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Sal DeStefano
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Sal DeStefano, Adam Schafer and Justin Andrews.
Sal DeStefano
You just found the most downloaded fitness, health and entertainment podcast. This is Mind Pump. Today's Episode what If you had 24 hours to design the perfect fitness and biohacking day? You have access to tools, things that you can use, gym equipment. You're like, look, I want to make it a day that is amazing and awesome and I'm a fitness fanatic. Well, we broke it down, laid it out for you from beginning to end AM to pm. That's what today's episode is all about. By the way, this episode is brought to you by eight Sleep. This is the most advanced sleep system in the world. It goes on your bed and it controls the temperature of a bed as it monitors your sleep patterns. And it uses advanced AI to individualize the temperature to maximize your amazing sleep. So you burn more body fat, build more muscle, you wake up rested. Here's the best part. You get early access to the Black Friday sale, which will get you up to $700 off. Here's what you do. Go to eightsleep.com mindpump by the way, you can use your HSA, your health savings Account to pay for this because it's for your health. So if you got that, go to eightsleep.com mindpumpsave up to $700 on that link and get amazing sleep. Also, it's Black Friday for us too. Every maps program, every bundle, everything 60% off across the board right now. Biggest sale of the year. Go to mapsfitnessproducts.com, use the code Black Friday for the discount. Also, every purchase enters you into a contest. Two people are going to get a week free vacation and at the Mind Pump Park City House plus $1,000 to travel. And 15 people are going to get personal training for three months from our coaches. Once again, 60% off. Everything maps fitnessproducts.com use the code BLACK Friday. All right, real quick.
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Adam Schafer
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Sal DeStefano
What if you had the perfect 24 hours? I'm talking about the perfect 24 hours for fitness and biohacking. What if you could take a day and maximize it from beginning to end to improve your health, longevity, muscle growth, fat loss? What would it look like? We're gonna paint that picture for you today in our episode. Let's get to it.
Adam Schafer
Super nervous to do this. I just feel like we're setting the table for Dave Asprey or Ben Greenfield to do one of those. One of those comment videos where they're gonna pick apart whatever you say right here.
Justin Andrews
We're not gonna go that crazy. We'll back off the coffee.
Sal DeStefano
So no.
Adam Schafer
Yeah, yeah. No coffee enemas or nost things shoved up. Anything more. More traditional. Biohacking.
Sal DeStefano
I want to make this realistic. Yes. Both realistic. Also data driven. Okay. Also, you know, something that. That somebody who's motivated would do. So realistic. This is. This is the perfect 24 hours. Achievable. Yeah. So this is the perfect 24 hours. So this is like, hey, I got the day off. I'm really into fitness and health. I, you know, plan this week. You know, Saturday, I'm going to try this thing out. What can I do? So it's both the motivated person, but also it's got to be realistic and stuff that works, like the stuff that the data actually supports, like, what would that look like from beginning to end to maximize things like insulin sensitivity, muscle growth, energy, experiment. Anyway.
Justin Andrews
Right.
Sal DeStefano
That's right.
Adam Schafer
Well, I know you're setting the table for this as, like, this. This biohack day. I mean, I could see this being this incredible, almost like, reset day after a long, stressful week.
Sal DeStefano
Totally.
Adam Schafer
Right. Hard week at work, stressful flying places, all kinds of stuff going on. Maybe not the best night's sleep, missed workouts, all the things it's like, okay, Saturday. Yeah. I've got the day off and I'm gonna just.
Justin Andrews
Lockdown.
Sal DeStefano
Yeah.
Adam Schafer
What can I do to, like, just fully optimize my health in my body in a single day? What would it look like?
Sal DeStefano
Totally. And this is. I would. This is something that would totally interest me, you know, if I had a day that was totally off and I wanted to do something like what you said, Adam.
Adam Schafer
Yeah.
Sal DeStefano
You know, either reset or have a workout, but maximize the workout itself with all the tools that I have access to, the ones that, you know, the data show actually works like this would get me excited to do something like this. So obviously we're going to start off with waking up right now. This day starts the night before, though, I got to say that, right? I don't care. The rest of this doesn't matter. If the night before you went to.
Justin Andrews
Sleep, you have a good setup.
Sal DeStefano
Yes. If you had bad sleep the night before, if you only slept four or five hours or you drank the night before or whatever, this will help. But it's not going to make that big of a difference. So this entire day starts with the night before. You want eight hours of sleep. Now that's eight hours of sleep, meaning you're going to bed and waking up, probably giving yourself about eight and a half hours. You want to give yourself 30 minute buffer to fall asleep. This is where I think a lot of people, when they see the studies on 78 hours, they don't realize that that's sleep. Not just I went to bed.
Adam Schafer
Yeah.
Sal DeStefano
So to set this up, the night before you want to go to bed and then you want to wake up about eight and a half hours later, give yourself about 30 minutes and then leading up to that bedtime, be off electronics, don't eat any food for maybe an hour or two before bed so that you make sure you have a nice cool dark room so you can have a great night of sleep. So that's how it's going to start. Otherwise, like I said, the rest of this is going to be a bit of a waste. Okay, so what do you do when you first wake up besides use the bathroom? Drink 16 ounces of water with electrolytes and go outside. Go outside and be in the sun for a good 10 to 15 minutes. This sets your circadian rhythm. This also has an effect on insulin sensitivity. This has an effect on mood. The studies on this are quite interesting and a lot of us don't get this right out the gates. What we tend to do is reach for caffeine right away. You'd be surprised what some. By the way, this doesn't have to be a sunny day. It could be cloudy, but just go outside and get some sunlight for the first. Like I said, 10, 15. Yeah.
Justin Andrews
Do that without reaching for your phone.
Adam Schafer
I was just gonna tell you I wanted to add that since it wasn't on here, as like if we are detoxing or resetting or optimizing a day. I also think this would be a perfect time to do a day without Technology. A day without phone technology, I should say, because you're going to use other biohacking technology away from social media and all that, I think has to carry some incredible benefits too.
Sal DeStefano
Yeah, thanks for adding that, guys. What's interesting is the way you start your day tends to have an effect the studies will show, by the way. This has to do with nutrition. This has to do with whether or not you get up and you have to rush out for work or you get up and you get, like I said, you're on your phone. And what tends to be on our algorithm are things that get our stress levels up a little bit. So it's like news, politics, it's rumors, it's gossip and it tends to set the stage. And there's studies that suggest that this affects the rest of the day, regardless of what happens for the rest of the day. So don't immediately wake up and go on your phone, actually be off your phone, get up, drink this water with electrolytes, go outside, be in the sun. And without your phone, what's probably going to happen is you're probably going to think, you're probably going to be a little bored or whatever. That's exactly what we want. We want to set the stage for the rest of the day so that everything else you do is that much more effective. When you're ready. Now it's time for breakfast. Does what you eat for breakfast make a difference for the rest of the day? Yes, absolutely. The best studies show that a high protein breakfast with some fats will improve insulin sensitivity for the rest of the day, regardless of what you eat for the rest of the day. And this affects cravings, energy crashes or energy surges that you tend to have. Again, I'm going to go back to what I said earlier, even if later, which you're not going to do if you follow this, but even if later you eat foods that tend to cause these blood sugar spikes. If you start the day with high protein and some fats, that tends to blunt that response later on, long term stabilizing. It's really.
Adam Schafer
So if I'm building the perfect breakfast, I'm doing steak, eggs and a bowl of fruit.
Sal DeStefano
Yeah, I'm glad you threw berries. Yes, yes. Berries are high fiber. A high fiber, low glycemic index, high source, high antioxidants. They taste great. And then the high protein people like. Well, how much is high protein? I'm going to be clear here. It's probably about 30 grams for women, 50 grams for men. And I have to say that Because I think when people eat a classic, what they would consider a classic breakfast, which is like two eggs, a couple slices of bacon, you're looking at, you know, what is that, you know, 15 grams, 15, 20 at most. No, you want about 30, 50 grams. By the way, if you can eat eggs and you don't mind eating a lot of eggs. Like a lot of eggs is perfect. You got the fats, you got the proteins, you've got all the nutrients there. Now you throw in a bowl of blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, you've got your fiber. And this really sets the stage for, like I said later on, the insulin sensitivity. It also is going to set you up. This is all, by the way, setting us up for a workout later so we can have a really, really good.
Adam Schafer
Now I ideally, I know you said you start off with like this kind of wake up and would you go for like a little walk before you have breakfast or are you only walking after you eat?
Sal DeStefano
You can go before coffee, you can go before coffee. You can go before too. But after is where we see the best effect. So what they say, postprandial, right. So after breakfast, go for a walk. Now as little as 10 minutes has a nice effect. Longer walks have a better effect. 30 to 60 minutes is going to make the biggest impact on digestion, on insulin sensitivity and on hormones for the rest of the day, including the stress hormone of cortisol. So post meal, go for a walk. Notice I didn't say run or bike or anything strenuous. You can do that if you want to. But what we're trying to do here is we're trying to set you up for a really good strength training workout later. So what we don't want to do is tap into too much of that energy. Pre fatigue and pre fatigue, this is just a stroll. You're just going for a walk outside after breakfast.
Adam Schafer
I like the idea. Since you have already, you're recommending in the morning, first thing in the morning to get started with electrolyzed, get out in the sun is I do a 10 minute walk to start with.
Sal DeStefano
The sun.
Adam Schafer
Yeah.
Sal DeStefano
Pre eating.
Adam Schafer
Right. So you kind of killing two birds, one stone right now, kind of getting the body moving, blood flow, then going to my meal, post meal, I'm doing more like the 30 to 50 minute walk post meal after that just to speed up that digestive process and really get me going.
Sal DeStefano
And what you'll notice is we're kind of setting the day up with this kind of parasympathetic wake up.
Justin Andrews
Yep.
Sal DeStefano
Because, because remember, we're going to get into a sympathetic state later with the workout. Right. So parasympathetic is this, relax is this kind of rest and digest system of the body. Hormones look different, catecholamines look different. It's a different state of mind. The sympathetic is like burn, drive, go. Which is what you're going to want later for your workout. So you'll notice this is kind of a slow wake up. You're hydrating with the electrolytes, you're getting the sunlight for the circadian rhythm. This all affects hormones. You're getting the walk post meal for the insulin sensitivity. It also helps shuttle some of those calories into your way.
Justin Andrews
Better cognitive performance. I noticed that too. If I'm wearing like really reactionary and stress heavy in the morning, I just don't think it's clearly the rest of the day now.
Sal DeStefano
Next, when you're ready. So this could be, you know, so you could kind of chill, relax a little bit. Next. By the way, during the relax period, if you want to add something, I think some kind of contemplative like podcast.
Adam Schafer
Would be awesome right here.
Sal DeStefano
Yes.
Adam Schafer
Like what is it? What is the research on that? I know there's all kinds of stuff that they've done with like the positive benefits of doing something like a gratitude practice. Like this would be a perfect place in my opinion, to insert this.
Sal DeStefano
Yeah. Just to get into that a little deeper. Our, our brains, our minds are not wired to notice positive things nearly as much as they're wired to notice negative things or scary things. Negative and scary things. I don't have to remind you, like nobody does. There is no such thing as a. Hey, have a practice where you think of all the terrible things in your life that doesn't exist.
Justin Andrews
The stoics, you know, would promote that on some level. The worst case scenario. But it's not.
Sal DeStefano
But it's always to always set you up with the. So nobody does that practice because it's so natural. It's very natural for us to think about all the scary, stressful stuff. What's unnatural is to think of all the good stuff. That's why it's called a practice, because you have to consciously do it. But when you do it, the data shows it totally shifts your mindset from one of stress to one of more joy and happiness and gratitude. What does this show up physiologically? Less inflammation, better testosterone levels, better insulin sensitivity, more balance with estrogen or progesterone in women. But it is a practice. So I'm glad you said that Adam. Because you should probably sit and think by the way, when you start doing this regularly and this is not necessarily part of this day, but if you practice this on a regular basis, you notice more good things. Because you practice noticing more good things.
Adam Schafer
I think it's just such a powerful thing to add here because if we're going to touch on the like trying to do detach from the phone also on this day, inserting a positive. I think a lot of people that have never actually tried to build a day like this that have actually intentionally went away from the phone and then intentionally included a gratitude practice, I think you, I, I don't know too many people that will not feel, feel a difference from that day because how profound it is to already not be looking at negative stuff to start your day and then not only that, but go out of your way to practice focusing on all the positive things. I think that person will probably feel, actually feel a difference in the first time that they do that.
Sal DeStefano
Totally. All right, now when you're ready, this is when you're going to have your, your, your kind of higher calorie pre workout meal. It's another high protein meal, but this time we're going to throw some starches in there. What this typically looks like is about 30 grams of protein for women, 50 grams of carbohydrates for men it's about 50 grams of protein, 75 grams of carbohydrates. Now you're going to drink another 16 ounces of water with this meal. And we're using starches because now we're looking for glycogen. Right. We want this energy in our muscles. We want a better pump. Starches do this better than other types of white carbohydrates. White rice right here? Yeah, this is for me. White rice or sweet potato.
Adam Schafer
White rice was your favorite meat right here.
Sal DeStefano
That's right.
Adam Schafer
This is the go to moon rice.
Sal DeStefano
And then after this you're gonna go for another walk. So probably another 30 minute walk. And then about 60 minutes later now you have your caffeine.
Adam Schafer
Now Justin's going crazy right now.
Sal DeStefano
I know.
Adam Schafer
He's like this is cup number. Well actually this is cup one. Cup zero was when you first.
Sal DeStefano
Right. Your first cop doesn't get it. But about 60 minutes after that post meal walk now have your caffeine or your pre workout. This dose is different from person to person. For me it's about 400 milligrams. For some people it's as little as 100 milligrams. So I'll do, you know, like a, like a, like a pulse is a pre workout from Legion that I'll use sometimes or I'll just have, you know, just straight up 400mg caffeine.
Adam Schafer
Now, even though we're, we're teasing Justin a bit about cup zero and really the coffee. Coffee. And I probably wouldn't have waited this long to have my first cup of coffee. But there are. And I know, I believe it was it. No, it wasn't Peter Ta. It was Huberman who made this popular. But it was. Was it the first. Is it 90 minutes? I believe it's the first 90 minutes. There's, there's benefits to waiting the first 90, so at least waiting 90 minutes of that first part of your day before you actually have your first again.
Sal DeStefano
This. We're painting the picture of the perfect day.
Adam Schafer
Right, Right.
Sal DeStefano
So you're.
Adam Schafer
So you would never hear us talk about. This is like on a.
Sal DeStefano
This is every day.
Adam Schafer
Yeah. This is.
Sal DeStefano
You're like, I gotta go to work. Yeah.
Adam Schafer
Yeah. We're building the ultimate plan day right here. So keep that in.
Sal DeStefano
And there's also, look, you could also like some people have coffee twice a day.
Justin Andrews
Yeah.
Sal DeStefano
Which is fine. But if you saved all of it for this right here, this pre workout, not only is your body primed, you were outside, you fed yourself, Insulin sensitivity is good. Now you have a big bolus of caffeine, you're going to be ready.
Justin Andrews
We're trying to shuttle this into the strength training session which is going to be perfect.
Sal DeStefano
That's right after this. So now about 90 minutes later. So this is much less like an hour and a half, two hours after your meal. Now you get into a cold dip and this is the way cold dips should be used. I love this as a pre workout. A lot of people will talk about using them post workout. There's some value post workout mainly as a quick way to tamp down inflammation, reduce damage, which some people say is bad because it cuts down the muscle, building signal. For some people, this is a good thing if you're gonna work out again later in the day, like hard training athletes. We're not doing that here. What we're trying to do here is I'm trying to use the caffeine plus the cold dip to get your catecholamines through the roof. You are going to feel psychedelic and your joints are not, are going to feel like there's no pain because of the cold. And you're going to be in this cold dip for about two to four minutes, which is brutal. But how cold is the water typically when you, when you get.
Adam Schafer
What do we have? What do we have? Set? 45. Does that sound right, Justin?
Justin Andrews
Sounds right.
Adam Schafer
45 at the. I think that's the park City's house is set up. Yeah, something like that.
Sal DeStefano
Yeah. So cold.
Adam Schafer
Very cold. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sal DeStefano
So you get in there for about two minutes. Almost ready for your workout. Now this is a biohacking tool. It's got tremendous data supporting it. You're gonna get in front of red light. Red light therapy. You're gonna do 20 minutes, 10 minutes on the front of your body, 10 minutes on the back. Why are we doing this pre workout? This has been shown to boost muscle growth. It sets up, it amplifies the mitochondria. It actually is priming those muscles. That's why we're doing the front and the back of the body. You want to stand in front of it naked to get the full effect. And after this 20 minutes, you're ready to lift. So you did your cold dip, you got your caffeine, you did your red light therapy front and back. Now go lift and you're going to do a full body workout. And full body workout just has the best overall effect at sending this huge signal for muscle growth throughout the whole body. Remember, when you lift weights, there's an acute effect, meaning the, the or localized effect, I should say, where it's the muscles you train, but there's also the kind of the systemic effect. So when you do squats, most of the muscle growth goes to legs, but the whole body gets a little bit of a stimulus. Right. When you do overhead press most of his shoulders and arms, whole body gets a little bit. So full body workout. What we're trying to do here is.
Justin Andrews
We'Re trying to maximize muscle recruitment, maximize force production.
Sal DeStefano
That's right.
Justin Andrews
Biggest movers are going to be those compound lifts.
Sal DeStefano
And you are going to do compound lifts. That's what this workout looks like.
Adam Schafer
The only thing I would add to right here in this one, this. Because so, so far this day is like so perfect. In fact, it's got me so excited to want to try this. Been a while since I built a day like this. Just to see how kind of a work I get right before I get into my fullest. And I might even do some of this in front of the red light is some of my mobility stuff.
Sal DeStefano
Oh yeah.
Adam Schafer
I might do some of my 90 90s right here or pigeon stretch while in front of the red light. So kind of Killing two birds with some really starting to prime my body to get into this workout. Because at this point, you know, as far as priming your central nervous system and getting yourself fed, I mean you are caffeine, I mean you are ready to go. The next thing would just to be kind of mobilized and get loose and get warmed up.
Justin Andrews
Especially if you know those mobility exercises that move the needle for you the most totally the internal rotation. Dude, 90 90s would be perfect.
Adam Schafer
That's. I would do like two, two of my favorites. So whatever your two favorite like mobility primers are before you get into your lift, I'm probably doing that in front of my red light while I'm getting ready. And then, then it's game time, right?
Sal DeStefano
Totally. Now the work workout is going to be big gross motor movement exercises. This is what moves the needle, this is what you're. And by the way, because of the setup with the hydration, the food and everything we've done, you should get one of the best pumps you've ever had in your entire life. Especially with the red light therapy, which is, you know, I've tried this a couple times. Pretty remarkable. So the workout's going to start with either squats or deadlifts. Then you'll do your bench press, your overhead press. You'll do something for your arms. If you want to do like an exercise for your back, like pull ups, you could do that before your overhead press and your per, that's pretty much your workout. About three sets per exercise. Keep the reps around 10 and you can go ahead and drive the intensity.
Adam Schafer
Now as far as like hydration right here, obviously you are typical of drinking lots of water. Are you adding another thing of element here? Are you gonna do that?
Sal DeStefano
Okay, yes, more electrolytes. Because. Because of the workout, but also because we're gonna do after the workout. Because we're gonna do something else here after the workout. So again, the workout's gonna look like squats or deadlifts. Three sets bench press, then maybe some pull ups or some rows overhead press. Do your biceps and triceps if you want to do some core in there. And then you're totally done. While you're training, you should be drinking at least 32 ounces of water. With electrolytes, I'm usually higher rests, one to three minute rest in between sets and minimum.
Adam Schafer
I was gonna say at least that on a day like this, if this is a day where you're planning all day, probably long, I might even stretch this workout.
Sal DeStefano
Why not?
Adam Schafer
I mean this is a Day when you're fed, you're primed.
Sal DeStefano
Three minute rest. Yeah.
Adam Schafer
You're mapping it out as the ultimate. Like this is the day that I'm going to try and make these long rest periods really take my time.
Sal DeStefano
So a little bit if you like the faster paced workout, a minute would be the minimum. I would, I would do. Now when you're done with your workout, you jump in the sauna for 20 minutes. Here's what's interesting about this. The, the data on this is phenomenal. Post workout sauna boost muscle growth and boost VO2 max. What's cool about this, you're not doing it, you're just sitting. Yeah. In a hot room. So when they do studies on this and they compare groups of people simulates it. Adding the sauna post workout doesn't require more recovery, doesn't add more damage, doesn't, you know, if anything it reduces inflammation. But what it does do is it boosts the muscle building signal and it boosts VO2 max. Studies on endurance athletes are remarkable. Sauna Boom, Boost and VO2 Max and endurance for muscle building boom. You get more muscle growth from the sauna.
Justin Andrews
So it's really, it's the core temperature increase that triggers that.
Sal DeStefano
It boosts nitric oxide production, it boosts blood flow. You're boosting bdnf which is, you know, great for the brain. It's a great post workout practice. Then you're gonna have your post workout meal after this. So after your, you rinse off and you're ready to eat, your post workout meal is gonna mirror very closely to what your pre workout meal look like. So 30 to 50 grams of protein, 50 to 75 grams of starchy carbs. But now we're going to include, make sure you include a nice serving of really well cooked greens. I say well cooked because you want them to be easy to digest. This is going to help with the digestive process that you just had for your meal. And so. But the day's not over.
Adam Schafer
Yeah.
Sal DeStefano
So here's the cool part. Here's what biohackers never talk about. Now you relax. Is relaxation a part of improving longevity, A part of helping with recovery and muscle growth?
Justin Andrews
Huge for recovery.
Sal DeStefano
You want to get back into parasympathetic. Yeah. So we just went sympathetic, right? Caffeine. We just went so. So just to break it down, you went caffeine cold dip. It's like sympathetic like nation, right. You work out sympathetic sauna starting to go a little bit more parasympathetic. Post workout meal parasympathetic and now.
Justin Andrews
So the best stretching sequence with that to add in would be our static stretch.
Sal DeStefano
Static stretching, breathing. Watch a movie, something that you enjoy that's fun. Go out, relax, have a good dinner. Finish the day off with something relaxing. That's the end of this.
Adam Schafer
This is what our Gen Z would calling raw dogging silence. No, I'm serious. There's like a trend going. You guys seen this? There's a trend going on right now. I think it's called raw dogging silence. And they try and not use it. Yeah, it's like their version of meditation. Like can you like completely just have.
Sal DeStefano
Can you be bored?
Adam Schafer
Yeah, can you be bored for like one hour? And so it's crazy that that's become such a big challenge. But again, I think that's incredibly valuable right now. Probably for me. I think the stretching on with Justin, I think that giving myself something to kind of do can be meditative in itself. And so I think that's where you would insist.
Sal DeStefano
What's perfect about all this is so we, when we put together, we have a. A mind pump house. Yeah.
Adam Schafer
This makes me want to go to park. This makes me want to go to Park City so bad.
Sal DeStefano
We have a house in Park City that has all of this, has all this stuff in there, has got the red light, the cold dip, the sauna. The garage, has a gym. It's got the, you know, electrolytes already in there, in fact, because that's one of our sponsors. And then we have the movie theater in there. Yeah. So when I think of relaxation and parasympathetic, I'm going in a dark room, I'm sitting in that room, stretching dinner.
Justin Andrews
Then go watch a movie.
Sal DeStefano
Watch a nice.
Adam Schafer
Well, this is why you guys. I mean, I've said this before, many times. This is my favorite place of our places. Even more than the Tahoe place, even though size wise it doesn't compare to the Tahoe place. I love that it has all of this. I love that I could go there and feel like I can have. And it's probably the last time I did something remotely close to this, to be honest with you. Trying to think the last time that I had such a great setup where I could do all of this like in one spot.
Justin Andrews
I know last time it was so great because just being there with my kids and they just having the, the ice plunge there was like, you know, inviting. And so we all just kind of dare each other to do it. And you know, it was great.
Sal DeStefano
They loved it. It's all set up in the garage too. So we have the cold dip and the sauna and the gym all in the garage. So you can do well.
Adam Schafer
It's that time of year where we run a cool giveaway for the Park City House. So this is cool. It's cool timing to do this episode. Cool timing to announce to the audience that this is. And we did something similar last year. I think we're giving away more this.
Sal DeStefano
Year we're giving away two. So what it, what, here's what it looks like, right? So we, we have our Black Friday November sale. This is where everything 60 off, all the programs, all the bundles, everything 60 off. Every time you get something, you get raffles. You get tickets to enter into our raffles. So if you get a Bundle, you get 10 entries. If you get a maps program, you get, I think five. Oh, no, three entries. And then mods and guides give you one entry. Two people are going to get one week stay at our Park City house. That's got all the stuff. It's got the cold dip, the sauna, the gym, it's got the red light, it's got everything in there. So if you want, you could plan one or more of these days because you get a week there. By the way, if people want to.
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Adam Schafer
It includes a thousand dollar traveling voucher too for plane tickets.
Sal DeStefano
Right? So you get to stay there for a week plus the travel voucher. Two people win that. And then we also have some other stuff. Five people are going to win three months of one on one coaching with our trainers. Ten people win three months of our concierge coaching. So if you want to try and get in there for free, go to mapsfitnessproducts.com, use the code Black Friday. That gives you the 60% off. And again, bundles give you the most entries. The second most are the programs, the third are the mods and the guides. Look, if you like the show, come find us on Instagram. We'll see you. It's mindpumpmedia.
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Hosts: Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
Date: November 10, 2025
In this episode, the Mind Pump crew lays out the "perfect fitness/biohacking day"—an ideal 24 hours for someone obsessed with health, performance, and longevity. Rather than pitch extreme or gimmicky trends, the hosts focus on data-backed routines that maximize energy, muscle growth, insulin sensitivity, and overall well-being. They map out a minute-by-minute plan, blending traditional fitness wisdom with cutting-edge biohacks, and emphasize that the routine should be both realistic and achievable for motivated people.
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On the whole idea:
“What if you could take a day and maximize it from beginning to end … We broke it down, laid it out for you from beginning to end, AM to PM.” — Sal (00:43)
On breakfast:
“The best studies show that a high protein breakfast with some fats will improve insulin sensitivity for the rest of the day, regardless of what you eat.” — Sal (08:48)
On gratitude:
“There is no such thing as a, ‘Hey, have a practice where you think of all the terrible things in your life.’ That doesn't exist … What's unnatural is to think of all the good stuff.” — Sal (12:32)
On technology detox:
“I also think this would be a perfect time to do a day without technology … away from social media and all that … has to carry some incredible benefits.” — Adam (06:44)
On cold dips:
“You are going to feel psychedelic, and your joints are not going to feel like there’s any pain because of the cold.” — Sal (17:52)
On workout results:
“Because of the setup with hydration, the food and everything we’ve done, you should get one of the best pumps you’ve ever had in your entire life.” — Sal (20:26)
On rest and recovery:
“Now you relax. Is relaxation a part of improving longevity, a part of helping with recovery and muscle growth? Huge for recovery.” — Chris (23:43)
Casual, knowledgeable, and encouraging—the hosts riff comfortably while weaving in science and practical insight, keeping things achievable and sane (no "coffee enemas or nostrils things"). There's an underlying humor, especially in referencing “raw dogging silence” and playfully assigning roles (like teasing Justin about “cup zero” coffee).
This episode is less about extremism and more about “stacking the evidence-based basics,” dialing in each variable—from sleep, sunlight, and food, to movement, hormetic stressors, gratitude, and deep restoration.
“This is the perfect 24 hours. Achievable ... realistic ... that the data actually supports.” — Sal (03:24)
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