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Are we ready to roll dog? We are are you ready? Of course Justin Take your time I gotta do it myself too Although although the hair looks nice too, buddy. Look at Justin's hair It is Fantastical. Yeah, it looks like he uh You know when you go you know when you when you were a kid and go get your haircut And then they have those magazines that you get a look at and give you a lollipop, and then they did huh? They did give you lollipops. That was good dum-dums. Yeah, I love dum-dums. I don't know you did you show off? Yeah, yeah, what happened right there? Did I something that Justin did it's back. Oh, good. It's back My ears back Dum-dums was the lollipops that they give out, but anyway, you know the magazines that I like the blue pops Of course you do It's good it has bubble gum in the world. That's not why you like it. Yeah, um, they're bigger Obviously the dum-dums are small, but dum-dums got the best flavors. I'm a size queen. Dumb What is your root beer? Yeah root beer dumb dumb I don't know any other company makes a root beer flavor lollipop You know that the the ollie pop drink actually reminds me of that it does doesn't it tastes like it does Maybe that's what's on your mind. I think I think you're onto something there Yeah, and the difference is ollie pops good for your gut. That's right. It is Dum-dums knock Dum-dums are a dumb dumb idea. Yeah, they're not anyway You know the magazines that you would read as a kid not read But you've been there's like haircut magazines and they're always like cool, you know, that's Justin right now Yeah, well, you know what I always wanted that they have ever seen that flat top that had like the fenders You know that kind of like went up like this. Did I that was the flat top right of the 80s and early 90s I've never seen anybody ever in life rock one of those You never had a PE teacher. Yeah, dude, but yeah, I had like the the rule like buzzed one, you know It was like almost a crew cut. It wasn't like an actual I feel like Justin We're one of those guys that would carry remember those the comb that you put your middle finger through on do this Yeah, yeah, did you have that not but I didn't have one of my back pocket. Did you have a switchblade comb? Yeah, I knew it. I did I knew it. Yeah, dude. Okay. I had I had like my cuffed pants and I went through a rockabilly phase I know you guys probably didn't know that. I guess we did we saw the pictures You're my space still exist Dude my space doesn't exist. It's like this thing. Yeah, my purple. I went through a face So I had so check this out right so flat tops Was like for whatever reason everybody had a flat top back in the day and let's bring it back my cousin went they looked to Yeah, no, they don't look good anymore. I think but back. I think you rock my cousin went to get one and he Told the lady he wanted a real short like no, I want a short I want a tight short. He was kids like 12, right? They went so short. They started here They went so short that his head poked out the top a little bit So they did yes, dude sweet a flat top, but a little bit of his dome stuck out the top It was the greatest thing ever we went to a family party. I'm like what happened your hair, dude You went too short on the flat top. Oh, man A little bit of the dome popping out the side. I have I have an interesting one for you guys So you remember we were talking about The the burger den at Denny's yeah So I think I mentioned that I get someone DM me when they were actually on there like oh my goodness I got another message regarding these and they're called cloud kitchens And this is this guy was speculating on this is the future of what we're gonna see with kitchens now where people Like Denny's will actually lease out their space to other like brilliant startup stuff And so they just use the kitchen and then make a short order cook You just like cook whatever right on demand because yeah because the whole door dash uber eats That's gonna open up so many opportunities isn't that interesting and think about all the opportunities you let's imagine Let's say you're somebody that likes to cook you really want to maybe own a restaurant but the cost of Opening a restaurant right footprint that whatever the capital but now with door dash and with so many people ordering food All you have to do is lease so now is this gonna elevate like cooks and instead of the actual restaurant brand like it's so You're gonna follow certain cooks because they can cook you I don't know I didn't think I didn't think about that But what I thought right away that I thought I'm already gonna look into it Are you know you're gonna do Mexican food? No, really? No, what I'm thinking is that you think about if you if you actually either bought or leased the Kitchen yourself like a actual commercial kitchen and then you sublease it to all these absolutely I mean they could turn into like a little a little business model Yeah, cuz aren't there like regulations on the kitchens themselves. Oh, yeah So if one's already set up exactly you got and that's the expensive part is getting it all certified Right, you went through that when you were getting ready to get in the mill service. Oh my god I know I'm so glad I didn't do that. Yeah, dude. I was gonna get a gym So the concept was basically I would train like a small gym where I'd have clients come in But then on their way out they could get their meals for the week And I had a chef and everything that was like good at making all these healthy meals and in pre-package and all that And so it was like it sounded like a good idea But then I was like you're gonna smell all the food and everything while you're working out the entire time Like there was just a lot of things that I had to consider plus the cost of it was just outrageous Yeah, I think of it like like the t-shirt business. It's just the margins are terrible That's like you see everybody you see people doing it like those are popping up everywhere, right? They're super popular the whole You know like the flex zone meals and all these all these companies that are popping up But man, I mean they sell you those little meals for you know six to nine bucks And I mean you know their margins like 10% 15% it's not it's not good at all I mean maybe more than 10% but I would say like 30 maybe Not very much. I mean the meal and then you figure it's only costing nine dollars So the meals nine dollars your margins are small and then the actual dollar amount So the amount of volume that you have to do that's a tough business not a big profit There yeah, I like the idea of like all the cart, right? So doing it with something else like I actually really liked your idea because you're that wouldn't be your main source of income It would be training client accessory. Yeah, yeah So do you know how they got around some of those those I guess laws regulations about kitchens and cooking? So there was this app. I don't know if it still exists But let's say you know I have a place in a popular city San Francisco, New York City And I want to make some money off of Making people meals but in order to do that I have to list myself as a restaurant I have to pay all these fees I have to get approved and whatever and I don't want to do all that they had an app That you could go on and just eat over people's houses and experience a home cook Meal and they would and you would still make money off of it. It's like one of those the sharing apps or whatever Yeah, I brought this up years ago. This was going on when we still happening as far as I know I don't know anybody that's done it recently, but I forget the name of it But it's yeah, it's just like those share and it's been going for at least four or five years It's really really smart if you like to cook for other people and you can get like a really really good meal for Reasonable price. No, I think it's a I think it's a really you want to meet people and make friends or whatever Yeah, it seems like a fun idea speaking of food. I know this episode drops on the national weed holiday, right? That's today Shame we're sober did we ever I know did we ever figure out loud in here by the way why it was named 420? What was the legend? No, there's there's isn't it just off of like some like some officers code grateful dead There's been a lot of things that have been speculated on no proof of it I've never seen any like real real proof, but you talk we got a 420 over here Like I didn't know if that was like code for them like busting somebody with paraphernalia. Well, I mean it's it's never been so close to being Legalized federally. I mean they're actually talking about it right now. Maybe passing some regulations or whatever that allow it to be Federally legal. Oh, really? Yes, dude. I mean look how many states have now legalized it not just not a big one Right, that's recreational in a lot of these places Do you know how crazy this is for someone like us for guys like us? Well, I I remember the days where you had a joint in the car a cop drives by you are shitting your pants No difference between that and like cocaine whatever it was a big it was a big deal But now it's like not that big of a deal and then of course all the studies on the Benefits and all that stuff with all the other cannabinoids You have companies like Ned, which is hemp oil, which is now you could of course sell But when you get these full extracts of hemp oil you're getting a lot of the other cannabinoids You take a good dose of that and you feel now It's not like smoking a joint, but you feel you really feel it you actually take it and you feel it and that's totally legal Speaking of drugs. Did you guys watch that documentary on Amazon the bodies? It was called bodies the body body Body lies body with body. Yeah. Do you remember what you look it up for me? Doug? It's on Amazon. Is that the one you showed us? Yes? That was crazy. Yes, that was crazy The numbers on that are insane and that's it's this is ever since so Obama passed something that this isn't the Affordable Care Act Yeah, you do you know it because explain it you're better at remembering stuff So so according to based off what I saw because I only watched about 40 minutes the Affordable Care Act made it so that employers or insurance I should say covered drug Like drug drug brokers. Yeah, so like if you if you're addicted to drugs or whatever you need treatment for alcoholism, whatever insurance now Covers us called body brokers Insurance covers this so the way it works and this is what's great So this particular documentary was part dramatized right so it starts off and these two kids are drug addicts very very sad and They run into this guy and he's like look I used to be in your same shoes. I can help you out Whatever the guy is interested He gets he flies to this drug treatment center in California right on the beach Yeah, he gets his drug treatment all covered all paid for because there's this apparently his loophole Where they can have another insurance company pay for it then to keep them there Because the success rate's less than 10% to keep them there because this guy who's a broker Right who's finding people to send to these treatment centers He makes a cut then they start paying a percentage of their cut to these people to just keep going I love I love this is such a scam. It's crazy. Oh the the documentary. I would that's what I love by the way I don't want to get make that clear that I don't think I think this is a good thing I think it's a really bad thing I think it's and I also think it's what gives capitalism a really bad name because here's an example of it looks like Capitalism because all these people are starting up these these homes or whatever But if it wasn't for that law that's being that requires these companies to pay Or opens up the door for this kind of yeah shenanigans exactly each patient is worth $300,000 every 90 days. Yeah, that is insane and the here's a crazier even crazier stat that came up in the show And they were showing how many of these facilities were popping up everywhere exploding everywhere It's like just in LA. It was insane. It's a cash cow It's like if you open one up you're guaranteed to get a bunch of money from either the state or these companies that are required To pay for oh, it's a no-brainer. Yeah, no It's you know, they I think they said the success rate is less than 10% So 90 something plus percent of these people are just coming back And that's how they that's what was really shady about all of it is it was this hustle to you know They go through the whole 90-day process and they're billing You know, they're bill and insurance companies, you know $300,000 for all the amenities and they give them and then they kick them out You know, oh, you're done with your 90 day You're sober now knowing that 90 plus percent of those people are coming right back I'm right back and receive the same treatment and the whole thing all over again. Just get paid Well, not only that but they're incentivized because then they pay them. Hey, if you come back, I you know I make whatever 20,000. I'll give you $10,000 So now you're living for free in this place that feeds you whatever you're on the beach and you're getting paid to do it So it's like now where you guys aware of I see what blew me away Was that I was completely unaware of this as a hustle. I have no I didn't know I didn't know Yeah, I had no I that was the was so fascinating about it And it's been going on now for what how many years now Yeah, I just remember all those shows were happening at the same time right the celebrity rehab and then all these like rehab like Reality shows were going on at the same time wondering if that's you know another way that they're trying to market Their facility well, you know, it's my okay So from based off what I've read the these protocols on getting people off of drugs off of you know Being addicted is it's all a lot of them focus on the physical withdrawal and physical addiction So in other words, they bring you in they detox you you talk to a counselor Whatever but here's the problem whatever got you to do those drugs in the first place if you don't fix that That's why the success rate so terrible if you're not fixing the that you have shitty relationships with people or that you have this This type of depression or whatever you feel, you know, you have this horrible self-image That's still with you and if you don't figure out a more effective meaningful way of dealing with that That's more issue that we deal with obesity Mm-hmm So say it's the same thing and all these gimmicks and stuff that that pop up to get these quick fixes and give people all This emotion that the other working so hard and doing this completely ignoring What got them in that situation in the first place? And it's why we continue to see that the turnover on people they we don't we all they no problem, right? We don't have a problem with losing weight. It's keeping it off every year You know millions of people lose hundreds and thousands of pounds total, right? But what ends up happening is they put it right back on because they never address the root cause Yeah, whatever the feelings are that you have that drive you and they can range right the feelings can range from anxiety to depression to you know Even just bad relationships with happiness. Maybe a elation or impulsive behaviors, whatever if you're if those feelings The roots of those feelings aren't dealt with and you don't find a substitute or a way to deal with them other than the food Then what ends up happening is you just feel terrible. So yeah, you've lost weight Motivation's gone now. You did it. You lost 30 pounds. You lost 50 pounds. Whatever now you're in this place You're actually back where you were before just maybe a lighter version of yourself But now you still feel those feelings and now you have to deal with those feelings and the way I dealt with those feelings before Was with food now. I don't have any tools. What do I do? I got these feelings. Yeah, I don't know Do you substitute it with something and there's only so long that you can? Muster it out or have the discipline or whatever you want to call it not even discipline because that's a skill But rather the you know just just kind of you know trading through it at some point you end up, you know giving in That's why it's very important to To do it the right way to find the right relationships with these things and find ways of of dealing with it Otherwise, it's just it's this hamster wheel cycle that you end up getting you know getting stuck in anyway I read something really cool. You guys want you want some tech news some cool tech news throw it down So in I got to see where this was I think it was in Shanghai Let me look up. I have the picture here while you're looking up tech stuff There is Amazon. Have you guys seen halo yet? No, what is that? Oh pull it up I just just hit me a commercial so I haven't so you know, I didn't do a lot of digging yet So I don't know a lot about but this is Amazon's new fitness weight loss tool. So they do so it's tracker or yeah It's a 3d. So it's sick. It actually looks pretty cool So it looks like it shoots your image of you and then tracks your go Amazon Hey, yeah, there it is right there the 3d scan. Oh, so basically our idea a long time. Yeah No, that's why I thought you would I thought maybe you stole it Yeah, this is very similar to what Justin and I what do you still have those original? I have those renderings Yeah, do you really? Oh, it'd be fun to share that if you share that with the audience I think maybe I'll give that to Andrew and he'll put it yeah That would be cool because we did it so long ago and the you see Amazon Just show you how brilliant Justin and I are yeah, so I mean Amazon. We're just way ahead of the curve So you get this it does all these measurements. It says it measures sleep activity Body composition tone of voice which is very interesting It makes it an image of you a 3d image of you. Yeah, and it shows you what's happening. You know, this is this okay Yeah, I hate to sound like there, you know, and it's not gonna work But this it doesn't address the real problem at all. Yeah, okay great. You got more information. Yeah What's help people there? I have a different feeling about stuff like this than I do like when we got into the heated discussion about like Tonal. Yeah tonal and OTF and stuff This type of thing I like right so I love where this is at like I mean we all remember when we first started like You had books and it was all a notepad and and long form trying to figure out all these things Everything was numbers or you know, you're trying to get through and get all these like real tangible metrics At least this is like a visual. Yeah, but I feel like this is gonna be valuable to the people who would be willing to do that Who are willing to write things down and track things? I agree. I don't think it's gonna help I mean again, I don't I don't I don't think it's the answer But I do think that we're getting closer and closer to helping the average person I mean, do you guys not think that fit but Fitbit my fitness pal and in fact secret those types of apps are not useful tools I find them extremely useful. I do I think they're useful tools But I think that they're we're still it's focusing on that 20% of people who are gonna Use things and want awareness. Yeah, but yes and no, right? Cuz You're I'm agreeing with you that it's not addressing again the what got these people here, right? It's not the magic pill It's not revolutionary. It's not anything like that But as a as a tool to help a person get to that place or a coach to use that with the client I think it's brilliant and I think it's extremely useful. Yeah, that's a good point if it's combined with a good coach Yeah, I mean because look at okay We know that again my fitness pal and you know fat secret and tools like that fit bit these tools Okay, are are not that great as far as solving the obesity update But I mean how much do you guys like those tools as coaches? I mean I use them like crazy Well, I could see that you if you have access to it and your clients wearing this thing You can watch well, that's the thing I like the sensor aspect of it that maybe they don't have to check in all the time But to use a coach can can see their progress and alter just little things to help them You know get closer towards, you know the right path I think that something like this with a visual is Very helpful sometimes for people that they they need that self-awareness that they're not really like looking for Certain things like how that's gonna affect their body. Yeah, they don't really like understand it all completely If you just show something a little more simplified. That's like a visual. I think it does help If you're working with a coach, that's the that's the course Yeah, that's like the therapy because now the coach has got a tool plus you're working with a real person Yeah, and they're kind of guiding you the whole time So speaking of the tech that I was bringing up Doug I texted the picture of you to you. Maybe you could pull it up So in Shanghai they displayed a QR code in the sky and people could scan it and then look at the ad So there's literally a picture enough Doug could pull it up. So on on your way out to my place I don't know if you guys saw this but I saw that on a billboard. So it was on the billboard Yeah, it's huge on the billboard. No, no, this is this is in the sky. I know that's even cool This is in the sky concept though, right? Yes, and then it gives you the ad. Yeah. Yeah Oh, yeah, no Doug's gonna pull it up here But literally it was they displayed it like like a hologram. There it is Can you see that in the middle that that QR code? God, so just in the sky So literally you you just look up and oh what's that hill and you scan it and boom It tells you what the hell's going on that was in Shanghai. Wow how insane is that dude? So that okay? I wasn't gonna bring something This is definitely goes right in line with my theory for all the alien the UFO sightings all this stuff. Oh, okay Okay, brace yourself Yeah, because Okay, so we're getting all these actual visuals that where it doesn't make any sense about how fast it moves All of a sudden it's right here, you know Like it defies like all the gravitational forces all the all the physics and everything else, right? So, you know, what does that the best like that you can think of like just in what we know qr code here No light. Oh, okay, right? So if I have if I have a flashlight, right, and I just I move it really quickly like that Yeah, it looks just like what these UFOs movements are like, right? So my thought is that it's more like a hologram It's more something that they're projecting, you know out there with us Yeah, just to fuck with us. Hmm. That could actually be I mean, I'm trying to keep bring it back into tangible things that we already know That could very easily like magician bullshit that could easily fool us. Yeah, that could totally easily fool us I like speaking of which this theory speaking of which I hate to say it, but we all know Alex Jones, right? Ah, you know the frogs or whatever I don't like them putting chemicals in the water. They turn the friggin frogs gay. Do you understand that? Crap yeah, Alex Jones, right conspiracy theory guy, okay? Yeah, fuck. He was right again, dude. Did you hear what they did? Did you hear what they did? No, no, they freaking made a human human monkey. Oh, I did him Mara embryos Yeah, they took humans was this just in China or this was in I think the US in the US I think so they took humans and monkeys and the just made a freaking cross between the two embryo and the Justification is this is so they can you take organs from that and use as Justification is like you see if they could do it. I thought that I know but I saw that article, right? It was they were talking about that and that was the that's the purpose of this, right? Yeah, no, it's right here researchers have inject here we go. I'm not seeing plan of the apes I mean, it's it's so obvious. No, this is investigators in China and the United States. Oh, isn't that great when we work together? We do crazy shit, right? Yeah. Yeah, let's learn from their science Look what it says researchers have injected human stem cells into primary embryos and we're able to grow Chimeric embryos for a significant period of time up to 20 days They grew an embryo for almost a month That was a monkey human embryo and you know who was talking about this about I don't know eight years ago Yeah, and everybody made fun of him. Yep, Alex Jones. Yeah That dude, are you kidding me? So explain to me why why only 20 days like why didn't they keep going? What was it? I'm sure I'm sure after a certain point they're like we better stop Otherwise, we'll definitely get some heat, but that's what they told us I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't make one last just some little mutant creatures Yeah, we want a human with monkey strength, you know, or whatever or we want to do not need that No, we don't there's no justification for that. No, I mean this again I'm telling you it's a bunch of scientists and they're really smart and bored and they're like, let's what can we do? Do you see that's a joint US US scientists team? Interesting China US scientists team. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, let's keep doing a moral science. Yeah I'm waiting for the team. I'm waiting for the monkey, you know, army. Yeah Unstoppable well since we're talking about animals. I have something for you guys that And and it's also 420 so I have homework for you guys to smoke some weed tonight or tomorrow done check Don and do you guys have that Apple TV? Yeah, okay. So have you seen I think it's called After dark, it's like it's basically yeah, the Jason Momoa is that one that see no No, this is like Apple TV's version of the Discovery Channel like the whole animal planet. Oh, this is yes, dude This is when everything is dark and then you look at the animals. Yeah, so they have these They have these low light cameras That allow you to view all these animals at nighttime and we've never been able to do that to this clearly, right? So it actually the low light cameras Show all in color at nighttime Super wild and we're watching all this all these so you got high and watch. Oh, yeah, so good It kind of freaks you out because there's so much activity. Yeah, and we're like just sleeping just Jaguars are ready to kill us. Yeah, the first one they followed around A pack of lions and they were like man, we we knew that they were active at night They didn't realize how active they were at night until this this whole show have incredible vision in at night We're we're blind at night compared to some of these animals. Yeah, that's why we go to sleeping caves Yeah, I mean we got to go and hide our if you guys haven't watched it It's it's it's worth to watch even sober But I think you know with all the holiday here and everything I gotta tell you guys a hilarious story this morning. So I know you guys know I have my daughter's 11 She's about to turn 12, you know this year and so she's she's starting to act a little bit more like a teenager What does that mean? Well, it means that when she wakes up in the morning, you don't know where you're gonna get You're gonna get happy girl. Are you gonna get moody as fuck girl? Who knows right? I don't know So it's a bit of a bit of a toss up anyway this morning was moody girl So she woke up, you know angry. Hey honey, do you would you like some breakfast and she answers me literally by grunting? Okay, you get nothing or whatever so we're doing this whole dance all morning, right? Well, she's kind of moody and I'm like whatever to have your space, you know, that's fine No big deal. We get in the car and she's like she's got her I mean she looks like she needs into the 10 hours of sleep She's like this we get in the car and my phone automatically syncs up to my car when I turn the car now this morning Oh, god this morning. I worked out at 5 30 a.m. And I lifted okay. I had to train hard and really bad Oh, no, I had to train hard and heavy and you know to motivate myself But whatever so I get in the car and I did not know this but my music by the the stereo was on and it was on loud And I had sepultura just bro. We pull out the garage and she's like and then the music just all of a sudden Go no no no no no That'll shake out any kind of, you know funk I'll piss was she oh she was so bad Dude speaking of kids so okay The I don't know who you who you guys are in your relationship With Katrina and I I'm the one who like it was always encouraging Max to like run naked and free like let him be let him be naked Let him run around she's like no no she's like put a diaper on him put a diaper on him And so when you know this weekend he was pretty much mostly with me, right? So yeah any time this is when dad breaks the rules, right? So mom's got all these strict rules about nudity and everything like that not too much like it's not that she won't let Him be naked I'm like let him roam for as long as he wants to and then eventually especially if he's like somewhere like outside Yeah, whatever right so this is like an ongoing thing well She's laying down this weekend and I've got him and you know I just he just went to the bathroom, so I changed his diaper and as soon as I take it off He's shot up to run around and I'm letting him kind of run around so that so he's in He's yeah, he's yeah He's laughing he's having a blast because he knows he doesn't get to do this in the house very often and he's in the In the living room, so I walk around the corner to throw away the diaper in the diaper genie And I come walking back and literally he's like this He's got he's got one hand on his hip He's just thinking he's just pissing on the floor, dude. I'm like Of course you did dude, of course you do that. I was in your camp. I know I know I know I was like god damn it Did you tell Katrina? She gonna find out from I told her I told her so because I of course she's right Right, so we're good about telling each other when the other ones rather. All right. Good thing. It wasn't a poop I just well he just had went so Mike that what are the chances he's gonna go again right now He just went right so I should be good. You know how it is when you change their diaper Like what something about the air it just triggers more I guess every time I mean that I just died though the stance and everything He's got a hand on his head, but he's just like like an old man Pissing all over my car pick it away. No, I can't still take a tree and just pee outside. I can't stop them Please just you know, don't lay me. I'm sure you don't want to do to My buddies my buddy's kid did that and he he was learning how to like make letters and stuff and so Because he goes around the corner and his kid is trying to draw with his pee in the carpet. He's like Mom's gonna kill us all Yeah, I love that so that's good that so you there's definitely things that he gets to do with you that it doesn't get to do with mom Oh, yeah, so what about her does she have him do stuff that you I mean? I think Katrina's probably and here's the thing and I and I tell her that like Because we don't we don't disagree on those things. It's just like, you know I totally the day she he was doing something that again, okay, so here's another one, right? The heat I'm watching him Katrina has you know, he's built. She's built the structure like he this is what time he eats This is what time he naps. This is what time we bathe this like when he's with dad, you know We kind of break those rules now what I tell her is that you know It's this is me getting to have fun with him and just letting him be loose I would never not want her to run the show like that like I love that he's and you're not trying to undermine her Totally not. No, it's not like that. I'm just a little more free with him like so like he's with me I it's time to eat and we're like playing and I'm like feeding him why we play versus she's like Okay, it's time to have lunch. Let's sit down and she gets him as high chair And it's like an event which I appreciate and love but then you know, I break some of those rules So I'm probably the one who? Breaks the rules or does things that he's that he that she probably wouldn't agree with I don't think she is you'd have to ask her that if there's something that she does Yeah, I know I don't know I'm trying to think right now What are there certain things corn usually takes them to like eat at places? I would never go you know whenever we're gone Especially like the treat thing like taking them to get ice cream where I never do that like I feel bad But I'm like never do I never even think of that I always tend to take them places. They're dangerous You know like I'll let them go climb on these trees that are way too tall and they go like way up there And I until all of a sudden I get nervous because at the very top. Hey dad check me out Oh my god This happened, you know, I just let it happen. So yeah, that's one thing I tend to like flirt a little bit more with you know, having them really go for it I think it's good right to have the the a little bit like that so long as it's not It's not if you're not undermining the other person. It's totally fine right mom and dad or whatever parents There's there's different personalities the kid will get something from each. You can't be the exact same That doesn't make any sense. There's got to be a little bit, you know gas and brakes if you if you want to call it balance, right? You know that makes sense. Yeah, the baby He is because we kiss him a lot. We're very touchy-feely family, right? So everybody's hugging kiss all the time. So I he tries to do to kiss. He doesn't know how yeah But he goes up to Jessica and he opens his mouth and just puts his mouth on her face Or he'll like like, you know, whatever, right? He just loves doing it doesn't do it to me because I got the beard But yesterday was warm outside So I went for a walk with him and I'm holding them or whatever and I had my shirt off Some people still kiss like that So I'm holding him and I have my shirt off and I can see that he wants to and then he kind of feels that my shoulders Like bear so then he does he goes like this to my shoulder and it goes and then he goes It doesn't taste good. It tastes like mom at all. Dad's skin is not like mama's skin I got hair in there. Yeah It's hilarious. The face you may have like, oh, that's not the same as mom. Mom's the good one. She's the delicious one She smells good. You don't want to try to kiss my bare skin. It doesn't it doesn't taste good. Anyway, Justin that Article you sent that study you sent me over the weekend. Yeah, really really cool You said him and not me yeah, you know like this is about grips and the benefits cognitive benefits of grip training Yes, no what they were doing not the ones that you've talked about because you've talked about this for no This is another one and what they're showing actually this obviously this we've talked about this before but not the study But we've talked about how if you're at work one of the best things you could do to increase your cognitive performance is Move get up and and do some kind of exercise trigger sessions like we talked about in maps and a ball I noticed that when I would do trigger sessions throughout the day I was my performance at work my mental performance, which much better if I felt a little tired Go do a five-minute, you know trigger session with bands or whatever and I come back and I'd be sharp Well anyway in this study all they did was have people squeeze their grip So they would take a gripper they'd squeeze their grip for a little bit and they tested their cognitive performance They were faster. They return. They retained memory much better. So they have much better memory retention Better verbal fluency based off of just doing the gripper or if they were high on that what I mean What's so consistency of using it? Oh, yeah, okay got it So just so compared to people who didn't do that the people who did some just be of a minor physical exertion Had better cognitive performance. What was the the duration of it? Was it like right away or is it over weeks of consistently right away? Oh right away, and they link interesting It's the central nervous system your cns. You're turning it on it's gonna fire more effectively and you know What's a big part of your brain? I wonder how much if that's similar to if if you could okay say let's say somebody did Just the hand gripper right for that those purposes But then you had somebody else who strength trained like traditional squatting deadlifting things like that if you would get a similar Response from that. I would imagine but I'm I would also imagine there's a at some point There's diminishing returns right if you exhaust the shit out of yourself. You're probably not going to get that boost Yeah, so really what you're doing is you're not getting a crazy workout is you're you're just turning the I wouldn't s on Yeah, I would associate a little bit more with isometric training like that would be sort of another like good pair for Something to get those types of benefits, which is really what brought me to that study because one of my friends Ryan Glatt He does Like all brain training in all cognitive performance type of training And so he was actually experimenting with axon for a while for me And he sent me that that article and there's been a few about Isometric training in general because of that fact that you don't get like super fatigued from it But you are training your central nervous system And so you get a lot of cognitive benefits as a result You can test this out yourself if you're if you ever get to the point where you're at school You're at work and you just feel like oh my god. I'm getting tired or I feel like my brain is stuck Tense up your whole body for 15 seconds just try that just squeeze your whole body for 10 to 15 seconds relax Immediately you'll notice a little boost In cognitive performance just from doing you know something like that now speaking speaking of workouts I know we but we there was a recent Q&A episode where we were talking about going to failure and we typically advise people don't go to failure But I think the occasional occasional dare I say rare use of failure can be Beneficial so I've been doing this. I'll do this Once maybe twice a year with my training. So what I do essentially because I've had people DM me and say, okay Can you highlight when this might be beneficial or why? It's so here's how I do I take my total training volume and I cut it down by two thirds So I take it way down right so if I'm going to do Nine sets for a body part now I'm only doing three and the three sets are to failure and typically I'll pick three different exercises I do this for a very short period Four weeks or so what I notice from it or a couple different things one And this is the bigger benefit. Believe it or not is it helps me recalibrate Uh, my understanding of what failure is for myself because here's what I notice When I do this once or twice a year when I'm doing a hard especially a hard exercise like squats or overhead presses When I think I only have two reps left Sometimes you have more I actually usually have four to five because now I'm actually training to failure So what it does it helps me recalibrate my you know my my intensity gauge Oh, I thought I only had two But I actually did four or five more reps. So that's number one Then number two in that short period of time the reduced volume increase intensity I always notice I get a little bit of gains, you know from doing something like that So I think it's something well, that's interesting because you that's not very often at all. I thought So I'm like once a month. I would say I'm there. Is that too frequent you think I don't do it that much because Failure gives me some benefits, but boy does it last a short period of time and then it's gone Yeah, and I don't get any more better. I mean, I think that I think the the real message is to not get Because what happens is you you train to failure You see new prs and new numbers and then you get hooked in that right if wanting to keep doing it So, you know, I typically would do it once once a month Just to do exactly what you said just to kind of see where I'm at Like if I was especially if I'm making good progress right if I'm Training and dieting really consistently like I like to kind of re-measure kind of see where I'm at like once a month And then you know, so I'm recalibrated for the the following month Yeah, so like instead of doing three exercises for example for chest and all three of them I'm doing three working sets. I'm doing the same three exercises One working set each and it's that one set to failure. So the volume is way down But I just focus on the intensity. Yes. Yes. Um, that's again speaking of training I showed Justin this I have to give this instagram page a shout-out. It's one of the best ones I've found a long time jail house strong. Yeah, what a great bunch of bad asses on there. Really? Oh, bro This page they highlight like maybe dug could pull it up. It's on instagram. It's called jail house strong I think it's the name of it They will show like old school strength athletes from all over the world There's this one post of these strength athletes from india in the 1800s, you know, these wrestlers They were showing like yeah, see like at least look at somebody's pictures. Yeah. Oh, look at one of Mike Tyson's neck You know how big his neck was it was something like 20 inches around. It was ridiculous. Wow. Yeah scroll down keep scrolling down Doug I want to show there's a picture of a guy in Don Youngblood who's probably the most alpha-looking picture I've ever seen in my entire life and believe me as soon as he hits it Yeah, do the hairy chest. Oh, yeah, no keep keep scrolling down because right there Bro, look at this guy Is that not the most alpha thing you've ever seen your entire life? What is that right there? He's just like a bouncer, dude. Yeah. Yeah, you show up to pick up a girl and that's her dad Oh, I don't believe yeah, how big is that dude? He looks huge. I don't know but I 22 22 inch Is he neck? Is that a necklace that's 22 inch? Yeah, 22 inch neck. Wow Tyson's 20 is big 22 inch neck is insane. Yeah But that hole just looks like he'd just crush you in a million pieces Yeah, the whole page has got great stuff and there was one there was one recent one Maybe if Doug you scroll up to the top of this The further down this Japanese guy like fighter. I think he was and that right there Look at what he's doing right there part of his training. He's literally a bull He's literally wrestling a bull and taking him down the hell Yeah, dude, you know, it's funny So I was with my dad over the weekend and I was showing him this website because he loves this kind of stuff He loves like old school strength stuff And I was telling him like man, I can't believe like the younger generation how Weak they are and my dad laughs and I'm like, what's so funny? He goes you guys are weak compared to my generation And I'm like, oh, I'm like you're a hundred percent right I said, what about you compared to your dad and your grandfather goes we were weak He goes, this is the trend. He goes we get smarter But we get down down down but we get much weaker and I was like, oh, yeah, I guess you're right So I don't know my grandkids are going to be doing can we uh, can we transition over to some controversy? Let's do it because I feel like Doug was like you guys haven't said any controversy throw some in there Doug was really exactly what I said Please come in with the heat don't need some music for that. So I didn't know um, I didn't know this I don't know when it was. I think it was our our friend Connor I think I saw him talking about this and I wanted to ask you south He knew anything about he's drinking special protein shakes. No Oh, no, I didn't see that so that's what the generations do the secret ingredient is jizz Nancy Pelosi investing in microsoft. Did you know about that? Dude, there's a lot of stuff about her Investing in companies right before some kind of new law Information so she she wouldn't just invest a little bit She invested 10 million dollars with her husband into microsoft literally like weeks before microsoft announces It's deal with the pentagon. Yeah, it's like a 22 billion dollar. Do you know how many times it's gonna happen to her? No, you know how many times she's done that she's done that with many many things where she'll invest and then oh We got a government contract. Oh, we got this new thing. Yeah, that's coming out. How is that not insider trading? Of course it is 100% of course it is dude, but you got to go after them to prove that good luck And here's a deal if you're okay, so Let's say we're really that hard to prove somebody that's tied into the government gets a government deal No, it's not hard to prove how well here you go. Look at all these companies that she that she did Wow, there's that mini. Yeah So look, she did roblox too. Yeah, all right. So imagine this right We're we're all politicians in the and you're you guys are you're a republican. I'm a democrat He's you know, whatever. We're not in the same party. We don't really care But all of us make money like this Am I gonna rat you out? No, because if I do I ain't this is how this is why the heat right back bro This is why you have these lifetime politicians. First of all, look up the pay Anybody they only they only make like a hundred. They don't make $200,000 a year. Look, okay Public servants look look it up. If you don't believe me if you're watching or listening to this podcast Look up how much you make if you're in congress You don't make Shit not even the president makes a lot the president salaries $400,000 a year, which you're the president us You make 400 grand that's insulting nothing for that right these people make less than 200 grand a year Yet they live in dc one the most expensive place in the world and yet you have there it is right there Yeah, yeah, you have some of these there you go. So senators and house house representatives 174 grand Right. Look at that. I mean now and yet you have some of these lifetime politicians who are worth millions and millions of dollars That's weird. Yeah, how'd they get all that we all that money? Yeah, a lot of it's this kind of weird Brothers were behind it So I know man that's so dirty If you look at like um You know the train that they were gonna build here in the california What was that the high speed rail? Yeah, the one that's cost. I don't know how much it's cost now that never have they still even working on it Because they just like to spend money Bro look look into the con look into who got the who got the contract and see who they're related to And then you start to to realize why this past and who who's making money off of it Wasn't he like doesn't elon musk trying to do that wasn't he trying to do a hyper loop? Yeah, and also like a vacuum tunnel somehow. Yeah, I don't know Speaking of elon musk dug. Can you share what that article you sent over? I don't know if these boys read it or not. You sent over an article on tesla Two guys were killed With they drove a self-driving the self-driving mode or whatever. Yeah Nobody was there in the car, but they were on self-driving mode. Yeah So two two older gentlemen got in the car. I believe they said by their wives that they were gonna go They were in they this was the intent was that where one guy was in the passenger seat When was the back seat and they said they're gonna go test out this thing And they yeah, what they said was they told their wives. Hey, we have information on epstein and the clitons and then it's weird So strange that that derailed speaking of crazy, uh, the the was a jake paul and uh, oh my god I didn't even I can't even bring that up. Wow. I can't leave it and bring that up Bro, I just saw the highlights. So you guys didn't pay for the fight. So you guys Didn't pay for the fight, right? No, I did okay So I paid for it. I tuned in at six o'clock. Okay, so I'm still learning all this. So I'm this is so different from whatever It's unbelievably different. So the I if I get this correct, right and you check me in my dm's if I'm wrong Uh, thriller is the name of the the company or the promotion that is putting all this stuff on If I if I got that right And this is not the first time they have other other fight promotions I had to download an app I think called fight club is what I had to download in order to buy this I couldn't buy it through the I mean you could if you have a smart tv and download the app It's not like you have to get the app. Yeah, it wasn't on a normal provider like most pay-per-view So I had to go through this app to do that They I mean, they got a ton of money behind this thing. I mean they're snoop dog ice cube iced tea um super models mario lopez I mean they had They had all the and didn't you say there was like a slap boxing. So they Yes, so they never seen that we just blast each other in a face. Yeah. Oh, yeah So that's okay. This is what's interesting to me, right? It's I don't know like Obviously, they're trying to steal some money from, you know regular old school boxing promotions, right to get some of the eyes, right? I think jake paul and uh, benaskrin did like 1.3 million pay-per-view buys. Yeah, that which by the way ties Uh, what's his name? Conrad greger and me withers. Yeah, dude. Yeah And of course, we know what happened the fight askin got knocked out Which I mean askin's a terrible boxer, but that really looks bad Yeah for mma. Well, it it does kind of right not to people who know fighting because you know fighting, you know, benaskrin's terrible Yeah, that's total mismatch, but still it doesn't matter though. Yeah, I don't know how much case So I don't know how much effort he really put into training for it. Like I didn't follow the whole training I know he did like some funny videos of rocky like he did like like had some fun What did he didn't look like he was doing much boxing specific training not only that he didn't look in great shape He had like the back fat role going on still never really done and he's never looked in great shape I get that right so that's not a true test if if he did or didn't but He just didn't seem like he cared much. They did this thing where they actually went behind Uh, the behind the scenes like in the locker room before the fight even happened They were kind of interviewing and talking to him I mean, he was he was making fun of the organization Just like how unprofessional and terrible it was that he wouldn't even let his kids watch it or anything So he was kind of shitting on it the whole thing and he was kind of like laughing about this whole process So I think he knew he was getting a massive payday. He didn't really care now There's a lot of people that are speculating saying that he took a dive I that was not a dive not on the no no no no no that was not it He went to sleep, bro. He put him to sleep and then he got up and when he was while he was Oh, yeah Yeah, he you could see he was trying to stay in it if you were if you were throwing the fight You would have just stayed down. Okay. So so I think there's a market for for this I don't think it'll ever replace uh, like real good fighting I think there's always a mark and you know how you know because you see this in other countries In fact, I sent you guys a video from russia russia has weird Fights they have fights with people wearing medieval armor and hitting each other with swords They had one with this really massive overweight man fighting this girl Um when one they have you know, like they have all kinds of crazy stuff Just like carnival kind of yes, like, you know, it's it's long those lines of like, okay This is this is all for entertainment, but it's just like, you know, you don't you don't know what to expect so To me, it's not it's not like uh, you're watching it for the sport of it You're watching it for the freak dude with that much money though. Yeah, this thing is going to keep going Okay, so that's so here's what I think might happen Now think about uh kind of a page out of our own book, right? We came out with some really terrible early on content like shock and awe Like if we go back, right if you go back, how hard is it for you guys to listen to something in the first hundred episodes? Bejazzled it was yeah, it was bad, right? And so maybe that this whole sat boxing, you know, billionaire fights, you know, some other dude who stole his girlfriend You know jake paul youtuber fights a mma Maybe all of that is to just get the the attention on them of like this weird drama And then with that money and those eyes, maybe they try and elevate their game as far as how how the commentary is And they bring more professional. I mean because snoop dog was getting people high bro on tv I was like, it's the jerry springer boxing, right? That's what it is right now. There's a market for it There's there's definitely a market for obviously 1.3 million pay-per-view buys also by the way I got something i'm gonna i'm gonna bring it back to something controversial. You're welcome, Doug Uh, you got people saying it's not fair That a guy like jake paul who's not a professional fighter Makes far more money than most professional fighters. That's not fair. He's never trained. Whatever he created it doesn't matter the market said He's he's making that much because that many buys same reason why women's basketball, for example Won't make as much money as men's basketball as unfair as it sounds They just don't bring in the money. That's where it all boils down to life isn't fair That's it. So if you if you want what you think is fair to make a lot of money Then give your attention of money to that don't give your money attention to the stuff You don't think is fair that has did you see all the heat that tony jeffrey's got from it Our buddy at boxing burn. He was you know because he's he's been commenting on it and talking about it And he has kind of the same attitude as we do. It's uh, it's fun You know whatever like obviously he's not like a real real serious boxer and you know It was entertaining and he liked it But because he was saying positive things and he has a community of all like hardcore real boxers Boy, he took a lot of the purists and everybody. Yeah, I mean because there is there's a lot of people that I understand right so I don't I don't want to like I totally how much would that sting right? You've been busting your ass for 10 years to work up, you know work up to the professional level as a level as a boxer Nobody really knows who you are. Here's the deal. You make a decision Do you want to be the best boxer or do you want to make the most money? And sometimes you could do both But sometimes you do one or the other and if you're boring You're not entertaining You're not going to make the most money if you're very entertaining like extremely entertaining and people want to see you fight Even if you suck You're going to make a lot of money. That's just the way just the way now Here's the deal I would hate to be as smart as they are media wise I would hate to be those brothers the paul brothers because They have such a big target on themselves because now all you need to do To get a fight with them is to make enough create enough of a social media beef That people want to see you get your ass kicked or see you kick their ass Oh, yeah, I'm sure really good fighters, but I'll fight them, you know, I'll fight them and easy about I'm not gonna fight you Nobody cares if I fight, you know, a really really good fighter But some fighter who like, you know dates is x y or starts harassing Harassism if they do enough of that definitely open the door for that to happen to them Well, that's right That's what I think is going to happen with this promote now I don't know if that's the initial move and then pivot into actually being a direct competitor to like boxing Or this is they're just gonna they're they've obviously found A need in the market because people are spending money to watch them and maybe they just stay in that lane Maybe it's just all drama fights. Maybe it's not about this is the best box in the world But you want to see that dude kick that dude's ass And so we're gonna put it together and then you're gonna pay money to see it. That's definitely happening I mean, it's it's here. I don't think it's going away anytime soon, but it was terrible Yeah, oh, it was painful cringe worthy Oh, it was so cringe worthy to listen to the guys and in oscar delahoya came on there and He seemed like yeah, just wow It was so the guys that were doing the interviewing For the fighters and things like that. They didn't have any sort of fighting knowledge at all It was they just try and throw they threw celebrities and names circus. I think just instead of best Yeah, it was just you know, bro pride did this in japan now pride also had good fighters But they would do stuff like this where they'd have you know a giant versus a little guy or Whatever like there's some entertainment value, but if you push it too hard in my opinion at some point It's just kind of like oh, this is gratuitous. Oh, I was I mean, it's crazy the amount of money I mean that kind of money they're gonna it's gonna it's not gonna go away. You're gonna see it again for sure Hey, I hope you're enjoying the podcast real quick Head over to mind pump free calm and check out all of our free guides We have fat loss guides muscle building guides. We even have guides for personal trainers again It's mind pump free Dot com all right. Enjoy the rest of the podcast first question is from kiki murphy 13 What are some ways you can deal with the inevitable constant stress that is causing hormonal imbalances Even when you eat right exercise and get adequate sleep. All right. Well, there's there's your neg commercial. Yeah, exactly Actually, that's no, that's not that's that's very true. There are things you can use that'll help Balance out or help your body deal with stress. I know we work with a company called ned That makes hemp oil extract. It's actually the one of the only ones I actually feel when I take it And that can help their supplements like ashwagandha ashwagandha can also help But here's the here's the here the big rocks. Here's the big thing that's gonna help now This person asked the question and they mentioned eating right exercise and sleep And then they said I have a lot of stress essentially that's causing hormonal imbalances Well, here's the beauty of a fit and healthy lifestyle Use it like a tool to Optimize your life whatever's happening in your life. So what does that mean? If your life has a lot of stress at the moment Then you can modify your nutrition your exercise and your sleep To help your body deal with that stress So if you're very stressed out that means you're probably going to want to sleep more Your workouts are going to be more focused on mobility Flexibility feeling good your diet is going to be uh, you know Higher in foods that are nourishing and healthy to the gut to your digestive system into the body Let's say your body. Let's say your life is low stress at the moment. Things are going great Well, now you can push your workouts You can push the sleep a little bit and get away with a little less sleep You can push the diet and bulk or cut aggressively because the rest of your life is Allowing for that. So this is how you want to view those things, you know I've I've gone through periods of my life where They were very very stressful. I'm not going to the gym trying to hit prs I'm not going to the gym trying to You know go beast mode when I go into the gym when I'm stressed out I'm thinking to myself What can I do to help my body deal with the stress that I'm dealing with at the moment? It usually looks like mobility lighter movement flow type movement things where I'm kind of making myself feel better I also think there's a lot of value in scheduling like days that are And and whatever it is that you you use to decompress So whether you're a yoga meditation you re go by the ocean and go to the mountains get a massage like This is something that Katrina really hacked in with me Early on in our relationship was I I can get really really Focused on the business and work and and even though I love what I do Can become stressful because you got a lot of a lot of moving parts, right? And and I can always I put myself off, you know, I'll eventually get to the massage or I'll eventually take a vacation I'll do that where she she knows me so well that she can feel That coming on even before I think I can feel it coming on and so she will actually In the calendar will already put like we're going away phones are going away We're going to go stay at our favorite place by the ocean and do things like that or are she just in fact This was just what two two weeks ago Um, I came home on Friday and we had you know a massage therapist at the house ready for me to go And I didn't even know that I was going to have a massage So she'll do things like that to help me decompress even if I'm not like saying oh, I'm all stressed out So I think um either having a person who can support you and do that with you or You making a conscious effort to like kind of look at your calendar ahead of time and go Okay, I need to every so many weeks and it doesn't have to be expensive You actually just be open space right? I know I know I said things that are probably expensive like staying at a nice hotel on the beach or doing a massage It doesn't have to be that it could literally be like just go for like a long walk somewhere in nature that you really like Whatever just you know having it though on the on the books that you're going to go do this And the intent is for you to really kind of let go of all the outside distractions and be present with yourself But one thing that uh kind of came to mind for me that I know Really helped a lot too was um and I've told some of my clients to kind of do this and to jot down And make a list of of things potentially that were stressing you out and so having some sort of like an inventory You know of stress, but but really for me it was it was about eliminating a lot of like the chaos a lot of the chaos chaotic elements so Ways that I could get ahead You know in work or I could I could accomplish things in a timely manner And address things when I need to address them instead of put them off that actually like was increasing a lot of the stress Uh that would accumulate and I would carry that with me like throughout the rest of the week And so to to be better about like what Adam's saying in terms of like scheduling myself Yeah, if I schedule that I'm going to have this day where I'm going to I'm going to walk I'm going to I'm going to get all these types of like de-stressing type activities Um, I I have to be able to have this one window to really hammer out all the the needs And to get it done You just reminded me of something else too Justin that you know, sometimes the things that cause like this Low level stress or even sometimes high level stress Is something that you're not addressing and it just keeps resurfacing and so I've talked before about like how I used to train myself to be better at self-awareness at at night time I used to lay in bed and kind of Go back in my day and think of all the the moments that were ups and downs or in this case We're talking about stress or talking about the times that were I was frustrated or irritated or stressed out I would go deeper into why I felt that way sometimes um, it's because you have something uh Underlining that is not that you're not dealing with and so it's it's surfacing as as like work stress or daily life stress And working and practicing on self-awareness was one of the things that helped me get to the bottom of that So for example, you're going through your day and you feel all stressed out at work Well, what was it exactly? That happened at work that made you feel quote-unquote stressed out and then unpacking that and being like, well Why does that bother me or why is that stress? Because I'm insecure about exactly and in fact 99% of the time that's exactly what I'd find out Sal is that like there was a deeper rooted Or fear that I had in my life That was surfacing as stress at work or stress in a relationship or stress in other other places But that wasn't really the root cause of the stress It was because I kept bearing it and then it would it would emerge in other parts By the way oftentimes that comes out in physical ways too, right oftentimes if you're not dealing with some kind of Emotional stress and you're just kind of bearing it. It can it can look like pain back pain injuries Um, you'll often see if you hear massage therapists talk about this Well, they'll work on someone they'll find a tender area They'll push it and work on it and then the person will get this emotion or they'll start crying Trapping in a place in their body. They're trapping it somewhere in the body. This actually legit can happen Yeah, so here's my protocol with stress. So I'm going to give you a little bit more specifics Here's what I do. I don't go on a cut and I don't go on a bulk I don't go on a cut because when my body's under a lot of stress Uh Cutting your calories below maintenance is an additional stress. I don't want to add a stress. I also don't want a bulk Because I know when I'm stressed if I try to bulk that turns into garbage food It turns into heavily processed food, which isn't going to benefit me So I tend to eat around maintenance and I also focus on foods that are very easy easy to digest for me For me that looks like meats Fishes no fried foods. If I do eat carbohydrates, it's it's rice if I do eat vegetables They're very well cooked so that they're pre digested. Why stress for me affects my gut It does this for a lot of people so I focus on that with my workouts my intensity is at 50% I'm doing full mate range of motion stuff. I'm doing more stretching I'm taking my time in my workouts sleep with sleep I'm paying more attention to the two hours before I go to bed blue light blocking glasses I'm trying to bring my body down. I might take I might take, you know Ned's sleep or some melatonin do that before I go to bed to get better sleep When I do those things my body's far more resilient to the stress that's happening in my life When I don't have that stress then I can push the bulk to cut the hard workouts and less sleep But if I'm not doing if I have a lot of stress, I got to optimize those and that's why I said use them as tools modify them to optimize your life Next question is from Lewis lifts a little How do you handle your mindset after coming back from an injury? I strained my lower back a couple weeks ago. I know what I did and didn't do that led to the strain I also know how to heal it and it's healed now I just need to heal my mindset Every time I get to 300 plus pounds for my squat. I start to psych myself out I complete a couple sets and I then get into my own head and stop before I hit my set goal for the day I think Adam could answer this. He's had a few injuries last Yeah Yeah, you know, here's the thing too like um, this idea that we always have to be Increasing the amount of weight. I mean squatting 300 pounds Is is phenomenal. I mean that's for anybody, right? I know there's all kinds of stuff on the internet of This makes you consider you a really strong person or kind of strong. It's like 300 pound squats. Good. Yeah Yeah, exactly if you can if you can squat 300 pounds up until you're you know late 60s or 70s for the rest of your life You're great. Yeah, you're that's phenomenal So this idea that we always had to progress back or further or add more weight to the bar I I think that's something and that's something that I had to get out of my head is that You know, I am I'm wanting to of course I want to see progress and I want to add more and I want to add more And I have to check that sometimes and go like why though like why so I could tell the guys Yo, I hit 405 today. Like what's the real point of it? Like is it I'm not competing anymore You know I'm saying like is it going to enhance and improve my life anymore? No, not really so I think this this idea of always having to push more weight to prove to whoever or whatever that you're You're progressing or you're doing great. I think it's silly and you got to let go of that I think that's the first key to healing a mindset like this is the idea that you have to keep pushing beyond that There's nothing wrong With you sticking out of weight and realizing that wow Here so Your weight is that right? So mine is 400 like when I start going over 400 Shit happens because I'm I'm I'm pushing at towards my peak of what I can lift at And all it takes is me to be you know a little off that day Or not have the energy and strength that I thought I had going into it and it puts me at a higher risk So the higher you go the higher the risk is sure the potential higher reward may be but what what do you really need? That right now I do get what he's saying though in terms of so what Adam's saying is that that's the core That's the core root like that's something everybody I think should work on but I do understand what he's saying in terms of the mindset because If you've ever injured yourself doing something Let's say you're riding your bike and you fall off and you twist something where you play basketball And there's some hesitancy before you go perform it again. You get the fear, right? There's a little bit of fear. Oh my god. I remember last time I went to do this and boy Did I hurt myself really bad? So I totally understand that here's how you get around any fear You have to desensitize yourself To that movement now with that and that's a slow process So if you get fearful at 300 pounds Get really good at squatting 250 like really really good like perfect tight Slow form get to the point where you could pause at the bottom Pause halfway up get really good at it and then add 10 pounds. They get really good at 260 Slowly get yourself back up to where you were before but own it completely own it and get really really good at it Each in every single step of the way and what'll happen? You'll desensitize yourself to the squat and then you'll get over that fear This is also where I like to to load the bar and just hold it and feel the weight And I know like I remember I think he brought that up Beforehand when when you're starting to squat and the guys would just load But you need to feel the way that I'm right I honestly feel like that that provides a you know a valuable Feedback that that you can control this you can stabilize in this position You could feel that all the way down your body. That's not going to crush you And and so if it's a fear thing, I think the exposure in the different components of the lift Will really help kind of break through that I like that idea too and like so something you can do along like set the the squat or the safety bars up Right. Oh, I was exactly and actually, you know add 50 pounds over what you could probably do and just put it down And yeah, just go sit down just go as slow as you can right and just but you know Yeah, your goal is not to come back out of it. In fact, that set it down That highlights something is learning how to dump the bar. That's a skill Actually, a lot of people don't know how to do it properly or they're afraid and they've never done it before And then when they get pinned they don't know how to dump the bar properly and then they get hurt That's actually something you you should practice get a bar on your back And figure and learn how to dump the bar and also learn when to dump the bar Like there's a point where you're grinding a weight up and you're better off just dropping the weight Maybe we'll get it up if you try to grind it out But you probably hurt yourself like you start to learn where that point is like And you're like this isn't it and then you know, and you're comfortable That's how I mean you guys have probably seen me dump the bar more than anybody I always and a lot of times you could I could have got it out But I already feel the breakdown a little bit and if I feel the breakdown even in the slightest bit I'm dumping the bar. Yeah, I know it's funny. That's like when I got rid of all training partners Like it was like because the last time I relied on a training partner. They fucked up, you know Like I almost got really hurt and it's just like it's so much easier to just dump the bar and and and do that Oh, you're right, dude Like imagine if this has happened to me too where I'm up pinned I'm under a bar and I want to dump it but my my partner is behind me trying to help me So I gotta grind it out with the person behind me. I can't dump it So I would definitely recommend like what you said Adam set the safeties Practice that feeling once you're comfortable failing, then you're probably not going to be as fearful of the bar Next question is from that guy kc. How do you improve grip strength? Oh, just and I just and I aren't qualified to answer this Oh, yeah Yeah, somebody had a second pass at it, which was interesting I didn't have to say it was one time Oh, because the first time I pull it out because weird All right, so here's a deal with grip strength so just like anything else you could obviously Train it And so I would say here's the number one thing train it like any other body part So you have your normal workouts you hit your chest twice a week your shoulders twice a week or three days a week Work your grip Two or three days a week and there's a few very simple exercises you can do now You can work on the static strength of your grip Which is just how long you can hold something and that's quite easy You can literally stand holding a pair of heavy dumbbells and hold them in either as long as you can or Maybe five seconds before you think you're gonna drop it. That's probably a little better You don't want to necessarily go to failure. So that's one way you can hold it But there's also varying degrees of static strength meaning You know, there's a there's a bar. There's that circumference But you also want to build strength on things that are thicker So what I like to do sometimes I'll wrap a towel Around a bar so that it's a thicker grip now. I'm holding it or I'll pinch grip where I'll hold a plate Just like this with my hands and hold that for grip. So that's for the static strength What about actual eccentric and concentric strength? Well, you can get yourself a hand gripper to do that Or you can use a barbell or dumbbells where you put it behind your back You let it roll down the finger to get a rice bucket and then you squeeze it or yeah I love the rice bucket. That's great. Yeah, you can like push your fingers through spread them apart. You can grip The you know the rice and make balls out of it and squeeze as hard as you can And it's just one of those underrated exercises not a lot of people know we have that in our ocr program. It's awesome I think it's really interesting to I mean unless you had something like ocr So I'm glad you just actually said that because I was actually going to say it's you know This whole idea of like training grip by itself I'm less of a fan of it because there's so many exercises that you can do that Your grip strength is going to come up really well. I mean you Doing weighted pull-ups is going to do it. You're doing heavy deadlifts going to do it You're doing farmer carries is going to do it you using an axle bar for your deadlifts is going to do it like these these all those exercises are Other great exercises for other parts or your the whole body that I think have tremendous value And you're going to get a lot of good grip strength from it to sit down and do like Wrist curl bucket and the only way I'm doing that is if I'm specifically training for like ocr Where that needs to be at another level. Well, it's specific too to what you train So you're going to be as strong you're only going to be strong in your grip to what you're constantly doing Right, so it's like the novelty of it is cool and all but like for the most part it's it's like you said It's what you do constantly and it's just getting better at your Mechanics your performance of that and loading the weight now along those lines I've noticed this quite a bit with clients that I've trained where I've done a little bit of work on their grip and on their wrist and because they feel so much stronger More stable and there's more stability. They're stronger on their presses. They're stronger on their rows Because they just feel so much stronger in their grip even in their presses even I tell you what You see some guys do this. Well, they're where they're heavy benchers and they're really strong with their bench And because the wrist and their grip isn't strong enough to support it They'll have wrist wraps that literally go around the wrist and it allows them to bench press More weight So you would be surprised now you guys are pretty advanced you guys train a pretty heavy But you should be surprised the average person a little bit of grip training And they notice these tremendous benefits and really okay. Here's what it boils down to Our hands connect us to the world We evolved using our hands a lot with things if you ever shake the hand of a blue collar worker You know exactly what I'm talking about. That's a different species people today. We work on computer We never challenge our hands at all and because this connects us to the world We become super weak. So then they go to the gym They train their body and their grip is just strong enough to hold onto the bar and do their exercises A little bit of grip work for the average person. I think can can make a pretty big difference kung fu grip Next question is from jazz fitness. I'd love to hear you discuss the recent debate on range of motion Is this okay? We're we're extending this from because that obviously we did a whole episode Yeah, I was gonna say we did a whole episode. What more are you on here? Yeah, there was a whole episode I mean really the debate was is A fuller range of motion beneficial when compared to a partial range of motion When it comes to building muscle and the argument goes what the partial range of motion argument is You're able to keep more tension on the target muscle once you go outside of a certain range of motion Tension is taken off the muscle our argument is you should be able to can maintain tension on your target muscle intrinsically throughout the full range of motion and Training a full range of motion is going to give you a broader Strength range because strength is relatively specific and studies show that muscles that work through larger ranges of motion They build more anyways and what you don't train you lose So if you train a partial range of motion you start to lose a strength and mobility So the prerequisites are can you control that range of motion? Do you have good stability and good connection? If you do within those parameters train the fullest range of motion possible Don't go outside of that if you have no control stability or strength outside of that range of motion Your goal should be to increase that range so you can train in greater and greater In addition to that even if the other guy that we were having this debate with was completely right Because there's there's some truth to what he was saying No doubt that if all your goal was to develop the quads And you know once you get out of that range of motion in a really deep squat the less of the quads Are being activated intention is going elsewhere to other muscles They're going to support that even if if we were to you know agree and go that direction Would you want to do that and to sacrifice though the the Mobility work that it takes for your hips and ankles to get all the way down Would you at any age of your life? Want to just write that off if I told you that by doing that by shortening your range of motion up for years Very much so will probably leave limit your function That's right lead to hip and back and knee pain because you you decided to shorten your range of motion up in pursuit of building more muscle in your quads So even if his case was completely right and we were completely wrong You know, would you want to do that? That was the problem that I had with that statement in that debate was Okay, maybe a very small percentage of you know, high high level bodybuilders Want to train specifically in that range of motion for a while They get a little bit more development their quads and they don't want any more hamstring or glute or calf work at all They just want more quads because it's lagging There's some value to that statement, but pretty much everybody else I think the statement is more harmful than it is helpful Yeah, but also along those lines as a bodybuilder There's one thing that you do better than any other strength athlete and that is connect mind muscle to target muscles That's what bodybuilders do phenomenally So if you're telling me that you lose tension in your quads When you go down below a certain point like figure out you can figure it out like Connect to the trust me the quads aren't turning off. Yeah, unless you're relaxing at the bottom or you have poor mobility The other problem is like it's like there's just too much isolation focus And you know in general we try so hard to to you know promote the the value of compound lifts And like what that does is it's such a louder systemic signal Throughout your body that everything has to respond. This is a whole new environment. We have to account for And so to eliminate that as part of the training process is is pretty ridiculous because it is going to affect All the muscles involved with that movement tremendously And you can isolate it and you can sculpt and you can do all that stuff But to to remove that from the conversation is pretty stupid. You know, it's funny We did a whole literally a whole targeted episode on this if you want to know more You know, I'm sure it'll be linked here and you can go check it out But the comments underneath that particular episode Every single person who heard us talking they I saw so many experiences of people saying My knees used to hurt my back used to hurt then I worked on mobility I'm doing deeper squats All the pain is gone my shoulders used to hurt then I worked on mobility now I'm doing full range of motion shoulder presses and my shoulder pain is gone like the whole That old mentality of oh it hurts your knees if you go too low Oh, it hurts your shoulders if you go to that's actually not entirely correct The truth is your mobility is making you hurt you fix that Then the full range of motion stuff will reduce pain not add pain Right. So even regardless if your argument is purely on aesthetics and like muscle development Like you like play that out. What does that end up with like where what is your body going to function like? And then what do you lose and then you lose and then you lose your risk versus reward Well, you end up like me. That's I mean, that's why I think I was so passionate about this argument was because I agreed with that guy, you know 22 year old me agreed was would quickly agree with that guy because all I cared about was the way I looked And I was young and I didn't like squatting because I wasn't good at it And so I just said oh cool good excuse for me not to ever pursue getting better at squatting Because I can actually develop my quads, which was the main thing I cared about at that time Oh, cool. I'll just stop doing that completely what I didn't know Was going to happen to me was because I did that I had terrible hip and ankle mobility and so chronic low back pain and hip pain came in my late 30s Or my mid 30s and I was like, well, I can't figure out what's going on with me Oh, that's why because I decided that I would just short my range of motion up on my squatting Because I didn't need to develop. I wanted to develop my quads. That was my main focus But now I'm I'm stuck with this low back pain and hip pain And it took me a year and a half two years of reversing that by all the mobility work And the beauty of it is after all that work to get to that place Now all I have to do to keep that from happening is squatting deep. That's it That's all I have to do and now I my hips and my back are fine That's it. 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