah hundred right so the moment you get it it's getting converted in shot over it's a day that that's the right then yeah so I'm pretty sure I'm not a hundred percent like I don't know I don't know what the exact statistics are but I bet my entire house that the vast majority like 90 something percent of people who drink gatorade and powerade are
Starting point is 00:26:00 just fucking regular people I don't even know about 7-. What pisses me off is I see a lot of kids drinking these gatorade, big huge gatorade, like, you know, food dye, like full sugar, all that shit, and their parents think it's like healthy for them. Dude, the advertising for gatorade makes me want to rip my eyeballs out and throw them in the garbage. I'm watching it and you've got this fucking pro basketball player and he's like, and he's playing, he's like and he's playing he's fucking he's a badass
Starting point is 00:26:26 trail of Gatorade to splash in his fucking sweating Gatorade in the commercial and it's like yeah Gatorade and these kids I want to sweat Gatorade. Yeah, and these kids and stupid parents because I kids aren't stupid But the parents are are watching this going oh fuck. I'm gonna buy my kid my kid wants my kid wants He plays sports you want he wants Coca-Cola, but I'm gonna get gatorated instead because, fuck, and Michael Jordan doing the right thing. No, it's stupid. And then as far as the stimulant-based energy drinks, it's just the stimulants that's in there, it's the caffeine.
Starting point is 00:26:56 And I'll tell you something right now, you want to have a pre-workout, stimulant-based drink that's also got lots and lots and lots of science supporting the fact that it's also super healthy for you. Coffee. Coffee. So long as you can tolerate caffeine because there are people who can't tolerate caffeine, but if you're one of those people, like a lot of us, who has no problem drinking caffeine, doesn't get heart palpitations, doesn't get anxiety, all that, you know, potential
Starting point is 00:27:20 side effects of caffeine, you want to drink something before you work out to give you some buzz, but you also want it to be neuroprotective and tycancer, especially skin cancer and liver cancer, improve longevity, reduce instances of stroke, and the list goes on and on, of the health benefits, drink black coffee, boom, done, weight cheaper and better for you then. And if it's not strong enough fucking double the dose up You know, drink more because that's it somebody will trying someone will try and compare that to like someone like it like a you know AML fucking you know In pre workout drink that's got 400 milligrams of caffeine
Starting point is 00:27:57 I drink this pre workout that I get way more well. Yeah, no shit. It's got 400 milligrams That's like eight cups of coffee. So I guess if you really want that same stimulant feeling. Hold on a second. Which one, the AML one? Yeah. That's got how many grams of milligrams of caffeine in there? 400. And one serving.
Starting point is 00:28:13 Four or 450, he might have bumped it to 450 now. And one serving. Yeah, one serving. So here's what you're literally, literally, the makers of that particular pre-workout and many of others, they know that what sells these drinks is the fact that you take them, and then you feel it right away.
Starting point is 00:28:30 Yeah, you feel like you just got shot out of a cannon. And so what they do is they continue to bump up the doses. Do you know what 400 milligrams of caffeine would do to somebody who doesn't drink coffee, never has stimulants, and wants to try a pre-workout for the first time. Yeah, I think their eyes would explode.
Starting point is 00:28:47 They might, they might, it might be dangerous. Oh, they might actually be dangerous. For sure, they for sure would get the shakes and it would not be a feeling they would like to. Do you know that somebody who doesn't? Do you know that, and it's in the numbers in the tens of thousands, the last time I looked it up, of people who are hospitalized annually in America
Starting point is 00:29:03 from over consumption of caffeine. 400 milligrams and one shot is shitty, especially if you've got some kid who never drinks, you know, it's a 16 year old kid lifting weights and his buddies like here have this and he takes it. There was a kid in the UK who bought caffeine powder and took like three or four tablespoons because he's like, oh, I'm gonna get so much energy.
Starting point is 00:29:24 He didn't realize that he took something like a 2000 millilion caffeine and died. He died from it. Yeah. So irresponsible, stupid, and a waste of your money. Well, and we have some black coffee. You want to have some amino acids fine, throwing some fucking amino acids in there,
Starting point is 00:29:38 save money, and it's better for you. Yeah. Then all this other garbage. I agree. Luke Malby, is there any way to incorporate resistance into Sissy Squat? Sure. Hold on to a play. So the Sissy Squat video that we posted on our new YouTube channel, Mind Pump TV, has
Starting point is 00:29:55 gotten a lot of traction. I think it's gotten quite a bit, right? We only posted a unique exercise. I mean, to be fair, like, I know you knew about it, you know, Adam, somewhat, like I, I was not really familiar with the exercise and the move. It's, it's definitely something that's older. I think that's coming back and I, and you can see that people are searching, you know, for these types of exercises. Dude, it was, it was a staple movement for strength athletes and bodybuilders way back in the day, you know, before you go into how you progress and getting the history of it,
Starting point is 00:30:25 I think it's important too. And I know you just, you know, you graced over our YouTube channels. I knew about the move. I never did it until you. And even when I first saw you do it, I was still performing it incorrectly. So the mechanics on it are definitely challenging.
Starting point is 00:30:41 So I think it's important. That's why we made that was one of our first YouTube videos that we decided to drop on mind pump TV was because we knew that this is a popular move that everybody likes doing and a lot of people can mess it out. There's a real important point to watch when you do this what you do with your your pelvis during the whole move because you can easily let the hips sink down. So you know, make sure if you've never if you have never done it before, you know, we just did a great video on the, on the YouTube, mind pump TV, check that out stuff, but. So add resistance if you can properly, you know, engage, you know, and keep everything tight through the movement and have good mechanics. Exactly, that's what I'm trying to get at.
Starting point is 00:31:16 Before you start like trying to. It is a very technical move. It is. And you want, it's all knee extension. So when you're doing it, it, there's no hip flexion or extension extension. So when you're doing it, there's no hip flexion or extension involved. So I shoot my hips forward, I lock them in the place, I'm on the balls of my feet,
Starting point is 00:31:32 and it's all knee extension at that point. So it's a full on quadricep movement, but it is very technical, and I'll tell you this much, very few people will need to add resistance. I don't use it anyway. I've never had it. To me, like, you got to be really strong.
Starting point is 00:31:49 You, literally, I mean, and I'm sure I could. Like, if I was trying to just to prove, I could, but I just by slowing the movement down and really squeezing. Yeah. Well, especially if you're using it to be like a pre-exas going into something like a front squat or, you know, you're using it in that type of a fashion. You really need a lot of resistance. Well, we talked about replacing it,
Starting point is 00:32:08 you're replacing the leg extension. Oh, totally. That's really what that move is for, is to replace the leg extension. And it's, to me, it's almost a silly when you see people do leg extension with crazy heavy weight. It's just like, you're not gonna see huge gains
Starting point is 00:32:21 from doing stacking the leg extension machine. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, it's a nice simulation movement. Yeah, the same thing would go stacking the leg extension machine. You know what I'm saying? Right. So the same thing would go with the Sissy squat. Like, you know, it's a pre-exhaust type of movement that you do before you head into a front squat or a back squat. And that's the, that the squat is where the big bang for your buckets. So it is.
Starting point is 00:32:37 Now, I've been doing it for a while. I've gotten pretty good at it. And the heaviest all over goes, I'll hold a 45 pound plate. And the way you do it is you hold it at your chest, arm around the weight. I like to grip underneath the weight. And as I'm leaning back, the weight is kind of resting on, you know, as I lean back, the weights on my chest. But I could slow it down.
Starting point is 00:32:57 I could squeeze real hard at the top of the movement. It is an isolation movement. Like Adam says, isolation movements aren't really, they don't lend themselves well to just using and adding tons away, but I will say this, if you're a leg extension person, start playing with Sissy Squats and you'll build muscle with the Sissy Squat. It's pretty rare to build muscle with the leg extension.
Starting point is 00:33:18 Well, you know, there's something to be said about, and I've seen some, I believe I've seen the, what's his face, the hypertrophy coach, we've talked about that we like some of the stuff that he puts out there on how he like puts his, but he, uh, angles his hips differently on a leg extension machine. So that way he can get full range of motion. That's the beauty of the sissy's. Qua is when you do that correctly, you take the, you take that quadriceps through full range
Starting point is 00:33:41 of motion and you're, you're having to move your entire body. So everything's having to work. It's such a great. So, plus I see more like after going through our assessment with Dr. Brink, you know, and showing like the importance of being up on your toes and getting engagement, you know, from that position, is very similar to the Cicci squat, what he had us do.
Starting point is 00:34:01 Oh yeah, he had to sit there and be stable. Right, so it just, you know, from a different perspective as far as like getting proper engagement, you know, from your muscles and and waking that process, it's a great exercise for that. Oh no, that's a great point. Let me ask you a question, Adam.
Starting point is 00:34:16 You talked about hypertrophy coach showing a variation of the leg extension. Was he sitting up with his hips up to, do you know what you wanna know it's funny? One of the originals, if not the original leg extension machine, angle like that, you actually laid on your back and did leg extensions. So rather than sitting up, I'm laying like if I was on a flat back and then my legs were bent and then I was doing a leg extension. And I believe Vince Garanda, if I'm not mistaken, I apologize if I'm wrong, but Vince Garanda, who was, you know, they called him the scientist
Starting point is 00:34:48 back in the day, he was one of the very first, you know, bodybuilders to really analyze, even though some of his opinions I disagree with, he was one of the very first bodybuilders to really analyze, exercise, and change technique or whatever, I believe he had that in his gym and it was popular because people loved the way it felt. And if you think about it, I could really see how you would get a different feel in the quads from the back. Well, because when you're in the seated position, a leg extension machine doesn't
Starting point is 00:35:14 won't allow you to bring your heel all the way back to your glutes. And if you think about it, that's full range of motion, saying to be able to take the heel back to the glute and then full extended, full knee knee. That's nasty. To knee extension, right? So, you can't really do that in a 90, 90. So they actually, you know, they were teaching to lift the hips up. And, you know, and once again,
Starting point is 00:35:35 this is why I, you know, although I'm giving him kudos for him, you know, manipulating the mechanics on a machine, I just find it stupid to do things, to manipulate a machine, to do a movement that you can do with your body weight that trumps it. Like, why do, why get up, like I see someone doing that,
Starting point is 00:35:53 I'm like, do a fucking Sissy Squad and get all those same benefits plus tons more. Like, I mean, that Sissy Squad should replace your leg extension. There should be no leg extension to me, unless, you know, here leg extension to me unless, here's machines to me, like if you're rehabbing somebody
Starting point is 00:36:08 and there's an issue like that that you're concerned about and you need them to be stabilized. That's a good point because the CISI squat is difficult. If you do have bad knees, if you are very unstable, it is not an exercise to start with, then I can see somebody using a machine, which is actually what they were designed for. And then last point about the Sisi Squad,
Starting point is 00:36:28 the most important part of that rep is at the bottom. So really keep those hips up, come down, get to where you can start to feel a stretch in the quads, quads drive in to the floor, and stand up and it's that bottom part of the rep that you'll really see a lot of the benefit. But again, you can watch the video on my podcast. Yeah, check that shit out on YouTube, comment on it, let us know and I tell you what, man, if you guys are lay extension people and incorporate that and then
Starting point is 00:36:51 you know, it'll blow your mind up. GE Grayling, what are the three most important things people should take away from mind pump? That's a great question. Whoa. That is a great question. The first one that comes to mind, Adam Schu collection. Yeah, for sure. Best shoe collection. I'm not a properly vijazzle. Yeah. No, I definitely think the first one, the first number one for me, I think is the relationship with food. Yeah. I was going to say that. We talk a lot about fasting. We talk a lot about the ketogenic diet. We talk a lot about different ways of eating. And the one thing that I think that the message that we've always tried to be consistent with
Starting point is 00:37:30 is that it's not about the diet, it's not about this, it's more about your relationship with food and understanding what it does for your body and that it's okay to not eat these things or these myths that we've been out for so many years in the bodybuilding world. So I think that would be number one, right? I mean, that's the first thing that comes in mind. It's gotta be, and we get the most comments on that. People really trip out over how much they learn
Starting point is 00:37:56 just from that one thing right there. Because really, identifying foods, affects on your weight gain and weight loss is what everybody focuses on. But getting people to focus on the effects of food on all the other things from your mood to your skin, to your energy to why you may want to eat something and why maybe you're not hungry, but you're or why you think you're hungry
Starting point is 00:38:22 and maybe you're not hungry. And the way you punish yourself with food or restricting food and all those different things really all goes under the umbrella of relationship with food. And we get probably the most comments, I would say, on that one thing right there. I would say that. And then maybe I would say too, is probably programmed design. Yeah. I think that, I mean, when we all sat around in my living room over two years
Starting point is 00:38:45 ago, and we're talking about, you know, all the shit that's going on with the industry and all these these companies that are praying on competitors, what I was going through when I was competing. And, you know, we saw this huge need for programming. It's like, man, there's nobody who's really putting emphasis on the importance of how you design your workout program. Everything's on the quick fix. It's all about what can I take right now to make me look this way or feel this way or lose this weight. People have just totally looked beyond the importance of program design.
Starting point is 00:39:17 We've really, I think, built our business around that. It's crazy. It's crazy to me how, I mean, the workout itself is okay, we got the Olympics going on right now, right? Do you guys have any idea how much science Oh, yeah, goes into the workout right? These athletes, of course, the program design that goes into these athletes is ridiculous. I mean they a peril, they design like everything around like these little intricate details that they study and they film over and over every day in practice,
Starting point is 00:39:50 and they spend hours, hours upon hours every day on the same exact process. It is, and I would even venture to say this, like nutrition is extremely important, but once you reach a certain point, there isn't this like, you know, you're not gonna get a lot of return from designing this ridiculous intricate details of nutrition
Starting point is 00:40:10 like you will with workouts. Workouts, when it comes to performance, extremely fucking important. And it's like people forgot. People forgot for a long time. Everybody's workout looked the same. Chest on Monday, back on Tuesday, shoulders on Wednesday, whatever.
Starting point is 00:40:23 Do your exercises, do one or two finishing movements afterwards, and there's your fucking workout. There's your program design. It's a joke, and people I think are finally starting to see what actual program design does, and I love getting messages and emails from people who enroll in like, you know, MAPCentabolic, which is our, we'd consider the foundation program.
Starting point is 00:40:45 I love getting messages from people going, holy shit, like I hit two new priors and I can't believe I'm much more so I'm building it. Nothing else has changed. It's like, that's the beauty of exercise program. And that's how important it is to, you know, to your progress. So I'd say, I'd say that's one and two, right?
Starting point is 00:41:00 For sure, I'd say those two are ours. I was gonna say, to not take yourself so seriously, but because of as far as like, have carrying yourself with this ego and being, you know, like having this attitude, like, you have everything figured out, you know, like, I just, I feel like we're always seeking people to prove something else that we could respond to and then bring in and discuss and maybe even like change our ideas with it. Like I'm always seeking that type of a knowledge base
Starting point is 00:41:32 to improve. So it's constantly trying to improve and then also teach people how we got to that point. No, I think that's a great, we touched a little bit on that with Juji recently, right? When he came on the show and how One of the things we love about what he does is he makes working out fun and not so serious It doesn't have to be like all these all the my peers like when I look at all the competitors. It's like this You know, it's so miserable like are you have to be so dedicated? You the grinds grind and grind and sacrificing all this like
Starting point is 00:42:04 Dude come on like lighten the fuck up. Yeah, that's not health and fitness. It should be enjoyable. It should be a fun journey, a great experience. It's, it doesn't mean like, okay, if I want to look this way, I've got to fucking buckle down and sacrifice the rest of my life. And I feel like this is where a lot of like the, you're talking about food relationships and all these things.
Starting point is 00:42:22 Like people that take themselves so seriously and everything is this big sacrifice and burn everybody around them, this is a problem. Even if it's healthy minded, it's a problem. You have the wrong mindset. You gotta be able to enjoy life, but then also improve yourself
Starting point is 00:42:42 and really consider people around you, not just yourself. Well, how much more successful do you think someone's going to be in fitness if they enjoy it? Exactly. I mean, you can't compare, can you? There's no comparison. I don't care what it is you're trying to accomplish. If you fucking hate it, you're not going to do it nearly as good as if you love it. And I don't care how disciplined you are that will be a point where you're going to say,
Starting point is 00:43:06 I'm not doing this anymore. It's just the bottom line. So that's a very, very good point. Yes, I like to, I think those would be a good three. You know, we could probably go on with a bunch of other ship, but I would take those for sure. Art of April, is there a certain way to lose weight when you have hormonal imbalances
Starting point is 00:43:22 that make it difficult to lose weight? A certain way? So yeah, so here. Other than getting healthy first. Exactly. That's why I like this question. I like that we put this up here. Here's the thing.
Starting point is 00:43:36 If you are having, and by the way, this, when people say I have hormonal imbalances, and they're just guessing that they have hormonal imbalances, we don't know. We don't know if it's actual hormonal imbalances, if you're just unhealthy. But if you're, if you know, for sure, you have an hormonal imbalance, you've got all this tell tell signs of actual hormonal imbalances, and you've done blood work. And you've done blood work. Doctors, doctors told you. And you've done blood work. Then I would not focus
Starting point is 00:44:01 on losing weight, because trying to lose weight with a bad hormonal imbalance is not only running uphill, but it will likely cause the hormonal imbalance to become worse. So the key, what Adam said is you have to get healthy. Don't even worry about losing any weight. Don't worry about the scale at all. Your goal is to feel better, to feel healthier, to get rid of the symptoms of your hormonal imbalance.
Starting point is 00:44:31 If you're having mood issues and maybe depression issues and hot flashes and cold sweaty palms all the time and all the symptoms of hair loss and skin issues. Don't worry about your weight. You need to get healthy first because when you become healthy, the weight loss will become much, much, much easier. If you try to lose weight while your hormones are fucked up, you're asking for metabolic damage if you don't already have it. And you're asking for hormonal imbalances that will stick around for a long time. Well, let's talk about some of the clients that we,
Starting point is 00:45:06 as I'm sure all of us have had these clients, right away when I hear this, because I've had people that either one, like you said, think they have these issues, or two, actually have these issues, and how do I start addressing? Typically, these are my super high sugar and alcohol consumers under consumption of good
Starting point is 00:45:28 healthy fats, not enough protein in their diet, overstressed, not sleeping very well. That's kind of the my wheelhouse of things that I right away start to address. Tell me about how much wine and alcohol are you consuming. Tell me about how much wine and alcohol are you consuming? Tell me about how much sugar and stuff is in your diet. How many, are you taking lots of stimulants and caffeine and lots of shit like that to keep you going? Cause you're always up and down all over the place. All those things, and then are you,
Starting point is 00:45:56 somebody who eats a lot of good super foods and good healthy fats in your diet? Are you getting things like that or missing fiber? Fibers and other one, I get a lot these these clients that are grossly under eating fiber. So those typically are the things, but it like, you know, Sal saying is all those things result in just being healthy. I mean, getting those all balanced out and finding out what you need. I just I find it fascinating that people don't seem to think, or they just don't acknowledge that your diet and your sleep and your lifestyle
Starting point is 00:46:28 is going to have a profound impact on your hormones. I don't understand why people have a tough time getting that. And part of me wants to think that they don't want to get it because it's too fucking hard to correct. Well, because it means they got to change their lifestyle. Right, because like if I'm a a man and I have low testosterone and the doctor says, oh, we just tested testosterone you're at 75, we need to give you testosterone shots. But in the meantime, my diet is heavy on sugar.
Starting point is 00:47:00 I'm not getting good enough healthy fats. I'm only sleeping five hours a night. I'm having to keep myself up all day long with shit tons of stimulants. I don't have, I'm not exercising properly. What do you think would happen if I corrected all those things? What do you think would happen to my testosterone levels? The odds are it's gonna improve quite a bit.
Starting point is 00:47:20 Those are the odds. So, you know, it blows me away that people don't consider that kind of shit like that. Get healthy first and then most of you probably wouldn't have, you know, hormone issues. Now of course, there can be other reasons for having hormone issues, one of which is, you know, going off birth control. You see a lot of women will go off birth control and they'll give them problems sometimes for a good few months before
Starting point is 00:47:45 things balance out. In that case, the answer is the same. You got to be very healthy so your body has a better chance of balance. Well, you know why? It's because in this industry, in this market, everybody is so fixated on fixing it by working out more. It's either a crash dieting or restricting yourself. It's either, or crash dieting, or restricting yourself. It's either one or the other.
Starting point is 00:48:09 And it's so much more complex than that. Like the body, especially with hormones, there's just so much of a balance issue. Like you're not bringing balance into your body first and foremost, and that's too hard for people to comprehend a lot of times because when they think about fitness or losing weight, all they think about is, oh, well, I gotta eat less.
Starting point is 00:48:29 Oh, I gotta kill myself. I mean, trip up this, guys. Think about this for a second. If everybody in America ate to nourish their body so they ate healthy, if they were all appropriately active, I'm not talking about extreme, like we lift, work out, or whatever. I'm talking about just appropriate levels of activity, and everybody kinda ate right,
Starting point is 00:48:51 and everybody slept, like they were supposed to, and they also had strategies to mitigate stress because life is stressful, nothing could do about that. Imagine if everybody did that, how many less cases do you think we would see of pretty much every single chronic disease illness? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:49:08 You know, everything from, and I'm talking kids too, 80D, 80HD, I'm talking about, you know, depression and adults, I'm talking about everything. How much less do you think we would see of that? If people just did that. Oh yeah, me alarming. It's crazy. It's crazy how big of a difference.
Starting point is 00:49:25 I would venture to say that we would see chronic illness and chronic issues, like the ones I listed in more, on the very outskirts, on the very minority. It would be a very minority group of people that would have some of those issues and the vast majority,
Starting point is 00:49:43 vast majority, we would see none of those problems anymore. So really the solution, you know, to who's asking this question, the solution is extremely simple. It is not easy, however. It requires a lifestyle change, but we know what the changes need to be.
Starting point is 00:49:59 So it's actually quite simple. The form is very, very simple. And I wish more people would understand that. And it's not like this huge, crazy sacrifice. It steps in the right direction, right? So someone liked that too. You know, let's say those things I listed off, like you're a culprit of all of them.
Starting point is 00:50:14 You know, you're drinking the sugar, you're not eating the healthy fats, you're sleeping like, I can't take that person and say, we're fixing all this tomorrow. Like we're cutting all this out. You know, it's just, it's one focus at a time. Like if you were somebody who was a heavy, you know, wine every single night you drink or something like that,
Starting point is 00:50:32 it's like, okay, let's start to tailor this back a little bit. Or if you're somebody who, you know, it's not a big berry eater and stuff, you don't eat a lot of spinach, you don't get a lot of fiber in the diet. And so I'm like, okay, we're gonna start to incorporate, you know, these one or two things every day in your diet and pay attention to how you, okay, we're going to start to incorporate, you know, one, these one or two things every day in your diet and pay attention to how you've, because
Starting point is 00:50:46 I also want you to see as we're making these better choices, how you feel, because I want you to relate that to it. I don't want it to be about losing weight. I want you to, I want you to make these little subtle changes, because some people are like, you know, when you try to take wine from somebody who just loves a glass of wine every single night, because they, in their head, they've told themselves that I need that to relax, I need that to feel better, I need that to sleep well. Well, that's because you got everything else so fucked up and you're it, and you think that's really benefiting them much. Let me start to tweak some of the things in your nutrition. Let me show you how that makes you feel and then you tell me if that's
Starting point is 00:51:19 something that you want or you don't want. Right. So, and then, you know, we're going to, there's going to be people, people who say, hey, Sal, hey, mine pump. I want to enjoy my life. Yeah, I want to enjoy it. Like I want to eat shitty food and I like to drink three glasses of wine every night which a lot of people do.
Starting point is 00:51:39 And I know, that's how I enjoy my life. This is what I say to you people. You're a fucking liar and I'll tell you why. Because you're not enjoying your fucking life, you're actually putting band-aids on a life that is stressful, on a life that's causing you lots of problems and let me tell you something. And I'm just saying this right now,
Starting point is 00:51:55 and I hope I apologize for being abrasive, but you would truly enjoy your life far more when you do the things that we're talking about. And I'm not talking about anything extreme. I'm just saying appropriate. I'm just saying, keep feeding your, you know, would you feed your body, keep nourishment as your priority? And you look, you go to a birthday,
Starting point is 00:52:14 you want to enjoy yourself, fine, you have an event, you want to do something, fine. But for the most part, for the most part, you're feeding to nourish your body. For the most part, you're staying relatively active. You don't got to train like we do, you don't got to train like an athlete. You're just taking care of yourself.
Starting point is 00:52:30 For the most part you mitigate your stress by doing things that you know will make you feel better. Like God, I'm so fucking stressed out. I could kill someone instead of grabbing a glass of wine or whatever, read a book. You know how many people I talk to and they're like, oh, I used to love reading. Why don't you do anymore?
Starting point is 00:52:44 I'm too stressed out. Really? I don't have the time. Really? When next time you take a show, move. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of it's pants up energy. I'm telling you right now, you will enjoy life. It's not about living longer. Will you live longer if you do things that I'm talking about? Probably. Do I know for sure? No. It's about living better. It's about living better. And you will actually enjoy your life a lot more by doing some of these simple things and just making it a part of your life. That's right, live fucking better.
Starting point is 00:53:11 That's it. That's a Krispy Kreme. Now check this out. You got to check out our programs. We just talked about the Fasting Guide and the Trish and Survival Guide. That's at mindpumpmedia.com. We got other stuff on there as well.
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