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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

1424: The Best Way to Get a Higher Vertical Jump, What to Do If You Have Poor Calf Genetics, Why Female CrossFit Athletes Tend to Have Thicker Waists & More

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

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

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about the best way to get a higher vertical jump, favorite old school lifts that don’t see love anymore, whether the calf muscle is mostly determined by genetics and is not as “trainable” as other muscles, and why female CrossFitters usually have thicker waists.

  • Why Mind Pump has more faith in the Disney+ business model. (4:47)
  • Sal is not winning points with Jessica. (7:42)
  • Justin is a content machine! (14:26)
  • Russia continues to troll the US, Bill Gates talk, viral videos & MORE. (17:18)
  • Spotify continues to make BIG moves in the podcast space. (23:50)
  • How Legion has helped Sal wean off caffeine. (25:34)
  • Congratulations to Emily Harrington, the first woman to free-climb El Capitan. (28:32)
  • Why Adam is in the doghouse. (32:05)
  • Gymshark’s “interesting” marketing strategy. (34:32)
  • Another reason why Sal loves ButcherBox. (41:11)
  • The impact of making food more expensive. (42:43)
  • #Quah question #1 – What is the best way to get a higher vertical jump? (45:36)
  • #Quah question #2 - Favorite old school lifts that don’t see love anymore? (53:06)
  • #Quah question #3 - Is it true that the calf muscle is mostly determined by genetics and is not as “trainable” as other muscles in terms of increasing size? (59:06)
  • #Quah question #4 - Why do female CrossFitters usually have thicker waists? (1:03:57)

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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

You are listening to the world's number one fitness health and entertainment podcast.

0:17.0

This is Mind Pump.

0:19.0

Now in today's episode, we answer fitness and health questions that are asked by our listeners.

0:23.0

But the way we open the episodes with an introductory portions.

0:27.0

We're talking about current events, we talk about studies, we mention our sponsors.

0:31.0

Today's intro portion was 36 minutes long.

0:34.0

After that, we got into the fitness questions.

0:36.0

Here's a rundown of today's episode.

0:38.0

We open it by talking about a terrible, terrible movie on Netflix called Knock Knock,

0:42.0

starring, Can You? Can You Reaves?

0:44.0

New A.

0:45.0

Yeah.

0:46.0

Can You?

0:46.0

Then Justin explains why his ear is so red.

0:47.0

We talk about Russia making a vaccine that's 2% more effective than the one that we have here in America.

0:50.0

That seems accurate.

0:56.0

They're winning.

0:57.0

We talk about how Spotify is making more moves by purchasing companies to strengthen their

0:58.0

hold on the podcast space.

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