Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 646: Eating & Training to Compensate for Hormone Issues, Mental & Physical Impact of the Holidays, Embarrassing Sex Stories & MORE

Episode Date: November 23, 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 if they recommend competing for a person who has had hormonal issues in the past such thyroid issues, amenorrhea, etc, the affect the holidays have on mental and physical health and staying in a routine during the holidays, if recent CrossFit guests have changed their minds about CrossFit and it’s impact and their most embarrassing sex stories. Mind Pump #PodcastHard (4:32) Sal’s son Robotic tournament and scouting future employees(15:40) Royal and Rogue Sal (22:32) Thrive Market (23:33) Quah question #1 – Would you recommend competing for a person who has had hormonal issues in the past such thyroid issues, amenorrhea, etc.? (26:01) Mind Pump Organifi Cookies/Brownies (37:45) Quah question #2 – How do you think the holidays affect your mental and physical health? How do you stay in a routine during the holidays? (41:53) Quah question #3 – Have recent CrossFit guests changed your mind about CrossFit and its impact? (53:28) Quah question #4 – Your most embarrassing sex stories? (1:00:21) Knowledge bomb! – How to use trigger sessions? (1:09:40) Related Links/Products Mentioned: 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 Amenorrhea Rules – IFBB Organifi (Official Mind Pump sponsor) Use the code “mindpump” for 20% off Ep 640-Beyond The Barbell - Mind Pump Media Ep 638-Jason Khalipa - Mind Pump Media Ep 514 Girls Gone WOD - Mind Pump Media MAPS Programs People Mentioned: Lewis Howes (@LewisHowes)  Twitter/Instagram Bradley Martyn (@bradleymartyn)  Instagram/Twitter Robert Oberst (@robertoberst)  Instagram Brendan Schaub (@BrendanSchaub)  Twitter/Instagram Rich Roll (@richroll)  Instagram/Twitter Chris "Drama" Pfaff (@drama)  Instagram Christina Rice | Health Coach (@addicted_to_lovely)  Instagram Arya Saffaie IFBB Pro Olympian (@arya_saffaie)  Instagram 4x Mr. Olympia Physique Champ (@jeremy_buendia)  Instagram Andy Galpin (@drandygalpin)  Instagram Beyond The Barbell (@btbpodcast)  Instagram Jason Khalipa (@jasonkhalipa)  Instagram Girls Gone WOD® Podcast (@girlsgonewodpodcast)  Instagram Juli Bauer Roth (@paleomg)  Instagram 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)

If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one I don't give me started that shit. I said me, Adam and Justin, and I, improper English, Justin, Adam, and myself, have some fun conversation in the intro. We talk about our LA interview marathon. Nobody can podcast harder than my and pop. We podcast hard. Then we talk about my son's robotic competition.

I actually was building some relationships with some of the kids trying to hedge my bets because I know we have some future. It's future. Yeah. Kates my son. We can be the next Steve Jobs. Exactly. I'm trying to figure that out there.

I recruit that kid. We talk about my new deodorant. It's Royal and Rogue scented pit paste that I found on Thrive Market. It smells like an off putting a king. It has some of the best prices you'll find on organic non-GMO products, both foods and cosmetic products. You'll actually get a massive discount, by the way. All you gotta do is go to thrivemarket.com,

forward slash mine pump, you'll get one month for free of the membership. You'll get $20 off your first three orders of $49 or more, and you'll get free shipping. We also mentioned Organify, which is our other sponsor, actually Justin was eating all the cookies. Finally brought them. Hell yeah.

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Then we get into the questions. The first question was, what do we recommend that people compete if they've already had hormonal issues? So let's say somebody's had thyroid issues or has had issues with irregular men's cysts if they're a woman. Should they compete in competitions like bikini or figure or bodybuilding? Find out in this episode. The next question was, how do we think the holidays affect our mental and physical health?

And what do we recommend for people so that they can stay in a routine during the holidays? Find out why I don't give a shit. Find out why Adam wants people to buy him toilet paper. Bah humbuk. Not joking. The next question was, have our recent CrossFit guests changed our minds? Or is Justin still bitter? About CrossFit.

Nye! He's so bitter. And finally, we share some of our most embarrassing sex stories. This is where it gets weird. There are some horrible ones in there. Also, by the way, stay tuned to the end of this episode. We're introducing a new segment once a week. At the end of the episode, you are going to get a knowledge

bomb. It's like a three or five minute knowledge bomb. You won't want to miss it. So stay tuned until the very end. Also, we have obviously fitness programs that we design and that we sell, the best fitness programs on the market, we know this because we've done studies on them ourselves. They're called Maps Programs. One Maps Program in particular is probably the one that we recommend the most for the holidays.

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making you look awesome in 2018, find out more about the sexy, athlete bundle at mindpumpmedia.com. Hashtag solitasur. Salatosser. That didn't work out. That didn't work out. All right, it is t-shirt time.

That's my way of doing it. How many reviews, Doug? 20 reviews. Let's rip this out. Give it a way, six shirts. Six shirts. Six shirts. So first up is M Madden 35 sluggermeister. Grr.

Sluggermeister. Zen Doggy, Nancy D, Siouxfall Kids. All of you are winners and the name I just read to iTunes at mindbumpmedia.com. Your shirt size, your shipping address, and we'll get that right out to you guys did it dude Dude I am Extremely proud of us were you guys exhausted or what no, yeah, you were a lot of what you got up at eight o'clock earlier on

I got up at eight o'clock. Yeah, no dude. I had to get up at so Just so we have a little context for the audience. We went to LA and did 10 podcasts in Three days with a bunch of different guests We I think we invented the hashtag podcast hard. Yeah, I don't know if it's I will No, it didn't exist. We podcasted to failure. I definitely We did it. We did we did phase one to fail your podcasting. We had that moment when we were talking to JJ who was the very last podcaster that we were with

and we were talking about, we were just all talking about the importance of balance and health and this and all the thing in myself is like, dude, I'm so fried right now. I am over. I am overworked. Yeah, it's so fried. Dude, what a great lineup.

We had, let's start with the beginning. We met with Lewis House. Great dude. We, great dude. You know, sometimes you, sometimes you meet people who are successful and it's a let down because they're idiots. This was not the case with Lewis House. He's a hugger. He's, first of all, he's a hugger. That's true. He's a, you're up my shoulder. He's like a, he's a long hugger. Yeah, you can't if you he did embrace it's not a hug. It's an embrace. Yeah He's like genuinely friendly. What did you get? I mean did you guys get a chest circle? I got a choice I know I got a shoulder circle. I got a crotch grab Yeah, yeah, different but but super smart guy very just genuine nice dude great podcasts

Which already dropped so I'm sure people have already listened to that Then where do we go straight from there? We went from there to was it Bradley Martin? Yeah, Bradley was next. Yeah. We met with Bradley Martin who if you're not familiar with who he is. I don't even want to. That one. No, no, no, no, no, this is gonna be so epic. I don't want to share much about this one. Dude, you're no giveaways. When that episode drops and people listen to it, they're gonna be like, what? Yeah. Holy shit. Yeah. Let's just say we're coming in hot.

Let's just say a few minds were blown and things were shattered in terms of perceptions and whatnot, so wait for that one. And then who was the third person that brought? Robert Obers. Robert Obers, he's... Which it was what? World Strongest Man competitor.

hilarious. Yeah, it was fun talking to him. He's just a huge human being. He was one of my favorites too, because I probably did the least amount of homework on him coming into this. And so, and- He's a natural.

Yeah, oh, absolutely. After we hung up the mics, we all talked to him about doing his own show. I'm like, man, you've just, you've got great, great charisma. He's funny. Great stories. Great stories. Yeah, and he's a fucking just, I just forget that humans

come in that size. I always forget every time I see someone like that with John Jones. Dude, he picked up Adam, like Adam was a child. Yeah, that was so. He literally put you in his eye. He was like, baby, we're taking a photo before we leave and Doug and Doug says,

hey, let's do something fun and right away, he just like scoops up underneath my butt. Just poop. He looks like a little kid. Like a little kid. Adam's eye, he looked up, did you see what Adam did? He looked up at him and he looked at the big eye. Yeah, I instantly, my thumb just went in my mouth.

It's stars. Yeah. And then the next day, then the next day, we start off the next day with Brendan Chobb. Yeah, oh man. Oh man, fun. We wanted to do that one forever. Brendan Chobb is, so he's one of the hosts

of Fighter in the Kid podcast. One of our favorite podcasts We've been talking about since they started my hilarious very smart guy very funny guy great storyteller So we had a good good time there and then who came after him? It was Brendan Schobb and drama. Oh, yeah Chris, how do you say his last name? Puff yeah, how do you play actually Actually, no, it was Rich Roll before Chris. Oh, it was Rich Roll.

So it's right, Brandon, Rich Roll. And then it was Chris Fath. How about Rich's house, man? Dude, he has his own little compound. It's an awesome place. It's a trip. You know what? It's like what tripped me out.

I was trying to explain to Katrina, I'm all, typically I would like it, but it's like a super... It's like modern kind of... It's modern meat-hip-eeck. It's modern meat-hip-ee. It's what's kind of weird about it. Hate that word, chic. You could see me living in a place like that.

Yeah, I could see that. Yeah, I could see that, for sure. I mean, he had converted, this is kind of cool. He converted these, what else is called? I can't, no, they're not portable. Shipping containers. Shipping containers. He had converted two shipping containers.

One of them is this kid's bedroom, right? So one of his kids bedroom is a shipping container and then a shoe box. Then he has an office that's a shipping container. So, and then he's got this like multi-million dollar home on the top of the Hollywood Hills. That's just overlooking the area. It's mean it's absolutely amazing.

Gorgeous, gorgeous. He was really cool. He was cool. And then Cref Course Drama was awesome. Another person that completely... He surprised us. Well, he surprised me because I didn't know enough, I didn't know a lot about him now.

I knew him from Robin Bigg. And he's extremely intelligent, dude. Very, very smart guy. Very smart very smart business again another very charismatic person He has his own podcast and that was the second day then the third day we got interviewed by Liz from the podcast at Univision right always we love we love you Liz Yeah, great great, and then we had Christina from actually adultulter's podcast. She is such a little badass.

A little bit fire. Dude, she, she was the thing about it. First guess, actually first person ever to interview Mind Pump and like be able to wrangle us and talk over us, dude. We're impossible to do that. Like, yeah, talk shit to us. Yeah, it was great.

That's the tough thing about interviewing us as soon as we go, you gotta give up the podcast. Like here we go. There it is. No, she wrangled us a bunch of times. She's a little hustler, she's awesome. Yeah, 22. And then we had a 20, 22 years old.

I really, I really, really enjoy talking to her just because we talk a lot, and I know sometimes if there's anything that, you know, that I think we have a bad habit of, is speaking to ourselves, meaning like what we would want to hear, the 35 to 38-year-old versions of us. Bodybuilder directed for the first time. Whatever, I'm saying it's just stuff that we're currently dealing with interest, or what

we see in the industry because of what we're looking at, where, you know, coming from a 22-year-old's perspective who pretty much was born and raised with Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and all this stuff like that, and to hear what it's like and food blogging. And so to hear her perspective in the same industry was very unique. And how cool is that? She talks about, she interviewed a seven-year-old girl

she had on the show, that's really cool. Yeah, I'm gonna look for that in here. That was very interesting for her to do that, and I thought that was pretty neat that she shared that. I thought that was really cool. Super smart girl. If you guys had to pick, I know this is not fair. Don't feel asshole.

If you had to pick two, you're two personal favorites, who and why? Favorites? Yeah. Not the favorite people, favorite, like what it, like... Well, I know the audience is gonna be most blown away by Bradley Martin's. I can pretty much guarantee that by his interview.

And I don't want to go too much into it. I don't want to ruin it. But it was shockingly different than when I anticipated. So I know the audience, if one they're listening, they're not coming. Yeah, but I don't want to hear what you think that what's going to do. Yeah, I mean, the audience is. What is your personal two favorite? And why I like Brendan Shaw was definitely one of my favorites just because I've followed them for a long time.

I've heard, you know, multiple shows of them and just to have that sort of rapport and the podcast itself was great. He told great stories. I thought we were really on fire on that episode. And I think that's going to be a great one. And on top of that, like you guys mentioned the, what's her podcast again?

The addicted to love. The addicted to love. Honestly, our podcast is actually adulterous. Actually, dude, I have really enjoyed it. I just felt like we were ourselves. You know, I haven't felt like that as we were being interviewed by anybody before. So I gotta give her some love for that.

Yeah, I'm not gonna, I think I'll say that. I'll say her too. And then the other one's a tough one. I still gonna say Bradley Martin, because it shocked me. He opened up quite a bit. His crew is really cool, great jam. We had a lot of fun.

Could have gone forever on that podcast. We had another person scheduled, so we had to leave. But I think we record like a two hour podcast with him. I could have easily been a three or four. Oh, especially once the once the weed started going around. Once that's our goal. No, no, slow us down for sure. I would I'm going to for sure, Riley Martin, just because I've I've followed him since the very beginning. And you guys will dig it to about something that him and I kind of got into midway through the podcast that that was pretty funny.

Oh yeah, that was classic. Right. So that one for sure is one of my favorites. And I just think he's, I think he's a cool dude and I think that there's a lot more to him and I just see kind of where he's at right now. I thought that was it. And I love that, you know, and this always happens to us. You know, if you don't know or you don't listen to mind plump. So I, when we go to interview some of these people, it's, you know, and this always happens to us. You know, if you don't know or you don't

listen to mind plump, so I, when we go to interview some of these people, it's, you know, a lot of these guys, especially at this level, are so fucking busy. They're not, they're not listening to every mind pump episode. They don't know everything that we're sharing we're talking about. They don't know a lot about us. Most people do a little bit of homework and then it's like, okay, here we go. Here we go, right? And you can always feel the energy in the room when someone doesn't really know us and you can just tell they're what they're assuming, you know, whatever they're assuming. Whether they think you're a bunch of bros or you know, we're assholes or whatever. I don't even know what's going through head.

I just know it's not a comfortable feeling for everybody and it's the funniest thing ever because there's this moment of awkwardness before we start, you know, not really making eye contact, not really talking very much. Just like, okay, we're gonna do this. And then the mics come on and then you can watch the energy shift and change. Bradley, to me, was one of the biggest that I saw that shift with. And then the second one, and that's why I'm picking this is my second one, was drama. Drama. Because drama, I felt, and Breonna even told me that when she booked it that he was really

hesitant to do the show with us because he's like, I don't really know anything about fitness. Oh, he thought so, he got the... He was so concerned that we were going to take him in a fitness direction and talk nothing but working out and macros and that, that he was like, and she kept saying that, no, no, no, you just wait till you meet the boys, just wait till you meet the boys, you know, you're gonna like him, you're gonna like him. And so when we got to his office,

he was still on a conference call, but really what it felt like was just like, I just don't wanna do this interview. And we're just kinda sitting there, Doug, setting up, and I'm like waiting for him to come into the podcast, where I was like, oh, okay, here we go. Yeah, and I talked to these media.

And then I felt like that when he first came in, and then about, I don't know, 15 minutes or 20 minutes in the interview, you could tell the energy completely shift. And then, you know, he, a couple him, Bradley, you know, it's always awesome. We were on a crakey tight schedule. I have a system of people.

Yeah, we were on a tight schedule. Got a level 180. When, yeah, when you see them flip like that, and to the point where they're like looking at you, like, oh, we can keep going and like, following us out to leave. And we're like, oh, we gotta go to the next interview. you like, oh, we can keep going and like following us out to leave and we're like, oh, we gotta go to the next interview. So sorry, like we gotta do the skin.

That was awesome. Yeah. It was super awesome. So we did all that. We get home. We we arrive like at what nine, you know, go to bed late because I'm still buzzing. Next morning, I wake up 6 a.m. because it's my son's robotics tournament.

So they have this big robotics tournament that they do every year. Yeah. Fifth place. Unfortunately, so they didn't qualify for regionals this time. But they do some sophisticated robots. So here's the thing like I'm sitting there and I'm really, I'm watching all these kids who are designing these robots to perform these tasks. I mean, here's what here's what it is. Keep in mind, this is from mind, this is from kids who are in fifth and sixth grade all the way up to 14 year old kids, different varying degrees of skill and difficulty or whatever. These kids are given tasks. There's like, I don't know how many tasks, and you can try doing all of them, or you can try only doing some of them, and

the tasks range from, you know, pick this block up over here and put it over there to put these two pieces together to hit the switch or whatever and it has to be all autonomous. You have to and they don't give you any other instructions other than that. So you have to build a robot from scratch. You have to design what it's going to look like, how it's going to move. Then you have to program it and you got to look at these programs, these kids right. It looks like I don't know how the fuck they know what they're doing. I'm looking at these programs, like this is crazy.

You push a button, and the robot does what it does, and you can look at the different robots from the different teams. None of them look the same, at all. They all look different. They all have different attachments, different arms. So crazy. And then there was the high school robotics team, which obviously isn't competing in this one because they're too old, but the high school robotics team

then had displays of what their robots look like. And one of the robots that was built by this high school was a T-shirt cannon. So they built a T-shirt cannon that now they bring to the football games and it's kind of like a mascot and they drive around the field and they blast. That's badass. And it's like, it's got the fucking

You know, it's got the the compressed, you know oxygen or whatever or whatever that is CO2 and it rides around and it aims and freaking blasts And people dude these kids are crazy. I love the whole environment But anyway, I was there from 80m to 7 or 8 p.m. Oh my god. Yeah, dude. It was it was pretty but it was excited that long, huh? It's like multiple rounds. How does it work? So there's there were 40 like how do they like how do they can be? How do you get fifth place like what what are the what are the what's criteria? So there are 40 teams that competed. Oh wow. So fifth out of 40's not a big deal Well, I'm not a fifth. I was like oh well because he didn't qualify for regionals, but there's 40 teams

You you get points for all these different tasks, and you get some points if you do some of a little bit of them, you get full points if you do all of them, then there's bonus points, and then you get penalties if you have to touch your robot while it's still in play. So let's say it trips over something, turns over or it gets to like readjust. Or your program didn't fucking work right, and you got to grab it and place it back to the starting point. You get a five point deduction. You get, you know, you can get deductions for a few different things. So at the end of it, you get your total score and then based on that score, it determines where you rank in this particular competition. But then you also get judged on robot design. Then they also have to do presentations where there's a theme for the competition.

For this competition, the theme was water, like water conservation. So the kids also have to come up with their own designs and ingenious ways of, you know, how to save water. So like my son's team came up with a way of using gray water. Gray water is the water that comes from your shower and when you wash your hands and stuff. And they came up with a way for it to be circled around so that you could use it in your toilets so that you don't have to use the same,

you're not wasting a bunch of extra water. And so kids come up with different ways of, you know, conserving water and they have to present that. Then they have to present like core, what's called core values. And all these different things. And again, dude, I'm so proud right now, my kid. First of all, I'm proud because leading up to this,

their practices are going till seven, or eight o'clock at night. So not only did you go to school, Thursday, Friday, and they practice two or three days a week until five p.m. anyway, but leading up to the tournament, they're doing like a lot of work. So my kid is in school and then he finished his school and then he's working on robotic stuff until 8 p.m. and then he has to go home and do his homework so he did this like two or

three nights in a row then he did the whole tournament. Poor kid was so tired this morning looks like a zombie. I was like basically feeding him his breakfast but he had another leadership moment that I was so proud of. They do a practice round in the beginning, where the first round doesn't count, and every team gets to do this practice round. And one of the obstacles was reversed. One of the legal obstacles was backwards

when in comparison to how they've been practicing at school. So obviously the robot couldn't perform the task and they did horribly. And so the kids are kind of crapped out and they're going back and my son's like, that, I don't remember which one it was, the water obstacle, whatever he goes, that was backwards.

It was backwards, it wasn't right. So he goes back, starts talking with his team, and I'm just observing. I'm like, at first I'm like, what? I'm like, you say it, but I didn't say anything. I said, I don't know how to say anything, see what happens. So he talks with his team, and then him and one of the other kids

goes up to the judges, which is intimidating. These are all like big judges, go whatever, walk over and they come up with their laptop, and I can see my son and this kid talking to the judge, and I can see the judge kind of arguing with them, and they're going back and forth, and then the judge goes and looks at the table, and this and that.

Remember, these are the four tables that are set up, roped off, like you can't go near them or whatever. He goes over looks at him and he's like and he shakes his head and he goes over and he flips the thing over and I talk to my son like what happened he goes yeah they messed up they had it on backwards. Like fuck yeah dude you went over there and got them straightin' him out you know what I mean? You got it all fixed but you had the you know how many kids are on a team? It depends on the team some have his little or four, some as many as like seven or eight to bang on the school. There were all girls teams. A lot of the teams were co-ed. My son's team is just

boys because they have a girls team at the same school. So just super awesome, dude. Really, really cool stuff. And it's cool to see these kids because you know that you learn so many skills from life skills from any sport or competition, right? That you're in. I mean, anybody who's played sports, you guys talk about it this all the time, the life skills that you learn.

But the thing about the robotics I really like is I'm looking at this and I'm like, holy shit, these are like work skills too. You know what I mean? It's applicable. Yeah, it's like super applicable. In fact, Google and Tesla and Apple, they're, they're scouting.

Not only that, they have the own, like some of these top level tournaments for robotics happen at Google. Of course. You know those motherfuckers are scouting this kid. Of course. Yeah. How funny is that dude?

That's great. Of course. Already scouting. That's great. That is crazy. That is crazy. Yeah. Anyway, so you guys are gonna ask me why I smell so good

Let's keep rubbing my armpits in your Yeah, what is that? You guys are getting I know what I less hate I know I wanted to get it I give you a lot of crap all the time about not smelling really good and you actually do smell really good What do you what are you working on? You guys are trying to figure out why I was I thought I actually thought it was Dug at first and then I realized oh that's sour What you got the scent is the aroma the scent is royal and rogue That's the name of the scent

That's the name of the so I use it. I use it. I use it lotion or is it no? No, no, no, no, so I use I use a natural deodorant called pit paste which normally sucks. I'm telling you Stop there's only one time bro. You smelled me and I need to be talking about this forever. No, it doesn't. Stop. There's only one time, bro. You smelled me and I need to talk about this forever. You smell great though now, dude. Yeah, right. So anyway, it's pit-paced. It's the name of it.

It's all organic. It's made with shea butter. Oh, that's what you're wearing right now. Yeah, but what were you wearing before? There was something you were wearing before. There was one day, it was the time, it was when we were doing the presentation. Orange theory.

Orange theory, where I didn't wear any deodorant and I was nervous. Uh-oh. And then I had to run across the street and I did something really bad, I actually put deodorant on and then didn't buy the deodorant. Yeah. That was the ass. I was there.

I witnessed that. I did, bro. I went and read it and put it on. And then it left it there. I don't know why I did that. I got to throw a lot of it. Somebody had a bad day. But anyway, so I had to eat some deodorant.

So Pipp paste, Pipppaste about on our sponsor, Thrive Market, for $7, normally $10 or $11. So there you go. If you want natural deodorant, it's all natural. It's completely natural. There's no aluminum in it, which is not good. Aluminum in your dough, not a good thing. Definitely don't buy any anti-perspirance.

And then most of them, what you put on your body is what goes in your body. It's really not that different from when you eat something. I mean, it's different, but it's not. It adds up. I mean, that's one of those things you start thinking about and I've started to do that too. And like, shampoos and soaps and deodorants, all these things. It's like, all these chemicals are just bombarding yourself

with constantly, it's the chronic, you know, constant bombarding of it that's the issue. What happened when I talking yourself with constantly, it's the chronic, you know, constant bombarding of it, that's the issue. What happened when I talk about this with people, then I get the whole like, oh, everything's bad for me. I know. You know the reality is, the stuff you put in your mouth as shitty as it can be, is far more regulated than stuff you put on your body.

Way more. Way more regulated than stuff you could put on your body or something. Or it makes sense because it's more dangerous, right? I mean, obviously if you're swallowing something, it's a little more dangerous than probably stuff you could put on your body or sweat sense because it's more dangerous right I mean obviously if you're swallowing something here it's a little more dangerous than probably putting on your skin well do you like feminine feminine hygiene products that we've talked about this before like tampons and stuff they are you know made at a cotton the cotton that's in a tamp in in a tampon is regulated very different it's

regulated as a textile I believe but it's literally inside your body and it's like full of chlorine, full of pesticides and other things and women are putting it in their, you know, their vage or whatever, and it's absorbing. Or whatever. I don't know. Or whatever.

Whatever else you're using. But I was like trying to keep it classy. You can save a gin at your end. We're still 13. I can't save a gin at all. I don't know why. I gotta say it's stupid or so clinical. It's so clinical.

It's so eew, yeah. I wanna make it sound clinical. It's like you, yeah, yeah, yeah. I wanna make it sound pretty. Yeah, anyway, yeah. Bring on the bird, Douglas. This quaz 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 super foods to help give your health and 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. Alright, our first question is from Noughty Gagnon 14. Would you recommend competing for a person who has had hormonal issues in the past such as thyroid issues

and amenorea, et cetera? Oh, definitely not. Totally not. Yeah, totally not. Especially not. It's one of the worst things you could do for your hormones if you're healthy. Yeah.

You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, no, I mean, yeah. You would have, this has, okay, so even like when we talked to Robert Otis the other day, right? When we, he was sharing like, you know, I mean, you would have, this has, okay, so even like when we talked to Robert Otis the other day, right, he was sharing like, you know, the way he was eating and training is like, you know, if you have this, like,

you know you're fucking your body up and you just don't care it, then you wanna sacrifice it for the sport because you love the sport so much then who am I to judge you, right? So that's kind of how I answer somebody who asked me a question like this. Like, I mean, if you grew up your whole life like aspiring to be a bodybuilder or want

to get into competing, because it's like, you're all into that. I could totally understand that. And you just know that that is not the ideal thing that you should be doing hormonally to your body. And if you already have past issues, yeah, no, this is probably going to exaggerate them. But who am I to tell you you can't do that? So they're just asking recommend. Right. Yeah. And but it's had no brainer like no, if you came up, if you were calling me up and thinking about hiring me, I'd be like, yeah, you're not, shouldn't do this. Yeah, probably not a good fit for you. No, it just seems like common sense. But you know, I think people still think it's that's like a healthy

representation still. So then, well, I've had issues, but maybe I should still go through that process. This will get me fit. Yeah, no, it'll get me fit. No, so I also want to say the statement here, men and women are very different in this regard. They're very different. The male body is far, far more resilient to calorie restriction

and extreme exercise than the female body is far, far more resilient to calorie restriction and extreme exercise than the female body is. In the sense that the female body, when you're looking at things like, quote unquote, metabolic damage, hormonal dysfunction, all that stuff, it really affects women. I know more women that have fucked up their metabolism from competing that I know, man.

It's just, here's a thing, like, hand it like more than double. Here's what you want to understand. Let's say you're a female and you want to get lean and shredded for a bikini or figure competition and you do everything right, everything. And what I mean by right is you're hiring the right coach, you're doing the right amount of exercise, you're doing the right amount of exercise,

you're eating you know the right amount of food, but you're still getting your body fat down to single digit body fat percentage, still not good for you. Regardless of how you do it, now of course you can do it a lot worse by doing things the wrong way and really fucking shit up, but even if you do it right, the female body responds to being extremely lean in a very negative way because the female body evolved to bear a child or to produce life or whatever, whereas a male body just needs to produce sperm. To two completely different requirements on the body, and if you get too lean, even if you do it right or whatever, I mean, a menoria is when you get,

menstrual irregularities. So period style or- Which is extremely common in women's bikini. Oh dude, it's gonna happen. Yeah, it's almost guaranteed. Like most women will tell you that, like when you do it, like, oh yeah, you're gonna lose your period.

That's right. Yeah. One of the measures of hormonal health for a woman, one of, because there's many of them, but one of the things that you can look at to see if your hormones are in balance for your body is your mencise, the how heavy your period is, how long it lasts,

how severe your PMS symptoms may be, whether you're regular or every month it's a different, it looks like sometimes your cycle's 45 days and sometimes it's 15 days or whatever. Those are really good signs that your hormones aren't necessarily balanced for your body and it's one of the first things to get fucked up when you're competing for a show.

So definitely don't recommend this for anybody who's had hormonal issues and if you're healthy, expect hormonal issues. Expect hormonal issues from competing. Now, this doesn't mean that you can't compete, get changes in your hormones, and then kind of rebuild and fix them, because you can, but everybody,

anybody, okay, I'll dare anybody to do this, if you're natural. Testual hormones, when you're, you know, normal working out, to do this if you're natural. Testual hormones when you're normal working out, normal dieting, relatively lean, but not shredded, just healthy. And then testual hormones right before your competition. And I guarantee they're gonna be very different. No matter what, they're very, very different.

That would have been a fun thing for me to do. Yeah, I wish I had done that. And men experience this as well. It's just we tend to bounce back a little better, but even for a man doing this too often, you'll get issues with testosterone and cortisol as well. You're redlining this whole time. I mean, it's an extreme. You gotta keep that in perspective.

Well, that being said, okay, and we're talking about this person right here with all these issues, but a healthy normal person, okay, when I competed, part of what kind of helped my social media grow was sharing this process, right? My transformation process. And I would share with people too that you don't have to make yourself into a martyr to get to that lean either. So that's what's partially wrong with competing

is the culture. The culture has turned into this thing where you have to like abuse your body to get to that point and it's you know Beastmo no days off and it's the two days of cardio and the super low calorie like no you can actually in restricting water and sodium and There's a lot of things that are that's like Misrepresented and there's definitely a better way to do this And I remember it was not until probably the last 10 days, did I start talking, I was remember sharing this on YouTube and saying like, listen, this is at this point,

here's where the real sport of it comes in. Up into this point, it's just making real. But that's not, yeah, like you do that that way, which is great because you've been able to highlight that we can sort of limit this down to more more like a 10 or day or like a two week sort of like super intensity like leading up to it. Where's everybody else? 12 needed this. Yeah, it's the whole 12 weeks. I look at the same way of training for like a like a professionals any other professional sport, right? Like if

you're hammering your own peak it. Yeah, exactly. You want a peak at the at game time and that's when you are. So I think that that's there's a lot of people, a lot of coaches, given really bad information. So that's the scary part and why I think right away, everyone's quick to be like, no, don't do this. But I mean, I got all the way down to, you know, 3% and 3% is not a healthy place to stay. And I didn't stay there very long. I mean, I was within a week I was already back up four or five percent body fat real quick. So you can't, well you actually can't say you can't.

Not a lot of people can sustain single digit or low single digit body fat for a long period of time. And it's, I, especially not women. Yeah, especially not right. Now let me ask you this Adam, because you have a lot of experience with this. Let's say, and this is gonna be a general question. So I know it depends, but let's say

you have healthy a person doing everything right, you know, dieting right, exercising right, and competing. How many shows do you think they should limit themselves to per year? Oh, that's a really good question. You know why that's such a good question is because just now, like I think just a couple months ago, the IFBB and NPC or IFBB, excuse me, changed their rules and point system for how somebody can get on Olympia stage. So this is actually what you just said is a topic I've been wanting to address because there, everybody thinks, oh, this is more fair. Really what it's about, it's about the IFB

wanting to get more competitors doing more shows and requires, because the way it used to be is this, right? So if you don't know how this works, if you're a pro like Arya, you win. So let's say this is the new season comes up right now, right? So we're heading into the new season. Let's say Arya goes out and he wins first place at show. He would automatically be in Olympia for next year. Just because he took first place right away, right? We're now they're saying it doesn't matter if you win a show. It's the total

amount of points throughout the year. So basically is telling all these competitors that they're going to have to get they're going to have to compete at least probably five shows a year. What the that's not good. No, it's not at all, which is, it's really backwards thinking because and they, it used to be like Mr. Olympia, who, if, you know, so Jeremy Bundy automatically qualifies for next year, so he doesn't do any shows if he doesn't want to. If you're a winner, you're, you're automatically

in the next year, you don't go to do a single show until Olympia next year. You got to defend your title. It's all you got to prove, which I think is how it should be, right? Like, so these guys that have qualified like Arya have to go that this season, and they're going to have to do multiple show after show after show. That is taxing. It's very, very taxing on the body.

And you see, and you see competitors, when they do this, their body starts to lose, you know, it looks different. They lose sharpness, all of a sudden it's not responding the way it's just so what would you say? How many shows do you think a healthy and you're right? That's the depends part right? Because you're going to have a genetic anomaly too like someone like Arya. Like Arya literally is doing a show probably every two months and he keeps himself pretty

maintained. Yeah, he maintains really well. He looks healthy. You know, and he never lets himself get it. He's always got abs. So he doesn't have to like extreme diet. Yes, he doesn't extreme get it. He's always got abs, the guys. So he doesn't have to like, extreme diet. Yes, he doesn't extreme cut.

It's just like he tightened some things up. And that one, when I was, so I did four shows in a year. That was the most I did in one year. And, and that felt like, it felt like a ton. But it did make things a little bit easier to keep myself in good shape and not let myself rebound and go the other way. So there's, you know, no one's coming right. Right, right. Exactly. So I would way. So there's- Otherwise, one of the cause, you know, another one's coming right behind it.

Right, exactly. So as soon as I get to the show, I'd probably have a few days, maybe a week where I could let myself kind of eat whatever, lay off the training a little bit, but then I was right into prep again. And so, I think there's some of that that, I think some of that stress, and this is something that comes from like Dr. Andy Galpin, I think some stress is very good

for us. I think it's important. Absolutely. I think some stress is very good for us. I think it's important. Absolutely. I think that putting ourselves in these stress states, even what we just did, the sprinting on the podcasting thing, and as stressed out as that was, and I know unhealthy, it would be to run like that all the time, but I think there are some health benefits

to actually pushing ourselves that way. So it's really more about, if you're going year after year, lots of shows like that, like, oh, man, you're in for it. At the end of the day, you just got to listen to your body. I have a client now that I'm working with that I've been working with now for. I want to say six months, maybe, maybe about six months, and she competed 12 times over the period of a couple of years. Like I just did a lot of competitions. And man, we are doing some serious repairing.

Like serious repairing to where, I can't put her over 1300 calories. I made a business off of it. I literally had no intention to online coaching when I did it. I had no one's ever seen me, put it on my Instagram. No one's ever heard me even mention it or talk about it. But I had a very successful business and all I was helping was mostly women's bikini, men's physique and bodybuilders that as I was going through the circuit that I was meeting that I just was

getting terrible coaching. And I listened to them like, no, dude, that's not what you do. This is what you do. And so after a while, like, fuck, I just need to do this thing. And that full time because there's a full time amount of athletes that are going through this, that are getting poor coaching. So I can imagine, because I know you're still doing that.

That's crazy. All this restrictive talk just made me hungry. Just, it's not. How do you like, why can't you wait till the end of the podcast? Because, because it's right here in front of me. I brought them waiting for you guys, been talking shit forever about me bringing them, I brought what do you think?

I mean, they're super tasty, right? I'm loving it. What's in here? I know there's some walnuts and... I'm instastoring it right now. It's literally an entire tray full of cookies and brownies. These are our mind pump, organify cookies. Yeah, so this is...

Oh, this is not regular. No, goofball. These are... I thought you were bringing my holidays. These are protein cookies and brownies. I'm proud of you, Spat. Yeah, so this is oh this is not regular. No, goofball. These are these are bringing these are protein cookies and brownies Bad. Yeah, this is so those have been following me on Instagram. They've seen me a post a story When we make these and everyone's been giving me shit for not bringing them to you guys to try out I'm gonna try some right now try out. So what do we have here? We have so there's peanut. There's a regular cookie There's all there's an all a peanut butter than the so the bigger ones have walnuts in them

Mm-hmm the smaller ones are just straight peanut butter and There's an all a peanut butter. So the bigger ones have walnuts in them. The smaller ones are just straight peanut butter and then the chocolate is cocoa peanut butter. A brownie. And you put protein powder in it. All of them. They're all protein cookies. Really?

Yeah. I'm not gonna be honest audience. I'm not gonna lie here. Just because we have a sponsor. No, I brought you guys the ones that I know were the best. It's really good. It doesn't taste like you have any protein powder in there. It tastes like a legit, like cookie. Yeah, no, it makes this really well, man.

Wow, that's really good. Yeah, that is really good. So this, we've done, I don't know, we've probably done five different recipes or so. This is for sure one of my favorite recipes is this one. And I've shared it, so if you're on the... The protein cooks that well. Yeah, right?

No. I would've never known. Yeah. It doesn't even have last. It doesn't even have an aftertaste. Just any five already. I did. He can't use to me.

Yeah, I mean. Yeah. I mean, the macros are pretty friendly. I don't know them off top of my head right now, I know. But there's not really much in it, man. It doesn't take that much. The peanut butter is the secret. I'll tell you what, because we've done it

like other flavor cookies. And, yeah, this one is, yeah, fantastic. Right, it's the best one I think too. The, believe it or not, these ones don't, but the organified green juice, you would be surprised how well it mixes with some stuff. Oh, the mint chocolate you were saying? Yeah, so we make a mint chocolate chip cookie

that we use the green juice, right? That's what turns it green, the cookies green. Huh. And it did, the, you you were saying? Yeah, so we make a mint chocolate chip cookie then we use the green juice, right? That's what turns it green, the cookies green. Huh. And you know, that's such a good Christmas cookie if you think about right? The green. Well, I mean, it does have that mint aftertaste so I can see how that might blend well.

It does blend well, man. You be so, it blends really well. Katrina tried it in a red velvet protein mix. So it was awful was awful awful awful. She lives up to like surprise where she won't tell me what she's doing in the end. She's like try this. I'm like, what did you put in that?

Why did you put that? That's an interesting combo. Yeah, but like, it's like those flavors do not copy me. Yeah, what do you say when you do it? Like, taste bad. I don't know. You're like, that tastes interesting.

The one thing about our relationship. Bad in that dress. One thing about our relationship. And in that dress. One thing about our relationship. And it's always a little rough sometimes when I do it, but I 100% I am not the guy that gives the white lie. Like if, could you do the same thing to you? Oh, absolutely. That's good.

We have a very blunt straight forward relationship. And if she makes something that is not good, I'll just like, honey, that tastes like shit. I don't know what you did. So she'll straight up tell you like, yeah, you're stupid. Oh no, you guys hear me and you say this all the time, but if you understood like how very,

I mean, the radical honesty thing is so important, I think in a relationship, it only took me fucking 30 something years to figure that out. See Courtney, I know just by my portion size. Okay. Okay. How much do you don't like it. You know, yes, it's like a little tiny portion of my plate. I know it's great.

That's good. But she's the first one too. I mean, she'll listen to an episode and I'll be, hey, did you listen to that episode? And she'll be like, yeah, you sound really stupid. I'm like, ah, she doesn't get you. No, no, when you say that, but she'll critique it. You know, when you said this, that, I don't know why, what were you thinking? I was like, ah, she doesn't get you. No, no, when you say that, but she'll critique it. You know, when you said this, that, like, I don't know why,

what were you thinking? I was like, ah, then I tried to defend myself. So she never says that we sat. She never says something about me and Jess. Never. Only good thing. Now you're lying. No, we love Katrina.

Yeah. She never says anything. She never says anything. I always, that's why I would try to blame it back on you. Let's just tell, set something to me. That's why we're so nervous. She's, that was a stupid response then. That's just, yeah. back on you. Let's go sell, set something to me. That's why we're so nervous. Those are stupid responses. That's just, yeah.

So radical honesty. All right, our next question is from Allison W89. How do you think the holidays affect your mental and physical health and what can we do to stay in a routine during the holidays? So, you know what's funny about holidays that I've noticed? Just keep doing it.

It does. You're doing it right now. It affects people in two general ways. Either people love holidays and it's great time and it makes them feel so happy and they play Christmas music and they're, everything's great, this is my girlfriend. This is my girlfriend. If you put Christmas music on for her during the holiday season,

it doesn't matter what's going on, she's happy. She loves it, she loves decorating, she loves the way. I don't like the holidays for some reason. I'm starting to, do you know why? You know, I'm trying to think why I don't like the holidays. I'm wondering if part of the reason why I don't like the holidays is because I was raised

in the fitness industry. And for people who are in the fitness industry and for people who are in the business of fitness, holiday season sucks for business. It's just, it's the hardest time to run a gym. It's the hardest time to hit your numbers, make money or whatever. People don't wanna work out, your gym is slow. Clients flake on you.

I don't like cold weather, I don't like dark, cause I like the sun when it's out. So I think I've when it's out. I think I've associated it all with that. Then on top of it, when I was married, my ex-wife had a family member that was very closer or passed away the day before Thanksgiving. For years after Thanksgiving.

I can't stay with you. Yeah, so it stayed with us on that. But I'm starting to like it again. I'm starting to like the holidays again. But now here's a thing with, here's a thing with the holidays I'll say when it comes to your physical and mental health. It's all in how you view it.

The people who think of the holidays as a negative thing, it's gonna be bad. It's gonna be bad for your mental health. For people who really enjoy it and love it and enjoy the people around them, it's gonna be bad for your mental health. For people who really enjoy it and love it and enjoy the people around them, it's gonna be very good. So it's really up on you. And as well.

You say that so fucking lightly like it's easy, because let me tell you something, this has been a huge struggle for me for fucking 30 years of my life. Yeah. You don't like it, Hall of Ders. Well, I tried to. I've been working at it for a long time. You know, it's tough when you had a childhood like I did with the the shit that I went through Which most people that have listened to show for a long time know what that is and

Holidays were the worst so I mean our family was fucking chaotic year-round But the holidays were always worse because that's when my family would be the most stressed because you got fucking four kids We're broke We can't you know, it's like trying to figure out how can we afford to get Christmas tree? Plus you get all these kids' gifts and then it's like, it was, and then as a kid, I remember getting, getting money and stuff like that

from other family members sent. And we had to turn that money over to my parents to feed us or to get the Christmas tree or to do something like that. And so, and when you're fucking eight years old, you don't, you don't process that like a normal adult would. As an adult now, I'd have probably empathy for my parents, and it's not as a kid, I'm mad.

As a kid, I'm angry. As a kid, I don't get anything. So I'm pissed off, and then my parents take my money. I'm like, this is fucked up, if I was on my own, I'd at least be able to keep my own money. So that's kind of your attitude, right? So I carried that for a very long time. And then in my adulthood, I would always,

I didn't pick up on it till later that I would struggle around this time of year. And especially if I was in a relationship, and I'm just, I'm awful at like doing the gift thing and doing thoughtful things around the holiday. What I am good at doing is you're around. You're around like best boyfriend ever, right? I'm getting by stuff from my girl's spoil,

the shit out of her. If I miss anything, it's a fucking holiday or a birthday. And it's because I have trained. Oh, it's harder for you. Given the gifts are receiving. Oh, receiving. Receiving is, is receiving. I like this about you.

So I don't have to buy shit for you. Yeah, no. So for you by the way. No, so you used to get so bad. This is real talk, right? So you guys know being trainers for many years, once you, once you establish relationships with a lot of these clients,

they love you like family and they buy you stuff. And, you know, I'd have clients that would buy me gifts and finally I'd get a client and be like, hey, you know, I just bought you like a $2,000 gift and you just like no big deal. It's like, I'm saying, and I just bought you like a $2,000 gift and you just like, no big deal. It's like, I'm saying, and then I have to explain my whole story, right? And, you know, they would try and work on like, you know, you know, try this and try that and give them e-books to read. And all this shit and none of it would help. And what I would find would happen would I would end up

faking emotion to keep them happy. You know, they would give me a gift and I know fuck all right Adam, act surprise, act excited, and I would be faking this and you guys know me, I can't do that very well. Like it's not my style. So I finally got to a point where I just told everybody, everything from my family, everybody,

all I want for Christmas, all I want for my birthday is toilet paper. And so this was a big thing that went on for years where I would go, I would wipe that ass. This was the thing was, I can't, if you, I buy the things that I want, I work hard so I could buy the things that I want for myself.

So that I don't really want. I feel like there's not like these gifts that I have a list of like, how do I push it? How does the story behind toilet paper too though? Well, yeah, there's stories, there's a question of stories, right? It's not just because, why don't you ask for wet wipes? I mean, that's what you use anyway.

Well, so, well, that's part of that too. So they come in, so when we're kids, part of being in part two, like, I'll never forget this. Fuck, man, I hated this. I hated coming home from school, right? To take your fucking day shit, right after school. So whether you're holding a school,

yes, yes, I'm running home from school. Like to get, everyone's had this, right? If you went to school, and you're waiting to sit at your own toy, you don't want to take a shit at school. School's shits are terrible. Oh, man. Right, so people are going to bust the door open. I don't know.

I don't know how many times in high school and in elementary or junior high, whatever, running home from school to get home to take my day shit and fucking no toilet paper or like a stack of McDonald's napkins, you know, is what I'm wiping my ass with. I just rough, man. So people that don't know this about me, this is where the baby wipe fetish came from and why that was so important to me. Years all I asked for was toilet paper. So every year I do still get this from all my family and close friends.

They know this about me. So I've always got a year of supply of toilet paper for them. I never had to buy toilet paper. And I get excited because I think, you know, these people really know me and I think it's funny and it's this great. So it's been something that's been going on as a tradition in my family and in my small circle of friends. Like that I know this is not. I'm going to buy you the most expensive, rare, like collectible toilet paper of all time.

Gold time. I gotta find it. Yeah. I'm gonna find it. It's gotta exist somewhere. Yeah, it's gotta be like, it's made out of like, yeah. So this being said, so I, so this being said, I think, I think this what's extremely important

is if you're somebody who struggles with this. And this is what was hard for me was communicating this. So when I was younger, I was just, I would avoid it. Like, I don't want to go, I don't want to go to any of these fucking holiday things. I don't know. I just don't want to be around it. Like, well, if you're, once you become a grown-ass adult and you get married or you get in a relationship, eventually you're going to have to do some of these family things. So it's, it's taking a lot of practice and exercise for me to do it. It's also very important to have a partner like I have now who knows this about me

and that I've communicated that to her, that your family is amazing. They love the holidays, you guys all, and I love to be a part of it, but I just want you to know that inside what you don't see is it's work and effort for me to do this. And it still is, and I don't know if it'll ever completely not be work.

I've gotten better at being able to just relax and have a good time and enjoy the holidays. But for many, many years, man, I would just sleep Katrina would have a hard time. This is an early on in our relationship. We, her family, huge, everybody comes over. They all spend the night, like this still this day, everybody, all the family comes over, sleeping in sleeping bags on the floor the night before this still this day everybody all the family comes other

Sleeping and sleeping bags on the floor the night before And I know someone's listening right now like yes, this is my family and lots of families do this type of shit, right? Not me dude like no, I mean I'm the guy who didn't spend the night at someone else that woman's house Toes 30 you know saying so I'm fucking not spending the night your mom's floor, you know saying you kidding me So that was really tough and so there's definitely a compromise that she has. A lot of times I'll leave the event, but the whole family knows and they know now. But boy, it was in a struggle. I did early, early years for sure.

Very similar. I got it. Cause Courtney's family very much gets into this. And, you know, after every present, they want to hug. Yes, that's her family. After every present, everybody, do I have to hug? Like get out every time.

Hug me. Just awkward, I'm not a big hugger. You know, to begin with, so that's like, you know, yeah, cool things. I just want to give them like the bump or something, you know, and like move on. But, and then we, what we do now, and I'm trying to actually address this myself

because like, you know, she loves the same thing with coming over and sleeping. So we'll have a couple of the cousins stay over in our house afterwards, and then her sisters and all that stuff, and at first I was just like, ah, there's too many people in my house, I can't stand all this extra energy and stuff, but I've had to just check myself on it and go with it.

You know what we sound like? A bunch of exclusions. She's a bunch of assholes. No, you say that, but then like one of the things that I've found out about myself about, well it's now eight or nine years ago, maybe 10 now, was I adopted a family and every year I do this. So I have a place that I call,

they write at Thanksgiving, they give me a family, and then I do Christmas for a family. That has become extremely rewarding and enjoyable for me to do. And I love that part of the holidays. There's something about finding this family's an extreme need like they just, I mean, like. And the only, the things they ask for are to try to me out.

Oh yeah, oh, this is what you exactly. Christmas tree, I would be in a paper. See, I could go to CVS and buy the toys and everything like that, right? Just buy, and the kids are just screaming and crying. This was back when I had my pickup truck and I would load the whole thing up just with toys. And with them, it's about volume.

It's not like a little rich kids here, fucking that are spoiled. It's about how big the gift is or the $400 gift or $1,000 gift for them. It's like just things to get to open. They're just so excited to get to open stuff. So I would just get tons of like small gifts and you unload it and then fill up this house,

just full of stuff and watch these kids, man. It was just, it's been amazing to see that. And it's also been good for me because it also reminds me like, I didn't have it that bad. Like in my head,'t have it that bad. In my head, I had it that bad and yeah, it was tough. What are with that? There's so many more people that had it way worse than I did.

That's helped me stop being such a little bitch about the holidays and having a hard time is seeing other people that are in way more need than I was ever. So that's all the mental side. I think we've strayed a little bit from the question, but as far as the physical side, you know, just getting out and being active hiking, doing stuff. We just talked about this though. We just talked about. We just talked about. We did like two episodes ago. We talked about the holiday thing and I think too many people put too much pressure on, you know, staying fit through that. And I think that's how it really well that that's what causes that binging. It's like, you're with family. If you're eating well and training year round,

fucking Thanksgiving and Christmas are not gonna make you obese. You know, you're not gonna get obese in one or two days. I'm trying. Yeah, I'm gonna put it, having that balance, right? My mom's fudge kind of packs it on. Well, I'll be honest. Fuck, fuck, fucker. Whoa, you just put that together.

That was an action. No, it wasn't me. All right, next question is from Trev Hulusi. Have recent CrossFit guests change your minds about CrossFit and its impact? Totally, no, just. Totally. Just a little.

Yes, they have, no. Not at all. Of course they have. When you meet people at LaFine, I'll talk for myself and you fucking heart-headed. When we've met with people like the guys from Barbell Shrugged or Beyond the Barbell or Calipa, Kelly Starritt, when you talk to

these people about the business of CrossFit, how they coach in their gyms, what they know about exercise and training, especially the guys from Beyond the Barbell. I'm realizing that because CrossFit was a loose affiliation, it just everybody did it. And what you're seeing now is, and they've all said this, that the explosion of CrossFit has slowed down

quite a bit and is now plateaued because all the bad coaches, all the bad programming is falling off. Those gyms are not successful. And all the good people are succeeding. And you're starting to see this more into something that's a little bit better. And they even said themselves that there's the sport of CrossFit and then there's a way you work out

for fitness and it's totally different. So for me personally, it's changed a lot. As far as CrossFit, the sport is concerned, it's awesome. It's still awesome, I always thought it was awesome. It was the whole CrossFit boxes for fitness That I had an issue with just because the programming I thought was was terrible But there's good coaches out there that are doing good things and it looks like it's moving in that direction Then we had the you know girls gone wad The you know the then the host Julie Bauer from paleo OMG

They're all crossfitters and they're talking about Different types of programming, correction, lecture size, not doing the Olympic list of fatigue. So it's changing my mind. It has changed my mind. No, definitely. I've definitely softened up, you know, having all these guests on there and hearing their story and their drive and motivation going into it, you know, to make an impact and change.

And I get that. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no But for me, it just looks like a big watered down show, like this gauntlet of fucking hurt myself. So, I mean, that's never gonna go away. Yeah, like, you can't convince me otherwise. I mean, every sport has its own appeal. And for me, I'm just not attracted to it. So, you know, that's my own opinion.

And I get that people are into it and shit. But, you know, that's my own opinion, and I get that people are into it and shit, but, you know, for me, I don't know. I still, there's still part of me that's like a purest, like, sport athlete. And I know I'm gonna get a lot of shit for this because everybody considers it a sport, and it's legit, and I get that. But, you know, I appreciate people in it.

I appreciate their motivations towards it. It's like, do you like to watch golf? No, I don't. There you go. I don't like to watch CrossFit. It's the same thing. Okay. I don't know if my minds have changed, or our minds have changed about CrossFit.

I don't think it's really changed. I think we've met all the people you rattled off. I mean, I was around it early, early, early, early. I mean, we talked about that with Kaleepa. I remember watching him in the parking lot before anyone knew who he was and out there doing the first one in Milpedes before the games even came out.

Like, so we were fucking around with CrossFit well before anybody knew what it was. And as a trainer who had already been training for a good solid five years plus by that time, I right away saw that this is not like for the average Jaina Jodic in shape. I'm training, I've already trained at this point, probably hundreds of people,

and I'm thinking when I, someone teaches me a new modality or a new thing in training, right away I compute that with, okay, how's this translate to my clients? How can I use this with the clients I have? And it was an applicable at all. It was not something that transferred over to training the people I was training. Maybe I had one or two clients, and I did.

I had one or two clients that I could train that way and loved it, and it was fine for them. They were athletic enough to handle those, those movements and doing things like that. But for the most part, it just, it just didn't apply to the people that I was helping. So I ride away viewed it as a sport. Right away I saw it and thought,

this is a fucking cool sport, man. It's like football, it's like basketball. It's just with weights, you know, it's just nothing we've seen before that we're someone decided to make a sport at a lifting and so I've learned like those sports at all And now that and now that we've you we've had a chance to interview all these guys what what it is is you have people Like like everybody you just named and that we've interviewed on the show That are trying to make it better right for group but group. But at the end of the day, there will never be a group setting class

that will be superior to one-on-one coaching. Because it's equal to. Because as humans, we were all so fucking individual and unique. It's the reason why it's so difficult and why it was so hard for us to create a program or programs that we put out online. Because we knew Dan Well that when we create something that it's not ideal for Every single person which is exactly how when we released it it was like listen here is a blueprint You know and a foundation for some like some some general rules of these are these are movements that you should be incorporating

Into your training and this is how you should structure it and undilated so That part is true But then as far as it being able to mold to the individual, that part is extremely important because we're also fucking different. So no, it hasn't changed my mind. I've always liked it. The reason why we brought people on because we like all those people. I think they're very intelligent, smart, and doing great things for the CrossFit community. But it's still I would never if I had a client who said called me up and said Adam

I've never worked out before I want to get in shape You know, I was thinking about doing CrossFit. What do you think? I would say no? I would say no, let me let me help you out and I would tell them I would assess them and see where they're at And then probably give them a recommendation based off of that. So that's that's where I've always stood on in I've never been like bitter about it or been hard about it. I know we came out early on for the show. We knew that if we took a stance against CrossFit and said why we don't CrossFit, we knew that would cause attention. But at the end of the day, we all, I mean, all of my good buddies are competitors and do that stuff.

And I was around it since day one. So I've always had an open mind to the sport. And I think if you like it and it works well for you and you don't get hurt and you enjoy it and you stay in good shape and you know how to back off the intensity to keep yourself safe year round and do that. Then who the fuck am I to tell you that's not good for you? Like who, you know, do it. Do whatever you want. Yeah, okay, crazy.

Next up is Josh Dobo-Dobson. Your most embarrassing sex story. Wow. Wow. What are you doing? This one up there. Dude, this guy over here. What? First of all, I didn't want to do it. I didn't want to do it.

I didn't want to do it. Adam was like, dude, man, put it up there. We need to do it. It's been a long time. It's, we strayed away from these type of questions for a long time and I, you know, we've been having a lot of people on the forum pop up like, man, I missed the old mine pump when you guys used to go

off the rails and talk about the gin as for an entire hour and stuff. So, where are those days, I'm in the old. So, south guys used to go off the rails and talk about the genus for an entire hour and stuff. So where are those days? I'm in the old. So south through the south there and I thought, let's talk about some embarrassing sex stories. Do you have one on top of your head? I do.

I do. And it's going to be more embarrassing for my girlfriend, sorry babe. Oh no. So it's when we first kind of started hanging out and when I first met her, it was shortly after, we had finally done with my ex. So I didn't want to meet anybody, it just happened. Totally fell for each other very strongly. So shortly after that, we're sitting down

and we're having this really good, deep conversation. And she'll still argue this is a day because I bring this up to her and she's like death not what happened this is what happened it's exactly what happened. I reach over and grab her hand to pull her closer to me to kiss me because I'm going to give her a kiss and I think she misunderstood me grabbing her hand to pull her closer with me grabbing her hand to put it on my dick. So I grab her hand.

So I grab her hand. Last move. I grab her hand and pull her. I grabbed her hand. Nice to move. I grabbed her hand, I pull her over, and she just grabs it. Like yeah. That is not embarrassing. That's like, it's something went wrong. Well, no, it's embarrassing because when I tell the story,

she's like, do you want to put it on? I grabbed her hand, and she does it, and I look at her like, whoa. And she looks at me like, what? And I'm like, I was just gonna give you a kiss. She's like, will you want to meet me? And she's like, but you put my hand,, I said, no, I was just trying to, and then we had this whole debate about it

and then we made out. That's about, that's my embarrassing. To the sand as far as you can go. Yeah, I have to do more. Come on, I have to do more. Well, maybe I'll, maybe you'll, all right, so that's like PG-Share. All right, so I'm gonna paint the story here.

So we're, I'm 23 years old. So we're, I'm like three years into personal I want three years into personal training. I've had I had my I had my house for a year. So I'm I'm I'm like making good money. I'm a trainer. I'm fit. I'm 23. I'm just I'm full of piss and vinegar and just think I'm on top of the world, right? And I like to I like to date girls that were older than I was. So I was chasing after this 29 year old girl that was French, Vietnamese and Filipino. And God, she was fucking bad. She was bad, right? And all the guys in the gym loved her

and we're always chasing after. And I was slowly talking to her over time and I knew that she this girl, like everybody wanted her. So I couldn't just like hit on her all time right so I Slowly like Worked my game with her and by work my game I just talked to this girl like and I didn't try and pick up on her right away. I just got to know her and You know we'd start flirting over time and then eventually you could tell there was this like sexual tension

But she used to talk shit to me like you know, you're not ready ready for me. Like I'm, I'm a grown-ass woman. I'm on another level. You're a little boy, right? And I'm thinking my head like, mwah, bullshit. You would have. Right, right, right. I'm ready for you.

I can skills. What are you gonna do? So long story short, I get her, and she's coming back to my house. I get her to come back to my house. And we're driving, we're driving to my house. And it's already like on in the car. Like it's like, I'm,

and in my head, like I'm just like, oh, I'm so excited right now, right? And we pull into my garage and we're messing around in the garage and like already closing, getting pulled off, I'm going upstairs with her. We go into my, my, my master bedroom and we get in there and she like closes the door right away, wham, slams it. And then I'm standing at the edge of my bed,

and she walks over and she goes, pff, and she pushes me right in the chest. And I'm like, oh shit, this is about to go down. And then she just grabs my pants, starts unzipin' them. And I'm sitting layin' back on like, fuck yeah, here we go. I'm so excited right now. And so she unzips, rips my pants all the way off and down. And then she goes, and I'm pretty sure

that I'm gonna get head right now, but I'm not. She grabs my, she grabs my ankles. Oh, it's a little more south. She tilts me up even further. She goes straight for my asshole. And I'm 23 right now. And my, my, my salad has not been tossed ever. And I did not know that this was like a first date thing that you do. Wow. So, that's not typically. So, what was so embarrassing was she was so hot, she was so bad. I wanted her, I wanted her so bad. I was, of course, ready for the moment. But the moment she did that, it tickled so bad.

I was so uncomfortable. I completely lost my, lost my heart on. I was so embarrassed. I couldn't get it up after that. Did you just go like, hee hee. Oh, no, it was just weird I couldn't get it up after that. I do you go like oh no it was just weird It's not my thing for sure like it definitely was not my thing. I know Sal likes that She didn't work ready for I was right and I and maybe that was what she was trying to prove to me that I was just not right. I know for all those that were wondering like I came back.

I made up for everything and it was all good. But it was definitely one of the most embarrassing moments for me. I was not ready for that. And 23 years old. Get my salad tossed. I mean, I can't really top that. You know, that's amazing. Can't top that salad.

No, I can't really top that. You know, that's amazing. Can't top that, Sal? No, I can't get in that. I mind more of a mix of like kind of like a horrific like shit situation. Oh! And, you know, set like, I was just dating Courtney. It was like the very beginning. It was like maybe like, we'd done it a couple of handful of times, you know. And I just got this apartment with this guy. I had to get out of my house

because it was like, I can't take her to my parents house. This is fucking like, I'm a loser, you know? I need to get a new place. And so I, I, I, shacked up with this guy who has a house and he also had his kid every now and then, like every other weekend. And so this kid would like come in and every now and then he'd like say higher

Whatever and like I was friends with him and stuff and so I brought Courtney back one time And so we're we're up there, you know in the room and about to get down to business and stuff and you know We're kind of getting hot heavy and then my stomach started just And she's like, what was that? I was like, oh nothing. I just kept trying to drive and keep going, like press on, after I perform. And blah, blah, blah, blah.

Just kept going and just getting louder. And she's like, I don't know. It's like maybe the sixth time, right? So I'm like, oh shit, I think something might get down and then it got to the point where I was like, it's like maybe the sixth time, right? So I'm like, oh shit, like I think, you know, something might get down and then it got to the point where I was like, oh my god, like some squeezing out. I had to like pinch super hard. Thankfully the bathroom was like right next door.

Wait, wait, you had to, you had to like leave. You had to stop halfway through. I had to leave mid, mid bank. I stopped. Okay. She was like, wait, like what? I was like, I just have to, you know, I'll be right back. I have to go to the shit.

Went right next door, like so I should have probably gone downstairs. That would have been a smart thing to do, but no, I went right, there was a sharing wall. Oh my God. And so I'm sitting on this toilet and I'm like, BAH! Like the worst, like most explosive shit I've ever had in my life, right? And like, I was like, oh my God, I was like, so embarrassing, I was like, oh God, I think I just can't hear me.

You know what I'm like laughing to myself? Like, it was like so loud and vicious, you know? And I, like I get back in, like, Courtney's like sitting on the bed, looking at me with this big smile. And I was like, oh shit, she heard everything. Oh my God, dude. She's like, are you okay? You're right? And I was like, right? And you're ahead. You're like, can we finish it out? Yeah, I was like, I haven't got off yet.

Oh, let's keep going. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. And then you married her. Yeah, you married her. Like this, she is down. She knew what she was in. She is down. She knew what she was in. Yeah. I got that inside. So straight wifey. there. And that kid walked in on us one time too, so that was the other story. That was awkward. One of yours? No, this was the kid that was like, he wasn't supposed to be there,

but like every other weekend. And then this became a frequent thing, and he was coming in, because I had showed him, I had a Game Boy, and I was like, I ended up giving it to him, and he was like, hey, thanks for the Game Boy, oh, Thank you. Watching his bang.

Oh, wow. And, yeah, so those are my two. Have you had your kids walk in yet? Not yet, thank you. I mean, we, we, we got sneaky, dude. We're in the kitchen. You get smart while they're watching TV. That, all right.

Whoa. You have to, man. You have to, you have to. That's why I don't have any, man. Well, it's kind of exciting. Yeah, I got, I got, really. My kid walked in. I forgot to lock the door and thank God it was the beginning

of sex, so we were still under the covers. And my daughter walks in and we just stop. You know, we're just like bare hug. Yeah, I'm wrestling. No, we're just stopping. Like, we're just gonna, we're just hugging. We're just hugging with the covers. And my daughter's asking me all these questions.

I'm like, yeah. Oh my God. Yeah. Little bitchy no. Oh yeah. I'm inside. What's underneath? I'm inside.

Anyway, stay in warm. So, new thing we're gonna try out. I'm gonna drop, or one of us will drop a knowledge bomb at the end of one of our episodes every week. So, I think I'll drop the first one. These are short, these are gonna be short, like four minute, five minute little tips for fitness or for anything else.

We decide we think you need to accept it. I'm just giving the tip. So the first one is gonna be on trigger sessions. Now this is something that is in one of our programs, Maps and a Bulk, but here's how you use a trigger session. Real quick, on your days off, do some very light pumping type exercises. So if you hit chest on Monday and your chest is really sore, on Tuesday, do some light band fly, some light pushups, just get a good squeeze, get a good burn, get a little bit

of a pump in the muscle. What it does is it maintains that muscle building signal. It keeps it elevated. It also facilitates recovery. You'll actually find that you recover faster because you did this. Trigger sessions, if you do them consistently, are a game changer.

It's a great way to increase frequency of stimulation without real- You recommend the intensity because I know that the most common thing that I see when when people try to Apply this to their routine is they over they overdo it and then they create more damage It's not a workout. You're just trying to get a pump You're just getting a little bit of a pump in the muscle and squeeze think of Main like again maintain the anabolic signal without creating muscle damage

So do this again on the days off do do it frequently. So you could do it like two or three times that day and pick weak body parts, do it for several body parts. Be consistent with it. You'll notice within a week, literally within one week, you'll notice changes in your body. That's how effective they are. And again, it's found primarily in our maps and a ball of program. If you want more information, by by the way you can go to mind pump media dot com also youtube our youtube is on fire right now we post three hundred sixty five plus videos a year that's more than anybody

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