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50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

Does music make you lift better?

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

Jim McDonald

Fitness, Entrepreneurship, Tv & Film, Business, Health & Fitness, Film Reviews

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This is a bit of a shorter episode, due to Jim’s laryngitis.

Does music, maybe even specific music really make you lift better? We talk about what motivates us, and how and when to use external motivators like music, ammonia, or what ever does it for you.

Listener resources:

Research on music and lifting

Third Street Barbell Playlist

Silent Mike Playlist

Mike's Feel Good Playlist

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Hosted by Mike Farr (@silentmikke) https://www.instagram.com/silentmikke/ and Jim McDonald (@thejimmcd). https://www.instagram.com/thejimmcd/
Produced by Jim McDonald
Production assistance by Sam McDonald.
Theme by Aaron Moore.
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Transcript

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0:00.0

I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.

0:10.0

Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit

0:15.0

because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top

0:20.0

and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to top.

0:25.0

Joy in every sip with red carp snown back at Starbucks.

0:32.0

There's something so romantic about winter and I don't know whether that's just because I'm a bit of a homebody and I love a 5th

0:38.0

but I think it's just the holiday period is just for me it's the most romantic period

0:44.0

and I think anyone who's listened to my records will know that I'm quite a big fan of romance.

0:48.0

Joy in every sip with red carp snown back at Starbucks.

1:07.0

I'm just going to preface this episode by saying that this is the first day and a few days

1:13.0

that I haven't sounded like a bussoon every time that I talk and it's still pretty bad.

1:17.0

We're going to keep this one kind of short just in difference to me continuing to be able to talk.

1:21.0

Do you think allergies?

1:22.0

I believe it's allergies. You know it's weird though like two years ago or even a year ago I'd been freaking out

1:27.0

and like taking a COVID test every five minutes or whatever and this year I'm kind of not.

1:31.0

In part because I don't have any other symptoms at all. I'm just, you know, I don't even have a sore throat.

1:36.0

I just have Lairn Gytis.

1:38.0

I don't really get allergies anymore. I didn't get them as a kid and then they absolutely blasted me for about 10 years

1:44.0

or like eyes can't even open my eyes and then now I think they're gone again.

1:48.0

Just by like our trees and shit.

1:50.0

Right. Yeah. I had a period that was really bad sometime in my 40s where we had torn down a shed in our backyard

2:01.0

and there was just like a huge cloud of dry mildew.

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