1703: The Best & Worst Cheat Rep Exercises, the Most Overrated Supplements, the Best Grip for Deadlifts & More
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2021
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about the best and worst exercises to do cheat reps on, the most overrated supplements, the grip that is the best and safest for deadlifts, and how lack of sleep affects performance in the gym.
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- Butcher Box is now on Instacart. (25:12)
- Dana White has NO filter. (27:29)
- Conspiracy theories surrounding Jake Paul. (29:09)
- Sal goes down the rabbit hole of old-school bodybuilder videos. (35:07)
- The connection between Viagra and its effect on Alzheimer's disease. (36:48)
- Some fascinating statistics on the physical therapy industry. (39:51)
- The humbling ‘Spotify Wrapped’ numbers and their impact on downloads. (45:41)
- Cool technology news with Sal: SpinLaunch completes the first prototype flight using a kinetic launch system. (50:54)
- When a misdial leads to chat with one of your idols. (54:16)
- #Quah question #1 – What are the best and worst exercises to do cheat reps on towards the end of your set? (57:29)
- #Quah question #2 – What are the most overrated supplements? (1:03:41)
- #Quah question #3 - Which grip is the best and safest for deadlifts? (1:11:15)
- #Quah question #4 – How does lack of sleep affect performance in the gym? Does it affect pumps? (1:15:10)
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- Dana White (@danawhite) Instagram
- Joe Rogan (@joerogan) Instagram
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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 | You just found the world's number one fitness health and entertainment podcast. |
| 0:17.0 | This is Mind Pump, right? |
| 0:18.0 | In today's episode, we answered fitness and health questions, |
| 0:21.0 | but we opened with a 52-minute intro portion. |
| 0:24.0 | We talked about current events. |
| 0:25.0 | We talked about the news, scientific studies, and we mentioned... |
| 0:29.0 | We know that, yes. |
| 0:30.0 | ...sponsors. |
| 0:31.0 | Here are the topics for today's intro portion. |
| 0:36.0 | We opened up by talking about how it's not sugar or fat or salt that is making your health |
| 0:41.2 | bad and your body overweight. |
| 0:44.0 | Then we talked about butcher box, one of our incredible sponsors. |
| 0:47.0 | By the way, if you'd like to check them out, they deliver grass-fed meats to your door |
| 0:51.0 | for incredibly great prices. |
| 0:52.0 | And right now, they will give you free bacon for life with one of their boxes. |
| 0:57.0 | Head over to butcherbox.com forward slash Mind Pump to get that hooked up. |
| 1:02.0 | Then we talked about Dana White getting COVID, Jake Paul versus Tyrone. |
| 1:06.0 | Then we talked about old-school bodybuilding motivation, Viagra, and its effect on Alzheimer's. |
| 1:11.0 | Physical therapy statistics, by the way, we work with a company that works with physical therapists. |
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