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Like a lot of programs are all like moving in this direction Everything's right and back and that's about it. It's typically what you see in most commercial gym settings Yeah, and they lack your theory on that. Why? Yeah, like why do why are wire trainer trainer's writing more programs? That's a good question. I you know, I have a theory I think it has to do with that the most in this is true, right? The most effective generally most effective muscle building exercises are like Squats rows presses overhead presses and those all are in the same plane they don't involve any rotation or lateral movement and Although they are effective at very effective at building muscle the lack of lateral stability strength and the lack of rotational strength and stability Eventually reduces the amount of muscle and strength you can gain even from those exercises. Yeah I mean you do build substantial muscle from those compound lifts And so it's hard to stray away from that or like really see the value in in rotation and some of these other types of Exercises because you're not gonna see like this crazy muscle gain necessarily other than it really Complements and and gives you longevity in your training. So I think I think it's even simpler of an answer than that I think it's it's hard That too more challenging to program you mean well, no not even that just it's they're difficult exercises A lot of when you when you move in different planes that you're not used to moving in they're challenging Challenging stability form and technique a lot of weight on them They tend to they tend to get your heart rate going a lot of times like so I think that they're they're hard Yes, so do you guys have any I have an example, right? I think you do too just in fact I think you and I have a similar story where our lateral stability Came back to haunt us actually very similar. Yeah, so like deadlifts, right? Deadlifts move in the same plane as the bench in the roof and I could get really strong in deadlifts at one point I was able to pull 600 pounds, which is okay. It's not bad for some of my size, but I injured my QL At least twice because when you'd lift the ball when I would lift the bar off the ground if it wasn't perfectly Balanced if one side came up faster than the other even by a little bit my lack of lateral stability With that much weight Caused me to injure myself. Boom. I can't deadlift now for a month or two I have to do correctional exercise and of course you lose gains as a result of that, you know Yeah, I had the same issue and it was Everything was going great and then somebody said something across the gym. I lost my complete Attention and I turned up to the left and shift the weight just just a fraction of you know an ancient and I was done My I heard my well. I just felt my QL immediately talk to me So yeah, yeah, and it's it's you know those weak links Although they aren't the most I guess responsible for the big gains When those weak links are so weak that they can't support your gains anymore now That's it you plateau you big time. So if you talk to anybody who's relatively advanced This may not happen when you're a beginner may not happen even as intermediate although it's more common But once you start to get advanced ask somebody who's at that level What's the number one thing that prevents you from making gains now? They'll tell you injury injury and pain It's always those are all the top things. Well, plus I see a lot of that sort of stereotype of the muscle-bound guy That just doesn't really move well. There's really stiff and rigid. I see that a lot when Like you look at their program and you see them just constantly in that sagittal plane. Everything is very much controlled To where you take them outside of that. It's like they can't even really wipe their ass. Yeah What do you do? Yeah, do you guys have any favorite? rotational and lateral exercises that you like to rotational stuff we mention this on a recent podcast so for me That was the big one. So I didn't really do a lot of Rotational movements for my shoulders and didn't really realize how much that would carry over into like my bench and any sort of Any upper body exercise for that matter overhead press rowing all that When I had good rotational strength in my shoulders So doing the clubs and the the mace wings were yeah huge for me big time I mean and that was one of why I think I liked it so much was I started to see a carry over into the bench and Movements like that that I just felt more strong I felt stronger and more stable going right into the lift where yeah in the past I'd have to do all these kind of get perfectly in the group. Yeah, I had to get right in the groove I do all these warm-up sets I had all these like kind of priming movements that I would try and do to get myself in the optimal position to actually be able to get after a bench Where when I started incorporating more of the clubs and mace just into the routine I could get right into it and I felt I felt in like this this great position to bench right away So that was a big one for me. What for me was so I I always incorporated some form of rotation Mainly because it was all aesthetic because I like to having developed obliques So I would do so that wasn't a huge issue Although it still was because it wasn't really proportional But you know what I noticed a huge difference was when I started to prime with like Lateral to walking like such a silly movement and all of a sudden I could squat so much better and stronger And then it was and then it was too obvious. I'm like, okay. I need to do lateral stuff So I started doing practicing Cossack Squats where I step out which I'm terrible still to this day But better than I was and then lateral sled sled drags, which is a great huge difference in my squats Yeah, well addressing sort of that QL issue I started to get back into windmills and you know bent presses and things like that to really try to to address the issue and get Strong with that especially thoracic rotation with my upper back was you know consideration I didn't really have much rotation there. So that really helped a lot like keep me nice and sturdy Going back into deadlifts and some of those. You know what? I would love to see you try because I haven't seen you Do it yet and I me yeah, oh, I I I stole this from the squat University guys was the assisted McGill Plains. Oh Those though I did that once did you I did that once I tell you what so my I am my range of motion on that's terrible Yeah, absolutely terrible. Yeah, no I think well the fact that you're assisted like I just doing I mean obviously doing McGill Plains would be great But those are challenging for a lot of people so being able to hold the bar and assist You could really so you know what I noticed when I did it I only did it once after you talked about it a while ago Yeah, and I actually tried it the next day and what I noticed and this is a hallmark of poor connection is Even with my arms getting me into position. I felt disconnected once I went past a certain point That's crazy, which you know again you train pet people, but did you trade yourself? I should have been doing that ever since But I just you know, I just didn't do it which is kind of you know kind of dumb That's in the rotation now for me on a regular basis And I had never had never done that before but that wasn't it wasn't something I was doing on a regular But now I'm like all about it. This is why we I mean, you know when we came out with our programs Maps anabolic was the first one very sagittal plane focus very like build muscle mass speed up the metabolism strength That's why performance follow. If you if you look at maps performance. It's all about Working in multiple planes. That's why it's such a complementary program to follow post and that's why staying in one program No matter how well written it is eventually you'll start to get weaknesses because it's first of all What makes a program effective is also what creates its weakness, right? So yeah, you have a very effective program for a specific target goal That means that there's other things that you're not focused on because if you focus on everything at once You don't get a lot of any of them you get a little bit of everything So any perfect any great programs always gonna have weaknesses because of that That's why it's so good to go from, you know focus to another focus because then you get become more around it You avoid injury you're ultimately long-term you build more muscle get better results, you know all that stuff Yeah, keep going man. Yeah, that's the point All right So I wanted to bring up something interesting because I know we have we've been talking more Adam about the business side of The stuff that we do and potential opportunities. Yeah, bro. I didn't even know this Look literally directly across from you There's a million dollar potential that we have been missing completely. Wait a minute. What completely like this machine Yeah, absolutely. So I read this vessel. I read this article. I'm like, dude. This is such a fault. I know where he's going with it I'm glad you're using me as an example But at least tell the audience what are you going with all right? So describe over here So reality star as soon as I read this like dude we can crush this Reality star Stephanie Mateo, Stephanie Mateo, so she was on TLC's 90-day fiance ready for this. Okay, she's selling her farts in a jar $500 a pop shut your face. She nobody's really by How big are these? Volume same price You get a gallon bottle. No, let's do this. I'm like wholesaler over. So trip off this dude She's selling farts in a jar for $500 a pop in a month a hundred thousand dollars Where's this the man like who who are these guys? $100,000 she made in a month selling her farts in a jar in a job. Okay. She gorgeous like how can I say? Pull her up so I can see her so Stephanie Mateo and she's got to be like on another level She's pretty enough. She's smell your fart pretty. She's pretty enough. You know what it is That's like a category now. So here's like dimes everyone knows a dime. Then there's like smell your fart hot. God That's like it. That's like the next level Justin hit the head. He's like that must be a bunch of guys It is but there's no way women are of course That's why I have a feeling she's a hot like Instagrammer that does like the booty pics and everything No, well, she's a reality. Okay. Yeah, she's like weird. Is that her is that her right there? That is her I mean, I would smell her farts For $500. Okay. No, I wouldn't pay 500 bucks. How much did you pay to smell her farts? I wouldn't pay anything It depends what she ate So what do you somebody has to say I mean What do you predict it smells like Justin? Oh, I think like Waffles She looks like a maple syrup waffle for yeah, it's like a sweet Yeah, bro, you guys are crazy. There's no sweet smell farts don't smell sweet. No when you're that you're that cute You definitely yeah, you need to hope so. So I would like to see here's what I'd like to see How many of these fart purchasers? Yeah are returning customers like what's her where can you buy? Go back to that Doug. Could you where can you buy my farts? I want to see where can you buy my farts? WW un unfiltero.com and then heard I'm saving that's her name. Where can you sell yours? Oh, you could it's like a community Justin. You can become a creator Wow, just a fart jaren community. So talk about like what a ripoff though. Let's be honest This is a ripoff more signs. How fresh does that stay in a jar? I want to video dude because who knows where the source came. Yeah, how long that's actually a good question I wonder if the jar comes with Harding cuz $500 a lot of money dude for that. Exactly. I know imagine. She's got like some like she's her little boy It's a little teenage boy that's assisting her and he's just over there farting all day over here fantasizing they're Some of their teenage boys farts. Hey, hold up. Can you sue? Can you sue after that? I might find out like it was somebody else's partation You're one of the smart pretty girl. You're one of the smartest business guys. I know Immediately what I think is there's a scaling problem with this business Right if she's selling farts she can only fart so well, that's the answer. So she's gonna have that's right That's the end that I mean it is scalable, but you're gonna be a little shady You know I'm saying you gotta you got to get some you know teenage boys working underneath you on high protein Just that are just ripping them all day for you. Yeah, and you're just paying a minimum wage So just a serious question though here some crazed questions. That's real cuz I as a kid Powerful stuff when I was a kid my best friends older brother used to To pin us down and he would fart in a cup and he throw it in our face And you absolutely that absolutely hat works big time. Yeah, that's sad looking as a joke too, right? You know like you could you could buy that and like oh, it's a nice gift for flower and you open it And it's so my question where I'm getting out with this is face Can you can does it stay in there? Like does it miss copy vacuum sealed or whatever? No, or would it leak out? I would think would leak out somehow. I don't think it's gonna stay with the smell Would it go away after a while worse? Yeah, I don't even hold for so long You're not gonna keep it in there that long. Well, how what do you mean? Why why not? I mean come on science guy What's what happened? What does it is it? I mean, I mean, you're right. I have no idea. Yeah, like what I mean Diffuses, I mean, I'd you know there my dog has farted in the house before where it is lingered for like 15 minutes So and that's open air. So if it was trapped, I would think that would be yeah, I'll pack up Well, I wouldn't you bother. I might kill somebody so I'm thinking that she would have to either a it's novelty funny Oh, her her bare butt was on this all by or She does something to it so that it does because what if I wonder if these guys open it and it smells like nothing Are they are they sad? Are they like? Like the invisible art guy for like a mule. So is this a sign? Yes This is a sign of the economic bubble. Yes, this is definitely somebody made a hundred thousand dollars a month So you can make money on anything you guys hey in the future when the economic crash This economic crash is coming right? Yeah, just just worse than oh wait, and then people gonna look back and be like the signs were all there How do people not know this was gonna happen there was something selling their farts. I made a hundred thousand dollars pretty fun Anyway, same thing as NFTs. Let's get into some science. So this is kind of cool, right? So Adam and I had a discussion this morning and you ever get information and then you look back and you go That makes sense. This is where I was right This makes a lot of sense. So I noticed that I for the you know for a little while there Adam was a little edgy Adam was a little bit edgy for a little while there, but you know, it's like all right, whatever Listen listen Linda. Hey listen. No, I haven't told these guys. I was starting to tell Sal This is this is crazy. No, that's actually really interesting. So Friday. I had Had my call with dr. Todd, right? So, you know, they they generous yeah, they follow after you've been doing as long as we have I think it's every three months or so that we had they do regular checkups blood work Oh, yeah, when you first get started you do regular and then you then you you start to extend it I think three months. So we had like my three month checkup and you know, he goes over my blood panels Well, anyways, we're talking business first and we're just going back and forth And uh, he was asking how I was feeling. I said, oh man, I actually feel really good energy libido all it sounds good I said, but you know, I have noticed some some Some weird stuff with my joints I'm like, you know, I took like a week off a lifting and normally when I do that Any sort of inflammation or achiness that I'm dealing with it completely gets rid of it And then I when I come back it normally takes a while before I noticed it again And I said so I did that in my diet. I'm lower calorie right now, which also helps with that And I said I was doing real lightweight when I came back and right away both my elbows were on fire Just they were Bothering me like crazy and I felt it the next two days after that workout and it wasn't even lifting heavy I said, so that's the only thing I have and I was actually asking him questions about um, because before when I was doing my own You know hormone therapy I was taking things like ecu, which is like a you know, veterinary drug and stuff But I was known as the chemical. I was telling him that you know Was there anything to that because when I used to take that my joints felt amazing He said well, absolutely he goes but What you're experiencing is exactly what I want to talk to you about so I said, what do you mean? He goes, oh your estrogen is in the floor And he goes and number the number one and number two side effects is as the achy joints and then irritability This is two hours after Sal and I had just got into it After him and I got that big ass argument start laughing right away and go End him that right? It was literally two hours. It was we it was Friday when we got into it, right? And we got into it was a pretty heated one, right? Yeah And I did I have my call and he's like text you a lovely. I love me and I hugged after that We're gonna be all right. We're gonna be all right. You know, they get into these tips It's gonna be fine. I suck dug into that one that time. I wasn't letting Doug out of it. Doug fucking say something I don't want to see you got my back Doug fucking speak up Doug. I can see your face right now I Don't want to know what you know what though the truth truth be told that's why I love you guys so much It doesn't matter. First of all, everybody goes through stuff. So who knows right? I could tell something was off With you my it's not like it was a major thing. I don't know what was going on. That's fine I've gone through stuff everybody has but what I love about us is we don't Take shit personal so it may get heated But it's left. It's done. We get back to work. It's not like I leave and I'm like, oh my god I think to myself and actually I reached out to Adam and I told him I appreciate that we can do that And then get right back to work and I also didn't want to say Hey, man, I noticed your little office and kind of invalidating It's like telling you're asking your girl she's in her period It never worked with backfires every time I have some science behind this but no, this is a great this is a great topic because a lot of people This is why we chose to work. Well, yeah, let me explain. Let me finish explaining what so we obviously so we find out, okay, so Um, I'm very sensitive to a gynecomastia, right because I've had it in the past And if uh, as soon as I take start taking testosterone one of the first things I notice is I get the sensitivity and it starts to come back So one of the things that they they have me on is the aromidex or what's the anastrasol? I think is the chemical name. Yeah, whatever, right? So they they have basically an estrogen blocker, right? So I what it does is it prevents the Uh, it prevents the conversion of testosterone to estrogen, right? So it reduces estrogen, right? So I take that 24 hours. I take one milligram of that 24 hours after I take my testosterone Sometimes I'll take another one 48 hours if I still feel a little sensitive, but that's the most I take And I guess I'm just ultra sensitive to it that it works really well But it works so well that it completely slams my estrogen down And I didn't know that and I was telling him like there's times where I'll sometimes I will take two because I feel like I'm sensitive or something and I always get paranoid about that So I I take another one right away It goes. Yeah, the problem with that is your body responds and you your estrogen drops all the way down And then you're going to feel the symptoms that you're feeling which was like the term testy comes from I don't know I don't think so. I don't think that's testy today because it's it's it's your estrogen. That's really causing it Um, what yeah, what dicks now anytime adam says something, you know, we're gonna be like, uh, is your uh Something giving some estrogen. Yeah, I mean, I was actually I was actually really happy and excited This is one of my explains one of my favorite parts about I mean in the past I've done all this stuff on my own and I don't know, you know, and I honestly I would have attributed the Aki joints and stuff to something to do with lifting and diet Which was right away what I did myself right away I adjusted that thinking that that was the issue and then and some mobility stuff I was doing well, that's a that's a testament to you being a health person Right, you're gonna look at lifestyle choices first right so right away I went that direction and it still wasn't helping it was bothering me a little bit I couldn't get to the bottom of it. So I felt so relieved when I expressed that to him And he goes it completely makes sense because your estrogen so how are they adjusting this for you So the first thing is that delay like he wants me to take two weeks off of the The rivet x or whatever right, so I'm off of that for two weeks Another potential thing that we can do is a nanderlone, which is like deca So I guess that also helps with the joint stuff. Yeah. Yeah, so with that so it also helps with the The estrogen being converted converts a little bit more to estrogen. Yeah. Yeah, I forget He explained me the mechanism and how it works. I didn't so they they work with testosterone and they work with the two prescribed anabolics Anivar and nanderlone depending on the individual and what they're looking for Of course, you have to have all the blood work, which is which I like because they're not afraid, right? There's such a stigma around even testosterone. Yeah that like that one the first one of the first places We talked to way back. They were so afraid to go above 100 milligrams for you know Oh, no and then they move you up 10 milligrams, which is ridiculous Especially if your symptoms are still there. No, this is interesting because People need to realize this testosterone is essential for women and estrogen is essential for men Now lower doses different, uh, you know amounts But it's essential If your estrogen is in the floor as a man, you'll feel like shit depressed You can get anxiety irritability your libido could get crushed Your lipid levels could go all over the place and you won't build as much muscle in fact with animal cattle when they inject cattle with Hormones to bulk them up and which are all testosterone derivatives They will also give them estrogen Because they won't gain as much muscle if it's just the the testosterone derivative You balance it a bit you have to balance it and this is why it's so important that you work with a clinic that knows their shit because With the with the testing you got to make sure you're in the right balance and people are so different because if you're not Then you can run into problems, you know and to be honest I actually so I flaked on them like two weeks before because that's when I was supposed to have my appointment And I'm like, I'm fine. Like I don't need to do a follow-up. I've been good We got our left might they got my levels down and I figured out my dose that I think is pretty perfect for me um, but I wasn't even connecting, uh, the joint stuff and uh, and I actually wasn't even thinking about the irritability thing I mean, I'm sure Katrina and you can testify to that. We have a separate text That wasn't really on the radar till he said like those are the one and two and I thought well, I did just get into a cell two hours ago Oh, maybe that's a little off. So that makes me I was happy, you know, like that was it was nice to uh To have somebody that that's you know, tell me what's going on. You know, what's funny is uh, so after I Told the audience that I you know been doing trt and the whole story behind all that I the response has been so overwhelmingly positive In the sense that there's a lot of men and women who've been messaging me saying, you know, what your story Convinced me just to get my stuff looked at because like you I eat, right? I exercise I do all the stuff and I just can't figure out the hell's wrong with how I feel And because of what you said I went ahead and got which is good because What'll happen is you'll get tested and they'll say no, everything looks good Or they'll say oh here's what's going on And then you'll have some options or some answers because I can only imagine well, I mean, I know what it's like That's the the coolest part about all this whole thing is forget the testosterone that I will or will not do or the It's like just that was something I had been troubleshooting for like the last month by myself Not thinking it had anything to do with my hormones I completely thought I had something to do with man. Am I not getting enough rotation? Like we're talking about rotational stuff. Am I not doing enough rotational stuff? So I was doing like mobility stuff I was And I thought man, am I maybe it's all the dessert and candy that since halloween? I've been letting into my diet. Okay, so I cut all that out went low calorie I was like, what the fuck why is this still bother me? And it just it didn't even dawn on me that that could have been there's nothing more frustrating than Then dialing things in and you still can't figure out what the hell's going on Especially like you're losing your mind especially when you're one of us. I feel like that's a dude I think it's extra You don't understand okay And I told the story and I didn't really really go into like too much of the emotional aspect of it But it literally felt like Someone lifted the freaking curtain And then hindsight's 20. What do they always say right hindsight 20 20 you look back and you go Oh Now everything makes sense for like three years And in my wife is very supportive And she's must have heard me say this a thousand times. I'd go up to her and I'd say I just don't feel like myself It's so weird like it's just not and she'd be like you look great and this and that But yeah, but it's just something's off and I don't know what the hell's wrong and you know this and that and so It's just one of those things Find the right place and if you're interested in going to where we recommend its mp hormones.com Which is you know the place you want to go. Yeah, it's still not these days. Yeah, so all right So adam you had something you wanted to bring up. I do I have on the topics of interesting is So already the first Sexual harassment case I believe has been filed for the metaverse. So explain this I saw you say you you brought this up a little bit. I shouldn't laugh right because it's Sexual harassment is not a funny thing. But This is a little comical to me your virtual avatar got sexually harassed. That's exactly what went down So they just I forgot they got groped or something like that. Yeah, so But I mean, it's like you I think one of you brought I heard one of you say the whole grand theft auto thing It's like, yeah, I mean look at the how graphic that is you can go around and you could there's Well, just look at that as an example of human behavior now in the virtual world Like what makes you think people are going to act? Uh appropriately just given everything that they can do in this virtual world Like they're going to have all these like utopian behaviors So this is why I wanted to bring this up because it's it's actually kind of an interesting conversation because I I expect or predict that this is going to be crazy bad Like this I mean because because I don't know now there's not any laws in place to stop somebody from doing it So what is going to stop somebody and you I mean just think of just dumb teenage boys like yes You always have to factor that or the perverts. Oh, no, here's the thing There's always going to be those people and now they they can get away with it because there's no laws or something I'm doing it and then in addition that you have funny teenagers who like there's no laws against me doing it So I'm gonna fuck with people all the time. How are they going to handle this? Yeah, okay, so out of controls. You've been able to handle trolls, you know like on all the social media platforms How are they going to handle people's behaviors being you know this avatar going around groping people and talking shit? Yeah, so I think there's going to be first off. We have to draw a clear line. There's When you're when you're abusing or targeting minors, there's a line there I definitely think legislation already exists. I think the legislation you get tougher on that Like if my 12 year old daughter is on roblox and some freak You know pervert guy takes his avatar and like, you know simulates humping her avatar. She's seeing that happen That's different. So I think that's a there's a line there, but let's say you're an adult Yeah, but let's talk about that line though. How do you police that? Yeah, you you police it by saying nothing sexual nothing violent. No harass. No curse words But it's still gonna happen. Right. So I think that that's where that line has to draw now adults Here's what I think with adult and now here's what's interesting by the way People in the metaverse they murder each other all the time. Nobody gives a shit So I could walk up to you throw you off a cliff. Ha ha ha, right? But now if I touch your fake butt You're gonna sue me isn't that kind of interesting with human behavior like what's considered Okay, and not okay. That's what I'm saying. That's it's gonna be this weird Like gray area on how they how do you navigate this and how I mean The platforms are gonna have to they're gonna have to see that. Oh people are dropping off I think it's gonna be silver woman. They won't be able to or they're gonna be Imagine the predicament twitter and instagram and facebook are in right now with trying to police What they think is right and was wrong and they have like Like it's never it's never balanced. Yeah, it's never balanced. It's it's it's and they all predict all these meetings Corporate meetings you're gonna have in board rooms and everything and like they think it's gonna be so like professional And it's like dude, I don't see that at all. I don't see that. There's no way What if I'm trying to think right now, you're gonna have to create AI to manage this because otherwise the amount of personnel You see that I you guys know that I'm shadow band Three months So the only thing I could think of because everyone has been DMing me since this weekend saying that I couldn't I couldn't find your name I thought you were gonna catch up to my So you can still find okay, so if you go on the main mind pump media IG There's a little uh where the icons are there's like a post story and then there's a little play button You can go to that play button. It's saved in there. So you can go back and go on the main pump Yeah, you can go you can go watch it but I I was trying to do it on my story and I think because I announced it as Uh weed wine wife talk or whatever and because weed was in the talk That I think that's that's the only thing that makes sense because I don't have any controversial shit that I'm posting on my Story like Sal is yeah, so there's no reason why I would have been blocked for that The only thing I could think of is because I was promoting smoking weed. Yeah, that's that's exactly what what the fuck There's so many people that do way worse stuff on there now. Here's what's annoying about it all Look, they instagram is a private organization. They could do it. Here's what they put themselves in hot water Is that they're not uh, they don't seem to be fair With how they apply it for example Um, you could say on there and people have uh white man a racist. That's totally fine Death to israel totally fine weed wine and wife your shadow band very straight and so just a noise Well, it's also annoying too that there's no, um, like I'm guessing that's what it is I don't even know for sure like there's what if you what if everybody that's connected to me now is getting shadow bad Yeah, sorry guys I'm next Well, I wonder if there is some sort part of the algorithm though because you've been shadow bound and then people that are Closely associated with you. I don't know like that are I'm sure there's a sort of theory There's a theory that's going around that that they will that the algorithm looks at the pages that you follow Even if you don't do anything and then when you follow certain pages You're under a different level of scrutiny So if you follow let's say controversial meme pages, there's a ton of them or you follow certain political opinion pages, which It's obvious some political opinions are heavily scrutinized while others aren't it's so biased Yes, it puts you in a category and then you're you know, and then they watch you more But here's the thing nobody knows and I think that the only way that the social media companies are going to get out of this Is if they make it super super transparent if they say specifically Here's the things and that's it. So what happened as a result with the whole fact check With facebook how they had to admit that it's just opinion In court. Yeah, that's all that. What does that mean in terms of their fact checking People and like how you know, they're screwed all the also all of them screwed right the second they started editing their stuff There's going to be people who are going to say it's not fair When you edit stuff You are no longer protected the same way phone companies are right So phone companies are protected under law Where let's say I call Justin through the phone and him and I plan a bank robbery AT&T is not liable for that because they're not editing. They're not like acting like a newspaper magazine They're just they're just a service social media actively edits, which now is going to open them up for legislation and lawsuit And so the era of this open market free, you know, whatever social media it's over. There's no way Why did we're going to see we still haven't seen what I the what the The final layout will look like of social media, which I think it's going to look like The just like the news cycle right where you have super left and right. Yep. Yeah So I think we're just it's only a matter of time before the you know, the the red You know facebook or the red twitter so far. It's all left Yeah, there's like and then the the ones like a parlor that kind of came out got squashed In this whole thing with trump trying to create one is now, you know in the defense though of these guys, right? So I was I heard the guys on the all-in podcast one of them knows Jack Dorsey, but he's the twitter guy really well And he says he's like a major like libertarian like free market type of guy. Yeah free speech guy and That was not his intent and maybe that speaks to why maybe that's why he's that wasn't the intent of any of the guys That's of any original. It's so big and so that's what they say All these guys, you know everyone's you know, and that's why I want to defend them a little bit right now Is we're you know railing on them as if they're all left. They're really not I mean from people that know these people say they're not Left-wing people. It's just that it's getting to this place where they're being held accountable from that side Just the anything has all been completely they would rather be I mean think about it It made sense that was the goal the goal literally was to make that first of all the the internet To decentralize everything. Yes, and the internet's a perfect example of Open anarchy like it itself organized itself, but in all these original People that are the innovators jack Dorsey and you know, what's his name from facebook and all these They were the innovators they were the first ones and they were all pro that way The problem is you have now 30,000 employees. So now they have a say who knows what they stand Then you have political pressure which is massive trying to be in good graces with the government Yeah, and then you're like then you want to keep your crowd happy. So let's say the crowd that goes on So this is what I I think where you're going right now is so I because I had a niece that used to work for facebook And I think every fridays ducker work does like this big thing where everybody and the employees have a major voice And I imagine I don't know what maybe duck could look at what's the average age of an employee at facebook Plus where's facebook headquartered? I'm guessing it's younger and where's it headquartered? Yeah, right? It's in it's in like right So I mean when you've got a majority of your employees putting pressure on you to say this or do that or police this Um, and then you're getting outside pressures I mean that just sucks dude. It's I mean, yeah, I'm not saying that they're evil I know nobody wants to know I'm sorry for billionaires, but I mean I I it would suck if this was like my bait Like imagine this look at a median employee of facebook's 28 Yeah, yeah, yeah, so we know and they're silicon valley. I look here's the deal I don't think they're evil But what I think is and of course this is hindsight they they opened the door now They're screwed and the door was okay, we're gonna step in and start editing stuff Well, now you're screwed now there's no now that slippery slope you're going down it You're not a utility any longer. I agree, but I feel bad for him Dude, I mean I I've thought about this before with our own business like Imagine one day gets to a place where we want to step away, right? It continues to grow It's this beautiful thing that we built we're so proud of it But we're also getting older right a point when we want to retire when I travel You want to do whatever right and you say and we don't want to just burn the bridge to burn it down It's like let's keep it going. So let's step other people in let's get aboard Let's do these things and then you start having the outside influence of people deciding what the content looks like or let's say We did like a joe roga move where we we still are the face of it But then we sell the advertising and then they start telling us what we should say for the brands I mean, you cannot say weight loss because it's not inclusive Yeah, and yeah, what I saw too with the night again. I always brings back to star warsomal But like Because dude he everything connects to star wars. It does you guys i'm telling you he's got a good point Yeah, no because it just got away like after he sold it to disney like they had all these other people involved Who have different narratives and different things they want to inject into the storyline the And and create something that has like hits all these sort of Points and and is is socially relevant and all that and it started to Compete with the actual storyline in the canon Yeah, so so here's okay Here's a deal and this is this is going to be true for anybody or any company Who values this open market of ideas when you value open market ideas that you're going to open the door for bad ideas And rude people and controversial stuff because that's what happens when you have an open market of ideas Here's how you would regulate that the responsibility Is not on the person holding the platform because the people putting out the opinions or the public and the consumer The responsibility is on the consumer to control what they can and can't see so what they should have done is they should have said We're not going to ban anything except for things that are illegal because that's under the law And maybe pornography because this is a non pornography site But besides that you as a consumer you have the power you don't like something Then you click on this feature that banshit or block stuff that looks like that. It's on you not us Here's a problem. People are weak People are so weak. They get on these social media platforms. They don't like something. I'm complaining to facebook You clicked on it. You you went like you block it yourself That's the other thing that i'm not sure about is there's a very good chance because I remember I did a Back on um april 20th like I don't know two or three years ago. I did a marijuana post You know one of three i've done in five years or whatever and I got a bunch of heat from people That you know that i'm promoting smoking or whatever like that and and i'm like You know what could have happened is maybe it's not the algorithm from you from instagram Maybe I had a fucking couple people that complain. Yeah that complain Who the hell follows you at this point though adam? You know who doesn't know that it doesn't matter Dude, like you still you know how it is like even even as well of a job as I think we've done But it's so funny that you're getting rid of all the They complained to instagram just random person right and I wouldn't be surprised if if There's something in the algorithm that hey if five or more people complain about the same thing Well no that for sure is there right remember lane what happened to lane Yeah, he had a bunch of because he's aggressive when he goes after like fake diet people and diet pills and stuff like that But he's really aggressive about it And I guess a group of people organized got together and all said let's all complain at the same time to get him Banned yeah, and he did and he had to go through instagram And luckily he knew someone there and they were able to reverse it, but he almost lost his business Right, so I don't know it could have been easily my someone in my own following that actually You know got all offended because I was gonna have some wine and smokes and weed and so oh god I wouldn't be surprised. Like I said, I've had it. I've had people message me before just don't watch Just leave that's all you gotta do. Now. I gotta do now I'll do it'll be the acronym if I if I do it again. We'll see which actually you should you know We should say we're come, you know, we're grape juice and trees You know what I mean, just come up with it. That's not a bad idea. Yeah, yeah Yeah, they actually I think that um, I think I'm actually this is a good time to announce to you guys that I'm going to be stepping down And Katrina is going to take my spot on the podcast Apparently she's in more demand People want to hear from her and talk to her so it might be better for her to work here I think it would be a stay at home dad. Actually. I've always wanted I might follow suit of that, right? Your face Stay at home dad's I don't want to do that. I was like it's funny this weekend I was with you know hanging out with Jessica and she's when I'm off on the weekend. She's so like Sit down. I'll do that. I'll do this. No, no, you don't do anything And I said honey and she this was like the I guess I said the best thing in the world to her But I said to her I said honey. I'm not working today. It's a weekend But that doesn't mean that I'm off We're still running the household and I said when is your day off and she looked at me like uh, no, we had sex It worked really well. No, I know all truth. I'll joking aside That job is hard as shit because you don't have like a I don't have off days, right? Like I'm not off And I can just do whatever I want. So I said, no, I'm off work, but I don't mean I'm off I still you know I'm part of the family and you are really trying to score some points right now It's true though. It's true. I wanted to say that publicly To get more points. No ace. Hey, I got to tell you something out of us. It's hilarious So you know how you always talk about your your family having issues with the fact that you don't put shoes on your son Yeah, okay, so we went to my parents house. I've been waiting for this by the way Quietly waiting for when this moment happens for you So we went to my parents house because my sister who's a photographer. Um, and she does a great job by the way She uh was she wanted to take pictures of my parents and all their grandkids, right? So My parents have let's see six Seven grandkids right now early 60. So they already have a lot of grandkids And then she also invited my great-grandparents to take pictures. So she took these incredible pictures. So we're all there, right? So first jessica shows up because I had to go pick up My older kids and I get there and and my grandma looks at me and she goes, uh, You know, if you put shoes on your son, she's telling me in sicilian and my grandma was 80 She's in her mid 80s You know, if you put shoes on your son, he'll walk much earlier and jessica gives me a look I'm like, oh, she's already said something to jessica. So I'm like, no I said, no, no, I said, you know If you put the shoes on then the muscles of the foot don't get developed and the nerves in the feet And it was this debate with my grandma about shoes like what we used to put Leather shoes with hard soles in our kid and they were walking at 10 months old You know, you know, he should be walking like, oh man, what am I doing? I'm gonna go back and forth with my grandma I dude, I didn't realize how much uh shit I was gonna get up with that I just didn't think that anyone really paid attention to that and boy, did I I struggle with that so many people Actually, I would say I had more issues with the shoes than I did the sugar Once I kind of laid the law with like to don't give myself give my kid sugar Like I think a lot of people kind of get that, you know, a little bit more The no shoes thing was like people did not understand. Yeah They just thought I was being a bad father by letting my son walk on rock because I let him rocks and ass fault and like Like just so long as that dangerous. Yeah. No, I'm not not in glass or Things are they're gonna cut cut him up. But I happen to be a bad, but no Even like that like rocky kind of fire pits uncomfortable ass fault or like little like, um Well, the only way like 30 pounds is not gonna hurt. Yeah, and trust me They'll tell you if it bothers them and he adapted to it really but boy They would everyone would freak out when they'd see that and be like, dude relax Yeah, I think that what I finally kind of made a point because she's like I raised four kids I raised all the grandkids and know what I'm talking about. Right. And so I said I said imagine if You put gloves on your baby From right away How would their hands change and how they moved and then she kind of got it a little bit and then I said You know, no, I said since you've been using a walker because she's older and she you know Her health is now starting to decline. That's a boy. You're shaming her for a walker. Dang, you're using your walker, kiss her? That's fucking dirty tactics, bro. No, no, no, stop. I didn't do that I know I'm gonna get this bitch. I'm gonna shave her for a walker No, you see why you're using this I love her. She's the best. She's the best known on the world. That's not what I meant This guy anything to win an argument, bro. Anything to win an argument Fucking shut her down. No, that's not what happened. I said that bitch I said to her I said that's why for so long We tried to keep you walking without it because then your body starts to adapt to it and she totally understood You know how you have arthritis? It's hard for you to ever get out of your seat Yeah You started using that walker You don't tell me what to do grandma. High five at jessica afterwards. Oh walk out the room You know that you know that reminds me of talking about shaman and stuff like that and get in the barefoot conversation I feel like a dick now Dude, we literally just pulled that out. That wasn't you that was all I ever do that No, we're talking about hurt feelings and stuff. So I uh Every every time we talk about this actually the subject I always get people that DM me the the fucking vivo shoes. What do they call the barefoot shoes? Yeah, the barefoot shoes. Yeah, the barefoot shoes. They're always trying to get me to wear them or get me Oh, you should have max wear them and I think I've talked about this Enough time saying how ugly they are. They're like the ugliest things ever Yeah, well that is exactly what I said. I said, I'm not trying to get laid in those things It's this isn't about convincing me that I don't think that they have a functional purpose Like if you're into those shoes by all means like if and you're getting sex I'm more power to you if you have the ability to do both But I am not a fan of the way those shoes look and I this shoe stay on when we bang Well, I'm a shoe I'm a shoe guy. So I'm like I'm into those things. So I'm not gonna I'm not gonna just I'm not that functional Like I'll just take my shoes off and walk around barefoot for a while and train barefoot and get it I don't need to wear ugly ass fucking finger shoes. Hey speaking of looking good So you did that that that video or whatever that story with your wife So jessica and I get on there and we start watching by the way, you guys are adorable It's like great stories and she's talking about how she met you and all stuff and jessica's like adam skin looks really good Oh, I'm like, I know even through the video. I know and I was telling her and so she's using caldera too now Oh, you got her on it. Yes, and she by the way, we ran out. So don't take whatever bottle they say I actually haven't got Katrina to use it. You know, it's great about it The two this is I've been wearing it like Courtney loves the way it smells Because I used to wear like, you know some aftershave or whatever, but that always like gets her head to turn Because she like does she like this one or the other cream now? Okay, that's funny because Katrina doesn't like this one. She likes to smell. Oh, that reminds me Doug I knew I had a follow-up commercial for caldera We mentioned came on the order the order was wrong. Did you see that? Yes, we messed up Yeah, so it's that means you do the cream first. No, you do that first And then you do the moisture. Yeah. And so somebody like school the oil is is what protects it. What's that called? Esthetician. Yes, is that right? Yes, like an esthetician got on there and like totally I got the same DM. So we totally listen We're fitness expert. I know I love over here and we do so this one. I appreciate this is not me talking Minimally with this subject. I appreciate when people especially when they have a good approach about it Like I don't like when someone gets on there and talk shit like when I'm wrong about something But if you like hey, just to let you know like you said this order This is actually the and I guess it has something to do with The the way how much it opens your pores up and you don't want to no You want to you want to get the oil to protect because it because otherwise bacteria can go through the openings in the pores And then that causes that can cause acne and inflammation. So the oil is protective. Yeah, then the moisturizers is the final thing Yeah, that's it goes this then the moisture. Yes. I hope we got it right this time. I don't want more DMs You know that reminds me of you guys what you said about the shoes earlier reminding me of something I had uh, I was on uh lugaviers podcast Again, the other day we talked about holidays and had a void gaining weight and all that stuff and I focused a lot on quality of life Versus the like count your macros count your calories type of deal. Yeah, great response But it you know made me think of there's really You know two categories of things you could do for your your health or through your health Um, but but they also help each other. So let me be more clear, right? You can either Do things that will give you more time in terms of longevity Or you could do things that will give you a better time in terms of the amount of time that you're already here, right? So there's enjoy there's quality of life now And then there's also longevity And oftentimes they help each other in other words if you improve your quality of life with certain things Oftentimes that will also improve your longevity. So like having better relationships with the people around you Enjoying the occasional glass of wine with your wife That's a better time and that's also probably going to increase longevity or improve longevity as studies will show Of course now you could also go in the extreme I can do drugs all day long to try and make today a better time But now i'm severely reducing my longevity and eventually I get you know worse time I could also do things to really impact my longevity like Severely restrict my calories, right low calories have been shown in animal studies to improve or increase someone's longevity But it's so low calorie that you're going to feel tired You're not going to have as much strength libido is going to drop. So then your quality goes down So it's important to consider both. So the shoes reminding me that adam because yeah, you could wear barefoot shoes Which would give you more functional? Ability in your feet, but you're having a worse time now because it looks like shit And it really is it's just that it's I told I think I don't I have to like explain every sponsored by them Anyway, I do the minimize is cool though. It doesn't have those little like toe I mean, I'm just I'm a shoe guy. So I'm like I'm into the way shoes look Over them being functional. Just it is what it is. You know what I'm saying and I openly admit that so it's not like And so when guys try and convince me that I should wear these shoes It's like you're just stop like wasting your time in my dms. I'm not going to wear those shoes Normally I put them on my son either. I don't want them to get beat up at school. So that's simple And it's all by the way if you're if he's running around barefoot 90% of the time and the only time he puts on some sneakers Right, that's not a big deal. That's what we do. We're like 90 10 with the baby. All right Because you brought this up. I have to say it because people are going to be like close the loop You meant you mentioned the point IQ point dropped. Oh, yeah, okay So I'm going to say this real quick, right? So they just did a study or they did a study relatively recently that showed that chill that baby's born during the pandemic Are registering with about a 22 point lower IQ that's a lot, right? Dude, that's devastating. That's a lot lot. That's devastating. It's a massive point drop So what they're showing is that these babies are developing slower speaking less They're basically missing milestones and they're equating it to the spot through testing about 20 20 point drop An IQ that means if you have a decent IQ at 100 you're at 80 Which now you're getting the borderline not doing so well the age range These are babies born during the pandemic And they think it has to do with the fact that the babies were isolated So so much of young children's brain development in IQ is related to being around of the kids being around of the people Reading social development reading faces. Well, at least we slowed the curve, right though. Yeah, god damn You know what? I'm gonna use it. I'm gonna use an example before it because otherwise I'll go on a rant I'm gonna go use an example to get up. I could get I can get an infection on my finger and I could cut my finger off Which means the infection's gone, but at what cost, okay? The treatment cannot be worse than the disease and what these policies are doing Is they're all they're counting are cova deaths. That's it. They're infections and deaths. They don't consider anything else What are we seeing now? By the way, go back on our podcast. We said this exact thing So if you think i'm full of shit, yeah, I'll prove you wrong We said this exactly you are gonna see unintended consequences. What have we seen suicide? Suicide rates going through the roof overdoses on drugs through the roof alcohol through alcohol use through the roof Obesity the speed at which obesity is growing has doubled You also we also haven't seen yet the devastating economic impacts because The wealthy did fine everybody below that are doing so well a lot of small businesses have been destroyed Decimated small business and that causes deaths that causes diseases So the treatment yes, we have less cova deaths and less infections But we have more deaths overall more pain overall With these policies because we only consider one damn metric So let's think about that for a second because they're gonna try and do it again And you want to keep putting your kid in school where they're looking at faces with masks That part of the brain is very important. It's not getting developed and those are crucial years. For example Isolating yourself. There's lots of problems All this stuff. We have to consider all the consequences. So I I I believe Not everybody most people Are on board with that message now. I really do until they get scared again. Not around here. That's my opinion I know I even think around here is is is even I think you're right I think some of the like I believe that but I have not I think if they if they try with uh, Omicron or omicron. How do I say it? Omicron and omicron. Whatever I think with because you know that right now. It's like quadrupling in speed right now It's supposed to be super it spreads super fast. But so far the reports are showing that it's less Yeah, the deaths and hospital rate is is flat or down And yet it's it's it's spreading at 4x or something like that So there is some fear around like the california and new york areas still trying to shut back down My prediction is if they if knew some pull some shit like that I think you're gonna see I think you're gonna see protests the same way you see over and I I think there's definitely should hope so Some fatigue over the stuff. I think so however I think that when people get scared that they start to Act in in funny ways and I think what you're gonna see is two different americas You're gonna see blue states and you can see red states. We went to arizona How different is it in arizona than in california? It's a different world. It's crazy the whole rest of You know america how like there's stadium full of people right next to each other and like everybody's fine But we can't recognize that because we're in this state where everybody's like scared shitless and just can't get over I just feel like It's been so long now that if that's like your thought process You just get so entrenched in that thought process that you can't get out of it now. You're stuck in a loop Listen without sounding insensitive. It's here. It's not going away. It's endemic We have to accept it. We cannot keep doing what we did before because we listen not only did all those other unintended consequences happen We literally printed 90 percent of every dollar ever created over that period don't even go there That's a whole we don't we haven't even seen the consequences of that But here look here's what's gonna happen. They're gonna beat the fear drum Because this is what gets people to agree. It's common So I don't so I don't disagree with that and we obviously being in california We'll see california new york will lead the way in in Being morons. Okay, but I I predict this time if they do that if they even do which they could very well be I think that you're going to see protests like we have never seen you. I hope I hope not here at least right I hope people are more are going to be like listen. I get it. I'm going to take my own like I'm going to do it myself But what you guys are these these laws are just causing lots of problems. Look, I'm going to I'm going to tell you right I'm going to read one thing for you still yet. No conversations about treatment just the vaccine Yeah, and I'm going to read one thing to you that's going to highlight the fear drum It's already started the beating of the of the drum, right? This is from the white house Dot gov website. So this is the official white house website We are intent on not letting amicron disrupt work in school for the vaccinated You've done the right thing and we will get through this for the unvaccinated You're looking at a winter of severe illness and death for yourselves your families In the hospitals you may soon overwhelm What a fucked up statement. Wow, dude That's just like that's some fear like scare the fuck out of people And that's from the white house, which is kind of crazy. So expect the fear the fear gets people to do What the politicians want and make no mistake if you want to look back at the at the bills that we spent with all the money Dig through them and you will see a good 90% of that money went to special interests and stuff and friends So this is this is kind of what happens. I have faith in my people. Yeah, we're gonna we're not gonna let We're not gonna stand for this bullshit. 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Enjoy the rest of the show first question is from nick hebino How often should I switch up my lifting exercise for max gains? Oh, this is actually a really good question because there's like a bell curve with this right so If you switch too soon Then what happens is you you lose the ability to get good in an exercise and really reap its benefits And there's a different learning curve for each exercise like barbell curls You start to master them very quickly a barbell squat much longer And through that mastery process once you get to a point where you can really push weight and have good stability Then you really see a lot of gains and that can take a while So you'll want to stick to that exercise for a while But if you do an exercise too long without switching things up risk of injury goes up plateaus can start to happen Um, so it's it's kind of different from exercise to exercise and program to program So it's a hard it's a hard one to answer Well, do you guys have some some general because that's a great point, right? So what you'll see when I'm doing my own programming, right? If I'm not following something specifically I I will keep things like the, you know Barbell back squat or standard, you know barbell overhead press and deadlift In my routine for sometimes months right before I phase it out or transition to me and normally what I do is I just Interrupt it with some like, you know multi-planar Lunges or costed squats or Bulgarian split squats and then I'll be right back at it Just to make sure that I'm kind of addressing everything But I'll I'll keep a movement like that in my my programming for months with just like I said a little bit of intermittent Now if I was just doing, you know easy curl bicep curls Shit, I ain't doing that more than maybe four workouts in a row. Yeah four workouts in a row And I'm out of it. I'm already transitioning into something different Yeah, I think those higher skill ones like they're always going to make it in the rotation The only thing that's going to change a lot is either the tempo The intensity, you know the rep count like, you know those variables that you can adjust but still Get some of those same benefits, but now you're getting a new stimulus that your body's reacting to so I still like to keep them around But yes, I do incorporate other exercises to Kind of fill the needs, especially if I'm just training a lot Like to the beginning of this podcast talking about just training in one direction too much, you know I want to make sure I'm considering a lot of other variables that will benefit my body. That's a great point very very good point because you can so The complex exercises the gross motor movements ones are the ones that you can keep in for a long time Just because there's so much you can gain from them. There's so much that's involved You know, you could squat for a whole year and get phenomenal gains out of a squat So long as you do auxiliary movements and some other exercises to address and balances But then simple exercises you adapt very quickly and you benefit more from variety, right? So one rule of thumb or I don't want to say a rule of thumb But one thing to consider is with the complex really valuable exercises You can just modify the exercise itself and now you've got a little bit of variety For example, I may do traditional barbell squats for a while and then notice I'm starting to plateau And say okay rather than not doing back squats, what I'll do now is I'll do a pause squat Or a box squat or I'll change the tempo or a wide stance So it feels elevated like there's a lot of stuff that you can play within those those movements I will say this though if I'm training a client And we have been doing a lot of those movements consistently and we've let's say we're in a hard plateau I may interrupt the program and completely change all the exercises just to try and break a plateau because I find that If they've been training consistently with me We've been doing some of these movements and and I've maybe I've manipulated some other things in the routine And I'm not I'm not I'm not breaking through the plateau fast enough Then I may introduce a whole bunch of new movements completely that that way I know I'm going to get that Let's give the audience some takeaways. Okay, so let's be more specific. What are some of your favorite? I guess interrupt or movements or exercises for Some of the biggest I just named mine right bulgarian split squats or multi plane multi planer lunges or Cossack squats. Yeah, I agree with you I like the singles the like the unilateral stuff for barbell squats Front squats sometimes too. I'll do front squats instead of back squats For deadlifts. Sometimes I'll do trap bar or sumo instead of conventional or a high pull much more complex But I notice a high pull's got some good carryover from a deadlift bench press That's as easy as going incline in my opinion or using dumbbells in my opinion and then overhead press I'll go from barbell to behind the neck barbell to dumbbell Press or to an Arnold press or even a like I saw you doing today Bottoms up press. Yeah bottoms up press. Yeah, I like to do stuff like that to really address like stability issues If I feel like I'm plateauing or coming close to it. I like to challenge instability I like to challenge, you know, rotational movements and always constantly looking at that especially pressing because your your shoulder is so complex in its abilities To to move and so to be able to take it through full range of motion and then challenge it along those ranges of motion is very Crucial for me, you know squatting you could just place the bar in a different loading position I like, you know, zircher squats for that. Yeah, which, you know, are great It's totally challenges you in a different way. And so you just got to think, you know, other Other instances that you'll get, you know, good benefit from it as well But that totally different stimulus and that interruption looks like what do you guys say two to four weeks? Now you have that you're doing that new movement and replace of it and then you bring it back Yeah, I'll do exactly like three weeks. Yeah, exactly like that Although I did do, you know, lateral for about three months, but my my circumstance was different I was noticing. Well, yeah, there's exceptions to the room where I was getting pain, you know And it was going away and I and then I noticed a huge here's a here's a good thing to keep in mind When you change to a new movement, uh, that's especially from like a Bilateral to unilateral and you notice a huge discrepancy between the two sides probably sticking there a little longer Yeah, no, I agree with that and I want to add the the single leg deadlift to your Alternatives for deadlifting. That's one of my favorite when I'm going to stop barbell deadlifting for a while Is to go into the single leg deadlift with dumbbells for a while before I go back Next question is from Ava fit our unilateral movements more beneficial than bilateral movements. Oh nice follow-up question I know, right? No, they're just different and they have their own value So bilateral movements allow bilateral means two legs two arms unilateral means one arm one leg at a time Bilateral movements allow you to push more weight Generate more, you know central nervous system force Um, you're going to get you're going to build bigger gains and strength Unilateral is great for stability. It's good for creating balance preventing imbalances that can develop from bilateral Stay in one for too long and you start to see problems unilateral stuff You're just not going to build as much strength power And muscle if you only stay there and then bilaterally start to develop imbalances So I'm going to go out and actually challenge it a little bit saying that I do think that unilateral movements do have more benefits for something specific like just Health and longevity There's no there's no doubt bilateral movements So both feet both arms are going to build the most amount of muscle Which in turn could also burn the most body fat so body so aesthetic goals You got to have both in there and I think that bilateral you cannot neglect But if someone was just I just want to feel good move well Be healthy longevity goal There's a lot of value to unilateral if you were to only do unilateral training and there's a there's a lot of coaches and trainers that that Live by that philosophy. You know what the downside of that is is that you can get a strong Well, no not that not just that but when I train like when you train the average person that's decondition Unilateral is a step above Bilateral a lot of exercise like I'm gonna take someone's decondition. Maybe they're like 60 I'm there's not I'm not doing very many unilateral exercise because they lack They even lack the stability to do bilateral well So to jump them to unilateral especially for lower body exercise. Maybe unless I'm on a machine Um is going to be really hard. So, you know, I would go unilateral But I used to have to start with bilateral especially with older clients It's an interesting argument because I've heard this from strength coaches on both ends of the spectrum Like a Mike Boyle would will claim it's more beneficial for athletes to train in unilateral Work specifically because it gets the longevity aspect to it But you get strong and stable and in a position that is more translatable Towards what you're doing either on the ice or on the field or you know, you're you're just more You're more apt to be in a split stance or you know out wide or rotating and being able to drive and and get explosive forces and be able to Stabilize in those forces is at the up is almost at a higher priority in his argument Well, and to his argument and he makes a great case on this. I mean Most sports require some sort of running and running is unilateral So it makes sense that and I can get behind that. Yeah, but but again Now to and this is where I'm kind of like in the middle is because then in the other side It's like all about building that base strength and support, right? So you can Generate more force. You can be strong and stable in that force But the caveat there is that if you get into those split stance and those different types of Positions, you may not be able to be as familiar with that, which means you can't generate the force in those Here's what I'm going to debate him because I respect him, right? Yeah. He's a good trainer. Here's what I'm going to debate What have we seen with the studies on athletes? When they're young They're better off doing a wide range of sports. Yes, and then when they get older It's better to be more specific now We used to think if you take a little kid and you want them to be a great soccer player Just have them play soccer just specialize the whole time Studies now show that the kid who plays soccer basketball football and gymnastics Will be better at soccer later on than the kid that just did soccer because they they built a wider Range they can problem solve with their body a lot more effectively. Yes So it's like again, you could be good in one direction so far But then again, there's repetitive stress injuries as well There's you get good at it But at the same time you don't have the ability to problem solve outside of that Yeah, so if I'm training a younger athlete I'm going to go bilateral general strength and power And then move unilateral as they get older and this is how I used to train athletes anyway When I would train an older athlete It was much more my training was much more specific. You know if I'm training a 15 year old Like I'm not doing super specific football resistance training if you play football I'm just going to get you stronger Generally if I'm training a college football player like at this point you're in college. You're doing good You've got this strength. Now we got to work on the more specific application Yeah, I think building a base a foundational base of strength and support is is at the utmost importance to then venture out into You know these unilateral positions, which will benefit the whole well I would just say why wouldn't you incorporate both 100 great tools. There's no reason to such a silly debate to me Well because that's fitness for you, right? This is I mean so we get questions like this It's always a camp which is better one or the other this is I hear this from these coaches say this is better This coaches this but the truth is if the program that beats both of those is the one that incorporates both That's why we exist Yeah, I think you if it's for the average person listening and watching right now They both have tremendous value and if you don't incorporate both You're going to miss out on something and that it means you're not going to reach your full potential So it's not a which is better. It's a which is better for that for this specific person With this specific goal and what they've been doing, you know for the last you get the appropriate tool and apply it Yeah, because it depends on the person I'll see a person's results and their workouts what they've been doing and who they are and I'll say Unilateral for you and then I'll look at someone else and say bilateral for you So it's the they're all tools you're building a house You got to use a hammer and a screwdriver and you got to use a saw. You got to use everything All right. Next question is from Zelen Castillat Is vitamin supplementation necessary if you eat a balanced diet, you know, okay? This reminds me of one of the best Sales pitches I ever was taught when it came to selling supplements the multivitamin. Yes. Yes And it was great because it totally sounded like it made sense So what they used to teach us back in the day when I was managing gyms A lot of stuff is they and they were trying to get us to sell more vitamins is they'd say You could have the perfect Diet, but because you're eating a low calorie lose weight. There's only so many nutrients you can get with that So but you still have micro nutrient requirements, which are higher This is why everybody should be on a multivitamin and it made so much sense to me Like yeah, 1500 calories is necessary, but you need 2500 calories with their nutrients It made so here's why that's not necessarily true. So a multivitamin is like a nuke. It's like everything, right When it comes to nutrients it if you really want benefits It's got to be specific to you because if I take a multivitamin that's got everything Maybe my zinc is optimal and now I'm going high in zinc and now which affects my copper and other things in my body Or maybe my vitamin d is low and my multivitamin doesn't have enough vitamin d to support that for me So if you really want to know what's ideal for you, I don't care what your diet is Get your nutrient levels tested and then and then supplement specifically for your body. That would be my advice No, I think I see that's the answer because what is what is a balanced diet even mean What is that? What does that mean to somebody? Does it mean you're just you you have an even amount of protein carbs and fats? You could do that and still be missing some serious nutrients If you're not doing diversifying with color in your diet If you what types of meat where you're getting all of your protein from so even having a balanced diet You could easily miss out on some micro nutrients that you don't realize The best answer is exactly what you said and instead of just throwing the whole kitchen sink Which is like a find out what you're deficient in yeah Find out what you need to take on a regular basis because you lack in that and then and then of course And I've shared this before right like with the omega-3s for example um My kind of like personal goal is I try if I get you know three servings or so a week of like fish And if I don't then I have my omega-3s there to supplement it So I think once you kind of figure out where your levels are where you you lack or you don't lack And then you you are aware of what your normal diet looks like in your tendencies and then what foods Produce those nutrients then you can go. Oh wow this week. I haven't had x y and z So and those are rich in x y and z nutrients So i'm going to supplement that or hey this week. I was great. I hit all those things So lay off and save the supplements. Yeah, it's even it even gets more complex sometimes because you could be Your lifestyle could cause you or your body to you know be deficient in certain nutrients based off of let's say stress Or lack of sleep Or your body doesn't maybe your body doesn't synthesize cholesterol into vitamin d very well So you supplement with vitamin d right, but you don't see the numbers go up very much So you need to take more of the average person absorbing it properly. Yeah, that's another one right because you're swallowing it too It's like a lot of times too like having was it fat soluble and like having like that added in To be able to shut all those nutrients is is a whole part of the process as well People don't consider and then one last thing like vitamins and minerals are not innocuous. Okay Some of them. Yes are water soluble. So whatever your body doesn't use you you get rid of You know relatively good But some of them get stored minerals and fat soluble vitamins. So You can cause problems and trouble for yourself Okay, so you guys remember in the 90s How there was this huge push to have women take calcium right because of osteoporosis on the rise And they said oh, you know bones need calcium. So let's supplement Let's make everybody supplement with calcium and of course that that's an issue That's stupid because if you don't have the signal to build bone You can take all the calcium you want it's not going to do anything Plus you need vitamin d and other stuff. So anyway, they did this general like calcium You know take this for bone and then you had all these people developing calcium deposits And they're arteries and there's issues with taking too much calcium Because it was this just this broad brush stroke When if you don't know what you need you don't just take everything So that's and it by the way if you have a deficiency and you take a vitamin or mineral to fill it And it works life changing. So I do want to say that as well. Sure. It can make a tremendous difference Next question is from lean queen What are some good qualities or red flags to look for in a nutritionist? Have you guys ever worked with a client who worked with a nutritionist? That was just Terrible where you saw what they did and you're like, wow, I can't hold like food pyramid Oh, I actually had pretty good experiences with nutritionist. I haven't had to I'm trying to think of a bad I had one bad one. Um, most of them are pretty good. Most of them. Uh, I think Come from a behavioral point. I think that's a good. Those are the good ones That's how you know, you have a good one, right? When they're when they're looking at addressing the behaviors around your eating versus just breaking down Like if someone just breaks down what your body needs Macro and calorie wise and then they prescribe a diet just based off of that That's a red flag that they're probably not that good versus Having a conversation around your eating patterns the things you like you don't like and you know digging into Why you eat these foods or why you gravitate to these certain things or why you tend to binge on the like Someone who's trying to talk to you about that versus just breaking down nutritionally what your body needs Um, that's your sign. You're with a good one. I'm a hundred percent agree with you I in the and they're a lot different now than they were 20 years ago 20 years ago They didn't talk about uh food intolerances. It was just allergies or no allergies So someone had intolerance of gluten. It was like, you know, it wasn't something they even considered It was less about the behavior and more about the you know Look at your calories and eat these foods and here's your meal plan type of deal But now I'm seeing a lot more of the behavior stuff. So I think they're pretty good. Somebody's an actual nutritionist Um is probably generally going to be better than the average fitness and health influencer that's going to recommend nutrition so that's that I want to make that point because Uh, I don't want people to be like, oh, I heard, you know, some nutritionists aren't good So I'm going to go with this instagram influencer You're more likely to have like the worst nutritionist is still Yeah, you're gonna get really bad information so Here's the things to consider red flags are do you do not like working with them because if that that makes a big difference Do they not consider your behaviors? And how to work with behaviors not just, you know calories macros and that kind of stuff And do they not consider things like food intolerances digestion? Uh, you know, how your stool is your heartburn that kind of stuff Those would be some of the red flags. Yeah, are they not working into your lifestyle either? Like so like trying to present you with items and things that are just not even something you would even go out and buy Like it's I've had good nutritionists where they actually like go shopping with them And they try and make it so it's not too far away from what they would normally eat with their families and all It's just, you know, a bit tighter. It's a bit like more whole foods based It's a little more of healthier options for them to pick and and keep incorporating So I just like when they work with the person's behavior versus like just trying to give them a plan And being super rigid about it. 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