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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

1409: How Skipping Isolation Exercises Can Build More Muscle, the Best Sources of Carbs, Learning from Failure & More

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

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

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2020

⏱️ 80 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about doing only compound exercises and skipping isolation exercises to build muscle, the best sources of carbs, overweight professional athletes, and the times they failed as a personal trainer or leader.

  • Justin’s collagen legs. (4:28)
  • Sal’s big scare. (5:09)
  • Was Adam’s shadow banned on Instagram? (7:39)
  • Social media is in hot water. (11:21)
  • Updates on baby Di Stefano. (16:04)
  • Adam is bulking on Magic Spoon. (18:47)
  • Sal is thiccc. (22:47)
  • The Iranian Hulk and other anomalies of strength. (24:04)
  • Behind the scenes of the #DILF video series. (32:36)
  • Doug’s Zbiotics story for the ages. (36:30)
  • Argentina becomes the first nation to approve GMO wheat. (39:40)
  • #Quah question #1 – Is it ok to only do compound exercises like bent over rows, chest press, squats, etc.? And leave out isolation exercises like bicep curls, tricep extensions, etc.? (44:10)
  • #Quah question #2 – What are the best sources of carbs? (48:43)
  • #Quah question #3 – I see a lot of professional athletes, mostly baseball players, that are overweight. Would those players be able to increase their athletic abilities by dropping body fat or is there an advantage to packing on extra weight? (53:52)
  • #Quah question #4 – Was there ever a time you felt you failed as a personal trainer or as a leader? What did you learn from it, and how did your life change? (1:01:56)

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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, MIND, with your hosts.

0:09.0

Salta Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

0:13.0

You're listening to Mind Pump, the world's number one top downloaded fitness entertainment

0:19.0

and fun podcast on anywhere.

0:22.0

It's a global phenomenon.

0:23.0

In this episode, we answer fitness and health questions that are asked by listeners and viewers

0:29.0

just like you.

0:30.0

But the way we open the episode is with an introductory portion where we talk about what happened in our lives.

0:35.0

We talk about studies.

0:36.0

We talk about fitness.

0:37.0

We have a lot of fun.

0:38.0

Today's intro portion was 39 minutes long after that.

0:41.0

We answered the fitness questions.

0:42.0

By the way, you can go to Mind Pump Podcast.com and just fast forward to your favorite part if you don't have a lot of time.

0:48.0

Otherwise, listen to the whole thing.

0:50.0

We open the episode by talking about Justin's collagen legs.

0:54.0

Oh yeah, he feeds the dog.

0:55.0

Drink him in.

0:56.0

Then I talk about my son falling down this weekend.

0:59.0

He's okay, but it was a little bit of a scare.

1:01.0

Adam got shadow banned on Instagram.

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