585: Rich Piana & the Dark Side of Bodybuilding

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

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

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2017

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Five days ago the bigger than life bodybuilding icon Rich Piana passed away. Rich openly discussed his use of anabolic steroids and was known to advise followers to not use drugs. In this episode Sal, Adam & Justin discuss the dark side of bodybuilding. Bodybuilding can be a very unhealthy sport and building such a body can come at a very high price. If you are hell-bent on being a bodybuilder what can you do to avoid going down the path of failed organs and an early death? Listen to this episode to find out! RIP Rich Piana.

Guys talk Game of Thrones finale (2:12)
Justin’s new truck gets “bad” oil change (5:31)
- Poured oil in his radiator!
- Integrity Automotive Service: Auto Care Scotts Valley & Santa Cruz
The dark side of bodybuilding (11:49)
- Dallas McCarver and Rich Piana passed away
- Dallas McCarver choked on food
- Argument of lifestyle choice or anabolic steroids
  - Rooted in insecurities
  - Bodybuilders abuse other drugs than anabolic steroids
  - Whole life spent in the gym
  - Selfish Sport
  - Impact on hormones
- People who get into fitness look at bodybuilders as role models
  - Their programming
  - Their diet
  - Take drugs
- Consumption (or lack) of calories bodybuilders consume
  - Perception of being healthy
  - Poor relationship with food
  - Identity crisis
    - You are not your body
- Rich Piana very honest about his lifestyle
- Adam talks about his genetics being not tailor-made to be a bodybuilder
Adam talks about coaching current client for her first show (48:12)
- Increasing activity
- Carb cycling
- Water intake
Final thoughts (59:40)
- See more honest people in the industry
- Treat as sport
- Get yourself to the leanest you have been, naturally (practice)
- Can be a healthy lifestyle, just not the extreme

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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.
0:05.6	Mind, hop, mind, hop with your hosts.
0:09.0	Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.
0:13.0	In this episode of Mind Pump, so, you know, we've heard some kind of some bad news lately in the world about you.
0:20.7	It's been a while since we've done an episode that we didn't have either an interview, or we had a Q&A,
0:26.8	where we just talked about some fucking chick going on in the industry.
0:30.0	Discussing things.
0:30.8	Yeah, we, I mean, we start off by kind of doing some chit chat, and we talked about some popular shows and theaters and
0:37.2	a little bit of chit.
0:38.0	Game of Thrones and Justin's truck disaster.
0:42.0	Oh, lack of integrity either.
0:43.8	But then, you know, earlier, we were talking about kind of Rich Piana, who just passed away.
0:48.0	And then the world of bodybuilding, the dark side of bodybuilding.
0:51.6	So most of this episode, we talk a little bit about that.
0:55.2	And, you know, I ask Adam quite a few questions about how he coaches people through this process.
1:01.2	And what it's like before a show and after a show.
1:04.4	And just the mental side, because I've never competed myself, but I know quite a few people have competed.
1:10.4	And for those of you who have competed, you know, that there is a dark side to this extreme, you know, fitness.
1:17.2	We need more Adam coaches out there, for sure.
1:19.2	Yeah, and it's kind of a, it's a, it's a, it can be a dangerous sport in terms of nutrition.
1:26.4	It can be dangerous in terms of the drug use.
1:28.4	The training can be excessive.
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