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Again, that's mapsmapsjanuary.com. Dude, are you guys proud of our soldiers? Do you guys hear what happened? What? No. I don't know. I think this is an old story, though. I think it's like a couple years old. Great time to share this in current events. Hey, whatever. It's cool. I don't know. I never heard of this, but somebody shared it, so I looked it up, and I thought it was pretty cool. So the U.S. soldiers were stationed in Iceland. And over a weekend, they drank… Somebody shared this with me, too. Did they share it, too? Yeah, yeah. They drank all their alcohol, right? They drank the entire beer supply. Of all of Iceland? Or there's the town? I mean, this was, I guess, part of the amount of beer that they had stored for soldiers. I don't know. But they drank it all. No, no, no. It says the bars. What? Bar owners repeatedly said they have never experienced a situation similar to this before. I imagine it's because the town is so small, right? And then you just have, all of a sudden, probably thousands and thousands. What's the population? I mean, it's pretty sparse. Or they're just badass. You've been there, right, Justin? Iceland now. Yeah. Oh, you haven't. Oh, my other buddy has been there. I've always wanted to go. It's beautiful, yeah. Really? Yeah, yeah. It says it's beautiful. It says that people are really cool. They do a thing there with the bars, if I'm correct. I don't know, correct me if I'm wrong. I know somebody on our show will, or on our audience will. They at 2 o'clock, they don't close the bars, but they lock you in. So if you want to stay and just drink all night, you can, they just, you can't leave after that. What a great excuse that you could give your wife. Why didn't you, honey, they locked the doors. I'm sorry. I'm on lockdown. There's nothing I could do. They locked the doors. Yeah. I think they don't allow, after two, they don't allow any in and out, but if you're still there partying and drinking, you can go kind of all night. They don't let you leave? Yeah, I think that's how it works. Madness, you know, for the bartender. Oh, that would suck. You have to go hard. He's the only sloppy idiots. Yeah, that reminds me a ton of money though. That's true. I mean, he keeps as long as we're paying. Yeah. It reminds me of the movie Bronx Tales. You guys ever watched that? Yeah. Oh, what a great movie. Have you seen that, Justin? I don't know if I've seen that. Oh, that's terrible. Anyway, it's a great movie and in the, there's a, DeNiro, Johnny Depp, who's in it? No, not Johnny Depp, but DeNiro's in there. DeNiro and who else? He plays the dad of this kid that grows up in this neighborhood and in Bronx. And yeah, who plays, who plays his son? Not really a well known actor. I just remember his name in the, in the movie. It was Cologito was his name. It was a weird name. But anyway, in there, there's a scene where these bikers drive through the town and then they go into one of the bars and this is like a, like, you know, small, like Italian neighborhood with like the little mobsters or whatever. So they go into this bar and they start roughing up the bar, spraying beer or whatever. So the mobster guy walks up to them and he's like, I'm gonna have to ask you guys to calm down or whatever. And like, no problem, we'll be cool. But then they keep fucking around. So then he just walks over and he locks the door and then they look at him and he goes, well, now you can't leave. And then they just beat the show. What a great scene. What it reminds me of, you know, one of the best scenes of any movie. You guys have a movie like that when you're a kid that you just, just watched over it besides Star Wars that you watched over and over again. They're adjusted. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. I watched Boondock Saints quite a bit. I had this like, I went through this phase where I just like was kind of like how you're proud of being Italian. Like I was like, oh, Irish, you know, and like, and these guys were like, you know, vigilantes and they're going around like, and they have like this cool prayer that they do to kill somebody. That was a hell of a good movie. Yeah. So I was like always reciting like all the scenes and, you know, the bartender that had Tourette's and everything. It was just so great. Was that high school for us when that dropped? When did that drop? It must have been high school. I think it was. Yeah. It sounds like that's about right. It's been around for a while. You know, I watched Few Good Men a bunch of times. I was into that. I don't know what... That was your Tom Cruise face? Yeah. He just looks so good in white. Yeah. Yeah. He really does. Why do you keep watching this, Adam? Adam gets so giggly. You can't handle the truth. That's why. You can't handle the truth. I'm going to keep watching. I laugh because, you know, what's true is I actually watched The Firm a lot back then, too. He's a good actor. I mean, I'll give it to him. Underrated. He was an underrated actor, I think. Yeah. Well, he's still underrated? I don't know about that. Well, no, because, okay. I don't think anybody thinks he's underrated. I do because have you seen Born on the Fourth of July? No. That was an Academy. I mean, that was a performance, but most people don't place Tom Cruise in that category of, you know, actors. Really? Yeah. They think he's like a well-known actor, but they wouldn't put him in the same category as, like, I don't know, some of the other greats that are out there. I would disagree. I think that he's up there. Maybe because I married him. My wife hates, she thinks he's terrible. Oh, he's short. I don't know. Some women hate on him because he's short, right? Yeah, what's up with that? A lot of those guys are, you know, you don't realize how many actors are, like, really like little dudes. Yeah. But when you think back to high school, all the guys that were in drama, you know, at least when I was a kid growing up, if you were in drama, you were like a buck-o-five and like... Yeah, I thought like Marky Mark was taller. I thought he was like over six at least. He's a hell of a smile. Is he really? No, he's like five-ten, five-eight, five-eight, five-ten. What's Mark Wahlberg? Mark what? Wahlberg. Sorry, that was between Swallow's head. Whoa. Wow. I think he's like five-nine. Yeah. Boy, you want to talk about somebody who reinvented their image. Okay, so a lot of young kids, they're like, oh yeah, Mark Wahlberg's cool. Did he really, though? You have no idea. He was Marky Mark when I was a kid, and then he was popular. Yeah, what was it? Yeah, what was it? Five-eight, man. He's five-eight. Feel the vibration. Yeah, he was, he was, feel it, feel it. This is what he did, okay? He literally, this is what he was known for for a second. He would pull his pants down. Remember that? I know, but I still feel like he's kind of, he's kind of the same like cool guy, sex appeal dude, you know what I'm saying? Take your shirt off. He's still, name a, name a, name a movie where he doesn't take his shirt off immediately. No, seriously, name a movie where he doesn't take his shirt off. I can't. That's true. Daddy's home? I don't know. But you guys remember? I think there's a, there's probably one in there. Yeah, he shows the ads. Adam knows all of them. Yeah, it's, wasn't there a basketball game? He went to, he was, this was in the Marky Mark phase, and he was at a game, and he took his shirt off and all the girls, and then he pulled his pants down. What? Yes. This is what he did, because it was a thing or something. It was weird. Pretty sure it worked for him. Speaking of basketball, my warriors last night took it to the Lakers. What? They went swimming? That's impressive. No, that's so terrible, man. So I tell you, I don't get it, obviously, it's so lame talking to you guys sometimes about this stuff, but it's very exciting for me to see the warriors right now because we're, we're, we're, we have a ton of young guys. We don't have clays out here. Obviously, Durant's gone, Iggy's gone. These are all, we're cornerstone pieces to the championship team. So everybody counted out the warriors for being good. And the first like, I'd say 12 games or so were pretty rough, but I mean, Steve Kerr was just playing all these young guys. And now they're, it's all starting to gel. Yeah. And it's been really fun, which for betting for me is awesome because when, did you win? Yeah, I won last night. I've won, I lost. They must have won big underdogs in that game. They were, they were, it was a minus, it minus eight and a half. I actually started, it opened at minus or plus nine, excuse me, which means they get nine points, right? Nice. So I mean, and they've been fighting like every game they've been playing. Now, when you bet on a game like that, is it, you bet, you know, bet a hundred, you make a hundred if they win, or do you make more because they're the underdog? Or is it just the point spread? There's other, yeah, it's the point spread. So there's other things that you can bet on. There's what's called the money line. So if I would have taken the Warriors straight up and they were already a huge underdog, I could have bet say, and I believe it was like plus 350. So I could have bet $100 to win 350. Just for winning. Just for winning. But if you point, if you play the spread, the spread safer, right? So the Lakers could have beat them by five points and I still would have won. So that's why I like this. And that's why I like betting that with like a game like with against the Warriors when I, I've been, I watch every game, I see how they're playing and there's like, there's an energy around them right now. And so even though they're not ranked really high right now that we're not, they're like barely 500, I believe after last night, that they, they won't get, they won't get favored to win a lot of games, but sometimes, and then they're playing the Lakers defending champions. They have the best defense in the league. So all of a sudden, they give the Lakers a huge favor and it's like, man, I think we could maybe even win. I definitely think we're going to keep it closer than nine. I like, I like that. Now, let me ask you a question because, okay, so you could do this online, right? Gambling. You can do this online. I don't know. Do you have like draft kings, don't they? Yeah, I don't know how much trouble I get myself in for saying to that. Well, you know people. Yeah, let's just leave it. You know people and then this is how they gamble. And then when you do it online, do you have to put the money in, in order to gamble? In other words, that way they know they have it if you lose. So I, I don't know how that works because I, I have always gone through somebody. So long before. And so I have, I have an account with them. God, I don't know how much I can talk about this or not. You know a guy that has an account. Yeah, I'm helping you right now. Let's thank you. That's so welcome. I know somebody who has it back. And he's the most stand up guy. If you have good credit, it's like anything else. If you have good credit and you're, And they know where you live. Yeah, right. And you pay your, you pay your bill, you pay your debt and stuff like that. You get a bigger availability. So like maybe when someone first starts gambling like that, I won't let you bet more than a thousand dollars. That's your limit. But I have like a $10,000 limit for total betting in a week. And then I also have a $5,000 limit per bet. So, and that's normally how they do it. You have a per bet limit and then you have a max for the week. You can, so that way, because what happens with a lot of gambling addicts is you lose and you double up. You double up, you double up before you know it. You're down a hundred grand. Yeah. And then you can't pay your bill in a week. And then these, so. And they mail you your kid's ear in the mail and tell you to pay a little more. Do you, do you, uh, I'll joking aside, what's the most money that your friend ever won? Like in all of gambling? Not like, yeah. In all of gambling. Okay, 17,000. Wow. That's crazy. Those are fun, you know. Now, does it feel, I imagine if I won, so I won one time, uh, on a slot machine. I hate gambling, right? So I don't gamble. But when I turned 21, I went to Vegas for my birthday and I thought, oh, this is what you're supposed to do when you turn 21. And literally I put one quarter on a 1,600 bucks. No way. And I didn't play for the rest of the, because that's me, right? Yeah. I mean, hey, I don't know how to play anymore. But for me, when I won the 600, it felt like it was monopoly money. I might as well just spend it while I'm here. Does it feel like that? No, I'm actually, you know, I didn't know we were going to get into this conversation. But this year, so this is funny, right? This is part of my new year's resolution. So I've never like tracked for the entire year. So I'm tracking right now. Is that because you purposely don't want to know? Well, I think in the past I've always treated it like this. Like I have a, you get like a buffer. I have a budget. I have a budget that I say I will allow myself to spend this much. If I lose it all, that's it. Undone. Like I have limits, right? That, you know, and I can lose that. And let's say the month, let's just say for hypothetical reasons, my friend says $5,000 is the total amount he'll allow himself to potentially lose. You could, that could be lost in the first week. You're done for the whole year. You're done for the month. All the month. Yeah, you're done for the month. And then that resets. So that's how I treat it. So, but this is, I've never actually like from beginning of the year to the end of the year tracked all of my gambling to kind of see where I end up. My guess, because I kind of tracked in the past, but not like as diligent as I am this time, is I wash, you know, it's about this. So you just have fun. Yeah. And that's, it makes the game more fun. And I treat it that way. So you would make the game just more stressful for me. I don't think it'd make it more fun. Well, that's this, that same feeling you get is the same. You know, we talk about this. I do that if I don't care about the team. You know what this is? This is like scary movies to me for you. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? I don't lose five grand for movie scary. But I mean that the anxiety type of feeling or whatever like that, excites you. Yeah. It excites me. It's a, it's a different feeling. Yeah. So I, when I was a kid, I had a friend who I remember I went to his house and they had like a nice car and a boat and all that stuff. And I was like, wow, man, what does your dad do for a living? And he goes, he's a professional poker player. And I didn't know that I, that was a job. I thought that was, I think made it up. I'm like, get out of here. You know, he goes, no, that's what my dad does for a living. And then I met his dad and I was, you know, I was in seventh grade and I was super curious and I said, what makes somebody good at, you know, gambling? How can he do that professionally? They're disciplined. That's it. He goes, it's 100% your temperament. That's the word he used. It's your temperament. He goes, you know, somebody who's good can handle losing a lot of money and it's not that big of a deal. They can also handle winning a lot of money and it's not that big of a deal. And they stick to their rules. Yes. Now see, for me, my temperament is, would be terrible because I lose 10 bucks and I'm like, that's lunch. Now I'm angry. I don't want to do this anymore. But so I don't have the temperament for it. So I went through a phase where I was, I thought maybe I might like be this guy. No, you didn't. Yes, I did. Of course. I did. Read the books. I was spending time like down at the casino. That was a cool job. Well, I met a lot of guys, right? So I really, so what I, the way my entry to gambling at all was actually, Texas hold them. So back when I didn't have the money to lose, I got good at playing cards and it started with playing, you know, locally with friends and doing like a, you know, kind of a tournament style like pots and got good, sort of reading books on like how to do the math and figured out like your, and that's really what it is. It's the guys that are pro, they have the discipline to stick to the math, no matter how tempting it is to go outside of that. And that if you sit at a table in a casino, eventually a four or five whales will come through four or five drunk. I don't know how to play the game, but I'm just having fun throwing a few, and that's when they got piranhas and you gobble up those guys. You just wait for that and you may sit at the table for six hours. That's me drunk trying to play cards. Yeah, just folding, folding, folding. And then here comes the whale. Here comes the sucker who just keeps betting and betting. And then you wait for that opportunity and then you crack them and then you didn't play slowly conservative. Investing in the market is also a lot of temperament. It's not gambling because obviously it's not considered gambling, although I guess you could say. I consider it that way. But it's very similar in the sense that when the market is going up and things are getting high, the wrong temperament people want to buy. Oh, everything's great. The market's been going up for the last three years. Now is a great time to buy. It is a bad time to buy. You want to buy when shit's going down. And they say when there's blood in the streets. And you have to be patient. That's why one of the best piece of advice I ever got for investing was to invest in companies that I actually believe in and know about because then I can ride and weather the storm. So if I buy, for example, I don't know, Peloton stock, and I really believe in what they're doing and I see what they're doing and then they go down, I'm okay because I know what's happening. I know what's going to happen. I know that they're doing well. I know fitness. I know the space. Yeah. So it's a similar thing. You're going to have the right temperament. No, it's very similar. And you also have to have rules that you said ahead of time where it's like, okay, if I win X amount, doesn't matter how hot I am or how whatever I'm out. And that's hard to do when you're, whether you're playing dice or cards or you're sports gambling and you are hot and you're winning, you just want one more, one more time. And that's where that's where it gets you because the odds are always in the favor of the house. So if you think you're going to keep winning, winning and you're not, eventually you get cracked. And so the discipline of saying like, okay, I've won enough, walk away. And I've been able to do that when I'm like by myself, which is why I like sports betting because it's not with my buddies in Vegas because that's where I get bad is if I'm with somebody else and their energy and what they're doing, if I'm just kind of doing my own thing or I'm at home and I'm watching a game, it's like I play really well to my rules of like, okay, once I hit that, if I win, then I'm done. I'm not going to gamble the whole week or whatever that, or if I lose and I'm done, I'm not going to keep trying to dig myself out of the hole. Dude, I know somebody who mortgaged his mom's house. Yeah, I know some crazy stories too. Because of that, you literally, he controlled his mom's finances because she was an immigrant, so she didn't read English. That's when it's a sickness. And he just mortgaged her house, dude, so that he could pay off some of his debts. I was like, oh, what a... I know, I think maybe that's why too. I'm lucky I have no several friends that are really bad like that. I've got to see it kind of firsthand, like where it can get. And then I've kind of felt that myself, I think I shared on this podcast a long time ago, and I definitely know off air I've shared with you guys, when I kind of had the realization of that, I was hanging out with one of my buddies years back, maybe this is five, seven years somewhere around there. And he was, he's such a hardcore gambler, he's on a whole other level than I am. And when we're together, his habits bleed, and I was catching myself gambling on a Tuesday night. So you can't hang out with him anymore? Yeah, so I just, I can't do that. I just, then it's a problem, you know what I'm saying? Like I'm all for these things and dabbling and having fun and enjoying it. But when you start getting to a place where it's like, you know, on a Tuesday night, you find yourself in some local bar betting on some bullshit. It's just to me, it's so weird. Cause I went, I remember once I went to Vegas with a friend of mine and my friend had a friend that was like this tech mogul at the time. This was a while ago. I remember what company it was, but this guy, I watched him and it was just so shocking to me. I literally watched him lose $20,000 in five minutes. At the roulette table. Same thing. I think the roulette table is where you lose it the fastest. Cause I've seen the same thing. This guy comes in like all big shot, like has like a whole entourage behind him and he drops. Like it was at least, I felt like it was $50,000. It was just all centered on like one number and then, you know, gone. And I looked around and he was already gone. Like he had just left and that just hurt, it hurt every like sell my body. It's so crazy. Speaking of tech, did you, did you just hear about Amazon Prime? How many members they have? 142 million. I read the article. 142 million Amazon Prime member. What's the Amazon Prime fee? Is it nine, Doug? I think a hundred bucks a year? A hundred bucks a year, yeah. A hundred bucks a year. So that's a billion dollars that they make off of. Just auto. Just from the membership. Automatic membership. That's not even to count how many people are more likely. Cause I'll tell you what, it's the most brilliant thing Amazon ever did. I only shop on Amazon because of the free shipping, even though I'm sure if I went on other sites, I could still find better deals. But that $119 a year, that is insane amount of income that they're getting automatically. That's one stream. I feel like they just have so many different silos now. It's crazy. Oh, it's insane. And then again, in tech news, Adam, you brought up to me that Microsoft was working with GM. GM, they're stock soaring right now because they just partnered up with a driverless car. So they're in the hunt. That'll be interesting. Microsoft. Is that Watson technology? Or is that? I think so. Is that Jeopardy? What? Didn't they use Watson for Jeopardy? Yeah, that's right. Well, what? I am. You don't remember that? No, no, no. Explain with it. So there was a game of Jeopardy where they had a computer competing against the best. There's this one guy who wins, who won like the most Jeopardy games ever. I forgot his name. He was super, super smart. What's his name? It was Watson and against, I forgot he was going against this one dude or whatever that couldn't be beat. IBM Watson. Yeah. And so they had Watson go against him, Ken Jennings. So he went against Ken Jennings. And now here's a, and he won. Here's the thing, it feels kind of not fair. It's a computer. It can push the button faster than he can, right? Yeah, right. But anyway, that was Watson. Yeah. That was from IBM. So, but this is Microsoft, right? Working with. Yeah, yeah, this is Microsoft. Wow. Yeah. So now they have a dog in the race, huh? Yeah. Dude, that's going to be such a crazy race. You know what else is soaring right now too? Harley-Davidson just spiked right now too because they just released all their bikes in 2021. But what I think it has a lot to do with is, and I was just talking to my aunt who has been waiting for like this Vespa model to drop because of like COVID and not being able to get out. People are like really, there's a lot of people buying anything that's like an outdoor sport or you can't buy bikes. Yeah. Bikes, kayaks, Vespa's, motorcycles, activities that doesn't require. Campers. Right. Activities that don't require groups of people that you can go do on your own. I mean, if you're in anything in that space, it's. Motor homes. Yeah, I know. That's blown up. Blown up. That's a whole thing, like a whole scene. Everybody's like, you know, driving across country. They're just making, you know, remote. They're just camping at random places too. It's just like off the side of the road. Well, I mean, if they, because you guys saw that they're working on a digital passport for COVID vaccine, I forgot. There's a bunch of tech companies working on it. So you basically. Oracle and gotta look them up. But there's three of them. Yeah. So it'll be on your phone, right? So if this works or whatever, then you're going to have this thing that says you have vaccinated. And then I don't know, theoretically, companies can say, hey, you can't fly on our plane unless you have this passport or whatever. If that starts to happen, I could, I would buy stock and companies that make motor homes. Because I bet you'll, there's going to be enough people to where that'll make a dent where they're going to be like, Sure. I'm not flying then. I'm just going to drive in my motor home. I feel like there'll be, that will open an opportunity though for a company to do the opposite. You don't need a vaccine? Yeah. We're the, we're the, we're the dangerous spirit airlines, you know? We don't give a fuck. That's a 2021 thing, like. Super spreader airlines. Yeah, we don't give a fuck. Welcome to Super Spreader. That would be crazy. How can we help you? I don't know. I don't want to get on that plane too. Oh, speaking of Super Spread, dude. So this is a little bit of a follow-up, just like the guy that married, the bodybuilder that married his sex doll. This is just as good. So Gwyneth Paltrow, we're going to come back to Gwyneth Paltrow and her vagina candle. Apparently this vagina candle exploded in this lady's house and caught on fire. And so basically her vagina exploded. It was what that means. You imagine walking into that house and you're like, what happened here? Smells like, smells like some of the vaginas. Yeah, I blame Gwyneth Paltrow's vagina. Now is she trying to sue? Is that the, is that why it made news? Is she? Yeah, I don't know. I think it was, it really was the headline more than anything. There's not a whole lot of sex things. How does the candle explode? Well, that's what I mean. And I think this is, I mean, how smart would that be on her, on her side to, to drop a story like that? Of course. Right? So if she's not getting sued over it, like I would question like, Oh, I wonder if this was like, I mean, I feel like that's like the new move for like marketing in our is to, is to make some controversial like news story about your brand. When Doug and I went down to San Diego for these internet marketing like suit seminars, and these were like the gurus of the time of internet marketing, they literally said to do that. They literally said, like, let's say, okay, so we have, we have fitness programs, right? Maps programs that we do. So a strategy would be to write articles that say maps programs, don't build muscle. And that's the title of it or, or don't get maps at programs. And then you click on it. And then really what I'm doing is in the article, I'm telling you why you shouldn't. And I'm saying things like, Oh, I got it. And I just way too much muscle. I got, I got too strong. Way attractive. It caused a divorce in my family. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So like, so like that. Yeah, they actually, really messed up my life. They actually said to do stuff like that, which I find absolutely hilarious. That's clever. You know, speaking of brands and stuff like that, did you guys see a, so Choki did the, this or that, I thought that was really clever. And I mean, tons of our audience to the thing that I thought was really cool was, and I told her, man, I wish we would have tagged Viori for this because man, she, so she did this or that with Viori. Yeah, it was like Barbell Dumbbell. Right. Or this or that. And then it was. Right. And it was Viori or Lou Lemon. I think I could count on one hand for sure, maybe two to four people that actually clicked on Lulu over Viori. Almost everybody that tagged that and tagged us was Viori, man. I think our, I think most of our audience is rocking it now. I think we've converted them. Dude, I went to, Jessica and I went, we wanted to get out of the house. So we were at the mall or whatever and we went into a Lulu store and just walk around or whatever. Wearing your Viori. Yeah, I was wearing my Viori. And I was looking. Dirty looks. Yeah, no. Hey, do you want to try anything on now? Actually, I'm good. Yeah, I like this more, you know, better looking stuff. I looked at their, they have a bigger line of male clothes now at Lulu. At Lulu. But it just, I don't like it. I just don't like it. It doesn't look, I don't know. It's kind of feminine. I hate to say this, but it doesn't feel. It's not for muscular dudes. Is what I found. No, I've tried it on. Yeah. No, it's true. Like I have to wear double XL of on all their stuff. I need like a yoga butt to pull it off. A yoga butt. Yeah, what kind of butt do you have? It's different. Not a yoga butt. It's not. It's a dump truck. It's very pronounced. It's a sled pushing butt. It's like a wrestling butt. Did you see the Forbes article that they did on? It was, it was a, they actually talked about Lulu. Did you see this? No. I forwarded it to you, Adam. You never opened it. No, I don't. Normally the stuff you said, I don't read. It's retail. Every time. Yeah, at least he's honest. No, I will talk about it. Hey, I really want to, I really do want to read it, but it's like payback. I'm like, fuck this guy. He, I send him stuff all time. He never, Did you watch this video? Yeah, he never reads anything. I tell him to read. So that's, I want to read it. Dude, I wanted to read it, but I fight it. Yeah, if I comment, you know, I read it, otherwise I didn't. So this is a Forbes magazine. It says retail trends to watch out for in 2021. And one of the things it talks about, and it lists the different trends and one of them was community building social media experiences. And they're saying that this is a, a thing that is making a big dent in a company's ability to sell their products and, you know, build value. And the example that they used of a company that was doing that was Viori. Oh, wow. Yeah. They said because they, they create interactive experiences for its audience members, including its 160,000 Instagram followers. They have a Viori active club, which is a series of daily workouts. They have different fitness instructors, yoga teachers, mindfulness coaches, lead 30, 60 minute sessions. So they actually talked about Viori being an example of that. Speaking of clubs, did I bring up on the show, the app Clubhouse? Did I tell you guys about that? Oh, somebody else told me that, too. You told me about it, but yeah, remind me. I just downloaded it the other day. I, you know, Gary Vee was touting it the other day about it being like the next big social media platform. And if I understand it, so I downloaded it, I logged in, but I really haven't like surfed around yet to see, but if I understand this correctly, the idea and the theory is like, let's, you remember when we went up to Tahoe, and we had Ben Bakulski and Mike Matthews. That fireside chat. Yeah, that fireside chat. It's like a digital version of that that other people can peer in and listen to. And so we have hosts, but other people can watch. Yes, other people can watch and listen live. They can't. And I think we have the ability to say we can take their question in or not, or we can also they can comment still. But yeah, but I think they, I think they can't interrupt the conversation unless we allow the engagement. So it's like they Instagram live a little bit, but like with more people. Yeah, with a group. So it's, so it allows us to have this kind of fireside chat, say with whatever number we want, whether it be three of us, five of us, 10 of us called clubhouse. Yeah, clubhouse. That's smart. No, it's, I feel like the podcast social media space is going to crush that. Well, it's, it's getting a ton of traction. And when I, I think I heard it first on Gary Vee and so then I started kind of digging around with it and I thought that's interesting. This would be kind of cool. You have to be invited to it. Did you hear this? I just pulled it up right now and apparently, so somebody invited me to it and I didn't take the, I should have done it. So I guess you can only be on if you are invited to be on clubhouse. Well, that's a smart marketing play. Yeah. It says it's big with celebrities right now, Oprah, Kevin Hart, Drake, Chris Rock, Ashley Kutcher. Well, you got to invite, huh? Yeah, cool. Well, our Beyonce over here. Oh, you guys didn't get it? Not again. Yeah, I gave you this. He is our Beyonce. That's weird. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not nearly as attractive. No, that's, that's very interesting. Now here, who makes it? So what I want to know is it, is it China or Russia? Because if it's those three. I mean, it doesn't matter. Then we have, then we have some problems. Here's all the rest of my data. I mean, it's interesting. And I mean, I could see there's ways that we can use it. It's just, wow, we're getting to a place where, you know, privacy is just, does not exist. No, dude. No, I know. No. And it's an interesting, you know, kind of pickle that you're in, if you're in a business where you are monetizing your fame or whatever, that this is like, they, it's expected. So if you're going to be famous and you're going to make a lot of money from being famous, these are all the things we want access to all of them. It's based out of Silicon Valley. Okay. Yeah. So, you know, safe. Yeah. So, you know, those, those privacy, protecting companies like Facebook. Oh, yeah. And so you got nothing to worry about. Yeah. They don't censor anything. It's, it's beautiful. Yeah. Hey, speaking of crazy stuff, Japan just approved, which I couldn't believe it, the first human animal embryo. Yes. Let's get some chimeras in the mix. What? What are they doing? So Japanese stem cell scientists is the first to receive government support to create animal embryos that contain human cells and transplant them into surrogate animals. To, I guess to see what happens. When I hear news, to breed human animal hybrids, when I hear news like this, it just makes me think how accurate Star Wars is. Yeah. With all the creatures, like this is how it gets to this point, right? This is how we get to all these like human like creatures and all these weird aliens. Yeah. Yeah. This is the beginning of it. It makes me think of Alex Jones. Like he was right. Yeah. Every time. Like he's just way ahead of his time. Dude. So, you know, because, okay, so I'm reading more human systems scientific American, human animal hybrid embryos have been made in countries like the United States, but they've never been brought to term. So what they're going to do in Japan is they're going to bring this embryo to term. So think about this for a second. Do we have no more morals? Like, come on. How is there like, there's there's like councils about like ethics, right? With with with medicine in practices and science. What happened to the ethics people? They don't. It's not science. It's disappeared. It's going to be weird, dude. Like what if they did this with like a goat and then it was born, but it had like a kind of human face a little bit. You know what I mean? Yeah. So, hey guys. Oh, yeah. Weird. I don't know. The problem is attractive to you. Well, that this is the okay. So this is the argument that people make for religion is they say that religion is necessary to maintain an objective standard of morals, especially in a time when science allows us to do so many things. So like science is not moral. It's not immoral. And it's not. It's can we do it? Or can we not? It's amoral, right? There's no morality in science because they're testing things. And that's the way it's supposed to be. Science works best when it's just like that. But you need to have some kind of a framework because otherwise, I mean, look, and people who argue with me say, oh, that's look at the experiments they did in the Soviet Union. Look at the experiments they did here in America that we found out later on like the Tuskegee experiments. Look at what they did in Nazi Germany with humans. So human animal embryo. What the hell are they going to get some? It's like the plan of the apes. Isn't that how I started? Scary, definitely. Scary. Yeah. Speaking of animals, I want to hear about this aggressive sex that you've been bringing. I put that on there mainly to just say, like, OK, like, so I ran across one of those nature pages and they were they were showing sharks and they were like swarming each other. And apparently they got them in when they're breeding. And so, so sharks are fish, right? So they're not mammals, but for some reason, like they have really aggressive sex. Like it's like, like you would think they're a shark. So one of them like bites the other's head while the other one comes in and like goes for it. It's like, whoa. Like it was like it was disturbing on so many levels. You guys should watch it. That doesn't shock me as much as if it was gentle sex. Like if you want like sharks, if sharks made love, I'd be a little bit like, I'd be shocked. Right. Like when you're a shark. Just like correct. Like dazzling, you know, with big ass teeth. You know what I want to know? I want to know, Sal, since so because I know how paranoid you are. You put that out there. Yeah. So we kind of like, we just barely went over at the other day about the whole COVID scare you have. But I know how your brain works. Like how has behaviors around your house and everything changed ever since you got that scare? So are you doing, are you like, are you guys wearing masks when you have sex now? No. Or are you guys doing weird shit? No, not unless it's a, not unless we plan on having weird sex. I just, yeah. In which case we have sex. Because I know shit's different over there now because you had a scare. Yeah, he does like bird flu. Visors. Yeah. Just really go for it. Let's go. Pandemic sex. Yeah, hey. No. Okay. What's changed? Honestly, not a ton. We're going to be a little, we're going to be more careful with my son because there wasn't much data on infants and there's a little bit of data that shows that infants may be at higher risk for severe COVID. So we're going to, we're not going to let people hold them, you know, really any more unless they wore a mask and do the whole thing. And then the other thing I did is I just, I have just, now I'm incorporating a supplement regime based off of the things that so far study show has benefits. So de-zinc quercetin. Quercetin is good to improve how the zinc is utilized by the cells. Melatonin. I'll use that every other night. That's kind of interesting if you look up the data. And then, and as far as vitamin C is concerned, basically I'm sipping on the OrganiFy's immunity quite a bit, which is high in vitamin C also has anti-fungal and anti-bacterial compounds. So there's- Is that what you're drinking on right now? Yeah, it's what, it tastes good anyway. So it's like putting your water and it's a tasty, it's a tasty drink. All of leaf is in there. That's, that's good for killing microbes. So I'm just going to sip on stuff like that throughout the day and do everything else and then just not let people, but you're right, do the paranoia is just, boy, it reached a a feverish level. Defcon-fy. Oh yeah. It's like, I have a button, you know, it was just got poked. You're so good about being consistent that once you decide you have this protocol of stuff that you want to follow, like you are the most consistent when it comes to that all. It's, it's, it's a formula guy. It's the same way our OCD works. If you ever talk, Yeah, totally. You ever learn about OCD? It's like, they do things to keep them calm. Got to go back and like check the lock in the door like a thousand times. Yeah, I got to tap my foot four times before I get up, otherwise something bad's going to happen. Spin and then go. I've now made a routine. So this is now what I'm going to do. Have you guys tried the immunity, by the way? Oh yeah. No, it tastes amazing. It's really good. Yeah. I know. I'll mix it. It's easy. If I know I'm going on an airplane or something like that, like I, that's just something I'll do. Yeah, I start to, I start to use it when I know I'm around other people that are sick. So if I, if I know there's people that's getting sick that were, whether it be at work or home or family, that's when you see me kick that up the most. Oh, you know what I was going to bring up? Because who was I asking yesterday? Was it yesterday that I was asking somebody to recommend, like documentaries or things to watch on Netflix? Was that you? You were asking me that. Okay. I found something really good. You guys should watch. What is it? Athlete A. So this is all about the controversy. You guys hear about the, the controversy with USA gymnastics that happened not that long ago, where all these, these gymnasts were coming forward saying that they were sexually abused by, wow, by a certain coach? Well, by the doctor in particular. Oh, shit. It was the team doctor that would abuse these girls. Oh, man, I didn't hear about that. Bro, what a great, you guys gotta watch it. It's really crazy. First of all, you get to peer in to the incredibly competitive and insane world of gymnastics. But man, is it, you hear the story and they covered it up. USA gymnastics, people complain. So there's a doctor that they had who, and it's really crazy. The doctor was with them for like 20, 30 years, right? For a really long time. It's crazy how they cycle, how these girls will psychologically just screwed with because they're, remember, if you compete at that level in gymnastics, you've probably trained for years. Every day. Six hours a day. Yeah. You know, before you get to that level, you're training six hours a day. Like a lot of these girls would be homeschooled so they could spend more time in the gym. And they're, and they loved it, obviously they love doing it, but they're so competitive. And so, they were sheltered in this bubble. The coaches, gymnastics coaches are intense, especially like the, what is it? The Corolles who came from Eastern Bloc countries. You know, Bella Corolle, you guys know who that was? Mm-hmm. So he coached Nadia Komenech from Romania. She was the one of the first gymnast to get a perfect score. And then he came to America and he coached like all the gold medal champions. But they're intense. They're very intense with how they coach. So they're in this world, this bubble, they do everything that they're told, they're 15 years old, they're kids. They don't hang out with anybody but each other. And then they go to see this doctor and he's the only guy that's like kind of nice to them, sneak some candy and treats and as cool. And then it's when he does the, when he does the examinations. Yeah, yeah. And they don't know like, is that what they're supposed to do when they examine me? Is it whatever? And so it all came out. Creepy bastard. Oh, and they were covering it up. That's a great, you guys gotta watch it though. It's really, really crazy. Doug, you over there balancing your checkbook? This conversation boring you that much? No. No, I'm handling stuff for the bookkeeper. Oh, okay. So not my checkbook, our checkbook. Oh, okay. Oh, you're spitting our money over there. In other words, I said I'll stop you. Saving our money. Probably. Yeah. Yeah. Good stuff. Thanks, Doug. All right. Our first question is from Zoe from DC. Hey, Zoe, how can we help you? Hey, guys. So my question is I'm on phase two of Maps Aesthetic. I just started it. And would you implement any cardio into it? Because I feel like I'm not doing enough sometimes. So that was my question. That's a really, really good question. Very common. But I need to ask you a few more things before. Yeah, what were you doing before Maps Aesthetic? Yeah. So first question I'm going to ask you is this your first Maps program or did you start with Maps Aesthetic? Like what's your fitness history before? This is my first. Okay. This is my first Maps program. Now, were you working out a lot before Maps Aesthetic? Yeah, I worked out for a while now. I grew up with gymnastics and then I got into lifting heavy, kind of powerlifting-ish and then just bodybuilding-ish type workouts. Cool. Now, what have you seen so far performance and I guess just visual changes since you started Maps Aesthetic? So actually my lifts have gotten, have went up a lot. So a few years ago I was in a really bad accident and I broke my pelvis and I basically broke my back also. So I had to start all over again. So I haven't lifted this heavy in a while and last week I got up to 225 on deadlift. Wow. Yeah, it's almost 200 on squat. So when I haven't done those numbers in years so it's done great for me. That's awesome. That's excellent. Okay, so you're stronger, has your body weight changed at all? I'm not sure. I don't really weigh myself. I don't even have a scale actually but I feel like I'm getting tighter. Yeah. Okay, do you feel like you're getting bigger or do you think you're staying the same or getting smaller? The reason why I'm asking I'm trying to see if you're burning any body fat while getting stronger. I don't know if I'm just feeling tighter because I'm lifting heavier or kind of staying the same. I don't see anything drastic right now. Okay, and then do you know how many steps you're taking a day? Do you have any idea of tracking? Well, that's the thing. My job, I'm kind of sedentary depending on the day. So I work with computers. So that's the one thing. The time I do go outside is with my dogs but that's not going to add up to like 10,000 steps. Okay. Yeah, so I would start with that. I would start with trying to get your steps to increase. First, track them, see where you're at and then bump them by 25 to maybe 50% depending on how low they are. So if your steps are like 6,000, that's okay. Yeah. It's okay to bump them up to about 10,000 steps a day. Now, the second part I want to address is how you said that you feel like you can do more. If you're getting stronger, if your performance is improving, that's the metric you need to measure. Now, considering your background in gymnastics, from my experience, I've trained gymnasts in the past and it's one of those sports where they train, you train a lot. And you really push your body's recovery ability, you push your capability. And so that might have skewed your perception of what is enough training. Does that resonate with you? Yeah, I always feel like, especially on the focus days, like I'm just like, oh, that's it. I feel like there's more in the tank. I need to push myself. I know that's not always good in the past that's hindered my progress if I go too far. But it's just that feeling that I have. So that's also a great place where to start to build the steps in, right? Because the focus sessions are a lot shorter than your foundational days, right? So one of the things that I like to do with clients that are following MAPS Aesthetic is to build a walk into that workout. So you go do your focus session for 20 to 30 minutes and then you walk post workout for 30 minutes to boost your steps. My goal is always with my clients to increase steps over time whether it be walking the dog or 10 minutes after your meal or 15 to 20 minutes post workout and keep trying to increase just your daily movement through steps before we start to push on a piece of cardio equipment. And then once we move into a place where you look at me as a client and you go, okay, Adam, I'm walking the dog in the morning. I'm walking after my meals. I'm doing on focus days. You know, I'm doing 15, 20 minutes of walking after I work out and I'm kind of peeking out at 10 or 12,000 steps a day. Now maybe what we'll do is post workout on either foundational days or focus days. We might do like a 15 to 20 minute like hit session of cardio post workout. But I would progress you that way week over week for the next four to six weeks before we even consider starting to really do it. Have you been tracking your calories, Zoe? I haven't. I eat pretty intuitively. I mean, I eat pretty healthy. I feel like sometimes I don't eat enough. It's not like I'm not eating anything too bad, but I know I have trouble eating enough sometimes, which for me, it messes up. You know, I'll actually gain weight if I don't eat enough food. Here's another question. You mentioned you had an accident and you recovered from that. Do you have any issues with mobility, rotation, any issues with mobility in the hips? I know you said your pelvis and your back were affected. That was probably my first big feat trying to get back to that, especially it was almost like when Adam, he's talking about his Achilles for a while. I couldn't walk for three months. So it was just so hard going from being able to do so much to nothing. So I started from scratch basically. I started like I was five years old again. So mobility, it's actually bad for me in my upper body than my lower body now. I get really stiff. My upper back, my shoulders can stiff up really easily. You said something else that I think that we have to be careful of which is really common with clients. You address that you might be under eating sometimes and that's where we can get in a lot of trouble if we start adding cardio into your routine. It was a great question by Justin to ask kind of where your nutrition was because the last thing we want to do is to be under consuming on nutrition and then also pushing and doing cardio because all that's going to do is tell your body to conserve energy and you're going to end up going the opposite direction you really want to go. So much better off trying to add steps and walking and get to a place where you feel good as far as what your calorie intake is. Last thing you want to do is have low calories and then also push the body of cardiovascular. Yeah, definitely. I have one quick question. Okay. What do you guys suggest after aesthetic? Okay, so that's actually great because I was going to comment and say that mobility work burns calories like walking and you can kind of in my opinion, based off of what you've said if you're with your history, it might be more beneficial to add mobility instead of adding steps because now you're improving mobility plus you're moving so you're burning those extra calories. And then the next program I would recommend is Maps Performance hands down, which does both. You're going to get those aesthetic benefits that it sounds like you're looking for but you get that added benefit of performance and mobility into your routine. So I would say that Maps Performance would be a wonderful transition for Maps Aesthetic for you. Yeah, okay. That sounds great. Awesome. Thank you, Zoe. Thank you so much. Yeah, you know, it's I remember this as a trainer and it was when it first happened to me, it was so strange because I thought that X athletes would be the easiest clients to train. Oh, that's the opposite. They're the hardest because they have this perception of intensity and how they should feel during a workout that comes from their years of competition and it's so hard to train them appropriately, especially when they're beginner, intermediate or just not as conditioned as they were back when they were. Oh, yeah. And they can work through the pain. And so a lot of times, you know, you have to really spend some time repatterning a lot of these movements and things to make them beneficial again. So that way you're still progressing forward. I'm so glad Justin asked the calorie question too because that changes the response to this question also because if you got somebody, you know, so the listeners understand, you got somebody who's say eating 1300 to 1500 calories and they're all they're doing is weight training. They don't move very much. And they're building strength. Things are going good. And then they want to add cardio like this. And then all of a sudden, she starts doing 30 minutes to an hour of, you know, semi intense or intense cardio every other day or every day. What ends up happening, that person who's only eating 13 to 1500 calories, their body start losing muscle. Yeah, exactly. And so great question by Justin because I definitely wouldn't want her doing cardio yet not until we get her calorie and take up into a place where I feel good about her starting to push her body intensely like that. The best way to go right now is purely just walking. Yeah. And this is why it's so important if there's any trainers listening to keep asking questions because from what I've experienced with athletes and especially gymnast, gymnast, you know, Justin commented that athletes work through pain. Gymnasts are the kings and queens of that. I mean, this is, you will hardly find a competitive gymnast that doesn't have some kind of chronic injury that they continue to train through. You know, it brings back memories of the 1996 Olympics with what's I think was Strug was her last name when she did that poll. And she just landed with a busted ankle to win. They train this way. So and then here's the other part. You should feel like you have more in the tank. Like when you're done with your workout, you should feel like you can do more. You should not. Yeah, you should not feel like you're done and you can't do a single thing extra. That's at the point. Well, I do think it's really common with our maps aesthetic because those focus sessions are a little short. Right. And so you kind of either one, you end up wanting to lift more, which I know a lot of people do that and then don't follow protocol. But in a perfect world, that's what I would just have somebody just go get on the treadmill and walk for the rest of the 30, 40 minutes. Just get some, especially if, you know, like she said, I have a very sedentary job. If you've got a very sedentary job and you're not getting a lot of movement, then you hit those three days a week when you're hitting focus sessions for 25 minutes, then you spend the other time walking on the treadmill. You got to figure out how you're going to add in more activity throughout your day. Yeah. But how about those straight gains? Huh? It's a I love hearing that. It's so common, especially after phase one of maps aesthetic. Well, that's another great point too. It's like, man, if I have a client who's telling me that, we're probably not making much adjustments. No. You know, if anything, it's trying to increase calories. And so what I would love to do or have someone like her do is like, OK, but we figure, let's just say, because she didn't know her exact steps, but let's pretend she's stepping 6,000 steps a day and she's asking this question. My goal would be, OK, let's increase your calories by about 250 a day. And now I want you to get to, you know, nine to 10,000 steps every single day, hoping that that extra movement kind of cancels out those extra calories. We build our metabolism up. That's where I'd ideally be with someone like that. Our next caller is Blake from BC. Hey, Blake, how can we help you? Hey, guys. Yeah, thanks for taking my call. I just had a question about priming and more specifically, I guess, priming during a heavy phase. I'm in a heavy phase right now and the rest are a little bit longer, two to three minutes. And I was just wondering about, you know, priming in between sets. I love this. Yeah, first off, priming before your workouts, we're going to get the most benefit, but there's definitely benefit for priming in between sets, especially if it's something that you are challenged with. So let's say it's squats, you do your normal priming before your squats, then you do your first light set. And then in between that set and the next set, you do some more priming and then do another set. When I do this, my mobility just gets better faster in the workout, especially with those challenging exercises. Yeah, I think if you use it as a corrective method, I think that, you know, if there's something that isn't responding the way you want in your workouts, I think it's a great way to utilize priming in between sets if you have a long rest period, you know, to get that muscle to sort of be more active and involved in these gross motor movements. But yeah, like Sal said, honestly, like priming before the workout is going to give you the most bang for your buck. I like doing this. I mean, unless it's a day where I'm, you know, going after a PR or I'm challenging my strength, where I'm like, okay, I'm going to see, I'm going to move more weight than I've moved in a long time today and I'm going to get after it, then I want to be, once I get primed, I want to be focused on my squatting or deadlifting or whatever it is that we're talking about. And I don't really want to mess too much in between sets just because I want to conserve that energy for everything I can give to the lift. Now, if it's just, you know, I'm in a strength phase of lifting and I'm also trying to improve my squat or deadlift, whatever movement we're talking about, I love to do a set, then go over and do a little bit of ankle mobility, then do the next set, and then assess how much that improved it and then go over and do some hip stuff after the third set. And I love to do that so I can kind of measure like what's helping my movement patterns the most. I think there's nothing wrong with doing that. Now, of course, again, if you are in a workout where today I'm going to be testing my max strength, then conserving energy in between sets is ideal. But for the everyday lift and even if you're in a strength phase, I actually really enjoy priming in between sets like this. Blake, are you using Maps Prime to identify where you need to prime? I've taken a peek at it. My brother actually does own the program. So I've taken a peek at it, but a lot of it's just from watching your guys' content on Instagram and YouTube and that sort of thing and just kind of picking up tips here and there. Okay, so what areas for you are you noticing that you need to work on or prime? What are you doing to prime and then have you noticed any benefit from doing those things? Yeah, for sure. So, I mean, the two main exercises that I've been focusing on kind of messing around with priming in between sets is the squat and the deadlift, obviously. I found that the low back and the hip hinge is where I kind of feel a bit of a flare up if I'm not careful. So, just taking the tips from you guys throwing some 90s and 90s in there in between a little bit of combat stretch, just kind of the stuff that you guys talk about quite a bit. I've been trying to throw that in between. Not every set, but here and there. And some days it seems to really help. Some days I think the difference is negligible, but that's kind of why I wanted your perspective on it. Okay, so here's something important to understand about priming is it can be very individual. Okay, so in Maps Prime there's a compass test that you take and it can help you identify areas of your body. And then there's a lot of movements. We have free webinars. MapsPrimePro.com is one. That's for Prime Pro. And then we have the Maps Prime webinar for Prime. But they don't cover not even one-tenth of the movements that we have. So what we're going to do is we're going to send you Maps Prime for free. And what I want you to do is take the compass test because you may find movements that are better for your body. Because you should see and feel improvements when you do the right movements for your body each time you do them. You shouldn't feel negligible. It should feel like it's doing something. Yeah, not only that Blake, but have you actually done a session where you dedicate a solid like 15, 20 minutes of priming before your lift? Or have you just kind of messed around with a few movements here and there? Or have you actually like dedicated a solid 15, 20 minutes before your lift to priming? I have, but not consistent. You know, it's really when I feel, you know, when I'm feeling tight those days, then I might take, you know, 10 or 15 before a workout and, you know, go to town, but not as consistently as I probably should be. Okay, well, try that next time. So Doug's going to hook you up with access to Maps Prime. Do the compass test. Do what it prescribes and recommends. And you'll very, very likely notice a big difference. Man, that's fantastic. Thanks so much, guys. No problem. I'm glad people are at least talking about priming, but it's, you know, it's something that you have to focus on, like your workout, you know, just do it a little here and there. You'll get a little bit of benefit, but it's not the same thing. It's cool to see it being a lexicon, just like mobility and things like that. Like people are using it now. Yeah, because it's so beneficial. I just wish more people would actually apply it in their workouts. Well, I love this question because, again, unless I'm chasing a PR or, you know, pushing my limits, I actually enjoy priming this way. I have my little, you know, routine that I do before I always lift. But then I love to go between sets because I feel like when you do that, you have something you can kind of measure right then and there. Versus, you know, okay, it's great. It is great. It is ideal to spend 15, 20 minutes before the workout, but sometimes you can't make that connection of like, oh, that's what made that squat feel so much better was doing that. Versus, I just did a set. Felt a little wonky, or I didn't feel, I felt it felt it in my ankles or I felt something called my- It translates right, right. Right, exactly. I can, then I can go back and then do it. I feel like people make a better connection to how it's helping you. So I love to integrate it into the workout. Yeah. And truth be told, one of the big differences between a warm-up and priming is the individual component. I mean, that's why MAPS Prime is not a program that just has a bunch of priming movements that you pick from. There's a compass test that tells you which one to do for your body because general warm-ups are okay. Individualized priming sessions totally, totally different ball games. No, I'm glad you brought that up because, you know, to his point of what he talked about, like he's just kind of integrated the thing. We talk a lot about what's helped us. Right. Right. So I talk at Nozium, the 90-90 in combat stretch because that was a game changer for me. So you never know, you go through that. I mean, that thing's got over 50 something different, you know, priming exercises in it. You may find that wall circles ends up changing your life or something else. So it's like, I love that you brought that up because we tend to talk about a handful of priming movements that have worked so well for us. It doesn't necessarily mean that's going to translate to you the same. Our next caller is Kristin from Connecticut. Hi, Kristin. How can we help you? Hi, guys. So my question is, is it beneficial to lift and build strength if mobility is poor? So for myself, I poor mobility my hips. I'm wondering if I should solely focus on mobility or if it's okay to incorporate strength along with that. I love this question. Yeah, no, that's a good question. And people do this often because strength is fun. Mobility is just jump right past. Nearly. It's just nearly not as sexy. But let me give you an analogy. So let's say somebody runs with a strong limp or a hop. This is just how they run. They've always learned how to run. And they want to learn how to run faster and they want to get better at it. Imagine if a coach just said, just run faster. We're not going to change that weird hop or limp that you have. You're just going to run as fast as you possibly can. What do you think would end up happening? Now, if you're thinking that they're going to probably injure themselves or just get solidified, that really bad running pattern, you're absolutely correct. So this is the challenge with getting stronger with poor mobility. Whatever is giving you poor mobility will just become stronger. So you're applying pressure to the hinges, if you will, on your body. More and more, with more strength and poor mobility, you are asking for an injury or trouble. And you're also limiting your potential. There's only so strong and so good you can get when your mobility is poor. There's a much higher potential with good mobility. So if you don't address it now, you're going to limit your potential and increase your risk of injury. There's also a bit of a misconception that we can't get stronger while we focus on mobility. So I think that's important. It's not like an either or. It's not, oh, you can focus on getting strong or you can work just getting on mobile. I mean, you can actually be focused on mobility and build strength. So it's not like it's an either or type of situation. It's just you shift your priority versus neglecting mobility and just training to get stronger to Sal's point. Yeah, that's not the ideal situation. But there's nothing wrong with you addressing mobility while you're also getting stronger. I mean, that's like, that's why maps performance. Are you following any of the maps? Oh, that's great. I'm so glad you just said that because I'm running maps performance right now. Oh, there you go. I mean, that's ideal. You will get stronger in that program, but the program really is centered around mobility with the mobility focus in it. Okay, great. Yeah. And, you know, one more question around this for you personally, what's the what's the challenge is strength something that you're really, really after? Does it feel like there's a tradeoff to you? Is that why you're asking this question? I just can't get as low in the squat as I would like to. Like if I definitely stand in like a sumo position, I can get low. But if I'm like, hip width apart or shoulder width apart, and my feet facing forward, I can't get below parallel. So just to get those strength gains by getting lower into a squat is really what I'm looking for. Now, have you tried like squatting on a block with your heels on a block before or using those squat shoes? I yeah, I've tried on like a block, like like on a weight kind of, but not with squat shoes ever know. Yeah, I'm just wondering if you can get lower by doing that. And that would be a definite indicator that ankle mobility might be something that you want to look into and address because it will provide you a lot more stability and ankle support when you get dropped down into your squat. Do you have access to Maps Prime? Yeah, I have Maps Prime. Okay, use that. Use that. Do the compass test. Do the priming before your workout. Be consistent with that. It'll make a big difference. And then, you know, back to what Adam was saying about increasing strength and mobility, I'm going to add something to that. It looks different than what you might anticipate. So what I mean by that is let's say you normally squat 150 pounds down to parallel. Okay, but you work on mobility and your squat doesn't go up in weight, but now you're squatting an inch lower in your squat. You've just gotten stronger. So strength gains look a little different than they do when you're just adding weight to the bar. Adding a little bit more of a range of motion that you can control means you got stronger. So make sure you pay attention to that. Don't worry as much about the weight on the bar if you're improving mobility and stability. That means your strength is going to... Yeah, you're basically unlocking a new exercise that way. Great. And then I want to go back to what Justin asked you because you didn't get a chance to answer. When you lifted your heels and were squatting, did you notice you could get deeper that way? Yes, I could, yeah. And that was just body weight, but yeah. Okay, so that's a clear indication that I would be working on your combat stretch. So make that just a routine every day, regardless of your squatting every day before you lift and then if you can, multiple times throughout the day, starting to do the combat stretch and start to improve your ankle mobility and that alone should already start to help you to the depth in your squat. Okay, great. Thank you. Awesome. Thank you, guys. Yeah, that's a good conversation because I can understand. It feels like a trade-off, right? Oh, I want to add more weight. That's more important than me improving my mobility. It's more fun or whatever. Oh, yeah. I mean, that's one of those conversations I'm constantly having to have, especially with athletes too. But what they don't realize is if they put the work into that, you actually can produce more force, which means you get stronger and you're able to apply more of the strength in more directions. Well, I've shared on the podcast. It's been a while since we talked about this, but there was a time not that long ago where I could barely break 90 degrees on a squat and I could easily do 405 back then at 90 degrees. And it took me a really long time to get to the place where I was squatting the same amount of weight all the way ass to grass. But one of the things that I noticed was the development of my legs with lighter weight. So even though I wasn't lifting as much weight as I was, say, five, six years ago, because I had a much deeper range of motion, the development in my quads was superior to what it was before when I was lifting more weight. So a lot of times we just think that, oh, if I don't see more weight going on the bar, I'm not making strength improvements. But if you increase your range of motion, like Sal was saying, a couple inches, you are getting stronger. Our next caller is Nick from Ontario. Hey, Nick, how can we help you? Hi. First off, I've been listening for a year. You guys are hilarious. And I love your show. Just thought I'd say that. Now we'll get out of the way. I have been having issues with my hamstring ever since they did ACL surgery on my right knee. So they had to take some hamstring tendon to redo the ACL. That would have been five fish years ago and then anytime I was doing any sort of hip hinging drills, I would have more of a stretch on the left side. Or sorry, I'd have more of a stretch on the left side because the right one was weak. I've pulled it a couple of times when I first had the surgery. And one of the physios said that they thought I had a recoil in it, which whoever knows what that means. And then it's kind of like manifest into needing hip surgery two years ago because it threw off my hips. And then my left hip had a impingement. So then that ended up tearing some of the labrum. So yeah, I've had all these little issues and I'm always trying to work on it kind of a little bit of a perfectionist. And I just can't get my right hamstring specifically the inside part of my hamstring strong. So yeah, I thought I'd reach out to you guys. Okay, so little context for the listener. So this is a type of ACL repair and there's some pluses and minuses. The pluses are it makes the ACL much more stable. It's actually one of the better ways to create stability there. But the cons are that the hamstring now is a little different. And so you may find differences in how you hip hinge from one side to the other. Now I want to ask you a couple of questions because you said you hurt your hip afterwards. Are you pushing yourself? Are you trying to consistently add strength? Is there something that you think you're doing that may be contributing to this? So at the time, I was actually on a university level rower. So there was a lot of motion and then a lot of rotation to the right side as well. But again, with that rowing motion, there's a lot of hip hinge in every single stroke. So. Okay. All right. So I'm glad you said that because that kind of changes things a little bit because after a procedure like that, it can take a long time to make it kind of feel normal. And if you're at a high level of competition, you kind of don't have time. You need to compete. And if you're a rower, it's a very competitive sport. And yeah, there is a lot of posterior chain, right? A lot of hamstring back biceps involved in rowing. So that definitely played a role. Now my advice for you would be to focus entirely on unilateral exercises. So everything you do for your hamstrings and your quads, everything you do for your lower body, I would do one leg at a time for a while. So split stance exercises, Bulgarian split stance squats, lunges, step up, single leg deadlifts, like that's where I would focus. And then I would also focus on exercising your lateral stability, both moving out and in. So exercises that strengthen the muscles that pull the knees together and that pull them apart. It's going to be real important for you. I have an exercise that I love. I think we have it on our YouTube, but a single leg deadlift where we use a slider. And you're just going to notice if your heel rotates in or out or if you can keep it nice and stable and locked as you hip hinge back. And just to kind of go through something really slow and methodical and work on it as a corrective type of an exercise would be a great addition. Nick, do you have this option? Are you training for a sport right now or are you running in addition? Are you doing anything else? Or can you pretty much program however you want? I mean, we're kind of in lockdown here. So I have my home gym, I have kettlebells, couple dumbbells, TRX, stability ball, limited on the weight, but obviously if it's single leg it should be fine. But yeah, so I'm pretty much in my basement. So can't really do too much. I love the single leg deadlift, even like pistol squats using your suspension trainer. And I was doing that today. So today we're training legs and I heard a pop in my leg and when I were doing heavy lunges with Sal and I instantly went to just all stability focused training. And so the TRX or suspension trainer is phenomenal for this because you can just use it to help stabilize you while you really focus on the movement and depth and range of motion for that. So I love the single leg pistol squat with using the suspension trainer for support so you can really pay attention to your movement. And then I love the single leg deadlift for your situation that you're in. Okay, and then how would you know when to phase into traditional lifts again? I would want to see myself progress pretty well in strength before I go back to go test it with bilateral. So I would, whatever your strength... And by the way, movement is far more important. So how well you move is much more important than how much you grab. So in other words, you could maybe right now you're a strong enough guy. You could go grab 80 pound dumbbells and single leg deadlift maybe. And maybe just because you can do that, your movement isn't as pretty when you move 40 pound dumbbells. So start with a weight that you move really, really well and controlled on both sides. And then start to wait till you start to see yourself progress there before you go back and retest bilaterally. Yeah, I'll add this. Use a mirror and when both sides feel equal, okay? When both sides feel pretty equal in strength, movement, mobility, then it might be a good idea to progress to double leg exercises. But only when both sides don't... When there doesn't feel like there's a huge disparity. Do you have maps prime? Are you priming before your workouts by the way? I got prime pro. And then, yeah, I normally do a lot of 90-90 stuff before my workouts. And then I have a little bit of a protocol. Physio has kind of given me, but I'm finding that that one's not working anymore. So... Okay, maps prime pros is perfect. So continue working within there. Take the tests within the program. I would look at... I'd start at the feet because once you have an imbalance on one side, then moving up and down from that, right? So if it's in the hamstring, then you're going to start to notice issues in the ankle and the hip. And then if it doesn't get fixed and you continue to work out and push yourself, it moves up and down the kinetic chain. So it'll move all the way up to the shoulder even oftentimes. So I would go ankle, foot, then I would look... You're already doing hip. I think that's an obvious one, which is probably why you chose 90-90. I would also look at the upper back and see if there's any differences there. If you've been squatting this whole time with both legs, don't be surprised if you've been compensating as high as your upper back. There may be an asymmetrical shift. Yeah, it's funny that you guys say that because I do feel that one shoulder is probably a little higher than the other. And there's definitely extra thoracic rotation on one side. And definitely my ankle is not the same on one side versus the other side. You know, so what happens is that as you work up the kinetic chain, it zigzags back and forth. So the reason why your left hip had issues is because it's the hamstring on the right side. And so then it'll bounce to the opposite side, low back, and then upper back. You just kind of how... You can follow it like that all the way up. And you also said you rode a lot and rotated to the right. So I'm assuming you were on a team and you were on one side. And so you were always pulling in one direction? Yeah, for four years. Yeah, okay, so definitely work on mobility. I would make that a focus. Some of my hardest clients to work with were clients that played a sport that favored one side. I'll never forget, I had a baseball player who pitched for years and years and years and years with his right arm. And boy, was there a difference in rotation in him because he always trained one side. So focus on that. That is gonna play a role. That's probably gonna play a bigger role than your surgery, believe it or not. I mean, you train your body in one direction very intensely for four years, right? So, which is probably longer than it took you to recover from your ACL surgery. So I would focus on mobility, do unilateral exercises. And I'm gonna add one more thing. Do unilateral for everything, okay? Now that it makes more sense now, especially when you consider you're rowing for four years, I would do everything one side at a time for a long time until things balance out. Okay. Okay, I'll stick to the unilateral. I've sprinkled it in here and there, but I've never stuck with it super long because I guess my egos tried to take over to lift those heavy weights. Nick, you will be blown away at your progress. Give it at least six months. You will be blown away at... All right. The first couple of months are gonna feel slow and what the heck's going on. After about two months, strength is really gonna start to kick in and then you'll start to see some newbie gains. Those gains that you got when you first started working out because it's so different and new for your body. So do that for at least six months. All right. Well, I got all the time in the world, so... Awesome. Thanks for calling, man. Yeah, thank you guys. No problem. All right. You know, it's funny they... I remember reading this article where... I think it was in England. They were doing some kind of construction job and they had uncovered some remains, some old remains from medieval times and they were trying to determine who they were. Yeah. And when they looked at the skeletons, they saw... It was the longbowmen. Yeah. They saw like one arm was... The bone was so much thicker. The spine was slightly twisted and there was this huge discrepancy and then they determined these were longbowmen, which back in those days... I mean, you're pulling that thing required hundreds of pounds of pressure and strength and that was... I mean, they were the world's number one army because of it and these guys, you could see in their skeletons. So you train for four years rowing in one direction. Totally morphs your whole biology. Absolutely. So you got to balance it out. Otherwise, you're going to run into problems. Look, you can find Mind Pump on video as well as audio. Come check us out on YouTube, Mind Pump Podcast. Now, if you want to find your favorite fitness podcast hosts individually, the best place to do it is Instagram. You can find Justin at Mind Pump Justin. You can find me at Mind Pump Sal and Adam at Mind Pump Adam. I'm starting to see people really start to play with frequency of training. For a long time, it was a variable that was not utilized effectively. I mean, you can train muscle groups quite often throughout the week, so long as you modify the intensity. You just got to manage your intensity. Yeah, you can't...