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We talked about heaven and hell Just because why not? Yeah, let's get deep Justin gets in the mosh pit. Hashtag Jesus.  Yeah we talk about music and audio books for learning and creativity the assault on Cryptocurrency right now might be a great time to buy Bitcoin I think it's below $9,000 at this moment at the moment of this recording buddy convert We talk about the 3d printed house.  Look out everyone's housing going down $10,000 They printed it in one day a whole house. Yeah, we also talk about the perfects versus the gangl tooth And the perfect yeah, man, oh and we mentioned green chef one of our new Sponsors now green chef Organic high quality food that you can buy that's delivered to your door that you can prepare They've already prepped half of it for you. 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This is you know, and he'll share it You'll be oh, hey, dude. I share in him and you heard a new logic Oh, we're going but you know I'm saying like we have great dialogue He's a good person and I feel like I could ask him a favor and he would be totally do it where Bradley. I'm not Sure about yeah, it's him. He's a cool guy. He's also is a cool guy I just think he's just probably been burned, you know by a lot of people. Yeah, he's got I think he's got a lot of stuff But I think what's what why I'm drawn to him right now is I think I I see again I think I've said this before to you guys off air is that I really Can totally identify with what he's going through and I think we have a lot of things in common I've got almost 10 years on him. So, you know I think he I have a lot of empathy for somebody like that because I don't I know what it's like to have Experienced a lot of things that he's experienced But what I don't know what it's like is to experience the amount of fame that he's experienced On that level and at that age and to have had a history in a past like he has so You know, I'm kind of fascinated sometimes the worst thing is to get everything you think you want Oh, dude that your story that you shared that you're gonna share for Spartan I already shared it again.  He's like wow, and he's looking around Real opulent hotel room. He's like, oh my god. I can't believe I made it here And he's obviously questioning it because he was such a bad person He's just robbing a bank. He's like, okay, this is kind of cool. So the guy says hey listen man. He goes In this world you get anything you want everything you want you will get like and he goes What do you mean? He goes well, whatever you want and he goes So what if I go gambling he goes every roll of the dice You're gonna get a seven anything you do is gonna turn out awesome And so this guy's just like oh my god This is the best thing ever so he goes to the casino and every time he rolls a dice He wins and every time you try something it's a success And then they fast forward on the episode where it's like three months later And he's sitting at the casino table and he's got these pretty girls next to him And he's got the scruffy-looking beard and he just just looks miserable and every time he throws a dice He wins and he's like what's the point like what's the use if every time I roll the dice I win everything I do There's no chance.  There's no risk. There's no excitement He goes every time I try to roll the dice I get a seven every time I try and do anything I succeed he goes I can't this is heaven is horrible and then the guy in the white suit looks at him and says Who told you this was heaven? Huge even here in a second time it still gives me goosebumps. I remember it's such a powerful powerful story It's funny because I visualize like Dan Bilzerian the whole time you're talking about that like sitting there at the table and everything Dude, let me tell you something right now like if you look at if you would I don't know I don't know if the statistic actually exists, but we know We know celebrities because that's why that's why the celebrities are famous, right? The drug abuse and suicide rate or you know dysfunction rate with celebrities is through the roof through the roof Their divorce rate is through the roof What do they call it the 21 Club with weird that we don't highlight that war But you find that I mean if it was anything any collection of people because we have this abnormal rate of Suicide drug abuse celebrities right and but we don't talk a lot about that no we glorify them so much No, I think it's it's I think if I think if more kids were educated On that like you I think you would you would be less likely to idolize some of these kids You know, bro that the challenge is what may gives you meaning It's what gives life meaning and when you're surrounded by all these people who say you're so awesome all the time and everything So cool all the time and you've got all this fame that can be a personal hell Right, you know I'm saying especially when you've access to all these artificial at that point It's you know like people talking to you. It's it feels very phony You know like the way that you operate it feels like it just if there's no challenge To it the the purpose gets sort of you know lost We're talking about the end the both ends of the spectrum right now But there's a lot of very much of an extreme, but there's a lot of people to fall in the middle of this right? That's why I like the story so much because and I was just sharing this with someone the other day about how You know, well, you know, she's going through really rough time She had somebody pass away that was really close to her this my hair stylist Okay, and she you could just tell she's been really down about it I just said, you know, you really have a lot of different ways to look at this And I know you don't want to hear this right now because losing somebody close to you like that seems like the most awful thing in the world But I think it's it's so much of our perspective and our outlook on that stuff that it really Dictates how we feel and if you really are feeling miserable You're almost allowing yourself to feel that way You if you can change if you have the ability to change your perspective in your and your mind's mindset on that You can alter the way you feel about it. It stems from there first You could just change and it sounds so easy just to say that it does you can be I mean things can be very hard Of course and very sad, but you can look at them as oh my god This is the worst thing ever and you know, I'm a victim of it or you can look at it as okay This is a terrible thing, but there's growth on the other end of it There's a quote that I put on my Instagram today. So I'm reading a book by Carl Jung right now He's a famous psychoanalyst and is this this quote that he said is just so incredible It says no tree it is said can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell And so like what does that mean right? Like what does that mean that a tree can't reach heaven unless its roots? Reach down to hell and I what it means to me is in order to achieve The level of growth that brings you to the point Well, you know, this is exemplified by heaven or that this growth where you you become the self-actualized individual Where you experience this incredible personal growth where you change for the better the impetus for that trial by fire It's always challenge. It's always Tremendous challenge. I don't think it's a coincidence that the most successful Achievers in the world and I mean when I say success, it doesn't just mean money I mean true success right that those people typically had some of the hardest Trials and tribulations because that's the that's what gets you to change It's it's not comfortable to shed your skin to become a new person.  What gives life. It's what gives life meaning We've all trained people don't you don't you believe I said this in the podcast just the other day Don't you believe that the greater the challenge the greater the reward course Yeah, and the more the darker it is the lighter it becomes like it's but it's the ability to get through that And I think we have this where we want things so instantly like that's it's like I feel like oh dark times Okay, I'm gonna have a positive attitude so that's just a change things tomorrow like now Sometimes it's gonna take some work sometimes gonna take months sometimes it might take you years But the thing is if you keep if you keep pushing in that direction when you make it on the other side It's that much. Well, you know, it's weird is is our desire for innovation is always around making things more convenient You know, we're eliminating a lot of challenge. Oh, absolutely This is this is the this is why you have the the popularity of things like obstacle course racing Right. Yep, because you live in an air conditioned, you know heated Climate-controlled life where I mean, let's face it the average person in a developed Western society has far less Life-threatening challenges than than their ancestors did, you know, 500 years ago just far less like life is for all Intense and purposes easy compared to those, you know, 500 years ago And that's the that's what makes it so hard 500 years ago If they could fast-forward and come look at us in a gymnasium, bro They would laugh at us like why are you why do you have why are you exercising? There's plenty of work to do out of plow the fields right asshole, and that's why and so the human humans Are we we have to have challenge?  Yeah, you're just sitting there with your drink and there's no purpose We need purpose and so we artificially create it now with things like obstacle course racing and challenges or or we can't figure out Why we're depressed when you know, we have food. We have shelter.  So you have to have that challenge In order to find purpose for life. Otherwise. It's was it nihilistic. I'm excited. You do that. It's this Friday, right? No, it's next Friday. Oh, it's next. Well, I don't know It'll be the Friday it'll be the Friday or after the yeah I don't want me to talk on to do us like a talk for the athletes or whatever So great choice dude for that. I can't leave you never even shared that on the podcast before that show Actually makes me want to go watch it because I have three stories that I want to share that I think are gonna highlight You know some of that what that meaning is about because you have all these athletes or competing in obstacle course racing and it's like Why why are they doing this and I know a lot of them find exhilaration from it? Yeah, but why and I think it goes down to it gives us a sense of meaning because of the challenge And that's why we end up, you know, we end up doing it. So no, I hundred percent agree with that Anyway, man.  I'm still sick. This is the peak of my cold. I think this morning right now How many days have you had a four right now? You know, this is like day two So I woke up this morning. I'm supposed to lift weights with Jessica. So I get up and you know in the morning It's way worse, you know, we all congested. Yeah, so I come downstairs. She has her coffee I have a little caffeine. We're sitting there. I'm like, oh damn. I feel terrible So she's like do you know, maybe we should just maybe you shouldn't work out Which is never what I want to do.  So We didn't we didn't work out but we did Work it out. You worked in yeah, so I had on it.  Oh, that's right, dude. Yeah, how did that go? It was crazy. Wait a minute. You got in a moshpit. Yes.  We're both like yeah, we're not gonna we're not gonna mosh Pay that's crazy.  It was like one of my favorite bands of all time And so like I mean a couple of the opening bands were really good, too But you know, so I was like kind of containing myself and the crowd There was just like it wasn't a big crowd So it was like I got immediate access to get like to the stage And so I was like kind of working my way to the stage and then somebody kind of shoved into me And then it like triggered a response. I was like, what? I just started like getting all into it and Bastioning everybody and stuff and did you hurt anybody? Oh my god. I got so tired Old man moshpit. Yeah, I was total old man moshpit I was just trying to hold my ground. I was like tightening my core real tight. Are there any can't push me over Are there any girls in a moshpit ever? Yeah, really? Yeah, you got to be real like sensitive like I always I mean That's we I'm always looking out for that.  Oh my god. I didn't know girls would even do that I don't know. Yeah Yeah, and every now and then there'll be some asshole that like knocks him over something then then he's a target You know, I mean I go after a so I feel like you've been you've been kicking up your music listening lately I have I've been really on this this quest to find new music and to get inspired and Go into a concert man. I was so inspired like I've never heard the the opening bands specifically I hadn't heard of them and so it was all just like brand new sounds and Yeah, I was talking to my friend about that. I was like wow man It's just like the wheels are turning in my head and I'm starting to get that Kind of inspiration to come back and it's at home I'll go home and then kind of escape to my office and just start jamming on some like new tunes that are kind of come Into my head. I haven't had like new songs that have popped into my heads for like years It's it's kind of a weird thing. You have to be you has to be like a constant practice Yes, bro, so it's I latched on to this again Just so I was sharing earlier about like this, you know going through this time right now has been for sure probably one of the most Challenging for me as far as like battling depression and stuff and the whole Basketball and snowboarding thing was gonna be my outlet and then to tear my Achilles.  I get no problem.  So when this all started happening. I started really kind of Diving back into listening to music and it's pretty neat It's pretty neat to be Somebody who was so connected to that growing up and then to take like a hiatus and then to return and then to notice these These emotions and feelings and my and the way I did you are you connecting to that right now?  You know, like it was like that high school testosterone feeling, you know, it was like being at that that concert It was it was really tripping me out. I was like is to get really inspired Are there is it a bunch of are they all younger than you or is a lot of people your age in that? No, there was actually a lot of older people there. I mean there was a few younger I mean it was like a 16 and older kind of a Venue but um, yeah, there was there was quite a few old old geezers there. Yeah, did you swing in the water? Did you notice it?  Yeah, yeah, totally. I've been yeah, I've I've just been looking for unique sounds and things to get inspired by and Yeah, I've been listening to like I found a couple bands that like remind me of Bands I grew up listening to and then it it totally it triggers that It just stimulates me and and I noticed that and so I was like wow like because I remember going on these long trips even like when you had to like take these car rides with your family and Nobody would have like good conversation Yeah, so I was always just like fuck this and put my headphones on and I would listen to entire albums like over and over And over again, and they would affect me the whole time and I would just it was it was totally an emotional connection Oh, yeah, it was it's like it's recreating that. I'm getting that to kind of come back. Whereas Before I think I was I was getting kind of numb to music music was just there for a while and now it's like I'm Reconnecting I wonder if I wonder if that kind of music is gonna make a huge Is it starting to make a resurgence?  You know was different genres. There's like sub-sex of the genres like all over the place But there was like like hardcore there was like a melodic kind of metal There was like a thrash kind of a metal because I feel like it's it's about time first off for metal to make a little bit Of a resurgence or rock in that, you know in that kind of style And also if you look at like, you know guys are trying to grow beards and all of a sudden like guys are trying to be More masculine maybe because we were trying to find our masculinity I would see how that could play a factor in it becoming popular again for sure because it's It's the right climate, you know like even politically and everything It's like, you know when raging this machine came out or like punk rock really had a big impact on you know culture It's because it was against something and like everybody's pissed off right now.  It's just it's just it's like organized chaos You know everybody's like contributing, but like nobody's intentionally like being violent, you know, that's that's so fascinating What I find fascinating is how we allow it how think we've allowed things like that to kind of we move on from in our lives That something and what made me think about this was like dude This is something that like fed my soul for you know, 20 plus years of my life Probably at least 20 like really for sure the first 15 a lot and then probably to 20 pretty still consistent You know it wasn't till my mid 20s that I really start to you know And what it was was other things and we talked about that started to take up my time You know I was now I'm reading instead of listening as much me and I noticed that When I also my music consumption goes up my my reading goes down, right? So it's like it was kind of a give-and-take It's like okay. These things are I'm I'm growth driven right now I want to excel in life these things are more important music isn't necessarily doing that but Now going back and revisiting it. I learned something very important at least to me that It fed a different part of me, you know It's not always about the success side the business the growing the learning that way and maybe like increasing my intelligence There's also a part that's important. Oh, but it does though. It does. Yeah, it directly. It does well I mean even directly. I mean there's some pretty cool studies. I'm comparing though I'm comparing reading books to to listening to music you could argue that the books I think what music does is it I mean this is based on some of the science that you see It's not necessarily giving you information like you're reading a book and you're getting information but it's setting the stage for you to Improve your creative ability and receive information and restore it better Yeah, but my point is I don't think I think if you chose to read books on Business your entire life or listen to music your entire life the person who's probably reading books has a better Information there. That's my point. That's my point is that I think I'm not taking away from how important that Is but there's also a reminder there or a lesson there of There this is an important piece of my life, too that that that has that has fed me and right away as soon as I started to Immerse myself into what's going on right now in the music world and listening I do I've driven by my house like fucking like three different times where I'm just I'm listening to an album And I'm into the albums I'm so into a flow state that I feel I can hear everything in slow motion and I'm like Visualizing like what he's talking about or what she's talking about. I'm like, oh, man I forgot I like what's interesting is like my consumption of like audio books and music have both taken off right now So the you know in terms of like, you know what I'm interested in and learning the learning process It's almost sparked even more like West for yeah, I was already going pretty hard on that So that's taking away from me a little bit just a little bit You know I'm saying I'm finding a nice balance of what things I'm enjoying Putting my headphones on and just listening to music and then what times I'm like audio books or reading, you know So I'm trying to have a nice well since doing mine pump This is the first time in my career where I've not had music on constantly. Yeah, because either when I ran gyms Obviously music's always on but then when I had my own facility which I had for 12 or 13 years I got to choose the music So I would get into new music just because you get sick of listening the same shit Remember when you work in the gym and you'd hear the same, you know 15 songs all day long So I got to choose my own music. So I started I really got into music That was the only time in my life what I really got into music But it was always on the background and this is the first time in my career where I don't have music on Constantly because when you're in a gym, that's all you have in the background every conversation you everything you do there's music playing and Now I'm in a quiet environment. It was interesting. It was different for me at first I had to get used to it for the first like, you know a few months. We did this Yeah, I what it makes me wonder also is how many other things are you know being guys that are almost in their 40s Like what are other things in your life that probably served you for 10 15 years and and brought a ton of joy in your life that you've Neglected because you now are focusing on other things are more important. I'm a parent now. So that's more important I'm a I'm a father now or my husband now to do all the time right right What are certain things and so it's really sent me on this path of Almost getting reconnected with myself and trying to figure and you know It's some things that I might try and realize like oh, it's not as cool as I thought it was like, you know Like I'll pick I picked a video game up not that long. I was did video games my whole life Right and it was like oh, it's fun, but not that fun for me like that that was that that was less for me but there's other things that I have felt that I've I've Revisited that I used to do a lot and I'm like, whoa, that's really I think that's about now Yeah, there's one of them. I've noticed that I'm trying to I'm trying to pursue in a different light because Like working on your house is like that that's become like such a chore for me I hate it, you know, like I would so much rather just hire it out and get somebody because I'm you know I'm overwhelmed with with what's going on with just balancing day-to-day activities in life in general, but my I have this goal because I mean my kids and I have Sort of we've had this idea of like having a treehouse and We I spent time with both both my boys to kind of draw parts of it with them and just get their ideas of like so You know what what they would like specifically and So both of them have different ideas and so I'm I'm now in a position where I'm like I'm drawing up my own draft like like trying to incorporate like both of their ideas into it and Then just seeing if like that's something that I can enjoy again, you know, like building something that like, you know I will see immediately impact, you know, my kids like that. So I do have plans to do that I don't know who in the hell I'm gonna do it, but You know if I could just if I could just like plan it out ahead of time and then do do things at a gradual pace Where I'm more enjoying it and not feeling like it's a chore and it's work. Yeah Adam I was gonna ask you Cuz you're into the crypto currencies. How is the price of them right now? Is there any changes? I actually hear the news I know we I overall I know we're down. I actually don't even watch mine anymore So I invested in a certain amount I told myself that once I hit that amount that you know, this is I don't even pay attention Just like I don't pay attention to my stocks like money that I I know what's going on and How what all the scare right now, but it don't scare me. I mean for the long haul So because Facebook banned ads for cryptocurrency and now Google just banned cryptocurrency ads I feel like the assault on crypto currencies has begun. You know what that does. That's a good thing You know what that does that that makes more interested. Absolutely. That's what I was gonna say because you know I feel like it'll drive it down initially and then it'll Don't worry, bro. What I think it's gonna do is it's gonna the whole reason why people go into crisp crypto currencies Oh a lot of people is that whole You know conspiracy theory thing that's only feeding into it like the more they try to stop it Yeah, you know the more it's gonna just go to do that, you know like it So you guys know that Monday is Jerry Robinson.  So that's that's gonna be we're gonna talk all about this shit Dude, we're gonna dive all into it But I you know I would I tell everybody is this at least what from everything that I've read and I've been following it Quite a bit. I've listened to a lot of podcasts on it read a lot of articles on it and I I tell people listen if you've got if you have Money that you can invest whatever that mine is take five percent of that and invest it in some of the best Who you think has the best blockchain, right? What whatever cryptos and there's lots of good information out there to see what some of the leaders are read up on them Now the thing to be be careful and what to be aware of and I can't wait to talk to Jerry Robinson This is there's tons of charlatans that are It's not hard to put up a website have come up with a concept an idea and front it like it's a big deal and Make it sound like it's amazing and you're talking all these people But that at the end of the day like regulation come in and fuck everybody so this is a good time to buy because I'm looking it up right now and the price is definitely plummeted because of this and a blog post from somebody who's the head of the International Monetary Fund Urged regulators around the world to crack down on cryptocurrency's potential to be a Major new vehicle for money laundering in the financial in the financing of terrorism.  Exactly. So what who it'll sir and I was a part of this into so when I was a part of cannabis It was I was in there during the gray area. It still is kind of gray It was really gray when I was in there and I tell you what if this technology was around 100% we would have been you it would make total sense for us to use this and Feel safe because one of the most the best ways that that's how they bust everybody is the money Yeah, it's not the drugs. It's not that's how they get so they got Al Capone get everybody that were the money Everybody you you don't get them on the ever the drugs get consumed. Well, that's it.   Well, I know the irony is too that the the cryptocurrency has actually resulted in less Overdose deaths from drugs because the quality has improved because what's happened now see a rating system Well, see the black market for drugs is and this is the thing like drug regulation is strictly as we've regulated them It's a it's a case of the the medicine being worse than the disease where the black market for drugs not only created this Or at least the regulation of drugs has created this black market for drugs where They're regulated by guns. They're regulated by violence It's also caused more overdoses because you it was hard for you to get consistent with your with your drugs So if you buy your heroin from this guy over here, and you know you take so much But then you buy it from this guy and he makes it twice as strong boom now you die They mix it with yeah potentially dangerous other chemical or that right or that so there's there's all that so the black market for drugs It's just terrible. Yeah, but what cryptocurrencies have done inadvertently is they've allowed people to trade or to buy drugs in these Markets and rate the drug dealers and the drugs that they get right and you can actually buy Did you know you could buy drug testing kits now online? Oh, I didn't know that yes You could buy these kids you actually they've been around for a while now where you could buy these kids where let's say you buy a Drug, which is how these guys are rating because I've seen ratings. Yeah, you test it yourself They'll say the purity they'll say this is 99 point whatever percent of this it's this that it was clean People will report back to that about drug dealer and these drug dealers care about their reputation online because that's how they make all their Money, that's right.  That's right That's right.  Don't need all the middle man Look, here's here's one. Sometimes I'll argue regulations to people and they'll say things like well, don't we need an FDA and I'll be like well Once the technology exists to where I can scan whatever I'm eating and it'll tell me what's in it Which by the way the technology is almost there Already the technology exists. It's just not available to the public Why am I gonna want the FDA why the FDA fucks up a lot of the times when this device is a hundred percent accurate a hundred percent of Time where I can scan this apple and you are your own. I know what the pesticides are. I know what herbicides are on there I know if there's wax on the apple. I know the vitamin in mineral content I know that the macronutrient breakdown that technology Exists and it will be available Relatively soon. Why would we be paying for some centralized regulatory agency when that's so much soup so much better So it's decentralizing anything everything so on that note in at South by Southwest a Company, let me look at it. See if I can find the name of this company icon icon just unveiled unveiled a 3d. I know a 3d printed house. Oh, I saw that So it's a 650 square foot house that costs 10 grand to build This is what it's here. Hey, it scares me right now because we're house shopping This is part of what scares me. I'm like kind of freaking out.  Oh, are you are you looking at property potentially? Well look at land That's I mean look at land.  No, right, of course. Yeah, right And but yeah, but so so with this thing here check this out, right? So it's $10,000 to build 3d printed How long do you think it takes to build this house? Damn, I don't know probably a day because it's 12 to 24 12 to 24 hours. I was totally just joking Wow, so the plan is for icon to build a community of 100 homes in El Salvador next year using It's called the Vulcan printer dude.  So I couldn't share it for free. I mean people will be able to share it for free I don't know. I think you could still I think you could still find a way to kind of police that dude I don't you think they will let's be honest. Well, they're gonna try try they'll try but good luck They can't even bro, they can't even figure out how to stop, you know theft of music and movies There's not much money goes. How does everybody get paid? You know, it's like it's all patreon based, you know Like it'll with that model It'll be it'll be like musicians will make more their money from doing concerts and yeah people from their presence and there You know their own original ideas at that moment, but patents will be bro.   It's great It's so badass do that to open your bank account and all yes so much easier Oh, it's so much easier and I'm the worst with passwords. What are you gonna do when CGI is gonna be able to copy that?  So I watched you Bandoned all death. I watched a video of this this video that was made and it was a celebrity I forgot who it was and it looked so real and they're like no it was an actor with CGI over their face So it looked like it looked like another celebrity.  They can already do that Bro, what if somebody wants to what if they want to frame you? You know me didn't they show some video with I don't I don't know if it's Barack Obama or you know Trump But like they showed they made him say something. Yeah, yeah, exactly.  I was like, you know guilty, but it's so video evidence has to be like completely I mean that that has to be it's gonna be weird man. I don't know. I like the new DNA He know how like I mean they totally like had to like reinvent the way that they Looked into all that kind of stuff once I came out. It's gonna be really weird It is gonna be weird. I don't know.  You think how we consume food the way we look at food. Do you think you totally I think that's gonna radically change or you? I feel like we haven't figured out it. We haven't we don't know enough about it yet Yeah, you don't know enough about food yet to to be able to you know Utopian view of it right is that to keep going in the direction where we have these buildings But simultaneously like all the food is growing within the building, you know, so it's almost like you have your Your greenhouse, but it's like like interwoven into the building. I think we're gonna see stuff like that I think I think people will start to become farmers.   It's like tab a fetish.  Speaking of what you call the gangled tooth the gangled tooth speaking of food and all natural Just have you had a chance to try the green chef yet? I haven't yet I've been waiting mine's the carnivore one that's supposed to arrive that they they provide a carnivore They have a carnivore base. Yes, chef. Oh, they say these this is why they're so smart I don't know why other other, you know food companies aren't doing they're jumping on. Yeah, the trend so brilliant This is I called this shit went back when I first started competing and I saw the wave of all this like all these delivery service meals were just Exploding all over the place and all of them was all the all the cheap food You know saying none of it was organic everyone's put it in the plastic containers I'm like when when is someone gonna deliver something good? I saw a blue apron come up and then then when blue apron has good food But they don't have like you can't pick paleo or keto fancy Well green chef green chef lets you pick from those categories which I love yeah food qualities. It's just freaking Oh, no, I can't try it. So you tried it, right? So I did it made it with Jessica Oh, it's so fun too by the way like cooking with your girl is Guaranteed sex. Can I just say that right now?  There's a wrong link. I believe. Oh, yeah It's green chef dot us forward slash Mine pump not green chef dot com so green chef dot us Right forward slash mine pump In the show notes, it's correct now though, right? Okay, so it'll be it'll be right for B. R. Nill dot us cuz I had them on I had a ton of dns from people that were like I try to do the green chef thing. Yeah. Yeah, so sorry very used Our bad try it again.  Did you guys see the conversation on our forum about all this stuff? No, no, I didn't read that So we got on this we got on this conversation because I don't know who I think was mark Pharrell right isn't his name. He's on our forum. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he said something about how I talked about how prayer exists in in religion probably because It helps bring down the cns, you know or to more parents and pathetic state better for digestion And you know and religion oftentimes will do that it'll take something that we do that's good And they'll put it in dogma and they'll ritualize it Yeah, but it started this big old debate about whether or not humans have This innate morality or if we need a belief system to create that morality And so we were arguing back and forth and I used to argue the same way that He did and some other people on the forum and that you know humans are just we're just naturally good And I used to think that like no you don't have to have a belief system But you know when you start to look at history and you start to realize that there's a lot of lemmings out there No, you we're a blank slate humans are banks, but we just had Max Lugavere on the show right and he talks about how you know basically when an infant is born We are in we're still in utero or not in utero Fourth trimester because you're still developing the brain and and we and you need to you need to create these We don't have these innate instincts like other animals do in the sense that we have some but it's not the same And what you need a belief system and when you follow that belief system it dictates how you behave Which is why humans are capable of some horrible shit, right? Like if you look at communism and Nazism and some of the things that or some of these societies Some of these hunter-gatherers societies are cannibal. You think how could they possibly do this? Well that they're their foundational belief system is what propels them to do this Normality we had this we were having this debate and discussion and then I brought up the concept of freedom the concept of liberty and I was making the argument that if it wasn't for and I'm not a religious person It's important to know like I'm not saying this because I'm defending my religion. I'm not a religious individual I'm agnostic at best. I used to be an atheist and if you if you examine the ideas of liberty and freedoms from the for the individual where an individual has Rights that should be not infringed upon that is directly from the Judeo-Christian Religion where you had like the foundation of America where I mean when we won the Revolutionary War George Washington was offered the Kingship and he turned it down and it's because he believed in a god that created man in his image and gave him Enalable rights all men in the alible rights It wasn't expressed perfectly of course we had slaves and women couldn't vote and all that stuff But those rights and that belief which was derived from religion.  I don't think we should rule over all these people Everybody has you know, I think everybody should have equal rights in terms of liberties Nobody fucking said that that came from a belief That came from a Judeo-Christian roots and if we didn't have that belief system We would not have you know the the modern concept of freedom and liberty So although now we take it for granted where if you don't you know You could say to yourself like and you take it for granted because you live in this country and or you live in a Free society with where men and women have you know equal opportunities where we don't have you know There isn't slavery which by the way was practiced on every frickin continent in the world for Since the beginning of you know mankind or whatever None of that happens in some of these modern societies now and we take it for granted. We think no no humans naturally We're naturally, you know good people and naturally we want to do no we don't the natural state of man is Poverty is grinding poverty is terrible conditions and we treat each other like shit unless we have this belief system that is You know that we believe that we need to treat each other a certain way and the that was derived from this belief in God So we had this huge conversation on the forum about it and it's crazy that I'm arguing that side Because I'm not the religious person, but I'm also trying to be objective, you know, I'm saying I'm looking at things for Well, it's better. Yeah, it's better that you're coming in with that perspective, you know instead of somebody that's like super religious and there's like You know sort of a bias in that direction It's great to like have an objective kind of view is like well, you know, everybody can You know benefit from you know, like understanding Morality and understanding how to treat people and it's like yeah, it does need to be taught You know, like if people do need to know like, you know, what what that fabric looks like you have to have that operating system and it came from the these roots where they believed and this is you know again part of the Judeo-Christian religion where You know people are created with inalienable rights and people don't realize just how Revolutionary and insane that idea was when it was first proposed and when it was first put in a Government where we have a bill of rights, which people don't realize is they think that were a pure democracy were not worried We had where democracy in terms of how we elect our officials were actually a constitutional Republic Which means that there are certain inalienable rights granted or bestowed upon us by our creator This is in the fucking Constitution that shall not be infringed upon meaning there is no majority of vote That can infringe upon these and it's written in our in our government So that means that you know if there's a million people in this country and 999,000 999 people vote to steal your shit They can't because you have these rights that are that everybody has that God gave you and so you know I was trying to make that just trying to explain them like look This is this is a very important part of human history it is part we can't separate religion from human evolution and When people talk about Eradicating religion you have to be very careful because what may replace it may be far fucking worse Than what we what we originally have you know I'm saying it's kind of crazy I love you hearing you talk with I got a promise our podcast listeners I won't let this turn into a religious podcast because I we all know how South can get when he goes down the rabbit hole And pretty soon here. He's gonna find Jesus And let me tell you dude Justin, you know, we're gonna go back and jump the shark It's all it's all objective thoughts anthropologists have talked about this and you know biologists and I One of the things that where you and I connected on a whole new level, which I we've all I've always felt very connected to you both you guys When you first shared Jordan Peterson with me that when we when we started listening that and reading that thought this this guy Presents this better than I could have ever explained myself and this is how I feel I for the most part There's some things that I actually disagree a little bit with but for the most part I mean it's so spot-on and I know that it Resonated heavily just I I'm very much into into human psychology governments economy, you know economics all that stuff and It reminds me of when like many times the US has actually stepped in To a dictatorship or a tyrannical regime and we will get rid of their government and we'll create a vacuum and Every single time what replaces that is way fucking Every time this topic right here I actually want you to get into with Jerry Robinson because he's got some he'll he's he drops Hell of knowledge on that I'll just that topic alone So getting in the economics and how that played a role and that's my point like if you abolish this belief system and all of a sudden you're like no It's bad because there are elements that people have definitely used it already latch on to you now Well what replaces it many times if not all the time is worse and especially when you have something that's got a history of Evolution and there are certain things that have worked Opportunists who are wolves that are gonna come in and and and become Tyrannical well what I'm afraid of is what will replace something like that is this new ageism or the scientism which The worship of science is very scary because science does not have ethics science is by nature's that doesn't have ethics It's it's it's valueless. It's supposed to be it's supposed to be with no value because that's why that's what makes science So powerful is that there is no belief system It's just either this is what works and this is what you know Here's the result what we found is this is what so if you don't have if you if you start to worship science You are gonna go down a fucking evil path where you know if you don't have any ethics behind it What governs what we do and we're already seeing that look calling thinning the herd.  There is no like should we do this? It's like no, you know with science. Let's just go for it because we need it or whatever So science need it science is a very for for war Yeah, you know for I mean science is a very powerful tool But if there's no ethics around it, you know to help govern it science could take us some dark dark path So we gotta be seen that was like cloning dude. That's the thing. It's going crazy. That's the thing So again, I'm not you know, I'm not promoting a religion or anything like that I'm just saying be careful what you wish for when you start to talk like that. Well said friend Today's quads being brought to you by Chimera coffee It's the only coffee that is infused with all natural Neutropics for a cleaner calmer and more focused buzz without the crash Put the Chimera link at mine pump media comm and input the discount code mine pump a check out for 10% off First question is from Phoebes cray K Why is my Instagram full of fitness women sipping on BCAA? Sipping on the BCAA why do so many people who promote a fit and healthy lifestyle constantly refer to their BCAA? Consumption it seems to be more popular than protein powder in the promotion of the lean big booty physique Why do people keep taking it and does it help in any way? Is there a natural alternative for the effect that? To have first sign you're you're following all the wrong people Right, so the BCAAs are creating this this big huge butt and skinny body, you know pictures or didn't happen It's It's something that it's crazy that you know the the science supporting BCAAs has been around for a very long time and I do notice a a spike in the last probably three to five years of The popularity of it, and I don't know if it was a specific study that came out or a brand that did really well Oh, I know exactly. Oh, you remember what it was. I know exactly that cost the spike Yeah, so so branching amino acids. There's three of them. They're leucine isoleucine and valine and in studies They've been shown to accelerate wound healing and to prevent muscle wasting in okay a low protein environment in other words if you're eating too little protein supplementing with branching amino acids may Prevent muscle loss now how low? Below what the FDA require recommends for protein So if you're anybody who works out at all you're probably eating well above that amount of protein I'm not even talking about the point seven grams of protein per pound that's for maximum results people don't understand that that's Elaborate on that point you just made right now because people don't understand the difference between the two So studies will show that the the upper limit for benefit that you'll get with protein intake is around point seven grams per pound of Body weight for lean individuals that means that's the most you can eat and get some benefit out of in studies That doesn't mean that all of you will get benefit from eating that much It just means anything more than that study show is just extra protein is not doing you any benefit now The the RDA recommendation for protein is much lower than that and they give you a recommendation based on what your body needs Now if you're eating less than what your body needs can branching amino acids Potentially help you sure but if you're eating adequate protein, it's a complete waste of fucking money Total waste of money for branching amino acids completely especially if you take a protein Powder supplement now all of a sudden branching amino acids. I'd say over the last five Years or so has gotten really popular and I can point to a one company in particular I think really made this explode. There's a company called extend No, is it extend? Shit extends is the boner. That's the boner. No, I know it is extend.  If you're drinking branching amino acids all day, that's probably what'll end up happening.  I know that okay. It gives you a flavored water, right? You got watermelon water and they say oh, this is good for for muscle building and fat loss It's not it's actually branching amino acid. Look, I used to recommend them I used to recommend them because it was it was a go-to for me It was a go-to it is a total unless you're unless you're having a day where you ate no protein or super super low protein And you did a workout then it could probably help you But otherwise it's it's a total waste of money and time now you're seeing these people promote them on Instagram because They're getting some kind of a kickback to promote it paid. They know nothing about Nutrition biology fitness.   That's that's pretty much it like, you know Which the point that you made that I really like because the people that tend to drink BCAAs all day long or drink a month they're eating over the protein and way more in fact They would probably do better by actually Going down on protein for a day and maybe laying off anything like this for sure for a couple days because they're constantly Over-saturating their body with high protein.  It tastes good, dude It tastes good, you know, I you know what I have done before is you know I've used the BCAA when I was dieting really hard as like a something for me to sip on that had flavor I remember using it like that and I know a lot of people use it the same way too It's just it tastes good and that's what gets everybody They they feel like they're getting flavored water, but it's the need Need for flavor thirty five to forty dollar, you know, you know who'd been fun to talk to by this I wish we would this would be a great question We get better at like we have questions like this like to put a side note dug in the notes Of like oh next time we're hanging out with Lane Norton like this what he did his thesis on he did Yeah, Lucy and that's his yep Expertise excited when you talk about Lucy so by the way the reason why I know branch amino acids could contribute to it a kind of a depressed state is because I experienced it so I Back when I had my wellness facility. I bought extend BCAA's You know powder and I drank it all day long and it does taste really good I'm thinking oh shit branch amino acids reduce and I don't mean to pick on that company by the way It's it's all of them, right? I thought oh, you know, I'm gonna be anabolic all day long if I just drink it all day long I tried to you know create that logic or whatever So I drank it all day long and then I noticed like I needed more caffeine before my workout I noticed that kind of fell mmm Just a little down and I couldn't figure out what was wrong with me and what was going on Meanwhile, I was doing research on all the supplements I was taking just because I enjoy doing that and I started reading about how The presence of branch amino acids inhibits with tryptophan influx into the brain a tryptophan Was one of the you know from Turkey. Yeah, you do get that too So you'll reduce serotonin levels in your brain I cut my BCAA intake and I started feeling I started feeling better So I actually had that side effect of feeling kind of shitty from a supplement I was supposed to make you you know improve your performance or increase well knowing what we know now Do you see any application for this for anybody?  Yeah, maybe if you have a little protein intake or maybe if you're Maybe if you're like borderline Overtraining it might there's some evidence to show that higher leucine levels are good Which which leucine is one of the amino acids and that is a branch amino acid Maybe but you know, it's one of those things. It's like increase your protein intake You know, I mean if that's the case like you're gonna get all do you have any branch amino acids or in 10 grams of you know Like organified protein way, you know way more than you get from a scoop of wasn't there that company that basically took That like leftover whey protein encapsulated it made it into BCAAs. Well, no those were essential amino acid amino acids I mean yeah back in the day I would buy these God I remember the name of the company.  I don't remember this twin lab was a big one. No, no way that was out of 24. They were the oh Yeah, yes. Yeah. No, no, it was it was the top line of apex. It was their sports. Oh, I don't remember that I don't remember. Oh, you don't remember that. Oh, that was there.   It's because I practiced me a deep throat I could practice if you could only see a picture sounds like this right now.   Just take just make sure you have adequate protein from food if you need to supplement get a high-quality Protein powder without metals like organ without heavy organify. Yeah, that's all right Thanks, Adam because that study just came out right with all the protein powder said heavy metals organify, you know They're actually in fact. They're getting ready to send me a report integrity They're gonna send me a report with even the party even even even being sponsored by organify and we wrapped them in stuff We still would recommend someone go for food first of course always always always always always then like the worst-case scenario a Protein powder then BCAA's no, I don't see any purpose for me No, no not at all. I wouldn't recommend it. Just it's just if you want to spend money, you know go for it Otherwise don't just putting hairs Peter Sarmiento can you build muscle or bulk on a keto diet?  I mean I remember do you guys remember when I was I was it was during competing time or right around there and After we went keto.  What did those meals look like? Oh bro?  Jesus.  I mean if you eat enough avocado kick you out of ketosis You know since you there's only so much of these some of these healthy fats that we talk about That can really give me enough calories and not say over satiate me So it's tough without and so I found myself going to the same Go-to six or seven and I remember thinking to myself as I was like seem to be scooping butter into everything all the time I'm like this can't be ideal for my body.  Yes versus 5,500 calories with carbs, right? Yes. Yeah Yeah, I on a lot of levels to like even just like consuming it. I remember You know and it reminded me of being a kid like when I was a kid like trying to grow was so hard to eat all the Time like it just just wasn't hungry and I remember trying to stuff my face It reminded me of that feeling with carbohydrates. I don't need that man of carbohydrates if I start my morning with carbohydrates I'm hungry two hours later.  Yeah. Well, okay, so there's a lot of guys that What's his name Jason postings a keto guy? I know I don't know what he eats off season or not But there's a lot of guys that do it to diet down now. I'm a big fan of Ketogenic on the way down. It's it's awesome because then it satiates you when you're when you when you're eating like that Instead of like cycling cycling carbohydrates, you're in for which I ran I did a lot of you're battling with appetite Yeah, you're battling with appetite, you know cuz I just imagine protein would be like overly consumed It would kick you out, you know if like I was Not paying super close attention. You would just end up consuming it would if you do it, right, right?  And it was not even a couple weeks dude It's just like well you having you haven't even really given it a chance to how you change the name in their Instagram handle Yeah, yeah, or I've had I've had people tell me I've had people tell me that they're doing they're doing keto They do mostly keto and I go what does that mean mostly keto?  My day. No, there's an important point there There's ketogenic diet, which is where your body's producing ketones and then there's low carb Which is not always ketogenic you can go low carbohydrate right and not be ketogenic And they and it'll have some benefits for some people and it's a lot of it has to do with the the satiety, you know effect of it where you don't feel like you want to eat but Bulking, you know insulin is an anabolic hormone.  I've done it. It's just harder. I notice when I eat carbohydrates I'm stronger obviously and I feel fuller and bigger and I tend to build more muscle I also I don't know about few guys notice this, but I also When I'm eating keto, I don't and I don't this by the way is not connected to building muscle I don't think but I noticed when I'm eating keto and I lift heavy. I don't get sore when I throw carbs in I get sore. So I don't know if that has to do with the inflammation But I don't get soreness or it could be correlated more with you more strength more strength and more better training Sessions that in turn make you feel like it's hard for me to say But I notice it every single time because what I do now here's what I do now I have been doing this for the past three months and this isn't all the details But this is kind of generally what I do is I do I start this is my third month now I start with a 72 hour fast then after that I go strict keto and then Leading into the next month or leading into my next fast the week before that I start eating carbohydrates So it's almost like the cycling kind of diet I like that and I'm noticing every time I do that when I throw the carbs in Definitely get stronger definitely put on more mass. In fact, if you guys pay attention, you'll see my body will change But I get that soreness which is kind of interesting But yeah gaining on keto for me was very difficult because I just like it's almost like I couldn't eat enough and then And it was hard to eat enough as well So number one I have to eat a lot But then to eat a lot was more difficult because it's so and then what you start and what you start to pick Right, don't you feel that way too? Like I'm just eating so much like I eat this big fatty meat and then it's like well I can't have many more protein so now right yeah, three avocados You know something like that right?  It makes their body feel they respond better, right? So I guarantee there's somebody's listening right now.  I totally just get these guys Yeah, keto. I just build way more muscle.   I just telling you from my perspective I thought it was really challenging for the amount of calories I had to consume. I saw the choices of food I was consistently eating so I do something very similar with you like you do Sal Except for I don't do it in a spread out over a month. It'd be like a week like that I love to just run a couple days where I run like almost a Keto genetic type diet and then I'll have a day where I introduced carbohydrates And I love to pay attention to how my performance fills, you know, that's right And here's a here's a go to bulk keto bulking shake That I have made many many times and it helps because it gives you all the calories You need extra calories when you're trying to gain and it's high and medium change triglycerides, which are, you know Great energy sources in terms of fats. They're the the fastest burning fat if you will in terms of energy So here's something you can do buy a can of full fat Coconut milk. So this is the this is the coconut milk that comes in a can It's tons of fat.  So this is what I used to do. It's up to you But I throw in like six or eight egg yolks then I throw a scoop of like protein So like today I would use Organified protein in there and then I'd blend it up and it was this Super high fat with some protein and cholesterol shake that I would have Post-workout or I'd have it, you know during the day or something like that And it was a great mass building shake with a lot of calories and then bed and jerry's Yummy next question is from Christen T. What aspects of your careers? Do you find the most fulfilling? Oh a lot Yeah, there's a lot that I'm gonna go down sentimental road This there's a lot that I find fulfilling about what we do so I think I could list 15 things off the top of my head. Yeah, but what's the first thing that comes to mind It's most fulfilling. The first thing that comes in my mind is working with you guys. That's just being I mean when you the kind of character you have to develop to work with these assholes When you're surrounded by by by people who challenge you to be a better version of yourself You it's it can be hard if you're not a growth-minded individual but working with Adam Justin and Doug and even the you know other people on our team like Taylor and Katrina everybody is this high performing Just exceptional individual in our own right like Any one of us isn't perfect at everything, but any one of us is exceptional a few things and When you work with people like that if you're growth-oriented and if you're somebody that always wants to perform well when I'm on a team I never wanted I always want to be one of the better performers So it's always gonna push me to be better myself because I don't want ever You know and all of us share that right none of us would want to be like the worst person on the team We all try to push ourselves so working with a bunch of fucking, you know studs and champions Pushes me to be a better version of myself. I've changed more in Positive ways in the last in the last six months than I did in you know five years of my previous life You know I'm saying so I'd say for sure that's the most fulfilling thing like I come to work and I know Every day every day we're gonna have compelling conversation imagine that Imagine if you got the opportunity to go to work and I mean we've all had those compelling conversations, right?  Well that fucking happens weekly like every single week There's some conversation I have with with these guys and I leave and I'm just like wow that was that was crazy you know talking for me is my favorite way to think and I need somebody to bounce it off of versus than just myself and being able to have individuals like you know Like the people I work with now It's just been for for by far my most fulfilling thing and I honestly although I love what we do because I love the integrity of it And I and the the purpose and the why Behind what we do and I love fitness I feel like I could do anything with this team and I'll always feel fulfilled Like I feel like we could do almost any business even if it was a business I wasn't into and it wouldn't be as enjoyable as it is now of course But I feel like I still would grow at a very very good I'm so glad that you went that way and not the obvious answer I think that mm-hmm what you're supposed to say right, which is No doubt in my mind the amount of people that we're reaching and we're helping now is Extremely amazing. It's like and it's multiplied by a hundred times compared to everything that I experienced over the last You know 15 years of being a personal trainer like the amount of people lives that we're touching now It's so rewarding and the amount of DMS and the people that we meet like that's amazing But if I'm being completely honest, like what's the most fulfilling for me Is the business aspect of it? I love to be challenged and I love to be a part of building something and This by far is not only the biggest thing But has the potential to be far greater than it already is and I just I love that and I thrive on The challenge of it because you know like Sal says every day He talks about every day as coming here and having these compelling conversations And I a hundred percent feel the same way to and would totally steal that answer but I also thrive off of the the difficulties of Managing and running something as big as this is has become and it's well anytime I find myself getting frustrated about it because absolutely I had those days where I walk out like fuck You know I'm saying I feel like we're we're didn't get it done this that like I had I had this moment I take a deep breath.  This is why you love this Adam. Yeah, if it was fucking easy anybody would be doing boring Yeah, I mean, it's you guys stole the best answers But like I I totally agree like I Immediately the knee-jerk reaction is of course it's like just the feedback and in people's lives that have been affected by just us having conversations like what that's that's That trips me out like sometimes I'll think about that and I don't know I don't know these people, you know, some of them I do and I've actually met in person But you know for the majority they live in a totally different part of the world that trips me out But like literally for me personally It's I've never done anything that's difficult before, you know, and it's it's but I've never Simultaneously had like the most enjoyment You know at the same time which which it's crazy because it's you know I've I've built whatever business I've done before has always been a process to me to Create more time for me to be you know creative or like create space, you know away from work and I I now I'm doing the opposite, you know I'm trying to create more space for me to to work and be you know You know contributing more and doing more because it's such a monster, you know and so and meanwhile for me Like it's I feel like I'm treading water every day and sometimes like like you said Adam Like it you just it gets that you knew you like rage. You're like, ah, I can't like why why can't I tackle these things?     Are you kidding me? Like there I could I could say with full confidence that at least 80% of the time that we talked to a guest if it's not always I'll be honest There's there's a 20% where I guess leaves after we do an interview and I'm like well I got nothing out of that But a majority of that has happened it's it has happened but a majority of the time there's like one or two Like big things that I get out of that conversation. Oh, yeah, like how crazy is that and I'll repeat it You know me you know me things that I say Mm-hmm now that I've heard from other people that I've had a chance to have a conversation with those nugget bombs It's those it's those nugget. It's those absolute nugget bomb now of course of course Getting the messages and I get like we get a lot of them now where somebody says God, you know the information that you presented with me has really changed my life or I just had a message the other day from This this this guy who? Who on this long message? I'll give you the short breakdown, but he'd been working out for a long time I thought he was a hard gainer Skinny kid and you know, I totally identify with that right because that was me when I was younger took lots of supplements He said he spent over a hundred fifty dollars a month on supplements Was doing all these crazy routines was force-feeding his body Didn't wasn't gaining strength wasn't doing anything then he went to maps and a bollocks So he was going to the gym six days a week did maps and a bollock was now going to the gym three days a week For the foundational workouts and then doing trigger sessions on the off days He changed his nutrition. So he was no longer eating, you know, two grams of protein per pound of body weight No joke this guy was taking like three to five protein shakes a day along the food Cut that way down job cut that way down and he's like he goes Sal I don't know how this is possible and it's the reason why I think it's crazy is because it It shattered his previous belief system, right? He was I don't know how this possible is I've gained 10 pounds of muscle He was added 50 pounds to my squat. I've added 80 pounds to my deadlift.    Don't go to failure.  I'm like hey man Thanks for you know for for following the show and you know listening to what we say and considering You know some of the advice that we give and stuff like that. So that's also Extremely fulfilling. It's crazy. It's it is extremely filling and it reminds me to one another I talked about earlier in the episode about go-to with music when I'm feeling down Another go-to and this has been a hack for me is just in the last three years because that's all we've been doing This is I read the iTunes reviews. Oh, dude, nothing will make me feel fucking good like that does because people It's the most I don't know what we're up to reviews now Doug We're I know we're over well over two thousand five-star reviews and some of these people have just and I want to know like I Fucking eventually read all of them like sometimes what I do is I'll go in spurts Where I don't read them for a while and then I go and I'll just I'll sit there for two hours, dude Oh, I got catching up to do and go through and I'll read them and I'll get fucking emotional, dude Just overwhelmed from joy and stuff like that because of this because of the impact of that So 100% I mean but I just didn't want to share that with everyone because of the fact that I think that's an obvious Yeah, it is the obvious one I think it's the boring one I think I think the other ones tell such a deeper story of each of us So I'm so glad you went that way Sal instead of giving the obvious answer of how fulfilling it obviously is to do that for people Next question is from captain Tanny ABC is weightlifting beneficial for female hormone production and balance just as it is for male hormones such as testosterone Or can it be detrimental? Oh, it's beneficial. Yeah. Oh, so There's no form of exercise that comes close. Would you argue Sal that it's more beneficial for a female than a male? I think it's you think it's equal. Yeah, I think it's both. I think I mean and because of because men Here's a thing. I think of it this way. I think it's more crucial I would almost argue that a female would be just because they have so much more going on Hormonally with them between having a baby a period every single month that strengthens control. Yeah, yeah I would argue that argument and I could also see the argument that men And it's it's much much less today than it was, you know 10 or 20 30 years ago But men tend to if you look at all the jobs that involve a lot of activity those tend to be dominated by men Or women tend to be more sedentary than men do in that particular regard So maybe there's more benefit and as far as that's concerned But there is no form of exercise at all that comes close To the hormone balancing benefits of resistance training nothing nothing is anabolic Like resistance training all of the forms exercise. I mean they could be restorative They could be catabolic right because they burn calories if you do cardio Are you gonna build some muscle doing cardio? Well, I guess if you're super sedentary like all you do is sit down all day long and then you start You know going on walks and stuff like you'll build a little bit of muscle But not much like nothing come nothing comes close because for your body in order for your body to adapt to resistance training By building muscle and getting stronger it first has to create a more optimal hormone Profile has to signal the hormones to do what they're supposed to do So it balances things out in a way that no other form of exercise can do it helps about it Look it helps blunt the insulin response or at least make your body more sensitive to insulin It's like the more muscle you have the more storage capacity you have for glycogen The the more you're gonna be sensitive to insulin the more efficient and effective you are gonna utilize your testosterone and for women estrogen and progesterone balance Becomes more apparent resistance training should be prop by the way proper resistance training because if you over apply it Or do too much intensity will work out to be detrimental the opposite right right then you if you over train Then you're over training But if you do it right what it's gonna do is it's gonna balance your body out It's gonna make it more anabolic You're going to and amplify your metabolism one of the one of the number one comments I I get from I used to get from clients When they would first start lifting weights, especially women and especially older women was that their libido would increase from lifting weights I see at that all time. I was like the most common Boo yeah side effect that I would that people would tell me and the older women were also almost embarrassed to tell me I'm talking about advanced age like women over 60 Inevitably almost every single time I would start lifting weights with a with a over 60 year old woman and inevitably she'd come to me And I would always part of health exactly It's like yeah, it makes perfect sense that that you know that would raise as the hormones are optimally balanced Going through that process dude I would always ask them every time I start training a client I'd ask them like how do you feel and then I dig deeper like how do you mean what how does this feel? How does that feel and I dig deeper deeper deeper and then After about this was always around the two or three month mark They get a little embarrassed and I'd say well why why you smile like well I am noticing some other changes and then I would I know what they're talking about so I'd say it for them And I'd be like are you noticing any changes in libido and they'd look at me and be like is that normal as well?  They're feeling better about the other side I mean, it's all yeah, it's all a part of the process. So it's it's very important plus, you know, it's overcome You know later on like, you know osteoporosis osteopenia these types of like conditions that you know are a concern like it's we're being proactive in Building up, you know enough muscle so that way it's gonna carry you into you know your later years I was gonna share a story along those lines only it would connect me to a 60 year old lady So I don't know You had a gilf no well, so I mean I'm technically I'm two days two days two foundational days in and one trigger day in of lifting consistently right now, right? So we're literally like on day three of consistency. I saw you live you put your workout the other day. Yeah So and I promised everybody starts your body's changing fast.  Oh, really?     You know just even just walking for I walked for two miles That was a big milestone.  It's better than nothing It's better than nothing, but that's so wrong the foundation should be resistance training by far in the context of Modern lifestyle where we have access to highly palatable foods 24 hours a day and we're sedentary because our lifestyle just demands to be sedentary you drive everywhere You sit down all day long having more muscle is the remedy It is now there's a lot of things you need to look at of course your health is comprised of all these different factors But if you're looking at exercise and you don't need to be a bodybuilder at all not not at all In fact, if you just lifted full body Properly like two to three days a week and this is once you get in the in the rhythm of things and you're more advanced You're gonna get everything you ever wanted and in fact, I can train an advanced, you know strength builder just three days a week I can maps on a ball it gets three days a week right in the gym if you you need to make resistance training the absolute Foundation of your workout routine and then you can throw in all the other things that you like to do if you want to do yoga You want to do your cardio? You want to do your Pilates or whatever but make that resistance training the foundation because nothing is gonna balance out your hormones Nothing's gonna set your body up to burn body fat Nothing's gonna protect you from Dementia or age-related, you know bone loss or mobility loss like resistance training It should be that should be the form of exercise that we recommend to everybody and it will be I think it'll happen the next ten Years because the studies are starting to come out right like we just had Max Lugavari on the show and he was talking about how resistance training like one of the best things you could do to prevent Age-related dementia more so than other forms of exercise and this is it's just the best form of exercise That you could possibly do or at least it should be the foundation and in terms of balancing hormones I can't think of a single form of exercise that is better No, man And this is to this is what motivated us to do the the mind pump 30 on our mind pump TV the YouTube channel If you guys have not gone over to the YouTube channel subscribe make sure you guys go over there I mean we're dropping stuff in there all the time and that was our motivation was to okay if we had somebody who is you know Just the average Jane or Joe that hasn't really put a real workout regimen. They haven't really followed any sort of You know weight training. They've always done the yoga type class or Pilates or you know walks and jogs are running But they've never really tried to strength train and what's kept them from doing that is maybe fear of The unknown or not knowing how to do these exercises or how to design a program We broke it down really really basic and I think is really good for anybody who's just getting started in Introducing them to squatting and deadlifting and movements like that So or and or if you just been out for a while if you've been out for I mean it's if you look at what I'm posting right now It's very similar to the type of routines that we put on the YouTube channel It's a little more custom for myself And I'm going by feel and what I feel like doing that day But as far as the volume that's in there you don't need man If you've been off for a month or two and you haven't lifted weights one of the biggest mistakes I always see people doing is just coming in balls the wall You know and that's you gotta be smart about yeah be smart about it cuz over if you do if you do it wrong It'll do the opposite. Yeah, you do it wrong.   So make sure you have a good plan Make sure you're you're smart about it. I would err on the side of less not more So if you think you know to yourself like oh should I do a you know 10 sets? Or should I do five sets like start with the lower one and take it from there and see how your body responds because you Want to do the least amount of work to elicit the most amount of change? 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