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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

1229: Ways to Retain Muscle Mass While Dropping Body Fat, Powerlifting for Aesthetics, Simple Steps to Improve Long-Term Health & More

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

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

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2020

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about the best way to retain muscle mass while decreasing body fat, powerlifting for aesthetics, 3-5 things that the average person can do to improve their long-term health, and the positives and negatives of being a trainer.

  • Mind Pump ‘weird’ DM’s. (4:00)
  • Single parents are champions! (4:52)
  • Mind Pump Movie Reviews. (9:17)
  • Is the era of the ‘celebrity’ over? (11:20)
  • The importance of maintaining focus in between sets. (18:35)
  • Subscribe to Mind Pump TV. (25:52)
  • The latest dumb wellness/influencer trend. (29:10)
  • Pixar is at it again! (31:33)
  • Mind Pump Recommends A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. (32:51)
  • Science Alert! Mysterious radio signal from space repeating every 16 days. (34:10)
  • Improv update with Justin. (35:37)
  • What is more important for building muscle, tension or weight? (42:33)
  • NCI certification at Mind Pump Media HQ. (45:47)
  • #Quah question #1 – What is the best way to retain muscle mass while decreasing body fat? Specifically, in terms of how to alter training and how to split up my diet? (47:33)
  • #Quah question #2 – What are your thoughts on powerlifting for aesthetics? (53:33)
  • #Quah question #3 – What are the top 3-5 things that the average American can do to improve their long-term health? (1:00:40)
  • #Quah question #4 – What are the positives and negatives of being a trainer? Do you have any advice that you wish you knew when you first started? (1:08:25)

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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

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

0:09.0

Salta Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

0:13.0

In this episode of Mind Pump, we answer fitness and health questions asked by our audience.

0:20.0

We do our best.

0:21.0

But we also cover current events, talk about our lives, have a lot of fun.

0:25.0

That's the intro portion of this episode, last about 42 minutes.

0:28.0

So here's what we talked about in this whole episode of Mind Pump.

0:32.0

We start out by talking about single parents, kudos to you.

0:36.0

We are all not single parents.

0:38.0

We know how tough it is.

0:39.0

I can't even imagine what you guys must go through.

0:41.0

So you guys are the champions.

0:42.0

Yes.

0:43.0

Then we talked about celebrities and politics.

0:45.0

We just wish celebrities would shut up and act.

0:47.0

That's how you should do.

0:48.0

It's not hard.

0:49.0

Then I talked about the focus that you need to have in between your sets.

0:54.0

So when you're working out, oftentimes we focus on the exercise while we're doing it in between.

0:59.0

We tend to lose our focus.

1:01.0

I think that makes a big difference.

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