#327: 2 Keys to Gains, How to Combat High Cortisol, & Working Out Vs. Training
The Jay Ferruggia Show
Jay Ferruggia
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 February 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In this solo Q&A episode I’m answering your training questions on a variety of topics. The most important one being the two most overlooked and underappreciated keys to muscular hypertrophy. I also share my thoughts on Kobe Bryant’s life and legacy, and what it all means to me.
Questions Answered Include:
- What are the most important things to do to normalize cortisol (stress hormone) levels?
- What is the most overlooked key to muscle growth?
- How low is too low when it comes to carbs and calories?
- What’s better- pink Himalayan salt or sea salt?
- How do you stay on your routine when traveling?
- What should you do if your body temperature is low all the time?
- How do you recover from extreme overtraining and restore your health?
- What should you do before a 5am workout?
- Who are my favorite comedians?
- How do you stay motivated to go to the gym?
- How do you create a simple, effective workout plan?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up my friends? This is the Renegade Radio Podcast. I am Jay Ferrujia here to help |
| 0:16.8 | you unleash your stronger self doing it by myself this week on a solo Q&A. You guys were |
| 0:22.2 | kind enough to send in a bunch of questions I can't get to all of them of course but I'm going to get to as many of them as I can during this episode |
| 0:29.4 | I haven't been on since haven't really addressed it since a month ago, the passing of Kobe Bryant, which |
| 0:35.2 | in LA crushed us all, hit me really hard. |
| 0:39.2 | In my 45 years on the planet, I've never seen a death of any human being affect people the way this |
| 0:44.1 | has and personally I took it harder than I could have possibly imagined I'm |
| 0:50.3 | still taking an incredibly hard I just think for so many of us Kobe represented |
| 0:55.0 | you know so much more than just an athlete. I can't think of any athlete that |
| 0:57.6 | would die, any entertainer that would die that would have an impact quite like |
| 1:01.9 | this. |
| 1:03.0 | For so many reasons that have been covered ad nauseum by now, |
| 1:07.0 | so I'm not going to drum on and on about it, |
| 1:10.0 | but I just think obviously he represented so much to so many people and it was the hope and the |
| 1:17.2 | possibility and, you know, just the concept of always trying to to be better the hope that we could be better the possibility that we could be better as |
| 1:27.5 | Businessmen as fathers as husbands as sons as wives daughters, as athletes in the gym, being dedicated to our morning routine, |
| 1:37.4 | being a better leader, being a better communicator, making better decisions, being |
| 1:40.9 | more present, being more |
| 1:45.0 | fulfilled, being less stressed out, having less anxiety, |
| 1:47.0 | treating people better, |
| 1:50.0 | staying more focused, |
| 1:52.0 | reading more books, not getting distracted, not falling into bad habits. |
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