 Welcome to Mind Pump. This is the top fitness and health podcast in the world in this episode. You're welcome We answer health and fitness questions asked by our audience But we open up the episode with our introductory conversation where we talk about our lives we tell stories We mention our sponsors. We bring up scientific studies. Here's what went on in today's episode We start out by talking about old school Porn that's right. So now we make it back to that we grew up during the age of no internet porn And we had to get very creative with the good old days Yeah, so we tell some stories there Then we talk about cooking in a cast iron skillet believe it or not when you cook in a cast iron skillet You actually add iron to your diet So it's actually an interesting way to raise your iron levels But I talk about how I cooked butcher box Steak in there now butcher box is a company that delivers grass-fed meats to your door heritage pork minimally processed bacon Wild salmon very very healthy meats. They deliver it to your door eliminate the middleman's you get a great price on Top of that. 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It just came up Yeah, I don't know about that then we talked about the Wayfair the company how they're cutting their staff I talked about the weight loss drug pelvic and how it's being removed from the market because it causes cancer Uh-oh, we talked about Nike gotta do it the old way extortion. There's a documentary on that Adam Totally forgot the documentary name, but 10 minutes later popped it up I Talked about drink is pure today I talked about the latest Gallup poll that shows Trump I can Trump's economic approval or through the roof Then we talked about Bernie Sanders and how he wants to destroy the country then we got into the fitness questions The first question was this person did like us This person says hey look I saw an ad on TV for the Jenny Craig DNA meal plan for weight loss What's the deal? Is it good? Is it baloney? We give our opinion the next question This person says can you build a good core by only doing compound lifts like squats and deadlifts? 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That's how far can you go this as much as I got 13 Yeah, because I have two extra only cuz he can get to 12 because he's gonna throw it on You gotta win again I was gonna win it me and Adam. It's like an age-old battle. Yeah, what is that? What do you always say Adam your biggest strength is your biggest weakness your greatest strength is your greatest weakness Yeah, one of these days. You're gonna you know like a movie It's like when you like you encounter a demon and he's like in order to escape like he gives you like some kind of riddle Yeah, you must lose You must willing your soul is mine for eternity. Yeah, that's what would happen. I don't know man So you win a lot with us. I don't know what what that is. Huh? You don't you care the least about it But yeah, that's why it's humble is the word Can you play I just say can you put a humble in your name in same sense? Oh, no, you totally totally I'm some of my humblest The most humble I see you know someone asked me I already wrote the question was if somebody asked me on my Q&A day and I was like well The humble answer would be no, but the truth is yes Yes, I knew I was gonna do that Have you ever been have you ever been told your cocky be honest? Yeah, of course. Yeah You mean today yeah, like what time yeah Well, you know what though in the defense of yourself and yeah myself and anybody else that's been labeled as cocky before People insecure people are intimidated by confident people. Yeah, they need a word for that. It's their fault. Yeah, it is I did that. I've been that cocky you're insecure. I've been called cocky, but it's not because I'm confident being I would Sorry, I would say my boo cocky Just had to go further right there. That's not a good category of video just wound up it Don't look at that. Yeah, that's a group effort. Yeah, you don't want to do that. Yeah Anyway, what are you drinking there Adam? Is that just water? Just water. You gotta hydrate. I'm still hydrating from are you? Yeah, I'm you know what I'm doing right now. I'm sweating weird We mean by that So my hands are sweaty. It's probably your hippie deodorants making and come on. You don't wear deodorant Hands are sweaty and my knees are sweaty foams are sweaty. Nobody. I have no idea. Why what he knees sweat I know right Man thing does it make is it really sweaty kneecaps? That's why I'm gonna stress thing That's why I'm start wearing shorts like this Did I ever tell you guys when I used to go work with my dad? He cuz you know you guys think I don't care you haven't met my dad, right? It's where you get it from. Oh, well, you mean he's always a it was a poor Sicilian I don't even think he knows he's supposed to care I would go to work with him and he would wear, you know work pants and my dad because of the way he grew up He ain't gonna buy nothing new until the old stuff is destroyed and disintegrated. It's like no reason These are my work pants, right? So he'd wear work pants until they were just shredded and then he'd he would have my my mom cut them to shorts But they were hella short. They're like right here So you would wear serious George embarrassing and and then he would continue to wear them so that the bottom were frayed listen If the pockets Longer than the shorts if the pockets are longer you can't do that unless you're chick Well, and the worst that is like that's a rule me and my cousin was we would you know We were like 14 15 and you know my dad's cool So you could tease him yeah, and we'd make fun of him for his little short shorts And you'd be like that's like popa that's girls wear shorts like can't wear that and he goes Oh, yeah, you think so, huh? And then he would have you'd wrestle us and kick our ass You can't make fun of a guy wearing short shorts who beats you up Do you think no you think our doors pulled it off? Do you think we're gonna come full circle with stuff like that like I hope not No, I mean not so much the short shorts, but they're not caring like about materialistic things oh Because because we you know I feel like I'm starting to see that lately right we everywhere I go and we predict that that's what your peers because Yeah, that could be that people Because much old friend you because we're now in our 40s that we hang out with other people in their 40s And they just don't give a shit. They gave up ten years ago. So that maybe that's why you know, it's no I just mean because Because things are becoming more readily available and in our lifetime. I think we I think we all agree that Clothes and sneakers and anything that can be printed by a 3d printer Oh, do you mean everybody just can be aware whether they want. Yeah, and so then it loses its status Yeah, yeah, like like and something else. So and I'm sure something will replace it right that I can't predict or figure out Because I still think that we will have we still will find a way to create a hierarchy amongst us like right now That's clothes and cars and things are a way that people create well cars artificial status cars Don't even matter that much with kids like they know they don't already in high school Nobody cares. No, you know when I was when I was cars were you know that I had all kinds of car magazines I subscribed to that was a thing like you like I remember just Thumb in through car magazines and like oh man, I would love that like you really no kid gives a shit about What was that time you see a kid look at that car magazine? You guys remember maximum? Yeah, they don't yeah, whatever happened to max They still exist. They have a website right there pull up maximum calm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they just Jenny McCarthy still on there They they pivoted online. So you know some of these big magazines, you know your playboy that's still a magazine But also pull that one up. So maximum exists, huh? Yeah, look. Yeah. Oh, wow. Look at that Yeah, see I used to see now now gq now maximum was basically how you got away with Getting a magazine with girls on it with your parents. That wasn't porn right because it would have the car on the cover Yeah, and mom knows the work around she would never open it. Yeah, I mean, so she always reading about cars No, I'm not did you do that trick where you'd have like the magazine cover that was different than the actual magazine Oh my god, dude, you know what I did. You know what I did once almost got caught So this was that this was the jam kids that have no idea What you know when you had a dirty magazine and you're gonna go take a shower What you do is you take the dirty magazine you fold it in half and then wrap the towel around it Wow walk into the bathroom, right and You ever as you guys ever done that and then it falls out of the towel. No This is you brought it with you in the shower in the bathroom. Oh, you understand because I gotta pull it I'm I see I pull it from the hiding spot Uh-huh wrap it in the bath towel and then I'm holding it like oh, I'm gonna go take a shower now Right, but I'm actually bringing in the bathroom. I see so I bring it in there one time And it fell out of the tap out of the towel Yeah, and it hit the ground and my mom was standing right there and I kicked it under the door. No, I was like Probably it's the most matrix thing I've ever done my life. You got away with it. No, but he's nothing proud I was proud better than me. I got caught a few times You got You know what that doesn't surprise me at all. Yeah, I did mr. I had an apple on my face Clean-up skills Dude, I did you have it did you stick it to the shower? I told this story in the very beginning of the podcast where it was like I I based this is in the era of like aol, you know, we're stuff like You know is available online all of a sudden and it's this whole new world And I printed it and it took about an hour, but it was so worth it You know, I don't even know if it went all the way through it was like, you know, three quarters of the way I'm like, that's enough Snatch and then brought that with me in the shower. So I actually put it up in the corner where it wouldn't get water Just for inspiration They're like I left it in there but mom found it 100% no way out of that too. No, there's no lie or like, oh, you know that fell out of my pocket And mounted itself in the bathroom shower You know the worst part about that is I'm sure they had like counseling and things around it, you know If I went to the pastor or like, you know, trying to figure out how to like approach me like, you know Because they sat me down and they're like trying to discuss like I told you my mom Oh my god, I don't want to talk about this. Was it a really bad one or was it just regular nudity? No, it was like, um aggressive two girls and a guy kind of a thing. So It was The dirty movie I almost got caught with I can't even say the title on this podcast. That's how bad it was Yeah, and my mom you were bad early then, huh? Oh, yeah And my mom Tried to grab it out of my hand because I was watching my cousins She walks in I hit eject and the vcr back in those days took forever to eject. So it's like you hit the button It's like And then she's like walking up and I grab it And she's like, what is that? What's that movie? And I could and I have the title looking right at me And if she just read the title it would have broke her heart So I literally this I swear because it's a true story. I was napping off 14 years old. I crushed it Oh, I crushed it with my bare hands. That was pure fear Generated there. Oh Justin I remember The when aol first hit the scene right and in printing off new photos that you when we'd have to wait right for the window that one of our moms went Oh, yeah, but yeah, go to the store or something and I remember like, you know her pulling up Like oh, yeah, like come on. Come on. Come on hurry up We a little bit further we're almost there like I remember that It says paper jam one buddy is like standing watch at the window, you know, so like she's coming She's pulling up right now. She's pulling up I got a story for you So you know how when you try to print something if it doesn't print Because there's a paper jam or something like that. It keeps it in queue. Yeah, okay It's having a cousin dude. No, yes My cousin was going to print some shit and got his copy something happened didn't come out But it was in the queue little sister doing a report It's print. Oh, guess. Oh, we need paper puts the paper and guess what comes out first Naked chip naked stuff from round the printer. It's all the good old days. Those. Yeah now. It's easy now. Yeah, nobody cares You know, you know, it's crazy now is that you're seeing because how accessible pornography is it's actually a problem Yeah, it's it was a good thing that it was hard to get to when we were younger because now your kids have a rectile dysfunction Yeah, and pornography addiction. So just they're just no way too much way too soon It's too. It's too. It needs to be a problem Yeah, it's like you have to well, look you're gonna have to fight for it Well, look what you're getting on instagram now like what you get you in What we're getting on instagram today is more graphic than what I was looking at in magazines or what I was printing off online That I was super it would get me in trouble Right like that a normal just a random girls instagram feed today Would get me in trouble for looking at that just you know two decades ago. Yeah, so You know and so imagine if you're a kid where that's like you you see that all the time You have to escalate that to the next level or else you don't get aroused by that anymore because it's everywhere I used to watch the scrambled channel. You guys remember that? Yeah, man This is when so back in the day used to do the satellite back from g6 to N7 and you toggle it back and forth in seven g6 and that's as a satellite You see a bunch of like snow and then every now and you get like a moan Yeah One nipple Look at that. That's crazy Yeah, dude. Oh man jcp catalog or whatever like that's what that was the extent of it crazy. Anyway, dude I wanted to tell you guys something very interesting. What's that? So jessica got some blood tests and stuff done to look at her nutrient levels And her iron levels which were low before they were kind of low before Now are in the upper limit. And so now we're She's like, oh, I got to be careful with eating red meat. Like how how did this happen? Now part of it is She started eating some organ meats and organ meats in particular liver super nutrient dense But do you know what the other reason why her iron levels started to get pretty kind of high? Because we cook our steak in a cast iron skillet. Oh, wow. Did you know that? Yeah, I definitely heard about that when you cook food in a cast and this is not necessarily a bad thing It depends right if you're if you have too much iron or supplement with iron, you might want to be careful But if you cook Food in an iron skillet Some iron goes into the food. I think it's between 48 milligrams. Wow Depending on what you cook in there. Now the bad part is I love cooking steak in a cast iron still. It's my favorite. That's one of the best Oh, dude, we got the the the new york strip from butcher box And she I don't know how I don't cook. I don't I don't do a lot of cooking but she puts this Like garlic marinade on it puts it in the in the skillet both sides throws in the oven. Oh my god So you sear the outsides, right? Yes juices and you put it in the oven. I don't even like barbecuing I don't like barbecuing. I know it's exact. I know well, especially if I'm doing like a filet You know one of their filets like I do that all the time from butcher box I love that dude. That's the new york cut you got from that. I haven't used I haven't or bought that Actually, it's about the only thing I think I haven't tried almost everything. Yeah So the ribeye is good the new york Believe it or not usually like ribeye more But I like their new york more has either one of you guys had their fish yet. I haven't had their fishy That's the other thing I haven't had. Yeah, I know they're doing they're doing something right now They were doing something for valentine's day. I know they did something for the salmon and the flamin yo I saw that. Yeah, I was like, oh, that would have been a good idea. So have you had their salmon? I have I've had their wild it's wild salmon. It's the some of the healthiest salmon you can get and it's good It's very good. But you know, there's a difference between farm raised salmon in taste and the the the wild stuff The wild stuff is leaner. Yeah, it's a lot leaner. So you have to be careful. You can't overcook it if you overcook it Yeah, it cooks fast. Yes. Do you know, maybe Doug can fact check this? I don't know if someone told me this Read it somewhere, but you know that fish that are in farms they're they change they change their sex Yeah, because they're they're confined so much together that they it's like prison I don't think it's the same idea. They're like, fuck it. There's nobody else around Look up a farm fish to change sex. I think that's a thing Doug. I think that's a Happen. I think they do that in order to mate, right? No, no, no, no, it's not a good thing It's something that happens when they're when they're only in farms. It doesn't happen in wild You know what they do to some salmon that's farmed they add they dye it So when you buy it at the store, it looks nice and pink. Oh, yeah I have heard shenanigans. Yeah. Now. Here's the thing with farmed fish That's probably the future of fish. It's if you think about it Fish is one of the only widely consumed foods that we still hunt in the wild Like we don't do that with beef or we don't do that with lots of other stuff But fish we still fish in the ocean And because of the because there's so many people on earth and how much we're consuming Farmed maybe just the future and there are different ways of farming that are a little better But of course still today Wild is your is your best bet were you able to fact check me Doug? Yeah, it looks like it's tilapia only tilapia. What they're doing is they're using some type of hormone drug to change females to males And that makes a larger fish Hold on what if those oh, this is okay. What was the conspiracy that those chemicals are getting our water Something like that really what was the whole thing with frogs? What did you say? I missed it frogs changing the sex Doug, didn't you have you guys done the ribs from I have not I did them last weekend for the first time. How did you cook them? I actually went to traeger to get the recipe because I have a traeger grill And it's called I think fall off the bone Ribs takes three hours to do them. Okay. Amazing. I I saw I had I didn't do butcher box But I did the traeger recipe so I that's normally where I get my recipes is traeger's got some killer recipes and traeger also Sponsors some of these these barbecue guys So I like to get I get my butcher box meat But then I actually go to traeger because I have a grill also And actually get a lot of their recipes and cooked me and I've had I did the fall off the bone one But it wasn't the time I did it. I didn't have butcher boxes Ribs that time so I'll have to try those they were really good though. Did it fall off the bone It did my friends who are food snobs I mean they spent a lot of money going to san francisco and eating at nice restaurants that these are the best ribs They've ever had. Oh, wow. They've been to all types of different barbecue barbecue places in the area. So I gotta say I did a pretty good job. Well, you're a hell of a cook It helps to have good meat to start with Doug. Doug is a good cook. Is it? Yeah, I love it when you cook for us Dude, did I tell you guys I didn't bring this up. I don't think I did Did I tell you guys about the heading limits that they're starting to put in soccer in the uk? Oh because the concussions in the Cte soccer Soccer so under under 18 now they're putting limits on How often or how they allow them to hit and hit the ball it makes sense because of volume, right? Yes, and I don't know this. I don't have the name on it. I thought I saved it, but I didn't I don't have a guy's name But there was a there's a famous uk soccer player Who died? I believe before the age of 60 from cte from playing soccer Wow, I didn't know there was a case like that and soccer Yes, wow from soccer. Well, I thought I I thought I saw somewhere that they actually said that it's worse That that heading the ball is worse than like most football hits No, really? Yes. I could have sworn. I read that somewhere too Or if someone gets if someone head and think about that a ball traveling at like 40 miles an hour at you And you jump and hit it with your head. Yeah, it's because it's more of the vibration than I think is the actual impact Right, it's the it's the the brain bouncing off the back of your skull, right? That's what causes concussions, right? Well, what it is is the it's not of course What is it called when you get knocked unconscious concussion concussions are bad But what's causing the problems is just the repeated blows. It's just over and over. That's why boxing has That's why boxing can be so bad. It's not the knockouts It's that they wear gloves and that that allows you to pound someone in the head without hurting your hands That's why ufc is healthier, right? And that's why uh, bare knuckle boxing would probably be safer Not for your obviously your skin and bones bare knuckle break your hands Yeah, and you can't just pound someone allow you to just keep going. So yeah That's the thing too And it any impact any physical impact where you're like colliding with somebody like so all these sports are You know, going to be susceptible to cte when they start really like appearing into that but Yeah, it's interesting. I I've been looking into that a lot and I saw there was this like dr. Dan Something I forget, but he runs a clinic Um, I think it's in vegas, but they do a lot of like treatments for cte and um, they're they were using I think it was uh, like psilocybin. They were like using What yeah, they were using like some unconventional methods to to try and treat it Um, I want to look I want to even have him on the show I'm going to look into that because I'm really interested in You know like treating and getting ahead of this before it becomes a problem Well, you guys remember when I told you about creatine and how they're finding that that helps prevent Brain trauma, right? Um, I actually got a dm from somebody who got in a car accident And had a concussion started supplementing with creatine right afterwards and he said he noticed a pronounced difference In his recovery from from taking the creatine, which I think is is absolutely fascinating. Oh, wow Hey, what's going on with the uh corona virus right now? I keep getting mixed dr. Dan angle sir mix mixed messages from so Should we be scared? Are we worried? Well, so we thought so we thought that that the the cases flattened out But now it turns out they they didn't they're actually spiking So there's far more more cases and chinese so chinese state-run television announced On its website that everyone returning to beijing Is required to isolate themselves for two weeks So anybody going to beijing from other parts of china? They're required to isolate themselves and they're also saying that anyone who does not comply will be held accountable According to law. So what's also happening over there right now, which is really crazy is you have people who are Making videos like social media videos Getting them out into the internet and saying things like, you know, they're not letting us out of our house I can't visit family or they took away my aunt or whatever And then next thing you know video gets taken down that person no longer be heard probably thrown in jail or whatever It's getting really it's interesting. It's very interesting in the trouble with a country like china That is so centrally controlled Is that it's hard to know what to believe? Yeah, because they have a history of I mean all these these state-run, you know media You know all these communists or or or centrally planned governments Tend to put out news. That's not true. I mean we have enough trouble here with our media But at least our media is Like individuals like just putting it out there without them screening it first. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, they just showed that I think something like 1700 health chinese health care workers Uh came down with the coronavirus. Wow. So yeah, I don't think we should be scared But the but it did surpass sars Remember when sars was a big deal, but it still pales in a comparison to the and this was all like like centrally located china like in mainland china not like towards the coast most of it Yeah, now north korea that shares a border with china Um, and a lot of the the people who are infected Uh are around that area. They said they have zero, of course No, no, we have nothing here in north korea and scientists are like that's impossible. Yeah There's no way you guys are so close. There's no way you guys don't have any infections coming in here But again north korea. North korea. Yeah, I don't know. They don't they don't seem to tell the truth All that information is there speaking of illness. You guys hear about jesson beiber No, he's got Lyme disease. Oh really? Yeah, he wouldn't that come out recently He revealed that he got a diagnosis of lyme disease. That's a tough one to deal with it It is because uh the symptoms can be pretty bad and pretty and sometimes general like do you ever really get rid of it Either it seems to stay for you can if you treat it early Is it considered an autoimmune? No, it's not. No, no, no, it's an actual Disease you you get and I believe I don't know if they're bacteria I think they're considered bacteria, but they burrow themselves in your body and they can cause all kinds of Different problems and the treatment for lyme disease at least the conventional treatment is a long heavy heavy dose Of antibiotic isn't it where it originally came from like ticks or something like that? Yeah, is that where is it only is that the only way you get it? It's still the only one I know well you get it from ticks and then there is some Controversies to whether or not it can be it could be transmitted through sexually transmitted through sexual contact the official Uh statement is that you can't but then a lot of people are saying no, I think that's I think you can Yeah, but it's crazy because it's it's something that causes like fever joint pain fatigue Neurological type issues sometimes you'll get it and then you won't get any symptoms for years Yeah, or you'll get crazy symptoms and they'll go away then they'll come back Yeah, I knew a few people have had it and one had symptoms a lot like mono like where they just were so Extremely fatigued they couldn't do it. I I know somebody I've had clients. You guys never had clients that have it Um, I don't think oh, I've had a couple clients. I've had a client really yeah, and it's it is It's so like they could be totally fine one day and then the next day just fatigued and that's a good I think it's a good Example like it's it's like mono like they just they're so fatigued weak and tired But they could have been just perfectly fine the day before so I had a a friend a friend of the family who got Lyme And one of her symptoms was she would have ravenous insatiable hunger like now she was Normal body weight Didn't have any issues with food or anything like that once she once this she got the Lyme Her appetite was so ravenous. She gained. I mean she got her body weight over like 300 pounds Wow, and she's like she tries to explain it. She says my appetite She's like it's not a normal appetite and it was never satisfied like even after a big meal No, she said she'd be stuffed and couldn't eat anymore, but she would still have this ravenous Appetite and she said it's yeah, it's a terrible terrible feeling To have you know kind of kind of crazy stuff. No, that's anyway I had some business news that I wanted to bring up that are you guys familiar with the the company Wayfair? Wait a minute. You know that you know that They have all kinds of things furniture. Yeah, you guys don't haven't you seen them off of 580 that they just built that massive like right when I think it's uh, let me think you're Try I think it's like um Tracy area. Yeah, I know so much right when you're heading off Right when you come over the the ultimate pass and then you see they built this massive one You can also buy stuff online, right? Yeah, so that's so that's what they're known for and I remember with Katrina We so we bought was half of our furniture is Wayfair The other half is uh from the other like they're a competitor and I can't think of the name off the top of my head and there's That one's not too. There's Wayfair right there. It's like Ikea. No, no, it's not actually. It's really nice So so Wayfair and the other company that I can't think of right now Are they and what what makes them? Really competitive and not like Kia is although they have some Comparable things like so you'll go to this there's these warehouses and they are They're bigger than any mall or any shop or anything. I've ever been in my life They're just they're fucking massive And they have they have it set up where it's like, okay You go to like kitchen dining sets like that's what we're shopping for And they have it for things that I wouldn't say as cheap as Ikea But like reasonably priced like on the lower end to all the way to like super custom Very expensive and everything in between So if you can imagine uh like a store the size of target Of that would be just the section of dining rooms And it and it would be like everything everything from that cheap like you're saying all the way and everything in the middle And I remember telling Katrina when we were shopping. I'm like, how the how the hell they make this profitable like just the square footage of this building Right that their prices are unbelievably competitive I don't get it and I this article popped up in my feed. Um the other day Is this just like a showroom or do they actually buy on site? No, so it's the show there's they have a showroom that massive What's the do you know the living spaces? Thank you, Doug Living spaces is the other company and they they both had there's one living spaces in Fremont You guys have driven by it. I guarantee over here by on blossom hill and uh, what is that? Uh, it's next to um Is there one over here done? Yeah, there is right by over. They just opened it. I haven't seen it Oh, I mean these things are I mean when you're driving on Fremont You'll see they have and not only do they have like this massive showroom like warehouse size I'm saying is literally the size of probably three or four cost goes could fit inside of it Then they also have the the warehouses that store all the furniture, which is probably 10x. Okay. Yeah the size of it and I was telling I remember telling Katrina. I just it doesn't mathematically make sense to me So anyways, this comes in my feed just the other day that wayfair Uh lays off. Um, I think 550 employees. So 3 of their working staff stock drops like 28 percent And they've been in business for 14 years and they still are not profitable So it's one of these businesses that have been playing for the long game that just Nobody is ever going to buy furniture from, you know stores. Any of the future is all online And so they've been they've been running it for 14 years In the red like you have to have so much capital To be able to do that and you have to be banking on that in order and I don't know who is behind it financially I don't know if you can find out who wayfair and who living spaces But they're a new york-based company. So they're east coast and they've made their way over here But i've seen them popping up all over the valley and now the bay and they are just massive Wow, you know, it's I would never you know into anybody who's in the retail business like good for you But what a difficult That the cost the capital it requires to start that kind of a business the margins are not phenomenal whatsoever The amount of people you need to run something like that. It's just a big monster. You know what I mean? And that's why they fail oftentimes. So you neither one of you guys have actually been in one of these though, huh? No, I actually I wouldn't mind checking it out because there is that that component to buying You know stuff for your house like I do want to go physically and look at things a lot of times It is kind of they're dope. I mean you see the way my house is staged right now That's from walking through those like we literally put like rooms together You know what I like to do for that is I like to go to Model homes and see how they stage their house. Oh, yeah I love doing that just walking through and seeing how a lot of them get that from these places Yeah, absolutely. They get it from these places and it's but now it makes sense to me that they They've just been running it They're betting in the long game that this is how everybody will buy furniture in the future because it just it didn't Scary business model. I know Like seriously So, um, I got some news about a drug that just got pulled off or is about to get pulled off the market Um, and I find this fascinating because the rfda that approves drugs Is one of the most extensive regulatory, you know processes that exist It's like a I don't remember what the cost was to get a drug From inception to fda approval 10 years. It's 10 years. I think it's a hundred million dollars In the same amount of money because the regulations around are incredible and yet stuff like this happens all the time So there's a weight loss drug called belvic belvic And belvic now is going to get pulled off the market because it's been shown to increase the risk Significantly increased the risk of cancer Including pancreatic and lung cancer. So now it's going to get pulled off the market one billion dollars to get to market Yep. Oh one billion my bad That is crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, well, you know, I here's the thing too our regulatory agency You know, I understand that we want to go crazy with how how safe with things are But you know what that actually does it actually prevents a lot of innovation and a lot of drugs from coming to market Of course it does because the cost is just crazy and when let's say you're going to come out with a new pain medicine Are you going to just manipulate an opiate that you know they all kind of work Or do you want to go with a new radical new that might not work that might not work That's why you see like a million different variations of chemotherapy opiates and and shit like that And you don't see like a lot of Innovation because the cost is insane and yet still This stuff happens like this all the time you have a drug that it got approved went through the whole thing got approved And now they're like, oh it causes cancer Imagine how irritating that is you know, you take this drug and the way it works How long was it on the market? I don't know. Oh, yeah, because I mean like a study to find out if it causes cancer Like, you know, that must have taken a long time. Well, sometimes, you know, sometimes we don't find things out until People have been using them for a long time and you look at generational studies. This is why I tend to opt for nature and it's not a biotics example And the reason why I opt out I always go the nature route when people compare like What about artificial sweeteners versus natural sweeteners? The reason why I'll typically go natural is because natural stuff has been used for thousands of years So although we don't have Maybe, you know, maybe didn't have to pass FDA You know trials and stuff like that, although it did pass certain ones It it's because it's been used for so long and humans have been observing What it does and what it doesn't do for so long That to me is more trustworthy Than the one billion dollar, you know FDA approval process, which literally every single day drugs get taken off the market because they They find out that they cause, you know, some big, do you know what the number is? Is it like is it like a drug gets pulled off every day or is it like I don't remember Maybe Doug can find it But like how many yeah, how many drugs a year get pulled off after they've been because that's crazy to me to Think that you go through the billion dollar process to get it done It's out and and everyone's taking it for five ten years and then it gets pulled off like that's crazy Yeah, what was that one there was that one and some not all I mean, of course most of them don't make the news It's usually the big ones that make the news There was that one arthritis drug a while ago That they pulled off because they saw that caused, you know heart damage and problems with the heart But this stuff happens all the time Doug. Do any any luck finding? No numbers yet. Okay. Yeah, but I do know that it happens a lot That drugs get pulled off all the time. What was it the Nike extortion thing that was that Doug was talking about? What was that all about Doug that somebody tried to Yeah, Nike eyes. I read a little bit of that like there was this lawyer that represented stormy daniels I think that whole case, right? So this guy's already kind of a shuckster. I don't know. I guess he Uh had been in a meeting with Nike and basically Was was kind of confronting them telling them he knew information about Uh, you know some some leads about like shenanigans in the high school level of them Paying, you know for that's been happening forever. That's part that so there's a good documentary on God, I think it's HBO that did a good one And I forget I don't know the name on top of my head But it's like it was all about the sneaker culture and like how that all got started And how they started to first influence kids. So and Nike was the ones who did that and Uh, I cannot think of the guy. There's a oh the documentary is about the guy who's responsible for that Michael Avenatti Not him though. No, that's not him. No, no, that's not him. Yeah. So he I mean basically he was trying to extort money from them It's basically like quiet him about all this information that apparently he he had or whatnot and then In court he was trying to like defend himself like he was just you know, he was just trying to play hard negotiations You know with them in terms of like them him being able to represent them in other cases So it started off as something really brilliant and then got really corrupt, right? So I think it was one of the most brilliant moves ever made and I can't think of the guy who did it for Nike originally But he he was smart. He went and saw these programs with kids in high school and stuff like that and that They didn't have gear. They had to go buy their own stuff and said wait a second. These are all the athletes of the school Yeah, it's the future. Yeah, these are the future of you know, college and potential professional athletes Let's give them all Nike shoes Let's hook them all up with Nike shoes and get them and get these kids wearing all this gear and they give to them for free Make sense And because that became such a money maker for Nike because it became so popular now that they would just they start Swooping up all these schools because it became such a big deal It became a backdoor thing now like, okay, I tell you what as coaches, you know, as a high school coach I would say, you know, yeah, I'll let you Do sponsor all my kids, but I want a kickback of X amount of dough So I've got it started off as like a really brilliant way for Nike to market And then it got shady and dirty like anything does where that's there's money involved and that's exactly what happened But really though the guy who did it he did it first with Nike Then I think he he went over work for Adidas for a little bit. I wish I knew the name of the documentary I felt maybe Jackie will remember because I know I've talked about that documentary about a year ago It was a really good documentary But they kind of get into that and it sounds like that that's what this is connected to is that there still is Even though they've been it's already been out outed about all this. Are you looking for right now, Doug? Yeah, Nike documentary. No, I don't think there's a lot of Nike documentaries I didn't realize there were so many. Yeah. No, I don't I'll I'll look it up and I'll I'll find maybe I'll put it My story so people know I think I posted it in my story when it first came out So it's been it's been a while since I this was we've talked about this But I think it's connected and tied to that and I'm sure he's got inside information of it still going on Interesting. So are you guys ready for this presidential election to start heating up or what? Yeah, this you said this is the front runners now. Oh, dude. So well Trump's gonna be so hard to beat a Gallup poll Just came out and Trump received the highest approval rating for any president In the last two decades. Wow 63 of the public Support his handling of the economy, which I mean Let's let's be honest this the economy is this is one of the best economies We've had in a very very long time. Yeah, and and it's hard to to beat that. Yeah, that's a hard one to fight It's very very hard to fight and unless the economy takes a dump or something happens. I don't see Anybody challenging him as of the recording of his podcast Bernie Sanders Is seems to be doing pretty well. I don't see him I do not see him beating trump at all soul man Oh, okay soul man is the name of the documentary and I did bring it up I talked about it before Sunny sunny valcro or valco is the the guy that was behind Like it's a really good documentary. So what if you're interested in the nikey story and all that So is he gonna run as democrat? Because didn't the dnc like pretty much snub him last time? They did so we'll see what happens if they end up giving him the the nomination But I really I mean gosh, he's still in in the running. No, she's not But you know, here's something that he just said, you know, Bernie Sanders has proposed a full government takeover Of electrics electricity production So let's just centralize energy production in america Oh god, and the way he as if it's not centralized enough with pgne Oh And in what a terrible idea to give them that much power and control I mean, I you know, I used I had a client that they already have hella power and control is ridiculous unbelievable I can't believe somebody who calls themselves an open socialist is even getting that many votes As if socialism isn't had enough of a terrible track record. That's why it won't work Did you is the michael bloomberg thing a real thing or whatever the whole tweeting thing that's going on? I don't know about that, but I know he's he's paying his way to the front I mean, I think gonna get in there I think it is I've already seen a bunch of people that have like millions of followers that are and they're and they're putting hashtag ad afterwards And saying that bloomberg paid paid them to do an ad or whatever like that to make him cool It's it's very smart if it if it's true Because these people you got all these influence that are posting about bloomberg and he's kind of making fun of himself a little bit in it See if you can look that up like uh bloomberg Wow, look at that advertising and he surpassed biden in a florida poll. Well, you look at that But to be quite honest with you if I had to pick somebody to go against trump if I was like I want to you know If I was a democrat, you could if you could do a good pick like which one would it be? I would pick bloomberg or biden I don't see anybody else even I don't I still don't think they'll beat them because again the economy's just crushing And uh, that's hard to beat when the economy's crushing It's hard. It's like trying to knock out the champ Well, especially when you even people that hate trump and don't like him If he's if you're getting if you're making more money or you you're doing better because he's in office It's hard to like completely I hate him as a person, but his policies are kind of benefiting well The unemployment rate is at all-time lows, but even more when obama was president We said we had declining unemployment numbers. Of course. He was coming out of a terrible recession So it wasn't too hard to come out of that. I mean any improvement you're gonna improve naturally But what happened during obama was you had a a massive amount of people dropping out of the workforce So and they never reported that so they would say oh, you know unemployment's going down, but they wouldn't report that Far less people are working or participating in the workforce and they don't get counted So because they drop out and stop looking they're not considered unemployed now under trump What's that started to reverse more and more people are entering into the workforce. This is all good news This all looks very very good. So who you got left is is michael chang is that another candidate? You have a tennis player. That's good. Say is Wrong name. Yeah The other guy who promised everybody a thousand dollars. Yeah. Yeah universal basic income. No, he's done a huge pitch for that No, he's done. Uh, you got bloomberg biden sanders warren Um, and i'm beautiful. Tulsi. Yeah. Uh, no, she's not even oh, she's not even I mean, she they're trying but she ain't gonna do it Yeah, we'll see what happens interesting First question is from cd champs 17 Son add on tv for the jenny craig dna meal plan for weight loss It seems like a clever marketing bs any viability to this it is clever marketing bs So the science Next question The science on dna and how nutrition affects dna and what works best for you is still in its infancy Not to mention we're finding that they're jumping the gun fast on this. They are and because it sounds cool. It sounds individualized Um, there's so many by the way, here's the thing you need to understand There is a very in very very strong individual variance With how you react to food and it's there's a lot of factors One of them is dna. We still don't understand it fully, but it is one of them is dna You have your microbiome. That's another thing that affects how you respond to food You have your own emotional reactions and connections to food and nobody ever takes that into account And that's the thing that you coach when you coach people and some people claim blood type makes a difference too Yeah, well, I haven't seen any science to support that but you're yeah, that's diet still out there No, yeah, no, I read I read the book like I don't know it was probably six seven years ago Blood type diet. Yeah. Yeah. And you know, they they try and support it with some science But you know, I think at the end of the day and why this works for anybody Is if you take somebody that is on no diet And they start following a dna protocol diet or a blood type diet Yeah, you you'll see what they all do is they point you in the direction of whole foods None of these recommend processed foods. None of these recommend high calorie So it's a restrict restricted calorie diet. They eliminate foods They they normally drive towards whole foods and then they attach it to your dna or your blood type And then you go through and you're like, holy shit, you know what? I do feel better inflammation is down My gut does feel better. It's like, okay Well, is it because you're following the blood type or the dna diet or is it because you're actually following a diet? It is and you have to the thing that none of them take into account are the emotional connections and reactions to food Which is huge. It's massive. Let's say you eat a food and you know, it's healthy, but you really hate eating it I'm just using a stupid example and you force yourself to eat it right now That food is going to cause a potentially a stress response in the body Was it the food that causes stress response physiologically or was it the emotional reaction to that food? There's a lot of this and these are the things when I used to coach people or train people The main thing that I would coach to was that that was the main thing It was very almost never what I do things like, you know, oh, what's your ethnicity or what's your dna? Or how are we supposed to eat it? It was always like, how does it make you feel? You know, what do you crave? How do you feel afterwards? What are the the things that you're noticing? Oh and by the way The stuff that you're finding that works for you really well now Don't marry it because context change changes things change And so might the way you react and respond to these different foods But you're a hundred percent right this diet is a low calorie diet. So will people lose weight on it? Of course because it's low calories Do you know if they're using like ancestry.com or one of those like other things to try and pair and Attach like the lineage of you know, their DNA and their gene pool. No, but you know what I think is I don't know about that But here's what I think in terms of technology might be interesting I think these continual glucose monitors and technology that measures actual reactions and responses to your body to food in real time And only to you as an individual that's where I could see some potential value So something that you wear because they have these these glucose monitors But there's other technology that's emerging right where you put on a patch or whatever And it attached to an app on your phone You eat a food and you can see in real time insulin cortisol Well, they speculate I heard rumors that that you know the apple watch was going to incorporate a lot of that You know in the next generations to come So it'll be interesting to see if they can like do that and attach that that'll actually be something of value A metric, you know, like that it would be helpful Yeah, now the thing that I don't like about all these metrics is that here's here's what a cool website I know it's not great. Well, jenny craig's massive, dude. I have so much money Here's something that I see as a drawback And I'll use an example of like a keto diet, right? All these studies coming out and people saying oh my god ketogenic diet works well great for me and you know studies come out Show what reduces inflammation Great for cognition. Look at these blood level, you know markers going down then people make the case This is how you're supposed to eat carbs are harder to find in nature or whatever. It's so super super compelling You get very very sold on this diet. This is it. This is the one you try it You lose weight and you're like, wow, I'm losing weight Then you start not feeling good, but you ignore it. You ignore your body how it feels because you've been so sold on the metrics on all the Information that you've heard about this diet and you started ignoring your body I fear that can happen with stuff like this where you get this diet like what this is supposed to be good for my dna I'm gonna ignore These signals and signs that my body's telling me the constipation Lack of energy my skin issues it must has to be something else because this says that it's perfect for my dna These types of uh, this types of diets or the way they market them. I feel like can start to push people away from paying attention to their body when when our problem with nutrition Is not lacking necessarily lack of information. In fact, usually it's not lack of information Especially nowadays. It's usually a lack of connection to yourself. Yeah, that's that's the argument that Dr. Andy Galpin makes in his unplugged book is that we just almost You know too much information that people are relying on these tools to provide this versus trying to learn and figure it out yourself. Totally Next question is from Oliver j. Murph Can you build a good core by only doing compound lifts and mobility exercises like the ones in maps prime? Or should you incorporate special ab and core exercises as well? So I used to for a while I was in this camp and I did heavy squats heavy deadlifts heavy overhead presses Yeah, because you're stabilizing all that weight with your core. You are right? So my core is strong enough to stabilize a 350 pound squad or a 500 pound deadlift or over a press or whatever And so I'm like, okay, my core is Perfectly strong and then at some point I wanted to start developing my abs so that they could become more visible And I thought well, I'm going to start doing some more direct work and I realized just how weak my abs were Because when you get stronger You the strength that you gain tends to be quite pretty specific to the to the way you're gaining that strength or to the stimulus So my core was strong to stabilize for squats deadlifts and overhead presses But it wasn't super strong to do crunches and leg raises and you know in cable chops because I never did that Well, think of it no different than any other muscle Imagine if the only type of exercises you did for your biceps were isometrics If you only did now you could you could actually build a little bit of muscle and you could have sure decently strong Biceps by doing just isometric holds for your bicep. You could get some value out of that But you're missing out on limited. Yeah, you're missing out on a tremendous by not using the all of the full range of motion And the eccentric eccentric portion of the exercise Isometric is one of the three and one of the more important ones for sure And I think you can get by like at least you have Some core work being done there if you're if you're squatting 350 pounds or deadlifting 500 pounds You definitely got a pretty strong core to stabilize and support But it's not going to contract very well or decelerate really well So, you know, there's there's definitely value in that This is an area if I'm being completely transparent with my own programming that I neglect I'm bad at And I know I need to do it better and I can always tell when I've been neglecting it for a really long time is My low back starts to bother me. Yeah And because I have that anterior pelvic tilt and you know, sure I can hold my core in that position But to correct that I should be doing like reverse crunches a lot more than what I'm what I'm currently doing And whenever I get on it and I start to incorporate into my routine I always feel the relief because it better supports my low back just talking to sell about this I've been a little bit more intentional about putting like sit-ups and crunches and You know rotational moves, you know, like wood chops and things like that into my routine again because of that simple fact of like Already trying to address my posture just from sitting more often and then You know also sitting in my truck and like commuting back and forth and you know Already starting to feel the effects of that on on my joints and like just the way that you know I wake up in the morning having certain pains I shouldn't have but it's really like I need to put more emphasis and attention back on, you know, my core instability Well, here's an example of like where I and I it's like I'm so aware of this Like so when I hold max like when I get him up in the middle of the night And I have to rock him to sleep and he's he's in front of me, right After about like five or ten minutes I start to feel my low back and the way I relieve that is I squeeze my glutes and I and I rotate my pelvis under Which is activating my lower abdominals to kind of rotate my pelvis And that that's because I'm weak there because I don't train it. So default is it kicks out I'm holding a baby in front of me now. I feel this look back on it Right, and then I feel this in my low back And so now at least I'm aware of that and I can and I can while I'm holding him I'll actually almost do like an ab crunch while I'm sitting there rocking him to try and get some work out of it But that's always a glaring glaring to me that I'm not doing enough work on my my abs and just because I heavy deadlift and squat It's not enough for for support Yeah, you know where this came from right where this this myth or whatever came from came from power lifters It came from power lifters who didn't want to work out their abs. Yeah, it's no basically true You know, I squat deadlift and overhead being a bench press and do all these other I don't need to do abs. Plus I have a belly anyway This is kind of a stereotype But a lot of power lifters really don't care too much about aesthetics Makes sense your your your sport is to lift pretty true stereo Yeah, and to lift the max weight, right? Although I do know some really lean power lifters A lot of them could care less and so abs is kind of like a show muscle can bend pollock. Yeah, I know Yeah, he's he's a unicorn. Yeah, and you know, it also reminds me it reminds me Yeah, but look at all the work he does on his abs. Yeah, you ever he knows No, have you ever talked to ben like bent? That's in everything. I mean, that's why partly we there's Planks and there's ab work in all of his stuff that he does right incredibly strong And and this also reminds me of athletes who are like don't like to work out their biceps Why do I work out my biceps? That's a that's a bodybuilder muscle. Well, your biceps helps stabilize the elbow It helps decelerate extension. So if you're a boxer or football players a lot of times I want to work their biceps because it's all about pushing But you notice more injuries when you have imbalances. It's really, you know Here's the thing and we all have this we'll have the body part We don't necessarily like to work as much as the others But really if you want to maximize The your your potential for performance minimize your risk of injury Balance is the key and regardless of what you do. That means you should train the whole body Including the core calves are the only worthless one Just be born Next question is from rory faucet if the last gym in the world was on fire Which piece of equipment would you take with you and why that's easy barbell barbell for me If I can you if I can count that as an equipment that he's counting The barbell is the most versatile and dumbbells too, right? Yeah, as I say, I would make the case of dumbbells But I can't I mean they're interchangeable in my opinion if you had to pick just one But it's the most versatile piece of equipment that exists What about if it was actually a piece of machinery if it was just a machine? Yeah, like what what piece of machine? I feel like this this person has to know that we would say barbell like like if a piece If we're including barbells and doesn't include the rack and all that or just just the barbell Even that though I would take a I take a barbell over I mean or I would the rack isn't needed you could you could I mean because that's how they did back in the old days, right? You could really clean the bar You'd have to put it over which talk about Um, I know some people that train this way and I think it's I think it's a really good rule Like if you can't pick it up and put it over over your back, you shouldn't squat it I've heard that. Yeah, it's not a bad It's not a bad rule to have and it would talk about training Well, then they'll do that move too where they kind of you see where they like sort of put it The end of it on the ground and then they get into it that way and sort of tilt up with it old school I've actually tried that before and it's yeah, it's kind of I think how strong you get like far You talk about your your anti rotational stuff that you love to do or just your you know how they used to do incline In bench press there was no rack you cleaned it you laid back with it and you did your press right right That's how they used to do it back. So if we weren't if we're not gonna go if we're not no free weights Yeah, we're no free weights and no squat racks. You have to pick the name You have to pick like a machine type of thing So now can I say cables because yeah cables I would I would pick a big cable machine because it's the most versatile Piece of machinery. I know it's kind of cheating to say cables It is uh, but that would be that but if we eliminate that one even I must say peck deck Stupid you I just like you know how to use a peck deck. No, I don't think so You know, it's funny. You want to know it's funny reverse I work out at a gym at a commercial gym Maybe four times out of a month right four times in a month. I'm there because I'm there so rarely You'll see me on a lot of machines. Just add knob How many people are probably like oh You know how funny it is I'll be in there using like the you know the the machine curl or like the peck deck or something like that Inevitably someone comes up to me like hey, I love my pump and I'm thinking in my head like they probably think I'm Foolish So I feel the same way when I run on the treadmill Because I you know I get my occasional runs in to make sure I could still do it You know I'm saying so I like even though we talk about you know Cardio where we always poop on cardio. It doesn't mean I never do it Just means that yeah for the majority of people most people should be resistance training and and focusing on that more Right, so I always think when I'm running I'm always think I do There's at least five people that listen to my pump in here right now that are like looking to be like this Fucking liar this guy does cardio So do you do you have any favorite? Uh, I don't Justin probably can't even name machines because I don't even know Yeah, like what am I supposed to say like hammer strength stuff? Well, yeah, so I love Just throw a name random. I love all of their stuff the hammer strength row machine. Oh, yeah, the old dorian yates one Yes, I do I do with all the different handle angles. I do like that It's probably a it's a top 10 favorite machine if we're going to throw those in as machines And if I can't include things like incline bench because incline bench for me was Maybe like when I think of later in my life probably one of the biggest game changers for like building my physique Like it was something I neglected as a teenage boy and like even in my 20s I avoided incline bench forever because it was terrible at it bench press all the time But plus nobody ever asked you how much can you incline? Exactly? Everybody wants to know how much you can Yeah, it took me a long time before I really and when I focused on it It just it really changed my whole upper chest and my front delts like it was a big game changer So uh, okay, so besides cables because I love cables. I loved low cable pulley row I love lat pulled out old school, you know cable equipment But besides that I really there's certain machines that if they're in a gym I'm gonna use it in my workout donkey calf race not that one. Although that's one of my favorites That's not a bad one for cats. No, but if I see but I'm time if I see that one out of my life Oh, I got to use it only if I'm working calves, but there are certain ones like uh, uh pullover machine Love pullover machines. Don't ask me why I fell in love with them when I was a kid One of my favorites. Um, I like a dip machine I love you know doing stuff on the dip machine and then preacher curl machines and it's a whole I love preacher curl machines. Yeah. Yeah. I'm with you on that one. Yeah, what about a cute now? Have you ever done the there's there's some preacher curl machines that are like a preacher curl Where the bench is in front of you and then there's some that pull the elbow way up here and allow you So it's almost like your elbow. You're almost doing like a modified concentration curl, which I like that machine But I prefer the preacher preachers the best. Yeah preachers the best. Oh, here's a machine That if I see it, I'm gonna use it and I don't see it very often It's the overhead tricep Uh, tricep extension machine. It has the bar like this And you have to push the pedal with your feet and it'll lift it up and then you do triceps on it It's not even a cable. It's actually a fixed machine Love that No, no, I like that one too. Yeah. Yeah. No, that's those are those are all great ones at t bar row Oh, well, that's right. I don't even count that as a machine. I love it Really, I mean it's got you can count that as a machine. I feel like that's a that's you know, it's an apparatus I think you can count that. Oh, you know what else is a great one when we film the original maps aesthetic We did it at that gym that used to work out back in the day and they had so much old equipment They had equipment that was run on chains. It wasn't even cables They had like a bicycle chain. Oh, yeah, which by the way bicycle chain equipment The reason why I know why they took it out because people get their fingers caught in them and then get their fingers cut off But they were the smoothest machines you could use way better than cables because it was all on a track or whatever But they had the one where you stand up tall you grab the handles and it's a machine with a long arm You do laterals. Oh, you do shoulder laterals. Yeah, what a great pump you would get on that one I like the assisted pull-up when i'm feeling lazy Shut up when you do your when you do your glute pumps. Yeah You don't use the gravatron, do you? I do sometimes Pull-ups like so you can do at least five at least I got yeah exactly. I feel heavy today. You know what I'm saying He needs a glute assist. Yeah, I need a little assist lift these cakes up. Yeah, a little person down there Next question is from mini fig What do you do when you have the right mindset to achieve your goals? But you have too many distractions keeping you from reaching them. All right. Let's let's but takes do this to me All the time Totally understand this totally understand this question through story right when you're reading an article Science and then see this is hot. I don't know how you do. Oh, no, okay So here so we got it right away the way you're asking the question tells me you don't have the right mindset It does because it's going to call you out. Well, no, I mean listen What do you do when you have the right mindset? But you keep getting distracted, right? You don't have the right now you don't have the right mindset The right mindset doesn't allow you to to be distracted now if you find that you're having an issue With distractibility change your environment. You know change things around I I know for me when I'm when I'm writing for example, and I need to to create content Now in the past anytime I create content because I used to write I wrote a lot of blogs before We started mine pump as part of the original maps program But a lot of those were based off of inspiration and it's not a problem. I'm inspired. I'll just I can pump out You know two three thousand words no problem The the problem was when I'm scheduled to write something then I'm like, okay I have to create some content if my phone is next to me. I mean it's going to take me forever I get distracted. Oh gotta check instagram check facebook. Oh, I got a text so and so what I do is I take my phone I put on my brain fm which is why which is a wireless or whatever Bluetooth brain fm by the way if you don't know what that is. It's this company that produces these Sounds that can produce different brain wave states. So like sleep meditation and then they have they may They actually made it into music, which is the cool part Yeah, so it's music and it's background sounds and they have one called focus and it legit works like you put it on It's our brainwashing audience. Yeah, you put it on and in 10 minutes I mean so I put it on my phone, but I moved my phone away from my maps I put my phone on the table away from me and then I worked You have to change kind of change your environment. You know, I have something for you like so Adderall Actually could be right. It could be no So sometimes we set like these like we have the right she maybe she has the right mindset because She really wants this goal. She she starts off really focused and then eventually what happens Maybe the distraction is like a day. She falls off or you know, I saw that she has a kid Maybe the kid gets sick or you have something that hits you like that, right? So I totally understand So Something that I've I've done with myself for a really long time It's how I started to really get into like in order to compete at the level that I competed There was no I didn't have an option, right? I had to Have the right mindset to be able to compete with the 1 so and I down to the gram Yes, right and and no missing workouts. No nothing tracking volume all that And so before I even like announced that I was going to compete I was training for a year to even check myself What I have the mindset for this like am I you know, am I just going to say I want to compete and then when it really comes down to Like the the discipline that's going to take am I really going to follow through So before I even announced it on instagram or told the audience or told anybody I was doing Going to do something like this I was already like training as if I was going to and What I had found would happen just like anything else in my in my career I'd be going along and then something would happen It would be like a distraction that was like a distracting me in my workout as much as it was a distraction in my life That would make me fall off a day or whatever and so I do this thing where I compete with myself where And this is where you have to decide what what what a good first goal is for yourself So for me it would be like, okay I'm going to be perfect on my diet for the next two weeks and I'm not going to miss a single workout And I already have them scheduled out what I'm going to lift so if like if you're following one of our programs And you know what you need to be eating and I'm tracking on my food tracker So that's my first goal now, of course when I hit that two weeks I don't go celebrate and fall off I keep I try and stretch it as long as I can But I set a goal of something that maybe I haven't achieved yet like maybe lately I've stringed five days or seven days. I haven't been able to stretch beyond that So I set a goal that's going to stretch me a little bit From what I've done before and I get to and then I try and build on that And so let's say I get past that the two week mark and then uh day 19 I was consistent per and then day 19 distraction happens Just a terrible day or the diet didn't come through or I missed a workout What I do is I just go okay. I I just don't beat myself up over it. I go, okay I made 19 days guess what the next goal is 20 days Can I now the next goal in my head is 20 days Can I give 20 days of this consistency and I just keep playing that game until it eventually builds On months where I'm starting to say like, okay, I've strung months and months and months Together and that is has always helped me build momentum and consistency Is not beating myself up over the the setbacks that are inevitable to happen with most people But always challenging myself to stretch myself a little bit further each time Then before you know it you've created a habit I do a very similar thing to that But also in terms of like the environment that you know I I need to be able to like maintain this this level of focus I mean that for me is is essential And so whatever I have to do if I have a very specific goal like and for me, it's usually My office and and I'll go in downstairs and I'm basically I'll I'll turn on the brain of them as well Like that's something that just helps me because my mind is so distractible already to You know think about all these other things coming up and Plus to having it on my phone. It helps me to kind of put my phone away And then I can have that music playing You know over the speaker in through my my my earphones But just just for me to like kind of create that That that that space and environment it gets everything working in that direction so much more effectively But you know on on a day-to-day basis Like this is something too where I I have a list I have a list of priorities Um when I'm really focused and dialed in on like this is a goal I need to achieve like I I am notching off a list I physically write it with a pencil on a pad and it's like old school, but uh, it It looks to me like what's the most achievable and like and so I'll write that at the top And then like the ones that are going to take a little bit more time towards the bottom And I just etch away at that and it's something that I've I try to be as consistent as that But it's only for something like I know I need like massive focus on Yeah, I think creating the environment and scheduling the time is the is the big one right like schedule the time block Create an environment that is immovable time. Yeah that and you know what sometimes that means you're in that time space And you can't think of okay, so you just sit there and that's okay This is the time I'm supposed to do what I'm supposed to do Maybe not as great as I want it to be but I'm going to block off this time and sit here And and try and at least try because this is a skill that you build over time Just like any skill you practice it and practice makes you better at it. Yeah, and you need to practice Not being distracted set up your environment set up your your situation Block off some time and little by little you'll find that each time you do this your focus is better and better and better It's also important to evaluate your priorities too. I mean some people say this a lot to me that oh, they're so serious about a goal and it's like every holiday every birthday Everything, you know cousins basketball get everything that comes up like They don't want to miss because that is a more of a pride and not which is fine Exactly not to judge anybody who does that like family is very important There's a lot of things that are really important like you have to be honest with yourself And what your priorities are and I'll tell you getting in competitive shape is very selfish And I remember during that time I was constantly apologizing for that like because there was many things that I I opted not to do because I knew it was going to get in the way of this goal that was really important to me So people say like oh this I have the right mindset or this goal is so important to me But then they let the the most basic things distract them or get in their way It's like well, it's really not that important to you though These other things are actually really important to you because every time one of these other things come up You you tend to let that become the factoring that in is a lot of times what determines your success I think it's tough because people don't like to admit That their prioritors are different than what they would like to project You need to be okay with what your real priorities are and your actions actually tell you What your priorities are your words and your feelings You know they can give you hints but at the end of the day, you know If you're somebody that really for example, if you really really value animal rights You can tell me all day long, but I can tell by your actions your actions will tell me If that's what you really believe in, you know, you could say that your Hardcore business person an entrepreneur and you'll do anything to grow your business But I can tell by your actions if and that's okay. You can you don't have to be All these other things you can be just what you are Sometimes making that admission to yourself and be like, you know, this is actually my priority Actually loosens you up a little bit and actually Results in better focus 100% My fitness and my physique right now is a reflection of the priority of my fitness as it as it on its priority list right now The business is far more of a priority right now max is far more a priority to me right now I've got other stuff going on in my family more of a priority for right now And me like so I look like to the average person somebody who works out or is healthy But I'm by no means impressive right now like but I'm okay with that like it's not a priority right now I'm taking care of myself. I'm staying on my mobility. I'm training at why pay attention to not over consume and over indulge Your fitness is serving your other priorities rather than your other things serving fitness, right? So and there and I'm okay with that I'm okay with knowing that I'm not the most impressive fitness guy on instagram right now I don't need to prove that to anybody and it's not a priority right now So I think a lot of times it's just checking in with yourself and and really gut checking saying is this As much of a priority and a goal and a mindset that I think I really want and you know, maybe you're fooling yourself Everybody wants their cake and eat it too. You want to be yeah I want to look like the cover of men's health But then I also want to work on my my my business and grow and scale this massive company at the same time Be there all the time for my son like fuck something's got to give And in this case what it's going to give for me is my commitment to the gym five to seven days a week Is not as much of a priority to me. I I can turn that up whenever I feel like it. Yeah, you got it You you if you practice not being distracted, you'll get better at it. Also distractions Getting distracted is and learning to not be distracted is a skill And it's just like meditation when people meditate part of what what meditation involves is Learning how to keep the brain from getting distracted you ask if you've ever tried meditating You know how frustrating it is when you've only done it for you know, six months But then you talk to somebody who's been doing it for three or four years And you find that they're far better at it. They didn't start off that way It took them practice it So be easy on yourself and again be honest with yourself And with that go to mind pump free calm and download all of our guides. They're all absolutely free You can also find the three of us on instagram You can find justin at mind pump justin you can find me at mind pump sal and adam at mind pump adam