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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

1493: When Being Lean Is Unhealthy, Signs You Should Increase or Decrease Your Calories, How Much You Should Be Able to Bench, Squat & Deadlift to Be Considered Strong & More

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

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

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about signals that indicate you will benefit from calorie increase or decrease, why some people lose weight when reverse dieting after hitting a plateau, the message that we aren't meant to be lean all year long and that wanting to maintain a lean body is bad for our health, and the ideal ratio of strength you should have between your bench, deadlifts, and squats.

  • A Very Happy Mind Pump Valentine’s Day. (4:20)
  • The joy of going down memory lane through old photos. (8:03)
  • Which will make you gain fat faster, stopping lifting weights or stopping cardio? (18:35)
  • The future of ownership. (23:14)
  • Sal’s conspiracy theories surrounding Bitcoin. (31:30)
  • Chocolate Orange Slices brought to you by Organifi Immunity. (35:46)
  • Wonder Woman 1984, a letdown? (36:33)
  • Is this the end of movie theaters as we know it? (37:59)
  • The benefits of wearing blue-light blocking glasses at night if watching TV. (40:21)
  • Mind Pump’s favorite rep ranges to build muscle. (42:20)
  • #Quah question #1 – What are some signals you can hone in on to know when you can benefit from a calorie increase or decrease? I have been around maintenance for a while and recently seen some slight puffiness. Have I adapted to that amount and need to slowly increase, or is it a good time to go down? (45:19)
  • #Quah question #2 – What causes some people to lose weight when reverse dieting after hitting a plateau? (49:10)
  • #Quah question #3 – It recently seems a common message in the online fitness space is that we aren't meant to be lean all year long and that wanting to maintain a lean body is bad for our health. What are your thoughts on this type of message? (53:56)
  • #Quah question #4 – Is there an ideal ratio of strength you should have between your bench, deadlifts, and squats? I can bench my bodyweight, but I can’t do that much more with deadlifts and squats. (1:00:40)

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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

Hey, you are listening to the world's number one fitness health and entertainment podcast.

0:17.5

This is Mind Pump.

0:19.0

Now, in today's episode, we answered fitness and health questions that are asked by audience.

0:23.5

But we opened up the episode initially within intro portions where we talk about current events.

0:29.0

We bring up our sponsors.

0:30.0

We talk about scientific studies.

0:32.0

So I'm going to give you a breakdown of today's episode.

0:35.0

We opened up by talking about what we all did on Valentine's Day.

0:38.9

We love our wives tremendously.

0:41.0

And so we all did cool stuff over the week.

0:44.0

So obviously Adam didn't do anything for it about that.

0:46.5

Then we talk about old pictures and how fun they are to look at.

0:50.6

We talked about the effects of stopping lifting weights to stopping cardio.

0:55.4

Which one makes you gain fat faster?

0:58.4

Then we talked about ownership in the future.

1:00.4

What's the future going to look like?

1:01.4

Are you going to own things or is everything going to be rented?

1:04.4

Then we talked about the delicious chocolate dipped immunity slices made with Organifies immunity

1:10.4

that our assistant made us.

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