1171: How Squat & Deadlifts "Thicken" the Waistline, the Difference Between Priming & Warming Up, the Benefits of Stability Training & MORE
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2019
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about whether squats and deadlifts “thicken” the waistline, the difference between priming and warming up, the benefits to stability training or using tools like a Bosu ball, and why many skinny yoga-girls likely self-selected yoga as their sport because of their body type.
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- #Quah question #1 – Any truth to squats and deadlifts “thickening” the waistline? (48:23)
- #Quah question #2 – What is the difference between priming and warming up? (56:09)
- #Quah question #3 – Are there any benefits to stability training or using tools like a Bosu ball? (1:01:20)
- #Quah question #4 – I would love to hear you go into depth on skinny yoga-girls self-selecting yoga as their sport because of their body type? (1:08:00)
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Transcript
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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 | Mite, op, mite, op with your hosts. |
| 0:09.0 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.0 | In this episode of Mind Pump, we answer questions that were asked by listeners like you, |
| 0:18.0 | what they do as they go to our Instagram page, Mind Pump Media. |
| 0:21.0 | They post a question under the quaw meme, we pick the best ones and then we answer them. |
| 0:26.0 | But the way we start out the episode is by talking about current events, scientific studies, |
| 0:31.0 | and just random topics. |
| 0:33.0 | So here's what we talk about. |
| 0:34.0 | In this episode, we start out by talking about my new shoes. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm wearing new shoes and I totally thought the guys will make fun of me. |
| 0:40.0 | But apparently, I accidentally got some cool shoes. |
| 0:44.0 | You can float, knows, right? |
| 0:45.0 | According to these guys, then we talked about our trip to Santa Barbara to listen to Arthur Brooks talk |
| 0:50.0 | and interview him. |
| 0:52.0 | He has now since become one of our favorite, favorite people. |
| 0:55.0 | Then we talked about the CBD post by one of our friend fitness influencers and why we disagree with it |
| 1:02.0 | and why full spectrum cannabinoids, in other words, like hemp oil extract from Ned, by the way, |
| 1:08.0 | it's a company we work with, may have some actual health applications. |
| 1:12.0 | Now again, Ned is one of our sponsors. |
| 1:14.0 | They make full spectrum hemp oil extract, meaning it contains a multitude of cannabinoids, |
| 1:20.0 | not just CBD and the studies show that when you take cannabinoids together, |
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