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We put maps anabolic 50% off right now you can get that at maps red calm You just got to use the code January 50 for 50% off. All right. Here comes a show Time for some truth. If you skip leg day, your arms aren't gonna grow as much either Let's talk about this a little bit. I remember the first time I read that somewhere I thought that was an inch, you know, I don't remember I think it was like a I feel like it was a teen Asian article that I read that were it was like the articles tiles something like You know hit a plateau or your arms won't grow then work on your squat. Yeah, it was like what? Yeah, I know Yeah, that blew my mind. So so here's the science behind it, right? So and by the way, this has been anecdotally observed in Strength building and must bodybuilding world for a long time. I mean there were articles written in the 70s that would talk about how adding Weight to the squat would get your arms bigger or if you gained muscle in your legs You would notice that you get bigger arms. So people have observed this for a long time What does this mean? Like how do we, you know, explain this scientifically? Well, there are studies that show great studies by the way Where if somebody has let's say an arm that's broken or an arm that's incapacitated It will atrophy less if you work the arm that's available. In other words, if I break my left arm I'm better off training my right arm because it actually prevents muscle loss from happening in my left arm So what's happening here in the weights is explained is that there isn't a localized acute effect from Resistance training in other words the muscle you train is gonna get most of the muscle building effects But there's a systemic effect. Yeah, that happens as well Do you think this is all attributed to the CNS or do you think there's other factors at play? Oh, that's a good question. Or is it just the irradiation effect? Yeah, which would be the CNS Which would be the CNS. So it's yeah I mean in terms of it also being able to stabilize and have that isometric contraction I'm sure would play a factor in that because I if I after I read that the way that I would explain it to like a client and I wouldn't do it exactly this way But I'll refine it with your analogy because I like it so much and I've brought up your analogy many times on the show since you've brought it up because I think it's one of the best analogies and I think it works here also, which is your Amplifier and speaker analogy and it's a good example of I don't use in your analogy Come up with random Grandwater. Yeah, it's it's just so because this is hard to explain to somebody right? It's like really like huh squatting more But if you can explain the the amp and the speaker analogy then it does make sense It's like oh even though you're not directly working on the speaker like for example or one of the speakers You're building the amplifier and of course if you build a bigger better stronger amplifier It is going to directly affect all the other muscles or speakers And so I think that's how I would explain it to a client is like even though we may not be working on these specific speakers right now By you squatting it's squatting you should be amplifier so much to building a I don't know the more sophisticated CNS you maybe you'd say or a stronger CNS signal yeah because of the its difficulty right so and that carry-over Bleeds into the other the systemic effect is very interesting, right? There's a lot of things that happen one is what you're talking about then. There's this like general You know increase in muscle protein synthesis. There's these general changes in hormone levels Milestatin generally gets affected as well not just acutely or locally, but also kind of systemically Now I like to explain it from an evolutionary standpoint. I think the body It to become super imbalanced is Evolutionarily disadvantageous so although the body will allow you to build a certain amount of imbalance in order to make you better at Whatever you're attempting to do a lot of too much of an imbalance starts to become a detriment, right? And I think that the the the systemic muscle building effect is larger with larger muscle groups and smaller with smaller muscle groups So if I work my biceps, I'll get a localized muscle building effect to the biceps And I'll get some small systemic effect overall But if it's like my lats or my quads or my glutes or big muscle groups I mean if you're working out your legs you're working out half of your body You get that localized effect, but then you get this again the systemic effect. And so when people skip body parts They're actually not only are they not developing the body part that they're skipping which is most of the effect But they're also impeding the Benefits or the muscle building effects that they could get on other body parts and you talk to anybody who's and I know I had Clients like this where they skip leg day all the time Oh, and then they hired me and I'm like look we can't do that. I'm gonna train your legs I'm a trainer have integrity. So we got to do it. Yeah, and they also gained upper body strength and mass Yes, and they all comment on it Why are my upper body is getting stronger? My arms feel bigger like what's going on? I'll explain this and say well You know your body Doesn't want to be that imbalanced. So skipping leg day. Yeah, your legs are small But your arms are not as big as they could be as well. That's why I always trip on the human body has so many of those mechanisms in place to Prevent a lot of those imbalances from happening or at least like kind of bring it back To somewhat of a homeostasis where it's it's most optimal and like and this is the same thing with like, you know When you're in a state of famine You know in your preserving calories, you know It has all these like mechanisms in place to make sure that you're utilizing, you know The energy the most efficient way possible if you're training free weights. Also, there's actually not very man I actually can't think of any right now that are freeway I could get some machines But if you're training legs, there's you're almost always incorporating upper body, too Oh, it's holding your stabilizing. Yeah, I mean you put 225 pounds or more on your back And your shoulders your upper back your abs and core has to account for that load. Yeah, so it's it's getting worked Of course, it's not like a direct Effect like if you were to do shoulder press or do a row or what like that, but it's still it's still getting worked Yes, so there's got to be some value in that and it right I can't think of a free weight exercise that you don't use it right now You could do leg extensions leg curls leg press where you where you take the upper body out of it But most free weight if not all free weight lower body exercises still incorporates this is one of the reasons why I think Generally speaking people debate this all time But I think if you were to if you were to interview a hundred top strength conditioning and muscle building coaches a Majority maybe not all but a majority would say that free weights generally build More muscle and strength than Machines do and I think that's one of the reasons why right that free weights have You have that that localize effect But they have more of a systemic effect because so many things are involved you have to stabilize You have to stand with the weight typically if you're working your lower body You're still holding the weight with your upper body and all that stuff. So I know here's another example If you if you're watching this right now you if you have something that can measure your grip strength Go ahead and try squeezing as hard as you can while maintaining Total relaxation and the rest of your body don't grit your teeth. Don't squeeze the other hand Everything totally relax and just activate your grip and then try it again Even though you might even be a little fatigued from your first attempt and then squeeze your entire body and see how much stronger You are you'll notice a 10 15% increase in strength. By the way, you'll notice how hard it is to activate Maximally while relaxing everything. It's not a natural thing. Your body wants to Turn on its CNS to generate. Oh, I don't even think you need something to measure someone right now Could literally just make relax your mouth relax your body squeeze your hand and then allow yourself to grit your teeth And squeeze the other hand and you can instantly feel your your palm just get tighter. Oh, totally But the studies on like like right to left like it's so interesting like you'll have like one leg totally incapacitated So of course it's gonna atrophy They'll train the other leg and they'll compare this to groups where they don't train the other leg And they just leave them both you lose less muscle in the leg. That's not trained It's such an interesting but again evolutionarily speaking it makes perfect sense I mean our bodies evolved always trying to make us help us survive And so all of it makes sense from that standpoint and like you mentioned, you know famine and the metabolism adapting and All that I mean it makes makes absolute perfect sense But it is interesting and a lot of people don't by the way This is true for women, too You want to build big a bigger butt and you're not working out your upper body You're not gonna build the butt that you can because you're avoiding Training the way that there's a lot of my female clients that would avoid a lot of our body exercise Especially chest press or something like that. Yes, it all works together. This is all very very important All right, I want to I want to talk about another very interesting observation, you know, there's these These I don't know what you would call them not myths, but like things about being a dad Stereotypes about being a dad right that are hilarious like there's the dad sneeze Yeah, yeah controlling the thermostat right all this kind of stuff and yelling at cars that are going too fast Yes, and then there's this other one that is hilarious and Adam literally is This he embodies it to the team embodies it So it's I'm sure you've seen the memes where it's like, you know My dad at 6 a.m. Getting us ready for our flight at 1 p.m. And dad is like 6 a.m. Ready with the luggage Let's go guys. We got to go fast. We got to make sure we're in time. Don't eat the breakfast You know, this is Adam Traveling with our car can be so stressful because we got literally the fly on a huge breakfast The stop here. No, don't stop here. Let's go the other one. Let's get back on the freeway. Who's fucking directing us here. Yeah We had like five hours before the plane leaves that the airport's 30 minutes away And we not only can we not eat breakfast We have to eat breakfast on a place that's on the way and if you can't find one then we're going to the airport We'll be on time like bro Do the irony of this whole like thing was that our plane was totally delayed And of course that happened To prove the point of that Because for a minute there it was looking the other direction, you know We got a little delay there then we had a belt thing go down a little delay there like you know I'm saying we're at Utah, which the fucking airport is ridiculous there You have to go 45 minutes walk across just from a to c terminal like So it was looking like you know, I was I was I was just on time, but no ended up Several hours. It's literally like you're you're in a race. So what I'm trying to figure out I mean, I'm kind of guilty of this too and to be I'm trying I am trying to be honest with myself Right and say is this a dad thing or have I always been this way and I can't you know, I can't recall I mean I wasn't I didn't travel as much with the same group of people to probably measure it well to tell you because I do know It's a pet peeve of mine to be rushing to the airport I just I've done that's happened to me more than once in my life Normally when you're with your now the irony is you're rushing five hours early Well, I mean I you hear me putting the pressure on us, but I don't feel like I'm I'm rushing I mean you may feel that way. So maybe you felt the stress of it, but that's exactly why I do it So we don't stress so then So when we get there and shit happens which always happens at the airport the airport never goes smooth If it does it's like one out of ten times to go smooth. There's always something I mean did happen to Justin and I flying in We were standing there and we were way early right him and I actually chose to meet at the airport instead of meeting with you guys Because we heard sal going oh Doug just meet me at nine we just get there 15 minutes before yeah Like we got clear. We'll just meet you right there and I look at each other I'm like no I'll meet the guys there dude So we got there early and we're standing there two machines, bro Yes, and the first and we're like right there to get to go through the check-in or whatever and belt breaks We're standing there for like 15 minutes Then the guy tells us to go the other one that one doesn't work and the whole time Just and I just bullshitting looking at Instagram talking like not stressed out because we know we're plenty early So but I don't know if it's a dad thing or I've always kind of been well early I get early because I'm the same way right, but there's early and then there's unreasonable Come on. You got to be a little fair here, too So we got we had this checkout time at 10 o'clock and we have a flight at three and so and we had nothing in Between right so it's like if we if we I try to get our checkout time pushed to noon if we would have done that I would have waited at the house till noon. It's not like I would have made you guys leave at 11 But we had to be out anyways. Yeah, and my theory is we got to get out We may as well head towards where we got to go So we don't write so we don't run into other things which by the way We're after the breakfast spot. You're all talking about right now They out that was off the beaten path it we're thank God We were smart enough to call which by the way if I probably wasn't putting the pressure on us We probably wouldn't a call we probably would have drove there showed up found out It was a 45 minute wait before you could sit down and eat and then and then only had four hours No, but I love it because there's the the the fun those memes exist for a reason and I see them in myself Like I'll see certain memes like the oh here's a good one One minute after we start opening presents on Christmas and it's the guy the dad with the garbage bag I'm definitely that guy. That's me. That's me as soon as it starts. Oh, no, don't open anything Let me get the garbage bag. We're starting. I don't really have fun until everybody's like gone and like I'm done assembling everything Oh, yeah, yeah, you like you gotta assemble all the shit. You gotta get everything like it's just like okay I'm not not having fun yet, you know speaking of our flights, you know, I was reminded on this flight on How I know that mass don't work I didn't need to wait for all these studies to come out and to tell us and stuff like that Like I knew this before that I've been flying early in the year and I was reminded again see her because Motherfuckers farting on the plane. Do not think I can still taste it Yeah, I mean, you know if someone farts like that and you can still taste it through the mass Like these things can't be that effective. There's no way like it does not feel I don't feel like it filters anything Our fart particles smaller than cove it which one is Doug. I think Look up particles particles larger. What kind of mask would block a I want to tap the shoulder the guy in front of me But yeah, bro, you know, I can still freaking smell that right like it was a big dude. Yeah, huh? Oh, it was the big I must have done four or five times on the plane. I'm like, bro He was it was a big dude. Definitely wasn't me and he was he had some sleep apnea because he kept choking while he was fall asleep Oh, really? Yeah, dude And his shirt was kind of up like this because he sat down and then his like half his butt cheek was hanging out It was fresh. There was no filter. Yeah, there was air in your mask. That was it that was stopping the jet I could definitely taste it still. That's all I'm thinking the whole time. I'm like, there's no way The one time you really want it to work. Yeah, this seems to be a conversation as well on the internet Oh, really questions like if masks work, why can I still smell? Yeah Can make it through pants. How can a mask protect you? I mean, I mean, I swear to God that I'm sitting there on the plane as that like the second one hits my face And that's what's coming. I'm going like, you know what? This is fucking dude again medical professionals They have a whole protocol of how to put these N95s on and it's like you're not supposed to be able to smell anything You're not supposed to be able to you know have any kind of like Anything in there where you could actually like you can't tell you don't mind you don't want to wear it once That's it. You know my theory is it's okay So the those little shitty masks they go like this and there's gaps all over here And I think it actually creates like a vacuum. So like particles that would be flying like this and I'm Because yeah, because there's these little holes and you breathe that I think goes So maybe maybe COVID or a fart would have went like this and went past me but because I have these little This is some science that's a valid theory. No, right No, no, so no and even the masks themselves if you if you look at this the the mesh in comparison to like particles of virus It's like tiny. I know bro. It's like a shopping cart if filling it with sand Yeah, it's like trying to fill your shopping cart with sand. It's gonna go all the way through by the way for everybody's like If we're rallying people up here, I'm gonna I'm gonna piss you off. You're mad about this You off even more so now I just read an article is data coming out comparing Places with strict mask mandates on children. So this is for kids now. So kids post Versus places where there are no mask mandates for children. So and luckily One of the beauties of this country is we have states and states have a lot more control over your day-to-day life Then the federal government does so we can compare now. It's been a couple years We can compare states that acted one way versus states that acted another way Look at the data do some controls and say did it work to the network? Here's what the data shows children wearing masks has no discernible had no discernible effect on Infections or hospitalizations among children zero. So it was literally a waste of time But beyond the waste of time is Their damage from having children wearing masks and I will argue yes And I will argue this right now and this is on a recorded podcast So you could bring this up later on when it's proven to be true. They will show Cognitive decline in challenges and children because Part of your brain development big part of your brain development for adults and children especially children is reading recognition facial expression Well, I mean that's that's that there's a lot going on there And we just had kids for two years a huge part of communication that you're just cutting off for nothing I mean that's not to sell stardom us because there's already that came out already We know that the IQ points dramatically drop. Yeah, but they're trying to connect that to schooling at home and a lot of stuff I think that plays a role too. I'm just I'm talking purely about plays a role children not seeing facial expressions for six hours a day I know but that's I mean how else are they gonna measure that? I mean, they're gonna have to measure it through things like that There I think they're gonna do more tests after later on I know what that's good. What do you think that's gonna look like? What's gonna bring an activation to prove your point more than that? Well, that they're the IQ That's gonna umbrella that statement more than anything else like what's gonna come out in five years from now That's gonna prove your point more that I just don't the best one is already out Which we already see which is crazy the fact that the it's already People to take a look in the mirror right now because it's your fault that we did this to our kids And it was driven by our own fear in paranoia And what we did is we took actions that were unreasonable and we heard our own kids over it So next time an emergency happens, which will there's always emergencies Remember Matt the mass fear in hysteria that you allowed yourself to get manipulated over and then one more thing I'll add we completely even if if the masks did work. Well Children do not use them in ways that would make them work You're not you can't expect a five-year-old. Oh, yeah to treat a mask the way a surgeon does they touch it They're moving the fade the same ass. They wear for the whole week or Happen, and you know what it is. This is a wonderful the last two years a wonderful like it's a beautiful examination of human psychology Many of these policies were not passed because they actually help her work. This makes you feel better It's all about the false sense of safety But I feel safer now because you know kids are covering their faces even though I compare it to to TSA where we have all of these like Limitations to get access through you have to like put your bag in you put your shoes in like they're like they patch it down You go through the x-ray and then meanwhile somebody still just walked through the exit and got all of their you know Yeah, like guns and knives and all kinds of shit people there's people who like test to show like oh it doesn't work as well Whatever yeah, and the way that they'll get through is silly and just like what you just like I can't believe they didn't stop them from going through the Exit like that's just how Doug got on with this big old gallon of water Remember when we got we got through the check and then he sat down and he opens basically. Oh shit I walked right through with this was next to his machete Because like they're doing such a rigorous job of Padding everybody down and then like they didn't consider the most obvious thing I know and it was a little it was it wasn't water was vodka by the way It looked like water you know did you you know another one of your predictions? It's starting to come true right now. I'm sure you see it of course because you predicted it is They're trying to come after Joe Rogan like crazy. You see the how much media is attacking him The lamest memes ever about him. Yeah from an old episode So pay close attention Because data is coming out showing that Rogan has way more of an audience and influence than the next most popular eight media You know popular media I guess Channels and shows combined so Huge influence not and also combine that with the fact that Rogan seems to not Really follow any particular narrative and you know, he'll speak his mind and you'll have people that are counter-narrative Whether that's good or bad. That's not the point the point is he has a lot of power and he doesn't seem to be controlled or controllable He is the new target pay attention They're they're starting the campaign against them and you're gonna see articles There was like this one thing we're like 270 doc I put here in quotation marks doctors because it turns out many of them were not doctors Signed a thing saying that he should be kicked off Spotify Then you know people are posting 10 year old videos of him, you know saying the wrong thing Which by the way, you know, I love it when you know mass media tries to point out when someone else says something wrong like Boy, I could show you last week how many things you guys said that was wrong, but they're all going after him now He's he's enemy public enemy number so imagine you're you're on the board of Spotify right now Like what do you think the mood of the climate is around that? Do you think they're like sitting around the board and they're excited or they're scared or they're like, oh fuck We got to do something like what do you think that conversation depends on what part of the company we're talking about? Angry the board the people that are making yeah, they're probably super pump and look at the numbers. They're getting I know That's what I was saying. Yeah, like beautiful. Yeah, so you don't think there's any Conversation going like do we have to take action or we're worried about the government stepping in and actually Well, I heard that fucking with us like they probably fucked with Facebook and Twitter Do we think that it's going to happen to us now that all of a sudden we're gonna get people crawling up our ass and all kinds of Regulations if we don't do something like a finish or a Swedish or a different country like Owens Spotify and so they don't really switch care about the other from Switzerland. Yeah, okay, it's a Switzerland based company You don't really follow this company right done. I'm looking it up right now. Yeah, you know the problem is American You know that you know the problem is the problem is the way that Rogan communicates His information and the type of audience that he has if they did shut him down Let's say Spotify kicked him off. You would only make him stronger Yeah, you know you would all you if something happens to him or if they shut he'll become a martyr He'll become like way more popular and powerful Yeah, it's too late. He's too big now It's too big and the way in the his type the type of audience that he has if you did that you would only fuel the Conspiracy theories you would only fuel, you know people saying ah, they're trying to silence the truth There it's it's a it's a if I was on the other end of this and I'm trying to shut him down I'm looking at this going wow. This is complicated. What are we gonna do because if we go at him this way? It's gonna screw us if we go to him this way we're gonna screw us like what do we do speaking of which there was a I think it was a doctor recently on his show and People are putting this clip up as a gotcha like oh see Rogan was wrong, right? So Rogan's talking to this doctor and Rogan said something like Kids have a higher risk of myocarditis From the vaccine then they do from COVID and This doctor said I think it was a doctor says no, that's not true Kids who get COVID have a slightly higher risk of myocarditis than if they got the vaccine and then Rogan argued And then they looked it up and the doctor was right and so people are like Oh, here's your gotcha moment the risk of myocarditis from COVID is higher than that of the vaccine The problem with that is this is a classic example of data manipulation, okay? So I'm gonna explain not only that but what a stupid thing to like debate and argue well And here's where the data manipulation comes into play number one We all know that children get far less severe side effects or effects I should say from COVID oftentimes get no real effects or maybe the sniffles so a large percentage It's easily we can easily assume that a large percentage of kids who get COVID Don't even get tested or don't get brought to the hospital, right? It's the ones that get tested are the ones with really bad symptoms or the ones that get hospitalized So what you're comparing is severe COVID to the vaccine. You're also assuming all kids will get COVID Okay, so really if you really want to look at comparison You have to compare all children all categories COVID no COVID mild COVID severe COVID to keep kids who get a vaccine And then if you do that then you do see the risk of myocarditis is higher in The vaccine than it is in in that category. So that's data manipulation right there for your folks and they They do use that you still right then he was but he didn't know he didn't communicate that right? He kind of dropped it there and it looked like he got you know, whatever speaking of data I have something for you guys. Okay, remember when we talked about this the pandemic and like what happened with Amazon and There's the death of kind of like brick and mortar and like e-commerce and where that's going What is your gut first of all? One where do you think the state of brick and mortar is right now? And then to what is your prediction going forward on what that's going to look like? Do you think that this pandemic just accelerated what was already the inevitable that was already happening us? Moving to digitally and online. Do you think there is a future in brick and mortar? If it is what does it look like? What's your guys's theories on all that? That's a good question Yeah, that's interesting because it seems to be shifting a little bit, but I'm not sure if that's like in all industries I would say that The the force lockdowns Took the market share it away from small businesses and gave it to the big businesses that could that continue to operate for sure Amazon Walmart Target got a larger percentage of the market share because small brick and mortars were forced to shut down These larger ones had I mean that yeah, that's not much of a prediction, right? So I think small I think brick and mortars got hurt the larger companies got larger market shares Which you know income inequality or whatever you want to call it just grew as a result of these policies I think the pendulum will swing back a little bit I don't think it'll ever go back to where it was before and then as far as the future is concerned This is just my guess. Yeah, that the small brick and mortar businesses are gonna change In the sense that they might be more like showrooms. Yeah versus, you know stocking all their product and selling I remember thinking on this Q4 numbers just came in right from from last year for brick and mortar up 14 percent higher than pre-pandemic all-time highs. Wow, dude. What wow 14 percent higher now Is this is this are these cross the board all spaces your point? Yes, this happened during the pandemic There was a and I had the I don't know the exact percentages off But it was like I want to say say it was seven to ten percentage points moved from obviously brick and mortar to you know on e-commerce and then that Shifted back for the most part, but brick and mortar is still Consistently growing and it was 14 percent higher in Q4 than the highest all-time high Pre-pandemic now is this okay, so I is just like trippy or what is this I would never get my head on that now Is it so okay? So I want to look at the data because does this mean for example with the gym industry a lot of gyms shut down But the ones that remained now have a larger percentage of the yes so the what what happened is Consumers have not changed as much as you think they've or we thought they have changed consumers have stayed consistent in the same With the way they purchased and stuff like that The only thing that really happened was the pandemic killed a lot of small mom pod businesses that were Pot potentially struggling already and kind of weeded them out and the strong Resilient businesses that have around stuck around and now they are just reaping the benefits That makes sense because the one if you could survive the pandemic You are more efficient. That's right You produce better services better products and your better position to serve the market And so what it did is it got rid of the competition which was already on the borderline and allow these other businesses that do a better job to flourish Yeah, that's what you're saying. Oh, that makes perfect sense. Wild though. That is very interesting Yeah, I would have I would have not thought that at all man I did not see that coming really really interesting. It is interesting to see kind of what's going on Real estate's weird like so we were just in in Utah over the weekend When we're looking at we're setting up a property over there because we plan on putting together and we'll talk about this a little bit more putting together these Locations that people could go to that are where there's lots of stuff you could do around it So we went to this is near Park City. So the skiing there's summer You know stuff you could do there's a lake there and we wanted a place where you could go and we were gonna set it up with Red light and PRX equipment and you know Just make it like a place where you could like optimize your health and fitness and then do all these fun activities Which is really cool. I mean the gym is gonna be sick the way we talked about setting up all the PRX and Yeah, yeah, it's really really cool But when we were talking to our agent out there She was telling us how much the prices have gone up in that area in like the last five years. Yeah tripled Crazy, I just I just I haven't finished it, but I'm watching the the most recent Peter Linneman updates. We've had Peter Linneman on the show He I found him a long time ago on the Walker webcast and he comes on at least once a year on there Something I think he did twice last year, but they were revisiting his predictions last year and he literally Drilled everything everything from GDP to interest rates to yeah everything like he hit everything probably of all the economists that I listened to which I listened to a lot on and Some competing and disagreeing and stuff like that like he's been the most accurate on everything And he's extremely bullish on this year on real estate on consume on everything like ever that we are about to see He's he's saying like a two to four percent or two to four percent more growth in GDP than what pre-pandemic Growth was looking like and his theory on that is just the makeup of what we lost during the the pandemic right and part of That's accompanied by is the amount of money and people's checking the account right now. Yes, I read that That's right. It averages around so the the long-running stat for you know Decades has been roughly two trillion dollars give or take is what is typically in people's accounts and right now We're sitting like at eight point seven trillion now You're talking about six more than three times the amount of money that's sitting there now Is did he talk about if that's like relatively if the distribution of that stay the same or if that's wealthy people with Well, he's talked about in the past that one of the the the worst parts of all the things We've talked about we've been scared about from COVID the one of the worst things was the the wealth gap that we all talk That we just grew yeah We we saw we saw the largest wealth gap in history happen like right before eyes and not a lot of people talked about it Yeah, I mean we were talking about deaths. We're talking about interest rates. We're so because of that Let's say there's a huge so let's speculate a little bit. Maybe you know this Adam huge increase in Savings right liquid cash or money. Mm-hmm and your space essentially what we're saying is that Up greater percentage of that was to the wealthy it not distributed like it was before I so okay I think we should clarify on what you mean by that. So it isn't that the money got distributed more to the wealthy It's a healthy groove. It's yes It's that because you pumped so much money into the economy money will essentially go chase goods and assets And we're actually just becoming smarter over time 40 years ago when something like this would happen a lot of that money would chase consumer goods We're actually becoming smarter and we realize that oh my god all this money getting pumped in inflation sure to happen Should grab ahold of assets so it's chasing assets That's why that's why real estate is exploding right and there and so you have people who have already lots of assets multiple Properties or own a lot of stock They just got much wealthier during this time and the people that do not have any of those things So even though the people who probably were you know under the poverty line or lost jobs or were struggling financially They actually got the checks the money initially went to them This is like this is what I always try to explain to people that are pro all this stuff that that want the handouts And the help it's like the money still all it always ends up back to them So why they all the politicians sit up there and say we're gonna help you out and free pizza and here's more this and oh Pushing UBI and so like that it doesn't all you do you give that to somebody who's barely getting by financially You give them a few hundred or even say a few thousand You know a month more and eventually what ends up happening is it gets put right back into the system and the people That are holding the companies holding the assets and it still ends up back in their pocket So we're gonna see the reason why I pointed that out is because all that growth We're probably gonna see it a lot of it be concentrated in those things assets That's his prediction so his prediction especially when you when you factor in that a lot of money You went to banks and a lot of money went to people in their checking and savings You have a lot of liquid like you said and then banks got a ton of money So they have a ton of lending power right now and then you have this Fed coming out saying that we are gonna move up So the prediction is five to six basis points over two years the likelihood of what that will look like is about a Quarter basis point per quarter, so you'll see like point two five go up on the interest rate than the next quarter point Two five again, so in two years we'll go up like two two percentage points What that will do is we'll drive people will be urgent. Oh my god It's gonna go up in a year or two gotta go by banks are we get loaning money? I've got money put away a little bit because of this money that I've saved during the pandemic And it's only gonna end then real estate is still millions underbuilt Yeah, and this is also why I just read an article on the increase of The price of new cars it went up like 15% But if you look at luxury cars luxury cars went up the most of all new cars the cars that are like 50,000 or more or 60,000 or more went up the most because yet all these people with more money with lots of money Yeah, that's what they want to buy They want to buy the luxury cars and then use cars went up a lot as well But that's mainly because the supply was so short Yeah, people didn't want to wait to get their car a year later with that So then I drove up the demand for that but yeah, we just we're so behind on building that even if we if every all the projects That are started come come true. You have the largest generation coming in to buy homes You've got the most liquid we ever seen we have Historically low interest rates you have the most of the low two Ever catch up on a lot of those mature building materials. I know that went through the roof for a while So that's that was that's part of the what what caused the being so behind like we ever since the crash in The the big 08 crash or what are like that with the housing market and stuff or was 07 whatever that yours So when that happened we started to try and keep that from happening again. We've continually underbuilt That's that's a big portion of why real estate has continued to crush since 09 and it's just ran Yeah, because we intentionally kept it down because what we were afraid of was to put ourselves in another predicament like that So we've been under building forever and then not forever But since 09 and then on top of that then you come into the issues with there were no buildings materials But going up and so and then pandemic everybody slowing down not building so that just put us on on the back burner stalls Yes, so and that's part of his theory on why we're gonna be so bullish for the next two years Is because yeah, even if you believe a correction is coming It's we got to catch up first before that correction. I feel I feel like there's still more air to be pumped into there Yeah, yeah, it's coming for sure. Oh, it's gonna be a good time I can't wait to see what the Fed does when their rise in interest rates doesn't do anything to the inflation because that's what I think That's too little too late. We're gonna see inflation continue to grow They're moving it up a quarter or whatever like are they gonna crank it up even more or what's happen? So what I what I the one thing I don't I don't understand this I haven't been able to wrap my brain around So part of why they can't do that is because then I can't service their own debt We have so much so they're in this weird predicament of yeah We need to raise interest rates so we could slow down the inflation rate But then we can't raise them so fast that we can't service our own debt So by the way, we there's this damned if you do damned if you don't type of situation. Maybe we should print our own money Doug if you can look up how long it would take to count to a million a billion and a trillion at once If you count one every second because I want people to get an idea What a trillion the difference between a million and a billion and the difference between a billion and a trillion Well, you did this not that long ago. I did a million and a billion But I want to do it again a trillion and you did it Yeah, you did it based off a time and you were showing like one if every second if you had to count every second Yeah, how long would it take to get to a trillion which is the numbers? Yeah, did he do this Andrew? Did he did you put a thing up on the yeah You did I remember when it's it blew my mind because I've never seen anybody do that before and I would have never Thought the difference between a billion and trillion was that And that what a great way to highlight. What does it say there Doug? Yeah, 11 days 13 hours 46 minutes is a second to a million. That's a million a million So just say round 11 days is a million 11 days. You know everyone is trying to remember all the math So 11 days is a million All right, and for a billion we got like 31 years, right? So yes under in days 11,574 days. I don't know how many years that is Well three goes into that so like 12 to 15 years why I see I typed in this in wrong So let me just say how many yeah, how many one billion seconds in years or something like that or how many days? Yeah, I guess So you got 11 days for them the million okay, and to count to a billion is 30 years 30 years 30 years Okay, so goes 11 days then he goes the 30 years which is huge gap Trillion a trillion is a number that you wouldn't even guess I know I remember when I saw it. I blew my mind Yeah, 31,709 years 31,000. That's crazy. Yeah years and how many goes from days 11 days to 30 years is a huge jump and then it goes to 31,000 years. Keep in mind. We're we're printing trillions of dollars Right now like crazy, and it's not tied to any goods or services That's why everybody everybody who wants to that wants to think that there's this crazy. They don't it's all electronic That's what I mean. They're not print yet It would imagine like it would cost you millions of dollars to print trillions That money has to go somewhere and it has to chase something yeah, and historically It's it's consumer goods and assets and historically in the way past. It was more consumer goods We're smarter now just in general because of the Information that's available to us now that people are like oh shit. That's true Which is why we see these these kind of silly assets like NFTs Cryptocurrencies, I mean people are just cards. Yeah, we're chasing anything They're taking anything that they think is of value right now and putting it there and that's where Comments books baseball cars football all record highs Oh, did you see the did you guys see the little thing that's going viral right now with what's his fate the Logan Paul with the But he's got ripped scammed off a 3.5. Yeah, but they're saying that that was kind of a way to for him to pump up his NFT thing So yeah, so I've seen different Predictions on that right so I I heard that he's doing that just to exactly because he's a big pusher of NFTs And so the idea is that he's but then I saw another thing showing that a buddy of his was the one that actually sold it to him And he was the one and they actually had somebody come over and authenticate it The company that that's what they specialized in authenticating it who authenticated it So 3 million though. He was he paid 3 million for Pokemon So trip on this though I did hear somebody break down what that means to him which it is it's crazy Well, you here's a perfect because you're comparing things like this so he's worth a hundred million dollars Yeah, so he's his net worth a hundred million. So do the do that so that's literally like it's like you have a hundred grand You lost three grand. Yeah. Yeah, it's really not that it isn't that big of a deal But I mean you see that on on YouTube like holy shit dude lost 3.5 million on me is a lot Yeah, on a Pokemon cards like how crazy that is Ironically the YouTube views that he'll get off of that will probably recover. Yeah, we're cover a quarter of that instantly Just probably made him three million dollars. Yeah, funny, right? Hey speaking. Let's go go back to when we were in Utah Let's talk about the snowmobiling. I'd never done that you guys had done that before. I was very proud of you For doing it that's like impossible. So I originally so cold. I don't like the cold Yeah, okay I'm not a big snow person not like I don't like it now and writing this big machine do by the way Did I not call it? Did I not call that they would try to take us on shit? Right, I'll call you out right now. I knew it. I'm like, oh, they're gonna a little bit of a flex They're gonna make us do some shit that we're not it's my first time ever being on one and all of us We all bailed a few times, but it was it was a good time Well, Doug and I have ridden before my only experience riding though was like with a with a guided experience Which was cool about here. Yeah, I love Utah for this like we roll up to this place and Not only get snowmobiles. We get like the highest power ones. I mean these are like eight fifties These things move right and they're fun And all we had to do was sign a quick waiver Rent our shit and then we were like hook it up to our own trailer Yeah, and take off I know and then you head out to this this place that's got two million acres It was cool watching. I don't remember his name. It was it was Kyle's friend. Yeah, yeah with cost friend and he was a pro Yeah, watching him maneuver and manipulate that cutting up into the mountain like on like one ski and the other one's hanging off Standing on the side and you know using one hand. I was like, wow, that is incredible So I've driven a lot of like ATVs dirt bikes Ski-dos. I mean you name it. I've like driven all those things for sure snowmobiling is the hardest to control Yeah, 100% I mean you're on a single track on the back your two front steering wheels are you know sleds that are on ice So, you know are on snow. So if it's a compacted at all, you don't get any grip or traction There's nothing else like you can't turn it like a u-turns like impossible. No, yeah So it it's it's more difficult to maneuver than any of those other ones So who won between the race with you guys I watched the video. It's hard to tell who won Justin got me on one One yeah There was one Kyle I smoke Kyle. Yeah, he did He took the wrong side I think it was like too, but it was like this, you know, it's it's What's the word I want to use it's it's it seems more challenging when you look at it like a hill It's like 45 degrees like I can't go up that thing But no you hit the gas and you'll make it up there. Just don't lose your balance I mean everybody crash right Couple times right you crashed in the powder then you crashed again But he crashed hard. Well, I didn't the other one was yeah I just kind of barely kind of stepped off of it, but this one was was brutal I was going down the hill and like didn't realize there was like a shelf there a little cliff and Didn't see like the other side of it and how far down it was and I just launched right over and I was going fast And so I hit and kind of stuck and then I bumped flipped right over it I know because the after I didn't see him fall and then I see Justin right up and he's doing the QL stretch, you know I went hard yeah went over the front of the head of so since we're since we're talking about Utah I do want to share a little bit more about the the vision for this these properties. Yeah, I do because this is a bit This is exciting for us. It's totally new, but I'm really excited about this I have no idea what to expect and anticipate The goal is to be able to do it through the audience and not have to go through like Airbnb and VRBO to make it more Inclusive make it more our like a service that we're kind of providing for our audience and then also it's an investment for us So we're obviously trying to make money off of this too and the idea is that I've and I've never seen these before So if somebody has ever seen an example this please send to me so I can do my own homework and research on how other people manage This but this idea of this unplug biohacking type of house. We have all these great connections and relationships, right? So this house we went and specked it all out, right? So this is a 2,500 square foot townhouse with four bedrooms It's gonna have a steam room a sauna a jacuzzi sick ask Juve infrared the PRX a coal plunge and a movie theater all in this place And then it will do other things as far as the plasma TVs and then we're obviously in a location where you can Ski snowboard you get in the summer. There's a lake you can kayak you can mountain bike Yeah, so now obviously this is going to cost to obviously to run a jacuzzi and coal plunge and saunas and things like that You know, I we know that it's gonna run the bill up. We're also in kind of higher-end places So it will be a premium luxury type of place So I know it's not gonna attract the same kind of traffic that like your standard just place is going to be But I believe that there's a demand for something like this and I can't be the only I know you guys can't we can't be the only people that would love I would do it Right if I was looking for places to rent and I wanted to go to a place like that where I was gonna either ski or snowboard or do Mountain bike and all that stuff and I'm comparing and I saw a place with like a gym in the garage and you know Red light therapy and I could do the steam and the sauna and then maybe there's like cold Supplements in there because we're gonna work with all our partners. So this house will be decked out I would 100% I'd be so excited like that's where I'm gonna go Yeah, so I the one of the things I like and I love our forum to start maybe a poll Maybe Helen will do this when she hears this episode on this is the first one. So this is the test, right? So we went there we specked it all out like every we did all like high-end stuff inside So it's gonna be a beautiful place right outside of Park City mostly agreed on the decor on the I was surprised by that. I actually told Brooke beforehand. I'm like, you know, I really don't know about By the way, she really she really did a great job. Yeah, she's a very very good agent. Yeah She's been she's been fine. Yeah, if you're ever looking for an agent in Utah look her up for sure She's attached to my Instagram probably seen her before But I warned her like I don't know what this is gonna be like all four of us have different style and taste like This is gonna be mostly agreed. We did I thought we all I mean there's a lot of push-pull But it ended up like oh, yeah, like I see where you're going with that and I liked it Yeah, the only thing that we discrete a couple things one of them was the backsplash in the kitchen I was real set on more of a rustic look you guys one of the shinier Yeah, that and then the marble counter top that went down Adam was kind of bum. We didn't do that. No, but otherwise we mostly got along and I think it's gonna look yeah No, I think it's I think it's gonna look amazing And I'm super excited to see how it does But what I'd love to hear from the the audience especially if you're in our private form was I'll ask if Helen Does like a poll for this is I would really be interested in what the audience would what what destinations would you like, right? So if Park City, Utah's the first one near one of the best ski resorts in the country What are other places in the United States? I don't want it We're not gonna go outside there first in the United States I would I would think like a beach or tropical location. Yeah, that's I know Yeah, I know what we don't know or something that I would like to see what I would love to see a poll and then to see What gets the most likes and traction because I know we have our theories and ideas on what the second one The third one would look like but I'd be really interested in the places that our audience would love to go the most And then that might decide might dictate what direction we go I'll tell you what I like to see right now is I like to see that your guys's faces aren't so damn dry I feel like my whole face is gonna crack. Yeah, all you guys are so They're a save my life for sure on my face. I actually got last night just splash everything so I Just absorbed it immediately. So I actually Contemplated put so my lips are so fucking cracked my lips are split and so dry and they hurt What you guys were doing all night? I was I was contemplating putting the serum on my lips because it was helping my skin But if my my lips were still all dried out so my face felt fine lips are all cracked and dried I'm like, I wonder if I would rub this stuff all over my lips if I would have been alright But I know that's why I didn't want to do it I took like the regular lotion that was there I was like putting it in my nose because my nose was cracking and bleeding on the inside hurt and I'm just like I just gotta throw like moisture stuff in here. Yeah, you sound like every time you took a breath It's sound like Zam fear with your nose Like triskets in there. Well, I'm super pumped about so this where we were buying back to that house What's so cool about this too is that so we're like phase 7 and every time they they move up a phase of obviously the prices Go up and they add amenities and so we're the last phase of this and they have the soft water Included in it. They have the humidifier ran through the entire house, which so the new models are gonna theater Yeah, but in the theater room is gonna be I'm most excited about that I mean, that's my one thing I miss in the the truckie location is that we don't have like a really cool Movie place, which I know we did that intentionally But there's times when I'm up there and I'm like damn. I wish we had a cool place to watch a movie Yeah, that's I like that too, but it's nice to not have it. He gives you the excuse to hang out together Yeah, yeah, which is you know, but yeah, I know you guys coming out of your rooms in the morning It was like Justin looked like he had toasted some bread and just rubbed the It's a Well, we probably would have been fine except for we all opened our windows That's what it was we all opened our windows because well We've made the mistake and then we also ran the fireplace like the fireplace dries it out even more So running the fireplace all day having the windows open like I mean we just it was like that's like a recipe for a storm Yeah, that was pretty dumb on our part. Hey real quick Let me tell you about one of our sponsors Element tea now they make electrolyte powders with no artificial sweeteners that have the appropriate level of sodium to improve Performance give you better pumps better recovery. They taste really really good. 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Yeah, this is an interesting question and there I don't think I Don't think there's a wrong or a right answer for this. I think it's kind of a personal Preference I actually like to play with this some some people would say staying consistent is easier and better But I actually Find this is one of the easier ways for me to manipulate my calories instead of doing it like every other day or schedule It's just like my workout days. I'm fed more on my off days I cut back a little bit I did the same thing and I found more energy and better workouts and yeah I would argue better recovery from feeding myself more on the days where I'm placing a higher demand on my body Right, so I'm training my body and breaking things down causing some damage. It makes Logical sense to feed your body more on those days and then to have less calories on The days off in between now the argument is well in the days off in between you need to recover as well Perhaps it is all a wash, but I did notice better workouts and I did play with this quite a bit So in essence instead of being at let's say a 500 calorie deficit every single day You'd be on a thousand calorie deficit on the days you don't work out and no calorie deficit on the days You do work out so at the end of the week it equals out to the same thing But you're more fed on the training days I think it does require a bit more mental discipline for some people like so if I'm able to you know Bring my calories up Substantially tend to not have the tendency to want to keep them up when I'm not as active like that takes a little bit more You know discipline in in safeguards in place If you if you can actually do that I find that for me personally to a lot of my clients They had a lot more Successful that because it did fuel their workouts better and they had you know better recovery and undulating like that You know still provide really good results Yeah, there's there's there's research to support that undulating is superior It is so that we're clear on what we don't have anything to support is whether that matters if it's on a training day Or a rest day. Yeah, so that's why I would say that's a personal preference You know, maybe you're somebody who likes to have a lighter stomach on training days and when you're recovering you prefer to load it up Well, let's talk to the behavior aspect right for some people and I had clients like this It was easier for them to eat less on the days they worked out. Yes Why? Because they're already in the mental state of I'm training and I'm getting fit and they're busy and they're busy You're busy. You're moving. Yes versus where I'm at home and I'm not busy Yeah, and I want to enjoy my food I want to go out with my friends and eat more in which case I'm gonna say this right now And I'll always say this unless it's like a coping mechanism. Yeah, I'll say this all day long behavior comes first, right? So if it allows you to stay more consistent overall Then go with eating less on the days you work out if that's you right and I get like again I had clients like that where they're like look on Saturdays and Sundays. I don't train. I want to go out and eat more When I'm training I'm more occupied. I'm less thinking about food I'm not going out to eat as much so I'd rather eat less on those days And I would tell them fine do it that way because at the end of the day it's the behavior part That's the most important, but for me personally if when I would break things down to performance If I if I get even to get even more specific it was the meal I had two hours before I worked out so if I worked out first thing in the morning I would make sure the dinner the night before was much larger And that's where I would make up the difference in my calories So if you want to get real specific and we're splitting hairs here But if you want to get real specific Studies do show having a higher calorie meal with carbohydrates and proteins about two hours before Athletic performance shows improved performance more more stamina more endurance and more strength But other than that if if one works better for you than the other and it's more likely to keep you consistent That's what you should focus on not the splitting of hairs where you know I'm gonna recover three percent faster or I'm gonna notice a four five percent increase in performance That's not nearly as important especially on a long-term basis Next question is from carnivore girl 84. What are the pros and cons of wearing gloves when lifting? I'm a musician and it's important for me to maintain flexibility in my hands and fingers Yeah, so let's start with the obvious right you guys remember the The meme that was when viral like I don't know like probably four or five years ago And it was like a glove, but it looked like underwear Look like don't you guys remember that one pull up look up Glove meme underwear and you guys will see I know you had to have seen this I don't think it said anything it was just or I think it said something like what you look like wearing gloves Oh, you know I'm saying it looks like underwear like so you'll mark wallberg pulls it off So he wears like gardening gloves and white receiver gloves or whatever, you know, okay? So let's talk about the obvious you wear gloves you're less likely to get calluses your skin is gonna stay softer So some people think you know, that's important for them. So that's the obvious But let's talk about the not so obvious So I as a kid used to be a glove wearer when I worked out and I wore oh there it is hander pants So when I was a kid I wore the gloves that were the mesh like top Fingers cut off fingers cut off and that was because of Rocky. I'm gonna be honest I watch Rocky. I think we all went through a phase of that. Yeah. Well, they were they were popular back They were you know, Rocky, you know, he's in the first one he's bodybuilders were rocking them back then Yeah, until you realize how badly stink. Yes, I get rid of but here's the thing I I hate wearing gloves now because the I'm more connected To the bar and to the weights when I don't have gloves on because there's a lot of nerve endings in your hands And you want to feel what's going on and I feel like I can I have better technique and form and connection To the weight with my hands without gloves and when I have gloves on here's something else That's less that's not discussed often when you wear gloves you actually increase the circumference of the bar when you grip So that may mean that it's harder for you to hold on to a bar So it would be it's similar to grabbing a thicker barbell, right? So if you grab a thicker barbell, it's harder to hold on to a heavy weight when your hand is like this Versus when your hand is I would challenge that though I would challenge that because I would say the the difference of that Circumference and making it more difficult is negated by the be a little bit better grip because you're using leather I think you get just as good of a grip. I don't I don't think I know I know well, okay Let's compare it with chalk. Sorry. I always use chalk. So chalk versus gloves. I get just a good grip. Yeah, okay That's what yeah, I'm talking about bare-handed bare-handed versus love sweat I get it you get you get a better grip with gloves for sure But you know, so I think what you're saying is kind of negated by that It's not I think that's splitting hairs the difference on it But I'm curious what you guys think on her. So she specifically is a Musician and she's concerned about flexibility in her hands and fingers. Yeah, I don't know I don't think it makes a difference. Yeah, I could see it affecting your skin. I mean, I definitely have calluses from right That's the only thing I would I would maybe Consider wearing gloves if your fingertips and and stuff and your fingers get calluses on it and that Without the gloves, I would think you what you'd have more flexibility without the gloves also more range of motion more Connectivity, yeah, but again, I think that's also splitting hairs lose much by wearing gloves either I'll ask you this question this question Justin because you're the you're the musician of the group Depending on the instrument that you that you play Dark aren't Cal aren't don't you develop calluses from playing like the guitar. Oh big time. Yeah Yeah, so like I think it might be a detriment. It's advantageous too, right? Because otherwise like There's always like a period you go through where You're playing for a while and then it just like it digs into your skin and like sometimes I've gotten to the point too I've even cut You know the tips of my fingers and then it would set me back, you know for a while But yeah, I like it just like anything else. I think you know your skin adapts To what seems like a violinist's neck you're seeing that they get like this thick patch Oh, because they're in because they're you know, they're constantly like pinching. Yeah, dude. Oh interesting Yeah, they get that I don't actually a name for it So I mean, I guess it if the calluses that you get from weightlifting Affect your playing whatever instrument negatively and yeah negatively then you absolutely should wear gloves And I think that's a smart strategy if it doesn't affect you playing your instrument Then I think it's more beneficial to not wear gloves. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna argue this like Chalk if your gym doesn't allow chalk join another gym. Just kidding. If you can't use chalk in your gym They have liquid chalk which you can use I feel way more Connected to the weight when my skin is touching the barbell and the dumbbells versus wearing gloves I've tried gloves recently and I just don't feel as in control of the weight and the muscles I'm trying to isolate or feel that when I'm fully connected and I think it's similar for like Any gear that you wear now sometimes gear is necessary Like you can't go barefoot if you have weak if you have poor ankle mobility in your feet or weak But if your feet are strong and you got great ankle mobility Like you're gonna feel more connected barefoot than you wear shoes when you do exercises for your lower body So I think it's similar With gloves and if you're just starting out and that and calluses don't matter to you You're like whatever if I get calluses I get calluses I would argue do it without gloves because I feel like if you do something for a long time with gloves It'll be hard to transition versus starting out without gloves and doing it the whole time that way Next question is from honey cell is low weight and higher reps not as effective as high weight low reps. Yeah Okay, first off it depends and let's let's start off by saying this if we're talking about repetition ranges that are within reason It doesn't make a huge difference when I say within reason. I mean like if you're going like below 20 reps You know anything below 20 reps. We're okay once you start to get to like 30 40 50 60 reps The problem and there are studies that show like 50 reps will build muscle too so long as the intensity is really high But here's the problem Stamina and stability start to get in the way. So if I'm doing squats for 50 reps What what'll fail first is not muscular strength But rather my stamina and my endurance and that might make it more challenging to build muscle as a result Or you know your lung capacity starts to get in the way And and also just the just the overall amount of just work You know, I'm doing a set for five minutes because I'm doing so many repetitions, but if it's within reason It doesn't make a huge difference Especially if you if you phase like if you phase and you're doing losses, that's the sweet sauce That's it. That's the way to do it. You got a phase between you got to do You know a few weeks of higher repetitions And a few weeks of lower repetitions and you'll get more sustained more consistent gains that way We'll both have value and it's this kind of just falls back into a lot of what we always talk about in terms of like whatever you're not doing Will provide your body a new stimulus that you're gonna, you know, have muscle building effects Provided to you with so that's just the thing. It's There's there's no like set rep range It's always gonna be consistently building you muscle you have to you know, consider that You got to go through periods of of new stimulus to you know, kind of reignite that response Well, to that point the reverse is actually even true on this based off of what you've been doing Most frequently so the question is set up as is low weight and high reps Not as effective as high weight low reps and the reverse could be true if all you ever do is high weight low reps Yeah, if you always train low reps and high weight all the time and you never use lightweight high reps It'll actually be more effective to go lightweight high reps So the the variable that is most important here is what have you been doing the most consistent or what is the most? Novel to the body. So whatever it is that you haven't been doing move into that So that's we get this kind of question all the time. It's just worded in different ways, you know And it's it's it's all the same answer Which is the the answer is that there's tremendous value Sal says at all time from zero reps to about 25 and everything in between that all have tremendous value for building muscle burning Body fat sculpting the body whatever you want to say and the one that is going to be the best for that Is the one that you're not doing? Yeah, so that's what you need to evaluate is what what rep range Do you neglect the most and move into that and you'll see the most value? And that is for building muscle for burning body fat for being stronger all the above Yeah And now there's something that people often don't talk about which are the mental benefits of training in these different Rep ranges and weights. It is a different mental state in feel To go do a set of four reps than it is to go and do a set of 14 reps It's very different like higher reps you're squeezing more you're getting better pump, you know You're you're stabilizing you're you're feeling the muscles more four reps. It's like you are you are you're firing your whole cns It's heavy. You're staying tight. You're driving. It's obviously a shorter set It's a they're totally different feels and I think there's a lot of value in training all those different feels It's a different mentality to go and this is why I prefer phasing You know for three weeks at a time versus, you know, every other workout I change from high reps to low reps Like I like to stay in a low rep phase because I like to stay in that mental state And then I like to go in a high rep phase and stay in that mental state switching back and forth So often tends to throw me off a little bit in terms of you know, what I'm going after and what I'm trying to feel With the weight so pay attention to that. It's it's a totally different feel and it's a different mental You know different mental preparedness that you need before you go into the sets And it's a different way you control the weight in a different way that you lift the weight when you go heavy versus light Next question is from bag double zero MBA are mirrors an underrated piece of gym equipment mirrors You know, what's funny is we think that mirrors are I think a lot of people think mirrors in the gym So you can look at yourself and check yourself out while you're working. Most people think that I would assume the reality is a mirror is a very valuable piece of exercise equipment because unless You have a trainer or a coach Watching your form You oftentimes feel like you're moving a particular way and you're not like I all the time Yes, like like for me for example shoulder press is a big one because I Had left my left shoulder. I had my AC joint resected years ago So I always have to be careful to make sure that my right and my left are balanced And if I don't press in front of a mirror Inevitably I have a slightly it's just a little different between the right and left and I can't tell I can't tell when I'm not looking in the mirror I can't feel it. I have to look in the mirror and then actively bring one shoulder down to match So and that's what mirrors are for watch your form Critically make sure that you're symmetrical and things are moving the way they should And and balance things out because oftentimes the way you feel doesn't necessarily accurate. Yeah, it's interesting It was a it was definitely a shift when I didn't have a mirror when I'd squat because I was definitely dependent a lot on The mirror to to be able to dictate Those little nuances of oh, you know when I drop down a little bit on one side versus the other or you just see Visually some of these discrepancies as you're going down to the squad I would slow way down and really watch myself and then you know taking that away You did find while I found myself getting into the momentum of the squat a lot of times and having to check myself to You know to really pay attention and to really feel all of those different type of imbalances starting to form so I Do find they're very valuable. It's kind of comical because you're such an anti I hate the mirror at the same time because of the fact of all these people getting in front and just constantly doing the flex posing stuff But it really does I caught you one time. I mean I do I do it just like anybody else I talk shit, but it's it's because I'm guilty of doing some of those things too If I get a good pump you still do it in front of everybody never just in the bathroom Yeah, just always in the bathroom. I you know, I actually think this is Almost a silly question. I don't I think it's pretty obvious But I think there's a stigma around the mirrors like I think that there's this this idea, especially if you're a That's a stereotype, right? Yeah, there's a total stereotype around using the mirror that it's this narcissistic bodybuilder or woman's competitor that Loves to look at themselves. Oh, and of course that exists But I don't think that was the actual evolution of the mirror in the gym I don't think it was let's put mirrors in here for all the narcissistic people to stare at themselves Like I think it's pretty obvious that it, you know If you don't have a trainer or you don't have a partner who is actually trained in biomechanics or can help you with your form The mirror is the next best thing or now using like your phone to video yourself And so that's the other thing too Like I know we're quick to judge somebody who pulls their phone out and is Recording because it looks silly because of you know, we're making fun of influencers with that But I've used my phone many times to record myself not because I want to make a cool video of myself You know or post it later on it's because I'm watching my technique Mm-hmm, and I'm being hyper critical of my movement and even the mirror isn't enough feedback I get a little bit of feedback in front of me But I want to see behind me or I want to see the side of me and I want to Watch it and critique it and then go back to the drawing board and adjust and so I think mirrors have tremendous value And especially if you're someone relatively new now, I think I can train today And in fact my garage has no mirrors. So when I train in my own garage I don't have a mirror in my garage and I'm completely fine. It's not workouts even count though Yeah, it's right. They may not even have you know, so I don't think it's necessary for an advanced lifter to have to Have a mirror, but man, I think they're I think they're very valuable It's just funny because once you once you get a recruitment pattern in your body something that you do very often It feels normal. So if one foot pronates, but that's how you always squat When you get into positioning squat, it's going to feel very balanced and normal because this is how you your body moves So you're not going to notice unless you really that's a big one for me when I squat if I look at myself right straight ahead I watch my feet because that's where I notice the difference and I'm paying attention closely In fact, one time I worked out at a gym. I thought this was brilliant. I don't see this being a popular thing though But I thought it was very smart the mirror had Lines so it had like a few vertical lines that were straight and they were perfectly straight And then a few horizontal lines so that when you're lined up in the mirror You you have these kind of these markers and you can see one shoulder is a little higher than the other In relation to the the lines that were on the mirror. It was really really cool I don't see it being a popular thing because I think it you know People rather look at a mirror without any distractions on it, but no, it's a very valuable piece of equipment I think if you have a home gym you probably should put a mirror in there at least Where you do complex lifts in front of maybe not your isolation exercises, but if you're Squatting and overhead pressing and deadlifting and stuff like that or record it Well, you're always going to go to your default movement patterns to that point and and I don't think that A lot of people realize like how far away that can get Sometimes if you haven't been critically analyzing yourself and and you know going through the technique and the movement of it It's it's very helpful to get feedback either from a coach or be able to see it visually Totally look if you like our information head over to mind pump free.com and check out all of our guides We have guides that can help you with almost any fitness goal You can also find all of us on instagram. 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