Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 988: Building More Muscle with Isometric Exercises, Perfecting Your Fitness with Turkish Get Ups, Learning from Failure & MORE

Episode Date: March 15, 2019

In this episode of Quah, sponsored by MAPS Fitness Products (www.mapsfitnessproducts.com), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about Turkish Get Ups, the benefits of doing isometric exercises, social isolation and its impact on health and the failures that taught them the greatest lessons in life. Mind Pump’s favorite commercials of the 90s. (3:40) What 90s fashion trend do the guy's hope doesn’t come back? (6:21) Where did the kids of the 80s/90s learn how to dance? (9:30) Mind Pump recommends Waco: The Rules of Engagement on Prime Video. (11:13) How fueling your body with proper nutrition (i.e. Smoothie Box) after a workout can aid in the recovery process. (12:33) New product alert! New ‘mint’ flavored Skinny Dipped almonds. (16:43) Updates on Justin’s Little League T-ball team, not playing favorites, teaching the fundamentals & MORE. (18:40) The U.S. grounds the Boeing 737 Max aircraft — what that means for air travelers. (27:30) Virtue signaling at its finest…NYC public schools adopting ‘Meatless Monday’ lunch policy. (30:53) More action needed to stop seafood fraud in the United States. (32:09) #Quah question #1 – What are your thoughts on ‘Turkish Get Ups’? (35:01) #Quah question #2 – What are the benefits of doing isometric exercises, such as the ones in MAPS Performance? (47:32) #Quah question #3 – Do you feel social isolation is a growing health concern? (56:21) #Quah question #4 – Which one of your failures have taught you the greatest lessons in life? (1:05:47) People Mentioned: Ben Greenfield (@bengreenfieldfitness)  Instagram Dr. Jordan Shallow D.C (@the_muscle_doc) Instagram Dr. Justin Brink (@premiere_spine_sport)  Instagram Taylor (@tayvalenz)  Instagram Paul J. Fabritz (@pjfperformance)  Instagram Products Mentioned: March Promotion: MAPS Aesthetic is ½ off!! **Code “BLACK50” at checkout** Smoothie Box **Get $20 OFF your first 3 boxes** Skinny Dipped Almonds **Code “mindpump” for 20% off** Mind Pump Episode 985: Mark Mastrov- Fitness Industry Empire Builder, NBA Owner & Original Mind Pump Mentor Amazon.com: Watch Waco: The Rules of Engagement | Prime Video The U.S. grounds the Boeing 737 Max aircraft — what that means for air travelers De Blasio Signs Off On NYC Public Schools Adopting ‘Meatless Monday’ Lunch Policy Casting a Wider Net: More Action Needed to Stop Seafood Fraud in the United States | Oceana USA Mob Rules: What the Mafia Can Teach the Legitimate Businessman - Book by Louis Ferrante Instagram post from PJF Performance on ‘Isometrics for Explosiveness’ Mind Pump Free Resources

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and New York City public schools having meatless Mondays. And then I talked about how there's a lot of seafood fraud going on apparently. Then we get into the fitness part of this episode. The first fitness question was, what are our thoughts on the Turkish get up? This is an old school exercise, a lot of debate around it, some people saying it's worthless

and other people saying it's a very functional movement that everybody should do. You get to hear our opinion, which is the right opinion, and that part of the episode. The next question, what are the benefits of doing isometric exercises? Like, the benefits of doing isometric exercises? Like, why would you do isometric exercises? This is when you hold mainly for the look on your face.

That's it. This is when you hold a position and squeeze your muscles. You're not flexing, you're not relaxing. You're just tensing and holding a position. Are there benefits to doing this form of exercise? The next question, do we feel that social isolation is becoming a health problem or a health concern? We talk a lot about tech in that part of this episode

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By the way, there are other maps programs on that side and bundles where we combine multiple maps programs If you're super serious check out the Super bundle it'll get you Workouts for the next year all those can be found at maps fitness products dot com. It's super What TV show was that song you're always singing Justin earlier? Which one? But we do We do baby Shall I will we do baby? Shall I love?

Yeah, what is that? Um, is that family ties? Family ties, yeah. Family ties! You got it. We're old. Michael J. Fox! We are old.

Yeah. Remember that show? Do you guys ever watched that family ties? I vaguely remember. You were growing paint. You like growing paints. I did like growing paints. Yeah.

How much more Cameron and Cameron? Kurt Cameron. Kurt Cameron, Cameron that's what it was I had a crush on his sister What's her name? She did the Sprint commercials something Cameron her no she was something else She's not even there to try. I don't know why I liked her the brown the dark brown. Oh, no, you know I'm thinking of who's the boss. Oh, what's the Milano? Yes, that's yes Do you know who I had the biggest crush on though? That was on TV when I was a kid? Who? I don't even know what her name is. She was the girl. It's just the commercial girl.

On the double-man girl. No, no, it is a commercial. I'll give you one more chance. Her blonde. I'll give you one more chance to find out to pick out who was. The double-man. It was a commercial. She did have dark hair.

That's all the hints you're gonna get. Jesus, that's all I get. Trust me, because once I say her, once I say, it was Winnie. From what was that? Wonder years? No, that's a commercial. No me because I once I say heard once I say we need from Wonder years no, that's a commercial commercial give him a commercial if I if I say it you guys are gonna freak out because I guarantee you both Loved her to the product you think it'll give it away that much Wow It was like 90s. It was like mid 90s. She did that good of a job every guy talked about her and nobody knew her name

We're gonna get an idea is referred to her as the 90s she did that good of a job every guy talked about her and nobody knew her name referred to her as the model wow something girl wow was it the one girl that no was in white snake video No, where are you going? Products right now. I'm going to say it specific is it an alcohol beverage? Is it a fast food restaurant something for your skin something for your scana? beverage is it a fast food restaurant something for your skin something for your Nazima The oil of a leg the new Georgina girl. Oh, Neutrogena. No, I don't remember. Yes, you do Yes, you do

Which is totally jerked off to different things when we get to know we all took off to the same thing I dog if you look up that just literally Google the new trade new Georgina girl The new Georga girl. You'll remember if you see her face, you're all gonna freak out. Is that her? No, that's not it. It's not Mickey Taylor.

I say the wrong thing. Mickey Taylor. You might be in that. I might say, no, no, no, no, no, no, the Nutrogena. Try that. Watch and NUT, or whatever, I don't know how to spell it. Just go ahead and spell it. Google will fix it for you.

It's a made up name. That girl in the middle with the curly arms. Nazima. You were right Justin. Did you say Nazima? I did say no. The noxima girl. Remember her? I do. I do kind of remember her. I knew you jerked off tour. Good Lord. Everybody did. Anyway, speaking of the night, speaking of the 90s, I went to the mall with Jessica the other day. We went to St. Antonio Rob, but what's across street? Valley Fair.

And we're walking around and we walk inside some stores that go shopping. And I swore to God, bro. I felt like I walked into 1996. And some of these, so the younger stores were like, like younger girls and they're like teens, 20s, whatever, shop. Bro, the mannequins were dressed like empire records or like the crap. It was like straight up, bro, the plaid skirts back.

That's coming back. plaid skirts everywhere. Thank you. The shoes with the round toe, the chokers, it was all 90s, dude. It's all back. It is, it's all back. Yeah.

So you can pull out your jenko. No, actually, I don't know if those are back in style. No, I don't think so. Yeah. That's how you know when you've gotten old officially because you've seen, you've seen go out of style and come back in style. Yes.

The flannels like wrapped around the waist thing. You know, like, building a tad and all that, like in this shredded kind of shirt. I've seen some holy stuff, like holy jeans and, you know, shirts are a little rugged these days. What 90s style do you hope doesn't come back? You guys think I want I think it's all mostly came back Remember the the slap wrist bracelets. Oh, yeah, that was really in though I was cool for a minute there

Remember you know what I saw one of on Ben Greenfield had a guest I made a comment on his Instagram, who had the chums, remember chums? Oh yeah! You put them on your own, please. You know, say them, and then you wear them, you always wear your necklace, are you wear your glasses around your chest,

all the time with your chums? I remember that. Those flipped up visors, like, all the douchebags would like spike their hair and then put like a visor backwards. Oh god, I was that guy, dude. Did you really? Of course you were.

Of course I had it. This was during... Did you bleach your tips or what? Yeah, yeah, my... Wow. I shared my frosty tips. That was huge. Just fucking in, bro. Easy there.

God, you're either the nerdy guys. You weren't cool. Nobody would do your frosty tips. You know what I'm saying? You needed some hot cheerleader girl to do your frosty tips. So, fuck you. Wow. Did you really? Do you have a girl doing for you? Of course. Of course you had a girl do your frosty tips. So fuck you. Did you really, do you have a girl do it for you? Of course, of course you had a girl do something.

We did it for you. Probably my girlfriend. Yeah, I put a girl I was dating at that time. That was popular though to do the frost the top of the head, like that. And I had the visor that you would flip upside down and wear backwards and then spike it like we were going out to play some beach volleyball or something. And you hang out with like three of your buddies and you'd all dance the same and sing together. Yeah.

Yeah. How about that Mark Mastroff story that he told about his son going and learning how to dance before he goes to the dance to be in hella good. All on an app. Yeah, I thought that was pretty. Like mastered on, I was like, dude, that's so awesome. I used to watch, you know where I would watch

to get dance moves, which by the way, was totally. Dude, that reminds me of Napoleon Dynamite though remember where he's like he watches a video and then all of a sudden Presented I feel like that was what Mark master of Sunday. Well, you have so much great information now because when I was a kid You know where we learn I would watch and living color. Yeah, I'm living color which some time girl Yeah, they would have some good some dance moves and you'd have to pick out the guy ones or whatever that did But otherwise we didn't really have it otherwise. What do we learn? We're doing this You do the boob shake. Yeah, where did we learn how to dance back when we were kids? What was on TV?

MTV videos yet. Yeah, yeah, yeah a lot of MTV videos Merri see member room MTV first came on the scene. It was all music videos. Yeah It's turning into trash TV now, and I think that it fell out of fate, well, fell out of fate for our generation that probably started with it. I missed that era. Like I still am surprised, especially with TV screens and cars and stuff

that we haven't got to this, where now with your music, you automatically get the music video that would also put in. It's funny, I could think of like three or four, like main artists that I totally was like trying. And of course, these are the ones with the best dance moves, like impossible ones.

And I'm trying to like figure it out. Like Michael Jackson. I had like Bobby Brown. I had like MC Hammer. And then what was the other one? I think it was James Brown. I was like trying to like reconstruct like some of their main, that couldn't do any of them.

Is there something going around right now with Bobby Brown? I've been sent like three different DMs. I told you my buddy sent me the Bobby Brown thing this morning. Is it like his birthday or some shit? Is that the video you showed us where he's dancing? Yeah, he's like a cocaine that he just grabbed on the group. It was in 1989, is that what it was?

1989 he's dancing at the MTV Awards and he drops a on the group. It was in 1989, is that what, 1989, he's dancing at the MTV Awards, and he drops a bag of cocaine. And it's like a big bag of cocaine. Like on national television. Yes. And he just picks it. I didn't even know that. I remember watching that as a kid,

but I don't remember that. Dude, nobody covered that. Like that must have just been something that like surface recently, right? Well, you didn't have the internet, which back then where you could like take that clip and replay it a million times. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah, it's like you could down. You watched it once if you missed it. Right, right. And speaking of stuff like that, I just don't recall it being like this. I, after Sal, Sal introduced us to the, the Waco, Waco, Texas, the documentary. Oh, I'm crying.

Oh my God. And I went home the next day and benged it with Katrina because it was so good. And the thing that I, and I, and I, I discipline myself not to go Googling all the answers and how it played out and just reading too deep into it because I was actually really interested in how the documentary unfolded from what I remembered it as. And what blew me away was I totally got the story wrong or what I should say, the FBI wanted to give the news media at that time. I was way off.

And so, man, that was a really fascinating documentary for me to watch because I remember it very vividly when it went on, but I also remember watching it went on and the information that the news was giving you was what they wanted to feed you back then versus all the behind the scenes stories that you don't find out until you watch the documentary. Well, think about where the news would get their information from. They would interview the FBI agents. Hey, what's going on?

Right. But that's one of the biggest black eyes on the, you know, on the FBI that ever, man. Like one of the worst things ever happened. I mean, so many people die doing that. So anyway, crazy, crazy story. So I told you guys, my daughter started running for like, it's a cult girls on the run. It's like a 5K.

Okay. So she's nine, right? So she's doing this girls on the wrong thing. And she's now done it like three times and yesterday We're sitting there and she's watching TV and she gets up and she's like ah Like what's the matter honey? She's like my leg my legs hurt so bad something's wrong with them like they're sore And I was laughing so hard. I'm like your legs are sore. So she's like what what do you mean? And I'm like well you you don't run ever that long. It's your first time ever doing it.

So I'm taking her through stretches and stuff. How crazy is that the first time you make that connection, right? You, when you're a kid and you get real sore. Well, do you, I know you guys remember this. You remember training clients that were so unethylatic that they had never felt that in their life before? Oh, they think some happened, like sorry. They never played sports or anything

and they think you injured them or some shit. They come doing, they're like, I could barely get out of my chair yesterday. Like, I think you hurt something. You know, they're knack and just doing crunches. Oh my God, I can't even move my knack. Yeah, I remember once, one of my very first workouts when I was 13 or 14,

my legs got so sore, I stayed home from school. I remember I woke up in bed, no joke. I woke up and I was in bed and I could barely move my legs and so I was calling out to my mom. She comes in and I'm like, I can't move my legs. She's like, what's wrong? She freaked out of course and I could barely walk.

So I stayed home from school that day. But so what I did with my daughter is, because I'm taking my son through workout. So I told her I said, well, help, is if you work out a little bit with me. Oh, that was a video you sent. Yes. I was just talking shit about kids. Yeah in the future. Oh, that was a video you sent. Yes. I was just talking shit about kids.

Yeah, I did that funny. So Sal was sharing how much she was paying for fucking private school about Jesus Christ. It's like two of my car pay for Jesus. Yeah, yeah. But anyway, I had my, I had my, we'd have a treadmill in the garage now. So she was walking on that.

I was lifting weights on my son and I was doing some exercises with my daughter. And then I was talking to her about, you know, proper nutrition after you work out, it can help you recover or whatever. So I gave them a smoothie box, smoothie, because it's really good. And you know what it reminded me of. So I got this, someone sent me a study in my DM and it was a study done on egg, consumption,

and protein synthesis. So protein synthesis, trust me, this all ties together. Protein synthesis measures kind of the muscle building process and you see it spike post-workout and certain types of foods that you eat post-workout will cause it to spike more or less. And now we've always been told post-workout you want to have just protein and maybe carbs. You definitely don't want to have fat because it prevents the absorption of the assimilation of proteins and carbohydrates. And this is what we all believed. And this is a great example of how the fitness industry has really gotten something wrong

and now we believe it to be true, but it's not. So the studies come out showing that whole egg protein is far more anabolic and I'm putting in quotations than egg white protein post workout. You get way more protein synthesis if you eat a whole egg and of course a whole egg includes a lot of the fats and then of course the cholesterol. Right and so the smoothie box drinks were perfect

because it's got carbs, proteins, and it's got the healthy fats. It's got the collagen protein. And it makes sense to me, like if the body's going to respond to food post workout and I know it's got the healthy fats. It's got the collagen protein. And it makes sense to me, like, if the body's going to respond to food, post workout, and I know it's a small effect and we should on it in the past, but if you're a high level athlete, this might make a little bit of a difference,

especially if you're gonna work out more than once during the day, my opinion, the body evolved eating proteins usually with fats. I can't think of a natural source of protein that doesn't include some form of fat. And most hunter gatherer societies, when they do get a source of protein like an animal, they go for the fat. They eat the fat first because it's so energy dense and it's got lots of nutrients in it oftentimes, especially the organs. So the smoothie box smoothies are just the balanced,

you know, balance they got the fats, they have the proteins, they have the carbs, it's all healthy. Well, speaking of kids like it. What's their preference out of the three? My daughter likes the cacao one. Yeah. Yeah, the cacao one is good. I can see that. Her favorite.

And I'll add a little bit of honey to it to make it a little sweeter sometimes. And it's good, it's got vegetables in it, which is you can, they wouldn't know. There's a high amount of it. They would have no idea. Speaking of fast, you guys see the newest skinny dips

that's coming out? Mm. Yes. No, the mint. Dark chocolate. I'm excited about this. Oh, you guys. This is my favorite flavor.

Oh, great. Probably. Yeah. Like, I really need it, but yeah, it's, dude, I love mint. That mint chocolate, like a dark chocolate, right? Yeah. Yeah. No, it's a great combo.

Were you a mint chocolate chip ice cream guy? Yeah. It was you with that, and then I, I don't know, somewhere around the line, it was between that and I got competitive between that and chocolate and peanut butter. Well, what I've loved about the skinny dip is one of the kind of bits. And I think this comes a little bit from Doug.

Like Doug is the dark chocolate guy. He's always been the dark chocolate guy. And I've never really been a dark chocolate eater. And as I've gotten, after competing, I really started to curb a lot of my crazy sweet addiction that I had. And if I just have a piece of that every once in a while, it really satisfies that craving. And I feel the same way about the skinny dip dominance. I feel like it's a light treat where I get this chocolate flavor. I know

I know, obviously it's got some extra calories in there that my my diet doesn't necessarily need. But if I'm having that sweet tooth craving, it's a perfect thing for me to curb that without indulging. And that's why I also like the single packs. Like, I won't buy the, I made the mistake the first time in order to like the big bags. Yeah, that's the move. And that for sure, because what I'll do is I'll go, we'll watch it. We'll be mindlessly eating because I'll be watching the, you know, the fucking TV.

And I'll grab that bag and then I'll just keep going to town. And the next thing you know, I've drilled half of that thing or all watch it. We'll be mindlessly eating because I'll be watching you know the fucking TV and I'll grab that bag And then I'll just keep going to town the next thing you know I've drilled half of that thing or all of it where if I do the individual packs I just go get it out of the freezer and it's just enough chocolate It's not you guys every that's what I mean. It's just like the cheapo chocolate almonds They're like chocolate a little bit of almond. Yeah, it's like where's the almond basically eating chocolate balls over here Which is fine if that's what you want to do it's I've already planned out You know bringing those for our snacks, you know, that we're bringing to the games for the kids, like between that and like some fruit, you know, like

I've already had that planned out, so they're going to love that. Oh, that's great. Yeah. How is your coaching going on over there? Crazy. Like, it's, I, I'm actually really digging it now that like we've laid down kind of a, a good foundation with the kids, like had, you know, a lot of it now that we've laid down kind of a good foundation with the kids. I've had a lot of the skills that we've been drilling on them. And this was their first game was last night.

How did they do? Did they win? They won, yeah. They won and it was a really close game. And so it's funny because there's no umpires. And so there's no like field umpires. There's no like umpire behind the plate. And we're using a pitching machine now, but we'll eventually, the coach will throw it and then the kids will throw it. So it's like this evolution where they'll learn to like how to steal bases and do all that

kind of stuff. So I'm third base coach. And I'm just like sending everybody in, you know, like totally over zealous, like, I'm rack up our points and like, no, you can't, you can't send them in when they're when they have it like in the infield and like the, the place dad or whatever. And I'm like, it wasn't dead yet. You know, so anyway, I was already like, you know, not, not doing well on the side of right, I was right behind me. Obviously, was the other team. So the game kind of kept progressing, and I didn't even know what the score was,

because I was used to like, with kids, like initially, somebody's keeping track, but it's like, nobody really gives a shit, but now they give a shit. Like everybody's like, really into this. And they're like, I guess it was like six to five. And the bases were loaded, and one of them scored, from third and coming running towards me was my son, right?

So he's running, I didn't know it was him. He's running towards me. They throw the ball, the third basement catches it and then tags him. Well, in my eyes, he tags him, right? Everybody else on our sidelines, like, was like, save, save. You know, like the coaches are looking at me because like, I'm closest, so I have to make the call. It's my son. And it's my son. And I was just like, looking

down and I'm looking back and then I'm listening to, and I asked, I actually waited a minute and I like asked the third time, like, you tag him and he's like, yeah, yeah, I tag him. And then like, like, he's like, you didn't tag me tag him and then like like he seems like you didn't tag me Oh shit, I was just like you're out That would bad it you later on or I got nothing but shit from that forever and my mom was in the stands. She's like how could you Like oh, no actually you did the right thing. Yeah, because it's they've been favorite it's better to be able harder on your on your on your I always have see that's the that's the thing. I need to hear that though because like Even court like everybody's like dude like but it's your kid, you know, I'm like yeah, but that's why he's out

Yeah, I mean like you got to work for it. That's right. You should read faster. Yeah, so it wasn't even close time It's yeah, but it's not close then you're fine It's also gonna set up a great conversation I'm sure on the way home where you could talk to him about not totally, but he had a great, he had a couple great plays. So I was just like, you know, like if it's, it's, it's nice because like I've been put so much work, you know, with him like all, as far as like the outside,

like we're working on his mechanics and like throwing and like I, I am just now starting to see like progress. Oh, that's so happy. And like, you know, stoked for him. Now does does Everett play with him? Do they go back and forth at home and play catch and stuff? Or no kind of not yet like mainly the hitting stuff. Like I caught him like outside like going back and forth

and like Ethan was setting up the tee for Everett and it was like going back and forth. So that was really cool to see. Ever has a game tonight, so yeah, so I'm excited. But you know what that reminds me of? It's like when I used to have big staffs, there would always be like one or two superstars. Like yeah, you'd have some good performers,

but there's that one person that really led the team and was really good and you would get close to them. And I would always make sure to be extra hard on them in front of everybody. So if they don't get that impression, like, oh, he's south favorite or she's south whatever. So I had to show everybody like, no, like he actually gets it harder than everybody else.

Well, it's funny though, because the head coach, like he's a friend of mine is just like, dude, but like, you know, we're down right now. We could use that, because like, we had to take away that score. You know, that tied it up. Yeah. And I was like, oh, no, I hope we win it up. This isn't my fault. You know, so Katrina. So the next one like we got like a bunch of runs. I was fine. Katrina was at her

nephews game this Saturday. They played a basketball game and it was like his first game that she'd seen them now. And her family, all the girls are like the bad ass athletes. The guys are athletes too, but the girls are all, all the ones that went to college playing basketball and she like that. Oh, no, you're not, they're great. Yeah, and so, and here's, this is her brother's son is now playing basketball.

And I asked her when I came home, I said, hey, how did Daniel do? Did he kill it or what? She's like, he did all right. You know, she'd be like, he's like totally political, right? I'm just like, what do you mean all right? Like, you're the basketball person of the family, like tell me, tell me, tell me, what did you see? You know, like, is he gonna political, right? I'm just like, what do you mean, all right? Like you're the basketball person of the family, like tell me, tell me, what did you see?

You know, like, is he gonna be a gifted at this or what? And she's like, well, I think Larry needs to work with him more. What do you mean, what do you mean? She's like, well, she goes, I just didn't realize that it would be someone in our family. She like, he was running around with, without his hands up. I mean, what do you mean, run around with his hands? And she's like, yeah, he was playing defense

with his hands down. Which, you know, I'm talking to her. We're both going like, that's just like a natural thing that you had. You just know to put your hands up. And she's like, he's, so he's doing a lot of things. She said that, you know, you would just think being in the family that we all played basketball forever, that he would just natural that, but he hasn't been trained. Yep. The fundamentals.

That's it. I've been going through that. I bet that's why I'm, that's why I'm sharing this. Cause I know what you're going through. I get it now, kind of listening to her share like her frustration of watching it. I've been going through that. I bet that's why I'm sharing this. I know what you're going through. I get it now kind of listening to her share, like her frustration of watching it and she was kind of like getting onto her brother like, dude, you got to fucking teach him, like the basic,

fun of the process. Like even boxing out, like the ball goes up and teaching him how to box it. Well, okay, he finally, she finally gets him to teach him how to box out. Well, he boxes out, but then the ball falls right in front of him. He doesn't grab it.

Yeah. So it's like, it's every step of the way. You have to teach these very basic fundamentals. And some kids naturally get it because she was like, her and I were trying to speculate on like, you know, why do you think he doesn't have it? And maybe you did and I did and things like that. So, well, you know, Nathaniel is really heavily into like,

gaming, video gaming and YouTube, even though he plays all the sports and he's talented and he's athletic, he's not really into watching it. I said, you know, you don't realize how much you learn by watching. Yes, how much education you get by watching NBA when you're when I was in when I was in fourth, third and fourth grade, I was already watching the NBA. Yeah, try getting on YouTube with that kid and watch what he does and, you know, try getting going online and watch understanding. Yeah, try getting on YouTube with that kid and watch what he does and try getting going online and watch. Yeah, it's that he's watching the video game stuff, which is what he's drawn to right now

for his entertainment. As you see back when we were kids, we didn't have a lot of those things, big things were sports watching sports. So you watch live. So you emulated your favorite players. So now talk about a challenge for fathers now that would assume that like you and I probably... Like you go play baseball with your buddies all the time.

Now I'm gonna teach you some other things about it. He hasn't even learned the basics. Exactly, yeah. No, I had a conversation with my ex-wife the other day because she's like, oh, I went through our son's phone and I just, I go through it every once in a while and this doesn't seem to be anything on there that's bad and I start cracking up.

Like, you really think we're gonna find shit on his phone. That kid knows more about tech and had a hide stuff and had to do stuff than probably the tech experts that work at your company. Because these kids grow up with that stuff, you know what I mean? That's what they know. The stuff that we grew up knowing, like how to like, you know, like jump with your bike

on a ramp, they don't know how to do that shit because nobody does that. Well, they had a dial a phone. No, that's true. It totally reminded me of when Justin first shared, you know, when he was first teaching him how to catch the ball, just like how you would think something as obvious is, I think it's intuitive.

Yeah, it's not. Yeah, I know you do. So that's what she was sharing that with me. A lot of things that we would just think is intuitive to playing ball that he just neglects to do. And he said, you know, you could see he's, and he plays at the sports, so he's an athletic kid. So he has a potential to be good.

Right. But he's like clueless to the fundamentals. And it's like, what, what, No, there's, there's natural aptitude, but then there's also learned, you have to learn on top of it. So there are, you know, kids kids who are more have better mechanics naturally, but you gotta learn, and if you don't learn,

then you're not gonna know anything, like here's the thing, I remember as a kid going to Italy when I was 11 or 12, and one of my buddies bought like a rubber ball, and we were throwing it. And I'm an 11 year old, 12 year old, but I'm from America and in America, most of the popular sports are done with your hands. And Italy, they play soccer.

So we're throwing the ball. These kids, I remember watching them throw and I'm laughing at it like these guys can't even throw. But you give them the ball to kick and you watch these kids dribble with their feet and kick the ball. And it's because the skills were just practiced differently over there. They knew how to handle with their feet,

you know, whereas over here, everything's done with their hands. Anyway, did you guys see what Trump just did? Like literally hours ago? I saw you, you messaged us in our thread about the 737. He just grounded all the Boeing 737. Why?

So there were two crashes that happened. I don't remember where the first one happened, but I know the second one happened in Ethiopia, and they were 737s, basically brand new. These are Boeing planes, and the basically took off, minutes later, nose dive, crashed. And both crashes were very similar. And so you had all these airline regulators

throughout the world, Canada, the UK, China, grounding them because of some of the news reports and they're saying there may be something wrong with this actual, with this plane. Well, the US is the only country that didn't ground them, but it looks like they just got new information. And they're now, they're just, they've just grounded them on. Well, that's interesting. That's crazy.

Like statistically, like, like planes that crack, I mean, that's a very low percentage, right? Extremely rare, but could you imagine if they found something actually wrong with the plane itself? Yeah, no, well, that's why that makes sense. That's alarming that if, you know, they've already had like that specific model has done that and like, you know, just gone up and straight back down. I feel like they're being very conservative just to be safe.

But boy, Boeing is going to lose so much money. I mean, if you own airplanes and you're an airliner or are you following the stock right now, I'm not following it all. I haven't seen what I'm pretty sure it's plummeting. I don't see why it wouldn't. So, okay, so how many total did they put a number out there of the Boeing planes that they've grounded? Yeah.

There's quite a few, like Southwest has a lot of these planes. Yeah, I was just like, is this like, like everybody's flights are fucked? A lot of people's flights are probably screwed. But, I mean, yeah, there's a lot of them. But, I mean, this is crazy because, first of all, when you have a business like airplane, that's a major fear people have, right?

But planes are very safe. All you need is a little bit of a rumor or whatever, and you're screwed. Look at that nine, what was that nine in Detroit alone? Yeah, it's crazy. Wow. That is, that's not it. I thought it was

like some new development, like terrorist related thing or something. No, it's just literally, they're getting more information, but it's like the plane literally just, like they couldn't, they couldn't control it. Yeah. They have recordings from the, from the pilots, and they were struggling to just control like something just happened, and it just, it just went down. So it's crazy. It's, it's the 737-8 and the 737-9 planes. That is gonna hurt their business. Yeah, I think it's how many planes is it saying that article Doug, like 302 or something like that?

I mean, it's gonna cause some problems, you know what I mean? It's gonna cause some travel problems. I don't know exactly how many, but nonetheless, pretty crazy. It looks like it messed up 302 flights. We might have some cheap tickets coming up though. Sweet. Or great times to buy in some companies.

Yeah. All these companies are going to take a probably a big hit. And then the rebound of some of these companies like Southwest and Boeing and stuff like that on the way. Because those are, Boeing's a great stock period. Yeah. That's crazy. It's a company that's been around for a year.

It says 385 flights or planes, I believe. That's quite a bit. 344 of the max eight variant, the ones that crashed. It's pretty crazy. Also, more news. Did you guys see New York City public schools are doing a... The vegan day.

Meatless Monday. Yeah, I saw that. What a... What a dumb political... It's all posturing, virtue signaling. We're so, you know, they're still eating meat Tuesday through, through Friday, but we're Mondays we don't eat meat. And supposedly that's healthy, except you know,

things like potato chips, french fries, and you know, bread and cereal bowl. I don't know what you say, or is your like, carb free day? Oh, and it's still dumb. It's so dumb. Why wouldn't they do that then? That's how I feel like, I'm not opposed of it, but then throw in the other days in the day.

Yeah, why do you think? Why? Why do you think New York City, first of all, consider the politics of New York. Right. Why do you think the public schools would have a meatless Monday? It's 100% virtue signaling.

Hey, look at us. We're so, we care so much. It's better for the environment. It's better for animals. So we're gonna give all the kids no meat on Mondays. I would love to see the food that they're actually gonna serve them on Mondays instead. It had a picture of it, I saw the article,

didn't have a picture of it, Doug, maybe you can see what they, what they, what they, it's probably gonna be like a soy sandwich or something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Boy is going through, you know, developing breasts at the age of eight, you know, because of all the soy that they're eating. Yeah.

Yeah, crap. One more article that I'll share with you guys. I had no idea, this is Jackie shared this, that apparently there's a lot of seafood fraud in the United States. I didn't even know this existed. Thank you guys for this. Fakes seafood.

Well, like, food that comes in that says it's a regional favorite, but in reality, it's not comes in that says it's a regional favorite, but in reality, it's not locally sourced, it's from far away. Or seafood, you know, so that says sea bass, that's actually a different fish, a lower value species. Oh wow. So literally it comes to a lot of you. Well dude, there was a report that came out that showed that one

in every five fish that they tested was mislabeled. Whoa, one at every five. One at every five, that's huge. One at every three establishments visited sold mislabeled seafood. How crazy is that? So you could be, oh, this is sea bass, but they're giving you like, you know, tilapia.

For some shit. Now, I would think we're at, that's less common. Being by the bay, being access to North, I would think that I saw they had a map and they showed the regions that it was most popular. I would think it would be more central, right? Um, one of them's in California, but Southern California, near Mexico.

Yeah, like look like LA, San Diego area. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, that's kind of infuriating, you know what I mean? Yeah. You're gonna buy something you think you get one thing or you're getting something else. That's pretty annoying. Yeah, that don't know. I mean, that's kind of infuriating, you know what I mean? That you're gonna buy something, you think you get one thing, you're getting something else. That's pretty annoying. Yeah, that's crazy. I mean, it's not completely similar,

but I remember Taco Bell, they got under fire for the horse meat thing, right? Was that the confirmed amount? I don't think that on horse meat today. No, I believe there was some like urban, I brought up the horse meat thing in the book that I was currently reading right now with the mob rules. That's what it was. And I'm not Taco Bell.

Yeah. Are you sure? I'm pretty sure they're under fire for some meat. Hey, don't get a suit, Justin. Yeah, Richray. Richray. No, just look at it. Look it up.

Look it. No, what happened with Taco Bell was that their meat wasn't all meat. It wasn't 100%. Well, it was the other part. I think they, oh shit, look at that. Maybe you're right. That's 2000, 2013. Thank you.

Food safety officials say they have found traces of horse meat and ground beef sold by fast fish. Take that, just for fun. Taco Bell, I'm Britain. Oh, okay. It was one place over there. That's all right. At least it didn't affect us.

The mob still over there. Yeah. Yeah. Fuck, man. Oh. That's alright. At least it didn't affect us. The mobs, and the mobs still over there. Yeah! Oh, crap. Quiqueau! There you go, I have my everything. Maps ququeau! Today's ququeau is brought to you by Max and Obolic.

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Quikwa... Alright, our first question is from Kisha, Brittany. What are your thoughts on Turkish get-ups? Turkish get-up. Ooh. Who wasn't I was talking shit about? Jordan, shallow. Dr. shallow.

Our boy. What does he talk shit about? He's, okay. He's in the strength camp, you know what I'm saying? I think that's, for the most part, I like, I mean, he did a post the other day. You see the post he did? He did a post where he was. He said weak people don't get hurt. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so he made he made a strong stance on it

And so I got a lot of DMs actually from from that people ask me what do you think about this? What do you think about I said? I know where Jordan's coming from and why he's saying this I think that there I think for the most part Most humans don't strengthen enough in general the most humans don't strengthen enough in general. I know that there's this, you know, movement, functional movement, culture that's happening right now, and you're getting a lot of gurus in that space. And I think he represents the antagonist to that.

Yeah. He checks them well. Yeah, and I love it. So I love where he's coming from. That same token, he can find himself in that, you know, be the strongest gorilla and the jungle mentality, also, that I think that there's,

what I wrote underneath his post is exactly how I feel. I was like, you know, the truth is that there's been, he hasn't felt old man pains yet. Right, you know, the truth is there's many truths. And there's also, he works a lot with athletes. He works with people who perform at a high level. You know, I've trained very few high level athletes. Most of the people I've trained were just your everyday people.

And let me tell you, correctional exercise, it's done properly. And of course, strength is always the goal. That's important to understand. This is the thing Jordan, you know, understands very well and explains very well. You do, strength is the ultimate goal. You have to, correctional exercise,

many times is the way you can get to strength, especially when you're talking about, well, you know, an average person. That's where it matters the most in my opinion. And when you're, and he's right, like when you're talking about athletes, I mean, I remember when Brink first brought that to our attention when we first met Brink,

he's, and when he said, what do you do when you have a, you know, a pro fighter or, you know, pro wrestler guy or pro anything? And, and he's got all these imbalances and he's fucked up. Like, he's like, oh, you, you can't try and fix that on him because he's already become so great at compensating for that. That if you were to try and fix the imbalance, you would fuck up his mechanics and he's built for the last 15, 20 years of becoming a pro. So I totally understand what's going on. The whole reason why we brought up Jordan was because he shit on the Turkish get ups. And again, for an athlete that has very specific goals, I don't see as much carry over for that. But for the average person, man, I got somebody stop him by to see me

today. She drops in every once in a while to say hi and kind of check on her movement and look over her food. And she's been a long time client friend of mine. One of my favorite things that I make her do is I tell her, I say, listen, if you're not going to do anything else, you know, get in there and do 10 Turkish get ups on each side with your little kettlebell thing that I've got you. And it's if you perform it right and correct, it's such a great full body movement that, I mean, it's got rotational stuff in there. You hit all the planes when you're in there.

It requires good shoulder mobility. It requires good hip mobility. It's a one-ketch-all exercise to promote all those things and you can load it so it can be somewhat of a strain. Now, can you ever compare a hundred pound Turkish get up to a guy like Jordan's quitting 600 pounds? Like, no, fuck no, like you, it's not even in the same universe. But for the average average day person who you're trying to promote good, good movement,

oh man, it's a different discipline. This is like a coordinated, uh, structured array of movements that we're trying to string together. So it's, it's very much more highlighted as a skill. So this is like, these are, these are a sequence of movements that I'm trying to string together. Now, can I do that and think of that in terms of like my sport? Can I think of that in terms of like, well, how am I gonna move this object from down here, all the way upstairs and be able to hold this? Well, there's a lot of like multi-tasking kind of variables

thrown out you on a daily basis. And I think that this is one of those where it's just like, okay, let's slow everything down. Let's work on the intention of movement and being really in tune with my body and having like ultimate command over my body. There are some recent studies that connect your ability to get up off the ground without having to use your hands to your chances of all cause mortality.

Right. And that's a skill. That's a skill that we lose as we get older because we sit on chairs. It's a fundamental skill being able to get up off the ground. And a Turkish get up, that's literally what you're doing. There's a technique to it, but you are getting up off the ground. The other thing too is it because of the extended position of the Turkish get up, you have to learn how to brace

your entire body and build stability in your entire body from your hand, all the way down your shoulder, to your back, to your hips, to your knees, your ankles, everything, and be very, very tight. And I'll put this challenge out there to anybody. You get your client or you yourself get good, and I mean good. I don't mean good at you. You could do a million of them.

I mean, with good form, good form, good control, good stability. Get really, really good at doing Turkish get ups, you're probably gonna have decent mobility and you're probably gonna be relatively pain free throughout your entire body. It's not a specific exercise, like it's not gonna develop any one particular part of your body. It's not this great hypertrophy exercise,

but it is one of those exercises that leads you to getting better results from other exercises. Okay, so when you look at movements, when you look at exercises, some exercises are very effective at building muscle and building strength. Other exercises are very effective at getting you to the point where you can build lots of muscle and lots of strength. And the Turkish get up is kind of one of those.

If you do really, really good Turkish get ups, you probably have good shoulder mobility and stability to be able to do heavy overhead presses. You could probably do at least the lunge, if not a squat. You probably have good core stability, some decent rotation. You're in generally in good health over your whole body. Now, that being said, there are athletes that I believe get direct benefit from doing Turkish

get ups. In particular, if you're a grappler or you train in mixed martial arts, your ability to get up off the ground with weight on your body, and there's a lot of technique to this, by the way. So just doing Turkish get ups is not going to make you good at it, because there's a lot of technique involved, so you have to practice that. But that will help you strengthen some of the movements that you need to get up. And that's where this exercise got popular.

Turkish get ups came from the Turkish wrestling tradition. And the Turkish wrestling tradition, those guys have been working out for a long time. Your mace bells and your clubs and stuff, they would use those devices to build strength. And they had this long tradition of these wrestlers who were incredibly strong. And one guy, I think his name was the great Gama, I think his name was, was undefeated for years.

And Turkish get-ups was part of their training regime. I think that's one of those where you could see. Like, okay, this could directly sort of translate into those types of movements. And you could see how that would like apply specifically. I think for, you know, just somebody that's just powerlifting all the time, or doing something that's only in the sagittal plane, like it's massively beneficial for them, just to maintain and keep these communication pathways accessible. And like, have your joints go through ranges of motion that you're not hitting frequently enough. And so what are we doing?

We're setting ourselves up for repetitive pattern injuries as a result of like stressing the same type of movement like consistently. Let's do something different to make sure that everything's oiled and working properly. And this is one of those. Now, I also think though it's important, so it reminds me kind of like me practicing

the overhead squat right now. An exercise that I probably would not promote in the past, but now I see this major benefit in it because of the work that I've done to get the proper mobility to perform the movement really well. So now that I have the mechanics to actually, and the mobility to perform the movement really well. So now that I have the mechanics to actually and the mobility to perform an overhead squat with good form and good technique, now I think it's a staple exercise that I want to keep into my routine forever because I know that it promotes me keeping that stability and

that strength and that good mobility that I work so hard to get. I think of the Turkish get up very similar because if you see someone doing a Turkish get up and I have a client who has terrible mechanics and can't do it, there has a lot of mobility issues, and all I have them do is these Turkish get ups that look really sloppy, then I see very little benefits to the movement. But if you do treat it like Justin said earlier,

as a skill or South said, as a skill, a style said, as a, as a skill, and you keep practicing that skill and you get really good at the movement. And you don't, you're not thinking about, oh, I'm getting more weight up. I'm doing more reps. You're trying to break each part down because in the Turkish kid, there's what? It's like six parts or eight parts. It's broken up in like six or eight parts to complete one full rep. And if you have, if you have actually broken up all six parts or eight parts to complete one full rep. And if you have actually broken up all six parts

or eight parts, whatever it is, and focused on making sure that you're doing each one of those perfectly, I think it's a great exercise to always incorporate into your routine to promote that overall good mobility and all these different joints that are having to work in order to get completely up off the ground. Yeah, this would be an exercise that I would do at the beginning of a workout as part of my

priming, getting my whole body ready, or something I would do in the morning when I wake up as part of my daily activity to wake everything up. It's not in isolation movement, it's not a, again, very sp- it's not like I'm, oh, it's leg day. I do Turkish get ups. Yeah, you use everything correct with the Turkish I use I've actually recently taught this to also like Taylor right? I love this move for someone like like him who's not end-alifting like he just is doesn't care to be buff He doesn't want to really change his physique But he does realize he's getting in his 30s now and he's gonna have to be stable one and what I've explained to him is like You know, you don't need if you're not trying to progress here physique. You's gonna have to be stable. And what I've explained to him is like, you know, you don't need,

if you're not trying to progress your physique, you don't have to be so crazy structured about your programming and follow everything that I, we're telling everyone to do all the time because you don't care about that. But there are like, you can look at your workout differently and pick an exercise or a movement

that has lots of benefit and carry over and practice it for the entire hour. So, and he does, I do this also and I actually promote this with some of my clients that have the same attitude towards working out. Not everybody, you know, there's probably a small percentage of this audience that listens, but there is a percentage that doesn't like to work out. And it's, they don't like to do tons of different exercises, but if they, they do like working

on skills or are practicing something and watching themselves progress and get better, these people I feel do really well with an exercise like this. I teach it and then my job is, hey, the next time I see you, I want to see improvement. I want to see improvement on the skill and then their whole workout sometimes is just a Turkish get up. I think there's nothing wrong with doing that. And I have clients and I have people like tailors, but I've actually introduced a movement like this and taught them to do it.

Just like I have with the squad or a big or lifter or a big movement like that, I think Turkish GitHub is right up there in one of the best full body overall movements. And plus, if you are a high level athlete, like a power lifter or a weight lifter or a football player, whatever, the number one obstacle that can prevent you from making any gains or improvements whatsoever Bar none hands down as an injury hands down and one of the ways that you can prevent injury is by Doing different movements doing different things training your body in different ways So if you're a power lifter It's probably a good idea to try doing light

Turkish get-ups every once in a while to to might prevent you from hurting yourself just because you're moving your body differently doing some yoga or stretching or whatever so sometimes athletes will look at things and say that doesn't have any application to me but you know many times it's just the fact that you're moving differently and it's gonna help prevent injury because I know lots of strength athletes and when you ask them hey what's the one thing that kept you from hitting your goals more than anything else? They'll tell you, injured. I got injured and then that was it. I couldn't, I couldn't work out hard anymore, whatever for five months or whatever. Next question is from Keenan 869. What are the benefits of doing isometric exercises,

such as the ones in maps performance? Isometric exercises. So, I'm going to give a little quick synopsis of how the muscles contract and then we can talk about isometric movements. So muscle contractions are broken down into three categories. There's the concentric contraction. This would be me flexing my biceps so me curling my arm. There's eccentric which would be me lowering away because remember that's a muscle contraction. Well, if I'm lowering away with control, my muscles contracting the whole time. Right, those would just fall.

And then there's isometric, where it's just holding in place. And all three of them have their place, and all three of them have different levels of damage they can cause, and muscle growth that they can stimulate, and all that stuff. Now, it's pretty widely known that the eccentric, the lowering of weight, causes the most whatever damage, but also sends the loudest muscle signal.

But the problem with eccentric loading is that it just causes so much damage you can't do it that much. The next one down the line would be the concentric, the positive portion of the rep, that will give you lots of power and performance, give you less damage, which means you could do more of it. This way, you know, you get Olympic lifters who can lift all day long, they drop the weight, they don't lower the weight like a body builder will.

So they don't get as much muscle size per se, but they can train a lot. They can train with high volume high frequency, and they do build a lot of strength. Isometrics are great because they cause, I would consider the least amount of damage. This is something that you can use to ramp up the volume in a relatively safe way. Yeah, they're not gonna be as damaging to the joint

because I mean, it's very specific to, really what it's doing, it's emphasizing the recruitment process of like, okay, I need to tap into this ability to generate force and so how do we do this? That's one where you could really zero in on the whole process it takes for you to be able to generate the appropriate amount of force for you to then overcome load

and go through the full range of motion. So a lot of times I'll use this as a great tool to up the capacity for you to be able to really ramp up the amount of force production you can promote at any given time. Yeah, I also like isolation, excuse me, isometric movements to focus on sticking points. That's one of my favorite ways actually to use it. So, you know, if you work out, and you're listening right now, I'm sure you can think of lifts and sticking points within those lifts.

So maybe when you bench press, it's when you come down to your chest, and after about two inches of coming up, that's where you tend to stick, or a squat, typically it's at the bottom of a squat where you tend to stick. And isometric movements are excellent for focusing on those sticking points.

And so what you can do, for example, if let's say you do get stuck at the bottom of a squat, as you could get down in the bottom of a squat and tense up your entire body. If you want to take it to the next level, you can actually push against an immovable object, like a weight that's loaded, so have you can't move it. And you just drive against it doing an isometric contraction.

And with that, it radiates your body, activates more muscle fibers, and actually improves strength not just in the position that you're doing the contraction, but in actually a wider range of just that position. So I don't remember how many degrees it is patting. And each degree is on each side. So you actually get a pretty wide range of strength

application and you're not over-training and burning yourself out which is great. Sometimes you're training yourself so hard and kind of you're on that line and if you just add you know two more sets of regular squats it's going to be too much but you know you want to add a little bit more to an isometric. You know bodybuilders by way, have been doing this for years, for decades, for building muscle. Like the old timers, what they would do at the end of a set is they would pose. Posing, if you read Arnold Schwarzenegger's

encyclopedia bodybuilding, or you read some of the old bodybuilding magazines, posing was one of their favorite forms of exercise besides lifting weights. You saw Bruce Lee do this after, like every set of squats you would go out and then he would squeeze and radiate his whole body and I mean really just promoting more of that overall Access to like I said the force production of it so you can bring it back into the squat now

He feels you know more stable and more capable. That's it. That's it. Think about it this way Like your central nervous systems what gives you the juice to generate your power? Of course your muscles are the there the displays that power, but it doesn't matter how big and strong your muscles are if the juice that you're generating through your central nervous system is weak, just like speakers and amplifiers and analogy I've used many times in the past. Well, your ability to generate juice from your central nervous system is something you can improve upon.

You can actually get yourself to the point where you might only be tapping into 50% of your capacity. Isometric type training is a much safer way of getting, it's actually isometric training is one of the safest ways to increase the amount of CNS force production that you can summon. Well, that's the main way. I feel like I use it or you would even use it as an athlete. I'll bring up my favorite way to teach

or what I think I've taught the most as far as an isometric movement. I love to take a client who's told me they only feel squats and their quads. And I'll do these floor bridges and have them at the top of the bridge squeeze their ass as hard as it and hold it and hold that position. And I love it for teaching people on I'll put them in an area of deep squat. I'll put them in that position and then I'll get their posture in the right position and have them hold that. It really helps them to understand where

they should be recruiting all this, right? So when you talk about the CNS, you know, doing this floor bridge where I have a client squeeze their butt at the top of the floor bridge and hold that for like 10 seconds and fatigue and then come down and come up and squeeze hold again. Okay. Now I've got you understanding that the glutes are dominant for this this hip hinge movement. We're about to go do that now in a squat position. I want you to think about that in that. It really helps them make that Connection when when they're performing Yeah, they asked why they see it in performance too, and I think that

Something like you know the dumpy squat for instance where it's like a stick you're pushing up overhead like As you're going through that that squat you're getting down into depth It's it's exposing where maybe you're losing the breaking, the, the bracing mechanism. And so that's, that's something that's a part of the process of like, I, we're slowing it down. So you're understanding, like, what you should be feeling, even when you're loaded. And these are teaching, these are valid techniques for you to then apply towards all these other programs we have, but this was an opportunity to expose people to other valid training techniques that are out there that will really help a lot of times it's like a key that was a missing component that you know was not in their program. You guys should so Jackie will hopefully shout out Jackie for always helping out with the show notes and being on top of this stuff PJ performance Just two posts ago so it'll probably be three or four posts ago was literally around the importance of I in fact

He thinks it's the most important and the first step in any performance type of program or sports training And he did a really good right up on that. I love this material that he always puts out He's awesome. Yeah, just two posts ago. He literally touched on isometrics and sports training. So those that are curious to that. It's the forgotten way of exercising that strength athletes used to use quite a bit a long time ago. And it got forgotten for some reason, but there's... It's boring. It's not sexy. Yeah.'s, and yeah, right, watch a video of someone tough to sell. Yeah, watch a video of a nitometric exercise. It's just someone standing still, right?

You can't even tell what the hell they're doing. It is a very safe way of being able to generate more power from your CNS. It's also a very low cost way. What I mean by cost is cost on your ability recover. It's a very low cost way of increasing volume for your to build muscle. And again, bodybuilders have known this for a long time.

You talk to top bodybuilders, even today, but especially in the past, after they worked out their chest, they would sit there and just contract and squeeze the shit out of the chest for 15 seconds at a time. Now I've done this forever because I always gave me a good pump.

Like, you finish your workout at the end of your bicep workout and just squeeze and flex the shit out of your biceps and watch how they feel afterwards. It's amazing. And again, you don't get like crazy soreness from it, so something you can add without worrying about having to, you know, dramatically increase the amount of recovery time. Next question is from Brenda Ferias 51.

Do you feel social isolation is a growing health concern? Definitely. 100%. Yeah, that's just in question. There's a depression, anxiety on the rise, and it's on the rise very quickly in the younger generations in particular. And social isolation, I think, is the wrong word because we're definitely still very social in the sense that you know

We're on social media and we're talking to lots of people. It's different. Yeah, it's a different kind of So you know socializing. It's not the same kind of contact. It's not the same mindful present type of Socializing, you know when you're with just one person and there's no electronics involved It's just you and that person when you're on your phone or on your computer You're talking to one person talking to the person talking to the other you're very distracted. It's not as deep And here's a thing we you know, we talk about you know health problems in modern societies The biggest one that we're still tackling now is the change of modern societies where we've become

very sedentary and we've had access to hyper-palatable foods and that's caused the obesity epidemic and a lot of our health problems that we see in these modern societies. The next big, big one is this kind of digital technology wellness. It's going to be looking at how we can create practices around technology. Now I agree with that. I agree with that on the direction you're taking this question, but when I think of like this, what I wonder sometimes when we're answering the way we are, I'm not completely disagreeing with you. I just think that sometimes we sound like the old guys who just are not

accepting the new way things are done and you know I wonder if old guys who just are not accepting the new way things are done. And, you know, I wonder if old guys have a lot of wisdom. Think about all the shit. Think about all the shit that old guys told you when you were a kid. And you wish you could listen. Right, so, but what I'm wondering though is, is this just going to be the way that we all communicate in the future? You know, it seems ridiculous, but will we communicate in the same room like we are sitting right now and instead of actually looking at each other and talking to each other,

it's actually faster and easier through this digital product that we have because I can maybe, and probably look, again, if you go back 80 years and you show someone, you know, you had food from the future and you're like, here's a frozen pizza and a whatever, a pizza pocket. And you're like, hey, most people are gonna be eating like this in the future. They're like, no way, no one's in, and they did, but we have side effects. We have consequences as a result.

I'm not debating at all that it's moving in that direction. This is a ship that's not gonna turn. Right. All I'm saying is, this is the new world, and just like today, look, here's a deal. If you wanna be active today, no, I can get behind that, bro. I can get behind that all day that

this is the direction it's for sure going and I don't think we're going to stop it and I think we're gonna have to put in practices. Yeah, I think it's the analogy like why we have gyms, like why we have practices based around like physical activity because we've figured out how valuable that is. Like we've tried to eliminate hard laborers jobs and we've done a really fucking awesome job at that, right?

So to that, what's the side effect of that? But the side effect is that we're getting unhealthy and obese, right? So along those lines of like having like person a person interactions and real communication where you're connecting to that person, that's a valuable fucking thing. Dude, in the past, not the long ago, you couldn't be isolated.

You had to at least get out of your head. Well, I feel like there's already practices that are being put in place. And I'm not gonna put anybody on front street right now, but we've got lots of nerdy podcast friends, right? And almost every one of them we know, especially the very successful ones have invested in groups that they fucking hang out with. They pay tens of thousands of dollars a

year to be a part of a group where they have organized fucking sleepovers and they have organized fucking weekend trips. And they have games that they had. It's funny. But for someone like me who's always been social, I look at them and I kind of snicker, but I get it though. I get that you're talking about the people that I'm thinking about right now, were buried in books, were buried in tech already

at a very early age. I mean, I was the kid who didn't get a computer until I was in college. I didn't have computer growing up and so on that. I didn't have these resources, I didn't have these tools, I didn't have these addictive things. Dude, it's no different than me telling my great-grandfather, every day I spend an hour working out,

lifting heavy things and putting them down. He would laugh his ass off and be like, you do what? He goes, I just go to work. That's how I'm active. It's the same thing. Here's a great example. I'll tell you what, when I was a kid,

my parents never had to schedule play dates. You fucking played with your friends. Today, I think that's why it makes my skin crawl never had to schedule play dates. You fucking played with your friends. Today, I think that's my skin crawl. Today you schedule play dates. That is a practice that has already happened. It's already been created by parents because if you don't create a play date, your kids don't play. So that's a going back to my point again that sometimes we sound like the old men that

are, oh, the sky is falling, right? I think that it is becoming a growing concern. I also think there's already things in place that we're doing to counteract that because when I, the era that I originally grew up in, if you needed to pay $10,000 a year to hang out with a group of friends just to get you to fucking be social

and network with each other, I think that's ridiculous. But that's also coming from somebody who didn't, I didn't lose that skill, I think that's ridiculous, but that's also coming from somebody who didn't, I didn't lose that skill. I had that skill. I had to develop that skill as a kid, so I get it, and I get why playdates have to happen now. So, is it really that much of a concern? Or are we pretty smart, freaking monkeys, and we'll probably start to do things to counter that, and it's already happened? It might take a few generations, just like it took a few generations to learn about smoking, and it's taking us more generations

to learn about activity and food. I think that the trends happen, fat, let me put it this way, okay? Nobody had a fucking cell phone in their hand, 25 years ago, very few people did, right? Today, everybody has cell phones everywhere. We're talking about 20 years. They're all over the place, and people are super, super connected.

That is a very, very fast trajectory. The practices that follow happen as a consequence, and those practices are always a step or two behind. And they practices don't happen until people see widespread problems. So I'm not saying the world, the sky is falling, but what I am saying is us being in health and wellness, us being in fitness, we see this the writing on the wall.

And we're the first ones to really talk about this as a wellness practice, but you mark my words 10, 15, 20 years from now, it's gonna be like going to the gym. People are gonna have to create practices around technology. I mean, I agree with that. I mean, I'm the one who's been saying on this podcast forever that I think it's going to be there's going to be a clear line between people that are plugged in and unplugged. They're going to be people that are going to just that are not going to listen to you and

be like, fuck you and your whole thing. You need to be well this. I'm plugging all the way in because it's so cool and all the cool things that I can do that you can't do. And then there'll be people that are probably wiser and older and realize that hey, it's there is some great things to these tools, but with these tools also come these consequences that you're talking about.

So I think we're gonna have a clear division of plugged and plugged. It'll be interesting to see. I just think like with parents right now, for example, I think you're seeing with parents, some of them are putting practices in place with their kids, but some parents aren't. I think in 10 to 15 years,

most parents will put practices. I just think the parents that don't just don't know. They don't know that, like I have friends whose kids have unlimited access to iPads and their phones. There's a lot like that, dude. And the kids literally do that shit all day. All day.

And they just don't know that there's potential, you know, negatives that can happen. This is a really silly example, but like I told this, I think a long time ago on the podcast where it's just funny, because I still give my dad shit about this today, because like I vividly remember like having a cab over the back of his truck, and I was obviously no seat belts. I his, the back of his truck,

and I was obviously no seat belts. I'm in the back of his truck, I'm on these long trips, but right next to the gasoline tank, and it was like, oh, I was getting with gasoline fumes all the way to like, you know where we're going camping. And it's like, you didn't know how bad that was for you.

You know, till just now. So I don't know, man. It's like, yeah. That's why I forget everything now, though. Yeah. Thanks, Dad. Yeah. No, I think there, I think it's going to be, it's going to be

interesting to see the kids, especially the kids that were born in the last three to five years to see them over the next 10 to 15 years, because I do feel like we're starting to hear some things like, I mean, just three years ago or five years ago, nobody was saying anything about evil, Google or Facebook or anyone using these tactics to get you looped in. We are so busy celebrating how amazing it all was. So you're just now starting to see the books come out and conversations around. It's like any tool. It's like any tool.

If I took a hammer and placed it on the table, it wouldn't be good or bad. It's all in how you use it. And the technology, the internet, is quite possibly the most powerful tool that mankind has ever created. And so the consequences of that are gonna be, can potentially be massive and monumental,

and the upsides can also be massive and monumental. It's all gonna be in how we use it, agreed. Next question is from Adam Pullman-Fitt. What one of your failures has taught you the greatest lesson in life? Oh man, the greatest lesson. Which one of your failures has taught you the greatest lesson? I'll give you probably the deepest one for me

that I haven't shared on this podcast before. Somebody asked me, I think in an interview or one of my Q&A's, a similar question, and my response was the short sell of my house. I think that I would put that up there with what I think was one of my greatest failures and then what ended up being probably one of my greatest lessons in life.

And for me, the lesson was this was, you know, those that know my story because if you listen to podcasts for a long time know that I didn't come from very much, I had a rougher childhood than some. And because of that, I was extremely adamant to not be like my parents, to be financially responsible, to be very successful and I was very driven by money and my credit score and all these things. I mean, as a kid, I, this is when I first started getting credit cards, I'd never missed a payment. I've never been late on anything. And by the time I was 21 years old, I had bought my house. And by the time I was about 24 or 25, I think I had a 850 FICO score

and I had 15 different credit cards and I had crazy limits to it and I was responsible with all of it. So I just prided myself on being this person because that's what I had worked towards for so long. And this also speaks to what I talk about your greatest strength being your greatest weakness sometimes. And for me, like my greatest, this was my greatest strength being your greatest weakness sometimes.

And for me, like my greatest, this was my greatest strength was I had this, this burning desire to not be like this. Well that also caused me to identify with that person that, you know, I, I was this person of success and I had these things and I had a home and I had great credit and, and because I was so driven to be that person and I reached to be, I became that person, I also identified so strongly with it. And so I went through a time about seven or eight years,

I think eight years I had the home when the market really took a shit. And I was fine, I could still pay my mortgage, but my best friend of the time was heavy into the loans. And he told me, he goes, listen, this is gonna get worse before it gets better. You have an opportunity right now to walk away from this thing. It's gonna be a slap on the wrist.

Your credit's gonna tick a ding, but you're gonna be fine from the amount of money you'll save by not paying your mortgage and by getting out of this house, you'll make it back three times five, ten years down the road. And I really wrestled with that for like six months. And while I was wrestling with it, I was just watching the equity in the home go down and go down and go down and go down.

And finally, I just, I bit the bullet and said, fuck it, okay, I'm going to walk away from this house. And so I began doing that. And I did and I walked away from my short. And so I began doing that. And I did, and I walked away from my short soul is what I ended up doing. And it took a fucking ding on my credit. And it put me in a place that I had never been before. I had never had a hard time getting alone for anything

or getting a credit card. And I didn't realize how frustrating that was gonna be. At the same time, I was transitioning into the cannabis industry, which I've shared with you guys off air before, was the one of the challenging things was that was a heavy cash business. And so on paper, I didn't look very successful. I couldn't do a lot of things. And for about, I don't know, four or five years there, I was really handcuffed financially.

And it really, I went through my first bout before the testosterone thing of what I would consider like this kind of depression feeling, because now I felt like this kind of loser. I was like, man, I didn't like my credit this and that. And it took me a while to look deep inside and kind of ask myself like, you know, what do I care what others think of me

and my credit score and my success? And that doesn't dictate who I am. And in fact, you know, several years later, not even that many years later, I was having some of the most success I've ever had in my life financially, but because I didn't have the credit, I didn't have the home to show for it,

I didn't have the cars that I could go out and get, I didn't have these things that would represent represent that and it really made me reflect inside and truly dig into who I was and what was important to me And made me realize how much of that was driven from when I was a kid and How I'm not I'm not my credit score. I'm not my my income every single year and the irony behind all of this was that when I broke free from that, you know, even more success came into my life later on, when I no longer identified with it and cared about it, but probably one of the hardest failures or challenges that I went through in my life was doing that

because I identified with that person so much. That's tough. Yeah, for me, it's easy. It's getting divorced. That's a. Yeah, for me, it's easy. It's getting divorced. That's a, by far, the most challenging thing I've ever gone through my entire life. I was married for 15 years with two children.

And, you know, I'm from a very conservative family. There's only one divorce in my entire massive family, only one. And it's kind of like a, you a, nobody really talks about it too much. So here I am, I'm 15 years into a marriage, which is a long time to children, and it's just, it isn't gonna work. Actually went through the divorce while we were podcasting.

This was early in the early days of Mind Pump. And it was very difficult, it was tough. And one thing that happened after coming out of that, you know, when you're going through something like that, it's really alluring, it was really, really alluring to place 100% of the blame on the other person. Like that's exactly what you want to do.

You want to look at the other person, be like, it's all your fault that this didn't work. It's all your fault that, you know, that we, you know, that this situation had to dissolve and it's all your fault that now the kids are, you know, from a broken family and all that stuff. But, you know, I tried to reflect on myself. It took me about maybe six months or so to do that,

to really step, take a step back and like, what was my role and all of that? And I realized, and this is the part that was tough, is I realized I played a large role in it. Like all, I think like most situations involving two people, there's usually involvement from both sides. It's never usually just one person. And so I had to recognize all my involvement.

And I wasn't a very present partner. I was extremely, you know, I was extremely, what's the word, distracted with work. I wasn't super present with my children. I was definitely loving, but I wasn't super present there. I just wasn't a great husband or a great, a super great father.

And that was a tough, really tough pill to swallow. And, but it did make me a better father now. I'm much more involved with my kids now and I'm much better in the relationship that I am now. And so I think it turned me into a much better, more balanced, more intelligent, calm person than I was before. And that's the thing that I, coming out of that,

the thing that I learned from that was the most difficult times your life, if you can make it through them, is when you're going to come out with the most growth, every single time, because there's no way I would have made that growth, had it not been for that challenging period. There's no way in hell I would have examined things as deeply and intently as I did. There's no way. I needed severe pain to go to those places. One of my motivations was I was absolutely dedicated to making sure that my children did not,

that they suffered as little as possible. I was very afraid. It's one of the reasons why I stayed married as long as I did. Even my ex, even my ex-wife, same, both of us were married as long as we did because we didn't want our kids to go through that whole process and then they have two different homes and all that stuff. of us were married as long as we did because we didn't want our kids to go through that

whole process and then to have two different homes and all that stuff. She comes from a conservative home as well. Going through that whole process, I thought, okay, I want to make this as good of a situation as possible for my kids. In order to do that, I had to just examine myself and look at all the things that I did wrong and all that stuff and change those things. And that would have never changed those things. That's the crazy part.

The crazy part is if you're going through a very, very difficult failure, as shitty as the sound, especially if you're going through a loan right now and you're listening to the podcast and you hear me saying this, and you wanna say fuck you. It'll be the best lesson.

I promise you, if you can survive, that's the key now. So you don't survive it, you're not gonna learn shit. And I don't mean it literally, although sometimes, but what I mean by that is sometimes people come out of a failure and they let it defeat them to the point where they're never the same. They're like, I'm just afraid, you know, I'm never gonna be the same person,

I'm never gonna take those risks again, I'm never gonna, whatever again. But if you can survive and come out of it, you will be better, far better, the more difficult the challenge, the greater the reward afterwards. And it can take years, and it's gonna suck. But man, at the end of it, it's like a hard workout,

like the fucking hard crazy workouts, many times the ones that give you the best. Not only that, but that lesson too, like man, the things that it could potentially trickle into, like I was just telling Katrina, we were talking about this lesson, and I was saying, man, it's so crazy that how important that was that happened in my life

because there's no doubt in my mind if I had Maximus when I was 25 in the thick of all that, I would have now transferred my insecurities onto him. I would have raised him and I would have spoiled the shit out of him, bought him all kinds of things because I was still trying to feed my insecurity of being this person and it would have transferred right into a child. And then that, who knows what that would have happened to. And I've seen that. I watched that with, like my uncle.

I've seen my uncle because my uncle had a really rough upbringing and he was successful very young like I was. And only difference was he had his kids really, really young. And his kids were spoiled, right? And his kids were spoiled, right? And because he didn't have anything and he worked so hard to be successful. And then he now trickled that right down into his kids.

And then now here, I see them as adults now and I see the struggle that it's caused. And I think, man, I would have done the same thing. Had I not got that lesson? The funny thing is, is if you want to grow, if you want your kids to grow, but it's also for yourself, if you want to grow, you have to take the risk of terrible failure and defeat. Like if you want your kids to learn how to be kind of tough, you got to let them take the risk of hurting themselves.

It's shitty as a parent, but it's true. It's tough to watch. Yeah, it's one of those things. You just don't want to go through that, but you have to. You have to do it for their own character and building that, and that's part of the process of being a parent, not being a friend. You can't always be their best friend. It's just like, it's a hard fact, you know, like you got to teach them life and like how to overcome these sort of sort of situations. And you know, for me, like you had mentioned, you know, just

kind of going through the process of like, you know, bringing a newborn in and, you know, that like having everything stable and stability and everything's on track. And you know, for me, it was really the opposite of that. It was a very chaotic process. Like within our first marriage, I went through the whole process, trying to do everything I could to do things right and with integrity in terms of asking for the handed marriage,

like going through all this ceremonial, ritual stuff that I had really had no interest in, but it was like, let's go ahead and do this and merge our families and let's go through this process. And just get to the point where we're in our first year of marriage and then at the end of the year, we find out we're pregnant. And I was like, oh wow, it was completely a surprise. And it's great that it happened while it did, right?

And we were very happy and everything else and But then it was like all of a sudden this this switch is like oh wow We need like our own place like my lease was up. I had all this like time now Well, do I sign a lease do I get a place like what am I gonna do? Like I don't have like I didn't start like saving this whole nest egg up to like buy a place and like put a substantial down payment down and so I'm like sweat and dude, I'm like, what am I gonna do? And so we just,

well, we're gonna, we're gonna just, you know, save money. But how do you save money? You gotta, you gotta stay at either your parents or her parents. And like, I know my dad is old school and like he's, he's not gonna let me back in the house.

That is not even an option on the table. You know, and like I fully respect that about him, but for at the same time, like I was sweating because I much rather would have done that because I am familiar obviously with like my parents and like that situation. And I know I wouldn know how to navigate more. But for me to like like it was a massive ego hit and checked for me to then be like okay I

agree that we probably need like you know a few months to live at your parents so we could like really have a decent like down payment. And so I just was like going through that process of like just being completely humbled again. Like I had everything on track. I was just going through that process of just being completely humbled again. I had everything on track. I was making great money. I didn't know that you lived at Courtney's for a while. I did. I did not know that. Yeah, I lived there for about four months. You kept that shit on the radar.

I did. I was not proud of it. I was not proud of it. That's the things. Why should I give a shit? They were helping me. They were awesome for helping me, but I always was, you know, that, of course, that's part of my ego is like, I can handle it. I can handle, I can do this, this is me. Like I can, you know, make it work. So I actually towards the end,

like we were trying to close on a house and like I was trying to do this quickly. Like I'm gonna get the fuck outta here. And it wasn't working out, like we had a few offers that didn't work out and like You know the house that we were left with were just like no like that's a horrible house So we ended up like waiting then one finally presented itself and we're like, I was a good deal, you know, and so we You know put an offer in and we got it and It was like the third month while I was living at like her parents and then I I just was like okay

I am like immersing myself started. Like after work, I would just go straight there and start remodeling by myself and then I'd sleep there at night. And I did that for like probably a month and a half and like was missing, you know, time with Courtney and helping in the kid. And yeah, it was insanely stressful

and it put a strain on our relationship and it was like really crazy and but again, like we reconnected later and we're just like, you know, like that was insane. Like, in the house wasn't done, we moved in when it wasn't done. And we lived in construction and, you know, and we went through that and then we spent all our money and so we had no money now. So now we're just like paycheck to paycheck, just trying to make it ends meet for like the next year

and it was crazy man, but we got through it. You know, it's like, it's not, I don't know if that's a great example of a failure or more so that it's just life and like how you just deal with like overcoming adversity. You got to learn to love your failures. That's what I've always learned. Look back and love them and look at them in that way and then you'll learn more from them.

No, the bigger they are, the truth is the bigger the lesson in them will be and the bigger the reward when you make it through it. It's just tough to see it when you're in it. When you're in it, you think it's the worst. It's the end of the world. Nobody's experienced what you've experienced and I get that. I totally get that.

But the thing that always got me through, and I think this is the blessing that I feel that I've had because I went through so much shit as a young kid. I think when you've been through enough, you just realized, I've been in this rodeo before. It's just a different show today. It's like, once I make it through this nasty time,

I know on the other side of this is really good time. So you just gotta stay focused on that. Awesome. Look, go to mindpumpfree.com and download our guides for free. There's a bunch of fitness guides on there. They cost nothing. Again, it's mindpumpfree.com. You can also find us all on social media, we're

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