2834: 5 Fitness Influencers Worth Following (And Why Most of Everyone Else is Lying to You)
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2026
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
Sal, Adam, and Justin name five fitness influencers they actually trust — and explain exactly why the rest of the space is mostly noise. Then they break down a compelling new study on creatine and anxiety/depression, share the latest on BPC-157 coming back, and go deep on the gray market peptide problem. Plus: a surprisingly heated debate on homeschooling vs. public school, family life tangents, and three live coaching calls covering lower body definition, post-brain-surgery recovery training, and vegan protein quality.
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00:02:19 Top 5 Fitness Influencers Worth Following
00:04:14 Breaking Down Each Influencer: Joe DeFranco
00:08:17 Brett Contreras: Science Meets Real-World Training
00:10:09 Ben Bruno: The Trainer's Trainer
00:13:24 Jordan Syatt & Don Saladino
00:17:03 Why Most Fitness Influencers Are Garbage
00:22:30 Creatine for Anxiety & Depression — New Study
00:27:53 BPC-157 Human Study: One Injection, Six Months of Pain Relief
00:29:49 Gray Market Peptides & Supplement Quality Warning
00:33:59 Niacin Flush Stories & Supplement Experiments
00:38:03 Homeschooling vs. Public School: Data & Discussion
00:47:02 Values, Classroom Controversy & Family Life
00:48:47 Holiday Decorating & Fun Family Stories
00:55:37 Crisp Power Pretzels, 7-Eleven Slurpees & Childhood Snacks
01:02:10 Caller #1 — Jennifer: Pear-Shaped & Seeking Lower Body Definition
01:20:04 Caller #2 — Roger: Son's Recovery from Brain Surgery & Getting Back to Baseball Lifting
01:32:08 Caller #3 — Evan: Vegan Protein Quality & Hitting 210g/Day
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Find Us
📲 Instagram: @MindPumpMedia
💻 Programs, coaching & more: MindPumpMedia.com
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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 in today's episode. |
| 0:19.3 | We had four callers call in, and we got to coach them and |
| 0:23.0 | help them out on air. But this was after the intro, today's intro, was 59 minutes long. |
| 0:27.5 | Now, in the intro, we talk about fitness and fat loss, muscle gain, exercise, diet, current |
| 0:32.6 | events, family life, always a good time. If you want to be on an episode like this, here's |
| 0:36.9 | what you do, submit your question to MPLife caller.com. Now, this episode is brought to you by two sponsors. The first one is Keon. Today we talked about their creatine monohydrate. Pure creatine powder, either powder or capsule form. You've heard all the benefits of creatine. You want a pure source. Go to get kion.com. |
| 0:56.5 | That's G-E-T-K-I-O-N.com forward slash mind pump. That link will get you 20% off. This episode is |
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