2768: The Surprising Benefits of Gaining Body Fat

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

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

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 11.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer four Pump Head questions drawn from last Sunday's Quah post on the @mindpumpmedia Instagram page.

Mind Pump Fit Tip: The Surprising Benefits of Gaining Body Fat. (2:27)
How Adam is supplementing EAA's to get the benefits of a high-protein diet. (18:17)
Trainer wisdom. (24:13)
Rocky Marciano's RELENTLESS training routine. (35:53)
Silly things we did without tech. (41:32)
Is creativity lost with the youth? (45:27)
A scary lie women are fed. (49:14)
High-protein snacks that taste GREAT! (56:43)
#Quah question #1 – Do you guys have any thoughts on "butt-wink" when squatting? I've heard there's not a real concern. (59:40)
#Quah question #2 – Should rest periods strictly be measured by time, or can heart rate be a gauge as well? (1:05:00)
#Quah question #3 – Will taking creatine with or close to the consumption of caffeine make it ineffective? (1:07:15)
#Quah question #4 – The front of my hips are perpetually sore lately. I foam roll and stretch (not as much as I should). Any other tips to help? (1:10:20)

Transcript

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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.
0:16.7	This is Mind Pump.
0:18.2	In today's episode, we answered listeners questions.
0:22.0	We did that at the end of the episode, but that was before or after, excuse me, the intro.
0:25.8	Today's intro is 57 minutes long.
0:28.3	This is where we talk about fitness and fat loss and muscle gain, nutrition, family life.
0:33.3	Always a good time.
0:34.4	By the way, if you want to write in a question that we might pick for an episode, go to Instagram at Mind Pump Media. That's where you can post it. Now, this episode is brought to you by some sponsors. The first one is Keon. Today we talked about their essential amino acids. If you have trouble hitting that really high protein target and you know the benefits of getting a lot of protein.
0:54.7	Try supplementing with essential amino acids.
0:56.9	Super easy.
0:57.6	You take six capsules a couple times a day.
0:59.9	It's a lot easier than eating another meal.
1:02.4	And you get a lot of the same benefits.
1:04.6	In today's episode, Adam talked about how he's using key on amino acids to supplement
1:09.3	so he could get the benefits of a super high protein diet.
1:12.7	Go check them out, get 20% off.
1:14.6	Go to get get ki-on.com.
1:16.5	That's G-E-T-K-I-O-N.
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