1533: How Lifting to Failure Slows Your Gains, Exercises That Help Knee Pain, the Foolishness of Post Workout Gummy Bears & More
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about whether lifting to failure taxes the Central Nervous System like lifting heavy, exercises to help with knee pain, whether CBD is a positive “post workout,” and the truth about Gummy Bears as a post workout snack.
- Mind Pump further expands on their past podcast positions. (7:02)
- Science without morality is very dangerous. (19:16)
- The science behind apricot kernel oil found in Caldera Lab’s face serum. (24:14)
- The times the guys had to eat soap. (29:07)
- Do redheads have a higher pain tolerance? (32:35)
- Workouts and depression. (34:29)
- Mind Pump addresses the voting controversy in Georgia. (36:24)
- Fun Facts with Justin, Doctor Seuss edition. (40:09)
- UFOs have exploded! (43:52)
- Mind Pump Recommends, Jocko Willink on the Jordan Peterson Podcast. (45:14)
- Justin is the new supplement thief! (50:17)
- #Quah question #1 – Does lifting to failure, bodybuilder style, tax the Central Nervous System like lifting heavy powerlifting type maxing? (52:14)
- #Quah question #2 – What are some exercises to help with knee pain? (58:59)
- #Quah question #3 – Is CBD a positive “post-workout” or does it prevent the positive inflammation from resistance training? (1:02:21)
- #Quah question #4 – Are Gummy Bears a post-workout snack? (1:05:29)
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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 | Salta Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.0 | You just found the world's number one fitness health and entertainment podcast. |
| 0:17.0 | This is Mind Pump. |
| 0:18.0 | In today's episode, we answered fitness and health questions that were asked by our audience. |
| 0:22.0 | But the way we opened the episode was with an intro portion. |
| 0:24.0 | This is where we talk about current events. |
| 0:26.0 | We bring up our sponsors. |
| 0:27.0 | We talk about scientific studies regarding fitness, science. |
| 0:31.0 | The intro portion was 47 minutes after that. |
| 0:34.0 | We got to the questions. |
| 0:35.0 | Here's what happened in today's podcast. |
| 0:37.0 | We opened up by talking about past podcast positions. |
| 0:41.0 | We talked about some controversial stuff and past podcasts. |
| 0:44.0 | So we brought them up again and stoked to fire one more time. |
| 0:47.0 | Podcast positions. |
| 0:48.0 | Then we talked about money, monetary theory, basically the economy, |
| 0:53.0 | and the fact that they're printing money out of thin air. |
| 0:55.0 | What we think about that. |
| 0:57.0 | Then we talked about Neil deGrasse Tyson. |
| 0:59.0 | He did a tweet about science, gotten some beef with a beef company. |
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