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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

1543: The Importance of Squeezing & Stretching the Muscle for Growth, How to Quickly Increase the Number of Pull-Ups You Can Perform, When to Use Muscle Finishers & More

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

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

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about the whether the muscle squeeze or the stretch is more important for hypertrophy, the benefit of doing pull-ups everyday to increase proficiency, when “muscle finishers” should be used and how much daily cardio is enough.

  • Adam divulges his new diet. (3:08)
  • How Mind Pump is working on their creative flow. (7:47)
  • When a gender reveal party causes an earthquake! (11:01)
  • The guy's recap UFC 261 and the Jake Paul/Dana White beef. (12:47)
  • LeBron James is really annoying off the court. (21:33)
  • Why Biden’s proposed climate change policy is not feasible. (24:35)
  • Mind Pump Workouts: How improved mobility leads to building more muscle. (28:15)
  • Sal gets roasted on social media. (35:30)
  • Mind Pump Recommends, WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn on Hulu. (42:26)
  • Mind Pump Debates: Does Tesla own the electric vehicle market? (49:45)
  • #Quah question #1 - Is the muscle squeeze or the stretch more important for hypertrophy? (1:00:37)
  • #Quah question #2 - Could doing pull-ups every day increase my proficiency? (1:04:31)
  • #Quah question #3 – When should “muscle finishers” be used and how important are they? (1:09:00)
  • #Quah question #4 - How much daily cardio is enough? (1:13:06)

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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 the Mind Pump.

0:18.0

Alright, in today's episode, we answered fitness and health questions that were asked by our audience,

0:23.0

but the way we opened the episode is with an intro portion.

0:26.0

Alright, so this is where we talk about current events, we talk about studies.

0:29.0

No aliens this time.

0:30.0

We bring up our sponsors.

0:32.0

So here's what happened in today's episode, the intro by the way, was 56 minutes long after that we got into the questions.

0:37.0

We opened up by talking about Adam's new diet.

0:40.0

It's called Adam and Novore.

0:42.0

Diet?

0:43.0

It's pretty cool.

0:44.0

Adam and Novore.

0:45.0

And I was commenting on his skin because it looks luxurious.

0:47.0

And he said it's because he's been using Caldera Labs.

0:50.0

It's one of our sponsors.

0:51.0

They make face serums that are all natural.

0:54.0

They're not full of all those chemicals that make your body have estrogenic side effects.

0:58.0

They don't cause your testosterone to go down, but they do make your skin look amazing.

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