 In this episode of Mind Pump, by the way, Mind Pump is the top fitness and health Podcasts in the world. We try to entertain you and trick you into learning awesome. Gotcha fitness knowledge This episode is a Q&A episode where we answer fitness questions asked by listeners like you But we open the episode with an introductory introduction where we talk about current events We talk about our lives. Sometimes we mention our sponsors. We have fun conversation That was the first 43 minutes of this episode. So here's what went down in today's podcast We started by talking about Spotify and how they are crushing right now With subscribers and how they are treating their podcasters really good stuff Then we talked about the silver silver lining behind this coronavirus situation I talked about how at first we told my daughter the Easter Bunny wasn't real and then we had to backtrack because Big mistake. Yeah, she started crying Yeah, I talked about Trump's daily briefings if you're not watching these you should because they're comedy Yeah, and it's actually helping them politically. Oh, then we talked about the twins in India Whose mom named them Corona and COVID why going on here? Yeah, and their daughter Ebola I talked about the human intuition during the plague. That was interesting We talked about gloves and masks and how a lot of people are doing them wrong I talked about my favorite coronavirus conspiracies We talked about strategies to helping with the stress and anxiety of what's going on right now One thing that I personally do to help my body deal with the physical Feelings of anxiety, you know, I'm a bit of a hypochondriac. This is like a perfect storm for me And when I get anxious I can feel it my hands get clammy. 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I my current is always up there I know but your kids don't even know what that is. Yes, they do. It was before they were born. They know it because Okay, it's infamous when you're a kid remember when you're a kid and you went to like fun little dances in elementary school or whatever Didn't they always play that one song? You have the chicken. Yeah, why because it's it's all organized like a wedding wedding Macarena will be with us forever. I hate music that like makes you do things Yeah Like you have to do something assaulting me right now. Why do I have to be a part of this? What's there's another song? That's like I'm already a bad dancer. That makes me a really bad dancer You can't be following structure line dancing. Everybody already knows what to do. Yeah It takes me six beers to find the beat in the first place I gotta follow some routine. I didn't memorize Right. Well, I'll say somebody in this room has been lying dancing. Yeah, who's done that was that obvious I haven't you've done it Justin. Yeah, dude. What did you do? I was that like a saddle rack or whatever it's called Yeah, I think it was it was either there in Chicago. I think it was saddle rack Yeah, I think it was saddle rack because we were you know single at the time and that's where you go because that's you know Well, have you ever been chicks are yes? Have you ever been to a country concert? No, oh my god And I'm so not country either. It was so I don't like country you like country just for that So so Jessica is a huge country fan Yeah, and would love for me to go to a country concert, but now she's gonna hit this podcast And now if I say I want to go You could take us later. I didn't have to go. No, you're not coming now. Yeah, really is there more is there more pretty People phenomenal really beats every other yeah every other genre. Yeah, exactly. Really? Yes. I wonder why Get wholesome values Produces good wholesome bodies The math is there but Definitely works in that direction so funny dude. Yeah, so I would love to have seen you line dance. Oh, yeah It was silly. It was I mean, of course I I'm the asshole that like, you know tries for a while then turns it into a Michael Jackson move You know and everybody's what just don't follow directions. Yeah, I'm doing my own Hey speaking of music, you know that Spotify we've been talking about Spotify for years now Last year officially that the numbers came in was the number one streaming service in the world so surpassed all the other ones Russian yeah, and then they just attached to Apple Watch's API so API mean again. I don't fucking know what the acronym stands. You know, do you know it is done? I know what it means. I don't know we even researched that ahead of this Programming interface applied programming it basically means it basically means that your your cool thing of Bob can Communicate to their thing of Bob. Yeah, you can have the same experience on that device So they talk to each other yeah, so now you can which you would think that would be I mean You would think that Apple wouldn't allow that right because Apple would want to go to the yeah It's competitive right you but you know, they they haven't what what's called an open API that allows someone like Spotify To connect their app to that so it's now connected so you could if you have an Apple Watch you can say whatever to it It's definitely rare because they've always You know like Google for instance has been really good about that open source open API like everybody can not Apple at all like they've always Kept everything in house. So that's oh, yes, that's gonna crush. That's gonna make them crush Better experience. Have you guys listened to podcasts on Spotify? So what what makes it a better experience? That's just the way that it's organizing you could find things easier and just like I just enjoy the the actual like interface What is the share of because I know iTunes still well last time I checked Dominated the total amount of podcast work. Are they is it just starting to change? No, it's not that much It's still dominates right now, but I mean, I think we have a good example We I'd say probably 20% or 30% are now coming from Spotify Doug. Would you say somewhere on there about 20%? Big good. I'm not sure actually. Yeah, it's about 20. I am so that's about 20% So about 20% of our listeners are coming now from Spotify, which has been You know growing ever since podcast had dropped on there. So I think like to Justin's point I just think the UI for Spotify so user-friendly, you know, they just also released a Like whole kids channel. Wait, hold on a second. Let me go back for a second. Okay, so Apple has iTunes But their Apple watch is gonna connect with yes, Spotify. That's why it's a big deal It's crazy that they haven't they have iTunes probably have both though. They probably have Apple podcast as well Like is an option. Well, that's kind of weird. Well, that's I mean people demanding their bets Well, I mean, I think they're demanding it right consumers that have Apple watches still love Spotify Well, not only that because they do have a streaming side of their business, too That I guess hasn't been doing well the Apple music. I don't think I don't know anybody uses that No, and then you said some about kids programming. So now Spotify has a like a kids whole channel So I actually a download that we've been driving me like music. Yeah So it's like like specific to them like, you know how like on Netflix right now You can go to you can log in under kids and then it's like nothing but kids stuff so you can log into a Part of Spotify that's all kids and then they have playlists that are like I totally took we took Max Max So Max has been battling a fever. He's teething right now and this these teeth that are coming now worse than the first ones that came in and We actually hit 104 over the weekend, which yeah, that that scared Katrina a little bit I come running in the room wake me up. Oh my god He's 104 right now and you know doing the whole you know cold cold or cool bath and rags and trying to get it Down and this whole weekend has been was crazy, you know, it's one of those weekends where I'm sure every parent can relate What do you think it's the worst you look at each other trenches like you sure you sure you wanted to have a kid, right? Do you really so how vulnerable it is tested? Yeah, I know it's it's a It's it's crazy. It's a one of those weekends, too They're it reminds me and I was telling the guys this before you walked in sellers talking to Justin and Doug about you know it for sure the part of if not a large part of the the feeling that you have about having a child that's like so Rewarding and amazing and everybody says you don't know what it's like till you have one blah blah blah has to be The adversity that you have to overcome. Yeah, I mean Incredibly hard like when I when I think of the things that I've accomplished in my life Some of the things that took the most time and dedication and sacrifice Example for the listeners that know I competed like that was a long journey to get to that point in a Lot of you know passing on fun weekends and being disciplined about what they and part of what felt so amazing To finally go pro was I know it was all the shit Of course I went through to get to that point it was easy I wouldn't have been you get there and you know like oh some other motherfucker would never be able to do this You know and that's I feel like that kind of goes through your mind is like and it's not that the Because a lot of people can you know quote-unquote raise a kid But it's at those moments that really test you as a parent on how you handle those situations, right? Like I know for sure So he it started on Thursday went all the way till today, right? So we've been going through this for four days of these these fevers and he is just he's miserable He hasn't been like this at all. It's like the word one of the worst the stretches we've had and The thing that I think more so than just getting through that is also how you and your partner Handle each other through that situation because I mean I ate like crap I didn't get to exercise this weekend I didn't get no sleep and so it's same thing for Katrina And I know there's got to be several moments during that time where she's irritated or frustrated I'm irritated frustrated But yet never allowing that to to blow up or get mad at each other and and being still In a in the heat of all that and going through that with the stress and and the fear of what's going on with his fever and the That's that's the big one is dealing with the vulnerability that you're you know This is like you're invincible until you have kids You don't realize that until you have oh, yeah And you know and I think back to like you know my 20s and the the different partners that I had like man So many so many and I just can't imagine No rose for you having somebody who At all didn't have the same self-awareness As I do in those types of situations because I could just see I Instantly just think of like my parents or other relationships that I know Where got it all it wouldn't be it wouldn't it wouldn't be out of the normal for Katrina to snap at me because she Didn't sleep all night long, you know and she needs a little break was like that Yeah, yeah, you know and then for you to respond to that and then now the kid sees that and feels that because they're around that And so I just I think of things like that and I think that the things that I or I am I find the most challenging are those Moments and still it's not about just getting through those moments It's about how you handle those moments and so we had another one of those this weekend And you know, I just didn't you know didn't get a chance to get my work out So are you so you you you're putting on now kids music from oh, yeah, so that's the reason what the hell do they play on there? I still you know like baby shark. Yeah. Yeah, I mean everything every nursery rhymes song You get the end from all age groups that you could think of so if you're like, you know mine at his age I see DC with wind chimes. I did five that's I was No, you don't is also Metallica. Yeah. Yeah, the whole black album I would so listen to that. Yeah, it's white wind chimes and everything Songs are the ones that stick in your head the most. Oh, they are so can you be so because they just repeat it like crazy So we put it on so this weekend, you know, Katrina and I are considering moving to like the Gilroy Morgan Hill San Martín area, which is just a little south of where we're at right now And and so I said, you know what like we've been stuck in this house all day. He's fine His fever is finally kind of like lowered a little bit. I'm like, let's let's just go for a drive Let's just go. Let's get in the car. Let's just drive for a couple hours Yeah, which is funny to think that we know we did that we had to go for it Like especially because it's raining in like you can't be walking go somewhere to go to another place We're not allowed, right? So you just got to go for a drive So we just took even the dogs we took them in they're all like trying to get out and we're like, no This is we're cruising They didn't get it or anything dude I had to have to bring this up because I don't know if you guys know about this phenomenon or not Or if this is like spread to San Jose area or not if it's just like locally in my area I looked on next door. So, you know that So somebody on there was posting was like, you know complaining about all the howling and everything at night at like 8 o'clock like sharp and this has been happening Apparently there's just been like, I don't know whose idea it was or not But it's spread where everybody at 8 o'clock like people Yeah, like how like animals outside their window. What? Yes, dude And like me Courtney didn't believe it and then we were like we set an alarm and we timed it out And then we like open the window and it was raining and everything we're listening out there and sure and sure shit, dude Like out in the distance you could hear like You do it was like some like person doing it. What that's a great So we had so we got the kids and everybody we even got the dogs, you know started to do it because we were doing it I let's just such a Santa it was Finally Yeah, because what's becoming popular over here is what sound brought up The other day about what they were doing in Italy where people are like going on their balconies and singing That's makes more sense right more and more neighborhoods are starting to do that where someone's doing like a live Feed of like a DJ playing or something They're just playing music and then everyone's like singing the same song or listening the same music out in their on their apartments and stuff Oh, that's great. You're seeing and hearing more of that the howling you just spread the howling eight o'clock everybody Let's do we've just but what we've been doing is we've been driving to friend and family's houses and just literally driving Up by up to the house or whatever not on the driveway But staying in the road but close enough to the to the sidewalk so that we're not blocking traffic And you just call them up and you open your window they stay at their doorway So they're literally like 30 feet away, and you just say hi to them and hey what's going on How you doing it? You know when you see people in part This is I swear to God I'm learning so much about how much I value that human contact because I don't have much of it Oh, it's what I it's what I told you the other day that you know my Renewed sense of faith and humanity is just watching. I I've never seen so many people in the Bay Area Obviously if you're I think if you're from like the Midwest and other places other states I think they're more friendly. Yeah, they're they're used to being friendly Bay area is just like, you know, I and I grew up small town So I know it's like to like grow up in a town where like everybody you pass, you know And you say hi and it's like very friendly like that then you go in the Bay Area And it's all about like how can you get somewhere as fast? You can anyway gets in your way Nobody makes eye contact. Nobody waves like it's just it's that it's part of how it is over here and It's just it feels like small town right now when I walk in my neighborhood and I walk by somebody It's like they smile and they way isn't that beautiful. Oh, it is. It's it really is It's nice to see that that once we all get shook up. We all kind of wake the fuck up a little bit I've never had conversations with my neighbors ever ever now I'm having now we're going on walks and I see them and I'm like, hey How are you hanging in there? And we have like a you know a three-minute conversation or whatever and then I you know I continue with my walk that never used to happen before I'm seeing more and more of that It's nice. It's nice to know that when shit starts to get hard that people, you know One a lot one thing that a lot of people do is they try to kind of work together to self to comfort each other You know, like we're all on this. It'll be interesting if they keep this up, right? It'll be interesting if we all I think that what we're gonna see I think we're gonna I think it's gonna be very interesting when all of this is all over. There's gonna be a creative explosion Is what I think I think there's gonna be a creative explosion I think when we're all allowed to you know when the coast is clear and we can all go to the mall and restaurants I bet your people are gonna fucking celebrate. They're gonna want to hug each other. I'm gonna want to talk to strangers I bet there's gonna be all kinds of yeah, I said cuz dude we've like even with my kids I just noticed that they want to like draw comic books. They want to like build stuff They want to and I'm right there with them like creating things and it's sparking all these ideas and cool stuff And it's like it'll be rad to see a bunch of innovative things come out of this Yeah, someone well I mean side of it and for my kids cuz you know schools I mean I don't think we talked about this yet schools done for the year California. I know dude They're not going back to school. It's crazy till next year And so my kids now I can see at first they were like cool or whatever But now I'm starting to see that they want to zoom or FaceTime their friends This is the first time I've ever heard my kids like totally miss school. They're like I miss school. I like recorded it Fucking blackmail 100% what a lesson, right? Yeah. Oh you miss school now, huh? Well because you hated it so much now. They took you got rid of Appreciate it dude. I didn't tell you guys so So my you know Easter's coming up, right? So yeah, we do the whole Easter Bunny thing do you guys do that where the Easter Brunner brings it Loosely, I mean, it's not it's not like Santa Claus So we do it right the Easter Bunny brings a basket and whatever anyway, my son's 14 more do you like Jesus, you know You don't get toys No, so we do the Easter Bunny thing right kids wake up in the morning They got a basket with some goodies or whatever and so my son's 14 way too old for that He knows that he knows the whole deal my daughter's tan, which is probably a little too old now, right? so the other day she was at at home with her mom and So I get this call from from my ex and she's like and I can hear my daughter in the background crying I'm like what happened because she says well She came downstairs and she said to me is the Easter Bunny real and she said well What do you think and she was well? I don't know. I don't think he's real because I Don't I can't you know I'm asking for this thing But you guys are telling me that the Easter Bunny can't get it and it's because it's sold out We're there's these things she wanted was sold out. I don't think it's real So she thought what a great opportunity to tell her the whole deal now. She's ten, right? So she's like well now the Easter Bunny's Easter Bunny's not real and my daughter apparently was test like just wanted confirmation Like that it was real. She looked at her and she's like he's not that's not the answer She goes then Santa Claus isn't real the tooth fairy. She's like my life is alive And she was crying so backtracked. She had the backtrack. Yeah, and she's like well It's kind of true. Yeah, she's like if you believe he's real then he's real. She's like, no So I had to get on the phone Back and forth or whatever. So Easter Bunny's still real dude now like seriously That's a serious conversation like we've had to have that with the Ethan because he figured it out real fast Like he's like a little sharp one, you know And so I was like we were still trying to play it off as long as we could and we couldn't so we had to end up like Adopting him to to become Santa Claus. So we're like we gave him the responsibility Yeah, he's keep quiet about it to Everett cuz like ever still I completely believe yeah Well, and then I had that conversation I'm gonna have that conversation obviously with my daughter Which is I think she's being blissfully ignorant. I honestly think she knows right but she wants to hold on to it It's fun dude why why give it up? So I want to tell her you know when when she finally comes to me and say all right I know I'm gonna like look you get to like still get Easter Bunny and Santa Claus stuff because you have a baby Sibling that's about you know, it's gonna be born. So that was me. I was the oldest. I got Santa Claus gifts forever You know, I mean like 17 years old Did you guys see the Easter eggs that glow in the dark? No, so that was a pivot by somebody, right? They obviously everyone's gonna be in their homes for Easter and you normally would be out with family Just so they make these Easter eggs that glow in the dark and the idea is to turn your lights off in your house and hide Them throughout the house I know I thought it's easy to find though. I thought the same thing, but not if you can see a minute This makes it easier Everything's so easy for our kids these days Here's a trophy you definitely want to be able to find that though because there's nothing worse than like hiding an egg in Your house and give my kids riddles, you know, you read this little riddle and figure out where the Easter eggs are Like you really do that. Yeah, I don't get this. Well add the words up correspond them to numbers figure out the Hey, so I was cracking up the other day because so, you know how every day Trump comes out and does his daily coronavirus briefings or whatever. Okay, so His approval ratings are higher than they've ever been and the right now. They are yeah Wow. Yeah, and part of it is is during a national emergency We tend to rally behind our our leader, especially if they appear to be Leading which he does he seems to be he appears to be leading right? You can you can see the people around them respect them even the You know, what's his name? Dr. Fauci or whatever, you know tends to defend them or whatever But I'm laughing because he's getting so much airtime every single day. Oh, yeah, and the Democrats are getting zero airtime Oh, they didn't account for that. Oh, no, they're fuck. Oh, they're trying to do like web videos And but they're terrible at Biden did one that came out just oh, I saw that it was all choppy and like Scrambled so he's getting so much free airtime and it's becoming like a like a political gift To him really yes, because every single day. He's on the news. He's talking to you He's not talking about electing anybody. He's just talking. He's appearing like Here's what we're doing. I'm in charge. Here's the deal this sucks or whatever motivate you You know give you hope and then when he fucks with reporters that tends to people think he's a dick But people think like it when he does that. I don't know if you guys seen some of stuff He says a reporter. I think it's hilarious All right, and when he's directly doing it They can't like alter like little sound bites of like one thing and put it like out of context But you actually see what he's saying every day every day now He's getting tons and tons of views and it's just become free, you know free Political advertising for now. Do you what you're so interesting? What is your theory on like? Does it matter if what happens to the economy or the total amount of deaths? When the corona virus has started to subside does you think that matters in his reelection whatsoever? No, I think I Like I said before In when everybody's worried and everything's uncertain we tend to rally behind what's familiar and He's been the president for four years. He's he's re getting he's running for reelection So it's either the person we know and that we're comfortable with and that we've been watching Go through this stressful situation and talking to about us every day put somebody completely or put someone totally different So I don't I mean doesn't actually to be honest with you it really doesn't matter who was in office right now They would be hard to beat because of what's going on now if shit goes good He looks good too because now he looks like he's oh, yeah There's no doubt There's no doubt if when this all subsides if the United States ends up percentage wise The death of the coronavirus is lower or better and the other thing too is attacking him right now Which is what you're supposed to do right and you're with politics when you're running against someone It looks important. It looks bad because you're attacking our right. It's our president right now and she's hard And yeah, and it's a very hard time. This is not the time to be but I don't care if who like who he is Yes, you know, you have to be supportive of what we're going. That's what I'm saying It looks really bad to not be supportive and to counter him right now because that's a tough place for a democratic party to Navigate their screw. Yeah, they're in a really really tough place So and it's funny to watch because I'm watching these some of these daily briefings and I'm laughing because I Because he's such as he you know say what you will about the guy, but he knows how to use the media Very very well, like I remember when he ran the first time, you know, he did this one this one time he told Reporters he said tune in. I'm going to reveal the truth about You know president Obama's citizenship remember when that was a big challenging and everybody's like, oh my gosh You know Trump's gonna say something stupid or whatever didn't he leave it the very end too So they all the news networks were recording him and he basically did like a campaign, you know Speech and then at the very end one of the reporters like hey, weren't you gonna say something? Oh, yeah, he was born in America or something and you left you got a bunch of free airtime I thought it was the smartest thing I've ever seen in my life. Anyway. Hey, so speaking of which This is true now. They're actually are There actually is Twins that were born in India that were named after the corona virus What wait, what do you like COVID? Kid yeah, so one one there were twins. They were born in India. This is a dad joke. No, it was like no This is real one was named corona and one was named covid Boy and a girl born on March 27. Who does that to Preeti and Vinay Verma in the Indian state of Chattis car. I think I said that right I know Like a naked like that's so weird me my eye. Here's my son bubonic. Yeah. Yeah, exactly Somebody was gonna do it though, right? I know I was the first those the first ones that we that we know about Ebola Get over it speaking of the bubonic plague I was just thinking the other day because I was like just reading about like plague and how bad that was that was terrible I killed like a third of the of the of the world totally different situation than we're now But did you guys have you guys ever seen pictures of what the doctors in the day war? During the bubonic plague. You've never seen their masks. No, no is this Okay, so this is totally different But like I I know that they had something with the grim reaper like had some like I don't know if these that is like a Symbol for like the plague or whatever But I don't know about that, but I do know and it's Doug Maybe you're you looking it up right now to see what the plague doctors were. Okay. Have you guys seen? Okay, yes, so that right there is creepy as hell Yeah, so that was it was you that scary movies It's called a bird mask and this is what doctors during the time used to wear to visit plague victims And it was a big mask it covered their face and they had this long beak at the end of it and what they would do with the beak is they would put Like flowers or oils in there because the belief was this is before remember this is before we knew about germs bacteria viruses There in the intuition was that the smell of the plague was causing people to get infected And so this mask incidentally probably Saved a lot of people's lives because it covered their respiratory kept their face far enough away Yeah from from people with the plague. How crazy is that they didn't we don't know anything about germs or anything But we kind of intuitively knew that smelling People or being close enough reading it is are and creepy like you're on your deathbed and then that guy comes to show Oh, yeah, there's crow-faced guy. Dude, you know what that? hallucinating yeah, that brings up something else like I noticed just driving around we did this like hold Like we were just driving around just get out of the house And we noticed all these people like wearing their mask still in the car with their gloves driving on the steering wheel They're gloves on the steering wheel Okay, now think about this and I've seen this too like people eating food with their gloves still on like you're doing it wrong Okay, like there's a way you have to like discard your your gloves because now they're contaminated Right, okay, and now you can go back to your real hands You know and get back to life like take your gloves off take your mask off You know when you're not around people or around things that are gonna expose you but it's just hilarious I've seen the same thing too like I carry a so I carry the gloves rubber gloves box of them in all my cars right now And to me I think one of the of all the places the two places I think that I'm most susceptible to catching something right is gas station pump and ATM right if you're bank stuff you're doing anything like that So that's for I mean you take have one in my truck. Yes as soon as you get out You put them on I go over pump the gas since I'm done pumping the gasp of hang up the thing I throw them away in the trash peel them off Yeah, peel them off and then get back in your car So so what I did is I bought the thick rubber the thick like latex reusable ones because they're running out of these disposable ones and I don't want to buy up the disposable ones because I think there's a shortage of them. So you just wash them Yeah, so what I'm do what we're gonna do is we're gonna use those those It's almost like the gloves you wash dishes with you know I'm talking about yeah So I'll use those have those work and then I have a bag in my car like a like a paper bag That's designated specifically for the gloves when I come up when I get to my car. I you know open the trunk I take them off I put them in the bag and then when I get home What I do is I take the gloves and I wash them with hot soap and water and then I wipe down obviously where I touch the But yeah, you know what you don't want to do is wear the gloves and then go in your car and touch everything Believe it or not. So here's what's interesting the oils on your skin the natural oils on your skin actually have a little bit of an antibacterial Antivirus property latex actually stores viruses longer So if you were late latex gloves touch a bunch of COVID and then go touch a bunch of shit You're worse than if you use your own hands. That's crazy. You know, I mean and then the masks. That's the other one It's like people put the masks on and then they're constantly touching their mask to adjust it and then infecting themselves all over it Yeah, no one cool thing though I saw that there was this kid that came up with a cool invention for people that have to wear it mass and like You know health providers because at you know at the end of the day like it puts a lot of pressure on the ears And it really digs into it. And so like there's this this piece at the back that has It's like it's basically like it looks kind of like a ladder Basically you could hook a little bit higher up So it actually takes a lot of pressure off of the ears and off of you know certain like contact points Which was brilliant. That's awesome The main reason they say that the the masks protect is because it keeps you from spreading As I say it's more it makes more sense for someone who has it potentially or has a cough or something like that to keep you from coughing Right and the reason why they're recommending one of the main reasons why I think they're recommending that now that people wear Um is because there's so many people without any symptoms Yeah, that it's better if lots of people just wear them because you're less likely just to spread You know if you do have the virus well watching that one video I kind of sent you guys like it had me a little bit more alarmed about like going to bathrooms because of you know the the spread of Actually like the fecal yes matter stuff that that that gets like normal stuff that like you know You're kind of grossed out about but like you don't like account for like that is a major source of Contaminated you guys stop taking buttholes now. I got stopped This is really cramp my style. Yeah, you might get the cover anyway Have you guys heard of some of these conspiracy theories around God bro? I got I got a couple Favorites so one that's going around right now is that all the symptoms and shit like that It's going around is because of the 5g towers. Yes, it's all on which is so silly It's so so stupid and then I forgot all about that and then the other one is that that it was an engineered virus that is That they put out into the world so that world governments can create this like new world order or whatever I need to I want to remind people how just that's an old one I know the more people that need to be in on a conspiracy though the lower the odds are that it's a real Conspiracy, could you imagine the amount of people that would have to be in on a frickin plan like that? Yeah, you're talking about countries that don't get along to begin with and now we're going to organize Hey, let's all just not fighting for information and then doctors and nurses and it's like it's like now Everybody calm down. It's probably you know, what's that? What do they say exactly what they say it is Yeah, what do they say if there's hoofs in the sand? It's a horse not a zebra, you know Yeah, that's a new one. It just tells me that all Alright now you of all people are probably the most paranoid out of all of us for sure We thought we were just talking about this off air before we got in like, you know, how do you how do you keep all that? And check for yourself. I know you were talking about some of the woo-woo stuff You were doing before but what's your kind of like your daily routine to get when you I'm sure how much news Can you really consume? Yeah, because I've actually shut down a lot of the consumption of news at this point Yeah, I'm like so over that well, so I Look at actual numbers and I compare it to other numbers so I can gain perspective But sometimes what I have to do is I have to Work through the physical Symptoms of anxiety before I could get there so if you've ever been anxious before about something whether it's a An event like this one or you know, maybe in the past you had someone that was sick or losing a job or whatever You know that the you can get these physical signs of anxiety where your hands get clammy You maybe your heart beats a little bit Maybe you feel frozen to where you're sitting down and you kind of just feel like you can't do anything So those physical signs of anxiety can create a feedback loop where you have mental stress Physical stress and the physical stress causes you to feel more mental stress And so sometimes what you need to do is you need to break the cycle so positive feedback loop It's like when you have a microphone and you put it in front of speaker Microphone picks up the sound from the speaker speaker spits it out and out picks it up and then you get that you know Yeah, yeah, so break the cycle and so sometimes what I need to do is break up the Or interrupt the physical signs of anxiety. That's why I go smoke a joint so that well, so that's actually not that works That's actually an example of one way to break it up, right? Except that would make me way more anxious Exercise is one of them meditation is another one and speaking of cannabinoids THC Makes me can make me more anxious and paranoid if I'm on my head But the other cannabinoids like CBD and like like Ned Ned is you know has no almost no THC But it's got the other cannabinoids that calm me down. So I've been using it. I've never used it this much Well, you got daily you got me you got me to do that And I'm pretty consistent with that almost anytime that I decide I'm going to smoke I just go walk over and I first do a dropper of the net first Because you you're the one that that got will mitigates the paranoia, right? Well, it's and it's the ratio right the ratio is CBD to THC when you have like a strain that is and I prefer I've talked many times about this that I prefer to smoke it and when I do that I'm you know at the mercy of whatever the ratio of CBD to THC that the strain is and most of the ones that I would purchase or get are you know higher THC lower CBD and Sal was the one that when we first met a long time ago Before the podcast started that would tell me that he would always have a one-to-one ratio It's hard to find strains that are that way So what I just do is what any time that I'm about to smoke a strain that I know Is a higher THC lower CBD? I just walk over I have that and it does it team I because even though it doesn't affect me the same way where it makes me feel super anxious There is definitely if I have like a really strong sativa If there's ever a time that will make me feel anxious or or paranoia a little bit That will happen from like a really strong sativa I'll notice that so I just go over and I have the the net with it totally mitigates it It's super effective like and again, I don't use it. I normally don't use it daily Because I don't suffer from you know, I don't have inflammation. I don't have my gut is really healthy right now So I'm not using anything for that necessarily and I'm not normally and you know an anxious person So this is something I'm working on right now. So what I do is when I get home from work I'll go and I'll do a dropper full and it takes about to get the full effects I'll put it under my time about 30 minutes to an hour and I it's such a big difference And then what it does is it because it brings the physical Feeling even now my body feels relaxed It's easier for me to go and look at data and actually be put things in perspective Because it's scary when you look at the new the scary thing is this When you read the news and you read individual cases or or stories that will always Cause problems like if you read the one story about a kid who got COVID and died or about how terrible symptoms for one person It feels so scary, but you got to look at the the actual numbers Compare it to the actual numbers of other thing put things in perspective be objective But it's hard to do that when you feel physically tense So it's like I do that and then it brings me down and so I've been using it Pretty much every single time, you know, I try and always balance like for the information I try and look at the you know one far one direction one far the other and that like I'd never like it caught in like reading the same perspective of of the information because right now there's This definitely a clear line of people on one side who oh my god, this is complete conspiracy It's bullshit. This is ridiculous. And then there's the other side. Oh my god This is the scariest thing we've ever seen in our lifetime It'll be talked about forever and this is who you know, everyone they're praying on their knees every single night Like so there's definitely these these two extremes And so I I always read both sides and you know the the thing that I think I take from both sides Is this the the the people that are scared to death? Listen the the precautions that you take I think are are very very smart and responsible everybody should be doing that like why wouldn't we do that? Doesn't matter if we have a chance right now by sheltering in place by you know wearing gloves when you can By limiting the amount of people you're talking to if you are talking to someone you're keeping your safe distance All those things I think are very responsible and smart and if you care about people And I think you should be doing and that's the responsible thing And then there's the other side That talks about like numbers and when you read something like, you know, I think we all I think Justin sent this over I don't remember who sent this over first But it would talked about the total infectious diseases that people have died from this last year is like 3 million Yeah, when you when you read something like that that's that's what helps me if I look at the numbers and I go Okay puts in perspective. Yeah, you know what's going on that saying that this isn't something we should be careful for But it's not I I'm I'm overly afraid I'm over and it's not it's it's changing my behaviors in ways that will make me less healthy Right because of all the stress and that's what you have to be careful of because there's the Going either end is is almost Is almost stupid on both sides I don't care which way if you're the person who's so freaked out about this like the anxiety that you're causing on yourself And the stress that you're potentially causing on yourself and those that are around you Probably very unhealthy if you're on the other side where you're an idiot and you're just like oh, fuck it I'm going to keep going out there, but okay, you're an idiot too and you're now you're Endangering other people. So the two extremes I think are are really dangerous to people right now I think it takes self-awareness to know where you are and then You know depending on where you're at that that'll determine the things you should do to help yourself So if you're on the anxiety side Then make it a daily practice to to work on that if you're on the You know, I don't care everybody whatever actually No, here's the thing a lot of the people on the conspiracy side or the anxious people because they're so anxious that this is a conspiracy that were You know that governments are planning to you know take over and there's going to be this forced mass You know vaccination and or you know, they're doing this is a lie Like that's another form of anxiety fear in paranoia. Yeah, you know, so speaking of uh, here's some positive news Do you know what might actually help uh treat the coronavirus? boners Yeah, finally. Well indirectly. I mean porthub was been on is onto that for sure. No indirectly They're finding that uh nitric oxide boosters ring that nitric oxide boosters like viagra Actually may help uh people survive when they have really bad uh coronavirus symptoms because the boost the nitric oxide increases oxygen through the blood helps people and helps them heal And so they're actually there was a they're actually looking at treating us stay hard I mean he's gotta keep pumping your way. Can we make a shirt stay hard out there? Yeah, let's say fight fight the good fight Stay hard. Hey imagine you're laying in the in the full attention. You're laying See, this would be this especially this would be me if I was like a single, you know, kid If I was in the hospital with covet, you know, I'm like, uh, I don't know whatever nurse gives me Like a bunch of viagra. This will help you I get a boner. I would totally be like Hey This might be my last Do you think you could take care of this? The greatest it's really it hurts. I just like I just like starting to stay hard thing. I think that'd be a hilarious campaign right there podcast hard. Stay hard Don't be soft Did you guys see what now this is ridiculous now? We have we have for can't believe it in bring this up I saw it like uh, I want to say almost a week ago now the new quest, uh Water seltzer and protein alcohol drink. No, no Everybody's trying to get on this game. Yes an alcohol drink with protein in it. Yes disgusting Well, it's like combining two of the biggest fads right now. It's it's brilliant and ridiculous at the same time like Right now every I mean every major, uh, you know beverage brand has hopped on to the all the guys named chatter What is it? What's it? What is seltzer? What's it called seltzer? Hard seltzer. Hard seltzer. Whatever. Is that the definition of what that's like the white claws and stuff? Yeah, yeah, right. Is that the definition of how you say okay? So the hard seltzer is becoming like every beverage You know, uh, makers taking over all beer. Yes. Yeah, they're all they're all doing it right now And so quest came out with their version of uh alcohol and it has 10 grams of protein in in it also Interesting, you know what it makes, you know, what's that's going to turn into so alcohol So dumb fucks up your gut. Anyway, let's throw some fucking Some protein farts on top of that and see what happens end of the night you take a girl You've had five of them, you know, I mean you've had five of these of these hard drinks with with hella protein You take a girl home. You're like, yeah, we're gonna You know what though the truth is it's gonna crush. What do you want to bet? Yeah bang will follow them Yeah, I mean creatine version it will it will get creatine protein and alcohol Yeah, just because you're getting hammered doesn't mean you have to not gain Get drunk. Yeah, I feel like I feel like I could see the commercials now I feel like it. I mean it's Tell me though, if you're somebody we know, I mean, justin you're a white claw fan. I mean I know a lot of people that would be like, hey, I was I was gonna drink some of these anyways mays We'll have the one there you are Doug. Just pull them up right now. There they are like hard protein seltzer Hard protein protein. Okay. So I tried a protein water And that was like a thing for like two minutes and it was just like Chucky disgusting fucking water. Like how did they get around adding like protein powder enough? If you're if you're drinking alcohol and you're thinking and you're also trying to hit your protein targets You're not trying to make good decisions already at the same time. That's not yeah, that's just making low calorie That was the big watch it watch it turn into like one of the most popular post workout drinks did Yes, do you think about it to shoot insulin up? You get 10 10 grams of protein at the same time get a little buzz too because you're all freaking completely depleted It tastes like gummy bears. It's a homerun. Yeah, you watch you're gonna get it I could just I get I can't imagine the parties that are gonna have this at it Give me a 12 or the quiz protein bro last night. We got we got so smashed, but I had 100 grams of protein Good thing gross gains All right, our first question is from more jojo What type of lifter do you think is having the easiest time adjusting to at home workouts? Oh, that's a good question. So jojo. That's a fun one to speculate It is because I've had so I've seen several questions that are similar to this Like who do you think's having a better time bodybuilder power lifter Yeah crossfit So I think to get the I think you first have to we have to separate the what we're like What do you mean by easiest time right either mentally or physically right? So I think if you're a bodybuilder or a power lifter I think they they go into this with an advantage, right? You probably have a lot of muscle mass on you so you can afford to lose some of it So you probably go in with the greatest advantage But then I would be I would say that they probably are the hardest mentally right now They're probably freaking out and having in the hardest time Not having their crossfers are having the hardest time because they can't like, you know, of course Tell all their friends dude, I totally did it in like under five minutes. Where are you? Nobody gives a shit you're right at home by yourself. I think I agree with you I think crossfitters are probably struggling the most that thing is such a community driven Sport totally mirthed, you know, like in 4.9. Yes. Oh my god, you're right You're right. I just having the hardest time. I saw a meme that cracked me up It said that power lifters don't even know that there's a shutdown. They just they're still resting between sets Okay, so here's the type of lifter that I think is going to have the easiest time the one that Does the best job of accepting the circumstances? That's the truth. So whether you're a bodybuilder a power lifter Olympic lifter crossfitter, you know, whatever the person who is You know has is having the easiest time accepting the circumstances And transitioning to other forms of exercise. I would like to think that's a mind-pub listener I would like to think if you've been with us for a really long time We've made the case for no matter what modality you gravitate towards that There's tons of value in learning to move in and out of all types of modalities And here this is just a forced reason for you to transition right now, right? We've all now gotta be adaptable our gym our gyms are shut down and even if you weren't a big fan Of bodyweight type of training You're like, well, I you know, I've been telling myself I need to transition that mind pumps been telling me for a long time that I should transition out of my You know powerlifting or bodybuilding phase that I love to go back to all the time This now makes a great excuse for me to do it and the people that I think that are Reframing the situation as an opportune time for them to work on either body weight or mobility type of training And are seizing that I think are for sure having the best time in this situation I completely agree and I think look if you're if you were somebody that was so in love with your form of training that you never Moved out of it first off nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with really enjoying A modality and you really don't want to veer out of it So you power lift you always power lift or your bodybuilder you always bodybuild or whatever Nothing necessarily wrong with that, but remember This one fact right here remember that novelty Gets the body to respond. It just does. I don't care what type of training that you do Switching things up can oftentimes cause some pretty positive Changes to your body So now you have this this you're forced into a little bit of novelty now Is your max squat number is going to go down and your max deadlift number is going to go down because maybe you're doing body weight stuff Yes, but you may increase your stability You may have significant improvements in your mobility and remember this muscle You know muscle memory is a real thing Just because you're not you know lifting the way you always do but you're still staying active You go back to the gym when things finally open up and you go back to the gym Not only will you see your Whatever you were doing before you'll get back to it very quickly But because now you've added a new element to your training like maybe mobility for example You may surpass some of your previous uh plateaus like I know I know for a fact. I'll give you a great example. Here's a good example. I love heavy compound barbell movements I love squats Deadlifts overhead presses rows, you know bench presses. Those are my favorite exercises I love training in low reps and for a long time. I trained to see how how much I could possibly lift well at one point I had to face the reality that uh pushing any further was causing me pain. I had si joint pain In my low back. I had you know some some issues with my left to right balance So what I did is I dedicated some time to unilateral training Now that means that my weight went weight down. So instead of squatting with three or 350 pounds I'm doing you know controlled lunges with 100 pounds on my back But I did this for a few months. I dedicated unilateral training for about a few months Then when I went back to my Favorite form of exercise. Yes, it did take me a few weeks to get back to the previous strength that I had But then it went past it. I went past my old plateaus. So you have to reframe So the lifter that that looks is this it looks at everything in acceptance is okay. I can't go to the gym What can I do and you know what the same fervor and passion that I had towards The way that I trained before I'm going to apply that to This other form of exercise mobility is a great example and mobility will benefit 99 of those of you listening Are going to benefit from really really good mobility training as a bodybuilder you'll have Better controlled ranges of motion which are going to give you better muscle growth and better pumps as a power lifter Reduce risk of injury and because your weak links are not going to be as weak as they were before You're probably not going to hit the same rev limiter that you hit before so this could be a very good thing Well, minus all you know the lack of machines I feel like bodybuilders are going to be you know in the best situation because you mean you can walk around in your bikini briefs You know where the best lighting is You know i'm saying like that's in front of a mirror and do your fucking thing Like you're great. Like it's it's powerful. Yeah, I I I think about like power lifters doing like reps, you know body weight stuff like Oh my god, it's 15 reps You know It's too much is hurling. No, this is this is a mindset thing, you know 100% you know part of what uh The okay, so for years we we've we've been familiar with you know, corrective exercise and mobility and you know foam rolling and all these tools to help improve Range of motion and stuff right and work on your dysfunction. Well, it wasn't until I Reframed my goals and said okay. I'm gonna really take this seriously where my entire focus was around mobility Did I see the like huge change? So I had a lot of people that have messaged me about like oh man How did you get that depth in your squad and how'd you you know? I've been trying to work on the combat stretch and I feel like my ankle mobility. It'll never be there I'm mark bell. I know tagged I was tagged in one of his posts recently where he doesn't think he could ever get down into a Astagrass squad just people but you start to believe that you're just your structure won't allow you to get there And it's not true It's just you probably have never put the same effort towards mobility as you have power lifting guarantee if somebody like our buddy mark Actually applied all all the mobility drills the same way that he has put effort towards his power lifting Is he an incredible power lifter? If you just switch that to like all like you totally like said I don't care about power lifting now All I care about is becoming the most mobile guy. He would become extremely mobile and it It required me to do that after bodybuilding I went from being all I cared about is how I look and the pump and building a more muscle more muscle more muscle To okay. I have to completely shut that off. That's not a priority right now It doesn't mean that I don't want muscle doesn't mean that I don't want to not lose muscle It just means that I don't care about it. It's not my focus. My focus is What I'm measuring my success week over week is am I gaining a greater range of motion? Am I getting better at these mobility drills? And so this is a great time for people To reframe their goals and put a lot of energy and effort On an area like Sal said that 99% of you will benefit greatly from and one of the big challenges I know is that people who are you know gym fanatics Don't really know they might have figured out how to program a workout for themselves in the gym Because they've been doing it for so long. They don't know how to program a workout without equipment This is very this would this would have been me You know years ago if you if this happened to me at the age of you know 20 And I didn't have a gym. I'd be like, okay push-ups pull-ups Bodyweight squats like what else do I do? I don't know what else to do I wouldn't know about you know tension positions. I wouldn't know about mobility I wouldn't know about all the different angles that you can use with just body weight how to slow reps down How to make them feel more intense? I wouldn't know how to utilize bands And I wouldn't know how to program it all together because my experience was in the gym So if you need Programming if you need a good workout that's well put together We've decided to continue the half off sale of maps anywhere because uh, you know, they've extended the Stay-at-home orders gyms are closed longer than we thought initially. We thought we would just put it on sale for Uh, you know the month of march, but we're going to keep it on sale. So if you need a program like that You there the code is uh white and then the number 50 without a space Follow that that's good workout programming all you need are bands and a broomstick Next question is from dwayne nill Is blood flow restriction safe during strength training? I'm glad whoever who picked this question I did I did this is a good a good question because I actually saw I wanted you to talk a little bit about Did you see what ben greenfield posted recently? Yeah, I did I thought that was really interesting and uh, what a cool. I I don't know why this didn't cross same here I didn't even click for me. No, it didn't and I watched I thought man that fucking makes a lot of sense right now It does so what he was saying is just to to while training at home during this period of time Uh to reduce uh overall intense, uh inflammation in the body, but okay. How do I? Um keep the inflammation low for my workouts, but still send the loud muscle building signal So we talked about some techniques and one of them was Blood flow restricted restriction training. By the way, we did uh, we have a guide on it Um that talks about it and I think if I'm not mistaken Didn't we do a youtube video where we talk about a little bit in the guide? It has it It has the video and I think we might have done some youtube stuff too But for sure in the guide you have the the video on how to do it So if you're at home and you have like light weights you have a light pair of dumbbells 10s 15s 5s Or maybe you just have water jugs and you're trying to figure out how do I get the same Muscle building signal out of this light weight that I would at the gym went 30 or 40 pound dumbbell or whatever You you do something called blood flow restriction and studies show that this is legit And so basically the way it works and it's mainly for the limbs Uh, but you use like a knee wrap and let's say I'm going to work out my arms I would tie the knee wrap around My arm above my bicep kind of near my armpit And I would tie it around tight enough to where I could feel the that I'm restricting some blood flow But not so tight that I lose feeling in my hands Then I do curls with that and what that does is it is it prevents The muscle from getting the byproduct of waste byproducts out that it normally would pump out when you're working out So you get this build up of waste products. It's build up of uh of blood You all of a sudden 10 pounds starts to become trust me try this out for yourself You'll see at first it's like oh this is easy burns then all of a sudden you start losing strength It gets crazy burned the pump is the pump is distorting It's literally the the most insane pump you'll ever get in your life and studies show that this actually sends a Decent muscle building signal. I mean it's up there. It's not quite up there with heavy lifting But it's it's up there And it's something that you could do on your own at home And I think right now this would be something to utilize especially if you have a lot of muscle Right, and you want to keep a little it's also I think that one of the reasons why he was making the case was You know when we when you do like a hard lifting training session Um, that's a major it's a major stress on the body That's what causes the response for you to build and grow muscle But it also puts you in a more vulnerable state, right? So if we if we're trying to keep a very strong immune system right now And that's one of our concerns is staying healthy and not catching the virus or if you do that you can fight through it Well, right then hammering yourself in your home gym and stressing the body During this time is maybe not the most smart thing that you could do And when you do the bfr training you get this great stimulus And it doesn't hammer your immune system the same way because it doesn't put as much stress on the overall body Is that correct? Right, right, right. So um, that's that's 100 correct. That was his uh, oh, yeah So we do we have it up on our our occlusion. Okay, so then the title Of the video is occlusion training Um, and you can find that and gosh, you know what every time I look at these videos Look at these youngins. I don't understand why we're at why we're aging. It's like we're in a time warp You know, I was like was that two years ago? Yeah, yeah, three two years ago. Why does it look like 10 years ago? I don't understand so much wisdom in here. But anyway, occlusion training is definitely something that I think, um You you could take advantage of Right now if you have really light dumbbells you could do this with body weight training So you could include your arms and do push-ups, uh, or dips for your triceps You could occlude your legs and do walking lunges or body weight squats And i'm telling you right now Like let's say what if let's say I normally would do 10 10 curl 10 reps Sorry with 35 or 40 pound dumbbells I after a couple sets with tens i'm doing like eight. Yeah, and it's that intense. Yeah, that's crazy of a pump. So Next question is from l t d x s is inserting isometric holds into the middle of a workout effective Oh isometric training Fell out of favor not because of lack of effectiveness. I really think it fell out of favor because Lots of machines and pieces of equipment were being invented and gyms can't sell Isometric training because there's not really equipment lots of equipment for it. But if you go back Some of the best training advice you'll ever get when it comes to building muscle Is the pre steroid Bodybuilding muscle building era. So when you go back and you look at guys like Eugene sandal, Eugene sandal, you know John grimmick steve reeves Um, you know these guys before steroids really became a big thing They figured out how to maximize muscle building and strength Um without they even have supplements they even take supplements like you know creatine or protein powders It was all about their training and nutrition the first that really figured out how vital the central nervous system was in the whole process of getting stronger Dude isometric training was a big so isometric training was such a big part of the routine When if you read comic books up until i'd say the 80s and i have old comic books is when i got onto them in the 90s I'd buy old ones in the back of them was these charles atlas Adds for those and it was you know like some dude don't well You know some skinny guy on the beach with his girlfriend and then some big dude kicks sand In his face and he gets up and gets punk and then and then he goes and gets charles atlas This routine gets all jacked and goes beats him up But the routine was actually 100 based off of Uh isometrics and they call the dynamic tension Um isometrics work the soviets used it quite a bit to help them dominate weightlifting during the the cold war Um it it doesn't just give you strength in the position that you're you're training because it's you're frozen with isomet It also gives you strength in Out ranges of motion outside of that. It doesn't damage the muscles that much to 20 degrees further. Oh, it's amazing It's also it's also extremely safe and smart when you have clients a big fact So there's actually companies now. There's brands that have completely uh branding themselves around Isome in fact, there's a there's a a company or a brand called slow zone I believe is what it's called and it targets the you know advanced age and it's like Isometric and extremely slow movement for the safety. Yeah for and just by Creating tension holding intensifying intrinsically Moving really really slow or holding still in position And there's enough research to support the benefits of that and like you said, it's just it's falling out of favor It's just one of those things that isn't very sexy Uh, it's it isn't it's hard to see what's happening too when you see someone do an isometric position Where are they tensing up? Where is this tension going? It requires a lot of coaching and a lot of uh, yeah Like you your understanding of what you need to produce with that And so to be able to then add more effort to a position that you're in And I think that you know, there's even some yoga practices where you're in these poses Where you actually now you're really trying to like Yes, just dig into that with your with your muscles and really feel your way through that and get more tense Uh with that but it's it's all it has to come from within Which again to the safety point is you can you can really make these things intense But you can also back off at any second. Yeah, you know allows that kind of uh versatility It's also great for you know I used to love to use it in coaching like clients is to in the middle of a wrap of any exercise Whether it be a squat even a basic bicep curl or a shoulder press is I would do a light enough weight that I know They could hold it in that position So we do a light weight they go through it and I'd freeze them somewhere in the movement And then I'd actually then I go over and manually like adjust their body And then tell them you should be feeling this here thinking about your core being drawn in here engaging your glutes and like Really get them to understand like these are all the things that you should be thinking about through this movement Such a cool tool to use for coaches and trainers not just for clients and unseen results And you know, it's funny to me is that in the 60s and 70s because bodybuilders Actually do they don't talk about isometric training, but they actually do a lot of isometric training poses They pose right so bodybuilders will practice their Front double bicep back double bicep rear lat spread and they're you know the ab shot and Side chest and all that stuff and when you're posing on stage you have to your whole body is being displayed So front double bicep. They're not just looking at your biceps. They're looking at everything So they have to you have to learn how to tense everything up and smile So you have to develop this incredible amount of control and if you've never tried this try this Try flexing like a bodybuilder where you're tensing up every muscle Try not to look like an idiot and hold that pose for 15 seconds Try and flex your calves quads abs and biceps and keep your face normal. Yeah, and hold it and hold it for 10 Seconds. Yeah, it's not easy. No not at all without shaking and looking like it Anyway, so bodybuilders do this all the time and arnold in those days This was a part of their routine. So what he used to do. So back in the 70s Cardio wasn't something that bodybuilders did a lot of they just didn't they lifted weights They dieted But what they would throw in to their routine as they got closer to competition was posing lots and lots of posing So arnold would start to do 30 minutes of posing 45 and he would work up to two hours of posing Every single day as he got closer to competition Obviously burning a ton of calories and if you look at arnold in the in when he competed in the 70s He was very lean. He was looked at least healthy. He looked healthy He wasn't as shredded as they are today, but the the drugs that they took back then were were different But he looked healthy at least on stage. So this is something you should definitely incorporate into your routine Especially if you're stuck at home This is actually a big component in our at home program maps anywhere as well And we put them in there specifically because you don't need equipment and they're very effective Next question is from konichiwa Can some foods that are prepared from scratch at home be considered processed foods? Oh, let's talk about processed foods right now. You know, I want to say before we get into this that Processed foods we all we've been we always rail against and because they could they promote overeating They're probably why we have an obesity epidemic to be to begin with Because as the processed food, you know started flooding the market obesity when it just makes you eat more They do a good job of doing that. They're engineered to do that But there's some value to processed food One of them is their shelf life And right now I think that's that's actually a good thing. Yeah, thank god for that, right? Right because I think if you're Trying to not go to the grocery stores often Right now like right now going to the grocery store is an ordeal I gotta I go there There's the line now because they're only letting so many people in there They're wearing your mask your gloves or whatever Then they let you in and everything's slow and you come back you wipe everything It's like a two-hour type of deal and you you don't want to be around a lot of people So right now processed foods have a little bit of value because you can buy a box of something And it's gonna last a long time. So that being said, okay Here are the negatives of processed foods They're hyper palatable, but that's combined with extreme convenience. That's what makes them dangerous If you you know buying a cake at the grocery store is different than baking a cake at home Baking a cake at home the convenience factor is cut out. Okay. So yes You still have a cake at the end that tastes really good and you want to eat a lot of But it took me two hours to make One is built with love. One is built with robot hatred for human beings It's it's way less common to find someone who's obese because They they make all of their processed foods from scratch. Like I don't know anybody that eats too many potato chips Bro, you just green light to everybody baking a cake, right? Hey, I'll tell you what there's some fun in baking right well, you know, I think that You know, we were talking about this off air that you know A lot of the messaging around of course, you know, the the massive pivot of trainers Everyone's figuring at home everything at home workouts and trying to stay on their goals And you know, I think one of the things that and like you said, we rail against processed foods But I also think that this is not the time to be trying to make gains like this is not or get ripped Yeah, or exactly or you know, if you're going to have if you're going to enjoy food and enjoy company and do things Like this and not stress about There's already enough stress going on about just going to the grocery store. Like you said, so I don't think I would be beating myself up about having a processed food Right now. I wouldn't I wouldn't do that anyways. I most certainly wouldn't do it in in this this time I also probably would limit how many cakes I bake at home too though Yeah, but my point is it takes careful. It takes time, you know, like, you know, spend three hours baking something That's a barrier. That's a barrier between you and the food if you buy it. It's already there. It's the extreme convenience And it also could it also feeds into stuff that you talk a lot about and promote is that Baking that cake is an opportunity for you potentially to be in the kitchen with your spouse Or your child and you're helping them and it's a whole event out of it during a stressful time like this when we're all at home Totally, uh, if I had a client talking to me right now and said that they wanted to do that I would definitely not shame them away from doing something like that the value of that I think far out exceeds what you know negative calories you potentially are going to consume. Yes, and I do want to say this It's the abuse of things. That's the problem. That's right. Okay, so And by the way exercise and eating clean can be abused too. I know this in the fitness space I've seen many people who abuse eating clean. It's called orthorexia And it's a it's an eating disorder. I've seen people abuse exercise Which is supposed to be good for you But they abuse it to the point where it damages their body and of course processed food And alcohol and things like that can be abused as well But you know, I don't want to to discredit the temporary relief Again, I'm not talking about abuse here. Okay, and I'm not talking about a pattern Where this becomes your way of of dealing with problems always But sometimes the temporary relief that you get from enjoying a glass of wine Or having some potato chips because You've been you're you're stressed you're stressed over work and what's going on or maybe lack of work and Right now it's okay every once in a while The problem is when people and the problem is when people judge themselves Like I just had some potato chips because I'm really stressed out because of what's going on Even though I'm normally always healthy, then I'm gonna feel bad about it on top about on top of it That's just adding a layer on top of things So I want to communicate that because I think right now is the time to to say that Again, it abuses the issue not the occasional, you know use of these Well, I think too if you're cooking or you know baking cooking anything from scratch and you're using any kind of flour I mean it has to be processed, you know for you to be able to eat it You're not gonna eat like the stock from grains You know and like be all organic about it like it it needs to be like digestible. So like again, this whole processed thing Yeah, I mean it's inevitable like it's about being mindful. Yeah being mindful that's really what it is context matters And look right now I'm I'm baking Uh with Jessica and the kids because it's it's a great way to connect So we're baking cookies and it's not the cookies that know so much I want those are great It's the process of baking them sometimes you need a little soul food That's it and with that go to mind pump free.com and download all of our guides and resources They're all totally free You can you can also find the three of us on instagram. You can find me at mind pump sal Justin at mind pump Justin and adam at mind pump adam