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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

2811: This Food Item IS NOT As Healthy as You Think

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

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

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Blended fruit smoothies are often marketed as healthy, but the hosts explain why they can actually sabotage fat loss by spiking blood sugar, reducing satiety, and making it easy to overconsume calories. The conversation shifts into humorous cultural trends, including animal fashion, historical wigs, and strange beauty customs. The hosts also share personal updates, including struggles balancing cardio and lifting, upcoming DEXA results while increasing calories, and intense DIY yard work projects. In the coaching segment, trainers guide callers on choosing the right MAPS programs between phases of training. They also address physique competition strategy, hip replacement rehab training, and the challenge of exercise compulsion. The episode wraps with practical advice on training smarter, eating enough to support progress, and building a healthier relationship with fitness.

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00:00 Show Intro, Sponsors, and T-Shirt Winners
03:01 Why Fruit Smoothies Can Sabotage Fat Loss
07:48 Rethinking Breakfast and Food Habits
15:35 Improving Your Relationship with Food
21:02 Weird Fashion Trends and Cultural Humor
34:40 Balancing Cardio Weeks and Lifting
40:42 DEXA Results and Increasing Calories
46:48 Justin's DIY Yard and Septic Work
01:03:13 Coaching Call: Program Selection and Training Phases
01:10:03 Coaching Call: Physique Competition Strategy
01:26:36 Coaching Call: Training After Hip Replacement
01:35:05 Coaching Call: Exercise Compulsion and Balance

Transcript

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Mind pump with your hosts.

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Sal DeStefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

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

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0:19.5

We had callers call in. Ask us questions about their health and fitness. And we got to coach them live on air. But this was after our intro, today's intro is about 60 minutes long. In the intro, we talk about fitness, fat loss, muscle gain, current events, family life. Always a good time. If you want to be on an episode like this, here's what you do. Submit your question to MPLifecaller.com. Now, this episode is brought to you by some sponsors. The first one is Viori. You know who they are. This is the best at leisure wear you'll find anywhere. It's high class. It looks good. It lasts a long time. It's incredible. Feels good to wear.

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So one more time, mphormos.com, the code, Mind Pump, 365. Also, we have a brand new bundle for this month. It's called the spring bundle. It's Maps Symmetry, Maps Prime, and the advanced training techniques guide. All of that together, over 50% off, 147. It gets you all of that. Go check it out. Go to mapsmarch.com. Here comes a show. T-shirt time. And it's T-shirt time. Aw, shit, Doug. You know it's my favorite time in a week. Two winners this week. One for Apple Podcast. One for Facebook. The Apple Podcast winner is Charlotte B.G. And for Facebook, we have Sarah George. Both of you are

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winners. Send the name I just read to iTunes at Mind Pumpmedia.com. Include your shirt size and your

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shipping address. And we'll get that shirt right out to you. All right. Real quick, if you love us like

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we love you, why not show it by rocking one of our shirts, hats, mugs, or training gear over at mindpumpstore.com. I'm talking right now. Hit pause. Head on over to mindpump store.com. That's it. Enjoy the rest of the show. If you have a fruit smoothie every morning for breakfast, it's probably going to make you fat. It's one of the worst things you can have. It's not a health food. We're going to talk about it. Let's go. Ooh. Oh, that is a hot tank. Milk juice. I don't know if I agree with that. The fruit smoothie? Well, I mean, do I get to put protein powder in it? Sure. Here's the thing. I'll tell you why I'm bringing this up. Okay. I mean, Jamba Juice, for sure. Yeah. Do you guys remember, hey. I know we all had to go through this when it was new. Like, I remember going and getting a peanut butter smoothie at Jamba Juice almost every post workout. And then I remember when they actually started to put the nutrition books in there. And then Rita was like, duh, let me do. Of course, it didn't stop me because I was trying.

3:57.5

Yeah. They put ice cream in it? I didn't even know. Well, I'll tell you why it's so good. I was 180 grams of sugar in one shot. So here's why this came up. I was watching a show. Okay. And the guy is in the morning. He's being depicted as like, he's not a health fitness guy, but he's, he's obviously concerned about his health.

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