 In this episode of Mind Pump, we answer questions asked by listeners like you. What they do is they go to our Instagram page, Mind Pump Media, they post the question, we pick the best ones, and then we have a lot of fun answering them. Only the best ones. Now in the introductory portion of this episode, we talk about current events and whatever we feel like talking about. And you'll realize that when you listen to this episode. So we start out by talking about ADD. Yep, we probably have it. What does that mean? I don't know. We talked about the movie Jojo Rabbit. We think that's going to win major, excellent movie awards. Super good movie. We talked about how Apple was a bunch of plugs in the morning show, which is a show on Apple Plus. I have yet to watch it because I'm not paying for one more service. Yes, tickets to the man. Then I talked about how I need an intervention because I'm getting fatty cakes for my body. I love it, Sal. We talked about how Dr. Dre is going to be working with Kanye on the next Jesus is Kanye. Isn't that crazy? We're going on the next Jesus is King album. That's going to be massive. It's going to be awesome. I talked about Pine Bark extract, which contains pycnogenol. It's got some interesting properties. It's one of the ingredients in the brand new Organifi supplement move. This is a joint support anti-inflammatory supplement. The ingredients are quite compelling. I'm taking it right now. I'll give everybody feedback on how I like it. Anyhow, Organifi is the maker of vegan supplements like protein powders, green juices, gold juices, red juices, and the product I talked about move, which is for your joints. We have a discount for you. If you go to organifi.com forward slash mine pump and use the code mine pump, you'll get 20% off. And between November 20th and 27th, buy three of any products and get a free glass bottle. That's a new promotion. Peter Pack and pick up pycnogenles. 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So you are going to the gym, you are using weights, but you're doing different workouts, different exercises to build your body in different ways. You will build muscle, you will burn body fat, but you'll also improve your athletic ability, your functional athletic ability. Using those muscles, Sal. And mass performance is the only mass program with mobility sessions. These are sessions designed specifically to improve your mobility. And again, it's 50% off. Here's how you get the program with the discount. Go to mapsgreen.com and use the code green 50, G-R-E-N-5-0. No space for the discount. I think because, you know, we've talked about this before. I know Sal, you went formally diagnosed, but I'm pretty sure I have ADD also. And I think that all entrepreneurs do. It's more common. Yeah. I mean, for sure, like I'm somewhere on that side of the spectrum. And I think authors that write in short stories or excerpts like that, I do really well. It has more impact. Yeah. Because I can read it and then like, absorb it, think about it. Like, and then if you take me on a long journey, sometimes it's, you probably get lost. You're like, what happened? Yeah. Get the page back up. Right. I think that should be your first sign if you potentially have it. Like, how often do you have to reread pages? Like, I'm that guy for sure. Yeah. Constantly. It's got to be a hard thing to really diagnose though, because it's just like an attention, attention issues are so common, you know, such a thing. Well, what I don't know or even care is like, whether I formally have it or not, I think that there's certain practices that you can do to get better about it. And there's certain things that make it worse. And I think that's the key is being aware and then putting in the work to try and improve it, right? Or use it to your advantage, right? People who have ADD or ADD type qualities, whatever you want to call it symptoms, they tend to be more often than not entrepreneurs, salespeople, entertainers. So there may be a dual, there may be one of those things where it's like a benefit but also detriment, you know what I mean? Oh, yeah. And I know it, I don't know, you know, I don't want to categorize it too strongly because I'm sure some people really suffer from those types of symptoms. But for me, that, you know, attention moving from one thing to the next served me really, really well managing gyms. It was like, it was like, it was like, that's what you needed. Take a superpower there. Yeah, you know. Well, you hear me say on the show all the time that I believe your greatest strengths or your greatest weaknesses. Well, that works in reverse. Also, you know, your greatest weaknesses can be your greatest strengths too. So, you know, if one of your greatest weaknesses is you have a terrible attention span and you potentially have ADD, well, try and think of the things where that could serve you, you know, and jobs like the gym. I think why we all kind of fell in love and found that is like you are you're a million things going at once and you can't get frustrated with that. Like you just embrace it that you always got a bunch of stuff on your plate and you're, you know, whatever multitasking, though, people don't like the term multitasking, but it's I think something that you can learn to use to your benefit. They found they did you know that there's a one of the characteristics is a hyper focus of ADD. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so because twice I've had doctors tell me, oh, I think you might have and one of the first time the doctor told me that and I said, well, I don't think that's true. I said, when I really get into something like you cannot peel me away from it like you could fire a cannon off next to my head and you know, and she's like, yeah, that's exactly one of the characteristics. They have the hyper the hyper focus or whatever it's far whatever you're going to categorize it do whatever you want. You know, I've organized my life around it. You know, I'm saying like one like I have a few strategies like I always put certain things in exactly the same place my keys in my wallet. There's only two or three places that they'll ever be ever and I've learned to do that because I used to lose them all the time. I've also learned to work with or partner with people who are very organized. It's just it just works well with me because I tend to be so disorganized and so, you know, again, you just organize your life around it and it whatever works better. It's just all the ways of learning. That's like super diverse. It's like everybody has a different preference and things that they're drawn towards and so if you're more drawn towards like create like like eliminating chaos and creating stability through organization and that's like your main thing then that's what you're going to be drawn towards and that's how you're going to, you know, learn and it's going to reflect that versus, you know, the opposite or the whole spectrum in between. Totally. Dude watched JoJo Rabbit. Yeah, I told you it wasn't that a great movie for such a good movie. Really? I feel like it should be up for an Oscar. It will be. That's how much I liked it. It has to be. Wow, that good. It is. I mean, it looks funny. Don't get me wrong. Like it looks, but yeah, that's not just funny. It's not just fine. That's the thing. It's it's it's so well like intelligently written and it really makes you feel something, you know, which you don't get a lot of times from movies like interesting controversial at all. It's it's everything. Maybe it's a little bit. It's funny. It's the it's social justice done the right way because it takes you on a journey. It pokes fun at stuff that's hard for you to at first kind of be like, am I really laughing at this? But then they do it in a way that you can laugh at it. But then it gets very serious. It pulls at your heartstrings. It's it's an emotional humanizes these these villains out to everybody so quick to call somebody a Nazi everybody so quick to like try and figure like like find that that extreme of you know, okay, so this is the most evil example I could come up with right, but you have to realize they're still human beings and there's people that were in that situation that didn't want to be in that situation and we're playing the part of Nazi, but also, you know, having like all this this this this like extra stuff that they're dealing with the tried to cope with that. Yeah, it's it's it's such smart writing. The comedy was excellent. It's written so well that it challenges you. Wow. I'm excited to watch it now. And again, it pulls at your heartstrings. I mean, there's a few few moments. There's a few points in the movie where you're like your move to emotion. Did you Justin, did you start watching the the morning show that I talked to you like that? I really like it. So I was somebody shared an article from Wall Street Journal with me about the show. And now that you now that you're watching it, you'll have to because now they I read the article now I can't help but like pay attention and count. Uh-huh. But on average, Apple is in 34 to 50 scenes in every episode like the branding in the background. Everything. Yeah. What? Yeah, I didn't notice that. Yeah, yeah. It's an apple. It's produced by Apple, right? So they would product placement everywhere. Yeah. No. So after I read the article now, I watched an episode night before last. Yeah. And you know, I'm like, oh, shit. Now, where do you guys find the show? I'd look for it the other day and I couldn't find it. It's on Apple Plus. Apple Plus. That's the only place. Yeah. Oh, man. Yeah. No, damn, I got to get everything. Oh, it's good, dude. It's it's great. I mean, it's it's interesting how they've they've brought up, you know, the Me Too movement and all these examples of it's like, it's a great insight into the like how, you know, these these massive egos going into a newscast like how well, you know, that dynamic works. You get you get a sense and I haven't actually read on this if it was maybe you have Justin. But I remember, was it Loudest Voices Doug? What's the other one that I turned you guys on to? I know you watched a Doug. I don't recall Russell Crowe or the Loudest Voice. Loudest Voice, right? That's what that one was called. And that one was all based on true events that happen in Fox News. So now this is like a more liberal slight slanted show that similar type of issues were happening behind. Is it comedy though? No. Oh, this is serious show. Yeah. It's more drama. Oh, okay. Yeah. Although it has it has bits of humor in it, but it's would be considered a drama. But you could I feel like we're there. It's it like Justin said there. They're kind of wrapping in the me to that timing and when that was all going on and that it's called the morning show and the actors and actresses in there are phenomenal and and I like where it's going so far. I mean, I think four or five episodes in and it's it's pretty I don't have to get into it. It gives everybody's perspective on like how these things kind of like come to like as a peak in terms of bad behavior and all that. That's the only streaming service I don't have. Gosh. Really? Yeah. I got everything already. Well, I got another one for you that I didn't know. I just keep adding because it's like screw cable. Yeah. I'll just keep adding all these actual things. You canceled. A long time ago. Dude, like it's somebody two years ago. Somebody was I saw like a meme that was floating around that the, you know, oh, this is so brilliant. All this stream that we're doing and then sooner later, someone's going to evolve and put it all together and call it cable. Yeah. It's been weird. Real weird. Yeah. Yeah. It's hilarious thing. Oh man. Yeah. It's a reverse engineer. Dude, I might need an intervention. What's going on? Fucking you want to know what I eat for breakfast this morning? Well, so I had eight egg yolks. I had a half a pound of ground beef and then I had a bowl cereal. Wow. That was my breakfast. Look at you. I don't know what's going on. I don't know, man. Chasing cholesterol like crazy. I don't know what's happening. I think it's because the you remember I told you the weather as it gets colder. I get a little sad. It's fluffy season. Yeah, dude. Oh, I love it. It's my favorite. I got to be careful with the fat cakes are starting to pile on a little man. I embrace it. It's winter time. Put your winter coat on. I put on my pants this morning. You're being strong. Yeah. You still look sexy. Fluffy. Yeah. Fluffy sex. That's what Jessica says. Yeah. She's like, you don't look. She just, she tells me, you don't look any different. I'm like, babe, I'm approximately 18 pounds heavier. It's impossible to look exactly the same. No, no, you look the same. No, I'm convinced all of our girls like us a little bit, which, you know, how funny is that though talking about like our insecurities and why we got into fitness and stuff like that to, to look a certain way. And, you know, meanwhile, our wives are all like, Hey, I prefer you a little bit on the thicker side. It's the same on the other end, right? Like they'll gain a little bit, but like in good places. I'm like, yeah, you know, like a little more slapable. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, guy. Well, tappy, tappy. Somebody had a good weekend. I was saying, I was saying, things move and it's great. Like it, it's fun, you know. It's fun. You're not to be all muscular and lean all the time, dude. Let's get a little soft. It depends how you say it though. I know that you're not like, it might have been a little aggressive. You're not like, Hey, babe, I like it when you're a little chunky. Yeah, yeah, you got to dance a little bit around it. You're like, what do you say? Like, ooh, like, yeah, you're getting very curvaceous. Yeah, I don't know. That's why I'm not using it. Now, like Courtney's, you know, stay at home now. Is she training more often? Does she use your gym? Does she go to the gym? Like what does she, does she actually been on a massive kick with that? And it's been good because she's like, and I talked about this on my IG story a little bit that I, she basically did like a soft breakup with her workout partner that she was working out with a lot and doing all these like cardio circuits and all this kind of stuff. And she's been really consistently doing like, like maps aesthetic and, and using whatever we have at our house. And I've been working out with her too, like maybe twice a week. So like, but she's, she's been on it. And also we just started throwing in the, the hip thrusts, you know, cause I have like a secret agenda with that. Obviously we had Brett Katerus on here. He showed me that book of all his success stories. And I'm like, yeah, you're not doing these, you know, so this is a mix on top of everything else. So yeah, I'm curious to see, you know, that development. That's one of Katrina's favorite. If you ever catch her working out in here, she's almost always doing that. She's hitting that up. That's a great exercise. It's just like, I always don't think of it, you know, cause I'm always like so squat focused. Yeah, it brings, it does bring up a good point though, that in, in pictures versus real life, what looks good in real life is different oftentimes than what looks good in pictures. Like when you see someone who's like shredded in a picture, like, wow, that looks really cool. When you meet them in person, it doesn't typically look that good. It doesn't look that healthy. Like I've been shredded. My face looks gaunt, you know what I mean? Besides my abs and all that stuff, it doesn't look that, that good. I think in reality, in real life, people prefer other people that are still healthy in the healthy fat range, but in the little bit heavier healthy fat range than the super shredded, you know, healthy fat range. What do you think that is? Do you think it's because we want something that we, we identify more closely with? You think that's why? I think it's evolutionary dude. I think if you look at a man that's walking around at sub 10% body fat all the time, probably less fertile. His hormones probably are less balanced. Yeah, you know, it's a sign that he maybe doesn't have as many resources versus a man that's to say 15% body fat, which is still healthy and still, you know, considered relatively lean. It's just not, you don't have a six pack. You've got kind of the, you don't have a big beer belly, but you don't have a six pack. Same thing with women. Like a woman who's too lean, probably not fertile. And so it's that biological evolutionary thing that you look at someone and it's like, yeah, you know, yeah, you're shredded, but it doesn't look as good. You ever look at like, go back to that, but what I think it's more like we, we feel like they look like us, but a little bit better version of us. Therefore I want to hang because you think about the same sex. I'm not attracted to them to men, but then if I would always throw that one time, yeah, besides that time. Yeah. Listen, you know, I think, uh, do you really think it's always evolutionary? I don't think that's why the same sex is hanging out with other people, the same sex that, that feel that way too. Like you don't look at a girlfriend and say, oh, she looks good with an extra 10 or 15 pounds on her when you're not thinking about reproducing with her friends. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. I don't know. Yeah. I don't think it's just, I think we, it's more. We, I've never really thought of that. I think it's really hung out with a dude because you're not hung out with like, I'm not going to hang out with you avoid shredded guys. I think I don't know how to cool. I think it's more subconscious. I think it's just like you, you tend to hang out with others. You're, you're, you look and feel you're like, but then there's a party that like them or that you're like, oh, wow, they're a little more fit. I want to obtain that or be like that. Anything that's extreme. It makes it is like, well, when they do this, they do the surveys on, so for women, when they do the surveys on whether or not they, would they prefer it, what they call a dad bod versus shredded, like it's a majority. It's an actually it's a large majority of women prefer the, you know, quote unquote dad bod, then when it comes for men, you know, when they do studies on what men find visually attractive, it's about hip to waist ratio and that is a huge, there's a huge range. You could be 50 pounds heavier, have a good hip to waist ratio and a man is going to consider or men will generally consider you physically attractive. You could be a lot smaller and have a good hip to waist ratio and they found that throughout the world that there's that ratio is consistent. So it's got to be evolutionary. It's got to be, even though some cultures consider people, you know, to be smaller to be more attractive or bigger to be more attractive, but look at like the last. They should base all this off of porn searches. Whoa. Yeah. You know, like what people really attracted to it's weird. I feel like someone had morning sex this morning. Don't lie guys. No, man. No, I'd be glowing. I am not glowing. Okay. I got bags under the eyes. Yeah. Well, yeah, but no, but you actually makes a good point because porn, although porn, I don't think is, I think it's the extreme, you know, yeah, but then you find the somewhere in the middle based off the realistic, but yeah, but I mean it, I just think that it's, I mean, we come up with these standards just because we're trying to create the standards, but it's just like people are so, you know, varied across the board of what they're interested in, you know, and like what's they find attractive at the end of the day. It's what is healthy is in real life. Healthy. That's what matters. That's the most attractive thing. It just really is when someone has, you know, physical signs of real balanced health. Generally speaking, they're going to be considered more attractive to more people. Now I will say this unhealthy people tend to find unhealthy people attractive. So if you're like super body obsessed, you're probably going to be attracted to the more extreme, you know, body image type stuff. You know what I mean? Like no, I only like women who are just staying in their lane. Yeah, or whatever it's probably connect with other people that have the similar insecurities as you have. Sure. Sure. Absolutely. We see that anyway. Did you see Kanye West? Yes. Looks like he's collaborating with Joel Stee. No, but well besides that, that too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He did. He did a service thing or whatever I did. Well, yeah, I saw him. He's getting, you know, crucified, no pun intended with for that. I see everybody just, you know, it's so basting. It's, it's, we're, it's an interesting time right now. Like it really is like open season. If you're a Christian, man, I tell you what, they people actually make a good point. They will, if he, if he came out and was said he was about some other Muslim or said he was Buddhist or he said he was almost any other thing. I know it's very, it's very, what's the word politically incorrect to say things against that. Man, I Christian is the opposite. Yeah. It's, it's a, it's unfortunate that you see that. I mean, I even noticed that with, you know, you did a post on your Instagram of after Bishop Baron, you know, great interview too. I thought that was, you know, he's always one of my favorite people to talk to and you know, there's always a handful of people that are just triggered by that, just, just the, just the notion that we interviewed and the irony is that I don't think any of them even fucking listen to it. Yeah. And then they get on there and they comment on your page about how repulsed they are by it or how cringe worthy it is. And I'm just like, I tell you what, you're missing. If you're, I don't care what you believe in, I really don't, as long as you don't hurt anybody and you're a good person, I'll give a shit what you believe in, but you're really doing yourself a disservice by being closed minded and not seeing if you can gain any kind of wisdom from other beliefs. I don't mean you don't have to adopt everything that the other belief is all about, but if there's millions of people following something or saying something has value, the odds are that there's probably something you could take from it. And I feel like a lot of people, they're so, like you said, I'm so triggered and so, you know, anti that they won't even open up and say, okay, fine, I might not believe all of this, but there's some stuff that I may gain some and spiritual leaders, regardless of the religion or, you know, practice oftentimes have a lot of, you know, very applicable wisdom. Whether you're an atheist, agnostic, you know, Christian, Muslim, whatever, there's a lot of wisdom there. So it's sad to see that because even, even back when I was a hardcore atheist, I would still at least be open minded enough to look and say, okay, what is the wisdom that you can find in some of these practices? Like why do they, like why would they fast or why do they practice abstinence in certain situations or why do they preach, you know, silence or, you know, what is, what is spiritual value and what does that mean? I think you can find that regardless of your, you know, there's, there's wisdom there. Like don't be so close minded and pissed off. I just think that there's, there's wisdom and value in diving into anything that you feel so strongly opposed to. That's a good point. So if there's something that I just believe to be true with all whether, no matter what side I'm talking about that I'm on and I believe it to be the truth the most. I think there, and I know there's some stoic quote around this, but, you know, diving into the things that we believe to be true or is probably the areas and challenging that I think is probably one of the most important things growing as an individual that you can do. So if you're repulsed by something or you think it's cringe worthy just because the thought of it or somebody mentioning something that, I mean, if that was me, that would make me really dive into that and unpack that. Like what makes me so appalled by somebody else presenting something like this, especially when it's something like that, like that's a positive. Like there's, there's this weird notion that like it's going to deter us from progress, right? Like it's, it's ancient practices and it's ancient ways of thinking and therefore we need to abandon, you know, whatever sort of, you know, like wisdom lied in, you know, old ways of thinking and really adopt these new concepts and create these new concepts, which is, which let's see how that's been working out for us so far. Not so great. Well, it's arrogant. It's extreme arrogance to, because it's, it's as if we're considering people from thousands of years ago as entirely stupid, entirely ignorant. Now there may be things that they were ignorant about and there may be things that they were not privy to. But there are things, there is wisdom in, in people from thousands of years ago too, especially if it's a practice that's a lot. See, here's the deal. Scientists, scientists, scientists are people who support science believe in evolution, which they should, right? So much evidence to support that. But there isn't, it's not just biological evolution. It's one thing we have to understand about evolution. Yes, biology evolves. And the way that things evolve biologically is the things that work best tend to stick around and things that don't work tends to- Those traits get passed on. Tends to go away. So the best things tend to, you know, continue to pass through and that's what happens. So what exists today is probably better suited than what may be existed, you know, 10,000 years ago or whatever, just because of the evolutionary process. Well, customs and behaviors also pass through an evolutionary process. So if there's things that we consider outdated and we're like, ah, fuck it, throw it all away, stop for a second, pause, look at it and say, okay, well, why does this exist? Why did humans live this way for thousands of years and believe in certain things for thousands of years? These beliefs evolved because they work or at least some of it works. That doesn't mean we shouldn't examine things and we shouldn't look at things and say, okay, maybe this doesn't work anymore. Totally fine. But the idea that you throw it all away, you're being very arrogant. It's a very, very arrogant way of living and you're gonna hurt yourself that way or cause a lot of problems. Especially when you've only been on this earth for 40 or 50 years. Yeah, it's just like- Or younger, you know? It's crazy to me. But anyway, he's- Kanye is collaborating with Dr. Dre, dude. Oh, yes. On his second- There's a powerful duo right there. Really? I can't. Have they ever worked together? I don't think so. That's- I'm pretty sure cause Kanye has been able to basically construct his own beats and put everything together himself, produce it himself. Now, are they announcing what the album is gonna be? Jesus is King II. Oh, no shit. Yeah, they're doing part two of the Jesus is King album. Oh, no shit. Now, Kanye's releasing a Jesus is Born album on Christmas, which is separate. But then he's gonna do part two of the one he just dropped with Dr. Dre. That is gonna be- That's gotta be one of the biggest collaborations- Now, what are your thoughts on the people? There's a large portion of the population right now that are just like, oh, Kanye is taking advantage of, you know, it's an opportunity to make a lot of money. You know what's funny about that? So part of me is like, oh, I could see that. I can 100% understand where it comes from. Totally cashing in on that. But here's the other part of me. Let's reverse for a second. Now, it's easy to say that because Kanye's album hit number one and is crushing. Let's go back five years. Let's go back three years. If an artist were to say, you know what I think I'm gonna do? I'm gonna come out with a Christian album. Right, and you're- Everybody be like, you're an idiot. You're not gonna make any fucking money. To the point where most people that are are actually still go in the secular section because they know that it's suicide in their career. That's right. So I don't think he did it for money. I think he made money because it's good music. It's good album. And the guy's obviously a genius when it comes to music. But I don't think, I don't think he was thinking, hmm, what's gonna make me a lot of money? I'm gonna come out with a Christian album. That is not a way to make money. And he's kind of always been like the ultimate contrarian. Like even with fashion and different things like that where, you know, he'll spot something that like people might like, there's no way they'd rock it. Like, and he'll do it. You know, he just, he has that kind of, you know, he'll just put himself out there like that. And he's always had that. No, contrarian is a great word for him. I think that's great. He's been doing these like free, whatever you want to call them, concerts or performances at churches. And people are paying to come watch them. All the money is getting donated to charities. That's fantastic. And then he recently did a surprise concert at a, I forgot what prison it was, but he showed up and did this for a bunch of inmates and led a prayer with all of them, whatever. It seems to me seems genuine. Now here's the deal. He's, Kanye's got one of the biggest egos of all time. So I don't, and I don't know the guy, but it seems interesting to me at the very least. And the fact that he's working with Dr. Dray, that's like two of the most brilliant people in music that I can think of. Like two, it's in the hip hop community for sure. Oh, just period. I mean, can you think of two, another collaboration that sounds more. Well, it's yeah, you just see what an impact it's making on the culture. You know, it's very interesting to watch, you know, how like the swing is starting to come back in a different direction. Now, do we know the release date when it's supposed to potentially know just right now we know they're collaborating? Yeah, it was like a picture of them together. You know, we're working on the next album, whatever, so it's gonna be interesting. Anyway, I was reading up on, you guys saw OrganiFi's new product move. Yeah. So. Yeah, I've been using it. Now, it's replacing completely their turmeric line, right? Yes, but it's got other stuff in there. It's got pine bark extract in there. It's got holy basil in there. It's got holy basil. I've been waiting to say it. I saw that on there and I'm like immediately in my head. As the xanthan is in there. Great transition from the holy talk. Loves it. Yeah. So pine bark is really interesting. Pyknoginal is one of the active ingredients in pine bark. Now, I was very happy to see that they put this in their product. Pyknoginal is one of those other rare things out there that actually legit boosts nitric oxide. In fact, I used to take it back in the day as part of a pre-workout regime that I would do. It actually legitimately works for that. It's got great effects for asthma and inflammation. And this is actually proven in some studies. So if you take pine bark extract before allergy season, your instance of getting allergies goes down significantly. Really? Yes. And then there was another study that showed that we were just talking about ADD or ADHD early in the episode that pine bark extract has a positive effect on boys with ADD and ADHD. That's just one of the ingredients that's interesting. Yeah. And I like that they put that in there. But it reminded me about that stuff I haven't taken for long. Now, the bulk of it I'm assuming is tumor. So I guess that's the large. It's got a pretty good mix. It's got 300 milligrams of the turmeric extract. It's got 100 milligrams of arctic pine, which is a decent dose. It's got six milligrams of astaxanthin. And then holy basil, it's at 100 milligrams. And that's just for one serving. So this is a legit product. Now, you mentioned something that I didn't learn till later on. How much that could benefit me is when allergy season kicks up is understanding how you are systemically inflamed from that, right? And taking things like turmeric or supplements like that and or in conjunction staying away from inflammatory foods, how much that can impact how bad your allergies feel. I notice a huge difference. In fact, I try and like, those are days like I like to intermittent, you talk about different ways to, you know, intermittently throw in fasting. One of my ways of doing that also is a great idea is when I know that it's really bad allergy, like that week, or it's going to be bad. That's another great time for me to throw something like fasting or include things like turmeric or supplements like that in my diet. That's a great idea. And you know, I noticed I've started practicing that just a few years ago and it makes a big difference. Now, it's hard to say because I don't know exactly how I would feel that day, but I've had allergies long enough and know when a bad day is coming, the symptoms that I get and how debilitating it can feel. And so me fasting and throwing in things like turmeric and stuff into my diet around those times totally helps. Well, dude, along those lines of diet, this just came out on the 15th of November. This is from Yale University. A bit shocking. It's not in a bad way. Just interesting. I didn't realize that diet could have this much of an effect on influenza. So we're in the middle of flu season, right? This is when people start getting... And by the way, the flu... Kaisers have been calling me. Have they? Coming for your shot. No. But by the way, the flu has killed... I was doing reading on just influenza and boy, that influenza has killed so many people. It's absolutely... At one point, it killed like one of every three people. Wow. You know, in the world, it's insane. And it's just a scary virus. And even if it doesn't kill you, it just makes you feel like complete shit. Well, believe it or not, how you eat can actually maybe help your body fight the flu. So they found in this study that a ketogenic diet, believe it or not, reduced the rate at which mice got infected with the flu. And the ones who did get the flu were able to fight it off better because they were on a keto diet. And in this study, they talk about how the keto diet activates a subset of T cells in the lungs that are associated with your immune system's response to influenza. Enhancing mucus production from airway cells that effectively will trap the virus. So they think that's one of the reasons why it works. Wow, interesting. So the keto diet... I'll bring in your mucus. Yeah, so the keto diet in at least a study with mice was a great diet for the flu. That's good to know for somebody who's afraid of getting like really bad flu or whatever. Now, is it the higher amounts of fat and the reduction of carbohydrates? Is it the caloric difference you think? Because you think I could get the same benefits from potentially like fasting. That's a good question. Well, fasting probably, right? Because fasting can kick your body into ketosis. I think it was the ketosis that did it. Because it was specifically a ketogenic diet that they fed the mice. But how crazy is that, right? Yeah, but this is also like this is what I really like to like when stuff like this comes out. This is the stuff I like to share with like clients and how to use a lot of these different tools like intermittent fasting and the ketogenic diet. Like, you know, unfortunately they get popular because of fat loss and muscle building. And, you know, we focus so much on that. But what a great way to use tools like this for seasons or medicine. Yes, medicine. Yeah, and now think about it, right? Think about it. When would humans be more likely to eat a diet that is closer to winter? Exactly. Because plants are not easily accessible. You're probably going to survive off of meat and fat. Fat sources, yeah. And so you're going to be in it. So it's almost like your body, it's like a natural part of that, your body's ability to fight. A virus that tends to pop up during the winter seasons. So you think that in combination too, with like feeling the onset of like feeling like a little bit depressed and down, like jumping in the sauna is having like benefits to that too, getting your core temperature up. Oh yeah, the sauna is another one. I mean, it stimulates like a fever and it probably strengthens you. There's now, the sauna's got way more study supporting it in terms of, you know, helping your... Staving off viruses and that kind of stuff. Yeah, there's some really interesting research on what do they call, what is it? Temperature. Contrast? Yeah, contrast therapy, which would be like cold dip or going in a sauna. Also along those lines of diet, right? So there's been a lot of controversy around game changers and veganism and this and that. And I've been... People are still bringing it up. I know, so funny. Anyway, so I've been reading all these articles and stuff and this is interesting to me. So now this is not controversial, okay? But if we were hunter-gatherers, going vegan would kill you. That's not a... Probably kill you. This is not a controversial statement. It's a fact. Modern life has afforded us the ability to go vegan if we want to because we can have a wide variety of readily available year-round. Yeah, high, you know, calorically dense or nutrient dense vegetables and plants that we can combine. But in nature, without agriculture, without all that stuff, you're walking around, you just wouldn't get enough calories. You're not going to walk upon a field of whatever. So then I read something else that was interesting. I did not know this. Did you know that wild almonds are, for the most part, deadly? Did you guys know that? Really? Wild almonds. Yes. So today, this is even true today, consuming even 50 wild almonds could potentially kill an adult. What? Yes. So we've farmed almonds to become not bitter and to become sweet and to have low or no levels of deadly, would even consider deadly poisons. For example, wild almonds will have a little bit of cyanide in them. What? And we've actually, yes. So over time, farmers basically... Like arsenic with the... Arsenic, sorry. That's yeah, yeah, yep, yep. Okay. Yep. Because I know that apples have that. Yeah, so over time, farmers have domesticated almond trees to produce these sweet seeds. They're like crossbreeding over so many years. Is that why? Yeah, we just bred them that way. Just like the breeding, yeah. I don't know how many people had a die on the way to that. But the wild... I know, right? Oh, good. Crossbreed to this one. That didn't work. But why? I mean, we've done that with a lot of plants. Do we've turned them into, you know, being able to produce, you know, to... More of the fruit. Something that we can eat, right? Look at that. Bitter almonds may yield 4 to 9 milligrams of hydrogen cyanide per almond and contain 42 times higher amounts of cyanide than the trace levels found in sweet almonds. Interesting. Eating such almonds could result in vertigo and other typical bitter almond poisoning effects. Isn't that crazy? Yeah, well, where do you... I mean, where would you even find like a wild almond tree? That's how I... I don't even think about it. Because my mom actually grew up on an almond ranch. And... Almond or almond? Yes, she called them ammons. Yeah. What is an ammon? Which is really annoying. I don't know. Like, apparently that's what they call, like, almonds that call them ammons and for some reason, like they just want to be cool. Is this where you developed your, like, your passion for skinny dipped almonds or almonds in general? It's probably... I can probably trace it back. It's in my DNA. Yeah. Yeah, really drawn to almonds. But isn't that weird? So here you are. You're out in the wild. You're like, I'm going to survive awful plants. Oh, my God. Look, a wild almond tree. Oh, this is safe. Had a John dive. Not so safe. What the fuck happened to John? Well, I didn't even... He ate those almonds. I didn't even realize that there was two... Yeah, cyanide. That's crazy. A sweet and a bitter type. Like, I don't think I've ever had a bitter almond before. That's interesting. I know, right? Yeah, you and your random studies. Yeah, I love it. Isn't that cool? Well, here's another one on diet. This is another interesting study on diet. I'm going to bring it up because I don't want to misrepresent it. But this one's really fascinating. Oh, here we go. So this was published November 18th, 2019, from Brigham and Women's Hospital. So investigators found that eating a healthy diet may reduce the risk of acquiring hearing loss, believe it or not. So eating a healthy diet, they've now connected to a slower loss in hearing as you age. So not only does a healthy diet keep you leaner, good for heart health, reduce cancer risk, but other stuff like hearing loss. Like, if you eat a healthy diet, you're less likely to have the hearing loss that's associated with it. What's the mechanism? How does that affect hearing? Well, this is what they theorize. They theorize things like long-chain fatty omega-3 fatty acids, other types of nutrients like beta-carotene, carotenoids. Just the fact that healthy foods just are healthier and have nutrients or contain nutrients that are better for your body or more of them. What a nice transition from the almonds because you can find that in almonds, right? What? The omegas, you know, omegas, you can also... Just the healthy fat, yeah, omegas. I mean, almonds are very healthy food. It's probably one of the healthiest snacks you should have. You should tell Skinny Dip. It could be a new tagline. Eat your almonds, don't go deaf, right? Yeah, keep your hearing. I don't know if they'll want to do that. So, you guys know that the Airbnb's been under some bit of fire recently in terms of, like, whatever. The shooting. Oh, they're shooting that too, right? Yeah, that shooting not that long ago. Well, they're making a push right now to sponsor the Olympics, the next five Olympics for $500 million. What? Yeah, and I think this is like a big public kind of, like, trying to, like, help the look of the brand and everything and what they're doing too, which is kind of interesting with this, is providing opportunities for some of the athletes to kind of cash in on experiences through, like, renting through Airbnb. And so, they plan, like, if it's somebody that's running an event, like, they're planning, like, run with me through the city or, like, learn boxing with so-and-so. And, like, all of a sudden, you know, tied into the Airbnb they're staying at and they have, like, all these, like, pop-ups with these athletes, which is interesting because this also, think about how much money, like, these athletes aren't getting paid anything until after they're done, maybe, if they're lucky and they're that popular with sponsors. They don't make anything. I'm just, I'm fascinated by their business model period. I, when we started shopping around for properties and stuff like that and we were looking at Airbnb, I started kind of digging around, like, their business model and I didn't realize, like, how much money somebody can make as just, like, what they call a host. And you can, in what a cool part-time gig or if you're a stay-at-home mom, it's a, you know, very uber-esque type of model where, you know, I can sign up for this and I can be a host for, you know, wherever I live in my area, pick, like, 10 homes that are rented out and... And so you go let people in and kind of keep tabs on like a manager of properties. Yeah, you're like, and, you know, it's funny, after I read that, it made sense because we've stayed at so many Airbnbs and VRBOs with traveling with Mind Pump and we've had this before where, you know, remember when we were at the Hollywood house and they had like one of those crazy remotes that turn on the sauna, the TV, they control everything and we couldn't figure it out and somebody shows up to the house. They're not the owner of the house but they're like a hostess there. That's kind of their job is to make sure that people like us that come and rent the property have a pleasant experience. We don't get locked out, yada, yada, yada, but you can do that as like a little side gig and they get paid decent, I think. Airbnb has got to scare the shit out of these hotels and these big, they've got to be shaking in their boots because I mean, I don't think it'll kill them. I think there's always going to be a place for the hotel experience but for sure they're dipping into their pockets, 100%. It's got to be frightening. So I have an old client and who's a friend of mine who their family is in the hotel business and so one of the things that she's, in fact, we were just talking about this last week, she's looking into doing and what they're trying to do to pivot and handle this is creating more of a unique experience at the hotel. So being more like these smaller, you know, 50 to 100 room hotels that create more of a Airbnb type of experience or just a unique experience in itself whether there'd be like entertainment that's in there or it's kind of got like a swanky lounge in there but attracting people to the hotel for other reasons than just staying there in the nice rooms is where they're going to have to pivot to. And so I think we're going to see the hotels that do survive will probably start seeing more of these kind of boutique-esque type of hotels pop up. I know, I think it's- I love this sharing economy. I really love it. My cousins live in the city, none of them own a car. When they want to rent a car, they don't go through the big car rental agencies. There's apps and they literally will go up to some dudes or woman's garage or parking spot or whatever and the app on the phone opens the car. They get in there and they drive away. I think that one is crazy to me. That's such a wild. So you say, if you own a car and you live in the city and you're not going to drive it that often, why not rent it when it's just sharing economy? And what this is doing is it's giving everyday people access or more everyday people access to luxury items or expensive items like, you know, before imagine trying to rent a big old mansion, how much it would cost or a big old house through Airbnb. You're just saving money if you count the rooms and all the people you can fit in there. I think it's neat what the job opportunities that it's creating for people. Oh, it's huge. I mean, imagine being a teenage kid now like you for sure would be doing Uber and DoorDash and like on the other side hustle. Like what a cool thing that you can- how many cool jobs can you right when you start basically dictate your schedule and work as much as you want to work to me. I mean, that's pretty rad. If you're a college student and you need to make some money and you know, all these jobs are saying, oh, we need you nine to five or the shift from four to eight. You're like, oh, I had this class and oh, but what I can do is I can Uber or DoorDash between those two hours, shut it down, go back to school and then come back three hours later, work one hour like and still and make a little bit of money. Like that's really cool to me. All right, first question is from KCI and Wojo. Can you go deeper into what a D-load week looks like? How to incorporate it into your programming and the purpose and benefits of doing so? Now, before we do that, D-load. I'd like to hear your guys' opinion on how important do you think this is for the majority? Like how many people like really need a D-load week? Do you think- when you think about all of your clients that you've trained and the average person that's going to- Consistency is always the biggest hurdle for clients to begin with. Well, yeah, the value, I mean, see, that's a tough question because when I would train a client, I would go based off of their feedback and I'd know when I need to train them easier or lighter or lower the intensity of that type of thing, which is essentially what a D-load week is. What you're doing with the D-load week is you're reducing the intensity among other things. That's the main thing of the workouts, but you're continually- you're still working out. Now, why- the big question is why is a D-load week better than just not doing anything? Like if I need to rest, why don't I do anything? Why don't I just sit around and do nothing? Or why don't I just be active? You can just be active and that's better than doing nothing. But the value of doing a D-load week is that you're allowing your body to rest but you're still training the movements. You see, you want to practice movements consistently, but to give your body the ability or the capability to recover and adapt. And you think, well, why is it important to continue practicing the movement? Because you're going in on that signal. Yeah, and you lose your ability to do the movement exceptionally well when you stop even for a week. So it's like practicing throwing a football. Maybe you don't throw it as hard, but you still practice throwing it because you want to always remember that skill, always keep it cemented into your brain. So that's one of the big values of an actual structured D-load week. The other value is moving, even when you reduce the intensity, moving actually facilitates recovery better than not moving at all. Yeah, I think like it. When I think of a structured D-load week and when and how to do it, I typically think of, like for example, I'm running Maps PowerLift right now and the way the program is designed is like week over week, I am scaling volume, adding, adding, adding, adding. Now I'm guessing that towards the end of this program, I will have definitely, I'll definitely be stretching myself and have a pretty, and I'm also pushing heavier weight, heavier weight, heavier weight, and including increasing overall volume. So there's a good chance that after I finished the program, it would be ideal to probably, you know, scale back on the intensity and or volume for about a week, but like you said, still practice. Now the other way that I think I've used, you know, D-loading for clients is actually more for the client who is, they are attracted to the high intensity training like the orange theories and the, you know, those circuit-based type of classes that are high intensity for an hour and they've been doing that consistently and they have a ton of stress throughout their day because of work. They work long hours and they have a very important job and responsible for a lot of things or a lot of stuff going on with their family and they're just getting an overload of stress and that can happen and build up in a matter of just a week. They don't have to necessarily be consistently been lifting for, you know, months and months of scaling volume. They could just be throwing a lot at the body all at one time stress-wise and as a trainer, I could see that and feel that from the feedback that they're giving me when I'm talking to Sal's point and so then I would do like a quote unquote D-load week with them and say, hey, you know, let's do this, let's scale back on some of the intense training that we're doing, let's do straight sets with longer rest periods. Let's maybe take that fourth or fifth day off in the gym. I want you to replace it with something like yoga or just go for a nice walk or hike that day. And so as a trainer, that's kind of how I've, I think I would say I use D-loading on the average client because, you know, not a lot of people are training like some of our power lifter friends or somebody who is, or a bodybuilder. You know, if you're one of those people, I would say, you know, programming a D-load weekend, knowing that you're scaling up, scaling up, scaling up, week over week, week over week, consistent, not missing, that makes more sense. Yeah, I think it definitely depends on the time length of training. Like I don't, I don't really anticipate a D-load week with a beginner that we're trying to establish like the routine and we're progressively overloading continuously from, you know, a baseline where it, you know, we, this is where we're starting from and we need to, you know, increase your skill set. We need to get adapted towards, you know, how you respond to, to lifting weights in, in this direction. And we can always alter, you know, the weight based off an intensity. I'm going to play with that, but I'm, I'm still trying to scale you up to a point where you're like self-sufficient and like your body is pretty well adapted to weight training. And then after that, you know, now we intensify it further, we get into like the immediate, like intermediate to advanced and we're, you know, you're doing like a powerlifting program and you are like really stretching yourself. Like that's where I feel like a good D-load week will tell you, man, yeah, we need to, we need to now like recover. Yeah, if we tend to think of working out because training exercise has a lot of different values, but the main one that we tend to focus on is on its ability to force your body to adapt. You're breaking things down, you're pushing your body, you're stressing your body, getting it to adapt. And that's definitely one of the values of exercise. But exercise can also be restorative, which is different. Restorative exercise isn't aiming to break the body down. It's not aiming to force the body to adapt. Restorative exercise is literally, like the word says, helping you restore your own natural abilities, helping you feel better and recover. I've been through, you know, periods in my life where stress was very, very high. During those periods of time, I was not working out in the gym trying to push my body to build muscle or get stronger. I was going to the gym to keep myself healthy, to keep things feeling good, to help alleviate stress, not to add stress. Because exercise, when you're pushing your body to adapt, you're actually adding stress on your body. Not a bad thing when you do it right, by the way, but that is what you're doing. But if your stress is always, is already at a top level, your body's already having trouble adapting to the stress that's being placed upon it, sometimes you want to do something and you exercise is a good way to do this. You throw something on it that helps your body deal with the stress, which is restorative. And that's what a deload week is supposed to be. When you go into a deload week, it's an easier week of exercise meant to have restorative effects on the body, not meant to push your body to adapt like your other workouts did. And wouldn't you say that that's probably the most common thing, right? I just feel like, and no one knows this answer better than you, who's listening. Is it been a crazy week for you? Have you been burning the candle at both ends at work and you've got family stress going on? And then on top of that, you've got this personal fitness goal you've been cracking away at every week over week and you've been consistent with learning to become aware of that yourself and knowing that, hey, maybe this week of my workouts is not going to look crazy intense. Maybe this week's workouts are. I'm going to practice the skill of moving better or doing things like yoga and more mobility and stretching type work. You have to learn to do it. And as trainers and coaches, I mean, it was our job to try and to read that by asking the right questions from clients. Like, hey, how was your work? How was sleep last night? You can tell sometimes once you've been training for someone for a couple of years. Yeah, bags under their eyes. They'd walk in the gym and I'd look at them and be like, yeah, today's going to be a restorative, you know, de-load workout. So, but now here's the deal. It's hard. This is a process of learning yourself because here's what happens. Some people will be like, I don't know when I need to de-load week because sometimes when I'm really stressed and tired, going into a really hard workout makes me feel better. And so they're kind of misreading the signals. In which case, I would say this. It's probably a good idea to schedule de-load weeks when you're just learning how to read your body or if you have a history of overdoing it. If you're the kind of person that just either ignores the signals willfully or you just not able to read them very well, structure in your workout a de-load week. And typically, you know, for some people, it's once every four weeks, once every six weeks, maybe once every nine weeks where you have a week that's in your schedule and you know, no matter how you feel, I'm going to go to the gym and that whole week is going to be a de-load week. That whole week is going to be easier. That whole week is going to be focused on, on restorative type exercise, even regardless of how I feel. And if you do it that way, if you structure it that way, you may prevent ever having to do it or forcing, you know, needing to be in that position in the first place. Well, and when you go that route, trying to connect the dots with the other aspects of your life besides your performance goals in the gym, right? So obviously when you're de-loading, you're not going to see, you know, bench press go up. You're not going to see you get the most shredded you've ever had or see major progress. Look at the other things in your life. Your sleep, how's that going? Your energy levels throughout the day, any sort of cravings you may or may not have. Pay attention to your performance at work. Like think about the benefits that you're getting overall health from that de-load week. And sometimes we get so myopic about, oh, this is my fitness goal. And, you know, how's this de-load week going to, you know, serve my, you know, big fitness goal that I have. And then you go, oh, man, I took that week off and I didn't get stronger or I didn't get leaner. That's okay. Those aren't the only things that you should be paying attention to. Pay attention to the other aspects of your life and how that de-load week serves you. And then you just learn to kind of do it more on the fly. Here's a good sign that a de-load week was what you needed. When you come back and you have better workouts, when you come back after a de-load week and you're like, whoa, I feel good, man. I feel strong. I feel less pain or whatever. Then you know, like, okay, that was something that I was needed. Next question is from Tiffy Leap. How does one develop side glutes? I have a weird concave between my leg and hip instead of the side glutes being round. Side butt. I did a YouTube video on this. Build that side butt. What did you do in the video? We should link that in the show notes. Yeah, I'm trying to write. So I think I did lateral tube walks. I did sumo deadlift squats. I'm not a big curtsy lunge guy, but that is something that you could definitely do. I don't remember all the stuff I did there, but honestly, actually, the sumo deadlift is one of my favorite things to teach to somebody trying to do that just because of the extra. You've got to push out what you're lifting. Yeah, you got to know that. That's what that's responsible for. And this is actually really common. A lot of people, the side butt or side glute becomes really dormant because we don't do a lot of things laterally or moving in different planes as we get older. And so we just lose that good connection there. And so then when you do an exercise like squats or hip thrusts or some of these traditional movements that should develop the entire butt, that part of the glute is kind of, and I hate saying turned off because it's not completely turned off. It's less dominant and you're not getting a lot of extra help like you should from there. And knowing to open up your knees or push your knees out, which is why it's really popular. So I actually just, I did another YouTube video that will go live. It's not live yet on the hip circle. Yeah, the hips, thank you. Yeah, add that to a hip thrust. Yeah, so the hip circle, this is what's great about using the hip thrust or the hip circle for things like the hip thrust, deadlifting and squatting is that because the band is pushing your knees in, you have to fight against the band and push the knees out. That's your side butt that does that. So it forces you to turn that on while you do a movement like squatting, like deadlifting or like hip thrusting. So this is where this tool is a really beneficial tool to help somebody engage that part of their butt while they're doing these traditional movements. But like I talk about in this upcoming YouTube video, it's a tool, use it that way to get reconnected to that area and utilize it, but learn to do it without the band so you don't have to use a band forever. Yeah, the side butt's referring to, so when you look at the glute complex, it's like the butt, the whole butt cheek, right? There's actually more than just one muscle. There's three. You have the gluteus maximus, which is the big meat part of the butt. And then on the side, you have the gluteus medius and the gluteus minimus, which are kind of sit on the top side of the butt and then one that's right on the side of the butt. And they're actually small muscles. And they have, you know, they stabilize the glutes. They actually, they stabilize the gluteus maximus. They help when you squat and do hip thrusts and lunges, but they also bring the leg out in what's called abduction or lateral. So if you're standing, if you're confused with the words I'm using here, if you're standing up and you just bring your leg out to the side, like you're going to do a karate kick while keeping your foot pointing straight, you're activating, among other things, those muscles on the side of your glutes. So exercises that work on that function help work those muscles. Now we'll say this, they're small muscles. So if you go to the gym, you're like, you know what, I weren't working on my side butt. So I'm not going to do any more hip thrusts. I'm not going to do any more squats. I'm going to do all the abduction machine, you know, aka dog peas, the good girl, bad girl machine, all that stuff. Yeah, side karate kicks. You'll actually lose size and roundness and firmness to your glutes because you're going to sacrifice working the big meaty part of the glute for the smaller part. So what Adam's talking about is just being able to feel them when you're doing the big exercises. So one way you could do it. Now a hip circle is basically a band. So you can either buy a hip circle or you can get yourself a resistance band and tie it around your legs. This is what I used to do with my clients is before I knew hip circles existed. I would take a resistance band, put it around my client's knees and tell them, all right, push your knees apart while squatting. That way we could activate those muscles and you can kind of feel them a little bit. It's not making it necessarily making the squat more effective for those muscles. It's making you feel those muscles more so that when you do your squats, they do become more effective for those areas. So that's kind of one way you could do it. Abduction machines or abduction in general, like tube walking, that's another way to do it. One thing I recommend is this. If you have a weakness or a weak area or part of your body, train that first. Then go to all your big movement. So this is one of the few times where I'll tell someone to do a small movement before they do their big squats and lunges and thrusts. Go ahead and do your tube walking. Go ahead and do your abduction machine. Do your exercises that kind of activate those muscles. Then go do your barbell squats and your hip thrust. Stay mindful of that area that you're trying to feel and work on and do it before every single leg workout. We call it priming, right? Before every leg workout, do that to target those areas and then watch what happens to your... This is one of the things I love about resistance training. It's like a sculptor. So it's the only form of exercise where you could specifically target parts of your body and sculpt it as you see fit, of course, with limitations. And this is one way to do it. Next question is from Joyful JJ. I have hypermobile hip joints that have led me to have terrible recruitment patterns in my lower body. I try to strengthen the muscles around my hips, but I still feel like I'm not able to engage them correctly. What can I do to fix this? This is another... Who picked this? That was a good question. So Kudos to you. This is normally like a Justin question because Justin is a big isometric guy. This is slow training. This is a great, great way to incorporate isometrics and I think why it's such an underrated tool in our space. So I would definitely incorporate some of that. That's the first thing that comes to mind. I remember the first time I had a client who was actually hypermobile. And the reason why I remember is because it's way less common than a person who's tight. Like the average person is tight. So when I was a trainer, when I first became a trainer, I'd get clients and almost every single one of them, I had to work on improving their mobility, the range of motion, getting them to be able to squat deeper, loosening up their hamstrings and their hip flexors and their hips and their shoulders. And then I remember I got this one client that... And I didn't know that this was a problem because I was a new trainer. So I had this one client, I did my assessment and I'm like, whoa, you're super flexible. This is going to be easy. It's going to be great. Like you could fold your body in half. You could do this. Their form looks perfect. Yeah, oh yeah. You could totally move and everything. And then we would train and everything would hurt. And it'd be like, this is very strange. Why is everything hurting? And luckily I had another friend of mine who was a trainer who was also a physical therapist and they explained to me that, you know, having the extreme range of the motion without strength is just as bad. It causes instability. And so the way I train this person, this is the way I always approach this, because I've had, since then, I've had several clients who were hypermobile, is very different than the way I train other people. So other people, I'm constantly challenging range of motion. I'm constantly trying to get them to be able to squat deeper. Of course, everything with good form and that stuff. With a person like this, I stopped them from full range of motion. So when I have someone like this, we're not squatting astagrass. I'm stopping them a little bit. I'm letting them go past parallel just a little bit. Pause there, hold the squat, come up real slow. Now go back down, stop. And I would have to tell them where to stop the rep. I would not let their flexibility determine where to stop the rep. We'd have to go lighter and we'd have to keep lots and lots of tension and go slow. And then over time, we rebuild stability in their body. But it's a very different approach. Stability training, too. Like someone like this that's in their hips, I think right away, like single leg toe touches is such a great move for that person. And you don't need to do it holding very much weight whatsoever. And it's back to what Sal and I know with Justin will go towards, which is the isometric stuff, is move them all the way down. You get them to that point that you want to stop them at. And in that point, you have them hold like an isometric pose there for a second, maybe five seconds and then come back out of the rep and then move back down and just work on stability and isometric together, you know. Yeah, it's a totally different way of approaching reps, too. So like there's gonna be less reps because it's very taxing when you're trying to irradiate this muscular tension throughout your body and just basically meaning like you're squeezing all these muscles and really trying to feel your way through where, you know, you may have a loss in terms of like I can drop into that position, but I'm not necessarily, you know, tight and strong in that position. So I would work in one of these techniques that why I was really drawn to like the stick mobility guys and what they're doing with adding in isometric components to it. There was a way to add, and we did a video on this a long time ago called the Duffy squat. But the concept there was really to then add more muscular tension, even with the upper body getting involved in squatting. And so this was a way to push up and create, you actually feel like your muscles get that tension, get tight and that kind of cascading down into the hips. And so as you slowly lower, you could just feel this resistance through your body. So I'm going down real slow. I'm feeling that resistance and that tightness. If I feel at all there's a loss in that tightness, I'm gonna stop right there. And then we're gonna squeeze like you said, we're gonna go ahead and hold like for that five second hold to try and reestablish that connectivity there. Like there's a drop and that's where the instability, that's a problem to where if I'm in this and I can't get out of it with strength, that's an issue. What a great video you just referenced that should definitely be linked in the show notes especially for this person. For someone who's got hypermobile hips, the Duffy squat would be fantastic. So I can always tell a client because they especially with squatting in their hypermobile is that their legs kind of flop everywhere when they drop. They can drop all the way down, ass to grass, but the knees are wobbly all over in and out of the squat. And you could tell. Even if their form looks good when you watch somebody who's hypermobile, even if everything looks kind of perfect, you can tell that they're losing tension the whole time. You could just see them move through the squat and it's as if they're not tight intense. So this is the thing. Do your exercises. Don't let your body tell you how deep to go with the movements. Stop just a little bit before you know you could go any deeper and then stay tight with everything. And then here's the good news for people who are hypermobile, you start building muscle. It's really a great solution. You pack muscle on somebody's hypermobile and they really start to solve a lot of problems. Yeah, and Joe just reminded me in Joe DeFranco's shirt like they're talking about you either need to mobilize or stabilize. So this would be like on that side of needing to stabilize. Right. Next question is from Kyler Carpenter. What's the most memorable client that you have ever had? Oh boy. You know, I've trained, I have a few that pop up to mind immediately. I've trained a lot of people. I've trained, I don't know, probably one on one, a hundred or more and then through proxy thousands, right? Meaning through trainers that have worked for me or in gyms that I've managed. But there's a few that pop up. The ones that I think about immediately are the ones that became trainers themselves. So one lady I trained, Nicole, she was actually the first client that I got when I started my personal training studio. My very, very first studio was in the back of a tanning salon. I rented a space in the back. She was in there. She was on cardio doing cardio. My very first day of having the place I walked up to her, introduced myself. She hired me. She'd never worked with a trainer before and then we became, you know, I trained her for a little longer after that and she got so interested in fitness that she became a trainer and then was a trainer in my facility. So that's why that was so memorable to me. Another kid, Colin, he was actually here for the Joe DeFranco certification. I trained his parents, Martin and Annette. I trained them for years. He was like, I want to say six or seven when I started training them. So they would bring him in and he was this cute little kid, you know, come in and hang out or whatever and I hang out with him, play with him. Then as he got a little older, his mom and dad hired me to train him. How crazy to see him in here for a certification. He's became a trainer and now he's in here, you know, getting a certification. And so that's, you know, super mobile, super memorable, I should say. Carol, she's the longest client that I ever trained. Carol was, you know, older when I first started training and she's got to be now in her late 70s. But I trained her for 13. I want to say 13 years every Monday at 3 p.m. Every Monday at 3 p.m. I trained her for 13 years and she almost never. The only time we missed workouts was when I canceled because I had to go on vacation or something like that. And, you know, she had a big picture of me in her house and people thought, you know, that was her son to come in and be like, you know, it's a nice picture. She said, oh, that's just my trainer. So that's great. Yeah, that's what you know. You've made it as a trainer, right? When you made the mantle. Yeah, it was really hard to tell her I wasn't going to train anymore. I picture like a big picture like the Kramer, the big Kramer picture by the fire in the south. Good luck to the house, this big ass fucking Kramer. I got you. So I was pointing at you. It was really hard to tell her that I wasn't going to train her anymore when mine pump was started growing and we all, you know, I sold my facility or whatever and I remember telling her, she knew too. She's like, well, I knew this would happen, you know, one day or whatever. And it was, it was like so hard to say that, you know, say bye to her that way or whatever. So, and then I've got the clients who lost lots of weight and, you know, and all that stuff. You only get one. Yeah, I was gonna say he's like on seven right now. I feel like I'm leaving him around. I've had a lot of like it really impactful clients and it's, yeah, it's really hard to reduce it down to one. I mean, I do still occasionally like I'll train, you know, this client of mine because she has made such a massive impact on my life in all kinds of different ways, business-wise, just overall the character that she exudes as a human being is just like admirable. The type of network she has is like unreal in terms of like ex-presidents and, you know, people amongst the tops here, companies out there like, you know, work side by side with Steve Jobs and like I was training her in like sessions where there was a conference call which is her and Steve Jobs had to be super silent and not, you know, say anything outside of that. She probably like, don't tell anybody Justin. Yeah, yeah. And now I tell everybody she doesn't work there anymore. So it's like, it's all good. It's passed away. I think you're okay. I'm not revealing anything anybody doesn't know but yeah, it was crazy. Like it was just to watch like that lifestyle was just, I didn't, I couldn't understand how she was able to manage all these things and be a good person and be, you know, have this like philanthropy and like trying to make an impact in the world for the better. And so anyways, I just admire the hell out of her and, you know, and she reveres me the same in terms of being able to be, you know, an integral component to like managing her health and my knowledge that I've acquired over the years like she's benefited from and like we go back and forth all the time about what's the newest latest, you know, out there for me and it's always something like it's always another key that we just unlocked, which is like the coolest thing ever. Like she's like this, this massive puzzle of like the most high demanding stress that impacts your body and sleep and everything. And to be able to apply one new thing like, you know, every time I learned something and it benefits her life for the better has been like super impactful. It is really hard to nail down like one memorable client because I think so many clients are extremely memorable for me. A lot of them have played huge roles and developing me as a trainer, developing me as just a human being and make me a better businessman. Like there's so many things that I think I have gotten from many clients that I have helped with their health and fitness journey. The one that comes to mind though that I haven't shared on this podcast before was a client named Tracy that I got about, I don't know, I would say eight to 10 years into my career as a personal trainer. And I remember when I took her on as a client, I was already managing team. So once I became a manager where I was overseeing personal trainers, I was obviously training a lot less clients and developing trainers for most of the time. And I'd always have, you know, five or 10 clients that I loved training that I kept that I would still be servicing. But I remember kind of like checking myself on, you know, it's been quite a few years now where I haven't taken on a hard client. Like I have, I've been taking clients that I liked training and that I enjoyed selfishly and you know, and I told myself, you know the next real hard challenge that comes across my table, I want to take. And it just happened to be this girl and what made me pick her up as a client because normally I would meet someone like this and I would delegate out to one of my trainers or match her up was she had her sports medicine degree. So I knew she was educated in my field. She was an ex-athlete. So she had the discipline, the motivation and she was playing softball at the time and was pretty active. And she was a nurse working long hours. And on top of that, she had basically battled with obesity her entire life and couldn't solve it just couldn't figure it out. Couldn't and she was probably 80 to 120 pounds or so overweight. So she was, you know, reaching that, you know, biggest loser type status was around that time too when that show was so popular and she was looking for help. And I knew that, okay, this is going to be a challenge. Like this was, this is going to stretch me as a trainer. And this is actually the beginning of me really learning the importance. And we asked, we answered a question on the last qual about, you know, starting everybody on a bulk, right? Or in reverse dieting basically everybody up into her. I didn't think that way. If I got a client normally like her, it would be cutter calories, move or more. But here I have a person who's on her feet moving all day long. She's an ex athlete. So she's got the intensity side to her. She's got the sports medicine degree. So she understands nutrition and exercise pretty damn well. And she's extremely overweight. And so holy shit, where do I start this person? And so it really made me dive into being a better trainer. And this is when I had to start applying these, these principles of taking someone on like that and kind of deloading, you know, talking about that in the last question and going, okay, how do I reduce stress in this person, improve sleep in this person, reverse diet them out to speed their metabolism up and then get her to these goals. So she was quite the project for me. And I would say she's most memorable for a few reasons. I think she took me to another level as a coach and a trainer. I think I evolved through our relationship. And she also later on became a close friend and advocate of mine. I'd still stay in touch with her and consider her a good friend now and we ended up losing. I think she dropped 80 pounds with me over the course of a few years that we trained together. But that was a really challenging client. And because of that, it's the first one that stands out when we talk about most memorable clients. I have to say it's the biggest value of personal training if you do it right, is you get training back. You know what I mean? It's like selfishly, you know, you learn a lot from these people. Oh yeah, no, it taught me so much. And if she wasn't challenging it hard because you could real easily become a trainer who just gravitates to the clients that you do well with and you have the answers for them. And so you kind of, you build your whole business around this demographic, which is common in our space. We have a lot of friends and peers, I think. People get comfortable. Yeah, and they forget sometimes that they're speaking to their majority or their population of people they always help. And you know, I knew that this was going to stretch my capacity as a trainer. It wasn't the type of client that I normally gravitated towards or I had a lot of success in and I knew I wanted to stretch myself and she did. She taught me a lot about myself and as a coach and as a leader, as a trainer and I'm forever grateful for that relationship. Excellent, go to mindpumpfree.com and download all of our free resources. We have guides on everything from fat loss to muscle building to specific body part training. We have guides on guides. Again, it's mindpumpfree.com. You can also find all of us on Instagram. You can find Justin at Mind Pump Justin. You can find me at Mind Pump Sal and you can find Adam at Mind Pump Adam.