 In this episode of Mind Pump the World's number one fitness health and entertainment podcast, we have a lot of fun. We answer fitness and health questions that are asked by our audience and by listeners. But the way we open the episode is with an introductory portion where we talk about current events, we're talking about what's happening in our own lives. We mention our sponsors. So I'm going to give you a rundown of today's episode. We open up by talking about Adam's birthday and Katrina's birthday. They both had a nice celebration this weekend. They don't remember what happened, but it sounds like it was a fun time. Then Justin talked about, I guess there's this drug floating around college campuses called Vigor, better than Adderall. I'm interested. Weird. Then I give a little update on our lack of sleep at home because of baby Aurelia, see a little shit. Then we talk about baby Yoda, the controversy around baby Yoda, cancel culture is going after the best thing that happened in 2020. What won't they come after? You guys need to relax. Then I talk about the COVID vaccine results from Moderna. It's a competing vaccine to the Pfizer one. This one seems to have more effectiveness. Let's see what happens. Then we talk about our PRX shipping snafu. They were sending it to the wrong house. Luckily Justin got on the phone, got them to swing around. So we're about to get a bunch of new equipment from PRX. New toys. Now PRX makes the best home gym equipment. Okay. Right now gyms are closing down again. Maybe if you're scared to go to the gym, work out at home, here's the problem. Not a lot of space at home. Well, here's how PRX solves that. All their equipment is sturdy commercial grade, but folds into the wall. So you get a squat rack that literally folds into the wall and has like 12 inches off the wall. That's it. 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Dude, can I tell you guys how much I hate YouTube commenters? Oh, you pay attention? Never. What did you, what got posted recently? Nothing. So it's our, so you know, we, we record the podcast on YouTube. By the way, you can watch our podcast on YouTube too. So I haven't even, I recommend it. But I'll warn you, we got faces for podcasts. Anyway, I go on there and I'm just looking at comments because I haven't visited in a while and some asshole puts, he goes, yeah, I've been listening to these guys for a long time. You think they were jacked, but they're not. Ouch. I was like, wow. I was going for the jugular. Wow, dude. I was like, my feelings are hurt for a second. These are fitness guys. Yeah. I don't know, man. It's been, I want to say it's been like a good year or two since I've been on there. I stay off of there. Yeah. It's terrible for the ego. Oh, it's horrible. I told you guys about when my daughter, you know, she had the bad comments on the Roblox or whatever. I went on there to show her like, Hey honey, you want to see what people say about me? I found one comment where it was a good move. One guy goes, bad chest or something like that. So we're like, what are you doing? Terrible arms. Well, and we wonder why you have these insecure kids that, you know, post constantly of their, you know, half naked photos and when they're in their best shape of their lives and that's all you see. Like, of course, dude, cause that, it's just like a vicious cycle. You go on there and you feel terrible after 15 minutes. Hey, it's your birthday. It is. Damn. It's your birthday. So you're what, are you 39 now? 39. Oh my God. One more year. Yeah. One year, man. It's your last year in your 30s. How do you feel? I feel like I'm definitely almost 40. Really? Yeah. I have to, you know, this, the last, I don't know, probably three, four years that I feel like I felt my age. Like I definitely feel older than what I did before. You know, like last, so last night, so we were supposed to meet this morning and work out together at eight o'clock. Yeah, you guys, somebody showed up. Yeah. So there was a lot of talk last week about, you know what, we haven't trained together in a long time. I have a whole different perspective. I could tell too, by the way. Okay, let's hear your perspective. I learned my lesson with you guys. It's you guys on Friday. Hey, let's meet up on, let's meet up at work like an hour early and lift weights. It was like, yeah. And I, so, so this weekend I'm like, should I show up to work early and work out? I'm like, they're not going to show up. Sure enough. Nobody show up. I worked out at home this week. Well, okay. Back at nobody. Somebody showed up. Yeah, Justin showed up. Did you actually show up? Yeah. 845. Full workout. No, you didn't. What time did you show up? No, I was here at like 810. Well, first, okay, first of all, it was, it was, there's a lot of conversation around this on Friday. Okay. And everybody seemed pretty excited. Even Doug seemed like you might get in on it. All right. Everybody was like, yeah. There was a lot of synergy. Yeah. There was a lot of like, yeah, let's do that. Let's, let's, let's, let's, you know, let's beat these holidays. Right. Let's get together early in the morning, train together. Get ahead of it. Right. Right. So there's a lot of that going on on Friday. So I'm like, okay, I'm cool with that. Knowing that this is my birthday, Katrina and I's birthday weekend. Yeah, I want to hear about that by the way. Right. And I'm like, okay, yeah, let's do that. So I sent a text message last night. Yeah, last night. Last night, I sent a text message like, Hey, who's on for eight o'clock tomorrow morning? And no, I got crickets except for Justin. And Justin's answer wasn't like, yeah, let's do this. It was sure. Sure. Sure. I'll be there. Sure. Sure says to me, okay, if everybody else is doing it, I'm in. You know what I'm saying? Like, and then it's confirming. And so even though I got it just as sure, I was still planning on coming up this morning, but last night I had red velvet cake and this gets back to your first question of like, feeling my age. Somewhere between, you know, early years of life to, I don't know, 30 something, I no longer could eat cake like I used to be able to eat cake. You know, I could, I could eat a whole cake, dude. I could, I could smash a whole cake and be completely fine the next day. No problem. And now not only can I not have a full cake, I, I can't have more than, and I think it's, I think if I did the measurement right, it's like, I got two inches, like an inch and a half to two inch slices, all I'm allowed any. Why what happens? Because you go above that and then I'm fucked. This is the saddest story I've ever heard. If I have, I, I can have like, I can have it in moderation, right? I can have like little, a little bite or a small little sliver. But if I have like a man slice, man slice means I'm fucked up for the rest of the night. Yeah. And last night I went in, I had a man slice, not only did I have a man slice, I sat down and I watched. Full knowing that you were knowing. Yeah. Just, I just said, you know what, fuck it. I'm going to, I'm going to be on the toilet later tonight. Who cares? And I had a man slice. I watched Mandalorian. I watched the right stuff. Both those episodes were in my queue. How long does it take to hit you? About two hours, I'd say. That fast? Yeah. Two hours. So two hours. Two hours. The first one is like, and, and, and you know what, this is probably what happened to me, right? So I go to the bathroom and it was like, that wasn't so bad. No, no, that's the, that's the prequit. So I go back for a second slice, right? Oh, you idiot. That's like the guy who eats the, the edible was like, yeah. Yeah. I don't really feel it. I don't feel it. Give me a double another one. So for me, and I don't know if anybody else can relate to this, but I know like what, like, if I have to shit at three o'clock in the morning, if a shit wakes me up, it's never good. Yeah, that's no, there's no, there's healthy shits don't wake you up. Right. Exactly. And by the way, anybody else who does this and things that's normal, that's not a normal like thing. You shouldn't have to get up at three o'clock in the morning. No, that means your body has decided that shitting is more important than sleeping at that moment. Yeah, exactly. Some bats have it. Exactly. Some bats have it. I just picture Adam with his like, his velvet cake, you know, and he's just like sitting there with his little birthday hat on. Right, like in a robe. I deserve this. I'm going to pay for it, but I don't care. I'm just eating it all up. So yeah, this morning when, you know, I'm up, I was up honey early to get here to list, but I'm like, oh, stomachs bothering me. And then you guys celebrated Katrina's birthday too. Yes. Now she turned 40. She turned 40. We're one day apart and she tells you looks way younger than you. I don't want to make you feel bad, but that's true. We need to buy you points way younger than you do. I don't know about that. We went to, we went to, so we're heading out to our, I got one of our favorite spots. Can't take the assist, can't you? That's perfect, Sal. He didn't even go with that. That's okay. Keep going. It's fine. She listens, but it's fine. So what happens? Why am I wrong? I remember I should just end this story right now, actually. You have to tell it now. Well, we went to, uh, you know, what's the, what's the wine, you know, beverage place that's like fucking popular over here? Bevmov? No. Not the other one. 7-Eleven? No. Jesus Christ. Wine and more or something like that? Yeah. It's that one. Whatever. It's that big one. The wine. No, no. The alcoholic of the group, smoke up. Thank you, Doug. Uh, yeah. So we go in there and, uh, Katrina's like, I, so Katrina is, you know, it's her 40th. That's what we're celebrating first. We're not really celebrating mine. We're celebrating her birthday. We're going out to sanctuary, our, our favorite spot that we always go to, um, because it was supposed to be this massive party in Cabo and that got all canceled because of COVID. So we're going out to sanctuary. We're going to do our normal thing out there where we, we, we swing by, we pick up, we go to pick up a bottle of Dom and we go in the, the, uh, the wine place or whatever. And, uh, I don't have my wallet on me. So she's picking it up. And, but we're both in the store. We got our mask on and we're waiting in line. And this lady, this lady with like this, this, the 80s hairspray. Yes. She had, uh, like a shield. Like a helmet. Yeah. Like a helmet. Oh yeah. Hair bear. Yeah. Yeah. Hair bear. Hair bear. Remember that? Yeah. Yeah. That's what it looked like, right? So we get, we get in line and I'm like standing off to the side. I'm not even like right in the checkout, right? I'm waiting for her to get it. And the lady's like, I'm going to need to see both your IDs. And Katrina pulls her out where I was like, Oh, I don't, I didn't bring my wallet in. And she's like, well, then I can't sell this to you. And I'm like, are you serious right now? And she's like, yeah, no, you both need to have your ID. In fact, you shouldn't even be in the store if you don't have your ID. And so I like pull my mask down. I take my hat off. And I'm like, yeah, I don't have my ID. And I'm like, like trying to be like playful about it. Like, you know, it's okay. Look at all my face. Yeah. Look at the bald head. Look at the gray hairs in my beard. I knew what's happening. Probably older than 21, right? And she's like, was literally being resistant about it still. And I'm like, are you really going to make me leave? And I've got 1981 tattooed on my arm. I've got gray in my beard. I'm balding. I was like, I really need to go out to just, and my wife is buying the fucking champagne. So I need to show you my great piece. She finally let it go. But it was like, I got this like stern talking to about coming in the store without an idea. So yeah. So anyways, so we get our, our champagne and then then client of mine gets us a bottle of Krug. And then her, and then we're like, okay, we got two bottles of champagne. That's, that's a lot already for the two of us. Then we stopped by her moms on our way out before we were leaving Max, right? This is, by the way, too, this is the first time that we've ever left Max overnight. So this is the first since, since Max was born. Yes. First time away for a whole night. Right. Oh, it just screams freedom. Yeah. You guys are going to fuck up. So yeah, this has never, never happened yet. So, and so then we swing by her moms. Her mom buys us a bottle of Moet. So we've got three bottles of champagne. And then, and then Katrina tells me on our way out there, she's like, I want to try shrooms. Oh, no. And I'm like, are you serious right now? Like you want to do that also on top of all this? And she's like, yeah, I mean, I'm glad you're telling me now and not before because you know my paranoid ass. Oh yeah, I know, I know better than to tell you because then you would tell me all the things I can't do, right? So anyways, we go out there and it's like, I don't know, 430 or so. And we start to have the champagne and we have like cheese crackers and all that stuff and watch the sunset. And man, with that first bottle just goes down so smooth. And then the second bottle before you know it. And here's the kicker of all this. So, and if you watched my stories, you saw, I did a little video of the, like us getting started, the three bottles of champagne. And then the, I brought the Z Biotics. And so in the video, I'm like, oh, before we take it, let's take a video of the Z Biotics, right? So we do the video of the Z Biotics real quick. And then I rip mine off and then she doesn't open her. So I'm like, are you going to take that? And she's like, come on, honey. She's like, we've been together for 10 years. Have you ever seen me have a problem with alcohol? Oh, famous last words. Ooh, that was a challenge. Yeah, you're challenging the alcohol gods. And so I go, no, you should take it. She's like, and she just looks at me. She's like, have you ever, I've never seen. So by the way, I've never seen Katrina throw up. She's never thrown up in 10 years that we've been together. She's got the, she has the gene in her family, if I haven't already told that on the show before. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So it's like runs in her blood. She could have like a bottle of Jack, get up the next morning at five o'clock and get a workout and like it's no thing. It's like, you remember in Indiana Jones, where he meets up with that girl that was like taking shots and like drinking everybody under the table. That's what I picture Katrina. She is 100% like that. And I can't hang at all. Like I just, it's why a lot of times I got to leave the family events like early because it's just like they just keep going and going and going and going all night long. And like I have a few drinks and I get sick. So today's not even a commercial for Zbiotic, but I'm telling you guys right now, I am so fucking blown away every time I use this stuff because this is, I have no business having this much to drink. I mean, three bottles of, one bottle of champagne polished off has already like got me good. Two bottles is like, okay, now I'm an asshole. Three is like, I'm asking for it. You used to get hangovers from one drink. Yeah, I mean. Yeah, I'm so sensitive to alcohol. That's that's weird for sure. So I had the Zbiotic, she didn't have it. And oh man, she was bad, dude. Oh no. Oh yeah, she was bad. And then of course the shrooms hit the same time. No, no. It was just like holding their hair back. And she was like, and then I, and then I was like. Did you guys at least have fun first? Or did it just get sick? No, I mean, we had like, you know, blackout fun for like two hours. Hold on. So how long was this party? I need to know the time frame. Okay, so it was like 4.30. I want to say is when we, when we started it. And I can go back to double check, but it was right around, it was before sunset. I think sunset's 5.30. So we started about 4.30. And it was a wrap by about 9.00. You wasted no time. You know, what's funny about this is that, so Jessica and I went to Mexico with my cousins and friends, and they're all married with kids. And I have two kids, but they were old. And this is before we had Aurelius. So it's just Jessica and I, and we're there. And it's, we're just at a resort. And everybody's going hard as soon as they get there, shots and drinking. And Jessica's looking at me like, why is everybody going? What's the race? Why is everybody going, I'm like, honey, you don't understand. I said, they're all parents of small kids. This second they go out the door, they're in a rush to get, to just go crazy. I said, you just wait. And I know it's going to happen too. Aurelius is going to be a year old or whatever. Leave them with mom. I wasn't expecting that. You know, I made this big joke about like, you know, who's going to cry first, Max or Katrina and stuff. And totally honest, like, we didn't check in or nothing. Like, I don't know if that makes us bad parents or what. There was no phone calling. There was no like, it was, he was with my sister. And my sister is like a godsend, man. I mean, she, he's, and we, she came in like, she flew in like three days early. Cause one of the things we wanted to make sure was that she was acclimated to his routine so that it would be like a smooth transition, right? So there was no, and so we did that. So like the couple of days before she was like, She was posting pictures of him. Yeah. She was getting, she was getting them ready for bed and reading to him and all the, all like the whole routine so that when we left, it would just be hopefully this smooth transition. And the way we looked at it was, you know, my sister obviously would call me right away if there was any sort of issues. So we just said, okay. How terrible. She calls you right when you're Oh God. Looking back now, I think of like, oh my God. Did you imagine that? Or what? You guys need to come back. Well, so the funny part is right. We only went, so sanctuary is only like 45 minutes to an hour from our house, right? And part of the reason why we made that decision is the first night of going away from Max was that if anything happens, we can always just get in the car and come back. No, you can't. After this all happened, I think back I go like, Oh my God, like we may as well have been fucking halfway across the country because there's no way we would get back from that whole situation. But now that's, you guys had a good time though. Yeah. Before all that. Yeah. It was, it was, it was. Dude, you had, the bet I swear, when you finally get that break, it's like you have the vacation sex, you have the connecting, the party, and you only need to do that once every six months or so. So none of those six months or so, you'll do that again. And it's a big marker too. I mean, you had a lot of factors going into that. Yeah. And that's why I was okay with like, wow, now I like that. I mean, this is obviously not, I mean, I see Doug looking at me over here when I'm talking about shrooms and alcohol and I'm like, dad, he's just great. He's talking about shiitake mushrooms. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right, Doug? So that's what we're doing. Yeah. So he was in Oregon. So it's all good. I always see the dad look coming, right? When I get that. But it's like, hey, you know what? Fucking Katrina doesn't have ever asked for any of that stuff and doesn't ever want to go hard like that. So I thought, she's 40. She could do whatever the fuck she wants. That's awesome though. Yeah. Yeah. So we got down. Oh, good deal, man. I'm glad you guys did that. But the boy was okay. Yeah. He did really, really good. I was, I was really happy to hear that. Which, because that was the other thing too. We talked about it before, like her and I are like, please God, please be good, please be good. Because my sister is probably going to be one of the go to people that if we do this, we'll take care of him, right? That's probably one of the number one people that we trust with him while we're not. And so Katrina and I were talking about, man, what if he has like a night like the other night where he wasn't feeling well and he's this and that? Like my sister's got to be up all night. She changes her mind. Yeah. Then she's never going to want to do it again. It's like that one time she did it. Yeah. And then she's never. The room, the whole floor. Yeah. So we were like praying, please be good. And she did the next morning. She's like, oh my God, this kid is unbelievable. Like how fun and easy he is. I'm like, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It's perfect. Good boy, son. That's the way to end it. So speaking of drugs, since this is part of the conversation, have you heard of this new drug, Vigor? Vigor? Yeah. No. Okay. So it's like, apparently this is like sweeping college campuses. This and that. It's supposed to be like even more powerful than Adderall. What? Yeah. Like it's, it's some kind of like limitless type drug and so, so far. Yeah. And this is all the claims are that like, so far they haven't found a lot of, you know, problems with people having side effects and things like that. And I'm just like, wait a minute. You know, I'm sure it's like long term from now where we'll see again, lots of things. It's an herbal supplement. It's a supplement. It's not even a drug. Yeah, yeah. Oh, wow. I think, well, from what I found, so I'm looking it up online and it says it's confirmed that it contains soldenfinil, which is the active ingredient Viagra. Okay. Yeah. So it's part of that. So that's why I'm so excited. Is it limitless like for your brain or limitless for like? This is what they were touting on the article. Which one is it for? I got to see, maybe I'm reading the wrong thing. I would love to see that. Yeah. I know. I was just curious about that. You heard of it. Stronger than Adderall's, what is it, crystal meth? Yeah, I was just going to say, that's one step away from it. I don't know if it's like more hyper focus or what that is. I don't know that necessarily it gives you like, all this energy. Oh, these kids in college. Yeah, I know. They're trying it all for us. They're all crazy. Yeah. Jessica had a rough night last night. The boy was just not, he was just not. Yeah, that's the one I read, Doug, that says it has Viagra in it. Yeah, she was just, my son was not letting her nap or sleep at all. Oh, yeah. At all. So I, you know, to it, so she goes into his room in the middle of night to like, try to feed him and try to, you know, allow me to sleep because I have to work the next day. 2 a.m. she comes in. She's like, we're gonna need to switch rooms and she can tell it to her voice that she's like, ready to, she's fried. So I'm like, of course, Sonny, let me go in the other room. I'll take the other whatever. She woke up this morning and she had like a 15 minute nap or whatever. She's like, I'm feeling really emotional. I'm like, you have no sleep, honey. So this is the beginning of the. So are you okay in the storm? But she's killing, I mean, she's doing amazing. She's managing the whole thing, but that sleep deprivation is a mother. So I'm curious, you're the other room. What's the bed setup look like for you? So we have the, we have Araleas has his crib. He's not in there yet, obviously, because right now he's next to us in our room usually. But then there's a like a fold out bed that you can sleep in. So this is what it'll be interesting for me with you because this was kind of like, we had like the, you know, the hand me down, you know, our spare bedroom was like awful for forever. And when I began sleeping in there more and more nights, then you found me about, I don't know, I want to say it was about a month or so in of having nights just like you just explained. Then I was online like searching for nice beds. And so now our bedroom has like all the top of the line sheets and down comforter and a new mattress. Because I was like, okay, the first couple nights, you know, it was because it's on a whim and it's last minute like that. It's like, oh, whatever. Exactly. But yeah, because I had one sheet. Yeah. I'm curious to how long it'll be like a okay bed before you finally just go like, uh, okay, I'm investing. Yeah, I think I'm going to have to change that. Yeah. Hey, you mentioned Mandalorian. Did you guys see the controversy? Which I, what's wrong with people? What is, what's happening? Dude, it's Baby Yoda. It's a, are we getting trolled though? Are we getting trolled though? That's what I think. I hope so. I really hope so. So, so for people who don't know Baby Yoda in the episode, he eats, they're, they're offering passage to this like frog lady who has her eggs in this container of liquid. And anytime Baby Yoda gets next to it, he sneaks and eats a couple of them. Which is funny. Hilarious. My kids and I were dying because he's this little like cute, you know, predator. Predator, yeah. He eats little things. Well, you remember Yoda in Star Wars, original one, right? Yeah. He eats little frogs and all kinds of little things all the time. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, come on. So what was the controversy? They said it was misogynistic because something to deal with that this. He's not even human. I know. It's the patriarchy. It was that this was like a woman trying to transfer and to. No, it was a frog. Continue. It was a frog lady. Yeah. It was a frog lady who was trying to have, you know, bring her eggs over to a frog man so he can fertilize it and then they can have babies and keep their species going. Oh. And because baby Yoda was eating him, it was like this. I thought it was hilarious. I mean, sometimes I feel like we're just getting. That's a lot of projection that's involved. You might be right. Train of thought. It might be one tweet from some more. It was a couple of a tweet. A couple of people because I saw the, you know, who did a little thing on it was the one minute guy from Barso, I saw did a whole thing on it. And he shared a, you know, there was a handful of tweets from people that did it. But, you know, it's funny how we, where we're at now. Like we're in this time now where if you would all have a following, right? So if you would have a blue check and you've got tens of thousands or millions of followers and you say something stupid, it becomes, it's news now. It's automatic. Like something like back in the day, I remember, do you guys remember this transition too? I remember sitting in the living room with Katrina and going like, oh my God, the news is reporting tweets. Yeah. And I thought that was the most ridiculous thing I had ever heard or seen. And that's the norm now. It is ridiculous. I know. Or even if you're just a normal person and you put out a tweet and then people want to use your tweet to... Politicize it. Yeah. Like, oh, this is what people are thinking. No, it's what a few idiots are thinking. Some moron just said. Yeah. There's always going to be idiots out there and just makes it look like, so you're probably right. That's what I mean. Like now, like some... Accusations of genocide. He's a creature. It's hilarious. He's a puppet. Yeah. But you know, all it takes is one idiot that has a million followers. Twitter and they put it out there and it makes news. You know what? Here, I'm going to speak to the few idiots that actually thought that. If you watch the Mandalorian, they're killing people left and right. Yeah. Nobody cares. Where's all the outrage for that? It's all... There's everything all the time. We're about the squid guys that just, like, ate it, you know, in the next episode. Nobody would be outraging about that. No, let's get mad at Baby Yoda. The team squid. The best thing of 2020. Let's just get mad at him. That may be the best thing of 2020. You know what I'm saying? You might be right. Speaking of good things of 2020, did you see Moderna, the pharma company, they came out with their tests of their vaccine? Did you see this? Uh-uh. Comparator to Pfizer? Yes. So this is what I love about what's happening right now is you have different pharmaceutical companies. 92% accurate. 94.5% accurate. Oh, I was just kidding. So for real. Yeah. Now, here's the thing. I'm a little bit like, okay, how are they tweaking these studies to make it look like it's more or less than the other guy? Like, what's the deal? But yeah, they came out. There's this 94.5% effective. So now we have two vaccines in trials from different companies who are competing to see which one is going to be. We just went up above Russia. I'll take that. That's true. They were 92. They had 92. And now he's got 94. You know what's going to happen? I feel like some pharma companies are going to come out with the vaccine just to compete and they're going to be like, ours is 94% accurate. But side effects include erections and larger breasts. So just be careful. Well, did you see the extremes they were saying the tweets about that? You're all excited about a vaccine that's 92% accurate, but it only has a 0.01% chance of getting you in the first place. So I thought that was kind of interesting. I mean, I know that's going to fucking rattle half the people out there, but I thought that was funny. Well, did you read about the side effects that people were reporting from the vaccine? No, is there? Yeah, so apparently you feel like shit. So people are... And this was for the Pfizer one, I think it was, that when they gave them the vaccine, they feel like they're sick for a couple of days, maybe mild fever, headache. Well, that's like the flu shot is like that. Is it? Yeah, it has happened like that. Really? Yeah, that's why I'm not a fan of it. I took it one time and then after that, I never took it again. What happened? Three days. Sometimes there's active culture, right? Well, I think that's how they do it, right? I mean, they basically are... It's supposed to be dead virus. Yeah, it's supposed to be dead, but it's not always true. The next three days, I had like a nasty flu. So that was what kept me from doing it again. It was like, everyone's like, oh, I gotta get the flu shot. I gotta get the flu shot. And this was like a decade ago. Get the flu shot. The next three days, I have the flu. And it's nasty. And I'm like, well, I'd rather roll the dice and fucking see if I get it or not get it then. Yeah. Oh, interesting. And that's not that uncommon either. I'm not the only person that... Now, I know that there's a reaction sometimes because it's an immune reaction, but I didn't know that you would feel that bad. Oh, yeah. I've only had a flu shot once and I didn't notice anything. That one time I had it? That's the only reason why I haven't did it again because the one time I did it, I had flu-like symptoms for the next three days. And the one with the fucking point is... How many times have you guys gotten the flu in your lives? Like the actual flu. Me too. Yeah. I've only had a one. That's it. How about you? Probably a few times. You sure? Yeah. You sure it's not a cold? I'm pretty sure. Yeah. No. I mean, I'm puking in your guts up. I don't think you're... That's a cold, you know. I don't really get that from a cold. That might be a different virus, like the stomach one. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe. I mean, I don't have anything to prove that. They're also saying that... Because coronavirus has also caused the common cold. So, COVID-19 is the one that is the bad one right now, right? But there's lots of coronaviruses that have been around. And they're saying that some cold strains that cause the common cold can give you partial immunity against COVID-19. So, if you've gotten certain colds in the past, that you may have partial protection of COVID-19, which is good news. Now... Because everybody gets the cold. Okay. This is a little controversial, but have they actually... And I know the WHO had talked about like going back and investigating the origin and everything, because it's still unclear. Like there's different stories. I just get a little irritated that people are like referring to it as science, that it was like in the wet markets, but they haven't even concluded that yet. No, no. That's the overwhelm. I mean, most theories say that that's where it came from. Right. But then there's the contra... You know, the conspiracies that... It escaped the lab and that whole deal. Sure. But they didn't prove that. So, that's conspiracy too. Yeah. I don't know, man. We'll see. Justin, I want to ask you, are we good with the PRX shipment or is it going to the wrong place still? Speaking of conspiracy theories. We got a call. That's total conspiracy. We're getting a bunch of PRX equipment and I guess they were sending it to the house in Truckee. I freaked out. I got a message from Chokey and she goes like, hey, you can tell she's all excited. Like just want to let you know, confirming PRX's order this night, do we need it? And she says, do we need it to make sure that there's anybody at the Truckee house to receive it? And I was like, what? Yeah. I mean, that's a big pallet of... And it's like snowing up there right now. Yeah. So, I was there on the last, okay. So, last time, which was hilarious, right? So, the last time we got the shipment of PRX, I was at the Truckee house and it came in. And I had to be there to make sure. And the trucker backs in and he's like, do you have a forklift? And I'm like, no. You're like at a residential house. Like, no, I don't have a forklift. He's like, oh, I don't know what to tell you then. Like, I don't know how we're going to get this pallet off. I'm like, wait a second. You drove this all the way here and we don't have a way. And he's got like one of those little handheld-like forklifts and then he's got one of those, you know, one of those scissors lifts or whatever. Sure, which does plenty. Yeah. Which, you know, after me telling explaining to him that I don't have any of these tools and he was like, you know. You're going to actually have to do it. Scolding me. Exactly. He had to do it. And that's what it was. It was like, he literally just wanted to back in and then have me do it. Like, he didn't want to have to do anything. And I'm like, well, unfortunately, man, I'm going to need a little bit of your help here to get this thing down. And then they just drop it right there in the driveway. And then, you know, Eli and I had to cut it all up and then take it into the garage piece by piece. And it was a whole ordeal. So when I get that message. Yeah, because it wasn't supposed to come here. Yeah, it wasn't come here. And we have snow all this week coming to Truckee. And all I could think about was, oh my God, imagine them just dropping the pallet in the middle of our driveway with, you know, feet of snow around this thing. But yeah, so we call, I mean, I called and they reversed. They caught them like as they're driving out, thankfully. So yeah, it'll be here. But yeah, somewhere on the order, they just, because we had ordered it up to go there. The last one, they used the same address. Now are we going to have to pay more shipping because they drove halfway there and come over here? No, it'll just take like two extra days. What are we getting? So we're getting, let's see, we got two of the squat racks that fold out. We have like full vertical racks for the plates. And then let's see, what else? We got like a bunch of accessories for all the squat racks. Basically get it decked the whole thing out with new benches and all kinds of stuff. Oh yeah, and then you guys will work out. Yeah, well, we're getting rid of this old piece of crap. We started out like under like lower means. Like I found another company. I'm not going to put them on blast, but I don't really like the squat rack. We're getting out of here. Really? Yeah, we're going to start all over. It's going to be a fresh look. It's going to be awesome. What are we going to do with it? We're going to sell it or give it away? I don't know. Yeah, maybe. We'll see. I mean, right now. I mean, for equipment still like super Jerry's hard to get. Jerry sold the dumbbell rack like 24 hours. Yeah, people are looking. We'll get it. It looks like gyms are going to be closing down again. It looks like it. Do you think so? Yep. Yep, yep, yep. So because the cases are, I mean, they're exploding. Remember the last peak when everybody was freaked out? It's worse already than it was with that last peak. You know what? I saw some memes around this. And yeah, I saw some, well, I know this is funny. It's like, I saw some memes around this and I saw it in, you know, driving with Katrina and I posed the same question to her. I'm like, I don't understand the logic behind the indoor, outdoor situation. And then it's, this is where, this is where, when we, when we have laws that come out that are just stupid, that don't even make sense. It's like gyms cannot operate, you know, no one can operate inside, but they will allow you to have these tents outside. It can only be outdoors if it's indoors, outdoors. Yes, that's why it is. I'm like, okay, so this enclosed outdoor tent is better than a brick building as far as spreading the virus. No, there's no logic behind that. It's just because they, that's what they set the rules up. So people have now made these outdoor tents and everybody's sitting in these outdoor tents. It's like, you may as well be open. Dude, I don't know what they're going to do because if they start passing widespread lockdowns, they're pretty much over it. The whole reason why it's spiking to begin with is people have stopped isolating. They've started visiting with each other. And, and so I don't know how they're going to- Hopefully the government gyms will close down too this time. Yeah, I heard that they stayed open last time, didn't they? Yeah, whoopsies. Yeah. I mean, what are they going to do? Because I think people, people are going to be like, they're not going to want to do it, you know? They got to have a different, I don't know. It's going to be crazy, but I feel really bad for the fitness space because they got crushed last time and the few that remained, they shut them down again. They're going to be totally screwed, you know? So I guess black market gyms are going to be a thing. I think that's what you're going to have is like, what do you call it? Speakeasy? Speakeasy, yeah, Bitcoin pay. Yeah, yeah, you know. Or take cash and then not claim it. Yeah, that's what I fear. It's like, if you make things so crazy, you turn a bunch of law abiding citizens into law breakers and then L laws become something you don't follow. We saw this during the prohibition. A lot of good people because they didn't want to follow that law and now you're already breaking the law. It's like when you go off your diet, like you go off your diet and you go off the whole diet. So people are like, I'm already breaking the law. I might as well- All the way breaking. Studies will show that. They actually show that. That's interesting. Yeah, so I hope they, I don't know. Now are we seeing this across the country right now or is this just California? The whole country is seeing, pretty much every state is seeing an explosion of cases right now. So, and I know Biden said that he would support a nationwide lockdown. And that's good for the economy. No, it's not. Well, there's a lot of side effects. I feel bad for my kids. I keep looking at my kids and I can tell that they're physically depressed. I can tell that their bodies are depressed because they're stuck on their computers all day long. And then I got to force them to go outside and move and I can see them lift up a little bit. And I'm like, oh my gosh. Are you guys both still, are you guys, I mean, how strict are you guys about them wearing their glasses or blue blockers? Very strict. I was going to ask that. I am now. And you guys both have mentioned that you guys do that? I'm not around you all the time. Are you guys like, I would think that you're... Well, it's great. Now it's been, it's been such a ritual that I don't have to tell them. They just kind of do that when they go open their computers and it's just part of it. So it's not like twisting their arm to get it to do that. No, it's just, it's right next to their computer and then they sign in to zoom and they have that. Yours too, so. Yeah. I mean, they're on all day. So, you know, the blue light, if you expose that much has been shown to cause things like headaches and, you know, tension headaches or maybe even damage to your eyes. And then of course, if they're on all day and then at night and they're not getting sunlight. Yeah, but you know how kids are, right? So is this something that either one of you guys have noticed like they, the kids actually like it and notice a difference? Or is this like mama dad, tell me too. Good question. Half the time, half the time they'll notice and do it and the other half the time I have to remind them. Okay. Yeah, that's what I'm curious about because I feel like kids are like, you know, so resilient. They're like, I'm fine. I don't want to wear these stupid glasses, but are they noticing a difference when they do or they don't? Yeah, I don't know if they do, but I definitely notice their behavior is different as a result of it. Yeah, you know what's funny with kids is they don't necessarily have context or things to compare. So for them, this feels like this is how I always feel. Right, I know. I'm convinced that that was how we dieted when we were kids. Right, yeah. Like red velvet cake always messed up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It probably, yeah, yeah, right. I just thought like we called the tood in our house. What? If they got the tood. The attitude. Yes, you know, right away. Like I'm like, where did this come from? Oh, dude. And you start like retracing it and you realize it's things like that. It's like a sugar bomb they just had or it's like, you know, being on the screen. I believe sugar has to be like one of the numbers. The number one, one of the number one things that I know parents agree is that when your kid has a bunch of candy later, I mean it's a joke in a lot of families, right? Like, oh, they go over to grandma and grandpa's and they just, the grandparents intentionally feed them and then they give them back to the parents and then they're wired all night long. Electronics, they same thing. Yeah. When they're on all day, like my son, he's just, he's already a teenager and teenagers tend to be a little gloomy anyway. You know, they kind of, everything sucks kind of attitude. Yeah. Which is normal. That's normal for teenagers. It's just, it is what it is. But when he's on all day, then I have him come downstairs and I have to kind of force them because otherwise he'll go straight to YouTube or straight to whatever and just stay on all day long. So I'll tell everybody, come down, we're going to take a break. We're going to hang out and then we'll hang out. And the first 10 minutes, he's basically negative. Like, we'll be talking about something, you know? And he'll be like, that's not true. This is what happened. And then, or he'll like tease his sister but in a little bit of a mean way or whatever. So I'm just like biting my lip. I'm like, kid, you better, you better lighten up, dude, because you're about to go back to the 1800s with your electronics. I'm going to give you a candle. Yeah, it's funny. Little sundial. You know? So yeah, yesterday I was like, you could just leave, you know, stop hanging out with us. And then he kind of got the picture. He's like, I don't want to leave. I'm like, all right. Yeah, we're trying to institute like family game nights. Like once a week at least, start with that, then maybe a few more times. But like just something to get them off of like wanting to be on there. Yeah, give me some ideas. So we do, we play UNO. We play Rummy Cube. We don't play Monopoly anymore. Blockus is a fun one. Okay, block. That's a great one. Monopoly starts fights. That always starts fights. Monopoly is a bad one. Yeah, that does. Is it really? Oh, yeah. Dude, people get really upset. Yeah, yeah. Why? You land on their property. Because you lose all your money. And the other guy's laughing. You know, I'm just like, I can't like, you know, show them. That's funny. That they can just win easy. Yeah, that's really funny. You know, I'll take your money. Yeah, we play UNO a lot. And we play with the altered rules, you know, where you could stack the cards. Hey, how about the book? Or sorry. How about the book I sent over to you? You already had it. I thought that was really interesting. Oh, the Tettle Twins. Yeah. Yeah. So that's good stuff. It teaches about markets. My sister actually was asking about things to like, and it obviously maxes a little early for that stuff. Yeah, when he's probably seven. Right. She was asking the types of books that I want for him, or if I want like learning type stuff for him for Christmas. I'm like, absolutely. Please, no more toys. And so she was talking about that she brought them up and I looked at it and I was like, oh, this is really interesting. And I was like, you know, I'm going to send this a sow. I'm sure Sal would love this for his kids. And then you're like, oh yeah, we already own it. They look really cool though. Yeah, they are. They're great. Are you doing like traditional school, or are you guys going to do homeschool? Have you guys talked about this at all? No, we're not going to homeschool. Katrina's not. Yeah, Katrina's not going to homeschool. But there's a lot, you know, the Bay Area is really cool. There's a lot of like little private like pre-kidney garden type of stuff that we can put them in. This is a pretty good choice, like variety of choices. Yeah, the other thing is coaching the nanny. We coach the nanny a lot, right? So right. And that's the idea of like having somebody who's with us for a long time is that when there's certain things that we want to teach him that we can, you know, teach her to teach him on a road. Obviously we do it too, but for her to reinforce it, since she's playing with him all day long. So we'll see how long that lasts and like how, how well that accelerates his learning. I mean, I'm hoping that because we have a lot of the books and tools and toys that are made for learning that if you're just really consistent with doing that, I think that it'll start to advance him. And if I think that he's moving along nicely, we may just stick with her teaching him a lot of stuff. If I feel like he's not progressing the way I am, I may start researching like what little pre-k type schools that we can put him in. But I like him. I like us kind of controlling that environment. Well, if our kids are not super, I mean, obviously they're only a year apart or whatever. We're probably going to homeschool with the Rayleigh. And that's exciting. So you could do it together. Yeah. No, that's exciting for me because yeah, I mean, I would love that. I would love because obviously I know the type of stuff that you would be teaching him and stuff. Well, see, I talked to my, so my cousins are all planning on having kids soon. And so I talked to them about it and they're like, well, what about, you know, socialization, you know, the typical thing you hear? Yeah. And I'm like, we're not going to do all the teaching. We're going to facilitate. So what we're looking at is signing him up for different courses and classes. So he'll learn from different people and kind of follow him a little bit, see what he's interested in. So for example, a good strategy would be, let's just say he was super into airplanes, right? Like that's his favorite thing in the world. Well, now we're going to teach him math through airplanes. We're going to teach him science through airplanes. We're going to teach him, you know, writing and history through airplanes. So you kind of follow the kid because when they're interested, they just learn so much more and then we'll find courses and teachers and stuff like that. You know, your relatives bring up something that has been on my mind a lot. And I, you know, I go back and forth on what I think about this, right? So, you know, my biggest concern of having him, having him home with a nanny and not being a daycare because one of the best things about a daycare is that you, you force that socialization. They're forced to play together and do those things. Now Katrina and I, Katrina makes a conscious effort to make sure that she gets every week he's being brought over to like one of her friends' houses that have kids that are like close in his age or a couple of years older. So he can kind of get, play with them. And then the other thing is that her and I of personality-wise are both like very, we're both outgoing people. And so he doesn't have any signs. Like I look at my other friends' kids that, you know, are kind of like shy and like one of my, my buddy's kids, she's really shy and she just sits there all by herself and kind of plays like Max is not like that. Like he's around and he's socializing with other people and playing with people. He's not introverted. And I can see that already. So sometimes I wonder if that's just like our own fear of like, oh, if you don't have them in a daycare where there's 10 kids that are wrestling and fighting toys with them, he's not going to learn how to play and socialize. Maybe that's true for somebody who has a kid who already is going to be introverted. And then if you take them out of that setting, that's probably damning for them. Yeah. See, I have friends that were really big in the homeschool world. And I used to think a lot of those things. And they said, no, they said, there's so many groups and so many things that they can do. So they do, it's not like they're not going to classes. They're just facilitated. What I mean by facilitated, you pick each one. So on Wednesday, my kid goes to an art course where there's another 15 kids. And on Friday, they do this gymnastic outdoor class that is three hours long. And then there's another 10 kids over there. Well, that's obvious at that age, though. I'm curious what you think about like, because where I'm at right now. Like daycare age? Yeah, daycare age. This is where I, this is before that. This is obviously like, we've already, I mean, we already took him to his first swim lesson and we plan to like integrate all those things too. But that's kind of like two, three, four on. Yeah, I hear you saying that. Right now it's the daycare age where he'd normally be playing with other kids and other, and that's where, you know, a lot of people fear that they won't get socialized enough. So I, I mean, I was that person. I felt that way. I was constantly like stressing about that with Katrina. We have to make sure he's around kids. We have to make sure he's around. I don't want, I'd be so crazy if I have this introverted kid who doesn't want to talk to anybody or play with him. Put him in his room and throw books out of my bedroom. Right, right. That's what I do. Like I'm so afraid of that, right? But the more and more I see him develop though, you know, the more and more, we're now starting at that age of seeing him little bits of mine and Katrina's personality start to develop in him. And I just feel like, you know what, I'm starting to get more relaxed about that where I was the one stressed about that. But I go, you know what, if he's got her in him and he's got me in him, like the likelihood of this kid being a little, lock himself in the room by himself is like, that's a one in a million. You're shot. I don't think he'll be like that. Yeah, so I feel pretty good about that. First question is from Frank D. Morano. How does exercise temple affect the aesthetics of resistance training? Tempo. We have to decode this first. So like this was a debate that we had trying to interpret this question. So the way I interpret it is he's saying, okay, how does the tempo of your lifting change how the exercise affects your body? In other words, how does it build muscle if you go slower versus faster or pause or whatever? What's the difference between the two, the different tempos? Justin thinks the aesthetics of the movement. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. I don't know. That's the way I read it anyways. Like he just used you. Yeah, aesthetic is being like the way that the actual like performance looks and the technique and all that kind of stuff. Interesting. Okay. So I'll start with mine and then you can answer that. So as far as the aesthetics of the body is concerned. Now if you look at studies, studies will compare different tempos and determine which one builds the most muscle. It's very similar to what you see with these rep range studies. And in these short studies, which are typically anywhere between 12 weeks, usually six weeks, 12 weeks, or maybe 16 weeks, they'll determine that a particular tempo builds more muscle than other tempos. And usually that tempo is a relatively controlled negative with a controlled yet explosive positive. So essentially good form tempo would be the one that would build the most muscle in these studies. But here's a problem with this is that these studies only last 12 to 16 weeks and your body adapts to tempo just like it does to rep ranges. So if you always train in this kind of controlled tempo, then some explosive repetitions or some slower repetitions will probably get your body to start changing again. Now from a performance standpoint, tempo I think is a little bit more important in terms of what you want to stick to if you're an athlete, depending on the sport, you probably want to be more explosive with your repetitions. But if we're talking about just developing the body, I think it's important to work with different types of tempo and break it up. You know, I like to do every month or so, I'll slow the reps down or I'll focus on a portion of a rep where I'll pause at the bottom or pause at the top of rep. And then maybe the next four weeks, I'm going to go heavier and be a little bit more explosive with my movements or even go lighter and be more explosive to where the bar moves faster. All tempos, most tempos, I should say, build muscle. There's a little risk with the faster tempos. So I tend to tell people to stay away from those unless they're really, really good with their technique and form. But other than that, they all build muscle. The one that you're used to is the one that's going to work least for you. So work within all of them. Yeah, I think that's a more interesting interpretation of this question. I think the other one, I was thinking of, it's the way that I read it being tempo, being important, going slow, for instance, learning techniques. I think that it provides more opportunity to sort of navigate and figure out how your body sways one way or the other based off of the imbalances that you need to determine. So tempo being a factor in the very beginning, I'm always very much geared in the very slow tempo, being able to be controlled, being able to stabilize, and then we start sort of messing with that tempo and building up the speed of it once I feel like the technique is polished and it's mastered. And then we can start really applying some more speed to those reps to get those types of benefits that you mentioned in terms of stimulating the muscle in a different way. Well, so I took this similar to I think Sal as far as like what this person was asking, although I think Justin makes good points for what he's talking about. It's just like changing up exercise, rest periods, this is the same conversation that we have with that. And it's to Sal's point of the sticking to a range, sticking to a tempo for four to six weeks. If you've been doing that tempo for X amount of time, the best thing you can do to build muscle or have an aesthetic physique is to change that up, is to do a different tempo. Now that all being said, almost always when I got a client, and this kind of goes to Justin's point, I would always slow down the tempo. It's very rare, and I've said this on this show before, the next time you go in a gym and look around at everybody bench pressing, doing all the movements, and just see if you see a four to two tempo. You just don't see it. Never see it. You never see it. You never see somebody take four full seconds on the descend or on the negative, a two second pause at the bottom, and then two seconds on the pause. You just count it, count it and show me somebody. And that is technically to the studies that Sal is alluding to. That's technically the best tempo for building muscle. So if that's the best tempo for building muscle, and hardly anybody does it, I think it's one of the first places I go to teach. So I love to slow everybody down to a four to two tempo to start them off, and most clients get great results from it just because they've never slowed their tempo down that. And then it plays into Justin's point that he's making. It also is easier for you to make the adjustments to their mechanics and to address things that are going on in their body. So it's even better for getting good form and techniques. So that's my go to tempo to start. And if anything, I'll lean even slower. So I might even pause longer at the bottom. I might even take the descend or the negative longer than four seconds. It might be five seconds. You just don't ever see that anymore. You don't see anybody really train or any ever, right? You never see anybody training this way. And there's so much value both to both points these guys are making. The point of Justin's of really working and honing in on the technique and form to Sal's point, most people don't train in that tempo. So just by training in that tempo, you're going to see change in the body. Next question is from Paula Angela. Smith machines versus free barbell weights. Oh, easy. Smith machines. So they're completely different. Just because a barbell is present in a Smith machine does not make it a barbell machine or barbell exercises. Totally, totally different. Smith machine has a barbell fixed on a track. So every single exercise you do on a Smith machine is different, very different from what you would do with free barbell weights. Smith machines are versatile as far as machines are concerned. Most machines, you do one exercise on them. I'd say the only thing that's more versatile than a Smith machine are cables. Cables are extremely versatile, but with Smith machines, there's a lot of different variations of exercises. But I typically never really used them with clients at all. I'd say that the few exercises that I would do with the Smith machine would be like a stationary lunge maybe to give someone a little bit more stability to teach them. But even then, I'd prefer to do it free and have them hold on to something for balance. You could do presses on it, and then it's more like a machine press. I love body weight rows. Yeah, you're just using it like a rack. That's it, though. Yeah, there's not a tremendous amount of value. I mean, if I were to buy, if I were to equip a gym, let's say a home gym. Right, a Smith machine's not cheap. I wouldn't put a Smith machine in there. I'd put cables in there first. Well, I think the appeal is the safety in terms of it being in a track. It eliminates a lot of other variables where with the barbell, it could travel left to right. You could twist, you could rotate, lots of different things your body has to accommodate for. But in terms of it being as effective, it's just not even in the same ballpark. I don't know if I agree that the appeal is that it's safer, because the people I see at very advanced people use it a lot, and I think it's easier. That's the appeal. Sure. Well, wasn't that the initial intent of building it? Yes. Was to keep people confined, so it was a little less. So I saw a movement the other day, somebody doing it, and I've used it for this before, and I forgot, I like this. This is kind of cool. Single leg deadlift on it. Right, because the bar is... Sure, it's balancing forward. Right, so if I'm really trying, let's say I have a discrepancy right to left of my client lower half, and they do a really good job, like their glute just isn't firing as well, they're not hinging as well on the left side as they are on the right side, and so I want to do single leg type exercises. And I know single leg dumbbells or single leg barbell presents a major challenge just of stability. So if I'm really just trying to get them to fire that glute consistently, having something like a Smith Machine bar makes it very stable and easy, and so all I'm concentrating on is the hinging. So there's places. I also love using it for upper body, like incline press or shoulder press, and I'm doing strip sets, and I'm by myself. So there's places of value for this. Now to Sal's point, if I'm on a budget and I'm building a gym, I'm not wasting my money here. The thousands of dollars you spend on a Smith Machine there's so many other cool tools that I would put in my garage gym. I would never waste my money on a Smith Machine because I've gone years without ever using one. But if I'm in a gym and they've got one, sure, you'll find me playing around. But I also do that with lots of machines that I would never buy and put in my garage. So if you have access to it, I think there's some places of value for it as much as I know we shit on it a lot. So there's places of value to it and you can use it. It's just it doesn't even come close to comparing to a barbell. There's so many more benefits to barbell training than there is to on a Smith Machine. I mean, you get all the same benefits and a bunch more, right? So where the Smith Machine is not that way, there's a lot of benefits you don't get with the Smith Machine that you get with barbells. So it's an obvious win for the barbells. But I know on this podcast, we take a shit on the Smith Machine a lot. And I don't want, there you can use it. And if it's in a gym, I don't think it's like blasphemy to use it. I think that you can use it for certain things. It's just, it's not, it's just not as valuable as a barbell. Next question is from Kulio Cullen 1. While bulking on a three time per week workout routine, should we eat in a surplus on off days as well? You know what'll simplify this for a lot of people is in generally speaking, look at your calories from a weekly basis. Now, you can't get too extreme with this. What I mean by that is if you're four days out of a week, you're in a deficit and I got to make up for it the last three days, that could make things a little bit unhealthy. But look at it from a weekly perspective. Ultimately, you want to be in a surplus by the end of the week. So if you're at a maintenance or at a deficit, three days a week, could you end up at a surplus for the week? If the other four days you eat and a decent surplus, you totally could. This is how I tend to eat. Mainly because this mimics real life more than eating the same thing every single day. Now, from an organizational standpoint, especially if you're tracking macros and calories and you're somebody who's very planned out and you have specific goals, it's probably easier to just eat in a small surplus every single day. It's probably going to be easier for you that way. Only problem with that is then transitioning from that to real life. Real life, the way we eat is not the same every single day. In some days, you're going to eat a little less. In some days, you're going to eat a little bit more. But ultimately, at the end of the day, if you want to build muscle and you want to gain weight, you're trying to bulk, you have to end at a surplus for the week. It doesn't work if you don't do that. It depends on the person I'm talking to. So if I have a client who really struggles to put weight on and the bulk is more difficult, then we are probably talking about trying to be in a surplus every day. And the reason why that is, because it's hard for them to be in a surplus every day, and I know it's inevitable, we'll probably miss some days. And so I'm probably pushing the client who struggles to bulk, struggles to put weight on, so they let the hard gainer, the skinny kid, the kid that I was. I'm pushing that kid to probably eat in a surplus every single day, knowing that some days we might miss to Sal's point because I know at the end of the week, I need to definitely add up. Flip that with somebody else, somebody who let's say puts on body fat really quick. And that person, I would prefer to go, what Sal is saying, where I have three days, like the training days, I like to have those really heavy and hard calorie days just because they're moving and they're exercising, or hopefully most of those calories get partitioned over the ability muscle. And then I'll have lower days on the days when they're not exercising, just because it's easier that way. They don't need as much fuel and energy because they're not working out. And again, it mimics more like real life of the up and down. So, and I do think you can be in a weekly or monthly bulk, but still have low calorie days. I think people don't understand that. It's okay to do that. You don't just, and this was a fear I had as a young kid thinking like, oh my God, I had a day or two of low calories, muscle just fell off my body. It doesn't work that way whatsoever. And in fact, it's probably healthy for us to have a day or two where you're under calories, even though you're in a bulk, a day or two in the week where you're under calories, but then you're in an even bigger surplus on the other day. So I prefer that for health, for a person to put a lean bulk, that doesn't have a hard time with adding calories. But if I'm talking to the hard gainer or the skinny kid, I'm probably trying to get him to eat as much as I can every single day. Next question is from R. Radeon. With Mind Pump being a treasure trove of instructional videos, free resources, workout programs, and advice, how would you help a beginner with a list of imbalances, mobility issues, improper movements, et cetera, dive into something like correctional exercise and mobility without being overwhelmed? There's Maps Prime, Prime Pro, and hundreds of videos posted on Mind Pump TV alone. Where would you get them to start? Okay, so the free stuff is out there because we want to give people as much free resources as possible, but it can definitely get a little overwhelming and this might happen, right? It might happen where you're like, well, where do I start? This is why we sell programs where we actually organize everything for you. Probably the easiest place to start. One of the easiest places is Maps Prime. Maps Prime has a compass test in there. Take the test and then the results of that test, there's three movements, that's it. There's three movements that you do. You do them like the program tells you and then based upon how you move and feel in those movements, that'll direct you to what exercises you can do. Now, if you don't want to buy a program just yet and you want to kind of start off and maybe follow a class and kind of see what it feels like, we have a Maps Prime webinar that's free. It's mapsprimewebinar.com and Justin actually takes, in the webinar, he takes Doug through some of the tests that you find in Maps Prime and that'll help you out. But the Maps Prime program will direct you because here's the thing with correctional exercise and mobility, it's very individualized. You know, what may help you become more mobile and improve your movement patterns may not be the right thing for the next guy. This has been a passion of ours because it is overwhelming. It is a lot of information, especially if you're looking and searching all these things online, you can go down multiple rabbit holes of ways that people tend to attack a lot of these different issues and try to get you the right kind of information there. And oh, by the way, I love that you've resurrected the word treasure trove. I have to point that out. Yeah. Yeah, we brought that right. That's a throwback, right? Yeah, a little throwback there. So I appreciate that. But this has been a passion of ours because this is everything. This is literally the beginning of your success that you build upon. And so we wanted to really make sure there was a way that we could all collectively figure out how to make this easier and to kind of create something that was like a flowchart which Sal was describing. We tried to make it so we have three exercises that you can see a lot in these exercises, but it's up to the individual to really go through that and put the work in in terms of feeling their body and paying attention and maybe having somebody video them so they can also see what's happening and why certain joints weren't able to move the way they were and pull things back properly and be able to get these contact points. And your body is very subtle about how it compensates a lot of times and people just don't see it or feel it. And so the first step is really to peer into that. Really zoom in to your body and understand when I squat down, my body's tendency is to want to kind of round forward or to arch back or all these little nuanced things are very important at the very beginning. So I highly suggest you do either or of what Sal was talking about in terms of like going through the prime is as simple as we got and then the prime webinar or something free that will introduce you to it. Yeah, I would just, I'm selling you the bundle, right? I'm selling you the prime bundle for sure. I think you need both. I think this is a great question. I think Justin's right. This is something we're extremely passionate about. Sal's right that it is a lot of information and if you're not sure and you want something laid out for you, that was the purpose of building these things. And then the webinars that they're talking about right now which are absolutely free for you is to give you an example of like test driving that even though it's still not specific exactly to you, gives you an idea of what to expect if you were to purchase those programs plus both those webinars have a discount code at the end so you could save some money. So if you're not sure, if you're not going to invest in the bundle right away, then my advice is to go through both those free webinars and take them, go through them, and then there's coupon codes afterwards if you want to save money and then get the program. Now I named one of them, which is mapsprimewebinar.com. The other one is primeprowebinar.com. They're both different. One is for mapsprime, the other one's for mapsprimepro and they're both totally free. So you can go sign up at any time. Look, Mind Pump is recorded on Videos Was Audio so you can check us out on YouTube, Mind Pump Podcast. You can find all of us on social media as well, both Instagram and now also on Parler. You can find us on both platforms. You can find Justin at Mind Pump, Justin, me at Mind Pump Sal, Adam at Mind Pump Adam, and Doug at Mind Pump, Doug. Simply equivalent callers, but they find is that the group that does the diet break burns more body fat and preserves more muscle. Now I don't know any studies that have been done on bulking, but I can speak from personal experience. In my experience, and this is for me and for clients, when I would include bulking breaks, I would gain more lean body mass and less body fat.