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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

1169 Building Muscle While Cutting Calories, When to Change Your Rep Range, Wrist Strengthening Tips & MORE

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

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

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2019

⏱️ 75 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 long to stay in a specific rep range, whether you can cut calories and still gain muscle, the best way to strengthen wrists and the ideal physical activity or exercise to be done 2-3Xs a week by the average person.

  • How Italian’s don’t have a volume button. (4:04)
  • Why it’s not just about the information, but rather HOW you communicate it. (5:57)
  • Mind Pump heading to LA to meet Arthur C Brooks. (15:00)
  • Does anything evoke emotion as much as music? (16:38)
  • Mind Pump Business Wars: Starbucks vs. Peet’s. (19:47)
  • The origin story of Red Bull. (24:55)
  • Vuori’s CRAZY return policy: Good business move or bad one? (27:42)
  • The CLEAR differences between men and women. (29:26)
  • The differences between Heritage Pork vs regular pork and how you can get it from Butcher Box. (34:40)
  • Updates on ‘Epstein Gate’. (37:40)
  • Is panspermia a real thing?? (40:35)
  • What’s the deal with the resurgence of amateur fights? Will the novelty wear off? (42:35)
  • #Quah question #1 – How long should you stay in a specific rep range? Should you be switching up weekly, shorter or longer? (50:24)
  • #Quah question #2 – I am confused about the whole bulk and cut thing. Can I cut calories and still gain muscle? (56:30)
  • #Quah question #3 – What is the best way to strengthen wrists? I’m looking to learn a handstand, but my wrists give out first. (1:01:20)
  • #Quah question #4 - If you can prescribe one physical activity or exercise to be done 2-3Xs a week for the average person, what would it be? (1:05:12)

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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

Might, up, might, up with your hosts.

0:09.0

Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

0:13.2

In this episode of Mind Pump, we answer questions from listeners just like you.

0:18.2

What they do is they go to our Instagram page, Mind Pump Media.

0:21.2

They post the question under the qua and we respond.

0:24.8

And we pick our favorite ones and then we answer them on episodes like this one.

0:29.2

Now, the way we open the episode is with our introductory conversations.

0:32.5

We talk about ourselves.

0:34.4

We talk about studies, fitness and random stuff.

0:38.3

So here's what we had to talk about, what we did talk about in this episode.

0:42.2

We started by talking about my academic post.

0:45.0

I did a, a poke at the PhDs and academics out there a little bit.

0:48.2

You rouser.

0:49.2

Yeah, see what happened.

0:50.2

Then we talked about how excited we are to meet Arthur C. Brooks.

0:54.1

This week, we're going to go down to LA and interview him.

0:56.2

He is the maker of the documentary, the pursuit on Netflix.

1:00.2

I talked about music and its influence on workouts.

1:03.5

Music has a massive influence on your motivation and the quality of your workouts.

1:08.2

We talked about the history of Starbucks and Red Bull.

1:12.3

We talked about, in fact, bullcombe.

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