1244: Clean Eating vs. Flexible Dieting, Preventing Muscle Loss When Cutting, The Best Cardio Machines & MORE
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2020
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about why bodybuilders almost always seem to opt for clean eating as opposed to flexible dieting, whether the body gets too efficient at basic human movements such as walking, how to ensure you don’t lose too much muscle when cutting, and the big 4 cardio machines.
- Adam’s puberty squeak. (4:50)
- Mind Pump on effectively disciplining their children, temper tantrums & MORE. (7:07)
- The newest addition to the Andrews family. (19:34)
- Mind Pump on nudist colonies. (24:33)
- The Di Stefano wine tasting trip brought to you by ZBiotics. (29:21)
- Butcher Box’s exemplary customer service. (33:52)
- Justin on his latest dietary experiment, the impact of elimination diets & MORE. (36:24)
- Things are getting crazy in San Francisco. (41:40)
- Mind Pump election predictions. (49:05)
- #Quah question #1 – Why do bodybuilders almost always seem to opt for strictly clean eating as opposed to a flexible dieting approach? (54:34)
- #Quah question #2 – You often mention cardio adaptation. Does our body get too efficient at basic human movements such as walking as well? (1:05:56)
- #Quah question #3 – How do you ensure you don’t lose too much muscle when cutting? I am very attached to the gains and don’t want to see them go. (1:09:25)
- #Quah question #4 – What would you consider to be the big 4 cardio machines? (1:18:59)
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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. |
| 0:06.1 | MINE, OP, MINE, OP, with your hosts. |
| 0:09.1 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.6 | In this episode of Mind Pump, we answer fitness and health questions, we talk about working out and burning body fat and best forms of cardio. |
| 0:22.3 | But the way we open the episode is we talk about current events. |
| 0:26.4 | We talk about scientific studies. |
| 0:28.2 | We do random conversations sometimes and we mention our sponsors. |
| 0:32.6 | So here's what went on in today's episode of Mind Pump. |
| 0:35.9 | We start by talking about Adam's puberty voice instead of voice made for a 14 year old. |
| 0:40.8 | They talked about disciplining our children, what that looks like, |
| 0:45.4 | all difficult it can be to raise kids. |
| 0:47.6 | Justin talked about his new addition to the family, a puppy. |
| 0:51.1 | Oh man. |
| 0:52.0 | Here we go again. |
| 0:52.8 | I have no idea why I transitioned from there to nudist colonies and swingers and weird stuff like that. |
| 0:57.9 | But I went with it. |
| 0:58.8 | That was nice. |
| 0:59.4 | I talked about the weekend I had with my family tasting wine and I had my entire family, |
| 1:05.4 | ants and uncles and cousins. |
| 1:06.6 | It was like 20 of us testing out Z-biotics. |
| 1:10.3 | So Z-biotics is a company that makes genetically modified bacteria that you take right before you drink. |
| 1:17.3 | Now this bacteria produces the enzyme that breaks down one of the negative byproducts |
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