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

Exercise, Health & Fitness, Health, Fitness

4.8 • 11.8K 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)
- #1 - Genetics. (19:20)
- - 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)
- - 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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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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