945: The Best Rest Periods for Muscle Gain & Fat Loss
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 11.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Sal, Adam & Justin discuss the best rest periods between exercises.
- Is ‘competitive sleep’ a thing? The power of your mental state and not always fixating on measurable tools. (2:18)
- Mind Pump: The Whistleblowers of the Fitness Industry. The importance of how you SAY things and COMMUNICATE them. (9:40)
- Adam gets in a ‘tiff’, over social media, with a trainer about a ‘Jefferson Curl’. The ‘elitist’ attitude fitness professionals have in the space, the risk vs. reward of an exercise & MORE. (14:49)
- The most under-modified variable: The significance of rest periods. (26:35)
- The BEST rest periods for muscle gain & fat loss. (35:55)
- How often do you recommend someone phase their rest periods? (38:15)
- The art of perfecting the skill and not throwing fatigue on it. (44:13)
- For the competitor, how much of an impact does varying your rest periods make? (48:20)
People Mentioned:
- David Alexander (@dzandertraining) Instagram
- Stuart McGill (@drstuartmcgill) Twitter
- Jordan Peterson (@jordan.b.peterson) Instagram
- Stan "Rhino" Efferding (@stanefferding) Instagram
- IFBB LEGEND FLEX WHEELER (@officialflexwheeler) Instagram
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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. |
| 0:05.8 | MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND with your hosts. |
| 0:09.1 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:12.9 | In this episode of Mind, PMP. |
| 0:16.2 | So look, for the first 24 minutes we do our introductory conversation. |
| 0:19.3 | We talk a little bit about fitness. |
| 0:21.2 | We start out by talking about the pluses and minuses of technology and tracking. |
| 0:26.6 | So you get a lot of new devices that are out there that will track your sleep. |
| 0:30.3 | Track your steps. |
| 0:31.6 | It's ruining Doug sleep. |
| 0:32.9 | Track your food. |
| 0:33.9 | It has a lot of benefit to them, but can they also reduce your quality of life and maybe |
| 0:40.9 | even reduce your progress? |
| 0:43.4 | Good part of that episode. |
| 0:44.6 | Then we talked about performance versus health in athletics and an exercise known as the |
| 0:50.3 | Jefferson curl. |
| 0:52.2 | Adam got a little tiff with somebody on Instagram again. |
| 0:54.6 | It was really a tiff. |
| 0:55.8 | Now it was more of a... |
| 0:56.8 | It was what's below a tiff. |
| 0:58.4 | Like a friendly nudge. |
| 0:59.4 | Like a... |
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