Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 375: Breaking Sugar Addiction, Keto & Powerlifting, Isometrics Before Heavy Lifts & MORE

Episode Date: September 30, 2016

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And then I had to go into translate and it was like all this like ad stuff from, you know, somebody from China. It was? Yeah. Yeah. You got hacked like that? Yeah. Did they get into your, what happens when you're,

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There was some, God, some beautiful, beautiful scenery out there. Probably one of the most beautiful places I've been for sure, I think. Have you guys been to Maui before? Have you been to Maui? I went to Maui when I was 12. Kauai, I have been. Okay, so that's only Island I've been to. Oh, Kauai, what made you choose Kauai?

That's my parents. They got me the interest in there. They have like a time share. I heard people say co-ops better. It's beautiful, man. If you're a local, you would say that because it's like the most quiet out of all the islands.

You have no nightlife at all. Nothing, there's nothing there. It's like literally the coolest part of co-op. That's what I like. The coolest part of co-ops is nice. That I would love to do in co-ops is that they have the tubing through the lava caves and stuff. Oh, you did do that?

Oh, see, that's something that I wanted to do. But I did do anything special. Oh, yeah, no, I did all kinds of stuff. I mean, there was some black salt. I didn't buy any black salt. I didn't even see any black salt. They sell Hawaiian salt with black. I wish I would have known that.

I would have got you some for sure. I already have some. Oh, you do? Yeah, and I sprinkled it on food to look like a fucking pompous asshole, like someone leed over. And then like, check out that salmon I gave you. It's got black salt on it. You just like, hold on.

Let me magify it. How is it? Like big chunks? Yeah, I like chunky salt. What's the benefit of salt? I like it like a like a, knowing you, you got it for some reason. What's the benefit of that versus regular?

Different mineral content. So the color of salt, a lot of times I'll tell you that it's got different mineral content. For example, pink salt might have a little bit more iron in it. Most of these natural salts are lower in sodium and higher in other minerals. Whereas your typical salt, table salt, that is fricking processed to hell is like,

mostly this one have more sulfur in it because of the volcano. It's got, well, I don't know the details about it. To be honest with you, about it, because it looked cool. But, when you, they should be not. So scientific review.

I'm just being honest. I'm just being honest. I'm just being honest. Six dollar shorts. But when you taste it, my salt costs more to my shorts. This goes against the grain for you, bro. But it tastes different.

It tastes, it's got less bite to it. Like when you eat table salt, it's just salty. Like this has got a nice flavor to it. It's different. I want to point out too. I've noticed you've been wearing the Lulu shorts quite often, dude, for a guy who was talking a lot of shit about him, I've seen you in a month

and they look good on you. You look fancy. Do they look good? Have you been getting even ever in your fancy outfits? That's why. You know what it was? Tell a lie, you got compliments. No, that's what it was.

So I have, I put up a new mirror in my place and it reflects into another mirror at an angle and I walk by and I accidentally, totally by accident, gazed upon the mirror and saw the backside of myself in the Louvre shorts. And of course you did. I was like, I was like, I'm doing, Yes, semi and it was just like, oh, this is,

I'm like, why I'm doing people are just serviced by not wearing the short I was almost like I like him I wore him quite a bit while I was out there. They're just comfortable They're very comfortable and they do make your glutes look good my glutes or in general in general Oh, I think that's like being specific. I think that's Lulu's like selling point. Guy or girl, it doesn't matter, but they're shit that they may always make the ass. They, whoever is over there creating that shit, that's with the money behind it.

They're like, listen, we're gonna get some pretty good material, we're gonna do this, but what we're really gonna do. I would love to be a fly in the wall when they're like designing these with people they bring in and they like hold on and they're like, you know, meticulously like, fashing the stuff to this person's ass.

Watch this, whoa, whoa, whoa. Bring me in the, fashing this stuff to this person's ass. Watch this. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Bring me in the 105 pound Asian girl. Watch what we're gonna do right here. Wow. Check this out. Look at that Brazilian looking ass. She's got now.

Holy no, there you go. Yeah, the under welcome, Lulu. The underwear, I didn't like so much because they were too constricting. However, you said I must have got the wrong size. And they say that? That's probably a sign if they're serenading. They're serenading, bro.

Yeah. Did you get the longer the shorter ones too? I got the, I got the, I liked mine, the, yeah, the underwear. Did they fit you okay? Really? Yeah, they fit good. And you have a big ass. It's big.

Yeah. What size did you get? Triple. What? You got just an XL? Yeah. See, I got a large that should fit me because my ass is approximately that? You got just an exo? Yeah. See, I got a large that should fit me because my ass is approximately that much smaller than Justin. I'm sorry, I was thinking about your ass here.

And, but there were two tight. Can you, how do you breathe in stuff? I just, you know, I slipped right in. Did you? That's great to go. I was ready to jump in jacks. I just don't, I got the ones on accident that were kind of long. You know, they're only about like six inches above your knee.

I don't like that. I don't like that. They remind me of like biker shorts or something for underwear. I like, but then you wear the shorts. You wear the tights anyway, so what's the difference? I don't wear the tights all the time. You know, once they make the thong ones, you'll get into it, so I know.

I like to. I just want the front area to be snug because I don't like, I like to know that I can run and he give a moment and not, because you do that. It not hits himself. You have like a thorn sticking out. But I don't want, I don't want tight around my legs.

He says that while he's wearing flip flops. He's like, I want to make sure my jump is his point. Yeah, so he's about the important step. Okay, he's taking off for a dead sprint and this fucking flip flops, right? No one wants to rip their sack. There's some strange branch. You know what?

It is true. I almost never not wear shoes, but lately I've made a decision to start walking around without shoes on more often. That's my new thing. By the way, though, I was told by Brink that sandals are worse than shoes. Really? Well, you know what I do? You fucked up.

I take them off and walk around barefoot. Yeah, so I made a point while I was in Hawaii, like literally to like try and never tour. It feels so, like, that is my new thing too, is that. I'm like, just get grounded. I felt grounded. Hold on a second. This is great.

I feel like we're bonding again. There was a long period of time where we were going all hip-y-out. Well, we separated for a while. We got real close, we separated. But now, now that you're getting all weird too. This is great. Well, there's something there's are you wearing deodorant still? I am doing that. Okay. What's all right? It's okay. I'm still showering. I'm still doing those type of things But I do see I do see and I saw a lot of weird air fresheners for a new studio I definitely notice a difference and I do find that I wear shoes a lot because I love

shoes and so I'm trying to make a habit of every day at least, you know, making it routine right now, hopefully longer, but at least spending 10 to 15 minutes where I go outside and walking on the ground, the grass and barefoot completely. That is such a fucking woo thing to hear come out of your mouth. I'm so excited right now. I even do that and then I get down in like my my squad position then I get down on my toes and I stand up and I get it into plantar flexion and yeah. No, don't stop creating these visuals. I do know I don't do that. I don't take it that far. These are the things you're obviously doing but he's like and I rub my toes in it. I was just so biome. I was so disappointed in myself when he asked me

To wiggle my toes and knowing how much we how much connectivity we should have down there that I don't I was really frustrated with that That you were unable to move your toes? Why not as lift. Yeah, I was able to lift your Like in like you way he asked me, like he'd asked me to put my big toe down, wiggle the four, then the other way around, wiggle the one, and then put the other four down. I want that control of my feet considering it's what connects me to the ground.

Just then believe it or not, I had decent control of his toes. Well, there. That combined, well, I was gonna say, that combined with his toe claws makes him a formidable opponent. He can climb shit Sloth It's kind of sloth-esque with bare qualities. You get the same. Yeah, you got sloth-feet

I'm gonna say that about yourself. Yeah, no, I don't say that. They're horrible. They're like fucking hammered and They're horrible. They're like fucking hammered and Marley. Well, man, I hate my yeah, well, but in the past when I see someone's feet that are like that I would think they look kind of weird But now I feel like those those feet are much better like when you see someone that has their feet their toes are all spread apart and stuff like That guy's connected or that girl if she's got feet like that. My wife can do that. It grosses me out. Oh, she can do that Yeah, it's so gross. Yeah It grosses me out. Oh, she can do that. Yeah, it's so gross. Yeah How is she how is Courtney? I was curious actually because she's on her feet a lot right throughout the day Yeah, and I've never heard you talk about her

I've never heard her have to go through surgeries as I haven't heard of bad battling aches and picked the she battle Like this her low back bother her. Yeah, she has stuff like that back big time. Oh, yeah From all that wheelbarrow. Yeah, it could be that Potentially, I don't want to put that out there. He's gonna keep that going No, it's more from moving patients around and they have this whole process where they have to like be very Mechanical with how they lift and then like hoist and yeah, so it's really hard on them.

But it boils down to when she was like first learning how to weight training some dumb ass football player like decided to make all these volleyball girls like lift way outside of their means and back squat with with terrible form and stuff. So anyway, screw it up her back. So now her she's like this really flat back. There's like no natural arch. So that's like one of the big things we're trying to correct. Put on a meal. Yeah. Here in Niels makes the interior public.

Hey, babe, listen, I'm a thank you. So I'm doing that. I'm a fitness expert, babe. Yeah. You know, don't work close. Got a bunch of more back. Do you do a lot of stuff like that? Have you got a, you may have you've introduced her to Brink yet? Have you got her over there? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, while being surrounding that. Because her back was an issue in before kids and then after the second kid, especially like total muscular connectivity there.

Here's the thing a lot of people don't realize when you have a child, your midsection, your core, especially the muscles underneath, like the transverse abdominis, it has to atrophy, it's got a stretch to allow room for this baby. And then when you have the baby, you go work your abs and your obliques, you lose connectivity to them,

but you also lose connectivity big time to your transverse abdominis. And if you don't specifically target it, you'll have issues. That's the whole vacuum exercise that we've had. That's exactly what I've been having to do. After we did that video for our YouTube channel, the one that was an excellent slow-mo. Yeah, that's right. We didn't even fall in the sun of a bitch. Yeah, I have like I have an Instagram picture of it

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It's the motherfucking croix! The English Landish! Quijqua... Our first question is from Larry Jansen. Larry, Larry, Larry. Who are your favorite entrepreneurs and startups and what have they taught you about business? Oh, wow. I love this question. I love entrepreneurs.

Why don't you start it since you like it so much? I have a big crush on Steve Jobs. No. I have a big crush on Elon Musk. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Actually, all these tech startup guys who started in their garages and just developed these incredible programs and products. The reason why I like Elon is because he's then a couple interesting things. He gave up all the patents or a lot of these patents to his cars because he wants more competition, he wants more people to develop other technologies.

That's dope. Which I thought was a very interesting strategy. He's also trying to go to space with SpaceX, which is, I think he's the only private company. You know, it's time right there talking about that though. I think that is such an awesome trait. And it reminds me of Justin brought this point up the other day when we got interviewed by our boy.

And he asked one of the things that we think are important for as qualities in a trainer. And Justin made a point about, you know, not being afraid to, you know, use your peers and to take your information from them. And I think that's a problem with a lot of people when they get into any profession. Doesn't matter what it is.

And training for sure, there's a lot of that because there's an egos that, you know, everyone gets in this like my way and they don't want to share their information and they get all like, you know, afraid of like, someone's gonna take their business when if you have the opposite of like share, I love to share all the information I have,

I'll share with anybody like everything I've learned, I love sharing. And then I love listening to somebody else give, give information, and it just, it challenges you to get better. And I think that's the mentality that he has with something like that is that me putting out all my stuff for others to basically take and utilize and try and further it. That might, someone else's mind,

other brilliant mind comes, furthers that a little bit more, he knows that someone's gonna spark his mind beyond that again. So I think that's just a cool strategy to do something like that. Yeah, I think, I mean entrepreneurs, the people who take those big risks, they really contribute such a tremendous amount to society.

I just don't, I think that as a society, we tend to forget just how much we owe to these people who do this. I mean, you look at Henry Ford. Henry Ford, you know, he was... For sure, one of my favorite. He offered incredible benefits to his employees because he wanted to have the best people. There was no mandate that he had to do these things.

He did them because he knew he would attract the best talent in which he did and he dominated for a long time. Entrepreneurs, you know, they're the ones that take the risks and invest the capital needed to develop these things. A true entrepreneur is in a competitive market. And so they are only successful if they serve the needs of the consumer in markets that are far less competitive. Of course, they're just serving their own needs and protecting their own selves through laws or whatever.

So right now, the entrepreneurs of the tech industry really excite me the most because the tech industry is so largely unregulated compared to other industries that like you look at Google or you look at Facebook. You know, those markets are so unregulated that even Google or Facebook is powerful as they are, they gotta stay on top of their game because someone else can come up

and kick their ass real quick. It's unlike the other markets that we have in the industry that are so protected by regulation and keeping, you know, competitors out that you can become number one and just kind of coast, you know what I mean? I mean, look how much Facebook innovates all the time and ads do things that they have to.

And I love that. So I the tech entrepreneurs right now are the ones that really get me the most exciting. I was literally just funny, because we all have like our passions, like kind of come out through this. Like I'm totally inspired by like Walt Disney. Oh yeah.

You know what I mean? Like your George Lucas is and just the people that can imagine things and create them and have it become reality to where it becomes part of everybody's experience at that point. Like that's such a unique trait that, you know, you see like very infrequently, you'll see something come out of nowhere and you're like, wow, that makes so much sense, but it's all made up. Everybody believes into the concept and because at the core of it is something that's very innocent or it's very pure and there's value to it.

There's a lot of the entrepreneur's, a lot of these real successful, huge, big successes. What we don't see are the entrepreneurs that came before them. And what I mean by that is a lot of these people had a mother or a father who was also an entrepreneur that made it to middle class or maybe they were an immigrant. My father owned his own business for a long time and he never became this huge success. But his success was the fact that he came to this country of no education, didn't speak the language, and was able to provide a middle class lifestyle

for his kids who could go to school and live their dreams. Those are the unsung heroes, and there's a lot of those in America, a lot of those entrepreneurs that don't become these huge successes. You know? I'll give you mine, and I'll even give you,

because we just talked about this, the top five companies in my opinion right now, and then also I would like to just totally piggyback on what you just said is that I am more motivated, I am more inspired by people that nobody knows. The guys, the people that I've seen, what they've done personally like they bit they I watched them come from nothing and the life that they struggle with and the family members

they lost and the way they've been knocked down and their perseverance through coming back and you know maybe they only maybe they're only like semi millionaires you know I'm saying they're not she they're not these huge Fortune 500 company guys that everybody knows. They're average Joe type of guy, not even average Joe anymore because they're making millions of dollars now, but millions of dollars is nothing when we're talking about people like Elon Musk

and we're talking about Henry Ford. These guys are billionaires and people that everybody knows. So I'm more inspired by people that I've talked to that are close like that and personal. But I would say I would relate myself more to or someone like a Henry Ford. I use a lot of his quotes. I definitely think that a lot of my career, I've surrounded myself with a lot of other very intelligent people.

I was always okay with that. I was okay with not being, you know, I've always prided myself on not being the smartest guy in the room, but surrounding myself with other brilliant minds around me. So Henry Ford has that same, same mentality. And he's, he's talked a lot about that. So he's definitely somebody of the past that has inspired myself. But companies now love Netflix, love Google, love Facebook, love Tesla. What was the other one? There was a fifth one that I named the day that I thought just these guys are the, Netflix, love Google, love Facebook, love Tesla.

What was the other one? That was the fifth one that I named the day that I thought, just these guys are the future of how we're gonna do business. I mean, what you see Netflix doing with streaming media and stuff, I think they're just, they're one step ahead of. You know, they tried to get, they tried to get original content.

It's amazing. You know, they went to Blockbuster at some point and were trying to have Blockbuster to have original content is amazing. You know they went to blockbuster at some point and And we're trying to have blockbuster by them right them a block blockbuster Latham out of the room made fun of them and of course now we know blackbuster What's blocking blockbuster? I love I fucking love stories like I love hearing that shit They got to eat that one. I love how Steve Jobs got fired from his own company I know and they came back created, went with Pixar, came back and made Apple.

And how about somebody in our field that a lot of people don't know much, Mark Maastroph. I mean, Mark Maastroph was, oh, he modernized corporate fitness. He was the first guy in fitness to take a company to the billions of dollars. He sold 24 of fitness for $2.00 something billion. And what was so dope about what happened with him

because we know his story personally, is when he had one of those crazy stories where like Steve Jobs, where he takes this company to a billion dollar company, he sells it, decides he'll sit on the board, but he's no longer the owner of the company anymore. And within a year, the company had him carried out. And in such a disrespectful way,

like he literally was like escorted out of his own company that he built to a billion dollar company. You know, how sad is that? And then he also had to sign a five year... No competition. No competition within X amount of miles. And you better, and I'll never forget at that five year mark, seeing on TV, him

signing the big deal with Dana White with the UFC gyms. I'm like, look out, motherfuckers, cuz here he comes, you know, and he's got all kinds of tons. Oh, yeah, that's probably the only example I would think like in the fitness industry, that's like a big, you know, juggernaut company versus like, that's why I get so excited about our industries because there hasn't really been, a Google and Apple, a mega business that's really taking the hold and like had the one stop shop for like,

you know, this is your answer kind of a place like having the platform for all this stuff. We all aspire for mine, but we can't do that. We want that to be that because it's, you know, if you think about it, like maybe Nike or underarmors something Yeah, but that those are retail companies. They just sell clothes. I mean, I know underarmors really pushing hard to get into the tech side of things now, you know, Nike flirted with it for a while and then was like, oh shit, I better go back to Apple and get some help. You know, but it's it's

Nobody's really done that because it's so spread out in extremes. Like we're trying to teach everybody that everybody's spreading away from the core of what needs to be. I just, I love, you know, when I think of entrepreneurs it's like an entrepreneur literally made their own job. I mean, think about that. Think about how many of you listening right now

hate your fucking job. Like quit and go make your own job. Like that's a pretty amazing thing to do. And it's not easy. It takes a lot of balls to do it. And it's a very, very hard, arduous road riddled with failures. But, and so that's why I just got to respect.

So it makes our country awesome. A lot of people talk shit about, you know, like our country is pretty fucking rad that you can do that. That we have an opportunity. It reads innovation. Yeah, that if you know that, if you're a maniac, if you're crazy enough

and you're willing to work every day for three to five years, because sometimes that's what it takes. The largest percentage of entrepreneurs when you count all entrepreneurs, small business owners and stuff like that are immigrants. When people come here as immigrants, a very good percentage of them,

them or their children, become entrepreneurs. And I personally think, because if you look at the vast number of immigrants that come to this country, they come here because they're leaving something that is worse than what they're going to or they're going somewhere better. They're coming here for the promise of something better

and they see the opportunity, and when they see that opportunity, they're emboldened and they say, I'm going to take this chance and make my own job. And you see a lot of that happening. And they own small businesses and construction business or plumbing or corner store or whatever. But that's fucking great shit, man. And Kudos to anybody who ever starts your own business or tries.

And whether you succeed or not, just doing it, man. So little takeaways, I think like we said the Henry Ford, like, I mean, his big thing whoever starts your own business or tries and whether you succeed or not, just doing it, man. Little takeaways, I think, like we said, the Henry Ford, his big thing, if you don't know, it was what I said, is that he surrounded himself with other great minds. He was not the smartest man in the room. He wasn't the most talented man in the room. He was all about his people. He was a people's man, for sure.

That was something that I took from him, is that it's about you're, you will always be only as strong as your weakest link. So, you know, never leaving any man behind, always building others up, always giving them the kudos, always taking care of your people and in turn that will take care of you and your business. So that was a big takeaway from him. You know, like your Elon Musk, I think having the confidence and the ability to do things and to say, I'm not afraid of anybody to see it through all the way to the end. Like, you know, you know the type that, like, it doesn't matter what kind of obstacle, anything you put in place in front of them, like, you know that they're going to power through

it. Did you see his all the way determined? Did you guys see his plans for the hyperloop? Yeah. Yeah, because he was like, he just wrote up the plans and put it out there and said, all right, somebody build this. And it's basically a vacuum tube train

that will travel from, you know, Northern California to Southern California, cheaply and powered by solar power mostly, because he was disgusted with that whole train thing that they were gonna build in California that's costing shit tons of money and that's not going anywhere. And he just put it out there, he drew it out and put it out.

Another thing that a lot of those guys have in common and I think is important when in entrepreneurship is, and I know you guys can probably attest to this is how often do you get told like your idea is crazy or it'll never work or it's a, you know, people like every idea is crazy until it works. Well, exactly. Yeah. And, and most people have that, that pessimistic attitude of it will fail.

And let's be honest, the chances are it will. There's more, there's more odds against you, but that never stopped any of those guys. It never stopped them that, oh, that's so crazy. You know, they don't never work or there's no market for it. Like, I'll create a fucking mark. That's it. And having that man tout, you gotta have that confidence and, you know, all of them have that.

Yeah, but you gotta walk the walk too. Like, you gotta be willing to go in there and bleed, take the hits. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't think any of those guys really took a day off of their life for the first 20 years, which is another piece that we always talk about the importance of having balance, but there's also the the argument on the other side of that that You know to be truly successful. It is it and then you really don't have that much balance. You're really dedicated and passionate about something that you're you're driving after and let's be balance. You're really dedicated and passionate about something that you're driving

after and let's be honest, you're at a balance for sure. So being okay with that is and hopefully finding a partner that's okay with that also. Yes. J. Whiting tips and advice on breaking sugar addiction. You know, sugar is like any other substance that has addictive properties. You just have to stop using it and allow your body time to, uh, you know, get through the withdrawal symptoms and to rewire itself, uh, over the fact that you're no longer having sugar. Well, so you got to deal with that. You know, going into, you know, I'm not going to eat sugar anymore.

There's going to be a very difficult period and substituting, you know, I'm not gonna eat sugar anymore, there's going to be a very difficult period. And substituting, you know, instead of having, not having sugar and saying, okay, I'm gonna have stevia or official sweeteners, you're still sending that sweet signal to the brain. And it's not, it's not doing much to help you break your sugar addiction. All those doing is continuing to feed it. You've just switched what, what tastes sweet. So you've gotta, you've gotta get off the sugar and then you have to deal with it and it's gonna suck for a little while.

I have, since that was terrible advice, I have two bits of advice. Thanks, I appreciate you. Just deal with it and it's gonna be tough. Two things, this is something that I was somebody who literally like ate ice cream every night. I fucking loved candy sweets. I have a sweet tooth for sure. Also, I admitted before on here that I was up to eating 600 grams of carbs and because aesthetically, I looked fine,

I justified it. So getting away from sugar was, it was work for me and there was some strategies that I used. One, if you are a serious sugar addict and you do take a lot of candy and you take a lot of sweets in and you just in general use a lot of sugar, cold turkey is not ideal. Just like I don't think somebody who smokes a pack of cigarettes going to zero cigarettes in a day is ideal to try and really truly wing you off long term. So I think you go in with a plan that, hey, you know, right now, like in my case, I was eating ice cream every single night. I'm like, okay, well, I'm going to stop eating a whole pint of ice cream every single night. And then maybe I'll have a pint. Yeah, right? Or,

you know, I'll go several days without it. And then when I feel like, okay, I really wanted that I'm going to and then I'm going to push in. And then I'm always going to be competing with myself of how many days I can go without having it. So I started doing things like that. The other big thing that really helps was replacing with, as soon as I had that craving was just having the discipline to go and eat something but not sugar and go eat something like high in fat. So go have like bacon, you know, or go have something with butter or go go. Damien, that's yeah, or nuts, go have a high fat meal right when that that craving craving kicks up and you'll be surprised that once once you eat that you consume that that craving will go away

It's just that first initial decision to not go grab the sweet to go grab the sugar and to grab it And you know at first it is it's it's a lot of that is mental because you your body has a craving You are addicted. You know how good the sweets feel that sensation everything and initially when you bite into a lot of that is mental, because your body has the craving, you are addicted, you know how good the sweets feel, that sensation, everything. And initially when you bite into a bite of bacon and you're really wanting a bite of ice cream, it's not quite the same thing. But once you consume it and then it gets digested,

I promise that you will feel better, but it's just that mental discipline to do that first. So those are two big things that help me. I think it's hard to struggle because it's food. It's a part of your every single day ritual. And it's not like battling something like alcohol or like cigarettes or something that's like in excess to your daily rituals, right?

Or maybe this is something that's consumed like, people associate food with being healthy and being in around people and it's got like all these ties to all that stuff So initially I was thinking like there's extremes with the way people deal with addiction like I was actually watching a show Which reminded me of these people that would go to this like Buddhist Temple where like the extreme of this to get rid of the addiction to drugs was to just go completely cold turkey and they would just like kind of help ease them as far as like trying to make it comfortable given a bed and all the stuff but I mean they're puke and they're like feeling dog shit terrible

and this made help them to hit rock bottom and realize how shitty it was to feel like this. And their success rate was a lot higher than a lot of these other like methadone and all these other treatments people would get in contrast. Yep. And here's, okay. So here's why what I said, I think will work for a lot of people. When you have an addiction, it's very different than when you're just trying to change your behavior. If I have someone who's got a real sugar addiction and I tell them, just have a little bit of sugar, that is gonna make it much fucking harder

than avoiding the sugar. And it's like cocaine, like you're addicted to coke. Oh, you know what? Just have a little bit of cocaine every day and we'll slowly wean you off. It doesn't fucking work that way. It's an addiction. The second I have some, I want a shit ton more and my willpower is reduced that much more. I know for myself, included with sugar,

if I have, if I'm at a party and I have a little piece of sugar, it is going to be much harder to fight that craving than it was if I didn't have any in the first place. And that's, there's a chemical reason for it. There's a whole cascade of events that happen from chemicals in your brain to, you know, just a simple taste of it. That will then trigger more, you know, more wanting, more, you know, more of that withdrawal. If you don't have it, versus just avoiding it. And that's why for a lot of people I tell them,

and it's really, look, you know, it's one thing. Like, don't change anything in your diet. Just stop eating sugar, start with that. And you're just gonna suck for a few days, maybe a week. And then you'll get over it and you'll find you're not gonna crave anymore. But when you do the whole, like, I'm gonna have a little bit here and there,

it stretches it out, it makes it very difficult for some people. I don't think that works for everybody. I just think. I agree and disagree, because it really depends on the amount that you're taking in. I feel like if you just want to get sugar out of your diet, you know, you're consuming a little too much of it. And it's one thing. But if you're somebody who is taking in quite a bit and

your body is is like chemically addicted to this, I don't know, dude, like cut and cool. Unless you have this ability, because I'll tell you right now, just like with from opiates or cocaine, things like that, there is, there's science to support that. You clean it out of your system for five to seven days, and the chemical part is gone, if that, like you'll be miserable for five to seven days, but then after that,

the least the chemical side is, now you're just battling the mental side, where if you're going and doing it yourself, you know, and you try and do that. Fuck that's hard. It is. It's fucking hard. Not a lot of people have five to seven days to just take off a work or to take themselves

somewhere out of a position where they're not in front of it all the time. Yes, I think if you had that option, like so a great thing to do would be go on a camping trip or go get away from fucking fast. Yeah, fast. Fast. Don't need anything for 24 hours. Yeah, do shrink water. Yeah, those same people are probably gonna get headaches like a motherfucker from that though too, just so you know.

They might, they might. Yeah, more than likely they're going to. But I'm telling you from somebody who fucking had this and then it doesn't have anymore. So I'll tell you right now, and it's anecdotal, 100%. But I've battled a Diction before and I've dealt with it. And then I've also had people around me that have had to go through rehab and do things like that.

And the people that have gone through rehab, 100% like you go stick me in a room where I'm locked away from all these things and I can't, then yeah, absolutely. And then it is five to seven days of it is misery, headaches and tossing, turning in cold sweats and just shakes. I have a couple of tricks. You know, that just popped in my mind.

Cinnamon, cinnamon is one of them. Cinnamon tricks you into thinking you're tasting something sweet. So you can put cinnamon in something that'll help you out with that sugar craving. And sour, sour is another one. I like to drink, or I have clients drink, like fizzy water, and then I'll have them squirt some lime in it when they have a craving for sugar.

And a lot of them have said that that is taking care of it. That's a great, because I think there's a lot that's mental too. Yeah. There is the chemical side of it, and then there is the just the habit of it. We need little hacks to kind of help the focus when the cravings come, so I think yeah.

It's still like that's helpful. Nicholas Calvin is asking about ketogenic diet research for powerlifting. You know, before we get into this, I wanna be very clear that because we've had a few episodes on sugar intake and carbohydrate intake and we need to clarify that the ketogenic diet is not the official diet of mind pump. Thank you for continuing.

I need to be clear, dude, because- No, we do have to keep seeing that. Because I just wanted to- I'm getting messages from people who are like, I want to do keto or I try keto, it didn't work, maybe I'm doing it wrong or here's the thing, there are, to be fair, I want to be very clear. There are lots of different ways to eat for longevity and health.

Some of them include more carbohydrates, some of them include many less carbohydrates, some of them include more carbohydrates, some of them include less carbohydrates, some of them include more fats, some less fats, proteins also. The individual variances between person to person are so dramatic, you can have two people, give them the exact same diet, and one person's gonna have a horrible success with it, and the person's gonna have amazing success,

and they can both be made up of whole natural foods and all that stuff. You know who's fault this is, don't you? Oh, you're looking at me. Because that's the way I like to eat. Because you were so fucking excited about it. You get so passionate about stuff, which is the same reason why I love you. Well, if people get you get when Sal gets excited about something, then I see it on our form.

And that's how I always know. Like Sal's doing this. He follows the scientific research, which there's basis behind it. And that's why we had to highlight the fact that maybe carbs, they're not so great for you if you're oversaturated with them. Yeah, I mean, and that's really the point of it. Remember, we did two episodes on sugar,

and when we talked about carbohydrates, and so it just sounds like our message is ketogenic diet is the frickin tits. That's the best one. It's not If for some people it's great for other people it's not there's a very small subset of people who are gonna eat ketogenic And they're gonna have a horrible reaction. They're blood you know levels of certain, you know markers are not gonna look good They might eat more inflammation 75% of us in this room don't eat that way, just so you guys know. Yeah. So fucking it.

Yeah. But we've taken, but people have taken from it. And that's what you should do. And that's the important. That's the important. And they're all tell everybody right now that this is any diet that if it says fucking diet to it, I'm not a fan of it, right away.

I know. I'm not a fan of it. It says fucking diet. I don't believe in that. I don't believe that we should be dieting right away. I know. I'm not a fan of it. It says fucking diet. I don't believe in that. I don't believe that we should be dieting like this. I think the way it should, the thing that was great about ketogenic was it, it'll help you change your relationship with carbohydrates because so many people.

And fats. Yeah. And fats. Yes. Change your relationship with fats and carbohydrates because for so long, we have demonized fat and we have celebrated carbohydrates, right? We celebrate carbs with everything. You go to the movies, you eat popcorn, you go to a birthday, you eat cake, you have, you know, I'm saying you have, you have, we're raising your job, you have fucking champagne and wine, like

everything we do is celebrating with carbohydrates and we've demonized fat for so long and it's really, we've ketogenic diet flips that philosophy on its head. I think it just, yeah, it just basically highlighted the fact that if you're looking at the food pyramid, like what the weight of your base needs to be and it's fat. Yeah. Like that was like shocking lead revolutionary for me. Yeah, me too. I forever have changed. How I eat. Doesn't mean I don't include protein carbohydrates. I I just I try to look at it for more of a sparing and then kind of work my way down to the base of what my you know Meals should consist of because most people will do you know well with that and I want to make it very clear that It's it actually can be a work to a disadvantage eating ketogenic. If you still decide you want to have birthday,

cake, wine and things like that every once in a while, if you're someone like Sal and you can eat avocado, sardines, coconut oil, coconut, like those are your like you, these are your staple foods that you eat all the fucking time and you love eating that way and it's not a problem for you, then by all means and it works well, fucking do it. But for me, I still like to have carbohydrates in my diet.

And if you are somebody who goes ketogenic 99% of the time and then you decide to do that one, you're probably gonna get sick when you eat the carbs because it's crazy. When you've been ketogenic for a while, then you try and introduce 50 to 100 grams. Anybody who's done that before knows what I'm talking about. Your body is now super sensitive to it, so you're ready to store. So as soon as you consume, what you used to be able to consume, your body cannot handle like it used to handle before, so your body will end up storing fat at a much faster rate.

So it's not all it's cracked up to be unless you're willing to live that lifestyle. Well, here's, look, I don't even eat ketogenic all the time. I have vegan days. I have days where I introduce carbohydrates to promote metabolic flexibility. I have days where I introduce carbohydrates to promote metabolic flexibility. I have days where I fast longer, I have days where I don't eat any animal proteins or animal products whatsoever. There's lots of different ways to eat properly.

I got a message from someone who was like, hey man, I did keto for like four months and I felt horrible and I wasn't stronger, I got weaker and this is what I ate. And my response, I was like, how the fuck did you do that for four months? Like rule number one is listen to your body dude. Like I don't care what I say. I could say this is the greatest thing on earth.

You go try it and it gives you a fucking rash or something. Then you don't do it. Like you gotta listen to your body. But to answer the question, okay, because we totally went around and didn't ask the question. What was important to the question? The question is on powerlifting.

Here's the thing. Ketedogenic diet research is showing incredible performance benefits for extreme endurance athletes. When it comes to strength, there's been a few studies showing that it doesn't detriment strength whatsoever. And there's been some studies showing that carbohydrates

may benefit strength. My personal experience is I, the best results I've gotten, the best results I've seen my clients get, is when they eat lower carbohydrates most of the time, and before a taxing event where they're gonna go lift heavyweight, then they take them in. Then they take in the carbohydrates because now they have more, they're in the high octane to use source.

Yeah, the more insulin-sensitive, they get those carbs in there. They go lift and now they have extra bit better performance. I almost wanted to start connecting dots, and this is totally my own theory and speculation, but like bees don't live that long. And a lot of this, they're in take it with honey and being the main source of what they're eating. You know, I don't know if there's any correlation to that or not, like, I have no idea how long Hummingbirds live

or whatever, but everything they're doing is so rapid and they need this high-fuse source. Yeah, I don't know. Sloths, I think you'd a lot of carbs, you don't know. They do. They're guys in't know. Sloths, I think you'd a lot of carbs, so you don't tell me. I don't know. Yeah, that's my theory. Son of a bitch.

I know from personal experience that when I was somebody who was eating 600, 400, 600 grams of carbs, and I would try and load carbs and go, so for me, loading a carb before work out is what I would be like, 150, 200 grams, I would see minimal benefit whatsoever to that. When I went keto and then after keto, I started to completely flip my macro profile on its head. And now I eat a very high fat diet. So my fat is 200 to 300 grams of carbs on a pretty regular or excuse me 200 to 300

grams of fat on a regular basis. And my carbohydrate intake is as low as 50 to 150 grams on a regular day, maybe a high day now for these 200 grams. Now, if I go take 100 to 150 grams of carbs before a workout, I fucking feel that shit. My body is super responsive to it. I notice a big difference. So, I think it really depends on how you're consuming, how you're eating right now. I think like Salah saying,

if you're somebody who likes ketogenic, it's your lifestyle, I don't think you need to worry. I think your body will adapt, you will learn to run on ketones. I think you can still become a very strong power lift or be fine. I recommend, what is that power lift that lifted 700 pounds like fasted, right?

Yeah, well, no, that was dumb. Dom Diago, see you know, it's 500 pound. He fasted for like, I don't know how many days. I think there was another one that lifted like 700. Well, you know, your muscle store glycogen, even on ketogenic diets, the same amount studies will show. But some studies show there's a power difference with eating carbs. Here's a thing, if you eat keto and you're a power lifter, experiment with this, but

this is what I would recommend if you were on my client, I'd say eat your keto. Every once in a while, throw some carbs in for metabolic flexibility before your event That's when you throw some carbs in because now you're insulin you're very insulin sensitive You throw in some carbs get that extra boost for your competition. Yeah for regular training Just like with that. Well, you know what I do is I'll probably throw in I throw in some carbohydrates Anywhere between I don't know probably throw in, I throw in some carbohydrates anywhere between, I don't know, probably around once a week, sometimes twice a week I'll throw them in, just like I said to promote metabolic flicks, but it's not a ton, but I'll throw in some starches like some white rice or

a lamb every once in a while. So yeah, I just try and gear mine around my workouts. That's a strategy a lot of people use. Yeah, I just, yeah, they call that sickly ketogenic. Yeah, for everybody likes to put a fucking title on it, like I don't, because I don't live that way. You're thinking, man, but you know, I try to be conscious about it. And I always him around that range of a hundred to a hundred and fifty grams a day. And I'm trying right around 75 to a hundred before and after a workout.

Do you do like an hour before the night before? No, like, but like an hour or two before. Yeah, I'm just and that's every single day. So I'm not like you or it's only a couple days of the week. Every I carbs every day. And I'm always around that's every single day. So I'm not like you or it's only a couple days of the week every IE carbs every day and I'm always around that range. It's always before your workout before and after before if you know I try and the bulk of them I try and be in the dentist I mean do I never have carbohydrates and I know fuck every once in a while and join myself and have carbs and I but for the most part I try and a gear a good piece of them my daily intake around the workout, when my body's going to need the glycogen at a faster rate, right? So for me, that's, it's works well.

What diet, what people call that as a diet or what that I don't fucking know. It doesn't matter to me. It's what's what's most conducive for my life. Yeah, you know, when we interviewed Zach Bitter, the 100 mile American world record holder or whatever, and he's an extreme endurance athlete. He talked about how he uses ketogenic diet to perform well and it was very, very interesting. So if you haven't listened to that episode,

check it out. It's pretty cool. Z-chass or chasse. Z-chass, ah, z-chass, ah. Jean-ho. Thoughts on doing isometrics before heavy squatting, deadlifing, et cetera. Excellent. Yes. Great way to prime deadlifing, etc. Excellent.

Yes. Excellent. Great way to prime your body. Oh man. To wake everything up. Absolutely. Just spawn. Absolutely man.

We just did a YouTube on this recently, didn't we? Uh. Did we do a YouTube? Well, that's the Dumpfee squat. Oh, we showed some of these. We showed that. Yeah, we've done some isometric training on there. We'll probably do more of that for sure.

You guys will see more of us. There'll be more of that coming in the future for sure. Yeah, I'll tell you what, I feel more connected to my lifts and I feel stronger. I almost did this, well, I kind of did this subconsciously when I was deadlift real heavy, where I'd squeeze the bar, tense my entire body. It's almost like I'm doing isometric and deadlift.

And I always found I could lift more, or I could lift the bar a little faster when I do that. Isometrics right before a lift, man, are amazing. And it just basically mimicked the lift if I'm doing a squat. And you don't wanna do it to fatigue, that's not the point, right? We're trying to prime everything,

like get everything woken up and responding the way that you wanted to, but we don't wanna overdo it to where we're fatigue going into the actual lift. Here, look, check this out. If you feel sleepy, you're listening to this podcast right now and you're kind of chilling and you feel a little relaxed. Wait a second. Take a second and just tense your entire body.

You're really, really hard for 10 seconds and then relax and see how you feel. You feel moral wake. You feel almost like you had a little bit of caffeine. It wakes up your central nervous system. The second firing you do will be stronger. And that's the idea. The idea is to do an isometric.

If I'm gonna do a heavy squat, I got 300 pounds in the bar. Before I lift it, I do a slow isometric squat and really just activate everything. Not to fatigue, but I wanna feel the muscles really firing. Get under the bar, that now my CNS is gonna fire crisper cleaner and more fully than it would have had in that done asymetrics,

and they've done studies on this, and they've shown that you do activate more muscle fiber. So from a muscle building perspective, it's a good technique. And plus it's important to go through the range of motion that you're mimicking for that particular exercise. So like, have it be more relevant by doing the squat,

like particularly how you're gonna squat, you know, with your back loaded squat too. If you, I mean, this is part of why we created Mind Pump TV. So if you're not already subscribed. That's our YouTube channel. Yeah, to our YouTube channel, go to YouTube, search Mind Pump TV, we'll pop right up, subscribe. Every single day we drop videos

if you haven't seen the Dumfee squat, I believe we did another isometric one too. I know you made me do one where I was down and I was tensing everything up as tight as I can and then I opened up. That's the tension squat. Yeah, I did tension squat. So tension squats, Dumfee squat,

both those types of squats, those are both isometric type of movements. I'm not sure if that's something. Yeah, we both isometric type of movements. I'm not saying that. That sounds like we can probably add to that. Yeah, we can probably add to that. Yeah, Isockinetic. Those both are isocinetic, right? Yeah, isocinetic, right?

So you're Isockinetic or Isockinetic, right? So go do those, and I think even in the video, we talk about doing a couple of those before you get into a squat. So go utilize that. That's why we've created that channel for you guys. So you guys can use. And really in a nutshell, just mimic the exercise you're gonna do without any weight

and tense everything up and then move it through that range of motion. So like pretend like you're doing a deadlift with a bar. Squeeze nothing, just squeeze your hands, get real tight, tighten everything up, come up real slow. Stay real tight and then come down real slow and real tight. And then grab the bar, give yourself a second, grab the bar and then do your dilemma. You're basically creating your own force before then applying load to that.

So maybe for what would you say for a great isometric move for like a deadlift, maybe like a floor bridge and really exaggerate the hip extension. I would just do an air deadlift. I would just do nothing. I would have no way. Just get down into deadlift. Like you said, the bar really, really tightly and just go through the range of motion. Really. I feel like of lying down on a, on a floor bridge position and hip extension and as hard as you possibly can, extension. I mean, that's the muscles responsible for that concentric movement. You're really good. Yeah. That would be good. I just wanted to give the audience a, you know, like an easy thing to to that. Yeah, that would be good. I just wanted to give the audience like an easy thing to remember because that requires a little bit of knowledge.

Well, that's what you're trying to fire. Doug, once you write that down, that'll be a good video that we can do for this episode is, I think that would be a move I would do before a deadlift would be, or an isometric move, I would do a floor bridge isometric hold so we can do a video to show people

like that, that'd be a great move for you to do before you deadlift. Excellent. Hey, listen, go to iTunes search for mind pump leave us a five star rating and review if we pick your review If you like it, we'll send you a free mind pump t-shirt Also, don't forget to check us out on YouTube at mind pump TV We're also on Instagram at mind pump radio you can find me at mind pumps out just and at mind pump Justin and Adam at mind pump Adam Thank you for listening to Mind Pump.

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