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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

1028: Best Rep Tempo to Build Muscle, How to Train When Sleep Deprived, Staying Lean When Transitioning to Intuitive Eating & MORE

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this episode of Quah, sponsored by MAPS Fitness Products (www.mapsfitnessproducts.com), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about explosive reps vs. slower tempo reps for hypertrophy, staying lean when transitioning from counting macros to intuitive eating, how to adjust training and nutrition when sleep deprived and the most challenging thing they face when trying to achieve balance in their lives.

  • The strategy to ‘ween’ yourself off caffeine. (3:58)
  • How Skinny Dipped almonds are so ADDICTING! (9:30)
  • Mind Pump gearing up for the Vuori flagship event May 10th. (11:20)
  • Sunscreen chemicals enter the bloodstream at potentially unsafe levels: Study. (14:16)
  • The newest trending sex act, ‘figging’. Why do humans make everything weird? (19:28)
  • Mind Pump clarifies their take on kratom. (22:43)
  • Denver is voting to become the first city to decriminalize hallucinogenic mushrooms. (25:28)
  • How Justin’s kid is the ‘star’ of the party + that age when the other sex first notices you. (31:48)
  • The XFL is returning in 2020. Why the higher the stakes, the more viable the sport. (35:06)
  • New ‘Wellness’ Division coming to IFBB Pro League. (40:17)
  • #Quah question #1 – Are more explosive reps or slower tempo reps better for hypertrophy? (46:07)
  • #Quah question #2 – What would you recommend for someone who has relied on counting macros for a long time to transition to intuitive eating while maintaining a lean physique? (53:54)
  • #Quah question #3 – We just had a baby and getting adequate sleep at night is next to impossible. If you had to wake up every 2-3 hours and had to run on 6 or fewer hours of sleep at night, how would your training and nutrition change? (1:00:45)
  • #Quah question #4 – What balance in your life is most challenging to achieve? (1:05:43)

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0:00.0

If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go.

0:06.0

Mite, ob-mite, ob- with your hosts.

0:09.0

Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

0:13.0

Hey, it's Mind Pump. Look, for the first 40 minutes, we do our introductory conversation.

0:19.0

Here's what we talked about. Adam talked about weaning himself off of caffeine,

0:23.0

and I gave my protocol. He's a weiner.

0:25.0

That's right. We do a macro comparison of plain almonds,

0:29.0

versus the chocolate dipped delicious skinny dipped almond.

0:34.0

Oh, by the way, they have a store locator on their website.

0:37.0

And they are one of our sponsors.

0:39.0

If you go to skinny dipped.com, forward slash Mind Pump,

0:42.0

and enter the code, Mind Pump, you'll get 20% off.

0:46.0

Then we talked about Viori's new bank shorts and cruise board shorts.

0:51.0

One pair of shorts is made with 25 plastic bottles recycled into these amazing shorts.

0:57.0

And of course, they have lots of other clothing that we think is amazing and awesome.

1:02.0

They are one of our sponsors.

1:04.0

If you go to Viori Clothing, V-U-O-R-I, clothing.com, forward slash Mind Pump,

1:10.0

and use the code listed on their page, you'll get 25% off.

1:15.0

I bring up a new study on sunscreen,

1:18.0

showing that some of the chemicals are reaching unsafe levels in people

1:21.0

and how some states have banned sunscreens,

1:24.0

because it's killing the coral reef.

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