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So we had a good time Yeah, all of his in-laws and apparently his in-laws started using up all of mine pumps organify stock They liked it that much that they started taking all of our stuff now Organify is a company that we work with so that you provide us with free products to to give to family members And the products are all these organic Health products like organic vegan protein powders green juices, which is their most popular product I think they have a red juice great for pre-workout. It's It's stimulant free. So if you don't like caffeine, but you do want a little bit of energy You can try their red juice. They have a gold juice, which is excellent for relaxation and sleep So about an hour before bed. You can mix it with warm almond milk. It's amazing Anyhow, if you want to use the mine pump discount, here's what you do go to organify.com. That's o-r-g-a-n-i-f-i Dot com forward slash mine pump use the code mine pump get 20% off all of their products Then we talked about astaxanthin. This is a compound found in salmon and krill Apparently it helps the body deal with sun damage, which is great for Justin Then we talked about the pentagon Essentially admitting that they found an alien spacecraft. Yeah, this was in real news Yeah, so isn't like just made up and it's not at the top of the news cycle Just goes to show you how crazy 2020 is yeah that led me to talk about a conspiracy theory that some UFO hunters are they're looking at NASA pictures and they see this Big Cube coming out of the Sun bigger than Earth 10 times bigger than Earth. Is it a spacecraft dude? What is happening? I don't know then Adam talked about a company called Silca you can actually buy their stock. It's a pink sheet So it's a risky stock to get but this company is providing luxury goods like Amazon, but securing them This might be a good good company to watch out for they only talked about Kanye West losing his mind We talked about Canada's Sex guidelines safe sex guidelines, which includes using no joke glory holes. What a fun fact Yeah crazy Adam talked about somebody. He knows who got COVID. They're much better though That's nice and then I talked about how strip clubs are Adjusting to the COVID area era. I should say then we got into answering the questions. Okay, so that's 31 minutes later Here's the first question. What's the best way to prime your legs before performing leg workout? So priming is like way better than warming up So how do you warm up except better before we leg workouts next question this person says, you know Some people like Ben Greenfield argue that diets that are high in glycemic index carbs are bad for burning fat Other people say it doesn't matter. What's the deal? So we shed some light on that the next question This person says, you know, we talk a lot about periodizing your workouts and phasing your workouts How do you do that with endurance type workouts? And how do you lift weights when you're an endurance focused athlete and the final question? This person is asking a question about the mind pump business and they want to know if there were any hard compromises that we had To make for example allowing Adam to record every podcast with no pants on. 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So oh like who like so her brother and Sister actually one of her sisters didn't make it, but basically everybody else and then their family with all the kids so there was Four of their kids and then you know my kids so six kids 13 people in oh, wow Yeah, wow. Yeah, that was the most I've been do you how do you get along with the family everything do you enjoy it? Yeah, no, I enjoy them and usually like it's kind of I don't know like sometimes We only have like Thanksgiving Christmas and then the birthdays and stuff will usually hang out So this was much nicer because it was like everybody was like relaxed And I was able to connect with them on another level, you know, or it's like I I don't know It was different. It's when people are kind of like they're just for like a formal occasion thing versus just like letting Their hair down and chilling and giving me their real thoughts So you get to make them your your special drinks. Oh, yeah, you're Moscow mules. Yeah mules Actually, I started get on a kick of making old-fashioned. So I was trying to what's in an old-fashioned It's kind of like a sugar a sugary sugary drink that was a slip there and Yeah, so there's I mean I put it with brown sugar. I I do some bitters and and then like orange peel and then Basically like just an ice that it says for a splash of water, but I just do ice and let it melt a bit What's in what's the main ingredient though whiskey? Oh, okay. You used it. Did you use it? Do you use all our oranges? No, just one the oranges at the house. Oh, there were a bunch of oranges. Those are our bongs. Oh, yeah Yeah, allegedly we Made like a junior high-bong How the hell do you make a bong out of an orange? Or you guys get like super technical Whatever we grabbed a vase Stuffed it in there. Yeah with the with the family all there Now do you guys have this who and your guys is family? I feel like I have probably about an even split of the You know still really paranoid with COVID stuff going on Is this the side of the family that's kind of like fuck it type attitude or is there what you know some people still weary about it on your side Yeah, well, so Courtney's parents are aren't doing as well health-wise like her mom just like had some like Melanoma removed that was cancerous And so I mean we were just conscious of it from that level But really like her entire family is pretty much like pretty gangster about like not you know worrying about masks and like all this other stuff that's Pretty much the opposite of being scared. Yeah. Yeah, but are they are they are they are they still, you know They're doing all the things. Yeah, you're supposed to do but at the same time It's it's at a point a breaking point. I think we all kind of are there right now That's what I'm sensing with a lot of families a lot of families like all right listen We're not gonna go out to a lot of social events and be around other people Yeah, we're in a socially distance, but as far as a family. We're gonna families only tight Yeah, what is your what's your family? What's the consensus with your family? Everybody's pretty we're we're being very responsible. We're you know, we're not we're isolating right? So one of my aunts is a registered dietitian. She works with people who Need dialysis one of her patients the first patient that she's worked and remember when she goes to work She's like full-on medical protective gear face shield the whole deal gloves One of her patients tested positive for COVID. So now she's just not gonna be around the family for about two weeks Just to be you know, cuz she knows she was around somebody with yeah, but my grandmother had a mini stroke not that long ago it was maybe like I don't know a month ago now and Before that nobody was going to my grandparents house in person We were dropping off groceries at the front. We would say hi to them from the street but my grandparents are you know late 80s, you know, my grandfather's almost 90 and so everybody's being very careful, but then she had this kind of Mini stroke and she needs family to be there So we're still very careful, but my mom and my aunts alternate when they go and they're very very careful But I said I said this in one of the past pod podcasts. I could see the health effects that they that's happened to them from being Disconnected socially from family you could see that more obvious in I think older people they need some of that So there's always those unintended, you know consequences, but everybody's Pretty careful still, you know, yeah, yeah, I mean they're pretty mindful and it was kind of funny because Like my sister-in-law is a bit of a supplement Dork like you And so I like her. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I was like, oh, you know You should really like pick Sal's brain a bit cuz she she saw in our in our pantry those like like fart gels that you made us Oh, yeah, oh there's some of those there still No, they're there's high on Gel yes that literally literally tastes like a fart would taste absolutely disgusting if you could imagine it Yeah, so but she was like, oh, I have some of this and all this and so I started kind of introducing her To all of our brands and our sponsors and things and we actually had like we had some organophys We had some pure up there and we had some green juice and stuff and so she tried she loved it She loved it and I was like trying to I was trying not to hype it up too much You know because she's been like on all these different types of things and does the green juice already and all this But like she really preferred the taste of the the green juice that organify has and I was trying to tell her that like yes It's it's a little bit on the pricier side And like this is why we we attach ourselves to companies that are just promoting quality because I mean her kids have certain issues and things that she's all always trying to solve and So she really appreciated, you know, some of these brands that I was mentioning Did I tell you that Katrina's mom gets all of her clients on organify green juice? Did you know she really yeah, that's like because it was such a game-changer for her And I you know again, this is we talk about this a lot right that you know If you're somebody who just has a hard time getting greens Consistently in your diet that it you can make a huge difference, you know And that's how I supplement and use it is I use it whenever I'm not getting enough greens And I notice a difference when I do and when I don't And I think that she was under consuming herself because it's been like this game changer for her So now I I keep hearing like she keeps asking for the the link to the partner page and everything like that Yeah, I'm like, what do you I you forget? She's like no I'm sharing it with somebody else and so all of her clients. She's got them all on green juice. It's pretty fun Yeah, well speaking of nutrition and diet. I've gone. I'm now gonna do a stint of ketogenic myself. Are you going keto? Yeah, because What I mean? Here's the thing when I've gone keto many many times. I definitely lose athletic performance I get some strength loss, but I do get mental sharpness clarity and I get this kind of lower inflammation Yeah, I get this like kind of elevated. I guess cognitive feel for myself So every once in a while I like to jump into it just to get that feeling and I think it's a good idea I think it's a good idea to cycle your body in and out of different, you know Fuel systems if you will so now I'm gonna run off of ketones for a little while And so I'm gonna do the whole p-strip thing and see what's going Nice now is your sister all the one that told you about astaxanthin? She is so we were at the we were at Donner Lake and like so I Obviously am nice and pasty white as usual and they are too so But she actually was looking a little bit darker than normal We were like really commenting on it and stuff and she was trying to tell me about this astaxanthin that Is you know from like flamingos and in oh it's what gives them the pink color It gives them the color. Yeah, and I guess it has some kind of Beneficial effect in terms of like being able to produce Protecting against the Sun. I've never heard of this. Okay, so when Justin brought this up earlier I did a little bit of reading just short about ten minutes worth and it it actually has been proven to Prevent not totally block, but in somewhat prevent the damage that your skin will get from is it a pill or cream Or what is it? Well, you can get it in capsules. So like krill oil would have astaxanthin Wild salmon would have you know a decent amount of it, but it does it does apparently protect the skin from from damage Yes, it it was interesting to me And I was really like intrigued by it because I mean we're spraying ourselves And here's the thing like I don't want to look like mark zuckerberg out there with like See that picture of them Yeah, dude Like I don't I don't want all that zinc just blasting all over my face and my skin and just wearing clothes and everything and like Like come on. That's the dorkiest thing ever. You're like a vampire. Yeah, dude Like I'm not gonna rock like myself at the beach like that. So I was like, oh interesting I'm gonna have to give a try. I guess they were saying that they take it like a couple weeks Beforehand to really get in their system And then they've noticed like like a crazy difference with it and if you're in the sun a really long Just fyi they still like use some sunblock But not a lot and it's really reduced a lot of them The use of it and like all those chemicals are constantly putting on themselves I think you'll probably notice more of an effect if you're super sensitive to the sun You know, I mean, you're probably gonna if like for me, I might notice a little maybe maybe not But someone like you who hey all those ghosts out there Well, didn't I didn't jug chime in and say he's tried it. Do you yeah, I've tried it I can't honestly say I've noticed a major difference But uh, you when you're so when you are in in space and uh, Justin and Doug take their shirts off You can see the reflection a little bit from the from the earth. Yeah, so that's it. It's a good thing. I'm on beacon That's a good thing. Dude, uh, uh, Justin, I've been holding this in like Okay, I sent the article and then Please tell me what our conspiracy theory. No, it's not a conspiracy. Okay. Okay, but it's making conspiracy theories Dude, no stop. Listen. I already know what you're gonna say. This is crazy Oh, no, so this is insane the pentagon Oh great is about to release new information that they have on UFOs and apparently this is the pentagon Yes, I saw joe rogan posted about it. Apparently they actually said there was a quote that said that they found vehicles Not of this earth not of this world This is the pentagon now. How crazy is the how crazy is 2020 that this comes out and it's not even the top Of the new cycle, right? You know, I've been telling people like they didn't say did they really say that? They've been holding out saying it's it's it's You know, like like everybody shouldn't like think or believe in UFOs for so long That it almost just feels like very convenient that all of a sudden now they're gonna release this information to Like simultaneously. Wow Like everybody's like up for being a tried for for for the pedophilia stuff. Oh, is that what you think? It might be a distraction a hundred percent A hundred percent. I can get on board with that because you'll say Maxwell about to They were about to publicize her Some of her private documents her flight logs, which already there which is funny to me Yeah, where are we? Where are we with that? I thought that was supposed to be last week Aren't we supposed to have already seen didn't she already return it over no news? Yeah, you can you can see her for it. You can see the flight logs to I don't care about that I want all the other stuff that it's supposed to get released. I don't uh, I don't know if they've I don't think they've actually led anything out yet. No, I mean there's some interesting stuff about the submarine Like being underneath like this the submarine base is part of that island. Yeah, they have a look into that They have a submarine. Is that real? I don't know. That's why I still look into it I don't know if it's real Apparently I don't want to spew misinformation. Apparently there's a submarine base at the island and then other Prominent powerful figures own islands that are nearby. Why don't you just say Joe Biden owns? Well, that was one of them Okay, they say Joe Biden owns the island Adam said I didn't say it. Yeah, that's what I heard That's one. Is that now is that a conspiracy or is that true? I don't know if it's true I don't know. Can you google Joe Biden owns island? His brother does though. Oh, okay Justin does everything Yeah, his brother does and he he was part of the the signing with like releasing that over to really another politician We'll see what we'll see what happens. Okay, so he doesn't necessarily own it I don't know. You know what? I think if you'd ask him, he'd be like, I don't know. That's why that's the thing Yeah, exactly being uh, no, but I mean Okay, besides all that besides it may be being dragged or whatever, right crazy that the pentagon said Found vehicles out not of this world Crazy. Yeah, this fact check. This is on routers does not own an island. Okay in the u.s. Virgin Islands, so I guess Yeah, but who's behind readers? It's Reuters Reuters is it routers or Reuters Reuters it is sorry about that But anyway, bro, depending on saying that there's Freaking alien spacecraft. Why isn't everybody losing their shit over this? Yeah, this is crazy because there's too much other That doesn't say there's too much stuff going on. It doesn't make sense. Okay. Well, check this out I just read another article today that so there's a there's nasa stops what they're doing Aliens so nasa photos so you can go online apparently and really study NASA photos and so this is what like alien hunters do all day, right? They go on and they study videos of the mar You know mars and space and the moon and sun. Well, apparently UFO hunters have seen nasa photos. They're sharing them now of a A They're calling an alien cube ship. So it's a dark spot on the moon way I'm looking at the picture right now. It's a dark spot on the moon, but it's a perfect cube Which is weird because if there's spots on the sun, they're not cube And they're saying that this is an alien cube ship now the size of this thing 10 times bigger than the earth dude. I'm gonna have an independent day and they're saying that it exited the sun So it came out of the core I love this stuff. Oh my god. This is literally like a movie. Yeah, I mean meanwhile rad was released on apple tv Thank you bring us back. I know that was super. Hey, why do you got a hate on it so bad? It's a classic Yeah, I haven't seen it. It's a yeah, I should watch it. Yeah, it's a classic Yes, I I did want to bring up though So a stock to watch I get people asking me all the time about stocks now and I am just I'm not the person You should be asking. I just want to put I just want to put that disclaimer out But I am very curious about this penny stock right now called cl clka. I was reading No, clk, right? C lka, right? And it's a it's a company that has formed that is supposed to Be a safe place for you to purchase luxury type stuff online So amazon, we all know has become like the top of the funnel for buying things And having it shipped to your house overnight. Yeah, yeah But what they don't do is they don't specialize in like really high-end stuff like jewelry like Rolex is like Louis Vuitton purses things like that that's stuff that people still go into stores and purchase and with Covid right now and nobody being able to do that There's still a demand for people that are Trying to make these purchases but are struggling to find a safe place to be able to buy that Is it because people are worried of the spending that much online? Whether they're going to get the product where it's like it's just the security about it Yeah, I mean you you spend $20,000 on a Rolex watch you'd be pretty scared to probably have that ship to you without like Wait for the mail. Yeah, right, you know what I'm saying like that's a I don't know Wayfarer selling $20,000 Sorry, I couldn't even get away with the conspiracy theories. Oh, I tried so sorry, but anyway keep going so So, yeah, no, I just I think it's only it's like a 89 cents or something like that So it's not like a this is not me telling you to go dump all your investment in there or anything like that It's a risky stock. It's a penny stock, right? Or what the pink slip whatever they call them at this point But I just think that that's very interesting being a consumer who has looked for products like that online And right now if you're somebody who's buying stuff like that, it's it's hard to find you can't a lot of these stores are closed That's I didn't even consider that and when you told me that I think it was like last week or whatever That's that is very interesting That is very interesting because you're right. There's there's still a market for it Right, but if you can't go to a place to buy it You're right. How do you buy it? How do you do it? What do you do? Do you have to what would you normally do before? You'd have to go in you have to go in you'd go in now Do they have like security measures and so that's the idea is that this company? I think is is bonded and backed and insured to protect that So if I did order a $20,000 Rolex and it gets lost in the mail or what that I think that the Yeah, they have yeah, they have things in place to protect you for that just an interesting buy for me I'm it's you know all I'm saying watch it. It's it's it's very very cheap right now. It's an interesting theory to me I also, you know, you sent over the articles on uh, what you what's the economic term stagflation Yes stagflation for what we currently are What their fearing is going to happen Yeah, what we may be happening right now and assets hard assets and luxury type items like Rolex watches and goods that tend to hold their value and even appreciate I still see people purchasing and buying things like that. Just my yeah. Well speaking of wealthy people He's getting excited about that. Really? Yeah Yes, buy me all these jewelry so speaking of wealthy people you guys watching the the Kanye meltdown Oh, so wait a second now. What's happening now? I heard that too was a uh, so that clip that's going viral right now of him Is just a small piece of that whole that whole talk Well, now apparently he's been tweeting about his in-laws and they're tweeting Saying things like he needs help and he's talking about how they want to take him to They want to take him away and lock him up and well there's and he said Apparently that he that they wanted to abort his daughter and he said no he was crying about it and right There's like a little bit sick some craziness going on Yeah, and there was something else about like kim hanging out with with another guy that he was getting all Like jealous about and like wanted to like divorce her over and like it just got like this crazy drama Could you imagine you guys if the Kardashians make it into the white house? No No, no, nobody can that's just not a thing. Yeah The fact that the fact that it's even a possibility to me would you it nothing is unbelievable right now Nothing you could say anything right now. We have a cube coming out of the sun Yeah, and nobody cares towards us. Nobody cares that there's a cube spaceship about to come to earth I feel like that's the only thing that would bring everybody together right now though. You know what I mean? Well aliens. Yeah, 100% like oh 100% we forget about everything else right now. Everybody would be like all right Independence day right away. Let's be friends right now because we need to fight this, you know, cube alien ship But so I guess I guess Kanye Isolated himself somewhere and then uh his friend Justin Bieber came to visit him Oh, I heard yeah and hang out with him. So Interesting, you know, I mean, yeah, you know, you've lost your shit when Justin Bieber comes Yeah, that's a good good pair to console you You know what I'm saying? Yeah in crazy in crazy news. I'm gonna read to you some stuff from uh, so this is this is canada's approved, um So the british columbia center for dz's controls website Has an entire section dedicated to sex education During the virus pandemic. So they're telling people like this is what you can do and this is how you keep safe You ready for this? Yeah, please. Okay in their recommendations They actually suggest you're ready for this I am not making this up. You can look this up They're suggesting glory holes as a safe technique to minimize virus. No, they're not. Yes, it is It literally says use barriers like walls and then in parentheses, you know example glory holes that allow for sexual contact But prevent close face-to-face Contact What a crazy world where they're recommending a glory hole as for safe sex I've been waiting for the government to approve glory holes Like finally Wow, this is in canada. This is their official like, you know, like here's some recommendations and they literally said canada's always ahead of the curve Glory holes. Yeah, you know, I'm saying that is hilarious. You know, I finally have uh, the first person that's connected to me That got covet when I we get back from tahoe. Uh, katrina told me. I didn't even know about it. She's like, guess what? She's like my brother got covet and I'm like, what? So and his symptoms, uh, he was a bad flu like it was definitely bad He hit his x so they have his x and him have a son together my nephew And he is I want to say 12 I want to say Nathaniel was he and she was like you you need to go to the hospital and get tested because I'm not letting you see our son until we know for sure. It's not covet. Okay. Well, that's that's smart You had a fever and the whole thing. Yeah. Oh, yeah. No, he had he had a fever body aches. He was 102 Um, and yeah, he felt terrible. He felt he was a terrible flu and he said it was the worst body aches that he had ever had Um, and he went in to go just to make sure he didn't have it and he had it So he's been quarantined the I think they told him until august 2nd. He needs to stay quarantine So people like bringing them food and shit. Uh, I have no idea. We ain't I'm talking to him I don't want to contract with the phone or anything I stopped talking to him. Yeah, don't turn to FaceTime. You know, yeah, yeah, don't even return his text or anything But is he okay now? Yeah, he's okay. He's totally okay And like I said, it's been a it's been like this the comical side of it in the family is literally of everybody on both sides He has been the most paranoid the most anal of the whole situation And he ends up getting what's this what are the suspicions like how could he have gotten so okay? So he has a job where he's a tech guy and he goes and works for like big companies where he uh, You know if gets all you he's we would call him, right? So if everything crashed Doug can't figure out why we're not uploading programs people can't log in and we We would call somebody like him and his company and they would come in and troubleshoot what's going on, right? So all the all the web stuff server shit like that's what he does And so he goes into homes and has to do that But I mean, I know he's masked up gloved up like when he does that Now I know I also know he's dating right now I don't have to put him on his on front street with his new personal life and stuff And he's got like a new girlfriend that he's talking to and so when she got in sick at all I don't I don't know like again. I told you I'm not answering his phone. They gotta use the glory the glory hole Yeah, I'll send him a I'll send him a letter in the mail to let him know that so I don't know. I don't know nobody knows exactly How he contracted it But the the suspicions are either one through work or maybe this new girl that he's dating She wasn't doing anything and she was a carrier and gave it to him I mean that those are the only two likely positives nobody in our family Was visiting with him around that time to have potentially contracted it well I know california is now we're number one. Yay. We have the most cases apparently right now in the country Yeah, I just heard that so we don't have the most we're not even close to the most death Most deaths that that was new york and that's because they had a lot of well So along these lines of covet talk so And I was literally just reading this before we got on the mic So excuse that i'm not completely right on it, but I just came across an article that so you guys know that like mlb so baseball professional baseball open back NBA like all these sports are starting to like they figured out ways And I guess covet is run rampant through the florida marlins Like eight guys contracted it in the locker room already and it's spreading So there's rumors that this shit's going to get shut right back down again So even though they did all these precautions to get it opened up and running again I know fans and all this weird shit like in the NBA like I don't know I heard florida had like a lot of cases popping up again around there I don't know. I that's I know and I know that's where they're playing ball They're playing ball over in orlando area right over by the old dis disney world or whatever Yeah, so that's where all the NBA players are at right. That's where our boys over there right now Or didn't you see that he's over there practicing with a lot of them? So I know they're doing that Um, but I just came across this article right before we got on And it sounds like it's starting to run rampant already through some of these teams Do you talk about like so baseball already, you know, it's kind of like a slower pace game Did you guys end up watching like so that there's two announcers and there's nothing but cardboard cutouts in this dance It is like the most painfully like awkward boring Did they really did they really put cardboard cutouts? Yeah, I didn't know that Yeah, they were all over there and they had a little bit of like like crowd noise like injected every now and then Uh that I noticed but like I was just watching it out of like pure curiosity Like does it suck? Yeah Yeah, totally sucked. I mean it was good that like I was watching people play and like they were But it was just basically like watching a practice I told you that that that was my feeling when I watched those fights I really think that was one of the best fight cards that I've seen But it didn't have that feel to it because of the lack of the audience You don't realize how big of an impact that you don't you don't think about it until you go through watching a great fight like that And you realize because I'm in my liver going oh Ah, you know every great punch or oh my god and thinking like wait a second Normally you're listening to that come through the tv getting the same reaction So it's really you know what it reminds me of remember when you're in grade school And like two guys would like they you know tease each other or whatever and if enough people just went Oh, do you hear what he said? Oh, you'd start a fight about your mama You remember that talk about your mama. You could literally start them say that Yeah, you could literally start a fight just by the crowd making them feel like oh god That's true. I gotta get in the fight now. So it's that crowd energy Yeah, I wonder if they'd still have fights on hockey. Yeah, like without the crowd. Oh, of course they would They still would they're still although, you know, it's part of the sport Although that that that is like really for the crowd to get the crowd behind and do that So a lot that's like a strategy in hockey you get behind two or three goals Especially when you're home Yeah, and it's like regain momentum you send your enforcer out and his job is to go start a fight to get the team riled up That weird sport. Yeah, that's awesome. That is awesome. All sports should be like they should include fights at all woven in there Yeah, yeah, all sports would they try to talk. They talked about eliminating at one point I'm so glad that guy shut down because it is one of the coolest parts about the sport Oh, man, that's great. Yeah, it's you know, it's it's not going to go away You know, it's not going to go away. We're gonna have this around for A long time and it's interesting to see how it's how it's it's starting to change You know certain aspects of our life. I wonder how I mean sports. Are they gonna take a huge? We still don't know what kind of hit they're gonna take long term. Obviously, they've been shut down But are they gonna notice less viewership or maybe more because I know I go I change my mind I change my mind every day, right after watching that fight I feel like oh, it wasn't that great, but then you're so thirsty for competition want it Right, you you're so thirsty and you want competition so bad that you're willing to watch it So I have a feeling that's what we'll see in fact. I don't know just and I didn't get a chance if you watched you I didn't watch I'm curious what the viewership was. I bet it was through the roof. Probably. I'm sure it was Yeah, everybody was like super punk because like especially if you're a fan and like your team's now finally playing And so that like the I was watching the Dodgers in the Giants And so I was like uh like peering into that. Well, you know in Rome one of the ways that they this you know during the roman Empire the one of the ways they would distract the populace from you know, shit that was going on is they would have gladiators Yeah, they'd have you know the games or the gladiator matches and it did it distracted people from Crazy stuff. So maybe we need like some sports. I know to get people to pent up Yeah, to feel like they're a little speaking of pent up talking about markets that are adjusting I guess more and more strip clubs. Someone sent me these articles strip clubs are doing drive-thru You're coming in hot with the facts today. I just have to give you props This is the I saw a picture of one and it's literally like a tent So it's like a big tent And you drive through slowly with your car or you stop depending on I don't know if you have to pay more and then Outside the car hood dances. It's like they don't jump on the car It's like a vasona park where you could cruise the christmas lights and you watch the christmas Except it's not right. You pay you pay five dollars family friendly You drive real slow through and you look at the christmas lights I looked at this picture, right? The strippers are lexes. So imagine i'm on your lexes imagine i'm in my car, right? I know that's fucked up too, right? You drive through with a nice car. You can get all the attention They know right away But the the the the distance would be like from here to Like where the table is right there. So what is that 10 feet or whatever? Yeah So the cars there strippers are over there There's a barrier like a like looks like I don't know if that's to prevent people from jumping out of the cars or whatever I don't know which how many times has that happened? I don't know. I guess that's happened already I'm guessing a few the strippers do their thing But when I saw this is based off a picture that I saw by the way So I don't know what the deal is but the strippers all wore masks So you're literally looking at just the body Boy, that takes a whole new objective You have to be that you drive do a drive through stripper that and that would work I I tell you what though what I'm that what's still crushing right now is those fans only pages right now Oh, how do you know they're crushing? Oh, because you see them popping up everywhere. Yeah, no, I guess you're right Yeah, they probably are if you see them pop up. Oh, no everywhere. They're pop you see a bunch You see a bunch of uh influencers that are converting to that Yeah, if your fitness business is slowing down, but you've got a lot of attention and eyes on you You always gotta ask yourself a button away Yeah, if well, how will my kids think about this shit that I'm doing right now, you know what I mean? That's what I gotta think But yeah, the the the strip club things I mean, look look at a bit of the market for strippers might change And ugly strippers might get more work now, you know, I mean because the mask the mask. Yeah, they put the mask on I worked out can't be a cam girl. Yeah, you can just mask up So bad First question is from dust read What is the best way to prime your legs before performing leg workouts? Okay, so So here's the the here the benefits of priming or why priming is so much better than just warming up so a warm up aims to prevent injury by You know getting your muscles warm and getting your your heart rate up a little bit This is what the actual personal training certification courses would actually say about a warm up So the goal is to kind of, you know, reduce risk of injury and studies support that proper warming up Might actually do that a little bit now priming is different because priming Is much more targeted and the goal of priming is to improve your performance The very least that you'll get is reduced risk of injury But priming goes above and beyond that because it improves performance and what you're doing with priming Is you're trying to turn muscles on so they fire better And this is here's the part that's important specific from person to person So I'll give you a couple examples of what I mean Let's say you have ankle mobility issues So when you squat and you go down low Your feet cave in or your heels want to come up or you bend way far forward Because your ankles just it's all it's like if you elevate your heels, you could squat better You might be one of those people right you could put like a two by four or a couple of plates under your heels And all of a sudden you you feel like you could squat better That person would prime their ankles with like a combat stretch is a great one You can find that on our youtube channel This the way you would prime that is you get into this stretch position But then when you're there you're activating the muscles that maintain that position You're trying to you're trying to connect to that new range of motion For that person that would improve their squat, but let's say you're another person You've got good ankle mobility, but you have forward shoulder So when you squat your shoulders want to round forward, which you know compromises your form Well, that person would prime differently. They would do like a band row To to activate the mid-back muscle so that they could maintain better posture You know throughout the whole I think that's the best way to kind of use a priming is really to be able to set your Body and stack your your spine and everything so you're uh, so that way your posture is set up correctly So that way your joints don't take you know a lot of the brunt of the force And and create problems for yourself. And so, you know, even for me as an example like I I tend to Take a rubber band and I'll do a lot of internal rotation with my knees So that way because I noticed a lot of external rotation coming out and my muscles are tight and pulling me outwardly So to be able to then prime at a time and kind of get that To stabilize properly and track properly with my knee It really helps a lot to prevent pain and discomfort later Well and to continue down the path that sa was going if you're somebody who squats and you don't ever feel it in your Butt or your hamstrings. That's something that you would prime before That's why priming is so individualized. There is no one size fits all or everybody should prime these exercises before doing This movement or these these working these muscles It has everything to do with where your breakdown is or you're where you're lacking the most, right? And that's the this was the idea of when we created maps prime Was maps prime is designed to take you through a basic assessment that it that takes care of looking at the entire body from head to toe And where you have breakdown Are areas that you should be priming even if you're doing legs like sa was saying you may be priming upper body If you if you're limiting factor of performing a good squat is because you have such Rounded forward shoulders that you're you're excessively leaning over in a squat Filling it all in your quads and your knees or filling it in your low back because you're leaning over so much Then a lot of your priming even for leg day is actually upper body type stuff So But the idea is that you figure this out like and and if you haven't gone to Doug What's the what was Justin's prime webinar? What's the what's the link for that maps prime webinar dot com So maps prime webinar dot com go to that url. It's free watch that And and go through that process with him and then if if and if you're somebody who knows that you need this or want this That's why we created that program. I'll give you some general now that we've made the case that it needs to be individualized I'll give you some general priming movements that Seem to work with a lot of people for squats. So this might not be you But this works for a lot of people, right? So 90 90 Is it typically a decent primer for most people for squatting? Now again, you're not holding a stretch when you prime in 90 90 You're not just trying to get a stretch What you're trying to do is you're getting in position and then you're trying to activate the muscles and Lift the back leg up or lift the front leg up. So you got to actually activate. That's what priming is So 90 90 combat stretch is a good one handcuffs with rotation might be a good one for the upper back or some kind of a band row For for the posture of the upper back. Those are generally those three Are generally the the the better ones for for, you know, most people I would say so you can look into those If you don't want to go and test yourself, which I think is dumb You should go through a test But if you're like, no, I just want to try these movements and see what happens 90 90 combat stretch handcuffed with rotation You know those three Generally speaking are good for a lot of people. Next question is from basic white girl Yeah, I didn't even pick up on the name. I like that People like ben greenfield argue that diets high and glycemic variability are quite detrimental when it comes to burning body fat What are your thoughts on this? Is it valid or just splitting hairs? I'm glad you picked this cell. This is a really this is a really good conversation And we have friends like ben greenfield and lane norton Who are like opposed. Yeah, I'm intently opposed. Yes on this and the the truth is They're both right. Yeah, and that I think that's the instead of Jumping in a camp on one or the other and you know, you know getting on board with all lane on this Or getting on board with ben and like it's the end all be all There there's something that you need to understand that when when you talk about something like this And this is kind of like how mine pump talks, right when we talk We're always thinking of the general population and the behaviors of most people and in that context I think what ben says has a lot of validity. I really do You know because most people eat this way most people do not Track their calories and live in a caloric deficit most of which is where you'll hear the argument from lane side Lane will be like listen if all if if you're in a calorie deficit All things are equal testing a group of people out Then then of this shit matters each sugar have high glycemic foods If you're 300 calories lower than your maintenance every single day, none of that matters You're completely fine and that's true, but the the reality is who the fuck does that all the time? Yeah That's that's that's the big thing here. You have to Okay, you can't just look at Diet from a mechanistic point of view, which is the whole you're in a calorie deficit You hit your macros. It doesn't matter if it's high glycemic and low glycemic Yes, that's true, but you can't look at diet that way because because that's not the reality of real life You know one of the benefits I would say are advantages Of being a personal trainer for 20 years Training lots of everyday people Is you don't you get to see the mechanistic stuff? But you also get to see how that affects long-term behaviors how people act and here's the truth High glycemic index carbohydrates tend to make people feel crappy and want to eat more Okay, so yeah, if you're a robot and you just plug in the the program and that's it You're you're probably gonna be it really doesn't matter then too much between high glycemic and low glycemic Maybe over a long period of time you can argue might be more inflammatory and that kind of stuff So that's kind of true. I guess But you you still can't really apply that to a person because a person look how many people listening right now eat Uh based 100 on the numbers and have no feelings around food Nobody unless you're a freak or unless you're dysfunctional or unless you're a competitor Which is who lane tends to speak to most of the time and and here and this is where I'm going to defend both these guys here is that In the defense of lane on in a topic like this When I was competing I had pop tarts in there. I had a donut in there I had high sugar drinks high all high glycemic type foods Intermittently in the entire time I prepped and I had this amazing physique that hit stage all the time But I also was weighing measuring tracking every single thing I did And I knew where I could insert those and get away with that Then I've also had clients who literally all life told them is I eliminated all the high glycemic foods and switched them over to Low glycemic foods and they saw tremendous results And that was just because really what I did is I it ended up reducing their calories Reducing their appetite to salis point and it was very simple for them. I just said hey Listen, stop having all these high glycemic foods switch to things like sweet potatoes and yams and you know Having foods that are lower glycemic makes them eat less. Yes They just naturally make those and those foods too You could eat a lot more sweet potato than you can get away with potato chips the things like that You end up filling up on satiate you doesn't increase the appetite and make you want more So, you know in ben and ben's defense I've literally trained clients where that's all I tell them is I look at their diet I see they they tend to gravitate towards all these high glycemic foods And I and and carbohydrates and I go okay. I want to switch you over to the here's your carb choices That's all I'm gonna adjust everything else. I like what you're doing Just get rid of all these carbs. I don't like you eating those and I'm gonna switch you over to these low glycemic carbs and boom They lose all these way the lower inflammation They feel better than they've ever felt before and they think it has something to do with just the glycemic foods There's more here's like here's the I'll give you an example, right? If you had groups of people and we ran a test and it was a long-term test and one group of people They they focused on and pushed the the the mechanistic Parts of the diet calories proteins fats carbs They tracked and they went and they made sure they hit their numbers and the other group We didn't even focus on that at all. All we focused on were behaviors associated with food why they ate If they ate when they were stressed foods that helped them eat less maybe avoiding hyper palatable foods avoiding, uh, you know high glycemic index carbohydrates, you know Finding ways to cope with stress and stuff that don't involve food. So on one end we have all behavior on the other hand We have all mechanism. Okay in the short run The macro counting mechanistic people are going to do better. They're going to do better in the long term The behavior modifications are going to do far better. That's why you got to know both You got to know both it's important to understand the proteins fats carbs and calories But you need to focus on the behaviors or you're never going to have long-term success You're just going to go up and down all the time and here's the thing with high glycemic index carbohydrates They tend to make people hungrier and they tend to make people feel like crap And if you feel like crap and you're hungrier good luck Trying to maintain a relatively healthy lean physique Long term it's going to be very difficult. You're going to be struggling for the rest of your life If you do it that way so 100 percent They're both right. They both have value Understand both if you want to succeed Next question is from Jordan Harris You speak on the importance of periodization and proper phasing of workouts found in your maps programs How about the phasing or periodization of endurance based workouts such as running swimming biking, etc And the proper programming of resistance training if it's alongside endurance training for the endurance based athlete Should there be any program changes if I were to run maps anabolic or performance Alongside my endurance sport another good. Well, yeah, so that's going to be your priority Right the endurance is obviously at the top of your pile So now you're going to kind of adjust things to kind of fit into that as being the The skill and the attribute that you value the most and so, you know in terms of the actual strength training That's going to reduce a bit. Yeah in my opinion. Well, we created we created the maps programs with the overall like fitness goals aesthetic goals Functional goals in mind when you start getting into an endurance athlete. That's a very goal specific type of program and just like jesson said you're going to prioritize that if you're an endurance athlete I'm focused on your endurance training first And then I want your your your weight training program to complement that Which is not what we wrote like we wrote programs that were really geared Towards somebody who's trying to change body composition improve mobility build strength Very overall health general purpose for the for the masses Then when you have someone like this who and I got a dm I might even be the same person who asked this very very similar question It's like listen if you're an endurance sport that's priority one Then I'm going to use maps anabolic or performs to complement that So you're you're going to you're going to set your your endurance goals based on that Which is completely different Okay, so for those that are listening right now that are wondering about cardio for somebody who's wanting to do cardio For the the the sole benefits of losing body fat, right? They're different. So you have to understand that Yeah, yeah, so I've trained a lot of endurance based clients So I've had clients that are triathletes Or competitive swimmers or marathon runners. They love their sport I never would you know try to talk someone out of doing something that they love Unless it was damaging them, but these people were very healthy about it You know very good people again. I've trained a lot of them hundreds at least And the way you train them with resistance training is to support what they're doing The more endurance training you're doing the less resistance training Your body's going to be able to tolerate. So most of these people I would train them Typically no joke around once a week with resistance training. No joke. And I'm talking about people who are really endurance Training focused so like I'll give you an example. I had one one client that was a triathlete loved competing You know in in those types of events. So they would either run swim or bike Most days so once a week they would come into the gym and I would do probably 20 minutes of mobility work and another 30 minutes of Traditional compound lift Resistance training I would keep the intensity moderate if I push them too hard with intensity I would take away from their their endurance training, which was their focus The goal really was to minimize injury and give them some strength to support because here's the thing with strength This is the wonderful thing about strength. It is the foundation of all other physical pursuits So if you make an endurance athlete a little bit stronger, they get more endurance Well, and so that's what kind of what my training would and to that point too Like I would take that time to really assess like where the focus should be like in the posterior chain, for instance You know with runners, you know and and with endurance athletes was a very A big priority of mine to help to strengthen. So that way, you know, it provides that that way for them to Like decelerate to to be able to have the strength to Control their body better and support their joints. So everything is about supporting their joints in their movement pursuits And and also alongside with that like mobility practices to to make sure you're greasing the groove That's I would that's the one thing I would do more than once a week, right strength training I might be only strength training one maybe tops two times mobility every day mobility I'm doing on a very regular basis. I mean that's going to complement and support what they're doing with their Endurance sports so that like and so if you have if you own performance I'm assuming this person does because they brought it up I would be I would be living in those maps performance or mobility days as your primary focus And then like the one of the strength training days full-body strength change aids And then the rest is really geared around your endurance training because that's your priority I do one a week because in there you have three resistance training workouts a week Do one and make sure the intensity is moderate and then do lots of mobility But you know at Justin brought up a good point about individualizing it for the sport like runners You know, I've trained a few competitive runners And one thing you don't want to do with the runner is make their upper body really muscular because it's just more weight That will take away from their performance. So we didn't train on getting their upper body super muscular But I did train their upper body to give them good posture So I'd work a lot on their on making sure they don't get forward shoulder I would work a lot on their core and help them a lot with their running mechanics because they're Here's what happens with with competitive runners as their posture starts to break down So does their it started to start to become less efficient With their running and it takes away from their performance and then with their legs I was making sure their legs stayed strong through full ranges of motion One of the things about running is you work in such a short range of motion So we would work on being able to do full squats and split stance type lunges Yeah, I like a lot of unilateral work for somebody's a runner A lot of them and then I would do things like tibialis raises to to help prevent things like shin splints and stuff like that Now as far as phasing or periodizing your endurance based workouts So you may be focused on one type of endurance sport But studies have shown that if you do a little bit of other types of endurance sports It actually might it helps prevent injury. So if you're a runner Running is great. You might benefit from doing a little bit of cycling and a little bit of swimming on top of it Studies show that that helps reduce overuse. So in other words, you know, let's say you run five days a week Maybe that one of those days you do a short run and then do a little bit of swimming Or cycling something to kind of offset a little bit then do your strength training and you're totally set But what you don't want to do is this if you're endurance focused Don't you can't be like you can't have great push endurance and strength at the same time you'll get neither So it's one or the other. So if you're endurance focused, the strength training is there to support it It's not there to be the dominant thing because otherwise you're just going to overdo it Next question is from john alva seven To build the business of mind pump. Were there any hard compromises you as a team had to make? If so, what was the hardest to do for the better of the business? Yeah, lots of compromises. I had to like we had to know justin was gonna eat all the cheese in the studio Yeah, that's mine. No, that's not, you know, um, this is a tough question because I don't know if we've had any hard Compromises, I think they've all been pretty easy. There's definitely compromises, but they're not hard We have to fight, you know, I had to fight or argue right over them But I think, uh, you know Recognizing that it's you can't do everything And that other people are better suited for other things in the business I think that's an important thing to understand for all partners and I know we're pretty good about that I don't know if that was a hard compromise. It was a hard compromise at first There was growing pains where we went through letting go stuff Doug still struggles with it today I think that we all we all tend to and we did a lot, uh, I think at the very beginning We wanted to do everything together. We all we all got together We all liked each other so much and we all respected each other as leaders themselves And so every decision made in the business We felt the need that, you know, you want to bring your partners in and out They need to make that decision with you And I think everybody was a little reluctant to just take charge of an area and just make the decision for the company And so We probably had I would say about a six month to a year there Where we we kind of were stagnant because we were not allowing each other to kind of disperse and get things done And just not worry about trying to bring involve everybody with every decision So there was some growing pains there. Um, I had to compromise I felt a little bit at the beginning But I look back now and I think it was one of the best things that ever that happened to me was I struggled with not having kids at the beginning And the this like nine to two schedule that we had like structured So the guys could be be home with their kids and do the things that were very very important to them Which was family and I was in like let's scale this thing mode And let's spend the night and park our tents out at the studio and not leave until it's at a certain level So I had to and which It wasn't necessary for us to do that But it was it was something that I was used to because I'm not an organized person So my way of success in the past was just get after it Just be so focused on it that that's all you think about 24 seven And you'll you'll eventually get all the things you need to get done But what it really forced me to do was become better organized better Efficient with my time that we had this time together that I had to to get it done And and then now looking back now that I have a son It was the best thing that we ever did because I value that time the same way that these guys value that time And so it felt like a compromise and a struggle for me Early on but because we got through it and figured it out It was one of the best things that we ever did Yeah, you know the reason why I have a tough time with it saying hard compromise I think like hard compromise would be all of us like no, it's got to be this way No, it's got to be that somebody's still like salty about it today. Yeah. I don't think anybody No, I I didn't you know that didn't seem like it was a hard compromise because you didn't like You wasn't like something that you were yelling and mad about you, you know, we we all And that's probably because we're older I would say I could imagine if we were younger And we started mine pump this this would have been a boy this would have been I don't I mean, I still think we would have worked through it But I think there probably would have been a one or two fist fights You know or something like that, you know throwing something but But now you mean the hardest had to been the dividing and conquering like probably I can agree I really only think in the last year so we're going to work mine pump is five and a half years old now Right, and it's only been maybe a year year and a half tops. I would say We really have all kind of fallen into Our when we built this we didn't have we didn't sit down and have this like You're this position. You're that position. These are your job titles And probably an CEO outside looking in would think that it was going to fall apart for those reasons because we didn't do that But we let it nap we let we allowed the natural growth and allowed everyone to kind of naturally fall into Their strengths and it ended up working out. But there was uh, there was that at the beginning. I think there was that You know, oh sal can just go handle that and he'll make the decision for us and I'm not going to question it I don't I would trust him to do that. Justin same thing Doug and myself But at the beginning we had this thing where it was like every guy who's a counsel Yeah, every every oh my god. I remember those days like vividly or we'd bring something in and then we'd have this round round discussion It would be hours long and heated back and forth back and forth and then it would just be like it would stall Whatever that was that we were trying to actually do all right. We'll get the blue dumbbells Exactly. It was just so stupid. Yeah, but you know at the same time we valued everybody's opinion So it was like I did want to bring it to the group. Everybody had that sense, you know And that's a really believe it or not and we're acting like we're down playing how much of a compromise that is but That takes a lot of I don't know if that would have been able to if we would have been able to do that in our 20s And that takes a lot of trust in your partners to be able to just walk away from your You know, this is everybody's baby here, right? There's four of us that created this from nothing It's everyone's child So to think that there's a part of raising this child that the other three guys has like got to a point where they're just like Oh, yeah, adam you go ahead and make the decision for how the kid is going to learn this or sal You go ahead and decide what is his moral fabric is going to be about? Oh, Justin You go ahead and decide what sports he's into or I mean literally that's what we've done with his business And that's a big compromise To allow each other to do that and I we worked our way through it I think really nice and it didn't take that long to do it, but it was it was a struggle at the beginning I think yeah, yeah Yeah, you know there's been there's been times when we've thought about whether or not we should express a particular opinion Or we should you know talk about A particular thing, you know and at the end of the day The one thing I think we've never had to compromise on is these these core values and one of them is just maintaining Our integrity at all costs meaning okay, if if we believe something and we say it And we're against everybody else. This was early days of mind pump not so much now But early days there was a lot of stuff we said that That wasn't widely accepted in the fitness space for example And it was a risky it was risky to come out and say no, that's all wrong. That's all bullshit Here's the deal. We were no we were nobody's when we first came out But one thing that we don't compromise is we're willing to to take it all down if we have to We're not going to compromise on on you know, what we believe to be true And I think that's another I think that's what makes the other compromise is possible You know if we didn't have a core like Like there's certain things that I know where you guys what you guys would do and I know you guys Value for example integrity as one of those top things that makes other compromises easy because there's a solid base You know what I'm saying? True. I think that's an important thing to have about that base all about that base Look mind pump is recorded on video as well as audio What's up youtube check us out on youtube mind pump podcast You can also find us on instagram. You can find me at mind pump sal adam at mind pump adam Justin at mind pump Justin you can even find dug you can find all his hot and sexy pictures at mind pump dug on instagram Get sunlight during the day. You know, someone might say what does that have to do with going to sleep? Well, you have a circadian rhythm and part of that rhythm is also letting your body know That the sun is out that I'm awake. In fact, we've all experienced this. You have a day outside You didn't have to do much. You're just out in the sun. You sleep like a baby that night. We've all