1721: How to Know If You Are Gaining Muscle Instead of Fat, Ways to Improve Vascularity, Deep Squats Vs. 90 Degree Squats & More
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2022
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about whether it is always best to do ass to grass squats or mix it up, social media tips for personal trainers wanting to demonstrate their process, ways to make your veins pop, and good metrics to know if your gaining muscle and not excessive fat.
- Mind Pump Fit Tip: STOP trying to burn more calories to lose weight; it’s a losing strategy. (4:32)
- McDonald’s new weight loss idea. (8:10)
- What is Tesla not doing?! (11:11)
- Is sneezing a male privilege? (17:02)
- The guys recap their holiday break and Adam’s problem with running out of gas. (21:49)
- Glutathione, the master antioxidant. (33:40)
- If there are hoof prints in the sand, think horse not zebra. (43:08)
- Organifi’s Pure is getting rave reviews from the guy's friends and family! (49:45)
- Why Sal’s metabolism has been roaring as of late. (51:10)
- #Quah question #1 - Is it best to do ass to grass squats or mix it up? (57:29)
- #Quah question #2 – What are some social media tips for personal trainers wanting to demonstrate their process to their followers as Adam did? (1:03:45)
- #Quah question #3 – Is there anything you can do or take to make your veins pop like Sal? (1:13:38)
- #Quah question #4 – What's a good metric to know if I’m gaining muscle and not excess fat? (1:17:31)
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- Mind Pump #1535: Should You Squat Below Parallel?
- Why Social Media is so Important for Personal Trainers – Mind Pump Blog
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People Mentioned
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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 | 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 | Today's episode we answered some fitness and health questions that were asked by our audience. |
| 0:23.0 | But the way we opened the episode was with an intro portion. |
| 0:26.0 | Where we talk about current events, we bring up scientific studies, and we talk about our sponsors. |
| 0:31.0 | So here's what went down in today's episode. |
| 0:33.0 | We opened up by talking about how it's a waste of time to try to burn calories to lose weight. |
| 0:37.0 | That's a losing strategy. |
| 0:38.0 | That led us to talk about McDonald's who now offers stationary bikes while we eat your big Macs. |
| 0:43.0 | Then we talked about the new Tesla phone. |
| 0:46.0 | I talked about how my wife says, sneezing is a male privilege. |
| 0:49.0 | We talked about what we did over the holiday. |
| 0:52.0 | Adam again has more gas issues. No, not personal gas issues, but rather, rather, ring out of gas in his car. |
| 0:59.0 | We talked about glutathione. |
| 1:01.0 | This is the master antioxidant, and studies are showing that glutathione levels in your body can predict |
| 1:07.0 | whether or not you might have severe symptoms to the virus that's going around right now. |
| 1:11.0 | The best glutathione you can get is liposomal. |
| 1:14.0 | This is how it gets into your system. |
| 1:15.0 | And we work with a company called Live On Labs that produces and makes liposomal glutathione. |
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