1428: The Importance of Exercise Tempo, Smith Machines Vs. Free Barbell Weights, How to Navigate Mind Pump Resources & More
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about how exercise tempo affects the aesthetics of resistance training, how Smith machines compare to free barbell weights, eating in a surplus on off days when bulking, and how to navigate Mind Pump’s library of instructional videos, free resources, workout programs, and advice.
- Mind Pump has ‘faces’ for a podcast. (5:50)
- This is 40, Adam and Catrina’s birthday weekend. (7:13)
- Fun Facts with Justin. (22:08)
- The lack of sleep that is going on at the Di Stefano household. (23:33)
- The controversy surrounding Baby Yoda. (25:20)
- The latest on the COVID vaccines. (28:21)
- Mind Pump HQ getting hooked up with new PRx gear. (32:03)
- The logic behind indoor/outdoor gyms. (35:25)
- Felix Gray blue-blocking glasses and their benefits to kids' behavior, homeschooling & MORE. (38:04)
- #Quah question #1 – How does exercise tempo affect the aesthetics of resistance training? (48:25)
- #Quah question #2 - Smith machines versus free barbell weights? (54:30)
- #Quah question #3 – While bulking on three times a week routine, should we eat in a surplus on off days as well? (58:55)
- #Quah question #4 – With Mind Pump being a treasure trove of instructional videos, free resources, workout programs, and advice, how would you help a beginner with a list of imbalances, mobility issues, and proper movements, etc.? Help them dive into something like correctional exercise and mobility without being overwhelmed? There are MAPS Prime, Prime Pro, and hundreds of videos posted on Mind Pump TV alone. Where would you get them to start? (1:02:27)
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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 | In this episode of Mind Pump the World's number one fitness health and entertainment podcast, |
| 0:19.0 | we have a lot of fun. We answer fitness and health questions that are asked by our audience and by listeners. |
| 0:24.0 | But the way we open the episode is with an introductory portion where we talk about, you know, current events, |
| 0:29.0 | we're talking about what's happening in our own lives. We mentioned our sponsors. |
| 0:33.0 | So I'm going to give you a rundown of today's episode. We open up by talking about Adam's birthday and Katrina's birthday. |
| 0:40.0 | They both had a double whammy. Celebration this weekend. They don't remember what happened, but it sounds like it was a fun time. |
| 0:45.0 | Then Justin talked about, I guess there's this drug floating around college campuses called Vigor. |
| 0:51.0 | Yeah. Better than Adderall. I'm interested. |
| 0:53.0 | Weird. Then I give a little update on our lack of sleep at home because of baby Aralias. |
| 0:58.0 | A little shit. Then we talk about baby Yoda, the controversy around baby Yoda, cancel cultures going after the best thing that happened in |
| 1:06.0 | 22. What won't they come after? You guys need to relax. Then I talk about the COVID vaccine results from Moderna. |
| 1:12.0 | It's a competing vaccine to the Pfizer one. This one seems to have more effectiveness. Let's see what happens. |
| 1:18.0 | Then we talk about our PRX shipping snafu. |
| 1:22.0 | They were sending it to the wrong house. Luckily Justin got on the phone, got them to swing around. So we're about to get a bunch of new equipment from PRX. |
| 1:30.0 | New toys. Now PRX makes the best home gym equipment. Right now, gyms are closing down again. Maybe it's you scared to go to the gym, work out at home. |
| 1:39.0 | Here's the problem. Not a lot of space at home. Well, here's how PRX solves that. All their equipment is sturdy, commercial grade, but folds into the wall. |
| 1:47.0 | So you get a squat rack that literally folds into the wall and has like 12 inches off the wall. That's it. And then you pull it out. Now you get a full |
| 1:56.0 | storm is into a decoration and lots and lots of other equipment. And because you listen to Mind Pump, you actually get a hookup. Go to PRX performance.com |
| 2:05.0 | forward slash Mind Pump and get your Mind Pump discount. Then we talk about our kids being on computers all day because you know schools not open yet. And luckily they're all wearing their |
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