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Yeah, he's just got like a handkerchief randomly. I mean seriously, honestly, it's that and like playing like a piano or something. Like, oh, there's a piano in the house. Let me see that real quick. Yeah, all the girls. I mean it's for the parlor trick stuff. You know what? I actually was interested in it because they know a lot of illusions and it'd be interesting to manipulate people. Yeah, I feel like now I know why you watch those cult movies. Yeah, I feel like they use all the same techniques and slide a hand and all that kind of stuff. I feel like some people are on that level and you don't realize I wonder what they're messing with you. What do you think the percentage of cult leaders also practice magic when they were kids? What would you call it? Magicry? I think it's all wrapped into the whole cult thing. Maybe. That's what I think. I could see that though. I could see like someone as talented as David Blaine because I've seen like subliminal messaging and like all this kind of stuff is all like together. They should do a where are they now for that? Yeah, you know, where are the cult leaders? Where are they now? They're dead. You guys have seen David Blaine's specials, right? Some of the stuff he does doesn't make any sense. Here, cut that orange. Thank you for bringing him up because I did watch his latest thing on YouTube and it was about... He's got a new one? Yeah, well, it was him basically. He did this for his daughter, which I, you know, it's cute or whatever. Like he was basically like up with balloons. So he tied himself to like all these huge balloons and flew up into the atmosphere and basically like released himself from like way beyond where planes fly and fell down and basically found his way back through his like parachute back to safety, but it was so boring. It's just like the whole thing was a setup for him to float with balloons. I'm like, where's the cool shit? Wait, wait, so Blaine, he held enough balloons to take him up, which is, I mean, again, that's a lot of balloons. It was crazy for Justin. Yes, it was a whole lot of balloons. Big, huge balloons. Yeah. How many balloons do you think that would take? Depends who it is. That's what I'm saying. Doug, we'd give him like a couple hundred, but they were like, they would fill up this whole room. You know, like a few of them. Doug can't even bring his daughter birthday balloons. Just three. Yeah, just three. That's all I can do. How many balloons was it like for your daughter's birthday? Yeah, how old is she? How strong are those balloons again? So that one was a flop because he usually does like the really cool stuff where he'll throw a car and all of a sudden it'll land like on the inside of a bus go by or something. Yes. You're like, what the fuck? So, so the part that is the coolest of that magic stuff is the street magic. That's always my favorite, the weird shit. And then the people's reactions. So there's always the people. There's always the guy that gets so freaked out. He runs away. You know what I mean? I love that. Oh my God. Well, he does that one where he tells you to, you know, think about somebody who's like really special to you. He burns something. Yeah, spray paints it. That's what I'm saying. So imagine if you had that ability to do magic like that and you wanted to start a cult. Hail easy. Yeah, you're totally right. Dude, if I could levitate, I'm getting some some followers for sure. You know what I mean? Yeah, because the next level is like, what made you? What made you think about magicians? What were that come on earlier? We were talking about magic. I don't remember what you said. You were singing magic or something like that. Yeah, that was interesting. Was it? Yeah, but most of these magicians doing the tricks at the bar for the girls. It's super lame. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not doing anything cool. No, but I think if you had a party, a trick like that would be, I don't know. I don't know. I think it'd be cool. No. No, I'll crush it at you. Well, wow. Yeah. Wow, dude, Mr. David Blaine. You're such a dig. I'm just like, get that out of here. It's the same guy that's playing the music on his acoustic guitar. And he's like, you know, thinks he's John Mayer. Yeah, you're probably right. Stop it. I think you're right. Yeah, I will smash that. What's speaking of stuff on, you know, new things that we're watching or what? I watched a movie that you recommended a while ago and I can't remember the name of it. It was something about the Wilderman. Oh, yeah, the one that had the... Doug, can you look it up? Ricky Baker, uh-huh. Ricky Baker. Oh, dude, I can't recommend this movie enough. That's the same guy who wrote Jojo Rabbit, right? Yeah, same guy. It was so good. It was hilarious. So underrated. It was so good. It was amazing. I watched it with the whole family. I totally stumbled trying to explain that one to you guys and totally pitched it wrong, but it's, yeah, it's amazing. You, Doug, have you seen this yet? I haven't. Yeah, it's something the Wilderman. What are you doing over there? Why are you so behind? What's going on over there? I'm making sure everything's recording over here. That's probably a good idea. There's a lot of stuff out there. It looks a little frazzled over there. Oh, yeah. A little frazzled dazzle. Don't mess with Doug. I got some power here. You and your mustard-colored jorts over there. I like those. Yeah. Are you actually cool? Are you trying to get your legs darker, Doug? Is that why you're wearing shorts? Yes. Yeah. Very bright in here. Yeah. Yeah. I would light up this whole room. Do you know what, do you know what one those are? Those are those the, what, Viori shorts are those? These are core shorts. Those are the ones you like. Those aren't the same ones as you, right, Justin? Yeah, I like the core. Yeah. Oh, you do. So, you know, we recently hung out this weekend with, talking about Viori, Jesse, right? Yeah, Jesse. Jesse came out to the truckie spot. Great guy. I love that guy by the way. No, yeah, no, we hit it off. He, he rolls up and he's rocking the Viori. The ripstop. Yeah. Viori pants, which I have three pairs of those. You never see me wear them though, because I actually prefer like a tapered bottom. So, there's pictures of me and my Instagram where we did the mirror talk and you can see me tight roll. Like pegged them. Yeah, I used to peg them because I like, I prefer them all, you know, tight. Boy, does that mean something different these days? I tell you. I mean, yeah. We're, we're, what's Adam doing there? Oh, he's pegging. He's pegging his pants. Leave him alone. Where's your mind? That's intense. My bad. So homeboy has got his, with a, you know, like elastic on the bottom. And I'm like, what Viori pants are those? And then he tells me that he went, so I actually have Jerry tracked me down to Taylor. So I'm going to do the same thing. Yeah. And I'm, I've already got, I've already got. You like that. You like the pants to be tight at the ankle. Yeah. I love, that was like one of my favorites. So, you know, that obviously it's a style that was around back when we were kids. Yeah. And there's been many, I mean, most people that are Doug's age and beyond would tell you that styles come in and out, right? Like every probably decade or two decades. Doug's like, I remember one that Wally Mammoth was in style. We used to wear pelts. Doug, I mean, no, seriously though, correct me if I'm wrong, Doug. Don't you feel that way? You've been around a little bit. So recycled. It is, right? It's true. Like I see 90, I see kids now wearing stuff from the 90s all the time. Yeah, mine was like the big cuffs, like the ones with the dark jeans. So it was a 50 style kind of, but yeah. The paint was the whole thing. They all, I mean, most everything kind of is, most everything's recycled. Now some things I don't think should be recycled that comes back around and like, oh, that should have stayed back. Yeah, I said the fanny pack and then here we are in the fanny pack. I see it all over the place now. Do you really? Yeah, in its defense, it has some utility. That's true. Because they care their drugs in there. That's what people do. Everybody with a fanny pack is good. Pretty sure they got either chalk or drugs. Yeah. I mean, it has some utility. But anyways, the, you know, the tight roll jeans thing, like, so I have an email out to Joe and we talked maybe a year and a half or so ago about doing some sort of a collaboration with Viori. And so I think this is perfect. The fact that I never even thought of that, I'm gonna go get them done myself, but I'll see if I can convince him to. Now, what is it about the tight around the ankle feeling that you like? I don't know if what it is for other people, but I know why I like it. He wants to show off his ankles. Well, no, it's your sneakers. Part of it. Right? So like one of my least, That makes so much sense. My least favorite style. Like what the hell's he used to wearing at least a million pairs of sneakers? That's right. I get it. I remember when the style of like the big, like Jinko jeans, like that's a waste. Can't be a sneaker head and wear Jinko's. That's just like, that's an oxymoron, right? I wear wheelies with those, right? So yeah, I want, like, so if you're into sneakers, I like the tight roll because it can totally makes the sneakers pop. I don't even think of that. The only thing I don't like about. And they're comfortable. The only thing I don't like about when it's tight around the ankles is if it comes up, then you gotta always pull them down and fix them. You know what I mean? It'll get a little caught a little higher. Who's gonna fix the problem of wearing shirts and the back part of the shirt that rides up every time, like I just, I'm walking around. That's just when you got back, bro. Baby got back. It just pulls up and I'm like, oh, that's just you with all that junk on your back. Hey, you know what? Maybe I should highlight it and get a tattoo there. You know what they should make for Justin? They should make t-shirts that, like they snap under, like a little baby. You know how babies have those closed? Like my son, he wears a little fuzzy. So it snaps underneath. Just one that snaps right there. It'll never come untuck. That's a good idea. The only problem is when you're ready to do it with the girl and all the wife, you pull them down. That's it. It might be like one extra step. Yeah. The movie was called Hunt for the Wilder People. I want everybody to know that. I know. It's a hard one to remember. Such a good movie. So, so good. Yeah, it was awesome. Is it relatively new? I don't think it is. And it's on... It's like a year old, maybe? Yeah. A year or two old? I don't even recognize it at all. 2016. Oh wow, it's that old. Oh wow. So I would have never watched it. I would have never watched it except for Justin brought it up. And so I said, let's give it a shot. Is it Wilder People or Wilder People, like Wilderness? Maybe Wilder People. Yeah, but it was really, really, really good. Anyways, back to... I'm sorry, no, sorry. I was gonna say back to style. I can't wait till they bring down low-rise jeans. I'm the high-rise jeans that... I don't like them. Do you guys like them? On chicks? Yeah, I don't like them. Like they're way up here. Like what are you doing? The low-rise stuff that looked, I thought a lot better. Yes and no. I mean, I guess it just depends on... I think different styles look better on different body types, right? So if you have like certain looks, I think. So if you have... So what's good for the high, then? Like if you have a longer butt. Or you got long butt. If you're serious, if you have a longer butt. You're right about long butt. If you have a longer butt, I think it looks better to have the high-rise jeans. If you have like a small bubbly butt, I think the low-rise jeans look better. It's just my opinion. I'm not... I mean for the form fit. I don't know that. I mean, that's... I mean, don't you guys don't think... I think like certain styles look... I mean, a good... If you've never had somebody like help you, like dress you, what they're supposed to do is... The high ones look a little like a mom to me. Totally, like mom jeans. Yeah, I don't like it. Yeah, but then they cut the bottom so low. Well, then that's different. The paws hanging out. Oh, that's not like... That's not jeans, though. That's shorts, dude, you're talking about shorts. I'm not talking about shorts. Yeah, and I'm talking about the jeans, and they're so high, I've actually seen them like they're up to here. It looks weird. And you see this with like workout clothes. Like they're like way up here and they'll wear like a half-shirt, but it's like the pants are way up here. It's weird. It's very indecisive. Yeah, pants or is it shirt? What is it? I don't know. I think it's all, you know, maybe Vic can jump in over here. Like I think it's all about figuring out your body ties and like what? Are they like completely lost right now? How are they lost? Vicky, low rise or high rise? What's your deal? I like low rise. Low rise, boom. And you know what? High rise because they have a tummy. See, she's saying if you got the tummy, then you want the tummy. Tuck everything in. Tuck everything in. Yeah, keeps it all tight. It's like spanks on your pants. Yeah. Essentially is what the deal is. Anyway, hey, I wanted to thank you guys before I forget for coming to the baptism this weekend. Oh yeah. It's great. Good reason to actually put some nice clothes on it. Yeah, really special time. It was a really special time having people. And you know, we just now started having family functions again with, you know, family and stuff. And we speculated this during the whole pandemic. We speculated that when we came out of it, we would value time together a little bit differently because we weren't together for a while. And it does. This is like only the second time that my family kind of, you know, my extended family kind of got together. And it's just, I found myself several times just stopping and looking at everybody and just feeling so much gratitude. Your family is very easy to get along with too. Yeah, they're all pretty, like easy to talk to and pretty cool. Thank you. Yeah, they're really, really good people. We're super blessed. But it was a nice ceremony. It's definitely a special time. I saw it. Did you get a workout with Father Steve afterwards? Dude, okay, so I got to tell the story because I blown away with gratitude, right? So we were planning the baptism. And Jessica goes, hey, do you think Father, so Father Steve is the producer for the Word on Fire company, essentially. Word on Fire, Bishop Barron heads that, like a big production company. They're huge, they're very busy and they're based out of Santa Barbara. So it's not like they're near us. They have to fly up here. She says, do you think Father Steve would come up and I'm like, oh man, I'm almost embarrassed to ask him because, but okay, I'll give a shot. So I asked him and he's like, absolutely, I'll be up there. So he actually flew up. This is just for people to know, flew up just for the ceremony and for the reception. So I'm super, super grateful for that. But anyway, Father Steve is jacked. This dude's bodybuilder. He's the buffest priest I've ever seen. He's competed before. He's been working out since he was like 14 years old. Yeah, he's done like three shows. Yeah, and when back when we interviewed Bishop Barron the first time, I remember when we went down, we noticed right away. We're like, what the heck's going on here? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he comes up, he does the whole thing, super cool guy, very, very intelligent by the way, at one point my uncle, this part made me a little bit like, I rolled my eyes, but I'm like, whatever. So my uncle is super counter, contrary, whatever the hell you are type of person. So immediately he goes to Father Steve and I knew what he was doing. He was gonna have all this religious debate. Sure enough. He played devil's advocate. Oh dude, the whole time. Really? Yeah, so afterwards I'm like, Father Steve, I'm sorry about that. He's like, no, it's okay. You know, I get it all the time. So we had a good discussion. So I'm like, that's cool. But anyway, I asked him if he'd wanna work out afterwards and he's like, absolutely, so I thought it was super cool. So we came over here, opened up the studio, lifted some weights, he got a crazy pump. He's all, he's all checked out. I mean, the first thing he did was dead left, some of the guests. No, no, no, no, no. It was honestly, okay, so here's the deal. You guys know as well as I do, when you work out with other very serious, very experienced people, you go to the gym, what do you end up doing? You end up, yeah, you respect each other, right? You do your thing and then maybe in between sets, you'll say a few words and then you go do your thing. It was totally like that. Kay, tell me how you chose the music selection. Oh yeah. That must have been like an awkward moment, right? You can't do like full satanic, you know, you gotta calm down a little bit. Can I put sepulcher on right now, or is that a little weird? 100%, I looked at my phone and I'm like, what do I put on? So I put, first I put 90s alternative, right? All right. I see where you're going though. Not even close, right? Not even close to what I work out. And then we're listening to it and it's like, it's all right, you know? And then I'm like, oh man, I gotta switch it to something. Be the best ever, are you gonna listen to this TV bomber shit all day or what? You start listening to ACDC, everything's cool till hell's bells come on. No! So then I put rage against the machine on and that worked pretty well. Did you really? It did. And he's funny by the way. He'll tell you straight up and he doesn't care or whatever, so super cool. So we had a great workout. Then I showed him the Viking press because he never used it before. So I was like, what's this thing? Game changer. Yes, and he's like, this is one of the smoothest machines. And then we started talking about bodybuilding history and resistance training history. And he brought up some interesting observations. I thought this was so cool. He goes, and he understands because he's lived in gyms for his whole life. He's been working out forever. And he says, you know, he goes, Sal, let me ask you this. He goes, name one of the most diverse, integrated, friendly places that you can think about. And I didn't know where he was going. So I'm like, oh, gym. And he goes, the weight room. And I'm like, dude, you're absolutely right. 100%. If you go to a hardcore gym in the weight room, you'll find people from all walks of life, you'll find people, different nationalities, races, doesn't matter. Believes everything. And everybody's there working out. And we've talked about this before. There's this widespread stereotype belief that the weight room is intimidating because everybody's a dick in there, but it's actually the opposite. And he said the same thing. He goes, you, he goes, when I would first go work out and I'm some skinny kid, I don't know what I'm doing or what. He goes, the friendliest, most helpful people were in there and I fell in love with the environment. Totally true. Yeah, all the serious people are trying to get better and they know the value of it. And so they want to almost evangelize that to anybody else coming in. Yes, yes. And then we also talked about how, in particular strength training, is this personal growth tool that is unassuming. Like nobody realizes that they're actually going to embark on personal growth when they do it. But if you do it long enough, it's like you have to be growth minded. Lessons of the iron. Yes, totally. So it was really, really cool. And we're talking about the meditative aspects of it and stuff and just totally nerded out together. There's a lot of parallels there. Yeah, it was super pumped. So I'm excited. I can't wait to work out with Joey. You know, Joey's part of the team and he's the really strong one. Really big guy, too. Yeah, he's the one I see deadlifting all the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we had a lot of fun with that. So you guys weren't working out on the tonal, huh? No. I'm pretty sure. Now you've got a full workout in. What'd you think? Yeah, I tried it, too. What'd you think? So, I don't know if I should come out completely with, I feel like I should. Talk about the positives first and then we'll go into it. Yeah, yeah. Well, first of all, I only have done one. So I did the test, like, kind of figure out, because there's a lot of cool things about this, by the way. Like, I love the idea that they have this, the first mode that you get in is basically, they do four or five basic movements. And it's really just to gauge your strength. So the machine automatically calibrates. I thought that was so valuable. Yeah, this is really cool. Another thing that's really cool is. Because that's a hard thing for people when they first start. And you know this as a trainer. It's like, how much do I lift? I don't know what the right amount weight is. And like, so whatever. And I actually chose a routine from like a strength phase. I actually followed our buddy, Paul, and did one of his strength routines. And they have like this, the variable resistance set up as if it was chains. So the idea was that when I was benching, it felt like I had chains on them. It got heavier as you extended. Yeah, yeah. And then on top of that, another thing I really like is that if like, let's say that I was doing a set of eight, you get your eight because the machine will adjust to make sure you finish all your reps. So you never guess the wrong weight. So it's not like you go, you know, you put, sometimes you put on the bar like, oh, I have eight reps. This is what I think I'm gonna do. And then you get in and you're like, oh shit, six is all I got. You'll complete your eight because the machine will keep lightening up for you to, it feels your tempo. The resistance adjusts on the fly. Yeah. And then it has this, I also really liked how it has the release and set. So they have these little buttons on the thumb so I can get in a position right where I wanna start with no weight and then I hit the button and then it loads it. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah. Okay, so if you're like trying to pick it up to get in a position, sometimes it's already. Yeah. Or like if you're thinking about getting down. I like doing flies even. I was like reaching back for it. Right. That would have been a problem. Oh, I didn't notice that. Yeah, and then when you're done, you hit it and it releases the weight. So that's really cool. Now, before I criticize it, I think it's only fair that I say that I've only done one routine and I promise I'll do more. But I will say very disappointed in the legs. In fact, I did a full body strength routine and I had deadlifts and goblet, they call them goblet squats on it, but it was like a goblet lunge on there. And here's the problem with this machine is that you have to hold, that you're holding these cables. First of all, it only goes up to about 200 pounds. But the 200 pounds feels, doesn't feel like 200 pounds. It feels a lot heavier for sure. But you end up getting an arm and shoulder pump to hold. Because you're isometrically just straining. Yeah, you gotta hold a cable that I, you know, that I put up to like 100 pounds. Yeah. And so- So that becomes the weak link. Yeah. Is there a barbell attachment for it? So there is a bar. Well, there is a bar. I don't know if they use that to squat because that wasn't in my routine. So the two leg exercises that I was supposed to do in my routine was this, what they called a goblet squat, it was like a goblet reverse lunge. And then a deadlift. And the deadlift was way too easy. It wasn't a full enough range of motion because where the cables come up, it's already a good like, I don't know, foot plus off the ground. And then also I couldn't load it very much. So I'd literally, and then the other thing, another critique, it was I wanted to run a strength program or strength phase since that's kind of what I'm running right now. And it still felt like it reminded me of Orange Theory with the tempo. Just, you know, it starts off with this, get your heart rate going, like basic general stretches and get you going. And then it goes in the routine and the rest periods are very short. I mean, you're literally moving to set the machine up. There's never a time where I'm like, I was sitting and resting for a full minute. It's like, you were constantly moving. And so- It's like cardio pace. Yeah, I was, by 10, 15 minutes in, I was drenched in sweat. And it's supposed to be a strength routine. So I didn't feel like I didn't get sore at all on my legs. It was, didn't even feel like I worked my legs out. My upper body felt good. It was a great upper body pump. So, you know, my, and my initial like, you know, criticism of it is still early until I do some more to, I think, circle back. But for $3,500 and $50 a month, it's a real interesting- I wonder if they, you've done those like belt, strapped squats. I'm wondering if they could evolve that a little bit more and get maybe a lower angle so you could attach a belt around it. It would be so much better. I don't see you on a platform. Yeah, like a platform with that, because I feel like that would, the angle would just be better in terms of how it pulls you. If you were not, I don't, I mean, I was, I was teasing off-air with Justin. I said, yeah, you know, if you're rich and weak, it's a pretty cool machine. That's what I said, offending everybody who has one, by the way. It's got a great UI, you know, the user experience is cool. Yeah, so for me, because I did use it a little bit, it was extremely smooth. The way that the resistance adjusts is, in my opinion, a breakthrough. I've never used anything that adjusts that well. I've used machines where the negative is heavier than the positive, but it's always jerky. It's always not smooth. Yeah, they figured that out. They figured that out. The UI, I mean, very integrative. The thing is though, at that price point, you can get a full badass PRX setup. That's okay. Yes, it will not, this is, again, we're speaking from position of trainers. It's not gonna replace Dumbbell's adjustable bench barbell. No. That's still, in my opinion, the best setup. But that's the idea, though. The idea is that it does replace that. That's really what they're trying to do. Well, think about the average person who- That's only so much range to it. Yes, and think about the average person who knows nothing about resistance training. I could see it having some value in that sense. Oh, definitely, no. If you don't really train legs much and you don't have a strong lower half and you are new to exercise and you have limited space and you have lots of money, I'd see, like, cool, you know? Why not? Now, I could see this. I could see, let's say you have a setup. You have your squat rack, you have your bench, your Dumbbell's, barbell, and you wanna add a cable apparatus and you don't have a lot of space and you don't mind the price tag. I could see it being a nice addition because you could do all your cable exercises on that. No, totally. I mean, we, probably the second most used piece of equipment in our gym is our free motion machine. But it takes up more space. Yeah, it's massive. So, I mean, for that, and I don't... How much is a free motion brand now? Brand new, they're close to 10 grand, right, Doug? I've got a new guy. I don't know that off the top of my head, but I'll find out. We got, well, what are you doing with her, guy? Yeah, I think it's five grand. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, yes. Yeah, no, they're expensive. We bought ours used from somebody, so we got, like, a really good deal on ours, but brand new. Yeah, so for a cable setup in your house, for that price, and you want cables, I think it's valuable. If you have the other equipment, if you're advanced, I can see that value. Yeah, I mean, I definitely think that, I mean, well, we're all Jimmidiots, right? So, we fucking love all this stuff. So, yeah, you would, I could see me owning that too, you know, because I've got the PRX set up already, and like you said, go ahead, Doug. I can get a refurbished one for $3,500. Refurbished, even that's refurbished. Brand new, it's a lot more than that. Right, right. And they take up a lot of space, they're super heavy. I believe if I understand this correctly, after you've done the year membership, you still can use the machine, you just don't get the coaching that comes involved. Oh, so you still have the access to the resistance and all that stuff? Yeah. That's not bad. But I mean, you're talking about a minimum $4,000 investment, right? $3,500 and then the membership for one year. Now, do they put the upfront on monthly fee as well? Can you do it that way also? I don't know. I didn't pay for it. Okay. Yeah, I know. I mean, it's just, if you've got the money to spend, you've got limited space, I can see doing some of this, but I'm extremely disappointed so far in the lower body stuff. And again, also the problem that I had when I was working at Orange Theory was that the type of training that appeals to is the people that love to do this circuit type of training, and I feel like this is playing right into that also. It's these- That's not resistance training. But the thing that is better than Orange Theory or the other modalities, right, is that the machine at least controls it. You have to do a strength test and so it'll adjust it and give you some good resistance. So I do like that. I like that it's going to push probably people that wouldn't push themselves as much in the strength, but they're still, the rest periods are so short. The rest periods are so short, it's still doing this whole keep it moving, like, and then the lower half just kind of lags. Well, I had a pretty crazy like epiphany. Well, it was definitely something that I've been sort of constructing, but kind of loosely. So my kids have been in gymnastics and I was based off of every interview we've done with strength conditioning coaches. I was like, I picked up a lot that gymnastics or some kind of martial art or something where it was like a mix of a lot of different movements and really proprioceptively based. So, understanding how to control themselves and their body and space. So it's an ideal way to start kids to start. And so I've been very team sports guy, like team sports. And so I was getting a little depressed because through this whole COVID and everything else, they've been completely turned off to team sports. And this is what kind of drew me back to try and help with the high school to kind of spark some motivation there again. But we were out at this park and we do this every Sunday now. We bring everybody out to this park and we kind of play and throw the ball around and whatnot. And I was playing catch and both boys like literally could throw the ball like 10 more yards than they did before. They were running with like crazy speed that I hadn't seen before. Like their whole body had changed and their athleticism is way better than it used to be. So what about that, dude? I'm serious. You attribute that to the gymnastics. Gymnastics because they're working with handstands. They're having all in the rings. They're doing front flips, back flips. So, but you understand how hard, like I had to coach every little nuance when I was coaching Little League of how to position their body, to be in split stance, to throw it back with their shoulder all the way back and all this type of stuff. And all of a sudden now it's like intuitive. Like they get it. And I was like, whoa, this is crazy. It's not that different than those tricks that I think I remember or I figured out with even with adults, right? So if I got a client that was in their late 40s and they never played sports and they never strength trained before, this is where I love stability type exercises because what ends up happening when you focus them on stabilizing their body, they have to be more aware of their body and space. It just kind of, it gets them focused on every part of their body because they have to or they fall over, they tip over because they're trying to stabilize. It teaches the whole body to communicate. And then you see the progression. And so I know that we've seen a lot of coaches and trainers harp on that style of training, like the whole, because I do believe that the pendulum swung that way and went crazy, but there is a place where I see a tremendous value, especially with somebody who's just learning mechanics and trying to move because it's a similar progression. Yeah, I mean, there were like Gumby before that. You know, you'd see a lot of loose limbs and the way that they were running was just very all over the place and their body would swing one direction and they try and over correct. And now it's just like, boom, everything's tight and controlled and intentional. And I was just like, this is crazy. Like I was like sitting there watching as just a parent and a trainer. Like this, like, wow, this is like a transformation. Yeah, we used to say you're in your body or you're not in your body. It's like that body awareness. And it's funny because if you don't practice movement with your body, it's almost like you don't have that familiarity. You don't know how to. So people are like, I know my body, I'm on my body. And then you watch a move and it's not doing what they think it's doing or they don't even know what they're supposed to do. Gymnastics is all, I mean, in martial arts they talk about this. So like you see like jujitsu instructors, they'll say, Oh, put your kids in gymnastics. You'll see this with Taekwondo instructors. Now, you know, all athletic trainers. It's just really good for teaching. And then because when they're young, there's like a window of opportunity to learn this. And once you surpass a certain age, I mean, you can always improve your body awareness, but you'll never be able to accomplish what you did as a kid. It's like those, it's like learning a language as a child. Yeah. Well, I'm just starting to see the fruits of it. So it was just, it was exciting. I was hammering these things so many times and it just now clicked. Now are the boys, are they gonna continue? What's the plan? Yeah, so they're now in a stage where they can compete with this, I guess. So they do trampoline skills and things that they've learned all these different types of flips and brawnies and whatever the hell you call them. I'm like learning all this stuff. And I'm like, what is this? As long as you don't have ribbons, you know? Like I'll show up. It's fine, you know? They'll do rings and stuff. What's wrong with the ribbons, huh? I'm just saying, you know, that's a different level. Like you gotta have music and you gotta be coordinated with anyone. Yeah, I'm not into the ribbon thing. Throw it in the air and catch it. So what would you say? Because I know Everett is more, your youngest son is more like you, right? Yeah. Now what are you seeing right now in gymnastics? Is he picking it up as fast or faster than Ethan? Are they kind of equal? Like what are you seeing? Yeah, he is really strong. Like he's just really strong and he gets it, but he's really stubborn and hard on himself. So like he's a lot harder to coach for the coaches because he just like, you know, like let me figure this out. You know, so which I see in myself a lot too, which is I was very uncoachable sometimes. But Ethan actually, I've seen a massive transformation with Ethan the most because I think it was just the lack of strength, especially in the upper body. When you go to shoot a basketball or when you go to throw a football, it was just this kind of looseness there that would completely ruin the amount of power output that he was potentially capable of. Now was this at the baptism when you guys were on the grass, throwing the football and stuff? Is that when you were seeing all this? No, no, that was after that. But yeah, I mean, they haven't wanted to play catch with me now, this is a new thing. So that's why I'm like, ah. Oh, that's so, speaking of which, by the way, I didn't even tell you guys. So my family hasn't seen you guys in person in a while, right? How long has it been since the last time? A year. Was it Vegas? Or Vegas even longer? Like two or three years. So at some point, almost every one of my cousins came over to me and was like, man, everybody looks really good. So everybody was saying how fit you guys all look. Yeah, thanks, YouTube. Yeah, you motivated us. Yeah, which is really, you know, it was really nice to hear from them. So yeah, there you go. We are a fitness podcast. Speaking of a fit and diet, how's the nutrition going? Are you guys doing anything different or is it staying on the same kind of? Yeah, I'm just gradually kind of trying to stay as consistent as possible. I mean, there's the occasional little hiccup, but I've lot less these days. So it's just really sticking with sort of more heavy on the protein and the meats and cutting out a bit of carbs. Now, have you gotten to the point yet, because I'm getting there now, but have you gotten to the point yet where you're having to figure out ways to stave off like cravings and hunger? Has it gotten there yet? Where you're feeling like, oh. He ain't that serious, bro. This guy's like, you know, you're resisting really hard and you're struggling at night. What do I do? What do I do? I'm like an all-in or all-out guy, dude. I don't really fuck around with the whole like, oh, I just need it. I need that buttercup. Shut up. Yeah, sit there just. So you don't do anything like you, okay, I don't add them up. I just said like, shut up. But you know, I just tell myself to shut up. Okay, well, that's a nice tip to give the audience. Tell your face to shut up, you'll be fine. Shut up, face hole. Sal's trying to give you assistance. I know, man. I was trying to get you to come up with some tips. I don't know if I'll fuck you, though. So, okay, I'll give you one because it's okay. You can either try Justin's method, which is tell your face to shut up. Or, no, here's what I did. So what I've done in the past is I'll get like seltzer water and I'll add a little lime and it usually does a good job. You know what I mean? You know what, I have been doing that to cut down my alcohol, so. Okay, there you go. Thank you. Yeah, for alcohol, always gotta do something. I gotta do something for that. So here's something else I've done. So the green juice from Organifi, a packet, 30 calories, if you add that to like a gallon of water and ice and you sip on that, it really does a good job with the appetite because it tastes good. Have you made the popsicles yet? I haven't done the popsicles yet. I did that one time for the kids and it actually, it was indistinguishable. They were like, ooh, this is good. And then they found out what it was and they were like, meh. Oh, I hate that. Did you guys, speaking of Organifi, did you guys see Ben Greenfield's post with the red juice yet? No, what'd he do? Oh, you haven't seen that? Did he put it in his butt? No. He always puts things in his butt. Everything's up his butt. No. This is so true. I swear to God, everything. He always ends up there. Oh, you drink coffee? I put it on my butt. Oh, you take supplement? I put it on my butt. Listen to this. Although the very next story, I do believe it was his coffee. And then live on it. It's funny you're bringing that up. No, he was using the red powder as a meat marinade. Like a seasoning of meat. Yeah. Go to his Instagram, Doug. I'm trying to think of what that would taste like. Look back maybe, I don't know, four or five. It was just recently. I'm trying to think of how that would taste. See if you can, can you find the one I'm talking about right now or do you see? So you could like, oh my God. What else did he put in that rub? Ben's Instagram is great. Okay. Yeah, there it is right there. Look at this. So he just puts it on as a rub? Look how much he, yeah, like, well, not really as a rub, because it was already in the skillet, I believe, when he did this. But he dumps a ton on there. Interesting. I wonder what that tastes like. He says it tastes really good. Look at what he does there. Because it tastes like, how would you explain the red juice? It's like a berry. It's like a beet. It tastes like beet. Well, no, but it's sweet though. Real sweet. Yeah, it's not like that sweet flavor. Beets are sweet. You don't think beets are sweet? Oh, he's like, wow. Look at all that, right? Now do you think he's, that legit tastes good? Or do you think he's just trying to come up with a way? Well, I mean, I'm sure, I'm sure everyone's going to try it. If it was terrible, he'd call him out on it. I want to try it, but if it doesn't taste good, I'm gonna be real mad at Waston. I don't think he would lie like that. I mean, he's gonna do it. Well, so he's He says it tastes fantastic. Here's the thing about Ben though. He likes, he tastes a lot of things and says it tastes good that I don't necessarily agree with. But I'm gonna try this. I'm gonna give this a little He's a little advanced with his palate. Let's just put it out. Yeah, let's try it. I have still haven't tried your coffee rub. I'm gonna try that first. That one's a bit, that one I can confirm. And that's interesting. Cause he looked like he was making like a, not almost like a stir fry. Yeah, he writes on, right there Doug, maybe Doug can screenshot it and keep it for us. We'll test that. I just, you brought up organifi. And that just from, this was just like two days ago when he did that. I thought, oh, I forgot to tell the guys about that. I thought that was really weird. Yet more uses of it. I would never have thought. Yeah, no, no. I mean, I'm interested. I'm interested to try it at least. Weird. Well, speaking of weird, they just did a study and they've concluded, I'm waiting for Adam Blake. Boo shit. Oh, here we go. They just did a study and concluded that sperm will survive on Mars. So that's good news. Wait. Yeah. What? I'll read the, I'll read the. Wow. And where? I'll read the, How do they prove it? Right there. There you go. That's what I was waiting for. Where are they entering? I was just waiting for that. No, it says here that, let me find it real quick. It says here that a new study published in the journal Science Advances suggests that sperm can survive on Mars for up to 200 years. This means humans could one day reproduce on the planet. Literally panspermia. And they said that experts previously believed that space radiation would kill sperm. A six year experiment on the International Space Station, oh, this is how they did it, showed that my mouse sperm survived when exposed to radiation in space and X-rays on Earth. Wow. What are they gonna try? Mighty mouse. Are they literally thinking about building like a human civilization on Mars? Yeah, sure. Okay, so, so. I mean, they're gonna try and terraform it too. Watch. So, okay, so let's talk about human behavior for a second. What has happened every single time? This is, by the way, every single time an empire grows across the planet eventually what ends up happening. Revolution. Every time, right? England comes to the new world. They create their colonies. We tell England to go fuck yourself. Boom, America, right? Every single country has done this. Could you see Mars doing the same thing? At what point do you think people on Mars would be like, Earth, fuck you. I'm gonna do what I want. Well, they're gonna be a different type of person for sure. Well, didn't you bring up that, that's like the number one fear is that? Is like, you get these people over here and then there's nobody who's creating laws or rules and they're like, you're gonna have a, it's like, why are they thinking about that? In terms of, if they're colonizing, like yeah, what kind of government system are they gonna have there and all that kind of stuff? That's what I'm saying. Like at some point they'll revolt 100%. They'll be like, no, we're not listening to you. We're gonna do what we want now. And then what is it? We're gonna do like a war? Yeah, somebody there wants to be like, head honcho, you know, and is like trying to try to get everybody on. And that'll never work. You know what I'm saying? Who's gonna, what are you gonna elect some asshole that's gonna be like, I'm the fucking sheriff here? Yeah. I mean, that's what ends up happening when people are around at some point, somebody says, I'm in charge, you know? And then that's what happens. That's gonna be weird, man. Well, it's just so weird because it's, I mean, everything is gonna be basically in a bubble there because you can't, it's inhospitable. Like you can't go outside and breathe. Everything's just like, basically, oh, I just moved from Earth into basically, now I'm in a bunch of warehouses. Somewhere else that if I step outside, I'm gonna die. Well, all right, speaking of weird, Justin, you're gonna love this. So I just read this article on The Big Think. You guys ever been on bigthink.com? Really cool website, really cool article. So here's the title of the article. US Navy controls inventions that claim to change the fabric of reality. This is the US Navy says this. So inventions with revolutionary potential made by a mysterious aerospace engineer for the US Navy come to light. So the US Navy holds patents for enigmatic inventions by aerospace engineer, Dr. Salvatore P.S., so it's a cool name. He came up with technology that can engineer reality, devising an ultra-fast craft, a fusion reactor, and more. Television. And they're saying, well, we already have those. Yeah, we already have those. And there goes Adam. Not that impressive. While mostly theoretical at this point, the inventions could transform energy space and military sectors. So now here we go, let's have some fun with this, Justin. What does all that mean? Well, here's what it says. This is what they claim, that they can engineer reality, that the sci-fi designs for use by the US government range from gravitational wave generators and compact fusion reactors to next generation hybrid aerospace underwater crafts with revolutionary propulsion systems and beyond. Remember my theory about the UFOs? Yeah, so they're saying basically, we have all of this technology. We're behind this whole thing. Yes! Remember what I said? Exactly. Remember I said all these stuff? It was our way of flexing? Yeah. Like we're trying to show everybody, like, we got this weird. So we've already been able to create that. You think we've already gone through time and back? I don't know about that, but I think that it's highly plausible that the UFOs that they're releasing, the videos of these things flying at ridiculous speeds, going underwater, changing directions, doing whatever, are actually our technology. And this is one more way that we're telling the world about kind of tongue-in-cheek, like everybody else were like, oh, we don't know what this is. By the way, we got this weird patent on stuff that theoretically could... We got fucking alien chips, dude. It sounds just like an 8K television, is what all of this. What? I mean, when you were just reading the definition of it, I couldn't get out of thinking of a television. It's just VR. Yeah. We just created another world and it's in VR. It's not the same at all, dude. It's not at all the same thing. I mean, go back and read your definition. It sounds like you're describing a really, really good TV. But that's not, you're not manipulating gravity and going... Oh, you say gravity, I just heard reality. Well, yes. But reality, reality, not like a TV. The fabric of reality. Yeah. I mean, imagine being the... Okay, imagine if you or somebody had thousands of years before and you got dropped into today and you looked at a television. Would you not think that's exactly what that is? Yeah, but what the hell would the military care about that? They're trying to create weapons. They're gonna create a TV. You don't think they want good TV out there? No, they're so stupid. They want good TV. Shut up. Hey, speaking of good TV, I got a show for you guys. What do you got? Shout out to whoever it was, dude. I feel so bad when someone gets... Shout out to random person. Shout out to random person. Yeah, rather than whatever you are. By the way, that's not how shout outs work. Hey, real quick, I wanna thank... Just throw it in there. Random person. Random person. You know who you are. Yeah. You know who you are. They're watching. Oh my God, he's talking about me. Thank you, Adam. Comment in the comments. What happens is I get a lot of them and then a lot of them are not good. That's not what happens. That's weed. No, I've never ever been smoking weed. So anyways, I go and check out this show. It's called Lupin, L-U-P-I-N. It's on Netflix. It's another one of those. It was done somewhere else and then it was popular there and then now it's brought over to the US. I thought Lupin was a cartoon from back in the day. Anyway, sorry. I don't know, but what it gives me the feel, if I were to describe it to someone, imagine if someone took the storyline from usual suspects and built like a series. Okay, that sounds good. Like the main character and usual suspects. That sounds good. Yeah, right? I thought so too. And it's on Netflix. Now you also said, I overheard this, you said you were watching, I saw the preview for this and it just looked weird, but it's really, it's highly ranked on Netflix. It's the one, what's the name of it, Sweettooth? Or the one with the like hybrid human? Oh no, I was asking about it. I didn't watch that. Oh, you haven't seen it? No. Has anybody here seen it? That looked really weird. It does. It's highly ranked though, but sometimes Netflix rankings are like, come on, bro. I don't know about this. It's probably because they put a lot of money into it. Really? You think they lie on that? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know how that algorithm works because sometimes it feels, I remember when, remember I brought it up on the show, when I swear it was like just because a spring break for like high school kids got out, like the eight of the 10 were like these teeny bopper fucking cheesy ass like movies. Yeah, it is, it's called Sweettooth. It's highly ranked. Everybody says it's, well, not everybody. Netflix says it's really good. I watched the preview and it's like the CrossFit Journal and justifying everything. Yeah, yeah, I like it. Yeah, you guys wrote it. Yeah. It's like Bill Phillips' supplement review. Remember that book that you came out with? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll review, EAS supplements just happened to be first, second, third. I have that book still, somewhere. Brilliant marketing. Yeah, yeah. Tell me that's the smartest marketing. But dude, remember, we got to see a scary movie while we were in trucking. Oh. Without Adam. We tried real hard to pull Adam in, but it wasn't going to happen. Oh yeah, what'd you guys think of that? It was okay. I liked the premise, but I just felt like it could have gone in a different direction. Okay, because there was people that were recommending that when I made the claim of Cruella being like one of the best. And you guys don't say, no way, no. Here's my criteria for scary movies because I think sometimes, and that's sometimes, a lot of times. Look at the rating on that. See that's what I'm saying. High rating, sweet too. That's crazy. I might have to watch it just for that. I'm going to try it. But anyway, here's the thing with scary movies. A lot of times, whoever makes them relies heavily on the imagery to frighten you. Like it's scary scenes and scary images. And I get that and that's cool, but if that's what the whole movie's about, now less is more. Yes, I need to have a good story. You want them around the corner, but you can't really distinguish what it is yet. And then all of a sudden it's right in your face. Yes, and I want the movie at the end for me to be left like terrified. Like what? Like in this one didn't really do that well. Psychologically like damage me. Yeah, that's what I'm looking for. Totally. Her redditary did that to me, dude. You gotta watch that. That is fucked up. I'll have to get my big boy pants for that. Absolutely. I'm going to take a left turn on you guys right here because I want to bring this up on the podcast and I need your support along, hopefully, with our audience's support. So... Are you finally coming out? Yeah, that's what it was. Not that long ago, it was like, I don't know, maybe two months ago when Katrina had her surgery. It was a little more than that now. Two or three months ago when she had her surgery and I went to order her flowers. We're in a new place, a new town so I don't really know a lot of the places. And I found this online floral place. Now I thought it was originally in their town but it's actually like a broker who has all these floral places that work for them and then they build the bouquet and they deliver it to wherever you want it to go and it's actually really, really cool. Now, and it's super affordable. It's like normally when you deliver flowers like that you're over a hundred bucks for like a dozen roses. It's not that at all. It was like half the price of what I'm used to paying and it was incredible service. Now, I personally reached out. I don't do this anymore. Normally I send somebody on our team to go reach out but I said, give me a phone call with the CEO of this company because I want it for us. And I think it's kind of a different type of a sponsorship that we would do. And by the way, for those that are listening like it, we haven't worked anything out yet but I want to do something. Now, what I need from you guys is to one, try it out with you guys' wives and make sure that you guys- Oh, I told you, I'm in the doghouse. You like it. That's nice. I'm not surprising her now that you said the logcast. Well, and for those of the people that are listening. Please pull me out. I was literally gonna surprise her, but now. Jessica, you're getting flowers. Well, hopefully you can get it to her before this episode actually airs so we could still talk about it. But, and then our audience, if this is something that they would actually want to do. So that's what I'm looking for to see if there's any. Personally, myself, I like a service like this because I cannot send enough flowers. It's like one of those things that I want to be better about all the time. I bet you like getting flowers too. Um, I'm not against it. Yeah, you know. Do I admit it? Depends on if it's tulips or, yeah. I mean, I like, so I like, I like, I don't know. I like the smell of flowers in the house. Like I just, I'm more smell guy. So I like my house smelling fresh like that. So I actually try and keep flowers and fresh flowers plus Katrina loves it and it's an excuse to get her. I like plants in general, so I like that. But it's totally different from what we would ever mess with. But I thought maybe you guys are good husbands that you guys would probably want to do something like that for your wives. I figure we have a lot of listeners that are probably good husbands. This was totally my idea. I was going to be surprised by my wife because you know, she deserves it. Make sure she doesn't listen. So now she thinks it's your idea. All right, all right. So we'll see. It ruined the whole thing. So sorry you're in the dog house, by the way, Justin. Yeah, you know, we'll work through it. No, we'll come back on top. Hey, real quick. I hope you're enjoying the podcast. Go check out one of our sponsors, Ned. They have an incredible product called Ned Sleep. Now this thing legit works. It's the most effective natural sleep aid any of us have ever tried. It combines CBD with CBN and other natural cannabinoids that are legal in all 50 states from the hemp plant. But boy do they work. They also add some botanicals in there to make it really effective. So essentially you take Ned Sleep about 30 minutes before you go to bed, then you sleep like a rock and you wake up really refreshed. Go check them out. It's a great product. Go to helloned.com forward slash mind pump and then use the code MINDPUMP for 15% off. All right, enjoy the rest of the podcast. First question is from La Flinsta. How do I push past a bench press plateau or any for that matter? Oh, the dreaded strength plateaus. What a pain in the ass there. Now at some point you're gonna hit a plateau and everything because you can't get infinitely stronger if that were the case. Which is unfortunate. Unfortunate, right? But it is a pain in the ass, right? So you have a particular goal, you're progressing and strength doesn't just come on your body on a consistent week by week basis. Just doesn't work this way. Maybe in the beginning, but eventually you start to hit plateaus and you kind of have to figure out what to do. So I'll tell you one of the easiest ways that I broke past bench press plateau way back in the day and it's very silly, but it worked really well for me is I actually moved away from the barbell bench press and I did dumbbell chest press. And I did that for, I think I did it for like five weeks and it got really strong with dumbbells, went back to the barbell because there's similar enough movements, right? But the dumbbells require more stability. It's a little bit of different activation and for whatever reason for me, it got me past the plateau that I was in and I was able to add, I think at like 10 or 15 pounds to my bench press. I'll piggyback on that and say like too, with using a stability ball is another way to get that leg drive and a lot of times too, that was something that took me later on benching to realize how much more stable and how much more forced output I could produce by really focusing on that leg drive but also the stability and security of the shoulder joint itself. And so I feel like a broken record all the time about talking about rotational movements and different things to enhance the overall stability of the shoulder. But that's something that I had to work through because I would always hit a wall eventually, in my front delt and that was just something that would limit me in my progress. So to answer this best, it would be most ideal to know what this person's routine looks like because there could be like a low hanging fruit here. Like so let's say this person is trying to get better at their flat bench but then they like never do barbell incline bench. And one of the best things that ever brought my overall bench up was getting better at the incline bench. So I would drive in that position. Let's pretend they're doing that all the time but they never do dumbbells to Sal's point then I would put them towards the dumbbell. So knowing what you're currently doing for the bench press and what you do consistently and then what you tend to miss or not do very consistently is the direction that I would push you. Now there are some exercises that I also found later on that I wouldn't have thought that would translate to a better bench. Heavy weighted dips. Getting into dips and going really deep and heavy really because a lot of the most sticking point for most people is being able to get it out off their chest, right? I mean, most everybody can lower it down to their chest but it's getting out of that hole and completely being able to lift the weight out of the hole. Doing weighted dips really helped me out with that. I would agree, overhead presses getting really good at a full range of motion overhead presses is really good too. And then this is a more advanced technique and I've told this story 100,000 times but I learned this from one of my trainers and that was to practice the bench press every day at sub, like at low intensities. So in other words, it would be like, let's say 50% intensity. So let's say you can bench press 100 pounds and 10 reps is your max. What he did is he would go out and he would do five reps with it and do a few sets every day. He just had a lot of practice but real kind of low to moderate intensity. And I practiced this myself and this is the first time I broke through three plates was doing that. I literally bench pressed, I think it was like five or six days a week at low intensities and just got really, really good at it. There's so many little nuance things that you can concentrate on too. This is what I'm realizing going through and teaching kids now how to do an actual bench press is just making a nice tight fist and gripping the bar properly and finding that position that's ideal for you individually and then also pretending that basically you're bending the bar and so now we're getting even more stability and control and more muscular tension involved. And so there's just like a lot of little things you can do and that's why it's beneficial to lighten the load, do it with less intensity and really hone in on the technique. Well, to that point, Sal, the priming is another great tip too. So somebody who is not priming before they go do their bench and you're spending the first couple sets, getting in the groove, you're wasting a lot of energy on your chest and shoulders, trying to find the groove and get into position where if you do a really good job of priming your upper body before you go into bench press, a lot of times you can get right after the heavy weight and you're not, you're not spending a bunch of energy. Next question is from Jessica does what? What are the best hamstring exercises when all you have are dumbbells? Some of the best exercises for hamstrings are when you only have dumbbells. Your Romanian deadlift has to be one of the best hamstring exercises that exists. It's phenomenal for size, development, shape of the hamstrings and it's one that I place near the top regardless of the equipment that's available to me. I think a lot of people look at the hamstring curl machine and think that that's like a top tier hamstring exercise. Now I'm not saying it's a bad hamstring exercise, I think it's got some value for sure, but I would not place it in the same category as a Romanian deadlift with a barbell or dumbbells. It just really works the hamstring through a full range of motion. Now it doesn't work the bicep, the leg bicep through a full range of motion, but that's easily substituted. And so what I've done in the past with clients, because I never had a hamstring curl machine in my studio and I trained a lot of clients, I trained myself, I have really, at one point I really well developed hamstrings and I would do lots of Romanian deadlifts with dumbbells, barbells, I would do good mornings with barbells and then I would do, if I did any kind of a leg curl, I would do them on a physio ball. Yeah, physio ball. I would do at the end of the workout, exactly. And I would focus hard on the squeeze. Yeah, have you seen now that they have those little boots that you can basically put? Well, you can put a dumbbell on the back of your heel and so this has been like a new phenomenon, like I've seen a lot of people using on Instagram, which is interesting because then you could still at least do like a standing leg curl with that. But yeah, like Sal said, it's honestly like you're not gonna get past the Romanian deadlifts, you're gonna get the biggest bang for your buck with that. Single leg deadlift. Maybe one of the best exercises I've ever taught a client to. And I think that it's a fundamental movement that we should all try and keep in our routine as we age. I mean, when you talk about the benefits of hip stability and hip strength that. Oh, ankle stability too. Yeah, I mean, yeah, you get everything all the way at the connect chain from the ankle up, but it's in particular like hips, right? I just feel like as we get older, we sit down all day long and we lose the good hip mobility and strength. So a lot of times when we lose the mobility, it's because we're also weak there and just you having to stabilize your hips and then also load and do a deadlift. I just think it's one of the most important movements that everybody should do. And you get huge benefits from it. Doesn't take very much weight to blast your hamstring. So for me, that would be one for sure in there. The other one that doesn't require dumbbells or barbells, I forget what is the name of the, where you hook your ankles around like a barbell that's on the ground and then you let your chest fall forward. Oh. What's that called? Gosh. Oh man. There's a name for that. I can't think of the name for that. Yeah, that's a really good one. It's like a reverse hyper kind of. It's got like a, it's got a weird name. It's like a Viking or Roman or something. Yeah. That's hard. Yeah. No, there's a really good. And you know, I saw one of our friends doing it. So you got to put pads under your knees, you put your ankle and then you, most people will not be able to do it without. Most people do it with a partner that like kind of holds it. Or a couple of ways. You could also do like a stick. You could do like a, like a PVC pipe or a stick to walk yourself down and back. That was an early exercise. Another thing you could do is actually, I saw one of our friends wrapping bands underneath their armpits. So it was kind of pulling them back up. Yeah. Or you can use your arms and do a pushup at the back. Yeah. There's a lot of ways to regress the exercise because it is a little more advanced, but you want to talk about a blaster on the hamstrings. Yeah, that'll get you. Yeah. Cause you're going to get the stabilization with that too on the way down. Yeah. And it's a heavy negative. Yeah. One of my favorite hamstring workouts is Romanian deadlifts with dumbbells. And I do a superset right to physio ball leg curls. Like what a great, and you get a great hamstring pump. Screams cramp. From doing that. Oh, it's, it's one of my favorites. It's Nordic hamstring. Oh, there you go. I knew it was something like that. Hamstring curl. Yes. You guys got the band around us, Chester. There you go. Next question is from Ben Jammin Love. What are some ways to loosen up stiff hips for squats? Stiff hips. This is a stability and mobility issue, right? One of the best exercises, generally speaking, for the hips for squats is a 90-90. You get into position. You stay tight, try and sit up nice and tall. And then once you can stabilize that, cause that alone for a lot of people is going to do a lot of work. Once you get good at that, then you can focus on doing what's called internal rotation with the back leg, where you're picking up the foot while driving the back knee into the floor. That, generally speaking, is a good movement for most people. Now, if you want something easy and you want to loosen up the hips for yourself and you're not looking for like lots of really good mobility, in other words, this is inferior. In other words, this is inferior. Are you looking for less results? Yeah. Well, some people look, people getting on the floor doing 90-90s are like, let me just, you know, two walks, you know, with a hip circle, that can help a little bit. Yeah, two walks, leg swings. Yeah. I can't help, but this question, I just can't get the image of Justin when he did a Friday fitness tip about a month or two ago for this. You remember the twerk? Yes. He walked back up. That loosens it up. I mean, it kind of does though. People lost their mind. I mean, it kind of will work a little bit. Yeah, you know, there's something there. But yeah, 90-90 is just, I mean, and there's regressions to the 90-90, which I believe we have on our YouTube channel too. So if you can't get all the way down in a 90-90 position, you can do it with a bench and elevate your legs that way. And it's a little bit easier. But yeah, to me, the 90-90 has been one of the best ways to prime my hips before I go into lifting. Two walks and leg swings are also- Yeah, and it depends on where your lack of stability lies too, to focus in a little bit more specifically. Like what the prime? So if I'm doing, like any more lateral stability, like I could do like a caucic squat type of warm-up, if I need to address my hip flexor, that's like keeping my range of motion limited, then I do a kneeling hip flexor stretch, things like that that are a little more specifically needed. But obviously 90-90 kind of covers the bases. So that's always a good one. I'll give you one that's really good. And it addresses like Sal, if you have an issue getting down on the floor 90-90 and you want something as good as the 90-90, I recently was introduced to the assisted Miguel planes, which I got from a squat university guys. I don't know if you guys have ever done that for, oh my God, that's incredible. So it's just, it's the assisted Miguel planes. So you just use like a barbell in front of you so you can balance, extend one leg all the way back behind you, and then you- Then rotate? Yeah, then you open the hips up. So you're keeping your foot pointed straight. Oh, that's good. I like that. And then you have the assistance to help to take you through that in-range motion. You connect really hard, then come back over. Oh, I like that. Yeah, you do like five reps on each side, and boy- I've done an unassisted, and that's like really difficult to maintain balance. That's right. And that's why I didn't teach those that often because Miguel planes are stabilizing as hard for the average person, much less trying to get them to open their hips. They're assisted Miguel planes. And I saw a squat university giving it as a tip for somebody who's actually was trying to work on a discrepancy in their right to left and their hips. I went and started using it. And I was like, ooh, this is pretty sick. So if you don't have the time, or it's a little bit faster than getting down to the 90-90, but something as valuable, I'd say, is that? I'm gonna try those tomorrow. Yeah, you'll like them. Cool. Next question is from Brandon Lee X. What's your main health concern for the next generation? Boy, you know, besides the one that is just on everybody's minds that we talk about all the time, the obesity epidemic and all the issues that that causes, you know, the fertility issues are starting to become really alarming. You know, I remember what the statistic was, but young men today have the same fertility as old men did, you know, decades ago, like a few decades ago, women today are losing their fertility at record rates. Even young women. This is a bit alarming because it's like the canary in the coal mine. Like when you're not healthy, one of the first things that starts to go away is your ability to reproduce. For men, sperm motility or sperm number starts to go down. Of course, hormones associate with those things start to reflect that. With women, they start to have much more trouble conceiving and then trouble holding onto a healthy birth. This is scary because this has profound potential effects in the future. Now, in my opinion and my strong opinion, this is connected to the health epidemics that we've already been watching, you know. The fact that people are becoming more and more obese, the fact that people are becoming weaker and weaker. This is by the way one that we haven't talked about a lot, which is we all know about the obesity epidemic, but we're just starting to realize that what's going along with that hand in hand is this weakness epidemic. So like for example, there was a study that was done where they tested young men, like college men's grip strength. And these young men's grip strength was like what you see a 60 year old man in the 1980s, that's not very good, right? And with women, we also saw a weakening of their strength as well. This is not a good thing. All of this is not a good thing. So I think what's happening is we're just, this is a reflection of how much we've changed our environment. We've made life very easy. Food is very easily accessible. It's not very healthy, but it tastes really damn good. And our microbiomes are being affected by antibiotics and by chemicals that we're constantly exposed to. And so you've got all these different things coming together and now the scary thing is happening, which is holy shit, if we stay down this path, I think the last time I read about this, they said something like by 2040 or something, not that far from now, like a couple decades, we would lose our ability to procreate, which is, that's not cool. Yeah, I think just along those lines, the weakness part of it is something that I've really started to see more than venturing outside of our bubble. We talk a lot to people that are in the gym and that are pretty focused on improvement and weight rifting, weight rifting, weight rifting. And that's something that they're into, whoo, screw you. And just getting back into it and realizing that the general public, they're fascinated by working out, like they have never been taught a lot of the skill of working out and being in the gym and lifting weights. And so there's just, to me, it's pretty alarming. I felt like growing up, that was a big part of how you played sports. You had to get better in the gym in order to play better in sports. And I just don't see the same drive and the same appeal that sports used to have, which was a massive outlet for this country and I know elsewhere to display your physical abilities. And I just feel like we've kind of shifted a lot more to video games and like professional video games, even, they're making more than professional athletes now. And so it's just interesting to see how the culture shift with all these types of things that have impacted just your average person. I'm gonna be a little less of an alarmist. I don't think we're gonna see anything. I think we're gonna be able to reproduce. I don't think that's gonna happen. That or science will find a way to fucking fix that. And I also think that we tend to go one way and get real extreme and then we all kind of wake up and come the other direction and over correct. But the thing that I noticed even about myself, the bad habits or behaviors or the things that I've seen myself start to pick up and do is that we have evolved to a place where very little movement is required to do anything. And it's taking more and more effort to get out and just move, period. I mean, I- You have to plan it. Yeah, I would like to say exercise and strength. That's been a problem forever. I mean, most people didn't strengthen an exercise forever. But what to me is more dangerous or scarier about the future is this how in mobile. I mean, the way the body works is if you don't use it, you lose it. And so I'm worried about the generation coming up. Just we keep making everything so convenient and to your point about video games and your point about things being delivered to you and stuff like that. I mean, we're heading in this direction where you're just not gonna move. I mean, not just- There's no real incentive to do it. Right, exactly. There's no incentive to really do it other than hopefully that you would still be able to do it, which I don't know if that's enough motivation for the generation coming up. So, and I also, again, back to my point what I see with myself. Like, we're fitness enthusiasts and I still see how much my behaviors have changed. I mean, I love DoorDash. I use things like that all the time. I have streaming everything now too. And so I don't go out and kill my food or pluck or pick my food. Like everything is brought to you. And I mean, I don't even go to the grocery store anymore since COVID and got used to using delivery service. So I just, and you just start doing these things and you go, oh, this is so cool and this is so great. But nobody sits down and goes like, oh, you know, in a year's time on average, I would go to the grocery store, say, you know, 50 times and in those 50 times, I take X amount of steps, which is X amount of calories. And like, nobody is factoring that in. Like you've just pruned that off of your life, you know? And that going forward. And we just keep doing that. So I'm most concerned just about that. The generation coming up just flat out moving. Yeah, along those lines, you know, that there's a huge increase in kids with back pain and neck pain going to the doctor. And they were blaming it at first on backpacks. In fact, some schools were telling kids, oh, it's because- To wear in the front and stuff. You know, wear in the front or to have those rolling bags because they think that the problem was, it's not the backpacks. It's that kids are not strong and they're not moving, they're not, and you're seeing forward head, you're seeing forward shoulder, you're seeing really bad posture, back pain. You know, I remember when I first got certified as a trainer, type two diabetes, wasn't called type two diabetes, it was called adult onset diabetes. And that's because only adults got it. So it's something that you developed as an adult through your eating habits and your lifestyle. Well, sometime in the 90s, early 90s, I believe, they changed the name to type two diabetes because kids started getting it. Well, back pain was, that's non-existent for kids, for a long time. Like, when does a kid, unless a kid hurts themselves, like falls off something. But a kid never went to the doctor for chronic back pain. You're now seeing this, chronic back pain and chronic neck pain. Well, you see schools eliminating a lot of their physical education because of the funding or whatever the case is, but there's been a lot less emphasis on physical education and outlets, after school programs and things that they could be a part of. And I really feel passionate about that. That needs to be a massive priority. Totally. That we shift. They've done such a stupid job with it because, A, they didn't value it. And they said, this is not as important as science and math. They did the same thing to music, by the way. And now we're finding. Everything has to be cognitive. And what we're finding now is music and activity makes you better at everything else. And they're all, they're very, very important. It's all intertwined, yeah. And number two, they've systematically taken out some of the most valuable activities and games out of the, out of recess and out of PE because they're too competitive or because too. And so many feels left out. Yes, so stupid. Like the stuff that you learn, like what you learn playing games like that is, or they're important lessons. Is there a chance of- These are formative years where you're gonna have to learn these challenges. And it's better to learn them early than to learn them way later in the workforce and you don't know how to deal with it. Mark my words. The next thing for them to start to remove from schools are test scores. Mark my words. Why? Because some kids get bad scores and they feel bad and you can't have kids feeling bad because everybody needs to feel the same. Mark my words. It's gonna fall the same path that we saw with activity, which is totally ridiculous. And I think that'll be the death of public education because parents are gonna be like, that's enough, I'm taking my kids out. So anyway, look, if you like our content, you like our information, you gotta head over to mindpumpfree.com and check out our free stuff. 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