1403: The Impact Sleep Has on Muscle Gain, the Importance of Arching the Back When Benching, How to Remedy Muscle Knots & More
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about the impact insufficient sleep has on making muscle gains, the benefit, if any, that arching the back has during the bench press, using fasting to increase appetite for a bulk, and how to alleviate and prevent muscle knots.
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- Adam’s first COVID eating out experience and baby Maximus updates. (22:35)
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- Why are the NBA Finals ratings so down? (41:15)
- More Studies with Sal. (44:03)
- #Quah question #1 – If your training, diet, and programming are pretty close to being 100%, how negative of an impact does only sleeping 6 hours, 5 days a week have on making muscle gains? (48:28)
- #Quah question #2 – What's the deal with arching the back during the bench press? I personally can’t arch my back that much, but I see some people with some serious arches when benching. Is it a big benefit? (54:29)
- #Quah question #3 – Adam has said that he had success with fasting to increase appetite for a bulk. Can you provide some details on this? (59:59)
- #Quah question #4 - How can I alleviate or prevent muscle knots? I get persistent knots on my legs, psoas, and the back of my knees which are very painful to work out. The knots seem to get worse after exercise and better after a hot bath. (1:05:09)
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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 | 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 ranked fitness health and entertainment podcast. |
| 0:18.0 | We answer fitness and health questions that are asked by listeners and viewers just like you. |
| 0:23.0 | Before I get into what happened in this episode, stop over to MindPumpStore.com. |
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| 0:34.0 | get some fresh gear. |
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| 0:37.0 | It's MindPumpStore.com. |
| 0:39.0 | Also, if you go to MindPumpStore.com and use the code podcast15, |
| 0:45.0 | that's the word podcast and the number 15 without a space, |
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| 0:55.0 | Okay, so let me tell you what happened in this episode. |
| 0:58.0 | By the way, you can go to MindPump Podcast.com if you want to fast forward to your favorite part. |
| 1:03.0 | We open up with the intro portion. |
| 1:05.0 | So we talk about our lives and current events. |
| 1:07.0 | And we start out by talking about my pre-birth preparation, not me personally, but my wife. |
| 1:13.0 | Or almost there. |
| 1:14.0 | We're weird in here. |
| 1:15.0 | Baby's coming. |
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