2699: Is Protein Overrated? (Listener Live Coaching)

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

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

Exercise, Health & Fitness, Health, Fitness

4.8 • 11.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Mind Pump Fit Tip: Is protein overrated? (2:01)
Interesting People in History: Peter Freuchen. (21:41)
DIY fecal transplant. (24:57)
Using competition as a motivator to get healthy. (27:28)
Kids say and do the darndest things. (35:43)
If you could have one superpower, what would it be? (37:01)
Who would win? (40:48)
The dangers of snoring. (47:07)
#ListenerLive question #1 – What are your thoughts on targeting visceral fat loss, especially when a person is already lean but still has visceral fat increase? (54:06)
#ListenerLive question #2 – Fitness-wise, where do I need to go next? I played golf at an elite level, including three years at a high-level D-I university. (1:14:15)
#ListenerLive question #3 – Where should I go after completing Transform? As a police officer working on a tactical team, I focus on strength, mobility, and resiliency. (1:21:14)
#ListenerLive question #4 – Any advice on how to improve my barbell squat? (1:24:42)

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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 Pump.
0:07.1	Mind Pump with your hosts.
0:09.2	Sal DeStefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.
0:13.4	You just found the most downloaded fitness, health, and entertainment podcast.
0:16.6	This is Mind Pump in today's episode.
0:19.6	Callers called in.
0:20.6	We got to coach them through their fitness and health on air. But this was after the intro. Today's intro was 52 minutes long in the intro. We talk about muscle gain and fat loss and diet and health. Talk about family life. It's a good time. By the way, if you want to be a caller on one of these episodes,
0:38.2	send us your question. Send it to live at mind pumpmedia.com. Now, this episode is brought to you by some sponsors. The first one is Paleo Valley. Today we talked about their meat sticks. They're high protein. They're grass fed meat. And they're great on the go, long shelf life. So it's a good snack that's high protein.
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