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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

1154: The Truth About Macros, the Most Important Variables to Adjust in Your Training, Dealing with Workout & Diet Zealots & 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

🗓️ 2 November 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about whether macros really count, the hierarchy for adjusting variables in your training, dealing with people in the industry who preach their diet or workout is the best one, and tactics for keeping your wife on your side.

  • Mind Pump gets weird after the supplement stack Sal creates. (5:11)
  • Four Sigmatic coffee is en Fuego! (6:09)
  • The Andrews household loses another chicken. (9:12)
  • The guys talk scary movies and what used to keep them up at night. (12:44)
  • A haunted house offers $20,000 to anyone who can finish it. (19:01)
  • Nutritional Coaching Institute is offering a FREE gut health course for Mind Pump listeners! (21:20)
  • Why you should look DEEPER into studies and view them from different angles. (23:32)
  • What is the optimal age to have kids? (26:17)
  • Is there too much access to information? (34:12)
  • Why you should NOT live on social media. (37:04)
  • Twitter is making BIG moves! (39:11)
  • #Quah question #1 – Do macros really matter? (41:49)
  • #Quah question #2 – Is there a hierarchy when adjusting variables in your training? Should you start changing reps before changing tempo or weight? Would this apply to beginners and advanced lifters? (52:25)
  • #Quah question #3 – How do you deal with all the people in the industry when they preach to you their diet or workout is the best one? (58:33)
  • #Quah question #4 – What are your tactics for keeping your wife on your side? Such as keeping communication smooth and avoiding arguments. Having my wife angry is the main stressor for me. (1:05:32)

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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.

0:05.6

Mind up, mind up with your hosts.

0:09.1

Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

0:13.4

In this episode of Mind Pump, we answer fitness, health, and life questions from listeners

0:19.5

like you who post these questions on our Mind Pump.

0:22.2

Just like you, Susie, media, Instagram, page under the quaw meme.

0:26.6

So if you want us to answer one of your questions, go to Instagram, go to Mind Pump Media,

0:30.5

ask us a question, and then we may pick it.

0:33.5

We also talk about our lives, studies, and random things.

0:38.3

We do that in the intro portion of the episode.

0:40.7

So here's what this episode was all about.

0:43.0

We opened it up by talking about the random pre-podcast supplement stack that I found in

0:48.8

the closet.

0:49.8

Maybe we'll reveal that someday.

0:50.8

A lot of companies send us random supplements and stuff, and a lot of times we don't work

0:55.1

with them.

0:56.1

But I find this stuff and I mix it together and give it to the guys and see what happens

0:59.8

and boy, did we get weird.

1:01.9

But it did remind me of how much I liked the four-signatic coffee.

1:05.9

They actually make coffee now, but they infuse it with things like ashwaganda or lion's

1:10.4

main.

1:11.4

That's my favorite one.

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