1397: 5 Ways to Maintain Muscle When You’re Sick or Injured

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

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

Exercise, Health & Fitness, Health, Fitness

4.8 • 11.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Sal, Adam & Justin cover five different ways to maintain muscle when you are recovering from an illness or injury.

How to navigate around an injury or being sick. (3:47)
Mind Pump Revelations: Don’t be afraid of going backward. (5:54)
5 Ways to Maintain Muscle When You’re Sick or Injured.
#1 – Focus on healing. (12:03)
#2 – Train what you can. (25:23)
#3 – Dial in that nutrition. (30:50)
#4 – Apply static tension. (34:12)
#5 – Utilize blood flow restriction (BFR) training. (38:25)

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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.
0:06.3	Mind up, mind up with your hosts.
0:09.2	Salta Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.
0:13.6	In this episode of Mind Pump, your favorite fitness health entertainment podcast, we talk
0:19.7	about how to maintain your fitness, how to keep your muscle, how to stay strong, or at
0:24.9	least keep yourself from losing too much strength when you get sick, or especially when you
0:31.4	get injured.
0:32.4	We actually give you five things you can focus on that.
0:35.0	If you do these five things, your recovery will be faster, you'll build your muscle back.
0:40.6	Faster than you would have had you not followed these five things, and you'll get back to
0:44.6	a place that's possibly better than you left before.
0:48.9	This episode is brought to you by PRX, one of our sponsors.
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