 If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. Mind pump. Mind pump. With your hosts, Sal DeStefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. In this episode of Mind Pump, for the first 22 minutes, me, Adam, and Justin have some fun conversation. We talk about one of our favorite fans. She sent us a care box, and in that care box was gold. Oh, man. Chicken in a biscuit. Ruining stuff. Actually, in fact, while you're listening to this episode, if you hear rustling and crunching and chewing. There's a rat in here. And rude mouth noises. That's Adam eating all of the crackers. And that's Jackie's fault for sending those in. Those addicting things. We talk about the Mind Pump chef, otherwise known as, I'm going to call him Evan from now on. We talked about our current workouts. I actually talked about trigger sessions and the value of trigger sessions and why a lot of people who have MAPS enabolic might not be doing them and why they should. Definitely want to listen to that part. And then we mention, oh, the Organified Green Juice. In fact, we mentioned it as a recipe to combine with chicken in a biscuit. Not sure that's a good idea. But anyway, we do love Organified Products. We are one of our sponsors. You do get a massive discount if you use our code. Here's what you do. Go to OrganifiShop.com, enter the code, Mind Pump, NoSpace, and you'll get a discount on all their products. Then we get into the questions. The first question was, this particular individual is not happy with any of the jobs that she's had and she constantly changes jobs. She's 24 years old, needs some advice. We give it to her. It's awesome. You're going to want to hear it. Adam goes off a little bit, as usual. The next question was... Some wizard wisdom in there, bro. We needed it to happen. We have an athlete asking us how they can get more explosive and more speed for rugby. So we kind of break it down and lay it out in terms of how you want to maybe phase your work out. In fact, we talk a lot about MAPS performance and how we designed MAPS performance in particular for goals like this. MAPS performance has four phases. It's broken down into maximal strength, reactive strength, explosive strength, and durability. All the things that you're going to want if you want that kind of ancient athlete type of performance, what we like to call broad spectrum performance. It's our program that probably has more exercises in it that you've never seen than all the others. You can find that program at Mind Pump Media. Pretty different than what you're doing now. I guarantee it. Mind Pump Media.com. Then we get into the question. Someone wants to know how we pick the books that we like to read. If you've been listening to Mind Pump for a little while, you know that Adam has been reading quite a bit this year. Find out where he gets his recommendations for these books. And finally, what are the effects on muscle growth when you use marijuana post-workout? Is that a good idea? Will it help you build muscle? Or is it just fun? Find out in this episode. You know what goes amazing with my green, organified juice? Don't do it. Chicken and a biscuit. Don't do it. Dude. No, it doesn't. Jackie is in trouble. Jackie the saboteur. So Jackie, who works with Mind Pump, is also one of our, probably our OG. She's probably the OG, or one of the OG fans, right? Because there's a few of those. Yeah, well, you have to give, I think, Rachelle. If you've seen any of our seminars, you know, you're on our team. So Jackie listens to our show, and then she also does our show notes and stuff for us. So when you look at the show notes, and if you like the way they're set up, you can thank Jackie. She heard our episode where we talked about, I don't remember what it was. We talked about, like, foods that we... Childhood foods. Yeah. And I talked about chicken and a biscuit crackers, which I haven't had since I was... Probably 20 years. Probably since I was 12. I think seventh grade for me. Yeah, what's that, 13? Yeah, 12, 13. I'm remembering right now why I liked them so much. I had them since I was 12 or 13. So she sends us that, she sends us organic gummy bears, a bunch of things that we talked about in the episode. So I opened this box up because I'm like, I don't remember what they taste like. I kind of do, but I don't. You guys have to do this with me. I opened it, and everybody ate one cracker. Now remember, just so we understand the context here, we're a fitness podcast. We're all health conscious individuals. We don't eat this stuff normally. All of us tasted one cracker, and almost the whole box is gone right now because... Amazing. It's so... They have engineered this thing to taste so amazing. The only reason why I think... Soup in your mouth. The only reason why I think chicken and a biscuit isn't the most popular food on earth is because... How do you market chicken and a biscuit? Like, you know what I mean? The name is... If you never tried it, you wouldn't think so. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Do they ever do commercials? For chicken and a biscuit? I've never seen one in my life. I'm sure one lives on YouTube. I was gonna say, I feel like I've seen a chicken and a biscuit commercial as a kid. Wow. I can't even remember when. What happens when a chicken flies by and shits magic dust on her? I don't know. How does that work? There's two grams of protein for every seven... Well, can I see the box real quick? Yeah, so I'm about to trip you guys out right now. So, first off, they spell biscuit wrong. But anyway... They spell it like I do. It's like Adam wrote it. B-I-S-K-I-T. So, I'm reading the back, and I was looking at the ingredients because I haven't seen a box of these in forever. And, kind of halfway down, or almost to the end of the ingredients list, dehydrated cooked chicken. Wow, they actually use chicken. These crackers have chicken in them. That's two grams of protein? That's just two grams of protein right there. Lots of vitamins. Oh, look, look, look. Just liquefied. That was a good commercial. I knew they had a biscuit. I knew they had a biscuit. So, this is like a homemade... I don't think it's a real commercial. That can't be. That is pretty great. Dude, no joke. I used to sit. I'd sit down and watch TV, and I'd have a box of chicken and a biscuit. Yeah. And I'd eat the entire thing to my face by myself. Dude, you know it's crazy. There's seven servings in this whole container. 160 calories per serving. About roughly 20 grams of carbohydrates. What's the serving size? 12 crackers. Oh, wow. You know nobody's gonna eat 12. I know, that's what I mean. I'm already over that now. Yeah. I like how on the back... These calories add up. I like how on the back, there's a picture of the chicken and the biscuit crackers and easy cheese, because if you're gonna eat something... Yes, listen. Yeah. That was like, for me, nostalgia, easy cheese. Like, immediately, I'm like, oh my God, easy cheese and triskets. Like, I lived off those in college. Did you for reals eat easy cheese? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. What is easy cheese? I have no idea. Cheese and a candy. It's just like straight up processed like... It tastes like, does it taste like cheese? Yeah, man. I mean, it's like, you get addicted to it just like crackers. And you would just spray it on your crackers? It's so gross. Yeah. And you'd be like, this is protein. Did you... It just makes like this noise as it comes out. Did you eat it directly out of the can? Sometimes, and I felt like, you know, I had no shame. Like, I would do that. Man, I wish I didn't taste that. When it was dark and I took my shirt off. I had two of those crackers and that's it. Did you really? That's it. I only had two. I don't even know what it is. I am... You're fucked. I'm feigning. You may as well eat the whole thing. Yeah. Don't worry, I'm going to eat them all. You got the shakes all of a sudden. No, no, I'm waiting for you to finish them because I'm going to eat them, dude. There's none left. There's none left. It's crazy how stuff like this is engineered to be just so amazing. I mean, even down to like the... The texture? Yeah, the texture of it. Now they have this like salty, dusty chicken remains, I think. Chicken matter. Right? I don't even know what it is. Lickified chicken matter. The irony of this is we're going to be selling some chicken. I know, that's the problem. Right now, people are going to go to the store and buy boxes of this. Don't go eat these. No. Listen. They'll do it. Here's the challenge. Here's the challenge. This is what we're going to do. Let's do our... We're going to pick a winner. Let's do our Organifi commercial right now. Let's drive people to go get Organifi instead of chicken in the biscuit. We need to mention Organifi. Yeah, we do. So help yourself. Let's talk about the importance. Let's talk about a recipe you can use with the Organifi products. And biscuit and chicken. If you're going to counter the effects. If you're going to fuck your diet up for the day and you're going to eat chicken in the biscuit for one of your meals. You absolutely... Here's the strategy. You need to have Organifi. So here's what you do. You need that in your life. One of my favorite things, and by the way, just to preface, I'm going to completely make this up. One of the things that was great with chicken and biscuit is you could... You'd have them with soup, right? Because it's got that savory flavor. So some kind of a vegetable-ish soup. Oh, okay. So what you could do is you could mix up some green juice from Organifi, warm it up in the microwave. Now you have warm green juice that you could have with your chicken and biscuit. Oh my God, that's gross. What are you talking about? That's not going on the recipe list. Damn it. I don't think Drew Canola is going to like that one. He's like, uh, guys, I don't think that was a very good commercial for us. We have people microwaving our fucking green juice all over the country now. But you can blend it and make some awesome shakes, which I've done that. What did you blend it with? With ice. Ice, yeah. Oh, just ice, yeah. I'm like, uh, what was it? Super deep recipe there. I thought you were going to say like cheddar. Yeah. Oh, and some berries. Yeah, I'll do some in there. You blended it with some mozzarella. I had Chef F. I would do that. Getting down for us last night. What did he do? The ribeye. Did you see the mushrooms, onion, garlic, sauteed and ghee butter? And then put that over the top of it. Why does he cook like this for you guys? What do you do for him? Oh man. That's shit. I know, right? That's the mind pump chef, bro. Yeah, but you're the only one that gets the benefit of it. That is where I lack all creativity. I don't get to eat. No cooking ideas. I'm responsible for training him. Does Evan have, does he listen to the show? I see. Does Evan listen to the show? Everett. Everett, sorry. I just shortened it. I just made up a name. I shortened it up. I like him so much. I gave him a nickname. That's it. We're not going to call you by your name Everett. We're going to call you Evan. You're more Evan. You're more like an Evan. I want to give people nicknames that are not really nicknames. It's just another name. Hey John. That's really close to that name. No, that's my name. That's what my son thought nicknames were when he was a kid. Like just another name. You just called him something else. Oh, that's my nickname, dad. I'm like, no, that's not it. This is a normal name. You're Richard. You're Robert now. So does Everett listen to the show? He does. Sporadically, though. So Everett. Which I think most people... I think you should make food for... Chicken and biscuit. Me and Justin, too. Yeah, I think so. Because Adam is... I think we need to bring you in the studio. Taking you for granted. I already told him I was the boss. The only reason... I already told him I was the boss. The reason why we haven't aired your videos of cooking and stuff yet is because Adam is holding it up. He's like, no, no, no. Bring me some food. I'll get that shit on tomorrow. Taylor and him shot... I second that. They shot a couple weeks ago. Cooking video? Mm-hmm. And Everett was like, oh yeah, bro, I got this. And I talked to him afterwards that they got home. Because they must have spent like four hours shooting stuff. I said, hey, dude, how'd it go? Oh, man. I need to practice. Uh-oh. And I'm like, what do you mean? He's like, he's just weird talking to the camera for that long. And I'm like, yeah, I know. I'm still not used to it, bro. Yeah, man. Well, you know what? Why don't we have either myself or Sal come over here? I was just going to say, have us do it with him. Well, and I talked to you. You should remind me. Actually, you know who would be... We should have Justin on there with him. Cakes? Me? Yes, you. Why? Because first of all, you're brilliant on camera. You're hilarious as hell. And I think you'd be able to say funny shit with Everett. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I could see that. That'd be kind of funny. It depends on the direction that... It depends on whatever... If you're trying to actually make like... I don't think we're trying to do comedy on that. Oh, really? Yeah, I don't think it's supposed to be... I think people that want good recipe are like, hey, look at my balls. I'm like, what are you... Come on, man. Do you think... Ooh, look at my balls. I'm on a cooking channel. What are you thinking? Whatever three jokes of yours is a dick joke, bro. No, it's not. Sure it is. One out of three is a dick joke. I'm going to call you on it. Watch. I'm going to... On the cooking channel? Yeah, like I would joke like that. Hey, look. I'm going to stir this... That's why it wouldn't work. You'd be lost for zingers. You'd be like, oh, that was a perfect dick joke right there. I can't say anything. Adam gave me shit about the dick jokes. He's going to be Everett's assistant. He'll be like, can you grab the cucumber and just be like, oh, damn it. I want to see something. Oh, yeah, it's right here. It's right there in front of me. I can't wait, though, till we do some of that stuff with him, huh? Yeah, we're already working towards that direction. So it's coming. It's coming around the mountain. Sing it. I don't know how it goes. Yeah. When she comes. It's coming around the mountain when she comes. It's coming around the mountain when she comes. No. No, it's not like that. No. That's pretty good. Sing it to me. Tell me how it goes. Tell me how it goes. You fucker. You can't sing. What do you mean not sing it? I like that. She'll be coming around the mountain when she comes. How does it go? Wow. It's almost like he's rocking as he's doing. That's great. It's good. You guys had a lot of effort there. Oh, it's really good. You guys had no idea. Uh-oh. So anyway, did you guys do any working out yesterday? You're the only person that works out. I know. I only asked that so you guys asked me. Yeah. How's your workouts going? Why don't you just tell us that. I don't want to come out. Dude, I work out in the afternoon. We covered this. How was your workout yesterday? It was good. What'd you do? It was good. All kettlebell workout. Oh, really? Yeah. Because it was like, I was doing just mobility and then it turned into kind of like a light kettlebell skills kind of exercise day. It was fun. What do you do for the skills? Like juggling? Yeah, juggling. No. No, for real? No, like Turkish get-ups. Oh, okay. And like, yeah. So I get through a lot of the movement practice and you know, like arm bars and stuff like that. So I just go through a lot of the movements and get my joints involved and tension and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, no, I did some turkey get-ups yesterday. Turkey get-ups? Mm-hmm. Turkish or turkey? Turkey. It's like a half of Turkish get-up. Is it really? That's the new one. Appreciate it. You just look like a turkey. Try to get up. I did some of those. Yeah, man. I've been doing trigger sessions consistently. It always blows me away, dude. And I probably have said this several times on the podcast. I feel like you're always trying to sell me your program, dude. It's not even that. It's not even that. Literally. I feel like you're always trying to push your program. It's seriously. You know what I've been doing? Focus sessions like crazy. Have you been doing them? Lots of focus sessions. Super hyper focused. What do you think of them? Amazing. Yeah. Are they awesome? Changing my physics every day. So when I do trigger sessions- Really focused. Consistently, I see change very quickly with them. Very, very quickly. You know why I bring this up all the time? Is because- Because you created it. I'll fall out of favor. No, they'll fall out of favor with me where I'll start doing like one a day or two a day instead of three a day. Makes a big difference. It does. That's all. I did that this morning. I just did them now. It's really tough for me to discipline myself to revisit it two or three times a day on my whole life. That's the hard part. It is. I think I'm still frequently. Yeah. Even though it's only five minutes. I know. It's funny that something that easy, that short, that quick, I just- I feel like I mentally prepare myself like, okay, this is going to be my workout time. I'm going to do it. And then I do it. And then when it's done, it's done, you know? And so I don't have this desire to go back. So I do have in our spare room, which is right next to our master, a pull-up bar with our bands hanging from it. And so I try and get in a habit of, you know, once before I go to bed, I'm- Trigger, trigger, trigger. Yeah, yeah. Do some stuff like get pumped up before going to bed with Katrina, you know, before I come in. And she's like, damn, you look so good. Pumping up the wrong muscles. Those trigger sessions, Sal's got me on. No, but occluded body. So here's the understated part about trigger sessions that I always notice is the fat loss effects. I notice my body gets lean very quickly doing them. And let's say you do seven minutes each time. It's about 21 minutes of activity, 21 minutes of cardio doesn't even equate to what this does. And I think it just has to do with the, you know, like making your body want to build muscle instead. You know what I'm saying? It's pretty cool. We used to use some bro science like that, where, you know, when you're getting ready to go hit stage time, you're trying to shuttle carbohydrates into- So you get a pump while you eat them? Mm-hmm. So it's like you eat, and then right after you eat, you're getting pumped. But- There's some logic there. I agree. A lot of times, you know, we give bros such a hard time, but if it wasn't for the bros out there doing stupid shit, we wouldn't be able to, we probably wouldn't have studied things to support it or to say nay, right? So somebody has to go out there and be the test sentence. Because I feel like if you're working your muscles to a particular, with a particular intensity, it's going to want to replenish glycogen. You've got glycogen or, excuse me, carbs coming in your system, you're probably right. You probably are going to shuttle more to muscles. At least it sounds logical. Well, the problem is how would you study that? Oh, that's the broscience part, right? They talk about it. Is it common? Do a lot of people do it? Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's like, I mean, that's what you do. Well, as far as I know, most of the guys that I was around them, especially when you're gloating for a day, like a show day where it really matters, that's you're doing that after every, right after I can, I think one of the last shows I did, I think I ate like nine meals the day leading up to the show. A bunch of, like, car protein meals. Mm-hmm. Now, let me ask you this, because you normally take, like, four days off of training before your competition, but you're still doing these types of things. Right. So it's more like trigger sessions. Right. And the idea behind that. That's where the benefit's coming, motherfuckers. The idea behind that, too, is, you know, some guys, there's a lot of guys actually that still train, there's two camps in this, right? The one camp is, you know, oh, I want to keep my body on its normal routine, keep me training all the way up to, like, literally the day of showtime. So their idea is that's what they're, they want their body to be used to that, they want to maximize the pump that they get from the day before and the day of working out. The other camp is, and the camp that I'm in is, you know, when you deplete, like that, and then you're starting to refuel and refeed the body and fill it back out, constantly doing workouts and exercising like an hour routine and so like that kind of is being counterproductive of what you're trying to do. Sure. So, and, you know, all workouts are different and, you know, hard to make them exactly the same every time. So my theory is like, the reason why I cut training out the last four days is because I've already done all the work. Like, I'm not going to build, you know, extra muscle in the last couple of days. I'm more like trying to be very precise about how much I intake to fill me all the way out, but not to overdo it. And I think if you're exercising during those days, you make that that much harder to try and figure it out. So instead of doing hard workouts, what if, like the trigger session, right after you eat, it's like a little, just a tiny little pump. Yeah. Yeah. And it's like, and really for, for me, it was always the area pumping into areas that I wanted to look. So if I felt like, let me ask you this. So here's a great question. Do you notice as this progresses, you're getting better and better pumps? Oh, it's a good question because that's what happens with trigger sessions. Well, yeah. But then the hard thing to, to tease it. You're also carb loading. Right. So that'd be hard to tease it out. Like, yeah. Well, so that's what I noticed when I do trigger sessions consistently is as I, if I do them consistently, and what I mean by consistently is three times a day on my non foundational days. Okay. Monday morning, afternoon, evening, I noticed by the evening session, my pump is getting, it's much better than it was in the, in the middle of the day one and in the morning one. I mean, it makes total sense to me. Yeah. I mean, I feel like it's, you're waking that up, right? First thing in the morning, you do the first one and let's say it's like, so let's say you're doing a shoulder and a bicep pump, like you're recruiting more neurons into that area, right? You're sending more blood flow into that area. So I mean, that alone already, and then if you progressively do that throughout the day, more and more is happening. So it seems logical that, you know, that you get a better pump. You know, when I, when I first put together the first maps, I first, I thought the trigger session part was the most important in the sense that, not important for the programming, but important in the sense that it was different and I thought it was going to be a game changer. And I still think that, and I still think it's, what's the word, underrated. And I think the main reason why it's underrated is what we're talking about now is I think a lot of people just don't do them consistently when they buy the program, because they get good results from doing the phasing, from the good programming, from all that. But they're missing on that one piece that I think, because trigger sessions, technically, if you program them, you can program with any workout. You don't have to follow maps. I've coached bodybuilders and competitors who do body part splits on how to use trigger sessions with their split, and they get blown away by them too. Even before, even before your trigger session concept, you know, this is how I applied focus sessions, which were a little more intense, right? But it's my way of thinking is a similar process, right? It's the same idea. You got to think, too, you're getting more volume, because even if it's lighter, it's still more volume, you know what I'm saying? You're getting more activity there. So you got to think that you're sending the signal, so your body is, at the bare minimum, going to at least keep muscle. Maybe it may not be a loud enough signal to promote huge growth. I think we all saw that benefit to it and immediately, like I was like, oh, that relates a lot to skills training and practice and mobility and like, you know, it's all related. It definitely builds the volume and it does it in a way where it's beneficial for adaptations. I think we're the biggest game changer and why it's, I think, what was so special about maps was it's so polar opposite of most the message that's given out there right now, that that's why so many people are seeing such a huge difference from it because, you know, everything you see right now on Instagram is these splits and these seven days a week and no days off and that like, it's just, it's the complete opposite approach and it's a much smarter approach towards your results and I think that most people were attempting that other way so when they go back and like do this in a much more methodical way, they see huge results. So if you actually apply the trigger sessions. So remember the, which Batman was it with the dude who had the crazy looking mask and he was hella jacked? Bane? Bane. Who's the actor that plays him? You guys know what I'm talking about. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tom Hardy. There you go. He built hella muscle for that role. So I just saw this the other day, someone sent it to me and they're like, oh shit, he did trigger sessions. Now I don't think he, I don't know, I don't think he followed maps or whatever. I think he just did it himself but he talked about his workout routine. Who's his trainer? Did he highlight that? I don't remember. I don't, or at least I didn't list it, maybe. He said that the way he worked out was instead of doing these crazy, you know, two-hour workouts as he would do these mini workouts all day long and that he got way better results doing it and he built lots of muscle and someone sent that to me and I thought that was pretty fascinating that he did that. So pretty cool. That's crazy. I think he got jacked for that movie. I mean, I did one show, I don't know why I had the time to do this, but I did have one of my shows where I don't know what we were doing currently at that time but it might have been one of the early ones where I just, I made that the number one priority, like I'm training, I'm dieting, I'm gonna go win this show, like it's everything else in my life was priority two, three, four, like I really was that focused on training and so I was utilizing things like this where I'd be in the gym like three, four times in a day but it wasn't like crazy intense workout at all. It was like the idea was I was going in there, yeah, yeah, just I would go address, I'd go in, go hit shoulders and maybe buys and then I'd come back later on and go get triceps and maybe back and then I'd come back again, you know, and then in between I was walking then I'd go eat and then come back like, oh man, I mean I never felt that sounds like fun, it actually does, I'm not being, I'm not being well, no, it was, it was actually freaking really awesome and I never felt taxed, right, I never felt like, how did your body respond? Oh, it was incredible, I mean it was definitely part of the journey for me during all the shows and on the way to go going pro and stuff, I don't remember what show it was. Now I don't think it was like this, holy shit, it changed who I was, well you already knew how to work out, right, yeah, it's not like it was gonna be this like it was like game changing for me or like that but it was it was really nice, it was a refreshing way to train if I had that kind of time, right, like if I was a full-time competitor and made enough income that all I had to do was worry about. You lived in Kuwait. Right, paying for everything. Well, so that excellent point right there, so it's actually that's an actually, so when I talked to Ben Pokolski, and this was a question actually that will address that was on our Q&A that we didn't put up here, was if we knew what was going on over there and I did have a chance to talk to Ben about this and he's been there and gone through the whole thing and he's like, no, it's not because we thought like, oh, they must be like Miles Staten in The Crazy Drug. Yeah, right, the newest, purest, you know, steroid and he's like, no, and of course they have. They have good steroids. Yeah, they have that but that's no high premium but plenty of guys order that stuff and get it over where we're at, so that's not the big difference. He says it's just the environment, it's like the most ultimate recovery, rehab, fuel, gym, sleep is all centralized in this one location. That's all you do. You go there and that's all you do. Yeah, train, eat, sleep, train, eat, sleep, train, sleep and that's probably happening multiple times, probably three times a day for a lot of those guys. It'd be really interesting to actually ask one of them if that's true. I would speculate now knowing from Ben's perspective what we speculated on and now seeing such a huge change in these guys and it's like, dude, I bet they did a crazy hard training session in the day and then they had one or two other ones where they were constantly just touching muscles and stuff like that all day long and then fueling up and then sleeping and shit. So yeah, I bet that's right in line. Awesome. Bring it. This quiz brought to you by OrganiFi. For those days you fall short on getting your organic veggies or whole food nutrition, OrganiFi fills the gap with laboratory tested certified organic superfoods to help give your health and performance the added edge. Try OrganiFi, totally risk free for 60 days by going to OrganiFi.com. That's O-R-G-A-N-I-F-I.com and use a coupon code MINDPUMP for 20% off at checkout. First question is from Chris Santy. I'm never happy with any jobs I have and change jobs within a year. I'm 24 years old. How did you guys figure out what you wanted to do? Oh, wow. I'm going to address the very first part of that. Yeah, I go. Why don't you go? I can hear it in your voice, right? Yeah, I know. I hope we don't. I don't lose a fan here. I know. I'm never happy with the jobs I have. There's your problem right there. It's never the jobs. It's you. You're the common denominator in all this. They're all different jobs, but you tend to continue to be unhappy. I think when people are searching for external things to create happiness within, they forever fall short because that's not how it works. It starts within. It's very simple or similar to Sal giving his weight loss analogy for people that they want to lose this weight because they don't love themselves. Or it'll make them happy. Right. They think if once they lose their 50 or 100 pounds, they're going to be happy. Then guess what happens? They lose their 50 or 100 pounds and they're still just as unhappy as what they were when they first started and realized that it wasn't the 50 pounds. It's something that starts within. Like, so you make that choice. I also think this was some of the benefits for me for being somebody who kind of had kind of a tough upbringing and childhood. And, you know, I learned to have to look at things in a more positive light because there was so much negativity and bad stuff that was around me. So you actually learn because you have to survive in that setting that everything isn't happy, isn't grand, isn't easy. In fact, most of everything that was around me was extremely challenging and hard. And so I found to love everything I did. And the way I did that was, and a good book for this is Fred Factor. It's a short, easy read. And it's really about you wanting to be the best version of yourself no matter what it is that you're doing. So that's just the first half of this sentence. Like, you're never happy with a job. So that it's not the job, it's you. So you have to you have to look into that first. And if that stings me saying that, that should just let you know how much that's probably an issue. So I'll say this, two things. So to kind of comment on what you said, Adam, you're never going to be happy seeking happiness because seeking is literally the antithesis of happiness. So the seeking itself is part of the problem. So that's number one. But number two, you're 24 years old, make your own job, like make your own career. This is the best time in history for you to be able to do that. And what I mean by that is the opportunities are so incredible right now for you to create your own employment. You know, I'm one of those people that I don't I don't think I will ever be as content working for someone else as I ever will be like I am working for myself. And I invented my own my own career, my own job. Now, when I first started as a trainer, I absolutely loved it. I loved the gym. And I was one of those lucky people that kind of knew early on, you know, what I wanted to do. But I'm also one of those people that when I when things change and shift, I make the change. And the shift that I make is one to suit me a little better. Like I said, I worked for corporate gyms and I worked for myself. So 24 years old, create your own job, whatever you are, whatever you do like, you can create a career, a business out of it, especially with social media. You don't need millions of followers to do this. You just need thousands. You need to provide good content, good value. Taylor, the guy that runs our social media and our YouTube, he had a six figure big business when he was in his I think he was 1920, you know, and he was brokering tennis shoe sales and selling apparel to people who were in that world. I mean, he completely created his own job and he loved it. And then when he stopped liking it, he stopped doing it. Manifest destiny. I mean, if you're unhappy, and this is something that I'm always hyper critical of my state of mind while I'm doing things. And I'm not much for like woo-woo or energy or whatever you're putting out or like the secret or anything like that. But at the same time, there's something to your attitude going into work or certain activities or different things that you feel are like super hard and challenging for you. If you go in and you start really working just on your attitude, that's when things start to kind of open up and make sense. Like so somebody may pick up on this positivity, this energy that may present, you know, another opportunity that actually might be the job you've always wanted, you know, but like if you're not projecting yourself in a way that's attractive to whatever that job may be that you really want, you know, that's going to be a really hard thing to overcome. Like it's just going to keep repeating itself because, you know, the attitude is everything. And it's what you have to like start with. You know, I looked at her profile just now and, you know, literally at this age, so I had a girlfriend that was 24 and I was 28 at the time. And I remember during that we were together for a little over a year. And I remember that year and a half, almost two years time that she had like three or four jobs. And I remember like her like writing up her resume for this new job that they were offering her more money than the current one she was at. And I remember asking her like, you know, why are you why are you leaving this job? She's like, what do you mean? They're offering me at least a dollar, $50 to $2 more an hour for this job. And I'm like, well, yeah, but what about, see, I said, what about the people that look at this resume like the way I would look at this resume? Because if you drop this resume in front of me, I wouldn't hire you. And she's like, what do you mean? I'm like, well, you've got like the time span. You got like six to eight jobs that you different jobs. You think you're building a resume, but having none of them, you've stayed for longer than a year. So what that says to me is as an employer, like I go, what makes me think she's going to be loyal to me and stay working for me for longer than a year? There's no way I'm going to hire this person. You know, I don't care if she's got this experience, this experience, that experience. It shows to me that she can't stay loyal to anybody. And then when things get tough, she probably bounces. And so, you know, if you're finding this where you're bouncing from job to job, you know, this is a great time to have self-reflection and go like, okay, what is it in my day to day that I'm hating, why I'm hating or I don't like this job so much that I need to leave and then addressing that and working on it? You know, there was no job I ever did that was perfect and easy and just what I love to do. But, you know, I found what I liked about all of them. They're stepping stones, right? And then when you come across the challenges, because that's inevitable, that's going to happen, it happens to all of us, and you get angry or you get frustrated or you want to be there instead of doing what most people do in those situations, blaming the boss, blaming the employee you're working with, blaming the customers. How about stopping right there, reflecting on why does this make me feel that way? Why do I not like this job? Why do I hate this person? Why do I hate working for them? And look deep inside yourself and ask yourself what makes you feel that way and then try and reflect and grow on that. And just consider there's so many opportunities that present themselves in situations that you would never expect. You know, I made years ago I had a member that approached me who had this idea, this business idea and it was it was multi-level marketing and I knew it was. But I said to myself, he's a member, you know, I want to show up I already told him I would but I knew it was going to be bullshit. We sat down and we talked about that and whatever, it was multi-level marketing. It wasn't something that I was interested in but I showed up and I had great conversation with this person and made a good contact. Years later this person ended up becoming very valuable to me in my business as somebody who would refer me clients and customers. You don't know what kind of opportunities you're going to be presented working for these different jobs and these different bosses with these different employees. So in these jobs even if you are thinking yourself I want to leave I need to find another job always be awesome. Never represent yourself in a way that is less than your best because showing your best and being your best and working hard opens up so many doors and opportunities more than we can calculate right now more than we can figure right now because like I said opportunities present themselves in very strange ways. I've made many business deals and I've had many awesome things happen out of situations that I would have never expected out of meetings that I didn't want to go to because I thought it was a waste of time. Every job I've had that every job every business everything I've tried to be involved in has led to something else or the potential to something else because of that you couldn't be more right with that statement that if and this is Fred Factor gets into that so that's why this is that's such a great book to read is you when you when you put your heart and soul into everything that you do and you take pride in it like that you know you never know and I have no idea what this person does but let's just say you know 24 years old you've got like maybe like a Starbucks job right I'm sure a lot of 24 year olds work at Starbucks so we'll just use as an example and you know you just you do your job just like the other everybody else does you say the thing they tell you to say when people come up you take the order and you do what you're supposed to do just to get by and stuff like that and you don't really make a mark but then let's pretend you're that that that kid or that person that works there that does go above and beyond all the time and you're the person that these customers they come in they just they love to see your face because you always say something different or make them smile or make them laugh and you become this memorable person and then guess what one day you know this multi-millionaire walks in who owns six different companies and just happens to be looking for a position for somebody like maybe his right hand girl assistant or whatever and you just he there's something about you your presence that he's drawn to and says hey you know what did you always want to work here would you be open to something else and he drops you his card and he walks away and now you're set up with some you never know you never know there's so many I've I've been I don't know how many times it's happened to me like that where where somebody has seen I mean I could go back and those that have been I've been propositioned for for other jobs and careers so many times because just the way I you know interact with people when they would come to my gym members used to I used to get I can't tell you I mean it was it would be pretty regularly where a member would come up to me and be like hey would you like to work for me here would you like to and that's how I found half my staff by the way within careers same way that have nothing to do with what you do that's it right like I mean most all those propositions I've had or been have been a feel that I'd know nothing about but it's not that's it's the character they see really good leaders can see can find and see character like this dude half my half my staff I would I got that way I look sticks out like a sore thing I look for this all the time I mean look at the people that are working with us now right as we start to bring people on board with my book these are people that I've probably known for a really long time are connected through me through somebody else and the reason why we've brought them into our circle has nothing to do with oh maybe they're the best at doing this one skill set that we need it's their character right it's it's it's their attitude it's their vision it's who that who they are as a person I believe once they understand what we're trying to accomplish they'll figure out a way to apply that and help and I think most really good leaders see this in people and so you most certainly got to find a way to change your attitude towards the jobs eventually the career or the thing you do for the rest of your life will come and let's be honest most of us feel like we're probably just now finding that and we're approaching our 40s so don't trip out you're only 24 yeah you'll get there next up is sac.e who plays collegiate rugby and wants tips on how to become faster and more explosive sounds like a great candidate for maps performance you know you know why I like this question or why I picked it because I want to address getting faster and being more explosive for a sport in the sense that those are skills yeah and the times you train to become faster and more explosive are not when you're in the peak of your season so I want to be clear with that when you're training to improve upon your power your strength and your speed the time to do that is before the season that's when you have an off season that's why you have an off season it's not because you're taking a break and relaxing necessarily it's because you're trying to improve upon the foundations of your performance which are strength, speed, agility, power endurance or stamina you want to build those as much as you can in the pre-season then in the season your job with your training really is just kind of maintain and prevent injury it's not a good idea to train hard to improve while you're in the peak of your season because it's kind of a recipe for injury you know what I mean it's just too much just too much all the time it's counterproductive it is so like for example the way we programmed a map's performance which is definitely ideal for athletes the way we set up the phases is so that you have four phases leading up to a season and then right when the season starts you're at peak performance you've already done the strength you've already done the you know the training for for you know it was very it was very thought out as far as the progression of like which adaptation would fit best you know in conjunction and go in like in specific order and that is definitely why we put endurance at the very end of it because you know the body can really respond and adapt fairly quickly to that adaptation and so we wanted to make sure that fit in nicely like right going into like say you're going into your double days you're going into you know practice with the team and you want to be at your ultimate conditioning but yeah like Sal said working on that raw strength that that ability to you know on command you know drive weight off the ground or drive your your legs hard into the ground you know these are these are things that you definitely need to build upon but you know it's going to work in this in this sort of ladder fashion where we're going to go into that and then we're going to go into the next phase where you know where we're working a little bit more on our proprioception we're working on our movement patterns and and making sure that you know the body and the joints can respond appropriately when you make those hard cuts this these the other thing too I see a lot when athletes talk about getting faster and more explosive is that they focus on complex movements and techniques and forget that the foundation for all these pursuits all of these physical pursuits is strength is strength so what I mean by that is if you build just good solid strength while maintaining your skills training because you don't want to lose your skills or your your you know your connection to your body or the or the field or that stuff if you build just regular strength you're going to get a lot faster and you're going to get a lot more more explosive so the first thing I ever ever recommend to an athlete who's asking me this question is I say just get stronger in your core foundational movement let's let's break let's literally break down and share the the the each phase and how many weeks and how we program green so people understand that I mean it's we start we start off with raw strength in in maps performance and it's we're there for three weeks that's your maximal kind of grinding strength right so you train that first so for three weeks you're you're heavily focused on on strength which is your low rep range heavy weight in the tempo with that we're a little more in the eccentric part with the explosive come up off the ground so it is that like a maximal like force output well then we move over to reactive strength which is phase two and phase two we're there for for three weeks also and then from reactive strength we move over to explosive strength yeah speed power and that's three weeks also and then we finish up with strength durability or what we would call so endurance so that's what we were saying before you head into it so that's what the the entire layout looks like so it's a total what three six nine 11 weeks is that what it is right 11 total weeks leading up to your season and literally if you followed that kind of formula of every three three weeks you're phasing into a new adaptation towards performing better and then leading up to that's the order that's exactly the order you want to become faster and more explosive that's the order you should train your your slow grinding you know base strength and your reactive strength which is more about proprioceptive ability because now we want to make it so that you have it be more or more functional and then to your power type training the durability training is more towards just giving you stamina but really the first three phases like what Adam was talking about that's the order that you want to train and you should spend at least two to four weeks in each phase leading up to the explosive training phase which is also if you're if you're training for explosive power and you're doing things like plios it's very specific yeah the goal is not fatigue the goal is not to burn yourself out the goal is literally to be able to explode as hard as possible and so that's the way you want to treat your plio training get as well like close to instantaneous response as possible and what's really cool about it is you know as you go through like raw strength you really can see how now just having more strength and stability by you know doing these types of lifts at that pace will go into now okay I'm taking my time but now I'm moving in more multi-planar fashion which is very important because you know in a game setting you're not going to be in this nice like comfortable sagittal plane you're going to be all over the place and your joints have to have that strength and respond appropriately further out which mobility was the other part to that that really enforces the fact that you know you are capable of going a little bit further with your joints you just have to make sure you you are secure in that and you have the ability to summon strength to overcome the well on that note which is important I should didn't say as I was laying out the layout in the format of maps performance is also on your off days you know of training for these adaptations you're focused on what are called mobility days right so there's specific movements in there to improve upon your mobility while you're still training for your sport or whatever it is that we're leading up to so that's what it looks like on your other day so instead of trigger sessions or focus sessions if we do any other programs performance is heavily focused on the mobility for the reasons that Justin's talking about and that begs this question does working on mobility make me faster and more explosive yes absolutely because many times it's very foundational yeah many times the limiting factor with an athlete in terms of their speed and explosiveness is a lack of mobility or a lack of stability because the body comes with its own rev limiter if you will like when you're lifting a weight a maximal weight or when you're exploding or taking off as quickly as you can your body has these natural checks and balances that prevent you from exerting maximal force because it's protecting you from injury yeah now the more training you go through the more experience you have the more you're able to reach a limit of or reach your limit of maximal exertion which is part of the reason why you get so much stronger and better just by practicing the skill but mobility helps with that because mobility has it's everything right it's stability it's being able to move a joint through a large range of motion but have control in that entire range of motion it's moving in all these different planes and having control so if now you're super stable and mobile in all these different ranges of motion when you go to make a movement or explode or cut to the left or to the right or jump that limiter that you have on your body it opens up a bit it opens up because you're stable and your body senses this so now it's boom you feel like you can move with more speed and that yeah your body doesn't want to injure itself right so you have to teach it that it's going to be okay and like the more you teach it that it's going to be okay with these types of explosive movements you know the better your performance gets the more output you you get with you know with that movement so it definitely is a repetition thing that you have to apply that's right so mobility big big important factor next question is from mgrdo31 how do you guys pick the books you read yeah adam I have a couple different ways that I do that that's a good that's a question I would like to know from you yeah there's a couple well there's it depends when recommendations so some yeah I know there's a there's a so like I said there's several different ways one of the ways I used to read was I'd go I'd read two books that I about something that I wanted to learn and then I'd read one that was like purely for entertainment for me so I used to read a lot of biographies and stuff so I typically would read two books that was on topics or subjects that I wanted to learn more about and then I would read one that was purely for you know entertainment reasons or about some about somebody that I wanted to learn about so that was kind of the formula I followed for quite some time this past year I set a goal at the beginning of year just to make sure that I knocked out one book a month which I don't think is too much a stretch and I know some people that read wait a fucking been what has been read five a week or something makes me feel like a chump when he does that but you know so some people read a lot faster than I do so you could knock out more but I know that what I tend to do is I used to in the past I'd go in these these spurts where it's like if I'm traveling and vacation I'm flying a lot I'm reading a lot then I'm busy and then also I stop reading and then I would go on these you know peaks and valleys and one of the things that I wanted to establish this year was just consistency with reading because I noticed that it creates better content content for me on posts and stuff I put out better content for what we talk about on the show and so this year was more about consistency with me with reading and so that's why I set out the goal that I want to knock out a book a month and right now the way I typically choose books it is it's it's along the lines of things that I'm interested in I don't read a lot of fitness stuff which I think a lot of people think that we would like right now I'm reading I'm reading couple books right now I'm reading subliminal right now I'm reading dot com secrets right now and I'm reading blue waters so typically I'm typically reading two or three books one book I'm reading by myself one book I'm normally reading with Katrina or listening to an Audible and then I normally have a book that I'm listening to to and from work so you know dot com secrets is internet marketing subliminal is about unconscious unconscious neuroscience and then blue ocean strategy is business right so you know those I tend to those are kind of the topics that I like to learn about I've actually read a lot of books this year that were referred to me at one of my favorite things about sharing what I'm reading is I get audience of people that will inbox me and be like oh if you like that you should read this Adam and so I've read quite a few books this year that were purely recommendations from other people based off of what they've seen that I'm reading and I know people too that know that I love to challenge one way so I'll read a books with opposing like so I already have the book lined up for after blue ocean strategy and it's called red something I forgot what it's called but it's basically the opposite the opposite yes it's like the opposite theory right it's the opposite theory of so that way I can get two perspectives right this whole book is because anyone's silly to think that there's not going to be a bias in every book that you read it's written by it's written by a human right and we all have bias you know we all have political sides to us we all have personal views religious views whatever and so anything is going to have some sort of bias and because of that I love and I really this is a page out of Paul check I mean I I aspire to be like this one day where my library looks like his where if somebody came in you would just trip out on how different his readings the counter the counter the whole spectrum yes there on yeah you mean you just have like the vegan miracle and then like paleo solution and you know all like right next to each other and all different religions and practices and ideologies that are conflicting of each I just love that and I think that I think everybody should kind of take a page out of that well rounded especially when we've talked about this on the show before I think real quick you can get a lot of confirmation bias because if you tend to oh read this book and then what do they do if you read this book you should read this book too oh if you read that book you should read this book too and guess what they're all saying the same god damn message saying in different words it's like you know instead of that actually why don't you read the book that is completely counter that refutes it yeah right that refutes that and then actually and then gather your knowledge like that so you know I like to read like that I like to challenge my own way of thinking and philosophies and but I those are kind of the subjects I like I like psychology too so I know I picked up a book the other day that wasn't that I don't remember the title of it but I just went to the bookstore the other day and I'll just grab a bunch of topics I like I really really really love books however I don't read a lot of them believe it or not I don't read a lot of actual books the way I read is I read articles I read studies I read magazines I read you know I belong to forum groups that that you know some of them are economics some of them are science some of them are nutrition some of them are political you know whatever you know some of them are entrepreneur and then people on there will post interesting articles or studies or you know debates or discussions and that's where I consume 99% of the information that I consume I will say this though I go through spurts of where I'll pick up a book and read a book and when I do that I tend to read a whole bunch in a real short period of time like I'll have like a one month period where I really want to read books and I haven't had one in a couple years but when this happens I'll read you know in a month I can read as many as 10 books all at once so it hasn't happened like I said for a few years we'll see what happens the other thing that happens to me is I'll read a book and once I feel like I got the idea I stop reading the book I do you know how many books I've read halfway through no I've done that a lot yeah I do that I do that a lot once I feel like the book I have a 50 page rule really I got to read the first 50 pages yeah I have a 50 page rule I give every book at least 50 pages and shelf it well I mean if it's no not always it's if I I'll give every book no matter how slow of a start is at least 50 pages and if I if I feel like I already know where it's going like okay I'll give an example although I did finish it because Kashmir and I were going together the the alchemist like I I read that book so late like everyone's been telling me to read that book for like 10 years or whatever and I was just like I never got to it Courtney just read that I finally read it and people just love that book and I think so many people I was like oh well I've heard this message told a million different ways and a million other books that I've read already so even though I listened to the whole thing because Katrina was enjoying it I was like I was telling her like okay this is what's going to happen he's going to do this and this is this and this is the moral of the story and this is why I was like so I get books like that too where I'll read a book and because I feel like I can I already get the message it's trying to to give and I it's like why should I I don't want to read the rest yeah I'd rather I'd rather read something that's going to be like oh shit well once I feel like I get the message and then I feel like they start repeating themselves or trying to make different cases for it then I'm the last book that I read that was really a full book that was really compelling that was different New Earth for you I'm sorry New Earth no no oh well a New Earth was really good that was definitely fantastic I've heard you talk about that more than anything yeah no no that was a fantastic book then before that the one I was just thinking right now was many lives many masters which is a very interesting book my sister loved that one did she very interesting book it got me to think of things a little differently around this time this is when I was you know because my family's Catholic so I was raised Catholic then I became atheist pretty hardcore this book got me to kind of where I'm at now where I'm more of an agnostic you know I kind of I don't believe there's nothing but I also don't believe in one particular thing and very very interesting book good read fascinating but other than that man it's just fucking I just read articles it's funny too because people think I read books all the time but I well you know why because and this just happened to us this morning you were talking about a study and I'm reading it in a book that I'm reading right now oh and you've already read the study in probably just by itself PubMed or isn't in an article because that's how you read and you were familiar with what I was trying to explain that the book gave a whole chapter around me understanding it and then explain and then talking about the study where you're somebody who goes directly to the source a lot like much much of the books that are that we read at least all of us are into are based off a lot of these science especially when we're talking about neuroscience consciousness shit like that which you're very much so into you've already read all the studies for it you get you get the premise like so I'm going to spend my I'm going to spend the next couple of weeks reading this book that you grasp already because you've already read the study so everybody get I think everybody gets information and that's a good different ways yeah yeah I mean I intended you know cereal boxes for you right cereal and usually yeah like Dr. Seuss and Marvel Comics hey bro do not knock on fucking Dr. Seuss because I still read it to my kids he's what he's in my opinion he's the greatest philosopher all time I love it I I'm not knocking that I will I will fight that all day long I think he's the greatest philosopher all time yeah no I like a lot of my clients tend to recommend books and so that's usually where I tend to get my ideas for them for the most part because they're all just like killing it in business and life and I'm always very receptive to you know any kind of advice like this is going to be a great read for you right now because where you are in life like for instance reinventing yourself as one that I've been reading quite a bit and it's just like and it's not that I've been going through like a hard year or anything but it's been challenging at times for like you know new ventures and different things and you know how things are are you know they're unavailable how things aren't they're unavailable and like what other really massively successful like entrepreneurs have done in those situations and they highlight a lot of different stories in there from you know it just it's encouraging you know it's like you know you could try some idea over here and fucking fall flat on your face but like they've done it a million times you know like a lot of the most successful people have done this repeatedly and it's just stuff like that like it comes up you know for me it's it's situational like if it's something like I'm trying to learn something very specific or I'm like getting really into tech like I read a lot of tech journals and I'll read like a tech book that's very just like manual driven like here's how this works and I like try to learn like okay well what's the science behind like making an app and like what are they trying to configure and what's what's in this like you know wireframe and why do they structure it this way and so that's the kind of stuff I'm like I'm like okay if I'm into this I'm really into this or you know if we're going in this direction I want to know you know the behind the scenes kind of stuff that like like they're engineering you know behind things do you guys read a lot of fiction ever do you ever read fiction I used to I haven't in a long time I used to be science fiction a lot have you so you've never have you there's no fiction book that you can remember that you read not since fucking high school really not since I won't I won't either you won't get me to really because you know because for many years I didn't even like to read being completely transparent mm-hmm just uh I was that person once school ended and I was working I was making money you know me I was like the small brain me right 20 years old or whatever it's just like I'm done I don't need a reading more I've got my job I love what I'm doing sure I'm reading certifications and getting more knowledge in my field but outside of that not at all and then that I made that transition at 25 it's interesting because same thing here same here I don't I'm not pulled to fiction however I have definitely read fiction and fiction provides different quality mm-hmm it's uh it's reading for leisure but it's really it's expansive it's it really helps you to stretch a bit with your yeah with your thought process I've I've recalled reading fiction and it improving my creativity in my thought process indirectly almost because you get lost in the book you know while you're kind of in there and reading and reading these stories and so I haven't done it and I don't do it very often I think the last fiction trying to think what I read Da Vinci Code that's fiction oh that's cool that was that was a book that was I like that series yeah dude I you can't get me to do it dude I just a couple times I've like dabbled in it tried and I'm like nah it's not for me so it's not I feel like I'm gonna read I just ordered 1984 yes now that's that's fiction yeah but that's got I know there's lots of parallels I know a lot about it yeah well isn't Taylor's reading Player One isn't he that looks that that intrigued me a little bit because that's kind of so yeah sci-fi I could see myself like certain sci-fi because that was tripod pod wouldn't that follow one of that category would it go under there because I feel like it's fiction but then it could be a reality you know if we keep heading this direction so that's and I get where you're going with the create creativity thing it's just it's hard it's harder to make time for that right because if you're reading like oh this is about business or oh this is about you know this thing I'm going to learn versus I'm going to spend well in two hours just you know relaxing I mean for the most part for any available time I have now is like my commute's very long so I tend to stick more with podcasts or like if I if I get into audiobooks which I've been meaning to really dive deeper into that but I've been so compelled by people's conversations like I really get into it well that's a new what I mean if you talk to a new form for me it is if you talk to a lot of millennials this is how they learn this is exactly how they learn and that's podcast podcasting is become a huge platform for education which is again part of you know our secret sauce is that we try and entertain and inform at the same time right it's not just purely information so you get bored to fucking death listening to somebody yeah but then also you get little nuggets of good information you know I want to leave this this question with some advice for people who are listening you know young trainers or whatever or people doesn't even matter with the yeah doesn't even matter follow your when it comes to reading follow your passion feed your passion because that's going to lead you to learn lots of amazing information so whatever's feeding your brain feed you know seek it out and it doesn't matter if it's articles it doesn't matter if it's great advice you know magazines or if it's books or podcasts like feed that passion feed the beast and it'll grow and expand and you'll no it's that's such a that's such great advice because that goes back to what I was just saying how I don't want like I don't like to read or I don't like to read the fiction because it's just I'm not feeding yeah it's like don't force something that you're not into like just because someone's telling you you should learn more about this if you're not into it don't you know it goes back to that great advice I got when I was younger just stop looking at the things you're not good at focus on what you're already good at be great at it become a master at the things that you love and so the books that I read are in the similar world that I love to learn about but then I try and challenge the philosophies behind each one of them right I think that's a cool way to go next question is from Rosie Rel what are the effects of muscle growth when cannabis is used right after a workout is it because are they thinking because the anti-inflammatory is that why I think maybe or I think a lot of people like to smoke weed after a hard workout you know what I mean it's it kind of you know you're amped up you're in the gym maybe you had a pre-workout maybe you had coffee I do you hammer yourself then you blaze then you know you smoke a little cannabis then you're eat the munchies and you have your post-workout meal I mean it sounds like it sounds like a very familiar recipe that I know a lot of people in the muscle building world follow here's the thing about cannabis and muscle growth okay the jury is still out in terms of how cannabis affects muscle protein synthesis and the like but we do have some clues and some of these stuff I'm going to say you might not like to hear THC in particular in at least initially has a negative effect on testosterone production in animals it's pretty predictable that you're going to reduce testosterone by a little like a five or 10 percent in humans the studies are murky uh regular users show no difference in testosterone short-term users show a drop so perhaps what's happening is initially you get a little drop and then afterwards the body balances itself out so there's that it affects hormones like insulin so here's some good news cannabinoids in cannabis are have been shown to improve insulin sensitivity and it's mediated through the liver so this may be a good thing when you're trying to eat your carbs post workout and you want to improve insulin sensitivity to get more of those carbohydrates to where you want them to go and also to reduce you know potential fat gain from being insulin insensitive or having insulin you know issues with your body responding to insulin then there's the anti-inflammatory effects cannabis or cannabinoids have and a a mild very very mild acute anti-inflammatory effect in the words this is also negated when you smoke it right I mean because you're gonna because you're gonna get you're gonna get pro-inflammatory if you if you say you smoke it smoke is the worst way to administer cannabis but let's what the way most people are right so I think you have to address that right so if you're using cannabis for anti-inflammatory properties you're probably just it's a wash because you're wrong because you're smoking as far as the inflammation is concerned you still you're still better off even if you smoke it but for the anti-cancer effects for sure oh yeah now you're at now you're at you're at baseline oh yeah for that for sure but in terms of inflammation there's an acute anti-inflammatory response from cannabis or from cannabinoids but it's super mild in other words if you never have cannabis and then you have it you'll get a little bit of an anti-inflammatory effect now the real anti-inflammatory effects or long-term the the low low exposure low but frequent exposure cannabinoid to cannabinoids has this kind of systemic anti-inflammatory effect in the body which in some cases may be a good thing do I think it's it's going to be pro-muscle building no I don't I think we're lucky if it gives you no effects to muscle growth you're probably not helping yourself by having cannabis post-workout you know what I mean I don't think it's there's there's definitely something going on hormonally from cannabis because and I think I've shared this before in the pocket I know I definitely have talked to you about this always if I if I increase my intake and I'm already not somebody who I don't consider myself like a heavy cannabis user I literally like you know maybe consistently take two puffs off of a joint at night time and increased cannabis intake for me would be anything more than that and so I've had times where I've increased that to double or triple the amount in a day and I actually get a my gyneomastia will flare up Oh, you'll get a little so you for sure something's going on with my testosterone or estrogen levels for that to get flared up and I remember it took me a while before I kind of piece that together because I would get these weird kind of flare ups and I'm like this is weird I'm not doing anything different hormonally I'm not changing my testosterone I'm not taking anything else what's going on and then I kind of go like you know I am smoking more weed than I usually do and I remember the first time I started doing research on I was like oh shit there's some there's a lot of studies that they've showed that there's shows that some correlation with that and so it caused me to start to inspect it more with myself and again I know we're talking anecdotal here it's myself but I have definitely noticed so if you if you're a if you're a kid teenage kid or kid in your 20s and you have gynecomastia which is breast tissue development or a little or swelling at the nipple region and you go to a endocrinologist or endo endocrinologist I always say it wrong Doug always corrects me if you go see a hormone doctor and they'll they'll ask you all kinds of questions and one of the questions they're going to ask you is are you a heavy user of cannabis because it has been linked to that in some studies and there's lots of anecdote it's also it also affects ovulation in women it can have adverse effects on sperm production so for sure something is happening hormonally it's something is something is dude it attaches to one of the most if not the most abundant G protein coupled receptor in the body cannabinoid receptors are everywhere but they're really concentrated in a few areas your brain your liver and your gut and your testicles and your ovaries so all your your reproductive areas are have tons of of cannabinoid receptors so it's going to have some kind of effect on you is it going to I think the abuse of it probably will have a negative effect on a lot of different things but I don't think cannabis is one of those things that you should use and and think it's going to help you you know build muscle no it's definitely not I don't think there's any I don't think you can make any case that it's going to help the cause no I think I could see a fat loss potential fat loss benefit but mainly from the strategic use of particular cannabinoids because again the insulin sensitizing effects in fact there's I think in phase one or phase two trials well we called that a long time ago we called that when we did our marijuana episode almost 500 episodes ago or whatever when we talked about the the future of supplements and that we know making it there will soon make I'm sure they'll make CBD will be yeah they'll make they'll make a fat loss supplement because you can you can make that to me if you're just a normal person that uses cannabis it's not in your best interest to go out of your way to use it more to try and get benefits for fat loss or building muscle in in my recommendation being another person who also uses cannabis I try and use it as judiciously as possible I try and come off of it for a week or two every now and then like it's not something I'm trying to promote extra in my life it's remember this your your body produces its own cannabinoids which are molecules that are very similar to the ones that are found in marijuana this is why your body even reacts to cannabinoids from marijuana plant is because you already have these receptors that are that you evolve to have that respond to your body's own production of cannabinoids otherwise known as endocannabinoids if you supplement with phytocannabinoids that that is cannabinoids from plants externally so now I'm eating or I'm smoking or I'm vaping tons of cannabinoids it's perfectly within reason to think that there's going to be a feedback system in the body that's going to sense a higher amount of cannabinoids and is going to lower its own natural production of cannabinoids and or reduce the density of its own cannabinoid receptors in other words having lots of cannabis causes your body to adapt in ways that may not be favorable because now you become you know more dependent because now if you go off the cannabinoids now you've got the slower amount of cannabinoids but you've also got you know you've got lower amounts of that your body's producing and a lower concentration of receptors now you may be in a bad situation where you can cause like an endocannabinoid deficiency syndrome or something like that in extreme cases which has been observed in some people so it's definitely one of those things you can abuse I know it's cool right now because it's becoming legalized and we talk about it all the time and we joke around but it's not something I think you should go out a way to use unless you have a medical reason for it in which case it could be a miracle drug for some people right you know I've seen I just think you gotta be careful like I mean it was like it's like the keto craze right now too we talked about all the great benefits behind it and then what happens without everybody likes to take everything to extreme you're seeing that with cannabis yes we're learning more and more about all of its benefits and how it can be a game changer and life changer is it doesn't would not give you a reason to go and start to introduce it into your life for any of those reasons like unless you have like you said you have a medical condition that okay let's see if this helps you well the rewards totally outweigh the risk like if you have cancer there and you know that there's cannabinoid that cannabinoids kill cancer in many studies and you're you're trying to do everything you can to cure yourself one of the things you might want to do or look into is high doses of edible cannabis all throughout the day basically you're going to be stoned really bad all day long which if you didn't have cancer wouldn't be really cool right not a good idea but in that context it's it may be a a total benefit in fact I have and I'm not promoting cannabis for for for cancer killing except before I get you know people come after me but there's lots of anecdote there's lots of study I my dad has a friend who's 75 lung cancer and did not basically they're like you know we're going to try we can try chemo but it's not going it doesn't look good for you so he opted to not do it was given three months to live went and watched the documentary the Rick Simpson story I think it was who's this Canadian man who was synthesizing this can cannabis extracts and giving it to cancer patients and finding that a lot of them were being cured so he went and watched this documentary because my dad recommended it to him because I told him about it and the 75 year old man went got his cannabis card bought highly concentrated cannabis oil had never had marijuana in his life and gradually got himself to the point where he was taking a tremendous amount of this oil every single day because you can build a tolerance and you know that was two years ago no cancer and his oncologist was like 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