Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 552: Mind Pump's Success Habits, Excessive Flexibility, Exercise's Gut Health Connection & MORE

Episode Date: July 15, 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. Salta Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. In this episode of Mind Pump, we talk about our 4th of July memories. And we're recording this on the 4th of July. You're probably listening to this sometime after the 4th of July. And we've got some pretty... Please don't have all your fingers.

We've got some pretty funny stories. Then we get into the questions. We talk about increasing inflammatory markers with exercise and how that relates to digestive disorders. Should you avoid exercise if you have digestive disorders or is exercise gonna help you? The next question is, we talk about mobility

and how having too much mobility or too much flexibility can cause problems. So if you're hyper-mobile, how do you fix that with exercise? Then we talk about our personal habits that we do every single day that contribute to our personal success. And finally, what if overnight Adam, Sal and Justin turned into women? What would be the most difficult thing about that? We'd be hot. Yeah, we talk all about that, and it's a lot of fun. Also, Maps Prime Pro is available right now.

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We collaborated with Dr. Justin Brink, who's our mobility and movement, Guru. So this is a program you don't wanna miss, and it's on sale, it's discounted because it's a new launch. The place to get it, and the place to check it out is mindpumpmedia.com. Poor Justin, he's not feeling good today, Adam.

I know, it's Tommy Hearts. No, he got your, it's got your it's not as Tommy's. He needs he needs he needs like a hug. Mayor Joanna. No, no, I think he needs a hug. Like a big a big cutly bear hug from from Adam. I don't need any from some of our fans. He's a big bear. He's a physical contact. If you're listening to this podcast, and you want Justin to feel better, please send Justin to hug. Send him a virtual hug, DM him a hug. I will block it.

Mind pump Justin on Instagram. It'll make him feel a lot better. No. What's going on Justin? It's 4th of July, Motherfucker. 4th of July. Yeah, why are we here? Indepit, yeah, the aliens are coming.

Because we don't fuck around, that's why. We work. We decide that we don't, yeah. We work when other people are in America. We work in America. And then we go home at three o'clock. We are celebrating it. America by dropping knowledge, fitness knowledge.

Fitness knowledge. Fitness in your life. Now, you know what's cool about Independence Day? So last night, trust me, I won't. Blow and Independence Day. So last night trust me I won't shit up. I'm not gonna get crazy political so I know you guys are getting scared now I was trying to hurt you. I know no no no it's really crazy when you examine the when you look at like the the Bill of Rights because I do that a lot on the weekends you should you should you should. You take that shits out.

That's how I get trained at. She's like, you know, we finished a laundry early. We got all our meals prepped. What do you want to do? I'm like, you know what, let's go over the bill, right? Let's go over that. Dude, I want to look at some things. Let's thumb through it a little bit.

I want to go over this. And I call the amendments. And I want to be clear, I want to be clear. We have never fully expressed the vision or the full expression of liberty in this country. It's been for some people, not for other people, but- I thought you said we're not gonna get political.

Hold on, dude, it's brilliant. It's brilliant. At the time when they wrote that out, I mean, countries were run by monarchs, kings and queens, and here was a bunch of guys who were like, hey, here's a whole country that you can rule over and they're like, nah, what we're gonna do is we're gonna write a bunch of guys who are like, hey, here's a whole country that you can rule over and they're like nah

What we're gonna do is we're gonna write a bunch of rules that make it impossible to rule over Individuals. Yeah brilliant. Yeah, brilliant forward thinkers brilliant, and I love and I'm glad that Make it be I think of brave heart mav You just sounded like a who's voice America fuck yeah, yeah, but you have a little save the motherfucker Yeah, any better that's who you sound like What do you guys do on the floor? What's your celebration like what do you guys do work besides after work? Dude, yeah, I don't have kids dudes on the end of that over here So he's such for fireworks over here

So I grew up in areas where you could light fucking anything so I've already I've done all the cool stuff over here We get sparklers. You don't know No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no on fire. Yeah, yeah. It's not fun anymore, man. Speaking of liberty, thanks. So I blow shit up anyway, because I'm a rebel. Don't do that, dude. Yeah. All right. I want to point out.

What is your guys' favorite? Okay, let's do this. What's your favorite? Because I've seen quite a few firework shows. Where and what was your favorite firework show you've ever seen? Hollywood Bowl. I think.

Hollywood Bowl. Yeah. What time will you go? Down, Hollywood Bowl. I think Hollywood Bowl. Yeah. One time we go down in Hollywood. What's that? Adam, it's like it's pretty obvious. He just the what's it? What's the where is the Hollywood Bowl? It's obviously I know it's in Hollywood Jackass.

Where's it? Where's the fucking street? What do you want like cross streets through? No, is that the Rose Bowl? Is that the state? No, it's a it's like a theater. It's called the Hollywood Bowl. The Hollywood Bowl. Yeah, I didn't know that. Is that the Rose Bowl is at the state? No, it's a hot it's like a theater. It's called the Hollywood. What's the Hollywood?

Bowl. Yeah, I didn't know that. It's a closed theater or is an amphitheater? It's like an amphitheater. Okay, you're terrible It's not closed because there's just throw some right because you know It's in Mac our listeners all over Australia totally know where that fucking is It's called the hot man. He got mad because he got called out It's not closed because you wouldn't be able to fire No shit. Well, you I'm saying that it's arcastically because this description is that would be way better You know, I did like it indoor firework show. I'll be fucking shooting people with it. Yeah. Hey, what state is California?

I'm just going so stop all right. I you know my favorite firework show is what friends back yard You know what my favorite fireworks show is? What? My friends back yard. We went to his house one year. Actually, it was my favorite and it's almost the time that I almost kicked his ass through. Why? So I don't know where he got,

this was, I'm not gonna say when this happened, but he had gone somewhere and purchased serious, serious contraband fireworks. I'm talking about like the... Like straight up for Mexico or what? Maybe. Like... No, like the like straight up for Mexico or what maybe Diamond candles like the like the cannons dude like the big dynamite like the big tubes like this big and you put a big ass like Ballon then you light it and it's like That's a Roman candle. What's I just try? No, well these work. So I know Roman candles Roman candles are

Tubes that shoot out. Yeah, no this was this was shooting like it was like a mortar and it shoot it up and it was like like a big I don't know where he bought these boom right so he's lighting these off in the backyard then he's got the ones that he lights and throws that explode then he's shooting Roman candles everywhere long story short alcohol was involved set his backyard on fire we put it out and this is why we can't do fucking fire. We and by the way, he lives, he's always gonna light some fire. And by the way, he lives like, like his border is backyard borders on like a big acid fry field. So I'm like, and I'm like, looking, I didn't know he was gonna do this. I just went to his house for barbecue with a bunch of people and I'm like,

dude, you can't do that. I'm like, look at your backyard. I'm like one spark and we're in freaking and he's like, whatever dude. can't do that. I'm like, look at your backyard. I'm like, one spark and we're in frickin' and he's like, what ever dude? And so he's doin' it, sets his tree on fire. We put it out with the hose. Then he's just throwin' fireworks everywhere because he thinks it's a great time. Doesn't realize he throws one in the direction of my daughter.

So she runs, it blows up, obviously you spark. Oh my God. She got so scared she started crying and he looks at me and he sees the look of my face And he's like he just starts apologizing and I'm like like damn dude like there was a very there was about a split second There we almost we almost got in a tussle Wow, but we didn't yeah, but that's the life he's a good fan. Yeah, he's a cool guy a good friend of mine Never going to his house again for fourth. So best fireworks, but it was awesome because it was it was exciting

That's fireworks for you or homemade homemade version. Yeah, I was exciting. Best fireworks for you were homemade version. Yeah, it was exciting, dude. Wow, that's pretty weird. It was because of the recklessness of it. Yeah, it was like the fear. Yeah, I take mine back. It was, mine was like, when we took a boat out from Santa Cruz and it was like a charter boat thing

that we had like champagne all that kind of stuff, but we were watching, it was like going along the coast. And we were watching like the pandemonium that was going on with everybody illegally shooting these fucking things off. They were shooting them everywhere at each other up in the air like it was a fucking chaotic like display of fire works it was pretty fun to watch. What if people get these these fireworks from around they must go to Mexico right? Yeah well yeah I mean it's like anything else. You can get a Watsonville, dude.

Yeah, but not the ones that fight it up. I mean, there's somebody, dude. Yeah, I'm rolling the car around. You're like, hey, man, there's definitely, you can buy some cool shit. Get drugs here, bro. We don't grow cocaine in Santa Claus' A, but you can get it here.

Yeah, that's it. Where there's a world there's a way. That's a good point, man. There's a covered bridge somewhere. Yeah, in's it for this world. There's way that's a good point. That's it. There's a covered bridge somewhere. Yeah, yeah, this is a park is some dark Bmw somewhere. It just goes to show you. You know what it shows? You know, it demonstrates that if there's a, if there's a strong enough demand in the market, you can create whatever laws you want. That shit will exist. Oh, yeah. You guys know when like the Soviet Union had black

markets for like milk and shit like that? Well, yeah. Shoes, I had a friend. God, they lived so hard out there. Well, because they were so, they rationed it so much that they created a black market. So I had a friend who went to the Soviet Union when he was like a teenager,

his family did some work there, whatever. And he had people offering to buy his Nike's off of them for like 300 bucks. He said there was this whole black market for Nike's and Levi's for like the wealthy over there. That were like the prices were crazy. Wow. Yeah. So could have been a business idea.

Anyway, maybe not. I don't want to be in the gulag. Uh, what's your, what about you Adam? What's your favorite for the July party? So I've seen, uh, I think, uh, great America and Disneyland both do great shows. So I've been there for years. But my favorite for sure all-time favorite was Inclined Village in Lake Tahoe. Lake Tahoe, so you can at least set the stage for you. If you've never been a Tahoe, it's a beautiful lake

as it is and it's huge and then there's a shoreline that's like a beach. So even though it's a lake, you feel like you're laying out on a beach. And then this huge grassy, no-al area. And everybody comes out and they rope off the grassy area. And everybody's barbecuing. People are running like extension cords from their houses like a block away. So they have outspeakers outside and the local radio station actually collaborates with whoever's putting on the fireworks show. Obviously, they're I'm sure they have something to do with it because all the songs from that night play with the fireworks. So you got all these people imagine barbeque

and drinking everyone's super friendly Sharon Beard. Oh, yeah, I have a burger, whatever everyone's all sharing and having a good time and you're laying out on this grass right next to the lake Looking up at the sky listening to radio station playing all these great classic songs and the songs all Go with the fireworks. So as the fireworks are exploding off they're going with the beat of the song and then of course They always have like some you know great epic song to end it with that Yeah, the finale and it end it with. The finale. Yeah, the finale. And it's, it was awesome.

I mean, I think it was, it was at least a good to half hour, 45 minutes straight show of just constant songs being played with, and it was beautiful. The only shitty knock I have on it was it was hands down, probably the worst place to get out of. Oh, wow. That was a little bottle neck. Oh, man. it was hands down, probably the worst place to get out of. One time. One time. One time. A little bottle of day.

Oh man, I think if I could go back and do that again, because I've talked about that going up there again, and I've told, because Katrina wasn't, we weren't together at this time. And I said, man, I would love to go up there with you for that. But I would really want to plan like a week off of work to where we don't have to come back

when everybody else is coming back and just stay there because I remember it took us three or four hours to get just out of Tahoe like it was so crazy it was crazy it was and it's almost not worth it yeah no that's I haven't gone back for that exact reason I was like that drive home was so miserable sitting in traffic for that long fourth of July whether two imagine it's fucking hot and shit and you just want to get home right? I heard Bernie man is just as horrible. Oh, did you hear what's gonna happen at Burning Man by the way? No, so the feds Said that they're actually gonna patrol Burning Man and send agents in there or to drug test not drug test But to check for drugs in and out, and then maybe control the fucking.

Yeah, dude. Yeah, I hear you. I'm serious. Dude, I just wrote an article. I mean, They have anything better to do. Yeah, cause of all the crazy, you know, the bad things that happen, all the killings.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, so they're like talking about. I hope that doesn't happen. Well, that's, dude. It's, I mean, if they say it's gonna happen, it could or it could just be like a tactic or whatever, but, I mean, that's like, that's like shooting fish in a barrel. I know.

I know. They're numbers down or something. They need to, like, go. You know, they're in a community. They're in a community. They collect everybody in Cadiwaggins. Hey, guys, are, are innocent drug users bust or low this year? Oh, you're having too much of a good time.

Everybody hop in. Where do we go? They do, like, in the 70s and shit, dude. You're having too much of a good time. It's already happened. Where do we go? You're like in the 70s and shit, dude. You don't do that now. We come up. You know what cracks me up. They'll have a loan. If they go there and start testing,

they'll find a bunch of like silicone value executives. Exactly. Look at busted. Yeah, exactly. That's what I was thinking. You know, on Musk. Yeah. Yeah, they're gonna, they're gonna,

they're gonna, they're gonna, they're gonna do stops on the way in and out. Well, okay, I can see that like to stop people and I think I read I'm not clear But I think I read that they're gonna be inserting agents in there to you know to check people. Yeah, so look Look for the people like hey, let's do some drugs If someone walks up to says hey, you guys do drugs? Hey guys, come on, let's do some drugs. Yeah. Yeah.

Where the drugs at? You could just test people. You could just do like a litmus test. Like, hey, do you want to do some whatever? Be like, hmm, first pull your pants down, show me your dick. You know, some shit that a cop would never do like, no, I don't want to. Sorry, not do anything with you. Right, a normal birdie, man, first of all, sure.

That's all I got to do to get some acid. What do you mean? I'm already making it. Oh yeah, that's true. Jim Smith. Yeah, I don't believe that agent Smith. You guys have a favorite fourth of July food Do you double burger action? What you say with bake like that trying to spice it up like it's just the burger I felt like you just made up a new genre for like I like that double burger act like double try tip is like the the the the me. You guys are like the hot dog. I don't know. There's something about

something. Yeah, there's something about eating weeners. I know that you're into that. I'm not really into that. There's something about they're not good, bro. It's like just relax the job. No, it's super not good for maybe like a sausage. Yeah. Italian sausage. You look. Thank you. Yeah. Looks right at sausage. Yeah. A Italian sausage. Oh, you look. Thank you. Yeah. Looks right at me. Wow. There's something about spicy. There's something about eating a hot dog on 4th of July that I just I have to like enjoy

it. It's like nostalgia. Yes. There's something about it. I can't see that. Well, I could see that too because you probably have childhood memories of playing with sparklers and kicking rows things around and doing the and doing the hot dogs. I can see that.

Hey, guys, want to go do the hot dogs. I can see that. Hey guys, wanna go do the hot dogs? I like some fireworks and do hot dogs. Just lighting some shit off. So I like the, no, I like the, I like hot dogs on Fourth of July and the burgers man and then potato salad. Potato salad. Can you tell me handle potato salad?

A bunch of bacon. Why not? Does it have dairy in it? My in-laws make amazing. Minus potato salad. Do they really? Yeah. What do they put in? They My in-laws make amazing. Manage potatoes salad. Do they really? Yeah. What do they put in?

They throw a ton of bacon in it, that's why. Ooh, that sounds really good. It's a bacon salad. It's really a garnish with potato. Yeah, a little bit of potato. That's tough of it. Yeah. So where are you guys going then for the fourth?

What's your deal? What are you guys doing? Oh, you're looking at it, my friend. You guys aren't going anywhere? No. You're going to go home with your, that's it. You're home, dude. Yeah, that's it. You're going out?, my friend. You guys aren't going anywhere? No. You're gonna go home with your, you know, home, dude. Yeah, that's it.

You're going out? What are you doing? I mean, like at Scotts Valley, they have like a, we'll probably be able to see it, you know, from, there's like this place where they, they've blocked it off now though. They're assholes about it, but we used to sneak under this fence and this quarry

and you could go see it all. And that's pretty cool. I do that sometimes. So we make a big deal about the Fourth of July every year. My whole family gets to get, I say, a whole family. 30 to 50 people will go to someone's house. We have a little bit of racial to it. And, you know, it's because we're all immigrants

or children of immigrants and all my parents and their generational immigrants, they have this like really, they're like super patriotic. My grandfather in particular, because he came here when my mom was four, was very, very poor, insistently, actually lived in Venezuela for a while before he even came here. I mean, when I say poor, I mean, like, one pair of shoes with holes in it, you know, poor,

didn't have food all the time, poor. So he actually gets emotional every 4th of July, every single year. Oh, really? Yes. Every single 4th of July, I all go over there and he speaks broken English and everything and You'll see him with this he's got glasses and he's like the most macho Sicilian guy you'll ever meet in your entire life Which some people don't like about him, but it's you know part of his character and he's a good man So whatever but he'll sit there with his glasses and you'll know what's about to happen because you'll lift his glass And you'll start to wipe his eye and you'll start to cuss.

Because you hate you're doing it. You've talked about this before. He hates crying, but he does it a lot. It's a very emotional man. He's my kind of guy. We're all emotional. Everybody in my family's one. So he lifts his glasses.

Fuck it. No, he starts, he starts rubbing his eye and he goes, God damn, it's sent of a bitch. God damn it. And then he goes, and then he's, sent him a beat. God damn, and then he goes, God bless America, God bless America, best of country, other than it walks away. I already love this guy. And we're always like, when's he gonna do it?

Oh, here it is. Here it is. That's great. That's epic. It's great. God, I'm so glad he doesn't listen to podcasts because he would literally kill you. He's so pissed off.

He's eating something, you're old, but it would literally beat me. That's awesome. He could he probably still could Old man strength. He just a yeah, it's just a tough old guy, so all right bring on the pitch. Yeah, where's the We call it a planet. Chimericwa! Today's Quas being brought to you by Kain-Mere Coffee. It's the only coffee that is infused with all natural neutropics for a cleaner, calmer, and more focused fuzz without the crash. Put the Kain-Mere link at MindPumpMedia.com and input the discount code MindPumpA Checkout

for 10% off! It's the motherfucking flaw! The Eagle is landed! Quikwa... Mind pump a check out for 10% off. It's the motherfucking car. An English landed. Queie coie. What? All right, our first question is from Jeremy Burke. What are your thoughts on increasing TNF alpha?

A known inflammatory marker related to digestive disorders? What are your thoughts on the studies showing increased gut permeability? Didn't this have audits? This is for me. This is my question. Didn't this have Sal's name? Sal, he's got first. I think so. I know he's got first.

Nothing to contribute. Sal, I just got nothing. Since I always go first. I'd like to know what you guys thoughts are on that. Two, two more necrosis factor. Two more necrosis factor. You had to Google that before you even fucking. Listen to me.

You didn't even know that. Listen to me. that's like the other day when we were talking to Yeah, that's about all I got Yeah, no T. So TNF is a as he says in a flammatory marker and It is being it has been connected to high levels of it has been connected to lots of disorders Alzheimer's and to high levels of it has been connected to lots of disorders, Alzheimer's, and inflammatory bowel diseases, and even some types of cancers. However, as with anything in the body that occurs naturally, there is, there are uses for and benefits.

And I want to say this because we tend to find something in the body, and Western medicine does a great job of this. We'll find something and be like, oh, this is bad. Too much of this is bad. So then what we do is we try to smash it and suppress the hell out of it. And what we end up finding is too little bit is just as bad. And TNF is one of those things. All inflammatory markers are essential. So when you exercise... Before you go into TNF and get deep into that, can we please explain to everybody what an inflammatory marker is

and why this is important? Well, if you had no inflammatory markers or no inflammatory system of the body, you wouldn't heal. You wouldn't heal. You wouldn't heal. You get a cut, right? Inflammatory markers and chemicals,

go to the site of the injury, becomes inflamed, blood clotting happens, stops the bleeding, and then that's a signal for the body to... Which, heal and repair. Another way of saying that too, that's the body's natural way of protecting itself. Right, identifying the issues. So there's definitely a positive side to it.

It's a signal, it's a signal that it's very essential. So, like, for example, corduzone shots. Corduzone shots will block inflammation very, very powerfully, acutely at the sight of injection. Now, if you do that a bunch of times and when your joints like your knee, you're gonna have over time degeneration of your knee because that your knee is not having the signal.

Let's talk about this. Let's talk about this. This is a good topic and I feel like more people can relate to this right here. So, and this is why we typically tell clients, like, oh, let's avoid this at all costs because you're not really helping anything. All you're doing is you're blocking a signal

so the issue is still there, right? It's exaggerating the problem. And this is common, right? So when you get people that have knee pain or shoulder pain, a lot of times they'll end up getting these shots and what all they're doing is they're not fixing the problem whatever they're just blunting the signal, right? They're blunting the signal,

they're not changing the patterning. If anything, they're continuing their normal patterning because now they don't even have a pain signal to tell them that they're doing something wrong. And you get problems, even long-term use of NSAIDs, like ibuprofen, over time have been connected to, first off for athletes, lower rates of adaptation. So let's strengthen adaptation,

let's muscle building adaptation, because again, you're blocking that signal, but also tender, tendon ruptures, and degeneration of joints over longer periods of time. So all these things are very, very important. So exercise increases TNF, but that's okay under normal circumstances. It depends on the context. Now, if you're in this hyper inflammatory six state,

then even small amounts of exercise may be damaging, but at that point, you're in a bad situation, and that's totally not a normal situation. Now, as far as exercise studies showing that exercise increases gut permeability, well, this is true, but what you want, you need to understand about the gut, is the gut is, it's like a two-way barrier.

And depending on the situation that your body is in, it will increase or decrease the amount of things that it allows to go through the gut. It's not like a complete barrier. It's like a plastic lining that nothing gets through. Things have to get through the gut. Problems occur when there's constant inflammation in the gut and things get through the gut that aren't supposed to.

Just like there would be problems if you had a plastic lining you're gut, things get through the gut that aren't supposed to. Just like there would be problems if you had a plastic lining you're got nothing came through. Now the reason why gut permeability increases with exercise is probably because your body is trying to uptake more nutrients and fluids. So it's going to increase permeability to let those things come through. Now this is a theory of yours. No, this is actually what happens.

This is why there's been cases and- So why'd you say probably then? What do you mean you just said probably? Oh, no, this is what happens. But when there in some cases and extreme cases when people have a disease or something like that, like a bacterial infection and they worked out real hard and next thing you know that bacteria really goes through the bloodstream, this may be one of the reasons why that happens. But if you're a healthy person, there's nothing wrong with, exercise is good for you 100% all the way if done properly across the board.

If you have inflammatory bowel disease, exercise is still good for you, though thing you need to monitor is intensity. Like if you go too hard with any type of disorder, you may cause it to get worse. But in the right doses, your body gets stronger. I also feel like this is one of those issues that I have with doctors too, because they typically are going to weigh on the other side, right? They normally will tell a patient like, oh,

stop exercising, because this could make it worse. So I was just having a conversation with a dermatologist on our forum on similar topic because she was discussing how sun exposure is bad for the skin and any amount of tanning is damage to the skin. So basically avoid all, you know, tanning, all forms of tanning. I now agree with tanning beds because that's a whole different story. But what about the benefits of vitamin D and so- Not only that, because then what you'll hear from them is they'll say, oh, 10 to 15 minutes of exposure is all you need.

Well, there is a chronic vitamin D deficiency being examined now in lots of people, and there's, it's being, the amount of vitamin D that we need is being questioned. So lots of scientists saying we need more, but it's beyond that. There's more than just vitamin D benefits. But anyway, my argument with her was, what we tend to do in Western medicine is we'll take something and we'll try to connect the dots and make it very simplistic.

And I use the exercise as an example. If we looked at the acute effects of exercise, no doctor would ever recommend exercise. Like if you look at the acute effects, you work out real hard, you have all these inflammatory markers go through the roof, free radical production through the roof, stress hormones through the roof. Like if you just looked at the acute effects of exercise, we would easily be able to say, wow, exercise causes heart disease, causes cancer, causes all these different problems. You need to avoid all exercise.

But we know for a fact that exercise done properly makes you much healthier. It is one of the keys to longevity. So my point with this is it's hard to just look at one thing and then try to simplify it and look all the way down the line and say, okay, here's the problem. You know, this is gonna cause all these bad things because it doesn't necessarily always work out that way.

In fact, it almost never works out that way because there's a lot of steps that happen along the way. Same thing with things that activate muscle protein synthesis like role muscle, also fuel cancer cells. Does that mean you want like IGF1 for example? Do you want to block all IGF1? No, because you need that also, but in the context of a pro-cancer environment, it may be a bad thing.

So context is important. Well, and I remember listening to the Mercola episode, which I don't know when that's coming out, but where he was talking about vitamin D and like how ingesting it really isn't even close to being as effective as just getting out and getting sun exposure. So you need for good vitamin D production

and this is depends on hugely individual because of skin tone, right? So people like Justin, or less exposure will produce more vitamin D in your skin than me. I need more exposure to get the same vitamin D potential. On the flip side, I can stay out in the sun without nearly as much damage as you would. So very individual.

That being said, cholesterol or blood cholesterol is an important process of the vitamin D making process. Your body uses that cholesterol, make vitamin D. So if you've got really low, really low cholesterol levels or you take statins, the odds of having vitamin D, deficiencies are higher. So these are all factors, but I mean, as far as the question is concerned,

if you have gut issues and you're in a really bad flare-up, really monitor the intensity, but very rarely would I tell anybody to not be active because of fears you know, fears of causing more gut issues. Yeah. Fricky Jake, a lot of people struggle with mobility issues, but he has the opposite problem. He's naturally very flexible, but lacks strength and stability, which contributes to pain during

squats and deadlifts. Hmm. Great question. And kind of similar to the first one in the sense that, we always talk about like how great it is to have all this flexibility without strength, this instability. Very unstable.

And he's talking about like when he does squats and deadlifts, he has pain. Does he like a major yoga guy? Did you look at his page or anything? He, so he says he has it. So it's a little longer as post, but he says it's very natural for him. Now, some people are in this category where they have this, like, their production of

collagen is very different than the average person. So they're hyper-mobile. You see people who, like, well, like contortionists, for example, like you say. Yeah, as you can see, sometimes you call them like double-join it or whatever. It looks like just because they're so flexible. Yeah, and so these people, it's really important that they build lots of strength, but the problem is is when they do exercises,

they find that they'll have joint pain because they, it's lacks, they don't have this ability. Yeah. And so the key with this particular situation is to not move, to not hit end of range of motion with their joints. So if you're deadlifting, for example, don't excessively anteriorly tilt

and don't let your body excessively posteriorly tilt. Go in a neutral position, stay very, very tight intense and go real slow with your movement and use light weight because you have to be in complete control because the second you go heavier than that and you feel like you can lift a heavy weight, what will happen is you start to go to end of range of motion.

With this case, you'll see them exaggerate and go anterior too hard and they'll feel like hip impingement and stuff. I haven't run to very many people like this, but I've actually had two clients that fall into this category to where literally I had a lady who hired me never worked out, so super, you know, decondition, no activity level never stretched, could sit in a, you know, could sit in a split, could, you know, sit in the runners, you know, what is that called the runner stretch or herdler stretch? Like crazy internal external hip wrote, you know, mobility or flexibility and range of motion.

And so with her, everything was outside of that. Like I never trained her to, I never trained her at those ranges of motion. I was always kind of in the middle and just real slow, real tight. And it was all about hardcore control. This actually would be a case of tension movements. I was going to say, man, that's, I mean, it just screams at for me, especially like some of the FRC techniques or even what we're bringing out in prime pro of being able to now isometically contract, but then we're also going to move the joint so you're going to articulate

the joint with tension. So that just, it helps to train the body that you're building the support system through range of motion. So you really wanna over emphasize the fact that we need to squeeze and connect to that central nervous system. 100% I think of maps prime and prime pro. And if you're not following one of our programs, then the other outside of us,

I would recommend Ken Stretch. For sure. I mean, that's the first thing comes back. I mean, this is a tough one to speculate too without seeing the person, right? Like, and knowing exactly who we're speaking to as far as like, but if you feel confidence out, that's what he's explaining that.

He's just this super mobile person. Have you guys ever had a client like that? Well, I remember, I like, I was hit like this for sure. Like, she was very good at gymnastics and did all these like crazy bendy moves and hyper extension and just getting her to do like basic like overhead press or anything with weights.

I just, I had to like, I had to sit her down a lot of times and just have her concentrate on, you know, postural positions where she's squeezing and tensing up because she just didn't have that sort of ability to tense up and maintain a position without constantly swaying and moving. It was very challenging for me to get her to just focus on maintaining a nice rigid position. So I've had several clients like this and a lot of times it's somebody who their whole life have done yoga.

That's why I asked that if he was a yogi or something because it's more common for me that I've had clients that never really strength trained or never lifted weights but they did yoga their whole life or did gymnastics and And so they have this, they're hyper mobile. And then probably too, they were already, because we are as humans, we tend to gravitate towards the things we're good at. So these types of people, you know, found that they were really super flexible, young and continued that on forever. And so now here, I have them at 40, 50 years old or whatever. and they're super mobile, but then they have no stability or real strength. So I tend to lean towards, I mean, definitely for sure, I think step one,

like we said, tension, but the type of training, like I would lean this person more towards hypertrophy. So like if they had like one of our maps programs, I would start them in phase three before one, because I would want, I would want to teach them more a slow and controlled, like a tempo, like a 422 hypertrophy type tempo

where they're really concentrating on the eccentric motion and stabilizing the weight, pausing at the bottom, at the isometric part for like two seconds and then contracting after that. So this is where hypertrophy training actually could be really beneficial for someone that because it and more so from a tempo like because I'm emphasizing that slow. Yeah, that slow count. I talked about this the other day on the show that I mean, it's crazy to

me, especially being a guy who's who tends to lean towards hypertrophy training and is the aesthetic bodybuilder type. When I look at the gym, people who think they're training high-perch, very few people are really following a protocol where they're doing a 4-2-2, which is the ideal protocol for hypertrophy. Pay attention, next time you see someone do a bench press, a shoulder press. There's slow reps, too. Yeah, people don't do them like that. That's a total of eight seconds. That's a long time for a rep. Like, when you amount of weight you can use when you do that as substantially less.

Yes. So, and you just don't see that. You rarely ever see any, you see guys and girls manipulate a repetition. So all of a sudden they're doing, instead of doing five, six reps now this week they're doing 10 to 15 reps. But how many of those people really manipulate tempo? And this was a big thing that I like to teach people because I don't think a lot of people

do it, not a lot of people do it well. And I think there's lots of benefits to actually training that tempo because it teaches, not only do you get the benefits of the hypertrophy side of it, but then you also get the benefits of the control in the eccentric motion, which for somebody who lacks stability and strength because they're hyper-mobile, this is a great tool. I would probably take this person and I would spend a little more time in phase three at the start before I progressed them to phase one or two of maps. So your biggest enemy, by the way, is static-relaxed static stretching. Do not do-

static, relaxed, static stretching. Do not do, you're not looking for more range of motion. You want to connect to your range of motion. Yoga is excellent for this. If you do yoga, the way it's supposed to be done. If you do yoga to where you get in positions and you let your joints hold your position, this you're going to get much worse. If you get into these positions and get yourself into these positions as yoga poses, where you're having to support yourself with and what they call in yoga prana, where you're intrinsic tension the entire time. So if I'm in like warrior one or warrior two,

I'm not just letting my legs push out against my mat. I'm sucking them in at the same time and I'm tensing my entire body and I'm not letting my body be stabilized by just my joints. I'm actually having to hold myself in my muscles. Number one, it's exhausting, but number two, it's gonna connect you to these ranges of motion.

So if you do yoga properly, it's great for this. You do it wrong, it's gonna make you a lot worse. Well, that's why I say drop the yoga and go to Ken's stretch. I mean, you'll get all these, that's what Ken's stretch is. I mean, all of it's based off of Eddie Ofa what is a personal habit you do daily that contributes to your success? Yes to everybody that includes Doug too so

What's everybody? You guys go first you don't do anything I do I can go I mean I can talk about it while you always do go first You may as well go now hey I mean, I can talk about it while you always do go first you may as well go now. Hey So one of the things I do is I try to be resentful No, so this is if I'm surprised I never talked about this but I do this every single day. And I, the people that I'm around, I try and do this to everybody,

but a lot of times I forget, but I do this to at least one person a day, is I'll look at that person for a couple of seconds, and then I'll try to feel. Pick her them naked. Yeah. Yep. Yeah.

Totally. I can always tell you, I can tell when you're doing this to me too. Yeah, Yeah. Totally. I can always tell you always look at me. I can tell when you're doing this to me too. Yeah, you can't, can you? Because I make a kind of a gross face. I shouldn't have done that. I look back at you just making it me. I go back to Justin like, yeah. No, I look at someone and I'll feel my gratitude and my love for that person. So rather than just like, you know, making a list of the things that I'm, you know, thankful for for that person,

I'll look at them and I'll try to get the emotion and the feeling of gratitude and love for that individual. And when you, when I first started doing this, it's, it's, it's, at first it wasn't natural, but now I can do it and I can immediately get that feeling. And I, when I, when I do this regularly or to more people on a regular basis, the way I act towards people, and even towards myself is more of an accurate representation of the way I want to, or the way I think I

should act, I'm less likely to say things that I'll regret later on. And I'm more likely to be empathetic towards people when they're, you know, you know, acting a certain way like, you know, they're in a bad mood or they say something that irritates me. And I'll look at that person and train and feel that feeling of gratitude and love towards that person.

I'm more likely to be like, well, they're having a bad day, not a big deal, versus sometimes my reaction is to fire back or whatever. So doing this every single day makes me really happy and appreciative for what I have currently. And I don't know, it just feels good. It feels good to do that. You know, it's cool. I know I know I do, you're going to go that direction. And I know there's cool? I'm, it's really, I had no idea you're gonna go that direction.

And I know there's probably people listening right now and be like, well, how the fuck does that contribute to success and they're thinking success may be financial or, or progress. But let me tell you something that I think is really unique about you that, that is such a great thing to share because a lot of people wouldn't look at that as like a major thing that's gonna get them closer to their goal or being successful.

And I would definitely argue that, especially being somebody who knows you and knows your ability to communicate with people and get your point across is a huge part of your success. There's a lot of intelligent people that I've met in my life, but more often than not, the more intelligent they become, the less receptive they are to other people, and the more of a turn-off they are. And they're not the most effective communicators. In fact, it's rare to meet someone really, really intelligent that is actually really, really good at communicating that.

I feel like they they end up, they, they, they, most people in the go opposite directions like the more intelligent become you become so hyper focused on that that you're not very socially aware and self aware. And so you just keep driving towards that direction and you don't realize that that's great. You've got all this great knowledge, but now how well are you at communicating that and how well are you at interacting with others? And I think that's probably one of your greatest strengths and attributes is this ability to continue to grow,

to continue to learn, to continue to be this brilliant man and mind with the same ability to interact with all different types of people and communicate information to everybody. And I think it's a huge part of the success of MindPump. So I'm glad you shared that. Yeah, I know I appreciate it. I had a friend that I met years and years ago, English guy. And I probably talked to him before about him before on the show, but everywhere I would go with this guy, he would, first off, the dude was always just happy.

Like, he was always awesome to be around, and everywhere he went, he just made friends with everybody. And I asked him, like, one day I'm like, dude, I'm like, you're like one of the great, like, we can go to a bar, we can go to a restaurant, we can go to the store, and you just, you just seem to just have a great time with people. Why is that? And he goes, well, he goes, first off, I don't,

I don't have any room for strangers. So why not just be friends with everybody. And he goes, and I also just really love people. And I let that come out. And I noticed that way more often than not, people treated him well as a result from it. And I, you know, it's funny. It really hit me when me and him went to a bar and I'm noticing people around me and how happy people were at the bar And it was because alcohol right people are drinking and now they're happy and now they're all having great conversations and dudes are hugging each other And I'm like why can't we just be like that all the time and This is part of it is just Realizing you know the gratitude that I have for the people around me.

And I do. I have, the only reason why the people are around me in the first place is because there's a role. I have, there's a role for them in my life. Otherwise, why would they be there? And so I have gratitude in some form for them. And when I remind myself of that,

the way I talk to them and understand them, so much better, so much better. And like you said, Adam, it's helped a lot with just my ability to talk to people or whatever, but I didn't even do it necessarily for that. I just noticed that it really made a big difference. Oh, it makes a huge difference. It's part of the reason why we can all, as alpha males and super visionary, all individual leaders can all actually work together is that we have this mutual respect and a lot of that comes from your ability to

To do that. I think that's an important quality for all anybody who aspires to be a leader This this is a huge asset and a huge tool. I think that anyone can use. I think it's a great great advice that anyone can use. I think that's a great, great advice. Personally, for me, I do kind of this thing at the end of my night where I kind of assess my day, right? So, you know, I've got a ton of goals as always. I've always got to think whether they're like, right now I have financial goals because we're Katrina and I are trying to get a house right now. So I have these personal financial goals. I've got goals related to my personal growth as far as like reading a book every single month. I've got physical goals right now related to

how I want my physique to be able to perform, to be able to look, to be mobile. Like so I've got all these like big goals, right? None of those goals are accomplished overnight, right? So that's what I mean by a big goal. It's not big as it's like hard to accomplish. It's just it takes time and consistency. So at the end of every night, I kind of assess my day

and ask myself, you know, what short-term things that I do today that will impact my long-term goal, you know, so what decisions did I make throughout my day that positively affected one of those goals? Now, some days I have a great day and it feels like I chipped away at everything, right? I've knocked a chapter out in the book, I've got a phenomenal workout where I dress mobility

and strength that did this. I did something special for Katrina. I moved some money over and did something to make extra money and save that. So sometimes I have these unbelievable days where it's like this huge pat on the back, great job at them. And I have these unbelievable days where it's like this huge like pad on the back, great job at them, you know, and I have that conversation with myself. Like, I let myself know that like that was a fucking great day and should be happy.

Then I have other days where maybe shit doesn't go as planned and I don't get a lot of those things accomplished or maybe I get none of those things accomplished. And so if I didn't move forward in one of those areas, then the next day I'm heavily focused on making sure that I accomplished something. And then I also don't beat myself up over some of those days because that's just part of life. Sometimes, and I just said this on my Insta story of the day, sometimes progression is just not regressing, right? Sometimes a week goes by and maybe I didn't progress towards one of those goals, but then I also didn't regress.

Like a lot of maybe the day I was putting out fires and managing things that I wasn't ready for and just keeping my being calm, collective and focused on my long-term goals and knowing that, hey, you know, maybe a family thing came up and family is a priority. I don't even know, it's not one of my goals. It's a priority in my life that I needed to address that

and I did, you know, so I'm not beating myself up because I didn't move forward on my goal and saying, hey, you know Tomorrow, though, I'll make sure to take steps forward in this. So at the end of the night I tend to assess my day, my interactions with people and And I ask myself like okay, what did I accomplish today towards my long-term goals that I set for myself? And at the beginning of the year, I'm like, anybody else, you know, I have a, you know, New Year's resolution or the beginning of the year, I say, these are all the things that I want to accomplish this year, and I rattled off a few with the books and the financial

and the things like that. So I think real easy, or it's really easy for people to say that they're going to do all these things, and they talk the game like, oh, I'm gonna do this or this year I'm gonna get in this shape and you know shit happens and then they make excuses why they didn't happen where you know that's I just don't work that way. I set big goals for myself and I'm gonna fucking do it. It's just a matter of time for me and the way I can chip away at that is I just revisited every night. What have I done today to accomplish that goal? What have I done today to accomplish this goal? And that one, I just kind of evaluate that.

I think you respect yourself enough to keep your word. Because a lot of times people will promise themselves something and they're the first people to break their promise to themselves. They won't even break a promise to someone else. But when it comes to themselves, they're like, they don't respect themselves enough. That's integrity. I believe that's the integrity in its purest form. In my opinion, it's fucked the things that I say to other people, the things that I say to myself are most important. If I say I'm going to do something, I better fucking do it. Because I'm never going to set a goal for myself that's not achievable too. Like I'm very realistic. I'm not going to be like, Oh, by the end of this year, I plan to be this or have this. It's like, well, that's, I can't control that. That's so outrageous.

Like why would I even say so I set realistic goals for myself that I know that I can obtain, but fuck yeah, it'll be work and yeah, it'll be hard, but you better believe I'm going to fall through on it. If I tell myself, I'm going to do it. Yeah. I can identify with that a lot, especially one thing that I've sort of put into place and the practices whenever I have a goal or I have something that I want to accomplish. If I verbalize it, it's for sure. It's happening.

Like once you say it. Once I say it, even if it's just out loud, it has to be out loud. Either if it's just myself or if it's weird, but I'll just say it, but by myself, I'll say it out loud or to my wife or somebody else I trust. And like, from then on, every action I have to take,

I just take and I chip away at it every single day. And I try, this has been a really hard process for me is to be able to say no as well. So that's been like one of the practices that I feel has led me more towards success and efficiency is because I tend to be a people pleaser, you know, and I want to accomplish like all kinds of things. I want everybody to be happy around me and I want to contribute and benefit everybody else around me as well.

But, you know, for me to be able to accomplish things, I have to stay focused and stay on target. And if there's too many things that somebody will say, oh, let's do this, oh, hey man, come over. I have to like check myself and evaluate whether that's a good use of my time or not. And especially now, you know, with kids and family and then the balance and then constantly evaluating where the holes are and where I need to come back and fill.

So that's just kind of my process every day. I will say you've impressed me so much with your, I haven't met anybody as willing to step outside of their comfort zone as much as you. I'm talking to you Justin, because I think you guys are the same though. Well, I mean, I'll tell you, a lot of what we do is in my comfort zone. So it's very difficult to say that in terms of our work, like getting on a podcast, getting in front

of a camera, you know, if we do, you know, the stuff that we do is mind-plum. Most of it is like in my comfort zone. It's not a problem. A lot of it is out of your comfort zone and you're the first person to do it. Like you just went up to Spokane to be on Greenfield's podcast by yourself and to do all these things, talk about your axon stick and I watched it and I loved it and I'm like, man, I mean, you just, and I know how, you know,

yeah, I was nerve-wracking. Yeah, talking, uncomfortable. Being the center of attention is something you don't necessarily, it's not your thing, but you fucking do it. Like, it's great. It's really cool to work with a bunch of doers and not a bunch of just talkers, you know what I mean? I appreciate that.

Yeah, for sure. Doug, what do you do, Doug? Yeah, for my more practical day to day, it becomes a little bit overwhelming at times because just too much to do and things can slide through the cracks. And so what I have is a book called a planner pad. What this does is it has three columns. The top one is everything you want to accomplish

during the week, the second column is what you want to accomplish during the day and the third column is your day-to-day schedule. So if you have a meeting at three o'clock you put it in the book. And by reviewing that on a day-to-day schedule. So if you have a meeting at three o'clock, you put it in the book. And by reviewing that on a day-to-day basis and filling in all those blanks, what allows me to do is stay mostly on top of everything, even though there's a lot going on. I think one of the big mistakes people make is that they go through their life, winging it all the time. And I'm partially to blame for that as well, but that planner pad does allow me to focus in

on what needs to be done and stay focused on the big task at hand. So that's my little tip of the day. You know, along those lines, like it reminds me to what I'm going through right now of heavily tracking again. And I swear every time I make this transition of like, I'm gonna be tracking and paying attention,

it's so much work like to do all this, right? Like, oh, now I gotta photo everything, I gotta count it all, I gotta add it up, and I input it, it's like, I'm definitely adding more work to my day, but it's amazing that because it's forcing me to be organized about my day, how much more successful I am at accomplishing what the current goal is

as far as what I'm trying to do body composition wise. So this is also why I'm such a huge fan of tracking and teaching that to others is right along the lines it would Doug saying with putting that in the planners, like, you know, if you just kind of go about your goal is your fitness goal at winging it, you know, it's some people can, some people have that ability. Some people are smart enough, and I've been doing this long enough like a cell that are so intuitive and understand their body that well

that it's like, yeah, I got this. I could do this, no problem. But for the most part, most people aren't that organized, aren't that dialed and are winging it all the time. And it's like, man, I highly, highly recommend tracking and paying attention for a while and pay attention to how that bleeds over into the rest of your life

because I tell you what, I'm watching myself having to do all this extra work to provide this vlog and shit for everybody. But at the same time too, I'm getting way more stuff done. So it's bleeding over into other aspects of my life because it's more disciplined. I was just gonna ask that, if you notice the carryover. Oh yeah, I mean,

and you're even seeing it in my activity level, you're watching my movement just, and I'm not trying to increase it, like, and I believe this was one of the questions someone asked, how's Adam getting 20,000 steps? Well, fuck, I'm busy, I'm getting shit done. Like it's crazy, like, it's, now I'm on week four now,

and it, there's just this natural progression of movement, and it's because I'm having to move to accomplish all the things I'm getting done all day long. And it, it wasn't that long though. It was only a month, a month ago, where my steps and activity level was half of that. And I wasn't being lazy. We're still doing a lot of shit.

We've always had a lot of shit. Everybody in this room never has something not to do. There's always something to be accomplished, but my energy level, my ability to knock more out, and a lot of that I attribute to being organized about that. And I know that's also a weakness of mine that if I'm not doing that, it carries over, and then also I feel lethargic and tired and slow and I don't have enough time in the day and it's like, fuck, I'm definitely doing way more than what I was doing before and I seem to have more time and more stuff now. So the return on investments worth of work is crazy.

It blows my mind. Every time I do it, I'm like, fuck, I don't know why I ever stop because I get so much more accomplished. Next question is from Sarah Getz Fit recovered. If overnight you became a female, what do you think would be the most difficult thing about it in general and for fitness? Uh, the most difficult thing would be Adam and Justin.

Uh, yeah. And now I'm just kidding. You know, it's, this question's kind of cool because I actually thought about this exact... About being a woman. Yep. I did, you know why? Because we had that question a little while back

where it was a little bit of controversy behind where that girl was asking about like creeps in the gym. Oh yeah, yeah. And I sat down and actually had a really, really good conversation with Jessica about this. And I sat down and explained to her, not explained, excuse me, I asked her, like tell me, like, I really want to know what it's like to be in a woman's body going around every day life, going to gyms and stuff

like that. She says, okay, she goes, she told me, and this was an example, she gave me, she goes, it's different when you're a woman and you're getting, you know, man are looking at you versus being a man and have women look at you. And it goes, the difference isn't necessarily that there's bad intentions, because the vast majority of men don't want to harm or hurt a woman, just like the vast majority of women don't want to hurt a harm or hurt a man

if they're checking them out. But the difference is, most women, or most men, I should say, have the ability to do harm to a woman. They're a much bigger threat. So she said, when she's at a gym or when she's doing something and a guy is really staring at her, it's instinctual to feel a little bit of threat or fear from it, not because a guy's bad, but because if you wanted to he could really do some words i would feel zero threat like chicks there at me

women come up to me and say that you know why do you think that is though do you think that's because of the news and the information that's provided to us because the bigger because well yeah but statistically what are the if we if we were to talk about statistically well what are what is the likelihood of a female in that position getting... So it's not logical in the sense that the odds are very low.

The odds are, and that's why I'm challenging and asking. It's very instinctual, so it's like, okay, it would be like fear of sharks in the ocean, like going out and swimming in the deep ocean, like I'm scared of sharks. The odds are gonna get bit by a shark are so low it's ridiculous, but it's a fear or why we fear flying.

They're all, you know, like, it's instinctual in the sense that they're, you know, women for most of the human, or all of human civilization, we're a lot smaller than men, we're more aggressive, we're stronger. And so I tried to put myself in the, like, imagine if I was a woman.

And I could imagine, you know, that would be kind of challenging to, you know, be, you know, be fit, have people notice me for it, but then also be like, hey man, like you're looking too much or feel a little threatened by it. Like I tried to think in terms of being a man.

Like if I went into, I don't know, a neighborhood that I didn't feel comfortable and I walked around and I would feel kind of threatened. Well, women can feel like that in a lot of different places. So, that was interesting for me in general. I thought about that and I'm like, huh, yeah, that's kind of interesting. That may be difficult to get used to because we don't really experience it. Like I said, if women are checking me out, the last thing on my mind is fear because I

know if a woman does something to me, I'll probably be able to defend myself for the most part, unless it's like Ronda Rouser, something like that. But the other thing for fitness, that would suck, and this is going to be like total stereotype, right, that I think would suck would be the normal and natural hormonal fluctuations that women go through a monthly basis. That I can agree with right away for sure. Because we don't experience, and we have hormonal fluctuations too, as men, but it's nowhere near the change in dramatic difference that women go through.

And I could not imagine feeling, for some women, they feel completely different during different times of the month because hormones change. And some women made debate this and be like, that's true. Look, you could test a woman's hormones and a doctor can tell you what type of your cycle you're in. That's how dramatic the difference can be. And I don't know, I feel like that would kind of suck to know that,

okay, here we go, I'm going to feel like this. And I don't have any control over it. And here I go. And for someone that sucks, someone would feel fatigued, they'll feel irritable and or they'll get cravings. I'm gonna blow it in holding water. Yeah, I'm gonna feel a tharjic and they feel their, energies down and there's-

I had a friend of mine. That would be a mother fucker. I had a girlfriend of mine tell me once. She said, she goes, for her, she had really bad symptoms. And she's like, imagine being sick for a week every month. Like, you're gonna just, she said, that's what I feel like. I feel like I'm sick for a whole fucking week

every single month. And I remember thinking like, oh yeah, that was kind of suck. Like, I hate getting sick. I couldn't imagine. So that would be kind of interesting, right? I don't know. Now, I feel that you have to, if you're,

and I know you're obviously winning over all the women in our audience right now, yeah, I'm gonna go in a totally different way. Maybe. So, but I feel like you have to, if you're gonna, if you're going to do that, we're gonna speculate, you have to also take in a consideration all the positive things that come from that too. Of course. You can't just like, the question was the most difficult thing. I mean, I could, I could list some of the awesome stuff, I guess. Yeah, I mean, so I think, first of all, I don't like to speculate on something. I have no fucking idea, you know, so that just get,

to me, I feel like this type of question. I don't know why someone picked this question because it's just gonna get a sense. It is one of here, yeah. I mean, I was ridiculous. Well, look how much trouble I got in the last one, you know, it's like, and let me tell you like, let's get up, what else the best?

Well, the last one too was, like I was literally sharing off of math statistics. This is I saw 100 women came to me with this exact same problem out of those 100, you know, 75 of them. This was the case, 25. This was the case. And that was where my information was coming from. Could it be completely one sided and biased?

And like, I'm not saying it's a fact. I'm saying that was my experience. And so I don't have any experience being a female, so I couldn't say what would be the most difficult thing. But if you were, what do you think of it? Well, I definitely would piggyback off of what you say with the hormones thing, because I know being somebody who has low hormones

and has to take synthetic hormones and knows that I can feel the difference of my body up or down. And I know how that impacts my mood, my sex drive, my drive to lift in the gym, my motivation. I know how much that affects me and for that to happen to all women naturally, fuck, I definitely my heart breaks for that. I feel like that would be tough. That would be tough to just manage that on a monthly basis and Never know like is it gonna be worse this month or less and you know like and then even like physical things like cramping and stuff like You know, we don't know that's like either to be in the just getting cramps out of nowhere

Like how shitty would that be like we're mid podcasting on my getting this fucking cramp at a nowhere like that would be annoying Right, so I mean to me that would be one of the most difficult things. Obviously child bearing. I can't imagine what having a child would be like. That has to be, oh man, that would be so fucking crazy. That has to be, yeah, to, I mean, I know pregnancy into this. Well, I mean, well, I mean, you have, that's a female thing. Yeah, you have to. I mean, and I know that I've had some really awful shits in my life and how painful those What that felt like physically and that was nothing like a child coming out of you know an area so I just Yeah, I can't fathom what they go through during that that you know Of course it's ridiculous.

I know, it is ridiculous. That's not, like, I have nothing for this email. I was just thinking like, I was sucked to have to, we're a thong all the time, you know, like, I don't have to, I'm a big, I also, you know, I, I, I, I, running with big old, breastesses, you know, I, I, I, I, yeah, of course, just that assumes, yeah,

if he was a girl. I would have big breasts. Yeah, he assumes he's got big tits and he has to wear a thong. Like, I'm like, trying to do bench presses. This is like a joint, joint, joint. Yeah, we all know, we all know what Justin wants to look like if he was a girl. He'd be pretty fun to get out of the house without looking

out myself all day. I don't know. I like to think that we're, I think I like to think that we're pretty evolved in the United States, especially, and I feel like definitely in California of equality and I know we're not all the way there yet. And I'm sure somebody pissed somebody off. That's a feminist.

Well, you know, it goes both ways, dude. It goes both ways. Like, you know, men and women get the shorted in a stick because they're sex on different things. Like, I mean, you go, if you're a guy and you get accused of a crime and you go to a court and you're a woman, especially if it's a violent crime, they get way less time than we do.

They fucking lock dudes up, and that's the statistics, but that's just one thing. There's things that go both ways, but I just think, I think it's a cool question. I hear something that I was just thinking about in the way future when we have like these computer systems where you can kind of plug in in this virtual reality and kind of become your avatar,

I bet you one of the most popular things people will do is become the opposite sex. For sure. For sure. I mean, why wouldn't you want to do that? To see what it's that's like. Of course I would want to do that. There's no doubt in my mind that that would be in a,

it's virtual reality. I'm not actually changing my sex. To actually get an idea of that, what that would be like. I think everybody you're probably right that would probably be the most pro there be the most popular download or whatever. Change your sex app whatever it's going to be. I don't know what it's going to be like but but yeah I think I mean it would be very interesting to see how the female mind, and so here's a thing though, by the way, we're being very stereotypical because the individual variance is between.

Right, I mean, that's why individuals are so different. It's why I like to speculate, and I'm passionate about like, everything that we do, like we make the most or the worst of it, man. And I feel like I'm so anti-victim, like, and when people get upset at me, I just get fucking more angry, because I'm like, fuck you,

you have no idea what I went through in my life, and I don't put it on you, and I don't say poor me. Like, and, you know, I'm at a disadvantage because of this, like, yeah, some of that is true, but it's like, I don't see, and here's what the question, because it was a little longer.

I think she was. So yeah, so what she said was, she likes the bro talk, so I think she wanted, she thought it would be funny, but we're going after that. No, we got all serious. Why did you finish the question then, so we knew that. Well, I just went in my direction, which kind of, that's what I'm talking about.

Sorry, set the tone a little bit. Yeah, you did not give us that. You didn't give us. It was a ridiculous question, so it deserves a ridiculous answer. Well, I'll tell you what would be interesting. And I'm sure I'll get in trouble for this, but at a certain, if you're,

if there's an, if you're in a attractive female within a certain age group, you have a lot of power over men. And I think women will admit this. I think they know this. To not abusing it, right? Well, it's just challenging not to abuse that. Dude, I mean, you have quite a bit, quite a bit of power. They've done studies on this, I think they know. To not abusing it, right? Well, it's just challenging not to abuse that. Dude, I mean, you have quite a bit of power.

They've done studies on this where just if you're an attractive, young woman, you can get men to, and without, I'm not talking about outwardly telling them, you know, with sex or anything like that, but just because you're an attractive young female, you know, guys will wanna do things for you just instinctively. Make it batom. And it's for sure just instinctively. Like, it bait them.

And it's for sure. It's fucking, it's very interesting. I mean, imagine. Oh, limited power. Like a tar, the tar side of the force. How it abesit? Dude, I have, I, you know how many friends I've had that are women, they're like, oh, I get out of tickets all the time.

Yeah. I'll just, I'll cry. No, that's it. I don't want to pay for shit. That's a great point because I've actually, I mean, Katrina and I have joked and talked about things like this before and the thing that I kind of joke about is like, well, man, if I was a female, I would just be running game

on all these dudes. Like, I would just be, and I'm joking. Like, I really would, but I think that would actually be a difficult thing that I would have to like, like, have self-reflect and go like, I don't mind just using that. Yeah, you're kind of taking advantage of all these boys, you know, that are- Do I feel bad to write that?

Yeah, right. Yeah, but I'm hungry, you know? So, I wanna go to a nice dinner tonight, like. You really likes me. Yeah, so I'm pumping them up. I think it does. I think if you're a really attractive smart woman that gets a lot of attention from men,

it would be a challenge to not abuse that. It would be hard to not do that because you, and the way you would justify it is like, you know what, these motherfuckers always be gawkin at me and making me feel scared and nervous. So, you know what, I'm gonna get some free dinners to channel this. Yeah, let's channel this, flip it on a 10.

I've been Amazon gift thing list that you can, you know, fuck me some shit. It's crazy because, and it actually makes me, I love looking at humans just as a species, and I love looking at like men and women how we behave, but it's so apparent, this particular thing is so apparent, when every guy who's listening has ever been to a strip club, I'll tell you,

you go to a strip club, the power that women can have over men is like every guy in there, every guy in there knows that the strippers are being nice to you 100% because they want your money, 100% they could give a shit about you. In fact, you probably are repulsive to them and every time you go, if you go with a group of guys, when you leave, there's always one or two dudes, that's like, no, no, dude, she really liked me. No, man.

No, I'm serious. This is a real phone number. Yeah, no, she didn't. She wanted to make out with me. I know she did. She totally liked it. No, dude, you believe that because she had, she cast a spell on you because you're a man.

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