 In this episode of Mind Pump, we answer questions that were asked by listeners like you. What they do is they go to our Instagram page, Mind Pump Media. They post a question under the qua meme. We pick the best ones and then we answer them. But the way we start out the episode is by talking about current events, scientific studies, and just random topics. So here's what we talked about. In this episode, we start out by talking about my new shoes. I'm wearing new shoes and I totally thought the guys would make fun of me, but apparently I accidentally got some cool shoes. You can float in those, right? According to these guys. Then we talked about our trip to Santa Barbara to listen to Arthur Brooks talk and interview him. He has now since become one of our favorite, favorite people. Then we talked about the CBD post by one of our friend fitness influencers and why we disagree with it and why full spectrum cannabinoids, in other words, like hemp oil extract from Ned, by the way, it's a company we work with, may have some actual health applications. Now again, Ned is one of our sponsors. They make full spectrum hemp oil extract, meaning it contains a multitude of cannabinoids, not just CBD. And the studies show that when you take cannabinoids together, also known as the entourage effect, seems to have much better effects. Now we have a discount for you. Just go to hello Ned. That's H-E-L-L-O-N-E-D dot com forward slash mind pump. And you'll get 15% off your first purchase. Then Adam talked about Wrangler peekaboos. These are new pants that were online. I hope they were joking. Yeah, you guys got to watch the commercial. I talked about the documentary on Netflix about Bicram. Wow, that was crazy. Had no idea about that history. We talked about the Cybertruck. Adam and Justin think that it's going to be a bomb. I think it's going to be the bomb. Let's see who's right. It is ugly. Then we talked about Apple's new $1 billion facility in Austin, Texas. That might be a good real estate investment somewhere out there. Let's give everybody ideas. We talked about how Silicon Valley engineers and entrepreneurs are doing dopamine fasting. I like how they brand everything. Dopamine fast. We came up with it. Then we talked about the free gut health course that NCI certifications is giving away to our listeners. We've already done this once. Thousands of people have gone over there, downloaded this $600 course for free to learn more about their gut health. Well, they've opened it back up. So you can go there right now and get a free course. It's a $600 course, by the way. It's a real educational course. You get it for free. Here's what you do. Go to NCI certifications.com forward slash mine pump. And again, it's a free gut health course. So they waived the $600 fee. Then we get into the fitness portion of the episode. Here's what we answer the questions. Next question. Is there any truth to when people say that squats and deadlifts thicken your waist? So in other words, people say, hey, don't squat or deadlift. It'll make your waist bigger. Ooh, the thickness. Is that correct? Or are they idiots? Find out in that part of the episode. Next question. This person wants to know what's the difference between priming and warming up? So we break that all down. They are similar, but they're definitely not the same. Next question. This person wants to know if there's any benefits to stability training or using tools like BOSU balls or dyna discs. So we talk about how you can use those for your fitness goals and how not to use them. And the circus. And the final question. This person wants to know why so many people who do yoga or why the top yoga girls look skinny and long and lean and all that stuff. 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I bet you came in here thinking that we were going to clown those shoes. Yeah, because I told you that's what I thought. When I got... So my brother has these shoes, comes to my house for dinner, and he's like, these are the most... My brother and I are very similar when it comes to shoes. We just care about how nice they feel. You told this story, but we hadn't seen them yet. Yeah, so I tried them on his feet. I took them off his... Because we have the same size shoes. I took them off his foot, put them on mine. I'm like, this is amazing. Ordered them, looked at them, and here I'll put it up for the camera so you can see. Yeah. And I'm like, this is the most... It's like you got mud tread. Comfortable shoe ever, and I'm like, I can't wait to come to mine pump and just get the shit. Yeah. Like I knew I was going to get the shit. But you're all springy. But what I hear from you is I accidentally got better looking shoes than before. Yeah, you did. Totally by accident. It's what happens when you don't know what's good or not. No, no. So... I actually... It's funny because in my notes today to bring up on the show, because I like to bring up like companies to keep an eye on or watch, and one of them is a sneaker company called On, and it's a tennis shoe that you're just happened to be wearing, which is crazy. So weird. Because this was in my notes today to bring up, and it's because they do about $100 to $200 million a year, but they just sign Roger Federer, so super famous tennis player. Oh, I know who that is. Who's got all kinds of ties and connections to Rolex and Nike. I love it when I know an athlete, you know. So he literally just signed with them. So that's going to be a big deal and a big push coming from him. So I bet we're going to see those shoes pop up all over the place. And up until this point, I was unfamiliar with the brand, and when you walked in wearing them, I saw the logo. So now let me ask you a question. Be totally 100% honest. Okay. I would say you didn't know about cool athlete guys signing with them. I walk in with these shoes. Do you talk more shit? In other words, are you being influenced by the athlete? Is that why you're saying they're better? Oh, I wouldn't wear those still. Well, that's not the question. I think where you went right is that they're all black. I think Joe Montana co-signed for fucking Skechers, and I still wouldn't. Oh my God. Did he really? I think so. Yeah. Didn't Joe Montana, what are the big, or Steve Young? The sole ones. They're like the shit ones. So they had no influence then? No. So they're better than the other ones? Well, they're solid black, right? So you can't go wrong with it. They're pure. I mean, the sole, everything. The sole of it that I'm having a hard time with. You know what it reminds me of? You know those styrofoam, like popcorn packing things? Yeah. Yeah. I feel like these glued those on. I'm taking notes right now. So all black, good. Yes. Well, you can't go. Guardless. Yeah, you can't really. All black is, yeah, it's a pretty basic. Yeah, and it's a wide-looking shoe. It's a decent-looking shoe. It's not a bad-looking shoe. Again, I probably wouldn't rock those, but it's better than what you were wearing. Oh, man, I'm so disappointed. You were wearing... You were trying to go completely opposite of that. No, I was just like, this is going to be great. They're going to talk so much crap. You're going to roast me. I can't wait to hear it, and then I'm disappointed. I think it's unbelievable that you're wearing them today. The day that you brought them into wear. Isn't that weird? Yeah, no, it is weird. Yeah. But maybe that's a sign they're going to do well. Who knows? Maybe. Yeah. They're... They're free commercial. All over it. For us. Not really, though. You guys are kind of ugly. Well, I mean, I was like, watch this company. I was going to tell people, keep an eye on it. See what it does. You have no idea how close I am to buying just Velcro shoes. Because I love... I know you are. Or slippers. I know you are. You know the... Yeah, the new balance, like Velcro and high sole. That has your name all over it. Yeah, it's like you're walking on like... I feel like you're avoiding that. And just, you know, tell until you get it down. Nah, I just haven't made the effort to go find a pair of Velcro shoes. The second I think about it when I'm out to buy... Like the second I'm out to get shoes and I go, oh yeah, Velcro. I'm coming back with them. Moccasins. Ooh, these feel great. Yeah. Uggs for men. Please God. I dare you, dude. I dare you. Yes, they do. It was like a little thing for a while, though. Yeah. I got buddies of Rockham. I just couldn't... I can't see it. You need your pumpkin chai latte and Uggs. Maybe you'll be set up. Or your Viori sweats tucked into your Uggs. Oh, man. That's a look, son. That keeps all the warmth inside. Yeah. I like that. Super comfy. Dude, you guys have a great time last week? Was it a Thursday, Friday down in Santa Barbara? Oh, yeah. That was amazing. What an amazing time, wasn't it? Yeah. Great talk. You know, we get there. Man, it was such a profound talk just to sit and listen to them discuss. Yes. So this is the first time this has ever happened to me where... So we went down to Santa Barbara to listen to Arthur C. Brooks do a talk on Bishop Barron's Word on Fire Channel. And for people who don't know Arthur Brooks, he's a decorated author. He's written some great books. He writes lots of articles. He's a Harvard professor, economist and social scientist. Netflix documentary? Yes. It's a Netflix documentary, The Pursuit. I highly recommend you watch it. Just a brilliant guy. And I personally have become a huge fan of this guy. So huge fan. So we contact him and he agrees to come on our show. We go down there in order to watch him talk, which by the way, this talk was so impactful and brilliant, got us emotional several times. And then to interview him. So we go down there. I'm going down as a fan, right? So we're walking into the auditorium. Oh, you're going to share this? It's just... It's never happened to me, right? I'm a huge fan. I walk up, he sees us, yells our name out, comes down and then proceeds to tell us how he's been listening to Mind Pump for two years. Yeah. So weird. It's like... I was like, you listen to our episodes? Yeah. Totally ignorant. Oh my God. It didn't even occur to me. You know what I mean? Because I'm a big fan and then to find out he's a fan, I'm like, what? Are we friends now? Let's log. You know what I'm saying? It was so remarkable. What a great dude. No, no, no. It was an incredible experience, man. And the crazy part, which I think that trips me out, is that we almost didn't go. We were really close to not going. Yeah, our schedule's getting kind of crazy. Yeah, it's crazy. And that's a long drive. I mean, we had to drive all the way down to Santa Barbara and it was basically for a night talk and then a 6 a.m. interview in the morning. Yeah. And then to get back in the car and drive again. I mean, that's just 10 hours plus. So 10 to 12 hours of driving for a total of two or three hours worth of work. And before we met him, you never know. Like if this guy's a big name, he's got his own documentaries, hung out with the Dalai Lama, he's hanging out with all the presidents. Like I don't know if he's pretentious. I don't know if he's going to be like, oh, I'm tired the next day and then blow us off last minute. Like we don't know, right? And of course, his assistant and our assistant are talking back and forth. And they do their job, which is, oh, we're looking for the interview. Oh, yeah, us too. And so we're getting the emails that are being CC to us and see that, oh, he's excited for the interview, but that's normal shit. So we're all kind of questioning whether we should go down or not. And is it really worth our time to do that? And we were really close. And I remember, Sal, you spoke up and you said something. I think that that was the final word. It was, hey, at the end of the day. I have spoken. I have spoken. This is the way. And when I say that, everybody falls in line. This is the way. I've spoken. No, you said something that I think struck home to Justin and I. And I think we all agree that that's our integrity. And that was, hey, at the end of the day, we originally committed to coming down to this event. We said we were going to do it like a month or two ago before our schedule got crazy. And hey, if it ends up, we don't have a conversation with them. It doesn't work out. At the end of the day, it was our word. We said we would be there. Therefore, we should be there. And we all said, you're right. You're right. Let's do it. Isn't it crazy how when you're presented with, and this is what all the spiritual teachings echo, when you're presented with choices, going with the most honest, truthful option will result in the best possible outcome. And although sometimes it doesn't seem that way, because we don't necessarily see the potential of the downstream effects of things. Like, you know, let's say you get confronted by your friend on something that you said about them. And you think, well, I'm going to lie because I can't tell them what I said. And you feel like that gets you off the hook a little bit. That downstream, that will turn into a worse outcome than just being honest or maintaining integrity. And we've learned this lesson. This is like several times now. Well, we've done that where, you know, we say, okay, this was our word, so let's stick with it. And boy, am I glad we went down. Yeah, it's usually the ones where we go back and forth and back and forth. And we're just like wrestling with it for like a couple of days even. It just keeps presenting itself back. Like right when we'm like, no, I don't think we're going. It's just one more opportunity comes up. It's like you have to pay attention to that. Speaking of integrity, I got tagged on Steffi Cohen's post in regards to CBD. And, you know, here's another situation where I appreciate, you know, the content that she puts out and for the most part, I think really good information. But here's another example, and I think I've pointed out one of their posts that she did before that I think sometimes just ends up confusing a lot of people on whether, okay, is this good or is this bad? You know, because she came out and she did a whole thing on CBD. And I agree literally with most everything she's saying, but if you're somebody who is in search of, you know, something like this, and is it potentially, could it be potentially beneficial for me? And is this something that I should use? And then you come across a post like that where she's basically, you know, saying it's the, you know, like we had the gold rush before and like everybody's just trying to make money off of CBD, which I agree with her. Like I think that. That's true. I think that there's now we have it in fucking CBD cereal and fucking. We've talked about that multiple times. Right. And I think, but that to me, that's the fitness space. This is what we do with anything. We find something that has a little bit of science behind it and supports some things. And then we go bananas with it. And then now it's for everything and rub it on your face and do it with this and oh, it'll help you build muscle and it's, it's good for all these things. And, you know, back to what made me think of this is talking about our integrity. I mean, even when we signed with a, with a, you know, full spectrum hemp oil, one of the things that was really important to us was that, you know, we're not going to tell people to, you know, take this shit for all these other reasons, but there is definitely a place for it. And I think that I know personally, lots of people that have benefited greatly from it. Yeah. One, I would say drawback to, or one weakness that scientists or, you know, the academics tend to have is that they tend to discredit anything that isn't that isn't clinically proven in a study. So even if the anecdotes are in the thousands or last for thousands of years. So I'll give you a great example. Okay. For years, probably hundreds of years, if not more, people have been using honey as a cough suppressant. So if you have, if you have a cough and this was, this was considered an old wives tale by Western scientists for a long time, but for a long time, right? Your mom, you got a cold. What does your mom do? Make your tea, put some honey in the tea. Is it a wives tale or a wives tale? Wives. Wives tale. Like with a V? Yeah. Oh, wow. I'm so glad to give up. We'll keep track of all these. I got to get rid of all these, you know. Soon I won't have a library anymore. It's an old wives tale? Yeah. Hey, so guys, listen, put some honey in there. That kind of works too, you know what I'm saying? A wise guy. I decided to ask. Okay, sorry, continue. For a long time, you know, when I was a kid, if I had a cough, my mom would do that. She'd put it in hot tea or whatever, give it to me or give me a spoonful of it and they'd drink it. And Western medicine and scientists, Western scientists are like, that's silly, old wives tale, doesn't do anything to help you. Even though thousands of anecdotes said that it helped, people had personal experiences. If you go back long enough, you see that it's been used by cultures that way. So eventually when it ends up happening is studies come out to show that there's a compound in honey. There's actually a compound in honey that does have cough suppressing effects. And now why is this, why is this important to remember? Because what it does is it actually makes scientists and Western scientists look stupid because they sink their heels into the ground. They make this absolute statement. It doesn't do anything, even though there's all this anecdote. Then the study finally comes out to support it and then people stop trusting scientists. Do you know what the studies said on anabolic steroids up until the early 90s? You couldn't find any of this said that they built muscle. You know what they said? All the weight gain came from water retention and athletes were like, yeah, right, dude, laughing their asses off. This is true. This is true until the 80s and 90s when people would come on and debate anabolic steroids, you had people saying, well, athletes take them because they work and then you had scientists go, well, the studies show that it's just water retention. That's where the weight gain comes from. So there's no real muscle gain or whatever from it or whatever. Silly. So now here we are with CBD and I'll extend it to say cannabinoids. The anecdotes are plenty. In fact, the anecdotes are what drove more the science. The reason why now you can buy medicine, that CBD that's actually prescribed. Well, way before any of this became super popular in our space, I mean, this is actually what connected you and I. It is. I mean, before mine pump ever existed, I was in the medical marijuana field. We were seeing anywhere between 200 to 300 patients every single day between the two facilities and I have got hundreds and hundreds of maybe thousands over the course of two years of people coming back and saying how amazing that CBD was for them and how much it helped specific cases. And so I was incredibly fascinated with what we were learning about it. At the same time, I was talking and communicating with you and you had been doing all the same similar research because your mother-in-law was going through battling cancer. So that's when we first got into this space before it became popular and before everybody was throwing it in cereal and oils and everything else to combine and shit. We were talking about the application of that and there are a group of people that it's extremely beneficial. There's a lot of people that look, again, the anecdotes actually drove the science. You can now buy medicine, Epidiolex for example, that is CBD based that dramatically reduces the seizures in forms of epilepsy that some children will have that are absolutely devastating. Now that research would have never happened for the massive amounts of anecdotes. There were parents who were finding that it worked. We're moving to Colorado to get these high CBD strains of cannabis and giving it to the kids against scientists and doctors wishes and saying, this fucking works. Then finally companies were like, wait a minute, there's enough here. Let's study this and whatever. Now here's what the studies show. The studies show that cannabinoids work better together. So when you isolate cannabinoids, you're gonna get not as good of effects as when you combine them in what's known as the entourage effect. Now this is documented. And anecdotes will say this as well. When you talk to people who just take pure CBD versus people who take CBD with other cannabinoids, whether it includes THC or not, you tend to hear, oh this one works much better. Here's the other thing. And this is I think why a lot of the academics, and you know, Steffi Cohen, this is not our expertise anyway. You know, you don't have an expertise, neither do I, but I can guarantee you there's a lot of research on this subject and most people in the fitness space because I had a family, again, a family member who was suffering from, you know, cancer for over a year and a half, and I dived very, very, very deep, actually interviewed scientists on my own, did all this stuff. But you know, here's the thing. I know why it sounds crazy because you have all these people coming forward saying, cannabinoids help my migraines, cannabinoids help PMS, cannabinoids help me with my pain, cannabinoids help me with anxiety, and you think to yourself, this sounds like snake oil. How can it possibly help all these different things? And I get that. I do think that there's a large percentage of people that have the placebo effect or maybe there's a large percentage of people who are just trying to get high or whatever. I get that. But when you actually look at the mechanisms, the cannabinoid, the receptors that cannabinoids attach to, and there's two that we've identified, there's CB1 and CB2 receptors, these are the most among the most abundant G protein coupled receptors in the body. These are the type of receptors that pharmaceutical companies target because they're easy to target and they tell the cell to do something. So they sit on top of the cell, you target this with a medication, it hits this receptor, and then the cell does something. So it's like a favorite target of pharmaceutical companies. Well, so far the cannabinoid receptors are among the most abundant. They're everywhere. So now it makes sense. They're all in the digestive system, nervous system, bones. And so now it's like, oh, okay, it could potentially affect a wide range of things. And we have a cannabinoid system in our bodies for a reason. There's a reason why we have them. Now, here's another thing that we want to consider. This is something that's, this is new science. There's some theories right now that state that maybe there are deficiencies in some people in producing their own cannabinoids. Who knows why that happens? It could be lifestyle, genetic, or a combination of the two. Well, if you have deficiencies of cannabinoids and we know what cannabinoids, what our own bodies cannabinoids do, they affect our moods, our motivation, sleep. They can affect our sex drive. They can affect, they have a role in the inflammatory process in the body. If you're deficient, if your body's not producing these cannabinoids, it could show up in a wide range or way of a wide range of symptoms. So perhaps the reason why some people get such great benefits from using things like Ned's hemp oil or, you know, marijuana or other, you know, cannabinoid-type products, maybe because these some people are producing low amounts, and we don't know why this may happen, of their own cannabinoids. So then it makes sense that supplementing it with a phytocannabinoid, which attaches to the same receptors, would have positive effects on these people. And it's also maybe why giving cannabinoids to people who already have abundant endocannabinoids, may not get that big of a deal or a difference from it. So yes, the science is emerging, and that's where I agree with Steffi. And I also agree with her that there's a lot of marketers that are, you know, post-workout, pre-workout testing. No, no, no, no, you're going too far. And to your point, like most doctors or anybody else is going to have a title and their name, they're going to be more conservative about it, because, you know, they want to wait, because they want to put their license out there on the line with the information that they're providing. So it's like, it feels a lot like they get their hands tied until like the big study kind of proves, you know, it's worth where, you know, there's so many, so much anecdotal information out there of people like having success with it. But I feel like that science a lot of times really drags behind, like substantially. It does because they need to have certain criteria and parameters. Which I get, we need that too, we need that balance. But sometimes it's frustrating as shit, like, even till now, even till this day, you talk to a lot of experts in skin health, talk to, you know, people, like doctors who, you know, work with skin and lots of, and you tell them, hey, does diet, can diet give somebody acne? No. They'll say no. And it makes me, it's like, no, at least acknowledge it. Like that's just frustrating to me. It's like you have to at least acknowledge these people are getting results. You know, you don't have to like put your stamp on it, but it's like people are experiencing some things like this. Dude, when leaky gut syndrome was coined, the term was coined by wellness practitioners. These weren't scientists, they were just wellness practitioners and they came up with this theory of leaky gut syndrome. They were laughed at and mocked. How can you be so like, yeah, adamant? Like you don't know. Now there's a medical term for it. It's like, I think it's something like intestinal wall hyperpermeability. You know what that means? Leaky gut, same thing. But they were literally laughed at. When people were, when wellness practitioners were saying, the microbiome is very important to your health, they were laughed at. They were laughed at. Now, so I'm not saying that the, I think, again, I think you have to look at the tools for the job and Western practices and scientists. I mean, you can't replace them. I think they're brilliant. If you had to pick one form of medicine or one form of testing or whatever, that is the gold standard. However, the one weakness that they have is they anecdote to them doesn't count. Even if it's, you go to Chinese medicine and they prescribe herbs for things and Western scientists will say, that herb doesn't work for that. And the Chinese practitioners have a 2,000 year old record of using it exactly for that. You can't discredit that. There's something to that. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, definitely. On a very less serious note, Justin Tagby on a post that may be one of my favorite commercial posts that I've seen in a long time. And that was the Saturday Night Live spoof of the Wrangler jeans. Will Ferrell was on Saturday Night Live and they came up with this commercial. Because it's so great because it's like, Hey, men have not had something for us. Butt cleavage. Right. For the boob cleavage that girls get. Where do we get something like that? And they came up with Pickaboo jeans. Pickaboo Wrangler jeans. Yeah. They have all kinds of different styles with the heart. I wish we had Doug in here right now so I could have him look this up because I'm actually curious if Wrangler, obviously if they used Wrangler's name like that they had to. They agreed to the job. They had to agree to it, right? They had to play somewhat of a part in that. So kudos to them for having a sense of humor to have some fun with that. Hey, doesn't that highlight though? It's a joke. I know it's a joke obviously, but doesn't that highlight the difference between men and women? Yeah. For a man to get a woman's attention, wearing more revealing clothes, really isn't doing anything, does it? Yeah, but I don't know, like the gay community might be all about that. Maybe. Because they're attracting men. Yeah. What's I mean? That's how men are very visual. That's what I mean. That's the difference between men and women. If you go to a party, let's say you're like, oh, I'm going to go to this party. I want to get woman's attention. You're not going to go in there with like a little bit of a half shirt or you know what I mean? Low rise jeans. Most women would look at you like, that guy's a weirdo. What's funny, because I told you guys the story of how me and Courtney met and the first time I was assessing her and all that and I go to Bend over to pick something up and I totally had butt cracked. And she tells everybody how repulsed she was. And I'm like, keep, stop telling that story. You know, but like it's she's had like, there was nothing there. Bro, you still want her over? I know. I give you the rub. I'm starting to recount all these like first time stuff. I got to talk to Courtney about this. Oh, yeah. Yeah. The shit in the bathroom the first time you guys had sex. I love that story. Now the butt crack, plumbers crack. Bro, how the fuck did you get this script? How did I survive? Yeah. Well, you must have laid it down, bro. You must have laid it down. I got skills. Otherwise that would not. Yeah. I would not be here today. Dude, you guys got to watch the documentary on Netflix about Bikram. Oh. Did you guys see the commercial? So I heard all about this and I like read up on it when like a lot of these allegations were coming out about this guy, this, this guru that came up. But I was so excited. I haven't watched it yet and you watched it ahead of me. Dude, this guy is so Bikram. That's his name. He's the guy that invented Bikram yoga. Oh, so he invented it. He invented hot yoga. That's where you do yoga. And there's a series of everything 26 poses. They're done in a particular order. They're in a hot room or whatever. This guy made hundreds of millions of dollars training teachers on how to do it. But you got to watch the documentary because he was such, he is literally the... Did he manipulate the shit out of women like crazy, right? Well, he's the picture perfect. You know that all of the characteristics of cult leaders? Yeah. You know, super charismatic, highly narcissistic, a little bit crazy. And then the thing that always blows me away with these cult leaders is not the cult leader. It's always all the fucking people that follow him even against their own reason. That's what happened this whole time. I know. As you're watching him do this stuff, and there's videos of him teaching classes, and he's saying stuff like, hey you, suck your fat belly in, you bitch. Suck it in, you know, and shit like that. What? I'm like, why are these people sitting here? What? Yeah, dude, that's how you talk to his class. He teaches class in these little Speedos. And he'd go, and then he'd like be really sexually inappropriate with a lot of women and raped one woman. Yeah, he's on the lam now. He actually took off, he's in Mexico because he comes back to the U.S. He's got to pay like 1.7 million dollars and maybe under criminal charges. Wow. But the fascinating part about this whole documentary is as I'm watching it, because there was like one part where, because these people followed him like he was a god. And even the women that are talking about how he abused them, they still talk about him like he's some... No. Oh dude, it's crazy. Like a Stockholm syndrome. Oh dude, one woman was like, she was one of his students, one of his pupils and she followed him around and she stayed at their house and one night they were watching this movie and he like grabbed her head and like started kissing her and she kind of pushed away and then he did it again and then she went in the kitchen, he followed her, raped her. Then he goes back and sits down in front of the movie and she kisses him good night. She says good night and she goes back and like, he just raped you. Like what? It's like the... It's crazy how that... She didn't even process it. Yeah. It's weird. It's really weird. I just remembered something that I want to ask you and I know that I'm not the big political guy and stuff but I know I'm sure you've been paying attention. You got to tell me what you think about Michael Bloomberg putting his hat in the ring. Oh boy. So you said he used to be a conservative. Is that true? He's a Democrat. He's been one for a little while. Obviously a billionaire. He says he's going to run as a Democrat and I have a lot of thoughts about this. One, if he were the nominee as a Democrat I think he would pose the biggest challenge to Trump because he could go toe-to-toe. Now your theory on that is because of his pool that he's got a lot of charisma too. He's got the power, the money and he could sit there and fire back. The thing about Trump is if you get on stage with him there's very few people that he won't bully. You know what I mean? To make him look kind of like, he'll make them like he did this with Hillary. He made her break a couple times and you could tell and it just makes them look weak and when you're electing a leader you want to look strong. The other person can't break you. Tulsi Gabbard from the Democrats I think would also pose that threat to Trump. She's a veteran, military veteran. She's a badass. Yeah, you've talked to her before to me. I think he would try to push her around. She could pull up the fact that she served in war and he dodged it and that would make him look like a pussy or whatever. They will never have her as the nominee. The Clintons in fact seem to be totally anti-hero whatever. Bloomberg I think could do the same thing. Here's the problem. I don't think that the Dems will give him the nomination. He's just another billionaire white guy. He's like the enemy even though he says he's a Democrat. Their whole strategy of being anti-wealthy powerful billionaire I don't know if their base would even vote for him. Are they really still pushing Bernie or who's their main horse going into the race? It's too early to say, but I think Biden. Biden? Yeah, I think Biden will probably get it and that's why Trump's going after him now because he knows that. Here's my other theory. If Bloomberg doesn't get the nomination because he pledged to spend $150 million of his own dollars to make this happen. Money's not an issue for this guy, right? I don't think he'll get the nomination. And the Democrats, if they don't want you to win, if their top brass doesn't want you to win, you're fucked. What happened to Bernie last year? What they did with Bernie last time. It was hilarious, crazy, totally slimy. If Bloomberg doesn't win the nom and decides to run third party, that is a wrench in the hole who knows what could happen because I definitely think Bernie... They can't win that way. Never. It'll divide all the votes up. That's it. Now, will he pull more from the Democrats? Of course he will because he's already came out leaning that way, right? It would only make sense that he will. Or will he pull more from Trump because Trump is abrasive as shit. He's got a very strong base that will vote for him no matter what. But there's a lot of people that vote for Trump because they don't want a Democrat to win and they kind of, you know, they're like, and could bloom, I mean, who knows? But this is crazy. Interesting, huh? Yeah, it's going to be... I mean, it's already starting to kick up but will it start kicking up at the end of this year to beginning of next year? The closer we get, the more money, the more intensity that you're going to start bringing up and that's going to start coming up. This is going to be a very interesting one. It seems like the past few elections have gotten... I mean, here's the thing too. Every election they tell you is the fucking most important one. This one's the most important. If we don't get our guy at the world's end. They're always going to say that. They say every time. And then they always say this. This is the worst election. This is the most mudsling. This is the worst. Dude, you know what though? I've done my research on history. They used to fucking fight. Like fist fight. They used to actually print articles about each other, calling each other names. Like, yeah, like you're a pussy and he's a, you know, whatever. Like they used to do shit like that back then. I don't think it's any different. It's always good, you know? I got a story I had to share with the audience of our trip to down. I forgot about this. We were down south, right? And so normally when we travel somewhere, we stay in a hotel room if we're not in like a VRBO or whatever, or Airbnb. Justin and I typically room together because we like our room below 50 degrees and Doug and Sal stay together. Well, the night before we go and do our interview, Justin and I are up watching TV and that was the launch of the new Cybertruck that Elon Musk did, right? And so Justin and I obviously have similar tastes. We both actually drive a similar truck currently right now. And we're like, what a fucking piece of shit. That is the ugly. I would never fucking drive that. We're talking shit about it. Then they do the whole, they throw the metal ball against it. It's supposed to be shatter proof, the fucking window shatter. So it's a total debacle. Disaster. And so we're talking shit about it all night and into the morning, well, we go do our interview. We do everything. And then we're in the car. We're driving home back from our talk with Arthur Brooks and Sal pipes and he goes, dude, did you guys see that Cybertruck? That shit is badass. I would totally drive that. And Justin and I will go, of course you would. Of course you would. First of all, did you see this, the video of it doing the tug of war with the F-150? No, I didn't know. I didn't get past its ugly ass look. It pulled the F-150 up a hill. As the F-150 is burning out. Couldn't even touch it. The zero to 60 on that thing. The tow capacity. The fucking steel. Well, electric motors. I mean, I'm sure that's built like the torque is there. You know, let's work on the design. Yeah. That's kind of an important thing. The memes that came out of the next day. It looks like a DeLorean. Oh, it's so hilarious. It's like a four year old drew it. Like you posted the DeLorean in the Aztec or whatever. That Pontiac out of that ugly ass. Like the head sacks or whatever. Totally. Yeah. I mean, I agree with you guys. It's a style that's a little hard to whatever. But it goes with your shoes. The truck market is like, people expect it to look like a truck. You know, you're not going to get like all these like cowboys and farmers out there with a fucking moon sled. So we're debating and arguing, right? Once we started making fun of it, Sal was defending the side of it, right? And that was, listen, if you're trying to go after the largest market in the country, which is the truck market, you auto appeal to your number one customer, which is your farmer ranch owner, you know, who's driving it with his cows and his horses. Middle America. Yeah. Middle America. And I'm telling you right now, that appeals to the Silicon Valley sals that are like never owned a truck in their life before. This will be their first truck they buy because it sounds cool or it looks cool and spacey. So here's the deal. Okay. So when he first launched Tesla, remember this, probably the riskiest market you could possibly enter in America is the automobile market. When's the last time a new automobile company succeeded? Kia. Yeah. No, who makes Kia? Is it Toyota? Yeah, it's not it. Oh, Toyota doesn't make Kia. No, it's Kia by itself. I don't think Kia is by itself. Yeah, it is. Kia and Hyundai were your last two big ones that came in the market. It's very, very difficult. Right, right. There's a whole- You're right though. I was just- He comes out with an electric car, but when the only electric car option was the Prius. That was another one. It was a Prius. He comes out with Tesla and crushes it, does very, very well. I wouldn't, I don't know, man, and here's the thing. And remember this company, Tesla, it's more like a tech company. It's, the consumers aren't, it's very, very different. They're gonna need to iterate. It's very, very different. Also, the way they designed the truck was to make the manufacturer of it cheap and fast. In fact, you're looking at an insane electric vehicle with a 300-mile, whatever, under $40,000? See, it's another thing that doesn't make sense. That's crazy. Do you know how many orders they got in the first two days? No. $14 million. Boom. $14 million? $14 million. So what's the holding? Like how much money do you put up to like reserve one? $100 bucks. That was it? $100 bucks to reserve. Did you see the quad that you can get that goes in the back? No. They have an electric quad. No, I saw that, but that was really something that comes with it? That comes with it. You have to buy the truck. Then you can get the quad. See, I like Tesla. I like, you know, the innovation. I like all that. I just, like, again, they need to come out with another one because that's just, that's not gonna appeal to me. So here's what I, here's my theory. I agree with you guys. I think it's a very bold kind of crazy style. I think it could go either way. Yeah. Second celebrities start driving it. If that happens, it's gonna be fucking cool. Watch what happens. Because remember that, look at the Prius, ugly fucking dorks. Yeah, for dorks who care about like, you know, what Mark Wahlberg's driving. I was gonna say, not middle America, bro. Not middle, not middle, not middle America. We'll see what happens. It'll give a shit what Justin Bieber's doing. We'll see what happens. We're recording this podcast. We'll see what the results are. I mean, how long do you get, how long's your window? I mean, I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna argue with you. Like, I don't know what we're gonna look like in 2030. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's good. Right. It could be 20, 40. It could be radically different. Because I remember too, Tesla came out. Well, their first model was like ugly as hell. And then they kept like improving on it. Then they came out with some pretty good looking cars. Yeah. We'll see, dude. I'll give it, I'd say. I hope. Let's wait until it comes out, right? Then we'll know for sure. Right, right. If it was like a failure or a success. Well, speaking of big companies and money, did you guys see what Apple over in Austin, $1 billion facility they're building? Oh. It's starting off with 5,000 employees. They projected to get up to 15,000 employees. Wow. You know, did you see Trump campaigning all around it too? No. Oh, you didn't see that? No. So there's a lot of like, of course, each side that are, you know, Trump's like, look what I did. You know? He's taking credit for it. Yes, because of the tariffs. Oh. Oh, because Apple was gonna build these things. Right. So him and Cook are like, they're in cahoots. You know, they're friends and stuff, right? Okay. So that was, so all part of this, like, okay, we're gonna do these tariffs. And I think Apple has like thousands, tens of thousands of employees overseas that work on a lot of products. And part of the tariffs obviously is going to directly fuck Apple. And this is kind of their way of saying, okay, we're gonna open this facility. Now, of course, the left is arguing the other side is like, okay, you know, 15,000 employees in the grand scheme of things is nothing. Apple's got hundreds of thousands of employees, supposedly some ridiculous. But a terrible argument. I know, I know. Fuck those 15,000 people. It's nothing. Right. At the end of the day. Is that their argument? Yeah. Their job. Yeah. Yeah. That's kind of the argument outside. It's saying a drop in the bucket in comparison to everything they're doing over there by today. That's another major campus they have. Yeah. Huge state. So maybe Doug can look at the square footage on it. The square, it's massive. Dude, I would. I mean, that's cool. Property in Austin. That would, that might be a good investment. I finished by 22, I think. I think I read. Double check me. Maybe Doug looked that up. Austin's a great town, too. Oh, yeah. What a great town. I mean, I could see that's the one place I would move to, you know, out of the area. We like it. I know we all like it. I love it there. But I thought that was, I thought that was really interesting that they were doing that. I read the article. And then I went down the YouTube rabbit hole of both left and right. Because what happens when I read an article like that, I find it interesting. I mean, if you're going to approach to people that are countering it, talking shit about it. Three million square foot campus. Yeah. Three million square feet. Wow. That's fucking huge. Dude. So speaking of, so Silicon Valley always does crazy things, in terms of, so they'll get the Keto diet. Now, everybody's doing Keto. Now, everybody is doing this shake in order to stay at the desk and all this. So I guess like the latest is dopamine fasting. Oh, I've heard of this. Have you heard of this? It's, basically just, it's, No caffeine. No sex. Yeah, no, yeah, no stimulants. No Technologies is the big one. So like they're fasting from phone social media like everything and then just literally drinking water And then and then working so it's how you height. Well, they're not working then as you say Yeah, it's gotta be it's gotta be no no no dopamine like this. So this this is actually I mean, this is what's so funny how they brand it dopamine fasting. This is a right. Yeah, it works We've been saying digital wellness. I know I know it works I mean if the more exposed you get to dopamine the more receptors get down Regulated the more you become tolerant to it. So you build up a tolerance. It makes perfect sense You go off into the woods and no electronics Meditate don't drink no coffee do this for a few days when you come back, of course, you're gonna be on fire There's a thing they're always go to the full extreme like everything, you know at once You know for a few like it's always about that and instead of just like making Boundaries and doing like a couple of these look healthy practice Individually they're trying to figure out shortcuts and hacks. Well, I mean at the end of the day It's a it's a positive move in the right direction It is I think for someone like us who have been putting the message out of the importance of digital wellness I think it's a step in the right direction for them to whether they brand it their own Awareness, right? Yeah. Yeah, right people are at which we I mean, I think it was inevitable. This was heading this way I mean, there's there's enough information now that we're like, okay And even having somebody like near come on and kind of counter the irresistible message that I'd been talking about for two years Although I love that interview and I agree a lot with what he's saying I also still think that, you know, people need to put some parameters around still very susceptible to it and getting hooked Yeah And there's a lot of people that were just naively going into it and you know Putting your kids in front of it at a very young age and not thinking twice about it or not limiting them when you're wet And those those things need to be put in place for sure Hey, I wanted to bring something up to you guys Have you be guys been getting a lot of messages from people who did the the gut health course from NCI a ton love it People are really and he's still doing it, right? Yes. I mean, that's phenomenal This is a full-on course that I've seen a ton of trainers that are signed up for that If you're a trainer and you're listening to show and you're not I mean if you're not a trainer You just want to learn about gut health. It's a six hundred dollar course that he's giving away for free until I don't know when Yeah, I know that I think this is the I think he's running it till the end of this month And then I think they're transitioning out of that But that's something specific for mind pump listeners that they are doing and I know we've already had a huge turnout He's told me that they've gotten a ton of people come through and they've got a ton of great feedback I've already gotten a bunch of DMs around it and listen if you're somebody who 100% if you're a fitness or a health professional or practitioner You'd be silly not to take advantage of this free course And if you're just a normal person who wants to learn more about go you don't have to be a certified trainer to go through this course It's an online digital course. It's absolutely free. It's something that NCI is doing for mind pump It's a it's something that we worked out with our partnership and relationship with them I'm I'm super excited and happy with what we've seen so far. Excellent All right, our first question is from Eric rich any truth to squats and deadlifts thickening the waistline This is one of those Yeah, that's thickening that is really hurt a lot of people's progress This there's a few things that get promoted in the fitness space and the health space that cause Cause a lot of problems Now I there is a little bit okay, and I'm gonna say this is the grain of salt a little bit of truth to this In the sense that when you're doing a heavy Exercises that require a lot of core stability You do work and build somewhat the muscles of the core. Now, how much are you gonna add to your waist? Nothing perceptible. What's gonna end up happening is you're gonna feel tighter in the waist. This is a this is a This was something that was told by that bodybuilders have been selling for a long time But the thing you got to consider with bodybuilders is the amount of drugs that they're on the amount of muscle that they build Um For them and a lot of them get these big guts because of some of the hormones they get on anyway And I think a lot of them play place blame on deadlifts and squats This is largely a myth and it's cause a lot of people not to do this I was taking all the steroids and I was deadlifting and squatting like crazy And I have one of the nastiest v tapers it has 95 plus percent to do with your genetics if you have a good hip to shoulder ratio and you Pile on muscle on your shoulders in your back from doing deadlifts and overhead pressing and squatting and you'll end up Still with the same ratio to your waist So even if you did put on a little bit of muscle there You're gonna also put it on the back so much that it's it's gonna look the same It's not it's so silly to me that we this this message has been perpetuated into the the masses and it really only it I guess if I was a a a competitor that The amount of deadlifting and squatting that I would do in comparison to a lot of the other work would be Wouldn't be like the average person. So my my average client. I'm Telling them that I want them deadlifting and squatting every single week. Maybe if I'm a competitor I'm less concerned about you know watching my deadlifter my squat go up 200 300 pounds and becoming a great squad or a deadlifter I want to get I want to get the some of the reap some of the benefits from it But maybe it's not something I'm training two three times a week like most people or like a lot of our programs that we have For the average person it's so funny because the average person is looking to work out to get leaner You know boost their metabolism improve their health and mobility and build some muscle So when you're squatting and deadlifting and you combine that with a good diet You're gonna get leaner and then you're gonna build some muscle How much muscle are you gonna gain around your waist? Maybe I don't know Not even a quarter inch. How much inches are gonna lose off your waist by getting leaner a lot a lot I mean most of us especially men store a lot of our body fat around our waist So what you're gonna do is you're gonna take out two of the most effective Exercises known to trainers and coaches squats and deadlifts for fear that you're gonna thicken your waist when really get leaner That makes all the difference. That's what's gonna shrink away that but like how much Deadlifting and squatting does for the glutes and the glutes are part of that What give us that hourglass and that v-table look so you you sit you you Develop the major muscles more right focus on that right so you know you gotta think your hips your hips are here and then your waist is up here and By deadlifting and squatting you're gonna build the butt and the glutes a lot more than Skipping those exercises to do things like what kid kickbacks walking lunges leg press other inferior movements To cut when it that when it comes to building your glutes You're gonna eliminate those in fear of the a little bit that your obliques may build from doing the deadlift My brain literally short circuits I just don't I don't fucking get it. I don't get it if you're trying to build muscle You're trying to build muscle trying to get stronger You have to be able to support your upper body and you know, what are we doing here? It's 100% for the bodybuilding community. Yeah, I mean that's to the point where men are we're wearing waist trainers, right? You'll have men that are working out. She's the equivalent to a boob job, right? You know, it's worse You're actually losing stability and muscle and causing yourself Yeah, yeah, it's like you're the sake of vanity is my point It's like you're wearing a cast we and we haven't just we haven't I don't it's been a long time Actually, we this was something we hammered a lot and probably the first like 300 episodes and we haven't Circled back around to this in a long time and I know we have obviously a much larger audience today than back then The this come this is why they wear these waist trainers so the male and the female like a corset Yeah, it's a court. They wear this corset around their waist and the reason why the there's before and after pictures that show It working and then people measuring look I lost two inches on is because you've lost you've killed the muscles the same Idea that somebody if you were to break your arm and you put it in a cast for six months or whatever the time frame You normally wear a cast after a broken arm and you and you cut open the cast What is your left arm that had the cast on look like compared to your right arm? It looks like a noodle I mean you lost all the muscle on there. That's what you're doing to your waist now for somebody who is I guess 100% stuck on the the vanity of What I need to look like on stage to win try and win a trophy and this creates the illusion of a better hip to waist Hip to waist ratio and shoulder to waist ratio, and that's all you give a shit about I guess maybe these are these are steps that you can take but if you're the fucking average person This is the stupidest and most ridiculous thing. It's I think it's stupid for those people to do it I think it's even more stupid and ridiculous for the average person to be doing this because what's your compromising? I know young I know young lady that Because she wore this these waist trainers because they encourage you to wear them all day or sleep with them And this is how the muscles shrink because you're the corset is Stabilizing your body the muscles like a cast like a cast she actually had a blockage in her Intestines because it's so tight and it caused problems had to go and get surgery Which completely ruined her aesthetics or whatever the looks like right this the obsession with shrinking the waist is one of the worst Obsessions ever in the fitness space now. Yes, it's true It is you know a somebody who's lean is gonna have a nicer Hip to waist ratio for women or a waist to shoulder ratio in men. That's true But going to the extent of hurting yourself damaging your body or preventing yourself From you becoming more fit strong and healthy in order to achieve this illusion It doesn't look better in real life. It really doesn't if you look at like Pull up some pictures up because this this got a this obsession happened in the you know the you know 100 200 years ago where women were wearing actual corsets And causing lots of problems and back problems and they had these tiny little waist or whatever Do you know what these women look like with these corsets off if you were standing in front of your naked? Wouldn't look good. It looks bad. It doesn't look good on a man either. So like to have this obsession to create this illusion You actually don't look any better. All you got to do is get lean get lean Whatever your waist size is based on your genetics is what it is build the muscles. You have this nice strong Stable physique in real life that will make that was your body's potential God do not eliminate squats and deadlifts for the reason dumb next question is from BR Porter 23 What is the difference between priming and warming up major major difference one specific the other one is Nameless. Yeah, one is just getting your core temperature up Yeah, warming up the the the goal of warming up if you ask anybody like hey, what's why are you warming up? What's the goal? Well, the goal is to prevent injury. Okay. That's great. That's the least That proper warming up or prime by the way priming warming up They all they both entail doing something before your workout to you know prevent injury and Make your workout more effective or at least that's what they should do now warming up General warming up without any real Individualized attention or attention to how you move or with any corrective component You're gonna get some injury prevention benefits, but you're not gonna get a lot of You know getting better results benefits or being stronger benefits or improving movement benefits That's what priming does priming is very individualized. So Really they're the same thing, but they're not because priming is incredibly. So I'll give you an example, right? So let's say you have somebody with Let's say you I have a female client who can't feel her glutes when she does squats or deadlifts and her butt is underdeveloped A warm-up might be hey, let's have you walk on the treadmill, right? Do some general drive your quad stretch your quad a little bit Just stretch everything out the cross your legs over and stretch your hamstrings. Yeah, just high knees a general thing now priming What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna look at her movement patterns I'm gonna say okay. You're you're not feeling your glutes. Let's prime your glutes in a way so that you know how to connect to them Oh, it looks like you have some ankle mobility problems. Let's work on your ankle mobility So that when you squat you have better form Oh, it looks like you have forward shoulder. Let's prime your body properly so that you can hold yourself in that proper posture Better because you can feel the muscles more effectively and because now you have familiarity With what proper posture is supposed to feel like which is what proper priming does So if you prime properly you go into your workout and you're in it's like it's like you take Imagine this your workout has a potential the number is a hundred the most you can get out of your workout is a hundred Proper priming ensures that you get as close to a hundred as possible If you don't prime you're lucky if you get a hundred you're probably gonna only get a fraction of the total potential because You're not able to get into those positions properly feel the muscles you want to feel so priming makes a huge difference Well, and you know the point you're making to this is why we created a program around it Because it's not as simple as just warm up or telling the audience like oh here are priming movements for you Well, that should be individualized right you should have somebody hopefully a professional or in this case We have an at-home test that you take where we have we broke the body up in three zones And we have you do this test and it's either pass or fail in each zone So if you cannot do this movement perfectly, it's considered a fail if it's a fail There are a series of movements that we tell you you should do to prime your body to help you with Exercises that would require those movement patterns So that is the idea the idea is that you take a test like this you get to you learn What areas or where you have dysfunction or you don't have great? Mechanics and then you start to prime Exercises to help you perform exercises better and it's specific to you and that's what your warm-up quote-unquote prime Priming should look like every day before you go into your workout and it should be very Specific to you. It's about setting the position. It's about you know Being able to stabilize the joints and getting those supporting cast muscles activated and then that way we can take that now into you know that that specific exercise and you're gonna have a more effective Form with that you're gonna fall right into the most optimal recruitment patterns. So it just helps you to You know eliminate a lot of the compensations that may occur or you know like when you go through the motions You're not actually activating them the ideal muscles that you want. Yeah, look at it this way Should everybody work out the same way, right? We're all working out, right? We're all in the gym doing the same exercises We're all doing the same stuff. We're all working out How effective is that versus all of us work out differently based on our goals and Our bodies our current fitness level and all the other factors that make us individuals Which one is more effective? Oh, it's night and day not even close It's not even in the same universe at how fast your body will progress and the kind of results You'll get if your workout is individualized Versus a just general going to the gym and just moving Type of workout same thing with priming and warming up So if you're like, yeah, I warm up and I feel okay, and you've never really truly primed You have you are it's like you were born with one eye closed You have no idea what you're missing until you open the other eye You have no idea what priming can do for your body unless you've actually Primed your individual body once you do it once you'll never go back to warming up again Next question is from Freeman X tell are there any benefits to stability training or using tools like a bossu ball Absolutely. Yes, but boy was it overstated This is this reminds me of like what we talked about in the intro today Like, you know leave it to fucking the fitness community to take something where there's some good science to support the benefits of something And then we just bastardized the shit out of it And we just now it's for everybody and we're doing we're balancing everything on a dyna disc or on a bossu ball Or on a foam pad and trying to make workouts because it's harder. Yeah, but it's more difficult where Yes, there is I think there's incredible benefits And there's definitely an application for specific people But that that's just it is like, you know, I use tools like this for a client that it makes practical sense Especially like in the the rehab area like when you're dealing with rehabilitation Using tools to stabilize somebody or challenge their stability Is a great way for you to help that support all the muscles that are supporting a joint or an area that was injured That there's a lot of benefits to I see it a lot of times is like in a regression So if I get somebody that is coming in and I noticed instability all over the place Like this is an area that we're really gonna have to focus on just like strength training Like this is something that we need to gain that type of awareness and and get the body to you know Respond properly in in stable positions that way now when we're in stable positions Everything is you know working in unison and we can then build upon that Yeah, there's a few components that go into your ability to balance now. We're talking about healthy individuals, okay? So barring any, you know, buddy that has nervous system or disorders or vestibular system disorders Let's just say everybody's healthy here. So this is what we're so we're comparing healthy people to each other Balance comes from a few different places generally speaking strength is great for balance So if you're strong You're you're probably gonna have better balance than somebody who's healthy, but that's also weak So like when I would train older people Just getting them stronger would dramatically improve their balance because now they can move with better stability and strength now more Specifically balance is a skill just like any other skill. So, you know, give you an example if you practice Balancing on a let's say you're walking across a you know a skinny You know pole or something the more you practice it the better you get at it because your balance you tend to build it as a skill Now is there carry over into the rest of your life? Yes, somewhat most of it is to the specific skill Some of it goes to the rest of your life now in the past it was overstated in the past It was like we're doing this on everything Which there's no former training that should be applied to everything. It'd be like powerlifting's got great benefits Everybody power left all the time. No same thing with balance But that being said Incorporating some components of balance which for the average person could be as simple as doing single leg Exactly. There's levels and we have to yeah, definitely a good point to start like stable And then like now we're going one leg now We're going you know on something that is like an air desk like where it's you know something That's a little bit more challenging. It's so that way it is it is like you're you're increasing the level of Difficulty as part of the training and then we move on from there I think the most applicable type of balanced training is just the one-legged type stuff It's the most applicable to the real world, right? It's the thing you're gonna be doing in the experience that the most Yeah, that's where I would say the most Well, I mean here's an example This is literally a conversation that I was having this last week with a client friend of mine So she's an old client. She's also a really good friend of ours and I hadn't seen her in probably six months She stopped by she lives in LA area. She came up To visit Katrina and I and she wanted me to kind of like assess her. She just went and saw Her orthopedic friend that won't get checked her out and she said she first saw a doctor and this doctor Prescribed her insoles for a shoe and I said what I said absolutely not I said, let me let I'll see you when you come down like I don't want you doing that Let me look at you and I had told her before that this could be caught an issue with her and what it is She has peronial tendonitis and a lot of that is because she has she excessively pronates on one side So her foot's flat, right? So her foot flattens out on one side or pronates right so it flattens in inward or collapses inward This is really common. I see this a lot in people squatting. This was an issue for myself And so this was also a close-to-home thing as I'm helping her out with it And so what I told her we need to do is we needed to do soft tissue work to Alleviate some of that. Okay, so here's where you have application for tools like foam rolling or lacrosse balls to do the soft tissue work On hers to alleviate some of the pain that she's having and then we need to strengthen your ankle and your feet and so Exercises to do that nice. She loves what I recently got her into deadlifting and squatting like heavy in the last year And she's seen incredible progression and changed her body and her she loves being strong She was like one of those girls that was all circuit type training and I showed her strength training and changed her life Now here's the the the drawback was well She started deadlifting and squatting really really heavy while also having these flat feet This caused the peroneal tendonitis and now I'm having to reverse her back out of that and say listen back off of the Intensity I don't want you doing any, you know deadlifting with both feet on the ground anymore So now we do soft tissue work. We we work on your your feet strengthen that we do some Ankle strength exercises and then what I want you doing is deadlifting on one leg And when you deadlift on on one leg I want you to focus more on the stability and the control of that More so than you trying to get more weight up and so here's an example of how stability training is Incredible and a tool that you as a trainer you probably use all the time What ended up happening though is that the science to support the benefits of why a trainer like myself would prescribe something in that Situation just like the example. I just gave with the foam rolling We take that and now it's for everybody and everybody should do it and do it all the time And then we start doing it on you know Oh wow well if you can do it on one leg try doing it on a foam pad now try doing on a boast ball now try And hop and then balance and do it and so so we just we take something really good that has Application Because it looks cool, and it's hard right, you know, right. Yeah Next question is from Erica Elko I would love to hear you go into depth on skinny yoga girls Self-selecting yoga as their sport because of their body type. This was a specific question that was given to me on my last Instagram Q&A and She she DM me after I responded because I gave like the short answer to this Was her question on there so that this is a question. Well, she somebody else asked me This was actually somebody else saying that was would you go into more depth for everybody else? Is this like why are why why are why are yoga girls so flexible and always skinny and lean? And my answer to that was there's more of a self-selection bias there than there is the yoga's as it would I give the analogy of It's the same reason why appealing for them I said the same reason why basketball players are seven foot tall and can jump Yeah, it's like you look at you look at a bunch of pro-level basketball players You think oh if I play basketball, I'll be seven feet tall, right? No, that's not exactly the analogy that I gave and she said could you elaborate on that and I said yeah, absolutely And it's just as humans We gravitate towards the things that we're good at and that's not this is not to say that there's not benefits to doing yoga, but Why people think that yoga girls are really skinny and limber is because skinny and limber girls tend to gravitate towards Yoga, that's what it is. It's because somebody who is Overweight and tight really really bad probably takes a yoga class the first time and realize they fucking suck at it And it's hard and they bail and they don't do it Which the irony of all this is that person is for the person that sucks at it And it's really really hard for benefit the most will benefit the most and the skinny yoga girl Who is already limber and is flexible as shit that loves taking yoga all the time she'd be dead Like right. She she's not getting as much benefit as the person who is neglecting to do it because it's hard It's difficult. Yeah, it's it's like when you look at a swimmer, you know Olympic swimmers You're like wow Swimmers really have these you know wide flat backs and you know long arms and short legs And you know if I swim a lot I'm gonna have the broad shoulders and a lot of stuff not necessarily now Definitely different sports and training modalities train Certain parts of the body more than others But a large percentage of the reason why top athletes look the way they do is because One of the reasons why they are top athletes and that shows in sport is because their bodies built for it Same reason why long distance runners at the top levels have long, you know skinny legs and short upper bodies The one form of exercise where you can actually choose to sculpt your body as you wish and of course It's still limited by your there's still limitations like your genetics But more than any other form of exercise is resistance training it's the only form of exercise where I can literally look in the mirror and Again, there's limitations of course, but I can look in the mirror and say I want more leg I want, you know, less shoulder. I want more upper back. I want more bicep And I can literally Construct and design my workout around the way I want to look no other form of exercise looks at because if you do a lot of yoga or a lot of Pilates or a lot of Cycling or swimming or any of the form of exercise. There's a very narrow parameter of how you move For that chosen activity when it comes to resistance training The only parameter is you're lifting you're using resistance and you you're training within a particular rep range and you're resting Other than that I can choose to shape and sculpt my body however. I want so if you want a body That looks more like a particular type of body of course considering your genetic limitations The best form of exercise you could possibly choose is resistance training all the other forms of exercise Just simply don't do that but to those of you that are that have tried a yoga class and You know, because I'm this has definitely happened I've had clients that have come to me about this and I've had to have this conversation with them do not be discouraged when you go to a yoga class and You know, you see the these long beautiful girls that are limber and doing it so well and you feel Frumpy and out of balance and and deconditioned and it's tight and it's hurts And so you go fuck this and you bail like the truth is this that you are the person that needs to be in there And they're they're not the worst you're at it the worst you are at it. Yes Probably the more value absolutely the mo the more value you're gonna get working towards getting better at it So don't you guys ever taking yoga class? Yeah. Yeah, how do you feel? I'm terrible? Yeah? Oh, I went in I took a bun I did yoga for about a year You know what though? I haven't I haven't done it since I've done all the mobility work Right, so I would be I bet I would be a lot better at it today Then one because I did it in the right in the middle of 230 bulking jacked Adam, you know I'm saying like getting all the stairs like oh, yeah, it was a big joke It was like look at the meathead put me right in the front. Yeah, I had some like 60 year old lady next to me And she looks like she was like meditating while she was doing it and I'm sweating bullets and shaking like a leaf Yeah, so it was it was definitely it's definitely challenge and that again guess who needed it the most I did you know and it wasn't until my stubborn ass dealt with Bersides in my hips and low back pain for long enough While looking amazing on stage to the light bulb finally go off like okay It's time for me to stop Focusing just on aesthetics and really start to work on all these other issues that I have and it took a lot of work And it was difficult, but it also paid off yoga is the one other form of structured Exercise and it's the only form of group exercise that I've ever consistently recommended to clients There's different types of yoga, of course And some of them are terrible like there's yoga classes that are like trying to pretend to be resistance training classes and you know power Yoga and that stuff silly The more traditional type yoga classes with the meditative component. It's the one group exercise type thing that I've ever consistently recommended to people because I I've always seen benefits in my clients from incorporating it and it's it's got great benefits. I love it But it's not gonna make your body look a particular like the top yoga definitely type people That's not that's not how it works There's really the only form of exercise that you can target Specific parts of your body and really shape your body like a sculptor with limitations, of course But really the only form is resistance training So only one that can do that and with that go to mind pump free calm and check out all of our free books guides and Resources we have a lot of free stuff on there stuff that will help you work out Burn body fat become a better personal trainer go to mind pump free calm download all of them They cost nothing you can also find all of us on Instagram So you can find Justin at mine pump Justin you can find myself at mine pump Sal and Adam at mine pump Adam