Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 794: How to Work Out to Improve Sex Drive, the Best Way to Bulk & Cut, Surviving an Injury & MORE

Episode Date: June 16, 2018

Organifi Quah! In this episode of Quah, sponsored by Organifi (organifi.com, code "mindpump" for 20% off), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about surviving an injury, the best philosophy for bulking & cutting, working out and sex drive and if a teach should share their bikini photos online. It makes your question your own beliefs. Did it take time for the guy’s to get used to the sound of their own voice? Way they communicate? (4:00) How to not punish your loved ones when you come home and are upset or in a bad space. The importance of everyday interactions. (12:06) New Mind Pump sponsor Omax and how the quality matters when it comes to your fish oil supplements. (17:54) 17 States Now Weighing Right to Repair Bills as Momentum Grows. (25:05) A Debate: Is Our World Getting Better? Why we tend to focus on the negative than positive.  (31:15) 37% of US Adults Are Using Common Meds They Don't Realize Could Cause Depression. (37:54) The Sad Decline of Ronnie Coleman. (43:06) #Quah question #1 – I would love to know some of your suggestions to help survive an injury? Mentally and psychically? (46:37) #Quah question #2 – Is the best philosophy to bulk then cut? (58:11) #Quah questions #3 – Does working out, including bulking and cutting, affect your sex drive positively or negatively? (1:06:07) #Quah question #4 – What is your opinion on teachers or people in professional positions competing? Do you think it is inappropriate to have stage pictures online or do you think it’s an outlet to show others how strong you can be? 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Oh, it's so frustrating. More regulation. to allow companies to repair and make accessories for Apple products. So frustrating. More regulation. We talk about how humans have a tendency to focus on the negative and new studies showing that some common over the counter. Medications have side effects like depression, believe it or not. And then we talked about Ronnie Coleman, the greatest Mr. Olympia ever, and how bad shape he looks. Poor guy can barely move, very, very sad. We also mentioned, organify for a second.

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Don't lose gains, mobility, and maintain some sanity. We give some good advice there. Adam talks about his personal experiences through his Achilles tear. The next question was, is the best philosophy to bulk and then cut? The answer, it depends. Find out why it depends in that segment of this episode. The next question was, does working out affect your sex drive positively or negatively?

Well, weight training definitely, if you do it right, can make you a horny son of a gun, right Doug? Right Doug? Or you can use an in Eagle biners. Great you can use a brain FM, that's Justin's tactic. Yeah, Justin and actually both you guys use your brain FM while you're having sex, use focus. Hey, that was a great tip.

Right, if you go to Brain.fm-forge-slash-mind-pump, you will get a hook up for these sounds that apparently help you have sex. Focus on that sex. And the final question, What is our opinion on Teachers posting pictures of themselves competing in bikini competitions Do we think that's like inappropriate because they're working with kids or do we think they just want attention? And also this month all month long all month long

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It's a great deal for that. And all of the other products that we have, go to mindpumpmedia.com. Dude, you know it's funny. The vast majority of people, if they listen to their voice, they record their voice, and then they listen to their voice on recording. Everybody's like, I hate my voice.

And then you have Adam. Yeah. He's like, oh, hello there. Hey, I like listening to myself. Where have you been? Did it take you guys any time to get you still hearing yourself on hearing your own voice? Maybe initially.

Yeah, it was awkward at first to hear yourself and just the way that you sound and- Because you sound different in your head totally. You know what I mean? You sound different in your head. I don't know, I agree. I mean, I-

I think the headphones really help. That's your truth maybe? No, no, no, no. What do you mean? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's a true thing. You tell me my truth. No, no, no, no, my voice sounds just like it. The way my voice sounds on real stuff. Cause you have headphones on.

When you, if you don't wear headphones and listen to your voice on recording, and then you do listen to recording, people, this is, this is common. People won't even recognize your voice half the time or sometimes I'm like, I can't believe I sound like that. You've heard that before, haven't you? Well, it's mainly on video. That's where I used to get feel like a little bit awkward. Yeah. Oh, I sound like that. Well, it's mainly on video. That's where I used to get feel like a little bit awkward.

Yeah. Oh, I sound like that. Well, awkward, weird, all that stuff. I get through it. I get through it. What I liked about it is, I mean, talk about, we've kind of mentioned this on the show. I've never, and I've always been, not always,

for a long time, I've been a growth-minded, self-aware type of a person. And nothing has been able to accelerate that, like sitting down and listening to your own voice for two hours. Of course. So, because you get to hear sometimes, I'll, you know, like, oh, shit, I sound like an idiot there.

Why do I sound like I got so irritated for no reason? Or whatever? It really makes you, it makes you question your own beliefs, right? Like I said that. And then like when you hear it, a second time, right? The first time it comes out of your mouth, you obviously hear, but then when you hear it a second time,

and you're just purely listening, are you getting sucked into the show? It's true, listening to how you think your way through things and explain things is really interesting. Well, there's two ways. I loved it, and that's the part I, I'm not, I'm definitely not the person who, and we we joke about you know, I like the sound of my voice like no, I don't listen and go like, oh yeah, I don't care. I mean, we were just talking about we're talking shit about someone we were

listening to podcasts, somebody we know. And it's so funny to listen to them talk because they they add adjectives and verbs into there's like extra ones that are not needed. Oh, that's just poor communication. Well, but the funny part is this person I'm talking about, you know, prides himself on being a great communicator and really what I see when I see someone like that is I see somebody who cares more about how they sound to themselves than really getting a point

across and like somebody being able to, it's not like that for me. No words, you can definitely use lots of words and eloquent words and descriptive words to make your point more effective or to illustrate your point more effective. Or you could just use bunch of words and throw them in because they sound good, but all you've done is now added in additional 30 seconds or five minutes to something that could have been explained in a short period of time.

We hear that all the time, especially when people are smart, like you hear people are really smart, and they'll just say lots of words, and like, okay, so in other words, this is what you're saying, which you could have totally articulated in half the time. It makes you way less of an effective- This is what- This is an attention span you have to consider too,

of like your audience. Like, well, it's really just not considering your audience at that point. You just love the sound of your own voice and how you explain this. You would think though that they would hear that listening to themselves, you know what I mean? Yeah.

Because there's two things that I've learned from listening to myself. One is, sometimes I think I'm doing a good job when I'm not. So then I hear and I go, oh, should I thought I sounded better or I thought I sounded, you know, I thought I was, I had a good opinion, but now I can tell that it was my ego that was talking, whatever, it's easier to hear that when you hear yourself talking. And the other thing that I learned, we've all done this, is sometimes you judge yourself so harshly, and then you hear it back and you're like, oh, I didn't sound bad at all. So it's like

two sides, right? Those two sides where you're like, oh, I sucked right there. And then you hear it back and you're like, oh, I didn't sound bad at all. So it's like two sides, right? Those two sides where you're like, oh, I sucked right there. And then you listen afterwards and you're like, oh, that wasn't that bad. Well, some of it too, like, I always try to work on painting a better picture. Obviously, the story part of it has been a struggle for me. And that's something I've noticed that I've been really

trying to work on and listening to people. But you can get lost if you put so much effort into the description, all the details. So, you know, like having it like just a certain amount of time is crucial. Do you think in the future when everything's being recorded? Because I'm sure at some point, we're gonna have on contact lenses that literally record

everything you see, or you'll have like a, yeah, I think it's gonna become an amazing tool. Do you think it's gonna make somebody super? Did they have that was it in the eye? I know. No, no, no, the circle was just video cameras everywhere that work and that was more. No, there was an episode on black mirror that was like that. That's right. Everything you saw was recorded and then you can go back and rewind it and whatever. Zoom in and everything on the background. You know it might just make people hyper anxious and hyper critical. You know what I mean? It might make people...

Well, no doubt it'll have good and bad. Everything always does, right? There's always a bad side of the good. But I think personally for myself, I think that would be an awesome tool and resource. It would be so neat to have a day where like, let's say I mean, I think back the things that I used to have to do, like having a meeting

where I'm leading a team of 15 or 20 people. And you know, I walk out of that meeting, it would be so rad to go back later in the day and go like, let's see how everybody was affected. Yeah, I'll be able to watch the reactions. Go back and be like, oh shit, I see what I did. What a hero, this is easy. What a cheater.

That's what happened in that episode of Black Mirror. The dude, they had this house party in this episode. Did you guys watch it? You watch it, I just watched it. I watch it. So that they're having like a house party and they had this house party in this episode, did you guys watch it? You watch it, I watch it. So they're having a house party and they have this dude that's invited over and this guy's wife, he kind of gets this feeling like, are they flirting? So then later on that night, he reviews the video

and he notices every time this dude makes joke, she laughs like excessively, she smiles at him and he's like reviewing the video to see how she responded to that dude. Oh my God. So much. So that's the bad right? That's where they get trouble.

So when people's insecurities come out and that and then they go back and hang on everything, it's going to be interesting. Do you think with a tool like that that you'll find that you're that when you rewind and listen to the arguments that you have that you are more right that you are going to win more of them or lose more of them? You know what I'm saying? What do you think? Do you think you'll watch them and be like,

I think initially lose. You'll be like, damn, she was right. It was acting like an asshole. Yeah, unless you are the hypercritical. Yeah. You know what? I don't know. For some people, I think it won't matter.

It'll just confirm their argument more. You know what I'm saying? Okay. I think you have to first have the desire to change. Wanna find what's wrong. What is Jordan Peterson say all the time? Like, look for all the... Make friends with what you don't know?

Yeah, no, he talks about like seeking all the things, or seeking all the failures, seeking all the wrong stuff and everything instead of all the searching, you'd be right. So you'd be right. Yeah, that's easy. It's easy to look at,

it's easy to figure out things that you're doing wrong. Right, right. Then it is, then try to find the right answer all the time. Right, instead of trying to find the answer, try and find all the wrong answers. That's what I'm saying. So thinking like that, there's not a lot of people that process that the same way where they look at themselves

and go like, what's everything wrong without what I'm saying? If you have that attitude and you're going back listening to the way you communicate something and go, what's everything wrong with what I'm saying versus what are all the things I did good and what I'm, what right there that hanging hanging on that I think you have to have that You have that attitude to knock those down otherwise you listen to you could re would rewind you'd listen to your argument with your

Why for your girlfriend or whatever the case may be and you would hang on all the points that you said right to Reconfirm why you're so right you know what you know what happened? You know what happened right you take the video happen. You know what happened, right? You take the video of the argument and you'd still argue over it and be like, look, look, right here, you see what I'm saying? She'd be like, no, no, no, no, but you were, and then you would say, okay, fine,

let's send the video to five people. Let's get it outside of painting. You would start doing that, right? You'd start posting it, all right. Vote, yes, if I was right, vote, no, if she was right. And you'd start getting consensus. No, I had to share something that we were listening to right We were listening to Peterson talk yesterday and he said something so powerful

Me says that powerful every time you listen to guys So he's fucking incredible But something that really hit home for me and it maybe it was because we are driving home and we're coming home from this trip that we just went on Oh, I know you're gonna say and You know he talks about how much of the time in our lives that we're so focused on You know this big event that I have coming up. You know I've got this huge event and so much of my thought and reading and focus and Preparation and everything is surrounded by this one hour meeting or maybe if it's even a vacation in a trip for three days or whatever

You know and you put all this like it so important, all this importance around it. And in the grand scheme of things, or the looking at it as if you were to fraction out your life, like, how much of it does it really represent your total life? And when you look at it like that, it's like a pebble or sand and you're so tiny and fractional. But when you look at all the other things that people just don't even think about that are a big part of your life, and you use the example of coming home, like just coming home in the way you greet your wife or your partner every single day,

that's a big fucking part of you. Because it happens every day. It happens every day, and it lasts. It's way more important than anything else. It's so goddamn important that, and so much of us don't get that right part, and it really hit me home hard because a lot of times it's tough to work hard all day long

and then come home and then be able to completely shift from that space that you're currently in. And then to walk in that door, welcome your wife or your girlfriend and completely change that dynamic if you have a bad day. And how many people let that bleed into that? And then he made another comment on not being aware of that and realizing that you're potentially punishing your partner.

Like what if Katrina all day long did all kinds of incredible things for me, helped me around the house or was in a really good mood, excited to see me with that. And I at the same time, I just happen to have the worst day at work or whatever. And I walk in that door and I'm quiet or I forget to kiss her high or I just snap at her. Or maybe I'm short with her and you know,

and she asked me to help out with something and I just don't want to do it right now because I'm tired and I'm exhausted. And then all of a sudden, not only did I fuck up that one, that 10 minute interaction right there, but I also am punishing her for doing good things. That's right, that's the worst thing you could possibly do is punish someone when they're doing something

that you want them to do. This happens a lot in relationships when you have resentment that's built up. So you'll have a couple of that fights or whatever and they're really irritated with each other. And then they go away, they get over it and everything is cool. And sometimes someone feels like,

okay, now's a good opportunity to hammer on that because everything's safe now, I can hammer on them. And that's the wrong time to do it because you're punishing someone for being in a good mood or for treating you well. And you start to train that in somebody. And it happens with, you could do that with your kids, you could go, it's, you can't go, you can't revisit something

that happened a while back. Like that's, as far as disciplining is concerned as well, like, you know, and parenting, and like, there's certain things that, in the moment, you know, this is where we need to make a point of this and education needs to happen right now because it's, you know, revisiting it, that's not fair.

While, you know, you're in a totally different place in a different mindset. Or maybe it's not even that. It's not only that, it's just, you know, you have no idea what her day and all the things that she had accomplished or done are potentially a done for you, unselfishly, that just has happened throughout that day.

And because what's happening currently at that moment for you and your life, you're so selfishly focused on it, that you don't even take into consideration potentially what her day was led up to that. And then when you guys get into some sort of an argument over something very small, like you, as she asked a favor or asked you to do something and you snapped or you didn't want to do it, you don't realize how much damage you're doing because of what all the stuff that you didn't see and you didn't even know about. And know it, a lot of times we just don't even think in process that that was such a big moment for me.

No, it's you. Just like when parents, you know, like you get a lot of people who work a lot, right? And they don't see their kids that much, but they think, oh, it's okay because every three months I take my kids on a vacation, we have quality time together. That's not nearly as important as breakfast that you have every morning with your kids. I mean, you have 15 minutes of breakfast every morning, that, you add that up over the course of a year,

and that's a lot of time, and that's daily. That's way more important than the one trip you take every once in a while with your kids where you think that's a lot of time and that's daily. That's way more important than the one trip you take every once in a while with your kids where you think that's quality time. It's those everyday interactions. That's what the impact happens. Because it's everyday. It feels like an interview,

but it's actually a big part of your life. It's interesting because the coming home thing was big for me because I've recognized that this year, in particular, that this is something that I knew coming home, I would bring a certain energy home and you know whether I was tired, whether I was frustrated, whether I was whatever it was, I had, and I started applying that discipline of like kind of waiting in my car and gathering my wits about me and understanding that yeah, I turned it on for my work, but I'm not turning it on for

my family. Right. And so, I have to really understand like how to come into, you know, through the door, you know, say hi, you know, kiss my kids, like get into whatever they're doing and then just be there. And then after that, you know, we can, I can kind of like work on whatever I need to work on or whatever. But it's so important. It's extremely important.

So I know. I was a powerful statement. It was powerful. Dude, you're earlier, I'm going to call you out, Adam. That fish burp you did earlier. Fucking terrible. Well, dude, I've just kicked out my fish oil. Yeah, because I haven't been getting a lot, I mean, normally it's like you used to be

a pretty regular thing that Katrina and I are at our sushi spot at least once or twice, and we normally have it in at least another meal or two within the week. And, you know, I've talked about this on the podcast before, that's when I'm taking my omics. So lately, I've been taking them a little bit more. So you know that that's might be a sign of the fish oils that you're taking to go rancid. So when they do tests on fish oil, I don't know if you guys know this,

many of them are rancid. You don't know because it's in a capsule, but if you... They go bad. They go bad. If you puncture it, you can smell. You'll be able to smell how fishy and bad they are. And the other thing too is a lot of them use these fillers.

So you'll buy a fish oil, but 40 or 50% of it is our other types of fats or saturated fats or whatever. And it's not the actual pure, you know, what you're after, which is the Omega-3 fatty acids, the DHA and the, you know, what the other one, whatever the other ones called it, forgot.

You can actually do this test where you take your fish oil and you put it in the freezer. And if it freezes and it's cloudy, then you know it's got a lot of filters, because pure fish oil will stay clear. Oh, see, I thought it was just normal that I always get fish person. No, and then the other thing is it might be going rancid,

so like, oh, Max, oh, Max is the fish oil company that we've been kind of talking with. Their fish oil is coming blister packs, so they're sealed individually. Oh, see, I haven't tried any their stuff that i just have some generic brand that i've been using forever that i don't even know the name of the no dude it's just like anything else like quality matters and i think what's happened with the especially with the supplement industry is that

we've will think it's all the same so be like oh uh... jen if it's vitamin c it's all the same where if it's visual it's all the same where if it's protein it's all the same but that's not the case that's not the case at all, especially in the supplementary, which has just notorious for bad practices. And stuff like that.

Those fish burps are because it's rancid. That's so nasty. It may be, it may be for a lot of people. So if you get really, really good fish oil, many times people won't get that kind of problem. Well, when I was doing it, I totally noticed that. That's why I was like never super stoked to take, you know, fish oil capsules.

Well, you said you were talking to that company, or did you close that deal, are we gonna do it? Yeah, no, we're gonna be, we're gonna do a little short trial with them, but they're very, very high quality. I think they're, their fish oil was something like 97% pure, which is crazy, because a lot of times they'll test fish oils, and it'll be something like 67%.

So it's very, very pure. That's super good quality. Is that the same brand that Ben works with? I know I've heard the name. Rainfield filled, yep, yep. Yeah, Benny always, he always bends. Good stuff. Ben's got 94%.

Is that where you heard about it first? Because I'd never even heard about it before that. He gave him a kind of a stamp of approval or whatever. But I mean, fish oil is interesting. Omega-3s are interesting. I have a family member whose cholesterol and lipid levels were all over the place. And the doctor prescribed fish oil.

But wasn't that long ago that doctors weren't prescribing that, it's pretty crazy. Now that they're actually telling them to take fish oil, like five or six years ago, they weren't doing that. Maybe even 10 years ago, they weren't doing that. But now they're telling them to take fish oil, like five or six years ago, they weren't doing that. Maybe even 10 years ago, they weren't doing that. But now they're telling them to take it because they notice that it affects their lipids in a positive way. Well, one of the better ways to for battle inflammation too, right? So, yes, and if you...

Now, you can actually up the dose, and this is depends on the individual, but you can up the dose official with turmeric, which is one of my favorite combinations. If I'm really inflamed, and that shit is potent, man. It's like taking an ad-vill or something like that. It takes a couple of days that's just getting gross mixed, though, together. Like turmeric and... He's cat, exactly. You put it right down the hatch.

I want to strangle ever right now, because he always says, we do, I use the Organifi Tumoric capsules all the time. He uses actually the powder, and he makes it in the blender all the time. It's now stained my blender, fucking. Oh, dude. People don't realize that.

I want to choke him out. You know what I do? I'm like, who's disgusting now. They used to use Tumoric to die close back in the day, dude. It is so strong Yeah, I'll stain the fuck it is staining plastic. Yep. This is my my what you'm gonna call it blender You know I'm saying your ninja or whatever the hell I Vitamix was what I'd mix it to the thing is all stain like this ugly looking orange Sure doesn't I mean I don't know it's not like changing. It's not appetizing Yeah, right. I'm I literally was making one of of my shakes last night and I'm I'm pouring it in

there and I'm like, well, this looks gross. It's like in my orange blender. Hey, did you did you end up surprising Katrina? Did she know that we were going to come home early? I totally did. It was really cool because I guess Everett and his daughter had just been by there and they left and I was coming back in and right when I was coming because everybody thought we were coming back today Right, but we actually came back a day early because we finished all of our work and had everything done

Yeah, it was good. You didn't tell her you just walked. No, no, it was so good. Yeah, how crazy I decided I wasn't gonna tell her I wanted a surprise there and then how neat was that that we that's why I felt the message was for me I was like this this message from Jordan right now that we just happened to all about how you come home. Yeah, yeah, it's interesting. Right, right? We almost blew it free too. I was like, talking to his cell, ah, it was loud outside.

Well, it was great, she was actually listening to the podcast when I walked in. No way. Yes, I totally worked out that we were loud outside because she couldn't hear or nothing like that. So what happened, you walk in, she sees you, she's like, she actually had her head down and she said, oh, did you forget something? And I just kind of stood there and looked at her and then she waited

to look up, but she was right in the middle of packaging something. And then she looked up and she's like, oh my God, what are you doing here? I came home to see you, babe. Just for you. And she called that guy and was like, don't come over. Yes. It's it's it's hit up in the closet. We go high by the couch. Yeah. Poor the couch. Poor guy's holding his pee all night in the closet like, oh, I gotta wait for him. He's pretending he's a lamp. It's a good night.

In the corner. What a nightmare. Could you imagine coming home to surprise your girl and you open the door and she's just, she's just, isn't that how it happens most of the time? That's when people die. Because they feel like, you get caught so off guard and it's become such a, you become so primal

in your instincts, you know what I mean? 100% Justin's more likely to kill somebody in that situation out of all of them. I mean, I would put a, definitely put some hurt on a dude for that. But at the same time, yeah, it's just like, yeah, no, I guess we're done. Yeah, I guess we're done. Dude, you never know how you'll react to something like that.

It's a hard thing to predict because it's so I try to think about it too much. No, yeah. I know, right? You want to talk about rooting the first five minutes, what do you want? Boom boom. Be thinking about your wife fucking somebody else all the time. I'd rather get kicked in the nuts for a year. Yeah. Yeah. What was that movie where the dude comes home and his wife's having sex and then the guy comes out of the closet. Oh, that's, uh.

There's like two or three dudes. That's a hilarious movie. Oh, yeah. And then the doorbell rings and he opens the door. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She's like a total swinger. I'm here for the gang bang. Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, yeah. You're for the gang bang. Oh my gosh. It's an epic intro. Absolutely terrible. Did you say you had something you want to share your article or something at all yeah when it talked to you i want to say share some with you guys i didn't know i don't know when this happened although i was reading another article that led me down

the rabbit hole here uh... but they uh... legislation has now been introduced in seventeen states uh... and basically what this is so hawaii Hawaiian Oklahoma are the most recent states to introduce laws that would give consumers an alternative to manufacturer service departments when something breaks says a report. So basically what this is is they have made it to where because apples kind of had a monopoly on this. Some other and Apple's the biggest culprit of this. We all know this, right?

They change the plugs, all their parts only fit with Apple parts. So this makes it impossible for a third party to come in and try and create accessories. Yes, create accessories or repair parts. And so they actually passed a law saying that Apple has to give up some of those things. So other companies then can come and a law.

Well, they passed legislation here. It says in 17 states right here. That's so stupid to me. Apple, Toyota, Jandir and others have lobbied against the law saying that the letting the third parties crack the shell and consumer devices opens the door for hackers and device. The right to repair people, say manufacturers are simply trying to keep their monopoly on the lucrative business of repairing their own stuff. They're thinking about it.

They're thinking about it. Anyway, I always see accessory products to Apple phones and Apple computer. There's always somebody that can check this out. This is such a big deal and such a huge market that the first, this is just now in place, right? And this company, let me see if we can find the name of the company, it's called, I think back market, I wanna say is what it's called.

They received like 400 million venture capitalist money, and then they got this law went through and got passed. And I hate that. Instantly like a hundred million dollar hundred of course hundred million dollars in revenue This is this is an example of crony this is crony capitalism those companies would not succeed without that legislation Yeah, you know, I mean, yeah, it's such so stupid. How weird is that you're going to a company that's succeeding on its own They're not forcing anybody by the brother doing their own thing and they're like no you need to make your product like this We're gonna pass a lot.

No. What? It's, well, why it gets biased? Cause the consumer just sees it for like, I mean, it's way better for the consumer cause now what's happening is lots of consumers, yeah, the consumer thinks it's better. I think it's better.

I know you're not a good idea. I know. I think, think a little bit smaller. Don't think that big yet. You know what I'm saying? It's just a simple person who wants a cheaper iPhone. So you can go get this iPhone 10 that's been fixed and sold for a hundred bucks.

So that's what's happening right now. You're saying one at every 10 iPhone X's, iPhone X's, can I say that? iPhone X's that were built were actually remanufactured or fixed or were broken phones. So a lot of people now are going that way. Not everybody can afford a thousand dollar iPhone X, but one that's been refurbished or been fixed

that somebody else basically threw away or sent off, now they can purchase it for five, $600 or whatever. Oh my gosh. Crazy though. No, I can't believe it. Well, anytime something gets really big, they gotta put their hands in it, you know what I mean? And that's what they're doing.

Well, I won't lie, that it's frustrating as shit, that I mean, it's, but I think I also respect it. It's gonna big, they got to put their hands in it, in our main, and that's what they're doing. Well, I won't lie, that it's, it's frustrating as shit, that, I mean, it's, but it's, I think, I also respect it. It's gonna reduce innovation. It takes away, it's gonna, take away Apple's money for reinvestment into what they see that their market actually desires. And it's also gonna, it's also,

it's also creating a situation where we don't know, there may be, there may be companies that are looking at this and trying to figure ways around it and compete. But now they're done because legislation just gave it to someone else because they've picked winners and losers. I guarantee you there was some companies, some third party companies lobbying those state governments to pass that and they're the ones that are benefit, they're beneficiaries of it.

Oh yeah, no, no, of course. Oh, that's so frustrating. I mean, it's, it's, it's, they's there, what their argument or what they're trying to do is to keep it to where Apple doesn't, and there's just one example, there's other companies too, but you know, keep Apple from having a monopoly. That they own the repair industry too, because if you have an iPhone,

and it brings product. But there is no, there is no monopoly by the way. Yeah, I was like, there's, there's lots of other products that can buy stuff. They created the product. The only reason why they're so big infrastructure. Yeah, I was like, there's lots of other products that might have done. They created the product. The only reason why they're so big infrastructure. Yeah, the only reason why they're so big

and make a lot of money is because they're good. Yeah. I mean, that's the only reason. And it's frustrating. Sure, it's frustrating when you're like you upgrade and you have to get like a new plug, you know, that kind of sucks, but it's premium. So call the part that they can control.

What, what, let me down this round, I think it was first, we were just talked about this at the beach house. And I believe that episode goes up tomorrow night, Doug or Sunday night. Sunday night. We did a little kind of a random episode that's not really mind-plum health and fitness stuff,

just us while we're out the beach, kind of give back to you guys. And I actually was talking about, I was kind of telling you guys what sports teams can do now with athletes. And you're like, oh, that's really cool. And I was talking about how, you know, more than likely that the Warriors did some backdoor deals and talking to Duran.

How crazy is this? I open up this morning. My, was it a hustle, my hustle article that I get and I'm reading and it's about Kevin Durant and being an investor with these other VCs in a tech company. What was it? It was like an insurance company or something. Of course.

I don't even remember what it was, but it's a big startup company that's projected to be a multi-million, a hundred million dollar company and he's investing it. It's like that obviously doesn't 100% confirm what I was saying, but it just shows you that's probably what's happening behind closed doors, where these guys, when they're negotiating these big huge multi-million dollar part of the agent to be able to introduce these players to movers and shakers. Part of the agent you do that. It's part of the agent's job, right? Yeah, it's part of the agent's job to get you paid.

They're trying to get them wealthy, not just, you know, sign a big bonus contract. It's like, how do you keep that money and how do you invest it wisely? Diversify it. Yeah. You know, that's what they're trying to do. That's cool. Yeah. So I was reading an article that was really, it was an article in a psychology publication

and they were talking about like, why, why is it that? So they just did some polls, right? And a 2016 poll I should say 20,000 people and some of the world's richest countries and The question was all things considered do you think the world is getting better or worse and 10% in Sweden 6% in the US 4% in Germany and 3% in France thought things were getting better So most people thought things were getting either worse or staying the same. Now objectively speaking, obviously things are getting better consistently across the board, right? Like, yeah, the world is getting wealthier.

There's way less people under the poverty line. I know that there was these standards that we had past. People that have diseases. I mean, just less war. Let me literally, the world is a lot better today than it was 20 or 30 years ago. Didn't they cure polio? Yeah.

And in this article they're talking about, why is it that humans consistently think things are worse, even when they're not? And they say that they think it has to do with evolution because we're constantly bombarded with information, right? And it's in your, it's in your brain's best interest to side with the bad news than it is to focus on the good news. Right. It's that better, safe than sorry mentality, right?

So if I go, you know, if I go to the, to the pond or to the lake, every single day to get water, every single day, every single day, and I do it for five years and I'm safe. But then in my tribe of 50 people, some dude gets eaten by an alligator, my brain is gonna play better, safe than sorry, but like don't go to that pond anymore, don't go that lake anymore. And so we tend to focus on the negative,

which is why you never see a reporter on the news reporting from. And today from this country where there is no war and violence, like they're never gonna do that, it's always the bad stuff that we focus on. It was just a fascinating article because as I'm thinking about it, it's like, wow, that is totally our tendency. Our tendency is totally to be negative and totally to think of the negative stuff because it occupies more of our brain space or our thinking space because it's trying to keep us safe. But the problem with today is, we're not just bombarded with information that's immediately in front of us.

We're at, you know, for most of human civilization, you would just hear about the news in front of you. But now it's so, the world is so, it's the world so big, but now it's also so small that we can get news of some horrible shit that happened across the world that I normally would never hear about. But my brain doesn't know that, and it perceives it is happening right in front of me

or whatever, and I need to be careful, I need to be scared. And so we're walking around in this case. That's why it's a field. Some people may feel like it's getting worse. It's just because now you understand what's going on in the world. Like, you know, world news. Like we have access to all these disasters

and all these disasters and all these different events that are happening where, you know, back in the back, you know, when we had papers and everything, they'd only cover like local news or like national news. Well, how crazy would it be to see how much that would change if all news and all information that we was providing you had the opposite spin?

Was about everything that was going great in the world. Oh, guess what, just found out over here, so unsaved this baby. If the new turn on the news and they only reported on all the amazing things that were happening across the world, that percentage would completely flip on its head. It would be the other way around. But it was our fault again. This is like what the ratings determined what the news, you know, what kind of news they

gave us. This is why I made that debate about why I am, I'm not always a fan of what we always say, like, oh, I like that we're bringing awareness to this. We're always talking about the Colin Kaepernick thing. I know I wrote it by the wrong way with that one, which I'm not a fan of that. Like, I'm not a fan of always bringing awareness

to certain things or bringing light to certain things. Well, it's because we focus on the negative. Exactly. Because that's exactly what happens because the majority of the people, sure, there's a handful of people in that group that go like, oh, shit, I's because we focus on the negative. Exactly. Because that's exactly what happens because of majority of the people who do that. Sure, there's a handful of people in that group that go like, oh, shit, I didn't know that was going on. What can I do to be a better person in this world

so I can impact the people around me so this racism doesn't continue on? But then there's a whole bunch more people. Well, see, the problem is that we consume the negative. We seek it out and consume it. If you know what I mean? Again, if you're in a tribe and people are talking about all the goods, like you're in a tribe, and people are talking about all

the goods, like you're in a tribe of 30 people or 15 people, and people are talking and everybody's like, oh, I had a great day. Oh, I found some fruit over here. Oh, this is, you know, it's really cool. And then one person in the tribe was like, dude, I got bit by a lion. Everybody's gonna listen to that guy. Everybody's gonna focus on that guy. Tell me about the lion that fucking bit you.

Nobody's gonna care about any of the other stories. You know what I'm saying? So it's like, that's just what we consume. Because I'm guarantee you if the news would get viewed by saying, good shit, they would. We just know nobody wants to watch it. Everybody wants to hear the bad shit. Even though it makes us feel terrible.

You know what I mean? So it's just a very interesting. Is it really though, or is there a part of us that, you know, like Jordan Peterson talks about? There's that evil inside of us also. And because most of us know that we're supposed to be good, there's a part of us that wants to dabble in the thoughts of what would it be like bad.

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Maybe, maybe. I don't know. When I watch that stuff, I know I'm drawn to the bad because, due because you just, you wanna know what's going on.

And you know, and it's like, why are you so, why that? Again, I think it sets that survival thing. And I'm trying to be more aware of it. And by, do you, or do you think that's your inner, you know, devil and angel inside of you that's always going to be in battle and conflict? And because you know you're a good human,

you would never do those things, it's still interest you to see it. I don't know. I don't know, that's interesting. I don't necessarily derive pleasure from it though. Well, again, you don't, I don't think you to see it. I don't know. I don't know, that's interesting. I don't necessarily derive pleasure from it though. Well, again, I don't think you necessarily have to. I think you're a good human being and you know how to decipher that,

but I think that the natural animal instinct that draws you to that, maybe that is because of that. Well, I think in some ways, right? Like people like watching violent sports, you know? Violet, I mean, think about it. Like, let's all look, I'm a big fan of certain violent sports, like mixed, violent, I mean, think about it. Like, let's all look. I'm a big fan of certain violent sports, like Miss Mix martial art, for example, boxing, but why do sports is war?

Yeah. Sports is sports is war just in a different way. Yeah. Or glascus is reenacted. And you know, it's crazy is the harder hitting the more dangerous it is, the more we like it. Yeah. I know. The closer it is to actually killing each other, the more we enjoy it.

I know. Think about that. Look at the rise of UFC. Well, we used to. Look how much it's blowing up right now for that exact reason. Well, we used to watch people kill each other. Wasn't that long ago? I mean, a couple thousand years ago, the Romans had to call a seam.

Right. All those games and people were watching people kill. What I'm saying are we drawn to it in a sense. Oh, for sure. For sure, there's a level of that. Yeah, and it's all about how much of that you're feeding. You're putting in as input, and you have to kind of check yourself on that

and see which you're feeding the most. Exactly, exactly. All right, another cool article is kind of a set. Back to the negative. Not your negative news, dude. Negative Nancy News. A study came out that they studied all these common over the counter drugs and they found

that American adults, 37% of American adults are taking common drugs that can increase the risk of a depression. And when you take more than one of them at a time, it increases your risk of depression by something like 15%. And some of these are like antacids, like antacids, or yeah, just over the countertype of drugs that can cause. So Matt, think about this. How many people are taking medications

over the countertype, like proton pump inhibitors, for example, right? Those have been linked to depression. Bro, I'm so thankful that it's a... What's a proton pump in here? Well, what is that? Like a... Pralisex.

Pralisex,, like heartburn stuff. Yeah, so they regulate that process. I'm so glad that I don't know what it, like I remember you bringing it up as far as like the, the scare for dementia, like it was there starting to, you know, point in that direction and I was like, no, okay, I gotta get off this stuff and like, what do I have to do? And, you know, just going through that process, I'm so glad. Now that's coming out. It's like, man, it's scary.

Cause I was doing that every single day. Yeah, so here's, so it says some hormonal birth controls have been tied to depression, heart and blood pressure medications, proton pump inhibitors, antacids, and painkillers, were among the more than 200 commonly used drugs that researchers said have depression or suicide listed as a potential effect. Now, I'm sure

for most people they take one or two of them, they're probably not going to get that, but when you spread that out over millions and 37% of Americans, right? Yeah. That's how many, you know, millions of people you're gonna start to see a rise in some of these mental disorders for sure sure, right? I'm still stuck on and tripping on what we talked about a couple of weeks ago when we watched that- The Mad Ritalin, that. The Mad Ritalin, yeah. Yes, dude.

Because being somebody who's only tried that a couple times, I think I think probably five or six times I've had Ritalin, maybe four or five times I've had Adderall in my life, right? And it's a very, very powerful, powerful thing. And the fact that we allow children to be put on that we're less than half your body weight. Right, you know.

I mean, I know how it makes me feel. And I can, I know the difference of what, you know, someone else might say is amazing or hyper focused or I needed or well, whatever you're trying to justify or what, but at the end else might say is amazing or hyper focused or I needed or whatever, you're trying to justify or whatever, but at the end of the day, it's like, that's a very powerful tool. I've taken 10 milligrams of riddle in

and I'll feel that motherfucker and I'll feel it. That's a dose that kids will get prescribed. That's crazy. More, some of them will get 20 milligrams in a day. Like double that, you know? That's insane. That's insane. And you know the sad part,

the sad part is kids can't express themselves as well as adults. So if a kid's feeling anxious or, you know, having kind of negative thoughts or whatever, how are they gonna express it well? It's hard enough as an adult to express that shit to other adults. Imagine a kid who just doesn't know what they're feeling

and mom and dad are saying, no, you gotta take your medicine. You know, it's kind of crazy. The situation we're placing ourselves in. No, and it's, it's, what's crazy to me is to think where they're all going to be in the net. It's just, we haven't seen, it's recently erupted to where it's at now. Yeah, it's like sure it's been around for a while, but not at the level that it's at now.

So we're talking about, yeah, millions. Well, we're just now connecting dots from all these habits that we've created. And it has to all kind of head to a point where it's like, oh shit, what have we been doing? We got to really reevaluate what we're doing. The two big things I can see is that we're sick, physically, so our bodies and our brains are kind of sick. There's maybe inflammation, kind of systemic inflammation, there's maybe medications that have their own,

and by the way, there's no such thing as a side effect, there's just effects. Side effect is a term that they invented to make you feel like, oh, it's not, no, that's not usually part of it. Yeah, they're all a fact. Yeah, they're all effects. But we're kind of sick, and then on top of that,

we take these medications and stuff, so physically speaking, we feel these symptoms of things like anxiety, depression, paranoia, because there is a physical feeling that you can interpret as that, right? Like if I take your brain and I reduce your serotonin and dopamine, you're gonna feel the physical feelings of what depressed feels like, where you're kind of like

down, not motivated, tired, and then you're gonna interpret that as I feel sad, you know, what's going on, to get that feedback loop. And then on top of that, you know, we're losing that kind of meaningfulness in our lives where, you know, more and more people are starting to think things are worthless, and meaning, there's no meaning behind them, and just do what I want.

And so you combine the two, and you've got like this, kind of health epidemic, that's no meaning behind them and just do what I want. And so you combine the two and you've got this kind of health epidemic that's not looking so good. And you're starting to see the ramifications of it with the amount of people on medications and the rise of chronic illnesses that we shouldn't be having. But I do think that, I do think we're more, I think it might be going in the opposite direction

here pretty soon. You think so? I think so. I'm gonna continue with the sad stories, man. I saw that video of Ronnie Coleman, man. Oh, man, speaking of, yeah, dude. That's really sad. Yeah.

Ronnie Coleman was the greatest, I was easily, I think the greatest Mr. Olympia there was by far, I don't think anybody could touch him. Just incredible, super strong, crazy looking physique. Just fucked up his body with it, man. He's so bad, I was watching a video with Adam where, like he's like walking, like he's totally crippled. Like he can't really bow.

Old is he? He's not that old, right? He's 50 maybe? Yeah, maybe, you know? But just jacked his body up because of the sport. Yeah, I mean, he had full hip replacement. Yep. Fused spine. Yeah, f of because of the sport. Yeah, I mean, it's he had he had full hip replacement. Yep. And then he used spine.

Yeah, few spine. And then just to watch him walk around and move. And then I said that the clip had talked about a doctor. It was just a real short clip that doctor saying like, how he's still lifting weights. It's probably not what's best with them, but they've just kind of like whatever. You could see him still hanging on.

Like they showed clips of him training, like kind of hard still. and I'm like, dude Oh, man, why yeah like why like what are you doing like this whole identity wrapped it? Of course I know I'm saying I know I'm like I cannot believe that all these things would happen to you And you still identify so much with that that you're it's like this stuff to watch What do you else do you need to get you to to stop well? You know when you push your body that really you know, when you push your body that, really unfortunate.

When you push your body to that limit, especially when you're lift really, really heavy, the smallest inconsistencies with your movement or the smallest, you know, deviations in your form or the smallest, you know, changes in recruitment patterns that may not be favorable become magnified. Yeah, everything is accurate. Yeah, if I have a slight problem with my form with a squat,

like a slight one, like let's say it's 2% off perfect. And I'm squatting normal weight, let's say I'm squatting 150 pounds for reps. Might not make a big difference. In fact, I may never notice that it's causing a problem, but you throw 600 pounds on my back or 700 pounds on my back. That's two percent because it's magnifier. Yeah, and you can fuck yourself up. Then on top of that, you throw on a bunch of anabolic steroids and stuff. Now you're pushing your body beyond what it can do naturally.

You know, it's no different. You're masking the signals that are warning you. Dude, something goes wrong in a car with 600 horsepower. It's usually, someone goes wrong with the engine in a car with 600 horsepower. It's usually a big fucking problem, right? Something goes wrong in your Honda Civic. You know, 150 horsepower Honda Civic.

It's not gonna explode the engine and need a full reconstruction. It's kinda like that, right? You kinda limp it into the shop. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's kinda like that, right? Totally. So, it into the shop. Yeah, yeah, it's kind of like that, right? Totally. So, I think the stronger you get and the bigger you get,

the more you need to focus on these little things because, you know, God, you just start to fuck yourself up. You get away with them when you're not that strong, but when you start to lift, like, there's that video of Coleman, it was he squatting 800 pounds. Yeah. I mean, for a bodybuilder, that's insane. Bodybuilders don't do that, you know,

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to help survive an injury. By that I mean how to not lose gains, mobility and sanity. It depends on the injury. One of the biggest things that I noticed when I'm out because I'm hurt or something I've suggested to clients in the past that have made a big difference. One thing we tend to do when we're immobile is we stay inside all day long. And so we're not getting any sunlight and we're not changing our environment.

Back in the day, a long time ago, hospitals used to do this in fact. Hospitals would take patients on their beds and they put them outside for some therapy. And people, I mean, statistically speaking, I do studies on this, people feel a lot better. So do I. When I'm sick, if I just go out on the sun,

it tells me that all the time she takes patients and makes sure, like, to get them outside, to get them sun, to get them fresh air, and man, it's therapy. Absolutely. Now, as far as losing gains and all that stuff depends on the injury, but if you have an injured body part, like your knee, for example,

let's say you hurt your knee and you can't do anything with your legs, you can still train the rest of your body. And what you'll find is, although you will lose gains in your legs because you can't work them out, there is this carryover systemic andabolic effect that you get from training the rest of your body. So in other words, you'll lose less muscle in your legs

if you train your upper body than if you just did nothing. You see what I'm saying? So training the other parts of your body is probably a good thing while you're injured rather than just doing nothing at all where the whole anabolic effect is lost and everything goes catabolic and then you start to really start to deteriorate.

Right, isn't the law of radiation? It affects like even if you're working your upper body, it's gonna affect your lower body and it's gonna be stimulated on that level. But years ago when I dislocated my knee, one of the things I would do is, because I couldn't bend it for a while, is that would just,

because I went to the physical therapist and they put stim on my quad, you know, the little pad that make the muscle flex, which will reduce some of the atrophy. Definitely does reduce most of it, but it reduces some of it. But I noticed that when she was doing that, and so then when I went home, excuse me,

when I went home, what I would do throughout the day is, you know, I couldn't bend my knee, but I would just flex my quad really hard. Like every 30 minutes or so, I'd make sure to connect that muscle and squeeze. That's got to help, right? That's got to help more than not doing anything at all. Yeah, and I would focus on this as an opportunity to work on other parts of your body and

really develop better patterns overall. It's not just like using it as an sort of using it as like an excuse to, well, I'm going to have to like just do a bunch of arm exercises, you know, and do all these things that I can do because it's not going to hurt my knee or like, you know, if it's my knee that's injured, like, I want to take that time and opportunity to now establish better neural pathways, better connectivity, ways that now I can better myself, mobility wise and establish better mechanics

and just really work on form and things like that that it's not like I'm afraid of losing gains. You're gonna lose gains you know it's like you can't have that mentality that's gonna drive you crazy just just be okay with it is this is time to recuperate and really work on something else entirely. This is a hard one for me and it's hard because I don't I don't have enough information on the person and exactly where this injury came from, what the injury is. Well, what did you do with your, when you hurt your Achilles, what were some things you did to kind of maintain your sanity? Well, this is what I can do is I can share my experience,

right? I can share what I'm going through still currently right now. This is, obviously, I'm far from over and I've definitely come to grips with that that this is not going to be a couple of months, you know, fixed and I'm gonna be back to my normal self. So first of all, when the my Achilles went, like it just popped out of nowhere, right, when I was playing basketball. And the first reaction to that is,

oh my, fuck, I'm angry, I'm mad, I'm upset, all these emotional things going, I'm in pain, feeling sorry for myself, all this stuff. And then once that all kind of dissipates, then I kind of start to look at myself and go like, okay, how was all this my fault? You know, what did I not do or how did I end up in this situation? On all different levels,

not just from a physical one, a mental one, how did I get myself in this space and start to look at all the steps that I didn't do right and start to address those. And not just literally address, like, for example, like having good ankle stability and good foot strength and connection and warming up properly and not maybe pushing myself so fast and hard. Like there's a lot of different things that I didn't do right. So I'm looking at all the things

that I didn't do right in the first place. And I'm definitely meditating on that. Like how do I not allow this type of a situation? Even if it's not the same injury, how do I not let this same type of situation happen to me somewhere else on my body? The other thing that I have also had to do is realize that this is just my body. You know what I'm saying? There's so much more of me than my muscles, my mobility, and my gains.

And that is not me. There's so much more of me., there's so much more of me, and there's so much more of me that needs fixing, and that needs work, and I look at things, and this is probably my religious background as a kid growing up that goes like, okay, what is the message in this? What are their parts of my life was I neglecting,

and I wasn't putting energy into that I kind of now have plenty of time to because like you got forced yeah, like it would and that's kind of how I look at stuff like that, you know, forget what you believe in as far as whether that was intended to happen to me or not, but it does give me this new perspective of okay, let me look at other things that I can control since I can't control that. I cannot make my Achilles better tomorrow. I can do things. I can put things into practice to help it heal faster, to make sure it doesn't happen again to me, and all those things in practice, which I would suggest that you do for whatever

your injury is, is take care of the injury, do the steps that you're supposed to do to recover the injury, and then to prevent it in the future. But as far as the sanity piece goes, well, there's a lot of different things that the way I'm looking at this one, I know I've done this a bajillion times where I've, you know, not trained really hard for while they're not back to it. Like, your body, like, you get your gains back really fast. It's... Yeah, especially if you go from...

I mean, especially if you go from hypertrophy to atrophy because of like an injury, it bounces back really fast. Yeah, really quick. It's really hard to reach new PRs and to reach like new levels of fitness in your body, but if you lose it, it's really easy to get back to where you were. That makes sense. It's a muscle memory and there's some science to support why that happens, but it's definitely widely observed.

It happens in everybody. I like to work on the mental piece which you're bringing up as far as something, you could self-reflect and use that time maybe that you were like really in the gym for like an hour or whatever, and now it's like shortened because maybe you don't need to spend as much time on that. Maybe you could use that time to really apply it

towards something else, like relationships or education or something else. So that's finding meaning. What you're doing is you're finding meaning in a tragedy, something that happened. What's the meaning that I can find in? Otherwise, it's just sucks. Otherwise, it's just terrible.

Right, and then I'm going down the rabbit hole of feeling sorry for myself and the victim role versus looking at this as a gift, as hard as and crazy as that may sound. Like this is a gift to me that I no longer have this distraction of playing basketball, snowboarding, and building a bunch of muscle because I literally physically can't do that right now.

So now I have all, something that was so quote unquote important to me, now I have all this time that I don't, I can't spend doing that, that now can get allocated to some other part of my life. Where should that be spent now? So then now I've been meditating on that, like really trying to reflect on where, what parts of my life was I potentially sacrificing

for those selfless desires to look a certain way, to jump so high, run so fast, or be so mobile, which are all, I think, okay, goals and okay to be important in your life, but dealing with an injury now, I look at it completely different. So that's how I've come to grips with where I'm at right now. And I'm kind of weird too. I tend to like go to the extreme because of that. Like I've been joking with the boys that I'm going to embrace my Brad Pitt body right

now. Right. And it's like to embrace my Brad Pitt body right now. Right. And it's like, I can fight club body. Right. Absolutely. I know, it's my Achilles, my chest, my shoulders, my biceps aren't broken. I could be building the hell out of them right now

if I wanted to. I could be hitting them good. And I could have a great upper body right now and just shitty calves. I spent most of my life with that. So that's not a big deal. You know what I'm saying? But that's just it.

To me, that's not that important. So I even have let, I've really shifted my focus on other aspects of my life so much that I'm not really aware of that. I mean, I've already proven what I can do to my body. What levels, what extreme levels that I have mobility and with physique, what I can do. So that's not important to me right now.

So, to me, that's where I'm at in my life with my injury and how I'm personally dealing with it. I can't completely speak for you because I don't know where you're at or how long you've been training with your injury. Sometimes, you know, sometimes the other silver lining on something like this is you're injured, you're forced to not be able

to work out anyway. When you are healed, you're starting from a new position and sometimes it's easier to go in a different direction because of that and go, okay, well, yeah. Now I'm just going to focus on purely on mobility, whereas before I was so afraid of losing my strength gains that I didn't want to focus purely on mobility, well now I'm in such a poor starting point anyway. Why not start from scratch but really work on mobility, so that when I move forward, I have better ranges of motion, better form, better technique. This is exactly what I did with my last kind of injury.

My last one was more nagging pain than an actual real acute injury, like I just had with the Achilles. And it came off of from all the bodybuilding, all the bodybuilding, all the excessive calories and pushing my body to get bigger. My body was rebelling. It was my elbows. I had crazy, it was just absolutely painful. Low back was starting to get bigger. My body was rebelling. It was my elbows. I had crazy golf. It was just absolutely painful.

Low back was starting to bother me. Knees. I couldn't squat all the way down, assagrass. I mean, my body was kind of, it was at its limit right there. And I was like, okay. Well, let me go the complete opposite way. So I took all that energy that I was putting into trying

to be this big buff guy all the time to being super hyper mobile. And I got all kinds of incredible benefits from it. And so now I'm trying to intertwine all of those. So yeah, maybe look at the injury as less of as a poor me and a scared thing of I'm going to lose gains. And how do I make sure I have mobility of like, let me look at other aspects of my life that I can improve on.

And the other aspects of your life doesn't necessarily have to be outside of health and fitness. You absolutely can still be in health and fitness and you can improve upon other things. So I think that's how I would handle it. Next up is K Cody RN is the best philosophy to bulk then cut. I okay. So yes, in a sense, but we don't I'm not a big believer in these long massive bulks Well, but when I tend to start people off who want to get leaner I tend to Try to get their metabolism to speed up a little bit So I typically will get them to focus on resistance training and I'll bump their calories up a little little by little

Because then it gives me more room to cut Now the opposite you know it depends on the individual like if you Like if you're coming, and that's just because most people, right? If you're already overweight, I don't think it's a good idea. Well, no, not necessarily. Yeah, it depends. It depends more on where Sal's going. Yeah, like if you come to me and you're a bodybuilder guy and you're stuffing your face all the time and you're already eating 3,000, 4,000 calories and you're trying to gain weight, right? I'm cutting you first. Then I'm going to cut you, but it's just most people

and I like that. Sometimes you get overweight people who come to you. I think you could actually make this very simple and easy for people to be able to get this. And you just gotta understand where your body is, the amount of activity that you're doing, and do you fall in the normal range of caloric intake for that? So do you have a really healthy metabolism?

Is your metabolism really working for you? You need to first figure that out. And then this answer becomes a lot easier. So if you're somebody and I give you a comparison of, and I, and I built my poor girl Jessica, I keep picking on her all the time. But this is such great analogies for things like this. She is, you know, at a hundred and she's going to hate me for using her weight right now too, I feel so bad. She's at 168 pounds right now, which is the heaviest that she's ever been. And she's only eating 16 to 1800 calories. Then you have somebody like Melissa, and both these girls, by the way, have competed.

We consider themself competitors, athletes, really good shape, both train hard, everything, good mechanics. All these great things working for them and Melissa is about a hundred and I think she's around 115 or so I don't know where her last weight check in is and she's getting ready for her show and she's eating 2,000 calories and she's in a cut to get on stage and she's only like a 118 pounds and she's eating more than the southern girl now that those are complete to completely different metabolism's, and I would handle them completely different on my advice based off of that.

So you first need to figure out, based off of your weight, your height, your activity level, you know, how much you're training, are you in a healthy, normal range, the way you're consuming, or are you way above, are you in a healthy, normal range the way you're consuming, or are you way above or are you way below that, and that would decide how I would take this person, start this person off. Now, on the flip side, if you're a guy that's like pounding calories all the time, and so

this is me. Yeah. So me, one of the greatest pieces of advice ever given to myself was To cut for the first time of my life for 15 years of my life I've been trying to push more calories down my face Never wanting to lean down because I never wanted to be skinny. I've always wanted to be a bigger guy But the first time that I really cut and cut hard it was like Mind blown especially when you went back to Yes, more because then when I went back to eating more

Your body's assimilated. Oh, yeah, my body started to put game thing happened to me Same thing before same exact thing happened to me. I'd never got I'd never gotten my body super super shredded And when I finally did and commit to it when I went back to eating a normal amount Muscle just came on my body. It's literally the opposite of what you try to do with someone with the slow metabolism. It's like I'm taking someone with a slow metabolism and I'm trying to ramp it up, so it makes it easier to burn fat. But then when you take someone with a really high metabolism

because they're constantly feeding themselves and lifting weights or whatever, I got to make it a little bit more efficient so that you don't have to feed yourself 6,000 calories just to gain weight. And this is actually... It's a reverse reverse diet. I like this topic because it's actually... It's a reverse reverse diet.

I like this topic because it's actually the opposite of what most people do. And this is, you know, one of the... This is extending the conversation that I was having with Jessica about this was, you know, most people that are always trying to lose weight do this. They're on and off the wagon. That's normal. We all agree and know that, right? That people very rarely...

You wouldn't have a problem. You wouldn't be not in shape if you were very, very consistent year in, year out. So what most people do is they fall off their training regimen and they always fall off their diet also. And so anytime they've ever started exercise, they're in a cut because they always want to lose body fat, right?

They're always overweight. They're never where they want to be at their goal. They've never seen that lean body that they've always wanted or thought. So every time they decide it's time to get back in the gym, they also clean up their diet and start eating less calories. That's of course what initially gives them that first week or two of seeing change in results like no shit. If you all said move way more and you start lifting weights and eating less calories,

you're going to lose body fat, but you have no idea what a bad swing on your metabolism you're about to do right now. In fact, you'd be far better off slowly, okay, introducing the exercise and or maintaining the calories to extreme. A death or potentially increasing them, which is like what's sourcing, and that's one of the things that I'm having a hard time because Jessica came to me and she goes,

because she wants to lose weight, right, man. She's like, Adam, I'm in the heaviest of ever been in my life. She's like, I've never been here before. You know, I need to get down. What I do, and I'm like, okay, what I want you to do is we're gonna increase your calories. And she's like, are you kidding me? Like, no way.

That's the opposite of what I thought I was supposed to do. And I'm like, I just, I need you to trust me that this is what, and so now mind you, I've known her for a very long time. And, you know, she knows what she's kind of done. And so she absolutely is. And, and we're now months into this conversation. And so she's seen her body put in muscle.

But we have not lost any weight. So she's been, she's on week seven of listening to me the way we're doing this right now. Get her metabolism. And we're slowly, right? And what are how much of an increase over seven weeks that she's seeing in Cal?

So right now, she's up to 21 to 2200 calories, where she got, I got her between 16 and 1800. Oh wow. So she's at 21 to 22. That's crazy because that's a big jump. In a seven week period, right? Well, there's also tricks that I do to kind of mitigate some of

that right? So I also slowly increase neat. So I don't want to push your body hard with cardio, I don't want to do anything like that, but I want to create a little more activity in your life to make up for a little bit of the extra calories that we're doing because I really want to push your calories up a lot higher before we come back the other way down. So I'm and I'm also slowly increasing her intensity week or week. So she comes in in sees me once a week and we work out together and I've told her I said listen Let me be the pace car of your intensity any so your hardest workouts always gonna be with me I'm gonna give you a hard workout. Don't ever exceed don't try and top me with the type the way you feel from this Workout I want you to mimic that for the week between we see each other. And then the next week I add a little more volume.

So I'm teaching her to not, you know, be competitive. She's the appropriate amount of it. She's a very high, high competitive athlete. So I know, I know. She's type A. Yeah. She's type A and a high competitive athlete. So you get a high competitive athlete and type A personality.

They don't lack motivation, you know what I'm saying? They want to overdo it. They want to overdo it. They want to overdo it. So the conversation is definitely unique to put the reins on them. Yeah, and you know, here's another thing too when it comes to bulking and cutting. If your ultimate goal is to lose body fat, you do what we're talking about. But then also intermittently, cut and bulk, bulk, or rather do these mini cuts and mini bulk.

So rather than doing a 12 week period of just cutting do like two or three week periods of cutting and interrupt them with four to five days or a week of maintenance or slight bulk and that'll help mitigate that metabolic adaptation where your metabolism slows down so much to where now you're in a thousand calories It just to maintain your body, that's a terrible position to be in. Next up is Mahin R6 does working out, including bulking and cutting,

affect your sex drive positively or negatively. Good question. Good health affects your sex drive positively. Bad health affects it negatively. Okay, so that being said, both of them can harm it. Both of them can help it. That's right.

And they've got hormones. I mean, it's all, yeah, you're gonna see that, you know, if you're not working out, like it's definitely gonna affect, you know, like your sex life. I mean, that's just, this is a great transition from that question because this is exactly like that. Yeah. Yeah. Every time I've, especially when I train older people, one of my favorite things about training older people

is they tend to be very blunt. And in every single time, like two or three months into our training, they'd come up to me, they'd be like, so I'm noticing that I'm feeling different from my workouts. I'm like, oh, really Carol, what do you mean? Oh, I'm a little bit more like energized. I'm like, oh yeah, more energy, that makes sense.

No, no, no, no, no. Like a more vibrant, and I'll be like, more vice. And I'll say, is your libido higher? And I'll be like, yeah, yeah, yeah, and I'll be like, yeah, that's totally normal. Or, I'm like, ripped up. Like, this other client that I had actually came up to me and told me, is it normal to be hornear now

that I'm lifting weights? I'm like, yeah, that's totally normal. 75 year old woman. But if you look, if you bulk so much that you have too many calories in your health as poor, your sex drives gonna drop. If you cut too much, where your calories are too low, and you're not getting enough calories in your body,

you're gonna feel crappy because your health as poor, your sex is also, your sex drives also gonna drop. You're gonna have too much stress. Yeah, it's gonna affect your sex drive. Remember, sex drive is, it exists to drive. You're sexually and also going to go. You're sexually and also going to go. You're sexually and also going to go. You're sexually and also going to go. You're sexually and also going to go. You're sexually and also going to go. You're sexually and also going to go.

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because if you do that could mean death for you and your child. So we're gonna stop your ability. Do you personally notice more and one than the other? Cause I have this like, so, and this is something that I've actually noticed a lot because of the extreme cuts and bulks of competing. I've been able to kind of really pay attention to this and I've done it so many times now

that I've been able to kind of measure. Like, okay, wow, every time I get to this point, my sex drive gets fucked, right? So when I am, when I start really, really, aggressively bulking to where my body fat percentage creeps up over 15%, I start to feel this kind of dip in my sex drive for sure. It's not huge, but I notice a difference.

And then when I cut really hard, I notice once I get like sub six percent, I notice the same thing. In fact, like Katrina and I, the she used to hate like the last week or two of training because like we're not having sex drive. What's the way ever before I get on stage? So to me, the bulking and cutting thing,

if you can stay in a very healthy range of body fat percentage, I think there's great benefits to both of it positively. So, you know, for a male, so I would think somewhere in between the nine to 13% body fat range, whether you're cutting or bulking, it will should keep that sex drive feeling really good. Exceeding that up or down, I think, could have a negative effect.

So I'll tell you what though, if you were to look at all forms of exercise, all forms of exercise, done properly, of course, is you do any form of exercise improperly and have negative effects. But done properly, no form of exercise comes close, not even in the same universe as resistance training for increasing or improving your libido.

Because it's lifting heavy weights. It affects your hormones positively in a very anabolic way, men and women. Women the same thing. And then of course, there's a psychological component, right? When your body's shaping and feeling more firm or stronger, more muscular, of course, you feel sexier or whatever. So when I cut, sometimes my sex drive goes up,

but I think it's part of it is because I feel more attractive, maybe, because I feel leaner and I kind of look better. That might be a part of it, but from a physiological standpoint, weight training will affect your sex drive far more, far more effectively than anything else. In fact, when I coach female clients, I'll ask them many times like, okay, pay attention to your libido,

you don't need to necessarily report it to me, but if your libido starts to increase, that's probably a good sign that your metabolism is boosting and we're building some muscle and getting stronger. Not always, but probably. So definitely has a positive effect on your sex drive. And this may be why gyms are such horny places. Yeah, it's a meat market in there.

Every time I go to one to five reps, it's just like this immediate surge. I agree. Morning, boners. Oh, dude. It's just like this immediate surge. I agree. Morning boners, I'll do. I didn't notice this until just recent with the whole going off of testosterone, you know, when, and I remember sharing this with Sal,

I was like, dude, you know, it's crazy if all the cool things that I've done, you know, to increase my hormone levels, nothing have I felt like just being consistent with like heavy squatting or deadlifting? Mm-hmm. Like when that's in my routine and I didn't notice until I stopped it again Like I was doing it really good because I was doing everything to try and like boost it and I was starting to slowly Feel better. I was like, oh cool. And then I get you know

We had a busy week or two and so I kind of fell off my weightlifting and I was like, oh shit You know what my libido has definitely been down this we got to even think about that till now And I'm like, ah whatever, you know, maybe it's just, or maybe it's stress, maybe we're flying, maybe whatever, I'm thinking of all these other excuses. And then I'll say now I'd go train a real heavy leg day or something, and then I'd like, it's literally, dude, that night,

like libido back up again, and I feel great like the next day. It's so funny, like, there's two things for me. So like, yeah, like lifting heavy, like heavy weight, not one to five rep range But also like my so my sex drive goes up But then also like my listening to heavy metal increases like Like I want a listen to like really angry music

It's just like they both like it's intertwined go ahead and have you ever had sex to that kind of music? No Either one of you guys music listeners, why are you guys are getting down? No, but I have tried the whole brain and an action. The what? That was championed. Which one? Brain FM like focus?

I know I did the same thing and it just, I distracted you a lot. No, I couldn't, it was weird I couldn't finish. I couldn't finish. Which is, you know, I mean, I guess I switched it over there. I guess that's a very wide at the end. I guess some people might think that I just picture you making love different

and weird too though. So it doesn't work. I'm saying, how do you, how do you, I just add them when you picture me making love. I don't, I'm just, I'm just, I don't picture you at all. I picture,

I picture lots of lights and tools and stuffed animals and costumes. Like I picture that like Tools, yeah, right. So I feel like that maybe is a strange helicopter positions, you know, stuff like that. No, I feel like just and I like make love. It's like dancing for us. We're more like we dance and dance to the hero.

I do it all, bro. No, you're like more like a laboratory. That's why I feel like you go in there and there's like goggles get put on and like check out this new device. Yeah, rubber gloves come out like, oh, no, it's's all it's all it's all emotion and soul and connection brother viscene You know over the floor god make sure you know this and the thing about resistance training

That's interesting that I want to mention is it does increase Anabolic hormone levels, but it also increases the receptor density that those hormones attach to so If you're a guy and you're lifting weights, and you just start lifting weights, even though your testosterone levels may not go up, so let's say you test them and they don't go up, the receptors that that testosterone attaches to actually up-regulate.

So you actually start to utilize more of that testosterone in a more effective way, and so you feel like you have higher testosterone because you've up-regulated those receptors. So it's actually two-fold or two ways that resistance training may improve that effect from your hormones. Next question is from teaching train.

What is your opinion on teachers or people in professional positions competing? Do you think it's inappropriate to have staged pictures online? Or do you think it's an outlet to show others how strong you can be and that you're more than just a teacher? Some people may think it's inappropriate to show off your body when you teach kids. Well, this is a funny question. Yeah, it's a fun question. I think it depends on the picture, right? Like, you don't want to necessarily tasteful ways to do it.

Well, there's that one pose in beginning. Which I think is so stupid. Bekeni's tough. What's that butt pose? They do in bikini with you. I don't know how to stretch out. You got to stretch out. So I look this way, because this is my opinion.

Here's, it doesn't really depend on anything. It's really, there's a cause and effect to everything that we do. And if you're a teacher and you put the Keeney pictures up on your Instagram, it could have a positive effect on some people's lives. It may motivate a couple of people to go to the gym and might do some, I mean, if I was a student,

I'd be stoked. Might get you a couple of dates. Yeah, might get some teacher, might get some kids in class more engaged in what you're talking about up there. There's a lot of cis jobs. But then you also might piss off some moms that are extremely conservative

and that are concerned with that. Or you might make somebody really jealous who has to work with you all the time. So no matter how you look at this, I mean, even ourselves, right? Us putting our stuff out there, everything that we post out there, there is a cause and effect of that.

And you have to take that into consideration and be okay with both sides of that. Now what's your personal opinion? Let's say you were a teacher. Would you post pictures of yourself? Let me tell you this. I'll tell you, here's why this is hard for us or hard for me to answer it like that because I got to be honest. I don't even know if I'd be an Instagram person if I, if we didn't have this current. That's a good point. Because I don't think I would be. be an Instagram person if I if we didn't have this current. That's a true good point Cuz I don't think it's not that important to me Now I'm not knocking people that it is and that they really enjoy and everything like that But I trust me. I see all the bad in it for sure like I mean the I've

The the posting that I do on social media right now like the way I kind of look at it for me It's like okay, this will be cool because it'll be an album maybe one day that I can kind of look at it for me, it's like, okay, this will be cool because it'll be an album maybe one day that I can kind of look back. I'm like, oh, I remember all the like memory lane for me and maybe my kids can see it later on. But then again, you think about that, right? Your kids and you can see it later on and if you post something up there,

like that stuff will it start? And can you make your account private anyway? You know what I mean? If you're a teacher and you're worried about this, can you just make a private? You can, but what's the point of posting pictures of yourself? Just show your friends and family. You're right, it sounds like somebody

who just wants other people. Look at them. I mean, that's kind of what it sounds like. And you know what, there's a little bit of, it's not equal necessarily. Like if a man is flexing on his Instagram and showing everybody, probably not gonna be interpreted the same as if it's a woman

and her bikini doing some of her poses. And some of the poses that they do too, like the bikini poses, like the butt pose, that's not even a muscle pose, that's just literally turning around, bending over and showing my butt, which 15 years ago used to be considered porn basically. But now it's a pose in an event that you're doing

to show off your glute ham tie-in or whatever. Hey listen, I think to each surround, we're all definitely people that agree that everybody should have the right to just, I think that's all you have to think of of what's to cause. In fact, I'm not gonna sit there and worry about somebody else and what they're doing with their lives and like, whether that, I'm not gonna sit there and judge that.

Like, because there's, I can see all the positives too. You're not going to, but the parents are gonna judge it. 100%. Right. And you as a teacher should think about that. Yeah. And you should just, what you're putting out will get evaluated. Right.

So, this is have to know that. And so, if you're comfortable with that, and you're comfortable having parent teach your conferences, where you're sitting and you're trying to be super professional, and yet they know all that on your Instagram, and they go through that. They're going to go through it. Right. And that could be a very negative. Now, you could flip this, right? and that could be a very negative thing. Now, you could flip this, right?

And there could be a very positive thing. So I know something that I experienced when I was posting all of my pictures up there and starting to build my Instagram was because I am competitive with myself, because I'm a man of my word, I like to think that I have a lot of integrity. If I speak something, if I say I'm gonna do something,

I follow it. And I never felt the accountability, like I felt the accountability when I posted something in the public. It's, if I say something to Katrina, that I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna fucking do it. That's because who I am. If I say something to thousands of or hundreds of people

potentially ever bigger your Instagram is, that I'm gonna do something, I never felt the pressure to do it more than that, which ended up serving me because I was trying to accomplish something. And so for me, if there's some people like, for example, Taylor, who unfollowed me and didn't follow him anymore because he couldn't handle the selfie pics, you know what I'm saying? Like, if that means I lose... He's handsome for. If I lose a friend of mine, that's no longer gonna follow me because I'm putting that stuff out. I was willing to sacrifice that for the way it served me.

So you've got to ask yourself that how is it serving you and is it worth what you potentially could be sacrificing for that and that's going to be different for every single person that makes this decision. I think certain jobs, look, if you're a police officer, there's certain things you probably shouldn't say on social media. If you're a teacher, there's probably certain things

you shouldn't say or do. Like I cuss all the time on social media, but if I were a teacher for kids, I don't think it's that you should or you shouldn't say. I think it's you just need to be aware. I've, here's what I'm saying. Here's what I'm saying. From my opinion, if I'm a teacher,

I am gonna do different things on social media knowing that it may impact my career and may impact my job. You do whatever the fuck you want. This is my own personal opinion, but. Right. You could get fired. You could look at this, if you're a police officer

and you wanna talk about race relations, probably not a good idea to post about that on your social media because you're a police officer and you want to talk about race relations, probably not a good idea to post about that on your social media because you're a cop. You know what I'm saying? And people are going to interpret it in a particular way. You have an opinion and I get that and you're free to have an opinion but you're not free from the consequences of your opinion. That's the thing. That's it right there.

So you just got to be okay with that. That's right. Because even a cop could do that but boy, you might have a lot of rough days at work. You know what I'm saying? But maybe that's so liberating for you that it feels so good, or you want to do that so bad, that it's worth that. Maybe it's worth that for you.

Maybe this teacher feels liberated by posting pictures of herself on Instagram, or maybe it keeps her accountable to staying in shape, and that's more worth than her job. Maybe she's like, I care more about that that I could potentially lose my job. I could always find another job. She would nasty sabotage, yes.

She sabotage in her career. She wouldn't even ask this question then, she would just do it. I think this is a case of... Well, is this, oh okay, teaching transness. Yeah, I think this is a case of wanting your cake and eating it too. But I like to be a teacher, but I know it looks bad,

but I want to do this also. Well, pick one. If you know what you think's gonna happen or whatever and you're pretty confident of it, pick one. Which one's more important? Well, I would also dive deeper into, you say, show others how strong you can be. There's ways you could do that.

Well, yeah, you know, where I'm going with this is, I would ask myself, why do I care about showing other people how strong I am? Ask yourself that. It's usually self-serving. Right, right. So just think about that. There's things for you to kind of ask yourself.

And I mean, there is always going to be a cause and effect and to each their own. But if I can totally go through that whole process by yourself, you don't need that confirmation from everybody. There's also, and there's also too, I think, levels, there's a spectrum here, right? There's like, you were mentioning the aft shots. Can you show a good shot of you in a bikini?

And, and presenting it, and then presenting like, dude, this is like, this is how I tire that I try to be my classie for. What I try to do when I was posting like, dude, this is like, this is how I tire that would be my class. What I tried to do when I was posting my shirtless, shameless selfies that I was posting, I tried to use that as a way to teach and show people things like watch what I'm doing with my physique and I would underneath you, I would list my water and take.

My carbohydrates, I would list everything. I was trying to show people like how you can manipulate the body and the things that I was doing their size. So there's ways for you to do it, I would list everything. I was trying to show people like how you can manipulate the body and the things that I was doing there size. So there's ways for you to do it, I think, that it can be tasteful and it doesn't have to be. You just gotta take a consideration that you, absolutely could have been so. If I was a, if I was a teacher,

and I wanted to, especially female teacher, because again, I think the guys get away with this more than the women would, but if I was a female teacher and I wanted to show the hard work I've done and show the strength, you could show videos of you lifting heavy weights, you could show your bicep flexing, you could show you doing exercises where people could see your delts, you could show one just from a normal front shot bikini on stage. Like, there's a lot of things you can do that aren't going to be, but you know, show the

ass shot or the real sexy stuff for the, you know, you lot of things you can do that aren't gonna be, but show the ass shot or the real sexy stuff for the, you know how you post pictures, you can definitely make them look one way or the other. And I'm pretty sure parents, and again, this is my opinion, but I think parents will be supportive if they saw that you're in the gym lifting weights, and that's what you post, you know what I mean?

They'll be like, oh that's awesome. Yeah, I think they're very easily, you can post stuff like what we're talking about and parents be like very receptive to it, right? Versus the other way around. So there's that final line and only you know what that final line is, right? If you kept that in mind as you're posting it

and like the angles and you know, it all matters at that point. Yeah, here's another good example. It'd be like, you know, people post pictures of themselves partying, you know, like drinking and getting smashed. Probably not a good idea if you're a teacher. You probably don't want to post pictures like,

well, even if you're trying to get hired, it's like now, like, you know, employers can go through all that stuff and they get a certain perception of you. So it's just, you just got to know that whatever you put out there is available. That's it. I think we're looking at her page right now and I think for the most part,

it's anything there. Yeah, no no I think it's pretty tasteful. I think I think you're probably a good-looking fit Teacher that I'm sure there's some moms that hate on you for that. Welcome to life, right? There's nothing there that scandals Yeah, you know saying like I think for the most part all of her pictures are pretty damn tasteful and just fine But no matter what even if they are there's people are going to when you're in a profession like this like where you're a teacher Maybe scrutinize the Yeah, oh yeah, you're gonna get I mean we get scrutinized by time because we're in the health and oh my god If they let me put it this way if the attractive people just get like scrutinized if the average person was eating like walking on the street and eating like a Cupcake right nobody would give a shit. But if you're a fitness person

and you get seen on the street and eat cupcake, you're gonna be scrutinized a little bit differently. Oh, similar, right? Big time, exactly like that. Just to the point where I mean, we think about that sometimes. Like I wouldn't, it's so weird. I've caught myself before because we've always got

somebody with a camera kind of following us around these days, right? So there's been times where I might have had a monster drink, right? And I'm like, I, I consciously move it out of the picture. And I, and I think to myself, I'm like, that's really shitty that I have to do that. But I have to do that because then also, and I know that I'm like defender. So right, then I'm going to have to defend myself and explain like, yeah, you know, I do, but I openly talk that I do do that.

Just like you openly talk about being a bikini competitor, but the fact that I put it out there on social media, now I have to explain, and I don't have the fucking energy explaining myself. So that's the other thing you gotta ask yourself too, is like if you're finding yourself defending yourself a lot, is it worth it? If you're is it worth it to put a picture up

that you're even if you're proud of it and you wanna show your friends or what, if you're taking on more bullshit than you are, that that point of a fuck these people, I don't even wanna deal with them. I'm blocked with it. You get rid of them and unfriend them then you know what I'm saying if they're proud of it and you wanna show your friends or like that, if you're taking on more bullshit than you are, at that point I'm a fuck these people. I don't even wanna deal with them. I'm blocked. Get rid of them and unfriend them then, you know what I'm saying? I'm saying that.

I just recently did that by the way. I just recently went through my Facebook, my private Facebook, and like deleted like 100 people. That feels so good. You know what I love doing? You know what I did that though? Because my public personas or whatever are growing. And I really only on my Facebook,

I only want close friends and family. I don't need all these acquaintances on there. Like for Instagram. Yeah, that's for Instagram and stuff like that. They can get ahold of me. And it's like, I got pictures of my kids on there because my private Facebook. So I just went through and deleted about 100.

Ah, it felt so good. I'm gonna go through and delete another hundred. I'm gonna and delete another hundred. I want to limit it to like 50. He just crushed howl of people. Yeah. Oh, what did I do to sell? No, you know, it's funny. I'm crazy. You know, it's funny. I actually did a post first and I said, Hey, listen, I got to go through here, delete some people because, you know, my public persona is growing. Please don't take a purse. I explain myself all of a sudden. And then the next day when I did it, people were commenting with, I'm so glad I made the cut. Oh, God.

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