[00:00:00] Carl Lanore: [00:00:00] welcome back to another episode of superhuman radio. Today is Tuesday, and we will be performing the blueprint power hour. In just a moment with my cohost, coach Rob ruggish,

[00:00:10] Coach Rob Regish: [00:00:10] uh,

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[00:01:11] I'm going to go ahead and play coach Rob's music here in just a second. Here we go. Bam.

[00:01:19] Coach Rob Regish: [00:01:19] Calling all blueprint army

[00:01:21] Carl Lanore: [00:01:21] fall in line. It's time for the blueprint power hour with coach Rodriguez on the superhuman radio network.

[00:01:32] How you doing Rob? Oh, Rob, I'm sorry. I had your mic killed. Go ahead. I'm sorry.

[00:01:38] Coach Rob Regish: [00:01:38] Uh, I'm doing really good. Um, Molly, the wonder dog has her head in my lap. Good. And they're quiet for now, so it's a good day, right? Yeah, no, absolutely. Yeah. I meant to tell you, um, I was in some vitamin world or vitamin Shoppe this morning, right?

[00:01:55] I saw legendary foods. Um, was it the nut

[00:01:59] Carl Lanore: [00:01:59] butters, [00:02:00] the nut butters and the season nuts? I know they're out there. Yeah.

[00:02:03] Coach Rob Regish: [00:02:03] Yeah. And I was like, Hey, you know, grab me one of those. And, uh, and I did. So I'll let you

[00:02:09] Carl Lanore: [00:02:09] know. What flavor did you get? Do you remember?

[00:02:12] Coach Rob Regish: [00:02:12] Is there like a chocolate peanut butter one?

[00:02:14] Carl Lanore: [00:02:14] Yes. Yes.

[00:02:16] Yeah. That's Elisa's favorite. That's Alisa.

[00:02:18] Coach Rob Regish: [00:02:18] Yeah. That's hard. That's hard not to like, so, um, I'll, I'll certainly let you know, I'm starting my diet today. Look who's

[00:02:26] Carl Lanore: [00:02:26] watching live during good TRO.

[00:02:28] Coach Rob Regish: [00:02:28] Hey,

[00:02:30] Carl Lanore: [00:02:30] nice. Very nice.

[00:02:32] Coach Rob Regish: [00:02:32] Yeah.

[00:02:32] Carl Lanore: [00:02:32] Yeah. No, they're great. There's nothing like them. There really isn't. I mean, they're fantastic.

[00:02:36] They're the best nut butters out there. There's no sugar added, and most of them have virtually no sugar at all, if any. It's just from the residual amount of sugar that you find naturally in some of the fruit that they use. Um, but yeah, they're fat and they're seasoned nuts. I mean, I love them. I don't, I'm not a big fan of almonds.

[00:02:54] I realized I used to eat them because they were good for me, but now I enjoy almonds because of their [00:03:00] seasoned dominance. They're fantastic.

[00:03:02] Coach Rob Regish: [00:03:02] Well, if they're not seasoned, they're kind of bland. I know they're great for you and everything, but my God, you know. Compared to a regular almond. I'm sure it's, it's a dessert.

[00:03:14] Carl Lanore: [00:03:14] Dylan, don't you work at a gym? Aren't you a personal trainer? Don't you work at a gym? He said he's watching at work and he hopes he doesn't get in trouble.

[00:03:24] Coach Rob Regish: [00:03:24] It's all good, man.

[00:03:25] Carl Lanore: [00:03:25] One of the first times he's able to watch live. I'm on lunch. Ha. Okay, cool. Okay.

[00:03:30] Coach Rob Regish: [00:03:30] There you

[00:03:31] Carl Lanore: [00:03:31] go. Yeah. Oh, look, who else is joining us today?

[00:03:34] John peaks. Very nice. Nice. Um. I'm in California today picking up, let's see what he's picking up. Picking up a produce. It's in short supply. I'm on a two day a day to, uh, trying to pick up. I can load. They pick up this load. I can't read it all. None of the warehouses have produced. Yeah. That's amazing.

[00:03:57] People like John, my good friend Mike [00:04:00] Aggresso, they are the, they are the quiet warriors of this whole pandemic because the reason that toilet paper keeps showing up, the reason that food keeps showing up is because guys and gals like this. Um, drive day and night to keep things going at this critical time.

[00:04:16] If truck drivers stopped doing what they do, we'd all starve to death. Literally

[00:04:21] Coach Rob Regish: [00:04:21] like quickly. Yeah, I was gonna say, you know, as bad as things are now, imagine without those people, how much panic would set in when the food supply dries up. Or the toilet paper supply. So many things. You guys are heroes too.

[00:04:37] No question.

[00:04:37] Carl Lanore: [00:04:37] Look at that. Dylan works at a mortgage company, so those of you who look to buy a house, reach out to him on Facebook. Dylan Goodrow. There you go. There you go. Fantastic. Oh, the mornings and evenings. Uh, he's at the gym once it opens back up on the 18th. So that's cool. Keeping people home. I gotta tell you, I'm going to talk about this at the end of the day show.

[00:04:57] Um, I know what it feels like to be 62 now. [00:05:00] And it's because I haven't been in the gym and I'm really pissed off at my governor and all governors who don't think gyms are essential. That's going to be the my rant at the end of today's show, so stick around for that. The first question comes from Sean Riley.

[00:05:14] I looked up the study you mentioned about equity causing kidney issues and it is very concerning. You said you were going to look into it further. Can you tell me what you've found and should I stop taking equity until more studies are done?

[00:05:30] Coach Rob Regish: [00:05:30] Yeah. Um, when I first came across this study, it, it was alarming.

[00:05:35] There's no question about it. Uh, so I knew I needed to a deeper dive into it, and I haven't in fact completed, uh, my review of that in some very interesting anomalies not captured. In the study headline, that headline, by the way, was as follows, active zone elicits chronic renal impairment via mineral corticoid, like [00:06:00] pathogenic activities.

[00:06:02] And so their premise then is that the structure of active zone is almost identical. Well aldosterone, thus causing renal impairment within two weeks of their experiment using rats. I think it was. But nonetheless, um, very concerning. Right. So, so first things first though, this is a great lesson in so far as you need to read the entire study, not just the abstract, because had you just read.

[00:06:36] Let's say the study headline or the abstract you would have arrived at at best, an incorrect conclusion. Here's why, and as I read through this study, I kept noticing something peculiar. They weren't using the term equity sterile. They were using the term exposome. Now, interestingly enough, over the years, and [00:07:00] still today, many, many supplement companies, including people who should know better.

[00:07:06] Publicly stated that these two are the same thing, act his own and the sterile. They are not. You need only look it up. The molecular structure is different and that matters. It matters a whole hell of a lot. In fact, these researchers were not using data equity stair wrong, but rather alpha. So fortunate and yeah, and unfortunately it isn't until the very end of the study varied way in the back where the researchers made that distinction.

[00:07:40] So listen to what they said. Quote 3d molecular modeling and simulations in this study predicted that act is zone targets. The ligand binding domain LBD or mr mineral corticoid receptor as occurred with aldosterone. In [00:08:00] contrast to this paradigm, we found that 20 E, which is an abbreviation for 20 hydroxy beta acting sterile, produced no phenotypes in our cellular assays.

[00:08:14] Well, act is own itself. Was strikingly potent. If Aquazone indeed binds to the mineral corticoid receptor, its structure must be uniquely mimic an activating feature of aldosterone that is absent. From 20 that difference, by the way, that between the two is the addition of a single hydroxyl group at , which gives you 20 beta hydroxy FTEs.

[00:08:44] Carl Lanore: [00:08:44] So if you buy a full spectrum equity product, does it have this active zone minute?

[00:08:50] Coach Rob Regish: [00:08:50] If it does, I've never seen it. It the only place that I have seen it, it seems to have been synthesized from something. [00:09:00] And so, and that would make sense because if it does exist in the X, these own products that I've taken over the last 35 years, you know, it would have shown up.

[00:09:13] There would have been a big problem. There would be a huge problem in the general population. And in fact, that's not what's happening. So here's the bottom line. You need to stop taking that. The steering wheel. I'm not aware of a single equity zone product on the market. And I looked and I looked for a long time.

[00:09:33] Um, so you don't need to stop taking  because this study clearly does not indicate that chemical nor any of its associated at the stair owns. There are over 500 now found in most supplements. In fact. Those compounds are being researched for their activity in the treatment of several degenerative diseases.

[00:09:58] And for more on that, you can [00:10:00] just Google the following terms  and its activity on some degenerative diseases. You're going to read a study showing just how beneficial this compound really is to human health. One little sidebar about this issue. Uh, in the near future, possibly next month issue, I'm going to be writing in the bulletin about a dirt cheap, very common over the counter ingredient that when added to the stair own makes it noticeable, if not profound.

[00:10:34] Boost in strength, and I am really excited about this one because I think a lot of people are going to benefit. So that's the story on  zone, active zone versus the sterile. You need an fear at the sterile

[00:10:50] Carl Lanore: [00:10:50] and most of the empty sterile products. Are they full spectrum or are they isolate of of the plant that you want

[00:10:57] Coach Rob Regish: [00:10:57] today, most of them are [00:11:00] standardizing for 20 hydraulic TXT sterile.

[00:11:03] I'm not a particular fan of that, but the fact remains most are 20 beta hydroxy full. There are several, um, full spectrum products such as Cynthia gin, uh, which retain what I call nature's fingerprint. There are dozens of in  and more and more being studied every day. And if anything. Robotic arms effect on human health.

[00:11:32] Indeed, in every Madam and mammal that they've ever tested, it has only shown benefit.

[00:11:38] Carl Lanore: [00:11:38] Dave Hartnett makes a great point. Just stick to trusted brands like Rob mentioned and be aware of or be aware of. You know, the bulk powders that they sell on Amazon. Dirt cheap because you may end up getting a product that's high in exposome.

[00:11:54] Uh, and you know, and that's the other thing, like if, uh, if a full spectrum XD sterile [00:12:00] product has a small, minuscule amount of exosomes, well that may actually produce some diuretic effects that would be tolerable and wanted. But if you're taking a product that's high INEC disown, now we have another. And then, and, and, and the other thing to consider is when you're taking a full spectrum product.

[00:12:22] Through evolution. It has evolved with balanced amounts of different things. Like we take, take a cup of coffee, for instance, you can take a cup of coffee that has 300 milligrams of caffeine in it, but there are other things in that coffee that slow the absorption and delivery of caffeine. If you took the same 300 milligrams of caffeine anhydrous, you're going to have the jitters.

[00:12:43] You're going to feel like crap. So when you look at these plant sources, quite often when they're taken together. They don't have, uh, the effects, negative or positive that you see when you have isolated compounds from those plant

[00:13:00] [00:12:59] Coach Rob Regish: [00:12:59] sources. Yeah, that's a great point. And respond to them is a great example, right?

[00:13:05] It's loaded with tannins and resins and. All sorts of other stuff that contributes to its benefits. So, you know, in my mind anyway, the more man tries to over standardize for what he thinks is the active chemical. The more and more problems you run into as opposed to just, you know, take nature with few exceptions.

[00:13:32] Nature doesn't mess up,

[00:13:34] Carl Lanore: [00:13:34] you know, and, and he even says that when you look at these labels on some of these bulk powders, they actually say 98% equity stair on active sown and dial dioxins. So, you know, if they're telling you that it's in there, then maybe stay away from it. That's the other thing.

[00:13:52] Coach Rob Regish: [00:13:52] I mean, if they need.

[00:13:54] You don't have to do much digging to find out where they're coming from. They're coming from China. Yeah.

[00:13:58] Carl Lanore: [00:13:58] And who knows what else is in there. [00:14:00] Then the next question comes from Aaron Stone. I'm just starting out with weightlifting and came across your show. What exercises do I do to build my biceps up the most?

[00:14:13] Do I need a preacher's curl? Our dumbbell curls as good as barbell? Uh, thank you for the show. I really like it.

[00:14:23] Coach Rob Regish: [00:14:23] Yeah, it's a great question. Um, and it's a, it's a common question, especially amongst people that are just starting. You know, young males getting into weight training. They don't want the big guns.

[00:14:34] But first things first, it sounds like he is bodybuilding and not weightlifting, is that, you know, he used that term and there's a difference and there's a reason I'm making that distinction. Bodybuilding, of course, is more focused on building as much lean body mass as possible with his, you know, lowest body fat levels you can get to, of course, show that all off.

[00:14:58] Weightlifting on the other [00:15:00] hand. In the classical sense is different. We're talking about cleans clean and jerks, and the snatch. What you'll notice is that weightlifters, for the most part, don't look like bodybuilders. Um, and vice versa. There are some similarities, but, um, you know, the differences are, have much to do with the training.

[00:15:21] If you think about it, the weightlifting movements that I just mentioned, there is no negative. Or he centric component involves right in the exercise. However, and why I want you to notice this. Uh, weightlifters typically, especially if you go to a seminar sometime they have some of the best backs in the business.

[00:15:42] They really stand out. So although there is not a negative component to some of the lifts that they're doing, they have tremendous back development. So, but as for, as for you, um, the biceps and bodybuilding, the, that equation is going to be a little different. [00:16:00] So first thing you need to understand is it takes, it takes adding about 10 to 15, sometimes 20 pounds of body weight to add an inch to your arms.

[00:16:12] And that isn't easy because, and believe it or not, it sounds counterintuitive, but it involves a lot of squatting. A lot of deadlift thing and a lot of heavy eating, and so it's imperative then that you work hard on those exercises, right? Adding weight, of course, wherever possible. You'll also need to use a tape measure, and I don't mean for just around your arms, you need to keep an eye on your waist measurement because.

[00:16:42] I never forget who's who told me this. And it's so true. It's a lot easier to eat another inch onto your waist than it is onto your arms. So once that measurement around the waist increases by an inch or more, cut back on the feud for food for a few weeks, and [00:17:00] then when you reintroduce higher calories, your body will be more receptive to it.

[00:17:05] Having said all of that, in my opinion, the finest movement for developing your arms. Is the humble chin up, and in particular, a close grip palms up, right? The reasons are twofold. Number one, it works. The muscle, the bicep from origin, shoulder to insertion, elbow as every other type of curl works the muscle through only one joint, typically the elbow.

[00:17:37] The reason number two is, uh. When the body and weight move through space simultaneously, the central nervous system, and therefore muscle recruitment is at a much, much higher activation level. It's the same reason why squats speed like presses any day, and why pull ups the pull-downs right on a pulley.

[00:18:00] [00:18:00] Now, if you're going to perform a curl. I favor the hammer curl, especially if you're deadlifting with a mixed grip. Also, understand two thirds of your arm development or your triceps, right? Not your biceps. So if you're going to skew your volume and intensity on one side, I would do so towards the triceps, right?

[00:18:25] Nevertheless, um. Heavy pushing and pulling exercises. Compound lifts, give the biceps and triceps respectably a great growth stimulus, particularly if you superset a pushing exercise with a pulling exercise. There's no need, in my opinion, for concentration curls, for dome dumbbell kickbacks and these little little movements that all they do is take it out of you.

[00:18:54] They're not stimulating it. Oh, well, a lot of growth. You want to keep it [00:19:00] two big basic compound lifts with, of course, a lot of weight. You know, focusing on progression from week to week. Now that's not to say that you can't lighten up, you know, let's say every other workout or every third workout where you have a session where you focus primarily on volume and total tonnage.

[00:19:21] Uh, and as well as time under tension, which is something that's been found to be very important, um, for actual hypertrophy of most time under tension models, um, are between 40 and 60 seconds. I've seen others that go higher or something like go lower. But generally speaking. The 40 to 62nd Mark is where you want to end up.

[00:19:45] I'll finish this with one interesting note. At least it was from my perspective, my arms only started growing when I dropped all direct arm work. Uh, [00:20:00] and, and I just, instead, I just poured myself into big pushing and pulling movements. And I'm talking about, you know, super setting things like dips and chin ups or, uh, bench presses and seated cable rows.

[00:20:17] It's always a good idea to superset them and shoot for the same number of reps. And this is the other big thing, uh, in order to stay healthy. You need a balance between the pushing and pulling muscles. You look, you need look no further than the shoulder for evidence of this. Most guys, big overdeveloped front delts.

[00:20:38] Why? A lot of benching, a lot of currently very small rear delts. Consequently, it's only a matter of time right before that imbalance becomes an injury. So keeping them in balance is something that I think is, is a great idea, especially super setting. And that's, that's my input on how to [00:21:00] build big arms.

[00:21:00] Carl Lanore: [00:21:00] And for those of you looking, man, Carl isn't even paying attention to coach Rob. He's over there texting people and you guys just set up an amazing package with be strong. The blood flow restriction

[00:21:13] Coach Rob Regish: [00:21:13] people

[00:21:14] Carl Lanore: [00:21:14] right now on the air. I did this, I had a brainstorm. So be strong. Makes an upper arm VFR system and a leg BFR system.

[00:21:24] Seoul together, they are $429 they sell the upper arm bands alone for two 88 because you have to get the whole kit plus the bands. And then if you buy the legs, it's just the band, the extra bands, cause you already have the whole kit, all the app and all the other stuff. So I just texted with Sean Whalen and I got him to agree to go from two 88 to one 99.

[00:21:51] Wow. On the upper arm, blood flow, restrict. Look, everything that coach Rob just said is exactly spot on. Heavy backward builds. [00:22:00] Big bicep. Big break gills. Okay. Your biceps don't stop here. They, they stopped down here in the brachial radiologists, so all those heavy push pulling movements, they build big biceps.

[00:22:12] I've never really trained biceps. I don't have big biceps, but they have grown just from the back work I've done. With that being said. I'm saying this again better than anabolic steroids, and I'm not kidding. We've done shows on this with people from the audience unscripted who use BFR bands and saw their upper arms grow an inch or more in short periods of time.

[00:22:37] So right now, if you go to the website, be strong.training, it's be strong.training and use the code S H R. And just by the upper arm bands, you'll get them for $199 everything that coach Rob said is true, and if you use these bands while you're following his direction, you'll see even better [00:23:00] results. Your upper arms will explode.

[00:23:01] You will have the upper arms that you dream of having using those techniques and the be strong.training bands. Use the code SHR. Let me put the code up here. And it's like a, it's like a almost a hundred dollars off. You'll get, you'll get the whole package for $199 there you go. That's what you'll get. So go to be strong.training.

[00:23:25] Use the code SHR. Get the upper arm bands for one 99 after you've used them for a month, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. And I'll have you on the show because I guarantee you're going to want to come and talk about your results. These things work, and in fact, once I start going back to the gym, this is what I'm going back to.

[00:23:44] I'm going back to using the BFR bands initially to regain the muscle mass that I've lost.

[00:23:50] Coach Rob Regish: [00:23:50] Nice. Nice.

[00:23:53] Carl Lanore: [00:23:53] Next question. Let me see where we are time-wise. Hold on a second here. I'm trying to stay on a clock now. Okay. [00:24:00] Martin Keegan is me. I hate cardio worse than you do. Yeah. And prefer not to do it. I like heavy lifting and I'll highlight, I like lifting heavy things.

[00:24:11] So anything above five reps is cardio to me. Ha. However, I just turned 40 and my doctor says I need to do something. You seem pretty well versed.

[00:24:21] Coach Rob Regish: [00:24:21] Let me read the rest of this.

[00:24:22] Carl Lanore: [00:24:22] I'm sorry. Some of it got caught up. Cut off here. Not everything shows up when some of these questions are longer. They don't, uh, they don't carry over.

[00:24:30] Um, you seem, uh, well-versed. Shoot. Where was I? You seem pretty well versed in alternative approaches to things. If you were me, what would you do?

[00:24:47] Coach Rob Regish: [00:24:47] Well, uh, the first thing I do is get a complete understanding as to why your doctor said what he said. Because typically, you know, if a doctor is getting after you like that.

[00:25:00] [00:25:00] Um, something is awry, you know, and in fact, uh, you know, because everybody's so sensitive today, a lot of people are pretty far gone, right? By the time the doctor says, look, you don't start paying attention to diet and exercise. You're going to be diabetic in 15 years out. The amputation starts. So, you know, haven't had it.

[00:25:24] That'd be the first thing I would do. Um, but because I don't know him, um. Going to need to make some assigned assumptions. Most males that are still lifting heavy at age 40 bring with them other habits, right. For the ride into middle age and more than a few. I have done no cardio at all. And this is the boat boat that I was in when I turned 30.

[00:25:50] I remember saying to myself all throughout my twenties, yeah, cardio, nobody ever got big doing cardio. I'll start when I'm 30. [00:26:00] Um, but 30 came and went and I, I still wasn't doing any cardio. Then I started to read West side stuff about GPP, general physical preparedness. Um, and in particular, I'll never forget this, there was an article written by Dave Tate who related a story of visiting, uh, some university where, you know, he was about to lecture.

[00:26:24] He's going to give a seminar on the West side method to get to the lecture hall though from where they parked their car, they had to climb this big Hill. Him and Louis Simmons had to go up this huge Hill and when they got to the top. Dave could not go any farther. He literally could see, said he could not walk.

[00:26:42] He was so out of breath after climbing just one Hill. Now Louie, on the other hand, he was just fine. And so, you know, what was the difference? Well, something called GPP or general physical preparedness that [00:27:00] Louie was huge on. In fact, Dave said it used to drive him nuts. That Louie would drag the sled before training.

[00:27:07] He would drag the sled after training. He would drag the sled pretty much when he wasn't, you know, in the gym, lifting weights or teaching. So, um, he dove in and found out what I did. And that is it not only is not going to take away from your heavy weight lifting. It's going to contribute to it. And so the way I started was the way I recommend that you start, I want you to buy a slip, okay?

[00:27:36] Um, I bought one, I used it and I saw the difference it made. And not only does it speed recovery. But it gives the heart and lungs a great workout too. And if you've, you've got one, even a simple one that you, that you can just pull, nevermind, push. You know what I'm talking about? Um, now [00:28:00] some people, for whatever reason, they don't want to drag a sled.

[00:28:03] It looks a little

[00:28:03] Carl Lanore: [00:28:03] funny. You know why? I know why. Cause it's hard freaking work.

[00:28:08] Coach Rob Regish: [00:28:08] Yeah, well, if that's hard work, then he's really going to like my next suggestion. If you're not going to drag a sled and you love your weights, I would tell you to be, start doing dumbbell step-ups. Because stepping up onto a bench or a platform while holding right a lot of weight in each hand is not just great for your legs and your glutes and your quads and your hams.

[00:28:35] It builds tremendous grip strength and traps as well. If you've ever, you know, if you've ever chalked up and done this now the height of the step matters. A low one works mostly quadriceps. A higher one. Uh, works mostly your glutes and hams were, uh, you know, in the middle, does a nice job hitting everything.

[00:28:59] My [00:29:00] point is, you don't have to use just one height. You can have various workouts, right, in various records for various sized boxes. Now, if all of that wasn't enough, um, your heart and lungs will be challenged beyond words. And step-ups, and I'm not kidding here. Okay? It's worse than pushing and pulling the Prowler, in my opinion, at least when you use a substantial amount of weight.

[00:29:31] And so what I did last week was I grabbed 75 pound dumbbells, which in retrospect were probably too heavy, but I do 10 reps per leg. And I rest one minute in between sets. I think I made it through three, three sets and then I had to reduce weight. Um, the point here is once I'm able, once you can [00:30:00] complete all five sets of 10 reps for each leg, um, I jumped the weight 10 pounds, which.

[00:30:09] Is really 20 pounds. If you think about it, right? If you're using dumbbells, right, because you're, you're holding two, alternatively, put a weight vest on. I don't care what it is, but once you can perform 50 reps with each leg, you should be in damn good. Not just strength shape, but you know, cardiovascular building up to that level, especially with weights like that is a tremendous accomplishment.

[00:30:36] It really is. Even better. There no equipment for you to buy, right? Assuming you already have dumbbells or you could just even rule on the plates or rocks. Raleigh, like here, you know, and find a step somewhere. Everybody's got steps either maybe in their house or, you know, go to an athletic field where they have bleachers.

[00:30:56] Here's the bottom line. A sled [00:31:00] dragging is great stuff. It is restorative and it builds muscle. It builds heart and lungs. Heavy step ups, on the other hand, do much the same and they too were a Russian staple. The exercise is called Russian step-ups. Going back to the research that they did on them, and.

[00:31:22] How much that movement was used by their Olympic athletes. They build not only enormous strength, but stimulate tons of muscle growth in the process, and you get in better cardiovascular shape fast. So give that a shot. I know you'll be very pleased with either one or both.

[00:31:41] Carl Lanore: [00:31:41] Uh, we're going to take a quick commercial break.

[00:31:42] When we come back, we have a question from a live viewer, Kirkland or lady, actually a comment and a question. Uh, we're going to get to, so right now, while you're watching the show, there's a little button right beneath your video window and it says, start a watch party. It's a harmless [00:32:00] button. People are afraid of it, but if you click it, it won't hurt you.

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[00:32:52] Welcome back.

[00:32:55] I got my mascara and I go to Kroger's. I put it on, [00:33:00] I got my everyday carry 45 right here. So it's a thin line between me becoming going from just a shopper to a Desperado.

[00:33:10] Coach Rob Regish: [00:33:10] There you go. What I do is

[00:33:13] Carl Lanore: [00:33:13] I have self control, so you don't have to worry about me. Kirkland more lady has a really couple of good, good comments.

[00:33:19] And he says, have either of you looked at into, uh, any of the research concerning using weighted vests? Well, for weight loss, the extra load apparently activate osteocytes to suppress appetite independent of leptin signaling. Uh, it's referred to as the. Grab a stat effect. I believe James Krieger, who's been a guest on the show a few times, starting way back to 2006, I was still a clear channel.

[00:33:49] The first time I had him on. He wasn't a doctor then either. A is an advocate of this, by the way, the beef strong band, uh, to one, to two sets all out [00:34:00] failure. On arms with weighted stretches at the end. Gives plenty of stimulus and a lot of time to recover. He's a big fan of the beach. Strong bands also, obviously, so yeah, you can get those right now.

[00:34:12] If you go to the website, be strong. Dot training. And use the code SHR you'll pay instead of two 88 one 99 for the upper arm band, which is a real bargain, and this is an investment that you won't feel bad about. You'll use them for the rest of your lives. You'll see results from them, which is more than you can save from a lot of different supplements out there.

[00:34:36] So. Check them out, show him some love. And we're actually gonna make this a campaign. Um, I was just texting with Sean Whelan, and we're going to do this. So we're going to have banner ads up on the website. So this will go on for a little while longer. So, but don't, don't wait too long. I don't know how long it's going to last.

[00:34:51] Uh, let's see here. Chuck Gil says. I'm 300 plus pound powerlifter, but getting older [00:35:00] and looking to make change. Good. Good idea. I really like what you said about body weight stuff and in particular the handstand pushup, but not at 300 pounds, brother. If you could do a single hand stand, push up at 300 pounds.

[00:35:15] I'm going to fly wherever you live and I'm going to take you out to dinner. Uh, believe it or not, I'd, I'd kill to be able to do just one. Exactly. Where do I start?

[00:35:26] Coach Rob Regish: [00:35:26] Well as you said, um, the first step in, in bringing bodyweight work into the fold, especially where none existed before, is actually a change in psychology before we get to the weight.

[00:35:41] And I know that sounds all zen-like, but, but it really is true. You need to attach. The amount of importance and respect that you have, um, for traditional weighted movements like the bench, squatter deadlift to body weight work. Because like, as you just said,

[00:35:59] Carl Lanore: [00:35:59] this a [00:36:00] great point because people figure I can squat 700 pounds, surely I can do body weight work.

[00:36:05] What, what's the big deal? Right, right.

[00:36:08] Coach Rob Regish: [00:36:08] And so, uh, just to give me an idea for something like the chin up. It's universal and people looking at it and saying, Ooh, that's a strong dude, because you can, you can walk into any gym in the world, and if you see some guy doing true one-arm chin ups or, or let's say two arm to arm chin-ups with a hundred pounds around his waist, it registers and it will get your notice, obviously, in a very good way.

[00:36:36] The handstand pushup, in my opinion, is a very close second because it is one of the. Phew. Bodyweight exercises where 100% right of your body weight is being lifted. Others like pushups and some other things. Yeah, it's, it's hard, but you're not lifting a hundred percent [00:37:00] it's close, but the handstand pushup is right up there.

[00:37:03] Just seeing someone do that do something with their body weight is mighty impressive. So. You know, everyone understands how strong you have to be to pull them off. Just like the chin up. The first step though in being able to do that is, let's be honest, right? Losing fat and notice I didn't say lose weight.

[00:37:25] I said fat. Big difference. As you lose more and more fat, the handstand pushup, and in fact all of your body weight work obviously is going to get easier. The next tool that you want to use for these two are for learning how to do these, uh, is to purchase those interlocking foam mats. The same kind you sometimes see that protect floors or kids play on.

[00:37:52] Sometimes I found them in three places. I've seen him in Walmart, I've seen them in target, and I've seen him at a place called lotion state [00:38:00] job block, which is the chain that we got up here. Discount stuff. Alternatively. Right? You can use other things. You can use a stack of books. You could use a stack of rugs, could use this, you know, a stack of just about anything.

[00:38:13] But the fact of the matter is the maths are nice to work with because there were a uniform quarter inch thickness, which becomes important as you move from week to week to week. What you want to do is stack all of the maths up. Let's say you probably need eight of them. For an average size weight trainer and chalk your hands, so I'll get to you in a second.

[00:38:38] You want to place your hands just outside of the mat. Uh, for width, let's say around, and they need to be about, uh, six to 10 inches from the wall. You know, if you put in your hands right against the wall, it's going to be very difficult for you to hold that position. They need to be a few inches out. Uh, [00:39:00] now here's where the chalk and the hands tip comes in.

[00:39:03] By doing so. You're going to leave a faint outline of where your hands were, right during that, you were exactly where you placed them during the last set or even the last workout, you know, in the, in my old gym, uh, I could still see right, the outline of my hands there from the week

[00:39:22] Carl Lanore: [00:39:22] before.

[00:39:24] Coach Rob Regish: [00:39:24] Uh, you will absolutely be shocked at how much harder it is.

[00:39:29] A handstand pushup is. If you just move your, let's say, hands in one hand length or even out one handling. So knowing where to place your hands is crucial. And now over time, yes, you will naturally assume the correct hand width and distance from the wall, but when you're learning it, especially when you're learning it, it helps to have the visual reference.

[00:39:55] So use the chart then. You need to [00:40:00] practice kicking up into a handstand against the wall. This is extremely difficult for some people. This takes, in some cases, believe it or not, months to learn, but in due time, you will learn how to do it in the earliest, and here's a funny story. In the early stages of learning it.

[00:40:20] You tend to, let's say, kick with a little too much force because you don't want to come up short and then flop back down. Right. Well, I did this a couple of times and unfortunately punched a couple of really nice holes in the wall with my heels and Jim ordered. Didn't like that too much. Unfortunately.

[00:40:39] He was an understand the guy. But, uh, again, that's something that you're going to learn with time. How much force, right to kick up with you. Um, what you want to do is attempt to hold that handstand for once you can hold, let's say two [00:41:00] sets for 30 seconds or so, you will, you will be strong enough to start performing partial reps and these partial reps, once you can do, let's say, five on, on eight mats, uh.

[00:41:15] You slide another mat out and now you're working with seven, build the reps up to five again, go to six and so forth. Until such time as you were performing a full range repetitions. Now let's get back to the weight fast. Kirkland made a very pertinent example. I wasn't aware of the science that he cited for fat loss about wearing the weight Fest, but I will tell you this once you can perform.

[00:41:43] Reps with your own body weight, uh, getting an adjustable weight vest with a little, I guess a little sandbags or two pounds a piece, you know, start with two or four pounds and pull a couple of reps off and build up and build up until you're able to do handstand shoulder [00:42:00] presses with your body weight, plus another 25 pounds success.

[00:42:08] Is simply a matter of perseverance. And in that has that is exceptionally true. In the case of the handstand shoulder press, you want to keep at it, because let's say a 200 say you're 300 pounds now, a 275 pound man or even a 250 pound man who can pull that off and do reps. That is incredibly impressive.

[00:42:34] As an added bonus, your shoulders and elbows will feel great that you will not believe the pump that you get in your shoulders. And I don't know why I, I would surmise because your body assumes the correct anatomical position, but because of my severe arthritis in my right arm, any type of overhead work or the barbell impossible.

[00:42:57] Impossible shooting, [00:43:00] stabbing pains. However, when I go and perform handstand shoulder presses, I feel nothing. I don't even think about it. It blows my mind that I'm able to do that. So, you know, what does that tell me? It is what I call an anatomically authentic or correct exercise that's not going to wear down your joints.

[00:43:24] If anything, it'll just build them up.

[00:43:27] Carl Lanore: [00:43:27] Patrick Roger says he's working from home, listening to SHR. He says, gotta love quarantine, and I agree with him. At some reason it didn't show up on our

[00:43:36] Coach Rob Regish: [00:43:36] messages here. So

[00:43:37] Carl Lanore: [00:43:37] we're going to go to the next. The next question here. The next one comes from Andrew Barker. I know Andrew, he's a great guy.

[00:43:47] Great. Last couple of episodes of the blueprint power hour on SHR. Could you elaborate more on the differences between pregnenolone and progesterone and if there are any synergies with stacking them [00:44:00] please also dosing given one's sex.

[00:44:04] Coach Rob Regish: [00:44:04] Yeah, and I have to say I learned a lot researching this. I thought I knew what the story was on pregnant alone progesterone.

[00:44:12] Um, and I had part of it, but not as, not as much as I thought. So, uh, projesterone is known as a female hormone, but interestingly, males need progesterone to make, uh, testosterone. So

[00:44:27] Carl Lanore: [00:44:27] let's clear up something. I just did a show about this. There is no such thing as male hormones and female hormones. We, all, men and women have the same array of hormones just in different ratios.

[00:44:42] Doctors who say testosterone is a male hormone. That's a stupid doctor. Doctors would say estrogen is a female hormone. That's a stupid doctor. That's a doctor that is not observant of science. Women have more estrogen than men. But men have estrogen too. Men [00:45:00] have more testosterone than women, but women have testosterone too.

[00:45:04] So we need to dispel, I just did a show called the oversimplification of estrogen and testosterone for this reason, because there is still doctors out there who don't even deserve to have medical licenses. I gotta be honest with you. I know I'm being hard, but sometimes you gotta push the pendulum all the way to one way to get some response.

[00:45:22] There are doctors out there who are telling women. You don't need to stop drone, that's going to make you a man. Well, she's had testosterone. She went through puberty. It didn't make her a man then. So please, I'm sorry, but that's a real pet peeve of mine.

[00:45:38] Coach Rob Regish: [00:45:38] Yeah, yeah. It's, um, well, let's take pregnant alone first.

[00:45:43] It is considered by many to be the, the mother of all hormones, uh, being made from cholesterol. So it's cholesterol, pregnant alone, D H interesting. Diam, Andersen dye all, and then [00:46:00] testosterone. And interestingly enough, it can go back to Androse, Sindai all, which I miss an awful lot. But, um. Pregnant alone also drops in both men and women.

[00:46:13] Uh, to give you an idea between ages 35 and 70, a man's pregnant alone levels can drop by as much as 60%. So obviously, you know, big, big drop in mice. Pregnant alone is the most potent known memory enhancer in humans. It improves attention and has been shown to decrease arthritis pain, uh, which I couldn't understand the mechanism, but in most studies it failed.

[00:46:43] Interestingly enough, it failed to improve memory. Interestingly, pregnant alone is the precursor of progesterone. And progesterone can then be converted into cortisol. Okay. [00:47:00] 11 D, Oxy, cortisol, and then cortisol and cortisol gets a bad rap. Right. Why would you need cortisol? Well, because it's one released into the bloodstream.

[00:47:10] Cortisol helps to control blood pressure. It regulates metabolism and blood sugar levels. It decreases inflammation and it improves memory. Sometimes we forget the good things that cortisol does, right? And so that's, those are a few examples. The usual dose of pregnant alone or anywhere between 25 and a hundred milligrams a day for men and women with optimal blood levels around 200 nanograms per deciliter, at least from my reading life extension.

[00:47:44] Uh, for those interested, it makes it really good pregnant alone product. You should. As, as with all hormone levels, you should work with your doctor, right? Get a tested to optimize the doses of, of [00:48:00] what you're taking. Normal progesterone levels, you know, in women as in other, as in everything with women, they're incredibly complex.

[00:48:09] You know, they, they range, uh, there's a pre oblation value, ovulation, post ovulation, you know, cycles of the moon. I don't know all that mystery crap in, in men, it's found in much lower levels. Typically. Um, typically less than 0.2, zero nanograms per deciliter. My advice would be if you're a woman, get your levels tested and then consider using 25 to 50 milligrams of pregnenolone and working to get it into the optimal range, 200 nanograms per deciliter.

[00:48:47] And as a man, I would do the same, but I would think he would need more pregnant alone. Uh. Daily, maybe a hundred milligrams or more pre progesterone [00:49:00] levels in males and females should obviously then be measured and getting him into the ideal ranges that I, I mentioned earlier, the whole cascade to me is extremely interesting.

[00:49:12] And when I say cascade, I mean cholesterol, pregnenolone, DHA, and rate all the way through testosterone or estrogen, as you pointed out, males and females need. Both. Um, and sometimes that chain gets disrupted and so that, that'd be another conversation with your doctor. But here's the bottom line.

[00:49:35] Optimizing pregnenolone and defacto progesterone levels is obviously, in my opinion, it's a really good idea why? Because too many times, especially as men, we think, okay.

[00:49:50] Carl Lanore: [00:49:50] Testosterone

[00:49:51] Coach Rob Regish: [00:49:51] got to get on HRT. It's my testosterone levels are low. Well, that might be true, but finding out why that's true is really [00:50:00] important and high testosterone levels at the expense of low DHA and pregnant alone levels.

[00:50:08] It's not optimal

[00:50:09] Carl Lanore: [00:50:09] and they will be low. Because if you supplement with testosterone, the precursor hormones that are specifically designed to lead to testosterone production are also blunted. And so you will see a drop cholesterol levels will not feed progesterone and pre pregnant alone, and then progesterone and then da TA.

[00:50:32] And so you, you, you have to backload with these things. This is something we learned. Dr John crystal was a staunch advocate. Backloading these hormones when you're on HRT, and it's, excuse me, it's true. And the other thing I want to point out is men get male pattern baldness when they go on HRT. Those who are sensitive to DHT.

[00:50:56] Well guess what stops the production of DHT? [00:51:00] Progesterone. Progesterone actually stops the production of DHT. So if you're somebody on HRT and you notice your hair is thinning, you need to have your di, your, your progesterone levels tested, and you have to talk to your doctor about supplementing with progesterone.

[00:51:16] So you stop producing so much DHT. And lastly, a study that we just covered on the show two weeks ago shows that. Pregnant alone has the ability to reverse multiple sclerosis, the effects of multiple sclerosis on the brain, both lesions and shrinking of the brain. So these hormones are very important. We don't pay attention to them, and doctors don't pay attention to them, and as time evolves.

[00:51:43] Men are real. They're realizing men are just about as complex as women, and we need more than just testosterone. And so you, you gotta pay attention to all the hormones. Absolutely. And this is why when people reach out to me, they say, um, you know, I feel this. I feel that. I think I need to [00:52:00] be on testosterone.

[00:52:00] I say, well, have you had blood work done? No. Well, why don't you have blood work done first and then decide whether or not you need to be on testosterone? Because that's really the right way to do this. You know this shooting in the dark. Oh, I think I need this, so I think I need, that doesn't get you anywhere.

[00:52:16] And in fact, it'll add symptoms that you don't even need added. We'll get to take a break. Uh, when we come back, we have more questions. Please feel free to post your comments and questions here. If you're on the super human radio network page watching the show, I can put your questions and comments up on the screen.

[00:52:34] We'll be right back with more. Stay tuned

[00:52:37] Coach Rob Regish: [00:52:37] where we use oxygen for the power of

[00:52:40] Carl Lanore: [00:52:40] doing.

[00:52:44] Yeah. I just want to clear something up. If you're watching the show from the Supima radio. A network page, your comments will appear and I can put them up to attribute some of the things you're saying or commenting about to you. If [00:53:00] you're on my personal page, if you're on the superhuman nation page, if you're on any other page at the show has been shared on your comments, don't show up.

[00:53:09] So I saw Henry. Malakov make a comment on another page and then I said that, and then he commented here so we can pay homage to him listening to the show during his covert 19 shutdown. Always great to have him here. He's a super athlete, amazing physique, very, very handsome, very talented dancer. I don't know how these guys dance.

[00:53:30] The way they dance. It's amazing. They, they defy gravity. Henry's one of those people. Okay, so we're going to go on to the blueprint. Tip of the day. It looks like. And then after the blueprint, tip of the day, we're going to take a break and I got a rant for you and coach, I want you to stay with me for the ramp.

[00:53:46] Can you stay? Yeah,

[00:53:48] Coach Rob Regish: [00:53:48] yup.

[00:53:48] Carl Lanore: [00:53:48] Okay. Yeah. Let's get the blueprint. Tip of the day done. And uh, what is the blue, let me get it here. What is the blueprint? Tip of the day, coach?

[00:53:57] Coach Rob Regish: [00:53:57] The tip of the day is, [00:54:00] I call it, the only moment we have is now. So it was this past Saturday, a year ago, I lost a good friend of mine. His name was Doug.

[00:54:12] We shared the same birthday, the same love of training. We graduated the same year from high school, uh, and he had just turned 50. A few months prior, and he was a great guy, and I know everybody says that when somebody dies, but he truly was, he was married with four kids, two sets of twins, three and four years old.

[00:54:39] Saturdays were his leg day. And I'll never forget the last Saturday I saw him, he was sitting under like extension. He was resting in between sets when all four of his little monsters as he called them, came running into the gym and they hopped up on his lap and it was one of the most [00:55:00] heartwarming things you'd ever see.

[00:55:03] The following Thursday, I was training in the gym and my son with my son. When the manager. Uh, came up to me and he, he walked up to me and he said, I've got some bad news. And so since my car had been hit in the parking lot, you know, recently, I jokingly asked him if it happened again. Yeah. And he said, uh, he had, I'll never forget the look stone look on his face.

[00:55:33] He said, no, I'm afraid it's a lot worse than that. Doug was found unresponsive this morning. By his wife, who also teaches cardio classes in the gym, and he was pronounced dead by the EMT shortly after they arrived. The news absolutely stunned me, um, because although he, he had severe issues with arthritis.

[00:55:59] He [00:56:00] looked healthy as a horse, 250 pounds of lean muscle. Y'all, he trained almost every day, and his favorite saying was, and never miss a workout. And by God did he adhere to that? You know, he lived that mantra. He was always training because it was his escape and now he was gone. Just like that. He was a gentle giant.

[00:56:30] He was very soft spoken and humble, very, especially for a guy his size. Um, and that was despite the fact that every joint in his body was riddled with arthritis and by, you know, so to give you an idea, by age 40, he had not one but two hip replacements. So he was in constant pain and it was severe. And you know, if you've never had [00:57:00] severe arthritis, you can't even imagine what those days were like for him.

[00:57:04] You know, from the time he got out of bed to the time he fell asleep, the pain was excruciating, even when he was taking the meds for it. And I mean some pretty heavy duty stuff. But despite that, I never heard him complain once. He was so happy. To be in the gym with his people. It was, it was his escape, you know, it was the place that he felt at home and the place that he called home and we were his extended family.

[00:57:37] And nevertheless, death came. And when it did, it was sudden. And that was a big part of the shock of Oh, of everything because either myself, my wife, or my son, sometimes all three of us saw or spoke with Doug every day, the same way you would see and talk to your family members or the, you [00:58:00] know, spouse or significant other that you live with.

[00:58:03] And then in an instant, he was gone. He was taken from me. He was taken from his family. And his friends by an unseen killer. Later, it was said to be a heart attack, and so we set up a GoFundMe page for him and it speaks volumes that that go fund me page. The goal was 20,000 we blew that out of the water, the gym, mostly gym members and, and got, got up to the 50,000 and change.

[00:58:35] And so I of course, attended the funeral and by the looks of it, hundreds, maybe thousands of other people did too. And waiting in line. You know, I saw all the pictures of the Doug that I knew, right? The guy, he exuded power and he was large and in charge in and out of the gym. When I got to the casket though, [00:59:00] it was obviously a different story.

[00:59:03] And I had great difficulty and still do and reconciling that what I'm talking about is I didn't want to believe he was really dead. The person lying there looked like someone else. It looked, it didn't look like Doug at all. He looked frail. He looked pale. He was obviously dead, but still right. It just played into the fact that, you know, logically I knew he was dead, but I didn't want him to be, I wanted this to be a mistake and there was somebody else was in this casket.

[00:59:43] Um, I didn't want to believe he was gone. I still don't, and I still look for him whenever I'm in the gym. And then shortly after his death, things started getting weird. And now let me be the first to state. I don't, I'm not a believer in any [01:00:00] kind of this stuff, but in the weeks and months that followed, I had some very strange things happen that were well outside the realm of coincidence.

[01:00:12] Um, you know, it was everything from my cell phone playing eighties tunes when I got to the gym and only when I got to the gym and it's not like they were on like playlist. And once I started listening to the lyrics, I got really freaked out. Um, and I, I had visits from this Cardinal that was pecking at my sliding glass door and I kept blowing them off, blowing them off until I got up and actually went out there.

[01:00:43] You can Google what that means some someday when you have time, Google red Cardinals showing up. Um. There were other even more unmistakable signs that I'd rather not go into. Um, but I think [01:01:00] he knew how bad, uh, I was struggling and maybe he wanted me to know he was okay. Which brings me to you. Everyone listening at one point or another in our lives, we tend to take life for granted.

[01:01:22] You know, w we'll get around to seeing our friends are calling them tomorrow except tomorrow. Never comes for some people tomorrow. Never came for Doug. I can assure you that he was thinking, you know, he'd wake up tomorrow just like any other day. As a matter of fact, we had a chance conversation about a week before he died about death.

[01:01:50] And, and he was, he was joking. Yeah, maybe I'll make it to 65 or 70 if he was lucky. And so I remember we laughed about that. [01:02:00] And as it turned out, he had less than a week to live, less than a week with his wife and kids, less than a week's worth of workouts. And less than a week for me to tell him that I loved him like a brother.

[01:02:20] Carl Lanore: [01:02:20] Did you ever get a chance to call him?

[01:02:22] Coach Rob Regish: [01:02:22] I never did that, and, and I need to live with that now, you know, for the rest of my life. I don't want you to live with that kind of regret. So I encourage you to visit with somebody today. That you haven't seen in a while or called him, you know, send a text. Just one person.

[01:02:51] I don't care who, because you never know who won't be around tomorrow, including you. Doug, [01:03:00] absolutely love the strength training community and I just wanted him to know the strength training community loved him too, and we will never ever forget him. Yeah, that's tough.

[01:03:15] Carl Lanore: [01:03:15] I tell a lot of people that I know for a lot of years when I talked to them that I love them now and I know it makes some of them feel weird because I have a couple friends that, you know, average Brooklyn guys.

[01:03:26] It's not something that rolls off the tongue. Yeah, but I say it a lot now. I say, I love you to people that I really love. Often I figured, you know what? Who cares what they think? Like I'm being weird or. What the deal is. I mean, I just feel like it's important at this age. Um, I think it's more important than ever.

[01:03:46] And I did. I did the same thing when my, when my father started showing signs. Yeah. No real signs of aging. Yup. I, um, whenever I hung up the phone, I always told him, [01:04:00] dad, you know, I love you. Right? And yeah, yeah, yeah. And I said, no, no, I'm, I am so fortunate to have you as a father. And I did that a lot at the end of his life, cause I never wanted him to regret anything that he did raising us.

[01:04:13] Um, times were different than men with different than, but it's, it's, you gotta say it. Say it often, say it to people that you really do love when, and most of us feel like saying it. But then we don't, because we don't want to make that person feel uncomfortable. We don't want to make that person feel like they have to say something and reciprocate.

[01:04:32] Say it anyway. You know, I love you. Right. That's it. Just say it, get it out and get it out in the open.

[01:04:37] Coach Rob Regish: [01:04:37] I would have given anything to be able to go back and do that. Um. But like you said, you know, two big strong guys in the gym full of big and strong guys.

[01:04:51] Carl Lanore: [01:04:51] Yeah. Those are words that don't roll off the tongue.

[01:04:54] They just don't.

[01:04:55] Coach Rob Regish: [01:04:55] Right. They don't. So,

[01:04:56] Carl Lanore: [01:04:56] and this is a perfect setup for my rent today. Shoot. [01:05:00] Or we have to take a break first.

[01:05:02] Coach Rob Regish: [01:05:02] Okay.

[01:05:03] Carl Lanore: [01:05:03] But my rant is if I die, it's not because of anything I'm doing, it's because of what I'm not doing. Thanks to my governor here

[01:05:09] Coach Rob Regish: [01:05:09] in Louisville.

[01:05:10] Carl Lanore: [01:05:10] So stay tuned. We'll be right

[01:05:11] back.

[01:05:13] Coach Rob Regish: [01:05:13] This is this superhuman channel.

[01:05:23] Carl Lanore: [01:05:23] So first of all, I have to acknowledge that, uh, John Meadows, a wonderful human being. Bigger than life in the bodybuilding community has contributed to a lot of people's success.

[01:05:35] Coach Rob Regish: [01:05:35] Suffered

[01:05:36] Carl Lanore: [01:05:36] a heart attack the other day.

[01:05:38] Coach Rob Regish: [01:05:38] Oh wow.

[01:05:41] It sounds

[01:05:42] Carl Lanore: [01:05:42] like he is. No one's updated anything, but it sounds like he is. Um, and I actually messaged him on Facebook knowing that his wife, Mary May see the message because I want to get to him to tell him about Thomason, beta four and TaylorMade compounding still has it. And a doctor can [01:06:00] prescribe it.

[01:06:01] And there's very good research that shows that the sooner you get thymus in beta for after a cardiac ischemic or even a brain ischemia, like a stroke, it actually resolves the, uh, the process heals it. And you don't end up with the necrotic tissue that you normally do.

[01:06:20] Coach Rob Regish: [01:06:20] Wow.

[01:06:21] Carl Lanore: [01:06:21] So if anybody's listening to this show.

[01:06:23] Who knows him, ask Mary to check our PMs and I'm happy to intercede and getting them connected with TaylorMade and, uh, getting him by prescription. Not suggesting he'd do anything illegal or, you know, uh, out of the ordinary by prescription, thymus and beta four. Cause as soon as he gets that, the better off he'll be in the future.

[01:06:43] But that brings me to your discussion.

[01:06:49] So I've been quarantined now for 55 days. It's going on two months that I haven't trained. Granted, I do some stuff at home, but it's not the same. [01:07:00] I can't load my body with heavy weight. Get that stretch that keeps my muscles youthful. Um, I can't do the kind of things that really push me into true anaerobic respiration.

[01:07:17] And, and plus I don't have the gung ho mentality. I wake up and I, you know, kettle bells and farmer's walks and an Airdyne bike. It's like, you know, it just, something is missing, something is missing. In fact, I'm going to order a, a rogue, uh, sled after the show today cause I would like to have that. That would be great.

[01:07:36] I had just started doing sprints with the sled before this happened. I was loving it. My lower back felt better. My hamstrings felt better and I was, I was running with it, man. I was, I can't believe I can still sprint with half a foot. This is great news. And then boom, just like that. Sorry. You can't do that anymore.

[01:08:00] [01:08:00] And we have a governor here in Kentucky who thinks that going to the gym AE is dangerous. And B is not important. He thinks liquor stores are important. You know, that's all important. Going out in the sun. That's not important. Um, he thinks that people should absolutely continue to get abortions cause that's important.

[01:08:31] And that's not an abortion. That's not a pro-life pro choice statement. But those things are important. But getting your cancer therapy is an important because a lot of people haven't been back in for their cancer therapy and who knows what's gonna happen to them. But more importantly, if I drop dead in the next couple of weeks, it's not because of what I'm doing.

[01:08:52] It's because of what I'm not doing. I feel horrible. My muscles feel stiff. I've lost a lot of [01:09:00] body mass. There's no doubt in my mind about it. My legs are getting skinny, but. I just feel horrible. I feel old. This is how I would feel at 62 if I didn't do anything like I do, and that's going to kill me if I would have stayed this way.

[01:09:20] Now, luckily he's going to open up June 1st we'll see what that means, but this is the first time in my life I've taken two months off from work. I mean, when I had surgeries, I continued to work out. When I told him I had my left tricep reattached, I've trained my right side of my legs. I mean, when I had my left foot surgery twice in one year, I trained my right leg.

[01:09:41] I was able to train quads and hamstrings doing extensions and, and curls. I mean, I've never not trained and I feel horrible and I can't imagine feeling like this for much longer. Uh, and forget about the mental. Anguish of [01:10:00] not training the Amherst, I feel for losing muscle that I hope I can regain. Uh, but my body is telling me like, we don't like this.

[01:10:09] The muscles are stiff. I wake up in the morning, I don't feel good. I haven't felt good in, in weeks, in weeks. And I know what it's from. Elisa and I talk about it all the time. Elisa will say to me, God, I got to get back into the gym the way people say, I got to go on vacation. The term in my household is I got to get back to the gym.

[01:10:30] This is not right. I don't feel good, and I know that when I walk into the gym feeling like crap, I walk out feeling like King friggin Kong. That's my medicine. This governor here is holding me hostage and not allowing me. To take my medicine. And if you live in a state where your governor thinks. Going to the gym is optional.

[01:10:50] Remember that when it comes time to vote, because nothing is more important than physical culture for keeping us healthy and isn't this always about [01:11:00] healthcare and how much we have to spend on healthcare and everybody needs free healthcare. It's like we are a group that takes responsibility for our health.

[01:11:08] We go to the gym and he's governors all around the country saying, well, no, going to the gym is optional. No, it's not optional. No less optional than having an abortion.

[01:11:18] Coach Rob Regish: [01:11:18] You know, what's incredible is now you and I know that proper training stimulates the immune system, keeps it in tip top function, right?

[01:11:31] But for whatever reason, the only thing that these decision makers associate with the gin. Or germs.

[01:11:38] Carl Lanore: [01:11:38] Yeah. Or germs and germs and uh, and vanity. Oh, all you care about is your muscle. It's like the idiot who keeps saying, Oh, the, all you care about is, is, is the economy and the stock market. When the stock market represents hundreds of millions of jobs, like when, when a company crashes millions of jobs, a loss.

[01:11:58] So we're not talking about [01:12:00] those big things. We're talking about all the little people that are affected. And the same is true about your health and the gym.

[01:12:07] Coach Rob Regish: [01:12:07] Now you, you said you have a date though, right? For your gym reopening.

[01:12:11] Carl Lanore: [01:12:11] Yeah, June 1st but, but you know what? It's going to be social distancing. It's going to print.

[01:12:15] Have, luckily I trained first thing in the morning when the gym is empty or MTR. Let's like I w I would never train after three or four in the afternoon cause that's when all the young people are there. They're all showing off and they're wearing their booty shorts and like, I don't go that, that's not what I go.

[01:12:30] So those people probably going to be really messed up. But I go early in the morning and I'm hoping. That I won't have a problem showing up and working out on day one because I, so I'm like a junkie right now. I need a fix. So frigging bad. But it's not like for my brain, it's not because I want to look me up cause I still look more muscular than the average 62 year old.

[01:12:51] That's not what it's about. That exercise, that workout saves my life. It's life saving.

[01:13:00] [01:13:00] Coach Rob Regish: [01:13:00] Yeah. And people, I guess people don't realize how mental health is, is just as affected as one's physical health. And I don't know if we have no end game up here. There is no June 1st. They have said nothing about reopening gyms and I have a bad feeling.

[01:13:22] Gyms will be one of the last places. If they reopened. And you know, the crazy thing is this, before the state stepped in and closed all of them, our gym was functioning just fine with some modifications. One of those was 25 people out in one room where most of the free weights were, and they have a back conditioning room where other Prowers and everything else are 25 people in that.

[01:13:51] And you know what. Everything was just fine. Nobody was dropping like flies. There was no talk about anybody [01:14:00] got, you know, getting infected. And unfortunately the state came in, looked at, and like I said earlier, the only thing they can see when they look at gyms they think are vain people and a germ big germ pool.

[01:14:16] Right, right, right. And so what they don't see is. Human beings need to move. They need to feel, uh. That they are doing something

[01:14:31] Carl Lanore: [01:14:31] strenuous. Exercise. Look, gyms have been a replacement for labor. We used the labor from the days, from our first beginnings. We labored all day long to find food, to raise children, to stay away from.

[01:14:46] Getting killed by bears. We worked hard. Move forward to the 16 1718 hundreds the agriculture, we worked hard. Farmers still work hard. We have always worked until now. Now it's all about being slothful and lazy and those more [01:15:00] full and the more lazy you are, the bigger and fatter you get. And you are the people that are actually susceptible from dying from this pandemic, not me, not you, and not healthy people.

[01:15:10] This pandemic kills weak, sick people, and quite frankly, I said this yesterday. And I'm sure I'm going to get heat for saying this again, but if we would just let this virus cut through the population, you know what to get rid of, it'll get rid of all the people that are costing us billions of dollars on healthcare today.

[01:15:29] Now I know that's a really horrible thing to say, but I'm just, I'm just, I don't want people to die, but I'm just being real. I'm just being accurate. That's who will die from this virus, this sick slope, full unhealthy people.

[01:15:44] Coach Rob Regish: [01:15:44] You'd also have more people with antibodies, right, that are prepared to knock this thing out.

[01:15:51] And maybe what comes after it and by, you know, sequestering us, uh,

[01:16:00] [01:15:59] Carl Lanore: [01:15:59] we're just prolonging it. I just didn't, I just did. So every day at the end of my show, I've been doing rants about coven. So if we were like, let's just say. Like the government had so much money. They said, everybody stay home. We're going to put pools in your backyard so you can have fun, but we need everybody to stay quarantined for a year.

[01:16:21] When we started to come out again in a year, this fires, we'll pick up where it left off in order for this virus to stop. You can't kill it by, it doesn't die if you've been infected with it, you still carry the virus. You just have the antibody and it doesn't do anything. As soon as you come in contact with other people, you start to transmit it again.

[01:16:39] That's how viruses, because the truth is if, if that wasn't the case. We wouldn't have seasonal flu year after year after year. It would. We would, we would kill it one year with all the vaccines, or maybe let's say three years, because the vaccine is only 55% effective. So everybody would build up immunity over the course of three years, and then the seasonal flu would go away.

[01:16:58] It doesn't go away. It [01:17:00] mutates. It stays in the population. Where do you think it's living. When it's outside seasonal flu, you think it's living in the tree outside your house. It's in your body, and then you either catch it or you give it to somebody else. So the only way to get over this coven 19 thing is to let it run its course once 60% of the population has had it, and most of them don't have symptoms.

[01:17:23] By the way, a great article was published this morning that shows. The higher your 25 hydroxy levels, vitamin D levels, the less likely you are to even have symptoms from it, nevermind, die from it. So once we let it burn through the population, we develop herd immunity, then we have a chance of never having it come back around and remember vaccines only 45 to 50% effective, and they're even less effective in obese people.

[01:17:51] Think about that. The people that we need to protect the most from this virus, it's only going to work on like maybe two out of five. That's [01:18:00] it.

[01:18:01] Coach Rob Regish: [01:18:01] Yeah. And if you remember, I dug up some research showing that, uh, even a substandard night's sleep is going to really subvert the effectiveness of any vaccine they come up with.

[01:18:15] Carl Lanore: [01:18:15] Yeah. I've got, I'm sorry.

[01:18:17] Coach Rob Regish: [01:18:17] It's just, here's the bottom line. Your immune system as it exists today is the first and probably is going to be the last line of defense, and it's going to determine whether you get the sniffles or you

[01:18:31] Carl Lanore: [01:18:31] die. So let me read this, these a couple of good comments from listeners.

[01:18:36] Okay. So ScaleIO is saying New York state is headed for a pension crisis. We already have one here in Kentucky, by the way. That's why Matt Bevin got voted out because all the school teachers want the dis Gerkin whose father created the pension crisis. Steve Beshear created the pension crisis. They just voted his son in office to fix it.

[01:18:56] That, I mean, people don't even do what's in their [01:19:00] best interest in this country, which I don't even understand. So he says New York is headed for a pension crisis, much like Italy. We were 6 billion in deficit before the pandemic. Now we're 13 billion. How convenient to suppress fitness son, keep people locked in with other potentially sick household members to impose fear and hysteria and keeping glued to the mainstream media narrative.

[01:19:25] 66% of people contracting Cobra, 19 in New York state so far are in household from other members. They're not out. Cuomo just talked about this. Cuomo killed 5,000 elderly people. He has the blood of 5,000 LD because he put, so family members would not allow to visit their relatives in nursing homes for fear of giving the elderly covert.

[01:19:49] But what did he do? He forced nursing homes to take, to accept patients with covert 19. Completely exposing the elderly [01:20:00] population in those nursing homes to covert 19 and they all died 50 5,500 of the deaths in in New York. Oh, from inside nursing homes because of this moron who's running this state and you who voted for him, you have your bigger morons.

[01:20:18] Those of you who voted for this guy or a bigger morons, you put this idiot, this brainless moron, and I'm Italian, he's Italian. You know, I got nothing against the guy from a personal standpoint, but as a performer in government, he's a moron. And if you vote for him again, you deserve what you get.

[01:20:38] Coach Rob Regish: [01:20:38] So, so let me make sure I understand.

[01:20:41] Instead of letting people into nursing homes that may be effective with colon, he led people in that they knew for certain

[01:20:49] Carl Lanore: [01:20:49] they were sick, they were sick, and then he put him there with the elderly people. So you and I couldn't visit our mother in a nursing home because, Oh, you may give her coven, but let's go ahead and take sick patients who [01:21:00] have coven and forced nursing homes to let them convalesce there.

[01:21:05] Coach Rob Regish: [01:21:05] God, he killed 50

[01:21:08] Carl Lanore: [01:21:08] he killed 5,500 elderly people unnecessarily and, and he should go to jail for this. I'm not kidding around. He should go to jail for what he did. And the moron is just trying to accumulate more debt so that the government will come and bail him out of the debt he created before this whole thing came around.

[01:21:26] But I don't think they're going to do that for them. I really don't. I don't think he's going to get what he wants. Rigo Vargas who came on the show. And talked about his experience with the beef, strong bands. By the way, if you go to be strong.training and order the upper arm bands only and use the code SHR instead of two 88 they're one 99 getting back to the discussion about building bigger biceps are Jim's here.

[01:21:49] In ms. That's Mississippi, right? Yeah. Opened yesterday. I haven't been this site about working out in a long time. Stay strong, brother. June 1st is right [01:22:00] around the corner. We'll come faster than you think. Yes, I know. I can't wait, but Rigo man, I feel I expect it to be like I just bought a motorcycle. I expected my 62nd birthday to be uneventful, meaning that I'm strong, I'm healthy.

[01:22:15] And now I'm sincerely telling you that I feel like if I died next week, it's because I stopped training for two months. I really believe that. I'm not just saying that

[01:22:26] Coach Rob Regish: [01:22:26] there are consequences, right? I mean, that's, that's just how it is. And I certainly hope it doesn't happen, but there are some decisions being made that, like you said, are costing peoples lives.

[01:22:38] And. Frankly, when this whole thing's over, we shouldn't send a nice bill to China.

[01:22:44] Carl Lanore: [01:22:44] This is not, yes, I agree. China must pay for this for every country that they destroyed, but this is not Democrat or Republican. This is critical thinking and intelligence. If your governor is devoid of evidence of intelligence, then you need to make sure that you don't vote for them ever [01:23:00] again.

[01:23:00] The guy in Illinois, for instance, now, just think about this one thing. If you own a boat and you want to take it out on, what is it? One of the, one of the great lakes that that is in Illinois, you're only allowed to have two people on the boat, the driver and a passenger. Now think about this. He was asked to, I don't even know his name because I'm not a political person.

[01:23:23] He was asked this question during a press conference. What if a family of four wants to take their boat out? He says, no, only two can go. So they'll have though. Now think about this for a second. They live in the same house. They crap in the same bathroom. They eat from the same utensils and from the same table, but they can't get on a boat and go out on the Lake.

[01:23:45] This is evidence of ignorance. This is evidence of lack of intelligence. We can't keep voting people into office because we like them or because, Oh, that's somebody I'd like to have a beer with. We need to start voting for people have frigging intelligent views [01:24:00] about life.

[01:24:02] Coach Rob Regish: [01:24:02] Yeah. It's really, it's a good example of the, you know, some people, they say they're apolitical.

[01:24:08] Well, whether you're Democrat or Republican, there are people in positions making decisions that can affect your life in incredible ways, more so than you could possibly know. And, and this pandemic is just a, you know. It's a good example of one. It

[01:24:25] Carl Lanore: [01:24:25] brings it to that look. You know what I'm for? I'm for IQ tests for politicians and they have to post their IQ when they run for office.

[01:24:34] I'm for IQ tests for politicians. That's what I'm for. Lee, why shouldn't, like if you own the company, would you hire a stupid person to run it? You've got your life invested in it. This is no different than when we vote for a governor, a mayor, anything. If you vote for stupid people, they're going to destroy you, destroy your economy, destroy your city, destroy your state.

[01:24:55] Now you have a choice. You don't have to vote for stupid people, but we need to start to be able [01:25:00] to identify stupid people. We don't. I say from now on, maybe we'll start a movement. Every politician must take and post their IQ before they will get voted for. That would be a great thing because we will see all the stupid people right up front.

[01:25:15] Then. That's it. Now I know somebody in the audience will say, well, IQ tests are okay, fine. You tell me what tests, but we need to know that we're voting for people that have some modicum of intelligence since they are running a business, and that business is called our city, our state, our country. That's the business we are the board of.

[01:25:34] We are the stockholders. They are the board of directors, and they end the executives. So we need to make sure we're hiring people that are fit for the job, not just, Oh, they're handsome, or his father was our mayor, or governor, or, or I'd have a beer with that guy. He seems so nice. You know what, there's a lot of homeless people I'd have beers with, but I wouldn't let them run my country.

[01:25:56] Coach Rob Regish: [01:25:56] Yeah, that's a good point. That's it.

[01:25:58] Carl Lanore: [01:25:58] So I, I'm working [01:26:00] hard not to die. Because I really feel horrible and I blame it on this frigging governor. And I'll tell you something else real quick before we go. Our gym was open in the beginning of this and then they abruptly closed it down. I'll bet you nobody in the gym got covert 19 and we were all there.

[01:26:16] We will all talk about it. I wasn't even wiping the machines out, people wiping the machines out. I was like, no, I don't worry about that. Don't worry about

[01:26:22] Coach Rob Regish: [01:26:22] that. Yeah. Well that was my point earlier. You know, same thing was going on in my gym before they closed it. Nobody was dropping like flies. In fact, I didn't hear a single person that had it from the gym.

[01:26:34] Yeah.

[01:26:35] Carl Lanore: [01:26:35] This is we, we are being in the words of, of, uh, of Malcolm X will being hoodwinked by our politicians right now we are, this is not about keeping you healthy. It's not about saving lives. If it was about saving lives, we would, they would have started talking about getting tobacco off the market a decade ago.

[01:26:53] That takes 1.5 million people a year. Do the math. That's like 1,000,001 every month. [01:27:00] Die from tobacco use. Every month, but that's okay because the government makes tax money on that. And so the, the truth of the matter is you can kill people in the United States as long as the government gets their money.

[01:27:11] That's the God's honest truth. Argue, fight me on that. I want somebody to tell me that I'm wrong about that. I'm just going to use tobacco as the example to win that argument. Government doesn't care about our health. They don't care about, they care about votes. They care about staying in power. They care about their pensions.

[01:27:27] They care about the golden parachute that they live under for the rest of their lives. That's what they care about. Their families being protected. They don't care about you and me. If they cared about you and may they be fighting to get tobacco off the market.

[01:27:39] Coach Rob Regish: [01:27:39] Right.

[01:27:40] Carl Lanore: [01:27:40] All right. That's it for today.

[01:27:41] Tomorrow is Wednesday. I don't even know what show. We have some really good shows this week. Thanks to Alyssa. Hey Rob. Thanks for letting me rant and stay in and staying with me on that.

[01:27:49] Coach Rob Regish: [01:27:49] Thank you. All right, man. Good luck. Make it. You're going to make it to June 1st

[01:27:53] Carl Lanore: [01:27:53] after that rant. I feel better. Maybe that's what, I just need to do that every day and that'll keep my heart ticking.

[01:27:59] There you go. [01:28:00] I will see everybody tomorrow. Thanks for being here. Thanks for sharing the show. Thanks for participating. Take care. Stay

[01:28:05] Coach Rob Regish: [01:28:05] strong.