1329: How to Build Your Hamstrings, the Best Way to Find Your Maintenance Calories, How to Use Resistance Training to Improve Climbing Performance & 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

🗓️ 4 July 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about exercises & strategies to increase hamstring size and strength, tracking vs a calculator to find maintenance calories, supplementing rock climbing with resistance training, and giving unsolicited advice in the gym.

Harvard’s COVID-19 heat map. (3:59)
A.I.’s massive impact on future societies. (4:58)
Will gyms ever be the same post-pandemic? (11:10)
Weightlifting and the brain. (21:13)
Mind Pump Investments. (25:35)
How the coronavirus is exposing poor business practices. (32:10)
Why is TikTok so successful? (35:45)
Magic Spoon’s request to their audience. (38:11)
Mind Pump Recommends, Unsolved Mysteries on Netflix. (40:24)
#Quah question #1 – I have really good quad development, but my hamstrings are lagging a bit behind. What are some exercises or strategies to increase my hamstring size and strength? (45:27)
#Quah question #2 – You guys have always talked about tracking normal food intake to find your maintenance, but you have begun promoting a formula type approach. What is the difference between your formula and others you seem to bash in the past? (49:57)
#Quah question #3 – I do rock climbing and American Ninja Warrior training for pretty much all of my exercises, but listening to your podcast has got me considering adding resistance training to the mix. How can I add it in a way that supplement’s my performance? (54:49)
#Quah question #4 – If you see people participating in very poor programming, and you are not a trainer but very well educated in fitness, should you say anything? (1:00:55)

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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	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,
0:19.0	we answer a lot of fitness and health questions that are asked by our audience,
0:23.0	but the way we open the episode is by talking about current events.
0:26.0	That's our 42-minute intro to this episode.
0:29.0	The fun stuff.
0:30.0	So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go through the whole podcast,
0:32.0	break it down for you, and kind of tell you what we talked about.
0:35.0	So if you want to skip ahead or find your favorite parts, you can do that.
0:39.0	So the intro part starts with us talking about Harvard's COVID-19 hot spot app.
0:44.0	That's kind of cool to show where the hot spots are and maybe places you want to avoid.
0:48.0	Then we talk about a UK-based company that created an AI robots that zap weeds
0:54.0	and may help eliminate the need for pesticides.
0:58.0	Sounds like a great idea until they become terminators.
1:00.0	Yeah, insect terminators.
1:02.0	Then we talked about life aids, gym survey, and how they talked about
1:05.0	a decent chunk of people are saying that they'll probably never go back to the gym.
1:09.0	That's kind of weird.
1:10.0	I talk about a study on weightlifting and the brain.
1:13.0	Believe it or not, lifting weights builds your brain before it builds your muscles.
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