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The first question was this is a student who's very busy And is asking us how he can finally get himself committed to going to the gym So we have some uh motivating conversation in that part of this episode The next question was you don't need motivation. You just ruined it. Thanks, justin The next question was what welcome. What are our opinions on the squat everyday program? It sounds like bullshit, but it's actually a real workout and you're going to be surprised at our opinion Right. It's not what you think no next question was how do you get a weaker muscle group or a weaker muscle? To progress so that it matches If the other side for example, if my left bicep is small and my right bicep is big How do I get my left bicep bigger? Um besides stop going on the internet is one hang lower than the other exactly You know what I mean? The final question was does building muscle inherently? Cause extra tightness. 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Watch me as I'm passing by Yeah, you don't remember his music videos in mtv and he'd fucking jump and do the splits He's got a jump jump jump Yeah, and it would always have Yeah, the hottest girls in his videos. I don't remember. He did a lot of scatting though. It was It was pure hot when I was a kid. I was watching that. I was like, oh, here we go Yeah hot chicks gonna come on the tv boom because he's on there. He does he did it right then he lost his mind Yeah, bidi. He's still awesome. He's weird No, I love that guy gotta be a little I mean that's what happens when you just like taekwondo kicks everywhere Remember that? Yeah, you might as well jump jump and he does a split Go ahead and jump. I don't you guys. That was him, dude. Yeah, I'm struggling to see it right now You don't know van Halen. Yeah. No, I hope van Halen is but I don't remember any of those How can you not know van Halen, dude? Well, I do know van Halen, but I don't remember those songs Yeah, I don't remember the videos. You're talking about the videos, right? All right hit play dug I want to see just the jiggaloo By david lee roth So see right away right away hot chicks. You see that right away amazing as a He's like, oh ski bidi bop Yeah, yeah, yeah as a 13 year old boy. This was exciting. I don't remember this. Oh, that's a great and really Yeah, it's too bad. It's one of my favorites. It's weird that I don't remember like I remember a white snake and I remember the Remember this dave tv. Oh, you remember white snake. What's her name? Kim. Yes. Yes dancing on top of the car and stuff Yeah, that was pretty hot. Yeah, right like every so this is the same era. I mean, it's the same time I just don't remember. Yeah, but david lee roth Like he was the he was the winner of it. Yeah, he's first place when it comes to all of it Yeah, yeah, when it comes to like hot girls in your music videos He's the guy you go to guy. He's the guy second place Prince you guys remember prince's videos. Yeah, remember uh cream. Well, he just he's just like overly sexual guy Who prince prince. He was just very androgynous like just like humping his guitar like every two seconds You know, I mean, but you don't know if he's into guys or girl. Yeah, you didn't know Yeah, no idea. Like like weird. Did anybody ever figure that out? There's both, wasn't it? I think he's mainly girls. I thought I thought it was girls too because he had that one He always had hot girls in his videos. I was just like his thing Well, according to that who just interviewed with joe rogan you were listening to I you were listening to it Morgan no the guy that who's who claims that 35 of men Have had a sexual experience with other men. Oh, I don't remember what that was. Yeah, that was crazy That's not a statistic. I think well, that's a crazy stat or less. That's a way inflated. Yeah, I think it's super inflated Come on Okay, the first of all you have to think how are they what are they categorizing as a sexual experience? Second of all, like me rubbing your leg earlier today. Like yeah, like that could have been. Yeah, it could have been In some circles. Well, yeah Okay, uh, it also think about like, you know boys and girls that hang out with the same sex for a long time As they're going through puberty as they're doing it. So i'm sure you know I don't think that's a I don't know where that statistic came from but Probably more than you think Innocently, you know what I mean? Kind of innocently. Really? I mean, I maybe I had quite a few friends growing up and I I only maybe could count on one. You guys didn't like uh, how many how many that that's happened to really? You can count on one hand. Yeah How many huh? Less than five. That's what that means. Wow four That's 35 percent if you do the math. No, it's not I have a lot That's at least that's a good that's a good chunk. Yeah, I think yeah, whatever Slice of the pie dude. So I was on my way to work this morning to I was going to write a blog because I was all motivated and Shit and uh, finally be controversial or no, no, no. No, no A lot of safe Oh, you mean my blog I don't know adam wants me to write one. That's kind of controversial. I don't know if I can say it here on the on the podcast Okay, we all do but uh, uh, he wants me to write one. That's controversial. I might do it. I have to feel Inspired by it. I think maybe I'm just being a um, what's the word? Yeah, yeah, yeah, like a premium. Maybe I'm just like I need to be inspired before I can write anything I have a pros right. I feel like that might be bullshit. I feel like if you just start writing I think you just start writing and it'll come I think you're right But anyway, I'm on my way here early and I'm like fuck traffic because San Jose has become Traffic micro la shit. It's become traffic. Shit. It is bad lately mainly because uh, we have a lot of people moving in here and The roads are controlled by centralized, uh, you know system of government that decides that Oh, we're gonna fucking make the roads look like you know like this and they don't fit the amount of people And so we're all fucked. Anyway, I'm driving here bumper to bumper traffic Typically what I do when this happens. I'm just gonna be honest. I'm like a lie is I go in the carpool lane. That's what I do I love how you just freely admit this. It's just something I do. I get in the carpool lane and then it's just do you at least Have a dummy or something to blow up. You're turning into quite the rebellious one. All right. No, you're so like anti-system You know what it is deodorant in grocery stores driving a carpool lane. Fuck the man. You know what it is I'm driving in the diamond lane. It's not like a dangerous thing. You know what I mean? It's not like I'm I'm on my cell phone in my car. I'm drinking and driving like I heard someone I'm in the carpool lane big deal, right? So I'm in the carpool lane because I'm like I want to get there on time So I could do some work. So it's because I'm trying to angry dude I'm trying to be productive And as I'm going do you buckle your passenger seat just all the rule followers are like I've actually had people see me I've actually had people in the slow, you know in the traffic lane see me in the carpool lane Drive by and then they'll flip me off And I'm like, look, I'm taking the risk. Let's talk about to get in this lane Get in the lane. I got in a fight recently on my wife because I parked in the burrito loading zone at Chipotle Get the fuck out of here burrito loading zone I'm fucking parking here. You can and I'm gonna sit here and I'm gonna eat my burrito and I'm not gonna like be quick about it Legally, you can do that. You can even park in the for electrical vehicles. They just made that shit up They can't yeah, I did the same thing though. Yeah, yeah, and the green friendly car. Fuck you. It's electric. What did I say? Electrical So Actually, you did do that once we parked in the electric vehicle page and he took it He took the electric that whatever it's called the tube or the thing that you're supposed to plug in He took the cord and he put it like in his his window his window just stuck in his window. There we go That's kind of it looks like it's charging. So anyway, I said tesla owner comes up. I'm a piss. Yeah Fuck you tesla owner. So I'm driving and I'm in the carpool lane Just that's what I do, right? And I look over the right motorcycle cop and he's looking back You know, obviously scoping out the the carpool, but he's all the way on the right So he's across three lanes of traffic. So I'm like, fuck. So I'm like, okay Maybe he didn't see me But I'm gonna do what most smart people would do and get over right real quick in case you go hide Yeah, so I came over but as I'm changing lanes. He was coming down the middle So he sees me So I try to think of like a smart like what am I going to say to this guy to get out of this this ticket You're praying or something. Yeah, I gotta take a shit. You know, I'm trying to go fast I heard that that's actually the number one thing to get out of one Well, say that you have like like diarrhea or you have like really bad stomach issues right now And you gotta go to the bathroom, you know, I'm using that So there's a there's a part of me that was like I'm gonna Make up some shit and then there's a part of me that's like Fuck it. Just keep it real. You know, yeah, I'm just gonna keep it real because you know what? I try to get away with it and fuck I got caught, you know And here's the thing if I do them because what's a carpool ticket? It's like 270 bucks. I think yeah, it's stupid, right? Yeah, it's a lot But if I do the math For all the times I'm taking the carpool and not gonna take it. Yeah, it's like five dollars a bath Not even it's like 50 cents. I did the math. It's like it's been at least 10,000 times. So It's pretty much free. So that's actually not a bad way to look at it Like listen, I just always drive in the carpool lane, I get caught once every 50 times It's basically I pay a dollar to use a carpool lane and if I if someone asks me it's like a tax Why wouldn't we have yeah, why wouldn't we have that that would be smarter that way because that's too smart That's too smart. Yeah, it's too smart to do something like that. So they need to come up with stupid things People get angry and that's why our roads are like if there was a lane that I if that I could pay like five extra dollars Of course, you know, there's like there's a dollar lane and then there's a five dollar lane, right? You know what that's called. What that's called. That would be a market solution. It would be it would never allow that with roads Never would allow it would be so smart though It would be because there's an underground road because people like ourselves would go like, you know what like I got to be somewhere And sometimes I would sit in traffic. Maybe sometimes I don't care Maybe sometimes I'm not in a hurry or like that, but there's time hurry. I'm willing to pay five dollars to make sure Now we'll get controversial So because a lot of times when I talk about like markets and how awesome and effective they are and efficient They are people would be like, well, what about the roads? We need people to you know We need to pay taxes to build the roads and I was like, well actually I bet you if roads were privatized. I bet you they'd be way more efficient. You can't get on the road unless you pay What country is that people really pissed off? I don't know But people get really mad When I say that because like that's crazy to how could and I'm like, well It sounds crazy because you've never lived in a situation like that. So it sounds so different I said but It would be awesome. I'm like, I would hate to have to pay Every time I use the road and I'm like, we already pay for the roads and like, well, it would be more expensive I said buy a pass. Well, here's what I say to people We don't count we calculate the cost of the taxes to pay for the roads But we don't calculate the cost of lost time at work lost productivity Stress like it's one of the stressful things in the world gets stuck in traffic You know accidents that it causes because you know private companies would do a better job Because they're crap the freeways look the same that they said they look 20 years another road Yeah, well, I thought I thought there's some states that actually have the roads private. Is it not true? I don't know. Yeah, I thought so and you pay tolls and stuff like that to go through I know there's another country So I know some some smart forum member will make sure they clear this up for me That I know that there's places like that and the roads are like immaculate. They're like beautiful and you pay You know, you cross I think New Jersey. Isn't New Jersey like that? I have no idea. Yeah, I believe you Does Doug, do you know you have any idea about that? I don't know. I'm just maybe the government's charging them I don't know. Yeah, I have no idea But anyway, I can shit up. So I had to pay my fucking stupid. I have a stupid ticket now Oh, so you did get caught. Yeah, I don't know. He pulled me over. Oh, so what did you say? And then I didn't lie I just he just he didn't even give me a chance. Yeah licensed registration. So I'm like here you go And you know, it's a funny thing is after I got it and he's like, okay, you know, please, uh, you know Safely merge into traffic said no problem got on my cell phone Yeah, there's a piece of me that's kind of like There's a piece of me that's kind of like you're such a rebel Fuck you, man. You know the irony. How many times I've seen a cop go by me and he's on his phone Oh, yeah, every time. Yes, dude all the time. Just they're just as cute. They're just as human as the rest of us He wants to take his face face Facebook and instagram too. He wants to go to his girlfriend's dude right now You know, this because he's a cop this because he's a cop doesn't mean he doesn't check his instagram Come on, man. Nobody's impervious. Come on Anyway, did you guys see, uh Would you guys think of Donald trump what he did at the oh shit you just showed me that bro How much backlash is that right now? What's he getting for? He has to be He's pissed everybody off. He has to give the least amount of fucks if anybody have ever That's ever been in public office. Do you okay? Do you sometimes think it's impressive on that level? Sometimes I think this because you and I know it's terrible what he did was such bad Right. No politics, dude and such so so what he did for the listeners who don't know is he's at this uh Ceremony where he's giving awards and medals to the Native americans that served in world war two Who were using their their native american languages to communicate? There's actually a movie on this. I forgot the name of it wind talkers. Was it? Yeah, so he's giving off these awards And as he's giving them the awards and talking to them and saying you guys did a great thing He's saying but you know, but we have someone in congress, you know, like you guys and you know She's been there for a while. We call her pocahontas He's talking about elizabeth warren Who he refers to as pocahontas because she put down on a college admission That she was a minority because she had native american which turned out she has like one 60th of her something like that's native american and people are saying oh, she tried to get An advantage that's a whole other story. So he's always fucking with her right because she's like super anti trump But dude, he's talking to native. He's talking to native americans And he's saying that like that is so yeah Horrible. Yeah. Well, I think I can't help it. I think his intention was to make that jab But he didn't really think about his audience who he's speaking to like he never does Yeah, I think he's just he's living his own ideas. Like he just lets it out bro. It's so bad Most of the time I feel like I can defend him and say listen. I think that That he's no, I think he just I think a lot of times I think it's a smart strategy Like a lot of times people think that he's just a pure idiot and he just says stupid stuff And I'm like sometimes I think he's smart and he's doing that intentionally because he knows it's going to go viral People are going to say he's the first president to really maximize and utilize social media more than anybody Yeah, more than anybody before him, right? So what makes us think that when we're sharing something that oh my god Trump did this on social media and millions of people are looking at it that that wasn't a master plan Uh, well, I don't know but this this is yeah, this one was a little you know what it makes me say it Most of the time I feel like I could defend that this is what I don't know about you know what it is I can do without being shitty. No, I think what it is is he's been a man in power for so long That he's used to just saying what a fuck you want like he doesn't you know what I mean? He never nobody ever checks him because He's the guy like what are you gonna say to him like he's the man? So I feel like now that he's president. He doesn't realize that he's just whatever I'm gonna just talk the way I normally do And so he's saying he's 70 years old. He's saying there's a polka. We have a polka hunt. Yeah. Yeah, that's why You know he says shit because he's just he's 70 years old You're not gonna change my girl thinks he's uh, he's mildly autistic. She's like I think he's probably A little bit on the spectrum. I think serious Like he's very smart in some ways in other ways you're like, dude, where's your social intelligence? What are you doing? But man when I saw that so one of my friends who's like a hardcore Uh democrat, right? Oh, just love the jump all over. Well, just send it because we always make fun of you know We always poke at I'm not I'm not a republican But I can definitely side with one or the other sometimes right so He'll send me this stuff and I watch in this video And I'm just I just start busting it up. I'm like did he really just Do What are you doing? I can't believe the president. I can't defend that. There's nothing I could say about I could say about that. You imagine that. Yeah, it's like you're talking to a bunch of Like Italians or something like yeah, you know, I got a friend, uh, mario and luigi Keep back at home. He's a plumber. Yeah, you know what I mean to be like, what the fuck? This guy is he trying to be racist right now? Anyway, what did you uh, what'd you guys do over the weekend because I feel like we don't really talk about Well, I got my christmas tree. I got all my uh christmas shopping done and decorated the house dude. Boom. Wow. Yeah, you're on fire Where do you get your tree? Uh, morgan hill this year. We didn't cut it down this year. We picked it out. Yeah, we got it's flocked Like a white tree. Oh, okay What do they do spray it with the white like pretend chemicals? Yeah, bro pretty much probably. Yeah, it's a bunch of cancer. I don't know I got a cancer tree from the spastic Merry christmas zeno estrogens Did That's why he's tiny. Yeah, did you did you cut yours down yet? Yeah, I did I did day after Thanksgiving Now, do you actually go in the forest next to your house and just find one? No, no, I don't get your neighbor's tree down Too big a tree bro. No, I went to a ranch or uh, yeah a christmas tree ranch. It was up um Black mountain or whatever up there. Yeah four winds. I guess it's called But we went up there and and I found it right away And I was just like dude, I when I I don't know man The family's all into the whole experience of it, you know and like having coffee and we normally do that That's kind of stuff and it's chill and cool But I don't know for some reason I was on a hustle man. I was just like Cut it down and I was done just get my own out of here So I had a very interesting experience With the christmas tree because this is the first time I've cut one down So I actually before I've never cut down a tree. I've always either bought it at home depot pre-cut Or uh, I'll buy a fake one So this time tree cry this time, huh? Yeah I apologize to it. Do you hug it first? Thank you for donating your first time Carcass to be decorated like this. No, I don't care. Um, but so I I had an interesting experience because So my girlfriend right she Jessica super into Holidays loves the holidays. I mean we play she's playing christmas music At the house You know christmas, you know decorations everywhere fall decorations, you know, you know just the whole thing So she loves it. So she's like, let's go cut down a tree. It's super fun Now I've never really enjoyed that whole process because to me And it's funny because I didn't realize this until recently to me. I always thought of The whole process is is to get to the end which is just to have a tree in your house Like here's our christmas tree We're supposed to have it up with with you know ornaments on it and it's done And I always thought like god the process takes too long like who cares just put the tree up have some ornaments on now We're decorated and she's like she's like no dummy. She's like it has nothing to do with Having a tree in your house The it's the process It's nothing to do with having a tree or nothing to do with it's that day that we spend Doing all the stuff and it's just it's just it's that whole process And it was like a light bulb in the irish coffee It was it was like a light bulb that went off of my head and I thought holy shit the reason why I've never enjoyed this Is because I've always thought of the end result. I've always thought The goal is just to have the tree up with the ornaments, but in reality that's nothing It's all about enjoying cutting it, you know driving up listening to music with the kids hot cocoa cutting the tree down Bringing it home getting out the decorations listening to music You know playing games and I really enjoyed it and then I thought to myself Wow, this really this is so similar to uh fitness It's so similar to how When people have a goal like I want to lose 30 pounds. That's why I'm working out or I need to get ready for this That's why I'm working out. That's why they hate the process. That's why they hate working out so much That's why it sucks for them because so focused on the end. It's all about the goal and for them They just want the goal. They don't give a fuck about when they're not being present in the process That's it and it's like holy shit It's the same thing if you learn to enjoy what you're doing with the process You'll never have to you really won't ever have to worry about Falling off or on the wagon because you just enjoy the process and I think about myself and you guys like we're super consistent Relatively consistent with exercise and stuff, but we don't do it necessarily because there's a goal We just like doing it right? It's all about the process. It was a mind. It was like a huge paradigm shift right away I was like, holy shit. I did it now You also again start connecting the things like because what you do when you do those I mean, this is Katrina and I we decorate the house together. We do the tree That's part of it. It's just a good time for us. It's it detaches us from work everything else You know and we're focused on a a very easy task to do that We enjoy each other's company and we're talking and it's bonding And so when you start to connect the dots with that is what it's all about while you do that What and I love that you use you've found a way to tie this into fitness Well, you know, because you're right. I mean you you are right I mean that's the same thing that if people could just learn to Instead of focusing so much on the goal pay attention to the other things like how are you sleeping and how are your energy levels And how productive is your day because you're working out and you're doing all these things And also it's time for yourself and the reason why I bring it back to fitness is because I've been doing this lately to get myself To understand other aspects of life better because I have such a good If there's anything that I have a really good grasp Of a healthy understanding of It's uh fitness and nutrition right if all the things that because it's been my profession my passion for a long time It's what I coach people on so I understand it on a different level Then than the average person in the sense that like I understand what it means to be consistent I understand enjoying the process. I understand loving your body like all the stuff we talk about on the show I get it But what i'm doing now is i'm taking that understanding and i'm just applying it because it all translates It's the same formula for everything else like you want to be a a millionaire Enjoy the process you want to you know anything you do Enjoy the process and that's what makes it that's an interesting discussion because there's there is a lot of really popular entrepreneurs that make a living off of Speeden that up. Yeah on selling the grind. Yeah on selling the grind and the You know, oh, you know this whole enjoying the process and thinking like that in balance and everything like that is not true And that where it's really at is well, you know what that reminds me of it reminds me of the same people in fitness That do the same thing so there's people in the in the entrepreneur world That promote like, you know being successful and what it takes to do that the sacrifice Necessary it's very similar to the firm all your friendships the fitness side of people that show that you have to Become this martyr in order to look a certain way and it's really neither one of them are actually true No, and the the the way I challenge that is the people that are successful And that put out that message of the grind They actually enjoy the grind so they are enjoying the process It's not for them, right because i've known because they identify with that bro. I've known a lot of grinders I've been one before right if you ask me while i'm grinding I'm gonna tell you I love it because I did it wasn't like I was doing it and hating it like oh this fucking sucks I was always like yes. I'm gonna you know, I'm gonna work bell to bell I'm gonna push myself harder So it was enjoying the process now, of course, there's a different conversation in terms of balance You know balancing your life out But at the end of the day if you love and enjoy the moment in the process The goal you're gonna get the goal that's the easy part But if all you do is focus on the goal and everything is a means to an end Holy shit man, it becomes it's tough. It becomes a struggle Then it's a then it's a matter of willpower which at some point you run out of willpower You run out of motivation and then what you know what I mean, so I just I just connected the two of those and um I don't know. It's pretty cool because at that point now we're decorating the tree and I'm like, well, I really enjoy this Watch uh, definitely. Yeah, it becomes a ritual tradition Like we we totally and and we weren't into this at all as kids like on my side of the family This is something that my wife's done forever and like kind of I became a part of that process And it totally makes a difference as to like, okay Like it starts now and it's actually helped to kind of appreciate actually when Christmas gets there even more because you're just like You know, you've you've prepped all the way up until then and like You know experienced a lot of it with the family already. So yeah, it's pretty cool. It's fun, man You guys when you're decorating you have a drink. Are you guys drinking something? Yeah, so Irish coffee so we're drinking uh coffee, um my girl will either drink coffee or having a cocoa or And this actually brings me another thing. I'm excited about Uh, we can tell the listeners and we've just re-signed with uh for sigmatic So they were sponsoring us for a little while then when there was a little break in between And they really liked uh, how effective we were at sending people over to them And I think it's just they have a good product obviously and we like their products too So I was drinking chaga, which um, you know, it's got an interesting taste So I think you some people who like it or they don't But the and the olytic effects of chaga. It's like a super I get such a nice even Feel when I drink chaga tea. It's not like reishi reishi is more of a Stress relieving sleepy feel chaga is more just the kind of a well-being and it's actually got anti Anxiety effects. Um, and they call it the I think we talked about this before Do you mix it with anything or do you just brew it and then straight? I just drink it straight, man Yeah, and they call it the the mother of all herbs or mushrooms. I think Because it's such a potent adaptogen. I learned a lot about chaga back in the day Because uh, when I had a family member who had cancer towards the end of her life. I discovered Chagas anti-cancer effects. Um, and so that's when I first learned about it And it's actually being studied by quite a few pharmaceutical companies for its potency and Do you think that's part of their strength the rise like companies like forcing back because you're seeing There's way more awareness around mushrooms. Yeah, we're a fun guy in general Yeah, 10 years ago when we were like when we were in health fitness talking talking this seems like a whole new sort of Yeah direction that you know nutritionally that we're focusing on mushrooms. Um, Have always been big in chinese in alternative medicine. So chinese medicine eryvetic medicine Mushrooms were huge in them. In fact in chinese medicine. They'll probably Prescribe yeah, it's been around forever with them. Yeah, they'll prescribe mushrooms way before Or more often than I think almost anything else Um and mushrooms have just played a huge role in human civilization from psychedelic mushrooms Which were probably the first consumed psychedelic substances to the medicinal properties of mushrooms, but what I find fascinating about mushrooms that I learned Not that long ago is Mushrooms are not a vegetable Which I knew but I really put together and what I mean by that is we think that you know It's important to eat lots of vegetables every day Eat some fruit your nuts your meats and we think of all these different categories And we tend to throw mushrooms in the vegetable category right it's a total different category So if we eat lots of vegetables, but not necessarily mushrooms We think we've got it covered mushrooms are complete their own category They're fun guy and they have their own health benefits and some Functional medicine doctors say that you should probably have mushrooms At least a few days a week because they have unique benefits to the body in particular Balancing out the immune system, which is especially nowadays with all the autoimmune issues that people are having It's probably is an important thing. So But yeah, no, I'm happy that we got four sigmatic back on because now I can get my my chakra free Yeah Just keeping it real. Yeah. Yeah, Douglas bring on the bird This clause brought to you by Organifi For those days you fall short on getting your organic veggies or whole food nutrition Organifi fills the gap with laboratory tested certified organic superfoods to help give your health the performance the added edge Try Organifi totally risk-free for 60 days by going to organifi.com That's or gani fi.com and use a coupon code mine pump for 20 off at checkout First question is from mcd matt. How do you finally commit to working out being a student? It's difficult to want to work out. I know I have the time, but it's difficult to get my ass to the gym What are some tips to get yourself to the gym? He's got uh, what do they say anal? Oh, man, can't see his ass in the gym. Um Anal glaucoma I'm a dude my dad jokes are getting strong That one was too much. Did you see the one on the you're pushing that one to happen in the one I did on insta story With the which one pancake, but I was shaking the pan. So I said pan quake. Yes So I missed that really that how dare I because that's that's amazing Hey speaking of pancakes though, dude I have gone through I'm on my third bag now of the the pancakes that you introduced me to birch benders Yes with the thrive market. You know, no they snap Well, all you have to do is add water to them and they are bombed you have the protein I have the protein my kind of cooking just add water. No, they and they're legit They cook up perfectly dude. Really? It's the best So the only complaint the only complaint I have is I I want a bigger serving Do you know if they have a bigger serving on the on the thrive Doug? Do you know? I don't I don't think they do I think that's the only one. Yeah, that's the only knock I have is because I'm I'm burning through them I like them so much. Are you really? Yeah. Yeah, so that's been is birch. What was it birch? Birch benders and they're they're like a full three dollars cheaper on thrive market like most of stuff on there Right, right. So no, I've been I've been crushing those. So the question, you know, how is he gonna get How did you finally commit to working out? How's he gonna get his butt in the gym? You know, we just I just was talking about this in the intro Or earlier This is one of the things where I think people we've been told and fed for so long that it's all about motivation That in order to do something you need to be motivated to do something first and foremost It's fleeting. Yeah, you got to understand that motivation when you have it is great But it's temporary. It is not a permanent Emotion or feeling just like happiness sadness anger It comes and it goes and if you're waiting for motivation to go work out At best it's gonna be inconsistent at worst. You'll never get yourself to and I think a lot of this too comes from the old mindset of like having to actually kill it in the gym and do things that are substantially difficult and intense and Really, what's gonna do you best is to show up and just start slow And you know really just start getting through the movements of it And treating it as practice and coming in and and just practicing You know lifting weights a little bit here and there and then eventually it's just snowballs I think the I think the biggest mistake that people make is they think they got to do more than what they really need to Yeah, I think there is this we're on we talk about this all the time We're either on or we're off and we're on we're on right you're just doing everything and it actually Doesn't have to be that difficult like if you haven't been going to the gym at all Just getting the gym and like what Justin was just saying practicing a few movements That's excellent for a day one. You know and then day two you you a little bit more You know and you just I think people try and make this like okay on January one And you know this this is my new year's resolution and it's like they cut out all the fast food They cut the sodas out they cut the candy out they start exercising They start lifting weights or I lose right and it's and it becomes this like all or nothing type of deal And it's like no actually you're not only is that not the best way to do it But you would be be much better off you'll get better results If you gradually move yourself in it and you'll also enjoy the process a lot more it's so much easier to in fact Something that I've had to teach myself to do Because if anything I think that we the reason why we can speak to this too is that we're all People that used to do this I 100% would I was either dialed or or not and what happens when you when you're like that You do turn into this on or off thing versus when you actually Go in just a little bit at a time a little bit more you build upon that It's a it's a it's more of a journey in a process And then I think it's a lot easier to enjoy and it's also easier to fit in a crazy schedule You start to realize like oh, I haven't gave myself 20 minutes and this right now is close to home for me because I have I've been the most inconsistent training right now Then I have been in the last four plus years And you know I'm back in just last couple weeks was uh, you know, I had a really good week where I had four days in the gym Which for me In the past a year ago that would be hardly anything like I was training seven days a week, you know Just a year ago So four days but the week before that I'd only made three days and the week before that only made two days And so it's just like hey, I'm just trying to get in the habit of getting the gym And then when I'm in here working out sometimes I'm only doing two exercises Maybe three exercises Just getting my body re-acclimated to getting in here moving exercising. I'm back to wearing my fitbit Just being aware of my steps I know that there's days where I could easily sit on my ass for 2,000 steps for the entire day So making it making sure that I'm pushing it up to like five to 8,000 on those days the other days When I'm moving around at work I'm making sure I'm hitting 10,000 So giving myself very small gradual goals and just building upon that I think is the is a much smarter strategy. Here's the thing A subpar routine done consistently is going to give you better results than an excellent program Done inconsistently. So I know we talk all the time about excellent, you know professional well done exercise programming Our maps programs are very very well put together great programming. We design them ourselves However, if you did our maps programs and did a little bit here and then didn't do it for three weeks and then did some It's it's going to be less effective than a crappy program that you're there in the gym consistently So consistency is more important than anything Don't worry so much about all the stuff you need to do Just do a little something and think about it as it's time for yourself Really, it's just time for yourself. That may mean you just go for a walk Yeah, listen to your body. I mean like like half and even though we have everything outlined, you know in the maps programs Like for instance, I would get this sometimes like well, I didn't complete You know the last three exercises or this and that this it still applies You know, it's that same idea that like you do have some structure But you know what like I was listening to my body and I was I was fatigued and I was exhausted Okay, so we'll pick it up again tomorrow. I always tell people You know do something you enjoy first if you're just getting started working out You don't need to worry so much about doing the right amount of resistance training and cardio and Mobility work and all that stuff if you're doing nothing Just pick something you enjoy. So if that is a walk Then make that and do that consistently and then eventually you'll start to see yourself Ram things up. It's typically what happens. I'm careful with saying that though because there's some people that And I've had a lot of people that Their definition of getting in shape is the running thing is like getting I mean, they're not running or I'm running And I love to run when I'm running like when they get into it And so they think that like, okay, I'm back in it. Let me start running again You know every day like I I'm dealing with that with a friend of mine right now who I help out That's the on the off that's on the wagon off the wagon people I rarely ever see someone who loves running And just this is what I've been doing for the last 10 years and I perfect it and it becomes my My thing it's usually the people who do that are the ones that are like I'm getting in shape I'm going to just start running and then they do it and do it and do it and then they stop Is usually what I see, you know, uh, you know from from those kinds of people. I look I had a client She's probably listening good friend of mine Um ended up becoming one of my my favorite people ever trained She came to me And was sent to me by one of my doctor clients So she was one of their patients and she comes to me and Walks in super Like not happy like didn't want to be there. Her doctor told her come in Didn't want to be there. We sit down and she literally tells me I'm not working out more than once a week with you So I'm only coming in once a week and I'm not changing my nutrition. Those are like the first Here's what I'm not going to do. Those are the first two things out of her mouth So I said that's fine. So all I know I have to work with is once a week Right, right. So we'll do the best that we can the most we can within that once a week Now I knew that she because then I had talked to her further and we did this whole assessment And I knew that she had totally horrible experiences With working out She's had injuries that she tried to rehab that never got rehab because The physical therapist never progressed her She's worked out with trainers that over trainer and pushed her too hard And she got real sore and so I'm like, okay What I'm going to do my goal is to just get her in once a week Which she said she can do and each time she comes in I'm just going to have a good time with her. I'm going to get her and do exercises with her But I'm going to have good conversation with her because During this assessment I discover she's intelligent. She likes to have good conversation So that's what we're going to do when we work out. I'm going to give her some exercises We're going to do those but the whole time we're going to have great dialogue great discussion And every once in a while I'm going to slip in some fitness stuff And so this went on for a little while and she showed up every week once a week consistently I think it happened. I think it went on for like I want to say almost a year of just once a week. Wow now in that once a week Which is way more than she was doing before I got her stronger. I got her more stable. There's a lot. I did a lot with that once a week I did the most I could do with that once a week next thing. I know without me saying anything She comes to me and says hey sal. Do you have another day a week? That's available. Absolutely Now we're twice a week now. She's doing it twice a week next thing. I know later on Hey, is there anything I can do on my own at home next thing. I know Hey, what should I do with nutrition? Do you think I should cut out sugar? What do you think about processed foods? fast forward today She's still working out with uh, she's actually trained with my girlfriend now because I don't train anymore But she's made drastic changes to her diet her activity level and it's all Through that slow process of being consistent with what she was ready for and look where she's at now Now if I had taken that individual and sat in front of me and I try to throw her in that right Yeah, and I'm like listen once a week's a waste of time you need to come see me at least three days a week She probably would have never never come in as long as you're realistic with your goals and they and people understand that right like I think people there's this this idea that the harder I push the more I do right now the faster I get to my goal again focusing so much on the goal Instead of the process and they don't realize that it's really not it's not that much faster If you really think about it like this if you're just slowly building upon it like a year's a long time to go One day a week, but I think that starting off starting off with less and building upon that versus trying to max like say Okay, I have Four days a week that I can get to the gym and then fully committing to that right away It's like well, okay If you have four days, why don't you start off with one or two? You know that for a while right do that for a while and see what happens and then build upon that I'd like to say this to uh mcd matt so you are a student So you're probably strapped for cash and you're saying you don't have much time. Here's what I'll do if you're listening Dm me and I'll give you a 50 off coupon to for maps anywhere Maps anywhere you can work out in your room in your dorm room You don't need to go to the gym. There's no equipment. It's super effective I think that foundational workouts are two a week and if you want to add more you can so Hopefully that'll help you be more consistent next question is from scotland 360 opinions on the squat everyday program Would be an interesting one since you guys are all about frequency, etc But against going to failure. I love this and hate this. Yeah, I know several people who've done this I love I love it and I over simplifies everything right. I love it and I hate it I think so. What do you love about it? What I what I love about it is it the people that have gone through it And they've had a lot of success It helps them with the light bulb of frequency and understanding like you sure you can the volume frequency, right? So I think that's what I love about it What I don't like about it is a lot of people don't understand how to apply it correctly It's not you if you're gonna squat every single day. You can't be Backload back. This isn't a numbers game of like I need to ramp it up Right. It can't you can't be crushing it all the time someday is just you know pause squats and and depth and you know tempo And you're you're focusing on mechanics really slow Maybe a day then you go heavy the other day you lots of so you if you're gonna squat every single day you cannot Hammer heavy and every every single day and even if you did and you make that happen like you're taxing the fuck out Your body you're only gonna see minimal results from that. So that's what I don't like about it Is I don't know it takes a lot That is something that has taken me 16 years of training myself and training others to really understand how to apply and applying intensity Is is tough to do and I and I still Over overdo it and underdo it sometimes and still refining how perfect I am on like knowing right where to push my body To maximize my results but not over tax my body So what I don't like is squatting every single day is Challenging for the average person who's just trying to follow a program where it's like hey I've never done this before I've my friend had great results doing squat every day So I'm gonna squat every day But like if you're not very in tune with your intensity and knowing how to pull back and put wind to push and if That to me that takes a long time to learn that and so it is kind of an advanced thing to to ask people Well, yeah in my issues with it It's like you know if you're asking somebody to do something specific like that If they feel like they don't do it like they feel like they're off the wagon now, you know, it's it goes back to that whole thing Right. Yeah, or or it's like you said like it They think of it as like a challenge, right? So that whenever you like think of it more of a challenge It's like they're they're trying to to gain some kind of pr out of this and like really like ramp up their Their intensity in their process and instead of just really focusing You know on the skill of it and just having that be something that's a regular thing that I'm I'm honing in on this Mechanically right and for me to hone in on this mechanically. Oh my god. It's gonna do wonders for you I'll tell you what the squat every day program is a great way to add for the average person because if you're already Like a power lifter strength athlete who's been doing this for a while Maybe not so much but for the average person Average lifter do the squat every day program It's a real fast way to add like 30 to 50 pounds to your squat And you'll probably gain a quarter to a full inch on your quads and those are what I so far everybody I know who's done it has seen something Similar to that. I have a friend actually who did this Recently and I had to coach him through it because like like what you were talking about Adam He was overdoing the intensity and I said no no no I said it's squat every day, but it's not squat hard Every day, you know, if you're sore you go in there and you do it easy So we started doing that and he's like I had to stop because he stopped He couldn't fit in his jeans because his leg his legs grew up so so much Yeah, that is the cool thing about frequency. Here's the bad thing about the squat every day program Great way to develop imbalances fantastic if all you're if all you're doing is you're gonna really hardwire that Yeah, exactly. You are you are really cementing a recruitment pattern for squatting Which is a very functional recruitment pattern But because you're squatting every day, you're probably not doing a lot of other things And you can develop issues I know if I squat too often and don't do other things I start to get what feels like bursitis in my hips or it band issues or You know start to notice problems with my si joint and I know that has to do with imbalances, but Most people aren't so balanced that they could just squat every day and not start to develop A recruitment pattern issue. So that's the one thing I would say be careful if you do this It could be a fast track to developing Um, I I definitely think that I I mean if you're not doing any unilateral work in there I have experienced the exact same thing that you just nailed on and I have definitely been here before where I'm chasing prs for squats, or I'm really trying to improve that and I'm neglecting Bulgarians or walking lunges or doing some of this unilateral type work And right away the first thing that my bursa I have bursitis in my hips and It's completely gone and doesn't bother me like right now And if I were to start doing that that would be the first thing that would flare up and might let my butt And that's Mechanically, I'm not and this might not someone who's 22 years old Maybe can do that and not and feel completely fine being an older guy who's you know Definitely has imbalances and and I'm not the same Sprye 20 year old that could probably do anything to his body and still feel fine You know for sure if you're somebody who's older, you know 30 plus years old Squatting every day Could be really challenging if you're because more than likely okay if you're 30 years old or older You've got imbalances. We all have them. You know I'm saying and how bad they are I don't know and if you're squatting every day you could be actually exaggerating some of those So there's a lot to take into consideration with that which is the love and hate thing I love it because like you said Sal. It's like nothing. I mean you want to grow your legs like Frequency, but that's to me. That's the takeaway It's like if you're somebody who used to only squat one time a week or rarely You squatting two times a week watch what that does for you do that for a couple weeks And then go three times a week and then go four times a week Like you don't even need to go from zero to a hundred right away I don't think that doesn't make sense to me like I would never go I'm not squatting every day to squatting every day I'd go squatting once a week then twice a week then three times a week And like I would build upon that every every week or two Definitely adding variations to and and I think you get just as good a result You also leave yourself open for other days to be doing other work that can compliment what you're doing So that's just my opinion. Yeah, but it's it's funny too because it sounds like something we would hate on But the reality is Squatting every day you're probably going to get some good results if you do it right. That's for sure next question is from ben birdette How do you catch up a muscle that is a non-symmetrical muscle or muscle group? For example one bicep smaller than the other or one side of back smaller Well, this is two things one maps black to unilateral work. That's the first two things that come to my mind right away I mean that's we created maps black with the intention to yeah The way it's designed is it allows you to Target target specific areas of your body to ramp up volume in it and frequency so that you can you can become more symmetrical That's why we call it maps aesthetic. It's good for our stage competitor athletes because these are people who You know, they want to look a particular way and part of Looking really good on stage and even if you're not a competitor It's incredible if you're just somebody who cares about aesthetics like if you're I mean because I know we have listeners that are all Health-minded that's all they give a shit about then we have powerlifting type people and then we have Definitely aesthetic people people that want to look better fucking naked There's nothing wrong with admitting that you want to look better and feel better and if that's the case like That maps black is designed for that is designed for people that have specific areas on their body That they think is lagging in comparison to other parts of the body It teaches you how to literally plug that in and go that's the first that the other thing is when you have like a discrepancy between uh, what left bicep and a right bicep Getting away from doing all the the two two two armed everything So unilateral stuff doing alternating bicep curls or one arm and I always start with the weaker side first And match that as the gauge. Yes. That is your gauge never The I think the biggest mistake and I we should say this because I know I've seen this a bunch of times with people is when They're they're stronger on one side They continue to to lift that way And you just need it that that's all your way ahead on that side You need to let the other one catch up So you always start with the weaker one and do you know that be the limiting fact? Yeah, definitely that from the training side. I would say also don't Discount the fact that um, you know really look into your daily habits and your routines of what you do all the time Or when you go to pick something up, you know, what's what do you favor the most in your in the way that you operate and You know try to try to emphasize One side a little bit more And see what that does for you as far as like just overall adding more volume and movement To to the process and don't just look so if we're talking about the bicep too I would also teach someone to not just look at bicep curls You probably cheat on that dominant side and all your rows your pull-up type movements any other your back stuff So especially if you're doing it right so all pulling so all pulling movements I'm going to do unilateral or I'm definitely if I'm doing no unilateral I'm definitely going to start to incorporate that and build upon that because that could be Part of the reason why you haven't imbalanced is you do Seated row with both hands you do lap pull down with both hands And your dominant side is is pulling most of the weight and that's going to help develop the bicep more on one side The other two so not only do you need to do the biceps unilateral, but you also want to do Your pulling exercises that incorporate a lot of the bicep Unilateral too and same theory stopping to this the weaker side just just work out the the The unsymmetrical side more. I mean really, you know add an extra exercise for that one side Do it more frequently. So if your left arm is visibly smaller than your right arm On your off days do some light sets for that left arm that you don't do for the right arm Just do a little extra work for it and it'll start to catch up. I had I've had a couple experiences with this myself My calves I had an experience with my calves when I was younger I dislocated my knee cap on my left leg And so for an entire summer I had to wear this like straight Leg brace so it was like this velcro leg brace with these bars that went through it And it kept my leg my left leg totally straight I could walk on it, but it wouldn't let me bend my knee For obvious reasons because it was swollen or whatever and so that summer I had a girlfriend and I think it was my summer I want to say summer after eighth grade going into freshman year So I had this girl that I was dating and I'd wear the straight leg brace and I'd walk to her house Which was a good mile and a half away, maybe two miles away From my house so I could hang out with her make out and you know do the things that you do when you're Eight years in heavy training. Yeah, you know, of course at that age, you know, I'm a guy I'm like one of my 13 years old like I'll walk 10 miles You know what I mean with fucking both legs broken Is that the truth when you're that dude when I think about it, I remember this is in the summertime It's pot as fuck brought back memories. I've got a knee break I've got this long ass knee brace hobbling all the way and I walk I would walk from my house All the way to our house to spend if her mom was at home for 15 minutes To go there for 15 minutes and then oh my mom's coming real quick and then I'd walk my ass all the way home But anyhow Because I was doing that almost every single day with this knee brace I had to push off really hard with my left foot So I had this kind of funny walk where I would push off on my left foot But I'd be able to bend my right leg Well, by the end of that summer my left calf was a good inch bigger than my right calf And in order to balance them out, uh, I had to uh, I had to do the same thing on the other side I had to do lots of calf raises on the other side in order to try and balance them out So that was one thing the other thing too is that I've experienced this was with my back Because I uh, love deadlifting I love deadlifting heavy and I have a decent deadlift I would always and I would always pull with the same over-undergrip. So my left right hand supinated left hand pronated and when I'd get real heavy that was my favorable grip I didn't realize that I had a more developed Uh, right side of my back than my left and it's not super evident But you can see it If I you know stay on my shirt off and I'm flexing you can see that one side's more developed than the other So I had the deadlift with a switch with the other grip for a while and now I do double overhand So it just put in more work For that weaker or smaller side Um, not necessarily harder work. Just put in more work add more frequency And the body tends to want to catch up. You'll you'll notice it tends to want to catch up It may take a little take a while, but it'll it'll catch up eventually Next up is dj cruise Does muscle building inherently cause tightness due to tighter muscles? Or is it just from the enlargement of the muscle leading to reduced available range of motion? This is actually Believe it or not a controversial. Yeah question Get into get into cns and get into what because we don't really have tight muscles. No, but uh, so the you the the old saying was You know back in the day in the 50s 40s and 50s and maybe even the 60s Athletes were discouraged from lifting weights Uh, so if you played football or baseball or I think football was probably the first sport where athletes started lifting weights But baseball for sure Um, and other sports didn't want to you develop any upper body. No, actually they they discouraged it They said stay out of the weight room because it'll make you muscle bound Yeah, it'll make you tight and you won't be able to move And the and and then the the reverse came out and people said no weight training doesn't make you muscle bound It makes you a better performer and you know the debate kind of went back before the now It's hard to find an athlete that doesn't lift weights like weights definitely contribute to performance now You want to think back to yourself and say well, why would this coach just say that back then? Why would they say people would get muscle bound? They didn't just Invent that out of thin air they all they obviously observed something and what I think that they observed back then was That the people that were into lifting weights back then probably weren't into sports So that now you had this big muscular dude that all he does is lift weights Then they'd go try and throw football or something and it probably looked bad I used to say it even as a trainer in early years that you know We're we're shortening our muscles because we're just contracting contracting contracting And so then these the muscles get tighter and tighter and tighter So I used to present this like I used to say to people because that's I was under the impression That the more we can continue to contract and we'd lift like that the shorter and shorter and tighter and tighter Do we become when well, so I think related to cns stuff and that's right. I think that can happen. I really do. I think The other thing is that you'd have athletes lifting weights and not practicing their sport while they're lifting weights And you lose coordination for a couple of different reasons your size gets bigger So you're not moving the same body you're strengthening just those very specified ranges of motion That's the adaptation you're saying. Yeah, so it's like wherever your joint angle is As you're working out with the weights is what's going to translate, you know towards the actual overall mechanical movement, so There's there's both you have to in what sal's alluding to is like with the skills portion of it that needs to exist Simultaneously with weight training or you lose it. Now if you take the average person Who is totally inactive and you have them lift weights properly Full range of motion good control whatever they're going to get better Flexibility they're going to get better range of motion Now if you take somebody who Is already got decent range of motion different decent flexibility because they're You know a dancer or whatever and you have them lift weights and they don't incorporate or integrate more flexibility training They may notice tighter muscles. Now. Here's why here's why I think that happens because I've had Lots of clients comment on that. I've had my girlfriend comment on that and she's super flexible, right? She used to train You know with silks which requires it's a safety mechanism It's a safety mechanism that you've you've trained your body to do you've told it that it's strong within this range of motion Anything outside of that it it freaks out. I've heard somebody call it the overbearing mother Yeah, so it's like, you know, no no no like you can only go so far. You can hurt yourself Well, the body has that like just internally. Yeah and think about this way if your central nervous system is Is controlling how much your muscles will extend which is what it does That's what gives you flexibility to your cns that Tells the muscle that it can relax to a certain point or whatever And that so let's say you have a certain amount of tension at a particular point and now the muscle is bigger It's going to feel like more resistance. It's just a bigger muscle now that's still resisting Going past a particular range of motion a good example of why this this isn't true is uh, juji muffu I mean john is a great example of you can become extremely muscle bow, you know Muscular and big and still but what does he do? He does just as much He has more range of motion than any of us. Right. He does he does just as much tricking and mobility work as he does heavy lifting and so And he's and what he did a really good job of always keeping that through this entire now If he would have just Lifted weights and he wasn't a tricker and he wasn't into mobility And he was that muscle bound you better believe his range of motion would look worse than anybody in this room Yeah, so so I like this. I'll give you another example. Let's say you have somebody that uh, just goes to the gym And all they do is work out their chest So all they do is they lift heavy for chest. They get a you know, good pump. They build Big pecs It's monday every day and and let's say that their chest was tight anyway So they had tight chest to begin with but their tight, but their chest was also weak. It was small Well, now it's just a big muscular strong tight chest So it's going to cause More distortion in the posture. It is going to feel tighter Simply because it's a bigger stronger muscle. That's still tight So can you're not getting as expansive in your range of motion? Yeah, so can bigger can building muscle cause more tightness it can if you don't Go through full ranges of motion and you don't practice flexibility training It definitely can now. Can you have small weak muscles that are tight? Yep. You definitely can Well, this is the more common the biggest the biggest knock that I have on bodybuilding And this is what happened to me was I became so focused on aesthetics for the first time in my life I'd never my entire career as a trainer. I've always just been a fit trainer. I played basketball I did plio work. I did all kinds of multi-planar shit Like just because that was and I was trying to build muscle. That's always been a goal I want to be bigger more buff But it wasn't at to a point where I had to and I and I to sacrifice other things Well, when I got into competing that became such the goal that all those other things that were that used to Be important to me were no longer because it was all about aesthetics It was each I needed to improve month over month the way my body looked and training that way I started to neglect all the things to improve my mobility and movement and I lost it I mean, I couldn't I couldn't do a pistol squad I couldn't I couldn't get all the way down in a full full squad at all I had lost that range of I looked awesome But I had lost that and it's because I had I had sent that signal Now I had nothing to do with the mass the size of my muscles had I Been training mobility now. Maybe I wouldn't be as big because I would sacrifice some of the Aesthetic and hypertrophy type training for more mobility and sports training would be good to bring on here I forget his name, but he is part of like the merinovinches kind of programming as far as They go all speed It's speed of sport I guess is the name of his company and the way he trains a lot of MMA fighters Nick Kerson, I think maybe that's his name. We'll have to check. But anyway, like he he was arguing basically not to to do traditional types of weight training and and focus more specifically on that fast twitch the explosive type of plyometric style training only and so that's something that's interesting to me Where it's debatable. It's it's really it all depends on your goals, right? Like it what is more important to you Is it just becoming bigger and more buff if that's the case and then and you're willing to sacrifice some of the mobility then To each their own But you just know that if you're going to be completely focused on being bigger building more muscle That you're going to probably give in some other areas or you're okay with maybe not maximizing building the most amount of muscle Because you're also wanting to have balance and mobility and so you incorporate that But I could definitely see the argument for somebody to do just straight You know train if you're an athlete like that's different right if you're an athlete But and you want to build some muscle There's an offseason for a reason and and you're actually able to produce more force the stronger you get right But even in an offseason, you're still training movements that are going to complement your sport. Exactly. Yeah, you're still in the skill Yeah, you're still putting the skill base training in there. You're still working on mobility You're just more focused but you don't have game days So instead of game days now your game days now in the gym lifting right and building always My problem is always like a method or a system that revolves around one thing You know that just to me doesn't have a lot of uh longevity of life to it How about this too? And we didn't even touch on this with this conversation is there's a huge genetic factor that plays into here too Of course There are some people that have just what am I already working with right now right and I and I use uh jiu-jitsu as an example He's probably also an example of somebody who's a genetic freak also You know i'm saying the guy responds very well to lifting weights and he's been been able to do the splits forever so You know, he's he's definitely got a genetic advantage that he's continued to work towards and work at Which is a good example of why he looks that way some people are good are going to be able to lift tons of weight Another person wasn't able to remember what's his face who passed away rich piana You know super flexible super flexible, you know and you and I never see him doing mobility work He just genetically was you know gifted when it comes to mobility So there is a major Tom Plats Tom Plats was another guy, but he he also did work on it He worked on it quite a bit. Here's the thing look I tell you what if you're the average person and you're lifting weights properly And you're doing the barbell lifts like the good ones like full barbell squats and their variations Bet you know full rows and pull-ups and overhead presses and you know windmills and stuff like that you're You don't have you don't even have to worry about tight muscles You're actually going to improve your flexibility and range of motion The average person can't even do a full squat properly because they're either too weak or too tight or both so, you know Definitely don't be afraid of becoming tighter if you start doing resistance training The only people that should worry about getting tighter with resistance training are people who are already super flexible And then they stop their flexibility training and just do resistance training, right? But the average person you're not going to get tighter if anything you're going to get Greater ranges of motion greater flexibility. 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