1486: How to Adjust Your Diet When Hitting a Weight Loss Plateau, Building Mass With Limited Access to Weights, What to Do If Your Joints Are Hypermobile & More
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about what’s in Sal’s bag, building mass with only 50-pound dumbbells, adjusting macros and caloric intake when hitting weight loss plateaus, and how to correct hypermobile joints.
- The anabolic muscle-building effects of cholesterol. (7:21)
- How parents enjoy embarrassing their children. (11:20)
- How the guy’s associate themselves now as fathers. (16:50)
- The lessons learned from lifting weights. (23:32)
- HubSpot acquires The Hustle. (30:22)
- The fascinating story of craniopagus twins. (34:15)
- Interesting partnerships you wouldn’t expect. (36:38)
- #Quah question #1 - What’s in Sal’s bag? (42:59)
- #Quah question #2 – Can I build mass with only 50-pound dumbbells? (51:17)
- #Quah question #3 – How should someone adjust their macros and caloric intake as they hit plateaus for weight loss? How do you know when it’s time to make an adjustment before hitting a plateau? (56:11)
- #Quah question #4 – You often talk a lot about people not having enough mobility, but what if you have the opposite problem and your joints are actually hypermobile? How do you correct this issue? (1:00:12)
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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 | You are listening to the world's number one fitness health and entertainment podcast. |
| 0:17.0 | This is Mind Pup. |
| 0:18.0 | Now, today's episode we answer four fitness and health questions asked by our audience |
| 0:23.0 | and by viewers just like you. |
| 0:25.0 | But the way we open the episode is with an intro portion. |
| 0:27.0 | This is where we talk about current events. |
| 0:29.0 | We talk about our sponsors sometimes, bring up scientific studies. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm going to give you a breakdown of today's podcast. |
| 0:34.0 | All right, so we open up talking about cholesterol and how it signals muscle growth. |
| 0:40.0 | Eating cholesterol can actually help you build muscle. |
| 0:43.0 | Of course, you have to be somebody that's healthy because otherwise you may affect your lipid profile. |
| 0:47.0 | Then we talk about Justin's mom. |
| 0:49.0 | We had a good conversation about that. |
| 0:51.0 | I talk about the 28 years that I've spent working out and some of the lessons |
| 0:56.0 | that I've learned. |
| 0:57.0 | We talk about a company called HubSpot that just bought the hustle. |
| 1:01.0 | This is a great company to look into or invest in. |
| 1:05.0 | We talked about a couple of twins, cranio-pigus twins. |
| 1:09.0 | These are twins attached at the head whose brains are actually connected. |
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