Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 876: How to Start Lifting Heavy, Techniques to Delay the Pump, Breast Implant Illness & MORE

Episode Date: October 10, 2018

Organifi Quah! iTunes + Facebook Review Winners! In this episode of Quah, sponsored by Organifi (organifi.com/mindpump, code "mindpump" for 20% off), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about tips on postponing the pump, the benefit of warming up in longer ranges of motion, advice for females trying to shift to lifting heavy weights and if they think breast implant illness is real or BS. What’s the secret to the guys keeping their immune systems healthy? (5:08) #FairyFacedHunk (9:42) It’s a family affair…Sal and Justin share their excitement over training their kids. (10:52) Do the guys decorate for Halloween? Whose kid has the sick sense of humor? (13:50) The most epic UFC fight card ever??!! The guys recap Khabib vs. McGregor. (16:45) Crushing their competition. Amazon will pay $15 minimum wage for all US employees. (28:49) #Quah question #1 – Do you have any tips on postponing the pump? (34:14) #Quah question #2 – Do you think there is benefit of warming up in longer ranges of motion? (43:09) #Quah question #3 – What would your advice be for females trying to shift to lifting heavy weights? (50:29) #Quah question #4 – Do you think the breast implant illness is real or BS? (57:06) People Mentioned: Derrick Lewis (@thebeastufc)  Instagram Khabib Nurmagomedov (@khabib_nurmagomedov)  Instagram Conor McGregor Official (@thenotoriousmma)  Instagram Tony Ferguson (@tonyfergusonxt)  Instagram Dana White (@danawhite)  Instagram Joe Rogan (@joerogan)  Instagram Mike Tyson (@MikeTyson)  Twitter Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos)  Twitter Ben Greenfield (@bengreenfieldfitness)  Instagram Links/Products Mentioned: Organifi **Code “mindpump” for 20% off** October Promotion: MAPS Aesthetic 50% off!! Code “BLACK50” at checkout MAPS Fitness Products Leave a 5 Star Review and WIN a FREE Mind Pump T-Shirt!! Visit the Mind Pump Facebook Page Refuge Sunlighten Sauna **Mention “mindpump” for free shipping** Mind Pump Ep. Episode 875: Stephen Cabral Amazon will pay $15 minimum wage for all US employees Amazon hourly workers lose monthly bonuses, stock awards Fat Gripz Official MAPS PRIME - Mind Pump

If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. M think anybody have done it. Inside this episode, you did that last one right? I like that one. So we start off this podcast with a 30 minute intro. We talk about Organifies Green Juice and Hong Cold Therapy and the immune system. Adam isn't getting sick as often as he used to. So he helps you these days. And he thinks it's due to those two things and a little magic. Or the lack of all the muscle I have in my body.

I think that was just too expensive to get too much muscle. I had too much muscle before now this whole... You've been downsizing. The Bradley Cooper look that I'm going for is just way more advantageous for staying healthy. And then we talk about atoms eyelashes. They are... They're very nice.

Yeah, you get the giraffe eyes. You know, inviting. When I put some sunglasses that I put on, it drives me crazy because I have to clean them on a really basis because they tickle your sunglasses. Now does your cheeks also touch the lenses? It's like this is the front. It's like this is the front.

It's like this is the front. Then we talk about getting the kids. You're skinny face. Into working out Halloween decorations. We tell about the UFC. This last UFC crazy stuff that happened. Wow, wow, wow. Electric nitophytes. Insane.

And then we talk about Bezzo, the dude who's running Amazon, raising everybody's minimum wage there. What is his strategy? We know what you're doing, sir. You know exactly what he's doing. By the way, we are sponsored by Organifi. We did mention them. If you go to organify.com forward slash mind pump

and use the mind pump code, just mind pump. Yeah, it's easy. You'll get 20% off. Then we get to the questions. The first question was, do you have any tips on reducing the pump? That's right, you heard me right. This person doesn't want a reducing.

They don't want a pump because the rock climbers, and when you get a pump in your forearms, you fall to your death. That's not good. So what can this person do? The next question was, are there any benefits to warming up in longer ranges of motion than the ones you train in?

In other words, if I'm trying to warm up my deadlift, should I do a deadlift with a two inch deficit and then go into my regular deadlift? We'll do that. We'll do that. We'll do that. We'll do that. We'll do that.

You're doing it. Thank you, Justin. You just gave it away. Boom. Next question was, what kind of advice do we have for people who are trying to shift to lifting heavy weights? It can be dangerous. If they don't have a spotter, what advice do we have for them?

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And the name I just read to iTunes at MindPumpMedia.com and send your shirt size, your shipping address, and we'll get that right out to you thank you you congratulations so Katrina had what's like a stomach virus i don't know what she had she said she thinks she had the flu but she's still not she's still not a hundred percent today i mean she's working today but she's not a hundred percent you haven't got anything no i've been good lately it's twice she's been sick around me that I've been good.

I really have tried to unpack, like, okay, what is it? What's the secret? Yeah, what am I doing so well? Yeah, you're veggies or what? Now, you know, I mean, since we've all been together, there's definitely lots of little things that, you know, I do that I didn't do in the past that I'm sure contribute to it.

I mean, we've talked before about the hot cold contrast. Like that was never like a regular thing in my life. Like I don't ever now go, I mean, and I'll be honest, like I'm not consistent. I'd like to say that every single morning I'm good about taking a freezing cold shower. I'm not, but I definitely do it way more frequently than I ever did in my life before.

You know, I would go up to refuge all the time and do punge with that. Never have I been somebody who consistently did like a multivitamin or like a green juice type of thing like we do now with organophile. Like that's become a very regular thing where I take that in. So you know, the infrared sauna is something I use. So there's a lot of these little tools that I use on a regular basis that I wonder if that's if it's if it has some some support benefits to, you know, my immune system when it comes to being around people that are sick because in the past, I don't, dude, I feel like a

whoo. I would, someone would be like, sneeze and I'd be like, fuck, I'll be sick in three days. That's just how I've always been, but to be able to take care of Katrina, be all around her and stuff and to not get sick, this is the second or third time just in like the last year and a half or so or I've been good. I'm actually going to order, I'm going to see about getting myself a sauna for the house. Just a small two person. The one man one. Oh it's like a two person.

Yeah, I wasn't going to do it and now I'm not going to do a little tent one. I'm going to get the actual like a yeah, I'm going to, I'm going to, we'll talk to the, to the sunlight and people. But you know, after talking to Dr. Cabral, what were those, the studies that he was quoting, like it was at a 49% reduction in all cause mortality. Yeah. For 19 minutes a day of sauna. Pretty significant.

Yeah, and then the other point that he made that I thought was really good was how, you know, when you get into heat, and this is why you feel so blah and relaxed, and why you, if you've ever done stretches in a hot room and you know, you've got such a great, arranger motion. Oh yeah, it's easy. It, it, it, it, it, it presses the central nervous system. It brings it down into this parasympathetic state. And, and you know what, he said it's a great tool to balance out the sympathetic state,

which, you know, I mean, everybody's always in the sympathetic. It made so much sense what he said about, you know, the cold, cold plunge therapy, too, because I know, like, that's the main benefit I'll get from that is that alert of, you know, that sympathetic, like, drive that you get right after doing it, which is great. But you have to use it that way in terms of like, it's benefits. And so like in the morning or something like that,

if I'm gonna do that long, you know, that with coffee, but yeah, like to go to use heat, you know, like I've been looking into that as well, like where I can do that after work. Oh, yeah, no, I'm gonna get one and I'm gonna do it every day. I'm gonna do 20 minutes every single day. If I have it in my house, I know I'll do it.

And, you know, I don't track things, I write things down, but I know myself pretty well. So I'll let you guys know what effect, because I've never done a sauna that consistent, you know, like every day for, for, yeah, I've been using art, since I probably have used art as more than anybody, I'm pretty sure. Like, yeah, I'm pretty consistent about using it,

almost every time I train here. So how often, like, how many days a week would you say? Well, shit. I mean, if I were to say average, I would say three, but I mean, there's times where I'm hitting it every day. It's pretty good. Yeah, no, I hit it on a regular basis.

And what do you notice from the frequency of, or the consistency? Well, see, it's so hard, you know, like to, like to say, like, I don't know if it's, if the benefits that I'm getting are directly from that or all the? Well, see, it's so hard, you know, like to, like to what I'm saying, like I don't know if it's, if the benefits that I'm getting are directly from that or all the other things, I haven't teased out one thing to say, okay, this son is doing this for me.

Oh, the green juice from Organifi is doing this for me. Like, it's hard to say what is making me feel that much better, but the things that I notice with the infrared, because the infrared son, I definitely noticed my, my psoriasis, and I do notice that I notice with the infrared because the infrared sauna, I definitely notice my psoriasis, and I do notice that I'm not as sore, like my recovery is a little bit better.

So those two things that I feel like I can tease that out and be like, okay, when I'm not being consistent with the sauna, I do notice the psoriasis, and I do tend to be more sore, quote unquote. Has anybody ever told you look like you wear eyeliner sometimes? Really? That's because I do sometimes. Oh, do you really? No, you get the dark, bro, that sore. Interesting. Has anybody ever told you you look like you wear eyeliner sometimes? Really?

Yeah. That's because I do sometimes. Oh, do you really? No. You get the dark, bro, that's a thing. That's a desirable thing. And it shows the long eyelashes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I was just, I was, I was real close to being a chick. Where are you? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Yeah, I was real close. Ferry face hunk. I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was staring at you earlier. God was like

Girl guy boy girl boy girl boy boy boy boy. It's a real close stuff right before What am I doing? No girls when I was younger used to They I felt like I was being teased obviously it was a compliment But when you're when you're a boy young boy growing up you don't want to be complimented on your eyelashes and things like that Just not me too because you don't know you think you're being teased but in reality the girls are saying no no no they're complimenting absolutely right You know that's I mean that this is insecure boy me when I'm younger you know talking to you right now when I said that looking back Now that's like that was a good all you want to hear from girls when you're a young boy is how strong and tough you are. You're so big.

You're so tough. Oh, thanks. I appreciate it. My son's got, my son's got draft eyelashes. He's got these super long draft eyelashes. You ever seen a draft style eyelashes? I don't, I'm never actually, I don't. That's true.

Like that. He's got, he's such a long, it's funny. I was training him this weekend. I love, I love the fact that I can train my kid and that he's kind of into it. He's kind of getting into it. This last workout we did yesterday is the first workout where he's making this face when he's lifting. Before when he's working out, you can tell, when you first start working out, I don't

know if you guys remember this when you were kids, but I can distinctly remember as a 14 year old kid, lifting weights, in the beginning, you have such little control and strength that it's even hard to harness and generate force in a direction. You know what I mean? So it feels kind of, you remember when you get shaky?

Trying to stabilize. I remember when you put on sure about it. I've talked about this on the show before. When I first, the first lifting, we started in my buddies garage, and to do the bar, to bench press the bar, I used to have to have one of my buddies spotting the bar to assist me, and then the other buddies

pinning my shoulders down so they didn't roll forward. Oh wow. And so that was literally how I bench press. Two guys, one guy. And you were like 19, right? Younger than that, I was, well, no, I was in high school, so I was 17. 17, yeah.

But you know that feeling where it almost feels like your muscles are laughing, where it's like, yeah, that's what it was like, but this last workout we just, so this has to be now the, we've probably done a grand total of, I don't know, 15 or 16 workouts, not a ton, but this is the first one where I can see him like make this face where he's kind of gritting his teeth and he's like, oh, and he's like like pushing. Yeah. And so I'm walking him through the form on the bench press. Drive your feet in the floor and stick your chest out and go all the way down. And so then he's doing it. And then, you know, the first time he did it, I had him use the the women's bars.

Was that 35 pounds, but he was all over the place, right? Mm-hmm. Now he's like really good. And now he could do five good clean reps with the 45 pound bar. So he did three sets. Nice. So I call Jessica out, I text her, I'm like, hey, come out to the garage real quick.

I want you to see this. As soon as he sees Jessica, that's so funny. He's like, it's gotta be tough now. All right, here we go. He's like, I'm just like, yeah, that's so funny. My daughter comes out, she's working out with us too. And it's so cool because I can see,

I'm trying my hardest to not push it onto them. I mean, I just want them to have a good experience so it becomes a it's so it's so cool because I can see I'm trying my hardest to not push it onto them you know what I mean I just want them to have a good experience so it becomes a part of the lot. Oh totally I had the same kind of experience over the weekend because I have that PRX all set up and Courtney was gone and Cabo and so I'm just hanging out with the boys and you know I'm down there and I'm I'm just like well I'm going to get a set in you know for myself and just went downstairs and turn on some heavy metal and I'm thinking it's just gonna be me in there and all of a sudden they come in to the room and they start lifting.

I could just see them out of the corner that I was watching everything I was doing. I was so cool. My youngest starts like, yeah, starts head banging to like some heavy metal. Oh, dude, I think this is gonna catch on. Yeah, that's so great. Have you guys decorated, do you guys decorate for Halloween or anything like that? Or fall?

You guys do that. Just Christmas. Christmas is the only thing that we have a bunch of stuff for. Although I, Katrina, we'll see if she breaks out some fall stuff. I know we have some things in there before, but our house is still not complete. I mean, I still have the,

I have two empty room, three empty rooms, if you count one of the bedrooms in my house. So we're still piecing together the place. Courtney's really into it, because this is like her birthday month or whatever. So she's like, always like had this attachment to Halloween and so there's just skeletons and fucking, you know, spiders

and everything over my house right now. Oh no, because we were hanging out and my kids got so excited. So two things that at first I bought this little, it looks like a super Nintendo, but it's not, but it's loaded with like 800 old school Nintendo games. You mean the one we have here? Yeah, that one.

It's like this one, right? It's similar, but different. I don't think it's, I think it's all hacked games to China. Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh. So I used to have that one, I think it's all hacked games, games, trying to move. Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh. So I used to have that one. I bought it at the mall. And the games are like half a million,

there's like 15 different versions of fucking Super Contra and Mario Brothers. I saw you guys playing Contra. I saw Jessica's Instagram. Yeah, I DMed her. I was like, is that Contra? Dude, super sorry. I played with Dalgit.

I played with my son and he's never played that game before. So he's getting killed And I'm winning this song like see your dad can play And we beat the whole game it was a blast and then you know, we that was in the morning And I looked at the kids and like you guys might go get some Halloween decorations and my daughter loses her mind because she My daughter so strange right when she was one years old when she was one we had the scary skull one year's old. When she was one, we had the scary skull, like decoration for Halloween, that lit up and made the scary sound, which would terrify anyone year old.

Anyone year old would have ran and got scared. I turned it on when she was one to see what her reaction would be. She runs over to it and says, my baby, and walks around with it like it's her fucking doll. And she's always been like that. Like she loves scary, like Rob Cobb. She loves grotesque, scary shit. So she's like, I want something really scary.

So I'm like, okay, so we go to Target. Of course Target has nothing that like suits her fans. Everything there is like Halloween-y or whatever. Nothing too crazy. She goes, we have to go to party city. They have the scary stuff. So we go there and she ends up making me buy a severed clown head that's hanging from a look and it's totally not appropriate

but she made me she's like begging me to buy I'm like are you sure you're not gonna this not gonna scare you no so that by that and then I buy a severed arm that she put under the door so it looks like someone's hand and she fucking loves that shit so anyway it was that and she fucking loves that shit. So anyway, it was a lot of fun. She's gonna be a personality man. She loves standing up in front of our audience and doing comedy at home.

That's probably a dark story. Totally. Totally is gonna have that dark story. Lucky, she's gonna be lucky guys gonna find her. That's a lucky answer. You know what I'm saying? It's really, really cool. So anyway, it was a good time.

But we gotta talk about the fight, dude. You mean the most epic UFC card ever? Oh, dude. You know, it broke. My favorite was the Lewis fight. I don't know about you guys. Dude, every fight was epic. When was the last time you saw two knockouts, a TKO,

and a fucking championship tap out, and then the guy jumps over the ring and fights the crowd goes Ape what yeah, yeah, what what's that guys pandemonium? What's that guy's name? What do they call them the the the the black dude? Is the name Lewis? Yeah Lewis. Okay. What was his what's his nickname black monster? So my god. Oh, I follow him on Instagram already. Oh, I know. Yeah Joe's my balls were hot. He know, bro, I died, dude. I was laughing for about five minutes. He was getting his ass kicked until the very end and then just laid.

Oh, yeah, I didn't even say that right him up. Well, a comeback last 10 seconds. 10 seconds knockout punch. Oh my god. I mean, he put him to sleep. That was a last. And then he lays down like trying to catch his breath, you know, because he's so exhausted.

Oh my God, dude, he threw everything out there. He's such a crowd-fraver. But yeah, I love that guy. Kabeabing. And what's his name, Craig? Connaker, yeah, do that. What do you guys think about the end of that? Well, shit that happened.

First of all, there was, I don't know, I watched, I'm not, I'm gonna be honest. I've been following all this stuff leading up and I'm kind of a dork with some of those things where I'll watch a, oh, there's a couple guys online and I should shot them because I can't remember his hand, but there's these MMA gigs that literally will take a press conference

like that Connor had and they will break down each jab or statement they said, like where is that coming from? And so you can find out like a lot there's a lot of there's a lot of back story to this this whole fight Yeah, like Mafia shit and like oh yeah, yeah the whole rat thing that he's talking about and stuff that tied to 9-11 and shit What what do you mean? What was he yet? So there, so there's stuff in there where he's talking about. He's Connor is calling him a rat. And I believe it's his, I forget what relative to him that he's referring to. Or I believe it's a relative and not just a close friend, but somebody who's very close

to him and his camp is tied to 9-11 shit and and and ratanting people out on that and and to save his own ass. And so there's a lot of fucking there's some behind the scene. I knew it because Connor really got on this fucking head. I mean, who would have that reaction after the fight unless he really just mental ninjaed him like going into that fight. I was like, wow, dude, he did a number on him. Yeah, you know, and then and then don't forget fight, I was like, wow, dude, he did a number on him. Yeah, and then don't forget, when Connor threw the, what is it, the dolly at the bus?

Right. That crossed the line. Right, for sure. That really crossed the line. And you know why he did that, what led to that, right? Yeah, I guess his buddy got smacked around by it. Yeah, so could be, could be even his crew saw his buddy and they were talking shit to each other back and forth

and could be kind of grabbed his buddy by the shirt and then slapped him in the face and they all kind of teamed up on him and that's when they went and got on the bus and so then they find they someone comes to get's corner and says, bro, he cornered me and slapped me in the face. There was legit bad blood. Oh man. In this fight and I think that's why it was so epic and could be brought it man. He came to fight. Yeah. I why it was so epic and could be brought it man. He came to fight.

You know, I want. I want. I want Nate Diaz to fight. Could be that's what I want. I want to say he'll Nate will get killed. It doesn't matter. I don't think that he'll not that I think he's going to win. But you know, I want to see the rematch.

This whole like talking. I think the best fight is what will happen is Tony Ferguson. I mean, Tony Ferguson is nice and looks amazing. Yeah, bro. I mean, Pettis is no joke. That mean Tony Ferguson is never looks amazing. Yeah bro He I mean It's not no joke. That was a great fight. It was incredible I was a great boy. Yeah, how bloody they got and they're smiling and everything. Oh So Bobby broke his hand because that was a brawl. There was a bunch of ninja stuff But a bunch of weird home. Yeah, the handstand like flip kick thing. What the fuck? It was awesome

I was like he was doing a what's that capoeira? I was like skateboard move when you Oh, yeah, okay flip. That's so what do you want? Hand plan. Hand plan. It's a good hand plan. That's what it looks like. Totally.

No, I want to so that's the thing about this. First off, here's my issue with the and I go I know why they do it. For a lot of it is because it generates a lot of money. Okay, so that's a big they do it. A lot of it is because it generates a lot of money. So that's a big part of it. Muhammad Ali was the guy that really, really, I guess, was a weird Diaz. Yeah, like you come out and you talk a lot of shit.

The hype, yeah. You are gonna make way more money. And this is why Conor is the highest paid fighter. It's not because he's the best. He's good. He's good. I'm not not because he's the best. He's good. He's good. He's good. I'm not going to say he's not good. He's definitely good. He's not the greatest of all time.

He gets paid that much because you want to watch this guy fight because he talks so much shit and he generates so much. That's how we look what he do with. He was brilliant with Mayweather. Did you guys know? Absolutely brilliant. Do you guys know that a lot of the stuff was, will he ever come back? He made $100 million on Mayweather? And so there was this, you just never make anything like that.

You know that he's project 50 million going into $50 million. That's not including sold out of all of his waski. That's not to include the whiskey that he sold off of that. And the deal, I'm sure he gets a piece of the paper view, or is that count of the paper view? No, that's the 50 million. So part of his 50 million is that is because the paper view broke records right it broke records it was one of the most watch fights ever and

that's just and that's just in our time now where people steal streaming so imagine what really was what I mean that I mean the whole world was watching if he had a lot of ring rescuing in and been two years since he's done MMA fight so here's so here's the thing, because I was thinking about this, because I know why they do all the shit talk and all this, part of it is to generate revenue because people want to watch it, and I get all that.

And the other part of it is sometimes they really do hate each other, but I also was thinking to myself, like why do we hate this so much when we like the fight? Like we like them to fight in the ring But we don't like a lot of people don't like the the pre and post Fighting and throwing of shit and bullshit Mm-hmm, and if you really think about it, you know fighting St. Shind or organized fighting or even war even war for a long time had rules and both sides agreed upon the rules because

had rules and both sides agreed upon the rules because Shit otherwise can get deadly and brutal and so we had this level of honor and respect where Here's the rules because back in the day bear knuckle fighting You know it was two men and they would fight in an alley and they made and they would follow the rules one guy would say the other guy Okay, fists only no kicking no biting no whatever We'll see the ultimate resolve? And the crowded watch, and if somebody, this is what it, how it used to be back in the day, if one of the men in a barren-huckle fight bit the other guy,

he would get destroyed by the mob. Yeah, ostracized. Destroyed, he would get destroyed by the mob. So nobody ever dared do anything like that, and I know why they do that, it's because it's a way to allow the violence and whatever to happen, but to also control it so it doesn't spread into, so you could have two communities. Because think about this way, okay.

Back in the day with these bear knuckle, because I know the history of bear knuckle boxing. It's very, very old or fighting. Back in those days, there were communities that hated each other. You'd have the Irish fight, the Italian or the Jews or whatever. And the whole community would be behind their fighter. And the whole community, another community would be behind the other fight. And the reason why they didn't just go to war because they could have was because they agreed they had their own champion. And their champion represented their community. And, you know, they figured out that was a lot less casualties, you know,

that way. And so they could work it out, whatever just, you know, shit they're going through. They could work it out with their champions. That's right. And it was like that with war for a long time, when they would, they would decide on a field, everybody would line up and we would fight in a particular way. When that be cool, that's how we did more civil. When that be cool, that's how we did modern war. Like you just, you got to find a representative of your country.

That would be cool. It's just put them in the ring and then the duke it out. Oh my God. It's like the new Olympics the ring and then the duke it out. Oh my God. It's like the new Olympus. Yeah, we'd have a to the death. We'd have a genetically modified, roided out like a side tip experiment. We cross bringing a human with a bear. And nobody would care.

Yeah, of course they would. Because he's safer. One guy is risking his life for this entire country. I'll tell you right now. She's constantly training. Just all montages, like all day long. If it was world leaders that fought, like Russia would rule the world right now. Putin would kick the shit out of me. The judo black belt, XKGB, he beat the crap.

He beat the shit out of Trump. He would, but anyway. Yeah, so that's I think why I get so upset because I see this. I see him jumping out of the cage and doing all this stuff. Like, oh man, that's doesn't, first of all, it doesn't look good on the sport because already people criticize, combat sports and say that they're brutal and that they're not civilized and that they're disgusting.

And I can always argue with them when people follow the rules and shake hands up. The truth is though, here's the thing, and this is the fact that matters this. That fight because of that will go down as one of the most memorable fights ever Yep, and the rematch is gonna make twice as much and so you know one kid Here's a thing Dana-wide Joe Rogan all of them when they when it first happened said what they're supposed to say Which is oh my god? I can't believe this black black guy on the sport yada yada yada

Behind closed doors shaking hands They have to be going Fucking a this is this is gonna make double that it is of course because part of what made you know What's made boxing people fall asleep to boxing and what MMA was starting to kind of dip for a minute there was you know If there's no drama involved in it. It's it's fighting and it's were a minute there was, you know, if there's no drama involved in it, it's fighting and it's war. Unfortunately, and it's unfortunate because there are, there are lots of people that love the sport and are there to watch the sport. But to be honest, a big majority of the people aren't there to watch the sport. They're there to see two people who don't

like each other beat each other up and one, one man stand or one woman stand after the fact. And this is only going to feed into that. You know what I'll tell you something right now if we go back 60 years go back in time 50 or 60 years. If a boxer after a fight jumped over the ropes and hit somebody else and it turned into a big old thing. They would have the average person would have been a Paul doesn't matter what I've been discussing. They still change doesn't know. That's not true. Holyfield and Tyson.

Oh, I was, okay, I watched every, and this is an example I gave Katrina when we're talking about this. I've watched almost, I'm not almost all Tyson's. I've watched at least 10 of Tyson's plus fights on pay-per-view. You know which one I remember? I mean, vividly remember that fight. Should you see his tweet? Yes, I see.

Yes. He's like, what a disgusting, you know, like display, whatever, then some guy underneath him was like, you literally bit somebody's ear. I hop. Yeah. How did he do that? What I mean, I'm very.

I know, right? But that whole, that whole, that whole rivalry, it didn't, I mean, initially everybody is disgusted by it, but that's just how human nature were disgusted by it, but then we can't look away. I know, we can't look away. We want it, now more people will tune in. You made a good point.

If we don't want it to exist that way, we don't watch it. We're exactly. But the problem is we want it. Yes. And I think that's what pisses people off. It is. People don't like a mirror in their face. That's what it is. You're showing them what they, what they, you don't like that you like it exactly but it's it is that's the truth

yeah that's a hundred percent it is the truth and this will go down as one of the most memorable fights ever not because could be beat conomer greger because that whole the whole other stuff yeah yeah and it and it's gonna drive ratings and so know, it's funny. So when you hear the guys say that on live, they'll be tuning in. Yeah, yeah. It's like, oh my God, black eye on the sport. This is unbelievable, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And they're all upset. Meanwhile, they're like, holy shit.

We're gonna make a fuck ton of money after all this gets. That's crazy. They're generating that much money now with MMA. Yeah, well, nobody else has, except for Connor. Yeah, I know, but that's insane. I mean, that's crazy if they're generating that much money now with MMA. Yeah, well nobody else has except for Connor. Yeah, I know, but that's insane. Yeah, I mean, that's absolutely insane. Did you guys see Bezos and Amazon? What is doing with everybody's?

Oh, with the $15 minimum wage. He's raising their minimum wage up for all of Amazon. Just Amazon in place. Of course, well, yeah, yeah, he can only do that with Amazon, right? But I think what's he raising it to? I don't remember what the pressure is 15. Yeah, I think he's raising up to 15. Well, isn't that I don't understand It's not minimum wage what's minimum wage right? 13 no no federal minimum wage is lower than that some states have all you say cuz like San Francisco is like $15 an hour

Yeah, no, he's he's raising across the board What the minimum that they're gonna pay people, right? Yeah. And it's funny because economists and people who know how companies like his tend to get rid of their competition have made some speculations and I think they're right on. I think what he's gonna do and we'll watch and see

is he's gonna raise his bottom employees up to 15 or whatever the number is, I think it is 15. And then he's gonna do and we'll watch and see, is he's gonna raise his bottom employees up to 15, or whatever the number is, I think it is 15. And then he's gonna go lobby and help promote, push minimum wage up, raise minimum wage federally. And now we're talking about crushing your competition. Exactly, that's a dirty play. Exactly, and companies have done it before, Walmart done it before.

And what people will do, you know, it'll cripple everybody, dude. And I, you know, this is, I have a, he'll kill know who this is, I have a good client friend of mine who owns like, she's up to like 11 McDonald's now. And minimum wage is one of the most crippling thing that fucks her. It's like because she's like, this is, I mean, she's like, I gotta pay a kid who's running a register,

you know, $15 an hour. And it's like, are you kidding me? But then my manager gap is not there. So then you have somebody who you want to have been five years in the business, like maybe even have a degree or something that manages the whole facility. It's like, you know how much I have to pay them now because the register kid is getting paid $15 an hour.

So I'm reading a crazy book right now. I was just talking all about how the future is all automated. Yep, everything's gonna be automated and you know, it's a matter of time and these are steps in that direction already, we're already seeing this kind of play out. Yeah, they're creating what they're doing is they're creating artificial market signal, because at some point things will be automated anyway,

but what they're doing is they're making it happen faster by creating these artificial market signals. But what Bezos is doing, this is a strategy that big business has done before to eliminate their competition. What they willzos is doing, this is a strategy that big business has done before to eliminate their competition. What they will do is they will lobby government and it sound, it makes them sound good too. Like, oh, look, you know, Bezos is supporting the little guy he wants minimum wage to go up. No, the reality is he has the money to pay his employees a little bit more. He knows the small competitors don't. And so if minimum wage goes up,

his small competitors are done, and he increases his market share. And this has been a strategy that, this is how minimum wages have always been used. Actually, since day one, is to eliminate competition. And so it's actually quite, it's brilliant, but it's also sneaky.

And I, you know, but this is the game, man. It's the game how it works. Well. And I, you know, but this is the game, man. It's a game how it works. Well, I mean, I don't blame him. I mean, I, it's a, you, you're using the laws that everybody else has voted in, you know what I'm saying? Like, this is why, this is the consequences of, of doing things like that, that people just don't, they're, they're, you're telling the consequences.

Right. You don't, we don't think about it. It sounds real good when you're a young kid that's voting and you're, and you're just starting your career and work and you want a raise because you have a minimum wage type of position and so it sounds good to you that you get to get a raise for a dollar or whatever. And now here's the other part to that. So because a lot of people, again, who don't know

how these things work will say, oh, that's a good thing. He's doing a great thing. Oh, he's gonna advocate for higher minimum wages. He's for the little guy and I just explained why he's probably not, he's a good thing. He's doing a great thing. Oh, he's going to advocate for higher minimum wages. He's for the little guy. And I just explained why he's probably not. He's trying to eliminate competition. But another article comes out now that talks about how Amazon's hourly workers are losing their monthly bonuses and stock awards so that they can have a minimum wage increase. So all you know, he's already taken away. He's trading one for the other, right? Knowing that this is now.

And think about this. How gangster is this? Meanwhile, he's also one of the other right knowing that this is now and think about this how gangster is this meanwhile He's also one of the companies too that's he's I mean building to automate probably 90% of those positions to So it's like I'm gonna pull already in the words. I'm gonna pull stock from you advocate for minimum ways to For a moment. We used to go up the end while we're spending money to actually pretty much replace those positions across the board So it's like enjoy your dollar an hour more for the next two to three years before I find a way to automate your position. Fuck, you know, people have no idea what they're signing up for, when they vote for shit like that.

No, they have no idea, but this is a strategy and this is how big companies for a long time have taken out. Walmart did it a while ago. I remember Walmart was like like one of the biggest supporters of increasing minimum wage and on the surface, you think to yourself, like why would they do that? They're a huge, and then you realize,

oh, they don't pay that anyway. They already pay a little bit more. And they know that they're little tiny mom and pop shops. Yeah, they can't compete with that. Can't compete and sure enough, they increase their market share, and that's the name of the game. This Quas brought to you by Organify.

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I do indoor rock climbing and it is always the forearm pump that is the limiting factor. Yeah, you know what? This actually, this is the opposite of what you typically have people ask you to do. Oh, this is, I can identify with this because I mean, I remember in the beginning, like just getting the pump. I'm like, what are you talking about? Because I was always avoiding that feeling because I want to make sure that I'm still performing and I could grip, you know, the bar, you know, long-term. But yeah, it's interesting that, you know, this is finally kind of brought up. I had, so I had a client.

The first time I ever had anybody tell me that they didn't want a pump was I was, God, I was young. I was probably 22 and this guy comes and hires me kind of this, this kind of relatively skinny bit strong looking dude and he comes in and he looks fit already and he says, I need to improve my performance. I race motocross. I said, oh awesome.

You know, we're gonna build muscle, make you stronger this that and the other. He said, okay, one of the big problems is, when my, if my forearms get pumped, he goes, I'm screwed, I'm fucked. And I remember thinking like, you're crazy. You don't wanna get a pump and then I thought about it, I'm like, well, wait a minute, it's true. When you do get a pump, you do lose function. For sure, it feels good and everything

in the gym, but you do lose function. And so I had to really examine how I trained this guy to minimize the pump. And then fast forward, when I started doing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, really, really hard, that happened to me because you grip so much on the key that if your forearms would get a pump, you were fucked, your hands didn't work and you'd already get blocks up. And then you were screwed.

And so one of the best things you could do to help prevent this from happening, believe it or not, is to always, always train in the super high rep range. Now at first, when you train in the super high rep range. Now at first, when you train in the super high rep range, you're going to get a crazy, crazy pump. But then over time, your body adapts to it. And you stop getting a pump from it. And so really it's just about training lots and lots and

lots of static holds, static squeezes, lots of high reps. Well, you want to train through the pump, get to the point where your body doesn't happen This also so you know, I love to to also give people Tools that that are out there that I think get overused that this is this is a great example of somebody that I would recommend like fat grips to You have a very specific reason thing that you're trying to adapt and accomplish like what a great What a great tool for someone like you, because then whenever you do your bicep curls, your shoulder press, I was like,

you got these fat grips on all these dumbbells and barbells, and you're gonna get a pump like crazy at first, but like Sal is saying, after you've done that enough times before long, you're going to really improve your grip strength, and then the pump will diminish. And also those rotating grips, and things like that, just because now when you go back to a stationary grip, you're gonna respond a lot better to that,

and you're not gonna get that reaction right away from your body. Have you guys ever trained or worked with people who are really, really good in inter-rock climbing? Yeah, yeah, never look at their hands. Oh, yeah. So Ben Greenfield. Yeah, Ben Greenfield's a great example. It's a different kind, and here's the thing about,

we've say this all the time on the show, that your strength adaptations are very specific to the type of training that you do. So let me explain in the context of rock climbing. Let's say, you look at me and I could deadlift, let's say, 550 pounds and I got a really strong grip. But my grip is really strong when I grab a bar. Okay.

And when you grab a bar, there's a specific diameter that I'm gripping around that my muscles are strong within that particular range of motion. As I move outside of that, I start to get weaker and weaker. In other words, as I open my hand, it's not gonna have the same kind of strength because most of the strength that I'm training is around the diameter of a bar. So what you wanna do as a rock climber, if you wanna really strengthen your grip,

definitely strengthen your grip around things like skinny bars and fat bars, but also get strengthened your grip with two fingers, one finger, finger tips where you're holding or where you're opening and closing. Like all these, because you need all kinds of different ranges of motion in your forearm flexors and extensors, because when you're grabbing on the rocks,

sometimes your grip is, your hands are gonna be very spread out. Sometimes they're gonna be clasp a little bit more. A lot of the pressure may be on fingerprints, other times it may be more towards the middle of the finger. So it's important that you train all these, so like when I used to train like Jiu-Jitsu guys, for example, when we would do pull-ups, if I was working their back and just trying to get them stronger,

we'd use a regular grip. And of course I wouldn't use wrist straps on, any of these guys, because they need strong grips. But then towards the end of the workout, I would have them bring me, bring a key to the gym, so they'd bring bring the top of the key and I'd swing the key over the pull up bar and they'd hold on to the sleeves and they do pull ups like that. Now, why would I do that? Well, in Jiu-Jitsu, if you're pulling and gripping, you're grabbing the key.

You're not grabbing a bar and believe it or not, it's very different. I remember the first time I did this, you know, I pride in having a strong grip, but when I would grab the key, it would hurt. It wasn't comfortable for me. So I had to train my ability to be strong in that specific type of thing. For rock climbing, I've seen gyms now have those little rock, like, I don't know what they're called. They're like grips on pull-up bars to simulate rock climbing. The goals that we go to has that. Yeah, I think that's a great way to do pull up. Well, yes, you do that. You used to do the, if you get two towels, you bring it over and you have to grip and

both of them together. So I'm gripping and I'm pulling at the same time. There's just a lot of different ways. It's really exposing yourself to different variables as far as like the grips are concerned, like saw saying to different variables, whether you're doing it with just a couple fingers or just different hand grips. So you just want to expose the more of that. But like, yeah, high reps, high volume, and then do these long isometric holds to establish that firm grip to work your way through. Something to do also that we haven't mentioned that

I used to love to do with clients like this is Rice buckets when I don't know what the term that are what the name of the exercise is. Oh, yeah, push your Yeah, get a get a five gallon bucket go to Costco get one of those big bags of rice fill it up and then you know Do exercises for time inside the rice? You know, so you talk about salvaging all the extenders and everything like that involved too, like you're just opening and closing your fist, like you do that for a couple minutes and watch how pumped. You know that comes from, that's a kung fu.

In kung fu, they would train the grip, and they wouldn't use rice, and then they moved to fine sand, more coarse sand, coarser sand, than pebbles. And so the idea is to advance through the different, you know, the different degrees of density. And then punch boards. Yeah. But yeah, you put your,

you're supposed to do, you strike your hands through, you grip your hands, open your hands, pull them out, type of deal and practice through the different densities. I used to do that. And then here's another old school grip and forearm exercise that I learned from. I can't remember the book, but it was an old book, it was written in the early 1900s, it was really, really old. And it was,

you'd grab a piece of newspaper, which if you can find one, you might not be able to find one anymore, but you get one of the big pages and you grab the corner of it. And just using one hand, you slowly crumple it up and draw it in and crumple the whole page in one hand and squeeze it. And then do that with another page of the newspaper. And I used to do that. And that was a gnarly hand workout, kind of an old school exercise. I've heard you mentioned that one before.

I've never tried that before. It sounds stupid, but I swear. I mean, I can picture it. I can picture doing that and how much that would exercise your hands, for sure. It's trying to crumple it up with one hand without using the other one. Oh, it's absolutely phenomenal. I love doing it. But, you know, yeah, besides that, here's something else I'm going to throw in here, because I know he's asking about the forearm pump,

I train the high reps all the time so you don't get that pump. But here's the other thing that rock climbers don't do enough of that I think they need to do more of is rowing. So rock climbers tend to focus a lot on pullups and pulling their body overhead. Rowing has got some carryover, but the main reason why you wanna do rowing is one of the attracted shoulders. Yeah, cause really lat dominant

if all you do is pull down. And I know those are the main muscles involved and so you need to have really strong lats. But you wanna also strengthen that shoulder girl by pulling more towards your body with rows. That'll help you a little bit. And then the other thing too is, if you're competitive at rock climbing,

definitely work your legs out, but don't get super big heavy legs. That's another big one. I would focus more on higher reps and deep ranges of motion so you can swing your leg up into high positions. You don't necessarily want big quads, hamstring and gl glutes when you're trying to do lots of rock climber. Next question is from Grace Hills 014. Do you think there is any benefit to warming up in longer ranges of motion? For example, doing deadlift warm-ups with weights at a two inch deficit, then doing your workout sets or working sets

from the floor. I definitely think so. Yeah, I think this is actually a really, really good idea because I'm picturing what happens when people tend to hurt themselves on the working out and in many times, not always, but many times the reason why you hurt yourself is because you moved a half an inch outside

of the range of motion you're comfortable. You know what I mean? So like I'm doing a squat and I'm going heavy and I shift or I go down just a half an inch slower than I normally do, lose tension and then I end up injuring myself. So it makes sense to warm up in a longer range of motion than in the one that you train and I think I do this instinctively. I tend to warm up with more of an exaggerate range of motion than when I go heavy. So I think this is a really good idea.

I can also see lots of value to you. Training in that deficit for a little while and then going after like a, if I was trying to PR on my deadlift and I don't do deficits that often. So doing deficits for a couple of weeks leading up to me going after a big lift, I think there's a lot of value. Not just warming up, I think actually training in that deficit. For that exact reason, what you're saying, Salis, you're going to be obviously going

to be weaker in the deficit than you are. We'd be off of pulling off the floor. So training that way for a couple of weeks before you go after a really heavy normal lift, I would fit through. Yeah, it's interesting, because you think if you're expanding on the strength curve by going down a couple of inches,

you're gonna immediately respond in a stronger position from there. Logically, that would make sense to me and that you do see like people doing Jefferson curls and things like that to really warm up the posterior chain. And it is that you go to that excessive range to where now you bring it back to like the working range, which I do find a lot of value in that.

Now, you also have to have the mobility to do this, too, so, I mean, sometimes there's tips and tools that people will recommend like this, but if you haven't done the due diligence of getting yourself in a place where you can actually do it without your body breaking down, because that's another thing too, it's like, okay, well, this could be a really good tool

for some people, but then this could be a really good tool for some people, but then there could be a lot of people that, you know, once they go, you know, in a deficit position like that, their form breaks down. And then so then you're at risk more than anything else. Well, it's not about being hypermobile either. So it's not about like trying to get, you know, further in your range of motion without strength. So whatever that looks like,

you have to build the intent in there to be able to get your central nervous system to respond and really squeeze and get some strength there as you go to pull back and not just stretch it out. Yeah, if you think about it, well, I mean, this is kind of what priming is, it is more of a general, you know,

I'm gonna, I'm gonna prime with the exercise, you know, that I'm gonna do in my workout type of, you know, session. But this is really what priming is all about, like priming aims to get you more connected, because what you wanna do is, the ideally, your warm up or priming, as we would call it, what it should do is it should make you feel very connected to the lip. So when you get into the idea, ideally, you're warm up or priming as we would call it, what it should do is it should make you feel

very connected to the lip. So when you get into the lift and you're more hyper responsive. Yeah, you feel strong, you feel tight, everything, you feel like you're in the groove is what we used to say back in the day, right? Do you feel like you're in the groove when you're lifting? And everybody knows it, like if you've been lifting for a long time, you know what it feels like to get under a barbell or you know, to bench it or squat it, and for you to lower the weight and it be heavy, and you, and you to feel off a little bit. Like, there goes your strength, like, because you feel off a little bit, you're not able to generate as much force, and the risk of injury goes up much higher. And so that's really the goal of warming up, you know, it's not about increasing elasticity and muscles. It's not about more blood flow.

Those are all side-effects of what happening. The goal really is to feel more connected to what you're doing when you are doing the workout. That's why I feel like it's important that you don't use this as a static stretch. You could actually injure yourself with that technique, going past that range of motion and just trying to stretch an anchor and elongate the muscle versus trying to do a working

rep and get your central nervous system to respond. One thing that I like to do is I like to get into the deepest part of a rep that I can get in with control. Make sure I say that with control, because I could go a little further and hurt myself. And then I like to hold the rep there. But what I'm not doing is relaxing at that position. No.

Because I've seen people do this with a squat where one thing that I do, because depth is always hard for me on a squat, it is I'll get under a bar, I'll go down as low as I can with control, and then I'll hold that bottom position for three to five seconds. And really what I'm trying to do is really connect to the weakest part of the rep,

that's weakest for me. Now, I've seen other people do it where they get into a squat, and they go down and they sit, and it's like they're relaxing. That is a terrible thing to do. You don't wanna sit there and relax with all this weight on your back,

without, you don't want your joints to support you, you don't wanna be unsupported. Yeah, you want to support yourself with muscle and because it does two things A, it keeps you safe if muscle supporting you and you've got tension your risk of injuries much lower and B, you're connecting to a range of motion that you may not normally have lots of connection to so then when you get under the bar And you do normal reps you feel way more solid and secure and you can lift more weight and you just get, you know, better results. So this makes sense.

I like this, you know, warming up a longer range of motion, but you gotta have control of it. You have to maintain that muscle tension. You gotta have that muscle tension. And ideally, you would use something like maps prime. That would be the ideal thing to do. Go through maps prime, identify what you need to do for your body, what's gonna work.

Cause here's the thing too. I can think of a lot of people who doing a deadlift, warming up at two inch deficit would be terrible. No, that's what, that was my point of like that. Is that absolutely, I think this can be beneficial for a lot of people that have the mobility. Yeah, some people. Yeah, exactly.

If you have the mobility to do that, I think this is a great idea, but I also know that there's a lot of people that have a hard time doing a deadlift, much less doing one in a deficit, and that if I were to do a deficit deadlift, I would see them mechanically break down. And so that's what you got to be careful. And that's why I say something like maps prime would be superior because it's, you know, in the program, we have a compass where you test your own body and figure out what you need to do for your body to prime. Because again, in a situation like this, you know, this kind of a warm up with the deficit may be great, it may be terrible.

You know, if you're somebody with terrible ankle mobility, you can't maintain a stable spine and then you put yourself in a deficit to warm up, you're not warming up very well. You're not in a loss of control. Exactly. The detriment. Next question is from Eliz Triz, what would your advice be for females trying to shift to lifting heavy weights?

Without a training partner or trainer, how can someone get over the mental hurdle of lifting a heavy weight and not being afraid of hurting themselves? When's the last time you guys had a spotter? Yeah, no. I never work out with a spotter. Well, I do with Jessica. You know, here's, and yeah, I agree. Like, I, I, but here's, here's the thing that I get where this can be really challenged,

especially in the squat, right? The squat is probably the scariest thing for somebody to. It feels like you have nowhere to go. Right. It feels like that. And you go. Right, it feels like that. And you wouldn't know how to bail, too. You know what, we need to do this. We haven't done this yet. I've been meaning to do this for a long time

and I've had people DM what a great video is. Yes, and how to bail on heavy weight. Like this is a good video that we should do. We haven't done a video like this on the YouTube channel. So this, I'm gonna have Doug put a note for us to do this for sure. I remember the two, it was a squat, which was very important, you know, as far as like the bail technique

and then also like power clean. I remember going through that process, man, that was a crazy learning curve for me. It's funny because we teach, so when I was a kid and I first started doing judo, okay. In judo's a full contact grappling, you know, art and the goal of judo is to throw your opponent on their back for a score and then you win the match. Now when you first start doing judo, the first three to six months, all you're doing is learning how to fall.

They're not teaching you any throws, they're not teaching you a whole lot of techniques on how to defeat your opponent. They're teaching you how to fall down without getting hurt. Resistance training, we don't approach it like it's a skill, because if you really think about it, if you're learning how to do these lifts, one of the first things you should learn is how to get out from it, how to rack a weight.

In other words, how to get the weight to your shoulders or your back or your chest. For example, how to do out from it. How to, how to rack a weight? In other words, how to get the weight to your shoulders or your back or your chest. For example, how to do a chest press. This is, I used to teach all my clients this. I never handed them the dumbbells and said, here, do the reps. I would show them, this is how you properly do it, and this is how you set them down properly.

Because there's a technique to getting the weight in position and there's a technique to getting out of a scary situation, just like there's a technique to doing the exercise. So it's a very important thing to practice. So that all being said, the question is, what's our advice to female, is trying to lift heavy weights? Now, this is a funny thing about this too,

is it doesn't really matter the sex here. Yeah, no, it does. Although more often than not. The intimidation factor, yeah. I mean, there is that, like I think guys tend to, it's okay with slamming weights and dropping weights and that's part of some of the culture which I feel like women could get into that too.

Just as good and it just has to be comfortable. No, I can appreciate this because this has been a conversation with Katrina and I because she's been with me many times where I'm squatting and she'll ask me, do you want me to spot when she knows I'm pushing like really heavy weight? I'm like, no, no, no, just let me bail. I'd rather that.

I'd actually rather be by myself even with a spotter there and just let me bail on the way, because I feel safe for that than me relying on you to give me the right assistance out of the hole of a 400-something pound squat. That you're probably more likely to hurt yourself. Absolutely. To grind it out and then I when I see that. I'm hugging you and trying to hold it up. Right. I might just I hurt.

Yeah, from a spotter trying to help me up. It was actually to my detriment almost 100% because then I'm then I'm more concerned about I don't want to bail because I got them behind me and I want to drop the weight back on them. Yeah. So then I'm really trying to grind it out and then in hopes that they're giving me enough assistance to get out of that hole. I don't know. I would weigh rather, be by myself and no one around and then let me bail the way. But then I also get, you know, that was something for her that I've been trying to help her

out with is, you know, it's okay. That's why you set the safety racks, you know, when you're at the bottom, if you can't get out of the hole like that, you let it roll off your back, the way you're sitting in a squad, if you're squawting properly, right? Obviously, that's first. Like, when I see people get hurt here, they do it wrong. They already have poor mechanics,

and then they're going too heavy. Like, if you have an excessive forward lean, and you get stuck into a really deep squat, and you see people kind of fold over forward. Right, I mean, that's because you have bad form and you probably shouldn't have been going that heavy in the first place. But if you have good mechanics and good form,

you know, I'm always trying to, in which Katrina does, I'm encouraging her to push the weight further. I'm like, listen, if you're getting three to five reps, no problem, like you absolutely can go further in way. Well, they have now, they have these safety bars that you can put in racks, which you set up ahead of time,

which you know, that's a whole process to learn, but you know, you could go to the depth that's just under like your depth, which you could easily just drop down and like get out from under it. Yeah, I would say, you know, a lot of gyms now, not all of them, but a lot of gyms now have the safety racks. So, and if what you do is you just set the safety rack

like just below where you're gonna squat. Two inches below. That's it. And so if you can't make it, you don't even have to bail, you can literally just sit down. You can just sit down. Same thing with the bench press.

A lot of bench presses have these little safety arms where if you can't make it, you just put it down. I've been pinned under a bar before. You can still get out of that too, because there is a technique where you can roll it down your chest and sit up. I've had the way it's fall off and do the cook. Yeah, that's what it not happens.

It's a good question though, and it's something that I think, I mean, I totally understand. I know I get that it's a, I mean, I was intimidated to bail on the weight for a very long time. So, what, well, part of it is this. Part of it is the whole mentality

if I need to train to failure. That is true. When I used to lift weights like that, when I used to lift weights where I have to go until I can't lift the weight anymore, for sure I needed a spotter. Always, like, fuck, come spot me, dude. I'm gonna go until I can't move anymore.

But now, and now I don't do that anymore. I lift, and I stop about one or two reps before I fail, which incidentally is a superior way to train anyway. You're gonna get better results anyway by doing it that way, but because I stop to one to two reps before failure, I don't have that fear. I stop, I rack the weight,

knowing that the next rep may be the one that I fail at, and so I just stop right there. And so that's the other thing you wanna pay pay attention to so when it says lifting heavy weights you can lift heavy weights and But don't lift so heavy that you're afraid that you're not gonna be able to get the bar up You know, I'm saying you're not lifting to fail. You're not trying to hit a PR. You're just going in there You're you're lifting with challenging weight But it's also a weight that you know you could do your reps and then rack the bar.

Next question is by fitness by Juna. Do you think the breast implant illness stuff is real or BS? This must be usalian. You're all over the breast implants lately. Well, you know what? We've seen questions like quite a few of these recently because it's making its rounds in the wellness world. So you're seeing these wellness representatives who are getting their breast implants taken out and are saying that they had breast implant illness, which I've never heard this term before up

until maybe this last couple years. And it's women who are saying things like autoimmune issues, you know, they can't sleep, gut issues, all these mysterious illnesses or symptoms that they got and they're blaming their breast implants and there's all those controversies to whether or not it's the implants that are causing or not. My personal opinion, I've done lots of research on this. First off, if you put anything foreign inside your body, there is a chance that your body may reject it. Yeah, you may have all kinds of different side effects, right? The other thing too is with

breast implants or any implants is your body. Many times, they'll have an immune response where it'll create a shell around it. It'll create all the scar tissue around it as if your body's trying to wall it off to protect yourself. That is an immune response. I could see how that could cause maybe a systemic immune response in the body. And then the other thing too is, you know, these implants are made out of materials that they, you may absorb some of this. I can't imagine if you have silicone in your body for 30 years, that you're not going to get some of it in your system.

Now, that being said, and I want to play devil's advocate here, it is this, and I don't know because I haven't probably done way less research on this than you have. I would think that because the time we live in with the ability for us to share information, there is also this, it seems like there's way more people having issues with it than before, just because people can put it out there and receive it. I think statistically speaking, if this was a major, I think there would be, it would be a big, big fucking deal where people would not be able to do it. If the percentage was high of women that were getting these illnesses from breast implants, I would think that they would be.

We start listening to symptoms off and it starts to resonate with a lot more people and now they have something they can pin it down towards where it's interesting that, I mean, the wellness community, I'm sure that they've gone through like the whole process of the food and exercise and sleep and then they're still battling something there that they're having an autoimmune issue from.

So that's sort of like the next progression from that. Well, maybe it's my breast implants, you know? Yeah. So, you it's my breast implants, you know? Yeah. So, you know, there is a, there may be an association between breast implants and autoimmune type issues, although the studies haven't really made a connection. There is a slightly increased risk

of a certain type of breast cancer with a certain type of implant. But, you know, again, everybody knows about it, and the increased risk is slight, and you're usually told this if you go get the implants. Here's the thing, the symptoms of what they're calling breast implant illness are vague and kind of general,

and so it's hard to point to what it is. Right, because you talk about autoimmune issues, and if you're saying that it could potentially have a systemic effect on the body, that there's also a lot of other things that could cause that too. There are. So to tease that out and to say that it's just a breast implant. So you know, I would be weary of the information of like how for sure all this is just because we would be seeing lawsuits like crazy if there was, if there was a major thing that they could actually connect this to.

But again, like your point, you said, so I agree with that is like, you know, if we put anything inside, inside of our body that is foreign, it's going to be like totally nothing. Yeah, no, I agree with that. That's part of the risk that you take by doing something like that. I mean, we weren't, I mean, we did not evolve to stick plastic inside of our chest. I just, which also makes me worry about what we see coming now down the future too with all these chips and tools that we can now put underneath our skin to do things like, I mean, this is going to be a thing

of the future that we're going to be concerned about is like, does it belong inside of our brain? And it makes me think like how creative we're going to be concerned about is, like, does it belong inside of our background? Right. And now it makes me think, like, how creative they're going to get, you know, 3D printing wise with using actual bio material and maybe using, you know, some of your own, I don't know, like, stem cell or something to create these products, I don't know. Like, growing boobs.

Like, growing, yeah, some sort of the boob tissue, yeah, that could actually, you know, that would be why. Work better. It could be, I mean, it could be a possibility in the future. So I don't know. But I mean, again, it is really interesting. I don't think, I think anything you do is gonna have some risk of something.

But, you know, the evidence is pretty inconclusive. But here's the other thing to consider, right? We just had Dr. Cabral on the show and he was talking about how, you know, the central nervous system is the thing that gets affected first, then it goes to the immune system and, you know, down the line. And let's say you're, let's say you're a woman with breast implants and you have all these, these symptoms, like autoimmune type issues and fatigue and all these weird symptoms and you can't figure out what's going on.

And then you think, oh shit, you read an article and you think, oh crap, it's my breast implants. I have breast implant illness. So now you have this belief that it's breast implant illness. It's causing this reaction because, you know, it's a sympathetic state, you're stressed out about something. It's in your body. Now that it's in your body, now you really don't want it,

and you're thinking about over and over again. And getting it removed is gonna probably give you relief because now you've eliminated that extra stress. And I'm not saying this is the problem. I'm just saying, this could be a contributing factor. So there's all these things that we need to consider when we look at these types of things. So it's a tough one to speculate on,

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