1104: How to Improve Grip Strength, Training After 40, the Importance of Getting Sweaty When Working Out & MORE
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 11.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2019
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
1104: How to Improve Grip Strength, Training After 40, the Importance of Getting Sweaty When Working Out & MORE
- John Romano and Rich Gaspari invade Mind Pump HQ. (4:43)
- How Mark Bell has won Adam over. (6:13)
- Mind Pump gets a supplement offer from who??!! (7:35)
- Is cocaine now legal in Mexico?? (15:35)
- Virtue signaling at its finest when it comes to pollution and the environment. (19:33)
- Is there a natural painkiller in your saliva?? (23:28)
- Mind Pump Recommends Wayward Pines on Hulu and Mindhunter on Netflix. (27:27)
- How Sal and his son are now bonding over his early childhood trauma of anime. (32:06)
- Could cannabis be the key to curing pancreatic cancer? (34:31)
- The evolution of Airbnb and the VRBO market. (37:27)
- Too little, too late...Gillette shifts gears with their marketing strategy. (40:40)
- #Quah question #1 – Can you talk about the importance of grip strength training and how to improve grip? I find since my grip is weaker, it limits my deadlift and how long I can do heavy lunges. I don’t want to resort to wraps, but should I till I build a better grip? (43:46)
- #Quah question #2 – How does your training change once you hit 40? Is it still possible to get into peak physical condition? (54:30)
- #Quah question #3 – Since you started focusing more on health than aesthetics, how have your lives changed or improved? (1:03:24)
- #Quah question #4 – Does getting sweaty mean you are getting good results? (1:12:10)
People Mentioned
- Richard Gaspari (@richgaspari) Instagram
- Mark Bell (@MarkSmellyBell) Twitter
- Joe DeFranco (@defrancosgym) Instagram
- Ben Greenfield Fitness (@bengreenfieldfitness) Instagram
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- A Mexican judge says 2 people can legally use cocaine — but they can't buy or sell it
- REPORT: Pollution from 15 of world's biggest ships equal that of world's 760m cars
- Natural painkiller found in human spit
- Watch Wayward Pines Streaming Online | Hulu
- MINDHUNTER | Netflix Official Site
- Attack on Titan | Netflix
- Study: Cannabis Chemical May Have ‘Major Impact’ On Pancreatic Cancer Treatment
- Airbnb Surpasses 400 Million Guest Arrival Milestone
- Gillette 'shifting the focus from social issues,' 'toxic masculinity' ads to 'local heroes'
- The association of grip strength from midlife onwards with all-cause and cause-specific mortality over 17 years of follow-up in the Tromsø Study
- Mind Pump Free Resources
Transcript
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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 | MINE, MINE, MINE, MINE, MINE, MINE, MINE, MINE, MINE, with your hosts. |
| 0:09.1 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.3 | In this episode of The Mind Pump, so of course we talk all about fitness health, |
| 0:18.2 | burning body fat, building muscle, but we also talked about current events and ourselves, |
| 0:23.4 | another one of our favorite topics. |
| 0:24.7 | I love that talk. |
| 0:25.4 | So the first 40 minutes of this episode was that introductory portion of this episode. |
| 0:30.0 | We start out by talking about John Romano and Rich Gospari, two of our favorite people |
| 0:34.4 | in the fitness space. |
| 0:35.4 | The champion. |
| 0:36.4 | They actually came in yesterday and did some podcasts and they'll be starting their own |
| 0:38.7 | podcasts. |
| 0:39.7 | We love those guys. |
| 0:40.7 | John Romano wrote some of the best articles I've ever read. |
| 0:43.2 | And Rich Gospari, I consider him one of the best, uncrowned, Mr. Olympias of all time. |
| 0:48.9 | But they also ate a bunch of our skinny dipped almonds. |
| 0:52.0 | Guys, the hell. |
| 0:53.8 | They are hard to resist. |
| 0:55.8 | Skinny dipped is one of our sponsors. |
| 0:57.6 | We like skinny dipped almonds because it's mostly almond with a little bit of chocolate. |
| 1:01.6 | So the macro profile is really, really good. |
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