Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 396: Getting Better at Push-Ups, Counting Macros, Superiority of Free Range Meat & MORE

Episode Date: November 4, 2016

In this episode of Quah, sponsored by Kimera Koffee (kimerakoffee.com, code "mindpump" for 10% off), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about the superiority of free range meat, the best way to get better at push-ups, the necessity of counting macros if you eat clean and the most embarrassing date experience ever. Have Sal, Adam & Justin personally train you with a new video every day on our new YouTube channel, Mind Pump TV. Be sure to Subscribe for updates. 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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Can you, can you, you sound weird, man. I do. No, not you. That's normal. Me? No, Sal, yeah. I sound weird. Does it?

Do I sound okay? How's my meter looking? You know what, you might not be able to fix that. It's just normal. It's unfixable. So, so Adam, you, you have a cold, you're getting a cold too? No, actually, my sister sent that to me. Yeah, I sent it to you. What do you mean? She asked me about that. Oh, she's getting a cold. Yeah, I just decided to take it to be preventative because if you were coming down with Swarthra, I want to be ahead of the game.

Well, I don't know. Can you get, maybe, I don't know, do you guys, maybe someone can look this up? Can you get a cold? Cause like Adam gives me blow jobs all the time, right? Can you get a cold like that? Cause I have, yeah, cause I have, cause I'm sick. I hope not. I think it's kind of like getting pregnant

on the toilet seat. Yes. It's a myth. That's not what you kept telling me. It's about on the same level as that. That's horrible. Don't worry, you'll be fine. You'll be fine. I think sometimes we take it too far though.

Good joking. What are you talking about? It's too early for you to get that far too. Oh, yes. Get a warm audience up first. Sorry, audience. Yeah, Adam doesn't do that. You guys breathe on a little first.

He doesn't bring me flowers. In your... Dang. I know. That's the first time you've been at a bar of strizons. You're at... I'm calling you out right now, so. Is that bar of strizzy? That's an embarrassing reference is long I don't know who that was

You know it's worse. I know it too. Yeah, you know what? It's true You can't talk shit cuz you finished it. I know you finished the tune. I do that a lot Has it things has anybody worked out yet today? No, only you get up early today. Do you do that just enough? I do, I do like three o'clock, you know, four o'clock whenever we're done with the day. That's usually when I do it.

Where do you go, you go head over to this like mom and pop jam? Oh, the one by your house. It's like, I can't wait till we have our stuff. I know, right? Ah, I just sent an email. I'm really trying to get that here. I want that equipment. Did you get my message that I said, we're actually here email. I'm really trying to get that here. I want that equipment

Did you get my message that I said we're actually here till Tuesday? So we at or Wednesday even so we have until next week So if they can put the hustle back on them So we'll see we'll see if they come through I have yet to work out I mean you you Adam had to work out here twice with the kettlebells two times you did two times I did up well the first thing I'll just do that I had a We had a Katrina and I came in here on Saturday. I think it was I was in here on Thursday or Friday also when we first got them and I did

mostly just like stick work and mobility stuff. Not a lot a little bit of kettlebell warping not much, but we did a full full kettlebell workout on Saturday came in and I thought I'd take her through that. That would be her first time ever doing something like that. So that would be cool. Oh yeah. You know what's one of the most underrated movements that I've started incorporating with the kettlebells?

It's underrated because even I underrated, I don't really think it would do much for me. But I'm noticing strength gains and muscle development gains from incorporating this. And it's the, like the holds, the kettlebell holds and walks and stuff like that. Dude, of course. See, yeah, I know, you say that, but. Because it's- You've been doing holds and walks and stuff like that. Dude, of course. See, yeah, I know you say that, but because it's...

You've been doing it and been disciplined and doing it. Yeah, because it's isometric, because it's, you know, I never really thought it was like that big of a deal. Yeah. But it's a big fucking deal, man. It is. I'll hold the kettlebell in the rack position. Mm-hmm.

I'll do one arm, sometimes, or both arms, and I'll just walk. Yeah. And, you know, do sets like that and get a real heavy one and stay real tight and I'm I'm noticing a lot actually a Alarming amount not alarming, but Shocking amount of carryover to my other traditional lifts. It's crazy, man And it like I notice the same thing and so I know I know you're kind of tripping on that right now That's that's exactly what I felt when I started to incorporate that and overhead walks and carries and suitcase carries to be honest Suit cakes carries one of my favorite oblique exercises I could possibly do yeah

Huge like I started to start adding more weight on your side and adjusting just walking dude I will I can do shrugs, I can do rows, it's an, I mean, nothing will make my upper mid back, it's like feel sore or whatever. Like heavy carries or walks with kettlebells, like suitcase carriers or if I do both kettlebells and I get a real heavy one or, now that we have that 128 pounder, I wanna do some short walks.

We're all gonna be throwing that one around. Yeah, we're gonna need to 200 here soon. Well, isn't this a lot of what inspired you to do the stick? Isn't this what you just learning this yourself because out of all of us you probably have incorporated the most isometric move. I shouldn't say moves. It's not a move. It's a hold, you know, you know, you have to, you've got to, you've got to, you've got to, you don't move. Yeah, right. So you've probably incorporated the most out of all of us, I'd say. Yeah. No, it definitely sparked a lot of that. And going through the mobility, I realized that just the tension of it, when I would

try and apply certain leverage positions with the stick and all that, I'm like, wow, I really get a nice response out of my muscles. Let me just hold it in this position and then really drive into it and get more connectivity. And then yeah, that totally sparked a lot more thought process with me as far as, well, I really feel connected. I feel like now I go into my lifts

and I can pull, you really just feel more muscle recruitment and more involvement in that same movement, you know, just doing that in conjunction. And something else I learned with the holds is I seem to respond better. And maybe you can back me up on this, Justin, when I do them at a moderate high intensity, not at an extreme high intensity. Is that true? Yeah.

So rather than getting like a kettlebell where I can barely make it the distance, I'm trying to walk, we're at the end of it, I have to drop it, so I'm like, oh, it's fun, rather than doing that, I get to wait that's relatively hard, but that I'm kind of creating this intrinsic tension. And then I just practice it. Something I can be more controlled.

Yeah, you have more control and it's more, yeah, you're not totally fatigued and you're not trying to fight this exhaustion going into a regular left. So yeah, like you said, if I'm going to do like an isometric walk of some sort where I'm loading my body, I don't want it to be overbearing to where it affects how I'm walking in my steps and everything and I'm're gonna be all awkward. I wanna make sure that it's good control.

Otherwise, it's counterproductive. And I think this is probably as a trainer, the hardest thing that we probably have to deal with with clients is you teach a move like this and then you catch people just trying to carry as much as they possibly can. I was watching a couple guys, I forget his Instagram name, but they were doing farmer walks.

And they were just, I mean, they were doing them with like carrying like six or 700 pounds or whatever. And you know, people see that and then they become so infatuated with the amount of weight that they're carrying across and that's just, it's about more weight, more weight, more weight. And really, it's more about how you move first and then you progress the weight. So I think that is important to note when you do a move like that, especially like a suitcase carry where, you know, I can carry a 200 pound dumbbell on one side.

It'd be awkward as fuck, you know, and I wouldn't do that for farmer. I wouldn't do that for suitcase carry because I couldn't keep myself controlled. Like I wouldn't be able to keep myself upright and hold the 200 pound out. I could do it, but doing it with good posture while I'm walking with a good gate. I think people need to understand that that part of it is as important, if not more important than you progressing in the way.

Well, what it's done for me is it's also reinforced this, and it's this relatively recent for me, if you consider all the years I've been working out, where I don't think of exercises as, tool to cause, I don't think of exercises as tools to cause damage. I think of exercises as things I need to practice. And it's a very different approach.

Like, if I think of it of an exercise as a tool to create damage, well, I'm going in there hurt my, I'm going in there to damage muscle, I'm going there to fuck shit up. Which is very different than I'm going in there to really get good at this exercise and practice it and do it frequently. And the difference between the two in terms of results is start, it's start. It's a start difference.

If I treat the exercises like practice, where I'm, you know, I'm, it's still a moderate to high level of intensity, but I'm doing it so I'm perfecting it over and over again. I'm doing it three, four days a week. My strength gains are faster and smoother, and I don't have problems like I would if I were just going to get a fuck shit up. Yeah. You know, and it really hammers at home that the holds and the carries really lend themselves well to that. And then I take that and I carry it over to all my other lifts, my squats, my deadlisms, my overhead presses,

where I'm just going in to perfect them. Yeah, I can't wait to like once we get a sled, same concept, like led me down the same road with the holds and the walks and really it's about strengthening the kinetic chain and how the body moves and adding load appropriately and then adjusting your body appropriately. And so there's a lot of different techniques and moves you can do with the sled where,

you're actually moving through this exercise. I just love moving and then also challenging the body in new ways instead of being stationary is why I said that because for a long time I thought of a workout as having to be in one place. And really, it's just weird, like, freeing, feeling when you start to work out and expand your range as far as even what you're doing in the gym

and you're moving with your body with weight. So, I mean, think of it as practice, you know what I'm saying? Like, or as a skill, We talked about that in the past, but when you treat things like a skill and you need to learn them, your body's going to progress as you get better at that skill, versus looking at a workout as, you know, I'm here to create soreness, I'm here to create damage. It changes your intention when you work out, and people don't, a lot of people understand, but your intention that you go into with your workout has a massive influence in terms of how you apply the repetitions,

the type of intensity use, your form, how you view your workout. If I'm going in with the intention of damage, then I'm gonna judge my workout based on damage. If I'm going in with the intention of practicing a skill, I'm gonna judge it based upon my improvement in my skill. Which one is going to yield me better results in the long run?

This is the skill, getting better at the skill. Think about anything. If I go in to do a handstand and practice, I've never done handstands before, but if I go in to do a handstand thinking to myself, like I'm gonna hammer my shoulders with this handstand, it's gonna be very different than if I go in and try and practice the handstand and learn it.

Now over time, that practice will make it. And scale it. And that will happen and my shoulders will develop. But if I keep going in there thinking, I'm gonna hammer my shoulders with this and I haven't even learned the skill very well, I'm gonna get neither. I'm not gonna get a better skill

and I'm not gonna develop my shoulders. Oh really, I mean, it's crazy, but it's all about creating patterns. And, you know, everything, whether it's a neurological pattern, whether it's like a creating patterns. And everything, whether it's a neurological pattern, whether it's a specific type of movement pattern, where it's a type of pattern that's going to promote strength, or we talk a lot about adaptations,

but these are all patterns you're establishing on a routine basis. And so you just have to reevaluate what it is that you're doing in the data that you're accumulating from the activity that you're promoting. Well, this is also what we mean by recovery trap, too. We talk about- Break down recovery trap.

Yeah, when people get caught in this, where their body is so focused on recovering from getting hammered so much, it never really allows for it to adapt and grow and strengthen. So it's constantly getting beat up. And I think a lot of people do this and they don't realize they're they're doing this because they're in there and this is why too I used to always speak out on the you know, beast mode and no days off and that mentality and it's tough because

you become that guy and then we get people talk shit right we're team no sweat or like oh you lift like a bunch of pussy like no I just lift smart. That's all. I'm not in a competition to see who can work out the hardest. That's not my goal. It's not to prove that I can work out harder than the next person. My goal is to come in the gym and really do as little as I possibly can to obtain the physique that I want to walk around and feel healthy and strong. That's not about the workload where people correlate the two of those,

and they really should not be, you know, it's unfortunate. Well, the common thing that people will experience is that, and I hear this all the time, all the time, it's just to happen to people that will work out in the gyms that I would manage. I'll get messages from people about this all the time, and this is what happens. They'll be working out for a long time, then they'll go on a vacation for a week and that workout and they'll come back stronger

Like that's a that's a pretty good sign that what you were doing before was wrong You shouldn't come back after a long layoff Performing better, you know, I'm saying if you think about it You should come back if you didn't work out for two weeks and you should have a little bit of a reduction in performance, not an improvement in performance. What is that? What is that? It's weird.

What is that wrong? Yeah, exactly. What is that telling you? That telling you that your body needed a fucking break. Well, and we're laughing right now, but let's be honest. This is exactly what happened to me. This is exactly, this is something

that this is actually the reason why Sal knows that and I can agree with you is because I've put myself here many a times, and this just happened to me maybe six months ago or so, where I don't remember what I had. I must have had something where we were traveling or something happened where I actually missed like a good four or five days in a row in the gym, which is very rare for me.

It's rare that I miss four consecutive days in the gym, and I had done that and I came back, and I was stronger than what I was before I had taken those four days off. And that was like, and that was like this light bulb always goes off in my head. I'm like, oh shit, I was overdoing it. I was pushing myself beyond where I needed to be

because that's the sign to me that when I finally gave myself four days rest, I come back and I'm in a stronger position than that's not a good sign. So people don't realize that, that that is, that's not a good sign, you know. So people don't realize that, that is, that's a great indicator for, you've probably been hammering the body a little bit rough for the new need to,

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Our first question is from ABC3TC. Is free range meat really that much better? This is... I'll tell you why I like this question. Hmm. I think when people start to read about what's healthy for them, the way they should be eating,

the foods that they should focus on, I think sometimes people get a little bit confused in terms of the priorities of things that they should be looking at when they're eating foods in terms of health. The most important factors, the big bulk of the important things you should look at in considering when you're considering nutrition for your health starts with calories and macros.

Those are the big blocks. Like, if you ate a bunch of organic, you know, free range, I'm glad you went this direction. I'm glad you went this direction. But you're eating like a shit ton of sugar, you're eating a shit ton of calories, your macros are all over the place, you don't have enough proteins or fats or whatever, your health is gonna be very, very bad. So first things first, get your calories and macros in order. Now this is why, this is one of the reasons why the IIFOM crowd

is what, this is their argument they use right now. This is their argument and this is why they won't die. The problem is they take it to the point where that's all that's important, which is not true either But it is extremely important like you got to get those things down first So if you're getting into eating properly Look at those things first nail those things down first Then start to look at you know, is it organic? Is it free range? You know? Am I improved the quality across the board.

Yeah, because for two reasons, number one, it's definitely important in the long term. I think it's important to eat things that are organic and free range all that stuff in the long term. But if you take your diet, which is shitty, and then your goal now is to eat the red amygdala and calories, start tracking your macros

and go organic and free range and all that stuff. That's a lot of shit to throw at yourself, all at once, and the likelihood of you staying to sticking with that. You just stopping drinking sodas is gonna do massive improvement. Thank you. And I think, and this is where, you know, if it fits your macros, the angle that the argument they try

and use with guys like us who talk about the importance of organic food and free range and things like that because we are, we, or huge advocates of that, but problem is you argue that with these guys, the IFYM people, and they're going to come back to you and say, well, that's not the problem. The problem we have is, is over consumption. People are over consuming, you know, calories, and that does far, that's doing way more damage to your body than having a diet soda or having a, that's doing way more damage to your body than having a diet soda or having a chicken

that's not organic. And they're right, they are right. That is worse. Like Sal said, you focus on the big blocks first. You focus on the things that are gonna make the biggest difference, but that doesn't mean that you just totally negate that. Like you just say, it doesn't matter,

because it does matter. It does matter. It does matter. It does make a difference, especially in long term, right? Because that's the problem with all these studies that the IFYM people spout off is they're all fucking six months long or shorter. So yeah, if you take those guys and you say,

and they tell you like bullshit, it doesn't matter. I have this study that shows these people had this much sugar, which is a ridiculous amount, you know, for six months And there were no adverse effects. Well, okay, well that was six months show me six years or you know 16 years Because it took me a lot longer than that of I mean, I was doing I told you guys it's hidden I don't know if I mentioned this in the real know when I was like at my worst and this one was a trainer Okay, I'm a trainer and I'm having like two rock stars a day I'm having a protein bar shake at least one a day

and then another artificial sweetener in my coffee or whatever, every single day. And I did that for years and years and years and years. I'm 35 now, I'm just now in the last probably, five years starting to see the adverse effects of that. And it was at 25 or 26, that psoriasis popped up. And at that time, I didn't even know that it could have been caused from all that stuff that I was more than likely, though. Now you can put that together that worded this psoriasis

autoimmune disease come from out of nowhere when I'm 25 years old. But shit, it explains a lot when you go back and you look at how many speed stacks and rock store collas and artificial shit that I can't even read the back of the label. I'll go biochemicals, you're consuming every single day tons and tons of that, which is also why we are so passionate about speaking that to people because I was reading the same bullshit studies that you're reading. When you hear people like Lane Norton and stuff talking about in his sidekick that talk a lot about IFYM and they always, they're arguing,

oh, show me a study. Well, I don't have a study that shows 15 years of, what does it look like when you have a red bull every single day for 15 years straight? I don't have that study to argue that, but I tell you what, more and more stuff is coming out, showing us on how much it does affect it. Yeah, and you're starting to,

you can piece together some of the clues like we know, you know, artificial sweeteners affect your, your internal gut, you know, your gut biome, your, your, your gut flora. We know it influences it. We know it changes it on the fundamental way. So it's not that hard to imagine that you do that for 15 years that you're going to have other side effects affecting, you know, all kinds of things

when it has to do with your health. So that's really the big problem. If you wanna go with these long, long term studies, it's gonna take a lot longer. I mean, artificial sweeteners and a lot of stuff and the way Americans have been eating now has only been happening for, you know, the last, I don't know, 40, 50 years.

We're seeing obesity, obesity is exploded. We're now starting to see autoimmune disease start to explode. So I think, you know, in another 20, 30 years, we're gonna have more definitive answers when it comes to that kind of stuff. But yeah, all the studies are done. Even a year, look, even a one year study, sounds like a long time, like, whoa, this one year study,

that's nothing. If you're eating this every single day for 30, 40 years, one year isn't gonna show much. You gotta look real long term. That's a slow process. Yeah, now that being said, I looked up some of the differences between, for example, grass fed beef versus grain fed beef. And here's some of the statistics on that.

Grass fed beef has a little bit less total fat than grain beef, grain fed beef, excuse me. But it has a lot more omega-3 fatty acids and CLA, which CLA is a type of fat that has anti-cancer effects, anti-inflammatory effects, and it's got some fat burning effects. In fact, it's got some fat burning effects. In fact, it's actually sold as a supplement because of that.

Now, I don't think you should take it as a supplement, but if you eat beef that's got more CLA versus beef that doesn't, it's probably better for you. You simplify that, because let me tell you something, that's something that I learned later on, how important that is right there, because it's, especially if we eat a diet that's rich in carbohydrates,

you're already in balance as it is. And then you go to get meat, thinking that your meat's going to balance your omega's out, but then you don't realize when you're eating this, this, this, this meat, it affects like what they're eating affects you too. Yes. That's all coming down. It changes the profile and you're not getting the same. Yeah.

If you eat red meat every single day or let let's say you eat it three days a week and you do this for 10 years, will it make a difference to eat grass fed that has higher omega-3 fatty acids and some more CLA? Yeah, it will after a while. But right now, you should focus on calories and macros. That's what we're saying. It also, for example, grass fed beef also is more nutritious.

It's got more vitamin A, vitamin E. It's got more micronutrients like potassium, iron, zinc, phosphorus, and more sodium. So overall, it's a healthier type of meat. But again, the priority, if you're getting started with this, is learning your body and understanding calories and macros. Once you really start to get that down, then start to break it down even further

to improve your nutrition from that point. And it is a long process. I want you to understand, don't be frustrated with yourself if after three months, you're still not perfect. It takes a long time. Eating, if you're 25 years old, well, you've been eating shitty for most of your life.

You ain't going to erase that in three months. Give yourself a chance, like Justin said, just like eliminate soda, start with that, and then okay, I'm gonna double my servings of vegetables now for the next, however long that, and make that consistent, okay, I've got that down. Next I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna cut my sugar and take in half, and then stick with that for a while, ooh, that works, and now, you know, one step by step. Yeah, it's long lasting effect that way, it's something that, you know, if you creep that in and it becomes something that's just part of the process,

then that becomes the lifestyle changing effect instead of like the fixer. Like everybody wants to get the immediate fixer. Let's just scale it. Scale it, like start small, you know, something that you won't even really notice is different. Exactly. Well, we know that too, we know as trainers

that the reason for that is because we need them to be consistent with something for long enough so they can actually finally see the change or feel the change because they made this decision. And it's not an overnight thing. So, I think sometimes when people get bombarded with all these things, they have to change, it's so drastic that it's short-lived.

And it's even more short-lived when people don't see these quick results, they're expecting right away from it, right? So, I can't stress enough how important it is that when we talk about eating healthy or eating better, that it is, it's a lifestyle thing. We should always be striving. Are we perfect? No. I mean, very few people eat really, really perfect all the time.

I know I most certainly do not, but you better believe that I'm aware of that and that I'm always striving to make better choices because I know how it affects my health. You know, this reminds me of I actually had a friend of mine who was so proud and told me, hey, I switched my kids' treats to organic. And I was like, oh, you know, what do you mean by that? Like, oh, I don't buy, I don't buy, you know, the regular cookies anymore. I bought these organic ones. And it's like, well, I mean, you know, you laugh,

but I think a lot of people do that. I know. Go to, dude, go to Whole Foods. And there's just a label. There is an entire sex marketing. There's huge aisles filled with cookies and candies and shit that are organic. Well, that's what I do see out of this question too,

is like the skepticism, is this just marketing, is this just just deployed to get us to buy something that's more expensive? You know, like, and I could see that point because there is those shitty companies out there that will slap organic on whatever it is, a cookie or ice cream or whatever it is. And it's like, yeah, well, who cares? It's still like shitty.

It's still a fucking cookie. Well, and that's where I remember when we kind of got, I don't remember this was on air off air when we were kind of getting in debate with Jody about his whole, you know, his theory on organic and how it's just like, oh, the regulations to even become considered organic are so close to shit anyway. So how can you even say that's a difference? And yada yada, and that's the system. And you know I'm saying that there's a system

again trying to manipulate and make a buck. And there absolutely is that. But if I'm not mistaken, I was told this by somebody, I need to confirm it, but organic doesn't necessarily mean all organic. It means like the ingredients in the product need to be like 80% organic or whatever. I mean, I know there's some, there's some seriously way on it. Yeah, it's not gonna be perfect.

It's obviously dealing with the system that's highly corruptible and highly influenced. But it's another layer of protection. And here's the other thing too, you gotta remember this, Every time you buy something, you are voting for whatever you're buying. So anytime you give that product money or dollars, you are saying to the market,

I want more of this. Every single time it's a vote, every single day. So if you want more, if you want organic to be a larger piece of the market, if you want more companies coming forward and fighting for better organic, and what I mean by that is, let's say organic becomes a huge,

it's already a big market, but let's just say it becomes the market. Like most foods become organic. What's gonna happen is you're gonna have companies that are gonna compete for who's more organic. Right, you're gonna have- Hell even more healthy. You're gonna have companies that are more transparent

and they're gonna say, well, our company has- I have a video you can see it grow live. There you go. And that are more transparent. And they're gonna say, well, our company has video, you can see it grow live. And that's my point. So when you give them that money, you are voting for that with your dollars, and you are making that a larger market. And so consider that as well.

So every time you buy something, think about, do I want more of this or do I want less of this? If I want less of this, I'm not gonna give them money. If I want more of this, I'm gonna give them money. I vote yes. Great point. Next question, art of this. If I want less of this, I'm not gonna give them money. If I want more of this, I'm gonna give them money. I vote yes. Great point. Next question, Art of April. What's the best way for a woman to get better at pushups?

It's, so this is a common question I get from women. I always get the, how do I get better at pullups and how do I get better at pushups? And it's always from, typically coming from women. And number one, obviously women are at a genetic disadvantage when it comes to upper body strength. So pushups and pull-ups from a body weight, pound for pound perspective,

tend to be more difficult. But the answer to this question is the same answer that I would give a man. It really didn't matter if you're a man or woman. The way you get better at pushups is the way you get better at pushups. And the best way honestly, you get better at pushups is the way you get better at pushups. And the best way honestly, to get better at doing an exercise

is to practice that exercise a lot. However, it doesn't mean you should hammer yourself with that exercise. So the worst way to get better at pushups, besides not doing them at all, is to do them and just beat yourself up and go to failure doing pushups and a lot of people will do that.

I wanna get better pushups. I'm just gonna hammer myself with them. The best way is to get into a position where you're doing a pushup with good form. So if you can't do a full pushup, off your feet, then maybe do it off your knees. If that's still too difficult, elevate your body. So maybe do it off the table or something like that.

And just practice them throughout the day. You're not even working out. You're literally doing, let's say your max pushups is 10, like, a tennis failure. Every time you, you know, maybe every other hour, do like one or two pushups off the, you know, just one or two, just practice doing it. And you will notice within a matter of days

that that one or two becomes easier, you'll be able to do three, you'll be able to four. So one of the fastest ways I've ever seen, people get stronger. You're promoting like we talked about earlier, promoting a pattern and you're teaching your body the sequence of firing that needs to happen in order to be able to develop the strength overcome

and press your body up off the ground. So it really just comes with frequency and discipline and keeping that involved in your daily habits. But there's obviously a scaled approach as well. So if you want to work on depth, or if you want to work on other techniques where you're an isometric hold, or something where you can build up a louder signal for you.

I suggest working on that as well. That will really help you to be able to gather and recruit muscle fibers to get involved. Yeah, so technique I learned a long time ago with pushups that I found at the time fascinating, but now it makes perfect sense now that I know more about how the central nervous system works better when it's all activated versus when you're not really calling upon it, is this with pushups. Try this. When you get into your pushup position before you do your pushup, grip the floor with your hands.

You're obviously not going to be able to grab the floor, but the act of tensing your hands and squeezing in the floor, and then on top of that, without moving your hands, create external rotation. What I mean by is while your hands are on the floor, try to spiral them out. But don't actually spin them out. Just create that tension where you're twisting them out and gripping the floor.

You'll activate your muscles in a much more effective way, and you'll be able to squeeze out more pushups. It's actually a pretty effective technique that I tried. I would tip I would give just because I think most women, South-Ride, I mean, how you would get a man or a woman better at push-ups is exactly the same. But what I have found more common with my women. And a lot of times, especially like a big breasted woman. All my ladies. All my ladies get big too.

I think that's her shoulders are excessively rounded forward. So she suffers from upper cross syndrome. So she's really rounded forward. And she's already weak in the push up department. So then she goes to do a push up and she's all deltoid. And she can't get deeper than 90 degrees. And then her way she goes to do a push-up and she's all deltoid and she can't get deeper than 90 degrees. And then her way of trying to do better push-ups is she does these piked-looking shoulder pushes and never really gets the chest activated and involved.

So a tip that I would do that's been very successful for teaching clients how to activate their chest is I will do push-ups from your knees and then you'll do hand releases. So you'll actually come all the way to the floor. When you get your chest, everything's on the floor, you actually release your hand. When you release your hands, it forces you to squeeze your scapula back so you pull the scapula back and then you push off the ground. So when you say release your hands, you mean I'm laying on my chest now, I'm taking my hands off the floor. So I'll lift your hands off the floor. Yeah, lift your hands and just lay on the floor and squeeze them back down.

And then there are some ups and downs. So you come all the way down the floor, release your hands or retract your shoulders or your hands come up off the ground. And then you push off again. I like that. Great, great move. And then you just gonna make sure that you keep strict form. So when you do that, you're not just muscling yourself up. And that's why you start on your knees.

If even if you can do two or three pushups on your toes, I would still take you to your knees and make you do these. Until you start to get that recruitment pattern down really well where you're getting the concept of retracting the shoulders and pressing with a chest and not your shoulders. And this has helped many, many clients of mine develop a stronger chest or a better connection more so than a stronger. So that's where they're like.

I'm pretty sure, and I think I might have heard this on Joe Rogan's show, but they were talking about this as far as like how much weight that actually is like body weight push up. And they were talking somewhere around like 62, 63% of your body weight that you're actually pressing up, something like that. So that, I thought that was interesting because if you actually put it into perspective

as far as like pounds that you're pressing up so you can kind of... Little more than half your body weight. Yeah, a little more. So if you're 140 pounds, you're 70, 80 pounds, you're pressing up. Yeah, basically. Most everybody I know that struggles with this though,

it's more of a technique thing, right, and getting the right muscles to fire, because your your chest is a big, strong muscle, but it's normally kind of put the sleep because of the way we have surrounded shoulders and our shoulders become so dominant in pushing movement. So getting that into a position, that's an exercise. I find super beneficial. Also try warming your backup first. So I'll take some bands and I'll actually do a bunch of like kind of explosive rows with like a real like a real light band. Just to wake up and get the shoulders retracted firing all those muscles, your traps, rhomboid.

So now you can pull this capula back. Do that first. Then go into those hand release pushups, guarantee you'll fill it in your chest more than you ever felt. You're definitely right about the larger breasts, meaning the factor because it's the rounded shoulders and just the overall factor of always being in a protracted position, and then not having that confident back retraction and getting that scapular retraction. That's especially true with augmentation.

Breast augmentation is when they put the implant below the peck muscle, you are, in essence, causing the peck muscle to pull the shoulders forward a little bit because now you're something underneath it, you know, lifting that peck. And, you know, somewhat not super common, but if you're gonna have a side effect of augmentation, you can get encapsulation,

which is, you know, hardening tissue around the implant. And that then pulls the shoulders even further forward. In fact, I would say the, pretty much the majority, a decent majority of the women that I've trained that I have augmentation have shoulder recruitment pattern issues. And I can usually link it back to the fact that they got the implant.

Number one, because they had to recover so they're bandaged up and then they're put in this position. Then they have to get used to this tighter pack. That changes the recruitment pattern. And if they don't do the right exercises afterwards, now they've created this kind of permanent recruitment pattern that contributes to forward shoulder and pinch man. Especially because the doctors normally tell them to stay away from exercises for a long time

and then they typically stay. They don't want to rip or tear. Yeah, so they stay away from that area for a while and that's all it takes man. You're right, I mean you couldn't be more right when it comes to that for sure. One more thing, a lot of times with pushups, I see a breakdown in core stability. So you know this, if you're doing a pushup and your body is not rigid, like a plank, you notice this, I call them Ron Jeremy pushups where they go down their hips dip and they come up, looks like they're having sex with the floor. Yeah. You know, if your body isn't like rigid, the entire time, and if you're in this like crazy anterior pelvic

tilt where your butt, you have a strong arch and your low back and your butt is sticking up, you have poor core stability in your pushup. And that will contribute to your inability to do lots of pushups. So brace your core, brace your stomach like someone's gonna hit you in the gut and so you kinda tighten it,

grip the floor, spiral your hands against the floor but don't actually move them, stay real tight, and then do your pushups and even practice the hand release. And I think, and then of course, lots of practice, not tons of intensity, just lots of practice daily. And within a matter of weeks, you should be able to see a pretty good,

big improvement. More attention, you promote the better. Cordy Elizabeth, do you have to count macros and calories if you eat clean? Is fat loss still possible? It's like a trick question here. It is because here's the thing about, I know we talk a lot, especially me, I talk a lot about

you know, listening to your body, eating intuitively, not needing to count macros and calories, but it took me a long time to get here. And the vast majority of the people listening right now, who have never counted calories or never counted macros, has zero idea how many macros, their guess is gonna be so off. In fact, I have yet to ever work with anybody who guesses anywhere near the real amount of food

that they eat and the real amount, the real breakdown of macros. Every single time I'll ask people, how many calories do you think you eat? And they eat in the real amount, you know, the real breakdown of macros. Every single time I'll ask people, how many calories do you think you eat? And it's always like, oh, you know, probably about 1,700 or probably around 2,000 or 2,500. And then we'll add it up and it's like, well, you're 30% off.

And that's calories. Forget macros. You ask people, how many grams of protein do you eat? Or how many grams of carbs? Or how many grams? Zero, zero concept. Yeah. So I think step one is learning that you have to,

in the beginning, the fastest way to intuitive eating and eating clean and healthy according to how your body responds to food. The fastest way to get there, the best way to get there is step one counting and actually tracking. Because before you can get to that whole, you know, there's those four stages of learning. We've talked about before. Before you can get to the unconscious, the unconscious competence stage, this is kind

of the zone where you're just not even thinking about. You're just, you know, it's just natural just coming to you natural. You're eating properly and not even have to worry about it. Before you can get to that point, you have to become conscious of what you're putting in your mouth. You have to make yourself aware and the only way to do this is to track. So if you're at the point where you're fucking great, man, you're listening to the signals, your body,

we eat according to them and everything's just flowing and everything's great and health is great and you're relatively lean and you've been doing this for a long time. Yeah, you probably don't need to track calories and macros to get leaner. You just kind of listen to your body and go accordingly.

But for most people, you're not there, you're not even close to there. Well, I'm glad you said that because I feel like it needs to come from you because you are the one who talks a lot about intuitive eating and I stress highly that counting your mac, and I hate calling it macraly. Tracking your food and what you're in taking,

I think is so important. I think learning your body and learning nutrition is every bit as challenging as learning a language. And just because you know some, a few verbs and adjectives, I don't think you would feel confident with going up and standing on a stage and giving you a speech and a language that you're not super familiar with.

So think of it the same way when you're learning about nutrition and food and what you should be consuming, whether be get to a goal or maintain where you're currently at, that takes some time. Well, that's just the learning process of that alone, not to mention you learning how it affects you. Right? Personally, that's a whole nother subject matter. That's what I'm saying. It's not as simple as just, okay, you feel like, oh, I understand what a fat is, I understand what a car is, I know these are bad, I know these are good. Those are all the

bets the basics. I mean, you just went through basic English. You just learn barely learning the language now. There's so much more to learn and how it affects your own personal body. And that just, that takes tracking. Or else, it's a guess every time. If you're not, if I don't track, like the way I found out how certain carbs affect my body is because I was tracking, because I was tracking and I said, oh wow, look at this. When I eat like this, I get inflamed like that.

When I don't get enough of this, I feel like this. When I do all this, I feel like that. But I wouldn't know that unless I was tracking. And I can't stand when, and it's just, Sal will tell you, when we first got together and we were doing this a lot, I would give him shit all the time because he would be like, oh, I did this, I feel this and I'd be like, well, are you tracking?

Let me see. And he's like, no, I'm not going to believe you. I can't take your word for it. I don't care how knowledgeable you are. But if you didn't track it and you didn't, and then how do I start to believe him this awesome? But you know, he's somebody, if there's anybody who could do that, he would be the man because of how long he's been doing this for. And I still give him shit that, dude, you got to, you got to, if you're going to sell me on this new food or this way of eating is affecting you in this way I want to look at numbers I want to look at okay show it to me show me how many days in a row you ate

that many carbohydrates or how many days in a row your fat was that high and then let's talk about these things that you think you're feeling in a direct correlation with those foods and if you don't have it tracked then then you don't know, you don't know for sure. Well, then you're always gonna be a passenger. And I think that's why we always stress the point of like, being dependent on somebody else's plan for you or somebody else's prescriptive macro account or somebody like, no, you shouldn't be reliant

on somebody else to provide that information for you. You should be researching that. And that's why we create guides. I mean, we stress it all the time, but that's why. The reason in the why is for you to do the work because you're only gonna be successful if it applies to you.

And you can work with a professional that can help you figure that out for sure. And I suggest that you do that, but you have to do the work. And avoiding the work is just gonna create a temporary thing at best. Yeah, and my thing with macros has always been this is that it is a very important first step,

very, very important. If you're just getting started with this and you've never counted before and you really don't have an idea of what your food looks like from a, you know, proteins, fats, and carbs and calories standpoint, then you need to figure that out. However, once you start to figure that out, it can lead you into some pitfalls. It can lead you to this extreme control issue when it comes to food. It can lead to bad relationships with food.

In fact, that's a very common amongst the people who are in the fitness industry, especially people who compete based on their physique. People in Adams peers, a lot of them, if not most of them, have a very poor relationship with food, and they count macros and calories all the time, and they use it to this, it becomes this obsessive thing where it has to be within this specific parameters, and it becomes this control thing,

and that's not where you wanna end up. You wanna use this tool, you wanna get a good idea where you need to go, you wanna master it, but then you want to progress beyond it because then you've stopped. You've stopped yourself from the panacea, from the ultimate goal, which is, and I'm telling you, I say this all the time and people probably laugh and think, oh, that sounds, you know, fufu. But I'm telling you, when you finally get to the point where you eat intuitively, and it's not an issue, it's not something you need to sit there and track and write everything down, but you're

doing it right into signals. You've listened now to the signals of your body, you've now connected the dots between foods and all the different you know signals that your body tells you. When you get to that point, it is a wonderful place to be at. It is effortless. It's freedom and flexibility. Bro, everything you want. Bro, for the first time in my life, getting lean for me was never a hard in the sense that I couldn't do it because I knew what I had to do to get there,

right? But it's never been on like a side effect. Like I walk around lean all the time, and I don't have to, it's not something I think about, it's not even something that's in the back of my mind, it's just not there at all. It's a side effect, it's never been like that for me before. It used to be in order to walk around at 8% body fat,

I had to really pay attention, I had to kind of pay attention to what I was doing, and it took work. Yeah, sacrifice and work and focus. None of that. There's none of that now. It's just, that's just the way I look now. Like I walk around this lane and just,

this is my natural body fat percentage. That is a very good place to be. So, and that's where you want to get to, but it takes a long time to get there. And the first step is understanding, and really understanding calories and macros, and what is in food. And then once once you learn that once you really get that Your goal is to progress from there because if you get stuck there

That's not ideal then it becomes this control thing it becomes this bad relationship to food And you don't want to get stuck there because I've seen people who are stuck there and They may be a little better off than the person who knows nothing, but they're not well off. Yeah, no. But here's the thing too with this. I have no patience with people that aren't willing to do this, because shit is so fucking easy now. Oh, you got so many questions.

When I first started tracking, I would write on my little piece of paper or journal I had, then I had to go home and open up my nutrition book, then I had to go individually look at each one of the foods that I consumed and the weight of it, and then I had to go over if I, because now- It got forbidden you eat at a restaurant.

Oh, the impossible. Oh, right. I mean, now you have apps like my fitness pal and fat secret that literally before you finish typing what you're consuming, it fucking populates for you, and then it calculates, and then it breaks down all the macro and micron consuming, it fucking populates for you. And then it calculates. And then it breaks down all the macro and micronutrients and sodium.

I mean, it literally could not make it any easier for you to track and figure things out. I mean, before I understood, I got it, man. Like 10 years ago, ask a client to track their own food. And it's like, Jesus, like you're asking them to go to school. You know what I'm saying? On top of their long work day and raising their kids, like that's crazy to me.

But now, I mean, you could literally be eating one in one hand and uploading what you're consuming in the other hand at the same time and it's literally that easy. So do yourself a favor and start doing that and you'll start connecting the dots, especially if you listen to the show because we constantly talk about these things. And I will tell you what, you know, once you get that down and you start to move beyond that, like I'm talking about, it's pretty interesting. You know, there's someone I'm working with in fact right now, I just start, you know, online coaching someone and she was telling me how she has digestive issues and some bloating and

and I said, well, when you notice this and she's like, well, in the morning, you know, after I have my, you know, chia seed, hemp protein, and a couple other things, shake. And so I said, well, have you, she's like, but it's really healthy. So we'll have you consider that. It's probably not right for you if it's causing bloating. But here's the thing, she's in the fitness industry,

but she never connected that. And you can hear her on the phone being like, oh yeah, I guess there's something in that that my body doesn't like and that's the next step That's the next step is making those connections once you get to that point It's a whole not the world of learning But once you're done once you've once you kind of graduate from there man great place to be yeah Juan Martinez 9.966 what is the most embarrassing thing that's happened to you on a date? Oh, geez.

What are those? You guys gotta go first. I just started dating so I don't know. No bro, you have to go first because you're the one that put this up there on the board. Yeah, you guys have so many dating stories. I'm sure. Oh my God. I was married for 15 years and now I have a girlfriend so a date, most embarrassing thing.

I can tell you what's embarrassing. It's not that funny, but it's kind of a little bit, not embarrassing, but more like, oh fuck, like. So I have a lot of family that lives in this relatively same area that I've grown up in, right? In the San Jose area. So odds are, if I'm gonna go places, especially if it's a mall or something like that,

I'm going to run into someone if it's a mall or something like that, I'm going to run into someone that I know family or whatever. So, you know, I'm been divorced now for, it's gonna be almost a year coming up here in December. And but there's a lot of cousins and stuff that I haven't talked to. I don't see these people super regularly. We don't really talk about this kind of stuff and it's not like this big, you know, this big thing that I'm posting over Facebook. But, you know, I'm at the mall yesterday, I'm with my kids and, you know, my girlfriend or walk around and then, oh, there's some fucking cousins, I haven't seen for a while and you should see the little other faces, they're like,

oh, the scratch in their hand. Who's that girl that you're with? That's not your wife, because they didn't, you know, I don't think they knew. And that's a really, I'm sure people who are listening right now are divorced, who've been, who are married for a while, I'm sure they kind of, especially from a, when you're from a small town, it's kind of weird, man. Walking around and having people like, to be able to, who've been married for a while, I'm sure they can, especially from a small town,

it's kind of weird, man. Walking around having people like, to be able to look at it, they're looking at it like, who's that? It's gotta be kind of awkward. Super awkward, I don't know if it's embarrassing now. Yeah, I'm trying to think of an embarrassing one right now. I just shared a story, so Katrina and I,

every now and then, her and I will sit down and like share old relationship stories, and it's one of my favorite things. With each other? Yeah share old relationship stories and it's one of my favorite. With each other? Yeah, with each other. That's one of my favorite things to do with her. We've been together for six years. Like one time I was being in this girl super hard. Yeah, she is.

Someone I could actually tell her words. That's too far. Yeah, we do talk about weird stuff like that. So, I mean, we met each other at 30, right? So we started dating when I was 30 years old. So, I mean, I a quite a bit of dating and crazy girlfriends leading up to her and we always talk about- You definitely have had some crazy girlfriends.

Yeah so that was- I'll share a crazy story or a crazy girlfriend story since that's what I just shared with her and that's the first thing that comes in mind when I think of this because I can't think of a crazy embarrassing one so I'll give you guys a crazy story. So I dated this girl when I was like around 25-26ish. So I had had my house for about five years, and she was a traveling nurse, and she used to work to crazy late night shifts, and then she would be home during the day.

Well, after we've been dating for a while, you know how it works, like we didn't officially move in, but she left her toothbrush, and then she left an overnight bag, and then overnight bag turns into part of my closet. Next thing you know, she's there, right? So that's kind of was like my MO when I was younger and had my place. And she's now in my place, we've been together

for, I don't know, probably at this time, close to a close to a year. And it's the first time that I am at work, and she's at home all day, because she worked the night before, and it's the first time she's in my house and I'm not there. So I come home and I'll never forget coming home

and she's standing at the, as soon as I open my front door just to know what it looks like, as soon as I open there's my kitchen counter right there and she's standing and she has the bitch stance, right? That ever happened. Right with the posture. Yeah, right, the hips.

The one foot turned out a little bit better. Yes, one foot kicked out. What is that? That's like a universal. It is like power move. Yeah, it is. It's definitely a power stance. So instantly, I'm on the defense. As soon as I walk in, I can see this. And she's leaning on the counter, hip cocked out in the look, right? Already, and it looks like she's been crying, angry, probably talking to her friends and shit. And I walk up to her and I never make your friends, never make her feel better.

I only make her worse. Of course, they fire up more, right? Probably get in her head. So she is on the counter. There is a condom wrapper. There is a hair tie and there is one booty sock. And she's looking at me and she says, what the fuck is this?

And I go, but booty sock, a hair tie, and a condom wrapper. Justin left it. She goes, yeah, I was just visiting. She goes, what are these doing underneath your bed? And I go, oh shit, I don't know, I'm like, and then it like dawned on me. I said, what are you doing underneath my bed? She goes, I was cleaning the house.

I hide there, right? She tells me she's cleaning the house. And at that moment, she says she cleaned the house and she was under, that's how she found this stuff under my bed. I looked to my left and there's a stack of dishes in the sink. And I look back at her and I say, wait a second,

you decided that, does you were gonna clean my house for the first time and you started underneath my bed and you didn't make it to the kitchen? Explain that to me. I bet that, you know what Adam? I don't think that would ever well. Yeah, I don't think you were being very effective. Yeah.

These are my early years. I was a better communicator later on. Hey, babe, listen, just next time start in the kitchen. You know what I'm saying? That's where you belong. But really though, this was that first sign to me that she's a little bit crazy because I'm thinking to myself like that,

in her head that probably seemed logical answer to me, knowing that I'd probably ask her, how did you find that in my bed? And she'd be like, I'll just tell the motherfucker, I was cleaning the house, and then he'll fill even more like an asshole. But I'm looking over at a stack of dishes on my sink, and I'm going like, I don't know, if I'm gonna clean a house,

I'm probably gonna start on the kitchen sink before I work my way to the master bedroom underneath the bed. And I look back at her and I say, you know, I'm 25 years old, I've had my own place since I was 20. I can't tell you the last time I clean underneath my bed. So I can't tell you who that booty sock is. I can't tell you where that condom wrap goes through and I can't tell you who that hair ties for all I know.

They're all from you. I said, but if they're not from you, I don't know who the fuck they are from. And they could be from a whole different lot of people in the last five years. I've had parties. Yeah. So that should have been, you know what, and I think we dated for another six or eight

months, and later on people told me all kinds of other crazy stories, but that was part of my learning process of, you know, when you see a sign like that early on a relationship, you're supposed to like, that should be a sign and you get out instead for me, you know, I stayed in it much longer, learn the hard way. They're checking your ship. Yeah, yeah, of course. She ended up being one of those crazy ones that did all that stuff.

And one of my trainers told me, and the people come to you afterwards, right? The girls no longer in your relationship. Oh, I always wanted to tell you. And then you tell them that you tell them like how crazy she was, like, oh my God, you know, she, I'll never forget when I was, I had a trainer, my trainer was training her.

And he goes, goes you know one time Uh, we were in the middle of a set in the in the gym and she just fucking bolted out of the gym and ran outside in the parking lot in the middle of our session And then she comes back and she's frantic and she's like where's Adam and he's like I don't know he probably went on his lunch break his car's not in the parking lot and he's like man He's like it was so weird and then she didn't realize that you would park somewhere else in the parking lot. And he's like, man, he's like, it was so weird. And then she didn't realize that you would park somewhere else in the parking lot. And he was like, really? Like, you're crazy. Why would you do that?

And she ended up buying him lunch to keep his mouth shut and never tell me. And I had all these stories that started coming up later on the top, man, you guys are fucked up, dude. Like if you got a crazy bitch, you got to tell me, dude. So, but I shouldn't know him better anyways because I saw that sign. Hold a second wait how was the sex yeah of course it's good yeah it's all crazy they are that's also another

signed all you guys to just because it's amazing sex doesn't mean it's the right one either too damn it I was trying to think of something that won't get me in trouble here's as pg's I can. So I actually, I wasn't even somebody I was dating. So this is the awkward part. I was at work in dude restaurants. Can I just tell you restaurants, like it's a crazy place to work. Like everybody hooks up.

That's what I heard, man. Oh, it's crazy, man. It literally, like, But it's like a gym, gyms are like that. Yeah, it's just like a gym. I guess I've been like, that's all of my work environments. Was that so? And then your wife is a nurse, which is the other's like a gym, gyms are like that. Yeah, it's just like a gym. I guess I've been like, that's all of my work environments. Was that so?

And then your wife is a nurse, which is the other high. Yeah, exactly. And that's like hospital gym. I pretend to be a doctor a lot. But yeah, no, like, so this one girl, she just, she just got hired and- Doctor, filter snatch. Yeah, I mean, she was, she was attractive and all,

and she had something going for. And like, we just finished work, and I was bartending at the time. And so, and I was closing up shop and all, and she had something going for. And we just finished work and I was bartending at the time and so, and I was closing up shop and a couple of people wanted to go out after work and I'm like, okay, cool. We'll go out to work, grab a drink, whatever, and we hung out at this bar. And we all had a couple of drinks

and people started seeing karaoke all the stuff and one thing to the other, I ended up making out with this girl, right? And the next day at work, you know, I didn't go back to her place, you know, nothing happened. It wasn't like anything, like, I don't know, I didn't take it anywhere. And the next day, like at work, I'm cleaning, I'm getting ready for the bar, like getting riff of the day. And this girl comes in with her dad,

and she starts coming in, and she's introducing me as like her new boyfriend and all this stuff and like, you know, going off about how great I am and all this shit, and I'm like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey? I must have missed that one. You know, so she just kept going prading on and on that like, you know, I'm her brand new boyfriend and that she's so happy and I'm like, yeah, I, and I'm like, had to shake her dad's hand and everything.

Oh, that's hilarious. Oh, I got a so awkward. That kind of falls into, that falls into the category of crazy girl with me. I think you would, I mean, that's not crazy. That is crazy. It is, it is crazy, but I feel bad for her. Come on, man. Another, another girl,

let me move on. Another girl gets like the same thing to one of my other friends. So she left in the, left in the wake of Justin's damage. Amen. Yeah. There's a lot of girls out there. You had a lot of broken hearts out there, Justin. What can I say? I'd say, I hate to say it. Yeah, I have a, this isn't really an embarrassing date story. I don't know why I thought of this story,

but I was working at a gym and my buddy was the manager and he used to have this girl that would show up. And now this is back in the day, you guys know this. Back in the 90s, you know, the late 90s in the gym industry, especially where we worked, it was a little wild west. You know what I'm saying? Like shit happened.

And it wasn't, there wasn't, I thought you were sitting in the table for this reason. It wasn't HR department. Like it was, you know what I mean? Like shit happened in the gym. And if you produced numbers, you look less regulated.

Yeah, if you may, if you hit up big numbers and you did well and you know, your members were happy. You can't turn to blind eye. Everybody got, yeah, exactly. So code. So my buddy, my buddy used to have this girl would come visit him and he'd go in his office and he'd close the door and he's probably having sex with her in there

and he would do this lunchtime, whatever she'd show up going there and 30 minutes later she'd walk out and her hair would be all disheveled or whatever. And I knew he would have sex with his girl and a couple times I needed a membership agreement or something I'd bang on the door and he'd kind of open it like a crack

and throw the agreement through the door and close the door because he knew what he was doing. But I had his back and it was all good. And we were good friends. Well, I guess he was in there and he was having sex with this girl and he finished or whatever and he used used there was just this sweater that was on the floor that was just on the floor on the floor and he picked

it up and just wiped himself off. Now this was this sweater belong to this one fucking trainer who used to leave his shit everywhere and he used to rack, we used to hammer him like bro don't leave your fucking sweaters, sweats and socks and shit. Oh, you see what happened. All over the gym dude, this is not your office, don't leave it on the floor, not your fucking room, pick it up, put it in your bag, take it home, like stop being an asshole, right? But he never listened, he would just fucking throw his shit everywhere, no, whatever. So it was there, my buddy just wiped off his sploge and threw it back on the floor.

Next thing you know dude, like an hour later, right? And he even think about it, like he even think about it, know, dude, like an hour later, right? He put it on. And he even think about it. Like, he even think about it. It's like, just I mean, it's forgot all about it, right? So next thing you know, me and my buddy were out there, you know, me and this guy are out there working out, right?

And in comes into the workout area comes the fucking trainer wearing the sweater. Now, I had no idea, I had no idea that this had happened. So my buddy's like, he looks at me and he goes, oh fuck, and he hits me with his elbow and he goes, look at the back of the sweater. So as he walks by, there's like, this big wet spot on the back of it.

And I'm like, what is that? And he goes, that's my cum. I'm like, what? I used it to wipe off my sploge. It was on the floor. It was him So we were fucking dying and we never told him ever He can't tell now ever and this guy you know who you are and this guy He was such a cocky loudmouth this trainer, but he was a good producer

You know he was a good producer. He was a decent trainer. He's just fucking cocky loud mouth every single time He get all cocky and I'm the best, blah, blah, blah. Me and my buddy would look at each other like, you had, you had, you had, you had his, you had his, you had his, his all over you. Yeah. That's it.

One of my favorite, I have lots of respect for you. One of my favorite stories. That's great. Hey, if you like, mind pump, if you love our show, if you enjoy it, leave us a five star rating review on iTunes. If we like your review and we pick it, you, leave us a five star rating review on iTunes. If we like your review and we pick it,

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