Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 631: Caloric Undulation for Weight Loss & Gain, CrossFit and the Thickening of the Female Waist, Detrimental Effects of Weight Belts & MORE

Episode Date: November 3, 2017

Kimera-Quah! In this episode of Quah, sponsored by Kimera Koffee (kimerakoffee.com, code "mindpump" for 10% off), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about why the body want to become efficient and adapt, their  thoughts on using a belt to keep a small waist, why female CrossFit athletes have thick waists and calorie undulation for weight gain. Adam “pretty feet” Schafer (3:19) Humans are animals / Art of charm (7:25) Women dominate sales / Emotional intelligence (15:44) Quah question #1 – Why does the body want to become efficient and adapt? Why is the body’s goal to live longer? (27:10) Quah question #2 – What are your thoughts on using a weight belt to keep your waist small? (35:38) Quah question #3 – Why do female CrossFit athletes have thick waists? Does CrossFit ruin a woman’s physique? (47:59) Quah question #4 – In your new Intuitive Nutrition Guide, you guys talk about calorie undulation to lose weight. Can you use this for weight gain? (55:37) Related Links/Products Mentioned: The Top 12 Qualities Men Want in a Woman (article) Science of Sexy: 5 Things That Can Make You Irresistible (article) Mind Pump Ep 623 – Live from the Spartan Championship in Lake Tahoe with Josh Trent (podcast) Jobs dominated by women (article) Emotional Intelligence 2.0 - Travis Bradberry, Jean Greaves and Patrick M. Lencioni (book) What is the latest theory of why humans lost their body hair? Why are we the only hairless primate? (article) Vascular occlusion training Occlusion Training Guide - Mind Pump Media Intuitive Nutrition Guide - Mind Pump Media Kimera Koffee (official Mind Pump sponsor) Coupon Code "mindpump" Organifi (Official Mind Pump sponsor) Coupon Code "mindpump" for 20% off Mind Pump Ep 624 Organifi Quah (podcast) Excessive caloric intake acutely causes oxidative stress, GLUT4 carbonylation, and insulin resistance in healthy men (study) How to Undulate Your Calories for Faster Weight Loss & an Improved Metabolism (Mind Pump TV – YouTube) People Mentioned: Ben Greenfield (@bengreenfield)  Twitter Josh Trent (@trent_sd)  Instagram Jordan Harbinger (@TheArtofCharm)  Twitter Arya Saffaie IFBB Pro Olympian (@arya_saffaie)  Instagram 4x Mr. Olympia Physique Champ (@jeremy_buendia)  Instagram Would you like to be coached by Sal, Adam & Justin? You can get 30 days of virtual coaching from them for FREE at www.mindpumpmedia.com. Get our newest program, MAPS Prime Pro, which shows you how to self assess and correct muscle recruitment patterns that cause pain and impede performance and gains. Get it at www.mindpumpmedia.com! Get MAPS Prime, MAPS Anywhere, MAPS Anabolic, MAPS Performance, MAPS Aesthetic, the Butt Builder Blueprint, the Sexy Athlete Mod AND KB4A (The MAPS Super Bundle) packaged together at a substantial DISCOUNT at www.mindpumpmedia.com. Make EVERY workout better with MAPS Prime, the only pre-workout you need… it is now available at mindpumpmedia.com Have Sal, Adam & Justin personally train you via video instruction on our YouTube channel, Mind Pump TV. Be sure to Subscribe for updates. Also check out Thrive Market! Thrive Market makes purchasing organic, non-GMO affordable. With prices up to 50% off retail, Thrive Market blows away most conventional, non-organic foods. PLUS, they offer a NO RISK way to get started which includes: 1. One FREE month’s membership 2. $20 Off your first three purchases of $49 or more (That’s $60 off total!) 3. Free shipping on orders of $49 or more Get your Kimera Koffee at www.kimerakoffee.com, code "mindpump" for 10% off! Get Organifi, certified organic greens, protein, probiotics, etc at www.organifi.com Use the code “mindpump” for 20% off. Go to foursigmatic.com/mindpump and use the discount code “mindpump” for 15% off of your first order of health & energy boosting mushroom products. Add to the incredible brain enhancing effect of Kimera Koffee with www.brain.fm/mindpump 10 Free sessions! Music for the brain for incredible focus, sleep and naps! Also includes 20% if you purchase! Please subscribe, rate and review this show! Each week our favorite reviewers are announced on the show and sent Mind Pump T-shirts! Have questions for Mind Pump? Each Monday on Instagram (@mindpumpmedia) look for the QUAH post and input your question there. (Sal, Adam & Justin will answer as many questions as they can)

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You don't have that bad looking feet. No, they're not bad. They look better when they're French deputers. You would interweave with them, wouldn't you? No, he's got long toes like me. So he had to pick one guy. He would have built a one guy. He got it interweaved. If I had to pick one guy. One guy. He got

it. If I had to pick like enter or leave the toes. It's like the most intimate thing I've ever heard of. I almost feel like I'd rather touch tips. I know. I know. Can you imagine? Like, ah, you know what I'm saying? That's like like five minutes. It's like five minutes. I wouldn't even do that to someone else attracted to you. It's gross. You know what I mean? I know. I have the toes locked up. No, I know, it's just weird. It's just a horrible thought I had. You guys ever get into the toe sucking thing? No, me neither.

I never liked it. There's some dudes that are so into toes. I had a couple of girls try it. Nah, it's not my thing. It's just like the anal thing. I'm just never, don't stick any fingers in my butt. I'm not into it. Oh stick any fingers in my butt. Oh, you're butt.

Yeah. Yeah, it's what it does. That's more than invaders. I'm not big, don't suck my toes. That doesn't turn me on. No, not your toes. Yeah, don't twist my nipples. Oh, stop.

Oh, no. You're toes? I'm saying, that's fucking gross to you. I don't have any of my feet, bro. I meant some guys are into sucking girls toes. That you getting your toes. That's weird. You got your toes stuck on your toes? Yeah. I meant some guys are into sucking girls toes that you get in your That's weird you had no second your toes. Yeah. Oh, wait wait you had I had good look at feet, bro When they were all when they're all man. Thank you. You got the French tip on them

So I got what kind of girl wants to suck on a man's toes. You get good look at feet man. So that's that's like that's a girl That's weird Interesting girl, but you've never been I think it's just as weird when I stick your finger in your butt too. But you never wanted to see me. That's the truth. But it's much more popular or calm. It's more popular for a man. You want to suck on a girl's toe.

Maybe in your world you've had a lot of fingers up your butt. But I have to say that. It's one of those circuit you travel in there. I know. I wanted a time. There's a lot of, there's a, there's like a thing where men like women's feet and want to like, yeah, I know, it's a cycle of them. That's what I was talking about.

I mean, I like, I like women's feet. Like I, I think that's a, and I've, I've been with girls that have ugly feet. It's a turning off. It's a turn off when you have ugly feet. It's, it's more like feet to me are like a hygiene thing. So it's like, that's like skin, hair, feet, nails. Those all kind of go in the same categories me as far as like they're not turn on

as much as they could be turn off if you don't take care of. So it's like I don't, you don't have to have the most perfect skin for me to like it, but if you don't take care of your skin, like that bothers me. If you don't have the most perfect feet, but if you don't take care of your feet

then that's gross, right? It's kind of like that for me. It's like I'm not. The irony of it is for me. It's like, I got them not. The irony of it is, it's turned me away. The irony of it is that our feet are always covered. It's like way more clean than your hands. You know what I'm saying?

But you'll like hold your girls hand out. It was pretty swampy down there. Yeah, yeah, it's sweaty feet, bro. Socks on. Get layers of the candy. It can't be. No, I don't think so. That's just like a Ben Greenfield's feet.

Oh, dude. He looks like a hobbit. Yeah. His feet look functional, which is not necessarily good looking. It just means that they work anywhere. There's strong. Remember when we first met him?

He saw him and it's like those two things that stood out when I saw him. He's like, yeah, I was like, well, you don't like your, you got hooves. You're chimp-ish. In real war, you know, you can, no, his, I feel like if you can totally hang upside down, no, I feel like if you can, you can totally hang upside down.

Yeah, I feel like if he, like his hands don't match his body, like his hands belong, oh, they look like they're a 300 pound man. Yeah. No, they do. If you've ever shook the hand, if you ever shook the hand of a six foot seven, 300 pound guy. Yeah, like that hand, that's how Ben Greenfield's hand fills on his wire reframe. It just doesn't match. It doesn't match

So it's really fascinating his feet are the same way too his feet look like 300 pound man's big ass feet They're like hobbit like if you watch Lord of the Rings and you see their feet with the hair on the top and they're fucking like you can Good look like you can operate you tensils with them. You know what I'm saying? I was cuz I pay you to like let him feed you something With this flip what were you guys talking to Drew and I brought breakfast you guys were getting all into him right now Oh, no, we were joking with Drew. We were asking him about sex question. How many girls he's been with? Yeah, and he's a 19 I'm not gonna put him on both of them on blast. Oh, but he's a kid right?

He's only 19 years old and you know when you're a 19, I'm not gonna put him on both of them. I'm gonna blast off. But he's a kid, right? He's only 19 years old. And when you're a 19 year old guy in your buddies, especially if there's dudes that you look up to, ask you questions like that, you're gonna inflate it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he was definitely inflation. He's totally doing that. And he thinks we don't know, and I'm like, come on dude.

There's for sure, there's an actual mathematical equation for this. Divide it by three. No, divide by three, yeah, divide by three if it's a guy saying, for this divided by three it no divide by three Yeah, divide by three if it's a guy saying if it's a girl saying you multiply by three. Yeah, that's the that's the equation for girls We'll always lie. Oh, it's only been two six bitch Yeah, we already know we know that for sure and if it's a guy like oh, yeah, it's like 15 Oh, yeah, probably five. Yeah, let's be like have a suit it happened

Did that, did they count days? Yeah, right. Does it count if they're all the same time? Or is that once? If you went back to the other, you know, the first one. Isn't that funny that we live in a society that's like that?

Like why is it anything? Do we care about that? Right, that it, that one that we care about that too, that it's different for a man or a woman. It's kind of unfair. It's not, I think, I think it's because men judge, men judge woman. It's kind of unfair. It's not. I think it's because men judge. Men judge each other on a few different things. One thing we judge each other is on how much money

we earn, earning potential, your sexual proclivity. Yeah, you're sexual prowess, right? Like if women are really attracted to them, that means you're like a guy, you're, you know, you got a high status, right? And then the other one is like physical, like how physically strong you are, physically dominant you are.

Those are the three big ones, I think men tend to kind of judge each other on, I guess. Not necessarily in a bad way, but definitely. Why do you think that is though? Why do I, why do I, it's all primal, dude? Yeah, I know, I know it is primal, but why, what's so advantageous about me knowing, like, is it because, is it like a hunt and kill thing?

It's like, I meet you, I meet Sal, right? We're thousands of years before. And like, I wanna know. So we're still animals, you know what I mean? Like, we forget there were animals. I wanna know how many women you sub with because to me that means you're a better hunter than maybe Justin.

It means, if I have a lot of women that I'm sleeping with and it's, you know, thousands of years goes and we're hunter-gatherers, it means that I probably have the resources to take care of and these children that I'm fathering and that these women are attracted to me because I have the resources on my power. Well, that makes a lot of sense

because that's a lot like that today. Yeah, thinking about that. People give some women that are what they, quote unquote, I'm using the air quotes here with the gold diggers, right? That come after guys that have tons of money and stuff, but it really makes sense why that's just a natural thing for them to do because he's got all the resources.

Of course, of course, it's funny that we get mad at that. Like we get mad, like, oh, she just after me for my money and then they can throw it right back to us and be like, well, you're just after her because she's hot. Yeah, it's like, well, they're both primitive instincts because she's hot. Yeah. Well, they're both primitive instincts. You know what I mean? They're both primitive desires. Right, right, if she's hot, that's normal.

That's a lot. She's probably fertile. Yeah. She can father my child or whatever. You know what I mean? It propagates the species. You're right, we're animals, Justin. That's what I'm saying.

It's just, we want to like, pretend like we're not. Yeah, we want to like create this whole facade that we're so above all that, nature and everything else. And it's like, no, you still have sex. Well, you know what's funny about that is, there's a few things that are, that men and women both find attractive in each other.

But then there's things that are not, that we don't rank the same, like sense of humor. Men, if they list the top five things that they find in a woman attractive, that they're really attracted to, Sensei humor usually doesn't crack the top five. Always does for women. For women, it's almost always.

It's actually a lot. That's one. Yeah, it's actually one. I feel it. It's status. It's status. If you're charming and funny and whatever, it meant you probably held a higher position in society,

which meant you probably were really confident. It's like a confidence thing or is it just an intellect thing? I think it's more of an intellect thing than that. Yeah, you have to be smart. Yeah, if you're funny, more than likely you're witty and you're smarter, so I would think it lines more with that, right? That would go back to being. It's funny because they've done studies on this and men tend to rank higher than women

in terms of, I don't know how they test this, by the way, so take this with a grain of salt, but men typically have a better or sharper sense of humor, but the studies conclude it's not because we're genetically better at it, it's because we understand an early age that girls value that, so we work on it, right? Because I remember as a boy, especially when you're young, before you, I have been funny was how you got there. I have vivid memories. And you guys have talked on this podcast before. I think you just recently talked about, you know, or where, who we

were with, who we just interviewed. It was a Josh Trent interview to us, that interview. He talked about, you know, watching my ability with a group of people I've never met before. And that was actually a trained skill that I remember being a kid coming to school, not knowing people. And it was like, I could have the choose to be jumping around like different schools. So I remember like having to like butt myself

into conversations and you easily could have just sat there, kept your mouth shut, never get noticed, and just be that guy. Or you picked on more. Right. If I interject myself, if I interject myself, I say something funny, I grab the attention of everybody and more often that means the women or the girls that are paying attention are listening to us that laugh and giggle and pay attention. Just because that's one way right away to get street cred with a young boy, all the other young boys is, I say something funny. It doesn't matter if it's funny to you guys The girls laugh at the girls laugh you're killing right exactly like I'm on to something

That's how you get your stats and so funny subconsciously. Yeah, no subconsciously as a kid I 100% was putting that together every guy knows that right every guy knows that whether you're good at it or not Every guy knows if I can be funny If a guy knows that, whether you're good at it or not, every guy knows if I can be funny, that I'm gonna get attention from women, 100%. It is not those other way around for girls. Like if they're funny, it's great, it's a plus. I actually really enjoy it.

But it's not like this big thing that stands out to me. You know that Jordan Articharm, they teach this, right? So they teach, they teach like having this like, opener joke and everything is like your first introduction of people. So to icebreaker. So take it a step further, girl, when they've done studies on this, I love the subject, by the way, when they've done studies on this, they'll find that girls will instinctively laugh more to attract a guy. So if she's attracted to a guy or like louder, it's always a dead giveaway when a girl likes a guy when a guy says some stupid and the girl still snorting. And even so to take

that to take that a step further, this is how I could always tell to if another girl thought it was it was into me was because I know what's funny when I say yeah, when I say a stupid joke and I get her laughing. I'm like, oh, it's like game over, okay, I got you. It's like, I got you. It's already, that was a terrible one. You know, it's another giveaway that I read about. I was at joke in there. What's it called?

Like, was it preening when you're like fixing your hair or I start twirling like, yeah, like when it was so, this is, you know, they talk about this all the time. These are fast things. I know, it's interesting. If a woman's attracted to a is, you know, they talk about this all the time. These are fast things. I know, it's interesting. If a woman's attracted to a man, subconsciously she'll play with her hair or adjust herself as if she's trying to like, without knowing, trying to make herself look more attractive.

Yeah. So if a girl starts touching herself, playing with her hair while she's talking to you, that's a sign. Doesn't guarantee it, all right guys? It's not for sure. You're getting careful. I'm glad. it, all right guys? It's out of for sure. You gotta be careful. I'm glad.

I tested this. Because on the other side of that, on the flip side of it, men are almost always likely to think, or more likely to think a girl's into them. So we will always assume a girl likes them. Yeah, overly confident. Overly because you have to be, because you shut down so often.

Which is so true whenever you're with your buddies and you know what I mean? Well they have, I'll show you, I'll show you. I'll show you, I'll show you. Yeah, I'll show you. They talk about this with sales, right? This is why men tend to be better in sales. It's not because genetically we better,

we're better, it's that we're used to being told know our whole life. And overcoming, and taking rejection, it's not a big deal. It's like, you know, like I've been told this. That's the funniest they ever heard. It's so true though, it's like you've deal. It's like, you know, like I've been told this. That's the funniest they ever heard. It's so true though, it's like you've been told, no so many times your whole life, it's like,

and so it's a natural, sales becomes more natural from it's why men dominate sales. It's really is, not because we're technically better. We need to look at that statistic because I could have swore. Oh, I brought it before. Did you, because I could have swore, I could have swore that some of the women do better.

So here's, there's more men in sales. Yes, so here's the continuation of that. So there's more of us. Now, a woman who harnesses those skills will be better because of her empathy, because if she actually can take those skills, same skills that's the way. Communicate someone better.

Yes, connect on another level. Because women typically rank better in communication. I have met, are like, amazing. They are inside the head of the first day. I remember training trainers and training sales. And I would always say that, say, man, if I can get a girl that has my skill sets, she'll be 10 times better than I ever was

because you have this ability. People are, women just have this empathy about them that men just can't tap into it on the same level. Sure, we practice it. Sure. I try it. And there's individual, you know, of course, of course, we're talking about obviously everything we're saying is an overgeneralization right now. But it is and collectively as a whole of all the people that, you know, I've coached and trained in in sales. Yeah. Men dominate the amount, but with the women that actually put it all together end up being way more lethal.

Have you ever been like, have you ever met a saleswoman who sold you something? And then just after it's been like, because I always appreciate good sales people. I too come to mind right away. Melissa Fong and Monique Verella. Those two girls, both those girls worked for me. Both those I used to call many knees. And it was, I had tons of women and introduced her to Speedstack as well. I remember that name. She was like, no, no, no, no, no.

Going around the entire club closing. How big wish you give her a whole Speedstack? Yeah. She's a little 112 pound Asian girl. Oh, no. I was like, oh no, you got your Speedstack too. Oh, there we go. She was a killer. Her and Monique both, uh, they, they just got it. Like they got it. They weren't afraid of the

nose. They were both girls who had overcame kind of adversity, adversity and teasing early on. Both very super smart gone on to get their masters competitive sides to them. That one was a tennis player. The other one was a boxer. So both had athletic sides to him. So they had the perfect formula of like a, been through struggles, been told, no is a woman plenty of times, just like a lot of men have dealt with, really intelligent, pushed through school, both had competitive personalities. And that mix with me teaching them like sales and fitness.

Oh, they were just unbelievable. I also think sometimes there's a, there's an advantage to being in a field that's dominated by the opposite sex, but being good at it. So I'll give you an example, like if you're a man and you're a teacher, which is dominated by women, but you're a good teacher, you probably have an advantage because stand out. Stand out. Absolutely. And then vice versa, if you're a woman and you're in a male dominated field, but you're good, you stand out even more. Oh, it's like we talk about this in sports all the time.

Whenever you see the anomaly, we were just talking about this on the show the other day about the Spud Web and stuff like that. Those names go forever remembered. Now, Spud Web didn't break any real serious major records. It was about five, seven. Yeah, but exactly because of how small he is and in a league that you stand out like big time.

So I used to train, I trained a surgeon, she's a general surgeon, but she also did vascular surgery and all kinds of stuff. And she was like whenever I'd bring her name, because I trained a lot of surgeons. And one thing about surgeons, and I'm gonna be an over-generalization here, is that they all,

they tend to have the stereotype of being like, this God complex. Like, you know, I'm like whatever, like I can't do no wrong. And when I'd bring up other surgeon's names to these surgeons, they wouldn't usually comment too much. It wasn't like they were like, oh, he's a great guy. Great, you know, it's almost competitive and they never really said anything bad or anything. But when I brought her name up, every single,

because the rest of my surgeon clients were, were man, every single one of them was like, oh, she's a badass. She's like one of the best surgeons you'll ever find. She's awesome. And she was totally in the male dominated field. So she had, and she came up, you know, your time out in the 70s and 80s and 90s when it was very male dominated.

I think part of that is, is there, because they're facing adversity like that, it causes them to have to rise even more, right? So you can't, if you're in a male dominated sales field and you do well to be in the upper 10% or what, that's the whole thing. I think there's certain sales jobs that are dominated by females.

I think real estate might be one of them. If I'm not mistaken, real estate is one. I think there's more women that sell real estate than men do. Definitely it's a whole though, it's not. I mean, men there's more women that sell real estate than men do. Definitely as a whole though It's not I mean men there's more yeah because you became all the sales Yeah, it's still way dominated by by men and like I said when you see when you actually meet a woman that actually puts all that Together really well It's extremely impressive and I think she can she can sell better than a man because she has that empathy side that's built into her

That's because here's the thing what they say women, what empathy side, the men, the logical side, and I know I'm being fucking dumb. Yeah, sure. And fucking, there's somebody who's saying that stuff. So it's a story. Yeah, whatever. There's exceptions to rule, everything fuck off.

Right, so these are the, those, those two things. You're not being very empathetic. Yeah, typical male. I understand. Yeah. It's true. I'm trying. But logical thinking doesn't really really isn't that important in sales, right?

It's not that you can't use it in logic. It doesn't help. It's not. You're not going to sell something with logic. It just doesn't. Yeah. It doesn't. People buy things with emotion. No, exactly. That's why I put the is such a put more of a tool. So, me ask you this, Adam, because I can see you a decent salesperson. I've been, it's not bad. Have you, have you, remember Justin said, I wish Adam never said I'd go, you see what you're doing, bro? You see what you're doing, I'm joking.

We'll ask Larry about it. I'm so much air. Oh, we're gonna get into the opposite. I've been so much air in there. I can't wait to do that. No, but all joking aside, have you ever taken these personality tests that will rank or tell you the type of intelligence you have?

And it'll classify it as male or female. Have you ever done anything like that? I have emotional intelligence 2.0 has a test inside the book that I have. Did you test more female than male? You know what? That's a good question. I don't remember.

I do know that I have tons of feminine traits, for sure. 100%. I mean, think about it. I was raised by my mom. I was raised by my mom. I had women around me. The cousins that I did see were all women. So, I mean, I can braid hair.

I can do things that most guys couldn't do because I was put. So there's disadvantages of that. And then there's advantages. And it helped me in sales because I think I'm a very empathetic person. Because there's disadvantages of that and then there's advantages and it helped me in sales because I'm I think I'm a very empathetic person because there's certain there's certain tests that and I don't know if they're outdated But back when I did and there's one where it's just you have pictures of eyes So you don't see the rest of the face you don't see anything below the eyes or anything above the eyes

All you see is eyes and then you have to guess what emotion they're expressing. So anger, sadness, excitement, whatever, just on the eyes. Men typically do horribly at that test and women typically do well at that test. And that's like, there's a couple other tests, but that's one of the ones where they say they can determine pretty accurately more than other tests, I should say if you're a man or a woman, I fucking tested woman on that.

I remember I took that test, it's when I did the short stint, when I worked for Bank of America, they did these personality type tests on us, and they're like, oh, you have a lot of female type intelligence. Yeah, you know? That's, I mean, to me, that's social awareness, right? So, and I think you guys all have that really well. And to me, it's very obvious when I meet somebody

who doesn't have social awareness. And that's just that ability to be in a room with different types of personalities and likes and needs and conversations happening. Do you know anybody like that? That's like totally just fucking clueless. Oh, why are they so upset? We're totally offended them. I did.

We're around it all the time. What are my biggest pet peeves that we have or that I have? And 100% I know this is my own ego and insecurities that drives this pet peeve, is like when we get people in our space that do what we do, that spend more time telling us and giving us advice than actually asking questions,

it annoys me and inside. I don't let's show that, they don't know that, but inside I'm like, you idiot. Like you're in the same space as I am, you want to do what I'm doing. Meanwhile, you have a little window where we're conversing and you chose to spend that time telling me how I should do things. Or like just busting about what they're doing. Right, like how what an idiot you are.

Like and we've definitely had people before that's come in this facility that we've brought under our wing or spent time with and have been around us before and instead of taking advantage of that and asking questions. And of course, the part that makes it like a pet peeve is my own insecurities of feeling like, oh, oh, they don't recognize how smart or how valuable we potentially can be. So that's my own issue, right? Which that's why I don't express it or say anything in the Pass I would say some shit in the past to be like you're an idiot Really you just you just started still talking about yourself. Yeah, you're still down about that you want to do what I'm doing

And you haven't you haven't asked any questions like so now we get that a lot man We've had no it's funny because like like my grandfather's like that like he'll just without realizing just defend the fuck out of people And everybody's like everybody's they know I thought that was like an old trait though. At some point, he'd like lose fucks. No, I think he's always been that way. He'd always been that way. Yeah, it's a little bit both, right? He just, he just, he just doesn't realize it.

He's just going to say some shit to annoy the, you know, too. That's true. And just to fend the fuck out of you. And it's, it's funny. So my, when my cousin got married, when he first got remarried, he lived with my grandparents as him and his wife at the time were saving money to buy a house, because they lived up in here in San Jose.

So they were living my grandparents and my grandparents. So now she had to live with my grandfather. And he's a great guy. Loving man, he's the first of our family to come to this country. He set everybody up through his hard work, so everybody respect that. He's a macho, macho did.

He's just, sometimes he says shit, you know, and you get, and he's like, what, why are you so upset? So they were, they made dinner and she gets, she gets skin reactions if she eats gluten. So she, and of course pasta bread, right, it's a big, a tie and thing. So she goes, you know, he made, they made dinner and, you know, she's like, oh, you know, I can't really eat, you know, gluten because it bothers my skin This and that and he goes, oh, he goes, okay, he goes, you know, you know, when I when I was in Sicily, he goes, if I had a horse That couldn't eat something, we kill it And she's like, what?

She's like, I love this. Remember, does she never really like knew him, you know what I mean? Oh, she's so good. She's like, we kill it. She's like, what do you mean? It's a bad horse. If he can't eat all the food, it's a bad horse. It's an inside joke now.

Now when we see each other, she says she's a bad horse. Oh my God. But my cousin was like, try and tell her like, no, no, no, don't take a fan. She's just, yeah, he's not trying to offend you. He's kind of jamming at you. He's not going to funny what. He's not going to kill you. No, he of jamming at you. He's not going to kill you. No, that's okay.

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Why does the body want to become efficient and adapt? If you say it is to survive and live longer, why is the body's goal to live longer? So, a couple of things. So first off, the reason why the body, yeah, it's exactly. Why? We would have been here if the body wanted to die. That's a weird question.

The body becomes efficient because efficiency meant survival. So in nature, if you had a very inefficient body, let's say your body was super inefficient with calories and you just burned 12,000 calories a day because you had this inefficient, you know, metabolism where you're just burning a shit ton of calories. For most of human civilization, you would not survive because you would not be around enough food to feed yourself that many calories. Another example would be if I just burn a ton of calories every single time I walk, and my body never adapts and becomes more efficient at that,

again, I will not be able to feed myself enough calories to make up for the amount of walking that I'm doing. So that being said, the second part of the question is, why does the body want to live longer? The real, here's what's interesting. You will notice that most chronic diseases, although we're seeing more and more now at younger ages and that's just the result of our modern lifestyle.

But for the most part, most diseases that kill us, things like cancer, stuff like that, don't really appear until after around the age of 30. And the reason for that is we evolved that of that shit. The human body evolved to live long enough to procreate, after around the age of 30. And the reason for that is we evolved out of that shit. The human body evolved to live long enough to procreate, and then after that, it doesn't matter if you die,

because now you've spread your seed. This is why cancer rates start to go up after 30, and then really start to spike after 50 and 60, and why it's very rare for a child to get cancer, because the kids that got cancer during most of human civilization, we're not able to pass on those genetics. So the reality is your body evolved to survive long enough

to procreate beyond that has to do with modern our ability to nourish yourself with the natural. And take care of yourself. And take care of ourselves. All that stuff. Although there is some interesting stuff within there. Some interesting caveats. For example, men, if we're healthy and we take care of ourselves,

theoretically, we can procreate until we die. So if you're a 70 year old man and you're really, really healthy, you're producing sperm. And theoretically, you can have and father a child. Now, this is not the case I keep those hips healthy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is not the case with women women go through a Period a call menopause where the body stops being able to bear children and there's some interesting speculation around that one of them is That if a woman was able to procreate

One of them is That if a woman was able to procreate At that age the likelihood that she would survive is far far lower because she's not as healthy and fit to do because Let's be honest childbirth is a is the most dangerous thing that a woman ever did for 99.9% human civilization by far killed more women actually killed more humans than Anything besides starvation and andvation and infection is childbirth. The other thing is that anthropologists believe that the role of the grandmother was imperative in ensuring the survival and the upbringing of offspring. That the grandmother needed to be a very, very, needed to play an important role.

And so it became beneficial for her to not be able to bear children so that she's her job now or her role in the tribe is to take care of children, raise children, and take care of her kids who have kids and so on. So interesting stuff. That is interesting. That is interesting. It's interesting to me too that just a question in general,

like why do we want to survive? I think it's kind of obvious, right? That we'd want to live longer. You're right. To me, that's also to inequality of life, why we even do what we do. We've talked about this before where, you know where just because we exercise, we do all this, doesn't ensure that we're not gonna get some disease

or not gonna die at 70 years old, but it's about improving your life, right? So I don't know, the whole question is like, I'm a bit fuck out of me. I know, I was like, is this a super esoteric, like deep question of like, why are we all trying to live, man? It's like, I don't know, everybody's got a fine purpose.

The only scientific, like the prevailing scientific explanation is just your body is trying to stay alive long enough to propagate, to pass its genes. And those genes passed by you now carry your, some of your blueprint. So whatever you had or whatever caused you survive gets passed on. And that's kind of the crux behind evolution. So at some point, it became evolutionarily, you know, Evolutionarily advantageous for humans to be hairless you know we're one of the few animals Or at least primates or think only primates to have very little body hair Which is strange because that's not really an advantage if you're out in the sun all the time You're gonna fucking you know you're gonna burn yourself

But if you consider humans are so, are the most social of all creatures and that we probably lived in tight, you know, tribes and societies, it made sense to not have tons of body hair because body hair also increased your odds of having, you know, fleas and ticks and shit like that. And it's probably better not to have them because you didn't spread as much disease. It's also why we have head hair on our heads because that's the part that gets the sun. So all the, you know, the thing about this is it's all looking backwards. Whenever we're talking about our body's ability to adapt and become efficient and evolve, it's a lot of it's a guessing game and really it's the best guess that wins because many times it's totally,

I mean, here's something I wanna consider too. It's totally viable that it could have been just some fucking accident. Like, you know, that most humans had, you know, orange skin, but then for some reason, the people with the orange skin got some disease and they just all died. They had a carrot and exploded.

Yeah, they just all died or something. So now, you know, that doesn't exist anymore. So that could also explain some of it as well, but it's all looking back. But yes, far as the body becoming efficient, whenever we talk about things like, you know, your metabolism is slowing down or, you know, you need to change your exercise or we say,

we think say things like you have a damaged metabolism. Really, it's your body's doing exactly what it's supposed to. It's just not something that is desirable. It's not beneficial. It's not benefiting your goal. Not in modern life. Is it desirable and modern lifestyle to have a super, super efficient and slow metabolism? No, it's not because you have access to tons of food all the time all around you. You are not active nearly as much as we used to be. So in modern life styles and modern societies, having an extremely efficient metabolism or slow metabolism

now becomes a detriment. Now you have a propensity for obesity and for the problems and now it becomes beneficial to have a faster metabolism. Well, if we went back in time, you know, 50,000 years ago, the person who was really thrifty with their calories, well, when a famine comes along, you know, you're gonna do okay, you know, you put a bunch of fitness fanatics, you know,

who are lots of muscle and super lean and you put a bunch of fitness fanatics, you know, who are lots of muscle and super lean, and you put a bunch of like obese people on an island with no food, you know, besides the fact that the fit people can probably hunt and stuff like that. But if you just left them there and say, okay, let's you can live the longest. Yeah, with nothing. The obese people are gonna win the,

when they have the most stored energy. They're gonna win that. You know, in the muscular, you know, lean person is kind of screwed, so. I feel like I just sat through a Nat Geo episode. Yeah. The more you know. Yeah. Yeah. That's great. Next question is from Mike Sapphi. What are your thoughts on using a belt to keep your waist small? I've always wondered if that is a form of muscle occlusion because I have seen belt so tight, I imagine it does restrict blood flow.

If that is the case, could it be possible to enhance the waist? This is Arya's brother, man. This is our boy right here. Can we just real quick be a quick mention on the genetics that family has. Have you seen their sister too? Yeah, they're all they're all. Mike, Arya and their sister, I forgot her name. I'm just ready to get on stage.

They're all fucking shredded and they're all really active, but they all seem to build muscle like it's their job. And look, well, let's be honest, in my opinion, from my experience and knowing a lot of the pros, Arya is one of the only all natural pros that I know of it. So genetically gifted. Yeah, I mean, just to be able to hear.

You imagine if he was on gear. Oh, right. I mean, just to get on stage like that. So this question's kind of funny in a couple of ways, right? So I'm going to address the occlusion part right away. So you can't occlude anything that's in your, your tea sponge. Yeah, your trunk or your chest or anything like that. So it has to be a limb.

Like the only way to occlude a muscle in order to get the benefits from like BFR would have to be a limb. So it have to be your bias tries, forearm, so bias attacks, and claws, and everything down like that. So because it has a direct connection to the heart and blood. So it's not any such thing. Yeah, you have to be able to occlude venous outflow,

which around the waist would be very difficult considering all how big the waist is and everything that's inside of it. You could have clued it, but if you did, you'd fuck up your... You'd actually have your belt. If you actually could have clued it to actually, to where it would actually build muscle, you would die. You'd include it to your organs. Yeah, so that wouldn't work.

Who'd your liver? Now, does wearing the belt actually make a smiley? Now it can. And the reason it can is because if these knuckleheads wear these belts all the time in the gym while they're lifting weights, there are a ton of stabilizing muscles surrounding the cord, the spine, that you're now using this belt to do that instead. And so they're not being developed, like they should be. They're atrophy.

Yeah, they atrophy. They shrink. Which is why when you see waist trainers, things like that, why people can actually take measurements and show, hey, I lost an inch on my waist and absolutely prove that it does shrink your waist. The problem with you shrink the waist at the cost of, you know, totally weakening some of the most important muscles in your body. You're not talking about weakening your calves or weakening your biceps or your forearms,

which in my opinion are far less important. Your core muscles, and if you're fucking 20 years old, this may not matter so much to you, but I'll tell you what, being somebody who's trained tons of clients, the ones that are in their 30s, 40s, and 50s, this is where this is gonna cause a huge problem, and it's gonna be very interesting to see the ones that are in their 30s, 40s, and 50s, this is where this is gonna cause a huge problem and it's gonna be very interesting to see

a lot of these bodybuilders, men's physique guys, that absolutely just neglect training their midsection in fear of getting it too big and bulky to create this V-tapel. And then they compound the issue because you have now an atrophied core. And you're building a strong massive. Yeah upper body upper and lower body So legs are strong arms are strong shoulders are strong back chest leg weak core

Holy cow now you're talking about I know you're gonna be ready for corsets your whole life, dude I've known more than a few You know bodybuilder type people who have hurt their back doing the most mundane shit. Like stupid, big muscular dude, all the next thing you know, slipped a disc, how did you hurt your disc? I was doing curls or I was throwing the frisbee with my kid or something like that.

It's like what you hurt, you squat 500 pounds and you slipped a disc because that's why. I really see, I really hear it from like the throwing, the Frisbee or picking up a shampoo bottle or gardening because they have no rotational strength, right? Because that's already given most of every body builder trains in the sagittal plane. Which is understandable, it's your sport,

you don't need to be able to move left or right really fast so you don't need to train like an athlete. But here's where this stuff becomes really important is, you keep building all this muscle on this weak ass core, and you don't train any rotational strength. And then all it takes is the slightest movement where you're rotating a spine like that, throwing a phrase, you compromise.

Yeah, then you're fucked, and then you're hurt. And it's really weak that you get hurt doing you something so weakest, throwing a baseball or throwing something or turning just a little bit because you have no rotational strength. So, I mean, does the wearing the weight belt help keep the waist smaller? Sure, it can, absolutely can.

I wouldn't worry about getting a huge waist from muscle though. You know what I'm saying? Well, here's here's what like, I mean, if body, did you see my answer story yesterday? I was I was I was poking at a old Jeremy Bundia. Oh, really? Yeah. So he he I finally, he's got he just did a video of him like real deadlift,

not rack pulls like dead lifting off the floor. Wow. So, uh, which is crazy. It's funny to watch because he's like super strong and like all these like isolated lifts and then to see him like, yeah, deadlifting three plate. You have to be your whole body. Right, right. So, you know, and you see, you're starting to see the men's physique guys starting to do

it now. What's crazy is I remember when I really started deadlifting, it exploded my back. It like nothing I had been rowing and let pull down and dumbbells and bent over barbell. I've been doing everything for so long and had a pretty decent back and V-taper already. When I started deadlifting, it gave a whole new level to my back which all that did was make my waist look even smaller. So even any little bit of extra muscle you think you might build on your waist that's going to like take away from this V-taper look, if your the movement itself is going to create

more of the illusion of you being bigger in your upper back anyways, that it's negated. It's moot. And now I'm least I'm doing something that actually is going to save my core, right? So I think it's a ridiculous idea that guys do. I think it's a fashion statement now. I think it's become so popular to wear a belt and to brand it, put your name on it, do all that cool stuff, which is fine. I have a belt.

I still use my belt occasionally, whenever I'm doing something where I think I might compromise my back because I'm lifting a max rep or some shit, I might put it on there, or if I'm just trying to test a new weight that I haven't done in a new found range of motion. So I definitely think there's places for tools like this. I think that they've become an accessory though. I think it's become...

And you're not gonna shrink your waist from wearing a belt when you wear it, when you just heavy deadlift or heavy squat. The way that some of these pros are using it is they'll put it on really tight for the whole workout. For everything that they do, they've got the belt on to keep the waist small. The entire time there's a gym.

Here's the thing, if you're a bodybuilder and you're a pro bodybuilder and you're worried about growing your waist, like stop taking so much growth hormone and other shit, like that's gonna make your waist, like I'm pretty sure Phil Heath Belly didn't grow because he didn't wear a belt. Pretty sure they had more to do with, oh God, that's drugs and that's, that's a no-brainer

right there. If you're taking HGH, like that's going to explode your waist more than anything that could possibly explode your waist for sure. Absolutely. But as far as occlusion is concerned, occlusion is definitely effective at building muscle. You just did a recent insta story on your occlusion. I did, I just started implementing it again and every single time I do it, it's like instant,

you know, I'll get an instant almost quarter inch on my arms, like boom, right away, very quickly. Now going beyond that, I'll hit a limit, it's like it just keeps growing or, you know, adding. But if I stay consistent with it, I can definitely see the benefit, but it's quick. It's pretty fast. If you use a Clujin right on your limbs,

you'll notice in a very short period of time, you'll get more muscle growth. And really the way I've learned a lot more about how a Clujin really builds muscle. And it's pretty interesting. It's working on the signal That waste buildup creates within muscle has nothing to do with muscle damage And it's just it's just allowing all this waste buildup to happen. It's very painful when you do it burns and sucks But it does build muscle and the good news is it doesn't cause a lot of muscle damage

So you can add it to your routine without worrying about compromising your your recovery too much But yeah putting a belt on your waist doesn't do that. Well, it has everything to do with the cycloplasmic hypertrophy part of it, right? I mean, it's the excessive blood that's being rushed into this muscle belly. I think it actually does everything. It's not just that. It's also muscle fiber growth because they're trying to grow to calm the more fluid. All just to handle more of this waste buildup that's starting to happen.

It's funny, because the early studies on this were done a lot longer, a lot further back than I thought. I thought this was a more of a recent thing. It's more recent in the sense that we're using it now in training and physical therapy. Yeah, it goes only back to the 70s. I think it's maybe even before 60s. Yeah, oh 60s in Japan.

Oh wow. In Japan, you're right, you're right. In Japan it was in the 60s, it made its way over here like I think to the 70s. I think it's maybe even before 60. Yeah, oh 60 in Japan. Oh wow. In Japan, you're right, you're right. In Japan it was in the 60s, it made its way over here like I think in the 70s. Yeah, it was said that the guy who discovered it recognized that his calves grew when you would kneel for long periods of time because it naturally occluded his calves and then he came up

with this theory and tested it. So it's actually been studied. Oh, I remember the first time I did it, it 100% works. You just can't, a couple of things that I tell people, one, it can't replace, your strength training, your regular training on your cast. It's a great thing to do in addition to that,

to maximize or volumize it. The other thing is the people that train less like the Joe Donnelly's or the Craig Capersos, will see the most results I've seen. So if you're somebody who, if you follow like a, because they're already hammering that signal. Because they're already hitting something so close to what the benefits you're getting from inclusion,

those people tend to try inclusion and they don't think it's really working as much because they already train. So if you're already a superset, tricep type of low-ruth, respiratory, and you are pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, hard, hard core to a burns all the time. And you've been training this way for months on in. Those people, they go try inclusion and it doesn't seem to be a big difference. If you're somebody that's, I think it's a great time to do it after, or compliment a strength, a cycle or phase in my training. So when I'm doing heavy singles, doubles, or triples,

or even running the five. And throw it in? Yes, I love to throw it in to compliment that phase in my training. When I'm in phase three of training, where I'm doing a lot of hypertrophy type stuff anyways, I see less benefits as I do when I'm confident. Have you bested around with it yet Justin?

Not yet, I've been really thinking about it too. I remember we had talked about that when you started doing it again. And yeah, I've been really curious to do it. I just haven't really been motivated yet. Well, it's such an aesthetic thing, right? Yeah, well, that's why I'm asking because I'm wondering what's the aesthetic. It would probably have a significant impact. It might have a, because I don't, dude,

the last time I really trained hard, like in the hypertrophy phase, I mean, I swear, I was like when I was working with you. Yeah, like that was like, I used to do all the time in the gym, and you know, I loved it. I loved what it produced and what it felt like. I just like, I got away from it,

and I never got back to it. You're probably right. You'd probably benefit the most. I think so, and I'm wondering, I got away from it and I never got back to it. You're probably right. You'd probably benefit the most. I think so. And I'm wondering, I'm speculating now, but I'm wondering if the performance benefits will center around because you got to, you got to consider right if you're including on a semi regular basis, like every week, right?

You include your arms, your calves, your quads, whatever is that will your body start to adapt by getting better at dealing with that waste buildup? So maybe the performance benefits will be strengthened during, you know that burn, like you'll be able to fight off that burn longer? Yeah, I'm wondering if that would be the case. Be interesting. That and rehabbing.

And rehabbing. I think it would be hard to. Somebody who's rehabbing knee or issues like that. Well, we have a guide, we have an occlusion guide. We don't talk about it a whole lot. It's really inexpensive, but we kind of break it down and teach you how to occlude properly. Next question is from Kaisa.

Why do female crossfit athletes have thick waist? Does crossfit ruin a female physique? This is interesting. You know why I love this question? I like it too. I love this question because whenever you look at a sport and you look at the top performers of that sport, what you're looking at is a few different things.

One of which is that that person was born to do well at that sport. Absolutely. So if I look at the top swimmers in the world, I look at the Olympics, somebody who doesn't understand this may look at that and be like, oh wow. That's a really long torso.

Yeah, swimming a lot gives you a long torso, or short legs, long arms, and a really flat, broad chest. It's like how people used to, like, polotties and yoga and things like that, you used to make long, e-long gager muscles by doing these. And Valorina's look like, yeah. Right, right, right, or maybe,

or maybe those wanted that. Those girls do really well in those sports is what it is. Yeah, I think the CrossFit athletes, the female CrossFit athletes, that do really well and compete at that level. They, number one, build muscle very easily. And number two, a strong muscular waist. You better believe it's gonna help you perform

at a high level. Well, it's a snatches and cleans and like strength endurance, it's power. Yeah, I mean, talk about needing to stabilize and support your spine and like all the different external forces. It's like you need to have a nice strong, you know, obliques and obliques in particular.

Yeah, like, and I think that's what they're probably identifying because like it's not, you don't see that a lot, especially with females having like really pronounced obliques. And when you do, it's impressive. It's like, whoa, like, you know, you can, if you were in olive oil and you went into CrossFit, you would never get this massive squared up looking waist.

It's just, you don't have the genetics to look that way. And the ones that are like sourcing, the ones who are watching on TV and the ones that we know are good at CrossFit, it's because their physiques were built to do CrossFit. That's it, that's the bottom line. On top of their training and all those stuff. Yeah, I mean, of course anybody who's heavy,

snatching and cleaning and doing these overhead movements is it requires you to have a very strong stable core. So yeah, you're going to get development there, but the ones that tend to rise to the top that are excelling it, they're not looking that way because they excelled, they are excelling because they are built that way. So think of it more like that. You know, here's a thing with the whole small waste thing. This is one thing that I'd hate about the aesthetic focused, you know,

physical, we can hear you crunching, don't worry. Try to hide his mouthfully, scratch the eyes over there. You can hear that? Yeah, you should polite. Adam consistently will eat something while we're trying to record something. Yes, yes, yes.

So the reason why, one of the things I hate about these aesthetic, you know, based, you know, physical sports, like bodybuilding and bikini and stuff like that, is they exaggerate signs that we normally find attractive. Now you have to ask yourself, why do we find a small waste attractive? It's not the small waste that we find attractive. It's the ratio of waste to hips and women

and waste to shoulders and men. If there was a big ratio from waste to shoulders, it meant two things. A, they didn't store a lot of body fat, which meant they were probably active and whatever. And B, they had wide, strong shoulders. It did not mean they have a small waste. Does that make sense?

If you take the average six foot men in the world and you average them all out, they're waste and they're all lean, their waste sizes aren't gonna have these dramatic changes, where you'll see the big difference six foot men in the world and you average them all out, they're waste and they're all lean, their waste sizes aren't gonna have these dramatic changes where you'll see the big difference is gonna be in their shoulders, how wide their shoulders are, how musters shoulders are. This is why we're attracted to small waste.

It's not the waste, it's the disparity. Same thing with a woman when we think to ourselves, like ooh, a woman with a small waste is attractive. That's not true, a woman with a small waste and narrow hips is not attractive. It's the waist to hip ratio. And they've done many, many, many studies on this where they find women who are bigger, smaller, whatever. In fact, if you go back 50 years and you look at the pin-up girls or what we considered back then the ideal, it was about 30 pounds heavier, 20 to 30 pounds heavier than they are now.

They're much bigger waste, but they had the same hip to waist ratio that we see today. So I want to get that out there because everybody's so afraid about their waist getting thick because they have muscle. If you're lean, don't even worry about that. And when you meet a woman in person who's lean and has a muscular waist,

I've never seen a woman with a muscular lean waist that I thought to myself like, ugh, like besides the steroid at once, right? I never look at it, oh, that looks on a track. Always looks amazing, because it shows their strength and the fact that they've got some physical prowess with them.

A lot of times though, they're not gonna have those pronounced tips, they're more of an athlete, they're built more square. I mean, when you look at a lot of the female cross-fit athletes, they don't have this sexy runway model or figure model like you're describing right now where they have these types.

They actually do have the narrow waist. Yeah, because that helps with running and jumping and lots of. Right, right. So they have this narrow waist, but then they also have narrow, they have their hips or square. They match and that's that blocky. It makes it look even more. Yeah, it makes it look, it makes it look more like that. If they actually

had more hips to them, then they wouldn't look that way. They actually, their waist size is actually pretty small in comparison to. For the most part, if you develop really muscular core muscles and you're lean, you're not overweight or whatever, you're not going to look worse, you're going to look a lot better. So just keep that in mind, don't be afraid of training your core, because that's one of my pet peeves when people are afraid of doing certain exercises because they don't wanna- Do you know that, in my experience too,

a lot of women that struggle with this kind of boxy or square hips look, which this was Katrina's kind of thing. This was where she always kind of- And she was a collegiate athlete. Right, and so she always had these kind of square hips. And over the last three years We spent a lot of time kind of like shaping a more of the glutes more right developing her glutes more and also getting her leaner Right, so and all that's me just creating more of an illusion of these bigger hips to a smaller waist

And she'd never pushed herself to a body fat percentage low enough to get rid of her her stomach fat all the way through So she's always had I, she's always kept herself lean, but she's never been extremely. She's never had to push beyond where her body had to use the body fat that she stored in her stomach, which we all tend to store a little bit more there than anywhere else. So once I took her to a point where she leaned out beyond that, reduced all that body fat there. And then when we went back to incorporating more calories, I made sure that she was training glutes harder than she ever had before,

so that surplus of calories is now getting allocated. It brings that contrast back. Yes, and so over time, and it's taken time, she's now, I've now created this more of an illusion that she has a smaller. It's funny too, because it all points to all these things that we tend to want the look or we find attractive. It all points to better fertility. That's really what it all points to all these things that we tend to want the look or we find attractive and all points to better fertility.

That's really what it all points to. Women who store more in the lower body tend to have more favorable hormones and tend to store or have more fertile or likely to have successful childbirth. It's all really fascinating, interesting stuff. I have a cousin in Sicily who this girl could gain 50 pounds, 60 pounds, it doesn't matter. All the body fat goes to her lower body and her boobs.

And her weight, like she never stores, so she could be really big and she's got this really pronounced hourglass type of shape and she's always getting hit on by men and whatever because she gives off that illusion of being super fertile, you know, so it's interesting. So the next question is from JP889. In the new Intuitive Nutrition Guide, you talk about calorie undulation for weight loss. Can you use this for weight gain?

You know, before you answer this question, so just to this reminds me something I'm trying to do right now. So if you guys aren't following me on my answer story I'm trying to go through and I'm or can if I has a ton of like recipes for all kinds of like desserts I gotta start I gotta start trying some. Yeah. No, it's been and Katrina and I we've been trying to do the keto cookies I did another and I did these peanut butter chocolate chip once so I ate them before I did the keto cookies. I did it another and I did these peanut butter chocolate chip ones. So I ate them before I did the recipe for, they were good, they were really good. Bro, can you do me a favor? Cause this will be great. You have to go over to his house.

This would be, I was gonna say, this would be great for our sponsor, Organify is if you made them and then had us eat them so we could all talk about that. Yeah, man. Instead of you eating all the food. Well, that's the goal is to get to that point. But what I was gonna say was if those you guys

that are looking for kind of cool healthier recipes or different stuff, I'm gonna try and challenge myself to post more of that on my InstaStory and Share. I just like I said, the South said I just did the keto cookies. I showed up and then I'll put the instructions on how to bake them and then all the breakdown of all of it.

So if you're not following me on the InstaStory, check that out. I'm gonna start using more of the organified. What's great is the green juice really, I would have never thought that it would taste good like in cookies and things like that, but it's got such a great flavor and it meant compliments,

any chocolate or peanut butter type stuff. So I got to try it. Yeah, so it does. And same thing. And what I like about, because their protein powder is not my favorite tasting protein powder, but what I do notice is that when I make it in recipes where I that calls for the protein powder and calls for the green juice, all of it combined actually, they all tend to speak well together as far as the green juice. All of it combine actually, it all, they all tend to speak well together

as far as the flavoring profile. But your, remember it's plant-based, compare it to other plant-based protein powders, which are all the scales. Oh yeah, it's way better. It's way, I'm comparing. I'm comparing. Yes, it really tastes good.

Yes, so I'm comparing, I am comparing. So my all-time favorite tasting for baking a pro protein powder is Optinonetrition's way protein. And until then, but it's also way and it's also artificially flavor. Yes. Yes. So now that we have the organifly sponsor, I've obviously started using a lot of theirs. I'll be straightforward, a normal shake if you were to compare to the way and all you care about is flavor, it's not better. It doesn't taste better, but for being that it has no way, has no artificial sweeteners in it,

it's all purely protein from plant, it tastes phenomenal in comparison, and it actually mixes really well in a lot of the food. Yeah, I used to take, I used to use the raw protein from Garden of Life, I think it was. And it was tolerable, but it's nowhere near as good as the organical. Yeah, I see you wearing some of it on your shirt right now.

I spilled it. That's the green juice. Yes. I'm such a, I did adjust them. You will be, you will be, you will be, you're taking my thunder, and you will be shooting videos today. So, sloppy eater over here.

So the question was about underlating calories for weight loss because we talk about that in the new nutrition guide and then can you use that for weight gain? Absolutely. Definitely. We recommend that. Now here's why we tell you to underlate your calories, whether you're trying to gain weight or lose weight.

So let's start with weight loss. When you're at a calorie deficit, when you're eating less calories in your body's burning, your body aims to adapt to that by becoming more efficient, aka slowing itself down. And it does this through a different, a number of different ways that we've already identified through studies. One, it'll actually, people will actually reduce their activity without realizing it. So your body will make you more tired or not make you want to move as much. The other ways are through your hormones. Hormones will start to change and modify and to get you to burn less calories. Your body will lose muscle to get you to burn less calories.

So there's a lot of different things that can happen. And a lot of the ways you change that is through, or you mitigate that, is through exercise. So the right kind of training will make sure that your body prioritizes muscle and prioritizes this, you know, optimum hormone profile because now your body says, okay, I need to be strong. So it's okay if we burn more calories. And the other thing you can do is not have the same calorie deficit every single day. Where I may have a deficit two days in a row, but then the third day I have a maintenance and the fourth day I have a slight surplus. And then the last three days, I go deficit, deficit, deficit again.

Giving, doing that to my body, theoretically, should reduce the amount of metabolic adaptation that you get through being in lower calories. It should keep your body sensitive to protein. It should be more effective for basically for what your goals are. Now when it comes to weight gain, the same is true. I just talked about this in a recent episode and in our show notes to that episode, I believe

it's episode, I want to say 624, we talk about how in a very short period of time, they showed insulin sensitivity being reduced within a week of being on a high calorie diet. So they had male athletes, you know, eat 6,000 calories a day, so they went on this like super bulk. And within a week, within a week their body started becoming less sensitive to insulin. Now you know over the course of a long period of time this can lead to things like diabetes, but in the short period of time it means your body's gonna be more likely

to store a body fat. And for anybody who's ever bulked up can tell you that when you go on a bulk you gain muscle at first and then if you stay on it, it just turns into just a bunch of body fat. You just gain a bunch of body fat. This may be one of the reasons why is that your body becomes less sensitive to insulin. Your body starts to adapt, wants to of body fat. This may be one of the reasons why is that your body becomes less sensitive to insulin.

Your body starts to adapt once you gain body fat. When you underlate your calories for weight gain, you use the same strategy. So what you do is you go on like a big surplus on Monday, smaller surplus on Tuesday, maintenance on Wednesday, another surplus Thursday, deficit Friday. That might be a day that I fast, you know, Saturday, small surplus Sunday maintenance. At the end of the week, I'm still in a surplus on average. So I know I'm going to gain, but there's some days that are their maintenance or maybe even a deficit. And that keeps my body wanting to gain muscle and that necessary storm body fat. And it keeps my hormone optimal.

In my opinion, it's the only way to actually do a bulk without putting on a bunch of body fat. Otherwise, you fall into the same trap that I see happening all over, especially with my peers, which is these aggressive balks and aggressive cuts. And it's, it was so obvious to me when I got on the circuit, when I would meet guys and I would see them show after show after show. And they really were kind of presenting the same physique every time. It was like sure they got better, they're stage presence, sure, but it's like they followed the same protocol of dieting on offseason and then they had their on season. And it was like, and I bet it was even harder for them to get back even into that

like condition. Exactly. And each and when they don't realize is their their body's becoming more fish each time. so each time they're struggling to get to this and they call it burnout. Yeah, they think they're burnout. They think it is the or they think it's the anabolic since so they start ramping the anabolic sub and in reality is what it is is like you guys keep doing the same thing over and you're not to you're not going to get to this new level of a Z until you learn how to bulk better because what you're doing is you go to bulk, you add 20 pounds on. And these are all arbitrary numbers, but I'm just gonna, the average person gets what's going on here. You go through a bulk, you add 20 pounds.

Of the 20 pounds, 10 of those pounds end up being muscle, if you're lucky. Let's probably not even that. But then you go to a cut from the 20 pounds. And because you've got to cut 20 pounds, you're in a deficit for a long time, probably six, nine, 12 weeks at minimum. And so you lose the, you know, 17 of those 20 pounds. And of the 10 pounds of muscle you build, you probably also drop off four or five of those along the way, because you're catabolic for such a long period of time. And you're doing all this cardio like a lot of these knuckleheads do. So you're telling the

body, it's not advantageous to have this extra muscle. So they just get in this vicious cycle. They bulk for 20 pounds and they cut 17 pounds off and they maybe add one to three pounds of muscle and it's the same one to three pounds of muscle, every fucking show and that's why they present the same physique. If you do this correctly and you actually do a lean,

clean bulk and you only, let's say you only add now 12 pounds, but 10 pounds or even let's say you don't get as much, like because you're not always in a surplus, you only get 8 or 9 pounds. You get 8 or 9 pounds of muscle, but you add at 12 pounds. Now you only have to shred 4 pounds of fat. So now when you drop down 7 pounds, you've got more muscle on your body and your even leaner this time when you actually go through this cutting process. And it's crazy how this is, it was so obvious to me when I'd start to see the same guys over and over each show because they don't change anymore. That's crazy. Within a week, you lose sensitivity.

That's what they were crazy in. Yeah, they were already seeing the... Anything, it makes so much sense. Yeah, I mean, like, if, I mean, why wouldn't you want to like, restrict for a while? Like, it just makes so much more sense to now resensitize, you know, your body and then also assimilate the food better, and you're going to shuttle the nutrients more effectively. It feels like, you know, duh, you're going to be able to build muscle more effectively. One of the best things you could do if you're bulking, and I know I'm going to get people debating me on this, but one of the best things you could do if you're bulking, and I know I'm gonna get people debating me on this, but one of the best things you could do

when you're bulking is every once in a while, throw fast in there. Throw, you know, maybe once a week, throw a fast in there where you don't eat until two or three o'clock and you eat less calories. 100% And make up for it on the other days. You can spread the rest out, you know,

the calories that you miss, spread it on the other six days, which is not that bad. And then see what happens. That little switch will resensitize you to insulin. You're more sensitive to protein. I mean, I did this one. I would go vegan every once in a while. I go vegan a day here and there.

And I'd notice I would just do better in the gym, not because I won't vegan, but because when I had a refeed, my body was using the protein more effectively. So it's a very simple strategy, plus it's a better strategy. Think about it this way. If you've ever dieted for a long period of time

or you've bulked for a long period of time, it gets fucking boring eating the same calories every single day and even bulking can become a pain in the ass. Well, this is why I used to really enjoy carb cycling. What's for that exact reason right there? It was just, it was just nice that I had different goals for each day. This could be my really low day.

And then I guess what? Then I get to have a really high day after that. And then I go back to a moderate day. So I really liked carb cycling because it created this just natural, undulating pattern for me for calories. And I loved that because it gave me something different every day. Now, obviously when I'm not competing,

I don't follow a carb cycle. I do this naturally. I just kind of pay attention. Like you said, I base a lot off my daily movement. If I think that it's a day that I know I'm gonna be sedentary and I use football days for me as an example because I could literally sit around all day long on a Sunday and just watch football.

Those days are the days that I tend to try and incorporate my fasting. And it's funny because anybody who tries to pay attention to this will real quick find out that the first few times you do this, it's fucking hard. You're just sick. You're watching TV. Yes, because you've already trained yourself the opposite.

You know, most people don't realize that the natural habits that we've created for ourselves when it comes to eating and movement is typically we have an easier time skipping meals when we're busy and we're going all day long from one meeting to the next meeting and running around like crazy and burning a ton of calories. Those are the times that we have an easier time skipping meals. And then the times when we do nothing, we sit at a desk all day long or we sit and watch TV, those are the days that we tend to make these bad choices or we over consume,

which in my opinion, it couldn't be worse to do that. Flip flopping it makes it huge. I take it a step further too when I'm coaching someone towards intuitive eating is I have them underlate their macros too. So some days kind of like carps cycling. That's what carps are. Yeah, it's very similar to that, but I'll endow late everything proteins as well. You know, fats, carbs, I'll do the whole thing just to get, you know, plus you start to figure your body out,

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