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2737: The ULTIMATE GAINZGIVING (Stay on Track Through The Holidays) | Mind Pump 2737
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Tomorrow is than makes giving. But what if we could make it gains giving? Yes. We're gonna give you tips on how you can make this holiday. One that turns into incredible progress. Muscle and gains. Maximize those meals and the time with your family in a way that makes all fitness fanatics super happy. So we're gonna break it down for you. Let's do it.
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I like this idea.
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Yeah. This came from some of the ways that I would organize Thanksgiving when I was younger and try to. And really, here's the the idea. First of all, it's fun. So, you know, little disclaimer, if this is taking away from your enjoyment from your family, don't do this.
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I'm glad you said that.
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Yeah. So that's number one. Right. So, you know, holidays with your family, connecting with other people is very healthy, very good for you. It's very valuable. It's more valuable than whatever gains you could do in a single day by far. That being said, if this is like, this will be fun, especially if you can do it.
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You want to shake it up.
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Especially if you could do this with family or members or friends who are visiting. So you may be hosting Thanksgiving or you may have flown somewhere and you have cousins or aunt, uncle or whatever who's also into fitness. You'd be like, hey, tomorrow, do you want to do this thing with me throughout the day? Let's, you know, I heard this episode.
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Avoid the political conversation.
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Yeah, that would be the ultimate. Is to be able to get your family on board doing this together.
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Totally. Totally. And I do you guys know this. I do. After Thanksgiving, I do a post workout. A post. Thanks. Thanksgiving workout with my family. That's now I think we're. This is. We're moving into like the 15th year and it's just become this great ritual with my family. It's very connecting. So again, the idea here is can we. Can we take Thanksgiving and make it even more awesome for somebody?
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You already got a crazy feast. Let's put it to work now.
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So it starts off in the morning. So the morning of Thanksgiving Have a good hard workout. And in fact, what we're going to try and do is set ourselves up to be able to utilize all the extra food that we're going to potentially be eating later, all the extra macronutrients, proteins, fats, carbs and calories. You've probably heard, or maybe you haven't heard this, but this is. There's a saying in bodybuilding, it's not true, but there's some truth, there's some elements of truth in it which say there's no such thing as over training, there's only undereating. Right. Okay, you've heard that before. Yeah, that's not completely true. You could eat as much as you want and you can still overtrain. However, oftentimes there's some truth in this where if you up the volume, you up the intensity.
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So long as you feed yourself well.
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That's right. Then your body's able to adapt to it. And so the idea with this morning workout, the morning of Thanksgiving, is to add a little volume. If your normal workout is, you know, 20 sets or 15 sets, add three or four extra sets, add a little intensity, make this a harder little bit of a longer workout to set yourself up for all those wonderful meals that you're gonna have.
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Now, would you suggest full body though, here?
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Oh, yeah, yeah.
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I mean, let's, let's take advantage of hitting every muscle group, you know, good and hard so that all those extra calories go to that. Just because there's a.
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Don't avoid legs.
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Well, there's this, there's, you know, you can, you can only. We're going to increase volume or intensity. Right. And so a single muscle group or one or two muscles can only handle so much of that versus I can spread that out over my entire body. So I would imagine my body could maximize a higher calorie intake if I do an equal amount of damage over the whole body versus all that same amount of intensity driven towards two or three muscles.
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Yeah, so there's a couple, couple points too, around that one. When you look at the data on continual glucose monitors, you'll see that really hard, large muscle group or full body workouts early in the day control blood sugar better than other types of workouts. So intense workouts and workouts that are using large muscle groups earlier have a greater effect on blood sugar regardless of what you eat later, versus smaller body parts or less intense workouts. Okay, so all workouts are great. But if you want to maximize that insulin sensitizing effect, Right. You want to get the glycogen in your muscles. You want to just maximize the anabolic effect, all that stuff. Then you're looking at working the whole body. The second part is that there's this systemic effect that happens from strength training that's also. It's additive to the acute effect, right? So the acute effect or localized effect would be like I work my bicep out and the muscle building effect goes to my bicep. But there's actually a systemic effect that happens throughout the whole body. In fact, you look at the. There's some really interesting studies where people will wear a cast on one arm and then just work out the arm that's not casted. And the arm that has the cast on, when they compare against controls, loses less muscle versus other people who do nothing. So working out your right arm actually sends a little bit of a signal to the left arm. We see this with large muscle groups. You work out your legs. Again, this is another saying in bodybuilding, that sometimes if you want to get bigger arms, you have to get your legs bigger or do squats, right? People like, how's that possible? There is a systemic effect that happens. So you send this really nice, big, loud anabolic signal with a hard, full body workout in the morning to set yourself up for later on.
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Now, is there a, you know, a time in the morning that you think matters? Like, is this getting up earlier than you used to, or is this just. Typically, most people are gonna have the day off, right? So it's not like you, you have to do this necessarily before work. Do you suggest getting a good full night's rest the night before and then going about this? Or do you, you know, start your day off early at 5, 6 in the morning and go do this?
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No, if you don't wake up at five, don't wake up at five tomorrow, I'm out. If you want a terrible workout, do that. Or if you want to fall asleep on the couch.
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So get a good night's rest before.
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When you wake up and work out at a reasonable time, whatever that is for you. For some people, that's earlier than others, but that doesn't make a difference. After your workout, go on a nice long walk. Again, what we're trying to do now at this point is add just some activity. What tends to happen when we get to Thanksgiving is a lot of eating and sitting, and we'll have a walk later, which we'll get to.
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There's also another bodybuilder theory, and you can, you can poke holes in it, but I've always used this. And it's whether it's just a psychological thing that's helped me do this, justify or to continue to do this after. They say that on average that we deplete our glycogen stores by like 80% from a hard workout and they're not fully depleted. But a bit of activity, like a long walk afterwards. Yeah. Squeezes out the last bit of it. In other words, draining your, your gas tanks that we're going to end up filling up. And so there's also probably some value there of fully depleting.
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Yeah. Either you could say it like that or just the fact that you're moving more. You know, just the fact that you're burning more calories. I, I personally, I mean, there might be some truth to that, although I've seen a lot of people debate that. I honestly think it's just. I don't know. I know me, I know when it, when Thanksgiving, the actual, you know, time of the celebration comes, I'm not moving.
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Yeah.
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I'm just very sedentary.
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Yeah. And yeah, you see, you see your family, you sit on the couch, you Dr. Get up to eat, you drink, watch football. Watch football. It's like you're just not moving. So I like to get that activity going earlier in the day and we'll do some more later.
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Otherwise you get way behind.
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That's right. And then now have your small shake, have a protein shake with some fruit to give you some proteins and carbohydrates just to give you a little bit of recovery. But you're not eating much because you're going to save that for the Thanksgiving meal. Now if you want to eat a bunch of food before Thanksgiving, sure. I don't know why you'd want to ruin the opportunity to have more food at Thanksgiving. Yeah.
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This is kind of the point here.
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But I, I just A shake with some fruit and just leave it.
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I love this strategy right here of like still giving your body because at the end of the day it's still hard to get a high protein intake.
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That's right.
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So I don't even, Even with a big turkey Thanksgiving, it's still hard to hit say two, like a guy like me, 200 plus grams of protein. So making sure I get like, I so like a away shake with either water or almond milk in it.
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Right here. 50 grams of protein.
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Yeah, yeah. Something easy like that or like. Yeah. Or Paleo Valley bone broth. Something that like I can do. I can really push the protein and not a lot of calories that I can slam would be like a perfect thing to have right here.
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Yes. Now, now comes the biggest part of this, which is the Thanksgiving meal. This is where people really. From a fitness perspective, I want to be clear right from an enjoying yourself with your family perspective, connecting with other people perspective, if you're doing those things, there's no mistakes. Okay? Now, of course, people could go crazy with food. It could be all about the food. You could harm yourself or treat yourself poorly with food. We've talked about that. Lots of episodes. But when it comes to connecting with people, this. This doesn't matter. But from a fitness perspective, I'm going to give you guys or we're going to talk about some tips with your Thanksgiving meal. And it starts with loading up on the protein first. There's so many different great dishes at Thanksgiving. Thankfully, no pun intended. One of the main dishes at Thanksgiving is a protein dish. You got turkey. Go get that first before you get all the other stuff. And end up with a low protein, high calorie.
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Yeah, I'll eat a lot of ham, too. I'll add that if you're setting out to do this, it's the first time you've ever done this. I would. I would grab the largest serving of ham and turkey that I've ever done before. Because even. Even when you. You go hard and heavy here, still gonna be hard to get. I mean, the amount of grams of protein does really maximize. This day is going to be a lot. In fact, we'll probably. I know you didn't put in the notes, but I'd probably even suggest ending the night.
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Yes.
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With another protein shake, because. Good point. You know, even if we're staying low calorie in the morning, most of our meal is going to come from the calories from this massive meal right here. And if you're going to enjoy some things like stuffing or mashed potatoes at all, even then it's going to be tough to get more than a pound of meat in you. And a pound of meat still is probably going to be low protein for people for an entire day.
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Good point. So go for the meat.
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Go hard.
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Go hard with the meat. If you're in a bulk, eat your starches next. If you're not, eat your vegetables next. And then follow it up with the rest and eat until you're satisfied. Notice how I said satisfied and not stuffed? This is. There's a difference. There's a saying. I want to ask Doug this. Isn't there a saying in Japan where it's like, eat until you're 80% full or something like that.
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Yeah, I think it's harihachi bu.
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Which means 80% of your stomach is filled.
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Okay. I love that because it's a nice visual. Like I can picture what that would feel like to eat until I'm like 80% of the way full where this goes wrong. And I've done this so many times. Like, you eat until you're uncomfortable, which actually ruins the family time.
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So the button on your pants pops off.
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Yeah.
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And then you're sitting on the couch and then you gotta take a nap. And you're not really hanging out with anybody or talking with anybody. So eat until you're satisfied and eat in that order. And now you've given yourself a nice, enjoyable anabolic meal. Do you guys have any other favorite dishes besides turkey that's. You like to throw? This stuffing is great. You guys do the rice stuffing or bread.
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Bread stuffing in the turkey.
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Yeah, that's. That's great. Potatoes. Yeah. Anytime.
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I always request bacon and, you know, it's not typical, but I, I make that.
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Yeah. Just make sure.
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Give me some more. Well, protein of some sort.
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The bacon comes on our green beans at our house.
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Oh.
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So yeah, it's bacon wrapped cream.
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There you go.
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Yeah. Yeah. So you like you.
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I get it as a side and then I'll just add it in.
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But yeah, we do. We have Italian dishes that we throw in there. So pasta al forno is in there. Typically, it's not like lasagna. Similar to lasagna, but not, not the same. And then we typically will have some kind of potato dish, lots of vegetable dishes. I'm not a fan of the marshmallow anything, so typically stay away from that kind of stuff.
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Sweet potato. So good.
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Only like three things.
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Yeah. And then at the very end, then, then go ahead and eat your. Your desserts. But I like to do this. This is a little, little game I would play with myself back in the day, is I'd have a dessert and then if I wanted to eat more, I'd go back to the turkey and I would give myself permission to have more pie, more cookies, whatever, if I went and had a little bit more turkey. Because Thanksgiving is a long meal, Right. It's not like just an hour. We're typically there for, you know, the whole day or whatever.
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Yeah.
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And so I'll typically go back and this is where I can hit my protein targets because I've eaten it.
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Well, that's. I looked at your notes. One of the things I was going to Suggest is if you don't go huge on the protein, it's I'll do it twice the same dish. You know what I'm saying? I like two, two big, you know, turkey and whatever servings over the course of like three, four hours.
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By the way, what's cool about this too, because some people are afraid of gaining body fat. It's not going to happen in a day.
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It's definitely not. If you have a hard workout like that and you walk and you do that, at least a good portion of those calories are going to go to recovery and building. And this is the part too that I call it like you to put on a pound of body fat. I'm not gonna say it's impossible in a day, but boy is it close to close to impossible.
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You'd have to eat, I mean again, this isn't, it's not that specific, but 3,500 calories a year.
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Egregious.
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Yeah. So if you eat intentional, if you eat in a normal day, 2000 calories give you an easy number. You'd have to eat 5,500 calories for the extra calories.
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And the average person that can, can only or normally eats 2000, that's their maintenance has a very difficult time.
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Now here's where it gets complicated. You had a hard workout.
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Yes.
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You sent a muscle building signal. A lot of that's going to go to muscle. That's always been my experience with stuff like this, especially with just one day where people tend to mess up is then they save all the desserts and stuff.
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One thing I do like about. Thanks. Usually we'll eat early, a lot earlier like instead of at night.
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Yes. Yeah.
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We'll eat during the middle of the days, which helps me digest too.
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We have like a one o' clock eating, so. Yeah.
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You know.
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Yeah. Where the other, where people mess up is they don't move and then they load up on nothing but carbs and they have a serving of turkey. If like all you did was, you know, a nice portion of 8, 8 to 10 ounces of turkey and then the rest is nothing but carbs. Dessert and you didn't work out and you didn't walk, that's where you go wrong.
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Yes.
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You underate on protein, you over consumed on sweets and carbohydrates and you didn't.
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Send a muscle building signal.
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Like it's the, the trifecta that makes you feel or look like the next day like oh my God, I put on.
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And especially if you workout in the morning with A family member. This becomes a fun holiday thing which takes us to another walk, which is. This is a staple now. This has now become somewhat of a ritual. My family, My family does this too. It's great.
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Yeah.
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After you're done eating, help clean up a little bit or before you guys clean up and say, hey, let's all go on a walk. And everybody loves this. It's so funny. The first time I did this, I thought it would just be me and my cousins. And next thing you know, like, everybody likes to do this because we're all together. This isn't a workout, it's movement, but it's very connecting. Yeah. And it also helps with digestion, helps with blood sugar. It's. And it's good for you. And, and so, and everybody. I've introduced this one thing to the walk after meals, years later, comes back and says, that was a great everybody.
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You know what's cool is that everybody I've introduced to same thing where they anticipated it was just going to be them and maybe one family member. And they're always pleasantly surprised by how many people join them.
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Everybody.
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I mean, I, I was too. I thought like when I did this with Katrina's family, I thought it'll probably just be me, maybe me and Katrina that do it. I was like, oh, wow. Like more than half of the family, like, join me for it. I was like, oh, that's cool. I was like, a lot of people will enjoy this process and it is, it's a great time to connect and it feels so much better just after you've ate that big of a meal.
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To move now, later in the day when you have some time, if you have some bands, do little trigger sessions for your weak body parts. Give yourself a little pump. Trigger sessions are super, like kind of, they're like moderate intensity little pump sessions. Trigger sessions are found in Maps Anabolic, our flagship workout program. It's a great way to facilitate recovery and it also sends kind of this little muscle building signal. And I love to have people focus on their target body parts. You know, if it's your glutes or if it's your lats or your delts, you could do a few rounds, get a little bit of a pump. And what's cool, what's cool about this is after a big sodium laden meal, like Thanksgiving tends to be, you get a crazy pump with these little trigger sessions, which are a lot of fun. Yeah. And then before you go to bed. I like what you said, Adam. I didn't add that, but I like that have a protein shake if you missed, if you didn't, if you didn't.
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Have two big Thanksgiving turkey meals in that day and you only had one. And then I think you probably going to need a protein shake at the end of the day.
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Yes. And then here's a little tip that helps with sleep. So you've probably heard people say, avoid electronics. You know, before bed, make sure your room is cool and dark. And that's all true. A lot of people don't realize that really deep, calm, static stretching is one of the best ways to get your central nervous system to relax. Yes. So here's how static stretching works. So static stretch is like the classic stretch, right? I'm going to stretch my hamstrings. So I go down and touch my toes and I hold it for like a minute. What you'll notice when you do a static stretch is you slowly, in the actual stretch itself, become more flexible. So when you go to stretch your. Let's say you're going to stretch your hamstrings, you're on the floor. Let's say it's pancake, your legs are out and you're trying to stretch forward. What you'll notice is 30 seconds in, you get a little deeper, you wait another 30 seconds, another little deeper, another 30 seconds. You do this for two minutes and you've added a range of motion. Here's what happens. This is why you get more flexible in the stretch. Your muscles didn't suddenly become more pliable. Your central nervous system released its grip, softened its governing. That's right. So a long. By the way, you have to breathe through this. Because if you do a static stretch by holding your breath, which a lot of people do, where they're like, you're actually sending two signals to the central nervous system that conflict. The stretch is saying relax. The holding my breath is saying don't relax. So it's not nearly as effective. So breathe through it. The loosening of the muscles that you'll experience is actually the central nervous system calming down. You would be shocked. People who've never done this before do this for 10 to 15 minutes before bed. And it dramatic. It greatly contributes to restful sleep because of what it does to the central nervous system. And I say it's because you want to have a nice restful sleep after this. Wonderful. Gains giving.
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Now I want you to. I know this episode's titles, Gains giving. And the whole point of this was to give all this great advice around somebody who wants to optimize the day for lifting and Gaining. But let's say you're the first time you ever heard us talk and you found this podcast. One of the things that we talk a lot about is the value of relationships and how that trumps how we look and our gains.
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Yes.
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And so what would you think? Like, I'm not gonna go. I'm probably not gonna train. I'm probably gonna take this day. It's the one time of the year I get with all of my family in the same place. We'll probably end up watching a lot of football. Is it more a mindful thing? Like, and. And. And maybe choose to eat the protein? Like, what does the advice kind of look like for somebody who accepts that? I'm not.
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I'm not.
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I'm not trying to make gains today, but I also. I also am not also trying to put on a bunch of weight or feel terrible the next day. How does this advice kind of mold or change a little bit?
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It's this. It sounds simple and it sounds stupid, but try it. Is eat slowly and enjoy every bite. What tends to happen with meals like this is we eat so quickly, we're thinking about the bite that's on our fork and not the one that's actually in our mouth or what we can eat next. And what this does is it creates this kind of eating kind of binge frenzy, where we're eating faster than we normally do. And this is where we go beyond, above and beyond what's appropriate. We're actually not reading our body signals well. And it's not as connecting, because I'm sitting here with my family and what I'm doing is eating this food very quickly rather than slowly savoring it. Put your fork down. Taste the food. Talk to the people around you. That's how you maximize a holiday, is it's about the people, and it's also about the food. I want to be clear. Food is a great way to connect with people. Food isn't just fuel. You'll hear fitness influencers say that all the time. Food is fuel. Yes, but it's not just fuel. That's stupid. That's so inaccurate. Food is a lot of things. It's not just fuel. One of the things that food does very well is it connects people and brings them together, but it's not connecting when it's me on an island at the table scarfing this food down as fast as I can while I'm around it, you know, people that I should be connecting with. So I eat slowly.
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Yeah, I love the idea of eating slowly. I love the idea of, like, trying to shut it down in the moment when you feel that 80% too, right? Like, it's like, you got all day. You can come back for seconds and thirds if you want to. Like, instead of making this. Because I'm. I'm, you know, notorious for this going and, like, building this massive plate, you.
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Know what I'm saying?
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Like, as if it's gonna run out. Cook three turkeys. There's pounds of stuff. It's like, it ain't gonna run out. You know what I'm saying?
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This is.
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There'll be enough leftovers for everybody in the family take. So it's like, yeah, I do that. You know, and it's like, you know what I should do is use the advice. You said huge serving of protein, mostly vegetables, a little bit of a starch, and then eat it slowly. And then, you know what? I'm 80 full. I'm gonna chill out and just talk with my family, hang out for a while. Maybe I'll be hungry in another hour or two, and I'm gonna repeat that meal. So I think just being mindful of that and it being. And. And remembering what this is all about, connecting with family, doing that. I think the walk is such an easy one, too, that it doesn't require.
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They want some movement.
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Yeah, it doesn't require a lot of effort because there's been years where we have. I have worked out, and I haven't worked out, but it's been really easy for me to just after. After that. Normally we have good weather around that time and walk outside for the.
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Depends on family, too. Like, if I'm at my wife's family or my family. And it's. You can kind of determine a little more when it's your family. And so sometimes you're locked in. But, like, I make sure to just walk around and just completely cruise around, go in the backyard, you know, throw the ball around, but just. Just to remain up and moving and less, like, just sedentary, you know, It's.
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C
You know, it's funny, too. You'll hear people. This is not. This wasn't in our notes, but you'll hear people talk about, oh, you know, political conversations, heated conversations. My uncle said this, my aunt said that. Here's a little tip for people. Keep at the top of your mind connection. Okay, So I want to connect with people. Now, you can't control other people, but you can direct the conversations. Oh, yeah. And the way you direct the conversations is you ask questions. And here's a question I've done this before and it's so remarkable how it gets people to open up and connect is ask people how they met, you know, Aunt Jenny, how did you meet, how did you fall in love with? And then have them tell the story, which you probably haven't heard before. And before you know it, people are sharing wonderful, connecting conversations. This is especially valuable when your uncle is talking about how much he loves or hates Trump or whatever. Let him say his thing and be like, you know what, I don't know how you met so and so, or how did you get into college or what was it like when you were growing up? These are great connecting conversations that bring people together other than bring us apart. Well, yes.
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D
On 3 Atlas.
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E
I don't know how you guys, I don't know how you guys do it, but the way we set the tone for that in our family is that everyone will get their dish and then we'll stand around the table, we first say a prayer, and then each person goes around and says what they're thankful for before we sit down.
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C
That's wonderful.
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E
And so when you do that, it just, it kind of sets the tone for, for a conversation like that, I feel like, because it doesn't ever seem to go that way, even though a lot of us in the family have differing political views and things. And so I think doing that before we sit down and do that always sends us, I think, set the tone really well.
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C
Awesome. All right, Mind Pump family, Happy Thanksgiving. If you like the show, come find us on Instagram. We'll see you at mindpump Media.
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B
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