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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

1123: The Game Changers Movie Review, Best Strategy to Lose Bodyfat AND Build Muscle Mass, the Value of Heart Rate Variability & 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

🗓️ 20 September 2019

⏱️ 93 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about the best strategy to lose body fat and build muscle mass, the weight training that endurance athletes should focus on, the value of heart rate variability, and what to do if you are in a slump.

  • The random hour with Mind Pump. (4:45)
  • The challenges of gamifying fitness. (7:43)
  • The power of your brain and losing weight in the process?? Just ask a grandmaster chess player. (15:14)
  • Recapping Justin coaching his first flag football ‘jamboree’ with his kids. (21:35)
  • How using cordyceps can increase stamina and help with heat accumulation. (27:14)
  • Mind Pump reviews The Game Changers documentary. (30:18)
  • J.J. Abrams signs an exclusivity deal with WarnerMedia reportedly worth $250 million: Will the future of the streaming wars be a la carte? (40:17)
  • Sal goes Vuori shopping. (46:45)
  • #Quah question #1 – What's the best strategy to lose body fat and build muscle mass? Focus on body fat reduction first or a combination of both which seems difficult with a caloric restriction or surplus? (48:59)
  • #Quah question #2 – Would it be better for an endurance athlete to focus on heavy weights/low reps and even plyo’s or light weights/higher reps? (59:56)
  • #Quah question #3 – Can you discuss your opinions on heart rate variability and new trends tailoring to HRV? Is it valuable or a waste of time? (1:06:50)
  • #Quah question #4 – Have you ever been in a slump in the gym or in life? If so, how did you get out of it? (1:20:23)

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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.

0:05.7

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

0:09.1

Salta Stephanie Adam Schaefer and Justin Andrews.

0:13.3

In this episode of Mind Pump, of course we talk all about fitness, fat loss, muscle building, and health.

0:20.9

But we also talk about current events and our own lives because we're super interesting.

0:25.2

So the first 45 minutes of this episode is the introductory portion.

0:29.8

We started by talking about gamifying fitness.

0:32.6

Nintendo is trying to gamify fitness.

0:35.5

This strategy has failed almost every other time it's ever been tried.

0:38.5

Let's maybe it'll work this time, Sal.

0:40.1

We'll see what happens.

0:41.3

Then I talked about the calories that top level world champion chess players burn while playing chess.

0:49.7

You'd be blown away by not moving how many calories they burn because they're thinking so hard.

0:55.9

Justin.

0:56.7

Justin talked about coaching his son's flag football team.

1:00.4

Kind of like cheating because he's so much of a better coach than the other guys.

1:03.8

I talked about how taking four significant courtesets greatly improved my stamina and my ability

1:10.5

to acclimate to heat when I hiked over the weekend at the pinnacles in California.

1:16.2

Now, four significant are the makers of high quality mushroom based supplements.

1:21.5

They have supplements like courtesets.

1:23.5

Rishi is one.

1:24.9

Chaga is another one.

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