1322: What’s Your Real Muscle Building Potential? (And how to get there...)
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Sal, Adam & Justin discuss how to determine your true muscle building potential and how to get there.
- Are the guys hitting their true muscle-building potential? (2:47)
- Why it’s important to consider what your potential could be? (8:25)
- Bodybuilders vs sheer muscle size. (15:30)
- The two factors that influence your muscle-building potential. (19:06)
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- #1 - Genetics. (19:20)
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- Muscle belly length. (19:52)
- Bone structure. (23:15)
- Muscle fiber type. (24:14)
- Hormones/Metabolism. (28:10)
- Gigantism. (31:27)
- Myostatin. (32:06)
- The central nervous system (CNS). (34:07)
- #2 - Lifestyle. (38:17)
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- Training. (38:30)
- Diet. (44:25)
- Sleep. (48:47)
- Consistency. (53:56)
- Stress. (55:11)
- What should you focus all of your energy on? (56:14)
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- Muscle Potential Calculator - Mind Pump Media
- Maximum Muscular Bodyweight and Measurements Calculator by Casey Butt.
- A Mutation in the Myostatin Gene Increases Muscle Mass and Enhances Racing Performance in Heterozygote Dogs
- How Your Genetics Influence Your Muscle Building Potential – Mind Pump Blog
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you wanna pump your body and expand your mind there's only one place to go. |
| 0:05.8 | MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, UP with your hosts. |
| 0:09.0 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.1 | In this episode of Mind Pump, the World's Top Fitness Health and Entertainment Podcast, |
| 0:20.1 | we talk about muscle building potential. |
| 0:23.7 | So, like, what is your actual potential, both from your genetics and from your lifestyle? |
| 0:28.9 | Now, why is this important to know? |
| 0:30.5 | Well, maybe you wanna build as much strength and muscle as possible. |
| 0:34.4 | But what if you don't? |
| 0:35.4 | What if you wanna build tons of muscle? |
| 0:37.7 | Why would you wanna know your potential? |
| 0:39.1 | Well, your potential actually can even determine how fast you get to your goal, how fast |
| 0:44.1 | you can tone and sculpt and shape your body. |
| 0:46.5 | So, this is a really cool episode. |
| 0:48.2 | So, we talk about everything from all the genetic factors that determine your muscle building |
| 0:54.2 | potential and all of the lifestyle factors that can determine your muscle building potential. |
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| 1:18.1 | So if you wanna be on your electronics at night but you don't want the blue light to |
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