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Adam
Sleep.
Sal
Steroids.
Justin
Oh, no. 30 minutes of steroids. What is that?
Adam
Yeah, what is that?
Sal
You just hanging out.
Justin
You're on a drip with a timer.
Sal
30 minutes, three minutes up.
Adam
I'm guessing sleep fueled up.
Justin
Yeah, you hit the nail on the head. If everybody watching this, I was close right now. Consistently went to bed 30 minutes before they normally do. Just try this for a week. Just go to bed 30 minutes before you normally do. Test it out. It will be the most, for most people watching this, it will be the most impactful thing you do for your fitness, for your fat loss, for your gains, for your testosterone, for everything. Just that one thing right there.
Adam
So what made me think of that is because it reminded me of. So I used to have to do this sometimes with clients because when you tell a client, especially when they're struggling with the results, this or that, and you think it's related to sleep. Like rarely ever do they think it's related to sleep. How do you hype?
Sal
Scrape that up.
Adam
Yeah. So what you, what I would do is just be like, here's the deal. Let's, let's just like I would with food. Let's track and just see where you're at in a. So if you, you think you're good, okay. And I think there's room to improve there let's just track and see where we're at. Okay, great. Give me your numbers. We get the average of the week, so you're averaging this minute. Okay, so let's just set this goal now. For the next two weeks, we're gonna get 30 more minutes or an hour. I normally would try and target an hour, knowing they'll probably fall short and can only get 30 minutes. So it's like, let's try and get an hour more, which means let's. Let's go to bed an hour before what you normally would and just. Let's just see how you feel.
Justin
Life changing.
Adam
Yeah.
Sal
Yeah.
Justin
Life is. By the way, this is. It's life changing on everything. And I do want to say this case because you. Everybody hears the whole, like, you need seven to eight hours of sleep. That's real quick. That's seven to eight hours of sleep. That's not seven to eight hours of. In bed.
Sal
Yeah.
Justin
So people will be like, oh, I'll get seven hours if I go to bed right now. No, you'll probably get six and a half, because it takes, like, 30 minutes uninterrupted sleep. Sleep. That's right. So you. You. So whatever the amount of time that you want to sleep, you need to go to bed before that, because it takes time to settle into sleep. But I. I was talking to my friend. His wife is a psychiatrist, and she was just. We were talking about health, and she goes, it's so crazy. So remember, she works with people with mental health issues. She was so crazy. She goes. She goes, I'm not exaggerating, Sal. 50% of them solve their anxiety and depression issues by sleep. With sleep. Yeah. I said 50%. She goes, yeah, if we can fix their sleep, they're. Half of them are so much better that they no longer have to.
Sal
I mean, that makes a lot of sense.
Adam
It does make a lot of sense. And thinking about that makes me go, like, God, how. How. How many of. Or how. What percentage of chronic issues would be solved if just two things were done? 30 more minutes of sleep, exercise one time, lift weights one time a week.
Justin
Oh, God. That's the prescription.
Adam
Like, literally. That's it. Literally. Like, literally. Just, let's shoot for 30 more minutes.
Sal
Every night, the opposite message.
Adam
Yeah, and I'll. Full body, lift weights once a week. That's it.
Justin
You know, what's.
Adam
You do anything else? Yeah, And I know there's people that are, like, rolling their eyes because they do way more than that. And it's just like, oh, no. Like the. I'M talking about the average American.
Justin
Yeah, consistently.
Adam
Yeah, just did that.
Justin
And by the way, most fitness fanatics don't get good sleep either. So you know what's interesting is if you look at this, like, look at, historically, we were far more active. We ate whole natural foods. Life was stressful. Okay, don't get me wrong. You go back 100 years, life was very stressful. But the average person slept a lot more. They had nothing to do when the sun went down. That's part of the reason sun goes down. They didn't have all these ways to distract themselves. You know what people used to do when the kids went to bed? They'd read a normal book. You ever try to read a normal book past a certain time, you're going to go night night because it doesn't keep you awake with the, the constant simulation, the novelty, like scrolling on your phone or like Netflix will, there's no light, Fast cuts, shining your flashes. People used to sleep on average an hour more in the past than they do today. And if you go back even further, even more than that, in the winter time before it was like common place to have all these, have electricity. People slept like 10 hours. The sun went down. You used gas lamps and it was like dark. Like, try going around your house with gas lamps and you just got tired and people just like, well, we got nothing else to do. It's cold, let's go to bed.
Sal
Is it the last two or three hours where you actually get like deep REM sleep? Yeah, it takes that whole, you know, first half to even get there.
Justin
But this is, it's, it's, it's life changing on every front. And the data, there's a lot of data on this. I'm not just saying this because I, I know it with clients and all that stuff, but if you look at the data, helps with anxiety and depression. We talked about that. You are far, your body's far better primed to build muscle and burn body fat. There's, there's a few studies that show this, but one of my favorites is they took two groups of people, they had to meet the same calories. They were both in a calorie deficit. One of them got crappy sleep, one of them got great sleep. The group that had the crappy sleep lost twice as much muscle, not a little bit more muscle, twice as much muscle in a deficit than the other group. And the only difference was the, was the lack of sleep. That was the only difference. Your behaviors change dramatically now from a fitness perspective. Your cravings go through the roof. When your sleep is poor, you're more likely to seek out hyper palatable foods, foods that excite the senses. When you have poor sleep, so you're gonna crave foods that aren't necessarily as good for you. You're more likely to overeat because it is a stress response. Poor sleep is a stress response. Under stress, your body tends to seek out more calories because it's trying to protect you. And then again, muscle building strength injury. If you look at the data on what is most likely to predict injury in an athlete, poor sleep, nothing predicts injury more. That's how crazy it is. If you want to dramatically increase your risk of hurting yourself, have one night of poor sleep and then go work out. That's more than warming up and priming properly, doing the wrong exercises. It's remarkable. So if literally for anybody listening and watching this right now, if you just did this, if you said, okay, put it in your schedule, say, all right, this week right here, I don't got much stuff going on, so I have no excuses. I'm going to make it a point to go to bed. And I gave him 30 minutes as an easy target. 30 minutes before I normally do. I'm going to literally make myself lay in bed. I'm going to do 30 minutes to an hour before that. Turn off electronics, get my body ready to go to sleep, do it for a week. By day three, you'll be tripping out. By day three, you're going to be like, wow, what is going on? You will find yourself stronger in the gym. By day three, you'll find your cravings different. And if you extend this for four weeks, six weeks or so, change nothing else. You'll get leaner just from doing this one thing. And the cool thing about it is you're doing nothing. You're just sleeping, which is so incredible.
Sal
As easy as that.
Justin
But it's, it's. What's. What's funny about this is it's hard because there's so many things that. There's so many things that are fighting for our attention that going to sleep is like, I just want to watch this last episode. I just want to scroll consistently.
Sal
Doing that is actually a lot harder than it sounds.
Adam
It is.
Justin
It completely is. I'm experiencing this right now. Now I make it a point to go to bed and get good sleep. But you guys know I have an issue with snoring. My wife complains about it.
Adam
I have you got your new CPAP yet?
Justin
I got it. So I got a good CPAP machine is what I did before. I had a crappy one and it was uncomfortable and I got a good one.
Adam
You the one? The first one you got was expensive. How's.
Justin
They're all expensive. So a good one's gonna cost you a thousand plus for a good one. For sure. So I got a good one.
Sal
You're not selling this well to me.
Justin
No, hey, dude, listen.
Sal
Sal's convinced he's gonna get me to start.
Justin
Hey. It's like, hey, bro.
Sal
Really?
Justin
Yes.
Adam
Maybe if they had like one that was made in a Darth Vader, Vasquez or Darth Vader, you would actually wear it.
Sal
Probably would, yeah.
Justin
It does sound. It does. It is a turn off because you got to wear this thing and then you're like, you know, I got to wear this mask at night. But I. This is like day four, I want to say. So now my wife sleeps in bed with me. She's like, yeah, there's no snoring whatsoever.
Sal
Good morning, nookie.
Justin
No, no. I mean, listen, are you having sex every day anyway?
Sal
Yes.
Justin
Shut up. You're not having sex. Shut up. It ain't hurting anything.
Adam
You're at it.
Justin
Yeah, yeah.
Sal
So I'm so happy.
Justin
In which case I'm like, no, no, I, I maybe day four or five and I don't get an afternoon crash like I used to. I wake up, I feel like it's weird. It's like remarkably different. My performance to the gym is improving. I feel good. And again, I was making it a point to go to bed on time. For me, it was just poor sleep because of the breathing issues. It's pretty wild.
Adam
So how do you. Do you have to schedule sex though then now, like, does that.
Justin
Why would I have to schedule it?
Adam
Well, because you're gonna go to bed and you're gonna, like, for example, I.
Justin
Don'T put it on while I'm in my room hang out. I only put. When it's time to go to sleep, I put it on.
Adam
Well, it's also. Normally when you get in bed is also the time you have sex too. So wouldn't that be the same time.
Justin
I go to bed? When it's time to sleep, I don't go to bed and chill. What are you guys doing in bed?
Adam
That's why I have sex in bed. That's what I normally do. That's my point. It's like, so you. Okay, let's say normally a normal day. Okay, let's say a non sex day. You get in, you decide it's Time to go to bed. You get in bed, and then you put your CPAP machine on. Explain to me how that's any different than it. That you say, tonight I'm gonna have sex. You just don't put it on Nightguard. It's like a big.
Justin
I have sex first, and then I put it on.
Adam
Do you have to talk? Do you have to. Do you have to schedule it? You have to bring it up. You have to be like, hey, honey, I'm not gonna wear my CPAP right away because I'm planning on.
Sal
Does that work if you have a night guard, too, on top of that?
Justin
No, you don't wear.
Adam
God.
Justin
You don't wear the night guard unless. I don't know if you have to, because your teeth. Yeah, Yeah.
Doug
I don't think it's that complicated.
Justin
You're probably. I wonder if you're less likely. By the way, I was getting some heartburn and stuff. It's gone.
Sal
Yeah.
Justin
Yeah. All that.
Sal
Well, that's what my dad told me. He was.
Adam
What's your. What's your night guard thing look like, Susan?
Justin
Bite his face.
Adam
It's on the top.
Sal
It just goes. It's just like a mouthpiece.
Doug
A retainer.
Justin
Yeah.
Adam
Okay.
Sal
Yeah.
Adam
Could you do both?
Justin
I don't see why not.
Adam
Oh, my God.
Justin
I mean, I don't see.
Sal
Imagine the noises.
Justin
You know, here's the thing. Obese people get a lot of cpap, but so do muscular people. Especially if you have developed necks. So really well developed necks.
Sal
You see this?
Justin
Like wrestlers and football players. So it's not just fat tongues. Yeah. And you build. If you build a lot of muscle, you're more likely to have this issue. That's the stat. That's just the data. That's just the facts. Yeah. By the way, what are you talking about, anyway? I know for a fact you're. Nothing will stop your wife. It's you that has the issue. She's not wearing the machine.
Adam
I mean.
Justin
No, I know Katrina. I know she.
Adam
So I tell you guys that I.
Justin
Rip it off your face.
Adam
I wear those nasals. I wear those nasal strips. Right. So I wear those nasal strips right when I. When I have some congestion. I haven't been wearing them that often lately, but it's like hit and miss. If I feel. If my allergies are kicking up or something's going on, I'll wear that. She thinks that anytime that I put that on, that. That's me signaling I'm ready. I'm trying to get to go to sleep. Getting ready. This, the last thing I do is I put that on. And so if I put that on.
Justin
She thinks you're telling her no sex.
Adam
Yeah, that. She thinks that means, oh, I guess.
Sal
We'Re not sweatpants for me.
Adam
Yeah. So she's like, so. So I need to, like. So a lot of times what I will do is if I. If I like, I want to have sex and I have that nasal strip, I like, bring it, set it next to the bed, but I don't put it on because if I put it on, then she's just like, you never.
Sal
Just kind of want signal on.
Justin
You never just tell your wife, like, hey, let's have sex.
Adam
No, that's why. No, that's right. That's like scheduling it. That's why I'm asking you. I ask you that.
Justin
No, I don't. I'm not saying, hey, on Wednesday, let's have sex. Although some people do that. It's fine too. But you don't tell your wife, like, hey, let's go. Let's go in the room and.
Adam
No, no, I just do it.
Justin
Yeah. So why does it ruin it for.
Sal
You back in the room?
Adam
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Talking about it ruins it for me.
Sal
Really?
Adam
Yeah, yeah.
Justin
Talking about it.
Adam
Yeah.
Sal
I got to display it.
Adam
Well, there's a difference between talking about it, like flirting throughout the day. That's different. Well, yeah, that happens all the time. That's.
Justin
Than you know.
Adam
Well, yeah, that. Those nights are very obvious.
Justin
Are you getting caught off gardens like you're brushing your. Oh, watch out.
Adam
No, no.
Justin
Oh, here we go.
Adam
I just feel like the, The. The amount of setting up on your face. Would.
Justin
Would you just put it on? You just put it on. Strap on the thing and you're ready to go.
Adam
Is it already plugged in right next to the bed?
Justin
Yeah, it's just right next to the bed. You don't have to turn it on. You put the mask on, it senses like the breathing, and then it turns on and it's silent.
Sal
You can play Vader, you can play Bane.
Justin
You can do all those things. I can sleep on my side.
Adam
I was going to ask you how do you have to the side.
Justin
Back on my side? I can sleep on my back. First of all, I've never.
Adam
I sleep on my back already, bro.
Justin
I could never sleep on my back before. Now I can't. I lay back and I'm. And I don't even wake up at all. I don't wake up to go pee at all either. I go to sleep through the whole night.
Adam
That's the, the only thing that would make me want to try one is to see if it has something to do with me, like waking myself up and, and I go pee or something like that. But I don't know, the, the.
Justin
The few times we've shared a hotel room, you, you, you got some breathing stuff going on too.
Adam
Yeah. When we, when we travel, I don't.
Justin
I don't wonder if it has to.
Adam
Do with yeah, because I'll ask Katrina, I'm just like, you hear me? Or she'll say no. But when we travel, I don't ever get really good. It's rare that we stay somewhere and I'm like, oh, great. Night's sleep.
Justin
They make travel cpap. I refuse to that. I ain't gonna travel with that. Bring in a hotel room, plug it all in so I can hear you guys talk about me.
Adam
Oh, yeah, we making videos for sure.
Justin
We're making videos for sure.
Adam
We take a video.
Justin
No, thanks. But speaking of which, so I rolled back, so I'm feeling like, I'm feeling hyped. I'm feeling like, great in the morning. So I came in this morning and I got to say this, though. First, the team that we have here now, Mind Pump, is so awesome. This is the best team we've ever had, for sure. It's got old gym vibes of some of the teams that I've worked with in the past where you just get that, like, yeah, like we're going to.
Sal
Win some championship, bro.
Justin
It's like the movie 300, you know, with like the Sparta. You get that. Oh, like we're going to go and do this type of vibe. So I come in this morning and I'm feeling good. I walk, I come in. First of all, Kyle's in here, just finished working out, and he's listening to some really angry metal.
Sal
Justin, I. I've influenced him. So as soon as you guys know.
Justin
That, as soon as I walk in, I hear that, and I was already amped and I'm like, oh, this is gonna get ugly. So I come in and then I, you know, go in the back, get ready, come out, he's done. And I go and I start working out and hey, I did pull ups and I hit a lifetime PR and pull. I did 27 pull ups.
Adam
Straight, straight. No, you didn't.
Justin
Yes, I did.
Adam
I don't believe you're like, I'm just gonna keep going. Yeah, well, no, because I'm legit full pull ups. Yeah, that's a lot, bro. Yeah, I know. I've never hit 27.
Justin
Yeah. Yeah. So, well, pullings, I'm. I'm really strong pulling, so that's. That's my thing. Don't get me pressing. Don't get me doing other stuff. But pulling I could do really well. So I hit 27, which was a lifetime PR. Plus, I'm light right now because I've been cutting my calories and stuff.
Adam
Oh, you are?
Justin
Yeah, I'm lighter than I normally was, so there's. That's going for me, but. And I'm also experimenting with some training, which, you know, this is for a future maps program. I won't say too much about it, but anyway, I hit a pr. I'm feeling good, so I'm like, I'm going to send this to the. To our. Our team because we have some people on the team that love to compete. Or I can tell they like to compete.
Sal
Very competitive.
Adam
They all do.
Justin
So the shit. The shit's talking started in there, and it was. It's awesome.
Adam
Maybe that's why we all feel. Maybe that's why we feel that way, is that this is probably the most, like, athletically competitive staff we've ever had. They all work, they all compete.
Justin
Yeah, yeah, they all work out, they all train hard.
Adam
They're all either in jiu jitsu, played sports. Play sports. Like, so we do have that.
Justin
Of course. Now. Now, now. Of course. Who do you think immediately went to try to break the record? Yeah, dude, for sure. Right away, Cole comes in.
Adam
He's probably the most competitive, and he's.
Justin
Like, oh, let me, you know, no, warm up. Let me, you know, right away.
Adam
So I.
Justin
So he ripped out 22.
Sal
He's strong.
Justin
He's a strong.
Adam
So he. So he's got them.
Justin
Farmer.
Adam
Remember I told you guys the other day about the white elephant gift that we did? And. And he stole yours. So. Yeah, so Cole stole my caldera, right? So it was the whole lineup of caldera. I actually was like, oh, my God, I want that. Right? So I was. I. I got it. And then Josh's turn was next. And Josh was, like, eyeballing it the whole time. And he went up, like, the gesture I was doing. And I said, I don't let you forget who. Who takes care of everybody's raises and bonuses, right? And so he, like, you saw him just sit there and go back and forth like, fuck, I gotta take the boss's shit. So he took something else, right? He left me alone. And then as soon as it was Cole's turn, Cole came over and Swiped the caldera. Josh, I was like. And Cole's like the new, new guy. Josh is like, you know, I've been around for a while. I'm gonna respect the old man. I'm not gonna take a shit, Cole. I don't give a fuck. Let me take.
Justin
Josh. If you're, if you're editing this right now, you can fuck with Adam as much as you want. Yeah, we got, we got, we got three other guys here that override. Yeah.
Sal
His vote for your council.
Justin
Yeah, it's all good. So that's so. Yeah. So Cole came in, repped out. Is that why his face is looking all. I'm like, damn, he's young. So I thought it was because he's young.
Adam
Well, I saw he did a post, he did a post right afterwards about trying to use. He better be because he's got like acne going on. And see if that's going to help help with that.
Justin
Oh, it will. It totally will.
Adam
Will it help with acne?
Justin
Yes. Acne is, is a lot of it is a result of this microbiome dysregulation of the face. So if you look at like conventional acne treatments, like over the counter, like salicylic acid, benzoyl peroxide, those are all.
Adam
Like antibiotics for your face, right?
Justin
Kinda, yeah. They all kill bacteria.
Adam
Yeah.
Justin
The caldera's oil, like face serum, it. It balances out the microbiome.
Adam
More like a probiotic.
Justin
Correct. So it doesn't have bacteria in it, but it does promote. This is why dry skin, oily skin, some act like it tends to work for anybody's skin. Like Justin. I couldn't have different skin. Couldn't have any more different skin. Yeah, he uses it and it's great. I use it and it's great. So.
Sal
Gives me moisture.
Justin
Yeah, moisture.
Sal
I just like to say that.
Justin
But the talking in the group after that was just because I said, who's gonna, who's gonna beat my record? This old man can't be the strongest guy in the gym. So it went back and forth.
Adam
It's kind of crazy that it's taken this long for us to, to feel that way. I mean it's 10 years, right? Next year, next time is right. Yeah, 10. 10, 10 years. To feel like we, I and I. I think that's a, that's an, that's an honest feeling for. I mean I've loved everybody. I've had positive feelings about everybody that has worked for the most part who's worked for us. But this is the first time that I. The cohesiveness and just the. All the positions. Everybody just seems right. You know, it always felt like before. Ah, you know, I really like our team, but we need to get better in this area or so and so's not. Doesn't seem like the right fit. Like it's always felt like that for the first time I feel like everybody is the right.
Sal
It feels like everybody in the same direction.
Justin
Yeah. And it feels like everybody has a sense of a higher purpose. And when you get that feeling in your team and I think if you play sports, you've probably felt this at some point right. Where you're playing with a team that we, yeah, we want to win, but it's like we want to win so bad that I don't care if it's you that does it, me that does it. We're all doing this together.
Adam
Play for each other.
Justin
Yeah. And so that's what it feels like.
Adam
We were just having that discussion about my, My best friend is a, A die hard Detroit Lions fan. And I mean he's been in a. For 30 something, 30 something years and he's stuck with him all these times. And it's so cool to watch. The Lions are, you know, number one team in NFL right now, which is, I mean, I don't think that has never been said. And so he's like, we were just talking. We were with. He was with me for the Christmas party and we're just talking about them, what, what makes him. And I'm not a Lions fan, but like I, I'm rooting for him and in this situation because when you won, you've been sticking it through a team for that long and then when you see what. It's not like they're one of the NFL teams that went out and bought all the players.
Justin
Oh, I see. This is like, like a Warriors story.
Adam
Yes, exactly. That's why the warriors were like this, the San Francisco Giants, when they won the World Series, like this World kind of. It's this, this, you know, you don't necessarily always have to have the most expensive, you know, best player on paper. It's like you find the right group of guys, girls that all want to play for each other. It's a very powerful thing in sports and in business. And that's kind of the vibe that I get is like everyone's playing for each other than themselves. And that's so that's a dangerous combination when you get a group of people that are truly playing for each other.
Justin
Absolutely. I've had teams like that where you'll have maybe one superstar and then everybody else is not. But they work so well together that you're, you're unstoppable and you feel like you're unstoppable. It's a great feeling to be on a team, like. And I feel like that, I feel like that with the team that we currently have, especially moving into this next year where we're really gonna, you know, we're, you know, the goal's always been to influence the fitness industry and help move it in a positive direction. But now working more closely with coaches and trainers, which is, I mean, look, everybody, we trained clients for years, but the thing that we were known for was training trainers. That's what we really were known for.
Sal
Wheelhouse. Yeah.
Justin
And this is like a whole new. This is going to be great. It's going to be a really, really good time. Speaking of fitness, did you guys see that fitness videos on YouTube are going to be regulated in Australia for kids?
Adam
Wow.
Justin
Really? Yeah, they're. Well for like under 16. So let me pull up. Why, I'll pull up. What's happening, you know what type of. I don't, I don't necessarily disagree with this. So it says YouTube will begin limiting, sorry, Europe, not Australia, Europe. YouTube will begin limiting access to fitness videos for European teens. And essentially it's to, it's to prevent or help mitigate these body images because you guys know our space. Okay. So fitness could be great. It could be great information that's coming to your 15 year old.
Adam
I don't know if I'm a fan.
Justin
How to get fit and strong and healthy. It could also be like how to look this way. Body obsession get shredded as fast as possible. Which, you know, I have teenage kids. I wouldn't want them to, I mean.
Adam
I, I don't think, I don't think YouTube is the, the greatest offender of that. I think Instagram, where people post their sexual stuff first post photoshopped photos and perfect pictures of themselves all on their, on their profile is far more dangerous for your teenage girl or boy than a YouTube video where someone actually has to communicate and talk and show something, even if it is a body obsessed type of person. And they're, but they're talking, they're communicating, there's not, they're not photoshopping their. But I think that's way more dangerous to, well, teenage kids.
Justin
I think you're going to start to see this trend grow.
Adam
Well, I told you about Instagram, what they did, right? They put in the, they put in those things I don't know if either one of you have even checked that out yet. I'm curious.
Justin
No, I'm curious where you go and.
Adam
You have like a filter, a teen account. Yeah. So now Instagram has like Instagram teen account or whatever. So I don't know. I don't know all the legit.
Justin
Well, so I think this is like. Because I could easily break this up, you know, shatter this, be like, oh, cool. So fitness videos are going to be limited, but what about these other stupid videos that kids watch and whatever. But that's not the point. I think that they're trying to move in this direction because the data is showing just how negative social media, new media can be for, for people under a certain age. And they targeted fitness because they found that it promotes. There was a study they did in 2021 and here the quote says it promoted unhealthy behaviors and that viewers reinforce those practices in the comments. Now, you guys know our space. You know that there's a lot of shit in our space. So for anybody who works in fitness who's like, up in arms, we did it to ourselves, everybody. So if you're doing things the right way, keep doing them the right way and continue to and do a better job than the, than the people that are doing the wrong way and then stuff like this won't happen.
Adam
I guess I'd love to see some examples of what, what triggered this. Right. It would be interesting to see what. Because they've obviously collected a bunch of data on these things and said, like, oh, these types of things are doing these. Like, what do those look like?
Justin
Well, so they gave a list, they said they're going to limit repeated recommendations of videos that idealize particular fitness levels or weight groups, compare and idealize certain physical features or are socially aggressive, meaning they show intimidation or fighting. It's such a broad category. Like, what is that?
Sal
So like sports performance. Like, what are they going to, how are they going to deal with that? You know, because obviously they're trying to target like the aesthetic, like body obsessed sort of messaging.
Justin
We're going to have to wait and see. I guess we have to wait.
Adam
Now, was it just proposed or is it passed?
Justin
No, it's happening in Europe.
Adam
Oh, so it's actually happening now, according to this.
Doug
It was already rolled out here last year.
Justin
It was?
Adam
Yes.
Justin
Oh, interesting. I didn't know that.
Sal
So this is under teens.
Justin
This is for 16 and younger and younger. 16 and younger is what it says. Mm. So interesting. I mean, you know, if you're a fit.
Adam
It's hard. It's why our YouTube channel doesn't grow with probably kids.
Justin
Well, hey, look, if you're a fitness influencer, gotta move over to TikTok. Yeah, I mean, they're not really consumers anyway, so, you know, you should probably be targeting older people anyway, is the way I look at it. I mean, what are 14 or 15 year olds going to buy? I mean, I guess you're so, I.
Adam
Mean, maybe not now, but if you stay in business for 10 years like we have, then those are buyers.
Justin
Well, they'll grow up. Yeah. And then they won't be limited anymore. I don't know, it's, I think it's, I could see why they're moving in that direction. I, I, I really can, I, I don't know if it's, I don't think it's enough. I don't know if it's necessary, if.
Adam
I like it, you know, I'm not sure. That's not sure. I mean, I don't know, I just, when I think of the, like I think of, obviously my son's only five, right. And I think about the things that, okay, when he gets to that age, where he's going to be interested in these platforms, you know, is YouTube fitness channels. What the first thing I'm thinking about, it's definitely not what I was thinking about. I mean, I wasn't thinking that that's.
Justin
Going to be, that's where I could tear it apart, you know, I don't think the fitness videos are the worst even close.
Adam
No, that's exactly, that's what I mean, it's like, I mean, if you, if we're gonna regulate something like that, why would, I'm not sure that's the direction that I would go. I would go first. I think there's a lot of things. And again, don't you guys think that like the, the, the Instagram profiles are far more detrimental than, than like a YouTube channel where there's communication and talking going on? I think what could be the worst is if like my son or daughter had a hundred fitness people they follow and those hundred people are all shredded and every photo on their profile is how amazing they look like that to me. I think Will would condition his brain to believe that's more.
Justin
Are they limiting, like beauty stuff for kids? Probably not exactly. That's bad too. Have you seen some of these beauty videos that teenage girls are watching about your makeup and how you look this.
Sal
Pageants and all that?
Justin
Oh, yeah. You know what's crazy about YouTube is the comments. I think they're starting to get a hold of this. But in the comments you get these weird cross communications and recommendations to things that were just. Yep, sketchy as hell on YouTube. We talked about.
Adam
Well, I mean, that's why we can't let Max. I mean, we, we don't let him use YouTube for that reason. Because of just. It doesn't even matter if you're watching a kid video or not, but you know, he likes one, goes in and then by the time. Yeah, by video nine, all of a sudden we're watching really adult shit that he shouldn't be watching.
Sal
You know, Spider Man's doing inappropriate things.
Justin
Yeah, they had. I saw that.
Sal
God, that was a thing. Awful.
Justin
Oh, crazy.
Adam
It is crazy.
Justin
Anyway, earlier, Justin, you, you talked about steroids. You said 30 minute steroids, dude.
Sal
A, A body steroids.
Justin
So a bodybuilder, a classic bodybuilder. You guys know the categories, right? There's like open like the big monsters and there's a classic, you know, where they're little smaller built. They're supposed to look like a.
Adam
They look like 80s bodybuilders.
Justin
Yeah. So a classic bodybuilder, Breon Ansley, actually gave his steroid protocol for 2024. Bro, these guys are using so much stuff.
Adam
Crazy.
Justin
You want to hear what he, what he's using?
Adam
Oh, yeah.
Justin
Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Okay, so every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, he uses 300 milligrams of testosterone sipinate. So that's already 900 milligrams, 300 milligrams of master on 300 milligrams of primobolin. Then on Monday and Friday, we're not done. He adds Trenbolone at 200 milligrams and then Arimidex. Then he's using HGH4ius a day, Monday through Friday. Then two weeks before the show, Halitestin, 20 milligrams pre workout and then peak week 40 milligrams.
Sal
Bro.
Justin
They're using grams of stuff to look like a classic bodybuilder. That's crazy.
Sal
It is crazy.
Justin
They're trying to look like bodybuilders of the 80s, but bodybuilders of the 80s didn't use the biggest. It's crazy.
Adam
The biggest mistake or, or understand like misunderstanding that I think a lot of these competitors had. I remember this when I was in it was that, that this, which is funny because it's the same mistake I made as a kid thinking that that was the difference of like me and the magazine covers was, oh, it Must be the steroids, must be the stack or whatever. And so a lot of these competitors, that's what they, they go, oh man, I didn't, I didn't place. The top five guys, they must be taking this. They hear, they get catch wind that the guy that was took second or first was using this or that. Oh, I'm not using that. I need to throw that. And it just keeps stacking all this. You know, it's like so, so far from the truth. Especially classic and, and men's physique, like those categories.
Justin
Just for reference. For anybody listening to this, I just said a bunch of numbers nobody understands. Like, what does that mean? Testosterone replacement therapy is between a hundred, probably 150 at the high end. 200 milligrams total a week. What I just quoted was grams a week of anabolics. So it's, it's many, many, many, many times above and beyond. And that's what he says he uses. Which, you know, bodybuilders are notoriously downplayed a little bit. Yeah. It's like asking someone how many people.
Adam
They slept with is what I mentioned the D ball he's sprinkling on on Tuesdays and Thursdays occasionally.
Justin
I know, it's wild. Anyway, I just read a study on life expectancy in the U. S. They predict it to completely stall out by 2050. Yeah. So even with medical advancements and all.
Adam
That stuff, I hear so many conflicting articles in regards to our life expectancy up, down, going backwards. Oh, we're going to be living to. So this one says that we're going.
Justin
To stall out, that it's not going to keep going. Yeah. I guess we're, our trajectory is we're not going to have an increased life, which is crazy because of all these medical advancements continue to happen. Yeah. So all because I would say the.
Sal
Average of like, there's just going to be an influx of people, like unhealthy people.
Justin
Thank you.
Sal
Dropping off.
Justin
Yeah. Because what this doesn't say, yes, people are living longer or the same amount. So let's say the life expectancy is the same. But are people living worse? Yeah. Are they kept alive by more and more medical interventions? Do they have, are they more likely to have diabetes? Are they more likely to get cancers? Like people survive certain cancers at a much higher rate now than they did before. So they might have died before, but why are they getting them in the first place and are they getting them at higher rates? Are they getting, you know, they're surviving from heart disease better because of Certain medical interventions, but we're still getting them at higher rates. So that's the thing that nobody's talking about is what's.
Adam
What are the numbers say here, though?
Doug
So in 2019 it was 79 years. In 2020 it went down two years to 77. 2021 was 76.1.
Adam
Holy shit.
Doug
And last year went up to 76.4.
Justin
Yeah.
Doug
Not 20, 22 actually.
Justin
Yeah, it went down. And it wasn't because of COVID 76.
Adam
76 is life expectancy.
Justin
Yeah.
Adam
Well, that's a couple years, Doug.
Sal
Gotta beat the odds.
Adam
We gotta throw a big one for you when that hits. You know what I'm saying?
Justin
You know what though? There's a. I forgot what the number was. It was something like if you make it to 65, you're way more likely to make it to 80 something because that takes everybody into account. But I forgot what it was like. If you make it past a certain age, the odds that you'll make it beyond 75 are much higher. And I can't remember what that number was.
Adam
Oh, I don't know. So what do you mean this, this is averaging that someone had died at 20 or 30, everybody.
Doug
So it's from birth. So there's a lot of, you know, people who die at birth and things like that. That, that affects it.
Justin
People that die in their 50s, people.
Adam
Oh, so that's not a really good number then.
Justin
Like that's average.
Doug
That's average.
Adam
Yeah. Yeah. And you're taking in people that died at 20.
Justin
In other words, if you make it to 70, the odds are you're going to make it beyond the average of, you know, 77 or whatever it is.
Adam
Oh, see, I'd like to see what that number is.
Justin
Like, I can't remember what it was. I remember reading about that.
Adam
But it can't be that much more. It's got to be like in the 80s.
Justin
Yeah. I mean, that's not bad. Another 10 years. Yeah, it's not, it's not bad at all. You know, I mean, the difference between a 75 year old, 85 year old. Big. Yeah.
Adam
What's really crazy about that is the way we've structured our society too, where it's just like you work all the way till you're 65 and then you retire. It's like it's. You work your ass off for, for this retirement and you're in all this stuff with that, then you really only have 10 years of that.
Sal
That's got Viagra though. So it's good this is true.
Justin
Did you know?
Adam
Very true.
Justin
Who was it? Was it you that brought this up? There's a real statistic that when Viagra first hit the market, there was one age group that STDs, like, started to spike through the roof.
Sal
Yeah, that was. That was very revealing.
Justin
It was care homes.
Adam
Shut up. Yeah, dude, I would. What is. What do you think? What do you think? The percentage of, like, sex that's going down. No, it's not.
Justin
Yes, it is.
Adam
No.
Justin
Yes, it is.
Adam
Stop. Look.
Justin
Hey, listen, I trade. Why you asking? Doug, if you're.
Sal
If you're a dude in a retirement home, you're a stud bowl.
Adam
He frequently visits there.
Justin
It's easy.
Doug
It's like shooting fish.
Justin
Doug.
Adam
It's lay down, right? It's a lay down.
Doug
Because I can't stand up.
Justin
As he's walking through, women are pulling the dentures out. Whistling I.
Sal
Hey, Dougie.
Adam
Hey, Dougie.
Justin
I used to train, you know, I had a lot of clients that were an advanced age because I trained a lot of doctors. At one point, they would refer. Patients love them at advanced age. So I've trained a decent amount of people who lived in care homes, and they were almost all women except for one man. And, you know, you get to know these people really well, and they love me, and we talk about everything and. Yeah, dude, if you're the guy in the care home, you're, like one of two or three men, and it's all women, and you're the stud.
Adam
Yeah, there's a lot of. There's a lot of, like, funny sitcoms and movies.
Sal
He's got needs.
Adam
That's that scenario, right, of the, like, the guy who. The guy who comes in.
Justin
Oh, I trained one woman and she would. She told. I can't. I'm not gonna say the guy's name or anything. She might listen or whatever, but she said that. I can't. I'm not gonna say the guy's name. We'll just say his name is Vince. She would talk about this guy named Vince and she'd say, oh. She's like, oh, you know, Vince, he's the stud of the. And I'm like, what do you mean? She goes, all the women are. You know, I get to hang out with him on Mondays, but then on Wednesdays he hangs. Are you serious? She goes, yeah.
Adam
Yes, many senior citizens are. Additional poll of healthy aging. 40 of US adults ages 65 to 80 are actually sexually active and 70 are. 73 are satisfied with their sex lives. That's incredible.
Sal
That's great.
Justin
Yeah.
Doug
26%, 75 to 85 year olds were still having sex.
Adam
Wow.
Justin
Yeah, dude.
Adam
Wow. That's incredible.
Doug
Thus the STDs.
Justin
And what they said in the study, in the study was the studies because the STDs went up, was that because of their age group? They grew up during a time when you didn't use condoms unless you were trying not to get pregnant. And since they couldn't get pregnant, you know, you know, 87 year old, you know, whatever, dude. He's not using a condom. He's having sex with Gertrude. They're going, he's going raw and they're just going for it. It's just getting passed around the whole place.
Adam
Yeah.
Justin
Anyway, it's wild.
Adam
Did you guys, after our interview yesterday, did you guys go home and talk to your wife about the interview at all?
Sal
I did actually, yeah.
Adam
Yeah. How'd that go? How'd that land?
Sal
She was very interested.
Justin
Yeah, my wife's very into, you know, the, the data and stuff. So what she was, what, what she was talking about on the show, I've heard my wife talk about so many different times. So I went home like, honey, you've been saying some of this stuff for forever. And we just did an interview and yeah, I just heard it, you know, from an expert and stuff. So we talked about it for a little while. Yeah, but she's been, she's been talking about this for the last eight years. She's been talking about.
Sal
Yeah, there was some things she brought up in there that were like, you know, it sounded like, oh, wow, that's, you know, a powerful statement or, you know, like somewhat controversial. But the more I thought about, I was like, wow, this is really controversial.
Adam
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Sal
Some things she brought up.
Adam
Oh, it'll be interesting.
Sal
I'm curious to see the response.
Adam
That's how Katrina said. Katrina's like, well, I can't wait to hear the feedback you guys get when that goes live. She's like, it's going to be interesting. How. I mean, when she said that comment to me about, you know, treating it like a crisis.
Justin
So you referred to the reference. What you said was because. So what she said, what was her name again?
Adam
Erica.
Justin
Sorry, Erica Commissar. Sorry. She's phenomenal. Controversial, but she's citing actual data. And she was talking about just how detrimental it is for moms to go to work in the first three years of their child's life. They like, it's very detrimental.
Adam
Yeah.
Justin
And the question you asked was, well, let's say you got Two working parents, they got a mortgage, this and that, like, what do they do? And she goes, well, it's a. If you have a crisis, what would you do? You would basically change your lifestyle. Yeah, it's that big of a deal.
Adam
Yeah.
Justin
And a lot of.
Sal
She's coming in with the facts and, and like, you know, it just.
Justin
A lot of people don't want to hear that.
Sal
That's the thing. It's. It's hard to hear sometimes.
Adam
Well, and then, and then she had said the heavy statement of like, you know, and she's like. And she was clear. She's like, you know, let me be clear. She's like, are we. We're not talking about people that are poverty stricken, where it takes both incomes just to put food on the table and barely get by. And you're like, you don't have that option. Yeah, you don't have an option like that. We're talking about. She's like, middle class people is typically what you see. And you go. And that's a choice. And that's a choice that you are making as an adult that you want.
Sal
Yes.
Adam
A child didn't ask for that. And it's like, oh, God, it was like that one hit home, like, so true. It's like a decision that we make as adults that we want for ourselves or as our family when it's just like, you know, that's not what the.
Justin
Ones that hit me, you know, really hard or, you know, when your kid throws a tantrum or whatever, it. It's so easy to look at it as acting out and to be like, oh, you want to throw a tantrum? You go over there and when you're ready to come talk. A lot of parents do that. And she's like, well, that's because the parent can't regulate themselves around it. And I'm like, oh, that's true. Because I feel myself get. And so I'm like, no, you go over there and scream. And she's like, think of it like a seizure. That was what she said.
Adam
Yeah.
Justin
If someone's having a seizure, do you just leave them alone or do you go and like, support them?
Adam
Right, right.
Justin
And I was, I got emotional when she started talking, like, I'm not gonna cry on this podcast right now because, because I've done that.
Adam
I thought the, the postpartum talk was crazy too. I thought that was really interesting too, to think about, Think about it like that. That, like all that, that type of stuff is. It's, it's revealing post trauma that you've had that. It said that you've had that you haven't dealt.
Justin
If you have childhood trauma. Yeah, that's undealt with. And then you have a child that's will come out controversial.
Sal
I thought that's. I don't know how that's going to be received.
Adam
Yeah, there's a couple, there's a couple of things that were like that, that were, that were said that'll be.
Justin
Well, the world is organized. It's not. But it's not a surprise if I say the following statement. Everybody listening this will agree. The world is organized in a way to where you are going to be. If you follow along, you will be fat, unhealthy and sick. Everybody knows that because it's a fitness podcast. Yeah. You know that. Okay. Do you think the world is organized in a way to make your child emotionally and mentally healthy? Do you think the world is organized in a way that's good for us in any way? It is not.
Sal
No.
Justin
So if you do what you're supposed to, you're doing probably not ideal, not good.
Adam
Right.
Justin
So this is true for, for everyone.
Sal
Just highlighting how much we've kind of drifted off in terms of, you know, what messaging is out there.
Justin
Well, I'll give you an example. She said she was going to go speak to Congress to try to, to talk to them about coming up with a give mothers long paid leave. Right. So like they don't have to go back to work for two or three years.
Sal
It's just us in like Papua New guinea or whatever that doesn't provide.
Justin
Okay, so, so he. Watch this. If Congress, if you try to convince Congress to do that, you know what they're going to do?
Adam
They're going to flip it daycare money.
Justin
Or we're going to pay for people's daycare for three years. Yes, because keep them go working rather than don't go to work. Stay at home, be with your kid. No, no, we're going to help moms. The way we're going to help them is gonna pay for daycare. See how opposite that is? So. And that's a, that's a much easier to sell because we're so convinced that that's the way to go. I know, I know. It's really, really crazy stuff. Anyway, have you guys tried, we talked about this on a previous podcast. Have you guys tried using the juve red lot light as a pre workout?
Adam
No, I haven't used. I've been wanting to do that because you brought that up.
Justin
Okay. I have yet to do it. I'm gonna.
Adam
I was talking about wanting to do the. The plunge and that together, then go.
Justin
I'm gonna try doing it this week because if it activates your mitochondria, it makes perfect sense to do it. It does activate your mitochondria. That's how it works. To do it and then go, lift. That's got to be one of the best.
Adam
Seems like it would be a difficult one to measure, though. Like, I. I clearly feel a difference. The first time I cold plunged before I went and worked out, like, it was, like, noticeable. Like, whoa, this is crazy. I feel like the red light before will be more difficult to feel it.
Justin
It shouldn't be. I don't really. No, I don't think it'll feel stimulatory. I think you'll feel like you could get more reps and get a better pump. Yeah, that's what I predict. More.
Sal
More usable energy.
Justin
Yeah. Like, workout, huh? Because I'm going to target, like, the muscle. I'm going to train, so I'm going to do, like, if I'm hit back, I'll do it on my back. If I'm at legs, I'll do it on my legs. Then I'll go work out and then see if I notice a difference.
Sal
Especially I wonder, like, the high rep type of workout that you really, you know, more stamina.
Justin
Yeah, maybe that might be it.
Sal
Yeah, I'm gonna try that. I'm gonna do the high rep. Yeah.
Justin
And we have one here, right.
Adam
That's up, and it's in this room right here behind us.
Justin
I'll tell. I'll tell the. I'll tell the. The kids out there to give it a shot, too, because they all work out here.
Adam
Yeah, that would be a good idea is to try and get a group of us to do it so that you get more than just one. One opinion on what it feels like. I just feel like this one will be a little more difficult to feel as, like, in comparison.
Justin
You know, I have. We have to test it, but if it does, for sure fuel the mitochondria. So you should notice a difference. You should notice a difference in your workout.
Adam
I mean, no matter what. I mean, the research is clear enough to show that it's. It's positive.
Justin
It's beneficial.
Adam
Yeah, it's beneficial. The question. It's always hard to get people to do things, though, that they can't feel right. It's like there's a lot of things that are beneficial to us. That many times you probably don't do it. And a lot of the reason why you don't do it is because it's not this like obvious like, like, you know, notice a huge difference how we started this conversation. Like one of the reasons why the sleep thing is so huge is because you tell someone to get that 30 minutes more sleep within day three, they notice. They notice. And it's like, okay, now I'm a believer. I'm bought in. It's like trying to get people to do things that it's harder to feel.
Justin
Yeah. Also there's a. They just confirmed what the Hubble telescope had shown with the new, the new imaging telescopes that we have where this was a big conundrum or a big mystery for, for scientists where the universe seems to be expanding faster and faster. So you know the whole Big Bang theory, right. Like everything started in this one tiny point. All matter, all time, all space was one point that exploded. And it should slow down its expansion as it cools and then contract again. Right. But what they did with the Hubble telescope is they were, I think they were measuring the distance between stars. I remember how they were doing it, but they're like, this is weird. The universe expansion isn't slowing down, it's speeding up. Like this makes no sense whatsoever. Well, they've confirmed it with further testing. The expansion of the universe is speeding up.
Sal
Which does that point younger or older or like some other factor there.
Justin
I mean they can't figure it out. They, it doesn't make any sense with their model. So they're.
Adam
Yeah.
Justin
What are they, what are they injecting into that dark matter, dark energy to try to make up the difference for what the hell's going on.
Sal
Right.
Justin
Because it makes no sense that it would continue. It would accelerate its expansion. I love this kind of stuff because it just, it just goes to show how little we know everything.
Sal
Like right when we think we are onto a good formula, it just gets like pulled out from under.
Justin
Yeah. It's wild. Right?
Adam
Where are you reading this at right now?
Justin
I just pulled it up on science daily.com which by a great, great site if you want.
Adam
You've shouted out a few times.
Justin
Yeah, I love them. But yeah, it's, they did this with, from the James Webb Space Telescope. So they, they. It's a, it's a mystery.
Adam
That's the most powerful telescope that we have.
Justin
Is that the new most powerful one?
Sal
I think so.
Adam
I think it is.
Sal
This is the one that did all those high res images of galaxies and Milky Way and everything. Like I remember like they Did a comparison of the previous telescope they threw out there.
Justin
Oh. They show the two images.
Sal
Oh, my God, it looks so sick. Yeah, it's worth. Worth checking out.
Justin
If Doug puts in Hubble telescope versus Webb telescope, you'll probably click on vibrant colors and.
Doug
Yeah, the Webb is the newest.
Justin
Yeah.
Adam
Doug, if you go show me a comparison.
Justin
If you go, Hubble, Hubble versus web and then click on images. Okay. It should come up and you'll see the two next to each other. And it's like, bro, it's like your old flip phone camera, like the iPhone camera.
Adam
And what's the difference in years of creation?
Doug
Quite a few.
Justin
Quite a few.
Adam
Quite a few.
Doug
I mean, like, probably 20, 30.
Adam
Yeah. So it's been a while.
Justin
Yeah. Because we throw them out in space. Right. So they could get better picture. That's not it. Right there now.
Adam
Yeah.
Justin
Yeah. Okay, so the left to right on that top bottom. Yeah. So.
Adam
Wow. Okay. Left to right. Okay, I see. Wow.
Justin
Isn't that crazy?
Adam
Yeah, it is crazy.
Sal
You know what's crazy, too, about a lot more detail.
Justin
Now, I love this stuff because, again, I love the mystery of. Of of the world. In life, when they. The further out they look, they're just looking back in time.
Sal
I know what that's like, really? Time travel.
Adam
Further out they look, they look. They're looking back in time.
Justin
Yeah. Because. Because light takes time to get to the lens.
Sal
Yes. It shoots out.
Justin
So when you're looking at something, you're looking tracing back millions of years into the past. You're not looking at what it looks like right now that far. You're looking at what it used to look like. Like. Because that's how long it takes the light to get there.
Adam
Millions of years.
Justin
Okay, how about this? I'm gonna trip you out right now. Okay.
Adam
Sounds like you're carbon dating. Keep going.
Justin
No, no, no, no, no.
Sal
There's logic to this one, though.
Justin
Yeah.
Adam
Okay. But let me wrap my brain about what you're trying to communicate to me right now. I'm looking through the. I'm looking through the serious telescope. Describe this. I'm looking at the web test right now. And then what I'm actually seeing is. Is in the past millions of years ago.
Justin
Well, let me give it to you. Let me tell you this way.
Adam
Or like when you look a couple.
Justin
Days ago, put on some. Put on some sunglasses.
Sal
Take. Yeah.
Justin
Put on some glasses that allow you to look at the sun.
Adam
Yes.
Justin
What you see is seven minutes ago.
Sal
Yeah.
Justin
You're not looking at the sun right now. You're looking at something.
Adam
Yeah. Okay. This is where I'm like, okay, yes, I understand how the time that light takes to travel, so I understand that you're looking at something by the time it gets to you. That was in the past. Right, I get. I get that. But you made a jump from seven days to millions of years. Like, it can't be that far.
Justin
When you go to the observable edge of the universe and use the speed of light as your. You know, as your calculation, then technically, yeah, if light is traveling unimpeded, that from that far of a distance, we.
Adam
Can see something that far.
Justin
Light years. So you're looking at things light years away. So one light year is how far in distance, Doug? Maybe. Maybe. Look that up. Yeah, bro. If you travel the speed of light, you know how long it'll take.
Adam
Which also means that if something happened that we were going to run into or is going to hit us, you would know years in advance.
Justin
Potentially, yeah.
Adam
If it's that far.
Justin
Well, no.
Adam
Well, like, if we're looking out at this thing and you're telling me millions. Let's just say you're exaggerating by millions. And it's more like a thousand years. Okay. Ago. A thousand years ago.
Justin
Stop pressing me on this stuff, because this is. I've read this.
Adam
This is the. That I gotta question you on. This is like the carbon dating. You know what I'm saying?
Justin
No, carbon dating is different. Don't put it. Somebody.
Adam
What do you mean? Nobody. Same category. It's in this very similar category. Science, religion. Okay?
Justin
It's all. They're all.
Adam
All in another category here.
Sal
This is all mathematical.
Doug
So a light year in miles. About 6 trillion miles in one light year. So I have.
Adam
So we can't see more than 6 trillion miles out, can we? Yeah, we can see beyond 6 trillion miles.
Sal
Really power these telescopes.
Justin
Yeah, nuts. I know.
Doug
I mean, so the sun is 8.3 light minutes. Minutes from the sun.
Justin
Oh, I said seven minutes. I was off. Okay. Yeah, sorry.
Adam
Oh, I'm not. I didn't. Challenge yourself. I'm challenging. When we start getting.
Justin
Forget it.
Adam
When people start using numbers like millions. Millions of years, like. Oh, come on, stop it.
Justin
No. What does that say right there? What does that. That little pictograph say there?
Sal
Yeah, so.
Doug
Or 2.5 million light years from Andromeda.
Justin
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So there you go.
Doug
Nearest large galaxy.
Justin
So we see. We're looking at Andromeda. That was a long time ago because of how long it takes the light to travel to Us.
Sal
Yeah. And then relay it back to Earth because didn't they shoot it way out in space? What, the telescope?
Justin
Oh, yeah. I don't know how far out. I think it's.
Sal
It's out there.
Justin
Yeah, I think it's going. Isn't it a satellite around Earth? I don't know.
Sal
Satellite? No, I think.
Justin
Let's get back to where we.
Adam
I mean, it's. I'm super fascinated in it for sure too. I just. Sometimes we, we. We speak in like certainties around stuff that we.
Justin
Well, the expansion of the universe, you.
Adam
Know, so less than we act like we know.
Justin
I mean, that's what I like. That's what I think is fascinating. The wonder, right? Like how little do we know.
Adam
Yeah.
Justin
Of all this stuff.
Adam
I wish, I wish more science dorks would communicate it that way though. It's. You know that this is. What.
Justin
Why do you talk like a bully? Like it's not normal.
Adam
You know why? Because they try and bully other guys. They try and bully dumb guys like me. This is me bullying right back.
Justin
It's different bullying. That's like online bullying, not real bullying. Yeah, real bullying means you gotta be.
Adam
Bigger than me too. No, I mean, it's just like we, we say stuff and it's like, oh, we put it in. Print it in books and we make it like so factual and it's like, ah, we're still trying to figure this out. Let's be honest.
Justin
All right, you want, you want some cool science? How about this, Doug?
Adam
Look up fake science.
Justin
Look up angler fish mating. Yeah, angler fish mating. I'm surprised Justin doesn't know this. Do you know this, Justin?
Sal
I mean, I know they have a luminescent little like extension off of their head, right? So they light it up and wiggle it around.
Justin
No, no. Tiny males fuse to a female sometimes. Fuse? Yeah, they'll mate and then become the same molded together. Yeah, they. They literally, the male will like blend in and. And meld to the female. It's called sexual parasitism.
Adam
What?
Sal
That's like next level, dude. That's like. I mean, they read all the books.
Adam
Isn't that weird that the fish looks like. Yeah, he's wild looking.
Justin
Ugly. Ugly looking fish. Look at that thing.
Sal
Wow.
Adam
Yeah. We haven't even figured out what everything that's in the ocean, dude, it's right here next to us. It's. No, not even a light year away and we, we barely know what's going on. But yeah, we're gonna, we're gonna talk factual about stuff. Eight million years away. Oh, yeah, that's for sure. What's going on over there? But wait a second. You meaning this water? Just pool of water right in front of you. You don't even know what's going on there. You could. You're gonna tell me something 8 million years away. It is interesting.
Sal
Focus on the.
Adam
Yes.
Justin
It's right here in front of me.
Adam
You could go touch it. You could touch the water. You don't even know.
Sal
A few times.
Adam
But then we're gonna talk about how we know something. So far away, so crazy. Dude, look at that.
Justin
See, like it's. It sucks to be a male angler fish. They're. They attach to the female and they lose most organs, becoming sperm banks. Oh, that's just terrible.
Sal
Absorbs. So the female absorbs the male? For the most part, yeah. He's just kind of a useless head there, like.
Justin
Yeah, just producing. That's brutal.
Sal
I mean, it's not as brutal as the praying mantis.
Justin
What do they eat?
Adam
I just say the. After she made mates, she eats them. Right.
Justin
I saw a video of a praying mantis kill a lizard. A lizard.
Adam
They're badass.
Justin
Yeah, they are pretty.
Adam
Yeah, they're pretty.
Sal
If they were bigger, we'd all be doomed.
Justin
Yeah, they're.
Adam
They're also science fiction movie waiting to happen right there.
Sal
I guarantee they did that in like the 60s.
Adam
Oh, they're really cheesy. Yeah. Okay. Really bad.
Justin
I told you. I had my cousin when he was little, his dad bought him praying mantis. Like. Like, I don't know if it was eggs or whatever. Yeah, and he dropped it in the house and they like, they were fine. Praying mantis all over the place.
Sal
Oh, wow.
Justin
Yeah. Yeah, all over the place.
Sal
They're like killing everything, though. Like spider.
Justin
You want those in your garden, right?
Adam
Yeah, yeah, because they do.
Justin
They take out all the bad bugs, huh?
Adam
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're badass.
Justin
So we were gonna shout out that gym in Santa Cruz.
Adam
Oh, Chris again.
Sal
Let's do it.
Justin
Yeah, let's keep doing it. Because you were talking about how they're.
Adam
Yeah, so he is so. Yeah. Chris, what's the name of the Santa Cruz Athletic Club? Santa Cruz Athletic Club. Yeah. So Chris is. I know they're doing pre sale now and it's got. Hey, by the way, I think it's a hell of a deal to get in early.
Sal
It's crazy. Yeah.
Adam
So if you're in the area, are they set up?
Justin
Justin, is the gym set up and ready to go?
Sal
No, no, no, no. They're still piecing it together, but they're, they're starting to take memberships, I think.
Adam
Yeah, they are. They're doing. He's doing pre sell right now. I was texting back and forth with him this morning and do you know.
Justin
What he's gonna have in the gym, what it's supposed to look like?
Adam
Oh, yeah, I've seen the rendition, the little 3D rendition or whatever.
Sal
Dude. So huge fitness community in there. I mean, on, on the left side is all recovery. I mean, anything from hot, cold contrast to, you know, massage therapy to like, you name it, it's all recovery based. You know, all of these offices on the left and like basically a spa. And then to the right is like a huge, expansive kind of like field for like a lot of movement and athletic training. And then a lot of like, yeah, regular gym, just all in the back.
Adam
My goal is to get him enough memberships that he feels compelled to hook us up for free whenever. I know there, that's my goal.
Sal
I really want to be like a consistent member there. Dude, going to be sick.
Adam
Yeah, you definitely will go there all day.
Justin
They have a great fitness community now.
Adam
How close is it to the, the new house?
Sal
Are you closer to the new house?
Adam
Oh, it's closer to the new house for me.
Justin
Where are you working out?
Sal
It's like right in the middle.
Justin
Where do you work out? Just here at home. Right.
Sal
Home. Yeah, I haven't. I actually haven't even been like in a gym for years. It's crazy.
Justin
Oh, wow.
Adam
I know. I'm trying to think. The last time I. It's been a long time since I just realized that. Oh, I take that back. I went to Fitness Night 59, Fitness 19. I go by every once in a while.
Justin
Is that the one you said where you get the, the teenage boys working?
Adam
High school? Yeah, yeah, high school. It's definitely. Yeah, definitely where all the high school kids are at, for sure. No, it's shrimp posture. I. I don't ever go there and like really lift though. I go. It's like when I want to. When I'm like, you know what, I can go do some stuff. I'm gonna machine. I normally do like three or four machine exercises and I maybe use the elliptical or the treadmill and walk for a little bit. It's not like I can't train in that gym. It's not a training gym to me. No offense, Fitness 19, but it's like not made for that. It's not where I'm gonna get. I'm Gonna train, deadlift, squatting, stuff like that. Not the demographic over, over that place.
Justin
Awesome. Well, hopefully they get more members.
Adam
Yeah, yeah. Shout out to Chris.
Sal
Get it.
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Doug
First question is from Maria Clark. Any real benefits from waist trainers and why do they exist?
Justin
Okay, you know what's crazy about this? Can I tell you guys?
Sal
They're back.
Justin
You guys see these? Yes, I still.
Sal
Who's pushing them now? Like it was the Kardashians and then.
Adam
All the, the bodybuilders.
Justin
This is the. It's the worst. Still the worst thing that I've ever seen. Well, not ever, but one of the worst things I've ever seen in our space.
Adam
Yeah, it's top five for sure.
Justin
Trainer. So a waist trainer for people don't know. It's essentially a corset that goes around your midsection and you wear it all.
Adam
Day long to atrophy those muscles.
Justin
And it's. It causes the muscles around your core and waist to shrink, thus potentially shrinking your waist. It causes the muscles to atrophy and to weaken. This is the opposite of fitness. It increases your risk of injury. The compression can also cause issues with your digestive tract. It's terrible. It's absolutely. And I still see people wearing this.
Adam
This one's so crazy for me. So I've told you guys this before, but if you go all the way back to when I was 20 years old and this excited trainer who was, you know, new learning all this information, and I remember the first thing I ever learned about was your core, your transverse dominus. And I had this spiel where I go around to people because that's all I really knew right at this point in my career. This is the first big piece of knowledge that I learned. Like, I didn't know that before. I didn't even know what the transverse abdominis was prior to getting my certification. Right. And so I'd go around and I tell people how important this is. Your core is the most important muscle in your body besides your heart. Without your heart, you're dead. So that's the only reason why that muscle is more important. Important. Other than that, nothing is more important than the transverse abdominis. And then I go built up with these 32 muscles that wrap around your spine and support your body and go into what they do and why they're so important, how most people can't connect to them. Most peoples are really weak. And so it's so crazy to me to think that was my spiel 20 something years ago. I used to go around telling everybody in the gym and how much I've watched the evolution of it that we now are in this time where people are intentionally destroying that muscle that I used to go around. That I used to go around and sell training on how important it was to know how to train it and why. You want to have a strong core. Yeah, that we have. We've. We've gone so far now of trying to make our bodies look like this hourglass work that we're willing to just destroy or weaken or atrophy. The most important muscle in your body besides your heart. This is crazy.
Justin
This akin to somebody saying, I want to shrink my legs, so I'm going to put casts on my legs, and they are going to get smaller, and they will get smaller because you've lost muscle, you've weakened the muscle. And weakening the muscles around your core is such a terrible idea. You're setting yourself up for potential injury, and it's so opposite of fitness, and it doesn't make you more aesthetic. It just weakens and shrinks some of the muscles around your core. Does it make you tighter? That's for sure. Doesn't make anything more sculpted. Absolutely. If you want to get a smaller waist, you can just get leaner. You develop some of the muscles of the upper body to create more of that illusion. But a small waist looks good on a fit person because it signifies leanness. Okay. But trying to shrink muscles on purpose is such a bad idea, especially these very important muscles. So when I see these in gyms, it makes me. It's so hard for me not to say something to somebody. What are you doing to yourself?
Sal
Yeah, Well, I mean, there are. Well, like, vacuum technique is one thing to kind of, like, I know that there's emphasis on trying to kind of present and pose, and I'm sure you can speak to this, Adam, but it's just like there's. There's ways to. To manipulate. Like you mentioned, like, building up the upper body a bit more to create this illusion. And it's just like this immediate kind of lazy option of, like, well, I'm just gonna to, you know, put this on my waist and shrink my muscles down.
Adam
Well, and even that, like, so for the. The competitor that used to use it, because it was. It was popular in the competitor space when I was in there, which is it. You. You weaken the muscles so when. When you get up on stage. So this is actually a part you just alluded Justin to, a part of competing that is that I don't. I didn't realize would be difficult or I had to learn how to do. So when you walk out on stage, one of the more challenging things, aside from the fact that you were completely dehydrated, depleted, tired, exhausted, no body fat on you, is you then got to go walk on stage, and you need to keep your core and abs tight the whole time. You got to stay flexed because your cameras are flashing, the judges are watching you. And if you relax your core ever, then it looks. You look. Your midsection looks soft. Your posture doesn't look good. And so while you're walking out there, you're also actively thinking about keeping your core tight. Tight. And actually using these works against that, because you're atrophying those muscles and your core. Those core muscles are what create that vacuum pose. Sal did a YouTube video on this if you've ever seen it. Those core muscles are what are activated in order to do the vacuum pose and in order to keep your midsection looking tight like that. And so by wearing a waist trainer also makes that worse. About the only thing it does is it does. It atrophies the muscles, which I guess if you. You measured with a tape measure, and this is why it gets people is they have someone measure around, oh, your. Your waist is 32 inches, and then they wear. Wear a corset for two months. It's like, oh, it went down one inch. It's like, yeah, but you didn't lose body fat there. You just lost muscle. You could, because you've casted that area. And I love the analogy used of, like, could you imagine our clients if you. Because I had plenty of female clients come to me like, Adam, I just wish my thighs were smaller. What? You know what's gonna put in a wheelchair? Yeah, put them in a caster. I'm gonna put you in a wheelchair for the next crutches. Yeah, for the next three months. Or wear crutches for the next three months.
Justin
Don't worry so much.
Adam
Don't worry, we'll lose, we'll lose some inches. They would look at you like you're crazy. Yet we're doing that with these corsets.
Justin
I know somebody's caused a bowel obstruction.
Adam
Oh yeah, there's.
Justin
Somebody wore it so tight that they actually caught, they actually had to get some of their bowel resected because what's, what's crazy?
Adam
So the question's presented perfectly. It says, are, are any real benefits from. No.
Sal
Yeah, we were just going through none.
Adam
There's no real benefits from it. Bad. Everything, even the thing that some people think is positive, which is the slight is bad.
Justin
You know what's stupid about this too, which is interesting, is it doesn't last. The whole reason why the whole small waist, wide shoulders thing in bodybuilding became a thing is because in nature when you see someone, especially a male with wide shoulders, smaller waist, it signifies higher testosterone, more muscle, less body fat. But if you take that to the extreme, you actually reduce athletic performance. In fact, when you look at the strongest, most athletic individual, they don't have tiny little waist. They don't have tiny little waist. They have to have some strength to their waist in order to produce force. This is why you see like those, those high level CrossFit athletes which, you know, get the blocked out abs. You tend to see that because then of course there's a, you know, a bit of a self selection bias with high level athletes that get to that level. They train hard but they don't have these little tiny waist because they're performing at high levels. So that snap in half. Yeah. And bodybuilding has taken things to such ridiculous extremes, right. Where it's all about how you look. But yeah, don't wear one of these. And if you do, don't let me see you wearing one of these because I'm probably going to sanitize it.
Sal
We'll come after you.
Doug
Next question is from the crafting space for bevt. Is it a good idea to increase your NEAT before starting some sort of workout?
Justin
So NEAT stands for non exercise activity Thermogenesis. This essentially represents all of the activity that you do that is not part of a structured workout. So workouts structured and planned involve programming. Activity is just movement throughout the day. Is it a good idea to do one before the other? I don't, does it matter to me which one you do first? But I love increasing activity throughout the.
Sal
Day for accumulation of all movement throughout the day. I mean that's really what you need to consider.
Adam
Just so you know that technically Wouldn't fall into the category of neat. Neat is supposed to be the things that we do subconsciously. Ticks, tapping, moving, like it's a, it's a calculation of all these little.
Justin
Just how much you move. That's not working out.
Adam
Right. And, and actively going after steps or walking would not be included in that. That's actually walking. That's activity.
Justin
Right. But there's like this gray area. Right.
Adam
It is like, well, I got to.
Justin
Walk to the grocery store. Let me park further.
Adam
Right, right. But you're, you are intentionally doing that here. There's a couple ways I could answer this question. Like, I do love. And it's so different than how I would approach this as a young trainer. So I do. When I have a family member who has struggled with weight most of their life and has never really been consistent with training, I almost always actually recommend this direction before they get on this crazy workout plan they're going to do. Because it never fails. Every year these family members that I have get motivated by something. The doctor told them something about them recurrently or someone made a comment or they saw a picture of themselves else and then they decide, I'm doing, my friend's doing the ketogenic diet and they're doing this. I'm gonna do these things. And so typically what I like to do is like, you know what, let's just start here. What I want you to try and do is every single day, go for a 30 minute walk that you didn't currently do outside of your current activity and start there. And then I want you to start with one day of lifting and then it's gonna look like the. And then so I love the idea of, of starting with just moving more and creating activity that that's easy for you to build in your routine and then building on that versus the doing.
Sal
I thought that was a better idea anyway. And two, like, because I know there was some emphasis in the tech world, which of course they always look at it like so much of a binary thing, like, oh, well, this, you know, burns X amount of calories and so therefore it's good. But like to stand more often.
Adam
Right.
Sal
And to not sit down quite as much, that's a feat in itself for like some of these people that are so incredibly sedentary. And so to just know kind of like who you're talking to makes a big difference because just to tell them to go out for like a mile walk or something, you know, for some people is like a huge feat. So yeah, the little things obviously Tackle those like, accomplishable wins first.
Justin
Yeah. Look, if you're gonna do a structured workout, you're trying to maximize time, strength train, we've talked about that a million times, times. And then make your lifestyle more active. That's. That's the best way to put it.
Sal
Yeah.
Justin
So think about your normal day. Okay? So I wake up, I drive in the car, I get to work. Okay. I always park in this area from now on, since I go to work five days a week, I'm going to park way over there. Cool. There's one thing, okay. During the day, I'm at my desk and I have to get up to go to the bathroom, you know, four times a day, I got to pee, okay? I'm not going to use the bathroom that's on my floor. I'm going to use the bathroom from now on. That's on the second floor, which means I'm have to kind of go up the stairs. There's another thing, right? I'm going to stand at my desk, I'm going to move more while doing these different things. I fold clothes. Normally I sit down on the couch and I fold clothes. I'm going to stand and fold clothes. You know what? Normally while I'm cooking dinner, I'm cooking dinner, but I'm going to put music on and I'm going to dance while I do it. Like, these are all ideas and ways to just make yourself move more while doing what you normally do. And it sounds trivial, doesn't sound like it's a big deal. It's a huge deal because this is what you do every day, all day long. It makes such a big difference. This one thing right here could significantly impact most people's health.
Adam
It makes a big difference. Personally, for myself, this is like one of my favorite reasons to track steps is not because there's something magical about just so I know. I mean, I can't tell you how many times in the last, like three, three, four months because I've been doing so much of the tracking food steps and all stuff like that, where I know that I'm at four or five thousand steps for the day and I currently want to be getting 10,000 steps. And because of that, it's like I'm extra motivated to clean the house and go, I'm going to wash my car myself instead of hiring someone else to do it. Like, I do these things that. Because I'm also trying to achieve a goal. And so then it's like, oh, I needed to do that anyways. I may as well Walk and do it. Or I may as well do that labor that I was going to hire someone else to do because I also want to achieve. So I love. I love tracking steps and giving myself step goals incrementally, like, even small ones, because it helps us with those little choices where we can choose to sit down and do something, or I could choose to get up and go do it.
Justin
You know, it's a good one, is if you have kids, if you have little kids, try to actively play with them as often as possible. You're tired, you'd rather watch TV with them or play on the floor with them. Come up with game. I do this all the time when I'm hanging out with them. Like, all right, we're gonna get up and run. I'm gonna chase you guys. And it's just more activity, by the way. The kids love it. It's like so many wins by doing something like that. But just think about your day like that and it doesn't change all the things that you normally accomplish. It just makes them more active, essentially.
Doug
Next question is from Owlpatty78. I'm currently on a GLP1 and I'm not losing any more weight. I don't want to increase the dose anymore because I already have a hard time eating enough and I don't want to lose too much muscle. Should I lower my dose and start a reverse diet?
Justin
Yes. This is the problem people are going to run into on GLP1s like Ozempic. WeGovy.
Sal
Most common thing we saw.
Justin
Yes. Like, you go on a GLP1 and should have been in our group and in it.
Sal
Yep.
Justin
And what it does, in essence, a lot of things it does improves insulin sensitivity and. But really what it does, it makes you eat less. And so you just start eating less. Your body eventually matches the caloric intake. So at first your calories drop, you're burning more than your calories that are coming in, so you lose weight. But eventually your body learns how to burn less calories. And it typically does this by paring muscle down, and then you stop losing weight, and then you plateau. But the problem is I'm not eating a lot anyway. I'm on a GLP1. I mean, a thousand. We saw a lot of people like this in the group that we, that we coached, where we had 50 people that we worked with, with some of them. There were people in there that were eating a thousand calories a day and had 25 or 30 pounds left to go. And they were like, what do I do? I can't go lower my calories. We're gonna have to speed up your metabolism. Well, what does that look like? It looks like eating more and lifting weights. I can't eat more. Go to your doctor. Because you got to go to your doctor. Don't take our advice. We're not doctors on this. You ask your doctor.
Sal
Get the appetite.
Justin
Can I lower my dose so I can start increasing my caloric intake? And then say this to your doctor, I want to build muscle. Because if you tell them I want to eat more, they'll be like, well, why? Because I'm trying to build muscle. I need to speed up my metabolism. If you don't do this, you're going to stay plateaued. You're not going to be able to continue to burn body fat because you have no room. You have no room because you're already eating so little. And your body. Listen. The human body is so effective at adapting to low calories. There are studies on POWs where people were prisoners of war who survived on hundreds of calories a day for a long time. The body learns how to slow down. So, yeah, you got a reverse diet. You have to slowly increase your calories, lift weights, focus on getting stronger. It's going to take probably three months, six months or so until you can start dropping the calories again.
Adam
I'd say this was probably the number one takeaway for us. After running the GLP1 group, I think the consensus between all of us was that. But it looks like no matter what your goal is, it's pretty inevitable that at one point these GLP1 clients will have to reverse diet. We didn't see anybody who had a goal of losing 30, 40, 60 pounds that came on it, lost their 30 to 60 pounds from a straight drop, never had to do anything. Most people saw a significant drop initially, a hard plateau, and then needed to reverse diet, increase calories, lower their dose strength, train to come back down again. And that was kind of the formula for most everybody. So. And unfortunately, you're just not gonna hear this communicated from the doctors. The doctors. It's in their best interest that you were on these GLP1s for lives.
Justin
I don't even think they. They don't even understand reverse dieting. No, they don't understand strength.
Adam
Right. So. And they're obviously nutrition is not what they specialize in. And there it's. It's advantageous for them for you to be on this GLP1 forever, where us as coaches and trainers, that is not in our best interest. And so Our goal is to get you off of this thing, use it as a tool, because it can be a very effective tool. But the inevitable is true. You're going to have to reverse diet.
Justin
I'll even say this is this much. A good coach and trainer is impartial to whether or not you're on this or not. It really depends on what's the best thing for you. And if you're plateaued and your calories are low, they know how to speed up your metabolism. A doctor doesn't understand this because they're not trained in this, but they are trained in medication. And what they will probably offer is, let's raise your dose so you can eat less. You don't want to do that. You will lose more muscle and you'll plateau again and you'll be in a really, really crappy place.
Doug
Next question is from Lele Ackland. How much would someone have to pay you all to train?
Adam
I don't want to answer this. Okay, listen, if you're gonna bring this question, you better be. You better be truthful.
Justin
No, so here's the thing.
Adam
You're gonna get roasted.
Justin
No, no. Here's the deal with this.
Sal
And still run all the other things.
Adam
Be honest.
Justin
No, no, be honest. I'm gonna be very honest.
Adam
Okay.
Justin
And I'm gonna be honest and I'm gonna. I think I can speak for all of us, but if it's. If it's wrong for you or different, let me know. I know, I know. When it comes to this, all of us are pretty purpose driven. The reason why we don't train people is because it doesn't bring us the same joy and value as doing this with the podcast. And is what we're doing now, which is training coaches and trainers like we're training coaches and trainers. And that is getting me excited like I used to get training clients. Does that mean that I don't like training clients? I love working with people. I loved it, but I did it for so long.
Sal
Yeah, I absolutely loved it.
Justin
It doesn't bring the same joy as communicating to people in the podcast, getting onto the podcast, talking to lots of other people, doing the other parts of the business. Working.
Sal
Comparison to scaling like we're doing or.
Justin
Working with trainers and coaches right now, I am far more. More passionate about working with trainers and coaches and teaching them how to be so good and so effective that. That has that downstream effect of really shifting the fitness industry and. And getting other people. Incredible.
Adam
Yeah. I was gonna say, I said, hey, you set the table. Good for Us right there. So now that you set the table, like everybody's got a number.
Sal
I mean, you got a number on.
Adam
What's it. What. What would it take now that you set the table that we're purpose driven.
Justin
That's the other way. 1. What kind of client is it?
Sal
What kind of client is it?
Adam
Yeah, because I mean, is it. Yeah, but there's a needy one. There's got to be a dollar. Hey, there's got to be a dollar amount that goes like, I'll put up.
Sal
Like a celebrity that's just like, I need.
Adam
Oh, celebrities I don't even want.
Sal
Okay, well, that's cross that one.
Adam
I'll train some rich CEO guy.
Sal
No, no. Pro sports athlete.
Justin
No.
Sal
Celebrity.
Justin
No. Look, straight up, I'll train someone for free if it's someone I want to work with. I mean, that's. That's the truth. I have friends now that if they ask me, hell you still.
Adam
Hell no.
Justin
You have friends you really love that you'd be like, let me.
Adam
I love a lot of my friends. I wouldn't. No way. It drives me crazy to do this stuff. I would know where I. I mean, it. Training is. Yeah. I have to want to train you. But it's. This is like, how much would someone have?
Justin
All right, I'm not playing. You're right. I gotta play.
Adam
Yeah, you gotta play the game fair. It's like, what would someone. What it would cost? There's. There's a dollar amount someone would offer. You'd be like, all right, I'll do that.
Justin
Per. Was it per session?
Adam
Yeah, per hour.
Justin
What is it? I don't know. I don't know, man.
Adam
I've thought about it. I know. Yeah. Because. So go.
Justin
I don't want to go first.
Adam
You don't. You don't. You said the table.
Justin
I'm gonna add more to your.
Adam
It might be. It might be. Who knows? Yeah, mine's. Mine's 1500 an hour. That's what I. That's what it would take.
Justin
That's it.
Adam
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the reason why that is, is because that's what it would. That's what it costs right now for me to spend an hour with somebody talking about business right now.
Sal
Yeah, Just consulting.
Adam
No, I enjoy that more.
Justin
That's what I'm saying.
Adam
So the training would have. Have to be at least that or more, or else I wouldn't do it. No, I'd rather help. There's. There's people that I have that are in our circle, that are friends of ours that Want to pay me that for helping them with the business, and I really enjoy doing that, so I enjoyed it. So in order to train clients, which I get less excited about today than what I used to, obviously it would need to be at least that or more.
Justin
Okay, let me give you a different question.
Adam
Okay.
Justin
There's a skill or something you really want to learn about something you're really into. All of us have.
Adam
What would you pay?
Justin
No, you would do it for a trade.
Adam
If there's someone that's like, yeah, for sure.
Sal
That would be more my angle.
Justin
Yeah. Because money, I'm like, I don't know.
Sal
I'm gonna learn something. And if I can, you know, train somebody and acquire that skill.
Adam
I looked up what it would cost to get like to teach lessons for like a pro driver.
Justin
Yeah, see, you would trade.
Adam
It's crazy money.
Justin
Okay.
Adam
And I would heartbeat trade for my.
Justin
Training if it wasn't crazy money. Because you're, you're really valued.
Adam
Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, if it was cheap, I just pay for it. You know what I'm saying? But it's a lot. It's a lot of money. So it'd be like, hey, your services are valued if mine are valued.
Justin
Let's.
Adam
Let's trade. That's exactly how I would. That's how I would do that to this day. This day, if there's somebody who's got a skill or service that I really want. Yeah, I would, I would, I would leverage.
Sal
I was thinking about that for like guitar lessons or something.
Justin
Yeah.
Sal
You know, like, like really becoming like a virtuoso.
Justin
Yeah, see, see, that makes more sense. Sense. Because money wise, that's why.
Adam
Okay, but that's by the way, because I know there's some people that have probably freaked out when we said that I said that number. Right. They're just right away like, that's ridiculous. Listen, I'm not charging that. I'm not trying to go get that. Which. Right. So the way I handle people in DMs ass, I just say I don't do it. And they try, they pursue, and they go, well, how much? What would it take? And it's just like you, it's just not worth my time and I don't want to. And the, the amount that it would cost you to do it, I wouldn't even feel comfortable charging.
Justin
Exactly.
Adam
That's how I respond to people, is that. Listen, it doesn't make sense. It's not a, it's not a dollar amount thing because there's so many other Ways I can make a lot of money that. That doesn't even come close to the hourly that would be fair.
Justin
But it.
Adam
Trade services for somebody else who's an expert in their field. 100.
Justin
Yes. Like, if I were working, if, like, you know, because I'm really, you know, deep in on my spiritual journey, I'm really in that. And if it was someone who was going to really coach me and, you know, and teach me theology and move in that direction, I could see myself totally trading for some really intense, you know, learning and knowledge and debate and discussion. I could totally do something like that. Money.
Sal
Yeah.
Justin
I don't care. Now. Working with trainers and coaches right now. Working with trainers and coaches right now, it gets me excited, it gets me psyched to think about working with these trainers that we have. It's taken us 10 years to really approach working with trainers and coaches. And you put me in a room with 10 of them and you get me talking to them. I mean, if 10 of them were here, I would probably do it for free. Just to talk.
Adam
We did do that. We did.
Sal
I know.
Justin
That's. I know.
Adam
My club was already successful when we were touring around and doing talks for trainers for free. We were absolutely. So I agree. I mean, that stuff is. That's a really hard question to tackle though, because it's like, how do you not sound like an.
Sal
Yeah.
Adam
By saying that, it's just like I, I stay away from talking. I don't even. I wouldn't throw a dollar amount if.
Sal
It'S advice, so if I can give it, I give it, you know, and that's just it. It's like, but like spending like a lot of time and like making sure it's all planned out and like showing up and physically and all that, like, you know, that's a big ass.
Adam
It's a good exercise, though, for yourself.
Justin
It is.
Adam
Because, I mean, you have to. And I guess you, you reach a point too where time is the most valuable thing.
Justin
Totally.
Adam
More than money.
Justin
Totally.
Adam
My time is worth so much. And, and to train a client for an hour isn't just an hour. It's an hour training them. Plus the time you spend creating their diet or thinking about their issues or solving their text messages or all the stuff you can do with it. So now you're talking about hours of time. And it's like, well, how valuable is my time to me? And it's like, so it's less about a certain dollar amount that I think I'm worth training. It's more about how vouch I value my own personal time. It's like you're not going to pay me a dollar amount. That makes sense for me to give up that time. It just isn't happening unless I was trading it for something else.
Justin
What was the most you guys. Guys charged back when you worked? I think, Justin, you were probably the highest.
Adam
Yeah.
Justin
Price.
Sal
It was 3,000amonth.
Justin
And that was how many often.
Sal
So it was typically like four times a week.
Justin
So what is that? That's how many sessions I was long gone by.
Adam
Well 115 hours. The highest I ever was. That was. I never went. I never, I never went beyond outrageous, but.
Justin
No, but it was. Sounds outrageous, but it was every month.
Sal
One of my friends was charging five again. I took that model from one of my friends who was charging 5,000.
Justin
That's about right. That's close to where I was. 200 a session was the most. But this was 10 years ago too.
Sal
That was.
Justin
That was the most that I was charging.
Adam
Yeah. Well, I haven't trained for 20 or 15 plus years. A long time. So. Train. Train. No. 150 was the most that I ever. I ever charged for anybody.
Justin
Which that was. That was like high back then.
Adam
That was, that was. That was considered as high as it goes in the Bay Area. Yeah. You know, I didn't know anybody charged. Charging more than one. No, not then.
Justin
No.
Adam
Yeah, but I mean now it's not, it's. It's again, it's less about the, the dollar amount and it's more about the time.
Justin
I really want to. I would really want to feel like it's something I'm really passionate about.
Adam
But I like the way you presented that with. If it was, if it was. You're more.
Justin
I knew you guys would say that.
Adam
Yeah. You're more likely to give me. If it was something that you have that you could, you could trade with me. That I'm like, okay, like, I want.
Justin
To spend time with that person to learn from them. From something.
Adam
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know you could show me this. I show you that because literally I did. I looked at the race cars and I was like, that's a lot. Like, how bad do I want to get good at this? They're making a couple thousand dollars for like X amount of laps. So a day would cost me 50 grand.
Justin
Oh, wow.
Adam
Yeah.
Justin
Wow.
Adam
So. But I mean, that's. It's not unrealistic. There's. I have executive CEO friends that charge huge money to meet with them. I mean, we had Jasmine, our friend, what she paid to spend a day with Gary Vee was crazy.
Justin
Oh, wow.
Adam
Yeah, crazy. And they. And, and if you ask her, she'll say it was worth every penny benefit. Yeah, yeah. Worth every penny. So I mean that if you've, if you want that kind of access to the, you know, it's like you got to pay that stuff. So I mean, I wouldn't.
Justin
But look, if you like the show, come find us on Instagram. You can find Justin at Mind Pump. Justin, you can find me at mind pump. Distefano and AdamDPumpadam.
Doug
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Podcast Summary: Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth – Episode 2493: Add 30 Minutes of THIS for Better Gains (Listener Coaching)
Release Date: December 20, 2024
Hosts: Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews
Producer: Doug Egge
In Episode 2493 of Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth, hosts Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, and Justin Andrews delve into actionable strategies to enhance fitness gains, addressing listener questions and sharing insights from their extensive experience in the fitness industry. The episode emphasizes the significance of foundational health practices over popular fitness myths and trends.
Main Topic: Adding 30 minutes of sleep daily can lead to significant improvements in strength, muscle growth, fat loss, mental clarity, and overall health.
Discussion Highlights:
Practical Advice:
Adam Schafer: Shared his approach to coaching clients struggling with sleep, emphasizing tracking and gradually increasing sleep duration. "Just try this for a week... It'll be the most impactful thing you do for your fitness." [04:17]
Justin Andrews: Discussed his battle with snoring and how investing in a quality CPAP machine transformed his sleep quality and gym performance. "I feel like it's remarkably different. My performance in the gym is improving." [11:22]
The hosts reflect on the exceptional cohesiveness and competitiveness of their current team, comparing it to championship sports teams where every member is dedicated and motivated to excel together.
Topic: Europe’s initiative to limit fitness videos on YouTube for viewers under 16 to combat body image issues.
Discussion Points:
Hosts’ Perspectives:
Topic: A study predicting that life expectancy in the U.S. will stall by 2050 despite medical advancements.
Key Takeaways:
Question: "Any real benefits from waist trainers and why do they exist?" – Maria Clark
Hosts’ Response:
Conclusion: Waist trainers offer no genuine fitness benefits and can be harmful by weakening essential muscles, contradicting core fitness principles.
Question: "Is it a good idea to increase your NEAT before starting some sort of workout?" – The Crafting Space for BEVT
Hosts’ Response:
Conclusion: Enhancing daily activity levels through NEAT is beneficial and serves as a sustainable foundation for subsequent structured workout routines.
Question: "I'm currently on a GLP1 and I'm not losing any more weight. I don't want to increase the dose anymore because I already have a hard time eating enough and I don't want to lose too much muscle. Should I lower my dose and start a reverse diet?" – Owlpatty78
Hosts’ Response:
Conclusion: When experiencing a weight loss plateau on GLP1 medications, consider a reverse diet and strength training to enhance metabolic rates, while consulting with a healthcare provider.
Question: "How much would someone have to pay you all to train?" – Lele Ackland
Hosts’ Response:
Conclusion: Training with the hosts is positioned as a high-value, specialized service aimed at professionals in the fitness industry, with fees reflecting their expertise and the strategic nature of their coaching.
Throughout the episode, the hosts underscore the importance of foundational health practices, such as adequate sleep and increased daily activity, over quick-fix solutions and industry fads. They advocate for sustainable lifestyle changes, strength training, and informed decision-making to achieve long-term fitness and health goals.
Key Takeaways:
Notable Quotes:
For more detailed insights and personalized training protocols, listeners are encouraged to visit mindpumppodcast.com and follow the hosts on Instagram.
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