Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 766: Why Most Body Part Splits are Inferior for Building Muscle, Overcoming Plateaus, What Makes a Successful Entrepreneur & MORE

Episode Date: May 9, 2018

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 someone hasn’t had a hard life or hard upbringing is capable of becoming a successful entrepreneur, why so many bodybuilders still use the split body method, the best ways to keep track of progress and advice on being confident without being cocky. Brands making a comeback! The old is becoming cool again. (5:14) Childish Gambino's 'This Is America': Breaking Down the controversial symbols behind the new music video. (6:25) Better safe than sorry. The reality of the human brain identifying patterns for good or bad. (17:40) The Romanticism of Philosophies. The guys speculate why the human race lust over being the same. (24:32) The State of Mental Health Care in the NBA & search for meaning and fulfilment in this world. 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We talk about the song by the childish, uh, Bambino. No, it's Gambino, Doug. Gambino. Yeah, that's another Italian name he stole. For his song called This is America, little controversial. And then it started getting heavy after that. We did, we talked about how experience

creates subconscious judgments. We talk about the strange romanticization, that's how you say it, of Karl Marx. I guess Karl Marx had a recently had his 200th birthday and people are celebrating that asshole. Yay, murder. Yeah, we talk about the NBA addressing mental health. Pretty cool.

That was cool. The importance of human connection. And then we talked about a dessert that I made with organified gold juice. Definitely making this. Coke, Fulk, Fat, Coconut Milk from the camp. Sometimes you're brilliant, sir. And protein powder from Organified.

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that I had just read over the weekend. Then we get into the questions. The first question was, do we think people can be super successful entrepreneurs if they haven't had a hard life? Seems like these days everybody's super successful grew up under difficult circumstances. Is that a prerequisite for entrepreneurial success? Should I kick my kids out of the house?

The net you want them to be successful? Yes. The next question was, you know, if maps, you know, programming is superior, then why do bodybuilders still use body part splits? There's a little bit of a myth going on here that splits are always ineffective. Not true when you apply the right kind of methodology There's a little bit of a myth going on here that splits are always ineffective.

Not true when you apply the right kind of methodology to split training. Your body will respond, we talk about it in this episode. The next question was, what are the best ways to keep track of progress? This particular individual is working out. Their weights are going up, they're eating healthy, but the weight on the scale isn't changing, so they're feeling unmotivated. The final question, this person finds that it's hard to be confident without being self-depreciating. Or, how do you become confident without being cocky?

What is the difference between the two? We give answers on that question because we're so bad at this. Because we're so good at being talking. That would be awesome. Exactly. Also, this month, now we did mention in the episode, our Intuitive Nutrition Guide. We also talked about fasting. Well, we have guides on nutrition and fasting.

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Stucey, yeah! Stucey is really a real artist. I remember that shit back in the day. So Stucey is made more than just a comeback. In fact, last year they reported the largest earnings they've had since they've been in business. For since ever. In fact, last year they reported the largest earnings they've had since they've been in business. For instance, ever since.

Sting! Cause they were big in the, when we were kids, right? Don't call them to come back. Oh, there's a lot of brands have made a comeback. It's been really interesting to watch. So champion, Fila, Stucey. I mean, champion was in Kmart.

Like, when I was a kid, if you were a champion, you were broke. It was cool. Now it's fucking cool. So champion has made it come back, which is crazy to me. Talk about a clocky name though, huh? Right.

Yeah. Fila. We're in champion, because I remember Fila had its run back when we were kids. Shit, our first uniform at 24th, our finish was, was, oh my God. Affiliated with Fila. I never liked Fila. Come on. So I actually bought some Fila God. Affiliated with Phila. Never liked Phila.

Come on. Yeah, so I actually bought some Phila. Yeah, I like this. You don't like Phila? No, I was stupid. What? When I was a kid, I thought Phila was Phila. It looks like an S at the end, a cursive S.

I was like Phil's. Yeah, no Phila. So the talk of the town right now is the new song, I think it's made in America by childish Gambino, the Danny, what's his name, Dan? But so when he just showed us Danny Glover, or he's a comedian, right. And that, I mean, he's playing Lendo

in the new, yeah man, a solo film. He's definitely. Oh, is he really? Yeah, he's like, oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, they actually approached him. Well, a lot of his fans wanted him to be the next Spider-Man, and then that one didn't happen. So I'm glad that he got the role actually for Lando.

God, he's perfect for him. He looks great for it. He looks just like him. Yeah, he's a funny guy, too. So I mean, he just showed me the video, and this was a pretty deep topic. Right, right. Now, I know he's addressing the recent shooting

by Stefan Clark and Sacramento That just happened not that long ago. So I know it's there's lines in there that he's addressing that Definitely heavy man. That's a very heavy Very artsy. I thought it was fucking super creative To do something like that. I like for the most part, I like stuff like this, for the most part, but I also see the other side of it too. I also think sometimes it feeds into this separation thing and that's the part I don't like about it. I appreciate it, and I'll tell you why I appreciate it.

It's an artistic expression, it's nonviolent, so I've- Both steps in the video. Well, I mean, but I mean real violence. I mean real violence, it's non-violent. So, you know, I- Both steps in the video. Well, I mean, but I mean, real violence. I mean, real violence. It's not real violence. Like, you know, he's speaking against it.

I mean, yes, yes. Yeah, and I appreciate that. Even if I disagree with someone's, you know, opinion, I really appreciate it when someone can express themselves in a way that can get, can make an impact or at least get people to start talking. Because here's what I got from the video. It looks like he was showing two sides.

Like one side is the facade, the smiles, the, you'll make money, go whatever. And then the other side was harsh reality of, you know, violent culture of violent societies that we see or violence, you know, sub-cultures or sub-societies that we see within America, which, you know, they need to get voiced out. People need to keep talking about them. Yeah, you see a lot of, I mean, in the political climate, you see a lot of saying things that, you know, are like, there's a lot of entertainment that sort of distracts America when we're overseas and there's all this stuff happening

and like shootings and we're assassinating people, but it's like then right back to the dancing and singing and entertainment. So it's kind of showing that crazy contrast that it's almost like it's one of those you're asleep and we need to wake up kind of showing that like crazy contrast that we're just, it's almost like it's one of those you're asleep and we need to wake up kind of a message. Yeah, I appreciate it. I don't know if I,

I have to watch it more times just to really kind of break it down and see what he's trying to communicate. But I appreciate that music has, that they're doing it through music or they're doing it in a way that, because there's like 18 million views you said in two days. Yeah, and it's number one trending in like,

20 different countries right now. So it's exploding. This is only what a night, one day old. This is what I see, this is what music, back in the day, this was what music did. Music, what color you saw. It still does, what you saw. But you say that, you sound so old, bro.

It still does it. Well, music still does it. Yes, yes, it still does. You know what it is? Just are unaware of it. I'm trying to bro. It still does it. Well, music still does it. Yes, it still does. You know what it is? Just are unaware of it. I'm not trying to help you, because I'm aware of it. It's not the same, dude.

And here's why, because. Of course it's not the same. You have different. It's different time. No, not because it's different music, but because you had a very strong counter culture in the past, and today there isn't that same counter culture.

That's what I mean. There's a lot more. Yeah, there's a lot more. Well, I think music now that's just for, you know, fun and games. I think there's more reason now to have like, you know, to bring to light a lot of the issues. Because like, it's interesting when you see everybody like

in this sort of unrest state, what kind of music comes out of it. And I think that you're gonna be seeing a lot more of this where, you know, people are gonna kind of music comes out of it. And I think that you're gonna be seeing a lot more of this where people are gonna kind of bring up a lot of the problems through their music and expression. And this is what artists do in times like these. Well, there's always going to be real artist, and then there's always gonna be people that are writing trends.

It's just part of it. And there's ways to make money and business out of that. And that goes across all things Not just music that goes into fashion goes into everything else. There's gonna be people this song will get politicized for sure though Oh it with the title like this is America and then showing in the video, you know all the killing and stuff like that That'll get it'll get politicized you'll get one side that's gonna say oh We're such a violent culture and society and it's terrible in America sucks.

You get the other side that says, how dare you say that about this great country and everyone's gonna get offended. And, but, you know what, I like that. I like that. Yeah, it creates discussion. And that's the reason why I brought it up. And that's why too, I feel like I kind of feel both sides of it.

I love it, but then I also can see too, where it could feed into that part, where now everyone's gonna be like, oh, it's so terrible here at so basic. Well, no, we've discussed this on the show before. It's less violent today than it was 10 years and 20 years and 30 years ago. So we are evolving in the better direction

and we are becoming a safer, better country. But I think too. But there are areas, there are segments within this country that are extremely dangerous. Like you go to certain parts of Chicago, certain parts of Los Angeles, I could go down the list of cities where, and they're massive cities, and very, very big cities like that, always tend to have more violence. And America has more of these big metropolitan type areas than any other western nation.

But some of these cities are very dangerous. Some of them have body counts that are like war zones. And you gotta, we gotta do something. You know, it's funny. New York City used to have, used to be very violent. Used to have a terrible track record. And then they came out with some policies that were controversial, but did a fucking good job.

They did a good job and you have way less crime there. What did they come out that was controversial? Oh, it was just aggressive policing. You know what I mean? It was stop and frisky if they suspected you had something on you. It was a lot of cops, way more cops. It was just a stronger police presence. And you know, what's his name?

Who's the guy that he... he ran for president to uh... i'm sorry mayor jolian yes jolian he was the guy that that that that president one time i don't know that well he ran for the republican primary to become the candidate on the republican side and uh... his his approach was was very i mean he's got police background right it was like we're gonna clean up the streets and so they made sure there were no broken windows there was no mean, he's got police background, right? It was like, we're gonna clean up the streets and so they made sure there were no broken windows,

there was no graffiti. I mean, his approach was, if the city looks cleaner, then there's gonna be less crime. Didn't they take out a lot of the porn industry? Like, yeah, the presence as far as downtown stuff. He had a heavy hand, you know? He had a heavy hand and New York, the crime rate did drop quite a bit, but there was a lot of, he's a very polarizing person, isn't he? He's got a lot

of people that love and hate him, right? New Yorkers tend to like him, but yeah, you're right. And part of it was because of some of those policies. Part of it was, you know, there was more tension in the minority areas of New York City because they would feel like they'd get stopped a lot and frisked and all that stuff. And then of course his argument was, well, you know, in your neighborhoods like, you know, one third of the violent as violent as it was before. So it's working and then they say, we don't like being treated this way, whatever. So it was very controversial, but crime wise, it did make a big difference. And it's a tough situation. Like, what do you do with some of these cities?

Like, what's your approach? Well, one thing that always works is more police. That's a statistic that's down just 100%. You increase the police presence and crime tends to drop. So that's the biggest one. But you know, it always makes me uncomfortable. A lot of times it's just like, wow, we had, you know,

at the same time, like you know that there is police presence there, so detours a lot of crime that potentially, but just, I don't know, I'm always like thinking of like the military state and like, you know, all that kind of stuff that always weighs on me. So, yeah, it is a tough, it's a tough compromise, right? It is, it is, but, but no, I appreciate music like this and that kind of commentary because however, if it invokes a feeling in you, that makes you want to talk and discuss and in debate, then good. I think that's a great thing. Yeah, I think so too. I mean, fuck, it's doing it already.

It's incredible. The movement, it's getting on it right now. It'll be interesting to see how it washes itself out and what it comes of it afterwards. Because sometimes too, like I said, it can, it's also going to provoke that extreme side too, which is that always concerns me with something like that. Still kind of polarizes and pulls people apart,

but it definitely still presents that there's a lot of work that we need to do. Right. Exactly. I think the positive things, I think it's extremely artsy, I think it definitely gets people talking. I think the drawbacks is it could also separate us somewhat too. So I think that's what you always have to worry about.

And that's the thing. As long as people can sit down and try to understand the other person and talk, we're good. If it's in this, if we get stuck in this situation where it's yelling and then hate and then you don't understand me, I don't, you know, I don't understand you, fuck you, then you're screwed. But if we can sit, I told you about the study that they did a while ago where they, they had a bunch of people on polar opposite sides of the political spectrum and the more that that person knew about the other side The less likely they were to view them as evil ignorant, stupid You know the less likely they would have view them as not a person, you know what I mean?

And which obviously that's obvious like when you understand the other side and try because we have to think about is Of course there's people that are just irrational, of course that exists, of course there's people that are just ridiculous. But when you have a lot of people feeling a particular way, and however ridiculous and irrational you think they are, and there's enough of them,

try to understand why they may have that sentiment, and you can find some empathy and maybe make your point better, or sometimes change you'll, you can find some empathy and maybe make your point better, or sometimes change your mind, you know what I mean? But when you have people saying stuff like this about, because I tend to, when I hear a lot of the stuff about policing and how cops may be treating people

in particular minorities, I also feel empathy for the police officers, but then I try and put myself in the mind and body of a person who's complaining about this stuff. And imagine living in that kind of a neighborhood where maybe you do have a lot of neighbors that are doing a bunch of crazy shit and maybe cops are in bad situations

and maybe I'm a good guy, but now I gotta live in this reality where they don't know if I'm a good guy and one of their buddies almost just got shot at yesterday. So now I'm gonna get treated like like and how's that gonna make me feel and if I'm a young kid I might not even understand as well. I might just fucking start hating somebody. Have you guys ever been pulled over by a police officer and been treated like really aggressively? Is that ever happening? treated like really aggressively? Is there a rap in here? I had it as a kid when I was in high school

when I used to drive this lowered integral that was the stereo system going and I used to get pulled over like weekly all the time. Now did you ever get like pulled out of the car? Well, no, they've had me step out of the car and stuff like that. But I never got, I mean, they didn't slam me against the hood and I also did, I was scared, you know, I resisted, you know,

I'm saying I'm not, I didn't mouth off or anything like that, but I definitely felt harassed. 100% I felt hurt. Do you remember how you, did you, how did you feel after that? Like, I dated cops. Yeah, yeah. I had an attitude towards cops for sure.

Isn't that weird? So we have a tendency to, because it's funny, the same people that's also my childish mind, though, too. I'm also a grown adult now that when I see something like that, I like, I don't, I don't think like that at all anymore, but I was a kid, you know what I'm saying? I was a kid, and you, again, this is, this is how our brain works in process. I was just gonna say that. You, you, you, you pull me over every single week for no reason.

You know, I'm saying, I'm just fucking with me because my exhaust is loud or my stereo system or I look like a profile or what I thought. Now I see that, I see that happen to me in multiple times. So the next time a cop pulls me over, instantly I think I'm being harassed. It's a reality. It's a reality that people get pissed off at because it's an unfortunate reality,

but it's a real reality. And you have to understand this, the brain does a very, human brains do a very good job at identifying patterns. In fact, your brain is always trying to identify patterns and because of how we evolved, say, better, safe than sorry is typically what our brains will default to.

So there may be a pattern that has no use whatsoever, but your brain's always going to make you, it's always going to put in the position to better, safe than sorry. So yeah, you might, this might be a bad decision, but we're going to, we're being wrong this many with this thing every single time is more likely to make you safe. So I'll give you an example. If, if I get assaulted by a person wearing a plaid jacket, okay, four, five, six times, I'm, my brain's going to create an association with plaid jacket, okay? Four, five, six times. I'm, my brain's gonna create an association

with plaid jackets, right? As ridiculous as that sounds, logically. As stupid as that sounds, I will react. You don't hate lumberjacks. I, yeah, I'm gonna react to a plaid jacket, you know, in a subconscious way. It's our brains, right? And it's cause it's that better, safe than sorry.

So if you look a particular way, if you dress a particular way If you're a cop and you hate cops and maybe you got pull over and harass now when you see a cop That's gonna be your that's gonna be how you're gonna feel and it's important to say One that's real. It's a real thing that our brains do this so stop What I hate is when people say shit like well? I'm color blind where I'm not I don't discriminate what well Okay, here's the bottom line. It's everybody does your brain does the key is to know that you do right then you can Observe it and then be okay and then

Re-adjust it. Yes, but if you pretend like no, I don't I don't well that's bullshit Of course you do you you see differences all the time your brain is always trying to make patterns. It's just ballooning. So, so, be honest and say, okay, I probably do discriminate based on whatever my brain decides because of my experiences, my life and media. But then being aware of that, now I can step back and be like, wait a minute, am I feeling, there's a cop next to me right now to stop light, and I'm feeling like really anxious and stressed,

but maybe I shouldn't be, right? Maybe he's a different person than the one guy that pulled me over and slammed me on the hood. I've had that happen before, I got, I did a burnout. I think what the cop was doing, he's trying to teach me lessons, I think he was doing. But I was with my girlfriend and my cousin and his girlfriend in the back.

I did a burnout at a stoplight and then I took off and I didn't see there must have been a police officer in one of the side streets. He pulls me over and another cop pulls in front, so I had two police officers around me and he rolled my window down and he's like, do you know what I pulled you over and I played stupid, I'm like, no.

And he's like, get the fuck out of the car. And it was like from then on, it was, he ripped me out of the car, threw me on the hood, it helped put my hands behind my back, handcuffed me, put me back on the hood. And he's like lecturing me and the other cops are standing outside the car, threw me on the hood, helped put my hands by my head back, handcuffed me, put me back on the hood, and he's like lecturing me, and the other cops are standing outside my car, and I was like 17 years old. So for a few years after when I had to see a cop, I was like,

I've shared this story on here with my parents, called the cops, and they had me arrested in my living room. I was crying and shit like that, and then I had to sit in the back of a cop car for like fucking two hours. So, absolutely, I did not like cops like growing up. But again, that was because of my experiences that I had with it. Now, as an adult, I've met many of guys that serve that are fucking incredible, dude, incredible men and women.

And so I think that's important to always. Your brain is designed to do that. It's the awareness factor that I think that you have to realize. And then sometimes I feel like people just shut that off. They just assume because of their experiences because five out of six times, I've had a bad experience with this quote unquote type of people, therefore they're all bad.

It's like that's terrible. And sometimes it's also okay to admit that some patterns may actually, it's gonna be controversial, but they may actually show you that there's a higher likelihood of some shit, like for example, you just said, you had a car, it was slammed down to the ground,

lowered, tinted windows, loud exhaust, loud music. You know, that tends to be the vehicle of kids that tend to do shit. Well, no, exactly, if you take that vehicle, right? And that's what I understand now as adult, and you go 10 of those vehicles, then you go 10 Toyota Camp 1990 Toyota Camrys, you know, with a car seat in the back. Right or a minivan, you know, who does the cop pull over? Nine times out of 10, he's gonna pull over me and my and so I could get angry about that.

Or I could say, well, I did put myself in this category of, you know, more likely to do that. And so all I can do is be respectful and hope that God that I have somebody who pulls me over who is also respectful. That's right. Yeah, I went through that. I was going to Chipotle actually with my boys and there was this guy who was like kind of sitting out,

homeless guy who was like, you know, fidgeting and saying like crazy stuff. And like I was walking by and just like immediately, I'm like, no, you know, we're gonna avoid this guy, this character. I don't know, like, it's just unpredictable, you know, it's these things that run through your mind, like, my kids were just plain and they're like walking almost like right in front of him and he's just, and, you know, it's just, it's those things that like, you're like, okay,

I don't know, like necessarily what this guy's going through, like maybe he's just like, gonna be nice and just ask for change or whatever, but like for me, it was like, no. Like, just predictively, I'm gonna move over, I'm gonna go to this side. So it's like, sometimes, you know, like, it serves you in a certain way.

So you have to be kind of conscious of it. Just know that it happens. You know what I mean? Then you can start working with it. Don't pretend like it didn't happen though. I know. That's reality. Since we're on the controversial tip here,

you guys know as birthday it was over the weekend? Yeah, I saw you from Karl Marx. I saw you from Karl Marx. Can you believe that there's people that are actually in Europe in particular, and some people in America who actually celebrate Karl Marx's birthday and have a lot of parades and shit.

And in Karl Marx's birthplace in Germany, I can't remember the name of the town, they enacted a statue of Karl Marx, which was gifted to Germany, this town, excuse me, by the Chinese, of course, coming to Chinese. So fuck, what the fuck makes me so mad. You know what makes me mad about this? Here's what makes me mad. This is an interesting point. When I make it, you guys will understand. Oh, that's right. The town is Trier, T-R-I-E-R, whatever. So if you see a guy waving a swastika, right?

Most likely he's going to get attacked. you know, waving a swastika, right? Most likely he's gonna get attacked. He's either gonna get attacked or people are gonna, like, you know, in society, outside or whatever, if someone was doing this outside, you're gonna be shunned for having a swastika on, or for saying Hitler was a great guy or whatever,

or fascism, right? Most people are gonna be like, fuck you, whatever. If you have a hammer and sickle flag, the flag of the Soviet Union, some people will look at you like you're an asshole, but a lot of people will be like, whatever, not a big deal. They were both extremely murderous, extremely, but communism is actually better in that category

in the sense that they've killed far more people. Some, by S.S. estimates over a hundred million people died under the idea of car marks. I still see people wearing shirts sometimes with a car with car marks on them, or Che Guevara or whatever. And these people responsible for, you know, car marks is philosophy's killed over a hundred million people in the 20th century, but people don't freak out about it. And I think, or a lot of people don't get so appalled by it. And I think it's because the...

What are we glorified? It's romanticized. Yeah, what is it about him that people are? Oh, well, if you read his books, you know, he's the... his philosophies are what created, you know, socialism and communism. And it was... eliminate the classes. It was that capitalist will exploit the workers. It was that, you know, it's basically the ideas behind communism. Everybody's equal. They push equality, outcome rather than equality of opportunity, and that's the big, big, big difference

between Marxist philosophy and capitalism or free markets philosophy or what they will call classical liberal philosophy, which is classical liberals believe in the sovereignty of the individual and that the government exists to ensure equality of opportunity. Now where you end up is up to you. That's your choice. Communism or Marxist mentality is about equality of outcome. So, it doesn't matter where you start at the end, we're all going to end the same. Okay. And so, you can see how it can be alluring that philosophy. Like, oh, that sounds good. That sounds like, you know, it can work out. But every time we've ever tried to apply that philosophy where we try to make everybody

equal on the outcome, it results in, well, you have to force people. That's the biggest problem. You can't do that with all the nice intentions in the world aren't going to fix the fact that you have to force people to all be the same. You do. And people aren't the same. No. In fact, they force people to all be the same. You do, and people aren't the same. No. In fact, they don't wanna be the same. No, they don't wanna be the same as everybody else.

That's right, like maybe I want a lot of money, maybe you don't want a lot of money. Maybe I want to live a life where I live very basic and simple and whatever, maybe you wanna live every complicated life. Maybe you wanna work real hard and I don't find it that important, you know? And that's the main problem with it is that there's a lot of force that goes on. The other

problem with it is economically speaking is so inefficient because they try to essentially plan everything. And you can't be effective or efficient with resources when you're trying to essentially plan an entire country. There's so many moving parts. And this is why you had fields of wheat that would go rotten in the Soviet Union because they were just so inefficient. And why the US ended up with obesity instead of starvation. But I can't believe people celebrate that shit. He was a... That's crazy. His philosophies were just terrible murderers. I saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. He saw that pop up. It's not a history lesson, I think. I think I don't think you can even, I don't even think it matters.

It doesn't matter. He's not all right. How the fucking, it's crazy. It was a 20th century dude. It wasn't that long ago. Yeah. Actually, you still have communist country. You still have places like China now that are,

you know, they definitely implement capitalism far more than the Soviets did, but by no means free. And there's a lot of shit that goes on there too, especially now with all that, Capitalism far more than the Soviets did but they're by no means free and God there's a lot of shit that goes on there too, especially now with all that how they're tracking their citizens You know, did you guys either one of you guys watching the NBA finals this week? The the playoffs at all. No, none neither one of you. Sorry. So they I thought this was kind of cool It was right on the same time that you had posted that on your Insta story the Carl Marks. I was going to your thing And I just written down this to bring up to you guys I don't know the same time that you had posted that on your Insta story, the Carl Marks, I was going through your thing.

I just written down this to bring up to you guys. I wanted to bring it up on the TV so you guys could see it. It's Doug, could you Google NBA mental health? I thought this was pretty cool that the NBA is taking this on right now. They had a really cool commercial with Kevin Love and D' Rosa from The Raptors, who spoke out, there it is, D. Rosa, sorry. They talked about mental health and anxiety and depression and things like that.

And so the NBA is partnering up, who they partnering up, who they're to attack mental mental health and they're going to be. Does it like an issue in the NBA with people? I think it's less about that there's an issue in the NBA is just that there's even these rich NBA stars that actually are dealing with some of these issues that are, I mean, we talk about the show all the time, right? But this is this is growing epidemic of anxiety, depression, and suicide, and all these things like that. And so kind of a cool thing seeing the NBA tackle it in the way

that they're tackling it. I thought they had a really great because it, I mean, kids still idolize and these are all their heroes. So to have them voicing, you know, a lot of these big, big issues that everybody's going through. So I think that's how it all started. So I, these two players, both Kevin Love and D'Roseon had tweeted something not that long ago, just in regards to their anxiety and stress and depression and stuff, and they openly shared it. And then it kind of went gangbusters like people were talking all about it, and then the NBA and is that partnering with them and they're doing this whole mental health campaign So dude, I feel the NBA is really really like forward thinking and fuck yeah

They in compared to like the rest of sports like even with football. It's like yeah They they address the fact that there's problems, right? There's like CTE. There's a lease like but but it's always I don't know It's all these like, but it's always, I don't know, it's centered around like, how can we fix like the symptoms of, you know, like how this is all happening and they're trying to kind of, almost, it feels like they're trying to sweep it kind of under the rug and like move forward, but the MBA is doing a really good job of like, you know,

okay, let's think ahead. Yeah, proactively think about how we can address big issues. So I think if you're the NFL, you want to work on things, but you don't want to be too vocal about it because it's going to hurt your business. Yeah, you're bringing more, it would be like, you know, like the cigarette industry, like openly spending money to help people getting one cancer from their product. You know what I mean? So, well, you see, I mean, there's violent, domestic violent issues.

There's so many big issues in football specifically that they should have, I felt they could have done a way better job addressing and really being proactive with it where I see other, you know, like with NBA and baseball really. I think there's two main issues because, mental health, there's definitely a bit of an epidemic and that's happening with mental health. In particular, with the youth, when we saw those statistics from that book, I think it was Igen, Igeneration,

where you see kids, like suicide rates and stuff and depression among kids seems to be exploding. And I think there's a couple reasons. One is everybody's gut health seems to be exploding. And I think there's a couple reasons. One is everybody's gut health seems to be a lot worse. And the more we learn about the gut, the more we realize what an impact that has on the physical health of your brain.

And so it's important to understand too when you have mental health issues. There's a physical component many times, which is, you know, you're not producing enough neurotransmitters or there's inflammation systemically or inflammation in the brain, which can make you physically feel depressed or physically feel anxious. And when you get that physical feeling of depression, what happens is you then try to mentally, you're thinking, why am I depressed? Why do I feel so shitty?

And then whatever issues you have in your life, which everybody has issues in their life, everybody has stuff they can stress about, you can start to make, that starts to become bigger now because now I'm looking at, and it feels so much worse because I'm already physically depressed. So now that I'm stressed out about whatever,

now it seems like a much bigger issue and then that can start to spiral. And then you also have the, you know, everything's physically okay with me, but there's that mental component of, and I just think it's just people don't feel fulfilled. We have more stuff, way more stuff than we ever have. We have more money than we've ever had.

Well, I feel like it's isolating too, you know, on top of that, since we have so much stuff and you could isolate, you know, yourself in your room and be distracted by electronics. And so you compile all these factors, right? You have your gut health, you have lack of sun, you have this isolation where you're not like, in communication with somebody, person to person,

where you can really discuss things that are going on with your life and it's not you're not really having a personable conversation with somebody and more it's all like virtually and you're just sort of like pulling yourself away from community. People are searching for something that all of us want, which is that feeling of meaning, the fulfillment, but the things that they're trying to fill that with aren't things that can give you that. And so what they're doing is they're using technology or drugs or food or sex or all these things

that temporarily feel good, but they won't they won't fulfill that. They won't they won't fill that up. I was watching this talk by this YouTube priest. He's actually really, really good, whether you're religious or not, he's really good, his name is Bishop Baron. And he's talking about spiritual health, which I'm starting to understand now with what that kind of means. And he's saying how, you know, there's a void within humans that we need to fill and it's with spiritual love and spiritual health. But if you try to fill that hole with things

that are not from that or not spiritual, so if you try to fill that with drugs or money or sex or food or your work or whatever, that you'll find that that hole is bottomless. It's a bottomless pit. And you'll keep, and that's where you get that dysfunction, that's where you get addiction, that's where you get, where people start to worship money.

Because money's not evil, but if you start to worship it, then definitely you start to develop problems. And so I think that's part of it too. I think people are just, you know, you ask people like, what's your meaning in, you know, I don't know. I think here on the right track, we're heading in this aside aside and we talk about this with the 3d printer down the road And so that is People real soon here are gonna be able to have

Anything and everything like instantly and I think that the more readily available that becomes the more you think That that should provide this happiness or this fulfillment you're talking about and they're not getting it. And you see it all the way at the top where you're talking about superstar athletes that are making millions of dollars that are still dealing with the depression, the anxiety and all this mental health. You gotta think to yourself, if you don't have meaning,

like if there's not something that's worth it for you, then nothing's worth it. And what I mean by that is like, life's gonna get hard challenging always for anybody. I don't care who you are, it's gonna be challenges. If you don't have something that gives you meaning, then as you go through these difficult things, you're gonna keep, you're gonna continue feeling like,

what's the point? You know, I have a friend of mine who, actually she was my very, very, very first client when I opened up my wellness studio. She's a personal trainer now. And when I first started training her, you know, she was kind of a little standoffish, and we ended up becoming very good friends.

And I learned that two years prior to me training her, she lost her son when he was 18 years old, terrible. Terrible, terrible. And every time she would, we started talking about it, it could tell she was obviously still, it was very, very painful. But as I got to know her later and later,

she was able to open up more about it. And I asked her, what know, what was that like, you know, doing that? Because I have two kids and, you know, I can't even just imagining if something bad happened to my kids can ruin an entire day. I can't even imagine if something actually happened. And she said, well, it was my other kid because she had a daughter also. And she said, you know, when you lose, when something like that bad happens to you, you feel like Like nothing is worth anything anymore. You're, you know, you've lost all meaning life except I had another child And so then my meaning became I need to be good and strong for my daughter

So she can make it through this and that was the meaning that pulled her through and so when you're going through Challenging times you have to find a reason or purpose. Otherwise, you start to feel like, why? It'd be like working out, getting real sore, sweaty for nothing, for no result. You get fat or you're not getting in shape or whatever. It's the same reason why people stop working out when they start to see no progress or no results. It's kind of like that. You need to have that meaning and that purpose. And I think a lot of people don't, they don't have that, especially kids because they're, I think Justin touched on a really important point

too that you made about the community thing because I see this a lot right now in our space that I wasn't prepared for this or didn't think this until I saw it firsthand, which is a lot of these people that have created a large presence on, you know, Instagram or podcasting or Facebook or whatever their celebrity status is through social media really don't have a lot of human interaction. They're incredible on their InstaStory and on the podcast or on their YouTube or whatever. And they literally spend so much time on that every day to provide for their fans and they and I think they justify that as their human interaction because you're talking to millions of people and you're responding

to comments. But they don't have any real like social interaction in person. Part of the reason why I'm really excited about this whole touring thing that Taylor has set up for us and heading down to Viori and getting out there with real people and type, people just don't do that anymore. That was something, if you wanted to grow your brand, your band, or whatever, or your celebrity status as you, you know, 20 years ago,

like you hit the fucking road. Oh yeah, you make physical presence. Yes, you had to do that. We live in an era now where that's not necessary. In fact, that is the old way or the slow way of doing things because I could reach, I mean, it's way faster for us to reach people on YouTube, email, Facebook, the podcast

than it is to go down, fly all the way down to San Diego to maybe see a hundred people or so in person. Like that's, you know, so the average person, I think today that's building a business that's on a platform like we are, doesn't see a lot of value in that because they know they can make way more headway doing it just on these platforms. But you also lose the part that I think is so important

which is that social interaction. And I think that's something that's dying. And I also think that it's feeding into this whole mental. Yeah, but I think, I think there's people who start understanding you need to do that. You know what I mean? You need to go out and meet people because the odds of you getting two million followers on Instagram and building a business off that are Slim did none the odds that you can build an audience of a few thousand people that really like what you have to say and really You know you really connect with are much higher, but in order to do that you got to touch

You got to reach out and touch people you got to go and meet with people, you got to make real impressions on people. It won't happen just through, you know, you know, tech. It typically won't, you got to meet, I'm like, when we meet people at these conventions that we go to, you know that they leave, you know, feeling an even deeper connection to us, because they met us, they shook our hand, they got to talk to us, get to hang out with us.

And vice versa. Yeah, I mean, it, it really, it really affected me, just seeing people and like what they've gotten from, you know, some of our shows in person and like, you know, their stories, especially like what they've, what they've gone through and then that they can express that, you know, in person. It makes such a more of a powerful impact impact which then affects how we talk on the show You cry imagine imagine I mean talk about you talk about fulfillment and feeding your soul and the spiritual side I think that like that would not happen had you not been in person to see and look in the eyes of another person that you've made an

Impact and like that's just that's important. Yeah Yeah. I think that's important to mental health. I think that's something that we're losing that importance of this connection to people in real life. It's really a, it's scary. And then it's also like, I believe in humanity. I believe that we'll push the limit so far than eventually. How are we learning, dude?

Yeah, it is how we learn, you know. And those that are, I think those that see it and can be aware of it, you know, use these things as tools, but then also be aware of where the path that I could head down to, and then I think you can be all right, you know. There's no substitute for the real thing, you know what I mean? But there are things that can improve

like a Pepsi commercial. Yeah, I know. Yeah, yeah, that's cool. I don't know. It was one of those things. Anyway, so this weekend I did my fast, my annual, my day. Oh, we did you a three day. Yeah, so no, I go 48 to 72, was one of those things. Anyway, so this weekend I did my fast. My end, my end, my end. Oh, it did you your three day?

Yeah, so no, I go 48 to 72. I did 48 this time. But it's that once a month fast and every time, man, I swear to God, I come out of it. And I'm like, sharp like a fucking laser. Now do you eat more now that you've been doing it so frequently or do you still really take a gradual approach and reintroduce it?

Well, no matter what, I'm realizing that the first time I go to the bathroom post-fast after I eat isn't gonna be good. It's weird. It's weird. It's because it's waking up my system and then it's like evacuating. And I'm saying, so it's like, okay,

I guess that's gonna happen almost every time the first time, but no, I still do the bone broth. I'll do that and I'll wait a few hours, then I'll have well cooked vegetables, and then I had New York steak. And then I had, I make this coconut dessert. I think I've told you guys this before. So I get the full fat coconut milk in the can, and I put it in the fridge so that it solidifies,

like the fat part solidifies. Then I have one of those bullet blenders and I open the can and then I take out the solidified part and then a little bit of the fluid that's in the can, not all of it, because if you put all of it and then it just becomes too liquidy and I want it to be more like a custard, like a duumins.

Makes that with anything? Yeah, so I put it in a blender and I'll add as much fluid as I need to get it to kind of mix. And then I'll it in a blender and I'll add as much fluid as I need to get it to kind of mix and then I'll put in the the gold juice from Organa fly. That's a good call. So gold juice that tastes like a dream sickle right now with all orange pops I tried to make that the other day with the or the gold juice and I over did the I use Cocoa whip and I think I over did it was too sweet the combination of all yeah

No, I've been trying to make like an orange dream secluded taste. Well, so it's great because the gold juice is great at night because it's got those relaxing properties. It's got horse tail in there. It's got lots of turmeric, which you know, I've been taking a lot of. So I put that in there.

I put the organifi protein in there, chocolate blended that up and then me and the kids and Jessica all had it. Oh, you did it all that together, huh? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I blended up. And it's like a custard and it's because it's all coconut, full fat coconut milk. It's heavy. Yeah.

So you don't need to eat a lot. Like, literally if I ate four tablespoons of it and then I waited 15 minutes, your appetites. Oh, wow. Yeah, you're gone dude, because you just ate, 20, something 30 grams of fat. And it's a lot of medium-chain track lists of rides, which post fast, I always go hard keto for,

anywhere between four to seven days to really get my ketones up. And so I like doing this because I notice it gets my ketones to go up a little higher, cause I do the P-stripper, whatever, the P-test. And it's really fucking good. You know, I know we promote fasting a lot on the show, but I have to say that it's getting out of control, man.

I was at a barbecue this weekend, and actually fasting was like the topic, like all these, all, and it was all people that are really not into health and fitness, they are. I was just for losing weight. Yes, it's become the trendy thing right now. I mean, it has, it's so funny, it's trending, that's, it's school.

Don't eat to lose weight. It is, it is money is trending. That's it's school. Don't eat the way it is. It is. And it's in the problem with it is what I see the same problem that I see with the whole CPD CPD thing right now is these we take a little bit of science and information and then it turns into this dogmatic approach where everybody's trying it and doing it and they're the CBD lotions. I'm just kidding. I'm in pain. I'm gonna rub my CBD all over it. Yeah, dude, I just like, always see no. It's crazy. It's getting out of control with everybody doing it. And fasting has been doing,

I mean, it's been popular for the last two years, but I thought it was kind of slowing down and people were kind of moving over the keto way, but no, it's accelerating more and more people are using it. And everybody's doing it for the wrong reasons. They're doing it as a weight loss strategy. And every time I meet someone that said, try to explain to them. And if that is your strategy to lose weight, it's going to be short-lived, man,

because that intermittent fasting that you're doing right now, inevitably you're probably going to stop doing that at one point, whether that be because you got to your goal finally, or you never reached your goal, so you say, fuck it, you go back to eating like you were eating before. And now you've slowed your metabolism down. You've got your body used to not consuming that much or that often. You got metabolism issues, fasting is not a good idea.

No, that's about we have this friend of ours who keeps fasting and I'm telling her, don't do it, dude, because you said you had a low resting metabolic rate. You're only going to make it, you know, worse. Right. And now occasional it's not going to do that. And I don't like the consistent fasting. It doesn't work as well as the infrequent, you're only gonna make it, you know, worse. Right. Now, occasional, it's not gonna do that. And I don't like the consistent fasting. It doesn't work as well as the infrequent, you know. Like mine is once a month.

That's what I'm doing. I used to do that almost every day. And this once a month option, way, way superior than the way than than how my body felt before. But, you know, I talked to Ruscio about fasting when we were in paleo. And he said, it seems to him him and he's a gut health expert That people who's gut health issues revolve around their immune system like they have a lot of autoimmune issues or more autoimmune

Then other people tend to do better with fasting than people who you know or or more mild So if you have really bad gut issues and a lot of it has to do with the fact that it's an autoimmune reaction like food intolerances. He says that fast things probably, that's probably why I'm experiencing such benefits from it. You know, I, there was a fast thing study that came out that I wanted to read to you guys. I just posted it. This was done on mice and they found that a 24 hour fast dramatically improved the stem cells ability to regenerate in mice, and this is in their gut.

So, and this is an important thing to know, because as you get older, your gut cells ability to regenerate diminishes quite a bit, which is why, as you get older, one of the reasons why, as you get older, gut issues become more and more prevalent. I remember being a kid and hearing my grandfather talk about having a good poop and this and that, I remember thinking like stupid, who cares. But as you get older, start to realize it becomes a bigger and bigger deal.

This may be one of the reasons. And so they did this with mice and in 24 hours, I think it doubled the rate at which they regenerated. Twice as fast. Isn't that? Like every old man, like that's their favorite topic of conversation. It's like how will they poop today?

I think it's because they're all forced to that. I mean, I think what happens a lot right now in our age, I think there's a lot of people listening right now that ain't having good shits. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? And they're still getting, and they're still getting by and they're just ignoring it. Right, it's just ignoring you right now. It's like, eh, so I had a rough shit today. You know what I'm saying? And they're still getting and they're still getting by and they're just ignoring it. Right. It's just ignoring you right now. It's like,

eh, so I had a rough shit today. You know what I'm saying? I shouldn't have those fire cheetos yesterday. You know what I'm saying? Like, you know, no, note to self. It's a machine gun. But it's, I mean, I know I was in my, just my late 20s, I was like that. I mean, it's just, you know, if I had pizza or I had certain things in the diet that, you know, I just didn't shit good or didn't feel good afterwards But it's I don't know why it took me so long to really connect those dots of like man I just probably not a good thing. Yes It's probably not a good thing if my body is responding this way and and I think as you get much older

I think it becomes like necessary. Then you get locked up and then it's probably I mean, I'm sure I'm sure a day revolves around. Well, right, if I'm experiencing that in my late 20s and in my early 30s, imagine, I mean, if I kept going down that path, I can only imagine what 50 or 60 looks like with those shits. If you could. I've had clients in their 50s who take,

would take medications to help them poop, and then they take medications to prevent diarrhea. And they would, they would use them whenever anything would happen, sometimes in the same day. I remember having this conversation with one of my clients where I looked at her medications, I'm like, this is for constipation, and this is once for diarrhea,

and you're using these daily, and she's like, yeah, and I said, do you, I said, do you see that one is like counteracting the hate? But that's what the doctor gave and I said, do you, I said, do you see that one is like counteracting that hate? But that's what the doctor gave her. So, oh, if you have diarrhea to take this one, oh, if you get constipated, take this one. Here's an answer, here's an answer.

And it's thrown pills. And you're just back and forth, back and forth. It's terrible. Fucking terrible, you know? Fuck. This quaz brought to you by Organify. For those days, you fall short on getting your organic veggies or whole food nutrition,

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them. What if you've had a good life? Oh, absolutely, I think. I mean, I bet there's gotta be statistics around this, Sal. There's gotta be something around that. I actually think that somebody raised in a really good home with lots of, I mean, I've got friends and people that are successful because mom and dad

set them up very well. I mean, they gave them a quarter million dollars down on their house. They gave them a quarter million dollars down on their house, they gave them a hundred grand to start their first business. It just doesn't fit the narrative with what is pushed out there a lot, right? Like that's like the underdogs,

sort of overcoming so many odds. And like everybody wants to hear that like serious struggle story. It's less entertaining. Yeah, it's less entertaining to hear somebody who had a safety net to fall back on. It's less entertaining. Yeah. It's less entertaining to hear somebody who had a safety net to fall back on. It's less entertaining to hear somebody who, mom and dad has helped them out all the way through

and then eventually they hit a big and had a business. But I mean, I would argue that there's more of those and there actually are the people that are unsuccessful. Yeah, that is what makes the story so good. Yeah, yeah. You're more likely to be successful if you have a nice have a good upbringing. And that doesn't mean, by the way,

a good upbringing isn't that you have everything handed to you. I think a lot of people think, oh, you're lucky, you have everything handed to it. That actually creates bad life patterns. It creates bad work ethic. It creates an understanding of life that's not accurate. And then when you go out and try things and you fail, you can't handle it.

So a good upbringing would be stable home, parents that love you, support like that, you know, that kind of stuff, opportunities. You're not so poor that you can't do certain things. You have enough money to be able to do the things that you want to do. Statistically, statistics show that people in those situations tend to be more

successful across the board. But we do hear a lot of the stories of the people who grew up extremely difficult and that drove them to be extremely successful. It's a smaller percentage, but number one, we romanticize those stories because they're interesting. We like to hear those. It makes us feel good to see that somebody could save themselves and become what they wanted.

But I think there's another port to it. I think if you have the right kind of person, the right kind of genetics, the right mix of genes, and a very, very hard life, sometimes that hard life turns that person, that mix into a monster. Of course. And it drives the fuck out of them. Well, you know, it drives them in a way that, that, you know, I'll tell you what, immigrants.

Arguably, arguably unhealthy, unhealthy, you know, saying like, yes, arguably it drives them so much, they become obsessive of it. I mean, I can connect to that. I can relate to not having things and wanting things so bad. It's a lot of what made me successful, but it also is what held me back to from realizing that there is more to life than just obtaining a certain

level of financial success. So, you know, I think that Lewis Hals, when he talks about the mask, I think does a really good job of explaining this. As many times, much of our success that we have as adults is, or these masks that we've been wearing our whole life. So it's a double edge sword, man. The entrepreneur life is a life of uncertainty and risk in comparison to the life that tends to be, because it's all by the way, it's all uncertain. It's all, you know, there's a lot of chaos when you come out and try and do things on your own, but it feels more safe to do the, you know, go to college, get it, go apply to get a job somewhere.

It feels like that's more of a guaranteed path than somebody who leaves school and says, I'm going to do my own thing. Now, statistics will show that people who try to do their own thing, if they stay at it and they work hard, they tend to do well, but they will also have failures along the way. So there's that. Basically, there's a certainty that you're probably going to fail a few times. But it takes a different kind of individual, I think, to do that kind of stuff, to step out. And you see a lot of immigrants that, especially immigrants that came,

you know, my parents' generation, my grandparents' generation, that were entrepreneurs. And I don't necessarily think, I think number one, there was the opportunity when they came to America where there weren't very many, especially when my grandparents came here, when my grandfather came here, there weren't many barriers to enter the market.

You could just open a business and it wasn't a lot of red tape or things that made it difficult. But I think the other part, and this is an interesting one, is I think that there's a little bit of a self-selection bias, like the same kind of people who are willing to leave their country of origin and move to a country where they don't know anybody and don't know the language, those are the same kind of people who are willing to leave their country of origin and move to a country where they don't know anybody and don't know the language.

Those are the same kind of people that are more likely to take that risk of doing something on the wrong. I think that, yeah, that's definitely the determining factor is like how much you're willing to put yourself out there and endure failures and endure things and obstacles in your way and how you react to that. Depending on what kind of safety that you have, are you like, depending on that, or do you just know that it's there? It's all in the individual and how they want to pursue whatever goal it is in front of them. Look at the stat right there. It's 71.5% of the respondents came from middle class backgrounds.

And then there's 34% and 36% were upper and lower. So that's a big chunk though, 36% from lower middle class. Yeah, yeah. But I'm actually looking at it closer though, some of these statistics don't add up. Well, yeah, it's weird. Oh, really? It's percentages don't add up to 100%.

So I'm not sure where they're getting those. Okay. Out of 200%. Yeah. Yeah, it's a. Oh really percentages don't add up to 100% so I'm not sure where they're getting us. Okay 200% yeah, it's a new way to do things. I According to this, I don't know where Doug just pulled us out of his ass, but according to this it's you know It's there's relatively the same amount of people that are come from a rich home that come from a poor home that end up Being successful entrepreneurs and the majority of them fall right in the middle class area. So, yeah, I wonder what I know it says here that 95% of them had earned bachelor's degrees. I've seen other statistics that show that it's a little bit lower than that.

I'd like to compare that to just the average person working out there probably more, right? I would say probably more of them have a degree than less, but a lot of the entrepreneurs I know became entrepreneurs and stopped going to college because they felt like it wasn't contributing to what they wanted to do when they worked out when they went out in the real world. And I don't know if there's that much that can prepare you. I mean, what kind of schooling can prepare you for entrepreneurship? Yeah, I don't know that there is such a thing other than just to do it. You know, it's really just like getting into it and having sort of confidence in yourself that you're going to learn.

I think apprenticeship or what's probably the best way to do it. Would you encourage your sons to be entrepreneurs or to work for other people or you just kind of let them do that? Yeah, that would be tough, but I mean, I definitely would encourage them to pursue something that I feel they could, they would construct themselves like if that had an idea that was something that had legs to it. I mean, I would challenge them, of course, like I would challenge them to consider all the different obstacles, all the different things

that will be challenging, but at the same time, yeah, man, I want to definitely help to contribute, you know, if they have, if they're passionate about it, because that's the thing I think. People just need to find their passion and that creates this purpose and that creates something in their life that's substantial. And I think that people can find that in certain jobs where they work for somebody too. So say it's something that somebody has a company that's awesome and is doing great things

and it fits within their skill set. You know, go fucking do that. Do that and do it well. But if you're not finding that in the market and you wanna create something, like fuck yeah, go do your own thing. Yeah, I had a conversation with my son about college and we talk about, you know,

and he does real well in school, really enjoys learning and gets really good grades and all that. And so we talked about college and the cost of how expensive it is to go to college. Oh, you know why I was watching this comedian on Netflix. Can't remember his name. Just came out with a comedy special. And he talks about how he spent I think $150 or $200,000 on college. And to get an English degree. And he was making fun of himself for doing it. And now he's a comedian obviously. And he's like, it was a waste of money. And

he was talking about how they asked. they were asking for another more donation now. Like, you got a letter from the school, and he's like, you're not getting shit from me. I already gave you guys 150 grand for an English degree. Anyway, hilarious, but think about that. So he's probably using a lot of that skill within writing and contributing towards his stand-up comedy. Maybe, right?

So I was talking to my son about college, and I said, you know, school college is very expensive nowadays. You do really well in school. You'll probably do really well in college. But when it comes to the money to pay for college, I'm definitely gonna, oh John Mulaney was the name of the team. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Good show. I'm like, you know, I'll pay for, I'll probably pay for your college. Only if I know there's going to be a good return. Not for me, but for you.

It's got to be worth the money. So if you're going to get a degree, that's going to cost me, you know, a hundred something thousand dollars, but your degree in the market isn't worth very much, then there's other ways to learn about that subject. Is there any degree that's worth, is there? Yeah. So I'd like to hear what you think. Because when you, when you break it down mathematically, like a school loan that's 50,000 or above,

like how many years the average American, how much money, first of all, the average American has to make in order to save that much money to put that away. You know what that is? Oh, it's ridiculous. Yeah, it's crazy. But it's worth it when the job you want to do or the career you want to you want to follow has a barrier to enter That requires You guys just reminded me of this movement going on right now. Are you guys familiar with them?

It's the it's the fire movement Doug Lutha said No, I'm serious people even themselves on fire. Yeah, these are these are Millennials that are Retiring at the age of 30 and they're doing it by a aggressively saving and they're saving like 80% of their income from the day they start working all the way up until they can retire at 30 years old and what are they retiring with how much money the fire fire stand what's the acronym

Stanford there is financial independence and early retirement right I love that I like it scroll down this pretty crazy kids are way smarter than we give credit for There's more entrepreneurs that are millennials than than there were in previous generations. Yeah, I believe it It's it's the entrepreneur generation. They are they're saving over fucking awesome over 80% of their annual look like money wise Well, so it doesn't matter that that's whatever they decide. It's a formula. Yeah, it's a formula. So it applies to somebody who makes 60 grand a year or somebody who makes a 190 grand a year. Like you're saving 80, and obviously,

if you're making a 190, you're gonna have a lot more to live off of. So they're super, super frugal, like, throughout their childhood, basically. Yeah, all the way to almost 30 years old. Now, I, Well, look, if your annual expenses are $40,000, then you're financially independent

when your total net worth is a million. So, I mean, you could retire at 30 with a million dollars, you just have to live on less than 40 grand a year. Right, and if you, what you can do, if you're, I mean, you can, if you're smart, and you can do that in a lot of places in the country. Well, and that's here, but that's a good time.

Now, and I, you I'm your friend's couch. I couldn't do this. I just, I'm not, I'm not a fan of this at all. And let me tell you why I'm not a fan of this. And I know that I'm sure that I have buddies that would be super pro this is, and I look back at, you know, some think decisions that I made at 25.

There's for sure a trip to Vegas where I easily spent 10 to $20,000. Jesus Christ, yeah, right? Yeah, right? And, and, and, I can't even tell the law on Jesus. Right, and at that time, maybe had 100,000 saved up.

And so arguably spending 10, one 10, right, right. So I, that was irresponsible as a 25. But if you were to ask me as a, to ask me as an adult now at 36 years or a grown-ass man, 36 year old, that wouldn't probably go do that again. Do I regret that or do I have the memories that I have? Man, that was probably one of the most epic fucking trips

I ever took. And is that memory more valuable to me than having been a little bit more ahead of my retirement plan. That's a really, you got to really weigh that out. And some people, the same. That's your more interesting. Yeah, right. I've weighed better.

I have these kids. I have these kids. I have these kids. I have my stories. You're so smart, but you're fucking boring. No, no, no. I don't have them. I don't have them.

No, you can't say that. These guys might have some very interesting lives. You don't know that. Just give it up. But I get what you're saying. Yeah. Here's why I like it. I like it because I like my philosophy. Well, here's why I like this philosophy. It teaches hard work, it teaches sacrifice, and I don't think a lot of people will retire at 30.

I think they'll be in a position where they can retire. They keep going. Yeah, but they just keep going. Imagine having a million net worth at 30, which means you've invested, you've saved. You set yourself pretty, I mean, I appreciate it, but I'm pretty much with Adam on this one. Like I want to make life experiences that I reflect on, that you're just not going to,

you're just not going to put yourself in that, you know, you're not going to put yourself out there to where you're going to experience like a lot of things because you're so frugal and all your friends are gonna go places, you're gonna stay at home, you're gonna make these compromises. At my rate, it would take double the time with my philosophy. It would take double the time

of what they are because my philosophy is this, like, at the, it doesn't matter if I was making 40 grand a year or I'm making a half a million dollars a year, it doesn't matter, the same philosophy applies, and that's the same. I don't ever wanna retire.

I think retiring is death. Well, I agree with that. You want to be in a position where you could go to college. Yeah, financial free to is different. You want to be responsible. So this is how I look at it. Okay, so no matter how much you're making, as long as I'm saving or investing,

the same amount that I blow in that month. So for example, if my overhead is $3,000 a month in bills, and I only make $3,500, that my overhead is $3,000 a month in bills and I only make $3,500, that means I got $250 to blow that month and I got 250 that needs to be saved and invested and it scales all the way up. So if you see me flaunting a fucking new watch or a cool car, a new pair of sneakers, whatever,

you can guarantee that I put that same amount. I put that same amount away, either in a savings or stock or whatever. Whatever I like that. Right, and what it does for me is this, it pushes me and it motivates me to make more if I want more things, you know, so I gotta work harder if I want to buy these things.

And then it also keeps me responsible while I'm doing that too. So I think that I love this movement because it's making working hard and saving cool again and we need that because there's so much of a mentality on consume, consume, consume, not work hard. I appreciate it for sure. Yeah, I like this movement because it's making it cool.

If it grows, it's making it cool again for people to, because I think the pendulum needs to swing in that direction. We have so much stuff now and so much shit and so much that we can buy. That I think part of the reason why this is becoming cool is because kids can get whatever they want. So like, no, cool. I want to go in this other direction. And I want to wear the cheaper shoes and I want to wear the more basic clothes. And have you noticed like cool cars and stuff like that and driving? It's becoming less hip for kids.

They don't give a shit as much. Well, think about this. We're in Austin. Maybe this is where this guy was telling me that he got an Audi, like a brand new Audi that he was just like cruising around in. And it's like they're doing this whole thing where you could have like the brand new model and you're just driving it around

like for a pretty reasonable price. Over there rent the other car. Yeah, but that's like one of those top of the line things that like you had to make a shit ton of money to be able to even step the other car. Yeah, but that's like one of those top of the line things that like you had to make a shit ton of money to be able to even step into that car. Now it's like the ease of access to something like that is it's just, it's gonna be less cool, you know, going forward. So I like it.

I like this one. Oh, it's like the same movement as the guys that did the Netflix series or whatever, we talked about this in the middle of the movie. Yeah, the monolus and they did the houses like that. I don't know, I can get on board with some things and there's some things I just can't get on board with. Like, it was just, sorry, I can't live in a five by five fucking house. Just not, but you know,

what though? It's weird. I mean, no, I see that back. Yes, I could live in a five by I choose not to do that. You know, say, like, I could live in a snout in a house that small, but I would like to, I don't need a big house I just I like a little lamb now Here's a thing though where and where I do like it and I do respect it Because I also grew up in a home to where I thought my my family was very irresponsible financially, so I do see that side of it like I think yeah

If you can only if you can only get a job where you make 30 40 grand a year Then yeah, you probably shouldn't be living in a in a house that costs you $2,500 a month. That doesn't make fucking economic sense to like that silly to do that. A lot of things are getting cheaper though. We're talking about that article that was up there. We're talking about traveling cheaper and this guy said that he saw a line where Airbnb. Yeah, he bought a $200 gift certificate, an Airbnb gift certificate online for $175. You guys know how to feel about that, dude. Airbnb is, oh, it's fucking destroying. It's the thing's knees. It is destroying the hotel business.

So after this last time we were over in Austin, I did some more reading on it, and I knew that the hotel industry was lobbying government to try to crack down on Airbnb because it's killing their business. Of course. Because you could spend $300 a night and a four star, five star hotel in some areas,

or you could spend $300 a night in a fucking massive house. In the same area. It's all your own. In the same area. Where you have a kitchen, you have whatever, you have a backyard. And there's step in the amenities up.

So they'll ask how so we had a concert here. If we wanted food delivered to our house, if we wanted groceries, we all we had to do is call the concierge service at a house and they went and delivered it to us. So the knock would be when this first started, I remember was like, oh well, you know, a hotel, you get your beds made and your house clean,

or your room clean, and then you get room service. Well, guess what? A lot of these big companies are coming in and buying up 23 of these properties and they're providing these services Yep, so fucking hotel businesses game over they're done and the reason why and I was talking to Jessica about this It's just like well why are hotels so expensive and I said well part of the reason is they you know They have the cleaning services and restaurants and stuff the other part of it is the regulations to have a hotel

Make that shit super expensive whereas they're gonna pay the city all kinds of money. Way less when you have a house. You know what I mean? There's way less regulations, way less control. It's the new share economy that's happening in conjunction with the gig economy or whatever. Maybe it's both. Like here's another one. You talked about people who have private jets

who are like Airbnb, not Airbnb. Well, it's kind of like Airbnb or Uber, but with a jet. Bro, if that shit explodes, think about that. Think about how, what that's gonna do, the airline industry. Oh yeah. You can pay a fee to get on someone's private jet.

Imagine now if you're a private jet owner, you park your plane, that shit's costing you money to sit there. You probably be willing to charge. They're gonna be stoked. Yeah, cause just having a plane and being able to fuel it costs so much money to keep fuel in those planes. So it's like, yeah, you want to use it.

You know, you want to get people on and make it worth your money. Yeah. Next question is from the lab strength. Why do so many bodybuilders still use the body part split method? I hear people say because a big name bodybuilder or other pros have been doing it this way, but clearly maps programming as far as superior. So, yeah, two things. First, we got to be clear here. The body parts splits can be very effective when you utilize intensity and frequency more effectively.

see more effectively. The reason why a lot of body parts split methods are not effective for most people is because a lot of them do this whole, hit each body part once a week, type of thing. And that just, and that's simply, is not enough frequent. That's what makes it inferior to maps. It's that body split. Yeah, body parts splits are not inferior to maps programming. It's what we knew, what we know,

because we've been doing this for a really long time, and we've splits ourselves and we've had all kinds of clients run them and all kinds of friends run them. And what ends up happening when you do a body parts split, it's really tough, one, to hit a muscle group, every muscle group two to three times a week without actually sitting down and putting some thought into the programming. And then what ends up happening when you're training one muscle group a day, you tend to just hammer the fuck out of it intensity wise. So, and those are two of the things I think that are abused or overlooked in our space.

And so, it may seem like maps is extremely superior to it, but it's not the split versus maps and the split suck and maps are so serious. No, you can apply the maps methodology to splits. You can apply the maps methodology and concepts to any workout program. But the traditional splits that we see a lot, and by the way, when splits first came out,

they weren't like they are now. So a lot of the splits you see people follow today are Monday, Chess, Tuesday, back, Wednesday, shoulders, and so on. The old splits, like back in the 70s, Wednesday, you know, shoulders and so on. The old splits like back in the 70s, like Arnold's time, they were hitting the whole body two or three times a week. So although they did split the body, it was still two to three times a week of frequency of training each body part, which that's the essential part. That's the reason why split 10 did not work. Now,

why do we see pro bodybuilders still doing the old split where they're hitting one body part a day? Because they're pro bodybuilders and they have, they're nothing. Recover, yeah. Well, they have nothing in common with you at all. They have their bodies problem. So when you lift weights really hard, you get this adaptation signal that elevates

and we can measure it with muscle protein synthesis. So we can see that the body's repairing and building muscle. That signal drops very quickly. It's about 48 hours, maybe 72 hours for a beginner, shorter for someone's advance. That signal goes down and it goes back down to baseline. So although you're still recovering and you've got like four days left to your chest again, your body's not building muscle anymore, and that's the problem.

Now a pro body builder has got number one, vastly superior genetics to you listening right now. And I can't stress this enough. I've been around some, and I've been around a lot of people who've worked out. I've managed gyms for 20 years, right? I've been in fitness for a long time. I can count on one hand when I've been around someone

with genetics that are just, you think they're an alien. And for sure, when they lift weights, that anabolic signal stays up much longer than the average person. I mean, there was one guy, there was one trainer that worked for me. He was, uh, actually, no, he wasn't a trainer, he was a porter. And he didn't have a lot of money. And dude would eat like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. And sometimes he'd have a bowl of cereal or top rock because he't have a lot of money. And dude would eat like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and sometimes he'd have a bowl of cereal or top raw, because he'd have a lot of money. So he didn't eat much at all.

Probably under 100 grams of protein a day. And the dude would, after work, he'd go out and he'd work out and he'd hit a couple exercises. And he would do shit like skull crushers with 225. He would do overhead shoulder presses with the hundreds. And I would look at him and be like, this dude, he's got to be on something. And I'd talk to him and he's like, no, I can't even afford food. Let alone, you know, Annabelle steroids.

He just had genetics that I couldn't, it didn't make sense to me because my body never responded that way, never seen it. And that's how pro bodybuilders are. Their bodies respond extremely well to resistance strength. And then on top of that, you throw anabolic steroids. So what they do to their body, to get their body to change and work and grow, is very different from what most of you guys,

in girls listening right now, we're gonna do. Most of you, if you follow the same method as the bodybuilder, you're not gonna get very far. You're probably doing it right now. You might be doing it right now. Where you go to the gym, you get real sore, you rest, recover, you go back to the gym, and your body hasn't responded or hasn't changed. And so you're wondering what the hell is going on. You probably need to hit your body parts a little bit more frequently. That's the map's philosophies is kind of based on that. And you know, I remember when I first put that together, it was a long time ago, I was getting ready to go on a trip

to Italy and I wanted to get really lean and muscular forks, I wanted, you know, my family, I haven't seen my family a long time. And that was the first time I started really training my body twice a week. And I remember the first couple of weeks I did it, I realized that I couldn't go to failure on my lifts. Like I used to because I'm hitting more frequency.

So I stopped going to failure and I had the increased frequency. And then I remember my body was just growing and responding like crazy. And that's when I first piece that together, like, oh, I need to hit my body parts a little bit more frequently. Well, I think it's important people realize too that when I was competing, I wasn't running

like a maps red. I mean, I was running a black, maps black, and then the evolution of maps black as I continued to go show after show. So, you know, eventually my programming looked like if, you know, maps had a baby with a split program. I mean it was I'm in the gym seven days a week and at the professional level like my level of volume is so different than where my volume is right now. Now the cool part is I can put in a quarter of the work that I was putting in to compete at the professional level and still have a really good physique. And so again I think for the average person who doesn't have you have seven to 14 hours a week to put into the gym, hammer the body like that and can consistently be feeding it to recover and resting

correctly or on anabolic and shit. Then yeah, the full body split routine is going to be superior, hence why we created that. But it doesn't necessarily mean that maps are three times a week, you know, basic antibiotic program is better than a split program. We just knew that it was gonna be better for a majority of the people out there because we've been dealing with a majority of people. What percentage would you say of people do better training, you know, two to three times a week, the whole body, or just

hitting each body part two to three times a week. That's what I would say. 80, 85 percent. Yep. 85 percent of the people, which is why someone like this who's answering this is, or asking this question, feels that it's far superior. Like, it's going to feel far superior for most people. And then there's going to be a small amount of people that I think will still benefit greatly from it and be like, holy shit and be impressed by it. But then might be like, wow, I don't feel like it was way better

than when I was training seven days a week. All of a sudden, well, yeah, okay, well, your body, it maybe you've built up enough muscle mass. You've built so much that you can handle that much volume. But the average person, you know, that's more than enough volume to build an incredible physique off of. Yeah.

The average, so far from what I've seen, when I've had guys who do, and I've seen this with guys who, who do body parts splits for a long time, and who are relatively muscular and strong, and then they switch to training each body part more frequently, on average, when they report back to me, it's anywhere between a four to seven or eight pound muscle game in a short period of time. That's a lot. That's a lot of muscle to put on your body when you've been working out for a long time. Happened to my cousin. My cousin Gabriel was, what did body parts split, switched over to more frequent training of each body part, and he gained seven pounds of lean body mass in something like two months, which to him was just absolutely mind blowing.

Well, I think two were addressing like the major, our audience, the majority of our audience was doing split, like type of a routine. I think that's why our message of doing this full body approach was so impactful because people hadn't really thought to train that way during the week. If somebody has been doing full-buy routines and more of a functional type training for quite some time, they could benefit greatly from doing a split routine and obviously there's some tweaks that could be made to keep that frequency in involvement there, but it's a different mentality and I think that certain people, myself, could benefit from going through something.

You don't see athletes ever training in a split? No. No. It's usually full body or movement based, that would say, right? Right. Yeah, when you played football, would you guys do the same exercises each time,

or was it like, yeah, I mean, we would just do mainly your compound exercises. So like, we would just stick with squats in cleans and, you know, front squats and overhead press and all like basic barbell moves. We wouldn't isolate. We wouldn't do any kind of like single joint type exercises. And so that's where I know personally when I do address that and I bring that in, incorporate

it into my programming, what a benefit, I get from that. And it feeds right back into the compound list. Well, especially from a sculpting perspective, I think you can be completely healthy and fine doing all these functional movements your whole entire life. But let's be honest, a majority of people deep down inside want a look for their body too. I mean, overall, yes, I think most people that listen to Mind Pump are chasing health and I think that's a big part of our message. But I also think that you'd be a fool to think that some people don't want a better looking physique. I'm already putting the work in,

I'm already making sacrifice food wise. How about I get to sculpt my body too? Why the fuck not? And this is where... It's fun. Yeah, and this is where isolation exercises and splitting the body, certain muscles up and just attacking them, like I can see

lots of benefit behind it. And I would not just benefit. Like I think it's mandatory. If you're gonna try and sculpt a physique like a competitor, right? Or a bikini or a men's physique type of an athlete that gets on stage, it's necessary. I dare you to try and compete against me

with only barbell compound lifts while I'm sculpting my physique because that's what's the cool part is that you can and you maybe can argue you could be a stronger more functional person than for me but that's not what I'm doing. I'm trying to shape my body to give an illusion that it's bigger or has more of an hour glass or whatever.

And that's where a lot of this is. It's all got value. It all has value and it's fun to switch from one to the other. This is artistry to that for sure. The next this is. It's all got value. It all has value and it's fun to switch from one to the other. There's an artistry to that for sure. The next question is from the Rachel D. Where do the best ways to keep track of progress? I'm consistently working out, bumping up weight if it's too easy, eating clean most of the time.

And I'm still the same weight and it's easy to get unmotivated. So here's why I picked this question. It's an important topic because you'll notice she's talking about how she's being able to work out. She seems to be getting stronger, eating clean, which means she's probably doing really good with the food, but she's looking at just her body weight,

and that's what's unmotivating her. And the reason why I want to talk about this was because there's so many parameters that you can look at to To look at how your body's changing and improving one of them is your body weight and I think what happens with a lot of people is They make that the only parameter like that is the most important only parameter and they ignore all the other signs that their bodies Maybe progressing, you know like when I'm working on mobility or all the other signs that their bodies may be progressing. Like when I'm working on mobility, I'm not getting stronger in the gym.

So I'm not going up and wait, but what I'm noticing is, maybe a better range of motion or more control, or maybe a little bit less pain, or maybe you're fixing your diet and you're not losing weight, but your skin is clearing up and your digestion is getting better and you feel more energy. There's a lot of things you can look at that all tell you about your progress and only one of them is your weight. And by the way, can you lose or gain

weight? Let's say your goal is to lose weight. Can you lose weight and it be not progress? Absolutely. Like, what if you start getting leaner and you feel fucking terrible and shitty and your quality of life is decreased? You know, you may be fooling yourself and telling yourself that you're progressing or we tell you this other day, what if you lose weight and you're losing just as much muscle mass as you're losing body fat, you know what I'm saying? Just frustrated. Yeah, then you're really not getting any healthier. Your body fat percentage isn't going down.

You're losing muscle mass. So it's, the scale is such a terrible indicator. I mean, I use it, but I use it just as a another, another tool to give me feedback, not like as the tool to give me feedback. In fact, it's probably one of the least important ones out of all things, but it does help, you know what I'm saying? I'm just trying to, I'm trying to gather all this information, how I feel, how I look. Do you contrast that with, I know how you have people really tracking their water

specifically to and like in their diet and like whether they're retaining water or not and then all season the scale. Well, they're in conjunction. Like a great point right there. I mean, I find tracking your water is more important than tracking your weight on your scale because they're inversely related.

Right. You start drinking, you drink half a gallon more of water every single day, you're gonna go up in the scale. It's fucking inevitable. That's what happened. The body doesn't just keep fl, you're gonna go up in the scale. It's fucking inevitable, that's gonna happen. The body doesn't just keep flushing it all out as fast as the state, like you're gonna hold on to some of it, for every three ounces

of carbohydrate your body intakes, you hold three grams of water. So if you're eating and you're drinking more water, it's inevitable you're gonna hold and retain a little bit more water, which in turn is gonna have the scale go up, which has nothing to do with you getting fitter. You could be building muscle and burning body fat,

but then holding some water, which also can kind of manipulate the way you look. You could look a little puffy and water down a bit because you've increased that, or you've increased your carbohydrate intake. So there are many things. As far as progress, this is what I like to track. And you just saw me over the last month,

post every single workout that I did, and track that for everyone to see. Now, it bores me to death to do it, to continue doing it. So that's why you haven't seen me doing it lately. But I'm still on my training. And what I do, and the reason why it's boring is because I'm kind of going back through

a lot of the same stuff, but I'm adding volume. So now, every time I do a workout that I did last month, I'm increasing the volume, either through weights, if I feel really strong that day. So if it's a day I get in the gym and I'm like following a routine that I did last month and I'm getting ready to lift and I'm like, man, I feel like I feel strong today. So I'm going to push some weights up. I'm going to, you know, increase whatever my lifts are by five or 10 pounds or whatever it is. That's one way to increase the volume. Or maybe it's a day I come in and I don't feel strong and I feel tired. I'm like, but I'm still going to get my workout in for the day. And so what I might do is add sets. I might add a set to all the

exercises I'm doing. That's another way I can increase volume. And I know that if I am adding volume to my routine, I'm making progress. My body is getting stronger. It's adapting to handling more volume. Therefore, I'm progressing. Even if my scale or the mirror isn't showing me what I would like it to see today because based off of whatever I could have done the day before, otherwise, it can get really daunting the amount of things that you'll need to track to have a really accurate measure to are you making progress? I think this is the problem is that we connect working out and diet to weight and we don't connect it to anything else.

When in reality, if you eat right and you exercise it's connected to everything it will improve your quality of life in so many different ways. Not just changing your body weight and when people understand so when I coach people this is a point that I try to make with them it's that has your quality of life improved. For example let's say somebody you know they clean up their diet and they start working out with me, but they're eating still a lot of food.

They're still eating as many calories as they were before. So the weight never changes, but they're in the gym, their mobility increases, they're stronger, they're eating healthier, or at least making better choices, so that they're feeling better, their digestion's better, their energy's probably better,

they're probably sleeping better, better sex drive. Their quality of life has improved even though their body weight hasn't changed. So I think it's important that we connect exercise and nutrition to everything and not just wait. And what you'll find when you do that is A, you'll treat your workouts and nutrition more appropriately. So rather than like, because what happens

when the scale doesn't go down, even though your quality of life lump might have increased, but the scale hasn't changed, you may go into the gym and go after it or in a way that you maybe shouldn't or you maybe change your workouts when they were actually... I don't wanna see any weight loss.

If I have a client comes in, they say, I wanna lose 40 pounds out of them. They just hired me. They came off the holidays, they've been off the wagon for a long time, eating shit, not really exercising, tired of it. They're fed up with this extra weight and they say, Adam, I'm gonna pay you whatever it takes to lose this 40 pounds.

The goal with four of them, you know, after I take their money, right? Because it never works if I do this. After I take their money, I say, listen, the goal is we're not gonna lose any weight right now. Give me my money back. Scale, my goal week over week is to see your scale about the same. For now, we'll eventually get to, you know, drop the weight or maybe we won't. You may end up loving the way your body looks when I completely change it without ever

moving the fucking scale. For me, if I see a huge drop right out the gates, I'm that I I'm starving you too much or I'm over training you too much In fact, I know if I'm training you and you're working out what you weren't doing before and I'm helping you make better food choices Throughout the week. I know good things are happening progress is happening and the scale swinging up or down dramatically are both bad signs. Even if the goal is to lose 40 pounds, you drop 10 pounds in a week. That's a bad sign.

That is not good. I'm not feeding you enough or I'm pushing you hard too fast. I don't need to do that. So the goal really is to kind of keep the body weight the same while we kind of figure out what homeostasis is. Like what does the body want to be fed? Is it responding when we train this way?

Then we can start to manipulate that. And that's a hard thing to tell somebody who wants to lose 20, 30 pounds, that hey, I don't want you to lose anyway. You be blown away how much you can change your body composition without ever moving the scale, ever. And I did those that have been following since the beginning of when I first started all this ship,

well, I stayed at 213 pounds over like four month period. It was literally give or take two pounds up or down. That was mostly water. But that was the goal and I was explaining that as I was going through that journey was, watch me keep my weight right around the same but completely change my body composition. And the hardest part about it is the mental piece.

You know, it's just it mentally fucks with you when you think that you want to lose all this weight and the scale is not moving, but in reality, you really don't want that. If you're adding resistance and you're slowly over time increasing volume and you're adding more resistance to your training, you're fucking building muscle. I promise, you're building muscle and it's way more dense than body fat is.

And so if you see a nice, a beautiful place to be when you're trying to get in shape, is a nice little exchange of, you'll lost a pound of fat, you added a pound of muscle, you'll lost a pound of fat, which equals zero, which means the doesn't, the scale doesn't move. But if you can keep that pace for six to eight, 10, 12 weeks. So let me change your body. Oh my God, are you kidding me? I mean, adding 10 pounds of muscle over the course of three months

and only losing 10 pounds of fat, which equals a net zero movement on the scale. That is a fucking whole different person. Whole different person. That's a 20 pound difference, right? Even though it's 10 fat, you're losing 10 muscle, you're building net zero on the scale, but that person will look like 20 pounds has changed.

Hold on, then you just highlight all the rest of the variables that are going on with this person throughout this whole process, like your sleep, your strength, your energy, the way you poop in, the way you're digesting food, like you just have to sort of present all these other things that are going on. So that way, you understand that you're changing your entire body. This isn't just like about shedding part of your body.

Sal says it all the time on the show and I love it. It's a chase health. Chase health first and then the fitness thing will come. If you're looking at those things, those, those, you know, feedback that your body's giving you as far as sleep and energy and mood and skin and hair and sex and like those are all fucking great. And exercise and nutrition done properly,

contribute positively to everything because it's your health, it's your total health. When you look at all those parameters, then you don't get unmotivated because you're looking at, you're making a list and you're like, okay, wow, look at this, I'm sleeping better, my energy's better, my skin is better. The levels are down.

Look at my mobility's increased, the scale hasn't changed, but you know what, I've got all these other things that are positive, fuck yeah, man, I feel good about what I'm doing. Instead of like ignoring all those things, which a lot of people do, looking at just the scale, which I did for years, I ignored everything but the scale,

and it was so, it's so deceiving. The scale was so deceiving. I'd want to gain weight all the time. I always wanted to pack, I was packing on body fat like a fucking polar bear, but because the scale went up, I was happy, because I wanted to gain weight. You know, same thing when I would try to gain weight all the time. I always wanted to pack up. I was packing on body fat like a fucking polar bear, but because the scale went up, I was happy because I wanted to gain weight. You know, same thing when I would try to get cut or whatever, just like sometimes, you know,

one of the best things I can do is sometimes for clients that tell them, don't wait. Sometimes I tell them to wait themselves. Sometimes I say the opposite. Don't weigh yourself anymore. Oh, right. Get off the scale. This conversation speaks right to the intuitive guide.

Like, even if you're not somebody, even if you're somebody who's gonna be tracking, if you're somebody who's competing, even if like eating intuitively isn't something that you care about right now, this topic and the things that we're addressing right now, I think that's an excellent read just for that because that's the direction you wanna have,

especially if you struggle with this feeling of am I breaking progress or am I not, or be feeling like you're a slave to the scale, like the intuitive, the intuitive guide is a great read. And next question is from the strength to overcome. I often find people myself included tend to be self-deprecating as a sad attempt at being humble. What is your advice on being confident without being cocky?

Ha, ha, ha, ha. You know what cocky is? I like this. Cocky is somebody who's pretending to be confident. That's what cocky is. When you see somebody who's cocky and- Yeah, they're shaking. And arrogant, that's somebody who's not confident. So you can be confident and not be cocky

because confidence is not- Good way to describe. It's not cocky. I heard, I read an interview a long time ago, Hicks and Gracie, I don't know if you guys know he is he's You know known as being one of the yeah one of the best jujitsu You know masters of of the Gracie family doesn't compete or anything anymore, but he's kind of a badass and He got interviewed by somebody a long time ago and he said you know

How do you handle being a Gracie and getting challenged and people wanting to fight you all the time like? How are you so cool with that and okay with that? And he goes, you know, it was a five year old kid walked up to you right now and told you they wanted to kick your ass. Would you get all pissed off and angry and throw a punch at him? And he goes, of course not. And he goes, because you know, it's a five year old kid and you could have your way with them.

No problem. You can beat him up. You feel no threat and he goes, that's how I walk around all the time. I feel, and that's what confidence is. That's great. Like if you knew you could kick everybody's ass, would you ever go to a bar and posture and act like a tough guy?

You wouldn't give a shit. Always the tough, the real bad asses are normal. This is my Kyle Kingsbury wears pink unicorn shirts when he goes to the bars. Cause he doesn't like, he's like, say something to me. Yeah, it's not even that. Like, he's just so calm and confident

because he knows he's awesome. And that's really what confidence is. But I also find confidence in for myself, I got so much more confident when I became confident with not being the best person in the room at something or not being good at something. When I became confident with not being the like the best person in the room at something or not being good at something. When I became okay with that, then I got way more confident. Like if I'm in a situation where, you know, we're doing something and I know I'm not good or I'm not well versed or I don't have enough information, being okay with

being okay with that made a big difference. Like saying, I don't know. Like I don't know. That's honestly, I was gonna voice the fact of, when I was more honest and I just gave up the whole trying to say something that I knew, you know, somebody would, oh wow, they'd be dazzled by it or like dress up whatever I did with more story behind it. And you know, just, no, just tell exactly how it happened, exactly what I know.

If I'm gonna voice in what I know, and I'm gonna say when I don't know something, it's just like, you just get this immediate confidence boost because there's not all this pressure to be something that you're not. Mm-hmm. I think the making fun of yourself to your attempt to be humble, I really think that that can also be a sign of your own insecurities.

Like to do that. Like you don't, I would take this approach. Like if they're instead of like making fun of myself in area, I'll just be straightforward about like, man, that really, that scares me to do that. Or, you know, or man, when you just said that to me, fucked out of her by feelings. I didn't realize how much I heard my feelings when you said that.

I think like, okay, so you're a great book along these lines, Jack Welch is winning. And I think I've mentioned it a long time ago on the show, but learning to be candid with people and radical honesty and being direct to me is a great sign of confidence when somebody is so confident in who they are they are not afraid to say how they feel and what's on their mind and I think that much of our insecurities much of our cockiness comes out when we are trying to pretend like we are something that we are not. So, and that could also become with the, making fun of yourself, that also can be that too, if you're, hey, if you're feeling secure

about something then fucking voice it, don't be afraid to say that. Yeah, and I think that's where a lot of comedy, I mean, I do that a lot, you know, and I definitely have a self-deprecating sort of, you know, operating system, but it's more about like contributing to make light of things, like I am insecure about certain things, I know I suck at certain things, I'm going to jump and get to it before you have a chance. So that's where we're at, I'm putting it all out there and I feel great.

You know, I feel great about like, you know, yeah, come say something I haven't already said. Well, I think self-deprecating humor can also be what we do in this show a lot. I think we have a natural flow between the three of us where I'll serve the guys up on something. I know I'm gonna get fucking eating up on. Like, oh, I bring things up on purpose. I know you guys are gonna put, I know I'll say something that I did, but I know I'm gonna get fucking eating up on. Oh, I bring things up on purpose.

I know you guys are gonna put, I'll say something that I did that I know you guys are gonna fucking make fun of me over. Right. But it's hilarious and I also don't give a shit. Like it's all good. That's why it works. The dance between confident and cocky, I think, man, and what I used to say is the dance between being

ultra confident and then also humble at the same time is one of the finest dances I think that man, what I used to say is the dance between being ultra confident and then also humble at the same time is one of the finest dances I think that you can never learn to do and so important to being a great leader because you have to be able to have that confidence that people want to follow you because they trust that you can lead them. But then also be humble enough to listen to them or to be able to be like them too. And I think that it is a tough dance for a lot of people. And I think if you feel like you're trying to do it, that's already your first, your first mistake.

I think it's something that you will have over time. And I think the easiest way to start in that direction is learning again, being just radically honest, is learning to be, speak your mind, to say how you feel, to not be afraid of others, people are going to judge you. People are going to be funny. Whether you like it or not. Yeah, no matter what,

I don't care how fucking smart you are. I mean, look at some of them. Just know it's coming. Look at some of the most brilliant minds and most famous talented people out there that for as many people they have worshiping them them they have as many people talking shit about them So that's inevitable so once you get comfortable With that that people are always going to judge you and truly having the zero fucks

I don't give a fuck attitude about it like that's that's on them That's a reflection of their insecurities and they feel the need to voice Talking shit about me. What are that maybe I'm gonna be me and I'm and because I already know being me I think it's hard for people. I think it's hard for people to be me in the society that we live in today So I think practicing being yourself and being comfortable with yourself will bleed into this confidence that you that you want to have and it won't come off as cocky. I think I think a lot of times when people think that others are I used to come off cocky sometimes and I think the reason why I came off cocky was because part of my confidence was partially like what Sal was saying was driven through insecurities

because I was an insecure boy growing up. Now as I got older and I became more comfortable in my own skin, that cockiness definitely completely faded away. And it's a true confidence now that nobody's gonna shake me no matter what you say. I had this one client that I trained once for a while, I trained for about a couple of years. Great guy became one of my favorite people ever to work with. Super nice dude, we come in, we have a great workout,

great discussion, just really liked the guy. And he drove a Nissan Pathfinder that had like 250,000 miles. It looked like a car he'd had forever. And I had no idea where he lived or whatever. And I knew he had worked in medicine. So I knew he was relatively successful, but I really know much. And I went over his house after a couple of years

of working with him. And we, again, we're driving, you know, he drives this piece of shit like Pathfinder. We drive up to his house and he has a fucking estate. Like I had no idea this guy had that much money, but it's because he wore regular clothes when he worked out, sometimes it sweaters would have holes in them.

And so then I asked him the next day after I went over his house, I trained him. And I'm like, dude, I'm like, you're a fucking baller. And he starts laughing. And I'm like, you've got a lot of money. I said, I would have never known. So why do you drive that pathfinder, that piece of shit pathfinder?

Cause that's close to them, I could say that. And he goes, cause it's still running. He goes, I really don't care about cars that much. He's like, you can tell, I like my house. So I spend a lot of money there and stuff. And I remember here, and I'm's still running, he goes, I really don't care about cars that much. He's so, but you can tell, I like my house, so I spend a lot of money there and stuff. And I remember hearing that, I'm like, God, you know, how many people with that much money

would be okay with driving a crappy car or whatever? Like he was a very confident, you know, self-confident type of individual. And I really liked that about him. And it's probably what drew me to him. But I didn't know any of that stuff. I would have never get. Confidence in another human being

is one of the most attractive qualities. Oh, man, women doesn't matter. Doesn't, yeah, does not confidence is such an attract, and again, it confidence to me really is just being yourself. It's being so comfortable with who you are. And I think it's more, it's more difficult. People say that like it's so easy, but a lot of the,

it's a constant struggle. And I mean, I was reading this book over the weekend and they were highlighting the fact that most of the successful people that people idolize and know have made it to the very top. Like they struggle with this imposter syndrome. They struggle with the fact that they don't feel like they're this person with authority that has all the answers. And like, you know, on the top level, right?

Like everybody has that. Like they don't feel comfortable with all the eyes on them. But at the same time, the people that do, like you feel like exude the confidence, it's just that they know that they're being themselves and they can carry themselves and they can say whatever they can because they're just it's truly coming from them and and however people receive it is how they're going to receive it.

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