#105: How to Have the Best Workout Ever
The Jay Ferruggia Show
Jay Ferruggia
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2016
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In this QnA episode, Jack and I answer your listener questions and talk about some of the most common questions in training.
Today's topics include:
0:25: The music genre that makes me want to headbutt someone
3:41: iMessage auto-corrects that only meatheads will understand
5:40: Shout out recent iTunes reviews winners. Be sure to listen so you can claim your free t shirt
10:24: The diet mistake that always leaves me with low energy
13:32: A detailed explanation of my current nutrition plan on the #GenXMassQuest
19:54: How to properly warm up to your first working set
21:34: My favorite workout trick to increase my strength on top end sets
26:26: The proper way to choose your working weights for every exercise
27: 56: When you should and should not go to failure
30:12: What to do if you aren't feeling it when you get to the gym
31:32 Is overtraining real?
37:19: How to adjust your training when doing martial arts
39:29: Why most people fail to accomplish their goals and what you can do to avoid that failure
41:34: How I keep my marriage healthy and my life balanced
45:42: The best approach to squat and deadlift with achey knees
46:32: What's the single greatest exercise for traps hypertrophy?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody welcome back to another episode of Renegade Radio I am here today |
| 0:17.7 | with Jack Penner who is calling in from Georgetown Medical School where he is doing |
| 0:22.4 | his best to change the world |
| 0:24.0 | save the planet as it were what's up my friend what's up man how you doing |
| 0:28.6 | always great unfortunately I heard a little 80s music before, which really puts me in a bad mood. |
| 0:35.0 | I hate 80s music with a passion. |
| 0:38.0 | I mean, obviously there was some good rock and hip-hop during the 80s, Bruce, and whatnot, |
| 0:42.0 | a lot of good rock bands release. |
| 0:43.4 | But you know typical quote unquote 80s music really gets me violently angry like |
| 0:49.7 | um Lady and Red and all those kind of weird songs. |
| 0:53.5 | Were you listening to Duran Duran? |
| 0:56.7 | No, that I hate with a passion. |
| 0:58.2 | I hate, I don't know, for some reason a lot of that shit, |
| 1:00.4 | like 80s greatest hits. Like what's that song by Toto we heard that in the |
| 1:06.2 | car the other day I was driving with Jen and somebody else was in the car with us and |
| 1:11.6 | we're just flipping through and and I had to go back to us. And I had to go back to it. |
| 1:15.0 | I was like, dude, this is literally the worst song ever |
| 1:18.0 | made. |
| 1:19.0 | It just makes me want to hurt people. |
| 1:20.0 | I don't even know why. |
| 1:22.0 | I just really despise it. The only 80 song I could |
| 1:25.2 | think. I mean there's obviously there's some that are fun and whatnot like you know it |
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