 All right, check this out. This will give you phenomenal results if you've been working out for less than a year. If you've been working out for less than a year, focus on getting stronger. That's it. If you get stronger, you will see visible changes in your body. You will get a faster metabolism and it's one of the best signs that you're doing everything right. Strength should be the number one focus when you're working out for under a year. I want to make sure I say that because by the way, that's the context, right? That doesn't mean you have crappy workout form. Doesn't mean you hurt yourself. Got everything smart. But if all you did in that first year was just try to get stronger with good technique and good form, you're going to progress no matter what you're going to know what's going to result if that's really like what you're focusing on the most. Totally. It's all good, good things that are going to transpire from there. And so like just to focus on that is the main metric. I think it's nice because psychologically that's simplifying it, but to be able to get that to happen, a lot of factors have to be correct. That's right. I wish I understood this when I was younger. You know, I think something you should add to that is that this is even as important or more important when you have aesthetic goals because for the longest time, I had this attitude of I don't really care how strong I am in the gym. I'm trying to change the way my physique looks, which I think a lot of people can relate to. I know we have a large audience that wants to be strong, but I would think that more people just want to get rid of their belly fat or just want to, you know, sculpt their arms or just want to build their butt. And I think that when you hear someone say get stronger, it's like that's great, but I don't think that's really, really important to me. That's exactly what I'm talking about. I'm talking specifically to the majority of people, because most people don't work out to get stronger. They like that they get stronger, but the average person goes to the gym or starts exercising because they want to look better. And we could talk about, you know, why training for looks isn't necessarily so I don't care about that. In the first year of training, the reason why I said for the first year is because it gets more complicated after that. You obviously cannot get stronger forever consistently. There's more factors that play into it. Your genetics start to limit things. And I mean, if you could get stronger forever, obviously people have been working out for 20 years and be able to lift, you know, trains, right? So it doesn't work that way afterwards. But for that first year, you could consistently get stronger all year long consistently. If you do everything kind of right, you know, if you get decent sleep, decent nutrition, you're training well, you're doing the right exercises, you're getting good recovery. You'll get stronger relatively consistently for about that first year. And if you do that, your body will look better. In other words, your body will look better at the end of that year than it would had you focused on other metrics, other things in your training, other things that you, if you focused on just the mirror, for example, if you took two people, one of them looked at the mirror and just said, I'm going to look at the mirror and focus on that. The other one says, you know, I'm just going to try and get stronger. The person who focused on getting stronger will look better at the end of that year. Well, even then, I mean, if you're just focused on some of those main lifts that you're trying to get stronger at, there's a lot of other ways to classify, like getting stronger, like in different types of movements in different ranges of motion, in different tempos, in terms of like endurance with that kind of strength. So in terms of it just being about those specific lifts, there's a whole. So if you get in in a plateau and a rut where it's like, I feel like my strength isn't really moving. If you can like refocus that strength in a different direction, too, that's going to keep everything else moving in the right direction. That's such a good point because I think a lot. Another thing that a lot of people think about when you think about just getting stronger is your PR, you know, like, what's my max bench? Like, OK, so I should just try and get better at my bench, better at my squat, better at my deadlift, as far as my PR. But a PR can be to Justin's point. Oh, I can now, you know, let's say I could, you know, when I started this journey, I could only squat, say, 185. Well, I'm still only squatting 185, but now I can do it with like a six second negative or I can get multiple reps out of the weight that was, you know, near my max. Or greater range of motion. Right. Or better control. Like, I mean, there's other ways that you can PR other than just more weight on the bar. It could be a personal record on how well the weight moves. And so and I think that's an important thing to focus on. So it doesn't get to this where all you care about is this, you know, PR metric and then you sacrifice things like form and technique. So think of it this way. Think of two people lifting a 20 pound dumbbell. One of them is really strong and the other one is not so strong, but they can still lift the 20 pound dumbbell. How will it look when the strong person lifts the 20 pound dumbbell versus the person who's not as strong? Yeah. So in other words, your technique gets better, your control gets better, your range of motion gets better. Or, of course, you add weight to the bar or of course you add reps. All of that means you get stronger. I used to love doing this with and this this took me a long time to figure out. But when I did, I became so effective at getting people results as a trainer, especially people who want to lose weight. This is my favorite. When people came to me and said they wanted to get stronger, it was easy because it's like, I don't need to sell you on anything. That's what we're going to do. When people came to me and said, I want to lose, you know, 30 pounds. And I'd say, no problem. We're going to get you stronger. That's why we didn't you hear what I said? I want to lose 30 pounds. I know we're going to get you stronger. And then I have to explain why. And sure enough, the strength turned into muscle turned into a faster metabolism, which then turned into sustainable, easier, fat loss. Literally getting people at the end of the year to eat more food than they did when they started with me. And yet they'd lost more. They'd lost weight. Like what a sustainable position in place to be in. Plus getting stronger feels really good. Even if you don't care about how strong you are, if you gain 10 or 15 percent more strength, just let me put it this way, I'll reword this. If you got 15 percent stronger, everything you do in life is going to feel 15 percent easier getting out of your chair, 15 percent easier playing with your kids, 15 percent easier, you know, sweeping the kitchen, 15 percent easier. So strength is amazing. It's also a great metric because it's hard to get poor sleep and get stronger. It's hard to have too much stress and get stronger. You can't have bad workout programming and get stronger. You can't have a really crappy diet and get stronger for too long. So strength is just it's this incredible metric. Now it's not the be all end all. That's why I said people who work out, you know, working out for a year or less, because after that, then it gets a little more complicated. It's much more challenging. But in that first year, when you're going to the gym, I don't care what your goal is, fat loss, muscle gain, body sculpting, whatever. Try to get stronger. Make that the number one goal and you'll get there faster and better by focusing on that versus almost anything else. So it's just it's it's it's simple. It really is simple. Get stronger. That's it. And you'll get there. Are you guys seeing all the news pop up around the fat loss peptides? I feel like I don't know if this is getting traction. Yeah, I don't know if there's like one of those situations where when you buy the car, now you see the car everywhere type of deal, like the fact that we're using peptides, we just got done talking to Dr. Seed recently. And so is it that I'm is this like bias now that I'm like more aware or because I had a family member, an old client of mine, and then I open an art first thing when I open up my emails today, had an email, like all three of those happened this weekend, all related to fat loss peptides. And they're all like client, old client and family like, Oh, did you hear about this ozympic, you know, peptide that's supposed to be like a magic, magical fat loss? No, it's it's blowing up. So I heard about some aglutide and maybe you can look up. They're called G, G, L, GLP one, GLP one receptor agonist, I think. Yeah. Confirm that Doug, I don't want to get that wrong. That's what the ozympic is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I remember when they first came out and I read the studies actually bought shares of one of the pharmaceutical companies that made it because it's the first pharmaceutical anything product. And remember, peptides are not like drugs. When we talked to Dr. CD explained that he said, peptides are based off of actual signaling systems in the body. It's not like a drug that was created to force your body to do anything, which means they have they have less side effects. There's natural governors in the body because your body recognizes these particular molecules out of your system relatively quick. Yeah. So it's very different. So when I read about it, I remember being like, oh, wow, this initial research is really crazy because it's the first pharmaceutical anything that legit works and it doesn't work through like the stimulant because like the old fat loss drugs like Fen Fen, they're like stimulants and they had a heart like legal crack. Yeah. Like, you know, and they had, you know, nasty side effects, right? They're not good for your heart. They're not suitable for everybody, whatever. These ones are interesting. They actually do work. Now it's not going to work like changing your diet or exercise or whatever, but it is something that people, they literally in the studies are like, don't change anything. Just take this and then they'll lose, you know, 10 pounds or whatever. So it's pretty phenomenal. Now that the drawbacks are people would also, they would, if they didn't strength train and they didn't monitor their protein intake, they would lose also lean body mass along with the way. So it was what it did is, although it is lean body mass sparing, because it makes people eat less because that's part of what it does. It makes you want to eat less. If you don't try to get protein intake and lift weights, you'll lose, you'll just lose weight weight, which is what exactly would happen if you did a caloric deficit, a large caloric deficit. You just cut your calories. Yeah. If you just cut your calories, a thousand calories and you saw five, 10 pounds go up to the scale, but you didn't lift weights, you didn't keep your protein intake. The exact same thing would happen. Yeah. Yeah. But that's why it's making its waves is because the data is coming out and they're like, Oh, we finally have a like a weight loss something that actually delivers somewhat, you know, what is it signaling? Like what's the pathway there in terms of like, you know, it's Doug has it out there. It's a glucagon like peptide one receptor. So this is something that they look for in treating type two diabetes. So it was a diet. It was researched as something that helps improve insulin sensitivity. Okay. And so it does work through that process, but then it also has this effect of, you know, people just, just kind of just don't want to eat as much, which I believe to be the main reason why people are losing weight. So if you're a little insulin resistant, this will help to naturally signal. Yeah. That's what it was originally designed for or created for. So, so it is interesting. The whole peptide world is, I'll say this, this is going to be that whole space is going to be the biggest, it's going to be the fastest growing, biggest kind of breakthrough space in the pharma industry that we've seen a long time. It's like when they first discovered opiates or when they first discovered antibiotics. What do you speculate is going to happen? What do you, how do you think it's all going to flush out? Do you think they're going to be regulated like crazy? Is it going to be like we're going to see all these clinics popping up? Well, so far there's a gray market where you could buy, which I would, which is terrible. It's just so dumb, especially when we interviewed Dr. C to explain this, you could buy them as research chemicals and, uh, and then try to like administer it yourself and create your own formula. Uh, and the way he explained, as he said, um, when they did analysis on these research chemicals, they found that 60% of them were the actual peptide and the rest of it were like undisclosed peptides, like Frankenstein peptide, you don't even know what they're doing or signaling the body. It caused all kinds of weird stuff. Um, so it's regulated in the sense that, um, pharmaceutical, uh, not pharmaceutical companies, excuse me, um, compound pharmacies will have to make them pharmaceutical companies are researching them mean, or, and, and some of them are on the market, meaning insurance can cover some of them. If a doctor prescribes it to you in that way, I don't know, insurance was covering some of the peptides, some of them. Yeah. So I believe like, if you're, I guess, if you're diabetic, you could probably get them picked and stuff like Tessa Maryland, which raises growth hormone is currently prescribed to people with visceral body fat who have HIV. It's very specific, uh, a group of people because it was found to reduce visceral body fat, um, but do it in like, uh, like the elderly population too. Like, I don't think it's, um, I don't think it's, it's because they started insurance. Weren't they, weren't they doing that for HGH? Like you would get like, like somebody who's like really old and like for, for muscle, uh, sparing purposes, wouldn't they? The insurance won't cover HGH unless you have an HGH deficiency. Um, but they're not scheduled like, uh, testosterone. So because of that, you could go through, like, if you went through mphormones.com, you could work with them. They have a doctor there and then they could set you up on peptides. Whereas, you know, if you, if you're going with certain scheduled drugs, then it's a much harder kind of process. So the market is more open in the sense, but, uh, you still would want to, if you want, like, if you want it to come from a pharmacy, you work with a doctor. Now, do you predict, because it's a blowing up market, there's going to be so much money. Do you predict that it's not going to stay right or stay open like that? Like my prediction would be that because there's a lot of money, there's some, somebody is going to lobby for heavy restrictions around it. And then maybe we only have this small window right now, or it's in the gray area where people could take advantage of it for relatively cheap or easy access, but soon it's going to be tightly regulated because of how effective and how much money is here's how you know that that'll happen if you start seeing them, uh, if you start seeing lots of articles about athletes getting busted for peptides, because a lot of these peptides are banned by, um, governing agencies. So like, Oh, I didn't even thought of that. Like, uh, I wonder, like, so which one specifically right now are, are flagged is probably all of them. No. Well, I know the growth hormone releasing ones are, are they hard to, I wonder if they're hard to trace too, because they're in and out of your system so fast. Naturally to produce it. I would think they're hard to catch. I would imagine you start seeing articles where they're like, this athlete, that athlete busted, busted. Then the, then the, of course, you know, cause that, that will be part of the whole machine, right? The whole machine, what they'll do is they'll first create their narrative to kind of get this public opinion and the public to be like, those cheaters or whatever. And then the politicians will come in and be like, we'll save you. We're going to regulate the shit. You kind of saw signs of this with SARMs, right? With like CrossFit athletes getting popped with SARMs and whatnot, but I haven't seen anything with peptides. SARMs are totally different. Yeah. SARMs are drugs and they're not naturally occurring. Artificial, yeah. In the body. And yeah, I wouldn't, I would not mess with SARMs at all, but yeah. So that's what I would predict. If that happened and then if like, somebody got hurt from using them and then that got, you know, blown up. Like I remember when testosterone and anabolic steroids really became, um, scheduled heavily or controlled heavily was, uh, remember Lyle Alzado? Yes. Yep. There was a huge campaign with that to put fear over steroids. He had brain tumors, which by the way, steroids don't cause brain tumors at all. There's no, it doesn't do anything to the brain like that. But he got brain tumors. He comes out and he's like, I took steroids. I think this is why the media ran with it. Uh, Ben Johnson in the 19, I don't remember which Olympics, 84, maybe he was a sprinter for Carl Lewis. Yeah. Uh, no, Carl Lewis, I don't think I run against them. No, no, he ran against them. Yeah. Yes. And then later, I think, I think he got busted for a way later on. Yeah. But Ben Johnson was windstraw and that became popular dude. I got some for, since you're bringing up sports in 1984, I had a 1985 sport thing for you that I thought that you would actually even appreciate. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So all right. Today's giveaway is the time crunch bundle, which is also the sale that we have going on this month. So one of you will get it for free. 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They e-mailed them a chance to have a free ticket to like the Redskins game. And they all showed up. They had like, I forget what the record number of arrests that happened. They showed up free tickets coming. Yeah. Well, what a brilliant, what a brilliant sting, huh? Imagine how many they catch if it was Raiders. I'm sorry. I know the reputation. The black hole. The only game. Are you looking it up right now, Doug? Yeah. So they caught, they did 144 arrests. It cost $22,000 to run the sting operation and they rested 144 people. Hey, guys who broke the lock. Come over here. We'll give you free stuff. Pretty clever, right? Did you ever hear, okay, so you know, some pass up free tickets. You know, some countries do these gun buyback programs. Have you heard of this? So in order to like reduce guns or whatever, they'll say, we won't ask any questions. You bring us your gun and we'll give you X amount of dollars for it. Yes. Well, some smart people at home made like, made their own guns, right? Routimentary guns with like a pipe and wood. They had to buy it off. Yeah. And they brought like 15 of them. I heard about this. And they like 3D printed a few versions of them and just like brought them to get sold and it was like a brilliant hustle. If you have to demonstrate that it works, they should look at it, right? Well, speaking of 3D printing, do you see the newest hustle with the chat GBT and kids now? What? So the kids are using in school a 3D printers to use the writing and chat GBT to prompt, prompting chat GBT to write their essays and then they handwrite them with the. So it matches their handwriting? Shut up. 3D print. Yes, dude. Kids now using chat GBT and 3D printers. Look it up. Hey, you know what? Maybe what we're doing is we're just training a bunch of future entrepreneurs. Yeah. That's basically what I mean. I mean, you always do. It's trying to scheme the system the whole time I'm in school. If a kid has figured out how to use a 3D printer like that to mimic their handwriting and in addition to that prompt chat GBT to get a good essay, the kid probably deserves a guy in the M.A. Exactly. He's like, he's a future CEO of 3D printer does homework. Yeah. Well, it's a efficiency, right? Isn't that the goal? I mean, would you? Okay, imagine you walking on your son right now. Okay. And he's writing his big mad at him for this big senior paper like this. And he's chilling, right? He's like this. He's in his room. He's playing modern warfare, right? And over in the corner is the 3D printer writing his essay. You don't say, are you mad? Part of me is I'm going to say the conversation I would have is I just shake my head and be like, yeah, it would be about I had the conversation about honesty, because that's a real conversation. But then the other part of me would be like, look, this skill that you have, we can go far away. Let's use it for good. This correct. We just have to harness this. We have to use this for good. You know what I mean? He's like, well, I'm actually sewing these essays to other kids. That's pretty. But I mean, it wasn't half the time I write my essays. Yeah, these are all the kids. That boy didn't have to be like, he's like, I don't feel comfortable dad turning in something that's not my work. And so I actually write my essays, but I've got 15 that are being printed out for $100. Distinctive things I remember about that, right? Like having to write. So they didn't want you to type it up because people would, I mean, they were getting caught like plagiarizing all the time. So we actually had to like hand write. And so I figured out that like I start the first paragraph like super legible and everything's really good. And the rest of it is just dog shit. And I just like, and then they wouldn't read the whole thing because the teachers were lazy and I knew this. Yes. I've never heard of that. Wait a minute. You would literally just scribble. Yeah. We just like scribble like half of it. I swear to God. And like half dead giveaway as your teacher, lazy as shit. That's crazy. Yes. Either lazy or if they felt bad for Justin. Or they just were like, oh, he's a good student. And then like would just like, at least he did the first part of it. Poor Justin. I was always trying to like cycle out. He's not going to get in though. You know what I'm saying? He's a poor kid. He's a poor kid. Remember he tackled the tree the other day four times? It's good. Stupid. No, I would cycle analyze everyone of my teachers like how they would like, how they would like construct these questions because then you'd see them on the test and be like, this is what they're actually trying to get to. And then you'd find the answer easy without even barely like putting thought into it. Dude, I had, I had a teacher that literally I'll never, I mean, should I say his name? I'm not going to say his name. Even though I want to call him out. Dave, it's Dave. He would literally sit at the front of class. Sit, okay, in his desk. And he'd have us take out our textbook and then we would read the textbook out loud. And that was it. No, I had to. He did nothing else. Yeah, no, I had to. Sal, page five, first paragraph. And then we'd go through and literally he would just sit there and he'd read and he'd do his own shit. And we'd just read the fucking textbook. I read, yeah, I would read Shakespeare like that and just take on these roles just because I get so bored and I'd give it like a, you know, I've heard some of this. Yeah, like read a Mercutio, you know, be all like, you know, Femi. That is hilarious. Yeah, because it was, you know, it's so boring. And I don't know if that's worse or I had. So I had a biology teacher that used to just roll out the TV. So just roll it as soon as you get to class. I mean, it's like one of your favorite classes because you turn the lights out and you mess it up. Yeah, yeah, like you roll out the TV and you'd watch some some video on whatever we were learning. So I had what I used to do with teachers like that because he used to infuriate me because I get bored easily. But I also love to learn. So I'm like, if I had a good teacher or if I was engaged, man, I was the best, right? But the teachers that bored me used to piss me off and I would, I would poke at them on purpose. And so I had this one teacher that at least at least that whole school year happened at least five times a lot where I wasn't paying attention, right? You know, and I didn't, I had no respect for them. And they'd call me out to try and catch me. So Sal, what did I, what did I look? And then I'd have the answer. And they'd be like, yeah, you know, it looks like your class is super easy. I don't have to pay attention. I would say some shit like that. And they would always try to catch me but I'd have the answer because it was a topic that I, you know, read about on my own, how annoying. Anyway, speaking of annoying, I just, I had literally the week of hell last week. Everybody's sick. The week of hell. So here's the thing. You came back and then you went home and then you got all puke-y after that. So there was this like window of like, you're kind of normal. No, it started out that I, my daughter and I got this like cold with a fever, okay? So first we got this cold with the fever. So I'm like, damn, that's when I couldn't, I didn't come into work or whatever. Then I was feeling a little better and I came to work and then Aurelius, you know, I get a message, Aurelius is throwing up. I'm like, oh, here we go. Cause I don't know if you guys know this or not, but the Norovirus is like spreading like wildfire right now, which is it's a really nasty stomach bug. So he starts puking. We do our podcast halfway through the podcast. I'm like, oh man, I feel, I don't feel so good. I go home, Jessica's throwing up, I'm throwing up, Aurelius is throwing up. We got to take care of all the kids and we're totally sick. If you're a parent and you have, especially little kids and you're sick as hell and they're sick as hell all at the same time, nightmare. Such a nightmare, dude. To get the strength to go like, you know, my son wakes up in the middle of the night cause he puked himself. And I myself, I'm like trying to hold it back and I got to go in there and like poor kids crying. I got to throw them in the tub and like, what do we do with all this stuff? Throw it away and throw away his sheets. I'm going to wash them. Oh, it's just a total man thing to do right there. Yeah. Throw it away. My new one. You start over it. Bro, it was so, and I felt so bad. We're not built. We're not built to handle that stuff. I mean, seriously, like give me a, That's why when Jessica got sick. Give me a 16 hour work week in the blistering sun and like killing my back to do, I got that. Let me get a nasty cold and my, and the wife and the kid be down. Like, oh God, send help, send help. Oh, that's why when she got sick, I was like, oh no. Yeah. What am I going to do? Jessica's sick too. And then we're all doomed. Poor Raleous. He's so cute, right? He's like, throw up or whatever. And oh, he's all sad. And then he goes up to his mom and he goes, mama, I'm sorry I throw up. And I'm just like, oh. When Max does that, it breaks my heart. Poor guy. He felt bad, dude, for getting sick. Like it's not your fault, buddy. It's not your fault. Oh, it's so sad. And then it was funny, because then he started getting sympathy, right? Like, how are you doing, buddy? You know, and you know, let him, he never watches TV, right? We let him watch TV all day because he was just lethargic and, you know, poor kid, right? So then we're calling family members. And every time somebody would get on the phone, he'd say, hey, buddy, how are you doing? And he'd look down and go, I sick. And he just made this little sad face and all of a sudden he's like, this is working out. Luckily the baby, the youngest, didn't get it, which I was worried about because she's only three months. And so Jessica got sick first, which then that was a blessing because, you know, if you breastfeed, you'll pass your antibodies on to your infant. So she got sick first. So I said, okay, cool. So long as Dahlia doesn't get it, like right now she'll be able to not get it because you'll give her, and sure enough, she didn't get sick. So I'm like, thank God, she didn't get it. Wow, it snowed in anyway, dude. How weird is that? That's crazy. We haven't had snow here. I don't know, like decades. So you couldn't drive over 17 because it snowed out? Yeah, the whole thing was snowed and they had to like, Well, they have no, I mean, they have no equipment. Yeah, as they say, the Katrina was asking these guys. They never snowed. I know Katrina was like, oh my God, did it snow that bad? It doesn't have to snow much. I was like, it's not like they're prepared. This isn't like going over. There's no gradient roads. So that's the thing too. I guess I heard like, so there was some people in Boulder Creek close by that where I was at, four by four trucks. Everything was like, you know, like it wasn't like they had some like front wheel drive vehicles or sliding around in, but literally had no traction because the roads aren't really set up for that. And like slid completely off and like went into ditches and this was happening like all over the place, cars were just flying off the road. Oh my God. So I was like, there was this whole message out, like don't leave the house. Like if you don't have to, I'm like, really, it's that bad? Well, that roads, the roads not designed for that. They don't have the, they don't have the Caltrans set up over there to clear the roads over there like that. So it's just like, do you know that 17 has got, has gotten voted one of the most dangerous roads in the whole country? Well, especially dead man's curve, right? Dude, like back in the day, I think this is the craziest thing ever. They didn't have that center divide. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, so when my parents grew up over here, like that was the place you race too. Dead Man, that was how it got its nickname was like kids, like racing 17 back before the divider was there. It had to be the more dangerous road ever. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I used to do? I used to race on, yeah, no. And isn't it, isn't it? I heard that, I don't know if this is true, Justin, but you know, cause you grew up in Santa Cruz. Cause Santa Cruz, 17 is what connects Santa Cruz in that area to San Jose and. Yeah. Is it true that people in Santa Cruz have fought hard to prevent them from building any other ways to come over the hill? Because they don't want it to get super busy. I think there's been lobbying for that, yeah. I mean, they've done quite a bit of that. And two, just with a lot of the commercial kind of stores and things, because there's lots of local small business and stuff, like they've really tried to kind of keep that intact. And so yeah, I'm sure there's been lobbying for that, but there used to be old Santa Cruz highway was the first one before they built like 17. But yeah, there was plans at one point of like making it multiple lanes and like having like a nice easy way to get across. But like, yeah, the traffic's already is bad during the summer to get over. And so I think, yeah, people live there. You can't build out there anymore, right? Hasn't like most that area been all blocked off and turned into like national park area and stuff like all the trees back by you? They could if they wanted to. I think what Justin's saying, cause that's what I heard about. Not if it's already been, not if it's been labeled a national park. That's, well, oh, I don't know. Yeah, maybe they, you know, Justin, they've zoned it that way. I mean, there's, yeah. So there's like certain areas of what you're saying on that mountain, I think, yeah, are designated. Like if you have an area that's, you could rebuild in an area, but new areas I don't think you could even build out there anymore. Cause imagine if they, imagine if they made getting over the hill way easier, how packed it would get. Cause it's a beautiful area. Yeah. It's great place, cheaper. It's less than San Jose because it's so hard to get to because 17 can be a pain in the ass. So if they opened it all up, it would just become busy and packed. Like, well, that's true. Yeah, I wonder. Cause even like Scott's Valley's gotten a lot more populated because it's not that far to get over. And so it's like the first step in maybe because of virtual work. Yeah, the virtual works open that up quite a bit. Oh man. It's crazy what I do. Cause I mean, you're on your, you first hit Los Gatos. Like Los Gatos is the, in my opinion, the closest Santa Cruz-like vibe to San Jose. And it's ungodly priced. It's so expensive. One of the most expensive places. It's insane. Beverly Hills of San Jose. It really is. Oh yeah. You get like a three bedroom, 1500 square foot house in Los Gatos would be like, what, three million? Oh yeah, at least. Yeah, at least that. At least that. No, it's crazy. That's where my business used to be. I remember and it's crazy. And then there's the night, the areas of Los Gatos are a little more expensive and ridiculous. You can't even touch them. I saw, I went by your old place and it's still got the apps. Is it still going? No, I don't think so. I think they just, I think it was just abandoned. Oh really? So nobody's even leasing that space. I don't know. Every time I go by. I mean, you used to love going to that breakfast spot. I thought for sure you'd go over there still. You don't go there. Yeah, so I've gone over there a few times. My parents go there all the time and they always look in the window and so there's nothing in there. So I don't know. It's kind of wild that your logo is still there. I know. It is. I know. Interesting. I know. Memories. Been there for a long, long time. It's a good time. You know, talking about the national park thing and the zoning. Let me leave this up for me. I was watching the torturing Katrina. I watched the nature stuff, you know? She gets so, she goes, are you punishing me? And I'm like, it's relaxing for me to watch it. I was watching one of the newer ones on Netflix, the one that Obama narrated and it was doing like all the national parks. Did you know that like, that wasn't even a thing? Like, and I like bringing this up because I know we talk such. Didn't Teddy Roosevelt start that? Yeah. And I believe it was. And look up which the first national park and what year it was. No, not Yosemite. I think it was actually Yellowstone. I think Yellowstone was the first one. But what I found fascinating about this and this is why I wanted to bring it up is because we always share negative stuff and it's always like, oh, how bad we are to the earth and all sort of that. First of all, these national parks didn't exist just 60 plus years ago. I think it's around that time, give or take. So it didn't even exist. And now there's like tens of thousands across. Like it caught like wildfires as a trend of protecting all these areas. You have national parks, you have state parks, you have county parks. And you're seeing a lot of these species that we're gonna go extinct that are repop. Yeah, bison is one of them. Like you see all these that are, I mean, the condor. Like there's a lot of these animals that we're gonna go extinct that because we have saved these made of national parks and they're starting to repopulate and grow. There's like, they've made a lot of good treasure and then the amount of carbon too. Like it's been incredible what we've done. And I didn't know that. They've been around forever. I just assumed that. No, I think it was. We never highlighted the possibilities. I think it was Rosemelt that started, was it? No, it wasn't. It actually was under, let's see, President Grant. Oh, so before. So this was in 1872. The first one was the first one. It was Yellowstone. Oh, so Yellowstone. 2.2 million acres. How many total do we have now? Oh boy, let me find it. Yeah, find out. Total national parks. Have you guys been to Yellowstone? Ah, yeah, when I was little. Oh, it's, so Yosemite is one of the most beautiful in terms of picturesque. But Yellowstone is so spectacular. It's parts of Yellowstone where you feel like you're on another planet. Better for wildlife too. Oh, you see like huge. Oh yeah, yeah. So I went, you know, when I went with Jessica a few years ago and you see like there are just these pools of water with gases coming out and the crazy looking colors in the water. And you're like, this doesn't even look like earth. It's just a super volcano. It wouldn't happen. Oh, it is a super volcano. You know what? Where I really want to go is to Patagonia. That's what looks really sick, dude. The amount of like how large that's, I think that's one of the largest national. That's over in Chile. It's like the whole, it's like the whole coastline. It's massive. I'm embarrassed because I thought that was just a brand of clothing I swear to God. Is that Chile or is that Argentina? Patagonia. Look it up. I think it's Chile. I don't know. I'm probably the worst when it comes to geography but I'm pretty sure that's where it's at. It's like in our backyard, no idea. You didn't know that Patagonia was at? No, I thought, I swear I had no idea. Both countries, Argentina and Chile. That's how huge it is, right? It runs the whole, I think it's the largest, I think it's now grown to be like one of the largest collection of national parks that they've... Really? Yeah, and just the amount of wildlife and stuff that is there is unbelievable. Wow, that's cool. Hey, did you guys see in BroBible that they did this thing on TikTok and asked like all these fitness dudes what their favorite workout shirt or to wear was? Viori. Oh wow. First place. Really? Bro, that's a big plug from BroBible. Yeah. The Stratotech T. Like gym bros? They all said it was the most comfortable best shirt. Wow. Dude, Viori just crushing, killing it. Yeah. Killing it. Wow. It's crazy. If I'm Lulu Lemon and I see them coming up, I'm like, all right guys, we gotta... I guarantee now they're having meetings and trying to figure out what the hell to do because Viori's just exploding. Yeah, it'd be interesting to see. Yeah, look at that BroBible. Wow. Yeah, the men of TikTok say that this Viori's T-shirt is the softest shirt you'll ever wear. It is. That's my favorite shirt. That's my favorite shirt. And it speaks for itself. That's a string of articles. Dude, that's not an ad. No, no, it's a legit article. Wow. All right. What a great plug for them. Speaking of things that are not legit, I'm gonna try and keep this from turning into angry rant time. But I don't know if you guys see the Wall Street Journal article that came out on COVID-19. Oh my God, yeah, let's talk about this. You see about this? Yes, I have. So I think it was the FBI. I've seen the change of narrative. That's what I've seen, but go ahead. Oh, so CAA FBI coming out saying, hey everybody, it's likely that COVID was... Department of Energy, right? A created... Yeah, it was a virus created in the Wuhan laboratory and it leaked. Oh, the one that they censored everybody and said that's conspiracy theory. Yeah, so here's where I wanna go with this. Is the most likely scenario. I'm gonna go down the list of stuff that would have got you kicked off social media or lost your job if you were a doctor or a researcher or a teacher or any other public figure. I'm gonna go down the list, okay? Let's start with this is a virus coming from a place which is in the entire region where they do gain of function type research and create new viruses. It may be a leak. In fact, some scientists came out and said early on, hey, we analyze this. The odds that this is a natural virus is very low. By the way, those people lost their jobs and got censored. Okay, so that's one. Here's number two. Hey, you know, wearing masks, it's not gonna work with something like this. That would have got you censored. Cockroach Review just comes out. Oh, it turns out masks did dick. Yeah, irrelevant. Nothing. Why are you still wearing them? Number three. Well, we're gonna get there. Comfort. It's like a pass fire. We'll get there. Number, it's like a pass. Number three. Number three. Lockdowns. Everybody, oh, lock everybody down. Shut businesses down. Keep everybody, do whatever. And the policies leading up to right before this last pandemic, they never would have enacted stuff like this. In fact, that was never a strategy. All of a sudden we're locking everybody down. Of course, they start by saying two weeks that flattened the curve, turned into two years. That, the studies are now coming out showing, the lockdowns did dick, did nothing. Well, number four. Destroyed small business. These vaccines, 90% effective. If you don't get it, you're gonna be spreading the virus, whatever. Guess what? You get the vaccine, you still spread the fucking virus. Okay? So this is all of it. All of it was complete bullshit. And what it is, and this is the truth now, I'm gonna make- Every single level. I'm gonna make a statement right now that I've avoided saying since the beginning of this, but I've totally believed. This was the largest organized, organized by the entire Western world, PSYOP ever conducted on people. Everybody got PSYOPted so hard. And the ramifications that came from that are, distrust in the medical community, the scientific community, and we killed more people than we saved. Because now we know, which a lot of smart people were saying, we're gonna destroy the fabric of society. You're gonna cause other unintended consequences. What are those? Obesity went up. Cancer deaths went up because people stopped going to the doctor. Suicide went up. Drug abuse went up. Oh, we're gonna force little kids to wear masks because we're, you know, whatever, even though early on we knew that kids had no, that played no role, had no risk, whatever. So you had developmental issues because children need to read faces and lips and see people and now they're isolated. So childhood depression, suicide rates among kids went through the roof. We literally, literally what we did was we had a cut on our hand and we said we should cut our arm off and that's gonna save everybody. We hurt ourselves so bad and I'm definitely upset at the propaganda that came from all angles, but I'm more upset at the cowards. I'm talking about the regular people who, not on themselves, who decided it was good to impose this on the people, tyrannized it with people. Who lashed out on everybody else. Destroyed people's business. People lost their jobs and businesses and children lost education and terrible and all the evidence now is there. It's totally clear. So what I'd like to see now is moving forward. I'd like to see people next time this happens because it's going to happen in different form, next time people do give the middle finger and say no, I'm gonna preserve my liberty and you can suck it. I'm not gonna do any of your crazy shit anymore. That's what I'd like to see. You think that'll happen? I don't. No, that's the thing. History says no. I mean, unfortunately this just makes me more angry. Like it's tough to, it's a tough place to be in because it's like, a lot of things that I was alarmed by and was like, this is a red flag for me and I'm gonna see how this, it played out exactly how I thought it would. Yeah, and that's the most frustrating part. Yeah, and this is connected to so many other things like first off, people wanna get rid of, while this was happening, by the way, there was a large segment of our population that a majority of, I'm not gonna say which political side, but you can guess, when they would do polls, a majority of them agreed that people should be locked in their houses. These were polls that were done. They should be locked in their houses. People should lose their jobs. 30% of the same side said that people's kids should be taken from them if they refuse to vaccinate them or they refuse to wear masks and do that kind of stuff. Those are the, that stuff is so alarming and this is why Americans won't give up their guns, bottom line, because they know when shit hits the fan that the only person who's got my own back is gonna be me and why our state system is always gonna exist because if we didn't have our state system, the federal government would have imposed all kinds of crazy stuff on us, like they did in Australia, like they did in New Zealand, like they did in Italy and France and in the UK and other countries. That saved our asses, was our Supreme Court system and our state system, cause a lot of states were like, no, we're not doing that. We don't live in one of those unfortunately in California, but other states did stop that insanity. This is why I get so fascinated by cults. I mean, it's like a little microcosm of the bigger society at whole, like the same percentages of people that just completely conform, even though that they know there's questionable activity at the top don't question it. They just fall lockstep in line and it's, to me, it's just, it's interesting. I just wanna look at like what that is and human behavior and like the trends and the tendencies there. So that way, yeah, we can sort of like get ahead of a lot of these things. I think the crazy part that is, I did a poll a while back and there was a good percentage of people that regretted doing the vaccine and stuff like that, but there's still a much larger percentage that the damage is done. They've already been manipulated that and now like we're even making jokes about it. He saw Woody Harrelson came out on Saturday Night Live and did like a little skit. And I think that the narrative now is like, oh, we did the best we could with the information that we had. And at that time, that's what it was. And now we know better and oh, stupid us and let's laugh it off. And to me, that is what's happening. Because again, I still haven't pressed counterpoints. I haven't seen any of my friends that were aggressively pushing this agenda also come out and admit they were wrong even. They don't think they were wrong. They again think they're doubling down on, well at the time it was the best. Seemed like the right move. It was the, we thought was the right move and looking back of course, but we would have never, we didn't know that. We didn't know. And so this was us being safe, the safest we thought we could be. I'm not mad at people for doing stuff for themselves. I get it, man. This was such a coordinated PSYOP attack from all angles, media, science. Your work would tell you you're gonna be fired. Your neighbors. And not only that, you had all Western nations were doing this unified together. So I don't, I'm not mad at people who are doing it for themselves. I'm mad at the people who said, I'm doing it for me, but you have to be forced too. You should lose your job if you don't do what. So what we need to do moving forward is if shit happens, we need to stand lines with liberty. And what does that say? If shit happens, it's your responsibility. If you don't wanna go meet with other people that that's your choice. If you don't wanna open your business, that's your choice. If you wanna put a sign on your business that says you can't come in here unless you wear a mask or unless you're vaccinated, that's your choice. But that business over there, that guy wants to sell donuts and on his sign it says anybody welcome? It's his business and the people who go in, that's their choice. That's what's in line with liberty. And history shows us that the people that impose the crazy controls in tyranny are never right. It's never, never. Tell me a time when it was a great idea. By the way, when China was locking people down, locking people in their apartments, literally they would weld their locks shut. The doors, yeah. And their doors shut. It's crazy. You had politicians from America and scientists from America coming over here saying, it's working guys over there. What they're doing is totally working. It's just pure propaganda. It ain't working. China's got, they're full of COVID too. No. Oh, absolute insanity. Plenty of counterpoints and plenty of people out there kind of voicing their warnings and alarms and trying to get them to reconsider these policies and methods. But it got completely snuffed and suppressed and literally labeled as conspiracy theorists or they demonized and villainized anybody that had any opposing point, which is never good. Never, never good. Like you have to have dialogue. You even ask questions. You have to have pushback because you have to be able to overcome those, you know, that pushback with reasonable answers. And if you can't provide a reasonable logical answer to these counterpoints, then it's bullshit propaganda. Yeah. And the damage is gonna be so long lasting. I mean, you know, people, it's so sad. There were people that died alone in hospitals because no one was allowed to visit them. Funerals were not allowed to be held. Yep. You know, you lose a loved one. We can't go, like our society is built, we're humans, we're so social, right? Do you know how destructive that is to force people to not be around each other when somebody dies or a baby's born or your kid is sick and you can't go in the hospital? Weddings, funerals, like it's just crazy. I mean, it was, it's collective insanity. And like I said, I don't know, I hope this lasts at least a few generations when people look back and go, unfortunately, what's gonna, my fear is all this did was create so much distrust in everything that now nobody trusts anything. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah, I don't think anybody learned from it. And I think that if they were brilliant enough to do a PSYOP like this, they'll just, they'll find another way to do it. And it'll look different the next time. And because it'll look enough different that people will all fall into the same bullshit trap. And that's, I mean, at the end of the day, the truth, most people are sheep. Most people want to be led, want to be told. Most people don't want to push back or stand up for themselves. It's a fact, we know that. So, you know, to me, it's why I'm so over it. I'm so over even talking about it. Like it's like, the stuff that you're talking about right now, like, is any of this a shocker surprise? I mean, just because they're coming out in the new. So to me, like really all you're seeing right now, they've known all that shit for a long time. They're just now dripping it to us a little bit at a time. So then we could, you know, laugh it off and say things like, oh, you know, well, we did the best we could when that, you know, and that's just all part of it. And then we'll look back in five years and be like, oh man, remember that time we made that little mistake where we did, and people will fall for the next one. It's just, come on. If you didn't see that, you probably won't see the next one. No, okay, now to speak logically, you have to always, whenever you're enacting a policy, you have to consider the unintended consequences and you can't look at something one-sided. What we did is we took infectious disease experts. And if you weren't an infectious disease expert, nobody wanted to hear what you had to say. Oh no, you're not qualified. So we had a bunch of infectious disease. Dr. Malone. Experts come out and tell us what our policy should be. And they didn't talk to anybody who understands economics. They didn't talk to psychologists, social scientists. They didn't talk to parents. They didn't talk to anybody else who would have said, wait a minute, this infectious disease expert says, we should force three-year-olds to wear masks in preschool, but that's gonna damage their learning ability, their brain development, their social skills. What about the depression? So nobody considered anything else. It was all about, well, if we can reduce it by one case, it's worth it, which it didn't, by the way. Now the data's coming out and they're like, it didn't do anything. It's a lot of terrible. Don't you think that's like the root difference between someone who would label themselves conservative versus progressive? Someone who's progressive is always gonna push for taking chances and doing things without, for sure, thinking about the unintended consequences. Someone who's on the conservative side is gonna be conservative on it, like, maybe that's a good idea, but let's test more, let's be more, isn't that like the root difference between two different people or ideologies of like how you believe all things should be done? Isn't that where it comes from? You need both, and both can become toxic. You need one to push change innovation and to reevaluate what's always being done, which is important, but then you need the other side to say, hold on a second, this has been done a particular way for so long because of these particular values. So you do need that balance, but I don't know, to me it's just- When I think back to what we saw unfold is like, and just in this case, the progressive people won the battle of getting their agenda pushed and looking back now, now it looks like all the conservative people were correct. Yeah. But what if it was the other way around? Yeah, yeah, I mean, like I said, you need a balance. I think who always wins is the one that can scare everybody the most, and conservatives have done this in the past too, when they were the warmongers, which they've been in the past, when they're the ones that say, you know, hey- So ironic how that flipped. Well, because whoever's in power becomes the warmongering party. So that's why the whole like two sides thing sometimes is like, really, not really, the same coin. It's not, yeah. Head or tails, it's still the quarter. Just moving in whatever direction they want, and that's so obvious. On a lighter note, for Doug, I have- Sorry everybody, I was trying not to rant, Doug. I have some dad trivia again for you guys. Let's do it. You can play. Okay. So this is, first person to get this, where is the Lion King based out of like the Pride Lands? Where is that, where is that at? The Serengeti in Africa. Yeah, because it is- Andrew, I thought maybe here. Yeah, because it's not the Sahara Desert. Oh. I don't know what- I have no idea. Is it like in Kenya? Kenya, yeah. Kenya, yeah. No, wait, the song, Kenya. No, that's what he said. I don't know what he said. It's the same how he says. The reason why that came up was I was watching that. I was watching that documentary or whatever, the narrative by Barack Obama or whatever, and they were in Kenya. I can't even remember what national park he was sharing there. And I looked and I was like, and I had just been taking my son through the Lion Kings. And so we've been watching Lion King like crazy. And I took a chance and I was like, man, that sure looks like, you know, the Lion King scene. Literally, it looks like they actually, what you see in the cartoon, they took that. Out of there. Yeah, they took that. That's really how it's laid out, very similar, right? And I'm like, man, that looks really cool. Is that one of the highest-grossing films? It's got to be, right? It's up there. It's not the- remember I brought to you guys? Oh, yeah, you did. The top producers. Because, well, they count multiple, right? In Lion King, there's two Lion Kings? No. I think there's just the one. There's the live action one. Yeah, the remake. Oh, I thought they did a follow-up on it. Yeah, so, I mean- The play, the Lion King play is exceptional. Have you guys seen it before? I've seen it, yeah. Unbelievably creative. Oh, it's so good. Do you have any more trivia? Is that it? No, that's it. Oh, just one? I'll try and bring one dad trivia every time that I can. So that one popped in, I thought it was really interesting. Hey, what was that article in Men's Health? They were talking about, I guess, how athletes are using red light therapy like crazy now? Yeah, so Men's Health did a feature on, let's see here, the recovery revolution comes home and Juv was featured in that. In Men's, wow, in Men's Health. Their actual brand? Yeah, their actual brand, yeah. Look at that. Look at our partners get some love from big publications. Now, didn't you guys say that the 49ers use red light therapy quite a bit before recovering? I think they're in way more NFL teams now. The Niners were the first to adopt it. So here's what's cool about red light therapy. In the past, recovery meant just simply tamping down inflammation. The problem with that is when you tamp down inflammation, you also inadvertently tamp down the muscle building signal. So it's like, if you take anti-inflammatories or do an ice bath after a workout, you are going to reduce inflammation, but part of that is also reducing the muscle building signal. Red light therapy does not do that. Red light therapy enhances recovery and also augments the muscle building signal. It also helps with the muscle building part. So it doesn't have that potential negative effect. So speed up recovery and still get the adaptation. By the way, that is the science that's being used to do the counter movement on the ice bath right now too. Remember I brought up a few weeks ago about how I see this movement right now within the fitness community. And they're not intelligent fitness minds. Like you're talking about some smart people, but that's the science that they're latching onto to talk about how stupid the ice bath is. Oh no, they go too far. No, I know. I mean, that's just a perfect example though of how you're using that to talk about and the benefits of red light therapy and recovery mentioning why inflammation has a positive part when it comes to building muscle and the adaptation. Well, this is what ice bath does. It could blunt that. Therefore, we're now saying, okay, it's a terrible use of a tool for building muscle. Talk about new tools. I wanna throw this in real quick. So I just started a brand new peptide that I'm experimenting with called MOTC, MOTS-C. They call it, and I hate this term because I don't think that's what it is, but they call it exercise in a bottle. I swear to God, if you look it up, there were articles written about it called exercise in the bottle. Because studies on rats showed an improvement in athletic performance by 20 to 40% because what it does is it increases fat oxidation and glucose uptake. And it does through the mitochondria, literally tells the mitochondria to just burn more energy. Now the side effect being more energy, better performance and fat loss. So our partners at MPHormones.com, I give them the green light because I'm like, hey guys, give me everything and I'll test it out. I'll be your pin cushion. And they're like, try this. Oh, there it is. The exercise replacement peptide. It's not an exercise replacement. But it is interesting. So I took my first dose this morning and it does make you, this is just the first time. So I'm gonna keep doing it, let you guys know what's happening. But I did feel like my body's warmer, which some people say that's a side effect of the body burning more. But I'll let you guys know how it works. See if I get better performance. Now we're, okay, so since we know that all studies start in like rat models first to make sure they're safe and then we move to human models. So I know there's this big knock on any study that's done on a rat. Like friends of ours like Lane, one of his first ways to shit on someone's study is if it's a rat study right away. It's like, this wasn't even done in humans. Therefore we're not gonna accept that it's like real science yet. Right, so here's the difference is that, first off human studies are always a gold standard, but peptides already exist. So MOTC is in the body anyway. It's not a drug. So it's not something that I'm introducing that doesn't exist in my body. MOTC already exists in my body. This is what, remember how Dr. Seed's explained it to us. They find that people who have higher amounts of this live longer, less body fat and tend to not get diabetes or study out of Japan that showed that this was connected to longevity as well. So the safety of peptides, because they're already in the body, they already exist. And because the body knows what to do with it and it's just a signaling system, meaning the body already works with these already. It's already evolved to do so. The potential, the safety profile, you already can assume is gonna be much, much higher. Nonetheless, I would still never do this unless I was supervised by a doctor. So my point of bringing the rat study up to you are there examples of a rat study before it makes its way to human studies that is more likely to be useful or positive versus ones that are just like, okay, that's... All the time. I know which ones. Oh, I don't know. That's my point. My point is like, okay, so what I mean by that is like, okay, we hear about this new drug that does something to the rat's gut and that could have positive benefits for repopulating your gut with healthy bacteria and it's amazing or whatever that, and it's in a rat. First, oh, this one actually helps a rat build muscle or this one. And are there humans? Yeah, so are there ones that translate into human studies more consistently or are there ones that like rarely translate? Most rat rarely. Most rarely translate. So when you look at a drug, like a created drug. Hence why, like, Lane shits on it, right? Yes, most of the time. Because he's probably 90% right is what you're saying. Yes, most of the time. I think a very small percentage then translate to humans. But again, because peptides already exist in the body, that they find these signaling peptides, they know what they do in the body and then all they do is say, oh, that's, we know what it does, it's already there. So then if we give it, then it's gonna do what this thing that it does versus drugs. So that's why peptides are not drugs and I'm glad Dr. Seed's explained that to us. It seems to me like all of these, even with the red light and, you know, peptides that are addressing mitochondrial health, that seems to be sort of the, one of the biggest movers for like longevity and recovery. Oh yeah. Because it's, you know, it's part of the cell and it has so many different aspects to it. That's the main focus of longevity. Isn't it like keeping, taking care of your engine in your car? Like a car can be a 30, 40 year old car if you keep taking care of the engine, right? If the engine goes to shit, it can look great on the outside, but it ain't gonna last for long. Yeah, if you look at the research on longevity, a good portion of it is focused on mitochondria, 100%. So yeah, pretty cool. Do we have a shout out today? Oh, I didn't have one for you. Why don't you give love to our Dr. Seed since we brought him, since we brought him up. Oh, what's his page? I think it's Dr. Seed. Is it? Dr. Seeds? Anyway, it's great. One of our, I mean, that was a great interview and we interviewed him and talked to a smart dude. Communicates very well, very balanced. So give him a follow if you need to see. It is William Seed's MD. Wayne Seed's MD, give him a follow. What's up, everybody? Are you interested in hardcore performance enhancing supplements? Legion is the best in the business. Real stuff that what the label says is in the bottle. They deliver only science-backed ingredients. They have one of the most popular pre-workout supplements on Amazon. They have a great whey protein powder and much more. Go check them out and get a discount. Go to buylegion.com. That's B-Y-L-E-G-I-O-N.com forward slash mind pump. Then use the code mind pump and get 20% off your first order. Or if you're a returning customer, you can go to that link, use that code and get double rewards points. All right, here comes the rest of the show. First question is from Hope is life 50. What do you personally like to do to re-energize your training when you feel in a bit of a rut with your routine? I don't think Sal can answer this. Have you missed a workout? Have you missed a workout in eight years? I don't think you're qualified to answer this. I do think it's all the time to re-energize my training. Oh yeah, I mean, it's probably the same thing you guys do. I change my goal. I change my focus. That's gotta be the most effective way that I found for myself and even for my clients that would kind of get them re-energized. So, you know, one block it may be to let's see how much I can train like a bodybuilder and focus on feeling the muscle and getting the pump and sculpting my body. And then, you know, I'm gonna train now more like a power lifter or, you know, I'm gonna work on the depth of my squat or I'm gonna work on my ability to lift something overhead with one arm or work on mobility or something like that. And I'll do it for a block of training. And the reason why it's so energizing is when you do it that way, you see progress and progress is fun. It's not fun when you don't see progress, but when you change your workout and you change some of your goals, like if you always train like a bodybuilder and then you decide you're gonna train more functional, for at least three months, you're gonna see rapid gains in your functional performance or vice versa, right? You train functional, you train like a bodybuilder. So I would say that has to be one of the easiest like buttons to push when you're feeling kind of like you're in a rut. Yeah, I like to learn a new skill. I like to seek out some kind of new method or and this takes a little bit of research, but to find a concept or a different exercise that I haven't really adopted and see how that would fit within programming in the way that I construct my workouts. But I go back and forth with a lot of these things like with the macebells or like unconventional tools or kettlebells or ways of like even just using those for, if I'm in like a hypertrophy phase, like where does this even fit? Like where are some of these tools like is it possible or is it best suited for more of my other types of goals for mobility or stability or in that regard? And I like kind of like going through that whole process and to learning something new stimulates what I've already been doing and that just keeps things kind of fresh. But yeah, that's for the most part is just like trying to find like some concepts out there because there's so many of them to gain benefit from and see where it can apply to other types of workouts. Yeah, I think that's tried and true, right? I think that humans are drawn to novelty. So the obvious easy answer I think is to switch up the goal. If you've attempted fat loss so many times and you've been doing that for most of your life like just changing what you're focused on, I think will help out. Also setting like not only different goals but then like sometimes just kind of like what Justin's alluding to, which is focus on an exercise. Learn a new exercise that takes a lot of skill like a Turkish getup or even swinging like a Mace Club like that that's challenging in itself. And so setting a goal like that also depends on where I'm at. Like if I'm consistent but I'm in a rut like let's say I'm training consistently but I'm just plateaued and I'm losing motivation and go to the gym. To me that's the easy transition into like a whole different goal. But if I'm in a rut like I'm not even going to the gym rut and I haven't motivated myself to get back in the swing of things. My best advice is actually starting like with hardly anything which that is new to even me like the front half of my career and training I was very all or nothing. Where now I've had multiple times since we've done the show where I've kind of fallen off the wagon where I've fallen off consistency even I've strung some weeks together. I mean, I just came off of being sick and moving and had probably two weeks where I didn't train. And so after something like that happens I actually set a very low bar like I'm just going to get in and squat today. You know, that's all I'm going to hold myself to is to get in and to just a squat or hey I'm just going to go do the elliptical for, you know, 15, 20 minutes and do some ab stuff that I know I need to do or I've been neglecting mobile. I'll pick just like one or two things that I know I need to do and just do that versus telling myself I need to get like I need to get re-motivated and I need all this momentum and I need to go get a hard workout in because I know I've been off it won't take much to set a positive signal. So I'll actually set the bar really low so I know I'll accomplish it because what happens a lot of times when I'm in a rut where I've been inconsistent in the gym and I'm trying to re-motivate myself to get back and I'm like, oh what program of map should I follow now? Let me go follow a map strong and I look at the workout and it's like, do I really feel like doing all that right now? And a lot of times I'll talk myself out of that. So and in the past that's how it was for me. It was either that or nothing where now again I'll just, I'll pick one exercise. I'll just say, hey I'm going to go in and do circus presses and many times when I do that it leads to more exercises but I'm okay with the possibility that I might just do that one exercise and I might leave the gym and then I'll build on that as time goes on. Yeah, one of the reasons why we've created so many different maps programs, obviously one of the reasons was because there's a lot of different people out there, different goals but it's also for people who, because our goal with the podcast, one of our goals is to help people develop kind of this lifelong relationship with fitness where it's something that they always value, they always do because we know the value that it brings to your entire life. And so we have all these different maps programs, part of the reason why we do is so that you could go from one to another to another. Like literally if you start with one maps program and you finish it and you follow the next one and you finish it, we have like, we should have now close to two years worth of workouts kind of laid out for you. And then along those lines, if you feel like you're in a rut, like Adam was saying, maps 15 has got to be the best workout answer to that. It's such a great program specifically for that because you're committing to 15 minutes a day, which if you add up all that time, it's almost two one hour workouts. So it's actually significant, but because it's every day, it's easy to develop the skill of discipline and consistency because it's a day, every single day type of thing. And it's not a huge commitment, most people can do like 15 minutes at a time. So that's a great, that's a great program for someone in this particular boat. Next question is from Kelsey J. Is it better to do heavy strength phases while in a cut to send the strongest muscle building signal or to do strength endurance phases to better mentally cope with performance dips? Whichever one is gonna send a more effective muscle building signal to your body is the one that you should do in a cut, which would you make the case or argue is the most novel? That's it. I was just gonna say, by the way, that's the same answer if you're trying to bolt. Yeah. Okay, so it's the same answer. So if you always in a strength phase and then you're about to cut, then you could go into a higher rep type workout because it's novel and it's gonna send a lot of... They both build muscle. They do, right? So the goal is when you're in a cut is to preserve as much muscle as possible, which means the program that's gonna build the most muscle is gonna be the most effective, which means the one that's gonna be the most novel to your body within the context of muscle building programs. I don't wanna say that because people might go extreme with novelty and be like, well, I've never done Pilates, but that's okay, that doesn't really build muscle. So whatever within the context of building muscle is the most novel. I used to always do this with my clients. We're going into a cut. We're gonna change your routine. So you're gonna get that novel muscle building signal while we cut calories and that should result in preserving muscle. There's some benefits. Well, I tend to lean, obviously, more towards the strength-driven workouts, but to then switch into more hypertrophy, higher rep, it's psychologically better for me in a cut because now I'm not dealing with the performance weights and trying to hero my way through the workouts. I can actually pick weights that are appropriate and not feel like I would, if I was in a cut doing a strength phase. Next question is from Rachel CG12. When working on squats, is it better to focus more on going heavier with good form or focus more on going deeper into my squats slowly and controlled? Well, both of them, both of those will result in improvement on your squat. So adding more weight and perfecting form would be progress, having the same weight, but going deeper in your squat would also equate to- So long as your form is good. Yeah, yeah, right, obviously, right? Unless you're a power lifter and you're already hitting depth, so then what matters most is adding weight. I would make the argument that the second one is gonna be better for you because it's gonna build as much muscle as the first option. It's less risky because you're not adding more weight. It's more functional. It's better, again, so long as you do it properly for your joints. Better form and a better range of motion is where I'll lean towards versus going a little more- Well, it's a little more foundational in terms of being able to build off of that and then reach sort of a pinnacle of now I can really focus more on adding low to then increase the potential of this exercise. But yeah, I think too, in terms of functional translation, like having the pursuit of being able to get a little more depth does make sense for all kinds of other different pursuits. Yeah, I mean, I strongly agree, but I also recognize I have a bit of a bias, like getting a astagrass squat did so much for me, not just like development-wise, which that was great, more importantly, like I had bursitis in my hips for years. It's gone, it's gone now. No, I haven't had that ever. And I haven't done- So wild. And I also had, I always had hip flexor stuff going on, I had low back issues, I had all these stuff, all the stuff that would be going around with, coming around with my hips and low back. When I increased my squat depth and got to a place where I comfortably can sit all the way down in squat, I've never had any issues ever again. So for that reason, I'm extremely biased too, if I had to choose with a client, which one of these are we gonna do? And I know how much has made a personal impact on my, so definitely if you're somebody who has issues like that, like increasing the range of motion and, because really all what that did was it increased the stability and strength in my hips. The stability and strength in my hips and increased range of motion alleviated all the back pain and bursitis in my hips. So the things that I did to work on that were so valuable to me. And then on top of that, the side benefit was, I'm able to squat less weight and have as much leg development or more than what I had with squatting more weight. Total complete disclosure too, obviously we give advice and we're on podcasts that doesn't necessarily mean we always follow it ourselves. I'm one of these because my ego gets in the way and it's time and effort to work on things like improving squat mobility and stuff. So I probably definitely, actually probably, I should work on working on my mobility and depth. What do I end up doing when I squat? Typically, well, if I could squat just below parallel, I'm gonna go heavier. And this is how I tend to do it myself. So it's definitely, I know what the challenge is. The challenge is can I add more weight to the bar, especially when I get close to a PR or should I work on formal mobility? Trainer sal, which is the smarter sal, says do the form in the depth. Workout sal, which is the not a smart sal, says add some weight, add some weight to the bar. Yeah, it's more fun. Next question is folvio castle. What can I do to improve my gut health without supplements? Elimination diet. Yeah, I would go elimination diet to start with. So the, and this can be different from person to person, but the most common offenders would be heavily processed foods, egg whites, dairy, gluten, legumes, and I think that's it. I think those are the main ones. Avoid those and see if you notice improvements. And then if you do, then slowly reintroduce them one at a time. So you would introduce one of them for a week, see if you notice anything, if it's okay, then go with the next one. And then I would also include in that list foods that you think you already have that you notice that you have issues with. And then another thing you could do is don't eat frequently. So you're probably better off giving yourself long breaks in between meals. This is for people with gut issues and also giving yourself like three hours at least before going to bed. So eat and then go to bed three hours later. The interaction I was gonna go is more digestive help in terms of doing that 10 minute walk after your big meals, chewing your food like to the full degree, like which is something that's always overlooked and just like really old grandma wisdom. But to be able to, and also too, like I remember Paul check talking about this and I've tried to kind of implement this, but I used to always have to have a drink with everything I ate and to be able to not rely on the drink to kind of wash it down and kind of forces you to really take those extra few bites and then being able to kind of bring that in. But like all that stuff matters in terms of like where it starts is the digestive process all starts here as you're chewing it up. Now, that's all good free advice that we gave. I think there's tremendous value in going to someone like Dr. Cabral and getting tests so they can tell you. I mean, what you guys all suggested were like ways that this person could for free kind of troubleshoot or potentially improve their gut. But if this is an area that you know you have issues and you want to improve it. I'm glad you said that. I think getting tested from someone like that is extremely because then it's just a matter of disciplining yourself to avoid those things. Because to be honest with you, more often than not the stuff that people need to avoid are the foods they eat a lot of. And so they try to do all these little things chewing more all the stuff you got to talk about but yet they still are allowing this food in their diet that is disrupting their gut. And so understanding what those foods are I think are extremely valuable. So going through like the stool test with him, I would advise that if you're willing to invest in that. Here's more to that Adam. If you're finding that all of a sudden you have like all these food intolerances, I guess you could avoid six different categories of foods or eat a low FODMAP diet for the rest of your life. Or you could figure out why the hell all of a sudden you've got all these food intolerance issues. And that's what going to a functional medicine practitioner like Dr. Stephen Cabral's team, that's what they'll do because I'm a prime example. I did elimination diet and I had like egg whites, peanuts, dairy, legumes. I mean, I remember there was like a whole list of foods that I couldn't eat. And it was like I had a gluten, right? I had to avoid them for so long. But then when I finally realized that I had a SIBO that wasn't undiagnosed and treated and some parasite issues. When I worked on those, almost all those food intolerances disappeared. The only one I'm left with is dairy, but I had dairy since I was a kid. So that's more of a, you know, it's something I think that's just with me. So you want to figure out the root cause what you don't want to do. And a lot of people, I know a lot of people like this where they never figure out the root cause. So their diet becomes more limited, more limited, more limited, more limited. And then they have this really limited diet just to kind of manage what's going on. But the reason why they're so limited is because they have some undiagnosed root cause issue. So you can solve it. They're actually very successful at solving these issues. It's not like it used to be where you were just stuck trying to figure it out on your own and like what the hell's going on type of deal. Look, if you like Mind Pump, go to mindpumpfree.com and check out our guides. We have guides that can help you with almost any health or fitness goal. You can also find all of us on social media. Justin is on Instagram, Mind Pump Justin. Adam is on Instagram, Mind Pump Adam. And guess who's back on Instagram? I am. And I think what is, what is my Instagram? Mind Pump to Stefano. Mind Pump to Stefano. That should have been our shout out today. Mind Pump to Stefano. You can find me on Instagram now, at Mind Pump to Stefano. A little bit more, you know, censored, I'm not gonna get kicked off again. But same fun stuff and good fitness advice. Go check it out. Today we're gonna teach you everything you need to know to build a strong, well-developed chest. When I think of weak points and areas that I struggled with developing for a really long time, chest was up there with the work part. Yeah, it was for me, it was for me for sure. I got more caught up in the weight I could lift versus how I was developing my body. I think it's one of the most challenging muscles developed for most people because the form and technique.