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Enjoy this podcast Yeah, I forgot father's day is this weekend coming up already. It is It totally most yeah Overlooked the other day It was overlooked holiday ever. Yeah, it's like mother's day Like everybody has to remember mother's day. Oh, that's right. That's a fact. Oh, what do we need to get dad new balance? Yeah, we want to do dad get like a steak or something and then that's it That's the conversation. Yeah, I've been sending Katrina links to things that I want for like the last six months We'll see if she remember. No, you haven't what if you okay? Tell us what you've been like that You've been planting seeds. Yeah a little like there was like goggles for a drone. There was like a jacket that I wanted I think some shoes that I'm gonna get into that drone racing where you have the I mean, so I like a 16 year old kid and a grown man. I love it. Well, that's my love That's my love language So and what I do to help my partner out because I know I have to be a pain in the ass to buy for Because I buy most shit that I want when I see something I'm like I want that but I don't need it. I'm like, oh good gift That's so and I and I was like send him to her but she didn't normally yeah I'm curious because Courtney already bought me something is this big box And she's like she can't handle that I that I can't open it right now like she doesn't like surprises and all that I'm just like I'm not gonna open it till the actual day at least But I'm very curious because she did this on her own and she never does that. She's like me That's how when I buy a gift. I'm like, do you want it now? Yeah, cuz I don't like waiting She's like like anticipating my response. Well, I'm so far does that make you know that makes me nervous It does when someone is like, I you know me, right? So you guys already know my my background on like getting receiving gifts And then on top of that like if someone's like really excited to give it to me Then it's just like it builds it up way to like you I've been I've been tainted because of Getting a bunch of like used stuff because I was like the younger sibling and it was always like here's the recycled version of What you were asking for You get your brother's old jacket. I Don't really care about gifts that much, but I do like acts of service So I do like you know like waking up and the kids wake me up with something and Jessica does something nice for me It's nice when you're acknowledged gifts I don't care because if I want some I'll buy it and I'm not really a things kind of person although Jessica So upset cuz she screwed up a surprise a little bit We were having dinner last night and I'm like, oh man father's days this Sunday like I totally forgot and Jessica's like Yeah, you know Make sure the kids can stay with us because it's gonna be the week that they're with their mom And she's and I'm like what time should I get them? She goes well They're gonna be making dinner for you. So make sure and then my daughter's like Jessica. That's a surprise and Jessica's like So bad so Another surprise. Yeah, I love surprising Courtney though That's because especially if it's like totally random and like I mentioned a while ago is like a little bit in the doghouse So I already put my order in Basically put out, you know, she's gonna be receiving flowers. Oh, I got that too. Oh, yeah, you guys did I did the stunning beauty So we'll see if that's your bouquet. Yeah, I got the ruby rose bouquet and it's Red roses. I like purple. It's my favorite color, right? So red roses and purple. I don't know what other flower It is but looks really nice. It's like 40 bucks. I'm not gonna tease delivery purple being your favorite color right now I'm more curious about the flowers because this is something that we're testing right so the audience knows this is This may or may not be a future partnership Now, I assume that we probably have a lot of guys that are also good dudes that like to take care of their wives or their partners or their girlfriends or whatever and Would do this and I think it's such a killer deal and I love the way they set this all up So this may be something we keep if it is I've worked out a deal for our Listeners so at the end Sal will do his normal like, you know, share with our good the coupon link is I really want to see if our audience responds if they like it and they respond It's a it'll be a partnership that we pursue if it falls flat. So we're like testing. I'm just using it then so far I love the idea of it just to do because I I'm always thinking like man Like I haven't done anything like for for my spouse and I know while like I just Acknowledging it and like just a little thing like that goes a long way So we used to live right next to before like right next to a floor shop And I actually had like this routine like at least once a month I would go in there and I would I would build this bouquet out and I would I would bring it So it was it something I continually to do well now we don't have that right by me So this is what made me look for a service that okay Well, maybe I can just get it be a lot easier for me just deliver now Are you guys? Are you guys in the flower in other words? If you got it if you came home and then you had flowers sent to you is that or or if not What would you like now unless it's like Venus flytrap or something? Oh Like it could kill like like flies. Did you have you ever buy bought those? Yeah, you could buy those sometimes I did that because I wanted to show my kids because I'm like dude these things are cool dude They're freaking rad. Yeah, they're so rad. I've never seen one. You've never seen them No, so they have like a little particular hair and inside the the I don't know if it's the flower or the plant And if it gets triggered, I think there's two hairs two hairs have to get triggered It literally snaps lapses. It looks like it has teeth, but it's just you know It's just plants and it'll capture the fly and then it'll digest it And so what we used to do is I would buy them I would get a fly catch a fly and I'd take its wings off So it didn't fly or whatever and then I'd put it on it's so cruel And then I'd put it on the plant and you'd see it walk across and as soon as it triggers the two hairs It would close and the video spider in it. Yeah, I was just to fuck with spiders. Oh, man I've never seen it work. I've never seen actually that where do you get them at? I used to be at the grocery store Yeah, I used to go at like lumber yards that had like garden sections like I could find some there and also you could buy like huge bags of ladybugs And so I used to do pranks with that as well. So you buy this huge bag ladybugs and like throwing somebody's car, you know Wow We just came up with a brilliant idea absolutely brilliant, okay Because flowers is big business and the majority of the recipients of flowers are women I want like dangerous Plants exactly. Yeah, imagine if they had flowers for men. Yeah, but it was stuff like that like venomous Yeah, yeah, that's true You're like a girl in many ways I like so I like a nice house and I like my house to smell good and look good and so like, you know flowers flowers make that happen Flowers make it smell good and look good. Good morning. Yeah, I'm picturing at it right now. Like he's he's at home He's getting the bathtub ready with the candles. Ding dong is like, what's that? He goes out in his room the music Okay, he opens it. Oh my god This what a I can't believe who's it from Doug? Calls up Doug Doug. Thank you. Just just huffing it. The thought it's the thought that counts Very very nice. No, it's that's nice. Yeah, no flowers flowers aren't I Jessica appreciates them quite a bit So yeah, how are your wife? Are your wives like big cuz some some women don't even give a shit They don't care Jessica loves it. You know her mom used to own a floral shop. Oh, no Yeah, and her mom was like an expert on plants on all plants So it's kind of cool. So when whenever I'd we go visit her we'd see some cool plant She'd tell me oh, that's a whatever and then you'd have to take care of it So there's a lot that goes into you know, what's that? What's the title though? It's in meet the Falkers. Remember That's what he is. He's a CIA agent, but he's he's Nist You know what else I used to be able to buy so there were Venus flytraps, which is cool Did you ever buy Mexican jumping beans? They call them? Yeah, those are have you ever seen those Adam hello racist? No, that's what they were called Have you ever bought them? No, I haven't like in a little bag and then yes, you know what makes them jump at all You know what makes them jump? There's a little larva larva inside and literally if you put them on the table They jump. Yeah, they're so weird. That is weird, but there's a worm inside of them Yeah, and then you get you the same the same store probably has those like little pouches that like claim It has a snake in it and you try to open it has like a wound up rubber band Like snaps at you speaking of meat eating plants there's I don't know where this plant is but there's one plant It's huge and it's got this big like funnel like thing and it eats animals not like bugs Like a bird will get trapped in it in the way that it's designed Is that the one that smells like shit like like for miles? Maybe there is a plant that smells like rotting flesh Yeah, you didn't know that no there's literally a plant that smells like huge rotting flesh and it attracts animals Maybe you're right because it smells like rotting flesh it attracts animals Yeah, like birds and stuff will fly to it like yeah vermin go in there and they'll get trapped but go down this Like plant and because of the way that the plant is is obviously designed Once they crawl down they can't come back up and then they just they're like drowned or something and it's digest them Yeah, yes Doug's pulling up a picture right now. I know it. It's it's a crazy plant. I think it's in Yeah, it's in some kind of like that's it right there. What is the name of that? It's a killer plant, but we don't know what the name of it. It's weird. Yeah, can you believe shit like that even exists? I think it's cool. It's like from another planet. Oh, you know what that reminds me Somebody DM me about what we were talking about with Loki. It's called a retro futurism Oh, that makes sense. That's cool. That's what that style is called. That's when we were trying to figure that out That makes perfect sense. I know it does right because it's it's future But it's what the future would be thought of in the past Yes, it's its own timeline so they can basically do whatever they want with it. Yeah, and we've seen this before right? I mean we were talking about the different examples of it So I knew there had to been like a name for it Justin hit the nail on the head when he said it was like Futureland in disneyland Like that's exactly what the style felt like. That's what it reminded me of in that movie. Yeah Did I tell you guys the conspiracy theory controversy around the supplement n a c did I bring that up on the podcast? Oh that it's now banned because it was like a valid treatment. Is that Dude, so Doug, what does n a c stand for? It's an acetyl cysteine or something like that. Thank you. Okay So this is a supplement That's been sold as a supplement very inexpensive For over two decades. You could buy any supplement store online It's in liver support supplements. It's just very common Supplement that people have been taking forever All of a sudden the fda comes out and says uh, uh, this is now going to be a prescription It's banned now their rationale is That n a c was originally designed as a pharmaceutical. So that's what they're saying Although it's been sold as a supplement for two decades. It's extremely safe. I've seen this and there's no problems Of course you have it's been around forever. So here's the controversy. Here's a conspiracy theory Studies were coming out showing that n a c Could be a viable potential treatment for covet So their studies were showing that people with severe covet supplementing would supplement with n a c And it would really reduce symptoms and increase survivability so all of a sudden the fda lapsed or the they pulled off a shelf It's so crazy. That that's the conspiracy But that's any competition to the vaccines is going to get pulled or any competition to any drug Well, yeah, it's going to get from pharmaceutical companies. Well, that's the thing too and like have we gone back and And finally admitted that hydrochloroquine has some like relevance in terms of treatment just because trump said it Like everybody was against it. Yeah, that was actually they studies came out that showed that for severe symptoms of covet It seems like hydrochloroquine, uh, is uh, that was the most appalling thing I saw with the like everything that went on It's like, okay, so a valid scientific treatment that they've used Uh, you know, like for in the medical community for a long time all of a sudden now it's politicized. Yeah, it's weird I had a so I had a uh I used to train a lot of doctors and one and I keep in contact with one of them And he told me that it used to be very easy for him to prescribe hydrochloroquine anytime. He had a patient that was Hydroxychloroquine hydroxychloroquine. Sorry. I made up the name apparently. We both hydroxychloroquine just pulled a trump I know Bleached He said he used to prescribe it so easily like if you had a patient that would be flying out of the country or Very easy. He'd call it in the pharmacy that they would prescribe it. No questions asked. It's been around forever It's in again decades. We've been prescribing and then he said after the covet happened He it was like if he asked the pharmacy to prescribe it. Nope We're not all of a sudden he could not get them to give it to anybody Like because it got so politicized. How messed up is that so frustrating so crazy. Yeah, anyway speaking of uh, kind of weirdness Um, have you guys heard of this like dry scooping pre-workout controversy that's going on? I heard someone died Yeah, right. This is like something this trending right now. Yes. So I want to that's been around forever though dry scooping Well, yeah, but I mean, uh, there's there's obviously people taking videos of them doing it and posting it On social media. Yeah. So there was this girl She was in her 20s and I guess it was this tiktok challenge to dry scoop pre-workout And it gave her heart attack and she died now. Here's the problem that I have The articles that I'm reading because there's lots of articles and people have been sharing them with me left and right in my dms The problem is the articles are focusing on the dry scooping part and not on the ingredients in the pre-workout by the way Take pre-workout dry or mix it in water same fucking thing. It doesn't matter The dry scooping has nothing to do with what made it deadly It's the fact that it's she probably took 700 milligrams of caffeine and a bunch of other shit that's in there But they're making a big deal about the fact that it's like like somehow taking it in powder form versus mixing it Water is what's that's what they're alluding to which is false. That's stupid. It was just one though, right? Did you hear any more cases there was there more cases there was that one and then there wasn't there another one where some somebody had like Brain inflammation from taking too much some other kid or whatever at some point. I feel like Energy drinks and pre-workout supplements are going to be targeted by the FDA Well, I mean caffeine is is always like and they had the caffeine that was in just pure Powder form that you could buy off the internet. Oh kids were doing that and in Getting severely someone died. Yeah, they went to the hospital and some died It's just like that's one of the it's a real drug, especially when you take it in in a high Quantity, yeah, there was really really damaging kid that bought powder caffeine Did the calculations wrong? So he forgot to move a decimal. He thought he was taking 200 milligrams of caffeine Ended up taking 2000. Yeah milligrams of caffeine And died that's insane and now it's banned now. You can't buy powder caffeine anymore because of that. Oh, I didn't know that Yeah, oh really if you go online, you're not able to buy Straight powdered caffeine. Can you still do like the capsules? Yes, okay the tablets So you open the cap because at the same time, I think the alcohol was powdered version. They were like promoting that as well I saw that. What is that dude? That's so bad powder version of alcohol. Do you guys remember what sounds like fun? Yeah, when we were in austin and they had uh, oh, yeah the the Oxygen version of it, right? Yeah, it was like a vaporized. It was like alcohol. I was so I was so fascinated by that. I'm like it First of all, I just don't think that was going to take off. I just but it was a weird feeling It's totally different than drinking. It's like you got a little bit drunk for about 30 seconds. Yeah, that's yeah It came and went that's why it will never take off. It was expensive and you get a 30-second high from it then it's gone like no one's going to want that Drink the real thing that'll last me hours, you know, right? I don't see anybody. Yeah, the best delivery for alcohol is in a drink. That's it. We've proven that it's already time tested Yeah over the last few thousand years speaking of drinks Uh, you want to just what a great example of the power of certain celebrities Did you guys hear about what happened with coca-cola? No, so rinoldo, you know, oh, I saw that Okay, so okay. I saw him take it off The shelf like he got all upset. Is that because he's sponsored by pepsi or something else? Is I had no idea why no so I'm gonna I'm gonna pull it up So there was a video okay I saw the video and you I'll let you finish the story while you're looking it up And it came in my feed and it's rinoldo getting ready to do a press conference And somebody had two coca-cola bottles on there and he looks irritated and he takes the coca-cola off off the counter Now I just assumed that's because he was sponsored by some sort of a competitor and that's why he did it What no what he did was is and this is what it says he was preparing to begin a press conference He removed two coke bottles from the table So he looked at him and he removed them and then replaced them with bottles of water and said agua Which is portuguese, so it's like uh, not coke. I'll drink water Coke lost four billion dollars shot just from that in market value Oh Wow That's how powerful was that like a health move like he was trying to who knows who knows I think he's just no I think it was just it would look like or at least it looked from what the clip I saw it was just I think he was encouraging people to drink water Yeah, or just I don't drink he probably doesn't drink coke and he wants to drink water But the fact that he I think because it was caught on air that he was making a stance against it And because of his influence I know I remember coke sponsors everything. They're the one of the most powerful sponsors of all time So I wonder what what's gonna happen with rinoldo like how they're gonna Work this out because One thing four billion dollars of market value gone. I didn't read that now that's a same power In saying so and again coke sponsors the tournaments he plays in they sponsor Well, he's like like literally the most popular athlete in the world in the world. Yeah He like nobody like really touches him and remember all those those countries were soccer super popular Coca-Cola is extremely powerful very very powerful in a lot of these countries Wow, so and well, you know, what's funny about that is coke is uh, coke owns dasani Which I love dasani water. So you would think that uh, they would they would figure a way out to like Run, we got water too. Yeah, no exactly. You know, they're gonna do they have to do something like that Right because you're not gonna convince him to do an ad for coke I wonder what the the profit margin is on coke versus uh water because a bottle of dasani doesn't it cost as much as a bottle of coke? No, no, you sure not as much. No, it's like a dollar versus something. That's like two something right? Really? What do you think though? I think coke might be a little more expensive. Okay, because that would make sense Yeah, it's a water plus. I'm pretty sure Plus stuff plus color. Yeah. Yeah. Now. It's a little bit. Hey speaking of you know, powerful companies and moves and stuff like that Uh, did you see Spotify on the move again? What with what so three year 60 million dollar contract, uh with uh the podcast from barstool the call her daddy podcast Wow. Yeah top five podcast. I think in all podcasts. So they just made how much they bought it off of barstool Yeah, three year three years 60 million a dollar deal. Oh my god. That's exciting Now what does that typically look like they own the podcast and then what do they do? They can they pay the salaries of the host and and barstool loses Complete rights to it or is it like a like they're Renting it essentially for three years. Well, I mean we could see here We could syndicate we could have fun and speculate, but I don't know the details of that It's very similar to when we were speculating about joe rogan's deal like I you know I think there's a lot There's probably a lot of nuances in the contract as far as what who gets what and how much and how it's paid over time Can you or can you not advertise in addition to that? So I'm sure there's like a few things that but I mean just the fact that Spotify they made a deal with the obamas too. I don't know what that was. They made another deal with uh, two other You know famous podcasters that I didn't know who they were, but they're obviously big podcast boy Podcasting has come a long way since we first started Yeah, you think but yeah, was it seven years ago. Thanks. Thanks the dug for posting that video of one of our first podcasts If you go to mine pump dug uh on at mine pump dug on instagram. He posted a video of us what year it was at december 8th What was the 2014 2014 and it was I had to be one of our first podcasts that we did We're literally in his living room and it felt like it and it's hard to watch dude. We suck so bad Welcome back to mine pump. Please subscribe to our awesome show Um so you can hear some of these uh incredibly informational topics. Is it really awesome though? It's it's pretty awesome. It's it's it's I've been told it's howard stern meets fitness Um, I I mean, yeah I know I'd go right for the fucking top, huh? I've been told a lot like the fucking number one So we're speaking to the four of you that are listening to us Also, it doesn't look like seven years ago. It looks like 20 years ago I don't understand how we entered into this aging vortex. We're time all of a sudden moves faster I don't know. I feel like everybody looks better. Yeah back then. Yeah, I felt like I'm like we were promoting fitness I mean you were a little more gray, but you look small in there I'm a lot more gray now. Come on, dude. Yeah. Well, I mean you were also coloring it though back then I don't think I colored it then. Oh really? No, I don't think so. Oh, okay. Wow. Okay. So yeah, you're this shit ramped up, dude I mean, you're you're gray. I have no hair. So there's there's a big difference there I was chunky and baby-faced. Yeah, would never smile because his teeth are all Wouldn't talk much. Yeah, so I I thought everyone looked it looked better. You know I'm saying I mean we'd look older You know not much you can do about that We've come a long way, but you know seven years ago when we started the podcast More often than not if somebody asked me, you know what I did I would and I said, oh I have a podcast no idea what it is more often than not people be like what's a podcast Yeah, that's how far it's come now. We're getting these 60 million dollar 100 million dollar deals For just podcast and you know, it's even what's crazy It still is a fraction of the power that talk radio used to have which means there's so much room or even youtube for that Matter. I mean, it's so much room to grow. Yeah, I you know, I don't know. I go back and forth on How much more will it grow? Do you think that It fully replaces radio. Yeah, really I do once they figure out how to how to Monetize better with adding in Partners and and ads like it unspotify. It's a little clunky still in my opinion What do you mean? In terms of like how they they squeeze in the ads and everything's at the very front of it And all you got to do is fast forward it and so I don't know like how that's all going to work out in terms of like Just sponsoring the show and like saying like hey, this is this is this show is just completely sponsored by so-and-so Yeah, everything's going digital. So all Every broadcast everything eventually is going to be replaced by digital and with with radio in the past In order to have analytics in terms of who's listening and how you're reaching people and who you can advertise to The potential with digital Anything and podcasting especially the potential is massive to target audiences To you know to see when people drop off when they listen now that doesn't mean the analytics great now I'm going to be the first one to tell you that analytics for podcasts suck Compared to other digital platforms like youtube has got way better analytics than podcast you but it's going to happen I guarantee you as the competition grows It's you're going to start to have very very good analytics and I do a hundred percent I think it's going to replace uh all broadcast radio and anything audio in that in that sense Yeah, I mean I I don't I don't see radio actually staying around that long. I just also think that there's so many other competing things like youtube for example like that just The the idea that you could actually That's a good point. I see what you're saying watch You know a television show on your phone today is is just incredible I mean back in the day when you were a kid, okay Uh, and you're at the pool you have the radio playing and you have music going. So okay, so you're But now you've had the option to possibly shoot up A show and stream television or you know out there on the pool deck Well, you know, it's a good things like that just didn't exist before You know, it's a good comparison would be interesting like how many people does like so the top Uh podcast, uh, I would say is probably Joe Rogan in terms of reach. Yeah, one of them, right? Yeah, him adam corolla. I would compare Joe Rogan's reach to Uh rush limbaugh or howard stern in their peak and I'd love to see what those numbers look like Like at howard stern's peak how many people Were listening to a show on a weekly or monthly basis versus what Joe Rogan is doing right now That'd be a good comparison to see. Yeah, that's that's that's interesting I don't know if you could find that dug if you could see like howard stern's Uh reach at his peak and then look up. Joe Rogan's uh current Reach and let's see what those two numbers look like and again podcasting still is In terms of, you know, total people listening minuscule compared to what radio was the youtube things Interesting because you do have the option of the visual element Which you know, a lot of people love that even more so than the audio and then the audio is also just nice Because you can if you're on the road or you're you know, doing work at the same time You could just listen to your show. So it's like you have options to just keep it going Well, and there's just so many other competent There's just other things that are fighting for your social media for that matter too Like just there's that distraction like when you listen to the radio back when we were kids They're just part of the reason why you did was also because there just wasn't a lot of other options of what you could be doing So you were limited to that where there's you know, social media is competing with that serious Radio is competing with that, you know, all the different stream eye heart radios The the Spotify's the iTunes the all the streaming services like so they're all kind of fighting for your attention and All of them are doing well But I don't know if you're going to see the same kind of dominance that you saw on radio and television back in the days But that that'd be an interesting step. So Howard Stern at at its peak It says here was syndicated to 60 radio markets and gained an audience of 20 million listeners at its peak So what does Joe Rogan have in comparison? I think Joe Rogan's probably He might have surpassed him. That's right. He might have been pretty pretty damn competitive Yeah, I mean from what numbers I've heard him Talk about on on the show. It was definitely more than that. Yeah, I know he's I mean, he's like I think he's like hundreds of millions a few hundred million a month. I believe yeah Well, there you go that that just goes to show you that although we have more variety and stuff You also have more ways to access it, right? Rogan, that's right. You could listen to it anywhere You could access it pretty much anywhere you have electricity Whereas with Howard Stern, if you weren't next to a radio, you weren't you weren't listening I wonder how they calculate that too because just like what we're learning about our our show, right is Um, we have two audiences now. We really do like this. We have the the podcast audience Which is different itunes and stuff, which is very different than our audience on youtube I mean, I think I on the show I think I mentioned that Or on my story the other day that our youtube audience was 80 20. I was wrong. That's actually 90 10 So 90 of our youtube audience are male listeners and younger So there are more in their 20s where the podcast is more of a 50 50 split and it's older like 30 35 range So and I'm sure there's some crossover I'm sure there's some people that listen and put a very small percentage of people Will listen to a podcast and then go watch the now here's my question I've heard this but I've never confirmed it is youtube generally male dominated or is it it is Yeah, the platform in general is that I think Doug and I have looked up that before isn't the platform just use is like Yeah, men use it far more than yeah, it's like 60 70 percent Really? Well, see that's got to change right because youtube is why do you say that because it's it's uh It's got lots of shows lots of information And at some point I would imagine it would balance out or or women on other platforms for watching videos Maybe maybe women are just doing more important shit. It's just us guys Let's get distracted. I mean, so maybe that is never going to change south. They're busy handling Where guys are a little bit you get off the couch and help me Hold on. I'm watching our conspiracy rabbit hole videos Yeah, I'm sorry honey. I'm yeah, I don't know. That's that's an interesting that's also too. Why um, you know, I don't know How big podcasting is there's a bit of a self-selection bias most people are more intelligent Growth-minded that are higher education. Yeah more income. Yeah that are consuming that content. So You know, maybe it really does well with that that you know demographic of people But maybe it doesn't get the broad or stream of people that listen to podcasts I mean, I have have you not noticed that in your own circle like the friends that I do have that are like Podcasts, they're my growth-minded type friends. They are but how I have podcast friends and I have youtube friends They're different. That's how I feel now. Here's the thing though. No offense youtube fans. I love the youtube guys Don't flame them both in the no no flames. I you know, they're just different. I never said anything I don't know. I don't want the smartest audience that exists You know, so here's one thing that I have noticed though is that that trend Has changed a little bit when we first started podcasting. It was definitely The big-time nerds that only listened now. You're getting more everyday people that listen I think podcasting lent itself well to that but as it becomes More and more and more popular everybody's gonna start listening to podcast. You know, I don't know if I agree with that That's like saying that everybody would listen to before podcasting that everybody would listen to talk radio Did you listen to talk? Were you a big talk radio guy? Well, see that's that's the thing There was lots of different kinds of talk radio, right? I know but were you a big personally? Were you a big talk radio guy in the morning commute? Yeah, everybody I mean, I younger back then too, you know, like I found myself like I would have never listened to talk radio But now I would like once I was Ah like late 30s I started to kind of get into podcasting obviously But like I was more interested in what people had to say versus before that. I was just music. Yeah, that was it That's me too music all the way. I didn't I didn't even in the morning morning commute. Yeah. No, I mean Lamontanelli or something I was yeah, there you go. I would I would listen. I mean again Now you're you're fast-forwarding to my 30s like if I'm listening to talk radio It was in my 30 in my 20s. I'm I got a cd in there Yeah, you know I'm saying and then as soon as mp3 players him. I've got my thing hooked up I don't want cds nuts. I don't want to listen to commercials. So I don't know I don't I don't know if it attracts. What was your cd? What was your favorite? What was your in your regular rotation? Oh my god one cd. You're asking. I don't know what was there one cd on repeat Yeah, that's what I'm saying Didn't you have one that was like your go-to that you just listened to no, I don't I don't listen changed her I mean, there's certain. I mean, I listen to probably I probably wore out my my tool cds more than almost anything You still listen to tool. I love tool. I mean, it's one of those undertow It's a it's a band that I feel like I can be in like all different types of moods And I still like to listen to it where a lot of other music I have to be in a very specific type of mood to listen to it Like I have to like I can't listen to too much heavy metal when I'm like just cruising in the car Like I can't do that's justing trips me out because listen to it. He literally Yeah, I know he literally meditates to the most I can fast sleep to it evil. Shit. Yeah, no I someone asked me the other day about what asked my most annoying thing about the two of you I forgot what I said about you but that was what I said about just probably the way I chew food or something Well, I normally get you on that one. It was something else that I I know. Oh, I think you sal sounds right even when he's wrong That's what I says. That's not annoying. That's an attribute. That's annoying super power. Yeah And then mine for Justin was like and I was thinking about because we were like, you know, it was quiet in the car We were heading up to truckie and it's just like I when I drive I actually like to be kind of in my head a little bit and like have him in my Yeah, I'm like, oh my god, bro. Can we just have some silence my heart going? Focus some easy listening jazz, you know, I was already I was already professing that to all the kids I've been working with for football. I'm like you guys need to Get yourself some metal CDs. Oh, I didn't say CDs, but start listening to metal Like whatever coach will whatever old guy Um, no, so you wait. Hold on. You're it's the metal mentality. Okay. This is what we need to establish So you told you told the the team the full because now you're coaching the team or the strength coach You literally told them go home and listen to that was their homework. Yeah, it's so rad Because listen it it provides like a hardening. It's it's it's like it's something that you're not wrong Like it's a mentality. It's it's a driver It's something that you bring into an intense situations Uh, the more you listen to it the more you get it and I just want to start really like planning those CDs Did you tell them specific bands and songs and stuff? Oh, yeah, I'm like Pantera, Sepultura, you know lamb of god Like like let's let's get in some of that real driving like like powerful music If you want to get strong and powerful you got to really like start like Like plugging it in if you weren't so far right right now. I'd kiss your face. Yeah, that's such a great And these kids are so lucky. Yeah, I swear to god. They have no idea how much they're gonna grow I'm on this mission and I just feel like everybody's so soft And and this is one cure metal cures the soft fluffy bullshit. You're gonna get you're gonna get parents I know you get some angry mom. Good come at me. Uh, my son is summoning demons in his room. What the fuck did you tell Well, there's there's positive metal, you know, it's really hard It sounds like demonic, but it's it's they don't talk about terrible stuff You know like like hey, brie. Like it's all positive. Yeah, the irony of the name. 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I saw them in Safeway. Yeah I took a pic for you guys Yeah, I get tagged on it quite a bit and it's not People aren't ordering it ordering it online from us that a lot of times people are just picking it up at the grocery store Yeah, so I want to see you all the different words already. Yeah speaking of supplements I've been reading more, you know, I always bring up creatine and how it's probably going to be at some point soon One of the most recommended supplements around just for health forget muscle building forget, you know strength that we already know it does that But did you guys know they're they're finding benefits now for arthritis? Wow Take creatine. It helps alleviate pain from arthritis Something to do with the blood flow like what what's going on? You know, it's it's improves a mitochondrial function improves strength And it's I guess it's got anti-inflammatory properties as a result But people who have arthritis who take creatine Will say that they will doesn't have an anti-inflammatory for the brain Like it was wasn't that part of the or is it just the cognitive cognitive benefits It's got some antidepressant effects too for some people some people will taste it and feel like their mood get lifted So this is a supplement. I've never recommended to like my dad My dad's got yeah, he's got joint pain up and down his spine and his his knees He's been working hard labor since he was a child. He grew up very poor Um, I'm gonna give my dad creatine and I'll report back to you guys. That's really interesting Isn't that interesting? Wow Doug are those all the stores? Another thing? Yeah, locally Safeway Walgreens home foods cvs target all carry super coffee. Oh, there you go It's super they've exploded. Hey, you know, you brought up sal the other day You were talking about the whole uh, jeff bezos and um, yeah, elan type of deal. Yeah, you know, I was reading Yeah, I was reading art. You know how much that he he donated this last this last year 2020 bezos. Yeah 10 billion dollars Whoo, yeah, how much how angry does that make you that they get targeted by media and politicians? And then people who are ignorant see that and say it's not fair without even knowing when it's not enough That's what I'm saying though. It's like I guess 10 billion. I know it's like Would you guys rather him been taxed five billion more dollars and then not gave any money towards any sort of great cause? Like I just think that's so interesting that we get you want to know something interesting inconvenient information Yes, and this is an objective fact objective fact capitalist societies with with freer markets, which most of the western world is including the scandinavian countries I hate it when people bring those up and say they're socialists. They're not they're free market-based Capital-based societies. They just have some elements of, you know, socially funded programs But they're very very free market when you look at countries that are Capitalistic the freer the market the more the more, you know innovation and wealth that people generate the more giving They are the more that they give to charity the more that they give time and donate time So it's not just money. They also donate more time to helping other people So it's it overall it produces a more giving Society and I know that goes contrary to Popular opinion, which says that there it's greedy or whatever But actually the numbers don't show that they actually show the opposite They show that we're more giving where we donate more of our time and energy Towards helping people. Yeah, his ex gave like six billion dollars. Yeah, something like that You know that she became instantly after the divorce like, uh, I think top 50 most wealthiest people choose the wealthiest Woman, right? I think she got that title. Yeah, she's like top 50 people Yeah, and her wealth is just growing still rapidly. I think she there's the article. That's cool to see. She's already like donating It's like that amount. It's crazy. Yeah, the article is actually more about her and like all that She does like a lot of like small companies that are trying to do like good like, uh, I forget some of the names but nothing I've ever heard of as far as like instead of just kind of throwing it Like one big foundation like her husband Uh does I think he does one for like climate change And it's like a big umbrella like type of foundation that he throws all of his towards Where she's like hand selected all these, you know, small companies that are going and doing stuff But yeah between the two of them 16 billion dollars towards, you know, what an awesome position to be in How how good would that feel to be able to write that check to it? Somewhere that you want the money to go to not that you're forced to give it to someone And you don't you don't believe in what they're doing, but rather you can pick an organization and you can say here's You know a million dollars or here's a billion dollars like how great would that be instead of it just getting taken from you And you have no idea where it's gonna go More bombs and drones. Yeah, we need a lot more of those Speaking of of countries and stuff like that. So news out of china They now allow their people to have three kids So wow lucky people How long was that how long was that law for long time? It was a long time So everybody there only has two kids or is it like one of those things? It's like it was a one child rule It was one child. Yeah for a long time For a long time you could only have one child and there were exceptions to being able to have two Which was messed up because we saw I mean obviously some of the priority was that it was gonna be a boy Yes, and then there was this issue Dude, uh, yeah, it was dark the black market for uh in china for aborting female You know babies was huge and abandoning Female babies so they would have a female and they'd say we want a male and they would literally abandon the baby There was a whole documentary on it. There was a documentary. Yeah, it's terrible. It's hard to watch so scared It's so terrible So they had the one child for 35 years 35 years and now that they can have three children People don't want to have three children Because the economy's gone up and in countries where the economy is good Populations go down a number of children go down. That's actually quite true as why are those related? People are more wealthy. They're not concerned about having children to take care of them When they get old that type of thing. Yeah, look at japan. Maybe like one and a half Children per per family. Yeah, is that what the average is? I think so And we're what are we two and a half here? We're 2.2 or 2.3 something like that I'll look it up. Yeah, it's on the average. I'll be the 0.2 What's wrong with your kid? That's the 0.2. He's just the 0.2 He's trying real hard But you imagine living in a country like that where they're like Hey, one kid or you're going to jail or all of a sudden you can have three. That's what's so scary I know it's just scared it to allow that kind of power to dictate your just living and being a human being I know it's crazy So what are they gonna do now that they want they obviously looking to grow their population now all of a sudden I wonder how they're gonna encourage people to have I don't know more than one kid Did you guys see the the john sena video where he was addressing something he got? Oh, yeah, why did he flamed for he got all kinds of heat? Yeah, because Apparently like he was he was promoting some movie launch that he was in but Acknowledged that taiwan was its own country and china did not like that And so he basically went on this like apologize really weird like apologetic video All in is it mandarin? I don't know what language it was, but it was definitely like Uh, it was this really bizarre Like china profession like they gave him a script and he's like oh, I'm so sorry, you know, oh really? I know that they're not a real country and blah blah blah And it's like dude like he just that's a very visible Example like we've seen you know other organizations like the mba and things that have to like move and shift around because of the Inner twined politics with china. Oh, yeah, well they have a lot I mean, I mean they got a lot of money that spend a lot of money on our market And they have a huge influence because of that Apparently it was like almost 60 or 70 of the the box office income came from china Is he getting roasted on a social media? Yeah, I'm sure I would think I mean there's been memes out the yin yang for that So yeah, yeah, it's uh, it's weird, isn't it? It's just strange It's it just to me. It's it's like it's alarming to to see somebody that's like this You know powerful guy like that like sort of just bound down. I mean, I don't think it's that strange or weird I think it's sad. I think it's it's sad. That's yeah It's more like like I don't want to see it. Let's right. It's like it's pathetic that you uh, I mean you care that much About you know, how much money you're making that you would like forget my integrity or forget like my morals Like whatever like whatever I have to say to make sure that the money keeps rolling It reminds me of like if all these countries were like monarchies, you know And like you have to go pay homage to the king and like go like you have to kneel like kneel And then they're just like, oh, yeah, we we take freedom of speech here for granted, don't we big time That's one of the most important freedoms that we have we can never let that go away because then you get caught Otherwise we'll end up like John Cena. Yeah, did you know that that when movies are made sometimes in Hollywood? Because China is now such a big market if China says we don't like this part, you know Then they'll move it or they'll say we want this doctor to be Chinese and instead of English or something then they'll actually change it and Manipulate it because the Chinese market now so big so you might like this cell I was I had this thought like about it was a scientific thought and it was back when You know the whole theory of Pangea and Like that that I'm like does this still stand today because I know like the scientific community kind of brought that up is like a potential possibility because of the way that Everything shifts with with plates That at one point a lot of these continents were really close One mega continent and it always has made sense to me because of all the different cultures around the world That were pretty damn similar but all of a sudden now we're really far apart like omex for example had like You know these statues that like really look like they had African features and you know This is in South America and it's like they didn't know what to do with that and you know and so I'm like Is this something that still holds and so I guess there's this whole Thought that there's like four different Ways that they think that in the future there could be another super continent So just one big huge continent because of the way it all You know shifts and might actually align and come back together again So it was it was pretty funny like I don't know I'd have to get dug to kind of pull Pull up like those four wait So they think okay, so obviously the the the tectonic plates shift and so the theory was that they were all together Then they separated and spread out and so what they're saying is that at some point they'll come back and converge Yeah, some in different organized organized ways and so there's four different like I wonder how long that was versions of that I do not in our lifetime. Well, it says it's uh, it was like something like They move at a couple inches or something like per year. So it's not like it would take like millions of years Like like to even like have this happen. But there's sent a message in a bottle for someone to get later on. Yeah Yeah, we knew this was here. Yeah, like finally we're like on shore with you Yeah, have you guys ever heard red stories of people finding messages and bottles that are like 50 years old Oh that old. Yeah. Oh, no, I haven't heard. I read one a long time ago Where there was a young lady that found a message in a bottle and it was It was like a letter written to somebody It was like 50 or 60 years old and she located the grandchild of the person. No way. Yeah, and delivered the letter Oh, that's cool. That is really does that make you want to make one? I feel like that makes me want to do one It's glitter. Yeah I'm throwing a message at the bottle. So here's the garbage in the ocean. I forget. All right. So you got nova pangea Which is new pangea. Yes. Do you have pangea ultima? Which actually has it's kind of cool. It's like this conglomerate, but it also has like a water Feature in the middle. So it's just like this huge lake in the middle And then you have orica like a u r i c a And then amasia. So that's your four different versions of amasia. What's gonna happen? Hold on That's america's in asia combined. Yeah, is that what that is? That's already happening Real creative with the names Yeah, my votes on that one. Yeah We're already kind of merging welcome to afra europe for Europe. We used to be africa and europe Wow doug pulled us up. Look at this a perth family So this is somebody obviously from perth has found the world's oldest known message in a bottle 32 years after it was thrown into the sea. Yeah Wow, dude, it looks like it was typed. Is it typed? Is it typed doug's zoom in on it and see if we can read it 132 years ago. Wow That that is what if you open it up it's like 132 years old and it's like, yeah, please help. Oh, shit. Yeah, sorry I got like a weird like cartoon. Yeah, I got this a little bit too late. Hey speaking of of help Doug, can you pull up what nci is offering? For free to fitness coaches. Oh speaking of them. I'm while you're looking that up. I'm really excited So I just messaged jason. So getting him out here I think he's gonna fly out in the next week or two So we can talk a little more detail about the project that we're all working on So that will be going live for our audience that that want to get enrolled in it and that's the I don't know the name of the course that we're gonna we're gonna name it But basically you have access to The four of us and in addition to jason on a weekly basis and I know he's putting like a masterclass, right? 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So this is really really cool Obviously, we've been working with nci now for a while one of our favorite online courses for coaches and trainers And one thing that we always work out with jason is like give people give our listeners more free stuff Because it'll sell itself. So give them free information. Let them in let them see how it works And then you know, they'll either get just great value for free or they'll decide to do Yeah, I'm really excited for this project that we have coming up. It's going to be a good one. Yeah Stop real quick before you continue with this podcast head over to mind pump free.com Check out what we got for free. We put together a bunch of free stuff Only for our listeners again. It's mind pump free.com head over there Get a bunch of free stuff before it goes away. All right. Enjoy the rest of the podcast All right. Our first caller is christine from Idaho. Hey christine. How can we help you? Hey guys, uh, thank you so much for taking my call. Yeah, no problem So I'm 30 years old and I work full-time as a paramedic and also part-time as a reserve firefighter My goal is to work full-time for a local fire department But I'm really concerned that my strength is not where it needs to be to be successful I'm I'm five foot six and about 145 pounds When I use the in-body scale at my local gym, it puts me at about 27% body fat While I think my upper body strength is adequate I really struggle with my lower body strength and I think a lot of this has to do with the past injury 10 years ago. I was hit by a car the cars bumper hit the back of my leg just below my knee and it tore my calf open After the initial surgery, they weren't sure if they were going to have to amputate the leg But thankfully I was able to keep the leg But I have some pretty severe deficits from that injury My ankle mobility is extremely limited I have posterior tibial tendon dysfunction a collapsed arch And some pretty significant nerve damage. I can't push off with my toes or pull my foot inward I wear an orthotic in my shoe to help with the arch support But otherwise there's not much else that can be done to help with the nerve damage or the shortened Achilles I do see a physical therapist regularly from my leg and he's working with me to try to increase my mobility And my strength was my ankle in my foot I've been trying for this job for uh upwards of five years now I've made some pretty good accomplishments physically considering my injury I passed the mile and a half run that you have to do in 11 minutes and 30 seconds I've done a pack test, which is the wildland test, which includes a 45 pound weight vest and a three mile hike I've done the CPAT, which is the national test for entry-level firefighter And I also participated in a fire academy this past year and earned my firefighter one certification The problem is I feel like I've nearly had to kill myself to do these things I don't give up easily on my goals, but I feel really pushed to the limit physically to achieve these things Every time I go on shift at the local fire department here. I just feel really apprehensive I won't be able to perform adequately during a structure fire call Um, as I said, I've been trying for this goal for several years But I just feel like I've really reached a ceiling on my physical strength and ability I tracked my calories and I'm eating about 3 000 calories a day With 280 grams of that being protein I do full body workouts three to four times a week with phased rep ranges progressive overload and deload weeks I commute on my bike and usually total anywhere from three and at the most 10 miles a day Of course, my sleep is affected by my professions. I work at 24 hour shifts Usually two to four 24 hour shifts a week So the sleep is is a little more challenging for me for for that reason Um, I I just feel like I'm constantly pushing myself to be better physically and I'm just not seeing the results It's really frustrating to see other girls, uh, even locally in these local departments that Uh seem to perform a lot better than me and are a lot stronger than me And I just I'm not quite sure what I'm missing here I I even follow, you know athletes on instagram that have are have one leg amputated and wear a prosthetic And they're able to squat with one leg more than I can squat with two Uh, so I understand this is a really loaded question with the added complexity of the past injury But I was just hoping with the information I provided you might be able to advise me on my nutrition or workout Or a possible exercise variations to just help me progress and achieve my goals. Yeah, no, wow. Yeah, wow That's a lot right there. Yeah, so we need a little more backstory Please so First of all, you're a badass and I appreciate what you do. Um, that's great. So real quick I want a little clarification. You're eating 280 grams approaching today. Did you say that? Yeah, I eat a ton of meat. I eat pro I eat, uh, you know grass-fed beef chicken eggs Okay, why so much? Yeah, that's that's why so much that's that's excessive amount. That's excessive for me. Yeah, why so much? Yeah, yeah answer that I guess it's just kind of the way my eating habits have developed I eat a ton of fruit and vegetables and then for my fats mostly like nuts. I don't eat a ton of like Processed grains So I guess to just kind of try to keep my calories high and ends up being more protein But I can try to adjust that if you think yeah, so a couple things I'm going to recommend One and this one's iffy, but I think you'll probably respond better Doing it this way. I would cut your protein down. It's way too much protein Not that it's necessarily bad, but you're probably noticing reductions in performance Because of a good chunk of that protein is just getting turned into glycogen. So you're not utilizing all those amino acids It's not it's just way too much for someone your size mention the amount of time it takes for that to convert over into that And then and then you're doing stuff. That's probably Glycolytic. Yeah, like lots of glycolytic stuff. So I would take that protein and bring it down to 160 grams at the most and then I would take the rest of it and eat it eat some complex carbohydrates easily digestible It could be white rice. It could be Sweet potato things that you find that are easily digestible. That should improve structured around your workouts, too Yeah, that should improve your performance. And then here's a second and this one's very obvious for me point You're overdoing everything. Okay. You're definitely Probably a high achiever. You're doing a lot of exercise a lot of writing I keep hearing you saying that you're you can't push yourself past this point and there's nothing I can do It sounds like you're hitting you feel like you're killing yourself going through all this Yeah, you're you're I've trained people like you and then in addition that you allude to not getting the best sleep either So yeah, I would take your workouts. I would cut them down Do resistance training twice a week. So not three or four two days a week Focus on building strength. Don't go to failure practice the movements that you can do appropriately So I'm with your particular injury If you can squat then I would squat if that doesn't work do split stance style exercises Continue working with the physical therapist improve your mobility, but cut that stuff down You're doing a lot a lot a lot a lot way too much stuff and your body is just not able to recover from what have you been able to do Exercise wise for your legs Um, well, it's it's just very challenging. So, uh, you know a few months ago I was able to be doing squats and cleans Deadlifts recently. I've had like a hip thing flare up, you know Again talking about, you know pushing yourself I it feels like every time I start to like creep up on on my max lifts For my lower body. I always end up getting some sort of injury that sets me back again Well, I mean yeah a couple things if you're able to do those so I would also um I would follow maps anabolic follow it to a t Uh two day a week routine like salas saying I would do uh for you because of the your uh situation with your calf I would actually do heel raise uh squats. So everywhere that there's squats in there that way you can work on range of motion Right, so the limiting factor probably for your squat depth I'm imagining is your ankle mobility and the lack of it in that one side So you you were an example of somebody who for this reason I would allow to to put your heels elevated while while you squat Yeah, and I would I would focus there and I and I would I would suggest even going more unilateral work and split stance for your legs Mainly because of there's still a stability issue if you say you keep coming up to a certain point and then Inevitably hitting You know that point where you feel like you're you're gonna get an injury again There's something that's not being addressed and and to go through that for for quite a long time You're gonna still build a lot of strength and support But you're gonna find that your hips and your ankle uh are going to be challenged more uh stability wise Which is going to be a good thing overall not only that there's there's not a lot of benefit for you to be pushing max lifts either Right. I mean I I don't think I would ever allow you to do right at least right not right now Where you're currently at what our goals are, you know, less than four to five reps on anything So you should be at most working at 80 intensity. So back off the weight I mean the the things that you're gonna have to do as a firefighter It aren't aren't gonna be you know a max-loaded back squat You're gonna have to do things that require a little bit of of grit stamina endurance and some strength And so your training should model that so I wouldn't be constantly trying to push the weight trying to see how much more you Can lift especially if your body keeps telling you otherwise you keep getting hurt Yeah, I would look at these the following symptoms. Uh look for issues with inflammation So inflammation creeping up in your joints Look at your hair. Are you noticing that your hair is either getting, you know, dry or more straw like or if it falls out Notice your skin. Is it dry? Are you noticing? You know patches of dryness or oiliness in your skin, of course sleep issues libido is your libido erratic in other words, is it either sometimes really high or non-existent And then look at hot and cold tolerance Do you find yourself In a room with other people and being like is it really hot in here? Is it just me or is it really cold? Or is it just me? These are all signs that you're you're just pushing your body Too hard too long too often now There's nothing wrong with the mental toughness that comes from that you're going to need that But to me it what's what you're from what you said what screams to me is you're overdoing everything You're just pushing your body too much not getting enough sleep and your body is just you're spinning your tires In the dirt so back off on some stuff Allow your body to adapt because it sounds like your body right now is primarily focused with healing It's trying to just keep up and heal but not really given a chance to Adapt and I bet I'm probably not the first person to tell you that you overdo all this stuff and it's probably Something that's been a part of your personality for a long time. Am I guessing correctly? You you are I think the the biggest thing that That is hard for me is feeling this pressure to achieve these physical goals and just always feeling like Like I I don't do enough especially like the comparison trap is a bad one But it's really hard when I look at Other girls and they seem to be training more than me and being very successful. Whatever who cares So don't worry about them because not to mention instagram is a terrible place to to judge that And you got to do you look at what's your goal? Is your goal to look at other people and copy them or is your goal to be the best version of yourself maximize yourself Yeah, so here's a deal you've got you sound like uh and based on what you do I would assume you have incredible mental fortitude I'm going to want you to direct that towards what i'm talking about because here's your challenge Your challenge is going to be to do less not more and that's going to be hard for you So meet it like a challenge So when that voice creeps up in your head that says you're not doing enough you're not good enough You should be doing more remember that you're mentally tough and that you're not going to allow yourself to sabotage yourself Like you've probably been doing for a long time by overdoing everything So try that give it a shot and give it For at least four weeks, but I say give it even at least eight weeks And if you start to see your performance improve I'm right then that means i'm right and stay the course don't do this when the performance goes up Don't then say to yourself. Oh cool. I'm in the clear now. I can start Hammering myself again. Don't do that do what works Don't do what your your insecurities tell you to do does that make sense trust the process Yeah, so so keep the calories right where they at Make those adjustments to the macros and then just cut back You might even be able to you might even be able to cut back a little bit on the calories if depending on how much Volume we reduce in your training. So I'm not sure what the two-day week routine How much that's going to be a reduction in what you are currently doing You may be able to scale back to 25 to 2700 calories You know, I wouldn't even do that yet because uh, if you're in that state of hpa access dysfunction You're going to want to feed your body I wouldn't reduce calories unless you absolutely need to 27% body fat's fine You're you're not in a bad place body fat percentage wise you can perform phenomenally at that body fat percentage So I would just keep your calories Right around where they're at for now. We can always readjust later on Drop the protein increase the complex carbohydrates from easily digestible sources And then back off on the intensity and the volume of your workouts and let your body Adapt allow it's get out of the way and let your body do what it wants to do Okay, all right. All right. Now. Do you have maps on a ball at christine? Uh, I I do not okay. We're gonna send that to you. So at least you'll have that to kind of follow a template Well, thank you guys. Um, I I will do what you suggest and I'll I'll check back in with you and let you know how it goes Yes, please do check in back with us. Thank you Okay, thanks guys Some of the hardest people to work with she holds the record for the question for sure Most detail. Yeah, yeah Yeah, we didn't have to ask questions that way though. Yeah But I how hard is it to train people like it's like harder to train someone like this than it is to train someone who you have to get you know motivate because It's like they're taking it all on. You know, that's just the mentality I mean the tough one the positive of her going on and on and on about everything was it was a dead giveaway that That's how the way she does everything is all out. Okay. Yes, and then this and this is yeah Even the way she asked her question was all out You know, it's like all all out on the protein all out on the workouts all out on my mobility all out on the testing Like everything is all out like it's okay. You can rest. Yeah, it is pretty good for your body It is amazing though. I've had clients like this and when I finally convinced them to do what I say and just to trust me It's like they're blown. Oh my god. I had no idea. It's like I know I think it takes a lot of conversations. I think just reducing her protein and potentially calories is going to make a difference Three your body think about doing all that work Lacking and sleep and then also trying to digest and process all that 260 grand. Yeah, it's a lot of protein. Yeah, that's a lot And and for uh, she's not a big girl You know what I'm saying? So she's that much that much protein and calories to be digesting while you're lacking in sleep and pushing the body All day long her body is just on Over time. Let's like dude, let it rest. Yeah, there's her body is literally taking More than half of that protein turning it into glycogen, which is a long much longer process than just eating carbohydrates It's a total waste. Yeah Our next caller is heather from north carolina. Hey heather. How can we help you? Hi, um, so I um I'm getting married in october. Um, and right now i'm a travel nurse Just to give a little context. I have a background mostly in endurance training marathons Half iron man's that kind of thing So i'm looking for just some recommendations for the direction that I should go with my Um fitness regimen as I move towards the wedding I've never really had an aesthetic goal or like a timeline for When I want to like look or feel a certain way And to give a little bit of background for my weight training. I have about four years of somewhat weightlifting experience Um, and when I say weightlifting, I mean picking up and putting down weights About four years ago, but I really started weight training about two years ago With power lifting olympic lifting and that kind of thing Um and crossfit. I'm sorry guys Um, it's okay, but any any recommendations that you have them. I'm open to them I'd love to hear your thoughts. Yeah, so how much time do we have again? What's the what's the time frame for the wedding? Yeah Um, so I get married october 9th october 9th. And so what's your ultimate goal? Are you is there an aesthetic goal or you look is there a performance goal that you have for that? um, I think short term like pre-wedding more aesthetic but long term I'm an athlete. I've always been an athlete. I think performance would be a great direction to kind of transition maybe after the wedding Um, but yeah for the wedding itself Aesthetic would be the goal. Well, it's static focus right now. Yeah, if it's aesthetic then I would focus Uh, really make the cornerstone of your workouts Resistance training. That's what's going to give you the sculpted Look, it's what's going to speed up your metabolism make it easier to get lean And then nutrition those two things are going to give you the aesthetic goals that you have now after the wedding What you can do is you could trade resistance training workouts for performance or athletic type workout So let's say you like to run Um, and let's say leading up to the wedding your lifting weights three or four days a week Which is probably a good routine after the wedding You could back down to two days a week of resistance training or one day a week of resistance training And then run two or three days a week. Uh, but leading up to the wedding if it's aesthetic Train like a bodybuilder and look at your nutrition Those two things will get you looking the best the fastest versus anything else. Well, we even we have a little more time If i'm doing my math, right? We have like four to five months. So We we and I me what I would do with you is I would run Anabolic first and then I would trans and then I would transition you into maps aesthetic And then when you get done with your wedding, then I'd pull you back to Either a one day a week with anabolic with your running or like a a maps performance type of a program So that's what your programming would look like for me and that you have plenty of time So I think that we could do a lot I think the anabolic is a perfect transition from what you're coming from and a great place in star shoots Also the way we we wrote it with that intention to start most people up now Technically, I would normally move you to performance But since we have an aesthetic goal and we have a time frame I would skip you right into maps aesthetic. So that's what the programming would look like Yeah, just challenge yourself because it is going to be a completely different shift of focus I know for me specifically I'm always kind of trying to voice this that you know, I don't really focus on hypertrophy that much But when you do go all in that direction, your body's gonna, you know, definitely change and it's going to respond In a different way. It's a totally different way to to train and stimulate the body So just trust trust in in the process of that I know a lot of athletes like have a hard time because they want to jump back and do functional type exercises and things that will apply more towards like their true passion, but you know, go all in would be my suggestion Okay, and yeah, and just to give a little bit more background. I'm a travel nurse now. So right now Um, when I'm traveling with I have about 170 pounds including a bar That I'm working with and then I have 25 pound dumbbells Um, and the last like week or so I've I've done starting strengths With like the mark ripped help program Um, and I kind of thought that was maybe a good way to start transitioning into doing more weightlifting for the time being Yeah, that's that's a that's a solid routine. Uh, but okay I would go maps anabolic maps aesthetic and you have enough you have enough weights to be able to do both programs Both of them come with a dumbbells only version as well So they can both be modified for the equipment that you have. Do you have access to either one of those programs? Um, I don't all right. We'll send that over to you. Okay Well, thank you so much. Yeah, and congratulations on uh getting married. Yeah, thank you very much. Try good luck Thank you Yeah, the the I want to look good But I also like to run like to run a lot. Yeah, I mean, I'll this I'm not necessarily, you know talking crap about running But when it comes to aesthetics and getting lean and having the sculpted look It's not the ideal way to do that. It's far from it. Yeah, this is a completely different goal So yeah, that's again, it's the same on the other end of it. It's like I want my cake, but I want to eat it too It's uh, you know, it's the athletes I can identify with this In terms of like having to then Do what I don't really normally do because um, you know, that's that's what's gonna have the most impact on my body I think it's because everybody has a person in their life like that, right the the friend who Who runs and they have like that great physique also and so you see that you're like, oh, you know Well, he does this or she does all that and I like that and I like to do that It's just Wherever your your starting point is if your goal is aesthetic, you know to change your physique, right your body composition Uh running is just not the ideal way to get there now If you get there you build the physique you want and then you want to introduce running into the routine Because you love doing it that I think that's a great strategy and there's nothing wrong with it I think it's a very healthy way to live But people just for some reason still think that That is like a really good strategy to get well, especially when you have a timeline, you know, like like, yeah It's just be specific with with your goals Our next caller is Juan from kebek canada. Hey, what's up? Juan? How can we help you? Hey guys, so first of all I've been listening for over two years and I have nothing but respect for y'all And so please keep up the good work. Thank you. Thank you And so a little bit of background on my question. It's regarding my knees so since the last year due to like the Epidemic and the lockdown I had a I had quite the Like the the change in my lifestyle. So my activity levels decreased uh, I stopped walking a lot and The gyms got closed over here for over eight months And that was pretty pretty hard on my lifestyle. I was at the time I was following maps and a bollocks So I was lifting consistently Then after that after a couple months into lockdown I noticed a clicking noise on my knees So every time I would go past 90 degrees on the squat And I would hear like this grinding noise is grinding make Sound that it would be just it's just a noise like it doesn't like I don't feel it It doesn't hurt, but it's just it's just an annoying noise. That's not normal, of course So I did a couple of things. So first of all, I just thought it was a lack of priming so I got into priming Uh that like it helped just a little bit, but it didn't have like Big effect on it Then I did some research and I thought It was a muscle imbalance so Like there's several muscles attached to the knee joint and I thought it was a muscle imbalance So I started Phone rolling and I I also modified I took a maps and a bollocks and I modified it So it wouldn't be so heavy on my quads because I noticed my quads were getting bigger Than you know, my posterior shame on my on my legs So I modified my ups and a bollocks And that's what I've been doing so far and so my question is Can the clicking noise be due like to the muscle imbalance Or is it just another factor such as mobility of my ankles for hips Or just my posture in general when I work out It's it's it's gonna welcome to get an older one. Yeah It's it's gonna be it's either gonna be your hips or your ankles It's probably where it's gonna so feet ankles or hips So I would do it's mobility work on both of those on a regular basis like daily I would do, you know, two 10 15 minute sessions a day Working on mobility in those areas and then when you do your squats and your lunges Go lighter go lighter for a while so you can focus on working on Better connection and and mobility a couple weeks ago on my instagram I I posted a video in my garage squatting barefoot if you turn the volume up on it You can hear my ankles and my joints Like in my knees the entire time It doesn't hurt it doesn't bother me sometimes I notice it like when I go out and I squat and I'm pretty cold So if I didn't do like a really good job of of warming my body up and priming really well And I kind of get into it. I noticed I you can hear it But it it's pretty it's pretty common And if it's not causing any pain and you don't see any major discrepancy in your movement In other words, if you look at your squad and video it and it looks pretty damn good like you're moving really nice I I don't think that I would assume that it's a a muscle imbalance, you know One of the best ways to test like a muscle imbalance like a discrepancy in left or right is to do something like The 90 90 and prime pro and does one side Look way different the other can I do this internal rotation on one side? But the other side I can't do it at all That would that would point me in the direction that there's probably a muscle imbalance going on that we need to address There's a really good chance that you're just the clicking you hear is like air and the joints just kind of popping and If it's not hurting you it's it's it's pretty normal Yeah, really just to be concerned if it's not tracking properly and you can feel if it's like an instability issue where You know your your knee might travel inwards or outwards a little bit more when you're squatting But if it's just like a noise and a clicking noise I mean I'm going slower and adding more tension is going to allow more support around the joints always but Yeah, like Adam said it's a lot of times like even my shoulder I do a lot of work a lot of mobility work on my shoulder and every now and then it clicks And it's just kind of one of those things that you just kind of work through But I'm always trying to address it at least and slowing down and adding and priming and warming my body up properly Yeah, you mentioned grinding so there's clicking and then there's grinding and also pain right if you feel pain And if you feel grinding that's something to pay attention to which is different than just popping and clicking What's which oftentimes doesn't mean anything bad. So if you are feeling grinding other under the kneecap Uh, then these are all dance moves by the way. Yeah, not that kind of grinding just popping locking Yeah, I'm into it if you are feeling pain or grinding Then I would focus on working on the hip ankle and foot mobility every single day Going lighter on your leg exercises And allowing your mobility to improve until the point where you don't feel those things if it's clicking and there's no pain It and you've got good form. It's probably nothing to worry about Did you only notice this after you put on weight during the pandemic or has this always been kind of something you've noticed? No, I noticed it after the pandemic. I assume it was just like I stopped moving as much as before. So I just assumed it was like, you know lack of movement in general Was it like just a little bit of weight you put on or did you get like just in fact? I mean, that's that's all we had it. We don't say I don't and don't feel bad Justin went through the same thing during the pandemic. We had a CGI His his body in there. I gained the coven 19. I'll just be honest. Yeah, his glutes were grinding. It was really Yeah, that's good. No, I didn't put on that much weight It was just a couple of pounds. I think it was main mainly muscle So But it was mainly on my on my legs though. Okay, you're probably good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks. Thanks for calling one You already have prime pro. Is that correct? Yeah, I do have prime pro. Okay, and you're following what anabolic right now. What are you following right now? Yeah, I'm following anabolic at home Right now. I was hesitant to go back to the gym because like I knew I would go heavy like You know, like I would have the tendency to go heavy and like the squats and stuff like that So I just wanted to ask like, you know, like you're telling me to go lighter for a couple of Man, I would say wait months maybe. Yeah I would also consider moving into maps performance after that too. I think that would do you some good. Okay. Yeah Okay. Yeah, I can do that. All right. Perfect one. Thank you Okay, awesome. Thank you guys. Bye Yeah, the clicking versus pain, you know, that's a big one, right? I mean really what's that sound? It's normally isn't a I mean if there's no pain, it's almost always the air in the joints or even like, uh, like the muscle fibers like kind of Yeah, it could be a tendon popping over something flopping over each other Yeah, and then it's what an active tissue not really yeah respond Yeah, and the pot and in pot is like when you crack your knuckles It's like imagine taking a suction cup and pulling it off a window That's what the sound is coming from it's it's alarming though. So I'll get you know, I give it to But it's if it hurts Or if you feel grinding that's very different like grinding could be issues that'll lead to pain typically Yeah, and I know I mean there's it's a distinct different feeling like there's popping and then there's like oh man throughout the whole rep I feel my knee Grind almost like you need wd-40 in there or something like that. Did you hear that video that I posted a couple weeks ago? I didn't oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, turn the sound up. Yeah, a few people commented. They noticed it. What's that sound? Yeah, you can hear Yeah, that's they come down the sound of age I do notice it though more I do if I neglect priming really well if I do a good job of like priming and then doing like some So another thing that I I've been I've been doing lately that I like in my garage is I I have the suspension trainer attached to the prx And I'll do like 30 like body weight squats and I use the suspension trainer to help me stay Oh, yeah upright and to kind of pinch my shoulder and I just I bust out 30 full range real deep squats And then I do some priming and I do that with costx squats I'll hold on to the suspension trainer get Try and get real deep on one side and then move to the other and get that lateral activation that for me At least that's what helps the most. Yeah. Yeah Our next caller is andrew from georgia. What's up andrew? Hey, how's it going? Good. What's going on? Good so, um, I've been a trainer for just under a year and I started chiropractic school About six months ago. So since I started school, I haven't been able to work out as much as I did before I'm just sitting in class a lot studying most of the day So I've been putting on some extra body fat Um, and about two months ago I reduced my calories cut out a lot of the junk food I could eat Um, and I've been doing about two to three full body workouts a week But I'm still seeing the fat Come on. So I was just wondering what you guys would recommend for Uh, changing training style or frequency or just focused more on nutrition Okay, what one of our programs are you following? Uh, none. Well, that is your first problem. Yeah big mistakes. That's your first your first problem Yeah, I would go I would go maps anabolic. Uh, there's a dumbbell only version in there So follow that but honestly the the thing you can do that'll have the biggest impact Is your nutrition? That's like adjusting nutrition rather than trying to burn more calories or add workouts To make up the difference and oftentimes people are like, oh, I you know, I reduce my calories But they don't really they're not tracking or they don't realize how much they reduced them That'll have the biggest impact. There's I mean cutting your calories appropriately We'll do more to get you lean than adding additional workouts at this point Another suggestion. So this is actually uh close to home for me right now. In fact, uh, Katrina and I were talking about this last night Um, she was like adam, you're fat still. Yeah. Yeah. So I've been I've been intentionally trying to lean out So I've tightened my diet up really well. I'm consistently training about three four times a week. Um But I cannot I cannot get over how sedentary I've become over this last year and I think that was A lot of what the job is is is changed to I have a commute now I sit at home a lot And I just I I'm not getting the regular activity that I was and so even though my diet is cleaned up and Looks ideal as far as the balance and I'm not over consuming I'm still not eating in a deficit enough for my body to Really lean out but then I'm also in this crazy predicament of wow Well, I'm not eating very many calories if I reduce my calories much more than I'm also going to have to I'll be missing my protein target and I want to maintain my mass So it's become very important for me to make sure I get out and get like an hour to two hours of walking throughout the day And so, you know, that is a must for me. Otherwise, uh, I'm not moving enough To really drop and lean and I'd have to reduce my calories to a number that I don't like I don't like being in the low 2000s for a guy my size. I should be consuming a lot more calories than that. So I've just opted to make sure that I get out and get that hour to two hours of walking every day So that may be a suggestion depending on where your calories are. So, uh, I would I would want more detail If which way I would drive you. I mean you could potentially I don't know you could be eating 3,500 calories and I'd say well then Andrew, let's just reduce your calories by 500 calories and I bet you start to lean out But if you are like me in the mid 2000s Which isn't very high for me as it is and I'm and I'm training and I want to lean out I don't want to go down to 2000. So instead I'll pick up more activity. So where would you say you are? I I know a couple years ago. My maintenance was around 3000 um And I dropped I think I'm around like 2700 right now because I didn't want to drop too much because I'm Got that hard gainer type of body. So I was worried about this um losing muscle because I'm not eating enough, but Um, yeah, right now I'm probably around 25 to 2700 So a very similar predicament as me. Yeah, what is your macro ratio look like? um Like one to one for protein and body weight. So I'm trying to get around 200 grams of protein and then Like 20 fat The rest carbs. Yeah, how tall are you and how much do you weigh? You said two six four run 200. Oh my god, you're exactly me. Okay. You're literally your body Yeah, your body type Your your your current calories and your current problem is the same as mine, right? Like literally right now So the answer for myself that I'm doing is just that I don't want to I don't want to cut any more calories Then where where you're currently at or where I'm at and so and I know that I'm just sedentary And so I don't know if you look back just like a week or two You'll see on some of the old episode. Well, just recent episodes. I'm wearing my Fitbit again I was doing that for the last two weeks. I wanted to get an idea of where I was I don't know if you use tools like this. This is where I find this extremely valuable And I'll look at it and go. Oh, wow. It looks like for the last two weeks I'm averaging, you know 3,500 to 6,000 steps a day on average So then right away. I know. Okay. Well, my new goal is I just got to at least get 10,000 every day Some days that only requires a half hour walk some days it requires an hour and a half walk So, uh, I think that's a really good place for you to start Uh, if you want to see yourself leaning out without having to significantly reduce calories Gotcha Yeah, and your weight training like so you do what two to three times a week and is it total body full body workouts? Like what does that look like? Yeah, full body workouts just dumbbells at home. Um, And since most of my classes are just online. So sometimes I've split up my workouts do a little bit in the morning finishing the afternoon Yeah, so I mean in terms of muscle preservation, uh, like really focusing on your strength training and keeping that Going with uh, well, we always suggest our best program for that is maps anabolic Uh, and that's something that I would definitely suggest in terms of like also You know adjusting your your calories making sure like the nutrition part is solid because that's really what's going to control Most the body composition, but to preserve muscle You know to stay to stay in that strength training phase would be ideal Yeah, all right, and we're going to send you maps anabolic if you don't have it. Okay. Yeah, awesome. Thanks so much No problem, man. Thanks for calling You know something that's that a lot of people don't realize is The type of volume and training that requires you to build muscle Is not at all the same kind of training of volume that is required to keep muscle You can get away with way less training to maintain your physique than you did Yeah, so well if you're like pushing your body and you're building muscle and building strength and then You're like, oh my gosh. I'm so busy because of work or school or you know other Circumstances and you back off on it. I mean you could literally cut your volume down by half and you'll probably lose minimal Strength and muscle. I mean keeping muscles a lot easier than building it. He's literally in the exact same position He's not as big as you though, right? He's only 200 pounds. You're like 200 He's a little leaner. So he's a hard gainer So for sure it sounds like I mean if you're at 200 pounds six four So I'm obviously I'm more like 230 and six six three. So I'm thicker more more. So he's probably Concerned about reducing calories just like I was you reduce calories on a guy like that And he's gonna drop down below his protein intake for his muscle. He doesn't want to lose that So I just was literally having this conversation with Katrina. And I was like, man, I'm Normally would be leaning out based on I know what I'm eating. I know where my my maintenance normally is but it's just I'm not moving. Yeah being sedentary. That's the hardest thing It's a mother fucker deal with right and people don't you don't you don't calculate it like this But you don't think about You know we in your head if you if you do a hard training session, let's say four or five times a week You're like, I'm active. I'm active. Yeah, you think that way But what you don't realize is that one hour of hard training may burn 400 carry you so far 400 calories or so it doesn't matter where in 10 hours a day you're sitting Well, my where I'm getting out here is, you know Six thousand steps of walking in the day Okay, which is probably a good hour and a half to two hours walking ends up being more calories burn in just that So you're you you don't really compute that or realize that when you're when you're training you automatically just assume You're an active person. You just have to be extra Conscious of any opportunity to get up move around. That's right. And that's really gotta be it Our next caller is harry from australia harry. What's going on, man? Hello, how's it going? Good. Good. How can we help you? Awesome. So, um, I just had a question regarding, uh, like my one rep max calculations on the power lifting program. So I recently bought the The strength and power lifting programs And I got to the, you know, there's like an intro section There's a strength portion and then there's the peaking portion And I was in the intro portion and I was doing the, you know, at the end of the three weeks you take your abrat max on the last set of the exercise and essentially I was heading towards that point where I got it and I put my eight rep max in And the numbers that were coming up for my one rep max were quite low below what I knew my one rep max was so like uh squats for instance I think my one rep max came up at like 80 Something kilos and I I just recently done. Oh, you guys are in pounds Also, it's like times 2.2 or something. We can do math. That's all right. Okay, cool Um, so it's like 80 something kilos, but I know I I've done like a few weeks early I'd done like 100 kilos for or 220 pounds for for five um So I knew I was in a little bit of a like I'd peaked when I'd done that so it was maybe a bit lower, but I was basically wondering Do I need to Sort of manually adjust those calculations to reflect what my one rep max actually is or yeah Should I just trust the process and just maybe like not exhaust my central nervous system and and uh Do something closer to what well the program is reflecting Harry both both options are are possible Okay, so first of all, this is this is one of the greatest challenges of of creating digital programs for Millions of people is that there's always going to be this individual variance and uh, when you use, you know Calculators that are built on the internet to hopefully work for most people. It's not always going to work for everybody Especially eight reps too, which is something we agreed for it was more, you know towards the beginners that were Introducing them towards power lifting. So there's some other calculs that might be a little more Accurate in terms of you know coming up with your one that's right and to Justin's point And the reason why we went with this type of a calculator was for that We knew that we were going to attract people that have never power lifted before and we'd always rather them Focus more on form and technique and maybe a little bit lighter towards their their one rep max Then we're here. We are talking to someone like you who's a little bit more advanced understands it is so one Yes, you could totally adjust it up because you know your one rep max better than the obviously the average person Getting introduced to this program and then there's the other option of Actually just following it to a tee all the way through and seeing what the potential benefits are because One of the things I've seen with some of my power lifting friends that have gone through our routine is that They too run in the same thing Oh, I could do more and I've told them like, you know Just follow it all the way through and tell me what ends up happening at the end And sometimes what ends up happening is they actually end up surpassing some of their previous best because Maybe what their body actually needed was to not be pushing that hard all the time Focusing on practicing and like mastering the technique of it. That's right. So so either option's okay. You know, yeah, that's great advice 100 I would agree 100 you know one rep max calculators are almost always off for someone like me I I lift way more in the low rep ranges than the calculations will give me and I'm less In the high rep Calculations that they'll give me have really good low grinding strength and really I guess poor in comparison higher rep type strength. So These are very which seems happens to me more in like in like the posterior chain and Like glute dominant movements. I seem to be able to do much higher weight in the low rep ranges Whereas like my bench press reflects a little bit Yeah, they're it's general. It's rough estimates. So, you know, you could you can adjust them for your specific body But you know adam gave great advice like sometimes I remember I did this once where I read this routine. It was an old Soviet style workout Your philosophy where you picked a weight That let's say was you know, you could do 10 reps with that was 90 intensity And then for like two months you always only ever do 10 reps Even though as I obviously got stronger and it felt like it was 80 percent and 70 percent and 60 percent I always did 10 reps then at the end of two months I went and tested my strength and I got stronger than I would have had I always tried to push 90 in fact if you've been working out for a while And you're relatively advanced. I think you should go in that route I think you should go on the route of less less is more and then at the end of the program Test your strength and see where you're at. I think you might be surprised at just uh, how strong you've gotten I can always run the program again to like that's right What's losing? I'm not losing 12 weeks of my life The other thing I was thinking is you know Because I like I've missed the time a little bit But I wanted to peak in this program to do like a jujitsu competition And I'm thinking if I'm like completely frying myself every workout I'm going to what my like True one max is then yeah Am I just gonna over train and not be able to do as much as the other things I like to do? Yeah Yeah, totally different answer now so even more reason to back off what rank are you and jujitsu? Uh purple. Oh, you're a purple belt. Well, you should know better You should know that max strength is probably not the most beneficial for jujitsu. I mean for jujitsu. I would do You know, I would do like a maps performance Type of routine that's gonna make you that's gonna give you much better performance I mean you're gonna get a good performance from power lift to especially as a purple belt You're probably training at least three or four days a week So you're able to integrate it back to your end range of those. Yeah, I would go I would do like a maps performance for jujitsu, especially if you're gonna compete Yeah, especially if you're gonna do a competition because you know, you know as well You know better than anybody, but I mean you've probably been training for at least Three or four years if you're at a purple belt level You know strength is important But how but if that strength can't be applied in different directions with different tensions and Lots of mobility. It's not very useful in jujitsu. So I would do especially if it's like especially if it's uh, like gnawing into your training time You know, but I guess the reason I I picked the the power lift program was because Well, firstly like simplicity because I'm using like a I don't know what sort of gyms you guys have there But like a really commercial gym that has pretty basic equipment Like I don't have any like balls to throw. Yeah and that sort of stuff So I just like I just thought I'd keep it like really simple deadlift squats And I've definitely noticed that has like improved my Game because I used to just do like a lot of yoga and calisthenics and that definitely helped but just adding some Oh, yeah power lifting movements in yeah to a certain degree has has definitely Any look at you comparing yoga to any strength training you're gonna see you're gonna see better Results with strength training. I would love I would love to see him do suspension training suspension or maps performance And here's the deal maps performance. You could do maps performance with basic equipment. It's not it doesn't require Lots of weird equipment So I'll send that to you if you don't have it If you're gonna compete if you're gonna compete in a tournament do that But also modify it if you're doing jujitsu four days a week I wouldn't do more than one or two days a week of of strength training I wouldn't do any more than that because a lot then you'll be doing Too much, so we'll send that over to you and also I appreciate you calling it I know you're calling from down under and it's like what is it three? Yeah, three a.m. Over there. So We appreciate it was pretty excited. Yeah, thanks for calling man Pleasure. Thank you. No problem Yeah, you know good question, but he threw in the jujitsu at the end. Yeah, that just makes the whole conversation Yeah changed everything. It's like you're gonna compete in jujitsu and he's like I well I noticed an improvement and it's like, well, yeah, you were comparing it to yoga Well, even of course even our suggestion with performance is uh, is a bit much for someone who's doing jujitsu four days a week You have to cut it back. You just have to cut it back. Right. I mean, I mean what two days a week maybe of performance Max max. I would even do one day a week. That's why the suspension trainer I just feel like because it said it promotes the the deep range of motion and In stability and you're still gonna get strength from it and it's not as taxing As like a barbell type of a program I feel like would really compliment, uh, his jujitsu be really interesting to see how he how he did with that Yeah, totally. 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