Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 525: How to Lose Weight Fast, Music’s Impact on Your Workout, Merits of Herbal Detoxing & MORE

Episode Date: June 9, 2017

In this episode of Quah, sponsored by Big Top Beard Company (bigtopbeardcompany.com, code "mindpump" for 33% off), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about their opinion on herbal detoxing,... their greatest fear when they started as trainers, the possible conflict between music and listening to body and how to lose weight fast. 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)

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Starting point is 00:00:00 If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. Mite, op, mite, op with your hosts. Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. In this upcoming episode of Mind Pump, we talk about robots. Just in what they have sex with. I do. We also talk about national geographic. Some of that, what the photographers have to go through to take some amazing.
Starting point is 00:00:28 Adam was tripping out on it. Yes, I was. Adam talks about spiders in high definition, both on television and also in his mind. What did he do? Also we talk about the evolution of YouTube, the death of network TV and news, and also why it's important to entertain opposing points of view. In other words, you listen to mind-pump,
Starting point is 00:00:49 you should also listen to those other fitness channels that are wrong, just so you know how right we are. Exactly. Then we get into the questions. We find, we talk about our opinion on herbal detoxes. Do they work, or are they stupid? We talk about what we feared most about being a personal trainer when we first started.
Starting point is 00:01:06 We also talk about music and how it can actually disconnect your body in the gym. Believe it or not, this may actually happen. We also talk about the ways we would lose weight fast. And we also talk about why it's a bad idea to even do that in the first place. And because of that, that's a great time to mention. That's why we put together the way we would do it in our starter pack for the summer. So if you're trying to get in shape this summer,
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Starting point is 00:02:13 You guys ever watched this? It's a great TV show. Well, give us like every Disney. Give us some time here, bro. Let's just move you. God damn it, I hate you guys. Here, I'll give you one more hint. Warning, warning. Oh, that's
Starting point is 00:02:27 No, no space one that yeah, yeah, yeah, lost in space. Yes. Yeah, god. That was great. Do you guys ever watch that? I did yeah I loved that I did I remember Well Robinson. Yeah other than that robot that was stupid. Yeah, it looked like it was a washing machine Why would you just is it a funny when you watch sci-fi movies and their interpretation of a robot, what a robot would want to fly? Based on the era that that movie was made. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:02:53 It's like when robots, like when they first made it, everything looked like an appliance. Yeah, exactly. Like a refrigerator. Now we make robot, like we make sci-fi movies with robots. We make robot, we want to fuck. What? That's what we do, that's now make sci-fi movies with robots. We make robot, we wanna fuck.
Starting point is 00:03:05 What? That's what we're doing, that's what we're doing. So that's the goal. Everybody wants to make a robot we can bang. That's, that's kinda true, isn't it? It's telling me I'm wrong. But we, like I watched Alien, the new Alien, and there's the Android, whatever guy.
Starting point is 00:03:17 Yeah. But they always make them a little bit non-human, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, you have to. Yeah. We're a little creeped out if it's too human. You notice that? Like if it's like, it has the expressions and I don't know, but it's like still a little bit off. That's true.
Starting point is 00:03:32 It's creepy. Well, I think for the movie sake, you need to know. Do you think we're ever gonna get to a point where they're like that though where you can't even tell a difference? Of course. Yeah, for sure. 100%.
Starting point is 00:03:40 That's the goal. That's exactly what they're gonna do with it. That's too much money. That's too much money. What's gonna really be trippy is, I was watching this, there's a series on that national geographic called Year Million. So it's like, have you seen it? Oh, it's so awesome.
Starting point is 00:03:55 So Katrina and I just watched a Nat Geo. Guy, what did it, this was last night before last. I was just in a mood for this. It's been a while since I've watched just like a Netflix series, that Netflix series that was just like nature. It's been probably a good couple of years since I've done that.
Starting point is 00:04:15 And totally smoked one and then watched one of these. And let me tell you, I went down the rabbit hole for like four hours. No, let me tell you what was. Four hours? Yeah, let me tell you, nature. I went down the rabbit hole for like four hours. No, let me tell you what was. Four hours? Yeah, let me tell you what was so fascinating, but how I why I got sucked into it was I hadn't watched in a few years and I hadn't seen the evolution
Starting point is 00:04:35 of the fucking cameras. Oh, the clarity. Oh yeah. They were in same. They, I mean, to watch, they had. They had planet Earth. Yeah, yes, they had watch they had planet earth. Yeah, yes, it's they had they had praying menace like you could see his teeth and you could see the way he grabbed and they did this whole on a spider that which you could see
Starting point is 00:04:57 the him shooting the spider shooting the web at right. Oh, but across 50 yards of river and creating a web, it was, I was so fascinated by it at the detail of the camera and the, the cameras that we have that we could see the tiny hairs on a spider, the size of a quarter and watching him shoot out the web for stoners. That's like magic. Oh, it was. I mean, I didn't, I won. I didn't know how that worked.
Starting point is 00:05:25 And you know that this is like, it boggles scientists. They can't figure this out. That this side, the spider, the size of a quarter, spits out a web that shoots 50 yards across the river, creates a ginormous like 20 foot web and trap all in the size of this and can reproduce that 20 minutes later. Like that just doesn't, it doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense how that's something that small
Starting point is 00:05:51 can get that much silk spit out. And I didn't realize like, so they show the, I mean, you're not really constipated. Yeah. They show this clip, right? So this is how the spider hunts, right? He shoots this web across this river. And he, and he, and he goes over and he builds this huge web and trap. And so it shows its first attempt. It shoots it across
Starting point is 00:06:10 and then it starts cruising over and another spider hijacks his fucking web. And so he goes bolting after bolting after the other spider and right before the spider cuts the line and then the two spiders go swinging back, opposite directions. He reels in all of his silk back in and shoots it out again and does to watch that in like high death. And it was just insane. You know, I'm in, dude. I mean, it blows me any even more than that. Is the guy recording this all.
Starting point is 00:06:40 Yeah. Like the patience, like, I'm gonna go find a funny spider. How did they catch capture like some of these moments? It must have took so that they have to like have the mount right and then it they monitor it like remotely Well, there's I was reading about this one National Geographic Photographer who was trying to capture like this bird like being born or whatever and it took him like Three months. Yeah catch this one. Oh, it took like five minute shot. Yeah, almost a year from the catch the mating habits
Starting point is 00:07:08 of this one, Rare Bird, you know, in the jungle. And he was like talking about the frustration behind it because like he almost had it like so many times. And then like, you know, something would come and interrupt a shot. But man, yeah, that would be just. I just feel like it's not worth it. Yeah, that's what I mean.
Starting point is 00:07:25 Yeah, you don't know, like you just watch it all happen within like, you know, 10 seconds of the show and you don't appreciate the fact that it's... And that's what I was tripping out on. Like Katrina kept making fun of me. She's like, you're watching this nature show with me and you keep talking about the camera and how like that shot.
Starting point is 00:07:41 And I'm like, well, a guy who's in like media social, and we use a lot of... Well, I nerd out on movies because of the same fact of how they set up all the scenes and they set up all these shots like the amount of detail like some of these mega blockbuster movies like they get and the amount of detail on that level it's so insane like we just we under appreciate it because it's just we consume it. Oh right because it was a 15 second clip, right? So for you, you consumed it in 15 seconds, you're already on to the next part of the scene,
Starting point is 00:08:08 but it was like, wait a second, do, if you dissect how long it probably took, just to get that 15 second clip, and then to get it that close, that detail, I was like, oh my God, this is crazy. I didn't even know that we came that far. If you ever want to really, we'd make you appreciate that. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:08:24 A little thing. It does help. If you ever really want to appreciate like today's cinematic, cinematic magic. Cinematic adventure. Just watch, I mean, magic. Just watch a movie that you thought was awesome when you were a kid.
Starting point is 00:08:37 Watch it as an adult. Oh, no. Yeah, like I was showing my kid. What movie were watching like, God, what was that? Never ending story. Oh, man. Bastion. And my son's like, were watching like? God, what was that? Never ending story. Astien! And my son's is like, my kids are both like,
Starting point is 00:08:48 oh, those are horrible special effects. Yeah, that doesn't look real. Like shut up and watch it. Come on man. But it's true. It is. Like I watch for me. I watched Jurassic Park.
Starting point is 00:08:58 Remember when it first came out, the CGI was like, whoa, that looks so real. Now I watch them like, all the ripples in the puddles. Yeah, yeah. So what do you guys So what do you guys think about this? Because I think that it's 4K and 1080 has gotten so crazy and the new TVs, and that it almost actually takes away from the movie.
Starting point is 00:09:17 And what I mean by that is, it's so clear, like, and I remember the first time I saw this. More clearer than real life. Well, what it is is the Pirates of the Caribbean movie was the first movie that I'd seen this on one of the new LCD screens, and it was 4K 1080, and we were watching on Blu-ray. And I remember seeing the props,
Starting point is 00:09:38 I could tell they were plastic and fake, and I could see the makeup lines on the men because it was so clear. It was so clear Yeah, so it kind of to change all of our actors They've had to like add all these different techniques with the I bet right really I've even think of that Oh, I had to because I was like whoa. This is too clear. It's so clear that I don't I feel like it's fake But when it's you know a little blurry you feel like you get kind of brought, you get... It's like beer goggles for movies. Oh, wow, look at those blackheads, you know.
Starting point is 00:10:07 Yeah, it's like beer, that's what I felt like the first time I had glasses, I'll never forget, because I used to have kind of bad vision. And I remember when I was a kid, and I first got glasses and I put them on, and I looked at people and I'm like, wow, you guys all have bad skin. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:20 I didn't realize that, you know what I mean? That everybody's skin looks so smooth. Look at all those ingrown hairs. And all of a sudden, like, oh, you guys have pimples. Damn, stuff, this is weird. Yeah, so I wonder what's gonna happen with that as the TV keeps evolving and getting more clear, more clear. The only thing I really enjoy, I enjoy it for sports
Starting point is 00:10:36 because sports you wanna feel like, you wanted as real as possible. But there's a side of us that when we watch a movie that's not real, you want the magic to still play out. You want a little bit of the, you want a little fake when you think about it. Like you don't want it to look so real that I can tell that they're on a stage. You learn a mask. Right, yeah, you don't want that because the camera's shooting is so clear.
Starting point is 00:10:58 So it would be interesting to talk to somebody who is in that world and some of the challenges that they had with this super clear thing. Well, yeah, and you see that in directors, how they deal with that because some will include like actual props and costumes and whereas others will just abandon that completely now and just use all green screen effects and like build up from that. Now here, now triple off this now, because the consumption from the average consumer is growing so rapidly on platforms like YouTube,
Starting point is 00:11:32 trip out over how fast YouTube is evolving with the quality of video there, because they used to be super amateurs, and most of them still are, but little by little you're getting them, people are getting better and spending more money on YouTube. I bet you in 10 years YouTube's gonna be like fucking Hollywood man You know I've YouTube channels gonna be like blow you away. Oh, I think we're definitely going that way when I I was just told you guys Just recently I shared when I was hanging out with my little nephew who's 10 and
Starting point is 00:12:00 That and then I asked you actually drew the other day too who does a lot of our video on my single friends too Really yeah over like not over the weekend but like right before going into the week I think it's like Friday night or something had my friends kind of come over and They were like pissed because like my TV it had everything but like YouTube and Like we didn't even they didn't't wanna watch Netflix or nothing like that. They're like, dude, I wanna show this clip from this, oh, you don't even fucking, like YouTube, like all they do is watch YouTube.
Starting point is 00:12:31 Yeah. They don't watch like anything on cable anymore. No, no one watches TV is like, wow, I'm under a generation like nobody watches TV anymore. It's like there's more, and I think what's neat about it that this all goes back to our whole, you know, libertarian free market mentality, which is, you know, YouTube allows anybody to create their own channel. And if it's good and it appeals to enough people, it'll progress very quickly.
Starting point is 00:12:55 Yeah, very, wherever I want, I just search it and boom, yeah, I find it, I find a guy who is just like me and giving the information that I specifically want to learn. And I learn and he all tune into him and that's all I need to list or her or whatever the case may be. So it's pretty fascinating to watch the evolution of that. And then it's really neat to see people be able to monetize and actually they don't need these big production companies. You don't need all the all this stuff, which I feel like there was a lot of politics in
Starting point is 00:13:24 right. There was but part of the reason why you don't need is the stuff, which I feel like there was a lot of politics in right there was but part of the reason Why you don't need is the equipment is just cheaper now like the equipment that we use to film some of our YouTube videos 10 years ago a camera that we buy for a thousand dollars 50 Brand 10 years ago. That's I mean you know big of a difference that is I need 10 it's even less than that. It's been cameras like that were just five years ago or less. Student afford it would be impossible to do it. No, it's super fascinating to watch the evolution. And it makes you want, I mean, I believe that basic TV and cable is going to be really
Starting point is 00:13:57 dead in this. It's dinosaur already. Oh, it is. It's like, I mean, news you can get faster on Twitter and Facebook. You know what I'm saying? You know what's dying right now too, is news. Mainstream news. Yeah, dying.
Starting point is 00:14:08 Well, do you notice what they do? Quickly. I was so forced on you with like Apple. I was so blown away when I, I don't ever watch the news. I cut the news not that long ago and I hadn't seen it in years. And I know that like their stories, their top stories are what's trending on Twitter or Facebook. The reporting on the internet. Yes, the reporting
Starting point is 00:14:27 They're reporting on internet. He's lazy. It's like whoa like that's so nuts like that you're just in it's crazy Because I don't know I mean, I don't know that I'm sure they're being told to do that right I'm sure they have a boss who a producer that's going listen We got to talk about this because it's got a million views today. It's trending. Everybody's there. Yeah, so this is the topic, so we got to talk about it, but they're what they're doing is they're slowly repeating. You have to like review or talk about reporting on your competitor. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:14:55 Like who's killing you? Yeah, the one who's killing your business and who's going to put you out of business, you're having to talk about that's got to be painful in that industry. So it's crazy about that. There is. There is. you're having to talk about, that's gotta be painful in that industry. So it's crazy about that. And there's that mainstream news is slowly dying. We're getting our news from social media and platforms like that. And what's happening, it's a good and bad.
Starting point is 00:15:13 It's good because we can share information very quickly. Everybody's a journalist as long as they have a phone, so things get reported much faster. The bad news is because of the way algorithms work on social media, they're designed to show you what you wanna see. So little by little, you are getting put in a smaller and smaller box and only presented information
Starting point is 00:15:36 that confirms your bias. So if I'm into kind of conservative type stuff, whereas before if I watched mainstream news, it was kind of, I'd get a lot of everything, right? And I'd have to see different points of view. And then it turned into Fox News and MSNBC and whatever, where one became liberal, one became conservative,
Starting point is 00:15:54 and so people started kind of getting into more boxes. Now with social media, it's even happening even more. To where the algorithm will understand it, and will only show you articles and stuff that are gonna confirm your bias. So you never get presented information that counters your opinion or your beliefs. That's what they just lock you in. It's very dangerous.
Starting point is 00:16:12 It's very dangerous because it's already seeing it where people are so like, you know, a hardcore with their beliefs and the other side is so evil. They don't even want to listen to the other side. And so that's why I always tell everybody, go seek it out and learn, worst case scenario, you learn how to strengthen your own argument, even better. Otherwise, if you rely on social media, I notice that, I'll flip through,
Starting point is 00:16:34 and it's all shit that I wanna read, that I like to hear. You know what I mean? I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I gotta find shit, I don't like to hear and see what they're saying, so I can at least strengthen my work. It takes a lot to do that.
Starting point is 00:16:44 It takes a lot of courage to do that, is to say, hey, I like to debate this side of this, or this is my point of view, and so I'll just continue to confirm that by diving in a morning for eight verses. Okay, I know I believe this already, but let's dive into stuff that people totally disagree with this and see what they have.
Starting point is 00:17:03 You have to do it yourself. Like, you know, when I was really learning about fasting and the health benefits, all I was reading about was fasting and the health benefits. And I remember thinking like, wait a minute, like, it can't be all good. There's got to be times when it's not good, right? Right. Obviously. So I actually Googled why fasting is unhealthy.
Starting point is 00:17:23 And I would type in titles that I knew would bring up articles with differing points of view. And then I was able to learn just much more broad on the topic. Most written by supplement companies. Anything, anything like why, like, barbell squats, best exercise for your lower body. Why don't you Google why barbell squats are bad for your knees
Starting point is 00:17:41 or why they're bad for your back. You may can disagree, because I did, I still disagree with them,, but it strengthened my argument because some of these people actually make really compelling arguments for their points of view. And I have to go and research and figure out for myself that they're either full of shit or sometimes that's right.
Starting point is 00:17:57 That's a great example you just gave right there is, you know, barbell squats are bad for your knees. Like Google that. Like I could, so I could argue that on either way. I could argue that. You should be able to, that's the point. Yeah, if you're reinforcing bad recruitment pattern, sure. Right, yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:12 But that's my point. I should be able to do that. Like, look up the other side because you ain't gonna, I ain't gonna come to you naturally. I promise you, all you're gonna get end up seeing is shit you wanna hear and you end up getting living in your protected bubble all the time and all of a sudden you're, you know, everybody else is stupid
Starting point is 00:18:28 because you're so right because I've read all this information that backs up my opinion. Yeah. Well yeah, that's just the way that shit works. So that's the one bad thing that I can see from it. Bird, come on bird. Bird is the word. The biased bird.
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Starting point is 00:19:20 What is everyone's opinion on herbal detoxing? So this question was kind of directed towards me because I talked about parasite Processes the parasite cleanse that I did now to be clear this doesn't mean I had a parasite I did it because the herbs and ingredients that are in parasite cleanses which are have been historically shown to kill parasites, are also what are called classic antimicrobials.
Starting point is 00:19:48 And after we had Dr. Rusio on the show, he kind of blew me away a little bit when it came to gut health. And we were having a conversation off air. And I told him that sometimes the best that my gut ever is is if I'm sick and I take an antibiotic, and what I do and I take an antibiotic, and what I do when I take an antibiotic is I also take a probiotic. So if I have to take a moxicillin, let's say 8am,
Starting point is 00:20:11 at 10am, I'll take my probiotic because I'm trying to keep myself from getting to, killing everything off too much. And what happens after two or three days of this is I have like amazing gut health. And then that lasts for like two or three weeks after I'm done with the antibiotics and then I start to slowly go back to where I was before.
Starting point is 00:20:28 And it didn't make sense to me, you know, because I know antibiotics aren't good for you, right? They're not good for your gut, they kill everything. So I asked them about that and he said, well, some people, what he's finding is they need to, what he called trim the bushes. Yeah, trim the hedges, yeah. Yeah, trim the hedges are trim the bushes
Starting point is 00:20:43 where you just have a tendency to just have overgrowth of bacteria and maybe a little bit in the small intestine and all these other things happening. And sometimes for these people, and I may be one of them, it's a good idea to kind of bring everything down a little bit and it feels better. Even if it's beneficial bacteria, you may have overgrowth. It just bring everything kind of down a little bit. So that's the other, that's the main reason why I did the quote unquote
Starting point is 00:21:08 parasite cleanse. I didn't think I had parasites, but nonetheless since I've been doing it, I've been feeling absolutely blown away by how amazing I feel. I don't mean necessarily just performance because that is happening. I'm feeling better with performance, like strong or more energy. But I'm also noticing less anxiety, better sleep. My mood is better, my mind is clear. Better of course, better gut health,
Starting point is 00:21:35 like all these different things. And it's kind of tripping me out, so I do a little bit more research. Now, you wouldn't consider this an herbal detox though, right? I mean, you... I was just gonna say... Parasite cleanse is different than a herbal detox though, right? I mean, you, I was just gonna say, parasite cleanse is different than a herbal detox. Well, so I was just gonna say the word specific thing in mind.
Starting point is 00:21:50 Well, the word detox is, I'm not a fan of that. It's pretty misleading because it alludes to the fact that you have toxic and there's toxins in you and you need to eliminate it. It reminds me of when, I forget what it is, but they test like the bottom of your feet,
Starting point is 00:22:06 and then they say that you have toxic, heavy metals, materials in the bottom of your feet, and then they've just cleansed you of that. You guys know I'm talking about? Yeah, there's something you soak your feet in. So fucking stupid. Yeah, and it draws out the toxins through your feet. It's all bad science.
Starting point is 00:22:21 So you can have toxins, and when you do, you'll know, when you go to the doctor, and there's specific ways to remove those toxins, people have referred to fasting as detoxing. So the way they're using it doesn't necessarily mean detoxing. I think the way they're using it is like reset. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:22:39 I mean, I like to use the word reset a little bit better, but even that is kind of, it's like you're starting over. So I don't know what the right word we would be to use. Well, I want, this is where I'm, why I'm not a fan. Re-calibrate is when you look at the studies, when you compare in herbal detox, whether it be a single day, a seven day, a 14 day,
Starting point is 00:22:57 or whatever that, and you put it up against like a three day fast, the markers and the things that change in your body are almost identical. You get almost exactly the same benefits just from restraining from food, from a long period of time, that you do from following some crazy herbal drink protocol. That's the thing is most of these have the condition that you have to have X, Y, Z to go along with this fast, which is basically, you're just doing a fast.
Starting point is 00:23:28 Yes. And so like, I just, as me being the skeptic, you know, immediately, I mean, well, why do you need this specific T and all this, you know, within the process and you're trying to tell me that you're detoxifying the environment. I don't know if I believe it. No doubt, fasting is by itself,
Starting point is 00:23:45 by far the most effective thing you can do. And it's free. If you're trying to... That's why you're... ...hella cheap. If you're trying to reset, you know, lower inflammation, reset gut health, you know, balance, you know, just, it's just by itself
Starting point is 00:23:58 it's one of the best things to do. Now that being said... You need purified blood. That being said, herbs are like medicines. That's why they call it herbal medicine. Now they're not acutely as powerful as Western medicine. Some of them are, but most of them aren't. They have kind of balancing, I hate to use these terms again, but they have these balancing effects. So there's specific herbs that you use for specific things, and a lot of them are proven to work. And I would recommend going to a functional medicine doctor,
Starting point is 00:24:27 a naturopath, or an herbalist to figure out what those things are for you. But that all being said, this process that I'm going through really sparked my interest and so I've done more research and I love looking at old cultures and especially healthy old cultures and what they've done for rituals for long periods of time. Many of these rituals are put in these cultures because they have long term health benefits. For example, praying before you eat or just respecting your food, you're obviously more likely to not overeat and you're more likely to eat more consciously when you do that.
Starting point is 00:25:05 So I can see how that's a staple in many cultures or walking, going for a walk after you eat. We'll study show that that helps with digestion. And it's good for you, but lots of cultures do it. Something else, lots of cultures do is they do fasting and a lot of them do these their own herbal type of protocols. There's certain cultures, for example, that will go through periods of time where they eat these pastes made out of pumpkin seeds. I was just reading about the sea of the day. And the reason why they do this is they do it to treat gut issues. And for many times,
Starting point is 00:25:38 it's to treat parasites. Now, pumpkin seeds, this is a fact, you can look this up. There's an ingredient or there's a compound in pumpkin seeds that actually paralyzes certain parasites, like tapeworms. And so when tapeworms latch on to your gut lining or to your intestines and you pass your poop or whatever, they latch on and they stick around. They don't leave. Well, when you paralyze them with pumpkin seeds, they get paralyzed. They let go, and
Starting point is 00:26:05 then you poop them out. And so this is why some cultures will do this. Warmwood is another one. And so it's really fascinating to see how all these cultures have implemented some of these, you know, quote, unquote, herbal detoxes or methods of eating throughout the season to rid their body of what they would call toxins, but it's probably from parasites or bacterial overgross and all those things. So you gotta imagine, humans were probably absolutely riddled with parasites.
Starting point is 00:26:38 Yeah. Threat. You just wanna water alone. I mean, you just are, right? And they're kind of symbiotic. They live with our bodies and just like bacteria. And but humans did certain things to kind of like dogs will do, you ever notice like dog
Starting point is 00:26:53 when they're feeling cyclical, we eat grass and do certain things? And they're enforcing the puke. Yeah, and so humans have done this for a long time as well. So my opinion on herbal detoxing is if it's for a specific reason and you've gone and seen a professional, they can be pretty effective in herbs, can be a very effective treatments for chronic disease alongside, in a very, very, by the way, a very good herbalist or
Starting point is 00:27:17 naturopath is unlikely to just give you herbs. It's never just a like a Western medicine protocol where they're like, okay, take this three times a day and then you're fine. What they'll typically do is they'll say, don't eat this, don't eat that, eat this, move this way. Oh, and take these herbs. So that's kind of that holistic approach. Well, that's why I used to tell people that.
Starting point is 00:27:38 Like when most of these herbal detoxing things, they come with like a whole, like, certain, yeah, protocol. And it's like when you really dive in the protocol and you look at the fasting and the root, the workout routine and the amount of water they're having, like that's where the real benefit's coming from, is the restriction of all the fucking extra calories,
Starting point is 00:27:58 the movement they're asking you to do, and the extra fluid that you probably weren't consuming before, like that right there is the big bang for your buck. Now, even though I'm knocking it, this is something that I don't think is gonna hurt a lot of people, and if you have the money to throw away, and it's not a big deal, like, and you're like, okay, I just would rather follow something, or I feel like, you know, if I'm opening a box,
Starting point is 00:28:19 and making a T every, you know, three hours, that this makes me feel like I'll be consistent with it, then I guess by all means, right? I think we can all agree like an herbal detox. An herbal detox. I think it's definitely a hurt you. And I keep saying like go see someone who knows what they're doing with this stuff. Because if you go and search it online, you're going to find a bunch of Poloni.
Starting point is 00:28:39 But I mean, I'll give you an example. If you have elevated liver enzymes, for example, by the way, before, if you don't take my advice because I'm not an herbalist, I'm just talking about, I'm reporting on what I've actually read and seen in some countries, in some Western developed Western nations like Germany, for example, Germany has a division of their healthcare. And I don't even know if they still have it, but they did where they would study herbs and plants. And that was the first line of recommendation. So if a patient came in with certain problems, if it wasn't too bad, then the doctor would
Starting point is 00:29:12 recommend diet and herbal protocol. But like if you example, if you had like elevated liver enzymes, they would recommend certain dietary changes. And if that didn't help enough, then they would recommend something like milk fissile, which milk fissiles got liver detoxifying properties and this is confirmed by lots of study prostate enlargement if you have issues with your prostate you could go to your doctor and take you know finasteride which blocks the conversion of testosterone to DHT which has its own side effects and can be effective it can can cause lots of problems. Or you can take something like saw Palmetto which has been shown in minor cases to reduce the
Starting point is 00:29:51 inflammation of the prostate. And in doing so with that with minimal or no side effects. I mean, that's what I really like about plants is when you take a plant, you tend to, you have an active ingredient, but you have all these other things in the plant that tend to keep it balanced. So you don't get this extreme effect, you know, many times, not always, but many times. So quick interruption by our sponsors. You guys, lots of people have been asking us
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Starting point is 00:31:07 What did you fear most about being a trainer when you started? That's a tough question. You fear? I was, I think I was most scared about training a like doctor or physician or a PT. I was, I was nervous about training someone who I felt understood and knew the body better than me. That was always, but I also think that same fear
Starting point is 00:31:32 is also what made me a better trainer because I would go into those, I was super nervous about those training sessions. So I would go into that session very prepared. Like, okay, I'm gonna make sure I put together a really good program. I'm gonna make sure I put together a really good program. I'm gonna make sure that I can explain myself very well, like why I have them doing this
Starting point is 00:31:49 and why I have them eating this way. So as much as it was a fear, I also embraced that and I know that that was a big factor in me evolving as a trainer, but I would think that has to be one of the most nerve-wracking things that I remember experiencing as an early trainer when I first started was, oh, shit, I've got, you know, I'm 22 years old, I just really started learning all this stuff. I'm barely getting confident in building my programming myself and nutrition.
Starting point is 00:32:20 And here I've got this, you know, 45, 50, something year old, PhD that I have to train tomorrow. And I'm like, oh, fuck, this is very scary. Does your ever have one that I, intimidating? Question, do you encounter, do you while you were training them? Oh, yeah, no, definitely. I mean, I had many of times when early, early years that I got straightened out, saying some bullshit that wasn't right.
Starting point is 00:32:42 No, I wish I could give you an exact story. I don't, but I know that. I know for sure there was time. But once again, I think that's what, where you make up a word on accident. Oh, well, you know me. I've been, the anterior rotation of the, you know,
Starting point is 00:32:57 interior, whatever, and the like, what are you talking about? Well, I think it only happened maybe once or twice. And I learned my lesson to lesson to not do that anymore. And I was better off, and this is what, and I think I talked about this on an episode a long time ago that when I started to get these really brilliant minds,
Starting point is 00:33:13 instead of me going into it and like trying really hard and trying to sound smarter and do all this shit, I was like, you know what, why am I gonna try and pretend? Like I know more than this motherfucker, I'm about to help right now. He hired me, he needs my help somewhere. I'm gonna spend more time asking him questions like what can I do for you? What what would you what were you what are you looking for from me and then asking him stuff about about the body myself to instead of trying to sound
Starting point is 00:33:37 smarter than what I really was I spent more time Asking this brilliant mind in front of me questions that I wanted to know that he probably knew and then I would just directly ask him, hey, what is it I could do for you or what do you want from me to help you? And so I think once I switched those gears instead of trying to sound a certain way, I did a lot better with it. I can identify with that a little bit too. Just not what you don't know. So if somebody brings something up and you don't really have that much of a clue,
Starting point is 00:34:06 I know one specific example for me was, I mean, I didn't do a lot of machine-based training going through my sports career and training with the team. I was very versed with barbell training and plyometrics and all that kind of stuff. And then I got into more of the gym environment, the commercial gym environment, and then machines were the thing.
Starting point is 00:34:30 And so people kind of expected like these certain machines. And I remember one time, I took this poor lady over to this machine because she really wanted to try it out. And I was like, all right, yeah, let's do it. I had her face in the wrong way. And then some guy came up and he was like, bro, and he was a total bro. And he was like all right, yeah, let's do it. I had her like face in the wrong way I'm like some guy came up and he's like bro and like he was a total bro
Starting point is 00:34:47 And he was like like teaching her like right in front of me like punking me. Oh, no. Oh my god I got so insecure after that like that do you remember stuck with me? Do you remember the machine what it was? I don't I don't really remember well. It was like a preacher In my Preacher girl. It, no, in my preacher curl. No, no, no, it was good of all backwards on the moon. No, God, what was it? It was like a hack squat kind of machine.
Starting point is 00:35:12 And I had her face in like the other way. She was just, oh shit, it'd be like, yeah, you know, you're right. That's the way to do it. But I like to do it this way because I know I, like, now I would do that. I'm saying back then, I was so insecure already, you know, like trying to like provide the best service.
Starting point is 00:35:24 And like I knew everything, like I stuck in my wheelhouse. Yeah, and I mean and and so once I started to kind of like broaden, you know, my workouts and now, you know, it's funny that that didn't fly back then, but nowadays people do shit all the time stupid shit that I see in the gym now I'm like, oh they're being creative. Oh totally. Yeah, totally. Now it's like, I got, I got schooled. Oh, look, they're using the hip, the leg extension for hip threads. Well, I, you know, this, you know what, I'm glad this came up because we should address this.
Starting point is 00:35:51 I saw this on the forum. Did you see this thread on the forum? This is actually a really popular thread. Somebody, somebody posted, somebody doing the leg push downs on the, oh, the dip machine, the way this, and the grab truck. And well, I have a couple of things I want to say one. I don't like when we're you know, punking somebody that's that's doing some of that like I don't I don't want to make fun of a particular
Starting point is 00:36:19 per exactly a particular person where I where I would take a photo of them and single them out for doing a stupid exercise like that. But I do like to address how stupid an exercise like that is. So you get educated. Exactly. So what I was not a fan of was the thread, a picture of somebody doing it,
Starting point is 00:36:37 and then it turned into this like half the people are defending the person. It's like, oh, don't make fun of them for doing that. The other half the people are like, no, that's really stupid. So I want to just put that out there that one. I'm not a fan of us ever pointing something out like that at a single person or making fun of them because for all you know, they got it from somebody
Starting point is 00:36:58 who they think is really smart or is really reputable in the fitness industry and told them to do that. And they don't know any better, right? So I'm more, I'm more going after the people that have. Yes, if you're an influencer and you're teaching a move like that, it's ridiculous. And the irony of it is most girls are doing it to build a butt. And if you look, if you understand biomechanics,
Starting point is 00:37:25 the exercise is way more hip flexor and quad dominant than it is even glute dominant. So to do it to isolate the glutes is already a silly move. It's more about a million exercises that are more effective. Yes. Then using a machine that that's not even what it's designed for. Yeah, exactly. You're preoccupying somebody else's use by doing.
Starting point is 00:37:46 Why don't you just step up on something? Why push a platform down that's designed to support your weight when you do pull ups and dips? Why don't you just step up on something? And it would be far more beneficial to do that. Way more beneficial. A step up will have way more carryover for the glutes, way more functional carryover, burn more calories, build more muscle. So if you're out there and you're doing that silly move, stop doing it. It is not that you're wasting your time.
Starting point is 00:38:12 If you're doing that for 10, 15 minutes, you could be spending 10 to 15 minutes doing a ton of other movements that would be far more beneficial than the booty. Way more effective. The original question about fear, so you know, it's funny, maybe because I was so young, because I was 18 when I first became a personal trainer, and I was so passionate about working out, especially in gyms, I was in gyms since I was maybe 15, that I, you know, I had zero fear of the entire process
Starting point is 00:38:44 to the point where even before I got certified, I got clients to wait for me to get certified. So I'd sign them up and I told them, I'll be certified in two weeks and then they waited for me. So that whole process, I had no fear, but I do remember one particular moment that was probably the first time I fucked up with a client.
Starting point is 00:39:08 And it's because I got cocky. Like I was, like I said, I went in, I was super confident, loved it. So I had zero, absolutely zero anxiety and fear over it. And I trained people, I got real successful real quick. Probably my second month as a trainer that was one lady, I'll never forget, her name was Wendy. If you're listening, Wendy.
Starting point is 00:39:24 I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Yeah, you have a great burger. So I trained her and she was a school teacher. That's what came to mind when Wendy came out. Yeah. There's a lot of Wendy's. I'm hungry right now. So you know what that just reminds me of?
Starting point is 00:39:38 First, these is when you get directions from somebody and they give you like fast food markers, like, okay, go down and you'll see me turn left of the curls yeah McDonald's is gonna be on your ride and you go a little bit further from there and then you'll see KFC on the left and then you're gonna circle back around flip a you turn right over by Taco Bell and say yeah yeah under the overpass well so she so this wasn't the windy but she was a client of mine Wendy and I got cocky and so I'd have her come in and warm up but she was a client of mine Wendy and I got cocky and so I'd have her come in and warm up for like five to ten minutes on cardio and then I'd go grab her and then we'd go work out.
Starting point is 00:40:10 Well, I was cocky, right? I'm like the top trainer in the gym already, fucking doing all whatever. And I lost track of time. I lost track of time so she was on there for like 15 minutes warming up. So she walks, she gets off the cardio and I'm bullshitting with another trainer. She walks over to me and she gives me this dirty look and I'm like, I walk over to her and she goes, I'm not paying you to hang around so I could do cardio and she walks into the weight area. So I walk after her to trainer and it was like, holy fuck, like I totally fucked up. And I remember from that moment on, I was very, very, like I paid very close attention
Starting point is 00:40:47 to my client's time and I really respected them. But because I was new and I was a kid and I got cocky and then she checked me so hard. Like I felt like the biggest idiot. Like I felt like an asshole. Like what am I doing? Why did I leave her out there? That was a huge learning experience.
Starting point is 00:41:02 That was a major pep. That's good, she checked you. Yeah, right now it was good. That was good. That was a major pet. That's good. She checked you. Yeah, right now, that was good. That was a bit off. They didn't say anything. They don't say anything. They just don't reassign with you.
Starting point is 00:41:10 I know some show that. That was a major pet peeve of mine with trainers. Like I was like, absolutely not. Absolutely not. Are you allowed to stand next to your client where they fucking do 10 to 15 minutes of warming up? That's like, you don't need a, they do not need to be paying you for 15 minutes of warming up, that's like, you don't need a daydream. They do not need to be paying you for 15 minutes of elliptical.
Starting point is 00:41:28 And some of them would push that, 20, 30 minutes of the film to say, and then have him run laps in the gym. Yeah, in between sets. Well, I think I shared that story with you guys when I was running boot camps. I had a boot camps on that. Trainers working for me.
Starting point is 00:41:41 And I remember, I dropped in one thing, I cruised in every once in a while, dropped in on my camps, obviously to see how my trainers are running camps. And one of the trainers that was running one of these camps that I had built up, I showed up and he's like standing out there on the basketball court by himself and I'm like, where the fuck are all our clients? He's like, oh, they're on a run.
Starting point is 00:41:58 I'm like, what do you mean they're on a run? I'm checking my face. He's like, oh, I sent him to, and he tells me with a marker and I'm like, that's like fucking three miles Dude out there like are you kidding me? Like you sent him on a six mile run before like they're not gonna be back for 40 minutes Journey and you just chill back will do like you I don't know five pushups you chill over here But they go run for 45 minutes and you go at 15 minutes of stretching at the end And they're done with their are you fucking kidding me like never again, are you allowed to do that? Today's workout, go run.
Starting point is 00:42:25 Yeah, go here and then come back. Like, that was so bad. I'll get lost. Some trainers, man, I tell you what, it's just like anything else though, right? You get comfortable in a job, you start cutting corners and stuff, so. I guess.
Starting point is 00:42:36 Journey to jacked. Is it possible to listen to music and listen to your body in the gym? I heard people say it destroys the connection with your body and I have never heard you guys discuss this. This is funny. This is actually a very good question. No, it's a good question and it's funny to think that somebody would think that it would destroy a connection. Well, think about it this way. Are there different types of music that you listen to, that you guys listen to,
Starting point is 00:43:06 depending on the type of exercise and activity. Well, yeah, I'll change it around, based off of course, if I need to really get that CNS like charged up. Exactly, like if you're gonna lift super heavy and go nuts, you're probably gonna listen to like more heavy metal and something like, right? If you're gonna go do stretching or warming up
Starting point is 00:43:24 or hiking or- You might listen to more chill stuff. So this is actually a very, very good question. And I can see how, because I've done this before. That's a no-brainer though. Let me tell you guys a story. So when I had my gym that I own,
Starting point is 00:43:38 I would work out, and it was great, because I would work out there on my own. In the middle of the day, sometimes there would be no clients, so I'd turn the lights off, and I'd do these crazy workouts. Well, at this particular point, I think I might have been training for a jujitsu tournament. So I was doing these interval-type training. So I'd lift heavy and then I'd do these intervals, and I kind of designed this program to get
Starting point is 00:43:57 me ready for this tournament. Well, I was playing the soundtrack to Rocky IV, which I mean, we literally could have said that. Yeah, you should have asked it. Exactly. Which one do you think? And so, so this is why this is funny. So I put Rocky IV on and whenever I had the Rocky IV soundtrack, especially the montage music, I like, I just, I can picture myself like I'm fighting the Russian, right?
Starting point is 00:44:24 So I'm like, go on crazy. And I hurt myself. And the reason why this is funny is because that is the third time I hurt myself listening to the Rocky soundtrack. Because... Amps you up way too much. Because it literally... Pits you in that moment.
Starting point is 00:44:39 And I didn't, the way I explained it before was the music got me so pumped that I pushed myself too hard. But now that I'm reading the question, it really did was it made me ignore my body I didn't I disconnected from my body because I'm so fucking driven by this music that I'm so connected to Okay, that I pushed past where I should have and I hurt myself I know you mentioned that like there's times I have done that where I'm like Getting really into like like a song that's just driving me to fucking press more weight.
Starting point is 00:45:08 And yeah, I've hurt my shoulder before too. Well, for me, man, being in the gym, music playing in my ear, like, this is why too. I remember when I first started using the big headphones and people were making fun of me. Over here, yeah. People were making such a big difference. Yeah, I remember doing I first started using the big headphones and people were making fun. Over here? Yeah. People were making such a big difference.
Starting point is 00:45:27 Yeah, I remember doing that early on. But you DJ's in the gym now. And everybody was making fun of me to do it for doing that. And I was like, and Katrina still trips out to this day because she's like, you didn't see that hot girl or you didn't see that. I'm like, when I'm in the gym, that's like church for me, man. And I am in such a flow state and music is a very big part of that for me. I can just the big headphones drowns out any noise around me so I don't hear the
Starting point is 00:45:51 clang away. I don't hear people laughing and joking about their weekend and stuff. I literally see what's in front of me and what I'm focusing on currently and I hear this tune in my in my head and it's just it helps me dive so deep into being connected with my body. It is the furthest thing from being distracted. And if anything like I've been heard or had issues from not having music and hearing other people talking or looking at something and being distracted from all the other things that are going on in the gym and actually tuning out everything but the music, the melody in my ears is so much easier for me to actually stay connected and stay focused.
Starting point is 00:46:31 But you're pretty careful with what music you pick depending on what you're going to do or what kind of tempo or pace, right? Yes and no. I think there's pretty much to. Well, let me ask you this. You know, I do cool. Like in my, one of my clients actually suggested this. People have asked this before what our playlists are and all that.
Starting point is 00:46:49 We could easily put together a Spotify collective list for your heavier, more intensified days, and then your story of days and mobility. Your priming part, I bet you could come up with some cool sound tracks. So what I like to do when I, if when I'm priming or warming up stretching, whatever, is I like to listen to Brain FM Focus. No brainer. Brain FM Focus for that part of my workout is amazing.
Starting point is 00:47:18 And it does make me connect more. I don't like listening to it as much as I like listening to heavy shit when I'm lifting heavy. and it's funny because I'll even wait for the right moment of a song to start a set Like I'll get under the bar and I'm waiting for frickin rage against the machine I'm waiting for that shit to hit the right moment and then I unwrap and I go yeah and lift that weight or There's certain types of hip hop that I'll listen to Like two-pock when I want wanna do more of a slow paste resistance training type workout where I'm doing my sets
Starting point is 00:47:48 and I'm pacing myself and I'm trying to get like a good pump or whatever, then I'll listen to that. So it's funny when you first read this question Justin, I was like, that's the silly question. Yeah, I thought about it. I'm like, no, wait, that's a really question. No, no, I know. It seems silly at first.
Starting point is 00:48:02 I think Brain FM to me is for the, the prime, Brain FM for priming or yoga and meditate because it has a great meditation section too. So those two, I think are for that or if I'm lifting heavy, like you said, I can listen to almost anything that will amp me up. So heavy metal, even like, if I'm in like cruising through my workout,
Starting point is 00:48:23 I can listen to hip hop. What's music running? I have a totally different playlist. Oh, true. Yeah, definitely. What music or song are you most likely to hurt yourself over? Like what what song like is the like you'll listen to and be like okay I'm gonna go break some shit now. Like I know you guys yesterday don't mean shit by a pantera. Yeah. That one's fucking great. That one's fucking gets me going. Probably killing in the name of for Rage Against Me. I'll show you one too.
Starting point is 00:48:48 Oh yeah, that's a great one. What's the song, God, I can't believe I can't remember the name of it. It's the Rage Against The Machine song that was at the end of the Matrix, when Neo flies off and it's done, no, no, no, no. Pull it in your head, pull it. No, no, it's not pull it your head.
Starting point is 00:49:03 It's the Godzilla one then, right? Is it freedom? No, no, those are all freedom. That's like a favorite all time. Those are all so good, but I can't remember it. I'll have to come back to it. Next question there. Bull's on parade.
Starting point is 00:49:14 Those are all good, but there's that one song. There's that one song that makes me lose my shit. But the answer to the question is that, you know, it can destroy your connection. It really is to each their own, right? I really feel like everybody is uniquely different. I know some people that... Yeah, people get charged up by different.
Starting point is 00:49:31 Yeah, and I think if you feel like... Wake up, wake up, wake up. Wake up, wake up. That one right there, I reserve for special occasions. Yeah, I feel like if it works for you, then absolutely do it. If you feel like the music is distracting you, then either one probably change the music you're listening to or two, like get rid of the music. So I think everyone's different.
Starting point is 00:49:50 That's B-Fram. If you did have to lose weight fast, how would you do it? Oh, nice little trick question. I would put a disclaimer. Yes, so here's a little disclaimer. I'm gonna explain what I would do if I had to lose weight fast, don't do this, because it's not an effective long-term strategy,
Starting point is 00:50:09 and I wouldn't, I wouldn't recommend anybody do this, but the question is, if I had to lose weight very fast, how would I do it? Well, step one, because I'm trying to lose weight on the scale, I go low calorie and I go very, very, very, very, low carbohydrate. Like no carbohydrate, my protein intake would be pretty high and my fat intake would be moderate.
Starting point is 00:50:31 So it wouldn't even be keto, because my fat wouldn't be super high. I wouldn't feel very good, but I'd lose lots of weight, lots of water weight, as well, very, very quickly. So in a week's period of time, I would see the scale go down quickly. The second thing I would do is I would do cardio several times a day.
Starting point is 00:50:49 So I'd do cardio in the morning. I'm already in cardio diet because somebody's like writing this down right now. I know. And that's what I would do. And it would work very, very quickly within a two week period. I would also rebound very quickly after stopping that. And I'd probably damage my metabolic system a little bit as well. Justin, what would you do?
Starting point is 00:51:06 Well, I mean, I would start by like, abusing the whole fasting part of it. Right. Yeah, fast for like a couple of days. And then like right out of that, I would start charging obviously low carbohydrate and just like cells kind of describing. But you know, like for for me it's high intensity cardio that really like triggers that response to start shedding the weight. So you know for me that was my go-to if I was like I gotta get I gotta lose weight like you know really fat.
Starting point is 00:51:38 I got you know that was kind of like a go-to and then we got a lot smarter. kind of like I go to and then we got a lot smarter. I, uh, for me, this is actually a really easy question because getting ready for a show requires that I have this ability to turn, turn up a notch or be able to like get my body ready at a specific time, you know, so I would be very mathematical about this and we'll use current numbers and where I'm at right now and how I would do it differently from what I'm doing right now. So right now if you're watching my Instagram and my InstaStory, you can watch the slow correct process to doing this.
Starting point is 00:52:17 But if I knew like, okay, I have to do it as fast as I can, as fast as I can would change based off of what you told me. So if you set Adam as fast as you can for two weeks, as fast as you can would change based off of what you told me. So if you set Adam as fast as you can for two weeks, as fast as you can for four weeks, as fast as you can for six weeks, the answer would be different for each of those. And this is why. If you were to take an approach that was six weeks long
Starting point is 00:52:37 and you said as fast as you possibly could and I was right out the gates, restricted to 1500 calories and did cardio twice a day. That would be great for the first week or two, and I'd see some great change, but then the last four weeks, my body would slow up like crazy, and I'd see very, very small change. So I would break down off of how many weeks
Starting point is 00:53:00 that I have to be ready by and off of that. So an example of where I'm at right now, 3,500 calories to 3,800 is about my maintenance right now. So what I would do if this was like two to four weeks, each day I would slightly restrict. So I'd probably take away about 200 calories. I would slightly increase my volume in the training room. So I would probably add a couple sets to all my, a set to every exercise or a couple sets in the total amount
Starting point is 00:53:31 of exercises in that workout. And I would slowly increase either steps or cardio every single day. So just a little bit. So let's say day one is whatever it is, what it is, then day two, I come in, I do 10 more minutes of cardio I do
Starting point is 00:53:56 100 less calories that day I do two more sets of exercises and each day I add on that just a little bit All the way up into whatever my day is that I'm trying to be ready for That way and I make sure that I leave room for that. Like so if it's over the course of six weeks, I need to know that, okay. You're not gonna end up with five hours of cardio. Exactly and I'm not gonna end up at zero calories, right? So I can't, I don't wanna go from a guy who eats four thousand. A smarter than the way I was gonna do it.
Starting point is 00:54:15 Four thousand, well I, so like, let's beat the shit out of myself, you know. This is a very, everything it takes. Very realistic thing for me to have to be able to do when you're getting ready for state. This is what I loved about competing was this, was being able to be strategic about, okay, Adam,
Starting point is 00:54:31 you have to get on stage in 10 weeks and you're currently 15% body fat. What does that look like? And so, and this is kind of like what I think is wrong with a lot of the competitors out there, is they hire these coaches and these coaches just like restrict them on calories and blast them on cardio and blast them on high volume training right out the gates all the way till then and they do get in good shape.
Starting point is 00:54:54 But what ends up happening is they plateau way earlier than they should because they came they threw everything in the kitchen sink at their body right out the gates and that's not what you want to do. What you want to do is just you want to do is just, you want to slowly add volume. You want to slowly restrict calories. You want to slowly add cardio time. And that way each time your body is having to adapt to a new amount of volume, a new amount of cardio.
Starting point is 00:55:16 And then you won't plateau. You'll just see a little bit of change every single day, all the way till then. So. Yeah, I mean, you know, that all being said, we were, I mean, you know, that all being said, we were doing it slowly is effective, more effective for your body on a physiological level, but it's also more effective mentally. And you're less likely to stick to something that is a dramatic drastic change than you
Starting point is 00:55:38 are to something that is a small subtle change. Well, I didn't see any of that in the question. So you know, it was just like, how would you lose weight quickly? I mean, if I said something kind of rationale behind it, it would be a totally different answer. Yeah, I just want to say what I'm saying because I want to make sure, because what's going to happen? Here's what's going to happen. Doug's going to title this. It's going to say lose weight fast. People are going to click on it to learn how to lose weight as fast as possible. And so now we have to redirect. We want to give them the right information. And doing anything, trying to do anything,
Starting point is 00:56:08 crash course is the worst long-term strategy of all time. You will not do well long-term. And in fact, you may actually cause yourself more harm to where when you gain the weight back, it becomes even harder to lose at the second or third time or whatever. Yeah, if you're watching the process that I'm going through right now,
Starting point is 00:56:27 you will see me do this in a very healthy, balanced way. And that is the goal is for me to reduce body fat as fast as I possibly can, but in a smart strategic way that's sustainable, so that when I get there, I can hold that weight or weight that body fat percentage for as long as I want to versus, can I get in faster shape in two weeks
Starting point is 00:56:50 than I did going the other way? So I think that the big mistake that a lot of people make, and like I said, I see this in competing all the time is this all at once, that is not a smart strategy. The body is just, Adam. It just doesn't work very well. It's very, very smart, and it figures out what you're trying to do to it,
Starting point is 00:57:09 really get a really small window. And it gets very efficient, really quick, and this is where most people just say, fuck it, because they go like, man, I am pounding my way at myself. You'll see great results. You know, right out of the gates with this high intensity mentality,
Starting point is 00:57:22 but yeah, you just, it'll burn burn out and your body will adapt to that. Now you're in a whole new set of problems. Excellent. 30 days of coaching is available for free at mindpumpmedia.com. Also, on YouTube, MindPumpTV, we post a new video every single day on exercise demos, correctional movements,
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