1293: The Risks of Locking Out Your Joints When Lifting, The Pros & Cons of Straps & Grips, How to Eliminate Shin Splints & More

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

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

Exercise, Health & Fitness, Health, Fitness

4.8 • 11.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about whether you should lockout on exercises like a bench press, how to make shin splints go away, the benefits and detriments with using straps and grips, and ways to handle fear and anxiety around topics you can’t control that affect your children and their future.

The most misused metrics to gauge a workout. (4:58)
The effectiveness of ‘Stop, pause sets’ in your strength routine. (12:17)
Mind Pump enjoys Magic Spoon. (13:38)
Elon Musk vs California. (20:02)
Mind Pump on the future of the gym industry as clubs slowly begin to reopen. (23:20)
The struggles of distance learning from home, the importance of protecting your eyes, the value of community & MORE. (29:28)
Mind Pump’s fatherly learning lessons. (36:23)
The camera loves Justin. (45:53)
#Quah question #1 – Should you lockout on exercises like a bench press? Pavel said you should lockout to build joint strength. I always thought you come just shy of lockout to keep tension on the muscle and off the joint. (49:24)
#Quah question #2 - How do you make shin splints go away? What corrective training do you recommend to prevent future flare-ups? (52:38)
#Quah question #3 - What do you think of straps and grips? I’ve used them for years, but wonder if I should just build my forearm strength and just lift what I can without them. (56:01)
#Quah question #4 – How do you and your partners handle fear and anxiety around topics you can’t control that affect your children and their future? (1:03:54)

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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, MIND, with your hosts.
0:09.0	Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.
0:13.0	In this episode of Mind Pumped, the world's number one fitness, health, and entertainment podcast,
0:20.0	we answer fitness and health questions asked by listeners like you.
0:24.0	Now the way we open the episode is we do our introductory portion to last about 40 minutes.
0:28.0	This is where we talk about current events.
0:30.0	We talk about things that we've been thinking about in regards to fitness or whatever.
0:34.0	And sometimes we mention our sponsors.
0:36.0	So what I'm going to do is I'm going to give you a breakdown of this whole episode.
0:40.0	So you know which part you want to listen to.
0:42.0	Here's the breakdown.
0:43.0	Now we start out by talking about hot sweaty and sore.
0:46.0	That's the way people gauge their workouts.
0:49.0	So if you get hot, if it's hard, if you're sweaty, if you get real sore, you're turning me on.
0:54.0	Well, that means that the workout was really good.
0:56.0	Actually, it doesn't.
0:57.0	Terrible gauge.
0:58.0	You'll find out why in the beginning of this episode.
1:00.0	Then we talk about something called stop, pause, sets.
1:04.0	It's a great technique to build strength.
1:06.0	Oh, blueberry flavor is back for magic spoon.
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