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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

2155: The Art & Science of Building Perfect Butts With Bret Contreras

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

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

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2023

⏱️ 127 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this episode Sal, Adam & Justin speak with the Glute Guy, Bret Contreras.

  • His strategy for not charging his clients. (2:30)
  • The creation of the 'glute guy'. (10:04)
  • The fabrication of a study. (16:15)
  • Breaking down the recent study on hip thrusts and barbell squats eliciting similar muscle hypertrophy. (33:27)
  • The benefits of the sumo deadlift for building the butt. (50:28)
  • Respecting integrity over clicks in the fitness industry. (58:13)
  • Your knowledge is a pie chart. (1:04:57)
  • The wisdom from the older generations. (1:09:00)
  • Hitting PRs and getting stronger in the process. (1:15:43)
  • Using the incline bench to build the chest. (1:19:06)
  • His take on isometric training for building muscle. (1:20:45)
  • You're missing out if you're myopic. (1:29:08)
  • The lost wisdom of old-timey athletes. (1:47:25)
  • How much training is necessary to maintain muscle and strength? (1:51:24)
  • His annoyance with the current state of social media. (2:00:30)

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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.

0:06.3

Mind, pop, mind, pop with your hosts.

0:09.2

Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

0:13.5

You just found the most downloaded fitness health and entertainment podcast.

0:17.4

This is MindPump.

0:18.4

Alright, today's episode, we had one of the world's best trainers on the show, Brett Contreras.

0:25.2

He's actually widely regarded as the person who popularized the hip thrust.

0:29.7

He's known for helping people develop better, but he's the glute man, the butt man.

0:35.8

He helps women and men develop nice rears, nice back sides.

0:41.0

He's an excellent trainer, science focused.

0:43.1

The guy talks about studies, but he's also very experienced.

0:46.0

In today's episode, we talk all about training the butt.

0:49.7

Then we get deep into the science on building muscle, fat burning, better performance.

0:55.7

We talk about expert exercise programming.

0:58.9

It's a really, really great episode.

1:00.8

We know you're going to enjoy it, and you probably already know who he is, but if you don't,

1:04.6

you can find him on Instagram at Brett Contreras 1, so it's really, really cool.

1:09.3

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1:11.1

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1:12.6

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1:15.3

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1:21.4

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