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I've heard mentions. Yeah but no it's true. You can't force creativity like no. Hey Justin sing and he's like fuck I can't. Have you guys you know you just reminded me something. So why I've been sick in bed for the last three days. I've watched probably a fucking million shows. I'm going through like apples. Is it more STD stuff? Yeah totally. Probably. Are you guys familiar with Banksy? Yeah. Are you? Yeah he's the graffiti artist. You're not at all. Oh you're going to have to research Justin. It's actually pretty fascinating. Yeah you just step out on this conversation. Excuse me. I've already watched a couple documentaries on him. He has a new one that's called well it's not his because nobody even knows who he is. Which is brilliant. I find that super fascinating. Brilliant. Yeah. It's part of his mystique. Yeah he's spray paint shit. Oh but it's politically it's like very intelligent. And it's politically charged and it's like I mean it's just when you look at if you look him up you'll see some of his pictures. Yeah go to Instagram. Go to Instagram and go Banksy you'll find it. B-A-N-S-K-Y. Yes. Okay. So they have there's a new one out called Saving Banksy and so now okay so he's I've followed this stuff for quite some time. I've always been intrigued by his art and like Sal said I think it's really cool as far as some of the stuff that he puts out there. I wonder how he makes money. You know what's crazy so check this out. So I've seen these. So he doesn't make any money from selling any of his stuff. Like so his his graffiti art now has become so well known that people will go like so he made a tour in San Francisco I think a year or two ago. Well it's been a couple years now I'm sorry. A while back he made a tour in San Francisco and for a while there every day a new piece popped up that was Banksy. Now what sucks is that people will go over and destroy it and paint over it and so this get the documentary is about this guy who goes and and he makes a deal for the last piece that was not painted over or destroyed was on this building and it was on this wood siding on a second story building and it's his infamous rat that has the social the socialist star or whatever on his hat and he's spray painting this line that says I draw the line across the building well he goes and he long story short took like a years worth of negotiating to get the building people to allow him to cut it off ends up costing this guy $32,000 to pay for everything right to get it done. The cool part about what this guy was doing was he wasn't looking to make money off of it he wanted to capture he's just a huge fan of Banksy and he wanted to capture his art and he wanted to put it in a museum now the irony is this so he gets this all done he tries to take it to a museum all the museums refuse it nobody will put his art up because it's you know and if you know about Banksy and some of the stuff that he stands for too he's really anti-establishment so he's anti-establishment and he thinks that the art world is very political too that it's a bunch of millionaires that you know they're millionaire painter buddies put their art up and everyone's it's just this you know fucking fake fake art house of mirrors he totally right so that's kind of like his his thing well so they won't they won't put it up in a museum and he starts getting offers from private collectors that want to give him two hundred thousand dollars and three hundred thousand dollars it eventually goes up to where people are offering him seven hundred thousand dollars for this piece of art that he can't get give away and the show actually ends the whole thing is about his journey to like give this piece of art to a museum and no museum will take this art and so he's stuck with a piece of of art that he's waiting for it to finally get recognized to get put into a museum that people are offering him seven hundred thousand dollars for he's not taking super fascinating yeah yeah super fascinating and his artwork is fucking badass so we don't know how he makes money no nobody even knows who he is like he keeps his they uh somebody knows who he is yeah no they they actually interviewed other artists and they these other artists talk about knowing and have have met him before and stuff but you know they're they're all very private about it we know for sure it's a guy well they they refer to him as a him okay but you know he they talk early on the in the documentary like you don't know if it's a he or she or whatever oh wow yeah it could be a she they don't know that's really cool yeah it's really it's really cool yeah his work is neat I just think it's fascinating that you would do something like that you he knows by now that his stuff is so they at the end of the show too they started doing like all these pieces that are getting sold to private private auctions and millions of dollars like it just the show just starts going like you know piece after piece after piece to piece 1.5 million 700,000 500,000 2 million like all these pieces of art that he did that he makes zero dollars from that are getting sold that's in some ways brilliant and in some ways what the fuck dude yeah well it's not it's not about money to him no I'm totally not I mean he's he's obviously like making a point well this is his life's legacy we're huge fans of yours if you're listening banks and we're big you know fans and we understand what you're doing and if you want to come into mind pump media and paint on our wall we totally won't sell it yeah man just do it you know you're such a liar we won't expose you you know Adam won't sell for a million dollars when's the last time you guys have been to Disneyland I went for my sister's 30th birthday two years ago and I was super impressed when did you go to Disneyland when was that four years ago okay so recently yeah yeah because I was before that it wasn't high school was before that so it's been forever yeah because I went I just came back recently because you guys know why I went to Disneyland right I don't know did I tell the audience what happened you did you mentioned yeah that was the deal you made with your daughter yeah so my daughter basically I fucked up and booked a vacation right around the time we're supposed to do some like this annual father daughter dance at her school so I missed it and so I'm like oh shit I'm gonna scar her for life so she's very smart so best way to make up for that she's seven years old she's seven years old she's her idea very intelligent and she capitalized on it and she's like fine take me to Disneyland so we did we went to Disneyland for a day and it was great but fuck man uh Disneyland an hour and a half wait for everything everything food you wait for a fucking hour of every ride is an hour and a half it's like you go there for the whole day and you go out three rides crazy it drives me crazy it's insane she had the time of her life but what I wanted to tell you guys I had this little um this little situation that happened when we were there and you know when you have kids you you especially if you take time aside to really be with them for an entire day which believe it or not doesn't happen that often it was one thing that kind of that kind of came to me like man I don't really do this enough where I just spend a whole day with just one of my kids because you see a whole you see them uh like other sides of them like you know what I mean like you realize really thinking well their individual personality right because with with your siblings and the family you're you're you're one kid and then when you pull I think you know who talked about this was Ben Greenfield yeah about how he you know he has to separate the twins so they have their own individual personality dude you don't realize like how um smart they are like how observant they are and and then you get to observe them as well and one thing that I observed so when we go there I made rules right I told my daughter I said look you're gonna get one stuffed animal one piece of clothing and you get to eat one treat okay so these are the three things that that we agree upon before we get there because you know what happens when you take your kids to Disneyland I want that everything yeah right yeah so the one that I stuck hard on was the treat uh should we end up with fucking 10 stuffed animals with a bunch of clothes and shit and just like fucking ridiculous oh my god broke the bank oh dude as I say I could have sworn I saw a picture and she was holding more than one stuffed animal oh dude and she knows oh look at the unicorn oh my god it's so cute and I'm like all right get it anyhow uh so we got cotton candy that was the treat and I filmed it so she's eating the cotton candy and you know the rate and speed of which she's eating is accelerating as the sugar starts to hit her system and so I'm like I'm gonna film what happens with this I have the video on my phone I'll show you guys I'm like I'm gonna what happens with this because you hear people saying uh experts quote unquote experts who say no sugar doesn't have these effects on on people these these drug like effects and any parent will disagree with that like yeah any parent immediately yeah anybody who has kids will tell you bullshit sugar clearly affects my children's behavior like a drug so she's eating the cotton candy we get in line for a ride she I made her throw half of it away because the cotton candy is like the size of her so I'm like there's no way you're any 100 grams of sugar at once so she ate half of it we threw the rest away we're in line and she's like out of her mind she's literally out of her mind twirling and dancing now how to back up a little bit how did that go for you because I imagine that would be a struggle for most parents that once you gave it to them that taking it away halfway through or did you know she knows that before yeah no no no no I don't want to set this I don't want to give her a negative uh relationship that's why I'm curious share I don't want to take it away be like you're eating too much I told her when we order I said look that's a big cotton candy I think half is probably plenty for you what do you think and she's like okay and she's of course agreeing because she wants the cotton candy so we've already established that so when she gets to like almost half I'll say well looks like you're almost halfway done let me know when you're halfway done so we can throw the rest away so then she comes to me and says and I wait for her like okay bye bye I already have we can throw the rest away so it's not that big of a deal nonetheless I'm watching her we're in line all of a sudden she's fucking twirling and dancing she's hugging like like there's like podiums that are next to the line and she's like you know what we're in line but I don't even care I don't care that we're in line this is great and she's dancing and she's delirious and acting silly and I'm videotaping her and I'm laughing and I'm like you look like you have a lot of energy she's like I just feel really good and she's twirling and I'm videotaping her and so then I stopped the videotape so I'll show you guys what uh after the after we're done with the podcast and then I wait I wait for the crap I was just gonna say because we're in line for a full hour right so her um her little you know acting you know hilarious and crazy like she took drugs is lasting for about it lasted for about 25 30 minutes so for about 25 30 minutes it's hilarious I'm laughing she's all over the place about the 30 minute mark you could tell something switches and she's kind of just like and you know all of a sudden she's like buh buh buh pick me up I don't want can you hold me and I don't want to be in line anymore and then she's sitting down on the floor holding one of the stuffed animals I bought her and she's just kind of and I took a picture of her holding the stuffed animal and it's like I couldn't have staged it better like the before and the after and I'm trying to connect the dots I'm like it looks like the sugar crashes hit you and she's like yeah I don't feel good anymore how much longer is the line I'm just like this is hilarious man this is now when that happens do you do you help her connect that with the sugar so what do you say to her what do you say honey do you know that this is the way you feel right now okay yeah no I told her I said you know what just happened is the sugar hit your system your insulin which is a hormone went up and it takes all the sugar and it puts it to use and you get all these feel good you know chemicals in your brain and you feel really good but then when it runs out you start to feel bad because now you don't have these things that make you feel good and then her response is well why don't I keep eating it to keep feeling good I said because over time you'll feel less and less and less good and you'll start to just feel bad and so we don't want to necessarily do that and she's like okay so that was that but man it's hilarious I got to show you guys the video and the picture it's like I couldn't stage it any better the other thing I noticed about and then they're so like not candid about it you know like the way that like everything's affects like kids like they're just like so like it's so transparent you can see it all kind of unfold like that right in front of me it's bro it's hilarious to me and then the I've seen it multiple times I think it's so important though to I mean I'm glad you brought this up because I think I don't think enough parents do this I feel like I've been around tons of parents that that tell their kids oh no stay no candy because they know it affects them but it's just like no you know that's all it is and then I feel like when you do that then eventually they rebel and that's all they want because you can't have it versus explaining to them like this is why because when you have this you feel this way and then no one talks about how you feel afterwards and that's caused by all this sugar rush help your kids connect the dots because when they start to connect the dots they start to make the decisions themselves yeah they make healthier choices on their own it's a fact that authoritative you know authoritarian type parenting is only effective for so long and then when they're out of your site they're gonna do all that shit that they you told them not to do like there's a reason why kids go off to college oh my god and do a bunch of crazy shit and binge drink and you know you know oh even before that you go to like the grocery store and you buy one of those like whole things of like cookie dough and you eat the whole fucking thing that means that's just me like you know like that was like as a kid like it was like the the holy grail you know is to go grab one of those things and eat it on my way home from school but i'll tell you what man here's it's so funny to how different my two kids are like my son in this particular regard is just like me like he's 11 right we'll refuse to go on any type of a roller coaster refuse like oh wow really won't fucking go on it now it's like my brother now i didn't go on a roller coaster till i was like 14 oh shit yeah and because i was i didn't want him i was scared and i only went on because of massive peer pressure like i ended up going to great america with a bunch of friends and cut in my cousins and i went and i was already knowing like oh fuck i gonna have to go on these rides you don't want to be the big pussy yeah and so i did and then of course i got over my fear uh my son is just like me doesn't like him so i and i cool with it because i was the same way so i'm like no dude i totally get it my daughter is like my brother my brother when he was a little kid would cry because he couldn't go on because he wasn't tall enough i mean the scarier the ride the more he wanted to be on it my daughter is exactly she's just like that so we're going on whatever and i know the the ones that are challenging to her aren't the roller coasters they're the the scarier stuff like the haunted house kind of stuff okay so we get to disneyland and i'm like hey i'm like do you think you're ready to go to the haunted house and she looks at me she goes i think i'm ready so we get in line and we're we're in line to go on it and i can tell she's like anxious right so she's like holding my hand and she's kind of acting like she's a little anxious and then we start to get in there and i don't know if you guys been in the haunted house are the one that drops the floors no no no no that's a that's the california adventure okay yeah now this is the one where you're like sitting in the the thing and it's driving around and there's ghosts and scary things i want to drop the floors the very first moment you step in then all of a sudden oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah you're right yeah you're right okay yeah no so we go in i thought you were talking about the the twight the i don't know what's called the oh yeah not not like you're dropping dramatically yeah it's like an elevator yeah so we go in there and then the scary voice voice comes on and the lights turn dark and she immediately wants me to hold her and so i pick her up and she tries to bury her head and so i'm like okay lesia i'm like you know keep your eyes open you don't want to miss it i said remember you thought you said you were gonna be brave i said it's okay to be scared but try not to close your eyes so you don't miss what's going on so this poor little kid man so she's keeping your eyes open then we go through the whole ride and she's holding my hand and her hands are sweating and they're cold so she's totally getting anxious right and she's you know she wants to close her eyes but she's keeping it open and the whole time she's explained to me how everything is fake because she's trying to tell herself of course she's trying to convince herself yes sure so she's like oh gosh that's so fake that's not a real ghost that's all projections and that's just a hologram and that's not real look at that i can see that it's plastic and i'm like you're right it is fake and you know i'm talking to through it and of and the fucking worst thing of all time could possibly happen worst fucking thing ever right we're going yes right through the part where it's dark and there's fucking things popping out like ugly like things popping out and fucking ride stops you know hey where you know you know ghouls have messed up the ride and now it's going to be frozen but we'll we'll get you know our technicians are looking at it and i'm like oh god you gotta be fucking kidding me so we're stuck at this total scary part of the ride and my daughter sitting there holding my hand she's like how long is it going to be stuck for i'm like i don't know honey it's fine it's not a big deal so she's talking her way through it and uh but at the end of it she was super like proud of herself that's awesome that totally this is not related all to kids but when uh when i was in chicago um i don't know where it was but it was like this it was like a great america it was like close by i think it might have been in wisconsin but uh i decided to go there with one of my one of the co-workers that i worked with at this bar and so ahead of time we pre-gamed it we had like some vodka and we brought the vodka with us and they had these like um these frozen uh lemonades and so we put it in the frozen lemonade oh it's a great idea let's let's keep this party going right that's a good idea yeah it was awesome at first and then um so we we got in line and we got into this this roller coaster that was fucking gnarly right and it's it's like a bunch of loop-de-loops and all that where you go upside down all this kind of stuff and uh so i'm sitting there with this girl and we're going through and having a good time and all that i'm just getting kind of woozy and we end up where the ride literally stops and we're fucking upside down oh no and i was just like i'm just feeling pressure in my face i swear to god my face was like turning bright red then it turned purple and then i'm just like it was like five minutes dude which is a fucking eternity upside down right and i just was i just lost i look i'm sorry you have to turn your head i was like no way you puked when you were all over and then just splattered all over the ground like i heard all these people below like i've seen that happen which you were actually that guy that's fucking great dude i was drunk you know i was like drunk and like upside down for five minutes like you do the math is that the most embarrassing thing you've done in public it was bad yeah i actually wasn't even embarrassed i was like fuck that sucked just such an asshole probably threw up on hella people and probably splattered only thing worse than that would be shitting yourself well i'd rather throw up obviously yeah obviously you don't want to be on a ride stuck and then craft yourself even close wow bring it bring the bird today's quas being brought to you by chimera coffee is the only coffee that is infused with all natural neutral picks for a cleaner calmer and more focused buzz without the crash put the chimera link at mind pump media dot com and input the discount code mind pump a check out for 10 percent off it's the motherfucking the eagle has landed quick one first up even hail 33 how do you address sticking points in the big lifts so are the i'm assuming because i think this question could be go one or two ways either a like a sticking literally a sticking point in the lift like there's a like within the rep like maybe at the bottom of a bench press or midway up with a dead or at a certain weight or sticking at a certain weight yeah which i guess it's kind of the same thing right well yes and no i'm guessing it's the first thing you mentioned oh you think so yeah there's a sticking point within the lift where they can't overcome because i think i think a sticking point within the lift is going to be uniquely different per compound lift you know i'm saying well wouldn't you think that see and here's a thing like if you have a sticking point in a lift like like i'm stuck out let's say 225 pounds in the bench press you're gonna have to address or you should address the actual sticking point within the rep right yeah because if you're if you're stuck at 225 there's probably a part of the rep is part of the rep whereas you can't overcome easy yeah where you're fucked and then there's other parts of the rep where you could where you could lift the weight you know i'm saying um here's some of the things that i do when it comes to and this is purely a performance based i was just gonna say this i think i'm glad you said that because here's i think i cared about this stuff way back when yeah you know like i i remember like caring about seeing an increase in my bench press and squat which not to say that i don't like to see increases in prs but i never i never really got uh for that long into like okay i you know i got to start gearing my programming around you know breaking through these sticking points in my lifts and the only way i see it really that valuable is if this is kind of your sport or like this is what your your goal is right i mean this is this person's personal goal like hey i'm stuck at 225 on my squad and i can't seem to break that or my bench or whatever like that although to get or if it's a range of motion thing yeah i was just gonna say in depth or or if you know if they're in a position where if they're bench pressing and like they know obviously it's in the lowest part of the lift where then like you know recruiting they don't have that recruitment the amplitude that they could pull from like that's a problem like they need to address uh you know if if they're taking that kind of into all kinds of other different and the other thing too to keep in mind is kind of big picture if you do have a sticking point in your lift and you address it you may be and if you do it smart you're going to be addressing many times mobility issues maybe uh you know connectivity issues maybe some muscle imbalances right if you if you look at it the right way you know this this actually makes me want to you know a dug you should write this down this would be a good little youtube series right here oh yeah that'd be a great youtube yeah because i feel like there's so many parts to this and we're trying over there's a lot of different scenarios we're all talking this happens than this right right there's a lot of different well here's scenarios so a couple things uh not to go too off topic but i'll tell you why i like sticking points i like sticking points because if you address them properly the potential for improvement uh within a sticking point can be huge and i'll give you an example i've more recently been working on uh my depth and mobility and connectivity with my squats for a long time there i squatted to parallel and i got to a pretty heavy squat some of my prs are in the 400 pound range but i wouldn't break parallel with it as a result uh below parallel uh i had very little strength i had very little control in fact going below parallel was difficult without pain so more recently and i want to say recently i say over the last maybe four months i've been working on mobility and because i've been working on mobility i've had to regress on my weight tremendously but i've noticed more muscle gains during this period of time than i did before and and i think this is why let's say my my weight is stuck at i don't know 300 pounds in my squat and it's been stuck at 300 pounds for a long time and i'm pushing it i'm really trying to get stronger if i add 15 pounds to my squat over the course of a year that's very successful like i've done a huge you know it's a huge accomplishment wow i've been stuck at 300 pounds now i can squat 315 it's taken me a year but a 15 pound increase is amazing but if i'm working on my mobility i have to drop my weight down to 135 pounds for example i'm just using arbitrary weight but 135 pounds and i'm working on getting connected or whatever and that's all i can squat with good form with that depth with that mobility with that connectivity now over the course of a year it's totally within realm to be able to go from 135 to 235 or 275 i've now added 100 pounds to a new range of motion that's going to be a that's a bigger difference you say that's 15 pounds over 100 pounds sure i'm not squatting as much weight but i've added a lot more weight within a new range of motion and i've noticed that like recently i just recently squatted 300 pounds all the way down which i've now which i've never done before and i've squatted over 300 pounds before at parallel but i'm looking at my legs and my legs are looking amazing because that potential that growth potential was fucking huge because three months ago i wasn't going over 135 now i'm 300 pounds holy shit that's a you know that's a that's a that's over 100 pounds i've added to my squat in a very short period of time so that's that's what i like about sticking points now here's what you want to look at first when you're looking at a sticking point within your rep the first thing you want to look at is how connected are you to that particular well let's let's explain what that means the sense of our listeners understand like so a sticking point within the rep would mean like and we'll use you just use squatting let's use bench press sure as an example so like a sticking point would be you know somebody can get the bench pressing and they don't have a problem getting the 225 off their chest but the lockout they can't extend yeah they can't they can't extend the top part of the rep yes to re-rack it you know and they do these kind of short reps which actually is pretty common because you see a lot of seeing a lot of especially in the bodybuilding community a lot of bodybuilders do these short little pumping reps that they do but then they can't take that rep through full range of motion so that would be a sticking you know it's funny it's more uh that is not a natural sticking point by the way that's more of a trained sticking point yeah yeah because naturally we're stronger at extension at full extension than we are when we're weighed way down by our chest I think that you're right Adam a hundred percent that's totally result of the way people train and so now you have people with lockout issues but an easy thing you can do uh with your lockout is to use uh you know band assisted and chain assisted type lifting where the weight uh is you know maybe heavier at the bottom a little lighter at the top so you can you can overload the areas that you're strongest in but but also challenge those top reps or just train that particular range of motion so if I have issues with lockout I may just I may do my normal bench press workout but then at the end I'll add or maybe a separate day add kind of partial reps or where I'm only or floor presses or something where I'm only going down that far and focusing on getting strong in that in that particular range of motion actually before that you know what I would do before that is I would just put myself in that particular range of motion hold it there and do isometric squeeze isometric yeah something that you know I've been definitely dabbling in with quite a bit because of the I mean going through like even just inventing you know this product in the axon stick and all this kind of stuff like uh trying to like understand uh the recruitment process and how to amplify that process and isometrics are very very handy when it comes to sticking points because now um what what we're doing is we're bringing attention to this part of the lift at a higher level and so um you know if you if you think of it more as like okay I need to I need to you know make this signal louder I need to I need to bring in the army here to to come in and get more activity and more involvement uh with this portion of of the movement that I'm actually trying to control so um any form of movement you have to generate the force to produce and that whole process is trainable and so once you start to think in those terms it kind of changes the landscape for you so you know I had I had lockout issues with my overhead press because I had always pressed and stopped short of lockout kettlebell overhead carries right and now I know I noticed a big difference did you yeah absolutely and that's all isometric you know so if you have a sticking point at the top of your rep just get a heavy ass weight and hold it there or if you have a sticking point at the bottom of the rep get a weight bring it down to that bottom part and do pause reps you where you're holding it at that bottom part I think we would all agree that I think isometric would be first I do really like though that you brought up chains and bands though because this is like being a guy who trains alone a lot almost always this is how you know first I would do like you just said the isometric so I would I would do isometric holds in the position where I'm weak at where my sticking point is and then the next thing that I would do is incorporate chains and bands and then the way I would decide whether you use a chain or a band would be based off of where it's at like so chains are going to be much lighter at the bottom and more challenging a load that comes up so it gets more challenging you know the stronger portions of the and they do have a different feel like I notice when I use change because you can use chains and bands similarly like I can attach a band to the bottom of something so that it's hardest at the top just like with you know with chains but the differences in the feel like bands yeah I feel like don't damage me as much like I can yeah it's consistent it's consistent they're they're they're close enough that I don't that's not normally how I manipulate the chain and band I would use bands on the top from the top down because that's where they're really different right because you can't do that with a chain so it's heavy it's so it's lightest at the bottom well yeah it's just a different feel right yeah you can't do that with a chance yeah the chains are gonna be the opposite right chains are gonna be so it helps you more and it sort of trains the process as opposed to like you're resisting through it yeah this is what really helped me like when I was breaking through that 400 pound mark for squatting and I was you know a lot of that is just you know and part of that's the isometric right just I've never put you know before I had ever put you know 400 pounds on my back I mean just holding that weight and just rewrite to recognize it yeah right just so I love you know grabbing you know 50 pound assisted bands on each side you know suspended from the top holding that 400 pounds in my back which you know back then I couldn't do by myself you know feeling that weight and in an isometric position for a second and then boom go down in it and I know I'm being assisted at the bottom so I know I'm gonna be able to get out of it get out of that squat so it's really like I'm squatting probably 300 and something god you know what I'm gonna start doing I'm gonna try this and I'll report back this is very interesting I have never truly programmed it into my workouts in this particular way when I think I'm gonna start doing in some of my lifts is after I'm done with an exercise like squats or whatever so let's say I'm squatting 300 pounds and I'm done with my sets I'm gonna put like 400 pounds on unrack the weight and just stand with it real tense for like 20 seconds and then rack it and just do one set like that I wonder what that will do I've done this oh yeah so you've literally done it that way so I mean like I said I've had to get creative being a guy who trains by himself all the time and I'm not a fan of having to rely on a spot so did you do it at the end of your set like at the end of your workout no so what I would actually do is I would actually it would be like a like so let's say I'm blasted from I just did legs you know the day before whatever and so I'm you know I'm laying off of my squats today but I still might go do an isometrical with them oh so you know a different day yeah so I and I don't think there's a right or a wrong reason and I'd love to hear you report back by incorporating and programming and I think there's a lot of unique ways you can do it and I'm not saying one way or better than the other but I definitely um you know and that was like from an end you know the guy who first had me doing that when I was like 20 years old like old school bodybuilder and obviously no science behind it when he was telling me to do it but there you know that was an old method old method that they've used for a very long time is like you know and he used to tell me like you just you need to feel the weight you need to know to acclimate to it yes you need to know what your body you know because if you if you've never felt 400 pounds on your back and the your max is like 350 then all sudden you're feeling really shut down yeah then all sudden you put that I'll tell you what that's happening to me before yeah the first time you put a real heavy fucking weight or a go to deadlift a really heavy weight that you've never pulled before there's that that holy shit factor of I've my body has never felt this freaks out yeah so one of the best things to do is just to get that kind of weight in an isomet I used to do the same thing with a bench press I couldn't I couldn't bench press four plates but I've lifted four plates off of off the bench press and held it in that isometric hold and let me tell you like you do that a couple times I've actually done it like this too where I'll I'll start with that before I go into a heavy set and then 315 feels that's priming matter yeah yes that's actually I mean that's that's a that's a that's a that's like a pop tech yeah absolutely absolutely a priming technique the other thing too to keep it to hear something else I want to say about this you know it's funny people will come to me and be like oh man I did the smolov squat you know routine and my squat went through the roof and it's this brilliant programming and and it's like no what you did is you just squatted more frequently like don't do not forget frequency here yeah so sometimes what you need to do is reduce your intensity so maybe cut the weight down a little bit in your lifts don't go to failure or don't go as intense and just do it more often many times you'll find your strength will explode just from doing that well that and phasing out of it too so we're not like these are all great techniques but you know it has a has a shelf life to them just like anything else I mean you could go I mean I could go on a spin of like just doing pause squats or paused reps doing bench press and get a lot of benefit from that you know lowering the load a bit but really squeezing the bar and like really bending it and getting more activity and recruitment but you know that's just a technique that I'm going to phase in and out of that's such a great point because that that's my I think that was where I was trying to go with the very beginning of this when I said like yeah it's not something I really worry about because most people are that are tuning in because they want to be in better shape you know they want to lose body fat they want to build some muscle and you know stick more advanced things they are they're more advanced they're more performance based it's not you can develop your legs you can develop your back and continue to progress it and and not and be stuck at a sticking point somewhere that's not it's not a factor and in fact what I catch a lot of times is you know young kids inside the gym that are doing these techniques that they saw somebody do and they're they're doing these techniques so much that it's hindering their workouts because now it's taking away from these great full range of motion compound less you know it's like don't let it take away from it should be you know in addition to your your good core work or foundational days Veronica Ray Jones is asking is it natural to have a reduction in sugar cravings by focusing on eating for gut health um that's a unique way to put that I'll tell you what 100% 100% there is lots of preliminary science right now that's coming out that demonstrates that cravings are driven largely by your gut flora so there's certain gut flora that will promote the cravings of carbohydrates and sugars and other gut flora that will promote the cravings of fats or proteins um there's gut flora that will you know modify behavior I just learned this the other day I don't know if you knew this or not but lactobacillus which is a common um you know probiotic that you'll buy at the store or whatever they're now showing studies where people with anxiety will supplement with it and it reduces anxiety I mean your it makes perfect sense to think about it this way your body is more bacteria than it is human cells that's literally how much how many bacterial cells that you have in your body and they want to keep themselves alive just like any any living thing one of the driving uh you know factors in in being alive is trying to keep yourself alive survival survival and so if there's bacteria that eats and feeds on sugar in your body it is going to it is well it's likely very very likely and like I said there's science supporting this and I believe more science can come out to show that this is conclusive but it's very likely that this bacteria has evolved to influence your you you and what you eat it's it drives you to get to go and seek out the macronutrients and types of foods that the bacteria itself wants to eat um and we know this well when we take uh you know fecal uh you know samples from people who eat diets that are you know high in fat or whatever we find a general kind of fingerprint it's always very individual right with us we don't know enough about it yet but we do more like a smudge we do that's gross yeah we do see a kind of general you know uh fingerprint or uh some general trends with people we eat particular diets and other uh versus other people we other types of diets we also know when we with an animal studies when we do fecal transplants and then what they'll do is they'll take a mouse and they'll raise it in a germ-free environment and it'll be sterile so it won't have any any gut floor and then they'll give it a fecal transplant that it will start to have or want to eat similar to the host of the the poop that it got transplanted into it so if the the eating preferences of the mouse who we got the the poop from preferred eating a certain way when we transplant that to the sterile mice they then start to mimic those similar types of cravings uh so it's really fascinating fascinating stuff and of course does the the the studies now that are demonstrating that uh when you take obese mice and you transplant there you know they do you do a fecal transplant from an obese mouse to a germ-free mouse so now it populates that mouse that that mouse then starts to gain weight as well eating the same amount of energy seems like this real interesting relationship where both parties benefit or you know say you start introducing something else that changes the environment they benefit less so you kind of cycle them out like but meanwhile they're probably fighting to stay alive putting out signals and cravings so it's this real sort of interesting ecosystem that lives within us i i find this really tough to answer just because i feel like there's it's tough for us to measure what a healthy gut looks like we that's very true we don't well you're right we know we know what a unhealthy one looks well we know we know what like the symptoms of having a healthy gut but it's hard for us to look to measure it not just to measure it quantify it yeah like if you have an unhealthy gut we we have yet to be like here's your you know probiotic cocktail that you need yeah that will make you healthy yeah 30 more healthier yeah or whatever we don't have we don't have this yet so it's really you know we're skating on thin ice when we're when we're when we're advising with something like this i mean i think what we do know is that i think it serves it serves us to always be trying to eat healthier and be mindful of what we're putting in our body and we do know that diversify your nutrients yes all that and we and we do know that the gut is attached to the brain and and it's an inverse relationship and you know they're they're i think that part of it is important i think that uh all the studies that are coming out with sugar i think we we and i i'm really adamant about this because i you know we we didn't put a question up here but somebody asked a question about um you know us demonizing high carb you know meals and and you know like we're anti carbohydrates or sugar this that i think it's less of that and it's more of just helping people be aware of of what it can what it can cause or where it can lead us and just understanding that you know so well do it's i tell you what man um there i'm gonna i'm gonna let everybody know right now the next 20 30 years what we're gonna learn about the microbiome and it's and how it influences our behavior is gonna be so fucking earth shattering that i think a lot of people are just gonna flat out not want to even accept it oh no we know like i'll give you an example toxoplasma which is a uh a common uh you know microbiome of or excuse me bacteria found in cat poop or whatever um when rats are exposed to it strip off this when rats are exposed to it it suppresses the rats normal fear of cat smells so when how the fuck do they measure that because they infect the mouse they first they see how rats are yeah react to how they react to cat smells okay then they'll infect them with this and they're way less scared of cats of cat smells there's uh what is it t gondi um well remember have you ever heard of like people do it and i've heard of old people like uh you know if you grow up somewhere where there's like poison ivy or poison oaks over that of like ingesting it and actually eating it and then you're like immune to it all of a sudden like i don't i don't you know i don't know i don't know about that but uh what we've never heard people doing that before i know i haven't but and i want to make sure we're clear i don't we don't know i don't know i'm and i'm not saying that either that was me reaching right there but like uh t gondi here's another one i have this thing in front of me that i'm reading uh that i was reading earlier it's really fascinating t gondi infected rats are reported to become sexually aroused by cat urine rats excuse me so rats will get sexually aroused by cat urine when they're infected i mean it's really interesting stuff we know for a fact that they uh that micro micro bio manipulation uh will manipulate reward pathways uh production of toxins that alter mood um there's changes in receptors including taste receptors so if we change the microbiome of animals we know that it changes their preferences through their taste receptors we can measure this this probably happens in humans um it'll hijack certain neurotransmitters uh via the vegas nerve which is the main neural access between the gut and the brain like there's so much that goes into this and it's so fucking important that uh i mean this is one of my the main reasons why i'm against uh things like artificial sweeteners and synthetic additives into foods because none of them have been studied on their effect on the microbiome because we didn't know to study it um and some of the stuff that's come like sucralose for example we know for a fact that it really alters gut flora we don't know what it means but being that it alters it dramatically probably not necessarily a good thing that's where i would place my money so uh definitely and here's the thing changing how you eat will then start to change your gut flora which will then start to change your cravings which that i mean then this is anecdotal because i i mean think of the times where you've changed eating patterns and how your cravings now and like the foods that you desire are different i mean i remember going through the ketogenic diet and then now wanting these healthy fats and you know and then i remember when i was like never ate vegetables and then starting to incorporate vegetables in my diet then in my body actually craves vegetables at you know i've never in my life until i got into my 30s like craved a salad like that didn't happen until i had to change that that the the chemistry in my body and that was partially by me first incorporating these foods and then staying consistent with it and then you feel it change you definitely can tell i'm telling you right now if you're interested in uh being leaner and performing better and sleeping better having better sex all the great things that we all want pay attention to gut health if you're if you get your gut healthier you know and you can tell through your stool you can tell through your diet you know there's there's obvious red flags like oh i have you know acid reflex all the time or oh you know i tend to get constipated or i get bloated after i eat something these are red flags like if you start to address that and fix that you'll notice it you'll notice it'll be easier for you to get leaner you'll notice better performance in the gym you'll notice better energy better mood they've actually done studies to show when they give certain bacteria to to to women that pms symptoms reduce that anxieties reduce that depression goes down we think there's a do we think it's connected strongly to you know just regular behaviors like uh oh my god you know i walk around all day long and i'm irritated we know that it can even be connected to that so gut health is very important focusing on that i mean we we could very well be talking about the panacea of the root of most of all of our issues well the crazy part is it's there's no doubt that it's it's a part and it's affected it what what i what we're trying to say and what i think what we're leaning is that it could be way more important than what we've thought for a long time because it's just and i think of the analogy of like like a car right like you've got wheels you got the chassis you've got the engine you've got the the computer the computer system inside the electrical system like all these systems are important for this vehicle to run efficiently and you know for the longest time we've completely just ignored the gut and now we're starting to realize like oh here's an important system imagine your car without without one of those systems and will it run optimally and it may well be the fucking engine we don't even know we it may be much bigger than we think right now we treat it like it's the fucking you know a difference between 91 and fucking 87 octane let me tell you if you got shitty gas you're gonna backfire right kate fold path the best way to make friends if you're a nationally quiet person so what is the best way justin's still struggling with this yeah are you not a quiet person i'm just gonna ask you are you no i meant the friend part i'm his only friend that's what oh yeah thank you thank you are you naturally a quiet person no i you know i'm selective so uh i i naturally because i don't think you're an i'm naturally outgoing to be honest with you like especially if i'm one to one or like maybe like two other people it's it's when i get more people like that i just i become a fly on the wall and i let people kind of talk it out and i assess i don't know i guess i'm i'm hyper critical you know like i want to i want to understand people before i get i get on that level with them uh to to kind of try and figure myself out you know i haven't really figured myself out with that why that is or anything yet but uh i definitely am not like i'm not quiet i went through phases where people really thought that you know like my family thought that because i just didn't talk like around the house because i was just like i didn't have any anything stimulating that they were talking about that i wanted to fucking talk about why are you so quiet just that way you're all idiots you're boring you know like i don't know like it if seriously though like if you if i understand you and like uh where you're coming from and like you're totally not interesting to me at all i won't talk to you like i could give a fuck about what we have to say so like that that's kind of how i discern and i navigate my way through well you're you're much more calculated yeah i mean uh you know i'm the opposite of me like i just i just say what the fuck is on my mind a lot of times it gets me in trouble sometimes i say something comes out brilliant other times not so much yeah and i've just kind of you know made my way through life that way where i feel like you assess a lot more you're very careful about what you say before you say something it's why two people always compliment a lot of things that you say on the show although justin doesn't say a lot on the show but when he does it's normally a powerful statement or he has he has something you know really valuable to add to the statement so you know where a lot of times you have to you have to feed through all the bullshit that i say and then oh look there's finally you have the machine gun approach i'm gonna shoot out of making it out one of them is getting very much so very much so you know do what works for you you know you know there's a big myth out there that you're either a introvert or you're an extrovert uh the reality is it's kind of like a spectrum introvert on one side extrovert on the other side and most people are somewhere in the middle you know leaning more towards one or towards the other very rarely do you see classic introverts or extroverts i'm uh i am 100 of combination of the two a lot of people who know me especially if you listen to the podcast or if you've worked with me would say oh sal classic you know extreme extrovert this is false there's total situations where i'm an introvert or i'm very very shy or i feel out of my element and so i've developed ways of being able to navigate those types of situations so one of the things uh when i first started managing gyms one of your jobs when you manage gyms or one of the things you're supposed to do is you're supposed to work on corporate accounts and this is where you go to big companies and you talk to them about you know buying memberships for their employees and this is a big source of revenue for gyms now i loved all the other stuff that went into running a gym i loved leading my team i loved running meetings i love selling you know you know memberships i love doing announcements on the intercom and talking to my members and when i'm in the gym i'm as extroverted as it could get as i could as you could possibly imagine like i am not shy for shit i could stand on the front desk and i could put on a peril and just have fun and have no problems the second you took me out of the gym and you put me in front of a big wig at a company who's wearing a suit and now i'm sitting behind there you know in front of their desk and i'm talking to them about getting a corporate membership i become uh the opposite i'm a total introvert and as a result i did no corporate memberships whatsoever i was notorious for doing zero corporate memberships and i performed very well because i was good at what i did but i could have done so much better um had i kind of learned how to navigate that and i learned later on how to navigate that because when i opened up my my wellness facility a lot of my clients were these kinds of people that uh that used to sit behind these desks because my price point was high so all my clients were kind of these affluent you know high achieving type people and they're in my facility so i felt very comfortable but then i became friends with them and then they invite me to go places with them and now i'm somewhere with my doctor surgeon client and his surgeon friends or my you know ceo client with his you know whatever and now all of a sudden i'm back in that fucking situation where i felt like an introvert and the way i tackled it was and this is by the way this is very this is probably the best advice i could ever give anyone it was fucking genius when i forgot who told me and when i started doing this it was like wow this is easy always remember that people love to talk about themselves such great advice and i don't give a fuck who it is such great advice people love to talk about themselves so if you're sitting in a room or you're somewhere and you need to you want to make conversation because you want to make friends easiest thing in the world you could do is ask people about themselves just ask them about hey where did you get your shoes uh oh what do you do for a living wow what's that like what may what got you into that have you always like doing that what do you think about and you just ask them their opinion on shit and ask them about themselves and people will fucking talk forever and you'll never have they'll be so easy that's my problem because like i open that box and that's like a lot of that is where people think i'm quiet like i open that box so then all they want to do is tell me about themselves and then you're like i'll never ask me a question about me yeah you know what i mean so like i guess that a lot of this trial uh you know in in process with the podcast too it's interesting because you know like i i'm very fine with talking about myself but like uh i'm also like my go to is to ask you about you that that's my go to forever because that's how it works i keep the conversation going that way you know and it's like you're right people definitely respond dude it's how you talk immediately it's how you talk to girls it's how you talk to girls it's how you talk to if you want to make friends at a bar yeah if you're you know no it's probably you're right that's probably some of the most brilliant advice you could give because it's it's along the lines of the direction that i was going to go is you know when i was younger i wasn't like this super extrovert kid like i did not like run around running my mouth over the place i was kind of shy we moved around nine different homes growing up i was i was a new kid on the block a lot of the times and and had no friends and then had friends and then no friends and had some friends and so i went through this process of having to make friends in a new area a lot and i'll tell you right now it was uncomfortable as fuck at first like i didn't like that like what kid would love to like hey here you go new school meet find your friends you know oh just kidding we're going over here new school finds them for like nobody nobody wants to fucking go through that and no one wants to go through that as an adult either so but what i what it did do to me was it forced me in an uncomfortable situation where i knew i didn't want to be isolated and alone and so then i had to kind of put myself out there and sometimes i was rejected sometimes i was made fun of and then sometimes i met great people and i and i think the the more i did it the more great people i started to get connected to and i started to realize wow and and we're just making fun of me with the the shotgun or the uh you know machine gun approach but you're it's right on i mean that that really was kind of the way i went about it was you know what the more more people i talked to yeah some people make fun of me yeah so these people you judge me yeah but you know what if i wouldn't have went to that person that person that person i wouldn't have met him if i want that person that person i wouldn't have met her and you know what those people will now become uh important roles in in my growth and in my life and some of them become longtime friends and so i it was a very important lesson that i learned at a young age and i've now applied that in adulthood i don't know how many times like sal said i've been in situations where i'm very insecure i'm sitting around a bunch of phd's and you know these guys are just brilliant and i'm like fuck this is you know i'm out of my league right now with in this group of of group of men that i'm talking to and the first thing i want to do is be quiet and just clam up and not say anything but i also have learned that lesson early on that that's not going to get me anywhere because they're not going to remember who i am there we're not going to go beyond this because if i don't say anything and if we don't talk like i won't make any sort of an impact on their life and nothing will ever mature from this relationship so i got beyond that fear and then probably like i said sal's best advice is you know how do you go from you know being scared to death to having this conversation because it's not that easy as okay not having conversations that all of a sudden you're gonna have like all these conversations that right there is the exact strategy that i took was like you know what like i'm not going to get into this conversation where it's me talking and sharing a lot with these people that i'm not sure even want to hear about me but you know what a common dynamic especially with really intelligent people they love to hear themselves talk yeah like and so i would feed into that you know and ask questions and ask more questions oh wow that's cool tell me more about this tell me more about that and it'd be hilarious because you leave those conversations and people are like man i really like like they hit it off with you and it's like you really didn't have to say much you just asked a lot of questions but they enjoyed the conversation so much because they got to talk about themselves for an hour and you just built a new relationship with somebody and then as you get to know that person it becomes easier to turn that into another relationship or a friendship but you know what like i think well and i love it too because i love people and it was funny once i started doing this and they started talking about themselves i was like whoa this is really cool because i like to know about people i find it fascinating anyway oh my favorite thing that has about this job about what we do now hundred percent has to i mean fuck we just got done uh interviewing somebody who has now become my favorite interview that we've done yet and it's just you know we continue to meet fucking incredible people and you know obviously if we if we didn't get beyond facing our fears of getting over i mean guy could you imagine us i mean when we first started this podcast we all had to get fucked up just to do it because it was not like any of us were on tv or radio or shit my pants every time i open my mouth yeah it was it was something it's it was hey guys oh it's it's something that i think the first the first good piece of advice is you know don't be afraid to don't be afraid i mean face your fears face your fears uh don't be afraid to talk to others i think sal said it best with the you know ask about them you know get them talking first but those uncomfortable situations those will be some of the biggest uh some of the most growth that you'll have in your life dude i'm telling you you can go into a room of strangers i promise you go into a room of complete strangers and just start asking people questions about themselves and you'll be the fucking life of the party oh for sure it's the easiest thing in the world um next question actually Doug before you go into that uh i want to remind everybody we have the 30 days of coaching which is free and it's at mind pump media dot com that's where we email you every day with bullet points of information links to our videos and our podcast it's absolutely free just go to mind pump media dot com and just sign up for well speaking of free we're also giving the forum away for free this month if you get the rgb bundle or the super bundle yeah you can find it the same site mind pump media dot com all right who is lisa p is asking about cellulite why do i have it after training consistently for two years and how do i get rid of it here's the thing about cellulite there's a lot of controversy so much controversy around cellulite and there's some information that points to certain things but there's nothing real conclusive yet now we know what causes cellulite it's really the connective tissue between fat that causes that kind of dimpled appearance it's a total it's totally a normal thing so if you have cellulite you're not dying it's nothing bad women get it at a much higher rate than men it's something like 90 percent of women are going to have it at some point and some are more genetically disposed within others they are and and men usually don't get it we do know that if you prevent yourself from getting it in the first place that you can do that or if you if or should i say if you address it early on it's better than trying to address it after the fact so um so if you kind of keep yourself lean and keep your hormones balanced keep circulation good then you're you're less likely to have an issue with it later on and it's much harder to deal with once you finally do you get it but there are some hormonal connections because women after going through menopause the their chant their odds of getting cellulite even if they're lean go through the roof oh really yeah like it's it's very you can even see like a kind of overweight you know younger girl she's much less likely to have cellulite than a kind of overweight older woman or even women who are relatively lean you'll see women who are lean but then once they hit menopause they'll start to develop cellulite and they think it's hormonal so one of the best pieces of advice that i've given people is to stay healthy and keep your hormones balanced which has to do with getting adequate fat intake adequate water intake and getting good sleep and managing stress like those things alone will affect your hormones the most and if those are off even if you're fit and lean like if you're fit and lean and you're not getting good sleep and you know your your health is kind of you're more likely uh you're probably more likely to get you know this kind of uh cellulite so don't just rub a bunch of cream all over yourself yeah don't buy it all the bullshits at there's no science supporting any of that stuff there's lots of anecdote you know there's like these uh creams that have like caffeine in them and some that have like i think grapefruit seed extract or grape seed oil and there's anecdote that says oh maybe it works there's massage uh techniques that some people say works and the the idea of the massage is they go in and they break up the fat deposits well they break up the connective tissue uh in the between the fat cells that cause it to dimple up which what i think what we know now about south myofascial release i don't think the the possibility that's very likely i've seen women i've had women who came to my wellness facility that weren't my clients who would come in and they were just bruised bruised up on their arms and legs and like oh what are you like what's going on like oh i'm getting cellulite treatment it reduces cellulite and i asked them well does it work and they said well yeah it looks like it's less dimply and i'm like well i wonder if it's the swelling yeah that's right you know what i'm saying it's filling in all the dimples oh my god weird yeah and it's like somebody coming in with like pain somewhere like oh that hurts here come here i'll fix that punch you in the face well it's just it's just stupid how does your knee feel now it's stupid because the way they sell it is they're saying oh we're destroying the fat cells but i mean yeah you're causing damage but is that i don't think that's gonna get rid of it is that easy you could just show up and i could just punch you a bunch of times that's what i mean i don't think that's yeah and you get lots of bruising and damage and pain and i don't think that that's a really a good idea um your best approach really is uh to maintain good circulation because there is some and i hate to say evidence because it's kind of small but there is some evidence that lack of circulation can contribute to having cellulite so maintaining good circulation would be moving um you know having good health not you know sitting or standing in one spot for too long where it prevents circulation uh improving your diet uh because obviously if you have blood pressure issues and circulation issues due to diet that may contribute to um you know cellulite uh formation but really we got to look at the big rocks products and you know like like skin loaches and things with chemicals in it and all that kind of stuff so here's the thing with that like you got to think about it this way this is the way i look at it when you put a cream on your skin how far below the dermis does it actually penetrate yeah so cellulite is not on your skin it's below your skin it's it's in your fat right does that cream go down that deep locally to reduce cellulite i don't think so no i don't mean the like i mean like what they've been using is as products like beauty products and things like contributing to their hormone balance oh maybe very good point i didn't even think of that just then there's definitely like Stephanie kind of brought that up uh in that episode and i got me thinking too like with a lot of the products like women are like always putting like all kinds of stuff like on their body that i don't know if like that is a good point you add all that up like what kind of creams and shampoos and conditioner that creates yeah fufu spraying shit all kind of stuff that's a great point justin because i've had people contact me and be like you know because i'll make a post about i don't know artificial sweetener or uh chemical and plastics or whatever they're like god everything is bad for you guys know studies show that a little bit of exposure is not going to hurt you and it's like that's not the problem the problem isn't that you're exposed to a little bit of one chemical right the problem is that you're exposed to a little bit of a shit ton of these chemicals and there's a potential cumulative effect especially after long durations of exposure so sure i'm getting a little bit exposed a little bit of exposure to this xeno estrogen and that xeno estrogen and this artificial dye and this chemical that could affect this but if you add them all up i'm glad i'm over the course of 10 years i'm glad you said that too because i think this is even our stance with like an artificial sweetener the biggest problem is everybody is starting to pump this in all the fucking foods everything if you were somebody who every once in a while when you had a cup of coffee you put one artificial sweetener in there every once in a while like i don't think that's going to kill you but i tell you what it's not the problem you start to see if you look at the back of all these foods like what did they say like 80 percent of our food in grocery stores now has got some sort of a sugar that's that's embedded into it and it doesn't say sugar you know it's got some crazy different name yeah it's got a different name that most people don't realize so that's where we're like you know i think that's where we're just oversaturated with it yes yeah i mean cut it out and eliminate it in any area of your life you are far better off yeah that's a good point i think if you look at your and i did this a while ago actually and this is it's kind of off topic top excuse me off topic but it's interesting i did this a little while ago where i looked at my overall chemical load you know like how many chemicals i'm exposed to and so i looked at everything i looked at what i put in my hair what i put on my skin what i put under my arms uh the clothing that i wore the containers that i used to to you know hold my food um the air fresheners uh perfumes clones like everything yeah you know candles like i looked at everything and then i said to myself okay what are the things that i can eliminate that aren't that big of a deal you know i'm saying so first thing i did was i eliminated scented candles uh and i got myself some like essential oil type candles that was a big one by the way burning scented candles you are like breathing in a shit ton of these chemicals which have no like look at a candle there's no ingredient list on it so there's really very little regulation in terms of what you're breathing in so he wouldn't even think of that yeah i wouldn't even have thought that oh you're breathing in you're killing me i love fucking vanilla smelling candles apple spies they are chock just dumping this wax all over katrina just the other night jesus i'm when you're playing chuchu drink i'm fucking jealous chuchu player person wax you know what you are literally breathing in a shit ton of zeno as i would have ruined my day dude synthetic candles are the worst you are breathing in a ton of zeno estrogens with your candles just want to let you know that then look at your shampoos look at your conditioners look at your look at the lotion i used to put lotion on my skin every single day and then i'm like wait a minute i looked at the lotion like holy shit like i'm rubbing this on my skin every single day for the last 10 years i can eliminate this like i don't need this deodorant i went to a more natural type of deodorant sometimes i don't write where deodorant antibacterial soap soaps like you can do quite a bit to reduce your chemical load and make a big impact and it's not one thing it's like all these things and sure you don't have to go live i understand we live in the modern world you don't got to go live in a freaking cave yes smell good and eliminate everything well i think if you look at everything there's a lot of things you can do and i think this is this has always been our core message and i know there's always somebody who like takes it to the extreme like we're saying like oh demonizing these things it's like no we're just trying to make people aware of all this stuff and if yeah like that was it's a great point you just said right there and i just recently switched over to like this all natural like coconut soap and it's like it's not ruining my showers it wasn't a hard change i still smell fucking good like that wasn't a hard switch for me to make that and you know you bring up candles like well that might be a little bit harder but i could do that you know these are you know there's someone who does like i used to be the guy who you know drink a speed sack i had a protein bar i had a protein fucking shake and i had you know four things a fucking equal in my tea and then i had two things as sweet and low in my coffee that could be a fucking day that's crazy yeah you know not including everything else that's going on and so just getting people to understand that like you know there's there's ways for you to cut back on a lot of that stuff that we are uncertain on where that could where that could take your body in the next five 10 15 20 plus years and try and eliminate that and cut back here's the thing this is what studies will show and by the way a lot of these studies are funded by the very industry that sells some of these things this is why some of these studies are i shake my head a little bit but even the good ones right the good ones will say okay chemical x has got some potential you know hormone disrupting properties or some carcinogenic properties but it has to be at this amount in this concentration which you're very unlikely to reach or you're not going to reach therefore we deem this chemical safe so in other words it has problems but there has to be a high amount or a lot of exposure that for it to happen and so people say oh no problem but nobody's done a study that's added up a little bit of all these things volume yeah what if we took all these chemicals like well just like the ones that just named how many people right now being truthful and honest with themselves have had days where they've had a protein bar a protein shake a pre-workout pre yeah a pre-workout put a put some sweet shampoo put some sweetener in their coffee how yeah put tell me how many fucking people have done that and then then ask yourself how many people have done that consistently for days months years look there's a reason why we've done a very good job in modern societies to eliminate things like hunger to you know come up with medications for you know acute injury and acute illness but we've got all these chronic fucking illnesses and problems that we can't figure out i'm sorry i'm going to point to our modern lifestyle like we've solved a lot of these other problems we've got all these other shit that's coming up think about your day think about this way you wake up in the morning before you wake up you're sleeping let's look at your sheets in your bed i'm not going to i don't want to freak everybody out i'm just giving you example of just let's add up all the shit that could be that can be cumulative right look at your bed there's there's things that your chemicals and things that your your bed will give off there's things that they spray on your furniture to keep it to make it fire fire retardant in california for example it's law that has to have certain things and we know they give off fumes that we we can't really sense or smell but you're definitely it's definitely going into your body so your bed your sheets your pajamas we'll start with that now you wake up you get up oh i'm awake i'm going to go in the bathroom and the first thing i do is i'm gonna take a shit now i'm gonna wipe my butt look at your toilet paper there could be some stuff in your toilet paper now i'm gonna wash my hands look at your soap is there something in it that makes it makes it a color i guarantee there is there's nothing natural that that's that that's that pink foamy color that your soap is what about the sense in your soap the things that make it smell good the dyes the dice toothpaste now i'm gonna brush my teeth with my toothpaste now i'm gonna take a shower now i got the soap in the shower now i got the shampoo and the conditioner now i'm gonna get out now i'm gonna put lotion on my skin now i'm gonna put stuff under my arms now i'm gonna wear these clothes that are synthetic and maybe they're doing something else or maybe you washed it in some detergent that has got smells like lavender like we could go down this rabbit hole and my point isn't to freak everybody out but my point is when you look at the whole start minimizing your exposure yeah you start looking at the whole spectrum analyze it start making some changes you're not going to go i don't think anybody's going to go you know balls deep in it and like i said leave in a cave but you can reduce your low the chemical load quite a bit by change by changing certain certain things that you use every single day will it have a positive impact on your health i definitely think so so i think it's something we should all look at so now that you're fully afraid there are all the products yeah cellulite right if you like mind pump leave us a five star rating and review on itunes if we like your review and we pick it you'll get a free mind pump t-shirt also check this out stop this podcast go to youtube subscribe mind pump tv we're one of the only fitness channels on earth that gives you new content every single day good content every single day and i know for a fact we're the only fitness channel on youtube that has me in it we're the handsomest yeah there's no one else none of the that has me in it by the way that's that's the best that in itself should get you to subscribe crazy uh also instagram check us out of mind pump 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