 In this episode of Mind Pump, the world's top fitness, health, and entertainment podcast, we answer questions asked by listeners and viewers like you. Most of them are related to fitness and health. We are fitness and health. Sometimes they're not experts. Now the way we open this episode is with an introductory portion where we talk about current events and studies. That part lasted 40 minutes. If you just want to get to the fitness stuff where we answer fitness questions, fast forward about 40 minutes ahead. But if you like to have fun, you want to hear current events and be entertained, tune in to the very beginning. Nonetheless, I'm going to give you a full breakdown of this whole episode. So we open up by talking about my favorite super stack for mental clarity, concentration, and euphoria. Oh yeah. Yeah. So it's caffeine, theanine, and I like to combine it with Ned hemp oil extract, which is high in CBD, but other cannabinoids as well. 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And you know, sometimes I forget something and re-remember it again, try it again, and I'm like, this is one of those times. So I go caffeine, right? Caffeine and theanine, great combination. Yes. This isn't studies, by the way, if you combine your caffeine with the amino acid, theanine, you will have a better, more euphoric, focused experience. It's more drawn out too, which I've last longer. This is well documented. This is a real thing. Here's one more thing you can do if you feel like you want to become superhuman. Combine it with cannabinoids. So I took Ned this morning. Yes. I did a dropper full of Ned, coffee, theanine, fire. You're just driving my total routine. Do you do it every time now? Yes. Every time I have a nitro, especially, I want to ride that as long as possible and keep it so I don't get too jacked up and too jittery. So adding those together is a beautiful combo. Yeah, I find it gets rid of the jitters and it also eliminates the hard crash. Yes, that's the big one. So a lot of times you get, especially when you do something strong, like nitro, or you do a pre-workout, you get this great high for your workout, but then there's this hour, two hours later, this hard crash. When you got me on the theanine and I've also done that with the Ned, it doesn't seem to peak with the jitteriness. It just, you have a nice high and then it seems like it is like mellow and then there's no drop-off. Dude, I'm telling you, if you want to go into a business meeting or you want to write something or you just want to be creative, try that combination. It's sharp and awake. It's pretty wild and I know there's coffee companies that are trying to combine CBD with coffee now. It's disgusting the way they do it. Yes. Have you tried those? Yes, I have. I've had a few of those cans. You can get them at Whole Foods, but it's just like they have not mastered it yet. No. This is a much better option. No, just do the extra. Yeah, you put it in your mouth. So when you do it, you're supposed to leave it under your tongue for like a minute. So you put it in your tongue for like a minute, then you wash it down. I don't want my whole coffee tasting like CBD. I've tried those too, Justin. They're garbage. You have one swig with it, then it's good. Then you're done. Then you're done. Now you have coffee. You know what I mean? But yeah, great feeling and it lasts a long time and it's smooth and it's euphoric is the best way I can describe it because caffeine will get you up, but not always euphoric. You know what I'm talking about? That happy, good feeling. Hey, speaking of writing, how's the book coming along, man? Oh, good. We don't get hurt for a while. Yeah, we don't talk too much about it. It's because it's a tell all book about you guys. So I don't want to tell you guys too much. Yeah. It's a lot of secrets and okay, it's all just going to come out later. We'll find out. I know you guys love me no matter what. So it's all good. Hey, what a conflicted feeling. That would be Sal sells like a million fucking books, but then it's like shit talking about us. Yeah, we're rich. Oh, fucking asshole. I feel so conflicted about Jeff. You read the part about Justin clipping his toenails while they podcast. Disgusting. Terrible. He's a beast. Dude, there's that movie, Justin. They live. Yes. Tell me that that's not relevant today. Oh my God. What is it? I started watching it. It had to be like so late 80s, like early 90s. Total. But yeah, this was like one of those What's your problem? FI movies had Roddy Roddy Piper in it. You know, so it's like. Oh, you mean the glasses? Oh God, he sees these almost like zombified, like alien people have been taking over basically right in front of everybody. And so yeah, the classic, like I was, I was chewing bubblegum and kicking ass, but I ran all out of bubblegum. No, no, he says I came here to do two things, two bubblegum and kick ass. Thank you. Yeah, I'm all I'm bad. I'm bad at so it's it's a it's a cult classic. So it's not obviously was made in the late 80s. So it's a little bit cheesy. The special effects aren't the greatest. It's like rad. One of the best fight scenes of any movie ever, not because it's like Jackie Chan, Kung Fu, whatever, but rather because it looks like they beat the shit out of each other. Like a real fight. So my comparison is and I know whatever, you know, you can conspiracy theory me all day along. This is like the uncovering of all those fucking sick pedos. Yeah. It's like, you know, put the eyes. Oh, you were one too. Look at you. Yeah. So essentially, you know, it's okay if I ruin the plot, by the way, but he finds these glasses, puts them on, and then as he's walking the streets, he sees people look really freaking like weird. It's like disturbing. And he can't figure out what the hell's going on. And so that's pretty much it. I won't say much else, but you know, there's just like aliens that are taking over. But my favorite part is when he puts on the glasses and he's, I think he's driving or he's walking and he, he sees the billboards and billboards are normally like, oh, Coca-Cola, whatever. But instead it says consume. Consume. Yeah. Obey. Obey, you know. And he's like, what the hell? Yeah. It's such a great. I can't believe you guys remember the details of that. I mean, I've watched that for sure a couple of times as a kid, but I can't remember for the life of me, like the details of it like that. I know. I've seen it. So Sal's just, you know, he has that ability. I've seen it. No, I've seen it a good, a good 10 times. It was, I was great movie when I was younger. I think I watched it first when I was like 14. And I thought it was awesome. And then later I watched it as an adult. And then I feel like it's so relevant today. Courtney makes fun of me for that kind of stuff. Cause it's cheesy, you know, and it's like, it's like, we grew up with predator and we grew up with like all these like commando and like stuff that's like really cheesy, but like awesome. You know, this is one of those movies. Dude, you just wait till your kid, your kids are like 15, 16, when it's okay for them to watch some of these movies. Cause now I get to sit down with my son. Yeah. Oh dude, we watched fight club. So he'd never seen fight club. And it's a, now he's 15 now. So I can watch it with them. And I, you know, I love watching. Remember the first time you watch fight club at the very end where you're like, Oh shit, right? That was my son as we're watching it first off. And then you go back and you see all these little blurbs of he caught on to it right away. He saw the right first, right away as I didn't say anything to him as we're watching. He goes, why is it? Why is there a guy flashing on the screen? And I'm like, Oh, I didn't notice. And then we watched alien, the first alien next is going to be total recall. I've already seen predator with him classic. So good. I get to watch him again. I know it's great that he's, he actually liked him too. He does. Oh, that's good. He likes, he likes him for the same reasons I did, which really, you know, it's just, you know, it's like, cool, you, you are my kid. As I say, it's like he's your son. Yeah. Cause if he didn't, I'd have, I'd be like, we're going to do a blood test because Yeah. This is so weird. What do you guys, what do you guys think about, Trump banning TikTok? Oh yeah. See, I don't know, man. I had this feeling that, especially with the military already like, you know, restricting anybody there from using it. I'm like, this is only a matter of time before the general public. I'm sure they're going to crack down. And the only way out of that is if a American company buys it. And I know that Microsoft is bidding for it right now. Oh, are there? Yes. Oh, I didn't know that. Oh, well, you didn't know that. Oh yeah. So that's the, that's the one, that's the one way it won't get banned in the US is if a American company buys it. And, and right now you've got Microsoft that's bidding for it, which is interesting in itself too, because we talk about, you know, that we just had that big hearing for all the big tech companies. I did. Obviously Microsoft wasn't involved with that because they don't do things like all these social media platforms. Yeah, they have all the data. Did you see when they were asking them all, they're like, so are you, are you aware that China, you know, copies and infringes on copyright and all of them were like, oh, no, that's not personal experience. I'm not aware. I've never seen it. And then they get to Zuckerberg and Zuckerberg is like, yeah, that happens a lot. China steals, install things. Yeah. Probably because Facebook's banned in China. Yeah, exactly. You know what? So here, there's two different ways to look at this. One way is to say, well, yeah, it, TikTok is being used to collect information on people that are up through a backdoor way of taking advantage of the fact that we have open markets that were relative, definitely very free compared to them. And so, Communist China has this social media thing. Now they can have all this information. The other way to look at it is that Trump is using China fears to turn a company into an American company. You know what I'm saying? So there's, there's both angles, I guess. That's what I text you. I feel like this is another maneuver by him. Like what he did with the tariffs and stuff like that. It's like a flex to get something else that he wants. That's what I feel like is happening. Like he's threatening to ban it. Yeah, definitely be a motivation. Unless you make it American, which is, oh, I don't know how, I don't know how I feel about that. Freedom fries. Yeah, I'm not sure. Dude, so I read this article about, I don't watch sports, but this is kind of big news right now. You're going to bring up the NBA. Well, both NBA and the MLB are, they've had a few games now, right? Now I read an article that listed how many viewers watched the opening games and then it listed how many viewers came back to watch more. And the ratings were first off, underwhelming with how many we're supposed to show up considering there's been no sports, nobody's doing anything. Yeah, you think there'd be a frenzy. They expected like more people, still the initial numbers seem to be out good, but just under perform what they expected, but that's ratings dropped considerably after that first game. What are your beliefs? Because part of me is like, well, there's no fans. They went too hard on the political side. Is that what you think it is? Especially the NBA versus the MLB. You just don't see as much of what they're trying to promote. They went way hard on the political side. Did they really? And that's why you think a lot of people turned it off? I mean, that's why my friends that are on the conservative side of the fence did. I mean, I've got four or five buddies that all we're all into sport. We were all in fantasy leagues together. We all talk sports when we were all excited for to start up and it was just a little heavy on that side more than I think anybody. And I think we all anticipated it to be a little bit, which I think was okay, but they went they NBA above every other professional sport team or organization, they went harder than anybody else did. And I think that's what turned off a lot of viewers. Well, the NBA had the biggest drop bigger than the MLB. And they were and they were the hardest on it. Everybody else that MLB was second in line to that. And then you added other sports. Well, actually, I might be wrong. Check this out. So the Lakers and Clippers three, this is the initial game, right? The opening. That was one of the opening games. Am I correct? Okay, there's a second of the opening is the first one was a jazz game, which was earlier in the day, which is why that one was lower because we're one. It's also jazz and pelicans, which is less popular. Those are two great teams, but yeah, less popular. Well, so check this out. This is this is the opening game. And I think they expected NBA finals type numbers. When the finals are on, you're you're seeing five to six million viewers is what I looked up. Okay. So the opening was 3.4 million for Lakers Clippers and 2.1 million for Pelican Jazz. Then when they came back and had the Celtics and Bucks and Matt and Mavs and Rockets. So those are all the next days went for it went down to 1.3 and 1.7. So that's a huge, that's a huge drop. Yeah, cut in half. Yeah. Well, almost, right? For Bay for baseball, Yankees Nationals went was 4.4 million and the Dodgers Giants 2.8. That went down to less than a million for the Mets and Braves, just a million for the Brewers and Cubs and under 800,000 for the Angels and the massive drop huge drop. Yeah. And so, but you know, there's a few factors, I think we need to consider. One is no crowd. Well, first off, there were no sports for a while. So I think everybody expected huge audience. Well, but then there's no crowd. It's like, did they have those, did they have those like no energy cardboard cutouts? Well, they actually did the NBA did something really interesting. They had where the fans would be, they had a massive digital screen. And then there was what looked like real people streaming in. And then they had these massive speakers that were putting off the sound of like what a crowd would be. Now, that alone, forget everything else. Did that make you feel like you were watching a normal game? I mean, yeah, no, it definitely, it's very similar to what I said about the watching UFC. There's, it feels a little practice-esque. I mean, you can hear the guys in the court like talking to each other like that. You couldn't ever hear that before. The crowd would be so loud and everything. Yeah. So, you know, somebody who's played like you, that's nice, right? To be able to talk to my players or my teammates and let them know, oh, back door, back door, you know, and things like that, you now get to hear that as a fan. So, you can hear the conversation or the yelling back and forth amongst teammates on the court. So, it does give a different feel. And it just didn't quite have the same, and NBA is a sport of runs. The whole game is back and forth. There's a lot of runs that happen in the NBA. And I feel like it, and what I'm really curious to see, I told Katrina this, I was like, you know, I can't wait to see the numbers on point scored. My theory is that because the crowd plays such a big factor with runs and excitement that we will see a total scoring going down. That's my theory. But we won't know that until we have enough games under our belt to like see a real good snapshot. Okay. Well, so there's that. And then the other side of it that I've been reading is people are saying that it was just too too political or too politicized, which it could be that a lot of people disagreed with their stance, or maybe a lot of people were like, I don't want to get my politics when I'm getting that sport. Yeah, even if you agreed with it, it's just like, you got bombarded with it. I mean, it's on the court, it's like the commercials, like you just don't get a break from it. You know, it's interesting that they decided to go so hard with it. Yeah. And you think that that, because a lot of people are saying that that's, well, that's the reason why that's the reason why I turned it off. I turned it off because it was too much. It was too much for me. And that was similar to my buddies that were watching. They all kind of felt the same way. It's like, listen, man, like, again, just like you said, I'm not against everyone is to their to each their own. But when I watch sports, that's my time. I mean, I tease you all the time, right? That politics is sports for nerds. I don't want to now include my politics. We might even have the experience. Yeah, I want to watch. I want to get away and have fun. And politics is stressful. Yeah, we get that enough in our Facebook feed. So that's just exactly what happened. So what it ended up doing is it sparked like, so I have these threads of like my buddies that I grew up with that like that's that thread is like dedicated to good sports, shit talking. That's all we do. Your team is playing the other the other guys that are not the other two guys that are not fans of that team talking shit. Oh, what a terrible pass. Oh, LeBron. You know what I'm saying? Like, and it's and it's great fun for us. But it turned it we stopped talking about the game and it all of a sudden turned into all this political shit and sending articles back and forth. And it's like because you have a mix of friends, you have friends that are conservative and friends that are very low. I have I have hard hard left. I have hard right. I have kind of in the middle where I feel like I've kind of fall. And for me, it's like, I want to separate those. I we have fun getting into political stuff. So we have our threads where we're talking politics, which is great. I think it's healthy, especially when you have friends on both sides. I think that's a great way to dialogue. And then we have like our sports stuff, but it bled into our sports conversations. Like, I don't want to talk about this stuff right now. Yeah, I want to I want to talk about the game and talk about what we're seeing on the court. And I that that's my reason. And here's another reason why I think that this is true is because look what happened with USC. USC had some record breaking viewership on their their fight car. And they was all about the fight. Right. Just about the fight. There was there was nothing nothing political in it whatsoever. It was all about the sport and it crushed. Yeah. And I think that they did they went a little hard. Do you think it was the players that were pressuring the organization a bit to kind of really promote, you know, the, you know, the political atmosphere? I think there was both. Yeah. Yeah, I think it was both. I think the I think the NBA, obviously, I mean, they I mean, they painted the court, they I'm sure they have some sort of say in some of the advertising and the commercials that come through. I think it's a little bit of both. I mean, obviously, what the players and the coaches do with getting together and yelling, that's on them. They decided to do that. I don't think the NBA said do it or don't do it. They said they support whatever. So that the players made that that call and that decision. But I mean, how they view it, I mean, how they they shoot it and film it, what they what the announcers talk about the commercials that are played, like, I mean, I'm sure that well, this is a decision. It's a it's a it's a market based, you know, organization. So they're going to they're going to have to do what the or or fail. Well, we'll see if it continues that way, because if they keep getting crap, if it starts affecting paychecks all around, it'd be interesting to see how they you know, if they keep it going or pivot. Well, here's on the flip side. Tom Brady apparently was hitting golf balls in the woods, got 5.8 million viewers. Yeah. So he got he got far more viewers than the opening day of both the, you know, the other thing is to and to, you know, when you talk about there's lots of other factors, there is the that even myself being a huge sports fan and even bigger NBA fan. I had to I was reminded by one of my good buddies that, you know, it was opening day coming back up because I've just, you know, the season to me, the season's over. And most fans that are that are big NBA fans will put an asterisk by this season, no matter what, because it's already there's, you know, we're way late. Yeah, it's so late already. They're doing this kind of like, you know, quarter season real quick to get to the to get to the playoffs. There's teams like the warriors are not even you won't see any warriors playing basketball this year. They're already eliminated from that. So they eliminated like the bottom, I think 10 teams are already eliminated from playing games right now anyway. So there's going to there's there's other factors, you know, so you got to you got to think that if your team's one of the 10 teams that's not playing right now, those people are probably carved off right away. There's probably a bunch of people that are like, this is not even a real season. So even no matter who wins this championship, I'm not going to count it in my in my book. Like, so there's there's other factors, you know, so we might be being deceived a little bit that Oh, there's one thing or another right that it's all these, you know, two million people turned it off because it's political. I don't know. That's my experience with my group of friends that decided to not watch it. That was the reason being, but that might not be everybody. You know, that might be that just because it's just a weird common sense though would say that with people thirsty for entertainment, thirsty for distraction, sports are excellent at that, right? People aren't really going anywhere. You know, you would think that that something as popular as the NBA and the MLB that you would have an explosion of viewership, like you said, UFC had record numbers. So it is interesting. I think we should keep watching to see what the what the market says and how they respond to it because here's the position there. And now if the ratings continue to suck, now the NBA is going to look like they're in between a hard rock and a hard place. They're committed. Like now it's like, do we switch gear? Now we look bad. No, they can't. They gotta write it out. Yeah, they're committed now. They're committed to that. I think they would look worse if they would they waver the other way because then it looks like it was always about. Yes, it was always bullshit. You're doing it just thinking that you're you you thought you were with the majority by by accepting or adopting all this. And then now you go so they won't waver they'll they'll stick it through. But what you might see is you maybe we'll see like back off a little bit on the commercials, the advertising, maybe, you know, you'll hear less of the announcers, maybe even how they shoot the game. Like they put a lot of attention on on the way they shot it. You know, there was a lot of I mean, I've watched the NBA for, you know, over two decades. And I've unless it's a championship game, you don't even normally even see the players for the national anthem. They don't normally shoot that. Yeah, those are the experience you see as you're at the game. Yes. But if you're a viewer on TV, they never have televised. So this time it was focused on Oh, yeah, big time. So, you know, that's just I mean, to me, that's like, okay, that's different. That's definitely different. And they're shooting, they have, they can very easily allow that support that let it happen, but they're not put all this emphasis on shooting it. So we might see some subtle changes like that. That's what I'll be interested to see if they try and do that, like maybe not highlighted as much as they did. It'll be interesting. Wow, well, let's see what happens. Hey, I read an interesting article about the chemicals that are found in sunscreen, the common chemicals. So, you know how sunscreen prevents sunburn, right? There are chemicals in there that absorb the UV rays. That's what we hope is happening. Yeah. And well, there was a study that came out that showed that these chemicals accumulate at very high amounts in the body. So it goes, we were told that these particular chemicals don't accumulate to dangerous levels or cause issues. Well, now studies are showing that they accumulate at very high levels in the body. Here are the ingredients and you find this in most sunscreens. I hope I'm pronouncing them right. One is AVO benzone, oxybenzone, octocrylene, homoselate, octoselate, and octonoxate. And they found that they led to natural items. So they found that using these led to maximum plasma concentration rates ranging from 3.3 nanograms per milliliter to 258 depending on the chemical and whether or not it was applied between the lotion to skin. Now here's the thing, the FDA says that it shouldn't go above 0.5. So on the low end they found that it went up to 3 on the low end. Anything above 0.5 is above the FDA safety threshold. How crazy is that? Especially you're just lathering it all over your body. No, that's what the FDA was out there. How does something like that get through that's more than five times stronger than what it's allowed? This was a recent study that came out that said, hey, looks like these are accumulating in the body. I think previous studies didn't look at this necessarily. Oh, maybe it was just like the initial. So the initial might be under 0.5, but it builds up, say you're on the beach for three days in a row, lathering up five times. And it goes way above what the FDA has deemed as safe. Now I stopped using chemical sunscreens a long time ago. I haven't used them in years. So what is the safe alternative for someone like Justin who right now looks scared to death? Yeah, I've been like, oh, shit, do I gotta look like that idiot guy with the zinc everywhere? Because I'm trying out this astaxanthin thing and hoping for the best to see if that actually has some kind of benefit to it. But at the same time, I'm like, I have to put it on or I'm gonna burn. Yeah. So zinc or titanium are the safe alternatives. You don't want to get nano particulate where they crush the zinc so small that actually absorbs in your skin. But those sunscreens are different because they don't absorb the UV arrays. They reflect them out. Now the drawback is even the good ones, you're gonna have a little bit of a white sheen to your body when you put them on. But dude, I would not mess with the chemical ones at all because when they accumulate in the body, they have potential hormonal effects on the body. So ghosted out at the beach. Another product that has been used forever that we're now finding more harm than good. You left, Sal, you left early last week. And so I don't think you saw this. I think Rachel posted the clip that I had sent over. But I came in, or this was I think Thursday, late afternoon, I'm getting ready to leave here. And I see that Magic Spoon has sent like two like massive cases that have like, you know, 10 cases each of the boxes of cereal in there. Oh, is this where you fucked with Justin? Yeah. And I go, no, he, I come out there and here's, I see Justin walking out, fucking carrying this like handful of all the blueberry and free went through all the cases and plucked all the blueberry flavor. Yeah. Yeah. All out of it. It leaves us with the other flavors. Sneaky juice. And I was telling Doug, I was like, this son of a bitch, right? We're going through. It's just like, he wouldn't pick out all the good flavors. So I was like, oh, let me open up this other case and see what's in there. And then I open the other case and it's full with peanut butter, which I know he's got the gold. I know he still hasn't had the peanut butter one. I didn't even taste it yet. I'm so mad. I saw it until Doug. I was like, this asshole tried to go in and take care of everything. He missed the whole box of it, too. What are you sitting? Hey, what did you think of it? Doug, would you like? Oh, it was great. Yeah, the peanut butter is fire, right? Is that weird? There's no sugar in it, but it tastes the way it does. Oh man. I couldn't stop. I just kept pouring bowl after bowl. That's the magic engineering. So you know that they have new flavors coming, right? What are they? Yeah, they have strawberry. And then what's the other one they have coming right now? And the strawberry is supposed to have like little chunks of strawberry in it. Oh, wait. Didn't they say peaches and cream, Doug? Wasn't that the other one? Yeah, that's another one. It's coming out. Oh, dude. Well, good game. I'm excited for the next week. So now you guys do realize that by eating 10 servings, you kind of negate the you eliminate the benefit of eating a little sugar. Well, you gotta really like figure out like how it tastes and the texture. You gotta get used to it. That's not necessarily true. Like I think I calculated out one day, like what if I ate this whole box? It's not as bad as you. It's not like eating a bag of potato chips. That's for damn sure. But it's like 100 grams of protein? Yes. Yeah. It's a pretty damn big serving of protein for sure. That's too much. I mean, I already have more than one serving. I mean, what they put on cereal boxes, any cereal box, whether it's a, you know, quote unquote healthy or regular cereal, is always like who the fuck eats two thirds a cup, you know what I'm saying? A cereal like that. Kind of weak sauce. That's a tease. Yeah. When I was a kid, now I'd eat cereal. It was always a punch bowl. Yeah. Exactly. It was never, it was never in a bowl. It's the serving bowl. But imagine when you put popcorn in. Imagine when this, so one of my favorite cereals growing up was Captain Crunch when they started to make the little strawberry fricking. The Crunch Berries? Yes. Oh really? I just like the. So imagine when this strawberry drops and you have peanut butter and you can sprinkle some of the strawberry flavor. So if you don't get the roof of your mouth tore up. Oh, I can't. That was the worst. I can't wait for it. Do you guys think that happens because Captain Crunch's like call to fame was the fact that it stayed crunchy and milk. So whatever they put in there, whatever chemical shit store redded your mouth. Yeah. They put in there also destroyed your gums and your teeth. I didn't even, I didn't even think about that. Is that the reason why it was like that? Because that's my guess. That's a good call. It did stay crunchy. So it did. It did. It stayed crunchy longer than other. Didn't get soggy. Yeah. But you know what's stupid about that? I broke up with a girlfriend over a soggy cereal. Did you really? Yeah. What happened? I don't know. I was frustrated because like we were having this fight over the phone and I just made myself a bowl of cereal and then it like by the time we're like done fight. I was like, you know what, like it's not worth it. I like hung up on her and I just kept eating my cereal. This relationship isn't worth a bowl of soggy cereal. That's how important it was for me to do your high. That should be a quote right there. You ruin my frosty flake. You're so dramatic that my cereal got soggy. I got so mad. That's a real story. Yeah. You know what? I always, I never had soggy cereal because I ate it at the decent speed. Like if you ate your cereal so damn slow, it got soggy. It's your fault. I was my belief. You know what I mean? You deserve to have soggy cereal at that point. Anyway, crazy. Did you hear about Google's career certificates? What? Education. Are they moving the education? Finally doing what we were talking about. I think we predicted this. I think so. You can get a Google career certificate that'll help you get qualified for high-paying, high-growth job fields, no college degree required. And in at Google, they will treat these career certificates as the equivalent of a four-year degree for related roles. Wow. Wow. Yeah, dude. Isn't that great? I mean, for sure, you're going to see all the other big companies follow. Don't you think so? Oh, they got to be competitive. Dude, we've talked about this. This is for sure a market response because a four-year degree takes forever. You're taking a lot of stuff that maybe you don't need for a specialized role. Why aren't companies going to compete like this? I could see Apple doing this. I could see Facebook start doing this. Oh, man. And these certificates take way less time or far less expensive. I think it's going to be a freaking amazing thing. I had such a long conversation with a bunch of people. We were at this party and it was all about education because we talked about forever. It's completely changing from every facet of education. It's crazy to watch it all right now. What time we're in, where kids are like, we're all trying to figure this out and piece it together. And I've heard strategies from different parents and it's very, very interesting. Hear this. Tell me if this goes out and this starts to spread with other big companies, tell me this isn't going to destroy private education like expensive universities. 100% is going to totally disrupt that whole thing. First of all, you can get a scholarship. So Google can actually tell you, hey, we're going to give you this certificate. But if they don't, each specialization certificate costs $49 a month. Number one, number two, this is just with Google. Google has established hiring pipelines with big name employers. So Cognizant, Hulu, K4, Sprint, et cetera, right? Upon completion of these certificates, you'll have the option to share your certificate with those employers. So now those employers are going to look at those as well. Beautiful. You know what I'm saying? I mean, just thinking about the, do the math on this. How many people work for Amazon? How many people work for Facebook? How many people work for Google? How many people work for Apple? This is real job placement. And if they all jump on board, what will that look like statistically? Yeah. And it's like, dude, we're going to these institutions to get in like serious debt just to dig our way out where this is like, you can directly go to these companies and then you have opportunities right away. You don't get yourself in massive debt. Dude, it gets better. These are some of the courses they have. Job specializations include data analyst, IT support specialist, project manager, and UX designer. Ready for this? Each specialization will take three to six months to complete. That's it? No experience is required to enroll and the corresponding jobs have a minimum medium salary of $50,000. So here you are three to six months later, you get a certificate that Google will now treat as a four year degree. And there are other employers that they work with will treat it like a degree. That's amazing. You come out 49 bucks a month. So what's 49 times? So what's 50 times six? Was that three in a box? And then you got to potentially you could qualify for a job. No, no, no experience required. In a year to two years time, you could have all of them. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to see if my kid, if there's an agent. Yeah. How young he can be. Dude, I'm going to be like, Hey man, you know, especially for someone like your kid who's like so ahead of his, so ahead of his age, right? Tell me that's not amazing. If other companies start to do this, there's, everybody's going to be, I mean, this is a good thing. I think it's a really good thing. I think this is going to be a very, very good thing. So exciting. Yeah. Anyway, dude, I did a post. Actually, I had a thought process that led to a post about the, the personal growth that fitness encourages in people when they stick to it long enough and do it for the right reasons and follow it in a healthy way. And I was thinking about the, some of the studies that I've read on, have you guys seen the studies on people who exercise and eat right and their rates of success in marriage, their rates of success in business and so on? Have you guys seen that? I have not. What does it look like? So people who are, who have high satisfaction with their career, people who earn more money than the average person, that's the other one. And people who tend to have high satisfaction with their families and marriage, a much higher percentage of those people exercise on a regular basis and prioritize a healthy diet. So that we've known for a long time. And the argument was, oh, well, those people are already, you know, they have, they've got good practices, obviously they're successful in business and in life. So it only makes sense that they would prioritize fitness and health. I think that the opposite may also play a role, which is the pursuit of fitness done properly in a healthy way, builds and encourages the skills that make you more successful in other aspects of life. Well, there's so many parallels. We talked about this a while back, right, where I speculated that a majority of that is, or the thing that I think is in common is if you go to the gym or you exercise and diet, you're growth-minded. You're trying to improve yourself. So that characteristic alone, it probably is a indicator of someone that is more likely to be successful in relationships and business. If you're a growth-minded person, I mean, that's one of my favorite attributes of someone like Katrina. And it's why our relationship, even though you were 10 years deep in, continues to be better today than it was the first day we started dating was because we continue to grow each other, both of us, right? And we care about that. That's important to each of us. So I think that has a big factor to play on why these people. And one of the things you learn in fitness really quick, after you've been doing it, is that it's a slow process. And there's a lot of failures along the way. And consistency is so important. And setback is part of it. So which parallels life, business, relationships, and everything else. I know. That's exactly what it is, in my opinion. And I think that you're not born growth-minded or fixed-minded. It's something that you can train, develop. You can change how you view things. And the reason why I think fitness is such an effective way to do this is because your guard is down. You're not going in to work out and think to yourself, I'm going to totally change my mindset. I'm going to totally change. Oftentimes, like, I just want to get in better shape. I want to maybe lose some weight and get fit. And then you stick to it long enough. And here's some of the stuff that you figure out. And this is all what determines a growth mindset. You learn how to persevere in the face of failure. If you work out long enough and you try to fix your nutrition, you are going to fail a lot, especially in the beginning. And if you stick to it, you learn how to persevere with those failures. Here's another one. Effort is required to build new skills. That's all fitness is. All fitness is, is you go in and you try and you suck. And then you go in the next time and you still suck, but maybe less a little bit and you keep going and keep going and keep going. And eventually you learn that, hey, you know what? If I put some effort in, I can learn some new skills. Here's another one. You find inspiration in other people's success. Here's what I notice with people in fitness. When they first start working out, they might be a little bit like, oh, that person is just genetically gifted. But if you stick to it long enough, you know what you end up doing? You end up respecting people, of course, that have, have good fitness. This is, you have breakthroughs all the time. And I think too, like, and this kind of goes back to the whole belief system, like you come in believing you're something. Like I was, you know, I had all these factors that were given to me at birth that like I'm trying to overcome where, and you also find out that you can break through, like say you're a hard gainer or say you're something that like, well, I just can't build muscle, but like really you haven't like put that to the test. You haven't done all those little steps that will actually get you to break through. Now, all of a sudden, wow, I can build muscle. I can break through. Absolutely. Here's the, here's the last one that I think is so powerful. You learn to accept criticism and in people who've been working out for a long time and know exactly what I'm talking about. But if you're new, you might think, well, what do you mean by that? As you're doing this process, if you are to stick to it long enough, you have to be able to learn how to criticize yourself and accept it and not be this devastating thing. You also, when you meet other people that work out, can talk with each other about technique and form and how this might not have worked or whatever. And rather than taking it personally, like when I, when I first started working out, if you came up to me and said, Hey, Sal, you need to develop this more than the other because you're not looking balanced. Oh, I would have crushed me today. If I'm working out with one of you guys, and you say that, it's like, okay, like because we're all in this together, we understand the process. So it's one of the best ways to enter into personal growth. And I think a big one is because it's unassuming. You don't even know what's happening until it's too late. And then you've become. It's hard too. And I think that's what makes it so great when you talk about things like a relationship and business, because that's hard. You know, living with someone, the same person for the rest of your life is isn't easy. I don't care how great or how yeah, it's work. You and you have to end. There's a lot of ups and downs and it's working through all that that makes a really strong relationship. And the same thing goes for business. Yeah. Business is hard. There's a lot of setbacks in life. There's a lot of things that happen that you would never foreseen like you have to learn to enjoy it. Yeah. And adapt. You have to learn to adapt. So there's so much, I think so many parallels in training your body that that you start to see an unfold that parallel real life. Totally. And speaking of, you mentioned hard gainers, Justin, I want to say this, because we are about to start the hard gainer webinar where I talk exclusively to men and women who have trouble building strength and building muscle, maybe more trouble than the average person, you know, you think you're a hard gainer. This webinar is going to be airing and we're going to be on their live a few times this week. So if you want to come and learn about why hard gainers are hard gainers and how to train your body specifically so that it builds muscle, and I'm going to make a statement that's 100% true. This is not me blowing smoke. I have never met a hard gainer that I could not get to build muscle by applying some of the stuff that I really break down in this webinar. So it's extremely valuable. It's totally free. You go to hardgainerwebinar.com and sign up and it's unlimited to how many people can call on them. Well, last night we had the first one at five o'clock. When's the next two, Doug? On Thursday and on Saturday. Okay, perfect. Now, there may be some replays. Sign up anyway. No matter what, you're going to get great information. It's hardgainerwebinar.com. First question is from Daniel Mesa. One, how possible is it to make muscle gains at 40? Oh gosh. So here's the thing. So I train a lot of people towards the end of my career as a trainer that were in advanced age, which I believe is classified as over 65. Are we in advanced age now? No, we're not. No, I'm going to use it. I'm like, man. That was me the last time I said that. That just snuck up on us. Yeah. No, I'm using that as an example because that's way older than 40. So typically it's considered anybody over 65 in a fitness context. And I would say towards the end of my career, a good 35% of my clients were over the age of 65. So I had a lot of experience training them and they would often ask me the same question, except they were 70 or 80. Sal, can I get stronger at 75 years old? Or can I build muscle at 75? The day your body loses its ability to adapt to stress is the day that you're dead. Okay. So you never lose the ability to adapt to exercise. Now, your potential can definitely change. You're not going to be able to get as strong at 70 as you can at 20. 40, yeah, there's a little bit of a difference, but not much. There's not much of it. There is a difference, but not much. Well, I think there's a big difference in when we're comparing these two things, right? Like a 40 year old who is starting their fitness journey for the first time ever at 40 versus somebody who's trained off and on for a really long time and maybe they've been off for five years and they're training at 40. Because something that I'm finding getting closer to 40 right now is, yeah, it's harder to get in the gym and lift and I have the aches and the pains and I have these and maybe like testosterone levels are starting to slowly decline in comparison to what I was when I was 20. So there's those factors. But then there's the positive factor for someone like me who's lifted for so long that I definitely feel like if I get in the gym and I start touching weights again, my body remembers really quick. So there's, it depends on the 40 year old that I'm talking to. Am I talking to a 40 year old who's never lifted weights before? Or am I talking to a 40 year old who has lifting experience? They just haven't got back or they're back on the wagon, right? Well, look, Doug is a great example. Doug came to me as a client and he was a self-described hard gainer says, oh, all I do is gain body fat. I follow every routine. I've been consistent forever. Guy was working out since he was in his 20s. He came to me in his late 40s and through changing the way he trained and training him properly. He didn't just get in good shape. He got in the best shape of his life. In fact, if you're watching this on YouTube, we'll have Andrew post up his before and after. So you can see what he looked like in his late 40s and you'd be blown away. So I hate saying that, yeah, you might notice some decline. Here's the people that might notice declines, the people that are super high level all the time. Everybody else, you're probably not going to notice because you'll notice more. Am I inconsistent? Is my diet poor? Am I getting bad sleep? Now, if you're like at a top level at, you know, in your mid 20s, 30s, and 40s, then I've been consistent all the time for a long time. I'm being super consistent with diet and exercise. I notice a little bit of decline. Would I notice that at all if I was in and out? I don't think so. It's all about the other factors that make this. Yeah, as I said, there's other things too that I mean, I feel like we have to give or defend some, you know, somebody who's 40 plus that's getting into fitness, you know, where you're at at 40 years old, there's other factors besides like, I know the question's probably geared towards like hormonally and your body's ability to adapt and all that stuff all is fairly close to the same or equal. And I agree with you. But then when you're 40, you've probably been married, have kids. You have real established patterns, like hardwired patterns. Right. Work is a huge priority. You know, when you're 22, you know, as long as you get your studying in for the week for your test scores or that, the rest of the time can be focused on yourself and training. That's the big difference. So I think that you have to give them some sort of credit or that it's a little more challenging for someone who's starting at 40 late in their life, who has all these other habits established, but good habits, right? Working and doing those things are important. This is also why and you address this in the hardgainer webinar with Doug and everything, like this is also why I find a full body routine to be so superior is a guy who's trying to get into it or even a girl for that matter that's trying to get into fitness at 40 years old or older and is trying to follow these kind of body parts split routines where they need to train, you know, four or five, six days a week and be consistent in doing that while all these other factors are in play and you don't have the experience of lifting forward definitely can be challenging versus somebody who is lifting a full body routine that maybe only needs to commit to three days inside the gym. A lot of people can make that commitment and be consistent about it and if they do miss a day, it's not as detrimental to them as far as their progress as it is for somebody who's doing a split routine. You know, what's funny is now that you brought up men and women you made me think of something the the most fit women I've ever trained in my life most okay most women that hire trainers are usually because personal training is expensive usually in their 30s or older. You rarely ever get a 20-something-year-old client who hires you just because they don't have the finances to afford paying you know 50 to 100 an hour. So most of the female clients are over the age of 30 I would say and comparing my female clients in their 30s to the ones in their 40s the ones in their 40s got in better shape and it's not because of the age it's because I think when the women were in their 40s their kids were older they're not having kids anymore then they became more focused whereas the the the moms that I had that were in their 30s it was harder for them to juggle time and scheduling and then got little kids which takes up more time so I think that's the biggest factors the time stuff and these responsibilities. I've also noticed too like even depending 40, 50, 60 year olds that I've trained that like haven't even like lifted weights before ever they get those newbie gains oh yeah it's definitely something that still happens it's this phenomena your body's like wow what is this it's a brand new stimulus so there is a bit of momentum there in the beginning so it does kind of help give you a little bit of a lift initially yeah and here's the big thing the older you get this is a good this is kind of cool the older that you get if you're consistent with exercise the the further away you are from your peers the more the best so in other words if you were to compare yourself to your peers and you're a 20 year old and you work out and you're comparing yourself to other 20 year olds who don't really work out there's a little bit of a difference when you're 40 that difference is much bigger and the older you get the bigger that difference gets to the point where when you get to your 60s and 70s if you're exercising consistently you are independent they aren't they can't even take care of themselves half the time and you're fully independent so that's one of the good things about you know getting older you take care of yourself you maintain a level of fitness that just totally separates you from your peers it really is like one of the grasses greener on the other side because at that age it just presents different challenges right i feel i feel like that they're sure there are some challenges but it's different than what it was at 25 30 so both equally difficult difficult to build muscle you gotta be a bit smarter with your approach right right next question is from magnetic beauty 101 what do you think of push pull and leg routines well this is a perfect transition from that question right because it this is what i i love this type of routine i follow this um a lot like this works for me but if i have a challenge with it it's if i'm having a hard time being really consistent with the gym if you're somebody who religiously hits the gym four times or five times a week and you never miss a day then yeah there's there's nothing wrong with a routine like this i think it's a great routine if you're getting to every muscle group two to three times a week and you're doing that consistently i think there's a lot of value in training this way as i've gotten older and and other priorities in my life with business and family it's become harder and harder for me to train four or five days a week really consistently to run a routine like this and so i'm back to running a more full body type of routine and it just serves me better i know that i had a rough week just two weeks ago where i only trained once you know and if i only trained once i wouldn't want to land on just a you know just a leg day or just a you know chest and back day and then i missed the other body parts like at least i got a full body routine my body did not miss getting stimulated my entire body didn't get missed stimulated that previous week just because i was inconsistent with everything else yeah so for you those you're listening who don't aren't familiar with what this type of routine is so it's a type of a split routine where you break the body up uh into body parts and you train different body parts on different days so a push day refers to typically chest shoulders and triceps a pull day typically refers to back and biceps and then of course leg refers to the legs now if you only work out three days that week you hit each of those body parts once one time if you do a full body routine and you work out three times that week you've hit all the body parts three times so that increased frequency uh like adam's talking about tends to make it uh superior to get the same kind of frequency out of a push pull routine a push pull leg routine you wouldn't be able to uh because there's seven days in a week and so at most you hit each area twice a week you'd have to make up the difference with volume now i know what the studies say and the studies say if the volume is the same there's not that big of a difference i disagree i've trained lots and lots of people i've trained myself and uh more frequency i'd say 80 percent of time it's just not that it's i mean even nobody ever trains like a study you know for six weeks it just doesn't real life happens and that's i mean that that to me is the real difference maker in the stuff that we talk about on the show is that we always take into consideration like behavior and the behaviors that i've seen training tons of people for this long is that and and myself who's a fit who's a fit who's supposed to be a fitness fanatic life happens and sometimes i only get to the gym once in a week and if i'm gonna do that i'd much rather not be in the middle of my push pull split routine i'd much rather be doing a full body so that like i said at least everything is getting touched otherwise you have these weeks where inconsistency might happen and then what do you do when you start over again and everybody tends to start over either the beginning of the push pull routine or they start over on the muscle group that they love training it's just it's it's it's behaviors yeah but here's the here's the point that i want to make though let's just say you're right this doesn't happen in real life but let's just pretend that it's perfect push pull legs versus full body everything's perfect so let's compare the two here's why i still think more frequency is better for most people you get to practice the exercises more often so even though the volume might be controlled for you might hit your legs twice a week so you're squatting twice a week which is a very complex exercise and a lot of the gains you get from a squat is the central nervous system adaptation the practicing of the exercise a full body routine means you can practice squatting at least three times that week so it's that practiced element that everybody forgets that i think is extremely important and if you're super advanced that might be not as important but like i said this is my 100 percent belief about 80 to 85 percent of everybody listening right now is going to just get better results across the board on a full body routine than they would on any kind of a split including a push pull leg routine and by the way yes push pull leg and those kind they can be effective i mean we have a program that follows a split called map split but for most people the full body just always works out but it's still like in progression after aesthetic which like this is you know like this is something a little bit more advanced and so i look at it like that i look at it like an advanced technique like you're mentioning the practicing element it's a huge component you got to really get familiar with all these exercises and a much better approach for doing that is the full body routines next question is from epic mantra fitness what are your thoughts on the statement you can't judge someone's health by looking at them i would say this i would say you can you can see a a certain amount of someone's health right you can't see everything but there is a certain amount of someone's health you can see by looking at them but there's a caveat what is your filter are you yourself a healthy person so i'll explain what i mean if you if you had asked me does someone look healthy when i was in my late teens very insecure super into bodybuilding i just needed to build muscle because i hated being skinny all that stuff and you showed me a you know ultra ripped shredded muscular person i would have been like yes that's healthy today oftentimes i can see somebody that looks like that and i know no they don't look healthy so it's the person who's looking and here's your evidence right here okay you got so many people that do so many things to their body to make them look better but in reality they they're it's all fake and false everything from plastic surgery to anabolic steroids and drugs and all that stuff yeah that you know it just becomes extreme and because so many other people are unhealthy they look at that and they think they're attractive so if you're if you're a healthy person you can usually see a decent amount of someone's health simply by looking at of course it's not a hundred percent well and i also think too like it's this this is totally different when you're looking at pictures versus somebody real life oh yeah i mean it there's just so many examples of filters and ways that people have hid uh you know dark eye circles and you know like real visible signs uh you know that their body is fighting something internally and i think that i mean this is a natural thing i think that people have uh that you know that that's in our DNA to where we can see somebody and we could see visible signs of of unhealth that's something that like you know we're sort of geared towards especially when we're we're going to uh uh you know you know reproduce with somebody and that's something that uh i think that it's it's weird that you would deny the fact that like we're not constantly judging people based upon uh what they're presenting uh so i i think that uh you know and i don't know if this is inferring uh you know the whole weight at any size being healthy and all that kind of stuff like if that's being thrown in the mix because that's a totally different conversation i don't i don't think we can i just because um i mean you're you just mentioned a great point Sal is that if you asked me when i was 20 something years old which by the way already schooling behind me years of training people a fitness professional think i know a lot about it i would still have been way off on it so i think that the majority of people cannot judge this we have just and we've been conditioned to look at someone's body and assume that because they look a certain way that they are considered healthy look at the covers of shape magazine men's health muscle and fitness this uh your instagram celebrities in general like everything that we've been told like this is an example of health many times and much of what we used to talk about when we first started mind pump was uncovering this was that your fitness professional or this person who we are highlighting as the pinnacle of health is not healthy at all they're taking anabolic steroids they have a terrible relationship with their their body image they have a terrible relationship with their friends their family there's so many things that encompass health that you can't see and i also know what i what i've dealt with personally myself i have to be in if i looked at the last 20 years i have to be in the the lower not definitely not the worst at all but i would say i'm in the the lower percentile of what i would consider my best aesthetic shape but i have to say that i'm probably in the best overall health shape i've ever been in my life because of the other balances my my financial health my spiritual health my relationship health with my family with my friends the job that i'm doing the things that i'm the other aspects that take care of an encompassed health in my life meditation reading all these things that i was not doing to take care of my my complete spectrum of health i wasn't doing before but if you look if we were to take my shirt off and show a picture of me versus what i looked like just six years ago someone would be like oh my god adam is so unhealthy now compared to what it used to be you know it's fine yeah i would agree with like the general person for sure i don't think like a lot of people pick up on those signs or even i would have trouble or even aware of it i do think there's ways to learn that and that's something that we've done is health professionals we've learned all those signs and symptoms and like as a professional you could point out just by the posture of somebody too a lot of times whether or not they're ill uh or they have visible signs that their skin is you know like looks a certain color or something like that yeah you're a healthy person would be able to see that you're healthy you know it really depends on your they got to be really healthy though i'm going to do that what i'm saying is you're right they gotta be educated well look at what we consider health youth that's what we consider as healthy anything that looks young so a woman that has her hair colored so that there's no grays well you know the average unhealthy person would say well they're healthier right uh you know a big fake butt some people might be like oh yeah she looks healthy or you know a guy that's all roided out and got a six pack or whatever yeah he looks healthy so it takes a a healthy filter to be able to look at someone and say are they really really healthy uh overall and there's a lot you could tell by meeting someone and talking to him too sometimes you look at someone and physically they seem pretty healthy you start talking to me like well especially the mental health aspect yes i mentioned yeah that's really hard to see obviously unless you're like in a room with them talking right right so okay fun game for us to play then right now okay of our other friends and peers in our space oh gosh think name two or three people that come to mind right away that you think of like really embody or encompass like full spectrum health that are really healthy that we've seen and hung out with in person okay now uh i've got two right away that come to mind now nobody's perfect so we're not gonna no i don't want to give like an example and then and then think oh this person's perfect you mean just people that we know that you meet and you go well this person's well yeah we're we're we're making a claim right now that we can look at somebody and say that they they are healthy and they embody health yeah and so i'll give you mine since i'm the one who started it came out of like two friends of ours that i i look at every time i see them in person i they just they they glow of health to me and that's max lucavir and ben greenfield yeah i mean ben has to have some of the the craziest looking skin and hair and when you're in person with him it looks crazy he looks 10 years younger than what he really is and he doesn't seem to age we've known each other now for six years you say paul check on some yeah paul would be paul would be another one right i would say i mean maybe i'm cheating here but i'd put dug uh in that category oh yeah dug absolutely now i'm not fair we seem every day well but i know him better right than anybody and i'm counting all of it right all of the just mental health and all that's a serene too and serene who does who's on our youtube channel when you meet her she seems like a very secure vibrant healthy vibrant um individual but yeah if you have the if you have unhealthy filter on you know if you got glasses on that through your own insecurities and your own you know misconceptions of what health looks like you're not going to see health you're going to see your own unhealthy filter through with other people and that's my case why i don't think anyone can judge it i think it would be hard for us as trained professionals seen tons of examples but like just alluded to there's other things that that encompass health that even our eyes can't necessarily see like i threw out someone's name like ben for all i know ben is like internally suppressing all this shit inside of him that he doesn't feel like he's himself or he's going through impossible i can't tell that i got someone arthur brooks arthur brooks to me when you talk to him and meet him and see him and he comes across a very calm demeanor yes a very very good generally balanced uh healthy individual that's that's one example i well what i what i love of why i wanted to do this is that i guarantee you that there's we didn't name you know a hundred people that look to the average person of that we've that have been on this podcast that they look like the healthiest the most ripped the most fit and like they would be in that category and we named off kind of average looking kind of bodies i mean ben's a little more ripped and ben's looking pretty crazy yeah he looks yeah he looks pretty crazy right now but not crazy crazy not like he's the average person yeah yeah but i mean everybody else max not so much paul check i mean paul check considering his age yeah that that these doesn't make sense next question is from hurricane shaker how do you set up the quark episodes how do you choose the questions how do you prepare your answers and when do you find out what the questions will be there's very little are we gonna be real honest yeah yeah i think i think it's important because i think uh we don't cherry pick questions it's really extremely random uh it's literally which one of us speaks to us which one of us three gets to it first like you know like we all are always doing uh lots of different projects and so when we come in the office first thing in the morning uh sal might be you know on the phone with his book editor time justin may be booking something with malls of dougs always got something going on so i might go like oh i see that the guys are all really busy let me be the one to get on here real quick and pick you know four questions i tend to try and pick personally i tend to try and pick questions that get a lot of likes meaning that other people want to hear us talk about it so i something they got no likes or nobody really sort of that one person wants to hear it i try and pick the ones that there's more than one person that's like wanting to hear the answer to that but there's really no rhyme or reason of of how we choose them we do and and then the other guys don't know like these and these questions that we have right now i picked these this morning uh sal and justin got zero time to prep no one has time for prep so we don't prep our answers no i think that there may be some benefit to prepping a little bit just looking at the question five minutes before so you can kind of get your your what you're gonna say organized but really i like the fact that you know what comes out as our first experience so it turns into a good discussion by the way for those of you who are never asked us a question for these episodes it's super easy you go to the mine pump instagram page it's mine pump media and then go to the quaw it's q a h uh meme and right underneath uh post your question and if you do it every week i think we post them how many times a week do we post the odds are in your favor yeah especially if it's thought provoking i think too like we just we revisit a lot of like similar topics but if we've done it like recently we try to avoid like the redundancy of it but i know people get something out of us going back over a topic in more depth so we look for opportunities to do that uh or but mainly it's interesting questions it's ones that are like thought provoking or uh you know obviously related to health and fitness or those are the best yeah and here's the other thing too when we first started doing those we thought to ourselves well people are be asking a lot of the same questions over and over again but then we we remembered what it was like to be a trainer yeah and here's the answer i answer the same question a thousand times to the same person yeah you know when you're when you're working with somebody about and they were having that you're talking about changing their behaviors and changing the way they eat and how they should become active and they've never done it before they've never been consistent before it's it's it's a lot of over over over and over again conversations many times said differently maybe introduced differently using different you know examples telling different stories and eventually the person really understands what you're trying to say this is just it like uh this happened many times in my career and we see this happen today still with these quads like if you're somebody who's listened to every single episode since day one you pretty much know our stance on everything but every time we have to revisit something that's similar to something we've talked about before somebody shares something different or we we convey the message a little bit different and i don't i remember all the time training clients where i know i said this thing like 10 times i've answered this question 10 times but it was the way i answered it on the 10th time yes that like that hit that hit a chord for them that was like oh shit that makes total sense or it just it related to something in their life where the light bulb went off and then they now and that's how we look at these is that yeah there's every one of these questions we've answered somewhat like this before there's nothing in here that's completely many times yeah many times over but because it's worded different it's asked by a different person and we've maybe not addressed it in six months or a year we we answer it and then in hopes that there's you know hundreds maybe thousands of people are listening this time to go like oh oh i get it now yes the goal is to create aha moments for people listening and the goal is also to strengthen and reinforce those moments over time so one of the best things you could do and this is again this is experience with working with a trainer excuse me working with clients as a trainer is this you listen to the podcast listen to the questions if you see that the same question comes up keep going keep listening over and over and over and over and over again and what'll end up happening is little by little you will change the way you think about yourself you would change the way you think about exercise and not just from a outside oh i know this answer i know what they're gonna say but i mean really knowing and adopting it as part of you know how you treat yourself how you exercise um and how you feed yourself and so that's really the goal uh with these questions and so if you haven't asked this one go to the the mind pump uh media official page post questions and if you do it every week i guarantee at some point we'll pick your question um and answer it for you look mind pump is recorded on video as well as audio so come check us out on youtube mind pump podcast also i mentioned instagram we have the official mind pump media page but we also have personal pages you can find justin at mind pump justin you can find me at mind pump sal and adam at mind pump adam remember having this conversation with clients and uh i would frustrate them sometimes right they would ask me questions and especially when they first hire me uh which diet is the most effective like what's the most effective strategy and i'd say okay uh what looks like what you're doing right i'd say what do you mean what do you mean by effective it depends what do you mean by effective oh um i just want to lose this