 In this episode of mind pump the world's top fitness health and entertainment podcast We answer fitness and health questions asked by viewers and listeners just like you But the way we open the episode is with an introductory portion. This is where we talk about current events We talk about scientific studies our own workouts. We mentioned our sponsors today's intro portion was 43 minutes long So if you want to skip that and just listen to the fitness questions go forward about 43 minutes But if you want to have fun with us and listen to the whole episode, which is the best way to listen to my Type start in the very beginning. I'm gonna give you a breakdown of this whole episode Okay, so we start out by talking about the heat wave here in the Bay Area. It is really hot desert people making fun Yeah, I'm waiting for the next plague or something to happen Then we talked about the inland hurricane the derecho. Is that how you say that? Rachel right like that. Oh my god Then we talked about how a man saved a woman from a great white shark by jumping on the shark and punching him So it's like a superhero the most baddest ass man in the world Then we talked about the episode that we recently dropped its carnivore versus vegan In the sum of our takeaways we mentioned miracle spring water. It's a new product. Yeah being sold to gullible people We'll heal you percent then we talked about billionaires and millionaires How many what percentage of them I should say are self-made? We mentioned a new study on CBD that shows that it improves blood flow to the hippocampus Thus potentially helping you with memory Now our favorite way to get CBD is with full-spectrum hemp oil This because this is because it has lots of other cannabinoids It also has terpenes that all work together in other words if you have CBD with other cannabinoids and terpenes It's much more effective than if you just have CBD all by itself now the best makers of full-spectrum hemp oil are Ned they're a company that makes some of the best hemp oil. We've ever used its high quality Super effective. We like to use Ned's hemp oil for things like relaxation and inflammation I like to use it for gut health and because you're a mine pump listener you get 15% off Here's how you do that go to hello Ned.com. That's h e l l o Ned.com forward slash mine pump enter the code mine pump and get 15% off Then we talked about a new app that allows you to store your stuff in other people's houses. 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We had okay It got so so I wasn't in the area, but you know, I was talking my parents It got so hot and it's gonna be hot all week here in the Bay Area like it was like a hundred and in Inferno, right? But then here's the weird thing. So I was talking to my father-in-law and he's like dude He goes it was a hundred and two degrees super hot. It's like insanely hot and then like at three or four a.m. Yeah He goes Like huge booms and he's like, I don't know what the hell was going on. Yeah He goes a crazy thunderstorm like he's never seen. Yeah, so I was up when when all that was forming So I was still like I was playing poker on my friends We're at this house where you could see the skyline and and from the ocean going up over the mountains You could see it forming and coming and there was lightning bolts and all this crazy stuff coming at us It was insane. Yeah, he said it was Uncharacteristic lightning. Yeah, like not the kind that we normally get here. Yeah, it also it's kind of deal the heat It also created some of the weirdest weather we've ever had here. I don't think I've ever recall The Bay Area feeling like that felt outside yesterday was it was just muggy. Oh, it was so and that It reminds me too it's something I wanted to say on the podcast We're glad you brought the weather thing up was I was thinking about The people right now that are out there that are working still so we could still do things like I was at the zoo Right, I took my son of the zoo with my best friend and his son Oakland zoo. Yeah, Oakland zoo. That's cool. And they do it by appointment So they can limit the amount of people there and you have to wear a face mask the entire time But this was my first experience Wearing a mask longer than maybe ten minutes like the longest I've had to wear a mask so far is Going grocery shopping or in a store where it's air-conditioned and you're only in there for ten minutes And you're in and out and then you're taking it off right away, right? So I haven't experienced wearing a face mask for like an hour or two hours and then being in the heat And then being out in that heat that created this weird muggy like tropical type of weird weather out there I wonder how many people passed out. So could so Katrina were pushing the stroller We're about an hour and a half deep in and All sudden go almost falls down. No, she didn't yeah I reached to grab her and I thought she tripped over something. I'm oh my god. Did you trip? She's like no She goes I just got dizzy and lightheaded and she took the mask off and sat down for a little bit But I was like, oh shit just from being covered up like that in that crazy hot humid weather for like two hours And she got super lightheaded I thought oh my god if that happened to Katrina that's gotta happen to people It's not smart you gotta there's I'm sure you have to kind of get used to it, right? Because I know some cultures the the women cover their faces all the time and it's hot and then surgeons, right? I used to train a lot of surgeons and They would do procedures. There was one procedure Think it was called a whipply procedure if I'm not mistaken. It takes like four or five hours And you're not going to the bathroom. You're operating the whole time and you're wearing a mask the whole time Yeah, so now that I've had to wear a mask for like you said they probably have controlled air in there Yeah, but it's just a new level of respect. Oh, yeah, you know, I know I know you're pussy and like That's what I was thinking about was all the employees, right? They got to do this every day or they're probably for five or eight hours out of the game I know like it was at the two hour mark and I'm trying to be like, you know And enjoy this whole process with my son, right? He's at the zoo for the very first time and the whole time that I'm looking at Katrina I'm like, can we hurry up and just get through this whole thing so we get out of here like it was so Hot and I was so miserable with that thing on my face why it was muggy like that. Yeah So yeah, it just made me think about everybody that is working right now That is working in those types of conditions like man. Yeah, well speaking of the weather, dude I was Brought to my attention like through DMs like about what was happening in the Midwest Did you guys see about the derecho the sort of inland hurricane that they've been experiencing what yeah So they've had like over a hundred mile an hour plus winds I just like swept through and Decimated all these buildings and you know all the crops and everything in Iowa and like the whole Midwest Just took this massive like weather storm that's hit. I've never even heard just right show just in the middle of the How often does that happen dog? I'd like to look this up. Yeah, I don't know about that I just I didn't even know that was a thing and You know because obviously you think of hurricanes being coastal because of you know, like it coming off of the ocean and you know Forming and so this is a different thing But it has the same type of like wind power that just kind of see I don't want to be because you know What happens is you start to like strengthen your own bias like 2020 so bad. So then you hear something It's like happening in little pockets all over the place Yeah, so I want to see if that's something that's super super like incredibly rare or if it happens a few times or it happens every 20 years or 10 years, which is that that's pretty damn rare still I would think you never heard of one though, you know, so yeah, but I mean every 10 20 years Let me see does it do we say the occurrence of Direchos is divided into two seasons the warm season Okay, so 70% of them occurred during these four months. Yeah, but how often? Often do they occur that's what I'd like to know Yeah, I mean there's 70% of them that means they happen Fairly regularly right if that's if they have a percentage of how many are going on and during a month like every year It sounds frequent, but yeah, how severe it is must change dramatically Yeah, cuz I'm serious. I mean I seriously like again waiting for the locusts and boils I don't want to be in that state of mind. It's just a weird week in news I think did you see I see the the guy in Australia that jumped on the white shark or the great white and saved his wife Jumped on a white shark. Yes What a badass so great. They're out. They're out surfing great white grabs the wife actually grabs Yes grabs the wife dude jumps off his surfboard on to the the great white and punches him in the nose And they and it releases this wife dude that works and he saved her life Oh, he's getting blowjobs every day forever now. Is that crazy or what? Oh, man, what a badass. Yeah, you know how scary is that dude? You see your wife like all of a sudden, you know get swept up by a shark. I'm sure there's some husbands that are gonna be like But what a hero I know what absolute hero for to do that. That's like the most commendable thing of all time Manly as it gets that's just it man. Yeah, they got some manly Look it. Wow. He's repeatedly punt imagine like first of all be scary to punch a big dude, you know, I mean I thought it was his wife. Maybe it wasn't maybe it was just some lady. Wow, that's a better just some random. Yeah Just some random woman. Yeah, that's it. I mean even better, right? Yeah, what a badass. Yeah. Good for him, dude It was his what was it his female companion? Okay. Wow. Good for him, man. That's awesome. Yeah eight so so The episode we did with car with that was a carnivore versus vegan will and Paul Yeah, will and Paul ultimate showdown getting getting a lot of great feedback, but it's it's I love it when I leave a podcast feeling like I'd learned something and That one there's a couple things that I picked up that I'm actually That are really interesting to me that I feel like I learned one is I never questioned certain vegetables as potentially causing You know, you know intolerances for me like I never looked at broccoli, for example and thought to myself I wonder if this is causing any of my food You know if I have any intolerance right orparagus or something like that, right? So there's that and you you brought that up out of my thought the same thing And then there was another thing that I really that I took from it Which is we don't place enough value on how we prepare our food Because you can really negate a lot of the toxins and foods by how you prepare them for example Wheat, you know If you let if you let it sprout and then if you grind it and soak it That helps eliminate a lot of the you know the toxins same thing with beans You hear people say if you soak your beans and then you you cook them afterwards You don't get as much gas or as much gastric distress or of course how you cook your meat and stuff like that all very important And I think it's something you should everybody should consider So if you have foods that you are you might notice you have issues with You might want to just look at cooking them more to make them, you know tolerable like I know for me If I boil the heck out of bite my vegetables easy to digest a big a big serving. Yeah I think I thought both guys did a phenomenal job But I do think that if I had to pick a winner in that conversation it was Paul And only because of what you just said and I think I said after after when we recapped is After listening to both of them and both made great arguments great points. I would not do either one diet Permanently I would never run a carnival diet permanently. I would never run a vegan diet permanently But after listening to both of them talk after listening to Paul It did make me want to go try some things in my diet and change it So that to me was a sign of like, okay He got through to me more than either one of them did just from that point alone because I was like, oh, you know what? I'd never thought if a limit I'm never eliminated asparagus and broccoli from my diet before I would just never a think that that could potentially be an offender, right? But now I'm gonna go try and do that and see if it makes a difference Especially when he talked about he had eczema and I and I have psoriasis which are similar related Issues and so if it cleared that up for him I'm like, oh, I wonder if I've never tried to just get rid of the the vegetables like that now That's the point too. I feel like I hope that people take from this is not You know which diet is better or more so like listening to it and maybe people going like oh, okay I've never thought maybe if I eliminate these things or eat less of them or more of something else Considering other things new angles. Yeah, I definitely like had my thoughts running after listening to that episode And it's because it's so counter to a lot of the Nutrition studies that you you know, I went to you know college in like when all these nutritional courses They don't bring any of this information up. So this is all like stuff. I'm like wait a minute it makes a lot of logical sense that These plants have developed these defense mechanisms and like we are breaking them down in a sense to be able to You know get the nutrients out of them in the most effective way Yeah, if I could boil down the biggest issue with people and their endi it it would be not listening to your body either because You don't know how to listen to your body. So you're not aware. So that's the average person, right? The average person just eats food that tastes good doesn't even know what to pay attention to and doesn't really know what healthy would be for them the other side of that are Fitness fanatics who also don't listen to their body because they become so they become so dogmatic about a You know diet religion because they read a study or some muscular person or some lean person tells me a certain way And so they they hard-headedly continue to follow an eating style Yeah, because they're like but this is supposed to be healthy says completely ignoring I've trained women whose hormones were Totally off because they were ignoring the fact that you know, their low-carb diet was messing with their thyroid for example I've you know trained people who are like who've had repeated Gastrointestinal issues because they they thought that this particular grain is supposed to be help healthy where I thought nuts were really healthy So I'm just gonna keep eating them even though I have terrible bloat and gas every single night So I think you could all boil down to Not listening to your body either because you don't know how to listen or because you ignore because I'm a so dogmatic I think the not knowing how to listen is probably the most common because I think or even somebody like myself who's I Think more aware when it comes to that. I mean that we all of our red in the nutrition. We've been in fitness for 20 years I've been manipulating and playing with my diet But it hasn't been until they'll probably the last you know, five to ten years Did I really start to hone into like learning to pay attention to everything that I ate on a regular basis? I think so often we just mindlessly eat and then the blow the the stomach issues the All the skin issues all the poor sleep low energy levels You like by the time it hits you and you're aware that you're dealing with that stuff Like you haven't made the connection of what it could have been in the last 24 hours like that's what I feel I feel like most people aren't connecting those well think about this way Adam because you and I are very similar in this regard we Paid attention to diet for most of our career based off of aesthetics and strength. Yeah performance. Yeah So it was I ignored all the other stuff right and so it was like what can make me look the leanest What can make me build the most muscle, but I was still dogmatic. I was still ignoring all the other stuff So imagine if we went into diet and we had no Pre-existing ideas nobody told us anything all we did was go and listen and figure out and listen and pay attention to what made Us feel best. I think we would have probably learned that faster. I know I have the cure for all this What is it a miracle spring water, huh? Dude, I was watching this so I was watching regular TV and like I forgot about commercials Oh my god There's this whole new hustle of this like televangelist that's like selling miracle Spring water is like this holy water that cures you what? Wow. I was like wow What the hell were you doing watching regular television? I don't know. I was on there and like I Don't know like I I was at my friend's house, and I was just like flipping through because we just watched the fights You know over the weekend and like that came on and I'm like Okay, so this is a totally new angle like they have a product. It's not just like you know pay us and we'll pray for you Whatever it's like now we got like, you know substantial products gonna heal all your ailments Yeah, heal all your dehydration Then they can legally do it right? Yeah, they can list all the stuff that happens. It's a product when you dehydrate it It can solve and cure thirst You know what though that's that's there they're obviously exploiting something that's been a part of Spiritual practices for a while like I know I know lords. I think it's called we're that's in France I think the water there has been supposedly blessed somebody saw saint there So people have been traveling there for a long time For experiences and and you know there is I just spot out a hustle like you know, especially in that arena Man that that irritates me the most because you know all these people are already like all in their belief Their belief system is already there and then now you're gonna exploit that With some bullshit like this like and get these old people to buy water now How do you guys feel about that? Like I know some people get like really angry about that But then part of me is like, you know If you're a sucker like that and then there's the other side like what if it does we talked Yeah, you we've talked about dude And they can measure that right the psychological part of like if you really believe it then it is helping and so I mean that member the What what they talk about that with? God, what are the drugs that are placebo? Yes. Thank you. Yeah, the placebo effects with like your what kind of drugs I'm not a painkiller. So the biggest one right like sugar pills. Yeah. Yeah that they use and they there's like a 50 50 I remember we debated that in psychology class whether it was You know, okay Is it ethical to do it even though their studies aren't proving that it actually changes it but that there is Enough people that get positive results from it even if there is if it's the placebo effect It's it's it's a real thing. There was a study I brought this up on the show a long time ago But it's a legit study where they did a fake knee surgery and my here's a thing The more that they sell that the realness of the fake thing the more the more effective It is what they did is they took people with knee pain and knee problems and half of them They actually operate and did a legitimate You know surgery on them like a legitimate scope or whatever like let's you know solve these problems in a real way The other half the surgeon cut the knee open so to back up so the people could see that they had stitches And so they fully believed they had the surgery here's the crazy part at the end of the study The same pain relief the same results were seen on both sides. There wasn't a difference You know I'm saying so powerful the mind is very powerful. So you're right if people buying this miracle spring water Yeah, right. I do feel better. Yeah. Well now I feel bad, you know Maybe it's really help these old people Man my joints don't hurt anymore like praise the Lord. There's also a part of me That's like, you know, if you're gonna fall for stuff like that. Yeah, you know, then that's your that's up to you Like you know I'm saying like how are we gonna as long as you're not a child like if you're a kid I get that but if you're an adult. Yeah, I think see that's right I feel like people are buying snuggies still so yeah marketing and advertising to to children is unfair I feel like right, but if you're an adult and you buy into something like that then I'm like fair game That's how I feel. Yeah. Hey speaking of buying stuff So I'll cover this real quickly because I brought up some interesting statistics So California is talking about passing this this crazy wealth tax. That's insane. There's no way this is gonna fly though All right, I mean, is it really possible this could fly so we want to pour gasoline on our state now It's like it's not enough that's burning. No, no, I know exactly this so the proposed tax Rate would be up to point four percent of net worth So it doesn't matter how much you whatever just your total net worth and then the tax will follow you if You move out so you're gonna you could you continue will get taxed at this for I don't know how many years Okay, so let me make this clear then so let's just say I've been a really good boy over the last 10 15 years And I've just been slowly socking money away and saving and saving and living a very modest life And I've put away a million dollars that can be taxed. Is that what you're saying? They'll tax your your your net worth Yeah, so how much money you have in use in the new Prince John? Yeah, exactly And then if you move then it'll follow you and I think it's like I think that I think it follow I don't remember how many years of five years something like that silly or if you move out It's a proposed tax, but this made me look up some statistics because I said, you know It's that we we we love to tar or politicians I should say love to target and I put in quotes the wealthy because they're an easy target and most voters don't consider Themselves wealthy right. Oh, it's not gonna affect me. Yeah, so it's not me And it's easy to look at it's easy to look at someone like I don't know Jeff Bezos, right and be like Oh, look at him, you know, he's got all but there's two points I want to make with that one they're that wealthy because we give them that much money because they did something a lot of us Like right, so I don't know I feel weird about being upset about that Like we gave them the money because they did something we all liked It's weird to be to want to go after them for that But then I but then there's a certain other part where a lot of people think that Millionaires and billionaires didn't earn their money or aren't self-made like maybe they're just whatever So I looked at the statistic first of all 88% this is huge 88% of millionaires are self-made So the vast majority of millionaires earned it themselves. They actually created that money themselves Billionaires believe it or not is less a lot less than that 57% of billionaire wealth is Is self-made so some a lot of these billionaires or inherited inherit a lot of money That makes me like oil money. Well, yeah, I say that makes sense though, right? If you I mean think if you built this even in like a big real estate empire You own 50 60 properties you have a son then your son comes right in exactly gets to inherit that and then take that from there And maybe turn it into a billion dollars, right? But check this out So the number of billionaires with inherited wealth has dropped 20 29 percent since 2014 So the self-made billionaire number to a new new billionaire is climbing and climbing climbing It seems to be climbing over the last, you know, five or six years or whatever So this is an interesting thing We should all kind of pay attention to that a lot of these people got there because they they did something that so much of So many of us liked that we voluntarily gave them this money And I don't know if going after them that hard is smart, you know, especially for a state like California Because I feel like that'll just drive Doug and I had Doug and I had this conversation on the way home this week And we were having the Jeff Bezos conversation. Did you know what he looked it up? I don't know if you know how many people they employ, you know, how many employees he has now almost a million, right? Is that right, Doug? I think it was like 870,000. That's a lot of people. That's a good That's like how many other companies can say that well That's what I'm saying like literally like an entire city like the size of our city almost right you could like he's Employed by himself like that's insane to me and then for people to come after someone like that I got Doug and I were like spit like imagine if you're him and you're like just so fed up You're like, ah fuck this. I'm closing everything down. I'm done He was saying just like I'm shutting everything down like it's your company You can do whatever you want with it Like imagine if that you got so fed up of like people coming after you and putting you down over shit like that You decided to shut fucking shop one day dude. I'm done. I'm closing shop Yeah, well, you know what happened the government would be like We have to save all these jobs and then we would all end up paying as taxes to save 800,000 jobs or whatever right right, you know, but now they're not doing anything. Yeah Well, I mean look, you know, it's hard to see the what people like this have produced What their innovations have produced but I mean think about it for a second Amazon is one companies a lot of companies right now that I think are saving us during this pandemic But Amazon is one of them, you know, like we're not having to go to the store as often We're able to stick keep getting what we need for low prices. It's very next day. It's keeping things extremely competitive It's allowing business small businesses on the internet to, you know, advertise their their goods and compete with Name brand things because of the ratings that you know system that they've provided So Amazon is one of those companies that's you know, what's our next best thing is a USPS Oh geez imagine if they were like delivering over gets well, you know for a long time They could they kept saying it was impossible to deliver things 24 hours and then you know Companies like FedEx. Yeah, I would give up started doing it and they figured out, you know Kind of a way a way to do that. So anyway, hey, hey, so I read another interest There was a big study that came out on CBD over the weekend. Do you guys hear about this? No So it was it's a big one. It just came out. It's there's study finds that CBD Dramatically increases blood flow to certain parts of the brain in particular the hippocampus So the hippocampus is important for short-term memory long-term memory and this backs up other studies that Support that people who use cannabis Along with CBD and other cannabinoids. So not just THC But with CBD and other cannabinoids that they get less of that short-term memory loss Isn't this I mean you're the one that got me to do this like so But it's rare now that I like have like a where I'd smoke a full joint or have quite a bit like this Has to be a weekend or a time where I'm just like gonna cut loose Maybe watch like a funny movie then I'm gonna have more than like my two little hits to help me go to sleep When I do that I always make the effort to go and take like a couple drops of the the hemp oil And that's because you're the one that told me that you want to try and keep the ratio One to one and it's for the memory lot And that's what you told me before and if there's ever a time any time I ever feel like that It's if I smoke too much I feel like I forget well, isn't this the cool part about plants where they have like one Certain aspect, but then they balance it out like with another part of the plant So like a safe one is toxic. They also has the antidote within the same plant It feels like you know CBD counters a lot of that so short-term memory loss is something you attribute to people that smoke We well cannabis As soon as people started to value it for it's hot getting you high effects That's what we started to breathe cannabis for so like early days cannabis was we made it really strong I'm not used to not be like that. No, no early days cannabis I mean you would find it, you know growing naturally or whatever it would be probably 3% 4% THC now when you go to a cannabis store, especially here in california It's it's almost it's hard to find anything lower than 16 or 15% Usually people are using 20% or higher right super high THC But when THC is high then other cannabinoids are lower It's like a produce it produces more THC and but it keeps producing more of the other things So you get this kind of off-balance and it's well known that if you have a lot of THC you get short-term memory loss that the you know the dumb stoner It's funny how this stereotype of it's true. It's funny how this rule applies I feel like with us humans once we get involved and we start doing things Like if found in nature if it would weed were to just to grow and you were to smoke it You'd probably be completely fine But we have found a way to cross pretty concentrated to make it crazy strong and then justify why it's okay When the reality is if we would have just probably had it left it in its normal form natural state Well, I mean this is good news too for people who who use hemp oil and don't really care about THC And they just want the you know the relaxing effects and the anti-inflammatory effects That they if they don't use THC if they just use hemp oil they may actually be improving their brain's ability to To you know think sharper or to have better, you know short-term memory because that's again the study showed Well at the bare minimum to stay one to one I mean you're the one that got me so this is just another study that really confirms that right because you knew that before You're the one that made me privy to that. Yeah, the studies before didn't show the blood flow to hippocampus The studies before just showed people who had You know CBD with their THC just had less memory loss So it was like a like they would do these studies and find you know because you can reliably produce short-term Memory loss effects and people if you give them high doses of THC for a little while Then you'll see that their short-term memory starts to get a little messed up But they had people who used CBD along with their their THC and they found that wasn't really the case And that was an old those are older studies. That's when I when I brought you but you're right as soon as we get our hands on something like Look at fruit. Look how we've bred fruit like There's you can watch you can look at old you can look up old Paintings banana. Yeah, like super super old paintings of fruit and they're like that's a banana doesn't look anything like Tiny and has tiny seeds big black seeds in there You know or watermelons. I remember when I was a kid and I ate a watermelon watermelon. It was hella seeds in that Yeah, you have you guys eat a watermelon? No, they got rid of them. There's no seeds. I don't understand They grow seedless ones now Some tech news to bring up there's a there's an app out And I think I brought up a similar one there. This is getting becoming a competitive space. This one's called neighbor um And it basically and I talked about one that did something similar before Where you can rent out your space. It's becoming like a popular thing Which is interesting to me because I was just telling Katrina right now We're in this like kind of limbo phase of maybe we're gonna move maybe we're not And uh, you know, I went month a month on our place that we're at right now And so one of the things I'm like, why don't we just like Pack up get everything out of this house that we don't absolutely need on a day day So if we decide to go get a place then we can just up and move and I'll just put it in storage And I'm actually exploring this as a as a possible option because it's becoming so popular And I haven't actually used it here in the bay area But I know that these apps are exploding which allows you To go rent out like somebody else's garage or whatever Instead of you go into a storage unit like a storage unit is x amount of dollars whatever You can now these these apps now allow you to go if you're somebody who has a three car garage And you don't use one side of your garage You could rent it to four or five different people for a certain amount of money every month and collect cash for yourself You think the storage unit business can take a big hit from this? Of course. Well, I okay Should I say okay? I don't know if they're gonna take a big hit because that's like it's been That industry's been growing forever. I thought that yeah, I thought I wanted to get into that But yeah, I don't know right because we as as Americans we keep consuming We're consuming faster than we can store so the storage units keep popping up and there's plenty But it's just become more competitive. So what I think you would see maybe you won't see a big hit as much as you'll see Like more competitive rates. I don't think you would okay. I'm just speculating But I don't know if it would impact long-term storage But short-term storage I could totally see that like if you're moving and you're gonna you just need storage for like a month Right, you know why I get a storage unit exactly now if you're gonna keep something You know in storage for a year or two. I don't think that's gonna I don't think it's gonna impact Well, here's where I'm at like if it becomes so competitive and that's why I told Katrina like it's good for the consumer This is the type of person that I am like, you know 100 for 125 dollars You know a month or whatever if it meant I can get rid of a bunch of shit that I have under my In my garage and I can there's maybe somebody in my neighborhood that's doing this And that so it's like literally less than a block or two away from my house And I can go get it if I need it whenever I want to I mean I would do that. This is all my shit Is this for your shoes, adam There is a part of that What if you did what if you you just hit the nail What if you put all your shoes in someone's garage and then you go back and check on a month later And the dude's like was wearing them a bunch of time. He's walking around like making bacon. It just happens to be a size 12 Hey, he does a majority. He's got your Yeezy's on and he's gardening I forgot my shoes inside. It's not a big deal. I'll put a I'll bust them off so I mean that does bring up a Point that you think right away and I looked into this because I thought okay, wait a second like, you know some You know regular joe smo down the way. He's gonna rent me this space and he's gonna have my shit What if he steals it? What if someone else steals it? What if it's not a secure like you're you know part of what you're paying for with these storage units is like The bob wire fences the cameras like the high security, right? But they're in order to be on this app like or the app company itself is I want to say it was a million dollars like a million dollar insurance policy Yeah, so if you have as long as you're storing stuff less than a million dollars It was the same concerns when uber came out, right? It was the whole thing of like, you know, who knows who these people are They're not vetted and you know, they might just drive you to Mexico or something Oh, no, I didn't think about that. Hey, how you doing? Yeah, can you take me to the airport? Absolutely didn't happen Hey, by the way, do you have uh, both kidneys? Why do you ask? No reason no reason You know, that's what they said about ebay ebay was one of the first uh companies to do that where and everybody all the retail companies said No way this will work. There's no way this will work People are gonna get ripped off the the the satisfaction rates are gonna be terrible And the funny thing is ebay's uh, like the trust factor with ebay or how often that they people are good on there Is just as good as any retail? Yeah What i'm curious about now then is like, okay, so because Some of these properties that i've been looking at too that they have like a little bit of land So like an acre or two or whatever like what is the stop me? From building like a shed on my property and just doing that and just doing that just hustling it in and having you know 20 30 sheds on there to collect monthly income to help pay for the mortgage of the place Absolutely Like I wonder i wonder if you're gonna start to see like similar like you brought up the uber thing Is the taxi company's gonna freak out or all the storage unit company's gonna freak out and start to try and legislate against The ability to do that like right now This might be one of these things that we see that grows so fast I don't think a lot of people are aware of this. You know, it'll get too big if it's good It'll get big too fast for legislators to to mess with and then by the time it's that big then it'll be a battle Right like we like keep your eyes open you might see this that's a mass like the storage Industry is a massive industry That it just kind of flies under the radar. Not a lot of people talk about it Here's these apps that are starting and I've seen quite a few of them I told you about the park one the neighbor one now and I forgot what the other one was called But you know people are able to rent their parking space in front of their house. You know, you could rent your couch Yeah, you guys know that couch that someone can spend a night on their couch surfing. Yeah, absolutely This makes me they do this with uh, you know, what else they do is like pools like so that's popular right now Where people that have parties. Yeah. Well, just having a pool at your house So the heat wave coming through right now and you can't and if you're not in town or not using your house Or what about that? You could rent your pool out for the day liability. I wouldn't want anything to do with that Oh, sounds like you own a pool. Oh, dude. No way. Absolutely. Yeah. No, I don't like that I don't like it. Yeah. Someone could drown or you could have some creep. Just you know, I mean, yeah That was hey, I'm renting my pool for any college graduation parties Jumping off your roof. I'm gonna watch I'll be on the roof watching just in case anybody drowns or whatever I mean, it's just like you I mean you say that but it's like what's the difference between that and vrbo or bnb The same risk, you know, I'm saying it's you're just you're only limiting it to the pool versus the whole house It just feels a little more like yikes Yeah, but you know the thing you said about the the store, you know Having people store stuff in your garage and then you said a million dollar policy The bad side of me is just thinking of the scams people can run where you'd be like, hey, dude Come put your stuff in my garage. Somebody will steal it. Don't worry insurance will give it give you Yeah, but okay. So now what I think about and that's the beautiful thing about ebay ubers is like I'm sure there's a rating system on this and if this guy's known for getting a watch patterns Yeah, I mean if you look it up and he's got a two-star rating because his place has been jacked twice Are you gonna are you gonna drop your shit there? Like no, I'm not gonna store it there So it'll it'll self-regulate, right? Right. So maybe somebody gets away with a scam like that once or twice, you know But after a while people won't drop their stuff there. This guy's super cheap. Oh, he's only had two stars Yeah, exactly. Dude, I forgot to tell you guys what my my son said about you guys when we were up at the house Or maybe I did text you. It was hilarious. We're sitting there and uh, we're all having conversation wherever he goes He goes, uh, Doug's uh, he's a really good cook. He's also really funny. He said, oh, that's that's cool He goes Justin, so he started kind of breaking everybody down. He goes. Justin's like, uh Kind of sounds like a surfer dude I'm like yeah, he does and he's like Adam's a dad That is not a compliment from a high school kid It's definitely not a compliment from a guy Adams the dad dude. I went from I'm some surfer bra Yeah, he's like It's so funny to hear different perspectives Especially from a kid like that because it's completely pure right like there's he's not biased or anything like that Oh, no, my kids love you guys. That's what they kept saying. I've been trying to get rid of the surfer accent forever It's still you grew up even though you grew up even though you grew up in the mountains you grew up in Santa Cruz Yeah, well, it's just right now. I mean it's 10 minutes. I would way rather be the buff surfer guy though I mean if that's what he's really then in the dad, you know I'm saying like and I'm proud to be a dad Don't get me wrong, but that's not the compliment you want from a high school kid He was like he's a dad. What do you mean by dad? He's like, yeah the way he dresses Right to the heart Speaking of Doug though Doug is quite the chef him and I have been going back and forth on battling on the the rib recipes and I heard you nailed one out again Lately Doug. Yeah, I think that's what one Dominic over right? Well, yeah, I made the korean barbecue ribs when I was With the kids, but I've been working on my baby back ribs on my traeger here for a while And I've been using the fall off the bone recipe you find on the traeger site Oh, yeah with the butcher box ribs, but I wasn't actually nailing it. It wasn't working for me. So I what were you missing? Well, for one thing I was getting them overcooked And I wasn't getting that fall off the bone thing that I was going for so I just tweaked a lot of different things like the smoke time and then I put them in a foil pan with apple and Grape juice and then I put foil on top really seal it well And then I kind of steam in it in there on on the grill And I extended that out another 15 minutes And then I shortened the back end where you turn up the heat and you browned the ribs. So The last time I did it. They're super juicy. They fell off the bone. It was that's real similar to how I do I I do brown sugar brown sugar honey and apple juice inside the foil But almost identical to you know what I haven't been able to do is and I don't know if it's because I've been cooking so much of the butcher box meat is Somebody else gave us some ribs. I don't remember. I think it was Katrina's mom Gave us some ribs and I cooked it and they were terrible. So I I've gotten used to cooking that size Of rib. I think and that anything else that I've tried to cook. I'm off now the fatty acid profile is going to be different too It's because it's grass fed probably. Yeah, so well, I don't know if the ribs are grass fed Are they the pork? Uh, oh the heritage heritage pork still going to be a little different It's gonna be different definitely because they give them good quality food. Oh, it's definitely different Like and I just said it took me a while to get them down now that I have them down really well Like if I've gone to cook other ribs, I have not been able to hit it out the park Well, you guys are scientists with the way you guys grill me I've never really paid attention that way. I grill it and then I eat it I don't know I don't do the timing and all that stuff But there's definitely a difference when I eat meat after you guys make it It's an incredible experience. I mean, you know meat's good, right? I don't if long as you don't overcook it's gonna be fine But you guys definitely bring a whole new level. Well, are you not a do you? Are you not a big griller? Do you do grill a lot at home? I grill a lot But I definitely don't do what you do where you know, you made us all steaks and he runs in and he goes Put the timer on for two minutes. It's the timer Let me know when two minutes and I love the searing right at the pivotal moment Like he's in Two minutes is up and then he does this thing and then he closes it And then he watches the temperature and then let me know another two minutes is up And then the and then he'll open the thing for I don't know how many seconds to close it I'm like, what's he doing? Yeah, you know, but the state comes out incredible Talk about like the difference between a cook and a chef like anyway That one of them has is more formulaic Right versus the other ones a little bit more create like is is kind of adding things and adjusting and all that so But I like I grill on on You know Weber and so it's like I'm always there like having to manipulate and mess with it The whole time to make it like taste good. I love I love charcoal Yeah, but it tastes good. Well, it takes another I mean it takes another my brother-in-law who's like the total foodie, right? He's his theory is that like, you know, he's a purist. So like everything has to be on a charcoal Oh, yeah, like all these cool things like the trigger. We're talking about and I mean, it's like you could cheat I mean, you could I could and that's just it is like so for me It's about the end product I want the I want to try and emulate the best steak that I've had And replicate it. Yes, right. Like the next time. Yeah, that's that's my goal You're not like oh, this is the way cavemen did it. Yeah I'm like if I got the cool thing that to measure the temperature of the meat And I got the gauge to measure the heat in there like okay, and I could figure this out I can replicate like the perfect steak almost every time now. Yeah, but with the Weber, you don't get that You don't get a temperature gauge or anything. So you're yeah, you're watching my feel Yeah, your eyeball in it. And so I mean which if you're a purist like you you appreciate that But I'm like I just want a great feel my meat. Yeah, just it's easy the force You know that right? Feels right more ways of the jet. Yeah, speaking of grilling almost the the barbecue caught fire again I wish I could be there when that happens for you. I could just see you No, right, okay First I gotta clean the barbecue and then I just turn it on I leave it there to heat up a little bit I go back I turn I open it up and the thing's on fire. I like that though No, I don't like that kind of fire. Yeah, because it gets so what well Here's a here's a downfall of cooking in a a really clean gas barbecue time You may as well use the fucking oven Then it's like an oven Because now the oven doesn't cook it like that very similar if you don't have if you don't got a good flame coming off there Every once in a while, but I'm talking about the pan underneath was a flame. Okay. Justin was there when it caught fire Yeah, yeah, I saw it. Well. Yeah. Hey, if you close the fucking thing and you walk away and you got greasy Yes, me or fatty meat on there like it will definitely like that That's gonna keep an eye on overwhelming the volume of dripping grease when we did it. Yeah Oh Oh, yeah, especially a bunch of burgers for sure. We'll do that. I didn't have anything on it by the way Well, yeah, I would just heat it up. Yeah. Well, I mean, we just cooked 12 three inch fucking ribeye is on there back-to-back night. So there's definitely some Some residue left over from that for sure. Oh, yeah, those were good. By the way those those are really good Yeah, I can fact that when I got home I wanted more so I went into the store and got myself Did you really after back-to-back nights like dude? I you're so good. So get on the guy Well, Doug man, I I got it. That's something I got to steal from Doug. What a dad conversation, by the way The perfect balance next Well, Doug does the mush the mushroom and onions man to put over the top of the ribeyes. That's the that's the kick Oh, my god. Yeah, those onions alone. So my daughter's never loved Mushrooms and in the ones you made Doug. She was like requesting them now. So thank you for doing that You're welcome. Hey, you know, you brought up, uh, california a transition out of this this barbeque man talk here Dad talk, um I wanted to bring up something that I thought was interesting lawnmowers. I know I want my grass no like a lot of people Leaving like the cities and stuff and so over in new york, uh, you're seeing a lot of the people that own like Hamptons and they travel there for like summer like are now staying there And so this is also allowed a company called blade Which is an aviation helicopter company that is like blowing up right now because so many of these these execs that live in new york that have the house and the Hamptons Are staying in the Hamptons and then they're commuting back and forth using this aviation What a sick name for a company, right? You got delayed So they're taking helicopter to work. Yes Well, and I'm sure it's not an everyday thing, right? So you're you're taking it once a week Maybe you're going back, but you're working from home like 80 80% of the time Magnum pi pulled it off. Yeah, what a what a flex. You know what I mean? Oh, I'll be at the meeting. Don't worry What's that sound outside? Walk out with your briefcase. That's what you know, we've officially been walking in slow motion to the helicopter Is adamab we's not here You gotta have a briefcase, you know, you just have to carry something just that will arrive in it It's always like protein bars in it Justin will arrive in a personal like rocket pack. That's what I see him do Adam shows up in the helicopter. Justin one upset. Oh, I've seen that too Just recently that somebody was driving one of those was it you who shared that article one of you guys shared an article Someone flying around one of those there was one where this guy was flying and he had like two independent Yeah, like engines that I don't know what kind of engines they were but they were like on his arms And he was flying around an aircraft carrier. Yes Yeah, I was like, dude super safe. Yeah, we're iron man now First question is from damien leverett fitness You talk a lot about the muscle building signal Can you explain this more and how to know if your workout is adequately creating this work without working To working to all out failure or going beast mode all the time. You gotta have good wi-fi Yeah, you gotta have good wi-fi to get that signal. Yeah. No, so um, dang is a good point. That was a dad That was not bad. Good try So so all right, so it has some boosters. This was a big uh, you know, big moment for me as a trainer I remember when I finally made the connection That the workouts all my workouts did was send a signal to my body so that my body could adapt That's really all it was it wasn't about Beating myself up. It wasn't about getting sore. It wasn't about lifting the most weight Those are all components of the workout potentially But really the workout was about sending the right signal So once I understood that and I really I really got that Then my workouts got much more effective because then when I would go in I would think to myself Am I sending the right signal? Am I living in a way that's going to cause more adaptation? So your muscles first of all, um, don't necessarily don't really maintain in the sense that they don't just stay the same They're constantly building or reducing The way you build muscle is the building process Is stronger or outweighs the breaking down process or the the atrophy process And by the way, the atrophy process can be very powerful if you Put your arm in a cast for a week and then took it off just a week You would see significant weakness and atrophy of your arm in that short period of time So this it's like this constant battle that's going on But the way you approach your workouts should be Is this workout producing the desired result? Which is or which can be getting stronger? Maybe building muscle getting leaner improving my mobility Is that what's happening or am I just going to the gym and satisfying my ego by lifting More weight than the guy next to me or by beating myself up So now my ego satisfied because I had this crazy hard workout now what determines Whether or not it's the right signal for you is super Individual. Yeah, this is the thing now. It's very individual the right workout and the right dose for you is the best dose And it may not be the right dose for the person next to you There's a couple things you could watch One of them is uh, soreness in the past. I thought getting really sore was a great sign Later on I realized a little bit of soreness is okay But a lot of soreness means I overdid it and I need to back off a little bit that one's one signal I like to watch well, it's this really came full circle for me when I when I finally grasped the difference between adaptation and recovery For most even my training career. I explained this wrong to many many clients. So I feel bad about this Um, because I was still under the impression that when we go to the gym We tear and we break down like that was like how explain we tear and we break down these muscle fibers The body then signals it to you know, oh my god, we've teared these down We got to recover them and we got to make them stronger. And so that was the adaptation process where Where I was missing the link here was that it's not just this Recovery process of recovering from the damage. It's also this adaptation process. And I think Sal you explain it really well and you've done this on the podcast several times where you use the analogy of the suntan Right and bur like you could go out like if I if I haven't been in the sun in a long time And I go out and I lay out for like three hours. I will burn my skin now I definitely will get a little tanner there see but also burn it like get into like it'll hurt and I'll be peeling And I'll get a little bit of color from that but then you lose it Right and then I lose it and I don't want to go out in the sun anymore because I'm burned already And so I think of it like that because if I go out in the sun for 10 minutes at a time though every single day Over the course of like two weeks I'll also see that I got as tan if not more tan, but I didn't have to lay out there And for three hours and go through the whole burning process and the healing process, right? So I think of it the same way now with like training is I'm looking for that sweet spot Like I want to train hard enough to where the body adapts and it starts to build muscle because it Recognizes the signal that I'm sending to it But I don't want to damage it so hard that my body's just trying to recover all the time from the sun or from the workout So you're looking for that sweet spot of getting the benefits of both of the adaptation process and the recovery process And you don't want that constant like hammering it so hard that all the body is thinking about is trying to recover You're not allowing it also to adapt. I think a major adjustment I had to make once start to understand this this whole principle You know a bit a bit more in depth Was to you know really evaluate Where like if I were to like approach my workout and try and find that like optimal dose Like it was a lot easier for me to exceed it So in terms of like intensity or like overdoing it was very easy For myself to to go beyond that versus you know approach it from less and then kind of build my way up To to try and find and hone in what that uh, you know that particular dose was for me And so I started to adjust the way I train people because I was always under the impression That I need to ramp up their intensity to get them to get more work out of it Which then would produce you know a better result to get them more muscle But it was actually the opposite I found where when I started reducing the intensity and then building it back up slowly Uh and not like trying not to overdo it. Uh, they had better results I think there's a there's a real simple way to give people advice listening right now because I really think that there's There's two groups here If I'm talking to a client who is a complete beginner Lifting weights really really unaware like they uh, they need a little more intensity in their life. They're less likely to Hammer themselves every time they go in the gym. They're more intimidated. It's scared They ease themselves in and so getting that person to to learn to kind of push and stretch themselves a little more I find myself Having that conversation if you're the person who likes to go to the gym You've been lifting weights for years. You're more of an advanced lifter You're more likely to fall on the category like I think all three of us in this room Which is I'm more likely to overreach than I am to go into a gym and train and not do enough Because I've chased that sore feeling and I and I've I've learned to like that feeling So I tend to go work out and go like oh, I need to feel that crazy burn I gotta feel that sore the next day to feel like I got a great workout and that's not true And so I'm always I mean I just did this the other day with Doug I worked out With Doug up in Tahoe and I was joking about how like roasted my back was because I hadn't deadlifted in a long time. I'd hurt my foot this and I've been out from like squatting and deadlifting for a while It was my first time deadlifting back. I told Doug I just left what he's lifting and I didn't realize he was going to go heavy that day And that was light for Doug So I was I was lifting with Doug and you know, uh, my ego was like, okay, I'm not going to go peel weight off I'm lifting with Doug. I'm supposed to be the trainer so be strong on him So I lift it right with him And I was fried for the next three days like absolutely fried from it And that's just I still even all these years even after giving advice on this podcast Still have a tendency to overreach and that's not the goal for maximum results. You want to just stretch yourself Although I do have to bring up the point. So the um, the beginner I think a lot of times like they don't understand what that line is and so even You know, what may seem to be like a normal workout may be way too much for them True. And so, you know, like they they have to find that balance before they can even they have to be able to ramp it up Very slowly. I still go with the slow approach with them. Yeah, the muscle building signal understanding that is what allowed me To initially create uh maps anabolic because I sat to my I sat down. I said Okay, it's all about sending a signal And I know lifting weights sends that signal What other things could potentially send a muscle building signal? One of them is a hormonal signal, right? You could give anabolic steroids to someone The hormonal signal builds muscle Could I send other muscle building signals that are natural that don't include beating the crap out of myself? This is the the trigger session concept and I'll say this for most people you'll get better results with Uh more frequent less loud signals than you will with less frequent super loud signals In other words, you're better off doing easier workouts five days a week than you are doing one super hard Massively intense workout a week. This is true for most people. It's still true for myself Even today. I'm incorporating some trigger sessions here and there and the results I get every time I do this consistently blow me away and it's a low intensity Muscle building signal that that just it just compounds on top of the Normal signals I send which are with my normal workout. So this is why frequency is so important because Frequent lower level intensity workouts They don't send a loud signal, but they send a signal and they don't create a lot of damage And so what they do is they just compound on top of your normal workouts So if you're not incorporating things like trigger sessions or focus sessions, give them a give them a shot Next question is from s. Costanzo for 30. How important do you think it is to get mirrors for your home gym? Oh, well any trainer will tell you that that mirrors if you're working out alone are super important because As a trainer one of your jobs was to watch your clients form and I'll tell you what People are so unaware that their form is off that one shoulder is a little high That their hip moves in one direction a little bit that there's a little bit of an imbalance This happens to me And I'm advanced if I'm working out for a long time So mirrors help you watch your form and pay attention to like when I do curls For example the simple exercise I curls when I watch in the mirror I'm very careful to not allow my left shoulder to hike up a little bit because that's the tendency the tendency is when it gets heavy And hard my left shoulder wants to wants to shrug up a little bit and if I didn't have a mirror I wouldn't be able to notice that I wouldn't make love to yourself in the mirror. Yeah. Yeah. Why are you looking at me? That's out of the same No, this is this is actually it might seem like a silly question for some people But I think it's a it's a good question because I used to get clients that would say things like Oh my god, you know, I I don't ever want to be one of those people that are so narcissistic They're standing in front of the mirror and they're watching themselves work out the entire I know as if they're looking at them. It's like, I know well And let's be honest there is there is that side too, right? There is there is uh, you know guys that can't walk to the water faucet without checking them their tricep out And their shoulder out at least three or four times in the mirror on the way there So there is that level of narcissism and I could see how they could turn off somebody who's not like an avid lifter in the gym, but I think their mirrors are absolutely necessary and I every exercise I do I do in front of a mirror if I can And it's literally because you're I I'm I care about the movement so much that even to this day an exercise that I've done 100 or a thousand times I still always think there's room for perfecting it and making it look even better And so it's not about you and what you what I look like in the mirror It's more about what my movement looks like and without a mirror. I can't do that or without somebody's essential feedback Yeah, you know, you know, you got to see what your body is doing to compensate because it inevitably like based off of patterns throughout your day You could throw off Your mechanics and it's just it happens to the best of us So it's one of those that you just need to see how to make little micro alterations Within your lifts to make sure everything's on point. It keeps you it helps keep you it's not perfect, right? but it helps keep you objective to your form and your technique and how you're you're moving away just like I mean Our podcast is a bit of an example I mean the first, you know, I don't know 100 episodes that I listen to myself talk First of all, you hear your voice and it sounds way different On recording than you hear in your head. So first you get comfortable Then you realize how your sound and how you communicate things and you make adjustments It's hard to be objective in the moment and when you can't necessarily watch or see or or listen to what you're doing That's what mirrors provide. That's why gyms have mirrors. And if you have a home jam I think a mirror is one of the essential pieces of equipment just as essential as a dumbbell a barbell or a bench or a resistance band Yeah, otherwise or unless you are sitting there and recording yourself and then going back and watching it every single time Yeah, but then you mess that's a little more weird. Yeah, but it's better to fix Exactly. Yeah, it's better to fix it while you're doing no 100% agree You know, it's like that would be my only if I didn't have a mirror in it in my at-home gym That would be the thing that I would have to do Like if I didn't have a mirror to look at it, then I would I would definitely record stuff So especially complex movements, especially if I'm doing like a squad or a deadlift or a snatch or a movement that I want to see am I where am I breaking down if it's not perfect Next question is from Conor Nagel 07 Should teenagers focus on aesthetics after being introduced to resistance training? And should they monitor their relative caloric and protein intake to accommodate their fitness goals? Okay, so let's let's answer the first part which is aesthetics now Being a teenager is probably good luck telling them not That's like I would say that stop that that's when you start to get to the peak of Insecurities, I would say teenagers start to become aware of a lot of these different types of things Um, I think one of the keys uh with I actually train a lot of teenagers One of the one of the most beneficial things I did for teenagers was to get their focus off Of their aesthetics and move it more towards things like Strength mobility and how they felt because they already focus so much on how they look If you turn their workout into how you look if it's all about how you look You you you are very likely to create a negative relationship with exercise and resistance training This is where body image issues because here's a thing with working out Working out can either Really help you with your body image issue or it can be just as powerful in the opposite direction and create really really bad Relationships and habits to where you might have been a little insecure about your body But now because it's all about your body You blow up this insecurity, you know, I've trained, uh, you know Bikini competitors and I've trained a couple male, uh Competitors and they told me that their body image issues got far worse When they were competing because they were worse exaggerate it It was it was all about how they looked the judges were constantly looking at And critiquing their bodies Yeah, I in fact when I train Teenagers I don't ask them. I never asked them. So I I'll do this with adults like, okay Well, what areas you want to focus on? How much weight do you want to lose? What are areas of your body you'd like to shape and sculpt? I don't even ask those questions of teenagers It's not even a question. I don't say to a teenager. How much weight do you want to lose and what part of your body? Teach them the fundamentals. Yeah, do you want to shape and sculpt? That's not my question I'll say what are your goals and if they say something like that, then I'll Kind of maneuver about around it, but it's all about how you feel performance everything But I see I find this a kind of a difficult one to answer and and maybe I'll be more qualified when my son Is at this age and I feel solid you're going through this right now So I think you're more than qualified and maybe can share like the conversations you have with your son Because there's the other side of me that like hey if you're a kid Like like if my son which is a good chance that he'll grow up to be very skinny and lean and tall like I was And he starts to piece together that he can change that through lifting weights and he wants to I feel like there will be a very fine dance. I will have to try and do like I know that I want to give him those tools like I don't want to be like son I'm not going to teach you how to lift or eat to build muscle or to look a certain way when you want that right If that's what he's asking to do So but then I also want to educate him on the dangers of that of going down that and allowing those insecurities to drive His motivation now of course as a father I hope that he's so into basketball that all of our workout conversations around performance But I have to be realistic and think that there's a good chance that might not happen I'm not saying be afraid. I think that will also do the same thing if it's like, oh, hey dad How do I get my arms bigger and you're obviously avoiding that right? That's what I'm saying That's why it's got to be like a fine dance because you I mean Because there's a there's a positive side How cool is that if you're a dad who is or a mother who is a trainer and you have that knowledge And you have a daughter or a son that you know They want to start sculpting and building their physique and they They admire what you maybe you've done your entire career or life For the way you maintain yourself as a 50 year old adult or whatever like, you know So maybe now they're interested in that there's there's the part of me that wants to give him that gift Like all the I had to learn a lot of hard lessons, you know through 20 20 years of lifting that I could hopefully Fast-track him to you know the ideal way to eat and train early And I want to be able to give that to him But then also understanding that that also can lead to some major insecurities And so yeah, I feel like there's going to be kind of a little bit of a dance there It's a different than when I have a parent who hires me to train their kid For whatever reasons that's one thing but having this conversation with my son I think will present different challenges. I've had this already. So my son, you know, we were working out I don't know it was like a month ago and he's like, hey, how do I get my arms bigger? And so my response is Okay, if you get stronger at pull-ups and at bench press Then the side effect of that is bigger arms. That's the conversation That's how I bring it up. What I what I don't think is a good idea is to teach them how to break their body down Okay, so you need more delts here and maybe if your pecs got a little bit better Bigger exactly But if they focus on things like how can I get stronger? How can I move better the side effect of that being? I'm gonna look a certain way. I think that's a healthier approach now as far as calories and proteins are concerned I think it's important that you educate them on what those mean But I also think it's important that you don't create this crazy monitoring Structure with their food where they're counting things But I'll have conversations like this with my kids where they'll say, hey, can we have you know pasta for dinner? I'm like, oh, we got to have a little bit more balance. We've had a lot of we had more carbohydrates this morning So I think tonight we're gonna have more proteins and fats or I'll say things like proteins and fats are essential Your body needs those so we're gonna hit those first Carbohydrates not bad, but they're not essential. So, you know, it's not as important that we you know seek those out For example, or you know, this food provides this particular nutrient This is a good idea that we eat this because you know, maybe you're getting a cold or something like that So when it comes to that conversation, I'll do that but the like tracking Um and like count those things and you got to hit these numbers Oh, I don't know if that's necessarily a good path to go down really We're trying to bring it back to like healthier conversations about uh, yeah macronutrients and like how it benefits your body overall Uh, I mean same as I look at with like like the pursuit of having bigger arms or like having shredded abs I know like I mean this is just stuff that kids even talk about at school already and I think it's just uh because of instagram and it's because of things where Uh, you know people notice things about bodies early on and they're like Why does he look that way and and so I mean I'm I'm already having these conversations with my kids And so it's just one of those things It's I try to like understand that these are you know pursuits that some kids have and they They like the fact that like maybe they're showing off their muscles at the pool or whatever, but uh, you know Trying to bring it back to a healthier Objective of that as if you know if that's benefiting their overall health then, you know, there's nothing wrong with that I can already see though that my like my kids Like so much less insecure than I was he doesn't really display The insecurities that I did he kind of doesn't care. He'll try out for sports teams doesn't care About you know, what happens? He'll work out. It's not a big deal Um, I at his age was this like when my it was hitting a super high level And I was just in the backyard working out two hours a day because of those insecurities So I think a lot of it has to do also with just how they are with their parents and how secure they feel with you know Being themselves Next question is from taylor dinkle You guys seem to be pretty confident Do you have any tips on cultivating confidence in life? Oh gosh, you know, it's funny the minute you stop caring We are the best. Yeah, right You know the minute you stop caring about um What people think about you now not all people I think it's important to care about what important people care about you like you're The the good friends that you have and family members and your kids But once you stop caring about what everybody else thinks about you then you just be yourself And and here's the other side of it. Do you want people to like you for being yourself or you want people to like you for Be someone fake because uh, that's an important thing to kind of understand. I think it's like developing a muscle You know, it's it the confidence is something that uh, you know, it comes after you Start to understand yourself more and and you you're secure In the way that you are so like all your flaws in consideration and uh, really like just Owning it if it's something you want to change it comes from within like if you're relying on other people to tell you You know this that the other too much about their feedback as opposed to your own, uh, you know pursuits I think you know, that's something to evaluate But I I think it's just something that it just grows and develops. Uh, you know the more you you bring back Like your own like what do I want to do what you know, where do I want to go with this? What do I want to learn? What do I want to change about my own? Uh, you know body of things that are obvious to me And just like try as much as you can to bring it back to you know, your your own pursuits Today you are you that's true or than true. There's no one alive. That's you or than you Yeah, dr. Seuss that's right. I love that. Yeah, that's uh, that's maximus his quote That's on his instagram page and I think that like I was asked like I don't know It was a couple weeks ago when I did um my questions like if I could hand my son One quality and that was it what would it be and it was confidence And I think that's really what it is. It's so I think you hit it on the head like the the reality is The the the more you care less about it The more you confident you become. Yeah, and I remember this like in in in high school like because I didn't have Money I had crooked teeth. I was the the skinny kid like Grew up on the other side of the tracks like I didn't have in in the high school world I didn't have a lot of things that were working In my favor to become like a popular kids school and when you're a young kid like that you care about that stuff And the what I started to realize was as I was getting older and in growing up and in my teens The the more that I cared less about that and I was truer to myself and just was going to be me The more people that I attracted like people are drawn to people that are like that And so the people that I feel that struggle with this they desire it so much that they get hung up on it They're trying not to be them They're trying to be somebody else to get the attention of other people And this is what what causes them to lack confidence is because they're not being real to themselves They're trying to act a certain way or dress a certain way or be into certain things So other people will like them and they're not being true to themselves If you just learn to be who you are, which should be the easiest thing you possibly could do And be confident in that that this is who I am and there's nobody alive. That's like me. I'm unique I'm every one of us are extremely unique and be confident and being different You don't want to be normal that would be the worst thing in the world is to be like other people And so recognizing that you are so special that you are so different that you are so you That nobody else can do you and being true to that you'll you'll People will gravitate toward you and people will be drawn to you Because of that and so it's just learning to love yourself for who you are and that includes All the corkiness and the nerdiness and the different that the things that make you different from everybody else Don't allow other people that and here's the other thing too, right? Because this is where this gets challenging, especially for young kids that are growing up Is when people tease you and put you down the moment that you make the connection that when people tease you and put you down Or make fun of you or point out the things that are different about you That's a reflection of their insecurities And so when you start to make that connection that it has nothing to do With you being unique or different has everything to do with that person is projecting their insecurities on you That should build confidence in you like oh wow this person feels threatened by this thing That's different about me even though they're teasing or pointing at maybe an insecurity of your own Them doing so is a reflection of their own shit Once you realize that and you stand firm and who you are and you're like fuck. Yeah, I am that person I am confident about that. I am I am who I am and nobody can do me and the the more You solidify that I think the more confident you will become and the more people that you will attract And you know it's different difficult about this particular conversation is I think it sometimes gets confused with um I like who I am therefore. I never have to grow change or improve myself like you know, I'm lazy Uh, I don't take care of myself But you know, I'm confident and I care about myself and that's it you're mixing Two things up like one of the best ways to cultivate And build confidence is to seek growth real growth not like pretend growth That's driven necessarily by insecurities, but rather Challenging yourself in overcoming challenges that builds Uh confidence if you want a child to be confident you allow them to encounter challenges They gotta be tested and to fail and to try again and then to succeed It's an amazing thing to watch when a kid They've done studies on this kids that are raised this way will work on a puzzle Much longer than other kids. They'll keep going keep going to try and figure that puzzle out So confidence is also built that way is that you know, I'm not perfect. That's okay I'm comfortable in my skin. So so I'll I'll tell the truth and I'll I'll have that integrity But I'm also trying to be a better person. I'm also trying to grow those things are simultaneous It's and they they work together. It's not one or the other because I think sometimes people think Oh, you know, you just got to love who you are So therefore that means I'm not going to grow because that's who I am and I love me You know, that doesn't mean that that's not what that means. No, that's the difference between confidence and cockiness Right somebody who's or narcissism. Yeah, that's it's cockiness, right? You think you you think that you you've arrived And that you're somebody who is confident doesn't ever think that way They think that that's right that somebody who is really truly confident knows that that that you know What is the what's the the stoic thing to say is that I know that I'm I know that I am wise because I know that I know nothing right you are forever in pursuit of growth And you are forever looking to grow and be better and that's what makes you confident is being okay with okay I lack in this department. Oh, I could be better here. I'm going to continue to push that way When you're the other person when you think you've arrived and you're smarter than everybody else You're better than everybody else. You're more popular now You can recognize other people out there better than you at things. Yeah, and you're fully like okay with that That's right. Yeah, that's right. I mean if you I'll give you an example from a fitness standpoint from a trainer standpoint The trainer that lacks confidence Is the trainer that pretends to always have the answers when the client has a question or a problem? Even though they don't know the answer. Yeah, they're not confident enough to say to their client. I don't know Confident trainers say I don't know a lot to their clients. They'll say things like I don't know But I'll find out for you. That's what real confidence looks like Fake confidence looks like I got this all under control. I know everything I'm the man or whatever, you know, look at me check me out. That's a projection of Insecurity it reminds me of the you know, I was a I was eating dinner with Jessica We were eating an outdoor patio It's Santana row, right? And you see a lot of nice cars in that area And if you eat it if you live in San Jose area, you know, Santana row and you know that you're going to see Two or three Ferraris or a couple Maserati 100,000 or 200,000 dollar cars And it was so funny that you'd see them drive by And you know, they'd be just driving by because there's a road there or whatever And then every once in a while one would drive by and they would rev their engine super loud Hey, look at me. Look at Matt. Like everybody's already looking at you. You know, that's not confidence. That's it's insecurity You know, I'm saying yeah, yeah with that mine pump is recorded on video as well as audio come check us out on youtube Uh, you can also find us individually on instagram. You can find dug at mine pump dug By the way, he posts a lot of behind the scenes stuff Uh, mostly about podcasting the art of podcasting You can also find Justin at mine pump Justin Me at mine pump style and adam at mine pump adam Listening to both of them speak but only one of them said something that actually Kind of sparked something that made me want to do something different in my diet just to experiment All right, um, and that was paul And when he to your point you're talking about right now when he started talking about, you know Plants natural defense is for them to have toxins so they didn't get eaten all the time