 You are listening to the world's number one fitness health and entertainment podcast. This is my pump now in today's episode We answer fitness and health questions that are asked by listeners and viewers just like you Yeah, that happened at the end of this podcast at the beginning of the podcast the first 42 minutes We do this intro portion where we talk about current events. We bring up scientific studies. We talk about our sponsors I'm gonna give you a rundown of today's entire episode. So we open up by talking about Adam's son's hair looks like Adam wins the battle again Gets to cut his boy's hair. Then I talk about my skin It's looking really good. You can see this on YouTube actually right now if I go like this Look at that skin right super radiates. That's because I've been using Caldera's face serum This stuff is all natural and it actually really works Justin in fact threw it on his face and now it looks Amazing. 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I cut my son's fucking hair like oh Wait, did you tell her did you just do it? No, of course I did of course I did she knew it was gonna happen like I mean we've been talking about it for like the last couple weeks the ponytail thing was like the last straw for me Oh, yes, she started putting it People have put it up in a bun. I don't know guys with ponytails. Just there's something about it You gotta cut it. I feel you on that dude I would have the only guy only guy that gets away with a Steven Seagal It's the only one that can wear the bun Well, and it was getting to a point where it was like, you know, it's it's growing over his ears and it's you know It's all super long the back. It's falling in his eyes. Like you can't his hair It's not like it's curly and puffy to where it's still okay. You got the straight hair. Yeah He's got the straight hair that like hangs in his eyes the whole time. I'm like wiping it Okay, so give a little backstory. There's a Katrina's family has well, okay Yeah, first though before that because I was having this conversation with a friend of mine and they're like And and the lady who cut his hair was like I didn't tell her till after we started that. Yeah, wife. Isn't really happy about this So Katrina and I have been together 10 years and we've talked I swear everything. I mean religion politics schooling discipline Communication like we cover. I thought we covered all the bases, right? I thought for sure she kept us We're snuck in. Yeah, and you know deal with it when it happens, right? Like it wasn't even it wasn't even it was never brought up was never conversation I didn't I don't know her little her. She has two older brothers That I guess this was the family tradition that they don't cut the hair for four years. Well, 40 years four years Wow, that's a long time. It's a very long time. How long does a hair get holy cow? Yeah. Yeah, no really long I mean obviously like force it to be in ponytail long I mean it was already he was already at what you were already a year and a half and You know it got to a point where you'd have to kind of put it up in this like, you know ponytail thing Just to keep it from being in his eyes like 24 seven and getting in the way So and up into that point like I wanted to cut like to maybe two three months ago It was already getting to a point where it was like that to me where it's in his eyes and over his ears I was like, uh, let's let's go. Let's clean it up at least, right? And so it was like this constant like fight back and forth And I think she she finally just you know said and the way I said it said listen You know, we plan to try and have a second one So whatever I'll let you do whatever you want on the second one But my first born boy you got you got to let me let me cut his hair man Like you got I had no idea this was like you did the you did you just did the wear her down clothes Yeah, I did it was persistent. I was very persistent about it But I also got her drunk first honey. I was also, you know I was aware that this is this one after the fact right that it was a family tradition like nobody was gonna Be happy with me with the family But I don't know like I I I always imagined having a boy and when I had a boy that I'd want to cut his hair and dress him And do those things like maybe some guys you played with dolls when you're a kid You practice a lot. I got a real one now. Let me do this. Right. So did the family get mad. Did they find out? You know, I don't know they're mad and maybe disappointed, you know It was similar to like when continued and get the ring on her 40th. It was probably like that same similar feeling I'm just not winning right now, you know Just doing your own thing. Yeah. Yeah, so now is it is there a superstition behind it like is it like Samson's hair No, it's not there's no religious Started with her brothers as far as I know. Yeah, okay. So it's not like this. Oh for the last seven generations Yeah, you broke the chain. Yeah, I was like tradition. Come on. You mean your two brothers didn't cut their hair I had to compromise like that with my older my two older kids because in my family and this goes back Generations, I mean as far back as we know The first born son and daughter are named after the mother and father of the groom So like I'm named after my grandfather. So so then my son would be named after my dad My daughter would be named after my mom. Well, this was a big area of contention It was back and forth bad. And so the way we compromised was We'll do it with the first born and then the second born then we'll just name, you know, whatever I want I said, okay, but but yeah, that's that that was a long-standing tradition Which is why you guys have been around some of my family members before I've gotten the comments of like Why is there three names in your whole family? You know, yeah, if you go to a family party and you yell like Giuseppe Yeah, like four people Well, everybody has a nickname okay, so there's sep there's Joey there's just say there's Joker There's like a million different nicknames Mine like it when I go to Italy especially because that's where my dad's Imagine the poor wives that marry into this family like trying to remember all that. There's a lot of wins, too Pretty good No, but like in Italy because my dad's family's over there There's so many sows everybody's first-born and because of my grandfather a lot of kids So there's I'm sal because in America sows Italy they don't use sal But then there's total to read do sasa like these are all nicknames for Sal Yeah, wow Yeah, that's why my dad's my dad's name is me mo but his real name is Dominico and Dominico is too many So I didn't realize that you got you did both your your first and second born No, my second born that was the compromise that my second born that if we do it with the first and the second born is You know, whatever we want it. Yeah, yeah, so just a menico is named after yeah, okay Yeah, and oh, you know speaking of kids This I totally I don't remember this or I forgot but you know how kids they change so quickly Especially when they're really young like literally within a week your kid is just different transforms Yeah, it in the same day it happened yesterday No, no, I'm serious. I was playing with my son Yesterday was a weekend. We're hanging out and playing with the baby whatever that night He all of a sudden became super vocal and just different and Jessica and I were just like what is going on this kid completely changed from this morning in the past few days. He's been Super cranky. Obviously he's going through this growth spurt or something All right, and then his pajamas that fit him like the day before don't like almost don't fit anymore in one day rapid growth It's crazy. Yeah, it's insane. Yeah when that happens No, I noticed that right now too like he his his face is changing a lot right now Between who he looks like there's days where I feel like he looks spot-on he's starting to not look like a baby anymore You know what I mean where they go from like infant to baby So that was the that was the biggest thing in contention with his family is like they all want to like keep him the baby boy For as long as they can and they know that the haircut makes him look so much older right away And so that was part of the pushback is like Katrina why Katrina wanted me to stall as long as I did was because she's like I don't want to cut his hair then all of a sudden he looks like a full-grown toddler like yeah But I'm like he is a toddler, so it's okay. Like let's find a little it's fine for him Oh, God are you gonna have like I gave him fades like right away. Did you really? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I love buzzcuts I'm cute. Yeah, I don't know why it's just that's always been like I just can't stand having any kind of like long neck hair anything resembling yeah, yeah, it's just like it's it's I don't know It's very clear cut like it's you know anyways. Yeah, I that's just how I was brought I did it looks really clean on Their on their face ring 50s. I used almost like a flat top I used to shave my head when I did jiu-jitsu, but it was purely functioned and I love the way it felt didn't look good Oh, yeah, I don't look good with the shaved head. Yeah Just to greet real quick. Yeah, Justin looks great with a shave. He's got a big-ass head So when you shave it it looks like a juggernaut. Yeah, yeah It's but I can't do it because it's like everybody. I don't know it's a little too like aggressive looking You know I end up like you like looking like some kind of neo-nazi or something Yeah, I don't have enough. I don't have enough of a tan to pull it off Yeah, I got you a tan anyway, dude. You sold me on Caldera by the way. Oh, yeah. Yeah, because I've seen what was doing that. She asks is wearing it down I mean completely transformed his face. It is it's amazing. So now here's the reason why I My skin I've never had issues with and I tend to be more on the oily side anyway Yeah, and so I'm thinking you know, I don't need to use anything or whatever But it balanced out my skin so it actually helped with that so it's like yours was dry and it made it more moist Wow moist and plush But it balanced mine out now it looks say, you know, it makes it look all you know, good I get you know, and you're all shaved up right now, too. So you can see all that you look gorgeous right now Yeah, you're going for that useful. It's not the same because I asked you to say something Had to invite do I look more handsome? Yes. Yes, you do. Yeah. Do I look any better? I do anyway Hey, you were up at Tahoe this weekend. Yeah. How was that? It was great So Everett's birthday was this week and we decided like let's do something fun, you know, cuz It's been so hard for him because all of his friends parents are super hysterical about everything And so like they just won't let you know him interact with their kids And so We we decided to go up and then like some of his cousins were able to make it up and we went skiing and everything So I had a great time snowed a little bit one of the days we had a fresh coat of powder and everything Oh, nice. Yeah, so so we hit it up. Yeah, it was a good time. What'd you do for his birthday? What was his gift? So I got him a switch Yeah, I think you guys already had that no, huh? Oh, I didn't know that no You gotta play Mario Kart with them and just kill him. Yeah I need to get that but they have Mario maker on there And that's why I got it cuz it's like super creative like you you can go through and like basically do all the Mario style You know games and create your own levels and everything. So yeah, I got sucked in I was surprised you didn't hit me up to grab the Xbox cuz I've been I brought it. I brought it back from Vegas Oh, I didn't know you had it. Hey, have you have you tried it? I just did Work the best game on there. Well, I saw I downloaded Madden and NBA so that's I'm not into all the other shit. You know how to you know, let the fucking buy all the other games Yeah, I'm not into that shit. I'm not in the first player Star Wars like, you know adventure games I mean, I love that shit. Yeah, I'm gonna the sports. So that's all you're gonna get me playing but you know, it's funny because I Mean I haven't since Katrina and I've been together haven't played like I mean Intermittently right so if my my two high school friends and I we get together will play Every like once in a while and you know, I haven't had a console in my house and you know, really long time and I had a little bit of time Max went down to bed and I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna fire it up download some video games Yeah, play some video games, dude. I have it. It's crazy to me how sophisticated it is now and what I mean by that is so You if you're at like the bed at least the sport games, right? So basketball and football You know, not only do you have to be good With your your your hand your hands right like as far as your reactions and and be able to work eight ten different buttons Right all simultaneously But now they've evolved these games to where you gotta know you gotta know the sport You gotta know the coaching level like you gotta know how to call plays I gotta be able to come up the court or down the field read a defense and then know what plays to call in addition to Yeah, in addition to knowing how to watch the future like best coaches be like you imagine that the future coaches will be like Well, I so I mean it's if I was a kid. I would geek out on this big time I think it's I think it's really really cool But as for an old guy like me who hasn't played in so many years what sucks about it is I'm playing right? And I'm I'm I'm like going through and like I'm checking it all out and seeing like oh wow You can call these plays and I can do this and right bumper left up down this and but I'm like trying to figure it I'm like Jesus the amount of hours I would need to put into this to get actually really good with it to where I could memorize Be playing the game live memorize like oh, I want to call a screen for this guy and do a back cut here These types of blitzes. Oh, yeah, can you hook it up so that it's live so you could play yeah other kids Yeah, oh dude, you just get your ass kicked by some 10. Oh, I would I would for sure that like knows how to do Oh, yeah last night when I was hanging out with my kids and I was talking to my son and he's just you know He's 15 so he'll just sit there and not say anything for hours So I'm like trying to get him to like start conversations So I'm like dude tell me about you know an easy way to get him to talk is to have him explain video game strategies So he plays this I forgot the name of it, but it's this first-person shooter and it's huge and people go on No, it's a different one. Oh, so I'm like explicit when you're playing with your friends Do you guys have strategies and he's like of course I'm like explain the strategies dude This kid went on a 45 minute dissertation of I Dude it is complex. Yeah, I'm like I'm like so are you sitting there calling out like the plays or whatever and he goes Oh, yeah, absolutely, you know, I'll say so and I'm making words up because he said a bunch of stuff I forgot I I'll be like midline blue and that means this over here and this other Depending on what the enemy is doing if the terraces over here then we say this and then this happens over here Then we sacrifice this play and he's going on forever and I'm just I'm doing the head nod like to show that I'm actively listening But I have no idea. Yeah with this kids talking about right now I mean it used to be when you're a kid you you figure out the the four buttons or so that you need to use Switch like I'll actually do that mainly for me Straightforward those bullshit dude. I love time for that I see though how you get sucked into these things though because again if you if you're really into the sport, right? If you're really in a basketball, you're really in a football and you appreciate that side of it man Oh, totally. It's actually great training I mean if you I mean if you're a kid coming up in high school or even younger And you want to learn about basketball or football and if you to get good at that game You got to learn that you got to learn how to read Defenses and then how to call plays in addition to the skill of playing the game It's it's it's insane It's insane what what they do with these these games and these kids are so fast and I don't know Have you ever tried watching a kid who's really good play one of these shooters and not get dizzy by looking at the TV So yeah, it's so fast and everything is like like happening just like cuts the cuts of it all is just like too much It's almost like, you know I'm sure there's been a lot more cases of like seizures and everything with these new Well, this is why I think that like twitch and everything blew up was because the game is so sophisticated now That that's one of the best ways for you to learn as a kid So I under I get it more now, right originally when I first saw my who the hell sits down and watches somebody else play a Video game for two hours. That is just Yeah, it's almost like well back then we had like game pro or whatever Yeah, but Nintendo power that was the first oh power that yeah, you know, my brother wrote to them and they published his letter Yeah, and then then I was asking him about Minecraft because when he was younger he played that like crazy and you guys know on that game They can build there's some kids have built entire like, you know, the game games in there You know the death star. Yeah kids have built the death star in my scale just like everything I know so I asked my son. I said Have you ever built anything crazy? Yeah, he's like, oh, yeah, let me show you And him and his buddy built this like the space station with it. I mean I looked at it I'm like, this is insane. How long did this take? He's like, oh, we spent about two weeks on it Yeah, just building the whole thing. Yeah, that's my oldest. He's the same thing Minecraft He's like super obsessed with that kind of stuff. Oh, it's crazy. Yeah He made like a whole roller coaster ride that went on forever and ever it was like a whole amusement park I did now you Justin you were probably more into video games than Sal was like I really believed I was gonna play forever like there. I did not think what do you mean? I mean, I really believe that like I'm gonna stop playing Well, yeah, because I was in my okay in my 20s like my girl's gonna have to understand I remember when you was like that I was like that I think just I remember breaking up with a girl one time because she was throwing a fit when we were playing video games Yeah, so we remember that so it was a big deal You broke up with it. Yes Like in the middle of playing because she was cause because she was throwing a fit about it, right? So we had the reason why she was get out. I don't want to be with you It was just like that. So I'm like 25 Yeah, so I'm like 20 I'm like 25 right and at my house. I wonder if she's looking back and going. Oh, that's a good thing I'm glad he broke up with me at the helm. Yeah, right. So okay, so we had Back then this was big screen TVs, right? We didn't have the I mean This is like right as the plasmas were coming on scene But I had the old school like, you know, big old big screens, right? That were I think like 60 inches was like the biggest back then and I had one in my living room And I had one in my bedroom and we used to play these games like call of duty and stuff And then we would hook up two systems and then we'd all be playing So the one guy would be back in the master bedroom And so she was so mad she lived with me Because there was no available tv in the house and then we were on a saturday. We could go eight hours, dude Just all day. She screwed. Yeah. So she was so mad. Grab your shit. Get out. Did she live with you? Yeah, oh my you kicked her out. Yeah, yeah I mean, of course that was the straw that broke the camel's back Come on. It wasn't like I was that like crazy where it's just the video games It was probably other things that were I have no idea that now the tipping point was but that's in her Don't take the video. That's an important thing. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's what it is Because I have my I have my best friends there at that time And I was like this was like a pack dude that we made when we were very young We're just like listen, no girl. Yeah, that's right. No girls get in between our video game That's right. And the girls that we marry will understand this, you know what I'm saying? Like we're not giving this up And we used to close ourselves because you got you got my two buddies, okay? I'm the only one that didn't finish college, right? They both have college degrees. One of them's got a masters We all got good jobs. Everyone owns their homes, you know, and we're like, you know, why shouldn't we be like a degenerate? That's right. Exactly why I'm gonna degenerate because I play for two games for eight hours That's exactly how we justified it really was and so I had what I think got me to finally pull away I had a buddy of mine who was Uh, let's see mark was like five or six years older than me Uh, kind of like a mentor to me right good good friend And he would always tell me like dude, when are you gonna give the video games, dude? And I'm never to give the video games He's like you do understand though, right that those four hours eight hours two hours Like those are hours you could be putting into, you know, bettering your craft or bettering yourself or making more money And that was like the selling point for me was like Okay. Hmm. If I really did put the console down stop playing. Did I have the discipline to your ex-girlfriend? She didn't do it right. She did it. She should have sold it better. Yeah, she hey honey I look I love the fact that you play video games. I think it's really cool But guy, you know for these eight hours imagine if you were just Right another job doing another business. But anyway, I'll see you later. Yeah Yeah, and that's what he did keep doing what you're doing He got me to look at it like that and I thought, you know, okay Let's see and that's actually around the same time So it was around 25 26 when I talk about I started reading a lot more and I did it It changed my life. Oh, so I've learned to look at like building business and and watching watching that stuff as More of a hobby than playing the video games and that was a transition for me away from that So I haven't really played like that till this weekend and I got a couple sessions in Katrina. Yeah Katrina was really cool about it. She's just like, I just want to give you your time Yeah, I kind of gave it up after college like college was great because you had nothing better to do I mean you're stuck on campus and it's like all these dudes were just like, you know waiting for either Practice or working out or, you know, the next class and so we just would play It was either gold and I or then call it duty came but we all like would play that together and like Dude, but after that, I was like, I'm I just I had to make some money had to make some some things happen Yeah, I stopped playing after Street Fighter 2. That was it Street Fighter 2 Yeah, and then I was an animal playing more Speaking of stuff to do because I know you were saying there's not much to do. Do you see that? Our governor here Gavin Newsom looks like he lifted The stay-at-home orders in all regions of California boy. They didn't even wait a week for Trump to be going A magical shift has nothing to do. I'm sure it's not connected to the recall that's happening right now Oh, not at all What did Doug say? You don't need an inoculation. You need an inauguration to solve this Well, I mean, here's the truth the guy who came out too, right? They came out and said that The lockdowns were not maybe these statistics were a little different You know, here's my argument from day one and I've made this argument in other podcasts very clear Which is that the the argument for the lockdowns was solely based off of Preventing infections and nobody looked at any of the unintended consequences Which also results in mental illness death, which is drug overdose and crime all that stuff So I'm glad that they're starting to do this. I just hope people are still of course responsible Just take away livelihood and then we'll figure it out. But but he but yeah, he's got this The recall is getting a lot of signatures. So I'm sure that's he's sweating right now. Do you know where it's at? Do you know where it's most recently? I don't know, but I know it's reached some high numbers I know it's a real possibility of getting on a ballot So the wineries and in all the restaurants like formed this coalition and they just sued him And this was another motivating push to get him to open up the state now Here's what irritates me is he's not of course, he's gonna lie But in his statement, he's saying it's due to metrics that they're following which they won't release, of course Now they won't top secret now. Here's the truth is the cases are still skype. They're still high Are we at like peak right now? Well, no, we were actually coming down quickly We were just at a peak like a week ago. Yeah, okay. So the number is coming now. It's coming down. Yeah, it is But but the number is still real high magical. It's stop you guys The numbers are still high. So it doesn't match, right? It doesn't match with what they said before, but anyway Yeah, yeah, I have a buddy. I hope too damn predictable. So does this mean the gyms are going to reopen? I hope Yeah, I have a lot of buddies that run around. Let's do this. I think finally are they you think so You think they'll do the gyms is open, man I if they lift the the if they're lifting everything to stay at home I don't know what the details are, but I hope the gyms can be allowed to reopen You know california is that this is the the birthplace of Of the gym business, you know, this is where the big chain started. This is where The whole thing I'm not complaining. I'm just happy, you know, it's like finally like let's let's all try and like move forward Yeah, and speaking of this of that topic. Um, I think it was new york if I'm not mistaken I'm gonna look this up. I believe it was new york that just Said that oh dc. Sorry, washington dc. So they just said that overweight Washington dc residents will get priority for the coronavirus vaccine and that's causing a stir Back that up again overweight. Yes. So, uh, they're saying that all overweight so people with a high bmi, I believe over 25 I know All overweight dc residents will get priority for the coronavirus vaccine Um, and I think it's based off of the data showing that people who are overweight, you know, have some of the highest risks I mean, I don't care about that. I well, you know what though people are angry because I think there's a lot of other people That are saying hey, what about me exactly? Yeah, no, I get it. It's over 25 bmi over 25 Which by the way, they're at the greatest risk Well, I think my bmi might be close to that right now And I don't know if you build a lot of muscle bmi is not a very good indicator Oh, they're using that not body fat percentage. No, they're gonna test your body. I don't know how to do that Yeah, you ever get a body fat test from a doctor Uh, no, it's the easiest way to shuttle people through is just go with bmi Yeah, they just have you stand on the on the scale and that's it But yeah, I think it's causing a little bit of a stir. So we'll see what happens I heard that because a lot of the vaccines have to be stored at such cold temperatures That at some like if they don't use so many they have to throw a bunch away So there's a lot that are getting wow wasting really that sucks. Yeah, I think it's like this this It's not the most efficient, uh system where they're trying to kind of Figure all that out. So I don't know what's going on with the stock market right now, dude It doesn't make sense Just going up. Yeah, this is crazy dude. You could I feel like you could you could I honestly have a monkey throw dark Dude, I have like we'll pick winners. Yeah, I look at it as like gambling makes sense Like I still because I don't think that I I mean I get questions all time on my story Which by the way, I'm not that I'm not nowhere near as red on stocks as I am in the housing market I spend way more time on that side of the fence than I do Stocks for me is like playing craps in vegas. That's how I look at it It's like I've got a little bit of gambling money Let's I like these companies whatever right now Everything is winning. Yeah, everything is winning. There's not a thing I don't have anything. You know, it's like the under only it's underperforming is gold right now, which I thought for sure It will it'll it will put gold will perform on the stock market goes down. Yeah, that's your head I know that's my hedge right on what I've done. But I mean everything is just is going it doesn't make sense I know that unemployment is still going up and there's still a lot of economic issues that are happening But yeah, it's still Ballooning so it's kind of a weird situation. I'll tell you he's not winning There was this guy in Mexico who his wife Uh, basically was looking through old pictures and found a picture Of him with another like skinnier lady that was like attractive And so she ended up stabbing him multiple times. Don't tell me it was a picture of her It was a picture of her when she was younger. What the fuck are you kidding me? No, this literally happened, man What how crazy is that? Wow. Yeah. She's what put a psycho. Oh my god She did he die or he just I think he lived but oh, thank god messed up. Yeah. Wow. Is he hoping divorce? Is he gonna divorce? I would hope so man. She really loves me. Yeah, she's she's really passionate She thought I was cheating on looking like she loves me Yeah, dude, I mean come on. It was her. Yes. It was her. How do you know? Okay, that makes no sense How do you not know it's a picture of yourself? Maybe her other personality came out? I don't know She's got multiple persons I mean, it's not what maybe she already had like suspicions and then was just looking for it so intensively and then like found that picture I was like, this is it. She's like he definitely has a type. He just wants a skinnier to look kind of like me this son of a bitch Yeah, I'm gonna stab him right now. That's crazy confused jealous wife stabs husband after seeing her younger self In photos. Oh, she's not even that. She's not even like super overweight. She looks like a normal. She's older. Yeah Wow, that's kind of well, I guess the husband didn't change much Yeah, like if he if he passed is like, yeah, read like it's a recent photo a recent photo. Yeah That's what she thought or maybe she just thought it was like an old old thing that he's speaking of multiple personality There's this dog. I can't remember the name of it. This sucks. I'm sorry everybody for I'm gonna hype it up And I'm not gonna be able to find it. There was this this documentary on amazon, I think On this woman who would study serial killers And she's comes up with this theory that the the majority of them suffer from multi multi personality Syndrome, and she's explaining how it works and she's showing interviews with a lot of these famous serial killers that she would interview Is that part of schizophrenia? Or is it that's a different? I don't know. I don't know if they're connected I kind of like we could have guessed that though. Don't you? You know, that was it was very controversial when that first came out really when she first came out with that Because people wanted the the law because here's what happens if you have a mental disorder You don't get put to death and you don't get thrown in that kind of a jail you go to mental hospital And so when you get caught and you're the whatever serial killer who just killed 15, you know college girls The public is gonna be pissed and they want your head right and then you have a doctor coming out Be like hey this he's got multiple multiple personality disorder. They're like no execute him And so it was this huge controversy They're saying that she made the whole thing up when you watch it that she made up this whole thing But you see her interviews and her talking with these people It's so crazy what the mind does so these people these serial killers is very so if you're squeamish I had to I had to change it with Jessica because it really bothers her to watch this kind of stuff But I watched them on my own. Well, Courtney loves it. She was just like eat popcorn. Yeah murder What's wrong with you? I know I can't get Katrina to watch that stuff either Really she makes out yeah, because you don't want to watch that stuff And she has to be in the right high level and daytime and she we have to have enough time to watch something else afterwards Well, Courtney's a nurse and she's probably seen some crazy shit. So you can't probably can't shake her. Yeah, very easily She doesn't like the actual, uh, you know watching it happen. It's the aftermath You know, it's all the pictures and it's the solving it and all that kind of stuff Well, so she so they were showing all the stuff and then she would she would interview these guys and talk about their childhood Oh my gosh the abuse that they went through as children And so what happens is is your mind literally Creates these alter personalities so that if you're getting abused terribly That's it right here. They're they were not born evil inside. So this is what's the name of it, Doug Crazy not insane. That's it crazy. Not insane really crazy check that. Yeah Course show Courtney. She'll love it. I guess for sure But I guess when they're getting abused so terribly and I'm talking about the worst to be I can't even talk about half of it Because it's so bad Your mind literally Makes you gone. So sal is no longer here. Now you are abusing Mark some other personality creates somebody else to put in front So they don't even remember it So she has to find and talk to this alternate personality and then the altered personality come out voice changes They're demeanor changes. They're sitting differently that what the in-night shaman lad movie. What's that this split or I never watched it Oh, yeah, it was no I hear like a hundred different personalities or something Yeah, dude Was that good old lady then he was like this like animal kind of character Oh, yeah, I'm telling you this this this crazy not insane documentary. It's just it shook me. Yeah, it's really Did either one of you guys watch the fights this weekend? I saw the highlights just heard about it No, did you watch it? I saw the memes of McGregor look like he's asleep. Yeah. Yeah, you see those Yeah, he got he got he got longed up. Yeah, dude big time. Wow. Yeah, do you guys think? He because of his fame and fortune he lost. I'm gonna use a term here the eye of the tiger Do you think you lost that a little bit? It's like rocky three, dude Exactly. It's exactly rocky three got soft because yeah, he got all famous and like, yeah He probably didn't train the same way He wasn't putting that kind of intensity in it. I guarantee that's that's well I mean, it's kind of hard to what I do you know, Doug what he got paid. Can you check the purse on that? Like I don't think it was obviously it was nowhere near when he did Mayweather, right? So yeah hard to get up for a fight that is You know significantly less than the fight before not to mention and that doesn't play as a killer, right? I think it was so I think the strategy was from what I from what I heard from my cousins That's our boys guy too. It's Phil Darry's guy. Oh, it is. Oh, yeah He did so I guess the strategy five million, bro Yeah compared to his hundred million. That's only going to get him five watches. Yeah, I know Well, so from what yeah, but you know what? We don't know what he's making from the pay-per-view Is that just this whiskey probably makes that in a month? Yeah, so so apparently the strategy was this is according to what my cousin told me that Poirier Took out his leg just kept Chopping his leg down which he took his leg out that made him Did he actually break his leg or just he was just complaining that it was like well He was he was living with a cane afterwards Yeah, I think he took out his leg to the point where because you know McGregor's so dynamic, right? He moves a lot Yeah, take his leg out smart strategy to take his leg very smart strategy very very smart But remember that quote in pumping iron when arnold is I think he's going for a sixth title And one of the guys goes hey, you know arnold the The the the wolf climb the wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill And arnold goes yeah, but he went when he wants the food. It's there I mean I feel like you okay you you make a hundred million on a fight before This one you're getting paid five million. So it's kind of like jump change to you And he beat him before and you and you already won so you know that even if you lose your bigger payday will be on Set up on the trilogy part three So I mean like why not roll into it with you know, okay training and kind of a note whatever you might have done This is a wait money strategy. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna go in You're talking about you're talking about one of probably one of the smartest money guys in the ufc ever It's hard to think somebody like that would go in going for an L Okay, so I don't think he was going for an L But I think you just kind of have the attitude lose about you have nothing to lose You're you're not going to make that much money, you know win or lose in it You know that if you do lose part three is going to get a much bigger payday than one or two Okay, you already made a hundred million. So why not go into it with where I'm at Let's see how I do Let's see if I can still win beat this guy where I'm at Then you get to be all cocky like you barely even worked very hard to get here Or if you lose you set up the table for the trilogy. That's my theory. Maybe I I don't know there's something there. I feel like I experienced this myself in jiu-jitsu I didn't compete a ton of times, but I did compete enough to experience the change in my motivation and drive After a loss versus after winning I I remember when I went to a tournament I just lost and I was so driven afterwards And then I remember I went to another tournament while I won and it's like I lost my I lost my drive because it didn't feel the same My whole college career in football was just a nightmare Just L. I lost so many damn games, dude. I was just so pissed off all the time Whether you're fault. Yeah, I'm just nobody had that same like You know sting like it To me that that that shows like whether or not you're going to be like a championship kind of team If you like really take that loss as a sting and it's like Fuck like we can't let that happen. I'm not gonna let that do not not gonna Did you have any time to watch anything the football games this weekend? I did. Oh, you did. Yeah Yeah, so how about how about brady coming through? Oh, bro So this is like an you see such a chance. This is an ongoing like debate like Mike. Isn't he old now? Yeah He takes his team his first year all the way to the super bowl Yeah, you know, it's crazy. It's a constant debated So I have a an uncle who's like a just radical diehard niner fan and joe montana I feel like nobody's better than joe montana. Nobody is better than joe montana And he has all the ways to try and prove that that fact even though brady keeps it fucking But it's an air frogging all these stats. You know say like come on, dude It's getting to a point You got it You got to call him the goat sooner or later and he just refuses then I have another buddy Who's the same way too that everybody used to argue that tom brady is a system quarterback He had bill bellichick and the patriots had such a for that argument so many times, right? And so I I love to see that he did this I love that he went, you know to the box and then the first year be able to take them all the way the championship And because it kind of gets that monkey off his back. Everybody the dude listen this So the next quarterback to have played in as many super bowls is joe montana at seven He has 14. Yeah Or 10. No, excuse me 10 10 super bowls 14 nfc championship games. Wow. Okay That's fucking it's insane. Yeah, that's pretty good. Yeah. No, it's gotta recognize I thought being joe montana was better I mean I like him better, but it's pretty good The only time I watched football did you guys see the video that's going viral right now of the gymnast the floor gymnast that from UCLA that put the she played she did a whole routine to Tupac and I did did you see that exceptional? It was really good. It's going. Yeah, it's going viral right now It just happened like yeah, I think that this weekend and Because she did it to Kendrick Lamar and Tupac so it's like oh, yeah, but and she crushed it So it's going crazy. I you know my feet just flooded with bernie sanders memes I'm over it now. I'm over it now. It was hilarious though for the first few days He looks so miserable. I'm sitting over this mitten. It's just It almost well it did epitomize like the mood, you know like everybody like over the last year or so Yeah, but bernie got leapfrog twice the second time they fucked him. That's why I know Well, it's just yeah, you guys don't like me By myself, you know gymnastics is the is the I'd say of all the sports Is always the one that impresses me the most it's the one that I always watch and I always think to myself How is that even possible? Yeah, like the especially the tumbling acts how the height that they're able to launch themselves in the air Yeah, it looks like it doesn't make any sense Amazing feats of body movement. You can't even like you can't even fathom replicating that I told you guys when I trained for a short period of time. I trained this 13 year old gymnast and she was very high level I don't remember her name. I only trained her for like four workouts But it sticks in my head because She was this tiny little thing. She walked around like she just made out of pure muscle I remember like holy shit. What is this and the dad's like, hey, can you teach her a few exercises? She doesn't really do she's never done weights before I'm like, sure and I remember I had her You know do pull up. I'm like, can you do pull-ups? She goes? Oh, yeah Yeah, I said can I see how you do pull-ups and this is this is literally the speed at which she did pull-ups I was like Just and her face her face didn't change like she didn't like it was like All day all day. Yeah, like like she's watching tv. Yeah, I remember thinking like this is not making any sense I remember when she benched remember this is a 13 year old girl. She benched. I think there was like 120 pounds on the bar Yeah In the whole gym everybody was like, what is going on? I was like, this makes me feel terrible No, I mean not to take anything from jinnis because I think you're right I think it's unbelievable But I feel that way about like x-game athletes because I think it's it's the combination of that type of You know ability to flip or turn it to your list. Yeah, and you're doing it like 80 miles an hour on a On a it's like if you mess up your deck. Thanks, sir. Yeah, like much higher eight percent grade Mountain going straight down like that's crazy to me. Yeah, that's a whole nother level though Yeah, did you see that video of the what are those wing suits called that people will fly a wingsuit? They are wingsuit. Yeah, I think it's called. Okay. So, you know people die in those all time That's the most dangerous thing. Yeah. Have you ever watched the documentary they have? Yeah, like at the end of it like seven of the two guys left Yeah, did you watch the one where the guy did the wingsuit? He jumped out of one plane and and landed and went inside of another plane while I was flying What? Get out of here. Yeah, they left the door open And so he he fell out of one plane and he's and he made it inside of another plane What people have no idea how dangerous that is and they didn't like put that in some major motion picture They just did that for shits and giggles. I think it might have been red bull But he I mean he just made it inside of a plane. That's way too crazy. Bro. That's like throwing a pin through It's like throwing. I don't know. I can't even you mentioned red What what the talk about the brilliance of a company like that to attach itself to all these up and coming extreme sports before anybody Did yeah, nobody was paying attention to those sports tests are named every viral video possible. Yeah Absolutely brilliant exactly because their shit is so overpriced Like you get like a little like a little red bull drink. There's like three four bucks. Dude. That's crazy I still I still stand by the original. I had the original tie red bulls There were these little glass bottles and they were not carbonated and they were sweeter and they were strong Oh, yeah, yeah, my buddy used to bring him from Thailand. He was a tie boxer and he'd bring me like a case of them They were told I never found them here. Were they like were they so super sweet and like syrupy or yes Yes, and it was like a little glass vial like this it almost looked like it was powerful to hella strong Yeah, I used to take him before I worked out. Yeah, I have the great the best workouts Hey, Doug, I had a question. I wanted to ask you you last time you and I talked off air I was telling you what my brother-in-law did with the uh cooking the meat. How right did you try that yet? I did I did a sirloin cap So what I did is I took uh It and put it into the sous vide. I think it was 130. I had it at I did it for probably about six or seven hours Okay, and then what I did is I put it into an ice bath afterwards to cool it down Okay, and then I fired up my traeger And I cooked it over there on the smoke setting for I don't remember how long until the temperature went back up to the medium rare And then I ate it delicious Barbecue I'm gonna tell you the meat was so incredibly tender. Oh amazing. Oh, you always make the best meat Make the best me everybody relax. It's but hey speaking of meat butcher blocks. I don't know how they do this By the way, did you see their giveaway? No, if you sign up for butcher box right now Here's what you get Doug lifts it up there because there's a lot of stuff One rack of st. Louis style ribs one pack of bacon and a pack of pulled pork free included Wow in your first box So every time every time they do that you end up getting like three or four pounds of like meat Yeah, just such a good deal all the meat you need was the cap was the cap from them also too Yes, oh it was oh i'm gonna have to try that their their try tips really good Actually have a try tip now, which is uh, which is really good. Yeah, you know what adam I do want to say this about uh, your dog right there. It's sleeping. It's so cute. He um, he does something now And I've observed him doing this now at least 10 times He if he's sitting there, he's sitting over there. It doesn't matter where he's at He'll mosey over to Justin and fart Yeah, he just walks up at me. I don't pet him. He turns it, you know and faces the other direction Just cropped us. Yeah, he just just just didn't he doesn't do it to me dude Doesn't do it anybody else but Justin. Yeah, yeah, you guys complain, but I think it's a good thing It disguises your own farts, which by the way the other day Justin thought the dog was here when the dog wasn't here Yeah, he wasn't here when I needed we're out in the gym. We're out We're out of the studio or in the gym And we're all sitting there and just wow just rips a big one It just so happens to be is right when Jerry's just really audible Yeah, because the way I was sitting it just came out like that's gonna be you know Just the pass no big deal. It's just boom Thunder he was sitting on the bench. Yeah sideways His cheeks were hanging off the back It just had like mass vibrato Sounds like a trombone Jerry's walking by and I'm like, no He's always poor Jerry he's always complaining that we like created this fake stereotype of him, but he always reinforces Every now and then I gotta let it show, you know I like I do own it First question is from j rosen 10 Explain isometric exercises. How would you use them in a workout? All right, so Probably one of the most valuable yet underutilized techniques in training I would say Is training isometrics So you could loosely categorize I guess repetitions or how muscles contract three different ways, right? So there's The positive portion of a rep the concentric that would be like me curling a bar That's a muscle contraction Then there's an eccentric or the lowering of the bar muscle contraction So that would be me bringing the bar down with the curl and then isometric is essentially just holding steady right so muscles Holding a weight steady or supporting something stationary maximal contraction, but you're not Moving at all right now this produces first off The strength gains you get tend to be relatively specific meaning If I only train concentric or I only train eccentric or only train isometric I get a lot of strength gains in that one thing that I train, but there's so much carry over This is where it gets fun isometric training Does not damage the body Definitely not as much as eccentric, which is probably the most damaging and not as much as concentric, which is still more damaging So isometric Is a great way to add volume without causing Lots of damage the other thing that it does is it turns on the central nervous system really really well One of the ways that I I've always used isometric training as a trainer Was when I had a client who had trouble feeling a muscle or firing a muscle So if I had a client who's like man when I do squats It's all quads. I get no activation in my butt. That's what I'm trying to build Then we would do like an isometric Squeeze before the squat and that would give them the ability to start to feel it In the glutes almost like turning on the glutes in that case You would just I would put them in a squeeze position I'd have provide a little bit of resistance and I'd have them hold the squeeze for Hard for 10 seconds or something like that. So that's one way to do it. I used to use it too. Where are you? I would take a client and I'd get them to whether it be a bench press a curl anything And I'd get them to hold it in that position and then I would actually move their body Like because a lot of times when someone's doing an exercise even as simple as a bicep curl I mean how many times have you seen somebody you try to teach a bicep curl You show them and then they try and do it and then their their shoulders roll forward They rock they do all these things no matter how many times you say the cues So sometimes what I do is I take the you know Let's say the curl and they go up the halfway point And then I would come on then I actually hold that and then I go walk behind them pull their shoulders back Tuck their chin in and be like this is the position I want you in while you're in this while you're feeling this contraction same thing for like a bench press I would get them down in that deep position Get them to pull their shoulder blades back hold it. So I love it for teaching technique and form Yeah, I love that same thing You know addressing weak points in whatever part of the the movement like if you're trying to then add You know a performance enhancement so where the performance leaks where you lose a bit of You know this tension in the muscle that's supportive So when when the body recognizes that you're not fully stabilized in a certain range of motion or position It's not going to allow for you to get as much force to create so It really is a performance enhancing type of a method too if you apply it Directly like that and also there's there's a 15 sort of degree carryover in terms of like how the strength sort of Translates like up or down from that angle too. So it gets affected You know from that angle gets affected 15 degree radius on both sides So for an example for what you're talking about Justin if you would apply this Let's say the bottom position of a squat Is where you're the weakest which is quite common Then what you might do is an isometric squat in the bottom positions a couple ways you could do this The more advanced way to do this would be to set the safety bars So that the bar that you're squatting pushes up against the safeties And then what you do is you get in position and you got to make sure you have really really good Stabilization really really because you if you have bad position here Then you're going to do an isometric with bad technique So good form good technique Squat up with the bar and push into the safeties really hard but stay stable And what that'll do is make you stronger in or it'll work on increasing strength in that bottom position But then to what Justin said you get that 15 degree carryover So let's say it was 90 degrees that you were doing the squat Well, it's going to be at you know, 80 75 degrees or plus 15 degrees from from 90 so 105, right? Yeah, I just want to add one more because like I I'm definitely have been passionate I've been studying a lot about the isometric training. There's also an analgesic effect. So there's there's a pain relieving effect to also like applying isometric tension You know throughout the body to stabilize around the joint. So somebody has knee pain or You know has lost a bit of stability You know just just taking that time to go through an exercise where we're focusing on squeezing and connecting and stabilizing around the joint Is it's it's a pain relieving technique as well. Oh, that's interesting. I didn't know that What is it that's causing that to do that? Is it just firing all the surrounding muscles around that joint because it's you're doing it Like that has like a like it radiates out. Is that like the idea like it's actually It's actually similar to myofascial release when you push hard on a muscle and you get this kind of localized analgesic effect Um, you get that with with isometrics. There's there's a localized and then there's also kind of the systemic effect You know, what's interesting about this is that it this was Such a huge training tool back in the day when you look at like strong men strength athletes from you know, I'd say before The 1940s, this was a mainstay in their routine This is one and one of the reasons is because a lot of these strong men, uh, they you know Bodybuilding shows weren't a thing really back then that didn't become a thing till a little bit later So what these these people would do is they would do these performances where they would balance Tremendously heavy weights above their head often or in maybe a bent press position or They would do a hip bridge and they'd have like a table and and they'd you know drive a motorcycle on it Stuff like that. So they would train a lot of uh isometrics to have that kind of strength And stability you could still see this in acrobats if you ever watch uh, like circus performers where there's two You ever see those those acts where there's like two guys And one guy's holding the other guy up with one hand and that's tremendous isometric strength And there's a wonderful thing body control to develop It teaches your central nervous system to really turn on I mean to give you an example of of what i'm talking about If you were to squeeze like a something that measured your grip strength But you were squeezed as hard as you could with your right hand But kept the rest of your body relaxed you would only get so strong if you did it again But tensed up your entire body you would actually produce more force. This is a this is a central nervous system Um, you know factors. This is a cns being able to fire better isometrics at the beginning of a workout done properly Can actually increase your stability and performance during the workout So for strength athletes applying them properly don't fatigue yourself But applying them properly at the beginning of the workout will make you stronger and more stable during the workout For the bodybuilder types for people interested in hypertrophy Use them as finishers bodybuilders have done this for years. They didn't call it isometrics. They said posing pose Yeah, yeah at the end of my chest routine. I like to pose my chest and squeeze it for Bruce Lee They used to uh, you know promote this quite a bit. Oh, he was he was well known for in fact There's he did in between sets even yeah And there was there were stories of him being able to balance a hundred pound dumbbell arms length You know, he couldn't bench press a lot But he had this incredible isometric strength because he said it helped him punch With more more stability or whatever So beginning of the workout for performance and strength end of the workout For hypertrophy or you know, like the bodybuilder say as a finisher Next question is from pat of blonk. What are your thoughts on dna fitness and nutrition tests? The ones that reportedly tell you the optimal way for you to eat and train This is like the like blood type stuff, you know, I you know, here's why I'm not a fan It'd be great if like we could just pull formulas and it worked completely It's just okay There's so many factors on an individual basis that How hard to work out not even individual basis on a daily individual basis Like that's like you can get tested for something that tells you train this way And maybe it's extremely accurate But one night of bad sleep one night or three days of under consuming calories Three days of overtraining completely changes all the different right right plus dna We know now is not as fixed as we thought before it can actually express itself differently depending on your lifestyle So I mean, what's the term that the that dna loads the bullets, but lifestyle pulls the trigger So I can't remember the term. There's a there's a term for it where you can epigenetics. Thank you, Doug So your lifestyle can affect that as well. Here's my experience with this kind of stuff I had I had clients who were, you know, very successful wealthy They were always on the cutting edge and they would do these tests And then I would notice it affect their decision making when they train like they would stop listening to their body Well, my dna test said that, you know, I respond well to high intensity training So that's what I'm going to continue doing or my dna test said these foods are probably best for me Even though they're ignoring the fact that they're getting Gastro issues or digestive issues as a result Listen to your body is is the best advice I can give now. Here's where I think it might be valuable For people who are very in tune with their bodies People who are self-aware may be very advanced Then it can give you a little bit of insight, uh, but you got to use it properly Otherwise you end up like, you know, like we're saying you go in your workouts You go into your diet and you're you tend to be blind. Oh, it says I'm supposed to eat low carb high fat You know, I know I feel like shit, but that's what my dna test says So I'm just going to continue doing that. Well, what's what's the saying that you always say that a Inferior program done consistently is is better than the superior program done inconsistently. That's another one, right? So it's like Um, you know, could this be like maybe this is like maybe this is cutting-edge stuff that we are we're We're learning more and more and it does have some value, right? Um, it still doesn't trump that it still doesn't trump you being consistent with everybody else somebody who is Being consistent with their training and dieting is going to be better than the the guy or the girl Who follows some dna protocol for three weeks and then is inconsistent for another week, right? So You know why that's important to to say adam is because let's say you're somebody that You do your dna. I'm gonna make something up I'm sure they don't say this but I'll make it up and your dna test says the best form of cardio for you Is sprinting this is the kind of cardio you should do but you love swimming You absolutely love swimming But you're like, you know what my dna and you hate sprinting but you're like i'm gonna do what my dna test says I'm gonna do this form of exercise I hate as a result you become inconsistent because you do this form of exercise You absolutely hate in replace to the one that you love that you would probably be more consistent doing So I think that's where it's very valuable. That's the same thing that we make the case about, you know People saying that uh, you know, because I think there's stuff that's came out now too Like depending on when you were what time a day you were born you're more likely to See better results training in the morning versus the really? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah So that's came out recently like where you know depending on what yeah, and everybody's different, right? So but again, none of that matters if this hour in your day is where you can be the most consistent because that's what your schedule allows you to That is more important than what some test says is the most optimal for you It'd be interesting if like if you could trace back and see like the epigenetics of Uh, you know, like what you might be predisposed to Uh, you know, if that was really the case, especially with like nutrition If you could avoid certain things that like would then because a lot of times people don't know like what's underlying You know, that's been passed on but I just don't know that they've been able to nail all that The other thing that's hard about that is to be able to tease out because there's there's stuff to prove this, right? So any someone just following a Protocol is going to be more successful than somebody not like the whole blood type thing. Yeah, totally I you know, I read that I read that book when that was popular and I it was hard for me to say, okay Are these people having success because they're following their blood type diet or they have just following something Exactly because before they were eating pizza and whatever and not really paying attention Then they switched over to this blood type diet and then all of a sudden they're like, oh my god, I have structure Yeah, my energy feels good and this and that I'm like, okay Well, was it really that and it's the same thing that goes for when people switch to carnivore or keto or vegan It's like is it really the diet that is making you feel this way Or maybe you cut out this food Right or that you got rid of something that was an offender to your body before and now you feel so much But yeah, it's hard to tease that out. You know what's happening with these dna tests Is that people are getting because there's there are some dna Like there are some results that'll come out that'll say You are very likely for to get this type of cancer. I think there's one. I think it's called the brach Gene or whatever that can show. I think it puts you at like 80 percent chance of getting breast cancer But then there's other stuff that says you are predisposed to this or predisposed to that And then you might have an uncle or an aunt who had that particular thing You know what I've been reading that's happening is that people will get these tests and then it freaks them out Then they're stressed out. They're so worried Then they take these these steps that they didn't they didn't need to take to You know help themselves and actually cause themselves more problems This reminds me of the studies that show that you know men respond to Intensity better than women and women respond better to volume But here's a deal as a trainer the when I train the individual. I don't care I'm watching the person right and if the person does well doing something. That's what we're gonna do I don't care what the studies say. I don't care what the General ideas if you do better doing this thing and it's working for you. This is what we're gonna do Next question is from tad mills. What are your opinions on the multi grip bars for benching? I don't have a lot of experience with these Justin. Have you used? Yeah, I've used them I I mean, I like it. It's it's interesting. It's a different feel again with with that Sort of a neutral grip, you know and then coming in for a narrow I like it a lot for like narrow grip bench pressing Which I've used it for before But really it's just a slightly different recruitment pattern, you know, I could focus a little bit more on my triceps You know, for instance with the narrow grip, but You know, I just look at it as is another way to like provide a different type of a stimulus But that's about it. Yeah, I feel the same way about it. I think it's neat. It's a neat I mean, there's so many cool bars and stuff that are out now I mean you just recently brought in the uh, what you call the bison bar Yeah, the bison bar like and you know, I don't get a chance to squat with it very often It was fun to squat with it like do I necessarily think that it's necessary or it's like so much better than the the straight bar that it's like Oh, this is the the answer It's like no, I think it's a cool way to vary if you're training a lot, right? You try and you've been training consistently for a long time. I think these are all cool tools I don't think it's the difference maker of you building this amazing chest because you've got a bar where you can change I think people get really pumped on it when they've had like wrist issues For instance, and like, you know, maybe this is a way that they could put the wrist and sort of a better position Where they feel like it's secure and stable Uh, you know, and that might be some value to that but uh, yeah, like it's just a different statement I could see that with the close grip because one of the the challenges with the close grip is the angle on the wrist Yeah, you gotta break your either gotta break your wrist or it just feels really weird the way you're Especially at the bottom where if you get to do a close grip you can turn in a neutral position It's it's a lot more comfortable. The reason why I've never messed with these is because uh, I've always done that with dumbbells So if I wanted my if I wanted my wrist neutral And here's why changing the wrist help gives you maybe different results than uh, then you know With other exercises, it's not necessarily the wrist but rather where the elbows follow So when I have my my wrist in this neutral position, it more naturally makes my elbows bringing a little closer So I'm yeah, I'm gonna get more shoulder recruitment. I'm gonna get a little bit more tricep recruitment So I've just done it with dumbbells. I've done that. I've done incline and flat presses with my wrist neutral elbows in Versus, you know elbows out, you know kind of bother. I'm with Justin I like it for that reason because you're right when you when you do a close grip bench press Which I love to do for triceps you have you have a bit of an elbow flare Which it would you would get more tricep involved if I could be in the neutral position and tuck my elbows in So that bar allows you to do that next question is from sonia gree wall zero one What would you do when you do not feel like eating? Let me start over What should you do when you do not feel like eating or not hungry but still need to maintain your caloric intake? Okay, so without knowing too much more or more information about this person I'm gonna assume you're a healthy individual because there could be some psychological stuff I've had this with female clients in particular where I'm trying to get them to eat Any appropriate amount of calories and they just psychologically the block there. They're afraid of gaining weight But let's just say you're a healthy person and your body's like I'm not hungry. Okay step number first number one I would say listen to your body, okay Forcing your body in one direction or another usually means it's probably not the best For your body, but let's say you've got these really hardcore goals You know and you do have and when you have really really specific goals Sometimes you do need to push your body a little bit I would say the first thing I would do is look at what I'm eating and seeing if It's causing any digest digestive issues Because eating more calories if you're eating foods that you are intolerant to and they cause bloat Or gas or acid reflux Those foods are going to make it hard for you to continue to eat more calories So I would go more to the fast digesting easy digestive types of foods for me that would be Beef and rice and well-cooked vegetables. I could eat a lot of those potatoes Potatoes to some extent if I push those too hard that'll cause me to bloat wheat Definitely not that would make me not want to eat again because I tend to have digestive issues with wheat So that would be the first thing that I would say But there's other strategies too. Like if you've been bulking for a long time Like a few days of low calories typically would jump you That's where I was gonna go right so my one it depends right like who we're talking to because there's there's a lot of different Ways I think I would communicate this based off of what your goal is But something I think that has changed for me personally today that was different than maybe just seven eight years ago as a personal trainer Um, I don't I so this happened to me yesterday. Yesterday, uh, I had uh, what did I have for breakfast? I can't remember what I have for I think I had in my my staple right now, which is puff darts for no Or for a sourdough toast and and then bacon and then I didn't eat again till late at that night And it was like chicken soup that was literally like all I ate that I in the past I would freak out about that in the past Because I was so hung up on getting enough calories and eating enough food and fear of losing muscle That I would run downstairs and eat a bag of popcorn ice cream whatever anything just to get calories So I didn't lose right that where my attitude towards that now It's like it's like you just alluded to Salas if I've been eating, uh, you know Ample amount of calories for three four five or a week or two weeks in a row Having a day of super low cut even a couple days of really low calorie will probably do me some good And so I don't really worry about it too much So it really depends where this client is at with their eating I mean if you're consistently eating in a surplus because you're trying to gain And then you have one day where you're just like man, I'm just not hungry. I'm not feeling like it That's I love to go low go low that day because watch the next day your appetite will probably be kicking kick up I think that's the thing I would caution my client who I give this advice to so if I tell my client Hey, don't worry about you know eating hitting the calorie intake You know, you've been doing really good one low calorie day is not going to hurt us whatsoever What I'd caution them is be careful because you went so low today Tomorrow you might feel these crazy cravings and have the temptation to want to go eat outside of your meal plan So that's the one thing that I would caution somebody who I'd say don't worry about one day if not hitting your calorie A target is the next day you may find your cravings now if you're that like classic hard gainer Right if you're that person that's just metabolism is roaring your skinny It's you find it very hard to gain any weight. Um, and you're you're really dedicated to doing this Drinking some of your calories. I say smoothies or shakes. Yeah, I mean, uh, you know If you can tolerate dairy like this is here's an easy way to add 500 calories to your diet Drink a glass of whole milk with breakfast lunch and dinner I mean I'll I'll put some nice calories Give you some extra protein and it doesn't feel you up nearly as much as food. Well, but But again, I think for the average person you got to listen to your body I think when you push your body, uh, too hard in one direction or another and you're ignoring your body's signals Uh, the the detriments outweigh any positives you might get from the extra calories Look mind pump is recorded on video as well as audio. So come find us on youtube mind pump podcast You can also find all of us on instagram Justin is at mind pump Justin You can find me at mind pump sal adam at mind pump adam And finally if you'd like some free information on how to build bigger arms how to get a better squat build a nice butt Develop your midsection. We have a bunch of free guides. You can find mind pump free.com Now the next one this one I do with my kids which are scheduled breaks and I'll let them know ahead of time Hey, you guys 15 more minutes and then we're going to be off electronics for the next Two hours I think this is important to have scheduled breaks to let yourself know If you're really deep in the social media addiction thing if you don't have any very good boundaries with social media rather than, you know