964: Improve Gains with Bottom Position Squats, Maximizing Genetic Potential, Favorite Client Success Stories & MORE
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 11.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2019
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Quah, sponsored by Organifi (organifi.com/mindpump, code "mindpump" for 20% off), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about the benefits to performing a squat from the bottom position, a person's genetic potential and limit for skill, the difference between allowing women and men to compete together but not trans women with cis women and favorite client success stories.
- Gym Wars: The crazy games and antics the guys used to do to get customers & MORE. (5:10)
- The Annual Father/Daughter dance has arrived! (12:14)
- What is the most fanatical event they have been to? How there is a certain amount of grace required as you get older. (17:00)
- The benefits of monitoring lifestyle changes with testing using companies like Everly Well. (23:05)
- Jeff Bezos vs. The National Enquirer: How a tabloid tale escalated and exploded. (32:24)
- The perfect combination: Organifi chocolate gold juice and macadamia nut milk. (47:38)
- A bitcoin millionaire created a haven for ‘anarcho-capitalists’ in Mexico. When one of his followers was killed, he said it was just the cost of doing business. (51:09)
- #Quah question #1 – Is there any benefit to performing a squat from the bottom position? (55:00)
- #Quah question #2 – Is there such thing as a genetic potential and limit for skill? (1:03:53)
- #Quah question #3 – Are you now sold on trans women competing in the women’s divisions CrossFit competitions? If so how was he able to convince you, but the representatives in the trans community were not? If not, please break down the difference in allowing men and women to compete together, but not trans women with cis women? (1:15:14)
- #Quah question #4 – What are your favorite client success stories? (1:23:21)
People Mentioned:
- Joe Donnelly (@JoeDonnellyFit) Twitter
- Jessica Rothenberg (@thetraininghour) Instagram
- Lewis Howes (@lewishowes) Instagram
- John Brenkus (@johnbrenkus_) Twitter
Products Mentioned:
- February Promotion: MAPS Performance is ½ off!!
- **Code “GREEN50” at checkout**
- Everly Well
- **Code “mindpump” for $15 off any test**
- Organifi
- **Code “mindpump” for 20% off**
- Here’s What’s Actually Going on With Corn Syrup in Beer
- No thank you, Mr. Pecker – Jeff Bezos – Medium
- Thrive Market
- ** Free 1 month membership, 25% off first order + free shipping on orders of $49 or more**
- John Galton Wanted Libertarian Paradise in ‘Anarchapulco.’ He Got Bullets Instead.
- Dinosaur Training: Lost Secrets of Strength and Development – Book by Brooks D Kubik
- Mind Pump Episode 955: John Brenkus
- Mind Pump Free Resources
Transcript
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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. |
| 0:06.0 | Mite, ob-mite, up with your hosts. |
| 0:09.0 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.0 | In this magnificent episode of The Mind Pump, it's majestic. |
| 0:17.0 | Look, for the first 48 minutes, we don't talk too much about fitness, |
| 0:21.0 | but we do have some fun introductory conversation. |
| 0:23.0 | Here's what we talked about in that first part of the episode. |
| 0:27.0 | We start out by talking about gym wars. |
| 0:30.0 | All the times we were competing with other gyms and all the ways we defeated them in warfare. |
| 0:37.0 | Then I talk about the annual father-daughter dance. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm going to take my daughter to that tonight. |
| 0:42.0 | It's going to be a lot of fun. I have a great time there. |
| 0:44.0 | We talk about celebrities and aging a little bit there, a little bit offensive, too. |
| 0:49.0 | Some of that might be added out. |
| 0:52.0 | We talked about one of our listeners and how they use the Everly Well at-home hormone tests |
| 0:58.0 | to see how her nutrition, sleep, and workout could positively influence her hormones |
| 1:04.0 | and actually gave us some pretty crazy insight. |
| 1:07.0 | Everly Well is one of our sponsors. |
| 1:09.0 | They sell at-home hormone tests and food sensitivity tests. |
| 1:14.0 | If you go to Everly Well, EVERLYWEL.com |
| 1:19.0 | and if you use the code MindPump, you'll get 15% off any test. |
| 1:24.0 | Then we talked about Jeff Bezos and the National Enquirer Blackmail. |
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