Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 523: Genetics & Body Fat Storage, Maximizing Half Hour Training Sessions, Adam’s Return to Swoll & MORE

Episode Date: June 7, 2017

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If you wanna pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. Mind, up, mind, up with your hosts. Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. In this episode of Mind Pump, we give Adam a little bit more shit about running out of gas on our way to the Spartan race. We talk about Spartan racing.

It was totally planned. Yeah, exactly. We talk about Spartan racing and the mindset of obstacle course racing racers. We even talk about doing one or we talk about not doing one. What type of fun is that? Is that type one or type two fun? That's it. You're going to find out if you listen to this episode.

We also answer some questions. We talk about how to maximize your time with a client when you only have a half hour. We talk about do genetics play a role in how your body holds fat. We talk about the craziness. Get that out into the story. Oh yeah. Make sure you're filming that. Oh, God. Oh, man. Ben's butt cheeks against the window there. We talk about the craziness of our friendship and how we trust each other and how that helps us

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we would give someone to get started. It includes Maps and Abolic, which is our foundational program. Maps Prime, which has a self-assessment tool so you can correct imbalances. We put the Nutrition and Fasting Guide in there for the Nutrition aspect of it. And then we give you access to our forum so that we can monitor you along the way. You can find this at mindpumpmedia.com. . Come on, I'm talking to you. Yes. Come on.

Yes. Yeah. These are the, what is it? Like tears of sun? Tears of sun? Yeah, tears of fears. No tears for fears. No.

Was that the tears of sun? Right? Was that the song you guys were talking Seagull? Flop of Seagull. Flop of Seagull. Was that the song you guys were seeing? Was that the song you guys were doing? You guys were going crazy over in the car? Was that our running out of gas song? Was that that one? Yeah. Can we talk about that? That's one of the things that you never expect to happen. Yeah. Happened to me when I was like, you know, 16.

First driving? Yeah. Yeah. In my old truck that had like no gas gauge. So you had to like calculate the amount of it. I had to push it a couple times. Actually, my battery died because it was just like my alternator died. So I was pushing my car just recently.

And then that happened. No, man. I think I put some juju on you now Did you did your gas gauge work or were you calculating it? No, I so what happens is it gives you me the distance till empty, right? Until it's like, I think under 10 or 20 miles and then it just says low fuel, get gas, right? So I know that I had somewhere between five and 10 miles when that whenever it went off, which I didn't see. And when we were trying to get there, right, we're trying to make it on time. So I know that I had somewhere between five and 10 miles whenever it went off, which I didn't see.

And when we were trying to get there, we were trying to make it on time. So I was like, okay, you're jamming, you're like throttling now. Well, I thought, okay, we might have, I thought we were like a mile away when we ran out. So I thought, okay, if we can just get there, I can get gas on the way back out.

Yeah. And I didn't realize that we were still that far. I wonder if, is that the first time you run out of gas or is this happened with that? First time ever. In your entire life? Entire life. I've been in another car when somebody else

ran out of gas. No way. But I've never ran out of gas before. That's why I mean me a couple times. And I was, I mean like I said, I knew I was low. I knew I was going to cut it close, but I thought we were closer and I thought I could make it. You know, so that was.

We had a lot of weight in the car. We were pushing it. A lot of testosterone. We had a lot of weight in the process. We were pushing it. We had a lot of glue power. Definitely an asshole move on my part. No, no, you know what? It turned, here's the thing, like made it epic, right? Exactly. Silver lining.

Here's something I'm starting to learn as an adult when shit like that happens, really you, there's nothing you could do, like hindsight's 2020. So I could get mad and be like, why don't you check it, whatever. Or I could be like, hey, we're all together Yeah, let's have some fun. Let's make kind of it. Yeah, who gives a shit and we actually got some I'm sure Taylor recorded some great content. I mean we did our own Spartan race in the in the freaking weeds We did yeah, I'm the side of the row being overall kinds of shit. I did some shirtless yoga bit by ants You did yeah, it was a good time. People pulled over.

It was. That is a good question. That is a good point, right? What's the quote? There's no such thing as big problems, only problems that we make big. So I think that, say that someone's feeling hard. Hard work. It's only good if you're working hard.

I'm sorry your husband died, but just remember there's only problems you make big. Well, I don't think your husband dying is a problem. That's more like a tragedy, right? Tragedy! But really though, like the little things that happen like that, I feel like we make them so much bigger in our head when you stress, because like you said, you can't control it. It's not your worst. Yeah, exactly.

You're only going to make that situation worse if you were to get angry at each other. That's wisdom though. We're all, like, you know, younger stuff, I've been like, AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH What do they put on? I think what have exploded so many stupid regulations they literally make it impossible to frickin' operate the thing. It's so, it's just let it pour. That could have been very frustrating too. It could have been here for you reading. I was so, okay.

I was so soaked in gasoline after all that. That's why I like, I sort of like step back. Oh, you don't need too many people and one, you know, collective saying, hey man, do you like this? Hey man, do you like this? No, like, no, no, no, no. One person's gotta figure it out. Yeah, and you were pretty self-aware.

I remember you finally caught Sal after a while like, okay, I think it's enough. I think we were like, I was like, don't hammer him on that bro. Like, we're ramped up here. We're up here. Yeah, it is. Let's pull out.

I was like, this is perfect content. I know. Because we could have kept, yeah, just jabbing, jabbing. Like, no, no, no, no, no. That was a good time. But, you know, then we had a great time. We actually made it to the Spartan race for a little bit, which was cool.

And we had, we had a press pass that's waiting for us. We didn't need him. No, we just went right in. Fuck it out of, just blaze right through the race. This drives through the race. They're like jumping over us. And drives right into where, I don't know, who's, what we were. Here, in the back of the front. That's a little life hack for you. Like when right into where, I don't know, who's, what we were.

In the back of the frame. That's a little life hack for you. Like when you guys are, when we go places, or this is for our audience, right? If you're going somewhere and you're trying to get in or you're just getting, get some laminated, get a lanyard act like you're supposed to be there.

You know what I'm saying? Just act like you're supposed to be there. Most people give themselves away, like you're not supposed to be here. You're doing something you shouldn't be doing because they're like looking nervous. Yeah, they're nervous, they're looking around. But when you walk in, like you own the place,

like, yeah, no, we're coming here, we'll be over there. We're gonna talk to that guy over there. Yeah, he's expecting us. That's how we just pointed out a guy. What's that movie with Leonardo DiCaprio? Can't you see if you can? Epic movie. True story.

One of my favorite moments. And that's how that, people like, oh my God, how did you do all that stuff? It's 100% a sumptive closing. Yes. You just walk in and just like, you act like you're, I feel like, close my god, how did you do all that stuff? It's 100% assumptive closing. Yes. You just walk in and just like, you act like you're, I feel like Kyle Kingsbury. There's really good at this.

I bet you Kyle isn't fucking genius at that. I say, I say, learn something from him. The takeaway closes, the number one close, and then the assumption closes, the second best close. Those two close, I feel like are the best. Like, takeaway close, because everybody wants what they can't have, so takeaway close is always number one.

Yeah, because we literally drove up and the dude who's checking cars and stuff because you're not supposed to park in there unless you're Like the press or a vendor and we just pull up and we're like We're supposed to go where the where the press is and the guys like oh That way so we just Just drove in What are the guys laughed at us? The camera because it's all small. He was like, oh yeah, you're media. Look at that little DSLR, right?

We have a little DSLR and it's covered by like fucking Fox and ABC. They're like fucking Jon's. I like to grab like a tripod and like, yeah, I got a tripod. We're official. We're media. It was cool to watch the race though. And then they had a little kids version. Did you see that?

Did you get to see that? Yeah. Awesome. I didn't realize how big these, this like thing is and it's not just Spartans going to go on. Well how inclusive it is to all different ages, you know, kids, all over the world. What's also your obstacle course racing? Oh, is that the category? The category acronym.

So Spartan is the biggest one, right? And then I think tough mutters like the second. Yeah. But I think it's a, there's a huge discrepancy between the two of them. What do you mean like the size wise? Yeah, it's like it would be like compared. It may have been competitive for our fitness goals back in the days. You know, like when 24 of it is like in the billions of dollars

and the second biggest gym chain was like hundreds of millions. I see. It's like not even, it's like dubbed more than double. Yeah, I can see the pop, why it's so popular. When you're there and you're watching it, you can feel the energy. Yeah Yeah, I can see the pop, why it's so popular. When you're there and you're watching it, you can feel the energy. Yeah. And you can see the teams,

which is really cool to see people kind of push themselves to do this thing. And, you know, talking with Joe, and of course talking with Ben and other people, like there's a lot of, because we talk a lot about the damaging effects of super extreme, strenuous forms of working out. And yeah, that's definitely not how you want to train

all the time. However, there's in a emotional psychological, and even I think spiritual piece that you get from really exerting yourself to your max. So from a physical physique, I mean, it's all part of the process of training is to like lead up to a peak. And then you come back to, you know, like a more reasonable training throughout the rest

of the year. Well, it puts things in perspective. I think Joe said it best. Like, when you're a business guy, you know, let's say you work in an office and it's just you're stressed out because you're emails and maybe that your co-workers and asshole and traffic and you got all this stuff to do and you go home and the kids don't want to go to bed and whatever. And you're just like, my life's so stressful, right? And then you go do one of these races where

you're like, I could never climb that wall. I could never swim that, you know, water. I could never do these things, but you train and you push yourself and then you find yourself throughout the race, multiple times, feeling like you're gonna break, but you're like, no, I'm gonna push myself. Yeah, you press through it.

Through it, it kind of, it almost resets your perception of challenges. And of course, if you want to take it to another level, people get even more extreme and they go do these, you know, these wilderness hikes and all that kind of stuff. And when they come back, they all talk about how, you know, everyday stressing out. Everything else is just little things. Did you did Ben share with you? Well, when he stayed the night your house last night, the, the, his, the most challenging race he's ever done.

No. So he, well, it's funny. We haven't, we didn't talk to Joe Dacina about it. Nor did we talk to Ben about it. Uh, I got a chance a little bit off air to talk to Ben about it was, um, Joe Dacina does this Called I think it's called the death race and he's a private wall. It's private on its property, right? Mm-hmm and Ben's so Ben's done the whole Navy seal week, right?

The what's he called? Yeah buds. Yeah buds week or whatever. So we've done buds. Wow. He went through buds He didn't actually go so there's something that that they emulate it, right? This is like it's very similar. It's down in San Diego also. It's seven days. He goes to a... See you fit. Something like that. Yeah, I don't remember the name and I forgot divine, I think.

I think so. Like so he's done that. And he says that, you know, and he's like not to take anything away from, because it's different. The seals are carrying guns and there's way more going on. He says, but he says the scariest race I've ever done was the death race at Joe Dacena's house. And he, it's like crazy.

He said it was a 38 below. And you literally get like a little like, you know, what are those called the start to fires, the little flint. Yeah, the little flint. And that's it. And you have to, and it's three, it's 72 hours, I believe, is and it's three it's 72 hours. I believe is what it is 48 or 72 hours and That's all you get like you get a flint and that's it and he has all and the part of it is this obstacle race Where you have to do like just a bajillion burpees and you have all these things that you have to accomplish and you get like a frozen fish

And you got to cook it and eat it. That's what you get for survival He said it was he says it was so it was so crazy like, a couple of people got frostbite on the first night and he says that was one of the most, you know, mentally and physically challenging races he's ever done in his life. So you have to talk about it on London Real. So you, you two, London Real. You have to ask yourself, like the following question is like, if you look at it from a logical standpoint, you think to yourself, why the hell are you doing that? Like why are you putting yourself through all the stuff when we have all of these incredible comforts of modern life? Like why would you, number one, put your life at risk?

But even if it's safe and you know you're not going to die, like why would you put yourself through that strenuous, test, physical, and mental, because it obviously is, it's not enjoyable while you're doing it, right? And I think the answer is because there's a part of us that needs that. I think people have discovered that. And it means something different for everybody.

It could mean for some people, it could mean literally just going camping for a few days and just that's roughing it or whatever. But there's a piece of us as humans where we kind of need that a little bit, that reset or that challenge. And when people discover it, it's almost like they become addicted to it.

And the people who I find so far, my own personal observation, the people who I find that seek that out the most, who do it kind of, not like frequently, but do it consistently, like maybe once a year, they'll do something like that. There's some of the most successful people it kind of not can not like a frequently but do it consistently like maybe once a year They'll do something like that. There's some of the most successful people I've ever met Yeah, it's not like you know to mean like my buddy who you know works nine to five at Walmart Whatever it's always like my buddy who's an entrepreneur who's built this business or this other guy who is a scientist

You just go like these are people who are like like a high achiever well Ben was saying to seek it out Ben was saying that last night when we were talking he had a actually statistic to back that up on People that do those triathlons and stuff like that the the percentage of them like how much their income I think their average income is like a hundred and seventy thousand dollars a year is what most those guys do most of them are in their Mid-delay 40s and have accomplished a ton business Most of them are in their mid to late 40s and have accomplished a ton business wise and now they want to have like optimum. I mean, it kind of makes sense. You're stretching out your capacity, you're sort of re-acclimating to a new level.

Whereas everything else, you get back to doing your daily sort of habitual things and stressors and like, you know, workload and all that, it just seems like a lot less, you know, demanding. And so you can just, you can handle it, tackle it. For me, I wonder, is it because they naturally have that personality and the tendency to challenge themselves, so they're constantly just looking for challenge, or is it because these people

are so performance oriented or optimized oriented where they do things that they find give them measurable progress and results in terms of that. That's a good question. I would speculate it's the first one. You think it's just something that they just, they just think it out. I think because of the whole what Ben was saying about the

type of guy that attracts, type of male and female that it attracts, I think that they've made all the money, they need like they did that. You know what I'm saying? And that was obviously if you're making 170 plus a year, you've made it pretty well. You're pretty considered upper class, right?

So you've busted your ass, you've got a pretty, money is less of a niche. You've got a motor, right? And so I think that, you know, you've kind of proven that to yourself like, okay, I can provide right really, really well. Now let's see where I can take my body and what's the most elite level I can push it. Put ourselves on the skill. But then it's like, what they keep doing it.

You know, I mean, they don't do it once and like, okay, I did that. Well, then I think it becomes addicting, right? Well, that's what I mean. I wonder if they're doing it. This would what I mean? They don't do it once and like, okay, I did that. Well, then I think it becomes addicting, right? Because like, yeah. Well, that's what I mean. I wonder if they're doing it. This would be a wonderful thing to dive into. Like, I wonder if they're motivated to even try it because that's the kind of person they are.

But then they keep doing it because they're like, wow, this is making me more effective at life, like business at, you know what I mean? Like, they've kind of figured out a way to, because think about it this way like. I'm sure it's a huge endorphin rush too. You know, at the end, like, you know what I mean? Like they've kind of figured out a way to, because think about it this way, like, I'm sure it's a huge endorphin rush too, you know, at the end, like you're just like, wow, like I just did that and I accomplished that,

like what a gratifying experience. Well, scale it back a little bit, right? Let's scale it down a little bit, like exercise, just working out a gym consistently. I could see how some people are motivated to do it because they're hard workers, but they definitely get benefit from it as well in their everyday life. I've had so many clients that were business men and women who I've trained, who one of the first things that they noticed is that they're better at work.

I had one guy, I'll never forget, very, very successful. I looked up to him, he was self-made, had no formal education. I think he even dropped out of high school, but then he ended up becoming a millionaire through becoming a serial entrepreneur, just a wonderful man. And after I trained him, and he had worked out consistently for years, it comes and hires me, I train him, and he would tell me like,

he goes, I tell you what, he goes, I like being fit and stuff, he goes, but really keeps me doing this. He says, I'm better in my meetings, I'm better when I meet other people. He goes, I'm just more effective at work when I work out. And so I wonder if a lot of these high achievers continue to challenge themselves with these like physical feats,

of these races, obstacle races, or, you know, are they going to lose their mind? I'm mentally sharp. Yeah, because it makes them better. So like, shit, I'm getting a lot out of it. I'm sure. I'm saying. Yeah, I'm sure. What about you guys, could you see

either one of you being that guy? I can definitely see a benefit from going outside of my comfort zone. Not that. Can you, can you, could you picture yourself being that guy? To go do those things. Yeah, we all agree that there's tons of benefits behind it. I'm not denying that. Once a year. Could you, could you, could you see yourself? You know, if you had asked me that question a few years ago, I would have said never, but I had an experience last year when I did my road trip when we all met up at Ben's house for the first podcast we do with him. And me and my girlfriend had a camping site in Lake Tahoe

and I told the story on a podcast a while ago, but what we were supposed to do is drive to the lake, you rent a kayak, pack your kayak with your tent and all your gear, and then kayak Lake Tahoe to this camping ground that you could only reach through boat or through kayak. And first off, that was way out of my comfort zone. I never did anything like that,

like kayak in the middle of a lake to camp, like, okay. I did it because I said, okay, I'm gonna really try pushing myself and I'm dating this new girl and I don't wanna look like a massive pussy. So we do it and we get lost. We actually pass the camping site and we keep going and we ended up kayaking

for like eight miles and it gets dark and we're lost and we're stopping at these different points and we were totally fasted and we've got gear on our kayak. We finally get to the wrong campsite. We have the hike two miles and it would be in this entire endeavor and after I did it the the way I felt afterwards and she describes it as type two fun. I've never heard that term before. So type one fun is you're having fun while you're doing it. Type two fun is after you remember it later. Then you're like, fuck that was awesome.

And so when I came, it really kind of changed me because I realized like, that wasn't that bad. I totally did and I'm really proud of myself. And there was no, like the plan went to shit and we just totally got lost. And but it was kinda awesome. So now I can see maybe, like I never would have considered it,

but now I'm considering like, I don't mind trying something, nothing crazy, I'm not gonna do no fucking death rays. Like I might do something like, hey let's go hike 10 miles in camp, which is way out of sight of my comfort zone, but I might wanna do that, I might wanna try that. What about you guys? I don't know, dude. might wanna do that. I might wanna try that. What about you guys?

I don't know, dude. I don't know. I definitely wouldn't say never, for sure. I've put myself, I've done things now that I would have thought I would have never done before. I would have never thought I would get on a bodybuilding stage in my life. That would never have had a desire for that.

So, I've already done things that I know that is out of my comfort zone. So I could see myself doing that for like a challenge. I don't think I could see myself ever getting into it. And I think a lot of that is, you know, I did you do a lot of it. You did a lot of backpacking, didn't you, as a kid? So I mean, I did. I camped, I camped every summer and we bowed and we kayaked and I did all that stuff. So I was, and I, all that stuff, I don't mean like I did OCR races. I wasn't doing that. I've done things like Muddy Buddy, which is nowhere near the, the level of, of, of Spartan

races, but it's fun. It's challenging. So I semi into things like that. To, but to get into it at the level that some of these guys are like Ben or, or, or some of the competitors that we see, I don't, that I don't see because I still am, you know, I'm still aesthetically driven and the physique that you that you have for that isn't the physique that I like for myself. It would just counter what you're currently exactly. It would counter what I what I like to do. And I feel like that's the only knock I have

on it is it's not advantageous to have a bunch of muscle and a bunch of bulky muscle on the body. No, definitely not. Yeah, your body, I mean, if you're training to be good at that, which I would wanna do, if I'm gonna do it, I wanna do well at it, right? You would, I'd end up, I'd shrink up into this kind of lean looking, you know,

right. I'd have to, it'd be totally counter to what you're doing now. Right, right, so that's why I don't know if I would be into it, you know. Yeah, I think it's more, for me, it's more of a mental discipline. Like I could look at that as well. I feel like it's more in your wheelhouse than most any of ours. Well, yeah, and it's, it definitely reflects a lot of, I've put myself through a lot of like

extreme situations like with hell weeks and double days and I've been camping where we only had a kayak and we had to catch our food and all that shit. And like we portage, it was in Minnesota, which is something, like I would love to do this with you guys, but I know you guys might not be into it. But like we literally like build a campsite and you pop up tents and then you go out in the lake and then you fish and you catch your food and then you go out in the lake and then you fish and you

catch your food and then you go to the next lake and there's like a ton of lakes and so you're just constantly going and you're getting a barrage of like different kind of weather and you know it's crazy and you can drink right out of the lake because it's so fresh. But anyway like we did that for a whole week and I mean I was fucking like it was brutal and it was hard and but I always remember it. So, I look at it more as like an experience. It's not fucking, it's not necessary, like I crave it, but when I get through it,

like I always get something out of it. So, it's type two fun. Yeah, it's like I know I would enjoy it. If I did the race, I would enjoy it as I'm doing it. I honestly don't feel like I would want to prep too much for it. And reason being, even when I did the football game, prior to that, I didn't even train to play in the football game. It was all reactive.

I was in the moment, I was like, I'm going to do the best I can do right now. And I did, and I put my whole body into it and threw myself out there. And I was just like, just beat up and exhausted but I played pretty well. But it was after I was done. I was like, oh my God, I had the biggest rush. What you're thinking behind that,

are you just wanting to see what you're capable right now without, yes, specifically training for it? Just wanna see where I'm at, like what I could mentally overcome. It's not, for me, that kind of stuff is not physically, I'm not into physically preparing myself for it. You don't give a shit, like, oh, I'm not taking first or second place, it's just like,

I could give, what can I push my body to, right? Currently, right now, without a point. What can I overcome in, know like all this shit's getting thrown at me and like can I muster up the ability to overcome this. And I want to train the way I want to train and benefit my body of course, but you know for me to properly train for something like that like you said, it would kind of

change your body, you would look more like an endurance athlete you know, like I'm not interested in that at all. So, see, I could see, say I could see getting me to do that like that. Like let's say we signed up for some race. Just jumping into it. Yeah, just jumping into it. Training the way I always train right now.

Just maybe doing a mobile eyes movement, all that kind of stuff. That would actually be cool. I can give a shit what place I get. That would be funny, because you'd have three fucking meet heads. You'd be surprised to, so my when I when I did Muddy Buddy, this was quite a it was probably 10 years ago.

It was with my three other best friends and we we did it in teams, right? So Muddy Buddy is designed to be in partners. Like one guy starts off on the bike. One guy starts off on the run and every obstacle course you flip flop. It's really fun. So you take out the guy. Obviously the guy in the bike is going to get the obstacle course first, right? So he gets to the first obstacle course you flip flop, it's really fun. So, you take the guy, obviously the guy in the bike is gonna get the obstacle course first, right?

So, he gets the first obstacle course, drops his bike or your bike, your guy's his bike. He does the obstacle course, then he takes off running. So, then you show up like 10 minutes later, you do the obstacle course, pick the bike up, then you go riding, and then you end up kind of passing him while he's running, and then you just do this back and forth, the whole way there.

So, and I did, so I was talking a lot of shit to my other two friends who were competing against that. And then I could train for it. I was still, I was 25 years old. I think I partied the weekend before. And I'm like, I train hard in the gym. I train enough, I train hard enough in the gym that I felt confident that I had the, the mental capacity to push myself. And I actually rolled my ankle with a level three, sprain halfway through the race. And I actually rolled my ankle with a level three spray and halfway through the race. And my best friend and I that were on a team still beat the other two guys.

And they were training like leading up to it. But in their defense, they weren't as much into fitness as I was. So I was already, you know, I wasn't pretty good fitness, like lifting weights and I was super setting and doing a lot of shit like that, like high intensity training, but I wasn't doing any sort of real cardio to get ready for it.

And we actually still won. So you'd be surprised like some of that stuff, how you could still pull through it. Yeah, you could, you could grit your way through. Yeah, if it's short enough, if it's short enough, I mean, a marathon, I'm like, I'm like, maybe, maybe this course, maybe we'll just start with like a hike. And I mean, we'll do some hiking. That's so extreme. Yeah, that's it. Let's do a hike real quick. And then we'll see what we'll see. Well, speaking of it,'m just, I'm hiking That's so extreme!

Let's do a hike real quick and then see what we can do. Oh, speed it, speed it time. What's, what was that bird at, Douglas? by Kai Maricopi, is the only coffee that is infused with all natural neutropics for a cleaner, calmer, and more focused buzz without the crash. Click the Kai Maricopi link at MindPumpMedia.com and input the discount code MindPump a checkout for 10% off! It's the motherfucking qual! An English Landage!

Quick qual! Our first question is from Jay. Swole-Ree. How do you maximize your time with a client when you are limited to a half hour? Well, I like that name. This is becoming more and more common where trainers are training people at the half hour for a half hour for a couple of reasons.

It cuts the cost of personal training because personal training one onone can be quite expensive. In fact, it's probably the most expensive fitness type of thing you're gonna do is any type of one-on-one because there's no other class or whatever. So, and personal training can probably range, I don't know, anywhere between 50 to $150 an hour, I'd say it would probably be the averages. So a half

hour, it's less expensive, and people, you know, they, they, for a commitment-wise, sometimes people are drawn to that, like, oh cool, I can do a half hour, whereas an hour sounds like a long time. Now here's what happens during an hour of personal training with a client. When I'm doing an hour of personal training, there's a nice chunk of it where I'm doing mobility and correctional stuff before we get the workout going. I've had clients that I trained for a half hour and the way I've done it is I've taught them how to do a lot of that stuff on their own. So they show up to the gym.

I'm still with another client and I have, let's say, 30 minutes left with my client or 20 minutes left with my client, they're doing that part on their own. Then when I see them, we get right to the workout. And if you really examine your workouts, most workouts for most people, most average people, the actual working out part is about 30 minutes. The mobility and correctional stuff can take up another 20 minutes or so in a workout. So that's the way I would maximize it. So let's say I got a new client. That's assuming that this person is doing it

just for financial reasons and they're not limited by time. Cause he actually says how to maximize your time with a client you are living. Oh, you mean like they just have 30 minutes. Yeah, and that's it. Yeah, so I think that's what you have to ask yourself is what's this question. Because I, depending on that, I would answer this different, different.

Yeah, that's a good point because if someone just had a half hour and they literally just showed up and said, train me for 30 minutes, a lot of it would depend on their goals. But this is where I'm playing with intensity a little bit more. The shorter you work out, the more intense you can work out. And vice versa, the longer you work out, the more intense you can work out, and vice versa, the longer you work out, the less intense you can work out. So those 30 minute workouts might be a little bit more intense depending on what the person's goals are.

I still give people stuff to do on their own now, like when you're at home and when you're at home. Yeah, I think that personally, what I would do is I would pick the most complex movements that I feel the client needs me therefore, for example, I'm probably gonna teach them the deads, the squats, the overhead pressing type of movements in that half hour with me. And then like Sal said, I'll give him homework

for bicep curls and you know, stuff that you don't need a lot of stuff. Yeah, bicep curls and tricep push downs, I'm pretty confident they can put it together themselves and not hurt themselves, where there's so much going on mechanically with a deadlift or a squat, that's where I'm really gonna earn my paycheck, right?

That's where I'm gonna really be able to help this person out with their mechanics and addressing any sort of imbalances and why they're squat or their deadlift may be off. So I would spend a bulk of my 30 minutes and that what I wouldn't do that I think a lot of trainers are tempted to do, which is, oh, I only got 30 minutes. So they circuit the fuck out of them for 30 minutes to maximize their calories. The temptation there is a trainer too. Yeah, you want them to get, you know, a good sweater

or something out of it, you know. Right. And that's a good, just crappy, like that's cheap programming. Right. It is. And I think that they're gonna, they're gonna truly benefit more. I mean, I think they would benefit more from focus on two exercises, like the squat and the deadlift or the squat and the overhead press

for the entire 30 minutes, then they would be taking them through a full body circuit just so you could say, oh, I touched every muscle group, because a squat first of all works the entire body when you think about it. So doing that and getting them good at doing that and whatever mobility movements they need to do to address and fix that,

I think there's so much more carry over long term for them, for you as a trainer to teach them and get that down really well. That's a good point. That's a very good point. Then there would be in just hammering them in a circuit. I wouldn't do that. I think the young trainer would do that.

Me when I first started, I would probably have five to seven exercises all set out in a little square area. And I'd be like, all right, push up squats, you know, bicep curls, right into dips, like you'd be just like that to like exercises with like the compound lifts, like because yeah, they're going to get a lot of benefit from just the technique of how to master those specific movements that will carry over to like all kinds of other stuff later on. But yeah, because there's part of that too if they're new.

What you want to do versus what they need or what they want versus what they need is that's a struggle because if you just take them through an entire mobility process for the first month, are you gonna retain that client? I don't know, it's gonna be tough. It's a tough sell, especially when we give you 30 minutes. Right. So yeah, I like that. Maybe mixing in both, how to prime,

right before the squat, how to prime right before dead lifts and teaching them techniques of how to benefit that whole process. But yeah, keep it real simple and focus on those, you know, maximal lifts. Yeah, those are great points. I fully agree. I think as trainers, we have to be careful to not judge our value based on how much shit we did.

Because a lot of what happens when you first become a trainer is you think you're thinking your head like, oh man, all we did today was squat and overhead press. I hope they don't think I'm like, not worth their time or their money. And so what you end up doing is you end up trying to wow them, which is as much shit as possible because what you're trying to do is you're trying to prove

to them how valuable you are. When in reality, you're just questioning your own value. So yeah, intensities like that too. Like you see trainers who just they'll judge their value based on how much they can beat someone up. And so those are kind of two pitfalls. Personally, I'll be honest with you. I never like training clients for a half hour. Yes, because if I'm training six half hour clients, it's hectic as fuck, I've got way more clients in a shorter period of time and it never ends like right on the dot, you know, like you're talking and not like it's just it's it's it's muddy.

I don't get a whole lot of time to connect with the person on really observe their body the way I want, I mean you can do it, but it just becomes, I feel like personally, I lose a little bit of my value because I just don't spend as much time, you know, with them. So I didn't do a whole lot of it. I don't know, but do you guys ever do a lot of this? No. I wouldn't say a lot, but I did. I did my fair share of half hour sessions, and I think the ones that I would recommend

it to are actually more the advanced. Oh, like people you've already trained for. So when I've trained for a really long time, I could do a quick half hour like, you know, show them the movements that I want them to be doing or take assess what they are doing and it's more actually me just kind of checking in and then checking back in

with each other. It's definitely not something that I would want. I would not recommend it for like a first time client that it just bought, you know, 30 half hour sessions for me and they've never really personally trained It's definitely not something that I would want. I would not recommend it for like a first time client that it just bought, you know, 30 half hour sessions for me and they've never really personally trained before, I'm like, that would be a, that would be not ideal.

I think I could benefit them more through, you know, 15 full hour sessions. Very good. You know, that's where I can spend a full solid hour coaching and teaching and- Yeah, I'd rather do one hour session a week than two 30 minutes sessions a week. Yeah, for sure.

And that's tough because I'm sure you're gonna have clients that want the other way. I think this is also good because we're talking about a trainer client right now, but there's a lot of things that carry over into just a person, right? Like what if you or somebody who you don't have a trainer, but you only have 30 minutes in the gym,

I think the same rule applies on how I would choose that you train myself. So if I only have 30 minutes, I might just do squats. I've done that many times. Many times, I've thought, oh man, I've only got 30 minutes, but I'll get in there and do 10 sets of squats

and then call it a day. And 10 sets of squats is a pretty fucking good workout. It's not a bad workout whatsoever and it's got a day. And 10 sets of squats is a pretty fucking good workout. It is. It's not a bad workout whatsoever, and it's got a lot of carryover than me actually setting up this little circuit that I'm doing all these other little isolation movements, you know, thinking that because I'm sweating

and I'm moving a lot that like that's really good for me. And I think that's a mistake that a lot of people make that they're, and this is I think a lot about what mind pump talks a lot of people make, that there, and this is a, I think a lot about what Mind Pump talks a lot about is, man, the overhead press, the barbell press, the deadlift and the squat are such great movements and you can, I feel like even 15 plus years of training myself and being a personal trainer,

I still am, you know, working on the mechanics of my squat and deadlift and always tweaking and getting better and treating it like a skill. So, you know, getting better at those things have so much carryover for building muscle, for burning fat and just overall mobility and performance that I feel like that is a great way to spend a 30 minute workout if you only got 30 minutes. Quick interruption by our sponsors, you guys, lots of people been asking us how they can support

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and he can't seem to get rid of them? Ooh, man titties. Those are great. Genetics plays a huge role in how your body does everything. I mean a lot of things. So in terms of fat storage, it plays the largest role. So there's lots of things that can influence, we're discovering where you store body fat,

body fat storage patterns, is what a lot of people say. Genetics is the vast majority of it. So I'm gonna tell you some things that can change how you store body fat, but don't count on them making these dramatic drastic changes. And they're not really like spot reducing exercises. No, there's no spot reduction.

There's actually a little bit of debate as to whether or not spot reduction actually happens. But even the people who say it happens, the studies that they show, it's such a minute like splitting hairs. Yeah. In fact, that you're not going to be able to tell. The big thing that my besides genetics, the other thing that will influence

how your store body fats are hormones. As your hormones change, you will, they have studied this and found that it will change how people store body fat. For example, in women, high cortisol levels, at the wrong times, because we do want cortisol spikes in the morning, but just throughout the day day has been shown to increase fat storage around the midsection. And in men it's shown to increase visceral fat which is the fat around your organs.

In men higher estrogen levels or lower testosterone levels results in more fat storage in the chest area, so man boobs, in the arm area and in the lower body, almost like your fat storage is patterning closer to what a female would end up storing. So they'll find that when men's testosterone levels drop, estrogen levels are real high, they'll have more fat storage around the thighs and their butt and around their chest and the back of your arms. It sounds like basically focusing on things that you can make you more anabolic throughout the day.

It would be a good way to approach this. Well, I think when you look at when people, men and women store body fat, the way that, like when women store it, the way that women typically store it, healthy women typically store it, it from an aesthetic standpoint looks better, right? Like picture a woman who's storing body fat like a man. Like imagine a woman who has a really big gut

and skinny arms and skinny legs. It's not, it's gonna look, dare I say worse than if a man stored that way, only because women don't typically store fat that way. And the same thing for a man, like what if a man got, gained lots of body fat, had kind of a little bit around the waist,

but mostly around his butt and thighs, and around his chest, so he had kind of an hourglass shape, right? So I think the key here with this is to optimize your total health. And when you do that your hormone profile is gonna be More ideal and your fat storage is gonna be more reflective of how it's kind of supposed to be so you can get more of an aesthetic I guess look to your body. So I'm gonna give you something that I found extremely fascinating for myself when I went through this process of fat to fit that I won.

It gave me a whole new perspective for clients when they asked questions like this, the belly fat, the low back fat, those stubborn areas that people just can't seem to get rid of. They always talk about, man, I've been in great shape and I just can't seem to get rid of the man boobs. I can't seem to get rid of the man boobs. I can't seem to get rid of that little pooch at the bottom of my stomach or that fat but you know between my legs or whatever. So people get these areas right that genetics play a huge role in where we store this. And I never dealt with this myself until I had carried myself at this higher body fat

percentage for a long period of time. And I was really fascinated, I'll never forget, fascinated in a bad way. I was very frustrated, to be honest. When I went from 20% body fat all the way down to 7% body fat, I was shredded. And yet, I still had this little bit of a pooch on the bottom, my lower ab area. And I remember telling Katrina, like, what the fuck? Like I've never been this lean in my life before. I'm I'm in better shape than I ever was even as a high school athlete. But yet I've got this little pooch that I didn't have when I was in high school. And that kind of tripped me out. And I was like, this is this fucking sucks. Am I going to have this forever?

And it wasn't until the third show that I completely get rid of it. And it's the area where again, I've put on some more body fat. So again, I have that that little poo chair. And so what I've been able to share with clients, Katrina, friends, family with this, this type of a question is it's amazing when you push yourself to a new level of low body fat. Because what happen, the body will look for fat. And if you keep pushing to a lower, lower, lower percentage, it'll be forced to eventually get that shit. You've just got to go to a level you've never been before

and each time you do that, it seems to chip away a little bit more. So each time I drop down to the single-digit body fat percentage from seven and then five and three, and then the lowest I think I ever got a little bit more. So each time I dropped down to the single digit body fat percentage from seven and then five and three and then the lowest I think I ever got was about two and a half, three percent for a show. And then finally it eliminated it. And then when I went back to a caloric surplus, I had to make sure that I was strength training and building muscle. So then those extra calories went to building muscle versus getting stored as fat on my stomach.

And this is real similar to, you know, when I first met Katrina, she always struggled with, she has kind of a square look to her. She has wide shoulders and she has kind of wide hips and so she can look boxy. And even when she was a collegiate level athlete and she'd tell me like, you know, oh, I just, this is my genetic frame.

I'm square looking and I'll never, I'll never have that tapered waist. And I said, well, no, you just, that's where you store your body fat and you've never pushed yourself to a low enough body fat percentage to actually force the body to have to go get that body fat because you've always gone to a certain point and burned off everywhere else, but you still got some stored there, and you've never pushed the body beyond to where it has to go get that body fat, burn that up and eliminate that.

And the first time that I got her to completely understand that and did that, she, of this light bulb went off. And so since that moment, and this was about two and a half, three years ago, you know, she's been slowly building a physique that has this more tapered shape to her. And the way we've done that is by shredding her to the lowest body fat percentage. She's been slowly building a physique that has this more tapered shape to her.

And the way we've done that is by shredding her to the lowest body fat percentage she's ever been in her life beyond, beyond a point that she wanna carry herself long-term because we're trying to eliminate all that body fat. Then not falling off the diet, not falling off training. Then when she starts to increase her caloric and take back up again, she's building,

she's training weight training still. So those extra calories now go to a building muscle and that's really how you shape a body. But genetically we all have these area, these stubborn areas, but you can get rid of that body fat. And if you push the body to a low enough body fat person, trust me, it will get wherever there's body fat, it will eventually get it's body fat, it will

eventually get it because you can get down to these low, low levels. Now I don't recommend somebody keeping themselves at a extremely low body fat percentage for a long period of time, but you can do this and it is possible and it does take a lot of work and it will probably take you multiple times of leaning out before you get all these areas of stubborn body fat that you're not stuck with that for the rest of your life. But it is possible and that's kind of the point there. Yeah. It takes like extreme kind of work.

It does. And it tripped me out when I had to deal with it the first time. I never had that. I never, I always had abs as a kid and I never had this little pooch or anything. And then when I got, when I carried it, when I got a stomach on me and I actually was 20% body fat and then I got leaned all the way out.

I had this little pooch at the bottom and I was like, what the fuck, this is crazy to me. Why I'm lean, I got abs right now, I shredded, how come I don't, why do I still have this? And that's just because I still got, when you're at 7% body fat, 7% of 200 something pounds is still a decent, but they're still, was that, still 15 pounds plus of fat on my body.

And guess what, the 15 pounds genetically my body likes to store it in these areas. Now, if I were to keep going, my body would eventually, it'll eventually go away and burn it up, it's just most people have not pushed themselves to that. And the other thing too is the appearance of fat, or the appearance of being leaner,

a lot of that depends on how developed your muscles are as well. Like for me, it was always very difficult to get a six pack, to get the visible six pack abs. It took me a long, I would have to get really, really, really shredded, and even then, you could only see them if I really flexed. Like, I was never able to get that, you know, you see people who are super lean and they got like six packs

and they don't even, they're not even flexing. And I was so envious of that. Couldn't figure out why I couldn't do it until I figured out how to really work out my abs properly. Like, I started training them properly. I actually started building them and doing resistance, you know, based exercises. My abs started building so they could stick out a little more. And then, boom, six pack. Not only did I have a six pack relax treating them like a muscle. Yeah, I trained like any of the muscle. It was like a light bulb went off for me. It's why I developed the nobius six

pack form that was based on that. And when I stand relaxed, now I have a six pack, but it's not because I'm leaner in my abs, because I have a six pack, but it's not because I'm leaner in my abs because I have ab muscles that are more pronounced. No, that's so true. And if I were to give this person some, you know, bro type advice, because I can't tell you the exact science of why this why our body that works this way and why this happens. But if you get to the lowest body fat you've ever been, and then you put a lot of emphasis on Building your chest on the way back up when you increase your calories

So aesthetically, it's gonna look a lot better. Yes, aesthetically. It's going to Because of priority. Yeah, yeah, you start to build some like sourcing good muscle in that build a bunch of shred as much fat As you can by getting the lowest you've ever been in your life And then when you go back to putting go go back to a mini bulk, what we would do, increasing your calories, you put a lot of emphasis on building muscle in that area. It's all proportions. Look, I have a certain amount of body fat on my arm,

and it's pretty lean. I have a pretty lean arm. I've got some striations on my bicep on my tricep. But if I take all the body fat that's stored on my arm, that makes it look lean, and I put it on a one year old arm, which is tiny, they're going to have a chubby little arm. It's all proportions. I'm using an example, kind of an extreme example, but if you have more muscle on your chest, that body fat, even if it's the same, will appear to look less because it's a smaller percentage

of the overall chest mass. Next question is from the lady Bowers. In the craziness of your business, do you ever reflect on how lucky you are to have each other's friendships? How rare is it to have the trust you have with one another? I think about this a lot actually. I think about it quite a bit. I've never trusted any partners or co-workers as much as I trust the gentleman in this room right now. Part of that is a big part of it is the integrity that I witness you guys, you know, exemplify in your regular life. Like I see the integrity you have when you deal with other businesses, when

you deal with your families, when you deal with your friends, you know, when you make a commitment, you stick to it when an opportunity where you could lie would benefit you and it would be even a kind of a joking, funny lie or what are you still don't, you're honest. And you could tell a lot about people by watching how they just act in everyday life and how they talk about other people. You guys don't talk shit about other people that you wouldn't tell them to their face. There's none of that behind the back, like Bologna kind of stuff. So that's the first reason why I trust the hell out of you guys.

The second reason is I fully trust you guys to do an excellent job, especially when I'm not myself. I know, and I haven't been in very many situations like this where if I'm feeling shitty for whatever reason, life circumstances, and I'm like, oh crap, we're gonna suck because I'm not at my best. I don't have that thought. I suck right now, but I feel so confident that the team is going to pick it up and it's not going to skip a beat. It was interesting at first to be

in this situation because I've never been in a position like that. I've always been the one to be the one to rely on. I've always been that guy. it's given me the space to not have to be that all the time and it took me a while to actually adjust to it. But it's, this is how rare it is. I've done several businesses. I've been an entrepreneur since I was 22. I've managed health clubs since I was 19. I've been working since I was 14 and I've never been in a situation like this. So in my lifetime, this is the once. One time I've ever been in a situation like this. So in my lifetime, this is the once, one time I've ever been in this particular situation. Yeah, I can definitely echo a lot of those points.

I mean, especially on the part, you guys carrying the show and carrying things. And if I'm not at my best or if I have things come up or I just know you guys, you just have the integrity and you have, you know, just just that same hunger that is so rare to kind of come in and take charge lead. We're all leaders in a different way, which is really weird to me. Because like, like you said, I've done so many things myself that I can manage and I'm very efficient

at managing myself. And then people kind of just kind of, I used to just kind of lead by example, right? And then people would just sort of fall into place underneath me. But like you guys are at that tier where it's like, you know, you manage yourself, but you also lead. And so that's something that, you know, I've, I've benefited from because, you know, you guys have a little more of that leadership, you know, quality that is unique to where you're not overstepping what I do, but at the same time, you know, it benefits the whole. And like the integrity thing to me is everything. I don't trust or I don't know, like, have good intentions or are out to put other people out of business and do things with, you know, mal intent. I just can't be a part of that.

I will just immediately remove myself. Well, you're already typically the skeptical type as it is, too. Yeah. You're not one to just be like, hey, come on in, be my friend. I don't really like leaders. Honestly, I've avoided them, even on teams. So it's interesting because I've been on a lot of teams and I'm a team player.

But at the same time, everybody knew that it would leave me the fuck alone. All my coaches, they didn't, after a while, like, okay, we're not gonna, you just go practice and do your thing. They would just let me literally practice on my own or bring a group of guys over and we would do drills and stuff. But we'd watch film and they'd break it down

and they'd see it doesn't really work for them to coach me on all those points and stuff. They're just like, okay, you got this. And I do, that's me. I want my own thing, but I feel your guys' critiques and your insight is very valuable to me, which is new. It's hard, it's kind of like,

ugh, it's a little bit, but it's me now realizing that it benefits me more to listen and absorb that and look at it as this totally benefits what I'm doing. That's been revolutionary for me. So yeah, it's awesome. Character and ego for sure, man. I think that these guys,

everyone's character is just, you know, you talk about integrity and stuff. I just feel like, you know, everybody kind of lives by this mantra of, nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care. And I feel like each one of us care so much about the success of the business and each other more than themselves that it bleeds into the business.

And it's just really rare to find that because most people are selfish and I would even consider myself a selfish type person, but when it comes to business and the success of the business, I care more about that than I care about anything about myself. And I think that each one of the guys here are the same way too. Nobody cares about a title, nobody cares about air time, nobody cares about limelight, nobody cares about being more famous than another person. None of that shit matters to anybody. We have a message, we have a goal, we have things that we want to accomplish. We all know that getting there together is going to be 10 times easier than one of us doing

it. And we totally blindly trust the others and their abilities because they're fucking good at what they do. I mean, and I think that where we're at in our lives was so important for that to work out. Like Katrina and I talk about this all time too. Like I don't think even her and I would have worked in our relationship had we met 10 years ago.

Like we, and we've talked about this before about my pump, like if we were all trying to get to do this 10 years ago, where were we at in our personal journeys, I don't know if it would work the same way I think we all had to evolve into these guys that were more selfless and That's a that's it and I used to tell people trainers this all the time that you know being this being a trainer or being in a leadership role Takes an incredible amount of confidence and humility at the same time. And that's such a fucking juggle, man.

Not a lot of people can do that. You tend to have one of them. Either you have someone who's like, super humble and everybody loves him because he's just a humble guy and just great to be around. But then he's just kind of weak because he doesn't have that strong, confident leadership side to him. And then you meet these super strong, confident leaders, but then they're kind of fucking assholes and they're cocky, and they have that side to them and then you meet these super strong confident leaders, but then they're kind of fucking assholes

and they're cocky and they have that side to them and I think that you know all the guys in here have this ability they're extremely confident where people borderline would call us Egotistical or cocky, but it really isn't there's a ton of selflessness that happens behind scenes with everybody in here I think everybody's just extremely confident and humble at the same time, which makes for an incredible team. And I think we all do a really good job of recognizing that. I mean, it's crazy you asked this question to be an answer right now, literally less than 24 hours ago, just and just send a text message over to our thread of just, you know, thanking the rest of

the team for, you know, caring, caring team for carrying on what we needed to do and he couldn't be there. And instead of us, oh, mad that he couldn't be there or him being frustrated, oh, he can't do without me. Or it's just like, I trust these guys to do what we need to do. I can't make it. And we keep the band plays on. And also recognizing that instead of just letting it happen,

not talking about it, he addressed it, pointed out. And I feel like we all do that in all situations that I think that's an area too, that people can take away. And I think we've talked about this on the podcast a long time ago. How important it is for men to tell other men how much they love them, how much they respect them,

how much they appreciate them, and sorry they respect them, how much they appreciate them, and sorry. Like it's that for a man, it seems like it's so fucking hard for men to do that. And learning to do that as a young adult and to the man I am now today, it's taken me so much further in business to be able to do that. And I believe that everybody here does a really good job of doing that with each other of, you know, pointing out the things, their strengths, and thanking them for the work they've done, and even when we get into it over something like that, like immediately expressing our love

for each other and respect for each other, like, you know, just a lot of guys are uncomfortable doing that. And I think the men in this room are very comfortable with that. And I think that speaks volumes with the success that my pump has had is that very comfortable with that. And I think that speaks volumes with the success that my pump has had, that ability to do that. Being hard-headed takes less strength than knowing you did something wrong and apologizing. Fact, so I think a lot of guys think, oh, I don't wanna be weak by apologizing.

That's not weak, that's actually strength. It requires way more fucking strength. I can very easily, if I fuck up, just say fuck it and just be proud. That's easy. The hard part is going to the dude, you know, and telling them like, you know, what we were arguing about, you're right. I was wrong. Yeah, you're right, dude. I was totally wrong. That's hard. Very, it takes way more strength to that. So if you want to be a tough guy, a real tough guy, that's the way you do it. Yeah. Next up is Pobosu.

Why does Sal seem to poo-poo Adam's journey? Yes, Sal. To get swole again. Yes, Sal. So a big part of that is that we tease each other. We just fuck with each other all the time and it's all of us. So I don't, it could have been anything. Adam could have said I I'm gonna do,

I'm dying my hair. I'm dying my hair. Whatever. And I'm gonna come after you. Yeah, I'm gonna tease him a little bit. And so that's a big, big part of it. The other part of it is when we all have the same understanding and respect for total wellness.

But that doesn't mean we're all the same. It just means we respect it in a certain way. And each of us kinda has a different, not role, but just we're into it a little differently than each other, which means that I at one point might be more into, the wellness intuitive eating and Adam may be more into the macro stuff and maybe Justin's doing more intense, you know, hit type style training.

And it's going to be different. And having that debate and talk about it and poking at each other, it makes for good fucking podcasts. It just really does because there's people listening who are thinking what I'm thinking and there's people listening who are thinking what I'm thinking and there's people listening who are thinking what Adam's thinking. And the only way that we're going to address those things is if we ask those questions and have legit discussion and debate about it. And there isn't anything about Adam's journey to get swole or whatever you want to call

it that I think is stupid or wrong. I mean, the guy knows exactly what he's doing and he does it in a very healthy way. There's nothing that I would disagree with at all. It's just, it's a lot of people find it very, very interesting. And there's a lot of people who identify a lot with me who hear Adam say that and will probably be like, oh, bro, whatever. So I'm gonna say that. I'm gonna say it out loud because they might identify with me, but guess what? They're gonna learn some shit from what he's doing right now

because there is a lot that you can learn from learning how to track and learning how to manipulate certain things to achieve a particular aesthetic goal. That knowledge is gonna benefit your total wellness. Well, I think each one of us, it's important that we go through these periods where we challenge each other's way of thinking. Even if it's like, God, we're on such a healthy path now and everything is so in line with health and wellness and there's a message there completely that resonates with people and it's a good message. But you know what are some other counterpoints?

What are some other things that we've been like hesitant to talk about or like put ourselves through in a long time or you know where there's merit in all kinds of different ideas. Obviously we've honed in on a good message, but it still needs to be challenged. And I feel like that's why it's important, too, that like Adam will pull himself out and get back to focusing on muscular development and building his body out to look a specific way,

because people can do that, and there's nothing wrong with that. And if anything, it's great. It's great for mental discipline. It's good for making yourself feel good. I mean, there's a lot of good. It's gonna do for your body to challenge yourself with that way. That's why, too, like the obstacle course racing and all that shit. Like, I really, like, that would resonate with me, you know,

where I want to put myself under the fire again, you know, and that's a challenge, and it's important to do that, as well as, you know, being mindful and present, and, you know, have this holistic lifestyle in mind, but it's, you gotta kinda weave in and out, you can't just stay homogenized, we can't just all be one thing.

No, and the bottom line is, we talk about what we're into. So if you follow mine, for a longer than 10 episodes, you will literally hear at the moment when we're recording what we're really learning about and we're into. So that's just the way it is. So if I'm into something, I'm going to talk about it a lot and I'm excited about it and I'm passionate about it. The same thing is true for both Justin and Adam.

But there's another side to this and I can guarantee you Adam's gonna bring this up, is that you know you have to be very careful with just isolating yourself into a box and identifying so strongly with something that you forget everything else. Because when you do that, it becomes dogmatic. And from an objective point of view, just physiologically, that's how you develop imbalances, whether it's in your, you know, in your mental game or your physical game. If you just get stuck in one thing. So it's great to venture out and do all these different things.

Well, and let's be honest, a part of what motivated me to get back in this was exactly that was I felt the tune of the show was, I mean, and some people loved it, right? We were getting compliments. Oh, you guys have, you know, I feel like you guys have turned into one, you know, like you all started a certain way and you guys have become so much alike and you're all one. And then there was the flip side that people were starting to be like, oh, we are more holier than thou

and that we are all self-righteous and that this is the way and everybody needs to be this way. And I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no. Like, I cannot stand to be put in a box because I share or because we share our journey on the show openly and because we were currently sharing a lot of the similar type of ideologies does not mean that we're dogmatic about it and we this is a better than another way and that's part of what motivating me to go this direction is because I do love training for aesthetics. I still stand by that's no different than

Episode one when I would come out and used to say that I'm I'm all show no go like I still I still I still like to look Really good like that's it's a major motivator for me and I don't I don't identify with it that it it's an insecurity of mine I'm very comfortable with who I am and in my own skin. I loved going on this total wellness journey and intuitive eating and intuitive training and really working on mobility. I thought there was a ton of good take away from it. A lot of great practices that I'm implementing this time around

when I'm getting shredded. So, you know, I'm already seeing it right now with my food rotation. I posted on my InstaStory just today, the all my foods that I ate in the last seven days. And I can honestly say that in past times that I've gotten shredded, there was never as much emphasis on the rotation of the food.

All the variety that you're eating right now is pretty awesome. I mean, I recommend if you're into counting, and this is coming from me, who I never do it this way, but if you're counting macros and really being specific with what you put in your face for an aesthetic standpoint, watch what Adam's doing on his Insta stories, because he'll see him hit his macro and calorie targets for his goals, but it's such a wide variety of foods, vegetables and meats and fruits and different things that he's not doing it the way that other people do it

where it's the same food all the time, or the same three foods that he rotates, it is a very healthy approach. It's awesome. Well, it's inspired me and I've been saying this for some time now that I want to write this diet. I want to write this diet that I believe would be fucking awesome and epic because I think so many diets fail because they're restrictive and they tell people don't do this and so

it's a short period that people go through. And I want to flip that on a tip because there's so many foods out there that are nutrient dense that our body benefits from that are actually, it's very challenging to get them all. And instead of actually doing that rotation, that color diversity and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, I'm curious to see how you put that all together. So I don't know if you saw it yet, but I did.

I posted on the InstaStory, I snapshot, I actually wrote out every single thing that I rotated through this last week. And there's some things that I missed that this week coming forward. I wanna make sure I rotate in there, but it's actually, I'm having to go after food. Like instead of me, like, oh, I can't have that

or oh, pass on that, I'm looking at my day like, okay, yesterday I had fish and I had beef and I had this. So today I'm gonna go bison and I'm gonna go, you know, steak and I'm going to do eggs and I'm going to go this route. Oh, this day I'm going to completely not worry about getting as much protein and if I do get it, it's going to come from like seeds and this and oh, so I'm kind of going through all of that right now and trying to formulate this, you know, you know, reverse type of thinking of dieting instead of trying to restrict

myself. It's more like I'm trying to go after foods and hit my targets. But I do want to caution people this is that what I don't like about sharing my, you know, macro counting and my journey and some of that is I don't like people to go like, oh, this is the formula or oh, this is what I do it exactly. Like you're doing it. It do it exactly like I'm doing it.

What I'm trying to share with people is, you know, this is kind of how I figure things out for myself. Like so I'm getting de-hamed like crazy. And I'm doing my best to respond to all of you. And people are asking me like, oh, so are you ketogenic? Are you following what, you know, 20 this and 50 that and with no, I'm not doing any of that. What I'm doing is

I'm paying attention to the foods that I'm consuming. I'm paying attention to my activity level. I'm trying to find my caloric maintenance. And I'm trying to see where that's at first. And I'm allowing certain foods in there. Like I'm not eating perfect whatsoever. and I'm allowing certain foods in there like I'm not eating perfect whatsoever, but I'm making healthier choices and I'm seeing how my body responds to that and then I'll slowly make adjustments over time and I think that's the takeaway not oh I'm taking in you know you know 60% fat and 40% this and 20% that no that's the takeaway isn't that and I'm not I'm not following something like that I'm actually just kind of following a pain attention to what I gravitate towards and then I'll make subtle adjustments So you'll get to see that through this journey and I just I I urge people not to hang on the exact number of grams or calories or things like that

But pay attention to how I start to put things together for myself to get myself to my ultimate goal on how I make those decisions. Excellent. 30 days of coaching available from MindPump, you can find it at mindpumpmedia.com. Also, if you want to ask us a question that we answer, you do it on Instagram. You can find us at MindPump Media. We have personal pages, minds, mind pump,

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