 You are listening to the top ranked fitness, health and entertainment podcast. This is mine pump. Now in today's episode, we answer fitness and health questions that are asked by our audience. But the way we open the episode is with fun conversation. We talk about current events and studies and things that are interesting to us. Today's intro portion was about 41 minutes long. After that, we got into answering the fitness questions. Let me give you a quick rundown. So if you want to fast forward to your favorite part, you can totally do that. We open up by talking about, uh, aged nut cheeses. Uh, this is just it doesn't like a good net cheese introducing us to that. Then Adam brought up our number one black Friday sale product. It was our mirror cups. Um, and we still have some leftover. I think we still have some cup zero mugs, um, but they're in the color of blue. Here's what you do. And you can get a discount by using our code. Go to mirror.com. That's M I I R dot com forward slash mine pump and then use the code. Mine pump get 25% off your first order. Then I talked about more weird, uh, regulations going on in the country. Apparently in Ohio wrestlers can wrestle. They can't shake hands. Just like my brain scrambling. Yeah. COVID only spreads by shaking hands apparently. Um, then I talk about the mayor of Austin telling people not to travel while he's in Cabo. What a great guy. As I say, not as I do. He's awesome. Adam brought up a super boring show on Netflix called Queens gambit. And then we talk about something fun. The Mandalorian, by the way, spoiler alert, we talk all about the Mandalorian. So yeah, you might want to fast forward that. No hate fast forward. Then we talk about something that is going to be in the COVID vaccine called Lucifer ace. It's kind of interesting that they named it that. Yeah. This is actually true. Yeah. This is a real thing. Uh, then we talk about fans only, uh, this company is worth $2 billion. It's blown up right now. Then we talk about the Mayweather Logan Paul fight. It's actually happening. Ladies and gentlemen's palm boxing is jumping. The shark, uh, which leads me to talk about a cool fight lead called X arm. This is arm wrestling with punches and kicks involved. Yeah. Let's move over there. Really interesting. Then we talk about Airbnb going public soon. Interesting company. You might want to look up. Then we talked about Viori. This is a company that we work with that makes some of the best looking at leisure work clothes you'll find anywhere comfortable, stylish, lifetime guarantee. And because you listen to mind pump, you get 25% off the best. Here's what you do. Go to Viori clothing.com. That's V O R I clothing.com forward slash mind pump, use the code M P two five for 25% off. Then we got into the fitness questions. Here's the first one. This person wants to know what, what we have advice for in terms of a quick and dirty warmup. So quick and dirty warmup, a quick and dirty right before you start your workout. What's a good one? The next question, this person says when's a good time to use a lifting belt? And when should you not use a lifting belt? The third question, this person wants to know what the optimal way is to rest in between sets. Resting in between sets is very important for your results. So we talk about the best ways to do that. And the final question, this person wants to know when we were trainers, what was our niche? What was our niche? Also, you know, mind pump is comprised of personal trainers. Myself, Adam and Justin were trainers for over 20 years. And one thing that we do better than anything else, even better than podcasting is write workouts. We're expert workout programmers and we've designed quite a few workouts. All of them are called maps, but there's different maps programs for different goals and different people. These are legit workouts. Okay. They're not just workouts designed to make you sweat or sore. They're actually programmed properly to get your body to respond, to get your body to adapt, to build muscle, strength, to boost your metabolism, to burn body fat. Okay. Check out these programs. They're not your normal Instagram fitness, celebrity crap workouts. Again, these are legit workouts that actually work. Go to mapsfitnessproducts.com, look at the different workouts, find the one that works best for you, sign up, follow the program for a full month. If it doesn't blow your mind, return it for a full refund. Again, you can find out more about all of our maps, workouts at mapsfitnessproducts.com. What do you guys think was the number one thing that we sold over a black, big black Friday? Oh, Justin's naked pictures. Wow. Those flew off the shelves. Yeah. That was a big file. We had to download by the way. Yeah. Yeah. The, um, all the mirror cups flew. Oh wow. Yeah. Finally. Oh, you're a first, your first cup doesn't count. What's it? Yeah. Cup zero zero. Yeah. Those did really well. They have cool colors that they picked, uh, you know, to kind of revamp those. I was excited about that. I got one for Courtney. You know what those mirror cups are really valuable for? What's that? The, uh, the temperature contrast of our damn studio. Oh, I know. This is like, okay. So if you're ever, if you're listening right now and you ever become a guest on mind pump, here's what you'll notice outside the studio, freezing inside the studio balls, hot as balls. So outside freezing inside literally, it's just the one door and the opposite is true in the summertime. And in the summer we switch it. Yeah. Yeah. So we're training our immune systems. Yeah. Apparently on accident. It's like muscle confusion, but yeah. Yeah. I'm like sweating like crazy right now. But then I came in here in a jacket or whatever. I saw you guys, I saw you were, you were last or was Doug hasn't got his up there actually for what? I bid the post on the Christmas trees in the forum. Oh yeah. I did post mine. Doug doesn't have a Christmas tree. Oh you, the Grinch, you fucking Grinch. He doesn't believe in Christmas. He doesn't celebrate. Wow. Yeah. Wow. I have a tree. Oh you are. Okay. Do you really? He has a really nice one actually. I bought a Noble fur this year. Oh, I usually got the Douglas fur, you know, for obvious reasons, but I don't know what the obvious reasons are. My name is Doug. Douglas, you dummy. Oh God. I feel noble this year. You felt regal. Yeah. You know why I didn't know? Because he was talking to you, Adam, and you know so much about these trees. I remember last year, you were breaking down all the Christmas trees. I'm like, I never do. Why does he know so much about Christmas trees? I don't know why. He knows all the different ones. He buys like three of them for us. My favorite Christmas tree posted in the forum was the guy who decorated his weed plant. Did you see that? Oh, that was so good. Yes. No, he wins. He put lights around his weed bush. That was the best one for sure. That's a good one. You know, it's so, so mind pump-esque, right? Then we have some of these nerds in here. We had somebody who had the Zelda tree. Then we had another one that had the Mario star on top. Oh, that's great. Oh, that's so right. That's a good time. So we put notes up on the screen sometimes for our episodes, and I can, I want to know what aged nut cheese is. Yes. Is that you, Justin? Yeah, bro. He posted his story. What is it? I did. So, OK, I went to my parents' house and I was picking my kids up. They watched them for one of the nights of the weekend. Courtney and I got a date. Everything was great. Come over there. My mom always likes to leave me with stuff that, like, I don't know, she just acquires, like, food a lot. She knows, like, I eat gluten-free a lot. And so she's always looking for these, like, disgusting, packaged food that say gluten-free. Like, here, you like this stuff. And I was like, I don't know. Just because it says gluten-free. Usually it just goes right into the trash, you know, when I get home. But yeah, there was no exception with this. I actually tried this cheese. It's a cheese. It's called, was it aged nut cheese? So it's basically like nut instead of dairy. There's no dairy and it's nut cheese. But I was like, nut cheese? Wait, wait, wait. There's no dairy in it. It's made with nuts. It's made with nuts. You can make cheese without dairy? That's what I was like. I didn't even know that was possible. Oh, my God. And so I had to try it. I could do anything. It was so disgusting. It was like, it had the consistency of, like, if you hardened some kind of a butter, you know, like, because you know how nuts you're going to make like a peanut butter. So imagine like freezing that so you can get it to kind of get the consistency of like kind of a sliced cheese. And then it just dissolves sort of in your mouth. And then it's got a cheese aftertaste. And I was just like, wow, I'm so confused. How well does your mom know you? Like, you're a cheese fanatic. It's gluten you can't eat. Why would she give you that? Dude, I can't make sense out of it. I didn't even know that existed. I didn't know that I did. That's what I was trying to describe. It's it's weird. It's like it just it confuses you. Yeah, they probably took nut butter and then fermented it. Yeah. And then that is at it right there. Yeah. Oh, what is that? I mean, it hands down this this has the worst name of all time. Who wants like, hey, bro, can you pass me some nut cheese? No, no. If a guy. Gobble up that nut cheese. I don't know about you guys, but if any of my friends ever said that, it's all no. Yeah. Hard no. That's a hard pass. Yeah. Disgusting. I've tried fake cheese before and it's terrible. There's no fake cheese I've ever had that tastes like real cheese. And like Velveeta, that's different. Yeah. Yeah. But Velveeta, they hit the they hit the process miracle. It's like plastic, dude. Yeah, but you eat that for fondue. You eat that on nachos, though. Oh my God. It's good for fondue. Yeah, you guys ate Velveeta like crazy, right, Adam? Of course, like, you know, you get that at like the, you know, the, what are those called? I don't even remember what we used to call when you go to the you wait in line, you get free, free groceries and free food. So that Velveeta cheese is like commonly in there. Really? Yeah. And now it came in like a block. You know, it came in, yeah. It came in a blue box, I remember it blue box like this. And like, like it looks like a little mini fire log. Yeah. And what do you do? You just slice it? Well, we would, we used it for like a fondue. My mom used to always make a fondue out of it. So you just get a pot heated up in there? Yeah, you dip your bread in it. Super healthy. Just like hard oil. And that's dinner. We got some bread and some cheese. Oh my God, dude. Dip it in there. Gross. I think back to like some of our, our healthy meals were like fried, fried chicken and mashed potatoes and gravy was like our healthy. That's actually delicious. Yeah, it was good. Yeah, that's one of the best tasting things to get down for sure. That's pretty damn good. Hey, so things are getting kind of weird out there. Did you guys hear about the rules in Ohio for wrestlers? What? Okay. Oh, I did hear this. This is the shit that makes you. You can wrestle, but you can't shake their hand afterwards. This is. This almost is ridiculous when I see the married couples walking by themselves, like their dog, both wearing their mask. And then they pretend to kiss with their stupid mask. I'm like, wait, this doesn't make sense to me. You're all by yourself. There's nobody within a hundred yards of you. You're walking your dogs together. There's two of you. You obviously are a married couple, like holding hands and stuff like that. And you're both wearing masks. It doesn't make any sense to me. The people who wear masks, the whole environment is riddled with illogical thoughts. It's insane. People who wear masks by themselves probably wear condoms when they jerk off. It's the same strategy. Like you're not protecting anybody or yourself. I don't get it. But no, this highlights the insanity of the rules. I wish they would be more consistent because the inconsistencies is what makes people not follow any of them. You're wrestling. The last time I checked, wrestling was touching a lot of grabbing and touching. My face is on your ass or your face and we're sweating on each other. Don't shake hands though. No. We can't shake any other. Don't do that. That's how you get it. Did you guys see the Austin mayor getting big in hot water? No. He was... I'm overwatching news. Oh, this is great. I'm seriously going mental over this. Oh, you'll love this one, Justin. So he filmed like he was talking to the people of Austin. And he's like, hey, you know, don't travel this holiday season. It's very dangerous. Everybody stay home. Filming it from Cabo. Yeah, you guys stay right there. Okay. Was it obvious or did somebody like call him out? No, he got called out. Oh, my God. And then he apologized later. Really? He was in Cabo. This is so stupid. There's so many examples. That's epic. The most like the hardest governor's mayors, like they're not doing any of these rules. Yeah, dude, look at him. That's his video. He was in Cabo while he was recording the whole thing. What a piece of shit. I know. What a massive piece of shit. It's just hypocrisy everywhere. What I don't understand is if you're doing something like that, right, or if like you're Gavin and you have it, like why even come out and even say anything? Like why not just keep your mouth shut? Because they want to sound self-righteous. They want to sound like they have everybody's like well-intentioned. What is the common sense in that though? Tell me, okay, so you're told. Maybe you're told, right? Maybe someone calls you up and says, hey, you know, the New World Order. Yeah. The Mr. People call you up and say, you need to put this out there and you're like, fuck, I'm in Cabo right now, this is not a good time. Yeah. Right? Yeah, exactly. It's like, doesn't that like cross your mind? Doesn't that cross your mind? No? It doesn't? I mean, couldn't you have prerecorded it? Right, right, exactly. Come on. Change the background or something. What a complete screen it. Yeah, exactly. A complete moron. No, it's just infuriating. It's completely infuriating. I'm sorry. It's like, imagine like you're telling your kid, you're like, hey man, don't do drugs and you're doing drugs at the same time. Yeah, it's your main lining over there in the corner. Yeah, it's not a good example. Hey, I watched Doug. Doug always has the best recommendations. So when you guys leave work, Doug and I sit and talk about like TV shows that we don't share with you guys. Those guys watch way too much nerdy TV. What are you watching, Doug? What are you watching, Adam? Doug turned me on to Queen's Gambit. And that's not nerdy at all. So good. The name doesn't sound. It's all about chess. That's not nerdy at all. Queen's Gambit, that sounds exciting. So good. Yeah, real manly. What's it about? Is it about Queens and Gambit? Yeah, it's about chess. And it was really good. It was really, it's well written, that's why. It really is about chess. Courtney loved it, actually, yeah. Oh, she watched it? Yeah, she watched the whole thing. So did you not watch it? No, she watched it without me. She's like, you probably wouldn't like this. Ah, it's part nine. It's so good. So what's the story about? So it's about a girl who is an orphan who learns how to play chess from a janitor and then ends up being a world-class chess player. And it's kind of like her story and how she becomes this world. And during a time, what's the era, Doug? It's the 30s? No, it's around the 1950s. 50s, okay. So around the 50s. And so, you know, at that point, there's like not even a woman playing chess at that level, right? Yeah, I think 50s and 60s. Yeah, so it's a cool story. It's a really, really good story. I was busy watching Alien Worlds on Netflix. Did you watch that yet, Justin? I did watch a little bit. Tell me that one. See, of course, this is trippy. Perfect transition. This is trippy. Dude, Alien Worlds. So you know what it is? Okay, so here's what's crazy. When I was a kid, when I was like 12, my uncle, my godfather, right? And he always bought me things that were really cool. And he got me this book on alien planets on what scientists could imagine aliens would be like on different planets. So like, on this planet with lots of gravity, what would the life look like on this planet where there's these types of gases? What would the aliens look like? So I had this book and I loved it when I was a kid. Anyway, the show on Netflix is the same thing, but even better because the technology's better. They have better speculations. So they have artists rendering all these like animals and like kind of merging primates with like all these other characteristics of their environment. So rad. It's interesting. Oh, so rad, dude. So you're watching it and it's like watching Animal Planet but on a fictitious planet. Totally made up. Totally made up. Yeah. Yeah, it was a lot. Justin Adams. Yeah. No, that's what Doug and I talk about. I mean, every once in a while we all align, right? There's like Mandalorian. There's nobody in here that doesn't like Mandalorian, right? Please bro. Doug, you're a fan. Yeah, I'm a fan. Yeah, I mean, we're like, there's certain shows that I think just, I think hit all of us really well. And then there's stuff that like you guys like and there's stuff I think Doug and I like. Can we talk about Mandalorian? Can we, or are we? Best episode yet. I feel like it because, you know, I looked on their Instagram and they show all the, spoilers potentially or whatever. They're putting it out there. Yeah, so we're going to do some spoilers. Come on, it's Tuesday. If you're a real fan, you should see it by now. Yeah, it's Tuesday. It's actually Thursday. Oh, it's Thursday. Actually, thanks Doug. Thanks Doug. I hit a few days buffer there. Yeah, dude, come on. Just give it, Doug. If you're a week behind on Mandalorian, you're not that big of a fan. Hey, so how good? How good was the last episode? Oh, it was my favorite one yet. Dude. I'll be honest. All 32 minutes. Yeah. I know, right? That was the only thing. Like, ooh, just cut us high and dry. Dude, but when they showed Boba. Yeah. I was like, did you jump out of your chair? I didn't know if they're going to bring him back, you know, because there was all this like, so you get the uniform or you get the armor and whatnot. And the other guy had it. And I'm just like, oh man, it'd been cool if like they brought Boba Fett back, but I didn't want it to be like contrived. I didn't want it to be just like forced in there. I didn't know that was him until this morning when you guys brought that up. Even watching the episode, you realize he said that like multiple times. He did? Yeah. Like four times. I don't even remember him saying his name. Yeah. How much weed did you have before you watched the video? This is possible. This is possible. Yeah. I didn't. I guess you just have to be so into all that stuff to remember all. I didn't remember that. You do have to do a little research. And that's, I think that's maybe a knock for your just average watcher viewer. But it's, I think it's really cool that they're tying in all these things because it just brings more depth. Now that weapon that he was wielding, like the staff or whatever. Did he have that in the previous ones? I don't think so. I don't remember that either. I don't remember it. That thing was awesome. He was shattering. Damage of that thing. Yeah. He was shattering the, what are they called? Stormtroopers? There you go, different helmets. By the way, can stormtroopers ever hit anything? That's never happened. No, of course not. Well, actually, I was watching in Mando. You know, he was getting hit a few times but he has the best car. So they kind of did that. That's the only time they have a good aim. Yeah. Yeah. Just straight on. He was avoiding it. I got some conspiracy stuff to bring up. Oh, boy. Do the music. Conspiracy, music, do do do do. So this is pretty funny to me. So my uncle is like this huge conspiracy theory guy, right? And he's telling me about. Oh, so it runs in the family. A little bit. So, well, he's a, okay. Remember, he's a Chinese medicine guy. So he can do, he certified in Chinese medicine. He's got a wellness, and this is before it was cool. So remember, he was doing the ship in the 70s and 80s. Yeah, sure. So he's always like weary of anything that's mainstream. Skeptical. So every time he sends me something, I look it up first. Like he's sent me stuff before, like, you know, this copper bracelet balances out your whatever. And I'm like, okay, whatever. But anyway, he sent me this thing and he said, do you know that the vaccine's gonna contain this enzyme in it, this bioaluminescence enzyme? And the name of the enzyme is Luciferase. Luciferase. Really? Luciferase. Really? Yes. That's the actual thing. I can't believe it. It's just like so in your face. So, okay, knowing you, you go deep into something. So after, when you saw that, did you go read about it? Like, how does something like that end up? Because it's bioaluminescence. So apparently this enzyme can make things illuminate. And so the, now here's the conspiracy theories, theories are saying that when you get this particular vaccine, the COVID vaccine, which by the way, they're talking about administering it, not the traditional way with an injection, but rather, have you seen these things? They look like little band-aids with tiny, tiny, tiny needles. So you'll get it in the mail, you'll put it on your arm. It's like the, what's it called? The little white, the patch that glucose monitor. Even smaller. Continual glucose monitor. Even smaller. Oh wow. So it's like tons and tons of these little tiny needles that they have copied the fangs of like a Cobra based off. But they're really, really small. You put it on your arm and they're saying that the conspiracy theorists are saying that you'll be able to see if you've had the vaccine by passing a light over your arm because you'll get the bioaluminescence. But the name is hilarious. If you're a conspiracy theorist and someone's like, hey, here's something we're gonna inject into you that you're already like totally feel like is a conspiracy and then it's called Lucifer ACE. Yeah. Okay, so just a few questions with this, right? So you say you have this bioaluminescence in your system. How long does that stay in your system? How long can you even scan? Like the logistics of that doesn't make any sense. I have no idea. But then apparently there's nano technology that they'll put in there. Right. And all kinds of stuff. Yeah, so I watched a whole fun video on it. So what's your prediction? What are you guys saying? Do you think it's gonna be like, so do you think it's not gonna be mandatory but then there's gonna be lots of private businesses that require it in order to have access? That's what I think. That's what it's gonna look like. Yeah, I don't think it'll be mandatory unless a lot of people don't get it. And here's, no, okay, now let's throw away the conspiracy hat now. You're right. Legit, like if I was in control of public policy, especially in a country like America, I would not make it mandatory because I feel like that would, it's unconstitutional. Well, not just that. That would really, believe it or not, the Supreme Court ruled a long time ago that they could mandate vaccines. That's crazy. I know. But anyway, here's the deal. If you want a whole segment of the population to not get a vaccine and to fight tooth and nail, just make it mandatory. Yeah. You know, because you're just gonna make it, make them dig their heels in. Yeah, why put any nefarious kind of like intent? Why not? Like it's something that you want people to go get, right? Like let's have that as an option and have everybody celebrate it. Yeah, so I feel like that would be worse. Now, let's say the vaccine comes out and a lot of people don't get it for a while, then maybe what they would do is something like, because I don't know if the federal government would have, they don't have necessarily the power to do that. States could do it. States could say, you have to have a mandatory vaccine because they have the state police and all that kind of stuff. But I could foresee them saying stuff like, you're not allowed to fly. Some states may say, you need to have proof of vaccine to enter into our state or to leave the state or to attend public school or to get public checks or that kind of stuff. I could see that kind of stuff later on, but I don't know how they would make it like, besides that mandatory. Yeah, what's, okay. So why call it luciferous? You're still on that one, like what an asshole. I think it's kind of, I just want all the like, it's a little funny. Yeah, like religious people out there to just freak out. Yeah, like they're in the background laughing. Yeah, you just got the mark of the beast. Yeah, let's name it like, yeah. New World Order Aids. Let's be honest. If you two were scientists, you would do some shit like that. You don't act like you wouldn't do that. That's like an asshole move. No, it is an asshole move. It is an easter egg. You would totally do that. You'd be like, this is gonna be funny as shit right here. We're gonna name it then. These idiots. They'll put it in anyways. We're called, the new vaccine is called Kami COVID. Hey, guys, watch this. Watch everybody freak out. No. Wait a minute, the bar code for the vaccine is 666. I know, right? Like, come on, man. You're just like emphasizing all this hysteria. Yeah, it's pretty annoying. You guys, I wasn't talking about the fans only. Oh yeah, I did see that. I did see that. That's a billion dollar. I told you, I've been saying that for a long time when that first started out. What's this specific company that does that? Yeah, they're raking it in and they make 20%. So I didn't, until I read that article, I didn't know what, I was like, how are they making their money? So they're making 20%. I was like, that's crazy though. I mean, just by hosting. So what did the article say? Two billion dollar? Yeah. Wow. So I mean, just a few of those, right? The one you mentioned that was like, used to be a Disney star that like converted over me. Bella Thorne. Yeah, millions like in a few days. So basically what, help me out with this, Adam. I know, I feel like I need to join so I can, I'm better educated on one of these. Oh, I thought you did already. No, I don't mind that. I have not. I got one up just for my feet. Yeah. Just as fast as a week. If you guys want to check it out, I got hammer toes. Yeah, it's a very niche market. But the way it works is opposite. You pay me to not see this. You pay me. I get sent into your coworkers, you know, you do whatever you want with it. Yeah, it's a gift that keeps giving. Friday is big toe, big toe Friday. I try and articulate them, you know, on Fridays. Tuesday is yellow toadale Tuesday. Disgusting. No, so how does it work? They host this and then they allow you to connect with fans, they pay you. So they process the whole thing. Essentially you go on there, you sign up, they take care of everything and then you just, they just take 20%. Yeah, I mean, I'm, from what I'm aware of, I really don't have access to one. So I don't know, but I should. I feel like, for research purposes. So talk to you today. This is for the podcast. What are you looking at? I was like, what's really going on in there? This is for podcast content, honey. Relax. Yeah, no, I think it's, I think it's real similar to any like paid wall, you know, like a Patreon or anything like that, where you just, you pay, and because the consumer, excuse me, the creator decides how much they want to charge. So you could, Justin's toes are probably worth, I don't know, $20 a month, I'd say. Yeah. So, right, right. Well, to not see them. Doug's nudes might be worth more like $50 a month or so. It's called smoothnudes.com. Smooth nudes. Smooth. There's a lot of crap, fresh videos. Wow. If you ask them. Smoothnudes.com forward slash pink. Smooth. It's disgusting. Get your first three months free, right? But that's, that's a brilliant business model. Honestly. And they don't, I mean, they're just hosting everything. Yeah, yeah. That's brilliant. Yeah. And I don't even, so what I don't know, because I'm not, again, not on there, I don't know if there's like a big advertising on it yet or not, or it's, they're making that money just from hosting these creators. Cause obviously you're trafficking that many people through there, it opens up a huge potential for advertising. Well, so think about it this way. Let's say you're a B list celebrity. You're not, you're not A list, right? You're B list. So you're in movies and then your acting career is kind of starting to dry up. Easy way to make millions of dollars. Easy. You don't even need to be that. I mean, you don't need to be an actor. You just gotta be hot. You just gotta be, yeah. Well, yeah, but if you're a good looking Instagram person and it's got a few hundred thousand followers is already making big money. Yeah, but if you're like somewhat known, people are more, they want to see the person that they've seen on TV. You know, aren't we in the shift right now? I mean, is Hollywood that famous anymore? I don't think so. Like, I feel like if you picked a, I bet if you grabbed a 20 year old kid and said, name me 10 famous actors and or 10 Instagram stars. Or YouTube celebrities. Yeah, right. Or like YouTube, like I bet you they can, 100% dude, it's all shifted to YouTube and Instagram. Yeah. I mean, look, for instance, the Logan Paul thing. Look at this, dude. Now he's got, you know, he's like, Mayweather agree to this. Bro, I could not believe that. I'm just like, I'm done. So I'm going to say this, okay? So remember this episode. By the way, Adam. Okay, yeah. Okay, remember this episode. You can see now. It appears you may have been right. I don't even get like a full, like you were right. It's just like, it appears maybe. It appears maybe. It's trending in that direction. We have to recount the ballots, but it looks like you're the projected winner of that episode. That could take months. No, I mean, this is crazy to me. Mayweather agreed to fight Logan Paul in an exhibition. Now, if I'm a boxer, like, and I've been fighting my infuriating and getting punched and doing all that shit for years, I would be so mad. Yeah, you know, it's interesting that Mayweather took that because isn't it kind of making a mockery of the sport? Yes. I mean, if this was any other sport, you would feel like it was almost disrespectful, right? I feel like for boxing, Oh, definitely. For boxing purists, Mayweather is ruining, in my opinion, he's ruining the thing. You know, we should call up our buddy Tony. It's been a while since we talked to Tony. Tony would be a good person to ask the questions around like this. He's been doing videos about all this too. Oh, he's annoyed by the time. He's had some fights and all that stuff. Oh, I haven't caught up on his stuff. He's annoyed by it. Oh, he is. Of course. Oh, yeah, right. That's why he's a purist. I mean, he's an Olympian. Well, I know, exactly. So it's kind of, it is a total robbery. You know why? Because Mayweather's not agreeing to fight any real boxers, you know? So if you're a real boxer, you and you're good, you want to fight him. And he's saying no to everybody and he's agreeing to fight Logan Paul, which- So it's all about the money. It's what he's basically putting out there. But we've always known that, right? He's never tried to hide that either in his defense. But I mean, when you're named, because Mayweather, let's be honest, you're one of the greatest boxers of all time. He really is. But when you put his name up there with all the other greats, it's going to tarnish his name. And then again, for the people in the sport, that's got to be infuriating, the people who love the sport. But look, you know, it's a- Yeah, but doesn't he have a lot of money? Like, is he spent at all? Like, why the need for it? I don't think he's got good money management. Let's be honest. Have you seen some of his videos? Yeah, I have, yeah. Didn't he bet? Like, I don't know how many- Some other stupid shit. Yeah, that guy's got so much money coming in, so many different ways. So here's what I hope happens. I hope he goes in the ring with Logan Paul and then actually kicks his ass. But I have a feeling he's going to fuck with him to make it fun. Look at what could happen with him in Conor. I mean, he'll let him get his shots. Like, that's awesome. And he'll dance around. He'll fight how he's fought every fight. Like, that's, I mean, Mayweather is not the type to come in, put his head down and just go, you know, Tyson somebody. He knocks somebody out. Yeah, he's gonna really knock people out. What he's famous for is being able to elude punches. So that's what he's gonna do is he's gonna go on, cause I mean, what's their weight difference? Oh yeah, he's gotta be way bigger. Oh yeah, Logan Paul's gotta have at least 60 pounds on him. So they're not even in the same weight class, but he feel, I'm sure Mayweather knows that he can go in there and get the kid to miss punch after punch after punch. And you just tie him up and turn his back to him and do all that shit that we saw last night. What I am interested, you know, and here's the thing, like that's just it. Like there's a part of me that will watch it, dude. Of course. Yeah, that's, you know, and we're not alone. Now here's the deal. Logan Paul, if you're Logan Paul, your goal is to go in there and put him to sleep. Because if you knock out Mayweather, oh my God, right? So he's gonna go in there and he's gonna try hard. Now you guys realize that this, this is what the movie Rocky was based off of, right? This actually happened with Tuali. Ali did a fight with a kind of no-name guy and I think Chuck Wepner was the guy's name. Yeah, that you ever watched the documentary on him? Great documentary. Probably. Yeah, yeah, look that up, Doug, what the, there's a name, I don't know if it's called Chuck Wepner's documentary or it has a different name. I think it has a different name. Really good documentary on him. Yeah, because Chuck Wepner's nickname was the Brongton Bleeder. Yes. So, you know, he wasn't the greatest boxer all the time. But he went in, Muhammad Ali, obviously the greatest boxer of all time, one of the greatest was playing with him and Wepner caught him and knocked him on his butt. And then Ali put a beating on him, but beat the guy and the guy would not go down. Yeah, so he gained the respect of the crowd. And this is the, so Sylvester Stallone, a young Sylvester Stallone was watching this fight and that's what inspired him to write the story for Rocky, because that's the story of Rocky, right? Rocky's a exhibition bout and Creed is like, I'm gonna kick this guy's ass and then beating him for 15 rounds and couldn't put him down. Oh, it's called the real Rocky. Maybe that's what it is. Wow. Yeah, yeah, that was really good. Yeah, really, really good. But I don't know, man, there's a whole big, there's a whole, it's a whole nother universe when you go from like, you know, Logan Paul, who can punch hard to world class. Yeah, so what do you think it's gonna do to the sport of boxing though? You think it's gonna completely change it or do you think it's gonna open up a different, you know, a whole different like a league? Boxing's been hurting for a long time, let's be honest. No, it has. And of course, MMA has really accelerated that, right? The last big boxers that really pulled people was like what, Pacquiao? I'm trying to think right now. Who's the last boxer where everybody wants to watch? Well, geez, amazing to watch, but nobody's watching, I don't feel like. Well, think of how all sports have evolved. Like you basketball, it's like the crazy pass and the dunk, you know, football is now, I mean, I was just watching Mahom's record that he's setting right now for how many passing yards and so many games consecutive, like it wasn't even that long ago in the NFL that it was all run, run, run, just put it, now it's like pass, like crazy. So this all sports evolved to let more entertaining for you. Home runs and baseball drove all the Sammy Sosa, McGuire thing, right? Boxing hasn't really changed that much. MMA was the closest thing that's kind of evolved that are changed. That's an interesting thought, because that was what saved, from the lockout, you know, with baseball, that's what saved the sport was the home run race. Yeah, and remember, they're all funded by spectators. So it's all, the audience is really driving what they do. They wanted these super fights with like experienced world-class boxers. Maybe they're older and past their prime, but like that was sort of a thing. But now it's like YouTube star with old, you know, world-class boxers, weird. It's kind of just a natural evolution, I feel like. You're probably right. I feel like, you know, it would be good then, in that case, thinking right now, let's just imagine you were gonna start a fight company. I bet if you started a fight company, it's somewhere in the world and made it the non-drug tested fight league or whatever. That would be awesome. I feel like everybody would watch that. All of our fights to be pride, right? None of our fighters are drug tested. They could take whatever they want, you know, and they get in the cage, but oh my God, I wanna watch that. Oh yeah, yeah. All these monsters coming up. Yeah, I mean, if you're just a net, if you have, you know, nothing about the sport of boxing and which is what percentage of people that watch the sport, do you think are like super fans versus people that are just entertained by what they see? Yeah, you're right. And if you're, if you fall in that category, then just watching big name people, you know, fight each other is more interesting to you, just, you know, sitting there with your buddies going like, oh, I wonder if he'll beat him and talking shit, like that's more entertaining than actually watching the sport and seeing like all the little- I mean, truth be told, we're all gonna watch Mayweather fight Logan, I guarantee it. I mean, I'm not paying for it. You're not. I'll get what you guys pay for it. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I'm just out of principle. I wanna watch it. I mean, I'm curious, right? Like I'm really curious to, just as I was curious about the Connor fight, right? I was curious. Oh, I was definitely in on that one, but I had the same kind of thing. Everybody was going crazy over that. What I'm wondering is how I will feel about this when it's very normal, where there's always some- Yeah, right now there's a lot of novelty. Exactly, there's a lot of novelty around it, but after we've seen enough pro boxers like Mayweather probably whooped the shit out of, you know, the Logan and Jake Pauls that are just dabbling in this, you know, will that like not pull the average person after we've seen five of these things? Well, hey, if you want novelty, watch the MMA leagues in Russia. You will see shit you can't even imagine. You know, they're the most crazy. Like some of those sports where they're fighting on like levels. So they have like structures that they jump on top of and then they jump down, they fight on top of structure. Gang fights, yeah. They'll be like one big dude against four smaller guys. They just did one, I think two weeks ago. Dude, they fight with swords and shields. They have real weapons and real armor. And then there was one, I just watched, it was a couple of weeks ago. It was a big, he looked like a sumo wrestler. He was like a big 450, 500 pound guy, fought a woman in the ring. What? In Russia, yeah, dude. Oh my God. She kicked his ass, actually. Oh wow. Yeah, she did. That's awesome. Where do you watch this? Just go on YouTube, dude. Go on YouTube, look up Russian MMA, whatever, and you'll see the weirdest shit you've ever seen in your entire life. Really? Like anything. They have an arm wrestling league where there's two ways to win. You either beat the guy in arm wrestling or you knock him out. So they grab you. What? Yeah. How do you ever rub this up? So they grab hand, they strap your hands together, right? Yeah. And then you have an MMA glove in the other hand. And they go, That is not real. I swear to God. And they go, ready, go. And then they. Touch each other, rub. And arm wrestling. What? Look this up. I want to watch that. Oh no, it sounds amazing. Okay, so the arm wrestling arm that they're arm wrestling. So you can pin their arm, that's how you win. Or you knock the guy out. And they tape, they tape you together. They like, yeah, they strap the hands together. Okay. And then you're just, And so you have two ways of winning. Either one. Doing the arm, you know, pinning him in arm wrestling. Or two, knocking him out. Yes. I'm probably more concerned with knocking him out. Wow. Oh my God. And I wonder like, so there are elbows fixed in there? I don't remember exactly. Yeah, cause I feel like right away, if like you're throwing punches, you're like, you're going to pull back. Here, I think Doug. That is melee. I think Doug found it. Let's, let's see that. I need to see this. Oh, X arm. X arm. Extreme arm wrestling. Greatest hits. Yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. It's the, it's the most insane thing. Why have you never brought this up before? You know, I might have had brought it up a long time ago. We should watch this together. Yeah. It's, after you watch two of them, it's, you know what they're gonna do. You kind of get it. Really? I still think it would be entertaining as shit. Look at this. This is, so this is in Russia, you said? I don't know if this was in Russia or the US. Well, I mean, the technique should be kind of similar when you're, you know, in hockey where they have to grab the jersey just to keep stabilized and hit with the other arm. Now, if it's in the US, it's probably in a, on a Native American reservation. That's where they do all the crazy stuff, right? It's all like crazy stuff. Well, yeah, because they don't have to follow the same. Right. Yeah, fast forward. Yeah, give me this. Oh, no, no, no. This guy's from, oh my God. Watch this. I know, I'm gonna see one. Okay. Who signs up for this, by the way? Oh, so that's a special kind of guy. Even the hand, wow, they can throw elbows. Elbows? Oh yeah, you could, you could, you could kick the guy. How do you kick when they're across? Ready? Look, watch, watch, watch this. I mean, There's a fucking shadow over him. I mean, what? How do you do this? What? He's arm barring him. He's arm barring him. He arm barred the guy. Yeah. What? How do you score that? I don't know, dude. Wow. Now, here's a, yeah, this is, so if you ever want to see What the? The extreme, like it kicks on the head. Oh, dude, okay, don't, don't lean down and you get kicked in the face. Yeah. If you ever want to see the difference, like a stark difference between men and women, this right here, like, I don't, this is a gut, this is like a stupid guy idea right here. But it sounded like a good idea. No, this is like, wow, this is great. Yeah. It's terrible. Oh, go to sleep. Yeah. So, okay, what's weird to me is that as soon as the referee lets go of the hands and it's go time, it really turns into an MMA fight with your hand tied to the guy you're fighting. Yeah, you kind of leave that little table. The table's like useless. Right. I feel like the arm wrestling part is like, oh, that dude's got cleaned out. That's it. I don't know. Isn't that terrible? And he's still tied to him. You're like celebrating. He's just like dangling. I didn't even know that was a thing. That's a thing, dude. Wow. Hey, I'm going to transition to something really cool. I wanted to bring this up. Did you know Airbnb is going to be going public? Yes. Because I know you're such a huge fan. Yeah, that's soon too, right? Yes. Real, real soon. I think it's going to be coming up here in the next few weeks, I want to say. I actually had that in my notes to bring up. It's a great company. I saw an article maybe a week or two ago, which is crazy because they took a big hit with COVID. They did. But I don't think they're going anywhere, though. No, they're not going anywhere. No, of course not. Now, someone was asking me investment advice in my DMs. And I want to be honest. Here's the deal. I have a lot of family members is what they do for a living. So I learned just through them. But the best piece of advice I ever got was to invest in things that I know about because that helps you ride the waves. So if you invest in a company that you really understand and know about, then you're okay with what you'll see in the market, which are ups and downs. Because that's the biggest problem. The hardest challenge with investments is not selling when the shit starts to drop because you don't want to sell when it's low or not buying when it's already high. You need to have faith in the company so you could ride those things out. So best piece of advice I ever got. So like Airbnb, that's something I would invest in because we had spent so much time renting Airbnb houses and stuff when we were traveling. It was game changer. Yeah, it was too way too convenient. And I just don't see that that would like, once it was opened up, they wouldn't take that back. Well, I mean, look at your, I mean, or at least for my own personal behaviors with like going somewhere and staying, like, I mean, just two decades ago, you always stayed in a hotel where it went from always staying in a hotel to all of this new company Airbnb to never like, I mean, it's very, very rare that we use a hotel anywhere we go. There's a lot of upswing with them too because they haven't really generated a huge profit yet. So they're still in that, still going through the growth phase. Oh, and you still will go far. I mean, I think that the future of Airbnb looks still different than what it is right now, which is I don't think you'll ever stay at a house in the future that isn't bought and used for Airbnb only. Like it's, it'll be a hundred percent utilized like that versus you still got like a 50-50 shot depending on where you're going, right? Obviously like areas that are traveled a lot to are starting to evolve into this. But I remember just, I mean, six years we've been doing this together. Before that, Katrina and I were already using this. And when we first did it, it was, you know, nine out of 10 houses that we would go to looked like, you know, they lived there still. And then, you know, in the time, the short period of time that we were all using. It's already moved forward, it's already progressed. Yeah, I would say it would be the flip, right? I would say probably seven or 10 out of times we go to a house. Now it looks like a hotel, it's, you know, or somebody staged it completely. Yeah, and I can't, like, I guarantee with all these other options where you can like rent a parking, you can rent a garage space, you can, like they're gonna add features like that, you know, as they become public, like it just makes perfect sense because now I can maximize whatever place I have, you know, to make money even when I'm not there. I believe in the concept so much, at one point I was considered considering buying properties to put them on Airbnb to, you know, profit off of them. Like the concept is not just good for people who like to travel, the concept's also amazing for investors. Exactly. Like if you are somebody that wants to, you know, invest in real estate, like I see so many potentials with this, that's definitely a company that I believe in. So, you know, it's something I'm gonna keep an eye out. I do know that a lot of owners though are not fans of them all the time, right? Like if you think about it, if you buy somewhere that's like, you know, in Tahoe or a place that you love and then your neighbors are, both your neighbors are Airbnb. That's the threat. Southlake is real restrictive. They are, and that's the threat. The threat is the, will be local laws. Like if you buy something and then your Airbnb making money and then they pass a law that says, sorry, you can't do that anymore. You know, now you're totally screwed or hotel lobbies start to gain more traction. And they already are doing that in places for sure. Yes, yes. That'll be the biggest challenge with it. But I mean, I think they'll end up eventually winning just like Uber, I think it's too late. I think the cat's out of the bag, right? So it's definitely too late. Speaking of companies that I have a lot of faith in, my son is totally into Viori's joggers, totally. Yeah. Yes. And he's getting compliments on it. So he's in that age group. Did I bring up on the show that they're moving to Valley Fair? Did I tell you guys that? Oh yeah, I think you did. Well, you told us, I don't know if it's on the show. Well, Felix Gray, I brought up, I know for sure I brought up Felix Gray on the last commercial. Oh, that's what it was. Yeah, I brought them up because they're there already. Like I saw them, but Viori's coming. So like, yeah. So I think, what did I see spring? I think it's supposed to be here, which is going to be really cool. That's interesting. I wonder too, because I mean, they were, you know, like basically you buy everything online and all these online retail companies, I see now them seeing opportunity, maybe because the retail's cheaper now. Right. I mean, imagine if you're like a Viori, right? Who you started as a, you know, direct-to-consumer business first and then you started buying these pretty much. Like how pumped are you right now? Well, you're just, what a smart transition. Your model was already set up for- Exactly, you're already succeeding. Yeah, you're already succeeding without even having store locations. And oh, all of a sudden this shit happens where everybody's losing and leaving. And so- Can you put in strategic areas where you know people can drive to it just to pick product up? You know, all that kind of stuff makes sense. I think that's the model now. I think it really is the model now to do it that way versus the old model, which was brick and mortar first and then- But talk about hard though. I mean, real hard. Yeah, real hard. I mean, even Viori, right? Viori's been one of those brands that, I mean, we've now been with them for what, four years or more now? We've been with Viori for a long time and at that time, everybody I knew didn't know who the hell they were. They were still small. This was before they were even getting into REIs and places like that. And it is one of those, it's one of those articles of clothing that you have to wear first before you fall in. Otherwise, just some random brand that you hear on a podcast or whatever. So not seeing it in a store and not being able to go try it on that's a tough sell to me. But I mean, one of the things that's great is you put on a pair of them, just like- Oh, they win you over. It is about the feel and the quality over everything. Yeah, they're super up and coming when you read the articles about the Ethleisurewear market. Viori's always named as one of the big players or one of the ones that's gonna be one of those big players. Absolutely. First question is from JamilA144. What would be your go-to quick and dirty full body warm-up? Oh, that's kind of a cool question. That's actually a great question. You know what's a good, just kind of full body warm-up? Turkish get-up. Do a couple of- Sure, hits all the, yeah. Do some rounds of Turkish get-up and it tends to- Yeah, that's not bad. It tends to warm up all the areas that need activation, at least for me, right? So thoracic, helps work on my thoracic mobility. There's some rotation involved. My hips, it warms them up pretty well. So it gets me kind of all the areas that I need to warm up in. Yeah, I like, well, they call it the world's greatest stretch. So you're gonna see what I was gonna say, which is they're walking- So it's like an inchworm. Lizard with rotation, right? You basically do a lizard with rotation with an inchworm. So it combines both of those. So you get hips open up, you get rotation. You get the, I mean, all the benefits of the posterior chain kind of waking up, like everything. Yeah, I'm with you on that. That's all, to this day, that's what I still do. Really? Yeah, I almost always do that. And that's one with clients. Such a great warmup to take them like, especially if you have a gym or an area where you actually have a little bit of room to do what Justin's saying. Otherwise, you could do- You could do it in place. Yeah, you could do it in place where I'll go 10 on one side then 10 on the other side and warm them up. Like when I used to run boot camps, this was like a staple warmup. But I'm with you, Justin. I mean, there's, it literally gets everything. It gets every, and if you can include it into like an inchworm where you're going to cross the room and back, you really get everything. I mean, truth be told, the original quick warmup was a few sets of whatever exercise you're going to do with lightweight, controlled and slow form. I mean, that's the old school kind of easy way to warm up. So whatever exercise you're doing first- There's still people on the strength camp that believe that that's the way still. Yeah, because I mean, look, it's the most specific movement pattern, at least specific to the exercise. Maybe not 100% ideal to the individual, depending on the person. Obviously, if I'm warming up a squats to squat, it's very specific to the movement. I so strongly disagree too with that. Well, you know why? Because you have to have some good body awareness. Like I could get away with it because I know when I'm warming up, for example, barbell squats, I'll just use myself as an example. Couple of areas that I need warmup are my hips, my ankles, and my upper back, right? Getting my shoulders to pin back. But I know this. So the way I would warm up with lightweight is I would focus on my ankle mobility on the way down. You activate all those areas. I would exactly activate my upper back, squeeze the bar back, I'd slow down, I'd pause at the bottom, work on the different areas I need to activate, push my knees out, because that's what I need to do to activate the side parts of my abductors, I should say. So it requires a little bit more awareness. Bro, not a little bit, a lot more awareness. Because I agree with you in that, and there's times, I just did it the other day where I was like, oh, no, I'm skipping my little warmup, I'm just gonna get under the bar with real lightweight and do exactly what you said. And you have to, when you're, when you are trying to connect to areas where you have a poor connection to, while you're also squatting, and there are multiple areas of your body, the level of awareness that you have to have to be able to do that. Yeah, that's a good point. And even then, it still isn't as good as me picking each part and individually priming that and getting into it. No, no, it doesn't come close. Because I'm all the exact same areas you are. Hips, ankles, thoracic, like those are the three areas before squatting, and I've got an exercise or two that I do for all of them, and prime to prime, and then I get under there. It is night and day difference in comparison to that. Now, does that mean I can't get under the bar and just do some warmups? Sure, I know I can, and I believe, I believe there's some people that lift consistently that do have that connection like you're saying, they can do that, but I still would challenge that person to do those, to go through the specific priming movements first and then get under there and tell me you don't feel better. Yeah, it's really hard to address any compensatory pattern. Like if you're just going through the gross movement of it, and yes, you can try and kind of feel your way into it and like, you know, grip the bar a certain way, you know, pin your shoulders back and do all these types of things, but it's just, you're gonna really like help to isolate that and then bring it in when you prime it properly. Well, I mean, okay, to add to all of that, here's just in layman's terms, this is why the warmup sets before the exercise isn't always ideal for a lot of people. Whatever your poor movement pattern is with the squat, you'll tend to do that with your warmup too. So what ends up happening is you just, you warm up wrong. So you're warming up and yes, you're getting your heart rate up a little bit and the muscles are filling up with blood and all that stuff, which is better than nothing, but you're just- You're reinforcing whatever issue you have. Yeah, so then you go in your exercise and it's just bad warmup, bad form is what it leads to. So, you know, individualized priming is superior. I mean, I'll tell you what, if you have worked out for a long time, if you got a program like Maps Prime, take the compass, do the individualized priming session and then tell me that that doesn't completely change your workout, literally. Tell me if it doesn't, because it will, it completely will blow your mind. Now for beginners, I think it's necessary, but advanced lifters, give it a shot, watch what happens. You'll never go back to the old way again. If you haven't gone on my, so on my Instagram, I don't know, I don't post that often anymore. So you could probably go back, I don't know, maybe 20 to 30 posts at most, maybe less than that. And I did a video of how I primed before squatting now, which is kind of a combination of all those exercises. So it is a little advanced. And I think I say that in the video, that once you understand what you're trying to get connected to with your ankles, your hips and your back, upper back, like you're saying, so you've seen me do this before, haven't you? Right, sit all the way down in a squat position with a band and I'm close to the bar. So I'm, and in that position, like I'm literally, and I talk about this in the video, like my check points that I'm going, oh first I think of my tucking my chin for my neck because of my forward head, I then I'm pulling the bands apart. So I'm doing like a reverse fly for the upper back and rear delts. So I pull my shoulders back while I'm sitting all the way in the deepest position I can in the squat. I'm pushing my knees out while also driving them forward over my toes and connecting like for a combat stretch. So I'm kind of doing all of them all in one move, but I also don't teach that to somebody who I'm trying to make aware of all their imbalances first. Like it's like you first do that. That's me for the right person. Yeah, you need to first do that. And I, you know, again, challenge anybody. Like you said, go through, you know, prime and find out what yours are, do that before you use, especially the big lifts, the squats, the benches, the deadlifting, really priming well before you do that. I, you can't, you can't tell me you don't feel. You'll never want to go back. All right. Next question is from Brady Sims three. When should you use and not use a lifting belt? Well, first of all, it's up to you. So you can use one or not, not that big of a deal, but I'll put these people in the category of people that probably should use a lifting belt. Number one, people who compete in strength events that use lifting belts. So like if you're a power lifter or a strongman and your event allows you to use a weight lifting belt, power lifters for sure. They always bore belts or it's allowed in competition. Then you're going to want to wear a belt when you lift because there's a technique and a skill to using a belt. You don't just put one on and then voila, you feel stronger and more stable. There's actually a skill and technique to learning how to use one properly and how to maximize the leverage and the stability that a belt provides. The other person is the person that likes to have fun with their lifts and wants to learn the difference between lifting with a belt and not with a belt. Most people probably you probably never need to pick up a belt. It probably doesn't really make a big difference. I use a belt because years ago I trained with one and I had fun with it until this day. I have fun using a belt, especially if I'm going really heavy. But truth be told, I probably would be better off not using a belt and just getting my core to be really good and stable and strong without a belt because it's a totally different muscle recruitment pattern. Stabilizing without a belt is different than stabilizing with a belt. Yeah, I would also throw in there if you're in a competitive athletic environment, mainly because a lot of times like, and this is my experience and a lot of other athletes experience when you're working out with the team and you're in the gym and everybody's in there together, it's just like, you're always trying to do more. You're trying to load more, you're trying to really push yourself to the extremes and almost to the point where you come to max load and you're doing PRs all the time. So to have that as an extra insurance, I could see that being valuable in that environment. But for your average person, for me, I like to go for a long time without it. You can experiment and have fun with it and whatnot, but to find out what you can truly stabilize and what you can truly control means that you actually own that weight. And that's just something I've always stuck with because my body is gonna give me the indication whether or not I don't feel like I can brace that amount of weight properly. So that's an indication to me that I need to go down a bit and load. Do you guys remember the last time you used a belt? I used one at least once a week. Oh, okay, you're that, oh, you're more than me there. I thought you were less actually. I went off for a while and then, I mean, I have fun with it. Again, I learned, remember the story I talked about, those power lifters that taught me how to squat and deadlift, they also taught me how to use a belt. And so since I was 16, I've been using a belt on and off. In fact, I had the old belt I wore when I was 16 up until about six years ago and I gave it to one of my clients when I stopped personal training. But to me, there's a different feel around it, maybe some nostalgia. But yeah, I mean, training clients, I had Doug wear one sometimes. I had another guy wear one sometimes, but I never had anybody else wear a belt. Yeah, that's interesting. I didn't know you were using it even that much because I know you're, obviously, you don't talk about using it that often. I would say I was probably, I thought I was using it the most. I mean, I haven't used it in months just because it's where I'm at right now in my lifting, where I saw the most value is like, when I was competing and I would just, I was doing so much volume that my low back a lot of times would be fried. And then I'm getting ready to go do some exercise and I just want to take it out of it. I don't want my low back to be the first thing to get fatigued and give out. I'd trained myself to use a belt long enough. And so me being able to stabilize and have some external existence with that made it nice when I was lifting. Similar to how I use straps. Straps are the same way too. I just didn't, I didn't see a lot of value in using it for overall strength and what like what Justin like tends to train for. Doesn't make sense to me for somebody like that unless you're competing. But when you're sculpting and you're a bodybuilder and you're trying to isolate parts of the body all the time. To me, I understand where someone like that uses tools like that more frequently than the average person. Otherwise it can end up being a crutch and the people that tend to gravitate towards using a belt think that they, because they have low back issues or problems that they should use a belt and that's the safer way to go when in reality that person would probably be better off not using a belt. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense actually. Cause you know, in that, in that frame of thought there's a lot of benches and positions and things that they specifically use to give you relief from fatigue. So you can just isolate the muscles. So to me that seems like a natural fit. Bodybuilders wear belts differently than powerlifters do too. So powerlifters will put on a belt heavy lifts. Bodybuilders put on a belt because they think it shrinks their waist and so you'll see them wearing a belt to do it. Like all day long. Yes, they're hitting arms and they'll wear a belt. They're hitting chest. I have issues with that. And they wear a belt. But you know, bodybuilding is an aesthetic sport. So everything revolves around aesthetic and especially at that level. It's like, yeah, here's the deal. If you're the average person and you wanna build muscle and you like to follow a bodybuilding routine that doesn't mean you do the stuff that the advanced bodybuilders do. That's a whole different level. Like, are you gonna wear a belt and to make sure your waist doesn't grow or something, it's not gonna help you at that level. Now, if you're a 300 pound bodybuilder, you're on growth hormone and you're on testosterone and all that stuff. It's turned into an accessory. Like a clothing accessory, you know? That's like to. You have your name on the back. Yeah, I mean, you just, if you walk into the gym and you've got your belt over your shoulder and your gallon of water, I mean, you just. How old are you? Yeah, bro. I mean, I'm announcing I'm a bodybuilder. You know what I'm saying? Shrules. It's become that, you know, all right, so. And you had your beets run your neck, right? Yeah, yeah, no, 100% and my stringer, right? Underneath my leggings. Super thick oversized sweater. I mean, that's just. You gotta get a pump first. Yeah, yeah, no, that's all right. And then scare everybody afterwards. Look at that dude over there, right? No, no, no. I mean, there's, to me, it's a tool, right? I mean, I think you're alluding to that Sal that it's a tool and it has value. But for the, for most people, you should be training with it as little or as never or never, right? There's no reason for you to do it unless you're spore. It changes recruitment patterns. When you wear a belt, your core pushes out against the belt to stabilize. When you don't have a belt, your core braces, totally different. If you get really good with the belt and all you ever do is wear a belt, when you go out to brace your core in the real world, you might find yourself having problems, exactly. Next question is from CJ Grundy Fitness. What is the most optimal way to rest between sets? Sit and wait, walk around, light stretching, et cetera. Is there a best way? Not scrolling on Instagram. Yeah. You know what's crazy though? So I'm guilty of this. I was just like, so I have had a, the last like week and a half, two weeks has been pretty good as far as training again for me. And yesterday I was in here training. And I've had this habit recently because we're here at work and we're so much of our businesses on the phone and online. And you know, I've catch myself working in between sets, you know, responding to DMs or emails or whatever, you know? Like, and it definitely affects my training. Like there's a total difference than when I'm like music, you know, I'm blaring rage against the machine or tool in my ears. My phone's nowhere next to me. And I'm like resting is resting. It's a total different space. Yeah, I'm lifting. And when I'm lifting, I'm completely focused on the lift. When I'm resting, I'm enjoying every second of the rest because I know I'm about to get after it again. And there's a total different feel of that workout versus kind of like, you know, going through the whole, the whole, you know, workout with this, I'll get to my set or let me answer these questions. Oh wow, that, you know, 90 second rest period turned into a four minute rest period. So, I mean, for me, and this is, I think this is an individual thing too, by the way, because I think there's value in, you know, doing some dynamic stuff in between as far as stretching and, you know, being connected or whatever you want to do in between. But personally, I like to be in a zone where I'm completely focused on what I'm doing and not being distracted. It's totally individual. It's rest the way that makes you feel best. Now I'll tell you how not to rest by doing other exercises and that sounds funny, but when I would train clients, especially clients that want to lose body fat, they thought rest was a waste of time. So they'd be like, oh, can I do something in between? And they don't realize that the rest is part of the workout, that the rest- I've seen trainers throw rubber band exercises in between just to kind of maximize the rest. I'm like, they're not resting. I'm glad you brought that up because it's actually really common. Yes. Super common. Yeah, it's very common. And part of that is, you know, part of it's the trainer's fault. It's also clients that like demand that, right? Exactly. They're putting pressure on the trainer to do that. No, the reason why you rest isn't necessarily because you need the rest. I have to take a break because I can't breathe. That's part of it. But really the rest is to allow you to train the right energy systems to elicit the right response or the right adaptation. If you're lifting weights, the goal that you have is to speed up the metabolism, build muscle and build strength. That's what your goal is. Now if your goal is endurance, totally different. But if your goal is, I'm doing this so I can speed up my metabolism, I'm sculpting my body, I'm building muscle, I'm building strength, which is what resistance training does best, better than anything. Then you rest in between because it allows your muscles to replenish their ATP. ATP is the muscle energy that you're training that elicits, that spurs on the strength and muscle gain. If you don't rest, it becomes glycolytic. You start to end up, you end up burning lots of glycogen and then you might as well just be on a treadmill. You're just doing lots of endurance work. The rest part is just as important as the exercise part in terms of the effectiveness of the programming. Now my opinion, I think you should rest, however, makes you feel best. Now sometimes that means you sit down and catch a breath and a lot of stuff. When I used to work in gyms, the way that I used to love to rest is I used to do a set, I'd put my towel on the machine or on the barbell or dumbbell, and then I'd walk to the water fountain. I never had water with me because this is what I would do. I'd walk to the water fountain, get some water and walk back, and that was always the perfect amount of rest for me. These days I'm in my garage and I sit on my bench and now I'm opposite from you, Adam, with what you said. In between rest periods, I don't go on social media necessarily, but I like to write. So I like to write notes and what I'm, because when I'm working out, my mind is typically on fire. So I'll write stuff that I'm gonna talk about on the podcast or ideas that I have and then I have a timer go off. I can see that it's been a minute and a half. Then I go back to my workout and it's the same zone for me. It's not a different space or headspace. If going on your phone takes you out of that, like if you're working out and it's fun and then you're stressed out because you're on your phone and then back and forth, probably not a good time. I've had to check myself on that quite a few times because I have been pulled into social media and just like kind of meddling on my phone and it does get me distracted in my mind in a different place where it's like, if I am focused and I'm just truly resting and I'm just trying to now bring my heart rate down and just listen to my body and really like, for me back in the day when I would train at my best, I was walking and I was really slowly kind of breathing and getting myself recouped and then focusing then I would take towards the end of the rest, I'm starting to now visualize that next set that I'm about to perform. And I mean, it's no different than being out of a game competing, you know, and I get that one minute to like kind of watch the game now I'm gonna go right back in and I'm really focused and I'm ready to attack. I also have another example of what I might do different like in between sets where if I'm really focused like in squat, this is very common for me with squats right, I'm still trying to improve my squat and I'm still in search of having this perfect beautiful squat and I'm still not there, right? Some days I'll come in and that is the focus, right? It's just movement focused. I wanna keep getting better, better at the movement. And so in between sets sometimes it's more priming, right? So like, you know, Sal you talked about earlier about like the areas, your ankles and your hips and then your upper back that you need to prime for squats. Yeah, this is good. I may do all my priming then get into my squats but still feel myself letting the shoulders collapse forward a little bit. And so then between sets I might be still doing band pull-aparts or doing some sort of a row to really, really pump. But it's not a workout. No, no, it's not, I'm lightweight or bands, you know what I'm saying? And it's not about reps. It's more about being connected to that area. And so, you know, if that day I'm really focused on improving form, especially like I said if it's a squat day or that's what I'm doing you might catch me doing things like that in between the movement to improve the movement. So I see value in that if that's what you're focused. And then I also see tons of value in not doing anything and being very focused on the workout when you're trying to get after. I think it really depends on the mindset you're coming into the workout with. Next question is from Chacha Joseph. Did you guys have a niche when you were personal trainers or did you just train anyone and everybody? So this reminds me of a pet pee I used to have with new trainers. New trainers coming into the gym, they'd wanna work for me or whatever and they'd say things like I wanna work with athletes or my niche is like you're a new trainer, okay? Single moms only. Yeah, when I... Okay, creep. When I was a new trainer, okay, my niche was people who wanted personal training. That was it. I didn't care who you were. I didn't care what your goal was. I'm a new trainer. I'm trying to build my business. I didn't start focusing on a niche until I became much more experienced until I started to have more value in the market in the sense that I used to get a lot of referrals. Then when I got to the point where I could say no to people and I had this reputation, that's when I started to have my niche and the people I enjoyed training the most really, I love training everyday people always. Athletes were cool, but I like everyday people. I love training people in advanced age. That was probably my favorite and selfishly it's because in between sats, the conversations I would have with these people who were in their 60s, 70s, and 80s was just phenomenal. There's so much wisdom. I also like to see them progress in their lifestyles change. That was really awesome. But in the beginning, I don't have a niche. I don't think, I think you should change the way you're saying that too. I think it's less of that you liked it more of it that you were good at it. And I think that's how you find your niche. Like I mean, you work your way towards your niche. And I think it's something that subconsciously kind of happens, right? That's a good point. I would like to have thought that my niche was gonna be sports, you know? Because I like sports. I like training for sports myself. I liked athletes. I followed all that stuff. And so I thought I would be great with them. I wasn't great with athletes. That wasn't my, or else I would have had a ton of them, right? I ended up being like really good with like this middle-aged, you know, CEO, like high performer, high stress, type A personality. I didn't go into it thinking that what ended up happening was I hit it out the park with a few of those clients. And then those ones start referring other friends like them before you knew it, all of a sudden I had my schedule filled with a majority of that client. That's a great point. It's like you don't find your niche. Your niche ends up finding you. That's the thing. Yeah, I mean, very similar to that demographic was it was the best client that was the most consistent that paid me the most. And I could actually make a business around it. So it actually shifted my focus. Cause I was that guy that wanted the athletic, you know, the athletic training only and that would be like awesome in my dream to have like a facility where I just trained these crazy athletes and pro athletes and all this kind of stuff, which was great. But also like what was, I was attracting and what was available was this like really type A. Like I want the most effective, efficient type of a workout and schedule as possible. And I need you to be able to help me with this and here's what I have. And they were like the best for me. So I just went more in that direction. Eventually it was just like, that's right there for me. And, you know, I have to put my own interests sort of over here to understand that this is really what's available. Yeah, I, you know, it's funny because I'd say the, a lot of trainers when they become trainers, the niche that I think is popular with trainers is athletes. Cause they themselves are probably athletes or fitness fanatics and their duty models. And they're thinking, I'm going to, I'm going to become a trainer and I'm going to train athletes. Probably the hardest niche I can think of because if you're training young athletes, they don't have money. And if you're training high level athletes, they usually don't pay for training. Like if you're, if you're a pro athlete, they have trainers knocking down the door to train them for free. Oh, I got stories. Yeah. Yeah. Some douche bag pro players that they're a lot of out on their payments. Oh yeah. A lot of them are like that because it's so much stuff for free. So much stuff for free. They think because they have this big name that that's a great opportunity for you to get your name out there. So train me for free. So yeah, no, I'm with you guys. I mean, and for sure you, Justin, like that I thought that that was my dream. If you asked me at, you know, 1920 when I was first getting into it, like, oh, one day I want to be the, you know, the trainer for the giants, you know, like, yeah, you wanted to be a trainer for a pro sports team. And again, like you, Sal, I took anybody and everybody, you know, when you're trying to build your business and you're starving and you're trying to pay the bills, you obviously should take everybody you possibly can whenever you can. And then over time you refine your schedule and you then, again, your niche finds you. It really did. I had no clue it was going to be that, nor did I want that. I didn't think, I didn't go like, oh yeah, I really like training these people. It's, I did well with them, you know, maybe because I connected and I related to them really well. And I had a lot of the right answers for those types of people. And they began to refer more and more clients. And before you knew it, this became, you know, my niche, but I don't think you should start as a trainer trying to find like what my niche is going to be. No, if you're trying to build your business, especially if you're a younger trainer and you don't have a whole bunch of other responsibilities, you train anybody and everybody and to build your business. I mean, when I first started, you know, of course I was a kid, but I remember, you know, I worked in gyms that were open 24 fitness, so I was open 24 hours. And I used to, it used to trip me out that there were, you know, I'd go to the fitness manager, I remember at the time and I'd say, does anybody need a trainer? And they'd be like, oh yeah, there's these three people, one of them wants to train at 10 o'clock at night. This one wants to work out at 4 a.m. and this one wants to work out at 5 a.m. And no trainer wanted to train them. And I remember thinking how crazy that was. Like all these trainers over here talking about building their business, there's three clients they don't want to take because they don't like the time. Like I'll take those clients. And I just trained everybody, everybody I possibly could. Look, Mind Pump is recorded on video as well as audio. So you can find us on YouTube, Mind Pump podcast. You can also find all of us on social media. You can find us on Instagram and now also on Parler. We're under the names Mind Pump, Justin for Justin. Mind Pump, Sal for Sal. Mind Pump, Adam for Adam. And Doug is under Mind Pump, Doug. In the real world, when you're lifting and moving things, none of them are attached to cables. None of them are on a track. None of, all of them are free if you pick up a box, you move a couch, you pick up your girlfriend when you give her a hug, whatever. All these things are free moving in the real world. And so even if, and I'm making, and this is not true, but I'll,