[00:00:00] Carl Lanore: [00:00:00] Welcome back to another episode of super human radio. I'm hoarse, your host? No, my name is Carl, but my voice is hoarse. Uh, today is Tuesday. We have the blueprint power hour, which will start shortly. This is a Tuesday, November 5th, 2019. And the blueprint power is where coach Rob Regger chances your questions, many of you can send questions in to on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you want your questions answered on a future show, uh, let's roll his theme music calling all

[00:00:33] Coach Rob Regish: [00:00:33] blueprint army fall in line.

[00:00:36] Carl Lanore: [00:00:36] It's

[00:00:36] Coach Rob Regish: [00:00:36] time for the blueprint power hour with coach Rob ragers on the superhuman radio network.

[00:00:45] Carl Lanore: [00:00:45] Hey, Rob, how you doing?

[00:00:47] Coach Rob Regish: [00:00:47] I'm doing great, but it's getting cold up here in the Northeast.

[00:00:50] Carl Lanore: [00:00:50] It's cold here too.

[00:00:52] Coach Rob Regish: [00:00:52] Then below freezing couple nights.

[00:00:54] Carl Lanore: [00:00:54] Oh yeah. I know. I'll be upstate the 13th through the 22nd [00:01:00] upstate New York. It's, it's, it's getting cold there at 27 degrees at night,

[00:01:04] Coach Rob Regish: [00:01:04] so

[00:01:05] Carl Lanore: [00:01:05] yeah,

[00:01:07] Coach Rob Regish: [00:01:07] I'm looking forward

[00:01:09] Carl Lanore: [00:01:09] to it.

[00:01:09] I'm looking forward to getting out of here. And, uh, getting off the grid and just tuning out and spending time with my son and some guys I grew up with that I've known for, you know, 50 years.

[00:01:21] Coach Rob Regish: [00:01:21] Yeah.

[00:01:21] Carl Lanore: [00:01:21] And hunting and hunting is good. Hunting is good. We're going to catch our own food and we're going to eat it too.

[00:01:27] So,

[00:01:28] Coach Rob Regish: [00:01:28] Hey,

[00:01:29] Carl Lanore: [00:01:29] how you doing? I'm

[00:01:30] Coach Rob Regish: [00:01:30] doing well. I'm coming off a great workout yesterday. My injuries are, you know, almost nonexistent so. Good. Right now

[00:01:40] Carl Lanore: [00:01:40] I had three and a half hours sleep last night. I don't know what's going on with my sleep. Ever since I got back from the cruise. Ever since I got back with this virus, my sleep has been completely trashed.

[00:01:51] Um, and I'm even using things to help me sleep. Uh, when I was using NyQuil because of the, the fever and, uh, the, [00:02:00] the, uh, condition itself, I slept great. I may have to resort to using NyQuil just to get a good night's sleep for a while.

[00:02:06] Coach Rob Regish: [00:02:06] Yeah. I think they make something though, just for sleep called well,

[00:02:11] Carl Lanore: [00:02:11] Yeah.

[00:02:11] I mean, the NyQuil is just, uh, I, um, I cough suppressant and an antihistamine.

[00:02:19] Coach Rob Regish: [00:02:19] Right.

[00:02:20] Carl Lanore: [00:02:20] So, I mean, it's not the worst thing in the world. It's not like I'm taking, uh, some, something horrible like GHB, but I, when I use it, I get a good night's sleep. But the problem I don't like using it is because I wake up in the morning feeling a little groggy from the anti-histamine.

[00:02:33] Coach Rob Regish: [00:02:33] Yeah, I can understand that. Been there.

[00:02:36] Carl Lanore: [00:02:36] But anyway. Um, but I went to the gym after three and a half hours of sleep. I did my cardio and I trained today.

[00:02:43] Coach Rob Regish: [00:02:43] Oh yeah.

[00:02:45] Carl Lanore: [00:02:45] Yeah. I'm dragging right now. I really feel it. I just got one I liked. I ate my postworkout meal. I took my peptide shots and about 20 minutes ago I just felt washed out.

[00:02:56] Like I just feel like I could lay my head down on this desk and I can go to [00:03:00] sleep. Right now.

[00:03:01] Coach Rob Regish: [00:03:01] Well, hopefully you get a good night's sleep tonight.

[00:03:03] Carl Lanore: [00:03:03] Oh, I'm going to, I'm going, if I have to shoot heroin, I'm going to sleep tonight. So there you go. Mike. And Lee says, I've listened to what you've said about how to train and it seems awfully skewed towards heavy weights.

[00:03:16] I don't believe in training heavy at all. Instead, I trained with just moderate weights and shoot for lots of sets and reps. my muscles have grown since starting training, so I know it works. What do you have against training? Lighter.

[00:03:32] Coach Rob Regish: [00:03:32] Yeah. You know, um, my friend Doug, who passed away that I've talked about before, he and I used to have long conversations about this because.

[00:03:41] We came from different sides of the fence on this issue. He firmly believed that lighter weights and more volume was, you know, the best for growth. And, uh, obviously I'm on the other side of the fence, you know, I believe in heavy, progressively heavier weights. Um,

[00:04:00] [00:03:59] Carl Lanore: [00:03:59] but, but that is it, that because strength is so, to me, I'd rather be really, really strong and not have gigantic muscles.

[00:04:10] So I tend to favor heavyweights. And then the guys who train, like quote unquote bodybuilders who do lighter stuff, but lots of volume. They have much bigger muscles than I do, but none of them ever squatted 700 pounds. I've never seen any of them do it. The guys I'm talking about at my gym now, I'm not saying bodybuilders aren't strong, but even Ronnie Coleman trained high volume, but he trained very heavyweight too.

[00:04:37] Coach Rob Regish: [00:04:37] Yup. Yup. So, and your ma. So there is a validity in, you know, can you grow with, with lighter weights and more volume? Absolutely. Um, my position though has always been, uh, you know, it basically revolves around one simple fact. Nobody ever got big lifting light. [00:05:00] Okay. And I understand is the difference between light and moderate weights.

[00:05:04] But. There's the relationship there, um, for lack of a better term. So, so let's just review a few fundamentals though, right? In order for a muscle to grow, in order for a muscle to grow, it has to be overloaded or asked to do more than it did last time. I think w what's at issue here is there are several different ways to acquire.

[00:05:31] Quiet though, there are several different ways to do that. You can do that with one rep max. You can do that with total tonnage. You can do that a myriad of different ways. So, but the bottom line though is this, if you're not asking the muscle to do more, right, lift more weights or same or more repetitions or more work per unit of time, you're going to, you love fail to stimulate muscle growth.

[00:05:58] And by the way. [00:06:00] That must be, that workout will have only succeeded in tearing down your joints and other countries, you know, connective tissues further. Um, now you can get some growth by upping your volume, but only if it means right. You've done more reps in the same or a shorter unit of time.

[00:06:20] And the fact is, it's that component, the time part of the equation that trainees fall down on. You know, the most, some record, you know, the amount of weight they use and the number of reps, the number of sets, and that's a great start. But if you're not, you know, figuring out, start time, finish time and pounds per minute lifted as a measurement of intensity, it's all over the board.

[00:06:47] And you know, will you stimulate growth? Some workouts maybe, but there are going to be a larger number of workouts, probably where you didn't. So, uh, that time [00:07:00] component is a big one now too, that you can add the observation that the vast, vast majority of people fail to add mussel year in and year out.

[00:07:12] It just validates what I'm saying. More volume, even with lighter weights, uh, leads to, like I said, more wear and tear on the body in particularly the joints. I don't think it was any accident. Every joint in Doug's body was wreck. I mean, you know, you could point to other things like arthritis, but every single joint, you know, that's, and he never missed a workout.

[00:07:39] That was his motto, never miss a workout. And he trained every day more volume also leads to more cortisol release. And if you don't believe that. Try the German, you know, original German volume training, 10 sets of 10 repetitions, and you will see what I mean. You know that, Oh, [00:08:00] of course, when you run the numbers, you're lifting an impressive amount of weight total tonnage wise, but the excess cortisol release that results from that virtually eliminates any gains, at least in drug free trainees.

[00:08:16] Okay. The fact is regularly adding weight to the bar. The way I'm proposing it is hard work, and in the face of that, what I've seen is that most trainees will instead just try to increase volume to compensate. It never works, or should I say it doesn't work nearly as well, and it frequently results much more frequently in burnout and over-training.

[00:08:44] You give me. To one to, to hard work sets of ever increasing poundages any day versus more volume. And I'll show you a guy who's a lot bigger and stronger almost every time. Now, like you said, Carl. [00:09:00] Yeah, there are, you can cite examples of guys that are bigger than you, but they're never going to be stronger.

[00:09:07] And by the way, the kind of muscle that you build with heavy weights is Mio fibular hypertrophy. The actual thickening of the muscle tissue and that kind of muscle sticks around a lot longer than the kind of muscle tissue hypertrophy that you get from lighter training with shorter rest periods, which is sarcoplasmic hypertrophy, where in the muscle cell holds more water and other nutrients.

[00:09:36] So to me, you know, unless you're dealing with rec joints. You know? And, and when

[00:09:46] Carl Lanore: [00:09:46] you look at the research from the longevity side, the thing that conveys, um, a longer lifespan is strength, [00:10:00] not mass. And now there is research that shows that the more muscle you hold after 60 as a man. Actually, it's after 65 as a man, after 60, as a woman, the greater longevity and health span you have, but that's directly related, not to just sheer mass.

[00:10:22] It's related to strength. Uh, all the research early on that was done by the, uh, California veterans administration showed that the stronger individuals lived longer. So, you know, I'm not a Poe look. I'm experimenting with be strong BFR system right now. And I gotta tell you something, uh, you're gonna hear an interview on the 26th or 27th on this show, and I am telling you that on the targeted muscles, these BFR bands are more effective than anabolic steroids.

[00:10:56] You'll see growth in a couple of days. And [00:11:00] it's legit growth. It doesn't just go away. It literally does the same thing that high volume training does, and I found a way to use them to actually. Improve the results. I was just talking to Scott Whalen, a, I'm sorry, Sean Whalen this morning from be strong.

[00:11:17] Uh, he said that he's never heard anybody do what I'm doing and I'm seeing amazing changes in my, my, my shoulders, my pecs, my upper arms, my forearms. Even. So, I mean, anyway,

[00:11:28] Coach Rob Regish: [00:11:28] but

[00:11:30] Carl Lanore: [00:11:30] yeah, and, and, and, you know, and I, and I never wanted to use these things cause I always felt like I'd be a douche bag.

[00:11:35] Like, Oh, there's that douchebag guy at the gym with the bands on. And I gotta be honest, that's why I didn't use

[00:11:40] Coach Rob Regish: [00:11:40] them.

[00:11:42] Carl Lanore: [00:11:42] There's actually a code SHR if you go to be strong a. Dot training. Forward slash super hyphen human and use the code SHR you'll save 10% off. But we're really, I'm getting ahead of myself cause the campaign really doesn't start for another two weeks.

[00:11:59] But, [00:12:00] um. Effectively what, uh, what we're doing with these bands is the same thing you do with high volume training. And that is filling the muscles up and congesting them and causing them not to be able to get a metabolic waste out fast enough. Uh, and that is what high volume training does now, be strong bands won't make you stronger.

[00:12:25] The only way it will make you stronger as lifting heavy weights, but be strong bands, will allow you to lift heavy weights and get and actually create an environment where you are doing heavy work, but you're also getting the same effect as doing volume work. That's what I've discovered.

[00:12:45] Coach Rob Regish: [00:12:45] That's going to help a lot of people.

[00:12:49] Carl Lanore: [00:12:49] I look, you know me. I mean, I would never say, Oh, it's as good as anabolic steroids to just pimp something, but the changes I've seen, look my legs. I haven't been able to train my legs the way I want to because of [00:13:00] foot surgeries and because the hamstring tears and all, Holy crap, my quads are bigger today and I haven't even been training them.

[00:13:07] I put them on and I do cardio and you feel like you're doing walking lunges.

[00:13:13] Coach Rob Regish: [00:13:13] What is

[00:13:14] Carl Lanore: [00:13:14] the show? The 27th the

[00:13:16] Coach Rob Regish: [00:13:16] 27th

[00:13:19] Carl Lanore: [00:13:19] I put them on and I go for a walk and it's like, Holy frig. I feel like I, I feel like I just, I just did squats for a half hour. The blood gets trapped in the muscle, the muscle gets fully pumped up.

[00:13:31] The muscle has to work harder because it's, it's an a non opportunities opportunistic environment with all the congestion going on. It's amazing. This is a technology that everybody should take advantage of, but nobody does because they don't want to be that guy at the gym. I'm telling you, that's all it is.

[00:13:49] Eric Bader says, um, you've talked before about test boosters, not being able to raise, uh, levels meaningfully. Same thing with growth hormone, uh, boosters to over the counter. Uh, you've [00:14:00] also stated that recovery is a huge factor in someone's success. Wouldn't some boost and test cause you to recover faster?

[00:14:09] Couldn't attest, boost or benefit you in that regard?

[00:14:13] Coach Rob Regish: [00:14:13] Yeah. These are kind of, they're two separate but related issues here I think that we're talking about. So let's take each one individually first. Testosterone levels undeniably play a role in muscle growth and recovery, but I don't, I honestly don't think it's as big a role as most people think.

[00:14:37] And to prove that point, I have known men who, with low to moderate test levels that are absurdly strong.

[00:14:49] Carl Lanore: [00:14:49] Right?

[00:14:49] Coach Rob Regish: [00:14:49] And they never once considered test levels were the end all be all right. And, and nor did most of them know.

[00:14:58] Carl Lanore: [00:14:58] Look, I a coach, Wade, [00:15:00] I don't think he's ever tested his hormone levels.

[00:15:03] Coach Rob Regish: [00:15:03] Yeah. And, and, and these guys, at least the ones that I've known, they were, they were the same way. And I convinced them to finally, you know, get tested. These guys tested in what, in the bottom third of the range and one guy way bottom, like he was at I think 300 he was one of the most strongest squatters I've ever seen.

[00:15:25] Pound for pound. So I guess nobody told them that, you know, they should be small and weak and because they have low test levels, that's something to think about. Excuse me. I can also tell you. That despite a total test level of nearly zero years, truly was still making gains in the gym, excuse me, and I was carrying more muscle than the average person.

[00:15:54] In fact, I will never forget the endocrinologist, uh, comments [00:16:00] upon getting my blood and blood work back. He said, well, he says, I've never seen anything like this. He said, your body's making almost no testosterone to speak of. You're obviously very muscular. Um, so I'm not convinced. Again, it's the end all be all you and even carrying lots of muscle.

[00:16:22] Now onto the recovery issue, all else being equal, a higher test level should increase your rate of recovery from exercise. However. It's not as simple as hi, test equals fast recovery. In fact, it's much more complicated than that. You have. You don't, you might not realize it, but you have a lot more tools in so far as improving your recovery ability without monkeying monkeying around with your test levels.

[00:16:55] Then you can probably imagine. That's, I'm going to just rattle off [00:17:00] about half a dozen here. Okay? Number one, cut your workout duration to 30 minutes and you will recover faster to flood your body with essential aminos during training and you'll recover faster. Three, go from sleeping three to five hours a night to seven to nine and you recover faster for increase your cow, double your calories.

[00:17:23] The person that goes from 2000 to 4,000. You're going to recover a lot faster, uh, you, you as a quality equity sterile or S or Cynthia, Jim the, the penultimate example of that, and you'll definitely recover much faster. The best example I can give you is this, the lower back muscles take the longest to recover of any in the body.

[00:17:49] If you incorporate restorative movements for the lower back after those, those. You know, squats and deadlifts, like bridging or reverse [00:18:00] hypers watch and see how much quicker those lower back muscles recover. It is dramatic. So here's the bottom line. Test boosters, which you originally asked about.

[00:18:13] They're not going to boost total testosterone enough to see any meaningful increase in recovery. Really incorporating those half, half dozen other things that I just mentioned will, and you would be really well-served to do that before maybe going down the road of, Hey, I need super physiological tests levels.

[00:18:36] You know, like I said, I know a lot of guys with low to moderate levels that are insanely big and strong, and you know, it's not just test that helps,

[00:18:50] Carl Lanore: [00:18:50] you know, um, a study was just published last month and we talked about it on the show. Um, last month. That showed an [00:19:00] equivocally that, so when we talk about recovery, we're really talking about the other side of the lack of recovery, which was called over-training.

[00:19:07] That showed that the style of training, the volume of training, the frequency of training, and the intensity of training had nothing to do with producing an overtrained athlete. Under-eating did

[00:19:27] Coach Rob Regish: [00:19:27] I

[00:19:28] Carl Lanore: [00:19:28] think about that for a second? They looked at several groups of individuals. They monitored their work volume, their intensity, their sleep, everything.

[00:19:37] They looked at everything, everything, and they looked at the markers of over-training. The only individuals that were over-trained, whether they were doing high volume, low volume, long, long sessions, two hours or more short sessions, a heavyweight, lightweight, sleeping, well, not sleeping well.

[00:19:59] The only [00:20:00] individuals that were over-trained was the ones that were not eating enough. Think about that. Next time you're thinking about juice and gear for y'all. I want to build muscle faster. I'll, you know, I'll recover fast. I'll be able to train more frequently. Think about that for a second.

[00:20:16] If you just ate more, you'd be able to do that.

[00:20:20] Coach Rob Regish: [00:20:20] Totally overlooked.

[00:20:22] Carl Lanore: [00:20:22] Just make it protein. Doctor looked, dr Jose Antonio from the ISS end. Has done more to show that overfeeding or protein makes you both leaner and more muscular. He's done studies with ridiculous amounts of protein, I think as much as three grams per pound of body weight in athletes who are training resistant weight lifting bodybuilding.

[00:20:49] And the guys who ate more protein, even though they were eating an energy surplus, didn't get fat. They got leaner, but their muscles got bigger. So [00:21:00] just over feed on protein.

[00:21:03] Coach Rob Regish: [00:21:03] It sounds simple in theory. No one does it.

[00:21:06] Carl Lanore: [00:21:06] Nobody does it.

[00:21:08] Coach Rob Regish: [00:21:08] Nobody

[00:21:09] Carl Lanore: [00:21:09] does. It's sexy to go out and buy methyl one test. You know what I mean?

[00:21:13] It's like, Oh, I'm just going to buy methyl one test. I'm not gonna do any of those things. I mean, it's the truth. I mean, we're all, we've all been that stupid guy. I mean, I know I have. I still am to a certain degree, but I mean, it just a matter of eating more, make your priority. Prepping your food so you eat more and you'll see the changes in your body.

[00:21:30] You gotta do it for awhile. You can't do it for a week and go, Oh, I just didn't wear Carl's full of baloney.

[00:21:34] Coach Rob Regish: [00:21:34] Yeah. Yup. And I think that's why progenitor directs does as well as it though.

[00:21:39] Carl Lanore: [00:21:39] It makes people

[00:21:40] Coach Rob Regish: [00:21:40] hungry. It

[00:21:42] Carl Lanore: [00:21:42] makes people hungry. They eat. They don't even have to think, Oh, I got to eat again.

[00:21:45] No. They're like, Oh man, I'm hungry again.

[00:21:47] Coach Rob Regish: [00:21:47] Yeah. Yup.

[00:21:50] Carl Lanore: [00:21:50] Panel's not Tanako. Did he in fact hang out with the, with Jennifer w

[00:21:54] Coach Rob Regish: [00:21:54] where is it? Well, no, unfortunately she was sick anyway, but she was, she was [00:22:00] worried she wasn't, wasn't gonna make it back to the boat because, you know, technically you got to stay with the group.

[00:22:06] Carl Lanore: [00:22:06] Yeah. You have to go to leave without you. They'll do, they do it.

[00:22:10] Coach Rob Regish: [00:22:10] But, uh. But Hey, pan offs is a great guy, and I send them, I send them a little care package because I originally gave her a gift to give to him, and so when they couldn't hook up, I just mailed it to him and he let me know he got it.

[00:22:25] The Eagle landed yesterday.

[00:22:28] Carl Lanore: [00:22:28] So I'm sorry, I'm yawning. I, I'm sorry. I showed up for work today. Most people would have stayed home. I just saw your new website and couldn't believe how much free info there is on at panels. Writes,

[00:22:40] Coach Rob Regish: [00:22:40] the

[00:22:40] Carl Lanore: [00:22:40] article archive alone holds a real treasure trove of information.

[00:22:44] Why give out so much for free? And do you have any plans to write a new book? I did. Really. It did really well. I did really well with all of the various blueprint bullets of blueprint books you put out. My favorite [00:23:00] was fast muscle building. That was my, that was the best in my opinion. Are you going to write another

[00:23:06] Coach Rob Regish: [00:23:06] book?

[00:23:06] No. I mean, never say never, but you know, I've, I've written what a half a dozen now and. And so I actually consider that several months back. But instead, um, I decided to partner with a very, the great, I knew it guy, um, and basically retool my website, which is something much more than just a fresh coat, a coat of paint.

[00:23:35] And I'm really proud of it because like the comments at panels just made, I, I've, I've heard nothing but five stars. Um. Since since getting it done, but so it was a lot of work, but now I think it has something for everyone. Whereas before the audience was a little more narrow. The large amount of free information is there for a couple of reasons.

[00:23:58] Number one, [00:24:00] you want to give new people that have never heard of your right. A sense for your qualifications. What my line of thinking is, and my overall philosophy on such matters is related to. Physical culture. Um, but that big philosophy, as you know, has always been information as power and just a little bit of the right information can literally make or break you.

[00:24:25] And I wanted people to see that for themselves. So I think what he says, you know, the article archive, it's probably the blog part of my website. I don't know. There are more. You know, free articles and reports there than I've seen on any other website. And obviously if someone reads it takes the advice and is successful with it, they might say to themselves, you know, maybe I'll take a look into what else this guy's got available.

[00:24:53] Um, but be that as it may, like I said, I probably won't be writing any new books. [00:25:00] Um. And that's for a number of reasons. But one is very powerful reason is this. The information in the original blueprint alone, it could keep most people busy for years, never mind all the follow on books. So having said that, I rolled every tip, trick and technique in every book I ever wrote.

[00:25:24] Into something called the ultimate blueprint, which I've spoken about before. It's broken into various modules that make it easy to digest and understand and put into practice. It is great. Let's say one stop shopping. If you want access to almost everything. You know that the rattling around in my brain, if you're interested in a scaled down version of that.

[00:25:49] Um, that book that I sell a book on the Amazon fast muscle building, it's probably your best bet. And you can find that just by searching. My name ruggish with [00:26:00] one G, the paperback is a mere 15 bucks, and it's real nice. I don't know how many people still like to open a real book and read it, but I do.

[00:26:09] Um, in the Kindle edition is a meager, you know, $4. So I still. And it's been out for several years now. I still have people write me about it, you know, and, and several of them will say, every time they pick it up, they learn and try something new. And I, you know, I, it might say 15 tips, but honestly, there are so much more than that.

[00:26:32] There are tips within tips. Um, and I'm really proud of those reuse. And more so the fact that it's helped so many people at this point. However, in my. Career and my business, whatever you want to call it. I am focusing almost all of my energies on the blueprint bull and putting all my time and energy into that.

[00:26:55] Now. Um, we are approaching 100 back [00:27:00] issues, uh, being published since inception and in the online library. Of knowledge is literally staggering. I was out there the other day, just to give you an idea. Now I'm the guy that wrote all this stuff, right? Over seven years, I kept reading stuff, circle, man, I can't believe I forgot about that.

[00:27:22] I gotta try that, you know, or this over here, it's exactly what I've been wanting to do, but you know, never had the right idea for it. Me, the guy that wrote off. So you can imagine. How big it is and how vast, but you know, I still get excited about uncovering new stuff every month from my subscribers.

[00:27:44] Um, and that's the direction that I'm going in.

[00:27:47] Carl Lanore: [00:27:47] So website looks great. I'm checking it out right now. It's pretty impressive, I tell ya. You don't think about it, but 1,352 hours of content, 5,784 [00:28:00] satisfied customers, over 33 years of experience, 82 blueprint bulletins available. I mean, it's like that's, and then there's books.

[00:28:09] I mean, all the different books that you have up here, it's just amazing. You know, it's a, it's a, it's, it's really an amazing, um, legacy that you've developed here.

[00:28:20] Coach Rob Regish: [00:28:20] And you're, the amazing step to me was guesswork because for most people, uh, coming to my website come from, and this meant this, this can only mean that you have a lot of

[00:28:33] Carl Lanore: [00:28:33] listeners there.

[00:28:35] Coach Rob Regish: [00:28:35] Russia, yeah.

[00:28:37] Carl Lanore: [00:28:37] Yeah. Russia has

[00:28:40] Coach Rob Regish: [00:28:40] a big physical community. Yeah. I mean, they're very Hardy people, obviously, so they appreciate true strength, and I think maybe that's part of the appeal. I don't know what, I'm grateful for everyone that visits wherever you're from.

[00:28:52] Carl Lanore: [00:28:52] Yeah, no, this is pretty, pretty cool.

[00:28:54] Code tribe, dot com check it out. It's a fantastic website. Hey, uh, let's see where we are. Let me see how many [00:29:00] questions we've got to go. Let me see here. Uh, the next question is John Welch, let's go ahead and take his question now. He says, I'm protein intake. How much is enough? And is it true you can only absorb 30 grams a sitting?

[00:29:14] Is anything more than that? Wasteful? I did an entire show with Jose Antonio on that, busting that myth.

[00:29:21] Coach Rob Regish: [00:29:21] Yeah, well, he was the guy, you know,

[00:29:25] Carl Lanore: [00:29:25] I said to him during the show, people say you can only absorb 30 grams of protein in a sitting. I said, if that was true, then when you went out to a restaurant and had a 16 ounce New York strip, you would literally crap out on digested steak.

[00:29:45] Coach Rob Regish: [00:29:45] Right?

[00:29:46] Carl Lanore: [00:29:46] If that was true. And, and, and he laughed and he said, who told cavemen, Hey, you better not eat any more that Buffalo, you could only, you can only absorb 30 grams of protein at a time. It's, I don't you, you see. Do [00:30:00] you know where that myth came from, Rob? I know where it came from.

[00:30:06] I want to say it's Scott Connolly's fault, but he never said that. He never said the body only absorbs 30 grams of protein in a sitting. It may actually be because of Don Lyman's lab up at the university of Illinois where. Um, lane Norton got his degree, but it's either Don Leiman or Scott Connolly participated in a study that showed that the protein synthetic response from a protein meal peaked at 30 grams.

[00:30:47] In other words, M Tor leucine turned on the machinery to build muscle and and at 20 grams, it was this at 25 grams, that 30 grams, it was [00:31:00] this at 35 grams. It was the same as 30 at 40 grams. It was the same. So they said, Oh, the maximum. Response was because 30 grams, anything more than 30 grams does not increase the protein synthetic response.

[00:31:17] Somehow that got misconstrued into, Oh, you can't absorb more than 30

[00:31:25] Coach Rob Regish: [00:31:25] grams of protein.

[00:31:27] Carl Lanore: [00:31:27] No, it hasn't been around that long. It's only been around about maybe 12 or 13 years.

[00:31:33] Coach Rob Regish: [00:31:33] Yeah, well, I mean, so if I said to say, you know, can you absorb only 30 grams at a fitting? Um, that look, the honest answer to that question is it, it depends.

[00:31:44] Protein intake for a long distance runner is going to be a lot different versus a bodybuilder versus in the 80s. Wait

[00:31:51] Carl Lanore: [00:31:51] a minute, but wait a minute. Let's look at the word word. Absorb. Absorb beans. Assimilate means your body breaks it down. Right. And it, and it's [00:32:00] brought into the bloodstream. The amino acids are broken down in the liver and used for energy, uh, for, uh, intracellular, uh, communication through the, uh, through the, um.

[00:32:16] Not the super cosmetic nuclei through through the endoplasmic reticulum, which is kind of like the Telegraph station from one cell to another. It strings amino acids together into messages and sends them to the next cell to tell it what to do. So if you didn't, if you didn't absorb it, you would crap it out.

[00:32:35] Entirely undigested, so I don't care who you are. You can absorb a thousand grams of protein in a day if you want to until you start crapping out whole pieces of undigested food, you're absorbing it now what to doing in your body. That's a plethora of different functions,

[00:32:54] Coach Rob Regish: [00:32:54] right? I never believe 30.

[00:32:58] Uh, and I don't believe [00:33:00] it now, and just a few examples, individuals over the age of 40, if they've been shown to, they need to consume around 40 grams of protein versus 20 to get the same Muff building of right. Given the condition though, is known as anabolic resistance. That's one example.

[00:33:22] Another. Is the lifter who's like me, uh, on some days, most days, fast it all day, then trains and then eats. He's going to be able to eat, digest, assimilate a whole hell of a lot more protein than a little lady who doesn't train with anything and weighs less than half of what I do, or that person does.

[00:33:47] So clearly. Uh, you know, it depends. It depends. The other issue that I'll state before trying to wrap this up is this, it's great if [00:34:00] you're getting 200, 300 grams or even more protein in a day. What's not so great is that when your protein dramatically outnumbers your carbohydrates and or fats, and therefore the protein is not spared.

[00:34:17] To do what it should do, which is build lean body mass contributes to hormone production. You know, protein does a lot more than just build muscle in the body. Um, but unfortunately when protein is the majority of what you eat, your body becomes very good at one thing, burning protein. Uh. And it's metabolically inefficient.

[00:34:42] It's expensive, it throws off a lot of metabolic waste, urea ammonia. We've talked before about, you know, you'll, you'll find yourself sweating and it smells like ammonia and it's not a pleasant thing, but don't be surprised where that's coming from. [00:35:00] Your body's oxidizing protein for NRC if it's not necessarily efficient.

[00:35:04] So my point is, you're going to eat that much protein eat at least. That many calories or grams rather in carbohydrates, uh, or calories plus though. So in fats, those will spare the protein to do, do with the job. You know, to me, uh, I use a high quality, high biological value, protein thrive. I get it at key times, like post-workout and dose in that fashion, it has a lot more punch.

[00:35:37] I think than just shoveling in grams and grams of lower quality protein indiscriminately during the day. And if you don't believe that, how many more months you're going to go buying your five pound jug of Econo away and nothing's changing, you know? I mean, how many months do you have to do that for before we figure out it's not all about [00:36:00] getting 20 or 30 grams of this whey protein every two hours during the day.

[00:36:05] Something's got to change, man. You know, um, otherwise I would I be telling you to try and get a bolus dose of protein every four hours or so? I think, uh, was it Lane's research that showed that lead to optimal rates?

[00:36:20] Carl Lanore: [00:36:20] Yeah, yeah, yeah. Every, every two and a half or three hours. It was a protein.

[00:36:25] It was a study on protein pulse feeding.

[00:36:28] Coach Rob Regish: [00:36:28] Yeah. That was it.

[00:36:29] Carl Lanore: [00:36:29] It showed the maximum. So, so. Uh, you want MTR to turn off or taper before it peaks again. You want pulses of leucine. You don't want to continuously at the same level. The body actually becomes less responsive to turning on the, the muscle building machinery.

[00:36:49] So you want a bolus and then you want to just not eat anything for a couple hours and then have another bolus. And I think it was two and a half or three hours was. The minimum and for, for [00:37:00] gives you a better, a better opportunity to get a more pronounced pulse. And we know that autophagy Bazell autophagy influences anibolism and autophagy happens when you're not digesting food.

[00:37:19] So the idea that people eat like every hour, they think they're going to grow faster. It's not true if you don't have that Bazell autophagy. If you don't have those periods of time where the body is not digesting food and amino acids in the blood start to taper off and then you have another pulse.

[00:37:38] That is what is more effective at building muscle than just eating all day long grazing. You know, they like to say.

[00:37:48] Coach Rob Regish: [00:37:48] You know that that pretty much segues with appetite too. You know, you're going to eat a large meal. You're not you. Most people won't be hungry two hours later, right. [00:38:00] Four hours. Yes. Absolutely. And so there you go. Yeah.

[00:38:05] Carl Lanore: [00:38:05] Proteins, good stuff like you'd like to say. Right?

[00:38:07] Coach Rob Regish: [00:38:07] A real good stuff.

[00:38:09] Real good.

[00:38:10] Carl Lanore: [00:38:10] I mean, I would overfeed on protein before I'd overfeed on carbs. And quite frankly, before I overfeed on fat there a study that was just published and I only glanced at it, that showed, and this was in women Um, but it showed that a high protein, um, low carb diet or ketogenic diet versus a high fat ketogenic diet.

[00:38:35] And of course the high protein ketogenetic diets spared more muscle.

[00:38:42] Coach Rob Regish: [00:38:42] Yeah. And it's almost impossible to put fat on by overeating protein.

[00:38:48] Carl Lanore: [00:38:48] Yeah, it is. It is. Yeah.

[00:38:50] Coach Rob Regish: [00:38:50] I can't recall which study, but I remember looking at it and saying to myself,

[00:38:58] Carl Lanore: [00:38:58] Oh, [00:39:00] coach, I dunno if you can hear me. We're going to take a break.

[00:39:03] Well. We'll pick this up back on the other side. Stay too.

[00:39:06] Coach Rob Regish: [00:39:06] Yeah,

[00:39:07] Carl Lanore: [00:39:07] that was on our side here. We lost all our phone lines for about 30 seconds. I love it.

[00:39:15] Coach Rob Regish: [00:39:15] Technology is a wonderful

[00:39:17] Carl Lanore: [00:39:17] thing. All right, so Jay Miller says, what the release of that EC diced our own study a few months back, it seems to have made an impact.

[00:39:25] What I mean is I'm seeing a lot more of equity products on shelves, even as an ingredient in pre-workouts. I've also read conflicting stuff about what hormones it affects, but I thought it was non hormonal. Can you please clear some of this up

[00:39:42] Coach Rob Regish: [00:39:42] for me? Yeah. You know what's interesting is in the last 72 hours, I probably received a half a dozen inquiries.

[00:39:52] Uh, Hey, Rob, is this a good acne product? And you know, I'm, I'm sure a lot of it [00:40:00] is because synthesis is out of stock, but, um. Uh, there is a lot of buzz out there because of these positive findings of that. What a human study. Uh, it, although, you know, to be honest though, I was expecting more, uh, but as we'll see if that's not necessarily a bad thing, what is bad is companies rushing low quality equity products to market and, or.

[00:40:27] Dusting off their old formulas that just weren't selling for a reason. Uh, this time using a new spin, uh, on, um, you know, their re ponticum products. I will also tell you, I've noticed a lot of new equity products, uh, with the source. Gina's coming from something other than sign notice. Volga it is signed notice arachnoid I think I, and one other.

[00:40:55] Oh, and I'm not sure if those are just [00:41:00] cheaper, uh, or easier to cultivate. Probably both. One thing is for sure, I would steer clear of it. The fact is a well done product. Those products are not cheap and they never have been. Let me just give you one example. Just right before I hopped on there today, somebody emailed me a link and they said.

[00:41:24] Hey, this reposit com product. This is a good, this look like it's high quality. They were charging $6 and 90 cents for a hundred tablets. It's not hard to figure out. It's not an extract in and insurers though, isn't them. That's what it says on the label. What is actually in there. God knows what.

[00:41:49] Carl Lanore: [00:41:49] Well, and I said, I sent you one that Patrick Roger sent to me. Patrick is a good friend of the show, and he worked for the, a strong man corporation. You know, he, he's a big strong guy himself, but he [00:42:00] also officiates and stuff like that. And he asked me about this product that he was getting on Amazon called, uh, ma Murrell, M a R a L

[00:42:09] Coach Rob Regish: [00:42:09] root beer in Russian.

[00:42:11] And it's another name for.

[00:42:14] Carl Lanore: [00:42:14] But it does. Oh, so, okay. Cause I will say it. Does it save your Palm to come? It says, yeah, it does. It says, it says Morrow root, repotted cum carotenoid dried root and, and it's in, it's in a glycerin and water based product and glycerin is actually good. It'll actually fill up your muscles.

[00:42:30] And you said that this wasn't really a great product. Huh? Now tell me why. Why, why, why, if it's really

[00:42:41] Coach Rob Regish: [00:42:41] Okay. So number one is the price point. I think it sells for like $12 or some ridiculous, ridiculously cheap, cheap amount. And number two, there can't possibly be any reasonable dose of act stare on in there because it tastes like 100% glycerin.

[00:43:00] [00:43:00] If you don't believe me, take some straight reposted carcinoids extract. And mix it in with as much glycerin as you would like. You are not going to completely mask the taste of a robotic Omer act, the sterile, anyone who's dealt with an isolated equity stare on extract powder, et cetera. It has a very distinct smell, almost like a burn resin type thing, and they very distinct taste bitter.

[00:43:32] Um, yeah, and there's a bitterness to it, but there's this smoky resin type thing too, that no other compound I've worked with has. And the third set, the third reason I know this thing is bunk, is because somebody sent me a bottle there. I mean, the guy, he literally, he's like, Hey, this stuff is so cheap.

[00:43:53] Just, you know, give it a whirl. Let me know. Nothing. You know, I, I didn't want to do it because I knew what was [00:44:00] going to happen. And of course that is what happened. Look, rough. A well-made, actually stair, own product is not cheap. They never have been. And last week, right? I gave everyone a peak into some of the reasons why when you're dealing with something that's harvested once a year from one of the most for voting places on earth.

[00:44:23] Southern Siberia. That is all factored into the cost. You know, with respect to it being non-hormonal? Well, the answer is yes and no. Uh, it's no in the sense that it doesn't contain any active hormones like testosterone or steroids, uh,

[00:44:42] Carl Lanore: [00:44:42] or Fido versions. You mean there's no Fido androgens, phyto estrogens and stuff like that in it.

[00:44:48] Coach Rob Regish: [00:44:48] Right. Nor does it do anything like a, they say tribulus does to increase your bodies. Natural production of testosterone. It doesn't do that either. It has nothing [00:45:00] to do with testosterone, although testosterone is permissive, and I'll get into that a bit, but, but yes, it's hormonal in the sense that we now know it works through the estrogen receptor beta.

[00:45:16] Variously referred to as ER too. And some of the literature, they confirm that in the human study in human beings. And they confirmed it in the same study in test tubes, which confirms prior studies that worked with isolated, you know, mussels in culture and test tube showed just that it works with this estrogen beta receptor.

[00:45:42] Um. That pathway, by the way, was entirely unexpected. Why? Because most people believed that because it didn't dock at the androgen receptor like steroids and SARMs do it couldn't possibly work. These people have a very narrow [00:46:00] view of how the human body works or doesn't, as the case may be. Well, the joke's on them.

[00:46:07] Right. And they were fools to think about that that pathway was the only one. Anyway, some studies also indicate that it lowers cortisol and by no small amount, and personally I think, I think that is spot on and I think it in large part explains the rapid recovery that many people experience with it still another mechanism.

[00:46:32] Involves a rapid influx of calcium into muscle cells, and you need to pay particular attention to that shifting of intracellular minerals because

[00:46:44] Carl Lanore: [00:46:44] that's where the, that's where strengthened muscles comes from.

[00:46:48] Coach Rob Regish: [00:46:48] Well, it's one of the reasons certain steroids work so well that increased stress, right?

[00:46:54] Carl Lanore: [00:46:54] All right. Uh, trend Balone increases calcium channel activity and in muscle and in the heart, [00:47:00] that's why your heart rate goes up when you use trend. And that's why you get freak and strong when you use trend. It's because of the way it affects intracellular electrolytes.

[00:47:08] Coach Rob Regish: [00:47:08] And it may explain why equity stair on is prescribed for, amongst other reasons.

[00:47:15] Um, four, he irregular heartbeats. Hmm. Okay. So that it normalizes and irregular heartbeat. Interesting. Yeah. So you know, in so far as being non-hormonal, it is in the sense there, and there was no indogenous test shutdown. There's no disruptive feedback loops from use, even longterm use that's been observed anywhere, you know, in the real world or in studies.

[00:47:41] Here's the bottom line. Get around 100 to 200 milligrams of equality, robotic them, Carson woods extract, full spectrum responsible carcinoids and stay on it for at least 10 weeks. I think you're going to find you wind up with [00:48:00] more muscle, less fat, and the far better VO two max than you otherwise would.

[00:48:06] And that's one of the things that differentiates this. Class of compounds, I think from most steroids, most steroids, yet they're going to get your big, okay, I'll concede that, but think about it. If you're adding the kind of muscle and who doesn't want to slap on 20 pounds a muscle, right? You slap on 20 pounds a muscle.

[00:48:27] I don't care if it is muscle, you're not going to be moving around as definitely as you would have been otherwise. You know your body needs time to get. It used to all that new muscles used to that way, and you're probably not, so you're never going to have the kind of heart and lungs stamina that you otherwise would without that weight.

[00:48:51] So no, they're not going to put that the stair on is not going to put 10 1520 pounds a month one. Yeah. But at the same time. [00:49:00] I would propose to you that it is going to make you stronger and in some cases significantly stronger without the weight penalty. And for people that are looking to be pound for pound strong and not deal with a lot of water retention, you know, shutdown and things like that, it's a great product.

[00:49:18] Carl Lanore: [00:49:18] How about if you were going to just take, if you had a high quality equity product, how many milligrams a day would you take if had nothing else in it? And how many times a day.

[00:49:29] Coach Rob Regish: [00:49:29] Yeah. Unfortunately, the answer depends. If it's like most products that are standardized and for 20 hydroxyethyl D stair on, you need anywhere from a 200 pound athlete does need anywhere from 500 to a thousand milligrams per day.

[00:49:45] Okay. Those are isolated, actually sterile. On the other hand, and this is one of the reasons why repo, I like Repatha com so much. You only need a hundred to 200 milligrams. Why. Reposit com com [00:50:00] contains something variously referred to as the left scene's complex. And depending upon whose literature you read, that's a grouping, a unique grouping of 10 to 12 X steroids that cause much greater effects than any amount of isolated individual steroids.

[00:50:19] And that includes tr Castro. Now you can spend a whole bunch of money and a lot of time proving that to yourself. But I've been taking these compounds for 25 years. Um, that's pretty much what they do. That's what they don't do. And that's where I would spend my money.

[00:50:39] Carl Lanore: [00:50:39] So, full spectrum, this is one of those, once again, full spectrum is better than some isolate.

[00:50:46] Coach Rob Regish: [00:50:46] Yeah. Well, I'll tell you. Um, are you using that product or is he using it. Who the, the person that sent it to you? The one that,

[00:50:55] Carl Lanore: [00:50:55] yeah. Patrick. Is he using it? Yeah, he is.

[00:50:58] Coach Rob Regish: [00:50:58] Okay. So I would be really, [00:51:00] really interested in his feedback and you know, what he thought thought it did for

[00:51:05] Carl Lanore: [00:51:05] him, because that's a full spectrum that just, that, that just an extract of the full root

[00:51:12] Coach Rob Regish: [00:51:12] The one you sent

[00:51:13] me

[00:51:13] Carl Lanore: [00:51:13] though.

[00:51:13] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The, the moral roots. It's just, uh, it's root extract. It's not a, it's not a real, it's not a, uh, empty stare on isolate.

[00:51:21] Coach Rob Regish: [00:51:21] Probably not even the aerial part of the plant.

[00:51:25] Carl Lanore: [00:51:25] Is that important?

[00:51:26] Coach Rob Regish: [00:51:26] Yeah, it is.

[00:51:29] Carl Lanore: [00:51:29] I think, I think this, I think it's actually the root maybe, right?

[00:51:34] It says moral route. It doesn't say plant.

[00:51:39] Coach Rob Regish: [00:51:39] Yeah. Good. Yeah.

[00:51:40] Carl Lanore: [00:51:40] It says moral root,

[00:51:42] Coach Rob Regish: [00:51:42] excuse me. Frankly, that gets, that gets pretty murky.

[00:51:48] Carl Lanore: [00:51:48] It says ponticum carotenoids, liquid extract, Morell root extract, 970 milligrams total.

[00:51:56] Coach Rob Regish: [00:51:56] Hmm.

[00:51:58] Carl Lanore: [00:51:58] It says, and here's what it said, [00:52:00] extraction rate dried herbs.

[00:52:03] Menstruum I don't know what that is. One third. One milliliter is equal to about 330 milligrams of dried plant material.

[00:52:15] Coach Rob Regish: [00:52:15] It all sounds so nice. Sounds really good. Um, but I dunno, I gave you my two CC. Someday I'll send you up some straight equity, sterile and powder. And I'll let you smell it and taste test it, and then I want you to dump as much glycerin then you want, and you could tell me if you can mask that taste.

[00:52:39] Okay. Alright, that sounds

[00:52:41] Carl Lanore: [00:52:41] good. That sounds good deal. Mike GLRS, longtime listener, he says, I'm getting up here in years older than 40 and having great difficulty putting on size. I'm actually severely underweight coming off of an illness. Okay. I have no injuries though, and I've lifted before.

[00:53:00] [00:53:00] One of my meds zaps my energy though. So sometimes it's hard to train. I've got my diet in order, but how do I train given those limitations? What's the med?

[00:53:12] Coach Rob Regish: [00:53:12] Yeah, there are a lot of questions here. I don't know. What's the med, how long have you been trained? If you've been training them for 30 years and your muscle memory is going to snap right back.

[00:53:21] I wouldn't worry about that. Um, but. That doesn't sound like that's the case here. So having said that, getting muscular size is harder at 40 than at 20 certainly, but that doesn't mean it's impossible. My first order of business would be to identify movements that work a lot of muscle mass, and on that score, there's really no better movement, in my opinion, than the deadlift.

[00:53:49] And specifically the trap bar, dead lift, if you have one. That would be my driver, Lyft driver movement for the whole program. Uh, [00:54:00] because it's one that will stimulate all of the muscles to grow, not just your legs and back. Second, I would train no more than two days a week. Now that's airing on the conservative side, but it'll maximize your energy output and.

[00:54:18] Allow for plenty of recovery time and understand those two things are crucial once you get North of 40 but back to the deadlift, I would train those once a week for four weeks using what a single work set of 20 rep sets followed by dumbbell pullovers to stretch the musculature of the upper body. I don't think you're going to be, you know, stretching a rib cage at that age, but certainly, uh.

[00:54:46] It'll tickle more than tickle the musculature of the upper body during the second month. I would tell you to train the trap bar dead lift every other week and dropped the reps to 10 to [00:55:00] 15 increasing the weight during the weeks. You're not doing the trap bar dead lift. I want you to perform top range rec bulls, which I've talked about plenty before.

[00:55:12] During the third month. You're going to continue on that every other week, schedule with the deadlifts, but drop the reps into the six to 10 rep range and of course increasing the weight workout to workout, and then finally, during the fourth month, you'll keep the every other week schedule and drop the reps into the three to five rep range.

[00:55:34] Again, doing those pullovers immediately thereafter. That abbreviated template alone. Provided it is progressive. One set a trap bar, dead lift. One set of pullovers will give you more growth stimulation in four months than most trainees can generate in a year. And I'll show, I'll tell you why the second, but it [00:56:00] also should be a lot easier on your psyche, on your mind, knowing that your entire workout.

[00:56:08] Only consists on that particular day of two exercises and you didn't hold anything back. Now, I think what you'll find is after hitting your numbers, you'll be in a real group like me, after I hit my numbers, I'm at a great moon. It's like, Hey, let's get the rest of this stuff done if you can recover from it, but psychologically, keeping it to two movements.

[00:56:34] Is an incredible motivator. I mean, you really should train that way at least once to experience it. Your other day of the week should be a push pull upper body session. Things like chin ups, pushups, dips, one-arm dumbbell rows, a flat barbell or dumbbell bench press, seated cable rows, heavy pullovers pushing and pulling of all sorts.

[00:56:58] Right [00:57:00] now. There are a lot of people listening that are going to scoff at what I just proposed. But I'll also tell you this, the vast majority of those same people haven't tried this. Most thing, such a low volume and in such a quote unquote simple routine isn't enough. And I have just one interesting story about that.

[00:57:26] I was having a discussion the other day with a kid, young kid at my gym, about such a program, uh, and he performed what I just described more, you know, more or less. The only difference is he misunderstood me and only did his trap bar deadlifts for S for sets of 10. Okay. So he constantly stayed in that 10 rep range in about four months.

[00:57:56] He moved his deadlift from 200 for 10 to [00:58:00] 300 for 10 and he did that by progressing at a very reasonable, let's say five to 10 pounds a week. He went up 10 pounds a week in the early months, five pounds a week or a workout when the going got tougher, and believe you, me, he's carrying around a lot more muscle as a result.

[00:58:23] Of adding a hundred pounds to his deadlift. If you think about that though, he didn't just add a hundred pounds. He added a thousand pounds because he went from asking his body to lift 2000 pounds during that works set to 3000 pounds. And I've given this example on the show before, but I am going to give it again because it really is how it works.

[00:58:50] Picture your muscles outside your body having this conversation. Hey, last week this guy asked us to lift 2000 pounds per minute. This week [00:59:00] it's 3000 we better go get some friends if you're eating enough and sleeping enough. Your muscles are going to go and get more friends. That's how you get bigger and stronger.

[00:59:14] They'll compare and contrast that to the person who's slaving away doing, I don't know, six, 10 sets for chest. God knows how many repetitions the exercises are picked at random and you know, whatever's not being used in the gym that day. Nobody's keeping track of how much weight they're lifting.

[00:59:33] You tell me in four months who's going to put more muscle on someone like that or someone who moves is dead lift from 200 for 10 to 300 for 10 the answer should be obvious. I mean, I just wish people wouldn't overcomplicate it. You know? I don't know. That's my two season is question. Okay.

[00:59:57] Carl Lanore: [00:59:57] That's a fair answer.

[00:59:58] Fair answer. [01:00:00] Yeah. We have take all last commercial break. When we come back, we have the blueprint tip of the day. What is the blueprint? Tip of the day? Tip

[01:00:06] Coach Rob Regish: [01:00:06] of the day is why information is by far your most powerful ally.

[01:00:11] Carl Lanore: [01:00:11] I know. Isn't it something people spend a lot of money on supplements that don't do anything

[01:00:17] Coach Rob Regish: [01:00:17] but

[01:00:17] Carl Lanore: [01:00:17] won't buy a book that actually could do everything.

[01:00:23] Coach Rob Regish: [01:00:23] Yeah. And we'll discuss those supplements in the information that can benefit you when we come back.

[01:00:29] Carl Lanore: [01:00:29] There you go. Stay tuned. We'll be right

[01:00:31] Coach Rob Regish: [01:00:31] back.

[01:00:32] Carl Lanore: [01:00:32] Welcome back to the bluefin power hour. Brought to you by coach Rob records.com checking out. So Rob, do your thing. Tell us what the blueprint tip of the day is all about.

[01:00:43] Coach Rob Regish: [01:00:43] Well, like we said before, it's about the power of information, but, um. A really pertinent example of that came to mind when I was writing this. So, you know, I'm sitting there and I've spent 35 years down in the body business, so to speak. [01:01:00] Um, and like a lot of kids that started early, I started at 15.

[01:01:04] I ain't had a truckload of motivation, but I had, I had very little guidance, um, which. Struck me as odd even at that young age, because I had already seen how much good coaching could increase someone's performance, and then what I'm talking about is baseball. I played 10 12 baseball with a kid that couldn't hit the side of a barn door.

[01:01:37] He couldn't catch a cold. He was so bad. At baseball at that age. He got basically left out of the league

[01:01:49] two, three years later when it came time to try out for freshman baseball, though, uh, he has, he handily [01:02:00] outperformed everyone and I mean, every, he, he outperformed juniors and seniors, kids that were. Much better, you know, more developed in them had even played more than him. You know, he wasn't the best athlete.

[01:02:17] He didn't have the best arm, and it's not like you grew a foot. Over the course of those three summers, what he did have was personalized coaching. From a guy who formerly play professional baseball. I don't think he was actually in the major leagues. I'm pretty sure he got the double or triple a.

[01:02:37] But needless to say, this guy knew all of the finer Duexis of the game. So in less than three years, right? This kid went from zero to hero, and I learned a powerful lesson. And the lesson is this. There are people out there that know a lot more than you do. And that knowledge Canon [01:03:00] does make you better if you avail yourself to it in our business, it makes you bigger, faster, and stronger.

[01:03:08] And as we'll see, it can also save you untold amounts of money. So not long after getting my first job. I started investing in information and called around for coaching. So let me tell you what that entail. At the time, our lifters education primarily came from what the magazines. They're all gone today, so I'm sure it's hard for people to imagine them, but there was one magazine in particular, it was M muscle, mag international.

[01:03:45] I don't even know if they're still in business. I doubt it. But in the back of every muscle, mag international were classified ads, little ads placed by, you know, certain outfits about everything from, you know, not [01:04:00] so simply disguised drugs. To. Training programs and the programs arriving in my mailbox, we're really starting to pile up.

[01:04:09] I got super squats. I got bill stars five by five. I've got Leo Costa's, Bulgarian burst training, power building, big beyond belief. Vince jorann does courses heavy. The original heavy duty course. I scoured the back of every one of those magazines. Um. And I mail ordered everything that promised results and I'll tell you what, I got them in my first two years of college.

[01:04:39] I went from one 58 to two 20 and along the way, I earned my first power lifting trophy. Later on, when I had a little more money, I started buying supplements. Okay. Of course, since I didn't know any better. I figured they were all of the [01:05:00] same quality, and I thought they'd all work too. I mean, I can distinctly remember walking into the GNC at a very young age and thinking, why would anybody need steroids?

[01:05:12] Look at all this stuff. You know, it's gonna make me huge. Needless to say, it didn't take long to figure out that none of them did. I mean back, there was nothing. So I returned to my tried and true programs, lots of food and lots of rest, and the gains kept rolling in. Interestingly enough, when I say I called around, I called a lot of different gyms, uh, looking for coaching and there just wasn't allotment back then.

[01:05:43] You know, this was before the explosion of all, all of them. Today's quote unquote personal trainers. You know, there wasn't much of that back then. So I, in the absence of that, I read, I tinkered [01:06:00] and I applied and I found out through trial and error, what did work three years out of college, I ordered doctor deepest Qualys, anabolic diet, and this supplement guy, those two purchases alone.

[01:06:15] Added another 30 pounds of beef to my frame and smartened me up. And this is a big one, smart and B up as to, you know what? The few supplements that worked really were, and you can find that exact same info today. At least the diet part, right in dr D's, is it the metabolic diet now?

[01:06:37] Carl Lanore: [01:06:37] Bolic diet.

[01:06:39] Coach Rob Regish: [01:06:39] I fought somebody. I

[01:06:42] Carl Lanore: [01:06:42] think you're right. I think he renamed it the metabolic diet in the last revision

[01:06:46] Coach Rob Regish: [01:06:46] for some reason. I'm not sure. I can't

[01:06:48] Carl Lanore: [01:06:48] remember. Probably to appeal to a greater, a wider group group of people,

[01:06:53] Coach Rob Regish: [01:06:53] you know? Yeah, yeah. And, and rightfully so. It is even today, it is well worth [01:07:00] your money.

[01:07:00] Now, as for supplements, there were. Actually a few new ones at that point, hitting the market that worked too among them, ephedrine and Korea team, and I'll be very honest with you, at first, especially when I discovered a Phaedra, I thought to myself, God, this is it. This is the ticket to unlimited muscle growth and fat loss.

[01:07:26] It's easy to think that, especially when it's a stimulant, right? And you're still very young and growing and you've got the supplements, and you're also following the programs, and now you're not sure which is delivering most of the gains. Well, needless to say, there was the information. Um, and that's true even today because the most that you're going to add with legal supplements.

[01:07:53] In my opinion is 10 to 15 pounds. [01:08:00] When it's all that seven, uh, there, there's nobody that's gaining 20, 30, or more pounds from supplements, okay. Uh, if you're losing, if losing is your game, on the other hand, losing weight, there's no amount of ephedrine that's gonna, you know, cut fat. If your diet sucks or if your training is subpar.

[01:08:20] So, so the question is, in all these years, what have we learned? I can honestly tell you, information has saved me thousands of dollars, and that same information is responsible for 97% of every pound of muscle that I've built. You know? And, and it's. It's that very active seeking out information or not, that'll make or break you.

[01:08:51] So let's get the supplements. Um, I just told you information is much more [01:09:00] powerful than any supplement I ever used, and that's the truth. The fact of the matter is though, guys like supplements though, buy supplements before information almost every time. But I want you to also think about this.

[01:09:18] If you have the information, the four one one on which products work and which don't, and which products are true to label in which aren't, you're going to save yourself not only a lot of time, but thousands of dollars and, and when you get to be my age, and you've been in this for as long as you have, it's.

[01:09:42] And I'd be embarrassed to and say, save this, but you guys know it's the truth. It's tens of thousands of dollars that I could have saved if there was somebody to go to to say, you know, Hey, I'm thinking of taking this. What do you think? [01:10:00] And the answer is no, of course, that's a about product failed label claims twice and it's never done the damn thing.

[01:10:08] You know, that 20, 30, 50 bucks that I spent 100 bucks on sack Regenix, you know, would've been saved and hopefully put to better use. Of course, you know, I have, I have a vested interest here in the blueprint bulletin and it'd be great, you know, if I had more pupils subscribed to that, um, because it's the exact vehicle that I created to disseminate this information.

[01:10:35] Every month we, we talk about how to train smarter to gain faster and bust plateaus. And every month you will find out which product works and which product meets label claims, which doesn't, right? Uh, and where to spend your money. In fact, and I'm, I can't say this for the entire universe, but [01:11:00] I've looked and looked long and hard.

[01:11:04] I may be the only such resource that doesn't accept any advertising. So my recommendations are beholden. I am beholden to no one. The only people I'm beholding to are my people. Okay. That's a far cry from what the magazines used to be at what most websites are today. 95% if you, you can, you can go through every article, every blueprint bulletin I've ever written, 95% of my product recommendations are for other company's products.

[01:11:41] I mean, really who else is doing that today? I mean, if they're out there, tell me cause I want to subscribe to their newsletter. Honest to God, I just don't see it. You know? That's not to say. That all products advertised at various websites [01:12:00] or magazines are bad. No, I've, I've come across some good ones, but when you accept no advertising, you exist for only one reason.

[01:12:10] That's the tell the truth. So the people that are investing in you, so whatever you do, I would just ask this, please set aside some money every month. To invest in that information and therefore yourself, because whether it's my stuff for somebody else's, those books, those courses, those newsletters, they're going to be around for decades to come benefiting you, benefiting your kids if not your grandkids.

[01:12:45] You know, like I said before, I'm closing in on a hundred issues in our online library. And there's no end in sight. Cause this train ain't stopping until they put me in the ground every [01:13:00] 30 days you're going to get game changing stuff until I drop. So, so look my stuff, somebody else's do it today.

[01:13:12] Resolve to spend just 20 bucks a month on the power of information. Because unlike that bottle of pills that'll be empty in 30 days, it'll be around benefiting you for years, if not decades to come.

[01:13:30] Carl Lanore: [01:13:30] I've always said, if you buy a book and you learn two things from it, that's a win. Oh yeah. Just two things, because those two things could be game changed in whatever area that you're trying to educate yourself in.

[01:13:45] Coach Rob Regish: [01:13:45] You know what's interesting too. Um, and this was when I was using Leo stuff. I was making such progress in the gym, that guys would come up to me and they would ask me like, why aren't you doing those two exercises back to back? And I would explain [01:14:00] to them, I said, well, this is something called jumps at, you know, you've got to push and pull and the antagonistic and the agonistic muscle works, and because you're working on back to back, there's actually an increased momentary increase in strength and therefore your total tonnage is greater.

[01:14:14] Therefore, your overload is greater. Therefore, the amount of muscle growth is greater. And I wouldn't have guys look at me and they'd say, yeah, they'd be like, how the hell did you learn that? Yeah. I mean, I can tell you how I didn't, I didn't go to GMC to learn that. Right. You know, and look, one of the best things that you can do personally is buy a bookshelf or get a bookshop and start filling up your own library.

[01:14:47] Um. Look, it's just telling it like it is. 97% of my games came from information.

[01:15:01] [01:15:00] Carl Lanore: [01:15:01] Oh, sounds accurate to me.

[01:15:03] Coach Rob Regish: [01:15:03] Yeah. I mean, that's that. I mean, it would be great. Listen, can you imagine a world where you could go and buy something today at vitamin world that would put 25 pounds of muscle on you? Yeah,

[01:15:15] Carl Lanore: [01:15:15] no, I wouldn't be great. I'll tell you the truth, because if you can put muscle on that fast, that's dangerous because there's other changes that happening too fast to biological changes.

[01:15:25] Coach Rob Regish: [01:15:25] That's true.

[01:15:26] Carl Lanore: [01:15:26] And if you can put it on that fast, that means you could lose it just as fast too.

[01:15:30] Coach Rob Regish: [01:15:30] There you go.

[01:15:31] Carl Lanore: [01:15:31] There you go. Exactly. Hi, great show. Great show coach Rob rogers.com is the place to go. Uh, we have a, we'll get it. We do a special episode of a. The renew life RX show tomorrow? Uh, I'm changing things up this week.

[01:15:47] I have a show every day this week actually, because next week I leave on the 13th, um, to head to upstate New York and go hunting.

[01:16:01] [01:16:00] Coach Rob Regish: [01:16:01] So

[01:16:01] Carl Lanore: [01:16:01] no, we, you know, I'm leaving on Wednesday. The 13th is Wednesday. So we, we have our show.

[01:16:09] Coach Rob Regish: [01:16:09] All right,

[01:16:10] Carl Lanore: [01:16:10] so we'll see you then, brother.

[01:16:11] Coach Rob Regish: [01:16:11] Very good.

[01:16:12] Carl Lanore: [01:16:12] Thanks. Take care

[01:16:14] Coach Rob Regish: [01:16:14] of your body.

[01:16:29] You get it next week. [01:17:00]