Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 493: Getting Back on Track with Diet, Anti-Depressants & Fitness, the Most Important Aspect of Personal Care & MORE

Episode Date: April 19, 2017

Kimera-Quah! iTunes Review Winners! In this episode of Quah, sponsored by Kimera Koffee (kimerakoffee.com, code "mindpump" for 10% off), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about how anti-depressants affect fitness, their current fitness goals, what to do when you have fallen off the wagon with diet and the most important aspect of personal care. Get our newest program, Kettlebells 4 Aesthetics (KB4A), which provides full expert workout programming to sculpt and shape your body using kettlebells. Only $7 at www.mindpumpmedia.com! Get MAPS Prime, MAPS Anywhere, MAPS Anabolic, MAPS Performance, MAPS Aesthetic, the Butt Builder Blueprint, the Sexy Athlete Mod AND KB4A (The MAPS Super Bundle) packaged together at a substantial DISCOUNT at www.mindpumpmedia.com. Make EVERY workout better with our newest program, MAPS Prime, the only pre-workout you need… it is now available at mindpumpmedia.com Have Sal, Adam & Justin personally train you via video instruction on our YouTube channel, Mind Pump TV. Be sure to Subscribe for updates. 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) Guys discuss Easter festivities (4:33)         -Online dating         -Avoiding nutrition talk on holidays/with friends and family Quah Question #1 - How do antidepressants affect fitness? (28:26)         - SSRI - Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor         - Causes weight gain         - Increases serotonin         - Erectile dysfunction         - Take drugs to help them get up and do something         - Gut health Quah Question #2 - What are the guy’s current fitness goals? (36:00)         - Working on Imbalances (Adam)         - Being comfortable in his own skin (Adam)         - Focusing on conditioning and durability (Justin)            - Sled pulls, jump rope and macebell training         - Upping cholesterol next 14 days (Sal) Quah Question #3 – What do you do when you slip off your pre-competition diet? (57:07) ·        Don’t try to make up for it ·        Reverse dieting ·        Train like it’s a sport, not for leisure Quah Question #4 – What is the most important aspect of personal care? (1:13:30)   Related Links/Products Mentioned Antidepressants and the Placebo Effect (study) The Gut-Brain Axis: The Missing Link in Depression  Average life span of different countries The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*** – Mark Manson (book) People Mentioned: Dr. Brett McCabe Jack LaLanne 

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Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. The little boy blew the man on the moon when you come at home so I don't know when. We'll get together then. We'll have a good time then. Come on dude. Dude, that was fucking good. It's enough Why are you gonna be such a dick bro? I'm not I think that was I whoever tells you it's good as a dick

I think someone's lying to you so bad somebody's lines. I'm just trying to be your friend and tell you the truth Whoa, whoa nice recover there Doug. That was cool. Wow dog almost broke his hip. He did You've got fast you got some fast fast moves Doug must be that maps cat light reflexes there Let's be that maps program. What are we going to tell you trained with a good trainer for years for years with the best trainer? I don't know my best best here better than average better than the ret just to get on the mic Listen, let me give you guys some advice right here. I feel like I feel like justice has been fucking up Take the little bit that you know and forget about it. Hey everybody You guys missed me

Take the little bit that you know and forget everything I want to do that. I want to do wisdom. I want to like speak at a conference and but be like the last speaker and go up and be like, okay, everybody Listen, everything you've learned at this conference. I know you don't know a lot. Just forget everything. Forget all of it. Yeah, forget all bullshit I'm about to tell you the shit you need to remember drop some wisdom on you sad just fuck with everybody about to give it to you Hey, ancient wisdom. I want to hear about your Easter's post Easter. I wanna hear about your Easter. What did you want Easter? I drove around and did the family thing. You did it again?

Dude, you know what sucks is when you're a guy in a great relationship and you feel like a divorcee because you have to go drive around to like multiple families on all of this. Why is that, why is that happened to me, dude? What do you mean? I didn't fuck up any of my relationships or marriage. Why do I have be the one that drives a share time man? It's a mother of family. It's a mother fucker Well, how many houses did you go to just three? But you know what that's the point is that like Katrina's family is like so rad

They're like bring everybody over but then my family, you know Everybody's inclusive. Yeah, my family doesn't like other parts of their their own family. They're dysfunctional Yeah, totally right so they they put the fun and dysfunctional. Yeah, I don doesn't like other parts of their family. They're dysfunctional. Yeah, totally right so they They put the fun and dysfunctional. Yeah, I don't know about Not so much Yeah, so I went we just functional we drove we rode it library. We drove out to Oakdale, which is the cowboy capital the world True story.

I have some Texas listeners right now that I'm gonna disagree with you. Well, that's a fuck it. There's a sign that says that when you come in. Yeah, it's pretty much a fact, right? If you put a sign up in front of the, it says that. Yeah, it says that.

It says the country capital, no, it's the cowboy capital of the world. Of the world? Cowboy capital of the world. That's a confident. It's very confident. That's a very cocky town. It's got, it even have chaps.

Well, they have one of the biggest rodeos there. Oakdale rodeo is pretty well known. There's a very cocky town. It even have chaps. Well, they have one of the biggest rodeos there. Oakdale rodeo is pretty well known. There's very, especially for California. You know, obviously, if we're comparing Texas, Texas is, on a whole other level. But for the most part, even a lot of those guys come up to this rodeo. It's a big rodeo.

Anyways, I was in Oakdale, seeing it. I saw my, my mother and her new boyfriend. I met him and I got to... This is your first time meeting him? Yes. I saw my mother and her new boyfriend. I met him and I got to... This is your first time meeting him? Yes, yes. They recent, they're new, they just met on... What kind of handshake did he have? Yeah, that's a good question.

Just to preserve. It was a fun. Yeah, it was good. I think sometimes I know they tell you to give, no, well, I'm not a huge fan of the over firm handshake I think it screams insecure no that's what I mean it's still determined there's a right does he let you go more for that's right there's a right amount that's why I said it was right like it was a the thumbs in the right position if I if I if I didn't add a little tickled if I think about your handshake after you do

it you did something wrong like if it made an impression on me like it was too softer it was too hard something's wrong that he did he double fisted no he didn't it what it was something wrong. Like if it made an impression on me, like it was too softer, it was too hard, something's wrong. Did he double fist it or not? No, he did, what it was was. It was not a big aggressive. It was good. It was good because I didn't think about it afterwards. If someone shakes my hand and they do like the tickle,

like Justin said, that's really weird. Or they do that. Or if they get like literally shake, like they go up and down, it's like, come on guy. Yeah, right? What are we doing here? Or they do the grip, like he grabs my hand and he grips me just so I like to claw.

Ah, like he's, you know, digging in the air. I feel like some men tend to, you know, I'm a six foot three, 230 pound dude. So a lot of times I get sized up by other men and this, he's six five. So he's a big dude. So he's not a little guy. And other big guys have a tendency to want to do that

when they meet me, but he was pretty good. So what do you guys call him? All right. How did this work? What do you guys call him by? He didn't hug you. No, yeah, we don't hug. I just met him, dude.

He's only a one month boyfriend. You don't get a hug from me for all of that. I don't know, he's just, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe he's at the Easter party. Adam's hard to get. He did. He made Easter Sunday at church.

You know what I'm saying? So that's a big step in the relationship. So what do you guys talk about then? Are you like, hey. It's very awkward. You know what my mom did? We met there, right? And then we go to church for Sunday for Easter Sunday and

The church that she goes to has like this really nice like Buffet area and they actually have like a little mini Starbucks almost inside the church pretty rad church Come along. Why since I was going as a kid. Yeah, so It's quite the spectacle now like plasma TVs are aware and you can see like the yeah, I know said too I was a now like plasma TVs are where and you can see like the I know said to you Saturday This is a full blown production was brother lights People Dancing Jumping

You know what to church? Well, yeah, I mean Justin and I are going to having so I mean we Pair this yeah exactly yeah, so anyways we're we're there and so team fireproof we get there and my mom literally That's why we don't sit too close to you ever. Exactly. We're a little bit off. You know, you guys will be bored. Yeah, I'll just do it for you.

Whatever, bro. All the hot chicks are going to hell. That may be true. You can't compete. I'm pissed what we'd be, right? Son of a bitch. Yeah. This is some bullshit.

But I imagine if we're in heaven, we can visit hell. I think that's how it works. Yeah. I think if you're in hell, you're visit hell. I think that's how it works. Yeah. I think if you're in hell, you're a fuck. You're a big one. You can come up to heaven. But if we're in heaven, we can come down to hell. I want that one.

That's what I think. I think that's what makes it so heavenly. I don't think so. I don't know. Anyways, we get to bathe heaven. 18th of waters. We go there. So my mom does this, right?

So we walk in and she literally goes, here, talk to Lonnie. And she walks away. I was like, oh, that was awkward as fuck You know literally like we was all of us kind of it was me Katrina his name's Lonnie my mom And then she goes she just like just bolted and said here talk to Lonnie and then walked away I gotta go so then there's that awkward like we turned to each other. We chose like hey, what's up? It's like that, but it was cool. But it was cool. He carried his own for sure. He's into drag racing bikes, which I'm fucking love

Harley's, I'm into that stuff. So he's a man's man. He does construction for living. He's got a cool little house on the Delta out there. And real cool dude, seems like a good guy man. He does. He does. He has a 31 year old and a 34 year old.

And then he has one more. I think I think 37 or 38. Cool. Yeah, so, but I didn't get a chance to meet them. I don't know what kind of father he is, but for the most part, I thought he was cool. My mom's hair, huh? That was his hair.

Oh yeah. A little bit like yours. Okay. Yeah, he had a similar kind of dad look like you nice Like salt and pepper. No kind of like I don't care Really like yeah, you know handsome tall to the guy, but I'm not gonna really try or put to it Yeah, it's offered into it. I like him. Yeah, I know you know blows with the wind. Yeah I don't care. Yeah, no he look good. He was sharp. He was sharp. Good guy

I Like I liked him, but that's all that my mom is like, so my mom married my real father when I was, when she was 15 or 16, had me, had me by 20, you know, then my real dad dies when I'm seven. She remarried again within a year. So she's never really had this single life. So the last like 10 years of her life

that she has been single, she divorced my stepfather. Now like I'm watching her go through like this dating process. Like an awkward step. It's going into it. It's very weird for me. Did they meet online? I should do the online one.

They do, they did. Wow. It was like a, well, it wasn't Christian Mingle. There's something called Zeus. The farmer's only that good. Yeah. It was totally one of those. Yeah, it was Zeus.

I didn't even, like it's a big guy's can meet the ladies. Maybe it was totally one of those. Yeah, it was I didn't even like a big guys can meet the ladies Maybe it's just for big dude. I had a that or like adult tender. I don't know. I don't know what I don't know What I'm not sure exactly what it was but? You know that you know I just heard a stat actually on this that over I think it was 84 or 82% of Relationships now start online yep that is crazy of relationships now start online. That is crazy. That makes perfect sense. Majority of marriages now, people move very much.

Well, I mean, here's what's neat. And this is why, I mean, I remember in our generation, coming up in this, you used to tease somebody about that. But in reality now, I mean, it's probably really cool how quick you can totally like, oh, not into that, not into that, not into that, not into that. Okay, she ain't gonna work. Sure, she's hot, but we don't like any of the same thing.

So you just like, you wouldn't waste your time even to really talk to that person. I think you can hone in on like, just too many stuff to animals. So someone was run for the hill. Someone was telling me that, cause there's dating websites now for everything. Someone was telling me that there's a dating site

for people with STDs. Whoa. Yeah, like if you have an STD, you could find people with the same STDs. I want my crabs to match your crabs. So you guys can, so you guys can, This is awesome. Isn't it?

It almost turns into like a competition, like how many you can do. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? And then you give it to be a part of that group, it's like, oh, I got five. Herpes, dog, love, STDs. T-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t Please, do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do You imagine what would happen with that Adam wow back in the day Katrina's always worried about me leaving her for your future

You have like a weird old lady finished. I'm really worried about you It's my mom issues I said I don't have an old lady thing. I was like when I was 20, I liked 30 year olds. That's fucking totally different. I don't now out your older. Get a lot older. Yeah, at 35, I still like the 30 year olds. It stayed the same, you know what I'm saying? As I got older, I just liked older mature women.

And part is you get discounts on food. You get restaurants, you get parking in there, you like to see your parking and shit like that. AARP, you know stamps. Is that hate? Say, baby, that sex was great. You want me to carry your walker out to the bathroom? Hey, Justin, how was your Easter? It was cool.

We just basic family stuff. Do you guys do the Easter egg hunt with your kids? We did it on, yeah, on Sunday. We did it. My brother brought his kids and stuff, so they just, yeah, we just put them all over the place and had and watched them videoed it and all that kind of stuff But yeah, it was like so typical. Yeah, yeah, like candy. No, no

That was the one thing and that I I was actually proud of was like I influenced my mom to put like money in there And then like toys and stuff so there was like very few like piece of candy because Dude like since they wake up it's like this fucking dice crack you know like sensation that a little eat like one piece of candy in the whole day is I had a lot of candy yeah I did dude actually half of a chocolate bunny and a bunch of like gummy what are they called peach circles? It looks like buttholes, but anyway, that's why you like them so much. Probably, but they're, they're,

telling it in a circle, that's funny, that's how you do too. You know what, you sick fuck. Mixed it with the chocolate bunny. He's like, you can't drink. That's right, everybody. It's fucking good.

I'm not gonna look at it, I'm watching way too much porn. You know what else I say, you know what else I say yesterday? That was, I haven't had in, that ordinary, probably 30 years. Whoa. Pillsbury Crescent Rolls. Oh, those are amazing. What is it?

It's not that it's real. When I was a kid, what is that stuff? We used to make donuts out of those. We used to poke holes in the center of those and you deep fry in vegetable oil. And it makes donuts. Well, no, I'm just saying.

So I had them. And everybody was referring to it as bread. Like, ooh, who wants bread? And I'm like bread. And I'm like, that's not bread. So I'm biting into it and I'm analyzing the flavor. And I'm like, this is engineered. Like, this is scientifically designed to taste really good.

But you can also taste that it's not real, you know what I mean? Crescent rule. Weird too, I forgot all about it, you popped the thing. Eight to shit out of those as a kid. Biscuits and gravy, that was like a staple. But you know what's on the box? That wasn't. So I looked at the box, I've never actually,

I've never read that because I haven't, since I've learned about eating correctly, it's gotten older, that's just not something that even makes its way to my house. So I want to ask you guys how you guys deal with this, because when I'm over someone else's house and they're like making food or the, you know, getting things out of boxes,

I tend to grab the box and look at the ingredients, but then I realize that I look like a dickhead when I'm doing that. Oh, I don't do that. So I don't do it anymore. So instead, I try to look at it, like when they're not looking at it, I try to look at it to try and read.

I just know what, yeah. You just know. What's a priority? I know it's not good, but I wanted to see the actual ingredients because I was interested. Well, my problem is now that my people know that, you know, my family, what I do for living and everything, like so my aunt and uncle were there too.

They came from Minnesota and it's like, all they want to do is just grill me on nutrition facts. And this and I'm like, oh my God, can I just eat? No, this wasn't with my family, so. You can't, so I, but I was looking at the phone. You can't do that, bro. You can't, I'm gonna give you some, we can't do that.

Like it's already, people are already weird about eating around you. Oh, I know, you can't. Yeah, so you at all giving attention to what is being said. Oh, I didn't say that. Yeah, you got it. And I'm looking at the box though't say it. Yeah, I hate it but I just like, and I'm looking at the box though, because check it off is like not a good day.

And there's like a, or a fasting day. There's like a little red, there's like a little red label on it or something that says no trans fats, no high fructose corn syrup. So I'm like, what are they using instead? Yeah, cause you know they're doing there. You know they figured some else,

some other shit out. Yeah, some other cow found. It's not like butter that's in there. I'm pretty sure it's something like soybean oil or some shit It's actually one of my biggest pet peeves that I have to talk about Nutrition and exercise when I'm it I think it I don't like it and I you know mine talking about it I just don't like it when people do the whole like oh well, sorry We don't really have that much for you to eat you know like like I'm like does talking about it. I just don't like it when people do the whole like, oh well sorry, we don't really have that much for you to eat. You know, like I'm like, does this meet your standards?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I try and super condescending. I try to avoid those conversations as much as possible, but it doesn't matter. I feel like no matter what, because people know what you,

and even if they eventually ask you like, what you do for a living in the new home, and it's like instantly instantly everybody has this need to explain themselves right like I don't fucking care like eat what you want to eat like it's I am the furthest from being judgmental on what you're going to do like I don't give a fuck like the worst the worst for me is like so you ask me a question that you know I thought you're interested in but really you're just asking this to like try and make me look like a dick. At the same time, you're not even listening to my answer.

So fuck you for asking me. No, it's not, it's one of my, I had to beg your back. And it does, it does tend to happen. The more I'm in like situations where, and there was twice this Easter, right? So I went to another house, that went to my step-dads house and He must have had 30 plus people there and most of them I've never met before and so the topic of what you do And I always normally tell people like oh, you know talk on this radio podcast thing and I just kind of Whatever Katrina was there's always elbow being stopped downplaying what you do

I just Know what talk about. I don't talk about it. She pretty much supports me actually. Yeah. Just start telling people she likes that. I don't want to talk about it. I really don't. Which is unfortunate because I love what we do. You know, I had to explain to a 70s something year old or maybe 80s old man what a podcast was. It was great guy the same. Yeah, you should be with that. He's like, so he's a great guy by the way. By the way, great guy, he's from that generation. In cases listening, that's what it is. He comes from that generation that doesn't give a shit. Yeah. So he was super inappropriate with like half of his jokes.

That's great. And I was just like, yeah, I was just fucking dying of laughter. But anyway, I'm trying to explain to him what a podcast was. So I said, it's a fitness podcast. And he's like, what's a podcast? I'm like, it's like a radio show. And he's like, what's a podcast? I'm like, it's like a radio show. And he's like, how the fuck does that work? Exactly.

He goes, so let me, he goes, he goes, how do you tell people to work out on a podcast? And so I took me like 10 minutes while I'm explaining to him to realize that what he thought I meant was that you tune into the podcast and we tell you to work out. Yeah. All right, five more. It's real time.

And you can see the look. Carger. Yeah. You can see the look on work out. All right, five more. It's real time. Yeah. And you can see the look. Carger. You can see the look on his face. He was not even sweating. He was like, what a shit idea. Like what a terrible, like the look on his face, he couldn't figure it out.

He's like, what the fuck is wrong with people? Like wouldn't it be better to be on TV? And I'm like, wait a minute. Oh, he's serious. I'm like, no, I'm like, it's like a talk show. Is that okay? Do you do the Easter Bunny thing in the morning? Oh, like, we scatter like eggs and stuff, but I mean, we sort of associate it do the Easter Bunny thing in the morning? Oh, like, we scatter like eggs and stuff,

but I mean, we sort of associate it with the Easter Bunny, but it's not like high production, you know. Oh, there's a high production. You know, there's a Easter- I mean, bunny footprint over here. I don't even know. Like, who does that shit? So, you know, the previous episode,

we had like two episodes ago, we were like kind of like questioning, like, why do we light our kids about these characters and shit Oh, they know I did it and it doesn't make any sense right so So my kids were with my ex so I wasn't there for the Easter bunny thing But I went there shortly afterwards so I can you know hang out with them and stuff and I my daughter She's you know she's seven so she believes in all this stuff my son. He knows and I'm like so the Easter bunny bringing your Present she's like yeah, she's so excited. She's showing me and we're you know we're playing stuff and all this stuff, my son, he knows. And I'm like, so, Easter Bunny bringing your present,

she's like, yeah, she's so excited, and she's showing me, and we're playing stuff. And I said, how does he Easter Bunny get in the house? Does he use the chimney like Santa Claus? And she goes, no, she comes in through the sliding glass door. I'm like, that's weird. I'm like, it was locked. She's like, what, you're such a dick.

What are you doing? She goes, yeah, he comes in. I'm like, he doesn't set up the alarm or anything. She's, no, he comes in. And I'm like, he doesn't set up the alarm or anything. She's, no, he has magic. So I'm like, oh, so he uses magic to do all these things. She's like, yeah, and I'm like trying to plant the seeds. Like, let's get you a question, should I? You're such a bad man, bro.

Look at you, you're so awful. I'm gonna start like planting the seeds of the scent. You know what I mean? Like, really? Do you really think that's possible, honey? You're such a, that's crazy that he has that magic, but he can't just see if you try that why don't you just ask for more toys I tried that and then my son came up and he's like hey dad. Where'd you get these baskets? And I was like oh no, it's the Easter Bunny. It got him for you

Talking about dad. It was like CVS, right? So it was funny, it's funny you guys are going this direction because wow is that my stepdad's house, these people that I was just meeting, so we're all talking, and this conversation came up as I shared on the podcast,

we talked about Elf and the Shelf and when to tell your kids this, and one of the girls there goes, oh my daughter just found out about the Easter Bunny today, like, and she's been crying all day long. See? So she was just like, and the way she found out was that her mom left accidentally left a receipt or left a tag on the chocolate bun to like, you know, Walmart or wherever

she got her phone. Okay, so, now imagine that situation, right? Because her daughter's probably a little too young to kind of figure it out. So that's why she's crying, right? Because once they've figured out, there's not that big of a deal. But now imagine as a parent, like your child's like, there's a label, what does it mean? Like freeze frame, you have two options here, double down on my line, make it more shit, or tell you

know what I mean? So you can be like, oh, it looks like the Easter Bunny trying to trick you or looks like the Easter Bunny shops at Walmart to like mommy and daddy that's crazy I'll keep my eye open next time yeah you know you know how I figured out Easter Bunny's getting thrifty every time every time every time when I was a kid when I was a small shopper I would ask for shit my mom would be like that's too expensive for Santa Claus and be like expensive yeah he's got elves he's gonna make me what a fuck I want. Yeah, they're doing slave labor.

Wait a minute. I know. It's not real. Switch up. Santa Claus is running a swap shop. Yeah. But anyway, I feel like shit today after that sugar. I can totally tell.

Oh, I imagine. I can totally tell. The day we did the drunk Q and A, I was just a fuck. Yeah. You did. Mass after that. Oh, God. I just just felt awful I went home and slept like a baby god that was

hilarious though huh oh we did a little trip that was a good time that was it was the just just to do those like Justin spit all over me and when you watch the video you can see like the chunks of it goes like a half laugh and I was trying to say it

at the same time I don't know what happened man some like three huge chunks just flew the first time you spit on that is going to have same time, I don't know what happened, man, some like three huge chunks just flew. That's the first time he's been on my life. That is going to have to be something we don't do off wallers. Because that's like too much recovery trying to get in. I mean, I think Taylor was talking about possibly doing that

like once a month, maybe we'll see, but that's was. That's too much. Yeah, you gotta give it, you put the people what they want though. Let's do it with like whiskey. I can manage that better. See, I don't like this Justin's wheelhouse. We do anything drunk.

He's in charge. Yeah, he does. He only gets all weird. What did you do for Easter? What did you end up doing? We went to, so first we stopped at my family's house for a little bit and then we went to Jessica's, got some family friends, so we went to their house

and just hung out the whole time. And then afterwards we went home and watched the documentary. Would you guys watch? Oh, you know what I watched? Shit, what's it called? Fuck. What was it about?

The mysteries of the unseen or uncovering the mysteries of the unseen. It was like a 30 minute or 40 minute documentary on Netflix. Really fucking cool. Like they're showing all the stuff that you can't consciously perceive, like X-rays and gamma rays and like the very very small and the very very slow like we don't see like trees growing because of the gross slow but they're doing this time time lapse photo and really cool stuff. Like I learned that when a water when a water drop drops in a pool of water it bounces off and creates smaller and smaller drops until it completely disappears and it does this every single time.

Oh shit. They have like a super slow mo camera. Oh, so it doesn't actually penetrate the water. No, because of the surface tension. Yeah, because the surface tension. So it like bounces and then it makes sense. Was that the first time you've seen a video like that done super slow mo on something? I've seen it, but I didn't know that like piece of it.

You know, so you know, it's cool is and they got introduced probably 10 years ago. Maybe 15 hours been a while, but I remember the when that camera that camera first came out that had the super super super slow and then the baseball bat when they show a baseball. Oh, and it gets smashed. Oh, it's so weird. It's so wild to watch that that connection and what actually happens, you know, so it's like the ball actually bounces. Oh, yeah, and you see the bat like completely bend like it's rubber. Yeah, everything bends. Yeah, it's an extreme. It's pretty wild to watch bounces. Oh yeah, and you see the bat like completely bend like it's rubbery. Yeah, everything bends. Yeah, it's an extreme.

It's pretty wild to watch that. Not very, very fascinating. I didn't know that happens with a ring drop though. Yeah, they had that and they just... That alone makes me want to watch it. I want to see what that looks like. Yeah, and then I saw... How many times is it bounced like hundreds of times?

Or just like one time? I don't know. How many times? It just keeps doing it. And it just keeps turning into smaller and smaller like drop It's pretty weird. Yeah, well That's it. It's pretty fascinating. I think we should bring the bird bring your on bring it man Today's cause being brought to you by Kai Maricopi. It's the only coffee that is infused with all natural neutropics for a cleaner, calmer, and more focused buzz without the crash.

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You know, I've actually had people ask me this question several times in the last few months on my personal Instagram page. Antidepressants are an interesting class of drugs. You know what's most interesting about this is how many people are on them now. There's a... What was this, Dad?

It's like crazy. One in three or something like that. There's a large percentage of people that are prescribed antidepressants. Or maybe that was just pills, I don't remember. It was high though. It was very high. And what's really interesting about...

So the most commonly prescribed antidepressants are SSRI classes of drugs like Zoloft or Prozac. SSRI stands for selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor. And so what these drugs do is they reduce the amount of serotonin that's reuptaked in the brain. So it increases the amount of serotonin that's floating around the brain. So it gives you more, I guess, more available serotonin. And the effects take a while to really come up. So I guess you're supposed to be on them for anywhere between four to 12 weeks before you feel them working.

Now the studies on SSRIs are pretty interesting. They're just a little bit better than placebo for most cases. So it's kind of interesting to look at. And in fact, when you look at, I would venture to say, and I'm not a doctor, so I wanna preface this by saying that. So nobody, excuse me for trying to take this advice, but if you look at studies that compare

exercise and nutrition to antidepressants, exercise and nutrition outperform them, and in the long term, they continue to outperform them better and better and better Of course exercise and nutrition are not as easy as you know taking a pill and I think that's why people tend to want to take an Antidepressant and for some people apparently they do help quite a bit But here's my opinion on how they affect fitness because they've actually done studies on antidepressants and They're they're hard to really look at because the kind of people who take antidepressants are probably depressed. And if

it helps you from a depressed state to a non-depressed state, you can't beat that. That's the argument they've had for years. Yeah, do you think you're going to have improved fitness probably, right? If you're really down and depressed and an antidepressant improves your mood, you're probably going to have better fitness. But on the flip side of that, one of the number one side effects of antidepressants is weight gain. And there's some theories behind that. One of the theories is that people may actually be eating more or at least craving foods that tend to taste better because now that, now

that someone, you know, once someone's depressed and when they come out of it, they start to enjoy things again. And so maybe they're eating more as a result of it. But there's also some theories that it actually does something to the metabolic system and it actually causes weight gain that way. And there's actually some pretty compelling evidence. Well, do you know what is actually happening with dopamine and serotonin?

What's going on with that? Do you know what exactly happens when you take in one of those? It just increases serotonin is what's supposed to do. Now does that influence the other aspects of the brain? I would believe so. I don't know. But I would absolutely believe so.

And you look at some of the side effects of antidepressants, for example, erectile dysfunction is a big one. That tends to be a problem with the side effects of antidepressants, for example, erectile dysfunction is a big one. That tends to be a problem with some men who take antidepressants. Probably because I think serotonin can cause issues, sexual issues can reduce, like the ability to get, achieve orgasm is one of them also weight gain, like I said before. That's ironic. The chemical that makes you feel good in your brain also hinders you fucking getting a boner.

Does that make you feel more natural, right? It just shit sounds backwards to me. Well, I mean, if you look at like illegal drugs, like a loofe. Look at illegal drugs like MDMA, for example. MDMA is not an SSRI, but it does cause your brain to produce a shit ton of serotonin. You feel amazing, but one of the side effects of MDMA, which is awesome dancer, is that you can't, a lot of guys say they can't have sex

or they can't work as a monitor. So I think lots of serotonin, more serotonin tends to cause that. I know dopamine's involved in that process and I think you may be right, Adam, there may be something going on with dopamine there. But there are other antidepressant drugs, the SNRI drugs, which are the selective nor epinephrine re-eptake inhibitors. Now, those may increase or improve athletic performance, because nor epinephrine is, it's one of those chemicals that's kind of that energy chemical. And so, if it increases the amount of nor epinephrine in your system, you might actually have

more of that wired energy. But I mean, I've done research on this and the studies, I mean, they don't point to any athletic benefit whatsoever. But I think, again, if you're depressed and you become not depressed, you're probably going to have better performance. The awesome thing would be to get that person and not let them know that you're going to give them sugar pills, keep them working out, eating so they they're taking the pills thinking that they're getting is the placebo fact is Is about like 80% as successful some crazy high number. I remember I remember reading that it's yeah, and it's different between the placebo the sugar pills and the actual

Of belief. Yeah, it was especially with something like that right with something that is a mental disorder, right? That's going on, so I think that. Well, consider this, like, let's look a little deeper. So SSRI's attempt to give the brain more serotonin, because they think that depression may be a, you have issues with producing serotonin, or you have issues with using serotonin. So more serotonin's supposed to help you. Okay, that's the theory behind SSRI's. Most of the serotonin that's produced serotonin's supposed to help you. Okay, that's the theory behind SSRIs.

Most of the serotonin that's produced in your body is produced in your gut. And there is a very strong connection with depression and gut issues. In fact, people who are depressed tend to have stomach problems. Well, this is what we kind of talked with Rob Wolf a little bit. I remember you brought that up as a question to him, and he's like, no, absolutely, it's connected for sure. Yeah, so I would say, I've had clients in the past who have come and see me and hired me and have had issues with depression.

And the way that I've seen them use antidepressants is they'll take the antidepressants to give them the energy to do something because sometimes you're so down that, and again, this is clinical depression. And again, I'm not a doctor, but if you're sometimes these people are so down that, and again, this is clinical depression. And again, I'm not a doctor, but if you're, sometimes these people are so down that they're not even, they just can't get up off the, can't do anything. And so sometimes these drugs help them just get up and start doing something.

And then once they start moving and doing all the things that they know are gonna make them feel better physically, then they start to reduce their, you know, their antidepressant use. But again, you wanna do that into the supervision of a doctor because I do know that going off antidepressants cold turkey has got some pretty, can have some pretty scary side effects as well.

But consider your gut health as a big factor in the physical causes of depression or anxiety. Work on gut health and then exercise and fitness and, you know, make a huge impact as well. So, I know we're going a little off topic, but those, but, you know, all those things can have a pretty, pretty great impact on, you know, mild to moderate depression. I think at the end of the day, your goal, though, would be to try and get your client or whoever it is to wing them off of that, right?

You wouldn't want you I mean, I don't think anybody who's taking a prescription Wants to take it all I think ideally for anybody right you want to just stop taking it and then beef in infield, you know credible, right? Austin 4100 what are Sal, and Justin specific fitness goals? Oh, like our personal. Personally. Personal. Is it your goal? Yeah, like what's your current personal fitness goal?

I don't know. Why don't you go first, Adam? I always go first. Actually, I always go first on questions like this and then all the other ones you tend to hop in and jump in. Maybe. Do you have no set? We do.

Do you have fun about it? Interesting. It works. Because you like me to tell a story first. You have to do that. Interesting. It works. Because you like me to tell a story. First, you can put yours together. That's why I've already put that together. What am I currently working on right now?

My imbalances, for me, that's been a major one. It's been a major focus for the last almost year now. What are your imbalances of the same? Yeah. And that's great. Great question. Great point. And this is another's we'll need in a probably better topic here.

So I think a lot of times when you get your first like level of awareness of, oh shit, like I've got like this, you know, ankle pronating or I've got this, you know, my hip abducting or I've got something going on right with my body that's causing you their pain or, you know, discomfort somehow and you start to address it. I think there's a major misconception on how that works.

Like it's probably more than likely for most people, going to be something that you will forever be addressing going for because most of us are 30 plus years old and if you had these imbalances for a long time, that's a long time that you've had these bad patterns and to think that you're just gonna, oh, go see this chirorector or go do a couple of movements or go follow prime for two months and say, oh, I'm fixed, like no, like it's a constant, you know, battle of trying to get these better movement patterns.

And for me, you know, I've got this major issue where when I sit down in the baby position, I've got my left foot that tends to wanna pronate, and then I've also got poor thoracic mobility in that deep of a squat. Now I say poor, and that because it's been really poor, I've come a long way where I'm at now. But that's a lot of what I'm doing right now.

I have my prime, I'm spending probably more time that's a lot of what I'm doing right now. I have my, my, my prime, I'm spending probably more time in maps prime and fortification sessions than anything else. I'm still lifting and I just recently kind of transitioned into a little bit back into my maps black and going that direction, but I still wouldn't even consider myself following maps black. I'm more maps prime and fortification with sprinkles of my maps black in there right now and then. So because I know summers around the corner and I am a static driven. I know I'm going to be at polls. I'm going to be on the boat, be in Vegas, things like that. So I do want to get back towards my aesthetics a little bit, but I don't feel like I'm that far off because I've still been training.

I've just been focused more on my mobility. And, you know, the big thing for me is just tightening up my diet. I've kind of like, I haven't tracked in a very, very long time because I haven't been focused on weight gain or loss or building muscle. It's been how I move.

So my main focus is how I'm moving. And for me, I have to like, I haven't weighed myself in literally, like, months. So, in order for this to work, I have to completely, like, I don't do good with, like, dabbling back and forth on goals, if that makes sense.

Because what happens, especially when I'm focusing on a goal that is opposite of what my insecurities are. So, if I have a really hard time with my whole life, with being the skinny guy wanting to build muscle, and then I decide I'm gonna focus on a goal that is really not attached to that whatsoever, which would be moving better, right? That performance, that's all that matters.

And if I'm gonna be true to that, then I really have to not care about the other one. Is it because you feel like then your, the insecurity starts to peak out. Yes. And it drives you to, oh no, I gotta go lift heavy. I gotta go anymore. Yes.

You know, because if I start like doing the, you know, mirror selfies, weighing myself, checking all that. Fuck's with you. Yeah, then I'm like, fuck, I fucked this mobility. I wanna go, I wanna get back to shape, you know. I'm like, look, a certain way. Do you think they'll ever be a point where that won't happen where you're gonna be okay with that?

And it's, you're like, okay, I don't have the fear that it's gonna drive you. I think I'm really close to that. I think I'm really close to that. And there's parts to me that goes back and forth if I, and we kind of talked about this before with like we got into the whole like dressing, right? How we, how you dress and how that,

you go through these changes in your life of like caring about it and not caring about it. I don't wanna get to a point two where I don't give a fuck either because I think sometimes you can also identify with that with being so comfortable with, oh I don't care how I look. That you like, then real easily you make a lot of bad choices

because that's good. Well that may be where you're at now because you're not looking at all. Yeah, you know what I mean? Yeah, like you're just not looking at all versus, you know what I mean? Yeah, like you're just not looking at all versus, you know what I mean, I guess ultimately that would be the place to be, right? Is where you can do with all that

and not worry about influencing your decisions in terms of, that's a tough place to do. It is, and I think I'm, you know, for me a lot. I struggle with that still. A lot of, I think everybody does, and I think to say you don't, you're a fucking liar. You know, I think that that's, I think there might be some people who do. I could see us, bro, I could see you and I think to say you don't you're a fucking liar, you know, I think that that's I think there might be some people who do I I could see us

Bro, I could see you and I being there, you know more 50 60 I can't see us being so I mean or who knows am I going the opposite direction, right? Yeah, exactly I think the older I the older I get the more Proud I am that I've taken care of my physique and so and I'm more motivated to as I get older like that's one of the things That actually motivates me especially when I run into like old friends that I haven't seen in a long time that you know, man They they are some of my buddies like fuck they look they look worn down, dude Yeah, they look they look old, you know, I'm saying and they've already like kind of checked it off I'm like they're not doing much physical activities anymore, and it's like it's like car tap poker tables, fishing and like, you know, things that don't require a lot of movement and I'm not ready to fucking check it in,

you know, and so that motivates me to stay focused on that. So I don't know how, I don't know, when we talked yet, we just had a great podcast with Brett McKay, right, with about mindset. And I don't think I ever wanna get too comfortable. I think I like to be uncomfortable and challenging that. I think just being aware of it is the key, right? Like not being a major driver.

Say that and say, I go back and forth with that because when you say too comfortable, I think I thought that for a second too, but then I asked myself, I said, well, what am I perceiving as too comfortable? Too comfortable, I think maybe you're perceiving it as not caring, which I don't think that's the same thing. I think comfort is just being comfortable in your own skin.

Well, that carries out from that standpoint. So that's comfortable. So that's comfortable. That's comfortable. Too comfortable. Oh, is the not caring. Is the not going to the extreme. And I think there's a fine line between the two of them.

And I think a lot of people use that to justify Where they're at I think a lot of people say they're comfortable exactly and they're not exactly. It's like the whole like You know, I like I know that's too comfortable. I have a friend that's like really obese and Wonderful woman love her to death, but she's constantly like I'm so like all she does is post about how beautiful she is and how much I love my you know I you know, I you know But but it's not it's you can tell she's it's her projecting. She's closing herself It's much as she's trying to close herself But you can to me I can see right through that when someone is like that. So that's the definition of too comfortable to me

So there's comfortable yes too comfortable is when you start to use it to shield your insecurities It's like so I do do. I want to. I don't know how comfortable it is though, to be honest with you, she's probably not, you know what I mean? She's probably, from our standpoint, looks that way, but I'm sure she's hurting you. Oh, in sign, right?

Yeah. Yeah, the two comfortable, I think, is referring to the where the person is at, not necessarily the feeling that they have, right? So I think that people can get themselves in this two comfortable, you know, like so like my buddies say like they joke lightly about is like, bro, like I'm getting older, let it happen. It's natural. It's normal, you know, like, and they really try and

say it and roll off of them like, well, no, like to me, move me. I think, you know, someone like Jack Elaine had it's so crazy. How far ahead of it at his time, he was, you know, a lot of people don't know this But the way he started every single fucking morning of his life Do you know that he went and like articulated every finger every real like he's every like digit Yes, you just like would make sure His mouth his mouth his mouth his jaw his neck his toe each one of his toes each one of his fingers And he just stayed. Yes, so far ahead of him.

Oh, my right. And then explain so much of what the physical feats he was doing at like 80 years old, because he stayed connected his entire life to his own body. And so many people are so quick to fucking disconnect. He's also someone that I think was just a great example of actually being that, you know, in that health, in longevity kind of mindset. You know, he did do those physical, you know, feats of performance, but he wasn't, it didn't seem like he was driven by, you know, it was in my event, it was a whole lifestyle like every day.

Yeah. You know, sort of teach people like this is what I do consistently because I, I'm benefiting my body that way. You know, there was a lady that worked out at one of the gyms that I used to manage. And she was, I'm trying to remember now, it was a long time ago, she was probably in her mid 40s. And she was this very kind of earthy, beautiful,

just, she looked very healthy woman. And she would come in and she would lift weight sometimes and sometimes she would do cardio and sometimes she would do yoga sometimes she would swim but she she was so comfortable in her own skin that I didn't for I could I she stuck in my mind because she was so comfortable with it like she was just this beautiful woman she had gray hair so she didn't dye her hair so she was just totally comfortable with you know how she was and who she was. Everybody in the gym would comment on her like, man, you know, she's, she's got you look so good. And I'll never forget her because I get she just exemplified that that level of like, you know, just being who you are, but, you know, taking care of herself because

she loves herself type of thing. And it looks, I mean, it looks amazing. And it feels amazing to be around. And that was, once I saw that, I admired it. I didn't realize that that would be my goal, but it is now. Now, now my ultimate goal is to be in that state. Yeah, that type of person has really been able to establish what their own personal routines, what their own way of benefiting their own body,

instead of like doing something so other people give you compliments or other people are looking at you with judgment or you're not judging yourself enough as far as like, what could I be doing to improve? And some people really do, they hone in on that. Like this is what makes me operate better. This is how it benefits my body. And like it's so obvious when you meet somebody like that. So this morning I was working out over at ClubSport

and they have a pool over there. And I'm going there in the morning. I go pretty early. So I'm there by like 6am or whatever, 6.30. And there was this, in the pool area, there's always older generation people in there working out. And there's a large percentage of these older Asian women. And they're doing their movements and exercises in the pool.

And I was talking with Jessica about this, how in Eastern culture movement is such a part of their culture. It's been a part of their culture for a long time. Oh, yeah. You know, if you go to China, they'll have parks and you'll see people in their 70s, 80s, 90s. Tai Chi, and they're doing Tai Chi in exercise. And it's a part of their culture. It's very different than the way it's a part of our culture and our culture fitness is not a part of wellness.

It's about, it's either performance or it's looking good. Well, we've gone to the opposite extreme where we glorify the work martyrs, right? So the people that overwork to be successful, that's the new standard of person that we glorify. We glorify that whole process of being a startup. But you know, watch these destroying your body. Watch these women doing,

because I was watching them for about five minutes and I was just so amazed because they were socializing with each other, they were moving and exercising, and it was just mostly movement in the pool. And it was just great to see, and it is. It's a part of that Eastern culture and philosophy, which is when you look at Eastern medicine, Eastern medicine reflects it.

When you go to an Eastern medicine doctor, with you tell them you have headaches or you have acid reflux or constipation, whatever, some chronic disorder, they're gonna ask, they're gonna talk to you about your eating, they're gonna talk to you about movement, they're gonna talk to you about meditation, they're gonna talk to you about your mood,

all these different things, and it's just been a part of their culture for so long, which is probably why they outlive us. I mean, I think if I'm not mistaken, the longest living like modern society right now in the world is I believe South Korea, I believe the South Korean women there have it like a average lifespan that's getting close to 90 now,

which is destroys America's lifespan. And I really think it's just- That would be an interesting stat to see actually, is to see what like, what, what, like what's the average lifespan? Yeah, lifespan. While this living people, yeah, yeah, in all the different countries.

Yeah, I'm curious to see what the difference in that is. You know, for me personally, for my current fitness goal, very specific now, this is just happening right now, and I'm gonna do this for about 14 days, is I, and I, and I remind myself of this this over the weekend one of the reasons why I love Coaching people I have very few clients that I work with and mainly just keep my finger on the pulse of what we do But the reason why I love to do it is because it reminds me That exercise and nutrition

Isn't just about You know getting fit wow monoco worse. Where's monoco monoco? Yeah, that's in the fit. Wow, Monaco, where's Monaco? Monaco? Yeah, that's in the Mediterranean. Holy shit, Monaco, 89.5, so 90 years old, average. Japan, 84, Singapore, 85. There you go. San Marino. That's again in that whole,

83, Iceland, 82, Hong Hong Kong, 82 Switzerland, 82. So Jesus, you're not gonna find. Oh, Canada, Canada beats us. 81 for Canada, France, 81, Norway. You know what makes me angry about this? Where are we? They'll say that they'll attribute that to healthcare. Yeah.

It's not fucking healthcare. It's their lifestyle. United States, 79. Yeah, we have a horrible lifespan. We're number 43. Yeah, we're one of the worst. So for me, I Remember, I reminded myself that nutrition and exercise are also about having fun and it's okay to have fun with them And so right now what I'm doing and I do this every once in a while as I dramatically increase my dietary cholesterol intake for about 14 days. And every time I do this, I notice a boost in strength and signs and symptoms of more testosterone.

And of course cholesterol is the building block for all these hormones. So right now I'm consuming lots of chicken livers and egg yolks, and I'm having a lot of fun with that. Wow, Afghanistan. So just having fun with that. What about you, Justin? 50, bro, and I'm having a lot of fun with that. Wow, Afghanistan. So it's having fun with that. What about you, Justin? 50, bro, and Afghanistan. Oh, yeah, that's the worst.

They've been in war. They've been in war. I do, that's fascinating to me. Yeah, for me, I think I kind of pick and choose what area or what adaptation I've been avoiding, and then I weave that back into my into my system. So for me, it's been conditioning and that's been a focus of my stamina. Yeah, like stamina durability, you know, just being able to move, move and accelerate and also be a little bit more powerful.

And those are traits I want to maintain. Like I don't want to just be strong or just, I don't know, I tend to feel like my movement suffers quite a bit if I don't like maintain a certain level of power. And so I'll incorporate that and do it in a way where the movement is a high priority for me. I've been incorporating a lot more like kind of sled sprints and jump rope and like macebell swings. I tend to

lean a little bit more on the unconventional stuff too. Yeah, I have a lot more fun. I like to get outdoors. I've been running a lot more on the unconventional stuff too. So I have my fund door. Yeah, I have a lot more fun. Do you know, I like to get outdoors. I've been running a lot more hills lately around my house. I always love to do that because it gets me out in nature and then it's just, I get the endorphin rush too after I'm done and so I feel really good. So, but then at a certain point, then my body starts to kind to feel the pressure of that.

So I need to weave back into strength or mobility and focus a little bit more on that. You know, I think it would be kind of neat to actually set some sort of a goal that we all decide on and then actually kind of follow. Maybe we can kind of answer the story or talk about it. We haven't done something like that. I mean, remember we did my show first, right, where you followed my journey to get ready for the San Jose Pro, then we did Justin's transfer.

Did we do Justin's transformation first, which one was first? I was first. Justin was first. Oh, Justin was first. We did Justin's first. Justin, we did Justin's transformation first, which was really cool.

And that was like, fuck, we first, when we first started. So, I was wondering how many people even remember that yeah I doubt right like I mean I still we have so many new people now that I've had inboxing like oh you competed like oh wow like so you just now kill all of those things It's way it was like a hundred episode hundred something when we followed my San Jose Pro show So maybe we come up with some something I think that would be kind of fun to do Do something put it out there? Well, I don't know be kind of fun to do do something put it out there Well, I like I don't know about you guys, but I'm just putting it out there

I'd like to get some rings in here, and I'd love to do just a whole series of body weight Yeah, just all we do is buy somebody asked about that down there and that made me miss it big time Yeah, yeah, you tube there We just had somebody who asked that so without be cool thing to do man You know talking about cardio fucking a bro I climb mission peak this weekend Mother fucker bro. I did it. I yeah, well, I didn't so lately at first of all let me preface this with I hate to hike like I in fact I don't I don't like hiking. Yeah, I'm not a nature guy. I'm sorry You know, I'm saying that's what makes us all different

It's fucking neat that you guys love to be out there all the time like you know, it's funny I grew up in the nature. I grew up in the fucking I grew up in a place that you had to go 45 minutes with the grocery store. Yeah, I'm over. I've had the bears I have the amenities the deer in my fucking yard done all that shit But I mean you see many a hundred times camp like like everywhere like it wasn't nice just to be up there What you're doing? I do love some stuff But here I here's why the hiking we're going on a whole other tangent time like hiking, but the hike was way intense. I like to, like, why is this so in time?

I've never done Mission P. It's like steep grade the whole way. And normally when you do climbs like that, it's like a steep grade and they kind of level out for a long. The whole time. And I heard that, like, so that was my first time out there. So I heard that the roads up there are really bad because the winter we just had.

So like, it's all ruts and rocks and like pebbles. So you actually have to look where you're stepping because every step I'm stepping on a rock this way, then that way and then a crevice. And so, you know, I'm paying attention to my footing the whole way up. And there's a beautiful view. I mean, it's a gorgeous view of free months,

San Jose, you're on top of the mountain. It's beautiful. Problem is, you're so focused on the where you're stepping that you can't like walk down or like I would enjoy walking and talking with my girl, but I was catching my breath the whole time. Is that the one that's got the, what does it like a pole or a ring?

Yes, that everybody takes pictures on. Isn't our sticker on the top of it? I didn't even look. So we'll put our sticker on. Do they with a few fans go up there? Oh, and's great. There's a line to take the picture on there Hey, and I was I look at you know like fuck that we're not waiting a half hour just take a picture on this thing Like I people don't believe I was up here. I don't give a shit You know say like you don't believe you don't believe I came up here cuz and originally like selfie stick maniac

I wondered why people were so excited they climbed a hill until I was like okay That's something to be proud of because that shit fucking Get my ass like that the average person going up that I was watching like some really Decontition people I was like man good for you. This is a this I can feel this you know I'm saying I and now mind you I'm not cardio guys So of course I'm supposed to be out of breath a little bit But I saw some really decondition people that we're checking there at the hill was very motivating to see That many people out there. I mean your hundreds hundreds of people hiking at the same time at the same hill.

So it was my first time going up there. I absolutely hated it. It wouldn't recommend it to anybody. No, it was cool. I mean, it's cool if you really like to hike, but I would have rather gone somewhere where there was a little more level where I could talk to my girl. We could do the cereal. You like to walk?

Yeah, I'm a walker. I'm a walker. I'm a walker. Okay. Our next question is from the Slimey Unicorn. Ooh, where's she been? I'm at the woods. Is it a sheep?

Do we know that? Slimey Unicorn. Tell us. All right, so the Slimey Unicorn is asking, what do you do when you slip off of your precompetition diet? This person tends to go to extremes after slipping. So I got a little analogy for you. Well, first off, what the slimy unicorn is talking about

is when they are in pre-comp mode, so they got this real strict diet, then they go off of it because they fuck up, they binge or whatever, have a cheat meal. And then the next day, they'll do like tons of cardio or they won't eat all day to try and make up for it. So the analogy that I like to use with this is like when you're driving on a wet road

and your car starts to slip into one direction, if you over-correct with your steering wheel, you're gonna spin and crash. And that's the equivalent of what's happening when you slip off your diet and then the next day you try to make up for it, you're actually probably doing yourself more harm than good. What I would recommend is just get back on your diet and just get back on your pre-comp

and don't go crazy with trying to make up for the product, whatever you just did, because the likelihood is you're going to overdo whatever you're trying to do, whether it be, today I'm doing two and a half hours of cardio because yesterday I had a slice of pizza or I'm going to just not eat all day. You could definitely use fasting as a tool, but when you're using it to make up for something else, bad habits start to come out of that.

So I would say just try to get back on your diet. Now if you're super close to your contest, I'll let Adam answer that because... Well, I think that's a good idea. I got nothing. Well Justin, please. Skip. No, I think that's incredible advice, so. And the only thing I would really add to that is a little more specific on things that I learned, like as I went through this, if you actually are competing, right? I was

blown away on how much knowing what I know, and I still struggled with this, because you've resisted for so long for this. And I believe this applies for other things than just contest for bodybuilding. I think this is very similar to people that are prepping for anything where they have to be on a strict diet for a certain amount of time. And what we tend to do is once we made it,

we do this like celebration of like, ah, yeah, I fucking made it and they binge. And once they start that, it's a dangerous slippery slope and so What I had to do and because I caught myself doing the same thing like oh, I'm gonna eat like crazy post show and you in the heart The hard part with post show stuff is you look fucking awesome as you're eating bad food Like the more bad food I ate for like the first 24 hours the cooler I look like I just I mean I was so depleted that it almost all those calories were going to like just feeling my muscle bellies up

So I'm just kidding like you're growing and I still got abs because you were so to put your 2% body fat It's not like you're gonna go from 2 to 10% overnight, you know, but you definitely go from 2 to like 6% real quick. And so what I had to start to do was to treat after my show, I would have to mentally tell myself that my dieting, my programming, all that so that actually doesn't stop until another week to two weeks later. And I would diet out of that. So, and that's what reversed this, this huge like popularity and reverse dieting is all about is, you know, slowly reintroducing. Now that means it doesn't mean you can't go have a nice burger after your show at that. Enjoy it. I mean, have a great big meal. One big huge meal post to all that is not going to

kill you, but do not be fooled that it's not going to spike leptin fill you all and just create like this Your appetite is going to be roaring and so if you have this fuck it I'm over. I don't know I'm not competing. I'm not focused anymore and you lose focus real easily that can get out of control So I would actually start to plan out you know day one at post show day two day three day four What it would look like. And I would allow myself calories and extra stuff and things that I hadn't been able to do on my contest prep. But I would be more strategic about how I reintroduce it versus a free for all, which is what happens

to most people when they fall off. So I think treating it with a little more structure, I think that is something that you can't, don't just, because they're asking about pre-competition dieting too, so like you're getting ready for a show. Yeah, if you're, this is why I don't like cheat meals. This is why I think it's stupid when coaches do this, like, oh, you're gonna have a cheat day on this day.

It's like, no, you shouldn't even teach your client that. It should be like, hey, we need a surplus of calories and this is what we're going to do, but it's this culture that's been created in the competitive world that drives me crazy this, you know, hey, cheat day or cheat meal, like no, you idiot, like if your coach is telling you that, what's the science behind why he's telling that? Well, that's because he's trying to fill you back up with more carbohydrates and calories, but in your head, you're connecting that with, oh, I've been good, oh, I can cheat. And so you do this back and forth game, which is just a bad relationship with food. Really, if you're going, if you need a surplus

of calories, you should still target getting it from healthy foods. And if it does end up mean a burger or whatever. And really, when I think one of the best things you can do when you're going into pre-competition prep, or if you compete on stage, you know, and present your body, realize that all the things that you do to get on stage really push you towards bad relationships with exercise and food. Now that doesn't mean you're going to get those. Just understand that you're entering into an environment that really promotes that. It's an extreme.

And be aware of it because then you can see what's happening to your mind and your body as you're going through this process. I trained a pageant competitor a long time ago. So pageant world isn't that different from the competition world, might even be worse in terms of like diapils and starving yourself and stuff like that. And I could clearly see what it did to our mind

as she would enter these contests and what would happen with how she would eat with her food and with her exercise and how she would treat them. And my goal was always to make her aware of it. Like look, you are going to be presenting yourself on a stage. People are going to be dissecting you both physically and verbally and all these other things. And that is, that does, in some people, promote, you know, bad behavior or unhealthy behavior, I should say.

And just be aware of what's going on because then you can catch it before it gets out of hand because, you know, already the question, the question alone tells me that this particular individual is already in that bad state. Well, this is... They slip off and then they... You don't... The next day they try and make up for it by doing this whole whole. Well, I'm going to tell you something that's going to sting a little bit. You don't belong competing. Sorry.

It's a sport just like anything else is. There's levels to that. Like it's just like, I don't belong getting on a rugby field. You know why? Because I don't fucking know how to play the game. I'm no, I haven't trained for it. I'm not mentally. I'm not physically ready for it.

What the fuck would I be doing on a rugby? Just bottom line. Now maybe there's part of me that wants to go play rugby. So what would I do before that? I would do all the things to get me ready, to get ready just to even play the fucking sport. I wouldn't just hop on a field and compete with professionals or with people that are taking this on that.

So you're saying people with like really bad issues with food? If you, if you, if you, if you, if you have not honed in on your connection to food, if you can't, if you cannot diet for six to eight weeks, very, very strategically, strict and dialed in on your own with no competition, you haven't proven to yourself, why would you even hop on a stage and compete against people for a trophy? And it's a sport. Well, people, it's a great point,

because I mean, look at the sport in general. It is the most, it's the glorification of like all your insecurities. Oh my God, you're putting all your insecurities on display to get feedback from everybody else, which is exactly the wrong message. So, if you don't recognize that it's a sport and it's a temporary thing that you're just

going in to be like, oh, cool. I did that versus like, I get my identity from this. It's just going to lead back into your life. Now, on the flip side, it could also be a tool to help with those insecurities. Like, let's say you're somebody to address them, to address them, to get in a certain shape, and just, I disagree. It could be.

I, here's why I disagree. It could be a learning experience. Here's why I disagree. So, it's so far. That's like throwing me out on the rugby saying, and saying, hey, you're probably gonna learn a lot while you go out here and play. You're gonna break a leg.

Yeah, I mean, if you put me in a rugby game, I'm gonna learn some shit. You're, I'm not gonna, like, not learn anything. So, just like you put somebody in rugby game, I'm gonna learn some shit. I'm not gonna, like, not learn anything. So just like you put somebody in that sport, they're gonna learn something, but why would you do that? There is no reason for you to learn that way. So, no, this is, I want to talk about this.

I'm glad you went, we went this direction because this needs to be addressed because this is getting worst and the sport is becoming so popular. We just went and saw our boy, Arya, compete at a show that when I was competing just two and a half years ago, was like dead, like hardly anybody went to it. We went to the pre-judging of it, and it was twice the size of the night show that that was to you.

So the sport is exploding. Everybody wants to be a men's physique athlete or a women's bikini athlete right now. It's like the fucking cool thing to do. And what the problem I see with it is too many people are trying to do it that don't belong doing it yet. Or they've never learned how to do things a healthy way first. So if you're going to go to this extreme and you're not recognizing that it's a sport

without the knowledge to then transition back to a healthy lifestyle and a healthy identity for yourself You're gonna set yourself up with a fucking horrible Habits later on in life. I trained to compete for almost a year and a half before I decided to diet for a show and that entire time I was training my body and dieting But during that entire time I was learning as much as I could about a sport. I was about to get it. And I'll never forget my buddies that were all these big time coaches, right, for the big teams. I'm not going to say any droning, but I'm the bus. But I've got multiple buddies that run these big teams for men's

physique, bikini, and bodybuilders. And they were like, why don't get on the show now, get on there. And you know, the judges need to see you and the more they see you, the better chances you have to work out the ladder. And I'm like, I'm not ready for the sport. I'm still learning how I get ready, dieting wise, how I do this, what I need to do, how long I need to, I'm trying to figure out, okay, when I do this, this, and this,

my body takes this long to respond. I'm paying attention to all that stuff, and I was practicing all those things before I even went in at my first amateur show. And so when I hear people that are like struggling with this like falling off the wagon in their preseason or they don't even sure if, you know, 12 weeks is enough time for them to do, like you need to know all that stuff. You should know what it takes you to get down to 3% body fat from wherever you are currently right now and you should practice that before you ever decide to

stuff in an arena. Well, let me ask you guys this. Do you think that these sports of where you're presenting yourself, these aesthetic based sports? Do you think they've done more damage? Absolutely. This is why I'm, this is why I'm passionate and that's, don't get me wrong here. I'm not like, I mean, I know, I mean, I know how we'd answer, but I want to ask you. Yeah, but this is why I think that's, it's so important that people understand that I'm not like, man, I know there's, I'm probably off that people understand that I'm not like, man, I know there's, I'm probably offending a bunch of people that are like looking to sign up for their first show right now

and now I totally poop out on their whole fucking deal, right? But here's the deal, like, it is a very unhealthy sport. One of the most unhealthy sports, but I love it and I think you can do it. It's like, it's like CrossFit to me. It's like, it's very much like CrossFit. It's like, I love CrossFit too and I love to watch. I think it's an awesome sport and I think it's so cool to see some of these athletes perform

at the highest level. I'm envious. I think it's a rad. But here's my two issues with both. CrossFit and these types of sports that put you on display as far as your physique is concerned. You're competing in lifestyle day to day like necessities, right?

So I need to eat every day. Like I need to be doing some form of exercise, you know, every day to be healthy. The point I'm trying to make with CrossFit, I guess, is that there used to be a process to train for a sport, right? And there was a purity there as far as like, okay, I'm going to build myself up. And there's a whole process.

And then now there's this endurance part. And this is all leading up towards now I'm going to get in season. And now I'm competing at a very high level in season, right? So what happened was it becomes convoluted, it becomes this muddied up process where now we're competing in what was supposed to be the preparation for the sport, which is exactly how I see on, you know, on like eating, like eating stuff is being the preparation for me competing. Like, this is like, these, these are habitual things that are healthy processes that now we turn them into a sport for what?

Yeah, I just have a big issue with it. Yeah, I mean, for me, I mean, I think there's definitely some good things it's brought to the to fitness. Oh, I changed my life. It's changed my life. It's made me a better coach. It's made me, I love it, so don't get me wrong. But definitely if you have issues with food

and issues with body image, it'll probably push you in the wrong direction. It's not necessarily the greatest thing. Every show I've ever been to, I just hear the conversations people have and I can see the way people look. And it's just, oh my God, this is, I don't think it's that hard.

Okay, so it's very simple, right? Like I feel like if you, anybody before they decide to compete where you're going to get up, be compared by judges, stand next to other men and women and be compared, before you put yourself in that environment, you should at least just get yourself in the best shape of your life and see what that looks like and what it took to get there and what you learned along the way, that right there will at least give you a step up from 90% of these people that I see entering their first shows that just decide they're gonna hire a coach and say,

hey, because that's what's happening right now. It's becoming so popular that someone goes, like, I wanna do that. And I believe I got the discipline to do that. Who's your coach? Who helped you out? Then they go hire that motherfucker who has no business. You gotta consider the damage that you're gonna do

to your body, because you do create, even if you do it right, you are gonna damage your body, getting in that kind of condition. And so you need to know that, and you know how to come out of that. That's number one, because I've already now seen several women who I'm working with who've done some pretty bad damage

to their metabolic systems, to their gut, to, you know, their health in general. And number two, realize that there's going to be some, you have to withstand some damage to your psyche. Because you're going to restrict so much, because you have a specific date, because it's, it has to be so perfect that the time when you go off and that motivation is gone, that competition's over, it's going to flip you a little bit into a tailspin. And so be very aware when you enter into that world, you know, that you're going to be doing those things, so that you can at least approach it with it with a little bit more of an awareness.

Well, then you're also going to be judged by somebody who's going to tell you that your lats aren't big enough, your legs are too small. You know, you're not emotionally ready to handle criticism. It's not fucking spore for you. And not only that, but to be okay with it, it could be a bunch of bullshit too, because the judge is so subjective. The judge could be sleeping with one of the fucking girls that's up on stage, and he cares more about her getting a trophy than cares about you getting a trophy.

And even though you fucking have a better physique, you may not get it. And you may be told it's because you don't have round enough shoulders. But you know what I'm saying? Like you gotta be ready for all that and be okay with that. And like knowing what you're getting into. And I think just the first prerequisite to that is like, just diet yourself, just train, just hold yourself

accountable with this and see the pitfall, see the challenge that you have. So you're aware of it when you just had to get it go and play the sport. I mean, like prepare yourself a little bit. Cat Bull is asking, what is the most important aspect of personal care? Personal care. Cat Bull. Our own personal care.

Wow. What does it say? What is our most important aspect of personal care? I would say, are we personal, each one personal, or is this like a, maybe just what we think, is there a, is there a, is there a,

you know, I would say there's, I'm trying to think of something that would kind of encompass everything, right? And I think really, really understanding and caring for yourself on a true and accurate level. Because that will guide your decisions, that will guide your food, that'll guide your nutrition,

that'll guide the relationships that you allow yourself to have. You know, a lot of people are in these relationships with either friends or significant others where they're destructive, you know, they take away from you, they beat you down, they can be abusive., and the core of that is you don't care about yourself enough

to not be around that person. That's really what the bottom line is. And I know it's a lot of personal responsibility, and it sucks, because people feel stuck in some of these situations. So the most important aspect is caring. Just really caring about yourself is where, put it, I mean. That's funny, because that's true.

And it's like, yeah. I wasn't even with the opposite way. And more like more physical stuff. No, no, I was gonna say, no, originally, they, I was, actually originally I was thinking like a baby wipes and making sure you take care of your asshole. That's why I thought you meant like, yeah, like hygiene.

No, exactly, this is like a hygiene question. But you, you took it like as in personal care. I think it's something that'll cover all that. Yeah, well, I guess that's maybe been the probably the question is this because We're in deep man. He's no he's probably right because I know our topics lately It's been kind of this direction of like awareness and you know taking care of yourself and you know Here's one I so he's first of all a great book. I trim them nose hairs This you know the subtle art of not giving a fuck. I just posted it on my Instagram recently and I think that's an excellent book when you ask a question like this.

And actually what I liked about the book, it was quite opposite to what most self-help type books would be like where it is. Love yourself this night. It was more like, stop giving a fuck. Stop giving a fuck about everything and letting all those things affect you and embrace your insecurities and embrace the things that challenge you most. And so my advice to the best thing you could do for personal care, and I think Justin is really good at this too, well I think all of us are,

I think that's one of the things that were I think attracted to each other is that everybody is very growth-minded and we face the things that we know we're not good at. So I am not afraid. I love, it's crazy, but you have to learn to flip this on its head. Because in my early 20s, I did not love this. I did not love being told that I wasn't good at something or all the things that I was

insecure about, right? Or that I, whatever, whatever it was, I didn't like it when I was Younger and now as an adult I love it I embrace it tell me you build up the resiliency towards it. Yes it will You know it creates growth yeah and that's what you it's it's it takes you you know it's taking a take you which was A lot of the history behind the company level up that Justin I were first originally started before we met Sal was and and Doug was, you know, that's what level up stood for was that I was always looking for this next level of growth and trying to put myself in these uncomfortable positions to level up. And so I feel like, you know, the best thing you could do to care about yourself is to actually be

seeking out these things that you're most uncomfortable with and facing them. I think we spend so much time trying to hide or avoid them or ignore them or deny them. And instead of that, like, oh wow, really pay attention to things that state change you, that make you feel different, whether be positive or negative, do not neglect to pay attention to that and then address it. And by address it, I mean internally address it like, whoa, Sal just said, and understand how you're addressing it each time, you know, like what steps you're taking and then you can really start to see how this all plays out, you know,

as you pay more close attention to your everyday habits, your everyday decision making, you know, the things that somebody says that affects you a certain way, like how you react, like things that somebody says that affects you a certain way, like how you react, like all these things, you just start to really take a critical look and dive deeper as far as like what makes you and like how you interact with your environment. And once you start paying closer attention to that, it's like, it's very eye-opening and then you see what benefits you the most.

I mean, it's right there in front of you. It takes, it does take the awareness to be able to say to yourself, like, I'm not good at this. We don't like this. Because there's a lot of things we avoid that we don't realize that we avoid. That's a really hard part to do. That's a very, very difficult one. I have a tendency to do my taxes on the last fucking day.

I do this every year, right? And I had to really talk to my head to this realization, like, yeah, I hate them so bad, but I do them anyway. Why don't I just do them? You just do them early. Yeah, why don't I, and just do it, like, kind of just force myself and face that type of thing and get more organized with it.

And there's a lot of things that, you know, that I have in my life like that, where I'll put things off, or I won't do them because I don't like doing them, or they make me uncomfortable. And now what I'm trying to do is, okay, this really makes me uncomfortable, gotta have to do it anyway. I'm gonna just do it right now. Well, and let's go. And let's go. Let's go further, though, like, so, which I know you have this ability to do that. I think

where people really miss is because of all that. So let's say that's the saddest thing, right? Then what normally happens is it puts him in a bad mood and then maybe he snaps it like his wife or his kid or his partner and he is blaming that person for whatever stupid little thing they're doing, right? And in reality, it's really this thing that's very deep that it's something that he procrastinates, he puts off that's now affecting him that way.

That's what I mean by. Because it causes you some form of anxiety. Yes, you know, so you're like, it's like sort of a protection process where it's like you're not gonna address it, not gonna address it, not gonna address it, so now I have to address it. Because it's like, yeah,

taxes especially, I can kind of voice into this because it definitely does the same thing with me. But I figured it out, you know, it's like it's the unknown of it, you know And so once you once you really start to to dive into Knowing it more in depth as far as okay, here's the process, you know Okay, I got to write this all out first. So next year. I'm gonna get on top of this early You know step one is to fill it all out, you know, send it off to this person and do it like, and you start managing. So now becomes more known and more expected. And you get into those numbers of like, so it's not so uncertain because the uncertainty of

it is what gives the most anxiety, right? Like what? Oh my God. Now we're gonna have to pay. Well, let's talk about too. How amazing that feels when you flip that on its head too. Like when you actually turn it into a strength of yours. That now it's something that you used to procrastinate, you avoid, you didn't like, that you said, you know what, I'm gonna fucking embrace this, I'm gonna solve this, I'm gonna be ready for this. And then the following year when that comes around

and the feeling that you'll get, you'll be like, whoa, that fucking a. I allowed that to, I allowed all that stress on myself because it's something that either one was an insecurity or I didn't want to deal with whatever it may be. Whatever the reason doesn't matter, it's the fact that that's something that's causing you. And this is what self-care is really about in my opinion, is learning to see these things that create shifts in your state and then learning and backtracking and diving into what

caused it and then what can I do differently? A favorable reactions, what's the better process and utilize this? You learn to do that, I'll tell you right now, like you'll be taking real good fucking care of yourself. Or you can just get the wipes. Or that, just wipes. Check it out, mind pump media. Shave repubes. .com, 30 days of coaching, still for free,

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