 He's selling a kettle. That was kind of impressive, right? What's up players? What's going on ladies and gentlemen? Zendu nation. This is Ask the Zendudes episode 2 where you post questions about health and fitness and lifestyle and fun and We answer those questions. So, well, this time, this time. Keep on that sound effect is like Happy Tuesday. It's a Tuesday. We're getting more organized about our YouTube channel because as it grows guys first of all Thank you to our awesome community. $60,000 subscribers $60,000 subscribers. Four million views. Thank you. Thank you. We love you guys. Gracias. We get asked a lot of questions. So once a week, typically Sundays, We're gonna post to our Facebook group in the four-week challenge below That's where we get our questions from. So if you have a question for us that you want answered on Ask the Zendudes Click the link below put your email in and get into our community so that you can post the questions to our free Accountability group. We got about 6,000 strong in there of Zendudes and do that So if you like our videos or if you like us, everyone in the group is like us So you're probably gonna like them too. So join and then you can ask the questions We're not gonna answer every single question every week. We're gonna pick out like probably 15 to 20 questions So if your question does not get answered and you want to add you want to answer it Just ask it again the following yeah, and also you guys some of the questions you asked We just don't answer because we have videos to answer the questions So if you ask a question, right and we don't answer it Just type it into YouTube and you may find a video because we've already answered the question. That's true I'll start off by shouting out cross rope because They are the product we use every day Pretty much no matter what Right, there it is. We got the Joby rope and today we also got the speed rope made an appearance. Oh, hey speed rope Mr. Speed rope. How you doing there? It's the old bolt set. Oh, this is the three ounce Speed rope the other one is the sprint rope. There you go. So we'll link these up in the description You guys Be careful, bro. I actually just stabbed myself next Sponsor we want to talk about guys is you know, brand and I we don't we don't get super deep into supplements That's why we only work with one company and that company is athletic greens. They have a lot of great products such as We protein we make our protein shakes every Friday check out epic protein protein time dudes What's that with chocolate choco latte choco latte? It's chocolate a favorita and then we have the green juice powder right here This this uh, this is like the main athletic greens as a company. This is their main product. It's the Super flagship if you will flash this is a flagship right here. Yeah, it's a flagship It's basically a replacement for vegetables plus you get a ton of extra micronutrients So it's it's a replacement for vegetables when you can eat Eat your vegetables eat your veggies and athletic greens if you know, you're you're having a busy day Yeah, and you get it Maybe we understand maybe have a burrito bowl for lunch. You're like, hey, I should get a portion of vegetables Just scoop you can just pour athletic greens powder onto the burrito and mix it up I'm just kidding. Don't do that. That's gonna taste like Zendu nation. We're happy to be here with you Let's dive into these questions. Wolfie dragon. My dude. What is good. Wolfie. Wolfie ass Yes, my friends. I've got a question Can the tricep chest dips what he's meaning is dips can they do harm to the shoulders? Especially me being in my late 40s. Thank you Brandon My dude, that is a great question If you are doing triceps in tricep dips incorrectly, then you definitely can damage your rotator cuff So man, the best thing I'd recommend is I think there's some awesome people have dip tutorials on the youtube Probably dudes like I'm guarantee ellie holster was not has done one or the buck dude frank madera Moderna there we go So YouTube that one of these guys and just look at the tutorial they've done because I'm sure they've made an awesome video on it So I got to say about that totally totally Totally agree with brandon and my thing personally is I don't do a whole lot of dips because I actually Experience the same issues with my shoulder. So I don't even do them I just sub out a lot of push-ups tricep push-ups a great replacement. Boom. Vimal who has a cool profile pic asks I have one question too I have fat on the lower right side of the chest, but not on the left that much and I'm following the getting lean program Will the program target that or do I need any specific exercise to target that area to give it the proper shape? Vimal Great question my friend brandy. Go ahead. All right my dude. I'm gonna say this The best you can do is just try to train your pecs equally so you can do exercise like push-ups You can you know get some weighted exercises do bench press flies things of that sort But if you notice that there's like a fat pulp or something separate there You by training aren't going to be able to necessarily get rid of that once you get down to a certain level body fat percentage So if you're already super lean and something's still there there's not much you can do about it Go to your physician. Maybe it's just a flop a fat polyp and maybe they can remove for you For show and if it's on the other side and you're just talking about a little bit of fat here And you're asking I think about spot reduction You can't do spot reduction like my boy said over here You have to lose body fat so you can't lose body fat in specific areas of your body You just have to be in a calorie deficit to lose body fat overall And hopefully those areas of fat disappear giving you a more symmetrical shape David Lloyd! David Lloyd! Do you take bcaa's on rest days? Thanks. No, thank you, dude. Go ahead We do actually in general. Yes, we take branch chain amino acids in the morning because if we're fasted We want to help maintain the lean muscle tissue that we do have yep The bca's are taken on the rest days. Mono asks what are your opinions about a low carb high fat and protein diet? Is that is that a about a low carb high fat high protein? Okay, gotcha go gotcha my man. That is um a great question A lot of people think it's about going super low carb or super low fat We think it's just about getting a Equal distribution of fat protein and carbohydrates So we got a calculator that kind of helps you do this if you want to check it out We'll link it in the description below and once you plug in your numbers for that calculator You'll have a better idea of what we suggest you do with your macronutrients. My only other addition to that would be that Overall keep protein high, but the argument between like fats and carbs which one's better or not Listen guys you your body and your brain needs both fats and carbohydrates So what I would recommend is not going on the extreme of any diet You should be equally distributing your macros, but always remembering to keep your protein high Phillip Spanger asks Is it possible to do the guinea lean program because he doesn't have access to a gym But use the calorie intake from the gaining muscle program So be eating in a calorie surplus and still get those results We're gonna go ahead So man, here's the deal you can get it so far with just body weight exercises And I would just recommend continue to increase resistance by increasing the the amount of repetitions you're doing So if you can do 10 push-ups right now, you want to build up and continue to do more There's going to be an upper limit There's a ceiling to this and once you reach that ceiling you could start to think about if you want to incorporate more Weightlifting, but yes, do calculate your calories for gaining weight and go with that until you see yourself plateau. Agreed Shannon says hi guys I was wondering whether i'm better off focusing on burning fat for another for a little while And then switching over to building muscle or whether I ought to do both simultaneously I've lost 10 kilos so far, but want to lose a bit more fat. Thanks. First of all. Yeah, Shannon. What's up girl? Keep losing congratulations. Congratulations. First of all, yes and to answer your question I think Dan and I have a similar philosophy on this We usually tell people get down to the body fat percentage you want So keep getting leaner keep doing the getting lean program until you're where you want to be there And if you look at yourself, you're like, yo I want I want a little bit more mass my body at that point you can transition over to Trying to gain some weight by doing the gaining muscle program and eating a little bit more calories on a daily basis My only addition to that would be that there is some small bodies of research That say you can do both where you build muscle and lose fat at the same time But guys just understand make things a lot more simple on yourself If you want to gain muscle you you only gain muscle by eating in a caloric surplus So you're going to probably hang on to a lot of body fat. That's just the reality If you're cutting you have to be in a calorie deficit Meaning that you're probably not going to have as many calories to build up that muscle because you're losing body fat So my recommendation is pick like we usually recommend get lean first and then build up from there Bosco Bosco Bosco loom Bosco loom dude, that sounds like an awesome. That is a dope name hip-hop artist's name. Yo That is a cool name Congrats on your name. Do you have that twitter handle? I would get it. He's got like a cool profile pic too. Look at that hair That's kind of like your hair except even more just like even more more of this dude good hair Bosco asks how do you zen dudes know each other? Well, once upon a time dan and I lived in the same apartment complex in awesome, texas But we didn't know we lived in the same complex and dan listened to one of our This but this dude scott britain's podcast. Yeah, it was scott. Shout out scott. Shout out to scott And then tweeted me Yep, we did you and then we tweeted it back and forth and then we realized we lived in the same building and um Then that was that. Yeah, so to add to that what brandon doesn't know about the story is that I've been stalking him since I was 12 years old and I actually gained information that he was moving to austin texas Uh, so I made up a story about how I moved there from new york natish asks What should I cut out of my diet if i'm trying to lose weight great question my friend brandon? Will you do the honors? You should cut out the mindset that you need to cut something out That's what you need to cut out of your diet Because it's cool. In all honesty, we want you to eat foods that you enjoy. So this is sustainable for you So like we told someone earlier in this episode Focus on your total calorie intake the macronutrients and eating 70% whole foods beyond that Eat whatever food you enjoy eating should be a fun thing that you enjoy every day You don't have to cut out the mistake people make is cutting out specific foods The worst thing you can do is just indulge on any kind of food too much Whether it be an avocado or a piece of cake Don't cut things out of your diet because it doesn't teach you how to deal with temptations surrounding those foods All it teaches you is to just get rid of them and that is not the kind of behavior that we want to learn around food How many people do we know that cut out sugar or some specific thing from the diet and they still plateau with their fat loss Yeah, dude a ton like why are you trying to cut out sugar like why don't you want to do it? Would you consider doing any more internships slash letting people in the zen dude community to do some work with you? Absolute freaking lulie listen zen new fitness like we always say is co-created. It's us and it's you Doing this together. So if you think you can make this community better hit us up. We'll put our email below, right? Yeah, put our email below Email us contact the zen new fitness calm tell us how you think you can make the community better And if you have something to action on let's do it So if you're someone who does dope and you're like yo zen dudes I do this thing that's dope as check this out and we think it's dope as Then we will be like join like you should be helping us out because what you do is amazing because We just want to make this the best thing it can possibly be So if you have if you're really good at something that can help Us just grow zen dude fitness Absolutely send us an email on car ass. Can we start a zen buddy system for accountability? Absolutely, my dude That is exactly what the free four week challenges that we linked you up in the first line of description You should post a comment that said you should post in the group and say who wants to be my kind of bill A buddy and then everyone else if you want to be buddies with this dude Yeah, you know you gotta we got we got so many cool people in the community Yo, you can like ask what I would recommend is asking someone specifically like hey You know hey barry freeman. I see that you're active in here Do you want to be my accountability buddy and uh, you know check in with me? I like your style. Yeah, can I wear your pants? Yeah, you can share pants with other people in the community. That's fine rafael says How do you create a great community of evangelists for your business or niche? Everybody loves zen dude fitness man Yo, I appreciate you rafi Um books to read actions to execute marketing strategies Thanks. I like this question. That's a great question My dude, it comes down to one thing you have to care deeply about the people you're trying to help And it was easy for us for us to do this because we went through these transformation ourselves Like we lost the weight we learned how jump rope made fitness fun We learned about all this calorie and mac and nutrient stuff and we're like, yo Let's go bring this to everyone else So find something you care truly and deeply about and then go tell people about it Dude, it's that easy. You just have to give a You just have to give a the people The thing that you're promoting you have to care about it And secondly The people that are involved who also care about that thing you have to care about them just as equally Andres asks which surface is best if you don't want to damage your jump rope. Great question. Great question All right. So if you're using the Disrope cross rope agility rope you can basically use this anywhere anywhere except on I wouldn't use it on volcano magma We learned that wasn't the best idea. Yeah, but aside from that almost anywhere And then for other ropes like the speed rope we have over here like thinner ropes I'd recommend either jump a rope inside or on one of those rubber mats I mean you could jump like we have tile down right here. You could jump Use a speed rope right inside straight up samson asks. How do you guys find such fire music? Thank you sound cloud on youtube is where we find it. We just look for new up and coming artists and Share their music our videos Yeah, so this is exactly the process I go to sound cloud I type in things like instrumental trap music and then I filter it so I see which Which artists are no copyright Then I reach out to that artist and I just send him a message on sound cloud and I say dude Your beats are dope. Can we use them in our videos and usually they write back and say Absolutely, just make sure to link us up in the description. Bam boom awesome music jump and rope how large a boy Agniska Agniska Agniska Agniska Agnisk Agnisk for short. I don't know Um, she asks how do you handle situations? Oh, I like this question. Good one How do you handle situations which tear you down or especially other people who try to tear you down? What's your advice to follow your path? Nevertheless, that's a great one Ooh, I think I touched upon this last week and it's just don't make your happiness conditional on anything outside of your control So if someone else has something to say that's cool for them. That's like their experience or perspective they have on life Let them have it respect them for having it and then just do you like the only person who is in control of your mindset And your mind and your emotions is you So the more you understand and act on that the better you're gonna be Absolutely and guys there also just comes a point in time where You just have to stop caring like if you really want to do exactly what you want to do and like what like You know exactly what you want to do because there's a big like ball of energy. That's like sitting in there That's telling you this exactly what I want to do You just have to get to the point where you just don't give a because guys no matter how successful you become There's always all you can be the nicest person in the world There's always going to be people who don't like you or think what you do is stupid for whatever reason So at some point you just got to stop giving Stephen Williams he asks how long did it take each of you to lose 70 pounds? Great question Great question. So for me, I lost the first I would say like 50 pounds more or less in about 13 14 weeks And then over the next like two years after that I lost the last 20 pounds because I was really figuring out what kind of physique I wanted and the physique that we promote now is one that Doesn't take a ton of time in the gym, but allows you to maintain a good amount of muscle mass So I lost a little bit of muscle mostly fat. That's how that's how I did it I guess it was about three years. Nice man. Mine was about two years total in college I was like 260 and I lost 40 pounds Stayed there for like a year and a half and then once I moved To new york. That's when I lost the last 30 and really got down to that like 8% body fat like 190 pound frame Shane Peters asks what camera is best for youtubeing and vlogging sharing your experience with previous cameras and your current as well Also, tell us how you record your videos brandy. Go ahead Dan, I know you love this stuff more than anything. So I'm gonna let you just handle this whole question I love these questions because I'm a huge audio and video nerd and just to let you guys know Here's how I'm gonna answer this question Brandon and I have used like mediocre gear like we have a cool gopro We have like two dslr cameras, but they're the basic ones Nike Nikon Nike Nikon d3200 and the canon Five five ti ti five ti for rebel t5i rebel t5i Rebel t5i to be totally totally honest with you guys like and I'm someone who's very anal about production quality Our quality like you you notice it's not the highest it could be so I wouldn't suggest like Getting the exact cameras that we use if that makes sense What I would recommend is getting a gopro because gopros are awesome. You can you know beat the sh** They take great videos Get a dslr and check out the video that I linked up below because this other youtuber who's really popular Casey Neistat has a great video on which products you should be buying Just to let you guys know Brandon and myself are going to be purchasing a lot of the products from this video Because we think it's they're the best and then in terms of how we record our videos I don't want to get into that like if you're talking about specifics because that would take forever We'll do a separate video on this But what I would say is just in general, how do we record bro? We set the camera up and we roll we just go we just go go no script Yeah, so my point is saying that is if you were looking for like a strategy on how to do things Focus less on that and just start making videos do like the thing do the thing Like if you have like an iPhone and iMovie start making movies, bam All right, josh last question here on cactus time Any advice to consume the appropriate amount of macros and micros in college? Also tips on not overeating in the dining halls. Yeah, this is a good question All right I don't know too much about not overeating in dining hall. I don't know either man That's how we got to be so big dining hall scholars. I don't think I actually know that much about Can't help you okay, man. No straight up. This is what I would say I would I would say man You've got to skip breakfast as a dining hall and just go feast later because let's be honest You're not gonna not go talk to that ice cream sundae machine unlimited bacon for breakfast like come out of here, bro You're gonna have people making you breakfast burritos on the spot And you're gonna not hit you're gonna you're gonna be in a calorie deficit. I don't think so Yeah, just don't eat crap the day. Then go feast your face off In regards to when you should work out whenever you're gonna do it It's all about just being consistent in doing it. So whenever you feel your best do it then The best part about being in the in college though, which I wish I would have known about calories and macros when I was in college Is that you actually do have all the foods necessary to build a killer physique. Are you kidding me? You have like unlimited hard boiled eggs Sausage like you can just go to the college dining hall and ask for like a piece of chicken breast and they'll give it to you So my point is whatever food like our simple meal system You can get some of those bowls made in the dining hall My point is guys There's endless amounts of food in a college dining hall The biggest thing you need to focus on is the amount So instead of going in the morning and getting six eggs a pile of bacon two bagels That's what I used to do So good get like a little bit of greek yogurt with some granola and fruit on top of it and just have that be it So the point is You can definitely eat healthy in college dining halls. The trick is just to not overeat Thank you for turning tuning into this week's episode of ask the zen dudes We got another episode coming for you next Tuesday If you like this video and you want to see more of these where we answer your questions every single week Again, it's on a Tuesday. This club is always going up on a Tuesday And if you want to ask those questions every single week And you want more information just about how to jump rope and live an awesome lifestyle Subscribe to the channel Give us a thumbs up on this video and we promise you that we will continue to up the quality of what we're doing So that we can help you look happier and healthier with the jump rope and to live a more epic life Those are the exact faces and noises that my parents used to ground me over I would do those faces and my parents would be like if you do that again at the dining table You're not you're not going out to your friends tonight, and I wait like five seconds And I'd be like yeah Big truck series part three