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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

1793: How to Control Cravings. Tips for Keeping Gains While on Vacation, the Truth About Decline Bench Presses & More

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

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

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about controlling cravings, how to keep gains while going on vacation, the benefits of doing decline bench presses, and how to spot dumbbell chest presses.

  • Mind Pump Fit Tip: Isometrics, believe it or not, this type of training builds muscle and burns body fat the fastest. It is the type of contraction that will activate the MOST muscle fibers. (4:01)
  • Adam and Sal recap the NCI Coaching Con event. (16:03)
  • Mind Pump Recommends, State and Liberty clothing. (26:45)
  • The guys speculate on why Elon Musk dropped his Twitter board seat. (29:57)
  • Will Tesla mine for lithium? (34:08)
  • The secret to brilliant kids. (35:10)
  • Why Mind Pump loves Blinkist. (42:10)
  • California's first lab-grown mosquitoes may take flight stirring controversy. (46:21)
  • #Quah question #1 – How can someone control cravings? (52:05)
  • #Quah question #2 – How can I keep my gains while going on vacation for three weeks? (1:01:57)
  • #Quah question #3 -  What, if any, are the benefits of doing decline bench presses? (1:06:35)
  • #Quah question #4 – When I'm spotting someone doing a dumbbell chest press, should I be spotting at the elbow or wrist? (1:09:06)

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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

Mind, hop, mind, hop 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 in today's episode.

0:19.0

We answered four fitness and health questions at the end of this episode,

0:22.0

but we opened with a 47 minute intro where we talked about current events,

0:26.0

and we brought up some scientific studies, and we talked about our sponsors.

0:30.0

So here's what we're down in today's show.

0:32.0

We opened up by talking about isometrics, the value in isometric training,

0:36.0

and what they can do to build strength and muscle.

0:39.0

Then we talked about the NCI event that we went to over the weekend.

0:43.0

So Adam and I spoke at an NCI event.

0:46.0

So NCI does nutrition coaching for coaches, teaches them how to be better coaches online,

0:51.0

but they also do business coaching, teaching people how to become more successful coaches.

0:56.0

Really, really effective.

0:57.0

It's one of the only certifications we work with, and we love working with them.

1:01.0

And by the way, if you go through our link, if you go to MindPumpPartners.com,

1:06.0

and click on NCI, there should be a special offer for Mind Pump listeners.

1:11.0

So if you want to be an online coach, go check them out.

1:13.0

Then we talked about this store that we went to in Arizona called state and liberty.

1:17.0

Super awesome, no affiliation, no sponsor, should be there.

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