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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

1079: How to Activate Muscles by Flexing, the Pros & Cons of Open Chain vs. Closed Chain Exercises, the Future of Peloton & Other Streaming At-Home Workouts & MORE

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

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

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2019

⏱️ 81 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this episode of Quah, sponsored by Organifi (organifi.com/mindpump, code "mindpump" for 20% off), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about activating muscles by flexing them before compound lifts, the difference in stimuli, physically and cognitively, between open chain and closed chain exercises, if it is normal for joints to hurt after lifting, and Peloton and other streaming at-home workouts.

  • How having kids tends to change your perspective on the relationship with your family, disciplining your kids & MORE. (3:52)
  • Four Sigmatic Special Coffee Offer for Mind Pump listeners!! (15:50)
  • The importance of adjusting intensity: How the USWNT used innovative period tracking to help player performance at the World Cup. (17:23)
  • Conspiracy Theory Hour: US Government weaponized ticks and other insects, Lyme disease on Plum Island & MORE. (22:54)
  • The guilty till proven innocent era we currently live in...' Mr. Olympia' Shawn Rhoden charged with rape, eligibility revoked. (29:58)
  • Shame on us! Is the trending FaceApp a massive security risk??!! (33:07)
  • Jeffrey Epstein and the utility of fake billions. (36:00)
  • Competition is heating up in streaming land! Netflix numbers declining, the future of streaming platforms & MORE. (37:47)
  • Things are getting out of control! ‘Manholes’ to become ‘Maintenance Holes’ in Berkeley, CA. (44:57)
  • #Quah question #1 – Can you activate a muscle by flexing it before compound lifts? (46:33)
  • #Quah question #2 – Can you expand on the difference in stimuli, physically and cognitively, between open chain and closed chain exercises? What are the pros and cons of each and should you stick to one or the other during a workout? (53:50)
  • #Quah question #3 – It is normal for all my joints to hurt after I lift? I know there should be inflammation with my muscles and possibly my joints, but I feel it mainly in my joints the day after. Specifically, my knees and shoulders. Could it be due to years of running track as a teen? (1:02:15)
  • #Quah question #4 – What are your thoughts on Peloton and other streaming at-home workouts? How long before VR compatible treadmills and rowers? (1:07:21)

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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, up with your hosts.

0:09.0

Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

0:13.0

In this super awesome episode of The Mind Pump,

0:17.0

we talk about fitness, building muscle, burning body fat,

0:21.0

and we talk about current events and fun stuff.

0:23.0

Here's what we talked about in the first 42 minutes introductory portion of this episode.

0:28.0

We talked about disciplining children and how we were disciplined versus how we're going to discipline our kids.

0:34.0

I'm not going to use the old school Sicilian wooden spoon.

0:37.0

No, no thrown shoes.

0:38.0

No, no, that's stuff that was used on me.

0:40.0

We talked about four sigmatics, huge sale that they're doing on their mushroom coffee.

0:47.0

Now they have coffee that is infused with medicinal mushrooms that provide additional benefits to the caffeine.

0:54.0

So if you like the caffeine buzz, but you want to enhance it, you should try the four-sigmatic coffee.

1:00.0

Well, check this out.

1:01.0

It is 25% off right now, and we have an additional 15% off when you use the code Mind Pump.

1:09.0

For the special discount on four-sigmatic mushroom coffee, make sure you click on the link in the show notes on our website.

1:18.0

Then we talk about the women's US soccer team training cycle.

1:22.0

Apparently they were training around their menstrual cycles and taking the workouts and maximizing them based on their hormones.

1:31.0

I talked about the Department of Defense possibly weaponizing insects from 1950s to like...

1:38.0

You terrified the hell out of me.

1:39.0

1972 Conspiracy Theory time.

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