 In this episode of Mind Pump the World's Top Ranked Fitness Health and Entertainment Podcast, we answered a lot of fitness and health questions that were asked by listeners and viewers just like you. Now the first 45 minutes of this episode, though, is an intro portion. This is where we talk about current events. We mentioned studies. We have a lot of fun. After that, we answer the fitness questions. By the way, you can go to mindpumppodcast.com. Everything's time stamped, so you can fast forward to your favorite part. And it's spanned. But here's what went down in today's episode. We started by talking about comic book heroes and villains. Those are good times. Then we talk about our childhood collections. Justin and I were big nerds. Adam was cool. Oh, Mr. Cool Guy. Then we talked about the Mountain Lion that was chasing the Hiker video that went viral. And we talked about all these wild animal stories. 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You know, I read it was the Punisher War journals were big for me and then also Wolverine. Those are my two guys. It was all the angsty ones, you know, that didn't have like all the superpowers. I feel like DC had like some weird like superheroes and villains that didn't make like the villains on Batman. Some of them are like the Riddler. Yeah, we're riddling you this. I'm gonna tell you riddles that you can't figure out. Like get out of here. My son is on, he likes to go on Reddit, which is something I don't typically, I'm not really supportive of, but whatever. Anyway, there was this whole like page of crappy superpowers. And so these guys or kids or whatever write superpowers that would suck. Yeah. So like for example, if you had the ability to run through walls 50% of the time. And you didn't know. Exactly. Or let's try this. The power to shit in someone else's pants. That was another one that he had. Wow. So we were making up these superpowers. That would be awesome. Just across the roof. He's point and laugh. Anyway, I loved it. I love reading some of those. But yeah, I was a huge comic book fan. The Incredible Hulk was my first. Yeah, you know, it's funny. I remember I had a client that was like really into it. And he was trying to make the case for Aquaman for me for forever. He was like, yeah, I know, right? And he was saying like he's like the most powerful if you really like read. He's right. Yeah, because he like mind controls and like all this other stuff. Aquaman is the one we're getting all nerdy here. I'm sorry. Aquaman waiting for you to ask me about the comic book. He's quiet. I had friends growing up. I had a social life. I tried to balance both. No, no, Aquaman is the only is one of the only superheroes in DC that can rival Superman in terms of strength. Okay. A lot of people don't know that. You didn't know that, did you? Fun fact. Hold on a second. You were a skinny kid, insecure kid. You didn't read comic books and fans. I was being strong. I was still fucking cool just because I was all those things. I wasn't cool. Did you literally think that as a kid? No, of course not, dude. That was not like that. That's what made me cool, right? Oh my God. He can't help himself. He's too cool. No, no, no, no, no. I didn't know I wasn't into stuff. The kids that were playing the Dungeons and Dragons and at lunchtime and shit like that or were reading magazines. I was playing sports, dude. I played a lot of stuff that I didn't even play, right? So I didn't play baseball on a team, but I would be playing baseball if we were at a park and I had buddies that were playing. I'm playing. I played every sport I could play. Did you ever collect anything like baseball? Yeah, I collected a lot of little things. So you remember micro-machines? I collected micro-machines when I was really little. That's kind of not that cool. What? Yeah, micro-machines were the shit when I was, dude, I used to make like elaborate garages and like things for them with Legos. So the nerdiest thing I could think of that I got into micro-machines. My God, what a flashback. You guys remember the joke? Yeah. So nobody's gonna know this on our show because nobody, I'm sure most people are not old. But yeah, but on the commercial, they should be like, if it doesn't say micro-machines, it's not the real thing. Remember that? Remember the joke? Yeah, the dick joke. Yes, you have micro-machines on your dick. Like, no, it's not the real thing. Anyway, continue. So that was... Sorry, had to play old joke. That was... I think the nerdiest thing that I collected was Pogs. I did that for... You did Pogs? Yeah, for about two or three years I was into that. The modern-day Pokemon. Hold on a second. That's not your generation. That was my brother's generation. Was it? He's younger than me. How old? How much younger is your brother? How old is he? Well, see, my brother is six years younger than me. Well, that's a lot. Yeah, so you're only a couple years... Yeah, I was talking about two, three years older than you. So you were in high school doing Pogs? No, no, no. This was sixth grade I was doing it. Sixth, seventh, sixth and seventh by eighth. For sure by high school, I was not doing it, even before high. It was about eighth grade. So the summer of eighth grade is probably when I stopped doing it because at the time I had a girlfriend. What did you do with Pogs? Pogs were the... So you used to... They were like these little, you know, cardboard little fucking things that you... Like tiddlywinks kind of... Like discs. Yeah, like discs. Yeah. And then you had like a slammer, right? Oh, there they are. Yeah. And they had value to them, right? So there was more ones that were more rare. And then you would play somebody else and you stack them up. And I can't remember the exact rules, but I know the stack can get higher and higher. And then each guy gets a turn to hit them and then flip them. And if they flip them, you get to keep them. I remember that. So it was a big deal to... If you're into collecting them and if you had tons of them, like... Yeah, we... What a brilliant... So this was... I went on this kick for a couple years. That's probably... If I could think of like the nerdiest thing that I collected... And then it was beanie babies. That was the next follow-up to that. Yeah. No, actually, I was into garbage pail kids. Yes. Okay, that was real young, though. That was a real young... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you think garbage pail kids would even make it today? Oh, yes. Yeah, I feel like... They're not politically correct. I know, but that's why they'd be popular. I bought a book. I bought one of their books that had all the cards in it. Look at the picture. Look at these things. They're terrible. That's why they're awesome. Yeah, there's no way... Doug, are you on images, Doug? So I believe that this stuff like this will make a resurgence. Don't you think this stuff is coming back? Yeah, it needs to. Yeah, because you can't say anything that's going to hurt anybody's feelings. Hold on. Go up, Doug. Let's draw it. Go all the way to the top. Scroll down just a little bit so we can see the price. Look how much that one's valued. Garbage pail kids. A thousand dollars for that one card? Schizophren. What? Schizophren. So it's a kid who's got schizophrenia. There's no way that they... Yeah, that is so politically correct. A thousand dollars, dude. That's what makes it so expensive, right? On eBay. Look at that. Tops garbage pail kids first edition. $95,000. Wow. There's no way. I should have kept mine. What a idiot. I had so many of them. Dang. Did you guys have any named after you? Or is there like... Yeah, yeah. There's one for all of us. I posted that a long time ago. I tried to find you guys like add something. Something Adam, something Sal. Yeah, I forget what the... You know, they made fun of us. There was Adam Baum, Adam, I think. Adam Baum, yeah. And the kid's head exploded. Exploded. And then I don't know the one for Sal. Salvatore, what was it? Yeah, I don't know. It was something, I think it was Sally. Slippery Sal. Slimey Sal. Slythering Sal. No, no. He's going to look it up. Doug, put Sal, put garbage pail kids... And then the name. That's all you have to do is do garbage pail kid and then the name. See, there's Adam Baum, Adam. That was it. That was a quite common one. I remember that one where the kid's head's exploded. I had that one, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, put Salvatore or Sal. Let's see what this one is. Yeah, I don't remember one being Sal. That would have been cool. No, there's Sal. No, you had one. There's it right there. I mean, even if they made it later. Sal Salad. Sal Salad. That's super lame. That's perfect. So inventive. Sal Salad. It works for you. The number one thing kids said with my name was Salad. Yeah, that was it. Oh, Salad. That's super original. That isn't funny. I used to collect... That's kind of sad actually. So just, I guess you can kind of like, there's like a bit of a nerdy-ness scale going on here. Yeah, I see that. I did collect stamps at one point. Oh, wow, dude. Yeah, come on, bro. I had stamps. That feeds right into your political society. Yes, it is. You know, it's like, yeah, you collected stamps. You ran for office in school. No, I didn't. I never did. No, dude. What? I hated that back then. See, that surprises me. The kid would get on stage and then they'd say something like, you know, five minutes more recess if you elect me and then... So the kids in our... I remember thinking of myself like... That was a cool thing to be in our school. It was cool to do that. It wasn't like a dorky thing to be running for office. Oh, we made fun of them. Oh, yes. You know, it was like all the kids that were... All the popular kids ran for office at our school. Justin was an anarchist. I was all over the place, dude. I mean, I hung out. I played Dungeons & Dragons. You did? And I played sports at the same time. Wow. Yeah. You were a conflicted nerd. I was really, yeah. I didn't know where to live. Yeah. I was just all over the place. Justin's the nerd who you want. If you're a nerd, you want to be friends with him. Yes, to go out for the nerds. Because then he would beat other people up. But if you're just like a pure dork, you know, he had no value, then I made fun of him. Yeah. Yeah, I'm just saying. No value. You're going to have value. You'll be able to help you out with your math homework or something like that. That's right. Yeah, exactly. So reciprocate. Dude, there's only one time I ever did something to a kid that I... To this day, I regret so bad. Like, I feel so bad for doing it. And I know Justin's like one. I've got many. There was this kid who... He threw a basketball at my cousins. I had a cousin that was younger than me. So he threw a basketball at my cousin's face and my cousin cried. My cousin was this chubby kid growing up and he got picked on. Although now he's giant. He's like 6'5 and 320, something like that, whatever. Have you seen red real quick? Oh yeah. So my cousin cried. And I remember I didn't see what happened. And afterwards my cousin's, you know, his face was all red. And when I went, what happened? Oh, so and so threw a basketball at my face. So I'm like, you know, I felt like I'm the justice guy, right? I'm going to go pay him back. So I walked up to this kid as he was changing. I watched too many Godfather movies I swear to God. And I hit him in the ribs hella hard. And I said, this is for Dominic. Cush. And he fell on the floor. And he did one of these things where he went. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. He took the wind out of me. Yeah. And I'm like, oh, shit. Oh, no. And I felt hella bad, you know, for doing it. So if you're listening right now, sorry about that. Do you remember who the kid was? I don't remember his name, dude. I just remember he was like pulling his shirt off. So he's like super vulnerable arms up in the air. Oh, yeah. And I just went behind him. This is for Dominic. You were a little bit of a bully guy. No, well, you know, I felt justified, right? Yeah, that was a bully. You always do, right? Exactly. I feel really bad about it. Dude, did you guys see the video of the, what is it called, the mountain lion? Yes. Oh, my God. Yes, I was terrifying. That was hella scary, dude. So the story behind it, apparently the guy was hiking and it was a mother mountain lion with her cubs. Well, he ran across the, you saw the cub right at the beginning, right? Yes. Yes. So you see the cub and he's like, so that's what made him pull his camera out, where it was the video of the cub. Oh. And then all of a sudden the mom comes out of the bushes and you see him like, oh, shit. You see a cub? You keep going quickly. Yeah, you get the hell out. So two things. First off, when you watch the video, you don't realize how well they blend in with their environment. When you watch the video, you kind of have to really pay attention to see the cub and the mom or whatever. But dude, that is terrible. How much do mountain lions typically weigh? What are they? Like 150 pounds? I'm sure, yeah. Maybe 190 or something like that. That'll shred you like you're. Yeah, but it's pure muscle and it's all like, insane-o strength that they have. It's a wild animal. Yeah. Yeah, we're weak sauce. Oh, yeah. I'm not going to wrestle it. I was unbelievably impressed with the guy's ability to record the whole thing. Yeah. Like he recorded the whole thing as he's backpedaling in this. I don't know. There's no way I would do that. No. No, no. Look at that. Femiel, 64 to 140 pound. It's basically no bigger than a big dog. Yeah. But it would destroy. It'll tear your face off. Yeah, wild with one hand probably. But the thing was as he was backing up, because obviously the mom was trying to scare him away. Yeah. You know, I'm reading people's comments who are experienced and look, because I'm thinking to myself like, what are you supposed to do? All I know is appear big. Supposed to stand tall and not turn around. You could tell he was trying that. Yes. He was doing like bear sounds. It wasn't working so well. No, you just got to keep moving. He was doing the scared growl. No. But someone's like, oh, you should pick up a rock. But then I read underneath and there was this guy who's like a mountain ranger or whatever. And he says, if you do do it quickly, because if you crouch down, then they'll pounce. That's an opportunity. Because they think you're doing the same thing, right? If you're crouching down, he probably thinks you're going to pounce him. So he pounces you first. You just look smaller. Well, yeah. And you just look like you dominate you in that position. Oh, what would you do if you had your kids and you're on that trail? You put them behind you and you just keep walking back. Dude, that is so great. Well, that's what happened. Remember, a while back, I think it was in Mountain View, that one of them actually grabbed a kid that was kind of straggling behind everybody that was hiking and just snatched him. And then the dad had to go wrestle the kid loose. Yeah, that's the story I tell my kids, make them speed up. Yeah, hurry up. Hey, stop complaining. I pull up the news reporter. He'll give you a trail. Hey, you guys should probably speed up. Look at this. This is what happens, kids. Listen, kids, I lift weights, but I'm not very fast. If he grabs you, you're totally dead. Real life teaches lessons, right? Yeah, didn't you say, Justin, that you're seeing more wildlife and stuff because of the fires and stuff? Yeah, that's what I mean. And that's my guess. They're coming down. They're coming down. There's a lot more. And it's interesting because I mean, there's always certain noises outside. I'm like, oh, I wonder what animal that is. Like when I'm outside at night, especially taking the dogs out for the last time to go potty and all that. And there's been these weird noises, like weird birds that are coming through. There's been like wrestling in the bushes. And I'm just like, man, I should probably do this quickly. You know, what wildlife do you see by your house? What's common? There's like wooded owls. There's, I mean, there's lots of turkeys. There's deer probably. Deer, there's mountain lions. Have you seen a mountain lion? I have. You have? Yeah. It was on my neighbor's camera. It walked through his backyard. Dude. Yeah. So, and that was one actually that Courtney came back late and was walking. And she said she had felt like a presence, you know, and was just like kind of scared and like jetted into the house. And that was like the next day we saw that it was a mountain lion on my neighbor's camera. Yeah. So I went down a rabbit hole when I saw that video of the mountain lion. It was one video where this kid was hiking with his dad in a freaking grizzly bear. It's up on the top of the hill and just starts walking down towards the kid. And the dad's like, okay, walk slowly. Just keep coming towards me. Walk slowly. And there's a freaking grizzly bear like literally coming closer and closer. That to me would be like one of the, because at least even with a cat, right? So it's a 140 pound cat. I feel like I've got a chance of survival with that. A fucking grizzly bear. You got no chance. Nothing. No chance. No, nothing. That is to me way scary. Like you said, you bring up your, like if it was me and my kids and then that mountain lion, I would probably charge it. Just I'd hope to God that I can fucking get somewhere with it. You know what I'm saying? And let my kids get free and run somewhere and they live and survive. And hopefully I can fight it free. But a bear, you don't do that. There's no way I'm charging a bear. You just talk to your kid real quick. Yeah, buddy. Close your eyes. We're about to go to sleep. Yeah. I mean, there ain't nothing you're so strong. Grizzly bears can break the back of a moose. I read, which if you guys ever seen a moose. Oh yeah. A moose is massive. It's over a ton, right? Yeah, massive. That's how strong bears are. So that sent me down a rabbit hole of like animals in the wild and then animals escaping zoos. And then I read some news articles about recently, there was some escapes. There was a beaver that escaped in New Mexico. Oh no, escaped with a beaver. But how weird would that be, right? You're walking around in San Jose and you see a beaver. It's like, what the hell's going on? And then an emu in Florida apparently escaped. What do those look like? Yeah, what's an emu? Emu looks like an alpaca, is it? No. Pull that up. Emu. Emu's like an ostrich. Is it an ostrich? Yeah, it's what I was going to say. Oh, OK. OK. Yeah, it's like a big ostrich, which yeah, it would be weird if you saw that kind of stuff. That one show on Netflix, The Tiger King, I had no idea there were that many lions and tigers that people owned. I know. That was an enlightening to see how many people actually were storing these exotic animals all over the world, like all over America. I was like, wow, I didn't even know they were here. Yeah. And I guess there's like big snakes that people will encounter in Florida. And a lot of them where people had them as pets, they get too big and then they let them go. Yeah. They'll just drive to the Everglades or whatever. Yeah, wasn't it like boa constrictors or like, yeah, like pythons or something like took over the landscape? Yeah, they got free. In fact, there was two, because again, I was on this rabbit hole of reading these articles. Yeah, I've never seen that. Two guys in Florida found the biggest python ever recorded in Florida, 18 feet, 9 inches long. Was there a human in there? No. Oh, god. Dude, that's pretty big. Yeah, that'd be, yeah. It was eating. It was feasting. That would be not so good. No. Anyway, more interesting news. Did you guys know, so there's a, I think it's an Australian airline company. Let me read. Let me look at the name here. Kind of interesting. So this Australian airline company, Qantas. Have you guys heard of Qantas before? Yes, definitely. Have you seen Rain Man? No. Never had a crash. Oh, right. Definitely. Yeah, that's right. That's right. That's right, Doug. Definitely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, Qantas came out with a flight, like this offer to try and generate revenue, and it was a flight to nowhere. What? Yes. So here's what happens. And remember, because of lockdown and stuff, people are like, they need something to do, I guess. You get on the plane. You don't know where you're going. The plane takes off. Oh, it's worse than that. Plane takes off, and then seven hours later, lands back where it was. It's the same place. So it just, you just, just the thing of getting in the plane and going and coming back. It just does a loop. What? And it goes back. People paid for that? Sold out. What? Yeah, dude. It's sold out. No, okay. Did they know? We really have gone mental. Did they know that was going to happen? No, yeah. It wasn't a surprise. But it's a surprise plane ticket. That's what I thought. Yeah, on the plane, just to come back. That's more interesting to me. Like, if you go, hey, listen, we're going to take you somewhere, seven hours away. We're not going to tell you where. I'm like, okay, this sounds kind of interesting. It was a nice little hush for the airline. You know, yeah, we're just going to run some laps. No, it was called the Great Southern Land Scenic Flight. So it says, reignite the joy of flying and take off on a Great Southern Land Scenic Flight. Sight sea iconic destinations across Australia from the sky, where there are no border restrictions. It's sold out. You can see it for like a second. So you literally fly around and then come back and people bought. People like flying that much. Flying sucks. Yeah. It's not a great experience. Big, big old fart box. I do remember as a kid that wanting to fly a fart box. It's a big, huge fart box. Think about it. Everybody in there just letting them go. You're the one that's doing that. I'm just saying everybody does it. Yeah. Come on, guys. Just the crushes the guy. He's just like, it's worse than an elevator, dude. He catches like a small whiff. He's like, oh yeah, someone else is doing that. Oh, that's what's happening right now. Check this out. Yeah. I know every time we go on a flight, oh, he's eating that big bag of peanuts. Here we go. It's just like a big ass Pringle can in the air, dude. Everybody's letting them go. But they sold out, though. That's stupid. Well, that is stupid. You know what, though? I don't get it. Come on. You got to give it to them for the engine. Brilliant on their part. Totally. I mean, helicopter rides, at least you're like, you know, it's an experience and you're seeing things up close. Like that just to me seems like it's lame. Well, not only that, but a plane is cramped, dude. Yeah, but you know what? Consider the context of what's going on. Australia in particular has some of the harshest lockdown rules. Oh, they did try. Yes. So I'm sure people like a little moment of freedom. Yeah, they're like, I get the fuck out of here. Yeah. They're like, oh, buy a plane ticket and fly around, come back for seven hours. It must be bad if that sounds exciting. I'm down. You know what I mean? Let's do this. Yeah, like the drive-ins in San Jose, I know they opened up before other movie theaters. Oh, did you go? You were talking about going. I was going to, but apparently they get packed because people are just, they just want to get out. No, yeah, yeah, I totally, I can totally see that. Like I was actually looking for that. Santa Cruz had just finally opened there. So yeah, I'm looking at going to see one of those. And there's no good movies to watch. Nothing. That's the problem. They've delayed it all until next year. Like everything. Are they really? Yeah, because the one I was looking forward to the most was Top Guns Maverick and all that. And then they pushed it to next year. You know, lots of the big ones and Dune and all that, they've moved to next year. So it's like, I'm excited. That's what we're making for Max for Halloween is he's going to be Maverick from Top Gun. Is he really? That's awesome. Yeah, that's so cute. I know, I know. That's how I'm bummed I didn't come out. Now, are you going to, I did this with my kids up until, oh God, I want to say until my son was like maybe nine. And so my daughter would have been five or whatever. We would dress up all together. So like one year, my son was Batman and I was Robin. It's kind of funny because I'm bigger than him, right? Yeah. We did Mario, Luigi. We did, you know, the whole thing. Are you doing that? Yeah, no, I'm going to, I'll get dressed up also. I'm not a big fan of that. Are you a goose or whatever? I don't know what Katrina, we did that with Star Wars. Yeah, she's like in charge of that. I'm like, my deal is I'll do it, right? So I'm like, all right, I'll dress up if that's the case, but you got to put it all together. So it's been, I think she's got me coming, she's got goose and then I'll shave everything off with my mustache and then we'll have the full jumpers and everything. So yeah, well, that'll be for all of them. What about the dogs? You put the dogs in? Hey, I don't know. Dress up your dog, is it? Those guys are too much right now. Tom Cap, whatever. No, no, no, no, that'd be awesome. Yeah, that's a fighter jet. Hey, can I take a quick commercial break? I want to tell you guys something I'm so excited about. So we had a partner last year that we talked about quite a bit, Caldera. Oh, right. And I loved their stuff so much that I never stopped using it. And when COVID hit, they were one of the companies that weren't sure how they were going to survive during that time. And so they cut back on a lot of spend on advertising. And I was so bummed, I was constantly calling. The representative is a friend that I know, Ari, and I'd be talking to him like, dude, when are you going to get Caldera back? Because I haven't stopped using this product. That's the one you always put on your head and face. It's my go-to now for my psoriasis and then my face. So both, I like using the serum on my face and then I like using it on my dry skin spots with my psoriasis. And it helps definitely keep it down. And then I'm not using all of these chemicals. So if I go to the dermatologist, they give you the creams with steroids in it. Or I can do the shots. Not even the good ones either. Yeah. And so yeah, right. Not the good stuff at all. And so I'm always trying to minimize how much I use it. Because that stuff bleaches your skin and it kills everything. So it's not ideal long-term. It's like a last case scenario you want to use that. So I much prefer using something that's more natural if I can find something that helps tamp it down a little bit. But nothing works like that. I mean, that's so I'm still always forced to go back to the creams. But once we got introduced to that Caldera serum and I started using that. And it's all natural. Yes. I remember you showed me the bottle. And I use it a couple of times. I have my skin is pretty. I don't typically put anything on my skin. Yeah. But if I do, I can tell when for the most part I'll break out or whatever and what their stuff. I could definitely use it. I am like Gator skin. Yeah. Yeah. Like like crocodile skin. Yeah. You need to pour some on your skin. Yeah. I just haven't like I haven't made that a priority ever. You know, maybe I'll experiment. Every time you extend your elbow, it's like you have a box of crickets on them. Oh, gross. Dude, that's so gross. They call it antiquing. You know, gross. Like throw dust on it. Well, I'm just pumped that we got them back. So it's really exciting to finally get them back. It was one of those brands that I liked it since day one we had it. I never stopped using it. You just stopped hearing me talk about it. I see. You put it on your face, your head, and then on your on your shins. Yeah. Is that the most? Yeah. Those are the main areas of my, where my survive out what we don't see. Stop rubbing it so much. Yeah. Yeah. So I, I mean, it's just like little, what I like too is it comes in this like little vial and you know, at first, like you look at the price and you're like, oh, shit, that's expensive. But it lasts a really long time because it only takes, it's like an oil, right? So you only, you do like one droplet on it and I can spread it all over my skin. So it lasts a lot longer than what it looks. At first glance, you're like, damn, that's a little bottle. That's really expensive, but it goes long. I mean, this is true too. I'm not just saying this because you're talking about a sponsor. Your skin is nice. It looks healthy. Yeah. It looks very. Thank you. What's the word? I want to use. Shiny, healthy, youthful. Yeah, youthful skin. Plump. Yeah. It's plump. The word supple. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Well, I don't use that word though. Does with the words. That's a weird word. Yeah. Hey, so I got some interesting predictions for the election. Oh, okay. So, so, you know, they have polls that go out and they say, oh, 50% chance, 40% chance or whatever. I think we have one that might be the most accurate. Is this a South Stradamus moment? No, this is a good one. It's a good prediction. So they did some, they had some Ayahuasca shaman. What? Take some Ayahuasca and then dump out the leaves and then do their predictions. Oh, this is going to be really accurate. Yeah, definitely. That's science. Yeah. I mean, Mother Aya, you know, she's just tells you everything. Direct us all. That's going to happen. So they, so apparently there was, there were four shaman that came out with their predictions and two of them predicted Biden would win. The other two predicted Trump. So 50-50. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, man. But this was a thing. They actually did this. They actually had shaman. Come on, shaman. Yeah, try to predict. I don't know what to believe. I see all good polls on each side that are just way, way, way. Maybe that is what's going to happen. And then we just, we're stuck. Yeah. Like in this weird purgatory for the next year. Yeah, they're like, oh, it's civil war. That's what's going to happen. Oh, yeah. What's going to happen? What was the stat though, Sal? Like if a president is going for his second term and he gets approved by the- Oh, is approval rating? Yeah. Approval ratings above like 40-something percent are rare. And he, there was a poll that had Trump and the, the, the, it's not approval rating, sorry. The question is, are you better off than you were four years ago? And I think it was like 50-something percent said yes, which is a high number for that particular poll. So that was, I mean, for the Trump campaign, that was very good news. But every other poll has Biden in like single or double digit leads. So, but here's the problem. The polls were notoriously off the last time too. It's a weird, weird thing. Now is that just the last, the last two elections or has it been that way for a long time and they've been that far off? You know- The Hillary thing was at the biggest surprise we've ever seen. Well, so what happened, and this has only happened in, I think it's only happened four or five times. So four or five elections in American history where the popular vote didn't match the Electoral College vote. So the polls accurately predicted the popular vote, but they did not predict the Electoral College vote, which is what elects a president. It's the Electoral College that elects a president. So, so that's the argument. The argument is no, the polls were accurate, but the, because the popular vote did go to Hillary, but Trump won because he got the Electoral College vote. I don't know. I have no idea. I feel like it's like Rotten Tomatoes versus the critics, you know, or that's the, you get the voting of the people that are watching the show versus the actual critics of the show, how they're always so far off. Pretty far from each other. Yeah. What I don't like is that both sides are doing this whole like voter fraud thing that they're talking about. I don't like that because it just puts mistrust in, you know, the general public's eyes. But don't you feel like though, this is one of those elections that no matter what happens, the other side is going to- Somebody's going to claim- The other side's going to claim that. It's been like that for a long time. People, I don't know, you know, people remember Bush and Gore. Bush and Gore. Yeah. And the Supreme Court had to decide that one. Was that in Florida, right? That was the forest gate, right? Yeah. And, you know, here's why you should never, unless you want to destroy the whole thing, which, okay, maybe someone does want to do that, but you don't want to so distrust in the process of electing, you know, officials, regardless if you're on the right or the left, because that once people lose trust, then why do we even having elections? Then it becomes, you have someone who's declared a winner, but nobody believes it. Oh, that's not a good position to be in. We don't- We definitely don't want to do that. So I don't like that they're both doing that. Politics is getting real ugly. No, I can't stand that. Do you guys believe in curses? Yep. I'm just going to throw that out there. Nice. I'm asking. Very nice transition right there. Thank you. Thank you. So, yeah, yeah. You know what? Probably the Iowa House could talk with a bit of better time to transition. You know, I could have thrown it in there. That might have been more smooth. But yeah, because we talked before about our belief system on ghosts and all that. You guys gave me a hard time. So this lady basically was in Pompeii. She had stolen some artifacts 15 years ago or whatever, but brings them back to the site and claims that she's had 15 years of the worst luck she's ever had in her entire- Every bad thing that could have happened to her. And so she just attributes it to her taking these artifacts and like there's curse attached to it. Well, you know what I do believe is that we talk a lot about it, like the power of the brain and thought. Do you think you're cursed? Yeah. Guilt. Yeah. I have 100%, dude. I think that mindset is- We talk about how powerful mindset is. You know what's funny? You can create it to yourself. Easily the most superstitious people in America, at least, are athletes. That's- I could totally say that. Well, yeah, because everything is ritualistic. You know, the way you do everything. Oh, they're notoriously superstitious, but wearing the right. Socks, putting on the right shoe at the right time. And oh, I got to make sure I touch the thing before I walk out the field. They talk about that though in like Rise of Superman, the importance of that, right? So you're trying to create flow. Like part of creating that is getting in this rhythm of whatever it is you're doing. That's why you see like baseball players, you know, every time when he gets up to bat, he taps the inside of his foot, he hits his hat. He shakes his hips and then, yeah. It's all to get in his rhythm before he gets in there. Even we've coined it as superstition, right? That's how we've coined it. And we say that all the baseball players or athletes are so superstitious, but I really think it's more like a rhythm. The value because it puts you in. Yes. Like it's like a ritual that gets you into that space. Right, right. So although I've never really been into athletics, I do have certain ritualistic things that my wife very happily points out to me when I work out. So like when I do a heavy squat, I do this thing with my jaw, where I stretch my jaw out and I make the space. Yeah. Yeah. That's how you do that. When I deadlift, I do this thing with my back before I lift. And so she likes to point that out. Yeah. Why don't you make that face before you squat? Like I do? Oh, that's weird. I used to do what they called like chicken winging before I'd bench. You know, I just do this like real quick like this, you know. That's what I did before I knew what I was doing. That's hilarious. Yeah, people made fun of me. Dude, my dad and just old Sicilians in general are so superstitious. It's hilarious. How super. My dad, if you put your shoes down, so if you take your shoes off and you put your shoes down and the shoes aren't together, if one of them's backwards or the right is on the wrong side, he has to go fix them. Oh, really? Yeah, because. That's weird because I do that, but not because I have a superstition. It's just, it's weird. It bugs me. Oh, he literally, he literally is like, you'll hurt your ankle. So I have to fix your ankle. Even though they're not on your feet? Yes, he's got to straighten them out. You know, and what else does he do? That's interesting because I do the same thing, but I've never figured out why it bothers me. We have shoes all the time, of course, in my house, right? So they're in, we have them by our stairwell, we have them outside by the deck, and if I walk past them and they're all like that to shovel, they'll just, I'll stack them back together all nice and neat. Oh, and then there's this thing, like if you have a bad dream, you have to tell, I think, three people, otherwise it'll become true. That's what, if you're pregnant. Like chain mail? Bro, assume those things, dude. I'm like, why don't I open this stupid stuff? Yeah, I'm gonna think about it all day. Yeah, and you're like, should I have them responded? Should I sent it? Oh, they have all these interesting superstitions around pregnancy. So Sicilians will say if a woman has a craving, and I feel like they made, I feel like pregnant women came up with this. It's like a scam. So here's the superstition. It's very strong. My family's real big about this. If a pregnant woman has a craving, you must give her that food. Oh, wow, that's funny. You have to give her the food she has a craving for. So it could be anything. She's like, I want a hot dog from New York. You got to fly your ass over to New York. Yeah, like one time, literally, my uncle and my uncle who lived in Calabria, so that's the southern part of Italy, before you get to Sicily, right? She had a craving for Sicilian bread. He literally drove, got on the ferry, went all the way to Messina in Sicily to get the bread. How far is that? Bro, it's like a four-hour, five-hour commute to get. Yeah, some bread, because she craved it. If you don't give her the food that she craves, your baby will be born with a birthmark that looks like the food that she didn't get. What? What? Yes, that's what they say, dude. Wow, really? Yes. I mean, I guess you're motivated at that point, I believe that. So it's funny, because we'll be at a family function or whatever. You know, with this big Gorbachev seed up thing on your head, it's like, I want a pizza slice or whatever. Oh, man. See what happened? You can give me the Kool-Aid. Now I got that. So we'll be at a family function, and Jessica will say something about a craving, and I'll tell her, like, do not say that too loud. Don't say it loud. Yeah, because my grandma will be like, would you crave? Okay, we need to get it. We need to make it happen right now. Oh, my God, dude. Oh, man. We're going to have pizza and ice cream. I didn't know that. That's interesting. Isn't that weird? Yeah, it is weird. Yeah, anyway, hilarious. Dude, so how are you guys enjoying your pillow, your Pluto pillow? Katrina just ordered hers last night. She hadn't gone through this. What did she think of the process? So is she, like, mid-range, like a little higher? So I didn't watch, which in fact, I just, she asked me too. I'm like, I don't want to tell you how you should order your pillow, order your own game pillow, and then we'll just talk about it after you get it. But she'd been trying to jack mine all the time. And so I kept telling her, order the damn fucking pillow from Pluto, dude. I think they've got gangsters there for a second. She'd be trying to jack it. She'd be trying to jack my stuff, man. She'd be trying to jack my pillow, man. Get your own Pluto pillow, right? So yeah, she just ordered last night and she was like, God, I didn't realize, like, how intense the questions are. They give you lots of questions, like to really drill it down. I said, yeah, no, that's the idea. So you have, like, the most ideal pillow for you. And I have a feeling like, you know, and I'm waiting for someone to give me this response back. Like, you know, until Pluto pillow, I'd never done something like this for a pillow. So even like, I want to order again and there's like some minor adjustments I want to make. And I think that's kind of part of the process is like, it's like when you get a haircut for the front, you know, salads and experiences, when you get a haircut for the first time from like a really good stylist, it still takes two or three times before she gets it down. And then you have this like great look, right? So it's the same thing with the pillow, I think, till you like hone in on the perfect pillow, right? So we'll see what hers turns out, see if it's like mine or totally different. The rest are just decorative pillows now. Yes, that's a tell. You know, like, yeah, there's always that one pillow that's your favorite and then that, like, you know, you have, you revolve everything around that. So that's what's mine's turning into. Do you guys have decorative soaps? Decorative soaps, we do not. Yeah, my mom's got decorative soaps. That's a new thing. She has soaps that you can't wash your hands with. If you do, you'll get hit. What? Yeah, you'll get hit. That's a functional thing. It's just, you got in the bathroom, there are the soaps that look nice, and then next to it is the actual soap that you use. I always use the decorative towels, which I'm guilty of that. I get in trouble for that, so I'm continuing to come out and be like, this is for Halloween of drying myself off with it. There was no towels in the cabinet. I had to use it. Dude, it's like function. Come on, guys. Yeah. It's the whole function of it. Anyway, it's crazy stuff. Dude, oh, you always want to hear something crazy. So just to make you feel, sometimes I read things that just make me realize just how not smart I am. So there's this kid. He just turned 13 years old, or right before he turned, yeah, right before he turned 13. A Tennessee boy is being honored by the Guinness Book of World Records. You know what he did? So remember, he literally hours before he turned 13, he was able to achieve nuclear fission. What? Wait, at 13? Before he turned 13, he was able to achieve nuclear fission. So he used, this is what he wrote. This was his quote. I've been able to use electricity to accelerate two atoms of deuterium together. So they fuse into an atom of helium-3 and also release a neutron, which can be used to heat up water and turn a steam engine, which in turn produces electricity. What? This kid is, yeah. Isn't that amazing? Like a super genius? Isn't that crazy? Yeah. I love reading stuff like that, man. Deuterium sounds made up, though. I'm gonna be honest. It sounds like one of those Avatar ones. If you have a mind like that, though, at like 12 years old, how tortured are you? You have to be tortured inside, right? You have to think. In order to reach that level of intelligence, you gotta think that that brain is running at 100 miles an hour. How do you have conversations with people? No, you don't. It's tough. I don't think you're- How would you parent that through? You're probably in a room reading all the time because that's all you enjoyed. It's the only thing that will probably scratch that itch for you. Otherwise, you're probably being tortured by your own thoughts. I would think that. The biggest challenge I could imagine with being that smart as a kid, it would be relating to kids your own age. Right. Imagine he's 12 and he's sitting around with his friends and they're playing with pogs or whatever. And he's like, oh, that's cool. Yeah, so you guys know what nuclear fission is? Yeah. We gotta get them the right mentors. I just know that much. You gotta make sure he doesn't go down the crazy evil path. It's funny because you think that these super brilliant kids would become extremely successful in the future. Oftentimes, they don't. Oftentimes, they have a normal job and they just have hobbies where they do really hard, difficult things because they just love the challenge in the learning. But that's crazy, right? That's insane. Yeah, he figures all that out. It's so brilliant. I know. I love reading stuff like that about kids. Do you ever watch those music geniuses when they're like five or six playing the violin or the piano or whatever? Yeah, I love that. And that's just the thing. Like we see greatness and it does something to you. You're like, wow, that's possible. It's awe-inspiring. Have you guys ever met a kid where you knew that they were brilliant in some aspect? You guys ever seen a kid like that in real life? No, you can see some kids. I was just telling you guys, athletically, I have. I was just telling you guys about Katrina's best friend, her son, who is, how old is he? He is only, I want to say he's six or seven. And he is like his ability to do math. They were firing like multiplication. It took me longer to get the answer than it took him to get the answer. He was just so fast. And I'm talking 12 times 17. And the kid would whip it out really, really quick. And his dad had taught him all these methods of shortcuts on multiplication. And he's like fucking seven, dude. He's like so young. Awesome. They don't even teach you that until he gets like fourth grade. So he's way ahead of all the kids in his class. So you can tell, if he's there right now, who knows where the hell he's going to be in four or five. Potentially, yeah. It's a missed opportunity sometimes with kids and like the way education is organized because what you have is you have a combination of a brain that is highly moldable, way more than when you're an adult. I mean, this is why when you learn a new language as a kid, you don't get an accent like you do when you're an adult. It's just this, it's so plastic, right? So it's extremely moldable and plastic. And if you can combine that with obsessive passion that a lot of kids have, this is not, it's not uncommon for kids to not be obsessively passionate about something. Sometimes it looks like they're into video games or they're into baseball cards or whatever. But if you could like kind of work with that a little bit and get them to direct that passion towards something that they could learn, children will blow your mind with what they can accomplish. You never know what the passion is speaking of that too. Like, so I've been trying to kind of figure out with both my boys and whatnot. And I hadn't seen anything from a young guest until just recently he played Mario 3 at his friend's house. He comes back, he starts talking to me all about it, how much he loved it, all this stuff. And I was like, we had this like full conversation about every level because I remember it vividly. That was like my favorite game growing up and everything. And I remember that we had this product from a long time ago, it brought this up on the podcast called Blockzols where you basically put like pixels together to create characters. You can create your own video game. And so like we started to kind of mess around with that again and he's gone crazy with it, dude. He went like and created all these characters and he's got this whole thing. And I've never seen him so like into something. Isn't that right? Isn't that the game Roblox or what's it called? No, it's not that, but it's this is actually a way you can make your own within their, their, they have the software where basically you take pictures of your characters and stuff and then you can animate them and then structure your own levels and stuff. So you basically build it. How is it different than that other game? Because I thought you could build your own levels and build your own characters in that other game. You can do that. That's more of just, that's a video game first and then within the video game you can kind of create stuff. Do you know that they're going public? I was just reading an article on them. Yeah. Are they really? They're huge. Wait, well, you mean the company that is, oh wow. Yeah, it's Roblox or something like that, right? So I'm not familiar with it. I've never used it, but I've seen a couple articles. That's my kid's favorite game. Yeah, they're all about that. Well, speaking of the market and going public, can you guys see Peloton just crushing? Yeah. Just crushing. We kind of called that, right? Because the way that the fitness space has moved due to COVID. And I think when everything went down, I want to say Peloton was like 40-something dollars. As of right now, I think it's 120-something dollars. And it looks like it's just going to keep going up with the amount of users. And we got Christmas coming up. I predict that to be a, I mean, that's an information tech stock, right? I don't think it's trading like a fitness company at all. No, no. Yeah. No, it's going to do that. You know what I'm surprised in is Fitbit. That was the other one that we talked about that I thought we'd see a rise on that with everything that's going on with it and Google and then with the Christmas. So I'm still banking on that one to do better when we get closer to Christmas because I thought for sure that Fitbit would have. Wasn't there something with... Wow, some cool new products. Wasn't there something with Fitbit and Europe and their information they had to pass something? That was with Google, right? Yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah. So that was, and that all went through, right? So I think that everything went through with them and Google. They had stuff. They were working with the NFL. So they got all these great stuff. And their stock is still so cheap. It's like $6, $6 something. It's nothing. Yeah, it's not expensive. So I don't know. I don't know what's holding them up from like exploding. I would think they would be there. One of the leaders in like wearables. Oh, yeah. They've been the staple for that aspect of the industry. Yeah, I just, there's an article right here. It says Google offers Europe more checks that Fitbit data won't be used for ads. Okay, so that's the fear. The fear is that they're going to use... They're going to use your personal health information and whatnot. Yeah. Yeah, good luck, Europe. They're trying to prevent Google from doing that. Yeah, right. That's what they do. Yeah. Yep. First question is from Lake Josson. When is it more advantageous to use a supinated grip over a pronated grip for tricep exercises? It's obviously riskier when doing exercises like skull crushers, but does it hit the tries at a different angle? No, it doesn't. You know, I remember when I thought that it did something. Because it feels different. It does. So I would do press downs, and now it would change the handles, right? So I'd go press down with the straight bar, the rope, and then it'd have a supinated grip. And I could be like, oh, I feel it in different areas. And then you learn anatomy and biomechanics, and you realize that the triceps really has nothing to do with the wrist rotating. It has nothing to do with supinating or proning the hands, unlike the biceps. But then people would say things, and I would say something like back then, but I feel it differently. Yeah. Well, the reason why you feel it differently is supinating or proning your hands tends to change your elbow position a little bit. So if I supinate my hands, I'm more likely to squeeze my elbows in at my sides rather than allowing them to flare out a little bit. And elbow position makes a difference with triceps. So that's what you would basically want to pay attention to. You think it's that? Do you think it's the elbow position that makes it feel different? I've actually never thought of that. You're driving it in more when you supinate? I mean, that makes sense. It's like you're squishing your tricep against your lap. Because if your palms are up and you're doing a reverse grip pushdown like you're saying right now, you're right. It actually feels awkward to let the elbows flare out. It feels more comfortable to keep them more turned in. That's why it feels different. Right. And when you do a tricep pushdown, one of the most common things when you're in an overhand grip or pronated, you see people flare their elbows. So maybe you're right. I never even thought of that. That's why it felt so different. I just thought because you're holding onto it and actually just the tense of you gripping it. Because when you're on top of it on a pushdown, you don't even have to grip the bar. Like you could completely relax your palms and push down. Yeah. I was thinking the tension might be another factor, right? Yeah. Because then you can squeeze a bit harder and more intensely sometimes when you're in a supinated grip, just because now we're like squeezing versus just pushing is a different type of stimulus. But again, I think the elbow position is definitely that's going to be the meat of it all. Well, that was one of the best. We did a video. Maybe you'll have Rachel's been going through our old library of YouTube videos and she's been posting things that we did a long time ago. We did a video that it was all about buys and tries and it was all about elbow positioning. It was a long time ago that we did. So maybe she'll post that up on the main IG. But that was the biggest, trying to get better about saying game changer, we say it all the time. It just fits so well. It changed the game. Yeah, it just fits so well there though. You know what I'm saying? Because it was a game changer for me when this came together. I too would do, on tricep day, I would go over to the cable machine because I felt it the most on cables more than anything else. And I would do a regular tricep pushdown, a supinated pushdown, I'd do the rope. And that would be like tricep day. And I got more gains on my buys and tries when I learned the importance of manipulating my elbow positioning. And then I started to look at every workout and go, okay, I'm going to do an exercise with my elbows by my side, my elbows out in front of me, then my elbows above my head. And then whether I did cables, dumbbells, all that stuff didn't matter as much as long as I manipulated the elbow positioning. Oh my God, my arms blew up after that. Absolutely, yeah. The things you want to focus on exactly what Adam said, right? Elbows by your sides, elbows in front of you, like a skull crusher, elbows overhead, like an overhead tricep. All three of those stretch and work the triceps a little differently, especially if you look at the attachments. But there is a little bit of a difference in changing the wrist position. Now it's not really, it doesn't really have anything to do with the triceps. However, your recruitment patterns, you can get better at practicing a movement with different position. Now I can't think off the top of my head what the value would be at getting good at a supinated grip press down. But let's just say you were in some kind of weird sport that required you to grip something in a supinated grip and use your tricep. In that particular case, then it would make sense. So when it comes to sports or movement or patterns, then you're not necessarily looking at your body, like a bodybuilder would, right? This is a bodybuilder question. Does it hit the triceps differently? But if you're talking about a movement, as a movement, if you're playing, if you're doing a sport, and even though the hand position might not affect the targeted muscle, it may be a good idea to train with that hand position because that's the one you're using so much. That's Michael Hearn makes the case for this. He does a lot of like weird, odd, like angled exercises that are very similar, like as far as getting the gains on your tricep or your bicep. Him doing this exercise versus this other one that he would show, it's like, I'm looking at that going like, neither one of those are going to make that but give a difference. But the case that he makes is that it's, I want to be strong in all positions. Right. So I can get behind that. Yep, that makes sense. Yeah, like, I mean, in real life, you're rarely ever in the perfect skull crusher position, the perfect overhead, you know what I'm saying? So having your elbows flared, laying in a weird position with your out in a different way. It's the same I feel too with those, you know, those added grip. Fat grips. Fat grips, thank you. Yeah, it's just the same. It's, you know, just getting strong with a different grip is valuable, but it's not like- Right, because now everything's- The game changer, the panty dropper, whatever you want to call it, right? And we're going to change the- Did we say that? I don't know if I can say that. Did we do panty dropper instead? I tell you what, when I changed elbow position, it was a panty dropper. Right, it kind of works. Hey, I'm with you over here. That doesn't work, I don't think. Ah, man. Next question is from CMOS23. What would you tell a client who is told they only have to train with partial reps or a limited range of motion to save their joints? I remember when I figured this out, it was a panty dropper. For sure. It's going to stick, yeah, for real. It is going to stick. I'm using it, dude, I'm using it. All right, that's fine. I figured you would. I would adjust it, I'm using this one. So here's the thing, okay? You want to train, and this is where people get confused with ranges of motion. Do I train in a full range of motion? Do I train in a partial range of motion? It's very individual. You want to train in the fullest range of motion, and here's the important part, that you have control over. Okay, so the fullest range of motion that you have control over. What does this look like for you? It can be very different in terms of what it looks like for you than what it would look like for someone else. When I would train somebody who had poor mobility, somebody who didn't have lots of stability and strength, sometimes that meant we would do squats, and the squats would be to start with a quarter squat. Because anything lower than a quarter squat, they didn't have the stability to support that range of motion, and the risk of injury was too high, or we would end up training a movement pattern that wasn't good, right? Now, it doesn't stop there, though. Then I would try to improve the person's functional range of motion. So if all we can do are quarter squats, because you lack the mobility and stability to do a full squat, I will do quarter squats, but I'm not going to stop there. I'm going to do exercises and correctional movements to increase and improve your range of motion, because the best way to live life, the best way to develop muscle and strength is to have long ranges of motion that you control, be able to own all ranges of motion. Now your risk of injury is really low. Well, an example I think of immediately with this, which was one of my clients that had frozen shoulder, and so this was something that was just a real debilitating, had no range of motion. Could barely even lift his arm up to about chest height, right? And so that's what I had to work with. And so we had to go very gradually into different ranges of motion, and we could only do what we could do. And so a lot of it looked like actually isometrics where we'd find that in range and then we would connect to it and then try and pull up on his own. So a lot of it was all his own effort with pulling away. So if I put, for instance, so if I put his hand on the wall and I try to get it up as high as I can where he's pushing on the wall at his highest point of range of motion to now connect to that. So he's going to squeeze into it, but now he also has to try and pull off of the wall. That was a totally different type of an exercise that had massive benefit that was a really gradual increase in range of motion over time, but it's totally different mindset. I think you guys are both missing the point here. This, neither one of you are slamming the shit of the person who gave this advice. Like you guys are both making cases for where you would use partial reps and it makes sense. Instead of slamming core squats. Yes. Well, instead of slamming this person that is telling the- Save your joints. Yeah, to do partial reps to save your joints. Yeah, you're right. Like you guys are making it, like which I understand where you're going. Like, yeah, absolutely. Like there's been cases where we, as trainers, used partial reps with a client for the exact reasons that both of you just defended. But if someone is telling a client you should do partial reps to save your joints, that is some of the worst advice that's terrible advice. Because what you're going to do is train them to be strong and controlled in that shortened range of motion. And anything outside of that, their joints will be more vulnerable. So that's the last thing that I'd want to do. Now, that doesn't mean that we don't, we're not careful with going full range of motion. Like maybe like to Sal's point, when this person squats, their form breaks down after a quarter squat. And so therefore, you would take the precautions that Sal and Justin are talking about. But as far as just general advice, this is terrible advice that you should not limit your range of motion, especially if you already have it. If you have full range of motion in your shoulder and you think, oh, this is going, and someone's telling this person that them doing partial reps is going to save their joints and you're going to get more out of it, long term. No, that's terrible. You're not preparing them for real world activities and function because nobody's living in those short ranges of motion constantly. I mean, there's so many more variables to consider. No, it has to be appropriate, of course. And the goal is always to increase the range of motion. So if you are using partial reps, you have to also train yourself to be able to use full of reps. The problem is this, the problem is that we often confuse the human body with machinery that we use in everyday life, right? So if I use a particular tool or machine, the more I use it, the more wear and tear there is on it. And it's not going to, it has a certain shelf life, right? So over time, if I continue to use a door hinge over and over again, it wears down and that's bad for the door hinge. This is not how the human body works. The human body, yes, you get wear and tear, but that sends a signal for repair and strengthening. This is why muscles build. I wear and tear on them when I work out. They get, they build and they get stronger. Not sending that signal actually causes more problems. Yeah, actually. So for joint health, the best possible thing you could do is move them through appropriate ranges of motion and build strength within them. That'll keep your joints healthy. Not moving your joints actually speeds up the degradation process. It actually speeds up or amplifies your risk of injury. So, and then you think, okay, well, what about people that overuse their limbs and hurt themselves? It's totally different. I'm not talking about overuse. I'm not talking about overcoming your body's ability to adapt and strengthen. And I'm not talking about strengthening a bad recruitment pattern. That can definitely cause problems. But if you have good movement, I mean, the people who are old with the best ranges of motion, the best joints, the best joint health are people who exercise, not people who sit around and don't move their bodies. So this is a, it's, there's just a false paradigm here that, oh, you gotta save your joint. Don't use it that much, much. It doesn't work that way. The body either decides to strengthen and maintain a joint or it decides it doesn't need the joint anymore. Not moving it tells the body, we don't need it anymore. It's gonna naturally prune that. That's it. Next question is from Kenny Philanges, 28. I have a big appetite and I always feel hungry. What are some strategies you've used to help? Are there any specific foods that you have used to hack big appetites? Yeah, so this is a problem for a lot of people, right, is overeating. And so I'll talk about what worked well for my clients because this was never an issue for me. I was, I had a fast metabolism. I always wanted to gain weight. So the opposite was the issue for me was figuring out how to eat more food. But for, I'd say probably 90-something percent of my clients, it was the opposite, right? They were dealing with overeating. And there's a couple of things you could do. One, for people who overeat, more often than not, eating more frequently tends to help, okay? It does tend to help. So having someone have three meals with snacks in between, so long as things are tracked properly, otherwise it gets out of control, that seems to help. High protein makes a big difference. Protein is very, very satiating. So what I used to tell my clients who had issues with this is I would say, okay, when you're eating your meal, which typically would have protein, some kind of a fat, and some type of carbohydrate, eat the protein first. Eat your six ounce serving of meat first, and then move on to the other categories of macronutrients. And usually the second one that would be fat because that's more satiating the carbohydrates and then move on to carbohydrates, that tends to help the most. A high protein diet actually does quite a bit or has done quite a bit for clients who've dealt with appetite issues. Steak and sweet potato. Wow, that's very specific. Yeah, no, really. And that's why I want to give you that, something that I've literally had this question asked to me many, many times with clients, and down to where we've played with all kinds of different foods. And obviously there's an individual variance and some people have used other things, but this worked really well. And it's for the point that you just made right now, like a high protein meal and fat. So fat and protein are going to satiate you more than anything else. Steak is great for this. Eat a nice big steak first and then sweet potato because it's not as high a calorie. And you can get away with eating a pretty good size sweet potato without a ton of calories and it's pretty filling. And it's lower on the glycemic index than other carbohydrates. This tended to be like a solid meal that I could, and then I would tell them to get a vegetable on top of that. So if you were to eat a salad with that or a bunch of greens, whether it be green beans or something like that that you could fill up on, that was like a really filling, good solid meal that always helped clients that were struggling with this. So this was a regular thing that I recommend. I see two things that might be a little different than you guys. One being water being consumed, which is something I would direct them immediately to. To see, a lot of times it was not the case where they were drinking a good amount of water and they were constantly hungry and always consuming things to kind of fill this craving for something. And so that was one thing. The other thing was to just understanding hunger a little bit more specifically. And so this is where I do find value in experimenting with, even if it's like a meal skip or it's like a full day fast or something where they can actually live in those signals for a while and realize they're gonna be okay on the other side. I'm not saying this is a constant practice they do, but I think it's an educational one to really understand the difference between a craving and an actual desire to eat and have hunger. I love your water. I forgot, this is something I would also recommend to this exact same client is before you eat meals, like to make them like pound a glass of water before you go to eat them. Exactly. Because a lot of times it is, it's a lack of hydration that makes you think that you're really hungry. So filling up with a glass of water before you sit down and eat the meal would always help that out too. Yeah, great tip. Yeah, those are both excellent tips. I think the other one too, a lot of, and I used to notice this with my clients, took me a long time to figure this out, but a lot of the excess calories would come from eating when they were doing something else. So watching TV or while they're working. Distracted. Yeah, because it's distracted eating. You're not very aware. So I would tell them like a simple rule and people respond pretty well to black and white simple rule. So I'd say, okay, anytime you eat, don't do anything else. If you're doing something else, don't eat. That used to result in a 100 to 300 calorie reduction for a lot of my clients. Pretty consistently down the road. Next question is from Trey Thayer. There's a lot of skepticism about chiropractic therapy and its origins. What are your opinions and do you think it helps? It's a lot like any other profession I feel like, right? There's examples of really bad ones and then there's examples of like really good ones. I mean, it's like trainers. There's phenomenal trainers out there that are brilliant and doing great work and then there's a lot of shit butts. I think that's true in this field also. And I used to, by the way, I hated chiropractors. And that's again, that was my experience, right? The first 10 that I experienced as a trainer were all really shitty. Like I'd say like nine out of 10 were really shitty. One of them was like, okay. And so I had like a bad taste in my mouth for chiropractors. In my presentation, when I was selling personal training to people, I used to love to get somebody who saw a chiropractor because I would shit on them completely. And so I had that attitude for a really long time. It wasn't until Dr. Brink and Jordan Shallow did that completely become a panty dropper for me. So it was- Damn, that's sick and doggy. I can't do anything about it. You're not making it work? Yeah, I'm gonna make it work. I feel responsible for that. It was, no. It was a game changer if they were, both of them were. They're two of the most brilliant men that I've met in this field. And both have blown my mind completely. And so because of that experience from them, it's opened my eyes to- And there's guys like the Move You guys. I love those guys. They're chiropractors. You know where the skepticism comes from? It comes from the- So, and this is a problem in a lot of fields. What some chiropractic methods were teaching was that, okay, the central nervous system controls everything in your body. That's correct. The spine houses obviously the spinal cord. And through the spinal cord, your central nervous system communicates to the whole body. Central nervous system communicates your breathing and your- It could affect the hormones and it could affect how you think and it can affect the immune system. All of this is true. But then they took this massive leap and said that lining up your body and your spine then can cure all the problems since everything comes. Like diseases and colds and everything else. Yeah, since everything comes from the central nervous system and the central nervous system affects everything. Therefore, aligning your- They made a massive jump. Massive jump. And then of course there's a lot. That's just not true. Well, that's how you know. Okay, so a good way to tell if you have got a shitty chiropractor or a good one and this was like my experience with Brink was, you know, many chiropractors will do an assessment on you and whether it be they have like the new digital ones that take like a photo of you and then they tell you, oh, you have your shoulder elevated here, you're rounded here. And then they throw you on the table and they just crack you into place. Like then you have a shitty chiropractor. Crack them and crack them. That's all they do. Because if they do that, sure they may give you temporary relief but they're not fixing you. You're going to have to come back forever and they're setting you up to where they're not fixing why your body being held that way. And a good chiropractor may not even use his table to adjust you ever and is going to make you walk and move and squat and get down on the floor and explain to you what's broken or what's going wrong with your body, what movements, what exercises that you need to do to fix the root cause that's causing whatever issues, whether it be chronic pain or bad movement patterns. And that is like what a good chiropractor will do versus take a picture of you, break you down, tell you how dysfunctional you are, lay you down, crack you and go see how good you feel. Come back, see me next week on Tuesday. I'll make sure you feel good again. And then you get stuck in this cycle of I got to see a chiropractor. You keep patching holes. Yeah, you're not addressing the root cause. All you're doing is putting a band in. No, a good chiropractor is a movement specialist. Not an adjustment specialist. Now there is a place for adjustments and I've heard it explained a lot of different crazy ways, but the best chiropractors I've worked with explained it very, very well. And really it's about articulating joints in the body that may be quote unquote stuck because the muscles around them are so tight. So it's like you have a tight muscle anywhere on your body. If you stretch it or move it, it starts, it relaxes and allows it to, and it starts to feel better. Well, there are small joints in the body and the spine where the rib cage attaches in the hips where something might be so difficult and stuck that traditional stretches just don't articulate it. And so it requires somebody to come and manually cause an adjustment. Yeah, they need to intervene. Yes, I mean, I think that's really where I see value and it is when you've already gone through the work of muscular wise, training wise, you're trying to get into better alignment and it's just not there yet. And maybe now you might look into subluxation or whatever technique they're gonna use to try and help to get you back. Cause you do feel a lot better once you're in good alignment and your joints are functioning the way that they're supposed to. Well, I think I feel like it's a similar thing to how we talk about foam rolling or the therapy guns. Like all these things give you temporary relief. So if you use those tools to then go do the movements that you need to do to address the issue, then it's a good thing. So if you go and you see a carburetor, he adjusts you, realigns you to make you feel better. So then you go do the exercises that you need to do to correct the problem. Then I see value in it. But one of the things that I would see with a lot of the chiropractors I worked with as a trainer early, well before Brink and shallow is they didn't give any corrective exercises. They had just adjusted. That's all they did. Was it just adjusted to fix the person and made them feel better for the day or for a few days before they'd come back? They weren't explaining to them what was going on with their body. I was having to do that as a trainer and saying, listen, all they're doing is cracking you back into place. You feel good. But then your muscles are pulling you back into the bad position. You see the same thing from Western medicine like with doctors. They're prescribing you pills to make you feel better. But there's no real protocol of maybe we should change up or die. Maybe we should get this type of exercise. Maybe there's no plan. It's just like I can make you feel better right now. They followed a similar business model, I feel. Yeah. So it's like, oh, you have acid reflux. Here's a pill that will make you feel better, but never talking about the root cause of acid reflux. Oh, you get headaches all the time. Here's this pill to help you with your headaches, but we'll never figure out the root cause. There's also a lot of business models that surround the chiropractic industry that are designed to maximize a chiropractor's revenue. And I think this also has, for lack of a better term, poison the industry, right? So you'll see chiropractors who utilize these models. Don't remember the names of these models, but they'll say, okay, here's a great way to make a lot of money as a chiropractor. You have 10 people show up at the same time, and they're all on different beds. And you go and adjust this one over here, adjust this one over here. It's like a factory. Yes. And these are these business models. No joke. In the health space, the chiropractic industry probably has more of these get rich quick in your chiropractic business type schemes than almost any that I can think of. And this causes problems. Well, because they can give immediate relief and feel better. It's one of those tangible things, right? Like you walk in, someone has got low back pain because they're all out of alignment, right? And then you have someone crack them into place, and it's like, oh my God, that feels much better. It's like all I had to do is do that in five minutes. So they set them in these 15-minute increments. You've got clients coming in and out, like, you can't. I mean, you know what it's like to train somebody and help them with an issue. Like, it'll take no 15 minutes. No. It takes me 15 minutes just to explain what's going on with them. And that takes me another 15 to 20 minutes to do the exercises to fix the issue. It would be the equivalent of a trainer having six clients and like, you're doing a bench press. You're doing a row. Totally. You're doing it. And then you show them and you walk away. Oh, I get to train five people. Yeah, you show them, but there's no instruction actually. Exactly. No, a good chiropractor, I'm going to say this again, is a movement specialist. If you find a chiropractor that understands correctional exercise and teaches you how to prevent yourself from hurting in the first place, you found a good one. If you have a chiropractor that just provides relief and then schedule you for your next appointment, then you have one that doesn't have tons of value. Look, Mind Pump is recorded on video as well as audio. So if you want to watch the podcast, come to YouTube Mind Pump podcast. Also, we have a YouTube channel with exercise demos that's called Mind Pump TV. And then finally, you can find all of us on Instagram, including Doug, the world's best podcast producer. You can find Doug at Mind Pump, Doug. You can find Justin at Mind Pump, Justin, me at Mind Pump, Sal, and Adam at Mind Pump, Adam. Well, I had some mixed feelings this weekend. Oh, well, is this going to turn into a therapy session? No, no, it's kind of interesting. Well, the countdown begins for you guys. It does. So you're in the final week here. It's the final countdown. I thought it was going to be this weekend. I'm going to be honest with you. Well, so she's at, just because at the point now where she's ready.