Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 639: Sleeping on Bed vs. Floor, Building Muscle as a Vegan, the Health at Every Size Movement & MORE

Episode Date: November 15, 2017

Organifi Quah! iTunes Review Winners! In this episode of Quah, sponsored by Organifi (organifi.com, code "mindpump" for 20% off), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about sleeping on the fl...oor vs sleeping in a bed, their response to the “health at every size” movement, how to determine whether to stay as a trainer or manage a big box gym and if it is possible to be vegan and have a bigger ass than Justin. Adam’s Protein Organifi Peanut Butter Brownies (0:25) 2 scoops Organifi Protein Powder 2 Tbsp unsweetened cacao powder ½ cup melted peanut butter 3 bananas (browner the better) Optional: ¼ cup crushed walnuts at bottom of pan, or ¼ cup crushed walnuts in the mix Catrina “tweaking” Organifi recipes / Holiday parties upcoming (4:31) Adam’s “Super Woman” / Guys cooking for themselves (11:30) Pajaro Dunes Retreat (14:07) Quah question #1 – What are your thoughts on sleeping on the floor, than sleeping on the bed? (18:19) Quah question #2 – How do you respond to the “Health at Any size Movement”? (26:02) Thrive Market “buy one, give one free” membership (27:02) Quah question #3 – Should he stay a trainer or manage a big box gym? (36:59) Quah question #4 – How is it possible to be vegan and have a bigger ass than Justin? (42:53) Related Links/Products Mentioned: Organifi (Official Mind Pump sponsor)  Use the code “mindpump” for 20% off Thrive Market (Official Mind Pump sponsor) One FREE month’s membership $20 off your first three purchases of $49 or more (That’s $60 off total!) Free shipping on orders of $49 or more Sunbeam Rocket Grill - Indoor Grilling Machine Pajaro Dunes Resort: Welcome to Pajaro Dunes Joe Rogan Experience #601 - Katy Bowman – (YouTube) Instinctive sleeping and resting postures: an anthropological and zoological approach to treatment of low back and joint pain (study) Cleaning up my sleep – Nutritious Movement Ep 598.5-Introducing Mind Pump's new partnership with Thrive Market (podcast) Health At Every Size Community Resources Vegan diets: practical advice for athletes and exercisers (article) 3 Best Secrets - How To Make Your Butt Grow (AVOID MISTAKES!) (Mind Pump TV – YouTube) Build Your Butt Bundle People Mentioned: Joe Rogan (@joerogan)  Twitter Katy Bowman (@nutritiousmovement)  Instagram Gunnar Lovelace (@gunnarlovelace)  Twitter Bill Pearl 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 How can you go wrong with this offer? To take advantage of this offer go to www.thrivemarket.com/mindpump 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. 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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Starting point is 00:00:51 So optional, also quarter cup walnuts added to the mix. So we put a little bit of walnuts in the mix, we made a little bread at the bottom and then we used one of those. What do you call those little 10 foil pie looking dishes? I think you have that's it. Pie plate. Just like a 10 foil one right. What do you call those? And then you bake it? Yep. And then you bake it.
Starting point is 00:01:08 Excellent. So they are. I got you guys. Organifi is one of our sponsors. If you go to OrganifiShop.com, enter the code mine pump. You'll get 20% off pretty much anything. We also talk about how Adam got Katrina to cook the way that he likes. Oh, fuck. And he really, he'll ninja. Hopefully she still does. Katrina, I know you're going to do the way that he likes. Oh fuck. And he really, he'll ninja. Hopefully she still does.
Starting point is 00:01:26 Katrina, I know you're listening to the episode. I'm glad I just, I'll wait till you hear this one. Me, Justin, and Doug, like you the way you are. You're gonna get a hang of it. You're a great cook. We also talk about our,
Starting point is 00:01:35 our Pajaro Dunes retreat where we actually went off and created new content for, written content for online. So we can get more people introduced to mine pump. I also mentioned thrive market in this episode. I know the holidays are coming up With thrive market when you enroll and get yourself a membership They will give a free membership to a family in need now that membership normally costs something like I don't know
Starting point is 00:02:02 Like 30 or 40 dollars a year. Well, check this out. If you go to thrivemarket.com forward slash mine pump, you'll get one month free membership plus free shipping on $49 or more plus $20 off the first three orders of $49 or more. So you get hooked up fat and you're helping people out. Then we get into the questions. The first question was, what are our thoughts about sleeping on the floor versus sleeping in a bed? Isn't this analogous to wearing shoes versus barefoot walking? This dude just got kicked out of his house. I'm just going to say that. I'm just going to say that. He's right. Tell me I'm going to be okay, mine pope. The next question was how to treat this as a workout? What is our response to the health
Starting point is 00:02:46 at every size movement? Is this a good movement? Is it a bad movement? Or is it like Adam says, yes and no. The next question was, I know, me besides. Somebody's asking us if they should remain a personal trainer or if they should move up the ladder.
Starting point is 00:03:00 It's Tony, Tony, Tony. And manage a big box gym. And finally, how is it possible to be vegan and have a bigger ass than Justin impossible? That's actually impossible. Although we do talk about. I eat vegans. We talk about glute building strategies in this episode. And I do mention the build your butt bundle. So what the bundle is is it takes two of our most popular programs, maps and a ball, maps, and it includes a modification for people who have trouble feeling their glutes when they do those great glute exercises like squats and lunges and
Starting point is 00:03:32 deadlifts. It's a pretty revolutionary program. We put it all together and then we discounted it at something like 25% off. If you want to build your glutes and you want to build your whole body, but your glutes in particular, the build your butt bundle is phenomenal. It is for you. It's all planned out. Exercise demos, workout blueprints, everything you need to build your butt. You can find it at mindpumpmedia.com. All right, it's t-shirt time. Give them to them, Doug. All right, we got 17 reviews this last week. Oh, give it out. Five shirts's not too bad, not too bad.
Starting point is 00:04:05 I like that. Not too bad at all. Let's hear them. All right, we got J. Willys 29.79. Bam, 03087, Bberry 93. Cring guy, 32. Like that guy. Rachel Ann, 85.
Starting point is 00:04:20 All of you are winners in the name. I just read to iTunes at MindPumpMedia.com. Send your shirt size, your shipping address, and we'll get that right out to you That's right. We got you fitted We're gonna rush to get over there She all day went ready and there was some things I need to change with the recipe so she did Fucking bomb. What did you do? What did you mix? How's it work? What's going on? I don't know the problem? Fucking do that the recipe is on organifi so I what is it called?
Starting point is 00:04:44 It's a it's a the brownie. It's the brownie. It has okay bananas. It has the protein powder from Organifi it's got walnuts. It's got cocoa powder and Something else some He's all in brownie mix Betty Crocker no, it's all it's all you it's all, it's all, it's all super, it's bomb. But she tweaked some things. So what I'll do for our listeners that are listening right now in case Doug can't find the recipe because I don't know for sure if Katrina totally tweaked it herself or not.
Starting point is 00:05:23 But this has been one of my favorite recipes. It's really light. I'm so upset I haven't tried anything. And even though it's a brownie, it has a banana walnut-y taste with just a hint of that, the chocolate cocoa. Oh, dude, and it's just, ffff.
Starting point is 00:05:38 This is probably one of my favorite treats that we've made so far. You got to bring that to the holiday parties, dude. No, we will. Are we gonna have a holiday party, by the way? Are we doing anything? Am I a mind pump on it? We got staff now.
Starting point is 00:05:48 Holiday party! We didn't have staff last year. I didn't even think so. As long as there's egg nog, I'm there. We should talk about doing something for everybody. Gotta get some gnaw. What do you guys do for everybody? I was thinking about taking them to Arby's.
Starting point is 00:05:58 Tar. Arby's. Taking them to the show. One that still exists. Taking them to Chili's. If we were doing it in your heels, if we were really good, if we were really good leaders, we should think of individual things
Starting point is 00:06:08 for each one of them. I'm not gonna let's see. Now you said that back. It's on air. Now we have to do it. I don't think so. That's true. We just care about a bonus, didn't we?
Starting point is 00:06:16 We fucking just have to. Yeah, that's what I would want. I'm gonna give ourselves a kiss. I'm gonna give ourselves a kiss. Okay, because I need to stop with the fucking jet up. The light came on. It gave me a Christmas bonus. Okay, cause I need to stop with the fucking jet up. The light came on. You can give me a secret bonus. Something light came on on my car today.
Starting point is 00:06:30 What? Oh no. I don't know what it was. It was red. Oh, it was a red light. I was just trying to get trained about training the Denolian. And I looked at the red, I looked it up and it's like, if you see this red light pop up,
Starting point is 00:06:42 you need to bring your car in immediately. It's getting explode. So you know what I did? I turned the car off, turned it back on. The light was gone. It disappeared. I fixed it. I fixed the light.
Starting point is 00:06:52 So, but I think it's, you know how you listen to your body signals. You know I talk about intuitive eating all the time and you gotta listen to your body signals. And if you don't listen, the signals get louder until it yells at you. My car is yelling at you. It's not, yet, not yet.
Starting point is 00:07:06 But little by little, I'm getting the, you know, you gotta do something about this, but. Hey man, so if you're listening right now, maps programs on sale for my Jetta. Oh, I'm excited. Where's that going? Yeah, I gotta get a new car. Anyway, there's a recipe right there.
Starting point is 00:07:24 No, Doug pulled it up, but I don't think that's there. Now I'm texting Katrina as recipe, right? Well, I'm gonna read this one. The ingredients are, what is that? Three fourths of a cup, smooth almond butter. This is the almond butter. That's the smooth. This is the almond butter that goes up to your girlfriend
Starting point is 00:07:38 and says nice things. They can't eat. Oh yeah. Then one cup of unsweetened applesauce. We're on a sweetened butter. Half a cup of pure maple syrup, one tablespoon of pure vanilla extract, half a cup of vegan chocolate chunks,
Starting point is 00:07:51 or dark chocolate bar of 60% to 70% cocoa, half a cup of organifi vanilla complete protein, half a cup of unsweetened cocoa powder, two tablespoons of coconut flour, one teaspoon of baking soda, half a teaspoon of fine sea salt, and a quarter cup dark chocolate chunks that you sprinkle on the top. That sounds delicious.
Starting point is 00:08:11 I could have all that. I think we might have tried this one. I think the one's vegan chocolate. It looks like chocolate, but tastes like soy. It's chocolate that talks to you about the environment and that's better than the other chocolate. It's just you and the acid. All the time. All the time. That's how you about the environment and that's better than the other stuff. Just do an assily war. All the time.
Starting point is 00:08:25 Okay. All the time. That's how you absolutely know. That looks pretty good though. Yeah. That one does look good. That one is not the one we do because the one we do actually has a banana
Starting point is 00:08:35 as banana and walnuts in it, which again, I'm trying to get the clean here to respond to me and find out if it was something that she took that recipe and then she tweaked it for her own or she actually found. Because normally what we do is we... I want to know what the macros are too. This is one...
Starting point is 00:08:50 Let me tell you something too. By the way, if you guys are not taking advantage of this, one of my favorite things about organify is that they do provide a ton of really cool recipes and we're constantly using... I try to share with you guys the ones I really like. We try some stuff and we're kinda like, actually this is a good time too, because the holidays are good. Yes, it's a great, all-terrain.
Starting point is 00:09:09 So to trick your family needing healthy. We have my Thanksgiving coming up next weekend with my family and his, my mom, Texas Katrina, like Katrina says, hey, Tammy, is there any side dishes that I could bring? And she goes yet could you bring them uh... of the uh... the uh... the the marshmallow jello salad
Starting point is 00:09:31 and i got to say she's like what's not just my family though she goes what the fuck is this yeah i were not bringing that up to sell it's not a salad there's nothing salad about it use green jello that's why marshmallows it's what it's not what can you see it's called marshmallows. That's why it's called fucking use. You're not a me. It's awful, dude.
Starting point is 00:09:47 It is so awful. It's nothing. It is literally, it's awful. You ever had a marshmallow tree? Oh my God. It's like, hey, hey, try my new broccoli. So many nutrients. It's like, am I supposed to make this for your family?
Starting point is 00:09:59 I'm like, no, we are not making that. We were making our own. So we started playing around. So we're gonna bring the these brownies, the ingredients, our awesome. So those started playing around. So we're gonna bring the these brownies. These brownies are awesome. So those are listening. If you try the recipe that South said before the day is up, I will get it from Katrina. And then probably by the time this airs, I will have already in the show notes. No. What? On the show notes? Why not? Well, because I don't know when this is when is this going, Doug. This one goes when? It doesn't matter. It's So okay, okay, well then maybe I can get it in there by that time you gotta remind me oh
Starting point is 00:10:30 Well, you if you're gonna ever gonna happen then well if you're gonna put something like that out there and make the whole me account I remember I'm already the guy who's making the goddamn recipes and fucking trying them out talking about him I'll let's take a whole second. You're not you're going for this. That's the same thing. We're one text to treat it a reminder Relationship to put it in the show notes. We are one flesh. Yeah, we are. You're winning. Winning points left. Right. Part of when you when you find your partner forever, you're allowed to make claims that it's you when it's really your partner. Yeah. This is part of the perks. That's awesome.
Starting point is 00:11:00 It is part of the perks, right? Mm-hmm. You don't do just and you don't do this. I mean, I sometimes I experience. When your wife does really good stuff, you don't take the credit for it. Just take it. Yeah. Well, it's just so like opposite of me, so I usually can't. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:13 Nobody will believe me. Well, dude, you guys have seen my, how good I am on the silks when I used to travel to Cirque du Soleil. Yeah. My flexibility is incredible. You are. Well, you know what, you know what I,
Starting point is 00:11:23 what I graceful in Katrina called me out on this other day, because we were, we were all somewhere in, but when you're telling people you're organized, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no way till I have the superwoman now in my 30s, you know, I had to do all my stuff myself as far as cooking and preparing, and I actually can cook pretty well, but I don't like it, as well as I can cook, I don't enjoy it. So when we first started dating, and Katrina's gonna put me on blast for this one, but she's not a good cook. She wasn't a good cook.
Starting point is 00:12:01 Oh no! She was not. But Katrina, I've had food that you've prepared. I think it's really good. Oh no, no, no. Katrina, you're a good friend. Oh wasn't. Oh no. She was not but Katrina. I've had food that you've prepared. I think it's really. Oh no, no, no. Oh, no, no, no. It's actually bro. Now, now she's one of the best cooks I've ever. Oh, so she was bad. Yeah. So, so what I would do, right? So I would make dinner. But then I was sure like, Oh, this is I really like this dish and kind of sure like that, right? So, and it and now she looks back and she's just like,
Starting point is 00:12:25 you know, I got totally bamboozled here because when we first started dating, I knew that move. You were making all these dinners. Meanwhile, what you were really doing was teaching me, yeah, teaching me how to cook the shit that you wanted me to cook for you because now you don't cook any.
Starting point is 00:12:39 Dude, you know what I did? The first time I made food, because I'm not, I don't, I mean, I don't mind cooking. I just don't, I don't know much about it. And the way I eat is very simple anyway. I eat very plain and simple. So when I first started dating Jessica, I told her, say, hey, I'll make you some lamb,
Starting point is 00:12:54 some ground lamb and some vegetables. She was like, oh, that sounds awesome. So I had this, it was called a rocket grill. It's kind of like a George Foreman, except it's vertical. Dude, Foreman saved my life. Yeah, that was all I could. So what I do is I buy ground lamb and I smash it. George Foreman, except it's vertical. Dude, Foreman saved my life. That was all I could.
Starting point is 00:13:05 So what I do is I buy ground lamb and I smash it and I grill it. And that's it. You get this big patty of lamb in front of you with some vegetables on the side. She's like, what else? This is it? I'm like, yes, this is it. That's your piece. That's so the bodybuilder, single guy.
Starting point is 00:13:21 Take care of yourself. Oh man, I don't know how many times with Justin too on that dude All I would do is barbecue and in college for myself like I literally would rotate the meats And then the veggies if I even did that back barbecued in the summer forming grow in the winter That was exactly like all the years years of eating like that and just Just as original as you were right there some meat a little seasoning Yeah, it's a steamed vegetable. What is it, that Montreal seasoning
Starting point is 00:13:47 stayed alive so many times? So, watch the whole thing. They thought of it for us. I cooked your guys' mistakes with that Montreal this last week in. You did and you did a good job and you put like a butter. You put some butter on it.
Starting point is 00:13:57 That was a little added bonus. That was good. You know what, let's talk about that for a second. What a great time up at the old Harrow Doons for a second. What a great time up at the Oro Dune. Oh, yeah. What a great time. We went up there and we got real focused and do a lot of work.
Starting point is 00:14:12 Well, I just love that. We can go somewhere else like that. That's like a great scenery, but we're productive. You know, we're all in the same place, like hustling, doing our thing. So have you guys never been to Paharo Dunes before? No. So it'll a close.
Starting point is 00:14:25 It's like this secret area, which now it's not, because I'm talking about, but it was like this secret area near Watsonville. You never expect it to be there, because you're driving through like fields of like artichokes and stuff. So agriculture. But it's beaches are gorgeous,
Starting point is 00:14:39 there's some beautiful houses out there. Mm-hmm. And I have a client who was a great friend of mine, and she had a like a townhouse that she out there. And I have a client who was a great friend of mine and she had a townhouse that she owned there and she used to let me use it all the time. So I go there and I go there with team members from my wellness facility. I went there a bunch of times.
Starting point is 00:14:57 I went there at the time with my wife and kids and it's just a special place. I did lots of meditating on the beach. I've seen dolphins out there in the ocean a couple of times, a seal. Actually, me and Adam went for a walk on the beach early in the morning when everyone was sleeping because we wanted to connect.
Starting point is 00:15:13 And as we were walking on the beach barefoot, you guys are so cute. We saw two strange things. One, we saw a washed up seal carcass, right, which is not super strange. That's strange. And then it's great white stuff. And then like a deer.
Starting point is 00:15:28 Yeah. A deer. I got eaten deer. No, it was just washed up. And antlers and everything. On the beach, dude. And must have drowned and got washed up. From where?
Starting point is 00:15:38 I don't know. Yeah, I was weird. I don't know. It was really weird. There's like some shark out there. It's kind of earland shark. Yeah. But anyway, you had a great time with it. No, no, that was such, you know, we should do,
Starting point is 00:15:47 and the house we stayed in, what was that man? Cool, right? It was cool, but it was on stills. It was on stills, so every time, Justin, especially when Justin walked, because he's heavy, he's shaked the whole house. I got a, I got a lid foot. Taylor was super, but Taylor was super excited about the house, dude.
Starting point is 00:16:06 I do. Yeah, Taylor liked it a lot. We should tell our audience though, because I know that a lot of people are like, all the forum is like talking right now, like, oh shit, what are they creating now? They're doing well to be completely honest, the transparent.
Starting point is 00:16:17 We are creating sales funnels to close people that aren't listening to the podcast already. So it's really not for you guys. That's super transparent, Adam. Wow. podcast already. So it's really not for you guys. That's super-canspirant Adam. Wow. What it is, it's what it is. It's exactly what it is. Well, okay, hold on, first of all.
Starting point is 00:16:31 Oh, sugar, go ahead, sugar, go ahead. It's not about sugar coating. It's not about sugar coating. It's not about sugar coating. The reality is if you want to be effective at selling whatever you have, rule number one, have something good, because otherwise it won't last very long.
Starting point is 00:16:43 And number two, you better provide some value and you better do a good job communicating what you want to communicate Those are the two rules big rules and sales So a lot of what we were doing up there was providing or creating Written really good written content. Oh a lot because we don't have a ton of written content online So if someone wants you know, it's people who never listen to mine pops solidifying our message in a way that people will be able to understand who we are, what we're about, like relatively quickly. Exactly. So if you're, you know, if you're online and you're looking for fitness information, you never heard of mind pump. So you have nothing, you know, any of our podcasts or about our YouTube channel and you're looking up what's the best body parts split to build muscle. One of our
Starting point is 00:17:23 articles might pop up where we talk about the benefits of increased training frequency or if you're you know a woman and you're looking up and you're like, why can't I get my stomach to flatten after having children or whatever when we have an article coming up that talks about training the transverse abdominis and techniques and so it's good it's good value it's good content right right so there you go. Yeah, not a new program. That's what everyone thought was well we have a new program though. Yeah, there's some stuff. We do. We're sitting on it. You still want to fish, fish, fish, fish. There it is. There it is.
Starting point is 00:17:51 This quads 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 O-R-G-A-N-I-F-I dot com and use a coupon code MindPump for 20% off at checkout. First up, the Health Engineer. What are your thoughts about sleeping on the floor versus sleeping in a bed?
Starting point is 00:18:26 Isn't it analogous to wearing a shoe versus barefoot walking? Isn't that a great point the guy makes? It's a very good point. Yeah. It's a very, very good point. And I've heard this before that I don't know what her name was, it was on Joe Rogan, but she goes to that extreme because she's like a biomechanic specialist
Starting point is 00:18:43 and her whole house is like no furniture. It's like all like hardwood and like the poor kids that have to grow up like this. Well think about it. It's okay. So if you wear comfortable shoes, like cushy squishy shoes all the time to run and work out in, if you just all of a sudden
Starting point is 00:18:59 go barefoot all the time, you're gonna hurt yourself because you've got your use to the support or the crutch of the shoes, your feet are atrocious, your ankles are weak, your body is basically acclimated to this device that called a shoe. So when you go barefoot all of a sudden, you're gonna cause problems. This is true with the bed too.
Starting point is 00:19:19 Like if you're like, oh wow, I should sleep on the hard floor because I heard it's good for me. I promise if you do that right off the bat. Jack, everything up. You're gonna get terrible sleep, which then is worse for your health than the potential benefits of sleeping on the hard floor. Well, I mean, there's some differences here too.
Starting point is 00:19:36 So let me, if you're laying flat on your back, sleeping on the bed, gravity's pushing down, which most people are gonna have all this anterior issue, because we're doing everything on the front, like so quad, hip flexor, everything's all dominant in the front. And if you lay flat on your back, gravity's pushing down this way, not so detrimental. Now, laying sideways or a potentiallty on your stomach,
Starting point is 00:19:57 and then you have this arch in your low back, gravity's pushing down on you that way, maybe a little bit more. So sleeping on your back on a comfortable bed is not the same as somebody walking around with cushion shoes. Well, and that's again, the way I want to think about it is, because it's a good point.
Starting point is 00:20:12 But it is a good point. If you have all these deviations going here, if you have all these deviations, you can get no buy-in. Yeah, if you have all these deviations, and if you have all these deviations and your posture and his issues, is it the hard floor that's the problem?
Starting point is 00:20:26 No, right? It's your body as a problem. And again, if we go back to evolution, humans did not evolve sleeping on beds. We evolved sleeping on probably leaves or hay or the floor. I mean, the ground, that's just grass and stuff like that. So there may be some benefits for it. Now, I've experienced this for a short period of time when I first when you're in prison. No. Yes, exactly I wasn't much sleeping I kept one open
Starting point is 00:20:56 Let me tell you it wasn't the bed that was hurting you Keep clenched He was Tyrone that's when what I was like. When I opened the other one, closed shut. No, you may not. When I first got divorced, when I left, you know, when you, first of all, divorced, very expensive, you know, my kids, I wanted them to stay in the home that they grew up in. So I took nothing,
Starting point is 00:21:21 and I was, I had this mentality of like super minimalist. So I ordered on Amazon this like Japanese, I took nothing and I had this mentality of super minimalist. So I ordered on Amazon this Japanese mat. It's like a cushion, but it's not. It's like a flat pillow, but it's big. And that's what I slept on for, I don't know, like five months. I slept on that thing for five months
Starting point is 00:21:42 and I swore to God, I felt good. There were no problems. I slept perfectly fine. Now granted months and I swore to God. I felt good. There were no problems. I slept perfectly fine. Now granted, I don't typically have issue sleeping and I don't have problems in bed anyway. But I felt really good sleeping on the floor and it wasn't a problem. And I did it recently when my girlfriend's family
Starting point is 00:21:56 came to visit and we gave them our bed, like good hosts are supposed to be. Hey, not a bad idea for a single guy who's not banging out. But if you're gonna be having sex, I just can't imagine bringing over somebody for your right Whiz waiting for that right I'm thinking myself I will think about this like you're having sex, dude My knees hurt. Yes, really do A lot of places you can have sex do that just the bad listen I should go on the couch. I've learned how to use springs for a reason. Oh, man.
Starting point is 00:22:27 Are you kidding me right now? They store the energy and help you the motion. What if you're this guy who sleeps on the floor, or your Japanese bed you're talking about, you mean to tell me that I got to, you have your date or your girl over, and you're like, hey honey, I want to have sex. Well, you go to the couch if we have sex.
Starting point is 00:22:42 Let's go stand up. That's my work. Let's go stand up. That Yeah, let's go stand up. That's lame. Sex standing up is not bad. Oh man, I mean if you're in your pants and you're like a, you're not, you're not, like a alley or something.
Starting point is 00:22:54 Yeah. Yeah, that's weird. That's gross. You're not selling me on this idea. No, but it's interesting. I'm gonna look up the science on this because I feel like, I feel like if you're healthy and fit, I feel like every once in a while sleeping in different,
Starting point is 00:23:07 under different circumstances and conditions, maybe good for the body like changing up a lot of things. Of course, you know, and here's a deal. Here's a deal. I have, so I have family that served in the military and they'll tell me that they learned to sleep pretty much anywhere and now they have no issue sleeping because of that. And so I'm wondering if you, yeah,
Starting point is 00:23:27 because in the military, you don't get the most comfortable. No, no, I get it, but I'm like trying to figure out what's the learning curve or what's the process. Because you just do it. If you had to sleep on the floor and you would eventually learn how to sleep well on the floor, that might be a good skill. Now when you go to a hotel,
Starting point is 00:23:44 you sleep on your friend's couch or whatever, it's not an issue, because I know a lot of people. Why do we give these guys in presence even a bed? They should just get concrete slabs. Maybe. That's my stuff. I mean, right there, I could probably save,
Starting point is 00:23:56 go full inhumane. I would. Let's go all in. It's just, what? We're over here trying to make the argument that it's better for you. I mean, if it's better for you, what the fuck are we doing?
Starting point is 00:24:05 Give it in, mate. That's fucking cushiony beds, dude. It's not one thing they're getting cushiony. Yeah, those assholes. Yeah, I don't think so. No, I think- Oh, I'm sure there's at least a million dollars in, you know, these beds all over prisons. That's not the way you save money with prisons.
Starting point is 00:24:17 I'm not- I'm not taking away their beds. Well, yeah, then we let out all the people that are in there first having a pound of marijuana on them. Yeah, sure. There goes two. No, I think it's interesting. It may help. Look, I know people, I know a lot of people where if they're at a hotel or if they're camping
Starting point is 00:24:32 or if they're anywhere other than their fucking room and bed, they can't sleep. That's not good. That's not a good thing because then when you travel and stuff, you don't enjoy, you can't enjoy it. So it might be a good idea. I'm going to do some research on this because I bet you there's some compelling arguments. I don't even have to do research. And you can make the argument that there is definitely
Starting point is 00:24:53 some truth to that. And I think a lot of it has to do with the gravity and your posture and your imbalances than anything else because if you're in this big, cushiony bed and you've got really bad posture and then you sleep on your side or your stomach, you're not helping that whatsoever. Now, if you sleep on the floor, literally,
Starting point is 00:25:14 I don't know anybody that could do that without sleeping on your back. You would have to sleep on your back, which I'm sleeping on your side. Right, you're not sleeping on your side, you're probably not sleeping on your face, face down. You're not a side sleeper, it does not sound the best. So you're sleeping on your side, you're probably not sleeping on your face face down. You're not a side sleeper. It's not sound. Right.
Starting point is 00:25:26 So you're sleeping on your back. And when you're laying on your back, it's the opposing gravity is probably the opposite of or is probably what most people need. Okay. Because if you think about laying on your back, most people have upper and lower cross syndrome, which is everything is rolled forward. So if you're laying flat on your back, gravity's pushing down, which is helping that condition versus making it worse.
Starting point is 00:25:48 If somebody's in a bed that's all cushioning and soft, it's not really doing that, right? You're just absorbing it into the cushion and you're gonna keep the poor posture. I can make the argument on that. I sleep on a bed of nails, like a man. Next up, healthy, happy, and free. How do you respond to the health
Starting point is 00:26:07 at every size movement? I think if we had to give away a gift for somebody who has given the best questions for the last year. Well, that's why you keep seeing them. Healthy, happy, and free. You win. A lot.
Starting point is 00:26:20 You are a frequent flyer. This guy would you like to give us a smile? Let's give it a t-shirt. We don't even know, we don't even, we don't even personally know this person, but when you ask good fucking questions, we can't avoid them. You get a re-respond.
Starting point is 00:26:31 You try, we try and avoid people, we see the names of a lot to give a nice rotation for everybody, but sometimes some of you guys are just, with quality, smart motherfuckers. Hey, quantity. DM one of us, we'll send you a free t-shirt. Actually speaking of gifts, because we're getting near the holiday season
Starting point is 00:26:46 and you talked about, I don't know which episode you talked about, but you talked about how you do your, where you adopt a family and you give them a gift and stuff like that. Yes. So something that we don't talk a lot about, and I want to bring this up before I answer this question, with Thrive Market, one of our sponsors, one of the things that they do that I really, really, really like,
Starting point is 00:27:04 is when you get a membership with them, you know, you get their, their good prices, you get their good products, their fast shipping, lots of stuff, but they will donate a free membership to a family in need. Dude, how cool would it be if we did like a, how can we do that, right? If everybody was like, we made a push on thrive market right now to try and get a family and need a membership for it. It used to be, I mean, these days, if you're... Should I look into that? If you have issues with money, if you're, you know,
Starting point is 00:27:35 if you're a single parent household or whatever, your nutrition tends to be much, much, much worse. Part of it is just accessibility and part of its convenience and part of its cost. It's actually can be more expensive to eat healthy. So what I like about this particular, our sponsor thrive market is you get a membership, they'll donate a membership to a person in need.
Starting point is 00:27:58 The CEO who we did an episode with, what's his name, Gunner? Think his name was Gunner. He grew up very poor and this is why he implemented this. So it's phenomenal. It's a great time of year to do this. So check it out. Okay.
Starting point is 00:28:10 That itself is a reason to try Thrive Marcus. So if you haven't tried Thrive Market, like for whatever reason that's keeping you from doing that, considering that you can shop whole or whole organic foods at your door within two days for the price that you would pay at a safe way for regular food, that's not organic. Just doing it for the simple fact that you're helping out a family of need, I think is a cool thing to do. It's best timing you're to do it.
Starting point is 00:28:31 At this time of the year. It's best timing you're to do. So the question was, how do we respond to the health at every size movement? So here's the thing, I want you to do, if you're listening to the show right now, I want you to kind of slow down for a second, close your eyes, and imagine yourself at a very healthy state.
Starting point is 00:28:50 And what I mean by healthy is your balance. You have a healthy mental state, a healthy physical state. You know, you just, everything, all factors combined, all factors combined, all are very healthy and optimal. Now what does the physical representation of that look like? Now, I can tell you right now, the physical representation of that being in health does not look like obesity. It does not look like you're super heavy. It does not look like inflammation. It does not look like gut health issues. It does not look like depression. It doesn't look
Starting point is 00:29:22 like any of that stuff. So So the health that every size movement, I think is rooted in very, very good intentions, but I think people are from the psychological aspect of it alone. Yes, because I think people are taking it to mean, oh, I know I'm 80 pounds overweight, I don't care because I'm still healthy. That's not entirely true. Now, can you'm 80 pounds overweight. I don't care because I'm still healthy. That's not entirely true. Now, can you be 80 pounds overweight
Starting point is 00:29:47 and then compound that with a super negative self image where you confuse your body image with yourself image? Absolutely. And that's not gonna help you. It's not gonna help you at all. It's not gonna help you. Even if you lose weight, even if you're at the right weight, even if physically you look healthy,
Starting point is 00:30:02 but you have this terrible self image, that's also not healthy. So, health that every size really is rooted in the love yourself, don't hate yourself, which I believe. You can love your end. You can love yourself at any size, right? And you can love yourself at any size, but still accept that I'm not the healthiest version of myself.
Starting point is 00:30:23 That's right. And that's what it, that's really, and that's why I, That's, that's body image. It's so much to be objective too. Well, this is why I don't like this movement because it, it, it, it's rooted with the right idea, right? That like you said, having the helping people disconnect the self from body image, but what happens with it, it ends up turning into this thing of justifying or making an excuse to not take care of yourself because I can love myself even though I'm 100. I will give you a great example of this.
Starting point is 00:30:48 Okay. Because obesity is much more common nowadays, it's becoming cool to say negative things about people who are skinny. In particular with women, there's whole songs talking about, you know, men don't want no skinny girl or, you know, guys like, you know, women with, you know, with meat on them, whatever. There's a lot of women out there that are naturally skinny that you're, you're going to potentially cause bad body image and self-image with them as well. So that's the negative side of
Starting point is 00:31:20 this, you know, I'm saying that there's a negative side to this health that every size movement. I don't think it's the movement itself. I think it's the people in it who pervert the movement and who are because they feel bad about themselves in order to make themselves feel better. They're going to make you feel bad because you're skinny or make you feel bad because you don't have a big butt or whatever. The reality is when you're truly healthy, on all aspects, the physical representation of that looks very fit.
Starting point is 00:31:45 It does. Not extreme, it doesn't look extreme, so you're not going to look like a bodybuilder. Well, I'm just going to say it's no different than where I was at when I was competing. When I get on stage, I would be a fool if I said, I'm the healthiest I've ever been in my life. Right, that wasn't a physical representation of health. Right, it wasn't. It's not the healthiest I've ever been.
Starting point is 00:32:03 It's extreme. And that's the thing, you're not going to look like a body builder. You're not going to be a shredded athlete. You're not going to be extreme, but you are going to be fit. You are going to be relatively lean. So for women, this means you'll probably be in the high teens to low 20s in terms of body fat, probably. Everybody's a little different.
Starting point is 00:32:22 For men, you're going to be anywhere between 8 to maybe 13% body fat, although of course there are some individual variances. You're going to have a good amount of strength. You're not going to be like super power lifter of the year, but you're going to be strong enough to perform squats and deadlifts and maybe do some pull-ups and you're going to be able to get up and move and run and play with your kids. You're going to feel fantastic and you're going be able to get up and move and run and play with your kids, you're gonna feel fantastic, and you're gonna look really good. You're gonna look probably the best that you've ever looked because a lot of people don't ever really get to this part
Starting point is 00:32:52 to the stage, you know? Yeah, and it's interesting, because it starts out on the right foot, right? Because this has to be a bit of backlash from all the magazine covers and all the latest. That's exactly what it is. You know, all the vanity that's just completely highlighted that is the extreme.
Starting point is 00:33:07 And that's what people identify as health. And I think that's the unfortunate part is, a lot of times people feel just like, that's unattainable. So therefore, I have to just love myself where I am. And then it gets stuck in that one operating mode. Leave it to us in our society to go from one side to the other side. We were just 20 years ago,
Starting point is 00:33:29 we were idolizing these models that were unhealthy, rail-thin to the point where they were just starving themselves, throwing it up to look this way, and we idolized them for many years on covers and magazines. Now we're going the complete opposite direction where we're saying, oh, bigger is better. And this is healthier. And this is, and then you have the other stream now where it's like, oh, love yourself, even though you're a hundred pounds over weight, which is true. You should love yourself, but to
Starting point is 00:33:55 fool yourself and to think that your healthy is wrong. It's not true. Just as no different than it was for the skinny bitch who's doing cocaine and throwing up, saying that she's healthy. You know, no, are the way we look on the outside is not a necessarily mean that you're not healthy and necessarily doesn't mean you are either. So both are true. So it's like this movement,
Starting point is 00:34:17 we just went from one extreme to the other. I hopefully we'll find somewhere in the middle in the next like 10 to 15 years. Yeah, I think, you know, body I think body acceptance and health at every size. Really, it just means this, don't hate yourself, even if you physically, it's like step one. Yeah, don't hate yourself, just because, okay, fine, your 100 pounds are a weight, 50 pounds are a weight,
Starting point is 00:34:37 you're out of shape, whatever. That doesn't mean hate yourself, it doesn't mean you're a bad person. It doesn't even mean you're fat, you're not fat. Your body may have body fat on it, but that's not who you are. So recognize that, and that's really the first step to becoming healthy anyway,
Starting point is 00:34:51 because once you understand that, then you can make the choices and decisions that are geared around true health at every size, true body acceptance, true love for yourself. And then you'll find that your physical representation will manifest, you know, that'll reflect that. I'll never forget there was this female client that we had, one of the gyms that I managed years ago,
Starting point is 00:35:13 and she was 65 years old. And I only know her age, because I asked her at one point, because she'd come in, we'd talk, and whatever. She had long, you know, gray hair. It. She had long gray hair. It was gorgeous. Gorgeous hair. She didn't dye her hair. She never wore any makeup.
Starting point is 00:35:30 She wasn't extreme in one way or the other, but she was relatively toned, had great movement. She would sometimes come in and do yoga, sometimes she'd lift weights. Always had this great attitude. And all the guys in the gym, and Mindy, we're all in our 20s at this point. All of us would comment on how sexy this woman was.
Starting point is 00:35:49 Like, wow, this woman is really attractive, and she's a lot older than we are. And one day I approached her, because we were hanging out and talking, I told her that, I said, man, I said, I'm gonna be honest with you. I said, all the guys in here always comment over how attractive you are.
Starting point is 00:36:03 And I said, and she kind of blushed, and she's like, thanks, and I said, no, guys in here always comment over how attractive you are. And I said, and she kind of blush and she's like, thanks. And I said, no, it's a true compliment because you're beautiful in the real sense. You emanate this kind of, you know, this true health and beauty. I said, if you don't mind me asking how old are you? And I fully expected her to say she was something like 48 or 50, 65 years old. Blue me though completely blew me away. So I started asking her about nutrition. And I was expecting her to be like, oh, I, you me, completely blew me away. So I started asking her about nutrition, and I was expecting her to be like,
Starting point is 00:36:27 oh, I, you know, chicken breast today, and I, this that, no, no, no. She's like, I just listened to my body, sometimes I train hard, sometimes I train easy, depending on how I feel. She's like, I just really learned, she goes years ago, I had a horrible body image, and years ago I just started really caring for myself,
Starting point is 00:36:43 and she's like, the irony is, is I look better than I ever have. She's like, but I don't even notice now because it's not a big deal. It totally stuck with me back then. And it's later on that that kind of surface, that memory, when I had my own, you know, journey with, with, with nutrition. So, hope that, hope some people take away some stuff from that. Next question is from Tony Low, yo, yo, yo. Oh, that's our boy. He was at our seminar. Yo, yeah. What a Tony. Oh, that's our boy. He was at our seminar. Yeah, what a Tony. What's that town? He's asking, should he stay a trainer or manage a big box gym?
Starting point is 00:37:12 Oh, wow. That's a good question. It depends, man. Decision. If you love training clients and that's your passion, then you're gonna have to stay a trainer. And if you wanna make more money, you're gonna probably have to go private
Starting point is 00:37:25 because the big boxes aren't gonna pay you much. Do you know what? You like leading people more than you like training people, which for me, I actually enjoyed it a little bit more than training people. I like to lead people a little more. Then I'd say go manage a big box gym. You could do pretty well and you learn a lot
Starting point is 00:37:43 about business if you work for the right organization Well, the opportunities there I mean just to even if you don't like leadership or you don't consider yourself like a great leader What an experience that would be to grow So I mean it for me I would look at it like that and then if you haven't done it before like you can always Come back to personal training, but yeah, it's totally different. It's a night and day difference. I don't even think it's a close call for me.
Starting point is 00:38:10 I would for sure manage a big box gym, but that was a butt. The thing with me was, I remember really early, I got over, I didn't like training clients as much as the average trainer that like training clients did. I gravitated towards teaching others and I love to teach trainers that would be better trainers. So if you really, really love training clients and you have a true passion for it, rarely did I ever meet those trainers who ended up going on to be managers and really loving that. Normally the guys and girls that wanted to manage Big Box gyms or become leaders, they kind of, they recognized that early on
Starting point is 00:38:50 and they saw that, like, that's what I, right away, like I knew, like, oh, I would be, as a trainer, I'd be training, but then after work hours, I'd be sitting around with the other trainers, teaching them what I was doing. And I found myself doing that, not getting paid. And so, to me, that was the sign that, okay, I really like doing this part where I'm mentoring these other trainers even more than I actually like doing the work, right?
Starting point is 00:39:15 So I think that is something you have to dig in deep. I feel like this is a conundrum that good trainers at, you know, these big box gyms, because there's a that good trainers at these big box gyms, because there's a lot of trainers at these big box gyms. And let's be honest, the most of them, they're not gonna be making fitness their career. A lot of them are doing it because they're going to school at the same time, or because they like working out.
Starting point is 00:39:38 Some of them are focused and dedicated and love it, and then want to build a career in fitness and at some point if you're good and You're succeeding and you're one of the top trainers in your gym You're facing this problem like okay now what because I'm not gonna make enough money training clients at a 24-feet or a crunch fitness or an LA fitness so what do I do now and and your options are usually or an LA fitness. So what do I do now? And your options are usually management
Starting point is 00:40:06 and move up the ladder, or you gotta go train private where you can charge more and start making more money. Which is kinda what I did. But before that, I'd flirt around with management and leadership and I just found it to be a great training grounds
Starting point is 00:40:22 for learning how to really refine what you teach, like not just to your clients, but now to other educated peers. And that's a whole other skill set that you're going to carry with you going forward. So it's a little brainer. Like I definitely think that if you've never done that before, you're going to learn so much more about your current craft and you're gonna improve on it tremendously. Now, that being said, so the last three months of, so I did a year, about a year and a few
Starting point is 00:40:56 months, I was a trainer and then I was promoted. And then most of my career, I led trainers, right? So I was a manager running a big box gym like that with typically 15 to 25 trainers underneath me. And I did that for like 10 years. Now the final three months before I left the company, I stepped down to be a trainer. And the reason why I did that was because
Starting point is 00:41:20 that was like really easy for me compared to managing a big box. There's so many other things that are different from being just a trainer between running a box. I mean, you're running PNLs, you're paying attention to what everybody else is doing. There's a lot more responsibilities going that which I loved and I like doing that.
Starting point is 00:41:36 But when I knew my mind was somewhere else, like I had my own personal goals and I was building other businesses, that being just a trainer was really easy because I could put half my effort into being a trainer and I still felt that I could do it better than most everybody around me, which gave, which relieved me of some of my time
Starting point is 00:41:56 and allowed me to spend more time in other businesses to grow that where my head kind of headspace was. So I know Tony and I know that we talked when you were here and if you have aspirations of doing other things that are not related to being a trainer or a big box gym, being a trainer is nice because you can still make a good income and you can still focus on the other things you're doing,
Starting point is 00:42:18 you step into a big box gym, good luck. Trying to do a lot of- That's gonna consume you. Yeah. If you're gonna be successful at it, right? There's a lot of this. And running a big gym requires a lot of time, a lot of effort, and a lot of skill.
Starting point is 00:42:30 It's not easy. In fact, some of the best general managers I've ever known throughout my career in the Big Box gyms, they left fitness and are extremely successful in other areas of business. And it's all from the skills that they learn running these big box shims. So like Adam said, if you're going to do that,
Starting point is 00:42:49 that's pretty much what you're going to do. We can't do anything else, why you're doing it. Next question is from 500 days of fuck you. Another top question. It's been a while since we've seen this one. So how is it possible to be vegan and have a bigger ass than just that's not my God that's not possible that that that is fully built on on on meat dude We don't even call so we don't even call Justin's ass and ass we call it
Starting point is 00:43:18 cakes yeah because they're there's layers there layers, it's like you can celebrate birthdays. There's a lot of calories in there. Right, and it's soft and firm at the same time. So here's the thing. It's funny, this question's funny, but also it's kind of interesting because people ask, can you build muscle as a vegan? Absolutely, you absolutely can.
Starting point is 00:43:40 If you have a well planned diet, you know, Bill Pearl had this conversation with Arnold Schwarzenegger years ago because Arnold was under the impression that you couldn't and got in this huge debate and Bill Pearls of freaking beast and he did it on a vegan diet. You just have to be more structured and more, it takes more planning than an omnivore diet
Starting point is 00:43:58 because there are nutrients you can have to seek out that tend to be easier to find with me. And there are certain things that you can't find in just the vegan diet, like creatine. Although your body can synthesize creatine, it's typically not enough. So if you're a vegan, you're gonna benefit much more from supplementing with creatine
Starting point is 00:44:16 than even the average person. It's kind of like learning how to write a bike blind. Like you can do it, you know, but it's a lot easier if you can see, right? It's great, right? It's kind of like that. It's kind of like that. It's possible both ways. It's just it's a little bit more challenging for somebody that is a vegan to do that. But yeah, I know absolutely honestly where I see the biggest disconnect with people trying to build an ass is less about the
Starting point is 00:44:40 Nutrients. It's not their neurological. Yes, it's for sure. In fact, I'm going to shoot a video today, which hopefully will release or be ready around this time. This comes out. So pay attention to my pump TV that talks just about this. And I'm going to share a YouTube about, you know, what I came across in my career, most almost everybody who was trying to build a butt, what was going wrong. And the answer is nothing to do with vegan or protein or that has everything to do with in my career, most almost everybody who was trying to build a butt, what was going wrong. And the answer is nothing to do with vegan or protein or anything that that has everything to do with adjust and just alluded to, which was the neurological disconnect and becoming very quad anterior dominant.
Starting point is 00:45:16 And they just do not have to connect to their posterior chain. So in other words, these are people and there's a lot of them, when they do the best quote-unquote, but building exercises, squats, lunges, you know, they're doing their Bulgarian split squats, you know, all these movements, deadlifts that are really good for the glutes, they're so dominant with the other muscles, like their quadriceps, that the glutes are really getting everything they can get out of the exercise. So the result is, you know, these people who are doing lots of squats, lots of lunges, lots of all these exercises and their quads are growing, they're getting results everywhere else and yet their butt simply won't respond.
Starting point is 00:45:58 And this is, all has everything to do with what's called a recruitment pattern. It has to do with how the muscles fire. And so when you are squatting, you have your quads, your hamstrings, your glutes, which are the main movers, you can definitely get in a position where the glutes aren't doing nearly as much work as they could be doing.
Starting point is 00:46:16 And how you prime your body before your workouts makes a massive difference. Also how you connect to your glutes. And it's much more complicated than just do these movements to get your glutes to fire. It's also learning how to connect your glutes. It's that intention with the movements. We actually talk about this in our butt builder bundle, right?
Starting point is 00:46:39 Yeah, and it's also just the biomechanics. It's taking that time to really focus on increasing depth in your squat, let's say. So that's something where we can now get into a position where we're allowing the glutes to stretch to their full capacity and now contract at their full capacity. Listen, almost everybody, especially if you're above 25 and older, almost everybody is suffering from some sort of a lower cross syndrome and or upper cross syndrome, normally both. And it's very similar to the upper cross with the issues that people have with a bench press, that it just people have a hard time connecting that that you would have the same
Starting point is 00:47:18 problem with the butt, right? So I know most people listening to this have heard of or dealt with themselves. The first time you get under to do like a barbell press and you feel it all in your shoulders and your arms and you don't really feel much in your chest. That is the same problem that a person who is squatting who doesn't feel it in their butt is having only it's down below lower cross syndrome. Is there everything is so anterior driven, they go to do a squat, which should be posterior driven, but guess what, your anterior,
Starting point is 00:47:47 so the front of your body can take over. And it does, because it's more dominant, you've trained it that way. Same thing, someone goes into a bench press, we're so rounded forward that our shoulders and our arms take over the movement, that we can't get ourselves in this retracted position to actually activate the bigger, stronger muscle
Starting point is 00:48:03 that should be moving. You literally can do the same exercise one way and do it another way. Almost be, I mean, people can, unless you train, unless you have a train diet, like I can watch someone do an exercise one way or another way with subtle changes. And I can tell what's firing more. But to the average person, you can watch a squat from someone doing it one way and doing it another way, and the changes are so subtle that it looks the same, but doing it one way, we get way more glue activation,
Starting point is 00:48:33 doing it the other way, they're getting more quad activation. So if you're in this, if you're one of these people where you're not feeling like you're getting the results and your glutes, like you want to not developing the round full glutes from doing those great exercises, then we do have some videos on connecting to your glutes on our YouTube channel, Mind Pump TV, those are free,
Starting point is 00:48:54 but we also have a build your bundle, which includes a program specifically designed for your body to train, but also there's a modification in there that teaches you movements to prime and train your body so train, but also there's a modification in there that teaches you movements to prime and train your body so that your glutes do fire better when you do these exercises. So I believe the build your butt bundle combines
Starting point is 00:49:13 what maps and a ball like a map's aesthetic, right? So it combines the two, puts the mod in there, discounts everything, and the results are pretty phenomenal. Also, go to the YouTube channel, mind pump to be there's the free videos there subscribe to that channel uh... there's three hundred sixty five videos a year a lot more than most people
Starting point is 00:49:34 and we're gonna keep doing that we might even increase that uh... also if you go to mind pump media dot com you can find the billed your butt bundle and you can also enroll in thirty days of coaching which is absolutely for free. Thank you for listening to Mind Pump. If your goal is to build and shape your body, dramatically improve your health and energy and maximize your overall performance, check out our discounted RGB Superbumble at MindPump
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