1254: How to Use Rest-Pause Sets, Tips for Overcoming Sugar Addiction, Introducing Weightlifting to Teens & MORE
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2020
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about rest-pause sets and how can they be used in a workout, “curing” a sugar addiction, teaching a weightlifting class to middle schoolers, and tips and strategies to help with forward shoulder.
- Does ibuprofen make the coronavirus worse? (5:45)
- Should we take elderberry if we have the virus? (8:17)
- Why Italy has a high infection and death rate. (11:02)
- Time to invest in Facebook ads. (13:34)
- Florida did not get the memo about the coronavirus. (15:02)
- Are we downplaying the numbers and impact of the virus? (16:20)
- The different methods scientists are taking to tackle this outbreak head-on. (19:11)
- Shout out to Mind Pump sponsors! (25:10)
- Why you should be optimizing your home while stuck at home. (27:15)
- Making light of this hysteria with memes. (33:07)
- Weird Facts with Sal. (34:00)
- The game-changing benefits of blue-blocking glasses for Justin. (37:20)
- Justin’s cheese addiction is getting out of hand. (38:32)
- #MindPumpKitchen, Tahoe #staycation edition. (40:30)
- #Quah question #1 – What are rest-pause sets and how can they be used in a workout? (45:13)
- #Quah question #2 – How would you go about “curing” a sugar addiction? (54:00)
- #Quah question #3 – I’m a middle school PE teacher and am passionate about lifting. How would you teach a weightlifting class if you were the teacher? Do you start bodyweight and then teach the lifts? Any ideas on programming would be great. (1:02:18)
- #Quah question #4 – I have been addressing ‘forward shoulder’ for about a year and have made good progress with my posture, but my neck still shoots forward. Any tips or strategies to help with this? (1:09:02)
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- Trump deploying hospital ships to coronavirus hot zones
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- Jim Stoppani, PhD (@jimstoppani) Instagram
- Jason Phillips (@jasonphillipsisnutrition) Instagram
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- Dr. Ben Pollack, PhD (@phdeadlift) Instagram
- John Meadows (@mountaindog1) Instagram
- Dr. Jordan Shallow D.C (@the_muscle_doc) 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 up, mind up 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 asked by listeners like you. |
| 0:19.0 | But we open up the episode by talking about current events. |
| 0:23.0 | We mention our sponsors. We have a lot of fun talking in the first part of this episode. |
| 0:27.0 | So notice the intro portion of the episode. That lasted 40 minutes. |
| 0:31.0 | Here's what went down in today's episode. We start out by talking about elderberry and ibuprofen. |
| 0:37.0 | You might not want to use those if you have the coronavirus. |
| 0:40.0 | There's then some warnings around their use in particular ibuprofen. |
| 0:45.0 | Then we talked about why Italy has such a high infection rate and death rate with the current coronavirus. |
| 0:52.0 | It has a lot to do with their warm culture. |
| 0:55.0 | Were there two friendly, I guess? |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah, and people love that culture, but it might be one of the weaknesses. |
| 1:01.0 | Then we talked about Florida. |
| 1:03.0 | Oh, yeah, you know, the state that does a lot of crazy stuff. |
| 1:06.0 | Well, they're having spring break parties right now. |
| 1:09.0 | We'll see what that turns out to. |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah, really? |
| 1:11.0 | Then we talked about the Japanese flu drug and how it may actually be an effective treatment for coronavirus. |
| 1:19.0 | We talked about how there's a phase one vaccine under trial at the moment, which is really, really fast, kind of cool. |
| 1:26.0 | Then we talked about optimizing your house. |
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