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33:35Go out in nature and go find a bunch of sugar. Yeah. You gotta go get a bunch of bees. And even then you need tools to fit like new age tools to be able to strip it from the bamboo like sticks it grows. And like, you're not doing that. Even if you could go gather all of it as a human back in the days, like to whittle that down, Well, the most concentrated form is honey. Like, go ahead. Go grab a bunch of honey in nature. You better go get through some bees, dude. Well, even the fruit. I mean, we've, you know, selectively adapted and engineered the fruit. So it's like it produces bigger amounts of sugar fructose.

34:11And so it's like this big sugar bomb. It's been a long time since we brought that up. There are old paintings that are like 300 or 400 years old. It was like small. Of fruit. Bitter. You could look these up, everybody. These are paintings. They're realistic paintings. So these are artists that they weren't distorting. They made like real nice artistic paintings. And these are fruit. And they're sliced in half. And they're full of seeds. Yeah. And there's very little meat. They look almost nothing like the fruit that we have now. Yeah. Totally different. It's like all vitamins. You know? We've just solved all these things.

34:43It's like, as humans, we love it. You know? It's like, how can we get more of it? And we've solved that problem that we thought was a problem, created a problem. Have you guys had cotton candy grapes? It tastes like cotton candy. What did we do? Those are awesome. Actually, the story behind that is actually really crazy. I forget who the guy who did it is. I want to say he's from Florida. But maybe you can Google the cotton candy, the story behind the cotton candy grapes. But it's like somebody figured that out. Somebody figured that out by crossing certain strains to get that kind of flavor. Well, when I was a kid, I don't know if you guys remember this.

35:18When I was a kid, so we're Southern Italian, and there's certain fruits that we love to eat. And one of them is watermelon. It's like a big thing in the summer. We'd slice up one. It used to be full of seeds. I used to have to spit out the seeds when I was a kid. And I remember my dad's like, you can eat the seeds. And I'm like, okay, whatever. You don't get seeds in watermelon anymore. There's plenty of water. They're all seed. That was us engineering the hell out of this thing to make it have less seeds in it. I don't remember seedless watermelon when I was a kid. No way. What you got there, Doug?

35:46Yeah, so they cross-pollinated concord-like grapes with a sweet seedless California grape. And then you got the spun sugar taste. Was it a guy from Florida? I thought it was a guy from Florida. I'm not sure. Not that that matters. I remember reading this. I was so fascinated the very first time someone gave me one of those. I was like, they called it them. By the way, I wanted to mention too, sugar cane, you can actually chew it up. That's actually popular in some countries. They cut up pieces of sugar cane. You chew it, it's very fibrous. You chew the hell out of it though. Yeah, and you spit out the fiber, but you get this kind of sweet water juice.

36:20Yeah. It's actually really tasty. Huh. You got like three grams of sugar. Yeah. You're not getting much sugar at all. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think the, I think you would have to chew eight. I believe the stat that I read was eight feet of it to equate to like. Yeah. That makes sense. Makes total sense. Yeah. Like you'd have to chew eight feet. I mean, they take actually whole stalks of sugar cane. They run, run them through a press. This is in Vietnam. Okay. And the juice comes down and they fill a little plasticity. bag and they poke a straw in the top with a rubber band. You just drink it.

36:52It's like two or three stalks of sugar cane in a little bag of liquid. So that would make sense that it would equal like a Coke. Wow. You know, it's funny. Markets do this. Anytime we have a market for something, we do a really good job of giving it ourselves what we want the most. And one market, I was reading this article. Have you guys heard of, it's a term now, it's called scrommeting. Have Scromity? This is a disorder. Is that on your scrotum? No. You're vomiting on your scrotum? Whoa. I'm totally scromity right now. How sick are you right now, dude? I'm scromity. I'm scromity. Oh, crap. Dang, dude.

37:32I'll give you a moment. You threw up on a bowl. No, no. So scromity is, it used to be a very rare occurrence, but they're seeing it more and more. So this is what it is. this is a condition where people will consume high doses, frequent high doses of cannabis, and they'll develop a disorder where they vomit uncontrollably. Oh, my God. And it's terrible. It's terrible. Like, people will vomit for, like, days. And they have to go to the hospital as a result. And the reason why I'm bringing this up, by the way, this is becoming more of a thing, is because cannabis became largely legalized. They have to be dabbing in order to do that.

38:09That's what that will cause. Bro, what's happened is - They concentrated it. Yeah. Our markets, people are like, oh, cool, weed. Can you make it as strong as possible? And so every year it just gets stronger and stronger. I mean, I shared this, the history on it. So back in the days, in the 60s and 70s, really high, strong THC weed was like seven. Maybe the peak or record was like 11 % THC. You can't even find that. No, you can't. That's what we would call it. Nobody would sell that. We would call it dirt weed today. Yeah. So that was considered like super, super high. then like even in in our generation era like it was a big deal to see weed that was hitting 20 21 that was a big deal like typically 15 to 18 thc was high very high that's in your cannabis club yeah and then the clubs got to the point where you're starting to your people were cross pollinating and learning how to get get it to 20 21 then you started seeing like numbers like 25 then they started you could or they did this a long time ago you could concentrate to hashish Hashish would be like 25%, 30 % THC levels or something like that.

39:11Dabbing and extracts where you started using things like butane and stuff like that to pull it out, you could get it up to like 99%, 97 % THC. So you're talking about something that is almost 100 times stronger than what it's like in its natural form. And it's just, yeah, no, comatosis, somebody, when they hit it. Not to mention all the chemicals and the other shit that... And I know you can do bubble hash and water. Do you know what it does to the mind, by the way, over time, if you smoke it regularly, it does cause low levels of psychosis and paranoia. Sure. It does change how you start to think over time.

39:48So even people who are like, ah, just use it at night, you know, but you've been doing it for years and years and years. It's definitely changing and molding your brain, which, you know, back in the day it was like, oh, weed's not that big of a deal. People just weren't doing it like they are now. And they weren't doing the strength. Yeah. I mean, it's like how we started this conversation. It's like, what have we done with everything? It's like, you know, it starts off as the introduction of it. I like this part. How can I get more of this? Yeah, more, more, more, push it. It doesn't help, too, when the narrative around it ends up kind of switching to all this positive because, like, I mean, I remember being a part of that.

40:22I remember being a part of, like. Yeah, there's benefits for people. Yeah, there used to be a stigma around smoking weed. Yeah, and then, you know, and then we went real hard on all the positive things of it. And don't get me wrong, there is. I mean, I was a part of, I watched people come in in wheelchairs and with arthritis and eating stuff, eating, had trouble eating. I had a lot of people that I got a chance of. But a lot paled in comparison to the mature. That's not the market. Yeah, the market was 90 % of people that were just, what's the strongest thing you have? You know what I'm saying?

40:55Like it wasn't, like there was very rarely did I, and I, in what we prided ourselves on those clubs when we had those, we were trying to serve the 70-year-old grandma who's never tried it before with arthritis and educate her through the process. And we had this little, tiny, little blonde girl at the front door that greeted you when you came in, not the intimidating security card like everybody did. So we were really trying to be the other side of serving the people that it was helping. And even then, that was my percentage. Yeah, my opinion on cannabis legalization totally changed. If you listen to the podcast long enough, I was a huge proponent of legalization.

41:35And now I see that. I thought, I bought into this. I thought more people are not going to use it if it's legal. I thought that it's not going to change how many people. That's not true. Use has already exploded. Yeah, but don't you, it's still too early, Sal. It's still new. it's still i i i think to for it to play out the way you're saying i don't necessarily think you're wrong in that with that original statement how long we have to wait 50 years oh geez oh yeah i think something like that i think it takes a generation of growing up within real and seeing like because here's what's going to happen there's a there's a generation of kids right now that were that are probably probably your guys's teenage kids age that grew up around kids that fully adopted it and their parents don't even care because it was told so positive about it and then there's some kids are gonna be like yeah i don't really want to do it and then it's not gonna be till they see their lives kind of unfold and they go they start to make the connections of like man those kids that smoked weed all the time you know and where parents let them do it like wow and then then i think the next generation gets wiser not a bad point yeah so i just think uh what you're saying like we're still in the it's cool you know and it's better than these other things and so yeah i don't know i think i think uh we'll see we'll see what it looks like you say you know earlier we were talking about honey i've been reading a lot about mgo which let me pull it up i got some studies on it isn't that the main thing that makes the manuka honey special is the so the company we work with manukora has the highest concentration of mgo you'll find in any manukora honey so manukora honey is very high in mgo compared to other forms of honey manukora is the highest that you'll find uh but it's so i didn't know this did you guys know that mgo is one of the few things that can actually fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

43:26That's how antibacterial it is. It helps prevent gastric ulcers from H. pylori. So with frequent consumption, it's linked to lower risk. It's good for oral health, reducing plaque, gingivitis, and periodontal disease. That's wild. By targeting... What's wild about that is that what people know about sugar for the teeth is so bad, but yet honey is protective. That's because sugar feeds bad bacteria that destroy your teeth. But N-G-O is antibacterial. Yeah. And it's way more powerful. That's so interesting. It's got activity against MRSA in wounds. You know, a few things. Do you think before we had things like neosporin, so that's probably what we like.

44:06Honey? Aloe vera and honey. Aloe vera and honey is probably what we rubbed all over cuts and burns and stuff, huh? So it's good for, like I said, good for inflammation, digestive health. So this is like, you eat a tablespoon of this. I do it post-workout. and it's good for gut health and good for inflammation, all those things. It's like a superfood. That's awesome. If there ever was a superfood. That's so awesome. Remind me, too, where is it mainly from? New Zealand. New Zealand. New Zealand. Is that the only place they can get it from, or is that where it's predominantly from? That's a good question.

44:35I think it might be the only place, but that's a really good question. Oh, okay. Yeah, I'm not sure. Yeah, anyway. So one of our trainers was listening to our podcast live today, And she told me something that I thought was a great idea if you're a trainer or coach listening. It was Mary, right? Mary was the one that made that question. She made a comment, but I actually didn't hear what the comment was. I just heard you go, oh, that's a really good idea. So this is what she said. She's a trainer. She's actually part of our course. So people listening, we have trainers here right now that are getting mentored and coached by our coaches to help them build their business.

45:07So they're actually going to go off, work on their own, but they're learning from some of our best coaches. And she said that she's been doing this while listening to the podcast. and it's a really great way for her to learn. So she'll hear us answer, or I should say help people on the podcast. So people call in with their fitness and health questions. When we're about to give our answer, she hits pause. She thinks or writes down what her answer is to see if she matches up with us. Like as a way to test herself. That's great. I thought that was great. That's such a smart. I think that's so great.

45:37Great way to train yourself how to do that. That reminds me of - Because that's like a real people that have - That reminds me of the tip that I heard Hermosi give when it comes to memorizing a script. I'd never heard this before where you have a script that has, I don't know, say 35 to 50 words on it or whatever. And he goes, you read it all the way through one time and then you X out one word. Read it through the whole time with that one word missing and then you X out a second one. And he goes, by the time you make it all the way through, you will have that thing memorized. Sure. And it makes total sense.

46:10It does. and it's like you're gonna have to have repeated that 35 to 50 times each time you're only yeah each time you're only xing out one or blacking out one word i like that i like it a lot too i was like i wish someone would told me that in school or taught me that i was like that's a really smart strategy to memorize like a short script for that i love that for learning like how you communicate i think fitness is i mean if i was a trainer uh i mean i've always talked about how i mean a part of this the motivation behind when we first started this was you know what was inspired by what we would have liked to have had as trainers i think i think at this stage if i'd been listening to us for a long time the the q a is what i would get the most of totally like i like you guys like us you know and it's like but if i'm a trainer and i'm like working a lot of hours and i know i don't have time to probably listen to all the podcasts it's like the q a is where i would totally yeah well because it makes it so easy i mean back in the day we just would know certain trainers that had specialties uh because a lot of times there'd be questions that are like okay well i kind of know but i know that my friend dennis like he deals with this a lot more than me and i'm gonna ask him this and so to have like a whole library to to then like plug in and find out that subject matter and see how you know we kind of go through that with our experience well this is why If you guys aren't familiar with what Eli is building on the back end in the school app, why I think that's going to become one of the most valuable things.

47:36So our elite trainer group that's in the school app, he's building all the Q &As that we've done through categories. So you can click on one. Yes. So it's like you've got a client-related that's fat loss. You've got a client-related reverse diet. You have somebody that struggles with an eating disorder, whatever. There's categories. And then we've done so many that it's like you can listen to five different ways we've communicated that topic to five different types of people. Well, one of the things that makes a good trainer a really good trainer isn't that they give the right answers necessarily.

48:07Giving the right answers is like the baseline. So to be a good trainer, you should have more often than not the right answers. Or can find the right answers. It's how you communicate those answers. It's how you get buy-in and how you coach that person through it. Right. Because, you know, exercise, strength train, eat pro, oftentimes it's the same advice that you'll give people. You can, of course, individualize it. But it's how do I communicate this? And then how do I coach this person through the process? That's what makes a trainer really good. It's that the clients follow it and then they like it and it's a good relationship that they enjoy.

48:40And then they end up doing it on their own afterwards. And that's the coaching aspect. I think if you listen to us helping people, that's the part that I would say pay attention to. Yeah, it's also the part I think we get most criticized from our peers by. because uh because it's we sound like the no cardio guys or it sounds like there's you know for beginners only or it's like no it's what's happened what you hear is you know 60 plus years of communicating to people and realizing like hey if we had to distill it down to a handful of things that we know impact 90 of the people significantly in their lives let's really communicate that hard and then we can sprinkle in the that we our knowledge around the other stuff but we're really going to drive home speaking to that adam there was a statistic i learned uh years ago managing big box gym so this was probably probably 1999 or 2000 and i remember i was in this big meeting with other managers we had upper management and they showed stats on how many people or what percentage of the population goes to gyms and it wasn't a big i don't remember what the percent It wasn't big.

49:48It was less than 4 % back then. It just wasn't big. And what he showed was basically what happens when new gyms open or there's competing companies is they just pull members from each other. But the reason why they brought this up is they were like, nobody's effectively reaching the rest of the population. There's a big segment of the population nobody's able to touch. Now, at the time, there was a company called Curves that actually did a decent job of it. Now, they didn't do a great job keeping them, and that's a whole other story. but they were actually reaching people that had basically said, I'm not interested.

50:21Fastest, fastest growing fitness chain in history still to this day. Right. So, and it inspired me as a trainer. And I think it inspired even my attitude here with the podcast, which is I'm more interested in getting the average person who has not figured out how to make this a part of our life. I'm interested in that person more than I am in the fitness fanatic. Yeah. The fanatic I'm not as interested. The irony of that though, is that even the person, because I would consider all of us fitness fanatics. I mean, it's what we talk about all day. But the stuff that we teach and apply to our own lives is still applicable.

50:57Of course. It's like it's still the truth. It's still what's ideal. It's still what's like. Now, maybe there's been times in my life where I decide I'm going to get crazy and get on stage. And it's like, and then those other layers of like knowledge and discipline and all those extra things come into play. But when I look at my life as a whole of trying to stay healthy, I'm still that person too. Yet I consider myself a fitness fanatic because I do talk about it all day long. It's a part of my life. So I think even a lot of people that would identify as fitness people still should just kind of really focus on those basics and not get in the weeds with a lot of the other stuff.

51:39Yeah, that's why I think we probably get the criticism because we look through a long-term lens. And I think that most fitness professionals, even people that follow the studies and are very textbook savvy and have this crazy academic background can solve what the client is asking, but they're not looking at what they need. And so - Good way to say it. Yeah, that's a completely different approach. I remember talking to Ben Greenfield, our good friend who, I mean he's been in the space for a long time and he's like I started getting into cutting edge and I started running out of things to talk about because I had to get more cutting edge more cutting edge more cutting edge I'm like I'm not interested in that I think it's cool it's interesting but I'm trying to help people here and I still remember that conversation with him because I remember that because he had been doing it for years before us and we were like so curious to like you know how come you don't really talk a lot about he's like man I talked about that for a long time and then I got bored just talking about that and so then I was into to the next stuff and then and it just kept he just kept he had to follow his interests right and he kept drifting away from like the average person yeah you know who needs his own and there's definitely a i mean he's got an incredible uh community of people that are super interested yeah and all that but and he is the great i think he's one of the best people in my opinion to test that stuff because he checks the boxes and all the other things but for the average person it's just like yeah that stuff is like yeah there's there's like three simple things for you to do if you just do that.

53:07I'm going to change directions here real quick because, you know, ButcherBox was talking to the people that manage our account talking about how popular the Mind Pump box is. Did you hear this? Yes. It's a really popular box that people are going and getting. Doug, what are the cuts in the Mind Pump? These are our favorite cuts. So I know there's Tri-Tip in there. I think the Nuggets are in there. People agree with us. All the things we're like, I think, was it Ribs? I want to say it took, yeah, Ribs. It's literally, I think they took - It's all the ones that we like. Yeah. So it's a specific box for the cuts that we like.

53:39I mean, it's doing well because I think everybody, like, okay, we've been getting these boxes for I don't know how long. We've all had most everything from there and everybody has a favorite thing or two. What are the things that are in our box? Are you looking at it? Yeah, I'm looking at it. I'm pretty sure it's ribs, chicken nuggets. I want - Maybe steak tips. Flat iron steaks, maybe. Okay. Yeah, look at it. Because I know, trichip has to be in there. I know ribs was my con. I mean, that's like a staple for me to get the ribs from there. I stock up all the time. You're like the ribs master. It's those ribs.

54:11I am not the ribs master. I have cooked all kinds of – there's been times when I'm out of ButcherBox ribs and I have to go buy ribs from someone else. And I have my formula and recipe to, like, making a lot of the meat that I cook in the smoker, like, down to the minute, science degree, everything, right? and I have tried multiple times. Is it because it's heritage pork? That's what I asked before. Does that make that big of a difference on the tenderness and the flavor and the way they taste? Now, Katrina, of course, she's my wife. She's sweet. She says things like, oh no, honey, these are good.

54:48It's like, no. I can tell there's a huge difference between that. Did you find it, Doug? I'm sorry? Did you find it? Yeah, I did. So it's ribeyes, chicken thighs, steak tips, ribs, chicken nuggets, flat iron steak. That's what it was. It was a steak tip that I put in there. And I will agree that there's something different about those ribs because I did it for a friend of mine. He said, these are the best ribs I've ever had. I can't figure it out. It's got to be heritage pork. It's got to be the pork. I mean, is that so uncommon though? Is it that uncommon? Do most grocery store baby back ribs not have?

55:20Yeah, I seriously doubt they do. Okay. The average store is not going to have that. And what do you know the difference between heritage pork and not? I think it's the feed largely and how they're raised. So a lot of pigs are just given a lot of crap. Yeah. And I'm not sure about the butcher box pigs, but I know that some are. I know it's labeled heritage pork and I know that's unique. What I don't know is like what that entails. Does that mean they get a certain type of feed for so long? Does that mean they're not fattened up a certain way? Like I don't understand it, but I know from. I know the flavor.

55:54I've cooked a lot of ribs and I've cooked a lot of non butcher box ribs. and I still cannot unlock being able to cook other ribs to as good as I cooked those ribs. It's night and day difference. So it's a different genetics. They're different types. So it's like a different breed of pig. Different, yeah. And farming practices are different. Nutrition is different. So they're from traditional older pig breeds. Interesting. Often called heritage breeds that have been preserved for their genetic diversity, hardiness, and historical significance. Oh, wow. So these include varieties like Berkshire, Duroc, Red Wattle, Tamworth, and Gluckistershire, Old Spot.

56:35Gluckistershire. Yeah. So these all originated before modern industrial farming. Regular pork comes from hybrid breeds optimized for large scale production. Wow. So breeding and raising methods are different. Okay, so that makes a lot of sense. So they're considered superior in flavor due to higher intramuscular fat. That's why. They have more marbling. That explains so much now. Because all the other ribs I always buy, they're always a little bit bigger. They're always a little bit bigger than the other ones, right? So then I always got to cook a little bit longer. Yeah, regular pork, it says here, is blander, milder, and less complex.

57:09Yeah. So just less flavor. That's exactly what I have figured out with it. It's just like, those - Drip off this. So it's got more fat in it, right? But it's got higher levels of beneficial fats, higher in omega-3s because of their pasture diets. Vitamins and minerals due to diverse foraging and natural so it is also not only is it tastier but it's got more nutrients like omega-3s in there well there you go yeah huge win yeah i'm not a pork fan but i've had your ribs and they're good delicious they're on another level good and i and i've now this makes so much sense now because i've been like what am i not doing what am i not doing to make up for that that flavor difference and i've always noticed that they're uh the other ones are a little bit bigger they're like they're always a little bit bigger than the baby back ribs that I get from ButcherBox, but they just never taste as good.

58:00They don't ever taste as good, dude. Well, there you go, dude. That makes a lot of sense. If you want to try methylene blue, get those cognitive benefits, the energy, the mitochondrial health. Check out Troscriptions. This is pharmaceutical-grade methylene blue in a trochee. You can put it in your cheek, absorb it faster, or swallow it on an empty stomach. Get the full effect. Try it out for yourself. It really works. Go to troscriptions.com. That's T-R-O-S-C-R-I-P-T-I-O-N-S.com forward slash Mind Pump. Use the code Mind Pump. Get 10 % off your first order. Back to the show. First question is from Leslie Brook W.S.

58:42My 10-year-old daughter struggles with the mechanics of a barbell row. What could I replace it with for now? Oh, yeah. Yeah, barbell row is difficult because you have to bend over, support your body while doing the row, which makes it harder. It's harder in the lower back. Yeah, and it's harder to get the scapular retraction and the squeeze. If you have access to a seated row or a cable row, that's the easiest way to get the mechanics. If you're stuck with free weights, you could do a one-arm dumbbell row with your hand on the bench, knee on the bench, nice, good posture. Then you can get that shoulder blade to come over the back at that scapular retraction.

59:16You can even do dumbbells. You can do dumbbells here. you could do a t-bar row a t-bar for a daughter sometimes is a little uncomfortable chest support it can be hard for girls yeah yeah girl i said it could be it could be a little more uh 10 year old girl they'll probably be okay t-bar row would probably be a good option here yeah it really there's there's a lot of different options um i think i like best out of everything you said though single dumbbell row is probably that's the one i always go to yeah the most fundamental good one to teach. The key with that is like really teaching good mechanics in it because what you'll find is when a kid or anybody for this matter, but in particular, a young kid trying to learn how to lift is in that position where they're leaning over.

59:58The gravity is like pulling their scapula over and you got to learn to teach them to, as they row, to pull that scapula back. I'll put the bench on a low incline. So I raise it just enough and they can put their hand on, or I'll raise it up higher and they put their elbow on it to put them in a better position. But what you want with the row is, obviously you're rowing the weights, so you want the bar to come up. But what you want are the shoulder blades to come back together and down. So you want to avoid shrugging and you will want to avoid the scapula remaining forward so it looks like this kind of forward shoulder as they're rowing.

1:00:31That's poor mechanics. So you want everything to come back. One of the things I might teach with someone that's this young too is, you'll get really light dumbbells that they're just like 10-pound dumbbells they're holding and get behind them and actually put them in position, put them in position so that like they're, they're in almost in the exact same position they will be in for a barbell row, but they're holding these independent weights that I can then get behind them and actually articulate their scapula back and forth and like tell her, okay, drive your elbows back. And then I actually will take her scapula and then squeezing like, no, this is what I mean by back.

1:01:00Feel that. And then she'll be like, Oh, okay. Then I'll let her come forward. Then, okay, pull her back. And then once she gets that, okay, this is what I'm supposed to feel. Okay. Now I can grab a barbell and now I can do that movement. Yeah. I went through this actually recently with my son and two to just get into that position where he's like at that 45 degree, had him hold on to the squat rack with one hand and do it with a dumbbell on the other. So it's like at least he can solidify that position, hold and brace properly. So he's supporting his lower back. And then we go through that with the mechanics and then, you know, eventually we'll get to the barbell.

1:01:37next question a question is from nancy holmes once you've chased strength focused on how you feel sleep libido and all that is good but your aesthetics have not caught up what should you do next patient yeah you keep going be patient the point people think this is like an overnight thing or that's going to happen it takes a long time or or they think oh cool i'm going to do the things you guys said and once i see some of that now i'm going to focus on aesthetics yeah the aesthetics follow. That's right. The aesthetics follow. It'll reveal itself. The other stuff doesn't follow. You never stop focusing on those things.

1:02:07You always keep focusing on those things and the aesthetics will follow. You don't have to go chase the aesthetics. You keep focusing on those things and if those things keep staying good or keep improving, the aesthetics will. That's right. You ever see that one meme where the guy's digging, you know, and then on the other side of this hole is like treasure, but he just stops like right a couple inches before is what I think of. Now, the other part could be diet you know sometimes you're getting stronger and whatever and you might just need to tighten up your diet a little bit yeah uh diet can definitely play a big role in aesthetics but honestly what i probably think is happening is you're just you just got to keep going yeah diet's a good point though sal because if if you if you were just like i'm not really worried about diet i'm just going to focus on getting stronger working on my sleep my libido strength training properly focus on those things and tighten up eating eating well can can start to do all that but then if you don't consistently hit your protein intake right now and eat whole foods, that could be the next layer to this if you're not already doing it.

1:03:07But if you're doing that, then it's just a matter of time. If you consistently hit your protein intake, you eat mostly whole foods and you keep focusing on the sleep, libido, and like that, the aesthetics will follow. They just will. Next question is from Ryan W. Richards. It's been a while since you spoke about the benefits of full spectrum CBD? Do you still find benefits based on emerging research or has it become overhyped? The overhyped period is over. There was a period there where they were like CBD soap. I think I saw CBD shoes. How does that work? It's overhyped because it works. I've been using the CBD a lot lately, trying to improve and work on my sleep.

1:03:47I haven't had good sleep in a long time. one of the things I'm using right now is CBD. And it does help. So, I mean, I think the reason why something gets overhyped is because there's some value and effectiveness to it. And then if it can be mass-produced like CBD can, then it becomes the cure-all for everything. You know what I'm saying? It dilutes because of the quality of all the companies that are producing it. Yeah, no. I don't think we've changed our opinion on CBD at all. At least I haven't. I mean, I still... CBD is interesting because it enhances your body's, all of how your body's endocannabinoids operate or how you feel them.

1:04:28So you produce cannabinoids yourself in your body. Using CBD seems to enhance those ones that you naturally make. So CBD by itself, it's not psychoactive. It's not like THC or anything else. It doesn't have those effects. But it enhances the effects of your natural endocannabinoids. So what tends to happen with people is they just kind of feel better. It can help some people with anxiety, sleep, inflammation, those kinds of things. Next question is from Stacy Thomas Photography. Is it okay to bounce around programs depending on circumstances? I bounce around from Muscle Mommy 15, Suspension, or Anabolic.

1:05:09If it's how you can stay consistent, it's totally fine. And I'm answering this because the person said depending on circumstances. So I'm assuming your muscle mommy 15 is a time crunch, suspension is because I'm at home, anabolics when I got more time, which is totally fine. Now, ideally, in a perfect world, which doesn't exist, but in a perfect world, you would follow just a program. But if this is how you're able to stay consistent, this is great. There's nothing wrong with it whatsoever. It's hard to add to that. It's that simple. it's like if you have the option and you'll consistently follow maps on a ball the way it's laid out inside of a gym just like that you'll get more like you'll get more bang for your buck but not at the cost of you not being able to do it sometimes because you're inconsistent and you have to train from home and could only use your suspension trainer and so because of that bouncing from muscle you know muscle mommy 15 and suspension anabolic is complete in fact encouraged if it was like oh my god i can't get the gym and do anabolic but what i can do is grab my suspension trainer do that.

1:06:08Is that okay? Like, uh, yeah, hell yes. That's okay. That's great. And that's one of the things that will keep you somebody again, this is a love changing that, you know, I'm the person who's following maps anabolic too. I'm just somebody who works out three times a week. You know, that's, I just work out three times a week. Now I'd love to try and follow maps anabolic all the time, but sometimes I can't, sometimes I only have 15 minutes. Sometimes I can just grab my suspension trainer. And so that is an awesome way to live your life. Perfect. Look, if you like the show, come find us on Instagram.

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