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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

1119: How to Spot a Bad Personal Trainer, the Hardest & Easiest Lifts, When & How to Get a Spotter When Lifting Heavy & MORE

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

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

Exercise, Health & Fitness, Health, Fitness

4.8 • 11.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2019

⏱️ 106 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about easy ways to spot a bad personal trainer, asking for a spot when you want to lift heavy, which of the 3 powerlifting lifts were the most difficult and easy, and how their fitness careers began.

  • Mind Pump’s newest partner, Caldera Labs, and the importance of what you put on your skin. (4:05)
  • Beauty products are NO JOKE! (11:00)
  • What’s the deal with people that buy old cop cars and taxi cabs?? (13:09)
  • Adam’s first ‘moment of panic’ with his son. How the ‘parent instinct’ is a REAL thing. (17:10)
  • The pros and cons of blue light exposure for athletic performance & MORE. (28:31)
  • The 7 biggest parenting mistakes that destroy kids’ confidence and self-esteem. (31:45)
  • The value and potential issues of due process. Why we should never choose safety for freedom. (37:07)
  • The scary accuracies of personality tests. (43:30)
  • #Quah question #1 – What are easy ways to spot a bad personal trainer? (45:25)
  • #Quah question #2 – For a woman who lifts alone, should you just ask some random dude to spot you when you want to lift heavy? Is it weird or creepy? (52:42)
  • #Quah question #3 – Of the three major powerlifting lifts, which one did you have to work the hardest on to get stronger and which one was the easiest? (1:01:18)
  • #Quah question #4 – I would love to hear how each of your careers in fitness began. (1:15:45)

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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

MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, with your hosts.

0:09.0

Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

0:13.0

In this super duper awesome episode of Mind Pump.

0:17.0

Everything is awesome!

0:19.0

We talk all about fitness, health, building muscle, burning body fat,

0:22.0

but we also talk about our lives and current events.

0:25.0

Here's what we talked about in the first 42 minutes,

0:28.0

which is the introductory portion of this episode.

0:31.0

We start out by talking about Caldera.

0:33.0

This is a new company we are partnering with.

0:36.0

They make skincare products that are all natural.

0:40.0

It's the reason why Adam's face and head looks so beautiful.

0:44.0

It looks like the fountain of youth.

0:46.0

Anyway, we got a discount for you.

0:47.0

If you go to Caldera Lab, that's C-A-L-D-E-R-A-L-A-B,

0:52.0

dot com forward slash Mind Pump, you'll get 20% off.

0:55.0

Your first purchase of their products.

0:58.0

Then we talked about taxi cabs, how some people are buying old taxi cabs

1:03.0

in police cars and making us scared as fuck and not confusing us.

1:07.0

Yeah, what the hell?

1:08.0

Then Adam talked about how you went into daddy protective mode.

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