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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

1391: How to Substitute Dumbbells for Barbells for the Big Lifts, Meeting Your Macros Vs. Meeting Your Calories, When to Incorporate the Turkish Get-Up Into Your Workout & More

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about using dumbbells for squats, lunges, chest press, overhead press, and deadlifts, prioritizing meeting your macros vs. meeting your calories, when a Turkish Get-Up is useful, and a good progression for introducing weightlifting to kids and teens.

  • Justin’s ‘happy baby pose’. (4:19)
  • Proper grocery store etiquette. (6:49)
  • Mind Pump Weekend Update. (9:15)
  • The power of the ‘babies touch’. (18:28)
  • Joe Rogan, Spotify, and the growing topic of censorship. (22:32)
  • Missing the mark of the benefits of grass-fed meat. (29:32)
  • COVID-19 and blue light blocking glasses. (32:27)
  • Studies with Sal. (35:25)
  • #Quah question #1 – Can I use dumbbells for squats, lunges, chest press, overhead press, and deadlifts? Does it have to be a barbell or am I just wasting my time? (38:50)
  • #Quah question #2 – What's more important, meeting your macros or meeting your calories? (43:00)
  • #Quah question #3 – What are your views on the Turkish Get-Up? What is it useful for and what situation would you program it? (46:14)
  • #Quah question #4 – What is a good progression for introducing weightlifting to kids and teens? (54:33)

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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

Mite, op, mite, op 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

we answer fitness and health questions that are asked by listeners like you.

0:21.0

By the way, if you want to see the episode timestamped, go to Mind Pump podcast.

0:25.0

Hey, welcome.

0:26.0

Let me give you the breakdown.

0:27.0

I started by talking about a happy baby pose that's Justin's favorite new workout pose.

0:31.0

Hey.

0:32.0

Then we talk about grocery store etiquette.

0:34.0

We talked about the explosion and pump pay thousands of years ago, and the way people were frozen in space.

0:39.0

Some compromising poses.

0:40.0

I talk about baby touch and how that reduces pain.

0:43.0

We talk about Joe Rogan and people trying to go on strike to prevent him from speaking his mind.

0:48.0

Mind Joe Rogan say things.

0:50.0

I talked about an Instagram post on Grass Fed beef that was totally wrong.

0:54.0

By the way, one of our sponsors is butcher box.

0:57.0

They deliver high quality grass fed meats to your door at incredible prices.

1:02.0

So if you want to be really healthy while you eat your proteins, sign up for butcher box and use the Mind Pump discount.

1:07.0

Here's what you do.

1:08.0

Go to butcherbox.com forward slash Mind Pump.

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