Coach Rob Regish
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[00:01:27] I clipped your intro Rob. Sorry about that. How you. I am doing great and the terrific work out yesterday and healthy and couldn't ask for more. You know, I just threw a piece of nicotine gum in my mouth just so people understand why I'm chewing something because today is my second day completely caffeine free and I mean completely not even T.
[00:01:48] Yeah, you know nicotine comes with its own issues, but even you know use judiciously. There are some excellent research around it firing up neurons in the [00:02:00] brain and leaving to increased momentary muscular strength. So, you know instead of maybe the Pre-Workout that you've been using try to milligrams of nicotine before workout Watch what it does.
[00:02:14] That's all I did. I took a for milligram tab or you know, chicklet whatever you want to call a little gum. Yeah, peace and I cut it in half and I wrapped it up in some real gum because this is the flavorless nicotine gum, which really tastes like crap. Yeah, you can't do flavored. Yeah, so I mix it up with the little spearmint 5 Gum and it kills the taste.
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[00:03:58] Please do take advantage [00:04:00] of it. So the first question comes from Jerry Rogers. He says what's your philosophy on back training? I'm doing all the usual movements and nothing's really working for me. My back is like my calves for most other people stubborn muscle group, and I've thrown everything I know at it.
[00:04:19] Thanks. Generally speaking the back legs behind the muscles on the front of the body. And I think that's a function of one right people. Don't see they're back in the mirror and to that training is hard work, you know next to leg training. It's the next Harvest having said that here's what I would recommend general rule of thumb vertical rows for with.
[00:04:48] And horizontal rows for sickness since most people lack the ladder, you know, your go-to movements. There should be I think you either barbell rows or one arm dumbbell rows [00:05:00] variations on that theme are also useful such as you know, you can stick one end of a barbell in the corner load up the other end with 45 straddle it.
[00:05:11] And you don't start rolling some people use that V handle attachment on the CV cable row. That's also an excellent movement in truth. The barbell on the corner row is more of a 45-degree one, but it's still a great movement to build thickness. Now. I favor performing ladders using low reps and then reverse ladders using the same rep scheme.
[00:05:39] So if if your regular ladders or 1 through 5, you know, three of those reverse ladders are. Five down to one. It's the same total rep count, but it's psychologically a lot easier. At least that's what people tell me. So to finish I would much prefer [00:06:00] the seated pull over machine. If you have one not every gym does every in the reason for that is this every other type of row suffers from the same weak link your biceps meaning.
[00:06:16] The biceps being much smaller and less powerful muscles will always fail before your last which means they will never truly their never truly. Text to their limits. So the pullover gets around that by taking the biceps out of the equation, you know, effectively allowing you to truly exhaust the lat for those wanting a much deeper dive on that issue.
[00:06:44] You can Google Arthur Jones 1970 Iron Man magazine think it's the junior of the July issue the title of the article is. Nautilus pull over the upper body squat believe me this [00:07:00] is information. You're going to want to get your hands on you will walk away a Believer and after trying it it'll erase any doubt in your mind.
[00:07:09] The pullover is perhaps the finest back exercise you can do and in combination with things like deadlifts chin-ups and you know, the other exercises I. Are all you will need to build a truly impressive back. The last thing I'll say about this is there are a lot of guys that look big from the front in the back because their wives turn them sideways though, and it's another story.
[00:07:38] You see somebody from the side that's thick as a brick you're dealing with one strong individual and you get that doing horizontal and makes plain wrong. Johnny Gray says, I'm north of 40 now and I really feeling it which he gets a 60 brother your point about not recovering any more like when I was younger is indisputable.
[00:07:58] I just don't recover like I used to [00:08:00] can't do as much work when I do train and I'm not sleeping much either that's a sad thing if you were to recommend one or two products to use what would they be? well, my first stop will be HRT or at least getting your levels checked, but. You know this thing whenever I have this conversation with guys at the gym, nobody disputes the fact that as you get older, you don't recover as fast I can't think of a single person who's ever disagreed with me on that point.
[00:08:31] So it's no surprise Johnny doesn't add to that. He discernible. Excuse me. Let's call losing of your Edge and I can almost guess the age of a person to within a few years. There are a couple products on the supplement front to look into so let's talk about any of the following taken solo will make a discernible difference adaptogen m.
[00:09:00] [00:09:00] Synth engine or progenitor X. So if your Chief roadblock is adding lean body mass. I would tell you progenitor X is going to be the winner hands down and the reason being is you will finally. Be able to eat in the simile more like you did when you were younger. It also contains a very efficient form of creatine along with some creatine amplifiers that make sure you are a creatine responder.
[00:09:32] It will put weight on you. But here's the best part. Most of them are not good. They're going to be good quality pounds. None of it around the waist which is a big problem with simple overfeeding especially as you get older, you know, it's also the cheapest of the two options. I'm going to give the real coup de gras for most older lifters.
[00:09:55] Is the definition of incentives, you know, you've heard me talk about symptom [00:10:00] long time on this program suffice it to say it's probably the most noticeable natural product you'll ever take for Recovery adaptogen n on the other hand is a terrific all around her in its own right and much of that is because of its time so adaptogens of nighttime formula.
[00:10:22] By taking two to three caps say 45 minutes before bed you sleep a lot better than without it and much of that. Yes due to the melatonin in there but a lesser-known benefit of Tribulus is the distinct relaxation effect particularly in high dosages and three caps of adaptogen and contains a whopping 1,500 milligrams of real Bulgarian Tribulus, which is the highest dose that I'm aware of.
[00:10:51] It also contains a custom Suma 25 to 1 extract and if you shop around you'll notice the next [00:11:00] strongest version is it's a piddly five to one extra does nothing.
[00:11:08] Summa is a. Superb adaptogen possesses some relaxation properties of its own largely due to the oxygenation of tissues given its high germanium content. If it's not the highest it's one of the top plants with germanium and the rest of the formula will Elevate test and igf-1 not to Super physiological level.
[00:11:37] Enough to give you that edge back you feel like you can do more in the gym with synth engine you actually, you know, you will be able to do more to take full advantage of it. It is a big eye-opener when someone starts using what I'll call professional grade products, especially if they've been using the [00:12:00] Kitty stuff for a long time you show me a guy.
[00:12:04] Who's using your over-caffeinated pre-workout and the cheap way protein and then you switch them over to adaptogen and sent the gym Watch What Happens it is? I've never had a guy come back to me and say, you know, I can't feel anything, but they come back and Lisi wow big difference. So. Speaking of a caffeine day to for you day to no caffeine whatsoever.
[00:12:36] And I'm feeling it. I really am feeling it. I'm not I'm not saying that I mean, I feel lethargic. I'm sleeping better. I can tell you that first two nights without caffeine. I slept really much deeper. No doubt about it. Who was the highest we take anagram? Oh, man, I stopped counting it. I was using well over a gram every single day.
[00:12:56] I mean between between [00:13:00] supplements and coffee. Absolutely. Yeah, you know, I don't even know I saw one of those iced Cafe americanos. I get a large iced cafe Americano and as for espresso shots in. The reason I get it I Stephen in the cold weather because I can drink it and literally a minute when and Bam.
[00:13:24] I feel that caffeine right away. You know. Wow, so. Yeah. I've been overdoing it too long and I have a funny feeling that I'm going to a lot of issues that I've been having is going to go away. Have you trained without it yet this morning I train legs but you know training legs for me right now is no I mean not even do leg presses today.
[00:13:43] Yep. I mean, my foot is killing me. I have surgery set up to the weekend and the week after Thanksgiving. Yeah, ironically the anniversary of my show the week of the anniversary of my show that the. Thirteen year anniversary of the show. That's the week that [00:14:00] I'm going for hot to drink. He is man.
[00:14:02] That's a real Testament to you. And either that or I'm too stupid to stop one of these, you know, I've been thinking about that. I you know, I'm really thinking about what I want the next 13 years to look like and I don't think I want to just do what I'm doing now for another 13 years. It's got to change something better has to come of it.
[00:14:20] I mean, it's good, but it can be better. Let's put it that way. Well, so we're going to go ahead and on that note take a break and when we come back, we've got lots more questions. You're listening to the blueprint Power Hour go to Coach Rob register.com today to learn more. We'll be right back.
[00:14:37] Welcome back. The next question comes from the Larry Henning. He's I just heard Charles polycon died. Do you know why? Yes. For those unfamiliar Charles was a Canadian strength coach of much renowned. So during the mid 90s when Bill Phillips is muscle media was red-hot. He [00:15:00] brought forth Charles to the masses.
[00:15:02] So to speak explaining how he helped work absolute magic in the weight room with them in a single session Phyllis described how he took his work out to an entirely new level. There was really no need to do that. You know Bill supplement machine was absolutely cranking most men won't invest a dime, you know in a personal trainer, but I do think he saw the viability of Charles having a column in muscle Media or writing articles Charles was actually very well educated man and passionate about his profession before anybody had really heard of them.
[00:15:46] He taught himself German of a few other European languages given the predominant strength information at the time was printed, you know, mostly in European countries. [00:16:00] So poliquin is perhaps most famous. For promoting German volume training in the United States He maintained several training facilities both in you know, both of the states and also in Canada.
[00:16:17] And he trains Olympic athletes and HL and several other professional athletes as well as people from all walks of life. The latest word is that Charles died of a heart attack. I believe he was in his late 50s 57 Maybe. Of course always brings up, you know the topic of steroids but quite honestly, there's no evidence to support that fact, even if he was taking steroids, you know, I know people that have drafted in their 50s from from heart attacks, they never train today in their life.
[00:16:56] Never mind took steroids. I'm going to [00:17:00] close with an interesting anecdote because it speaks to how much of a quiet understanding in our community when someone passes away, especially someone that's young Matt demel you remember him? No, I really don't he was a lifter website barbell in the 90s. One of the strongest in the world is in his 20s.
[00:17:27] So when he died someone asked Louis simmons-howe here was Louise answer. Matt died like he lived big and strong you got any more questions. Nope, so, you know. 12:12 this stuff for me for whatever reason did not work. Well, I did not do well German volume training and did not do well with his one [00:18:00] six principal.
[00:18:01] Maybe I didn't understand it. Well enough. I'm not sure but. You know what? The guy left his Mark and that's more than you can say for most people right? So I was supposed to do a tribute show and I don't know what happened and we missed and there's a couple guys that knew Charles really well up in Canada and I do have to do it.
[00:18:25] So Charles Charles had a heart problem like 20 years ago and it's just never going away and you're right. Everybody jumped on the steroids is some girl. That I really you know, I'm usually not too aggressive on Facebook, but some girl posted steroids. That's all she posted under when the announcement came that Charles had died.
[00:18:51] A lot of people including myself, you know, we were shocked. Because that's young 57. I'm [00:19:00] 60. That's young 50s. So, you know and this one girl. Posted steroids and I really came out strong. And I called her a lot of names to rightfully so and especially because he wasn't there to defend himself against the slander and the truth of the matter is that Charles had a heart problem 20 years ago and it just never went away.
[00:19:25] He's always had it. He's you know, he's lived an amazing life most people with that type of a hard problem and I think it was a form of. Cardiomyopathy. I'm not sure most people would have been relegated to the you know, sitting on a sofa watching The View and and praying not to die and Charles lived his life.
[00:19:48] He traveled around the world. He spoke he still lifted. He stayed strong and and vital and you know, Part of the reason that she [00:20:00] pissed me off. I called her a vapid b word as one of the things you know because it's so low to just come on out and say something like that without knowing anything about the guy and then she tried to tell me that she knows bodybuilders and I said you don't know any body builders because if you did one of them would slap you for saying this but.
[00:20:23] Because you know the day after I die, that's what everybody's going to say about me. Well, you know, he admitted to using steroids and and I know use a lot of peptides but meanwhile some fat ass, you know, who hasn't done anything in his life, but be fat and get fatter will die of a heart attack and no one will ever go food.
[00:20:46] Food food he did food man. He did food that acid food. He killed him. No, no and you know why that is Rob work because mediocre. Mindless people [00:21:00] hate anyone who has goals and Achieve them in life. And when they die, they want to blame the goal. See that's why I never did those things. I never made anything of myself.
[00:21:10] I never got strong because look he died because of that. No, he didn't die because of that anymore than some guy is dying right this second while we're doing the show can be blamed for anything that no one blames anything in his lifestyle. Yeah, no. No, I have my own theories as to why people accuse anyone that has more muscles in them.
[00:21:32] They must use steroids. But when the gelatin and I you you and I we talked about it, it's because they don't have the willpower or the strength of character to apply themselves for a goal like that for 10 years in a row. Without deviating. So it's easier for them to just say oh, well, it's just steroids and I don't do steroids.
[00:21:58] So I'll never [00:22:00] that's Joe Biden. That's Joe Biden you I could have been a pro baseball player had I wanted to take steroids. No, Joe you never could have been a pro baseball player. You don't have any of the markings of a real athlete and basically what he did that day. Was he slapped every hard-working athlete in the face and reduced all of their hard work and lifelong effort to a drug.
[00:22:26] I know anyone could do what you do if they want to take a drug. I've always said people accuse others of steroid use because it sure beats the alternative of admitting. He worked harder than me exactly exactly for the my home. And and and if and when I die I can tell you what's going to take me it's going to be the same this neurological disorder that I'm fighting against that my sister had it took her life.
[00:22:56] It's working on my legs. I'm trying to [00:23:00] I'm trying to overcome it, but I won't be able to truly overcome until after my foot surgery, but my legs. They don't want to move like they used to move. It's the weirdest thing. I can't explain it. I literally have to think hard about certain things. And and and I know it's familial my Aunt Kay had this my father had it to a mild degree, but my sister had it and they misdiagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
[00:23:26] Otherwise, she would live long. If the Parkinson's meds that killed my sister I let's go to another question here. We have one from Ramon Sevilla. No said severely severely. I'm sorry, Ramon. What's the best way to teach someone to squat the best way to teach someone the squad I think is really twofold number one explain that if they can use a toilet seat.
[00:23:51] They can Squat and number two. If you're going to teach a weighted version of the squat use the box one with respect [00:24:00] to point number one what I'm really saying here. Is don't over most people overthink it when you ask them to squat with a barbell all of a sudden that motion that they perform every day.
[00:24:12] They can't do it. You know, we all perform that same movement of a regular basis and the only thing that throws people is the fact that you know, they have a barbell on their shoulders. So teach it with just an empty barbell or. If need be a broomstick things usually go wrong when people overthink the mechanics of the squat.
[00:24:36] I tell them to just let it happen second and related. The Box Squad is a simple extension of your bathroom work the same motion you sit down onto a toilet you pause sometimes for a long time and then you come back up, you know. When your box squatting the pauses a lot [00:25:00] shorter, but it's the same basic setup.
[00:25:04] And now the few pointers that are they you know, I think you should teach our number one on the box. What squat down and back okay, and then simply reverse the motion by rocking. slowly forward and then coming back up. Positive for at least one count on the box and then really need to emphasize this.
[00:25:32] Stay tight when you're down there now along the way your trainee will be building into their cert central nervous system. The memory of exactly where parallel is provided you set it up correctly and they'll squat to that depth. Even when you take the box away. You will also know your squat depth is perfectly consistent every rep of every session.
[00:25:59] It's not going to be too [00:26:00] high not going to be too low. And in that fashion, the trainee won't be able to get carried away with heavier weights in poor form. You've all seen it before right as the weight gets heavier the squats get higher, you know, there's no such problem with the Box finally and this is a big one because it presents a severe injury.
[00:26:26] Do not allow your trainee to drop onto the box under any circumstance. I mean think about it. You've got all that kinetic energy crashing into the box and then it only has one place to go straight into the you know, your trainees discs and vertebrae if your trainee can't sit gently on the box after a 3 second.
[00:26:49] Let's say negative the weights to have. No, keep them at the same weight or even lighten up for two to three workouts before gradually [00:27:00] increasing it. Another five pounds of body weight squats certainly get on herbal mention here people vastly underestimate them, you know, especially when you do them one leg at a time.
[00:27:13] I think Brooks cubic 7 body weight squats are the perfect. Exercise you should do them every day or close to everything. I know for myself as my get really up there in age. I'll be doing bodyweight squats and lots of to great heart and lung workouts. Oh hell. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah and and you know something it's funny told her box squats and I'm with you on this about box squats.
[00:27:46] I see people. Doing very heavy box squats and they come down onto the box and they come down with such impact and then they sit and then they roll their hips. [00:28:00] They rolled it the lower hips. They roll their lower hips almost like they hips are going to touch their ribcage and then they launch back up and all I think of is.
[00:28:09] This person is going to have viewed lumbar spine problems later on in the yeah. Yeah and my gym, it's even worse they'll crash into the box, but they'll bounce off it. They've hit they won't even pause unless they're moving. You know, they're losing rather the main advantage of the lift. In fact, in fact, I would offer that if you're going to teach yourself to box Squad teach yourself to touch and go first.
[00:28:33] Where you bunches touches the box and then you come back up with it get that control down to before you start sitting down with the weight on your shoulders. Yeah, he sit down with any velocity and your information trouble. But your analogy of you can sit on a toilet bowl you can squat is exactly what Lewis Simmons teaches when Lewis Simmons teaches the squad he tells people [00:29:00] the first thing to move is your butt.
[00:29:03] The hinge you have your hips must go back first like you're searching for a chair. If you if you back up to a seat, you know where it is, and I'm going to sit on it. The first thing that moves is your butt your butt breaks the line the straight line that your body is your butt breaks it and it starts to go back as you're searching for the seat and by doing that your torso starts to come forward.
[00:29:28] To counterbalance the weight of your but going backwards and he teaches that emphatically you squat the way you sit the way you look for a seat behind you. That's how you squat your butt moves first. I wasn't aware. He taught it like that. That's good, too. I have an interview that I did with him.
[00:29:49] 13 years ago and it was it was he couldn't come on the show live when I was at Clear Channel because of the time of day. So I agreed to record [00:30:00] his interview. I had a cheap digital recorder app on my my computer and I have to find the interview. It sounds like he's on Mars. This is buzzing noise in the background his voice sounds like he's talking through a kazoo and it was terrible because he taught how to squat on my show and and I'll never forget it, but I can't use it.
[00:30:26] It sounds so horrible that no one would listen to it for any length of time. Very sad, very very sad. Let's go ahead and hit the next question with Jim long and he says I've been taking beta alanine for around two months now and I can't tell if it's working or not. Is this typical? I thought I'd at least noticed an increase in muscle endurance.
[00:30:46] Yeah, you know last week I spoke to Beta alanine undermining. Usually the bigger goal of actually sympathizing new muscle tissue and that again was due to the fact that it has [00:31:00] to borrow any essential amino acid l histidine in order. To elevate levels of old carnosine it turns out however that you know, that's only one function the body will use it for before it can go about increasing, you know, these intracellular buffering compounds.
[00:31:20] So during intense exercise large amounts of beta alanine are recruited by the body. To repair our ma meaning the beta-alanine you're taking might not actually be elevating. Your carnosine levels is much as you think one compound that's been shown to significantly increase carnosine levels in the body is erotic acid with one study showing dramatic increases after just four weeks of use not only that, but I'll call it our way.
[00:31:56] Sure things up. Oh wait jacks up [00:32:00] ATP levels as well. In fact, it's the only compound that increases in three distinct ways. It enhances the amount of ribose 5-phosphate which is a molecule. It's important for energy production that leads to elevated ATP regeneration second. It increases the pool of your Addie model phosphate which spares ATP from being used to create various nucleotides, which ultimately leaves more ATP available for energy production, finally.
[00:32:38] Oh a also supports the production of elevated glycogen stores from anaerobic glycolysis, which is the next Energy System after ATP is exhaustive which subsequently improves an athlete's ability to regenerate ATP. And here's the big [00:33:00] one. During exercise. In fact some Research indicates that it boosts ATP is much as a hundred and twenty one percent in muscle tissue.
[00:33:11] So with OA you get more ATP and more muscle carnosine and none of the downsides of beta alanine now, We may get all the Press is the ultimate endurance boosting compound but in truth or erotic acid performs just as well. If not better the advantage of all way is that it doesn't get sidetracked and that's what I'll call it into repairing RNA.
[00:33:40] It's solely focused on increasing muscle glycogen ATP levels and. Muscle carnosine. Here's the bottom line if you're using beta alanine, but you're still plagued by substantial stamina or endurance and you should be noticing those [00:34:00] effects. You may want to give Cynthia gemma's try you've got or rather erotic acid in it.
[00:34:07] I'll never forget when I found that compound. I would tell you it is the it is the Tie that binds the rest of the formula. Together and you will certainly see a difference when you supplement OE with the beta alanine and certainly without. we're going to take a quick commercial break and when we come back, let's see who the next question is from.
[00:34:34] We have a question from where is it? Ricky price you listening to the blueprint Power Hour with Coach Rob rubbish. Stay tuned.
[00:34:46] Welcome back.
[00:34:51] So Ricky price says great show and I really enjoyed listening to every episode. I'm interested in buying a home gym and curious to know what items [00:35:00] you'd deem worthy of my expenditure. Well, that's an interesting question and the whole gym. It's certainly growing and there's there's one big reason for it.
[00:35:15] It's called Planet Fitness. Okay, which is to say serious men who want to lift serious weights are discriminated against by Planet Fitness, you know, and that's ALK with Society. So there's really only one alternative and a lot of places build your own home gym. I have done that. It certainly takes a while is beyond the outlay financial outlay can be substantial.
[00:35:45] You're going to want to start with a good power wreck. Okay, a power rack and adjustable bench and the 300 pound weight set. Is our RV, you know? Guts [00:36:00] over home gym. And your you'll be able to do plenty with that. You can squat you can bench and you can do this and you can do all of that in safety, which is important.
[00:36:14] So that will get you you know started on the big basic movements. Where guys get hung up a little bit is benching inside a power rack. It can be done and done well, but you need to make sure you set the safeties at the appropriate height and please don't do that with weight on the bar do it with just an empty bar first to assure yourself that you can escape from.
[00:36:43] Journeys where you go from there depends on your budget your goals and and available time. Some people might want to buy power blocks. Okay, or like selectorized dumbbells, which are solid [00:37:00] addition. But so too. Would be a good chin dip station The Hip belt squat. I have always spoken highly of fantastic piece of Home equipment bands chains and other odds and ends.
[00:37:16] Interesting Lee enough this past weekend. I got a preview of what I'll call a machine, but it's much more like lifting free weights versus any machine. I've been up they can be used for box squats deadlifts standing ab work. Dips Chin's push up step up, you know the number of exercises really only limited by your imagination.
[00:37:41] It's one of those things where you think why hasn't anyone thought of this before I can't say much more about it since it's. Patent pending, but if I already had a power rack this thing would be next on my list even before the adjustable bench. What makes it [00:38:00] unique as a lever arm that you can get allows you to deload.
[00:38:05] Let's say I'm a dead lift from the floor, but it reloads it. You know as you pull back up now it is true. You can do that same thing with bands, but. You never quite know how many pounds the bands are deloading at the bottom, you know with this thing, you know to the pound and can thus incrementally decrease that value little by little until you're pulling your desired weight?
[00:38:34] Same deal for you know, Jim's dips box squats excetera. And because nobody's figured this very precise way of training out. It represents a new and to me really exciting Avenue towards greater strength. Now, I will talk more about it when it becomes available. It is not mine. I have no vested interest in it, [00:39:00] but you know, I wish.
[00:39:03] Part of me wishes. I certainly did because it's ingenious. So look and listen for more information. We'll call it early in 2019. If all goes well I predict this will be the biggest advance in for home gym trainees since the power rack. Wow, that's that's a big statement. But I plan to back it up with a video proving this thing as value.
[00:39:30] Here's the only problem.
[00:39:35] It's level and it needs to be shipped. Yeah. Yeah, you know people maybe I've no doubt when people look at this one. Wow, that is everything you says it is the problem comes in with shipping and the cost of shipping. However, I want to counsel everyone on this point and this goes for any piece of home gym equipment.
[00:39:58] It is a one-time [00:40:00] investment. That will last you a lifetime. your kids and their kids. right home gym training is ideal for a lot of people. The Jim's always open. It's never crowded. They're always playing the music you like in the idiot Factor gets well down to zero. So the only thing you need to figure out is am I the kind of.
[00:40:30] That can train in isolation and push myself to get better. That's the big one, right or am I the kind of person where I need to be in the gym. I need to be I need to feel that energy. I need to feel like I'm I'm got to get stronger than this guy who's a little bit bigger and stronger than me provided you the first kind of person.
[00:40:53] I traded a home gym for the rest of my life if you're the other kind of person. [00:41:00] Little commercial gym, you know, hopefully there are some real ones out there still so, you know, I I train at home sometimes yeah, I just don't I'm one of those guys I like getting to the gym. I like seeing people. I know I like saying hello.
[00:41:16] I like, you know something about the gym atmosphere and maybe it's because it. It's the Coach Way Johnson likes to talk about having those regimentation aspects of your you're lifting where you do the same things over and over again, you know, you kind of primes you that maybe it for me too because I definitely don't I don't train as hard at home as I would at the gym just because I rather get to the gym and do it.
[00:41:48] I don't know, you know, and I like sitting in the sauna. I have a son at home. But I rather sit in the sauna at the gym. Yeah, I was able to do both believe it or not. They [00:42:00] trained at home for 10-15 years and then I got divorced and moved into a smaller place. You know, I didn't have the space for it, right?
[00:42:10] Now I training commercial gyms and part of me like that because I love talking to other people about training and diet supplements, you know. I also like chasing the biggest strongest guys at the gym and you probably know this I get a real kick out of that list of the 20 year olds. Yeah, so, you know that's you can call that vein or whatever you want to call it.
[00:42:38] But the fact of the matter is healthy competition never heard anyone in the help the whole lot of people, you know, you know, it's really also funny like to talk about the types of characters. You see at the gym. There's always that guy who loads the bar for the bench, press, you know, he's got like four plates on it now and he lowered the bar and he just [00:43:00] walks around and stands around.
[00:43:01] He stands next to the bar. He leans on the bar. It's like I don't I don't I don't even see him do the lift. I don't maybe I miss it. You know, I'm like, it's almost like he takes all the credit for doing the lift, but you never see him do the lift you do you have anybody at your gym like that? Yes that me or not.
[00:43:19] Not exactly that same thing. I got a lot of whack jobs, you know if they want to lose weight, but they don't want to do the work do it. So with a straight face. I will explain to them the merits of birdseed and what a strong fat burners. And I explained you know, you ever seen a fat bird. Nature leaves Clues.
[00:43:46] Oh, that's hilarious. You think that's gonna start eating birdseed now, that's funny and then they're like, oh my God, how do you chew it? You know, it's going to wreck your teeth. I said 3 tablespoons a day just put it in [00:44:00] some yogurt and it goes down smooth and then they're like wow. Worked out a solution to this perceived.
[00:44:11] Oh see that's more intricate explanations about how it ramps up viroid and you know, the pre-winter mixes little stronger than the springtime mix still got a pisser that's funny and they stand there and they listen to you like you're serious, huh? Yeah back in the day when guys just wanted to get huge.
[00:44:35] We would extol me and my roommate the virtues of green bananas. Oh, you know who used to do that? Who is the the the Middle Eastern bodybuilder big big guy died a few years ago NASA? Yeah. NASA Allison body. He had a at one of the Arnold's he had a like a symposium where he got to talk. Yep, and he told [00:45:00] everybody in the room that his secret for building muscle was bananas.
[00:45:03] He eats lots of bananas eat as many bananas as you can today and it was very tongue-in-cheek. He wasn't serious but a lot of people took him seriously. Hey, he was just having a practical joke. He was pranking them and they were like, yeah, he said you ever see a gorilla all the gorilla eats his bananas.
[00:45:20] Look how strong he is. You can be strong like that to of all you do is eat bananas, and I thought to myself. Yeah, you'll be fat. When a journalist nature leaves Clues math, thank you realtor. That's funny. That was his angle nature leaves Clues. I love that. That's really great good stuff. I want to take all last commercial break and when we come back, we have the blueprint tip of the day stay tuned.
[00:45:46] Welcome back. So what's the blueprint tip of the day room? Tip of the day is do steroids. Really cause heart disease. And so today's question about how Charles [00:46:00] poliquin died. Its third me to think about this a little more normally right when someone in the strength Community dies, is this quiet understanding.
[00:46:12] That certain risk may have been taken but that hopefully those risks resulted. Good more life to someone here if not more years to their life. But let's look at antibiotics used in two very different cases because I think it really illustrates. Why the answer is it depends? So do they really set you up for an early death?
[00:46:38] There is no cut-and-dried answer. It really depends depends on which drugs you use depends how long you stay on them, you know, if you're just using testosterone and dosages of let's say, I don't know 750 milligrams per week or less for several cycles per year or. [00:47:00] Lesser dosage ad infinitum like HRT, there'd be little to no risk of an early death in my opinion.
[00:47:09] You know that presupposes. You're getting some blood work done to spot any potential problems, but that's just common sense. If on the other hand. You have you know pre-existing conditions like high blood pressure bad lipids, you know, you either fast food diet and you do know cardio then sure. You know, I think a thousand milligrams of test a week is going to be problematic now you throw in.
[00:47:38] Multiple cycles of oils like went through all the baller and a draw on top of that and yeah, I'd imagine some various, you know serious side effects going to occur Dallas McCarver. Right Pro bodybuilder had a family history of heart disease high blood pressure and bad lipids. [00:48:00] He also reportedly wasn't very fond of doctors.
[00:48:05] By all accounts was not working with one it autopsy at each 26 revealed cart among other things cardiomegaly. He had a heart three times the size of a normal person along with a testosterone level. That was 55 times the high end of the range. Okay. Think about that 55 times by anyone's standards.
[00:48:34] He was a ticking time bomb on the other end of the spectrum. We have Louie Simmons Louie was described his philosophy on steroids like this. He said get on a low to moderate dose of something that works and stay on it. And that's precisely what he did. So when his case that means 400 milligrams [00:49:00] a week, I believe use what he said or where Ebola at each 51 he gave an interview over Auntie nation in 1998 where he was quoted as saying personally, I've done anabolic steroid straight for the last 28 years do the math.
[00:49:19] And you'll find that Louis has now been on for almost 50 years without a break during that time. He's totally tin five different weight classes and he is still going strong at age 70 both men. Use steroids one is dead. The other is selling records. What gives. I have no idea. About Louie Simmons is pre-existing health conditions.
[00:49:51] If any have no idea about his family history. What I do know is that as use of anabolic has been minimal to [00:50:00] moderate and instead he focused on training in virtually any gym. That's worthy of that name. You're going to find maybe a dozen guys taking a lot more stuff than Louie Simmons does. Not a one of them can hold a candle to him in strength.
[00:50:21] And one more time. Louis is 70 years old. So what have we learned steroid? Use does not kill irresponsible steroid use or if you'd like abuse. coupled with pre-existing medical conditions can kill. The general public doesn't get that and they never will the big question is will you?
[00:50:55] The reality is that orals make the changes to lipids [00:51:00] and the liver that are associated with heart disease and Cancers and those same oral preparations are taken. By millions of women. Starting at the ages of 17 16 and above right birth control is called birth control is a hormone in most cases unless it's a tricyclic they usually progestins and they are methylated.
[00:51:32] So that they stay in the system and all more bioavailable and it's the methylation that changes the hepatic landscape that leads to this lipid emia, and the dis lipedema is associated with inflammatory responses in the arteries that's been associated with plaque buildup. So if everybody wants to say that anabolic steroids are dangerous, Then we also need to admit that they are dangerous [00:52:00] for young girls who don't want to have a pregnancy as well.
[00:52:03] It's an interesting Paradox, right? Birth control is steroid use. Strictly speaking, but it's but it's not for the vet the vein people say, yeah, but it's not for vanity. It's not just cause you want to be bigger and stronger and then I say well, why is that not vanity? I don't want to have a pregnancy.
[00:52:24] I want to stay I want to be able to have lots of sex and I just don't want to get pregnant right? How was that not vanity to it is socially acceptable steroid use and turning. An act of procreation into one of recreation. So, you know this country is really upside down obviously if the steroid laws and I don't never see them changing but when somebody tells you steroids kill you know that.
[00:53:00] [00:53:00] Like a lot of things it depends it really depends. And again, the general public will never be concerned with such details as what was the drug. How long were you taking it? What were your pre-existing medical conditions? They don't want to know all that they want to they want headlines that are easily digestible right steroids bad.
[00:53:27] Bad steroids in just in case you missed it steroids are bad for you. Right? So but this ain't you know, if you've been on a round of of a an anti-inflammatory steroid, right, they'll take you know, what's the one I I'm telling you without caffeine. My brain is not functioning today really am really feeling this really really feeling this.
[00:53:53] Why can't I think of. Not extra. Why can't I think of the name of the of [00:54:00] the steroid that they use to reduce inflammation all the time cortisone? Yes, or methyl prednisone. Methylprednisolone is a methylated hormone. Just like just like methyl testosterone. The difference is one is is anabolic and one is catabolic but.
[00:54:20] They both carry the same risks of developing this lipid emia changes in the liver that can lead to heart disease. I know for women personally who have all ended up with deep vein thrombosis DVT s because of their birth control pills, one of them almost died. She ended up having one in her lungs.
[00:54:44] She was rushed to the hospital. They thought she was going to die and it was from her birth control pill. So nobody bats an eyelid. No, you know, but a guy God forbid a guy take a pill because he wants to be stronger or look more muscular or be leaner. Oh [00:55:00] my God, you you're breaking the law you're the devil but every day and think about this, you know, I'm going to I'm going to talk on behalf of women for a second.
[00:55:07] I'm not a woman I get it. You don't want to get pregnant. I'm with you on this one. I'm not saying that. I'm demonizing birth control pill what I'm saying is the double stand that has to stop if we care so much for men and their safety. When using methylated steroids, why don't we care about women and their safety when they're using methylated steroids?
[00:55:34] Right? Right, and you know that that example you gave cortisone is an excellent one because there again. We have a drug that's socially acceptable to use and in fact, when used in a particular setting like administered to an athlete so that he can play the next game. It is a de facto [00:56:00] a performance-enhancing drug because without it that individual will you be able to play?
[00:56:07] Great lowing great Point. Yeah, so they occupy the same sphere of sports. So an athlete can't take methyl testosterone, but he could take mental prednisone. They're both steroids and they both enhance his ability to play one with an injury and perhaps one with or without an injury, right? You know that those examples just go on and on ad infinitum.
[00:56:35] We just seem to have a cultural bias against those damn steroids. So kill you or make you jacked and you'll be governor of California. Yeah. There you go. Yeah, really? That's a good one. Anyway, that's my two CC's. Don't forget the bird seed when you want to get ripped 3 [00:57:00] tablespoons a day. There you go.
[00:57:01] That's the answer. Why don't you just sell super birdseed wanted to sell it? I bet you want people like spring for it and blueprint bones. Yeah, right. They'd rather take something and think it's the it's the it's the magic bean syndrome. That's what it is. The magic bean syndrome. Yep might be time to encapsulate it.
[00:57:21] I so that's all we've got today. I hope to feel a little bit. I think it's the I read somewhere that it takes a good two weeks. Once you come off long high use of. Of caffeine to kind of bounce back. So let's see I could tell listening to you. Yeah, I just don't have it today. I don't know you will I didn't sleep great last night.
[00:57:43] I slept really great the night before here's an interesting thing night before I slept great. I woke up in the morning. I didn't even need caffeine. I got through my whole day great. Well last night. I woke up in the middle of the night. I ate way too much for my last meal. Yep, [00:58:00] and so I actually had that feeling of fullness in the middle of the night and I woke up and I remember thinking man.
[00:58:07] I feel so full and I know the problem is I ate a huge gluttonous amount of macadamia nuts. I know I am. I remember dr. Dominic D'Agostino telling me once we were talking that he doesn't do well with with a lot of nuts in a lot of people eat a lot of nuts. Yep, I don't do well with them either. And I ate like a stupid amount like a gluttonous amount like six or seven big handfuls of them.
[00:58:39] They're so freaking good. They taste so good and I felt them in my stomach in the middle of the night. They would not move him. So I learned my lesson. I'll get a good night's sleep tonight. However tomorrow we have a great show. Keith bell is coming on Keith Bell. Keith Bell is a scientist. [00:59:00] Who's spent a lot of time unlocking the secrets of our gut?
[00:59:06] And he's always had a special interest in children and back in the 80s. He was like the spokesperson for Unicef one of the spokespeople for Unicef and he is discovered a linkage between how viruses produce immunity. And the microbiome and it does it it shouldn't be a surprise right? Because I've been saying for how long that when we talk about the immune system.
[00:59:31] We're talking about the gut people forget that. So he's trying to raise $200,000 to do an NIH study. Ask I'm sorry peer-reviewed study to unlock the linkage that he feels that he has found between vaccine and vaccine injury and the microbiome. Your some children whose guts are already in trouble and they seem to be the [01:00:00] ones that when you give them a vaccine all sorts of crazy stuff happens to them.
[01:00:04] Wow, and so he's going to be on tomorrow, you know, because and I you know, I got into it on Facebook the other day because I posted something about how adjuvant are really part of the problem with vaccines because the adjuvant. Causes widespread activation of the immune system. So when they when they give you a flu shot and they have an attenuated flu virus in there.
[01:00:26] They use an adjuvant like aluminum. Because that makes the immune system mount a response but but the aluminum they use that in all the vaccines. So it's not a specific to that flu virus response. It's a widespread activation of the immune system now, dr. Thomas Calhoun came on my show several months ago.
[01:00:49] And said the problem with vaccines of the adjuvant. They caused widespread activation of the immune system and it's not just the virus that's being sent in there [01:01:00] that they need to build up resistance to it could be other things that you come in contact with that day or that you eat. How do we know?
[01:01:07] It's not peanuts. We don't know right so I posted that on Facebook. and several people came out and said, you know. What I would especially a friend of mine said, you know, I'm so I'm disappointed in you you have such a big platform. You shouldn't be spreading this kind of nonsense and I asked her if she had a degree in Immunology because dr.
[01:01:31] Cowan does. And you know, she said no she didn't so someone reached out to me and put me in touch with this Keith Bell guy and this guy Keith Bell is amazing. His work and the research of his group is now being viewed by clinicians all over the world that he's he's showing that a vaccines depend on the microbiome in order to do the quote-unquote benefits that they're [01:02:00] supposed to do, but more importantly they the microbiome is the reason that some kids.
[01:02:06] Maybe develop autism from the vaccine or Epstein-Barr syndrome or something else. Tell him that's not to open any unfamiliar package if he's going to ram. Oh, I know I know and you know, you can't talk about vaccines today without being called a tin hat wearing, you know, idiot or vaccines have eradicated all these diseases and there's another doctor that I'm trying to get on now who.
[01:02:32] Has more information and he's very well-spoken. He's very well respected about what contribution to community vaccines have every actually provided and what we've actually just kind of so one of the things that dr. Cowan taught me. You hear this term herd immunity thrown around. As it relates to vaccines, right?
[01:02:54] You'll hear a teacher say to you. Well, I don't want to get my kids vaccinated while all the other kids in the [01:03:00] class of vaccinated. If your kid doesn't get vaccinated then we lose the herd immunity and which makes no sense. If I if I'm vaccinated look it's like this. Let's use bulletproof vest because they're really easy to understand.
[01:03:13] There's six of us on a team, right? Maybe we're SWAT team five of us have bulletproof vests on one guy says I'm not going to wear one. So we don't say to the guy dude. If you don't wear your bulletproof vest hours isn't going to work, right that's his issue. Yeah, right you you get shot. You die. I get shot.
[01:03:32] I'm going to be okay because I got the bulletproof vest but one of the one of the things that the probe axes love to say is oh, well, if you don't get your child vaccinated it's going to hurt all the other children are vaccinated and sadly. Most parents either don't have the guts Or the critical thinking skills to say that doesn't make any sense.
[01:03:52] I mean, I would use so you're telling me six of us five of us have bulletproof vests on the sick guy doesn't we all get shot [01:04:00] the and are bulletproof vests aren't going to work because of the guy that's not wearing one and you know, they don't no no. No, you don't understand. This is this is science.
[01:04:08] This is company and I don't know what you're saying is. If my child doesn't get vaccinated he's going to put all the other children who have been vaccinated at risk that doesn't make any sense, but nobody wants to say it out loud. So so what happens is dr. Calvin came on the show and he said look, What herd immunity really is is if a mother gets a virus she fights it and she gets better and then she has a baby someday she passes.
[01:04:39] The immunity to that virus onto the baby you don't get hurt immunity by using vaccines. If you did you wouldn't need booster shots. And if a mother got a vaccine when she had a baby someday the baby would be endowed with the immunity, but did you can't pass on immunity from a vaccine because it's not really creating herd immunity.
[01:04:59] [01:05:00] Right? And if their vaccine Works, what are they worried about right and if the vaccine and not only that but if the vaccine works, why does it only work for 10 years? I mean immunity. When you are when you get a flu. To certain strain, you never get that flu for that strain again ever again. If you if you lived through it, you survived it, you know you toughed it out.
[01:05:21] It was sick. You got better you moved on you are immune to that virus for the rest of your life. And if you're a mom you're gonna pass that Immunity on to your child that doesn't happen with vaccine. So people need to start opening their eyes, but my but my problem with vaccines is this. I am not opposed to people getting vaccinated you want to get vaccinated get it but what Maya my beef is with the FDA and that is this that vaccines are marketed.
[01:05:52] As being only safe. Only safe right when when when the flu [01:06:00] vaccination ad on Facebook comes up. It doesn't have all the side effects, you know, like if you see an ad for Lyrica. half of the ad is telling you all the harmful things Lyrica will do to. You don't see that when they advertise vaccines.
[01:06:16] They don't say hey come get your flu vaccine. By the way, this could happen to you that could happen. No. No, it's just come get your flu vaccine the flu don't care. That's a new campaign to flew don't care and it's like so it in most people's minds if you ask them are vaccines only safe. They would say yeah, there's no side effects because if there were we would know about them they talk about him know.
[01:06:39] They don't talk about them. That is my beef with the FDA and the CDC. My beef is this you want to sell vaccines to people God bless you. You got people who want to take those vaccines God bless them, but tell them the truth about the potential risks of taking vaccines just like other drugs because vaccines fall into a different class.
[01:06:59] That pharmaceutical [01:07:00] drugs they are not required to tell you that certain percentage of children who get this vaccine and up with autism. It's in their leaflets. It's in the pamphlets. Yeah, I know. I mean it's in your right they promote them as hey this can only help you. Yeah, I mean, otherwise, why would they have all these you know, all these cutesy little ads come on in and give them back scenes for fluted get your flu vaccination come and get your flu vaccine a that's all they ever say is come and get it.
[01:07:28] They never say by the way and see you can't make a true judgment without having all the information. So this whole idea that that you're making an informed consent on getting a vaccine is complete lie. There is no informed consent on a vaccine because they never tell people the bad things about vaccines plus, you know name me one drug.
[01:07:54] Where doesn't have side effects and you can't wait exactly exactly and [01:08:00] vaccines and no different. So my beef with the the FDA and the CDC is I'm not saying do away with vaccines. I'm saying just be honest about them just get allow people truly informed consent. Let the mother know. That there's a chance your child may get autism, you know, 1 in 1,000 kids get autism from this vaccine so that when the child develops autism after the vaccine, it's not a surprise to her.
[01:08:26] She goes damn it. I can't believe it. I wish I would have done that. I knew that was a potential side effect, but I did it anyway, right? Right, right because right now everybody's like, oh man. I wish I knew well if they were being honest with you, they would have told you yes. Yes. That's my only beef with the whole vaccine.
[01:08:44] It's not like I'm a anti-vaxxer. I'm an honest vax her be honest about what they potentially do both good and bad. That's it. Let people make informed decisions. That's all so he's got to be on tomorrow after science with humans. It's going to be a really [01:09:00] interesting discussion. I can promise you that more and more information is coming out and it's being spoken by non-crazy well-respected clinicians.
[01:09:09] That is saying hey, we really need to look at what these vaccines may be doing to our children. That is undesirable. And the more we talk about it the sooner we'll get the FDA to go. Okay, the party's over we now when we run vaccine ads we have to list all the potential side effects just like we do with Lyrica and all these other drugs, too.
[01:09:29] That's all we're asking for. I Rob will see you next week brother and we'll see everybody tomorrow with more superhuman radio. Thank you for listening to me.
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