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I actually really I just got a DM a couple weeks ago I'm glad you brought this up for a fitness tip because if you if you listen to just one or two episodes where we've talked about fasting you Might get a misunderstanding on our stance or our point of view on it, right? So we've done episodes dedicated just to fasting where we talk all about the benefits of it I think we've done specific episodes of why you shouldn't fast and so depending on which episode you and I saw people actually arguing with each other on on Instagram over like what our philosophy is around fasting and if we're pro or against it and There's this misconception that we're like anti fasting and it's like no It's just we're anti fasting for the for trying to lose body fat. Yes, not a good strategy for that Yeah, so the big thing that people Completely ignore and the fitness industry does a terrible actually a great job of ignoring this or the psychological effects of Particular diets and they don't look at the long-term potential effects, right? If you look at the long-term effects of fasting as a weight loss strategy has about the same Fail rate as any diet right any diet any popular diet is Causes weight loss through a reduction in calories same thing with fasting right you fast you skip meals You don't eat as many calories you lose weight the problem is when you go into it with the Idea of wanting to lose weight. You're already going into a this approach with this kind of bad relationship of food It's not a long-term approach because at some point you stop fasting because you're like, okay I'm done Skipping meals or whatever and then you end up going in the opposite direction You end up gaining the bat the way back and then some and back in the day by the way I want to say this I you know, I've been training people and working with people and fitness professionally now for Over over two decades Before they called it fasting they used to call it skipping meals, right skipping breakfast And this is what people did all the time Obese people would do this all the time to try and lose weight and then they'd gain it back Well, we have to kind of set boundaries and limiters out there because there are like real conditions like Interrexia bulimia and like conditions out there You do not want to tell them to get into fasting that would be like the worst combination ever And so to differentiate that and there's value to it But it's a totally different mindset than going into it just trying to you know improve your body composition for instance No, do you guys think it's no better? No worse than any other diet? Yeah, I think it's it depends on the diet that we're comparing it to but I think it's very similar It's that kind of restrict mentality with the wrong Root I guess motivation. Well, it's all diets Okay, the thing that all diets have in common is what they restrict calories calories, right? What one way or another whether you're actually counting the calories himself or you eliminate a Carbohydrate you eliminate a fat you reduce protein no matter what the diet is The the real formula behind all of them and why they work so well for the people that they work well for the short term Yeah, in the short term is that they reduce calories So my question to you is that since that is the basic formula for all diets Is is it any better or worse than any of them? Yeah, I don't think it's any necessarily any better or worse I think now fast things been around for thousands of years. It's part of almost all religious practices, especially that the main the biggest religious practices But really it was about changing your relationship to food through detachment, right? Detaching from worldly things and this is a great practice This is where I think fast things I love value Because if you go into it with this detachment attitude like I'm gonna Detach myself from food for a second so that I can deal with my feelings and my emotions and Look at my relationship to food then it can be very valuable Now it doesn't work very well if your issue with food is that you're anorexic or bulimic because it just pushes you more In that direction and if you're just the regular person trying to lose weight You're not really learning any good strategies aside from just abstinence and this tends to result in a Binge reversal when you're done with it, which is why it's a terrible stretch So yes, you lose weight in the beginning But then when you go off you got just like all of the diets you go in the opposite direction Yeah, I like it for the fact that you can observe your behaviors more when you remove yourself from your Habits right and so like abstinence. I think it's a very important practice for disciplines in order to be able to really have a good look and assess You know what those behaviors look like and that way I can tweak and alter those when I you know Decide to implement them again. Now. What about the the adaptation process of it like a lot of people love this, right? I think why they like it's easy, right? There's not a lot of rules to fasting the most successful diets are the ones I don't mean success in terms of long-term the ones that people buy into right always have like like one or two simple rules And I think that's why you get people that like it so much a lot of people like or we're almost already eating in a You know the smaller window. They're like, oh, I already skipped breakfast anyways Now I just kind of stretch it out to about two o'clock like that's not hard And so I think people like doing it because it's easier now What about some of the pitfalls as far as your metabolism with with doing a strategy like this Do you think that the average person that follows a diet fasting versus a different diet that maybe you just pull out carbohydrates or something Do you think they're you're more likely to reduce more calories than needed and fasting because you're just like I'm not I'm completely abstaining That's a really good question. I think it depends to you on the context, right? if you're in a calorie deficit, you're always kind of pushing your body to Slow down its metabolism your body is always trying to adapt, right? But if you combine that with good strength training and resistance training and proteins high You can offset that a little bit, but you make a very good point, right cutting out food entirely Might result in a larger calorie restriction than somebody who let's say says I'm gonna only eat whole natural foods Or I'm gonna cut carbs out, but I'm not gonna skip, you know a bunch of meals, right? So I could definitely see that happening and I've seen people You know fasting does over time can cause a bit of a stress so can just calorie Restriction but fasting in particular and they've actually done shown some studies that fasting in comparison to Regular feeding windows with calorie restriction. So all the things being controlled Fasting results in more muscle loss and in some case or not as much muscle gain. Wasn't that a recent study? Yes, it was. Yeah, that just came up because we had talked about it before and I thought it would actually be more muscle sparing than What it was, but it actually just I think it was Lane who's did was it Lane who shared that study? He did he did share now I do think that again, we're kind of like now we're focusing on the which diets best for fat loss we're the diet that helps you develop the best relationship to food and The best practices and behaviors not from a point of self-hate or restriction, but rather like wanting to live this kind of healthy Lifestyle that's gonna be the best approach long term. So I don't care about the short term I mean how many times have we seen clients do great in the short term and then terrible long term What's all about the intent? It's the it's that like sort of mindset that's going into it that matters And that's really what we're addressing. It's not necessarily that there are a lot of benefits to fasting You just have to have the right mindset going into it now Do you guys think there is ideal ways for clients or yourself to use fasting like so we obviously use it I use fasting occasionally intermittently And I have taught clients to do it Are there specific like ways that you would tell them if you were encouraging them to try something like fast? So there are certain types of clients. I think it works really well with to help them with their food relationship, right? the the person who's obsessed with Needing to pack on size the person that's afraid this was me, right? I used to just eat eat eat and then I was afraid to skip a meal. Oh my god If I skip the meal, I'm not gonna yeah getting any muscle or oh my god What's so for me fasting was good in that sense because it helped me change my relationship to food Oh, I could skip a couple meals and it wasn't devastating to my physique So that's when I would use it when I'd get the guy who hired me Who's just eating way too much and is afraid to cut anything and in those cases? I'd be like, let's try fasting for a couple days Let me show you yeah, it's usually people that are eating Continuously throughout the day So I have I've had clients that like snack a lot too in between meals and they just feel like they're paranoid that they're Not gonna have food like accessible and available to them And so you know to just even just skipping a meal for them a lot of times is like mind-blowing that They're gonna be okay, and this hunger sensation is actual hunger. It's not craving so to differentiate between those two Signals I think is really an important thing to figure out totally now speaking of food Have you guys seen the news on the Beyond Meat? Company and all these companies that were remember they were creating it was like a big deal about it We talked about our podcast franken meets maybe a year or two ago with all these plant-based meats that You know tastes like a burger or whatever and sales were skyrocketing and all these fast food joints We adopted we were very skeptical and we're like, I don't think this is gonna work Their sales are tanking no way tanking why well? I mean what we predicted the fad and the novelty of it wore off I mean, yeah, you're gonna eat a product but tanking. I mean, I would have thought it would have been like a Slow 14-15% drop and their stock is just plummeting because the novelties up like hmm first of all You're creating a product really though that I mean a 14-15% drop is normally like bad news came out That's normally like somebody died from a impossible burger No, this is seen because it was in like all these fast food chains were starting to at least yes for that is an option Most of them have it now Normally when you see like a like a falling out of favor, right? You'll see like a slow gradual decline, right? No, look at that fall off the cliff is normally I'll read the title here It says beyond meat had a disastrous third quarter with sales declining by 14% and net loss is mounting to 51.8 million Compared with the loss of 19 million what the previous year get here this and if I'm not mistaken We talked about this on a previous podcast. You're creating a product that's trying to copy as close as it possible Can another product so it's trying to be identical. What are the benefits of it? Well first off there are none it's got a million ingredients to one So it's ground beef versus this engineered food number two the macros were identical So it wasn't like you were getting less calories less grams of fat or whatever was identical calories Well, they marketed it as a healthier option, which wasn't true not true And so really the only benefit I guess if you know in your your true Again, you know, well is the cruelty part, right? That's it. That was the only thing that was Oh, I feel like they try to go the climate change angle more than anything. They were trying to do all that But but it doesn't be burger eaters don't really care I mean the novelty wore off everybody tried it and then everybody went back to wow I didn't know that that's all recent right now. That's all that's happening. Yeah, right now. It's kind of taking You know, we talked about that we did speculate. I wish I wish I don't know how to short a stock I've never shorted a stock before that would have been a good one to short I've never shorted a stock myself. You know that would have been a great. I mean that shit We could have done is pull it 19% Yeah week outlook, but I mean think about like first off. You're a fast food eater That's where a lot of their sales went, right? Yeah They don't really care. I think they like to taste. I don't know about you guys But yeah, I've never gone for health. Yeah, I've never gone to a burger place like oh, I'm gonna get the health Like I'm in this is for my health like now none of you guys have even tried it, right? I don't think you have I haven't actually was curious to try it, but I Have you I actually tried something. I was at a friend's house and they pulled out No, they pulled out these burgers and they were they beyond meat or impossible burger or that type of thing and to me It didn't taste anything like beef personally. Oh, really? Yeah, but I don't know which one they had bought but I was not I was not impressed and I wasn't very happy with them to be honest Oh, I mean they do a good job of making it look like it like that picture looks like a burger It's the closest that they've ever got before right the it's the club and one of the secrets was the bloodiness, right? Do you like squeeze it and some beet juice comes out looks like blood? They really did that for it. I mean, that's why that was why everybody was excited because like oh my god This is as close as they've ever got but I'm like, okay if the math if Maybe if the calories were lower and it tastes similar but the macros were identity was nothing better about it and then Consumers aren't as stupid as people think you're looking at like okay. Here's a beef burger. It's beef Here's the ingredient. Have you look at the ingredient list on this? It's like it's like super engineered food Yeah, and most people know that that's probably not better for you So again, unless you're just a vegan, but that market's already kind of tapped. I don't think that's a huge mark I think it's growing in a food. What do you guys think of the food at the party? Oh, hey, happy birthday That was a great party good food, right unbelievable food Yeah, I was my my sister-in-law and brother-in-law they so we were we were hiring a chef and we were doing this whole like Champagne theme right so Katrina looked up like all the foods that pair well with champagne and then she started looking for chefs to do it and we got some like crazy quota weather and Her sister found out that she was doing this and she's like no Let me let me do it for Adam's birthday like he loves our cooking anyways And she's like all totally I'll go all out I promise and Katrina was like well I kind of I really want to make this kind of over the top and special for him and she's like no no Let us do it so I was I so I didn't know any of what was coming and then they show they show up And I mean they got they had the full suit I was gonna ask you about that because I've met them before I didn't know they had any culinary You know like they didn't they told they I mean they cooked their ass off right they played the part it was amazing I know I thought that was so presentation to yeah I thought that was so nice of them to do that they like totally went all out on it It was you know what I really liked. I mean all of it was really good But they had now it looked like prosciutto, but it wasn't prosciutto. It was a Spanish It's like dried meat. I don't know what was called Toronto ham. I believe that what it is. It was really good Oh, I thought I thought that was bruschetta. That wasn't bruschetta. What is it? No bruschetta Oh bruschetta or whatever it was it was a big old ham leg Yeah, you could carve it off yourself. It's not a salty. She said she got that at Costco get out Yeah, I actually didn't even have I didn't have none of that. That's there was so much food I lost so I didn't get the ribs are the best the ribs were my favorite crazy the sauce that he did it in was Was so good. It's totally different. Yes. Did you have a good time? I said you had okay. Here's the I know you I know having Tons of people Especially at your house and you're not you you're a bit of a dichotomy You're often the center of attention, but don't necessarily like to be the center of attention with something like that I don't want everybody looking at you and yeah, yeah, and this was your party at one point. It was a big video Yeah, about you like how did you feel? Yeah, you know, that's a that you know It's a funny question, right because you're right There's there's a part of me that doesn't mind being the center of attention for certain things But for other things I don't if that that's weird, right? So I don't do good with give free But Katrina did she knows me so well so like I'd none of I didn't open any presence in front of anybody So she didn't make a big spent she did want to show me the video that you I did which was so cool That was such a cool video that he had made it was just all the blooper right all the bloopers from mine pumpin So that was a really nice surprise. It was fun, but yeah, she did a really good job She knows me so she knows to not put me on the on the spot in the spotlight like that too much And just kind of let me do my thing and hang back plus I was probably pretty drunk by that time So I wasn't really thinking too much about it. I mean we had we went out the night before so Friday night She had set up a you know five-star Michelin dinner over in Carmel that was an amazing experience and The four of us polished three bottles of wine off and then the next day we jump out of a plane in the morning Oh, yeah, and then we have a birthday party later on So are you so she invited all of us for you and your birthday to skydive and I was like no I'm not gonna go. I know Justin went so is it do you want to do it again? Is it fun? Like what's the deal? Yeah, it was fun. I don't know if I'd do it again I mean I it was kind of like one of those things that you thought about maybe I'll do this some point in my life But I had no urgency to do it But like just just stepping up and getting into it was it was a blast. It was it was way more Easy than jumping in a f16. That was did you know was it what you expected because it wasn't anything I expected it wasn't like what I anticipated So what okay so explain that what do you mean about what you thought well I thought so I thought that I thought I'd be more nervous and scared I really did I thought like because there's a long like we were there for almost three hours before we even got to get out Of the plane so I mean I thought just that anticipation of like I got to do this Was going to like make me all nervous, but I wasn't I mean I was with like seven of my family and friends and so we were just laughing having a good time And I kept waiting for like oh pretty soon here I'm gonna get really nervous because it's gonna get closer and closer that time Yeah, I never really felt that and I had a little bit of it right before literally jumping out because they put you on this I swear to God the planes no wider than this and no taller than that Yeah, you just out and they have to everybody it looks like a You know not a two-by-but a big piece of wood almost like as it's for a seat That's really this why it's just a long bench Yeah long bench and you straddle it like this and you're literally, you know nuts to butt all the way to the from the front To the back of the plane that tight like you're I'm touching the shoulder of the person next to me I'm touching the wall here. I was in some little French dudes. Yeah The part that was probably the most nerve-wracking was you know He's he's every once while he reaches his watch over in front of me so I could see the elevation I know we're going up kind of hugging you at the same. Oh, no We he actually lifted me and sat my butt in his crotch so he could strap me as tight as we could You let him do it because you wanted to be snuck. Yeah. I'm not trying to be He's telling me right and you're watching 14 15,000 we're going to 18,000 right so this is the highest tandem jump in the world So there's none higher than this in the entire world and so you're watching him get you know 16 17 We get to 18,000 soon as 18,000 hits the front just goes He lifts it up and people just and I got about 10 people in front of me before I go and you you're strapped in with Scoot so you're like scooting on the thing all the way down and people Fuse there anybody left there kind of ushering you out because there's nobody left ushering me out No I was the last on my side and then there was two other people after me but on the other side and It just went so fast But the time of you know, they open it and people start going out that I got that was the most anxiety that I had Oh, yeah, here it is. Here it is And then you just don't have much time to think once you get up there your feet ready He dumps you out you go. I grabbed my head tilt it back pushed me out We went and then I thought if you guys ever been do you even do roller coasters or no? Yeah Yeah, okay, so at great America you have the edge or drop zone. Yeah, yeah, okay So when you do that ride, I mean, I've done a thing a hundred times and every time it gets you that Right. Yeah, so we have a 90-second free fall. I thought I was gonna be 90 seconds. That's what I was kind of anticipating It did not feel like that at all the minute He jumped out of the plane all the anxiety went away and now it was just you're you know Dropping till you reach terminal velocity and you're it's the the wind is flying up in your face so much You're just trying to breathe and so Mike breathing through my nose dude with a hose was just blasting you air Yeah, you almost feel like you're holding your breath. It was too much and They give you anxiety it no that that part wasn't it was just at that point I'm just trying to breathe normal and you almost you feel you're floating. You can't breathe you don't feel like you're falling you don't feel like you're falling and The only part that was scary. So the scariest part for me was actually I would have never thought this at all So he's got me all harnessed in We dropped for 90 seconds Pairship pulls and that's a jerk and a half because you're doing 130 miles an hour it flows you to 15 miles an hour instantly, right? So that's like oh yanks you back and then afterwards falling for a few seconds. He's like, all right, all right You're good. I'm like, yeah, I'm good. I'm good and he's like, okay I'm gonna loosen you up a little bit so you get more comfortable And so he starts loosening the straps around my thighs around my chest Which is what's holding me to to this guy really disconcerting and so the the initial release you I drop And I mean I'm looking straight down and you can't see him behind you And then he's loosening the straps that are holding you to him. So that part like that was the most I'm like, oh, we're good, dude I'm not comfortable at all. So that part was a little nerve-wracking for me Did you guys get hit the ground hard like yeah, dude, so I had to land on my butt and oh, well, you're fine Would have bounced like it was like Oh Land on some sticker bush. Anyway, but yeah, like the first part though for me like I could have done without I'll be honest with you like it I Only because so we're crouching we're kind of going towards the edge near where the wing was and You know, I'm like kind of looking out and I was kind of like tripping as I was like because the wind started Get me and I started to kind of fall over and I caught myself right before we jumped and then so I was like In that state of you know when you're about to fall like oh, oh shit And then I never really got regain my balance. So we just kept going it felt like I kept falling that whole time You know, so my body was just like and I just I don't know I was having like a panic attack and then like I couldn't breathe and then But then once we got the shoot open it was like dude. It was serene It was like you could see like everything up there and then he let us steer it in which was really cool That was my favorite. Yeah, that was the best Of course, and I know it's really rare for someone actually extremely safe in the US to To skydive the death rates are super super low. Nonetheless, I was still worried, right? I got two of my business partners jumping out of a plane. I'm like texting you guys. Let me know when you land Nobody's responding like oh, yeah, but it's it's really it's very very safe But still for me No, not gonna jump out of a plane. I have no desire to jump out of a perfectly good Yeah, airplane is you know, so no no I chop. Oh, yeah, I get it. Yeah, it was it's not I probably I wait Okay, if I the only way I would do it again as if you know when max is 18 and he goes dad I really want to jump out of a plane like I'd rally for now Could you imagine though the very rare events that people like something doesn't work They got a long time to think about that they're gonna die right because you fall out and then you're like, oh, no Okay, well, I actually I would part of what probably makes it really safe to is that well first of all I think they have to parachute so they have a backup backup parachute and then I would hope these and so they're all like X You know rangers and seal guys and like an 8,000 plus jumps So I would hope if ours didn't there'd be some sort of a hand signal You give to another guy and they probably fly over to you watch too much mission impossible I mean the camp I mean so you have an option to camera. I was jacked Yeah, you have an option to get like a second cameraman So you have multiple angles and so I had that so I had the guys attached me and then I had another dedicated guy That's just filming me and he had full control I mean he fly below us above us because he had kind of like a wingsuit on wow So he and he came over grab my arm for a second let go of it swung around shot me from this side So I imagine if our shoot didn't open up. Yeah, he could you know come in and bear You're on the other side Who did that? That's hilarious. Yes, Todd. He was definitely Todd. Yeah Todd energy said that the camera guy was real jacked Yeah, it was Jackie when we were waiting around it was kind of funny because he was in a tank top He had big old arms, you know, he has this like flat top and he's just like, I am your camera guy Yeah, and I'm like I work out for sure out of irony that guy was gonna be on my back I was so disappointed in Justin. He couldn't give me a point break quote dude I'm like, dude, you know all of these he froze on me because I wanted to do it like Yeah, like Johnny Utah like I don't I don't remember any like exact. I've only seen that movie once. Yeah, only one time I've only seen it once. Oh, that's a that's a must-watch. I know Hey, dude, I gotta tell you guys I This is so crazy to me. So I this weekend I dived deep into supplement land and hormone land and I was reading about so I've talked about this before but in the early 2000s, this is such a typical weekend of us you and I jumped out of a plane Like crazy, okay, so I'm gonna give a little little bit of history here So in the late 90s mid to late 90s Pull hormones hit the market Andrew Stennaday on DHEA. So these are hormones that Have to get converted by the body to other active hormones, right? So Andrew Stennaday on can be turned into testosterone I think it can be turned in estrogen or whatever. It was a big deal They turned out to be nothing like if you're if you got normal testosterone, whatever you take andro It's not gonna give you any benefit But nonetheless, it was a big deal because it was a hormone right that you could buy over the counter Well, anyway, the supplement market They get really smart and so they start to create quote-unquote other pro hormones that have like actual action in the body Yeah, now I was it in the this you're talking now the early 2000s. I'm still a young kid I'm in my 20s basically and I'm reading these articles the supplement articles and I'm like, oh pro hormone. It's safe or whatever Well, it turns out they weren't right. So these were what these supplement companies did is they went through old pharmaceutical company rejects so pharmaceutical companies in the 1950s 60s and 70s were coming up with testosterone Alternatives quote-unquote anabolic steroids and many of them didn't make it to market what these supplement companies is They looked at these old chemicals and said, oh cool. They're gray market. There's no laws against them We can sell them as pro hormones, but they're actually active. Okay, so where am I going to find the side effects? So check this out, right? So two of my favorite quote-unquote pro hormones in my early 20s that I used many many times one was called super draw and Another one was called methyl one testosterone. Okay, and the reason why they were my favorites is because when I took them I'd gain like 15 pounds. I'd get jacked and get hella strong It's a methyl one. Isn't that the one that had like the little the little molecule like Simple yeah molecular nutrition might have been one of that. Yeah, right? Yes So and you'd gain like all this like real fast like four or five weeks just get real big and strong Oh, this is so cool. I'm taking a pro hormone. Anyway, I'm reading articles and shins now They're illegal. They had they passed laws to make these illegal. Well, it turns out they were actual steroids and when nowadays Bodybuilders and powerlifters there's on all these four I went on all these forums and there there's all these debates as to whether or not Super draw methyl one testosterone is more effective than aner draw Diana ball classic steroids and apparently these guys are saying. Oh, yeah, super jaws the strongest Oral you could take that shit was over-the-counter. I was taking that back in the day I thought it was totally safe. I don't know if I've shared this in the pockets I think I've told you guys before There was a there was a product that was same cause same thing, but it was trend and it was called like Trimbalone or something like that or super trend. I don't remember what the name it was But I had the same experience was the most amazing over-the-counter Drug that I had ever taken for gaining muscle. It's also the the first time that I ever experienced gyno So it actually and I had before I had taken steroids. So this is I'd taken steroids in my early 20s This is like mid. I'd say 25 to 27 range When I took this and I had I had worse side effects from that over-the-counter Pro hormone than I did from taking real steroids crazy It's how strong it was crazy because I was watching this videos on YouTube with these competitive power lifters and bodybuilders and literally the conversation was super draw Versus and a draw and a draw is an old-school steroid body wasn't taken for a long time known to be real harsh and strong These guys were like, oh super draws way stronger. I'm like, holy cow, dude We were taking that we were buying that at the local supplements like nothing isn't like SARM sort of the new version of that except the I mean I don't know about the side effects and all that but I'm sure that it's just not as tested So SARMs are not steroids, but they're chemicals that attach to the androgen receptor and cost similar kind of actions, but you're right at least these Antibollics have decades of research and have been used SARMs are kind of like we don't know really what the long-term necessary effects are of them And and you know why people buy them because they're gray market. You can buy them online You can get them online believe me a super draw a methyl one testosterone was still available online I'm pretty sure nobody would buy SARMs. They would still be sticking to this other, you know crazy strong stuff or whatever Yeah, speaking of YouTube Did you see YouTube's taken off the dislike the thumbs down now? Oh, no, I heard they're going they're not taking Motivation behind that they're not taking it off. They're going and they're they're pulling people who that's all they do Oh, I thought they were taking it off. Oh, yeah No, I read the same article Maybe I misinterpreted the way I interpreted it was there because there's a lot of kind of bot accounts and accounts that are going around Like we have we have the same five or four thumbs down that we on every video and it's like almost instantly Girlfriends Justin yeah, it's Justin. It's not me. I promise you like that We get for every time we post a video no matter how amazing the video is it gets four thumbs down And I think it's a runaway. Oh, no, here's what it is So this is on the verge and the title is YouTube gives dislikes the thumbs down so hides public accounts So creators will still be able to see how many people dislike their videos, but it's not going to be private I'm excuse me that can be public. Oh So the public won't see how many didn't they try the same thing with Instagram and it never took off remember they had all the They were hiding Likes so the again the creator the person who had the page I could see how many likes I'm getting but Justin couldn't come on to my page And see how many likes of photo got right? That but it never seemed to get any legs. Well, so do you hear the conspiracy theory around it? Oh, there's a conspiracy theory, right? So first off this one. Okay, they're gonna hide the actually getting too many dislikes That's right That yeah, because what because this is the conspiracy theory Biden will give a speech or Fauci will talk about something and it'll get like 100,000 dislikes like, you know, 2000 likes or whatever and so that's the conspiracy theory is now is this for sure happening? Are they gonna pile it just like they did with the instagram thing and do do creators have some saying it like Okay, it says here that it looks like they're gonna they're gonna do it That's really stupid to me because as As a consumer of youtube, I guess as a creator. Okay, whatever But as a consumer like when I'm looking for a topic that I want to learn about And I see five videos recommend to me the one that got most the the ratio of thumbs up to thumbs down Is normally what dictates whether I watch it or not Because I I want something that is mostly thumbs up or get a majority of thumbs up I'm not gonna go watch a video that's 50 50 where it's like, oh, that's a crap shoot if this is gonna be Right. Did they do that to change the algorithm so they could you know, sort of promote what they want to promote easier So that we don't see that there's some maybe I mean because think about it if they really wanted to Like stop the trolling. Yeah, they'd get rid of comments not the thumbs down. Nobody gives a shit about the thumbs down I mean, well, they want that engagement though Yeah, but the comments is where you see all the crazy trolls and stuff like that thumbs up thumbs down whatever And I agree with you adam I think it's a great way for consumers to see what videos are good or bad or I think there's something to that though. If you're just like such a negative Contributor like you've just done all thumbs down. You're negative Video, I feel like there that is like something so that's what I thought they were gonna try and police a little bit Which I'm like, whatever, you know, because yeah, I found a feature on youtube before that I didn't know existed um So one of the things I and we've talked about off air about this Because we razz each other so much and talk shit Sometimes we have like fans that are like They want to talk the same way and obviously online. It's not always received that way You don't know like is this person just being playful? Are they being or being a dick? And there's been times where I fire back at somebody kind of like talking shit Probably a little harder than I would if I knew you were a fan and a consumer of our content, right? I think they're just trolling me and so I'm like, oh, fuck you I'm gonna put this person in their place and then I do and they're like, whoa, whoa, sorry, bro I love the show that I'm like, oh yeah So now on youtube there's a feature that if someone whoever's commenting you can click on their name And it'll show you everything they've ever commented on your channel So now I can go back and then so this is now how I decide if I'm gonna roast some Oh, they sell these good things. Yeah, like if yeah, they're just teasing one thing Right if he's just making fun of my calves or saint making a comment on something I'm wearing this one time and then I look back and he's commented seven other times and the other time is Oh, you guys his programs are amazing. Oh, I love you guys and then it's like that one Oh, okay. I'm just gonna whatever. But if it's someone who's like I look back and I say, oh this motherfucker Every time he posts on this thing. He is talking mad shit about one of us or something So then I'll get after now the conspiracy theory for me is interesting because here's here's one of the reasons why I think it's interesting Like rotten tomatoes. Okay. Mm-hmm recently Rotten tomatoes has been this upside down flipped like the the what are they called the the the people that analyze movies critics The critics completely opposite from the public Chappelle's special for example. Yeah critics. Oh my god. It's terrible 90% rating. Fauci documentary Fauci documentary critics This is the best documentary of all time. Most people this suck. It's just total propaganda So to me the this conspiracy theory not saying it's true But I could see where where people would believe it you'd have some form of doubt Yeah, because there's a lot of videos right there. Yeah, or you know, the government comes out and says something And this is the greatest thing ever and it's a little bias tons of thumbs down and a few, you know thumbs up And I'm like, I wonder if you know that maybe that's where it came from. My prediction is it doesn't last I don't think they stick with it. I think I consumers like it because consumers like it too much I think that's part of the reason why instagram another to get and by the way, it's because you have a say I think instagram it makes way more sense than youtube like instagram's not used as a search engine It's a popularity contest. Yeah, so I think that it's a it's a cesspool of that You're saying that the dislike is even more important there. Yeah. Yeah, so I think that the the hearts That's what I mean the the likes that you can see. I think people not seeing that That's probably healthier for our society and it doesn't have it doesn't give you as a viewer Like you go on someone's page and whether their last picture got 10,000 likes or five likes Doesn't change the value of the content for you or or your mind nearly as much as youtube No, youtube is a search engine like you search to learn about something for the most part, right? I mean most people are I mean, I know there's some people that are consuming like entertainment stuff But for the most part you're you're trying to learn something and so you use it for that And the likes and dislikes is has tremendous value on Deciding whether I want to listen to it or not back to the sort of tin foil stuff here I I I read this article. I think it was on yahoo That Basically, so the next thing that we should all be concerned with according to bill gates and you know We should have these sort of germ Type of like reenactment scenarios, right germ drills. I forget what they actually call them But basically the next one was that we should be concerned with You know terrorists sort of in airports weaponizing smallpox. Oh nice And so I thought that was you know, interesting concerning. I'm gonna pay attention but also to You know, they're the last four months. I guess, uh, you know, the FDA approved a uh, A new drug for uh smallpox. That's another sort of interesting fun fact to It's like straight out of the movie 007. We just watch. I know, right? Isn't it smallpox that they they weaponize? Oh my god I'm not like super privy on all the like bill gates hate and conspiracy stuff But I am I do know that that before covid they I mean not too far before cove they talk specifically about a coronavirus breakout and what it would look like That's why I think they're getting a lot of like people. So you did a ted talk and everything about it a long time ago And it was more like just sort of awareness of like, you know, globally We need to be able to you know, just you know to play Like it's to be the reasonable side of it is like, you know, he had a lot of concern over You know, they're being a pandemic, you know on some virus form that was kind of like the corona So why I'm gonna play devil's advocate a little bit with the bill gates thing like why why Would he want to put misinformation out there? What what is the motive that he has now? You would think it's to be richer But the guy gives away more money than almost anybody else in the u.s. Okay, so I don't I'm not super privy on it But from what I've read the the thing is that bill gates is like this You know, like what's the bane of the super intelligent and successful, right that they know better than everybody They're there. I'm here to save the world He's an elitist and and he's made comments that we need to shrink the population We in order to save future generations very eugenics ask the comments He's made we have to like decrease the population And so then that's kind of the roots of some of the stuff right like, oh, they want people to die They only want smart people live they want to kill These types of people that's some of the stuff that I've read, but I don't okay So it's because I I was trying to get normally it's like the motive is money Right, that's normally the motive is like to get enriched from something like this Like I'm sure that the politicians that are pushing the vaccine have got stuck in Some of that that makes he does have some incentive there, right? Right. Yeah, that makes but yeah, but at my point That's why I was playing like devil's advocate with him because he's he's one of the guys who gives if he If he wants to be richer, he just hold on to some of his money Like, you know, you don't try and get richer just so you can give away more of your money I think after you making billions of dollars. It's not about money anymore. It's about winning or power Yeah, how can I have more influence and more power? That's why they you know want to fly to mars or be the first Private person on the moon or like it's not about money anymore. Now. It's like, how do I flex? I'm already a billionaire. I'm gonna do this on behalf of everybody else because I know more than that You know what the problem is with these conspiracy theories a lot of them keep kind of turning a little bit true Okay. No, this is true. It is. Did you know this is real now people are spending $8,000 a dose right now for teenage blood. Did you know this is a real thing now? People are asking for Doug, you know anything about this? I know nothing of this You know nothing about this. This is this is real. I'm going to look this up This is a real thing. Look at this People are spending $7,940 a pop for individual shots of Teenage blood. There's a company called ambrosia. How do they give up with that price? That's just the cost of the that's just the average cost of this or whatever $7,940. Yeah, so that's why I say $8,000 We're going to sell these teenagers blood. How much you want to charge? Let's do $7,940 No one will think that's a suspicious price. Apparently it's because in mice they show that young blood injected to older mice The older mice start to Show more signs of youth and energy. I mean, there's so many conspiracy theories around this Experiments like this with multiple animals where they've shown that, you know Transfusions with young blood actually like reverse This has to be one of the best times to be like a sci-fi writer or something. You know what I'm saying? It's like You think it's the worst bro if you're a conspiracy theory, you don't want you didn't want these things to be true Is my no, I so I look I think conspiracy theorists like having conspiracy theories Yeah, but then when they start to come true, those are they're all freaking out right now I guarantee you the worst years for conspiracy theories have been the last couple years. They're in the room like now everything Because now they're thinking all these other crazy ass ideas like have validity to them And so it's like before it's kind of fun like it's entertaining, you know to think okay So you that's I'm on the inside and these nobody knows this crazy stuff behind the curtain But now like, you know, a lot of these things coming true. It's like, oh my god, but now what if this happens? You know, I don't know if I believe that I feel like Uh, I think if you write like a movie like that I think there's a big part of you that believes it. I mean, I think that's why it comes I think that's why it's such it's so well written like when a good futuristic movie or conspiracy theory comes out I don't think those people are like, oh, this will be fun Let's just think of some random ideas that might happen. I think it's like this is where we're going Yeah, how much in movies would you say? Like have you seen or would you think That is actually like stuff that they're just kind of preparing you for in terms of like technology or Things that they already know but the public doesn't know see here's what I think I think that there's different levels of conspiracy theorists There's the ones that really believe it and you know through their actions Oh, I have a bunker and I have a getaway thing and we live off the grid And then there's the majority of conspiracy theorists which like to speculate think it's fun But they don't really think this shit is going to go down and they're all freaking out right now like I belong to a lot of these kind of economics groups on Facebook And they're all you know kind of based on Austrian economics and free markets And they've been talking about the currencies, you know fiat currencies crashing for a long time Well, they're all freaking out right now because this shit looks like it's about to happen Dave really with all this money that they're printing and yeah, and now they're like, oh my god It's actually looks like deliberate. You're like, what's going on? I know so it's kind of hilarious Kind of not At the same time you ever when I brought up by the way, this is a little left turn here But we brought up I brought up the mcdonald's tea Yeah, so I had multiple people that like worked for mcdonald's that messaged me and they're like, oh, you were right It's not as well like measured as far they dump a three pound bag of sugar into the tea tea mix Wow So, you know, whatever they come up with their number for the the macros on the website and stuff like that And like what's really happening in the place Because I tell you when I had my first experience of of tasting that thing It literally it literally tastes like sugar just sugar and then you have a little bit of tea inside Yeah, so somebody confirmed that well well speaking of things that taste good So my daughter But she's 12 and she just got braces about a month ago, but they're doing some pretty extensive work In her mouth. So they're like Opening her palette and there's like a bar in the middle of her upper mouth You know upper jaw and bottom one and poor girl like she's going through this phase right now of it because it's early Where eating is very hard her teeth don't even meet So she can't really chew on anything and it sucks. I'm trying to figure out how to help her She's in pain or whatever So what I'm going to do is I'm going to start using the organifi Vanilla chalk the vanilla protein powder and start making smoothies I'll let you guys know she because she's like anti Anything that's a supplement. I think she's just rebelling against her dad. Now does she do okay with milk and all that? Yes, so I've been giving her milk scrambled eggs because she can because eggs are easy I've been giving her like a you know vitamin to take to make sure her nutrients are high But meat is real hard. She's got to cut it in like tiny little pieces making soups But I'm going to start making her some old school like like smoothies and I'm going to sneak in if she sees me Put the protein powder in she won't have it So I'm going to make it like on the side and then sneak in some vanilla Did you see the mind pump memes that he made of you with the organifi? That's that CGI app or whatever. Is that an app Justin? Is that what that is like the doctor faking stein kind of uh Yeah, you didn't see the one he did of you. It's like you're mixing your organifi up or whatever like that And then the rock one deep fake kind of a So good. It is so good. It's amazing like where it's at right now on I'm assuming your phone or you can just download that Have you done mess with that app? It's the phone. It's a phone app. Oh, wow Oh, so there was this movie is on, um, netflix, you know the one with the rock and with ryan reynolds It was good. Gal Gadot red card, but red something Yeah, red scarlet red. No, I saw it that they were watching it. It was good It's uh, it's uh gal gadot ryan reynolds and the rock the rock So yeah, so you saw in that one scene So they were able to kind of digitally map his face and then face swap, you know on the other side with his I think it's red. Yeah, so it's like it so then it recognized his face and his characteristics in the way he delivered um that that voice But it's getting to that point now where like technology can kind of pinpoint all these little You know minute gestures of your face and be able to like create Fakes like that. You know speaking of wit by the way, that was a good movie. I liked it Speaking of which, you know when they switched over the phones to face recognition, they were like, oh, it's so much better It's not do you know how smart? You know what my kids do? What so if if if they want to go through my phone if i'm taking an app or something What they'll just hold the phone up to my face and then they can open my phone It's so much harder with a thumbprint. Just f y Why do kids always find only crazy? Oh, no, they'll they'll trick me like they'll have my phone and they'll be like, hey, look over here And then I won't even know what they did I'll just like why why do you want me to look and then they'll open my phone Bro, they could do that like apple pay. They're just like, yeah, yeah, I want this. Oh, hey dad. Say cheese. Yeah I never thought it out Well, you know what's weird about that too because leave it to kids. Yeah, there was um, uh So Courtney has it so her it's all set up for her thumbprint and everything for the ipad And like so they can't make any purchases in app And so like Everett figured out that like if he just like moves his his thumb enough like his Thumbprints pretty close to her as apparently he was able to now purchase things like dude So we had to change the whole thing so he couldn't do that. Oh my god Hacking in and yeah, he was getting all these like songs on spotify and all this stuff. Wow Hey speaking of purchases by the way, uh, just want to mention one of our sponsors nci Did you see their money back guarantee that he's going? Yeah Well, we talked about it and I think that he got it I think this is why he's bringing it up again right now Is because we talked about how crazy it is that he does this whole money back guarantee If he can't doesn't get you up to 10,000 dollars, but I think he's doing like a zero down thing with it now Isn't he? Yeah. Yeah, that wasn't like that before so essentially what you invest I don't know exactly how it works, but you'll invest a certain amount for this high level coaching But you don't pay it or or you get it back if you don't make 10,000 dollars Yeah, within a month or something like that of Of working with them or in other words in a month when when your first months That's a crazy guarantee Oh, because the way he did it the way they did it before was you had you had the total like what it would cost for a year And you paid half of it up front And then you did not get billed on the other half until you made 10,000 and now it's zero down Is that what it is? That's what it says in the notes. Oh, wow Yeah, so he's really confident and he's had a lot of success with a lot of these coaches and trainers I tell you what that's a no-brainer if you ask me, you know if somebody says to me If you don't make this amount of money You'll get your I mean you have this kind of a win-win. There's no no way you could lose. Oh, yeah They're passionately working on you know making that achievable and it's like it's everything so actionable And they like make you like take action immediately and like put you on the spot Well, we're slated to go speak At one of their events and is it december? Yeah that we're going on first week of december I think yeah, so we're gonna have some of their top coaches and I think it's in arizona And um should be like a hundred and seventy two hundred coaches and trainers. Yeah, that'll be fun Adam and I are gonna go out and we're gonna speak on rally the troops on different. Yeah topic talk trash about you and dug Yeah, that's normally what we do. I assumed as much You know, I love doing that more than anything because uh, I connect the most with uh, I think with trainers I definitely do I when I see that I think you meant talking trash about dug a job It's a great pastime he's got you like so speaking to trainers is your favorite I you know, I like it because Um, I don't know. I feel like because I know trainers and I know why they do what they do Very rare that you find somebody who became a trainer For any other reason besides the fact that they love fitness and love helping people Yeah, they just love helping people You know, so it's it's not a job where you like if I'm talking to like A bunch of financial advisors, you know, hey raise your hand if you did this because you love Helping people or which or did you guys do this because you want to make a lot of money and everybody raise your hand, right? Trainers and fitness professionals love fitness and love helping people a majority of them That's why they get motivated to do it. So you get this pure Kind of motivation to do what you're doing and this passion That I think is almost unmatched in most other it's almost like a vault if you've ever been a Part of a volunteer group. It's very similar. I've been a part of certain volunteer groups And people when they volunteer for things The passion is so strong and that's I mean, that's why they do it for free Very similar when you see in the fitness space and then if you teach them Through that passion. Here's how you can make this your career And get your clients to succeed and take care of your family. It's like it's incredible. It's a great Um experience. It really is. Hey real quick I want to talk to you about one of the companies that we're invested in and one of our sponsors same company It's called serenity kids now they make baby food and kids snacks That are healthy. 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All right, here comes the rest of the show First question is from flores fr I'd like to focus on my hamstrings and I need recommendations for home gym workouts You know, this is one of the body parts that people will often say is hard to do at home And I think that's because When we think of hamstring exercises, we think of hamstring curls hamstring curl machines Now it is true that if you have a home gym, you probably don't have a hamstring curl machine But here's the good news of all the hamstring exercises you could do hamstring curl machines are Like down way down the list in terms of effectiveness of building strength Functional ability size to your hamstrings The best hamstring exercises are the ones that tend to have you hip hinge stiff legged deadlifts romanian deadlifts Single leg deadlifts like that'll build more muscle and strengthen your hamstrings and leg curls Now if you love leg curls and you want to work specifically on the leg bicep Which is a part of the leg the hamstring that does that and flexes any I like to do hips elevated Leg curls on a physio ball. I'll do them at the end of a hamstring, you know work out and they're really really good Those are those are brutal. What's the other? I what's the name of the one where you like hook your heels underneath? Oh, that's gnarly. What's that? Nordic curl. Is that nordic curls? I think so. Yeah, I think it's called the nordic curl I mean you could do that. There's ways if you want To to do that specific movement that you can just find a way to do it at home But rdl's and good mornings I mean you do rdl's and good mornings for your hamstrings and I guess throw some stability ball leg curls in there And I think I think it's just because of all the muscles It's probably the one that I think as far as your main muscles that everybody trains Uh, has the least amount of machines for yeah, right? If you're all leg curl all variations of what? I always say that the lats were a lot more difficult to address for at-home workouts Being is like you really have to have something like attached to get any kind of pull-up situation or like some cables or something like that Versus you can't use gravity. Yeah So I always found that a little more difficult. But yeah, I could I mean you're right There are like people kind of recognize hamstrings as being attached to those very specific types of machines in the gym So I like curl machine, you know, we don't have that but you can get a pretty nice You know Exercise out of those that you mentioned, you know, I I actually started to notice More development in my hamstrings just from squatting deeper too. Yeah That was like one of those both the the cav and hamstring I got as a a secondary benefit that I was not anticipating from just trying to like when I was working on my squat I was like, oh, I'm gonna do this so I could develop my calves more of my hamstrings But I noticed they developed more just from doing that. I thought that was especially really deep, right? Yeah stabilization that's a mole But a lot of people when they think of hamstrings the average person thinks of you know, flexing the knee, right bending the knee Not realizing that the hamstrings play a huge role in hip hinging And you're gonna get there. It's true that one part of the bicep Excuse me of the hamstring known as the leg bicep Is involved in the flexing of the knee, but it's also involved in stabilizing when you're Hip hinging and then the big part of the hamstring is the hip it hip hinges you So, I mean if you had to pick one exercise For really well developed hamstrings, it wouldn't be leg curls. It would be a Romanian deadlift Yeah, a single leg way more functional way more functional But again, if you want to work that leg curl motion, I dare you try it. I don't even if you go to a gym I challenge you to switch you do Do two hip hinging type hamstring exercises like Romanian deadlifts And maybe like a single leg deadlift and then finish off with your hips elevated Physioball leg curls and and now here's this is true now Most people will feel the hamstrings more with the hips elevated Physioball leg curl than they will on a late car machine because it encourages you to push your hips up And really work those those hamstrings whereas hamstring curl machines Sometimes people bring up their hip flexors to do the now How do you guys feel about this new product? And I've seen a lot of people shown me That is basically looks like a ski boot. Oh monkey feet Yeah, it attaches a dumbbell to basically the heel of your foot. It's just a weighted shoe By the way, it's pretty silly most of this equipment. It's recycles every 10 years. That's like one of the earliest I'm serious One of the earliest pieces of a gym equipment or you know at home fitness equipment We're like weights that you would attach to your wrists and your ankles Just a version of that Well, what's they're showing in the in the commercials is like someone standing They have this dumbbell attached to their shoe like donkey kicks And no, yeah, or they're doing like a single leg curl, you know to do it Which I mean, that's okay, but I'm telling you it's not working the hamstrings But it's like, I mean, I've got most of my female clients deadlifting 200 plus pounds So good luck putting a 200 pound dumbbell on your legs to try to get that same stimulation I think you're going to get that so I think if you're if you get really good at single leg deadlifts RDL's and good mornings You're gonna have well covered. You're covered Next question is from sahr dibbley. How can I back squat more weight? I have good depth, but struggle lifting heavy Okay, so Context really matters, right depends on the person how they're squatting what the weak area is that'll change my advice So I don't know who this person is. I've never seen him squat. I don't know what the workout looks like So I'm going to give general advice That I think is effective for pretty much any Strength goal. Okay, and that's this Practice the particular exercise frequently now. I say practice specifically because I don't mean go out and hammer yourself with squats five days a week You can do that once a week But the other days go out and practice your squat like if you increase the frequency of how much you practice an exercise You will get stronger. I don't care if it's bench press pull-ups Squats if I squat hard one day a week and then the rest of the week I'm doing, you know, five sets and practicing my form my technique and I go lower sometimes Sometimes I go a little heavier lower reps higher reps That practice in in my experience Leads to some of the most rapid strength gains for most people in pretty much any exercise. Yeah, I'm going to kind of Talk about something very specific and this does depend on whether or not you have a squat rack And you have safety bars that you can use for this But I really like this in terms of trying to generate more force and really if you can learn how to generate more force You're going to be able to use that as a way to propel your body and have more strength in your movement So Isometrics are a big part of this and I talk about this a lot I mean and so you can get into pause squats where you're sitting in that squat And usually the bottom is where the weaknesses and driving out of the hole, right? so just to be able to sit in that and squeeze and Really connect to that and try and recruit more in that position is one method but then also setting the safety bars So basically they're at the top and you're pushing up into the safety bar So if I'm at if I'm sitting in my squat and then I'm pushing up and meeting resistance and I'm squeezing as far as I possibly can And not going anywhere You're going to find that that has a lot of generating force ability dude Um along those lines. I've seen someone do this and I think it's absolutely brilliant So I've done that before where you set the safeties you get the bar underneath it and you push up in the safeties The problem is if you get strong You have to put weights on the cage because you'll actually tip the cage over. Oh, yeah So it's not bolted in I've seen someone do this what I'm about to say and I think it's absolutely brilliant So all they and this is such brilliant home gym advanced training, you know set up He put he literally put bolts into the cement So he had two bolts into the cement with like loops on them So it's like I don't know what that's called. It's a bolt with a with a circle loop And then he puts chains around the bar and it's a bolt Yeah, and it attaches various lengths of the chain to the bolt So he gets under the bar the bar is bolted and chain to these bolts and cement and he gets underneath You can only go up so far. You can only go up so far and he squats against that And it's going to hold because it's bolted to the concrete And he could change the how deep or how high he wants to go by the links of the chain I thought that was absolutely brilliant. It's one of the smartest ways to do what you said Which is that you know where you're doing an isometric drive Not moving anywhere. You know what I like about that also is it doesn't damage muscle No, like back out easy. You could do it frequently You could practice something like that three days a week and in different varying, you know depths or whatever And you'll see some serious strength games Well, since we're just we're having fun speculating because we definitely don't have enough information for this question This question. Yeah, let's be honest. I don't know what they're doing. I know we're all like we're all Which is cool because we'll all just doling advice I'll go a different direction right because there's there are so many different ways But uh, I try and think of things that I saw that were all common So when I have somebody who has like a really good deep squat And so it's not like a range of motion thing, but they just cannot load the bar there It's because there's a breakdown somewhere or they have like a really weak core and they can't hold themselves really tight So if you and I like where Justin's going with the whole isometric thing being able to stay contracted and tight through the movement That has I mean, I know for me if uh, if I like don't tighten and brace my core I I'm like night and day difference on how much I move I can move like 50 to 100 more pounds when I'm like I brace really and I'm rigid and I'm tight to the movement because The slightest bit of moving left or right or front to back or your core kind of folding in because it's not any looseness Yeah, you you lose that energy On on a big movement like a back squat So making sure that you have a really tight core and that your rigid is is a good idea Training like the isometrics is going to help Do something like that so practice with something like that although this could be you know a million other things Next question is from fit trucker lady. How would kettlebell swings be put into a program? Is it like cardio strength or conditioning? Uh, all it can be all of them. Yeah, I'll leave above Yeah, if you're doing kettlebell swings for a long time with lightweight Well, now you're doing more conditioning cardio If you do it heavy and explosively You're more strength and power Um, I like to do because it's a relatively ballistic movement like a kettlebell swing is not like most Resistance training movements where you're like controlling the descent Like in fact, if you ever seen a bodybuilder try to do a kettlebell swing They they do it wrong because everything they're used to doing is controlled So they do this weird like forward shoulder raise with the kettlebell. It's definitely different I like to put it personally at the beginning of the workout I'd like to warm up get everything good and loose start my workout with that and then move to my traditional Resistance training exercises. I don't necessarily like to do it at the end because I'm already fatigued at the end And personally I do it more for explosive power Which if I'm at the end, I'm already fatigued. I don't feel like I'm going to get much of that You know at the end of the workout That's my favorite usage of it and I think Hard style is one that resonates with me more because it's very much more of that controlled hip power hip drive and and that's really what a lot of the benefit that I've Acquired from that in terms of like athleticism explosive movement You're going to generate that all from that hip hinging, you know, that driving, you know hip power So Kettlebells are like one of the best tools for that So I like to program it in where I do heavy kettlebell swings for less reps and I'm just very much controlled and It's about it's about just like getting the weight to pendulum where you have maximal control And then you're driving it with all your force at once when you need to so it's a timing thing and it's also A fast loose approach. So I've had the most Benefit with clients that are trying to prime the butt before squats So squatting or deadlifting. So if I'm about to do a hip hinge movement Uh priming beforehand and that looks like a five to ten rep heavier And you're just trying to get them to be able to explode those hips forward And I find it is a good way to help somebody who has a hard time Feeling like squats or deads in their glutes. That's a great exercise. Although I don't I didn't program it a lot Um, I those are the clients that I used it, but I you could do any of the ones that she's suggesting I mean, none of them are wrong I just think it's where you what you what you're trying to accomplish matters the most Of course, right? So if you're trying to burn a bunch of calories and you want to get a good sweat on Then you let's grab a light one and let's do it for five or ten minutes And there's nothing wrong with with doing that if that's what you want to do If you want to really work on your explosiveness from a coming out of the whole of a squat Then I'm going to pick a much heavier weight and I'm only going to do it probably five to ten times On each side something like that. So uh, that's how I would use it when I'd use it for clients When I used to program them If I did a full body workout I would start the full body workout with kettlebell swings after I was primed and warmed up If I did any kind of a split and really the only kinds of split that I've ever really done In the more recent, you know time has been more of an upper lower split If I'm in a deadlift I like to do it before I deadlift Otherwise, it's usually on a lower body day before squats or before lunges Not really before back day unless again, I'm deadlifting But if I'm doing just rows and pull-ups and stuff like that Um, then I'll leave it for the leg day Next question is from steward 75 002 I recently read an article saying that bulking is a young man's game Is there any age where you would recommend not recommend eating in a caloric surplus? Okay, so this I don't read this article, but it's probably referring to the Type of bulking that is the wrong way to bulk right the way that you bulked when you were younger When you didn't track just high calories like all means this Yeah, let's see how much weight I can gain and let's see how much I can eat So that yeah, I agree you get away with that when you're young because when you're older And you eat in a ridiculous surplus with a bunch of garbage food You're gonna damage your health probably a lot more but in terms of bulking the right way, right, which is eating in a surplus To gain muscle and strength or to reverse diet to get the metabolism to boost That works for anybody. I don't care what age you are. I don't care how old you are But the surplus can't be so big where you're just gaining excessive body fat And again, that doesn't matter doesn't matter how old you are You don't want to eat in such a surplus to where yeah, I gained Three pounds of lean body mass, but I also gained, you know, 10 pounds of body fat Well, okay, your surplus is a little too much and you're not training properly I like to keep I like to make sure that the weight that my clients would gain through A bulk was almost all muscle now inevitably depending on the person they would gain some Body fat, but it couldn't make up more than 10 or 15 percent of the total weight that they gain It's like if you gain 10 pounds And you know five of its body fat like your your your surplus a little too high I mean, I'd like to read this article But I'm willing to I mean I I can get behind it because I'm willing to bet their angle they're taking is just Bulking looks different today at 40 than what it did at 25 for me And a lot of that has to do with just my movement You know, I'm a dad now. I have a job where I talk on a mic all day long I sit in a car for two hours a day like Like I just don't burn nowhere near the calories So bulking for me is literally adding a protein shake On top of what my maintenance is or very little do I have to add To put myself in a calorie surplus and so it looks whereas when I was a kid And I know you both can relate to this feeling of like I can't eat enough I mean force feeding peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and slamming these whole milk shakes because I'm playing basketball. I'm training eight to ten clients a day. I'm running around with my friends Like I'm on the weekends. I'm doing active sport stuff Like I just was burning so many calories that and I think that I was probably the common young teenage boy who is active and into sports and stuff like that You just burn a ton of calories. And so I think that's Where probably this is coming from and then as you get into your 30s and 40s and beyond There's very few men at that age are probably moving as much as what you were when you were 20 years old Yeah, and also when you're younger your training program at least mine wasn't as smart I didn't understand. I over trained often. I went to failure and my lifts too much did too much With my workouts. So my workouts weren't sending the best signal So it was all about how many calories I could get in to see the scale move And I also didn't Care if it was body fat or muscle because I grew up skinny For me like a pound on the scale was a pound on the scale And I didn't care. So I you know, my decisions were like, oh my god. I'm so stuffed after lunch How can I force more calories in? Oh, I'll eat a bag of skittles or I'll drink some coke, right? Or I'm going to go to the fast food place and supersize everything and then I'll get those extra calories That kind of bulking isn't good for anyone Now the reason why it may be a young man's game is you get away with it more when you're younger That was the point that I was trying to make. Yeah, but proper bulking is proper bulking whether you're young or old It's you have to send the right signal The body has to want to build muscle and then you give it enough calories to do that and not too many over Because then you just gain body fat Well, and I think too it's just like generally as you get older like the the game really is like I don't want to add any more weight, you know, like and I want to it You've you've done a really good job of figuring out how to consume calories and not move quite as much And so like your lifestyle is completely different than it was You know, maybe when you're more dialed in and you're younger and like, yeah the margin of error was Uh, you know, not quite as slim, which is now it's like every little thing you have to like Be a little bit more dialed in so I think just taking in all those factors like you mentioned in terms of our Uh, what that looks like now activity level wise your your consistency Uh, how hard you're really getting after it in the gym all these types of things are going to you know Play a factor in terms of how far you're going to push that. Yeah And one thing you said is very true When I was younger and I think as people get older they tend to become a little bit more obviously mature but less insecure And I Didn't care. I just wanted to get bigger Now even if I had the ability to just gain like as much muscle as I wanted I wouldn't want to go to the point where I was uncomfortable. Whereas when I was young reading care I'd be as uncomfortable as hell Couldn't breathe didn't fit in me. You know, I that was great. I was because it totally fed to my insecurity Now I'd be unhappy. I don't want to feel like I can't move and I'm uncomfortable Yeah, you know, so it's just one of those things. Look if you like our information Head over to mind pump free.com and check out all of our guides So we have guides that can help you build muscle or burn body fat or just improve your health And much more again, it's mind pump free.com. You can also find all of us on instagram So justin is that mind pump justin? 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