Lift and Gain an Inch Around Your Butt in 60 Days! | Mind Pump 2753

Key Takeaway

To build your glutes effectively, you need three key elements: proper workout programming (hip thrusts, Romanian deadlifts, squats), a caloric surplus of 300-500 calories above maintenance, and hitting your protein target daily. The biggest mistake? Trying to build muscle while simultaneously losing fat or adding too much cardio. Pick one goal for 60 days and commit fully - building muscle now makes getting leaner easier later.

Episode Overview

This episode provides a comprehensive 60-day plan to add an inch to your glutes through strategic strength training and nutrition. The hosts emphasize the importance of eating in a caloric surplus, avoiding excessive cardio, and focusing on compound movements that effectively target the glutes while allowing adequate recovery.

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Build your butt. This is really popular nowadays. Here's what we're going to do for you right now. We're going to talk about how you can lift and add an inch to your booty. Solid inch of muscle to your butt in 60 days. We're going to break it down for you. Let's go. Popular nowadays. Popular nowadays. Popular nowadays. I'm pretty sure that's been popular. It's a thing. It's been a thing for a while. while. while. I mean, I guess um I guess pre JLo it wasn't that big of a thing at all.

And building your butt wasn't even a thing still. It's it did it wasn't until probably it was Jennifer Lopez build to build your your your Yeah. Well, because everybody everybody wanted that and then so I mean I remember remember remember that era, right? Being a personal fin and clients coming in and being like I want a butt like JLo and it's like well you know what they used to say in the ' 90s, I want my butt to be smaller. Yeah, that's what I mean. Like it wasn't until until until it was about being thin.

It wasn't until like late 90s, early 2000s where JLo was on the scene and and popular and famous, right, and everybody decided I want a big butt. big butt. big butt. And the good news is with your all those came later, right? Well, the good news is with your butt is it's a muscle. You could totally develop it. You can make make make radical and dramatic changes. It's no different than the guy who says, "I want big arms." It's the same. Exactly. It's a muscle. So, it's not like, you know, boobs or something like that.

In fact, I I would make the argument in case it's easier to build than a guy who says, "I want to build arms." Those are small muscles. The glutes are one of your prime movers, one of the biggest muscles on your body. And so, the potential for it to develop and grow is is far greater than somebody's somebody's somebody's biceps. And functionally speaking, the glutes are very important muscle. Uh they're they're crucial for athletic performance, balance, stability, for back health. Yeah, it's actually a big advantage if you build up your glutes in terms of overall strength and force generation.

generation. generation. Totally. Totally 100%. And and building your butt is not it really isn't rocket science. It's it's actually consistency, good workout programming, and diet. And I think we'll start with diet because here's what I see today. Now, this maybe wasn't the issue 10 years ago. I'd say 10 years ago when we started the podcast, one of the big issues was workout programming. A lot of people just didn't do the best exercises to build her butt. So, whenever you'd see a girl say, "I want to build my butt." They would do a lot of these kind of not worthless, but far less effective exercises like these, you know, dog pee and kickback and cable, you know, this that and the other and, you know, abduction and uh because they'd feel the burn.

And so, a lot of the conversation back then was workout programming. And we'll get there. We will talk about a specific workout program or kind of programming that would help. But these days, uh, more people are aware of the best exercises, best exercises, best exercises, but you still run into people who are like, "Why isn't my butt building?" And it's because you're not eating enough. Yeah. It's a big problem. It's just not going to happen. You're not going to build anything. Well, if you don't need materials, it's tough because um most of the time the the girl that comes to you that wants to build her butt is also want to simultaneously shrink her waist.

waist. waist. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And exact. And those two goals, although somewhat are possible, they're conflicting for most people, especially if you are trying to go at it yourself and figure out like, okay, I'm I'm eating to have a small waist, but I'm also training to have a butt. It's like, well, what will end up happening is you might get the small waist, but then you won't get the butt because you're not eating in enough calories to build the butt. And then the other way you go, okay, I'm going to eat to build this butt.

But then you see any sort of increase in the waist or if you put on any sort of weight, you freak out and then you go the other direction and then you you end up hurting your progress on your process of building the butt. Yeah, it's true. They're not willing to sacrifice, you know, that process of having to actually like build up which may increase, you know, temporarily. Um, but you need that though to be able to build muscle. uh you know, you need the calories.

You need to be able to uh increase that. increase that. increase that. Well, here's the good news. The good news is uh building makes getting leaner easier later anyway. So, that's the good news. So, if you focus on building, you'll build uh if you do it right and then later getting leaner is easier because now you have more muscle. By the way, when people see changes in body composition where they build muscle and lose body fat at the same time, it's usually because they're trying to build.

And through the building process, what it looks like is this. This this is what what it feels like for somebody who's gone through this. They'll start to gain some muscle. Then because of the increased metabolic rate, they'll get a little leaner uh a little bit later on. So that's sometimes what this looks like. But I will say this, you want to add an inch to your butt and get it to lift in 60 days. You need to focus on building. If you try to build and lose at the same time in 60 days, you might get a little bit of each, but you're not going to get a lot of the building.

And if you build a lot now, you can get leaner later in an e in a much faster, easier way. So, you're better off focusing on building with your nutrition. And what does that look like? Uh that looks like hitting your target body weight and protein. And you got to eat in excess of calories. So, in other words, if you're burning 2,00 if you're eating right now 2,000 calories a day or 1,500 calories a day, you need to be like a few hundred calories above that, 3 to 500 calories above that.

If you really want to make this happen, you have to do it. And if you don't do that, here's how here's how important it is. By the way, you can follow the best the best strength training workout. If your calories aren't high enough, not only will you not build, I've seen many cases where calories are so low that even with strength training, we see muscle loss. and sometimes bone loss. So, this is a really, really big deal. And then just to add to this, there are many times when I would work with a client or when we have a caller who the routine seems decent, all we do is have them bump their calories and then boom, like magic.

Muscles start to Have you Have you guys ever seen uh Danny's transformation before? No. No. No. Oh my god. You have to We'll have the We'll have Dylan throw up her transformation. But I think she's such a great example. She like really I would love to I don't maybe if Dylan I don't know if Dylan knows like I would love to know what her weight on the scale was pre uh strength training and and building. and building. and building. Was she like chronic der and stuff before?

before? before? Yeah. A typical young young girl like she didn't look emaciated and skinny or anything like that but she looked like your average average girl's build or body in her like late late teens early 20s or whatever. And then she really got into lifting, lifting heavy, strong and you could see but I mean I would I would love to hear the difference in her weight because she and because you can see obviously see such a different physique that she's built from that and but I bet you it's like a huge difference on the scale a number that would probably scare most women like what I would gain that much weight but then if you see the difference in their bodies like everybody would go like oh of course I would take that physique over the the physique my favorite story to share as your trainer who worked for Yeah.

And I've had a lot of uh situations like this, but I used to have this trainer that worked for me. Um you guys know her and um she was very lean, very petite, but she was very strong. And when I would talk to women who were potentially joining the club that I managed, um I would make I would give them a challenge when they would talk about how scared they were of getting bulkan. It's if you gain if you excuse me, if you could guess this trainer's body weight within 10 15 pounds, I'll give you a month membership for free.

And they always failed cuz they would think she was 100 pounds. She weigh like 130 lbs. 130 lbs. 130 lbs. And it'd have a scale in my office. We'd step she'd step on the scale and everybody kind of like, "What?" Yeah. But she's tiny. I'm like, "Look, muscle is dense." is dense." is dense." And it looks different. So different. So different. So different. Muscle gives you shape to your body. It also takes up less space on your body. So the scale uh doesn't tell you the whole story at all.

And building muscle in this process will probably result in some weight gain. So, if that'll freak you out, if you're listening to this, you're like, "Oh my god, that'll totally freak me out." Then don't weigh yourself. yourself. yourself. Don't weigh yourself through this process because it'll it'll get I mean, I normally have to do that with clients that that have goals like this, especially when they're like, "I want to build my butt and shrink my waist. I know that I have to increase their calories. I know there's a chance the scale is going to stay the same, possibly even go up a little bit." And this is just, you know, the veteran trainer should know this, like that you you you don't let that client you don't let that client weigh themselves.

you I would have clients, you tell them that you got this and I've got the process. Don't worry, I know what I'm doing type of deal. I don't want you on the scale. And I'll let them know why is because I'm like, you know, there's a chance it could go up a little bit, but that doesn't mean we're not doing the right thing. You're absolutely doing the right thing. How many times did you have a client stand backwards on the scale or you take their measurements and don't share that was the move.

That was the move. When we had the doctor scale inside the the office, it was get up on the scale, turn around, be like, "Why?" I'm like, "You don't get to know. Only I need to know. I need to know just to see where we're at." And literally all I care about is if I see any massive swings. I'm not really tripping on the one to three pounds here or there as we're going through this process. That's all I'm I'm I'm paying attention to. Today's program giveaway is maps split.

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So, you could do this uh, if you follow what we're going to say. So, I'm we're going to give you a basic three-day a week butt building routine that doesn't include exercises for the rest of your body. So, what we're going to talk about are the exercises uh that are targeting the glutes here. Now, you can add and you probably should add uh three additional exercises in each of these workouts to hit the rest of the body. So, you're going to be doing per workout anywhere between probably five, roughly five exercises, maybe six at most, but you could also do as little as four.

So, that's what these workouts going to look like. So, we're going to start with day one, and you want to have ideally a day off in between these workouts. So, this is a three-day a week routine. So, it would be like a Monday, Wednesday, Friday type of deal. But it could also be, you know, whatever three days so long as there's a day off in between that would make this ideal. But the first exercise you're going to do in day one, and by the way, the order is important here.

So, when we say workout one, workout two, like try and do them in this order, okay? Because there's there's a a rhyme to this reason. But the first exercise, hip thrust. Hip thrust. You could load heavy. It is a glute targeted exercise. Yeah. and especially for people. It's not necessarily better than other butt building exercises, but it is an easier one to connect and target the butt with. It's one of the only ones that really can isolate it, if you want to call it that, that, that, with with load.

With load say there's some like I mean this is why people like butt butt kicks and movements like that is cuz they can feel it and isolate it, but they can't load that. load that. load that. Yeah. With the weight to that. Yeah. Hip thrust you can load and it's very targeted. You can feel it. my one of my favorite movements, especially with a client who struggles to feel glutes in their other glute exercises. That's right. So, because everybody feels hip thrust in their glutes. So, hip thrust will be the first exercise.

You want to do a few sets and let's keep the reps between 8 to 10. And then you're going to do Romanian deadlifts. Romanian deadlifts are also a glute uh and also hamstring exercise. So, those are the two exercises you do in workout one. And you can you can add three maybe four exercises that'll target the rest of their body in that workout. Uh the next workout, which would be uh not the next day, but the day after, you're going to start with barbell squats, which is the king of lower body exercises.

So, you're going to do barbell squats. Uh same thing, a few sets for right around 10 reps, and then you're going to do Bulgarian split stance squat uh uh squats, squats, squats, uh following that up. And then workout three is just deadlifts. You're just doing conventional or sumo deadlifts. You pick You pick You pick sumo. sumo. sumo. Uh, you know, I love sumo because you have Romanians in here and I'm also biased. Not a bad not a bad and I'm biased to sumo deadlifts for building the glutes just because it hits the glute meat and that's an area with that wide stance.

Yes, that wide stance and opening the knee the knees up. It it engages the glute me. A lot of times uh when I had clients that suffer from sleepy butt syndrome, uh it was glute me. their glute me uh they just weren't connected well to it and the the sumo deadlifts does a great job of helping you get connected to that and because you already have Romanians I'm doing that conventional that to me is like the perfect perfect perfect Now here's the deal that you might think well how do I know if this is working besides the fact that my butt looks different um you're stronger so in 60 days if you're sign if you're seeing yourself through this workout add weight to the bar on any of these exercises or especially all of them, you are moving in the right direction.

And for those of you that are afraid to eat extra calories, uh if your strength's not going up, and you know that about yourself, bump the calories and watch what happens. But you add, you know, again, you could probably add through this workout in 60 days 30 lbs to one of these lifts, your butt's going to be bigger. Oh, bigger. Oh, bigger. Oh, your butt's going to be bigger. If you hit protein intake consistently every day, follow exactly these lifts, 3 to 500 plus surplus, and that's all that's the only thing you focus on.

You can do other stuff, yada yada, but that's the main thing right here. Yeah, that's the main thing that you just say, "I'm consistent about for 60 days." I guarantee you see a huge difference. Now, let's talk about things you shouldn't do or things that get in the way of extra stuff. A bunch of Yes. A bunch of cardio thinking that more stuff is going to help you out. this all like with a hip circle band. circle band. circle band. In fact, I like I wanted to say when you were talking about like you know you these are the three we're not going to talk about the other list but honestly if your main goal is you really want to build a butt I'm doing literally on these these other three days like one exercise uh per muscle.

Yeah. In addition like one or two exercises that's it. Like you don't need need need minimal is better here. You'll build more muscle if it's minimal. And and now here's where a lot of people might mess up. They're going to do a ton of cardio. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, with this. So, they're like, "Oh, cool. Here's my routine. I also like to do an hour cardio hour cardio hour cardio or they add what we just said to like already another program and just like try and bolt this on something." It's like less is actually more here.

If this is the main focus and I'm telling you, if you just throughout the week, divide up the rest of the body. So, not even in every workout, like the rest of the week. Good point. So, like here's a press, here's a row, here's a Yes. And it's not all in the same workout. That's right. Agreed. Like that's all like you just make sure you get a press, you get a row uh inside the inside there and a day of like some arm work. Like that's it.

Like to cover it just to cover the bases that you're touching all the other body parts one time. one time. one time. That is is is great for what you're about to go do. The mistake that people will make is they will take this formula and they will bolt it on to other stuff other stuff they're doing. They're group classes. Yes. group classes or burning a bunch of calories with weren't running or already have a strength training program and this is like literally follow it like that you isolate prioritize and and you you you really just set this aside without any of the volume around it.

Watch how your body responds so much better to that specific targeted signal that you're sending. Yeah. I used to love uh getting people to buy in to this philosophy and trust me and then watch them watch just their minds get blown as they get stronger stronger stronger and they come to me and go I'm looking the way I wanted to look except before I would overdiet overtrain do everything this doesn't make sense to me except I see it working and now I think you're right about adaptation recovery and all those things I used to love doing it well if if you are not getting stronger and it's not working for you.

It's one of these things. Either you're not eating in a surplus, you're not hitting your protein, or you're doing too much. Yep. It's one of those three things. Otherwise, you'll be getting stronger, you'll be seeing results. So, if you're not seeing results, it's one of those three things that is your issue or a combination of all of them. Like you're sometimes you're not consistent with the protein, other times you overtrain and do other stuff. It's like, and that typically is what it is. It's like, well, I don't I I most always hit my protein.

most always is only once in a while they miss. But then they also do the other. It's like follow the way it's laid out. Just do those things. Watch what happens in 60 days. Awesome. All right. I got to tell you guys about something. Justin, you're probably going to want to pay attention to this cuz you have teenage boys and I'm going to have a conversation with my daughter and my niece about this. So, there's something that's happening right now that's on the rise called sextor tortation.

Have you heard of this? Sexortation. Sex tortation, I think they call it. So, this is where and I'll pull up the article. Uh, apparently it's growing. Uh, and it's a thing and teenage teenage teenage is this like a a term overexloration, but it's sex tortation? No, dude. No, dude. No, dude. So, there are groups that target US kids with this. And what they do, I think I've heard of this. What they do is they find a way to get in contact, and I'll I'll pull this up.

Online scammers scour public social media profiles to learn about a teen. Then they pose as a flirtatious peer and they know information about you because they can go on social media and they can make connections. So they'll know like for example, there was a there was this one kid who this happened to where they acted like a 17-year-old girl. They had real pictures of this fake girl. They knew what gym he worked out at. They knew a couple of his best friends. They name dropped. They knew that he played basketball for this high school.

They started going back and forth with these flirtatious texts, built trusts. Then they started to trade photos. photos. photos. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. And then when they got compromising photos of him, they exorted they they said, "Hey, you got to we will show your whole family." whole family." whole family." Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow. If you don't give us Wow. Wow. Wow. X amount of dollars. Now, this poor kid, there's this one kid, this 15-year-old boy who had sent illicit photos cuz they had sent it back and had developed this relationship with this fake kid.

And they said, "You got to give us money." And he said, "Uh, I all I have is 30 bucks. I'll give that to you." Gave it to them. They said, "No, that's not enough." Or whatever. Anyway, the kid ended up committing suicide. Cuz he was so afraid of these photos getting put out there publicly. Wow. So this was like I was reading this article like there are online scammers that are doing this right now and they're targeting kids. So it's a conversation. conversation. conversation. I imagine this is a special place in hell for these people.

Oh my god. I I would I would imagine this is way more common happening to boys than it is happening to girls. No both No both No both equally. equally. equally. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Interesting. Interesting. Interesting. Oh yeah. I mean if you can get a kid to send send send I feel like Yeah. But I feel like girls are way less susceptible to that than guys are. I feel to sending photos of themselves. Yeah. Not just Yeah. that and the and also believing this this random random guy or person.

I feel like it's I'm not saying that it doesn't happen. I'm just saying that it would be I could totally see the teenage boy who is you know got a cute girl who's messaging him and thinks he knows it's happened to both. Really? Yeah. Wow. It's happened to both. And and uh so the conversation I think that's important because how do you talk to your kid about this? It's like, well, first, don't ever send anything uh through text because that you don't want getting public because it's out there.

And then number two, if you ever did, I don't care. You'll never have to be embarrassed of me. I don't care what comes out. Cuz if that does happen, imagine the fear. Imagine if you were that kid. that kid. that kid. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And you sent photos and you're like, "Oh my god, my parents are going to see this." this." this." Yeah. I know. It's so scary. I mean, I had a conversation one time about this and it was like an innocent uh thing. It was like um like one of my kids like took a picture of his butt to like you know mess with his buddy.

And so then I freaked out and I had this like huge come to Jesus talk with like both boys. I'm like this is how it is and you know these things are live on the internet and you know all that kind of stuff and but that was a while back and of course you know of course there's these like disgusting people out there like trying to manipulate and abuse. Oh yeah dude. So just reading about that how terrible how terrible for the parents to not be in the loop.

the loop. the loop. Is there uh an an age group it's more popular in teenagers. Just teenagers in general. general. general. Wow. Wow. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I think it's cuz I mean obviously if you're in your 20s and and someone does this you're more of an adult you're more like whatever dude put it out you know it's embarrassing but as a teenager a teenager a teenager where you you know that's like the that's a big deal to get that you know you're already insecure.

I feel like the threat would be more to like the the high school and the school than even mom and dad. I feel like the the threat would be like they're like we're I mean they threatened him with because I remember so my buddy's a was a principal and he says that's a that was popular that was very popular and a major thing that they had to to deal with is even like boyfriend and girlfriend. Yes. Horror stories about that. that. that. Yeah. And you know, one of the the boyfriends sharing with his buddies, oh well, my girlfriend sent me or this that and then somebody decides to send it out to every to every to every or they just break up and they do it or right or they Yeah, exactly.

So that that that's a common thing that they'd have to to manage at the high school is just it would happen all the time. Like oh my god, there's a false sense of security because you think, well, they sent me a picture of them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So if they release mine, I'll release theirs. Not knowing that it's not even that person. Yeah, they don't care that. Yeah. Anyways, along those lines, there's this this we've talked about her before. She was an Only Fans girl and she did this crazy challenge.

Anyway, Anyway, Anyway, was this Bonnie Blue? Bonnie Blue. Bonnie Blue. Bonnie Blue. I brought her up a while ago just cuz the stuff that she It's just It's crazy where the world is with some of the stuff. But anyway, she got arrested in Indonesia and faces uh I think like years and years and years in prison cuz Indonesia has a strict anti- pornography law. law. law. And so she was filming herself in a bus recruiting, you know, legal of age but teenage boys to sleep with her and to film it.

She got caught in Indonesia and she's over there right now and they're like thinking about throwing her in jail. jail. jail. Wow. Wow. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Which is which is wild. What would what would make her go to a country that's illegal, right? That and then to after she already owns the record, right? Doesn't she own the record of the most guys? Yeah, dude. Yeah, dude. Yeah, dude. Poor thing, dude. I mean, just how some screw loose. Yeah, for sure. sure. sure. But so now she's sitting over there waiting to potentially get thrown in jail.

jail. jail. And to be one of those guys, too. Like, come on. That's so gross, dude. You guys I forget you guys. How would you ever want to be associated with I forgot you guys haven't you guys haven't watched uh you know these guys he did it yet. You guys got to watch it. There's a there's a part in there where he's hang he hangs he's he hangs out with all the crips like all the main like [ __ ] gangsters and stuff like that and you know he's so like you know he's got he power trips want wants all this attention from all these women like P.

Diddy was crazy. He was getting after other other famous people side chicks like he just power trip wants wants it all. wants everybody and he's hanging out with all the the the gang members at they're meeting at a place to basically talk about some like crazy hit or some [ __ ] like that and they roll up and he's like making out with this chick and like the gang the gangster is like laughing and they're all like laughing at Pete Diddy and he's like what's so funny man was like hey bro you just rolling to town and just start kissing what's around you know she sucked everybody's dick in here right oh no right here he's like oh kissing making out all these all these gangbangers are all laughing cuz they're like, "Yeah, she's had all of us." That's when trying to be too powerful, try to get too much get blows up in your face.

face. face. You know, you know what's funny though along this these lines, there seems to be a there's so much more awareness around uh just this kind of topic, you know, like pornography and uh just this kind of, you know, just these just how damaging it is. I've never seen so much awareness around it. um where you're hearing experts talk about it and you're hearing young men now say this is damaging I don't want to deal with this and did you guys know that so so I just saw this report Pornhub is losing uh viewers uh in massive amounts right now really really really massive amounts now they're blaming certain states passing whatever laws but there's speculation that the trend is moving in the opposite direction where more and more people are like probably not a good idea I don't think I should go there so it's pretty interesting pretty interesting pretty interesting I want you know I am gonna come back or what?

what? what? I I think awareness, dude. I feel like Yeah, we did a good job of eliminating shame and then it's like all of this is out there now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, and it's like okay, like maybe there's a place for it like a little bit like like like Well, I think there's societal shame exists for a reason. Yeah, I do. I really do. And and and now I get the negative side of it. We shouldn't we probably shouldn't do that, you know? It's like who like nobody's saying that anymore.

I think I think I think what we're what we're experiencing and what we're going to see is that is that is that we went to a place where we we had cuz I I mean I was a part my church was on top of that when I was a kid, bro. But you that was church though. No, I know. But my point is like there's been a percentage of people that been have been beating the drum for a very long time that this is Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. not healthy, not right. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I think we had mass adoption by everybody and and it had to get so obvious. Exactly. It had to get so bad, so obvious. obvious. obvious. What we'll probably land in is just, you know, 75% of the people do and 25% of people don't. You know what I'm saying? Like, that's unfortunate. But I don't see something so accessible, see I don't see something so accessible, so addictive, uh, so justified that going away and like the whole everybody going like, going like, going like, you know what it's going to require?

It would require, uh, actual regulation. Yeah. because it's like any other addictive um you know whatever substance or behavior. or behavior. or behavior. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. But where do you draw the line on that? Right. Like I know you're or at least you weren't you weren't a big regulation guy. So what Oh, I think it needs to be I think we need to make it virtually impossible for anybody underage to Oh, I think we all agree there. But that needs to be But even then it doesn't I mean sure that would that would sign there's plenty of 18 19 year olds that's the first just like the first thing they do is go out and buy a pack of cigarettes or buy an alcohol when they're 21.

First thing they're doing is logging into their porn hub when they can. So you know does that really solve a lot or does it just help a problem still going to be a problem forever? What they find in the data is that when it's consumed at a young age, it's far more likely to become detrimental, not just detrimental, definitely, but it's far more likely to become a problem as an adult. When they when you find men who didn't consume it much in their teens than as adults, it just doesn't become an issue.

It's not it's not like I mean, wouldn't you wouldn't you say that's pretty much everything? It's not I was going to say how your brain develops. develops. develops. Yeah. If you introduce drugs, pod, alcohol, cocaine, alcohol, cocaine, alcohol, cocaine, processed food like Yeah, totally. I mean, name a thing that's not good for us, that's not healthy for us that you introduce at a the younger you introduce it and the more of it you can do consume at a young age, the more detrimental it is to you as adult molds itself uh after uh around these behaviors because it's it's changing and growing so much when you're a kid.

I just had this conversation with Max Lug. I was down there in LA. He just released my podcast with him and we talked and we actually had this great conversation. It was a short part of the podcast. Most of it was about health and fitness, but we talked about how like what we do really well, what humans do really well, which isn't great, is we'll take something, we'll take one segment of it that we like a lot, and we'll concentrate the hell out of it and make everything about that thing that one thing.

For example, food. Food has a lot of value. There's a lot of values around food. There's nourishment, nourishment, nourishment, uh there's for health, there's for athletic performance, there's connecting with other people, and then there's also the pleasure of eating it. Those are all real values. What do we do? We take the pleasure of eating it and magnify the hell out of that and kind of ignore everything else. That's what we create is heavily processed food. That's what heavily processed food is. You look at human connection.

Uh human connection. Tons of value around human connection. One of the value is that you just know people and you can talk to them. So what do we do? We process that and turn it into social media. So now we're more connected to more people but more lonely than ever. We did the same thing with sex. It's got all these values. One of them is this dopamine hit, this like instant whatever. We magnified the hell out of it and ignored everything else and we turned it into we made it all about the body.

Made it all about the lust part and and and this is that's pornography. It's it's processed food version of of sex essentially. essentially. essentially. And so that's what you get you get all kinds of dysfunction when you do that, you know. That's why I think if they take fitness take fitness take fitness and they figure out how to create a pill that makes you jacked and lean, we're screwed. Not us screwed. People are screwed. They have no idea that's just how detrimental that's going to be.

to be. to be. You know what I feel is really controversial to say in talking about this topic and how I feel. That's how I feel about even something like sugar. When you look at how sugar is found and it it's it's natural like the way you would get it, okay, is so difficult to process the amount. I know. And not only have we justified that as as adults and humans, but we encourage it and give it to children and the way it acts on the brain for a child in comparison to what it acts and it's so funny and it's so cute and we all do it for and it's I mean for sure introduced at an extremely young age and then consistently given and then we use it to reward their brains for doing said thing like but it's not talked about because it's sugar, it's good, it's cake, it's all this, it's all this stuff that we have justified is so good.

But it's like, man, you talk about we figured out how to engineer the [ __ ] out of that to make it like cocaine for the brain and then we give it to our kids. kids. kids. What was that once that Adam used to mention all the time like how much sugar cane you would have to eat? eat? eat? Yeah. To in order to get the amount that's in a soda can, which is like 35 gram or 50 gram of sugar. You have to eat 8 feet of like sugar cane.

Panda bear. Panda bear. Panda bear. Yeah. Like a panda bear is like the only person that could like do that, right? Your stomach couldn't even process all that fiber. that fiber. that fiber. You couldn't chew it, dude. And you're only talking about a 35 whatever soda can. I think soda can 35 or 50 grams of sugar. And we we, you know, give these kids this. And it's crazy to think that that's not changing their behavior. their behavior. their behavior. This is why when you stick to a whole food diet, you tend to eat appropriately.

You just tend to. You don't have to try necessarily. The only thing you have to try to do is avoid processed food. And that alone makes most people would fall within a body weight, especially if you combine it with exercise. That's kind of okay just from doing that alone. You mentioned sugar. The three big components in nature for a palletability are sugar, salt, and fat. All three of those are difficult to come by. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Salt is actually in nature difficult to come by. In fact, they used to do wars over that.

over that. over that. Wars over that. Fat, you had to kill a big animal, not even a small animal. You kill a squirrel or a rabbit doesn't have that much. You have to go you have to go learn how to hunt and then sugar until we learn how to like, you know, plant things or whatever. Go out in nature and go find a bunch of sugar. You got to go and even then you need tools to fit like new age tools to be able to strip it from the the bamboo like sticks it grows in.

Like you're not doing that even even if you could go gather all of it as an a human back in the days like to to whittle that down. down. down. Well, the most concentrated form is honey. like go get go ahead go grab a bunch of honey in nature. You got you better go get through some some bees, dude. dude. dude. Well, even the fruit I mean we've we've you know selectively uh adapted and engineered the fruit. So it's like it produces bigger amounts of sugar fructose and so it's like like like it's been a long time since we brought that up.

There are old paintings that are like 300 or 400 years old. It was like small of fruit bitter. You could look these up everybody. These are paintings. They're realistic paintings. So, these are artists that they weren't distorting. They made like real nice artistic paintings. And these are fruit and they're sliced in half and they're full of seeds and there's very little meat. They look almost nothing like the fruit that we have now. Totally different. different. different. It's like all vitamins, you know, we've just solved all these things.

It's like I as humans, we love it, you know? It's like how can we get more of it? And like we've solved that problem that we thought was a problem, created a problem. Have you guys had cotton candy grapes? grapes? grapes? They taste like cotton candy. What did we do? we do? we do? Delicious. Yeah, I know. Actually, the story behind that's actually really crazy. crazy. crazy. So, there's like I forget who the guy who did it is who he he's there's some I want to say he's from Florida, but you can Google the cotton candy the story behind the cotton candy grapes, but it's like somebody figured out.

Yeah, somebody figured that out. Somebody figured that out by crossing certain strains to get that kind of flavor. flavor. flavor. Well, when I was a kid, I don't know if you guys remember this. when I was a kid. So, uh we're we're southern Italian and there's certain fruits that we love to eat and and one of them is watermelon. It's like a big thing in the summer. We'd slice up. It used to be full of seeds. I used to have to spit out the seeds when I was a kid.

And I remember my dad's like, "You can eat the seeds." And I'm like, "Okay, whatever." You don't get seeds in watermelon anymore. anymore. anymore. Plenty of water. They're all seed. That was us engineering the hell out of this thing to make it have less seeds in it. I don't remember seedless watermelon when I was a kid. No way. What you got there, Doug? Yeah. So they crosspollinated Concord like grapes with a sweet seedless California grape and then you got the sponge sugar taste. Was it a guy from Florida?

I thought it was a guy from Florida. Uh I'm not sure. Not that matters. I just I remember reading this. I was so fascinated the very first time someone gave me one of those. I thought like they they called it that. it that. it that. By the way, I wanted to mention too sugarce you can actually chew it up and that's actually popular in some countries. They cut up pieces of sugar cane. You chew it. It's very fibrous. The hell out of it though. Yeah. Yeah.

And you spit out the fiber, but you get this kind of sweet water juice. juice. juice. It's actually really tasty. You got like three g of sugar that Yeah. Yeah. You're not getting much sugar at all. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I I think the I think you would have to chew eight I believe the stat that I read was eight feet of it to equate to like Yeah, that makes sense. Makes total sense. sense. sense. Yeah. Like you'd have to chew eight. I mean, they take actually whole stocks of sugar cane.

They run run them through a press. This is in Vietnam. and and the juice comes down. They fill a little plastic bag and they poke a straw in the top with a rubber band. You just drink it whole. It's like two or three stalks of sugar cane in a a little bag of liquid. So that would make sense that it would equal like a Coke. Wow. Wow. You know, it's funny. Markets do this. Anytime we we we have a market for something, we do a really good job of giving it ourselves what we want the most.

And one market I I was reading this article. Have you guys heard of uh it's a term now it's called scommitting? Have you heard of this? This is a this is a disorder. Your scrotum? Your scrotum? Your scrotum? No. No. No. You're vomiting on your scrotum. This is totally scramy right now. How sick are you right now, dude? I just Oh crap. Oh crap. Oh crap. Dang, dude. Dang, dude. Dang, dude. I'll give you a moment. You threw up on a No. No. So, so scroming is It used to be a very rare occurrence, but they're seeing it more and more.

So this is what it is. This is a condition where people will consume high doses, frequent high doses of cannabis and they'll develop a disorder where they vomit uncontrollably. Oh my god. And it's terrible. It's terrible. What this like people will vomit for like days days days and they have they have to go to the hospital as a result. And the reason why I'm bringing this up, by the way, this is becoming more of a thing is because cannabis became largely legalized and they have to be dabbing in order to do that.

That's what that will cause. Bro, what's happened is they concentrated. Yeah. Do we our markets people are like, "Oh, cool weed. Can you make it as strong as possible?" And so every year it just gets stronger and stronger. and stronger. and stronger. I mean, I shared this the history on it. So back in the days uh in the 60s and 70s, really high strong THC weed was like seven, maybe the peak or record was like 11%. like 11%. like 11%. You can't even find that. No, you can't.

That's what we call call it dirt weed today. Yeah. So that was considered like super super high. Then like even in our generation era like it was a big deal to see weed that was hitting 20 21%. That was a big deal. Like typically 15 to 18% THC was high. Very high. Very high. Very high. That's in your cannabis club. Yeah. And then the clubs got to the point where you were starting to people were cross pollinating and learning how to get get it to 20 21.

Then you started seeing like numbers like 25. Then they started you could or they did this a long time ago. You could concentrate to hashish. hashish would be like 25 30% THC levels or something like that. that. that. Dabbing and extracts where you started using things like butane and stuff like that to pull it out, you could get it up to like 99 97% THC. So you're talking about something that is almost 100 times stronger than like what it's like in its natural form natural form natural form and it's just Yeah, I know.

comeomaosis somebody when they when they hit not to mention all the chemicals and the other [ __ ] that and I know you can do bubble hash and water. You know what it does to the mind by the way over time if you smoke it regularly it does cause low levels of psychosis and paranoia versus change how you start to think to think to think over time. So even people who are like I just use it at night you know but you've been doing it for years and years and years years years it's definitely changing and molding your brain.

uh which you know back back in the day it was like oh weed's not that big of a deal. People just weren't doing it like they are now and they weren't doing the strength. I mean it's like how we started this conversation. It's like we what we've done with everything is like you know it starts off as the introduction of it and I like this part. How are we going to get more of this? Yeah. More more more push it. It doesn't help too when the narrative around it ends up you know kind of switching to all this positive because like I mean I remember being a part of that.

I remember being a part of like Yeah. There's it's benefits for Yeah. There used to be a stigma around smoking. Yeah. And then, you know, and then we went real hard on all the the positive things of it. And don't get me wrong, there there is I mean, I was a part of I I watched people come in that in in wheelchairs and with arthritis and eating stuff, eating, had trouble eating like I had a lot of people that I I got a chance, but a lot it pad in comparison to the major.

That's not the market. Yeah. the market was 90% of people that were just were just were just what's the strongest thing you have. You know what I'm saying? Like it wasn't like there was very rarely did I and I in what we prided ourselves on on those clubs when we had those we we were trying to serve the the the you know 70-year-old grandma who's never tried it before with arthritis and educate her through the process and you know we had this little tiny little blonde girl at the front door that greeted you when you came in not the intimidating security guard card like everybody did.

we were really trying to be the other side of serving the people that it was helping. And even then, I that was my percentage. Yeah. My my my um my opinion on cannabis legalization totally changed. I if you listen to the podcast long enough, you know, I was a huge proponent of uh legalization and now I see that I thought I bought into this. I thought more people are not going to use it if it's legal. I thought that it it just more it's not going to change how many people That's not true.

use has already exploded every time. Yeah, but I but don't you it's still too early, s early, s early, s it's still new. It's still I I I think to for it to play out the way you're saying I don't necessarily think you're wrong in that with that original state. How long we have to wait? 50 years. 50 years. 50 years. Oh jeez. Oh jeez. Oh jeez. Oh yeah. I think something like that. I think it takes a generation of growing up within real and seeing like cuz here's what's going to happen.

There's a there's a generation of kids right now that were that are probably probably your guys' teenage kids age that grew up around kids that fully adopted it and their parents don't even care because it was told so positive about it. And then there's some kids are going to be like, "Yeah, I don't really want to do it." And then it's not going to be till they see their lives kind of unfold and they go, they start to make the connections of like, "Man, those kids that smoked weed all the time, you know, and where parents let them do it, like wow." And then then then I think the next generation gets wiser.

Yeah. So, I just think uh what you're say like we're still in the it's cool, you know, and it's better than these other things and so yeah, I don't know. I think I think uh we we'll see we'll see what it looks like in S. You know, earlier we were talking about honey. I've been reading a lot about MGO, which let me pull it up. I got some studies on it. Isn't that the main thing that makes the Manuka honey special is the MGL? The company we work with, Manukora, has the highest concentration of MGL you'll find in any uh Manukor honey.

So, Manukora honey is very high in MGO compared to other forms of honey. Manukora is the highest that you'll find. Uh but it's So, I didn't know this. Did you guys know that NGO is one of the few things that uh can actually fight a uh antibiotic resistant bacteria? That's how antibacterial it is. M is. M is. M it helps prevent gastric ulcers from ulcers, excuse me, from H pylori. So with frequent consumption, it's linked to lower risk. Um it's good for oral health, reducing plaque, gingivitis, and perodontal disease.

perodontal disease. perodontal disease. That's wild. That's wild. That's wild. By targeting, By targeting, By targeting, what's wild about that is that people know about sugar for the teeth is so bad, but yet honey is protecting That's because sugar feeds bad bacteria that destroy your teeth, but MGO is antibacterial. Yeah. antibacterial. Yeah. antibacterial. Yeah. And it's and it's way more powerful. It's it's it's got activity against MRSA in wounds. You know, a few things. Do you think before we had like things like Neosporin? So, that's probably what we like.

we like. we like. Aloe vera and honey. Aloe vera and honey is probably what we rubbed all over cuts and burns and stuff. Huh. So, it's pretty it's it's good for I said good for uh inflammation, digestive health. So, this is like, you know, eat a tablespoon of this. I I do post-workout. post-workout. post-workout. Um and it's good for gut health and good for inflammation, all those things. It's like a superfood. like a It's like a superfood. That's awesome. That's awesome. That's awesome. If there ever was a super food.

Yeah. Pretty cool. Remind me too. Where's where's it mainly from? There's a that they get from New Zealand. New Zealand. New Zealand. Is that the only place they can get it from or is where it's predominantly from? from? from? That's a good question. I think it might be the only place, but that's that's a really good question. Yeah. I'm not sure. Yeah. Anyway, I got So, one of our trainers was listening to our podcast live today and she told me something that um I thought was great idea.

If you're a trainer or coach listening, it was Mary, right? Mary is the one that made that. made that. made that. She made a comment, but I actually didn't hear what the comment was. I just heard you go, "Oh, that's a really good idea." idea." idea." So, so this is what she said. She's a trainer. Um she's actually part of our course. So, so people listening, uh we have trainers here right now that are um getting mentored and coached by our coaches to help them build their business.

So, they're actually go off work on their own, but they're learning from some of our our best coaches. And she said that she's been doing this while listening to the podcast, and it's it's it's a really great way for her to learn. So, she'll hear us answer or I should say help people uh on the podcast. So people call in with their fitness and health questions. When we're about to give our answer, she hits pause. She thinks or writes down what her answer is to see if she matches up with us.

with us. with us. Smart. Smart. Smart. Like as a way to test herself. That's great. That's great. That's great. I thought that was great. That's such smart. Yeah, that's I think that's so great. No, great way to tr Great way to train herself how to do that. That reminds me cuz that's real life. That's like a real people that have That reminds me of the tip that uh I heard Her Mosie give when it comes to like memorizing a script. had never heard this before where you have like a, you know, you have a script that has, I don't know, say 35 to 50 words on it or whatever.

And he goes, you read it all the way through one time and then you X out one word. Read it through the whole time with that one word missing and then you X out a second. And he goes, by the time you make it all the way through, you will have that thing memor. Sure. And it makes total sense. And it's like you're going to have to have repeated that 35 to 50 times depending on what yours is. Each time you're only Yeah. each time you're only xing out one or blacking out one word.

I like that. I like it a lot, too. I was like, I wish someone would have told me that in school or taught me that. I was like, that's a really smart strategy to memorize like a short script for that. I love that for learning like how you communicate. I think fitness is I mean, if I was a trainer, uh I mean, I've always talked about how I mean, a part of this the motivation behind when we first started this was, you know, what was inspired by what we would have liked to have had as trainers.

I think I think at this stage if I'd been listening to us for a long time, the the Q&A is what I would get the most of. Totally. Like I like you guys like us, you know, and it's like like like but if I'm a trainer and I'm like working a lot of hours and I know I don't have time to probably listen to all the podcast like the Q&A is where I would would would totally. totally. totally. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, cuz it makes it so easy.

I mean, back in the day, we just would know certain trainers that had specialties. Uh because a lot of times there'd be questions that are like, "Okay, well, I kind of know, but I know that my friend Dennis like he deals with this a lot more than me and I'm going to ask him this." And this." And this." And so to have like a a whole library to to to then like plug in and find out that subject matter and see how, you know, we kind of go through that with our experience.

experience. experience. Well, this is why if you guys aren't familiar with what Eli is building on the back end in the school app, why I think that's going to become one of the most valuable things. So our elite trainer group, okay, that that's in the school app, he's building all the Q all the Q&A that we've done through categories. categories. categories. So you can click on Yes. So it's like you got a CL, you got a client related that's fat loss, you got a client related reverse diet, you have somebody that struggles uh with an eating disorder, whatever, there's categories and then we've done so many that it's like you can listen to five different ways we've communicated that topic to five different types.

One of the things that makes a good trainer a really good trainer isn't that they give the right answers necessarily. Giving the right answers is like the baseline. So if to be a good trainer, you should have more often than not the right answers answers answers or can find the right answers. How you communicate those answers is how you get buy in and how you coach that person through it, right? Uh because you know, exercise, strength, train, eat prote often times it's the same advice that you'll give people.

You can of course individualize it, but it's how do I communicate this and then how do I coach this person through the process. That's what makes a trainer really good. It's that the clients follow it and then they like it and it's a good relationship that they enjoy and then they end up doing it on their own afterwards. And that's the coaching aspect. I think if you listen to us, you know, helping people, that's the part that I would say pay attention to. to. to. Yeah.

It's also the part I think we get most criticized from our peers by because uh because it's we sound like the no cardio guys or it sounds like there's you know they're for beginners only or it's like no it's what's h what you hear is you know 60 plus years of communicating to people and realizing like hey if we had to distill it down to a handful of things that we know impact 90% of the people significantly in their lives let's really communicate that hard and then we can sprinkle in the that we our knowledge around the other stuff but we're really going to drive you know speaking to that Adam there was a statistic I learned uh years ago managing big box gyms so this was probably probably 1999 or 2000 and I remember I was in this big meeting with other managers and we had upper management and they showed stats on how many people or what percentage of the population goes to gyms and it wasn't a big I don't remember what the percent it wasn't big wasn't big wasn't big it was less than 4% back then.

It just wasn't big. And and what he showed was what basically what happens when new gyms open or there's competing companies is they just pull members from each other. But what he the reason why they brought this up is they were like nobody's effectively reaching the rest of the population. There's a big segment of population nobody's able to touch. Now at the time there was a company called Curves called Curves called Curves that actually did a decent job of it. and I they didn't do a great job keeping them and that that's a whole another story but they were actually reaching people that had basically said I'm not interested interested interested fastest fastest growing fitness chain in history still to this day right so and it inspired me as a trainer and I think it inspired even my attitude here with the podcast which is I'm more interested in getting the average person who has not figured out how to make this a part of their life I'm interested in that person more than I am in the fitness fanatic fanatic I'm not as interested interested interested the irony of that though is that even the person cuz I would consider all of us fitness fanatics.

I mean, it's what we talk about all day, but the the stuff that we teach and and apply to our own lives is still applicable. It's not it's not it's like it's still it's still the truth. It's still what's ideal. It's still it's like now maybe there's been times in my life where I decide I'm going to get crazy and get on stage and it's like and then those other layers of like knowledge and discipline and all those extra things come into play. But when I look at my life as a whole of trying to stay healthy, I'm still that person too.

Yet I'm consider myself a fitness fanatic because I do talk about it all day long. it's a part of my like so I think even a lot of people that would identify as fitness people still should just kind of really focus on those basics and not get in the weeds with a lot of the other stuff. Yeah, that's why I think we probably get the criticism because we look through a long-term lens. And I think that most fitness um professionals, even people that follow the studies and are very like textbook savvy and have this crazy academic background, can solve what the what the client is asking, but they're not looking at what they need.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And so good way to say it. Yeah. It's that's a completely different approach. Well, I remember talking to Ben Greenfield, our good friend, who um I mean, he's been in the space for a long time, and he's like, I started getting into cutting edge, and I started running out of things to talk about. He's like, I had to get more cutting edge and more cutting edge. I'm like, I'm not interested in that. I think it's cool. It's interesting, but I'm trying to help people here.

And I I still remember that conversation with him cuz I remember that he cuz he he had been doing it for years before us and we were like so curious to like you know how come you don't really talk a lot about he's like man I talked about that for a long time and then I got bored bored bored just talking about that and so then I was into the next stuff and then the next and it just kept he just kept to follow his interest and he kept drifting away from like the average person.

person. person. Yeah. you know, who needs his own. And there's definitely a he I mean, he's got an incredible uh community of people that are super interested in all that. And he is the great I think he's one of the best people in my opinion to test that stuff because he checks the boxes and all the other things. But for the average person, it's just like, yeah, that stuff is like there there's there's like three simple things for you to do if you just do I'm going to change directions here real quick because you know Butcher Box uh was talking to um you know the people that manage our account talking about how popular the Mine Pump box is.

Did you hear this? It's a really popular box that people are going and get. Doug, what is what are the cuts in the M? These are our favorite cuts. favorite cuts. favorite cuts. So I know there's tri tip in there. I think the nuggets are in there. People agree with us on all the things like I think was it ribs? Did we Did we Did we I want to say it took Yeah, ribs. It's it literally I think it's all the ones that we like. Yeah.

And so it's a specific box for the cuts that we like. I mean, it's doing well cuz I think everybody like Okay, we've been getting these boxes for I don't know how long. We've all had most most everything from there and everybody has a favorite thing or two. or two. or two. What are the things that are in our box? Are you looking at it? Yeah, I'm looking at I'm pretty sure it's ribs, chicken nuggets. I want steak tips. Flat flat iron steaks maybe. Okay. Okay.

Okay. Yeah, look it up cuz I know tri tip has to be in there. I know I know ribs was my man. That's like a staple for me for is to get the ribs from there. I stock up all the time. time. time. You're you're like the ribs master. Those It's those ribs. I have I'm not the I am not the ribs master. I have cooked all kinds of There's been times when I'm out of butcher box ribs and I have to go buy ribs from someone else.

And I have I have my formula and recipe to like making a lot of the the meat that I cook in the smoker like down to the minute, science, degree, everything, right? And I have tried multiple times. Is it cuz it's heritage pork? I that's what I asked before if that like does that make that big of a difference on the tenderness and the flavor and the way they taste because I now Katrina of course she's my wife. She's sweet. She says things like oh no honey these are good.

It's like no. Like I can tell there's a huge difference between that. Do you find it Doug? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Did you find it? Yeah I did. So it's ribe eyes chicken thighs strip uh steak tips ribs uh chicken nuggets. Flat iron steak. That's what it was. It was a steak tip that I put in there. That's I will agree that there's something different about those ribs because I did it for a friend of mine. He said, "These are the best ribs I've ever had." I can't figure out.

It's got to be heritage pork. It's got to be the pork. I mean, is that so uncommon though? Is it that uncommon to Do most grocery store uh baby back ribs not have not? Yeah, I I seriously doubt they do. Okay. Okay. Okay. The average stores. What what what do you know the difference between heritage pork and pork and pork and I think it's the feed largely uh and how they're raised. So a lot of pigs are just given a lot of crap. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

And um I'm not sure about the butcher box pigs, box pigs, box pigs, but uh I know that some are given I know it's labeled heritage pork and I know that's unique. What I don't know is like what that entails. Does that mean they get a certain type of feed for so long? Does that mean they're not fattened up a certain way? Like I don't understand it but I know from I know the flavor. I've cooked a lot of ribs and I've c I've cooked a lot of non- butcher box ribs and I still cannot unlock being able to cook other ribs to the to as good as I cook those ribs.

It's night and day difference. difference. difference. So it's it's it's a different genetics. They're they're different types. So it's a different breed of pig. Different. Yeah. And farming practices are different. Nutrition is different. So they're from traditional older pig breeds. breeds. breeds. Interesting. often called heritage breeds that have been preserved for their genetic diversity, hardiness and historical significance. historical significance. historical significance. Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow. So these include varieties like Birkshshire, Dac, Red W, Tamworth and Gluc Glucester Old Spot. Glucire. Glucire. Glucire. Yeah.

So the these all originated before modern industrial farming. Regular pork comes from hybrid breeds optimized for large scale production. Wow. Wow. Wow. So breeding and raising methods uh are Okay, so that makes a lot of sense. So they're considered superior in flavor due to higher intramuscular fat. That's why why why they have more marbling. That explains marbling so much. Now cuz all the other ribs I always buy, they're always a little bit bigger. They're always a little bit bigger than the other ones, right? So then I always got to cook a little bit more.

Yeah. Regular pork, it says here is blander, milder, and less complex. So just less fat. That's exactly it. This is exactly what I have figured out with it. It's just like those drip off this. They have higher So it's got more fat in it, right? But it's got higher levels of beneficial fats, higher in omega-3s because of their pastor diets, vitamins and minerals due to diverse foraging and natural. So, it is also not only is it tastier, but it's got more nutrients like omega-3s in there.

Well, there you go. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Huge win. Huge win. Huge win. Yeah. I'm not a pork fan, but I've had your ribs and they're good. Delicious. Delicious. Delicious. They're on another level good. And I And I've now this makes so much sense now because I've been like, what am I not doing? What am I not doing to make up for that that flavor difference? And I've always noticed that they're uh the other ones are a little bit bigger. They're like they're always a little bit bigger than the baby back ribs that I get from Butcher Box, but they just never taste as good.

They don't ever taste as good, dude. Yeah. Well, there you go, dude. That makes a lot of sense. If you want to try Methylin Blue, get those cognitive benefits, the energy, the mitochondrial health, check out Troscriptions. This is pharmaceutical grade methyline blue in a troi. You can put it in your cheek, absorb it faster or swallow on an empty stomach. Get the full effect. Try it out for yourself. It really works. Go to troscriptions.com. That's t r o s c r i p t i o ns.com/mindpump.

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In fact, it gives you 1.9 CEUs with or for your NASM certification. Find out more at mindpunfitnesscoaching.com. First question is from Lesie Brookkew WS. My 10-year-old daughter struggles with the mechanics of a barbell row. What could I replace it with for now? Oh, yeah. Barbell row is difficult because you have to bend over, support your body while doing the row, which makes it harder. Yeah. and it's harder to get the scapular retraction and the squeeze. If you have access to a seated row or a cable row, that's the easiest way to get the mechanics.

If you're stuck with free weights, you could do a one- arm dumbbell row with your hand on the bench, knee on the bench. Nice good posture. Then you can get that shoulder blade to come over the back. Get that scapular retraction. scapular retraction. scapular retraction. You even do dumbbells. You can do dumbbells here. You could do a tea bar row. T- bar for daughter sometimes is uh a little uncomfortable. Chest support it can be hard for girls. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. for a girl. I said it could be a little more 10-year-old girl though probably be okay.

T- bar row would probably be a good option here. Yeah, it really there's there's a lot of different options. Um I think I like best out of everything you said though. Single dumbbell row is probably probably probably that's the one I always go to. Yeah, the most fundamental good one to teach. The key with that is like really teaching good mechanics in it because what you'll find is when when when a kid or anybody for this matter, but in particular a young kid trying to learn how to lift is in that position where they're leaning over the gravity is like pulling their scapula over.

And you got to learn to teach them to as they row to pull that. pull that. pull that. You know what I do? I'll put the bench on a low incline. So I raise it just enough like this and they can put their hand on or I'll raise it up higher and they put their elbow on to put them in a better position. But the but what you what you want with the row is obviously you're rowing the weight. So you want the bar to come up.

But what you want are the shoulder blades to come back together and down. So you want to avoid shruging and you will want to avoid the scapula remaining forward. So it looks like this kind of forward shoulder as they're rowing. That's poor mechanics. So you want everything to come back. One of the things I might teach with someone that that's this young too is go get like really light dumbbells that they're just like 10 pound dumbbells they're holding and get behind them and actually actually actually put them in position.

put them in position so that like they're they're they're in almost in the exact same position they will be in for a barbell row, but they're holding these independent weights that I can then get behind them and actually articulate their scapula back and forth and like tell her, "Okay, drive your elbows back." And then I actually will take her scapula and then squeeze like, "No, this is what I mean by back. Feel that." And then she'll be like, "Oh, okay." Then I let her come forward and okay, pull her back.

And then once she gets that, okay, this is what I'm supposed to feel. Okay, now I can grab a barbell and now I can do that movement. And yeah, I I went through this actually recently with my son and um two to just get into that position where he's like at that 45 degree. Uh had him hold on to the squat rack with one hand and do it with a dumbbell on the other. So it's like at least he can solidify that position, hold and brace properly so he's supporting his lower back.

And then we go through that with the mechanics and then you know eventually we'll get to the barbell. Yeah. Next qu question is from Nancy Holmes. Once you've chased strength, focused on how you feel, sleep, libido, and all that is good, but your aesthetics have not caught up. What should you do next? Be patient. Yeah, you keep going. Be patient. patient. patient. The point The point The point people think this is like an overnight thing or it's going to happen. It takes a long time or or they think, "Oh, cool.

I'm going to do the things you guys said and then once I see some of that, now I'm going to focus on aesthetics." The aesthetics follow. That's right. The aesthetics follow. It'll reveal itself. You never stop focusing on those things. You always keep focusing on those things and the aesthetics will follow. You don't have to go chase the aesthetics. You keep focusing on those things. And if those things keep staying good or keep improving, the aesthetics will. That's right. That's right. That's right. You ever see that one meme where the guy's digging, you know, and then on the other side of this this hole is like treasure, but he just stops like right like, you know, a couple inches before is what I think of.

Now, that part could be diet. you know, sometimes, you know, you're getting stronger and whatever and you might just need to tighten up your diet a little bit. Yeah. bit. Yeah. bit. Yeah. Uh diet can definitely play a big role in aesthetics. But honestly, what I probably think is happening is you're just you just got to keep going. Yeah. Diet's a good point though, S, because if if you if you were just like, I'm not really worried about diet. I'm just going to focus on getting stronger, working on my sleep, my libido.

Strength training properly, focusing on those things, eating eating well can can start to do all that. But then if you don't consistently hit your protein intake right now and eat whole foods, that could be the next layer to this if you're not already doing that. But if you're doing that, then it's just a matter of time. If you consistently hit your protein intake, you eat mostly whole foods, and you keep focusing on the sleep, libido, and like that, the aesthetics will follow. They just will. Next question is from Ryan W.

Richards. It's been a while since you spoke about the benefits of full spectrum CBD. Do you still find benefits based on emerging emerging research or has it become overhyped? become overhyped? become overhyped? The overhyped period is over. There was a period there where they were like CBD soap. I think I saw CBD shoes. It's like what? How does that work? I mean, it was over it's overhyped because it works. I mean, gez, I've been I've been using the um CBD a lot lately trying to improve and work on my sleep.

I haven't had good sleep in a in a long time. One of the things I'm using right now is is CBD. Um, so and it does help. So I mean I I think the reason why it why something gets overhyped is because it has there's some value and effectiveness to it. And then if it it can be mass-produced like CBD can, it becomes then it becomes the cure all for everything. You know what I'm saying? And so And so And so it dilutes because of quality of all the companies that are producing it.

Yeah. No. So that's um I don't I don't think we've changed our our opinion on CBD at all. At least I haven't. I mean, I still I still I still CBD is interesting cuz cuz it it enhances your body's all of how your body's uh endockinabonoids um operate or how you feel them. So, you produce canabonoids yourself in your body. Using CBD seems to enhance those ones that you naturally make. So, CBD is by itself, it's not psychoactive. It's not like THC or anything else. It doesn't it doesn't have those effects, but it enhances the effects of your natural endockinabonoid.

So, what tends to happen with people is they just kind of feel better. Uh, it can help some people with anxiety, sleep, inflammation, those kind of things. of things. of things. Next question is from Stacy Thomas Photography. Is it okay to bounce around programs? Depending on circumstances, I bounce around from muscle mommy maps 15 um, muscle mommy 15 suspension or anabolic. anabolic. anabolic. If it's how you can stay consistent, it's totally fine. And I'm answering this because the person said depending on circumstances. So I'm assuming your muscle mommy 15 is a time crunch suspension is cuz I'm at home anabolics when I got more time which is totally fine.

Now ideally in a perfect world which doesn't exist but in a perfect world you would follow just a program. But if this is how you're able to stay consistent this is great. There's nothing wrong with it whatsoever. It's hard to add to that but it's that simple. It's like if you have the option and you'll consistently follow Maps Anabolic the way it's laid out inside of a gym just like that, you'll get more like you'll get more bang for your buck. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. But not at the cost of you not being able to do it sometimes because you're inconsistent and you have to train from home and and could only use your suspension trainer.

And so because of that, bouncing from muscle, you know, muscle mommy 15 and suspension anabolic is complet in fact encouraged. If it was like, "Oh my god, I can't get the gym and do anabolic, but what I can do is grab my suspension trainer, do that. Is that okay?" Like, uh, yeah, hell yes. That's okay. That's great. And that's one of the things that will keep you somebody, again, this is uh love changing uh that, you know, I'm the person who's following Maps Anabolic to I'm just somebody who works out three times a week, man.

Great. man. Great. man. Great. You know, that's I just work out three times a week. Now, I love to try and follow Maps Anabolic all the time, but sometimes I can't. Sometimes I only have 15 minutes. Sometimes I can just grab my suspension trainer. And so that is an awesome way to live your life. Perfect. All right. I know you like that episode. If you did, check this one out. Shredded, ripped, defined, singledigit body fat. body fat. body fat. Yes. Yes. Yes. You want to get there?

Let's talk about it. it. it. Difficult. And is it worth it? That's a follow-up question. follow-up question. follow-up question. Yeah. First off, we got to say, okay, so singledigit body fat, obviously body fat percentages, uh, that could be represented by one digit like 3%, 5%, 6%, 9%. That's uh ripped for men. For women, women, women, add 10%. add 10%. add 10%. Yeah. Don't Yeah, exactly.