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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

1281: Techniques to Bring Up Lagging Body Parts, Tips to Maximize Ab Development, Front Squats vs. Back Squats & MORE

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

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

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about the benefit of doing extra reps on a smaller, less developed body part, relying on compound lifts like deadlifts and squats to work the core, whether the front squat is actually more beneficial than the back squat, and the hardest obstacles they had to overcome during their fitness journey.

  • Weird Science with Sal. (5:47)
  • Mind Pump Weekend Update. (8:38)
  • Obesity, the most common comorbidity in COVID-19 patients in New York. (11:35)
  • Why are hospitals laying people off during this pandemic? (12:43)
  • COVID-19, the death of the gym industry? (14:53)
  • False signaling with the Toilet Paper King, hustling gym equipment & MORE. (31:44)
  • Happy Birthday to Felix Gray. (35:09)
  • How Paleo Valley meat sticks have been a game-changer for Sal. (40:59)
  • Mind Pump talks Politics. (42:45)
  • #Quah question #1 – If my left bicep and shoulder are bigger than my right bicep and shoulder, does that mean I should be doing extra reps on the smaller, less developed arm? (47:21)
  • #Quah question #2 – Do I have to hit abs directly for every full-body workout or can I rely on compound lifts like deadlifts and squats to work the core? And just work out my abs directly once a week? (54:26)
  • #Quah question #3 - The front squat is now often regarded as more functional than the back squat. It doesn’t allow for as great of overload, but allows for a greater range of motion and is more quad focused, core and upper back demanding. Plus, if you deadlift the hamstring and glute emphasis is already there. Should the front squat take the pedestal from the back squat? (57:53)
  • #Quah question #4 – What were the hardest obstacles you had to overcome during your fitness journey? (1:03:11)

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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.

0:06.3

Mind up, mind up with your hosts.

0:09.2

Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

0:13.6

Welcome to Mind Pump.

0:14.9

This is the world's top fitness health and entertainment podcast.

0:19.4

In this episode, we answer fitness and health questions asked by listeners like you.

0:24.3

But we open the episode with introductory conversation where we talk about scientific

0:28.0

studies.

0:29.3

Sometimes random conversation and other times we mention our sponsors.

0:33.6

So here's the breakdown of what happened in today's Mind Pump podcast episode.

0:38.0

Here's the breakdown.

0:39.6

I open up the episode by talking about random fish news, science alert.

0:44.2

Then we talk about how...

0:45.2

We need a button for that.

0:47.0

Obesity may be one of the worst things you can have if you get infected with the coronavirus.

0:52.2

They're showing that that is one of the worst cold morbidities.

0:55.5

Then we're talking about how hospitals are laying people off.

0:58.3

That's right, with all of the stuff that's going on.

1:00.2

That's interesting.

1:01.2

They're not getting enough work.

1:02.2

That's kind of crazy.

1:03.6

Then we talked about the gym industry.

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