1248: The Best Budget High-quality Protein Sources, How to Retain Muscle When Using HIIT and LISS Cardio to Maximize Fat Loss, the Most Demonized & Overhyped Foods & More
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2020
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about what to do when you struggle with taking rest days, the best affordable high quality protein sources, the ideal role that HIIT and LISS cardio play in a workout to maximize fat loss and retain muscle, and foods that are wrongfully demonized.
- Revolutionary study on incorporating diet breaks. (4:57)
- Mind Pump speculates on the future impact of the coronavirus for all industries. (11:15)
- Ways to boost the immune system and stay healthy. (20:56)
- Random Facts with Justin, Otzi the Iceman edition. (28:19)
- What is going on over at Onnit? (32:23)
- #Quah question #1 – What's your advice with someone who mentally struggles with taking rest days? (47:38)
- #Quah question #2 – If on a budget, what are the best affordable high-quality protein sources you recommend buying? (52:49)
- #Quah question #3 – What is the ideal role that HIIT and LISS cardio play in a workout to maximize fat loss and retain muscle? Can you give an idea of what a week would look like incorporating those two forms of cardio? (59:14)
- #Quah question #4 – What foods do you think are most wrongfully demonized and what foods do you think are overhyped? (1:08:46)
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- Visit Organifi for the exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Code “mindpump” at checkout**
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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 | MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, with your hosts. |
| 0:09.0 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to Mind Pump. We are one of the top fitness and health podcasts in the world. We're here for you. |
| 0:20.0 | And you're listening to our Q&A episode. This is where we take questions that from our audience |
| 0:25.0 | and we ask them on the podcast. But we start out this episode with introductory conversation. |
| 0:32.0 | This is where we talk about current events, what's happening with our lives. Sometimes we mention our sponsors. |
| 0:37.0 | So let me give you a breakdown of what happened in today's episode. The episode opens up. I talked about a diet breaks study. |
| 0:44.0 | So this study showed that taking breaks in your diet can help preserve muscle. One of the biggest challenges whenever you're cutting your calories is, |
| 0:52.0 | are you losing muscle? Now why is that a bad thing? Your metabolism slows down. So make sure you pay attention to that part of the episode. |
| 0:59.0 | Many cuts, many books. Then we talk about the coronavirus. Everybody's talking about it. So we thought, hey, let's just jump in. |
| 1:07.0 | We speculated what's going to be happening to gyms. They're probably going to be hit very, very hard. We thought, hey, look, that's going to suck. |
| 1:13.0 | People aren't going to go to gyms. They're going to lose their fitness, which we're making more susceptible. Work out at home. |
| 1:18.0 | It's one of the best things you could do. Yes. And if you want to do what we did, have a home gym. Get a gym delivered to your door. |
| 1:25.0 | There's a company we work with called PRX that allows you to finance your purchase. You can pay monthly. Like you're going to the gym. |
| 1:31.0 | They have the best equipment you can buy online for your home because it folds into the wall. It allows for lots of space. It's super sturdy. |
| 1:38.0 | A great, great company. And of course, you get a discount because you listen to Mind Pump. Here's what you do if you want to check out their stuff and get a discount. |
| 1:45.0 | Go to PRXPerformance.com forward slash Mind Pump. Use the promo code Mind Pump. Get 5% off your purchase and get a free Maps Prime program. |
| 1:55.0 | If you purchase anything over $500, then we talked about ways to boost the immune system. Of course, get good sleep. |
| 2:02.0 | Make sure you're active. Have good relationships. Go out of the sun. |
| 2:07.0 | And then what about supplements? Are there supplements you can take to boost your immune system? We talk about things like elderberry. |
| 2:12.0 | And then there's a product from a company we work with called Organify. The product is called Immunity. It's designed to boost your immune system. |
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