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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

2739: When Overtraining Becomes a Superpower

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

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

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 11.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2025

⏱️ 101 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: When is overtraining good? (2:35)

  • Teenager expectations, being spoiled, and manufacturing adversity. (23:35)

  • Sleep cool and hard. (35:23)

  • The history of Black Friday. (37:27)

  • Bluetooth origins. (38:27)

  • Reminiscing on Black Friday experiences. (40:13)

  • A place of gratitude. (43:01)

  • Italian moms are the best. (44:51)

  • What makes LMNT so brilliant? (47:25)

  • Justin's BIG win. (51:14)

  • Kids say the darndest things. (54:10)

  • #ListenerCoaching call #1 – I am experiencing a little bit of a plateau, and I need some guidance on what to do next. (56:05)

  • #ListenerCoaching call #2 – I am interested to know if I would be better off doing shorter workouts more days a week, if supersets are as beneficial as resting between exercises, and if there would be a more beneficial split to look at? (1:10:00)

  • #ListenerCoaching call #3 – Looking for input on a phased strategy for reverse dieting while tapering off a GLP-1 medication. (1:19:49)

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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, 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.

0:16.8

This is Mind Pump.

0:18.3

Today's episode, we coached callers on air. People called in and we got to help them out with their fitness, but this was after the intro. Today's intro is 53 minutes long. In the intro, we talked about fat loss and muscle gain and fitness, family life, current events. It's always an awesome time. By the way, if you want to be a caller on an episode like this,

0:40.3

submit your question to mp.livecaller.com.

0:44.0

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