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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

1260: 7 Male Fitness Myths That Slow Your Gains

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.812.6K 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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