 You are listening to the number one fitness, health, and entertainment podcast. This is Mind Pump. Now in this episode, we answer fitness and health questions at the end of the episode. In the beginning of the episode, we have a lot of fun. We talk about current events and studies and make fun of each other. It's a good time. Today's intro was 37 minutes long. After that, we answered some specific fitness and health questions that were asked by our audience. I'm going to give you a rundown of the entire episode though. So we open up by talking Adam's baby soft skin. It's gorgeous, shiny, and beautiful. By the way, the reason why his skin looks so good and why he looks like a baby with a beard is because he uses Caldera Lab products. This is a company we work with. Skin products you can put on your skin that will rejuvenate your skin, make you look more youthful and amazing. He's super handsome. You should check him out on YouTube. By the way, there's a huge discount because you listen to Mind Pump. Go to CalderaLab.com. That's C-A-L-D-E-R-A-L-A-B.com forward slash mind pump, use the code Mind Pump, get 20% off. Then we talk about aliens. Apparently a top official from Israel said that aliens are among us, but they made a, I guess they made a pact with the US government not to tell anybody. Yes. This sounds super legit. This is weird. It's happening. Then we talk about a survey that just came out of the UK, alarming survey, almost half of men between the ages of 18 to 30 or 30 to 60 years, 30 to 60. Sorry. Yeah. Suffering from erectile dysfunction. We need like a sound effect there. Oh man. That's real bad. So we kind of speculate as to why that might be happening. Then we talk about unsolved mysteries on Netflix and the Japanese tsunami episode. That was really crazy. Crazy. Then I talk about the Hungarian politician, the anti-gay Hungarian politician. He's hungry for something. Who got caught in the 25 man orgy. This is a true story. Really crazy. Then we talk about these corporate offices you can order on Amazon and build in your backyard. This is really cool. And then I talk about the pre-workout supplement that I took that almost fried my brain and reminds me why I like Legion so much. Legion makes the best. Legion wins. Performance enhancing supplements you'll find anywhere they're third party tested. The labels are transparent. They only have ingredients that have studies that support them. And again, because you listen to Mind Pump, you actually get a discount. Go check them out. Go to buylegion.com, B-Y-L-E-G-I-O-N.com forward slash Mind Pump and then use the code Mind Pump to get hooked up. Then we got into the questions. Here's the first one. This person wants to know if we integrate different proteins into our diets like whey, casing, plant, etc. The next question, this person wants to know what the best way is to fix muscle imbalances. This is when one muscle is more developed the other, or when you're not moving optimally because you have a weakness in a particular area. The next question this person wants us to talk about salt. Is sodium the bad guy that we've been told that it is? And the final question this person asked is a personal one, have any of us ever fallen out of love with fitness? Not with each other. We've always loved each other. Also, it's December. This is the time when everybody eats a lot of food and has a tough time with their health and fitness. So here's what we did. We put together a massive December special and we've taken all of the guesswork out of your workouts for you. There are three tiers. We have a new to weight training bundle. We have a body transformation bundle. And then those of you that are more advanced and like the real hard stuff, we have the new year extreme intensity bundle. Each one of them includes nine months of workout. So you get nine months of exercise programming, each one with different programs, massively discounted, huge discounts to these bundles. So here's what you need to do. Go to mapsdecember.com, check out each bundle, find the one that works best for you, sign up, follow the programs and see what happens. Again, you can find all of these bundles at mapsdecember.com. I don't know, Adam. If it wasn't for your beard, I'd be like, why is there a baby sitting over there? Your skin just keeps getting younger. You know what? You're bringing up the caldera because I look shiny and I look good right now. My skin, yeah, youthful. It's like it's supple. Okay, so let me tell you how cute elf. I was nervous when we took caldera on because I'd dug, I'll get back in my seat. I know you're trying to adjust me. Sorry. Well, hold on, let me first do this and then I'll get back to our caldera commercial. So I got something for you guys. Oh, what'd you get us? So yeah, commercial paused here. This is for you. Wow. Yay. This is for you. Why are we all wearing these? And you guys, and you have to. Adam's really in the spirit. I am, you didn't notice that? I know he's always like that. He goes all in. Why am I wearing this? Because this is in lieu of our 12 Days of Christmas. That is, I believe, starting tomorrow. Hold on a second. Let me get it off. So I want you guys to wear hats every podcast. I can't hear anything until until Christmas because every day we're giving cool shit away. So every day on our Instagram, there'll be giveaways. We're doing 12 Days of Christmas leading up. I believe it starts tomorrow. And so make sure you're paying attention to the Mindput Media IG, giving away cool stuff with all of our partners. Awesome. Wear these hats every day because you're giving away stuff. All right. So is caldera one of our first ones? Oh, so they're not one of the first ones. But back to that commercial that I was starting to do there and did a terrible transition over to Santa hats. I know. Yeah, let's talk about your skin. No. So, no, I was really nervous that we were not going to be able to perform for them because you guys don't use it as much as I do, if ever. And I loved it. So we had a small break. Well, I'm just oily, naturally. Maybe that's why I'm gatery. Justin actually needs it the most. I get it from Adam by Osmosis. Refuses to do anything like that. He's like, anything beauty related. Just refusing to do it. He's too attractive. That's why I want him to do it, though, just for a few weeks, just to see if he gets compliments. It would be kind of an interesting, you know, like trans transformation thing, you know, just see, you know, be like when they have like a picture of like the desert floor and it's like cracked, you know, and then like a rain falls on, it's like plants come out. That's what'll happen. I might get more hairy, but they reached out and they want to sign for all of 2021, obviously, which means they're getting their ROI. And, you know, at the same time that I was getting a message from them, I must have got two or three DMs. And, you know, people rarely ever does people, you know, DM you to tell you how great something is or whatever. So I imagine there's a lot more people that are enjoying the product. But everybody that's purchased it seems to love it. And so our audience has been enjoying it. It works. Well, I think the other part of it too is we now record the podcast on video too, right? So you go to YouTube and you can see our faces. And it's obvious how more handsome it's just it progressively you, you are now moot, you're just continue to get even more youthful. That's how it is. Yeah, just more and more handsome. Yeah. Well, I got evolution. I complain about the dry skin thing all the time, right, with my psoriasis and stuff like that. And so I already am big like lotion guy all over myself. But this stuff has been incredible. So I'm a big fan. I was a big fan even when we weren't sponsored. So there was a long time there that we weren't. And I was, I remember hitting Rachel up all the time, like, you got to get Caldera back because I use it every day. By the way, are these new? Are these new hats? Or am I sharing with someone else? Brand new hat. I had Gary order you guys all brand new hats. I don't want to get lice again. No, no. No, I mean, yes, everything happened. Have I ever had lice? Yeah, dude, when I was a kid. Did you never had lice? No. Really? No, but you had flatties you are. You had flesh eating bacteria. They're scared. Yeah. Yeah. That's the move. Who's the kid on Charlie Brown that has like the dust cloud that calls her? Is that Linus? Oh, pigpen. That's who it is. Linus carries his blanket. That's right. When I was a kid, I did. I got lice and all my brothers and sisters got lice. Oh man. And my mom. Did you shave your head or is she just combed out? No, dude. We're not. It's not the industrial revolution. What's that powder they throw on you? Yeah, no DDT. Yeah. No, my mom had to do the whole thing where she combs the hair and pulls everything out and cleans it with the chemicals and, you know, you sit there or whatever. And I didn't because I was so young, I didn't realize what a pain in the asset was. And then my daughter got a while ago and she's gonna listen to this one day. She'll be so mad. Anyway, she got it. She was a kid. She got it. You have to like everything. You throw stuff to animals in plastic bags, leave them in there for a while. You got to clean that shit out of everything. Everybody gets checked. And you know me, I'm like, I don't like, I get the heebie-jeebies, whatever that feeling. Like right now I'm getting it because I'm talking about it. Yeah. What a nightmare. Just a little crawler. Speaking of heebie-jeebies, so my buddy sent me over an article that apparently, I think Israel said it, the chief guy, executive dude over there with their space program. You're so bad, dude. You know, I'm terrible. Come on, dude. This is the New York Post, which is basically like the national inquirer of right now. Donald Trump knows that there's aliens out there. This is what it said. Yes. Yeah. And they made a pact with the US government to not say anything until we're ready. Yeah, because they want everybody to start getting along again. Now, are you guys ready for this? What? The aliens? The alien invasion? What's your thoughts on this? Before Justin, you before, just so you know, we, Doug and I, I don't know if Sal was in here. Was Sal speculating with us, or does this mean you? I love that you are bringing this up. I know. That's it today. I'm giving you a softball pitch right now. Yeah. What do you think, Doug? Was it just me and you? Maybe, yeah. I don't remember Sal saying anything. No. Are you in here? We were talking, here's the thing. I just want to, okay, let's pretend. Let's pretend this is a real thing. Yeah. There's aliens. I like this. How do you feel about this? I want to know more. I want to know what experiments they've been doing. I want to know why they haven't solved our problems for us, because they're so smart, like what the fuck? I love that you come with all these demands. Hell yeah. This species that is obviously as intelligent or more intelligent than us, that could get to our planet, we couldn't get to theirs. Yeah. And are you from Sirius? Sal has demands. Yeah. I want to know this. I want to know that. You'll be the first to get eaten. Are you responsible for everything that Ancient Aliens TV show is talking about? Yeah. Yeah. I want to know that. Like pyramids, like come on. No, really though, what's your guys'... All right, would you guys be scared, excited, nervous? Like what's the feeling that you would get if this really came out that there is? I wouldn't believe it, first of all. No, no, no. It's real. Let's say, yeah, let's get rid of the possibility that it's not real, and let's just say it's real. There's aliens that have been here. How do you feel? I would... Justin, you, not you. Oh, you first. I don't want to hear your bossy attitude with your interview. First they need to say this. With this world leader, honestly, I would trip out on it for a long time. Like it would take me a long time to process it. I would go back and revisit a lot of all the different theories out there, and how we've come along in society with technology and all this kind of stuff. And then, yeah, at what point did they come? Like I would not want to know so we could start going back in history and redo history. Yeah, I like that. Now, what if the aliens came and then they were just like, hey, like a whole swath of people. Yeah, that thing you believe in, that religion, totally wrong. Here's what's going on. Oh, government over here, you guys are wrong. These guys are wrong. How mad would people be? Think about that. If they came out and they're like, global warming, or if they said, yes, or what if Jesus also went to Mars? Well, yeah. You know what I mean? Hey, how long do you think it would take before people tried to have sex with them? Wow. Of course, that's where you go. Yeah, I know today's age, not very long. I mean, you know, I'm sure. I mean, the little gray guys, I'm pretty sure we'd want a law pass to say it's okay. Do you know what sailors used to have sex with when they would go in the ocean forever? What? Do you know about this? Purposes? There's like a, like a, I think it's like a type of, I don't know the name, it's like a sea manatee of some type. What? What? The sea cow? Something like that, because this is true. Oh, look at stuff, Doug. I want to see if this is true. I mean, it's going to be another time when I show you. I mean. Because the genitals of this particular sea manatee looks like the female genitalia, so they would literally capture this thing and then they'd sleep with it. What? Okay, explain to me what you're reading when this comes up in your feed. What are you, yeah, exactly, what exactly, what exactly are you googling? At my normal. To get an article like that. Because you've heard of like goats and, you know, like these lonely shepherds and what not. We've heard stories, right? But sea manatees? Well, this is, oh no, no, I know I read this because they think that this may be where the mermaid myth came from. Oh, you've been banging all them. The manatees in creating mermaids? I mean, Doug looks either confused right now or he's not finding anything. He's not finding anything definitive about sighted. The firewall blocks it. No, it's there. I don't want to stop and look. I'll find it later. But I'm serious. It'll be in the show notes, right, Jackie? Because we'll send you a link for all the animals. Anyway, that's crazy to me. Wow. Speaking of sex, by the way, did you guys hear about this huge survey that they did? I think it was in the UK. Did you hear about this? No. This is kind of sad. I'm going to find it right now because it's kind of sad. So they did a huge survey in the UK. And apparently almost half of men in their 30s suffer from erectile dysfunction. Half? Yes. In their 30s? Yeah, that's what it says. Half of men in their 30s, this is in the UK. Wow. Yeah, struggle to get an erection. Studies have shown. Surprised polling reveals that this age group is most likely to struggle with keeping it up. So what? How do you? Almost a third have broken up with their partner as a result. This is crazy. What's happening over there? Wow. Wow. Nearly half of men aged 18 to 60 across the UK are suffering impotence with four in 10 main men blaming stress, followed by tiredness, anxiety, and boozing too heavily. All right. So what do you guys think the problem is? Why do you guys think these young men are having issues with their testosterone levels? What's happening over there? You know, I have a theory. Yeah. I do have a theory. I do think that it's the overuse of pornography. I do. This issue didn't exist before. You know what I mean? Young men never had issues like this. I think they're just desensitized like crazy because all the stuff that they Yeah, I don't disagree with that. I mean, we've talked before about- I mean, again, before they had- I mean, it's definitely a contributing factor. Yeah. Like, do you think that sailors would have had sex with the C-manity things if they had- You know what I'm saying? Just like they had to have cornhub. Yeah, exactly. What are you doing, guy? They got it up for the animal. You know you have this on your phone, right? I gotta do something with this, guys. I'm sorry. I get too many of these. I gotta take care of this. It's kind of crazy, though, that 40 or almost 50 percent. How do they measure that, though? With the ruler. No, like, yeah, it's a survey. Like, so these are just people saying like, oh, yeah, I have problems with that. It could be, too, being distracted. Just imagine, I mean, we now have this- Distracted. No, like, declining health factors, too. I mean, I'm playing video games right now. You laugh, but I mean, yeah. That's an example of a younger boy. But even as a man, having a cell phone now that is like another limb of yours. And don't tell me this- Activity levels, I'm sure. Tell me this has not happened to you guys before. I mean, this has definitely happened to me, or at least I'll admit it, there's been nights where I know that Katrina was probably in the mood. We're having dinner. I'm reading an email I'm all pissed off about because I'm working, you know? And I'm just not in the mood. I'm not in the mood because I'm irritated about something like that, and that doesn't make me want to do that right away. And so- I don't know if that's the same thing. I think what they're talking about- Well, that's why I asked, how do they measure this? I think- Because would you, if that was a consistent, reoccurring thing in your household- That's- Would you say that you have erectile dysfunction? No, I think erectile dysfunction- You're trying to get up and you want to. Yes, you're like, I want to- That's why I want to know how they measure this. Yeah, I think that's what it is. Like, I want to, but it's not working. Not- But again- I don't want to. How many times have you guys noticed this too, though? When that happens, when a scenario, it's normally because you're somewhere else, right? Your mind is somewhere else because you're not in the present moment. Well, they said stress was a major factor, that they were all consistently saying that, right? Yeah, but I tell you, if you look at the numbers, erectile dysfunction is exploded among young men. This was a category of the population that never- Or deflated. I'm going to say pornhub and distractability, the two of them together. I would say, yeah, I'd say it's pornography and probably poor health. Yeah, poor health. A lot of these guys, yeah, they're just not- They're not exercising, not lifting weights. They're probably- I mean, obesity is so high now. Yeah. You know that, even in the UK, Europe is suffering now from obesity, like almost like the US is, so probably what it is. Yeah, I imagine there's just a lot of lack of activity, you know, in general. It just seems like there's been a massive decline worldwide of activity. Yeah. When was this done? Was this done recent too? Recent, this just came out. Oh, I mean, I wanted you to take into account COVID too, right? Everybody being at home right now? Well, stress is at all time highs. When do you think all that stats going to come out, right? Like, nobody- You see little stuff coming out, right, with depression, suicide, alcohol. I just read a study that mental health among adults in the US has reached a 20-year low based off of- My buddy just- You know what, my buddy just gave me a test. What's the pregnancy rate right now? I don't know. You know, everybody being home, I wonder if it either. Because normally that would like move numbers way up, right? Yeah, right. Your rectile dysfunction cancels that. But then that- Yeah, exactly. So he evens it out. He evens it out. I don't know, but what I would predict is typically what you see is a boom in pregnancies after a terrible event. Oh, yeah, that's true. So like World War II, and then it's over. The baby boomers. Everybody's having, yeah. So I would imagine that once we feel like we're out of the, you know- The thick of it. Exactly. Then you're going to see a lot more babies being born. I wanted to share with you guys what my buddy sent. I'm trying to find where he sent it in a thread talking about that somebody, or I forget what country just said that they had more suicides than COVID deaths. Oh, Japan. Oh, yes. Thank you. You did see that. I did. Should have known you seeing that. Yep. That's crazy. I know. Total, right? They're not counting any of that stuff. They're not even considering any of that stuff. Now, here's the thing that I want to be clear to is that, okay, let's say that they don't do government lockdowns. Does that mean that nobody's going to suffer? No, we're still going to suffer. Still going to be a lot of problems. I think it'll be less potential, less problems. And or at the very least, people aren't going to, you know, blame or wait for government to tell them everything they do they tend to act. Was it Sweden that they basically did that from the very beginning? There's no lockdowns. They're doing lockdowns now. They're doing lockdowns now. Yeah, they're starting to kind of reverse now a little bit. Really? Yeah. Yeah, they are. Well, that's unfortunate. Yeah, I know. There goes that example. Can't pull from them no more. Okay. No, you brought up Japan. Did you guys see Unsolved Mysteries where they... Oh, wait. The tsunami? Yeah, the tsunami. Oh, the spirits and shit. Yeah, where they're all seeing ghosts. Dude, that is weird. They were tripping me out. That is super weird. Like, the cab drivers would be out, you know, like picking people up and they'd get in their toll. The thing is that they could measure this because, you know, they actually had a running toll. And they thought, for sure, like somebody was in the back seat and they'd get out and there's nobody even there. That's weird. Yeah, dude. Trippy. That is very strange. It's the video of the tsunami that they're showing on that and then the stories that they were telling. Yeah. Oh, it's heartbreaking. Oh, I couldn't even do this. One man talking about his kid. I couldn't even do it. Oh, my God. Yeah, the whole thing is just... It really brings perspective to something like that. Like, you're just... You see it on the news and you're like, whoa, that's crazy. Whatever. Do you get out of dodge or do you hang back at your house and try and protect your house? If my family's stuck there. Oh, we get out of dodge. Well, okay, you say that quick, right? Like, because we saw the aftermath, right? But if you're somebody who lives in an area where there's storms and shit like that happening all the time until it actually fully hits, you probably don't realize it's going to be to that extreme, right? Yeah. And I would think there was... What was I just... I was watching some documentary of somebody who stayed through one of those and filmed the whole thing because they've been through so many storms. They just... Yeah, like they got numb to it or whatever. It just happened. It was a regular thing. So do you bail or do you stay and board up your house and try and save the house? Like, what's the thoughts on that? I don't know. For me, I just don't value things that much in terms of the lives and the lives around me. Like, who cares? Like, I'll start over again. I guess you kind of had this similar thing with the fires. Exactly. What did you bring? Did you bring anything? Your dirty magazines or what else did you grab? I didn't really bring much dirty magazines. Courtney was like trying to... Just like, we got to get these. We got to get these. Yeah. I was like, whatever, like pictures and photos of kids and wedding album and all. Stuff that you can't replace. Yeah, that's it. And like, I left the majority of my shit there. I'd be gone. Yeah. I'd be gone. Because I'm like, you wouldn't grab anything. I'm not attached to it. Um, I don't really have anything. So what would you bring? Yeah, I live with my car. I just drive my house. I would just... By the way, the animal? I got to get those new ballot shoes. By the way, the animal people that the sailors would bang was called a dugong. Dugong. That sounds like someone got you. No, D-U-G-O-N-G. Look it up, Doug. And then we can... And they look up sailors' bang. I'll be watching the videos later. No, this is what they used to... This is what they used to do. You still didn't answer my question, how you came to Boutland, bro. I don't know how I know half the shit that I know. You know that. It just doesn't work. Well, the other stuff makes sense because it's around our field, right? You're searching things. Like, I know how you get... I looked up animals you could have seen. Pirate sex. Best animals to beg. Lonely at sea, you know, dugong. What are my options? What happens if I get trapped in the ocean? What if I would have sex? What do I do? Yeah. What do I do? I got to do this. Shark, no, not shark. No, that's... Dolphin teeth, man. Dolphin teeth. Too fast. Dolphin's too fast. I need some slow and fleshy. I can catch it. Slow and fleshy. That's what I do. Which one's going to feel like this? Anyway, back to the tsunami. I'm just taking people on an emotional roller coaster right now. Yeah. Back to the tsunami thing. That's the worst... That's my biggest... Like, if I had to pick the worst, biggest fear, like, way to die, like, the worst way to die, drowning. Can you think of a worst way? It is pretty horrible. Yeah. Would you rather burn or die? I mean, excuse me, burn to death or drown out? I thought somebody told me, Doug, maybe you... I thought that's supposed to be euphoric. I thought, no, I'm serious. Like, the feeling you get when you, like, you take in all the water, I think it's supposed to be euphoric. You get this chemical release. I've heard freezing to death is the way to go. Wow. After the initial cold. Doug's been researching it, by the way. Yeah, I just been thinking about this a lot. Look up drowning euphoria. I think that actually... Well, it sounds terrifying. I feel, I agree with you, that, like, drowning sounds terrifying to me. But I think when it actually happens, it's nice. Yeah, like, would you rather drown or burn to death? Burn to death is worse. Burn to death would be worse, bro. Well, I've heard with the burning to death, at first it hurts, but then your nerves are gone, and then you're just... That's it. Yeah, but how long until you get to that point? I don't know. And, like, excruciating. You're burning just, like, a little patch of your finger? Yeah. Like, oh, your whole body, dude? Yeah, I don't scream like that, though. Well, thanks. I do. That's a weird transfer. You do you. That's not how I do it. Well, I mean, okay, have you guys ever been... Burn to death would be worse to me. Totally. Yeah. I can't... I mean, I would rather... I don't know. I think it's a little terrifying. Drowning has, like, if you're claustrophobic, right, that there's a little bit of that, right? That, to me, sounds a little scarier than, like, fire. You could be on the open, right? That's not as scary. Just burning just sounds... Yeah, I don't know. Well, okay, so have you guys ever been choked out? Like, have you ever been put to sleep by a joke? Okay, if you've ever been choked out, you know that right before you go to sleep, you kind of, like, feels good. That's what I think the drowning is supposed to be like. Yeah, but I don't know if that's the same, so that's a blood show. Are you checking me right now? Yeah, I'm seeing it. I think you're right. Thank you. It says, deathologists, which happens to be a profession, say drowning is perhaps the best way to die. Boom! That a euphoric sensation supposedly blankets one's consciousness right before losing it. Wow, there you go. Look at that. There's two facts that we brought. Man. Adam brought the death by drowning. I brought the sex animal in the sea. It's your turn. What do I got? What do you got for us, dude? And he ran away. What do you got for us, Justin? I was thought I was going to bring the aliens, and then he totally, like, jumped in front. Oh, speaking of alien stuff, those monoliths keep popping up all over the place. Yeah, so did you see the four? There's a set of four now that looks just like the fifth element. Yeah. And I'm like, come on, dude. It's a movie. I guarantee you it's movie marketing, and it's brilliant. Whoever came up with it, it's brilliant. Why don't we do some smart shit like that then? Like what? For math programs. Just put a random dumbbell. Imagine if it was doing a drive everybody to Mindput Media. Just put a random dumbbell somewhere? Yeah, dude. Nobody cares. Or like a massive one, like overly sized. So people are like, what is this, a giant's dumbbell? It's a giant's. We should make these like 40 foot fucking dumbbells, dude, that we put out there that weigh like tons. Just leave them around. Just leave them. Lead them. In the middle of the middle of the night. Yeah. In the middle of the desert. In the middle of the desert. Yeah. Oh, my God. The giant's are real. The giant's. Oh, my God, bro. I don't know. Dude, I saw a show about sales to the roof. Yeah, like giants. Did you watch that at all? Chance, there was like, they were trying to prove that giants existed. Like this whole thing back in the day. Oh, where they find the skeletons? Yeah. And they found some of the mounds here in the North America that they found like gigantic heads and gigantic bones. But then mysteriously they vanished, you know, and like people have collectors have taken them out of circulation. It's not very unrealistic, right? So what are some, I mean, there's, we have records of like really tall, like 12 foot tall people, don't we? What's the tallest? I don't think 12. What's the record for 12? I just threw it out there. Maybe 10. It's crazy though. It's definitely way over seven. Well, I know, doesn't the Bible have stories of giants in the past? Yeah, they do. You know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I mean, from what I've read, those old stories are accurate. Nephilim or is it the Nephilim? Yeah, it's something like that. Well, think about it this way. Well, okay, now when you're talking about stories, telling something like a seven foot man looks like a giant to me. You're right. And especially back then, when you think about it this way. When you never saw that. Yeah. Right, we see the NBA, so we see giants all the time. Imagine if you're somebody who went 40 years of your life, never seeing a seven foot five tall person. And you're malnourished. Which, by the way, is very, would be very common, right? If you didn't have television, when was the last time you saw a seven foot five person? Never. Okay, so now imagine seeing that person for the first time you're 40 years old, you write about it and be like, I saw a giant. Yeah, it would be weird. Yeah, so apparently, according to like myth and lore, right, I think like angels banged humans and created giants. This is part of like the mythology. Well, that makes sense. Yeah. What are you looking up right now, Doug? You giving me the tall person? Yeah, so there's been nine feet right there. Yeah, nine feet, two inches is the tallest discovered. Okay, skeleton? Yeah, Catalina Island. Wow. Ooh, Catalina wine mixer. Motherfucking Catalina wine mixer. That's a good time. Wow, so that's legit. Was it a real skeleton? Or is that like, is it just hearsay? Yeah, it could be real. I don't know. Let's see here. It says some people have accused him of exaggerating, but I don't know if that's a fact or not. Interesting. Yeah, I think there's a lot of people that want it really bad, you know, and so there's been a lot of articles and some some fuckery out there with like archaeologists trying to make, you know, piece bones together to make a giant, but I mean, it is likely like, of course we've seen dinosaurs, right? That's like a bunch of lizards that we put together to make like these giant. We know really nothing about them. We just keep like drawing new things on them and, oh, now they have feathers. Oh, yeah, of course. No, now they say they don't. Now they don't have feathers. Yes, yeah. So that just changed. I'm not closing on that yet. What, dinosaurs? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Aliens put them here. Yeah. Trick us. Trick us. See, more things I want to ask the aliens, right? Yeah, that would be weird to see aliens. That would be, I think, do you guys think that would totally shake up society in a big way? I don't know. Yeah, like. I think we're ready for it. Of course it would shake things up. I mean, because then now all of a sudden we want our alien friends to use all the answers. I mean, if they were just, listen, if they were just another species that got here, so they're definitely as smarter, smarter than we are. Oh, smarter. They got here. Right, they got here. Smarter than we are. They don't want to harm us. They don't want to eat us. They don't have any desire to move. They think our planet sucks compared to theirs, but they're just traveling. Is it really going to be that big of a deal? But according to that article, they wanted to work with us because they. Well, there you go. Yeah, they're friendly. Well, okay. So here you're trying to do their experiments and figure things out. Now, here's a legit problem. Let's say you're head of the CIA or the KGB or whatever, some leading government agency. And these aliens came to earth, obviously with far superior technology, the ability to travel through space at speeds that are beyond light speed because in order to travel far distances in space, light speed is even slow. And so you're thinking to yourself, tell me this shit before you tell my enemies. Because if I have this technology, we are the superpower of the world. You see what I'm saying? Like I feel like that would be the. I feel like they would be evolved past that. They wouldn't allow that to happen. They wouldn't be like. They'd be like, when I gotta tell you. Yeah, exactly. If that's your, if that's your thoughts, then I guess we're going to leave you out. Yeah. Yeah. What if they're like us? What if they're just advanced with their technology, but they're just as stupid with other stuff? You know what I mean? I feel like if they were, they would have done something, right? Maybe not. They would have dropped the bomb or something. Well, they've obviously crashed, right? If they've crashed. So they're not great pilots. Yeah, exactly. Maybe they're not the best. Idiots. Yeah. Dumb aliens. Hey, speaking of idiots, did you guys hear about this politician? I gotta look this up, dude. He's just the right. He's just more idiot politicians. Oh no, this is the best that I've, that I've ever read. So there's this Hungarian politician. Okay. He's an anti-gay Hungarian politician. So he's like super anti-gay marriage. Wow. Like he likes policies that are. Where's he at? Huh? Hungry. Yeah. If he's Hungarian. Well, that doesn't, just because he's Hungarian doesn't mean he's necessarily in Hungary. He could be in the United States. Hungarian politician in China. No, he's, he's in Hungary. It's, uh, so. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. So he's super anti, but we've seen in the past what these people are really doing with their super anti-something. You're right. But continue. You are right. And he's, no. Anybody, anytime someone's super anti, like something like that, you always gotta think, huh. I wonder what their extracurricular activity looks like. So his name is Joseph Sezier. I think I'm saying it right. So cops. Caught him. Yeah. Fleeing a 25 man orgy. He went hard. He went real hard too. He went really hard. Yeah. It was a 25 man orgy. There he is. And he was, he was fleeing. I guess the cops saw him running out through the window. So he was, he wasn't just, you know, doing, he wasn't just, you didn't just do gays done. No, he's hard. Well, what's he's hard win. What's funny is that he probably wouldn't get all this shit if he wasn't so anti-gay, but because he's anti-gay, and then he ends up, well, you see how you saw that with some of those like televangelist like preachers. It's just with male prostitutes. Yeah, male, in politicians, same thing. It's just like, it's a big cover up of like, I don't know that was happening with a TV in Vengell, in Vengellicus. I just fucked up. Whoa. Yeah, dude. It's just the worst producer. Yeah. There was one, I don't know if it was in Vengell, but it was definitely for me. I hit that fucking. Evangelicist. Evangelicist. Evangelicist. Damn, nice one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Evangelicals. Evangelicals? No. Evangelicals? I don't know. Evangelists. Evangelists. Thank you, Doug. Yes. Wow. When you have heavenly testicles, they're Evangelicals. Televangelists. Check them out, everybody. Televangelists. Yeah. No, there's been a couple that have been caught. There was one guy that got caught with a male prostitute because he was traveling, and he said, oh, no, I hired him to hold my luggage for me. That was his story. Oh, yeah. I did not know that. Yes, dude. Yeah, there was one that like, so one politician or, I don't remember if it was a church figure or whatever, like had this whole like pray the gateway thing and they had like a whole camp where they were like sending people and stuff. And then he was totally sleeping. Oh, my God. Come on, dude. It's gay stuff. Yeah, I mean, I would be a little suspicious like, all right, it's only guys. We're all going to go in the woods together. And we're going to get rid of the gate. Yeah, get rid of the gate. Let's get it all out. Everyone take your clothes off. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just drain the gateway. Get it out of your system. Just get it out. Remember when you got caught with cigarettes when you were a kid by your dad and he made you smoke like five packs. That's the strategy. We're going to go in the woods. Over exposure. And we're just going to keep going until we get this thing you've ever seen. Ever. We don't want to do it anymore. Okay. Yeah. Keep going until we don't want to do it. You'll never want it again. Oh, my God. It's totally going to work. You know those people that fall for that shit? Yeah, for sure. I know, dude. Yeah, save me. I know. It kind of cracks me up. Hey, Adam, did you hear about these? I want to ask you, because this is something that's up your alley. Did you hear, and this is legit now. I know. I know. I don't believe it already. Let's hear it. No, no, listen. You can order these office buildings on Amazon. Have you heard of these? Order an office building on Amazon. Yes. So maybe Doug can look this up. So are they like a do-it-yourself build a little office space? Yeah, you order them on Amazon. Let's see it. And they're exploding in sales right now because so many people are working from home. And so they're putting it in their backyards or on their land. And apparently they're inexpensive and they look pretty damn good. So you know what this is, like a little… Well, I can imagine. So you know me. I'm always… I mean, it's just smart. I look at properties all the time, right, for us. So I'm looking at these properties that have, and you're seeing this pop up right now more than I've ever seen, is they're converting like their backyard sheds and stuff into office spaces. Yeah. And that makes a lot of sense. Like they're putting like a little portable AC in it and then they trick it all out to… Instead of it being a shed. So you don't have like kids and everybody else like people coming through the house. Exactly. Distracting you. Yeah, that is kind of crazy. Let me see them. I want to see them. I'm trying to find them too right now. Oh, here we go. All right. I'm going to look it up right now. I can imagine those shipping containers would be a good option. Like a rich roll. Yeah, Doug, I'm going to… Rich has three of them, right? He lived in those things. I've seen those converted a lot. Oh, there you go. Look at that. So, Doug, I just sent you the link because the link that I'm sending you has got pretty good… Oh, Wayfair has them too, huh? Yeah. Backyard Studio, $10,000. That's open. Does it come with children? That's expensive. That's Wayfair. Show me. That's so bad. Okay. Show me that $6,000. $5,991. I'll check what you're getting. No, no, no. So, look at the one. So that's the one I just sent you. Okay. That's ridiculously expensive, though. Bro, it's 113 square feet. It's under 20 grand. Amazon ships it for you. 20K. It's really nice. But you look, if you don't have to build anything, it has AC in it the whole deal. Oh, it does have that too? Yeah, dude. It's all decked out. It doesn't require you to build a foundation for it, apparently. So, look at that. That's actually pretty fucking smart. It is, right? Most people have a backyard space that you could put that in. Yeah. Totally. And I'm telling you… Interesting. Right now, there's so much stuff is starting to change because people are working from up. For example… Wow, what a good… Look at… Let's see if there's any publicly traded companies that are making these. Well, you know what's interesting. This is popping off. And then also the sprinter vans that they're converting into offices. Also like recording studios and media. People are all buying these vans in this whole van revolution. Well, dude, it's changing so many things. Jessica's family lives in Las Vegas, in Nevada, right? Rent and property values are exploding over there. Why? Because people from California are moving over there in droves. Rent is going up like crazy. My mother-in-law is like, my rent's going to go up a lot if I, you know, the next time I have to renew or whatever. She said it's all these Californians. And they're all coming over and paying a year in advance or buying a property cash or whatever. So it's changing quite a bit. So I can imagine this would be a huge boom. I mean, this is interesting to me how we could use this. I mean, for 20 grand to have a… I mean, this studio costs a hell of a lot more than that to try and build. Who's got a backyard? Yeah, right? Justin. Justin, yeah. Yeah. You want to build a studio? Could you have redwood trees? Yeah, I do. How cool would that be? Man, that's not bad. I don't know. I don't want you guys on my property. We'll see all the weird stuff. I mean, but for… You said it's got a… This is AC built in this too, Doug? Because that's why that sounds fishy to me. 20 grand and you have an AC alone cost eight to 10 grand. It's got, listen, it's got panoramic view, two glass walls. What else has it got in there? You can do classrooms. People are building classrooms with these. Maybe I made up the AC part. Yeah. I think you did. I can't help it. Because that, I mean, that would be the part that I would think would be the most annoying for us and the most expensive, right? Because a box, yeah, would do. Yeah, one of the chintzy ones. I mean, it's not a huge space to cool down. True. And it looks like, I mean, in the picture, that looks like a vent up there in the top. I can't tell though. You can put it on top of the ceiling. I do. Over the roof. I do think, yeah, you're right, like a motor home. Geez, I can't speak today. No, no, no, no. Yeah, help me out. How's that stroke going? What is it? It's goddamn coffee. We've got to wait for it to stop. Coffee is not set in, man. Oh, yeah. Speaking of coffee, so you guys know how we get stuff sent to us all the time, samples of supplements or whatever. I mean, I don't because I usually don't see it. I take them. Yeah, exactly. I take them all. Anyway, company sends us pre-workout powder. And I'm not going to say the name. I don't want to call them out. Just company. Yeah, just a company. And it's your typical pre-workout powder that relies heavily on stimulants. So it's like, every stimulant, you can imagine that's in there. So I'm like, all right, I'll give it a shot. I think I know what I'm going to feel. But let's do this. It just shit. It just felt like shit. I was shaky. I didn't feel good. It really makes me appreciate when someone makes actual pre-workout properly, like Legion, for example. They put theanine in their pre-workout because it balances out the caffeine. But I can't believe some. I think people have fried their CNS so much with the amount of caffeine that they take that they require something with an insane amount of stimulants just to feel. No, I think that. Because that didn't even take the whole thing. It was way too much. It was not good. I saw that raptor or bear attack. I'm not going to say the name. Yeah. But did you try to throw somebody on the bus right there? Raptor attack. It was a name like that. Yeah. It was just extreme. I just saw something. Like blow your brains out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, man. This is like meth, you know? Yeah. I saw an ad that Mike had that was running right now. Did you, is it true? Is he the number one sports performance supplement that's out there right now on Amazon? I didn't know that. On Amazon? I think so. Wow. So it's not like when you go to a coffee shop and it says the best coffee in the world. It could be. I'm going to have to ask Mike that. I'm like, bro, are you the best coffee in the world? Is that what you're doing right now? Is that what's going on with these ads? Are you really the number one sports performance supplement company? Well, I mean everything he puts in this. Self-nominee. Everything he puts in his products has a lot of literature behind it. That's the one thing I like. You never put stuff in there that's like, oh, this is the cool thing everybody's talking about. It's like, okay, do we have the studies? How many studies? Are they good studies? Yeah, the right dose. Right. Put an efficacious amount in there. So that's why, I mean, obviously, why I appreciate what he does or respect what he does. First question is from Todi Crudeau. Do any of you integrate different proteins such as whey, casein, plant-based for different purposes throughout the day or week? Is casein before bed just bro science or are there legitimate benefits to utilizing various proteins differently? Who pays this one? I did. We haven't crapped all over this in a while. Yeah, I know. So this is a context matters question. If your protein intake is low, then the type of protein you eat does matter quite a bit. So if you have low protein intake or below what would be considered ideal for performance in building muscle, which studies show is about 0.6 grams per pound of body weight all the way up to about a gram per pound of body weight. If it's below that, then you're going to want to have a protein source that is high in branched chain amino acids. Whey protein is really good. Animal sources are superior to plant sources. And studies will show that those sources, build more muscle, contribute better to performance and recovery and all that stuff. If your protein is high, if you're eating a high protein diet, 0.6 to one gram per pound of body weight really doesn't make that big of a difference. In fact, it almost doesn't matter at all because when you're eating that much protein, you get a lot of amino acids and it doesn't really make a difference. Now you might be wondering why supplement companies will tell you to eat this protein at night, this one during the day or whatever. Because if you're a successful protein company and you're selling a lot of whey protein, you want to sell another type of protein. You've got to figure it out. Yeah. How can you sell another protein without getting them to stop taking the one that they already take? Well, you tell them that the one that they buy and take is great for... So they're great for... Yeah, exactly. That one's good for post-workout. This one's good for nighttime. This one's good for travel. This one's good for whatever. So you hear a lot of that, but this is really splitting hairs and if your protein intake is high, it really doesn't make a difference. Now that addresses the whey and the casein, but what I will... And I don't do this like on... Like I'm not scheduled about it, right? But I'm just aware of it, right? So I do rotate and I think we all do this, rotate our foods and where the source is a protein. So I'm not always going to get it from chicken thighs. If I found that I had a week where I had a lot of chicken thighs and I didn't have any fish, the next week I'm trying to make sure that I implement more fish into my diet. If I'm never getting it from beans, I'm trying to get it from beans every once in a while. Like I try to just rotate my foods all the time. So I'm also picking up all the other micro nutrients that you're getting from different types of food. So I do think there's a tremendous amount of value. I think any articles that try and sell you on why this type of a protein, whether it be from food or a protein shake, is better than the other, is splitting hairs. So long as you're hitting your intake, right? So if you are hitting the number of grams that you should be hitting for your body to build muscle, the maximum amount, which is somewhere between 0.7 to 1 gram per pound of body weight. If you're hitting that, where it's coming from is not really going to make a difference on how you change the look of your body composition. But I think for health purposes, I think it's ideal to chase that protein number through whole foods and to rotate those whole foods as much as possible. Yeah, that's the best advice that I would say. And look, they've done studies. They've done studies where they compare plant proteins to animal proteins. And when protein intakes are lower than what we just said, the optimal amount, animal proteins are superior. They just are. They kick the crap out of plant protein. But then when they take a lot of protein, it doesn't matter. It's equal in terms of the results. Now, here's the deal. There's a huge individual variance between people in terms of which protein sources feel the best. And for me, I stick with the protein sources. I digest the best. So whey is a great source of protein. I don't digest whey at all. So I never have it, right? But there's also beef protein, right? So this is something else, too, that I always forget about that. And then egg protein. And so there's other various sources. But yeah, that's one of the big considerations is really how that's affecting your digestive system. What you can process the best, what resonates the best with you. That's something that I would lean towards. And sometimes that changes, too. Like even if I'm inundated with dairy, I might even feel it a bit to where I'll probably try some plant protein and rotate it kind of like what Adam's saying, too. But it's just important to kind of move things around so you don't get too inundated with one source. Yeah, beef, for me, is the easiest to digest. If I eat a lot of beef, my gut feels good. My body feels good as a result. That's my favorite source of protein. Second would be chicken. Third would be fish. Lamb is up there, too. Other sources of protein can bother me. Plant protein's okay. But if I push that too hard, that can start to bother me. Dairy, I can't eat either. So think about that for yourself. Like what makes you feel the best? And then hit your protein targets based off of that. Next question is from official JPJ9. What is the best way to fix muscle imbalances? All right, so first let's define a muscle imbalance because there's a couple of different ways we can look at this. One is from the aesthetic standpoint where you look at a physique or you look at yourself and you say, okay, I like the way that this part of my body's developed but it doesn't seem to match this other part of my body. So I want to bring that weak body part up. And then there's the way personal trainers look at muscle imbalances which is maybe your right side is not as strong and stable as your left side or your pulling strength is not at the right ratio to your pushing strength or your quads are overpowering your hamstrings when we do certain exercises. So those are the ways that they tend to be defined. Now, one of the easiest ways, in my opinion, aside from really doing an assessment and individually, I mean, if you really want to fix the muscle imbalance, you get a program like Maps Prime, you take the compass test and then you do it for your individual body. But if kind of general, not nearly as effective but still will give you some benefit, unilateral work tends to do a pretty damn good job where you work one arm at a time, one leg at a time, use dumbbells, start with the weak side, and then copy that with the strong side and wait for things to catch up. I think that's the best broad stroke answer for that. I think finding your way back to optimal posture in general will cover a lot of that. And you'll find areas of your body where you're out of balance and where you're not starting at the right point. And to be able to find your way towards that is everything. It's crucial to do that. And then also assess, do I actually have range of motion? Do I have function in my joints like I properly should? And that's usually where I like to start there with all like a joint check versus just like, from a strength perspective where, well, I feel like this muscle is very much overactive. This one's weak. And we could go from a muscle perspective after that. But I like to just get people to come back to proper posture and balance and function and then really work in the strength after that. Next question is from Jameson Doug. Can you talk about salt? Is it good or bad? Sal loves some salt. Yeah. You know what? First guy I ever met, they used to carry salt in his purse. You know, everywhere. Oh, yeah. Yeah. The first guy you had a purse. His mercs. You know, okay. So this is, when I would talk to clients about salt, I mean, you would be shocked at how much your sodium comes from processed foods. Yeah. If you reduce your processed food consumption or largely eliminate it, you consult the hell out of your food. Look this up, Doug, for me. Sorry, Sally. No problem. But I want to highlight what you're talking about because there used to be this great article that I used to share. It was, look at like one fast food. How much salt is in one fast food meal comparison? Something like that, Doug. Because I used to share this with clients to give this perspective that you're talking about right now. Like you eat out one time in a week and it's like more than your salt intake that you take three days or something. Right. And then you flip that, take somebody who eats only whole foods, you could salt the shit out of every single meal and never catch up to like that. You wouldn't even come close. Yeah. You couldn't put, you would be gross. If I salted my whole natural foods the same way that processed, it wouldn't taste good. So it's processed food is where you start to get an issue with too much sodium. And really this is only for people who have high blood pressure. Here's an interesting thing. We've demonized salt way too much. Studies actually show that people who eat too little salt have worse health outcomes than people who eat a little too much salt. If you're an athlete, this is a big deal. It's a performance enhancement for athletes. Big time. In fact, I used to tell my endurance athletes to take a small pinch of sea salt and put it in the water while they were running or doing their endurance sport and they would notice performance benefits. If you're a low carb dieter, salt is very important. In fact, sometimes when people feel foggy from going low carb or from fasting, it's not necessarily a lack of carbs or calories. It's the fact that their sodium is low. Throw some salt on your food and then, you know, see how you feel. But that's really the big thing. If you eat whole natural foods, you pretty much don't have to worry about it. That's how I tell clients to keep it simple, right? Instead of trying to measure and figure out exactly how many milligrams of sodium that you should have. It's like, if you're eating whole foods, enjoy your seasoning. That's what I said. Season it how you want. Salt it how you want. Enjoy it if it's whole foods. And if it's processed foods, pay attention to how much you're consuming. The article Doug pulled up, it's not the one I was looking for, but says one meal of a processed food has got more salt than six times a regular meal. So you figure you eat six meals that are whole foods and it's going to have less than one meal that's processed. So that's where you just have to watch out for is how much are you eating out. Right. Now, I would like to hear what you said because you probably managed your sodium more. Definitely. I don't say probably. You definitely managed your sodium more than I ever did because you competed. What was that like? Well, so I did it different than a lot of competitors. In fact, there's, again, a shout out to Lane. This is another thing that how I found Lane. I was like researching this for myself like when I was first getting into competing and trying to figure out like, I remember hearing about this common practice that competitors would really start to reduce their calories, their carbon take, and their sodium intake and water. And again, I was like, God, that just sounds like a recipe for like death. You know, like that doesn't sound smart at all what you could potentially be doing. And the deeper I read into it, the more that I found that it was a lot of bro science, this idea of pulling all this sodium out of your body before you go into, in fact, it's probably counterproductive. And so I didn't do that. What I did was load during my prep and then went down to a normal amount when I got into peak week. So I got my body used to pushing X amount of, and I don't remember what the milligrams were off the top of my head. I first measured, found where my normal was. And then all I did was add like two deal pickles a day. So like I used dill pickles to shoot the sodium up. Oh, that's smart, because you're not really getting the calories. Right. And exactly. So, and then I liked them like, because I was dieting, so it was like something I could snack on. So I would add, I would add pickles into the diet, do my, and I would season my food all normal. And then as I got into my final weeks, I would remove the dill pickles and stuff and pull down. And that was enough to reduce the sodium. But I was still getting enough sodium that I think was healthy. But yeah, there's this myth around competitors needing to pull, because salt pairs with water. So the theory is this, is that if you have all this salt and sodium in your body and you're drinking all this water, that the water pairs with the salt and it lies between your skin and muscle and gives you this kind of like watery or flat or bloated look. But if you've taught your body to flush that out, it'll, it flushes it out within hours and for certainly in a day. So there's, you shouldn't be stressing about that. And so what I would do is teach my body to have more sodium, more water. Because it regulates it. Exactly. So then it would adapt to that new level. And then when I pulled it, then I knew I would really pull it all out. And then I also was not in fear of like being like super low in water and super low in sodium. So we all don't need to convert to flavor God. Yeah. Yeah. My God. No, that's, you know, so like businesses popped up because of that. Yeah. And that's a great, that's a great point. And that companies like that, and I think that's ridiculous. And I mean, competitors that I was coaching, they would ask about stuff like flavor God that became really popular when I was competing that brand. And it's a, you know, it's a one of those seasonings, zero sodium, seasoning flavored things and everybody loved them. You know what, I will say this of all of the things that you need to be careful for from processed foods, the sodium is actually probably down the list, to be quite honest. That's how not big of a deal sodium is for most people. The only people that should be careful of sodium are people who have high blood pressure issues and the doctor literally has ordered you to reduce your sodium intake. In which case, you probably have a poor diet to begin with. Well, and getting leaner will probably solve some of that. And to the point of that, of many times, that's because somebody's got a heavily processed food diet. If that same person did not salt their food and just switched from eating McDonald's every other day to eating, you know, a salty steak, they would be fine. It's that the doctors, what the doctor sees is that they're through the roof right there, tell this person to cut their salt out. And so those people think, Oh, I gotta, I'm gonna stop using table salt on my food. And it's like, that's not where you're getting. They're still eating the burgers. Yeah, you're getting like to the article that Doug pulled up. You're getting, you're eating one meal out that's equivalent to six meals, whole food meals, as far as sodium. I mean, they add sodium to everything, like instant oatmeal. You don't, you know, the oatmeal isn't salty, right? Look at instant oatmeal, added so added sodium to anything that. So yeah, and that's something, a good point too, right? It's all like even Chipotle, places that are considered like healthy fast food. You got to be careful of that. Any, any restaurant that you go to is loads or full of food of sodium. So it preserves the food longer. So they do that, right? So you can, so they can keep it out, you know, for longer and for more days. So they can serve it and make money off of it. So just because you're going to a, a healthy restaurant or a healthy fast food place, doesn't mean that it's not loaded full of sodium too. Now make your food yourself, you're fine. Yep. Next question is from KDC. Have you guys ever fallen out of love with fitness? What made you love it again? You know, this is a good question. What was it? I, I've never not liked fitness. I've definitely, there's been definitely times in my life where I've enjoyed it more. I enjoy fitness the most when I'm feeling my best, when I'm training at a high performance level and I'm feeling strong and I'm feeling aggressive in my workouts. But I didn't dislike my workouts when that didn't happen. I think that's because for me at least, and this is something I used to try to communicate to clients, exercise and workouts and fitness really is a tool to, to, to compliment my life. So through stressful times in my life or times when I wasn't feeling so good or whatever I'm, it's definitely not as fun to go workout. But I still enjoy the workout because I'm going there to make myself feel better. But I've never really fallen out of love. I think that's the one most consistent thing I've done since I was 14. I really, for, for me at least. I have a few times. Yeah. Have you, Justin? I've gotten like, I'm trying to think of the word but it was really like, I got turned off. Yeah. I got fat. That's the word. I'm trying to think of the politically correct word. I got fat. Yeah. That just happened. It was weird. Yeah. No, like I, I got tired of, of kind of beating myself up. And this is because I was training wrong for a period of time because I was always trying to compete to be the strongest in whatever team setting that I was in and I was in groups with people like, again, this is where the whole thing with groups is sort of like near to me because it's, it's about the individuals, about the individual experience at the end of the day groups. A lot of times it's great because you kind of feed off momentum. But for me, it was, I got, I got to a point where I just felt like I was just, I was just beating the hell out of myself. And I was, I just needed to like take a break for a while. And so it wasn't that I was falling out of love. It was just like, okay, I'm more into music now and I was just like drawn to another passion but then realized right away. I was like, Oh, I don't feel good physically. You know, like I feel like my energy levels dipping like all these things started to happen again. And I hated that even more. So I was like, right back to fitness. I feel like it's similar to, you know, the the house cleaner who doesn't ever want to clean their own house or the construction worker who never builds his own home. Like it's similar to that. I had moments, but it was for different reasons, right? So my first experience of falling out of love with it was training. I trained so many clients the first couple of years of being a personal trainer that I got burnt of training people. Like I, so I didn't lose my love for fitness as far as like me having a passion for the industry or liking to work out or like I also and I fell off and didn't work out again. It was something I was so excited about when I first got into it. And I got burnt. I got burnt of like training so many clients and trying to solve problems and failing a lot. I mean, let's be honest, the trainer-client relationship is a majority of time of failure. I mean, you're lying to me if you tell me that more than 50% of your people got all the results they ever wanted. That's not a reality. We're more like baseball. You know, we're batting like 300 if we're lucky that we're getting our clients results. So the consistent failure of not getting people to their goals and trying to help them all the time and like all I did was speak fitness all day and then when I was off I was in the gym lifting. So I did have a moment of being burnt out. That was also the same moment that led me to realize that oh, I like teaching trainers more than I like teaching clients. So that was that first pivot. Then I had another one where I was really upset that this was like, I've talked about this in the podcast before where I was really upset with where I was at in my career. I wasn't moving up as fast as I wanted to move up. I left. I took off. I took a couple of years off of fitness. This is where I pursued medical marijuana. You know, but that was also what made me realize how much I did love it. You know, I left it. I was pursuing, I realized that oh, maybe this space is not going to provide the lifestyle that I've always wanted and the money I wanted to make. So I left it, pursued that, accomplished that, and then realized, oh, wow, it wasn't about that for me. I really do miss it and came back. And then I had a little taste of that again, not that long ago, after competing. You know, and the funny part about competing, I'd love to compete. I loved being jacked and strong and looking amazing. I actually didn't like how I felt about our audience, how they thought of me, that bothered me. It started to bother me that I was kind of pigeonholed into the, because we started the podcast when I was in the middle of it, that I was this bodybuilder guy and I totally never identified with that guy. Like I was never that guy to me. I became that guy to help build what we did. And so when our audience like thought of me as that all the time, like I was like, so there was a part of me that kind of after being done and like accomplishing what we did, I was like over it for a while like, I don't want to, and that's why I was like all in a mobility and like hang up the man key. Yeah, dude. So I'm sick of being handsome. Yeah, oh yeah. Damn it. Oh my God, so hard. Too much. So women whistling at me as I walked down the street. I remember that. I remember that. I remember that. Dude, this is crazy. We were all walking. What were we doing? Oh dude, yeah, we were down. Some chick whistled at Adam. I'm like, what the hell's going on here? It doesn't happen to me. This is weird. This is too much. Yeah. I could see how that could get totally. Yeah, let me shut your face. But I like this question because even though Sal's answer, I thought was a little bad. It's true. It's not bad. That's the truth. No, no, it is a truth. And you are the most consistent. He's the most in love. Yeah, I should say. Yeah, he's got like googly eyes. Well, when's the longest? I guess you didn't work out. Right, right. So I've gone a month before without lifting or two months even in a row. Oh, okay. That's not bad. Sure. A couple of months? Yeah, yeah. So I'm definitely, but that's why I like this question because we are all everybody's lives. Can I come and go in seasons? And there's definitely seasons of my life where I am all about fitness. All I do is talk about. I mean, obviously I competed, right? So that's like a full time every single day, all I think about is fitness. And I did that for three, four years and how to blast doing it because I love fitness. But then I have times where lifting weights and training is only one part of the whole health sphere. And real easily, the other things can get out of whack. And I've realized that now in two decades of being a personal trainer that just because my body looks cool on Instagram doesn't necessarily mean that I'm really addressing all other aspects of health in my life. And so as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at that more holistically and go, okay, sure I'm not in the best shape of my life, but what other aspects am I really drilling home? And that's made me re-fall in love with what we do. I stopped, well, I didn't stop working out, but I did, I was only lifting maybe once or twice a week, but that's because I was doing jiu-jitsu at the time. So when I did jiu-jitsu for about six years. Because you're doing something else fitness. Exactly, so I never really stopped. And I do, I just love it. But I've changed it so many times. I mean, I went through a very, very tough period in my life, years ago when someone close to me had a rough battle with cancer. And at those times I would go into the gym and it was, my workouts were about alleviating stress. It was about making myself feel better, taking care of myself. It wasn't about building muscle or strength or having the blasts. It was like taking a break is what it was. Let me get in here, take a break so I can go back and help out. And so, but I've always used it as a tool. And I do, I just, I just enjoy it for that. But honestly, I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that it's just the discipline of doing it. There's definitely times when I'm doing the workout and I'm not thinking to myself, I love it. You have good balance though. And I think that's the answer to this question is what can happen when you, when you get so focused on a goal or a modality, like maybe you're in a CrossFit and a competitive side or whatever, it floats your boat. Oh, I've definitely been obsessed. I know what that feels like. Yeah, and that leads to burnout. Totally. And I think that's, and so, and I've done that to myself, right? I've become super focused on a goal or a pursuit of something. Went hard at it and then you accomplish it and then you're like, oh, I'm over it, right? And that was kind of like bodybuilding, right? For me, it was just like, it was such a, it was probably one of the biggest accomplishments as far as my fitness pursuits that I've ever done because of how long it took. And then when I got there and kind of achieved what I was going for, it was like, eh, whatever. Anything you do for a long period of time, you're gonna go through periods of really enjoying it and through periods of not enjoying it. But what gets you through that is the discipline. Look, I'm a dad. I love my kids more than anything. I don't always like them. There's definitely times I don't like my kids as other times when I like them even more. And I'm gonna be their dad for the rest of their lives. It's a long relationship. Same thing with fitness. There's gonna be times when you love working out and it's great. Don't fall in love with that feeling because it's gonna be very hard to stay consistent when you, at those normal times, when working out isn't as great, when it kind of sucks, when you're not as strong, when you're not feeling great, when it's not as fun. If you want to stay consistent, it's that discipline that's the important thing to focus on. I think the key is, too, is to not look at, I love that they use the word fitness, too, because that encompasses so much. Just going and lifting weights. Like, sometimes that is spending time with my partner and my child. Or sometimes that is, you know, strengthening the relationships with my friends. Sometimes that is health. You're talking about health. Yeah, exactly. Sometimes that is, you know, reading more or, you know, practicing meditation or doing more sauna work and more inward type of work. Like, I think that's the key is to make sure you're always in pursuit of bettering yourself in the total sphere of health. It doesn't always have to be this, I'm going to the gym and hammering the weights three days a week and I'm following the MAPS anabolic program. Like, sometimes it just looks different and being okay with that so long as you are always moving in the right direction. Personal development. If you're always trying to improve yourself as a person, then fitness will probably find its way into your life most of the time. Look, Mind Pump is recorded on video as well as audio. Come check us out on YouTube. Mind Pump podcast. You can also find us all over social media, Instagram and also now on Parlor. You can find Justin at Mind Pump, Justin, me at Mind Pump Sal, Adam at Mind Pump, Adam and Doug, the super elf at Mind Pump, Doug. Sonality. I didn't go into it thinking that. What ended up happening was I hit it out the park with a few of those clients and then those ones start referring other friends like them before you knew it. All of a sudden I had my schedule filled with a majority of that client. That's a great point. It's like you don't find your niche, your niche ends up finding you. That's the thing.