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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

1736: The Right Lifting Volume to Build the Most Muscle, Hitting PRs at a Lower Body Fat, the Problem With Crossfit & More

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

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

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 100 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin coach four Pump Heads via Zoom.

  • Mind Pump Fit Tip: The best way to improve functional flexibility is to lift weights. (4:45)
  • How your training frequency will influence your recovery. (16:12)
  • Dad life updates with the guys: Like father, like son. (24:08)
  • John Cena is a beast! (36:18)
  • Study: Cannabis compounds can prevent coronavirus from entering human cells. (38:48)
  • What would Mind Pump sell if they had no integrity? (46:20)
  • Why NO gas station meat sticks compare to Paleo Valley’s. (50:04)
  • The most expensive TV series ever made may surprise you. (53:00)
  • #ListenerLive question #1 – Is it realistic to get leaner and hit PRs at the same time? (57:47)
  • #ListenerLive question #2 – What is the right amount of lifting volume to build the most amount of muscle? (1:06:21)
  • #ListenerLive question #3 – What are the problems with CrossFit and what program would you recommend to gain endurance? (1:19:27)
  • #ListenerLive question #4 – How can you train for endurance and stamina, while minimizing muscle loss? (1:29:36)

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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 did live questions.

0:20.0

So people actually called in, asked us questions, we got to coach them on air.

0:24.0

By the way, if you ever want to ask us a question on one of our episodes,

0:28.0

send your question to live at mindpumpmedia.com.

0:31.0

Now, we opened the episode with a intro portion.

0:34.0

This is 52 minutes long, where we talk about scientific studies.

0:37.0

We tell some stories about our families.

0:39.0

We mentioned some of our sponsors.

0:41.0

Today's intro was 52 minutes long.

0:43.0

After that, we got to the questions.

0:45.0

Here's what went down in today's episode.

0:47.0

We opened up by talking about functional flexibility.

0:50.0

Then we talked about training, frequency, and recovery.

0:53.0

I talked about how my baby son likes to lift heavy things

0:57.0

and Justin talked about how his nine-year-old son loves doing push-ups every single night.

1:01.0

We're so proud.

1:02.0

Then we talked about team versus individual sports.

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