 You're listening to Mind Pump the World's number one ranked fitness health and entertainment podcast. And in this episode, we answer fitness and health questions that are asked by listeners and viewers just like you. Now the way we open the episode is with an introductory portion. So we talk about current events and scientific studies. Today's episode has a 45 minute intro. After that, we answer the fitness questions. Now what I'm gonna do is give you a rundown of the whole episode. Here we go. So we started by talking about the fact that my baby still isn't being born because they're taking their time. Little brat. So comfy. Then Adam talks about his cute foot pajama Halloween costume. Yeah, that's right. Adam lost the battle. Then we talk about Kanye West and his strange interviews. He did one on Letterman and then one with Rogan. Then we talk about the world's first selfie. Doug actually took the world's first. If you wanna see what Doug looked like when he was 21, very handsome by the way. Slaying back then. Go to his Instagram, Mind Pump Doug. He just posted his selfie from back then. Then we talk about the movie Her. It's an old movie, but Justin really enjoyed the sex scene in it. Oh yeah. Then I talk about how Melatonin can help trigger labor and how my wife is wearing blue light blocking glasses all day from Felix Gray to help make that happen. All the Tony. By the way, we work with Felix Gray. Go check them out. Go to FelixGrayGlasses.com that's F-E-L-I-X-G-R-A-Y glasses.com forward slash Mind Pump. By the way, you get free shipping and free returns. Then Adam talks about learning how to fly fish. We talk about the crazy wind that happened over the weekend. We talk about the show Unsolved Mysteries on Netflix. Justin brought up Road Rage. I talked about my friend, Arthur Brooke. What's happening? One of the best men I've ever met. 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So bundles are where we combine multiple MAPS programs and we already discount them 20 to 30% off, but you get 50% off that price with this promotion. So everything is 50% off. Again, 48 hours left. Just go to mapsfitnessproducts.com. One more time, mapsfitnessproducts.com and then use this code October 50, that's October 5, zero, no space. Hey guys, I'm sorry, I was late this morning. Oh yeah, what were you doing? I was trying to trigger labor with the wife. Exactly, aka sex. Yeah, I don't know, man. It's like I'm conflicted about it and I feel used to it's sex. Right. You know what I mean? But we're waiting, dude, nothing. Weird. I know. So I read that only 2% of women have their baby at 42 weeks. We're not there yet. We still got some time, but yeah, now we're live. Baby's nice and comfortable. Yeah, they are. And I don't know if you guys knew this, but if you hit 42 weeks, you can't have your baby at home with a midwife. The laws don't allow it. Really? So now what I'm really curious about, because you guys have obviously paid for this. You've been using the midwife this whole time. They've been incredibly supportive. And now the hospital rules are really weird where you can only have one person in the labor room. So does that exclude the midwife too? It would just be me. That is bullshit. I know. That is bullshit. So you went through this whole thing of having a midwife and there's a possibility you may not even get to use her in the labor room, which in my opinion is one of the most valuable parts. Correct. Now, is there ways that they can help move things along with you guys? Yeah, so they did recommend walking and sex and relaxing and... Jumping on, scaring her. Scare the baby out? Yeah. Boo! Hiding a closet. La la la la. Yeah. But they, but what... Don't you feel like it's something that Justin would do? I feel like Justin would do something like that. That would be one of my ideas. I'm pretty sure I read this somewhere. Scare the shit out of this. I actually just thought of it. One time I got scared and I farted, so I figured this would help. No, the... That did happen. One of the other things that they'll do is castor oil. I guess castor oil is like a natural thing that can help. Makes it greasy in there. No, you have to eat it. Oh, okay. Speaking of feeling castrated, did you see my Halloween costume? Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey, that was... Yeah, that was a crazy transition. That was an awesome transition right there. I'll go, I'll go. I can't... You lost, bro. You lost the battle. I did. It's it. Full dad mark. I completely lost. So you were... What's your character? You were... Well, first of all, I wasn't supposed to be anything. So we went up for my buddy's birthday, right? Up to the house. And it's his 40th and we also have Halloween, right? So right around the corner. And we have all the kids... Everyone had their kids there and all the kids are, you know, Max is one and a half. The oldest is two and a half. So they're all young and we're like, well, you know, Halloween doesn't seem to be on. I don't think they're gonna take the kids out anywhere. So let's do like a Halloween thing for the kids at the house. So I'm like, okay, cool, I'm all game for that. But I'm also thinking, okay, we're not going on anywhere. We're at the house. There's no need for me to dress up. You know, we'll get my son dressed up. We'll dress all the kids up. And so... So you were like, I'll cool. I'm out. Yeah, yeah. I'm just gonna be chilling. Yeah, yeah. So I'm like, I'm out, I'm out of this. And then so we actually had bought Max. And I think I shared this on the show already. The Maverick outfit. So he was gonna be top gun, right? So we got all that. You were gonna dress up as the jet? I was gonna do nothing. I was gonna be goose. I was gonna be dad. I was gonna be a dad for Halloween. Nobody wants to be goose. Yeah, yeah, it dies. He'll be dad for Halloween. So I got the memo on the way up to Truckee that, you know, hey, I got you your costume. And I'm like, whoa, I thought we agreed that I didn't need to do a costume. I'm like, no, no, no, I want you dressing up. I want you dressing up. And I'm like, grumbling, right? And then we get there. And she pulls it out. And I'm like, you did not. She made a Sesame Street. And I was Oscar the Grouch for not wanting to fuck you. I mean, that's appropriate. It is, though. You should have been like, babe, I'll just dress normal. It looked like big pajamas that you had on. It was a giant onesie, dude. Did it have little feet? You weren't a big bird. No, I know, right? I feel like that would. I was like cool with Oscar the Grouch. I'm like, that's OK, you know, let's put him in better. So she was Cookie Monster and he was Elmo. And he actually did OK. I thought he wasn't going to keep it on, but he kept it on and was running around the house the whole time. And then my other buddy's kid was like Johnny Bravo, like the race car driver. He had like the full race car and helmet and everything get up. Johnny Bravo. Yeah, or not. Yeah, isn't it Johnny Bravo? No, no, no. Speed racer. Speed racer. Speed racer. That's what it is. Johnny Bravo is the cartoon with the Duke Colms his hair. Yeah, the big blonde hair. What's the other one? What's the? Pompadour. There's another race car one that I thought was. We were trying to figure this out the other day. I thought it was John. It's not Johnny Bravo. I thought it was Johnny something. Johnny Quest. No. He drives the red and white race car. Speed racer. It is Speed racer. It is. What's his name? Sweet racer. I don't know. I didn't watch it. Did you guys watch Speed racer? No. I mean, I knew of it, but yeah, I didn't care for it. I knew the song, but that's about it. That wasn't one of my go-tos. No, no, definitely. It wasn't like Thundercats. Yeah, no snarf in there. I wasn't interested. I showed Jessica. So Hulu has the original Thundercats, which to my delight, I mean, I'm scrolling through and I see it and, you know, Jessica's like, why are you so excited? I'm like, it's Thundercats. Dude, does it hold up? Or because I watched He-Man in like the old school one. And I was like, I couldn't believe how effeminate he was. Yeah. I had no idea. Well, that's before he turns into He-Man or whatever. We're right, yeah. Yeah, it's, no, it's good. I mean, it's good. It kind of stands up a little bit. But I showed Jessica and she's like, this sucks. Who's this cat snarf? But now this is weeks later now. She'll randomly be like, snarf. Because it sticks in your head, you know what I mean? You know, it's a lame show that I tried to introduce to my kids was Saved by the Bell. I used to like have all these memories of that show. I'm just like, oh, yeah, dude, kill like a Palski, you know, all this. And my kids are just sitting there like, look at me. Like, Dad, this is so boring and lame. Yeah, dude. I'm like, you're right. Totally cheesy and awful. So I was watching it with my kids too, trying to get them into it. And then there was an episode where Slater dances. Do you remember what Slater dances? No, but I need to watch it. So he, I don't know why they thought this was normal Slater dances. There's like a dance competition between him and someone else. OK. And he does ballet. Like that's his go-to. Like he twirls and stuff, which catches you off guard. Because you expect, you know, Slater, high school dude. He's not going to do that. And he does. He busts out the thing. Wow. And the crowd's like, yeah. Well, you think maybe your kids aren't into it because they're too young? Is that because it's more high school drama stuff, right? Like relationships and breaking up and like, who's dating who. It's really cheesy, dude. Like it's bad. Yeah, it's bad. I watched it a lot when I was a kid. Me too. It was my show, dude. Yeah, but I was different times, dude. But I think we were like junior high in high school, right? We're like, you weren't that young. I think it was junior high, yeah. Yeah, because you were, because they're all high school kids and you're in junior high. So you looked up to all that shit. What was weird is what Screech, the guy's, what's the name, Dustin Diamond or whatever it is, what he did after. What did he do afterwards? He did a porn and then he fought somebody. Yeah. Yeah, dating by a duchy. I didn't even know that. Yeah, dude. Damn, you guys stay up to all that stuff. It's just weird when you're almost Screech'd out. I got him like everywhere. So how much later after Saved by the Bell was done did he do that? I have no idea. He needs some money though, I knew that much. And he's kind of a big, big goofy dude, wasn't he? Yeah. Because he was like a little nerd in that thing. Did either one of you guys listen to Kanye's interview with Joe? No, I did not. I was going to do that on the way over here. Was it any good? It was not. So I watched his interview with David Letterman. So I want to hear how he was with Rogan, because I got some comments. Well, OK. Well, first of all, Letterman is the G. In my opinion, he's one of the greatest interviewers of all time. Did you watch on the Netflix? I did. Oh, good. I'm glad you're watching that now. It was not good. Oh, really? No. So either was OK. So I was want I have somebody I follow. I forget his name right now. He's married to some famous chick. And so he's got a massive following and he smokes weed and he's a fit dad. He's cool. Like, so I follow him, right? So naturally, right? It's a little prego preface this, right? So I have Instagram respect for this guy right now. Right. So so I'm like, he he posts like, oh, man, the Kanye West interview was really good. Him and his wife watched it. So I was like, OK, well, maybe maybe it's better than what I expected it to be. So I I put it on the drive home. I have a five of three and a half hour drive home. I was like, oh, this is a perfect time for Joe Rogan, you know, podcast. So I put it on and it's fucking terrible. And why it's so bad is is Kanye is he is so scattered brained. And I also is weird. He is. And I think I think too many people have told him he's brilliant. Because he and he is musically musically. He is absolutely brilliant. And because I think so many people have told him brilliant, he thinks he's brilliant in all these other things. That's right. And so he starts talking about stuff like Joe would ask a question. And by the way, like I would sell, you know, after hearing that interview, I would love to interview Joe to ask like what was going through his head when he's listening to this guy. Because I can just imagine being being someone who does interviews, right? It's stressful when you have got somebody who is just not stringing anything together, right? You're asking, you feel like you're asking the right questions and you're probing really well. And they are just left, right, left, right. Did you feel uncomfortable listening to it? Yeah. Yeah, that's how I felt with the Letterman one. So at one point, him and Letterman are kind of going at each other about politics and he and then there was other times when he's going off and his facial. So if you watch it, this Jessica and I both watched it and she was just as uncomfortable. If you watch it, you'll notice that Kanye's facial expressions don't match like what's contextually appropriate. So almost like, and you see this sometimes with people who don't, who have trouble reading other people. And you could tell like Letterman will say something that's kind of funny, but he would, he would kind of make this weird face or he'd have this weird smile at times that was inappropriate. And so you could tell that he's just not, he's not a hundred percent. And he does talk about. He's thinking of other things all the time. Well, he's just, he's just kind of strange. But at one point, the one good part of that interview is he said, because you could tell he's aware that he's not like normal with most people. And he said, you know, y'all like crazy music, y'all like, you know, crazy creativity, but you never consider that probably comes from crazy people. So you could, you could hear that he's like acknowledging like, yeah, man, I'm weird. Like I'm not. Yeah, I thought Joe, Joe like just pumped his tires like the whole time. Like I think, I think Joe felt uncomfortable for that exact reason, right? He's talking to himself and he's getting weird feedback. So if you're like, again, I would love to interview Joe. So I can't imagine the feelings that are going through Joe is he's like asking a question and then he's like getting those weird facial responses and then he's going all over the place. Like, and then Joe, and then you could see like Kanye will, will a lot of times when he doesn't need to be, he'll get defensive over something. And like Joe's just like really probing and trying to learn more about it. And he gets more defensive, then he gets rattled and it makes him go more left and more right. And then Joe would like reel him back in and be like, well, you know, I just, I don't know why people think you're crazy because I think you're, you're brilliant. And I was like, oh God, Joe, I'm like, dude, you're just, he's trying to, but you can tell what he's doing. He's trying to calm him down so he doesn't get, the interview doesn't get worse. You know, he would interrupt, reel him, tell him that he is a smart guy and that this is just how his brain works that he's downloading all this information at once. And it's, that's how it comes out. Do you know he's bipolar? Did he talk about it on there? No, he didn't talk about it. Well, at least not the hour and a half that I made it through. Yeah, he talked about that on the Letterman interview. And then, so you listened, you didn't get to watch. No, I had it on, I had it on YouTube, but I was driving, so I didn't watch it. So when you watch, one thing that I noticed, and you see this with some artists, is there were, he had a tough time making eye contact with David Letterman, but at moments, he would talk to the audience. And then he, when he would talk to the audience, so Letterman would ask him a question and he'd answer, but he'd look at the audience and then start doing his preaching thing. And you could tell he felt more comfortable. You see this with artists sometimes where like Michael Jackson was like this, right? He on stage seems like he's comfortable, charismatic, and just whatever. Then you interview him and he's super awkward and weird. So you tend to see that sometimes with people like that. We're very talented in one area, but they're just so weird with their... I mean, did you get any like political stuff out of it? Like why he even decided to go so hard in that direction? So Joe did like talk about politics with him, but even that, like his... I can't even tell you what he is, because he's got some... He's got some... He has some very conservative, because he openly talked about being saved and being a believer in God and being a Christian and everything like that. So he has some really conservative views, but then he has some really whack-ass liberal views. So he's like all over the board. So just again, while he can never win like that, you're never gonna win a side if you're like on both sides. So I couldn't follow... Make him commander in chief, imagine that. Given the nuclear launch codes, no thanks. Yeah, and then he went off theme music. He went on a tangent too about like all the conspiracy theories of like how other famous people have died and how they were trying to medicate him. And like, it was not good, dude. And it wasn't even entertaining. I was just sucked into it. So what happened to me, this is like hell of a funny. So I set it up on my dash. I told you guys that the wind was so bad last night and I'm driving and the phone flew across the car and into the passenger side floor. So it was already going. And I'm on the freeway and it's like I'm driving 80 miles an hour plus. So you're stuck. Yeah, so I was stuck listening to it so I had to stop and get gas. So I listened to it about an hour longer though. Originally. Yeah, exactly. I'm like, well, I would have turned it off already because it was so bad. But I'm like, okay, well maybe it gets better and I'm not gonna pull over just to grab my phone, right? I'll just wait till I think it gets gas. Now, do you just save me two hours, dude? So thank you. Now on his album, it's either his album or something he posted. They showed this on Letterman because it's either on his album or something else. I don't know, but it says it's a quote and I think it's a brilliant quote that kind of highlights. His bipolar quote? Yeah. And it says his album before last. Yeah, it says something like I hate, I fucking hate being bipolar. It's awesome. Like it's so highlights the two sides of that mental situation or whatever. Lyrically, the guy's a genius. I mean, he says things that are powerful, have deep meaning. And so I get where the brilliance comes from, like musically. And I get that, and I get what Joe was trying to say because he's got all this information that's coming to him and he just, and he did say this, so in his defense and then I thought he articulated decent was, you know that he's just getting all this information and he's just honest. And so he just says what it's on his mind. He thinks this way, he feels this way, he just says it. And I think what happens when you're someone like that is you're fearless about just speaking your mind and sometimes brilliance comes out. And sometimes it comes out in some hip-hop song, you know what I'm saying? Well, so while you're saying this, and I've talked about this before, about how high IQ tends to be strongly or more strongly associated with mental disorders. There's an article that I, because of that, because I watched his interview, because he is brilliant in one aspect, which is music. And there was a study that I pulled up and there were some theories as to why. And they said that they think that people with higher IQs tend to have more mental issues because they have higher levels of awareness, they react more to stimuli from the environment, which creates a hyperbrain, hyperbody scenario where they display a hyperactive central nervous system. And so this they think is one of the reasons why people tend to, who are higher IQ, tend to have more issues. That's how Joe said it. He says, you know, a lot of people think that about me. He says, I have a lot of energy. He goes, you have a lot of energy and when you focus it in directions, you get a lot more done than the average person. And so you don't wanna stifle that. He's like, so I don't think you're crazy. So he kept telling him that. Have you guys ever known anybody who had a really bad bipolar? Yeah, I've shared on the podcast. Oh, you did? I dated a girl that dated that. Oh, yeah, that's right. I didn't know what I was signing up for until I forgot about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, she's marijuana to medicate herself too. And if she didn't have that, then it was all about it. Going crazy. Yeah, I had a client that I trained and he, I was training him. And then I noticed like some, his energy was ramping up with each self-training like three days a week. And then by the third workout of that week, he was like pitching like the most wild ideas to me, brought all these plans that he wrote out like the things that he's gonna do. And I'm like, this is strange. It's not making sense anymore. It's kind of weird. And then that was it. Then the very next week I get a call from his parents that he had to put him in one of those places, medical hospital or whatever. Because he believed like some just wild, crazy stuff. So, I don't know, kind of crazy. Sort of ramps up, yeah. It does kind of crazy. Anyway, what did you guys think of the world's first selfie that we saw? Did you guys see it? Oh yeah. The world's first selfie. What? Doug's picture. Oh, the world's first selfie. Yeah, dude. It was Doug in front of a mirror all young and handsome. First of all, that Doug, you were how old were in this picture? I think I was about 21 at the time. So, a couple things. Number one, extremely handsome. I'm just gonna say that right now, for real. Number two has swag, dude. This whole time. He's got his collar on. He's been hiding his swag. Yeah, this whole time, dude. He's got a jean jacket, polo. He's got the pomp collar going. He's got the, you know, saved by the bell hair going on. Like he's got it all, dude. It's straight out of an aha video. But you're taking a picture of yourself, which nobody did really back then. Was that a thing or what? No, I invented it actually. Thank you, right? Everybody can say thank you. Your gift to Instagram. Yeah, so what were you doing at that age, 21? 21, I had, I think I just finished college at that time. And I was kind of at a crossroads in my life. I had gotten my degree in business, focused on accounting, but I hated accounting. And so, I believe I took a job, as soon as I got out of college, selling industrial cleaning chemicals door-to-door to companies. That's how much you hated accounting? That's how much I hated accounting. That's how much I hated accounting. That's how bad accounting is right there. I had, my old roommate was an accountant for Deloitte and Tush. That's the one job I would never. So he, I'll never forget. We lived together. We were in our, we were similar age, 22-ish or so. And he rented a room for me. He just had just finished college in accounting and he got a great job in San Jose at Deloitte and Tush. And we'd come home every day from work and talk and man, he wouldn't get home till like 10 o'clock at night for like a 10 plus hour day. And I'd ask him about his day and know this is literally every single day of his life, for a year, he's like, he would tell me, I made photocopies all day long. Oh my God. Like that's literally what they do. Oh my God. So like your first year is of like, you know, you intern underneath like another like- For 10 hours? Yes. Just, he basically is like running around for other accountants and doing what they tell him to do. And- How long before you snapped like an office space? He left. He did, bro. He's cleaner machine. He ended up leaving the Bay Area and it was a great job, right? So like, I guess the track is like within five years you're making a quarter million plus you're now within like range of being a partner and stuff. Like, I mean, the track to make really good money is there like in that position. And so he kind of knew like, oh, if I just buckled down but he would, after a year of it, he's like, I'm out. He left that career completely, moved to Napa, became like a wine manager, you know? And went down that direction, never looked back, dude. That was my, so one of my very first jobs was that I got a job at a mortgage company as a kid. I was like 16, maybe, 15, 16. And they hired me temporarily to make double copies of all of their mortgage files. So I would sit in an office all day and I would take their file, I'd take out the staples, put them on the sheen and boom, boom, boom, boom. Could you imagine me doing that? Yeah. And so I'm gonna say this right now with full confidence, 100%, a good 90% of those files are missing stuff. I'm just gonna say it right now. Shit with jam or whatever, I couldn't take it, fuck it, put it together. There was a lot of phone calls that were made after you were done. So somebody's like, hey, can you pull up my mortgage file? This is missing half the signatures, where did they go to? That was, that was cause I couldn't take it. Also, so you're the one that recommended her, the movie. Yes. Yes, okay, you stand by that. Tell me it wasn't, it wasn't a good movie? You finally just watched it? Yeah, well I watched the whole thing and no, it wasn't a bad movie, it was interesting, but there was some scenes in there that were like really uncomfortable, dude. Yeah, yeah. Like so. You had sex with her? Yeah, so she's like trying to have sex like in his ear, you know, cause she's not obviously there. And so they're like talking their way through the whole thing. And it's like a pretty long scene with Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson. She's the voice. Yeah, she's just like, like soothing him through this whole like, oh my God, we were just like, I can only imagine if I was watching that like my parents next to me. I kept my skin when it just ripped off my body. Now tell me that movie didn't depict AI in probably one of the more realistic ways. Yeah, well, here's the thing with the AI part of it. I think that honestly, they were just like basically therapists. I mean, isn't that your take on the ending of the whole thing? They were. And then the part that meant spoiler alert, right? Here's the part that I thought was realistic. It's pretty old. I think you do a spoiler word on a movie that's like 12 years old. You deserve it. People probably forgot about it. They're like, God damn it, Sal, you ruined it for me. No, here's the thing. It's not this like apocalyptic AI, you know, gonna kill them. They are AI machines or technology. They'll just disappear into the internet, which is what they did. So I felt like that was realistic. No, the great part about like good sci-fi movies like that is someone or some of it is gonna be right. Right? I liked the thing that I had seen that I thought was really original was Westworld's idea of the virtual therapy. Yeah. I think that. It was similar to that. Her, like I had a similar concept. That feels very realistic to me, right? Like you are going to, Sal, have all kinds of, you're gonna book, Instagram, tweets. I mean, you have so much written and verbal content that's recorded of you. It should not be hard to create a AI version of you, how you would respond and answer to like 90% of questions probably asked of you. And so how cool is that for your kids' kids, potentially, when you're long and gone, to be able to communicate? You know what? Yeah, create an avatar of yourself that lives on. Yeah. What a cool way to listen to history, huh? Bro, it's like Superman. Remember when Superman, he goes to his crystal palace and he puts the crystal in and his dad shows up? Yeah. That's what it was. So it is. They were the first ones to do it. Yeah, there you go. I haven't thought of that. There you go. Hey, I forgot to say this. This is something that's interesting as well. So I talked earlier about Jessica, we're trying to get this labor started. Melatonin. Melatonin actually helps stimulate labor. Do you guys know this? That's why women tend to have babies at night. So she's wearing, I'm having to wear the- That's the reason, huh? So she's wearing Felix's rays now all day. The night ones all day. Oh, interesting. Because it calms the body. And I don't know what the theory is. I guess it tells the body it's okay to have the baby now. It's at night, you're maybe hidden or whatever. So I'm having to wear the night ones all day long to see if that helps. And that's because it kicks up melatonin production, right? Yes, because it'll kick up melatonin production or at least prevent it from getting suppressed as much as if you were exposed to lots of light. So you know, you have the daytime Felix's rays, which block a lot of the, this is just for the audience, right? For block a lot of the damaging blue light, but they don't block all the blue light because you need some of it to stay alert. So if you're wearing blue light blocking glasses during the day, you want ones that are made for the day. Otherwise you could find yourself getting sleepy at work or in front of your computer. The nighttime Felix's ray ones, those are the ones that block most of the blue light that encourage sleep. So there's two types. I noticed such a difference of the two. Yes. So she's wearing the nighttime ones during the day because we're trying to get as much melatonin as possible to make this thing happen. Oh, very true. Yeah, so you do notice a difference between- Oh yeah, no, I notice a big difference between the two of them. The way I look at it is if I'm, because there's times when I'm working on the computer or phone late at night, but I need to be working and I know I'll be on it for an hour, two hours or more. I don't want to be nodding off, I'll do that. So I'll wear the daytime ones, even though it's nighttime because I'm working still. What I noticed about that is that even when I'm done working and I pull them off and I decide to go to bed, I actually can still get to sleep pretty quick. Now, if I were to wear the nighttime ones and be working, I'll be nodding off while I'm working. It only takes about a half hour to an hour of having those on. Actually start to fall asleep. Yeah, it'll get me, I'll get sleepy from it. So that's what's cool about the two differences. And so then when there's nights, when I know I got to get to bed early because I got a bit early morning the next day, I put those suckers on really early and then I go to sleep early. I need them to just look at your sweatshirt right now. Yeah, dude, why so? Dang, bro, you're fluorescent. So bright. You're like a bumblebee's wet dream right now. What's going on here? Yeah, was this all part of the whole like fishing? I saw you doing some casting. Oh dude, so I went fly fishing this week. It's harder than it looks, huh? It's way harder. Oh yeah. Yeah, it's hella hard. Did you get anything? No, my buddy was just practicing it, right? Yeah, so we took lessons, right? So I wanted to actually go get, have somebody who does this, right? To teach us. And so the first half of the day, you don't even go to the water. Like it's just learning how to cast. It's just 10 and two. Yeah, it's just learning how to cast the entire time. I know. Let's 10 and two, bro. That's when you drive your car, bro. You gotta throw out some more lingo. That's not fishing lingo, Justin. That is driving, that's driving. That's the driving instructor lingo. Yeah. No, isn't that like back at 10 and then two? Like, no, no, that's not it. Yeah, you actually, it's one o'clock. One o'clock is as far back as you want to go. You got the wrong time, dude. Yeah, well. But I had to throw it out there anyway. But what I, you know, I learned a lot. It was really, it was cool and it got me all motivated to go get my own and practice because. Oh, here we go. Yeah, now. I'm gonna go spend a shit ton of money now. I don't think. I'll fly fishing now. I don't think it's that crazy expensive. I think way more expensive. Oh, I don't know. Justin's YouTube says 10 to two. Yeah, so fuck you. Maybe that's why you didn't catch anything. Yeah, exactly, you're doing it wrong, bro. So is the idea to make it flick it over the water like it's a flying insect? Yeah, right, right. Thanks, Doug. Welcome. The thing that is really, so you have the four of us guys that all did and all of us I would consider it, well, maybe not today anymore, we're all 40, but we used to be athletes, right? So the idea of picking up technique and form and the guy was like, oh man, you guys are really good, but we weren't that good at all. You know, but I'm sure he says that to everybody, right? So they make him feel good and tip him afterwards. So he's telling us that, oh, you guys are great. What I had a hard time with was the technique is to actually whip it hard back and then you just barely bring it forward. And then the momentum of it coming back is what... Makes it float a little bit. But what's hard about that is you, naturally you wanna whip, just like you were to throw a ball or throw anything, is to cock back and then you whip forward. I mean, that's how you do everything else. You throw a Frisbee, you throw a baseball, you throw anything, you cock back and then you whip forward is what gets, so you have that built in you as someone who's played sports, really hard to break that habit. So even, and so you're doing taught to whip back and then gently come forward. I mean, I get a couple that are really good and then I get back in the habit and then if you muscle it forward, that thing comes back around and normally hits you in the back of the head or whips you and sticks on you, so. Yeah, it was a lot of finesse. Yeah, it was, but I liked that, right? I liked things that, if it was easy, it'd be no fun. So the fact that it's challenging and it's difficult to just... Now what kind of fish do you catch out there? My buddy got a trout, so it just depends on, that depends on where you're at. Oh, he did catch some? I did, so one of us did catch, so. Did you guys cook it up? No, we didn't. It was a catch and release. Yeah, we were in a... I feel like that's more cruel than just taking it and eating it. No, it's not cruel at all. Really? No, it doesn't hurt them to get hooked like that. Like a little sore in their mouth. Yeah, but you imagine just walking around and someone just pulls you out from life and then throws you back in. Dude, fish are so dumb. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not only that, I think they'd be super happy they got hooked by a human and the human throws him back in the pond because the other thing that normally happens to them is an eagle will come by and swoop them up and crab them and take them and eat them. Bigger fish. Yeah, so I think that's not a bad thing. But yeah, it was a lot of fun. It was much harder than I expected it to be, but I'm definitely intrigued to want to get good at it. It's meditative, yeah, for sure. Now on the drive back, how was the win? Because I got an alert from PG&E that said that they... PG&E, God, what a great company, huh? Oh, Christ. Don't please them. I know just how they did. They sent an alert that they were gonna start shutting people's power off because of high winds. So I know we're all... Lord Newsom has them in his pocket. Yes. Lord Newsom. In force, you know, like order 66. So we have no power again, dude. Yeah, so I know, yeah, he's turned off. So I know he's all upset because of that, but I'll tell you right now that was some of the worst win that I've ever driven in before. Yeah, I pulled over because I thought I had flat tires and I was driving the little car, the little Mercedes, it's tiny. So that thing was getting blown off. I was driving my truck. You know what, it's like driving the lifted truck. It blows you like crazy. They had, when I was going through Sacramento, which is, there's not even country, even nearby. So it didn't, it was weird. The road was getting covered with debris. And I'm talking like big ass branches and lease and the wind was blowing so hard. I'm driving down the freeway 60 to 80 miles an hour and this debris is smacking into the car as I'm driving. So it was bad. Oh, it was really bad. And then I can't believe you guys didn't know. This morning when I woke up at my house, the whole, it looks like somebody blew leaves all over the place. It wasn't super bad though. But yeah, there was some, yeah. No, it was bad. But you guys, so you have no problem. I'm glad at least there was, yeah, some reason for it. No, it was like so pissing. And so it was so bad too that I thought we had fires coming in because all the dust, it made the whole city all the way heading from Truckee all the way to San Jose, even when I got into San Jose, was all foggy. And it was from all the dust from all the ranches and farms that blowing over the freeway and it made it look terrible. Yeah, it was pretty bad. Speaking of nature, you know what I watched yesterday? So you know Unsolved Mysteries has new episodes? Yeah, I watched one of them. So they have a bunch of new episodes. Oh, cool. And I love Unsolved Mysteries. The music still gives me the chills. Oh, until my power went out. Okay. Yeah, so. But one of the episodes was about the tsunami in Japan in 2011 and the afterwards how, I guess hundreds of people saw spirits because of all the deaths and stuff. So they're telling all these spooky spirit stories. But the first, I don't know, 10 minutes or so of that series, they were showing clips that I hadn't seen before of the actual tsunami. Oh my goodness. You know what, at its peak was 130 feet of a wall of water coming through. Could you imagine seeing that? No, I can't. It was just terrifying. That has to be like one of the scariest things. Oh dude, some of the stories that people were telling were just heartbreaking about. Don't ruin it. I want to watch it. Did you only watch one? How many did you watch? No, I watched a bunch of them. Oh yeah, don't tell me. Dude, that's what I love about Netflix though, because they came out with that this year, the other Unsolved Mysteries, and they just did a follow up with another six episodes. Yeah, so that put me down in kind of the mood to watch Scary Stuff. So there's a movie I've been wanting to watch called Us. Have you guys seen this with Jordan Peele? Oh yeah, I've been wanting to see that. I haven't seen that yet though. So did you like Get Out? Okay, so Get Out was. That was freaky. Yeah, that was really good, right? Us is interesting. It's really good, but at the end, I had to go online and try to figure out a couple things. Oh yeah. But it is really good. That's the one where they're all stuck in the cabin and they see themselves, right? Like they're getting basically haunted by another version of themselves. Yes, now this one has more symbolism and some stuff is a little weird and there's elements of it with comedy, so comedy horror, which I appreciate sometimes. Oh yeah. Well made. Jordan Peele is a really, he does a really, really damn good job. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, did he get awards for the other movie? Cause I know like. Get Out, I think. Get Out, yeah, I thought they won some awards, but yeah, he's been doing scary movies, which is interesting in that genre. Cause he normally does comedy. I know him from him and his partner. He and Peele. Yeah, right? So they do the YouTube clips that are hilarious. Have you ever seen him do the draft and everything? Oh dude, he's so good. Yeah, the teacher, the substitute teacher that does all the names. Yes. Yeah. Well, what I like about him is he puts like easter eggs and symbolism in some of these movies apparently. So as I'm watching us, I'm noticing things and I'm like, this doesn't make sense. What's going on? So then they go online and there's like so many articles and forums talking about elements of the movie, which I appreciate. I like that. I like watching movies and then afterwards feeling like I'm still in it because I'm trying to figure things out. So it was pretty. Have you guys noticed a lot of road rage going on out there? Just every time I'm driving to work now. Who did you get pissed off at? It wasn't even me. I've just been like, I've actually been backing off quite a bit and making room for everybody. I'm trying to be cool and nice. And I'm not even joking. Probably I've seen 10 people just fighting on the road and jockeying for position and cutting each other off, flipping each other off. I didn't know if this was a thing everywhere, like everybody's super pissed off because maybe they have politics or whatever the hell's going on. I feel like you're an easy target. You know what I'm saying? You're a big white guy lifted truck. You're driving in the Bay Area. Yeah, I get that. I mean, I got this huge flag. I was like, America, I got it out the window. I don't know why people are flipping me off when I'm driving. All these Prizes hate me. I don't know why it's happening. And then you talk shit about Prizes two episodes ago. I don't know why I'm getting all these in. Well, that would be obvious. No, it's like just everywhere, though. I don't know if it maybe it's just, yeah, I'm bringing that kind of energy with me on the road. People are just tense. I think people are just more tense, which, you know what, speaking of which, because I have noticed not that necessarily, but you're right. People seem ununderstandably white. People are tense. It's coronavirus and uncertainty. Social media and media in general is very extreme at the moment. This is a fact. But I tell you what, dude, if you guys want to, and you're listening to listeners as well, if you want to start feeling a little better, go on YouTube, look up Arthur Brooks, listen to some of his interviews, some of his podcasts. The guy, he does such a great job of listing out the logical facts. And also he's a very positive, just one of the best human beings ever. I actually was texting him over the weekend about all this stuff. And he says, yeah, he goes, you know, it seems that way. It seems like things are more extreme. A lot of it has to do with the fact that media follows the clicks. And so the extreme stuff is what gets the attention. And then because there's more extreme stuff, it creates this perception that things are more extreme as well. But he's such a positive, like one of the things he talks a lot about is about learning to love your neighbors and how one of the big, or love your enemy, excuse me. And he says, you know, one of the worst mistakes we can make is assume that the people we disagree with are just evil. Well, this is my, I guess I get bummed out quite a bit that that message isn't at the forefront like it used to be. Like the only way to combat hate is with love. And I feel like you just don't see like any leadership out there, like promoting that. It's all like super divisive. And I'm so sick of this shit. Yeah. Well, he says it represents just again, it's media is making things seem more extreme. People are in their bubbles so they don't get challenges often. And then the strategy now is to make the other side seem not just wrong, but rather like they're evil. Well, I feel like it's part of why this is so crazy for us right now is that everybody, anybody who has a following of, I don't know, 10,000 people or more now is like they have their own media outlet. And they're all fighting for attention and clicks and views because that's how they monetize and make money or they're trying to build a business themselves. So it's exaggerated to a level that we've just never seen before. And then so speaking of which, and I feel like I would love your guys opinion on this. So I told you guys I got shadow banned, right? So my stories. Hell of people are right now, by the way. Okay, and I'm hearing this from other people. So what's the deal? Cause you said that Rob Wolf was experiencing. Rob Wolf happened at Weinstein? Yeah, Weinstein, Chase Tuning, our buddy was talking and Chase says, you know, I don't, yeah, he got it for posting some shit on. And he said it was like, it was a, it was, it was sad tire. It wasn't even like a serious thing in his stories. And it just tanked his views and it hasn't recovered since then. Now, do you think that that makes it, that that's good or do you think it makes it worse? That makes it worse. I think so too. Cause then it just, then it just. It legitimizes the whole, the whole belief that you're, that we're being censored, right? Cause that's how I felt. I mean, you gotta, I mean, I guess you just gotta let it go. You know, if you're gonna have a platform, which again, we, we, we, uh, speculated on that, right? Like, so how, how are you, if you're our Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, how do you decide what is and is not okay? Because obviously there's certain things that everybody would go like, dad is wrong, you know, you can't show that if that's wrong. You can't say that. And so we all agree. But as soon as you get into all these other gray areas where it's political and stuff like that, like where do you draw the line of what? And they don't even have examples or any kind of page to reference, like what's acceptable and what's not. There's no like description out there to even follow. I would not want to be right now in that position because they're literally screwed. I cannot think of a solution. Cause either one, which is, this is unrealistic, but on one hand you could have actual people going through, uh, you know, pages that are being reported and determining. But then that sets you up for, are these people biased? Are they for one side? Are they for another side? Then you have the other side, which is fine. We'll create an algorithm. But then the algorithm is oftentimes messed up. For example, I got flagged for posting a picture of 50 cent with Donald Trump's hair, which is a funny meme. It was a, it was a funny meme, but it said this was a doctored photo and I got a warning for it. So I know it's an algorithm thing. So I know people are getting that. And then that, that just strengthens the whole thing. Like, oh, you're coming after me. Why? What did I do? Well, I just think that the reason why it's so weird for us right now is cause we're, we're in the middle of a transition. Um, and when I talked about this before that, you know, we're soon a Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, all these platforms will be just like CNN, Fox and all the platforms that are on television, right? So you have our networks that are on television real soon here, uh, they will have been, and this is probably what's going to accelerate that is the, the, you know, uh, election. So real soon here, all these outlets will have to draw a line and send, they'll have to take a position. You know, they'll have to, cause they're, you can't be in this gray area cause it's going to cause more. You're better off real soon here coming out and just saying, okay, this is our, kind of our political, whether you announce it, cause obviously CNN and Fox don't technically announce it completely. It's just obvious as fuck, right? As soon as it gets that obvious. They say fair and balanced. Yeah, yeah, right. Sure. So you, by the way, when I listened to the last debate and I intentionally, uh, so I turned the TV on like maybe an hour and a half before. Oh, did you do the toggle back and forth? I did. I toggle back and forth for 20 minutes. Oh my God. It's two worlds. It is. It's weird, huh? It's completely different. It is so different and it's so terrible. It's both or terrible, terrible. It's, it's unreal to me. But I mean, that's what's going to happen. It's going to happen with the same thing for social. And I mean, I think it's great. It's going to open up the opportunity for other platforms that we're going to have a conservative and a liberal version of every one of these platforms. And we saw it. We've brought it up with that parlor one. I think they're the first, the first one to maybe have, get some traction against Instagram. So we'll see what happens with the other ones. But I think that's just where we're going to get. I think it's going to open up an opportunity for other platforms to exist that take the opposite side. I just, Mike, I feel sorry for the consumer. When I was watching the CNN and Fox back and forth, I'm like, oh my God, the people that get sucked into one of these. Yeah, well, you know what? So here's my little, here's my little ray of hope. Okay, do you guys remember when we were kids, when you went to the grocery store with mom or whatever, and you're waiting in line and the little aisle next to the, to the register has candy, junk food, and then tabloids. Do you guys remember these? Wolfboy, born to, you know, whatever mom or UFOs capture. And remember, as a kid, you'd look at those and be like, mom, they found aliens or mom. Look, a wolf boy was born. Your mom was like, that's baloney. There's nothing true about that. I wonder if when those tabloids first came out, if they had more power, like people bought them and were like, oh my God. And then after a while, people were like, all right, you know, 99% of this. Oh, don't be fooled. So I'm wondering if those things, you know, the National Enquirer is like one of the most sold magazines in the world, bro. It gets so like crazy. My grandmother read that like from front to back, every single one. Now that's our real news. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So I'm wondering if at some point people will just be like, all right, don't believe everything you read on the internet. Or, you know, oh, this is obviously biased. I'm hoping that. I think we're there right now. I think most people that I hear that will argue one point of like, oh, you must only listen to Fox or oh, you must only listen to CNN. They get called out on it right away. Well, I mean, yeah. What we need is real journalists that like, they're not getting paid one way or the other, which is like a really tough thing. How would you do that? Exactly. Government media. Yeah, that sounds better. Today's news. America's the greatest country in the world. That's what I mean. It's impossible. So everything's going to be biased. But yeah, what are you going to do? Yeah, so hey, did you guys try the Organifi granola that Jerry made this morning? No, she made it, but I haven't had it. Did you guys try it? Yeah, so she used the Organifi pumpkin spice in the granola. So you can, Doug added some milk to that. And apparently it's really. Apparently you can eat pumpkin spice in through January. Yeah, so this is showing me something that we don't give enough credit. They Organifi on their site, they have so many recipes for things you can make with their protein, with their gold juice, with their green juice to give you your supplement, your whatever nutrients you want, extra protein with like, you can make cookies, pancakes, like so many different things. So this is like the seventh thing that she's made so far. And I think. How did you like it? Everything she's made so far has been amazing. I've liked some stuff more than others, but this is really good. Yeah, the pumpkin spice cupcakes were my favorite so far. That was. I couldn't believe that. That didn't taste like there was any supplement in there. What are the chocolate ball ones with the peanut butter? Those ones had the protein in there. Speaking of supplements, how do you guys feel about the fact that we now have a pre-workout with Legion? I mean, cool. That's like my dream. Yeah, I would say you were the most excited about it for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no. Yeah, so just for the listeners, we partnered with Legion to make, to put our name on their pulse pre-workout supplement and it's bubblegum flavored, which is a different flavor they haven't had. So if you like pre-workout, and it's got all the stuff that, you know, effective pre-workouts have caffeine, beta-alanine, citrulline, but it's also bubblegum flavored, which is only the mind pump one. Yeah, and bubblegum. I'm working with Rachel on a whole campaign with some sports ball action with you, Sal. Are you really? With me? Yeah. That's gonna be great. You're not gonna film me shooting the ball or anything. Oh, we'll see. We'll see what happens. It's gonna be fun. It's great. Yeah. First question is from Mindful Fuel. What exercises do you recommend for women who want to build lean, long, but not bulky legs, but also want to grow the glutes? Okay. All right, so a couple of things here. Lean, long. Yeah. Okay, so what you want- And nothing you're gonna do is gonna get them longer. Yeah. I promise you that. You hang upside down and you stretch them out. Yeah, it's not gonna happen. So here's the deal. So here's what you're looking for. What you want is you want to be lean, but you also want to have muscle. And I'm basing that off of what you're telling me. The bulky comment. Very, very few people build enough muscle to really have massive legs, even women, okay? Usually what it is, is they're just not lean. So because they're not lean, and remember, body fat takes up more space per pound than muscle does. So if you, 10 pounds of fat would take up something like 30% more space than 10 pounds of muscle. The fact that you said you want to grow your glutes and you want long, lean muscle, that tells me you want to have sculpted legs. So what you need to do, and this sounds kind of crazy, but it's not, if you want to get to that point, the fastest way to do it is to follow a workout that builds muscle the fastest while simultaneously eating in a way that promotes you to burn body fat. You want to get lean, but you also want to try to build muscle while you're doing this. Exercises to focus on, the ones that we talk about all the time, right? Your barbell squats, your lunges, get stronger at them. You want to do your stiff legged deadlifts or your Romanian split stance squats. Those are phenomenal exercises. Hip thrusts for your glutes. If you want to follow a program that'll do this, MAPS anabolic is excellent. A MAPS aesthetic, if you're a little bit more advanced. Based off of these comments, I mean, what you're really saying, because this is what you do as a trainer, once you start training people for a while and you figure things out, they'll say a bunch of words and you'll actually read the, okay, what I need to do as a trainer, and what the trainer would know, someone who's good, would say, this person needs to build muscle and get leaner. The only thing you didn't touch on that it could be a possibility to is, and very common is somebody who feels this way because they're very quad dominant and they don't seem to grow their butt as equal to as much as they grow their legs. So they feel like, man, I do all these exercises that Sal just said, the Bulgarian split squats, the lunges, the squats, the deadlifts, and I just feel like my legs blow up and they get bulky and my butt doesn't grow in comparison to your quads. And so if that's the case, that's addressing the recruitment patterns and how your body's actually using your cluts. So there's a good chance that when you go to do a squat, you go to do a lunge, you feel most of it in your legs and very little bit in your butt. And if that's the case, then spending the time to prime your glutes. And if that's the case, the exercises that I would lean towards are things like sumo deadlifts and hip thrust and Romanian deadlifts. Those are a little bit easier to take the quads out of the movement, right? So you're gonna feel very little of your quads doing a sumo deadlift or you're gonna feel very little of your quads when you're doing a hip thrust or a Romanian deadlift. And so if you're somebody who's very quad dominant, obviously fixing the recruitment pattern by priming more and trying to get the glutes to really fire properly, which we have stuff for all that. We have a good glute builder program. We've got free guides and content. We've got free stuff on YouTube to help you in that direction. I would look towards that and then exercises that I would be focusing on are the three that I just said. Yeah, I think too, this is just feeding a lot to the myth that you'll see people doing like heavy, back loaded squats or heavy deadlifts and worried like a lot of women are worried it's gonna make them bulky and like look like a football player. And I had to have to talk that out of a lot of clients minds going into it. And unless you have like Insano bodybuilding genetics, it's really gonna be difficult for you to put muscle mass on like you've seen in terms of like a bodybuilder lady that has like Insano legs. Yeah, and even if you did, it still doesn't happen overnight. I've never met anybody that did squats. Years and years. Yeah, and then the next day they woke up and they're like, damn it, Sal, I told you, I'm massive. It doesn't work that way. Just folks on getting lean legs also. Yeah, it doesn't work that way. Here's another, you know, Adam makes great points about focusing on the posterior chain, the glutes and the hamstrings. I've never, I have met maybe one or two women that did build legs very, very quickly. It's super rare, but I didn't meet a couple. Never met a woman whose hamstrings built too much. Those tend to not, you know, be muscles that bulk up a lot. So you could start your workouts out. That's how I try. So this is, I've actually dealt with this quite a bit. I think at one point, I got kind of known as somebody to help people with this situation. So I think obviously I probably attracted more than the usual as a trainer you'd come across. And that was like my go to those, those three moves focusing on the posterior chain when somebody's quad dominant is a great surefire way to make sure that their quads don't over develop and it puts so much energy and focus on the backside. And like you said, I've never met anybody that's like, oh, my hamstrings just get overdeveloped and they're just too big. You know, like- I don't think I've ever heard that. No, it's normally someone's quad dominant and their quads do blow up. And I have met several women that have like, and I think they look great. But I mean, I get it. I get when they don't like that their quads are so big and then they have a butt that doesn't seem to match the size of their quads. And then because all the exercises, their quads are taking over the movement. So I just pull out a lot of the quad type exercises. So I don't like to leg press, lunge, hack squat. I don't wanna do any of that with this lady. I wanna do things that are more posterior chain related, but still get a little bit of development there, but focused on the hamstrings and glutes. Next question is from David GTZ-09. Do calisthenics promote the same metabolism and testosterone boosting benefits of weight training? No, the opposite. Okay, so there's two. So here's the things you wanna focus on that will produce the best results in terms of speeding up the metabolism and boosting anabolic hormone like testosterone. Because remember testosterone in men is the main muscle building hormone. And the metabolism boost comes from the signal of building muscle along with the actual fact that you have more muscle. So what does that the best? Whatever is gonna build the most muscle in your body is gonna do that the best. Now, can you do that with calisthenics? And I'm using the term calisthenics loosely. When I'm saying calisthenics, I'm saying body weight exercises or exercises without weights. You can go pretty far, it depends how you do them. Now, if you do calisthenics like boot camp. Yeah, when I hear calisthenics, I think jumping jacks and burpees and stuff. Yeah, I think of that stuff. Exactly, I'm talking about, I'm using it loosely. I'm talking about like muscle building. Gymnastic rings. Yeah, like pistol squats and one arm pushups or pushups with the feet elevated, pull ups, that kind of stuff. Then yes, you can boost your metabolism and testosterone. I mean, here's the deal. The intensity is gonna determine that. Yeah, if you want your metabolism to go to speed up and you want testosterone to go up, then do the stuff that builds the most muscle. And this usually means using weights. It usually does. Can you do body weight exercises through this? You can, just requires a little bit more skill. But like you guys said, jumping jacks and stuff like that. No, that's not gonna do it. Yeah, it's hard to answer this because you're pigeonholing us to saying I mean, calisthenics can, for your point, they could do that, but nothing is going to promote it as much as building the most amount of muscle. And calisthenics most certainly is not the way to build the most muscle. If you were to run a standard five by five, heavy type of routine, you will put on more muscle mass, you will speed up your metabolism a lot more than even doing pistol squats, lunges. It's a better tool for the job, you know? And that's just that at the end of the day, that's why we steer people in that direction. But I mean, you can do it with calisthenics, but I wouldn't even call them calisthenics because of what we kind of think of when you think of that. I'd think of it more as like really intensive body weight training that usually looks like a gymnastics type of a workout. Yeah, it is interesting though, you know, because consider when you're lifting weights, you're telling the body to build muscle. When that signal is received, your body tries to improve its ability to build muscle. So it knows it needs to build muscle because of the signal. So it tries to build muscle, but then it improves its ability to build muscle. It actually improves its capacity to adapt. This is where the testosterone raising tends to happen because your body is like, okay, we keep getting this muscle building signal and we need to improve our ability. We need to make our ability to adapt to build muscle better. And the way to do that is to raise testosterone. There is almost nothing, aside from if you get bad sleep and then you get good sleep, okay? So besides that, so let's say everything's fine, nothing consistently raises testosterone like lifting weights. And all the studies that you look at, it consistently raises testosterone. And here's the thing with testosterone raising and resistance training. In some cases, you'll do things that'll raise testosterone if you have low testosterone. Resistance training raises testosterone in men if they have low, middle or high testosterone. It just raises it across the board. It's the best thing you could possibly do. So I'm glad that we, you know, we answered this question, but they both go hand in hand. Build muscle, that's what gets the metabolism to get faster and that's what raises the testosterone. Next question is from Giac72. What are some specific exercises that will help build the muscles of your core like every other muscle in your body? So build, so I'm assuming they're talking about actually making them bigger and stronger. Like adding resistance, yeah. That's what I'm picturing. You know, most effective, because in the past, you know, I trained my body and then when I would do my core, I believed the myth that the core needed to be trained with high reps, not use any resistance. And what would happen is I would get down to like 8% body fat, 9% body fat. And if I flexed my abs, you could see that I had a six pack but if I didn't flex my abs, you couldn't see that I had a six pack. And I was really envious of, you know, certain people who seem to have six packs without flexing at all. And I thought, God, do I have to get like super shredded for that to happen? And then years later at dawn on me, well, I don't have muscular abs or obliques. So they're not gonna show, unless I get super, super unhealthy lean, they're not gonna show because they're not built. So let me train them, like I would train my biceps or my shoulders or my chest to grow. And so I started doing high tension or what you call high resistance exercises. So like one of my favorite exercises is a decline sit up. A slow decline sit up or a slow incline reverse crunch. If there's resistance that the body is providing, you're at an incline or a decline and you're having to really work the abs with, you know, lower reps, eight reps, 12 reps. And it was like night and day, man. My abs went from not visible to, then I had a six pack at 11% body fat. Cause I built it. I'm kind of hesitant to just say, just throw weights, you know, on these crunches or throw weights on like your leg lifts if you're not recruiting properly first. And it's so dependent on that. The core, you can get a lot of good resistance just from angles and with gravitational forces with your core, but you definitely can add weight. I would just highly suggest, make sure that, you know, you're recruiting the way you should and not like incorporating a lot of your hip flexors involved with your crunches. Well, Doug, aren't we practically giving our no BS six pack away with the anabolic this month? Yeah, we are. We have a special with anabolic and no BS six pack. What is it? $59.95. Yeah, let's see. Maps October. MapsOctober.com. Yeah, so it covers what you both are saying right now. So Justin brought up a good point about making sure that, you know, your recruitment pattern is right and you're not using like your hip flexors for the movement. So stuff in there that's going to help you. Some of the exercises that Sal, you lewd to there and there. So, I mean, that's a no brainer to me is to have that. So if you don't have that, I would get that if you don't are not in the place to be able to get that. I would search on our YouTube. So Mind Pump TV, we've got a ton of different exercises for the core and for abs. Those are some of the most popular videos that we've done. You know, what's funny about this too is that when I've trained, I got this is probably nine out of 10 times. If I train someone that talks about wanting their abs to be more obvious or to stand out more. So I said, okay, we're going to build them. I'll watch them do exercises that they do 30 reps with. So I'll watch them do like a physio ball crunch. I'll change their form and all of a sudden it's a high resistance, high tension exercise. A physio ball crunch done properly with your low back on top of the ball, your hips pinned to the top, you're wrapping your back around the ball when you go down, then you slowly come up, push the hips up while you squeeze so that your hip flexors don't take over. You're not sinking your hips. Very few people can do more than 15 reps doing it that way. And if you need more resistance. Arms above your head. Straighten your arms out above your head. Long lever it. All of a sudden it's a high tension, high resistance exercise that builds the abs even though you're not holding any weight at all. So a lot of it has to do with form. Leg raises, I never see anybody do those right. I mean, if you do a leg raise properly and your pelvis is tilting at the top or you're actually doing like a reverse crunch at the top, you find me someone that could do more than 10 reps of doing that properly. It's very, very difficult. Next question is from BJ Sair. What are the best exercises to superset to get the most work in during my time in the gym? So there's a lot of different ways to do supersets. So you could superset the same muscle group. You could superset different muscle groups, single joint to compound exercises. But if I had to pick one and I had to do it in order to save time and my goal is always to build muscle, right? That's the goal with resistance training. I'm picking opposing muscle group supersets. Love those. Yeah, because I'm doing bench press to barbell row would be a great example or a shoulder press to a pull-up or something like that. So I'm hitting two opposing muscle groups. So I'm not doing tons of endurance for one muscle. Arnold was a big fan of this. He did a lot of dips and pull-ups, for example, was one supersets. That's one of my favorites, by the way. I don't know if you guys have done that. We go dips to pull-ups. Just gives you a pump on both sides of your body. I'm with you on this. I don't disagree at all. The only thing that I would say to add to that is that I would start postier chain first, right? So for example, you said the rows and chest. I love, that's actually one of my favorite things to do. And I did a workout just like this the other day where I was crunched for time. And so every exercise I was supersetting and it was a posterior chain exercise followed by an anterior, right? So I would do something like a row first and then go into a bench press. And the only reason why I say the row first in the bench press is because doing a row is gonna prime the upper back and put you in a more advantageous position doing the chest press. If you chest press first and then go to the row, it's not as beneficial as far as putting you in the best position. Other than that, all the rest of them, you know, buys the tries, all that stuff, I think is, that's the best way or that's the way that I personally like to do it when I'm crunched for time and I'm doing a full body routine. Totally. I mean, I totally agree. I mean, this is just like an echo chamber in here, but I think it's fun to do like a, if I'm working angles with my elbows for triceps, for instance, and I just hit back and back, you know, tricep exercises from different angles, you know, something like that. But, you know, that's just gonna promote fatigue and that's cool if that's part of what I'm doing for that workout. Well, that's what makes the way that we're saying I think so superior is because it's not that there's not lots of other ways and lots that you can do a compound exercise and then do a single joint exercise, you know, and you can do the whole routine like that and there's nothing wrong with that. But you're also, when you're doing that, there's gonna be a little bit of exhaustion. So if you go to a chest press over to a tricep pushdown, your triceps are involved a lot in a chest press and so you're gonna be kind of weak when you go to the tricep pushdown. Nothing wrong with that. Just I don't think it's the, I'm not gonna get the most out of my workout. Doing the opposing muscle group, you're gonna have a little bit of gas still. You're sure your energy's down a little bit because you just did an exercise, but if you just go do a row, your chest is not gonna be fatigued at all. So then go into a chest press, you're gonna have the most gas for that in order to still get a lot out of your chest press versus if you go do a row, heavy row, and then you go do bicep curls, your biceps are a little fried. Yeah, are a little fried from the rows already. So you're not gonna be able to lift very much weight with a bicep curl. Yeah, and it does encourage good form on some of these supersets. Like you said, a row before a press. Here's some of my favorite supersets. Anything bicep tricep is a lot of fun. So arm supersets, great way to save time. And doesn't really, it doesn't take away from straight sets that much because arms don't fatigue you that much. In fact, nine out of 10 times when I work out my arms, I go bicep to tricep. Here's another fun one, and this is different than what we're talking about, but this is a lot of fun. Try going deadlift to pull up. That is amazing. Like do your, and this is how I like to do it though. I like to go heavy deadlift. So like a set of two or three reps. So just very, very heavy set. Then I jump up to the bar. So I'm literally deadlifting in front of a bar. Then I jump up to the bar and then I'll do something like 10 reps. And the pump you get in your back is, it's insane. It's unheard of. It's also cool too, because you actually, the pull-up will feel light. If you're pulling two to three reps. Yeah, I'm not doing high reps with a deadlift. Yeah, if you're deadlifting, in your case, you're easily doing over 350. So you're probably doing 400 pounds. And then you go do your pull your body weight up, which is only 200 pounds. You fly up the bar. It's a really cool feeling, especially if you have a hard time doing pull-ups. It's amazing when you do that. I love just to show somebody that. Which is like, hey, go do one or two heavy deadlifts. And then watch how you get up on that pull-up bar. Now for lower body, here's some of my favorite other super sets. Let's say I'm working with someone who has trouble feeling like a squat in their hamstrings or their glutes. I'll do like a leg curl, maybe on a physio ball right next to the squat rack or hip thrust. Then go straight to a barbell squat. And I'll use really lightweight. And then you get a crazy posterior chain pump. Let's say I'm working with someone that really wants to work the quads really hard. I'll go sissy squat or leg extension, straight to a light squat. And you mean literally three rounds of doing that, properly three, four rounds, your leg workout is done. And you get, again, another insane pump. You can do like some paps at a time too, with heavy squats, and then do a couple box jumps after that. That's pretty crazy. Yeah, if you want to puke for sure. Look, Mind Pump is recorded on video as well as audio. Come check us out on YouTube Mind Pump podcast. You can also find us on Instagram. You can find Doug, the producer at Mind Pump Doug, Justin at Mind Pump Justin, me at Mind Pump Salon Adam at Mind Pump Adam. Well, hard work always beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. Oh, I love that. One of the other keys to this, right? So how do you go into something, and before you even go into it, and have the desire to win and be great at it, but then also be okay with losing. And we've talked about this and other thing, and other aspects of life. And that is,