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It's your last chance to take advantage of this particular sale If you're interested head over to maps fitness products calm and then use the code November 50 that's November 5th zero with no space for that discount. All right. Here comes the show All right Here's a fitness tip that I personally have to constantly learn myself when it comes to training more is not Always better. This is a big lesson, especially for those of you fitness fanatics You do more you get better results until you stop and then you go backwards. All right That's not what my coach told me. Yeah, so how many times have you guys had to relearn this particular lesson? Oh, man This is probably one of the hardest ones because it again like as a joke. It was seriously like a mentality I had in the gym more intensity I was like I have to be there more often I have to do this like almost every day a week in order for me to get to the maximal level Of achievement I can get so I think what makes this one difficult is that less is not necessarily more here either, right? So there's the right dose exactly. So it's like normally when when more doesn't mean more Most often it means less means more but in this situation, it's not always true either It's like so I think that and it's also a moving target, right? So there's not like the the perfect amount of volume and intensity that you apply every day day in day out week over week Month over month. It's kind of this moving target all the time. So I think this is why We all kind of misjudged this even even with our experience. We still that's a good point Your lifestyle will determine. What is the right dose of volume and intensity now? But here's a follow-up question to that. Okay, you're a fitness fanatic Where do you tend to mess up on the less or the more side always? I mean, that's why I'm always careful about this conversation because there's there's two very Distinct clients that come to mind when I think about this conversation and they're on Polar opposite ends of the spectrum. You've got the client who is inconsistent is never strung two months of working out three days a week And and is looking for every excuse not to work out or take a day off You have that one and then you have the other one who is a fitness fanatic. They love to work out They would swear that they need to work out And they love the sweat. They love the burn. They love the cortisol. And so that's why this is such a Challenging conversation is most people fall in one of those two categories. And so you're you're trying to push one up And you're trying to pull one back, you know, I'm gonna add to that though because I will say this even the inconsistent People people who never really make it a part of their lifestyle They tend to overdo it when they do it, you know what I'm saying? Like they'll do nothing Well, yeah, do it and then they'll do too much, right, right? So it's it's a message that's important I think for everybody to understand that there's a the right dose and now here's where I always screw up, right? I Learned it took me a while to learn that if I did too much I would over train not only would my body not improve, but it would actually start to go backwards So it would be just require too much recovery The adaptation process couldn't occur because my body was trying to heal all the time I was beating myself up So then I would scale it down and then this is where I would fall there's this like maximum amount of volume and intensity that you can tolerate and Then there's the optimum amount of volume and intensity and oftentimes the optimum amount is still less Then what you can tolerate like I can work out I can push the limit and not necessarily over train, but I'm going beyond what's necessary Which means I'm just slowing down my progress and that's what I mess with now It's like oh, I think I could do more I think I could do more so I know what overtraining feels like yeah But now it's hard to figure out the right dose because I still want to go and push harder and do more Yeah, yeah, but this is one of those things that's like If you're if your body's responding well you probably should stick to what you're doing and what we tend to do I don't know about you guys, but this is when I overdo it. It's when I'm crushing I'm doing great and then my next thought is let's do more. Oh, yeah I don't I don't over train or I don't tend to over train. I've learned now right when I get back Well, I shouldn't say that either to this so that's not true So there's even like when I've been inconsistent for a while Many times when I get back into it I know that obviously I can't Return right to the same volume the same level of intensity that I was training at let's say a month ago or whatever So I know better than to go all the way there, but I still tend to Do a little more than needed and I'm always reminded that the next day or two when I see how sore I was and I go And but my attitude is different like when I was younger And I'd feel sore like that. I'd be like, oh, yeah, that was good work. I did the right. I did I did it I got a good workout in work today when that happens if I'm really sore from a workout from the day before I Shit, I didn't need to do that much. That's how I think now and it is it's still hard to gauge even after all these years and What I've learned too is just that you it's almost like You can almost not do too little right So if I haven't if you haven't been training for a extended period of time say a month or beyond for someone Who's let's say at these holidays have to get back into the swing of things like many people will You coming to the gym and just doing five sets of squats and leaving is Probably more than enough for a majority of people agreed and you don't feel like that in your head You think you need to do so much more. No, I agree with you In fact, if and this is really true for fitness fanatics who go off and then come back after a layoff is that the it's easier to To add more if you did too little then it is to pull back when you've done too much When you've done too much you're already in the hole Your body's already trying to recover a lot and now you have to really scale back and allow that to happen But if you did like a really easy workout at worst You'll get a little bit of results But that's okay because you can scale it up the next week you don't have to pull back as much I think the big challenge is that we confuse Healing and recovery with adaptation because they often happen at the same time But healing is literally your body's healing itself from the damage adaptation in this context is going above and beyond that so it's like Body's healing from the damage now wants to get stronger and more resilient so that next time that that Insult that stress doesn't cause damage, but there's they're different So just because you recover doesn't necessarily mean you're adapted well this one. Yeah, it was definitely a hard one for me to realize because There was this mentality that Eventually your body's gonna adapt, you know If I keep sort of going intense and I keep adding more to to the plate My body eventually has to overcome, you know these these odds I'm facing these challenges right in front of me and that's like sort of the athletic sort of mentality of like I could just get Over all of these obstacles You know eventually and so to keep adding it to me was always like well I could just bust through all of this and on the other side of it Yeah, I'm gonna be Hercules or whatever right, but there's such a smarter way to go about it Where you find that that right dose where you know your body's gonna recover and get you know To a point where you're gonna be working with your body and you're gonna see results happen And it's just gonna be the snowball effect If you pull back just a bit and find that sweet spot I think a lot of that has to do with athletics. There's I don't know if I want to say there's more room for air because you would Think well with the professional sports. That's not true But you with with athletics, there's other adaptations that you're getting from quote-unquote over training mental Yeah, mental discipline resiliency work capacity, right like and that those play in the favor of the athlete regardless of your sport It's hard to parse those out, right? And so you're getting so you may not like you may not get tremendous Like increased speed or increased vertical or put on more muscle mass But you are gonna get work capacity mental toughness, you know stamina from pounding the body like that And so what I think happens to a lot of athletes is because they're they're getting those adaptations from train over training like that They assume that they're training our directions when in reality, there's a sweeter spot But I think that's why people that are played sports have a hard time, you know, it's funny I used to train this well, I've talked about him a few times on the podcast He was an old older dude in his late 70s self-made millionaire loved him and he used to box Back in the day He was from the East Coast and then he coached boxers So we would talk the fight sports all time. Those are really the only sports that I like to watch So we had great conversations and then we talked about heart, right? You've always heard like boxers being referred to as some of them having a lot of heart and what does that mean, right? They can take a beating. They stay in the fight. They're scrappy They don't give up and we would talk about that had a train for heart And he said, you know, what's funny Sal? He goes if you have if you're really in shape and you have a lot of stamina and endurance You automatically have a lot more heart. I said, that's a very good point He said oftentimes it's the more fit person that has more heart because he's not sitting there feeling like he's gonna die Right, I said now, of course It's also the mental aspect of it now the reason why I'm bringing this up is you're right You can train lots of mental fortitude by beating yourself up in the gym But if you show up to your sport severely over trained You'd be as tough as you want to be your body breaks down your body breaks down And it doesn't really do you any good So you have to be careful with balancing that out But I do understand that I know the military does that for example They don't yeah, they train people to get him fit and then there's training that has nothing to do with improving your fitness It's all about we got to make it tough to see what you're made of and in a perfect world for Athletes and even in the military or any case like there's there's value in in training blocks of that totally right So there's there's value in saying like hey this week. This is not about getting more weight up This is not about us building any muscle. This is can you take it? Can you take the punishment? I'm gonna deliver to you for the next week and that's going to transfer into Game-day mental fortitude, but then there's that okay. We've trained that way now Now let's also be more scientific with our approach on adding muscle speed agility as other things in terms of more I mean there is a way to apply that that's really effective for athletes and that's you just have to really manage your intensity Appropriately and so that way you know you can I mean it's everything you see in practice, right? If I'm dribbling and trying to get better at my my handles and my skills for basketball You know the more often you do that the better but in terms of like, you know weight training It's it's similar, but you have to make sure the load isn't too much You have to make sure the stress isn't overbearing to where now you're healing. Yes, but you know practicing it constantly does Really propel you forward. No dude along those lines There's lots of ways to add more right you can add more sets you could add more Frequency in total volume or more intensity I will say this with intensity if you manipulate your intensity You can get away with a lot of frequency and volume For example, I could take a very decontitioned person off the street and with a really low intensity I could train them every single day or I could give them a 15-minute workout where I Slam the intensity so high that I could probably send them to the hospital in a 15-minute workout. So Intensity is the one Variable that I like to manipulate the most so if I increase the volume I'll drop the intensity and then I can handle the but if you go intense and high volume and all that stuff Yeah, you're gonna be totally spinning your tire speaking of intense. You know what I read this morning crazy I did not know this so did you guys know that okay? So you guys have heard of chimpanzees going to war with each other. Have you heard of this? Yeah, they're brutal bro So chimpanzees have been observed in nature because they have there you have you built they build the little clans Yeah, and then they'll raid other clans and like rip their faces off violent Yeah, bro like terribly violent like wars like well they tear them to pieces and kill the children It's just they eat the I think they eat them. They'll eat them or drink their blood. It's crazy Well, I did not know this but there was a four-year Civil war between these two chimpanzee clans that was observed I believe in the 1970s for four years for years It started as one group, and I don't know what they call a group of chimps. Is it a Congress? I think it's a Congress bunch of monkeys. Isn't that ironic? But anyway, it was true. I believe so maybe A group of monkeys is a Congress. I think I'm not Should be Probably better No, Congress does mean something with monkey anyway, so these these troops a troop of monkeys is called Troop yeah a group of chimpanzees is a troop anyway So this this huge troop of chimpanzees split off because one of them decided to become the alpha and Two of the other males didn't like it so they fought and then it car a craved this divide and over the course of four years These two chimpanzee groups would go to war and would raid each other and kill each other And it was all observed and monitored dude so wild and I read about some of the things that they saw this woman Who was assigned to she's like I would have nightmares after stuff that I would see like there was one case where one of them I killed the other one or something and was like drinking blood from its head And it's like this is like scary shit that chimps We're doing that's our closest relatives. Yeah, about it really crazy. Yeah, that's insane I had planted of the apes is already happening. I guess Paying attention to our phones and then you have the bonobos that just when you when you read stuff like that does that give you More empathy towards the ridiculous human behavior that we tend to see on what other side What other doesn't matter what side you are with it with a topic that's going on This has been a great year for this all this bullshit. I think it reminds us how like that's still in our DNA That's so that's my point, right? So if you if you if you subscribe to that we evolved from these chimpanzees, right? That's our closest relative that that's that's in innate in us, right? So we have that those are our natural behaviors and over time we've evolved and we become more civilized But you still have those deep down those tendencies and so when you see people act out or act stupid or do these things that other people Oh my god, I can't believe that or we take these sides. Oh, I believe he's more right here That person's more right there a lot of this is just I have to there's two Often sides of the coin that I'll fall on sometimes. I'll look around and realize that mental illness is actually Human that's a part of the human condition if you really think about The things that we do and then you try to apply logic to it You realize that all of us are a bit mentally ill in that respect just all the stuff that we do We'd make lots of decisions that don't make any sense like the things that we do that's bad for our health or How we you know we get all our egos get inflamed and we say things that if you really Separate yourself like man, that's everything we do is oftentimes really dumb But then on the flip side when I read about primates and stuff like that and you look at that the fact that humans have created Societies with hundreds of millions of people or billions of people and we generally get along We really do like we live in a city with millions of people I could walk around the city go to the store and I really don't feel like I'm gonna get Assaulted no one's gonna kill me or steal anything from me pretty sure my kids are safe at school right now That's a bit of a miracle if you think about animals, right? Yeah, so one side I'm like proud of how we've done things in this side. I'm like man. Why are we so I think the problem is groups? Like anytime we start getting just like Together with too many people. Yeah, but there's a reason why we always gravitate towards that. That's natural tribal It's tourism. Yeah, and you see that in in chimpanzees. You see that in you know, the animal kingdom And it's interesting if you kind of look back from a bird's eye view of how humans behave and interact and treat each other It's usually like over a bigger thing that creates a shittier response. Yeah, but that's an interesting thought though. Like I mean Look what we do with family. I mean, it's our family I'm just gonna say you can't ignore the beauty with groups either. That's right. That's right There's we naturally gravitate towards that and I I guess I have like name and it's a numbers issue Like name animals that take care of their say and I don't necessarily it's always that bad that you gravitate towards Family or close people that you have things in common with anyway, I don't think it always has to be a negative thing Like we turn it into all time. I think there's Nothing wrong that there's a group of people over here that enjoy Doing these types of things that I have no enjoyment and I gravitate towards a group of people over here who enjoy these things You know what it is, bro. It's fire. Okay, so when we discovered fire seriously Now I'm gonna give you the analogy right now. Okay, fire has the ability to warm us to provide us with safety cook our food Transform society also could burn us kill us be used in war all those things right if you look at human behavior in groups You ever go to a concert and everybody's singing along and you feel like you're a part of this massive group And it's this incredible feeling or you've been to a sporting event or you've done something with your family group flow Group flow, but there's a there's a dark side. Yeah, and if you read about mob mentality, it's powerful in both directions It's exactly what it is and you can't have one with the other You cannot have something that's so powerful that it causes it creates this this beauty and compassion and It's simultaneously. I think he has so much influence like a lot of times people don't realize What's actually what how they're thinking how they're behaving a lot of times? They're just sort of reacting based off of like whatever group they're a part of And it's it's it's to me. It's been even more evident over the last few years than ever before also natural human instinct too There's certain people that were born to lead that want to lead and that and then there's lots of people that want to follow They don't want to think about it. They don't want to make the decisions They just want to be told what to do and then they gravitate towards a a group They feel comfortable in or confident in and they don't want to make decisions You ever go along ever means that you ever read the studies on stuff like that like I can't remember what it was but there's this predictable pattern where Like there's there's a group of people and then there'll be that one person that like let's say that there's music playing And you're with a bunch of friends like there's 50 of you and you're all family and friends and the music playing And it's really good And then there's always that one person is the first person to kind of be brave Stand up and start dancing and I can't remember what they called that person But let's just say that's the leader he's the Maverick But then there has to be the second person for this to cause a trend Right, and there's always that second or third person that steps up and does it also and then everybody else starts to follow the early adopters That's what it is. That's exactly what it is So and there's this whole pattern of human behavior with that where yeah, but then you look at mob mentality, which is very strange People behave in ways and mobs that they would never act. They would never do it back to the chimp thing though, dude I gotta say that We definitely have like I'll fight anybody who doesn't think that we have some of that inside us because Dude like so I was watching TV and and I look over and Courtney's on her phone. I'm like, what are you watching? Dr. Pimple Popper just oh Looking at all this most disgusting like why and like, you know pulling ticks off and like like there's something weird about that If I have a blackhead or something on my back Yeah, and I don't let Jessica go to town. She's actually angry with me Yeah, she'll get mad at me and I'm like, why do you want to do that? That's exactly that's chimp Tell me. Tell me that's not chimp. I tell her that too. I say babe. That is your monkey instinct So I think the answer I think the answer is is us instead of us trying to change this or deny it is to find to find ways to Evolve and work with it opposed to like denying that acknowledge it Yeah, acknowledge that it is part of our past acknowledge that that's well probably what we came from that it's there's probably a lot of Natural instinct for you to act a certain way and then it takes a lot of discipline and self-awareness to be able to I agree To be able to unpack that and go like hmm. Maybe I shouldn't I agree you have to we have to acknowledge these these biological Drivers before we can become aware of them and either embrace them or Work in a way to where those biological drivers don't become destructive like, you know Someone cuts you off. You might have this biological drive to you know go beat someone up, right? But you're aware like okay, I know where that come from. I'm not gonna do it I'm using an easy one that everybody agrees with but I agree with you I think it's important that we identify and Admit and say because a lot of people like no humans are a clean slate. There's no biological drivers. That's bullshit We're still animals, but we need to acknowledge Well, it's biological drives and in our instincts and then work around them It's like the case that who are we talking to that was making that for monogamy that that's why? I mean, it's in your natural as a male It's in your natural human instinct to want to mate with multiple mates But yeah, but yeah, but yet we've decided that monogamy is the way to go for civilization But it makes sense Yeah, it works better for a society that you don't want to be at war and trying to kill each other in clans because if One or two guys was taking 15 or 20 if we're in it in a group And there's a hundred people in our entire clan half half man half women and three guys took a majority of all the women because of the They're most attractive the strongest whatever what ends up happening with all the rest They're gonna try and overthrow or kill. Yeah, right. Yeah, so I mean so it makes sense that there that's natural I mean, that's what I took from one would Katrina and I read sex at dawn Like there obviously there's some people that read that book and then said oh This is the way we're supposed to be and so that make an excuse for you know Sleeping with everybody and saying that open relationships is the better way to go What I took from that or what her and I both took from that was like I think there was just a compassion for each other Especially I think for her the way she looked at me as a man that it's in my in my nature To want to do those things and it takes effort and work for me to resist And choose not to yeah, right. No, it's that discipline. It's I mean it's no different than Abstaining from crappy food all the time or not just being lazy. It's the same thing. You know historically What has helped and this is just a fact what has helped humans evolve in this direction our spiritual practices spiritual practices, this is what they do and The more that we and I don't care what spiritual practice it is That's typically what they do That's why they stick around for thousands of years is they help they allow us to evolve beyond These instincts to become better and work better together but as we start to throw spiritual practices away and We're gonna see more and more people being like, oh, I can just do you think that it's more of the the spiritual practice or that it Provides a moral fabric for you. That's a big part. That's a hundred percent part of it I mean, I feel like if that's like them That's like the main thing that I would think is that otherwise if if you don't if you don't have Morals then why not steal? Why not cheat? Why not sleep with everybody? Why not if everything's subjective, right? Humans are smart. I could sit here and make an argument for a lot of things, right? I could sit here and say, oh, you know, it's survival the fittest. There's there's food at the grocery store I'm just gonna take it. Why not? Why not just take it? Oh, no people can I need it for my I need it for my family and for them To be able to eat. Yeah, why can't I sleep with that person? We like it They like it doesn't matter if they're you know, this person or that person or whatever or you know I get it that subjective nature if everything's subjective that can cause destruction because we're so smart That we can rationalize almost anything, but if you have objective like here's the rules. This is objective the way it is That's always wrong. So let's not do that This is probably the right thing to do then we tend to work better if you don't do that You're just gonna get swept into whatever the culture and society tells you You know are the the moral Ideas of the moment. So it's that's all I'm seeing now It's like these aren't even ideas people are just making things up now You know to to to create as the standard of morality. Yeah, well, let me tell you what's not smart We're buying a foot 15-foot Christmas You explain this to me so I see the picture you have a big The pictures and the videos that I've sent family and friends it does not do it justice until that's like a tree That's in the forest that you look up at my my ornaments are this big So the ornaments that go on is you bring the chainsaw and no no no so no no no no this to this trees Well that requires some planning a country. Yeah, how big was it? Well, not only that it's actually hard to find really a Like aesthetic 15-foot trees. Okay, you can find 10 footers Eight footers all day long finding a 15. This was shipped from Oregon, right? So I had to the only reason why I even went early, right? I broke all my rules I've never done this before Thanksgiving I called around and I'm looking for a pre cut 15 to 20 foot tree like we're going all griswold style right this year, right? So I'm looking for that and I went down the first day it opened because they only get like 15 And they ship them all the way from Oregon They come down and then like like the biggest tree farm here in the Bay Area only gets like 15 to 20 these trees So I went down there as soon as they got them so I could kind of have my pick and figure out which one I wanted like there's like squirrels in there I mean actually you do you when you open it all up. There's like nest and crazy stuff like that It's like yeah, no, it was I mean the the the trunk of this motherfucker was Every bit that big now. How did you move? Well? I don't know. So I don't know what I said First of all it took five Mexicans to load it up in my truck That's so you knew was no deal and that's but I mean I said that earlier So it was like you can't say that's real. That's a compliment. That's not fucking racist, right? That means it would take 10 white guys to get it up on my truck That's how crazy this thing was yeah, and I got when I get home All I have is Katrina's 70-something-year-old dad and her at the house So it's just you so the three of us get it from my truck now So you go you go from you went from five to three Mexicans. Yeah, that's exactly right It's exactly right so we did we did get it boy was it a it was a hell of a time So I had you like ropes and everything to kind of stabilize it And it and I had to get them at the at the tree farm to mount the stand on it, right? And the stand is you know every bit, you know six feet Yeah, you know six feet wider one of that to support something like that I had to tie it to my banister at the top of the stairwell So just because I was scared of death like this down a max or something like that So it's on the stand and then behind the tree. I have my stairwell and I've got like Strings attached to it just to make sure that decorate it. What are you doing going up the stairs using ladder both? I so I have a 20-foot ladder plus stair on the hanging over the stairs and oh man It was I'd tell you what never again that never again Well, so let me ask you so how are you gonna keep it from getting really dry because it's a bit early, isn't it? Yeah, it's a little early. I mean you it's it's got a thing that I'm sorry mom So if you give them water every day like you're supposed to they'll do last You know what you're gonna hate what when it's time to take it down Oh, I'm paying somebody a hundred percent to do that. I am not after fucking with it like that I will find somebody that was all day. Yeah, you were doing that thing was all day. It was scary It was a headache. It was like it was way more than I thought was gonna be like in my head Like all I was really thinking was the height of it and I'm like, okay I've got 15 to I think I have 20 foot ceilings right there in that entryway So I'm like, you know, it's somewhere between 15 to 20 feet is what I want And I and I have a huge like open front area. So I'm like, I know I know that's plenty of room for a tree But this thing is so big that it like it comes all the way out to my stairwell and you open the door You're like a drone to drop the angel It at the the fake ones would have been way better way next year It's I'll get a big tree again, but I'll buy a fake one for that front because Lugging that around getting it up like scary difficult No, no thing messy. Yeah, it's just way more than what I thought like I didn't think now Are you going now you got a massive tree? Are you gonna go like all out with all kinds? Are you gonna get like the big inflated Santa and the sleigh and all that stuff? I'm I'm less we do we have a snowman and like a little welcome sign that will go out in the front I don't do the outside that much. I like the inside done and that's like selfish And you like it all uniform, right? So it's all where you pick like two colors three colors Yeah, what are there? Yeah, so we did black and white black and white Never done that before which is I really I've already done it last year Would you do blue and blue and it was like silver and blue and white and yeah, I think last year I did the I did the sharks colors and then the sharks colors and right yeah But I'm I have a weird thing about I've told that on this podcast Haven't I talked about that before my weird fetish with not having like a like I like a Macy's tree You know I'm saying like the all you like a macy's when you know like no no no no Like Macy's is like you're the Macy's catalog, right? Yeah, do you know what I mean by that? Like it's I mean everything's uniform. There's like a color palette. Yeah, it's not a bunch of Christmas colors Yeah, so I grew up as a kid which I and this is not a knock on families that love this I just couldn't stand it has grown up like the we had like the popcorn strings and then like you know the Blinking lights on the bottom than the still lights on the top bubbly like old school Everything like it was literally like what it was is you know mom brings the Christmas stuff out that we've had for 20 years And some stuff works some does like Christmas explode. Yes And there's like your ornaments from all of us as we grew up slay with your dumb like first grade picture Yes, she loves it and I love that she loves that but for me like I'm particular about the way my house looks and I got to Look at this thing for a month and a half or whatever like that Like I wanted to to flow and look at all that's awesome. It's a good I mean it's one of those was it type 2 fun, right? You're gonna look back on this Yeah, I mean now that it's up and it's all done. It's really cool and people walk in there like holy shit So it's got the cool wow factor to it and I mean imagine that big of a tree. It makes the whole house smell good So, you know, you know a little a foot tree and you can smell it in the house like imagine a big My buddy one time got a big-ass tree It wasn't like that But it was a big tree and he cut it down brought it home put it up and didn't know that there was like it like a bunch of ants in there and Everywhere in his house. Yes, he I bought so they they have the tree farm over and you know where it's at Over by Sam routine Morgan Hill you guys a drive on south one-on-one the big huge tree farm So I they have a farm up in Oregon where they grow the monsters at and so this thing is like That's the thing if you go cut something like this. It's like crooked and it's like, you know, it's this thing is perfect It's literally it's even all the way around and like they it's GMO tree Pretty sure this this weekend. We did friends giving so we do this every year We're not on Thanksgiving, but it's usually around there We'll invite some of my cousins over and we're all just gonna hang out But this year was a little different because We didn't do it last year because of you know, everything that was going on So we said we're gonna do it this year, but now So I have we had our son right he's a year old My brother had his baby which now I believe he's three and a half or four months old My cousin Gabriel had his baby about two months ago and my cousin Alex His wife is due in a couple months. So they didn't have the baby yet But so we had three babies and then we had other families come so everybody got together We got the babies all together, which was awesome So we could all we put them all on the on the rug and took pictures and yeah halfway through the night I told my my cousins and my brother said let's take the kids for a walk So it's like bunch of dudes walking three babies. You should see the looks we got in the neighborhood People are looking at us like three men three babies. You guys know what you're doing like where'd your wives go? Like what's going on? It's hilarious, but we you know, we took them for a walk and then my son is He's such a lover. He is like the biggest he would go up to the baby and Arrelius no, I really know but well my oldest is also But it's my my one-year-old, you know, you don't see that you start to see these things kind of develop, right? So we have this little he got this little teddy bear And I could already see it with this teddy bear because he squeezes it and he kisses it and makes all these Noises the one same noise as we make when we hug him and stuff. He's very touchy-feely. Well, anyway With the babies he'd go up to the baby and he'd make this little voice Which I know where he got he got from Jessica when Jessica is like playing with him and she wants to hug him She makes like this little cute voice So he did that and then he would go and gently touch their face and then he'd go like this He's he'd put his hands up to his own face and go like you want to squeeze the baby And so we videotaped the whole thing. It was great so adorable to see them all together Yeah, so we had a lot of fun and we're all hanging out But it's nice because now we see like this next generation You know it's gonna be growing up and it's just so it's so cool Now have you guys have you guys done you're like getting your turkey and all stuff like that like what's the I heard everything's gone up Everything's like double the price price one and a half times the price or so. I know that turkeys are 50% or something like that. I heard a bunch of stuff has gone up Yeah, I got one ahead of time to bring up. Yeah, because it's gonna be crazy right now especially like Courtney's already been trying to like gather stuff Because we're gonna be cooking just for ourselves and like her sister like in We're supposed to have our whole family up there, but they're like sick and not being able to make it But yeah, so the I guess the grocery store has been crazy like slammed and you know prices have been going Is everything up right now? Well, so check this out, right? So pork I believe bacon is 28% more expensive in the last 12 months all pork products beef is Going up turkey definitely, but yeah pork is going up and they say that it's probably not gonna slow down Now here's the crazy part right and this is why I think some companies in this environment are just gonna crush so Companies who are positioned well to weather the inflationary storm that don't necessarily need to raise their prices or at least can wait The longest before raising the prices like for example, okay? Pork is up 28% which is huge over the last 12 months, right? Meanwhile, but your box still has their sign-up now and get bacon for life Bacon for life get bacon in your box for life if you sign up right now now They're positioned well because they're a direct, you know to consumer product They deliver to your door lots of middlemen are eliminated So I feel like companies like theirs are just gonna crush because people are they were already saving you money But now you're saving so much more because everything is you know gone through the I wonder if they they turn that that Thing back on like because if they were they were just doing the turkey just recently They're always like yeah, like did you the salmon not long before that? I wonder if they knew that that's going on with bacon and so they intentionally actually switched back over that speaking of food Yeah, you inspired me. I know you guys went to a really nice restaurant Not that while ago not that long ago. So I wanted to go to a nice rest It wasn't nowhere near it wasn't a Michelin rated one, but there's a new restaurant in the prune yard called bistecca Have you heard of this place? I've heard of it, but I haven't been there yet Oh, bro. The experience was amazing really it was so fun so good. They had this one dish It was a bone marrow dish and they bring it out on a tray And there's you know beef bones like this just stacked on top of each other and they're seasoned and just incredible and then they give you another tray with all these things that you can add to the bone broth like bacon bits and and breadcrumbs and just all these different interesting flavors and then they had this like Garlic bread that was fried and thin and so you take them and then they give you another tray with gloves and tools Because you're gonna wear the gloves because you're gonna get messy. So like the whole restaurant's like this It's like a bunch of fun. That's cool interesting Dishes that you get in order and really really good restaurant. I highly recommend you guys And it's close how's the tab is it like it's expensive. It is yeah It's not as expensive as like what you like where you went, but it's up there. Okay, it's definitely not a place You're gonna go every single week. It's like a special occasion. Wow in the prune yard, huh? Prune yard What where did they replace? Do you know where they were? Yeah, but you have the Pacific catch on this and you've got the It's it's so if you will look at Luna in the middle it's to the right And it's one of the it's like right there on the on the end and you'll by the way be steak I mean steak in Italian. Just want to let everybody know So is it technically a Italian steak house? It's got a tie-in Definitely influence, but it's not like a traditional I mean, here's the okay. Give you an idea, right? So it's really nice nice waiters lots of fun. Everything's different There's great dishes dishes that are different. For example, we ordered this pasta dish That was like pumpkin and it was like something you would never anticipate. It was really good at the very end They gave they gave us a probiotic drink. So at the end of your meal Here's a probiotic to help you digest and then they gave us these plastic little bags with our bill And they said there's a candy table over there. You can take as much candies and I went to the candy table It's all these old-school Candies in this very interesting really interesting. Can I go like this the way? I'm dressed or is it more do whatever you want? You know what's funny What that I noticed in the Bay Area you go to a nice-ass restaurant. There's always like, you know People it's expensive. So they're obviously they've got money, but they're all like these tech Dudes and stuff that they don't care that what baseball caps and you know Don't care. That's why I looked around you see nice Here has any sense of fashion I was telling Jessica like I was like you see the dudes that are wearing like baseball caps and shit They're worth they're all worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Yeah, you know Google or something like that There's some like tipping point right like once you get Money and then at a certain point you go revert right back to like wearing sandals speaking of rich tech Billionaires that did you see the the speech that Bernie Sanders came out was talking about about the government funding? Elon Musk and Amazon and Bezos for their the rocket there. Oh gosh, did you see his Did you hear the all-in guys talk about this? Oh, they were they were roasting the shit out of them for given given Or Bernie Sanders giving them a hard time about government helping and funding that he's like Do you know how much NASA has spent on? Oh, I know you can't compare like $360 billion you know how much Elon and them spent like six billion Government funding is taxpayers. That's well that was so that's why I thought it was so ironic is that you've got Bernie Sanders coming out here Talking shit all about about the government helping fund SpaceX, right? Yeah, and where they have conservatively built this thing already passed what NASA was doing as far as they're on in this pursuit Right. Yeah, and yet NASA's spent less money Yeah, yeah, it's like that's exactly what you want But the way the narrative is that giving billionaires more money like and it's and it's that this is and you got a bunch of people That are on board with it that here Bernie say that and they're like, yeah Fuck the billionaires, but nobody's thinking logically like wait a second It's it's their brilliance that has been able to get to the where they're at and been all to do it on So little money in comparison to what it looks like when we let government Money worse than people who pay no consequences for wasting it Yeah, so you're taking other people's money, then you're basically you're getting elected To to do something with other people's money And if you don't spend all that money you lose funding So it's in your best interest to spend the hell out of it And you have a bureaucracy of people underneath you that you employ and you can't become efficient because I know we're gonna lose Jobs it encourages Wasteful spending. Yeah, I just don't I don't get it all like you you demonize like somebody that's like a billionaire I got likes making Everything more cost-effective efficient, you know, I mean you're glorifying a politician for saying something you like Yeah, yeah, and they don't do shit. Well, yeah, like what are we even talking? You know what it is is that we attach greed to money first of all greed is a human It's a it's a part of human nature. It's not it's an ugly part of human nature, but it exists We think it has to do with money It's it's is it more noble to have political greed for example than monetary greed, right? If you're a billionaire in America, you're unless you're tied in with the government and you could take people's tax money You probably made your billions even if you're a greedy son of a bitch You were you made your billions because you did something that other people liked and gave you their money, right? Political greed that's a whole different story. I mean you twist and turn and you you know create narratives and do your thing And so greed is greed and it's bad regardless But it doesn't disappear just because you take away just because someone's a billionaire and someone's a politician I mean the politician isn't greedy because political greed can be yeah, just as bad if not worse So anyway interesting stuff speaking of interesting stuff Justin that Instagram page that you showed up Which one the cheese one you're gonna share that oh my god the inside thing just for us I thought no interesting. Oh my god. Did you see like I came across a page because the name, right? Cuz it said cheese cheese dirty, bro. It's completely different. It's yeah, it's like it's like old-school kind of like old-school portals What's on Instagram? So it's not gonna show you oh my god like that's like a fucking well It's like what does that mean? It's a grand Instagram 60 style and like it's all over a thing of the irony that though Instagram today is way more provocative than than the playboy was when we were kids probably what do you mean probably well Maybe not we were playboy 80s playboy I know as they look like they have a lot more fun back then so that's well It's so what it does it shows like pin-ups and like but it doesn't just show that it shows like Classic ads and weird stuff and yeah pictures that people took of themselves like you know me know like a bunch of dads You know drinking beers and it's like in a 1970s and you know, they're smoking cigarettes holding kids Yeah, and then and then lots of boobs like yeah, you know But all like it's it's interesting how how they did things and then I can't when you brought that page up I think that's funny. I just thought it was funny. Yeah I mean, I'm following now. I'm interested. You know, I do I love old pop culture I don't care what it is whether it's that or ads you ever go if you ever Google Like ads from the 60s. It'll blow your mind the way that they sold products and stuff Yeah, like nine out of ten times. It's totally inappropriate. I wish we could do some of that stuff Do you want to make your husband happy, you know, it's like this wife. That's like, oh my god That's how they sold products to women. What the hell's going on? It's just it's it's pop culture It's it'll show you just how much we've come along in certain things We know how we made fast really fast when you think about it, bro Do you know that the Flintstones? Cartoon for kids. Do you know who the main sponsor was for Flintstones back in the day? Probably cigarettes or something. Marlboro. Yeah. Yeah at the very end of the comer Did they ever and you know what did they ever show? Cartoon characters like all the time happy lapieu smoke cigarettes, right? Not only was he smoking cigarettes, bro He was putting himself all over a female. Yeah, but I'm talking about these cigarettes and alcohol though Is there any other any other Tom and Jerry would smoke? Oh Pinocchio, I mean it was more cigars, but there there was like that whole island where they're right much of bad stuff Yeah, all these kids dude speaking of like pop culture and craziness and bad stuff I saw on Netflix Tiger King part two was out. Yeah, you guys watch it. I did not yes, okay So is it is it a is it a flaming shit show or okay? So the first one was it's a disappointment I'll just go. Oh really yeah, because and I've watched about three of them now and and honestly it to me and I don't know if anybody else felt this but it just seems like recycled Shot like b-roll stuff. Oh that they're trying to kind of string together to make a show You know and then they just like yeah, they're trying to give like different angles on things that happen within the first season Oh, and I'm like come on dude like I Yeah, so I was a little disappointed because I am all about you know this this crazy like white trash like experience Amazing the first one really got me dude I love so does it not feel like anything is current and they literally are just ripped because that makes sense that they Would pull some bullshit like that where they're like, you know, we have so much b-roll this none of its whole story is crazy Let's just yeah, it's like it's like side angles of like Lawsuits that you didn't really get the other side from Carol Baskin and his and her husband and And then also just like the back and forth are like how she got so vindictive and came at like his Parents Whatever his name is the the main guy with the mullet So yeah, it just it was all these like kind of side-angle stuff of like how all these interactions happen And then what they're paying for it legally and I just love how on the first one Nobody had a like a full set of teeth like nobody. Yeah. Oh, they got into the you know His boyfriends that turned into his husbands. Yeah, and this like and then how they came out later. They're like, I'm not even gay I'm not gay What always makes me curious is okay any idea Doug maybe you can look for this is What do they get paid like did they make about who made who makes all this money for the second the second follow-up? Right, I think the Tiger King makes some money off of I don't know because the producer so Well, so how's he making that money it all got burned All right, like a lot of the footage and because it was locked up under this guy Producers fire control and then there's a fire about it So I'm wondering if you know all this b-roll stuff was the only thing legally that they could probably patch together Yeah, like who's making all the money for this. I said Carol is the Tiger King who's in jail It's the people who produced it and made the show like is it Netflix? That's gonna get the is gonna make the biggest bang for their buck out of this who makes out that bitch Running a second bitch Yeah, I don't know, you know, it's funny. Do you guys think the Tiger King would have exploded had it not happened? Yeah, I think it would have taken longer. I think it would have been a cult classic Maybe you know like you had like a smaller following, but it definitely I wouldn't watched it I was just at home nothing to do and I'm like And you know what makes you feel better about exactly cake you guys know my whole thing right when I get sick What do I watch right trash and that has to do with just when you watch? Trash your shit on TV when you don't know that guy. Yeah, I guess it ain't that bad. I got this little flu I'll be over this you know, so you gotta think there's something to that can't be alone Right, I can't be alone on this and you got all you got millions of people stuck in their home from COVID And so I that you gotta think that what a per that's like the home run That makes a home run. I feel like the timing was no, I don't think they planned it right I think it just it got I think he got lucky that it came out that but I agree with you too though Justin that regardless it's a crazy enough story that it eventually would have gone viral and enough people would have shared it Yeah, but I definitely think that COVID accelerated that you don't want to feel down on yourself and then watch like this Amazing story of some super successful motivated. Yeah, you know, oh, man I'm I feel worse. Well, dude. I remember like in 2020 there was a whole period of I don't know It was like four to five months where It finally got to the point where everybody's watched everything that was out And then there was nothing new and it was like we were all just dry any kind of content and then that came out I tell you I tell you no the best was when uh when Adam first became a dad There was like that three or four month period where he literally watched every angle. He was reporting to us like every Documentary he burnt he like burnt holes in a few great glasses because he was watching so much that you were just Always coming in and you talk about something you watched. I'm like, dude Your glasses my son right now like he just he thinks it's the cutest thing to like put him on and stuff Why I probably because you guys think it's cute and you tell him it's oh, yeah Well, it was originally but now he's like a little bit bigger and stronger So he like grabs him and like pulls him and I'm like I have a pair that literally they look like this now Speaking of Felix Gray, I think they're still running Doug. Are they still running their their black friday or whatever sale It's going on. Yeah through december 2nd 15 off everything. They never do They don't they never do they don't know they don't do any of that stuff. You're you're too good for that Your boy's a big kid man. He's so tall. He's yeah, he's lanking out a little bit I mean this is the first time you guys have been with him in a while right when he came down here Every time I see him he looks like he's starting to say a bunch of new words. Yeah, so now he's like He just randomly will say like a word now like it's and it you'll Like we're starting to get him to say it again too. So we're definitely like moving into it And I'm like kind of torn right I was waiting for this moment Like I can't wait to have a conversation with him But then there's that part where you're probably gonna miss him not being able to communicate and talk and then the this phase That we're in right now, bro You just wait you literally you just wait because so facebook does this thing where it'll say like five years ago 10 years ago today or whatever It destroys me my daughter just turned 12 And a post comes up and it's like, you know, you know Eight years ago today and it's this my daughter was this little tiny kid And I wrote a story about something she said to me like in that story I wrote that I told her I said, oh my god, honey, you're so she was like four or five Like you're gonna be before you know what you're gonna be a teenager like you're growing so fast and she goes I'll always be your daughter, bubba And then now she hears she is I feel like that's what one of the you know We so we talk so much shit about facebook and how shitty facebook is but that's where that's their home run to me Like that's the part think of the history that they'll own Right all that stuff. That's why I think I think your own timeline The future of like funeral homes is going to look different. I don't know why I'm waiting for someone to really disrupt that because How cool we're not far. I mean, it's got another maybe 20 40 years Yeah, just imagine if you could go virtual, uh, what do you call those were like hologram where you know You're talking to just imagine how cool that would be to be able to go I mean, we've got the tech now if you've got that much content video content both audio visual written For people the type of you know Per like you could totally put a hologram that communicates and interacts with you and imagine if that was like You know what though a trip, you know what though? So it does that it'll pop up old posts and Like I'd say 50% of time I cringe because yeah It's 12 years ago and I say something that I think is profound to my 100 family members and I read it I'm like, uh, what was I why why would I even write? Oh, yeah, but I don't think I think of it more like the Like all the videos that you're gonna have and the written content that you're gonna have when you pass say, you know 40 years plus from now or whatever, right? So you you pass 80s. Yeah, so or plus I said, right? So you live to 90 hundred hundred plus And your kids will be able I think to be able to go to the funeral home and like Hit a digital button and be able to see a hologram version of you And interact with it and they'll be able to use all of that all the photos the memories the things that you say You don't say we've been on thousands and thousands of hours of podcasts So they could very easily take your voice and your ideas and piece together all the nuances Yeah, they could piece together and and create some kind of weird like ai version of us easily Oh, and I wonder how much this is a random question I wonder Doug can figure this one out what how much depression is related to a death How many people suffer from depression because they lost a spouse or they lost a mother or father? Oh, yeah So imagine how how how much that's going to help in in in regards to that help bring closure. Maybe. Yeah Imagine you bring up a hologram of adam at your funeral. Hey everybody. Thanks for coming to my funeral Real quick. There's a 20 discount code Oh, there's adam You got me There's Felix Ray glasses under everybody's chair Put those on because we're going to play this video with a lot of blue light when I say black it I just think that I think it's I think we're not far from that and we're starting to see that with things like Uh, you know facebook and their memories and I think that's well, you remember What was that black mirror episode was a black mirror? Maybe something else Westworld had a little bit of that towards the you know the latest season. Yeah I really had in your ear. It was like like therapy. Yeah Um, and it was somebody that you knew from the past or whatever Well, that's what really made me think that way was watching that. I remember that episode going like wow We're really not that far off from that being a reality Especially for people like us who have this much content like what what topic if we not talked about and you not heard My response create a personality. Yes, uh, you know what movie showed this perfectly in the 80s Superman when he goes and he builds his little He goes remember he goes to the north pole or whatever and he throws that crystal and it creates his little base or whatever Yeah, and then he puts those crystals in and it's his dad And he's asking his dad's question, but his dad's dead So it's like it's a compilation of his dad's ideas and whatever can give him advice of solitude Yeah, imagine that right so I could be like man. I wonder what Justin would say right now. 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So if I squat in within six inches I'll get a little carryover of strength at the eight inch mark and nine inch mark and ten inch mark But it starts to fade the further away I get from that range that I train within So full range of motion Gives you broader strength And also builds more muscle studies again. They show this but are that is their value to partial reps? Yes, there is You can use partial reps in ways to increase intensity and volume, but really should be saved For advanced lifters. I don't think this is really anything that the average person Should utilize in their training. They should always focus on full ranges of motion And if they can't do full range of the motion, they should work on mobility So they can't get a novel stimulus, you know, it's something that you can add in After you've really built a quite a quality base, uh, you know in your programming but in terms of like Full range of motion reps you just get so much carryover functional strength as well as like usable strength versus just The the aesthetic side, but you can accomplish both things at once and so I just you know, we would prefer like with clients of mine to Go through the full range of motion as you are going to experience the benefit of getting stronger and more In in further in in in depth in terms of the angle That you're going. Is there ever a time when partial reps are superior? I would say Um in specific ways like okay, I go to failure and I'm trying to add Even more intensity. Well, I can't do another rep Or at least another full rep now I'll add a couple partial reps. That's why I said this I would save this for really advanced Lifters who know how to utilize this properly, but for the most part I mean, I'll tell you what I never used partial reps in my training with clients almost never It wasn't something that I was in the repertoire at all now Now I do I do want to be clear by the way when we say full range of motion That's very individual the full range of motion is the range of motion that you have control over so what that means is that if a Parallel squat Is your full range of motion if you go outside of that things break down I'm not encouraging you to go deeper than than parallel because you'll probably hurt yourself But what I will encourage you to do Is to work on the stability stability mobility that will allow you To go deeper and get a full range of motion because you're going to get so many more benefits But yeah, people like partial ranges of motion Mainly because it's easier and you can go heavier. I can lift more weight I'm glad you I'm glad you get that example because um, that is the only time I could think that I have used Partial reps, but I wouldn't have considered them partial reps. I would consider them full range of motion for that client For example, you've heard me talk about on the podcast. What do I do with a 75 year old lady that can't squat down to 90 degrees and I've talked about Where I'll take a bench and then I'll even put like a foam pad on it And then she's only she's only squatting down this tiny bit and then getting back up That would be considered a partial rep partial squat But that's the she She has only got that range of motion that she can control with strength and I'm working towards getting lower So if you're counting that as partial reps, even though I don't think that's where this question is coming from That is the only place where I've ever used it with a client There's one more place strength athletes will use partial reps. No, I'm saying where I have used it There's another way to to utilize them with value Again, it's advanced, but uh strength athletes, right? So lockout, right? If they mess up on lockout on a bench Then they'll they'll train in that range of motion or if that maybe you're addressing weak points and like a lot of the compound lifts Yeah, so you can like hyper focus on uh, you know, whether it's The pull from the bottom or whether it's the lockout portion of it You can kind of just focus on that but also too with like, you know, sports athletes I know like you see this go viral all the time With basketball players like only squatting halfway down For instance, based on, you know, their lever and based on like where they're really going to generate force The most the coach is just kind of limiting it to that And focusing on just generating force within, you know, what's more usable for them on the court And plus like seven foot. So it's like, you know, it's yes It's a different it's a totally different leverage I mean, you might catch me do the doing this like on let's say like one of our focus days in maps aesthetic And I'm doing, you know buys and tries and uh, I just did some, you know, full range of motion You know cable curls and then I'm, you know, finishing it off with, you know, four or five short little Pumping reps and my desired outcome is when I'm training hypertrophy that day I'm looking for the pump and so all I'm trying to do is send as much blood and fluid as I possibly can in there I'm not worried about the plus I'm also coupling it with full range of motion Bicep curls. So you might see me finish off like that, but it is it's such a Um It's such a splitting hair difference on the value of it into your routine that you would never catch me training a client With it because I don't think it gives you that much value But at the same time I can admit that sure I've you've caught me probably doing that Uh here and there is the most guilty of of using this technique here Out of us. Well, I mean not no, I just mean in general like we're all the most bodybuilders. Yeah Yeah, yeah, absolutely bodybuilders What's their philosophy with the pump? Yeah, because they they're so they are so focused on the pump It's their strength and weakness, right? So it's like there's it's their strength bodybuilders some of the best at getting a Pumping up a specific muscle that they want to target Um Problem is they stay in that mindset and that's why I was saying like you might catch me do it if I was like Hey, I'm I'm just gonna pump the delts today. That's all I'm just want to do all these moves To get as much fluid pumped into them as possible. It's not even it's never it's not even close to the majority the way you train Right you I would never neglect a five by five set of overhead presses though By the way, this is where a lot of because a lot of this is an unknown fact Full range of motion proper resistance training is one of the best ways to improve functional flexibility better than Almost any other form of exercise because when you train a full range of motion you build strength in that full range of motion So now you have functional flexibility not just flexibility But flexibility you own. Okay, so where does the myth Come from then that body building or lifting weights makes you tight? Well, there's some truth to it If you train in partial reps all the time You build a lot of strength in a short range of motion Outside of that range of motion you have little control So you're really strong here outside of that you become weak So your body actually learns to move in a very limited way So you see guys and girls with lots of muscle who train with partial range of motion You see them try to do other movements like throw a frisbee or turn and they seem very limited Because they've built a majority of their strength in these kind of partial short ranges of motion So that's the thing you want to you know pay attention to but I mean look if your goal is to develop a balanced strong body And you want to have nice aesthetics the majority of your training should be focused on full range of motion By the way, I learned this first When I first learned this it was because my certifications Told me to train in partial ranges of motion. No joke like my first certification Told me Don't allow your clients To come down below 90 degrees on a bench press Or don't let your clients come down below 90 degrees on a shoulder press That's what I learned in my certifications And the the justification was oh muscle activation is the same and it's more too dangerous to go lower And I remember when I broke out of that I got better results my clients got better results And then I realized these certifications really are just trying to Mitigate risk as much as possible. So they're going to give you the subpar way of training Thinking that trainers are too dumb to apply it properly. So here. Let's just do this is totally safe But it was it was terrible. I remember learning that and going why afterwards being like why did they teach me that? It set me back like a couple a lot of times Yeah, too. It was interesting because going 90 degrees or like just above it's like a lot of times You don't even get that real glute activation Oh on a squat now You get depth. It's like and you don't realize that so you actually work on that So yeah, that that was always something I would battle was the certifications just limiting Ranges of motion because it's a safety thing for them Next question is from I am sofa king awesome Good job everybody What are the pros and cons of having to work out partner? Mostly cons. Yeah, you know what though? I can see So okay, so A majority think about all the years you guys have been working out What percentage of it would you say is what the workout partner and what percentage of it? Would you say is now very first quarter? Yeah, that's what I would say That's exactly what I'd say then it was from then on out No first 25 percent you know what's funny is I bet you Most people who've been training consistently for more than let's say seven or eight years Probably follow something similar like in the beginning They probably worked out with a workout partner and then eventually You know went off on the same way. I want to believe that but I I found in the bodybuilding community It's not bodybuilding community. Everybody loves to work out together, man They it's like they have a workout partner and they're about it man. They meet up each other. Yeah At least in the now. Is it mostly for pre-contest or is it off season all the time? Yeah all the time They all like to live together miserating thing or you're pushing each other because it's all about intensity drip So it's really and it's actually as much in off season as it is in season off season there It's all about packing the calories on packing on the muscle and you use each other to pump each other up and I'll tell you the pros and cons for me personally so pros First off depends on the workout partner, but if I work out with the right workout partner It'll help me stay on Track and stay away from my ego because sometimes my ego makes me do exercises that I probably shouldn't at that moment I should just say that the workout partner helps you not if I get the right workout partner So if I get the wrong workout partner, it'll do the opposite like if I work out with Somebody like myself Then my risk of injuries just goes to the roof because now it's about yeah, that's what I've always I'm gonna I'm gonna challenge your way of thinking there because I think we're all I would consider all of us You know a plus workout partners like I know how to spot I know none of us are good workout partners for each other not for each other Not for each other. Well, who are you to get? Well, some docile dude who doesn't know what the fuck he's doing Like what's your idea of what an a plus fucking a workout partner? My wife was a great one when her and I worked out together and mainly because there's no competition there She's not gonna lift as much to me anyway We can check each other and I have smarter workouts if I work out with one of you knuckleheads I guarantee within a few weeks It's gonna turn into without us realizing it the intensity is gonna creep up the weight's gonna creep up and it'll be fun But then somebody's gonna you know get hurt So the pros are if you have a good partner They can check you watch your form help you push yourself when you need to might be more motivating for some people The cons are you have to rely on the other person's Consistency and attitude and energy and I take my workout so seriously that if a workout partner shows up And their mood is down by two degrees. I don't want to talk to you ever I don't want to work out with you over again like we're you show up five minutes late I'm on my own go do your own thing type of deal So that's the cons is is I have to rely on someone else the pros are if you get a good partner They can make you work out better. Yeah, I I'm gonna stick with my original statement that it's mostly cons the only pro That I think is there's some value there when you're first starting when you're first starting out and Purely I see it as not not anything that you're talking about but just the commitment to get to the gym I've made a commitment to somebody else that I meet them on monday wednesday friday at 6 a.m Therefore I'm more likely a lot of people. It's like yeah I'm more likely to show up to the gym and there's a lot of value in the the commitment aspect, but as far as The training itself I personally think it's almost impossible To work out with another person just because we are all so unique We're all there were so that everybody everybody's bodies need something so individualized even if your goal is the same Both of us are meathead guys We both want to build a bunch of muscle But it's like my body type is so different than any either one of your guys's body types And my weaknesses are totally different than your weaknesses and my imbalances And my freaking issues that I got going on totally different than your guys And so my programming should be really designed Around what are what weak areas do I need to address to prime myself correctly before I go into my workout? How was my sleep the night before my food? What I did previously in the workout that should dictate my intensity and volume that I go Into that workout all those variables matter so much more than what is my workout partner? I do it's also because you take your workout so seriously that you don't want to compromise For the other person to do the back and forth because you know what you need to do Well, that's what I do if I train with like my girl or somebody like if I train with somebody else I do end up compromising for for them because I want to give them a good experience and a good workout So what I end up doing is not what I probably should do for myself. That's why I say it's mostly cons Because most of it is centered around the hype the motivation The get there to get to the gym to push through and those are all the wrong reasons to be more We're we're terrible people to ask this question I'm gonna be honest because I feel like we just we know too much We need to a certain point where You know yourself like the best, you know How everything works like any partner you bring in you're gonna be compromising your time Like you're gonna have to explain things pain the ass like if you're in the same Sort of uh mentality as somebody else that's kind of just trying to figure it out I think it's beneficial in that environment Just you know for accountability. I think maybe if that's like your your biggest thing right for sure Like I can't get to the gym. I just need somebody that's going to be there and hold me accountable. It's consistent Um, if if you're somebody in that state of mind where you're reliant on that Like I find value in that but uh for me personally the only way I would have a workout partner at this point Uh would be if I'm just learning a very new skill and for a brief moment of time, they know it They know it and I'm like, I'm just picking it apart. Totally. That's such an anomaly though right there That's like, I mean that's a one-off situation with that and I guarantee there's people right now Okay, there's somebody right now that is shaking their head no and they're like and you know what they're saying I get my best workouts when I work out with my workout partner Steve really pushes me and you know, that's the problem with it Is that you still measure the success of your workout by how fucking hard you lift And that is not a good gauge of what makes a good workout. Yeah, we know a good a good training session Is should be measured for what you need at that specific moment in time And the the idea that we and and by the way, I know this because I was the same way I was the same young kid who thought like man My workouts are never as good as as they are unless I have my workout partner Because why because he pushed me that next level when I wanted to stop at rep five And you know what if someone tried to push me through a workout right now and fucking slap them Don't tell me where I need if I need to push more or not right now I know what I need to do So that's the last thing that I would want But the people that are shaking their head at me that disagree with what we're saying right now Are people that are still stuck in that mindset that it's all about intensity I think some look, I think for some people there's a lot of value because they they they're workout partners Like it's like a partner and they work out together and they grow together and they do a lot of stuff I get that but the the key is finding the right workout partner for me I hated it most of the time because I was always the consistent one the motivated one So it's like I was always the damn teacher, right? Exactly What you said was absolute 100% Justin if I worked out with anyone now And I picked a workout partner It's because I want to learn something like if I'm gonna if I'm gonna go through a whole mobility stint Or I'm gonna do a bunch of you know non-traditional workouts. I'll ask Justin. Hey Justin. Can I do a sled and kettlebell workout with you because he's good at it and I'm gonna learn from him But otherwise, uh, I mean not really but in the past in the past I mean I've had a few good workout partners. I think it's always one-sided. It's never equal usually right Always if you're in that situation the guy who's teaching you you are making out He's getting he's getting the shit in the stick If you're listening to this right now and you're you have a trainer friend who you work out with well Yeah, guess what you get you are that's a good idea for you to buy him a nice christmas Keep that workout partner because your workouts are probably better because you have a professional that's working out with you But we guess what his is probably suffering Somebody is saying gets someone's getting in here's the other thing Now as I've done this for so long now my workouts are so meditative and You know for lack of a better term spiritual experience for me. I go in there. I shut off I do my thing. I don't want to talk to somebody else or be worried about Oh, it's your turn or take the weight off or change this. I'm doing my own thing I'm in my own space Not talking to anybody unless I choose to if I have a workout partner there It's like I oh, okay. I got to go, you know, gotta do my thing Gotta talk to them. So we'd have to be really somebody special To work out with it. We like working out around you guys just not like with dude. I tell you listen I say, okay. I said we're all terrible workout partners for each other because or whatever We've all worked out at the same time many times. We never I think we've only worked out together like at three times Yeah, less than less than a handful for sure. Yeah, but but we're usually working out at the same time Yeah, I think that's great. So and that's where I'm like, there's there is a way to the thing that I thought was the only Real pro is the whole meeting there. So hey, I'm all for Having a person to help commit you and after you're done get a get a meal or something Yeah, like like hey, I'll meet you at the gym holding each other accountable And then you guys do your thing and then you meet back there and maybe some days you both happen to be like Oh, it's a light easy day. I'm not going to train really hard. Oh, me too Exercise. Hey, let me jump. I'm hitting those all yeah That's cool. Like and that's actually how Katrina and I work out that way So Katrina and I if we train at the gym together, we do not train together. It's like She has things that she knows that she needs to accomplish. She's normally running one of the maps programs I have my my handful of things that I want to accomplish now. Sometimes they intersect sometimes Oh, you're squatting on today. Oh, I'm squatting too. We'll go share the rack together and we'll work out That's our working out together But it's not me pushing the and trying her intensity or her Motivating me to do whatever or telling me let's go here It's like I just don't see a lot of value in it unless you're pretty pretty new Next question is from mcconnell 816 What are your thoughts on massage guns cold tubs and saunas for recovery? So all those three things I'm going to put in the same category as supplements. So what I mean by that is Let's change the question. What are your thoughts on supplements for recovery? Supplements are maybe two percent of diet and sleep and how you train in terms of recovery same thing with these things Can they help? Yes, but do they do they compare to The right training program getting more sleep? You know getting enough recovery between workouts. No, so in other words You can't fix a bad workout or crappy sleep or bad stress With these particular products. I think that these are great in their own right In other words, if you have everything is going good Your training is good. You're recovering right. You got the right volume You're getting good sleep and then you throw in cold Tubs and sauna you'll get some additional health benefits from them, but I see too many people Try to make up for over training or poor sleep or whatever With these devices and tools and techniques and think oh, this is going to fix everything It's not it's not going to fix anything No, I mean I like the idea of kind of like come let's go down this like path of comparing it to supplements Because I can get down with that because when you talk about percentage wise as far as the the pie chart of what? You know dictates a successful training program as far as recovery and all that stuff like that It would fall in a similar category As supplements now my only thing that I'd challenge that is a Supplements what I don't like about supplements now that they're cheaper You know like a bottle of creatine is much cheaper than a massage gun or a cold tub But the nice thing about those things is once you own them You have them you have them you could use them as many times like supplements I feel like it's like this I've probably spent more money on supplements combined total over my lifetime than I could own I could have my own sauna my own all those things in my house and have it forever to use that other people Can use and get lots of value in So I prefer I think to me those are more valuable than supplements are Especially since I I think these are just a more natural process of trying to get your body to speed up its recovery But they're all it's also a tool and When used inappropriately and not correctly you don't get a lot of value the value is with these The value of these things is to add them to a good routine a good diet and a good sleep schedule and good stress management like It I've done this before where I'm like, oh, I'm a little over trained I'm going to add these things in thinking it's going to fix everything. It doesn't but when I add them to A good system It does enhance things a little bit like sauna does have Health benefits. There's lots of studies that show that but it's not this huge recovery tool It doesn't like for example getting more sleep is going to be way more impactful Yeah, and it's interesting because I don't really look at these tools necessarily when I'm like physically Like beat up as much as I'm mentally stressed and that's a good point I tend to gravitate and it just feels good with like the thethera gun and um, you know those massage guns, um, it's just something that kind of helps you to kind of Relax your state of mind and I guess you know part of that is sort of, you know tricking Tricking, uh, you know that signal So you're in this like constant loop of anxiety and all these things that you're running through with your brain I feel the same way with the sauna just helps you to kind of decompress Uh, the the cold one is interesting because uh, you know the cold plunge I thought was just going to be like an extreme kind of like, oh, I gotta like, you know Brace my way through this and and grit and bear it, uh, which found out that's a terrible Uh way to approach it and that was something that is actually part of the protocol is you got to learn to not do that And and you you don't feel as much pain and anguish Uh, which is a whole value in itself in terms of battling all this like anxiety and everything else Because that's usually my go-to is to uh brace bear it down And then you end up like pushing it down you keep it and it just stays with you and it just gets worse Whereas it's it's a bit of a release And and you know realizing that uh, you know, you fighting it actually like makes things worse and so to acknowledge it and Breathe slowly and get in the calm parasympathetic state is all part of the training. Yeah, there's there's benefits to these things I love them. I mean, I I would I hate that we don't have a cold plunger like I use our sauna all the time Um, and I would use a cold plunge if we had a really nice setup for us to be able to do that I think it would be amazing to do it before we podcast so forget that like this person's asking about recovery I'm like on the page with Justin. It's like they're the mental benefits of this And the like a performance enhancing that would be to go into the go into the podcast Take a shot of caffeine Better than that even right I mean the the feeling that you get when you come out of a cold plunge Especially if you have the contrast of a hot cold like that Oh the feeling is an instant not to mention it has some recovery, but the problem with these things is The the science they use to try and sell them Is is okay like okay. Yeah, it could help speed up recovery. I think they inflate how amazing it is It's like you said it's a very it's a very small percentage But I do think it has tremendous benefit in just how you feel Like everybody who's listening right now if you've never done this do this for one week report back to me on how Take a cold shower exactly in your shower with a 30 second to one minute minimum Okay, so we'll minute to two minutes if you can of ice cold water shut the hot water and see how your day is Just tell me how the beginning of your day goes for that week And I bet you 90 people report back that they were more productive. They had better energy They were more alert like there's a lot of good benefits other than just the recovery piece that they sell Yep, I'll say this about recovery If you feel like you need something to help you recover first of all look at your workouts Look at your diet. You might be doing too much sleep Sleep is so underrated get better sleep or just take a nap or a couple naps That'll do more for your recovery than any other tool you could do or add to your body It's like someone's like, oh, I'm gonna go do 45 minutes, uh, you know sauna, you know sessions or whatever take a nap Taking if it's for recovery Take a nap and you'll get better benefits Next question is from brawl art. Is there any value in taking glutamine glutamine? You know glutamine was a huge Bodybuilding supplement in the 90s, especially take it early 2000s So the the the philosophy was this well first off they had studies showing that burn victims Who were giving who were given glutamine would heal faster? Uh, then if they weren't given the glutamine and so The bodybuilding community, of course the supplement industry took that and said, oh, it's helps with recovery Oh, plus here's another selling tool Glutamine is the most abundant amino acid found in skeletal muscle So it must mean we can take glutamine and get all kinds of uh incredible results It it doesn't work that way glutamine does help a little bit When you're under tremendous amounts of stress when you're teetering on overtraining But it's pretty small. It's not really significant If your protein intake is high, it's probably not going to make a difference Here's where glutamine can be beneficial Immune and gut health function in in many cases the gut actually uses a majority of glutamine in repair So what you find now is glutamine is more of a gut health immune supplement than it is for bodybuilding Yeah, but is that all canceled if you're taking either a bcaa already or you're taking a protein shake or any adequate protein? Not bcaa because those are three other amino acids, but if you took a Oh, that's right. Glutamine is not in the in the bcaa. No, it's not even essential. It's a non essential amino acid but if you took if you uh had for example in in in gut health and immune studies They find that whey protein is beneficial whey protein is naturally high in glutamine and the branched amino acids So would it give you the same results? I would probably say yes Here's where amino acids get kind of interesting, especially like the branched amino acids and glutamine If your protein intake is low Then you may benefit So who would I have supplement with amino acids vegans always my as a trainer when I had vegan clients Uh, it because it was pretty rare that they could get their protein up pretty high unless they supplemented with protein I would have them take branched amino acids Or in glutamine before and after the workouts and they would notice so glutamine and creatine then Yeah, creatine glutamine Lucine isoleucine and valine right the branched amino acids And they would get they would notice benefits or maybe just the essential amino acids, right? Which include the branch chain ones But if your protein intake's high Not really like if you're listening to this and you're working out and you're doing everything right And then you add glutamine to your supplements. You're probably not going to notice anything By the way, since we just had the other question right before this if I had to compare which ones I prefer I would be I would lean more towards the sauna and the coal plunge than I would Glutamine. Oh, right. Yeah. Personally. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I would agree with that You know, you know what your amino acids I like to utilize My protein intake takes high so I really don't supplement with too many amino acids But I do like theanine on an empty stomach with caffeine. That's a totally different Thing. Oh, you got me to fall in love with that. I really like that. Yeah, but other than that Amino acids, you know, if your protein intake is high Not tons of value if it's low then you can find some interesting things with individual amino acids You know happening. By the way, you can take too many by the way, like too many branched amino acids Can cause reductions in serotonin because of the way they compete depressed, right? I've heard yeah, because they compete with the production of Of serotonin with tryptophan. I think which is part of that creation And so they'll find like I used to do this. I would drink branched amino acids all day I thought oh, I the more the merrier And I was kind of like people are still doing that. I know I literally I'd have a jug of water And I'd pour my beer and that was it I drink it all day long and it was kind of flat I noticed I needed more caffeine Then I learned about that and I like oh, okay I think I'm taking too many Look if you like our information head over to mind pump free.com and check out all of our guides We have guides that can help you with almost any fitness goal You can also find all of us on instagram. So justin is at mind pump justin I'm at mind pump sal and adam is at mind pump adam