1233: When to Use High Reps to Build Muscle & Strength, the Benefits of Splitting up Your Workout Throughout the Day, the Best Ways to Deal With Stress & More
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about 2-a-days, whether endurance rep ranges in the 15-20 range help at all with strength and hypertrophy, the correlation between lean muscle mass and resting metabolic rate, and the best ways to deal with stress.
- Adam experimenting with Organifi products. (4:07)
- Adam’s prank falls flat on his staff member. (5:21)
- Tom and Jerry turn 80 and the evolution of animation. (11:15)
- Astronauts and resistance training. (13:50)
- Blue light blocking glasses have come a LONG way. (17:28)
- Mind Pump Recommends Mythic Quest on Apple+ and McMillions on HBO. (21:10)
- Is masturbation the new cold & flu medicine? (26:50)
- The Jeff Bezos effect. (29:05)
- Antioxidants and cancer. (35:15)
- The importance of being ‘diet fluid’. (36:37)
- #Quah question #1 – What are your thoughts on 2-a-days? (40:24)
- #Quah question #2 – Do endurance rep ranges in the 15-20 range help at all with strength and hypertrophy? (48:58)
- #Quah question #3 – I recently came across conflicting arguments regarding the correlation between lean muscle mass and resting metabolic rate. Why do you think most of these studies seem to suggest that the increase is fairly minimal? (53:44)
- #Quah question #4 – What are the best ways to deal with stress? (1:02:26)
Related Links/Products Mentioned
- February Promotion: MAPS Split ½ off! **Code “SPLIT50” at checkout**
- Visit Organifi for the exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Code “mindpump” at checkout**
- Tom and Jerry Fans Are Celebrating the Beloved Duo's 80th Birthday
- How do astronauts exercise in space?
- Visit Felix Gray for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners!
- Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet on Apple TV+
- McMillions: Official Website for the HBO Documentary Series
- Effects of sexual arousal on lymphocyte subset circulation and cytokine production in man.
- The most expensive home in LA cost Jeff Bezos only 0.13% of his net worth
- Antioxidants and Cancer Prevention - National Cancer Institute
- Antioxidants May Make Cancer Worse - Scientific American
- MAPS Fitness Products – Mind Pump
- Which Is Better: Low Reps Or High Reps? - Mind Pump Media
- The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert – Book by John Gottman PhD
- Mind Pump Free Resources
People Mentioned
- Dave Asprey (@dave.asprey) Instagram
- Stan "Rhino" Efferding - CSCS (@stanefferding) Instagram
- IFBB LEGEND FLEX WHEELER (officialflexwheeler) Instagram
- Jim Kwik (@jimkwik) Instagram
Wim Hof (@iceman_hof) Instagram
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 | MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, with your hosts. |
| 0:09.0 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.0 | In this episode of Mind Pump, we answer fitness and health questions. We help people. |
| 0:19.0 | Build muscle, get stronger, burn body fat, feel better. |
| 0:23.0 | But we also like to have a lot of fun on the podcast. |
| 0:25.0 | And the way we open up this podcast is with introductory conversation. |
| 0:28.0 | We talk about current events, talk about each other, and we just generally talk. |
| 0:33.0 | So here's what we did in this episode. |
| 0:35.0 | We start out by mentioning Adam mixing the green juice and pure from organify. |
| 0:42.0 | He wanted the mental sharpness that I was talking about the other day. |
| 0:46.0 | So he mixes it at the beginning of the episode. |
| 0:48.0 | Watch and wait. About 40 to 45 minutes in. |
| 0:51.0 | You can hear a market improvement in his verbal fluency. |
| 0:54.0 | Just kicks, right? |
| 0:55.0 | Sharpness. |
| 0:56.0 | That's by organify, by the way. |
| 0:58.0 | Organify is one of our sponsors. |
| 1:00.0 | They make organic supplements, including protein powders that are plant-based, of course, organic. |
| 1:06.0 | Here's how you get your mind pump exclusive discount of 20% off. |
| 1:10.0 | Just go to organify.com, forward slash mind pump, and then use the code Mind Pump. |
| 1:15.0 | Then Adam talked about how he pranked one of our employees, Rachel. |
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