 If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. Mind pump! With your hosts, Sal DeStefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. In this episode of Mind Pump, for the first half of this episode, Adam, Justin, and myself have some fun conversation. We talk about Matt Lauer. Hey. That disgusting pick. Another one. Just got fired for sexual harassment. Another one is right, man. One of the Hollywood elites. It seems like every other week, a new one is getting accused of being... I thought that would accuse Justin. Another one bites the dust song over there, dude. I'm a little disappointed in you today, dude. Don't. There it is. Another one bites the dust. Very nice. We talk about Mark Wahlberg. I think we have a crush on him. Marky Mark! Yeah, that's right. He's handsome. We talk about one of the best movies of all time. A cinematic masterpiece. Cinematic adventure. Predator. The cinematic adventure. Epic opus of action. I actually watched Predator with my son for the first time, and we bonded over it. And we talk about appropriate movies for kids. And then we talk about Justin's son and his criminal activity. He's a burglar. He burgled. He burgled. He burgled. I'm not happy about that. And we talk about Elf on the Shelf. Also, we mentioned our sponsor Organifi. They make organic products like protein powders, green juices. We actually mentioned... For all of you that addicted to monster drinks. Yeah, we talk about that later in this episode. And using green juice to kind of wean yourself off of some of these stimulants. Anyhow, if you go to OrganifiShop.com, enter the code MindPump, no space. You'll get a discount on everything on there. Also, if you tune in to the end of the episode, to get away to the very end, I give you the tip of the week, and I talk about occlusion training and how effective it is. Then we get into the questions. 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Whenever Daniel's son fuck up on something. Yeah, exactly. Hey, another one bites the dust. Who bit the dust? Another one bites. The Today Show guy. Oh, Matt Lauer. The dust fucking fired. Was he fired or did he quit? Fired. Let me look that up. I think you're right. I think he fired for sexual misconduct. Misconduct. So was he just rampaging around the office? What was he doing? I don't know, but I'd like to know. Running around with his wanker out? Yeah. I don't know. All these fuckers, man. All these fuckers in power. I feel like I smell like conspiracy. Against Matt Lauer? Just not even. It's not about him. It's more about Hollywood. Hollywood's going down in flames. That's what I'm saying. It's about all these people. I couldn't be happier. That have been in these like news anchors, actors, actresses. And so I thought we're not getting a lot of females, right? There's not a lot of men complaining about being sexually harassed. Why is that? It's because we like it. No. No, it's because you don't feel threatened. Is that what it is? 100%. So this is, I'm glad you said this. I actually had this conversation a while ago with my girlfriend because we were going back and forth about this. Did you guys debate this? It wasn't a debate. It was more of a discussion. And because I said to her, I said, you know, I said, women, I've been cat called and I've had women grab my ass. Right. And she said, yeah, but you don't feel threatened. And I said, you know, she's right. I don't feel threatened. So I said, what do you mean? She goes, well, imagine if you were in a world where, or you were in a place where all of a sudden you're around a bunch of dudes that were, you know, like the size of what's his name, the dude that we interviewed Robert Oberse, like a strong man, like what if you were around a bunch of six foot seven, four hundred pound and they were all and they were all aggressive gay men and they're all trying to fuck you. You know what I mean? I'll try to mess with you. You would be like, yeah, any comment, right? Any comment, one of them looks at you and goes, hey, nice, but I would be like in a constant state of puckered. Yeah. Oh shit. Yeah. Don't comment. Comment on my butt. Yeah. The difference is the threat. Right. Because we're bigger, we're stronger. That makes a lot of sense. Although I feel like women because of that, they get away with a little more aggressive. Of course they do. I've never seen another man, like I've never been out or been with a buddy and seen a guy, you know, just inappropriately like grab a girl's pussy or grab her in the boobs. I've had women do that before. Grab you in the dick. I've had women grab me in the dick. I've had women grab me in the ass and been like aggressive like that. And it's like, whoa. Yeah. I'm not ready for that. It's because they... They can. Yeah. Yeah, they can. And they know you're not going to feel threatened by it. What am I going to do? Throw an elbow to it? Yeah, because you could like... Yeah, if a girl tries to mess with you... Hey! Yeah, you could just hold her with one hand and be like, get away. Right. But they can't... That's mine. But how about this? What if you had a boss? What if you were in a job, you're supporting your family? Like you got kids, you got a home, you got a mortgage. You're working hard at this job. You really love your work and you got this new female boss. She's a 65-year-old... This is like that bad boss movie. Yeah, except... Yeah, except Jennifer Aston's... Yeah. Well, that's the thing. It's like... Yeah. So you got like this... Like to say this 65-year-old just... Creepy. Disgusting, creepy woman. Yeah. And she pulls you in the office and just says... And you know like, fuck, if I say something, I'm going to get fired and I can't pay my bills. And if I do something, I'm going to cheat on... Like this is horrible. What do you do? Right, right. You know what I mean? You sue them. I just think it's kind of crazy all this is coming out right now. I think it's... Like it's not like we have like new pedophiles or new fucking freaks and like inappropriate people like in Hollywood. Just more shit's coming out. Yeah, just all of a sudden all this stuff is... Internet, man. Yep. It's leveling the playing field. Yeah, but the internet didn't evolve like the last six months. I know. You know what I'm saying? Like all of a sudden... It's like, I feel like there's somebody else behind all this that would like to see Hollywood. You know what I think? I think this stuff's been happening forever. Definitely. I think all... Maybe you're right, Adam, that stuff's been happening. So like, okay, we'll hold this. We have this on you. And then when we want to change the guard... They want to release it. They'll release it. Or what happens a lot of times is that when one thing comes out it gives courage to the other people who then want to speak up. And you see this all the time, right? Like Bill Cosby. Yeah. He had like a couple, like one woman come out and then all of a sudden more and more women coming out saying, yeah, he did that to me and now you feel courageous. And you can't underestimate how scary it is to call someone out, especially when they're a person in power or like that. What's that guy's name? Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein or whatever the... Weinstein. Weinstein, excuse me. The other guy's a scumbag too. Harvey Weinstein. Harvey Weinstein. What a scumbag, right? But the dude can literally make or break your career. Like literally. Like if you want to be an actress and you want to make money in Hollywood and you rub him the wrong way, he 100% can ruin your entire life and it'll never happen again. And so a lot of women just dealt with it and didn't say... Now how many of you think are false claims? Do you think that this happens? Because you know that with that comes also the other people that see like, oh wow, I can try and seek retribution. For sure. You know what I'm saying? For sure. I think false claims, of course they exist, but I don't think they're super common. I do think they exist, of course, 100%. But I don't fuck, man. Take these fuckers down because for me, when I look at these celebrities that we create them. So here's the funny thing. Back in the past, we had kings and queens, right? We had these people that ruled over us and these people that we worshiped. We don't have that anymore, but now we create it. Like we create... We still long for that for some reason. Weird, right? Like who are these fucking idiots? Okay, great. You're an artist. Okay, you can act and you can sing. That's great. I'll pay for a ticket. Now shut up. I don't want to hear about anything else. You're making me on some bullshit. Yeah, or your political advice. Yeah, especially when you're a massive hypocrite. Like you got Leonardo DiCaprio flying around in a private jet that probably produces more pollution than all of us combined will ever produce in our entire life. And he's going around lecturing people on like you need to cut down on your carbon footprint. And he's got massive houses that are wasting tons of energy and yet he's lecturing people. Or you've got these celebrities saying, we need to eliminate guns from society. And they have bodyguards. Of course you can say that because you've got bodyguards, dude. What about the freaking, what about the lady that's a single mom over there who's got to, you know, protect her kids because she's in a bad neighborhood. A rough neighborhood, right? Yeah, like she can't afford a bodyguard. She can afford a nine millimeter, you know, whatever. She can't afford a bodyguard. So yeah, fuck these people. I was saying that the whole time when we were driving through L.A., remember that? Yeah. We were driving through Hollywood, all the big houses. And I'm like, look at these fucking pedophiles. What did you say? What did we just say? Either bad drivers, pedophiles or what was it? I don't know. But that was like your only options. Super driving. I'm like, wow. I guess we're not going to get any of them on our show. Yeah. I don't think so. Get ones out there. We're trying to, who are we trying to contact right now to get on the show? What's his name? Who? Mark Wahlberg. There you go. Mark Wahlberg. Yeah. Because he's got a supplement line. So I'm thinking, hey, maybe he'll want to get on Minecraft. If you know Mark Wahlberg, let him know. I would love to actually, Wahlberg would be a great person. He seems like he'd be a fun guest. Yeah, no, no. He doesn't seem pretentious or anything. He seems like he's legit. Yeah, yeah. No, I think you have to be if you started in a boy band, right? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, he was a rapper, dude. Well, he started boy band first, right? No, that's his brother. That was Donny. Oh, I thought he was, I thought he was. No, his brother was in New Keys on the block. Yeah. Oh, so I thought, he had the Funky Bunch. Remember Mark and Mark in the Funky Bunch. Right. But I thought he originally started with New Kids on the Block and then he did his own thing afterwards. So he wasn't, oh, he was never a part of that. But I think they both. I do remember him coming out on stage with a shirt off though. Come on, come on. Yeah. Feel it, feel it. And then he got, he got, he was like the first one that really had the six pack and like all the girls were just like this, this guy. So most of our listeners have no idea. But if you look up old dude, he would go to basketball games, like big games and shit. And then, you know, the crowd would cheer and he'd go out to the middle of the floor and he would pull his pants down. Yeah. He would pull his pants down and all he would have on where his, his boxer move with his with his hands doing like the chop. Like no, no joke. His pants were around his ankles and he'd have boxer briefs on and the fucking crowd would go nuts. Berserk. And then he got sponsored by Calvin Klein. Yeah. You know what I mean? Brilliant. I'm going to try the same random places. I'm going to drop my pants. Sooner or later. Come on. Come on. Throw your pants down. Calvin Klein's going to call me sooner or later. It won't work for me. Yeah. That's my first question for him. How did you do that? Yeah. What possessed you? It wouldn't work for me with the underwear I wear. He's also He's also part of, didn't he, he produced entourage? Entourage. And then he also, didn't he co-produce with the rock? I think ballers. I think that's the rock. I think that's the rock. And we'll put it together. He's got a couple other ones. He's kind of about it. Didn't he grow up kind of rough? Didn't him and his brother grow up a little rough? Yeah. Remember the movie, there's a movie that's kind of based off his life. It's not considered a true story, but a lot of the events is based off. And it's what it's called brothers or something like that. Brothers or something. I don't know. I don't know. Something like that. But I think there's some, I think I remember seeing an interview he did where he said a lot of the stuff that happened in that movie is based off of his child. We have movies. I had, I'm so, so there's a new milestone that I've reached now with my kids with my son in particular. Bro, how remind me? Your son's 12. Okay. He just turned 12. Okay. So this is, not just appropriate, but borderline. Yeah. He turned 12 in the summer and he's reaching the age now where I can watch certain movies with him. There's a lot of movies you can't watch with kids that you like because they're either too violent or too scary or whatever. Right? But now he's 12 and, you know, I know he cusses with his friends and all that stuff. I've talked about that on the show. He's a good kid. So we were home and my daughter had to go somewhere with my ex, with my ex. So just me and him chilling and I'm like, oh fuck, let's watch Predator. Like one of the greatest, the all time, you know, greatest action movies ever. Dude, if, here's the great thing that's a very good neutral 12 year old boy. Bro, it's one of the greatest. So here's the thing. What a hero should look like. You have all your favorite movies when you're, you know, when you're growing up that you love and you get the feeling of watching it again for the first time because now you're sharing it with somebody else. It's like Disneyland for dudes. Watching Predator. You must have told me to shut up 10 times because like something was happening. Oh yeah. Did you see that? Did you see that? Yeah. I'm pushing too many pencils. Yeah. So I'm doing all the lines and shit. Shut up. You're ruining it. Yeah. I told him so many like so many scenes were coming up. I'm like, okay, watch this. Watch this. And he's like, I'm watching. No need for you to and then Jesse Ventura with the freaking minigun. Oh yeah. My son's like, that's the sickest. I'm like, right? Like when I first saw that, yeah, he's just shredding trees like just cut down the poles. Yeah. I told him when I was and he's like, when I was a kid and I saw that, I was like, why don't they have every soldier have this? We'd win every war. Such a great and then the one liners, you know, and he's cracking up and he's like, you know, he's like, he actually kicked the door down and said knock knock and then shot everybody. Knock knock and I'm like, that's when action here is bad. That's when they were awesome. Not like they are today. So I'm trying to think that was awesome. I mean, you got to get like Conan in there. So Conan could be cool. You know what the other so he asked me about alien. Remember aliens? The first one that might be a little scary. Yeah, it's a little creepy. That's definitely more scary. But he, the reason why he asked me that was because all he knows about predator is predator versus aliens. Well, what are you? What are you? All right. Do you, right now at his age, this is a thought process. Okay, I think it's like, I think it's like, I think it's like, like Beverly Hills cop was such a classic movie. But then also there's a lot of bombs in that. Yeah. I don't care about the cussing. It's, if it's too like gore is kind of okay, but it fits. Have you watched scary, scary, trouble little channel. I showed him that when he was nine. Wow. That was the first one. You got that one. I did fuck up a couple times. I lie there were a couple times I showed, you know, kind of scarred him a little bit. I showed them red ones. I think, I think you, I think you have to do that to figure out where the line is, right? Cause you don't know, you don't know where it's at. I wouldn't know where to go. Like I wouldn't know, like, okay, my child seven, you know, what's the, what's the appropriate age I could show him a certain movie. Ethan was like, I mean, he was like three and I showed him Star Wars. And I couldn't help it. Like, I was like, it was way too soon. But he, not only that, like, I was getting like grief you know, cause it was like, you know, it's like space violence. And I'm like, that's not even, it's like lasers, you know, like, yeah, he lost an arm, you know, big deal. Yeah, but it came back. Yeah. Yeah. It's not a big deal. It wasn't like, Star Wars wouldn't be bad. It's not bad. I mean, some people think it is. I showed him Star Wars a while. The matrix I showed him last year, which he loved the matrix. He thought it was so awesome. So that was a good one. So I think aliens might be the one. We'll test that one out. Remember that. Yeah. Yeah. How are the kids for you guys right now? You guys dealing with anything right now? Holidays are always, I feel like for parents, like, Oh yeah. I had a little, little snafu. Oh yeah, you did. I was like, What happened? I'm talking about what happened? Well, dude, like, there's one of those things like, we had, we had an interesting day yesterday already in, like I got home and I appreciate, um, about, like how my wife handles things and stuff. Like she, she knew exactly like, like not to tell me, you know, if I'm not there because like, I kind of like, lose it a little bit, you know, like I want to be there to like confront whatever issues are there and like, let's talk it out and like, let me handle it and let me. What happened? Discipline or whatever needs to happen. Well, so, um, so we had the cousins over, and Ethan's really into Legos and um, you know, we do a lot with like stop motion and we're getting him all involved with like, um, these, these little miniature characters and stuff that he, he creates like his own little movies and stuff, so he's really into it. And so he was like getting his cousin like really into it with him. And so he had, um, he had him play with him and stuff and, and then actually gave him like two of his figurines to leave like, you know, he's a good kid and he does stuff like that every now and then he's very thoughtful but, um, I come to find out that like, I wasn't able to go to this, um, uh, because I was working, I wasn't able to go to this, this party, um, that all the family went to and so they were there and so, um, his cousin brought his own figurines to the party and so they're all playing with him and all this stuff and so, oh, well, I'm just going to take these and so he steals toys from his cousin and just takes it and then so we get a call from his dad like takes it from him or like takes it home like he, like he took it home like for himself. Okay, so he like put it in his pocket, hit it and then brought it back home. It wasn't like he just was using it right there in front of him. No, no, no. And then he was like playing with it and stuff in front of like me and my wife and I had no idea like it wasn't his and he put that all together. Um, well, um, uh, my brother-in-law called. Cause, Cause the fuck broke? Yeah, cause his son like was like, hey, you know, my son took you know, his toys and so, Courtney confronted him and he was just like, well, she first was like, huh, do you remember those toys that, um, you're playing with, you know, with your cousin and, you know, he was like, oh, yeah, no, yeah, I know. I remember those toys and like, he was like, all skirting around the issue and then, you know, she had to kind of confront him and be like, did he deny it when she confronted him? Like, at first, sort of like, just was trying to sluff it off and like, hoping it was like gonna breeze over and uh, and so she, she kept prodding and then was like, I had to like, you know, like, I'm gonna give you one chance to kind of come clean with this and all, and then he finally came clean and was like, yes, you know, I took him and um, you didn't give the Bangkok lecture? The what? The Bangkok, isn't it Bangkok where they cut your hand off? Oh, they cut your hand off? Oh my God. Yeah, for stealing. I thought that's the tactic that all parents use because I think every kid steals at one point, right? Even if it's like, like not meaning to, it's the way we do it. But it's the thing, is that where they do that? They do it somewhere. They do that, yeah. Somewhere, yeah. Where is it, Doug? Is it Philippines? No, it's the Middle East, Saudi Arabia. Okay. Well, let's avoid that. Yeah, that place. That's horrible. Yeah, no, I'm just glad that on some level I was in there because like, for me, that's one of those things like stealing. I've just like, even as a kid, I never, I don't know. I have like, a certain like, code that I operate by. And like, that's just like, I was infuriated by this. And so, just for him, for me to recognize that like, he didn't understand the problem initially. I'm like, wow, like, so how do I, how do I get to that level where it's going to sting? And, you know, he's going to understand that like, you know, this is not like something that I'm, you know, it's a big deal. It's a big deal. It's a big deal. It's a really big deal. Kids at that age, because he's what, seven, you said? Yeah. Right? Kids at that age start to learn to really lie and steal and do stuff like that. And it's part of them really growing and learning and understanding things. And it's, smart kids actually lie more, even more. When they find like, really precocious kids, kids are really, really intelligent. They'll find that they lie even more and really enjoy the, creating the situation where they're, you know, creating lies and imagination or whatever. So, I wouldn't worry, I don't think your kid's going to, I don't think he's going to be a thief. Yeah, no, like, I know, like, the rational side of me comes out, you know, later, but it's just funny because she, she'll tell me something like that. And she handled it very well. Are you going to talk to him about it? Well, or is it already done? Yeah, no, I still have to talk to him about it. Like, so I haven't had a chance to even, and he knows that, that, the talk is coming? I, like, I know. Yeah, talk is coming. So, all day he was like, when I got home, Courtney didn't tell me about it. And so, he was acting weird around me. How was he acting? I love you, I didn't like, no he wasn't. Hugging me really excessively, you know, like, just like, shaking and I'm like, oh my God, you know. I didn't even know what's going on. And he knows, oh wow, you know, he's, he's got a great time for me. This is great. Yeah. And so, Isn't it funny how it's just human nature for the kids to naturally do that, right too? It's like, no, they're like, okay, I'm a fucking trouble right now. Like, I'm going to love all over dad. Like, you didn't teach him that. Like, it's something that he just innately has, right? That all of a sudden, I'm going to like, help him. Love on him. Yeah, he knows. There's this one study that they do with kids. I love looking at these, I watch and see how children behave. And there's this one where, I don't know what they use exactly. There's like, candy or something on a table. And a kid is sitting in a chair, and then the researcher leaves the room and they tell them, like, you can't, don't have any of that candy. Okay. And the kids, it's okay. And they leave the room and they wait to see how long before a kid grabs the candy and sneaks one, because there's all the, like a bunch of them, right? So they're like, oh, they won't miss it, right? But then what they'll do is I'm going to leave the room now, don't eat the candy, and they're in the chair over here, and it's just an empty chair. And the chair over here is a magic fairy. And they're going to watch you. And they're going to, they're going to watch you to make sure you don't steal. And then they leave, and then kids won't steal. Yeah. Like just some, just feeling like, Accountability. Yeah. Like, no, not just feeling like there's something there, even though there's nothing there. Yeah. And the kids won't do it because the magic fairy in the chair. Well they did the same, it was a sticker of an eye. And they would put that, like you said, in the room, or like, so somebody on the computer. Oh, I've heard of that. Yeah, I've heard of that before. They put like a sticker of an eye on it, and like, the behavior was completely different. Oh, that's so cool. It was so, it was so much more like a productivity and like less, you know, shenanigans happening and all. It was, it's interesting. Did you guys do, did you guys do Elf on a Shelf? No, I don't do that shit. I thought you did do it. Yeah. And that's the other thing. So here's the other thing is like, that's, we have that, that magic Elf, you know, thing where it's like this extra bit of accountability, like leading up to Christmas, right? And I don't like to play into that because I'm like, I don't want to give it that power. Yeah, because then you take it away when they figure out that space. Like what, you're supposed to just be good right now. You know, like, and like, I don't know, my wife really gets into it and like, oh, well, the Elf's name is Pocchio, like they name it themselves. Pocchio? I have no idea why. Why do you have an Italian Elf? Is it Italian or, I thought it was more like Japanese or something. Pocchio. Pocchio. Maybe it is Japanese. I don't know. Is it spelled like Pocchi? Yeah, it's like Pocchi. Pocchio? Or Pocchio. I don't know. Is it P-O-C-C-H-I-O? Pocchio. Pocchio. Who named the Elf? My oldest. Oh, he did. That's hilarious. So now every morning, I forget how it works. Every morning you move it. Is that how it works? Every night. So you're screwed. And the night time you move it, now do you like, do you just like fucking put it whatever or do you actually prop it up and do shit? Dude, you start out being all creative and then you're just like, okay, now he's sitting in this fucking thing. You know, like, now he's over here, you know. Now he's over there, he's on the couch, you know, whatever. The first day he's like drinking coffee, reading a magazine. He's like fighting like Iron Man and you know, he's flying like an X-wing and so I got like, at this point I'm just like, okay, now he's like sitting on the windowsill. I got to give a shit. Like it's just like he's here, you know, whatever. But I have to like keep it up because my youngest, he's like so into it. Like he's just like, he talks to him. He'll sit there and he'll like talk to him. Hi, Pokeo. Will you do this and that for Santa? Like can you tell him that I really want it? And then so we're all taking notes of like what he wants, you know. So there's one good thing out of it. That's hilarious, man. So my friends do the elf on the shelf and they did one where they had the elf squatting down and pooping but it was Hershey Kisses. Yeah, I've done that. Oh, did you do that one too? Yeah. Oh, see, of course. Maybe it was you that did that. Maybe. Adam, was it you that said that when you're sick, you get like horny? Yeah. Yeah, me too. Oh, you notice that now? Yeah, weird, man. Maybe you just subliminally. Maybe. I'm sure the listeners can tell that my voice sounds like shit because I have a little bit of a cold and last night I told my girlfriend I'm going to bed early, man. I need to go to bed early so I can get some sleep. So I get into bed and then 20, 30 minutes later she snuggles in the bed and kind of snuggles up on me and I'm like, oh shit, hey there. We're gonna have some half a sleep sex right now. So I got no sleep. Not as good. Yeah, mine stems all the way from childhood so I don't know where the fuck yours comes from. Maybe I'm just, maybe it's anything. Yeah, I don't know. Dude, water gets you that one, dude. Yeah, sure. So vulnerable right now. Yeah, that's maybe what it is. I don't know. Let's do this. Oh, Doug, bring on the bird. Today's Quas being brought to you by Chimericoffee. It's the only coffee that is infused with all natural nutrients for a cleaner, calmer and more focused buzz without the crash. Click the Chimeric link at mindpunkmedia.com and input the discount code mindpunkedcheckout for 10% off. It's the motherfucking Quas. The eagle has landed. Quique Quas. All right, our first question is from Nick Belden. What are some ways you guys practice becoming uncomfortable? Researching, opposing views, taking cold showers, et cetera. Well, those two right out the gates, I mean, I think everybody in this room, anytime that we look up or we're reading something, I think we always, and sometimes it's the other guy who makes sure that he pulls his way and challenges that, but we always look at both sides. I don't think there's ever a time where it's like we read something and it's like, oh, this is true. For me at least, I don't know. I grew up before this whole, the internet craze happened and then afterwards and so I'm very skeptical of what I read and people that have been listening to the show for a long time used to hear me tease Sal about being like, it's on Google, it's fucking true or what, there is a lot of bullshit out there, there's a lot of bias and there's a lot of ways that you could take some information and you can put a spin on it to argue it either way. I feel like I can, especially like with fitness stuff, I can debate a topic and defend it and then I can also point out the flaws. So I think we always search out opposing views. Taking cold showers is definitely something that I do to make myself, it's not like I do it to make myself feel uncomfortable, it's uncomfortable to take a freezing cold shower. But that's why your body adapts. Right, exactly. I think Dr. Andy Galpin said this line which I thought was excellent and you're either adapting or you're optimizing. Optimizing, yeah. Yeah, so optimizing would be making everything awesome, being perfectly comfortable, optimizing your diet, optimizing everything so that you're just this machine but when you're optimized, you're not adapting because your body's not under any kind of stress. It's the adaptation that gets you to get better, to get better change and progress and you have to be uncomfortable for that to happen. You're like recalibrating to kind of create a new standard. So once you get to that new standard you still have to pursue and really stretch yourself in a different direction. So yeah, like to make yourself uncomfortable again, creates more growth. Once you get to that growth period you want to come back to the homeostasis again. Yeah, something that I've done for a long time is I love Facebook because there's lots of pages and groups that you can follow and it encourages just the format of Facebook encourages discussion. And so back in the day when I had my personal training facility or wellness facility in the middle of the day I would always have a break that would last about I don't know three hours or so. I would train clients in the morning then I would lift weights and do all my thing which would take me about an hour and a half to two hours and then what I used to do is I would eat lunch or something and I'd sit in front of my computer and I would go on Facebook and I would discuss, debate whatever with different groups and something that I learned to do and part of the reason why I did this is it made me a better it made me better at my positions or stronger my positions or in what I thought was the right thing to think or whatever is I would go to the opposite side I used to do this all the time I'd go on the opposite side I'd follow pages that I disagreed with and I'd get in these debates and arguments with people who are on the other side now the hard thing about that is it's very difficult to find people you disagree with who will also debate with you without or blocking you and so you have to be very careful you have to be very respectful you have to let the person know that you're, listen I appreciate this discussion I disagree with you but I appreciate it so I would say that several times and I would talk and discuss with people different positions and sometimes I would change my position which you know I started to learn to enjoy I mean there's really nothing better than for my point of view something and then realizing that I'm wrong and the reason why that's awesome is because I no longer have to live being wrong like oh shit thank you like I learned this and I was thinking this other thing before but now I realize I was wrong I appreciate that now I know this because before you know ten minutes ago I did not realize this at all but a lot of people have tough time with that because they identify so strongly with they believe that if somebody changes their opinion or proves them wrong with facts or objective argument it means to them that it challenges their entire being like if all of a sudden if I think you know politics is a good example because people get so fired up about it if I think my political views are totally and a hundred percent true and accurate and right and somebody comes to me and presents to me very strong objective evidence that what I'm saying what I believe is not right if I identified really strongly with my political views like that's who I am this is me then you know how can I possibly change my views I don't want that's who I am that's what I believe so it makes things very very difficult and fitness is I hate to say fitness is just like that weird it's just like this and so something I'm currently going through right now and I talk about putting myself in a comfortable situation is you know I I I had it's been now I started six months ago it's been I'm on week seven I think right now of no-test-ostrum and talk about a fucking rough ride for me oh yeah you've gone off everything yeah yeah so I mean it's in my fucking sex drives in the floor and I'm I've lost all kinds of lean body mass and part but I'm still training I'm still working out and I've changed my focus over to you know basketball type shape and I'm getting into work like that and still continuing my mobility and you know a lot of that challenges my insecurities a lot of that challenges you know the guy who always wanted to be bigger and buff and you know so and I know that and so I intentionally do that to myself or I'll put myself through that just to just to force growth to know that like you know I need to learn to love my body love my physique love it we're at all levels of health and fitness because I could still be you know lean good shape like I'm getting in right now but I'm just don't I don't look the same way as I did a year ago and that's okay because I never identified with that guy and I think a lot of people do though they attach themselves to whatever their image or whatever it is that they have created for themselves and then to break out of that is really tough same thing goes for training modalities people get in this this camp of how they train and work out and they follow the same shit over and over and they don't realize that their bodies become so efficient at that modality that it's like you're not seeing the change that you're seeking you say you want change you say you want your body change but you're not willing to make the change and so I'm always catching myself you know with starting to go back into patterns where I get stuck in a phase one or whatever and so I know like a lot of times when we're you know I don't follow our maps to an exact T we all modify in our own way and there's times where if I feel like I've been in phase one I'll jump all the way to phase three just and then challenge myself to stay in there longer than what I would because I know everyone gravitates towards a phase right that they love to do more than than others and I always say it on the show all the time too that normally what you need to be doing is what you're not doing and that's what's best for your body and so I'm always trying to to do that and I'm not I'm not perfect I catch myself doing this shit all the time and I think that it just starts with awareness and then when you once you're aware of it and then is making that decision to put yourself in those uncomfortable situations yeah I mean I don't know I guess this question somewhat relates to what what I've been thinking about like like constantly now and and I think that life has a way of sort of presenting things it's like hey you're out of balance you know and like what you've been doing has has been seeking like I've been I've been really throttling down on trying to grow grow grow grow grow grow but you know like understanding where the balance is I think that's the new that's the new frontier for me that I'm really trying to kind of wrangle and understand and pull back in and in order to you know press myself even further out I've been pressing myself in all kinds of different directions in too many different directions and to understand that has been really tough because I feel like if I'm doing that like I feel like this is what I have to do like I have to I have to always challenge myself in like every different facet possible I have to be the best dad I have to be the best you know husband I have to be the best you know person you know working for this company I have to contribute the most with this or you know I have to do all these things and I have to tackle all these problems and you know like my my biggest problem is that you know I have these associations with like I don't quit you know I don't quit anything like that's always been the driving mechanism for me my whole life I don't quit and I have to learn that there's some things I have to just like release and there's some things I have to like that's the uncomfortable part for you that's uncomfortable so for me like that's something I'm I'm currently going through that and like trying to like figure out okay what what will you know optimize me right now because I don't even know what optimization is like I don't know what that looks like so cutting like certain things to like bring me to that state so then I can you know go forward and move you know and press myself hard again and go through that sort of sprint period but you know I have to understand now like what's going to benefit me the most and so that's have you cut out something have you cut out something recently that has helped you in that direction or have you applied that yet was there something that you're yeah there's a few things and I think like little side projects and other things that I've gotten myself into you know business-wise or like even just with my friends there's certain there's certain things that have been hard because you know I want to help people out all the time like if somebody asked me for something to do something with them or like I have this project dude could you help me you know get this up and running and I want you to be a part of it I'm like you know help you whatever way I can whatever and there's I've just had to like be like nope you know I can't I can't contribute to this like it's taking up too much of my time like I need to focus and I need to like put you know effort into my family more like things like this pop up like with my son like this would never happen you know like they keep reiterating you know like to myself I'm like wow this is a sign for me that like you know I need to like focus you know while I'm here and like establish what is true north and what is like the moral compass of this house you know and like yeah that's where I'm not emotional I was just like a cop you freaked me out there for a second I know it sounded like oh my god that's her crying you guys it's kind of like you know it's a little bit of an emotional thing for me it's tough man like and I've also like gone through you know like the process of like trying to invent something and like you know like this is this is that sort of elephant for me that like dude I put so much effort in this thing but like look is it benefiting you no this isn't benefiting me you know right and like you just have to like come to grips with what you can do that's going to benefit yourself your family like what's what are the things that you can kind of narrow it down to that's going to like move you forward and you're going to thrive and so like you know it's a pride thing that you have to kind of kick that aside maybe one of the one of the biggest and most common challenges I think for doers if you're a doer you tend to pride yourself on completing tasks and to being able to accomplish and to never quit and but I tell you what that skill said learning to really harness that right or get better at it will serve you so much better so much better and I remember going through very very similar stuff I think you know what I think failing at enough businesses I think has helped me I think early on when I first would do something you know I would you know because I'm a very passionate person anything I do if I apply myself to something or I say I'm going to do something I'm fucking super passionate I know you guys are the same way too but I know a long time ago on the show I talked about you know loving something but not marrying it and I don't remember if I read that somewhere or what but I know that was something that stuck with me back then because there was things that I I'm always passionate about stuff I love everything that I do I put my heart and soul into it and that's okay there's nothing wrong with that I think that's how you are successful but then also knowing when to cut your losses or knowing when to when it's done serving you yeah exactly when it's exactly when it's no longer serving serving you at all especially when you know I would have things on other things on my plate that were serving me so much more and it's like if I just put 10 more percent into that that part of my life it's going to feed me back 40% and also also redefining you know what you what success means to you because sometimes success is not what you think sometimes you think to yourself oh success is going to be that I'll give you an example when I had my my my fitness studio success to me would have been having 15 locations and you know have all these members and whatever and the reality was that the success that it brought me was not that the success that it brought me was it completely molded and shaped in me into the fitness personality and person that I am today if I didn't if I never had that I would 100% still be that meat head you know that just understands building muscle and that kind of stuff I would not be who I am today and talk about the things that I talk about today and so I needed that I needed that period of time for for this to happen for mine pump to happen not realizing I thought it was a failure but when I look back it was a total success this wouldn't be possible for me if it wasn't for that and so I think sometimes we forget that things serve us in ways that we fail to recognize shit bro that's that's the same thing with people too man and people have a hard time accepting that is that there's people in your life that served a purpose and served a time in your life that was very very important maybe it was a best friend who helped you through a tough time and you guys grew together but a lot of times as you grow and you age and you evolve especially if you're growth minded sometimes you grow out grow people and I have seen so many and I've been for sure the same person I you know hang on to a friendship longer than I should have because I really like the person right and it's okay to really like the person but if you're surrounding yourself with a person that you know you feel like you're the person that's caring right and that and I was notorious for that I was the I was the friend that was kind of I was always giving giving giving and that just you can't it's really tough for you to continue to evolve and grow if you're constantly putting out all this energy and you're not really getting a lot of it back and I think having the awareness to be able to see that is such an important trait to have so tough I mean I remember having business partnerships and stuff like going through like and you just realize wow I am carrying you like this whole time like like I just remember like coming in I was hiring this nutritionist to kind of help me like back in the day to kind of handle like some of my high end clients and also like this guy that was he was also in conjunction he was making he was a he was a chef that was like making them their meals and everything had this whole thing kind of set up I was trying to build so much value to this process and they just it just got to a point where like I could do most of what they did but like I understood that man like what I was doing was like going out of my way to try and really like get their business up and running for them I was trying to get this other person's business up and running for them you know they're leaning on me to set up all the structure for all the stuff to you know get their phone lines all attached to my phone lines and like it just got to a point where it was like so interwoven and there was no there was no give back like the entire process and I just had to like I'm like I just realized like and it's so funny because Courtney's like one of the first people to point these type of relationships out to me you know and I don't want to hear it because I care about these people and I want to help them and it's easier for her because she's outside of it you know it's easier to you know when you're watching a football game and you're in the game and you're playing you're not seeing the field you're not seeing everything you're not seeing as much as a spectator who's sitting above the whole field and seeing everything that's going on sometimes you're so caught up in this happens to me all the time I'll be so caught up in what I'm doing that I have to stop taking outside view and then say what kind of advice would I give myself if I was someone else and a lot of times it's advice I don't want you know what I mean you don't want to hear it I don't know how we went all the way over there on this one but there you go get us back on track Doug alright our next question is from Anthony lifts 18 pretty sure I'm addicted to low-carb blue monster I remember that drink on how to stop when I don't have one I can't wake up and function I'm pretty sure it is not good for my health I have two a day so what they're experiencing is because the comment of I can't get up and function unless I have one have you dealt with this personally yourself were you ever somebody that was addicted to these things not this in particular but to stimulants I had gotten up to remember when rockstar had the cola flavor I remember you I was fucking drinking in the morning they used to be two for five dollars right next to my house I would pick that up first thing in the morning I'd have two I'd have one on the drive over to work and then within like by 10 a.m. I was having a second one like the big tall boy version dude I was at like clockwork I did that for years so I did that with speed stacks I did that with rip force I did that with the FEDRA caffeine for sure it was all stimulants and the body starts to adapt to these stimulants by reducing its own production of your own natural wake up energy chemicals your catecholamines epinephrine nor epinephrine it'll actually start to produce less of those and it will start to close off the receptors that whatever stimulant you're taking is in the middle of hardcore adaptation addiction if you will and it is addiction because when you go off whoever this guy is Anthony when you go off you are going to have withdrawal I hate to break it to you but you are going to notice withdrawal well I think you can do this like so you can mitigate some of it and I've been through this more than once so like you have speed stack rockstar I've kind of gone through like these little cycles and you know I've done cold turkey and it worked for me and I'm going to use Organifi since there are sponsors so that's my bias plug but even if you didn't have Organifi if you had like this a healthy juice or a healthy drink the green juice is perfect for this because it's got some decent flavor to it and it's good for you that's actually perfect because it has ashwagandana which is an adaptogen which will actually help with the withdrawal so and instead of going cold turkey and getting rid of two I'm going to have one still and then I'm going to have the other one I'm going to replace with green juice and then I'm going to do that for about a week or so and then I'm going to cut to the yeah then slowly cut to like half and then to nothing and when I've done that I feel like it's an easy transition it doesn't feel like death because if you get used to 600 milligrams of caffeine every morning then all of a sudden you cut it out like you might get headaches and shit yeah because you'll feel like shit especially in the morning what it's doing is it's actually you're artificially replacing cortisol it's all supposed to spike and the reason why you feel like shit in the morning is either your body's not responding to your cortisol anymore or your body's actually producing not producing a lot of cortisol in the morning and producing more later on in the evening you may even have issues with sleep later on so yeah these are strong signs that it's time to wean yourself off these caffeine or stimulant based drinks and stay off of them for a little while you know give yourself a few months you may actually find and this is I've had this happen several several times with clients where I'll slowly wean them off of stimulants for you know whatever reason and then two three months into it they're like I have more energy than I had before it's not only that but at one point it'll actually taste like shit I mean I was somebody who could drink the rock stars every single day multiple if you were to hand me one of those right now because it's gross oh it tastes disgusting yeah I moved on to coffee I mean it's not like the best you grew up yeah yeah exactly like I became an adult and I started drinking coffee but I mean I still have to go through periods of the same process of weaning out and scaling down my intake because it can I mean it can get excessive and you have to realize your habits and right now you recognize that right which is great like you at least recognize the fact that this is probably not good for me and maybe I should do something about it so which already is a huge win because I feel like part of what I remember when we first came out on this and we and we talked a lot of shit about you know professionals out there that were you know saying that you know artificial sweeteners are okay and they drink lots of energy drinks and then some of them are sponsored by monster rock star and stuff like that and it's just like dude here here's the thing it's whether whether we can debate that right now and like where how bad this is for us 100% there's addictive properties to it 100% engineered in there 100% so when you're a health professional and you're somebody who's trying to be better like promoting that and I'll be the first to meant like I was fucking just as guilty of doing that which is also why we're so passionate about it when we see other professionals that that promote it because it's just like man not saying that you can't have rock star every once in a while I'm sure you know there's stuff that I intake all the time that I know I probably shouldn't but I'm most certainly not going to present that to my audience is like hey this is a great alternative choice like you don't see me screenshotting my Diet Cokes you know yeah and you know the other thing too with with these stimulants is I tell you what and this maybe I shouldn't say this but one of the best feelings in the world is when you've weaned yourself off of stimulants for a while and then you take them again yeah fucking great there's nothing like going off of you create that oh dude that but I do this with everything I do this with coffee I do this with cannabis even you know I use cannabis occasionally and sometimes it works its way up into where I'm using it more than you know once a week twice a week three days week then I'll stop using it for a week then I'll have it sharper I'll have it again I'm like oh shit like this is the greatest feeling ever same thing with caffeine I'll go off caffeine then I'll have some caffeine and I will like break PR PRs in my workouts so have fun with it right there you go next question is from sincerely jazz have you ever had female clients be insecure about their muscle I find myself covering my muscles up sometimes because I feel like some might think I'm overdoing it I take rest days and have a good relationship with food I just genuinely love training and eating healthy this is this is actually really common interesting it is very very common and I looked up her picture she looks fantastic and I used to have clients all it's I mean it's like the number one thing that I think a female would say to me when she's wanting to get in shape is hey I want to I want to get in shape I want to get in shape I don't want to build a bunch of muscle so it's definitely an insecurity for a lot of a lot of women and it's unfortunate because it is so hard for like 99% of women to actually build muscle it's like so hard and so if you're lucky if you're one of the blessed ones that actually does build some good muscle like I don't know what this girl looks like but I mean if you're if you're blessed and lucky to do that that's fucking awesome and anybody that thinks otherwise is just a hater because right that's a great position to be in yeah do you think like it's the community around her that maybe is presenting this as an insecurity like like she's like just maybe thinking of it as like I'm showing off or something like because that's that's what everybody wants you know at the end of the day is they want to be nice lean healthy like comfortable in their own skin and so you know oh shit she looks badass yeah yeah she's fit she's she looks badass she's not even she's not even massive I think you just need different friends well here's the thing people might comment that you're a little too muscular you're not I think you look natural you look badass you look natural you look amazing you look badass don't even fucking listen to you know what it is they're commenting on it's not that you have too much muscles that you're lean this is the other thing too is that you'll get I'll have female clients that I'll work with they'll get really lean and then people will comment and say things like you have too much muscle when they're 110 pounds in reality it's just that they're really lean and when you get really lean especially the definition in your shoulders and arms they'll start to show and people will make comments but here's the deal like if you have a good relationship with food and exercise like you say you do and you love lifting weights and stuff like here's what you need to do you need to stop giving fucks about what other people think like for reals like stop giving a shit what other people think you love it you love your body you're taking care of yourself you enjoy it if you have a good relationship with these things who cares what people think and if people have a problem with you the people around you have a problem with you it's not your problem it's a reflection of themselves it's always somebody who's out of shape because nobody who's in shape is going to walk up to you the way your body looks and go you know what I think you're too much no fit person is going to say that somebody out of shape who wishes they were in shape so I've actually trying to take it down I've actually had comments where I'm going to go on a trip with a bunch of friends or whatever and we're going to be at a pool or whatever and they'll comment and be like oh fuck Sal's coming I better start working out or something oh god I know because it you know it makes it does make other people it's like a mirror to someone like you know I have okay so I had a friend who she's a she's a mom and she loves working out she listens to the show religiously she started with maps anabolic and she's done maps aesthetic and she looks phenomenal she's got a phenomenal physique and my at the time when I was married you know my ex I could tell it kind of bothered her a little bit and mainly it's because this other woman also had a job also had kids and yet looks fit and feels fantastic and my ex was threatened by it because what is like you if you're okay if you're looking at some 20 year old girl who doesn't have kids and whatever it's easy for you to be like well of course she looks like that it's because she's got you know she has all the time in the world but now she's looking at someone with a similar life who's also very fit and you feel threatened by it so it has nothing to do with you it has everything to do with the other person it's threatening to them because they themselves it's a mirror held up to their face and then saying oh shit I don't feel good about myself you know I don't feel fit or whatever I feel insecure but I mean again if you have a healthy relationship it's a compliment it's a total compliment if you can walk into a gym and you can get someone to say something to you it doesn't even matter if it's negative or not it means that without speaking your physique has triggered somebody else whether it's triggered for the positive or they come over and they say oh my god you look amazing or trigger them for the bad to feel insecure about themselves and walk over and say you know that's too much at the end of the day it's a fucking compliment because you've got a physique that's that that's that bad ass just reply with this it always gets people to shut the fuck up when someone come up to you and say hey don't you think you have too much muscle now and be like no I love it and that's it it's over I love it what are they gonna say now right you know oh but you don't think it's too much no I love it I enjoy it yeah and then just change the conversation don't let it bother you whatsoever and watch what happens to them it really fucks with them don't destroy it oh yeah yeah next question is from Sarah Ford I think having a higher level of education in a health exercise science degree program would help someone have an edge in the fitness industry in the future absolutely yeah I definitely can absolutely definitely can especially if you're specialized so if you're like you're training special population like the elderly or you're working with injuries or rehab then education higher education in health and exercise is a huge plus because when you're dealing with like rehab for example you need to have a different level of understanding of biomechanics the human body muscles how to diagnose how to correct things or whatever then just your typical personal trainer that being said it's not a guarantee that you're gonna have an edge because I I think going to school and doing a science degree like that it's like it's all you're doing is you're adding all these tools in your belt you still if you're gonna be a mechanic right you're gonna go fix people at the end of the day your reps is gonna be the best thing for you right and we preach that all the time about you know I mean I'm sound I didn't even finish our college so I think that but I'll tell you what it was you know I had to you I use the wrong wrench a bunch of times you know I'm saying and then I had to figure it out and use it and then I found the right tool where when you go to school like that it they supply you with all these great tools and then it's for you to go out there and apply those tools and that knowledge that you got from school and I think that the combination to those can make you a fucking triple threat I think it's an incredible strength for you to to get that you have an edge. Yeah if you're very passionate about it and you're going through the education like at school and you're getting a lot out of it of course that's gonna translate to you in the field and it's gonna carry with you and have an advantage from that aspect I think that just the way that it's structured and the way that I went through college and the education process it was like this mad hustle to get through it and I was like the whole time I'm just trying to it still is trying to get through it still it's just it's convoluted there's there's all these different things at once that you're trying to study and you know I knew that I really loved biomechanics and I loved you know everything I was learning but I didn't I didn't have the chance to really fully immerse myself in it. What do you guys think I think that we should have I think like college should be like everyone after high school do like a year of working and then you go to college I feel like work first. Yeah work first for a year just so you can get a little feel of what it's like. Honestly that would be fantastic. Isn't there a country where that I don't know but I think there should be more just simultaneous even. What is it called like trade internship. There needs to be more like trade school stuff like let's say you want to be a personal trainer. I think a very smart program would be to go be an apprentice for a year under a master trainer. You'll learn way more in that fucking year than you would going to take you know listen to lectures and stuff like that in classrooms because there's so much you learn on the job in fitness that you can't necessarily learn in a classroom. I've I've I've hired most of the trainers I've hired in the past had far more education than me most of them a lot of them did and I taught them a lot of what they learned about personal training because I had zero experience doing it. They just had the they understood the books of it and they understood the the concepts in the terms but they didn't know how to apply it. Now when I think of higher level of education I don't I don't necessarily think of college when it comes to fitness today you can you can enjoy and take advantage of taking different courses and learn different things like you could take the you know Dr. Spinez class you know you could take you know you could do El Doa you could do check certifications which are very different from NASM type certifications which are very different from you know some of these other fitness certifications. Oh man if you just go through what you just do that. I tell you what you go through the ones you just named right now and you're going to blow the doors off of most people that went to four years in their kinestigry for sure. If you talk you talk FRC you talk about check NASM and then what was yet there's another one too that we are just talking about. Oh El Doa was good one. Oh El Doa yeah so those I mean because you're going to you're going to address that's actually before so those the cool thing about certifications and these kind of courses is that a lot of this information is is cutting edge and it will probably be taught later on in the schools you know what I'm saying but they're just you're not going to learn them there. No it's so true right. I mean the check Paul check alone his courses alone he's been talking about things like gut gut health 20 years of course stability training and all those other things like way before he was laughed at for a long time before anybody else but if you had to because if you take his course you would have been ahead of the curve you know I'm saying right so that's that's the other thing you could do listen before we sign off I'm going to give you your tip of the week I want to talk about for about five minutes on occlusion training it's not that often in the 20 years that I've been in fitness where something has really blown me away in terms of its efficacy and it's that something actually that's different occlusion training is one of those things now occlusion training is when you take I'm going to use the arms as an example I'll take a knee wrap and I'll wrap it around my upper arm right where my shoulder meets my bicep or right up in the armpit area and I'll wrap it around my arm and I'll do it tight enough to occlude or prevent some of the blood outflow so in other words I'm not tying it off so tight that I'm cutting off the circulation to my arms but I'm tying it off tight enough so that blood can glow into the muscle but it doesn't come out as easily then I go do some exercises and I get this intense pump way way more intense than you normally would because I'm actually amplifying what happens with a normal pump you also get this really crazy burn because what occluding is doing is it's preventing waste from removing or it's preventing excuse me, waste removal so as the blood is pumping out of the muscle it's also removing waste but if I occlude it that waste builds up in the muscle which gives me this crazy burn my muscles fatigue very quickly but that waste build up is what stimulates muscle growth and it happens very quickly and it produces a little bit of damage the cool thing about that is you can add occlusion training to your routine and not compromise your recovery like you would if you added another 5 sets of heavy barbell curls or whatever and occlusion works best for the extremities so biceps, triceps quads, hamstrings and calves it's extremely effective literally adding occlusion to your workouts once or twice a week you'll notice a difference in your muscle size no joke within a couple weeks there's a lot of science supporting it also it's not something that it's something that we just learned about rather recently I'd say over the last 5 years but it's actually been studied for several decades it originated in Japan and there's probably 50 or 100 studies that have been done on it to show that it's effective and safe you're seeing people using it in rehab physical therapy offices athletes are starting to use it bodybuilders are starting to use it so it's a very interesting tool you can look it up on google there's lots of good information we've done some videos on the mind pump tv youtube channel on occlusion training we also have a guide that breaks it down and kind of tells you how to use it you can find that at mindpumpmedia.com also of course I mentioned the youtube channel go there and subscribe we have videos on exercises techniques, nutrition you name it it's there tons of videos I don't know how many we've already posted probably almost 300 at least so go to youtube subscribe to that channel thank you for listening to mind pump if your goal is to build and shape your body dramatically improve your health and energy and maximize your overall performance check out our discounted rgbsuperbundle at mindpumpmedia.com the rgbsuperbundle includes maths anabolic, maths performance and maths aesthetic nine months of phased expert exercise programming designed by sal adam and justin to systematically transform the way your body looks, feels and performs with detailed work out blueprints and over 200 videos the rgbsuperbundle is like having sal adam and justin as your own personal trainers but at a fraction of the price the rgbsuperbundle has a full 30 day money back guarantee and you can get it now plus other valuable free resources at mindpumpmedia.com if you enjoy this show please share the love by leaving us a 5 star rating and review on itunes and by introducing mind pump to your friends and family we thank you for your support and until next time this is mind pump