If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. Mind pump, mind pump, with your hosts. Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. In this beautiful episode of Mind Pump, ooh, it's gorgeous. For the first 40 minutes, we do our introductory conversation. We start off by talking about punishing people for doing good things. What, do you do that? I bet you do. Sounds like a terrible strategy. We talk about Adam's stinky fish burps. I got schooled today. And why he should be using Omax fish oil capsules instead. It is, Omax is one of our new sponsors and partnerships. Thanks for finding that one for us. High quality stuff. If you go to TryOmax, that's T-R-Y-O-M-A-X, dot com forward slash mind pump, you'll get a free box of Omax. We have hook you up, best fish oil you can find on the market. Then we talked about legislation to allow companies to repair and make accessories for Apple products. Ugh, so frustrating. More regulations. We talk about how humans have a tendency to focus on the negative. And new studies showing that some common over-the-counter medications have side effects like depression, believe it or not. And then we talked about Ronnie Coleman, the greatest Mr. Olympia ever and how bad shape he looks, poor guy, can barely move, very, very sad. We also mentioned Organifi for a second. We are sponsored by them. If you go to organifi.com forward slash mind pump, enter the code mind pump, you'll get 20% off all of their products. Then we get to the questions. The first question was, this person would like to know some of our suggestions to help survive an injury. You know, like don't lose gains, mobility, and maintain some sanity. We give some good advice there. Adam talks about his personal experiences through his Achilles' tear. The next question was, is the best philosophy to bulk and then cut? The answer, it depends. Find out why it depends in that segment of this episode. The next question was, does working out affect your sex drive positively or negatively? Well, weight training, definitely, if you do it right, can make you a horny son of a gun, right, Doug? Right, Doug? Or you can use them. Or you can use Brain FM, that's Justin's tactic.  Use Focus. Hey, that was a great tip. Right, if you go to brain.fm forward slash mind pump, you will get a hookup for these sounds that apparently help you have sex. Focus on that sex. And the final question, what is our opinion on teachers posting pictures of themselves competing in bikini competitions? Do we think that's like inappropriate because they're working with kids or do we think they just want attention? And also this month, all month long, we have taken the price of Maps Anywhere and cut it in half, 50% off. Maps Anywhere is our maps program. That can be done with minimal exercise equipment. You can do it anywhere. You can do it at home. You can do it on the road. Very effective, very easy to use. Again, that's 50% off. We also have bundles which are designed to get people through long periods of time for different types of adaptations. So to be specific, a bundle is when we take multiple maps programs, put them together and discount them. The most popular bundle is the Super Bundle. That's a year of exercise programming. It's a lot of maps programs that you follow one after another for the entire year. Your body changes and progresses the entire time. That is 30% off all those prices.  It's a great deal. For that and all of the other products that we have, go to mindpumpmedia.com. Dude, you know what's funny? The vast majority of people, if they listen to their voice, they record their voice, and then they listen to their voice on recording.  And then you have Adam. Yeah. He's like, oh, hello there. Hey, I like listening to myself. Where've you been? Did it take you guys any time to get you still hearing yourself on hearing your own voice? Maybe initially, yeah, it was awkward at first to hear yourself in just the way that you sound in. Because you sound different in your head. Totally. You know what I mean? You sound different in your head. I don't know. I agree. It's 100% true. I think the headphones really helped. That's your truth, maybe. No, no, no, no. What do you mean no? No, no, no. That's a true thing.  No, no, no. My voice sounds just like it. The way my voice sounds, I'm real, something like that. If you don't wear headphones and listen to your voice on recording and then you do listen to recording, people, this is common. People won't even recognize your voice half the time or sometimes they'll be like, I can't believe I sound like that. Maybe you've heard that before, haven't you? Well, it's mainly on video. That's where I used to feel like a little bit awkward because I was like, oh, I sound like that. Well, awkward, weird, all that sounds different, but I actually, what I liked about it is, I mean, talk about it. We've kind of mentioned this on the show. I've never, and I've always, but not always, for a long time, I've been a growth-minded, self-aware type of a person and nothing has been able to accelerate that, like sitting down and listening to your own voice for two hours.  Why do I sound like I got so irritated for no reason or whatever? It really makes you question your own beliefs, right?  It's true, listening to how you think your way through things and explain things is really interesting. Well, there's two ways.  I don't care.  Oh, that's just poor communication. Well, but the funny part is that this person I'm talking about prides themselves on being a great communicator and really what I see when I see someone like that is I see somebody who cares more about how they sound to themselves than really getting a point across and like somebody being able to, like it's not like that for me. No, words, you can definitely use lots of words and eloquent words and descriptive words to make your point more effective or to illustrate your point more effective or you could just use a bunch of words and throw them in because they sound good but all you've done is now added an additional 30 seconds or five minutes to something that could have been explained in a short period of time.  It makes you way less of an effective. This is why- This is an attention span you have to consider too of like your audience. Like, it's really just not considering your audience at that point. You just love the sound of your own voice and how you explain things. You would think though that they would hear that listening to themselves. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like, cause there's two things that I've learned from listening to myself. One is sometimes I think I'm doing a good job when I'm not.  And the other thing that I learned and we've all done this is sometimes you judge yourself so harshly and then you hear it back and you're like, oh, I didn't sound bad at all. Totally. So it's like two sides, right?  Well, some of it too. I always try to work on painting a better picture. Obviously the story part of it has been a struggle for me and that's something I've noticed that I've been really trying to work on and listening to people. But you can get lost if you put so much effort into the description, all the details. So having it like just a certain amount of time is crucial. Do you think in the future when everything's being recorded? Because I'm sure at some point we're gonna have on contact lenses that literally record everything you see or you'll have like a... Yeah, I think it's gonna become an amazing tool. Do you think it's gonna make sense? Everybody's super... Did they have that? Was it in the eye? No, no, no, no. The circle was like... It was just video cameras everywhere that worked. And that was more of it. No, there was an episode on Black Mirror that was like that. That's right. Everything you saw was recorded and then you can go back and rewind it and whatever. Zoom in and everything on the background. You know what? It might just make people hyper-anxious and hyper-critical. You know what I mean? It might make people feel... Totally. Well, no doubt it'll have good and bad. There's always a bad side of the good. But I think personally for myself, I think it would be an awesome tool and resource. It'd be so neat to have a day where like, let's say, I mean, I think back to things that I used to have to do, like having a meeting where I'm leading a team of 15 or 20 people and I walk out of that meeting. It would be so rad to go back later in the day and go like, let's... Yeah, see how everybody was affected too. Yeah. I'd be able to... The reactions.  I see what I did over here to Suzy. She didn't take that. That's what happened in that episode of Black Mirror. The dude, they had this house party in this episode. Did you guys watch it? You watched it, right, Justin? I watched it. So they're having like a house party and they have this dude that's invited over and this guy's wife, he kind of gets this feeling like, are they flirting or what? So then later on that night, he reviews the video and he notices every time this dude makes a joke, she laughs like excessively, every time she smiles at him and he's like reviewing the video to see how she responded to that dude. Oh my God, so much of that will happen. Well, and that's the bad, right? That's where it'll get in trouble, is when people's insecurities come out in that, then they go back and hang on her thing. It's gonna be interesting. Do you think with a tool like that, that you'll find that when you rewind and listen to the arguments that you have, that you are more right, that you are gonna win more of them or lose more of them? You know what I'm saying? What do you think? Do you think you'll watch them and be like- I think initially lose. You'll be like, damn, she was right.  Yeah, unless you're already hypercritical. Yeah. You know what? I don't know, for some people, I think it won't matter. They'll just confirm their argument more. You know what I'm saying? Okay. Twist it. I think you have to first have the desire to change. Wanna find what's wrong. What is Jordan Peterson's say all the time? Like, look for all the- Make friends with what you don't know? Yeah, no, he talks about seeking all the things, seeking all the failures, seeking all the wrong stuff and everything instead of always searching to be right. Oh, right, right, right. Instead of always searching to be right. Cause that's easy. It's easy to look at, it's easy to figure out things that you're doing wrong. Right, right. Then it is to try to find the right answer all the time. Right, instead of trying to find the answer, try to find all the wrong answers. That's what I'm saying. So thinking like that, there's not a lot of people that process that the same way where they look at themselves and go like, what's everything wrong with what I'm saying? If you have that attitude and you're going back and listening to the way you communicate something and go, what's everything wrong with what I'm saying versus what are all the things I did good and what I'm right there than hanging on that? I think you have to have that, you have that attitude to sort of knock those down. Otherwise you listen to, you could rewind, you'd listen to your argument with your wife or your girlfriend or whatever the case may be and you would hang on all the points that you said right to reconfirm why you're so right. You know what, that's what would happen. You know what would happen, right? You'd take the video of the argument and you'd still argue over it and be like, look, right here, you see what I meant? She'd be like, no, no, no, but you were, and then you would say, okay, fine, let's send the video to five people. Let's get an outside opinion. You would start doing that, right? You'd start posting it. All right, vote yes if I was right, vote no if she was right and you'd start getting consensus. I had to share something that we were listening to, right? We were listening to Peterson talk yesterday and he said something so powerful.  Oh, I know what you're gonna say. And he talks about how much of the time in our lives that we're so focused on this big event that I have coming up. I've got this huge event and so much of my thought on reading and focus and preparation and everything is surrounded by this one hour meeting or maybe if it's even a vacation and a trip for three days or whatever, you know? And you put all this, like it's so important, all this importance around it and in the grand scheme of things or the looking at it as if you were to fraction out your life, like how much of it does it really represent your total life?   Because it happens every day. Happens every day and it lasts. It's way more important than anything else. It's so goddamn important that if you, and so much of us don't get that right part and it really hit me home hard because a lot of times it's tough to work hard all day long and then come home and then be able to completely shift from that space that you're currently in and then to walk in that door, welcome your wife or your girlfriend and completely change that dynamic if you have a bad day and how many people let that bleed into that and then he made another comment on not being aware of that and realizing that you're potentially punishing your partner. What if Katrina all day long did all kinds of incredible things for me, helped me around the house or was in a really good mood, excited to see me or with that and I at the same time, I just happen to have the worst day at work or whatever and I walk in that door and I'm quiet or I forget to kiss her high or I don't. Maybe I don't snap at her or something. Maybe I'm short with her and she asked me to help out with something and I just don't wanna do it right now because I'm tired and I'm exhausted.   This happens a lot in relationships when you have resentment that's built up. So you'll have a couple that fights or whatever and they're really irritated with each other and then they go away and they get over it and everything is cool and sometimes someone feels like, okay, now's a good opportunity to hammer on that because everything's safe now, I can hammer on them. And that's the wrong time to do it because you're punishing someone for being in a good mood or for treating you well and you start to train that in somebody and it happens with, you could do that with your kids. You can't revisit something that happened a while back. That's as far as disciplining is concerned as well like in parenting and like there's certain things that in the moment, this is where we need to make a point of this and education needs to happen right now because it's revisiting it, that's not fair while you're in a totally different place in a different mindset. Or maybe it's not even that, it's not only that, it's just, you have no idea what her day and all the things that she had accomplished or done or potentially had done for you unselfishly that has happened throughout that day. And because what's happening currently at that moment for you and your life, you're so selfishly focused on it that you don't even take into consideration potentially what her day was led up to that. And then when you guys get into some sort of an argument over something very small like you, as she asked a favor or asked you to do something and you snapped or you didn't wanna do it, you don't realize how much damage you're doing because of all the stuff that you didn't see and you didn't even know about. A lot of times we just don't even think and process that. That was such a big moment for me. No, it's you. Just like when parents, like you got a lot of people who work a lot, right? And they don't see their kids that much, but they think, oh, it's okay because every three months I take my kids on a vacation, we have quality time together. That's not nearly as important as breakfast that you have every morning with your kids. I mean, you have 15 minutes of breakfast every morning that you add that up over the course of a year. And that's a lot of time and that's daily. That's way more important than the one trip you take every once in a while with your kids where you think that's quality time. It's those everyday interactions. That's where the impact happens.  It's interesting because the coming home thing was big for me because I've recognized that this year in particular, that this is something that I knew coming home, I would bring a certain energy home and whether I was tired, whether I was frustrated, whether it was whatever it was, I had, and I started applying that discipline of waiting in my car and gathering my wits about me and understanding that, yeah, I turn it on for my work, but I'm not turning it on for my family. And so I have to really understand how to come through the door, say hi, kiss my kids, get into whatever they're doing, and then just be there. And then after that, we can, I can kind of like work on whatever I need to work on or whatever, but it's so important. It's extremely important. So anyway. Oh, it was a powerful statement. It was powerful.  Well, dude, I've just kicked up my- Fish oil? Yeah, because I haven't been getting a lot. I mean, normally it's like, it used to be a pretty regular thing that Katrina and I are at our sushi spot at least once or twice. And we normally have it in at least another meal or two within the week. And, you know, I've talked about this on the podcast before. That's when I'm taking my omics. So lately, I've been taking them a little bit more. So you know that might be a sign of that the fish oils that you're taking go rancid. So when they do tests on fish oil, I don't know if you guys know this, many of them are rancid. You don't know, because it's in a capsule, but if you- They go bad? They go bad. You can smell, you'll be able to smell how fishy and bad they are. And the other thing too is a lot of them use these fillers. So you'll buy a fish oil, but, you know, 40 or 50% of it is our other types of fats or saturated fats or whatever. And it's not the actual pure, you know, what you're after, which is the Omega-3 fatty acids, the DHA and the, you know, whatever the other one's called, I forgot. You can actually do this test where you take your fish oil and you put it in the freezer. And if it freezes and it's cloudy, then you know it's got a lot of filters. Because fish oil, pure fish oil, will stay clear. Oh, see, I thought- Wow, interesting. I thought it was just normal that I always get fish purps from it. No, and then the other thing is it might be going rancid. So like Omax, Omax is the fish oil company that, you know, we've been kind of talking with. Their fish oils come in blister packs. So they're sealed individually. Oh, see, I haven't tried any of their stuff yet. I just have some generic brand that I've been using forever that I don't even know the name of it. No, dude. Just like anything else, like quality matters. And I think what's happened with the, especially with the supplement industry is that we've, we'll think it's all the same. So we'll be like, oh, just, if it's vitamin C, it's all the same. Or if it's fish oil, it's all the same. Or if it's protein, it's all the same. But that's not the case. That's not the case at all. Especially in the industry, the supplement industry, which has just notorious for bad, you know, bad practices and stuff like that. Dude, those fish burps are because it's rancid. That's so nasty. It may be. It may be for a lot of people. So if you get really, really good fish oil, many times people won't get that, well, when I was doing it, I totally noticed that. That's why I was like, never super stoked to take, you know, fish oil capsules. Well, you said you were talking to that company. Did you close that deal? Or are we going to? Yeah, no, we're going to, we're going to be, we're going to do a little short trial with them, but they're very, very high quality. I think they're, their fish oil was something like 90 something percent pure, which is crazy. Cause a lot of times they'll test fish oils and it'll be something like 60 something percent. So it's very, very pure. That's it. That's super good quality. Is that the same brand that Ben works with? I know I've heard the name. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Ben, he always, he always bends good stuff. Ben's got 94%. Is that where you heard about it first? Cause I'd never even heard about it before that. He gave him a kind of a, his stamp of approval or whatever. But I mean, fish oil is interesting. Omega threes are interesting. You know, I have a family member who, who's cholesterol and lipid levels were all over the place and the doctor prescribed fish oil. Yeah. But you know, it wasn't that long ago that doctors weren't prescribing that. It's pretty crazy now that they're actually telling them to take fish oil like five or six years ago, they weren't doing that. Maybe even 10 years ago, they weren't doing that. Yeah. But now they're telling them to take it cause they noticed that it affects their lipids in a positive way. Well, one of the better ways too for battle inflammation too, right? So yes. And if you, now you can go, you can actually up the dose and this depends on the individual, but you can up the dose of fish oil with turmeric, which is one of my favorite combinations.  It's like taking an ad, it's like taking Advil or something like that. It takes a couple of days. I just sell you a gross mix though together. Like turmeric and capsules. Yeah, exactly. You put it right down the hatch. I want to strangle Everett right now cause he, he always says, we do, I use the Organifi turmeric capsules all the time. He uses actual the powder and he makes it in the blender all the time. It's now stained my blender fucking. Oh dude. Crows. People don't realize that.  It looks disgusting now. They used to use turmeric to dye clothes back in the day. Dude, it is so strong.  Dude, it's staining plastic. This is my, whatchamacallit blender, you know what I'm saying?  Vitamix was what I used to do.  I'm sure it doesn't.  It's not like changing. It's not appetizing. Yeah, right. I literally was making one of my shakes last night and I'm pouring it in there and I'm like, this looks gross as I did my orange blender. Hey, did you end up surprising Katrina? Did she know that we were gonna come home early? I totally did. It was really cool because I guess Everett and his daughter had just been by there and they left and I was coming back in and right when I was coming. Because everybody thought we were coming back today. But we actually came back a day early because we finished all of our work and had everything done. Yeah, it was good. You didn't tell her, you just walked in. No, no. It was so good dude. How crazy is that? I decided I wasn't gonna tell her. I wanted to surprise her and then how neat was that? That's why I felt the message was for me. I was like, this message from Jordan right now that we just happened to all of it. Oh, about how you come home? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Oh, it's interesting. Right, right. We almost blew it for you too. I was like talking with Sal. Ow! It was all loud outside. Well, it was great when she was actually listening to the podcast when I walked in. No way. Yes, I totally worked out that we were loud outside because you couldn't hear her or nothing like that. So what happened?   No, and I just kind of stood there and looked at her and then she waited to look up because she was right in the middle of packaging something. And then she looked up and she's like, oh my God, what are you doing here? She came home to see you, babe. Yeah, just three shoes. Three shoes, super something.   Oh my God, I'm on the couch.  He's pretending he's a lamp over there. In the corner.  Could you imagine? Could you imagine coming home to surprise your girl and you open the door and she's just. Isn't that how it happens most of the time?  I mean, I would definitely put some hurt on a dude for that. But at the same time, yeah, it's just like, ah, no, I guess we're done. I guess we're done. Dude, you never know how you'll react to something like that. It's a hard thing to predict because it's so. I try not to think about it too much. No, yeah. I know, right?  I'd rather get kicked in the nuts for a year. Yeah, that sounds better.  There's another guy. Oh, that's a. There's like two or three dudes. That's a hilarious movie. Oh, yeah, yeah.  I'm here for the gang bang. Yeah, that's right. I'm here for the gang bang. Oh, my God. That is an epic intro. Absolutely terrible. Did you say you had something you wanted to share? An article or something at all? Oh, yeah, I wanted to talk to you. I wanted to share something with you guys. I didn't know. I don't know when this happened, although I was reading another article that led me down the rabbit hole here. But legislation has now been introduced in 17 states. And basically what this is. So Hawaiian, Oklahoma are the most recent states to introduce laws that would give consumers an alternative to manufacture service departments when something breaks, says a report. So basically what this is, is they have made it to where, because Apple's kind of had a monopoly on this. So are some other brands. And Apple's the biggest culprit of this. We all know this, right? They changed the plugs. All their parts only fit with Apple parts. So this makes it impossible for a third party to come in and try and- Create accessories and stuff. Yes, create accessories or repair parts. And so they actually passed a law saying that Apple has to give up some of those things so other companies then can come and- A law? Well, they passed legislation here. It says in 17 states right here.  Apple, Toyota, John Deere and others have lobbied against the law saying that they're letting the third parties crack the shell and consumer devices opens the door for hackers and device. The right to repair people say manufacturers are simply trying to keep their monopoly on the lucrative business of repairing their own stuff.  They're figuring it out anyway. You know, like I always see accessory products to Apple phones and Apple computers. There's always somebody that can- But check this out, this is such a big deal and such a huge market that the first, this is just now in place, right? And this company, let me see if I can find the name of the company. It's called, I think back market, I wanna say is what it's called. They received like 400 million venture capitalist money and then they got this law went through and got passed. And- I hate that. Instantly like a hundred million dollar, a hundred million dollars in revenue. This is an example of crony capitalism. Those companies would not succeed without that legislation. Crazy. You know what I mean?  How weird is that? They're going to a company that's succeeding on its own. They're not forcing anybody by the problem. They're doing their own thing. And they're like, no, you need to make your product like this. We're gonna pass a law. No. What? Well, why it gets biased because the consumer just sees it for like, I mean, it's way better for the consumer because now what's happening is lots of consumers, yeah, the consumer thinks it's better. I think it's better. I know you're nodding your head the opposite way. Think a little bit smaller, don't think that big yet. You know what I'm saying? As just a simple person who wants a cheaper iPhone. So you can go get this iPhone 10 that's been fixed and sold for a hundred bucks. So that's what's happening right now. They're saying one out of every 10 iPhone Xs that were built were actually remanufactured or fixed or were broken phones. So a lot of people now are going that way. Not everybody can afford $1,000 iPhone X, but one that's been refurbished or been fixed that somebody else basically threw away or sent off, now they can purchase it for five, $600 or whatever. Oh my gosh. Crazy though, huh? No, I can't believe, well anytime something gets really big they gotta put their hands in it, you know what I mean? And that's what they're doing. Well I won't lie that it's frustrating as shit, that I mean, I think I also respect it. It's gonna reduce innovation. It takes away, it's gonna take away Apple's money for reinvestment into what they see that their market actually desires. And it's also gonna, it's also creating a situation where we don't know, there may be companies that are looking at this and trying to figure ways around it and compete, but now they're done because legislation just gave it to someone else because they've picked winners and losers. I guarantee you there was some companies, some third party companies lobbying those state governments to pass that. And they're the ones that are beneficiaries of it. Oh yeah, no, no, of course. Oh, that's so frustrating. I mean, it's, their argument or what they're trying to do is to keep it to where Apple doesn't, and there's just one example there's other companies too, but keep Apple from having a monopoly that they own the repair industry too, because if you have an iPhone and it breaks- It's their own product. But there is no monopoly by the way. Yeah, I was like, there's lots of other products that you can buy and stuff. They created the product. The only reason why they're so big- And the infrastructure. Yeah, the only reason why they're so big and make a lot of money is because they're good. Yeah. I mean, that's the only reason. And it's frustrating. Sure, it's frustrating when like you upgrade and you have to get like a new plug, that kind of sucks, but it's premium. The quality that they can control. What led me down this road? I think it was first, we were just talked about this at the beach house and I believe that episode goes up tomorrow night, Doug, or Sunday night. Sunday night. We did a kind of a random episode that's not really mind pump health and fitness stuff, just us while we're out the beach, kind of give back to you guys. And I actually was talking about, I was kind of telling you guys what sports teams can do now with athletes. And you're like, oh, that's really cool. And I'm like, yeah, I was talking about how, you know, more than likely that the Warriors did some backdoor deals and talking to Durant. How crazy is this? I opened up this morning, my, was it Hustle, my Hustle article that I get and I'm reading and it's about- They said Hustle and Durant was in that one, right? It's about Kevin Durant and being an investor with these other VCs in a tech company. What was it? It was like an insurance company or something. Of course. I don't even remember what it was, but it's a big startup company that's projected to be, you know, a multi-million, hundred million dollar company and he's invested in it.  It's just smart on the agent to be able to introduce these, you know, players to movers and shakers. It's part of the agent's job, right? Yeah. It's in the agent's job to get you paid.  It's like, how do you keep that money and how do you invest it wisely? Diversify it, you know? That's what they're trying to do. That's cool. So I was reading an article that was really, it was an article in a psychology publication and they were talking about like, why is it that, so they just did some polls, right? And this is a 2016 poll, I should say. 20,000 people in some of the world's richest countries. And the question was, all things considered, do you think the world is getting better or worse? And 10% in Sweden, 6% in the US, 4% in Germany and 3% in France thought things were getting better. So most people thought things were getting either worse or staying the same. Now objectively speaking, obviously things are getting better consistently across the board, right? Like, you know, the world is getting wealthier. There's way less people under the poverty line. I know that there was these standards that we had passed. People that have diseases. I mean, just less war. Let me literally, the world is a lot better today than it was 20 or 30 years ago. Didn't they cure polio? And in this article, they're talking about like, why is it that humans consistently think things are worse even when they're not? And they say that, they think it has to do with evolution because, you know, we're constantly bombarded with information, right? And it's in your brain's best interest to side with the bad news than it is to focus on the good news. It's that better safe than sorry mentality, right?   Don't go to that lake anymore. And so we tend to focus on the negative, which is why you never see a reporter on the news reporting from, and you know, today from this country where there is no war and violence, like they're never gonna do that. It's always the bad stuff that we focus on. It was just a fascinating article because as I'm thinking about it, I was like, wow, that is totally our tendency. Our tendency is totally to be negative and totally to think of the negative stuff because it occupies more of our brain space or our thinking space because it's trying to keep us safe. But the problem with today is we're not just bombarded with information that's immediately in front of us.    And I need to be careful, I need to be scared. And so we're walking around in this kind of state of negative. Some people may feel like it's getting worse. It's just because now you understand what's going on in the world. World news, we have access to all these disasters and all these different events that are happening where back when we had papers and everything, they'd only cover local news or national news. Well, how crazy would it be to see how much that would change if all news and all information that we was providing you had the opposite spin was about everything that was going great in the world? Oh, guess what just found out over here? Someone saved this baby. If the new turn on the news and they only reported on all the amazing things that were happening across the world, that percentage would completely flip on its head. It would be the other way around. Oh, this is our fault again. This is like what the ratings determined what the news, what kind of news they gave us. This is why, I made that debate about why I'm not always a fan of what we always say like, oh, I like that we're bringing awareness to this. We always talk about the Colin Kaepernick thing. I know I rubbed everybody the wrong way with that one, which I'm not a fan of that. Like I'm not a fan of always bringing awareness to certain things or bringing light to certain things. Well, it's because we focus on the negative.  What can I do to be a better person in this world so I can impact the people around me so this racism doesn't continue on? But then there's a whole bunch more people. Well, see the problem is that we consume the negative. We seek it out and consume it. If you know what I mean? Again, if you're in a tribe and people are talking about all the good stuff, like you're in a tribe of 30 people or 15 people and people are talking and everybody's like, oh, I had a great day. Oh, I found some fruit over here. Oh, this is, you know, it's really cool. And then one person in the tribe was like, dude, I got bit by a lion. Everybody's gonna listen to that guy. Everybody's gonna focus on that guy.  Nobody's gonna care about any of the other stories, you know what I'm saying?  We just know nobody wants to watch it.  You know what I mean? So it's just a very interesting.  And because most of us know that we're supposed to be good, there is a part of us that wants to dabble in the thoughts of what would it be like bad? I don't know. Think of it like that. Maybe, maybe, I don't know. When I watch that stuff, I know I'm drawn to the bad because you just, you wanna know what's going on. But why, ask yourself why that? Again, I think it's that survival thing, you know? And I'm trying to be more aware of it by... Do you or do you think that's your inner, you know, devil and angel inside of you that's always gonna be in battle and conflict? And because you know you're a good human and you would never do those things, it still interests you to see it. I don't know. I don't know, that's interesting. I don't necessarily derive pleasure from it though. Well, again, I don't think you necessarily have to. I mean, I think you're a good human being and you know how to decipher that, but I think that the natural animal instinct that draws you to that, maybe that is because... Well, I think in some ways, right? Like people like watching violent sports, you know? I mean, think about it, look, let's all look. I'm a big fan of certain violent sports, like mixed martial arts, for example, in boxing. But why do sports is war? Sports is war just in a different way. Or glad. It's reenacting. And you know, what's crazy is the harder hitting, the more dangerous it is, the more we like it. I know, I know. The closer it is to actually killing each other, the more we enjoy it. I know, I know. Think about that. Look at the rise of UFC. Well, we used to... Look how much it's blowing up right now for that exact reason.  Wasn't that long ago?  And all those games and people were watching... That's what I'm saying, are we drawn to it in a sense? Oh, for sure. For sure, there's a level of that.  And you have to kind of check yourself on that and see, you know, which you're feeding the most. Exactly, exactly. All right, another cool article is kind of a set. Back to the negative. I was going to talk about negative news. Dude, a study came out that... They studied all these common over-the-counter drugs, and they found that 37% of American adults are taking common drugs that can increase the risk of a depression. And when you take more than one of them at a time, it increases your risk of depression by something like 15%. And some of these are like antacids, like antacids or... Yeah, like just over-the-counter type of drugs that can cause... So, Matt, think about this. How many people are taking medications over-the-counter type, like proton pump inhibitors, for example, right? Those have been linked to depression. Bro, I'm so thankful that... What's a proton pump inhibitor? What is that? Like a... Prilosex. Prilosex, stuff like heartburn and stuff like that. Yeah, so they regulate that process. I'm so glad that... I don't know what... I remember you bringing it up as far as the scare for dementia, like they're starting to point in that direction, and I was like, no, okay, I gotta get off this stuff. And like, what do I have to do? And just going through that process, I'm so glad now that's coming out. It's like, man, it's scary. Because I was doing that every single day. Yeah, so it says some hormonal birth controls have been tied to depression, heart and blood pressure medications, proton pump inhibitors, antacids, and painkillers were among the more than 200 commonly used drugs that researchers said have depression or suicide listed as a potential effect. Now, I'm sure for most people that take one or two of them, they're probably not gonna get that. But when you spread that out over millions, 37% of Americans, right? That's how many millions of people you're gonna start to see arise in some of these mental disorders for sure, right? I'm still stuck on and tripping on what we talked about a couple of weeks ago when we watched that- With Ritalin and Adderall? Yes, dude. Because being somebody who's only tried that a couple of times, I think probably five or six times I've had Ritalin, maybe four or five times I've had Adderall in my life, right? And it's a very, very powerful, powerful thing.  Right. You know? I mean, I know how it makes- The same dose. And I know the difference of what someone else might say is amazing or hyper focused or I needed or whatever you're trying to justify. But at the end of the day, it's like, that's a very powerful, powerful tool. I've taken 10 milligrams of Ritalin and I'll feel that motherfucker and I'll feel it. That's a dose that kids will get prescribed. That's crazy to me. More, some of them will get 20 milligrams in a day. Like double that, you know? That's insane to me. That's insane. And you know the sad part is kids can't express themselves as well as adults. So if a kid's feeling anxious or, you know, having kind of negative thoughts or whatever, how are they gonna express it well?  Imagine a kid who just doesn't know what they're feeling and mom and dad is saying, no, you gotta take your medicine, you know? It's kind of crazy the situation we're placing ourselves in. No, and it's, what's crazy to me is to think where they're all gonna be in the net. It's just, we haven't seen, it's recently erupted to where it's at now. I mean, it's like, sure it's been around for a while but not at the level that it's at now. So we're talking about, yeah, millions more.  You know, what have we been doing? We gotta really reevaluate what we're doing. The two big things I can see is that we're sick, you know, physically. So our bodies and our brains are kind of sick. There's maybe inflammation, you know, kind of systemic inflammation. There's maybe medications that have their own. And by the way, there's no such thing as a side effect. There's just effects.  That's not usually part of it. Yeah, they're all effects. Yeah, they're all effects. But you know, we're kind of sick. And then on top of that, we take these medications and stuff that all that. So physically speaking, we feel these symptoms of things like anxiety, depression, paranoia, because there is a physical feeling that you can interpret as that, right?  And then you're gonna interpret that as I feel sad. You know, what's going on to get that feedback loop.  And so you combine the two and you've got like this kind of health epidemic that's not looking so good. And you know, you're starting to see the ramifications of it with the amount of people on medications and the rise of chronic illnesses that we shouldn't be having. But I do think we're more, I think it might be going in the opposite direction here pretty soon. You think so? I think so. I'm gonna continue with the sad stories, man. I saw that video of Ronnie Coleman, man. Oh, man, speaking of, yeah, dude. That's really sad. Yeah, Ronnie Coleman was the greatest. I easily, I think the greatest Mr. Olympia there was by far. I don't think anybody could touch him. Just incredible, super strong, crazy looking physique.  He's so bad. I was watching a video with Adam where like he's like walking, like he's totally crippled. Like really bad. How old is he? He's only, he's not that old, right? He's 50 maybe? Yeah, maybe. You know? But just jacked his body up because of the sport. Yeah.  Yeah. Fused spine. Yeah, fused spine. And then just to watch him walk around and move. And then I, the clip had talked about a doctor. It was just a real short clip of the doctor saying like how he's still lifting weights. It's probably not what's best with him, but they're just kind of like whatever. You could see him still hanging on. Like they showed clips of him training like kind of hard still and I'm like, dude. Oh man. Why? Like why? Like what are you doing like? He's got his whole identity wrapped in it. Of course I know. Yeah, I'm saying. But I'm like, I cannot believe that all these things would happen to you and you still identify so much with that. That's tough to watch. What else do you need to get you to stop? Well, you know, when you push your body that. It's really unfortunate. When you push your body to that limit, especially when you lift really, really heavy, the smallest inconsistencies with your movement or the smallest deviations in your form or the smallest changes in recruitment patterns that may not be favorable become magnified. Yeah. Everything's exaggerated. Like if I have a slight problem with my form with a squat, like a slight one, like let's say it's 2% off perfect and I'm squatting normal weight. Let's say I'm squatting 150 pounds for reps. Might not make a big difference. In fact, I may never notice that it's causing a problem, but you throw 600 pounds on my back or 700 pounds on my back. That 2% becomes magnified. Oh, there's no room for error.   Now you're pushing your body beyond what it can do naturally. You know, it's no different look. You're masking the signals that are warning you. Dude, something goes wrong in a car with 600 horsepower. It's usually, something goes wrong with the engine in a car with 600 horsepower.  Something goes wrong in your Honda Civic. You know, 150 horsepower Honda Civic. It's not gonna explode the engine and need a full reconstruction. It's kinda like that, right? You can kinda limp it into the shop. Yeah, yeah, it's kinda like that, right? Totally.  You get away with them when you're not that strong but when you start to lift like, there's that video of Coleman, was he squatting 800 pounds? Yeah. I mean, for a bodybuilder, that's insane. Bodybuilders don't do that, you know? Insane. That's crazy. This clause brought to you by OrganiFi. For those days you fall short on getting your organic veggies or whole food nutrition, OrganiFi fills the gap with laboratory tested certified organic superfoods to help give your health and performance the added edge. Try OrganiFi totally risk-free for 60 days by going to OrganiFi.com. That's O-R-G-A-N-I-F-I.com and use a coupon code MINDPUMP for 20% off at checkout. First question is from Ali Barbara 4209. I'd love to know some of your suggestions to help survive an injury. By that I mean, how to not lose gains, mobility and sanity. Hmm. It depends on the injury. But one of the biggest things that I noticed when I'm out because I'm hurt or something I've suggested to clients in the past that have made a big difference, one thing we tend to do when we're immobile is we stay inside all day long. And so we're not getting any sunlight and we're not changing our environment. Back in the day, a long time ago, hospitals used to do this in fact. Hospitals would take patients on their beds and they'd put them outside for sun therapy. And people, I mean, statistically speaking, they do studies on this, people feel a lot better. So do I. When I'm sick, if I just go out in the sun. Oh, my wife tells me that all the time she takes patients and makes sure to get them outside, to get them suned, to get them fresh air, man, it's therapy. Absolutely. Now as far as losing gains and all that stuff depends on the injury, but if you have an injured body part like your knee, for example, let's say you hurt your knee and you can't do anything with your legs, you can still train the rest of your body. And what you'll find is, although you will lose gains in your legs because you can't work them out, there is this carry over systemic anabolic effect that you get from training the rest of your body.  You see what I'm saying? So training the other parts of your body is probably a good thing while you're injured rather than just doing nothing at all where the whole anabolic effect is lost and everything goes catabolic and then you start to really start to deteriorate. Right, isn't the law of radiation, it affects, like even if you're working your upper body, it's gonna affect your lower body and it's gonna be stimulated on that level. But yeah. Years ago when I dislocated my knee, one of the things I would do is because I couldn't bend it for a while, is I would just, because I went to the physical therapist and they put stim on my quad, you know, the little pads that make the muscle flex, which will reduce some of the atrophy. Definitely doesn't reduce most of it, but it reduces some of it. But I noticed that when she was doing that and so then went at home, excuse me, when I went home, what I would do throughout the day is, you know, I couldn't bend my knee, but I would just flex my quad really hard. Like every 30 minutes or so, I'd make sure to like connect that muscle and squeeze and that's gotta help, right? That's gotta help more than not do anything at all. Yeah, and I mean, I would focus on, this is an opportunity to work on other parts of your body and really develop better patterns overall, right? So it's not just like, you know, sort of using it as like an excuse to, well, I'm gonna have to like, just do a bunch of arm exercises, you know, and do all these things that I can do because it's not gonna hurt my knee or like, you know, if it's my knee that's injured, like I wanna take that time and opportunity now, to establish better neural pathways, better connectivity, ways that now I can better myself, you know, mobility-wise and establish, you know, better mechanics and just really work on form and things like that that don't, it's not like I'm like, I'm afraid of losing gains.  It's the other thing.  That's gonna drive you crazy. Just be okay with it is this is time to recuperate and really work on something else entirely. This is a hard one for me. And it's hard because I don't have enough information on the person and exactly where this injury came from, what the injury is. Well, what did you do with your, when you hurt your Achilles, what were some things you did to kind of maintain your sanity? Well, this is, what I can do is I can share my experience, right? I can share what I'm going through still currently right now. This is, obviously I'm far from over and I've definitely come to grips with that, that this is not going to be a couple of months, you know, fix and I'm gonna be back to my normal self. So first of all, when my Achilles went, like it just popped out of nowhere, right? When I was playing basketball and the first reaction to that is, oh my God, fuck, I'm angry, I'm mad, I'm upset, all these emotional things go and I'm in pain, feeling sorry for myself, all this stuff. And then once that all kind of dissipates, then it kind of, I kind of start to look at myself and go like, okay, how is all this my fault? You know, what did I not do or how did I end up in this situation? On all different levels, not just from a physical one, a mental one, how did I get myself in this space and start to look at all the steps that I didn't do right and start to address those and not just literally address like, for example, like having good ankle stability and good foot strength and connection and warming up properly and not maybe pushing myself so fast and hard. Like there's a lot of different things that I didn't do right. So I'm looking at all the things that I didn't do right in the first place and I'm definitely meditating on that. Like how do I not allow this type of a situation? Even if it's not the same injury, how do I not let the same type of situation happen to me somewhere else on my body? The other thing that I have also had to do is realize that this is just my body. You know what I'm saying? There's so much more of me than my muscles, my mobility and my gains. And that is not me. There's so much more of me. And there's so much more of me that needs fixing and that needs work. And I look at things, and this is probably my religious background as a kid growing up that goes like, okay, what is the message in this? What are the parts of my life? Was I not neglecting and I wasn't putting energy into that I kind of now have plenty of time to because- Like you got forced. Yeah. And that's kind of how I look at stuff like that. Forget what you believe in as far as whether that was intended to happen to me or not. But it does give me this new perspective of, okay, let me look at other things that I can control since I can't control that. I cannot make my Achilles better tomorrow. I can do things. I can put things into practice to help it heal faster, to make sure it doesn't happen again to me. And all those things in practice, which I would suggest that you do for whatever your injury is, is take care of the injury, do the steps that you're supposed to do to recover the injury and then to prevent it in the future. But as far as the sanity piece goes, well, there's a lot of different things that the way I'm looking at this. One, I know I've done this a bajillion times where I've not trained really hard for a while, they got back to it. Like your body, you get your gains back really fast.  Yeah, really quick. It's really hard to reach new PRs and to reach new levels of fitness in your body. But if you lose it, it's really easy to get back to where you were. That makes sense. Yeah, I call it muscle memory. And there's some science to support why that happens, but it's definitely widely observed. It happens in everybody. I like to working on the mental piece which you're bringing up as far as like something you could self-reflect and use that time maybe that you were really in the gym for like an hour or whatever. Now it's shortened because maybe you don't need to spend as much time on that. Maybe you could use that time to really apply it towards something else like relationships or education or something else. What you're doing is you're finding meaning in a tragedy. Like something that happened, what's the meaning that I can find in?  Otherwise it's just terrible. Right, and I'm going down the rabbit hole of feeling sorry for myself and the victim role versus looking at this as a gift as hard as and crazy as that may sound. Like this is a gift to me that I no longer have this distraction of playing basketball, snowboarding and building a bunch of muscle because I literally physically can't do that right now.  Where should that be spent now? So then now I've been meditating on that like really trying to reflect on where what parts of my life was I potentially sacrificing for those selfish desires to look a certain way to jump so high, run so fast or be so mobile which are all I think okay goals and okay to be important in your life but dealing with an injury now, I look at it completely different. So that's how I've come to grips with where I'm at right now and I'm kind of weird too. I tend to like go to the extreme because of that. Like I've been joking with the boys that I'm going to embrace my Brad Pitt body right now. Right, and it's like- That's a fight club body. Right, absolutely. I know it's my Achilles, my chest, my shoulders, my biceps aren't broken. I could be building the hell out of them right now if I wanted to. I could be hitting them good and I could have a great upper body right now and just shitty calves. I spent most of my life with that. So that's not a big deal, you know what I'm saying? But that's just it. To me, that's not that important. So I even have let, I've really shifted my focus on other aspects of my life so much that I'm not really aware of that. I mean, I've already proven what I can do to my body. What levels, what extreme levels of mobility and with physique, what I can do like, so it's not, that's not important to me right now. So to me, that's where I'm at in my life with my injury and how I'm personally dealing with it. I can't completely speak for you because I don't know where you're at or how long you've been training with injuries. Sometimes the other silver lining on something like this is you're injured, you're forced to not be able to work out anyway. When you are healed, you're starting from a new position and sometimes it's easier to go in a different direction because of that and go, okay, well, now I'm just gonna focus on purely on mobility. Whereas before I was so afraid of losing my strength gains that I didn't wanna focus purely on mobility. Well, now I'm in such a poor starting point anyway. Why not start from scratch but really work on mobility? So that when I move forward, I have better ranges of motion, better form, better technique. This is exactly what I did with my last kind of injury. But my last one was more nagging pain than an actual real acute injury like I just had with the Achilles and it came off of from all the bodybuilding, all the bodybuilding, all the excessive calories and pushing my body to get bigger. My body was rebelling. It was my elbows. I had crazy, it was just absolutely painful. Low back was starting to bother me, knees.  I mean, my body was kind of at its limit right there and I was like, okay, well, let me go the complete opposite way. So I took all that energy that I was putting into trying to be this big buff guy all the time to being super hyper mobile and I got all kinds of incredible benefits from it. And so now I'm trying to intertwine all of those. So yeah, maybe look at the injury less of as a poor me and a scared thing of I'm gonna lose gains and how do I make sure I have mobility of like, let me look at other aspects of my life that I can improve on. And the other aspects of your life doesn't necessarily have to be outside of health and fitness. You absolutely can still be in health and fitness and you can improve upon other things. So I think that's how I would handle it. Next up is K. Cody R.N. Is the best philosophy to bulk then cut? I, okay, so yes, in a sense, but we don't, I'm not a big believer in these long, massive bulks, but when I tend to start people off who want to get leaner, I tend to try to get their metabolism to speed up a little bit. So I typically will get them to focus on resistance training and I'll bump their calories up a little, little by little, because then it gives me more room to cut. Now the opposite depends on the individual. Like if you're coming, and that's just because most people, right? Yeah. You're already overweight. I don't think it's good. Well, no, not necessarily. Yeah, it depends. What it depends more on is where Sal's going.  Right, I'm cutting you first.  Like sometimes you get overweight people who come to you. I think you could actually make this very simple and easy for people to be able to get this. And you just, you got to understand where your body is, the amount of activity that you're doing and like, do you fall in the normal range of caloric intake for that? So do you have a really healthy metabolism? Is your metabolism really working for you? You need to first figure that out. And then this answer becomes a lot easier.  She is, you know, at a hundred and she's gonna hate me for using her weight right now too, I feel so bad. She's at 168 pounds right now, which is the heaviest that she's ever been. And she's only eating 16 to 1,800 calories. Then you have somebody like Melissa and both these girls, by the way, have competed, we consider themselves competitors, athletes, really good shape, both train hard, everything, good mechanics, all these great things working for them. And Melissa is about a hundred and I think she's around 115 or so, I don't know where her last weight check-in is and she's getting ready for a show. And she's eating 2,000 calories and she's in a cut to get on stage and she's only like a hundred and 18 pounds and she's eating more than this other girl. Now that those are two completely different metabolisms and I would handle them completely different on my advice based off of that.  Are you in a healthy normal range, the way you're consuming? Or are you way above or you way below that? And that would decide how I would take this person, start this person off.  So this is me. So me, one of the greatest pieces of advice ever given to myself was to cut for the first time in my life, for 15 years of my life, I've been trying to push more calories down my face, never wanting to lean down because I never wanted to be skinny. I've always wanted to be a bigger guy, but the first time that I really cut and cut hard, it was like mind blowing. Especially when you went back to eating more. Cause then when I went back to eating more, your body's assimilated. Oh yeah. My body started to put gains on what I'd never seen before. Same exact thing happened to me. I'd never gotten my body super, super shredded. And when I finally did and commit to it, when I went back to eating a normal amount, muscle, just came on my body. It's literally the opposite of what you try to do with someone with a slow metabolism. It's like I'm taking someone with a slow metabolism and I'm trying to ramp it up so it makes it easier to burn fat. But then when you take someone with a really high metabolism because they're constantly feeding themselves and lifting weights or whatever, I gotta make it a little bit more efficient so that you don't have to feed yourself 6,000 calories just to gain weight. And this is actually, I like this topic because it's actually the opposite of what most people do. And this is extending the conversation that I was having with Jessica about this was, most people that are always trying to lose weight do this. They're on and off the wagon, that's normal. We all agree and know that, right? That people very rarely, you wouldn't have a problem. You wouldn't be not in shape if you were very, very consistent year in, year out.  And so anytime they've ever started exercise, they're in a cut because they always wanna lose body fat, right? They're always overweight. They're never where they wanna be at their goal. They've never seen that lean body that they've always wanted or thought. So every time they decide, it's time to get back in the gym, they also clean up their diet and start eating less calories. And that's of course what initially gives them that first week or two of seeing change in results. Like no shit, if you all of a sudden move way more and you start lifting weights and eating less calories, you're gonna lose body fat. But you have no idea what a bad swing on your metabolism you're about to do right now. In fact, you'd be far better off slowly, okay? Introducing the exercise and or maintaining the calories where you're at or potentially increasing them. Which is like what Sal's like. And that's one of the things that I'm having a hard time because Jessica came to me and she goes, cause she wants to lose weight right now. Right, she's like, I don't know.  She's like, I've never been here before. You know, I need to get down. What do I do?  And she's like, are you kidding me? Like, no way. That's the opposite of what I thought I was supposed to. And I'm like, I just, I need you to trust me that this is what, and so, now mind you, I've known her for a very long time. And you know, she knows what she's kind of done. And so she absolutely is. And we're now months into this conversation. And so she's seen her body putting muscle, but we have not lost any weight. So she's been, she's on week seven of listening to me the way we're doing this right now. Get her metabolism. And we're slowly. And how much of an increase over seven weeks that she's seen in calories? So right now she's up to 21 to 2200 calories where she at. I got her between 16 and 1800. Oh wow. So she's at 21 to 22. That's crazy. That's a big jump in a seven week period. Right. Well, there's also tricks that I do to kind of mitigate some of that, right? So I also slowly increase neat. So I don't want to push your body hard with cardio. I don't want to do anything like that. But I want to create a little more activity in her life to make up for a little bit of the extra calories that we're doing. Cause I really want to push her calories up a lot higher before we come back the other way down. So I'm, and I'm also slowly increasing her intensity week or week. So she comes in and sees me once a week. Can we, and we work out together. And I've told her, I said, listen, let me be the pace car of your intensity. Any, so your hardest workouts always going to be with me. I'm going to give you a hard workout. Don't ever exceed. Don't try and top me with the type, the way you feel from this workout. I want you to mimic that for the week between we see each other. And then the next week, I add a little more volume. So I'm teaching her to not, you know, be competitive. She's the appropriate amount of intensity. She's a very high, high competitive athlete. So I know, I know. Should type A? Yeah. Oh, it's always a type A. And a high competitive athlete. So you get a high competitive athlete and type A personality. They don't lack motivation, you know what I'm saying? They want to overdo it. They want to overdo it. So the conversation is definitely unique. You have to put the reins on them. Yeah. Here's another thing too, when it comes to bulking and cutting. If your ultimate goal is to lose body fat, you do what we're talking about, but then also intermittently cut and bulk, or rather do these mini cuts and mini bulk. So rather than doing a 12 week period of just cutting, do like two or three week periods of cutting and interrupt them with four to five days or a week of maintenance or a slight bulk. And that'll help mitigate that metabolic adaptation where your metabolism slows down so much to where now you're in a thousand calories and just to maintain your body weight. That's a terrible position to be in. Next up is Maheen R6. Does working out, including bulking and cutting, affect your sex drive positively or negatively? Good question. Good health affects your sex drive positively. Bad health affects it negatively, okay? So that being said. Both of them can harm it. Both of them can help it. That's right. Hormones, so I mean, it's all, yeah.  I mean, that's just- Well, this is a great transition from that question because this is exactly like this, right? Every time, especially when I train older people, one of my favorite things about training older people is they tend to be very blunt. And every single time, like two or three months into our training, they'd come up to me, they'd be like, so I'm noticing that I'm feeling different from my workouts. I'll be like, oh, really, Carol, what do you mean? Oh, I'm a little bit more like energized. I'm like, oh yeah, you have more energy. That makes sense. No, no, no, no, no. Like I'm more vibrant. And I'll be like- More feisty. And I'll say- You're more colorful. I'll say, is your libido higher? And they'll be like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'll be like, yeah, it's totally normal. Or- I'm like revved up. Like this other client that I had actually came up to me and told me, is it normal to be hornier now that I'm lifting weights? I'm like, yeah, it's totally normal. 75 year old woman.   Remember, sex drive is, it exists to drive you to procreate. Remember that. That's what it exists for ultimately, right? It's to push you to mate, to make another human being. If your body senses that you are in a state of poor health or in an environment of poor health, where there's a lot of stress or you're not getting enough food or you're overworking, you're just working out so much and so hard, your body will literally put the brakes on whether on you'd be able to procreate, especially for a woman.  So we actually see this with female athletes all the time. When they overwork and under eat, they lose their period.  So we're gonna stop your ability to have a child. Do you personally notice more in one than the other? Because I have this like, so and this is something that I've actually noticed a lot because of the extreme cuts and bulks of competing. I've been able to kind of really pay attention to this and I've done it so many times now that I've been able to kind of measure like, oh okay, wow, every time I get to this point, my sex drive gets fucked, right? So when I start really, really aggressively bulking to where my body fat percentage creeps up over 15%, I start to feel this kind of dip in my sex drive for sure. It's not huge, but I notice a difference. And then when I cut really hard, I notice once I get like sub six percent, I notice the same thing. In fact, Katrina and I used to hate like the last week or two of training because we're not having said I have no sex drive whatsoever before I get on stage. So to me, the bulking and cutting thing, if you can stay in a very healthy range of body fat percentage, I think there's great benefits to both of it positively. So for a male, so I would think somewhere in between the nine to 13% body fat range, whether you're cutting or bulking, it will should keep that sex drive feeling really good. Exceeding that up or down, I think could have a negative effect.  But done properly, no form of exercise comes close, not even in the same universe as resistance training for increasing or improving your libido. Because it affects your hormones positively in a very anabolic way, men and women, women the same thing. And then of course there's a psychological component, right, when your body's shaping and feeling more firm or stronger or more muscular, of course you feel sexier or whatever. So when I cut, sometimes my sex drive goes up, but I think it's part of it is because I feel more attractive maybe, because I feel leaner and I kind of look better, that might be a part of it. But from a physiological standpoint, weight training will affect your sex drive far more effectively than anything else. In fact, when I coach female clients, I'll ask them many times like, okay, pay attention to your libido, you don't need to necessarily report it to me, but if your libido starts to increase, that's probably a good sign that your metabolism is boosting and we're building some muscle and getting stronger. Not always, but probably. So definitely has a positive effect on your sex drive. And this may be why gyms are such horny places. Jesus. Yeah, it's a meat market in there. Every time I go to one to five reps, it's just like this immediate surge. I agree. Morning boners. Oh, there you are. I didn't notice this until just recent with the whole going off of testosterone and I remember sharing this with Sal, I was like, dude, you know, it's crazy. If all the cool things that I've done to increase my hormone levels, nothing have I felt like just being consistent with like heavy squatting or deadlifting. Like when that's in my routine, and I didn't notice it until I stopped it again. Like I was doing it really good because I was doing everything to try and like boost it. And I was starting to slowly feel better. I was like, oh, cool. And then I get, you know, we had a busy week or two and so I kind of fell off my weightlifting.  My libido has definitely been down this week. I didn't even think about that till now. And I'm like, oh, whatever, you know, maybe it's just, maybe it's stress, maybe we're flying, maybe whatever. I'm thinking of all these other excuses. And then all of a sudden I'd go train a real heavy leg day or something. And then I was like, it's literally, dude, that night, like libido back up again. And I feel great like the next day. So funny, like there's two things for me. So like, yeah, like lifting, like heavy rep, like heavy weight from that one to five rep range, but also like my, so my sex drive goes up. But then also like my listening to heavy metal increases. Like I felt like I want to listen to like really angry music. It's just like they both, like it's intertwined.  No. No, either one of you guys, music listeners, while you guys are getting down. No, but I have tried the whole Brain FM action. The what? That was champion. Which one? Brain FM, like focus. I know I did the same thing and it just, it distracted you. No, I couldn't, it was weird. I couldn't finish. You couldn't finish? I couldn't finish. Which is, well, you know, I mean, you gotta switch it over there. I mean, I guess that's the good thing. Very wide at the end. I guess some people might think that's the good thing. I just picture you making love different and weird too, though. So it doesn't work, you know what I'm saying? How do I make, how do you, how do you? Adam, when you picture me making love, how do you picture it? I don't want you to draw it on the board or something. I don't picture you at all. I picture lots of lights and tools and stuffed animals and costumes. Like I picture that. Tools. Yeah, right. So I feel like that maybe doesn't, strange helicopter positions, you know, stuff like that. No, I feel like Justin and I like make love. It's like dancing for us. We're more like, we dance. I got you, girl. I do it all, bro. You're like more like a laboratory.  Check out this new device.  Visqueen, you know, over the floor. Oh my God, make sure. You know this thing about resistance training that's interesting that I want to mention is it does increase anabolic hormone levels, but it also increases the receptor density that those hormones attach to.  So let's say you test them and they don't go up. The receptors that that testosterone attaches to actually up-regulate. So you actually start to utilize more of that testosterone in a more effective way. And so you feel like you have higher testosterone because you've up-regulated those receptors. So it's actually two-fold or two ways that resistance training may improve that effect from your hormones. Next question is from Teach and Train. What is your opinion on teachers or people in professional positions competing? Do you think it's inappropriate to have staged pictures online? Or do you think it's an outlet to show others how strong you can be and that you're more than just a teacher? Some people may think it's inappropriate to show off your body when you teach kids. Well, this is a fun question. Yeah, it's a fun question. That's a little on the fringe. I think it depends on the picture, right? Like, you don't want to necessarily- Yeah, there's tasteful ways to do it, right? Well, there's that one pose in bikini.  Bikini is tough. What's that butt pose they do in bikini? I love that you guys are right away with this way. This is my opinion. Here's it. It doesn't really depend on anything. It's really, there's a cause and effect to everything that we do.  It may motivate a couple of people to go to the gym. It might do some- I mean, if I was a student, I'd be stout. Might get you a couple of dates. Yeah, it might get some kids in class more engaged in what you're talking about up there. There's a lot of this- This is just- But then you also might piss off some moms that are extremely conservative and that are concerned with that. Or you might make somebody really jealous who has to work with you all the time. So no matter how you look at this, I mean, even ourselves, right? Us putting our stuff out there, everything that we post out there, there is a cause and effect to that. And you have to take that into consideration and be okay with both sides of that. Now, what's your personal opinion? Let's say you were a teacher. Would you post pictures of yourself? Let me tell you this. I'll tell you, here's why this is hard for us or hard for me to answer it like that because I gotta be honest. I don't even know if I'd be an Instagram person if we didn't have this current job. That's a true, that's a good point. Cause I don't think I would be- It's not that important to me. Now, I'm not knocking people that it is and that they really enjoy and everything like that, but trust me, I see all the bad in it for sure. Like I mean, the posting that I do on social media right now, like the way I kind of look at it for me, it's like, okay, this will be cool because it'll be an album maybe one day that I can kind of look back. You're like, oh, remember all the memory lane for me and maybe my kids can see it later on. But then again, think about that, right? Your kids and you can see it later on. And if you post something up there, like that stuff lives forever. And can you make your account private anyway? You know what I mean? If you're a teacher and you're worried about this, can't you just make it private just so you can show your friends? But then what's the point of posting pictures of yourself? Just show your friends and family. You're right, it sounds like somebody who just wants other people to look at them. I mean, that's kind of what it sounds like. And you know what? There's a little bit of, it's not equal necessarily. Like if a man is flexing on his Instagram and showing everybody, probably not gonna be interpreted the same as if it's a woman and her bikini doing some of her poses. And some of the poses that they do too, like the bikini poses, like the butt pose, that's not even a muscle pose. It's just literally turning around, bending over and showing my butt, which 15 years ago used to be considered porn basically. But now it's a pose in an event that you're doing to show off your glute ham tie-in or whatever. Listen, I think to each their own, we're all definitely people that agree that everybody should have their eyes.  Like cause there's, I could see all the positives too. You're not going to, but the parents are gonna judge it 100%. Right, and you as a teacher should think about that. And you should just, what you're putting out will get evaluated. Right. So you just have to know that.  They're gonna go through it. Right, and that could be a very negative. Now, you could flip this, right? And there could be a very positive thing.  If I speak something, if I say I'm gonna do something, I follow it. And I never felt the accountability, like I felt the accountability when I posted something in the public.  That's cause who I am. If I say something to thousands that are hundreds of people, potentially over a bigger your Instagram is, that I'm gonna do something, I never felt the pressure to do it more than that, which ended up serving me because I was trying to accomplish something. And so for me, if there's some people like, for example, Taylor who unfollowed me and didn't follow me anymore because he couldn't handle those selfie pics, you know what I'm saying? Like, if that means I lose, It's too handsome for her. If I lose a friend of mine, that's no longer gonna follow me because I'm putting that stuff out. I was willing to sacrifice that for the way it served me. So you gotta have asked yourself that, how is it serving you? And is it worth what you potentially could be sacrificing for that? And that's gonna need to be different for every single person that makes this decision.  If you're a teacher, there's probably certain things you shouldn't say or do. Like I class all the time on social media, but if I was a teacher for kids. I don't think it's that you should or you shouldn't say. I think it's you just need to be aware. Here's what I'm saying. Here's what I'm saying. From my opinion, if I'm a teacher, I am gonna do different things on social media knowing that it may impact my career. It may impact my job.  This is my own personal opinion, but. Right. You could get fired. You could, look. Again, if you're a police officer and you wanna talk about race relations, probably not a good idea to post about that on your social media because you're a cop. You know what I'm saying? People are gonna interpret it a particular way. You have an opinion and I get that and you're free to have an opinion, but you're not free from the consequences of your opinion and actions. That's it right there. So you just gotta be okay with that. That's right. Cause even a cop could do that, but boy, you might have a lot of rough days at work. You know what I'm saying? But you know what? But maybe that's so liberating for you that it feels so good or you want to do that so bad that it's worth that. Maybe it's worth that for you. Maybe this teacher feels liberated by posting pictures of herself on Instagram or maybe it keeps her accountable to staying in shape and it's more worth than her job. Maybe she's like, I care more about that that I could potentially lose my job. I could always find another job. She wouldn't ask this question. She's sabotaging, yeah. She's sabotaging her career. She wouldn't even ask this question then. She would just do it. I think this is a case of... Well, is this... Oh, okay. It's teaching transmasters. I think this is a case of wanting your cake and eating it too. But I like to be a teacher, but I know it looks bad, but I wanna do this also. Well, pick one. If you know what you think's gonna happen or whatever and you're pretty confident of it, pick one. Which one's more important? Well, I would also dive deeper into, you say show others how strong you can be and... There's ways you could do that. Well, yeah. Where I'm going with this is I would ask myself, why do I care about showing other people how strong I am? Ask yourself that. It's usually self-serving. Right, right. So just think about that.  You can totally go through that whole process by yourself. You don't need that confirmation from everybody. There's also, and there's also too, I think, levels, there's a spectrum here, right?  Like, can you show a good shot of you in a bikini and presenting it and then presenting like... This is like, this is how what I try to do when I was posting my shirtless, shameless selfies that I was posting, I tried to use that as a way to teach and show people things like, watch what I'm doing with my physique and I would, underneath you, I would list my water intake, my carbohydrate, I would list everything. I was trying to show people like how you can manipulate the body and the things that I was doing exercise. So there's ways for you to do it, I think, that it can be tasteful and it doesn't have to be. You just got to take into consideration that you absolutely could offend somebody. Listen, if I was a teacher, and I wanted to, especially female teacher, because again, I think the guys get away with this more than the women would, but if I was a female teacher and I wanted to show the hard work I've done and show the strength, you could show videos of you lifting heavy weights, you could show your bicep flexing, you could show you doing exercises where people could see your delts, you could show one just from a normal front shot bikini on stage.  And I'm pretty sure parents, and again, this is my opinion, but I think parents would be supportive if they saw that you're in the gym lifting weights and that's what you post, you know what I mean? They'd probably be like, oh, that's awesome. This is Johnson's idea. I think they're very easily, you can post stuff like what we're talking about and parents be like very receptive to it, right? Versus the other way around. So there's that fine line and only you know what that fine line is. Yeah, and if you kept that in mind as you're posting it and like the angles and, you know, it all matters at that point. Yeah, here's another good example.  Probably not a good idea if you're a teacher. You probably don't wanna post pictures like that.  So it's just, you just gotta know that whatever you put out there is available. That's it. I think we're looking at her page right now. And I think for the most part. No, I don't see anything there. Yeah, no, I think it's pretty tasteful. I think you're probably a good looking fit teacher that I'm sure there's some moms that hate on you for that. Amazing. Welcome to life, right? Oh, there's nothing there that's scandalous. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Like I think for the most part all of her pictures are pretty damn tasteful and just fine.  Yeah, oh yeah, you're gonna get, I mean, we get scrutinized big time because we're in the health and fitness. Oh my God, let me put it this way. If the average- Attractive people just get scrutinized. If the average person was walking on the street and eating a cupcake, right?   Kind of similar, right? Big time, exactly like that. Just to the point where, I mean, we think about that sometimes. Like I wouldn't, it's so weird. I've caught myself before because we've always got somebody with a camera kind of following us around these days, right? So there's been times where I might have had a monster drink, right? And I'm like, I consciously move it out of the picture. And I think to myself, I'm like, that's really shitty that I have to do that. But I have to do that because then all of a sudden I know that it's so- You have to defend yourself. Right, then I'm gonna have to defend myself and explain like, yeah, you know, I do it. But I openly talk that I do do that.   So that's the other thing you gotta ask yourself too, is like, if you're finding yourself defending yourself a lot, is it worth it?  I don't even wanna deal with them. I'm like, get rid of them and unfriend them then. You know what I'm saying? I just recently did that, by the way. I just recently went through my Facebook, my private Facebook, and like deleted like 100 people. That feels so good. You know what I love doing? You know why I did that though? Because our public personas or whatever are growing. And you know, I really only, on my Facebook, I only run close friends and family. I don't need all these acquaintances on there. Right, that's for Instagram. Yeah, that's for Instagram and stuff like that. They can get a hold of me. And it's like, you know, I got pictures of my kids on there, because it's my private Facebook. So I just went through and deleted about 100. It felt so good. I'm gonna go through and delete another 100. I'm gonna do the same thing. I want to limit it to like 50. You just crushed hella people. What did I do to sell? You're blocking ads like crazy. You know what's funny? I actually did a post first and I said, hey listen, I gotta go through here, delete some people because my public persona is growing. Please don't take a purse. I explain myself, blah, blah, blah. And then the next day when I did it, people were commenting, I'm so glad I made the cuts. And I was like, oh god. That's so great. Hey, you know what someone asked me the other day? I wanna make sure before you sign off, I wanna make sure that we tell people if you listen to this show and you don't know how to get your question answered on Instagram, the Mind Pump Media Instagram page, there's a little image of our Mad Mike logo. It's a pretty cool logo that gets posted up once a week. 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Hello, welcome to NPTEL NOC, an introductory course on point sector power here, part two. I am Anand Arshastri, retired emeritus fellow from IIT Bombay Department of Mathematics. I have a team of teaching assistants here, Professor Ankum Tikken Singh from Nehru in Shillong, Professor Arjala and Bhopang also from Nehru Shillong, Oankar Javedkar from IIT Bombay and Sushil Singla from Shivanadar University. So, as name suggests, this is a part two of the point set topology course. Point set topology part one was also a NPTEL NOC course which was introduced in the last semester. You can have a look at the content page here, bibliography and content page chapter one on differential calculus on Banach spaces, then compactness and separation axioms, there are compactness and partition affinity, other notions of compactness, compactification, matrization, nets and filters and global separation axioms and then Huravi Swalman dimension theory and one more chapter named it is not shown here, unfortunately very important chapter manifolds. So, the point is that the second part naturally assumes that the participants of this course are fairly familiar with the content of part one. We actually do not assume that you have attended part one, you may have learnt that part on your own somewhere else from through books or some other course, but if you have attended part one lecture and have understood a good percentage of that material then sailing with this part two will be very easy for you. So, such people will benefit much better than people who have not attended part one. The course is delivered in 60 modules of approximately 30 minutes age just like many other NPTEL courses. We expect that learners will be able to cope up with 5 such modules per week that is like a 2 and half hours contact hour. An important aspect of mathematical studies is to keep up continuity. If you do leave something out somewhere in between it is most likely that you will have difficulty in understanding some later chapters, later portions. It can happen immediately also or it may happen little later also quite often it happens immediately. So, that is what mathematics is. So, the key here is keep the continuity, continuity of studies. In any case, you have your YouTube, you are free to use them in your own free time. So, that is the whole advantage of having these recorded lectures. In order to have the students in this respect, in this respect means what in keeping touch with the whole thing. We have a discussion portal in which all participants can raise their queries. Suppose you have not understood something despite having tried. You can try to get these difficulties squared by the team of this TAS. So, they are quite enthusiastic about teaching. They will be constantly looking at into these queries. The common portal is there for all of you to put your questions and then they will be responding to them also. The set of lecture notes for part one as well as for part two will be made available right in the beginning of the course. So, that will also help you to understand the material. Along with this, there are also a number of pre-planned live interactive sessions directly with me. With more enthusiasm from the participants from your side, additional interactive sessions can be arranged. That is courtesy NPTEL team of course. So, we hope to make this course a joyful learning experience. I once again welcome you to this course. Thank you.