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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

984: The Impact of Sprint Intervals on Strength Gains, the Greatest Health Threat, When to Sleep vs Working Out & MORE

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

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

Exercise, Health & Fitness, Health, Fitness

4.8 • 11.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2019

⏱️ 80 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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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 impact of sprint intervals on leg strength gains, the importance of sleep and exercise and when to choose one over the other, the greater threat to health, inactivity vs bad food habits and how to keep clients accountable.

  • Why remakes of most movies suck. (3:42)
  • The Mind Pump Cook-off featuring Butcher Box. The benefits of planning and structure when it comes to your diet. (9:41)
  • How Adam’s mobility journey has finally become fun. (11:55)
  • Mind Pump recommends ‘Transformer’ from Prime Video. (15:58)
  • The value extreme personalities provide to society. (21:57)
  • Brands vs. Retailers: Who comes out on top and does this threaten innovation? (26:14)
  • Why trainers are Mind Pumps’ people. (41:08)
  • Incredible Instagram statistics you NEED to know. (42:00)
  • #Quah question #1 – Do sprint intervals increase the strength gains of your legs or are they just more cardio and HIIT? (45:11)
  • #Quah question #2 – If I have to short myself on sleep to do a workout in the morning, would you go with sleep or do the workout? (52:46)
  • #Quah question #3 – What is the bigger culprit for bad health these days, the infamous desk job or bad food habits? (59:20)
  • #Quah question #4 – As a trainer, how do I keep clients accountable to the simple tasks that I ask them to do? (1:07:53)

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0:00.0

If you wanna pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go.

0:06.0

MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, with your hosts.

0:09.0

Salta Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

0:13.0

In this episode of Mind Pump, so for the first 42 minutes,

0:18.0

Adam Justin and myself have some fun introductory conversation.

0:22.0

We had a party, Sal.

0:23.0

Before we get into the fitness question, so here's what we talked about.

0:26.0

We started out by talking about movie remakes.

0:29.0

I covered Planet of the Apes.

0:31.0

By the way, spoiler alert, if you haven't seen the original Planet of the Apes,

0:33.0

I give away the ending.

0:35.0

If you haven't seen it by now, what the hell's wrong with you?

0:37.0

Then we talked about our future butcher box cookoff.

0:41.0

We're gonna cook a bunch of food, prep a bunch of food, vacuum seal a bunch of food.

0:45.0

By the way, if you go to butcherbox.com forward slash Mind Pump,

0:50.0

we got you guys a hook up.

0:52.0

You're gonna get $20 off and ready for this.

0:55.0

Ground beef for life, two pounds snap.

0:58.0

Two pounds for life included and free shipping.

1:01.0

So we got you guys a hook up.

1:02.0

Then Adam talked about his front squat and how awesomely mobile he's becoming.

1:07.0

I talked about the Matt Croc documentary transformer will blow your mind.

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