 Agni asks us, what exercises can I do instead of pull-ups or chin-ups? Ready? Go! Nothing! What's up, players? What's going on, ladies and gentlemen? This is Cactus Time with the Zenduz. You guys ask us questions and we answer them. Music like Gary Vee's show. Yeah, Gary Vee, for those of you who don't know Gary Vaynerchuk, does a show called The Ask Gary Vee Show. It's super helpful and it's super successful with his community. So we just decided to like totally copy him and just have to ask the Zenduz show. Yeah, Cactus Time with the Zenduz. So here's the format. We're going to pick questions that were asked in our forward challenge in Dojo and then we're going to answer them 30 seconds each. Sometimes it'll be less than 30 seconds, but we're going to try to answer as many questions as we can in like a 30 minute period of time. 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It's great for beginners or if you're more advanced, they have many different options for handles, types of ropes that you would wanna jump with. So Crossrope is our company. Check it out on the link below. Another thing too, we get a lot of comments on YouTube with people who are like, that's way too expensive or it's way too expensive to ship to my country. Can I have a cheaper jump rope? And while I totally understand that, like we totally get that. And I'm always someone, you know, looking for a deal. Yeah, deals on deals. You guys actually are gonna end up saving more money by investing in the Crossrope. And I say that because the hassle that I've had to go through, that we've had to go through, replacing shit jump ropes sucks. If you just get, it really is a get what you pay for thing. If you just get an awesome rope right the first time, then you don't have to worry about replacing it every couple of months when it breaks and then you just have this awesome rope. So what we're saying is put the investment in, you're gonna be happy. Question number one. What are you doing me? You doing me? Well, I'm gonna ask you a question. Yeah. And then you can answer and then I'll ask you. Okay, cool. Alright, ready? Question number one. Jason, OG from Zendu Fitness asks, what skincare products do you use for shaving, moisturizing, et cetera? Ready? Go. Dove soap. Literally. I do. I take Dove soap bars and like put it on my face for shaving. Nice. And then I wash my hair with that and my body. Done. What do you use? I use whatever my girlfriend has in the shower. So she has about 12 bottles in there. I usually just use the soap. 12 bottles. Dude, Jason, we don't use anything, man. But we probably will as we get older to make sure, you know, we can get creases in the eyes. Also, by the way, there's like no reason. Like it's not like I'm against it. I do feel though. Like one day I just woke up and ran out of shaving cream and was like, I can just use soap. Exactly. Alright. Next question. Nathan asks, can you give us some bodywood exercises that can replace some gym exercises when you don't have access to the gym? Dan, go. Yeah. To be straight up with you guys, push-ups, pull-ups, and lots of squats, particularly not just like bodyweight squats, air squats, jumping squats, so plyometric types of movements. I'm a big believer that if you eat correctly, hit your calories and macros and get your micronutrients. If you just do pull-ups, push-ups, and lots of different types of squats and jumping, you're going to look very sexy. Go, Brandon. I agree. Next question. Agni asks us, what exercises can I do instead of pull-ups or chin-ups? Ready? Go. Nothing! We're kidding. Exercise instead of pull-ups or chin-ups to get to achieve the... I'm assuming that you're in muscle groups. Same muscle groups. You can do inverted rows, which is basically hanging underneath something and pulling yourself up. For example, this is kind of dangerous. You have to be careful. I wouldn't do it with a glass table. 10 seconds. You can hang underneath a table like this. I could get down underneath there and pull myself up. I would say inverted rows as well. Otherwise, you can lift weights, which we have available in the gaining muscle course. What you could do is negative. Pull-up negatives. There you go. So, if you can't do pull-ups or chin-ups, do pull-up or chin-up negatives. Oh, like... Matthew Javier. Hey, Matt. Oh, gee. Great coach in the dojo. It says, what happens when you meet your goal? Make a new one or find harmony? Go. Both. Me personally, like when I reach a goal, I'm always like, I'm a type of person who's like, I got to do something. I have to like find the next thing and conquer it. But at the same time, what I've gotten better about in my later 20s is being grounded in the present. So, even when I'm chasing that next thing and I accomplish something, I'm still enjoying the whole process and I feel very confident in saying that. I finally am at a point in my life where I really do enjoy the process. Brandon, go. Me personally, yeah, I think I'm always creating a vision that I'm going towards, but, you know, life is only enjoyable when you're in the present moment. So, you know, man, we're always doing our best. I'm doing my best to be here, be present, and just enjoy the heck out of this, this podcast. All this is going on right now. Next question, Tanbir. Tanbir. Tanbir. Tanbir asks, are you living your dream or chasing your team? Ooh, that's a great question. I can honestly say I'm living my dream. Like, literally, if the only thing I want to do in my life, I literally wake up every day and do exactly what I want. Like, this is my dream, making videos and communicating with you guys. That's why we do it every day. And also, I just want, like, more money to have more freedom to go places, but I think when I have more money, like, my dream in, like, day-to-day is not going to change. Like, I've hit it. Now it's just like, I want to live it at a higher and higher level. Beep! Yes! It's weird. I think really, really similarly as Dan, I feel like I'm living my dream right now. I'm doing what I've always wanted to do, like, exactly what I want to do. And as we scale, as it becomes a bigger and bigger movement, we just get to do more of what we're already doing. So it's like, I'm living my dream, but I get to live my dream even more as this continues to scale. So, yeah. Yeah. Sorry, man. I, like, sat on my right arm. Gotta be careful with that, man. Alright, ready? Next question. Mono asks, any resources other than my fitness pal like, were books, online courses, etc. that you used to make eating right easier? Okay. You're in the dojo, so you have access to the entire simple meal system. Stop looking for more stuff. All the information that you would need to get lean and stay that way is in the course that you're already in. And I don't say that to, like, just rep zendu stuff. But this is the problem with seeking other information, guys. You already have access to the information. Just do it. Do the thing. That's my advice. I agree fully. You have my fitness pal. You have the simple meal system. If you're in our course, you don't need anything besides those two things to reach your goals. Alright, the homie Diego asks, what are the most useful bodyweight exercises to grow muscle that can replace the weightlifting workouts? Go. I'm going to read it again because I interrupted you and yell and I'm sorry. What are the most useful bodyweight exercises to grow muscle that can replace weightlifting workouts? Honestly, pull-ups, the same thing I said for the other answer, pull-ups, push-ups, different types of squats, and plyometric squats. Those are my top highlights of boy. Marcos asks, if you take BCAs while you're in your fasting period, does that take them? If you guys take BCAs while on your fasting period, doesn't taking them breaks the same fasting period? Go. No, because BCAs, and this is the awesome sauce about BCA, check this out. They have less than 50 calories. There's very few BCA supplements that have a lot of calories because remember, they're the building blocks of protein. Protein is the building blocks of muscle. So they actually don't have that many calories, so when you consume them, you stay in the fasted state, and that's the whole reason for taking them. Brandon, go ahead. 100% agree. You're not breaking it fast because for most people, it's around 40 to 70 calories is how many calories you need to break your fast. And what does it say here? There's like 10 calories. I don't even think it says on there. Yeah, it doesn't even say because there's none. No calories. It doesn't break your fast? Don't worry about it. All right. Tiffany asks, Brandon, how did you guys get started jumping rope? Dan, go. All right. So I got started jumping rope because our dude, dude, one of my best friends, Brandon, who actually is joining us. He's in the dojo. Brandon, shout out. We love you. But Brandon's also joining Zenduid Fitness to start our Espanol presence. You know? Espanol means Spanish. And Brandon, I visited him in Boston when I lived in New York. He was like, dude, pick up a jump rope. I picked up a jump rope. I lost a bunch of weight, started base jump, started Zenduid Fitness, holler at your boy jump rope for life. Me personally, I met Dan. He told me jump rope's really cool, so I started jumping rope and the rest is history. Will Reese asks, if one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the others drown too? Go. If the ones who are drowning around them care about the one who's drowning, they'll go with them. Ride or die. Next question. Roger, what was your motivation in the beginning? Why you started jumping rope, bro? Because I hated all other forms of working out, but I wanted to lose weight, so I went again to visit my friend in Boston, Brendan, love you. And he was like, dude, start jumping rope. I had a bunch of fun. And then I was like, this is what I actually want to do and this is actually going to help me lose weight. So that's why I started jumping rope. And for me, I just had no idea before that jumping rope could be your replacement for cardio that I didn't like doing. And once Dan showed it to me, I was like, yes, let's start jumping rope all the time. Let's do Zenduid Fitness. Let's... Yeah. Next question. Hoff says, what new techniques are you working to perfect? I'm talking about jump rope. I want to learn this move. That's in one of the Jake Gyllenhaal videos that I haven't been able to yet where you swing it to the side and then the other side before coming back under. It's like a modified single under. But one other big thing in my life that I'm working to perfect is dancing. I just want to be an amazing hip-hop dancer. Go. For me personally, I'm not working on any specific jump rope moves, but I'm learning how to become a world-class boxer right now. I'm preparing for my first amateur fight. So every day I'm training like two hours a day. Get ready for that. Every day. What's the best piece of advice you've ever been given? Go. Ooh. Ooh. I have little use for the past and rarely think about it. It's a line from Eckert Tolle who's the power of now. Is your happiness conditional? Oh! I ask myself that question all the time. I just actually read a recently in this book called Untethered Soul. And always I get an opportunity to ask myself, yo dude, are you upset about something? Oh, does that mean that your happiness conditional around the world being a certain way? That's not how it is right now. If it is, that's not a happy way to live your life because you never have control. So you might as well just be happy unconditionally. Do that. Yeah, do that. Sure. Lois asks, how do you incorporate weighted ropes into the workouts? All right, Lois. So there's one thing you can do. You can either do the workout separately, do a whole workout with the weighted rope or with the agility speed rope. Or what you could do is in the eight exercises, you could do the agility rope and four of them with the weighted rope to kind of mix it up a little bit. Confuse your body. That's my advice go Brandon. I personally would recommend starting off a workout with some of the heavier ropes so by the time you get to the end when you usually get fatigued you bring out the lighter ropes and you become an absolute ninja. Whipping that around just can feel super light after using the heavier ropes. Samurai. Question from Troy. He says, what college do you guys attend if any? And if you did, what was your experience like? I'm at a point where I'm like, this is horses because I'm spending so much money in the workplace. You guys have just made me realize that I want to do things that I love and right now I don't love college but at the same time I understand that it's something society tells us we must do to be successful. Dan, you got 30 seconds. Go. Okay, first of all this is going to take longer than 30 seconds. Maybe a minute. I went to school at Westchester University in Pennsylvania. It's a small division two school. Not very well known. It's an okay school. It's a state school or whatever. College, look let me be honest with you guys like I was a political science and economics major and like I don't I haven't applied any of that. I got in this also by the way I was like anal about getting perfect grades. So like I almost got like a 4.0 and I don't say that to brag. I say it because I didn't give a shit about class. Like I don't remember I just studied to like get an A and other than that I thought nothing about class. I didn't care about learning the material and frankly I don't regret that because looking back I don't regret going to college but I could have spent my time 10 seconds doing more stuff like that I do now and living a more fulfilled life and like growing a business. Like I wish I would have started a business and learned that kind of stuff. So college having said that this is what I need to say having said that the just the simple completion of college though is like you stick something out for four years and or maybe three years and you finish it so my advice to you is finish college but don't think that it's going to have anything to do with your success afterward. Go. Alright personally I went to Whittier college. When I graduated high school my goal was to go play college football. Whittier college is in Los Angeles East Los Angeles small liberal arts school and I went there with the intention of playing football and figuring out after that and if I could go back in time actually I personally wouldn't have gone to college and my recommendation for you is if you feel called to do something that is outside the alignment of like something that needs a linear degree like a law degree or a doctor degree then drop out of college right now and go pursue whatever you care about because personally I wish I would have done that. I wish I was exposed to the kind of things that Dan and I talk about all the time at a much younger age if I was I think it would have took a different direction I just wasn't exposed to it so you don't know what you don't know follow your heart man whatever you do if you work really hard and you stay focused and you're going to be successful so if you feel passionate about school or not do it and if you feel passionate about something else give it everything you have be relentless and understand that no matter what you do it's going to be hard but enjoy the process boom do you guys have any plans for coming to India ask our boys to do of course we do man we would love to come to India because there's a huge zen dude fitness community in India so as soon as we can we're going to go over there I think it's just a matter of like just organizing it and getting our ducks in a row Lakshaya says what if you want this zen dude physique but you have a lot of body fat should one be lifting weight simultaneously or focus on burning fat first using the jump rope and body weight exercises go well lifting weights to be totally honest is a helpful way to burn a lot of fat so we would suggest doing both like lift weights and also do a lot of high intensity jump rope exercises to maximize your ability to burn fat but also at the end of the day remember nutrition is the biggest thing specifically eating the right amount of calories and macronutrients if you haven't checked it out yet zen dude fitness calorie and macronutrient calculator it's linked up go I would recommend doing the most efficient thing possible which is focusing number one on nutrition to get rid of that body fat and then I would also lift weights I would do something like the gaining muscle core for your lifting a few times a week and doing jump rope workouts to burn additional body fat next question from Shay Dan were you gifted the ability to dance like a hip hop god okay first of all I only started dancing about a year and a half two years ago just because I simply love it but I am not anywhere close to a hip hop god like the people who are hip hop dancers like pros they're insane and I want to get to a level where I'm like really really good so I appreciate your love and support but trust me I'm nowhere near that top but that is exactly what I'm shooting for because all I want to do is move my body and dance so I want to be the best of it as I possibly can you hit the gym and jump rope for five days you hit the gym and jump rope for five days do the thing Istiak says I'm 18 I can't afford pre-workout or supplements BCAs or any supplement which is featured on your channel which food should I take before my workout bro that is totally fine first of all because you're 18 you should be concentrating more so on food before getting into supplementation because guys those are the goals just with food okay having said that I would recommend eating some fruit before a workout to kind of get yourself energized get some good carbohydrates in that are burn yeah that's it that's my recommendation eat fruit before a workout yeah I would say you know 30 minutes an hour before your workout maybe a banana maybe two bananas Mindy asks what are some simple meal and snack examples you recommend for fat loss if I do the recommended calorie intake recommended per day on your website to lose fat or is activity absolutely necessary to lose any I want to lose weight so that I can jump rope more efficiently go you can totally lose a bunch of weight and look awesome without ever exercising at all I think it's a ridiculous myth that like you need to be running and lifting weights all the time like if your goal is just to lose weight hit your calorie like figure out what your calories and macronutrients are on our calculator and start eating like that and you're just going to lose weight and actually I also recommend don't start jumping rope or exercising lose the weight first through nutrition and then begin one of our programs like the four-week challenge getting lean 30 seconds you cut me off bro I agree fully if you don't feel comfortable to jump a rope yet hit your nutrition card and just start going on daily 30-minute to hour-long walks that has been cactus time with the Zenduz I don't know if we mentioned this earlier but we have some very rare Colombian cacti that's not true you ask the questions we answer them so you can live a more epic life with a jump rope and your body and traveling around the world and having fun epic life awesomeness have fun Zendu Nation do the thing yeah if you want any of these products you see here they're linked in the description below and and if you want to ask questions next weeks thing yeah if you want to ask next if you have join our four week challenge or dojo and we will answer questions when we post the question that says what questions you want to answer yeah should we have the people on youtube just like post questions 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