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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

1601: How to Build Big Arms, the Best Way to Train to Increase Pull-Ups, the Truth About Lifting Belts & More

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

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

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2021

⏱️ 77 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 best way to train for pull-ups, growing arm size, whether lifting belts are necessary for heavy lifting, and methods for recovering faster from overtraining.

  • Mind Pump’s vacation workout tips. (4:46)
  • The guys recap their vacations with their families: Kauai adventures, moving pains, and leaps in growth. (6:35)
  • Is Adam falling in love with golf? (21:43)
  • Barbequing with Adam Schafer. (24:25)
  • You look strong. (31:01)
  • Study: Do trans athletes have an advantage? (33:35)
  • Inflation’s silver lining? (35:22)
  • Kevin Hart’s birthday surprise for the ages. (36:10)
  • Injuries in sports and the most gruesome one the guys have seen in person. (37:52)
  • Mind Pump’s nutrition secrets while vacationing. (45:57)
  • #Quah question #1 – What's the best way to train for pull-ups? (51:13)
  • #Quah question #2 – I want to grow the size of my arms. Are heavy weights and low reps better or lower weight and higher reps? (57:52)
  • #Quah question #3 – Are lifting belts necessary for heavy lifting? (1:02:38)
  • #Quah question #4 – What is everyone’s method for recovering faster from overtraining? (1:09:28)

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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.

0:18.0

This is Mind Pump, alright?

0:19.0

In today's episode we answered some health and fitness questions,

0:22.0

but the way we opened the episodes with an intro.

0:24.0

So in our intro, we cover current events, we tell stories,

0:28.0

we talk about fitness, we talk about studies.

0:30.0

Today's intro was 46 minutes.

0:32.0

After that, we got to the fitness and health questions.

0:36.0

So here's what went down in today's episode.

0:38.0

We opened up by talking about vacation workouts.

0:41.0

So we all just got back from vacation,

0:43.0

and we all talked about how we like to work out and train on vacations.

0:47.0

And so you get some tips.

0:49.0

If you're somebody likes to maintain your fitness when you're on vacation.

0:52.0

Then we talked specifically about the things that we did on vacation

0:56.0

just in myself and Doug went to Kauai.

0:59.0

Adam went up to Truckee, so all different things.

1:03.0

I told a story about how I came home to chaos.

1:06.0

It was chaotic as I got home.

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