1313: The Best Exercise to Shrink Your Waist, the Proper Rep Range to Build Strength, Exercises That Are a Waste of Time & More
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about the effectiveness of stomach vacuums as an ab exercise, the ideal rep range for strength, popular exercises that are a waste of time, and why Mind Pump has blogs that seem to counter the Mind Pump message
- Greg Glassman steps down from CrossFit. (4:40)
- Community matters. (6:10)
- The scary notion of Marxism. (8:00)
- Mind Pump fitness update, the strength gains of Farmer walks, the valuable lessons of manual labor & MORE. (10:11)
- The mindset going into a workout. (18:24)
- Is the coronavirus a blood vessel disease? (19:33)
- The asymptomatic spread of coronavirus is ‘very rare’, WHO says. (21:38)
- 2020 in review: The news is the virus. (22:33)
- The differences between knowledge vs wisdom, learning desired outcome, going against your feelings & MORE. (25:50)
- Where do your priorities lie? (44:19)
- The effectiveness of Zbiotics to combat the negative effects of alcohol. (46:38)
- #Quah question #1 – Are stomach vacuums an effective ab exercise? Will they make your belly flatter as some claim? (50:16)
- #Quah question #2 – When trying to gain strength, is it beneficial to stay in the 3-5 rep range for all your lifts or just the core lifts? (55:29)
- #Quah question #3 – In each of your opinions, which popular exercise movements are useless and a waste of time? (1:00:18)
- #Quah question #4 – You have talked about how some trendy ideas are BS, such as women-specific workouts and diets. Yet, the Mind Pump blog posts lately have been titled along the lines of best ways for women to lose weight, how to eat if you are an ectomorph, etc. Is this just for marketing or have your opinions changed? (1:03:57)
Related Links/Products Mentioned
- June Promotion: MAPS HIIT ½ off! **Promo code “HIIT50” at checkout**
- CrossFit Gym C.E.O. Greg Glassman Steps Down in Chaos
- Shut down all police movies and TV shows. Now.
- Does Your Blood Type Increase Your Risk for Coronavirus?
- People With O Blood Type Appear to Have a Lower Risk of Catching Coronavirus, Preliminary Study Says
- What The Relationship Between Blood Type And Coronavirus Susceptibility Means For Future Treatments
- Asymptomatic spread of coronavirus is ‘very rare,’ WHO says
- Thinking, Fast and Slow – Book by Daniel Kahneman
- 'Invisible Gorilla' Test Shows How Little We Notice
- Visit ZBiotics for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners!
- Shrink Your Waist with Stomach Vacuums | MIND PUMP TV
- Which Is Better: Low Reps Or High Reps? - Mind Pump Blog
- Fitness Blog | Mind Pump Media
- Mind Pump Podcast - YouTube
- Mind Pump Free Resources
People Mentioned
- Dr. Jolene Brighten (@drjolenebrighten) 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, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, with your hosts. |
| 0:09.0 | Saldas Defano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.0 | In this episode of MIND Pumped the World's Top Fitness Health and Entertainment Podcast, |
| 0:19.0 | we answer fitness and health questions, and these are asked by listeners. |
| 0:23.0 | They actually go to our Instagram page, Mind Pump Media. |
| 0:25.0 | They go under the quaw, meme, they post the question. |
| 0:28.0 | We pick four of them, and then we answer them. |
| 0:30.0 | But the way we open the episode is talking about current events. |
| 0:33.0 | We mentioned studies. We talk about our workouts. |
| 0:35.0 | Sometimes we mention our sponsors. |
| 0:37.0 | So what I'm going to do is I'm going to give you a breakdown of this entire episode. |
| 0:41.0 | Now the first 45 minutes is that intro portion that I just talked about. |
| 0:45.0 | We start out by talking about Greg Glassman. |
| 0:47.0 | This was the guy that founded CrossFit. |
| 0:49.0 | He got himself into a lot of trouble for some insensitive tweets. |
| 0:55.0 | And now has stepped down as the CEO of CrossFit. |
| 0:58.0 | This is huge. |
| 0:59.0 | Then we talked about farmer walks. |
| 1:01.0 | This is an exercise. |
| 1:03.0 | A lot of people don't do because it doesn't work a specific body part, |
| 1:06.0 | but whoa, the benefits you can get from doing this exercise. |
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