Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 547: Optimal Time to Eat, Carnivore Diet Review, Large Breast Posture Fix & MORE

Episode Date: July 8, 2017

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If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, with your hosts. Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. In this episode of Mind Pump, in the intro we talk about Doug's gift. It's the piggyback writer. Yeah, I can't wait. Boy, is that gonna pump? Oh my god.

Super fun. I talk about men a good dog? Oh my God. Super fun. I talk about men and their underdeveloped glutes. Get your shit. Get your shit together, guys. We talk about Adam's girl like, but again, we might post some pictures of this in the show notes. Sal thinks about this a lot. Yep. We talk about the difference between what a centaur is and a minotaur is. Again, I'm dropping knowledge. It would if Doug doesn't edit that out. Yeah, there you go. We talk about 80s movies and scary movies and if you had the guess between me, Adam and Justin, which one of us do you think would be the biggest pussy when it comes to scary movies? You'll find out in the intro. Then

we get into the questions. Zing. The first question is, is it better to eat the bulk of your calories early in the day, late in the day, or throughout the day? Or never. Or just eat all the calories. Exactly. That's what I had to do. The next question was, this person wants to lift normal, but they can't because of diastasis recti. What is that? Well, that's fine out. I guess you have to find that erectile disson. It's a sexy, is it sound? It's actually quite common, especially in women who've had children. Then someone asked me what my thoughts are on the new diet.

They don't give a shit about Justin or I. They're talking about the carnivore diet. Basically, you know, we have each other at home. Eat meat. Is it better than veganism? Lastly, we ask about the, we answer a question about the best way to correct rounded shoulders, especially when you have large...

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All right, Salah to death. I like it when Justin's there. I like it when Justin opened it. Biggie! You guys just too much. Hey guys. Oh, Kumi! Real quick.

You know how Doug's birthday the other day and we gonna buy anything like assholes I got the gift. Why you gotta remind us I got the gift you guys ready. Yeah, watch this I gave him the one you got the gift watch this right here. You get the head watch this right here Kof fucking cool this is right here Is this cool? It's a backpack it's like a backpack. It's like a backpack, but your kid stands on it And it's like you're giving him a little piggyback, right? Wow. And now we can find take Doug. Could you fucking imagine, can you please order one of these?

Like, dude, everywhere is order one. I want to carry, I want us to have Doug like that on us. Yeah. So that when we're going places, he's filming. He's filming on Amazon. He's working. We're getting extra resources. Can you send it the link to that?

I'm gonna have Katrina. Is that a gift for you or for me? That's for you. You don't go on drugs anymore. You're laying it anymore. Doug, you take for granted that we want to carry you, dude. That's fucking awesome. You know, fun, that would be if I could ride on the back

of Justin. I want to be carrying him. I know. Come on, man. We could run fast. We could jump. I get a lot of emails. It's so fun.

I turn them all away. Can you send me the link, please? I'm sending you the link right now. Think about all the activities we could jump a lot of emails. I turn them all away. Can you send me the link please? I'm sending you the link right now. Think about all the activities we could do, Doug. All the activities. It's way more comfortable than the baby Bjorn. Yeah, I agree. I agree, yeah.

That's true. This thing gets the, cause then you can burp them. Yeah. I had too much. Fuck. Yeah. Yeah.

So you're telling me someone made fun of my shorts on the YouTube video, huh? Ha ha ha ha. Your. Yeah. It's okay, Doug. So you're telling me someone made fun of my shorts on the YouTube video, huh? You dad shorts? Wait, which the plan? You know, special for 1992? Wait, which video was it? I had those in high school still, so it was like 97. 97.

Okay, that's fair. Okay, that's fair. You know what, that's fair. Which video? Let's be accurate. Which video? The most recent one. Oh, was it the movement versus muscle pain?

Yeah, it's the movement versus... Those shorts are fucking great, dude. Yeah, they're great. I like them. I get compliments. Got shots. I had lots of... I got a...

Uscosh, Pogosh. Uscosh, Pogosh. Is that what they are? Are those uscosh, Pogosh? No, I think they were... Are you bringing it back? Uscosh, Pogosh. Uscosh, my gosh. Are you bringing it back? No, I think they were

Kevrichi, I'm trans getting I'm trying to use another name. That's like it. I think they were a bugle boys bugle boys. Yeah, they were Bugle boys. They match they match my ego boys are gosh, gosh, they match my LA gears My British you see my bknites. You see still a brand or like no fear pro Stuce is is made a hard comeback really no no Stuce is live and well right now. They were like the thing Which actually now that you bring that up that was one of those things I've been meaning to look into the company because I was telling Katrina I was fascinated that it made it they survived. Yeah, they kind of like fell off

You didn't hear anything from for like 10 years and now it's popular again that it made it- They survived. Yeah, they kind of like fell off. You didn't hear anything from for like 10 years. And now it's popular again, and it's in a lot of your, you know, skater type stores, like right? They're like a mainland or Pacific Sunwear, Carrie Stucy now. And they really didn't revamp the brand.

It looks exactly the same. You used to look when I was a kid and we used to write the S in the team, the two eyes. We still have a lot of inventory. Maybe a decade later, it'll make sense. Yeah, no, I'm interested in, you know, I'm always fascinated by a company that survives, especially stuff like things like apparel to stay to stay, I mean, popular. Relovance.

Yeah. That's the word you really have to say. I think you're relevant. To stay relevant for the word you really have to sell it. Thank you, relevant. To stay relevant for that long. To sell our locals the source. Thank you. Like it was a really tough. I'm telling it's all the source.

The source strikes again. I'm going to do this whole episode. What you're about to say, we're not going to say what I think you say. What I just said, just pop them in there. But no, that type of stuff. Painting shirts. I don't know if you guys pay attention. But no, that type of stuff. Penitatures. I don't know if you guys pay attention to that. I pay attention to that stuff.

Oh, totally. It fascinates me when I see that. And it always makes me go, I'm interested to know who the CEO was over the last 10 years or if there was multiple, how they pivoted the company to keep it going. Right, like LEDs and shoes and all that. Like that was a thing for a minute. It's coming back and you know, I'm waiting for the pumps to come back and all that kind of stuff, like Reebok did.

Well, they did, they actually, they Reebok pump, did come back, they did a little, they did a line. I went on trying to find the originals and I couldn't, man. Oh, those are the gyros. I was on the hunt for the original original pumps. Except I had Jordans. You know, when I was a kid, you know what shoes

I wanted really fucking bad, like really bad. Ninja shoes. I wanted ninja shoes so bad. Are you such a douchebag? Do you know what I'm talking about? Because I used to beat up kids like you. No, no, I want, you wouldn't have been a little beat me up, because I'm an actual ninja.

Cause you know, like the one toe comes out like that. But then there's like a knife that comes out the bottom. You play Laxianobi. You know, I mean Ninja Gaten. Yeah, so anyway, check this out. I had an interesting realization the other day so my girlfriend was commenting on the Rotundness of my glutes the roundness and it was a nice compliment Yeah, and I was like my my butt's not that great. Like, what are you talking about?

Cause I look at it sometimes. It was totally fishing for compliments. And she's like, and she's like, no. Totally fishing for compliments are there. And she's like, no. No, honey, it's not that. Nothing, nothing. Let me do his posture here.

What? What? What? This whole thing? This thing? This whole thing? This whole thing? No, I know because I have this, I have the self-image issue

because I'm always around Justin and his glutes. Are overpowering. You could fit both of my glutes and one of his glutes. Yeah, what's this thing? It's just mass. It's not like a whole lot. They're cheap. They're thick and they're cakes.

But anyway, that's not the story. It's like a semi truck. So she's complimenting me and I'm like, what's the big deal? And she goes, most guys have no butts. And I'm like, that's not true. And's complimenting me and I'm like, what's the big deal? And she goes, most guys have no butts. And I'm like, that's not true. And she says, yes. And I'm like, wow, you know what?

Women get a lot of heat for their butt. Guys, do they have, so then I'm at the gym. I'm in the locker room. I stare at guys' butts. Yeah, that's what I do. Bro, you don't get glutes, man. Dude, have you, do this for me. Next time you go in the locker room,

look at naked dudes' butts. Okay. Okay, this is already getting to be bad advice Just from a personal trainer standpoint right she was right there every dude in there had zero glutes It was all flabby booties. There was no ass Nothing and I realize that that's the most under probably the most undeveloped thing on on guys Well, I think you could argue that the whole post-ear chain is on guys because we don't guys don't see a lot of impressive back. Yeah, you don't see a lot of impressive backs.

You don't see a lot of impressive glutes because not a lot of guys deadlift and squat. Although that's changed a lot. I think that there's a thing in my research. But there was one guy. There is one. We're on the Silicon Valley. There is one also. You're also in a gym that I think is still.

You're right. It wasn't gold. Yeah. If you're in if you're in gold or guys are dead lifting and squatting, you're gonna see some impressive glutes. I talk about some glutes. You're gonna see some scar tissue from the needles. But now I was at a there was this older man though. That was this Persian guy older man probably in his 50s or 60s, like big and stride it glutes. So I noticed it, so I'm like, I'm gonna wait till he's dressed. And as Harry, like, yeah.

That's racist. So he got dressed and when he was done getting dressed, I went up to him, I'm like, hey man, I'm like, you look really developed. Like, lower body looks real developed. I didn't tell him he had nice glutes because I figured that would be inappropriate. And he was a sprinter.

He probably appreciated it. He was a sprinter in high school and in college. So there you go. That's why his glutes were big and straight. Do you think it's more glutes? Do you think more often than not? Like a situation like that where he's a sprinter and therefore he has these big glutes from sprinting

or he genetically had the bigger glutes and therefore he was a good sprinter. Both. Yeah, but I think they're, of course both. But what do you think is more of the case? or he genetically had the bigger glutes and therefore he was a good sprinter. Both. Yeah, but I think they're, of course both, but what do you think is, what do you think is more of the case? Well, so he's still, cause I have my own. So he's still sprints and he still does lots of leg exercises

that we talked a little bit. So because glutes are a muscle, you can definitely genetically have bigger muscles, but they can also atrophy and hypertrophy. So in his were, I mean, I did get a good look. They were well developed. They were a picture. They looked like, they looked like very muscular,

like you could tell the guy does exercises. I mean, they weren't like justins. Thank you. And they're like, I don't get a girl. Mine is the standard. Mine is the standard. I don't know if that's a compliment or not. You have a girl, but that one time we both moond just- He's got got the high-perture. And he took a picture. I was like, dude,

if I didn't see the rest of you, that would look like a girl's pie. But I just I have a fantastic. I think it's I think it's is the way is posturing. Justin tells me all that kind of little nice little arch. It's like a girl's booty. I mean, I don't think you or Justin would be safe in prison. Very plump. You say girls. But is it like a there's lots of girls. That's too over joins. What does it mean that have like have a girls. So there's like a sweet piece. I've seen lots of girls with all types of booty. So what is it? Describe my booty, please. It's like I'm trying to think. I'm trying to think now

in my head. It looks like a piece of fruit. It It's don't act like you don't think about it all times. Oh, I don't tell me if first of all it's really white and smooth No, it's Got a trail of tears And and then you say a trail it's almost like it's heavier. It's almost heavier at the bottom You know I'm saying like the weight distribution is it's bottom issue. It's very peach like. Yeah, like a girl's butt. It's a donks. It's bottom. It's I'm telling you if we were it if we were is it full or is it like on but it's you feel do you feel like it's not like like when you look at it, do you initially have this side? Like that?

You realize it's like let's say we turn all the lights off. Let's say we turn the lights off. It's a vibration fan and you had to like guess what's in your hand. I'd be like, oh, that's a girl's butt. And then they turn the lights on. I'd be like, oh my god, it's Adam. It's like the cup lift. Yeah, like that. But I mean, it's not anywhere near.

Like don't get me wrong at them. It's nowhere near Justin's. Thank you. But it's definitely good. You know, so. Justin has like a powerful look at horse ass. Yeah. He's like a horse ass. When horse ass. Yeah, it's like a horse ass. When I see his head, like, big horse. It's just like if you had to make a song for his

brother, right? Not even I do. I've been you know, I scream. We had a YouTube, we had a YouTube video where Justin was wearing tapered pants. And he had his, he had his hips kicked out. And I actually screencapped today because I was meaning to fuck with him and put a horse head on on him and then send it to him because literally from the hips down or waist down he looked like a horse. He stands. What do they call that mythical creature a minitar? A minitar? I'm a minitar, yeah. It's kind of like that a little bit. You are very very nice. No, because minitar is the bull. Oh, what's the shuntar? I fucked up. The Raya. Yeah! Whoa!

Doug has it on recording. Yeah. Yeah. He'll edit it out. Sometimes he's smart. Yeah, and it's a lot. I edit out all the ones who have a lot. Yeah, I edit out all the ones who have a lot.

Especially with the mythical stuff. All the smart stuff. That's like my area. All the smart shit Justin says is edit it out. Every time, dude. And then right after I say it like it's my idea Wow, you don't really hear you say you guys a show by the way by the way guys it conflicts with sounds ideologies I sent a centars a half man half horse minotaur's half half man half bowl just in case you guys didn't know that I watched legend and you oh

God what a great movie right dude what a great movie. Right? Dude. What a great movie. Speaking of great movies, did I say this on the show that I made my girlfriend watch the Lost Boys? Did I say you guys know you told me that out in the gym? So we're sitting there and I'm like, what a great, what are we gonna watch, right? And Connick. We had talked about how she liked the movie Twilight, the first one, which I, I'll agree it was an okay movie, but it's not how how I depict vampire like my understanding of vampires is based on when I watched when I was a kid Which was the lost boys and those are fucking vampires do the freaking awesome, right?

Bloodthirsty so I'm like I'm like babe. You need to watch this movie like please watch this movie I was like so like I hammered her like we're gonna watch this movie. It's awesome. I built up the I freaking hyped it up Yeah, she don't like it What yeah, she like and and when I watched her defense It's kind of like when you're like yeah rad stupid like me not like what yeah, no, no, no rad That is stupid You can't write a bike shame on you. Yeah, shame on you can write a if you could write a bike Do you know what would you actually bunny hop what would you guys do if I couldn't write a bike? How funny would that?

I do what I write like this makes sense Not surprised right now actually actually if you got on a bike and started doing tricks I'd be like what I know what my hair would So anyway, I put you made that shot when we're playing basketball. I know what is going on? He saves it all the world. It's funny all of his town. He saves for just like one moment of hope when it counts When it counts so so what I was gonna say is I watched lost boys with her and I hadn't seen it for years And it is an awesome movie, but it's also kind of cheesy, you know, so you know those movies Watch me in the 80s, you know exactly so I can kind of see that so I'm thinking legend was fucking epic But I wonder if it's cheesy too. Well, yeah, it was me in the 80s, you know? Exactly. So I can kind of see that. So I'm thinking legend was fucking epic,

but I wonder if it's cheesy too. Well, yeah. It's really tough. Did you watch legend? Yeah. It's really tough. Have demon dude with the fucking horn man. It was, it's cheesy.

That's how I want to, if we go to Burning Man by the way, that's the cost huge dude. I mean, your neck's gonna hurt. I don't care. It looks, it's, when you go back in you, I own it. So I've gone back and watched it. I probably, I don't care. It looks, when you go back in you, I own it. So I've gone back and watched it, I probably, I don't know, five years ago, whatever. But it's literally the movies that were done back then,

even if it was a good storyline, it's tough to watch it because we've been spoiled with this super high-def, incredible quality. It's when like puppets dominated. Yeah, I mean, it was like all about the puppets and you know, although I do believe you will see this like we did see the that come back with like vinyl records, right? Like so we went so far with music.

Because the nostalgia factors. Yeah, so I do feel like it sounds better. I do feel like when we talked about this one time before on the podcast about TVs have become so clear now that it ruined some movies because I can see the makeup on the man. I can tell the props are fake. Like so when you can see that, it kind of, it kind of loses its luster, right? I don't know, man. The demon from legend, he looks for you back.

Don't just pull it up like that looks like a demon that will kill you and then and then bang your girl Like the same all at the same time massive red, you know Red it's just My god, look at him. That's a grass. That's a kid that movie scared to shit. Oh, did it really? Oh, yeah So you know, it's another great movie that's from back then crawl Did you guys ever watch crawl? Oh? No, Doug look it up K. R. U. L. L So awesome dude such a great movie he finds it's like this is another demonic movie you want

It's kind of like that. He finds it. Oh, there it is I wear dark No, no look at this look at this movie right here. It's so much. It's, it's, look at the demon in that. Anyway, he finds this like ninja star thing that he kills the demon with. Like he throws it at the man.

Oh, that thing is crazy. And it spins and it fucking, that movie. Oh, I'm watching this. If you're into like 80s sci-fi. Yeah. Oh, crawl is, I promise you will love this movie. There's a cyclops in it. I not know about this. Dude, it will change your life. I can't believe love this move. There's a cyclops in it. I not know about this dude

It will change your life. I can't believe never see who's the main actor who's that guy in the Argonauts? Oh my god What a great movie who's the main actor? I don't know what his name is but I know click on his picture So it's this weird dystopian like future or past you can't really figure it out and he's like a king and There's this it's this demon like that controls He's bad people and they come and steal his wife and then he kills the demon with this ninja start thing It's really cool. It's a great movie back when ninjas. Wow. I have it. I don't shit 1983. Wow wonder I was two. Yeah, it was a question. I don't remember this at all. Yeah, you shouldn't have watched that if you were two

Yeah, I'd be scared I'd probably be scared of a movie like that Yeah, I only got a six point one what movies when you were a kid scared you Did you remember a movie that fucked you legend was yeah, yeah, yeah legend legend scared me You know another one scared me god. What was the name of this this is gonna drive me crazy Golly the exorcist scared the shit out of me. Well, that's of course Yeah, what's the what's the other one where she looks, she's looking at the TV? Fantasm?

No, no, she's looking at the TV. Oh, oh, oh. Poltergeist. Poltergeist, yeah, poltergeist. Just in ten points. Scared me for, I scared the shit out of me as a kid. You know what scared me so bad? Like that it actually traumatized me?

No joke. And I was a young kid too. I was very, very young. And I watched my first black and white Twilight Zone episode. In the Twilight Zone. There's some creepy stuff. It's legit creepy, even as an adult.

And the episode that I watched that scared the shit out of me is the one where the doctors are like, there's a woman in her face is covered in bandages so you can't see her face. And she's like, talking about like, oh my God, I hope the surgery worked. Like I don't wanna be hideous anymore. And the doctor's like, I think we did a good job this time.

I think we're gonna, we fixed your face. And she's like, I just don't want children to cry when they see me. So you're thinking like, oh man, this woman's like really ugly. So then towards the end, and you, by the way, the whole time you never see the faces of the nurses or the doctor, all you see is her. So it's all her and you see their hands like talking stuff.

Then they start taking advantage off. And you're expecting this like hideous person. And she's this beautiful woman, but as soon as her face is shown, the nurse drops like a beaker or something and crashes and everybody goes, oh my God, and the doctor's like it didn't work.

And then the camera pans over the doctor and the nurses and they're all fucking monsters. And it scared me so bad that all anybody ever had to do to make me cry was do the song from the twides on. All they had to do, that's it. Bro, this all anybody ever had to do to make me cry was do the song from the twides on all they had to do that's it bro this is all they had to do is do this embarrassing because it's such a cheesy movie right it's it's ghost busters right like it's like duh you know it's like fake but when when the when the dogs are like breaking out of the statues yeah like that freaked me the fuck out like I just couldn't even watch the rest of the movie after that,

and then the red eyes. And then I remember that my brother would play that record, like, oh, do do do do do. And that scared me. And I scared the shit I mean. And I would like it, I'd get in fights with him all the time. How crazy is that? You would have, and people didn't even have to play the song,

though, they literally go up to me and go, do do do do do with the stupid title. And I'd be like, no, but I cry. Fuck, man. I was like 16. Yeah, scary. Wow. Yeah, I don't even I don't own I have a big old DVD collection and I don't think I own any scary movies.

I don't you don't like them still. I don't. They get you. They get you. Yeah, Courtney. Yeah, she is. Yeah, I like him. And I'm you know, you know, you're that serious as a man, as a grown man.

As a grown man. You watch a scary movie, you're getting excited. My favorite are the funny ones like Evil Dead and, you know, like army of darkness. Yeah. Those are cool, but I want to hear more about Adam being a person. So like why?

So you're an adult male. Let's talk about this for a second. You'll help tell you. Six three. You're six three, lift weight, get a fuck off of me. How much do you weigh? Two or twenty thousand. Yeah, tattoos, you shit. Tattoo tattoos. Me and his fuck. Me and his fuck. I'll tell you six three six three Liff Wade got a way to 222

He's shit He's He's fuck me He's fuck sometimes painted toenails and you won't watch it that's like scary movie I won't watch a scary movie and the only times I ever did was like my buddies like when we were in high school and even in college Like they would they love to watch a stage like I get out in number. There's four of us right fork really close friends And they all love to watch them and they love to watch I'm just because they like to watch me squirm while we watch it and I used to hate it

I'm like I can't get comfortable watching this I'm not being entertained right now I'm on edge wondering what the fuck's gonna happen next Sweating like it and I'm like I don't get this when I want to watch at least how I'm a big movie buff guy Right, so I love movies I watch movies all over your a buff movie guy one of the other right so I love to watch movies But movie time for me is like this. I want to be entertained I don't want to have to really think I want to just be absorbed by the movie and I want to relax and Scary movies are the opposite. I cannot relax.

I fucking love them. No, dude. I love the scary movies. I remember in the mouth of madness. No. Oh, that movie is scary. Oh. There's this part where this like freaky old man

was like riding a bike like in the distance. What? And it was like this car was driving. It was dark and like this the headlights kept like flickering and then like all of a sudden, you know, like he was like, this car was driving, it was dark, and like the headlights kept flickering, and then like all of a sudden, you know, like he was like way far in the distance, then all of a sudden boom, he's like right in front of the car.

I was like, ah! Oh my God, oh my God, I jumped out of my seat. I love scary movies. Fucked up. Except I will not watch a Rob Zombie movie. That's the only ones I want, because they're too fucking good.

Oh, this is too far. He goes too far, there's no reason why. What you think of stuff like saw then. Saw was it was okay. I wasn't that impressed with it be also there. I like scary movies that I can't. I can't figure out that legit get me feeling scared. Psychological. Did you watch saw in the theater? Did you watch saw at home theater? I like the first one. First saw I saw in theater and when he's taking photos in the dark and he's and you know that fucking clowns there. Whatever the hell that thing is, right? You know he's in there and like each time that flashes you get to see for a second.

The whole theater like I've never been in a theater, like, where everybody screamed like at the top of their lungs and the same time, it was the craziest thing ever when he flashes and it's like right in front of his face. I thought that feeling, like, how does that not make you feel anxious? That's the same thing. That's what you have to, like, go to movie theaters because then you get all the reactions to everybody.

No, what I like to do is I'll watch it at home with the lights off, watch that shit by myself. You're real freak. Oh, yeah. When I was a kid, you know what, one of my favorite TV shows was, cause you just scared the fuck out of me. And then I couldn't sleep,

but I would watch it anyway, cause I loved it. Unsolved mysteries, remember that? Oh yeah. That shit would come on. And there was always, it was always like a murder that wasn't solved, and that didn't really scare me or something.

But then they'd always throw in some like alien or ghost shit in there. Yeah. Like the house is hunted and it should go shit and I'd be like, oh, then I wouldn't be able to sleep but I loved it. That's so backwards to me. No, it's not. I loved it. I couldn't sleep. Yeah.

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and input the discount code MindPumpa Checkout for 10% off. It's the motherfucking car. An English landed. Quee-qua. First up is Bri Hicks 5. Is it better to eat the bulk of your calories early in the day, late in the day, or throughout the day?

So first things first, here's order of importance, calories, macros, quality of food, personal preference and then, I don't know, some other stuff. And then time of day, that you eat your food. Some time. Yeah, it's like, maybe like five of the things. I'm just exactly, it's not that important, it really isn't. But let's say you're one of these highly tuned in,

everything is dialed perfect, like your Ben Greenfield, like you're doing everything to maximize your performance, then when you eat your calories depends on when you're gonna work out. And one thing is for sure, some science is suggesting, and it's not conclusive, but a lot of it's coming out, and it's all pointing in the same direction, that it's better for everything from fat loss to muscle building to hormone profiles to eat within a window of about eight hours. So, it's just, they actually did some mouse studies,

no joke, where they had them eat the same amount of calories. And this is an animal study again, so it's not human. And they had them eat the bulk of their calories, or they had them eat all their calories within a particular timeframe, or they let the mice eat the same amount of food spread out throughout the whole day. When the mice ate it within a restricted timeframe,

they actually built more muscle and burn more body fat and it was the same amount of calories. So it's pretty interesting. Now, there is some science to show that eating during the day is probably better than eating at night. Now, the reason why I may agree with this a little bit, and again, it's probably such a small effect that doesn't really matter. But the reason why I may agree with this a little bit. And again, it's probably such a small effect

that doesn't really matter. But the reason why I may agree with this is from an evolutionary standpoint, it kind of makes sense that we're going to do most of everything during daylight. And when it's dark, we're in the cave and we're sleeping or something like that. You know me, we're not necessarily cooking food and forging for things because at night, at night, we become food, you know, I'm saying. I have a theory on this. This is more theories. I like a theoretical person today. I have a theory on this.

I think that it would be ideal to actually change this up intermittently. I think that if you eat a bulk of your calories in the morning, most of the time, I think it would be a great idea to fast in the morning and then go bulk at night. And then if you're somebody who eats the bulk of your calories at night, most of the time, then I think it would be great to flip it on its head and do it in the morning sometimes. I think that we talk a lot about what we've learned about the body and how it responds to stress, right? And I think the same rules will apply with nutrition, too.

Like, why not stress your body with, okay, it's very, it's used to getting all its calories and its nutrients at this time. I think it would be a good smart idea for us to actually take it away from the body for a little bit at that time and then give it a different time when it's not ready for it. Yeah. And I don't have any studies to prove that, but this is how I eat. If you watch what's going on in my story, you'll see one day I'll have 400 grams of carbohydrates,

then I'll have 100 grams of carbs, my fats will go all up and down, then you'll see I'll have a huge breakfast and then I'll have a small dinner, but then I'll have a huge dinner and I'll have a small breakfast or all fast one day and eat a bulk of them in the window like Sal was saying. I think it would be good to actually change that. I definitely think experimenting with that is a good idea because I mean, for me, I look at it as like, you know, how are you like managing your energy? Like, how do you respond best? Do you respond best when you eat later in the day and like you're more energetic and

productive, restrictive, or you're more productive and energetic by eating first thing in the morning and the bulk of your calories in the morning? Like everybody is different. There's variances all across the board. So you find that out. You find out how your body responds best and how you best digest and how you best operate throughout the day.

And then yeah, like do what Adam says, like eventually you challenge yourself on that same pattern. Yeah, I actually, I don't really disagree with you Adam. I think if that's a principle, you can kind of apply to everything, right? And again, from an evolutionary standpoint, I also don't think humans were very picky with when they ate. I think they ate when they had it. Right. They made a kill at 6 a.m. or they made a kill at 10 o'clock at night.

I don't think you better. Yeah, and I don't think there's a new problem. And I don't, and I think they ate it when they had it and they didn't have an ability to really store it, you know, so it's not like you're like, Hey, mom, can you put the elk in the freezer because, you know, I don't want to eat it. It's a nighttime. I want to wait till tomorrow.

It's like, you better eat that shit before it has maggots in it. So eat it right now, you know. So I would, I think I would agree with you. And that's why I think there's evidence to show that either way can be beneficial. I mean, personally, I have less energy if I big meal in the day. It doesn't really work for me. And I know a lot of people like that.

And the truth is, when you eat, you do activate the parasympathetic system of the body, which is the sleep, relax, and rest system of the body. It is not the energy hyper, want to move, you know, sympathetic system. And this is true. I mean, think about it. Look, when you eat a massive meal, you know, you probably want to take a nap afterwards. The last thing on my mind when I did very big meals right afterwards, I want to go do some hard activity or I want to study real hard or write a blog or something like that. So that's, you know, that could point to that. It may be better to at night But then on the on the flip side again, you know eating during the day some studies show It's it's so hard to test this thing

Which is why what we really have that's dependable or animal studies because there's so many factors to consider when and one thing You understand when we look at studies revolve around food with humans. They're almost all surveys every single one of them surveys, because it's super expensive and not very realistic to take a hundred test subjects of humans, lock them in a laboratory and then completely control their food and the timing and their water on them. But do that for 10 years.

Yeah, and it's valid. Exactly, and then you gotta do it over a long period of time. It's not gonna happen. So what they do instead is they do surveys. And so some studies, for example, show that people who eat a balanced breakfast tend to be leaner and healthier. But there's a lot of self-selection bias there because people who tend to take the time out

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That'll give you the best results. Yes and no right there. I want to say that because I feel like there's two camps in this, right? There's either, and I remember being a trainer, that was who I advice would be, okay, if you feel that eating the morning gives you the best amount of energy, the best workout throughout the day, then that's what you should do. And vice versa, if it's at nighttime. And then you have the other camps of, I'm a performance athlete, and I need to try and

time my meal to make sure I get the most optimal, right, at my peak, right, when I'm hitting a, you know, whatever my sport is, right. But I still think that there's lots of benefits. So because I was, I remember, and this really hit me when I started to incorporate fasting because I thought that there's no way I could work out without I used to have to eat at least two meals before I worked out.

Like that was my, for years, I used to tell clients, well eat what works for you, just like what Sal just said, right now, and what worked for me for many years was, in the morning I had my big breakfast, then had another meal than about one or two in the afternoon I was ready to lift and I got great lifts that way for many years and I stuck to that for and then if I were to ever go out of that a little bit oh my workout suffered but what I found with fasting and I started when I started to do that yeah it was challenging and then it then all said in my butt I felt my body get adapted to it

And then I actually felt better on my workouts and the takeaway that I got from that more than oh Fasting does all these wonderful things for me was that oh well Maybe actually what's really good for my body is to challenge it is to this is what I'm comfortable with doing all the time Maybe what I should do is actually Be out of that for like, if that is, if I don't have to perform, right? I mean, if you're an athlete, this is totally different because you don't want to be,

like getting ready for your big game on Thursday. It would be 40 hour fast. Yeah, and all of a sudden, like, testing like this theory that I have right now, which is, hey, I always eat this way, I should not know, that's not gonna really benefit you. You're trying to perform better, but as far as challenging the metabolism,

I think it's actually really good for us to take yourself outside of your comfort zone. I mean, absolutely, me. I can definitely see the logic behind it. However, the average person, that's the last thing I tell them to do. Right. If you're having a hard time motivating yourself

to even work out, the last thing, you're lasting what you'd be doing is getting consistencies Yeah, and that's why I say that because I feel like if you tell people like eat at this time and try this and try that and And they're like I'm not doing any of it. It's too much stuff It's not that important. It really isn't but if you get everything dialed Play with it a little bit. I mean, I don't really disagree with that. I think it's a very valid theory I think there's some logic behind it and be interesting get some feedback from people who try it out play with it a little Quick commercial break you guys we keep getting asked all the time

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Go check it out. Next up, Jackie Mann 1078. Wants to lift normal, but feels like she can't because of her diastasis recti. What app exercises do you recommend? Now, I had to look this up because I didn't even know that was a name of that. Yeah, that's the first. So this is when... So this can happen in anybody. It's, it's, and you actually sometimes see this in young children.

You see this in, however, most people who have this are women and they get it when they're pregnant. What happens are big ginormous bodybuilders. What they're, yeah, what they're real formal in the gut. So what happens is, so if you, if you can close your eyes and picture the abdominal muscles, the abdominal muscles, it looks like two rows of muscles, right? You're six pack, you've got two sides to it.

And the, if your insides are growing really fast, like a woman who's pregnant, they're going to push. Or a bodybuilder on growth hormone. Or exactly. It's gonna push those those abs out and sometimes, to make room, the abdominals actually split down the middle to make room for this growing baby.

And that is called diasastasis recti. And you'll know this, one of the tests that they do with people is they'll have them do, like try to pretend to do a sit-up, and they'll see this big kind of coning bulge come out the middle of their stomach because their abdominal muscles have gone to the sides and they'll see these bulge in the center. This can be a problem.

Is that in testing? No, there's muscles underneath too, so it's not a hernia, but some people don't like the way it looks and all these other things. Really, this is a problem because not necessarily, although it can cause problems themselves and you can get it, you know, some people get surgery for this. Really the main problem that comes from this

isn't necessarily the dividing of the abdominals. It's really the atrophy of the transverse abdominal muscles underneath. Those are, that's like the bodyrophy of the transverse abdominal muscles underneath. Those are, that's like the body's natural weight belt. So it's a muscle that comes around your waist. And when you flex it, you squeeze your midsection in. So it's like if you're at the beach and you suck in your stomach because you want to look lean, that's a transverse abdominis.

That's that muscle. That muscle atrophies tremendously when you have a baby because it has to. It stretches out. It can't stay tight and strong. And you can't activate it very well when you're pregnant. So it atrophies it becomes very weak. So now you have your baby, you've got diastasis recti, but what you, what the bigger problem is, you've got this really weak atrophied super important core stabilizer muscle called the transverse abdominis.

And what you need to do is work on that, not necessarily try to focus on bringing the abs together, although if you do go to a physical therapist, that's what they'll have you do. The TVA is a group of muscles, right? It's a, the transverse abdominis is a group of 28 different muscles. All the muscles that kind of surround and squeeze

in the midsection. Yeah, so a lot of, so the advice advice would be like work in the now, right? So it would be work a lot of core stuff, a lot of stabilization type stuff, like doing things like that that are going to strengthen you from the inside out before you would start to work at Donnells. Now would you ever do direct abdominal work? You know why I wouldn't do direct,

so I would, so I don't, whether you have diastasis rection or not, I don't have pregnant women do direct ab work right off the bat until we get their transverse abdominis to get stronger, their TVA. Because I would imagine that's a lot of women right after having a child are very disconnected. The ability to even activate that. So like even just like a basic drawn maneuver

or like belly breathing or like a press your back against the wall type extra. So these, they sound boring and simple, but you're, a lot of the problems that happen like weak pelvic floor muscles, you know, weak core muscles. These are all a result of disconnecting from these muscles because you just had a baby.

So when I had trained post pregnancy when I train women post pregnancy, I have them work on stabilizing before I ever do like full action exercises. Now, don't get me wrong. Working the abs will activate the TVA if you're doing it right to some extent. But I focus mainly on vacuum exercises, what are called vacuum exercise. We actually have a video, it's actually one of our more popular videos on our YouTube channel, MyInPumpTV, and you can look it up, and I'm not quite sure what the title is, maybe Doug can look it up while I'm talking here,

but I actually demo what a vacuum exercise is, and that will help quite a bit with this particular problem. But you see this in some probioty builders, because their guts grow so much from the growth hormone that actually pushes out the abs and causes this. And sometimes a lot of times you see this in babies or in children, because children's bodies

don't match the size of their organs, which is why babies will look like they have these little Buddha bellies, and it pushes out the abs. And sometimes you'll see your little, if your child is on their back and they cry or they cough or And they squeeze their abs. You'll see that little that poking you know, and attend this is now where I I could see You know, we've talked on the show before about we we knocked on You know the functional training kick right now went crazy with like

Balancing on everything and stability ball everything. This is where I think it has some validity to it. You've got somebody who does not connect very well to their transverse abdominis. So just the ability to draw their core in, hold themselves in good posture while they balance doing something actually would be really good for them. So a client like this, I would probably do a lot of exercises on like a stability ball. So I would do like, let's say they're following our maps program and our maps program calls for a chest press.

I would actually modify that for this client and I would put them on a stability ball and actually have them bridge up and hold just them holding themselves in a bridge on the stability ball and actually have them bridge up and hold just them holding themselves in a bridge on the stability ball while they're doing like a chest press would be a great exercise. I just stabilized. Yeah, you do a lot of them in the quadruped position.

Quadrupeds my favorite. Yeah, you do like opposite arm and leg raise and you would do like cat cow and you know all these different positions where they could like hold themselves pretty easily but they're really focused on trying to reconnect to the to the TV. Well, these are those are all direct TVA and core movements, which I think that's a no brainer, right? A bulk of your build on top of that. Yeah, a bulk of your exercises, because I know that this was part of her question, like

she wants to like, can I still lift weights and be normal? Like, yeah, absolutely. I think you can still train extra time. But you got to stabilize your core is becomes the foundation of your program, right? So all, and we have a whole series on the YouTube channel. You can go to, under core exercises on our YouTube channel, and there's all these core movements and exercises that you can follow. Yeah, the one that I was talking about is actually titled,

shrink your waist with stomach vacuums, just so if you want to see what it looks like. Yeah. And that falls under the playlist category too. Like I believe Doug has made a playlist that is actually around the core. Does beats.com. I so the foundation of my training for this client would definitely be obviously based around core exercises, all those pace, but if this person is still, you know, hey, I want to still have good arms and shoulders and I still want to train my legs.

Can I still do that even though I have this issue? Yes. But the types of movements I would do would be examples. I would do things like a single leg toe touch with them. I would be doing standing on one leg and doing bicep curls or a shoulder. Doing a lot of movement or on a stability ball and doing a chest press. Almost every exercise would, the core would be the priority, so I would prioritize it by incorporating a stability ball or balancing and having them tighten up their core and hold

their posture. So some of my favorite movements for stabilization of the core, because when you're looking at post pregnancy, the core represents all the muscles that surround your midsection, and there's a backside to your core, which is your posterior chain area, and there's the front side and the sides, right? Your lateral sides. Where women lose a lot of their stability

and where they become underactive is in the front and the sides. So they lose a lot of the ability to rotate, they lose a lot of the lateral stability, and the front stability. Their posterior chain tends to be overactive because they're carrying this front loaded belly. So, you know, physical ball stuffs are good,

but that's a lot of posture your activation, right? So, one of the things I like to do post pregnancy is standing cable or band exercise, like a standing chest press, or they're having to resist the weight pulling back. And the way I'm having them resist it is by doing a slight posture your pelvic tilt. So, what I'll do is I'll tell a woman focus on the East

entry. Yeah, I'll say. I would do that exact same movement, sitting upright on a stability ball. Or that, and I would have them act, I'd be able to act their pelvic like that way. And then it would do a chest fly. Exactly. To me, stability ball, stabilization stuff, split stances. Yeah, it's all stance or even even modified. Planks are great for this. You just got to modify it. Especially a side Plank. Yeah, you got to modify the planks. So I'll have them do it off their knees or up on a block. So it's a lot easier. Again, I think I talked this on

the YouTube channel. I think I did a regression to do it. Yeah, I think I did a side plank with the regression onto your knees or whatever. But you know, this is an example where and this is also why too. I don't like to our YouTube channel. I don't like to knock people that are doing exercise in the gym because you don't know that, right? Like, I think we've talked about this on the show where I bet somebody, and I've seen this before, because people have taken pictures

and sent it over to me, making fun of somebody, doing like a silly exercise, that hey, maybe we don't know that this person, that's their primary goal, they're not trying to build the most amount of muscle on their shoulders. So the fact that they're balancing on one leg, doing a shoulder press may seem silly to you, but for this person, because her core is the number one

priority, and she's not gonna build a bunch of shoulder muscle that way, and we're trying to find a way to activate that in every way we possibly can, it does have some validity to it. So real quick, the reason why I typically don't have them do direct ab work right off the bat is when you're doing direct ab, you know, abs, your abs really have these kind of two major attachments at the pelvis and the rib cage.

And when they contract, they straighten out, they actually push out a little bit. And that's the last thing you want to do when you have this particular condition, you want to actually pull in. So you can do crunches and stuff, but when you do them, focus on drawing in while you do the crunch. This can be very difficult for you right off the bat, though. So that's why I do vacuums, you know, vacuums and quadruped and stabilization. Learn how to

draw in, activate those muscles. Then when you do your core exercises, you're not trying to push out and causing. So the, the, the cue to that that I that that I give for that is I put them on their back in the crunch position before they crunch. I say squish the bug then crunch. So that will help them. But no. Yeah, squish like if you pretend like you have the, when everyone lays down, you're going to have a natural arch in your low back.

Oh, that one. You'll have a slight gap there. So I tell, I tell clients pretend like there's a bug and you're trying to squash the bug with your low back. That cue will cue them to activate their core to press down. That part of the movement is more important than the actual crunch for that client. So I just pretend to punch them. That can be an exercise in itself is the back press, or what are called back presses.

It's sitting there, back press, release, back press, release. And then if you want to progress It's a great exercise to the to the crunch you back press to a slight crunch back press to a cycle And that's how you would progress the back press next up is from Aaron C. Mansfield He would love to hear Sal's thoughts on the carnivore That means you guys I'm good to give you a pit and just kidding. Oh, I so you know, it's funny So I look this up Oh, it's a fucking shout-out. That means you guys don't get to give your a pittin' just kidding. Oh, I do. So, you know what's funny?

So I looked this up and I never heard of the carnivore diet. So I looked it up and it sounds like, it is what it sounds like. It's a all-meat, all-animal product diet, devoid of vegetables and fruit. And it sounds crazy. It does sound very, very crazy. And it is, especially in modern times,

I think it is extreme and crazy, and I don't recommend it, but here's what's interesting. If you look at ancient cultures and civilizations, you will not find a pure vegan society, but you will find societies that are carnivore, pure carnivore, The inuits who live in the very, very cold climates around Alaska, the North. They are, they don't have access to vegetables and fruits for long periods of time, sometimes for the entire year.

And their diet is completely revolved around, you know, caribou, seal, meat, and fat, and you know, walrus, meat, and fat, and whale. It's all animal product. Now, the, and they call it the Inuit Paradox. You can actually look this up. There's been a few articles on it. And the reason why they call it a paradox is because their diets are very, very high in fat and protein,

mostly fat, no vegetables, no fruit, and they are, they have excellent health. Excellent health. Compared to, compared to Western societies that have very, very excellent health, and of course, when they start to adopt the way we eat with grains and stuff like that, their health goes down. I think any diet compared to the American diet. That's not a bad point.

We'll show positive markers. I literally, well. I literally will. I literally think you could take any diet that's out there, compare it to the American diet, and you can kill in their meat. Well, huge difference. Well, there's that, but there's also context. Context is very important.

So in the presence of lots of sugar and carbohydrates, high fat, high protein might not be good. Remember, these people have zero of those things, so in that context, it may actually be okay for the body. Here's something else that's interesting. The inuid diet is not devoid of any nutrients. So they get everything, and I know vegans out there are like, oh, vitamin C, what about vitamin C?

Well, vitamin C, they actually have adequate amounts, not tons, but adequate amounts in like seal skin and walrus skin and stuff like that, which by the way, they eat everything. They're not just eating the lean part of the meat. They eat everything. Another organs, everything. I mean, trappers, you know, trappers that used to survive off of just what they caught and killed. Many times it survived just off of me,

but some of them would get sick and die when all they had to eat was rabbit meat. That was too lean. So that's another thing to keep in mind. It's not a protein diet. It's a very high fat diet. You need to have fat. Not devoid of nutrients.

Now, that being said, I don't recommend it at all for anybody because there's so many benefits to eating fruits and vegetables. It's also a nice variety. It's also going to provide a variety for your gut. Now that all being said, at some point in human history, people went carnivore or went vegan, not out of choice, where they didn't live in the modern times, where they have this wonderful choice where they could choose to cut all kinds of foods out.

People went vegan or went carnivore out of necessity. And this probably happened every year. You know, there were, it's snowing during the snow when it's cold. It's a six foot. You ain't gonna find naturally growing vegetables and fruit, but you're gonna find animals you can kill. And then, and the flip side, during the summer months or the spring months, it's way, if you run into a field of naturally growing fruit or roots or vegetables,

it requires less effort, less energy, and it's safer to gather and eat those things than to kill animals, killing animals and hunting them required lots of skill, lots of energy, and hunting. So, the odds are, if we were surrounded by foods that we could forage, we probably ate that. And then when that was gone, we probably only ate meat. So-

Which it also is probably why it makes a lot of sense, why you can take a little bit of information or science on just one of those things and- Just live there. Why it was positive. I mean, it's- I think the real answer. I think there's- I think you would be good to do it every once in a while. It might be. You're right. It might be a good idea. I mean, you's I think the real answer. I think there's I think you would be good to do it every once in a while It might be you're right. It might be a good idea. I mean you talk a lot about A vegan day had to know where and you've turned me on to doing that and I've incorporated that for quite some time now

I love the benefits that I feel I feel great from it. So, you know, shit Maybe I'll have a day now where all I do is literally eat meat for an entire day, you know like it could be I don't think it's be great to do it all the time, but it could be. You just want to be careful that you don't lean on the capitol. Cry. Yeah, you just be careful.

You don't eat overeat, I guess, protein. I don't know. I mean, the meat that we tend to eat now tends to be lean, chicken breast, and you know, sirloin steak and stuff like that. And the meat that these traditional cultures eat was not lean. They ate lots of organ meat. So when I say that animal products are rich in nutrients, it's mostly the organ meats. It's not just the cuts of meat that we eat.

So for those of you listening right now, that love meat. Oh, it's important to point that out though, because some people will like be attracted to that idea and their niner-sk-sk-eat burgers in hot dogs. Yeah, bullshit. I guarantee you people who love me, don't eat liver and heart and kidney

and eyeballs and brains and all, and you know, they're not eating sinew and tendons and you know, you better believe that those are all things that they didn't leave a damn thing and then they use the bones for, you know, for structures and they use the first for clothes. So, but here's, this is interesting now. The likelihood that, so if you go back

to Hunter Gatherer times, could people subsist and survive on just eating me? Yeah. Could they subsist and survive on just eating what they found naturally growing around them? Highly unlikely. That's an unfortunate fact. Like today to be a pure vegan, you can do it

and you can be very healthy. But the reason why you can do it, and you can be very healthy, but the reason why you can do it is because you go to the grocery store and you have a wide variety. They've packed through, yeah, they've packed through all seasons. You can have everything from every season all year round. Dude, go and never existed. Go in nature, go in some place where shit isn't,

there's no agricultural revolution. There's no, we're not planting anything. Hunter gathers and even know that yet. Walk around and see what you can eat that's growing naturally. Gather that, do your little nutrient and calorie and I guarantee you'll be not just low in stuff, you'll be so low that you'll die.

Like you won't have certain nutrients so you'll die. They'll be so low in calories. You guys are a watch that show on Discovery, make it and afraid. Yeah. You ever see so low in Cali. You guys ever watched that show on Discovery? Make it and afraid? Yeah. You ever see the vegans on that show? Yeah. Oh, it's hilarious.

They don't do well. No, they have to eat meat. They end up eating meat. They have to. Yeah. Because that's just so. I'm not making, by the way, I'm not making a case for Carnivore diet. I'm just saying that I don't recommend.

I don't think it's a good diet to go on. But are there examples of healthy societies that have eaten kind of this way? They're definitely are. Quick commercial break, hey, people ask us all the time how they can support mind pump. Here's what you can do. You can go to www.brain.fm-mindpump

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Especially when you have large breasts. You have to send us a wait. I mean really only we know well Tune a cat. Yeah. Let's see your This is actually a really good question and I think This is a problem that that women with large breasts have. Well, it's not just a problem though with large breasts This is this is a huge problem with our just general population. Yeah. I mean, almost everybody suffers from slight rounded shoulders. This just exaggerates it. Yeah, exactly. And this on top of it, you got weight in front of it. Yeah. So I want to make that clear. I think that, think that got at least 80% of all clients

I've ever trained, I've had to do some sort of corrective work for Upper Cross Syndrome, which is the forward head rounded shoulders. And that's just, I mean, and it's only getting worse because we spend more and more time either driving in our cars or sitting on a computer than we ever did. So what I was even seeing 10, 15 years ago,

it's even worse now today. You see kids with this really bad performance. Right, exactly. Now you now see kids, you did not see this before because kids are now. Oh, they're on their phones just this. Yes, they're hunched over on their laptops, which they didn't exist 20 years ago, right?

20 years ago, kids, a 10 year old kid didn't have a laptop. That was unheard of. You heard of it in the eyes. Right, yeah, and they were playing outside, not playing, you know, what's that warfare game or whatever. That's not correct. Yeah, now they're playing these games

for four or five hours at a time, and we're starting to shape their bodies different. So this is not only is it a major, it's been a major issue for the 15 years, I've been a trainer, it's getting worse. And this is stuff, this is also why we think that prime was so revolutionary because we know for sure It's already a big deal. It's only getting worse

And so the the basis of prime is to help these exact conditions is to help you assess Your imbalances like upper cross syndrome and know what movements help that now there are some unique There is a unique a little bit of a uniqueness here with women who have large breasts and why their shoulders around it. Part of it is the weight of the breasts and it might not seem like a lot, but over the whole day,

especially when you have weakness there. Would you say part of it too is like the insecurity of a huge thing? Part of it's security, yeah. So having boobs and they probably round. Yeah, I mean, I tell you what, I remember I had a client who had breast reduction surgery and we had this whole conversation

and she was talking about how the weight of her boobs hurt her back and this and that. And then I brought this part up and I said, well, were you really, did you develop early and she says, yeah, I was really young when I first got them and I said, were you self-conscious? She's like, definitely like men looked at me because they assumed I was older and, you know, and I've really young when I first got them and I said, did we're you self-conscious? She's like, definitely like, men looked at me because they assumed I was older and I've really felt for her.

And she said, and I asked her, I said, do you think part of your forward shoulder was you trying to hide your breasts? And she's like, absolutely. And women, even now, if you tell them to stand up straight, some of them will even instinctually be like, oh, I'm sticking my boobs out, I don't wanna do that. And I've even had women tell me

when I'm telling them to pull their shoulders back on a row. That's the same. They had some women that are like, oh, who do she think she is when they're like in good posture position? You know what I'm saying? It's funny, it's funny.

What are you talking about? I'll take a client and I'll put their shoulders in a good position. Oh, you want me to stick my boobs out? Yeah, and girls say that, I'll tie them in, they'll be like, it would be like, I'm not gonna walk to walk around my boobs out. I'm like, well, that's what they're supposed to look like. Yeah. It's supposed to look like that

when you walk around with good blessing. Yeah, with good posture. Yeah. But for so many years, we've had people knock them. It's definitely, it's definitely an issue that's probably historically been more common with women because of breasts, because of what we just talked about, because of breastfeeding where they were holding a child in front of them. You also see women will have hip dysfunction a lot of times when they have a baby because I'll carry a baby on one side of their hip. Here's some exercises, very basic exercises, but the key isn't the exercise, the key isn't the intention and how you do it. So all rows, any kind of a row is gonna help with rounded shoulders.

I recommend, especially if you have really bad rounded shoulder posture, to do a sitting up row, not to do a bent over row, because bent over rows requires a whole other level of connection to be able to pull the shoulders. You can still row with forward shoulders. Yes, that's it. Well, yeah, it's all about the intention.

If you have forward shoulders and you're not like, you know, been training for a long time, a bent over row will probably just make it worse. It is, you'll end up, you'll probably do in biceps the whole time. Biceps and lats and you'll strengthen the imbalance. So here's what I do for people when I'm training them to do these on the wrong,

because when I'm in front of someone, it's not a problem. I can put my hands on the shoulders, I can squeeze them back, I can do all these different things. So number one, when you're doing a row, a seated row, you want to focus on pinching the shoulder blades back, but also bringing them down. So it's not backing up, it's backing down. Okay, so it's called retraction and depression.

But before you do that, what I'll do is I'll take a half foam roller, or if you don't have access to one of those, get a big bath towel and roll it up so that it's a big long tube Lay down on the floor with it running down on top of this towel so that it's along the length of your spine So it's in between your shoulder blades going down your spine Place your palms up with your arms at your sides and Allow your shoulders to naturally fall down around the towel And then I want you to focus on pulling them down and back in that position

So activate those muscles. It's kind of a primer. Activate those muscles and then go do your row and you'll be able to activate those muscles. Coaching that on the pod gas is ridiculous. Doug, we have to shoot this video. We got to shoot this video. This would be a great video. Yeah, it would be a great video. This would be, this is a great topic. I think many, many people can benefit from this. I've got a ton of movements in my arsenal that I've given to people. I'm sure these guys have too. We'll shoot a series. This has got to be a series.

I think this is a great series that will help a ton of people. So who's gonna be the afflicted one with the big breasts? So you, I knew it. You got the biggest one. I knew it! Between the two. Always. We actually have the costume, I believe.

Yeah, so here's the thing too. When you're doing an exercise to correct an imbalance versus doing an exercise to build an imbalance versus doing an exercise to build muscle, very different in terms of the amount of weight you're gonna use. You're gonna go way lighter than you think you can. So in other words, you're gonna grab a weight and you're like, oh, that's too light.

Nope, that's what you're gonna need to use because you're trying to connect to these muscles, which means you gotta go really light. The second you go anywhere near heavy, your body's gonna revert back to its original patterning and you're gonna strengthen the imbalance. This reminds me of the YouTube video that you and I just recorded.

The armors muscle. Yeah, movement versus muscle. And this is an example of getting caught up in just the movement and getting heavier and heavier away would end up not really helping this person where going a really light and really concentrating on what muscles you're supposed to be at.

And again, this is what prime was all about. But even if you're not going to do prime, we're going to make a video series for you for free, put it on YouTube so everybody can benefit from it. But this is what motivated us to create prime and this person would greatly benefit from implementing prime into their routine for sure. Perfect. So if you haven't already, go to YouTube, look up Mind Pump TV, subscribe to the channel. Here's what happens when you subscribe and share it with all your friends with rounded

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