Peptides for Recovery, Mobility vs. Strength Training, Why You Need to Be Selfish, Fatherhood, Founding Mind Pump, and More...
The Jordan Syatt Podcast
Jordan Syatt
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🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Jordan Syatt Podcast I speak with the incredible Adam Schafer (IG: @mindpumpadam) about:
- Peptides for Faster Recovery
- Mobility vs. Strength Training
- Fatherhood
- Why You Need to Be Selfish
- Getting Arrested
- Childhood Trauma
- And Much More
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| 0:00.0 | Today I am honored to introduce you to Adam Schaefer. |
| 0:03.8 | Most importantly, Adam is an incredible husband and extraordinary father. |
| 0:07.6 | He's one of the most kind, genuine, outgoing, and caring men I've ever met. |
| 0:12.2 | He's one of the founders and hosts of Mind Pump, which is literally the most popular and most downloaded fitness podcast in the world. |
| 0:19.3 | He's a tremendous speaker. |
| 0:41.6 | He's outrageously honest, and he's someone I'm blessed to call my dear friend, Adam Schaefer. Welcome to the podcast. Oh, that's a sweet intro. It's maybe the sweetest intro I've ever had right there. I like that. I like that. And I like the father one. That's actually, uh, it's interesting because that's a, that's, I think a big, uh, focus or shift for me in the last six years since I've had my son that I didn't know that I would think so much about you know so and I |
| 0:46.5 | think you know this as well like how life-changing fatherhood can can be it's been it's been an |
| 0:52.7 | awesome blessing but totally reshaped who i think i am as a man |
| 0:56.3 | so we're going to talk a lot about that today uh i wanted to start off simple question who are you |
| 1:01.6 | who am i um i am a kid that grew up in a home of five or four other kids. I was the oldest. I had a father who |
| 1:15.8 | committed suicide when I was seven years old. My mother then married into a abusive relationship |
| 1:22.7 | that she stayed in for 13 years. So I had a bit of a wild childhood. Um, we, we were not that blessed financially. And so |
| 1:33.1 | we moved a lot. Um, most times we moved because my stepfather, uh, was getting a new job or |
| 1:39.3 | we were potentially getting evicted at the last house. And so I grew up with a lot of ambition to to be different |
| 1:49.0 | than the the house that I grew up in and so at a very young age I was out I was out by 17 I try to |
| 1:56.4 | get out earlier that's a whole other story you can't you can't get out before you're 18 |
| 2:00.7 | without your |
| 2:01.1 | parents' permission. I didn't know that until I was arrested and brought back home and told |
| 2:06.1 | that. So, uh, anyway, that's another story. Um, but I, I got out early, took, you know, was going to |
| 2:13.6 | junior college, um, and trying to figure it out for myself while also working full-time. |
| 2:20.0 | I worked at a ranch, so totally different than what most people think. |
| 2:23.0 | I didn't know that. |
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