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I remember thinking like like sometimes Adam's just in a bad mood Yeah, there's some energy around yeah, and I told Justin like is that it is it considered is it considered moody if it's justified I feel like if it's justified, it's not really moody Right, it's that's what Jessica says to me, right cause and cause and effect. That's what it is Like I mean, I got like it. I don't know maybe I don't think you're crazy I don't you're making shit up, but you definitely get moody Not that often though, right? I feel like I've been we've been in a really good mood I think things have been like really really good I especially with us working out the morning although I missed it today. No, I'm what happened Well, I'm short on sleep. I got maybe maybe an hour and a half two hours sleep last night. My dad came Total yeah, yeah, I didn't get how are you even alive? I know I'm barely I'm hanging in there right now So we'll see how this ride goes today, but Yesterday it started yesterday my phone and I like busy ass day yesterday. I got a crazy day today running low on sleep And my so a number a local number has been calling me like crazy. So I don't did you guys walk in the office and you see I wrote some numbers down on the whiteboard. I didn't tell you what I'm doing right now So you're gonna call these people back? So I'm yeah, I'm paying our employees to do that just so you know It's coming out of the budget just for today. Wait a minute. Wait. You're paying our employees to call back telemarketers Yes, I'm so annoyed like this this guy. I'll show you guys my phone. Okay. It's literally every three minutes Since like five o'clock this morning. That's the next girlfriend and they were doing no I answered finally I finally answered who the fuck is this? Well, this is you qualify for health Medicare I started going off like are you kidding me right now? You're calling me like this Over that and I came on glue the guy hung up on me and stuff like that But one of the things I said to him I said you mess with the wrong you rest the wrong with the fucker I said because I have a staff that I'm going to pay today to call back these numbers all day long That's it. I'm going to lose money today Just to mess with you we're all gonna lose money today just today I don't know how I feel about this because unless they have thousands of numbers, you know, they do I wrote them all down. I got them all. Okay. I got all the numbers You know what you got to do This is the best thing don't do that because then they're not going to stop answering your phone The phone because I've done that before what I what I do, which I think is this is what you should do Answer the phone and when they're trying to sell you something lead them on yeah Act like you're interested and put them on hold 85 times In fact, I do this with my kids taking with you to the bathroom Oh, yeah, dude. So I did it with my kids where I'm like, we're we're you know, I get I'll I'll show my I'll hold on quiet and I'll put them on speakerphone Oh, you know, would you like to blow like you know what that sounds very interesting Hold on one second and then I'll put them on hold and then like five minutes later. Come back Can you tell me that again? Do you guys accept credit card or I hold on one second and I'll do this for just leave the phone over there Go do something. Yeah, so they called you first thing in the morning. Yeah, that's why I was so annoyed It was like like five o'clock. It started five a.m. And I'll show you it's like like every three I think the longest stretch you went was like seven So I'm like I'm listening. I'm listening to my audiobook on the way to work It's getting interrupted every like five minutes. Wait a minute. I got an idea Doug, I don't know if this is is this going to be legal what I'm about to do right now I have a better idea, bro than having our staff do it. What if we posted the number on the youtube channel? Just let everybody just have a good time call. Oh, see that's it. Can we do that, Doug? Um, I suppose we could oh Bro, it's just information. I feel like these people have these random Generated numbers that they're calling from so they do they don't answer them They can go to some voicemail. Do you think so? I'm gonna try right now. Let's try. Let's let's let's let's solve this right now Because I this I'm so annoyed at this. I want to deal with it. Oh, let's see. Let's see. Let's see what happens You got to be really enthusiastic though. You know, I'll I'll play Sal's role. Yeah. Yeah See if it's a pretty closer to the mic Oh son of a bitches They they've moved on that just made my day worse. Thanks a lot, Doug. You're welcome. Sorry Sorry about that. I actually took the time to write all the numbers down in the office on this They got you there too. Jerry Eli and jokie. I was like literally like today. I'm tasking you guys out like rotate all of you Wow, they have a they have a blocked number, right? So then they could they call from that's so crazy or they get a or you get a message If you want to unsubscribe, you know push one or something like that, you know, so I don't leave no voice. You know what I you know what I've done before I was so Here's the other thing because I appreciate sales. I appreciate good salespeople. Yeah This is terrible sales tactic. Yes. I say if you I'm a easy close. Yes, you can get me This is not how you get me. Yeah when you're a shitty salesperson. Oh, I hate that So I've done that to people where they've come up to the door to sell me something And if they're good, I'll listen and I'll tell them I'll be like, you know what you're really good Listen, don't they do it? I don't care how good a salesman if you're calling me all the time on my phone I will yell at you. Well, that's a bad sales guy. That's a bad salesperson like telemarketers do not have any You know wait for for me. No, no, no I've done it where I've bought like I've go to buy a car and then the guy trying to sell me the car Is literally going down the script of like old, you know, tom hopkins sales Well, that's a nice tie-down, huh? He's looking at me like, is he know You know, I remember there when one time he's like, so if so if we if we can do this price Then you think you'd buy right and I'd be like, I'm like waiting. I'm like, I think so and then you'll say Okay, initial here. I'm just a blank piece of paper. Like that's a great way to get my Isn't it true? Isn't it true that we are we're more likely to get closed on something because of being salespeople Is that is that not is that not true or just yeah, maybe from yeah, like a good sales me Yeah, we're we definitely I feel like I'm susceptible to that I felt like I read that somewhere that we you know that we are more likely than like the average consumer is to Buy something because of that because we appreciate how they'll hard work and what it takes to get there And if someone does a good job of pulling me in and interest I'm getting me interested sales people typically This is a stereotype, but typically are they like that process of conversation Convincing and if you do a good job, we can get roped in and really excited about what you're talking about I've told I've told many people that like hey, that was really good. Yes. I said I did not want to buy this at all Yes, but that was so good. I'm interested now in paying for this But not when you harp on someone, you know, 85 times in a row Oh man, so that yeah that they're just assaulting you at that point Yeah, I can sleep you add that to it or whatever like that. Oh, you know, we'll never mind. It's justified then Hey, remember I brought up. Uh, here's a story for you guys. You remember I brought up the uh, the the the pennies Yeah, yeah, the grease the oil. Yeah. Yeah. Did you know there's a follow-up to that story? What happened coinbase? Here's brilliant more brilliant marketing loves this stuff Coinbase, uh came in and rounded the pennies up and cashed the cash the dude out with what with money Oh, oh money. Oh, yeah, so it's that hold on. Is it coinbase? Coinbase. No coinbase is the uh, or coin stars Coinbase is the is the bitcoin. Yeah, I was like, yeah coin star the company coin star Obviously this easy. What a easy commercial. What a great commercial easy They I think they rounded up like a hundred bucks higher than what it really was wrote that and obviously didn't make him counter And with that they took they took them and then gave the guy a thousand dollars or like that cheap publicity right there Great cheap brilliant, right? That is really good I thought that was really smart, you know, is there something that you guys this this happened to me again today And it's funny because I've posted this I don't know a hundred times Is there something that you know if you post in your story? On your instagram, whatever you know for sure you're gonna get lots of comments And it could be the same thing over and over again. Is there something that you have? Yeah, that'll do that Yeah for my audience, uh, I mean it's I haven't done in a long time My physique stuff like so if I might my body like if my transformation if I'm doing now your body My body, my body, my body, my body, my body, my body, my abs, yes, my wheeled up abs Sheet off on a chair that that does um, what I eat It blows my mind people are so curious about what I eat every day. Nobody cares what I eat No gives a shit about a chair Yeah, they're like let me guess. Okay, where's the cheese? Where's the coffee? Chicken nuggets again. Yeah, that gets that gets so am I and then obviously I'm so much more than that You guys my my question and answers get a lot, right? Yes. So I post you guys will see sometimes I'll post in the morning what I like to do after a workout, which is a lot of raw egg yolks And then I'll mix it with supplements that gets a lot of views. Yes. So today I did a weirdo Today I did the the paleo valley organ complex Pills, which I love because you know organ meat is so Healthy and nutrient dense, but it tastes disgusting. I mean straight up. I mean in fact Where were we going? We were going to truckie and dug had a bag of liver jerky And I I will take disgusting stuff all the time if I think it's going to be good for Performance or whatever. I have no problem doing that. That just means it's healthier. That was the worst fucking thing I've ever had in my life Whatever he gave me I'd taste it. I could still taste it in my mouth But anyway, so I take the paleo valley organ complex and then I show the cup where I Crack the raw egg yolks and today I did eight egg yolks and people lose their shit over it every time, dude They're like Aren't you gonna die? What about the cholesterol? Oh my god. I'm like, you know Yeah, so manila still after all that you've talked about this Yes, and okay for people who don't know I've said sometimes post workout cholesterol has got some great muscle building effects Here's another thing by the way went to the store the other day And they didn't have the eggs that I always buy which are pasture. I always get the pasture raised eggs When's the last time you guys had regular conventional eggs If you guys I mean when I had chickens Yeah, but your chickens they ate bugs and shit, right? Yeah, no I'm talking about when you go to the store and you get the like mass produced. You talking about comparing the color contrast How different is oh Yeah, the mass manufactured ones, bro. They're like zombie eggs compared to pasture eggs They are I because they have small yolks or the color the color is like their pale They're way if you put them right next to each other have a long time if you put them right next to each other If you don't really pay attention the average person probably has no idea But when you put them right next to each other, it's like Way different. Oh, yeah pasture raised eggs because they let the chickens go out and eat bugs and stuff They're like a really rich Orangeish yellow color. Yeah delicious. They're like orange. The other ones are yellow Yeah, the other ones are like like a light yellow And then the the yolk is like plump and it has a lot of integrity and the shell is harder The other eggs the shells like paper the eggs like thin like oh, I'm eating All the ones that they slam right next to each other in little cages. Yeah, and just just make them pump out Yeah, the zombie eggs. They're just machines. Yeah, but anyway, I always get like a whole butt side, you know, a handful of pills, right? Which was my working complex and then egg yolks and people like what is going on Hey on the topic of food. So uh, uh more also brilliant, uh marketing here. Okay, so you guys are I'm assuming not like fans of denny's right denny's is not like on your top 100. You talking about lumberjack slam, right? I mean We agree like pretty much close to like drunk food. You're right. It's like it's like the absolute last option Right if you're starving at two o'clock in the morning when all your inhibitions are gone from alcohol and okay So we can all agree. It's like some of the worst food, right? Either a trucker or you're like 500 pounds So I Brought this up on the show. I think like I don't know six months ago Do you remember when I brought up what chuckie cheese was doing? Yeah, they're all they created like an Italian sounding pizza brand. Yes So Okay, katrina and I late night chukka rally listen late night Listen, linda. Listen, we're listen. We're we're we're looking late night on on, you know uber eats or whatever door dash, right? And uh, katrina was craving a burger and it was actually really late and she's like she could she's like oh My god, let's look at this new place and she pulls it up And it's called the burger den and the photos are like look and I'm like wow that looks really good Don't tell me it's denny's those motherfuckers and they named it the burger den and and they to trick you Yes, isn't that brilliant? How did you get the burger? Hell no I read into it first because I was like this too good to be true It's like 11 o'clock at night. Never heard of this place. Where is four dollar burger? Yeah I was like and and five dollars and really in who in really really small fine print it says hosted by denny's But it's all branded like it's the burger den like it's now is there a burger doesn't that sound like a good place Right. So is it a burger den or is it? No, it's denny's it just like the the just like you order it Denny's makes it it's at denny's the guy picks it up and it's spelled burger den or burger den It's d.e.n. Okay. What's the difference? I don't know Just as I need to paint the picture but doesn't that just wait a minute doesn't that sound like a good burger joint It does it does right? I mean who wouldn't want to go into a den for burgers That's how I feel like that right and I almost got Katrina. I thought that was really smart So I'm wondering now like how much I look at denny's to offer burger den meltdown virtual brands, huh? That's uh, that is smart. It is smart to trick people it is Bamboozle you into food that you normally wouldn't order. Yeah Well, you gotta think there's a okay now I also think that denny's has such a bad name as far and maybe they have a decent burger Right because I can't even I probably haven't had a burger from there since I was a kid And maybe it's okay and somebody who has it who doesn't know it's denny's and it goes now This is my spot. Look at the branding. It looks good. I told you and then look at the bottom They have another place called the meltdown dude the power of association, right bro This is you guys know hog and doze is an American company They made up the name hog and doze because it sounds like it's some like for uh, yeah authentic Like austrian or yeah like german name or something So I wonder how many big brands like that and fast food type places are pivoting and doing this Because if you're just if you're not really paying attention if you if you doordash, you don't know You don't know and what I don't know either is Wow Are that do they even go the extra step of actually sending it in a different package? Like I'm curious if I would have ordered the burger den if it would have Yeah, if it came in a in a different paper bag that said burger den instead of saying denny's and so you could be Ordering for there for months and have no idea that you're eating a four dollar denny's burger disgusting Yeah, it reminds me of those old commercials where they used to have like the taste test, you know And they'd like put one brand x or this, you know, and then you'd like eat one and they'd be all Oh my god, I couldn't even believe that it was Taco Bell. Didn't Pepsi start the Pepsi challenge I'll take Pepsi and Coke. Yeah, I'll take the Pepsi challenge all day. That's what it was Now you're doing this in real life. Yeah years ago my aunt Got my uncle real good because this is back in the day when bottled water wasn't a big deal nowadays everybody buys bottled water But back in the day If you bought bottled water people would tease you about it because you could get water from the tap It's the ultimate hustle that of anything. Yeah, so he would buy bottle I don't remember what the brand was but he buy bottled water all the time and he'd say no it tastes better It's totally better. I love it. It's taste so she got the bottles and she filled them with tap water And gave it to him just to see what he would say and he said nothing and then she's like, aha, I got you That's, you know, San Jose municipal water I could tell that you got trick I could tell I could tell if you're in a bad like place here I think I would take that challenge with like the water up in Tahoe I think that water is so good that you can probably fool some people. Yeah, but you're in san jose There's no there's I don't know the ultimate I heard was you know how like crazy wine people are with the small yeas and these people have like the Palette to like describe all these different things. Well, I guess there was one guy that that was really good at this Like he could identify all the elements for each one of like the most expensive wines in the world And so he just started mixing wines and trying to like recreate them and basically sell them for The crazy price like you'd sell like a really old exclusive wine to the big companies and they bought them and everything This is a big hustle. Wow. That's crazy. Well, so here's the thing with water That's you got to be careful now is that there's there's finding because you know women take birth control, right? And they go to the bathroom Traces of that getting up in the water people flush their drugs All the time in the toilet. So they'll flush their old antibiotics. They're old whatever So these traces of chemical xenoestrogens end up in your water all the time So getting it extra purified and stuff is probably a good idea nowadays. You know, it probably makes it Why is it ridiculous? I don't know. I don't know where I'm speaking at a turn here Like not knowing any information around this. But is it ridiculous to have The water companies like have reverse osmosis before it gets sent to your house Like why would like everyone buys these now it's created this aftermarket thing But why wouldn't there be an opportunity for a competitor? You're like water irrigation district or something to create well, they do it They actually do a pretty damn good job cleaning the water to be quite honest It's just you would take it through another process if you were to add your own filter So now it's going to get cleaned again and you're likely like what's up with that market? Like why why can't like why can't somebody else come in? It's not a market, dude It's not what that's the state city in the state, dude. So it's controlled by yeah, bro. That's a it's a it's a That's why there's no innovation. You know that's always that's why Right. I feel like I feel like if you were actually would have make that competitive and allow companies to compete for your service You would you would eliminate sounds very logical Of course. Yeah, that sounds very very logical I'm on well water. So that's I'm doing good speaking of chemicals There's now this research that's coming out that showing that this particular chemical I think it's called I think the it's called tce. I'll look it up Is may contribute may be contributing to uh, this explosion of parkinson's disease So they so they predict what's been found in i'll tell you So researchers believe a factor is a chemical used in dry cleaning and household products Such as shoe polices and carpet cleaners is causing this explosion of parkinson's They think so check this out parkinson's has increased. I didn't know this 35 percent in the last 10 years Whoa, the last decade it's gone up 35 percent. This researcher thinks it'll double in 25 years. Whoa Yes, and so the the chemical that we're talking about it is tce It's trichloroethylene and it's found in industrial degreasing dry cleaning and household products Such as some shoe polishes and carpet cleaners And it's been it's a carcinogen. It's been shown to cause renal cell carcina carcinoma cancers of the cervix liver lymphatic system and male breast tissue fetal cardiac defects and now how do they come to this like How do they decide that they're going to go test this this thing like well? Here's the problem with this or like how did you make this correlation of like all of a sudden? We noticed people that were in these like, you know carpet into carpet industry cleaning and then they Here's the problem with some of these chemicals. It takes a long time to see these effects Right, so they're saying here that exposure. Yes that you you get exposed to it little by little over time and it could take Decades before stuff like this starts to happen. So how the hell do you test that right the the regulations on testing chemicals is like Six months nine months test it for nine months. Oh, it looks like it's not doing anything. Yeah, therefore it's safe But you know something like this might take 10 15 years. How do you test that right? Use the money wasn't this always your argument too with like all the different artificial sweeteners and stuff Right, it's just everything most of those studies are pretty short term and it's you know Here's an example of like okay in the short term effect. We there's it's not bad for you to do this But how about we do this for 15 years? Well, how do you tease that out every day? Was it Monsanto or like the the roundup thing where it would have one of the CEOs are telling him to like To consume it. It was like no way, you know Yeah, he's like it's so safe. You can eat it. Oh, okay. Do it. Yeah. What an idiot is like super sad You could totally drink and they're like, okay drink it Yeah, we'll wait in Argentina is causing increases in cancer. You can drink a whole quart of it and it won't hurt you It's you want to drink some we have some here I'd be happy to actually but not not really but not really. I know it wouldn't hurt me if if you say so I'm not stupid. Okay. So you you know, but I know it's dangerous I know I know people try to commit suicide with it and fail fairly regularly tell the truth. It's not dangerous to humans No, it's not. So are you ready to drink one glass? No, I'm not an idiot Yeah I'm cool, bro. Oh, so you have doubt. Yeah His bluff got cold But that's that's what happens and that's why you know, I'm not like this This guy that thinks you should live in a cave in the woods and you know, drink creek water and whatever if you want to do That's fine I'm just saying we're exposed to so much stuff and cumulative that you're you're probably it's probably a good idea To limit what you know, you can limit. It's probably a good idea And you won't notice tomorrow, but you might notice when you're 70 You know, you're not dude. I got a little fun fact for you guys. Let's see if you can guess. Oh good So we gotta play the fun fact music You guys can you guys guess the uh, the top producer of tires? So the company that's responsible for the most Tires produced in the world one gear. No firestone perelli. No Legos What what? Oh, wait, wait, you mean for lego cars? That is stupid That was stupid. You guys are so dumb Damn, did you know that boom, do you know that mr. He fooled us? Did you know that mr. Goodyear actually died poor? You know that? Oh, he's been his whole fortune trying to invent. Yeah. Yeah, I read that. Yeah Imagine why I think his wife left them. I think everything bad. I forgot the whole I mean, I read that what happened to him a long time. Oh, it's like he didn't have like a crazy I mean he had a bad year. He's no he spent his whole life trying to get it off the ground and Didn't actualize it. Yeah. Yeah, I did actually really start making a lot of money until after he was his passing on So obviously it's now it's a massive massive company. It makes tons of money It's kind of bones me out when somebody does something so Great and they never get to see it actually get to the point where everybody enjoys it. That's that's annoying as hell Yeah, did you imagine like, you know, you die and then your family and then someone else gets rich So says here a uh in night in 1855 Goodyear was imprisoned for debt in Paris Wow And then his patents in the u.s were infringed upon and his invention made millions for others but at his death He left a debt Of $200,000 back then that's a lot. Yeah back then. That's that's a ton of money. Yeah, they're like, thanks I had some more random facts for you too. Just and you would know this right? Okay, have you ever heard the story of uh, michael geord not making his high school basketball team? Yeah, is that true? It's not well. I mean it is but it isn't right So he uses that story as like one of his like main biggest motivator Yes, but he was he was a freshman trying out for varsity and he didn't make the varsity team Okay, that's that's an interesting detail. Right. It's a very interesting detail It's also says a lot about his character of like he used that as fuel to be like I'm not good enough for these guys. I can get this good and so what freshman. Do you know is playing on varsity? Well, there there is some but I'm just saying that's like exception. Yeah, well truth be told if I had to guess it would be michael geord Oh, yeah, well, yeah, that's why that's why the story works and so many people share it because it yeah It already was like short and everything for a while and then all of a sudden like he had this big Yeah, he sprouted later. Yeah. Yeah, he's he sprouted. I I didn't know that though Like so I was reading a book or listening to a book yesterday and they talked about that stat I thought that was really interesting. I also uh, uh read that he when he went and went did the um Dream team the olympic team originally his main motivation to join the team was actually To play with all the other NBA players so he could learn all their flaws and weaknesses So he could then take it back to the best sounds like a jordan middle totally right the next season I thought that was really cool. Yeah best basketball player of all time. It is hands down He's the only one I know the comments going crazy right now Better than the bronze better than all of them. Uh, so you want some more controversy? This is gonna this is gonna piss off all the sense. Oh, I have some controversy too. You do. Yeah, maybe I'll leave mine for another day Well, we'll see. Well, this is not. I don't know. This is not that controversial. This is a double down kind of day So the American Journal of Physical Anthropology published some new information Saying that sorry everybody humans were Hyper carnivores apex predators for two million years in other words. We ate mostly Animal for a long time Not just lettuce and this is because There were big animals that we could hunt and eat from like The mammoths the woolly mammoths and we did a good job killing them In fact, we almost think in some cases made them extinct. Yeah, but that's mean But this is this is this is what so look here's a deal. Okay, human if you really break it down Humans are we evolved to eat meat? We absolutely did. We did not evolve to survive off of Pretty much almost anything else. Oh, you're gonna trigger a bunch. It's true, dude. It's totally true So and it's why our brain by the way our brains shrink a little bit when we went to eating a lot of agriculture You guys know that and well, that's what they've connected it to. Yeah So, uh, we we got bigger brains our eyes are in front of our head that make that's what you see in predators Obviously, we're very intelligent Probably because that's what makes good pack hunters is to work together and be smart In fact carnivores tend to be smarter than herbivores Isn't the brain mainly consists of fat like at the majority of it dude the brain There's no way we would have had these massive brains if we didn't eat a shit ton of animal fats right in proteins Just wouldn't happen and again if you look at like herbivores versus carnivores herbivores tend to be Pretty dumb animals Carnivores tend to be very smart tend to have complex social networks and that kind of stuff So forever dude, that's what we were. Yeah, isn't there that whole thing with prey and predators Where your eyes set, you know, like the the the prey's eyes are set back a bit So just to look around and yeah versus the predators like focused on out in front everything's out in front Absolutely. Well, that reminds me of what I just sent over to you guys I think I sent it yesterday the day before And by the way, I haven't watched it. So before you freak out and crucify me for saying this But uh, I somebody who I respect in the space was doing basically a Review on that documentary Oh, is it sea spiracy or something? Yeah sea spiracy. I so I watched 15 minutes of it and I had to stop Yeah, and I just I think Justin said the same thing too. He's just like, oh my god. So terrible It made me angry like immediately. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I just I wanted to watch it because I had a lot of people like recommending like I want to see what you guys think about this You know documentary and uh, I just I just couldn't get into it because it was so negative And we and we should watch and we should watch so we can do like a like our complete opinion So what I'm sharing right now is is is hearsay from somebody else. So, you know fact check me Uh, but I believe that the people that made this Also made cow spiracy and also made, um, what the hell? Yeah, uh, really So I so I watched 15 minutes and then I skimmed through it and it And I could see what they were trying to do I haven't watched it fully But it looks like what they're trying to do is set you up to make the case To never eat fish again, you know as right if I'm on the The you know, don't eat any animal products ever side. So if I'm one of those people right like only eat plants Eating animals is terrible. We shouldn't do it I would really have to I would I would get together with my smart friends And I'd say okay, how can we attack fish because fish is healthy We could go after beef because there's some studies that show this we can maybe but what about fish like fish And the angle that they're coming up from is pollution We're killing all the fish and uh, therefore and there is no sustainable way to have fish Therefore, we should never eat it before ever eat it again. That's the angle they're trying to come from Now the truth is, uh, fish is one of the last wild Animals that we eat quite a bit for the most part. Uh, if we you know beef, it's from Cows that we raise if it's chickens is chickens that we raise. Um, so fish is one of the last wild things I do believe in the future That we'll probably have to figure out really good ways of farming fish Well, there's there's more responsible ways to do it for sure Yes, I think they're probably highlighting just like they'd highlight, you know ways that they farm the factory farm You know all the the disgusting ways that like some people do things versus like, you know The more the mom and pop and the smaller Operations like, you know that are catching fish responsibly all those things like I don't know that I saw any of that highlighted It's just I find this I mean this is what it's happening You know, I feel I feel like it's happening more is I don't know Maybe it's just because uh, Netflix now and so many people are streaming and binging stuff But I feel like there's a lot of these documentaries that are just it's stirring people up I mean, I know lots of people in my family that that well, they must be getting a lot of views What the hell if I completely changed the way they here's the bottom line eat because follow the money Here's the bottom line. There's definitely people that for their own ethical reasons believe we shouldn't eat animals That's I totally understand that but it's become politicized and here's why here's why you see a lot of money in this You cannot patent animals. Okay, so I can't I don't have I can't have a company that only had as cows and nobody else sells cows Therefore you buy my cow product it did you we don't have genetically modified patented animals So big corporations can't monopolize on them like they can with plants with plants There's gmo plants that are patented and if they could gmo patent animals You would see this reverse but what they want they know this they know if they get people spider goats They get people to stop eating all animal products now They're gonna eat just our product our patented, you know wheat or soy or corn based whatever products And we're gonna make bazillions of dollars. I even you know, I think less, you know Conspiracy, right? I always say that I know I know here. I unless do your research conspiracy I I I think it's more that we do live in this time where the the clickbait titles and the alarmist type of Intent sure is what causes things to go viral, right? If they they came out and just made the simple case of like Here's some bad things. Hey together. We should be better about this But it's the the shock and awe and the extreme opposing Sides that causes the virability, right? It's just like what we see when do we become so numb that all these tactics just I believe It's coming. Yeah, I do I do believe it's every magazine everything they're trying to throw something in there That's a curveball for society to be like deal with this. Here's why I disagree with you Here's why I disagree with you. Okay, uh, what was it rob wolf's documentary talks about they block They're blocking it all over the place hard to find to watch you don't see netflix posting that up That's where the conspiracy part comes out. Well, I think that's less conspiracy. Also. I think that's okay Here's the thing. Okay. Well, we have because that's conspiracy. I know we have our our own Ideologies right and philosophies and and and beliefs as far as truth Yeah, we tend to leave the truth. Are you referring to the truth adam? Well, okay? Okay, so let's just in his pure form. Let's just pretend there isn't objective mind pump media is, you know 100x Well, you know what it is today, which if we were 100x that means we would be Much more like a netflix where we have all kinds of people working for us and providing content for us And we're a privately owned company and we make decisions It would be hard if If you had somebody who you completely disagree with their their political views To allow their content on your channel you built from the ground up with your ideology So I think that what you see more of with facebook into it. I think it's less of this It is weird that they all agree though, isn't it? Well, I mean I it's so isn't that strange Yeah, look, I'll tell you what when you have it's programmed. I'll tell you something right now Okay, here's my play the x files music or whatever because here's my This is it doesn't make sense. Okay when you have Tech companies mega tech companies that otherwise compete aggressively with each other right facebook youtube You know instagram All google like they're caught amazon. They're constantly Competing and trying to win market share. So they're not like friends in the back. They're competitors, which is great I love that. I love that makes them better. But then all of a sudden very strangely sometimes they just all agree together Eliminate that get rid of that get kick this person off or kick that person off That doesn't sound like they're all just on their own Oh, this is what we need to do. It sounds to me like well, then what how do you somebody ordered them? Yeah, but how do you explain somebody my strength? How do you explain like somebody and this is what I love like elon musk? You know who you know, it pushes back. I just think that how do I explain him? Yeah, because look how hard they go after him. I know. Well, I mean he's but I I think that I don't think so much that they're trying to control all of those companies as much as I think that those people A lot of their ideology Aligns with some of these big government people big government wants more government wants more regulation wants to Hire more people some of these big companies whether you're you're you're liberal or conservative you see the the Power and ooh, don't you think they make these moves to push off the government? Well, no, no, no, no I mean to appease them so they don't come in well appease them appease them or Get them be befriend them so that when it comes time to Make it more difficult for another company that would be in their space to come in and compete with them They can say hey, they're doing this way and hey, this is All these laws now I think the department, you know the cia or whatever by the way They run a lot of things behind the scenes that nobody knows we know this right we have UFOs right we have fat No, forget that but we have there's we know this they do I think this is true There's confirmed times when they've gotten money and raised money in illegal ways to in the in the name of Protecting national security right the cia that's their job and they operate outside of The elected government officials if they think that it's for the safety of the country for whatever reason Then they'll make shit happen I think they walk into the office of someone like mark zuckerberg and like here's the deal mark We want you and they do this to twitter. They do this to all the others We want you to take these people off your platform Um, I can do that. I'm a human And you take these people off your platform because it's for national security And then if zuckerberg or whoever says well, I don't I don't think I want to do that I think I'd like to keep them on they say well If you go look at the patriot act that was passed, you know, post 9 11 or you know, ndaa Technically, uh, you have to listen to us otherwise We can jail your ass and not go to whatever or we could find the fuck out of you or we can mess with you So these guys are like, all right do what they say See, I feel like if you're you have that much that much power you've you're that intelligent And if the government tried to bully you I mean, we've talked about this, right? We're nowhere. It's gotta be shaken. We are nowhere near Okay, we're nowhere near as big or as brilliant as the elan musk and the zuckerbergs But we've even said this before if someone came in and fucked with us We've already built a community of of loyal people that that believe in what we're doing and stand behind us Then we burn the whole fucker down get rid of mind pump change the name Whatever and I we all have that confidence. You can't tell me that zuckerberg and elan musk and all these guys I think their values align with them. I think they align with them. That's why they do it I think maybe they justify it because they're like it's national security. They're telling me to do this You know, maybe I should or I think it's a lot scarier than you think I don't think it's just losing your business to just a bunch of pussies bro Look how they look how they go after when it's when it's time for somebody to be gone Look how they get taken out from all angles. Look at what's his name governor of uh, of new york Cuomo Cuomo, yeah, bro They were they were giving him hand jobs when all when the when the pandemic was going on All of a sudden news started coming out that the dude probably killed a lot of old people By sending him back into the into the care homes and that was coming out And so all of a sudden his own side is attacking them for You know being a pervert or whatever which everybody already knew So it sounds like they're like, uh, sorry, you got to go before they figure out this other stuff So that's more conspiracy though This is all allegedly you got me going bro. I forgot to say allegedly I feel like dugs over there like eyeball me in the corner of his eye like, don't you bring your shit up now? Don't you bring your shit up? I'll save my controversy for the next episode Hey, it's a good thing. There's three of us, right? Imagine if there's three me. We'd be off the air so fast Well, I mean the one thing I I've always appreciated about you I think why we all hit it off is that we're all open-minded And um, I'm willing to have a debate with somebody and and I'm willing to change my mind I don't think I have all the answers in this. I I think we're speculating. Yeah, you know, oh, yeah I'm totally speculating by the way. Yeah, I don't know for sure. I mean, it's just so weird everything that's been going It's almost like we're just trying to make sense out of whatever we can and Critter on narratives at this point sometimes too that I mean my I the stuff that we talk about on the show I'm always concerned that you know, is that because too I have a tendency to get a lot of the information from my side of the political spectrum And they just do a good job at confirming my you have your bias. I already have a bias like an alarmist Yeah, you're getting all this like, oh my god I do my best that you know, even if I like I mean, I'm playing devil's advocate with you But of course there's a lot that I believe I agree with you But I I gotta always challenge that in myself and go like, okay. Well, you know, you're right I've been fooled. I've been fooled before yeah because I have my own bias and then I come back and go Wow, I was totally, you know wrong. So that's happened to me before Yeah, because here's too when you talk about like the political diet. I really think that most for the most part Both sides extreme left extreme right are all fucking buddies. Oh, yeah, you know, they're all they're all They're behind they're behind the scene. Yeah, they're like, okay. Hey this meanwhile They can write in all this other stuff into these bills. Yeah, they have the same spot. I think they're hanging out there Going all right this time you get to win. Okay, so we'll really let that I think it doesn't matter who wins I think they go out and they make people feel like they have to pick one or the other Yeah, that's what they well, yeah, whoever you pick it don't matter. Yeah, no, it's like your Pepsi and coke analogy You always bring up. Yeah, I think is a is a great. Well here along those lines. You hear that they're proposing What's her name? Janet Yellen. She used to be the Who she used to run the federal reserve or whatever she proposed a worldwide Minimum corporate tax rate And that'll never fly bro. The international monetary fund just just supported it. Wow just said yeah, that's a great idea Now, why are they doing this because so you won't leave out of your country because big countries like us When we want to raise our corporate tax rate We know that companies will leave and go to other countries that are trying to attract them And so what they want to do is create this minimum so that they don't lose Why do we always lead with punish instead of incentivize? Yeah, I don't understand like why can't we just You know incentivize, you know businesses to promote them to to create more jobs and do things to actually stimulate the economy instead of Hammer them don't we do that on like a state level? Don't we we talked about this? Well, they're state taxes But this is a this is a fed there's a federal Corporate tax rate right and they're talking about raising it but they're and they know if we raise it We may lose some of these major companies to countries where the their corporate tax rate is lower And so they want to have a minimum Like a like a treaty like all right all these countries they all agree That the minimum corporate tax rate is this that way you're you know, you know, there's there's people I have friends that are like this that they hear stuff like that and they're all about it because it's like get the rich You know get there But the truth is what a lot of these morons don't know is the really they are you're a moron if you really think that they're really super rich They're already five steps ahead of that shit. Yeah, they already have loopholes to get around that The problem is banks, you know, it fucks the guy or girl in the middle It hurts that person it hurts the person that isn't making a ton a ton of the people that make a lot of money They've got the right people on their team to make a phone call and be like, okay This is what the government's doing now. How do we work around this? Oh your company is now this Yes, you know, how do we how do we lose here? How do we gain there? How do we make it look like we're doing this there? How do we do the okay fine so that you you jump at the 29% that's fine We just reduced it by 13% by moving some parts around. They're probably in there writing the law with them Yeah, yeah, exactly So I don't you know, so the the the the little guy or girl that you know It always wants to like enforce these things because they think yeah get the rich and so now we can all level out more Come back to us. It doesn't it never does it doesn't it hurts the the person in the middle man It hurts the person that is in the middle that doesn't have that luxury that worked hard for seven years to get to a Place where they're finally making maybe six figures and they're like having a little bit of freedom in their life And then they get slapped with some shit like that. That's who it kills It does not hurt the billionaire the billionaires the billionaire could you know piss that money away in a day I mean some of these guys are making so much money. I don't even think it's possible to to spend that every single day So this is just means nothing to those people. Yeah, pretty crazy. All right I'm gonna go back to to health and fitness here for a second. Just read a study that showed Sorry, Doug. Uh, I just read an interesting study on vitamin d. So vitamin d Apparently your your your muscles can actually store vitamin d and help maintain it in the winter So having more muscle so we know we talk about vitamin d deficiency. That's interesting Yeah, so another reason why or something else that shows that having muscle is protective It's a it's it's like your armor and it protects you against illness And in this study they show that you know because vitamin d. So low vitamin d is pretty common, especially in modern societies We don't get a lot of sun Or enough sun like we we should be getting and low vitamin d causes immune issues It causes bone problems hormone issues and they're showing that having more muscle Reduces that because vitamin d accumulates in skeletal muscle cells. So then you have a functional store During winter months now, so one more reason to build another reason really fast now Is there enough information on that too? Is it you know, is it negligible or is it actually no no? It's it's significant according to the study. Yeah, so that's fascinating build that muscle build that muscle speaking of which Are you guys getting comments on the? The bubblegum pulse the mind pump bubblegum pulse. It's I think I think last time I talked to mike It's become I think one of his number one sellers people love that flavor. Yeah, that was a good call That was you. Adam's the one that came up like I thought it might be a little sour, but it's it's good It really has a good credit right now. That was your idea, dude. Remember just didn't want to cheddar flavor. We'll see here I said that wasn't good nacho cheese delicious to drink. Can we do Dorito nacho cheese? I wanted pesto flavor didn't work out either No, that was that was a great idea sardine flavor people people love it Yeah, yeah, I like the bubblegum and green apple. I think of the two that I go back and forth Yeah, I would say those are probably the two best flavors, but he does make a really good I mean it's the best pre-workout now Where are you guys where are you at because we always talk about uh, you know coming off back on like where are you? I've actually been off the pre-workouts for a while my caffeine is just so high right now It is yeah, dude. I gotta back off and what I think I'm gonna do because I know we got a couple days off Coming up as I told Jessica listen, I'm gonna try and sleep Most of the day just allow my body to de you know to just get rid of some of this She's excited about do you want to know what I mean? And I don't know that I mean maybe you can tell me if there's any science to support this But I actually notice a big difference when I do the sauna So if I feel like that where I've I've got too much In my system and I want to like kind of get it out or detox whatever You know, I don't know what I know what the term is that I should use to be correct here But when I go when I get in the sauna and I do that a couple times I feel like it speeds up that process of me getting back to where I can you're probably right I don't know. I don't know what the science would be, but you're probably right But for me, I got to go off and there's just that there's a day or two where I'm just dog. Shit Well, that kind of explains to you like what ben greenfield was was talking about in terms of reset and sort of your circadian rhythms You know and see yeah, yeah, like a red light Sauna is good for that. So I don't know if that like relates to that. You know what else I learned to share this on the podcast I share this with sal off air that I thought was interesting. So you guys know, I've I've openly talked about my hormone therapy And I've been back on a testosterone For a while now just recently Switched over to another company that we're using And I really like this dr. Sal. I can't wait to interview him. Yeah, Dr. Ran McClain Yes, Sal inter introduced him to me and I you know, I was like, I'm fine where I'm at But man, he just He brought and I wish that I could regurgitate exactly what he knows his shit Yeah, you know, you could tell he really knew he's talking about and I thought okay So I thought there I would need more Testosterone than you guys because of my abuse of it for so many years Because it just makes sense, right the body adapts to it So like there's a standard dose you need more because of your past abuse Yeah, and and it is I do need more. He told me he referred to me as an expensive date That was the analysis Well, we would say based off your and he broke it all down to me says where I see your levels going after seven days From your shot, um, you know, we would we would consider you a expensive date And I was like, oh, I said well that makes sense I said because I you know, I took so much for for so many years that that was, you know Probably why my body and he's like no actually the science doesn't support that I said really he goes. Yeah It's just everybody is is is genetically different and You know, he goes I got guys that were abusing steroids for 30 years taking ridiculous grams of it And then have been off and then we get them on a therapeutic dose and they need hardly anything And it just keeps them nice and level and then you have other people and he said it has a lot to do with my, uh What's the word sal the uh my not my yeah my receptors, right? Oh your androgen receptors. Yes I was gonna go with midichlorians Midichlorians Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. It was wrong. Yeah. No, he was he said something about my receptor density, right? Yeah, so in fact, I have the I talked about this in a recent podcast Uh, they were showing the trying to see that, you know Men with naturally higher testosterone levels versus men with lower testosterone levels within range within healthy range, right? Did the men with higher testosterone build more muscle and get better results? And the answer was no, it wasn't the testosterone levels. It was the androgen receptor density There was something else too that he was telling me. I wish I remember the way your body processes it Well, also like a different number Like I've always been taught to like pay attention to the the free testosterone the 400 to 1200 range And although that's a marker they watch he goes There was another number that he he's he was more interested in that that was lower and he was telling me that You know, you shouldn't considering that you're taking this and so the audience knows, uh, you know, I started off on 150 milligrams a week The the other place Notice that I was actually dipping down lower than what I initially started at the end like at the seven day markers Yeah, like by day seven, right? And the goal for them is they they would they told me originally They want to keep me at about 600 so on on my drop down It doesn't go lower than that doesn't go lower than that And I was actually dropping lower than what I initially even started. So they and they're really cautious They only moved me up 10 milligrams. So they've actually done that three times. I went from 150 160 170 180 And even at 180 i'm still dropping down to 475 And so that's what he alluded to of of being an expensive date and probably halting to go like every five days That I'd have to get but there was another number I'll have to have you talk to him You're better with this stuff when you when you because you remember like this way better than I do But he was really breaking it down to me. I was really impressed. So I'm excited to have him come on the show and talk because It's gonna be great. Probably the most informative person Yes an intelligent hormone doctor. I've ever talked to you need to know your stuff When you're when you're working with it's not just taking testosterone It's very different from person to person and he is the man That's what he was kind of he's kind of explained to like some of these companies They use very general and basic Rules he's like I've been doing this so long. He says, you know, you there's exceptions to every rule Which I mean I can totally Identify and relate to that we talk about that with fitness. Of course. There is there's some basic rules But there's still always an exception to rule to every rule, right? Absolutely Hey, I'm glad you're enjoying this podcast before we continue Go head over to mind pump free calm and check out all of our free guides We have fat loss guides build muscle guides guides for personal trainers great free stuff Mind pump free dot com. All right. Enjoy the rest of the podcast Our first caller is Phoebe from France. Hi Phoebe. How can we help you? Hello, hello first of all, thank you so much for answering my question and so For all the years I've been lifting every session has revolved around compound exercises as my main muscle and strength builders Unfortunately, I got a diagnosis a few weeks ago Which will mean I need to modify aspects of my training for the foreseeable future And I now need to utilize more isolation exercises as I now have a kind of balance between risk and reward We come compound exercises being more biased towards risk with higher loads and the lower the reps And so how does someone like me program the use of more isolation exercises and still gain the same amount of strength and muscle Okay, so a very good question. Um, I would like to get a little bit more information if that's okay So is it the load? That's the problem or is it the intensity? That's a load. It's a load at the moment. Um, what I have is quite rare. So there isn't a lot of Um, there isn't a lot of information around it, but it seems to be I can still go to a point of failure Um, but the higher the load and the lower the reps Things seem to be a bit more difficult. Got it. Okay. Oh, well, so there's lots of different ways to increase intensity Intention one of them is with load. Obviously that's being taken off the table for you You could slow your reps down. You could do isometric training, which is very very valuable You could do higher reps studies actually show higher reps performed at high intensity Can be almost as effective as low reps So just do those things and I think you'll be okay as far as isolation versus compound You'll probably have to do a little bit more volume But but feel it out and then here's something that might make you feel better What you do to build muscle oftentimes you can maintain it with much less work Load and intensity. So in other words, if you built, you know 10 pounds of muscle doing heavy deadlifts and squats and presses and whatever and you've kept that 10 pounds for a while Maintaining it. You could it's a lot easier to maintain it. You don't have to do quite as much volume intensity and load to maintain Then you did when you were building I would definitely tempo is where I would go here, right? So I would just slow down the tempo and I mean I'm watching Doug right now training and he's following We have this a new program that we're working on and he's following some of the protocol And you know, the the tempo is a 4 2 2 in there and I know you're I think your experience right now with it's been Never experienced this, right? No, I have had to reduce my weight dramatically. Yeah, so which in this case This is a perfect example of like, you know, because you can't do heavy load And there's nothing that said even though the research points to like the you know, like 4 2 2, right? So 4 seconds on the negative 2 on the isometric and then and then 2 seconds on the concentric Doesn't mean you can't do 6 2 2 doesn't mean you can't do 8 with a pause for 4 seconds I mean you can really manipulate and play with tempo a lot and it will make it feel like It is heavy as shit and it doesn't have to be that heavy And just increasing your tension while going through that lift too just intrinsically like just squeezing harder as you're doing these reps as well Even makes a difference. There's there's just a multitude of ways to add progressive Overload over. Yeah, you know Phoebe one there was a one time I was I had only had access to a gym Where the dumbbells went up to 30 pounds and so for me for a lot of exercises That's too light. So what I did was exactly what we're telling you is I went really slow I focused hard on the squeeze. I did lots of pauses lots of isometrics lots of slow repetitions And to my surprise I actually My body improved actually got good results from it so much so that it became something that I injected into my my regular routine Okay It's great. Um, what about the strength side of it? Because if that's um Muscle building and stuff like that the strength have to be in the low rep range Can you still use the same you're gonna build strength doing that also? Yeah, you'll build strength doing that also But you know, here's the thing you have to understand is that strength is also a skill So if you're not practicing something specific Often will you lose? Quote unquote strength in that particular thing probably so in other words If you are really strong at you know two reps with the squat And then you go and perform, you know 30 reps with the squat like general strength You'll probably be okay But yeah, you're gonna lose some strength in the thing that you're not practicing very often And that's a lot of that has to do with the skill Of the lift but as far as how you look how you feel If anything you're probably gonna notice some benefit from this change What I really like with uh Isometrics is is the way that you can actually apply a lot of max intensity So you can do that in a safe manner where you know you you can also structure So you don't do quite as many reps so you can sort of emulate what you would be doing with compound list But now you're you know, you're you're squeezing your entire body and and and you know ramping it up as as high as you can go Intensity wise, but then you can also back off at any time Okay, that's great. That's great. Awesome. All right. Thanks Phoebe Jesus, thank you Oh, it's cool someone calling from France. That's really awesome. Yeah. Yeah, I like that all the way over there But yeah, you know, um, we we tend to get caught up. I was really curious to why or what? She didn't sound like I don't want to pry. I know I felt the same You would but you didn't so I I really wanted to know what what it was because sometimes too You know sometimes that the doctors go this route because they just add a For safety, right? They don't want to be sued. Right. And so they don't know a lot about what's going on So it's all liability. Yeah, it's like You cannot ever lift heavy against too risky, you know, and it's like Man, I would like to know a little more That's why I said intensity versus load because often it's intensity that the doctor says, you know, because I I could go Look, I'll tell you what like Yes, I could let's say I could squat 400 pounds for one rep That's a lot of load and intensity or let's say I squatted 250 pounds for 30 reps The intensity is probably higher on that 30 rep or set a squat or this or take that 200 pounds and do just four reps Still super slow, but do them slow You know five six negative and I'll tell you what it'll feel like it's grueling It'll feel like it's 400 and that's what I mean If it's intensity you got to be careful for then then it doesn't matter load You know, it's how intense the set is but she said specifically load So I'm assuming it has something to do With her connective tissue and her joint something that's causing issues with her instability Yeah, that's what I'm assuming. Our next caller is christian from florida. Hey, what's up christian? How can we help you? Hey, sal. I want to say hi to justin dug adam. Thanks guys for having me on So my question today Is I'm trying to build both glutes and upper chest at the same time So a little bit of context Is I've been following an aggressive 12 13 week cut And coming out of it. I'm going to be reverse dieting and I want to Take advantage of the extra calories and see if I can Target two different areas at the same time while following a full body routine That's uh, actually not only that is exactly what maps aesthetic is you got to pick tits or ass christian It's one or the other tits or ass. No, he wants a balanced physique that it christian that is literally maps aesthetic So maps aesthetic is a full body routine that is designed to pick two body parts that you want to bring up and and develop Yeah, I think what you're it sounds like you're saying is it going to take away from is it too much is it too much to focus on Two body parts uh at a time No, so in the way it would basically works and by the way christian, do you have maps aesthetic? No, I I have um, I have uh prime pro uh to to help with because I have a sleepy glute syndrome I just can't I can't activate. I'm very quad dominant. Um, but going into the the cut I I didn't want to focus a very ego. I didn't want to focus on on what I needed to do I just wanted to win a competition. So um, I just started training without really focusing. So that's where I want to um, really Fine tune my lacking areas Uh over the next three to five months. Okay. All right. Well, you have maps aesthetic now We're going to send that over to you but essentially it's a full body routine But on the quote unquote off days or whatever you're doing focus sessions And this is where you're going to focus on the the two areas you want to focus on in your case upper chest and back Now one more suggestion if you do have sleepy glute, right? By the way, we did a youtube video on that, right? So I'll make sure we link that to the to the to this if you do have sleepy glutes I do recommend you start your lower body workouts With a glute focused exercise. So I would do like hip thrust before I do A squat for example just just to wake them up and connect them So you could feel them in some of the other exercises more effectively And for the audience that doesn't all own maps aesthetic So they kind of understand or get the program behind that. So it is it's a full body routine Three days a week and then two days you have what we call focus sessions and the the the theory and the idea Or concept behind this is that you've got these compound lifts and you're doing your your more intense Training on those full body day routines and then on focus days. We're just doing isolation exercises So we don't want to you don't want to be doing heavy squats or overhead barbell pressing or anything that Is going to do a lot of damage all we're trying to do is kind of like trigger sessions send a signal But a little bit louder signal because bringing the volume up. Yeah, exactly We're just increasing volume and so it's actually built into the program to scale you as you go through that And it is literally designed to pick we we recommend that you pick one to two muscles to focus on on your quote-unquote Focus days and and we build it right into the program Awesome. Yeah, I'm gonna have to regress from Hip thrust whenever I do a hip thrust my my hamstrings just scream. So I'm gonna go back and in prime with with prime pro or prime Before any of the the sessions. Yeah, but I appreciate it guys. Thank you so much. No problem. Thank you for calling Yeah, it's a perfect routine the perfect routine. I mean, that's I mean, that's literally that's like this the textbook person That would use that program Yeah, yeah, and I mean really it's for anybody even if it's just one You know muscle group that you want to bring up or even if you have more than two It's still the protocol that I would take somebody through and well I mean I followed that program for most of my competing so leading up to it I did like more of an anabolic before I got into shows and then when I started in the shows It really looked a lot like aesthetic for well over a year and all I did was I just kept Every time I came back around I would either change the body part focus that I was trying to develop based off of the What I got back from the judges Or I if I was still like really trying to focus on the same muscle group because it's I still needed more work Um, I would just start to scale the volume slowly up So I just start to add a couple more sets every every round that I went through Our next caller is patty from new york. Hi patty. How can we help you? Hi, so I am First of all, I love you guys. I listen to you guys every morning. It's so cool to be talking to you um I'm calling about My maps anabolic progress. So I ran anabolic I absolutely loved it was really happy with my Squat and my deadlift progress. I tested, you know, my wonder at max's before and after And I was really happy with that but my bench and my strict press Like terrible progress only five pounds on my bench and nothing on my overhead So and I've been stuck at the same weight since like the end of last year um So I'm looking to rerun anabolic and make some like modifications and changes to it So I can address where I kind of lagged in my progress Um, so I'm just wondering, you know, what do you guys recommend I should do What should I be incorporating or changing to help progress my upper body? As much as or at least Close to what I'm progressing on my lower body. Just one little wrinkle is I do have lupus So my energy is kind of not always the most predictable. So I don't do any of the trigger sessions Two to three days full body seems to be the my kind of happy spot Okay, I'm glad you added that part because that definitely changes, uh, you know, what my answer would be So first number one, it's quite common Uh for a female to see really good gains in lower body type movements and much slower gains in upper body movements That's quite common But the question you're asking is, you know, how can how can I get my bench and my overhead press To go up and what and because you have the lupus what we're not going to do is just add volume to your workout Which is typically without typically I'd recommend that so we're going to do instead as a volume transfer Okay, so what I would have you do is reduce the amount of sets That you're doing for your squats and your deadlifts And add those to those exercises that you want to improve your bench press and overhead press Yeah, so it sounds like you found your sweet spot for total volume I would stay within that and then do that volume transfer by the way, I've trained, uh, many people with lupus and Uh, if you find the right amount of volume, you can make great progress, but as you know, it's amazing Yeah, as you know, if you go over it then, you know, it's a disaster. Yeah, it's a good word for it Patty, how long you've been training for? um, so On and off for like maybe two years, but I finally decided to stop Being scared of the heavier weights and really focused in more last year and then you know overdid it So I've been really good really consistent since september. I haven't had to take any breaks Which is actually a big deal So that's when I really got more serious and my husband told me to stop being afraid of Trying to see how, you know, how strong I really was awesome. I love that advice. Oh, you got plenty of room for gain still then That's great. Oh, yeah, I'm not I'm not pulling some great numbers, you know So are you are you working out from home or are you working out in a gym? Yeah, I have a decent home setup So I've got an adjustable bench with one of those like adjustable racks over it and I have a cable machine Okay, so I the other thing is this too So, um, I mean, of course the we always encourage everybody to follow the programs to a tee when you when you first go through them Just so you can kind of get the philosophy of the programming and of course many of those exercises are some of the biggest bang for your buck But here's an example where you can start to kind of manipulate and change movements in here So I would also recommend, you know, subbing out some of the, you know Shoulder press or bench exercise for other bench or shoulder exercise or chest exercises So, you know, feel free to get creative and now I wouldn't Completely leave barbell movements But there's exercises in there that you can exchange or change out or add to your routine and like salcane if you Cut back on two sets of, you know, your squats You can do two sets of a total different Chest exercise or shoulder exercise, which you'll probably get good benefits from that because your body's not used to that exercise Now patty, have you noticed any sticking points in those lifts? Like are they a part of the Yeah, movements that you feel like, you know, you lose strength in Yeah, so when i'm doing my um my overhead press I can definitely I've tried playing around with push presses I thought maybe that would help me build it up a little bit. Um, so I know I can go heavier, but when I'm Um on my weight that I'm stuck at if I try and go any heavier I get stuck with the bar like right about in line with my nose And I can't quite get past that but I can hold the thing over my head for like forever Okay, so this is more like on the lockout portion, you know for overhead Do you feel it's a little bit uh unstable? So like in terms of like being able to control the weight or is this just like a You know, you're pushing it up. You just don't feel like you have that extra to extend Yeah, I feel like I don't have enough gas in the tank to make it past that that one point kind of like it's like a Bump in the road. I can't get over. Yeah, you could do carries Where you're so you said you're strong at the very top Yeah, I can stand there all day. It's ridiculous But but it's when you're at your nose level that you get stuck Yeah, I can't get past that so you could do isometrics in that position So you could literally get a barbell Put it underneath the rack so what you push up you're not going to go anywhere And then do 10 seconds of pushing up with high intensity in that isometric position And do some sets there and what you'll get is this strength gain in that position in about 15 degrees up and down from it I would love to add a z-press here Yes, I would love that as e-press I would love to put a z-press because that you'll see uh carry over into your into your bench exercise from the z-press also And when I when I get stuck or have somebody who gets stuck We're right where you're talking about sometimes too if uh if I can develop their core strength because that's kind of what happens Right when you're ready to get to that nose point You'll start to feel the the tendency of the back wanting to arch or to kind of lean back for leverage And if you have a really stable good solid core and you've built some strength there Sometimes that will engage and that will help you kind of get through the rest of the z-press is great for that I think that's money has perfect advice also to add to that like just I mean, I'm always voice and rotational movements. I think you know taking Dumbbells or kettlebells through a rotational Spiraling type of a press will really help to you feel a lot more controlled a lot more stabilized in this in the shoulder joint Which then tells the body everything is secure so we can actually apply a bit more force So the part of the recruitment process is really being able to generate that force in those parts of the lift Where you feel like there's you know discrepancy so You know to add things like that to supplement To to really enhance the stability of the overall movement is going to help Okay, cool. All right. Thanks for calling in patty. Thank you guys. Love the show. Bye. Thank you I love I love getting feedback like that, you know from from somebody that she's doing well Just has a couple questions and that's you know, exactly if you follow one of our programs First time around follow as it's laid out As you when you're done with it and you go back through the second time around Now you can start to modify because there are always individual variances. This is why A personal trainer is such an incredible investment because they could train just you And not anybody else. Yeah, I mean, I love the z-press for this like I can I can literally remember Being stuck at that place with shoulder presses And this was one of the things that I felt I broke through when I started to incorporate the z-press And I also am somebody now I don't know we didn't get a chance to ask her on How much she trains core or not, but I do have a tendency personally to neglect it That forces you to do that It forces you to really lock that in as you're pressing and doesn't allow you to cheat the rep I think it's because yeah a lot of times it is your core It's it's the lack of of stabilization Especially when you're going for that last bit to lock out because I was gonna you know point to the fact of the overhead Carries like we you know, that's usually like bringing it all the way up in overhead Is usually a sticking point for a lot of people to feel like you know, they don't have stability there or in the rack position You know, there's a lot of loss of energy because you know just to to to get the kind of support and stability initially You know, you lose a lot of that if you don't have that right away. So your your lift gets affected Our next caller is rc from texas. Hey, what's up rc? How can we help you? Hey there, how you going they're doing guys real good Great. Yeah well, I've just um, I'm I've been into fitness and you know exercise for for years. I've kind of changed the The way I've gone about it over the years. I used to be a long distance runner, but now I thanks to you guys very into the strength training I'm pretty new as a personal trainer And I just got started as COVID kind of hit Which you know, so going to you know, try to get a job at a gym wasn't quite an option So I've been been trying to figure out the online route Kind of a slow start So I was just kind of curious what you guys would would suggest As far as um, how to get started as a new trainer in today's environment Okay, that's that's a great question. So uh, we've said many times on the show before that we think one of the best places for trainers to start Is in a big box gym and there's a few there's a few reasons for that one You're going to get presented a lot of opportunities a lot of people you can talk to The hard part about building your business is kind of done for you in a big box You get clients you get you know people working out that don't have trainers And you can really gain a lot of experience there and probably even shadow trainers that have been there for a little while I still think that's the best way for trainers to get started now that gyms are reopening I still think if you're new Get hired at a big box gym and work there for a year or two and see if you can become the top trainer at that facility before Trying to go build your own business now simultaneously. I do still think it's important to build an online presence I think that's just that's the business card of today You know you need to have some kind of an online presence At the very least for potential clients to look you up and to read about you and to see What you're all about but I still think The bet you're you're gonna you're gonna learn the most and gain the best experience the quickest By working with more people and being presented with more opportunities, which you're gonna get in a big box gym Yeah, that's tough. I totally agree. Like I do think it does take that hands-on approach and being able to be in an environment like that Where you can get more volume to really hone in on your craft But I do highly suggest in the meantime even before doing that that You really put yourself out there with your friends and your family and you apply a lot of your methods and what you know Uh to help in out people that are close to you and that that can give you real feedback and critiques Uh, so that way, you know, you can at least get the ball rolling momentum rolling in that direction So there's three things I would do, uh, I agree with the guys I would get a job at a a big box gym. So the 24s the ufc gyms the Bowlies types of those a big big box It's going to see a lot of workouts and take everything that you can Don't be one of those trainers that's picky Take it work as many hours as you possibly can see as many faces as you can practice on free appointments as much as you possibly can Then I would use my social media Don't think about your social media right now is i'm going to try and grow it so I can get tons of followers and make That as a lead generator use it to service your current client base So as you are talking to your clients that you're and you're learning this going through this process And they ask you a question because one of them has gout or one of them has diabetes And you as you are learning and you're going through and you're like, oh, I don't know much about that So you go when you research information and you learn Share that on your on your on your instagram or share that on your facebook And start to use what you're talking to your clients with as a another place that they can receive that content And what will naturally happen is you will attract more people that have those same conditions or issues And you'll also provide an even better service to your current clientele The third thing that I would do is absolutely join our facebook group Most of the people that are in there Um are personal trainers and professionals So most all of them are are professionals personal trainers And certainly people going through the program or people that are aspiring to be one day And the community is unreal. Uh, you you could post a question About a client that you're currently dealing with people do this all the time in there And not even a half hour will go by before 10 15 other trainers have posted Their opinion on that or helping helping you troubleshoot whatever you're going through or if you if you don't have Many of the maps programs I would invest in in those as a as a skeleton for you to use and learn from how we've programmed in there And then to put your own spin and flavor and when you're training somebody that has specific needs Adapting it to them and then again using the forum To be able to modify things that we've already kind of laid the blueprints out for you So those those are the three things that if uh, I had to start all over didn't know anything anything going on Um, I would use those those three resources Well, that sounds pretty cool. I do have uh, I have several of your programs. I'm following aesthetic right now um And yeah, but I I've heard about your form. I just haven't been on it yet I've heard you guys talk about it, but that that sounds very handy. All right. No problem. We're going to give you access to the form Okay, RC Oh, really? That'd be cool. Okay. You got it, man. I got you I'll put that to some good use. Thanks guys. Perfect. No problem. Yeah, make sure you say hi and tag us when you get in there I definitely will do that Awesome. Thank you Yeah, the the the training space the trainer space definitely has been challenged But the market is still growing if you look at the numbers The market for trainers and it's definitely the landscape is changing But I totally agree with both of you like I don't I don't know where you could get as much practice Uh, as you could in a in a big box and that's why it's even better than like a private stick I wouldn't go to a private studio. I wouldn't go to a small unknown gym If you can't make it in a big box, you'll you'll crash and burn in a private studio And and of course there's like, you know a trainer that may be in the thick of all of it Might you know sit there and try and tell you the pros and cons of one of the oh, you know private There'll be more educated trainers make more money. You can make more money Specialized, but you're not going there for that You're going there because this company before you built it up to be a hundred million or a billion dollar company And they did something right as far as their systems and their ability to attract tons of leads There's a lot to learn from that and yours nowhere else. You're going to get literally, you know 20 plus reps a day potentially on just dealing with all the variables You know, like troubleshooting is such a vital process to personal training. I I don't think people realize it's like detective work You like you get somebody just coming in Well, what am I dealing with and a lot of times they don't even know what to tell you so you have to learn The right questions and you have to really have experience to identify And the other mistake I see these new trainers making right now is that they all want to become the next Insta famous person and trying to figure out what they're all doing to attract All these people to build the business. I would absolutely not even try to do that I would use it just like I said as a as a tool to enhance your already current clients So your current client that you're starting to train right now as you're having dialogue in that hour You're training them You guys remember you're having conversation about what they're struggling with and that is all your ideas for content Right, then I'm going to go home. I'm going to I'm going to go deeper into You know learning more about what that person was talking about how I could help and I'm going to and I'm really Speaking to them, but I'm going to speak in general on my on my social media And I'm and I'm going to start to build it like that and really it's I'm not going to focus on oh, did I get 10 more followers? It's hopefully this provided more value to the people I'm already helping and that will naturally start to track other people that have those things in common That's right Our next caller is just lean from bc canada. Hi just lean. How can we help you? Hey So my question is about maps aesthetics I'm on phase three and I absolutely love it Um, a little bit of history. I have spent Thousands of dollars on personal trainers weight classes apps different programs. You name it. I've probably done it And nothing has worked for me like aesthetics us. So my oh, yeah, sorry. That was so funny. Yeah Love it so much. Would I be able to um do it? Say, I don't know as an example if I want to do it for like three years Would I be able to do it continuously? um, just one right after another and see results if I Maybe just increase to my weights. Um, every time I started the program again Yeah, no, that's that's a great question. Number one. The reason why it works so well is because it's Program because I'm on the cover of it. Yeah Because Adam's body is on it. It must be it. No And I'm I appreciate that positive feedback. We designed every single maps program To theoretically be run, uh, essentially indefinitely, right? They're all they're all phased you could Definitely run through maps aesthetic over and over again going through the different phases However, if we're speaking in ideal terms, ideally You'd be better off going through the different maps programs. Okay, because You know maps aesthetic is very bodybuilder focused It would be great to go through maps strong, which is more functional strength or maps performance Which is more athletic minded All the programs complement each other and so you'll get overall better results If you go from program to program that being said that being said you definitely could Continue to run maps aesthetic back to back to back and you should still see some good progress We literally just talked on I don't know if I talked off air was off air We're talking or it was after we hung up with the person and I was mentioning how I ran maps aesthetic for actually most of The you know time I was competing so Leading up to it. I used Programming similar to like how anabolic is laid out Getting into shows once I started competing maps aesthetic was really the foundation now I manipulated it, right? So, you know, and there's nothing wrong with you exchanging some of the movements in there changing an exercise You know follow the form. I mean the the real Brilliance behind the programming is how it's laid out how it's phased And and the yeah, that's really what's what's so powerful about it And we and we build the volume builders into the program So but there's nothing wrong with you going like, oh, you know what? I haven't done a z-press ever and this this fit time of going around I'm going to pull out the you know barbell press there and I'm going to do a z-press there or You know, you can take exercises and exchange them and you'll get a lot of benefit by Doing a different exercise but laid out in the programming very similar So if it's shoulders, you're doing a shoulder work of the chest. You're doing a chest exercise But change them up and then you also have the way we set up the focus sessions So you'll notice that the focus sessions really only take you about 20 or 30 minutes probably to complete Well as I would get ready for each show after every show I would actually add more volume into the focus sessions since it was an area that I was trying to work on And I wanted to bring those muscles up every time I ran the program again You know, I would add a couple sets to whatever muscles that I'm trying to develop on those focus days So and I really I eventually got to a place where it was five days a week I was lifting an hour every day So it was but I worked that in over time of every time I ran it over does that make sense Yeah, that makes it Yeah, I think too like we a lot of times we recommend we have like our main three programs Like we have anabolic performance and aesthetic and the reason why we're kind of taking people through those is because it has very specific Attributes and and adaptations that we're trying to teach the body through that process And this is a long-term strategy And so uh, there's nothing wrong with with finding one of the programs that really resonate with you And you get great results from it with repeating that uh quite frequently But also keep it in mind Some of these other attributes like that you're going to get in terms of like fortifying your joints and and You know doing movements that are outside of your comfort that actually You know translate really well to then You know adding adding more Abilities going back into the program that you love so much So there's a lot of carryover between you know those main three and then obviously you can get more intense with some of the Other ones that we have Uh, but those we always kind of try to to steer people in that direction because it's it's a really good long-term strategy And there's a there's a way that you can do what justin's saying too and still kind so I I look maps aesthetic I'm obviously I'm biased right to that programming because it's kind of how I like to train So I do Go back to that program more than anything else And so what I'll do to justin's point because there is tremendous value And you moving away from that training for a little while is I'll actually take A month or a one or two phases at a strong and I'll run it and then I'll move back to aesthetic Or then I'll take one or two phases at a performance and run it and then go back to aesthetic So you doing that has a lot of value too So if you really love one of the programs more than the other I always recommend like going through the other ones so you see what's in them And there's a lot of value and you just kind of moving out of that modality and training a little bit different Because it like justin said there there's going to be a lot of carry over from the other other ways of training for that program too Yeah, that makes sense All right. Well, thank you for calling Awesome. Thanks guys. No problem Yeah, you know If you are following a maps program and you love it There's nothing wrong with repeating it But really when you go through the other ones and like justin said the long-term strategy You'll overall you'll just get better results. You have more balance. You'll have less injury You'll feel better Because you're training through different styles and modalities. Well, and the truth is we say this on the on the show a lot It's been a while since we've said it but You know, I love to say that the the best thing that you're doing it You should do is what you're not doing, right? So the best thing you can do for your body Whatever your goal is Uh, is probably what you're not doing You know, if you've been doing something for a very long time or you've repeated that program Even though they're designed that you could do that There's tremendous value in going away from that completely and then returning back to that And so and a lot of times we're all in this room guilty of this We all kind of gravitate to our favorite, you know, go back to the old thing that you love so much, right? And and I know damn well that it's not ideal for me I like doing it and so there's this balance right because you also should enjoy your training So I mean that's part of it too like you want to be able to go to the gym You don't want to do something that you hate just because right it's novel, you know It's like that's that's not a good idea either if you're not going to be consistent But you also have to be self-aware enough to go like, okay I always do this exercise. This is good for me. Yeah I always do these exercises always train this way because I like it, you know It feels good because I'm good at it But you know what going over here and doing those stupid matrix lunges or adding the z-press in there Are doing these movements that I'm not very good at the truth is gains will come on fast for that because you're not good at it Completely look if you love the podcast you have to go check out mind pump free.com We have a lot of written content and it's totally free lots of guides You can learn from again. 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