1260: 7 Male Fitness Myths That Slow Your Gains
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Sal, Adam & Justin discuss seven common beliefs that men have about fitness that are impeding their success.
- Challenging and explaining the 7 biggest male fitness myths. (4:35)
- #1 – You must lift heavy to get big. (7:50)
- #2 - Training to failure is necessary for your body to respond. (16:32)
- #3 - Intensity is king. (28:29)
- #4 - You need to eat big to get big. (38:25)
- #5 – Taking steroids guarantees muscle. (47:20)
- #6 - The biggest guys in the gym must know the most. (56:57)
- #7 - Some movements are for women and don’t benefit men. (1:03:23)
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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 up, mind up with your hosts. |
| 0:09.0 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.0 | In this episode of Mind Plum, look, I'm still on quarantine. |
| 0:18.0 | This is a, we probably have one or two more episodes like this. |
| 0:22.0 | So I'm calling in while Adam and Justin and Doug are in the studio. |
| 0:27.0 | But we're still delivering the best fitness podcasts in the world. |
| 0:32.0 | And today's episode, we decided to tackle the seven biggest male fitness myths. |
| 0:39.0 | Now we've done the female fitness myths. |
| 0:41.0 | In fact, that's one of our most popular episodes of all time. |
| 0:44.0 | But I can't believe we've never actually tackled the fitness myths that men fall for. |
| 0:50.0 | So luckily for you, we did it today. |
| 0:53.0 | So we talk about the biggest myths that men tend to fall for. |
| 0:57.0 | Like you need to lift heavy to get big. |
| 0:59.0 | That's one of them trained to failure is necessary. |
| 1:03.0 | Intensity is king. |
| 1:04.0 | You need to eat big to get big steroids, guarantees muscle. |
| 1:09.0 | The biggest guys in the gym know the most. |
| 1:12.0 | And you know, some movements are for women and they have no benefit for men. |
| 1:16.0 | So we tackle those things in this episode and we talk about the truths around them. |
| 1:21.0 | Like what really does work because those myths are all totally false. |
| 1:26.0 | Now this episode is brought to you by our sponsor. |
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