Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 621: Cannabis and Muscle Growth, How to Increase Speed & Explosiveness, Choosing Books to Read & MORE

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Starting point is 00:00:45 That Jackie's fault for sending those in. Those are dicking things. We talk about the mind pump chef, otherwise known as, I'm gonna call him Evan from L.A. Evan. We talked about our current workouts. I actually talked about trigger sessions and the value of trigger sessions

Starting point is 00:01:01 and why a lot of people who have maps in a ballack might not be doing them and why they should. Definitely want to listen to that part. And then we mentioned the Organifi Green Juice effect. We mentioned it as a recipe to combine with chicken and the biscuit. Not sure that's a good idea. Yeah, sure it's a good idea.

Starting point is 00:01:20 But anyway, we do love Organifi products. They are one of our sponsors. You do get a massive discount if you use our code Here's what you do go to Organifishop.com Enter the code mind pump no space and you'll get a discount on all their products Then we get into the questions the first question was this particular individual is not happy with any of the jobs that she's had And she constantly changes jobs. She's 24 years old, needs some advice, we give it to her. It's awesome, you're gonna wanna hear it.

Starting point is 00:01:49 Adam goes off a little bit as usual. The next question was. Some wizard wizard in there, bro. We haven't. We haven't athlete asking us how they can get more explosive and more speed for rugby. So we kinda break it down and lay it out in terms of how you want to maybe face your workouts. In fact, we talk a lot about maps performance and how we designed maps performance in particular for goals like this. Maps performance has four phases. It's

Starting point is 00:02:18 broken down into maximal strength, reactive strength, explosive strength, and durability, all the things that you're gonna want if you want that kind of ancient athlete type of performance, what we'd like to call broad spectrum performance. It's our program that probably has more exercises in it that you've never seen than all the others. You can find that program at Mind Pump Media. Pretty different than what you're doing now, I guarantee it. Mindpumpmedia.com.

Starting point is 00:02:46 Then we get into the question. Someone wants to know how we pick the books that we like to read. If you've been listening to Mind Pump for a little while, you know, the Adam has been reading quite a bit this year. Find out where he gets his recommendations for these books. And finally, what are the effects on muscle growth when you use marijuana post workout? Is that a good idea? When weed gains.

Starting point is 00:03:09 What help you build muscle? Or is it just fun? Find out in this episode. You know it goes amazing with my green, organified juice. Don't do it. Check it into this. Don't do it.

Starting point is 00:03:20 Dude. No, it doesn't. So Jackie is in trouble. Jackie, the saboteur. So Jackie, who works with Mind Plump, is also one of our, probably our OG. She's probably the OG or one of the OG fans, right? Because there's a few of those. Yeah, well you have to give, I think, a show.

Starting point is 00:03:37 You've seen any of our seminars, you know, you're on our team. So Jackie listens to our show and then she also does our show notes and stuff for us. So when you look at the show notes and if you like the way they're set up, you can thank Jackie. She heard our episode where we talked about, I don't remember what it was. We talked about like foods that we childhood foods. Yeah. And I talked about chicken in the biscuit crackers, which I haven't had since I was probably since I was 12 seventh grade for me. Yeah. what's that 13? Yeah, I'm remembering right now

Starting point is 00:04:07 I like I haven't had us else 12 or 13 so she sends us a that she sends us organic gummy bears a bunch of things that we talked about in the episode so I open this box up so I'm like I don't remember what they taste like I kind of do but I know you guys have to do with me I opened it and everybody ate one cracker now remember that's the dues with me. I opened it and everybody ate one cracker. Now remember, just so we know, understand the context here, we're a fitness podcast, we're all a health conscious individuals, we don't need this stuff normally. All of us tasted one cracker and almost the whole box

Starting point is 00:04:35 has gone right now because. Amazing. It's, it's so, they have engineered this thing to taste so amazing. It's the only reason why I think- Soup in your mouth. The only reason why I think chicken and abisket isn't the most popular food on earth is because how do you market chicken and abisket?

Starting point is 00:04:51 Like, you know what I mean? The name is, if you never tried it, you wouldn't think so. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Do they ever do commercials? For chicken and abisket? I've never seen one in my life.

Starting point is 00:05:00 I'm sure one lives on YouTube. I just wanna say, I feel like I've seen a chicken and abisket commercial as a kid. Wow. I'm trying to lives on you. I'm gonna say I feel like I feel like I've seen a chicken in a biscuit commercial as a kid. Wow. I'm trying to remember what happens like a chicken flies by and like shit's magic dust on our side. I don't know. How does that work?

Starting point is 00:05:14 There's two grams of protein for every seven. Well, can I see the box real quick? Yes, I'm on my I'm trying to get you guys out right now. So first off they spell biscuit wrong, but anyway. Uh, so maybe it's like, it's like, it's like Adam wrote it. B-I-S-K-I-T. Ah, biscuit. So I'm reading the back and I was looking at the ingredients

Starting point is 00:05:34 because I haven't seen a box of these forever. And kind of halfway down or almost to the end of the ingredients list, dehydrated cooked chicken. Wow, they actually use chicken. These crackers have chicken in them. That's two grams of protein. That's two grams of protein right there. Lots of vitamins, just liquid. Oh, that's commercial.

Starting point is 00:05:55 I knew they had to. Yes. It's like a real biscuit. Brack. This is a real commercial that can't be Yeah, that is pretty great dude no joke. I used to sit I It's sit down and watch TV and I'd have a box of chicken in the biscuit. Yeah, and I'd Eat the entire thing to my face by myself. You know, it's great. There's seven servings in this whole container,

Starting point is 00:06:26 160 calories per serving, about roughly 20 grams of carbohydrates. What's the serving size? 12 crackers. You know nobody's gonna need 12. I know, that's what I mean. It's not a party over that now. Yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:06:38 So I like on the back. The scaler's add up. I like how on the back, there's a picture of the chicken and the biscuit crackers and easy cheese because if you, if you're gonna eat some, listen, yeah. That was like for me, nostalgia, easy cheese, like immediately I'm like, oh my god, easy cheese and trisket, like I've, I've lived off those in college, it was like four or a whole.

Starting point is 00:06:57 Did you four or a whole? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. What is easy cheese? I have no idea. Cheese and the candy. It's just like, shit. But it's really processed like. What does it taste like? Does it taste like cheese? Yeah, man. I mean, it's, it's like, the can. It's just like shit. But it's really processed like. What is it taste like?

Starting point is 00:07:05 Is it taste like cheese? Yeah, man. I mean, it's like, you get addicted to it just like crackers. And you would just spray it on your crackers. It's so gross. Yeah. And you'd be like, this is protein. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:07:15 Yeah. It just makes like this noise comes out. Did you, did you eat it directly out of a can? Um, sometimes. You do. Sometimes when I felt like, you know, I had no shame shame like I would do that. I wish I didn't It was dark and I took my shirt. I had two of those crackers and that's it and I'm and you're really? That's it only had to get you out of ketosis. I am I'm your fuck. I'm feigning

Starting point is 00:07:36 The whole thing. Yeah, don't worry. I'm gonna eat the shakes all of us. No, I'm waiting for you to finish them because I'm gonna eat them, dude There's no plastic. It's crazy how stuff like this is engineered to be just because I'm gonna eat them, dude. There's none elastic. It's crazy how stuff like this is engineered to be just so, I mean, even down to like the texture. Yeah, the texture of it, how they have this like salty, dusty chicken remains, I think. The chicken matter. I don't even know what it is.

Starting point is 00:08:01 Like a fine chicken matter. Yeah, I or any of this is we're gonna be selling some chicken. I know, that's the problem. People are gonna go to the store and buy boxes of this. Don't go eat these. Listen, here's the challenge. Here's the challenge is what we're gonna do.

Starting point is 00:08:13 We're gonna pick a winner. Let's do our organica-mursh right now. Let's drive people to go get organica- instead of chicken and biscuit. We need to mention organica- Oh, we do. So let's talk about a recipe. You can use with organica- or organ. I'll just help myself. Let's talk about a recipe. You can use the Organifi product.

Starting point is 00:08:26 And biscuit. You can try to counter or give facts. You're going to fuck your diet up for the day and you're going to eat chicken and the biscuit for one of your meals. You absolutely need. Here's the strategy. Need to have Organifi.

Starting point is 00:08:36 So here's what you do because you need that in your life. One of my favorite things, and by the way, just the preface, I'm going to completely make this up. One of the things that was great with chicken and biscuit is you could, you'd have them with soup, right? Cause it's got that savory flavor. So some kind of a vegetable dish soup. Okay.

Starting point is 00:08:53 So what you could do is you could mix up some green juice from Organifi, warm it up the microwave. Now you have warm green juice that you could have with your chicken and a biscuit. Oh my gosh, that's gross. What are you talking about? That's gross. It's not going on the recipe list.

Starting point is 00:09:08 Damn it. Yeah, I don't think Drew Canola is going to like that one. I don't like that one. He's like, uh, guys, I don't think he was a very good commercial for this. We have people microwaving our fucking green juice all over the country now. But you can blend it and make some awesome shakes,

Starting point is 00:09:20 which I've done that. What did you blend it with? With ice. Ice, yeah. Oh, just ice. like, what was it? I super deep recipe there. I thought you're gonna say like cheddar. Yeah, no, it's in berries Yeah, you blend it in there I had chef I would do that getting down for us last night. What did you do the rib eye? Did you see the

Starting point is 00:09:38 Mushrooms onion garlic Sauteed and ghee butter and then put that over the top of why does he cook like this for you guys? What do you do for him? Man, he's that shit. I know, right? It's the mind pump chef, bro. Yeah, but you're the only one that gets the benefit of it. That is where I lack all creativity. I don't get to eat.

Starting point is 00:09:53 I'm responsible for training him. Does Evan have, does he listen to the show? Does Evan listen to the show? Ever it, sorry. Yeah, so he's just showing it. I just made up a name, shorten it up. I like him so much, I mean I give him a nickname Is it ever not gonna call you by your name ever it? We're gonna call you Evan. You're more Evan

Starting point is 00:10:11 That's what I'm like an Evan. I want to give people nicknames that are not really nicknames. It's just another name Yeah, I mean hey John. Yeah, it's really close to my name. That's my name. That's what my son thought nicknames were when I was when he was a kid like just another name Oh, that's my nickname dad. No, that's not a It's Robert now. So does Everett listen to the show he does sporadically though. So ever it which I think most people I think you should make food for Chicken and biscuit me and Justin Because Adam Need to bring you in the studio taking you for granted. I already told him I was the only reason I told him I was the boss.

Starting point is 00:10:45 The reason why we have an aired your videos of cooking and stuff yet is because Adam. Yeah, Adam is holding up. He's like, no, no, no. Bring me some food. I'll get that shit on tomorrow. Taylor and him shot a second that they shot a couple weeks ago. And cooking video. Mm-hmm.

Starting point is 00:11:00 And ever it was like, oh yeah, bro, I got this. And I talked to him afterwards and they got home because they must have spent like four hours shooting stuff. He said, hey dude, how did it go? Oh man, I need to practice. And I'm like, what do you mean? He's like, he's just weird talking to the camera

Starting point is 00:11:19 for that long. And I'm like, yeah, I know, I'm still not used to it, man. I'm like, you know what, why don't we have, either myself or Southam. I was just gonna say, have us do with them. Well, and I talked to you, you remind me. Actually, you know who would be, we should have Justin on there with him.

Starting point is 00:11:33 Cakes, me. Yes, you, because first of all, you're brilliant on camera, you're hilarious as hell. And I think you'd be able to say funny shit with Everett, you know what I can see that That'd be kind of it depends in direction that depends yeah, wherever it if you're trying to actually make like I don't think we're trying to do comedy on that. Oh really? Yeah, I don't think it's supposed to be Is that what I think you that what good recipe are like hey look at my balls

Starting point is 00:12:00 Come on man Look my balls What do you come on man? He's gonna look my balls. What on the one-and-a-one channel? What are you thinking? One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a-one. One-and-a That's right when you'd be lost for zingers. You're like, oh, that was a perfect dick joke right there. I can't say anything. Adam, give me shit about the dick jokes. Ever it's gonna be ever it's a system ever. But like, can you grab the cucumber and just be like,

Starting point is 00:12:30 oh, damn it, I want to say something. It's right here. It's right there in front of me. I can't wait though till we do some of that stuff with him, huh? Yeah, we're already working towards that direction. So it's coming. It's coming around the mountain. When she sing it, I don't know how it goes.

Starting point is 00:12:42 Yeah. When she comes. It's lighten. Coming around the mountain when she comes. It's coming around the mountain when she sing it. I don't know how it goes. When she comes. He's like, coming around the mountain when she comes. He's coming around the mountain when she comes. He's coming around the mountain when she comes. No, it's like that. That's pretty good. Sing it to me.

Starting point is 00:12:55 Tell me how it goes. Tell me how it goes. You fucker against me. What do you mean I say? This is rough. Dude, I liked that. She'll be coming around the mountain when she comes. How's it go? Wow. It's almost like he's rocking as he's doing that. That's great. It's good. Yeah, yeah a lot of effort there

Starting point is 00:13:11 Oh, it's really good. You guys have no idea. Oh So anyway, well, you guys do any working out yet today You're the only person that works. I know I only asked that so you guys ask me How do you work out? Dude I work out in the afternoon? We covered this. How was your workout yesterday? It was good.

Starting point is 00:13:28 What'd you do? It was all kettlebell workout. Oh really? Yeah, because it was like, I was doing just mobility and then it turned into like a light kettlebell skills kind of exercise day. It was fun. What do you do for the skills?

Starting point is 00:13:42 Lean meals? Juggling? Yeah, juggling. No, for real. like Turkish get-ups Oh, yeah, so I get through a lot of the movement practice and you know like arm bars and stuff like that So I just go through a lot of the movements and get my joints Involved and intention and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, no, I did some turkey get-ups yesterday turkey get-ups Turkey sure turkey turkey

Starting point is 00:14:04 It's like a half a Turkish get-up. Is it really? You just look like a turkey try to get up sister now Turkey get up Turkey sure Turkey Turkey Turkey It's like a half a Turkish get up. Is it really? Just look like a turkey try to get up I'll tell you what man. I've been doing trigger sessions consistently It always blows me away, dude I probably have said this several times on the podcast. You're always trying to sell me your program, dude It's not even it's not even that You're always trying to push your program. But it's, it's, seriously.

Starting point is 00:14:29 I've been doing, I've been doing, focus sessions like crazy. Have you been doing them? Lots of focus. We were hyper focused. What do you think of them? Amazing. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:14:37 Are they awesome? Change your mind for this. So when I do, when I do trigger sessions, highly focused. Consistently, I see change very quickly with them, very, very quickly. You know why I bring this up all the time? Is because I fall out of favor.

Starting point is 00:14:52 No, they'll fall out of favor with me where I'll start doing like one a day or two a day instead of the three a day. Makes a big difference. That's all I do. I did that this morning, I just did them now. It's really tough for me to discipline myself to revisit it two or three times a day.

Starting point is 00:15:07 I'm gonna have a lot of time. That's the hard part. It is. It's the doing I'm so frequently. Yeah. Even though it's only five minutes. I know that it's funny that something that easy, that short that quick, I just, I feel like I mentally

Starting point is 00:15:19 prepare myself for it. Okay, this is gonna be my workout time. I'm gonna do it. And then I do it. And then when it's done, it's done, you know? And so I don't have this desire to go back. So I do have in our spare room, which is right next to our master, a pull-up bar

Starting point is 00:15:35 with our bands hanging from it. And so I try and get in a habit of, you know, once before I go to bed, I'm just... Trigger, trigger, trigger. Yeah, yeah, do some stuff like get pumped up before I go in bed with Katrina, you know? Before I come in, she's like, damn, he looks so good. Pumping up the wrong muscle bed, I'm just... Trigger, trigger, trigger. Yeah, yeah, do some stuff like get pumped up before I go in bed with Katrina. Yeah, before I come in, she's like, damn, he looks so good.

Starting point is 00:15:48 Pumped up the wrong muscle, but... So it's a trigger session. Sal's got me on. No, but a clueded body. So here's the understated part about trigger sessions that I always notice is the fat loss effect. I notice my body gets leaned very quickly doing them. And let's say you do seven minutes each time,

Starting point is 00:16:05 that's about 21 minutes of activity. 21 minutes of cardio doesn't even equate to what this does. And I think it just has to do with the, like making your body want to build muscle instead. You know what I'm saying? It's pretty cool. We used to use some broscience like that, where, you know, when you're getting ready to go hit stage time,

Starting point is 00:16:24 you're trying to shuttle carbohydrates into. So you get a pump while you eat them? Mm-hmm. And it's like you're, you eat, you eat, and then right after you eat, you're, you're getting pumped. But there's some, there's some logic there. No, I agree, a lot of time, you know, we give bros such a hard time,

Starting point is 00:16:37 but if it wasn't for the bros out there doing stupid shit, we wouldn't be able to, we probably wouldn't have studied things to support it or to say nay, right? So somebody has to go out there and be the test session. Because I feel like if you're working your muscles to a particular, with a particular intensity, it's going to want to replenish glycogen. You've got glycogen or excuse me, carbs coming in your system, you're probably, you're right, you're probably are going to shuttle more to muscles.

Starting point is 00:17:04 Or at least it sounds logical. And your problem is how would you study that? That's the bro science part, right? They talk about it. Is it common to do a lot of people do it? Yeah, it's like, I mean, that's what you do. Well, as far as I know, most guys that I was around them, especially when you're loading for a day,

Starting point is 00:17:22 like a show day where it really matters. That's what you're doing that after every, right? After I think the one of the last shows I did, I think I ate like nine meals the day leading up to the show. And it's just a bunch of like car protein meals. Now let me ask you this, because you normally take like four days off of training before your competition,

Starting point is 00:17:41 but you're still doing these types of things. So it's more like trigger sessions. Right. And the idea behind that. And the benefits coming motherfuckers? The idea behind that too is, you know, some guys, there's a lot of guys actually that still train. There's two camps in this, right?

Starting point is 00:17:55 There's the one camp is, you know, oh, I want to keep my body on its normal routine, keep me training all the way up to like literally the day of showtime. So they their idea is that's what they're they want their body to be used to that they want to maximize the pump that they get from the day before and the day of working out. The other camp is and the camp that I'm in is you know, when you deplete like that and

Starting point is 00:18:24 then you're starting to refuel and refeed the body and fill it back out, constantly doing workouts and exercising like an hour routine, and so that kind of is being counterproductive of what you're trying to do. So, and, you know, all workouts are different and, you know, hard to make them exactly the same every time. So, my theory is like, the reason why I cut training out

Starting point is 00:18:46 the last four days is because I've already done all the work. Like I'm not gonna build extra muscle in the last couple of days. I'm more like trying to be very precise about how much I intake to fill me all the way up and not to overdo it. And I think if you're exercising during those days, you make that much harder to try and

Starting point is 00:19:05 figure that out. So instead of doing hard workouts, what if like just trigger session? Right, after you eat, it's like a little, just a tiny little pump. Yeah, yeah, and really for me, it was always a pumping into areas that I wanted to look. So if I felt like... Yeah, let me ask you this. So here's a great question. Do you notice as this progresses, you're getting better and better pumps?

Starting point is 00:19:25 Oh, that's a good question. Because that's what happens with trigger sessions. Well, yeah, but then the hard thing to, you're also carbolosis. Right. So that'd be hard to tease it out, like, of, yeah. Well, so that's what I notice when I do trigger sessions consistently is as I, if I do them consistently,

Starting point is 00:19:38 what I mean by consistently is three times a day on my non-foundational days, okay? Morning, afternoon, evening. I noticed by the evening session, my pump is getting, it's much better than it was in the middle of the day one and in the morning one. I mean, it makes total sense to me. Yeah. I mean, I feel like,

Starting point is 00:19:56 it's, you're waking that up, right? First thing in the morning, you do the first one, and let's say it's like, so let's say you're doing a shoulder and a bicep pump. Like, you're recruiting more neurons into that area, right? You're sending more blood flow into that area. So, I mean, that alone already, and then if you progressively do that throughout the day,

Starting point is 00:20:14 more and more is happening. So it seems logical that, you know, that you get a better pump. You know, when I first put together the first maps, I first, I thought the trigger session part was the most important in the sense that, not important for the programming, but important in the sense that it was different and I thought it was gonna be a game changer

Starting point is 00:20:36 and I still think that and I still think it's what's the word underrated. And I think the main reason why it's underrated is what we're talking about now is I think a lot of people just don't do them consistently. Yeah, they buy the program because they get good results from doing the phasing, from the good program, I agree, from all that. And but they're missing on that one piece that I think, because trigger sessions, technically, if you program them, you can program with any workout. You don't have to follow maps. Yeah. I've coach bodybuilders and competitors

Starting point is 00:21:06 who do body parts splits on how to use trigger sessions with their split. And they get blown away by them too. Even before your trigger session concept, this is how I applied focus sessions, which were a little more intense, right? But it's my way of thinking is a similar process, right? It's the same idea.

Starting point is 00:21:23 You're just, you gotta think too. You're getting more volume, because even if it's lighter, it's still more volume, I'm saying. You're getting more activity there. So you gotta think that you're sending the signal. So your body is, at the bare minimum, going to at least keep muscle,

Starting point is 00:21:38 maybe it may not be a loud enough signal to promote huge growth. I think we all saw that benefit to it. And immediately, like I was like, oh, that relates a lot to skills training and practice and mobility and like, you know, it's all, yeah. It's all related. It definitely builds the volume

Starting point is 00:21:53 and it does it in a way where it's beneficial for adaptations. I think we're the biggest game changer and why it's, I think what was so special about maps was, it's so polar opposite of most of the message that's given out there right now, that that's why so many people are seeing such a huge difference from it because, everything you see right now on Instagram

Starting point is 00:22:15 is these splits and these seven days a week and no days off and that, it's the complete opposite approach and it's a much smarter approach towards your results. And I think that most people are attempting that other way. So when they go back and like do this in a much more methodical way, they see huge results. So then if you actually apply the trigger sessions. So remember the, which Batman was it with the dude who had the crazy look of mask and he was hella jacked?

Starting point is 00:22:45 Bane. Who's the actor that plays him? You guys don't know I'm talking about. So he built. There you go. He built he built hella muscle for that role. Yeah. So I just saw this the other day.

Starting point is 00:22:57 Someone sent it to me and they're like, oh shit, he did trigger sessions. Now I don't think he I don't know I don't think he followed maps or whatever. I think he just did himself. But he talked about his his workout routine. don't think he followed maps or whatever. I think he just did himself, but he talked about his workout routine. Who's his trainer? Did that highlight that? I don't remember. I don't, or at least it didn't list it maybe.

Starting point is 00:23:11 He said that the way he worked out was instead of doing these crazy, you know, two hour workouts as he would do these mini workouts all day long, and that he got way better results doing and he built lots of muscle and someone sent that to me. I thought that was pretty fascinating. Yeah. You know, that he did that. So pretty cool. That's cool. I think he had a jack for that movie.

Starting point is 00:23:28 I mean, I did one, one show, I don't know why I had the time to do this, but I did have one of my shows where, I don't know what we were doing currently at that time, but I might have been one of the early ones where I just, I made that like the number one priority. Like I'm training, I'm dieting, I'm gonna go in the show. Like it's everything else in my life was priority two, three, four. Like I really was that focused on training.

Starting point is 00:23:53 And so I was utilizing things like this where I'd be in the gym like three, four times in a day, but it wasn't like crazy intense workout at all. It's like the idea was I was going in. Yeah, yeah, I would go and dress. I'd go in, go hit shoulders and maybe buys. And then I'd come back later on and go get triceps and maybe back and then I'd come back again. And then in between I was walking,

Starting point is 00:24:13 then I'd go eat and then come back like, oh man, I mean, I never felt so. That sounds like fun. It actually does, I'm not being, I'm not being. Well, no, it was, it actually freaking really awesome. And I never felt taxed, right? I never felt like. How did your body respond? Oh, it was, it actually freaking really awesome. And I never felt taxed, right? I never felt like... How did your body respond?

Starting point is 00:24:26 Oh, it was incredible. I mean, it was definitely part of the journey for me during all the shows and on the way to going pro and stuff. I don't remember what show it was. Now, I don't think it was like this. Holy shit, it changed to I was. Well, you already knew how to work out. Right, yeah, it's not like it was gonna be this like,

Starting point is 00:24:43 it was like game-changing for me or what like that. But it was, it was really nice. It was a refreshing way to train if I had that kind of time, right? Like if I was full time competitor and made enough income that all I had to do was worry about. It lived in Kuwait. Right. It was paying for everything.

Starting point is 00:24:57 But well, so that excellent point right there. Oh, that's the trick point. That's actually, that's an actually, so when, when I talked to Ben Pukolsky, and this was a question actually that, uh, that will I talked to Ben Pukolsky, and this was a question actually that will address that was on our Q&A that we didn't put up here, was if we knew what was going on over there, and I did have a chance to talk to Ben about this, and he's been there and gone through the whole thing,

Starting point is 00:25:18 and he's like, no, it's not, because we thought, they must be like, my own statin' in a crazy drug, we didn't know the newest purist steroid, and he's like, no, and of course they have. They have good steroids. Yeah, they have that, but that's not my premium stuff. But plenty of guys order that stuff and get it over where we're at. So that's not the big difference.

Starting point is 00:25:35 He says it's just the environment. It's like the most ultimate recovery, rehab, fuel, gym, sleep is all centralized in like this one location. So, you know, you go there and that's all you have. Yeah, train eat sleep, train eat sleep, train eat sleep. And that's probably happening multiple times, probably three times a day for a lot of those guys. Be really interesting to actually ask one of them. Like if that's true, like I'd be, I would speculate now knowing from Ben's perspective, what we speculated on. And now seeing speculated on and now seeing such a huge change

Starting point is 00:26:08 in these guys, it's like, dude, I bet, I bet they did a crazy hard training session in the day and then they had one or two other ones where they were constantly just touching muscles and stuff like that all day long and then fueling up and then sleeping and shit. So, I bet that's right aligned with you. Awesome.

Starting point is 00:26:25 Bring it. This Quas brought to you by Organify. For those days you fall short on getting your organic veggies or whole food nutrition, Organify fills the gap with laboratory tested certified organic superfoods to help give your health a performance the added edge. Try Organify totally risk free for 60 days by going to organify.com That's a large a NIFI.com and use a coupon code mine pump for 20% off at checkout First question is from Chris Santy

Starting point is 00:26:57 I'm never happy with any jobs. I have and change jobs within a year. I'm 24 years old How did you guys figure out what you wanted to do? Oh wow. I'm gonna address the very first part of that. Yeah, I go, why don't you go. Wow, yeah. I can hear in your voice, right? I'm, yeah, I know.

Starting point is 00:27:14 I hope we don't lose a fan here. I know. So I am never happy with the jobs I have. Well, there's your problem right there. It's not, it's never the jobs, it's you. You know, you're the common denominator in all this. They're all different jobs, but you tend to continue to be unhappy.

Starting point is 00:27:30 And you can't, I think when people are searching for external things to create happiness within, they forever fall short because that's not how it works. It starts within, it's very simple or similar to the style of giving his weight loss analogy for people that they want to lose this weight because they don't love themselves. Or it'll make them happy if they lose. They think if once they lose their 50 or 100 pounds, they're going to be happy.

Starting point is 00:27:55 Then guess what happens? They lose their 50 or 500 pounds and they're still just as unhappy as what they were when they first started and realized that it wasn't the 50 pounds. It's something that starts within. So you make that choice. And I also think this was some of the benefits for me for being somebody who kind of had kind of a tough upbringing and childhood.

Starting point is 00:28:17 I learned to have to look at things in a more positive light because there was so much negativity and bad stuff that was around me. So you actually learn because you have to survive a more positive light because there was so much negativity and bad stuff that was around me. You actually learn because you have to survive in that setting that everything isn't happy, isn't grand, isn't easy. In fact, most of everything that was around me was extremely challenging and hard. I found to love everything I did.

Starting point is 00:28:40 The way I did that was, and a good book for this is Fred Factor. It's a short easy read. And it's really about you wanting to be the best version of yourself no matter what it is that you're doing. So that's just the first half of this sentence, like you're never happy with the job. So that's not the job, it's you. So you have to look into that first.

Starting point is 00:29:04 And if that stings me saying that, that should just let you know how much that's not the job, it's you. So you have to look into that first. And if that stings me saying that, that should just let you know how much that's probably an issue. So I'll say this. Two things, so kind of comment on what you said Adam. You're never gonna be happy seeking happiness. Right. Cause seeking is literally the antithesis of happiness. So the seeking itself is part of the problem.

Starting point is 00:29:27 So that's number one, but number two, your 24 years old, make your own job, like make your own career. This is the best time in history for you to be able to do that. And what I mean by that is the opportunities are so incredible right now for you to create your own employment.

Starting point is 00:29:46 You know, I'm one of those people that I don't, I don't think I will ever be as content working for someone else as I ever will be, like I am working for myself. And I invented my own career, my own job. Now when I first started as a trainer, I absolutely loved it, I loved the gym. And I was one of those lucky people

Starting point is 00:30:07 that kind of knew early on, you know, what did I wanted to do? But I'm also one of those people that when things change and shift, I make the change, and the shift that I make is one to suit me a little better. Like I said, I worked for corporate gyms and I worked for myself.

Starting point is 00:30:23 So 24 years old, create your own job. Whatever you are, whatever you do like, you can create a business out of it, especially with social media. You don't need millions of followers to do this. You just need thousands. You need to provide good content, good value. Taylor, the guy that runs our social media and our YouTube, he had

Starting point is 00:30:46 a six-figure business when he was, I think he was 1920, and he was brokering 10 issue sales and selling apparel to people who were in that world. I mean, he completely created his own job and he loved it. And then when he stopped liking it, he stopped doing it. Manifest destiny. I mean, if you're unhappy, and this is something that, you know, I'm always hyper critical of my state of mind

Starting point is 00:31:16 while I'm doing things. Like, and I'm not much for like woo-woo or like, you know, energy or whatever you're putting out or like the secret or anything like that. But at the same time, like there's something to your attitude going into work or certain activities or different things that you feel are like super hard and challenging for you. If you go in and you start really working just on your attitude, that's when things start to kind of open up and make sense.

Starting point is 00:31:45 So somebody may pick up on this positivity, this energy that may present another opportunity that actually might be the job he always wanted. But like if you're not projecting yourself in a way that's attractive to whatever that job may be that you really want, that's going to be a really hard thing to overcome. It's just going to keep repeating itself because the attitude is everything. It's what you have to start with. I looked at her profile just now and literally at this age, I had a girlfriend that was 24 and I was 28 at the time.

Starting point is 00:32:22 I remember during that, we were together for a little over a year. And I remember that year and a half, almost two years time, that she had like three or four jobs. And I remember her writing a per resume for this new job that they were offering her more money than the current one she was at. And I remember asking her, why are you leaving this job?

Starting point is 00:32:41 And she's like, what do you mean? They're offering me at least a dollar, $50 to $2 more an hour for this job. And I'm like, well, yeah, but what about, see, I said, what about the people that are, look at this resume, like the way I would look at this resume, because if you drop this resume in front of me, I wouldn't hire you.

Starting point is 00:32:56 And she's like, what do you mean? I'm like, well, you've got like a time span. You've got like six to eight jobs that you, different jobs, you think you're building a resume, but having this, none of them you've stayed for longer than a year. So what that says to me is as an employer, like I go, how do what makes me think she's going to be loyal to me and stay working for me for longer than a year? There's no way I'm going to hire this person. I don't care if she's got this experience, this experience, that experience, it shows to me that she can't

Starting point is 00:33:20 stay loyal to anybody. And when things get tough, she probably bounces. And so, you know, if you're finding this where you're bouncing from job to job, you know, this is a great time to have self-reflection and go like, okay, what is it in my day to day that I'm hating, why I'm hating or I don't like this job so much that I need to leave? And then addressing that and working on it. You know, there was, there was no job I ever did that was perfect and easy and just what I love to do. But, you know, I found what I liked about all of them. They're stepping stones, right? Right. And then when you come across the challenges, because that's inevitable, that's going

Starting point is 00:33:56 to happen. It happens to all of us. And you get angry or you get frustrated or you want to be there instead of doing what most people do within those situations, blaming the boss, blaming the employee you're working with, blaming the customers, how about stopping right there, reflecting on why does this make me feel that way? Why do I not like this job? Why do I hate this person? Why do I hate working for them and look deep inside yourself and ask yourself what makes you feel that way and then try and reflect and ask yourself what makes you feel that way, and then try and reflect and crawl on that.

Starting point is 00:34:27 And just consider there's so many opportunities that present themselves in situations that you would never expect. You know, I made years ago, I had a member that approached me who had this idea, this business idea, and it was multi-level marketing, and I knew it was. But I said to myself, he's a member, I want to show up, I already told my word, but I knew

Starting point is 00:34:54 it was going to be bullshit. We sat down and we talked about that, and it was multi-level marketing. It wasn't something that I was interested in, but I showed up and I had great conversation with this person. I made a good contact. Years later, this person had becoming very valuable to me in my business as somebody who would refer me clients and customers. You don't know what kind of opportunities you're going to be presented, working for these different jobs and these different bosses with these different employees.

Starting point is 00:35:22 So in these jobs, even if you are thinking yourself, I wanna leave, I need to find another job, always be awesome. Like, never represent yourself in a way that is less than your best, because showing your best and being your best on working hard opens up so many doors and opportunities more than we can calculate right now, more than we can figure right now.

Starting point is 00:35:44 Because like I said, opportunities present themselves in very strange ways. I've made many business deals, and I've had many awesome things happen out of situations that I would have never expected, out of meetings that I didn't want to go to, because I thought it was the waste of time. Every job I've had that.

Starting point is 00:36:01 Every job, every business, everything I've tried to be involved in has led to something else or the potential to something else because of that. You couldn't be more right with that statement that if, and this is Fred Factor gets into that. So that's why this is such a great book to read. When you put your heart and soul into everything that you do and you take pride in it like that, you know, you never know.

Starting point is 00:36:25 I have no idea what this person does, but let's just say 24 years old, you've got maybe a Starbucks job. I'm sure a lot of 24-year-olds work at Starbucks, so we'll just use as an example. You do your job just like everybody else does. You say the thing they tell you to say when people come up, you take the order in, you do what you're supposed to do just to get by and stuff like that. And you don't really make a mark. But then let's pretend you're that kid

Starting point is 00:36:49 or that person that works there that does go above and beyond all the time. And you're the person that these customers they come in, they just, they love to see your face because you always say something different or make them smile or make them laugh. And you become this memorable person. And then guess what, One day, you know, this multi-millionaire walks in who owns six different

Starting point is 00:37:10 companies and just happens to be looking for a position for somebody like maybe his right-hand girl assistant or whatever. And you just, he, there's something about you, your presence, that he's drawn to and says, hey, you, hey, did you always want to work here? Would you be open to something else? And he drops you as card and he walks away and now you're set up with some. You never know. You never know, there's so many.

Starting point is 00:37:33 I've been, I don't know how many times that's happened to me. Me too. Where somebody has seen, I mean, I could go back and those that have been. I've been in proposition for other jobs and careers so many times because just the way I interact with people when they would come to my gym.

Starting point is 00:37:49 Members, I can't tell you, I mean, it would be pretty radially where a member would come up to me and be like, hey, would you like to work here, would you like to, and that's how I found half my staff by the way. Within careers. Same way, that have nothing to do with what you do. That's it, right?

Starting point is 00:38:05 Like, I mean, most all those propositions I've had have been a feel that I'd know nothing about, but it's the character they see. Really good leaders can find and see character like this. Dude, half my staff, I would, I got that way. I look for this all the time. I mean mean look at the people that are working with us now Right as we start to bring people on board with mind pump. These are people that I've probably known for a really long time or Connected through me through somebody else and the reason why we've brought them into our circle

Starting point is 00:38:38 It has nothing to do with oh, maybe they're the best at doing this one skill set that we need. It's their character Right, it's it's their attitude. It's their character, right? It's their attitude, it's their vision, it's who they are as a person. I believe once they understand what we're trying to accomplish, they'll figure out a way to apply that and help. And I think most really good leaders see this in people. And so you most certainly got to find a way to change your attitude towards the jobs. Eventually, the career or the thing you do for the rest of your life will come.

Starting point is 00:39:07 And let's be honest, most of us feel like we're probably just now finding that and we're approaching our fort. So don't trip out. You're only 24. Yeah, you'll get there. Next up is sack.e who plays collegiate rugby and wants tips on how to become faster and more explosive. Sounds like a great candidate for maps,

Starting point is 00:39:26 proof formats. You know why I like this question or why I picked it? Because I want to address getting faster and being more explosive for a sport in the sense that the times, yeah, and the times you train to become faster and more explosive are not when you're in the peak of your season. So I want to be clear with that.

Starting point is 00:39:47 When you're training to improve upon your power, your strength and your speed, the time to do that is before the season. That's why you have enough season. That's why you have enough season. It's not because you're taking a break and relaxing necessarily. It's because you're trying to improve upon the foundations of your performance, which are strength, speed, agility, power, endurance, or stamina. You want to build those as much as you can in the preseason, then in the season, your

Starting point is 00:40:19 job with your training really is just to kind of maintain and prevent injury. It's not a good idea to train hard to improve while you're in the peak of your season because it's kind of a recipe for injury. I mean, it's just too much. It's kind of productive. It is. So, like, for example, the way we programmed a map's performance, which is definitely ideal for athletes, the way we set up the phases is so that you have four phases leading up to a season.

Starting point is 00:40:50 And then right when the season starts, you're at peak performance. You've already done the strength, you've already done the training for... It was very thought out as far as the progression of which adaptation would fit best in conjunction and go in specific order. And that is definitely why we put endurance at the very end of it because, you know, the body can really respond and adapt fairly quickly

Starting point is 00:41:14 to that adaptation. And so we wanted to make sure that that fit in nicely, like right going into, like say you're going into your double days, you're going into, you know, practice with the team and you want to be at your ultimate conditioning. But yeah, like Sal said, working on that raw strength, that ability to, you know, on command, you know, drive weight off the ground or drive your legs hard into the ground. These are things that you definitely need to build upon, but it's going to work in this ladder fashion where we're going to go into that and then we're going to go into the next phase. We're working a little bit more on our proprioception.

Starting point is 00:41:59 We're working on our movement patterns and making sure that the body and the joints can respond appropriately when you make those hard cuts. The other thing, too, I see a lot when athletes talk about getting faster and more explosive, is that they focus on complex movements and techniques and forget that the foundation for all these pursuits, all of these physical pursuits is strength. So what I mean by that is if you build just good solid strength while maintaining your skills training,

Starting point is 00:42:36 because you don't want to lose your skills or your connection to your body or the field or that stuff, if you build just regular strength, you're gonna get a lot faster, and you're gonna get a lot more explosive. So the first thing I ever recommend to an athlete who's asking me this question is I say, just get stronger in your core foundational movement. Let's literally break down and share the each phase

Starting point is 00:43:03 and how many weeks and how we program green. So people understand that. I mean, we start off with raw strength in maps performance and it's, we're there for three weeks. That's your maximal kind of graining strength. Right. So you train that first. So for three weeks, you're heavily focused on strength, which is your low rep range,

Starting point is 00:43:23 heavy weight. In the tempo with that, we're a little more in the eccentric part with the explosive come up off the ground. So it is that like a maximal try like force output. Well, then we move over to reactive strength, which is phase two. Phase two are there for three weeks also. And then from reactive strength, we move over to explosive strength. Yeah, speed power.

Starting point is 00:43:45 And that's three, three weeks also. And then we finish up with strength durability or what we would call so endurance. So that's what we were saying before you head into it. So that's what the entire layout looks like. So it's a total of what, 369 to 11 weeks, is that what it is? Right. 11 total weeks leading up to your season. And literally if you followed that kind of formula of every three, three weeks, is that what it is? 11 total weeks leading up to your season. And literally if you followed that kind of formula of every three weeks you're facing into a new adaptation

Starting point is 00:44:11 towards performing better and then leading up to your... That's the order, that's exactly the order. You want to become faster and more explosive. That's the order you should train. You're slow grinding, you know, base strength, then your reactive strength, which is more about proprioceptive ability, because now we wanna make it so that you have it be more, little more functional,

Starting point is 00:44:30 and then to your power type training. The durability training is more towards just giving you stamina, but really the first three phases, like what Adam was talking about, that's the order that you wanna train, and you should spend at least two to four weeks in each phase leading up to the explosive training phase, which is also, if you're, if you're, if you're

Starting point is 00:44:49 extra training for explosive power and you're doing things like plios, it's very specific. Yeah. The goal is not fatigue, the goal is not to burn yourself out. The goal is literally to be able to explode as hard as possible. And so that's the way you want to treat your plio training. Get as close to instantaneous response as possible. And so that's the way you want to treat your plyo training. Get as close to instantaneous response as possible. And what's really cool about it is, you know, as you go through like raw strength,

Starting point is 00:45:11 you really can see how now just having more strength and stability by, you know, doing these types of lifts that that pace will go into now. Okay, I'm taking my time, but now I'm moving in more multi-planar fashion, which is very important because in a game setting, you're not going to be in this nice, comfortable sagittal plane. You're going to be all over the place. And your joints have to have that strength and respond appropriately further out, which mobility was the other part to that

Starting point is 00:45:40 that really enforces the fact that you are capable of going a little bit further with your joints. You just have to make sure you are secure in that. You have the ability to some instinct to overcome the force. Well, on that note, which is important, I should say, as I was laying out the layout in the format of maps performance is also on your off days of training for these adaptations, you're focused on what are called mobility days, right? So there's specific movements in there to improve upon your mobility

Starting point is 00:46:11 while you're still training for your sport or whatever it is that we're leading up to. So that's what it looks like on your other days. So instead of trigger sessions or focus sessions, if we do in the other programs, performance is heavily focused on the mobility for the reasons that Justin's talking about. And that begs this question, does working on mobility make me faster and more explosive?

Starting point is 00:46:29 Yes. Yes. Absolutely, because many times, it's very foundational. Yeah, many times, the limiting factor with an athlete in terms of their speed and explosiveness is a lack of mobility or a lack of stability because the body comes with its own rev limiter, if you will. When you're lifting a weight, a maximal weight, or when you're exploding or taking off as quickly as you can, your body has these natural checks and balances that prevent you from

Starting point is 00:46:59 exerting maximal force because it's protecting you from injury. Now the more training you go through, the more experience you have, the more you're able to reach a limit of, or reach your limit of maximal exertion, which is part of the reason why you get so much stronger and better just by practicing the skill. But mobility helps with that, because mobility has, it's everything, right? It's stability. It's being able to move a joint through a large range of motion,

Starting point is 00:47:28 but have control in that entire range of motion. It's moving in all these different planes and having control. So if now you're super stable and mobile in all these different ranges of motion, when you go to make a movement or explode or cut to the left or to the right or jump, that limiter that you have on your body,

Starting point is 00:47:44 it opens up a bit. It opens up because you're stable and your body senses this, so now it's boom. You feel like you can move with more speed. And that, yeah, your body doesn't want to injure itself, right? So you have to teach it that it's going to be okay. And like the more you teach it, that it's going to be okay

Starting point is 00:47:58 with these types of explosive movements, you know, the better your performance gets, the more output you get with that movement. So it definitely is a repetition thing that you have to apply. That's right, so mobility, big, big important factor. Next question is from MGRDO31. How do you guys pick the books you read?

Starting point is 00:48:20 Yeah, Adam. I have a couple different ways that I do that. That's a good question I would like to know from you. Yeah. There's a couple different ways that I do that. That's a good question. I would like to know for me. There's a couple, well, it depends when. So, yeah, I know, there's a, like I said, there's several different ways. One of the ways I used to read was I'd go, I'd read two books that I, it's about something that I wanted to learn, and then I'd read one that was like, purely for entertainment for me. So I used to read a lot of biographies and stuff.

Starting point is 00:48:48 So I typically would read two books that was on topics or subjects that I wanted to learn more about, and then I would read one that was purely for, you know, entertainment reasons, or about somebody that I wanted to learn about. So that was kind of the formula I followed for quite some time. This past year,

Starting point is 00:49:07 I said a goal at the beginning of the year just to make sure that I knocked out one book a month, which I don't think is too much a stretch, and I know some people that read, wait, a fucking bin, what has been read five a week or something? It makes me feel like a chump when he does that. But, you know, so some people read a lot faster than I do, so you could knock out more. But I know that what I tend to do is I used to, in the past, I'd go in these spurts, where it's like if I'm traveling and vacation, I'm flying a lot, I'm reading a lot,

Starting point is 00:49:31 then I'm busy, then I'll also nice stop reading. And then I would go in these peaks and valleys. And one of the things that I wanted to establish this year was just consistency with reading, because I noticed that it creates better content for me on posts and stuff I put out, better content for what we talk about on the show. And so this year was more about consistency with me with reading. And so that's why I set out the goal that I want to knock out a book

Starting point is 00:49:55 a month. And right now, the way I typically choose books, it is. It's along the lines of things that I'm interested in. I don't read a lot of fitness stuff, which I think a lot of people think that we would. Like right now, I'm reading a couple books right now. I'm reading Subliminal right now. I'm reading.com secrets right now, and I'm reading blue waters. Particularly, I'm typically reading two or three books. One book, I'm reading by myself. One book, I'm normally reading with

Starting point is 00:50:25 Katrina or listen to an audible and then I normally have a book that I'm listening to to and from work. So, you know, dotcom secrets is internet marketing. Subliminal is about unconscious and conscious neuroscience and then blue ocean strategy is business, right? So, you know, those are kind of the topics that I like to learn about. I've actually read a lot of books this year that were referred to me. What other my favorite things about sharing when I'm reading is I get an audience of people

Starting point is 00:50:58 that will inbox me and be like, oh, if you like that, you should read this at them. And so I've read quite a few books this year that were purely recommendations from other people based off of what they've seen that I'm reading. And I know people too that know that I love to challenge one way, so I'll read a books with opposing.

Starting point is 00:51:17 So I already have the book lined up for after Blue Ocean Strategy, and it's called Red, something I forgot what it's called, but it's basically the opposite theory. It's like the opposite theory, right? It's the opposite theory of so that way I can get two perspectives, right? This whole book is because anyone silly to think that there's not going to be a biased in every book that you read. It's written by a human, right?

Starting point is 00:51:38 And we all have bias. You know, we all have political sides to us. We all have personal views, religious views, whatever. And so anything is going to have some sort of bias. And because of that, I love, and I really, this is a page that I've Paul check. I mean, I aspire to be like this one day where my library looks like his, where if somebody came in, you just trip out on how different his reading's on the counter. The counter, both the counter. Yes, on the counter. Yeah, I mean, you just have like the vegan miracle

Starting point is 00:52:09 and then like paleo solution and you know, all like right next to you. And all different religions and practices and ideologies that are conflicting of each, I just love that. And I think that I think everybody should kind of take a page on it. Well, rounded. Especially when we've talked about this on the show

Starting point is 00:52:24 before, I think real quick, you can get a lot of confirmation bias because if you tend to, oh, read this book and then what do they do? If you read this book, you should read this book too. Oh, if you read that book, you should read this book too. And guess what, they're all saying the same goddamn message and saying in different words. It's like, you know, instead of that,

Starting point is 00:52:39 actually, once you read the book, that is completely counter-refute to. Yeah, right, that refutes that and then actually and then gather your knowledge like that. So, I like to read like that. I like to challenge my own way of thinking and philosophies, and those are kind of the subjects I like. I like psychology too, so I know I picked up a book the other day

Starting point is 00:53:00 that was not, I don't remember the title of it, but I just wanted the book story the other day, and I'll just grab a bunch of topics I like. I really, really, really love books. However, I don't read a lot of them, believe it or not, I don't read a lot of actual books. The way I read is I read articles, I read studies, I read magazines, I read, you know, I belong to forum groups that, you know, some of them are economic, some of them are science, some of them are nutrition, some of them are political, you know, whatever, you know, some of them entrepreneur,

Starting point is 00:53:37 and then people on there will post interesting articles or studies or, or discussions, and that's where I'd consume 99% of the information that I consume. I will say this though, I go through spurts where I'll pick up a book and read a book, and when I do that, I tend to read a whole bunch in a real short period of time. I'll have a one month period where I really want to read books, and I haven't had one in a real short period of time. Like, I'll have like a one month period where I really wanna read books and I haven't had one in a couple of years,

Starting point is 00:54:07 but when this happens, I'll read, you know, in a month I can read as many as 10 books all at once. So it hasn't happened, like I said for a few years, we'll see what happens. The other thing that happens to me is I'll read a book and once I feel like I got the idea, I stop reading the book.

Starting point is 00:54:23 I, do you know how many books I've read halfway through? I've heard halfway through? I've done that a lot. Yeah, I do that a lot. Once I feel like the book. I have a 50-page rule. Really? I got to read the first 50-page rule. Yeah, I have a 50-page rule. I give every book at least 50-page. Well, I mean, if it's, no, not always. It's if I I'll give every book no matter how slow of a start is at least 50 pages. And if I feel like I already know where it's going, like, okay, I'll give you an example. Although I did finish it because Kishirin and I were going together. The alchemist. I read that book so late, like everyone who's been telling me to read that book for like 10 years or whatever, and I was just like, I never got to it.

Starting point is 00:54:59 Yeah, Courtney just read that. I finally read it, and people just love that book. And I think so many people, I was like, oh, well, I've heard this message told a million different ways in a million other books that I've read already. So even though I listened to the whole thing because Katrina was enjoying it, I was like, I was telling her like,

Starting point is 00:55:14 oh, okay, this is what's gonna happen. He's gonna do this and this is this and this is the moral of the story and this is why I was like, so I get books like that too, where I'll read a book. And because I feel like I can, I already get the message it's trying to give,

Starting point is 00:55:26 and it's like, why should I, why don't I read the rest of it? I'd rather read something that's gonna be like, oh shit. Well, once I feel like I get the message, and then I feel like they start repeating themselves, or trying to make different cases for it, then I'm the last book that I read that was really, a full book that was really compelling,

Starting point is 00:55:42 that was different in the earth for you. I'm sorry? New earth. No, no, well, a new earth was really compelling that was different in the new earth for you. I'm sorry new earth No, no, oh well a new earth was really good. That was definitely fantastic. I heard you talk about that more than yeah I know. No, that was a fantastic book Then before that the one I was just thinking right now was many lives many masters Which is a very interesting book my sister loved that one did she very interesting book. I just really love that one. Did she? Very interesting book. It got me to think of things a little differently.

Starting point is 00:56:09 Around this time, this is when I was, my family's Catholic, I was raised Catholic, then I became atheist, pretty hardcore. This book got me to kind of where I'm at now, where I'm more of an agnostic, you know, kind of. I don't believe there's nothing, but I also don't believe in one particular thing. And very, very interesting book, Good Read, Fascinating.

Starting point is 00:56:30 But other than that, man, it's just fucking, I just read articles. It's funny too, because people think I read books all the time. Well, you know why? Because, and this just happened to us this morning. You were talking about a study, and I'm reading it in a book that I'm reading right now And you've already read the study and probably just by itself PubMed or is it in an article because that's how you read and You were familiar with what I was trying to explain that the book gave a whole chapter

Starting point is 00:56:57 Around me understanding it and then explain it and then talking about the study where you're somebody who goes directly to the source a lot Like much much of the books that are that, at least all of us, are into are based off a lot of these science, especially when we're talking about neuroscience consciousness, like that, which you're very much so into. You've already read all the studies for it. You get the premise, like so I'm going to spend the next couple weeks reading this book that you grasp already because you've already read the study. So everybody gets, I think everybody gets information

Starting point is 00:57:27 and give you different ways. Yeah, I mean, I tended cereal boxes for you, right? Serial and usually, yeah, like Dr. Susan and Marvel comics. Hey, bro, do not knock on fucking Dr. Susan because I still stand. I still read it to my kids all the time. He's in my opinion, he's the greatest philosopher.

Starting point is 00:57:43 I love it. I'm not knocking that. I will fight that In my opinion, he's the greatest philosopher. I love it. I'm not knocking that. I will fight that all day long. He's the greatest philosopher all time. Yeah, like a lot of my clients tend to recommend books. And so that's usually where I tend to get my ideas for them for the most part, because they're all just like killing it in business

Starting point is 00:57:59 and life and I'm always very receptive to any kind of advice. Like this is gonna be a great read for you right now because where you are in life, like for instance, reinventing yourself is one that I've been reading quite a bit and it's just like, and it's not that I've been going through like a hard year or anything, but it's been challenging at times for like new ventures and different things and how things are, are, you know, they there unavailable, how things aren't there

Starting point is 00:58:26 and available and what other really massively successful entrepreneurs have done in those situations. And they highlight a lot of different stories in there from it's encouraging. It's like, you could try some idea over here and fucking flat on your face, but they've done it a million times. You know, like a lot of the most successful people

Starting point is 00:58:48 have done this repeatedly. And it's just stuff like that, like it comes up. You know, for me, it's situational. Like if it's something like, I'm trying to learn something very specific or I'm like getting really into tech, like I read a lot of tech journals. I'll read like a tech book that's very just like

Starting point is 00:59:04 manual driven. Here's how this works. I try to learn, okay, well, what's the science behind making an app? What are they trying to configure? What's in this wireframe? Why do they structure it this way? That's the kind of stuff I'm like, okay, if I'm into this, I'm really into this. If we're going in this direction,

Starting point is 00:59:25 I wanna know the behind the scenes kind of stuff that they're engineering, you know, hiding things. Do you guys read a lot of fiction ever? Do you ever read fiction? I used to, I haven't in a long time. I used to be science fiction a lot. So there's no fiction book that you can remember that you read.

Starting point is 00:59:40 Not since fucking high school. Really? I won't either, you won't get me to. Really? Because for many years, I didn't even like to read, not since fucking high school. Really? Not since I won't either, you won't get me too. Really? Because for many years, I didn't even like to read, being completely transparent. Just, I was that person who once school ended, and I was working, I was making money.

Starting point is 00:59:55 You know, me, I was like, the small brain, me, right? 20 years old or whatever, it's just like, I'm done, I don't need to read anymore, I've got my job, I love what I'm doing. Sure, I'm reading certifications and getting more knowledge in my field, but outside of that, not at all. And then I made that transition to 25.

Starting point is 01:00:10 It's interesting, because I, same thing here, same here, I don't, I'm not pulled to fiction, however, I have definitely read fiction and fiction provides different quality. It's, it's reading for leisure, but it's really, it's expansive. It is. It really helps you to stretch a bit with your thought process. I've recalled reading fiction and improving my creativity and my thought process indirectly

Starting point is 01:00:38 almost because you get lost in the book, you know, while you're kind of in there and reading and reading these stories. So I haven't done it,. I don't do it very often. I think the last fiction trying to think what I read, uh, Da Vinci code. That's fiction. Oh, that's cool. That was a book that was like that series. Yeah, dude, I, you can't get me to do it, dude. I just, a couple of times I've like dabbled in it, tried it. I'm like, no, it's not for me. So it's not. I feel like I'm gonna read. I just ordered 1984. You know, yes. Now that's that's fiction. Yeah. But that's got. I know. And lots of parallels. I know a lot about it. Yeah. Well, isn't Taylor's reading player one, isn't he? That looks that that didn't treat me a little bit because

Starting point is 01:01:17 that's kind of. So yeah, sci-fi I could see myself like certain sci-fi because that would try to pause with that follow that category would go under there because I feel like it's fiction but then it could be a reality you know if we keep heading this direction so that side and I get where you're going with the creativity thing. It's harder to make time for that right because if you're reading like oh this is about business or oh this is about you know this thing I'm gonna learn versus I'm gonna spend more in, and now we're just relaxing. I mean, for the most part, for any available time I have now is like my commute's very long,

Starting point is 01:01:51 so I tend to stick more with podcasts or like, if I get into audio books, which I've been meaning to really dive deeper into that, but I've been so compelled by people's conversations, like I really get into it. Well, that's a new, I mean, if you talk to me, formful, it is, if you talk to me, it's a new form for me. It is, if you talk to a lot of millennials,

Starting point is 01:02:07 this is how they learn. This is exactly how they learn. And that's podcasting. Podcasting is become a huge platform for education, which is, again, part of our secret sauce is that we try and entertain and inform at the same time, right? It's not just purely information so you get bored to fucking death, listening to somebody.

Starting point is 01:02:25 But then also you get little nuggets of good information. I want to leave this question with some advice for people who are listening, you know, young trainers or whatever, or people who are not ever, that's right. Yeah, it doesn't even matter. Follow your, when it comes to reading, follow your passion. Feed your passion, because that's going to lead you

Starting point is 01:02:43 to learn lots of amazing information. So whatever's feeding your brain, seek it out and it doesn't matter if it's articles, it doesn't matter if it's creative advice. You know, magazines or if it's books or podcasts, like feed that passion. Feed the beast.

Starting point is 01:02:59 And it'll grow and expand and you'll... No, that's such a great advice because that goes back to what I was just saying. I don't like to read the fiction because it's just, I'm not feeding you. Yeah, I got don't force something that you're not into. Just because someone's telling you you should learn more about this. If you're not into it, don't you know, it goes back to that great advice. I got when I was younger.

Starting point is 01:03:19 Just stop looking at the things you're not good at. Focus on what you're already good at. Be great at it. Become a master at the things you're not good at, focus on what you're already good at, be great at it, become a master at the things that you love. And so the books that I read are in the similar world that I love to learn about, but then I try and challenge the philosophies behind each one of them, right?

Starting point is 01:03:34 I think that's a cool way to go. Next question is from Rosie Rell. What are the effects of muscle growth when cannabis is used right after a workout? Is it because are they thinking because the anti-inflammatory is used right after a workout. Is it because, are they thinking because the anti-inflammatory is that right? I think maybe or I think a lot of people like to smoke weed

Starting point is 01:03:51 after a hard workout, you know what I mean? It's kind of, you know, you're amped up, you're in the gym, maybe you had a pre workout, maybe you had coffee. You ham yourself, then you blaze, then you smoke a little cannabis, then you eat the munchies and you have your post-workout meal. I mean, it sounds like, it sounds like a very familiar recipe

Starting point is 01:04:08 that I know a lot of people in the muscle building world follow. Here's the thing about cannabis and muscle growth, okay? The jury is still out in terms of how cannabis affects muscle protein synthesis and the like. But we do have some clues. And some of these stuff I'm going to say you might not like to hear. THC in particular, at least initially, has a negative effect on testosterone production. In animals, it's pretty predictable that you're going to reduce testosterone by a little

Starting point is 01:04:44 like a 5 or 10%. In humans, this studies are murky. Regular users show no difference in testosterone. Short-term users show a drop. So perhaps what's happening is initially you get a little drop and then afterwards the body balances itself out. So there's that. It affects hormones like insulin. So here's some good news.

Starting point is 01:05:07 Canabinoids in cannabis have been shown to improve insulin sensitivity and it's mediated through the liver. So this may be a good thing when you're trying to eat your carbs post workout and you want to improve insulin sensitivity to get more of those carbohydrates to where you want them to go. And also to reduce potential fat gain from being insulin insensitive or having insulin issues with your body responding to insulin.

Starting point is 01:05:38 Then there's the anti-inflammatory effects. Cannabis or cannabinoids have a mild, very, very mild, acute anti-inflammatory effect. This is also negated when you smoke it, right? Because you're going to get pro-inflammatory if you smoke it. Smoke is the worst way to administer cannabis. But it's what the way most people are, right? So I think you have to address that, right? If you're using cannabis for anti-inflammatory properties,

Starting point is 01:06:07 you're probably just, it's a wash because you're smoking. As far as the inflammation is concerned, you're still better off, even if you smoke it, but for the anti-cancer effects, for sure. Now you're at baseline. Yeah, for sure. But in terms of inflammation, there's an acute anti-inflammatory response from cannabis

Starting point is 01:06:27 or from cannabinoids, but it's super mild. In other words, if you never have cannabis and then you have it, you'll get a little bit of an anti-inflammatory effect. Now the real anti-inflammatory effects are long term. The low exposure, low but frequent exposure to cannabinoids has this kind of systemic anti-inflammatory effect in the body, which in some cases may be a good thing. Do I think it's going to be pro muscle building? No. I think we're lucky if it gives you no effects to muscle growth. You're probably not helping yourself by having cannabis postwork out.

Starting point is 01:07:07 I don't think it's... There's definitely something going on hormonally from cannabis because, and I think I've shared this before in the podcast, I know I definitely have talked to you about this always. If I increase my intake, and I'm already not somebody who, I don't consider myself like a heavy cannabis user, I literally like, you know, maybe consistently take two puffs off of a joint at nighttime. And increased cannabis intake for me would be anything more than that. And so I've had times where I've increased that to double or triple the amount in a day.

Starting point is 01:07:41 And I actually get a my guy on a stya. We'll flare up. Oh, you'll get a my guy no matcha will flare up. Oh, you'll get a little bit. So, for sure, something's going on with my testosterone or estrogen levels for that to get flared up. And I remember that it took me a while before I kind of pieced that together because I would get these weird kind of flare ups. And I'm like, this is weird.

Starting point is 01:07:59 I'm not doing anything different hormonally. I'm not changing my testosterone. I'm not taking anything else, what's going on. And then I kind of go like, you know, I am smoking more weed than I usually do. And I remember the first time I started doing research on it, I was like, oh shit. There's a lot of studies that they've showed

Starting point is 01:08:15 that there's shows that some correlation with that. And so it caused me to start to inspect it more with myself. And again, I know we're talking anecdotal here. It's myself, but I have definitely noticed it. So if you're a kid, teenage kid, or kid in your 20s, and you have a gynecomastia, which is breast tissue development or swelling at the nipple region, and you go to a endocrinologist, or endocrinologist.

Starting point is 01:08:44 I always say it wrong, Doug, it always corrects me. If you go see a hormone doctor, and they'll ask you all kinds of questions, and one of the questions they're gonna ask you is, are you a heavy user of cannabis? Because it has been linked to that in some studies, and there's lots of anecdote. It also affects ovulation in women. It can have adverse

Starting point is 01:09:08 effects on sperm production. So for sure something is happening hormonally. Something is something is. Dude, it attaches to one of the most, if not the most abundant G-protein coupled receptor in the body. Canabinary receptors are everywhere, but they're really concentrated in a few areas. Your brain, your liver, and your gut, and your testicles and your ovaries. So all your reproductive areas have tons of cannabino and receptors. So it's going to have some kind of effect on you. Is it going to, you know, I think the abuse of it probably will have a negative effect on a lot of different things,

Starting point is 01:09:47 but I don't think cannabis is one of those things that you should use and think it's going to help you, you know, build muscle. No, it's definitely not. I don't think there's any, I don't think you can make any case that it's going to help the cause. No. I think I could see a fat loss, potential fat loss benefit, but mainly from the strategic use of particular cannabinoids, because again, the insulin sensitizing effects. In fact, there's, I think in phase one or phase two trials, uh, we called that a long time ago. We called that when we did our marijuana episode, almost 500 episodes ago or whatever when we talked about the future of supplements and that we know making it, they're soon making

Starting point is 01:10:24 it. I'm sure they'll make CBD will be Yeah, they'll make it they'll make a fat loss supplement because you can you can make that to me if you're just a normal person that uses cannabis It's not in your best interest to go out of your way to use it more to try and get benefits for fat loss or building muscle In in my recommendation being another person who also uses cannabis I try and use it as judiciously as possible. I try and come off of it for a week or two every now and then, like, it's not something I'm trying to promote extra in my life. You know.

Starting point is 01:10:54 Remember this, your body produces its own cannabinoids, which are molecules that are very similar to the ones that are found in marijuana. This is why your body even reacts to cannabinoids from marijuana plant, is because you already have these receptors that are, that you evolve to have, that respond to your body's own production of cannabinoids, otherwise known as endocannabinoids. If you supplement with phytocannabinoids, that is cannabinoids from plants externally,

Starting point is 01:11:23 so now I'm eating or I'm smoking or I'm vaping tons of cannabinoids from plants externally. So now I'm eating or I'm smoking or I'm vaping tons of cannabinoids. It's perfectly within reason to think that there's going to be a feedback system in the body that's going to sense a higher amount of cannabinoids and is going to lower its own natural production of cannabinoids and or reduce the density of its own cannabinoid receptors.

Starting point is 01:11:48 In other words, having lots of cannabis causes your body to adapt in ways that may not be favorable because now you become more dependent because now if you go off of the cannabinoids, now you've got this lower amount of cannabinoids, but you've also got lower amounts of that your body is producing and a lower concentration of cannabinoids, but you've also got lower amounts of that your body's producing and a lower concentration of receptors. Now you may be in a bad situation where you can cause like an endocannabinoid deficiency syndrome or something like that in extreme cases which has been observed in some people. So it's definitely one of those things you can abuse. I know it's cool right now because it's becoming legalized and we talk about it all the

Starting point is 01:12:22 time and we joke around, but it's not something I think you should go out of way to use unless you have a medical reason for it, in which case it can be a miracle drug for some people. Right. I've seen, you know. I just think you gotta be careful. Like, I mean, it was like, it's like the keto craze right now too.

Starting point is 01:12:39 We talked about all the great benefits behind it and then what happens without everybody actually take everything to extreme. You're seeing that with cannabis. Yes, we're learning more and more about all of its benefits and how it can be a game changer and life changer. It doesn't, would not give you a reason to go and start to introduce it into your life for any of those reasons. Like unless you have, like you said, you have a medical condition that, okay, let's see if this helps. The rewards totally outweigh the risk.

Starting point is 01:13:06 Like if you have cancer, and you know that there's cannabinoids, that cannabinoids kill cancer in many studies, and you're trying to do everything you can to cure yourself. One of the things you might wanna do, or look into is high doses of edible cannabis throughout the day. Basically, you're gonna be stoned really bad all day long,

Starting point is 01:13:26 which if you didn't have cancer, wouldn't be really cool, right? Not a good idea. But in that context, it may be a total benefit. In fact, I have, and I'm not promoting cannabis for cancer killing, except before people come after me. But there's lots of anecdotes, lots of study.

Starting point is 01:13:44 My dad has a friend who's 75 lung cancer and did not basically like, you know, we're going to try, we can try chemo, but it's not going to, it doesn't look good for you. So he opted to not do it was given three months to live, went and watched the documentary, given three months to live, went and watched the documentary, the Rick Simpson story, I think it was, who is this Canadian man who was synthesizing this cannabis extracts and giving it to cancer patients and finding that a lot of them were being cured. So he went and watched this documentary because my dad recommended it to him because I told him about it. And the 75-year-old man went, God is in cannabis card, bought, highly concentrated cannabis oil,

Starting point is 01:14:27 had never had marijuana in his life, and gradually got himself to the point where he was taking a tremendous amount of this oil every single day, because you can build a tolerance. And that was two years ago, no cancer. And his oncologist was like, tripping out, and they were actually saying, you know, this is very interesting. So fascinating stuff, but yeah, other than that. Probably not the best for muscle growth. Yeah, probably not.

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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 621: Cannabis and Muscle Growth, How to Increase Speed & Explosiveness, Choosing Books to Read & MORE

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