 In this episode of mine pump. Oh the mine pump. Yes, we are the premier health and fitness Podcast however, we do like to have a good time here in the first 34 minutes of this episode We have some casual banter between Justin and Adam. Yeah, no sound. Yes. He is missing today But he will be joining us later for the questions the episode starts out with Justin Demonstrating his tongue dexterity. Whoa, don't act like you're not impressed. I was indeed then the conversation goes into Sal's replacement because as you will notice he is missing and We need to find somebody to replace him. Yeah, we talked about the episode for season three of Westworld and some interesting speculation there we also talk about the coronavirus and the stress this Virus has inflicted on so many of us which brings us to guess what Justin? What's that? Everly well. 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That's spelled e-v-e-r-l-y W-e-l-l.com and use the code Mind Pump to get that discount and they also offer 25% off of all their other tests use this time to maximize your sleep everybody Next up in this conversation We had Adam's top 10 lists Adam talks about 10 different things you can do at home While you're homebound because of this coronavirus situation, none of them were masturbating surprising Next up is he talks about Tom Brady and some speculations there Talk about cruise ships how they may want to get bailed out, but they haven't been paying many taxes Oh, man They're floating cesspools and then we get into the question portion of this episode the first question is Going to failure of beneficial thing to do every once in a while. If so, how often should you do that? The next question is About the term big bone. Is that actually a thing or is it just an excuse to eat a lot of food? I think it's an excuse to The next question is about the Jefferson curl if you've seen this one It's really quite an interesting way to contort your body. Is it safe? Is it something that you should use the guys talk about that and then the final question What are some tips for? Mental exhaustion you'll be getting from the gym or in this case probably now from your home workouts by the way, one of the things that we decided to do this was Totally out of the normal for us. We normally run a sale all month long one program like this month has been power lift But obviously the coronaviruses hit a lot of us really hard Most people are now being confined to their homes and a lot of people are scrambling on what do they do in order to stay Healthy and stay fit. We created a program maps anywhere. It's a no equipment required program incredible We've decided to put that half off right now And we're gonna run that at least until the end of the month to help out all those that are looking to stay fit and Work out without any equipment. Yeah, and to get the program go to maps white comm. That's MAPS whitee.com and use the code white 50. That's whitee 5 0 for the discount thousand warriors in full battle array eight brass monkeys from the ancient sacred Crips of Egypt nine sympathetic apathetic diabetic old men and rollerblades with a defined propensity towards procrastination and sloth 10 lyrical spherical diabolical denzians of the deep who waltz around Quo key and quive all at the same time Impressive wow, do you know what we don't need fucking sell? Yeah, right? I'm trying to work on my silver tongue man. I we should we got to tell the audience You know Sal was up on his five-year contract just Came up. We got him on lease and you know, we just we didn't have the budget to re-sign him Yeah, you know, he's and you know after we so fortunate we met with a board and Everybody said that Justin was their favorite so we knew we had to allocate most of our funds that way naturally and You know, we figured Sal if one of us could just bring some studies to this conversation every once in a while We should be okay. Yeah, I mean and that's a bit of a load that we're gonna have to carry on her back For now, but you know eventually I think we might find somebody that could carry that well so speaking of that Here's here's some of Sal's possible replacement. So I wanted to oh my god. You've thought about this already We didn't just think about it so recent. This is these are possible free agents that are coming up So number one on the list we have Lewis house Lewis house I don't know about how that's gonna blend well with our style. I don't want to talk about puppies The whole time number two is Aubrey Marcus Okay, I see a potential for us to talk about very bizarre Iowaska-esque ideas, maybe we could paint. Yeah, maybe we get like a mushroom sponsor by then, huh? Oh, yeah, maybe number three Mike Puletso Now now you're just insulting me Don't insult me number four the infamous Steve cook from the biggest loser Wow. Yeah, I mean he's definitely made an impact on that show bring up a good I don't know we'll bring up our handsome points. Well, we definitely will be handsome on social media We could use that. Yeah. Yeah, we just have to use those points. It would just sit there run the camera on him You're not allowed to talk. Look, he's handsome. We get it everybody. Just check them out. Anyways, let's Let's throw some facts in there. Well, we could exploit him. I don't know. It's not a bad idea. Okay five Bradley Martin Man, I don't think anything's going on with culture cast. I think it's kind of plateaued over there So he's looking for options. I mean, he's a buff guy. I mean, we've kind of dwindled down over the years here So yeah, maybe you'll help us with our lifting weights and getting attention that way I know I don't like bringing on anybody though. That's stronger than we are. So that's my problem. I don't like that either That's uh, you know, and then our last freaky free agent option is Jillian Michaels. No That's a hard. No, it's a hard. No, not at all. No, I mean, everybody keeps telling us that we need more girls involved in this Yeah, I mean I could see that in terms of Diversifying our conversations a bit. Yeah, but I think it would get way away from us real fast. Yeah. Yeah, that's just not That's not smart. It's not smart business. How's how's the family handling everything that's going on right now? I mean, they're obviously every everybody's off school and you know, they're they're at home And hopefully we can get them up here with us right now, but yeah, they're doing fine I mean, it's it seems like it's it's this like staycation is sort of the thing right now, right? It's lockdowns happening in Santa Cruz area in the Bay Area. Everybody's sort of like just kind of confined and Hanging out. Well, that's the real reason why Sal's not with us today. So just joking around about him not being Yeah, we're not we're not losing Sal. Yeah, yeah, don't get crazy. We're all we're all connected He he actually though, you know, probably should have got a different car. We We came up to Tahoe get away at the Tahoe place and record maybe hang out here for a week or whatever This was planned on the schedule for a couple weeks He was coming behind us and this literally the timing of this is crazy. It's right when Santa Cruz San Jose San Francisco went to full-on Lockdown and we are up here plus we are right in the middle of a storm So there's like a good five feet of snow outside of our house right now and it's beautiful majestic up here, man It's like I'm trying to get everybody up here just so that way we could actually enjoy it But this has been interesting. This is the first time we've used this studio. Yeah, which is pretty exciting I'm not too bad for he doesn't get you know what though. That's what he gets for buying an infinity I don't think that would have made it up here. So that all we'll drive but Yeah, it's still a bit risky, right? I don't know not with that kind of the ground coverage is what maybe six inches on that thing There's no way he's getting up here with all the snow up here. Oh those in banquet We were already like doing a little off-road and on the way up here. I got pretty sketchy So yeah, so you know, we are we're all you know We're like the the four amigos with Doug, right? Yeah, and anytime one of us is missing. It's just not the same So we absolutely do miss out, but we do recognize that there are some perks to this one of those being last night the television selection or the movie selection We got to watch Westworld. Yes, and I still cannot believe this motherfucker does not watch this show This show is like it's so insulting to me Like like dude, it was epic I don't know how you felt about the very first episode of season was it season 3 now Yeah, I was just like so excited about it because it took you from the actual Westworld like The what they created with that to now the real world The future real world that they have created with that I thought they did an amazing job with that in terms of the type of Technology and things they showed and kind of where you know things would progress naturally from what we see already today Well, you're the biggest sci-fi nerd probably out of all of us is is that what makes a good sci-fi? Is something that is the most realistic or the furthest fetched or the best graph? I mean what makes a great sci-fi now when I watch Westworld And I'm probably out of out of the three of us I'm probably the least geeky when it comes to watching sci-fi movies But I absolutely love it because when I watch it I feel like I see the stuff that they put out there and I go fuck that that could happen. That's possible, right? Yeah, that's that's my favorite sci-fi is definitely like a minority report and things out there that are Trying to kind of press our ideas and stretch them out and see what that looks like and so it's like you put visuals out there of ideas that You know people that are innovating Different technologies out there like how does that look and how does that interact in society and culture and you? I saw some cool things and there are there are gonna be a bit of spoilers And this is if you haven't seen the first episode then you might want to fast forward a little bit of this part But there's just some technology. I wanted to address that they oh I think you should it doesn't even matter if you give this here's the thing I I had to go back. I know and watch some of season 2 Yeah, because of the gap between season 2 and season 3 was so long and then the plot is so deep Yeah, and they play with so much Back and forth of the with this was something there a memory or is this happening currently right now? So I had to walk I had to go back and watch about four or five episodes from the recap Just wasn't enough for me. Yeah, and then last night we watched the season 3 Episode 1 all together and I said I'm gonna go back and watch it again because there's so much stuff So I don't think even you giving away some of the no, you're right the stuff that was happening For example, there was a part in there where you know I had to ask you what he was doing and I would not have known had you not told me And that's only because you watched the director's cut afterwards where he's scrolling through and yeah picking crimes to do Yeah, so cryptocurrency they're kind of playing with the idea of You know having a separate way to You know earn income and and there's an app that Some people have access to that can basically You can opt into like a specific type of a crime that you know, you have there's levels of it So basically like the new character that they show Ops in to like these petty crimes and likes, you know burglary and like, you know petty theft kind of stuff versus Dune personals where like the kidnap or they like kill people or all that He's like, I don't want anything to do with that kind of stuff and and you could see how they organize really Efficiently with other people that use the app. And so it's this whole ring that they get around this this algorithm that basically What you find out is this this whole like mother ai has been able to sort of You know outline Like what everybody should do for a living like how they should live their lives Like everybody's sort of dependent on this ai to kind of dictate what they should do with their life Well, this is why I think that I mean, I think it was what it maybe a year ago when we were talking a lot more about cryptocurrency When it was getting all popular and it was skyrocketing Part of the reason why I had I had bought some cryptocurrency was for this exact reason is Whether we decide to adopt this as For everybody to be able to use and as a new form of money and a money transfer 100% The black market will still use this because of the the inability for people to trace Yeah Who's giving it to who you can remain anonymous for for things like this That's why I like so watching the show like that like and that was even a concept or an idea that I thought of I like just from my little experience And being in a gray market time with with medical marijuana coming on the scene and seeing a lot of the black market still And knowing how people were exchanging funds and the and the all the shit that went on back there I saw the opportunity for cryptocurrency just in that itself My mind didn't even go to a place like this And that's what I mean, there's so many things that they had on the show that Yeah, oh shit. I didn't even think of that one of my favorites was When you and you actually pointed this out to me the second time I thought that it was a flashback of him having a conversation on the phone With somebody that is from his past. So he went through a traumatic experience and again This is where the kind of spoilers happen, but um, he was uh involved in military activity like his friend dies Anyways, you find out that he's talking to his friend in this earpiece And I think that it's his mind is talking to this this this earpiece that's kind of picking up on his thoughts Um, that's like it basically it's it's an ai version of his friend Right like to help him like therapy predictive algorithms, right? Yeah, and we were talking last night speculated on this how crazy this is that This is going this is going to be possible Think about uh, like think of us right now the amount of uh of words That we've spoken on the podcast alone the amount of written content that we've done on blogs and emails and social and Imagery and everything that's connected to us imagine 20 years more or 40 years more from now We pass on and our our our sons Will have this we could have potentially this ability To download almost like our consciousness and not quite our consciousness, but our our personality and predictive Sure, the way we respond the way do we talk about things like they actually I was reading a bit more about some of this technology and they They speculate that storing Um, the equivalent of human brains would be potentially be like 50 years out So they think that they'd be able to obviously there's going to be uh, you know a lot to that in terms of like The bandwidth that that would take and uh, the brain is much more complex. It's not like a computer So there's a lot that they still have to work, you know in that direction But that would be the ultimate right is to get all these data points Uh, the way that I you you inflect the you know, the way that you respond and answer questions Which are into all that kind of stuff like feeds into this Algorithm that then can carry on it be such a trip, right? Your your kid can still talk to you after you've deceased You know, there's lots of like interesting ideas that would lead in that direction. I didn't even think Uh, you know after watching that show that made me start thinking about it Well, the thing you have to think about too is the and speculate on is Would it necessarily be a good idea though, right? Like it's it's to me. It sounds amazing like somebody who's lost his father Uh, if yeah, it's seven years old, right? So imagine me as a grown man now if if We had the technology we have today if I was able to you know, Put an earpiece in and have this conversation that feels like I'm really speaking to my father I mean I to me that sounds like no-brainer. I would well pay whatever it would be amazing to have Access to something like that But then I think of like I think how they were using it on the show where it was like a therapy for him Like his is you know, his brother or his best friend dies And he's mourning his death. And so part of the the therapy is that he's able to communicate with him Uh, I wonder if that technically would help people move on longer or that would keep you hanging on Yeah, right. Yeah, I wonder about that too because it would be a comforting thing And it'd be hard to get rid of the comfort of that right Yeah, so and imagine losing like a spouse or somebody really close to you bearing yourself into that And like not coming out because you don't want you you want to hang on to the last piece And that's the closest piece you have to him or her. So Yeah, I imagine that's going to be a new especially if that's out That'll be a new struggle for people is like, how do you move on? Like, how do you accept death? You know at certain points like we They're already working on ways to slow the aging process They're trying to download consciousness like there's lots of uh, you know people working on this as we speak to try and Solve whatever they think is like they think death is is an illness at this point that we need to solve right right Well speaking of moving on are you uh, what are you hearing right now through uh messages that you're getting and friends? Like with this with the coronavirus going on are you feeling that people are starting to turn a More positive attitude about everything and and look at the silver lining and things or do you feel that their people are still Freaking out and it's getting worse. Yeah, I think it varies still because we're finding out Some businesses have Obviously had to shut down and so I think that that presents a new challenge for some people that are Living paycheck to paycheck and are uncertain about When they're going to be able to open up shop and everything again And so but for the most part most of the people I know That are relatively okay and financially are you know, we're they're doing okay And they're actually like trying to use this as an outlet to be productive in other ways and like You know, whether that's working out and really working on their body or like reading and you know like getting into like Skills like for myself If I wasn't doing this right now I would be trying to really get it back on my chops on guitar and start like Igniting that passion of mine and I know some of my friends have kind of gone that direction get back into music and Something some kind of outlet that's going to keep you busy. I mean, we're like cooped up You know in confined right now. So might as well make the most of it, right? I feel like a lot of people are stressing out and don't realize that That can be more detrimental to protecting them than anything else Yes, stress is definitely one of those things that will Exacerbate the problem for sure Which by the way is a very perfect time to bring up what everly well is doing right now Oh, yeah, I wish we had salcone in here Of course Doug's the pitch man. I'm the pitch man today because Everly well, of course Yeah, everybody's a little bit stressed and on edge right now And what they're offering exclusively to mine pump listeners is 30% off of any order that includes a sleep and stress test Oh, I didn't even know they had that. Yeah, I didn't know that. I knew right? Oh, it is new I think it's new and it covers like four different Of the sleep hormones Yeah, so it's a panel that measures the levels of cortisol, cortisone, melatonin and creatinine At four points throughout the day. So it'd be morning afternoon evening and night I was just gonna say they have to do it multiple times It wouldn't make sense to do it one time because that that could easily change. Yeah, right, correct And the collection method is urine so it's easy You're probably peeing four times a day, right? Oh, wow. Oh the atom. It's at least 20 Yeah, so what it does is it's got a small bladder evaluates the fluctuations of hormones needed for a restful night's sleep And that way you can determine actually why you're not getting a good night's sleep Good timing on this too since we've been talking a lot about we just went to last week or the week before We did an episode on talking about cortisol junkies people that are hyped up on tons of caffeine and then not able to sleep And how much that plays Uh a role in your guys's recovery and building muscle and burning body fat And we've talked a lot about sleep rituals and how to improve that to get deeper sleep And you know, this would be just another way to then like measure that and test it out Which is a pretty cool offering for that. That's great. Well, think about that though Right now is a perfect time to work on getting better sleep. I know you know if people we could just like You know relieve a lot of this this outside stress and just focus in on You know yourself your family and like how to improve your own health like that's that's going to be the best Oh, you just reminded me so so I made this uh, and we're gonna call it uh, adam's, uh top 10 Coronavirus list here. Oh, yeah So I made a I was reading a bunch of different articles of like, you know, because of course right now everybody is Locked up. Um, most most people are lost with what should I do? I've got a couple of friends that want to play monopoly and almost killed each other Yeah, right 20 times. I got some people that got their kids and they're freaking out like I don't know if I could be in this house from my kids locked up for the next three weeks Yeah, so I you know, I was I was searching like all these different things that that we can do So I made it a list of what I thought were my favorite top 10, uh things that I read so The first one I thought was really cool. So the number one thing that I put on this list was Virtual museum tours around the world So you can like yeah, it's called google art and culture And I think there I believe there's hundreds that you can do but you can take virtual tours Of museums all over the world dude that that's awesome, right? So I mean how cool is that sit down with your significant other or even your kids and Crack open a bottle of wine and throw it up on the big screen, right? Right, right. So I thought and speaking of cracking So my second one was have a fancy picnic in your living room While supporting a local restaurant So a lot of the companies like door dash grab hub. Um, they're offering like these no contact drop We saw this last night. We went over to our clubhouse here where our our place is and there's like a bar and grill in there and They're encouraging people not to come into the restaurant One of the ways they're doing that is you can call in they'll have the food and they'll actually come outside Drop it off. So you just pick it up with your car and then drive back to the house So, you know setting something up like a fancy picnic in your living room being being creative be creative be romantic Yeah, that's not a bad idea and order out and then I mean and encouraging people to order obviously from You obviously if you go grab hub or one of those you have to go local restaurants, which I think right now It's a great time for local businesses to try and support each other During this time. So I think that's a great thing to do. Yeah. Um, also, uh, here's a third one attend Attend or host if you're if you play an online concert And I think you brought this up. I heard you talking about this and this is what made me go down this Happy st. Patrick's day everybody by the way. I know this is probably the next day but right now it is and Speaking of that, so the dropkick Murphy's one of my favorite bands They're they always crush it on on st. Patrick's day and they have throw a big huge concert And so obviously they've they've canceled their live performance where they're going to bring a lot of people in but Decided to now live stream it. So hopefully you guys caught wind of this. I know it's in the news a bit Uh, but they're going to offer that out so people can watch, you know, a live stream concert of them For the festivities pretty cool. So something that we're going to do with our family So for christmas, I got all of my my My mom my sister. Oh my family members. I got them all facebook portals And you can do this with zoom. My buddies are doing this with zoom. They did this yesterday They did like a hangout with all of us Uh, so this is another a cool creative thing you could do is log into like a zoom account if you have facebook portals But just do like a online dinner party where you have the Mount either mounted on the tv or on a laptop and then you all have like you got you got your family member represented as a tv Screen here as a laptop over here. It seems ridiculous and crazy But I mean what a time to have fun with these these things that we have the capabilities to do with tech Uh, so I thought that was creative. Um, you gotta explain those more because like I I don't know if everybody knows what a facebook portal is And it was like pretty cool What you could do more than just like a face time it actually Oh, yeah, I mean it's so I they have multiple ones, right? They have the they have like an ipad one a picture frame size one And then they have the one that mounts on your tv So I bought the ones that mounts on your tv So, you know, I have a big screen tv in my in the way my my living room is set up It's like my living room my dining room my kitchen. It's all in one long row, right? So it's so I can have this on my tv I could be in the dining room. I can be in the kitchen And it the thing the camera actually follows tracks me So I could be like, you know taking max and we have a max's portable crib is up there too So it could be pulling him out of his portable crib. We could be cooking dinner We could be sitting down eating dinner And the camera you're always in screen. Yeah, I'm always in screen and it follows us Wherever we're at and then it projects, you know, if I'm talking to my mom or my sister Their image like FaceTime on the big screen tv So you're seeing like I they get to see them on that's pretty cool Yeah, yeah, they're relatively inexpensive. They're pretty expensive. So they're I mean, they're not that bad They I think I got them at 150 a piece. They did a thing when they first law I missed out. I think they sold them for like 50 bucks When they first dropped but they sold out like I actually just got my I finally got them because I they were Christmas gifts That I originally got but they were sold out for so long That I didn't get them till like weeks after Christmas. So my family barely just got theirs from in fact My sister I'm still waiting to get mailed for me. Yeah, I gotta get me some of those for sure But so that that's a cool thing to do, right? Obvious one. I think dive into a good book If you you haven't been reading, uh, this is a great excuse to dive into Some material we had we had some people In our community that that were trained. We have a large obviously trainer following And a lot of them use this opportunity to kind of educate themselves on mobility They they're going through our they either owned prime and prime pro already Or they decided to go through it and like Elevate your knowledge and then you can bring that back to your clients and you know really enhance your experience with your clients too It's a perfect opportunity for that. Yeah, and you know, and this was something that I actually had I had wrote Well before I even got the news this morning. I was on the phone with our marketing team it got just released via email And we're doing both our prime and prime pro which are at home don't require any equipment Programs that you can do for mobility and corrective exercise and addressing joint pain Those are all half off right now too. So I mean if you're somebody if you're a trainer Highly recommend using that time to go through that. This is also something that we've Encouraged a lot of trainers that are uh, like what the hell do I do right now? My clients aren't showing up to appointments. My gym is closed down Trying to get creative ways that you can still generate revenue for your business and support your clients One of the things that I've been encouraging a lot of the trainers that I mentor is This is a great time to pivot to like a maps prime pro Which is like all corrective exercise stuff mobility for each we address every joint in the body and we go through mobility exercises for each joint and so walking your client through virtually Incredible session. They'll they'll love it. It's uh something they probably should have been doing anyways And then now that you guys are limited to being at home. I think it's a great resource to be able to do that Yeah, was that the last one or do you have any more on that list? I've got I've got a couple more I get 10 so I have 10 on the list. That's only like five or six right there Uh, and then spring cleaning you start early. So Get on you get on your spring cleaning that shit over with get it get that done To that point as far as starting things early I I never do this. This is something now because of if we're going to literally be cooped up for maybe three weeks This is on my list now Is to actually start uh christmas shopping early and the and you could do everything online Wow, dude, you're gonna see a lot of business. Here's my reason why I like this one a lot too Is my theory is a lot of businesses are going to be suffering because of this because of the big scare Everybody is going to hoard money and you're gonna see a lot of businesses trying to pivot and figure out ways to drive revenue The best way that a lot of companies can do that is by offering great deals or discounts or specials So I think uh online shopping uh for those of you that have have the abilities to either ones still have income or have been Making uh made enough money that you have a nice nest egg. It's going to be a great opportunity to shop online Yeah, um and then Here's another one that I thought was really dope this if I had these these aren't technically in order This probably would it be in my top three because I didn't know this was uh something they offered So there are over 400 free classes that you can get from iv league schools And yeah, it's called class central dot com and everything you could probably think of and they're completely free It's online and you're talking about like video lectures. Yeah. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah So I think that's really cool. And then the last one my 10th, of course, uh shameless plug maps anywhere. I mean, uh Probably one of our sleeper programs of all our programs a lot of people I think uh because the the image on the front has a girl holding a yoga mat So I think a lot of guys look at it and go. Oh, this isn't tough enough for me I think a lot of people think it's not a great program to build muscle It's a phenomenal program to do that. It's we've We scaled it too to where whether you're a beginner intermediate or advanced You have the you have the ability to start at one of those levels Yeah, it could be corrective or you could ramp it up to like incredibly difficult challenging intense like body weight exercises Primarily the the focus is body weight and also bands Uh, we did have a little bit of isometric type exercises in there, too Which are incredibly difficult once you get into them That's what I always found with a lot of my clients were like, wow, I didn't realize You know how strenuous that was to like hold that pose and then really squeeze my way through it and uh It's funny because like it it doesn't sound like the sexiest program or the most Uh, doesn't have the most appeal but like in these circumstances. It makes so much sense. Like oh, yeah You know like it's it's very minimalist and it's it it is it's very effective So did you see the other thing on tv right now that the the two most popular things on television? Obviously number one coronavirus, you know the number two one is Uh, uh, no tom brady. Oh tom brady is Everywhere if you can we convert him to do podcasting? Yeah, I'll throw him on that list of people potentials that you wish. I want i want brady Yeah, so he announced uh this morning First thing I saw on his on his social man Then obviously it's been taking off everywhere right now that and I can't believe this I uh, so I was wrong I think I don't know if I said on the podcast I definitely uh set it on my instagram post. Oh, you're gonna say he's gonna stand Yes, I swore up and down. He would never leave the patriots. Uh, I thought for sure he would retire there Um, but he wrote he wrote a great. Uh, thank you to the organization But also announced that he would be moving on elsewhere and rumors are buccaneers Raiders And somebody else are really interested which is interesting to me because The raiders just picked up, uh, marcus mariota from the titans, right and Rumor is that uh, well, he's unhappy with car. We know that yeah grunes on a fan of car And so which is by bringing mariota and you're basically definitely saying that that he's gonna either one compete For the position or potentially take it or or it's some sort of trade bait so you can get tom brady So I don't know Yeah, I don't know what's gonna what's gonna happen, but I was completely wrong I would have thought for sure tom was gonna stay there. Yeah, but that's gonna be big news over the next couple weeks for sure Oh, yeah, finding out where where brady goes. I mean, I'm sure there's like hopefuls that are just like Salivating right now to see if you know like the cleveland browns or somebody got you know out there that it's just had nothing But shit seasons that's it honestly the the biggest, uh thing that's bothering me with all of this, right? Being trapped at home is there's no sports I know if I had sports going on right now struggle, bro Yeah, I'd be like hey, this is cool. I get to catch up with all kinds of stuff So the fact that we don't have that that's been and I don't know what we're like How do you do this if uh, so, you know, uh MLB just got I can use all the acronyms, right? Because you know what they are Yeah, that's how I can't you know more We know exactly what's happening. Yeah, so MLB has been postponed, uh, you know, obviously the MBA has been pushed back now Yeah, like what do you do? And and is that an asterisk if you win that year? Yeah, what does that mean? So are we and then as it pushes on in definite the whole season's done So they're not even have like playoffs or you know, I had heard somebody say they might want to introduce like Just the playoffs so they're still practicing and everything and then they're gonna compete So according to everything that I've read All your postseason stuff is still on the MBA still plans right to have playoffs. How does that work? But That what all will dictate that is how long this goes on for if this goes on for You know two to three weeks and then we're we start to go back to normal life. I think that we'll see Uh, you know missing a couple weeks of the MBA is not a huge deal. Well, let's talk about the positives to that Healthy players. Yeah, right. Yeah, at least the ones that didn't get the coronavirus But yeah, did you see the did you see the the meme that I post somebody shared with me? And it went over so many people's head because my DMs got filled up It was uh, I have to look at the picture so I can tell you who was all on there So it was you know, Michael Jordan and scottie pippin. Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal Rudy go bear and Donovan donovan, uh, Mitchell and then one other person and it was like Who who was the the deadliest duo of all of them? Oh, yeah Yeah, and everybody was oh jordan and jordy. Yeah, they're all sitting in there. That'd be my pick Right, exactly. But the the joke is that go bear and mitchell have the virus Way over everybody's fucking head I had DMs full of people arguing over like who is like the best the best duo in the MBA ever And I'm like that was the biggest like snap food I was like when they caught him on camera coughing and like wiping on everybody's gym bags and stuff Oh my god, dude, how bad does he feel about that? Dude, you know, uh, check this Okay, so you know what's been going on obviously with the cruises, right? Yeah So this is I didn't know this and this is bringing all kinds of attention to them So, uh cruise liner is I think it's like a 40-something billion dollar industry Oh, it's massive. Yeah, and there's three of them that own like 75 percent of the market like carnival and I forget what the other two Royal Caribbean. Yeah, real Caribbean and then I forget what the other one is, right? So they and they they dominate the market So they are looking for uh are asking for a bailout right now because they are just being crippled I mean, I mean the thing the the ships make millions of dollars On a on a daily basis and now everything's being docked and shut down and nobody's doing that, right? Right, so they're looking for a bail now. Here's the irony in all this They're asking for a bail out bail out meanwhile For the decades now they've been operating Flying under the radar for like taxes on stuff So even though that like 90 percent of the people that you know use all these cruise liners That are coming from ports all over all over the united states and going everywhere They have their you know business You know offshore somewhere else to avoid all the taxation right get some tax breaks Oh, yeah, and then of course the gambling laws that they have loopholes because of that because they're on the water and shit So they don't really want to open their books up To the government completely. So what I'm just curious what was going to happen I mean, they're asking for a bailout and that meanwhile they have been getting away from paying taxes for so many years So I wouldn't think that they would be one of the first people to get bailed out of this whole situation Yeah, no, I yeah, there's there's some flaw there for sure. Oh my gosh. We start asking for money. That's crazy The first question is from michael g can going to failure be beneficial every once in a while If so, how often so personal story. So when I was a kid and I started working out I followed the the routines the bodybuilding routines Of the bodybuilders of the 90s and of the kind of routines that Arnold Schwarzenegger used to write about Of course, he was One of the most well-known bodybuilders who competed in the 70s and so my routines were High volume lots of sets 15 sets per body part And I did that for a while, but right around the age of about 15 and a half maybe 16 My body plateaued really really hard Then I found a book was actually advertised in one of the bodybuilding magazines I was reading and it was called heavy duty and it had a picture of Mike mencer on it now. Mike mencer duty. Thanks. Justin. I was waiting for you to say that Can't help it. Well, yeah Now Mike mencer it was this really impressive looking bodybuilder from the 70s and 80s super super smart dude So it's really a smart guy And in the book he talks about Training to failure. He said that, you know, there's a there's a signal There's a kind of like a trip wire that you hit when you work out that sends the Muscle building process in motion. He thought it was intensity that did that So he said we'll just go to failure so that we know We hit that that signal But to offset the intensity he only had people doing one set per body part Once a week super low volume literally it was like One exercise for chest one for shoulder one for back and so on and I didn't do that again until the following week Well, believe it or not. I got great response now It lasted about a couple months and then I plateaued super hard again Um, but I did learn that, you know that there is some value to manipulating some of these factors But failure for most people is just too much. It's just too much intensity Because then later on What I learned was not trained to failure more often I just got more consistent results always and for my clients. I almost never train them to failure so and it doesn't impede the following workout No, that that that's the thing that I think where I really started to connect it is you get So sore and I'm sure everyone's been in this position where you've trained so so hard and let's say I had plans that I was training Monday Wednesday Friday this week And let's say I'm running a full body routine and I just crushed squats on Monday And then Wednesday rolls around and I'm still I'm limping in because it's the second day after a too hard of a workouts When it's worse anyways, so here I am. I'm supposed to be lifting again on squats and my legs. I can barely walk I don't care what you say like that's going to hinder that workout You're not going to be as strong if you're still recovering from how much damage you did on Monday And so when I backed off of that and I wasn't doing as much damage It allowed me to not only be more frequent about it But then also to push myself at a more even consistent rate versus this these high peaks and lows, right? So I peak real hard with a hard ass intense and then I have to go super light the next time because I'm so sore Yeah, and intensity is is much it's easier to overdo intensity than almost anything else. It's true I could literally take A decondition person off the street Bring him into our studio And I could have them do leg exercises every single day So long as the intensity is appropriate. They can do that I could take someone off the streets that decondition take them through one set of squats to failure and crush them and destroy them Completely destroy them. So for most people most of you listening right now Stop your sets about two reps short of failure. If you're advanced Going to failure is a tool that you can utilize, but I would even suggest you use that uh infrequently Next question is from ander beth Is the term big boned actually a thing or is an excuse for individuals who are overweight? Absolutely, it's a thing. Well, you guys ever see that that that famous like, uh, it's like I mean it's used as an excuse Quite a bit. Yeah, you guys ever see that thing. It's like it's not an x-ray, but it's got it's like an image Yeah of an obese person. Yeah Next to it's an obese person next to an average weight person And the skeletal structure looks almost identical almost identical. Yeah, I mean Yes, but then I mean there is a if you were to measure measure measure Yeah, if you were to measure my wrist and justin's wrist And i'm a six foot three guy. So i'm a taller guy. I have a lot more muscle and i'm better looking Whoa, whoa guy He just slipped that in there I don't agree with any of this But yeah, let's put that to a poll but yet he has a much bigger wrist, you know, so All right. All right. He came back. He came back. He gave me something. No, I've been working on it. I mean, uh, Husky, uh, semantotypes has has been debunked, right? Which is the the ecto meso and endomorphism Which is what was in our old uh Textbooks. Yeah, the the typical like skinny tall Then the like athletic easily muscular person and the kind of overweight chubby person But the one thing I don't like about them getting rid of those or debunking the semantotypes is there is some truth to that There are certain people there are different body types. Yeah, and there are and there are people that respond Very well to building muscle and struggle with losing body fat and the opposite should some people Respond really really well have really fast healthy metabolisms and burn body fat really quick But struggle to put on muscle. So, uh, I do believe that there now and to justin's point I I do believe there's a lot of people that use that as an excuse For being overweight and what I think those a lot of those a lot of the people that fall into that category Are the ones that struggle with uh fat loss. That's that's it's you know, whether it be jinnah It's not necessarily directly correlated with their big bones. It's just genetically they have a harder time losing body fat But what I would always tell those clients that would would complain about that is yeah, but we have an advantage for building muscle If you're normally the person who struggles with losing weight And you can put on weight really well if if you can put on weight really well You normally can build muscle better than that the person who who has the opposite struggle, right? So yeah, there's advantages to both sides, but the whole the whole like genetic You know, I'm overweight because of my genetics. I'm uh heavy because of my genetics There's some truth to it, but there's also a lot of uh false to that. Okay, so If you go back a hundred years 200 years That you're not going to see nearly as many obese people as you see today That's not the result of our genetics changing In that short period of time because over the course of evolution a hundred years is nothing What what that's a result of is lifestyle and when you see families that are overweight It's not their genetics either. Usually it's usually because they all eat the same way It's their family culture product of the environment, right? So if you see an overweight kid Chances are you going to have overweight parents and in the past that we thought Oh, it's because the genetics of the parents. No, it's their lifestyle They have a lifestyle that promotes, you know, that kind of obesity If you can find pictures you can actually go online and find pictures of Circus, uh, you know, they used to call them the circus fat man, right? So back in the day Circuses used to have this really terrible, uh, you know sideshow act where they would have people with Deformities or people with lady with a beard. Yeah, that kind of stuff and people would pay to stare at these at these people And the circus fat man at the you know in the late 1800s or like 300 300 pounds, right? They would fit they would walk through walmart. Nobody would even bat an eye but back then they were so considered so Different that people paid money To look at them. Yeah, and it's really because you know times have changed that though our lives have changed our lifestyle Our calories are available. That's right. So it is often uses an excuse But there is some truth in the sense that some people have bigger bones than other people I would say genetically speaking. You're probably, you know, that probably will count for something like 20 30 pound difference Not the 50 60 a hundred pound difference that we see today where someone says it's my genes Probably probably not true. Uh, but as far as your bone structure is concerned You can't do much to change that right and I think if you want to achieve any type of Satisfaction with your life, you're probably better off not focusing on the things you can't change And focusing on the things you can well, I like what you brought up adam in terms of like turning that into a positive like I can You know more than likely you're gonna have the propensity to be able to build muscle if you have that as You know, like it's an issue like that you will put on weight easily Well, let's let's change what kind of weight that is. So yeah, I think I think a lot of things like that You know have have another like side to it that people aren't really focusing on enough Next question is from brady thomas, too. What are your thoughts on jefferson curls good bad neither That's the one exercise that I could guarantee if you were to go into a gym and start doing them Oh, do you may am everybody would freak out right? So this if you don't know what this is It's literally a movement where you're holding a weight And you are bending over the what you would think is the wrong way rounded spine Totally rounding the spine all the way down and then coming all the way out basically lifting with your skeleton Yeah, now here's the thing with exercises There's a hierarchy of them. Some are more effective than others. Some are more high risk than others I would say a jefferson curl is a high risk exercise Does that make it an exercise that has zero value? No There is some value to a jefferson curl for somebody that's got phenomenal Stability in their spine and good controller spine because it does exercise the muscles that articulate the spine From extension flexion to extension, but it has to be done really really controlled and I would never do a jefferson curl With a lot of way. Well, and we've The type of clients that we would receive I've never ever taught a jefferson. I say one. Yeah, because there's there's way too many other things that I need to address Before I would before they could even do it properly much less gain a lot of value from it But that doesn't mean there is not a A gymnast or athlete out there that has got this stability the strength to control the flexibility to do that And any any exercise that you can perform safely and controlled can be a very good exercise. So if they have but 99.9% of you listening Uh, it could probably live without a jefferson the rest of your life and and still build an amazing Physique and work on a ton of other things that you should be doing. So I wouldn't teach it Yeah, I and I would think a prerequisite for that. I've actually when I attended the frc course I knew maybe one or two people there that that probably could pull it off because they had that kind of articulation and control over Each individual Spine and so it was like I mean they had that kind of access and control you don't see that that's very uncommon You have to train your way there In order to then even load your your back with that type of You know that type of angle and everything else. So it's it's very It could potentially be a very dangerous exercise But there is a way to lead up and what makes it dangerous is most people just don't have the control and disability Most people if they did a jefferson curl What would support them on the way down was the was there in range of motion with their spine? And that's where you can run into problems. You know, I remember learning this lesson As a maybe trainer 10 years in the business because when I first became a trainer There were literally exercises that I was taught that were bad They would say to me don't do behind the neck pull downs terrible exercise Don't do behind the neck overhead presses bad exercise real bad for the shoulders It'll always hurt somebody don't go all the way down with the bench press very bad for the shoulder Don't go don't go below parallel for a squat totally bad for the back and the hips and everything else later on I started experimenting with these exercises and the way I experimented with them is the first one I did was the behind the neck pull down and I just started real real light and I did it in a way to where I could control the position I could do in a way where it didn't hurt and I felt like I was Connecting to the muscles and then as I got stronger doing it. I just noticed Greater ranges of motion in my back and my shoulders. I got stronger Same thing with the behind the neck shoulder press and going all the way down with the bench press I noticed that if I treated them wisely And I was I took my time allowed my body to connect to these exercises That because they were new and because they were different because I was working in ranges of motion I wasn't used to I would gain from that. I would gain strength. I would gain muscle So, you know when I hear somebody say This exercise never do it. It's bad You know, I'm always very very skeptical. I have yet to see exercises that I really think I look at and I go Nobody should do those Next question is from twin sanity fitness What are some tips for mental exhaustion from the gym? Oh boy change your focus change your goals Or get out of the gym and do something outside. Yeah, go outside, man. Yeah, do do something else I think if you're if you're you know, there's a million and one ways to be active And there's nothing wrong with if you're bored or burnt out from your modality of training And you're just sick of the gym and sick of the weights and whatever Go do go work out in the park or outside or do body weight exercises or use rings or Do other there's so many different ways to be active. That's one of the best ways I've ever found to keep myself motivated was to change the focus from You know strength to maybe Endurance or mobility or to jujitsu or or something else Yeah, one of my favorite things to do is to take kettlebells and bring them outside and and do things outside in nature And you know, I've been able to take a mace bell and like you said the olympic rings and things to hang over like tree branches and Just that new environment new stimulus like creates a whole new spark Which then, you know, like inevitably The novelty of that will kind of wear off You'll find yourself back in the gym. You go through that again. It's just it's just a nice window of change I think it's just to think like that. This has happened to me A ton of times just in the time we've had this podcast going we've only been doing this podcast for five years in that time Uh, I took like a strength training bodybuilding type of hiatus where I was 100 mobility focused I didn't need to be in the gym for that. I was doing a lot of that stuff at home Then I went on a swimming kick for a while where I was rarely weight lifting maybe once a week and then the rest of time was Swimming and I'm currently playing more basketball than I'm lifting hoops right now. I mean lifting weights right now I I lifted one time last week. I played ball three times Yeah, I you know A lot of what drove me to weights early on was my insecurities of what I needed to look like Uh, and I and I occasionally feel that again like I just did a youtube video and you know, it's it's inevitable I get a you know a troll on there that will Say something about me looking like I don't lift weights And and it reminds me it stings and then you're sure. Yeah, it well It reminds me of that that that insecurity that I had as a kid that that's what drove me into lifting weights now I'm I'm way more comfortable with where I'm at for me as long as I'm I'm healthy. I'm flexible. I'm mobile I'm strong and right now I'm currently not very athletic And so a lot of that my focus the little bit of weight training I am doing is centered around Uh athleticism and I'm playing basketball. So yeah, I won't look like a bodybuilder I won't be impressive uh for instagram or youtube But I'll continue to remain healthy and I'm focusing on something else and I know me I'll be on that kick just like I was swimming last I'll be doing it for a while I'll in I like to work at something and show myself improvement and prove that I can be consistent with it and Show improvement and then I like to move out of it like I've kind of already Reached the pinnacle for myself in bodybuilding I don't think I'll ever take my body to a more of an extreme than What I did getting on stage and so I just have less of a desire to do that these days And so I don't need to be in the gym Lifting five seven days a week not that I won't do that again or I don't enjoy that sometimes But I'm also comfortable moving in and out of modalities To keep myself healthy and the cool thing about resistance training in particular is it's so versatile You know what I mean like you could do you could work out with barbells and dumbbells You could use kettlebells. You could do body weight. There's stuff you could do outside Stuff core stuff you can do in the gym. You could use bands You could use suspension trainers There's so many different ways that you can train and work your body out I know look, uh, here's the other thing we have created Many many workout programs and part of the reason why we've done this not only is because there's people have different goals But it's also for the fitness enthusiast who is a long time. They're going to be working out for forever So if you're working out forever You could follow this maps program which like maps at a ball like then maps aesthetic Maybe go to maps performance maps strong maps otf And they're all very different and it keeps that spark Alive because you're training for different things. So, you know, if you want guidance, that might be something I suggest Try some of our different programs that have totally different like going from maps anabolic to like Maps, uh, you know otf, uh, very very different. Excuse me. Oh, I don't know why I said that Orange theory Yeah, uh, oh cr excuse me off school course racing That's a very very different workout program and it's totally It's it's it's different. So for some people that's fun and exciting So here's the thing I suggest you don't do try not to stop Like try to not stop working out because you're bored with what you're doing rather than stopping Just change it. I think that's the message. We're all trying to convey right now And with that go to mind pump free.com and download our guides Uh, they're all totally free. You can also find the three of us on instagram You can find justin at mind pump justin me at mind pump sal and adam at mind pump adam mindpumpmedia.com