1542: How Bodybuilders Ruined Weight Lifting for Everyone
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Sal, Adam & Justin discuss how bodybuilders have helped and hurt the perception of lifting weights.
- How movies play a HUGE role in our culture. (2:27)
- The origins of weightlifting. (5:11)
- Busting the myth that lifting weights makes you muscle-bound. (8:53)
- Is the stigma warranted? (11:00)
- How the 70s and 80s only pushed the poor perception of weight lifting. (14:23)
- How it was considered cheating in Hollywood if you lifted weights in the 90s. (20:00)
- The benefits that come from resistance training. (22:46)
- Why muscle is protective. (25:36)
- Why do you lose muscle when you train and eat the WRONG way. (29:49)
- How resistance training is the BEST form of exercise for a strong heart. (36:15)
- Will resistance training stunt my child’s growth? (38:07)
- Should I weight train if I am of advanced age? (41:06)
- Understanding the context of modern life when it comes to resistance training. (43:17)
- Why the medical community must push for the value of resistance training. (46:13)
- Getting the average person to understand the EXTREME value of resistance training. (50:59)
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- The Resistance Training Revolution – Book by Sal Di Stefano
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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 found the world's number one fitness health and entertainment podcast. |
| 0:17.0 | This is Mind Pup. |
| 0:18.0 | In today's episode, we talk about how bodybuilders ruined weightlifting for everyone, |
| 0:24.0 | one of the most effective forms of exercise for pretty much any goal, |
| 0:28.0 | especially the common goals, like fat loss, improving your health, |
| 0:31.0 | of course, sculpting and shaping your body, is weightlifting or to put it more plainly, |
| 0:36.0 | resistance training. |
| 0:37.0 | Unfortunately, bodybuilders have created a stigma around it that's really caused people a lot of harm. |
| 0:43.0 | So in this episode, we talk all about how that started, the origins of people's beliefs around resistance training, |
| 0:49.0 | and then we get to the truth, what it really does for your body. |
| 0:53.0 | Now, I do talk about a book that I wrote about this subject called the resistance training revolution. |
| 0:58.0 | If you'd like to go take a look at it, go to the resistance training revolution.com. |
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