1314: How to Activate Your Chest for Maximum Growth, the Best Ways to Improve Strength Endurance, How to Repair a Poor Relationship With Food & More
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about how to feel exercises in the chest rather than the triceps, recommended exercises for an overall improvement of strength endurance, how old is too old for powerlifting, and how someone with body dysmorphia and a long history of dieting can repair a broken relationship with food
- It’s HOT in the bay area, get yourself a MIIR cup to keep your drink of choice cold. (4:41)
- The distasteful actions of 24 Hour Fitness and Gold’s Gym. (9:37)
- Starbucks shifting their business model amid the pandemic. (14:27)
- The myth of spot reduction. (19:21)
- Fun Facts with Justin. (20:57)
- Apple is its own country. (22:08)
- The Vitamin-D deficiency link to coronavirus symptoms. (25:04)
- Weird Science with Sal. (29:40)
- More Fun Facts with Justin. (32:45)
- Bill & Ted are back! (34:05)
- Things are getting scary out there. (35:18)
- #Quah question #1 – I have trouble activating my chest even with common chest activation exercises. After benching with barbells and dumbbells, I always seem to feel my triceps the most. What do you recommend? (37:55)
- #Quah question #2 – What exercises do you recommend for an overall improvement of strength endurance? What MAPS program do you think works best to increase work endurance? (41:56)
- #Quah question #3 – Am I too old to get into powerlifting? (44:08)
- #Quah question #4 – How would you advise someone with body dysmorphia and a long history of dieting to repair a broken relationship with food? (49:23)
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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, 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, pump the world's top fitness health and entertainment podcast. |
| 0:18.0 | All those things. |
| 0:19.0 | We answer fitness and health questions asked by listeners just like you. |
| 0:23.0 | And the way we open the episode is with our introductory portion. |
| 0:26.0 | This is where we mention our sponsors, where we talk about current events. |
| 0:30.0 | We talk about our lives. |
| 0:32.0 | So I'm going to give you the breakdown of this entire episode. |
| 0:35.0 | We started by talking about how hot it was here in the Bay Area, sweltering. |
| 0:39.0 | Yeah, hot. |
| 0:40.0 | I think Justin called it ball hot. |
| 0:41.0 | It was very, very hot outside. |
| 0:42.0 | Very sweaty ball. |
| 0:43.0 | Now he did leave a drink in his car while we were working all day on the hot sun. |
| 0:49.0 | But then he went out to check his drink and it was still cold. |
| 0:52.0 | How is this possible? |
| 0:53.0 | Magic. |
| 0:54.0 | He had a mere cup. |
| 0:56.0 | Now, mere makes good looking insulated cups that keep your beverages hot or cold magically. |
| 1:03.0 | It's not magic. |
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