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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

996: Highly Effective Exercises that Suck, Volume vs Frequency, the Importance of Living Your Brand & MORE

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

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

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2019

⏱️ 85 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 exercises they hate but are good to do, what Mind Pump will do if science disproves frequency in favor of volume, the importance for a personal trainer to be in shape and tips on not being so socially awkward.

  • Justin is going to the “danger zone”! (4:56)
  • Recap of Mind Pump’s “Mastering the Sale” training at Red Dot Fitness. (11:11)
  • Update on Mind Pump & Mimosas. (15:49)
  • Checking your egos and getting back to your ‘why’. (16:54)
  • The growing wave of youth who are abstaining + discussion over Amanda Bucci’s recent post on being in a polyamorous relationship. (21:51)
  • How Sal used Four Sigmatic cordyceps to keep his stamina/energy up throughout his most recent all-day workout. (36:21)
  • The importance of ‘Digital Wellness’ and creating practices around technology. (37:55)
  • The weird world of vegan YouTube stars is imploding. (45:57)
  • #Quah question #1 – What are some exercises you guys hate doing but know are good for you? (52:23)
  • #Quah question #2 – What is to say science won’t disprove the need for frequency, that only volume matters? If that happens, will you pivot and change your programs? (1:00:26)
  • #Quah question #3 – How important is it for a personal trainer to be in shape? Can a trainer who is obese succeed? (1:09:27)
  • #Quah question #4 - Tips on not being so socially awkward? (1:16:36)

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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, op, mite, op with your hosts.

0:09.0

Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

0:13.0

In this mother, huh?

0:15.0

Episode of mine!

0:16.0

Yeah, I'm probably thousands of said, didn't you, duck.

0:18.0

Look, for the first 47 minutes, we do our introductory fun time conversation,

0:23.0

and then we get into the fitness stuff, but here's what we talked about in that intro.

0:27.0

We talk about Justin's thunderbird flight.

0:30.0

He's got a flight schedule to go up in a jet plane.

0:33.0

Oh, it dude, the danger's out.

0:36.0

And experience some crazy Gs, and that spurred me to remind them about getting life insurance

0:42.0

because he's up there doing dangerous stuff.

0:44.0

It's a good call, Salda.

0:45.0

Yeah, so now we are sponsored by Health IQ.

0:48.0

They provide life insurance for fit and healthy people.

0:51.0

So if you're fit and healthy, take their health IQ quiz, which is free,

0:55.0

and you'll get a free quote, and believe it or not, your price will be better

0:58.0

because you did well on that quiz.

1:00.0

Here's what you do, go to healthicu.com, forward slash, Mind Pump,

1:04.0

take that quiz, see if you could do better than we did on that quiz.

1:08.0

Then we talked about the sales training that we did on Friday,

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