Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 650: Squat Every Day Program Review, How to Correct Nonsymmetrical Muscles, Muscle Growth & Reduced Range of Motion & MORE

Episode Date: November 29, 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 how to commit to working out, opinions on the Squat Every Day program, "catching up" a non-symmetrical muscle (ie one bicep is smaller than the other) and if building muscles causes tightness and reduced range of movement. David Lee Roth “King of hot video girls” (5:10) Sal, the rebel in the carpool lane (9:30) Trump’s “Pocahontas” crack (17:00) Mind Pump getting ready for the holidays (20:49) Enjoying the process Four Sigmatic sponsorship resigned! (29:13) Quah question #1 – How do you finally commit to working out? What are some tips to get yourself to the gym? (32:45) Adam’s pancakes from Thrive Market (33:35) Consistency is key Quah question #2 – Opinions on the Squat Every Day program? (44:10) Quah question #3 – How do you "catch-up" a non-symmetrical muscle or group (i.e. one bicep is smaller than the other)? (50:35) Quah question #4 - Does muscle building cause tightness and reduced range of movement? (57:04) Related Links/Products Mentioned: David Lee Roth - Just A Gigolo – (YouTube) Organifi (Mind Pump Official Sponsor) Use Coupon Code "mindpump" for 20% off Express Lanes – FasTrak At a Navajo veterans' event, Trump makes 'Pocahontas' crack Four Winds Christmas Trees Four Sigmatic (Official Mind Pump sponsor) Use Coupon Code "mindpump" for 15% off of your first order of health & energy boosting mushroom products Chaga Mushroom Benefits: The Health Facts  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 MAPS Programs Cory Gregory's Squat Every Day - Bodybuilding.com FREE UNILATERAL TRAINING WORKOUT MOD Ep 600-The Benefits of Unilateral Training - Mind Pump Musclebound myth? Speed of Sport People Mentioned: David Lee Roth Prince (musician) Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)  Twitter Jon Call (@jujimufu)  Instagram Nick Curson (@speedofsport)  Instagram Rich Piana (@1dayumay)  Instagram Tom Platz 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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You just ruined it, thanks Justin. Ah! The next question was, what are our opinions on the squat every day program? It sounds like bullshit, but it's actually a real workout, and you're gonna be surprised that our opinion, right, it's not what you think. No.

The next question was, how do you get a weaker muscle group or a weaker muscle to progress so that it matches at the other side? For example, if my left bicep is small and my right bicep is big, how do I get my left bicep bigger besides stop going on the one hand is one thing lower than the other? Exactly.

You know what I mean? The final question was was does building muscle inherently Cause extra tightness so there's a whole myth of you know the muscle bound myth where if you lift weights It actually makes you tighter and do shortening the shortening of a muscle. Yeah, wipe your own ass. Is that true? Maybe there is maybe there is some truth to it find out in this episode also It's December when you're listening to this. No, it's not. Is it the end of November?

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Scatting scat scat also means shit. It does also just cat also mean poop You know who did that really well? David Lee Roth Yeah, yeah, yeah, just the jiggle. Oh I don't even know what that's from you remember the day. I don't remember David Lee Roth Doing who is he was he with was that van Hillin? Yeah, yeah, remember just the jiggle. Oh, yeah, he did that He did remember his music videos and your ass cream man. I watch me as I'm passing by Yeah, you don't remember his music videos in MTV and he'd fucking jump and do the split Oh, yeah, he's got a high jump jump job. Yeah, and it would always have yeah the hottest girls in his videos

I don't remember a lot of scatting, though. It was pure hot. When I was a kid, I was watching that, I was like, oh, here we go. Hot chick's gonna come on the TV. Boom, because he's on there. He did it right. Then he lost his mind.

Yeah. He's still awesome. He's weird. No, I love that guy. Gotta be a little, I mean, that's what happens when you, this is like Tycho and Doe kicks everywhere. Remember that? You might as well jump, jump, and he's talking, does a split, and he'scho on do kicks everywhere remember that Yeah, you might as well jump jump and he does a split

Don't you guys that was him dude. Yeah, I'm struggling to see it right now. You know Van Halen Yeah, no, I hope Van Halen is but I don't remember any of those. I don't know Van Halen dude Well, I do know Van Halen, but I don't remember those songs. Yeah, I don't remember the videos You're talking about the videos right? All right hit play Doug. I want to see just the jiggle. Oh By David Lee Roth so Right away right away hot chicks. You see that right away amazing as a He's like who I was game it he back Yeah, yeah, yeah as a 13 year old boy. This was

Exciting I don't remember this. Oh great. Yeah, it's too bad This one of my favorites. It's weird that I don't remember like. Oh, great. And really, yeah. It's too bad. It's one of my favorites. It's weird that I don't remember. Like, I remember a white snake, and I remember the, remember this Dave TV. Oh, you remember a white snake? What's her name, Kim Kram? I don't remember it.

Yes, dancing on top of the car and stuff. Yeah, that was pretty hot. Yeah, that was pretty hot. Right, like, so this is the same era. I mean, it's the same time. I just don't remember. Yeah, but David Lee Roth, like, he was the winner of it. Yeah. He's first place when he comes to all of it. Yeah, but David Lee Roth, like he was the winner of it. Yeah.

He's first place when he comes to all of it. Yeah, when it comes to like hot girls in your music videos, he's the guy. He was the guy. He's the guy. Second place, Prince. Do you guys remember Prince's videos? Yeah.

Remember a cream? Well, he's just, he's just this like overly sexual guy. Who, Prince? Prince. He was just very introverted. Like just like hopping his guitar every two seconds. Yeah, I mean. But you don't know if he's into guys or girls.

Yeah, you didn't know. Yeah, no idea. He was like, like, weird. Did anybody ever figure that out? There's both, wasn't it? I think he's mainly girls, I thought. I thought it was girls, too, because he had that one... He always had hard girls in his veins.

I was just like his thing. Well, according to that, who just interviewed with Joe Rogan you were listening to? You were listening to it. And Morgan? No, the guy who claims that 35% of men have had a sexual experience with other men. Oh, I don't remember what that was.

Yeah, that was crazy. It was not a statistic. I think, well, it's a crazy stat. Or less way. That's a way. I get inflated. I think it's super inflated. So, come on. Okay, the first of all, you have

to think, how are they, what are they categorizing as a sexual experience? Second of all. I mean, I mean, Reverend your leg earlier today. Yeah, that could have been. It could have been some sort of. Okay. It also think about like, you know, boys and girls, hang out with the same sex for a long time as they're going through puberty, as they're doing the, so I'm sure, you know, I don't think that's a, I don't know where that statistic came from, but probably more than you think,

innocently, you know what I mean? Kind of innocently. Really? I mean, I, maybe, I had quite a few friends growing up and I only maybe could count on one hand. You guys didn't like how many that's happened to. Really? Yeah. friends growing up and I only maybe could count on one hand. You guys didn't like how many that's happened to? Really?

You can count on one hand. Yeah. How many? Huh? Less than five. That's what that means. Wow, four. Yeah.

That's 35%. If you do the math. No, it's not. I'll just get it. That's at least. That's a good chunk. Yeah, I think yeah, whatever No, I'm slice of the pie dude. So I was on my way to work this morning to I was gonna write a blog

I was all motivated and shit and finally Controversial or you know no safe no no no Uh, safe blog. Oh, you mean my blog? Yeah, I don't know Adam wants me to write one that's kind of controversial. I don't know if I can say it here on the podcast. That's okay, we all do. But he wants me to write one that's controversial. I might do it.

I have to feel inspired by it. Maybe I'm just being a, what's the word? Press, yeah. Yeah, yeah, like a pre-meme. Maybe I'm just like, I need to be inspired before I can write anything. That might have a process. Right, I feel like it might be bullshit. I feel like if you just start writing I think you just start writing it'll come

I think you're right, but anyway, I'm on my way here early and I'm like fuck traffic because San Jose has become Some micro L a shit. It's become traffic shit. It is badly mainly because We have a lot of people moving in here and the roads are controlled by centralized, you know, system of government that decides that, oh, we're gonna fucking make the roads look like, you know, like this and they don't fit the amount of people

and so we're all fucked. So anyway, I'm driving here, bumper to bumper traffic. Typically what I do when this happens, and I'm just gonna be honest, I'm like, a lie, is like when the carpool lands, right, I do. I love how you just freely admit this. It's just something I do when this happens, so I'm just gonna be honest, I'm like, oh, lie, is that when the car polain, it's what I do. I love how you just freely admit this. It's just something I do, I get into car polain and it's just, do you at least have a dummy

or something? You're turning it to quite the rebellious ones. I know, you're turning it to quite the rebellious ones. It's all right, you know what it is? You know what it is? You're entering grocery stores, driving a car polain. Fuck the man, you know what it is? I'm driving in the devil's lane.

It's not like a dangerous thing, you know what I mean? It's not like I'm on my cell phone in my car. I'm drinking and driving, I'm like, I heard someone. I'm in the carpool lane, big deal, right? So I'm in the carpool lane, because I'm like, I wanna get there on time so I could do some work. It's just because I'm trying to be angry, dude.

I'm trying to be productive and as I'm going, do you buckle your passenger seat just like in the carpool? All the rule followers are like, ah! I've actually had people see me. I'm trying all you. I've actually had people in the slow, you know, in the traffic lane, see me in the carpool lane, drive by, and then they'll flip me off. Cause I'm like, look, I'm taking the risk.

Let's talk about this. If you want to get in the slaying, get in the lane. I got in a fight recently, my wife, cause I parked in the Burrito loading zone. At your port lane. Get the fuck out of here. Burrito loading zone. I'm fucking parking here. You can. And I'm the fuck outta here. Burrito loading zone. I'm fucking parking here.

You can. And I'm gonna sit here and I'm gonna eat my burrito and I'm not gonna be quick about it. Legally, you can do that. You can even park here for electrical vehicles. They just made that shit up. They can't, yeah. They did the same thing.

Yeah, yeah. You screen friendly car fuck you. It's electric. What did I say? Electrical. Yeah. So actually you did do that once. Yeah, you use a green friendly car fuck you electric what did I say electrical So actually you did do that once we parked in the electric vehicle thing and he took it He took the electric that whatever it's called the tube or the thing that he's supposed to plug it And he put it like in his his window his window just taking his window. Oh, there we go That's kind of it looks like it's charging. So anyway, I'm Tesla owner comes up, I'm Ella P.S.

Yeah, fuck you, Tesla owner. So I'm driving and I'm in the carpool lane, and that's just what I do, right? And I look over the right motorcycle cop and he's looking back, you know, obviously scoping out the carpool, but he's all the way on the right so he's across three lanes of traffic.

So I'm like, fuck! So I'm like, okay, maybe he didn't see me, but I'm gonna do what most smart people do and get over real quick and get it to hide. Yeah, so I came over. But as I'm changing lanes, he was coming down the middle, so he sees me. So I'm like, well, now I just admitted,

but I was doing it right. So I try to think of like a smart, like, what am I gonna say to this guy to get out of this, this ticket, you're pregnant or something? Yeah, I gotta take a shit, you know, I'm trying to go fast, I gotta take it, I don't wanna put myself in. I heard that that's actually the number one thing

to get out of one. Well, I was gonna say that you have like diarrhea or you have like really bad stomach issues right now and you gotta go to the bathroom and you know what? So there's a part of me that was like, I'm gonna make up some shit and then there's a part of me that's like, fuck it, just keep it real. You know, yeah, I'm just gonna keep it real because- You know what, I'm gonna make up some shit. And then there's a part of me that's like, fuck it, just keep it real.

Yeah, I'm just gonna keep it real because- You know what, I try to get away with it and fuck it. I got caught, dude. I got caught, you know? And here's the thing, if I do them, because what's a carpool ticket? It's like 270 bucks, I think? Yeah.

Stupid, right? But if I do the math for all the time, to take it to the carpool and not kind of ticket, it's like $5 a pack. Not even, it's like 50 cents. I think the math, it's like, it's been at least 10,000 times. So it's pretty much free. So- That's actually not a bad ticket. Yeah, it's like $5 a bag. Not even, it's like 50 cents. I think it's a math. It's been at least 10,000 times. So it's pretty much free.

So that's actually not a bad way to look at it. That's the standard. Look at it, it's like, listen, I just always drive the carpool lane. I get caught once every 50 times. It's basically I pay a dollar to use a carpool lane. And if someone asks me, it's like a tax.

Why wouldn't we have, yeah, why wouldn't we have that? That would be smarter that way. Because that's too smart. That's too smart. Yeah, it's too smart to do something like that, so they need to come up with stupid things. People get angry. And that's why our roads are fucking...

Like if there was a lane that I could pay like, $5 extra. Of course. There's like, there's a dollar lane, and then there's a $5 lane, right? You know what that's called? That's called, that would be a market solution. It would be.

It would never allow that with roads. Never would allow that with roads. It would be so smart though. It would be. And would never allow that with roads. No. Never would allow that with roads. It would be so smart though. It would be. And people's a underground road. Because people like ourselves would go like, you know what? It's like, I gotta be somewhere.

And sometimes I would sit in traffic. Maybe sometimes I don't care. Maybe sometimes I'm not in a hurry or a step. But there's time I hurry up. I'm willing to pay $5 to make sure that. Now we'll get controversial. So because a lot of times when I talk about like markets and how awesome and effective they are and efficient they are, people would be like be like What about the roads we need people to you know

We need to pay taxes to build the roads and I was saying well actually I bet you if roads were privatized I bet you they'd be way more efficient like you can't get on the road unless you pay well People get really pissed off. I don't know but people get really mad when I say that because like that's crazy The how could and I'm like well it sounds crazy because you've never lived in a situation like that. So it sounds so different. It's it, but it would be awesome. I'm like, I would hate to have to pay every time I use the road. And I'm like, we already pay for the roads.

And I'm like, well, it would be more expensive. I said, by a pass. Well, here's what I say to people. We don't, we calculate the cost of the taxes to pay for the roads, but we don't calculate the cost of lost time at work, lost productivity, stress. Like it's one of those stressful things in the world, you get stuck in traffic, you know, accidents

that it causes, because you know private companies would do a better job, because they're crap. The freeways look the same, they get 20 years of another road. Yeah, well I thought there's some states that actually have the roads private, is that not true? I don't know. Yeah, I thought so, and you pay tolls and stuff like that to go through them. I know there's another states that actually have the roads private. Is it not true? I don't know. Yeah, I thought so and you pay tolls and stuff like that to go through. I know there's another country

So I know some we've some smart forum member will make sure they clear this up for me That I know that there's places like that and the roads are like emaculate. They're like beautiful and you pay You know you cry. I think New Jersey isn't New Jersey like that. I have no idea. Yeah, I believe you Does Doug do you know you have any idea about that? I don't know. I'm just maybe the government's charging them I don't know. Yeah, I have no idea though, but anyway, I believe you, does Doug, do you know, do you have any idea about that? I don't know. I'm just maybe the government's charging him. I don't know. Yeah, I have no idea. No, but anyway, I can shit up.

So I had to pay my fucking stupid, I have a stupid ticket now. Oh, so you did get caught? Yeah, I don't know. He pulled me over. Oh, so what did you say in the, I didn't lie. I just, he just, he didn't even give me a chance. Yeah, license registration. So I'm like, here you go. And you know what, funny thing is after I got it and he's like, okay, you know,

please, you know, safely merge into traffic into traffic said no problem got on my cell phone Yeah, there's a piece of me that's kind of like there's a piece of me that's kind of like such a rebel Thank you man, you know the irony still be on me times. I've seen a cop go by me and he's on his phone Oh, yeah, every time. Yes, yeah, dude. Just they're just as you they're just as human as a recipe He wants to take his face face face Look at his Instagram too. I'm doing right now. You know this cuz he's a cop this cuz he's a cop doesn't mean he doesn't check his Instagram Come on man nobody's impervious Anyway, did you guys see

What do you guys think of Donald Trump what he did at the oh shit? You showed me that How much backlash is that right now? What's he getting for? He has to be his pissed everybody off. He has to give the least amount of fucks of anybody I've ever that's ever been in public office. Do you? Sometimes they're impressive on that level.

Sometimes I think this because you know, it's terrible. And I know it's such bad. Right. Politics and such. So so what he did for the listeners who don't know is he's at this uh ceremony where he's giving awards and medals to the Native Americans that served on World War Two who were using their their Native American languages to communicate there's actually a movie on this I've got the name of it when talkers

wasn't yeah so he's giving off these awards and As he's giving them the awards and talking to them and saying you guys did a great thing He's saying but you know, but we have someone in Congress, you know like you guys and you know She's been there for a while. We call her polka huntis He's talking about Elizabeth Warren who he refers to as polka huntis because she put down on a college admission That she was a minority because she had down on a college admission that she was a minority because she had Native American, which turned out she has like one sixtieth of her or something like that's Native American and people are saying, oh, she tried to get

in advantage. That's a whole other story. So he's always fucking with her, right? Because she's like super anti-Trump. But dude, he's talking to Native, he's talking to Native Americans and he's saying that. Like that is so horrible to me. Well, I think he's a tension was to make that jab, but he didn't really think about his audience.

He's making it to it. Like he never does. Yeah, I think he's lives in his own ideas. Like he just lets it out. Bro, it's so, most of the time I feel like I can defend him and say, listen, I think that he's's no, I think you just I think he A lot of times I think it's a smart strategy like a lot of times people think that he's just a pure idiot And he just says stupid stuff and I'm like sometimes I think he's smart and he's doing that intentionally because he knows

It's gonna go viral people are just sending he's the first president to really maximize and utilize social media more than anybody Yeah, more than anybody before him, right? So what makes us think that when we're sharing something that oh my god Trump did this on social media and millions of people are looking at it that that wasn't a master plan Oh, well, I don't know but this this yeah, this one was a little you know to make it said it most of the time I feel like I could defend that this is what I don't know about you know what it is I can do without being shitty No, I think what it is is he's been a man in power for so long That he's used to just saying what a fuck you want. Like he doesn't mean he never nobody ever checks him because he's

the guy like what are you gonna say to him like he's the man so I feel like now that he's president he doesn't realize that he's just whatever I'm gonna just talk the way I normally do and so he's 70 years old. He's saying there's a pokeout. Yeah yeah that's why you know he's a shit cuz he's just he's 70 years old. He's saying there's a poker hunt. We have a poker hunt. Yeah. That's why. You know, he's a shit because he's just, he's 70 years old. You're not gonna change. My girl thinks he's mildly autistic. She's like, I think he's probably a little bit

on the spectrum. I think so. There's something to do. Like, he's very smart in some ways. In other ways, you're like, dude, where's your social intelligence? What are you doing? But man, when I saw that, so one of my friends

who's like a hardcore Democrat, right? A friend of mine. Oh god, just love the jump all over the world. Well, just send it because we always make fun of, you know, we always poke at. I'm not a Republican, but I can definitely side with one or the other sometimes, right? So he'll send me this stuff and I watch in this video and I'm just, I just start busting up. I'm like, did he really just do that?

What are you doing? I can't believe it. What are you doing? I can't believe do that? I can't believe it. I can't believe it. What are you doing? I can't believe the president can't defend that. There's nothing I could say about that. There's nothing I could say about that. You imagine that? Yeah.

It's like you're talking to a bunch of like Italians or something. Like, yeah, you know, I got a friend, Mario and Luigi, she's back at home. He's a plumber. You know what I mean? I'd be like, what the fuck does he want to fuck you? Just say, is he trying to be racist right now? Anyway, what did you, uh, what did you guys do over the weekend? Cause I feel like we don't really talk about

Well, I got my Christmas tree. I got all my uh Christmas shopping done and decorate the house to Boom wow. Yeah, you're on fire. We were where do you get your tree? Uh Morgan Hill. This year We didn't cut it down this year. We picked it out. Yeah, we got it. It's flocked. Like did you like I like a white tree? Oh, okay. No. What do they do? Spray it with the white? It's like pretend chemicals. Yeah, probably pretty much probably. Yeah, it's a bunch of cancer. I don't know. I got a cancer. It's a mess. Best is served to you. Merry Christmas. Yeah, Zeno estrogen. Did Tim.

I know that's why it's tidy. Yeah, did you, did you cut yours down yet? Yeah, I did. I did. They after Thanksgiving. Now, do you actually go in the forest next to your house and just find one? No, I don't do that. I don't do that.

I went to a ranch or a Christmas tree ranch. It was up Black Mountain or whatever up there. Yeah, four wins, I guess it's called, but we went up there and I found it right away. And I was just like, dude, I, when I, I don't know, man, the family's all into the whole experience of it, you know, and like having coffee and.

We normally do that. It's kind of stuff and it's chill and cool, but I don't know, if some reason I was on a hustle, man, I was just like, run, cut it down and I was done. Just get it, my own outta here. So I had a very interesting experience With the Christmas tree because this is the first time I've cut one down So I actually before I've never cut down a tree. I've always either bought it at home depot precut

Did you like or I all buy a fake one? So this time this time huh? Yeah, I apologize to him for hug it first. Thank you for donating your carcass to be decorated in my... No, I don't care. But so I had an interesting experience because so my girlfriend, right, she just got super into holidays. Loves the holidays.

I mean, we play, she's playing Christmas music at the house. You know, Christmas decorations everywhere. Fall decorations, you know, Christmas decorations everywhere, fall decorations, you know, just the whole thing. So she loves it, so she's like, let's go cut down a tree, it's super fun. Now I've never really enjoyed that whole process because to me, and it's funny because I didn't realize this until recently.

To me, I always thought of the whole process is to get to the end, which is just to have a train or house. Here's our Christmas tree. We're supposed to have it up with ornaments on it and it's done. And I always thought, God, the process takes too long. Who cares? Just put the tree up, have some ornaments on, now we're decorated. And she's like, no, dummy.

She's like, it has nothing to do with having a train or house. It's the process. It's nothing to do with having a tree or nothing to do with, it's that day that we spend doing all the stuff and it's just, it's that whole process. And it was like a light bulb in the Irish coffee. It was like a light bulb that went off of my head

and I thought, holy shit, the reason why I've never enjoyed this is because I've always thought of the end result. I've always thought the goal is just to have the tree up with the ornaments, but in reality, that's nothing. It's all about enjoying cutting it, you know, driving up, listening to music with the kids, hot cocoa, cutting the tree down, bringing it home, getting out the decorations, listening to music,

you know, playing games, and I really enjoyed it. And then I thought to myself, wow, this really, this is so similar to fitness. It's so similar to how when people have a goal, like I wanna lose 30 pounds, that's why I'm working out. Or I need to get ready for this, that's why I'm working out. That's why they hate the process.

That's why they hate working out so much. That's why it sucks for them because. So focused on the end. It's all about the goal and for them, they just want the goal. They don't give a fuck about. Well, they're not being present in the process That's it and it's like holy shit

It's the same thing if you learn to enjoy what you're doing with the process You'll never have to you really won't ever have to worry about Falling off or on the wagon because you just enjoy the process and I think about myself and you guys like we're super consistent Relatively consistent with exercise and stuff But we don't do it necessarily because there's a goal, we just like doing it, right? It's all about the process. It was a mind, it was like a huge paradigm shift,

right away, I was like, holy shit, I get it now. You also, again, start connecting the things, because what you do when you do those, I mean, this could train an eye, we decorate the house together, we do the tree that's a part of it. It's just a good time for us. It detaches us from work, everything else.

You know, and we're focused on a very easy task to do that we enjoy each other's company and we're talking and it's bonding. And so when you start to connect the dots with that is what it's all about while you do that. Like, and I love that you use, you found a way to tie this into fitness. No, no, no.

Well, you know, because you're right. I mean you you are right I mean, that's the same thing that if people could just learn to instead of focusing so much on the goal Pay attention to the other things like how are you sleeping and how are your energy levels and how productive is your day? Because you're working out and you're doing all these things and also it's time for yourself and the reason why I bring it back to fitness is because I've been doing this lately to get myself To understand other aspects of life better because I've been doing this lately to get myself to understand other aspects of life better because I have such a good, if there's anything that I have a really good grasp of a healthy understanding of, it's fitness and nutrition, right?

If all the things that I, because it's been my profession, my passion for a long time, it's what I coach people on. So I understand it on a different level than the average person in the sense that, like I understand what it means to be consistent, I understand enjoying the process, I understand loving your body, like all the stuff we talk about on the show,

I get it, but what I'm doing now is I'm taking that understanding and I'm just applying it because it all translates, it's the same formula for everything else. Like you wanna be a millionaire, enjoy the process. You want to, you know, anything you do, enjoy the process, and that's what makes it. That's an interesting discussion

because there is a lot of really popular entrepreneurs that make a living off of speeding that up. Yeah, I'm selling the grind. I'm selling the grind and the, you know, oh, you know, this whole enjoying the process and thinking like that in balance and everything like that is not true and that where it's really at is,

well, you know what that reminds me of? It reminds me of the same people in fitness that do the same thing. So there's people in the entrepreneur world that promote like, you know, being successful and what it takes to do that, the sacrifice is necessary. It's very similar to the fitness. First, the fitness side of people that show that you have to become this martyr in order to

look a certain way, and it's really neither one of them are actually true. No, and the way I challenge that is the people that are successful and that put out that message of the grind, they actually enjoy the grind. So they are enjoying the process. It's not for them, because I've known a lot. Because they identify with that. Bro, I've known a lot of grinders.

I've been one before. If you ask me while I'm grinding, I'm gonna tell you I love it, because I did. It wasn't like I was doing it and hating it. Like, oh, this fucking sucks. I was always like, yes, I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna work, bell to bell, I'm gonna push myself harder.

So it was enjoying the process. Now, of course, there's a different conversation in terms of balance, you know, balancing your life out. But at the end of the day, if you love and enjoy the moment and the process, the goal, you're gonna get the goal, that's the easy part. But if all you do is focus on the goal

and everything is a means to an end, holy shit, man, it becomes tough, it becomes a struggle. And then it's a matter of willpower, which at some point you run out of willpower, you run out of motivation, and then what, you know what? So I just connected the two of those, and I don't know, it was pretty cool, because at that point now we're decorating the tree,

and I'm like, whoa, I really enjoy this. Watch out. Definitely. Yeah, it becomes a ritual tradition. And we weren't into this at all as kids, like on my side of the family. This is something that my wife's done forever. And I became a part of that process.

And it totally makes a difference as to like, okay, it starts now. And it's actually helped to kind of appreciate actually when Christmas gets there even more because you're just like, you know, you've prepped all the way up until then and like, you know, experienced a lot of it with the family already.

So yeah, it's pretty cool. It's fun, man. You guys, when you're decorating, you have a drink. Are you guys drinking something? Yeah, I was, I was coffee. So we're drinking coffee. My girl will either drink coffee or we're having a cocoa or

and this actually brings me nothing. I'm excited about, we can tell the listeners, we've just resigned with four sigmatic. So they were sponsoring us for a little while, then when there was a little break in between and they really liked how effective we were at sending people over to them. And I think it's just they have a good product, obviously, and we like their products too. So I was drinking Chaga, which, you know, it's got an interesting taste,

so I think some people who like it or they don't, but the enziolitic effects of Chaga, it's like a super, I get such a nice, even feel when I drink Chaga tea, it's not like Rishi, Rishi's more of a stress relieving sleepy feel. Chagas more just a kind of well-being and it's actually got anti-exity effects. I think we talked about this before. Do you make something more? Do you just brew it and then straight?

I just drink a straight, my name is Trinistrate. Yeah, and they call it the mother of all herbs or mushrooms, I think, because it's such a potent adaptogen. I learned a lot about Chaga back in the day because when I had a family member who had cancer towards the end of her life, I discovered Chaga's anti-cancer effects. So that's when I first learned about it. It's actually being studied by quite a few pharmaceutical companies for its potency. Do you think that's part of the rise, like companies like Forcing Back,

because you're seeing there's way more awareness around mushrooms that were fungi. 10 years ago, when we were in health fitness, talking to this. Seem nutrition. A whole new sort of direction that nutritionally that we're focusing on. Mushrooms have always been big in Chinese,

in alternative medicine. So Chinese medicine, eryvedic medicine, mushrooms were huge in them. In fact, in Chinese medicine, they'll probably prescribe. Yeah, it's been around forever with them. Yeah, they'll prescribe mushrooms way before or more often than I think, almost anything else.

And mushrooms have just played a huge role in human civilization from psychedelic mushrooms, which were probably the first consumed psychedelic substances to the medicinal properties of mushrooms. But what I find fascinating about mushrooms that I learned not that long ago is mushrooms are not a vegetable, which I knew but I really put together. And what I mean by that is we think that,

you know, it's important to eat lots of vegetables every day, eat some fruit, your nuts, your meats, and we think of all these different categories, and we tend to throw mushrooms in the vegetable category. Right, to total different categories. So if we eat lots of vegetables, but not necessarily mushrooms, we think we've got it covered,

mushrooms are their own category, they're fungi, and they have their own health benefits, and some functional medicine doctors say that you should probably have mushrooms at least a few days a week because they have unique benefits to the body. In particular, balancing out the immune system, which is, especially nowadays, with all the autoimmune issues that people are having, is an important thing. So, but yeah, no, I'm happy that we got

four sigmatic back on this. Now I can get my chug a free. Yeah. Just keep it real. Yeah. Yeah. Douglas, bring on the bird. This quads brought to you by Organify.

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Being a student, it's difficult to want to work out. I know I have the time, but it's difficult to get my ass to the gym. What are some tips to get yourself to the gym? He's got a, what do they say, anal glot com. He's a good man. Can't see his ass in the gym. Um, what? anal gla coma. Can't see his ass in the gym. Um, what is that? anal gla coma.

Can't see, can't see, can't see, can't see, my ass is a cloudy asshole. I'm a dude, my dad jokes are getting strong. They are. That one was too much. Did you see the one on your, you're pushing that one to happen? See the one I did on InstaStory? With the, with the, with the pancake, but I was shaking the pan. So I said, panquake.

Yes. So I missed that. Really, that, how dare I? Because that's amazing. Hey, speaking of pancakes though, dude, I have gone through, I'm on my third bag now of the pancakes that you introduced me to. Birchbenders. Yes, with the thrive of all of you. I told you, you know, no, they, oh snap.

Well, all you have to do is add water to them and they are bombed. You have the protein. I have the protein. My kind of cooking, just add water. No, and they're legit. They cook up perfectly, dude. Really? It's the best.

So the only complaint I have is I want a bigger serving. Do you know if they have a bigger serving on the thrive? Doug, do you know? I don't think they do. I think that's the only one. Yeah, that's the only knock I have is because I'm burning through them. I like them so much.

Are you really? Yeah, so that's been, is Birch, what was it? Birch, what? Birch Benders and they're like a full $3 cheaper on Thrive Market, like most of the stuff on there. Right, right. So, I've been crushing those. So the question, how is he gonna get,

how did you finally commit to working out? How's he gonna get his butt in the gym? You know, we just, let's talk about this in the intro, or earlier, this is one of the things where I think people, we've been told and fed for so long that it's all about motivation. That in order to do something, you need to be motivated to do something.

First and foremost, it's fleeting. Yeah, you got to understand something. Motivation, when you have it is great, but it's temporary. It is not a permanent emotion or feeling, just like happiness, sadness, anger. It comes and it goes. And if you're waiting for motivation to go work out,

at best, it's gonna be inconsistent. At worst, you'll never get yourself to work out. And I think a lot of this too comes from the old mindset of like having to actually kill it in the gym and do things that are substantially difficult and intense and really what's going to do you best is to show up and just start slow and you know really just start getting through the movements of it and treating it as practice and coming in and just practicing you know lifting weights a little bit here and there.

And then eventually it's just snowballs. I think the biggest mistake that people make is they think they got to do more than what they really need to. I think there is this, we're on, we talk about this all the time, we're either on or we're off and we're on, we're on. You're just doing everything. And it actually doesn't have to be that difficult. If you haven't been going to the gym at all, just getting the gym and with Justin, you're just doing everything. And it actually doesn't have to be that difficult. Like if you haven't been going to the gym at all,

just getting the gym and like, what Justin was just saying, practicing a few movements, that's excellent for a day one. You know, and then day two, you, you, a little bit more, you know, and you just, I think people try and make this like, okay, on January one, and you know,

this is my New Year's resolution, and it's like, they cut out all the fast food, they cut the sodas out, they cut the candy out, they start exercising, they start lifting weights, they're going to lose. Right and it becomes this like all or nothing type of deal and it's like no, actually you're not only is that not the best way to do it but you would be much better off, you'll get better results if you gradually move yourself in it and you'll also enjoy the process a lot more. It's so much easier to, in fact, something that I've had to teach myself to do,

because if anything, I think that the reason why we can speak to this too, is that we're all people that used to do this. I 100% would, I was either dialed or not, and what happens when you're like that, you do turn it into this on or off thing versus when you actually go in just a little bit at a time, a little bit more, you build upon that.

It's more of a journey and a process, and then I think it's a lot easier to enjoy, and it's also easier to fit in a crazy schedule. You start to realize like, oh, I haven't gave myself 20 minutes, and this right now is close to home for me because I've been the most inconsistent training right now that I have been in the last four plus years.

And I'm back in just last couple of weeks was, I had a really good week where I had four days in the gym, which for me in the past a year ago, that would be hardly anything. Like I was training seven days a week, you know, just a year ago. So four days, but the week before that, I'd only made three days, and the week before that,

I only made two days. And so it's just like, hey, I'm just trying to get in the habit of getting the gym. And then when I'm in here working out, sometimes I'm only doing two exercises, maybe three exercises. Just getting my body re-acclimated to getting in here, moving, exercising, I'm back to wearing my Fitbit,

just being aware of my steps. I know that there's days where I could easily sit on my ass for 2,000 steps for the entire day. So making sure that I'm pushing it up to like 5 to 8,000 on those days, other days when I'm moving around at work, I'm making sure I'm hitting 10,000. So giving myself very small gradual goals and just building upon that, I think is the much smarter strategy. Here's the thing, a subpar routine done consistently is gonna give you better results than an excellent program done inconsistently.

So I know we talk all the time about excellent, you know, professional, well-done exercise programming. Our maps programs are very, very well put together, great programming, we design them ourselves. However, if you did our maps programs and did a little bit here and then didn't do it for three weeks and then did some, it's going to be less effective than a crappy program that you're there in the gym consistently. So consistency is more important than anything. Don't worry so much about all the stuff you need to do. Just do a little something and think about it as,

it's time for yourself. Really, it's just time for yourself. That may mean you just go for a walk, especially for your body. I mean, like half, and even though we have everything outlined, you know, in the math programs, like, for instance, I'll get this sometimes like, well, I didn't complete, you know, the last three exercises or this and that,

this still applies, you know, it's that same idea that like you do have some structure, but you know what, like, I was listening to my body and I was, I was fatigued and I was exhausted, okay, so we'll pick it up again tomorrow. I always tell people, you know, do something you enjoy. First, if you're just getting started working out, you don't need to worry so much about doing

the right amount of resistance training in cardio and mobility work and all that stuff. If you're doing nothing, just pick something you enjoy. So if that is a walk, then make that and do that consistently. And then eventually you'll start to see yourself ramp things up. It's typically what happens. I'm not careful with saying that though, because there's some people that, and I've had a lot

of people that their definition of getting in shape is the running thing. It's like getting, I mean, they're not running or I'm running. And I love to run when I'm running, like when they get into it. And so they think that like, okay, I'm back in it. Let me start running again, you know, every day. Like I, I'm dealing with that with a friend of mine right now, who I help out. But that's the on the off, that's on the wagon off the wagon people. I rarely ever see someone who loves running and just this is what I've been doing for the last 10 years and I perfect it and it becomes my thing.

It's usually the people who do that or the ones that are like, I'm getting in shape. I'm going to just start running and then they do it and do it and then they stop is usually what I see, you know, from those kinds of people. I look, I had a client, she's probably listening, good friend of mine, ended up becoming one of my favorite people ever trained. She came to me and was sent to me by one of my doctor clients. So she was one of their patients, and she comes to me

and walks in super, like not happy, like didn't want to be there. Her doctor told her to come in. Didn't wanna be there. We sit down and she literally tells me, I'm not working out more than once a week with you. So I'm only coming in once a week and I'm not changing my nutrition.

Those are like the first, here's what I'm not gonna do. Those are the first two things out of her mouth. So I said, that's fine. So all I know I have to work with is once a week. Right, right. So we'll do the best that we can, the most we can within that once a week. Now, I knew that she, because then I had talked to her further

and we did this whole assessment, and I knew that she had totally horrible experiences with working out. She's had injuries that she tried to rehab, that never got rehab because the physical therapist never progressed her. She's worked out with trainers that over-trainer and pushed her too hard. And she got real sore.

So I'm like, okay, what I'm going to do, my goal is to just get her in once a week, which she said she can do. And each time she comes in, I'm just going to have a good time with her. I'm going to get her and do exercises with her, but I'm going to have good conversation with her because during this assessment, I discover she's intelligent, she likes to have good conversation. So that's what we're gonna do when we work out. I'm gonna give her some exercises, we're gonna do those, but the whole time, we're gonna have great dialogue, great discussion, and everyone's so I'm gonna slip in some fitness stuff.

And so this went on for a little while, and she showed up every week once a week consistently. I think it went on for like, I wanna say almost a year, just once a week consistently. I think it went on for like, I want to say almost a year of just once a week. Wow. Now in that once a week, which is way more than she was doing before, I got her stronger, I got her more stable. I did a lot with that once a week.

I did the most I could do with that once a week. Next thing I know without me saying anything, she comes to me and says, Hey, Sal, do you have another day a week that's available? Absolutely. Now we're twice a week. Now she's doing it twice a week. Next thing I know, without me saying anything, she comes to me and says, hey, Sal, do you have another day a week that's available? Absolutely. Now we're twice a week. Now she's doing it twice a week. Next thing I know later on, hey, is there anything

I can do on my own at home? Next thing I know, hey, what should I do with nutrition? Do you think I should cut out sugar? What do you think about processed foods? Fast forward today, she's still working out with, she's actually trained with my girlfriend now because I don't train anymore, but she's made drastic changes to her diet, her activity level, and it's all through that slow process of being consistent with what she was ready for. And look where she's at now. Now,

if I had taken that individual and sat in front of me, and I tried to throw her in that right hand, I'm like, listen, once the week's of waste of time, you need to come see me at least three days a week, she probably would have never, never come back. I think as long as you're realistic with your goals and people understand that, right? Like I think people, there's this, this idea that the harder I push, the more I do right now, the faster I get to my goal. Again, focusing so much on the goal instead of the process and they don't realize that it's really not. It's not that much faster if you really think about it.

Like this, if you're just slowly building upon it, like a year is a long time to go one day a week, but I think that starting off, starting off with less and building upon that versus trying to max, like say, okay, I have four days a week that I can get to the gym and then fully committing to that right away. It's like, well, okay, if you have four days, why don't you start off with one or two? Do that for a while. Right, do that for a while and see what happens. And then build upon that.

I'd like to say this to MCD Matt. So you are a student, so you're probably strapped for cash and you're saying you don't have much time. Here's what I'll do. If you're listening DM me and I'll give you a 50% off coupon for maps anywhere. Maps anywhere you can work out in your room, in your dorm room.

You don't need to go to the gym. There's no equipment, it's super effective. I think that foundational workouts are too weak and if you want to add more you can. So hopefully that'll help you be more consistent. Next question is from Scotland 360. Opinions on the squat every day program would be an interesting one since you guys are all about frequency, et cetera, but against going to failure. I love this and hate this. Yeah, I know several people who've done this. I love it. I love it. And I hate it.

It over simplifies everything. Right. I love it. And I hate it. I know several people who've done this. I love it and I hate it. It just over simplifies everything. Right, I love it and I hate it. I think that- But what do you love about it? What I love about it is the people that have gone through it and I've had a lot of success, it helps them with the light bulb of frequency and understanding like you can, the frequent you in frequency. Right, so I think that's what I love about it.

What I don't like about it is a lot of people don't understand how to apply it correctly. It's not, if you're going to squat every single day, you can't be backloaded. This isn't a numbers game of like, I need to ramp it up. Right. You can't be crushing it all the time. Some day is just pause squats and depth and tempo. You're focusing on mechanics really slow. Maybe a day then you go heavy. Another day you'll lots of, so if you're focusing on mechanics really slow, maybe a day, then you go heavy,

then other day you lots of, so you, if you're gonna squat every single day, you cannot hammer heavy in every single day. And even if you did and you make that happen, like your tax and the fuck out of your body, you're only gonna see minimal results from that. So that's what I don't like about it is, I don't know, it takes a lot,

that is something that has taken me 16 years of training myself and training others to really understand how to apply. And applying intensity is tough to do. And I still over, overdo it and underdo it sometimes and still refining how perfect I am on like knowing right where to push my body, to maximize my results, but not overtax my body.

So what I don't like is squatting every single day is challenging for the average person who's just trying to follow a program where it's like, hey, I've never done this before. My friend had great results doing squat every day. So I'm going to squat every day. But like if you're not very in tune with your intensity and knowing how to pull back and put wind to push and if that to me, that takes a long time to learn that. And so it is kind of an advanced thing to ask people. Well, yeah, and my issues with it, it's like, you know, if you're asking somebody to do something specific like that, if they feel like they don't do it,

like they feel like they're off the wagon now, you know, it goes back to that whole thing, right? Yeah, or it's like you said, like said, they think of it as a challenge. Whenever you think of it more of a challenge, they're trying to gain some PR out of this and ramp up their intensity and their process. Instead of just really focusing on the skill of it and just having that be something that's a regular thing

that I'm honing in on this mechanically. And for me to hone in on this mechanically, oh my God, it's going to do wonders for you. I'll tell you what, the squat every day program is a great way to add for the average person, because if you're already a power lifter or strength athlete who's been doing this for a while, maybe not so much, But for the average person, average lifter, do the squat every day programs a real fast way to add like 30 to 50 pounds to your squat and you'll probably gain a quarter to a full inch

on your quads and those are what, so far everybody I know who's done it has seen something similar to that. I have a friend actually who did this recently and I had to coach him through it because like, you were talking about Adam, he was over doing the intensity and I said no, no, I said it's quite every day, but it's not squat hard Every day, you know if you're sore you go in there and you do it easy

So we started doing that and he's like I had to stop because he stopped he couldn't fit in his jeans because his leg his legs were up so So much so yeah, that is the cool thing about frequency Here's the bad thing about the squat every program. Great way to develop and balance is fantastic. If all you're doing is part of really hardwired that. Yeah, exactly. You are really cementing a recruitment pattern for squatting, which is a very functional recruitment pattern, but because you're squatting everyday,

you're probably not doing a lot of other things. And you can develop issues. I know if I squat too often and don't do other things, I start to get what feels like bersitis in my hips or IT band issues or you know, I'll start to notice problems with my SI joint. And I know that has to do with imbalances,

but most people aren't so balanced that they could just squat every day and not start to develop a recruitment pattern issue So that's the one thing I would say be careful if you do this It could be a fast track to developing You know some joint problems. I definitely think that I mean if you're not doing any unilateral work in there I have experienced the exact same thing that you just nailed on with and I have definitely been here before where I'm chasing PRs for squats or I'm really trying to improve that, and I'm neglecting Bulgarians or walking

lunges or doing some of this unilateral type work, and right away the first thing that my brositis in my hips, and it's completely gone and doesn't bother me right now, and if I were to start doing that, that would be the first thing that would flare up and might let my butt. And that's mechanically, I'm not, and this might not someone who's 22 years old maybe can do that and feel completely fine, being an older guy who's definitely has imbalances

and I'm not the same spray 20-year-old that could probably do anything to his body and still feel fine. For sure, if you're somebody who's older, 30 plus years old squatting every day could be really challenging because more than likely, if you're somebody who's older, you know, 30 plus years old, squatting every day could be really challenging if you're, because more than likely, okay, if you're 30 years old or older, you've got imbalances, we all have them, you know, I'm saying, and how bad they are, I don't know. And if you're squatting every day, you could be actually exaggerating some of those. So there's a lot to take into consideration with that, which is the love

and hate thing. I love it because like you said, so it's like nothing, I mean, you want to grow your legs like frequency. But that's, to me, that's the takeaway. It's like, if you're somebody who used to only squat one time a week or rarely, you know, you squatting two times a week, watch what that does for you. Do that for a couple of weeks and then go three times a week and then go four times a week. Like, you don't even need to go from zero to 100 right away. I don't think that doesn't make sense to me.

Like, I would never go, I'm not squatting every day to squatting every day. I'd go squatting once a week, then twice a week, then three times a week, and like I would build upon that every week or two. You know? Definitely adding variations to it. And I think you get just as good a result.

You also leave yourself open for other days to be doing other work that can compliment what you're doing. So that's just my opinion. Yeah, but it's funny too, because it sounds like something we would hate on, but the reality is squatting every day, you're probably gonna get some good results if you do it right, that's for sure.

Next question is from Ben Burdette. How do you catch up a muscle that is a non-symmetrical muscle or muscle group? For example, one bicep smaller than the other or one side of back smaller. Well, this is two things. One, maps black to unilateral work. That's the first two things that come to my mind right away. I mean, that's, we created maps black with the intention to... Yeah, the way it's designed is it allows you to target specific areas of your body to ramp up

volume and frequency so that you can become more symmetrical. That's why we call it map-synthetic. It's good for our stage competitor athletes because these are people who, you know, they want to look a particular way and part of looking really good on stage. And even if you're not a competitor, it's incredible. If you're just somebody who cares about aesthetics, like if you're, I mean, because I know we have listeners that are all health Minded that's all they give a shit about then we have powerlifting type people and then we have definitely aesthetic people people that want to look better Fucking naked. There's nothing wrong with admitting that you want to look better and feel better and if that's the case like

That maps black is designed for that is designed for people that have specific areas on their body that they think is lagging in comparison to other parts of the body. It teaches you how to literally plug that in and go. That's the first thing. The other thing is when you have like a discrepancy between what left bicep and a right bicep getting away from doing all the two armed everything. So unilateral stuff, doing alternating bicep curls or one arm. And I always start with the weaker side first and match that as the gauge. Yes, that is your gauge.

Never the, I think the biggest mistake and I, we should say this because I know I've seen this a bunch of times with people is when they're stronger on one side, they continue to, to lift that way. And you just need it. That's your way ahead on that side. You need to let the other one catch up. So you always start with the weaker one and do you know a lot of good?

That's the limiting fact. Yeah, definitely that from the training side. I would say also don't discount the fact that, really look into your daily habits and your routines of what you do all the time or when you go to pick something up, what do you favor the most in your, in the way that you operate and, you know, try, try to emphasize one side a little bit more and see

what that does for you as far as like just overall adding more volume and movement to the process. And don't just look, so if we're talking about the bicep too, I would also teach someone to not just look at bicep curls. You probably cheat on that dominant side and all your rows, your pull up type movements, any other your back stuff. So especially if you're doing it with both hands. So all pulling, so all pulling movements, I'm going to do unilateral or I'm definitely, if I'm doing no unilateral, I'm definitely going to start to incorporate that and upon that, because that could be part of the reason why you have an imbalance is you do CD row with both hands,

you do lap pull down with both hands, and your dominant side is pulling most of the way, and that's gonna help develop the bicep more on one side than the other too. So not only do you need to do the biceps unilateral, but you also wanna do your pulling exercises that incorporate a lot of the bicep unilateral too, and same theory stopping to the weaker side.

Just work out the unsymmetrical side more. I mean, really, you know, add an extra exercise for that one side, do it more frequently. So if your left arm is visibly smaller than your right arm, on your off days, do some light sets for that left arm that you don't do for the right arm. Just do a little extra work for it and it'll start to catch up. I had a couple experiences with this myself. My calves, I had an experience with my calves. When I was younger, I dislocated my kneecap on my left leg.

And so for an entire summer, I had to wear this like straight leg brace. So it was like this Velcro leg brace with these bars that went through it and it kept my left leg totally straight. I could walk on it, but it wouldn't let me bend my knee for obvious reasons, cause it was swollen or whatever.

And so that summer, I had a girlfriend and I think it was my summer, I wanna say summer after eighth grade going into freshman year. So I had this girl that I was it was my summer. I want to say summer after eighth grade going into freshman year. So I had this girl that I was dating and I wear the straight leg brace and I'd walk to her house, which was a good mile and a half away, maybe two miles away, from my house so I could hang out with her and make out and do the things that you do when you're in head. And he's dating.

You know, of course at that age, you know, I'm a guy, I'm like, what am I, 13 years old? Like I'll walk 10 miles. I can only mean with fucking both legs broken. Just with the raging arrow. Is that the truth when you're that aged? Dude, when I think about it, I, remember, this isn't the summertime, it's the hottest fuck bag members. I've got a knee braid, I've got this long ass knee braid

just wobbling all the way there. And I walk, I would walk from my house all the way to our house to spend, if our mom was at home for 15 minutes, to go there for 15 minutes, and then oh, my mom's coming real quick, and then I'd walk my ass all the way home. But anyhow, because I was doing that almost every single day with this knee brace,

I had to push off really hard with my left foot. So I had this kind of funny walk where I would push off of my left foot, but I'd be able to bend my right leg. Well, by the end of that summer, my left calf was a good inch bigger than my right calf. And in order to balance them out, I had to do the same thing on the other side.

I had to do lots of calf raises on the other side in order to try and balance them out. So that was one thing. The other thing too is that I've experienced this was with my back. Because I love deadlifting, I love deadlifting heavy, and I have a decent deadlift, I would always, and I would always pull

with the same over under grip. So my right hand, supinated, left hand, pronated. And when I'd get real heavy, that was my favorable grip. I didn't realize that I had a more developed right side of my back than my left. And it's not super evident, but you can see it if I, you know, stay on my shirt off and I'm flexing, you can see that one side's more developed than the other. So I had the deadlift with a switch with the other grip for a while, and now

I do a double overhand. it's just put in more work for that weaker or smaller side. Not necessarily harder work, just put in more work, add more frequency, and the body tends to want to catch up. You'll notice that it tends to want to catch up. It may take a while, but it'll catch up eventually. Next up is DJ Cruise. Does muscle building inherently cause tightness due to tighter muscles, or is it just from the enlargement of the muscle leading to reduced available range? Oh, this is a good question.

This is actually, believe it or not, a controversial question. Get into CNS and get into what? Because we don't really have tight muscles, right? No, but so the old saying was, you know, back in the day in the 50s, 40s and 50s and maybe even the 60s, athletes were discouraged from lifting weights. So if you played football or baseball or,

I think football was probably the first sport where athletes started lifting weights, but baseball for sure, and they didn't want to you develop any upper body. No, actually, they they discouraged it. They said stay out of the weight room because it'll make you muscle bound. Yeah, it'll make you tight and you won't be able to move. And the read and then the reverse came out and people said, no, wait,

trained, doesn't make you muscle bound. It makes you a better performer and, you know, the debate kind of went back before. Then now it's hard to find an athlete that doesn't lift weights. Like weights definitely contribute to performance. Now, you want to think back to yourself and say, well, why would this coach just say that back then? Why would they say people would get muscle bound? They didn't just invent that at a thin air.

They obviously observed something. And what I think that they observed back then was that the people that were into lifting weights back then probably weren't into sports. So that now you had this big muscular to do that all it does is lift weights, then they'd go try and they probably looked bad. I used to say it even as a trainer in early years that, you know, we're shortening our muscles because we're just contracting, contracting, contracting, contracting. And so then the muscles get tighter and tighter and tighter.

So I used to present this, like I used to say to people because that's how I was under the impression that the more we can continue to contract and we'd lift like that, the shorter muscles get tighter and tighter and tighter. So I used to present this. Like I used to say to people, because that's how I was under the impression that the more we can continue to contract and we'd lift like that, the shorter and shorter and tighter and tighter we'd become way. So I think related to CNS stuff. And that's right, I think that can happen.

I really do. I think the other thing is that you would have athletes lifting weights and not practicing their sport while they're lifting weights. And you lose coordination for a couple of different reasons. Your size gets bigger. So you're not moving the same body. But your strengthening, just those very specified ranges of motion.

That's the adaptation you're seeing. Yeah, so it's like wherever your joint angle is, as you're working out with weights, is what's going to translate towards the actual overall mechanical movement. So there's both. You have to, in what sounds leading to you, is like with the skills portion of it,

that needs to exist simultaneously with weight training. Or you lose it. Now, if you take the average person who is totally inactive and you have them lift weights properly, full range of motion, good control, whatever, they're gonna get better flexibility. They're gonna get better range of motion, good control, whatever, they're going to get better flexibility.

They're going to get better range of motion. Now if you take somebody who is already got decent range of motion, different, decent flexibility because they're, you know, a dancer or whatever, and you have them lift weights and they don't incorporate or integrate more flexibility training, they may notice tighter muscles. Now here's why. Here's why I think that happens, because I've had lots of clients comment on that. I've had my girlfriend comment on that. She's super flexible, right? She used to train with silks, which requires an amazing amount of work.

It's a safety mechanism. It's a safety mechanism that you've trained your body to do. You've told it that it's strong within this range of motion. Anything outside of that, it freaks out. I'll show you. I'll show you somebody call it the overbearing mother. Yeah. So, that's like, you know, no, no, no, like you can only go so far, you can hurt yourself.

Well, think about it. You've got to have that, like, just internally. Yeah, and think about this way, if your central nervous system is controlling how much your muscles will extend, which is what it does, that's what gives you flexibility to your CNS that tells the muscle that it can relax to a certain point or whatever. And that, so let's say you have a certain amount of tension at a particular point, and now the muscle's bigger, it's

going to feel like more resistance. It's just a bigger muscle now that's still resisting going past a particular range of tension. Well, a good example of why this isn't true is a jujimufu. I mean, John is a great example of you can become extremely muscle bound, you know, muscular and big, and still, but what does he do? He does just as much tricking. He's more arranged emotionally than any of us. Right, he does just as much tricking and mobility work

as he does heavy lifting. And so, and what he did a really good job of always keeping that through this entire, now if he would have just lifted weights and he wasn't a tricker and he wasn't in a mobility and he was that muscle bound, you better believe his range of motion would look worse than anybody in this room.

Yeah, so, so I like this, I'll give you another example. Let's say you have somebody that just goes to the gym and all they do is work out their chest. So all they do is they lift heavy for chest, they get a good pump, they build big pecs. It's Monday every day. And let's say that their chest was tight anyway. So they had tight chest to begin with, but their chest was also weak.

It was small. Well now it's just a big muscular strong tight chest. So it's going to cause more distortion in the posture. It is going to feel tighter simply because it's a bigger, stronger muscle that's still tight. So can you're not getting as expansive in your range of motion? Yeah, so can bigger, can building muscle cause more tightness? It can if you don't go through full ranges of motion and you don't practice flexibility training. It definitely can. Now, can you have small weak muscles that are tight? Yep. You definitely can. Well, this is more common. The biggest knock that I have on bodybuilding

and this is what happened to me was, I became so focused on aesthetics for the first time in my life. I'd never, my entire career as a trainer. I've always just been a fit trainer. I played basketball, I did play a work, I did all kinds of multi-planeers shit. Like just because that,

and I was trying to build muscle, that's always been a goal. I wouldn't be bigger or more buff, but it wasn't to a point where I had to sacrifice other things. Well, when I got into competing, that became such the goal that all those other things that used to be important to me were no longer because it was all about aesthetics.

So it was each I needed to improve month over month the way my body looked and training that way I started to neglect all the things to improve my mobility and movement and I lost it. I mean I couldn't do a pistol squad. I couldn't get all the way down in a full squad at all. I lost that range. I looked awesome but I lost that and it's because I had sent that signal. Now I had nothing to do with the mass, the size of my muscles. Had I been training mobility, now maybe I wouldn't be as big because I would sacrifice some of the aesthetic and hypertrophy type training for more mobility

and sports training. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean?

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me where it's debatable. It's really, it all depends on your goals, right? Like what is more important to you? Is it just becoming bigger and more buff? If that's the case, and then you're willing to sacrifice some of the mobility, then to each their own. But you just know that if you're gonna be completely focused on being bigger, building more muscle, that you're gonna probably give in some other areas, or you're okay with maybe not maximizing building the most amount of muscle because you're also

wanting to have balance and mobility, and so you incorporate that. But I could definitely see the argument for somebody to do just straight, you know, train. If you're an athlete, like that's different, right? If you're an athlete and you want to build some muscle, there's an off season for a reason and you're actually able to produce more force the stronger you get. Right. But even in an off season, you're still training movements that are going to compliment

your sport. Exactly. Yeah, you're still putting the skill. Yeah, you're still putting the skill base training in there. You're still working on mobility. You're just more focused, but you don't have game days. So instead of game days now, your game day is now in the gym lifting, right?

And building this always, my problem is always like a method or a system that revolves around one thing. You know, that just to me doesn't have a lot of longevity in life to it. How about this too? And we didn't even touch on this with this conversation is there's a huge Genetic factor that plays into here too. Of course. Yeah, there are some people that have just what am I already working it right now? Right and I and I use

Juji as an example He's probably also an example somebody who's a genetic freak also, you know I'm saying the guy responds very well the lifting weights and he's been been able to do the splits forever. So you know He's he's definitely got a genetic advantage that he's continued to work towards and work at, which is a good example of why he looks that way. Some people are, are going to be able to lift tons away. Another person was in the house, remember what's his face who passed away, Rich Pionna, you know, super flexible, you know, and you know, I

never see him doing mobility work. He just genetically was, you know, gifted when it comes to mobility. So there is a major- Tom Plats. Tom Plats was another guy, but he also did work on it. He worked on it quite a bit. Here's the thing. Look, I tell you what, if you're the average person and you're lifting weights properly and you're doing the barbell lifts, like the good ones, like full barbell squats and their variations, you know, full rows and pull-ups and overhead presses and, you know, windmills and stuff like that,

you're not gonna have to worry about tight muscles, you're actually gonna improve your flexibility and range of motion. The average person can't even do a full squat properly because they're either too weak or too tight or both. So, you know, definitely don't be afraid of becoming tighter if you start doing resistance training. The only people that should worry about getting tighter with resistance training

are people who are already super flexible and then they stop their flexibility training and just do resistance training. But the average person, you're not going to get tighter if anything, you're going to get greater ranges of motion, greater flexibility. That's a good point. That's a good point. Absolutely. So check this out. Go to YouTube, mind pump TV. We post new videos all the time. Some of them are exercise demos, some of them include special guests, and some of them are even funny. You got to watch Justin's video that we posted today. Thank you for listening to Mind Pump. If your goal is to build and shape your body, dramatically

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