 In this episode of Mind Pump the World's Top Fitness Health and Entertainment podcast, we answer fitness and health questions that are asked by listeners and viewers just like you. Now the way we open the episode is we open with an introductory portion where we talk about current events or we'll mention our sponsors or we'll bring up studies. In today's episode, that's about 36 minutes long. After that, we got into the questions. By the way, if you want to check out the episode as it's time stamped, in other words, you can fast forward to your favorite parts. Go to mindpumppodcast.com. All right, so here's what happened in today's episode. We started by talking about the new probiotic supplement from Organifi. It's actually a powder. You put it in your mouth, wash it down with water, tastes pretty good. Justin said it tasted like cereal remnants or something like that. Yeah, like checks. Interesting. Yeah. But it's got probiotics and prebiotics for gut health. Now Organifi is the maker of it and they are one of our sponsors and because you listen to Mind Pump, you actually get 20% off any of their products. If you're interested, here's what you do. Go to organifi.com. That's O-R-G-A-N-I-F-I dot com forward slash mind pump and then use the code mind pump for 20% off. Then we talk about the show alone on Netflix. That's really cool. Then we talked about the COVID prohibition era. Apparently there's a lot of black market gyms opening up and there was an investigative article on it. It's kind of cool. I talked about how NASA speculates that there may be life on Venus. That's really cool. Justin brings up the new Japanese flying car and then Adam talked about an interesting statistic or fact about real estate. Apparently you can buy the rights above your house, air rights. That's kind of interesting. I'm going to look into that. Then we got into the questions. Here's the first fitness question. This person wants to know how calisthenics compared to weights for building muscle and improving wellness. In that portion of the episode, we mentioned our suspension trainer program, which utilizes just your body weight called MAPS suspension. If you're interested in checking that out, go to MAPS suspension dot com. The next question, this person says, look, you got $5,000. What kind of a home gym can you build with that? We list all of the equipment we think are necessary that you could get for five grand or less to build an amazing home gym. During that discussion, we talked about our sponsor PRX that makes some of the best home gym equipment you'll find anywhere. One of their hallmark pieces of equipment is a squat rack that folds into the wall. It's very stable. But when you fold it into the wall, it literally comes off the wall, maybe like 12 inches. Now you can park your car in the garage again. But when you fold it out, very stable, very secure, rest your barbell on it, do your squats and your overhead presses and your bench presses. By the way, if you want to check out PRX and use the mind pump discount, go to prxperformance.com forward slash mind pump and then use the code mind pump for 5% off. The next question, this person wants to know how stimulants affect the muscle building process and recovery. So stimulants like caffeine, we talk about. And then the final question, this person wants to know how you go about training and nutrition with people who have lost their period. Now here, check this out. Mind pump is your favorite podcast. That's true. But we also produce amazing fitness programs. So we have fitness programs for different people, different goals, okay? Maybe you want to train and build your body like a bodybuilder. Or maybe you want functional, athletic performance. Or maybe you want to do correctional exercise. Or train with just suspension trainers. Or train with almost no equipment, maybe just some resistance bands. We have programs for all of that and more. What you do is you go to mapsfitnessproducts.com, go through the different programs. Find the one that speaks to you. Find the one that gives you what you're looking for with the equipment you have access to and consider your current fitness level. Find the program that works best for you and get amazing results. Again, that's at mapsfitnessproducts.com. What if I want to train to be a Jedi? Dude, your voice cannot, it's one octave. That's it. Higher or lower? What's going on here? What's that? Wow. Wow. That is not the same thing. That is not the same. That is not the same. I think it sounds the same. That's to do it again, Adam? Ready? Wait a minute. I do it by myself. Him first. Okay. What is that? And then what is this? Oh my God. All right. That's enough. Please stop. That's all stopped. That actually hurt my cheeks. Just Adam, you haven't tried that yet? I haven't. I'm about to because Doug just handed it to me and said just according to him, I can just throw this dry powder in my mouth and then rinse it down. It's the probiotic, prebiotic supplement from Organifi. Did this replace their probiotic pill or are they still carrying both? I don't know. Doug, could you look that up for me? No, Doug was like, God damn it. Leave it to Organifi though. It had a decent taste. I like it. I've been using it for the past, I used it this whole week and it feels good. Really? It feels good. So I wonder if it's like, it seems, well I guess it seems about the same. Throw me the packet. I want to look at it. I want to look at it. You can read the science first. It tastes like the leftover crumbs of a Chex cereal. It does. That's what we determined. Yeah, we determined that. It does. It's okay. Like the crumbs of a Chex cereal? Yeah. Like at the bottom, you know how like the bottom of the bag, everything's gone, but like sometimes, yeah, I'm going to put that powder just in my mouth. Hold on a second. I've never done that. Have you done that? What do you mean you've not done that? You're such a liar. You got the empty bag of cereal? Yeah, bro. Like every last little speck of dust. Are we going to discuss your relationship with food ever on this podcast? Are we just going to brush it out of the road? I'm here for regular people that are like super anal about everything. Hold on a second. That's my role. Yeah, it's prebiotics and probiotics with 20 billion of the probiotics in there. So okay. So prebiotics feed the probiotics. That's why they're called pre, right? So it's a compounds that help feed the new bacteria that you're introducing. So tell me. Organified balance. So tell me if I'm using things like this correctly. Thank you. I mean, maybe not so much right now, but I'm going to do it just because Doug told me. And I want to taste it. No, check mix. I'm telling you bro, yeah. Tell me I'm a liar. Here's the best way to use it. Open the packet and then you sprinkle some in your eye. Stupid. See what happens. I'm not going to do that. No, serious no. This is how I use probiotics. I am not a daily probiotic user and I've never told anybody else to do it this way. But I do find value in it for this. So diet's been pretty dialed, been really good for quite some time now. But recently on my Q and A, somebody, people like, I don't know why, I do know why. Because I talk about ice cream, right? And so it's funny, right? How we do this, right? They know that it's a battle for me. So I get questions like, oh, what's your favorite ice cream? So of course. Chunky monkey. Right. Of course, talking about thrifties ice cream, which is my favorite. And I haven't had it in a very long time. I broke down and I ordered it. This is the most jinkiest ice cream of all time. No, stop it. Stop thrifties? Blast for me. Doug, can you mute him, please? No. What? Mute his mic, please. No, so I... That's like 50 cents. So I ordered some ice cream. I like to do this test. It's a game I play with myself all the time. Did you order sherbet? No. No. Chocolate malted crunch and mint chip, right? So that's... And I like to think that after 20 years of fitness, I'm getting beyond this addiction and this issue that I can't not have it in the freezer. I'm always like challenging myself like it can be in there. Wheel power. So I've been doing really good. I bought it last week. It's a... I mean, we're on, I think, day seven or eight since it's been in my freezer and more than half of it's left in both of them, actually. So you actually bought thrifties ice cream? I did. Where's thrifties around here? So they're at... Not... What's... Riteade. Thank you, Doug. Oh, okay. So they sold the Riteade, but... Pharmacy ice cream. It sounds so good. So listen, Linda. So Riteade bought out thrifties. The store, but thrifty kept the brand of ice cream probably because it crushes and does so well because everybody is more like me. Maybe they sprinkle the leftover opiates in there. Yeah, the mint one's good. I grew up with that. It's bomb, dude. It's bomb. So anyways... I feel like it's the ice cream with the wooden spoon. Listen, can I finish my commercial? I'm sorry. Go ahead. Can I finish my commercial here? We're dragging it. Organify hates you. So they love it. I used... I used the probiotics like this. I know. Okay. I know damn well what I'm doing when I have ice cream now. Because it just doesn't agree with me. But I still like to have it every once in a while. Okay. So before I eat the ice cream, I go and I take two of those probiotic pills. And I know it says only take one. I take two. I like to be about a half hour or so before I have the ice cream. And then I eat the ice cream. When I do this, and I've done this enough times with and without it, anecdotally speaking, it makes a big difference. I can feel... So normally if you don't take the probiotic, you get the cacas. I do. Really bad. Yeah. Especially if I do anything more than like a little scoop. Like I've learned that I can do like a little scoop and enjoy. But who can do that? Right? I have a bowl of ice cream. Yeah. It's like just the tip, not going to happen. You're right. So I do a bowl of ice cream. I eat that. But before I do the probiotic, when I do that, now let me tell you, it doesn't mean I have zero symptoms. It just dramatically makes it better. So instead of having like diarrhea all night long or having an upset stomach or feeling bloated like crazy till the next day, it really mitigates that. This is how I use probiotics. It's a way to strengthen your bad relationship with ice cream. Piss off, guys. No, that's actually how I use probiotics. Okay. Yeah. So I'll take them... I don't take them every single day. Okay. Me either. If I have issues, then I'll take them daily. Yeah. But I typically have them and I'll use them when I'm going to eat a food that I know bothers me. So if I'm going to eat gluten, then I'll take it beforehand. And it does. It makes a difference. Yeah. When I'm traveling especially. Because you know that like your options are limited. So that's when I usually take those as well. Yeah. My favorite story though has to be the time that you, as a kid, bought just... Would you buy a bunch of cookie dough and just ate it on the way to school? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we just came back home from school and we used to walk and we're just like, we have money that we just earned from random things. And it's like when you're a kid, you just think of whatever sounds awesome at the time. And so yeah, we bought one of those Pillsbury Doughboy rolls. Like it was like a huge thing. We would try and finish the whole thing before you get home. Oh my God. And that sounds like a stomach ache. Yeah. I'm surprised like, I'm sure there was like ramifications for it. Now, when you're a kid, you have an iron gut. What is that? Now, hold on. Let's think about this for a second. Is it that you have an iron gut or you're not aware? You're not aware. Yeah. You just go take a terrible shit over there. I think it's a little bit of both. I think there's a... I think you partially have an iron gut and then I think you also partially are just completely disconnected and unaware. Yeah. Because I think, because when I started to become aware a little bit that my food might be an issue was when I started taking weight gainers because I'm 15, 14 years old trying to pack on size. And so I'd buy the weight gainer that had the number. So if there was like heavy weight gainer 200 or 2,000, then I'm going to get the one that says 3,000 because that was even better. And I would drink it and then almost every time... By the way, the way I would drink this thing, I wish you guys were there. I used to blend it in a big ass blender. My mom had these blenders that she'd make sauce in. Yeah. And I'd put these huge gallon containers of weight gainer powder, which normally you think has 150 servings because it was literally a bucket. It looked like a bucket. Yeah, we had one of those too. Four scoops. Yes. And the scoop was this big. It's like a shovel. Those of you guys watching on YouTube, you can see my hands. It was literally this big. And I'd scoop four and then I'd add a whole milk. And when I hit blend, this is the sound the blender made. Yeah. I never measured, dude. I just was like, how much can I cram in there? Dude. And then I'd put eggs in there and peanut butter and everything else. And then I'd hold the blender over the sink and I'd sit there. And it was like... It was my second workout. First workout in the backyard. Second workout standing over the sink. Going... And then... Yeah. You just thought it was part of the trainer. All that stuff was part of what you had to do. And I didn't put two and two together because I'd do that. And then I'd have terrible diarrhea and I'd be like, why am I losing weight on this weight gainer? It doesn't make sense. And then my mom was like, do you think maybe it's because you're shitting yourself? I think as a kid, or at least I did, you just think that that's everybody normal. Like everybody has good poop days and bad poop days. And it is relatively normal, right? I mean, there's not... The average American, this is what happens. They just have some days their stool is a mess and loose. And then other days it's solid and it's nice. Or they have none. Or none, right? And they just think that that's normal. So I think even being a kid into exercise and trying to build muscle and reading all the magazines, they just don't... Muscle building and fat loss type of conversations don't talk a lot about gut health. Like that didn't come till way later. Oh my God, it didn't happen until recently. Yeah. So it wasn't until not that long ago did I really start evaluating like the way I pooped and like how much that was a reflection of how I ate over the last 24 hours. And once you start to pay attention and you start to make... It's pretty obvious. I mean, there's... When I am eating really, really clean. I mean, dialed. I've got great stool. I mean, it's... It doesn't hurt. It's gram-worthy. It is nice. You've seen it. Right. So it's... Forget to flush. You know, so it's great, right? But then when you go off and I decide to, you know, have a burger and fries or I decide to have pizza or I decide to have ice cream, you know, you pay for it. And I think that how much you abuse those things and how much you consume dictates how bad the aftermath is. It is funny though. After you become aware and maybe this is an adult thing as you get older, but there's almost nothing more satisfying. You know what I mean? You wake up in the morning and it's a healthy one. Yeah, that went smooth. Yeah. You're like, this is going to be a good day. Sweet. I'm going to... Everything's going great so far. From what I... When I was younger, one of the worst things that I did, I think back, I'm like, man, I wasn't even a stoner. I ate this for some reason. I would get pizza, all meat. So I'd have all the meat on it. And then I would... Ranch. Ranch all over the pizza. And eat it like that. Oh my God. You know what that would do to me right now? Fight that? I would explode. You guys would have to do the podcast by yourself. Oh, huge increase in downloads. Yeah. Dude, I've been watching... 100% increase. 100% increase. Yeah. My bump exploded. I got rid of that guy who talks too much. Yeah. Dude, I've been watching this series on Netflix called Alone. Yeah. Have you guys seen this? Yeah. That's been around for a long time. Yeah. I always bring up some shit that's old. It's what we talk about. Sure. What season are you on? What are the only one that's on there? So Netflix just dropped the first season, right? Is that what they did or did they pick up? Well, they all went to the Arctic. That's all I know. That's season one. I think it's season six. I thought it was like... Did Netflix go pick it up at six? Yeah. I'm pretty sure. I think he's right. Because it's been on regular cable for five plus seasons. Yeah. No, they're... Because they talk about like what they learned from watching other contestants. That's interesting that Netflix... Tell me how this works. So this is becoming like... We see this with Cobra Kai. Exactly. Right? So these Netflix... They're buying hit shows. Yeah. Netflix goes, I'm assuming, acquires these shows after they are on somebody else's platform. And in the case of like Cobra Kai and maybe even alone, a lot of people don't know about it. It's on basic TV. Maybe if you weren't into that stuff, you didn't really watch it. Also now it's on Netflix and it explodes. Yeah. So anyway, it's crazy to watch. And I didn't realize how they actually last. So they drop them off in the wilderness with minimal stuff. And then they're out there for like months doing nothing, living off of whatever. Yeah. It's crazy. There was one guy who was like a military expert at survival. The shelter this guy built from just the trees and shit around him was like a legit... Like I'd live in there. Oh, I know. Did you see that one? Yeah. I saw one of the guys shelters. That's when she insulated and stuff. Yeah. Organized looking. The moss and stuff that's covered like... Yeah. And like insulated the whole thing and I was like, oh, that's actually pretty comfy. Dude, and he left spoiler alert, right? Yeah. He leaves because he was... He couldn't handle the boredom and being away from his kids. He had plenty of food, plenty of shelter. That's what I know you're talking about. Yeah. He was doing well too. And it was just like... It got to a point where he's like, I'm not enjoying this anymore or whatever. And then he just decided to go. I was like, what? He killed... What was it? A moose? Yeah. And he brings it back and carves it all up. And now, I mean, obviously you got a moose. You're set for a little while. Yeah. Then... You gotta worry about wolves and everything else. The Wolverines ate the fat. The Wolverine took away the fat. Then he had to kill the Wolverine, which that thing looked disgusting. That's actually a cool part though because I don't know where you're at and getting spoiler alert here because I've actually seen that season already is you have this moose and you think, when? Not if you don't get fat. Right. Not if you don't have the fat and it just shows you that even if you have this really lean protein, that's not ideal either. I don't remember the name of it, but trappers and hunters in North America used to starve from this and it's something about... The name of it was like rabbit something because... Yeah, because it's from rabbits because it's so lean. Yeah. They were able to catch lots of rabbits. So they could catch hairs but they would literally go insane and starve to death for this type of starvation. Where... And you can... Can you imagine going through something like that where you're eating but you're starving? I think I get so excited about it because that's like a big deal. Like you finally got some protein but, you know, yeah, it's not going to satiate your body the way it needs to be done. You know what I think about? It's called protein poisoning. It's colloquially they called it rabbit starvation. Maldikarabu or fat starvation. Yeah, dude. Because, you know, fat and protein are sent... By the way, if there's ever a debate, if you ever have a debate with one of your friends if you're listening right now about like the, you know, how great veganism is and okay, no problem. You want to be vegan, it's fine. But for sure, it would not exist. No. If it weren't for modern grocery stores. That would be fucked. That was a point I was just going to make is I find it really... The thing I find most interesting about the show is just to highlight how humans are opportunists. It'll be bugs. It'll be rabbits. It'll be caribou. It'll be freaking vegetables, berries, they'll eat whatever to survive and they probably evolved this way. Most of human history. Well, I think it's... I like these shows and Naked and Afraid and things like that and these survival shows just to kind of like regain perspective. I think we've lost a lot of that because of the way that we can now get it so easily. You know, to... You appreciate, you know, these sources of meat and like all... Like you really have to like hunt and find like these berries that are even edible and won't kill you. Well, two things came apparent to me on that. One is how far removed we are from our food because as I'm watching this, I'm watching them like the guy killed a Wolverine with an axe. Like he had to go up and literally hack it to death or they trap animals. Part of me is like, oh, man, would I be able to do that? Brutal. And then I think to myself, I eat meat every day. It's like a processed food to me though. I get it out of the package. Bro, if you were starving, you'd bet your ass you'd be able to do that. Yeah. It's survival. Survival to fitness for sure. That's the other thing that I think it highlights is that we... we're so lucky and, oh, it doesn't taste good. You know what's so funny is that it's because we're so oversaturated. We consume so much on a regular basis that nobody even has the faintest idea of what even close to starvation feels like. People are like, oh, my God, I'm so hungry. I haven't eaten since lunch. Yeah. It's been four hours today. It's like, get the fuck out of here. Like, you don't even know. Like if... And imagine, that's why I love, like, and we haven't talked about this in a while. Like, you know, we used to talk about how great it was to fast for two or three days. It's a great perspective builder. It's amazing too how amazing all food tastes when you haven't had anything. Oh, yeah. When you haven't had anything for two days and you eat some Brussels sprouts, like, it's like... Like a little celebration of yourselves. Oh, it is. And you give you... You see that with him on the show. Oh, yeah. The guy catches a squirrel and then he's cooking up the head in a soup and he's eating it and it's like he's orgasming. Dude, he shot it. The arrow went through its ears. Yeah. I don't know how that... How crazy was that? I was like, oh, my God, that was a great shot. Well, it may be likely because if you kind of read these on evolution, it may be likely that... Because humans are... We are the apex predator. We are the apex predator on Earth and one of the main driving factors for our intelligence probably was to make us amazing hunters to organize together. We've got eyes in the front of our head so we can observe movement and see what we need to do. We became amazing tool hunters probably so we could hunt and this is what drove our evolution initially. And so, I mean, eating animals is kind of... Kind of what we do. Yeah. But the other thing too, watching the show is they are killing animals and they are eating them but the respect that they have. Right, right. Yeah. A lot of them like stop and like are so grateful and thankful that they're gonna be able to... I mean, that's the irony of not killing your own food is you lose connection to it and all the value. I mean, I go to the grocery store or I get my food from the mail or whatever. I look at it, it's beef. You know what I mean? It's a piece of meat and I throw it in the barbecue and it's not a big deal. I didn't have to kill it with animals' eyes and I didn't have to hunt it. You didn't have to dress it, prepare it. Nothing. So, you completely lose respect and value for the food. And so, then we start to treat animals poorly probably as a result of the fact that we're totally disconnected because when you see people raise their own animals for food, they treat them differently. They really do. I know in Italy, I have family members that have essentially farms and the way that they raise the food that they kill to eat is like they raise them incredibly. They make sure that they're healthy and that they're clean and they have good, you know, place to sleep and they feed them really well. Oh, I remember when we used to when I first started working the dairy when I was a kid, like my boss would like, so they had all, the cows were all named. They came in, you talk to them by name, you pet them, you had, they had music that was like easy going. I mean, they literally cared about all that stuff because like, listen, when you do that, you watch how much more milk they produce and how much healthier they stay. So, they pay attention. They're not stressed out. They do, so they pay attention and they care about that because it's their livelihood. You bet your ass you would if that's how you say it. Now, did they play music? I heard that they play music for cows and make them make more milk. Yeah. Is that true? That's what I just said. No, what's the music they play? Oh, I don't, you know what, I think that, you know, it's just Yanni. No, I mean, I was playing. Zamfier. That's where my country comes from. I listen to country music, but then which I don't think is like anything related to like, oh wow, you know, you get the whole, your dog dies, you get a divorce and I don't think that's great music just some sour milk. Yeah. Yeah. I was all depressed. Yeah. I think it's more like just the sound, right? And the melody of it, like hearing music that's like, you know, in a rhythm, right? I think it's more of that than it is actually the words that the song is saying. Dude, speaking of milk, speed metal. Just, produces lightning milk. Yeah. Speaking of milk, Jessica and I took a breastfeeding course last night. We took this class where they talk about all the, you know, it's crazy. The more I learn about breast milk and the whole process around it, the more fascinated Yeah. I get with it. You know, a woman who is, has milk, right? She's got a baby. All she has to do is think about her baby or hear the baby cry or anything like that. And then she gets that let down where the milk wants, just the thought of it. Have you had, this happened to Katrina once or twice and have you ever heard of stories like this? Like, let's say it's been, like in, Jessica will probably experience this. She, it's been a couple hours and she's breastfed so she's, she's filled all up, right? She's engorged and you had a grocery store and a baby cries. Yeah, right? Somebody else's kid. And then all of a sudden she starts lactating. Oh yeah, yeah. No, that happens. It's wild, dude. Isn't that weird and the body just like senses it? Well, I guess, it's like, you could think about something, got a boner, kinda similar, right? I guess. Where you get that body reaction. Yeah, kind of. And that's a weird connection. So we have so many mixed feelings right now. My bad, sorry you guys. Hey, I read a good, The title of the article was, let me find it real quick, fitness and the economics or secret gyms and the economics of prohibition. What? So right now they're calling it the COVID prohibition era because so many businesses are either forced to close or there's regulations forced on them that make it basically essentially impossible for them to run a profit. And so this reporter is doing this investigation and going around and finding all these gyms that are open secretly. Just like when alcohol prohibition existed and there were speakeasies, where they go up to the, there's a garage door it's half open, you gotta know the right thing to say, you go in there, they let you in, you pay your fee and you do your workout. And this journalist is saying that they're all over the place on top of other businesses too, like hairstylists and stuff like that. Well, I think this confirms our theory then, right? I mean, that's the natural progression or transition for the kind of more private gym with a higher rate. Cause you better believe if they're putting themselves out and they're running black market, just like you know, prohibition times, if they're doing that, they're charging a premium rate or else you're a moron, you're not a very good business operator if you're not charging a premium for people that are encouraging you to break the law. So I guarantee that those people that they're getting to come in the gym are paying a premium rate to have access to this underground gym, which once things finally hopefully lift, this is this to me, and I think you guys agree, is going to be the gym industry. That I think it's going to be these very exclusive type of gyms that charge a premium rate. They're gonna have to increase the customer service and the value they provide for that. And it's still gonna look more like what it did 20 plus years ago and a lot more expensive to have a membership. This is a great time for me to correct what I said in the last podcast about Equinox. I guess they do have locations still open and like they were shut down during when they needed to be shut down, but they have made a lot more moves on their mobile front and trying to compete in that arena with like, I guess they own SoulCycle and so they're kind of putting that version up. But yeah, they're doing the premium model still, but they're still kind of speculating whether or not they're gonna go bankrupt. And so they're kind of seeing if that model is gonna have staying power or not. And it looks like they're doing okay right now. Well, so this is a wonderful time to study the economic effects or the unintended consequences of prohibition, okay? Because now we have markets that before, not that long ago, right? Like six months ago or whatever, we're totally open, which now are partially or fully prohibited by law. So now you can witness some of the unintended consequences, one of them being more people breaking the law than did before. So you're getting a bunch of people who normally wouldn't break the law, now are starting to break the law, so you get a black market that's created. So that's one unintended consequence. Another one is higher prices because lack of competition, because what happens you get less competition and then the people who are willing to take the risk now can charge a bit of a premium, right? Because they're willing to be in that gray or black market, they could charge a little more. Here's the other unintended consequence that always happens from prohibition. I'm interested to see if this happens, if they continue to push this with even with gyms. You tend to see more corruption and violence because when there's a dispute over payment or billing or something like that, when it's a open legal market, you go through the legal channels. You go to court, you sue them. When it's a black market, these members are gonna take advantage of them because it's all, yeah, under black market. Well, let's say you have somebody that takes advantage. Someone takes advantage of you and uses your gym or whatever, doesn't pay. You can't take him to court. Can at the higher muscle. Maybe there's more intimidation. She's getting roughed up for not making your gym. For not going to the gym, dude. So you're not paying your drug dealer. Yeah, did you miss your gym bill for two months or so? Somebody knocks on your door? Dude. Big-ass Italian guy, okay. Yeah. Royed it out, guys. What are you doing, deadlifts? Come here, sit down, we have a talk with you. You're gonna do a thousand reps of deadlifts an hour, pay us back, huh? I ever tell you what happened to it. So we were, every month, this story, random story, right? So we were in Vegas, God, I got to be, I want to say 23 to 25-ish. That's gonna be a good story. Yeah, right, the stupid days. Okay, so I'm there, we're at the Hard Rock and we are, I forget what the name of the night club is inside there, but we had two VIP tables. There was like 20 of us guys that were out there. And- All wearing Ed Hardy shirt. Totally, that's about the right time right about that. I'm sure we were. For sure. Or maybe I was on my Tommy Bahama linen kicker on that time. No, it's linen to say. Yeah, dude, I don't know what I was thinking at that time. You had linen shirts and pants on? I went through like a three-year kick where I was rocking Tommy Bahama, I don't know what it was. I think it was because it was like an old man thing, you had to have money. I like to be different than everybody my age and so I was like, way ahead. Oh, why a shirt? Yeah, yeah, just a little Magnum bag. No, I was rocking solids, okay? It was a solid shirt, but it was still, you know, the baggy linens, right? Anyways, that's beside the point. So we get two VIP tables, which that in itself in Vegas, anybody that's got a table knows it's expensive, right? I mean, you're looking at a minimum, probably about $1,000 each table, which so we're there, right? It's early in the night and 20 guys, it's a bachelor party and I forget what guy, you know, open the table originally and then the way it works, you open it up and then at the end of the night, you know, they'll keep serving you drinks and bringing you more bottles as long as you keep asking for it. And we all agreed, everybody in that group of 20, everybody makes pretty good money, so we just, let's, we're gonna go hard and then at the end of the night, we'll divvy it up. Well, you know, a bunch of young guys drinking alcohol and stuff like that, each guy gets obviously distracted by the opposite sex and then leaves, you know, starting from 9 p.m. all the way to about two. Well, at two o'clock in the morning, I've been long gone, I think I took off around 11 or so and I'm back at our hotel room, I get the phones ringing at like, I don't know, 2.30, 3 in the morning. And the group of guys that I'm with, there's only a couple, I know really well, I don't know everybody that well. And I roll over and I grab the phone and I kind of sit up and I look and there's like, there's dudes passed out face down on the floor, there's multiple people in the beds, we have these, we have a dual suites over there and there's a lot of drunk people that are completely passed out. And I pick it up and it's one of our buddies and he's like, you gotta come down here, you gotta come get me, they're telling me to pay the bill and I don't have this, I don't have this much money, it's like $5,000 something dollars for the bill. And I come down. You're gonna break my legs. Yeah, I come down there with, I wake up one of the other guys and I'm like, hey, we gotta go pick up our buddy. I was like, they've got it, they're holding him down at hard rock and we show up. This is like, now it's like, I don't know, I think it's like four in the morning by this time and nightclub's completely closed. Everybody's completely, it's completely empty and we're like, we come in, we're like, hey, we're looking for our buddy, this or that, and we go in the back alley and he's sitting on the curb and there's three like fucking muscle dudes standing over him, like waiting for us to come and like rescue him and pay the bill. Like I have no idea what would have happened to him. Vegas is borderline. Right, that's why I brought this story up. It's borderline. Reminded me of that. It's not quite completely black market, but that's how they were gonna get their money. They were not gonna call the cops. I didn't seem like that was gonna happen. Well, back in the day, apparently in the 60s, 70s, I think 60s, 70s, and maybe even 80s of the mob oftentimes ran their security and stuff. And so if people were cheating, they'd take him in the back and. Isn't that still, isn't that still happen? I don't know. I've seen a lot less, you know, I got more corporate, but yeah, it definitely was a lot more gangster. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, I still feel like the big, The big money that own the companies or own the casinos or own that, I think there's still a lot of that going on. I think it's evolved. Yeah, I think it's evolved too. I don't think it's all gangster, but I mean, that just highlights it ain't all corporate. That's for damn sure. That wouldn't be like, they're getting their money. That's not the HR process, you know what I'm saying? That's not like, hey, if someone doesn't pay their bill, we do this and we do that. It's like, oh, I know how to get our money if we don't pay our bill. Yeah, take this one of this 20 guys out in the back and then we'll go out and let them call his friends and then we'll get them all back here. So organs. Put your head in the spice and then we'll see what happens. Dude, more cool news. NASA made an announcement that they are speculating that Venus may have some life. Wait, what? Now, how? Okay, so is this one of the moons that goes around? Is there any moons that go around? No, no, okay, so I'm gonna look it up. Let me know. So they found. And how far is Venus for us? You're gonna have to tell me here. How far is Venus? Yeah, yeah, like, it's like a couple hours. What kind of drive is it? What kind of drive is it for us? I mean, I know the moon's really far. Mars is crazy far. How far is Venus? Venus is further than the moon. I think it's closer to the sun if I'm not mistaken. Maybe Doug can. In relation to Mars, how far is it? I don't know, dude. I don't know. It's 91 million miles from here, though. Well, okay, so, okay, the things that I've read, it would take, is it 18 months, I believe, to get out to Mars? Something like that? I don't think, yeah, I don't know. A long time. I expect you to know these narrative questions. No, dude, jeez, you got me caught me off guard. I'm just trying to. Come on, Bill Nye. I'm trying to figure this out, how far Venus is. I have no idea, but maybe Doug can. If it's closer than Mars, why aren't we going there first? Because I don't think you can land on there. I think it's a hot ass. It's on gas. It's a hot ass, so 91 million miles away. Okay, it's Venus. Which is pretty far. So let's see where Mars is. 41 million miles. Oh, so it's twice as far. Yeah, it's twice as far. So you're talking like years to even get there. Yes, but we've sent, I think we've sent probes. Haven't we sent probes out there? Anyway, so here's the. It's gotta be probes or the, what, like a Hubble, was able to seize things? So here's what they did. They found the presence of airborne phosphine, which is something that you tend to see that bacteria produce on Earth. So phosphine comes from a bacteria on Earth and the fact that we've detected it in their atmosphere, they are now saying that there may be bacteria on Mars, which is, I don't know if that's a good idea to go touch or check out. Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. I think coronavirus is bad. I feel like we have to handle Mars first. I mean, it's half the distance and that's already really long. Oh, look, that shows you how long we get there done. Yeah, but that was the, which one was that? That was the Mariner 2. That was a long time ago, wasn't it? And it took a hundred. 1962. 1962. Now we used to do some cool stuff in space. Oh, it's not, it's not as long as I thought it was. That's, it took three months for that probe to get there. What was interesting is I thought NASA was sort of taking a back seat to all these private companies now, like sending everybody up into space, but they're still researching quite a bit. Well, the motivation, the real hard motivation back in the day for NASA was the arms race. It was the space race, right? You had the Soviets and you had the US and we were the two superpowers of the world and we were always competing. And one way you can flex to another superpower with your rocket technology is literally by flying to the moon and going out into space. And so that became, and it was also a sense of national pride. So that's why we did so much stuff back in those days. After that happened, that stop, we kind of, nobody really is interested in landing anywhere except for these private companies, which that'll be interesting. And then you see Space Force kind of get created. And really what's the main fear for that is other countries that have all their satellites everywhere and like what the potential is for like weaponry and whatnot. Well, you know there's a big treaty between the main powers of the world that say you cannot build a base on the moon. Yeah, just think about that. That would be a crazy military advantage. You have a rocket base on the moon, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, the true Death Star. Yeah, I know. Star Wars hit it on the head again, Justin. I know, I'm telling you. Like there's so much in there, you guys. Look son, it's a full moon. What's that coming down over? Dude, so you guys know that flying cars are now almost a thing? What do you mean almost a thing? Well, so it's in trial phase, but I've actually seen videos now in Japan. They have a legit flying car that looks, it looks kind of like a drone basically with the technology but like it's a one, it's a single seater and they set up like all these nets around so it had to like go through this obstacle course so it could like levitate and then it kind of goes through each one of these gates and it had to pass all these sort of standards for it but it just makes it look like that is actually possible now. Like it looks like something that could be a thing. I mean, I saw a prototype. I thought it was Uber who had like a prototype of what that would look like. It's exactly what it looked like. It looked like it had, it was like a four propeller drone. I think theirs was like a two or a four seater but I don't see why it's that far off. I mean, look at the drones. Have you guys seen some of these badass drones? Yeah. I mean, you have drones now that go up and almost fly themselves. They're dummy proof. I mean, you literally can lock them into something and then they use GPS and coordination to fly. I think it's just the infrastructure of like, how do you create all these new flight paths and like, you know, what all the standards are gonna be and cause can you imagine just everybody all of a sudden now having access to that and then crashing into your house. Well, Elon too. So Elon Musk did this whole thing on that where he talked about flying cars and he said it's unlikely because of the noise. Right. That's what I was, that's what I was fact but it didn't make a lot of noise. This one didn't make a lot of noise. No, it was pretty quiet because of how low they would have to fly. Is that why? Yeah, just imagine a bunch of flying cars. Okay, you got cars driving in front of us. Imagine flying drone type cars all around us. Yeah, it'd have to be much. You know what, here's a random fact. I was reading a real estate law last night and did you guys know that when you buy a property you also own the air above it and that you can actually sell that? What? Wait, how do you sell the air above it? So you can sell that. Like, so for example- You can sell us a floor. I'll give you an example. No, no, no, I'll give you an extreme example of that. Okay, so somebody rich billionaire buys a high-rise penthouse suite. And he's got the beautiful view in front of him of the city. He's got the optimal view. Below him is one-story stores. They're like, say 15 stores. All those people that have those stores actually have the rights to the air above them. Now, if they want to, they can sell those rights to let's say this billionaire comes down and says, listen, goes to these seven owners and says, I want to buy the air rights above your building. That will now allow him to hold those rights so no one can ever build up. But if somebody else were, let's say they demolished that and they were to sell that to somebody who wants to build a building to go straight up. They'd have to buy not only the footprint but then the air rights. How bizarre. Yeah, I didn't even know that was a thing. What about down? You know, like down- So you can also sell that, right? So you have, I forget what it's called. There's an acronym for it, but it's like mineral oil, gas, or something like rights that you have. So you have, when you buy your land and property, you have the rights down and up plus the actual property itself. And you can actually sell each of those individually. So if somebody wants to like mine your property but you own the house still, the building, the air and you can sell that same way you would have if you had water on there or something like that, you could actually- That's super fascinating. It reminds me, and I don't know if Doug, you might want to look this up, it was Coca-Cola or it was like a big major company like that that was trying to basically like create like a laser advertisement. So they would like project it up into the airspace. So you would like see that in the sky and they would advertise you in the sky. And I think they like blocked that from happening, obviously. Yes, because I cannot imagine walking around. Yeah, how distracting and annoying would that be? Just looking at the sky and there's all these ads. Yeah. Floating above you. That's horrible. First question is from the free range chicken. How would you compare calisthenics to weight training for building muscle, improving health and general wellness? Well, okay. So first off, you want to understand that the umbrella of resistance training covers calisthenics as well as weights or bands or machines. It's a style of training in which you're using resistance with the sole goal of building strength and building muscle. Okay, so when we compare calisthenics to weight training, they do look different. However, you can manipulate your body with calisthenics to create some pretty high tension, heavy style exercises, especially when you use a tool like a suspension trainer. When you have a suspension trainer, you now have a whole bunch of different exercise that open up to you and all of them are muscle building. Now, some of the best muscle building exercises are ones with barbells, but there's also some body weight muscle building exercises that are up there with some of the best ones. I mean, a pull-up, for example, is a body weight exercise and that could be considered calisthenics and that's extremely valuable. A dip. A dip is another, a handstand push-up, for example, is another phenomenal exercise. It's a tough one. It's all resistance training and unless you're a specific type of athlete or your goals are very, very, very specific, like you're a bodybuilder, you compete in bodybuilding, or you're a powerlifter, or you're a kettlebell expert or whatever, your best bet is to use a mix of different forms of resistance training and what that will do is that'll develop a very balanced aesthetic-looking physique for most people. So I love body weight exercises in combination with weights and suspension trainers are your best bet with that. I think, yeah, if you think suspension trainers and then trying to find more ways to progress through that, if you look at, there was a big trend for this for a while with those bar athletes and the calisthenic kings and people like that that were really kind of showing a whole new wave of intensity that they were adding to these body weight type exercises and using the bar for all kinds of different moves and things. So it's, there is a valid way to really progress just by using your own body weight. However, I think a lot of people are more familiar with weights and how to program that. This is kind of another thing that's a little bit more niche and unique. I mean, if you're a coach, okay, if you're a good coach, this belongs in every routine. Whether you intermittently have body weight exercises built into their weight training routine or you actually have phases where you go through, where you make your client spend two, three, four weeks of just doing body weight exercises, no matter how you drum it up, as a good coach, it belongs somewhere in almost everybody's routine unless you have a very specific goal like Sal said. And by specific, it's like sport specific because even if you have a specific goal like I want to lose 30 pounds or I want to build 10 pounds of muscle, those belong in there just for overall health and longevity. If you're a coach, this has got to be something you intermittently put into the routine or make sure you always keep somewhat these body weight exercises. If you're a consumer or a listener and you build your own routine, it's important that you do these. It's important that you incorporate them. There's too much benefit in training body weight type of training calisthenics to not do them at all, whatsoever, even if you think that your main goal is to build muscle and that's not the fastest way potentially to build muscle. If it's something you never do, it absolutely is. It's just the novelty that we talk about the importance of that for the body to adapt and keep changing. If you're always using the same machines or always doing the same exercises and training in the same modality and you never utilize some of these tools like this like a suspension trainer or doing a calisthenic type of phase, you're really missing out on a lot of benefits. Oh yeah, I mean, if you work out primarily with weights and let's say you did, let's say you signed up for MAP suspension. So now MAP suspension is all suspension training. You can expect to gain some muscle. You should expect to gain a little bit of muscle, mobility and a different type of strength because it's a different type of resistance training. So when you look at that whole umbrella again of resistance training, each one has its strengths and its weaknesses but I think the point that we're making that's real important is don't limit yourself to one, utilize all of them and again you'll develop a very balanced aesthetic functional physique from doing that. Next question is from Chris Frautz. You have $5,000 to spend on a home gym. What do you buy? $5,000 you could get a sick sit-up. Yes. It's an amazing set-up for- Especially in these days. Yeah, I would start with, number one I would start with a rack. And now I, you know, barbells and dumbbells are important too of course we're gonna get there but a good rack allows you to really do a lot of stuff with your free weights. Because here's the thing with free weights, you have an almost infinite supply of exercises that you can do with free weights. That's one of the things I love about them. I'm not just getting a rack though. I'm getting a PRX rack because I want something that actually folds away and that doesn't kill the space that I may potentially be using for my car or for an office- And also a stable because I've worked out with a lot of racks that are made for home gyms because there's commercial racks. Those are the ones you go in the big gyms and use typically very stable. The home gym ones, I've used a few of them that are a little rickety and that's okay for the first few months or year but if you plan on using this for years, you want something stable especially if you're racking a barbell on there with weight. The PRX racks are very, very stable and they don't use up much space at all. In fact, if you went on PRX for under $5,000 you'd be able to get a rack, barbell, dumbbells, plates, bench. No, you would, so here's, so you would literally be able to get like, so hopefully if this is a listener, I don't know if you follow us on Instagram or not, but you know, I definitely know I have, I think you guys have too, posted several pictures of our, our trucky PRX setup, right? That was more expensive than 5,000 but the most expensive part of it is the dumbbells. Yes. If you wanted to save money and I was on a budget, I would get everything that we have and then adjust- And multiple benches. And then like adjustable, Yeah, exactly, we have multiple benches. We built a- We bought all the dumbbells. Yeah, we bought tons of dumbbells. We have enough to be able to deadlifting 700 pounds. Like we have, we have more than you need and get away with one barbell too. Yeah, exactly. To be a minimalist. Yeah, so we over-killed that and still it wasn't that much over $5,000. If you were to do like an adjustable dumbbells you could literally get almost everything else that we have for that setup, for that price. Oh yeah, like the folding rack is gonna be $20,000 or $14,000 I think when I looked on their site. And that's without our discount. So you got that, but one barbell, some plates, adjustable dumbbells, your bench. And then if you wanna go real crazy you can add a pulley adjustment which or attachment I should say. And then you're pretty much set. I've been so, so here's the thing. I've been working out for a long time for the last, I don't know, 15 plus years that I've been working out. 90% of my workouts are what I just said. A rack, barbell, dumbbells, adjustable bench and a cable attachment, which is very basic. It's like, and I barely ever use it. That's it. That's all I've used. And trust me, I am at no loss for exercise variety. You know, I can do, I do different exercises all the time. Well, especially if it's in your home you wanna have things look a certain way and be organized. And so it's just nice that they have like wall attachments for all these things like rubber bands or, you know, even if you have a kettlebell there's a way to kind of like display those in a way where you can walk in and everything's organized is not in your way. So, you know, it's come a long way, man. Cause before that it's like you would just have everything resting on the ground at your house. Like there'd be a bench, maybe like outside that you would use. It's all rusty. It's, you know, so as far as like the options go, there's really a way that you can look at, you know, kind of picking your essentials and then organizing it and having, you know, a place for everything, which I have found like it's just been a game changer for me. Well, that's the biggest difference today is that exactly that. Like back, you know, just 10, 15 years ago, if you wanted an at-home gym spot, you had to have the room, the extra room. You either had to have an extra room in your house or you now no longer can park your garage in that space because you've got all this equipment in it. The beauty of the PRX stuff is, I mean, you can still pull mine in your truck in that garage. I mean, that's crazy. Yeah, what is it? How much of it off? I mean, you're literally talking about it. No, not even that, dude. You're talking less than a foot off the wall. It's like six inches off the wall. And so those trucks are, both Justin and my truck are really long because they have the extra cabin on them. And they super long. And you have to have a decent sized garage to even fit them in. And I think we're only a few inches from the front and the back and we could still pull the truck in with that rack and everything in there because it totally folds up against the wall and all the weights go up against the wall. Yeah, you know, that earlier when I brought up that article about the prohibition, it also talked about the explosion of at home gym equipment. It's still climbing. It is still climbing. And in my prediction, I think once people really experience what it's like to be consistent at home, a lot of people are not gonna wanna go back to the gym. There's real cool videos out there too for some do it yourself things added items like I was able to kind of research that and figure out how to make a platform. And so if that's part of your programming and you can do that, there's ways to make that on the cheap as well to accentuate the racks and everything else. You made that for under 300 bucks, right? I mean, exactly. If you were to buy that rack. And that's a legit platform. I mean, that's a really nice. Just horse mats in, you know, plywood. So here's the, so I love that platform, but in my garage, I don't even have a platform. All I put down were the horse mats. Yeah, so horse mats is just fine. And I have the bumper plates. So if I drop the barbell, you know, my garage is concrete plus the horse mats to prevent chipping or whatever, not a problem. But yeah, the platform we made is, it's amazing. It's really, really nice. And under 300 bucks. Yeah, no, if you have a budget like 5,000, you can build a very nice, some damage with that. You'll have an amazing home, Jim. Next question is from Matt Ammo. How do stimulants affect the anabolic process in recovery? Oh, what a great question because this is one of the answers that irritates people because it depends. If, so stimulants, what do they do to the body, right, they stimulate the central nervous system. Classic stimulant would be caffeine. You take caffeine, it produces an increase in catecholamine production. It makes you feel more alert, more energized. In a healthy state, if you're healthy, it's not gonna negatively affect hormones like testosterone might actually improve insulin sensitivity in some people. It could fuel good workouts, reduce your, increase your pain tolerance so your workouts can be a little bit harder, might have some brain health properties. And so in that case, if you're healthy, nothing wrong with stimulants. The problem becomes or happens when your health is in the wrong, it's the wrong kind of health to throw stimulants at. If you are not getting good sleep, if you have a lot of stress, if your testosterone level is a low as a result of all this, or you're a woman and your period is off because of this, or your progesterone estrogen feels off, your libido feels off, you're just in a bad state of health, stimulants just increase the stress that you place on your body. It could cause cortisol to come up even higher, although temporarily you probably feel good from that extra cortisol. It is not a good thing to throw on that fire. It's like gasoline on the fire. When I work with clients who are in this state of being, one of the first things I do is I wean them off of stimulants because the stimulants are making everything worse. So it really does depend. It's a problem for a lot of people. I mean, myself included in terms of like, what that provides, I know how I feel after I'll have a stimulant or have some coffee. And what I've noticed is obviously the trends within our industry is to really cater to that into going into the workout. So it becomes ritualized where I have to have my pre-workout. I have to have this and then it's not working as much. So I have to add more and I keep adding more and more and then you start having real negative results from that. And so, you know, you really put yourself in a position where it's like, I'm so reliant on this to produce these workouts for me, but now I'm just adding more stress and more things that are really like taking me in a downward progression. I really don't think this was a big deal just 20 years ago. We now, we live in the Starbucks generation and the pre-workout generation. Like, you know, 20 plus years ago, I mean, it was coffee every now and then and then there was probably a very small percentage of those people that even were probably drinking in that regular basis. And I would probably argue that it wasn't a lot of the fitness people that were. There was also the perception that coffee wasn't healthy, which kind of prevented people from over there. Coffee, cigarettes combo. Yeah, exactly. So it really wasn't in the health and fitness space like it is. And like anything else in the health and fitness space, we take something that has a little bit of benefiting good and we abuse the shit out of it until we find out like the unintended consequences. And I think this is becoming more and more of a conversation that I've had to have in just the last five years that I had to have in the previous 15 years. And I don't think it would have been that big of a deal except for it's just become so accepted now. It's become so accepted to start your day off with your pot of coffee at home, then you get to work and you get your Starbucks and then you go to your before your pre-workout if you didn't already guzzled down a rock star before and then you have a pre-workout before you know it. You're having a thousand milligrams of caffeine every single day and you've worked your way slowly up to that and you don't even realize how stimulated you are, how much it's affecting your sleep, how much it's affecting your recovery. But yeah, I know it can. And to your original points, it does depend. It does depend on who I'm talking. Somebody who uses stimulants judiciously and intermittently, probably not a big deal. I try not to, I mean, I can't tell you, it's probably been, I wanna say a month maybe or so since the last time I grabbed a pre-workout before, but I have coffee on a very regular basis almost every day in the morning. But I'm aware of that, right? That I wanna intermittently use something that strong so I get the effects from it and then I don't get the adverse effects from having too much of it. What's the scientific term for adrenal fatigue? HPA axis dysfunction. Yeah, that's what the hypothalamus, the pituitary and the adrenals are just not communicating well. And if your hormones are off, stimulants are not a good idea, both in men and in women. It can cause more problems, not directly necessarily. So it's not like the caffeine or the stimulant itself is causing a lowering of testosterone or issues with estrogen or progesterone necessarily, although in women there may be some estrogen issues but that's disputable. It's really through the indirect effect of increasing the stress in the body. So you're already stressed, then you add stimulant on top of that. It's lifting it up even higher. So now the stress level is even higher through chemicals. And then because of that, now things start to feel bad. Now here's the shitty part. If you're in this state of being, backing out of it can suck. Because then you go through the whole like, oh my gosh, I feel like garbage. Withdraw. Yeah, because your body's adapted to having so much. So here's a recommendation. Cut your stimulant use, if you need to reduce it or need to go off for a second, cut your stimulant use down by a quarter. And then once that feels okay, cut it down by another quarter and until you're down to zero. Going cold turkey can be really, I know people who do it, but it can be real nasty. I've focused on drinking water too. That's a big priority for me. And honestly, if you're somebody who's wondering like, how do I know if I'm somebody who's being affected by this? I think it's just a good practice for anybody to wing on and off all the time. I just think that anything that you are doing in your life that you find yourself doing every single day, even if it's just two coffees, right? Like just two coffees a day or maybe you don't even do coffee, you just do pre-workouts every time before you work out. I mean, I think there's a healthy relationship with the ability to be able to just say, I'm not gonna use that for two weeks or three weeks. So forget just what it may be doing for muscle building. I think the psychological ability to do that, I think is important. Yeah, if you feel like you need it, like I have to have it, then you might wanna visit. That's your sign right there. It's like the conversation I used to have with clients that would refuse to drink wine. And I'd be like, listen, I'm not saying. I mean, refuse to eliminate wine. Yeah, refuse to eliminate wine in their diet. Like, oh, I'm not giving up my wine. It's just like, well, you might want to look into that a little bit. I'm saying like, if you think that you have to have your wine every single, and I'm not saying that you can't have things like that and enjoy it. I'm totally for somebody. I had a glass of wine last weekend. I'm not against having a glass of wine. But if you've become so dependent on any substance every single day, you've gotta start questioning that about you. And nobody can do that better than yourself. And so you need to evaluate that and ask yourself, if you claim that you need a pre-workout every single time you work out, there's probably a little bit of a problem there. Next question is from Catherine B. Fitt. How do you go about training and nutrition with clients who have lost their period? Oh yeah, this is a good one. So there's a few things. First off, you wanna make sure there's no big medical issues as to why this is happening. But usually this is what it ends up being. Usually it's somebody whose stress levels are too high or they're not handling them well. Their sleep isn't good. They're not eating an adequate amount of calories and or essential macronutrients like fats, protein, sometimes carbohydrates, going on a strict keto diet for too long can cause this. They may also be overtraining and under fat. They may be too lean. Essentially, you wanna understand one thing is that your body, if it feels like it's an unsafe state, unhealthy state, or not a good context to be fertile, it'll prevent that from happening. And so it can be any of the things I talked about or all of the things. Macronutrients, stress, all that stuff. All that stuff. Typically what I would do with a client in this case, and usually I would work with a doctor by the way. It wasn't like they'd come to me specifically to fix this, but this would be one of the things that they would list as one of their issues or I would ask them about this. What I would do is I would reverse diet them so I'd slowly increase their calories and have them focus on building strength. We would make sure that their proteins and fats and carbohydrates were balanced. I wouldn't have them cut anything too low. We'd look at their sleep and then we would observe. And usually after a period of a few months, I'd say probably 70% of time, if not maybe a little more, we would start to see things start to regulate. It's funny, I actually have a couple clients who hired me and I can think off the top of my head. Their goal was to improve their health and fitness and as a result of it, we got pregnant. They didn't realize that. I mean, that wasn't a goal that they hired me for, but they were like, oh my gosh, my husband and I had been trying for a long time and my period was super, but we just got pregnant. And it was all because my approach through fitness was improving their health, so that was a side effect of it. Yeah, this is actually, or at least for me, this was actually pretty common. I saw this a lot and maybe more so in my early years and I think that had a lot to do with the, it's normally a combination, right? It's rarely ever a client loses their period just because they're stressed at work or the client loses their period just because they're on a low calorie diet for a while. It's normally like the kind of the perfect storm. They're kind of doing all those things. The most common for me was actually women that were under eating fat in calories and also really stressed. So I would get these high performing ladies that were CEOs or entrepreneurs. So they're kind of grinders working really hard. Answering calls all night long. Yeah, right, high stress level, not sleeping really well. Also growing or coming up in the 90s and early 2000s of demonizing fat still. And so they ate chicken breasts and salads all day long and were only consuming 1200 calories. And then they also want me to train them three to five days a week. And then that that created this perfect storm for the period to shut down. And simply by me pulling back on the intensity, making some effort towards reducing stress and sleep and increasing their healthy fats almost always fixed it. Now, of course, there's always gonna be exceptions to the rule. This is a very individualized depends type of question. But in my experience, that was some of the most common offenders. It is your fertility, this is both for men and for women is a very, it's a pretty remarkable single signal that can tell you something is off. I mean, you may be feeling like you're good, like you feel good, maybe because you're not listening to the signals of your body and you're just wired all the time. So you think that that's a good thing. And you may be like, I have a buddy who is a guy whose sperm count was below fertile. And he's just like, man, I felt good. And I'm asking like, what do you mean you felt good? He's like, well, I was working and I wasn't getting good sleep, but I was hyped. I'm like, okay, you're in this hyped state of being all the time, your body's not gonna wanna procreate. So same thing, got him to sleep, increases his calories, focus a little bit more on strength training, less on the other intense type workouts and his sperm count climbed quite a bit. Same thing happens for women. This is one of those signals. And what I don't like is that we tend to band aid it. So what they'll do with women is they'll maybe prescribe fertility drugs and other things, which sure it could make you drop an egg or produce more or whatever, or for men, give them testosterone. But you're really band, you're putting a band aid over a problem. And over time, that problem might actually get worse, especially now that you're ignoring it by putting a band aid over. Look, Mind Pump is recorded on video as well as audio. Come check us out on YouTube. You can also find all of us on Instagram. You can find Doug, the producer at Mind Pump Doug. You can find Justin at Mind Pump Justin. Me at Mind Pump Sal and Adam at Mind Pump Adam. My body doesn't respond like it used to, and I'm having this argument with Jessica. Making all these excuses. Yeah, and I'm having this argument with Jessica. Like listen, honey, I know my body, okay? I've been training forever. Like it's just older, it's just not responding like. Anyway, I started doing working out more frequently and boom, and he's coming back. Imagine that.