 If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go Mind pump, mind pump with your hosts Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer and Justin Andrews In this episode of Mind Pump. Oh, are we going high? Yes. Uh, I don't have that ability. So in this episode Come on man. You're always high. You can't huh? No try. No, no, no, no, no. Just try a little high. Why do you do that? Wow, that was Welcome to mind pump in this extremely uncomfortable episode of mind pump Adam Justin and I This is before we went through puberty apparently we do our intro conversation for the first 29 minutes We talk about the new Sal and Justin show. Yeah debuting our first debut feel feel free to fast forward the first two minutes We talk about death we talk about Adam's clothing matching ability it's borderline genius It's very interesting. We talk about the Juve light and how it's affecting Adam's testicles and his psoriasis By the way, we are sponsored by Juve. Actually, we're not we have an affiliate code with them Yeah, hook you up. We hook you up Anyway, so if you go to Juve j o o vv.com forward slash mind pump You'll get a discount on near infrared they should pay us for as much as I talk about that's what I'm saying We also talk about why the nose and the ears keep growing as you age Kind of turn into a gnome then we talk about health IQ now They do sponsor us if you go to health IQ comm forward slash mind pump You can take a fitness quiz and get a free quote on life insurance I also mentioned the gold juice from organifi. It is delicious. It is relaxing It is anti-inflammatory and it tastes expensive if you go to or go with vodka. It did maybe I haven't tried that I don't know. We were speculating and that sounds delicious. If you go to organifi shop comm You can enter the code mind pump no space and get a discount And then we also mentioned the brand spaking new Mind pump t-shirts these designs are great Justin. Thank you I think you did a very very good job. Keep coming and ladies. Don't worry. I'm coming for you. That's creepy Then we get let me say I'm coming up with some designs for you. He's coming Then we get into the questions. Yeah The first question was what is the benefit of stopping two reps before? Failure so we always mention on the show or we have many times That's probably more beneficial for most people to not train to failure all the time or at least we recommend you stop One or two reps short of failure. Why do we say that? Is it because we want to be different or rebels or is because there's science actually supporting it? The next question was why is it that when this particular individual is sick? They crave kind of shitty food like white toast and crackers the thought of healthy foods or vegetables makes them nauseous What's going on here? Why is it that when they're sick? They want processed I get it 16 and pregnant doesn't mean every time The next question was why are some of the exercise in prime pro? Why do they make you cramp like when you get into these positions to gain new ranges of motion? Muscle cramping is quite common. It's painful. Is it or are you just being a pussy? Find out in this episode And the final question was is it beneficial for? Performance-based individuals to cross train in different sports or should they just focus on their one sport? The answer to this is it depends Find out why it depends in this episode. Also, we just talked about prime pro in this episode We talk about correctional exercise and mobility If you're really good with your routine, you've got a great routine You've been working out for a while or you want to correct muscle imbalances Or you want to improve your range of motion when you train or you're just really smart We recommend you get the maps prime Bundle now the prime bundle includes maps prime Which teaches you how to set up your warm-up properly what we like to call your priming sessions Both these programs go with anybody else person You don't need to be following the maps programs to use these programs in conjunction for complimentary to anything you're doing right now If you're not doing it, you're an idiot. That's right And prime pro is more correctional it focuses on joints So we do everything from the wrist the shoulder the shoulder blade the spine The hips the ankles the feet It addresses all those areas if you have any imbalances on those areas it helps correct them Which then results in greater strength greater mobility more muscle less body fat It's extremely beneficial if you're a personal trainer these programs are absolutely invaluable Now you can get them separately you can buy maps prime or prime pro separately Or you can get them in the bundle where they're discounted over 20% off Which is what we recommend for more information go to mind pump media comm Remember how we said we wanted to start a new podcast called the Sal and Justin show. Yeah, this is our chance Finally, we need a theme song Yeah, we do need a sound Justin show. How would it start the silent Justin show? It's coming at you Every day We're fucking crazy We say some shit that doesn't make sense and then Sal put some science at the end study show That was pretty good. I don't know. I like that. I was very very on the spot You're like you're brilliant at making up random songs. No, I just make shit up. That's what I'm saying Yeah, it's it's a it's a level of brilliance that we first you have to find kind of like a driving beat like Ding-ding-ding-ding and then the rest is easy. Yeah, if the lyrics are always hard if the audience if the audience only knew because right now they're basing what I'm saying off of The few songs you've done on mine pump, which are which are smart, but they're not brilliant the brilliant songs You do not are the ones that the explicit the ones that we can never air. Yeah, they're terrible We do those only for the road trips. Yeah, they're really bad. Yeah, they're so bad They can't even be aired on mine pump. Yeah. Yeah, I like the mystery of that though. Yeah, let's keep that in the family I hope nobody ever fights out the songs that you write and sing in the car. We're on a road like it's like Exercising a lot of the darkness. Yeah, dude It's bad. It is bad. It's really some of your humor Oh, no, no personally oh on my my insta story. Yeah, I guess that's just dark. No, that's not that dark dude I can get no, yeah, I know you get I know you can go, you know, it was super dark Doctors, yeah, so I you know, I've trained that's like a mechanism like a coping mechanism for all this trauma and stress I think you have to be dark. Yeah, when you're when you see people die and they're sick and yeah, that stuff Yeah, they're humors terrible. Yeah, like Disturbingly terrible I would imagine that would be the case too. It's like corners and you know, like people that deal with dead people all time They're probably fuck with them while they're dead. Yeah, you know what I mean? Yeah Anyway, uh, so I would like to introduce our guest in the show to in the Sal and Justin show today Sal and Justin show You have a hard time What's going on today special guest that was it that was all the content that we had Thanks for showing up Adam. It's good. I walk into a good time morgue talk of the fucking dude How you guys get there, bro? I don't know what can I just say how it works out? So Adam makes a lot of claims about his his fashion sense like oh, I'm so stylish I'm so and I always make fun of them and I laugh and it comes but I'm not gonna this is true now I'm not gonna joke around anymore because I like to tease people right, but let's be honest now He's got on Okay, because he has it. He's got a cast on his foot basically because it was an ankle But he has a what color socks first. He's got a red make sense He's got a red sock that matches his hat perfectly Yeah, and then on the other foot because the other foot's not hurt so the other foot has a shoe on it He's only wearing one shoe nowadays by the way. Yeah His oh one shoe shoe look at the color of the swipe on his Nike and then look at his shirt Okay, it's it's all he's like opposite match. It's perfect. It's all perfect now You either plan that or it was oh, I yeah No, I take the time when I put when I put a pair of socks or it was intelligent design No, I take the time to do that stuff and I'll be honest There's times when I don't take the time to do that stuff, but I think it makes a difference man It's I wouldn't have even thought to match the sock with something and then the shoe was something else Well being completely transparent the socks is what dictated what went on my head because I put the socks on first So my do you start bottom? How does this work? Up I have a very new routine now that in fact I was just talking to Taylor about this that's ever since the Juve light has been a part of my life at home, you know, it's I've noticed like I told you guys I've noticed the most Benefits from the Juve out of almost anything that I'm doing right now Not as much Hormonally as much as skin like so the skin's effective Yes, I my psoriasis and you can you can even tell like so I my psoriasis on my shins are some of the worst areas on my body and The way I sit so what I do is my the Juve light you can imagine this is the edge of my bed and The Juve light I have rolled against my wall and I just roll it right in front of my bed So I sit the edge of my bed when I first wake up in the morning of them before I go to bed So I'm trying to use it twice a day because I've seen so much benefit from the little bit that I was consistently using so I Get ready to wake up naked I sleep naked and then I just turn the light on right away And I kind of sit in front of it and kind of wake up and check my email real quick And kind of start the day like that and then I shower come back to the light I just turned the light on leave the light on in the room. So my whole room's red Do you feel like like an entree kind of waiting in a diner? But you're just like you're just hanging out just waiting to get served So crispy right that light really travels right so Katrina pulled up the other night And I was you she's like oh my god She goes the red light from our room lights up all the rest of the house like those so she could see the It's like the devil is coming out in your house The neighbors are like what the fuck Yeah, I know it's Looks really crazy. So anyway, so that my routine now and so I try and leave because I want the benefits too for the test Ostrone so I'm trying to keep my balls close to it and keep my balls uncovered So typically I would put underwear on first, okay, but I don't anymore Wanted to use it again at some point so so I just for the audience so you're sitting on the edge of the bench knees bent Yes, okay now Typically the the the shaft might cover some of the balls Do you have to move it out of the way like is the is the goal to get? Ball exposure or is it just totally are you doing like underbelly shaft? I'm not a hundred percent sure on the science of If it's better to get most of my ball sack or most of my shaft I'm assuming it's most of my ball sack would probably be the most beneficial my balls So so I so I push him to the side so that they can get the most so the boys get the most Yeah, the boys get the most light, you know and Smart yeah, so but I you know to be honest about the testosterone piece. I know Ben Greenfield is big on this I haven't I haven't but that's such a hard one, right? Testosterone was a very hard one to like pinpoint you have to like measure your blood Yeah, it's really it's really hard although. I think that skin is so visible right exactly skins visible So I could definitely see a difference when I'm when I'm consistently using vitamin D and what I'm not Let me see your shin. Let me see Let me see how much better it is. Oh shit. Look at that Way down well, and it's really it's like one maybe one-third or one-fourth of the size Yeah, and it's actually really it's really it's right now. Wow. That's dramatic, dude Mm-hmm. Yeah, that's a big fucking differential. Yeah. Yeah, and it's a combination of a few things like you know My diet ever since we did our fast. Yeah, so right before our fast was really bad So and I was kind of all over the board. I was eating shit was eating whatever I wanted to holidays still coming off you look healthier and After the fast the diet's been pretty tight And then the vitamin I've been consistent again with my vitamin D You know, I was really consistent for a while then I fell off and then I realized That it was starting to get worse again It's funny how sometimes when we're doing things I was just having this conversation with Taylor and I were talking about skin and vitamin D And all this stuff and he's like, you know, I've been taking it, but I don't really notice the difference I'm like, you know what? I thought the same thing to until I stopped taking it and then I saw the flare up happen Sometimes like it's such a subtle thing you look at yourself so much you're trying to be and we're all searching for like this Big benefit, right? You think you're gonna do something like that and hopefully it cures it gets rid of it Like the likelihood of that's very I think very very slim that it's gonna someone's gonna start taking vitamin D And also in psoriasis goes away, but it does suppress it a lot and when it suppresses it That keeps me from itching and picking at it, which that actually makes it worse. So, you know I have seen lots of benefits from the Juvelite for the skin thing I've been putting my head on there, too, you know, hope in hopes praying into the hair Like I please let it be let it be like one of those infomercials where I you know You know what? So it might take a while It might take time for that right because the whole the cycle of the hair or the follicle or whatever But are you taking pictures to see if you could tell a difference? I'm not taking pictures, but I look fucking lucky You better believe I check, you know, it's just checking yesterday My head doll tilted down with the fucking double mirrors looking like okay. It actually it feels like it's thicker I can feel it right when I shampoo There's times like when I was on testosterone when I'm taking when I'm taking juice And and I can really feel it thin like it feels like it's crazy. I'll run my fingers through my hair And then as soon as I'm all as soon as I'm off I can feel my hair already thickened back up So I can see a significant difference from that But I feel like I'm kind of at this one sticking point where it's not really getting better You know, it's not really getting worse, but it's not really getting better So I so I'll I'll notice periods of time when I start to lose a little bit of hair and of course It freaks me out, right? Luckily, I still I'm still okay, but it's way thinner than it used to be for sure I'm still not like no one I don't think anyone look at my head my head and say Oh, you're losing your hair. But if you knew what I looked like before I was a mop, bro I when I was for most of my life up until I'd say my late 20s like My hair was I if I didn't wash my hair in the morning and then put like a shit ton of product in it It was a it was like a big old I had a fro Mediterranean afro I had a it was it was unmanageable and now I've embraced the hair loss that I have had because it's not it wasn't so much that it makes me look like I'm losing my hair, but it was enough to make it to give me dad hair, and I really like dad hair Dad hair is great because I remember when I was a kid my dad used to I used to ask him Like, how do you come because his hair was always like perfectly? I mean, how do you comb your hair? And he's like I don't I just put my son that's just 50 years of training at the same direction That's what that is. He's just 50 years of training him and I just knows how to get in line Well, I can literally mess up my hair and then just a couple swipes in my fingers and it's yeah It's perfect. Yeah, that's what that really is though, right? It's a that's a testament of combing your hair a certain way for so many years that you start to train the hair to grow And that's what I have a theory. So I think that the hair that like vines that falls out first is The ones that are the rebellious unruly ones That's what it's why they did that's why they fall out You know I mean cuz they're like I'm out of here and then the ones that are like they just move south Yeah, oh dude. Yeah cuz that increases, you know how terrible so I'm we were You know, we were up in Napa this past weekend and we're driving and Jessica's talking to me. We're having a good conversation. She stops and she like gets closer to me and she's like Is that hair in your ears? Yes? Courtney pointed that out to me too. Oh freaking out dude. She starts trying to pull the hair out of my ears Oh, why the fuck do I have hair in my ear? Why? Yeah, I know what's the evolutionary purpose of that I noticed I noticed that a few years ago. So I got one of them little tools. Those are just game changer, bro That's like a sneak attack mechanism. I got one in my truck and I got one in my bathroom I keep it on me because there's be times I'll be driving I'll look at the river mirror and I'll just see like the Sun just hits my ear just right and this little fucking one little hair I don't know where the one strike. I'll pull the fuck over right there. Get my little tool out from Her nose hairs hurt. I want to know why though. Why do we what's the evolutionary purpose of hair in? Well, I was it just an accident of nature. It's weird to me to how tentacles I actually would expect you to know this answer. Why do our ears and our nose keep growing too as we get older? Oh Cartilage, yeah, so bone will stop But cartilage will continue and the tip of your nose is cartilage and your ears are cartilage and Cartilage doesn't doesn't stop growing like bone does so bone will have like you have growth plates and once it reaches a certain length They'll stop does that mean for all areas in our body where we have cartilage So like I'm gonna these like bulky looking knees to when I get older That's a good that's a good question. I'm not sure about that But I do know that cartilage the reason why that nose and ears grows because cartilage tends to continue growing So I don't know I think that's true because I think cartilage in the rest of your body like your joints kind of replaces itself If you're healthy and stuff, so it's like a repairs differently, but I'm not sure about that's a good question I don't know but it does keep growing. You're right because you ever look at pictures of like Yeah, like a people over a hundred. Yeah, they have these huge years massive huge years massive years Oh wait it says okay, so let's see here the the long-term exposure of hair follicles to hormones such as testosterone will disrupt Disrupt and lengthen through a growing period except for your head though. You fuck. That's crazy Like you're at your nose ear and eyebrows will just get crazy long But your head like all the areas that looks bad if you have long hair dude, yeah Yeah, I was gonna say the crazy like owl unibrow I've seen some gnarly so I've made a promise myself to take care of that shit as I get eyebrows just everything like just Manscaping all the way around it just nose ears eyebrows like and I don't got to go to the extreme where I'm you know Getting them tweezed every fucking week or some shit like that But you know to be aware enough when it starts to get a lot of control like okay It doesn't take me that much time to go somewhere get a professionally done I'm taking care of you're good for at least a month or two Yeah, sometimes I could just like see them, you know Oh It's fucked up. Yeah, I feel bad for my wife always like ah Do something about that? Well, you know I mean to be fair the kind of things that men have to do to like take care of themselves It pales in comparison to like like women. How many women do you see over the age of 35? Okay over the age of 35 who have like gray hair Rare, it's rare until they get really old and they stop giving a shit Do you know I mean I don't this was mind-blowing to me most what I don't know why I was mind-blowing It's obvious most women get gray hair like eyes do after we get a certain age except they all Women color the hair they totally all the time. Yeah all the time which you know I don't know. What do you guys think about gray hair on women? Do you think it's unattractive like if a 35 year old woman has got like grays? Do you think that they should color it or I don't know man? I guess I haven't seen it that much So I like exposure. I got a client that I was just talking to she's 51 She has it she says she claims that her whole head would be completely silver if she didn't color it But right now I see it like she needs it She's telling me that she was just telling me she's due to go back in and I'm looking at I think it looks She's blonde or she dies it blonde I guess and she has these streaks of gray And and I think when it's good let it's kind of streaky like that both men and women I think I think it's kind of a cool look and I do think I agree I do think that some some at least men and I'm trying to think of a woman in my head Because I know there's some famous actors that I can picture like a full head of like gray hair Storm from X-Men, sorry There's a rogue she had that one like in the front some people some people it looks well with their complexion They pull it off and it looks good I mean shit obviously there's that we went through this trend or we're still going through this trend of men and women dying Young women and women dying there. I know that's true. Yeah, which you know the older generations looking like what the fuck are you doing? So I've been avoiding that color There was this woman that worked out at one of the gyms that I managed years ago and she was I Think she was in her 60s. She was very fit. She had long Gray hair, but it was long so it wasn't short so she can like it like young girl hair in terms of the length but it was all gray she was very fit and she was like Probably the first woman I ever found truly sexy at that age and I was at the time I was 20 maybe 22 23 years old and maybe 20 even younger Maybe even 21 and this older woman 60 something years old fit with all gray hair and all the guys in the gym We're just like dang. She's hot and so from that day forward. I think I found gray I told Jessica said if your hair ever starts to turn gray like don't like don't color leave it I'm speaking of getting old and dying. Did you guys talk about health IQ before? Exactly, huh? I better do my health IQ commercial. Let's see. Yeah, if you're fit So there we go. So here's a commercial if the if you work this out before Yeah, if you fall within the next for the parameters I'm about to tell you then this applies to you Okay, so if you're somebody that's concerned about being healthy and fit and you're gonna die at some point Yeah, you should go to hell. Thank you fit in that demographic and get life insurance They specialize in life insurance for fit and healthy people who at some point will die So yeah, basically that's everybody right and Doug actually compared this to like other companies So it's not like just just these because you know, there's some of these these companies that I think Use things like this is a gimmick But then you start comparing them to other other companies that they just they blow them away because there are better deals Well, they specialize in Fit and healthy people and the way health insurance works or the way insurance works in general is insurance companies Have to the way the reason why you have prices for insurance is Because or the the reason why there are particular prices is they look at all their risks and they and Because insurance companies compete They're all trying to look at risks and try to figure out how they can make a profit and then What constitutes that profit is how they compete so like one insurance company Will figure their risks based on the people who buy their insurance and they'll say okay if we charge an Average of $50 a month We know we'll make a 5% profit and then the next competitor says okay if we figure out these risks We will we're willing to make a 3% profit because we know we're gonna get more customers Because we're cheaper and this is how they compete only makes sense to really bank on healthy people And so well be in it what I'd be interested to see is someone who would take this test That's not healthy and see how if it would actually would make that big of a difference for them It would still would be good. Yeah, I think about a different. Yeah, think about all the medication No, I mean for example somebody's a smoker watch your rates go through the ceiling. Yeah. Yeah, well I mean, I mean so obviously in general they would I'm curious to let's say a Smoker or really out of shape person did the health IQ would they get still a better rate than if they would just go to some random insurance I think I don't know what the answer is But I would assume and this is total speculation that because health IQ specializes in fit and healthy people They may not have the best rates for you, right? That's super unhealthy. That's what I would speculate, but I don't know because they're banking on a large populace of Customers who are fit and healthy. Here's some interesting So if you're if you're really out of shape and you smoke cigarettes I'd love for you to take this and give it feedback exactly just here. Yeah, really out of curiosity Yeah, it may not benefit you but it and it will give you the answer though You're gonna pay a lot more money if you're unhealthy Guaranteed because you're gonna go through an exam. Yeah, but Doug I want to know if it's all when you compare this stuff You compared it to some of the top other insurance companies out there and it was what'd you say five to 15% lower, right? Yeah, I compared with two other companies I work with and I did super preferred rates and they were actually I think 12 to 15% right less which is excellent And here's the thing, you know these insurance companies have these mortality tables So they're they basically figured out we love death when people are gonna die Yep, so that's how they know how they can make a profit So there's other factors that come into play too which has to do with the profitability of the company or the Mortality experience of the company so for example if a company pays out a lot of claims or if they have high The rates then they can't have this low of rates So what health IQ can do as an agency they can go out to all these different companies and they can get the Lowest rate so the company that maybe has the best mortality experience the company that has the lowest expenses Now they can offer a lower price insurance my goal is to fuck all my insurance companies I'll tell you how you fuck the life insurance company stay a lot die. No that no that isn't True that's true. You die now. They have to pay to pay. Yeah, that's good. Did you put me and Justin? I don't want to advertise. Yeah, I don't want to fuck them. Well, here's a thing. There's a brain fart in the half I think of like let's go through my head is all my other insurance that I pay for you know You're home insurance your car insurance all that stuff You don't ever cash out any that shit you get fucked on all that so you know what? Here's a good example by the way By the way since I did make that fuck up and we're talking about other insurance There's a company now, which I would love to look into I forgot the name of all my screenshot of them So I'll look them up that They do it Your insurance is literally like it's every month. It's adjusted based off of how much you drove and Obviously if you got tickets or didn't get so it's always really yeah And so it's it's it tracks your your your mileage. That's brilliant Yeah in that vehicle and then it adjusted every month according to what where what you're doing I saw a company that had that it was like a little box that you yes Yeah in your car what they're trying to do is they're trying to speed all your stuff is getting monitored Yeah, because you have to that's brilliant So like I'll give you guys an example car insurance car insurance is more expensive for men than it is for women And it's not because of sexism although if we wanted to beat no be assholes We could say that the truth is men Getting more fatal accidents more likely to get tickets and all that other stuff But if it is speed if a car insurance company wanted to offer cheaper prices That's something they could do is they could say We will only cover women now because they're there the pool of people that they're pulling from or women and women tend to generally be safer drivers They can offer cheaper rates to these women verses when they do co-ed They have to you know the prices they give to women Kind of have to pay for the more of the men and they're competing in that sense So health IQ is trying to get a bunch of healthy people and as a result of their pool of people being mostly fit and healthy They can charge lower price that's still true that women technically I know that was an old stat that that they technically are They're less of a liability because they're then men are that were more reckless. I thought that was just debunked Oh, no, you're if well if you get I thought Asian people were worse than everybody else Female life insurance costs are less than male. Yeah, because women are expected to live longer. Yeah, you know What's like your poop theory? Yeah, this is some this is This is some sexism. We don't talk about we got to pay more for that shit. Come on, man Come on. Yeah, you know why we died earlier by the way because we want to Did my time 65 or over this stop nagging me work myself to death Just trying to hit all the holy shit offensive we can get Adam This feels like a married with children episode Adam made just some rice racist comments I made some gender cut some sexist comments. How far can we go today? Touching them third rail today The button so what do we got Doug trigger? Oh, you know what I so I gave I did the gold juice last night and I had my kids try a little bit and they went to sleep So nice guy you're pushing supplements on your kids. I'm too American Rishi it go I had him try a little bit of that and a little whiskey So I can't say for sure if it was the gold juice or the whiskey you didn't tease it out But it was one of those two that that did no no all joking aside I did have them taste it then and drink a lot of are you the type of person loved it Are you the type of person that would even consider mixing that with alcohol? I remember early on early trainer days time ago. I might have yeah I remember early trainer days that was good with vodka, right? It was like when you would still drink on the weekends And then you'd be a trainer all during the week and healthy, right? And so you and you would make mixers you got like a protein Did you never do that? I did okay. Yes. There's a branch chain amino acid with some fucking vodka There's just one I used to drink this brand Mary Shane amino acid supplement called extend I don't know if you guys have ever heard of it It's I know what extends is a little pills No, not extends not boner pills It's it's amino acid supplement and it's totally artificial, but it tastes really good But it's probably bad for you and I'd make Mixed drinks with it and it would color the drink like green or red and taste like watermelon or fucking You know apple or whatever and I'm like, hey, no sugar. It's really good for you and then you know We get diarrhea But we don't know why we don't know why we didn't know why we got that Hey, did you guys get the shirts the new shirts that just came in Justin just Just Justin you just released the stay authentic one, right? So we have this day authentic one and then what was the other one that we just had you had all three color ways, too I saw red. Yeah, so we launched at this time with all three colors last time I kind of split it off with the black and white for the podcasting hard t-shirts, so Yeah, so we just we just launched The stay authentic shirts which have kind of the mad mic on there and it's it's got our nice branded logo look to it and you can get it in red black and in gray So somebody told me that on the website. It says 2017 with the shirts actually say 2018 So, okay, so it's the wrong image on the on the website, but yeah, we fixed that before we printed them So it says 2018. Yeah, I've seen the actual shirt the shirts got the right. Yeah, it's current Throwback They were being made in 2017 How long does it take before something that is just old becomes cool? You know, I mean is there a period of time that like here's why I'm asking that remember how I told you guys That I got picked up for that distillery tour in that 1985 right limo It was cool because it was 1985 right right if it was 1995 it would have just been whole I feel like it takes a solid a solid 30 years Yeah, I would say a solid 20 to 30 years 20 minimum probably 30 years because when you look at fashion, right a lot of the stuff that we see right now The trends that are like super popular. I remember that as a young kid So those a lot of those were like or similar like they're just like extensions of it like it's like well We didn't exactly have skinny jeans, but we had fitted tapered jeans that we used to tight roll So you get kind of the same look right so even though we didn't have technically quote-unquote skinny jeans We had jeans that were pretty much a stone wash really do you think everything like makes a Resurrection again, or is like there's some Fashions that like are real popular like how the fuck did we ever know there's definitely this I think that I saw I saw So special like one of the crevaux gonna come they've done they've done some see hammer pants coming back They've done some things where they've done a specials I've seen where they talk about and they talk about styles that like have came back or that were great or that had died Off and like don't ever come back again. Like there's definitely trends that that's stay gone for good Yeah, I you know right now I feel like the generation now is taking two or three generations and kind of fucking throw it all together They're trying to outdo each other with the eclectic ideas Yeah, because there's definitely some things I see from the 80s and there's some things I see from the 90s Right, so I see some some of the jean the stone wash the tapering This reminds me of like the 80s and then there's this the kick of the neon bright colors and stuff again neon bright Colors sunglasses they went on that kick a little bit right that was all 90s stuff 90s It was cool to wear all these vibrant bright neon colors all time. Yeah, the gotcha shirts I'm waiting for the big jeans Jeans go big old. Yeah, they were so dumb. No Yeah, I mean if people bring those back They're just being asshole I do I do believe that the tapered the dude the tapered skinny Jean thing will die off And we will see baggy again or at least loose fit come back again because that's a the one thing That's been nice about me more comfortable You know falling into depression low-tossed Austro and all the misery I'm going through right now Is that my my legs have shrunk to nothing and so I fit in these nice little skinny jeans now? So I actually I can I can wear some of these clothes that like are in style right now But when I'm in shape dude, I actually have legs on me in a frame on are you doing like hip extension stuff? Because your glutes look all right We were what that's just good genetics. Okay. Yeah, cuz they don't look like they've atrophied at all Me and Doug were talking about it. Yeah, this it does always talking about my ass glutes. It's strong. All right, bring on the bird Today's quads being brought to you by Chimera coffee It's the only coffee that is infused with all natural Cleaner calmer and more focused buzz without the crash put the Chimera link at mine pump media comm and input the discount code Mine pump a check out for 10% off First question is from BW Lawson 1973 what is the real benefit of stopping two reps short before failure a good question? It is so first let's define right failure When you're lifting weights failure is when you cannot perform perfect wrap another good Clean repetition. So that's number one. I have to define that because I think sometimes people think failure means You just can't move the bar anymore. You can't even like lift it off Yeah And I don't think people realize how important this point is too because as soon as the form breaks down Just because you get the rep up doesn't necessarily mean that's a good idea And I think some people and this is a confusion of reading studies of going to failure and the extra benefits You might get for building more muscle the the extra benefits you might get from pushing yourself to failure I think is negated by the poor patterning that you're going to create by forcing a rep out Yeah, so it's really there's really a fine line in my opinion on this people training to failure all time It is a tool it can be used but for the more I think it's abused and overused Yeah, and more often than not you should be training like this where it's two reps more often than not It just feels counterproductive right because then then I'm trying to actually heal as opposed to you know full like I fully recover and then You know move forward Whereas like if I stop myself with just enough kind of left in the tank Then you know me to be able to keep building and building on top of that Inconsistently training like I I move forward man. It's just it's it's momentum that moves forward versus Okay, push pull push pull, you know that that kind of a mentality where now I have to kind of force myself Into recovery this was when I think of all the game changer like singular Techniques that I changed through my resistance training career and my personal training career Stopping couple reps before failure is up there. It's probably it might be number one or number two It was that big of a difference. I agree with that, but I think there's a reason why that is too I think is because we fell in that cat I mean when you go back and you even watch like the old like Arnold videos like that these guys are come on Three more yeah, three more you pussy, you don't say and so that that's been ingrained in our in the culture of Bodybuilding and lifting and so, you know as a young teenage boy who was reading these magazines and watching, you know Arnold and shit like you're going like this is how I got a train Yeah, I got a train this way and that's how you get big and that was so no I mean when I first did this so I'll tell you what led up to this. I was reading Kubrick's book dinosaur training and he was talking about how he would do how you know these strong men and athletes and Back in the day would do all these you know lifts and they do them frequently and I remember thinking like how the hell can you recover from doing right? These lifts so frequently like how's that even possible? How does that even work and then I started thinking about all of the you know strong muscular men in my family who don't even lift weights and just from being physical at work and I would think to myself like well None of them are doing any of that shit to failure like you know my dad who was a stone worker for you know decades Since he was nine years old. He's not going to failure at work He does it all the time by this point. It's not super strenuous in that particular sense But this guy had my dad's hands are made out of like they're like Concrete in his forearms or muscular and shoulders were strong and I started thinking like well Is it really necessary to go to failure? And so I started stopping my repetitions Short of failure. Oh the other thing too is observing Olympic lifters Olympic lifters Don't go to failure except for maybe the day of competition competing. They never go to failure Well, they save it all for that. So what I started doing in my training is I didn't change anything else at this point All I did was that I stopped Two reps short of failure and literally the following week. I was stronger. It was like boom right away I was a big game. It was I got stronger right away Then I started recommending it to my friends who lifted weights and I would tell them Hey, don't change your routine. Just try this Don't go to failure stop like one or two reps short of it And every single one of them contacted me afterwards and was like dude. I'm like building more muscle and I'm stronger Right away. Now the science supports this 100 percent. They've actually Studied this and tested this And most studies will show that when you compare groups of individuals All things being equal going to failure not only is not necessary or not more beneficial But in many cases is less beneficial where The person doesn't advance as quickly now There's a lot of theories as to why like what's going on. Is it because of the additional muscle damage? Probably not. I don't think it's necessarily the additional muscle damage I think it's the hammering of the central nervous system that uh is the problem because When you're reaching down deep to take your body to momentary muscular failure You are calling upon your cns to to really give you every single bit of juice that it has And once the cns gets really fatigued it takes much longer to recover than muscle We know this muscles recover pretty quickly in comparison to the central nervous system The rest of your sets tend to get Hampered quite a bit So you've got to reduce your volume and your frequency which are both Important factors and then you just don't get as good of results now Does this mean you should never go to failure? I don't think so. I think every once in a while. It's okay Yeah, and then like I almost used it as a coach even and for myself Once I started applying this As more of a quarterly sort of gauge So like as far as like the effectiveness of my training and you know, how I've been able to kind of build up to a new Standard and something that I've I've stretched the the limitations that I currently had Whether that was physically or whether that was mentally sometimes, you know, you You have a stuck sort of of mentality when it comes to load or when it comes to your actual abilities To where I do feel it's important to stretch your abilities to to press them to challenge yourself But then you know going through that like failure Testing I mean we took days off, you know for recovery and just kind of coming back to now approaching Um, you know starting the whole process all over again Yeah, I it goes back to what I've said on the show a bunch of times Which is your your it's always for the people that that don't need to do it are doing it too much The people Yeah, you know and the people that are doing it too much would benefit the most by not doing it Right, so if you're if you're somebody who's listening this right now and because there there's another there's Lots of different people that I would give different advice to when speaking to something like this, right? So if I have a client or I have a person who Rarely ever trains a failure or is scared to train a failure because they they don't want to fail Or they don't know what that they're they're afraid to drop the weight on themselves And they so then they they rarely ever even push to failure And they train like that getting them to go to failure actually will probably show lots of benefits For their body and as far as building muscle is concerned now We speak like the way it affected us because like I was saying earlier that You know, I was impacted by the magazines and by what I was seeing like Arnold training And so in my head, I thought like this is how I we were totally sucked into the ego of it in the culture So I mean set one dude set one. I'm I'm I'm pressing up every set every set every set was to failure And I always wanted to spot her and I turned that way now as I got older wiser and learned a lot more I remember I remember like the light bulb going off when I started to go to reps short of failure Just like you sell I started to see these huge strength gains like really quick. I was like, whoa, this is nuts I'm not pushing as hard in the gym But yet it felt like I wasn't pushing as hard in the gym But yet I was seeing gains really quick. And so I think that rule is Because of the fact that I was so extreme on the other the other side of this Now what I saw went in the competitive world that I think is really funny And I think this hurts a lot of the bodybuilders bikini athletes that I saw my peers is Because these guys and girls they they go to failure on almost every exercise and many of them don't have Don't understand order of operation as far as what exercises to do first So you've got these guys and I would die laughing I'm like you start off on the peck deck machine Doing flies and you go to failure And it's like then you go over to go do like some dumbbell presses or do some bench press and like you're already Your cns is fried you've already fatigued the muscle And so you're lifting probably 60 70 percent of your your max of what you could do if that And you're not really getting the best bang for your buck for the best exercise you possibly good So if I was going to if I'm going to failure now I'm going to do it on my last set of my compound lift Whatever the big whatever the big lift is that I that I think I'm going to get the biggest bang for my buck I at the very last set and the very last set or very last exercise So the last exercise and last set of that muscle group that I might be working on and and the compound lift I'm going to maybe push to failure. Yeah. Well, you have to understand is when you're training Your body to build muscle. It's this It's really this delicate dance between sending a signal and he's for a stimulus for muscle growth versus My body's ability to recover and repair and you have to balance those two out It's they they're both intricately connected If you had this limitless recovery ability this ability to just recover and repair Both your central nervous system and your muscle Very easily Then just more intensity would always be better. You you could always just throw More and more at your body because you're recovering you don't have to worry about We'll talk about what the signal you're sending when you're doing that is Durability. Yeah, like if you do go to failure all time like I'm not saying that you're not going to be bad Acid lifting weights and crossfits a great example of that like it doesn't mean that you're not going to become bad Acid lifting weights in there, but if we're chasing Change in our body, then then it's not the ideal path. I would even argue You might not make you bad ass I think if you keep pushing that you're you're going to start to get negative effects as you overcome your body's ability to Adapt and recover and so you have to understand that so does going to failure Cause a larger or louder muscle building signal or stimulus than not going to failure Technically it does technically yes, if we're to measure all of the The things that we know how to measure that show that they you know muscle damage and signaling Oh, no doubt if you took two groups of people that have never like no one's lifted Especially a short you know or say everyone's lifted exactly the same amount of years into their bell And you took two groups and you said you never trained to failure This group always trained to failure. We watch it for six weeks The ones that in six weeks are going to show that went to failure are going to show more progress Well, what they'll show is and what I mean is is when you can measure things like You know muscle damage markers of damage and protein synthesis and all that Failure sends a louder signal, but it overcomes Your ability to recover too much to make up for it So you might get a little bit more benefit from doing those extra two reps But because it overcomes your ability to recover so much Not only is it not worth it, but for most people it's detrimental And so this is why we can make a break-in statement for most people and say You're probably better off stopping about two reps short of failure For most people if you do that most of the time you'll get way better results than if you push yourself To failure with your workouts and we can say that confidently because of both our experience and because of literature Well, and I think that all of us as trainers the the last the last variable that I tend to manipulate is intensity Oh, yeah, I mean, I'm gonna play I'm gonna play with exercise diet Movement. I'm gonna mess with a lot of different variables. The last one. I'm fucking with his intensity Yeah, I mean you just kind of feel the difference between when you're forcing your body And when you're actually working with your body and this is like another clear example of that to me When I feel like, you know, if I'm I'm pressing too hard towards failure and I have to recover harder. I'm really like forcing it I'm and it it never like you just don't have the same type of energy and drive when you're really forcing your body Yeah, it should do something. I'll tell you what I could take a big a total deconditioned beginner And I could train them every single day if I appropriately Modify their intensity and the duration of the workout and all that stuff I could also take a complete beginner who's never worked out and with one set with one set I could fuck them up really really bad. Yeah, that's what intensity can do intensity has that much power Over your body's ability to recover whereas at frequency and volume, you know, you can manipulate those and those both also Have an impact, but it's intensity. You got to be most careful careful for because one set too hard Even somebody I'll tell you what I don't even if you're super experienced I bet I could take someone who's super experienced and I could take them through I can invent a set And take them through where we're doing Super crazy to failure strip set negatives partials, you know And now isometrics at the end and I'll fuck you up. I'll go beyond your body's ability to recover That's the power of intensity problem is the culture's got to change the culture the culture has to change because it's still We still have this mentality of okay Uh, if I if the sore I am the better the workout is people still believe that You know, and I'll be the first to admit that I was somebody who was like this where I measured my workouts the success of my workouts how I fucking felt the next day And not how good I felt or how much energy I had or how much mobility or how But how sore I was and the more sore I was like, oh, yeah, I got a good It was a good workout. I got it good where I have a such a different Outlook on it now now when I feel that so I'm like fuck I did way more than I needed to That's exactly what goes through my head if I if I am sore like really sore like sort of the touch poke my chest And I'm like, oh that to me goes like what an idiot I did way more than I needed to do To elicit some sort of change in my body and that is the goal I think when you start to switch your mentality that okay, it's no longer this How sore can I get and that's the measure it's not about the how what's the most I could do It's about what's the least I could do right that's it. It's that's a that's a very So the so the the sore feeling should not be a pat yourself on the back You did such a great workout the other day. It should be like Shit, I didn't have to do that much to get the change that I was looking for which is a crazy hard mental discipline to establish Right. It's an artistly for yeah Well, when you when you're indoctrinated in this this mentality of like kill every workout and and you know Crush crush everything you do To really train with discipline and and be smart about it. It's challenging Well, and I want to point out too that When we talk on mind pump like we we're a lot of what we talk about comes from our experience of training thousands of normal average people Okay, so I'm not speaking to the men's physique or the bodybuilder guy who's been training for 15 years Who can recover with artificial right right totally different like I trained like a madman when I was competing I trained nowhere near at the volume Right now as what I was when I was competing. It was a whole another level And breaking a lot of the rules that we talk about right now, but the the bottom line is Most of you are not that person and even if you want to be that person There's a lot of scaling that needs to happen between where you're at now and there And you want to leave as many tools in your tool belt as you can and intensity is a great tool But it's one of the most abused tools and that's the one that you want to save man It's the one you want to have in your back pocket because you know, you can always ramp up the intensity Like I want to dial in the nutrition. I want to dial in my steps. I want to dial in My program design. I want to dial all that in and then when I want to bump to the next level I'll add some intensity in there Next question is from Harriet Edwards for 10 Why is it that when I'm sick I crave shitty food like white toast and crackers The thought of healthy foods or vegetables makes me nauseous And is the last thing my body wants everyone. I know is the same. Yep me too I don't know about you guys when you're sick. Don't you just feel like you want to eat carbs and fat? Yeah, like, uh, you know doritos or fried fries fried french fries fried food and carbohydrates man sugar sugar and fat So, um, I'm gonna I'm gonna speculate on on why this is and I've actually thought about this myself When I was sick because this is this is kind of this is common. I think a lot of people experience this So first off there's there's a little clue in the way that this person asked the question, which is They said that they crave these types of foods So so we need to uh, we have to differentiate between crave and hunger Cravings are very different So if I'm if you think you're hungry, if you're truly hungry pretty much any food that's going to be in front of you You're gonna want to eat When you're craving something it's more like, you know, when your friend says, oh my god I'm starving and you say oh cool. Do you want to go eat over here and they go? No, I'm not really in the mood for that. What about this? No, I'm not in the mood for that But you know, it sounds good tacos or something like that. That's not hunger That's a craving and it's very very different. It's not necessarily what your body wants From a hunger perspective, it's what your total being may want based off of your emotion The environment you're in your your mood like all these different things and cravings are influenced by all of those Types of things I use the example of the movie theater and popcorn a lot because it's an easy one for people to understand That you'll crave popcorn Most likely when you're in a movie theater because you've been conditioned to do so Now why is it that when you're sick? You're you don't want to eat healthy foods. Well, healthy foods are And we're gonna let's uh define that for a second. I'm gonna assume that this person's talking about Foods that are whole and natural in their in their state So, you know, if I'm gonna eat like a piece of fish or vegetables or just minimally processed foods That's what I think they're referring to Why would those types of foods? Sorry those types of foods Are the foods we evolved with and those are the types of foods that our bodies are going to be most accurate with In terms of our signaling So if I'm going to eat whole natural foods, my body's natural systems of satiety are more likely to kick in When I'm eating eating those foods in more accurate ways than if I'm eating foods that are not whole and natural When you're sick, your body may be telling you It's a good idea to not eat. That's just the bottom line And the reason why you're not craving or want to eat Quote unquote healthy foods is because your body probably just doesn't want to eat And studies will show that the old adage, you know, what do they say start of a fever feet of cold? Or I'm not quite sure which one is the reverse But in one of those cases and I believe it's viral infections and you're gonna have to double check and look at up yourself I believe it's viral infections, but animal studies show that Uh when animals have a viral infection and they fast they're like they heal faster When they have a bacterial infection, they tend to In they eat they tend to I'm sorry. It's the reverse when they starve a bacterial infection I believe they heal faster and when they feed a virus They tend to do better So it could be that your body's just telling you to not eat and you might want uh to listen to it And the reason why you end up craving shitty foods or processed foods is because those foods were Designed and engineered to overcome or hijack your body's natural systems So you're more likely to want to eat those foods because they're hyper palatable You know these foods hit on all these different sensors I also think there's a behavioral piece that goes in emotional, right? Yes, when you're you don't feel good and you're you're laying around watching tv and stuff like that and I I mean I know from my own habits and patterns that it's like a comfort thing Yeah, when I'm watching when I'm lazy or don't feel good and watching tv You know a cheeseburger and french fries or that type of food Is more appealing to me and it's not because that's what my body is trying to tell me it wants or needs It's that's just behavioral addiction and that I've Have done this for so many years that that when I'm lazy or doing these things I eat that Just like the popcorn analogy gave when I go to the gym. I'm working out and I feel healthy I tend to gravitate towards healthier foods because I feel good about my I feel good I'm taking care of my body and I want to continue this episode I tend to quote unquote crave the the healthier type food. So I believe there's some there's a lot of behavioral stuff or psychological things that are going on with you too when we want these things because It's not that it's the white crackers. I think are very beneficial. And so that's why you want them I think there's some behavioral addiction That you're battling also in addition to what sal's talking about. So I think it's a it's a it's a here It is so it was a study on mice and it found so they did it with mice. They gave them listeria And when they gave them listeria the mice stopped eating Which is common, you know, if you've got a food poisoning or whatever you don't want to eat anymore And they made a full recovery but when they had mice that were infected with Uh with mono and they were force fed They or excuse me the same bacteria listeria and they force fed them. They died so they found that You know forcing yourself to eat in the particular situations with animals might not be a good thing and sometimes a good idea Sal doesn't doesn't a cold effect to our palate because you've got this mucus build up And you've got all this stuff going on in your mouth and your throat Like doesn't it even affect or I would think that it would affect our palate too And so maybe foods that are more bland and don't have that are less desirable And so you want something that's I mean, it could be right? It's all speculation But this is the best the this animal study is the best study that we have to show Because it's it's it's not ethical to test this on humans, right? You can't I don't think they'd be able to get funding or approval to Take a group of people who are sick with the virus and bacteria and either, you know Starve them or force feed them to see what would happen, but they did do it in animals and Viral infections when people work when the animals were fed with viral infections. They survived better And when they were fasted with a bacterial infection, they survived better So the whole you know feet of feet of cold starva fever. I think it is Is somewhat accurate in this particular sense. So I really think it's your body just talking to you and These highly processed palatable palatable foods. They override your body's systems all the time including when you're sick I know I mean a good example is this like how many how many times have you eaten a big meal and you're stuffed And then they bring out a sugary dessert and all of a sudden like magically I can eat more you can physically feel that your stuff like physically like my stomach hurts It's too full the novelty of it will yeah change your entire like feeling for that You've overcome what they call palette fatigue and I think when you're sick depending on your type of illness that you have Your body's telling you, you know Probably better off not eating at this moment and uh in this particular case that's you know in the animal study That seems to be the case, but the emotional component like you were talking about adam I I fully agree with because I know that there are comfort foods that I have That maybe my mom gave me or whatever I grew up with when I was sick and just making me feel emotionally better Oh, the only time I ever want a big mac and french fries is when I'm sick And it's because I know that exact meal. It's probably an association The only no it is 100% for my that and and I want seven up. I never drink seven up But I never have McDonald's and all my grandmothers so many yeah, they're salting crackers in seven up was the thing You know, you know, where did that come from peanut butter? Yeah, for some reason peanut butter Yeah peanut butter salting crackers and like seven up is like awesome cure everything Yeah, seven up was like the cure for all stomach ailments. There's a there's a reason behind it It has something to do with the carbonation has to be the carbonation. No, there's there's some benefits There's some there's something I know there's something to that and the salting crackers And I think the salting crackers is something to do with sodium and I think I think the Carbonation has something to do with the seven up now. I know ginger ale Yeah has been recommended for people with nausea and stuff like that, but that's if it's made with real ginger Yeah, because ginger has 100% I'm speculating right now, but I'm almost certain that I've read that somewhere almost certain right Well, I would call that when you say when you're almost maybe she's got it wrong was supposed to give me He's pretend like it's like an oxymoron just pretend like my dad used to say that I'm almost I'm almost positive I'm like what the fuck does almost That's an oxymoron. Is it like this? No, you're not actually Doug. You've been shopping for vacuums Yeah, when he pulls up when he pulls up the stats, you know, you know, it's kind of crazy When you think about that now like it's kind of a giveaway on what you've been looking at lately You got your wife Dyson is pretty hot Getting crazy is a the Dyson penis pump. That's a good one. They should make that they're really good at suction Next question is from spam rice and eggs spam rice and eggs a great combo Why exactly do some of the exercises in prime pro make us cramp? Oh, good question. This is a great question Because when uh, it does happen for sure when dr. Brink was taking us through how to apply these Movements, um, we were cramping like crazy and he can he told us to push through the cramp Yeah, you drive through it, which is the exact opposite of what you want to do when you want to cramp So I actually because of brink and because of that whole process for us. I actually teach prime pro Uh differently to people when that own the program and that I've helped out with that And I actually tell them when you do any of these moves seek the cramp Push keep pushing the range of motion until you find that because you'll almost find it in almost every move That's like you're threshold Right, and I think what that I mean, I think and correct me if I'm wrong if what's happening is that You have all you're kind of waking up muscles that have just not been activated And it's the spasming of of and firing of that it just hasn't been used to being worked in and hasn't solidified that connection yet Right, and so I think I feel like the cramping sensation we feel is the spasming of the muscle trying to get activated and get connected I think it's the cns, uh Trying to find its way because yeah, you know think of it this way when you when you work a muscle when a muscle is Contracting in a particular range of motion that you have control over What that means is the central nervous system knows how to fire that muscle Effectively and efficiently through that You know a known range of motion now when you move outside of that range of motion Whether it's in a Extended stretch position or in a you know What's more common in in these particular positions in a hyper contracted position or in a new range just a new range of motion That you're not used to Your central nervous system has to find its way to connect to that particular range of motion And when you're calling upon the cns and you're like Trying really hard and you're pushing really hard and you're trying to get that cns to fire The cns is getting the signal from you that says fire It's trying to figure out what to do. So it just fires. Well, and you get this cramp Yeah, you're really trying to override these governing systems that are in place too So you've you've just found where where you've established like, okay, this is where we normally go Well, and if you're you're now going beyond Uh, you know this this uh comfort zone that you've established within your daily routines And so like your body almost has this like reaction to that So it's like it it almost freaks the system out on some level So it's giving you that signal like caution caution caution caution But you have to kind of own that and control and ease your way through that Well, the ironic part though, and that's why I don't know if it's so much that as it is the cns trying to get the muscle to fire to take it through full range of motion And that's why we get the cramping spasming type feeling because if I took you through that stretch I did and you didn't do it actively it wouldn't fire it wouldn't fire and cramp It wouldn't cramp up because you're not require you're not asking this demand of to take it Starts passively versus now trying to connect intrinsically, right? What what I find really interesting is that there's obviously different types of cramps that we get because You'll we've all had the muscle spasm with a cramp out of nowhere Where you're not even trying to activate it right all sudden your calf locks up out of nowhere And that sometimes could be a lack of a nutrient in your body Right there could be exactly so there can be that imbalance going on for that, but this is different This is very different. This is not from that. This is this is you trying to you know This reminds me of do you guys remember when you first started lifting weights or maybe after a layoff Like you haven't worked out in a while and you go to lift a weight, but you're like shaky Yeah, you get that that that kind of shakiness feeling that unstable feeling that's because the cns You know regressed its ability to control your muscle and then after a few sets or even after a few workouts Now you're pressing and you're you're moving the weight and it's smooth again So, you know those you're listening I'm sure you've experienced that before where you're trying to do an exercise And you just feel shaky within the movement and that's because you're not connected to that range of motion This is exactly what's happening with these movements in prime pro and this is a good sign I don't mean it's a good sign in the sense that That you know, it's showing you that your body's it got great mobility I mean, it's a good sign in the sense that you are You are training your body to work in new ranges of motion and that cramping is a signal to tell you Hey, man, you're in a different range of motion. This is a new connection that we're starting to build That's how you know prime pro is so fucking that ass is when you get in these positions And if you apply them properly You're gonna get some cramping but over time and it's actually quite short like I'll do You know, I'll practice a prime pro Repatterning movement and within a few times practicing it. I've got more range of motion and the cramping doesn't happen till Later and later on it happens that fast Yeah Well, and I it does happen really fast and I would venture to even tell people to challenge people that if you go through prime pro And you never cramp you're not pushing your range of motion You're not you're probably not getting the max benefits from that because you should be no matter how already flexible you are Your everybody should be challenging their in range of motion through this through prime pro and Everything should start cramping and if it's not you're you're just kind of taking it to the which is what I think you're just working Where you can work? Yeah You're not seeing the real benefits from I if you if you push through the cramp like what sal's talking about I think you'll notice a difference within a week or two fast. Yeah really really fast. It's actually it's actually I know we call prime pro our correctional program which kind of you know gives it the The illusion that it's only for people who have pain or aches and pains I'll tell you something right now you do if you have no pains and you feel like you're good in the gym or whatever And you do prime pro and you apply it to You know parts of your body whether it's your hips or your feet or your hands or whatever And just do them right, you know do them like we explained in the videos You will notice a significant improvement in your performance Just because your cns is now able to connect better Yeah, just think about like how much more effective like all of your list would be if every joint was super stable You know and you could just fire him well on command, you know, and so it's it's it's one of those things that yeah We don't sell it a lot as like a performance type of a program But honestly, it's one of the best and most effective Things you can do as far as from a performance perspective as well. Absolutely. Yeah, you get more connected to those Longer, you know larger ranges of motion. It just gives you a greater ability to Stimulate muscle growth and to train and better navigate, you know You can navigate in that space whereas you're uncomfortable for so think about that like if you end up in a position where You're Uncomfortable with it right and and now you have to get out of that position and drive forces through that position Well, you know, that's like injury and that's that's like more like More issues that will arise because you're just unfamiliar with that feeling next question is from selenus 174 Is it beneficial for performance based individuals to cross-train in different sports or focus on their one sport for Maximizing performance another great. Who had who got the questions today. Yeah, what do you say? I got all these good questions. It's not it's not it's not me Well, sometimes you do all the fucking hippie shit that just drives me crazy. This is This this I these are these are good questions right now And this one is I give credit to the people asking the question Well, hey, you know, this is a good one. Maybe if you pick some questions, then we wouldn't just be Questions all the time. I was just complimenting your dick. They're great questions right now. So I this is cool because Uh, it depends Um, if you're I think uh, no, I think if you're a kid, right? So they've they've talked about this I don't know where who we interviewed that we we got into this discussion You guys remember getting into this discussion on the show. You know what? Yes, I do and it was um Doctor knows the sports psychologist. Oh, it was a sports psychologist guy. Yeah, what's his name? Who? Brad McCabe, there you go. There you go. It was him who we talked Yeah, because he was talking about that with parents too and how like they were so myopic and like one sport Like we're gonna dominate this one sport because this is like the new standard Whereas like it really affected the overall performance of the athlete, right? Which you would think you would think You know that that would be ideal right is to specialize specialize in that But when you're going through those those early years You're going to get way more benefit by cross crossing over now Fast forward that to somebody who's 30 or 40 years old and you're probably going to benefit way more by Honing in on one sport sure becoming a master at that But there's as a as a as a young child there's so many developing still Yeah, there's so many things going on neurologically with proprioception And they're just their own body awareness And strength and stability that they're still putting together that having this wide Range or spectrum of sports that you that you play in are going to benefit you You know swimming and volleyball and basketball and football and wrestling and judo They all have these individual benefits that will carry over building this great foundation Now once you have that as a young kid moving into being a young a young adult Now becoming more specialized would be more beneficial. I couldn't have said that better myself I mean when you're when you're young you're looking at developing general athletic ability More than or at least that is just as important as developing specific athletic ability as you get older You start to take away from your performance in your chosen sport like if you're if you're a baseball player And you're really good at baseball and you that's your chosen sport But then you go and devote a bunch of time to playing basketball or Powerlifting I'll use that as a better example because it's more extreme It's going to take away. They're both going to take away from each other Whereas when you're a kid not so much now if your goal is to just maximize overall performance in health Then cross training is ideal because it's going to encourage Different movement patterns. It's going to Discourage what happens when you specialize in a sport, which is You know muscle imbalances and recruitment pattern issues where you know, I've trained, you know, and I'll use it I'll use kids as an example. I've trained kids who played baseball for I trade this one guy Who was a high school baseball player? He was a senior and he was throwing 90 miles almost 90 miles an hour at as a senior, okay But when I would go when he came to me and lift weights because we started lifting weights because he was getting all these injuries His right arm was so much stronger than his left arm. It was silly. He actually had a twist in his spine because he never Balanced his body out and so now he developed such horrible recruitment patterns as a result Oh, it was terrible. Like we would do rows and it was like I could I could cut him in half It was like two different people like this scapula retracts and does this one doesn't want to even connect It was really really really weird and you can you can start to do that if you specialize Just in one sport for too long, especially as a kid. But as you get older, I think You know, it makes me there's a shelf life to that That's a good point though that if you know, if you're what's your goal your main goal is like if you just want to be good Like you want to just be very athletic Yeah, then there's lots of benefits to all over the place But if you want to be great at that sport nothing's going to benefit you more than being Practicing your sport and doing it over and over and over, you know, they did They there's there was a burial site or something that they excavated in The uk in england, I believe and it was an ancient roman Burial site and they pulled the you know the the bones out and they could tell That some of the the people that were buried were discus throwers Or they've pulled up bones and said oh, these are long bowmen. Yeah, and the long bow. So a long bow You know in medieval times was a deadly deadly military weapon It was a massive bow that required I think the estimates were 140 or 170 pounds of pulling strength. Holy shit. That's a big deal And the 60 pound bow or is a big bow It was it was I don't know maybe Doug can look it up Maybe that look up the force required to pull a long board medieval long bow was something ridiculous But they were devastating because of their distance. So your military could literally just Hammer another army Far away and they couldn't even touch you Until they got to certain distance and you would just decimate them with these long bowmen and these men were trained Specifically to be able to operate these long bows For as they since they were kids now when they exit when they pull the bones out the spines would be twisted And their right arms like their forearms and shoulders were much thicker than their left They much of they must have looked so strange Walking around like you must be able to look at them and be like oh, that's a Long bowmen because their bodies literally contorted and twisted and adapted to the Be able to pull on these things. Did you guys see, uh, Joe Rogan's new toy? No, yeah, the the one where he's like the bow. Yeah, bro the techno techno, uh, bra It was at least 81 pounds. Sorry. I was way over which is still high That's still crazy. Yeah 60 a 60 pound bow is a pretty fucking tough bow to pull back dude. He's got a A you know, like the you guys have seen those digital golf games where you hit the golf ball into the screen I didn't see this so it's hunting. Yeah, you got real deer and elk. It's awesome. Oh, it looks so fun, dude I'm not even a bow hunting guy and I want that. It's yeah. We're gonna have to get like super fun Yeah, so it says there that it was 81 to maybe 130 pounds Of force to be able to pull that thing. So um, but yeah, you know If you're looking for overall athletic performance, you're gonna want to cross train And here's the thing about kids and about, you know, especially when they get into junior high and high school I think a lot of parents kind of get this false Like notion that their kid is going to be yes a superstar very false and so they fuck them up by You know creating all these imbalances and doing all the specialized training When in reality your kid's good, but he's not going to be the best and you're probably better off You know cross training them so that they're healthy, you know, I mean, so they don't have any problems like Like I use the example of the pitcher, but I don't know. Have you guys ever trained somebody who pitched? You know most of their life that fuck the fucks them up. Yeah, you know messes them up. So Well, especially especially that's poor because that one's really so one-sided. Yeah, you a picture a picture You're not only one sided, but you're also calling upon it like Reps and reps. I'll tell you what if you're if you're a really good athletic trainer You can I don't know about you guys can do this. I'm pretty sure I can typically Tell what sport somebody plays a lot of by easily their posture or how they move or like fighters boxers Forward shoulder, they've all got that really bad forward shoulder And that's because when you're box and you know tend to struggle a little bit because when you're boxing That's how you cover yourself up They hold themselves in that position all the time and they've got that, you know Kind of forward shoulders. You see swimmers all the time. They've got that Interesting, you know kind of forward shoulder similar but flat, you know tap a rib cage You see it in Uh, you know and lots of different sports you can kind of start to pick apart What sport they play because of how their body's developed based on that sport and then of course the self-selection of the genetics It makes them, you know good at that particular sport. So very interesting Check this out. If you don't have the mind pump app yet You're not cool. You're just you're one of those people you're one of those other people You're just not cool. So we have an app now in the app store. It's totally free. It allows you to Listen to our podcast through the app. It's better than your your regular itunes app It also has the ability to search our episodes. 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