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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

1441: The Effectiveness of Dumbbell Only Workouts, the Importance of Tearing Muscle Down to Ensure Growth, What to Do If You Have Overactive Traps & More

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

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

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about at-home workouts with only dumbbells, how to know if tearing the muscles enough to ensure growth, tips specifically for female ectomorphs, and what to do with overactive traps.

  • Conspiracy Theory Corner with Mind Pump. (5:25)
  • The stresses of parenting, the male ego & MORE. (11:50)
  • Weird News with Sal. (20:30)
  • Is this the end of the movie theater experience as we know it? (21:30)
  • Smoking marijuana is NOW legal indoors. (27:25)
  • Random Hour with Mind Pump. (28:45)
  • Justin’s snafu in Vegas. (30:20)
  • How Public Goods is LITERALLY giving stuff away, Adam’s ‘interesting’ relationship with toilet paper & HUGE BREAKING NEWS! (33:36)
  • Ned and the saga of Justin’s dog Arlo. (42:57)
  • #Quah question #1 – How do you feel about at-home workouts with only dumbbells? Do you think you can get the same results as a gym? (45:53)
  • #Quah question #2 – If we are not necessarily chasing soreness in our program to train more frequently, how do we know if we are tearing the muscles enough to ensure growth? (48:58)
  • #Quah question #3 – Any tips, specifically, for female ectomorphs? I listen to you talk about how difficult it is for women to gain a sculpted physique. I am just discouraged. (53:40)
  • #Quah question #4 – What can you do if you have overactive traps? (58:13)

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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

Mite, op, mite, op with your hosts.

0:09.0

Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

0:13.0

You just clicked on the number one fitness health and entertainment podcast in the universe.

0:18.0

Guess what, you just won.

0:19.0

This is Mind Pump and today's episode we answer four fitness and health questions.

0:25.0

One of them live for one of our listeners, but the way we open the episode is with an introductory portion.

0:31.0

This is where we talk about current events.

0:33.0

We talk about our sponsors.

0:34.0

We make fun of Justin all the time.

0:36.0

That part of this episode is 48 minutes long.

0:38.0

Then we got into the questions.

0:40.0

Let me give you a rundown.

0:41.0

So we open up by talking about the monolith that showed up again somewhere else.

0:45.0

I think Romania.

0:46.0

Wow.

0:47.0

And then Bigfoot Statue got stolen in Justin's hometown and never brought it up on the podcast.

0:51.0

Man, really blew that one.

0:53.0

Is he the guy who stole it?

0:55.0

Yeah, I don't know.

0:56.0

Then we talk about the stress of parenting and how our parents beat us with shoes.

1:00.0

We talk about how HBO Max is going to be showing blockbuster films that are going to be released on there instead of in the theaters because, you know,

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