[00:00:00] [00:00:00] Carl Lanore: [00:00:00] welcome back to another episode of superhuman radio. Today is September 10th 2019. It's a Tuesday, which means we are going to do the blueprint power our we have lots of questions. In fact, I just got another one a couple

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[00:00:36] Carl Lanore: [00:00:36] Hey, how you doing? I'm

[00:00:38] Coach Rob Regish: [00:00:38] doing great. I hope you are too we got a great show lined up today. And I look forward to the questions lots

[00:00:44] Carl Lanore: [00:00:44] of good questions today interesting questions.

[00:00:46] Coach Rob Regish: [00:00:46] As always we

[00:00:47] Carl Lanore: [00:00:47] have some really in there are a lot of intelligent people in the audience. I mean a lot of intelligent people in the audience, is

[00:00:53] Coach Rob Regish: [00:00:53] that in including?

[00:00:55] And I'll say antonakos over there in Greece my wife's going [00:01:00] over in a few weeks and hopefully they can meet and exchange some stories. So I don't know.

[00:01:05] Carl Lanore: [00:01:05] I think he's a good-looking guy. You better watch out.

[00:01:08] Coach Rob Regish: [00:01:08] That's the first thing. I told her I had he's a good-looking guy, you know, be careful

[00:01:14] Carl Lanore: [00:01:14] and those Greeks, you know, they they know how to woo women.

[00:01:17] So that's

[00:01:18] Coach Rob Regish: [00:01:18] beautiful. Yeah great skin.

[00:01:20] Carl Lanore: [00:01:20] Yeah, right. So anyway, how's your training going?

[00:01:24] Coach Rob Regish: [00:01:24] My training is going very good. Thank you. I'm coming off trap bar deadlifts yesterday some neck work, which I'll talk about later and I feel really good interestingly enough. I went to the doctor last Thursday, and he took my pulse and blood pressure which were fine and I was shocked he did not take blood.

[00:01:46] He didn't run labs. And the last day of the last he knew and I knew my CK was 800 which is about four times normal, but I honestly think that study I chose to studies. I gave them [00:02:00] kind of quieted some of their concerns about creatine kinase levels being elevated somewhat in strength athletes

[00:02:07] Carl Lanore: [00:02:07] course make perfect setup for the how can it be any other way?

[00:02:12] Okay, so we have a question that starts off with Andrew battles. And this is actually a question that I've heard before from lots of different people. He says I don't really want to take peptides or MK 677 but I do want GH release MK makes me gain weight me too almost 10 pounds of water. So that's a no-go and the peptides do to although it depends on how much I use.

[00:02:40] There's a Nuance there that you should address. What else can I do to elevate GH levels?

[00:02:46] Coach Rob Regish: [00:02:46] Above

[00:02:46] Carl Lanore: [00:02:46] normal or is it even possible / worth

[00:02:49] Coach Rob Regish: [00:02:49] it?  You know, this is a great question. Because growth hormone is obviously one of the big three along with testosterone and [00:03:00] Insulin the easiest way to elevate it is to get a prescription for GHB which will also probably give you the best results but having said that it doesn't sound like it's an option.

[00:03:12] Yes, there is every reason I think to elevate and optimize growth hormone. Just as there is when people try to write optimize testosterone levels now important to point out that many things can Elevate GH you can whack your said, but excuse me, whack yourself over the head with a hammer and you'll get a good GH Spike perhaps the easiest way is fasting fasting has been well established to elevate GH although, you know, per our discussion few minutes.

[00:03:47] Carl I don't think it's the most biologically active.

[00:03:51] Carl Lanore: [00:03:51] Well I'd here and here's really why course.  Growth homeowners increased during fasting because [00:04:00] growth hormone. One of the unique things that does is it it shuttles triglycerides into the cell.  And it makes the mitochondria prefer triglycerides as a source of energy and that's why you burn fat.

[00:04:14] Literally makes your body prefer fat because it assumes a famine is coming.  And it's now we're going to have to start using those storage tanks of energy that we've been keeping aside. But it at the same time shuts off mtor. 

[00:04:33] Coach Rob Regish: [00:04:33] Yes answer.

[00:04:33] Carl Lanore: [00:04:33] Is that their blood some to yeah, so you're not you're not going to build any muscle at all right using that approach to raising growth hormone.

[00:04:42] Coach Rob Regish: [00:04:42] Okay. Now one of the things though that fasting will do and including intermittent fasting is it will result in a pretty wide open blood-brain barrier and that's significant because if you can get certain amino acids into the brain. Um [00:05:00] there it's been shown that you can have like growth hormone levels.

[00:05:03] Now what got the ball rolling there was Arginine and ornithine that they really wrote about Dirk Pearson and Sandy Shaw. I believe of Life Extension first wrote about it. They came across the studies. The problem was they used intravenous. Arginine in these studies and when we all went to the store shelves and bought Arginine ornithine pills and nothing happened.

[00:05:31] Well,

[00:05:31] Carl Lanore: [00:05:31] then I'd ask why when you took enough of it for something to happen. Then you got the runs because you run as Maria comes on you have to take like 10 to 20 grams of each.

[00:05:40] Coach Rob Regish: [00:05:40] Yes,

[00:05:40] Carl Lanore: [00:05:40] and then spend the next five hours in the bathroom trying to poop out chalk

[00:05:45] Coach Rob Regish: [00:05:45] and I did that and it tastes like battery acid.

[00:05:50] So obviously some problems are now. I know some people that use Arginine alpha-ketoglutarate personally. I think there are better aminos for the [00:06:00] job the first of which is glycine right the sweetener in three. I just looked at a study online showing four eight and twelve Grandma mounts reliably increased growth hormone in the dose dependent Manner and it's economical and has other benefits as well.

[00:06:19] So that's one to look into even a few grams. Let's say two grams of glutamine has been shown to elevate GH. Although I'd use glycine over glutamine for for multiple reasons the best. Oral amino acid GH release release or though of all the aminos is Gaba gamma-aminobutyric acid, which is an inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain and there have been many studies on orally used Gaba elevating growth hormone in.

[00:06:55] All 19 participants. So GH levels significantly [00:07:00] elevated compared to the 18 controls that got a placebo in that particular study role for mon Rose by about five and a half times five and a half fold above Baseline and in that study they were taking five grams on an empty stomach. Here's the important point when once you start using Java, As with any amino acid go slow because when it's taken on an empty stomach and in higher doses.

[00:07:30] It has a similar effect to Beta alanine that paraesthesia that tingling that flushing types plus

[00:07:36] Carl Lanore: [00:07:36] shortness of breath that freaks

[00:07:38] Coach Rob Regish: [00:07:38] people out partners, and I have a heated up like a furnace and I remember sweating number of period for about 10 to 15 minutes where I was just pouring sweat sitting up to till and a chair.

[00:07:53] It is it is a harmless, which I

[00:07:55] Carl Lanore: [00:07:55] made you hypoglycemic. Basically.

[00:07:57] Coach Rob Regish: [00:07:57] Yeah, well for those [00:08:00] that are not expecting it it can be a scary thing. Like you mentioned you can get shortness of breath. If you panic it obviously makes things worse. It's completely harmless it'll pass so I would suggest starting one to two grams and working your way up personally.

[00:08:16] I use five grams before bed and it undeniably as with. Improves the quality of my sleep. For example, I have I don't have a lot of these but I do have some nights where I sleep straight through just like I was when I was young right in my teens, and that doesn't happen without God now.  Does it elevate growth hormone?

[00:08:45] Yes, but understand.  The spike in GH from these Amino. Is transient in other words, it's not the kind of round-the-clock GH elevation that you're going to get from [00:09:00] MK. 66736637106727. Right and and the peptides. Okay, so still you know in the is. Is this guy points out? Not everybody wants to use the peptides or MK for various reasons now, I'll also tell you this another great way to elevate GH is to participate in some form of lactic acid tolerance trained research on that is pretty clear the higher blood lactate goes the higher growth hormone goes and I have seen in as little as two of those sessions a week.

[00:09:40] People on any reasonable diet some of them that's all they need to lose fat. They don't need to do cardio and you'll see what I'm talking about. If you do it correctly to we're talking about stacking 527 compound exercises on top of each other no rest in between [00:10:00] sets performed for higher reps and you will you will see exactly.

[00:10:08] Why it is so effective. It's exhausting. It's exhausting. So look, here's the bottom line intermittent fasting timed with lactic acid tolerance training are both pretty powerful GH releases. If it was me, I'd be using aminos on top of that. I'd be using glycine during the day once before training and Gaba before bed.

[00:10:31] If nothing else and this is the important part. Even if these transient spikes in GH do not work to build more muscle and lose more fat faster. The one of the big benefits is improve Sleep Quality, right? And what do we talked about last week and the tip of the day sleep underpins everything therefore anything you can do to improve it is going to make a big difference and these are Minos are wonderful.

[00:10:59] Carl Lanore: [00:10:59] And [00:11:00] that's what I was going to say better sleep improves growth hormone production and growth hormone sensitive receptor sensitivity. And so better sleep is a big lunch Larry. Rinaldi said that I missed one. I hope I didn't miss one. Just know Larry and all he says if I'm going to use one steroid just one what would that be?

[00:11:19] Coach Rob Regish: [00:11:19] In my mind, that's a pretty easy question. That one steroid would be. That's the bread and butter the boring one. Most boring. Yeah, right testosterone. Okay, and there are several reasons for that. The first is look it belongs in your body. Your body knows what to do with right? It's not recognized as foreign your liver doesn't try to destroy it yada yada.

[00:11:43] It is universally regarded. Also is one of the best mask burning drug building drugs rather in just as important. This does concern you it's legal with a doctor's prescription [00:12:00] and every effort should be made to find a progressive doctor supplying a meaningful amount. Test is also the Baseline drug versus which all other steroids are benchmarked right in terms of anabolic to androgenic ratio.

[00:12:17] So that means you too will have a great Benchmark. If you do decide to use other things like deck are d-ball. It's important to point out. I was also the other two, I think it is legal steroids. You can get from a doctor decada rambling and. And of our I'm not a fan of either one of those is you know with the DECA you might as well get your Viagra prescription.

[00:12:44] I've never used it. But I've heard from a lot of guys who say it really hurts you in that department. But anyway having said all that testosterone or any steroid in a in an amount that's [00:13:00] going to allow you to build muscle faster. Is going to result in a few side effects, but the primary one is shut down, right your body's own endogenous internal production.

[00:13:13] It will go to sleep for a while. And in the extent to which it does depends upon a couple of things one how much of the steroid you're taking and to how long you've been on. Okay, so those feedback loops. Hopefully, you know how to wake them back up if and when you decide to come off now HRT is another thing if you're on HRT, you're going to be on HRT pretty much for the rest of your life.

[00:13:42] If you're cycling on and off that's obviously another discussion about how

[00:13:46] Carl Lanore: [00:13:46] to get out without a dried fig. That's a cycle

[00:13:49] Coach Rob Regish: [00:13:49] right also. Too much test in some people's body converts it to estrogen. That's not entirely bad. Right we discussed that last week [00:14:00] too much test and a portion of it will be converted to DHT and again, that's not necessarily bad.

[00:14:08] But if you're prone to male pattern baldness it is it'll definitely accelerate that your LDL. Will be elevated on higher doses. I think these study showing 600 milligrams a week. That was one one of the side effects although their transient and they go back to what they should be when you come on.

[00:14:32] Otherwise the side effects of testosterone are as follows. You're going to wind up with more muscle less fat and they and a great outlook on life. That's that's really how I you know, the only way I can describe it at least from an HRT perspective. That's just how it is.  So.

[00:14:55] Carl Lanore: [00:14:55] Yeah

[00:14:55] Coach Rob Regish: [00:14:55] about that and think about the legality to you know, [00:15:00] at least make the effort with a doctor to get the real deal

[00:15:04] Carl Lanore: [00:15:04] to do the right way, then you can and then you can you can play around here and there and you can some people call it flash thing and cruising.

[00:15:11] So you do your HRT dose for two or three months and then all of a sudden you blast the two or three months and you double down on your training and you eat more for those two to three months and then you come back to uh, our Tito. You make small incremental gains over the course of the year

[00:15:25] Coach Rob Regish: [00:15:25] right at

[00:15:26] Carl Lanore: [00:15:26] works and it doesn't put you at Great risk either Tucker megson.

[00:15:31] He said I watch substr movie the director's cut online the other day. Absolutely incredible as it really opened my eyes to the dietary supplement industry sounds like the early to mid 90s was the time to be in the business. I never got to use any metrics for ultimate. Some of the other stuff that they were talking about when it was new.

[00:15:54] Do you ever see things being like that again? Who would want it to be? 

[00:16:00] [00:16:01] Coach Rob Regish: [00:16:01] Yeah, and you know, I to watch that movie I watched it yesterday morning and it was good. I enjoyed it. I thought they did a good job. They look at. From a chronological standpoint. We're right in the beginning back in the 1960s you had protein from the sea and some Joe Weider stuff all the way up to today, but you make a couple of pertinent observations and one of which is that the early to mid-90s really were a magic time.

[00:16:33] So to speak to be using bodybuilding supplements and a big part of that reason is again we went from. Nothing that works and stuff that tastes of like you can't even imagine how bad it was two things that did have at least somewhat of a visible feelable effect. There was vanadyl sulfate there was metrics.

[00:16:56] There was Ultimate arms. There was red of all [00:17:00] die met a dream 25 the original ephedrine supplement Gaba right and then creatine. And who could forget the first whey proteins, right? All of that stuff worked to varying degrees. So right there, right that's a half a half a dozen. So so again what made this time period special was prior to it nothing at all worked and all of a sudden, you know, it seemed like every other month they were coming out with something that did you just knew you were part of something special if you were.

[00:17:36] Part of that time period I used all of those products right that I just mentioned and in fact still do - the metrics and ultimate orange, which yeah, they're still made today, but they are not the products that they once were.  What made this time period possible first and foremost were there were some great minds.

[00:18:00] [00:18:00] Behind the products right you had dr. Connelly with metrics who could forget Dan Duchesne, right? He was always scratching around the literature to identify new and exciting compounds and. It's hard to see that being replicated. Now the second golden age of supplements. That was Far different, but still have that same Catalyst of great minds behind it.

[00:18:26] And I'm talking about the prohormone era people like Pat Arnold Bruce nellore celeb Stone right of avant Le hail

[00:18:35] Carl Lanore: [00:18:35] about Caleb

[00:18:36] Coach Rob Regish: [00:18:36] Caleb the

[00:18:36] Carl Lanore: [00:18:36] big biblical name.

[00:18:39] Coach Rob Regish: [00:18:39] Right, and now some of these guys like pattern over are legitimate chemists. Do you know Brilliant Minds or they were simply gutsy people who brought forth everything from from and row to for dial to one ad and then ultimately methyl 1 Test [00:19:00] some of these like methyl 1 Test were.

[00:19:04] Anabolic steroids, which people found

[00:19:06] Carl Lanore: [00:19:06] they were they were not just legitimate anabolic steroids, but they were some of the strongest whether pharmaceutical or not. They were the strongest. I mean metal one test was the strongest anabolic steroid I've ever taken and right plenty of trend and but there was nothing like methyl 1 test.

[00:19:24] It was horrible to if the same time it was it was there as muscle building an anabolic as it was. To take right. 

[00:19:35] Coach Rob Regish: [00:19:35] And so, you know, a lot of these steroids were found in the vitamin K, which they are most of them were researched by pharmaceutical companies way back when but forever for whatever reason we're not pursued and boom now, we have supplement companies providing.

[00:19:52] So needless to say, you know, the free-for-all only lasted for what five years. But [00:20:00] it was a it was a great time. It was very fun. I honestly do not see the industry coming back to any type of golden age anytime soon.

[00:20:09] Carl Lanore: [00:20:09] Well, let's let's let's let's frame the Golden Age and what it really was. Okay.

[00:20:16] Coach Rob Regish: [00:20:16] Yeah,

[00:20:18] Carl Lanore: [00:20:18] these supplements are relatively new if you read multiple smoke and mirrors, you know that guys like real Blair introduced the first protein powders they were. Soy protein, they were undigestible people got sick from taking them. They tasted horrible. You're on from there to the 70s.  You saw the burgeoning of an previously a non-existing industry.

[00:20:44] Remember? Let's remember Beverly supplements came from The Beverly health club in Beverly Hills. They became a national supplement because there were no supplement companies back. Then Riley was making this stuff Paul. Bragg [00:21:00] was talking about a Jack LaLanne was talking about it, but nobody was actually going on.

[00:21:04] So you saw an industry go from completely unwatched completely uncontrolled completely untethered and of course a lot of hucksters. So opportunities to make a lot of money fast before people wise and the. You'll never see that again. You won't because that's where hemp oil is. If you want to see an industry as a right.

[00:21:26] Now, you can walk into your church and by her I have will is everywhere that's gonna change it's good. You're going to see five six years from now. It's not going to be what it is today because every time an industry people go. I've got to get in on the ground floor. Everybody gets on the ground all of a sudden it just blows up.

[00:21:43] You have a lot of nonsense a lot of noise a lot of bad products and then it thins out. It'll never be that way again. Now people have to actually produce things that work because studies are written and people do blood work. 

[00:21:57] Coach Rob Regish: [00:21:57] Right and the barriers to [00:22:00] entry into the supplement business are astronomical now compared to what it was, you know back in the day you could order up any old raw material some empty gelatin capsules.

[00:22:15] Stuff the stuff and capsules and literally sell the bottles. Right right today,

[00:22:22] Carl Lanore: [00:22:22] he and people bought them a happy to they didn't think there was there was nothing better. There's nothing else.

[00:22:27] Coach Rob Regish: [00:22:27] All right, and so today, you know, you better have darn close to a million dollars to start because complying with the FDA CFR 111's and all of the paperwork and the you know, the inspection excetera.

[00:22:44] The cost of product right? We were talking before most of these labs. They want all their money up front. Okay, and if you're running, you know a thousand bottles of X that cost in the you know, it cost [00:23:00] $70 for each bottle you do the math and then throw shipping on top of that. Okay, it is. It's daunting.

[00:23:08] And so that's going to work again seeing another one.

[00:23:11] Carl Lanore: [00:23:11] I think that's great. 

[00:23:14] Coach Rob Regish: [00:23:14] Well, it's because

[00:23:15] Carl Lanore: [00:23:15] if you don't if you don't have to put any flesh in the game to get started, then you have zero risk of loss. And if you have real risk of loss, you are much more likely to cut corners and take advantage of stuff because that what happens if we go out of business, we're not going to lose a lot.

[00:23:33] So right that those barriers to entry in any industry produce a better industry because people before they drop to two hundred thousand ten thousand thirty thousand on product and another 30,000 on marketing and logos and you know, they get they go. Wow, this is this better be good or just throwing this money wait, maybe we shouldn't good let those guys stay out because if they thought to themselves, wow, [00:24:00] I'm not going to put my own money behind this idea.

[00:24:03] And why should you be subject to put in your own money by behind buying it and using it? Right? I like it. I think it's good. I think that the standards are good. We have to answer a question before we take the arms break. Let's do this. Jeff cliff and said will low-dose testosterone therapy create testicular atrophy.

[00:24:21] If you're low, he means already low. My integrative doc wants to see if I can raise it naturally before introducing it, but at 321 nanograms. I feel I'm feeling.

[00:24:32] Coach Rob Regish: [00:24:32] You know, I don't see he I don't know if he'll give him HCG or clumpy or something.

[00:24:38] Carl Lanore: [00:24:38] Not HCG would be the way to go. Absolutely.

[00:24:40] Coach Rob Regish: [00:24:40] Yeah, I mean, you know, you're all to my mind.

[00:24:44] You're always going to be left with your crappy production, right it

[00:24:48] Carl Lanore: [00:24:48] is so what if he if it look there's no such thing as low-dose testosterone. There's either a therapeutic dose that works or there's not a therapeutic dose that work, right? So don't like is no it's not like, okay, you're [00:25:00] 321.

[00:25:01] Normally, we give guys 20 50 milligrams a week on HRT. We're just going to give you a hundred milligrams a week because we just want to fill in we just want to go from from 3831267 T. So we're going to it doesn't work that way as soon as your body sees that the testosterone from outside in the world it goes.

[00:25:18] Hey, we don't have to make any testosterone. It'll all anymore.

[00:25:22] Coach Rob Regish: [00:25:22] Yeah, tell me go

[00:25:22] Carl Lanore: [00:25:22] to 31 goes away. And now you're back down with that low dose at 6:31, but you're getting a low dose to get there now. So if you don't want to get on then a HCG, absolutely. Is lots of good protocols out there that you can follow the one I like best is 500 I use on day 1 and day 2 and then a hundred fifty I use going forward there on and four months whatever it takes for your testosterone to come back up.

[00:25:49] I would not use Clomid unless you know that you have high estrogen because remember the moment is all is not only it's an aromatase. [00:26:00] Combined with a selective estrogen receptor modulator. So both low is estradiol but acts like estradiol and it's funky. So I would just start out with HCG and see where that gets you and wait a few months.

[00:26:13] You got to give it three four five months sometimes. 

[00:26:15] Coach Rob Regish: [00:26:15] Yeah, that's the best advice. You know, it's funny when you were talking about things to get the testicles going again. We just talked about the old early to mid-90s. Do you remember a product called cyclo for now? I don't like listen L was you know supposed to be along the lines of Clomid nhej in terms of stimulating your body's own natural production to a higher level and I can remember using it and I can remember.

[00:26:45] Feeling it. Unfortunately, I didn't do Labs. I did do Labs on a lot of stuff that I did Labs on Tribulus DHEA, but cycle fennel was was one of those gray Market things that was talked [00:27:00] about in Bill Phillips natural supplement review for those of you that remember a little pink paperback book where he basically listed everything that worked and where to get it.

[00:27:14] It was it was good. It was a great time. It's a great time. Yep.

[00:27:19] Carl Lanore: [00:27:19] I'll Exodus that take a quick commercial break and when we come back, we've got more questions from people. You're listening to the blueprint power our brought you by coach Rob register.com. It's a website that you should visit and visit often because there's so much great information there.

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[00:28:00] [00:28:00] Carl Lanore: [00:28:00] that is handsome. So check it out go to Coach Rob register.com. We'll be right back with more of the blueprint power station.  The next question comes from Sam so sorry and if I didn't pronounce your name correctly, I'm so sorry.

[00:28:16] I'm sorry. I had to do that. I know that was like a really dick thing to do.

[00:28:20] Coach Rob Regish: [00:28:20] You even hear

[00:28:20] Carl Lanore: [00:28:20] me? Right? Did you hear what I said?

[00:28:22] Coach Rob Regish: [00:28:22] No,

[00:28:23] Carl Lanore: [00:28:23] I said our next our next question comes from Sam so sorry.  SOS sat I so sorry. I said if I mispronounced your name, I'm so sorry.

[00:28:37] Coach Rob Regish: [00:28:37] I

[00:28:38] Carl Lanore: [00:28:38] gotta explain my jokes. Now. I must be really getting old.

[00:28:41] Anyway, he says what products are supplements. Can I use to stay safe on a medium to heavy cycle of test? And tea Bowl you think he's talking about Debo t-ball,

[00:28:53] Coach Rob Regish: [00:28:53] you know, I asked him about that and he described it as its D ball without the water retention. [00:29:00] So I don't know if it's something new or what?

[00:29:02] Oh

[00:29:03] Carl Lanore: [00:29:03] bunk d-ball. Yeah bunk default. In other words D ball that doesn't work has no water retention.

[00:29:12] Coach Rob Regish: [00:29:12] Yeah

[00:29:14] Carl Lanore: [00:29:14] t-ball amp. It causes methyl estrogen which is why you retain water and that's part of the anabolic response. But anyway, I know about the use of milk thistle for my liver. But what else should I be using?

[00:29:28] Coach Rob Regish: [00:29:28] Yeah, this is an interesting question because for a lot of guys that use drugs once they get on them and experience how well they work the they do not allocate. Any funds really to supplement unless it's let's say protein powder. Okay,

[00:29:46] Carl Lanore: [00:29:46] that's prove it that's

[00:29:47] Coach Rob Regish: [00:29:47] food. Yeah, this is a mistake a big mistake in my mind and a lot of people make it.

[00:29:54] So let's take a look at the various nutraceuticals and supplements. You can use [00:30:00] especially when you're on cycle like this first and foremost, especially with orals. You want to be using something to protect the liver. Especially if you're going oh gosh anything beyond six weeks, I would say a good liver protection is absolutely necessary.

[00:30:20] So I'm not a fan of milk thistle. I just think there's too much that too too many things can go wrong and they. Low quality product I do far and away though consider to te T UD CA as the best liver protector out there if you can't get together, although it's widely available now not like in the old days.

[00:30:48] You can pick up some any shuttle system. It's the number one defense in hospitals against liver failure, right you show up in the emergency room. They're going to give you [00:31:00] intravenous NAC. So that speaks to one of the things that it does very well celery seed extract hawthorn berry and herbal diuretics things like who Versa berries bladderwrack or dandelion root.

[00:31:16] Those can help mitigate some of the blood pressure issues on. Things like high dose test or D ball where you're retaining a lot of water. Certainly. It pushes the blood pressure up and a lot of people Pali Coast and all can be used in helping to keep your lipids in line. Although I think.  F adran should be looked at for its effects positive effects on your HDL good cholesterol.

[00:31:44] You have to weigh any transient increase in blood pressure. Against that because remember we're already dealing with people that might have blood pressure issues to put ephedrine on top of that if it spikes your blood pressure is dangerous, but [00:32:00] I do like what it does for hdls vitamin K2 four or six helps prevent calcification of the arteries over time and.

[00:32:10] It is different than K1 which your get right in your vegetables K2 is what I use a hundred micrograms a day every day with food. I feel really good about using that and would feel good about you using the two melanotan to write that you've mentioned. Carl can certainly help and so far as keeping the arteries foot open for business.

[00:32:34] I don't know if there's research been done on that or that's a

[00:32:38] Carl Lanore: [00:32:38] there.

[00:32:39] Coach Rob Regish: [00:32:39] Okay, so, you know, you don't think about Millennials tend to for for that purpose. But you know, there it is

[00:32:47] Carl Lanore: [00:32:47] get in the snow

[00:32:47] Coach Rob Regish: [00:32:47] to

[00:32:47] Carl Lanore: [00:32:47] get in the sun to

[00:32:48] Coach Rob Regish: [00:32:48] Battleground

[00:32:49] Carl Lanore: [00:32:49] the

[00:32:50] Coach Rob Regish: [00:32:50] same

[00:32:50] Carl Lanore: [00:32:50] effect get in the Sun

[00:32:52] Coach Rob Regish: [00:32:52] the Tribulus terrestris or fenugreek.

[00:32:55] Can help in instances of erectile dysfunction, [00:33:00] especially when Deca is in the mixed and and the reason for that is both plants are rich in what's called for roasts and Oleg saponins. As a matter of fact, most of the research on Tribulus is done in heart patients. So the best remedy for that though.

[00:33:19] Is Viagra? Okay. Let's just save, you know, tell it like it is sildenafil citrate, which now that it's off patent right should be easy to get

[00:33:31] Carl Lanore: [00:33:31] yeah, in fact, if you go to Blue to.com, that's blue2 she H ew.com and used code shr. You'll get your first dose of actually multiple doses. You get a trial offer

[00:33:44] Coach Rob Regish: [00:33:44] for free you pay $5

[00:33:46] Carl Lanore: [00:33:46] shipping and you can use either a chill down to fill or tadalafil which are the generic names for Viagra or Cialis

[00:33:54] Coach Rob Regish: [00:33:54] Bluetooth in there chewables.

[00:33:57] Carl Lanore: [00:33:57] Yeah, I'd say so they hit you right away their [00:34:00] chewable. Yeah. They have remember back in the day when some of the pro hormones had cyclodextrin mixed into them and you could chew them up and they'd hit you right away.

[00:34:11] Coach Rob Regish: [00:34:11] Yeah, they

[00:34:12] Carl Lanore: [00:34:12] do the same that to drug delivery system. They do that with these blue chew

[00:34:16] Coach Rob Regish: [00:34:16] and

[00:34:17] Carl Lanore: [00:34:17] it's blue and it's got like a blueberry Faith flavor blueberry flavored Cialis and blueberry flavor Viagra

[00:34:26] Coach Rob Regish: [00:34:26] blue

[00:34:27] Carl Lanore: [00:34:27] chewed.

[00:34:27] That's

[00:34:27] Coach Rob Regish: [00:34:27] very

[00:34:28] Carl Lanore: [00:34:28] yeah and my audience gets like a bunch of it for free and you just pay five dollars shipping to try it. Yeah.

[00:34:35] Coach Rob Regish: [00:34:35] Wow. Okay,

[00:34:37] Carl Lanore: [00:34:37] so get your boner on.

[00:34:39] Coach Rob Regish: [00:34:39] Yeah, yeah interestingly enough. There's research on Viagra increasing testosterone levels.

[00:34:47] Carl Lanore: [00:34:47] Yes. It's increasing free testosterone.

[00:34:50] Coach Rob Regish: [00:34:50] Yeah. This is true.

[00:34:51] This

[00:34:51] Carl Lanore: [00:34:51] is true of all the pde5 Inhibitors. I tend to like the site Cialis. So the therapeutic dose of Cialis is 8 milligrams a day antiaging [00:35:00] purposes and it increases free testosterone. It also increases your body your livers ability to flush out and get rid of fat, which also means people who have fatty liver.

[00:35:11] Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease would benefit from taking a pde5 inhibitor with some regularity right evidence that it causes new neuronal sprouting because of the increase in. The type of nitric oxide that works on the nervous system. So there's people out there with multiple sclerosis seeing changes in brain function from taking low dose pde5 Inhibitors that they're really interesting class of drugs that unfortunately because they got listed as boner pills.

[00:35:41] They're not taken seriously, but they have a lot of really interesting benefits

[00:35:45] Coach Rob Regish: [00:35:45] a lot of yeah. Yeah, maybe sometime we'll speak more lunch about that but. Continuing on red yeast rice can help in maintaining better cholesterol levels. Although you should be aware that [00:36:00] like the statins it puts you at greater risk for rhabdo.

[00:36:04] So that you know, you need to take that into consideration B vitamins and or trimethylglycine AKA detain that can certainly help in keeping homocysteine levels down and speaking of which homocysteine isn't just an issue for drug using bodybuilders, right? If you have really high protein intake, it can be an issue as well.

[00:36:27] And we're talking about a population loves their protein the best prostate support stuff that I've seen our pumpkin stinging nettle. And of course saw palmetto, you can use a DHD inhibitor like finasteride, but I'm not a fan of that drug for a number of reasons and. I just think trying the other stuff first at least give it a try is worth it.

[00:36:56] And I think Carl this is a tip from you right copper.  [00:37:00] And one milligram a day.

[00:37:03] Carl Lanore: [00:37:03] Yeah protects the heart from developing cardiomyopathy and cardio hypertrophy.

[00:37:09] Coach Rob Regish: [00:37:09] So that's another big one in and finally for those that are prone to male pattern baldness and maybe you're on a lot of tests and it's converting to DHC.

[00:37:21] Hair loss on the crown of the head is best address, I think by minoxidil right AKA Rogaine you can get that now at Walmart for like $12 for a month's Supply. So, you know, obviously right there I listed between a half a dozen or a dozen different things that can certainly help in maintaining your health.

[00:37:44] So, please don't dismiss them. At least give them a try. I've had great luck with a lot of those.

[00:37:52] Carl Lanore: [00:37:52] Okay. So the next question comes from Mark lozinski I trained hard, but I'm in college and I drink / [00:38:00] ethically sometimes heavily on the weekends. How bad is this going to hurt me?

[00:38:08] How old is he? He's in college man. Yeah, dude. That was these three brothers. They were strong men. I can't think of that name. They would drink beer while they were lifting. You don't know what on the East Coast they were like these Bavarian guys the three I'm going to look for a watch this go you you talk.

[00:38:26] I'm going to find something that

[00:38:28] Coach Rob Regish: [00:38:28] I can distinctly remember going to a power lifting meet seeing a guy had a. Incredible that she was like 455 at 195 and one of the guys next to me and to be and he says, you know, what makes that even more impressive I said what he said he was drinking heavily all night and never slept.

[00:38:47] I believe he just he just came in now. I never got in the heavy alcohol use in college. It was very simple for me. I learned early. I had one night where I drank heavily [00:39:00] and I learned. Quite quickly, you can lift heavy or you can drink heavy but you can't do both maybe some of those other guys can't but certainly not me the poor decisions that you can make the hangover and the high cost of making yourself sick is a non-starter for me.

[00:39:21] I was out the other night with my wife who had a drink it was some sort of Martini. It was like $14 for a drink. You know, I couldn't believe it. Yeah,

[00:39:32] Carl Lanore: [00:39:32] at least he complains about me too because I get a I get I get to a drink called a Negroni it's got three different Liquors in it. It's just typically like between 14 and 18 dollars a drink

[00:39:43] Coach Rob Regish: [00:39:43] right?

[00:39:43] She

[00:39:43] Carl Lanore: [00:39:43] goes to me. Why can't you just drink wine ha ha

[00:39:47] Coach Rob Regish: [00:39:47] and I remember one night in high school that I had where I came home I passed out and then I got up to use the bathroom and instead of taking a right turn to go to the bathroom. I took a left. [00:40:00] It started trying to urinate in my parents closet.

[00:40:04] Carl Lanore: [00:40:04] That's not good. Keep going keep talking,

[00:40:07] Coach Rob Regish: [00:40:07] but that's that's an example right of a poor decision. I made that didn't really hurt anyone. I saw plenty of other people make those kind of people they certainly did hurt them including one friend who decided to drive home at night right bombed out of his mind.

[00:40:27] He got into an accident and he's a quadriplegic today. Okay, but even that wasn't the worst part he killed a family of three on their way home.  Okay, so think about that just imagine living with that for the rest of your life. Hangovers, I mentioned those before by far that's the worst. I have ever felt how people that are up to Halls can do that day after day to themselves.

[00:40:55] I will never understand so look long story [00:41:00] short, you're drinking especially to assess is hurting you and in no small way. Okay, just two nights of that kind of stuff. Drake / 7 in a week gives us 28 percent enough the best at math but you know nearly a third of your week is compromised and in the big way.

[00:41:22] Okay. Look I'm not against going out and having a good time. I am saying that drinking heavily. In order to do that to try to have a good time is a bad idea for all of the reasons that I cited if you want to drink do so moderately and never ever.  Drink, you know drive after drinking and even if it's quote-unquote just won the life-altering repercussions that I saw that happened to my friend.

[00:41:55] Just are not worth it. This guy was a he was a great athlete [00:42:00] to an incredible athlete he was, you know looking at scholarships.  It's all gone. It's all gone. Now man said

[00:42:09] Carl Lanore: [00:42:09] I tried to find those. I try. I called Randy Roach, but he didn't answer if I training a client right now. I was going to say what's the name of those three brothers that used to lift and drink at the same time.

[00:42:17] They were strong men. They do circus. Why haven't they would have like a barrel of beer and a ladle in the beer barrel and the ladle looked like it looked like a big glass, you know was metal but it was like big. Yeah, and they would label the beer and they would drink it and then they'd go and they'd Squad a thousand pounds.

[00:42:36] It was like so it was unbelievable. They would drink the whole time. They were lifting. It was so funny my opinion and alcohol. Is this I drink. Because I know I want to get that buzz and I like the way it feels but I don't I know it's counter to all of my goals.

[00:42:56] Coach Rob Regish: [00:42:56] And so yeah, it's our

[00:42:57] Carl Lanore: [00:42:57] I don't drink a lot.

[00:42:58] I don't when I do [00:43:00] drink when I do decide I'm going out drinking tonight. I drink a lot. I consume a lot of alcohol, but I don't do I do that maybe once every two months maybe right and the rest of the time I don't drink why have a have a glass of wine in front of me and I sip. So that I everybody else feels like I'm not the wet blanket at the party all the calls not drinking, you know, right but to me alcohol.

[00:43:26] Look, I'd answer this question to mark this way mark, would you go to Dunkin Donuts and spend $30 and eat like six dozen donuts one day.

[00:43:38] Coach Rob Regish: [00:43:38] No,

[00:43:39] Carl Lanore: [00:43:39] you wouldn't like to be like, no man that I feel like crap. I'm going to be inflamed. I'm gonna be crapping for three days. I'm going to feel sick. I'll probably have to miss a workout.

[00:43:50] I'll get fat like all those things like no, I wouldn't do that and I look at alcohol the same way if I'm gonna die, I'm gonna go [00:44:00] out and I'm going to eat something that's just horrible for my health. And I know it then I'll have a drink with the same attitude. But other than alcohol is a neurotoxin Mercury is a neurotoxin.

[00:44:12] So would you put a little mercury on the tip of your tongue if I gave you a buzz? It probably would give you a buzz or probably makes your brain fog and you know,

[00:44:20] Coach Rob Regish: [00:44:20] no

[00:44:21] Carl Lanore: [00:44:21] alcohol in the has no place in a healthy lifestyle except once every couple months, you know celebrate something you feel like you're going to you want to break loose do it once but prepare and AC and acetylcysteine.

[00:44:36] and and acetyl-l-carnitine. Load up on those before you go out drinking load up on them, two three four grams, 45 cat time that day and then when you come home at night take some more. So at least give you a liver a fighting chance to get that stuff out of here.

[00:44:54] Coach Rob Regish: [00:44:54] Yeah, it's good advice

[00:44:56] Carl Lanore: [00:44:56] Fred Monroe says.

[00:44:59] [00:45:00] interesting discussion recently among you and Carl about giving up caffeine when you come off how big of a difference was it. And in what way I'm off today I and I did Sean can earn Shield.  Said you and I will be having this conversation in a couple months Karl because I said that's it. I'm done with caffeine.

[00:45:21] I'm not doing this anymore guide you go you go.

[00:45:25] Coach Rob Regish: [00:45:25] Well, I think first and foremost. I need to quantify my own caffeine usage prior right prior to giving it up. So most days I knocked back around 600 milligrams of caffeine with a low amount of ephedrine 50 milligrams, which is very low at least for me that gives me a pretty good boost although over time.

[00:45:49] I physically, you know the kick in the pants diminishes quite a bit, you know, depending upon how often you use it. I also. Had to admit [00:46:00] that excess cortisol as a result of that wasn't helping me. The last bit of belly fat is it makes it impossible? It seems to come off no matter what I did. So I decided to cold turkey ephedrine or the excuse me caffeine rather down to zero okay on five days of the week and the other two when I train heavy with weights I use caffeine then.

[00:46:27] Within two weeks. I felt a major difference insofar as how hard that caffeine hit it seemed to really. Yo, give me a jolt is if I laid off it for the other five days. It was almost as if I had never touched caffeine before you know, that it was I was not expecting that I was expecting, you know, a little bit of a boost.

[00:46:50] This was a major major boost. So it was dynamite and so far as getting that major caffeine Kick Back Again.  It was [00:47:00] murder though. Trying to sleep on those nights that I used. And I used it in the early afternoon, you know, even before three o'clock. It was still very difficult to get to sleep at night now.

[00:47:14] It's important to know I never experienced any caffeine withdrawals and maybe that's because I didn't cold turkey and period and didn't use any but to be honest. I never got headaches. I never you know, any of that other stuff. So even you know, there was no excessive drowsiness. I still had decent energy levels during the day just wasn't cranked up, right?

[00:47:41] There also may be because I used other compounds in place of caffeine during those five days and ditching caffeine was a very worthwhile exercise because it caused me to come up with Alternatives. That's

[00:47:56] Carl Lanore: [00:47:56] why I don't let then feta mean.

[00:47:57] Coach Rob Regish: [00:47:57] Haha, yeah, [00:48:00] it was

[00:48:03] Carl Lanore: [00:48:03] a little yohimbe.

[00:48:06] Coach Rob Regish: [00:48:06] Yeah, so I'm pleased to say I found two alternatives to caffeine one of which almost nobody has heard of that.

[00:48:15] I passed along to my blueprint bullet and subscribers and I've had really good feedback on those. Here's the bottom line. Caffeine I think as an ergogenic aid is gold if you use it when you really need it. Okay, not every single day in massive amounts. I would give that a shot and I would give it some time.

[00:48:38] I think you're going to be quite surprised at what you find. Hopefully you don't get any of the caffeine withdrawal symptoms, but that was my experience and I you know, I would say I'm a better lifter for.

[00:48:53] Carl Lanore: [00:48:53] So I gave up caffeine. I started caffeine again when I went out to Boca. I started using caffeine again because I was out there [00:49:00] and I was drinking Total Wars when I are ensuring women and they feel good and then

[00:49:06] Coach Rob Regish: [00:49:06] you got a lucky

[00:49:07] Carl Lanore: [00:49:07] and yeah, and and you know plus the guy was nice enough to send me two cases.

[00:49:10] Yeah, I know when I got home I had one every day. And before working

[00:49:17] Coach Rob Regish: [00:49:17] out and

[00:49:19] Carl Lanore: [00:49:19] then I couldn't get any colder War for a little while. And so my friend Billy told me about bang which is a carbonated drink takes place. And what is that the dog? Yeah. Let me get her bone

[00:49:35] Coach Rob Regish: [00:49:35] away. Go ahead.

[00:49:37] Carl Lanore: [00:49:37] I don't know what it is.

[00:49:38] I just thought someone was banging on the doors waiting for them to come in and and Russia so. So then so then I got I got the bang and I tried one of those and it was pretty good. It's like 300 straight milligrams of caffeine. There's a little yohimbine in it and something else but there's co Q 10 in it and there's creatine in it.

[00:49:57] Obey good. Okay, so I [00:50:00] drank one of those. Well lo and behold a couple weeks later yesterday. I woke up. I had a bang I didn't train yesterday. I still didn't feel good. I had another bank that was before I even got here to the studio. So that's two. Yep. And then I had a bang right before the show.

[00:50:18] So I drank three of those drinks right for the show yesterday, which how much

[00:50:23] Coach Rob Regish: [00:50:23] caffeine is it?

[00:50:25] Carl Lanore: [00:50:25] It's almost 400 milligrams of xanthines serving because you got a little yohimbine got 300 mg of caffeine anhydrous. You got some yohimbine in it, so I ended up. I ended up with almost 1,200 milligrams of caffeine yesterday and I didn't feel good.

[00:50:43] I didn't feel it. I didn't and I actually called sean.conner Shield yesterday. I said that's it. I'm done. He goes. Oh, yeah, we'll hear it will have this conversation again in a couple months. He goes I said, no, I'm really done caffeine doesn't work anymore. There's no reason like I used to feel good.

[00:50:59] So I was [00:51:00] attracted to that feeling. And now I take it and I don't feel nothing which tells me my adrenals are probably literally sacked.

[00:51:09] Coach Rob Regish: [00:51:09] Yeah

[00:51:09] Carl Lanore: [00:51:09] dopamine levels in my brain of probably going haywire. And so I woke up this morning. I had my typical protein drink, which is two scoops of Thrive a cup of egg whites a little bit of water and a bowl of oatmeal had that this morning and I felt good enough.

[00:51:26] I haven't had any any caffeine now, I never get headaches when I come off caffeine. Never ever but I will like be ready to go to bed tonight at seven o'clock. I predict because without any caffeine in me at all.

[00:51:37] Coach Rob Regish: [00:51:37] Wow. Yeah.

[00:51:39] Carl Lanore: [00:51:39] So let's see a Darcy clock has a question and then he has and then I have a question from somebody also and then we'll and then we'll do the tip of the day.

[00:51:47] Have you guys ever used auto choke and coleus forskohlii extract combinations as a nootropic know I've used coleus forskohlii because there were many good studies that show that it helped you rid your body of fat, but that was many [00:52:00] years ago. All

[00:52:01] Coach Rob Regish: [00:52:01] right, that's my experience to

[00:52:04] Carl Lanore: [00:52:04] I like l-tyrosine by itself.

[00:52:06] By the way. I'm taking two grams of l-tyrosine three times a day. I got to tell you man. It's really and actually I think that's why I don't feel the caffeine, too. Because I took two grams this morning

[00:52:17] Coach Rob Regish: [00:52:17] cool.

[00:52:18] Carl Lanore: [00:52:18] So we have a question and I don't think he's going to hear us because I've been if you've seen me doing something over here because we have a listener named Tommy dimartino and he couldn't get the the new streaming link to work.

[00:52:34] He was trying to listen live and for all I know he's got it working and he's listening but he's got this question. He said can you ask coach Rob if you have time? He's been drinking kava to wean off of Regular alcohol. Use I use ground kava in a fallible.  ALU ba LL Alla ball looks like a protein Shaker with a ball to [00:53:00] put Cava in it mixed in with lecithin and water the effects of very similar to alcohol without it messing with my sleep.

[00:53:08] That's interesting. Use either one. I have either of one of you tried this opinions on long-term regular use of kava. Thanks again, Tommy dimartino. It's funny. I'll tell my story. Got you go first.

[00:53:22] Coach Rob Regish: [00:53:22] Yes, I have used come high high quality kava kava and experience many of the same. Let's say feelings that you have I can also distinctly remember putting a bit of it on the tip of my tongue.

[00:53:39] And that my tongue going numb. So if I think if you're dealing with a high-quality extract standardized to a high percentage of kava lactones, which are the active ingredient it is a great product to let's say take the edge off. I'm not aware of any [00:54:00] long-term research looking at it safety. I would I would tell you that like a lot of other things that have an acute effect like that.

[00:54:07] Using it two to three days a week is going to give you more bang for your buck than probably using it everyday. It's really a unique product. I would put its effects somewhere in the neighborhood of let's say two large glasses of red wine. Really? Yeah, it really relaxes the body and the mind I'm surprised more

[00:54:34] Carl Lanore: [00:54:34] try and I've never tried it.

[00:54:35] When I was at the international peptide Society Symposium, there was a guy there from, California.  Who owns a string of kava bars that apparently really popular? I can't think of the name. It's got like some really cool name.

[00:54:50] Coach Rob Regish: [00:54:50] All right,

[00:54:51] Carl Lanore: [00:54:51] and he owns a string of copper bars and he's like people go I said so you mix it and drinks.

[00:54:56] He goes. No, I says no alcohol. [00:55:00] No, he's just we just have different strains of kava and we use. Like vegetable juices and fruit juices to bring out things in the Kava and they have all these special Blends and I was like, so people got their just drink Ava he said, yeah. 

[00:55:16] Coach Rob Regish: [00:55:16] Yeah, you know people would not frequent these cover bars if they weren't getting some sort of effect.

[00:55:21] It's just like Starbucks, you know people go to Starbucks to have. Luxurious caffeine experience most of them,

[00:55:28] Carl Lanore: [00:55:28] right? Exactly.

[00:55:30] Coach Rob Regish: [00:55:30] And so these cover bars are probably great for later in the day after your caffeine wears off. You can go chill out.

[00:55:38] Carl Lanore: [00:55:38] I felt so, where do you suggest if I want to try kava?

[00:55:41] Where should I go? Should I go to a vitamin shop? 

[00:55:44] Coach Rob Regish: [00:55:44] I'll have to look into it. I don't know if top of my head. It's been so many years since I've used it but. Yeah, you're I think you're going to be surprised. It has a very distinct noticeable effect. And you know, how many summon you think

[00:55:58] Carl Lanore: [00:55:58] it's good for sleep [00:56:00] or would it he said it doesn't disrupt his sleep.

[00:56:02] There's a good for sleep.

[00:56:04] Coach Rob Regish: [00:56:04] It was good for my sleep. I mean, I remember going to bed right away like within an hour of using it. Yeah. It's. You know why we haven't talked about it before I don't know because I had an exceedingly good experience with it. And most people I think do if they get high-quality Comic-Con.

[00:56:27] Carl Lanore: [00:56:27] Okay, was it there a scare years ago about Cava being tainted or something like that? Was it do I recall that it was that my imagination? I'm making that up.

[00:56:36] Coach Rob Regish: [00:56:36] No, I think you're right. I think it had something to do with liver function right there.

[00:56:41] Carl Lanore: [00:56:41] He had cava.

[00:56:44] Coach Rob Regish: [00:56:44] Yeah, and I and that was the issue like much like that contaminated batch of tryptophan the human

[00:56:50] Carl Lanore: [00:56:50] right exactly.

[00:56:53] Coach Rob Regish: [00:56:53] There was a bad batch. So that's no longer the case at least that I know of their I'll I will look to [00:57:00] find a reputable. Cobb of product and maybe give that out next week as to where to get it. Yeah.

[00:57:06] Carl Lanore: [00:57:06] I want to try it now, of course. It's because I do like to have a buzz, but if I can get a buzz that feels like alcohol, but it doesn't include alcohol.

[00:57:12] I'm down with that. I'll be doing that.

[00:57:15] Coach Rob Regish: [00:57:15] I think you'll like comma really well Patrick why

[00:57:18] Carl Lanore: [00:57:18] yeah, you know the occasional like I said, you know, I'll have a I'll sip wine literally. I'm the guy who literally drinks one ounce of.

[00:57:25] Coach Rob Regish: [00:57:25] Oh, I see.

[00:57:27] Carl Lanore: [00:57:27] Like I'll pull my chest literally like an ounce of wine. I'll sip on it and then I'll I'll do it.

[00:57:31] That's it.

[00:57:32] Coach Rob Regish: [00:57:32] Don't feel the Eliza

[00:57:33] Carl Lanore: [00:57:33] loves wine that this would be a great alternative for her.

[00:57:36] Coach Rob Regish: [00:57:36] Yes. Yeah.

[00:57:39] Carl Lanore: [00:57:39] I look at this. Let's take a quick commercial break and when we come back we have the blueprint tip of the day. Stay tuned. Welcome back. I just looking up a recipe for hasenpfeffer.

[00:57:52] Coach Rob Regish: [00:57:52] I

[00:57:53] Carl Lanore: [00:57:53] think I'm going to go rabbit hunting this weekend.

[00:57:57] Coach Rob Regish: [00:57:57] Wow. I didn't know you were a hunter. 

[00:58:00] [00:58:01] Carl Lanore: [00:58:01] So how would you feel about a gun company I have excuse

[00:58:05] Coach Rob Regish: [00:58:05] me. 

[00:58:07] Carl Lanore: [00:58:07] What how would you feel about a gun company advertising on the show? 

[00:58:11] Coach Rob Regish: [00:58:11] I'm all for the Second Amendment and your your gun rights. Let me put it that way. Okay. Yeah,

[00:58:18] Carl Lanore: [00:58:18] excuse me.

[00:58:24] Coach Rob Regish: [00:58:24] Big fan of right to bear arms.

[00:58:27] Carl Lanore: [00:58:27] Those of you listening to the show message me.  Would you be offended if a gun company advertised on the show?

[00:58:38] Coach Rob Regish: [00:58:38] Interesting question.

[00:58:39] Carl Lanore: [00:58:39] What's the blueprint tip of the day? 

[00:58:42] Coach Rob Regish: [00:58:42] The tip of the day is very simple and forthright train your damn neck. So in my gym, there are a lot of big strong guys. Okay, it's a Club Fitness, but it used to be Gold's right and a lot of the clientele is a [00:59:00] holdover from those hardcore times and which is to say on any given day.

[00:59:04] It's not unusual to see guys that run, you know to 20 to 40 to 60 or more. In Fairly lean condition. We even have a few pushing 300 pounds believe it or not the vast vast majority though. If you can believe it don't water deadlift and most give very little time and effort in so far as those big lips are concerned the gym, you know looking at the gym.

[00:59:36] Head on to your right as the upper body area to your left of the power racks and deadlift platforms and a solid.  eighty ninety percent of the gyms population is on the right where an upper body if they train their lower bodies, they must do it when I'm not there, but I don't think so, but. One situation that [01:00:00] I think looks even more ridiculous than what I call the flamingo physique, you know guys that are all upper body and have stick legs.

[01:00:09] The only thing that looks more pathetic than that is to be jacked up everywhere else, but but have a pencil neck right like the rest of my muscle groups. I have an ectomorph it neck. I don't have a. A stout neck to build on sort of speak left on matter of fact left untrained. It's right around 16 inches.

[01:00:36] It finally dawned on me one day. Ho stupid. It looked when I went to renew my driver's license.  So I get the picture taken and I'm looking at it and I'm saying to myself you got to be kidding me. You know that looks awful, you know, and so that picture really haunted me all the way on the drive home.

[01:00:58] I remember that [01:01:00] I resolved right then and there to never have my neck look like that again if that still doesn't convince. You understand that the neck is the gateway to Greater strength on everything else that you do. It will also help you absorb a punch. Right to the Head Whiplash from car accidents and I can tell you for sure.

[01:01:28] It makes it easier fighting off chokes and Jiu-Jitsu. In fact when our instructor is teaching chokes, he has me he has everyone practice on me. You know what he says is if you can show problem, you know, you can choke anyone makes it very difficult when your next bigger and stronger for certain jokes, but back to the big too.

[01:01:51] Visual impact and greater strength when I began training seriously in college. I was the only guy.  That was [01:02:00] allowed to train with the football players. And and if it wasn't because I was particularly big by their standards. But but they love my intensity they let me train with them. There was one guy on that team.

[01:02:14] That had an incredibly well-developed neck. I mean he just it was probably 20 inches 21 inches around he didn't have the biggest muscles everywhere else, but. You know just one look at them told you he radiated power not somebody you'd want to mess with his development was so impressive his nickname on the team was neck.

[01:02:42] There is simply just neck and so I resolved to get that kind of neck too, but it would be many years till I figured out how I'll be honest and tell you I've tried neck harnesses. I've tried band work I've tried. Pressing my head [01:03:00] forehead into the ball wedged into the corner and then work the back and then work the sides but quite honestly, my neck didn't take off until I began doing two things number one performing head stands for time and number two using the four-way neck machine, which is the Loneliest of machines in my gym.

[01:03:23] Nobody. Uses it and it just blows my mind God Only Knows Why you know, I don't know. I'm generally not a fan of machines, but the four-way neck doesn't exceptional job of building up a bull neck or at least to your genetic potential. Ultimately. I worked up to being able to balance on my head. No hands on the ground.

[01:03:48] Just bouncing on my head. Against the wall with a hundred pounds of added weight vest and dumbbell weight that is a practice that I discontinued [01:04:00] though due to the risk of potential injury, right you something happens and you lose your balance like that. You can break your neck, but still it illustrates what's possible when you.

[01:04:14] Get serious about training your neck and find what works a few other things that you'll notice about. The neck first results come fast it the neck is like the antithesis of caps. It just takes off when you start training it. I put three inches on my neck inside of a year. Probably more like nine months after go back and look at my training logs.

[01:04:37] So no this once you find what works for you. It's pretty gratifying to see how fast your neck. Takes off and grows. Very cool. Very cool. Second thing. I read somewhere once if there were more Androgen receptors in the neck than like anywhere else on the body and that finally made sense

[01:04:58] Carl Lanore: [01:04:58] and traps

[01:04:59] [01:05:00] Coach Rob Regish: [01:04:59] neck and traps and and bright they go together like peanut butter and jelly.

[01:05:05] I knew that to be the case because I remember even though my experience with methyl 1 test was a couple weeks only. My neck blew up. I couldn't believe what I was seeing right in the mirror. I wasn't even training the neck directly that and there it was third. Look your neck is out on display. 24/7 365 days a year.

[01:05:30] Why wouldn't you train it? Like any other muscle group? Okay. Finally, it doesn't take much time one or two hard work sets from the neck even once a week. We'll get you pretty much to where you want to go. I do one work set. I work up to a heavy work set for each side of the neck front back left and right once a week and then later in the week.

[01:05:54] If I'm feeling up to it. I will do timed head stands with my [01:06:00] hands on the ground increase safety later in the week if I'm feeling up to it. Increase the way like any other, you know movement increase the weight slightly from week to week and in short order, you know, you're going to be sporting a bull neck everywhere that you go doubly so if you take a my recommendation on top range rack pulls or shrugs, you know, it makes a huge difference so.

[01:06:29] Give that some thought the next time you stepped foot in the gym go slow because the neck injury is nothing to fool with right. I don't need to tell anyone, you know, if you sleep on it wrong, it's difficult to drive you have to turn your or so

[01:06:43] Carl Lanore: [01:06:43] and the older you are you should move slowly because the your neck gets kind of impinged in the you don't realize that the vertebrae kind of sub blocks and a little wacky and all of a sudden you start doing something heavy and put weight on it.

[01:06:54] You hurt your neck. So you gotta go slow with it, especially if you're.

[01:06:58] Coach Rob Regish: [01:06:58] Yep. Yep, and just you [01:07:00] know, adhere to the laws of progressive resistance and provided you do that and you are consistent in your training week in and week out. You will only look and be that much more powerful of a person and I'm going to close with a quote from George Javits who is a strong man at the turn of the century renowned for his neck development.

[01:07:23] He said if I want to know how much brute physical power. A man possesses. I look at his neck that never fails to answer. My question is the size of a man's next neck is the best indicator of both the quality and quantity of his raw nerve power in both man and Beast a thick a thick neck radiates power.

[01:07:48] That's my two ccs on a you will not be disappointed. You will not be

[01:07:54] Carl Lanore: [01:07:54] disliked bear says yes. I remember those neck exercises in wrestling. I definitely believe that [01:08:00] the neck is very important. Look at Stone Cold Steve Austin. He broke his neck but his neck was strong and a recovered quickly Kurt Angle.

[01:08:10] Yeah Olympic wrestler WWE wrestler broke his neck but strong neck and recovered

[01:08:15] Coach Rob Regish: [01:08:15] quickly. Yeah. It really is interesting wrestling wrestlers. More than more so than any athletes seem to have the best developed an axon and why they Bridge, you know, they do the wrestlers bridge and variations of which which are just using their own body weight, but my God, you know, look at these guys, they consistently have the biggest thickest next of all athletes.

[01:08:40] Carl Lanore: [01:08:40] I don't think.  when you look at deer deer season is coming up soon. And deer season usually happens right after the rush and the rut is when deers are mating and if you look at you look at male deer we call them [01:09:00] bowls.  They have big thick necks when they're in rut because their testosterone levels are raging and they're out there and they're looking to pass on their DNA and their necks.

[01:09:12] And so you'll see that same dear the beginning of Summer. His neck looks like a dog's neck. So it's amazing. This is social signals that go on. There's a reason that if you want to poke fun at somebody.  You call him a pencil neck. There's a reason that social signals out there. You have all the control to change the circumference of your neck and perhaps change the way people view you as an individual.

[01:09:41] Think about that.

[01:09:43] Coach Rob Regish: [01:09:43] Yeah. Even more so than arms, right? Everybody wants Biggs arms, you know guys think big arms. Look you're intimidating and what not. You know you give me a guy with show me a guy with 19-inch neck 20 inch neck.  Then just [01:10:00] 17 inch arms and he's going to make a much more profound visual impression just with that neck then anything else.

[01:10:08] Even if his other muscle groups are developed to the same degree. Now the Greeks considered perfect symmetry to be where the neck the biceps and the Cavs are all of the same circumference.  I have great difficulty with that myself because my calves always lag but look. If you're developing your neck, and it's growing Great Guns go for it.

[01:10:36] Don't let anything hold you back including symmetry. So that's Mike to see

[01:10:42] Carl Lanore: [01:10:42] the option go to Coach Rob register.com today be stronger tomorrow. Thanks so much Rob. Thank you and we'll talk soon and we will see out. So I'm off tomorrow the Thursday. We have a great show. We have the renewed life RX show and talk about a whole host of injectable.

[01:10:59] Yes, really [01:11:00] cool stuff and then Friday, we have a show. You don't want to miss if you or someone you love has an autoimmune disorder. We will be talking about peptide protocols that literally reverse autoimmune disorders.

[01:11:15] Coach Rob Regish: [01:11:15] Don't

[01:11:15] Carl Lanore: [01:11:15] know if that one on Friday, so that's it. So I'll be off the air tomorrow, but I'll see you Thursday and Friday.

[01:11:20] Thanks for watching and listening today. See everybody [01:12:00] .