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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

1164: How to Activate Your Chest When Benching, What a New Personal Trainer Needs to Know, Tactics to Overcome Insecurities & 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

🗓️ 16 November 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about how to feel activation in chest when benching, how much information you should know as a new personal trainer, if there is anything they would go back and change in their first 3 programs (Anabolic, Performance & Aesthetic), and how to address insecurities.

  • Adam has an addiction to subscriptions. (5:06)
  • Sal using scare tactics on his son. (9:42)
  • Is seasonal affective disorder a real thing? (11:16)
  • How your thermal environment affects your sleep. (14:07)
  • Justin is a big dance guy. (19:09)
  • The health benefits of the lion’s mane mushroom. (23:02)
  • Is milk consumption on the decline? (27:15)
  • Can artificial intelligence predict premature death? (30:05)
  • Mind Pump recommends The Inventor: Out for Blood on HBO. (30:49)
  • The multi-level marketing (MLM) scam that is Beachbody. (34:55)
  • Convoy: The Uber of trucking systems. (42:00)
  • The psychological benefits of exercise. (45:11)
  • #Quah question #1 – When I bench, regular or incline, I don’t feel a lot of activation in my chest. Any tips to feel it more? (48:43)
  • #Quah question #2 - How much information should you know as a new personal trainer? I listen to you guys, but I can’t hold a candle to you. (55:23)
  • #Quah question #3 – Knowing what you know today, is there anything you would go back and change in your first 3 programs? (1:00:05)
  • #Quah question #4 – How would you guys recommend to address insecurities in yourself? (1:07:14)

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0:00.0

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of more than 25 pounds to your restrictions in terms of life.

0:15.0

If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go.

0:20.6

Might, might, up, up with your hosts. Salta Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

0:28.5

In this episode of Mind Pumped, we answer questions asked by people like you.

0:34.0

They go to our Instagram page, they post the question. We pick the best ones,

0:37.5

and then we answer them. And the way we open the episode is with our

0:40.3

introductory conversation. This is where we talk about current events, our lives,

0:44.8

and we just have a lot of fun. You get to know us, Sal.

0:47.6

So here's what we talked about in this episode. We start out by talking about Adam's

0:51.4

subscription addiction. He subscribes to a lot of things. Yeah.

0:56.0

And then doesn't cancel them. Then I talked about a study on the thermal environment,

1:00.7

and its effect on sleep and circadian rhythm. Did you know that the right temperature

1:06.7

can cut the speed in half in terms of how fast it takes you to fall asleep and double the

1:11.2

amount of time that you spend in deep sleep. It makes a massive, massive difference.

1:16.6

I did know that. Now we work with a company called Chile, and they make a chili pad

1:21.7

and something called an uler. This is a pad that goes over your bed underneath your sheets.

1:26.0

It's water, they use water, and it maintains the perfect temperature. So you set the temperature

1:32.0

on your device. Let's say you want it at 64 degrees. It'll leave the warm up or cool down to keep

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